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I'm pretty familiar with the capabilities Flock actually offers law enforcement agencies, and it's license plates, makes, models, colors, and some identifying characteristics. This stuff isn't an abstraction, I don't have to reason about it axiomatically; you can directly engage with your local municipal government to see what's going on here.
So only ~35 million people?
Maybe more people aren't running older hardware because it's too difficult, rather than because they don't want to. The basic idea is here is taht if a device can still hold a charge and the user is OK with limited features, they should be able to keep using it as long as they feel like it.
Pooping isn't intimacy.
This doesn't have anything to do with Americans.
The Jonsbo N3 case which is 8x 3.5" drives has a smaller footprint than this, which might be better for most folks. Needs a SFX PSU though, which is kind of annoying.
If you get an enterprise grade ITX board that has a 16x PCIe slot which can be bifurcated into 4 M.2 form factor PCIx4 connections, it really opens up options for storage:
* A 6x SATA card in M.2 form factor from Asmedia or others will let you fill all the drive slots even if the logic board only has 2/4/6 ports on it.
* The other ports can be used for conventional M.2 nVME drives.
> Why would any group of people book a single room?
To save money.
> Is there some secret trick where multiple people turn up and bring their own beds with them, only to be foiled by a missing toilet door?
Beds? Probably not. But, people (especially younger people, can sleep on the floor with climate appropriate (which, depending on the season and available heating, can be "none") coverings for warmth; I did this happily a fair amount in various groups aroun high school age, but I certainly wouldn't want to now in middle age.
None of this means that you have to be on a specific platform. GitHub as default/mandatory is a single point of failure for the entire tech industry.
For an example of another language that avoids being entirely coupled into Github, Go has it's real code hosting and CI interaction on a Gerrit instance, with some sync back and forth to GitHub for a few items.
The CI pain and operational blindness mentioned in the Zig post is entirely real.
> Result declares a type-level invariant — an assertion enforced by the compiler, not runtime — that the operation can fail.
“Can do X” is not an invariant. “Will never do X” (or “Will always do Y”) is an invariant. “Can do X” is the absence of the invariant “Will never do X”.
> Using `.unwrap()` is always an example of a failure to accurately model your invariants in the type system.
No, using .unwrap() provides a narrower invariant to subsequent code by choosing to crash the process via a panic if the Result contains an Error.
It may be a poor choice in some circumstances, and it may be a result of mistakenly believing that code returning the Result itself had failed to represent its invariants fully such that the .unwrap() would be a noop—but even there it respects and narrows the invariant declared, it doesn't ignore it—and, in any case, as it has well-defined behavior in either of the possible input cases, it is silly to describe using it as a failure accurately model invariants in the type system.
Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Questions:
How do you intend to scale up? Do you plan to become the aggregators you intended to replace? Or will you adopt a more cooperative model? What is your monetization or cost recovery strategy? What is your end goal for the product?
Both comments are true. We could go faster if fossil subsidies shifted to solar and batteries, but we will still go fast regardless. Most US solar is utility scale, but buying your own solar is cheap enough now you can almost go off the grid (battery price decline will catch up shortly) assuming you have enough space for panels. Utility scale solar is still a good investment, even with the loss of tax subsidies, and is the fastest way to deploy new generation capacity.
Regardless, we’ve reached a global tipping point where solar, battery, and EV deployment continues to accelerate and peak fossil fuel demand is very near.
I largely agree, although in an emergency bystanders/emergency workers shouldn't be trying to figure out how a door handle works at all. As a general non-driver, I find it kinda disturbing how auto manufacturers are constantly making these cosmetic adjust that impact safety - excessively bright headlights, distracting animated turn signals, weird ass handles. Not all features are innovations, some are just bad ideas.
PRs aren't an optional feature, though acting on PRs is obviously optional; nothing prevents you from ignoring or (even automatically) closing all PRs from anyone who is not on a list of approved contributors.
From a comment:
> The flush Hyundai and Kia handles are motorized and retractable, but they can also be opened entirely mechanically without power. They are little more awkward to use when unpowered but it's entirely doable if you know how. You just push the front side in which pops out the rear grab handle part. This also how Chevy has done their Equinox EV handles which is powered on the higher trims but unpowered for the base model I believe.
So, as long as they fail safe, I think they’re fine from a form and function perspective. It’s the failing unsafely (Tesla) that’s the problem. If they do not work without power, they should fail safety testing.
I ran a Rust server on an Oxide rack for me and some friends one weekend.
More info on "Strategy", the company, which is supposedly the world's largest public Bitcoin holder.[1] "According to its most recent X post, the firm has raised $11.9 billion through common equity, $6.9 billion in preferred equity, and $2 billion in convertible debt."
The equity part includes listed stocks: STRF, STRC, STRE, STRK, and STRD. Those are on the NASDAQ, not crypto exchanges. Here's a long discussion of Strategy's strategy.[2] They're leveraged, but the financing for the leverage is not from crypto markets, and has more strength behind it. The whole thing will come unglued if there's a prolonged drop in the price of Bitcoin, but they can ride through medium-length down periods. Strategy's various stocks have dropped more than the price of Bitcoin.
[1] https://cryptonews.com/news/strategy-reports-21b-raised-in-2...
[2] https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-si...
> real concern that giving governments...the power to criminalize voluntary economic activity tends to entrench wealth and power rather than to lubricate mobility
Uh, sure. But this isn't a real political phenomenon. When concerns arise around power and wealth entrenchment, the solution has never been to reduce the state's power to regulate the economy.
I just feel like this becomes time consuming after a while. Will there be soap? Toilet paper? A bed? You don't know unless you ask! But ... c'mon ... they can just tell you on the website.
Can you show off your toilet fetish on a more appropriate forum please
Unlikely, given that you don't know it has no door until after you get there.
And also, when I travel with my kids, I still want to close the door.
Pydantic also has a first party integration with DBOS, which doesn't require an external state server.
Shorter term the Gregorian calendar has the ratio for leap years just a tiny bit wrong which will be a day off by 3000 years or so.
Love the quote:
Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem
"Network" is too broad. What you really want for most apps is "can only talk to its home domain from which it was downloaded".
Was it made of glass?
I've stayed in a hotel where the toilet door was made of glass, and had big gaps. I was staying with an acquaintance, so things were really awkward. It didn't help that the shower was right in front of this frosted glass, so the person's entire silhouette was very visible when showering.
Another time, in Amsterdam, I stayed at an AirBnB where the toilet was on the balcony, and had a glass door (non-frosted) in the kitchen. Yep, if you needed to go, and someone was cooking, or was a neighbour, they were looking right at you.
The author has this backwards:
> but the new trend is surveillance pricing. A company will know that you just got paid and so charge you just a bit more for your chicken nuggets than they do when you haven’t been paid in two weeks.
First of all, no, a company has no idea when you get paid. The reality of lots of apps (like McDonald's) is discount pricing. You pay full price at the store if you're a rich person who can't be bothered with apps. Downloading an app and creating an account is the modern equivalent of cutting out coupons or buy-10-get-one-free cards -- price-conscious consumers will go to the trouble and get cheaper prices. They're just loyalty programs. Price discrimination like this is nothing new, and it lets rich people subsidize the lower costs for people with less money.
These apps run in sandboxes. There's not much to surveil. Obviously don't grant them permissions to see your contacts or track your location all the time. Will the app be able to tie all your purchases to a single identity? Of course. But the stores already do that anyways if you use the same credit card for each purchase.
I don't mind downloading apps for the 5-10 stores/restaurants I go to most. Beyond that, I obviously won't because it's too much of a hassle. But the loyalty discounts I get save me real money. I have no problem with that.
You are posting these dupe comments as often as not to shut down perfectly valid discussion threads, I don't see the point. You rarely actually contribute to the discussion, it is mostly just these silly links.
Seriously.
I upgraded my iPad to a USB-C version and discovered I couldn't use my 1st-gen (Lightning) Apple Pencil with it even though it's compatible -- because I first had to buy a special female-female USB-C<->Lightning dongle just to be able to plug it in to pair it. (Even though I can keep using my Lightning charger to charge it separately from my iPad.)
Moving from Lightning to USB-C hasn't been too bad for me since I use wireless charging with e.g. my Lightning AirPods. But the transition is a huge pain. Because of weird cases like the Pencil, it's not even enough to just have a USB-C charging cable and a Lightning charging cable.
> Porn, obviously, though if you look at what's popular on civitai.com, a lot of it isn't photo-realistic.
I don't have an argument to make on the main point, but Civitai has a whole lot of structural biases built into it (both intentionally and as side effects of policies that probably aren't intended to influence popularity in the way they do) that I would hesitate to use "what is popular on Civitai" as a guide to "what is attractive to (or commercially viable in) the market", either for AI imagery in general or for AI imagery in the NSFW domain specifically.
> Kants Categorical Imperative is a terrible way to model reality.
It's not a way to model reality, terrible or otherwise. That’s not what it purports to do.
By the stopwatch it takes 3x longer for me to upload a photo to the Instagram web app than it does to Mastodon. Facebook's blue website works pretty well but the Instagram site comes across like something that was vibe coded in a weekend or maybe a straw man that was made to prove SPAs are bad. Contrast that to the Mastodon application produced by a basically unfunded application that's fast and reliable.
No, you're not wrong. But this framing allows them to paint the parties opposing these measures as being 'pro CP'.
Getting a library named after you? Or an airport in some cases?
Doubling down when you're out of your depth is the MAGA way.
Yes?
That is why some people are forbidden to contribute to projects if their eyes have read projects with incompatible licenses, in case people go to copyright court.
There is recency and survival bias, yes. But a sizable fraction of movies are remakes or series extensions. The Marvel Overextended Universe has taken this up to 11. That it's still working, mostly, leads other studios to make movies in that style.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-u-s-inflation-by...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-pric...
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/the-american-dream-will-cos...
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Related: (others?)
Why Millennials and Gen Z Are Going Gray Early, According to Experts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738730 - October 2025 (0 comments)
American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963675 - August 2025 (9 comments)
Millennials were priced out of capitalism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808835 - April 2025 (9 comments)
Millennials –The Unluckiest Generation–Became the Most Economically Divided - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020355 - November 2024 (1 comment)
Millennials to feel biggest burden of fixing Social Security, report finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505200 - May 2024 (0 comments)
Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. Drop in Global Happiness Ranking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39767329 - March 2024 (46 comments)
Millennials Have the Children, but Boomers Have the Houses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39295239 - February 2024 (12 comments)
HN Search: Millennials - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Millennials
I built an agent for Muckrock that I use to rapidly build FOIA requests. Whenever I think “I wish I had an exuberant intern that requires lots of supervision for this work,” I reach for an agent.
OpenRouter can also prioritize providers by price: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/routing/provider-selection...
> Saying that the men's vitality clinic "pushed you" into a treatment protocol is like saying that a fertility clinic pushed you into getting pregnant.
No, it isn't. “Men’s vitality” doesn’t mean “getting pumped with testosterone regardless of indications” the way “fertility” means “getting pregnant” in either literal denotation of words or the understanding of the general population.
> Sure, it's a common outcome, but you had an idea of what you wanted out of it before you walked in the door.
Yes, but in the case of fertility clinics, getting pregnant aas definitely the outcome beinf sought. Being pumped with testosterone isn’t the outcome being sought from a men’s vitality clinic, it is (even for the people who are actively thinking about it) a mechanism (and not an appropriate one for every patient) for atteempting to acheive the desired outcome.
If you go to a fertility clinic and they don't attempt to identify the source of your fertility issues and just pump you with hormones not indicated for your specific issue, that would be wrong, too.
> Lots of more countries involved in sending stuff to space
But only two investing in high-cadence, high-mass capabilities.
CATL's Spain plant will likely be one of Europe's largest LFP battery production hubs at ~50GWh of production capacity, employing ~4k workers with an investment of ~€4.1B.
> Update: after years of being on the wish list of a ton of top AWS teams, AWS released a built-in version of this feature about two weeks after we published this. Never let it be said gentle ribbing doesn’t work. Also, thanks AWS! We meant it when we said that the only thing better than having something easy to deploy was not needing to deploy anything at all. Everything in this post about workload identity is still relevant but you should probably use upstream’s implementation unless you have a good reason not to (for example, private validators for whom you need a VPC endpoint).
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_pr...
Previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834299 - November 2025 (0 comments)
It patches the reward center in the brain, which improves everything downstream of that (as mentioned in llm_nerd's sibling comment to yours).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907422 (citations)
(i am hopefully that probiotics might be a future path to curating gut microbiota that meets an individual's GLP-1 in vivo production needs based on target metabolic outcome, but immediate intervention is welcome for obvious health reasons at scale)
> Each firm knows
In some cases, firm == family, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
A chaebol is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family. A chaebol often consists of multiple diversified affiliates, controlled by a person or group. Several dozen large South Korean family-controlled corporate groups fall under this definition.The Associated Press photographers have some powerful images they've captured of this event: https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-highrise-fire-tai-po-cf...
They're live at https://youtu.be/1dRw2yMmQhk currently.
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/fire-engu... | https://archive.today/pM7BQ
The entire value proposition of agentic AI is doing multiple steps, some of which involve tool use, between user interactions. If there’s a user interaction at every turn, you are essentially not doing agentic AI anymore.
Since you've been very strident throughout this thread I'm wondering if you're going to have a response to this. Similarly, I'm curious, as a scholar of Bernstein's cryptography writing --- did the MOV attack (prominently featured on Safecurves) serve as a lovely harbinger of the failure of elliptic curve cryptography?
> And CF doesn't have the "...or people will die" safety criticality.
I disagree with that. Just because you can't point to people falling off a bridge into the water doesn't mean that outages of the web at this scale will not lead to fatalities.
If landlords want to just look at other public listings and adjust their own prices in response (which is completely legal to do) then why does a service like Realpage exist?
The point of building more is to reduce the price of the available stock. Your rebuttal is incoherent.
> they are all-in on AGI
What are you basing this on? None of their investor-oriented marketing says this.
Cloudflare doesn't seem to have called it a "Root Cause Analysis" and, in fact, the term "root cause" doesn't appear to occur in Prince's report. I bring this up because there's a school of thought that says "root cause analysis" is counterproductive: complex systems are always balanced on the precipice of multicausal failure.
no paywall: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/sleep-apnea-parkinsons-s...
>Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Positive Airway Pressure, and Implications of Early Treatment in Parkinson Disease
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...
> if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in space
This turns entirely on how human biology works in zero versus low gravity. (Same for spin versus natural, or linear, gravity.)
The experiments we need to be doing is building and launching space stations and planetary bases for mice.
Just avoid holding it that way.
TL;DR - financial analysts look at current charts and project them foward by 5 years and go "wow the numbers look bad".
Sure OpenAI may well be bleeding money into the 2030s, or may even go bust completely depending on how pessimistic you are, but the analysis completely skips:
- They are building their own data centers, and will be less reliant on renting compute from Microsoft and Amazon over time.
- Once the AI bubble has subsided costs for GPU purchases and rentals will decrease significantly. Plus there will be more advancements and competition in the space (e.g. Google TPUs) and Nvidia will no longer be able to name their own price.
- We will write more efficient software for training and inference.
- Once user growth is tapped out OpenAI will no longer need to have the overly generous free tier that they do today. And if they decide to turn up the advertising faucet these users could bring in a ton more revenue than in the projection. Thinking that every AI company combined will capture only 2% of the total digital advertising market is ridiculous. AI apps are already challenging social media for scrolling time.
Basically, the entire space is evolving so rapidly that it's pointless to make a projection with the assumption that the landscape isn't going to change from here on.
I wonder if these researchers include their own jobs in the analysis. Because AI can very easily spit out random numbers and a lengthy explanation to make them seem believable.
What about the usual capitalism point of view?
If their business isn't sustainable they should go bankrupt, and close shop.
It's made of limestone, which is quite porous. Should be plenty of air exchange over the last 1700 years.
(And they may have done so before opening. It probably wouldn't be mentioned in an article like this.)
Haven't you kept up with the social media status, and the conferences that came out of it?
Artisanal!
I remember when artisanal Doritos came out. That felt like the end of that.
> Hackers have always tried out new technologies to see how they work – or break – so why would LLMs be any different?
Who says we haven't tried it out?
IQ tests are perfectly legal in US hiring, but you're right, they're not done because they don't work well.
Honestly, LLMs are about as reliable as the rest of my tools are.
Just yesterday, AirDrop wouldn't work until I restarted my Mac. Google Drive wouldn't sync properly until I restarted it. And a bug in Screen Sharing file transfer used up 20 GB of RAM to transfer a 40 GB file, which used swap space so my hard drive ran out of space.
My regular software breaks constantly. All the time. It's a rare day where everything works as it should.
LLMs have certainly gotten to the point where they seem about as reliable as the rest of the tools I use. I've never seen it say 2+2=5. I'm not going to use it for complicated arithmetic, but that's not what it's for. I'm also not going to ask my calculator to write code for me.
"A Canticle For Leibowitz"
"Riddley Walker"
From consulting point of view, a common joke we use to tell, because customers demand a Ferrari, but are only willing to pay for the development costs of a Fiat.
"If you were to look at it relative to the previous OS, end of service. We are 10, 12 points behind at that point with Windows 11 than we were the previous generation."
Yeah, that's LINQ+EF. People have hated ORMs for so long (with some justification) that perhaps they've forgotten what the use case is.
(and yes there's special language support for LINQ so it counts as "part of the language" rather than "a library")
UK GDS is great, but the point there is that they're a crack team of project managers.
People complain about junior developers who pass a hiring screen and then can't write a single line of code. The equivalent exists for both project management and management in general, except it's much harder to spot in advance. Plus there's simply a lot of bad doctrine and "vibes management" going on.
("Vibes management": you give a prompt to your employees vaguely describing a desired outcome and then keep trying to correct it into what you actually wanted)
"Gatcha", from Japanese "gatchapon"; there's little dispenser machines which sell plastic eggs containing a random collectible from a set. There are thousands of different product lines.
Basically game lootboxes, but IRL. People like gambling, it seems.
It's scams all the way down!
Which since Fortran 2003, or even Fortran 95, has gotten rather nice to use.
Once again affirming that prompt injection is social engineering for LLMs. To a first approximation, humans and LLMs have the same failure modes, and at system design level, they belong to the same class. I.e. LLMs are little people on a chip; don't put one where you wouldn't put the other.
Not really, because as usual people misunderstand what CUDA is.
CUDA is hardware designed according to the C++ memory model, with first tier support for C, C++, Fortran and Python GPGPU DSLs, with several languages also having a compiler backend for PTX.
Followed by IDE integration, a graphical debugger and profiler for GPU workloads, and an ecosystem of libraries and frameworks.
Saying just use DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL instead, misses the tree from the forest that is CUDA, and why researchers rather use CUDA, than deal with yet another shading language or C99 dialect, without anything else.
It is called GNU/Linux for a reason.
My original IBM PC looks pretty sad now. I remember buying it and how it smelled when I unpackaged it.
Are you sure?
Search for "Functional Programming in C++: How to improve your C++ programs using functional techniques".
Sorry for being blunt, isn't this mostly an US phenomen?
Around most European countries kids are pretty much still playing outside as they feel like it, without having some neighbour call the police due to bad parenting or whatever it happens to be.
I feel the pain, as polyglot consultant, I would like to see more RFPs asking for .NET skills, unfortunely it seems it is all about nodejs, some Java, and plenty of low code tools (iPaaS).
At least exactly due to performance issues, I get some excuses to push for C++ addons in some cases.
This look all comes from Silent Running (1972).
> There has been an explosive growth in cultures which are interest based rather than location based.
That was a surprise to the architects of Facebook's original infrastructure. Facebook started in 2004 as a service for college students. Most traffic was expected to be with people at the same college, or at least in the same region. So the servers were regional, with relatively weak long-distance connections. As Facebook grew, the load was nothing like that. They had to redesign the system completely.
You can connect a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to an Android device -- somehow everybody thinks you have to buy some special $300 keyboard to attach one to a tablet but the basic keyboard from Amazon Basics does just ifne.
A big potential problem for an inflatable tube in space is the stress on the walls increases linearly with the diameter. I.e. the tensile force on the wall would be (diameter * psi)/2.
Man if you think Seattle has too much noise and traffic you should stay away from basically every other mid-large sized city anywhere in the world.
Jobs don't have to be exclusive to a single site. Pretty much every job gets posted everywhere (usually done automatically by your HRIS/ATS software). Job boards will even scrape each other for postings. LinkedIn is notorious for this, which is why it has so many outdated listings.
Internet services have become centralized. Internet culture has fragmented, or really just disappeared entirely.
Being chronically online doesn't make you part of a special group anymore. It's just how everyone lives their lives. There are no inside jokes, no nerd lingo. Even memes are basically dead now.
One of my tests for new image generation models is professional food photography, particularly in cases where the food has constraints, such as "a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the shape of a Rubik’s cube" (blog post from 2022 for DALL-E 2: https://minimaxir.com/2022/07/food-photography-ai/ )
For some reason ever since DALL-E 2, all food models seem to generate obviously fake food and/or misinterpret the fun constraints...until Nano Banana. Now I can generate fractal Sierpiński triangle peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
An interesting American culinary divide is between Scottsdale and Phoenix homemade burritos. The former being close to the Midwest variety, the latter to a Sonoran style.
Even ignoring the Heinz bean outliers, these are all decidedly Scottsdale. With one exception. All hail Nano Banana.
They’re catching up with the recommendation technology China had 5 years ago.
I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.)
It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.
I don't think so? The "I Skied Down Mount Everest" is from the Red Bull channel. It may be a commercial channel, but it's not an ad, i.e. they didn't pay for placement (doesn't say "Sponsored" like the other one).
If you are using the free web interface, yes, it’s a security issue as inputs there are trained upon.
APIs, less so.
I don't find any of this persuasive because nowhere does it articulate who or how the defendants came to be accused of anything in the first place. I can not make my mind about how to feel when the context is removed, even if I think the state's argument is entirely specious.