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Manual checklists are often the best option for repeated tasks that can't be automated sufficiently reliably and sufficiently economically. But if they can be, then manual checklists are unnecessarily inefficent and/or unreliable. And the more frequently repeated the task is (ceteris paribus), the more up-front energy is justified in automating it. That said, to automate a process, you have to understand it enough to generate a checklist as a prerequisite (and, sure, you can develop that understanding in the course of automation, but doing so first will also go a long way to informing you if automation is likely to be worthwhile.)
That said, and without prejudice to SQLite’s use of checklists which I haven’t deeply considered, while the conditions that make checklists the best choice are definitely present in aviation and surgery in obvious ways, processes around software tend to lend themselves to efficient and reliable automation, with non-transitory reliance on checklists very often a process smell that, while not necessarily wrong, merits skepticism and inquiry.
> Contrary to the consensus opinion, losing a war one started is not genocide.
Genocide often is carried out in the context of war, and certainly it isn't harder for the winning side of a war to do so.
I mean the design of the user-facing API: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api...
See also the demo app I vibe-coded against their library here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/justhtml - that's what initially convinced me that the API design was good.
I particularly liked the design of JustHTML's core DOM node: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api... - and the design of the streaming API: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api...
Maybe quarters also go (perhaps with half-dollars becoming more common, which, alongside dimes and dollars, would give the same first-three-steps scale as penny/nickel/dime, just shifted a decimal place.)
You can't just declare an identity a terrorist organization.
I mean, that makes as much sense as declaring an idea like antifascism a terrorist organization, which is clearly impossible.
It might be a skewed distribution where life expectancy drops off rapidly below the median but isn’t that different at the top. So it’s not a big difference when it’s the bottom 90% and the top 10%, but it is when it’s the bottom 60% versus the top 40%.
work email to sign up to a site like pornhub
Unless you actually work in the adult entertainment industry, that seems like a massively stupid move; one that would likely lead to termination.
Grindr had a big data "leak" in 2024.[1] Not a "leak", really, just ordinary reselling of people's gay and HIV status. In 2025, a data broker who resold Grindr data also had a big breach. That wasn't Grindr-specific - it included Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Tinder, Grindr, MyFitnessPal, Candy Crush, Truecaller, 9GAG, Microsoft 365, and others. But not TikTok, because TikTok monetizes that info themselves.
[1] https://thehill.com/business/4614940-grindr-sold-hiv-status-...
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/major-data-broker-leak-might-have...
The money just brings out their real persona.
The ClickHouse bug was fixed here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/74144
Or more likely Google couldn't give a rat's arse whether those AI summaries are good or not (except to the degree that people don't flee it), and what it cares is that they keep users with Google itself, instead of clicking of to other sources.
After all it's the same search engine team that didn't care about its search results - it's main draw - activey going shit for over a decade.
We pay with content and with the fact that we attract the talent that eventually ends up powering ycombinator investment rounds.
>are you critically thinking about what what you have in your life and whether or not it was a good use of your time any money? Money itself is possibility. A couch is just a couch. But despite this being true, that doesn't mean the couch wasn't worth it.
Generally speaking, sure. In real life though, it's not just that people get a couch, or some things they need, or ocassional splurge into buying some things as an indulgence.
It's that for shitloads of people (and the whole culture) are getting centered around consumption, constant consumption of things and even content (doomscrolling), mere consumption replacing other life aspirations, experiences, and relations.
Obviously. If you don't have junior devs you will never have senior ones either. It's implicit.
Nice to see the ladies catch up with the dudes.
e.g. "tensors" are like "vectors" in they transform in a specific way when the coordinate system changes; what felt so magic about vectors as an undergrad was that they embody "the shape of space" and thus simplify calculations.
If you didn't have vectors, Maxwell's equations would spill all over the place. Tensors on the other hand are used in places like continuum mechanics and general relativity where something more than vectors are called for but you're living in the same space(/time) with the same symmetries.
Bad call. 'Major VC firm investing in slop farm' is the newsworthy aspect here. 'startup selling slop as a service' is mildly interesting but there are lots of companies like that already.
I wonder how this improves performance on older Intel macs with a Metal-compatible GPUs, or if it's really a M-series only improvement.
To track it? Maybe, maybe not, depends on what the conpany is, how the purchases are made, etc.
To analyze it to infer personal information? Starting to be creepy, even in the cases where tracking it isn’t.
And then use the inferred information for marketing explicitly and overtly around the inference? Definitely getting creepier.
You could have some fun by looking up symptoms of all kinds of diseases, so the profile of you will be filled with errors.
Do you mean 'how do get a Show HN project to earn a lot of votes'?
Be somewhat novel, communicate very clearly (particularly what is' for and why you might want to use it, even if that seems obvious to you) and post around mid-morning PST so people can goof off from work to 'research' your interesting new thing.
QuickTime cannot record system audio output without shenanigans.
> American Academy of Pediatrics treats nobody. At best it’s a lobbyist group
In their FYE 2025, the AAP spent 6% and 3% of its $113mm budget on advocacy and membership, respectively [1].
Most of its money goes to child health activities (43%), educational publishing (30%) and education activities (14%).
[1] https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20Financial%20Statemen...
This was the feature they announced at DevDay in October. I've not heard a great deal of buzz about it since, but that may just be because it takes a couple of months for credible teams to build something interesting on top of this.
So sad workers have flexibility and improved working conditions at the detriment of office real estate investors and cities who might have to adjust their budgets /s
If your tax base was driven by taxes on corporations via office space usage, find another mechanism to tax them instead of forcing people back into the office just to get your rake.
Tough love department: that pattern of alternating short and long paragraphs screams "AI generated" or "LinkedIn slop" even if it isn't.
No, he’s saying that juniors, while having less experience ind development in general have more experience with AI tools. (This may be true broadly, certainly less experienced devs generally, IME, seem more enthusiastic about adopting and relying heavily on AI tooling.)
Some Japanese people use avatars to be v-tubers, and post talking head content on youtube or similar while mailing privacy. In some cases talent agencies require them to use avatars, which remain the property of the agency.
For better or worse, screen readers tend to be less easily tricked by things like that now.
For anyone who missed the (poorly-explained) trick, the website uses a CSS trick to insert an equals sign, thus showing different code if read or if copied/pasted. That's how the author knows whether you solved it in your head or pasted it somewhere.
>BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex (no paywall)
Yep, this has wiped out my favorite deli, local cinemas, and bookstores in the east bay. Basically non-capital-intensive businesses seem to pay the price for the market signal falsification engaged in by landlords and banks. But nobody wants to bite the bullet and risk setting off a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis, so we've ended up with some kind of hypernormalization-style fake economy which is being 'run' by a former reality TV star and a bunch of TV personalities and political entrepreneurs.
> The entire thing is about making sure land is used on the most socially benefiting way possible.
The idea of land value tax is to make the government effectively the universal landowner and everyone else renters, and renters paying a high enough rent that it is economically infeasible to use land for any but the most financially remunerative purpose.
Having it optimizing for social utility rather than maximizing negative externalities requires a finely optimized system of Pigovian taxes and subsidies, otherwise you are nailing the accelerator to the floor on the divergence between market incentives and social utility.
Everything is priced that way, basically. In the world of finance, everything is priced according to the future income it can generate -- not just real estate, but stocks, bonds, etc. There's nothing insane about it. To the contrary, it's the only rational way of doing things.
You're right that nobody can predict correctly that far in the future, but ultimately you have to choose whether you think a business decision will be profitable or not, so you have to predict anyways or else you could never do anything. People build lots of models to try to predict better. And market prices reflect a middle point between the pessimists and the optimists.
Also, it's not no-lose for banks. If the owner walks and the property is re-sold for less than it was originally bought for minus the down payment, the bank very much loses. That's a major point of the article, why the bank would prefer the space to continue vacant for a few years than take that loss.
The article points that adding any more costs just costs the operator money and won't change their behavior unless the costs are so high that the bank is forced to foreclose. Maybe on some that level that is a good thing and clears the market but in the current situation the banks just won't make loans unless this happens.
It makes me think of the "poker game" model of nuclear power plant construction where the vendor is quoting a price lower than they know it will cost because otherwise they wouldn't make the sale. If commercial buildings were properly priced at the outset, banks would be financing fewer of them.
Every filter process has false positives and false negatives, especially when crawlers are trying to fake their status.
No screenshots. Not even a title screen. No game videos, preliminary or otherwise. Barely a reference to what the genre is. Not a very good announcement for a game, from a strictly technical perspective.
PEP 686 makes me smile
I find it hard to take seriously for this reason: the proton is not an elementary particle but rather a composite particle whose mass is the sum of the masses of quarks in it and also the binding energy of the gluons and the electrostatic binding energy. The mainstream way to calculate it is a very complex computational Lattice QCD problem:
https://indico.phy.anl.gov/event/2/contributions/19/attachme...
The ratio of the electron mass to, I dunno, the top quark mass might be a fundamental quality that can be calculated in a few lines, but I've been seeing outsiders write simple formulas for mₚ/mₑ for most of my life and haven't been impressed.
Amazon Set to Waste $10 Billion on OpenAI - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-set-waste-10-billion-1... - December 17th, 2025
> Lines of code per developer grew from 4,450 to 7,839 as AI coding tools act as a force multiplier.
Is that a per-year number?
If a year has 200 working days that's still only about 40 lines of code a day.
When I'm in full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent (usually Claude Code) I'm genuinely producing 1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day.
Maybe there is something to those absurd 10x multiplier claims after all!
(I still think there's plenty of work done by software engineers that isn't crunching out code, much of which isn't accelerated by AI assistance nearly as much. 40 lines of code per day felt about right for me a few years ago.)
I don't get this. Nvidia didn't "bet the farm" on AI. They are simply allocating limited resources (in this case memory) to their most profitable products. Yes, it sucks for gamers, but I see Nvidia more reacting to the current marketplace than driving that change.
If/when the AI bubble bursts, Nvidia will just readjust their resource allocation accordingly.
Sadly there's nothing about Gemini 3 Flash on that page yet.
I think that's the "used well" in "because the genie, used well, accelerates learning".
Additional citation:
How Can The Labor Market Be So Weak When The Wage Bill Is Growing Rapidly? - https://www.haver.com/articles/how-can-the-labor-market-be-s... - December 17th, 2025
> For all the talk of a weakening labor market, the wage bill for private nonfarm employees (private nonfarm employees times their average weekly earnings) has risen at annualized rates of 5.85% and 5.91% in October and November, respectively, compared to the median increase of 5.75% in the eleven moths of 2025. If these data are valid, it would seem that labor market earnings are growing relatively fast, especially in light of all the talk of a weak labor market. Why would employers be increasing the labor wage bill so rapidly if labor demand were weak? Perhaps because the labor supply is shrinking.
Ironically enough, the administration is attempting to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, despite the very clear existence of a 'for cause' clause, and has taken the matter to the Supreme court where it will be heard next month.
Canada Population Drops 0.2% in Third Quarter in First Decline Since Pandemic - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/canada-po... | https://archive.today/QeXed - December 17th, 2025
Canada's population decreases from July 1 to October 1, 2025 - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251217/dq251... - December 17th, 2025
Canada sees large drop in population amid international students crackdown - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/canada-populat... - December 17th, 2025
> “A major population adjustment is well underway, and it remains one of the biggest economic stories in Canada,” Robert Kavcic, senior economist at Bank of Montreal, said in a report to investors.
> “Among the impacts we’re tracking are: a significant weakening of the rental market, especially with the pipeline chock-full of supply; less pressure on services inflation; easing slack in the youth job market; and a likely pickup in productivity and growth in real gross domestic product per capita.”
> But that doesn't mean they go wrong all the time
They do, in fact, go wrong all the time, or at least, all the times that the actors involved are sufficiently confident that they think they can both gain something and get away with it.
Which is why the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, both to limit the occurrence of the conditions in which they go wrong, and to identify and correct the points where that prevention fails before they become a positive feedback loop.
It isn’t a new interpretation. More or less this same interpretation was articulated by Justice Taft in Myers v. United States in 1926: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_v._United_States.
Britons are indigenous, Anglos and other “White Brits” are invaders. Of course, separating them out at this point has become difficult.
And this is always my question: "... because the genie, used well, accelerates learning." Does it though?
How are we defining "learning" here? The example I like to use is that a student who "learns" what a square root is, can calculate the square root of a number on a simple 4 function calculator (x, ÷, +, -) if iteratively. Whereas the student who "learns" that the √ key gives them the square root, is "stuck" when presented with a 4 function calculator. So did they 'learn' faster when the "genie" surfaced a key that gave them the answer? Or did they just become more dependent on the "genie" to do the work required of them?
Right now, when I go to the security section of my Amazon account in Chrome, it (unasked) prompts me to add a passkey, and the popup on my Mac says, verbatim:
> Add a passkey? "amazon.com" supports passkeys, a stronger alternative to passwords that cannot be leaked or stolen. A passkey for "xxxxx@xxxxx.com" will be saved in "Passwords". Touch ID to Save Passkey Cancel
I don't have the slightest idea what "Passwords" is as the destination. My iCloud keychain? My Google account? My 1Password?
That's come up, too. The Copyright Office is a unit of the Library of Congress. Trump tried but failed to fire the head of the Copyright Office.[1]
U.S. Marshals used to belong to the judicial branch, and were hired by the district courts. In the 1960s, they were moved to the executive branch, under the Justice Department. This wasn't controversial at the time. The court system wasn't set up to train and manage the marshals. But the effect was that the courts lost their independent muscle.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-copyright-off...
> have always been a distinction within the executive branch
“Always” is doing heavy lifting here. Independent agencies were a paradigm shift under FDR. We’re presumably seeing a shift away from that paradigm.
“Independent” agencies have always been a distinction within the executive branch, not a distinction from thr executive branch, so while arguably true on its face, your statement is also a strawman.
For average consumers, I think very much yes, and this is where OpenAI's brand recognition shines.
But for anyone using LLM's to help speed up academic literature reviews where every detail matters, or coding where every detail matters, or anything technical where every detail matters -- the differences very much matter. And benchmarks serve just to confirm your personal experience anyways, as the differences between models becomes extremely apparent when you're working in a niche sub-subfield and one model is showing glaring informational or logical errors and another mostly gets it right.
And then there's a strong possibility that as experts start to say "I always trust <LLM name> more", that halo effect spreads to ordinary consumers who can't tell the difference themselves but want to make sure they use "the best" -- at least for their homework. (For their AI boyfriends and girlfriends, other metrics are probably at play...)
The prompt becomes the bottleneck, along with the precision of the AI. You can only tell it to do what you know how to express. That makes it useless for preventing new and different types of crimes (or dissidents) but fairly effective for preventing the known types of crimes (or dissent) at scale.
A better title would be "New EUV light source built in Shenzhen". Light source said to be working, not fabbing chips yet. Few technical details in the Reuters article.
> think about what would be most terrifying to Anthropic and OpenAI
The most terrifying thing would be Google expanding its free tiers.
Would you drive an electric Kei?
That linked story is pretty horrifying too: https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
If he can't get his account back in any reasonable amount of time what chance do I have?
(I see I missed a big HN discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114 - 1038 comments)
> Did you really forgot about Snowden's Apple slide?
Was Apple coöperating or were they hacked? (I remember the smiley face for Gmail. Google, in that case, was hacked.)
> there's no doubt that 10 years from now LLMs will play a role in nearly every interaction we have with a computer
I tend to agree with you. Doesn’t make what Mozilla is doing sensible.
In 1995, one could correctly observe that the internet would “play a role in nearly every interaction we have with a computer.” It would not follow that every app must reïnvent the network stack.
An AI helping out can be useful. Every app being a tiny AI is a cacophony of idiots.
To me it's a bit like when your favorite fancy restaurant stops making its own bread in-house. The change itself isn't huge, and isn't all that surprising… but it's not a great sign for how the place will look in a decade.
> And the fact that python doesn't specify the semantics of its type annotations is a super interesting experiment.
That hasn't been a fact for quite a while. Npw, it does specify the semantics of its type annotations. It didn't when it first created annotations for Python 3.0 (PEP 3107), but it has progressively since, starting with Python 3.5 (PEP 484) through several subsequent PEPs including creation of the Python Typing Council (PEP 729).
I'd say it's complicated. If you are running a company in San Francisco I think you want to be sensitive to the culture there. That cause of gay marriage that he opposed was not one of these radicalism for the sake of radicalism queer positions you see on Twitter-dervied platforms but something mainstream at the root. I think of how on The Bulwark podcasts you hear gay people with a conservative but never-Trump viewpoint describing their cozy family life and it just sounds so sweet... and mainstream making the opposition to it not seem so mainstream.
On the other hand I think San Francisco is part of the Mozilla problem because it is less than an hour on the 101 to go see people at Facebook and Google yet they are distant from the 99% of of web developers and web users that live somewhere else whose use Firefox because they don't like what Chrome stands for.
I wish Mozilla was in Boulder or Minneapolis or Cleveland or Dublin or some other second-tier but vibrant city where they might have the capacity to listen to us rather than be in the same monoculture that brings us Chrome and Instagram.
> Saying a country made up heavily of refugees fleeing persecution is just a colonialist occupation project is pretty ridiculous IMO.
That's actually a pattern for colonialist occupation projects, its kind of a two-birds-with-one-stone thing for the colonial power. The colonization of Liberia also was very much this (as was the colonization of parts of what later became the USA.) And the (British, of course, this is very much a recurrent Anglo pattern) project for the colonization of Israel started long before the the refugee crisis that helped realize it occurred.
If you would otherwise be doing anything with positive expected utility in that time, the opportunity cost is >$0.
The fact that the analysis can be carried out in monetary units (because we don't have a good direct measure of utility) doesn't mean that receiving money itself is the only source of utility that needs to be considered.
Back in the Usenet days we used to call C development, cowboy programming, while they called safer languages like Ada, Modula-2 and Object Pascal, straightjacket programming.
I am perfectly fine with Yolo-C nickname.
Either the present perfect that you suggest or the past perfect originally presented is correct, and the denotation is basically identical. The connotation is slightly different, as the past perfect puts more emphasis on the "started...lately" and the emergent nature of the phenomenon, and the present perfect on the ongoing state of what was started, but there’s no giant difference.
If you aren't logged in you get a cached version from the CDN/cache. Reddit works the same way.
Sadly we are way beyond that point, the moment it went below 5% that was it.
Documentation for Gemini 3 Flash in particular: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/abandonment_(of_trademark)
> Abandonment of a trademark occurs when the owner of the trademark deliberately ceases to use the trademark for three or more years, with no intention of using the trademark again in the future. When a trademark is abandoned, the trademark owner may no longer claim rights to the trademark. In effect, this frees the trademark so that anyone else can use it without recourse from the original trademark owner.
Original source: https://resident.ngo/lab/writeups/signal-phishing-belarus-20...
>People will now drive their vehicles into either the Market Street or Water Street parking garage without taking a receipt. Someone from the car must scan a QR code with a phone and then enter the license plate number, a phone number, and a method of payment. Metropolis will then debit an account on record when the vehicle leaves.
The first hour of parking remains free and the rate of $1 every half hour has not increased. According to the city website, downtown businesses can still validate parking by offering another QR code for people to scan.
There is no information on the city’s website about how the data Metropolis collects is used, but there is a phone number and an email address for those who are curious.
The Metropolis website clearly states that anyone using its service has provided consent to the company to gather information, including vehicle types, what kind of devices scan the QR codes, biometric information of passengers, and many other categories that might be sold to advertisers. Metropolis will not delete the data.
“We may keep personal information for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected, our business needs, and any other purpose permitted under law,” reads the privacy page.
There is no alternative or backup system to anyone who doesn’t want to give their information to Metropolis.
“We offer [around] 1,000 free parking spots in the city,” says Schneider. “No one is required to use our parking garages.”
I think it's a "mental autocorrect"; there's far more names ending in -stein than -stain. You may amuse yourself by clicking on these links sequentially:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstein
Safari and Chrome derivatives deviate from the specification, while Firefox implements it correctly.
Rather than comply with the spec, one proposal is to change the spec and ask Firefox to match their behaviour.
I feel like the terms logical, empirical, rational and objective are used interchangeably by the general public, with one being in vogue at a time.
Interesting that this charts by _sets_, not total production volume.
I wonder what the market is like. I'm vaguely aware of Warhammer as a hobby, that's adjacent enough to my social media that I can "see" it, but not people buying miniatures. Does it sit adjacent to railway modelling? Are people making dioramas of Waterloo still?
.. a quick check reveals that OO is 1:76, so they wouldn't quite be right.
PlayStation and macOS kind of show what happens with upstream.
As did all the UNIXes that used to rule before companies started sponsoring Linux kernel development, and were quite happily taking BSD code into them, alongside UNIX System V original code.
What about not sharing at all?
Oh well, if only we could start having Raspberry PI like mini PCs on consumer stores, instead of places only computer nerds know the location, and magic incantations.
one of us, one of us ! there are literally hundreds out there !
i for one have migrated to fvwm3 (https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3) almost everywhere i can. i don't think i am ever switching to anything else. reason: nothing better exists :o) not for the lack of trying mind you !
heck, even at work, where i log into a aws machine, i have it running with x-forwarding over an ssh session (using x2go) from within my mac. it looks something like this: https://ibb.co/DHYbM45J
unfortunately, i just realized, that on github, my config is not up to date, will update in a couple of days.
i would be remiss to not mention my huge thanks (fwiw) to mr. thomas-adam the current maintainer + project-lead of fvwm3. thank you !
ps-01: for folks getting into it, this: https://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/index.html is not-too-shabby a launch point.
ps-02: deep wiki has fvwm3 indexed here: https://deepwiki.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3
> When you go to write a line of code, how do you decide what to write?
depends ofcourse, what am i writing for ? a feature, a bugfix, refactor ... ?
What happens when an AppleID/Google account in good standing is required
At this point Big Tech is only scared of the government, so keep that in mind --- the Amish may be on your side.
I would strongly suggest you use your turnsignals, always, without exception. You are relying on perfect awareness of your surroundings which isn't going to be the case over a longer stretch of time and you are obliged to signal changes in direction irrespective of whether or not you believe there are others around you. I'm saying this as a frequent cyclist who more than once has been cut off by cars that were not indicating where they were going because they had not seen me, and I though they were going to go straight instead of turn into my lane or the bike path.
Signalling your turns is zero cost, there is no reason to optimize this.
'What would you say you do here?'
Management can’t kill a company that dominates a two-sided market no matter how hard it tries —- this phenomena needs a catchy name, the ‘zombie dillemma’ isn’t quite good enough.
Not just rails. Capistrano is tech stack agnostic. It's possible to deploy a project with nodejs using Capistrano.
And yes, it's truly elegant.
Rollbacks become trivial should you need it.
> Once you have infinite money, you tend to want infinite power next
People who get to what seems like infinite money only do so because they were seeking money as a means to power for which they have an insatiable desire in the first place, its not that getting to (even practically) infinite money triggers the desire for unlimited power, its that it is a symptom of it.