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I don't think they were addressing you.
Yup.
Microsoft pledged not to intervene like that again, reclassifying its legal interpretation of its own services, and added language to its contracts to guarantee that it would fight future US attempts to do so:
https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...
When the US manages to force Microsoft to do something, it responds by trying to protect itself from the same scenario in the future. Because it wants profits. The ICC leaving Microsoft is the last thing Microsoft wanted.
The grown ups have left the room, and it certainly won't make the fine go away.
Here is an idea, just leave EU completely.
Strange, maybe because of being a 70's kid and a D&D nerd, that kind of stuff is exactly why I liked Perl in first place.
That and Perl giving me a reason to do safe programming in UNIX with a managed language that exposed all the UNIX API surface, and only switching back into C when I actually needed some additional perf, or low level stuff not fully exposed in Perl.
Then again, I am also a fanboi of Haskell, C++, Scala, Idris and similar "wizard" languages.
In decompilation "matching" means you found a function block in the machine code, wrote some C, then confirmed that the C produces the exact same binary machine code once it is compiled.
They had access to the same C compiler used by Nintendo in 1999? And the register allocation on a MIPS CPU is repeatable enough to get an exact match? That's impressive.
Definitely a place to visit if you can. I traveled there in 1983 just as it was starting to erupt and visited a lot of places that are now under lava rock! In a later visit we were walking out to see one of the "peep holes" where you can see the lava down below and the rocks started getting slippery, except they weren't slippery it was our shoe soles melting, oops.
That's fine frate, tell the AI to not use lists and em dashes so much.
What to expect, when Microsoft decides to do stupid things like renaming .NET Core into .NET 5, thus everyone that doesn't pay attention to Microsoft world keeps thinking .NET is Windows only, as the .NET Framework was always known as plain .NET in most circles.
I love how people speak about Dreamweaver in the past, while Adobe keeps getting money for it,
https://developer.adobe.com/dreamweaver/
And yes, as you can imagine for the kind of comments I do regarding high level productive tooling and languages, I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.
Same here, I am a big advocate of knowing your SQL, and stored procedures, no need to waste network traffic for what is never going to be shown on the application.
Until specific industry standards like POSIX, all Khronos APIs, UNIX like systems get rewriten into something else, it is going to stay around.
Hence why it should be a priority for WG14 to actually improve C's safety as well, unfortunately most members don't care, otherwise we would at least already have either fat pointers, or libraries like SDS on the standard by now.
> LLM AI has led to job losses
I can confirm, the trend now in enterprise CMS deployments is to push for AI based translations, and image assets generation, only pinging back into humans for final touches, thus reducing the respective team sizes.
Another area are marketing and SEO improvements, where the deal is to get AI based suggestions on those improvements, instead of getting a domain expert.
Any commercial CMS will have these AI capabilities front and centre on their website regarding why to chose them.
We're also seeing a barrage of commercials featuring AI generated animals talking like people. It's getting old.
Í'm not sure we should be treating posts from Fun-Blueberry-2147 on r/LegalAdviceUK as actual news items.
This is the classic pastoral fantasy, about which much has been written. Probably too much.
Muckrock might be helpful with techniques to compel disclosure at a reasonable cost. Do you plan to file suit against the Richland County sheriff’s department due to their violation of SC’s FIOA statute?
I'm not sure you understand what "average" means.
To be clear, you don't need AI for this.
You can also just call the railroad and report the bridge as damaged.
Hoaxes and pranks and fake threats have been around forever.
You can stop LLMs from using em-dashes by just telling it to "never use em-dashes". This same type of prompt engineering works to mitigate almost every sign of AI-generated writing, which is one reason why AI writing heuristics/detectors can never be fully reliable.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell with the Moab plot point.
How do you know you're not?
One, I'm not sure what American founding ideals have to do with Germany.
Two, Germany, like most countries and frankly human populations, has a male surplus in its fighting-age population [1]. This is why, historically, large socities tended to wage war with men first. (Even those that e.g. held elite units in reserve, which undermines the usual biological argument.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media...
> the whole "one way to do a thing"
There’s a whole lot of words popularly excised (as you just did) from that line of the Zen to create a false polar opposite to Perl’s TMTOWTDI that was never actually part of Python’s philosophy.
The actual line from the Zen of Python is: “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.” (omissions in italics).
Capital relies on the absence of accessible prosperity (though it benefits, for control, on the illusion of it.)
Sodium batteries have substantially reduced thermal runaway risk compared to lithium. Worst case, the ship sinks during a fire and the batteries are flooded. Charging infra is likely similar to existing EV ferry charging infra. Ship pulls into the berth and starts soaking the battery storage up to 1C up until departure. Could probably use a heat exchange and raw water available for battery cooling to maximize charge current curve, actively cooling the battery storage during charging.
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/2023-04/...
https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1m8wlou/e...
> I'm making the point that, in modern English, no other verb is available for the act of creating a poem.
You literally used another perfectly acceptable verb in modern English besides “writing” for the act of creating a poem in the very sentence making this claim, which somewhat undermines the claim.
A "norm" can refer be either descriptive (average) or prescriptive (standard), but "normative" specifically is an adjective which refers to things establishing or relating prescriptive norms (this subtle distinction is often not made in short dictionary definitions but is readily observable in use.)
East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.
github repo (MIT license): https://github.com/ttscoff/apex
Ships are subject to so much drag that this is rarely a problem, only in emergency situations and there is not much that you can do to stop a vessel that weighs 100,000 tons or more except to run your engines in reverse and start praying to your deity. Regenerative braking for boats would be a complete waste.
There are some vessels that have single use emergency brakes, but the latest trend is to have motor 'pods' that are electrical and that can be used both for normal propulsion as well as to perform emergency stops that are quite impressive given the size of the vessels they are on. Typically an oceangoing vessel requires at least 3, but commonly 5 to 10 ship lengths to come to a full stop from moving forward under power. This is not necessarily because of limitations of the propulsion unit, but simply because stopping that much tonnage too fast would do as much damage as a collision would. With classical engines there is far more rotating mass so it would take much longer than with electrical propulsion to react before the beginning of the braking phase.
> It's a bit like if Kansas refused to pay anything towards the defense budget because any hostile powers would have to go through all those other states first
That's Spain's current position in NATO.
This is a perfectly fine blog post, but is about something so basic I don't understand why it's submitted to HN.
Yes, ffprobe and mediainfo are the two common tools for this. This just feels like something that belongs as the answer to an everyday StackOverflow question. I don't understand what it's doing on the front page of HN.
> the commoditization of human attention
It isn’t commoditised. It’s priced to a tee. If you can afford to keep your attention, you do.
The problem is we’ve let sociopaths like Zuckerberg and Mosseri convince us that we’re born into their servitude. That the natural order for our kids is for their attention to be stolen. That their parents have to then pay and work to buy it back.
Erlang is, by my accounting, not even a functional langauge at all. It takes more than just having immutable values to be functional, and forcing users to leave varibles as immutable was a mistake, which Elixir fixes. Erlang code in practice is just imperative code written with immutable values, and like a lot of other modern languages, occasional callouts to things borrowed from functional programming like "map", but it is not a functional language in the modern sense.
If you go to learn Haskell, you will find that it has a lot to say about functional programming that Erlang did not teach you. You will also find that you've already gotten over one of the major hurdles to writing Haskell, which is writing with immutable values, which significantly reduces the difficult of swallowing the entire language at once and makes it relatively easier. I know it's a relatively easy path because it's the one I took.
Acts like this, along with rebellion against malicious use of authority when believed to be necessary (Hugh Thompson Jr., etc), are heroes of humanity imho.
Out of curiosity, what were China’s current leadership up to during the Tiananmen Square massacre?
Have you ever written a paper for publication?
HTML doesn't support the necessary features. Citations in various formats, footnotes, references to automatically numbered figures and tables, I could go on and on.
HTML could certainly be extended to support those, but it hasn't been. That's why we're talking about this.
> He wanted to offend.
Sounds like a lot of architects these days.
At least the fridge didn't play the video version.[1]
For Google, back in 2010, word order didn't matter much outside of quotes. So if you asked God is silence, the "is" is discarded, and you get a join of a search for "God" and "silence", sorted by rank. That probably won't help.
Try it today, and see what Google's AI turns up. It's amusing. It's still not what LeGuin is looking for. Search for "god is the silence of the universe" in quotes, and while Google does find a Saramago reference, the AI reframes the concept in Christian terms.
Now try
"god is the silence of the universe" atheist
Honestly some of the posts defending "it could be true!!" when nearly any rational reading of it would deem it "fake beyond a reasonable doubt" are just tiresome at this point.
Like you say, it's easy to have a rational discussion that these adverts are dumb and annoying, and purporting this fan fiction as truth just weakens the case.
I used DSL for the control of a homebrew 8' x 4' CNC plasmacutter.
There was really only one big forced rewrite, 2->3, and ironically Perl was killed by failure to do the same with 5->6.
I agree that python versioning and especially library packaging is the worst part of the language, though.
I can answer back in a few days, after getting back home.
These are 'optical flow' chips. They are quite interesting for many reasons.
Indeed, I think I already covered that in an older comment and didn't want to repeat the same info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159905
> strongly suspect a neighborhood in Chicago composed of the kind of demographics the "nice" suburb's residents are worried about would have a very different take on the issue
I live in Jackson Hole. None of my neighbours knew what these were. They’re getting taken out.
Don’t presume what folks are worried about without asking them.
This made me smile given Python's love of Monty Python references - the cheese shop etc.
You will like this 1952 story by Ray Bradbury:
https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder....
All of the interesting LLMs can handle a full paper these days without any trouble at all. I don't think it's worth spending much time optimizing for that use-case any more - that was much more important two years ago when most models topped out at 4,000 or 8,000 tokens.
For anyone else who was initially confused by this, useful context is that Snowboard Kids 2 is an N64 game.
I also wasn't familiar with this terminology:
> You hand it a function; it tries to match it, and you move on.
In decompilation "matching" means you found a function block in the machine code, wrote some C, then confirmed that the C produces the exact same binary machine code once it is compiled.
The author's previous post explains this all in a bunch more detail: https://blog.chrislewis.au/using-coding-agents-to-decompile-...
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywo...
> [Netflix] now routinely ends shows after their second season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix has learned that the first two seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the third and later seasons don’t do much to retain or win new subscribers.. Ending a show after the second season saves money, because showrunners who oversee production tend to negotiate a boost in pay after two years.. Netflix’s strategy is straightforward market power exploitation.. cancelling shows that subscribers like, so it won’t have to pay creators the amount they would otherwise be able to get for making good commercially successful art.
> [Pre 1990s] The Paramount Consent Decrees and the Fin-syn rules were designed to break creative industries into a three-tiered structure: production, distribution, and retailing. Producers were prohibited from vertically integrating into the traditional distribution business. That way, there are fewer conflicts of interest in the content business; producers had to create high quality work, and if they didn’t, distributors could choose to sell someone else’s art. Policy removed power as the mechanism of competition, and emphasized art..
> We should aim to restore open markets for content again. This means separating out the industry into production, distribution, and retailing. We should probably ban predatory pricing so Netflix isn’t dumping into the market. And we should probably begin a radical decentralization of chains and studios. This is all possible. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again.
https://tbot.substack.com/p/grapheneos-new-oem-partnership
> GrapheneOS has officially confirmed a major new hardware partnership—one that marks the end of its long-standing Pixel exclusivity. According to the team, work with a major Android OEM began in June and is now moving toward the development of a next-generation smartphone built to meet GrapheneOS’ strict privacy and security standards.
Moving fast should not mean reducing quality.
The irony is that the same bunch of folks will complain about array languages.
It isn't the absolutely easiest process.
But it works on Ubuntu, it works on Debian, it works on Mac, it works on Windows, it works on a lot of things other than a Nix install.
And I have to know Docker for work anyhow. I don't have to know Nix for anything else.
You can't win on "it's net easier in Nix" than anywhere else, and a lot of us are pretty used to "it's just one line" and know exactly what that means when that one line isn't quite what we need or want. Maybe it easier after a rather large up-front investment into Nix, but I've got dozens of technologies asking me for large up-front investments.
Not everyone buys into FOSS religion, especially when there are bills to pay, and too many people feeling entitled to leech on work of others and being paid themselves, or companies for that matter.
If the mind is a kind of "prediction machine", wouldn't that make ALL psychiactric disorders a specific variation of faulty prediction mode though?
If you haven't seen this, you might be interested in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU1OCkhBwo which is Tristan Harris (of "The Social Dilemma" fame) talking about the choices we have to make around AI.
Be warned, it is 2 hours long.
From the article -
> These changes were driven by a long-standing belief—pushed hard by the American Trucking Associations (ATA)—that the U.S. faces a permanent truck-driver shortage. The ATA’s solution was to lobby Congress and FMCSA to lower every barrier to entry, convinced that new drivers would flow to large ATA-member fleets rather than small operators.
> That assumption was rooted in an old reality: twenty years ago, only the biggest carriers offered real-time tracking, electronic tendering, and direct shipper relationships. Small carriers and brokers were stuck with phone, fax, and leftover freight.
> That world no longer exists.
Coming from the software industry, I've seen similar things happen when decisions are made which turn out misplaced in the longer term.
And I've always wondered - why can't the management respond fast enough to the new scenario?
What I've noticed is that as long as the same management team is there which had made that decision, it becomes extremely difficult for them to admit and make that change. Change only happens when either things get really critical, or when the management changes.
I wonder whether something similar is involved here.
what’s the reason for downvotes ? has orbstack started doing gui’s now ?
Sutherland figured out how graphic interaction ought to work, with the computer recognizing near points and connecting them. What we now call "snap". He had the key idea of CAD - you can draw with more accuracy if the computer helps.
That demo is running on the MIT TX-0, a transistorized version of Whirlwind and the predecessor of the PDP-1. It was somewhat obsolete at that point, so projects like this could get time on it.
What I want, as a user experience, is something akin to TikTok.
That makes more sense with TikTok frivolous content than with RSS feeds. If you've got Reuters, the BBC, AP and New York Times RSS feeds coming in, you need something that's more content aware and will group items together by subject.
> With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?
For typical users not taking extra precautions, visiting a page in a browser is providing additional identifying info, a fact that monetization of the free-as-in-beer web relies heavily upon, but which can be leveraged in other ways, e.g., by a site that draws you in with privacy fears as a technique to get you to submit additional information that can be correlated with it.
I still have a Cox .049 engine in the basement somewhere.
> Performance reviews are (...) the only company IP you're entitled to take with you when you leave etc, so this is where you can have evidence of specific projects etc.
Wait what? I never heard about this in nearly two decades of working. Is this jurisdiction specific or a general case?
You'd think this would be no. 1 thing advice given to new joiners, or given by career couches, or given in all these threads where people ask how to deal with "Github history as proof of work" when you worked on proprietary code for years.
> If you write the PR you want to get and give to your manager, the burden of effort falls on the manager to correct it where they disagree. If your manager writes it, the burden of effort falls on the manager to comprehensively justify your value as a matter of record. It is better the former be halfassed than the latter
That is a good point to keep in mind, I agree.
Mobile view
> Which I was going to mention is contradictory, because the point of permissive licenses is that it does not have to be Free forever.
No, the point of permissive licenses is that third-party derivatives, which have no impact on the licensing of the original, don't have to be free ever, while the point of copyleft licenses is that they do.
Neither has any effect whatsoever on what future first-party licensing can be; a commitment to "open source forever" by the copyright owner is mostly orthogonal to what kind of open source license the copyright owner offers. (Now, its true that if the owner accepted contributions under a copyright license rather than under a CLA, they would likely have no practical choice but copyleft now and forever, but that's an issue of the license they accept on what they can offer, not an effect of what they offer itself.)
(OTOH, using "permissive" for GPLv3, a copyleft license, is actually contradictory, as you correctly note.)
> it is a provably correct axiom.
Pedantically, axioms by definition are assumed/defined without proof and not provable; if it is provable from axioms/definitions, it is a theorem, not an axiom.
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.
But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".
I think the VST author knew that fine, but they figured that:
1) Protecting the installer will take care of most casual piracy
2) Protecting the VST might lead to unpredictable performance and issues on something that needs to run in real-time
So they chose to only protect the installer, which seems like a very user-friendly choice. I both enjoyed the writeup and want to second supporting the developer by buying a license.
I'm seeing Youtube summary pictures which seem to be AI-generated. I was looking at [1], which is someone in China rebuilding old machines, and some of the newer summary pictures are not frames from the video. They show machines which are the sort of thing you might get by asking a Stable Diffusion type generator to generate a picture from the description.
FYI, I used to pay for YouTube Premium and have since stopped doing that. Deleting the app and letting ad blockers filter out this nonsense is a superior experience.
Strongly recommend. We’ll get local AIs that can skip the cruft soon enough anyway.
I adore Immich. I set it up a while ago, and I'm finally looking at my photos again. I was previously using Nextcloud for photos, but it was such a slog to find anything that I never took or looked at photos.
Immich put the joy back in photography for me, it's so easy to find anything, even with just searching with natural language.
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05/exclusive-memory-...
> Lenovo has begun notifying clients of coming price hikes, with adjustments set to take effect in early 2026.. Dell is expected to raise prices by at least 15-20%, with the increase potentially taking effect as soon as mid-December.. Dell COO Jeff Clarke warned that he’s “never seen memory-chip costs rise this fast,” .. Lenovo [cited] two key factors: an intensifying memory shortage and the rapid integration of AI technologies.. TrendForce has downgraded its 2026 notebook shipment forecast from an initial 1.7% YoY growth to a 2.4% YoY decline.
Matt Levine, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-01/ope... | https://archive.is/S3MPq
> your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI.” .. OpenAI has a $500 billion valuation largely as a bet that a lot of the value of AI will accrue to its builders, but it could hedge that bet by owning the users too. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
> Homogeneous systems like Cloudflare will continue to cause global outages
But the distributed system is vulnerable to DDOS.
Is there an architecture that maintains the advantages of both systems? (Distributed resilience with a high-volume failsafe.)
>When people describe autism as a spectrum disorder, they generally mean the third metaphor.
Yes, but that's not what a spectrum technically is.
It's also not a very good idea descriptively, all the various properties people pile into this "spectrum" don't have nowhere equal weight with respect to relative importance to warrant the equal weight they get in such 'diagrams'.
> Zig particularly shines: comptime metaprogramming, explicit memory allocators, and best-in-class C interoperability. Not to mention the ongoing work on compilation times
The D programming language shines:
comptime: https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#interpretation
metaprogramming: https://dlang.org/spec/template.html#function-templates
explicit memory allocators: these are easily made, there's nothing special about them, I use them all the time
best-in-class C interoperability: Nothing beats D's ImportC, where you can import a .c file as if it were a module. You can even use ImportC to translate your C code to D! https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html
Performance: same as C and C++
The original title is:
"Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data"
I've chosen a different title because it represents the actual content and is drawn directly from the abstract.
> ICE cannot legally arrest people who are citizens for no reason, and yet they have done exactly that 30% of the time by their own admission.
Where are you getting that statistic (honest question)?
> 3. Turning long videos into action: Gemini 3 Pro bridges the gap between video and code. It can extract knowledge from long-form content and immediately translate it into functioning apps or structured code
I'm curious as to how close these models are to achieving that once long-ago mocked claim (by Microsoft I think?) that AIs could view gameplay video of long lost games and produce the code to emulate them.
> Assuming the US continues to alienate its allies
I wouldn’t make business or investment decisions based on any assumptions about “alienation.” I was just in Tokyo for a week of meetings with various business professionals, and there was zero sign of any “alienation.” I was expecting to spend most of the time talking about tariffs and nobody even about them. Everyone instead was focused on the new Prime Minister’s faux pas commenting on the security of Taiwan.
Just one set of data points, of course, but consider whether this concept of alienation is real or a creation of US media.
What's the price on TrumpRx.gov?
Glad you like that I like it!
What I will say is this: there is certainly an adjustment period, and I also totally hear you about how learning internals can be time consuming.
I think you can get a lot of the way there with at least the core concept with something like this, if you'll indulge me:
With git, you build up stuff on your filesystem. You then select which bits go into a diff in your index, and then when you're done, you stamp out a commit.
With jj, you instead start by creating a commit. In this case, it's empty. Then, every time you run a jj command, it does a snapshot, and this produces a new commit. However, because we want to have a stable identifier for a commit, we introduce a new one: the change id. This is basically an alias for the latest commit snapshot that was made. Your git history is just made up of each of these latest commits for each change.
... does that make any sense? Obviously there's more to all of the features than this, but that's sort of the core way that the histories map to each other.
It's striking how much the crypto world depends on trust in other parties. The whole point of crypto was supposed to be that it was "trustless". But it's not set up that way. All these crypto derivatives are not set up as contracts on a blockchain, with assets locked up until the derivatives settle. They're book entries with some weakly regulated exchange in Outer Nowhere.
> Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us optimize our kernel and packages on modern hardware, but they have also committed to a $250 monthly donation.
I'm gonna guess a laptop and a few thousand dollars (over years) isn't exactly breaking the bank.
Is this helpful?
Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094606 - December 2025
That’s misinformation. They’re being arrested because they were in the country illegally, usually overstaying a visa: https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/green-card...
They have a green card interview because they married an American. But you can’t get an adjustment of status if you are in violation of your current visa terms.
I mean, to be fair (and this a not a defense of the specific content, only the inclusion of We wants), its a strategy document, and to have a strategy you have to priorities that the strategy is directed at and priorities are exactly We wants.
> I’ve had chicken pox, mumps and measles growing up. Everyone I grew up with had those. No one is experiencing dementia or any sort of neurodegeneration.
Are you asserting dementia and neurodegeneration don't exist in India, or merely not in your set of close personal acquantances? Because if its the latter, that... hardly means anything. The expected prevalence even with a past history of diseases that increase the risk isn’t high enough that it not happening that you are aware of in your personal circle is... really noteworthy at all, unless your circle is large and/or you have detailed access to the private medical information of everyone in it.
> What jurisdiction do they have on an American site ?
If it is an American site that only does business in America... well still all the jurisdiction they need; that's kind of how sovereignty works. But little practical ability to enforce orders.
But X isn't an American site that only does business in America so the issue is moot, anyhow. It's a multinational corporate network with both business dealings and a local corporation in the EU whose corporate parent happens to be HQ’d in the US, and the EU has as much legal and practical jurisdiction over it as the US had over TikTok when its corporate parent was in China.
That environment shaped the baseline assumptions many of us including [...] yes even minor-celebrity HN commenters such as yourself.
No it isn't.
It "launched" at the WIRED event last night. https://events.wired.com/big-interview-2025
https://archive.ph/vw4O9