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> So you are less likely to replace gloves when you should.
To the contrary. You take off and throw out your gloves every time you finish doing something with raw meat. It's procedure. It's habit.
You're never relying on "feel" to determine whether there are "raw chicken juices on you". Using "feel" is not reliable.
I don't know why you think food service workers aren't constantly putting on new gloves, but doctors and nurses are. Like, if you're cutting up chicken for an hour you're not, but if you're moving from chicken to veggies you absolutely are.
Not really, as people would still carry power-banks, vapes, and so on in their carry on, to use when getting to their destination.
It's not charging a device during flight that's the issue.
why not, you know, just use LLMs to do this job ?
As a fellow European: we're prone to underestimating how uninhabitable bits of America are that nonetheless have people living in them. Those are port cities and therefore stable and temperate. You cannot green Arizona.
Depends on which C++ we are talking about.
You can have the Kotlin experience with a mix of static asserts, constexpr and concepts.
C++ IDEs also offer many goodies which those that insist in using vi and emacs keep missing out.
The 88000 was implemented across three large ICs. This took an enormous amount of board space and would be unfeasible on the smaller Macs.
That’s wonderful. And I can do that to my 1st gen Nook as well.
Oh, they very much do. But like with everything in technology, they can do fuck all about it, so they resign and maybe complain to you occasionally if you're the designated (in)voluntary tech support person for your family and friends.
Regular people hate technology, both for how magical and how badly broken it is, but they've long learned they're powerless to change it - nobody listens to their complaints, and the whole market is supply-driven, i.e. you get to choose from what vendors graciously put on the market, not from what the space of possible devices.
I think the key is to combine it with a strong, digitalized grid and a lot of BESS—a technology which is now getting progressively cheaper, just like PV.
https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/new-record-l...
I believe it is realistic to expect that, in combination with other renewable energy sources such as wind (which, for example, generates more energy at night than during the day), biomass, and hydropower—along with the high level of grid integration currently taking place in Europe—the share of renewable energy could reach 100 percent in 10 or 15 years. Provided there is the political will to do so.
[Personal View] No, we never. We just learn to act in public.
The other other fundamental problem is that dealing with elderly people often is difficult and unpleasant and what can you really expect from people who aren't related to them? Daycares and preschools are often very loving places because babies are cute and trigger people's nurturing instincts but that's not true of the elderly.
No? It would be an act of war.
The 88k multi-chip cache/MMU architecture is fascinating, especially how it could be designed with a single cache chip, or a split I/D cache across two or more different chips.
I used to see supporting multiple versions of Python as an expensive chore... and then I learned how to use the GitHub Actions matrix feature and supporting multiple versions is suddenly easy - my test suites are comprehensive enough that if they pass I'm confident it will work on that version.
I expect this should work equally well for Go.
That is definitely not going to be easier or cheaper.
> don't understand how PE manages to get debt financing for LBOs? Seems like a big risk for the creditors?
Hype aside they tend to pay it back. When they don’t, recovery is streamlined.
> it preaches the erasure of all other religions entirely
Within their relevant geographies, so does, it seems, the other movements.
I agree that Islamism is currently more in power and more violent, extreme and ridiculous than those others. But again, I’m not discarding anything they say as a result of it.
> Hindutva isn’t the same as either Islamism or Christian nationalism, since it literally means “Hinduness”
As it’s practiced it has involved excusing and in many cases encouraging murderous riots. (Islamism parsed literally also sounds innocuous.)
> a long-colonized people (Indians) trying to keep their culture from being erased by other powers
This is revanchism. All extremists do it. Islamists and Christian nationalists want a return of their golden ages.
Authoritarian Asian countries being authoritarian as usual.
Wouldn't mind putting up panels if I could sell and use the power. But fuck governments telling property "owners" what they can or can't do.
What is your take on Lithium-Titanate (sp?) cells?
Sytse is one of a kind, not a doubt about it.
> Iran is doing this without a navy
They never needed a navy. And to the degree a navy was helpful, it was in the form of fast-attack craft. We don't seem to have hit those much yet [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Islam...
> Why would anybody in power want random people at the border turning up to protest the government?
Why would anyone in power want anyone opposing them? We restrict power because power's wants are unlimited.
> We have been using biometric identification to identify repeat detainees for decades
He was never charged with anything.
Only "true threats" are criminal acts; threats broadly understood to be rhetorical or implausible are protected speech.
I've bought 4 internet radios over the last 25 years. They work for a few years, then are bricked because the remote server disappeared.
Most of the solid state batteries have far less thermal runaway problem than lithium-ion batteries. At this point, several companies have working demo solid state batteries, but the price is far too high. Mercedes has one demo car with a solid state battery. Ducati has one motorcycle. Donut Labs just has one demo cell, not even enough for their motorcycle. The technology works but is so expensive there aren't even multiple prototypes.
Samsung says they will ship some solid state batteries in watches and earbuds this year, where the batteries are so tiny they're affordable. Even solid state batteries for phones are still too costly. Everybody in the industry is trying to solve the production price problem. Consensus is that the price starts to come down around 2028 or so.
Lithium iron phosphate batteries don't have a thermal runaway problem, either, but they have about half the Wh/Kg of lithium-ion, so they're not popular for portable devices.
Ten years out, lithium-ion batteries will probably be obsolete technology and totally prohibited on aircraft.
Never tried Doom on a phone before, this one is surprisingly fluid and very playable.
D just makes assert() part of the language:
https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#assert_expressions
The behavior of it can be set with a compiler switch to one of:
1. Immediately halting via execution of a special CPU instruction
2. Aborting the program
3. Calling the assert failure function in the corresponding C runtime library
4. Throwing the AssertError exception in the D runtime library
So there's no issue with parsing it. The compiler also understands the semantics of assert(), and so things like `assert(0)` can be recognized as being the end of the program.
But that's not true; it could easily fallback to other forms of geolocation like using the current IP.
Which is why they now are finally listing to customers.
Reproducibility is (supposed to be) a cornerstone of science. Model versions are absolutely critical to understand what was actually tested and how to reproduce it.
*twitch*
I also like when it says "this is a known issue!" to try and get out of debugging and I ask for a link and it goes "uh yeah I made that up".
I am polite when using AI, not because I mistake it for a human, but because I'm deliberately keeping it in the "professional colleague" persona. Tell it to push back, and then thank it for something it finds in your error. I may put a small self-deprecating joke in from time to time. It keeps the "mood" correct.
Another way you can think of it is that when you're talking to an AI, you're not talking to a human, you're talking to distillation of humanity, as a whole, in a box. You want to be selective in what portion of humanity you are leading to be dominant in a conversation for some purpose. There's a lot in there. There's a lot of conversations where someone makes a good critical point and a flamewar is the response. A lot of conversations where things get hostile. I'm sure the subsequent RHLF helps with that, but it doesn't hurt anything to try to help it along.
I see people post their screenshots of an AI pushing back and asking the user to do it or some other AI to do it, and while I'm as amused as the next person, I wonder what is in their context window when that happens.
> What's the failure rate of humans?
5x more than Waymos, last I saw.
https://www.lynalden.com/march-2026-newsletter/ (control-f “The Investment Implications of Chaos”)
Not investing advice, I’ve reallocated away from US domestic equities to international equities (VXUS) as a majority of a portfolio. This hedges against a correction from overweight Mag 7 exposure and US economic growth impairment from current policies (imho).
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/27/stocks-trump-iran-nasdaq
https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VTI,VXUS?start=2025-01-20
https://www.apolloacademy.com/sp-500-concentration-approachi...
Do you have anything I can read on why marginal pricing is the only sensible way to have pricing?
EDIT: Ah, apparently it aligns market forces well, by making cheap energy sources massively profitable to run, so more and more get added.
Perversely, though, it seems to me that it also incentivizes an entire renewable grid to not expand to 100%, so they all enjoy a much higher price.
Nope, it's also valuable if you trust that most of the changes are good enough, even if there are bad ones ocassionally.
Strikes me this is another example of AI giving everyone access to services that used to be exclusive to the super-rich.
Used to be only the wealthiest students could afford to pay someone else to write their essay homework for them. Now everyone can use ChatGPT.
Used to be you had to be a Trumpian-millionaire/Elonian-billionaire to afford an army of Yes-men to agree with your every idea. Now anyone can have that!
That PDP-11 was the most fun minicomputer of the late 1970s in my opinion. Growing up in NH about an hour north of Digital's HQ all sorts of schools from primary to secondary as well as museums had PDP-8, PDP-10, PDP-11 and later VAX machines.
The PDP-11 had a timesharing OS called RSTS/E which could give maybe 10 people a BASIC programming experience a little bit better than an Apple ][. If you were messing with 8-bit microcomputers in 1981 you might think a 16-bit future would look like the PDP-11 but the 1970 design was long in the tooth by 1980 -- like 8-bit micros it was limited to a 64kb logical address space. Virtual memory let it offer 64k environments to more users, but not let a user have a bigger environment.
Did the Biden administration cook up an assassination attempt to provide Trump a pretext for invading Iran? Maybe, but Iran has a track record of provocations like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
Iraq had no similar track record of attacking the U.S.
Why the f would they want to hardcode the field names?
Site breaks for my account? Maybe I'm not trusted? But I see no sparklines next to my username when I visit https://hn-trustspark.com/ and have posts on the newest page.
Then you want to run KDE on Linux. This is not going to replace your native mac desktop environment.
Not sure where you're getting at. MS Word, full load to ready state after macOS reboot takes ~ 2 seconds on my M1 mac. If I close and re-open it (so it's on fs cache) is takes about ~1 second.
They backed out the “clear context and execute plan” thing recently. It’s a bummer, I thought it was great.
International law says you spank whoever launched it. There’s treaties on this.
Barring that, we have anti-satellite missiles.
> but it looks for all the world like there was a large faction in the Linux UI world around Wayland that believes accessibility is insecure and designed the new systems to make it impossible
Agreed.
FWIW, accessibility is insecure, that is a fact, and it's also fine. The problem is that many security-minded people forget to ask the critical question: security for whom, and from what. There is no such thing as "security" in general. There is always a subject being secured from a threat.
With Wayland, like with most modern software development, the user ends up being the thing to secure from, and what is being protected are the interests of the vendor.
With an openly fascist prime minister, something like that was unavoidable.
Right, but then there's this thing called "shared reality" and once you break it, all kinds of bad consequences happen.
This is even worse, as it also breaks temporal continuity for individual reality. E.g. I expect that if I saw a video titled X today, I'll be able to find it under title X tomorrow, and if I can't, it's one of the rare/marginal cases when it got banned/deleted/retitled, or I just misremembered. Titles becoming unstable in the general case is a bad situation.
Devil's advocate: why? Why do people need to make sure to disable it?
Is this the "but privacy!111" stance, or the Dog in the Manger stance ("I'm not being paid for it, so why should anyone else benefit?"), or...?
How often is that used? Is there a way to check?
With the amount of bullshit animations all OSes come with these days, enabled by default, and most applications being webapp with their own secondary layer of animations, and with the typical developer's near-zero familiarity with how floating point numbers behave, I imagine there's nearly always some animation somewhere, almost but not quite eased to a stop, that's making subtle color changes across some chunk of the screen - not enough to notice, enough to change some pixel values several times per second.
I wonder what existing mitigations are at play to prevent redisplay churn? It probably wouldn't matter on Windows today, but will matter with those low-refresh-rate screens.
War crimes only counts as such from the looser side.
Plus whatever gets discussed at United Nations is proven to be only rhetoric.
MS has always been (and probably still does) wanting you to pirate Windows instead of jumping to Linux or Mac.
Unless Apple decides to make computers for the remaining 80% of the less fortunate population (Neo isn't it), or OEMs decide to finally support GNU/Linux, Windows has many years to come, regardless of the pain points.
Naming is an area where LLMs are useful; but I'd still use a regular Java decompiler (there are quite a few of these around) for the actual decompilation part.
> but there's still the the "forever problem" of kicking data down the road onto new storage technologies / services, too.
Whatever happened to IFPS and Filecoin? If you paid for perpetual storage five years ago, is your stuff still around?
I'd like to have one where you lay out all your tools, take a picture, and it makes you a drawer insert that has a custom slot for each tool.
Yes, it is. You just have to visit a dimly lit restaurant or bar with a nice big window facing the street. You'll see everyone mesmerised with what's happening outside during the day. The same place will might end up being a great conversation place after dusk!
Better to use a standard low-power PC with a bunch of HDDs as a NAS.
Instantly.
If you run a VM on a CPU like this, using a baremetal hypervisor, you can get very close to "everything in cache".
Spoof the user agent. I'd bet the vast majority of "only works on XYZ browser" websites will still work.
The 99xx chips have two CPU dies, and one cache die is on each CPU die.
The immigration attorney company works from Firefox at
https://www.tryalma.com/
but not from https://app.tryalma.com
Nothing reachable from https://www.apple.com/ seems to fail on Firefox.
It's the principle of the thing.
I'd really like to try this, but building it is impossible. C++ is such a pain to build with the "`make`; hunt for the dependency that failed; `apt-get install whatever-dev`; goto make" loop...
Please release binaries if you're making a utility :(
> all the gains are captured by the executives.
No, they are captured disproportionately by the haut bourgeois capitalists. The two groups overlap to an extent (when major capitalist are nominally employed by a firm they invest in, it is usually as an executive), but executives qua executives (that is, in their role as top level managerial employees) are not the main beneficiaries of increased productivity.
Not always. Try to buy a reasonably priced car or truck, with a price no higher than the last 20 years of inflation applied to a vehicle price from 20 years ago.
Sure, I'll bite: there is no such thing as a sufficiently powered survey of validated tested IQ with "dog owner" and "cat owner" in the cross-tabs.
Suggestion for the FAQ page: does this work on a Mac?
I have used iPhones since 2008, and this is a load of rubbish. There's a reason iPhones keep their resale value. They historically got updates for longer than most Android phones, and they do not get "bricked", literally or figuratively.
So you just installed the latest iOS update? Ever thought that caches might be cleared and it's getting more load after the reboot, or stuff getting re-indexed for a while? Or it's some bug you chanced upon, perhaps based on the iOS update and its interaction with some third party app you use a lot, and it'll get fixed if so?
As opposed to some mere point update with a few fixes and very marginal feature updates deliberately tanking your device or introducing anything major drain backend...
I will wait for you to discover these Keyboard Shortcuts - Press the `fn + ^` (that globe key + control) and then try `c`, `f`, and all of the four arrow keys.
It's not like they know much about Venezuela either. They'd probably as lost to the history regarding the history of UK or Germany, or for that matter, the US itself.
What they know is they have power, and they can bomb others with impunity. Even if it goes bad, it's not their asses that will have a problem. They'll go on having nice corporate positions waiting for them.
Just Stop Oil got their wish! Now everyone else gets to suffer the effects.
Reservations are a profoundly evil concept. You’re basically committing to keep around pockets of the pre-industrial societies that existed before America was built. There is no timeline where the reservations in California develop governments and institutions as sophisticated and competent as the State of California. So the best case scenario for these reservations is that they’ll be perpetual dependents on the federal government. But the reality is that you’re condemning the kids born in these places to quasi third world conditions. If they had been forcibly assimilated into the United States back in the 1800s, their descendants would be like the descendants of Spanish settlers who were living in the west when the U.S. annexed that land (i.e. more or less indistinguishable in terms of material prosperity from other Americans).
My parents just bought a new BYD Dolphin, and it cost 3 EUR to go 150 km, whereas my diesel car costs 15 EUR for the same route.
I don't know how people can say electric cars aren't cheaper. It's a 5x difference!
ICs see the teams being reduced as the individual productivity gets increased the amount of FTE per project goes down, and superfluous folks shown the door.
Meanwhile executives see the money related numbers go up.
You must be living in a different universe if you think ICs aren't enamored by AI. Every developer I know basically can't operate now without Claude Code (or equivalent).
In Australia [1], a data provider (APVI [2]) collaborates to provide this data in the aggregate, and so it can be surfaced distinctly as rooftop solar. In the US, it manifests as reduced demand (“behind the meter generation”) during daylight hours.
[1] https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&...
I didn't downvote them, and I don't really disagree with them (that much). But I do disagree with the idea that what they're saying is "something so obvious".
I think the evidence is overwhelming that renewables plus storage will provide the bulk of our energy needs, or at least electricity needs, in the very near future. But I think the idea that it will be some sort of libertarian/individualistic utopia if we're all generating our own power and living off grid is a fallacy. This sort of widespread "off grid" living (beyond a small number of ideologues/enthusiasts) is what you only see essentially in failed states, where communal services are unreliable and the social contract is so frayed that people need to inefficiently generate their own power. One can argue the US and other Western countries are headed that way, but I don't think that's "obvious" or necessarily a good thing.
A much more "obvious" solution IMO is to invest in efficient, grid-scale renewable generation combined with robust storage tiers, as well us long overdue updates to the grid.
And to emphasize, because I'm sure it will get lost in translation, I'm in no way saying people shouldn't be self-sufficient or install rooftop solar if they want to. What I am saying is that widespread rooftop solar as the "of course that's the right answer" endgame of renewables deployment is in no way obvious, inevitable or even desirable.
I hever have any window in fullscreen, but I always have all windows maximized (obviously except the ones that can't be maximized, because of course settings couldn't possibly be made maximizable, what, that's crazy talk).
All civic tech is awesome, but a word of advice (may or may not be applicable in your particular neck of the woods, but definitely is in mine):
Public comment is one of the least effective mechanisms for influencing policy, at least at the margin. You can drastically amplify your influence with a simple change: move from public to private commentary, directly and personally addressing your state and local reps. They all have email addresses and I think it's more likely than not you'll be surprised when they (and it'll actually be them, not some factotum) respond to your email.
This would stop working if everybody did it, but I live in an unusually (famously, in fact) engaged municipality and have been unreasonably successful at influencing policy and the evidence I see is that almost nobody does this.
There's probably a civic tech thingy to do here. Though I'd also be mindful of the appearance of canvassing. My experience is that decisionmakers very quickly clock canvassing efforts, and then mentally bucket input into "low-effort" and "high-effort", often in a way that amplifies smaller interests.
I also think you can probably get a long way just by doing a better job than your policy adversaries at presenting information. Another thing I've noticed reps quickly clocking: the commenters who clearly have never read a budget, or who don't know the difference between an Enterprise Fund and the General Fund. These are also problems tech can solve, by digesting and contextualizing data so people can present informed (or informed-sounding) arguments.
No it isn't. Most people don't use Copilot, so this term change won't effect most people. You can reasonably be unhappy about it anyways (or unreasonably still be using Copilot in 2026), but it's still ultra-useful information for them to add to the discussion.
BYD EVs are affordable. Electricity will get cheaper with more renewables, oil will not.
Just pointing out that this...
> Either we are really good at suppressing the world except for this one case or there aren't that many schools being bombed. We cannot be simultaneously horrible at picking targets and suppressing evidence and also great at it in every other case.
...is a logical fallacy (false dichotomy). It presumes a level of intent that isn't necessarily present.
For an example of how these might coexist, I'd encourage The Toxoplasma of Rage, which is a long essay that frequently comes up here:
https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/The-Toxoplasma-Of-Rag...
The idea is that rage is its own, self-replicating emotion, and given the medium of the Internet, it's possible that some memes have no purpose other than self-perpetuation. A story about a girls' school being blown up is self-replicating: it gets people riled up enough to share it. A story about a random factory, or some dead person's house, or an empty patch of desert is not really. It's entirely possible that attacks on these happened hundreds of times in the Iran war, but if it did, I would never know about it. I probably wouldn't care about it. Those are not stories that go viral, they don't have enough emotional valence to make people care. And the media knows this, and so they don't bother to seek them out or run them.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Especially in context of discussing living at different economic strata, customers are neither expected nor supposed to voluntarily overpay out of a belief this will make an industry not try to rugpull everyone at some point.
I don't think they did, and anyway you're just trying to redirect to a different question.
Well, here's a video which ends with a hand holding a sample.[1] It's a sand-making plant. Big rocks go in, and repeated crushing makes them into sand-sized rocks.
> I don't know why you think food service workers aren't constantly putting on new gloves...
I've seen enough absent-minded nose wipes on the back of gloves at Chipotle-style establishments to be pretty OK with this take.
And that's where people are watching.