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There is no way that this will happen on any Linux box that I use. And this is why I'm an enemy of device attestation and the requirement to register operating systems in the first place, no matter whether it is Apple or Microsoft.
It's part of a whole bundle of tightening censorship and increasing control in a pivot towards techno-feudalism, and militarization of society...
Nothing that saying they're sorry for being offensive and seeking a peace deal can't fix...
We can't let a left-of-center (if that) government mess up a good dictatorship-nostalgic far-right neo-liberal thing
Original title “Construction finishes on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first during Trump's time in office” compressed to fit within title limits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard_Wind
Great piece, very similar to the decline of religious private schools in the US. A demographic cliff story.
Pure AI slop. They're not even trying to hide it, which calls into question the validity of the article.
Starting a war is not ethical. Defending your territory from aggressors is 100% ethical.
VPNs for desktop users have very few security use cases since most traffic ended up being https, but they're very useful for evading geoblocks.
That all depends on what the meaning of is is.
Related:
Complete Off Grid Energy System | DIY Electricity & Hot Water - Charcoal Retort [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEop8qmmt4M
Charcoal-Powered Generator | Charging Off-Grid Battery with Homemade Power [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjBlfd3s4g
Feeding The Fire By Robot - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/feeding-the-fire-by-robot/ - January 15th, 2024
Why is this the right way to go? It's not solving the problem it looks like it's solving. If your challenge is that you need to communicate with a foreign API, the obvious solution to that is a progressively discoverable CLI or API specification --- the normal tool developers use.
The reason we have MCP is because early agent designs couldn't run arbitrary CLIs. Once you can run commands, MCP becomes silly.
There is a clear problem that you'd like an "automatic" solution for, but it's not "we don't have a standard protocol that captures every possible API shape", it's "we need a good way to simulate what a CLI does for agents that can't run bash".
You are off-topic.
Besides that, if there is one constant about Raspberry Pi related articles then it is that there is always someone criticizing them no matter how hard they work and no matter how much they've tried to do within the rules as set by their corporate overlords.
Note that the Raspberry Pi is a lucky break and that every time you piss on the project, the founders, the contributors and the people who hold the purse strings you're doing us all no favors because there are some of us that use these things and that are praying that the peanut gallery (usually purists who would rather have nothing at all than something slightly flawed) doesn't one day cause the big boss to say it's all over.
If the Pi doesn't suit you, then don't use it. If you want something else vote with your dollars of show how it is done and if you manage to put something out with the same power, form factor, price point and not have it be controlled 100% by China I will probably become a regular buyer.
Of course he does. His father and his father in law would expect nothing less of him.
I'm reminded of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli fiasco: nobody sued, but revealing they were lip syncing killed their career.
"this isn’t about avoiding paying for legitimate usage. It’s about accidental seat additions, refund handling, and pricing transparency."
For Claude Code, you use up 12% of your weekly allotment every session, so 8 sessions per week.
If you are only using a session a day, you're wasting a session. :)
Wait a minute, why can't I reply to bunnie's top-level comment? Anyway, here's what I wanted to say:
Adding your CPU to another company's silicon is a genius move, well done. I wonder why companies don't sell their spare die space to others, is it because of trust/risk?
Very much like electric utility time of day pricing, using economic incentives to shift demand to trough periods.
Perhaps an opportunity for them to improve workload scheduling orchestration, like submitting a job to a distributed computing cluster queue, to smooth demand and maximize utilization.
What's interesting about that is that indeed, there are a lot of people pushing the 'autonomous coding agents are great' narrative but there is one crucial bit missing: they absolutely never show their code.
I keep telling people about the movie the 13th floor. If you don't know it yet have a look, it is not something I assign any real world value to but it is one of the more interesting 'many worlds' stories.
There's a limit that resets every five hours and one that resets every week.
I hope you're right, but I fear you are not. I guess we'll know by November this year.
Indeed, and it is interesting how all those countries that have seen this up close have reasonable upper limits and courts that will try to find a balance without falling over one way or the other. Obviously you won't be able to please everybody all the time but we're - as you so eloquently put it - no longer in a speculative domain but in one where you can see the consequences play out in realtime.
It's like toddlers with guns, they may not know exactly how the guns work but they're bloody dangerous all the same.
Popper has it right, far more so than most other philosophers because he's coming at it almost from a security perspective: the system will have holes and you need to be willing to be pragmatic about that, rather than dogmatic.
My solution for HN is simple by the way, I give up, but one account at the time and I simply block them. That doesn't help the site but it does help my blood pressure. The one I use is called 'Comments owl for HN'.
The fee isn’t being paid to the “Trump administration.” It’s being paid to the U.S. Treasury: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-set-rece... (“Sources familiar with the matter indicate that the Treasury received an initial $2.5 billion payment upon the deal’s closing in January, with the remainder to be paid in installments until the $10 billion threshold is met.”).
Exaggerating straightforward facts to maximize clicks for every story undermines the other reporting of the plenty of sketchy things the administration is actually doing.
If you want to avoid too much choice, but still want the "the past is immutable" feel, you can prevent editing after noon next day or similar.
Their last success was acquiring Instagram in 2012. Every new effort since then has been hemorrhaging money. They get away with it because they have two limitless money faucets in Facebook and Instagram, but their product strategy as a whole has been a disaster.
> where you also have room to put in enough solar panels and batteries to power the data center
Environmental reviews. (The further from civilization the higher the chances the Southern farting nuknuk or whatever nests in your nowhere.) And construction costs.
> Police unions aren't the same thing as other unions
What about California teachers’ unions? European notaries?
> super rich have been in "prepper" mode for a long time now
For every prepper in the $100+ million class, I know a hundred who are not. They’re enjoying their lives or working to make more money.
Another point you missed, the microphones also have better quality, they don't get all the surrounding noises as most wireless ones.
24 hour debate
Why are Americans like this If there's a lot to talk about, just stop at 7pm (or whatever) and continue the deabte the next day. Better yet, have proponents and opponents pick a few specialists like a debate team and let them debate while the whole chamber listens.
Legislatures in the US keep doing these dramatic gestures of legislative action, but hardly anyone has time to listen to it all and they don't listen themselves, very often you find your representative has been giving passionate speeches that look/sound great in campaign ads...to an empty chamber. In many instances, the process is gamed to the point of being a scam on the voters at this point.
The amount of coupons, conditional sale prices, and member savings has skyrocketed.
This is a Bad Thing. Sure when I do grocery shopping I keep an eye out for bargains, but I also don't want to have my buying choices overly shaped by the retailer so I end up spending money on stuff I don't really want. I especially don't want to deal with coupons and buy-this-get-that offers. Planning out what to eat and remembering to get what I need is enough mental effort without having to spend time on discountmaxxing which is really just another kind of advertising.
acceptable range [...] Cheese $3 / lb
I don't know what kind of cheese you're getting for $3/lb but I'm pretty sure it isn't good for you.
My browser highlights a few hundred accounts. For HN and other comment-oriented sites, local userscripts are supported by browser plugins, including mobile Safari. These can highlight known usernames and implement blocklists. Most LLMs can generate a userscript on demand for non-obfuscated sites, including userid list for manual edit.
> a little bit of hammering got it looking good as new
A hammer and an oxy-acetylene torch is all that a good mechanic needs.
Does ink still cost an arm and a leg though?
I'd call it write-only memory.
Plenty of people do.
AI is one of the few major general technological breakthroughs, comparable to the Internet and electricity. It's potentially applicable to everything, which is why right now everyone is trying to apply it to everything. Including developing new optimization algorithms, optimizing optimizing compilers, optimizing applications, optimizing systems, optimizing hardware, ...
Big AI vendors are at the forefront of it, because they're the ones who actually pay for the AI revolution, so any efficiency improvement saves them money.
Obituary: https://archive.is/gQ3HB
This problem has been solved already by Lisp, Scheme, Java, .NET, Eiffel, among others, with their pick and choose mix of JIT and AOT compiler toolchains and runtimes.
That was solved long ago with invention of pockets.
SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/habermas...
My favorite quote of Habermas ist about Luhmann’s[1] theory: "It‘s all wrong, but it‘s got quality".
[1] the Zettelkasten person
SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/habermas...
My favorite quote of Habermas ist about Luhmann’s[1] theory: "It‘s all wrong, but it‘s got quality".
[1] the Zettelkasten person
I love his
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)
but feel this ponderous two-volume set
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...
is thoroughly refuted by our last two decades of experience with electronic communications.
Still waiting for that Contact link...
>Suppose anthropic reached out to you and gave you a model id you could pin down for the next year to freeze any a/b tests. Would you really want that?
Where can I sign up?
This is a very interesting take.
From the article:
> Because sites on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet, they don’t behave like traditional websites. They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be. Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.
One of the main ideas of the internet, and therefore WordPress, is to be able to share stuff on the public internet.
Without that capability, I wonder who would this be targeted towards. For personal note taking there are numerous software already out there.
So enabled, in fact, that there's almost no point in downloading an already-made app when you can just trivially tailor-make your own. The builder is massively enabled to quickly make anything they want, for an audience of exactly one.
It is interesting to make the opposite case: particularly in the WinTel world we’ve been losing huge amounts of potential performance because we are still supporting computers that came out in 2008.
Not in many countries outside US, or similar salary levels, unless it comes bundled with some offer like a cable TV contract.
To be helpful, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
I'm confident "in most cases" is not correct there. If they lose money on the $200/month plan it's only with a tiny portion of users.
You've groupped LLMs into the wrong set. LLMs are closer to people than to machines. This argument is like saying "I want my tools to be reliable, like my light switch, and my personal assistant wasn't, so I fired him".
Not to mention that of course everyone A/B tests their output the whole time. You've never seen (or implemented) an A/B test where the test was whether to improve the way e.g. the invoicing software generates PDFs?
Yahoo was the front door of the Internet, once.
Getting stores to adopt this is unlikely, unless you get the European Union to mandate it or something like that. But using a crawler to find items for sale and an LLM to interpret the item listing might work. Then resell the processed pricing info. Publicize by using it for inflation calculations and such.
Government accounting operation on a strictly annual basis is ruinous.
From ガチャ; the "t" is not really there in the Japanese pronunciation, although it is used for transliteration of English words with T like チケット (chiketto, from ticket)
If managers can't understand why this isn't a brag, then your job is hardly safe.
I lived in XEmacs between 1995 and 2005, because in many UNIX variants having an IDE was a foreign word, not even something that could provide the affordances of a Turbo Pascal with Turbo Vision based IDE for MS-DOS.
Between Emacs, the improved XEmacs, and vi, the answer was obvious at the time, I joined the Emacs faction with XEmacs.
Mastered elisp good enough, had my configuration scripts, go to know enough vi to handle telneting (or sshing) into random UNIX servers without anything else installed.
Both are still kind of stuck in time, going back to them in random UNIX distribution feels like I am back in that UNIX decade.
The elephant in the room is "chi-fi". There's been a huge growth in small Chinese companies with unusual names making amazingly cheap, yet great-sounding over-ear headphones, IEMs, and earbuds within the past few years, and the vast majority of these are wired.
> All of this to get custom fonts in their messaging app or some other little feature they saw on someone’s phone.
Yes, and this is normal and right. They're expressing curiosity, and in the process also actually exercising ownership of their devices.
It's how most of us here learned computers, too.
The only problem in this picture, really, is that we've allowed - or even helped - software and platform vendors to disempower regular users so much that "to get custom fonts in their messaging app" they need to do something high-risk.
Most of what regular people try to do is like this anyway - something that should be a basic functionality, that used to be basic functionality, but has been taken away from users for their "safety" or because "sekhurity" or such.
In any programming language it's an interesting challenge to fit an entire functional program into under 140 characters.
APL: challenge accepted
https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
A quick search has not found any implementations of an APL-family language on the 2600, so let this comment be an inspiration for one of you madlads out there to actually do it. The 2600 has only 128B of RAM, but a lot of consoles around this era had additional bankswitched RAM on the cartridges.
I‘ll save you several clicks: if you login to Tumblr (because it seems they don‘t show posts openly anymore), you‘ll get an ad for an AI company.
Why stop at tbe build tools, take JS ecosystem out of the backend.
> I don't like Musk politically but that doesn't mean we can't acknowledge that he transformed 2 industries by sheer willpower and stubbornness.
If you talk to anyone who worked there, they will tell you that he had little to do with the innovation at any of his companies. His lieutenants and the people that worked for them had all the innovative ideas, and for the most part tried to either avoid Elon's ideas or convince him that their ideas were his so he would push them.
The same people refused to support generics for several years, and the current design still has some issues to iron out.
Go also lacks some of Limbo features, e.g. plugin package is kind of abandoned. Thus even though dynamic loading is supported, it is hardly usable.
This is a very cynical take, and completely wrong.
My daughter is at level Z, and some of her peers are level P or Q. It's fine, and encouraged. She just gets different work while they are still working on up-leveling.
Only lazy or underpaid/under-resourced teachers give every kid the same work.
I've never had a pair of headphones with a cable connection that survived more than 2 years. Can't say that about the Airpods Max.
Like, I have opinions about high-end headphones based on how easy the cords are to replace. That shouldn't be the case.
I was a discrete headphone amp guy, just to situate myself in this market. I didn't expect to get good wireless headphones and think "I'm never going back", but that's precisely what happened.
Presumably the rest of the company operates like that too, so you were indeed not a good culture fit.
This should be marketed to hospitals, retirement homes, gyms, and such. Connect it to a remote with just channel up, channel down, volume up, and volume down.
This would definitely be useful for gyms. My gym has a tier of basic cable so low that their current programming is mostly a choice of "Walker, Texas Ranger", old episodes of "NCIS", Fox News, K-pop, or the Jewelry Channel.
Original mid-90s Toshiba "solid state floppy disk" SLC flash: 1M cycles
2000s SLC flash: 100K cycles
Modern SLC/pSLC flash: 30-60K cycles
2010s MLC flash: 5-10K cycles
Modern QLC flash: 300-500 cycles
...and I won't even get into the details of their retention characteristics, suffice to say they subtly redefined them over the years to make the newer numbers better than they really are.
It's a computer. CPU wise is about a slightly better M1 - which even today is quite a beast.
It's not surprising that it can run anything a 8GB M1 could... Geez...
The "ad free option" is also called "muting and looking away". Don't let them trick you into thinking they have the right and control to shove anything they want into your mind.
What a weird and inconsequential thing to focus on...
He's just fucking closely miced with compression + speaking fast and anxious/excited speaking to an audience
This is basically spread-spectrum / CDMA, but in a different frequency range? As others have mentioned in comments here, GPS signals are already far below the thermal noise floor.
This might explain why Grok went unavailable to non-subscribers at X the other day.
What does this have to do with what he just said?
Download → Mouser.zip (44 MB)
I smell LLM... and 44MB compressed for a mouse control panel applet (at least it's not an Electron app?) is still quite disturbing and a reminder of just how inefficient software has become.
Have to start somewhere, just keep tightening the ratchet.
Also even if they know you are transmitting, it may still be beneficial to prevent them from knowing how much you are transmitting.
Imagine the enemy detects some of your transmission, even knowing it's encrypted, they can still look at the data rate (or estimate order of it):
- 5 bps = probably a random transmitter, maybe audio spy device, maybe remote detonated weapon
- 5 Mbps = probably a feed from military hardware or personnel
Similar inferences can be made about volume, if they can identify distinct transmissions. Etc. If tricks like these can make the enemy confuse 5 Mbps TX for a 5 bps one, it has obvious tactical utility.
I think Musk is odious but I think there's a lot of complicating evidence to the story of what happened at Twitter. And: very smart people, like Dan Luu, were complaining about their culture long before Musk arrived.
Russian shadow fleet vessels.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/oil-situation-strait-hormuz-s...
You could build this on ATProto.
Great write up. Reminder that if you commit these to a Github Gist and the provider partners with GitHub for secrets scanning, they’ll rapidly be invalidated.
Who told you that? It wasn’t Trump.
“Orbital space centres and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible.” - Musk
Right.
The product is the stock. TSLA: [1] Up by 3x in the last two years, despite no new models, the Cybertruck failure, the Robotaxi failure, the large truck failure, and an overall decline in sales. How does he do it?
It's a concern seeing Space-X, which builds good rockets, drawn into the X and AI money drains. Space-X is needed. If X and X/AI tanked, nobody would care.
> Most people run Windows just fine on cheap laptops with 4GB of RAM.
And if they can do that, they can get them (at full MSRP) for about half the price of a MacBook Neo.
Heck, you can get 8GB Windows laptops with twice the SSD size of the MacBook Neo's for a little over half of the Neo’s price (again, at full MSRP.)
It has always been like that, except we used to call it demos, sharewhare, beerware, postware,...
The free beer movement came out of UNIX culture, probably influenced by how originally AT&T wasn't able to profit from it.
Is there no mechanism to enable the EU to ban US providers being used and EU companies paying them? Payment rails are the gate.
In theory you can run any software on any hardware.
I've been on a grand jury... the cops lied through their teeth, couldn't keep their stories straight through a prepared monologues reading from notes and ... everyone in the room picked up on it and didn't indict the suspects. Our grand jury was so cynical the DAs stopped giving us cases and made the other two grand juries stay late to make up for the lost capacity. It was great. We did something good. And it was just a bunch of random people from Brooklyn.
The establishment likes to pat the establishment on the back but ordinary people seem to know what's up. In my minimal experience, anyway.
(One thing to keep in mind... grand juries really are a cross-section of the population, whereas lawyers get to select jurors after talking to them, so there is some selection bias on ordinary juries that grand juries don't have.)
I wish creators of local model inference tools (LM Studio, Ollama etc.) would release these numbers publicly, because you can be sure they are sitting on a large dataset of real-world performance.
The cost to make a digital copy from film stock has gone way down, to the point that fan groups [1][2] frequently encode and clean up old copies of film:
[1]: https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/kinekovideo
This of course has various IP implications...
Desktop computers being as open as they are is an anomaly. It only came to be because the systems originated from research labs and hacker cultures rather than rent-seeking corporations. And even though corporations (like IBM and Microsoft) did push them, there was a lot more emphasis on business rather than consumer use at the time.
Vendors keep them open today only because there is a historical exception, but make no mistake if the laptop computer was first introduced to the masses in 2008 you would be downloading apps through official stores and paying a 30% fee on all transactions and would only be able to do a tiny fraction of what is possible on them today.
To me the surprise isn't that the phone is locked down, but that Apple allows MacBook Neo to do so much. Just look at its iPad counterpart.
Hasen't that been the case for decades?