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Interested parties will need to file suit against this administration for every fraudulent must run emergency order they issue. It’s unfortunate. Might as well file suit preemptively for every coal generator scheduled to retire over the next 3.5 years to get ahead of the curve.
> occaisionally opens its rear hatch while on the road for no apparent reason.
That is how "our army of well trained monkeys" can get in to fix the "oops. something went wrong" problem.
#include <rant_about_paternizing_users.h>
We're getting there, takes time for EU defense to spin up.
> We can keep going. In March, a leading Danish defense official acknowledged his country’s F-35 purchases, but expressed regret over the decision. “[B]uying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run,” Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee wrote on social media, adding: “We must avoid American weapons if at all possible.”
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/40014
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-has-a-double-tr...
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/switzerland-weighs-cuts-...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/f-35-fig...
How do you know they haven't?
There are similar setups today.
I have voice over IP via fiber from Sonic. The house's old interior phone wiring is no longer connected to the telco in any way. So Sonic's VOIP box is plugged into the wall jack for the old phone wiring, from which it can reach some old phones around the house.
The main problem with this is that the Sonic-branded box is too dumb to manage power failures properly. The fiber modem/router comes up fine by itself, but, on every power outage, the Sonic VOIP box has to be unplugged and reset before voice phone service comes back up. Incoming calls are silently lost. The problem seems to be that the VOIP box comes back up before the Internet link is fully operational, confusing the VOIP box.
> Why do we need type checking at all? The standard answer is scale. “Small programs don’t need types,” the reasoning goes, “but large programs become unmaintainable without them.”
No it's not.
Type checking is a first line of defense against bugs. That's all.
It's just making sure you're not accidentally passing invalid data or performing an invalid operation.
And since the article gets the premise wrong, its conclusion that reducing complexity will make type checking "largely irrelevant" is therefore also wrong.
To your point, you can get a Stihl Cutquik TSA 230 Cordless Cut-Off Saw for ~$500-600, and this will make quick work of anything getting in the way of scraping. I've cut through thick steel with it like its butter (and the only portable way to go faster is something like a plasma torch, depending on material and thickness).
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/cut-off-machines/battery-c...
(no affiliation, I just like the tool)
> Why aren't there proposals for online age verification to be exactly like alcohol and tobacco?
> You can show ID at a real world store and buy an age verification token. The token is good for exactly one user account on one website for one year
I don’t know if you’ve ever bought alcohol or tobacco, either in person or online, but the process in either case, in my experience, does not involve showing government ID at a private business separate from the one you are going to purchase the product from in advance to purchase a single-account, single-year token which you then use to prove age when you purchase the good in question.
> I'm not. Double-quotes means quoting. Single-quotes means paraphrasing.
If you abuse punctuation to mean different things than it conventionally means, then you are not going to communicate effectively. Paraphrasing is when you describe someone’s position without using quotation marks (in English generally, single and double quotes have the same meaning, and are used to distinguish nested quotations, with regional variation in which is usually preferred for primary, unnested quotations; both are also used for use/mention distinctions for literal words of phrases, and some styles distinguish which style of quotes are used for use/mention vs. primary direct quotation, but paraphrase is neither of these.)
It's interesting, people have been trying to solve the "two language problem" since before I started professionally programming 25 years ago, and in that time period two-language solutions have just gotten even more common. Back in the 90s they were usually spoken about only in reference to games and shell programming; now the pattern of "scripting language calls out to highly-optimized C or CUDA for compute-intensive tasks" is common for webapps, ML, cryptocurrency, drones, embedded, robotics, etc.
I think this is because many, many problem domains have a structure that lends themselves well to two-language solutions. They have a small homogenous computation structure on lots of data that needs to run extremely fast. And they also have a lot of configuration and data-munging that is basically quick one-time setup but has to be specified somewhere, and the more concisely you can specify it, the less human time development takes. The requirements on a language designed to run extremely fast are going to be very different from one that is designed to be as flexible and easy to write as possible. You usually achieve quick execution by eschewing flexibility and picking a programming model that is fairly close to the machine model, but you achieve flexibility by having lots of convenience features built into the language, most of which will have some cost in memory or indirections.
There've been a number of attempts at "one language to rule them all", notably PL/1, C++, Julia (in the mathematical programming subdomain), and Common Lisp, but it often feels like the "flexible" subset is shoehorned in to fit the need for zero-cost abstractions, and/or the "compute-optimized" subset is almost a whole separate language that is bolted on with similar but more verbose syntax.
This is routine; businesses don’t follow laws because they are laws, they follow laws to the extent that the perceived cost of violations exceed the perceived benefits. The whole reason the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act exist is to impose a domestic cost on foreign bribery by US entities to dissuade them from engaging in corruption abroad where enforcement is weak. But this President, who is explicit against that, is also very obviously, if less explicitly, also against enforcement of the laws against domestic corruption when it is him or his friends benefiting. So, there is literally no cost to weigh against the benefits.
Are there any technical details yet? What was upgraded?
ReCAPTCHA is frequently on sign-up forms and other things where every percent of users that don't complete it costs. It's bad enough to be making people fight with it, but if it showed ads some fraction of people would click on the ad or otherwise be distracted by it [1]
Note that in a lot of cases it looks at your cookies and other trackers and decide you must be human by looking at the mud on your boots from walking all around the web. It might also play a valuable role in punishing people who use browsers other than Chrome, though it seems the browsers that I have the most CAPTCHA harassment with are on Android tablets.
[1] unless you completely believe the "all clicks are click fraud" theory that nobody has honestly clicked ads since 1999. It's up there with my other conspiracy theories such as "the dead internet theory" and the one that there's no interest in mainstream culture at all outside of the media: that is, I meet people who watch things like Solo Leveling and play Genshin Impact but never people who watch Severance and play Call of Duty
Yeah, its not like the US is also pursuing an antitrust actions against Google, including one for its abusive ad tech practices.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-l...
Fascist governments often empower superficially private organizations, including giving them power over functions previously done by the state while also blurring the boundaries between state authority and private organizations; that’s just the basics of fascist corporatism.
> Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.
Cost to run a million tokens through GPT-3 Da-Vinci in 2022: $60
Cost to run a million tokens through GPT-5 today: $1.25
This Fred Pohl book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World
has a short story The Midas Plague in it where the problem is that post the development of cheap fusion resources are so abundant and production so efficient that keeping the economy working requires that people stay on a treadmill of consumption. This is such a burden that lower-class people are forced to consume more than upper-class people. The protagonist of the story gets his robots to consume his good and fears that he'll get in trouble for this but instead he gets a medal. The original version of the short story as it appeared in the April 1954 Galaxy magazine is linked from the Wikipedia article.
> Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide
Musk’s politics mean these won’t be approved in big cities easily.
The board is an accomplice in the grift.
I once had a refactoring that I wanted to do, but I was pretty sure it'd hit a lot of code and take a while. Some error handling in a web application.
I was able to ask Claude "hey, how many function signatures will this change" and "what would the most complex handler look like after this refactoring?" and "what would the simplest handler look like after this refactoring?"
That information helped contextualize what I was trying to intuit: is this a large job, or a small one? Is this going to make my code nicer, or not so much?
All of that info then went into the decision to do the refactoring.
> That might well change, but it's what their docs currently say.
It's not, actually: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:doc...
> Rust can be used anywhere in the Chromium repository (not just //third_party) subject to current interop capabilities, however it is currently subject to a internal approval and FYI process. Googlers can view go/chrome-rust for details. New usages of Rust are documented at rust-fyi@chromium.org.
It is true that two years ago it was only third party, but it's been growing ever since.
There are a lot of great comments on these old threads, and I don't think there's a lot of new science in this field since 2018, so the old threads might be a better read than today's.
Here's a fun one:
How resilient is a nation state? This is a question I keep asking myself. I was kind of surprised how the USA bounced back from Trump I. But I really wonder if there is going to be a similar recovery this time around. The amount of outright destruction is overwhelming. So, you raid the Hyundai facility. And then in a few years time you wonder why foreign companies no longer want to invest into factories on US soil. The knock on effect of all of this stuff is enormous and the consequences are going to be many years in the coming. And yet, it all just happens, there is no meaningful pushback against any of this.
Development speed has been a bottleneck in every major product development effort that I have been involved in. From a realtime medical data collection application where president and VP are drumming their fingers on the desk waiting for development to be finished.
Writing a compiler at Sycor, there were teams waiting for us to finish our development. We were successful, being about an order of magnitude faster than the effort we replaced.
And just because google cancels products doesn't suggest anything about development speed.
If I were an LLM advocate (having much fun currently with gemini), I would let the criticism roll and make book using LLMs.
The core analogy is intended as a warning: this is a thing that looks like an encyclopedia but really isn't.
There's not much I can do about the intuition thing. I've been trying to figure out ways to teach people to use LLMs for over three years now, but it genuinely comes down to them being utterly weird and unintuitive pieces of technology that pretend to be easy to use when they aren't.
The only way to get truly competent with them is to put in the time deliberately experimenting to figure out what does and doesn't work.
It’s not unusual for social sciences, including economics, degrees to be styled as “of Arts” (the original form for both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees); newer forms like (“of Science”), except for specifically professional degrees, are affectations which may or may not denote any substantive difference (some universities have different colleges with different core requirements independent of degree, that offer BS/MS vs BA/MA degrees, others simply offer only one style for any given major despite similar core requirements.)
Some universities might only offer one despite having a few programs in fields where it is more common for degrees to have the opposite style; at one time, e.g., this was true of Caltech which only issued BS degrees for undergrad though there were one or two majors with very few undergraduate degrees issued in fields where BA would be more common at other institutions.
American companies of all sizes do that a lot; its profitable, and even if it is eventually punished, the punishment is almost never sufficient to deter pursuing the profits.
https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1963709979363258560 | https://nitter.poast.org/adamwathan/status/19637099793632585...
> Are there any other open source apps we could fork and move the tabs to the side then sell for $610m?
See
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77683-1
That kind of module can be really cheap
https://www.waveshare.com/hmmd-mmwave-sensor.htm
and is starting to replace Passive IR sensors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_infrared_sensor
I can imagine one of these on the ceiling above your bed being an ideal sleep monitoring system.
It's not fair to call it "Blueskyism" because it really started on Twitter and Tumblr and was prevalent on Mastodon until many of those people moved to Bluesky between Nov 2024-Jan 2025.
I had to create a long list of block rules (like I don't care if you car blew its "transmission" or if you came from "transnistria") [1] to be able to stand Mastodon, I even blocked sci-fi writer Charlie Stross [2] because he kept saying mainstream politicians who hear "the call of the mild" like Keir Starmer were fascist. My impression is that Mastodon is getting better lately, I dunno if the obnoxious people are in despair, moved to Bluesky, came to the conclusion that it was their fault Harris lost, or if I finally blocked the last one, or if my tribe found me or if I just don't care anymore.
I share 5 photos a day and about the same number of articles similar to what I post to HN on both Mastodon and Bluesky. My feed is full of other people's photos and similar sorts of articles. I use the tools available to suppress angry people and it works -- I get mostly good engagement, maybe one hysterical angry person a month. I'm not there to pick fights the way the people who Neil lionizes do. It's their business, it's how they drive traffic to their blogs.
Where I do see the negative people is when I play the followback game where I pay attention to two variables (but don't take rigorous notes) One of them is negativity, if their bio says "#BlueCrew", anything about politics or that somebody is "diss abled" or blames their problems on somebody else I won't follow them. In sets that I look at it is typical to have somewhere between 20-60% negative people. I am noticing really poor follow-back performance from the academic science sorts of people and first thought these people were just stuck up but then noticed a lot of them posted last 1-2 months ago. So it could be they are getting too much bad engagement or not enough good engagement, it fits with the story of decline that we keep hearing about though.
I keep thinking about automating my followback spamming and that would require developing a classifier for negative people and if I did that I'd be getting good stats but between taking photos, developing photos and posting photos and Arknights I haven't gotten around to it.
[1] I don't care if it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's that people are angry about whether they are for or against it and anger is contagious.
[2] If only he kept writing books like Iron Sunrise and Singularity Sky but he broke bad the way Niven and Heinlein did in the 1970s.
Why would you do this over the lumacode mod?
https://github.com/c0pperdragon/LumaCode/wiki/PPUdigitizer-(...
Seems like that's simpler hardware and doesn't require modifying the case.
Don't worry, it'll all be sunshine and roses when the new commissioner is confirmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.J._Antoni
It already happened to all kinds of jobs.
I recall the mine water pump had a boy run up and down a ladder opening and closing steam valves to make the piston go up and down. The boy eventually rigged up a stick to use the motion of the piston to automatically open and close the valves. Then he went to sleep while the stick did his job.
Hence the invention of the steam engine.
1 band is not much better than 0 bands in that if neighboring WiFi hubs have to use the same band they will interfere with each other continuously and you might get 10% or 5% of the theoretical performance. In fact 3 bands isn't that much better than 1, because you need about 6 bands to implement independent cells with WiFi, though WiFi has never really had enough bands for really comfortable spectrum management.
In wired networks you are usually better off to share 3 units of bandwidth with 3 people because not everybody is using the pipe at once but in wireless networks access control is not so good and I'd rather have 1 band to myself and get 100% performance rather than have 3 bands shared with other people because instead of getting 300% performance I might get 30% after contention.
Many countries in the region are banning social media. In Bangladesh, they recently banned Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube: https://www.timesnownews.com/world/asia/bangladesh-bans-what.... Of course, Bangladesh did so in an effort to suppress a national movement that actually ended up overthrowing the government. So maybe Nepal has good reasons to worry, lol.
Wow, that is an amazing piece of work, more so because it is so small. You should probably be more explicit about commercial licensing so companies that want to use it know where and how to contact you.
No, they genuinely mean it's unreliable.
Obviously popular articles are great -- they have so many eyeballs and editors that they're not just quite accurate, but often more comprehensive than other sources (in terms of describing competing schools of thought, for example).
But when you really drill down into more niche articles, there's a tremendous amount of information that is uncited or not found in the citation, has glaring omissions, and/or is just plain wrong. These are the kinds of articles that get 1 edit every six months.
It's those latter articles that are the reason Wikipedia is too unreliable to cite.
(Also, Wikipedia is a tertiary source, as it is meant to only cite secondary sources, not primary sources.)
>So the author talks about how little money per stream artists make... but how much SHOULD they be making? What is fair compensation for writing a song?
The amount they'd get for royalties if you couldn't pirate but had to buy their album/single to hear it. So similar to what they got at the pre-mp3/pre-Napster era. Remove a little for the (non existing) physical costs.
(Whether they'd actually get 100% or 0.5% of those royalties would be between them and their record company contract).
"But this is streaming"
And my argument still is: you should pay the amount analogous to buying it once, and then stream it forever or zero times. Streaming should just add the convenience, not change the pricing.
Huh, bringing back dead or alive bounties for criminals in non-coöperative jurisdictions would certainly be interesting.
For decades, paying for compiler tools was a thing.
Meanwhile in Korea: https://driving.ca/auto-news/crashes/hyundai-ioniq-5-666000-...
I can confirm that, here in Greece, everything is CCS2. There are also CHAdeMO ports here and there, but I don't know what car uses those.
However, I haven't seen a station that takes card yet (or they don't advertise it). They all have their own app, which is inconvenient and a hassle.
Disclosure, I work for an auth provider (details in profile).
This was a great read. Very straightforward, explaining how to layer on all the functionality that is optional for an OAuth2 server but required by MCP[0]. I also liked the test MCP server[1] they provide, which will be useful for anyone else running an MCP gateway. I also liked the real world lessons toward the end, including the public/private client note.
They omitted some commercial OAuth servers out there with MCP support. Not sure if that was intentional or not. I'm aware of Stytch and WorkOS, but there may be others.
I had a question for the greater HN community, though. How many of you are using MCP with OAuth authentication for production use cases? Not MCP with OAuth for exploration or MCP without OAuth or MCP over stdio.
I've been looking to talk to folks about this tech and having a hard time finding them. I'm not sure if it is because I'm talking to the wrong people, asking the wrong questions, if MCP is in early days, or if MCP is a fad. (I don't think the last one is the case given the activity in the spec and the discord listed on the communication page[2], but include it for completeness.)
If you are actively working on MCP with OAuth in production contexts, would love to learn more about where you're hanging out.
0: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/bas...
Yet I regularly miss them when coding in C# and Typescript.
I also used the C++ exception specifiers, which people keep forgetting is where Java's idea came from, alongside other languages like Modula-3.
> that results in less education time. If you do homework in class then you have to give up lecture time
The most advanced classes I took, including in high school, made us do the reading and initial problem solving at home and then advanced problem solving in class. This was true for math, English and economics. Lectures with application combined.
But that doesn't work if students don't do the reading. Just as lectures only in class doesn't work if students aren't doing the homework. So a compromise is required--it's doing exercises live. Possibly even just one of the problems from last night's homework.
> Maybe the EU should focus more on EV/auto repairability regulations instead of smartphones and USB-C widgets.
Maybe they should do both.
I went down a similar path.
I was already tainted by starting on 8 an 16 bit home computers, the magic of Amiga and OS/2, before getting into UNIX via Xenix.
The wonderful dungeon of the university library did the rest, showing me all the alternative universe.
It also helped my university was keen into teaching the ways of Smalltalk, Lisp, ML, Prolog, Oberon, in addition to classical UNIX lectures.
I was really lucky in that regard.
If this or other perks are something dear to you, always fight to have them in the contract and be willing to turn down proposals otherwise.
I learnt at my own costs that taking stuff for granted that isn't on the contract is a huge mistake, at any moment gets dropped without even a we're sorry from management.
This looks really fun and well-made, but I am unreasonably bothered by the fact that there is significant friction in what should be the void of space.
Again, terms and conditions can't override consumer rights.
The car shouldn't be different from the washing machine, the TV, and the iPhone. I should get a refund if functionality is removed from any of them after purchase.
Then the logical conclusion is that they meant that velcro doesn't work when at least one of the surfaces is rigid.
Do you have an example that demonstrates that?
How well did that work? Based on your experience at that company would you build a new project on the stack that they chose?
Can you stop trolling? It's boring and does not contribute to the discussion. Thank you.
Right. I was thinking "RDF - vaguely remember that as some XML thing from Semantic Web era".
Yup, it's still that RDF. Inevitably, it had to be converted to new JSON-like syntaxes.
It reminds me of the "is-a" predicate era of AI. That turned out to be not too useful for formal reasoning about the real world. As as a representation for SQL database output going into a LLM, though, it might go somewhere. Maybe.
Probably because the output of an SQL query is positional, and LLMs suck at positional representations.
Not understanding why that is relevant for GNUStep and their use of Objective-C makes all the difference.
"Comprehensive technical documentation for developers coming soon."
Is this an actual public "blockchain"? Can anyone read it and archive all the transactions? Are there multiple validators who have to agree? Or is this really just a proprietary database?
The "Russian hacker" stereotype is not at all fiction. If you've ever worked with developers from any of the former USSR, you'll know what I mean; they are not afraid to be creative and do whatever it takes to solve the problem.
If that “one country” is the US and not, say, Burkina Faso, it is a major impact on financing, and software has an unusually high share of positions dependent on speculative investment for future return rather than directly related to current operations.
Shenzhen is not all futuristic blue all the time, as shown in the picture in the article. Most of those buildings have full RGB capability. Here's a drone video of Shenzhen at night.[1]
For the 45th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone last month, the building lighting and rooftop lasers were coordinated with a 12,000 drone show.[2] Mostly white, some blue tinge, red buildings on the more official messages. Not much green. That's Shenzhen looking futuristic on purpose.
China’s Property Market: Explaining the Boom and Bust - https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/chinas-property-market-expla... - September 30th, 2024
Even China's 1.4 billion population can't fill all its vacant homes, former official says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37633501 - September 2023
That's why states are implementing no-cell-phone laws. To give the educators cover for harsh consequences. They are basically making using a cell phone in school the same as assaulting someone, so that they can remove the student for repeat offenses.
The way budgeting works at Amazon, every team contributes items to lines in a spreadsheet. Those get rolled up at every level all the way to the CEO, who then approves or denies, and then it all rolls back down.
There is a special section called KTLO (keep the lights on). That one usually gets priority (because it's pro-customer, since customers want the existing stuff to keep working).
I've seen departmental budgets that dedicate 75% of their headcount to KTLO.
> Can you point me to any major socialist success stories?
The ongoing Socialist Evolution starting with the migration of pretty much the entire developed world over the middle part of the 20th Century from relatively pure capitalism to modern mixed economies that been a pretty big success story in terms of human welfare, despite some periods of widespread or more local backsliding.
And people complain the TSA is "security theater"...
Yeah, I'm sure whatever restrictions they put in place will make it so hard for Chinese entities to access their APIs.
This is simply an attempt by Anthropic to pretend to play nice with the current administration (and to be clear, I don't blame them - let's just not pretend that this actually prevents China getting access to Anthropic).
You could of course just bury your lines.
> A great mystery is how Tesla is avoiding culpability and liability
The civil justice system is slow (and COVID made the whole justice system even slower for quite a while), but aside from that, maybe they're not? A quarter billion dollar verdict for a 2019 crash was recently returned against them.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-rejected-60-m...
...for sufficiently solid values of "disk" ;-)
relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades
That seems more applicable to Windows these days. If you graph CVEs vs. version, there is an interesting trend.
> OP has extensive history in the piracy subreddits and believes piracy is not theft.
Copyright infringement is neither piracy nor theft, those are both metaphors used largely for the purpose of emotional manipulation.
I've noticed that the difference between 30 and 40 isn't the level of performance I have, but how quickly performance drops when I stop exercising. In my 30s, I could just not go to the gym for months, and I'd be fine. Now, if I don't go for a few weeks, stuff starts aching.
> Something that billionaires can afford, but only for their personal homes - and something that will basically force all landlords to sell immediately.
Not possible, because if its a tax an unused homes or rentals, what it would force people to do is either:
(1) make it qualify as “used”, or,
(2) destroy the residential structure on the land to preserve the value of the underlying land, which would no longer have an unused home or rental on it.
(Of course, you’ll never get the Constitutional amendment needed to carve out a new exception to both the prohibition on unapportioned direct taxes and the takings clause of the 5th Amendment that you’d need for that, so its moot anyway.)
From a privacy perspective, the impact is further limited by the tiny number of popular zones that are actually signed --- you're two predicates removed from a useful attack (widespread deployment of clientside DNSSEC validation, which is very rare today, and widespread zone signing).
It's a weird misissuance from that perspective! Suggestive to me of something nonmalicious (nonmalicious misissuance is still a dealbreaker).
If you just want independence, just start collecting MP3s or CDs or whatever. I've been collecting physical music since the mid 90s and my whole MP3 collection is still under 128GBs, so I just copy it anywhere I want it now. Unless you really put some effort into it, storage will probably grow faster than your collection will.
Also, you don't need to think of it as an all-or-nothing proposition, or something you need to drop in one month. Just start. Peck away every so often and in 5 years you'll have enough independence to tell any streaming service what it can do with itself.
Makes you realize how fast this has happened. This is a "get off my lawn" article by a high school senior.
It's part of the job of education to instill some common culture. (Which common culture varies, but not all that much outside political topics.) For students, questions about that culture are new issues. LLMs have digested a huge amount of existing material on it. LLMs are thus really good at things students are graded upon.
This gives students the impression that LLMs are very smart. Which probably says more about educational practice than LLMs. The big problem is not cheating. It's that the areas schools cover are ones where LLMs are really good.
There's no easy fix for this.
Right. Just at the point I expected to find the list, there's only a "Subscribe" button to ignore.
Hm. Examples:
- Amazon? Long road to profitability, but there was fast early growth.
- Space-X, which took a long time to get to a successful launch.
- Someone already mentioned Nvidia.
- Waymo, which took about 15 years from start to real service, and now is doubling in size more than once a year.
- ASML, founded in 1984 and took a long time to become the dominant player in photolithograpy.
- Roblox, tiny for over a decade, then gradually found the right market and really grew.
Who else.
You're actually applying a grammar to the token. If you're outputting, for example, JSON, you know what characters are valid next (because of the grammar), so you just filter out the tokens that don't fit the grammar.
How does their "hub" thing work? Is your whole team in one place, or do you just report to some random cubicle farm?
One of my best friends is now in a wheelchair for life, thanks to high school football.
You are always taking a risk. Sometimes it's just that it won't work out financially. Sometimes it's more serious than that. It's a small risk, but non-zero. Even successful football players suffer from much higher rates of mental health issues, among other poor health outcomes.
MCP is what you use to make tools you own compatible with agents (like Claude Code) that you don't --- or vice/versa. It's not doing anything useful in the scenario where you own both the tool calling code and the agent.
There are 3rd-party enforcement mechanisms. It's not as simple as the seller saying "We don't pollute, trust us"; there are actual government inspectors and NGO delegates that go out, visit factories, and fine them if their actual emissions don't match the declared permits:
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/mrr-enforcement
The bigger issue, as mentioned above, is that there's often a time lag between when the seller receives the money and when the seller can actually put it to use to reduce carbon emissions. One of the biggest sellers of carbon credits, for instance, is CA high-speed rail, which is decades away from completion. If it doesn't actually complete, it's not going to take any cars off the road or planes out of the sky, and so all the carbon credits it sold would just allow fossil fuel emitters to maintain status-quo emissions.
But as a way of diverting private resources from CO2 emitters to greener alternatives, cap & trade has been pretty effective. Over half the cars in my Bay Area city are now EVs; Tesla was kept afloat for many years by selling carbon credits.
Absolutely. I've been playing a lot of Stationeers (which, wildly, requires writing assembly on the in-game chips) and Satisfactory lately. Both are clearly labors of love by their small dev houses.
FYI, clicking on a number to zoom in, and then zooming back out, makes all the numbers disappear.
At least six months ago.
I always thought it was crap and that the social mechanisms for sorting good answers to the top "just didn't work". First you have to work your way through the question which is usually poorly posed and rambling and has confusing comments, then the right answer is frequently the #7 or #24 answer, sometimes the accepted answer at the top is wrong and has a long thread of comments begging the original posted to unaccept it. You can't cut and paste Python answers because they are written in Python 2 and say
print "something"
print("something")
But if you need 10 wrong answers for "How to center a <div>?" it's your place.
Back when they published a public data dump I thought about making some automated system that cleans it up, deletes all but the best answers, etc. It would be much easier in the age of AI, but that dump is long gone and the world has moved on now that AI can operationalize that kind of knowledge. Had Stack Overflow realized that it sucked 10 years ago it might still be relevant, but the logic of two-sided markets kept it alive long after heat death.
I have a superficial radial artery. You can take my pulse just by looking at the shadow on my wrist moving in the right lighting. Does this have "harmful effects" on my physiology?
Probably more efficient if you can automate with agentic AI.
The fact the procedure involves me looking down the barrel of a flesh-vaporizing laser has always has made me reconsider.
Salesforce's weak quarterly revenue forecast signals lagging AI monetization - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r... - September 3rd, 2025
> Salesforce forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling lagging monetization for its highly-touted artificial intelligence agent platform as clients dial back spending due to macroeconomic uncertainty.
> The cloud software provider also announced a $20 billion increase to its existing share buyback program, but that was unable to allay investors' concerns, sending Salesforce's shares down over 5% in extended trading.
Related:
Steve Hayden, celebrated adman who wrote Apple's '1984,' dies at 78 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104500 - September 2025
>though less technically minded people may struggle with it
This is the funniest thing I've read so far today. BOTN
How do you not have access to the data if I give you access to my email?
It's the same Jevons paradox reason as why LLMs are so big despite massive diminishing returns. If we can output 4096Ds, why not use all the Ds?
Like LLMs, the bottleneck is still training data and the training regimen, but there's still a demand for smaller embedding models due to both storage and compute concerns. EmbeddingGemma (https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m), released just yesterday, beats the 4096D Qwen-3 benchmarks at 768D, and using the 128D equivalent via MRL beats many 768D embedding models.