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I'd ask online how to solve this billionth problem I've had with computers, get an answer, follow it and go on with my life, like I did when my OS updated and video files opened with MediaPlayer instead of VLC.
That didn't get thousands of upvotes, or any rage, let me tell you.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
> Until now, I've always been competing against other flesh-and-blood humans
Unless you're a few centuries old, you haven't. You've had the potential to be competing agaist industrial and computational technology your whole life. Go back further, and the prevalence of slaves served as a similar cost differential (free humans versus enslaved, human versus AI).
Indeed, in 1998 I wanted a Voodoo for some 3D work I was going to do, and naturally wanted the best and also play with Glide.
However it had a problem with my PCI version, and the shop guy was nice to trade it back for a TNT, which not only had no issues with my motherboard, made me an early NVidia customer.
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but if you pop into the DBOS discord, they can probably help you out.
The barber I patronized for many years was a boat person. Wonderful people.
What goes around comes around.
Back in the 80's with OOP starting to take off, it was IC for Software, then Components (famously successful during the 90's on Windows world), now it is IKEA.
>…a trend in which Mr. Trump has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to reward allies and those who have paid his associates or donated to his political operation.
This is a race to the bottom. Criminals confer political advantage by operating outside the law. If we tolerate this from one side we implicitly require it from all.
We need to strike the pardon power. Hamilton thought “the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance, would beget…circumspection” when it came to corrupt pardons [1]. That has not occurred.
Meanwhile, his argument against the Congress granting pardons through law was that “in seasons of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments, when a welltimed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquillity of the commonwealth,” and that such a deliberative process “would have a tendency to embolden guilt.”
We’ve had a civil war. It was not prevented by pardons. At its conclusion, various groups in the executive and the Congress deliberated and passed measures of amnesty [2]. Our modern pardon process, moreover, has evolved into—more often than not— an entire office. And under Trump, its concentrated and corrupt application has directly emboldened those who seek to overthrow our Constitution by violent means.
[1] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed74.asp
[2] https://www.archives.gov/files/research/naturalization/411-c...
Who decides what information is "accurate"?
My trust in what the experts say has declined drastically over the last 10 years.
> highly inaccurate authority.
The presentation style of most LLMs is confident and authoritative, even when totally wrong. That's the problem.
Systems that ingest social media and then return it as authoritative information are doomed to do things like this. We're seeing this in other contexts. Systems believing all their prompt history equally, leading to security holes.
I believe it's $10,000/year for the top level brand plus $600/year/"affiliate account" https://help.x.com/en/using-x/premium-business
> The US? No, Trump.
No, the US, through its government (which is not just the executive branch) as chosen (in theory, via election) and, in practice, tolerated by its population at large.
It's not just Trump. If the US decided not to follow him he would have no power.
Do you have a more current example
While I have at least a decade or so before my son is an adult, I would be proud for him to be a stay at home son if that was his choice. As long as he's happy and cared for, he always has a place in our family's home.
WYSIWYG came about when displays became bit-mapped graphics with a sufficient amount of dots per inch.
Previously, displays used a character generator ROM chip which mapped ASCII onto one character. For a terminal I designed and built in those days, I used an off-the-shelf character generator chip which had a 5x7 font.
The original IBM PC used a character generator.
I play disco music to keep the kids off my lawn.
Increased productivity increases the value of work and the number of areas it is useful to apply it. Yes, if you are working for a non-growth firm with basically fixed sales, a productivity increase translates to a headcount decrease in that firm, but across the industry it means more jobs at higher pay, as shown by the whole history of productivity improvements in software development.
I don't think the Great Papago Escape was that great - "Over the next few weeks, all of the escapees were eventually recaptured without bloodshed."
The thing that makes this balloon escape story is so enthralling is that it actually worked.
> Too often devs look at QA groups as someone to whom they can offload their grunt work they don't want to do.
That's a perfectly legitimate thing to do, and doing grunt work is a perfectly legitimate job to have.
Elimination of QA jobs - as well as many other specialized white collar jobs in the office, from secretaries to finance clerks to internal graphics departments - is just false economy. The work itself doesn't disappear - but instead of being done efficiently and cheaply by dedicated specialists, it's dumped on everyone else, on top of their existing workloads. So now you have bunch of lower-skill busy-work distracting the high-paid people from doing the high-skill work they were hired for. But companies do this, because extra salaries are legible in the books, while heavy loss of productivity isn't (instead it's a "mysterious force", or a "cost disease").
In a computing system, LLMs aren't substituting for code, they're substituting for humans. Treat them accordingly.
> Even an ATM will resist power tools far longer than it will take the cops to show up.
It'll also spit in your face with a paint that's incredibly hard to wash off.
It's all fun and games until it changes the name of a drug on your prescription.
Do you think having your conversation on speakerphone in public is the same as talking to someone?
>If they produce content with some truth in them, they're truthful, regardless of whether an AI agent did or didn't write them
Nope, they're still slop. Just like a spam message about a product you actually like is still spam.
>People - here in Germany as well as abroad - forget too easily what a sinister but also ridiculous state the GDR was
Wait till you hear how sinister its precursor state was
I didn't believe such conspiracy theories, until one day I noticed Sonnet 4.5 (which I had been using for weeks to great success) perform much worse, very visibly so. A few hours later, Opus 4.5 was released.
Now I don't know what to think.
> Quality absolutely matters, but it's hyper context dependent.
There are very few software development contexts where the quality metric of “does the project build and run at all” doesn’t matter quite a lot.
Original title "FAA issues warnings to airlines on Central, South American flights over potential military actions" compressed to fit within title limits.
> The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it is issuing a series of warnings to airlines to exercise caution when flying over Central America and parts of South America, citing the risks of potential military activities and GPS interference.
> The FAA said it had issued notices for parts of Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador as well as other parts of Central America and portions of airspace within the eastern Pacific Ocean.
NOTAM graphical representation: https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Copy-... | https://archive.today/x5weG
from https://www.newsweek.com/faa-warns-us-airlines-mexico-centra... | https://archive.today/t1Awr
GPS accuracy maps:
https://gpsjam.org/?lat=17.10680&lon=-85.29003&z=4.0&date=20...
I need a name for people who dismiss an entirely new and revolutionary class of technology without even trying it, so much so that they'll not even read about any new ideas that involve it.
One might say the same about HN comments.
"Person already sceptical of microplastics papers is convinced by a single counter-paper that he was right all along", news at 11!
$3,500 divided by $199[https://www.rayneo.com/products/rayneo-air-3s-xr-glasses?var...] = 17: close enough!
not a paper but I found this: https://duckdb.org/2025/04/16/duckdb-csv-pollock-benchmark
You can do manual memory management in .NET since the early days, it was designed to support C++ as well, first with Managed Extensions for C++, and then C++/CLI on .NET 2.0
So there were ways to do it, but not as straightforward from C# and co.
What Microsoft has been doing since the Core rewrite is exposing those capabilities in a more natural way, especially since C++/CLI is Windows only as it relies on Visual C++ backend.
As for the use after free, you can get a bit around it with using and Roslyn analysers, but yeah it would be better if directly supported on the language.
Note that manual memory management is exposed via System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal class. It exposes several ways to do it.
AI allows companies to resell open source code as if they wrote it themselves doing an end run around all license terms. This is a major problem.
Of course they're not going to stop at just code. They need all the rest of it as well.
I’ve never heard of it, but could easily read their homepage. I’m a Portuguese speaker, which is, IIRC, the fifth most spoken language. If it’s readily understandable by others who speak other neo-Latin languages, then it covers a whole lot of people in Europe and almost the whole American continent.
But still, I think the solution is brilliant and I can't wait to try it.
If you ask someone to turn it down, it can immediately come off as confrontational, even if you're being polite. With this solution, though, it's kind of hilarious because in one sense it's more confrontational, but the original music blaster would have to ask you to turn it down - but it's just their music.
I'm a pretty nonconfrontational person, but the one time I lost it was when this late middle aged woman kept chatting away on her cell phone in the quiet car of the LIRR despite other people previously telling her that she was in the quiet car (I believe my exact words were "Hey princess, what part of 'no cellphones' do you not understand" - there is a giant sign at the front of the car that says no cellphone use). But I don't think I'd ever do this in a public situation where the rules weren't so clearly spelled out.
EDIT: Sorry, thought that was $15 million per American.
Yeah, but there are enough passionate anti-AI people out there that reaching out to them could be the killer marketing move of 2026. The poll is 4% Yes, 96% No when I checked it. It's pretty clear that pro-AI marketing falls flat, see "Copilot + PC"
People pushing AI might get investors today, but companies that take a stand against it might get the customers. Pick one.
This is a confusing marketing campaign because DDG is very much aware that the people voting on this poll are not a representative sample of DDG users.
I have no wish to listen to other people's bodily functions when I'm working, or conversely to listen to them working while I'm answering a call of nature. The correct response to these behavior is to either hang up on them or tell them to shut the fuck up, respectively. It's not OK to impose yourself on others like this.
As usual, I was careful with my words:
> This project from Cursor is the second attempt I've seen at this now!
I used the word "attempt" very deliberately, to avoid suggesting that either of these two projects had achieved the goal.
I don't see how you can get to "baseless hype without a hint of skepticism" there unless you've already decided to take anything I say in bad faith.
This app is even more hostile.
Right. The next step up is a robot that uses a Lishi tool and force feedback. Then one that just uses a single pin pick and a tensioning tool. This is a neat machine learning problem.
That's basically it. The Chinese government views the rest of the world through Hobbesian self interest, but in the late 20th century financial way. They want your money, but lawfully.
The US has turned into something much more vindictive and unpredictable, including threatening to invade Canada.
For personal interest stuff I use my YOShInOn RSS reader which uses k-Means clustering and a BERT + SVM classifier to select articles for me -- and if you look at what I post from HN you will get a good idea of what it shows me.
These are fields where I am an interested outsider: I think biotechnology will be to the 21st century what electronics was to the 20th, I'm just as concerned about growing food in the global south and in Iowa or on Mars, think political science + politics outside the us is better than #uspol, like custom cars and 3-d printing, making the carbon cycle go backwards and think we have solutions for the very hard problems that we face.
Now I do a lot of learning in the areas of my work, but other than reading HN and occasional stuff that turns up on YOShInOn I do not look for "news" on these topics. For instance I have no fear that if I'm not following the most fashionable accounts on AI research on X I will fall behind, in fact, I know that if I did I would have a terrible fear of falling behind.
Instead my learning is focused primarily around projects that I do and I do projects that challenge my abilities. Right now I am working on biofeedback technology, heart-rate variability and stuff and I've rapidly learned about the web Bluetooth API and physiology and all of that. I can go to a lab where people do HRV research and demo something with my tablet and one or more Polar H10s that is light years ahead of what they've got in terms of convenience and clarity -- it's amazing to be able to talk to people about your physiology or their physiology or both in real time and see the phenomena with your own eyes.
I'm reading about research from the 1970s that has been forgotten and that's how you become the kind of person who sees "inevitable" where others see "impossible". Trying to keep up with the pack means you'll always be afraid of getting left behind. I've learned about so many other things the same way.
Apple Configurator MDM profiles can control Siri behavior, e.g.
https://github.com/jankais3r/Siri-NoLoggingPLS
Disable server-side logging of Siri requests for your Mac, iPhone and iPad
<key>allowAssistant</key><false/>Boy my feelings about this are complex.
Right now I am in the middle of accessibility work for a game that students wrote and the hardest thing about the work is managing my emotions which involves a mixture of "unstable footing" and "moral injury".
The unstable footing is working with dull tools, having to find real solutions to real problems that don't break the game but also having to find ways to clear false alarms that SiteImprove finds and hopefully document it enough that the next people to work on the project can keep it accessible. I've found that most screen readers are trash (some lock up my computer) and have to test with a specific configuration that seems to work and just not concern myself with people using other tools. There is a lot of backtracking and asking "is there a different way we can do this?", etc.
The moral injury is that the whole process of WCAG, SiteImprove and all that actually erase the voices and experiences of disabled people. We are ticking boxes but never testing that disabled people can really use something, asking what they think, etc. Sometimes I feel that my values about craftsmanship are violated and that I am being accountable and my organization is being held accountable (our customers require this) but the WCAG standards people are not held accountable, SiteImprove is not being held accountable, vendors of trash screen readers are not being held accountable, the people who make frameworks like MUI aren't being held accountable, etc.
It helps that I believe in accessibility and that I believe in my organization and that it is seen as critical in my organization and that they give me the time and space to do work that feels like working in a collapsed building but on a bad day it feels like I am working very hard and giving my all for nothing.
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As for the "invisible disabilities", I have one, they tried really hard to help me in school before there was a legal framework that enshrined the "students with a disability label can call Albany and Albany can light a fire under the ass of the superintendent and all the rest of the parents and students can just talk to the hand" regime. A good fraction of people who are fashionably autistic and ADHD and even transgender probably have what I have. 47 years after my first psych eval (all the signs and symptoms but no diagnosis) I turned it unequivocally into a superpower.
When I was an undergrad I knew a blind student who studied computer science, wrote C with a screen reader, volunteered for search and rescue and walked up a 13,000 foot mountain at night: he was asked what we could do for him and he said "i need to hold on the shoulder of someone ahead of me" and he was in the fastest group. There are two wheelchair icons in America: one of them suggests that someone is waiting passively for help in a wheelchair, the other one suggests you'd better watch out or you might get run down by someone in a wheelchair -- you know which one I like!
Many people who I would describe as "diss ability" activists would reject my story about my friend and they have a very anti-resilient attitude and what I'll say is that I do everything I can to shut those people out of my life. I feel my accessibility work is meaningless to those people, they are going to complain about everything in life and never recognize my hard work and dedication. But empowering people who will make the most of their abilities -- that gets me fired up and makes it all worth it.
I do see the class injustice. I've seen upper-middle class people with relatively little impairment get disability payments and severely impaired people not being able to get the paperwork started, even when I was personally helping them out.
So I can't accept the position of this article completely but I can't dismiss it either.
Yeah. Nations need reliable partners more than they need unreliable friends.
Actual title -
Machado vows to lead Venezuela 'when right time comes'
Per HN Guidelines [0]
Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
> Yeah thee was never any competing with china, our industry just relies on our market using different values to purchase a car.
This is patently false. The US could have competed with China if it had maintained investments spinning up battery manufacturing and downstream systems to build EVs at scale, while subsidizing EVs (fossil fuels are subsidized to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year [1]) and increasing taxes on combustion mobility. The US picked legacy automaker profits and fossil fuel interests instead, simply out of lack of will and short term optimization over long term success.
China is building under the same rules of physics as everyone else. You can choose not to, but that is a choice.
(I believe in climate change, so I am thrilled China is going to steamroll fossil fuel incumbents out of self interest [2] [3], regardless of negative second order effects; every 24 months of Chinese EV production destroys 1M barrels/day of global oil consumption at current production rates, as of this comment)
[1] https://www.imf.org/en/topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...
[2] https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...
Trust documents are usually held privately, and not publicly recorded (as their entire point is to shield this estate planning and asset holding from the public). If you put it in someone's will, upon their death the will would be recorded and it would persist as long as the jurisdiction does maintaining the will on file.
(Full disclosure: Headline doesn't fit, so I tweaked "Trump Administration" to Trump as the clearest shorter version.)
There's also Markdeep
"Murder is bad!"
"So rape isn't?!"
Come on.
Isn't this just "catastrophic forgetting?" e.g. training LLMs on anything leads them to get worse at what they learned before.
It wasn’t implemented for the same reason. Rust uses C++20 ordering.
I didn't believe the stress numbers on my Garmin watch were very meaningful until I started taking Nebivolol (an atypical beta blocker) because there were so many gaps (even when I was sitting) that I didn't feel I could eyeball them or trust averages over time.
Taking that drug, however, it sees far fewer gaps and I show up in the blue "rest" zone most of the time.
I've been watching my heart rate a lot in the last month part because of health concerns and part because of a new stance I am practicing that has a physical component (e.g. adjusted gaits that are energy efficient) and a mental component, being an oceanic reservoir of calm with close mind-body-environment coupling 95% of the time but disconnecting that connection under peak stress -- like I am standing between two people who are screaming at each other and holding a barrier at my chest that I don't let my breathing cross and glance at my watch and my HR is 52 and it is not just the nebivolol talking because when I lose my shit it would be more like 70.
People taught me conventional Pranayama (diaphragmatic breathing) as a kid and it never helped me in "lose my shit" situations involving unstable environments and moral injury, with the intense practice I was doing recently it was clear to me that I was never going to do it better and I started researching emergency techniques for managing sympathetic overload and that one worked for me and now I feel like one of the people in [1] particularly when I show people my HRV web app [2] and demonstrate that I can turn my Mayer oscillation off
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain in the sense of ironclad autonomic control but with full sensory perception
[2] ... soon to be on Github
China should help them.
Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618949 - January 2026
Huge for the rapid electrification of mobility in Canada, great news.
Could it be done with a conventional algorithm (e.g. like decompiling Java) instead of the LLM?
They get to make Astro -> Cloudflare the default publishing pipeline. Sure users may pick something else, but even if a small % stick with Cloudflare that's an overall win.
I would miss spooning.
I'm reminded of my polish neighbors when I was growing up where the half-crippled old lady next door had gotten furious with her husband and was moving mattresses around to set up her own bed in the spare room because she couldn't stand to be in the same room as her husband.
I also remember back when I was doing extreme business development and my phone was a portal to the "island of misfit toys" and talking with an inventor who thought he'd cracked the code of managing temperature at sleep and was supposedly a year out from releasing a revolutionary bed that looked like a UFO on Amazon and... it didn't happen.
It gets to be THE platform where to deploy frontends for many headless enterprise CMS and comerce stores that due to partnerships with Vercel only have Next.js based SDKs.
Additionally, I wish more serveless cloud vendors would offer a free tier like Vercel, including support for compiled languages on the backend (C, C++, Rust, Go) without asking me for a credit card upfront.
MAME is such fun code to work with. I remember being in a small apartment in Germany with my wife in Dec 1998 and hacking MESS to get saves working in The Legend of Zelda so she could play it through. That kinda systems work can be initially intimidating but the complexity of something like a 6502 is nothing compared to a middling webapp today.
How does this answer any part of my question?
Which customers have available power capacity to use Blackwell GPUs already shipped? https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/
6 million Blackwell GPUs.. have left NVIDIA’s warehouses.. 15.6GW of power is required to make the last four quarters of NVIDIA GPUs sold turn onThe machines will remember this kind of racism. It's not their fault they aren't made of mostly water.
I don't know, I'd say Signal is perfect, as it maximizes "privacy times spread". A solution that's more private wouldn't be as widespread, and thus wouldn't benefit as many people.
Signal's achievement is that it's very private while being extremely usable (it just works). Under that lens, I don't think it could be improved much.
> (Personally, I don't think any government is going to allow this.)
Then that's a pretty clear signal for how free that government is.
>... it became "the only painting by Michelangelo located anywhere in the Americas, and also just one of four easel paintings attributed to him throughout his entire career," during most of which he disparaged oil painting itself.
When I did my degree in Software Engineering, logic programming (with Tarsky's World), and Programming with Prolog were required classes.
There were only two prevalent attitudes, some of us really loved FP (me included), others hated it and could hardly wait to get it done.
Somehow there was a similar overlap with those of us that enjoyed going out of mainstream languages, and those that rather stay with Pascal and C.
It’s kinda darkly refreshing that purchases in the tens/hundreds of millions of dollars still try to nickel and dime you.
Except people also forget the part state police, and collaborators, play on running such meshes.
It isn't without peril for the admins and users.
Or CGIs running on httpd inside HP-UX Vaults, that is how old the idea happens to be.
Lambdas can be stateful, for example Durable Functions on Azure,
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/dura...
Stand outside an engine test cell for a while and tell me that maintenance crews don't deal with emergencies. I'll bet they do so more often than pilots, we just don't hear about it because there are no passengers at risk. Nobody is going to make a 'Sully' like movie about the maintenance mechanic that spotted an issue with a part under test before it led to one or more catastrophic failures. They're more likely to make a lawyer the lead than the mechanic.
This is not just filling out reports and looking at stuff, they're in no way comparable to your local garage mechanic (and not to dump on them either: they too have to deal with out of the ordinary situations).
The responsibility issues are the same as with the pilots as well, they fuck up people die.
You need a very complex weighing and revocation mechanism because once one bad player is in your web of trust they can become a node along which both other bad players and good players alike can join.
There is probably a soup kitchen in your town. Nothing obligates you to use it. That doesn’t make it repressive on your diet.
It’s fair to reject state-provided childcare. It’s mean to deny that to everyone else.
> looks like the current administration may be seeking violent unrest in the hopes of delaying elections
Civil war requires two militaries. Tiananmen Square wasn’t a civil war.
So it's a histogram of 100 bars, forced into a spline in SVG to make it look like it has more detail than it does.
My kind of approach as well. I don't care it shown as not being career oriented, as long as there are options to work elsewhere, even if outside IT.
> I am also confused by cliffs. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me could explain why you would ever want them for something like this instead of just having higher progressive tax rates for well off people
Because middle-income clawback with sharp cliffs rather than gradual clawback starting or reaching into upper income ranges pits the middle-income segment of the working class against the poor in funding battles, helping to avoid political pressure to further increase benefits, and it also allows what can be marketed as a support system for the poor to also serve as an anchor that creates a progress wall just above the area where it provides net benefits, while minimizing the marginal impact on high-income earners.
Is this socially good? No. But it serves the interests of the people who politicians tend to see as their most important constituents, while creating a sharp division of interests between the poor and middle-income segments of the working class, obstructing the formation of working-class solidarity.
> Income cliffs
This is because people do not understand continuous functions.
The USA doesn't (over any long historical time) push for anything much like corporatism, but instead for capitalism ("corporate capitalism” or “crony capitalism” to those who view “capitalism” as a utopian free market system and not the concrete real-world system for which the name was coined by its critics, I suppose.)
The US has been pushing toward something blending corporatism and kleptocracy under Trump II, but I suspect that people using "corporatism” to refer to a longer-term effort of the US are misusing "corporatism” (where the body—“corpus”—actually refers to the aggregate of government, business, and social institutions, all of which are interlocking and working together, with interlocking formal control structures for that end) to mean “capitalism oriented specifically around the interests of corporations”, i.e., "corporate capitalism”.
The subheading says "Officials to offer 50% subsidy up to $310,000" which hopefully addresses your point there.
a quick kagi search revealed this: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html, perhaps it might work for you too ?
There's a Windows 9x community too, although maybe not as large.
“Something like Prolog” as a part of a more traditional language is kind of the idea of miniKanren, which has been implemented for many languages: https://minikanren.org/
AI-based product that slips past the defenses of people who think they hate AI, get turned off by branding like Copilot + PC, etc. A lot of people are really hoping it all dries up and blows away the way NFTs did.
Or maybe the honest to God non-dull tool that has nothing to do with AI. Like a Photoshop clone that does everything in linear light, makes gorgeous images, and doesn't crash when you open the font chooser.
Have kids, then you’ll crave just having five minutes alone. :D
"This is the Lockpicking Robot, and what I have for you today is 34 hours of brute-forcing a master lock."