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Discouraging foreign entrants is a major part of the point.
More people have discovered Ghidra.
> Determining whether there is an actual labor shortage is pretty difficult.
The only hard part is nailing down what people mean by “labor shortage”; resolving whether one exists under either the normal economic definition or the one people are actually using is pretty easy, but since the whole point of using the term is to mask that the actual complaint is about wages being too high, its really difficult to get people to admit what they are talking about.
All the consulting practice arguments aside, this is fundamentally a gatekeeping argument about clients staying in their lane. I'm sure doctors feel the same way about patients with weirdly specific questions about HFpEF diagnoses. Doctors have always hated "Doctor Google", and now they have to contend with "Doctor GPT". It's up to you how much sympathy to have for them.
They probably do that in parallel, the point of the visitor disclosure isn't to reveal the social media history, it is so even if the social media history itself, which they have through technical means, doesn't reveal any basis for exclusion, the failure to disclose parts of it (which comparing the disclosure to the records they already have identifies) can do so, as well as pointing authorities to what the visitor thinks needs hidden and should be investigated further.
> This is quite literally "printing money", right?
No, its not literally printing money. (That’a what happens in the big presses run by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.)
It is arguably figuratively printing money, but that’s exactly one of the Fed’s primary tools to acheive its job, by design.
> Wasn't the Fed not supposed to be allowed to do that?
What gave you that idea?
If you are part of the American electorate (including a voter who is eligible but choosing to abstain out of protest or indifference) you are part of a political organization that chooses military action.
“record and record”, if you mean the verb for persisting something and the noun for the thing persisted, are heteronyms (homographs which are not homophones), which incidentally is also what you would probably want to test what you are talking about here (distinguishing homophones would test use of context to understand meaning, but wouldn’t test anything about whether or not logic was working directly on audio or only working on text processed from audio, failing to distinguish heteronyms is suggestive of processing occurring on text, not audio directly.)
Many (all?) states have an immunization registry ("Immunization Information System"); when you’re vaccinated, the provider submits a digital record with your name and date of birth, along with their info and the vaccine info, to the registry. This is programmatically ingested by Epic’s EMR system, if configured, and will even show up in your mobile app and web interface when logged into your health system’s app. So, in some cases, yes.
With that said, for emergencies, one might have an emergency bracelet with this info on it in the event pain management is required unexpectedly. Otherwise, pain might not be managed.
I recall this from one of Donald Westlake's books:
"He stopped on a dime and collected 5 cents change."
Crenshaw's tutorial doesn't quite reach the point where it becomes useful, but precedence-climbing is a rather straightforward refactoring of recursive descent that becomes extremely useful when there are many precedence levels.
Naturally, the author has also written an article about it, albeit without the explanation of the refactoring that links it to RD:
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions...
> These are government regulations regarding kids.
No, they aren't just that, because they are government regulations requiring everyone wanting access to something that cannot be marketed to children under the rules to prove that they are not a child, which is not inherently essential to a regulation of what can be marketed to children.
There is a difference between regulating what can be marketed to children and mandating that vendors secure proof that every user is not a child.
(Just as there is a difference between prohibiting knowingly supplying terrorists and requiring every seller to conduct a detailed background check of every customer to assure that they are not a terrorist.)
The author is not complaining about reverse proxies, which would be a very silly position to take.
If you take the effort to anonymise your contributions, can they afford to try to find you?
Need Liquid Keys to make this behavior visible, which will lead to requests for turning it off, joining the iOS Accessibility Settings Hall of {F|Sh}ame.
Right, if in fact 1500 Hezbollah fighters were injured, any claim that over 1500 noncombatants were injured is suspicious. We have video footage of the explosions (along with a directional sense of the wounded vs. KIA count of the strike). It is not plausible that more noncombatants were injured than combatants, given the pagers were strictly military comms devices.
Maybe HN just strips them out? It's the thought that counts! Either way: Atlantic posts are fine for HN.
Funny but my impression is that these days kerning is usually pretty bad with Serifed fonts in, at the very least, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
It is not so bad if you are using it for paragraphs but I can't stand the way serifed fonts come out if I am setting display text for a poster unless I manually take over and adjust the kerning. After I had this problem I was wondering if I was the only one or what other people did so I looked at posters people had put up around campus and had a really hard time finding posters where people were using serifed fonts in large sizes and my guess is people either start out with sans or they tried something with serifs but changed their mind because it looked wrong.
While seizing oil supplies and using them to corruptly reward cronies of Trump’s is probably part of it, a bigger part of it is just to have a war, both to provide a legal and propaganda cover for domestic repression (a war with Venezuela —due to a completely fictitious invasion by Venezuela—is already part of the pretext for that since Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act on that basis in March) and to provide an electoral rally-around-the-flag effect.
> Would be nice to see them put a carrier group down there to guard their shipments...
This would be a 4D chess move right off the edge of the game board and into a latrine.
China doesn't want to get involved in an oil war. It doesn't want to send its limited blue-water capabilities into America's backyard to get painted. It doesn't want to deal with oil supply chains against America's nuclear-powered fleet. And it doesn't want to risk Trump popping an aneurysm and disabling their ships, an attack to which all retaliation options carry material risks of nuclear escalation (in a way bombing boats on the other side of the world does not), and which would mean trashing China's and the global economy as the trade war turns blockade.
It really is wild how quickly these things pop out - this one here took a couple of prompts, probably ten minutes from idea to shipping a working implementation: https://tools.simonwillison.net/pypi-changelog?package=llm&c...
no paywall: https://archive.ph/QTpQK
But it is mostly used for periodic backup/sync. So you aren't going to really notice unless it is a very long outage.
Predictions are only valuable when they're actually made ahead of the knowledge becoming available. A man will walk on mars by 2030 is falsifiable, a man will walk on mars is not. A lot of these entries have very low to no predictive value or were already known at the time, but just related. Would be nice if future 'judges' put in more work to ensure quality judgments.
I would grade this article B-, but then again, nobody wrote it... ;)
He was also responsible for one of the worst web pages ever created: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/
(It's utterly brilliant but monstrous.)
> We just need it to be hard enough that most kids won't do it.
Silly though that sounds, it might work. Because it's social pressure from other kids to be online that drives many kids into being constantly on Instagram and Snapchat. If you're not online, you don't know what's going on. The big social networks monetize FOMO.
If a sizable fraction of kids aren't on social media, that's not where it's happening any more. The pressure goes away. Or goes elsewhere.
Was funny, I was using Copilot to analyze a certain light novel to reverse engineer the storytelling techniques so I could write a fanfiction the other day and I asked it if it could apply a certain method to any other stories and it said, yeah, The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatbsy and Neon Genesis Evangelion
Funny after a lot of this I think I broke it because it now loads a personalization context where it tries to apply this framework to everything and can't quit talking about a character that we seem to share a crush on.
#250, but then I wasn't trying to make predictions for a future AI. Or anyone else, really. Got a high score mostly for status quo bias, e.g. visual languages going nowhere and FPGAs remain niche.
> where cities get all the benefit at the expense of the larger region
A pair of thought experiments. The tri-state area is depopulated and turned into a nature reserve. Everywhere except for New York City. How does it do?
Now, New York City is leveled and turned into a nature preserve. How does this affect those states’ non-urban populations? (Hint: economic collapse. Budget cuts. Unemployment.)
Cities suck resources from outside. But by and large, they also distribute largesse to their proximities and subsidize life for everyone around them.
> led to a recent recall of the local council member. Why does the majority vote of a city of 800k people get to unilaterally dictate the transportation options for a region upwards of 7MM?
New York City has a population of 8.5mm [1]. That’s almost half of the metropolitan area’s population [2]. Include New York State and the non-voting population effect is a minority. Congestion charging isn’t a tyranny of the minority.
As for why, self determination.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
I use Plexamp together with my Plex system.
They shouldn't experience hypoxia. That's what the air supply is for.
Here's the video "Fanuc already sells this product and it's being used at scale today."[1] This works in a very orderly greenhouse, one of the largest in Europe.
... note that the article linked from this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46168057 mentions intermittent hypoxia as a rapid acting treatment for depression right up there with Ketamine and ECT
> According to BNEF, battery pack prices for stationary storage fell to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease from 2024. This represents the steepest decline among all lithium-ion battery use cases and and makes stationary storage the cheapest category for the first time.
People under 18 don't have the same rights.
> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time it wins".
What's sorely missing is the very rare theme of "the establishment wins, and for a good reason, and it's actually a good thing".
I thought this was common knowledge. DeepSeek’s Wikipedia entry says that they trained all their models on Nvidia chips procured before the U.S. embargo to China on them. It wouldn’t surprise me if they continued acquiring them through, well, less than legal means.
I also read somewhere (not Wikipedia) that they trained on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini queries, basically feeding in the output of competitor’s LLMs as training data. Kinda surprised they didn’t run into model collapse problems, but they stole their training data from other people who stole their training data from data collections that arguably stole them from content creators. It’s bandits all the way down, so adding a little smuggling to that doesn’t surprise me.
Can confirm, I'm tangentially adjacent to that community at times. I almost went to grad school for it even!
In the end, almost everything has a soap opera in it somewhere. People have a hard time processing stories that don't have a soap opera in them somewhere. For some people it's just impossible. There's really only a minority of people who are interested in stories that have no personal relationship stories in them at all.
That's not to say that the parts that aren't soap opera aren't meaningfully different. I disagree with the reductionistic claim that "everything is just a soap opera in the end", and leave it to the reader to determine whether or not the original link is making that mistake.
I would say it's more like salt in cooking for the vast majority of people; they expect a certain proper amount and trying to engage a normal human's taste without it is an uphill battle at best. As a result, across a wide variety of genres and styles, you'll find soap operas.
(I use soap opera as a bit of shorthand for things focusing on human relationships a lot. Soap operas tend to focus on the romantic end more than average, so the embedding is not quite perfect. But I use "soap opera" as the shorthand here because they are one of the more pure embodiments of the idea, because they are basically nothing but human relationships churning and spinning, with generally not much more going on. Yeah, a couple of them have a more exotic framing device, but all that does is move them slightly off the center of the genre, not really change them much.)
What gets me is getting almost 100% scam ads on YouTube and not having a clear way to push back. Even when I see an ad for a product that might benefit me, seeing all those scam ads makes me think… it is a scam again.
We're adults, we can handle it.
Putting "teens" in the title is misleading. The ban is for ages 15 and below.
They could probably learn one or two things on how Java and .NET do arenas, just saying.
> a parent can be charged (by a perfect stranger) for the crime of neglecting their child when allowing them to rove unrestricted outside
This is more about criminalising poverty than anything about parenting. I live in a rich part of Wyoming. The kids are fucking feral.
That was the case before congestion pricing too.
Not if using Delphi or C++ Builder.
For whatever reason all attempts to make COM easier to use in Visual C++, keep being sabotaged by internal teams.
It is like Windows team feels like it is a manhood test to use such low level tooling.
They could still get HDR working right end-to-end. I was reading about HDR in the early 2000s and really excited about it but when I looked into the specific tone mapping systems that are used today my impression is: "Great, they're going to screw up both the SDR and the extra HDR data" and it seems that's exactly what happened. Similarly, the net effect of wide gamut on color accuracy in the wild is not necessarily an improvement.
The Chevy Suburban has been one of the largest vehicles on the market since 1934. [1]
If you wanted an EV to match the Suburban it would probably be that Cadillac Escalade IQ in terms of size, comfort, and towing capacity -- that's got a curb weight of 9,100 pounds which is 1.5x heavier than the Suburban.
I'd think the BMW 3 Series has a similar vibe to the Model 3 and that has a base curb weight of 3536 which is about 10% less than the Model 3.
[1] it's the oldest nameplate that's been made continuously
> A person with their high end car and miillions now can buy himself a nice little drive into the city while everyone else can't.
This was already the case in NYC without congestion fees. (For example: https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/park-slope-parking-spo...)
Now they get to fund public transit a little bit while they do so.
u/andrewstetsenko has lots of great posts on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=relocateme.substack.c...
https://old.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_fo... is also helpful.
(no affiliation, I just like folks helping folks get out)
I'll argue the opposite.
(1) The demand for mental health services is an order of magnitude vs the supply, but the demand we see is a fraction of the demand that exists because a lot of people, especially men, aren't believers in the "therapeutic culture"
In the days of Freud you could get a few hours of intensive therapy a week but today you're lucky to get an hour a week. An AI therapist can be with you constantly.
(2) I believe psychodiagnosis based on text analysis could greatly outperform mainstream methods. Give an AI someone's social media feed and I think depression, mania, schizo-* spectrum, disordered narcissism and many other states and traits will be immediately visible.
(3) Despite the CBT revolution and various attempts to intensify CBT, a large part of the effectiveness of therapy comes from the patient feeling mirrored by the therapist [1] and the LLM can accomplish this, in fact, this could be accomplished by the old ELIZA program.
(4) The self of the therapist can be both an obstacle and an instrument to progress. See [2] On one level the reactions that a therapist feels are useful, but they also get in the way of the therapist providing perfect mirroring [3] and letting optimal frustration unfold in the patient instead of providing "corrective emoptional experiences." I'm going to argue that the AI therapist can be trained to "perceive" the things a human therapist perceives but that it does not have its own reactions that will make the patient feel judged and get in the way of that unfolding.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countertransference
[3] why settle for less?
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X6...
Calculating Air Pollution’s Death Toll, Across State Lines - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/climate/air-pollution-hea... | https://archive.today/HEapE - February 12th, 2020
Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1983-8 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1983-8
I think the saddest part is that it can’t run Acorn’s Unix. It had IXI’s desktop tools, which were really nice back then when time itself was new.
I remember an award winning IBM ad with that name.
Right, this result seems meaningless without a human clinician control.
I'd very much like to see clinicians randomly selected from BetterHelp and paid to interact the same way with the LLM patient and judged by the LLM, as the current methodology uses. And see what score they get.
Ideally this should be done blind, I don't know if BetterHelp allows for therapy through a text chat interface? Where the therapist has no idea it's for a study and so isn't trying to "do better" then they would for any average client.
Because while I know a lot of people for whom therapy has been life-changing, I also know of a lot of terrible and even unprofessional therapy experiences.
I use https://www.quo.com/ (previously OpenPhone).
(no affiliation besides being a customer)
RicardoRei: How would you like this cited when presented to policy makers? Anything besides the URL?
Edit: Thank you!
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-9... - January 10th, 2024
> The richest Americans own the vast majority of the US stock market, according to Fed data. The top 10% of Americans held 93% of all stocks, the highest level ever recorded. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023.
(the vast majority of wealth for the non wealthy in the US is someone's primary residence real estate)
>You can see this in retirement, actually. There's real data showing mortality spikes in the years after people stop working. The structure of striving, even when it felt like a burden, was providing something that leisure alone can't replace. People who stop pursuing things often just... decline.
There's a popular cope answer to this "that wont be the case with me".
But unless you already have either a concrete footing in enjoying the small things in life just for themselves, or a greater mission that falls outside the line of work you'll retire from (like being an activist, or a hobbyist programmer or musician or something), then it absolutely will be the case.
>Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
If they are, people will still do it, but skip the admission that it's from AI
I've been involved with a few MCP servers. MCP seems like an API designed specifically for LLMs/AIs to interact with.
Agree that tool calling is the primary use case.
Because of context window limits, a 1:1 mapping of REST API endpoint to MCP tool endpoint is usually the wrong approach. Even though LLMs/agents are very good at figuring out the right API call to make.
So you can build on top of APIs or other business logic to present a higher level workflow.
But many of the same concerns apply to MCP servers as they did to REST APIs, which is why we're seeing an explosion of gateways and other management software for MCP servers.
I don't think it is a fad, as it is gaining traction and I don't see what replaces it for a very real use case: tool calling by agents/LLMs.
Which can rapidly exceed in size and count the "non-user-facing" objects.
This objection really needs to die. GC does not instantly mean you can't program games. At most it locks you out of the tip-of-the-tippy-top AAAA games, but if you were trying for that you weren't going to use "someone's GitHub project" anyhow. And most of them probably have meaningful GC in them anyhow.
I think Celery has a lot of magic happening under it. When the abstractions are so high, it's important they never leak and you don't see anything below the turtles you are supposed to see.
I often prefer designing around explicit queues and building workers/dispatchers. One queuing system I miss is the old Google App Engine one - you set up the queue, the URL it calls with the payload (in your own app), the rate it should use, and that's it.
This behavior is weird. Your parent writes nothing like me.
The only alt I’ve made on hacker news is steveklabnik1, or whatever I called it, because I had locked myself out of this account. pg let me back in and so I stopped using it.
Better to just heavily tax social media like we tax other harmful things like cigarettes. Heavily tax advertising while we're at it, too.
I think the main issue is that it never was about how rust programmers should write more rust. Just like a religion it is about what other people should do. That's why you see so many abandoned very ambitious rust projects to tackle x,y or z now written in C to do them all over again (and throw away many years of hardening and bug fixes). The idea is that the original authors can be somehow manipulated into taking these grand gifts and then to throw away their old code. I'm waiting for the SQLite rewrite in rust any day now. And it is not just the language itself, you also get a package manager that you will have to incorporate into your workflow (with risks that are entirely its own), new control flow models, terminology and so on.
Rust should have done exactly one thing and do that as good as possible: be a C replacement and do that while sticking as close as possible to the C syntax. Now we have something that is a halfway house between C, C++, JavaScript (Node.js, actually), Java and possibly even Ruby with a syntax that makes perl look good and with a bunch of instability thrown in for good measure.
It's as if the Jehova's witnesses decided to get into tech and to convince the world of the error of its ways.
That... doesn't bother me more than any other commercial.
Commercials are mostly dumb. This is another pretty dumb one. It has clunky AI just like plenty of other commercials have clunky traditional VFX.
Can't really see myself getting worked up about it?
If AI frees up VFX artists so they can work on movies rather than commercials, I'm all for that.
Now you know!
Yeah, it definitely seems to carry a strong ideology with it, an ideology which is not present in other countries. Germany has pretty unique attitudes towards privacy.
It actually sounds pretty humorous to me. Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!
That's like saying aircraft inspections is the FAA's job and it's not Boeing's job "to just hand everything over." Entering into a country's borders is a privilege and you submit to an inspection in doing so. One of the very first things the American founding fathers did in 1789 was to create a customs service to perform border inspections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customs_Service.
It is more specific, it means emiting code as you go along throught the source file.
A sigle pass compiler can still split the various phases, and only do the code generation on the last phase.
Outside Web development, debugging has been a non issue for at least 30 years.
That’s not true. Public transit in Tokyo is slower than driving in Dallas or LA. Average one-way commute in LA is just over 30 minutes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B080ACS006037. For Tokyo it’s 45-60 minutes based on sources I’ve seen online.
For some reason (and this is one reason people think there's a conspiracy), that is the "preferred" form of age verification. It certainly saves the government from having to do IT.
My first home computer was bought in 1986, before that the only electronics at home were Game & Watch handhelds, like Manhole.
I guess I am reaching Gandalf status then. :)
GNU/Linux isn't the only system out there, POSIX last update was in 2024 (when C requirement got upgraded to C17), and yes some parts of it are outdated in modern platforms, especially Apple, Google, Microsoft OSes and Cloud infrastructure.
Still, who supports POSIX is expected to have a C compiler available if applying for the OpenGroup stamp.
You can't run a turbine 24/7 either, they require maintenance windows.
The Canada trucker COVID protests are the standard example.
Quoting ...
"... our 11-yo shared a Google Slides deck titled "The New Chat Room" that is approximately 500 slides long, where each slide is students in his class posting pop culture pictures &/or memes & using the Slides comments to chat with each other about them..."
I don't know about the "ouch" but the rest of the comment seems pretty clear that they didn't intend to imply the clickbait.
Honestly? I kind of like this hypothetical future this purports to be a snapshot of. Sounds hopeful.
(EDIT: Not so much after seeing the expanded variant with full submissions and comment threads...)
Also, nailed HN perfectly.
Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_and_Engineering_Emm...
Regulations cannot change the laws of physics.
Don't drink coffee before going on stage. At least when you're old like me.
I used to hear the 16KHz whistle of CRT monitors. Of course, there is no whistle with LED monitors, but I stopped hearing the CRT whistle before they went obsolete. It was my first sign my hearing was declining.
I thought I was protecting my ears from loud noises like rock concerts and gunshots. But I didn't know that driving with the window down damages the hearing. I crossed the country many times with the window down. I'm pretty sure that was the cause as my left ear is much worse off than my right.
I don't need a hearing aid yet, but I'm pretty careful in wearing ear plugs whenever there are loud noises.
If something is open source and follows an OSI approved license I don't have to ask a lawyer to review the license before I integrate with that code.
The moment you change a single line of that license I now have to pay extremely close attention to those details again.
This isn't a naive idealism thing - there are very solid, boring, selfish reasons for caring about this.
Unless it means sacrificing freedom.
EV shuttles will come in lots of capacities. Vans, buses. But you won't need to worry about schedules or preset routes because it's all dynamic.
Wherever there would be the most congestion is precisely where the app will give you the biggest discount to switch from your private vehicle into a bus, then switch back into another private vehicle for the last 5 minutes of your trip.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Gemini can know everything in my Google account, which is basically synonymous with everything that's on my phone, except for text messages. And I use an iPhone. And then Gemini will work just as well on the web when I use my laptop.
So I don't see what unique advantage this gives Apple. These days people's data lives mostly in the cloud. What's on their phone is just a local cache.
This is not accurate. The WHO (which recommends lower levels than US authorities) recommends an annual PM 2.5 level below 5 µg/m³: https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/WHO-Air-Quality-Gu...
But more importantly, when it comes to PM 2.5 levels, there are really no safe levels, the risks are just dose dependent, so lower is always better. In a city the size of NYC, lowering air pollution by 20% means a significant decrease in effects.
To give a good analogy, driving a car on the US is still quite safe, most of us take that risk, but still, thousands die annually from car accidents. A one fifth reduction in deaths from car accidents, even from its current low level, would be a major deal. In NYC, around 1 in 20 deaths is linked to air pollution.
> We're a handful of breakthroughs before models reach superhuman levels across any and all domains of cognition.
That's a pretty bold claim to make.
I never liked Calibri when it was pushed aggressively by MS and showed up everywhere - I prefer Arial or Helvetica for sans-serif, and think TNR is a good default for serif, with Computer Modern a close second.