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Well, that's the brexit outcome.
Interestingly enough for the C and C++ folks, compiler specific dialects for embedded without standard library, are still argued for as if being C and C++.
I don't see the purpose to run containers on Android, the managed userspace provides everything I need, including code on the go apps, already sandboxed.
Also not a termux fan.
à la carte is honest; overprovisioning just slows progress by preventing demand from creating pressure to innovate proper solutions.
The Troubles had a lower per capita body count than Detroit during the 80s. Part of their doctrine was "bomb with warning", usually to maximize property damage without random civilian casualties.
(Still quite a bit of murder of informers, soldiers, lawyers, and a teenager who happened to be in the wrong car. As well as government snipers firing into a crowd, planting a bomb on a band, and so on)
Wright designed a gas station, with a control tower office from which the manager can look down on the gas jockeys.[1] It looks like it belongs in Southern California, but it's in Minnesota.
His Marin Civic Center is nicely integrated with the terrain. Gattica, the movie, was filmed there. Like the gas station, it includes a non-functional pointy tower. Wright went through a pointy object period.[2]
Wright emphasized materials and surface treatments, to complement the plain lines of his buildings. That tended to run up costs. But if you use Wright's lines without the materials, you get brutalism.
And here I thought it was all shoot on soundstage on Mars.
I wouldn't want to live in it, though, because everything would be damp.
The text implies it’s more due to the alleged license violation of a YC startup’s IP than the alleged fraud.
Wow. This reflects the price of gold going up. A lot.
> Are indexes not covered by copyright, even if you don't mention the underlying data source by name?
If there were a good autopilot energy policy option, it would probably entail doing the opposite of whatever Germany votes to do.
> cockroach mode
What does this mean?
No, what they should do instead is decentralize energy generation to the point that we're in cockroach mode. And if that means that transportation of goods gets priority over transportation of people then so be it until we've figured that one out.
The sooner we get this over with the better. Install as much solar and wind as we can and get to the point where we have a glut and then back the up with decentralized storage.
The only thing that makes delve worse in my book is that they're selling compliance, they have zero excuses. But the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic even if they don't sell compliance do whitewash bulk copyright violations and they have valuations far in excess of Delve. Too big to fail I guess.
YC backing. That's all it takes. Taken an existing idea that has legs (preferably one you find in Europe or Asia), then take it to the US, apply to YC and say you already have validation see 'startup x'.
>How can an OpenClaw user use 6 times what a human subscriber is using when I'm four hours into the week and 15% of my weekly limit is already used up, just by coding?
Perhaps because your Claude agent usage is not representative of the average user, and closer to the average OpenClaw user levels...
The problem with refraining from political violence where it is warranted is that the other side will do it anyway and you end up dead.
> If I am flying my drone and an unmarked ICE vehicle drives within half a mile am I in trouble?
That depends on whether you support Dear Leader.
> the entire House would be flipping out. They aren't
Based on reporting and fundraising, it looks like GOP members with races this midterm are, but I guess we’re both going off vibes and loose data.
Oh, it's a billing thing. Not fear that Claude coupled to something that can actually do things is dangerous.
The instinct to preserve and honor Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, where I live, has basically frozen the place in amber, which isn't something Wright would have wanted, and also worked synergistically with exclusive zoning to keep the Village ultra-expensive (it directly abuts the Austin neighborhood in Chicago, which is low-middle income) and white (unlike Austin, which is 90+% Black).
No idea what Wright would have thought about racial housing segregation, but it was certainly a knock-on effect of the preservationist cult he accidentally created.
Anti-pattern imho. Agents should operate within granular identity and permission scopes, with audit and log trails for all data operations (read, write, etc).
Copilot: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/agent-id/identity-pl... | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/audit-copilot (for example)
TLDR Maintain an identity boundary whenever possible.
If you ever visit Taliesin in Wisconsin (which has a pretty bland), you should also visit the nearby House on the Rock which is a fascinating and very weird collection of esoteric and kitschy items.
The contrast in attitudes and aesthetics between the two is incredibly stark, and it's very interesting to see the reactions of visitors to each location.
and they’ve made it clear that building products around claude -p is disallowed
Imagine not being able to connect services together or compose building-blocks to do what you want. This is absolute insanity that runs counter to decades of computing progress and interoperability (including Unix philosophy); and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't even care for using AI.
Transformers are also manufacturing constrained.
Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604887 - April 2026
"I choose the mind that never tires of mine."
> The solution as usual is open source.
> Obviously step-3.5-flash is nowhere near the raw performance of sonnet
I feel like these two statements conflict with each other.
Codex just ended their double-usage offer and OpenAI just had an exec shakeup, so it'll be interesting to see how Codex reacts, or if people have usage issues with Codex.
> real wage growth. Something that's not existed since the 1970s
Real wages are 15% higher than they were in 1979 [1].
Haven't any of the space probes taken such pictures as they left to wander through the solar system?
> America is at near full employment
What America is full of is fake employment statistics that are artificially inflated by young people hiding out in school to avoid the bad job market.
In any significant war the Internet is going to go down. That's what has happened empirically in countries undergoing significant wars or social unrest, like Russia, Iran, Yemen, Ethiopia, Syria, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. While IP packet routing itself may have been designed to survive a nuclear war, there have been many centralized systems built on top of it (DNS? Edge caching? Cloudflare? Big Tech) that are essential to the functioning of what we know of as the Internet.
If your threat model includes war and you want to have some of the conveniences of the Internet, you should make plans for how to host local copies of data and develop local-scale communications for the people you regularly talk with. The Internet is too big of a security and propaganda risk for governments to allow it to continue to exist when they are engaged in a real existential war.
Don't forget underseas cables: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
We know that to be the case with Musk. He's admitted it. Andreessen, don't know.
It gets better every release, but there are missing language features:
https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/
And parts of the stdlib that don't work:
Why would I want to own a cut-off datacenter in Dubai?
Healthcare will carry the economy, 4M Boomers retire every year and these jobs cannot be offshored like finance and tech.
Issuing US treasury debt to those still willing to buy it.
No, but determinism reduces the number of stones you need to turn over when debugging hairy problems such as your program occasionally returning different results for the same inputs. You may not have control over the timing of I/O operations or order of external events (including OS scheduler), but at least you know that your side of the innovation/response is, in isoaltion, behaving predictably.
Linus agrees: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-No-RISC-V-BE
Good. Call your reps and ask for more action.
Say what you want about cryptocurrency, at least their bug bounties pay well.
Trying to milk the last drop before the patents expire? H.264 patents have already expired in most of the world and the remaining ones, which might not even be necessary for the vast majority of H.264 use, are also approaching expiry very soon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...
The Philippines may be a US client state since MacArthur liberated them from Japan, but they need to deal with Iran to keep the lights on. The rationing situation is quite bad in a lot of east Asian countries.
Richard Stallman's "Right to Read" is worth reading again, because it portrays a very similar scenario.
This was a fantastic YouTube video on flat earther beliefs from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
Spoiler - they mostly switched to QAnon instead.
There is no point engaging in any way with people who believe in such "theories". They are like trolls, the only way to deal with them is not at all. Don't engage, don't disagree, just nothing, total silence. One can choose to be a wilful edit and waste your life and time on complete bullshit, but the rest of us should just ignore those people completely.
hate to break it to you but life is probabilities all the way down
The US has lost mutiple KC-125 tankers and an E3 as well, although those were destroyed ont he ground rather than shot down.
building all of this military infrastructure at the expense of living conditions for its people
Just yesterday, Trump was talking about another $1.5 trillion for defense in the coming fiscal year, and saying the US can't afford things like daycare, medicare etc.
Iran's military budget as a % of GDP has historically been inthe low single digits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_Iran
The rare earth dependency on China is very much overblown. The U.S. has very significant natural reserves of rare earth minerals. The problem is the same with all mining - it's uneconomic to mine minerals in the U.S. because the job of "miner" is unattractive to Americans (both the laborers and the governments that sign environmental permits) when there are cleaner, safer, and more highly paid jobs available.
They're also just as much of a CO2 solution as electric trains are, i.e. it depends on the fuel source for the local electric grid (which today is overwhelmingly solar in most of the places where EVs are popular).
Never been stuck behind someone doing 45 in a 55? Really?
You don’t have to speed. It’s a choice. You shouldn’t make the choice in the passing lane, though.
(1) conventional spell checkers still exist
(2) it's ok to ask "is this grammatical?"
(3) I will bounce ideas off chatbots but I think I've used just once AI generated sentence in the last two years. On one hand it is not my voice and it also sticks out like a sore thumb. I mean, if I hear "you're not a fur, you're a therian" another time I'm going to howl at the moon or something.
We have some friends who have a really well-built chicken coop. Sometimes we help them with the birds when they are out of town and bring back eggs.
A while back they had a stump in front of the house with a family of foxes living in it and they pointed a game camera at it.
Night after night they got footage of the fox mama bringing back other people's chickens to feed to her kits.
The moral is, I think, that the well-built chicken coop is a good investment.
SSH certificates aren't X.509 certificates.
That's the sort of "we started at the acronym and worked backwards" approach the Pentagon loves to do.
It's also worth remembering that markdown tried very hard to encode conventions that were already used in Usenet, email, and other text media. A > to indicate a quote was widespread Usenet convention. Asterisks or underscores to indicate emphasis was also a common convention; both are legal because both were common. Double asterisk or double underscores to indicate really, really emphasizing something was also a common convention. So were asterisks to display a bulleted list, blank lines to separate paragraphs, and indenting 4+ spaces to write code.
It's a good example of "pave the path" design philosophy, where you do what users are already doing rather than trying to impose some platonic ideal of what the world should be like. And it works quite well at that.
Useful study. UK-based.
The "authenticity" thing of podcasters is only meaningful if the podcaster was there. Sometimes that happens, and those are the good ones. There are good protest videos. Not many war videos. Secondary sources are just pundits, of which we have too many. It's easy to be an influencer who covers entertainment - entertainment wants to be watched. It's hard to be an influencer who covers, say, unemployment. It's possible, but you have to go and talk live to people who just got laid off. That's reporting.
It's not the delivery system. It's whether the source goes out and pulls in news. Most don't.
“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news." - City Editor of a Chicago newspaper, 1918. Look at a news story and ask "did this begin with a press release or a speech?". If so, it's publicity. HN had an article from a few days ago about "CEO says" journalism. It's worse on the political front.
Democracy requires that a sizable fraction of voters know what's really happening. This is a big problem.
Influencers can be controlled. Dubai has cracked down on war reporting by the large number of influencers there.[1] Right now, Iran claims a missile hit on an Oracle data center in Dubai. The UAE denies this. Did anybody in Dubai drive over and take pictures? Call up Oracle and ask? Nah.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/dubai-...
The corporate version of Stockholm Syndrome.
Aaron had very little to do with Markdown, other than reviewing the spec once at the end.
Right. R in RAG stands for retrieval, and for a brief moment initially, it meant just that: any kind of tool call that retrieves information based on query, whether that was web search, or RDBMS query, or grep call, or asking someone to look up an address in a phone book. Nothing in RAG implies vector search and text embeddings (beyond those in the LLM itself), yet somehow people married the acronym to one very particular implementation of the idea.
So this is the end of the Drift project, right?
Back at the top of the crypto hype cycle I wouldn't be surprised to see a project survive even a situation like this one, but now that the hype has died down is it still possible to come back from a loss of this magnitude?
The transition is happening rapidly in Pakistan: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/pakistan...
Seek throws up a „please don‘t disturb nature“ modal at every single start that you need to click away. Usually at that point the bird has gone away, too.
The iNaturalist app doesn‘t. It has more features, but Seek‘s former advantage „let me just the a photo and auto-identify“ is now in the iNaturalist main app, as well, so it is my default now.
The iNaturalist API is an absolute gem. It doesn't require authentication for read-only operations and it has open CORS headers which means it's amazing for demos and tutorials.
My partner and I built this website with it a few years ago: https://www.owlsnearme.com/
(I realize this is a bit on-brand for me but I also use it to track pelicans https://tools.simonwillison.net/species-observation-map#%7B%... )
That's the bit that scares me. I've often found myself installing software in a hurry to join a meeting on some platform that I've not previously used via my current machine.
The time pressure means I'm less likely to pay attention to what I'm installing.
Also in sort of stark contrast to the "here's my elden ring build", which was pretty incoherent, and so was believed to be actually his.
How is this riskier or less “mentally sound” than what European countries do? European drug price caps are premised on the threat that, if drug companies don’t sell at those prices, that the government will bar sales of the drug in the country, or drop the drug from coverage under the public health system.
Here, there is no threat that the drugs will be banned from the market completely. The threat is that the drug companies will face high tariffs that reduce sales. That’s a much less extreme threat than what the European countries use as leverage.
Same applies to Windows or UNIX based packages, other than systems like iDevices, Android or UWP, where applications are sandboxed.
However people around here hate sandboxing on their OSes.
The EU should abandon the stupid Commission structure and have a real Parliament that can actually draft legislation. The current one can just vote down legislation drafted by the Commission.
Anthropic acquisition, what do you expect as outcome?
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
The US military is in the middle of a top-level political purge; both honesty and competence as an institution will be below normal levels for the forseeable future, and honesty about sensitive operations during wartime is never much even as a baseline.
So this illustrates my point quite well.
The F1 launch doesn't follow the craft and freezes as it launches. No telemetry, fancy overlays, practiced presenters, etc.
The first droneship landing and first FH flight are both long into SpaceX's evolution of how they do these videos. Today's are even slicker.
Practice has made these improve dramatically, and today's SpaceX demos blow each of your examples out of the water. That's what doing a live cast every few weeks gets you.
Weapons are designed with an opponent in mind, and guarded against the expected threat models from that opponent. Everything breaks down when the opponent does not what you want them to.
I suppose you could avoid eating hours before a mission, and not eat gassy foods.
Also doesn't help that wealth means they can own newspapers or social media to promote their shitty takes as gospel, and have armies of regular Joe fanbois, that kiss their ass and tell us how wise they are...
Hegseth is not in charge of the Iranian military.
I mean, being aware of that (and adjusting behavior for it) is a form of introspection.
Without introspection you'd just dive into the pit.
be bop be bop ! why yes, yes i am.
I remember a time when UIs looked consistent, instead of custom-branded, and I still think the "completely reasonable and normal" state is the former, not the latter.
C-130s and helicopters flying low over Iran right after they shot down an F-15 in the same spot is wild. Whatever I think of the war idiocy, that's brave.
Speech is free, listening is priceless.
But seriously I have tried to market quite a few things and the normal condition is that people are indifferent and you have to work about 25x harder than you think [1] to get people's attention. Maybe 1 time in 10 or less you have something that resonates with people and that they get excited about.
[1] not hyperbole!
It's the "tyranny of structure"
Suing for damages here isn't profitable enough for attorneys, because "damages" with free healthcare means "missed a week of work", instead of "got a $200k bill".
> Notably, more than 60% of all fossil fuel subsidies granted in 2023 were spent in three countries: Germany (EUR 41 billion), Poland (EUR 16 billion), and France (EUR 15 billion).
This is another one of those cases where people say "Europe" when meaning something much more country specific.
I can't find any detailed breakdown of this; I'm guessing it's something to do with coal mining in Germany?
France has absolutely no excuse, though. Largest nuclear power generation in Europe and subsidizing fossil fuels? I bet it's something to do with farming.
“Almost every engineer will work on a product people hate.”
No. Forcing people to use a product they hate is privilege. It’s about power. Monopolists like Microsoft and Google can do it, companies that face market competition can’t.
Depends on which OS we are talking about.
I know a few where that doesn't hold, including some still being paid for in 2026.
Here's the one I use: https://issinfo.net/artemis
be bop be bop ! why yes, yes i am.
There are so many interesting things that can be done with an Android phone. Tomorrow, if the Google Play store decides not to publish this app, I can still install it via the APK file. I wonder how many of these apps will be usable after Google's new rules about sideloading.
Like a Borg cube - if there's one thing more scary than a cube full of drones, it's one that's mysteriously empty.
Sure, that is why I see translation and asset creation teams being let go, replaced by AI.
Or head count in dev teams, now doing even more with less.
Not to count all those gas stations, supermarket checkouts, or underground lines that are fully automated.
Still wondering when I will also be shown the door.
Not "hidden", but probably more like "no one bothered to look".
declares a 1024-byte owner ID, which is an unusually long but legal value for the owner ID.
When I'm designing protocols or writing code with variable-length elements, "what is the valid range of lengths?" is always at the front of my mind.
it uses a memory buffer that’s only 112 bytes. The denial message includes the owner ID, which can be up to 1024 bytes, bringing the total size of the message to 1056 bytes. The kernel writes 1056 bytes into a 112-byte buffer
This is something a lot of static analysers can easily find. Of course asking an LLM to "inspect all fixed-size buffers" may give you a bunch of hallucinations too, but could be a good starting point for further inspection.