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How do I select the lookout point? There's only a drop down with a few points, which isn't close to "anywhere in the world", so I'm sure I'm missing something.
> how our planet will survive this critical phase.
> trillions in valuation.
This is more or less literally the "yes we destroyed the planet, but for a brief moment we created trillions in shareholder value" meme. Perhaps we need to take a step back and ask to what extent this benefits humans as humans, not as economic units. Especially given the explicit threat in the AI marketing material to destroy all creative industries and replace human fulfilment and even connection with AI.
The problem is that public opinion is now very much in favor in general. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-back-online-safety-acts-...
Also, since AI will mean most are just let go, why would they need meeting minutes? AI would be so crucial as to be the make or break phone/laptop feature, but people would still have meetings?
At best they will use it to tell them for special offers that they can buy with food coupons.
Agreed.
Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
AI so intelligent, it enshittifies itself and your codebase for you.
Well given the achievement to political kill Longhorn, push the same ideas with the disguise of WinRT and C++, using a Windows 8 tablet as skateboard, and have to leave after the monumental failure, I would take with a pinch of salt the opinion piece.
Writing a song is just the beginning. Then there is all the massive effort with the arrangements and polish for it (see George Martin). I doubt the Beatles would make the effort unless they thought a song was worth it.
Apple is in a better situation now than with Gil Amelio, thanks to printing money with iDevices.
However everything else is quite similar for those of us that were around.
Except now there isn't a Be or NeXT to acquire, nor the former founder to get back.
Slowly it is going to be only skills.md.
I agree with the sentiment, I really like D and find a missing opportunity that it wasn't taken off regarding adoption.
Most of what made D special in D is nowadays partially available in mainstream languages, making the adoption speech even harder, and lack of LLM training data doesn't help either.
You can both be right. Walmart is a valuable corporation; there are useful idiots who choose not to see that. It’s also a profitable one, which means it doesn’t need subsidies; another set of useful idiots can’t seem to see that.
You don't need to flag people who make a mistake.
It's not like Ireland is getting rid of unemployment insurance. And insurance sales and carpet installation are professions where there are jobs that actually pay a living wage.
A lot of societies have realized there is value in supporting art and culture. For thousands of years that activity was sponsored by monarchs, royalty and other nobility. Up until actually quite recently, most first world countries without monarchs and nobles also provided substantial support for the arts.
Microsoft has decided that spyware is a good thing --- as long as it's theirs.
I bet you also think government shouldn't be picking winners and losers.
- 136907 Huawei
- 23724 China Telco
- 9808 China Mobile
- 4808 China Unicom
- 37963 Alibaba
- 45102 Alibaba tech
You may want to add this list as well:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ip-rang...
You require a human to identity proof in real life and bind that to a digital identity with a strong authenticator. Anti fraud detection systems can suspend or ban if evasion attempts are detected. Perfect is not the target, it doesn’t have to be.
See: Login.gov (USPS offline proofing) and other national identity systems.
(digital identity is a component of my work)
Just think about the terrorist potential here. Buy a $10 party balloon, let it go near a major airport and they'll panic and shut down the airport. That's a lot of havoc for a couple of bucks.
The collection should be scanned and put online.
Space-X wants to be regulated under the Railway Labor Act? [1] They should be careful of what they ask for. Some anti-union activities such as fussing with the bargaining unit definition don't apply under the RLA. Space-X is going to end up as a union shop.
Airlines are under the Railway Labor Act because Congress put them there in 1932, and they are almost totally unionized.
[1] https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/R...
>Then in 2025, new techniques for building these models unlocked a much faster pace of progress. And then it got even faster. And then faster again. Each new model wasn't just better than the last...
Not at all the experience of users past 2025. The biggest sentiment with model updates was dissapontment and even worries of nerfing.
>But it's time now. Not in an "eventually we should talk about this" way. In a "this is happening right now and I need you to understand it" way. (...) And something clicked. Not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest. (...) We're not making predictions. We're telling you what already occurred in our own jobs (...) It wasn't just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions."
Clear AI slop writing patterns.
The guy works in AI space and is fuelling the hype with slop as a content-strategy.
The parent said "it's surprising". It's not surprising.
Single-digit penetration in the Tranco top domains list; deployment in North America has actually declined in recent years.
The CO2 graph over decades is painfully clear.[1] From 321ppm in 1970 to 428ppm in mid-2005, measured in Hawaii atop Mauna Loa, far from any major CO2 sources. Everything else is noisy and statistical, but the CO2 measurement increases very steadily.
It's pretty simple: you don't get to that kind of wealth without having a few screws loose in the ethics department. There are some exceptions but they are just there to confirm the rule.
Fruit picking is a thing. You may want to 3D print some everlasting apples for tests.
They don't have a lost-kid feature?
In China, kids are accustomed to face recognition early.[1] The kids are checking into school via fare gates with face recognition. Here's an ad for Hikvision surveillance systems showing the whole system.[2] Hikvision has a whole series of videos presenting their concept of a kindly, gentler Big Brother. This is probably the most amusing.[3]
Amazon's concept is in some ways more powerful. They don't need full coverage. Just sparse, but widespread coverage. Anything that moves around will pass through the view of cameras at some point. Suspicious behavior can be detected in the back end cloud processing, which improves over time.
Flock has the same concept. Flock coverage is sparse in terms of area, but widespread.
"1984" was so last cen.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SMKG8aLTJ38
As a member of a prominent Transylvanian family, I am appalled, and profoundly offended, by the idea of someone even as much as suspecting Peter Thiel could be a vampire. He might be an evil bloodsucking parasite, but he lacks the sophistication mortals have come to associate with vampires over the centuries. It's shocking, really, that some people might confuse him with one.
> under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism
I think we can be more charitable. Don't you see, even here on HN, people constantly asking for software that is less bloated, that does fewer things but does them better, that code is cost, and every piece of complexity is something that needs to be maintained?
As features keep getting added, it is necessary to revisit where the UX is "too much" and so things need to be hidden, e.g. menu commands need to be grouped in a submenu, what was toolbar functionality now belongs in a dialog, reporting needs to be limited to a verbose mode, etc.
Obviously product teams get it wrong sometimes, users complain, and if enough users complain, then it's brought back, or a toggle to enable it.
There's nothing to be cynical about, and it's not something we "should be over by now." It's just humans doing their best to strike the balance between a UX that provides enough information to be useful without so much information that it overwhelms and distracts. Obviously any single instance isn't usually enough to overwhelm and distract, but in aggregate they do, so PM's and designers try to be vigilant to simplify wherever possible. But they're only human, sometimes they'll get it wrong (like maybe here), and then they fix it.
“Threat” might be an exaggeration.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-shot-down-party-balloon...
The difference is emblematic of the difficulty in getting attention for climate mitigation. AI succeeds because you can sell a service to an individual human which will give them advantages over other humans. Climate change mitigation fails because you are trying to sell a service to humanity which will result in a better end state over some other hypothetical imagined future. Humans make decisions, not humanity, and many of them are pretty bad with both hypotheticals and imagination. It's no wonder that a product designed to make them do better at what they do, right now is more successful than one designed to make everybody do better than what would otherwise have resulted, 50-100 years in the future when they'll likely be dead.
Any kind of workable solution to large, societal-level problems needs to deal with the principal agent issue. Society doesn't actually exist; humanity doesn't actually exist. These are abstractions we use to label the behavior of individual people. You need to operate on the level of individual people to get any sort of outcome.
(FWIW, this is a major reason why concepts like markets, capitalism, democracy, rule of law, and federalism have been successful. They work by aligning incentives so that when one person takes an action that is good for themselves, they more-or-less end up benefitting the people around them too.)
Unfortunately it won't happen, as humanity rather nuke ourselves generating memes, while driving beverage from paper straws.
Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.
My YOShInOn RSS reader uses an SBERT model for classification (will I upvote this or not?) and large-scale clustering (20 k-means clusters and show me the top N in each cluster so I get a diversity of different articles.)
For duplicate detection I am using DBSCAN
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cl...
and found some parameters where I get almost no false positives but a lot of duplicates get missed when I lowered the threshold to make clusters I started getting false positives fast. I don't find duplicates are a big problem in my system with the 110 feeds I have and the subjects I am interested in, but insofar as they are a problem there tend to be structured relationships between articles: that is, site A syndicates articles from site B but for some reason articles from site A usually get selected and site B articles don't. An article from Site A often links to one or more articles, often that I don't have a feed for, and it would be nice if the system looked at the whole constellation. Stuff like that.
Effective clustering is the really interesting technology Google News has had for a long time.
They are most definitely aware. They are willfully ignoring this but they are not ignorant.
What cross-border drone capabilities, drug deliveries? People are talking like the cartels are conducting Ukraine-style drone warfare and blowing up Americans on the regular. Let's stick to a factual baseline here.
How many people have Alexa devices vs wifi? I got gifted an Amazon Echo Dot some years ago. We set it up and switched it off later the same day because it felt creepy to have the thing listening to everything we said.
That's because a foreign substance is introduced into their precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
This is a travesty. I've been watching some of it and it is insane that in a developed country such a situation could exist.
A lot of the features of these applications, be it Discord, or Slack, or Teams, exist because they want to lock their clients to their platforms.
Ideally, a Discord alternative server would be self-hostable and focused on providing messaging. A client could connect to multiple servers at the same time.
Amazon also had the ad about Alexa killing you. Not sure what they were thinking exactly.
Modern agenting coding software is scoped to only allow edits in the project folder, with some sandboxing more aggressively than others (Claude Code the most)
> LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff
And some kid is going to come in, make an agent to play this, and accidentally figure out some clever trick to getting an LLM to understand spacial stuff!
This is exactly why "toys" are so critical, especially now.
If the options are pensions or self investment, how is one sustainable and the other isn’t? The investment dollars in scope are similar, with pensions being better managed than your average human would do.
That is what both the flagging mechanism and the green highlight for new accounts is for.
What do I care that it is vibe coded or not? If it is a good app, it's a good app. If you say "vibe coded" in the subject people aren't going to judge it in terms of its quality, it's just more slop posts about AI. Take a look at how the /new page is overwhelmed with low-quality posts about AI and how the front page shows people are desperate for anything else.
Pro tip: we are feeling overwhelemed with slop posts about AI. "a book by Opus 4.6" is just waving a red flag in front of a bull. The problem, as I see it, isn't that you got Opus to write it, it's that there is nothing newsworthy that you did something with AI in Feb 2026.
Used to do it... Back in 2001!
> Did he really think his square counters would fool said omniscient God?
My favorite example of this is the string of fishing line around Manhattan.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
None of the options is that great...
Pelican generated via OpenRouter: https://gist.github.com/simonw/cc4ca7815ae82562e89a9fdd99f07...
Solid bird, not a great bicycle frame.
Job losses is a more immediate consequence of massive deployment of AI.
There have never been enough tenors anywhere, as the article acknowledges.
It's not clear what the evidence is that the problem is getting worse though? Or why it would be?
I did this also: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701... but using original parts.
So, how do you fix it? Can it be fixed?
That's noted in this article:
> One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles. This was significantly more than the 55,000 additions that had been expected by economists.
But that's 2026 hiring, and the article's about the 2025 revisions. (And the January number, as they all do, may get revised in a few months.)
"In today’s article, we’ll build a rudimentary blur algorithm and then pick it apart."
Emphasis mine. Quote from the beginning of the article.
This isn't meant to be a textbook about blurring algorithms. It was supposed to be a demonstration of how what may seem destroyed to a causal viewer is recoverable by a simple process, intended to give the viewer some intuition that maybe blurring isn't such a good information destroyer after all.
Your post kind of comes off like criticizing someone for showing how easy it is to crack a Caesar cipher for not using AES-256. But the whole point was to be accessible, and to introduce the idea that just because it looks unreadable doesn't mean it's not very easy to recover. No, it's not a mistake to be using the Caesar cipher for the initial introduction. Or a dead-simple one-dimensional blurring algorithm.
Reactionary accelerationists want a local war of some sort so they can grab war powers and then roll back all the US's post-WW2 social progress (and most of the New Deal too).
Absolutely, Photoshop has it:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/reduce-camera-shake-...
Or... from the note at the top, had it? Very strange, features are almost never removed. I really wonder what the architectural reason was here.
>If I get blown off, or if somebody takes 4 days to respond to my email, my impression is always that my counterparty views the matter as unimportant
Usually it is unimportant, and the other side is just wasting their time.
This is actually kind of hilarious. That your ex-wife would write to the FBI to denounce your character a couple of months after the divorce.
I did really enjoy this detail:
> It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos.
Brilliant guy... but it is funny to think how nonstop bongos could definitely drive a spouse crazy.
>But then, it’s not wrong to scratch your head. Blurring amounts to averaging the underlying pixel values. If you average two numbers, there’s no way of knowing if you’ve started with 1 + 5 or 3 + 3. In both cases, the arithmetic mean is the same and the original information appears to be lost. So, is the advice wrong?
Well, if you have a large enough averaging window (like is the case with bluring letters) they have constraints (a fixed number of shapes) information for which is partly retained.
Not very different from the information retained in minesweeper games.
I'm curious what is coming from Qwen as well. February is starting strong already.
The main problem with "Markdown support" in Notepad is that "Markdown support" is an ill-defined phrase. The closest thing to a well-defined definition is to support CommonMark but that is far, far from universal. Microsoft being Microsoft they'd probably still half-ass the job then just declare their new half-ass support a newly embraced-and-extended standard and leave it that way for the next 20 years, so asking Notepad to support Markdown is in practice asking for yet another effing Markdown dialect to come into existence and join the shambling hoard of other dialects.
Markdown is more properly understood as a family of related-but-mutually-incompatible standards, like CSV, and like "supporting CSV" is a lot more complicated than meets the eye. And supporting Markdown is already clearly non-trivial compared to the baseline of Notepad we've come to expect over the past few decades.
Myself I've usually tried to "go native" in whatever domain I am working in whether it is sales management [1], swap trading, or public opinion polling.
[1] great excuse to drink with salespeople in hotel bars!
You familiar with the idea of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
?
This is the standard way of turning a probability-calibrated predictive model into a trading or betting strategy. Even the best AI model you're going to make is going to be making guesses about the direction of the financial market so you have to (1) make it smart about "knowing what it knows" and (2) build it's predictions into a systematic risk-managed trading strategy.
afaiu this will also be an open weight release (soon?)
Can extensions:
be scoped, meaning only allowed to read/access when you visit a particular domain whitelist (controlled by the user)?
be forced (by the extension API) to have a clear non-obfuscated feed of whatever they send that the user can log and/or tap onto and watch at any time?
If not, I wouldn't touch them with a 10000ft pole.
The sort of systems which demand 100% reliability tend to be like that. "Disruption" in the middle of live sports broadcast is unpopular with customers.
The UK has a local car manufacturing industry (Nissan, Jaguar/Landrover), but not large enough to be able to lobby for protectionism. And in any case the UK has basically given up on having a coherent trade policy since Brexit.
I've seen quite a few BYDs and MG4s, and there are Jaecoo and Leapmotor dealers near me. I've been told that some NHS boards were using MGs as "pool" cars, but the only example I can find a reference for is Shetland. https://www.nhsshetland.scot/news/article/43/nhs-shetland-ro...
I don't think I've ever seen a Rivian. The R2 is supposed to be coming to the UK in 2027.
Hm, right. I somehow never really saw those two as different, hm.
> They are always self contained experiences with a custom UI independent of the OS.
Not really, as each OS and hardware provided different capabilities that made some games only possible in specific platforms.
Additionally depending on the platform, some ports were great, others were money thrown into the garbage bin.
Deindustrialization, triggered by depletion. The thing about mines is they don't last forever, and if you build your industry near the mines that supply it it becomes uneconomic once the mine is depleted.
Also, the world got a lot bigger, to the extent that a tiny canal was no longer meaningful.
The population of Scotland as a whole has grown slowly and continuously - nothing comparable to the mass depopulation of Ireland, even when you consider the Highland Clearances. It has however mostly concentrated in the economic centers of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Moreau is apparently a Russian citizen living in Russia since 2013. I have some concerns about process, but not for these guys. People working for enemy intelligence services tend to get treated harshly.
Port 23 has been filtered by most providers for decades.
This is why everything converges on using TLS over 443 or a high port number. I don't see this as a huge deal, and especially not one deserving all caps rants about censorship. Save those for things like FOSTA/SESTA.
> if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?
The answer is, in case anyone wonders: because OpenAI is providing a general purpose tool that has potential to subsume most of the software industry; "We" are merely setting up toll gates around what will ultimately become a bunch of tools for LLM, and trying to pass it off as a "product".
Do you really need a 0-60mph time of 3.0 seconds in a mommymobile?
> this review reports bioavailability of up to 70% for some agents
To save us some skimming, could you specify which ones? (The review covers cyclic peptides that are absorbed by all mammals.)
> In California with PG&E which most people have,
Most people in California don’t have PG&E. Most of the land area in the northern 2/3 of the State or so is covered by PG&E, but people and land area aren't the same thing. Southern California Edison alone serves almost as many people as PG&E, and other smaller utilities, including public utilities like LADWP, SMUD, Silicon Valley Power, etc., serve another big chunk of the population.
I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.
Yeah, I was on the outside looking in when it came to sketch comedy until I developed a new character that can make people laugh just with hand gestures. It's really funny how you go nowhere telling other people's jokes and you really need to write your own material.
A varnish cache won't help you if you're running something like a code forge where every commit has its own page - often more than one page, there's the page for the commit and then the page for "history from this commit" and a page for every one of the files that existed in the repo at the time of that commit...
Then a poorly written crawler shows up and requests 10,000s of pages that haven't been requested recently enough to be in your cache.
I had to add a Cloudflare Captcha to the /search/ page of my blog because of my faceted search engine - which produces may thousands of unique URLs when you consider tags and dates and pagination and sort-by settings.
And that's despite me serving ever page on my site through a 15 minute Cloudflare cache!
Static only works fine for sites that have a limited number of pages. It doesn't work for sites that truly take advantage of the dynamic nature of the web.
Gotta echo other commenters here. Many people do not want revolving credit, or want to just use it to smooth out balance spikes and for emergencies. The American tropes of carrying a large debt balance or maxing out cards (eg to launch a business) as financial strategies are viewed as somewhere between gambling and fraud by a lot of people.
Average price of a new vehicle in the US is $50,000. This is priced appropriately considering total cost of ownership delta against a combustion vehicle. Rivian needs more volume for prices to decline from manufacturing efficiency at scale.
> copy FSD instead
They are. It’s also subscription based, however.
(For what it’s worth, my friends with Rivian are fine with its phone interface. As are most people who own Tesla’s fine without CarPlay.)
Man, these "hot takes" on the impact of AI are all becoming so tiring. I'm especially sick of all these "code was always the easy part" missives I see everywhere now, mostly because I think they're flat out wrong.
As another comment said, "easy can still be time consuming". I've seen plenty of projects that were well defined take months in implementation time (and then still sometimes fail for technical reasons). But most importantly, if "code were the easy part", why were top programmers receiving kingly wages for over 20 years? Because business people knew the difference between a successful tech company and an also-ran usually was, in huge part, due to the quality of their software engineers. If "code was the easy part", then you go write Google Maps in 2005, or Netflix streaming in 2007, or self driving cars in 2010, or, heck, ChatGPT in 2022.
Sure, good code for a bad product still fails, but this revisionist history trying to pretend coding was so easy, so LLM-assisted coding tools won't have a big impact, is nauseating.
And the fact that the UIs are less responsive and have worse UX now.
> surprised that Canada doesn't seem to be talking about doing this
Canada could get the best of all worlds. Let Visa and Mastercard compete with Alipay and whatever the EU comes up with in the 2030s.
This is Twitter science, not reality.
Nothing about the Philippines in that.
Any time you get mad about a streaming service who seems to have changed music or a credits clip for a TV show or movie, this is basically why.
To get the rights to use things in technologies that didn't exist when the media was created, you often have to go back to everyone involved and get their permission. Sometimes they don't say yes, or they aren't findable, or just aren't alive, and it's not clear who owns the rights anymore.
This isn't as much of a problem with newer media, because contracts now specify what happens with new technologies, but old contracts were often limited to specific technologies.
> They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country
So tech companies should be barred from hiring anyone outside the Bay Area? Because hiring someone in Texas or Arizona is necessarily exploitation?
International drivers are allowed to drive on US roads as long as they have a valid license in their own country. In particular, Filipino drivers are allowed to drive on US roads without any extra paperwork.
But also, even in the USA, we have 51+ different licensing schemes in the US. We already accept that if you have a license in one place, it's good in all the places.
British accent review time!
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.