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S3 compatible means one can point it at any storage that talks S3, which is a lot more flexible than POSIX or NFS.
Also Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman.
Nice catch! It's been fixed. Sometimes I wind up mangling titles in an effort to get them under 80 chars.
Note that another drug with a similar mechanism has gotten a lot of press lately but this is something different which is injectable instead of oral.
People who eat mostly rice are picky about the rice they eat.
Golden Rice 2 was on the market for about five years in the Philippines before it got banned. If anybody had wanted to grow it or eat it it could have been a different story. I was talking to a genetic engineer a few weeks ago who said that the sensory qualities weren't that great. Nothing would have stopped advocates in the US from planting a few acres and selling bags of it (it's approved and all) but had they done so it would have put the lie to the idea that the developers were being persecuted like Prometheus. I don't think it was anywhere near the threat that its opponents said it was but it was nowhere near the boon that its promoters said it was.
Now find the anime in which the wider frequency range of DAT player was a key plot point.
In retrospect, I wonder if the original ethos of the non-profit structure of OpenAI was a scam from the get go, or just woefully naive. And to emphasize, I'm not talking just about Altman.
That is, when you create this cutting edge, powerful tech, it turns out that people are willing to pay gobs of money for it. So if somehow OpenAI had managed to stay as a non-profit (let's pretend training didn't cost a bajillion dollars), they still would have lost all of their top engineers to deeper pockets if they didn't pursue an aggressive monetization strategy.
That's why I want to gag a little when I hear all this flowery language about how AI will cure all these diseases and be a huge boon to humanity. Let's get real - people are so hyped about this because they believe it will make them rich. And it most likely will, and to be clear, I don't blame them. The only thing I blame folks for is trying to wrap "I'd like to get rich" goals in moralistic BS.
This is a neat feature when it's your own device that you control, but not so great when they "disclose information generated by WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you."
I wanted to talk about how responsible WiFi router software authors can make things local-only (and I've done that in the past; no way to get this information even if I wanted it). But this is always temporary when "they" can push an update to your router at any time. One day the software is trustworthy, they next day it's not, via intentional removal of privacy features or by virtue of a dumb bug that you probably should have written a unit test for. Comcast is getting attention for saying they're doing this, but anyone who pushes firmware updates to your WiFi router can do this tomorrow if they feel like it. A strong argument in favor of "maybe I'll just run NixOS on an Orange Pi as my router", because at least you get the final say in what code runs.
I wrote a bit about this the other day: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-engineering/
Drew Breunig has been doing some fantastic writing on this subject - coincidentally at the same time as the "context engineering" buzzword appeared but actually unrelated to that meme.
How Long Contexts Fail - https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-ho... - talks about the various ways in which longer contexts can start causing problems (also known as "context rot")
How to Fix Your Context - https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.... - gives names to a bunch of techniques for working around these problems including Tool Loadout, Context Quarantine, Context Pruning, Context Summarization, and Context Offloading.
> Poor Sam Altman, 300B worth of trade secrets bought out from under him for a paltry few hundred million
Sorry, you don't lose people when you treat them well. Add to that Altman's penchant for organisational dysfunction and the (in part resulting) illiquidity of OpenAI's employees' equity-not-equity and this makes a lot of sense. Broadly, it's good for the American AI ecosystem for this competition for talent to exist.
The more exposure, the better. Is anyone from Roku willing to reach out to them as well? Who else could do it?
Here's how to do it in D:
struct ListNode(T) {
ListNode* next;
T data;
}
T!int node;
Part of the reason capital likes anti-immigrant politics is that the end policy result isn't getting rid of unempowered labor, its reducing more people to unempowered labor for capital, rather it is via detention in public facilities that provide labor, directly or indirectly, for private efforts, detention in private facilities that can have work requirements, or "temporary passes" that give the employer control of status. [0]
[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administr...
The bottleneck for AI on the phones is more hardware/compute, which due to the development lifecycle always lags a bit and the 2 years since the LLM boom tracks for changes that would need to be met to match the moment (e.g. iPhones shipping with more RAM for Apple Intelligence).
> Young people are increasingly comfortable using voice
I know plenty of folks in their 40s and 50s who have used Siri as their primary way to search the internet for years.
Why wouldn't they?
Apple isn't dominant in the market worldwide (Android is), and they are competing against Android. Apple often implements things Android did first. That's how competition works.
Apple's global marketshare is 30% or just under.
And, for a lot of things, it's quite sufficient.
I used Munin a lot as well in the 2005-2010 timeframe. Still do as a backup (for when Prometheus, Grafana, and Influxdb conspire against me) on my home lab.
Usually the 15 minute collection interval is just fine. One time though I had an issue with servers that were just fine and, then, crashed and rebooted with no useful metrics collected between the last "I'm fine" and the first "I'm fine again".
At that point we started collecting metrics (for only those servers) every 5 seconds, and we figured out someone introduced a nasty bug that took a couple weeks of uptime to run out of its own memory and crash everything. It was a fun couple days.
Hell yeah. I typed in my first C program, a terminal emulator, from a 1984 issue of Byte magazine. It was painful seeing how 5 lines of real logic were intertwined with 45 lines of error handling logic that, in the end, did what exceptions did for free -- it was a formative experience for me as a programmer and when I saw exceptions in Java in 1995 (still in beta) they made me so happy.
In the async case you can pass the Exception as an object as opposed to throwing it but you're still left with the issue that the failure of one "task" in an asynchronous program can cause the failure of a supertask which is comprised of other tasks and handling that involves some thinking. That's chess whereas the stuff talked about in that article is Tic-Tac-Toe in comparison.
> to the complex camera eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods.
Which evolved completely independently, BTW.
This isn't really about the validity or utility of BitCoin.
It's about the financial wisdom of:
1. Buy some BitCoin.
2. Valuate that BitCoin as an asset at well over 100% in value,
because the market lets you.
3. Issue stock against your supposed new valuation.
4. GOTO 1
It doesn't matter if BitCoin is the future, this is still going to end in tears.
It wouldn't matter what the asset is or how valuable or useful it is... if the market is bonkers enough to value something $YOU buy at 200% of what you paid, simply because $YOU bought it (it's not like the actually become any more valuable when purchased by this company, it's not like an acquisition where there could be synergy of some kind), and then you repeatedly turn that overvaluation into leverage to buy more, the scheme will eventually collapse when the market returns to even a sane 100% valuation.
The only thing relevant about BitCoin is that it's on the short list of assets that a good chunk of buyers is willing to valuate at well over 100% just because someone bought it. A number of people are getting in on this game now too and that's going to further dilute this play.
> There’s been a lot of news in the past couple years about LLMs but has there been any breakthroughs making headlines anywhere else in AI?
Yeah, lots of stuff tied to robotics, for instance; this overlaps with vision, but the advances go beyond vision.
Audio has seen quite a bit. And I imagine there is stuff happening in niche areas that just aren't as publicly interesting as language, vision/imagery, audio, and robotics.
People are insufferable, especially when they're contesting the same shared space over different ways of use. There' no point in hating dogs - or bicycles - they're not the problem, being inconsiderate is.
(That's for both sides, though there is a certain asymmetry in those cases. For example, my 4yo kid isn't going to kill an adult cyclist speeding down the narrow path in the park leading directly to the kindergarten, because they're in a hurry or it's some stupid "bicycle May" thing and they're scoring silly points, or something. The reverse however, is very much likely.)
Personally I'm more of a fan of minidisc. You can get minidisc players for $100 or so on Ebay and they occasionally show up at the local reuse center for less than that and my experience is that 100% of the minidisc players I've picked up worked (had one fail in six months though...), in contrast to about a 40% success rate with cassette decks. You can buy minidiscs in bulk from Japan for about $1.50 each, which is cheaper than Type 2 tapes. Portable minidisc players are available and can be plugged into your computer via USB to record music with names for the tracks.
My reuse center got two DAT decks, one of which looked terribly trashed, for $200 a piece. Nein Danke!
That’s a criticism of direct democracy, not republics; it’s been a known failure mode (and base case) for millennia.
The novel elements are social media and AI. I am increasingly convinced that ad-funded social media should be banned and/or tightly regulated like utilities are.
What this article highlights for me is the unintended consequence of filling our space with electromagnetic waves. As someone who got hooked by the software defined radio (SDR) bug I was amazed with all the "stuff" that is going on between 70kHz and 6GHz[1]. And curious people thing "Hmm, what else can I do with this resource?" and the whole "seeing through walls" thing and using WiFi hotspots to geolocate in urban areas Etc have been falling out of that abundance of signals in the air.
Cell towers are interesting because they are strong emitters on well defined frequencies and are generally directional in their emissions[1]. Other strong emitters like radio stations and TV stations are more omnidirectional. Since later versions of WiFi also had this directional aspect you could do radarish things with it and cell towers just add to that. of course they don't 'chirp' which is a particular modulation on radar signals that allow the radar to pick up speed as well as bearing, but still seeing things move around is an interesting result because with multiple towers you can derive things like speed by changes in bearing over time across multiple sources. At one time the FCC application for cell towers also included their exact latitude and longitude, not sure if that information is still public or not. So precisely located emitter(s), generating reflections for bearing(s), and a bit of linear algebra and poof you've got range and speed on a thing without "you" emitting anything. I find that pretty neat.
[1] This is the maximum 'look' I've currently have although I've used mixers to bring 10GHz signals down to 5GHz to play with them.
[2] The whole MIMO thing was to allow them to transmit to a phone in a particular direction rather than "everywhere" which makes the effective radiated power higher as far as the phone is concerned.
I'm not sure about the largest claim.
A sitting Senator, Rick Scott, oversaw a larger defrauding of Medicare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
> The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.
You don’t have to ban it everywhere, just enough jurisdictions to where minimum remaining demand falls below what is commercially viable to sustain a business building combustion powered implements.
Your observation is interesting. Your interrogation of Grok is not. Grok isn’t a person, it’s a model. I could ask my instantiation of Grok about your inquiry and it would be clueless; that doesn’t mean you are making your interaction up, it means the models are running separately.
There all sorts of things I don’t do but I could say I could do.
The nature of X is that it supports all kinds of breathless overthinking and overreaction. Just turn it off.
In the 1970s it was all the rage that there were patents on 200 mpg carburetors, but the oil companies bought the patents in order to suppress those carburetors.
I asked my dad about it (career Air Force). He laughed and said that gasoline consumption was a major logistics problem for the military. If there were 100 mpg carburetors, the military was going to use them, and to hell with any patent blockade.
(Note all the problems the Germans had in WW2 when the US severely damaged their oil refineries.)
Passwordless is just not using a string for auth. Maybe that's a passkey (certificate auth), maybe that's a magic link (email), maybe it's a push notification, all that matters is you're not using weak static strings (passwords) to enable auth.
(customer identity and access management is a component of my work)
That's really the only tangible recommendation in the article.
The real problem for universities is this: much of what classical academia claims is important is not all that hard for a LLM. Writing "compare and contrast" student papers, research which consists of digging through existing texts and summarizing, and writing in a formal style are all things LLMs do. Probably better than most undergraduates.
This shakes the philosophical foundations of academia. What are universities for now? Job training? Sorting the winners from the losers? Something else?
An AArch64 code generator for the DMD D Language compiler.
Why do people overthink everything from Apple? Is it a religion? The other mobile OS has a trashcan for a logo and nobody gets excited about it.
You could train reasoning models on 100% synthetic data.
For a second I thought it was the Enso analytics tool I worked with for a short while (as in “migrating away from it”). I’m glad it’s not.
You can almost simplify it to simply observing that PREMATURE optimization is not the same as OPTIMIZATION.
Most people I see who get offended are reacting to the claim that optimization is never useful. But it's pretty easy to knock that claim over.
I don't deny that plenty of people use adjectives very sloppily, and that much writing is improved by just ignoring them, but Knuth is not one of them.
Authoritarian regimes tend to build power precisely that way - making it "feel a little good". They're hurting the people you don't like... at first. It's the whole point of that "first they came for the Jews/commies/unions" poem.
The "feels pretty bad" bit comes much later.
... and if you read to the end they seem to be producing yet another AI summarizer that nobody wants despite Big Tech shoving it down our throats and two or three "Show HN(s)" a day... Which this post should have been.
Hardware companies care about hardware, not software. Simple as that.
You’ve picked one of the better ones, even. It’s only downhill from here.
I find any claim that superintelligence helps with physics to be a hoot.
Dark matter is the most notable contradiction in physics today, where there is a complete mismatch between the physics we see in the lab, in the solar system, and globular clusters and the physics we see at the galactic scale. Contrast that to Newton's unified treatment of gravity on Earth and the Solar System.
There is no lack of darkon candidates or MOND ideas [1] what is lacking is an experiment or observation that can confirm one or the other. Similarly, a 1000x bigger TeraKamiokande or GigaKATRIN could constrain proton decay or put some precision on the neutrino mass but both of these are basically blue-collar problems.
[1] I used to like MOND but the more I've looked at it the more I've adopted the mainstream view of "this dark matter has a galaxy in it" as opposed to "this galaxy has dark matter in it". MOND fever is driven by a revisionist history where dark matter was discovered by Vera Rubin, not Zwicky [2] and that privileges galactic rotation curves (which MOND does great at) over many other kinds of evidence for DM.
[2] ... which I'd love to believe since Rubin did her work at my Uni!
Yeah, if it's not right, it doesn't work.
Does that mean they are reducing work on snaps?
Fearmongering about fluoride is unlikely to stop at the water supply.
RFK has already made moves in this direction: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/fda-and-rfk-jr-aim-to-re...
> The products targeted by the FDA are sometimes recommended for children and teens who are at increased risk of tooth decay or cavities because of low fluoride in their local drinking water. They usually require a prescription from a pediatrician or dentist. Fluoride-based tablets and lozenges are designed to be chewed or swallowed. Companies also sell drops for babies and infants.
And other politicians:
> Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into the marketing of fluoride toothpastes by Colgate-Palmolive and Proctor and Gamble. A press release from his office described the companies’ promotions as “misleading, deceptive and dangerous.”
The only part needed to make an AC condensing unit a heat pump is a reversing valve (which can change coolant flow direction based on thermostat input). The cost for this valve is $100-$300. There is no reason to not make every unit a heat pump by default, considering the minimal cost and that you're amortizing the cost of the system over 10-20 years.
With that said, depending on your latitude and climate, non electric backup heat might be necessary (to your point, a fossil gas furnace). Depends on your home envelope thermal efficiency (how long can it maintain heat without additional input or solely with solar input during the day), electrical utility reliability, etc.
https://www.cars.com/articles/lawmakers-to-jump-start-backup...
> A 2012 Harris poll suggests that the public agress with the mandate despite the technology’s costs. NHTSA says adding a backup camera to a car without an existing display screen will cost around $159 to $203 per vehicle, shrinking to between $58 and $88 for vehicles that already use display screens. The Harris poll found that consumers care more about safety features like backup cameras than they do about multimedia systems.
I'm not sure where you're getting your $3k backup cameras from; the camera is a $30 part, and pretty much every new car has a screen in it already.
Closest you can come today is probably a tree fern. I've got a Dicksonia antarctica in my living room under grow lights. It's a neat plant.
A lot of these ARM boards use custom (read: outdated) kernels and proprietary boot methods, so I'm not really sure how applicable they are to people developing Linux distributions that work everywhere. NixOS, for example, is only supporting UEFI booting on ARM64 going forward. If Redhat has the same policy, then there is only a limited set of arm64 boards available. I researched this recently as I'd like to move my k8s cluster from renting expensive cloud machines to running them on cheap machines at home, and the situation is ... difficult. (I have tested the Orange Pi 5 Max and the Radxa Rock 5B+. Both required me to hack edk2-rk3588, but they do work well now that most rk3588 support is merged in Linux 6.15/6.16-rc1. But, this is an old CPU and is just now getting mainline kernel support, and that is always how arm has felt. It is, however, kind of neat to see a "BIOS" on an ARM board. I hope it catches on.)
Can you share what risks we could take that would move civilization forward in a meaningful way that provides benefits?
> I think something I’ve learned in this process is not to talk as much while it’s going on
No more off-the-cuff HN comments, it seems.
One of the things I would say I saw coming from a long ways away is that a lot of effort was put into detecting the "default" voice of LLMs, but people would eventually figure out how to kick them out of it, since it is after literally just a matter of asking. It took some months but word does seem to be finally getting out, I'm seeing the idea emerge in more and more places.
I gave it the prompt "Suppose you are in a job interview for a front-end web position and someone asks you about how you use the React library and the hardest problem you even had to solve with it. How might you react, along with a somewhat amusing anecdote?"[1] and it did pretty well. I think I'd play with it a bit to see if I can still suppress some of the LLM-isms that came out, but a human could edit them out in real-time with just a bit of practice too... it's not like you can just read it to your interviewer, you will need to Drama Class 101 this up a bit anyhow. It'll be easier to improv a bit over this than a bare Wikipedia list.
In other words, as with the question the article title asks, the question isn't about what happens "when" this starts being possible... the capability has run ahead of all but the most fervent AI user's understanding and it is already here. It's just a matter of the word-of-mouth getting around as to how to prompt the AIs to be less obvious. I also anticipate that in the next couple of years, the AI companies will be getting tired of people complaining about the "default LLM voice" and it'll shift to be something less obvious than it is now. Both remote interviews and college writing are really already destroyed, the news just hasn't gotten around to everybody yet.
(In fact I suspect that "default LLM voice" will eventually become a sort of cultural touchstone of 2024-2026 and be deliberately used in future cultural references to set stories in this time period. It's a transient quality of current-day LLMs, easy to get them out of even today, and I expect future LLMs to have much different "default voices".)
[1]: And in keeping with my own philosophy of "there's not a lot of value of just pasting in LLM responses" if you want to see what comes out you are welcome to play with it yourself. No huge surprises though. It did the job.
Acknowledged on the linked website directly under "Origins of Gridfinity".
While people simultaneously scream for people to have more children. See you at terminally low total fertility rates.
Besides the sibling comment on C23, it does work fine on GCC.
https://godbolt.org/z/qKejzc1Kb
Whereas clang loudly complains,
The hind brian is deeply attuned to physical reality. Religion comes from the forebrain which thinks the human animal can be transcended.
Usual remark regarding the age of bytecode systems and JIT (aka dynamic compilation), predating Java.
Nothing, nothing at all! I retired from Cloudflare in part so that I could just stop (at least for a while).
They could have an EV option. There is a lot of space for batteries considering how compact EV motors are.
Not only them, unfortunely proper liability is yet to become as regular as in other industries.
Side note that WebGL only doesn't have compute, because Google sabotaged the effort, asserting that WebGPU was right around the corner, so there was no need to adopt Intel's work into Chrome.
This was back in 2020,
https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...
Thankfully we are all now writing easy, portable, WebGPU computer shaders, even ShaderToy supports them now. /s
It's an excellent idea to be suspicious of a country that starves 13% of their population because "capitalism".
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
> and a newsfeed replacement for Twitter/Facebook
This is one of the reasons Elon bought Twitter - to have his own megaphone.
This is one of those cultural transitions which is difficult for people on the other side to understand; it belongs to the forgotten era of personal honor. These days one would simply lie on TV, or hire a PR firm to do that for you, and of course put the blame on the lowest individual that can be found. Repeat when more mistakes are made, because low level employees are disposable accountability shields. (See, for example, the UK post office/Fujitsu Horizon scandal)
But it used to be the case that leaders were expected to take responsibility for the culture and systems underneath them, rather than just taking as much of a salary as the business will bear from it.
That is, if a low level employee makes a significant money-handling mistake on this scale, that's a systems failure. There should be checks and testing and a software development culture which makes this kind of error unlikely. This is what was lost with "move fast and break things". After all, it's only other people's money.
(edit: it seems not to have been an actual money-handling error, but a notification error. Still fairly serious in terms of angry customers)
Don't we see something similar with how very smart people seem to be prone to fall for conspiracy theories?
Just like WebAssembly running on Cloudflare, or WebGPU on Bevy, have anything to do with Web browsers.
Yes, it looks definitely nice, and not the usual some C lib with extern "C" blocks.
Those of us that have been long enough around, see this Apple like the one when Steve Jobs was busy at NeXT.
The only difference is that now they are decades away to ever worry about insolvency, yet the lack of direction and management entitlement as being the best, feels quite similar.
It never did, what open source has Open Group ever did?
In the old days Open was about industry standards not source code.
Also a reason why some crates get compiled multiple times, making the compile times even more of a pain, when they happen to be referenced multiple times with different configurations.
There's a lot of money for the few in systematic corruption! This is something that has to be constantly fought against. R have embraced it entirely, but it's also prevalent on the D side especially in machine-politics cities. Which is why everyone's really so upset about the NY Mayor primary. People have gone on record in the papers about being annoyed that the bribes - sorry, donations - they prepaid to Cuomo are now invalid.
Or do it like C in the age of K&R C, and compilers ramping up for C89 compliance, with a little bit of Assembly.
Most stuff people use in C for writing interpreters with optimal performance, isn't ISO C, rather C compiler specific extensions, or inline Assembly.
All things being equal, same rules apply.
I'd still like people to be more rigorous about what the mean by "alignment", since it seems to be some sort of vague "don't be evil" intention and the more important ground truth problem isn't solved (solvable?) for language models.
OK, a hex grid wall is really appealing. Now I just need to find a local printer ..
Or Objective-C,
https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
Or Smalltalk or C++,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
Or even C,
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Structured-Analysis-Edward-You...
Point being, people like to blame Java, while forgetting history of enterprise architecture.
If I have to pour water into my mouth, you can bet it's going all over my shirt. That's not how we drink.
This is the main point of the news:
"The Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle route was used for the record-breaking journey without any modifications. According to Nagl, this shows that infrastructure investments create a solid foundation that lasts for generations. The insights gained will help with future renovations and the development of new high-speed trains.
The ICE test train used was a Velaro Novo test car from Siemens Mobility. Thomas Graetz, Vice President High Speed and Intercity Trains at Siemens, explained that the test runs provided important insights into acoustics, aerodynamics, and handling. The Velaro Novo is set to establish new standards for capacity, economy, and efficiency.
Dr. Hiie-Mai Unger from DB Systemtechnik led the measurements with the special ICE-S test train. This train is equipped with extensive measurement technology and collected data on the interaction between train and track."
https://www.golem.de/news/deutsche-bahn-ice-testzug-erreicht...
Translation via DeepL
I guess something positive to talk about, instead of the usual delays and infrastructure problems.
This meme makes perfect sense in almost all contexts - at least continuous ranges are involved. I salute GP for fitting it for use with a discrete case.
To restore balance to the power asymmetry. Customer agent brute forces against the enterprise to reach a favorable outcome.
In a couple of cases, meals that I thought would be fairly healthy (or at least not terrible) were pretty terrible. There'll be some things that I'll avoid eating more than I had before.
Someone chime in with what they think these might be! Should I be eating less broccoli?
The UK discontinued EV direct subsidy, and the Dolphin is still only £17k. Chinese economics is just built different. I am extremely tempted to try one.
> unless you're eating your lotions
Buddy of mine did research in Milan on common sunscreen ingredients. In a lab, those chemicals didn't tend to cross the dermis.
But put that person in the sun and you find detectable quantities of those chemicals in serum within minutes. Turns out the flushing (i.e. rushing of blood to the skin, in particular, to the surface of the dermis) increases permeability. Nobody really tested those chemicals for intravenous use.
So in a very real sense, you ingest in all but digestion the ingredients in your lotions.
> America seems to be suffering the same fate
Not uniformly. New York's LIRR (90 to 95% [1]) and Metro-North (99% [2]) feature on-time rates that rival the Swiss (93% [3]).
[1] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/report-9-2025.pdf
[2] https://wpdh.com/metro-north-on-time-reliability/
[3] https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&scrol...
Doesn't even have to be a shared system. Cache-dependent optimizations can conflict with other code in your own program that also need cache space. This is a generic problem with extrapolating from microbenchmarks.
The MP3 player I had before that iPod was a much more generic one. I've spent the last few days occasionally checking Wikipedia and other places online to see if I can tell which one it was, and I have absolutely no idea.
Might've been an S1, which arguably was better than Apple's products in many ways, and likely sold a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player
I hate this argument, because all you have to do is look around the world today to see that if we have massively powerful technology that is controlled only by a few that it sure ain't leading to the "think of all the diseases we can cure!" utopia you describe.
We have many, many people around the world die all the time from easily curable and preventable diseases, we just choose not to. This is largely not a technology problem. Just look at PEPFAR, which saved tens of millions of lives from HIV/AIDS. We just decided to stop funding it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Emergency_Plan_f...
The experience has definitely changed, mainly because of how crowded most Apple stores get. While all the devices are still in the open there is no way employees can offer a personalized experience to every shopper and wanderer. You have to now make a reservation for that.
Soft costs are a majority of residential system cost [1], and there are some efforts to cram those costs down. One example is SolarApp [2], an automated permitting platform that directly integrates with local jurisdiction systems to streamline the permitting process (which was incubated at NREL [3]). Another are coop buys [4], where a community will open a registration window, and once a pool of buyers have committed, an RFP is put out of installers to bid to install the entire pool of systems. This drives down sales and marketing costs.
While I am a big fan of standing seam metal roofs for longevity reasons, they cost anywhere between 2x-3x the cost of a premium (architecture shingles vs 3 tab) asphalt shingle roof. This is due to increased labor costs to have the rolled steel cut and formed on site. If you could drive the down the cost (training and similar evangelism efforts sponsored by domestic steel manufacturers perhaps to stoke demand to replace other more volatile demand like auto sales), certainly friction based solar racking mounted to such a roof is superior to something requiring penetrations through the roof material and decking.
Regardless, we should assume most home owners are not going to do these installs themselves on their roofs. When new homes are built, solar installs should be required but in a way that makes the cost competitive vs unreasonable profit capture through whomever is building the home. When roofs are replaced, also an excellent time to have a solar PV system installed. These systems have a lifetime of at least 25 years, so it's important to have the stars align to make the choice as inexpensive and frictionless as possible when its made.
[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/solar-soft-costs-basics
[3] https://www.nrel.gov/news/video/nrels-solarapp-streamlines-s...
[4] https://solarunitedneighbors.org/resources/the-ultimate-sola...
Right. The longer range versions of multistatic radar are used to detect stealth aircraft.[1][2] All that careful stealth geometry to minimize direct reflections doesn't help much when the emitters and receivers are in different locations.
[1] https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/18/737423/guardians-of...
> reason for the cessation in funding is because of recent political changes
The reason is Zuckerberg and Chan have no backbone. These are individuals who command the resources of small nations. Yet their insecurities win out every time, rendering them powerless to take a stand on anything and instead wander to the beats of others’ drums.
> why does it matter where they're fishing if they're selling it worldwide?
Regulation. Chinese boats fish in ways we block our own boats from. Those exports thus represent a regulatory workaround, victim the oceans, and a tool with which buyers can demand reciprocal regulation.
Really hard to over-emphasize just how small Douglas MI is; it's about 1,000 people total. An afternoon's walking distance down the beach from where they shot the ending of Road to Perdition, though.
I don't know how much there is to learn from batty ordinances in tiny rural towns (western Michigan is a special kind of rural; there's some farming, but the biggest industry is hospitality for Chicagoans driving up in the summer).
I think the car industry's nightmare is that the average person thinks that whatever car Consumer Reports thinks is a good car is a good car. There was this discussion today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424136
where HNers who participated mostly drove practical, older and boring cars. (Maybe somebody who drives a BMW didn't say anything because they thought we'd laugh at them)
Kinda funny because I my son just bought our second vintage American car ('79 Ford Thunderbird) but the title is in my name so I can insure it at a reasonable rate.
For some cars you have to know what the engine is because the bottom trim level is awful. Maybe somewhere flat you can get away with the bottom trim level Subaru SUV but you can't around Ithaca.