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Oh, this is neat. Fdb is a pain to work with locally, but is an extremely nice piece of kit.
Drones consume something like 100W to stay in the air (ballpark, of course), so they'd probably never charge if they had to hover.
> We'd almost certainly find some way to kill them if we ever ran across any of them
There is a credible argument that what the literature terms genocidal tendencies—where conflict isn’t resolved when it ends, but when the enemy is destroyed—is a precondition for conquering a world. So if we met space sharks, barring enlightenment, they’d probably seek to destroy us, too.
This is a tangential point (this post is not really about TUIs; sort of the opposite) and I think lots of people know it already but I only figured it out last week and so can't resist sharing it: agents are good at driving tmux, and with tmux as a "browser", can verify TUI layouts.
So you can draw layouts like this and prompt Claude or Gemini with them, and get back working versions, which to me is space alien technology.
This is super cool imho. Check my mental model on this, but with a sufficient lookup table or index, you could cherry pick any file you wanted based on filename, SHA hash, etc from any publicly available container in OCI registries. Almost like a torrent swarm.
This is a thing you can credibly say only if you've never used a popular new non-mainline editor. Sublime Code was "buggy as hell" too; all new editors are. Editors are incredibly difficult to do well. And Zed is doing it on hard mode, cross-platform.
Not surprising given the amount of Webview2 and WinUI/WinRT that Windows 11 happens to contain.
Note that even though WinRT is largely written in C++, and the team brags about performance, due to the amount of COM/WinRT reference counting and the sandboxing model of application identity, it actually runs slower than .NET applications.
Quite ironic, given the Windows team sabotaged on Longhorn.
Attackers hijacking domains to get certificates issued are generally hijacking registrar accounts, which DNSSEC doesn't help with, which is probably one of the many reasons DNSSEC is so rarely deployed.
That seems entirely unviable to me. Have you met… people?
“Trust me, bro!” is something I wish my power company would do, but they installed a meter instead.
Far-UVC and Eye Safety: Findings from a 36-Month Study - https://uvmedico.com/news/far-uvc-and-eye-safety - January 16th, 2025
> Far-UVC is a type of ultraviolet light emitted at a 222 nm wavelength that effectively deactivates microorganisms. Unlike traditional UVC light at 254 nm, Far-UVC doesn’t penetrate the outer dead layer of skin or the outer layer of the cornea, making it safe for use around people while maintaining powerful germicidal properties.
> The 222 nm wavelength is unique in its ability to decontaminate without causing harm when used within regulatory limits. Unlike longer UV wavelengths, it interacts only with the outermost layers of the skin and eyes, which naturally renew themselves. This makes it ideal for continuous decontamination in occupied spaces, as confirmed by the 36-month clinical study showing no adverse effects even after daily exposure.
References:
https://www.faruvc.org/ (disclosure: this is published by the same author as this post)
Sugihara K, Kaidzu S, Sasaki M, Ichioka S, Sano I, Hara K, Tanito M. Ocular safety of 222-nm far-ultraviolet-c full-room germicidal irradiation: A 36-month clinical observation. Photochem Photobiol. 2024 Dec 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/php.14052 Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39659140. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/php.14052
Sugihara K, Kaidzu S, Sasaki M, Tanito M. Interventional human ocular safety experiments for 222-nm far-ultraviolet-C lamp irradiation. Photochem Photobiol. 2024 Aug 19. https://doi.org/10.1111/php.14016 Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39161063. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/php.14016
Buonanno M, Hashmi R, Petersen CE, Tang Z, Welch D, Shuryak I, Brenner DJ. Wavelength-dependent DNA damage induced by single wavelengths of UV-C radiation (215 to 255 nm) in a human cornea model. Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 2;15(1):252. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84196-4 PMID: 39747969; PMCID: PMC11696903. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84196-4
I'm pretty sure hibernate has defaulted to off for quite a while and has to be turned on if desired (at least, the last several machines I've bought new that was the case.)
The UI switch is not particularly obvious, at Control Panel → Hardware and Sound → Power Options → System Settings
Click through to the GitHub link at the bottom, which has the README. It explains everything.
Related:
Urban World: Meeting the Demographic Challenge [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513422 - January 2026
Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) - https://www.lawrencelek.com/works/sinofuturism - 2016
Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD) [video] - https://vimeo.com/179509486 - 2016
There really isn't a good way to put a note to those prompts in a headline (putting "I vibecoded this" would just get it flagged). I'll likely do a blog post discussing the prompt process at some point.
If you want to see a speedrun, I made the same thing around a month ago:
Since it is paid, how is he going with hardware accelerated video decoding on YouTube, Netflix or Amazon Prime?
Which I never got to work properly on the laptop/netbook I owned until 2024.
From an American perspective, it’s not the “rhetoric,” it’s just “noticing.” My mom is an immigrant who was not brought up here to absorb the rhetoric. But when she went to Canada and Australia to visit family, she came back ranting about how poor everyone was and how small the houses were. (I take it you have fewer suburban McMansions and giant SUVs.) It’s hard not to notice our GDP per capita is 50% higher than yours. It’s big enough now where we notice it just going up there to visit family.
And you can say what you want about safety nets for poor people, but that doesn’t affect most Americans. My parents are on Medicare and they head down to the ER every time have a stomach ache and get a CAT scan. Meanwhile my family is convinced that Canadian healthcare nearly killed my aunt when she had a kidney issue because they didn’t immediately schedule her for a million tests and surgery. (I suspect that isn’t true and the Canadian system reasonably triaged the care.)
And to be clear, I like Canada (and I love Denmark). I’d rather have a more orderly society with an efficient and expansive government that’s focused on comprehensive outcomes across the population, in contrast to our system where you have McMansions but randomly you can fall through a giant crack. But Americans temperamentally are biased towards upside potential and they devalue downside risk. This is a cultural trait that seems very quickly absorbed even by immigrants. My immigrant family isn’t meaningfully American in many respects—they don’t have Anglo sensibilities about things like civic institutions and personal freedoms—but they’re indistinguishable from other americans in their materialistic optimism
It's been like that for 15 years or more.
The fact that you now need an account for almost any piece of hardware, including computers, phones etc is a major drawback that arrived with the internet era. Linux has been able to avoid that temptation.
Here's the key idea:
> Creating any one single behavior in a computer system is almost always trivial for the experienced engineer. When the experienced engineer on your team says that something can’t be done easily, they almost always mean is that the thing can’t be done easily in a way that is acceptable to the health of the product. Junior engineers tend not to have to consider this constraint.
I completely agree. One of the things that makes a senior engineer senior is the ability to design and implementing code with the health of the overall system in mind.
This is really hard, especially since you simultaneously have to resist the temptation to build abstractions for a future that may not come to pass - sticking to the YAGNI principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
If you think you'll ever want to use third-party tools to process that markup, or if some of your private files will transform into public files at some point, then yes, considering popularity makes a lot of sense.
If they're just text files you edit raw that will never interact with anything else but your text editor, then of course popularity doesn't matter at all. But in my experience, my use cases tend to expand over time.
The article even talks about org mode's interoperability, mainly about the fact that pandoc supports it. And then bizarrely ignores the fact that it has much less ecosystem support than Markdown. So this is very much a subject the article itself brings up, and something that therefore also deserves to be critiqued.
Same in Portuguese, veneno.
Although there are plenty of other opportunities for pedantry, especially when we take regionalisms, and other Portuguese speaking countries into account.
>NASA has said it will announce a target return date in the coming days.
Sure. Development at Google is glacially slow because nobody does any work, and so they're only publishing releases bi-annually because there aren't enough substantive changes to make quarterly releases seem important. This will also allow the teams to move to biannual OKRs instead of quarterly, which lets ICs and line managers do half as much work while giving executives justification for why they need twice as much headcount.
When it comes to large bureaucracies, always assume laziness over malice or strategic competence.
The problem is that final decisions tend to be made in the last 30 seconds of a meeting. If you're a manager with a stake in the outcome, you can't leave the meeting until you've ensured that the outcome works for you. Leaving 5 min early is often simply not an option. While arriving 5 minutes late is. It's not an ego thing -- it's the fact that meeting leaders often let meetings run long.
> Apple's weather app still isn't as precise or accurate
Is it not? The rainfall-per-minute over the next hour on iOS seems about the same accuracy as Dark Sky had -- I used Dark Sky for years. It wasn't perfect but it worked well enough, same as iOS did after. You can even scrub the precipitation map predictions and they look the same to me.
I know the Dark Sky prediction accuracy was greatly dependent on where you lived -- this is something that was widely discussed back in the day. If you've seen a drop in accuracy, did you simply move?
Europeans have compromised “democracy” in an effort to protect “liberal.” And that will unravel the whole thing.
See also:
Polaroid
Pebble
Palm
Oldsmobile
Tower Records
Borders
Pan Am
You have the most interesting job!
Thank you, I've used your work quite a number of times now.
OK this is cool:
uvx deno --version
The wheel comes in five flavors: https://pypi.org/project/deno/#files - Windows x86, manylinux x86 and ARM64, macOS x86 and ARM64.
That's a lot of machines that can now get a working Deno directly from PyPI.
> AI coders keep saying they review all the code they push
Those tides have shifted over the past 6 weeks. I'm increasingly seeing serious, experienced engineers who are using AI to write code and are not reviewing every line of code that they push, because they've developed a level of trust in the output of Opus 4.5 that line-by-line reviews no longer feel necessary.
(I'm hesitant to admit it but I'm starting to join their ranks.)
Here in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A., I NEVER see people out and about wearing masks (perhaps 1% of people overall at most; very rare) using anything but the cloth/surgical masks seen in operating rooms. Same with sporting events on TV: the rare person in the crowd wearing a mask always has a surgical-type mask.
That's hilarious. The German version (VW Caddy) is similar. Citroen at some point had a van version of the 2CV and the Diane, this is the continuation of that tradition.
Deliverability. If you run your own mail server you’ll find your mail’s won’t go through to many people.
The flip side of that is that spam can eat you alive.
He could start a mastodon instance tomorrow and within a couple of weeks it would be one of the larger ones.
I love Signal, but this is one thing I wish it did better. It's much easier to write Markdown than long-press and format.
Every attempt since OpenMoko proves the market doesn't care.
And in what concerns the mainstream desktop/laptop market, macOS Linux VMs, WSL, ChromeOS, versus GNU/Linux OEM devices, proves most people doesn't care either what they can get at regular computer stores, otherwise GNU/Linux configurations would not be online only at very specific shops.
More MAGA kids will die off. Probably not the intent.
What if instead of a license most won’t respect, you include a poison pill in the repo or other code storage to poison the model?
Sodium-ion battery cost projections and their impact on the global energy system transition until 2050 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X2... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.119861
I could go either way on prediction markets but I don't think the dilemma here is all that complicated. I think most people interacting with them are just valorizing gambling, and want a Nevada Gaming Commission to step in and make sure that the games are fair. They're not supposed to be fair! They're supposed to predict! It's in the name!
This accurately mirrors my experience. It never - so far - has happened that the AI brought any novel insight at the level that I would see as an original idea. Presumably the case of TFA is different but the normal interaction is that that the solution to whatever you are trying to solve is a millimeter away from your understanding and the AI won't bridge that gap until you do it yourself and then it will usually prove to you that was obvious. If it was so obvious then it probably should have made the suggestion...
Recent case:
I have a bar with a number of weights supported on either end:
|---+-+-//-+-+---|
What order and/or arrangement or of removing the weights would cause the least shift in center-of-mass? There is a non-obvious trick that you can pull here to reduce the shift considerably and I was curious if the AI would spot it or not but even after lots of prompting it just circled around the obvious solutions rather than to make a leap outside of that box and come up with a solution that is better in every case.
I wonder what the cause of that kind of blindness is.
The federal government will lose in court, and we’ll continue on.
> light rail in Austin is a complete failure
Light rail is stupid. It’s a bus that can’t change lanes. A train that gets stuck in traffic.
And, as you said, they visibly disrupt drivers which generates class animosity.
The Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago).
One of the big classics. It once contained exhibits from major manufacturers. US Steel, General Electric, RCA. AT&T, IBM, Whirlpool, International Harvester, the Santa Fe Railroad... Most of the corporate sponsorship is gone, it's more "educational", and it costs $30 instead of being free.
Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago).
This was once impressive, and now it's closed with the artifacts in storage. It had much early TV studio equipment. Their nostalgia exhibit, pre-Internet, was that they had a huge library of TV shows on VHS tapes, and you could request that one be played for you.
Commuting and residential patterns changed too. A lot of Googlers purchased houses in the Tri-valley during COVID instead of living in apartments in Mountain View or Sunnyvale or SF. Now they have a Dumbarton or 237 commute instead of something Caltrain-accessible. Tech companies also started laying off in 2022, and stopped hiring in the Bay Area; I'd bet that total employment along the Caltrain corridor is significantly lower than in 2019.
The Bay Area also needs way better last-mile transportation. I looked into taking Caltrain to work; it'd take 22 minutes to Caltrain the ~15 miles to the nearest Caltrain station, and then another 22 minutes to shuttle the 2.5 miles to work.
> On the flip side, I find it shocking that ridership is still only 60% of pre-pandemic levels.
It makes a lot of sense. Many companies went full remote during the pandemic and stayed that way, or if they went in person, it's only 60% of the time or less. And a lot of people left the area during the pandemic, and those that are returning are coming back to SF, not the suburbs.
I used to take the train every day for years, but I've only been on it once or twice since the pandemic.
To put it in startup terms, the TAM for ridership shrank considerably. They may very well be capturing a greater amount of the TAM than before the pandemic.
> It's the biggest problem facing HN, in my opinion.
Surprisingly the latest increase in polarization around generative AI has impacted Hacker News the least our of all tech social spaces.
> Aristotle integrates three main components (...)
The second one being backed by a model.
> It is far more than an LLM
It's an LLM with a bunch of tools around it, and a slightly different runtime that ChatGPT. It's "only" that, but people - even here, of all places - keep underestimating just how much power there is in that.
> math != "language".
How so?
There's a second layer to the conflict here, in that (e.g.) the banks will want to move the entire flow into whatever secure device, enclave, or "agent" they supply - meanwhile, the whole point of me having a general-purpose computer is to be able to do general-purpose computing that I want within this flow.
My favorite, basic example is this: I'd like to create my own basic widget showing me my account balance on my phone's home screen. Doesn't have to be real-time, but accurate to +/- few minutes to what the bank app would say when I opened it. It has to be completely non-interactive - no me clicking to confirm, no reauthorizing every query or every couple hours. Just a simple piece of text, showing one number.
As far as I know it, there's no way of making it happen without breaking sandboxing or otherwise hacking the app and/or API endpoints in a way that's likely to break, and likely to get you in trouble with the bank.
It should not be that way. This is a basic piece of information I'm entitled to - one that I can get, but the banks decided I need to do it interactively, which severely limits the utility.
This is my litmus test. Until that can be done easily, I see the other side (banks, in cooperation with platform vendors) overreaching and controlling more than they should.
The point of the exercise isn't to just see the number occasionally; I can (begrudgingly) do that from the app. The difference here is that having the number means I can use it downstream. Instead of a widget on the phone screen, I could have it shown on a LED panel in my home office or kitchen[0], or Home Assistant dashboard. Or I could have a cron job automatically feeding it to my budgeting spreadsheet every 6 hours. Or I could have an LLM[1] remind me I've spent too much this week, or automatically order a pizza on Saturday evening but only if I'm not below a certain threshold. Or...
Endless realistic, highly individual applications, of a single basic number. The whole point of general-purpose computing empowering individuals. If only I could get that single number out.
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[0] - Why would I want that is besides the point.
[1] - E.g. via Home Assistant.
You could use both. Photogrammetry requires you to have a lot of additional information, and/or to make a lot of assumptions (e.g. about camera, specific lens properties, medium properties, material composition and properties, etc. - and what are reasonable range for values in context), if you want it to work well for general cases, as otherwise the problem you're solving is underspecified. In practice, even enumerating those assumptions is a huge task, much less defending them. That's why photogrammetry applications tend to be used for solving very specific problems in select domains.
ML models, on the other hand, are in a big way, intuitive assumption machines. Through training, they learn what's likely and what's not, given both the input measurements and the state of the world. They bake in knowledge for what kind of cameras exist, what kind of measurements are being made, what results make sense in the real world.
In the past I'd say that for best results, we should combine the two approaches - have AI supply assumptions and estimates for otherwise explicitly formal, photogrammetric approach. Today, I'm no longer convinced it's the case - because relative to the fuzzy world modeling part, the actual math seems trivial and well within capabilities of ML models to do correctly. The last few years demonstrated that ML models are capable of internally modeling calculations and executing them, so I now feel it's more likely that a sufficiently trained model will just do photogrammetry calculations internally. See also: the Bitter Lesson.
White House announces denaturalization of Italians, says it never liked opera anyway
Streaks - a Snapchat feature considered by some as highly addictive – require two people to send a "snap" – a photo or video – to each other every day in order to maintain their "streak" which can last for days, months, even years.
It's interesting how much of social media's business model basically depends on forcible intermediation of personal relationships. Like, two friends might come up with the idea of a streak, or some competitive game or running joke. But as soon as the platform operator establishes this as a 'feature', they'are abrogating authority to themselves to decide how these personal interactions should be conducted, and it's clearly not for the benefit of the people involved.
I'm really excited about https://sprites.dev/ - it hits two of my favourite problems at once:
1. Developer environment sandboxes. This is a cheap and convenient way to run Claude Code / Codex CLI / etc in YOLO mode in a persistent sandboxed VM with a restricted blast radius if something goes wrong.
2. Sandbox API. Fly now have a product that lets me make a simple JSON API call to run untrusted code in a new sandbox. There's even snapshotting support so I can roll back to a known state after running that code.
I wrote more a bunch more about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/sprites-dev/
Here's the announcement on the Fly blog: https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/ - and the Hacker News thread for that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825
I wrote about this because it hits two of my current obsessions at once - developer environment sandboxes (for safely running Claude Code etc in YOLO mode) and APIs for executing untrusted code.
They’ll end up selling it to a German automaker who isn’t anti union. Tesla sales in Europe are mostly over and unlikely to recover, for obvious reasons. Musk did the Germans a favor, built a whole factory for them to buy at distressed pricing.
> violence and war are much more endemic to the modern (past 10000 years) era.
Given the scantiness of any evidence 10,000+ years ago, I doubt such conclusions can be drawn.
This has been in the works for quite awhile here. We put a long bet on "slow create fast start/stop" --- which is a really interesting and useful shape for execution environments --- but it didn't make sense to sandboxers, so "fast create" has been the White Whale at Fly.io for over a year.
That's not how security fairness works! You have to be good from day one.
> Trump will pardon them of all federal crimes. If they are charged by the state, they will use jurisdiction removal and/or supremacy clause to squash it from jeopardy in the state court.
Removal doesn't change the substantive law applied, only the venue of the trial. Supremacy Clause immunity will be litigated, of course.
> Even in the unlikely event both of those fall through, it will take years to wind through that process, and by the time that happens the case will be so cold prosecution cannot follow through (see prosecution of Lon Horiuchi).
The majority of the delay in the Horiuchi case was the 5 year gap between the events and state charges being filed. If state charges are filed in this case, I don’t see much likelihood there will be that kind of delay first.
> Motivation is fleeting but routine persists.
Ahnold Schwarzenegger said that the gains in an exercise program happen when you really don't want to do it, but do it anyway.
Markdown vs HTML is a fine illustration of what humans consider to be natural and intuitive is anything but to a computer.
> you’re saying your legal department doesn’t have capacity to handle licensing concerns
My read is their legal department isn’t fleshed out enough to defend the work when e.g. a tech giant steals it.
I couldn't figure out where to go from the homepage. Eventually I spotted the grey-on-black GitHub link but that took me to an organization page, not a repository.
Here's the repo for anyone else who didn't find it: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux
Key detail from the README to help understand what's going on:
Now text +16286298650 from your phone to interact with your agent!
... but that means your agent needs to stay connected and running on a server somewhere. That's what this command does:
flux run --prod
Based on https://github.com/photon-hq/imessage-kit my best guess is that Photon achieved this by running a Mac server somewhere that scripts iMessage via AppleScript against their own Apple ID account that owns that +16286298650 number.
Question for danielsdk: does your paid enterprise plan involve you running a Mac that's signed into a separate iCloud account that's assigned the phone number that your paying customer wants to use?
What's preventing browsers from rendering a common subset of markdown without the need for browser extensions, with fallback to the current default of plaintext if parsing fails? LLM output can be copy-pasted for rendering by chat messengers and notetaking apps (e.g. DevonThink). If LLM markdown output continues to proliferate, does it become the defacto common-by-volume subset of Markdown, which browsers could standardize and render?
I enjoyed "a curmudgeonly guy with a kind heart who right this minute is probably rewatching a Kubrick film while cheering for an absolutely indefensible sports team".
This is factually inaccurate based on all of the evidence that has been presented.
In context of approximately everyone's education, the history goes like this: in the past people believe there's something in empty space, and used the name "ether" for that. You learn that, then you learn that MM showed there's no "something", no "ether", but that empty space is, in fact, empty, which is what "vacuum" means. And then if you pay attention or any interest to the topic, you learn that there in fact is no pure vacuum, there's always "something" in empty space.
The obvious question to ask at this point is, "so ether is back on the table?".
Turns out the mistake is, as GP said, thinking MM proved space is empty; it only disproved a particular class of substances with particular properties. But that's not how they tell you about it in school.
"flagged" generally means flagged by users, which is an option with enough Karma on Hacker News. Such posts will have a [flagged] tag and will not appear on the front page normally.
In this /active page, there are two posts pertaining to politics (without a direct tech angle) as user-flagged, as the Guidelines state that is off-topic.
What are the dangers that can't be dealt with server-side?
Fortunately for it, that city is mounted on some antigrav sled and moves around to always stay ahead of the launch vehicle, safe from my totally not intentional attempts at crashing into it.
Completely unrelated bug: pitch control can go down only to -5 degrees.
One of the counterintuitive aspects of the LLM boom is that agentic coding allows for more weird/unique projects that spark joy with less risk due to the increased efficiency. Nowadays, anything that's weird is considered AI slop and that's not even limited to software development.
No, "LLMs can only output what's in their training data" hasn't been true for awhile.
That overstates things somewhat.
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llglrd/2019...
> To some extent, judges are subordinated to a cabinet minister, and in most instances this is a minister of justice of either the federation or of one of the states. In Germany, the administration of justice, including the personnel matters of judges, is viewed as a function of the executive branch of government, even though it is carried out at the court level by the president of a court, and for the lower courts, there is an intermediate level of supervision through the president of a higher court. Ultimately, a cabinet minister is the top of this administrative structure. The supervision of judges includes appointment, promotion and discipline. Despite this involvement of the executive branch in the administration of justice, it appears that the independence of the German judiciary in making decisions from the bench is guaranteed through constitutional principles, statutory remedies, and institutional traditions that have been observed in the past fifty years. At times, however, the tensions inherent in this organizational framework become noticeable and allegations of undue executive influence are made.
Don't leave Salesforce out.
In general, people don't read/respond to threads on Hacker News a day or two after it was posted. Even if there is some external attention on it.
I'd argue that depression kills and optimal therapy is: anti-depressants, exercise AND talking therapy and the time to start is NOW.
I wouldn't knock the effectiveness of any of them with the caveats that: (1) you can get anti-depressants from you primary care doc, the best practice is to start on something, ramp up your dose and try something different if it is not working or you don't like the sides. I really thought Vanlafaxine was a comfortable ride but it raised my blood pressure to the "go to the ER" range. Call on the phone and lean in about adjusting your meds. (2) Getting an appointment for talk therapy can take a while these days. (3) In a hard case you can get a more complex medication cocktail from a psychiatrist but the wait could be worse than the talk therapy. (4) People in the military do insane amounts of cardio because it helps dealing with insane amounts of stress. 2 hours a day of cardio helped me deal with a business development process that went on for years before ultimately failing.
Might can defend, or violate, rights, but it does not make them.
You could potentially pump the heat into the ground to use as a seasonal energy store, or otherwise switch to air cooling when you're not in district heating mode. Perhaps sell the heat energy as ConEd sells steam service in NYC [1] (serving 3M people).
The real story is a little less dramatic - it got stuck, and that meant it was exposed to the radiation for much longer than planned.
If you're not a US citizen, you're fair game, this administration and the federal agencies in question do not respect temporary protected status.
(and even in the case of being a citizen, denaturalization is being threatened, even though illegal)
Dems have been pointing this out for years, yes.
You didn't want to listen, though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32051452
Apparently visa overstays are the primary route for illegal immigration, much more common than illegal border crossing: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecu...
The second accident here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents
was an example of where that "empowerment" went wrong. It is usual for workers in Japanese factories to make continuous improvements in process for quality and cost and it is usually a good thing... but criticality accidents involve invisible dangers and "following procedures strictly" in that kind of work saves lives.
Notably Japan has been the world leader in nuclear accidents since the 1980s and some of that is that they kept working on things like fast reactors after many other countries quit and others that are cultural. For instance at American BWR reactors it is routine to test the isolation condenser whenever the reactor is shut down so everybody knew what it sounded like (LOUD!) when it worked but when somebody at Fukushima was asked if it was working they saw a little steam coming out the ports but had never seen it work before and didn't know what to expect.
Myself I am not a big fan of the NBA. I love college games at my Uni which is not the best basketball school but I get $8 tickets as a staff and just enjoy the whole vibe including the band, cheerleaders, two dance teams, audience participation, etc. I'm sure I could find better quality play somewhere else but as entertainment I couldn't ask for more.
That's actually really neat. It suggested regclient/regclient as a repository I'd like. I looked and, yup, I had no idea that existed and it is a sort of thing I like.
People complain about The Algorithm but it can be useful...
More accurate: “After free demo proves demand (in the worst possible way), Grok makes image generation and editing a paid-only feature”.
Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.
Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
Are you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
I had the "LEGO Control Center" when I was a teenager - turns out that was released in 1990! And it was amazing:
http://www.technicopedia.com/8094.html
You could build a 2D pen plotter with it (and a few other great models) and program in a sequence of motor movements!
It was the forerunner to LEGO Mindstorms.
Oh, even worse than I thought.
Isn't this a question the US faces every day by having California and Iowa in the same union?
If you want to try Opus you can get the lowest Claude plan for $20 for the month, which has enough tokens for most hobby projects. I've been using to vibe code some little utilities for myself and haven't hit the limits yet.
Yes. That should be done along hiking and biking trails under power lines. There's one in Silicon Valley along the bay shore line. The fluorescent tubes don't wear out; the filaments at the end are not in use. Just slip them inside polycarbonate tubes.