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Some of the chips I use in my design that are not custom are in that price range, so to me that looks extremely affordable.
300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure).
I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.
> put together a system on my own. It's reliable and doesn't phone home to some company somewhere
Any component recommendations for DIY home security systems, e.g.
- OSS Frigate NVR + hardware NPU/AI accelerator
- Zigbee or wired motion sensors?
- Reolink PoE cameras
- x86 mini PC or Arm SBC?There was a recent Show HN [0] on this for Android, showcasing DoNotNotify [1] -
My first thought was atmospheric effects, i.e. along the lines of "The radio only works at night": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station
Also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation
I must say, the AI-generated "stock image" doesn't add that much to the article and could be done without, especially when its alt-text contains the prompt.
In the early 2010s, especially as smartphones began to appear everywhere, I noticed that, along with the desktop, we now had another perpetual Disturber of Peace. One of the worst things turned out to be Notifications, something not under your control, that derails your chain of thoughts/works/routine. Ever since, I had kept every notification disabled by default.
The world is becoming increasingly low-trust; hence, the default is no longer to “allow,” but to filter through a “whitelist.”
Disable all Notifications by Default.[1] This is best done at the time of app installation. When asked to “Allow Notifications,” disable it right then and there. Of course, depending on your occupation and needs, a few critical notifications should be kept ON. This will be less than 10% of your app. More than 90% of the apps on your device have no reason to notify you of anything.
And here is a weird but interesting thing - disable battery percentages everywhere. Personally, not on the phone and neither on the Laptop; if it dies, it dies.
A simple passive notification that can keep you on your toes and stress you out the most - phone battery percentage indicator. We have become so obsessed with ‘juicing up’ our phones that our levels of happiness and relaxation decrease exponentially as the battery percentage drops.
Even in 2026, I hear people’s phones make a sound when a message/email arrives. If I follow that, my phone will sing all day long.
“Never be so dependent on technology that a notification is the only thing that brings you hope.”
Personally, I have a different take on birthdays and have conflicting views. So, I’m sorry about that.
1. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Here's a simple question. When you said:
They were clearly suggesting that there exists a publicly available tool to attack this algorithm.
What were you referring to? If it was Hashcat, then I have just one more question:
Is Hashcat a publicly available tool that attacks AES?
What? Technology has stopped making sense to me. Drawing a UI with React and rasterizing it to ANSI? Are we competing to see what the least appropriate use of React is? Are they really using React to draw a few boxes of text on screen?
I'm just flabbergasted.
Bambu is great hardware but the software (and the firmware) is just terrible.
A quick fun thing you can do in response to that first graf is to ask Claude or GPT5 to quiz you.
I got:
* The report was written yesterday.
* The committee approved the proposal.
* The door was open when I arrived.
* The window was broken during the storm.
* The window was broken when we bought the house.
* Mistakes were made.
* The system is designed to fail safely.
* The results are surprising.
* The patient was examined and released.
* The data suggests the model was trained improperly.
* There were several errors identified in the report.
* The system appears to have been compromised.
I got two of them wrong, though I think "partially passive" is a total cop-out.
For GHz signals water is a pretty good dampening material, I can tell on some links whether it is foggy!
What's interesting is that that has gone from an interesting paradox to something where we now have a multitude of very plausible answers in a very short time.
I dunno if DSL-based ISPs were going to last in the US. I mean, in a big country the range limits of DSL make it hard to compete with cable. I get 20Mbps at my location with fiber-to-the-node, but people a few miles down the road get 10x that speed with Time Warner cable for the same price. In some place like the Netherlands or South Korea it might be different, but not here.
All of the things above were driven by porn, that can be proven. The AI stuff in the generic sense is not but you can bet that someone somewhere right now is working on improving photo realism of hair, eyes and skintone and they're not doing that to be able to make the next installment of little red riding hood.
> I agree. The dog smashed the window, hot–wired the ignition, > released the parking brake, shifted to drive, and turned the > wheel towards the opposite side of the road where a mother was > pushing a stroller, killing the baby. I know, crazy right, but > I swear I'm not lying, the neighbor caught it on camera.
> Who's liable?
You are. It's still your dog. If you would replace dog with child the case would be identical (but more plausible). This is really not as interesting as you think it is. The fact that you have a sentient dog is going to be laughed out of court and your neighbor will be in the docket together with you for attempting to mislead the court with your AI generated footage. See, two can play at that.
When you make such ridiculously contrived examples turnaround is fair play.
Np, I'll make more effort to stand out ;)
No, the claim is that if a CEO would make the decision not to pursue a particular revenue stream that the company would be sued. This is bullshit.
Is that accurate? Being charged with a crime but then having charges subsequently dropped shouldn't show up in a background check. Plus, given their line of work, I think in their profession it would basically be a badge of honor.
Depends on the court and the order. Fairly commonly (as occurred in the case where this list was enumerated after compliance with the preceding order was acheived by threat of sanctions), the first consequence of violating an order will be a renewed order with with a threat of sanctions (e.g., a show cause hearing as to why you should not be punished if you fail to compmy by a certain time), with potentially compensation sought by the opposing party for any costs accrued because of your noncompliance, but no punitive sanctions if you comply timely after the second order on the matter, though the nature of the order, the significant of noncompliance on the process of the case, the judge, the opposing party (while they don't order sanctions, they can request them and make a case), and other factors effect this—one of those factors being whether the judge believes that you are a serial offender who has been put on notice about the same kind of failure.
This list by itself own description seems to have been compiled rapidly by surveying other judges after the order for conpliance or a show cause hearing and perhaps even after compliance occurred. And now its available to be pointed too in other cases.
> Clearance is fundamentally discretionary, though; it's a risk assessment. I don't think you have even a due process right to it.
Security clearance is subject to due process protections (at least, insofar as it is a component of government hiring and continuation of employment), because government employment is subject to due process protections and the courts have not allowed security clearance requirements to be an end-run around that.
They weren't "locked in a legal battle". Their criminal charges were dismissed within 6 months of the incident happening. What resolved recently was a civil suit they themselves brought for damages from defamation and emotional distress.
And then folks waste whole that power away, with embedded widgets applications.
My Android phone is more powerful than the four PCs I owned during the 1990 - 2002, 386SX - P75 - P166 - Athlon XP, all CPU, GPU, RAM and disk space added together.
> To me, it's 100% clear - if your tool use is reckless or negligent and results in a crime, then you are guilty of that crime.
For most crimes, this is circular, because whether a crime occurred depends on whether a person did the requisite act of the crime with the requisite mental state. A crime is not an objective thing independent of an actor that you can determine happened as a result of a tool and then conclude guilt for based on tool use.
And for many crimes, recklessness or negligence as mental states are not sufficient for the crime to have occurred.
Samsung did not forget, and did it right with DeX.
They did, however, get some of the interactions wrong (not to mention, handling of display resolution), so in the end, you can't exploit Fitt's Law in DeX either.
The good news is we’ll finally have an answer for the Fermi Paradox.
4.7B views sound tiny - the aggregate AI brainrot views should be 100x that
I'd really like to see the video of the incident.
I have a similar school drop-off, and can confirm that the cars are typically going around 17-20mph around the school when they're moving. Also that yes, human drivers usually do stay much closer to the centerline.
However, Waymo was recently cleared to operate in my city, and I actually saw one in the drop-off line about a week ago. I pulled out right in front of it after dropping my kid off. And it was following the line of cars near the centerline of the road. Honestly its behavior was basically indistinguishable from a human other than being slightly more polite and letting me pull out after I put my blinker on.
Because the models aren't PhD level and aren't going to take our jobs in 6-12 months.
That's hype. If you want to use these things effectively you need to ignore the hype and focus on what they can actually do.
They say it, but they're wrong. Historically speaking there have been basically about 2 fascist governments, and they fell because they lost wars. And Germany, for one, did run them with high competence, to the extend that it took years for many countries to do anything about.
It we loosen "fascist" to just mean any authoritarian government, there are many that run of very long time.
>I have never worked in a company where an obviously incorrect CEO-demanded security exemption (like this one) would have been allowed to pass
You don't have worked in enough companies then.
Just for the sake of argument, you think anybody would have denied Jobs or Bezos or Musk one?
> [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT‑5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.
T&Cs aren't ironclad.
One in which you sell yourself into slavery, for example, would be illegal in the US.
All those "we take no responsibility for the [valet parking|rocks falling off our truck|exploding bottles]" disclaimers are largely attempts to dissuade people from trying.
As an example, NY bans liability waivers at paid pools, gyms, etc. The gym will still have you sign one! But they have no enforcement teeth beyond people assuming they're valid. https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/general-obligations-law/gob-sec...
This one isn't actually inevitable in the near term. Lethal robots policing the streets isn't something that can just sneak up on us[0] - it's a pretty clear-cut civic issue affecting everyone, so excepting hardcore autocracies with no vertical accountability[1], the public can push such ideas back indefinitely[2].
It's hard to "agency launder" a killer robot when it's physically patrolling a public square.
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[0] - Except maybe through privatization of law enforcement, which could be more gradual - think police outsourcing more work to private security companies, which in turn decide to "pioneer innovative solutions to ensure personal safety" by giving weapons to mall security patrol robots and putting them out on the streets - but it'll still be pretty obvious what's happening.
[1] - Some cursory search suggests this is the correct term for the idea I'm thinking of, which is how much the people in power have to, in practice, take their subjects' reactions into account.
[2] - Well, at least until armed forces of multiple countries start using autonomous robots as ground infantry, and over the years, normalize this idea in the minds of civilians.
We've been experimenting with combining durable execution with debugging tasks, and it's working incredibly well! With the added context of actual execution data, defined by the developer as to which functions are important (instead of individual calls), it give the LLM the data it needs.
I know there are AI SRE companies that have discovered the same -- that you can't just throw a bunch of data at a regular LLM and have it "do SRE things". It needs more structured context, and their value add is knowing what context and what structure is necessary.
They mean stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly.
The brain is indeed incredibly resilient - some kids with serious epilepsy get an entire hemisphere taken out - but which 5% you're left with matters enormously.
When I was a boy, I ran into the street from between two parked cars. I did not notice the car coming, but he noticed me popping out from nowhere, and screeched to a stop.
I was very very lucky.
D has best-in-class templates and metaprogramming, and modules. It works fine.
It's been very profitable for drug dealers for centuries, who wouldn't want a piece of that market?
That thing where law enforcement officers can be elected is such a weird American oddity.
Most countries appoint law enforcement officers who are qualified for the job.
We had a problem last year here in San Mateo County, California where our sheriff was corrupt but we had to pass a ballot measure because we couldn't just fire them: https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/san-mateo-sheriff-rem...
It has worked perfectly fine while using VC++, minus the usual ICE that still come up.
That, and probably that the speed of light is given by the latency of information transfer through space.
That's not worth 30%. Imagine if Youtube charged 30% for anyone who clicked a link under a video in a web browser.
Even if people do enjoy browsing through the PAtreon app and choosing creators they want to subscribe to, that's not worth 30%. Rent-seeking is a cognitive disease.
They are serious about Linux drivers, after all their main research OS is a Linux distribution.
Which is naturally not what the FOSS community wants.
Indeed.
SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814701 - January 2026
Right: these things amplify existing skills. The more skill you have, the bigger the effect after it gets amplified.
> We model tests as Bernoulli random variables and compute 95% confidence intervals around daily, weekly, and monthly pass rates. Statistically significant differences in any of those time horizons are reported.
They're going to need to provide a lot more detail on their methodology, because that doesn't make a lot of sense. From their graphs, they seem to be calculating the confidence interval around the previous value, then determining whether the new value falls outside of it. But that's not valid for establishing the statistical significance of a difference. You need to calculate the confidence interval of the difference itself, and then see if all the values within that confidence interval remain positive (if it excludes 0). This is because both the old and new measurement have uncertainty. Their approach seems to be only considering uncertainty for one of them.
They should also really be more specific about the time periods. E.g. their graphs only show performance over the past 30 days, but presumably the monthly change is comparing the data from 60 to 31 days ago, to the data from 30 days ago until yesterday? In which case the weekly graph really ought to be displaying the past two months, not one month.
Waymo is not a machine, it is a corporation, and corporations can, in fact be held accountable for decisions (and, perhaps more to the point, for defects in goods they manufacture, sell, distribute, and/or use to provide services.)
> On street parking is so ingrained into the American lifestyle that any change to the status quo is impossible
Plenty of American cities regulate or even eliminated, in various measures, on-street parking.
> But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland.
I dunno, I think Denmark and its remaining allies, including at least two nuclear weapons states, might be able to provide some incentive for the US not to take over Greenland.
> But the EU is sitting here telling us it's this huge problem that Russia is invading Ukraine, yet they're happy to increase cooperation and trading with China who is providing support to Russia for their invasion?
No, they aren't happy being backed into that by the open threat of US aggression. They weren't too happy having to ally with the USSR against the Nazis, either, but, you sometimes you have to deal with the overwhelming immediate problem, first.
> Maybe increasing trade will help China stop helping Russia's war against Ukraine
Its not Russia’s aggression in Ukraine that the shift toward China is aimed at.
> we could just look at that activity and say, well, maybe we shouldn't help the EU here and if they really think Ukraine is a problem they should take these other actions instead, whatever they may be.
We aren't helping the EU, we are threatening an EU and NATO state (and another NATO state, and consequently an ally of many EU states) with invasion. That’s literally the source of the shift you are complaining about. Trying to use the response to justify the action it responds to is...mind-boggling mental gymnastics.
I just want to keep using Firefox, but it is getting really hard.
Thanks for starting Rust, I guess, at least it was directly related to improving Firefox.
Very few applications actually need push notifications, a large majority is only annoying users with upselling, or user engagement.
WorldCoin 2!
Yes, it absolutely can.
I'm sure the various high-end intelligence agencies have a much better view on this than the public does. All kinds of ways of cross-checking the numbers, all by doing things they'll be doing in their normal course of events.
A normal person could probably do a decent job with an AI that isn't too biased in the direction of "trust gov numbers above all else" and tracking down and correlating some statistics too obscure and too difficult to fake. (Example: Using statistical population sampling methodology on some popular internet service or something.) The main problem there being literally no matter what they do and how careful they are, they'd never be able to convince anyone of their numbers.
Interesting that they have "IMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only." twice, once as the very first instruction after telling Claude what it is, and once toward the end.
If we adopted that level of risk, we'd have 5mph speed limits on every street with parking. As a society, we've decided that's overly cautious.
"Including the test suite which is something lacking in SQLite"
That's not entirely true. SQLite has a TON of tests that are part of the public domain project: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/test
They do have a test suite that's private which I understand to be more about testing for different hardware - they sell access to that for companies that want SQLite to work on their custom embedded hardware, details here: https://sqlite.org/th3.html
> SQLite Test Harness #3 (hereafter "TH3") is one of three test harnesses used for testing SQLite.
> China is the best example, its estimated that their population is off by entire countries in some statisitics
“entire countries” of population spans a range from single-digit hundreds to over a billion, so this could describe anything from an imperceptible error to an enormous one in China’s case.
That they got this is shocking in itself.
I dunno about everyone else but when I learn more about what a model is and is not useful for, my subjective experience improves, not degrades.
Somehow I think that the weak link in our government security is at the top - the President, his cabinet, and various heads of agencies. Because nobody questions what they're allowed to do, and so they're exempt from various common-sense security protocols. We already saw some pretty egregious security breaches from Pete Hegseth.
We should get their heads checked for crayons.
The trick is how to weaponize the incompetence against them.
You think Clinton's email scandal "was quickly buried"?
I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…
Hand-picked by Noem, so yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala
> In April 2025, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem named Gottumukkala as the deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; he began serving in the position on May 16. That month, Gottumukkala told personnel at the agency that much of its leadership was resigning and that he would serve as its acting director beginning on May 30.
> Tell ChatGPT to multiply 129348723423 and 2987892342424 and it'll probably get it wrong because nowhere on Reddit is that exact question for it to copy.
ChatGPT appears to get this correct.
Being transparent about such incidents is also what stops them from potentially becoming a business/industry-killing failures. They're doing the right thing here, but they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.
> The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which by most estimates has the fourth-largest population in Africa, has not conducted a census since 1984. Neither South Sudan nor Eritrea, two of the newest states in Africa (one created in 2011 and the other in 1991), has conducted a census in their entire history as independent states. Afghanistan has not had one since 1979; Chad since 1991; Somalia since 1975.
> For whatever reason, construction hits a snag or revenues are not enough to cover expenses, how would it become “society’s” problem?
You declare bankruptcy. Your vendors who extended credit get hosed. Your employees go on unemployment benefits. Each of these costs money, and each of these reduces taxable income.
Of course, got to sell those new subscriptions.
Satellite photos?
You can easily get an estimate of the number of buildings and especially vehicles, which tell you two important things. Not to mention that as a matter of course the first thing to do is photograph everything that looks like a piece of military equipment, which has been a purpose of satellite photography from the beginning.
Various kinds of countries get paranoid about letting people have maps or accurate geographic data. This makes very little difference militarily but causes real inconvenience for the locals.
Besides, nobody wages wars for labour exploitation any more. It's all about what's under the ground.
> Fake would imply that the people releasing the population estimates have a much better estimate but are choosing to instead publish a made up number.
That is literally what the article describes, though, in Papua New Guinea. And it describes why states in Nigeria have such a strong incentive to fake their population numbers, that it's impossible to achieve an accurate national total.
I do think the headline exaggerates, I doubt "a lot" are fake, but some do seem to be.
The main tweet the article is referring to
You say this as if venture capital is lying there on the ground for anyone to pick up. What VC do you know that aren't investing in companies that want to grow very quickly (or in companies that they then force to grow quickly)?
> Home Depot is projecting a sharp drop in fiscal 2025 profit in its latest quarterly earnings, according to Reuters.
Dying on the exact same frame, or just generally in the same spot?
In the case of the latter my first thought would be thermals. Different video codecs have significantly different decoding costs, and may also stress different parts of your system. You could check for that by playing that same video but not starting at the beginning and see if it's the same duration. Or jump to just before it dies and see if it plays through.
If by "downloaded" you mean The High Seas, those who provision the high seas are often on the cutting edge of using codecs with every last feature turned on to make the videos smaller to squeeze every last bit out of the encodings that they can, which can make them unusually expensive to decode. Or so I've heard.
> It’s incredible how some engineers assume they understand economics
I would say most engineers. The reason is simple - basic economics is not taught in the public schools, and economics/business is not a required course for an engineering degree.
One of the best classes I ever took was a summer class in accounting.
Except that ignores the amount of times the OS preempts the thread, or moves it into another CPU trashing all the cache contents in the process, and related NUMA patterns.
The way it is measured, is mostly ideal, assuming that threads run to completion without any of those side effects taking place.
Reform isn’t even close to “far right.” Are they trying to defund the NHS? Get rid of government pensions? Immigration restriction isn’t “far right.” The sharp curtailment of immigration from Britain’s colonies was enacted in 1968 under a Labour government. In the U.S., sharply restricting immigration was a policy that prevailed during FDR, who was the most liberal U.S. president in history. “Far right” is someone like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan who thought the private sector could fix everything.
“The next census, in 1991, was by far the most credible, and it shocked many people by finding that the population was about 30 percent smaller than estimated. But even that one was riddled with fraud. Many states reported that every single household had exactly nine people.”
If I worked in the government of a country like this I’d just throw in the towel.
I've been running 3x a week for over 40 years now.
* about 4 miles
* I don't run for time, just a trot
* not training for anything
* drink a full glass of water beforehand. If sweaty outside, two glasses
* had some pain in my hips and knees. Switched to a ball-strike rather than a heel-strike. Pain went away. (you can feel the difference in the impact on the knees and hips)
* don't run downhill
* the big toe joint hurts and has gotten large making it hard to find shoes that fit
* don't run when not feeling well, or there's ice
* I feel weird when I can't run for some reason
* It feels good to run, and I like the results
It's sad. These were really affordable and covered escapist fiction (all kinds of sci-fi) but also a lot of serious and civic-minded literature.
Funny two weekends ago I watched a woman set a world record for the mile for women 80-85.
Presumably that's why they said "almost a century" and not just "a century".
A lesson I learnt during the 90's already switching into Perl instead, somehow people keep writing pieces of wonder in plain shell scripts.
As side note, WIL was originally introduced for writing drivers in C++ in kernel mode, then expanded to support other workloads on userspace.
Here is the original announcement,
https://community.osr.com/t/the-new-wil-library-for-c-code-i...
This is the same argument people made with Bernie Madoff before the ponzi collapsed.
New variant on "I followed my satnav blindly and now I'm stuck in the river", except less reliable.
It is however fraud on the part of the travel company to advertise something that doesn't exist. Another form of externalized cost of AI.
https://openclaw.com (10+ years) seems to be owned by a Law firm.