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> I need to have the robotic arms
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/14/apple-moving-forw...
[Apple is] working on a device that uses a robot arm to move around a display.. [that] can spin around and tilt thanks to various actuators.. device to be introduced by 2026 or 2027.. price tag of $1,000.. "several hundred people" working just on that deviceI call that "hidden inflation", and if I were to guess, the ongoing degradation of services across the board, in every aspect, can easily account for actual inflation figures being half of what it feels they should be.
It's the tiny things. Like, you visit a beauty salon or restaurant today, and compare it to the same or equivalent place 5 years ago. PDF menus instead of paper. Apps for booking instead of support staff. Leaflets where there used to be magazines to browse. No complimentary coffee. Kitchenware that used to be pristine and high-quality, is now the cheapest offering for commercial wholesaler. There's less light, worse decor, no music (or louder music, to boost turnover), worse sound-proofing, etc.
Sure, the prices are the same, or maybe little higher. But the overall quality of service - not just direct service, but whole experience and ambiance - took a nosedive, so you pay a little more, for much less.
You start looking for it, and the slow decay of everything becomes apparent even on the scale of months.
I'm not saying it is totally untrue, but this is the same generic, hedged statement that every business and political leader has been repeating for a couple years now. Unless there's anything new or noteworthy added (and looking at the article there isn't) what is really worth discussing?
You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?
At this point the AI labs would pretty much have to form an illegal price fixing cartel in order to jack the prices up, they've been competing to drive down prices for so long.
They'd have to get the Chinese AI labs to go along with that price fixing too.
OTOH the controlling way modern software behaves is an US artifact, so the differences are not necessarily clear-cut like this.
I grew up and live in Europe. I support the general idea of "regulation to make everyone safer" being an acceptable choice. At the same time, I vehemently oppose third-party interests reaching into my computing device and dictating what I can vs. cannot do with it.
But as you say, "global platforms with global impact and reach" - and so I can't set up my phone to conditionally read out text and voice messages aloud, because somewhere on the other side of the world, someone might get scammed into installing malware, therefore let's lock everything down and add remote attestation on top.
Unfortunately, the problem is political, not technological, and this here is but one facet of it. Ultimately, what SaaS does is give away all leverage: as users, it doesn't matter if we fully own the endpoints, or have a user-friendly vendor: any SaaS can ultimately decide not to serve a client that doesn't give the service a user-proof beachhead.
Even so, there have been all sorts of contrarians trying to defend them. Usually for weird anti NATO reasons.
> That didn't happen.
Hamas brags even about their failed attacks.
Your comparison fails at the first step.
> And if it was, we didn't mean it.
And this one! How often does Hamas pull the "we didn't mean it!" card for their attacks on Israel? Have they ever? Of course they mean it, they're a bunch of assholes.
Are the increasing # of distinct submitters from established accounts or new accounts?
Even if you hate the orange guy, there's something to be said for his approach of using threats to achieve results instead of carrots like tax breaks.
> or (c) the government won't use it
And coerce other defence contractors into not using it.
Apple has been taking about Apple Silicon's AI capabilities for the past few years, particularly around Apple Intelligence.
Alton Bay Seaplane Base and Ice Runway (B18)
https://www.dot.nh.gov/about-nh-dot/divisions-bureaus-distri...
Whether or not people have a "right" to feel comfortable when you make them feel uncomfortable they vote for populists. See: the Netherlands.
> You can't blow up entire hospitals and kill patients just because someone's storing stuff in the basement
I believe hospitals lose much of their protection under international law when they’re dual used like this. (There is still proportionality and morality.)
Takeaways:
* CoreWeave Inc. is looking to raise about $8.5 billion from banks to help finance a buildout of cloud computing capacity for Meta Platforms Inc.
* The proposed loan would be backed by a contract Meta signed to pay CoreWeave up to $14.2 billion for its services, and a separate agreement valued at more than $5 billion.
* The loan is expected to close in March and would be supported by Meta's blue-chip profile, which is expected to result in an investment-grade rating and lower borrowing costs for CoreWeave.
You're right, but the consequences of different security failure are different, no?
The forensic reconstruction to this level of detail is novel and interesting, both for the methods deployed and for the likelihood that the half-life of unsolved war crimes appears to be decreasing.
I love this comment:
"Btw, we rolled this out over 3 weeks ago and I think you're the first person to ask about it on HN. There was one earlier question by email. I think that qualifies as a splash-free dive."
I had no idea and I'm an HN addict!
> Life is not safe, nor can it be made safe without taking away freedom.
So... no food and safety regulations, because life is not safe, and people should have the freedom to poison food with cheaper, lethal ingredients because their freedom matters more?
You're right that things can't be made more safe without taking away the freedom to harm people. Which is why even the most freedom-loving countries on earth strike a balance. They actually have tons and tons of safety regulations that save tons and tons of lives, even you from your point of view that means not "treating people as adults". You have to wear a seatbelt, even if you feel like you're not being treated like an adult. Because it's also not just your own life you're putting at risk, but your passengers' as well.
You're taking the most extreme libertarian stance possible. Thank goodness that's an extremely minority view, and that the vast, vast majority of voters do actually think safety is important.
OK. You seem pretty confident. Let's make it easy on you. Name a single police department in the United States from which you can present evidence from the past 10 years that they have an IQ or general cognitive cap on applicants.
Should be straightforward, since the root of this thread confidently asserts that police generally disqualify applicants based on high IQ.
While great option, LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp should not be overlooked, too many focus on SBCL + Emacs and then complain about Lisp tooling.
Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup had well concluded and just a couple of hours before the Senate committee was to vote on it -- managed to neuter one of the key protections in the bill.
This is why I'm increasingly jaded with 'get involved with your local legislative process!' proponents. If you don't have the ability to lobby around the clock and make campaign or in-kind political donations (and know how to communicate your willingness to do that), then you're at a massive disadvantage. As well, the process itself is highly corruptible, eg altering the text of a bill just before a scheduled vote.
As a general matter, I'm increasingly disgusted with the prevalence of tactics like holding votes in the dead of night or in closed sessions. Politicians engage in a lot of tricks to evade scrutiny from their constituents, relying on the fact that once a piece of legislation is passed people might be angry but the politician can often get away with saying 'there was no other choice, we have to work within the process' or some similar empty truism.
I have to say I worry a bit when I see these circular bets designed to pump up share cost without fundamentally increasing underlying company value. I get subprime vibes every time this happens and it’s happening a lot with extremely large dollar numbers.
Yes, I was hoping for a system where Claude was informed it was communicating with an unusually intelligent dog whose ability to communicate was limited by dog anatomy, and that the AI would not to hold the dog's interest with its output.
And to be clear, there is a difference between America not being obligated to save lives and tearing away treatment once you’ve started providing it. DOGE did the latter, and some of the cases are horrific, experimental devices being left implanted in study participants.
South America as well, in particular with regard to the US. Too many coups and sponsorship of military dictatorships will do that.
nb: there is a SBCL release at end of every month: https://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html
Wasn't it always an expectation, not a commitment?
If they didn't appropriately account for risk that the expectation would not pan out, well, that's on them.
Unfortunately some things never change in war crimes, see Stalingrad.
> OpenAI is projecting that its total revenue for 2030 will be more than $280 billion
For context, that is more than the annual revenue of all but 3 tech companies in the world (Nvidia, Apple, Google), and about the same as Microsoft.
OpenAI meanwhile is projected to make $20 billion in 2026. So a casual 1300% revenue growth in under 4 years for a company that is already valued in the hundreds of billions.
Must be nice to pull numbers out of one's ass with zero consequence.
Tesla stock up 15% on the news, probably.
Even if the cost of software is truly going down (which is debatable), what makes you think the savings will be passed down to you?
This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
That businesses will eventually care about quality.
As proven by offshoring, it is a race to the bottom, as long as software kind of works.
Maybe because for us tea leaves fall under herbs, as general purpose description.
However the right wording is Chá, and it needs to be explicitly mentioned of what.
Chá preto - black tea
Chá de ervas - herbs tea
And so on.
Harder for activist investors to get into a private company than a public one imho. Keeps out those who would squeeze the business and bail, and potentially kick out the founders. With sufficient cashflow (which Stripe most certainly has), you can buy out existing investors without going public.
(not ex-Stripe, but own startup equity and have no problem with them never going public if that is the choice; optimize for the enterprise and existing stakeholders, not the public market mechanics broadly speaking)
You can. It would just cost you so much in legal to not be worth it.
The reason it's worth it for these companies is because the number of zeroes involved. The legal costs are a rounding error for them.
There is the ideal of school and then there is school.
I was very 'school-shaped' if by school you mean I could sit quietly and read books and solve problems. More school-shaped than the other kids.
If by school you mean that bullies don't find you interesting, that nobody threatens to kill you, then I was not 'school-shaped' at all.
I was really excited to go to school on day one, within a year it tuned very bad and I wish, retrospectively, I'd had the courage to stay home.
Which introduces variables such as: "believes in righteous anger"
When I am finding tasks hard to complete I fall back to paper lists. These are privileged relative to all the things that live on a screen and compete with all the things I need to deal with to get the tasks done that... also live on a screen.
The society you exist in, and are enabled to generate income from, is paid for via taxation.
This is why legislation matters, capitalism cannot sort out such misbehaviors when the public keeps giving money to the same bad actors.
LD 2164 Tracker: https://legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/2164?legisl...
LD 2164 Bill: https://legislature.maine.gov/backend/App/services/getDocume...
Housing study: https://mainehousing.org/docs/default-source/default-documen...
Related:
More [Maine] schools have closed in Maine thus far in 2025 than all of 2024 - https://www.nepm.org/2025-07-01/more-schools-have-closed-in-... - July 1st, 2025
Funny. We had a security guard that had memorized all the faces of the employees. If he knew you he'd buzz you through. If he didn't know you you'd have to be vouched for by someone that he did know or by showing your credentials. By day #3 he'd know you, and he also somehow knew when you were no longer with the company.
There never was a line and there were 1400 people in those buildings.
I never realized how incredibly that guy's contribution was but this story made it perfectly clear.
Also, I don't actually buy the story as related here. It would seem to me that within minutes of that queue building up the turnstiles + card system would be disabled because something clearly was not working.
Well... It is more that a traditional oil refinery has a BTX section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)
which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasoline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reforming
and that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene
is another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.
Related:
Exercise may relieve depression as effectively as antidepressants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541672 - January 2026
Exercise twice as effective as anti-depressants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396047 - February 2024
Running from the Pain (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27306725 - May 2021
Running from the Pain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573009 - March 2018
The court system is designed to optimize throughput at the expense of latency, against the background of a system where authority is vested in a relatively small number of presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed constitutional officers. About 350,000 civil cases and 65,000 criminal cases are filed every year, spread out across less than 700 district court judges.
To maximize throughput, proceedings are structured like batch processing systems. You submit work, it waits in the queue until the system gets to it, some intermediate decision is rendered, and then you submit some more work. For constitutional reasons, criminal cases cut in line, which can further increase the latency of civil cases. That means that, in a four-year case, the lawyers don't actually work on the case for four years straight. They do batches of work a couple of months at a time, and then work on other cases while waiting for the output.
Moreover, court case are, to a degree, inherently serial. Motions to dismiss--briefs that argue a case must be dismissed because its legally defective--must be filed before you start deposing witnesses or exchanging documents. You generally need to do depositions of witnesses after you've reviewed all the relevant documents. And all the fact gathering must be done before you file summary judgment motions--briefs that argue a case can be decided on the factual record without a trial.[1]
Part of the inherent delay is that the legal system is already an "exception path" in the ordinary course of business. A lot of time is spent waiting for people outside your organization who don't work for you. For example, when you're deposing a witness, they have work responsibilities, vacation plans, etc., and everyone has to work around that.
It's possible to structure cases where everything can be done in a year. That's what happens at the International Trade Commission, for example. Arbitration proceedings can also be structured like that.
[1] This also means that legal teams aren't very big. Massive corporate cases with billions of dollars on the line are handled with core teams of a dozen or so lawyers--with maybe another dozen or two parachuting in to help with specific phases like trial. Technology was squeezed out a lot of the parallelizable work. The days of 20 junior attorneys sitting in rooms reviewing boxes of paper documents are gone.
Not to mention: Stripe doesn't want your money, whether or not you're accredited.
This is not relevant to LFP and sodium ion chemistries, which most of the industry is moving towards.
If they are ex-Stripe they are likely holding shares, and so yes they would personally profit from going public.
At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.
It will be fun to watch the companies trying to migrate their COBOL systems...
This is basically describing the Cayman Islands. Or, to lesser extents, UAE or Malta (e.g. https://taxjustice.net/2026/02/24/malta-the-eus-secret-tax-s...).
The problem with this warm Galt Gulch idea is that someone has to do the actual work, and if the top level government is just a corrupt sinecure designed to shield the corporation from actually paying taxes, then nothing works properly. Comfortable island living is also surprisingly expensive, you have to import everything.
I would rather see that it does not rely on open source projects that have not given permission to be used to train that particular AI on.
Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.
The list is getting longer and longer, but a good touchstone is simply net worth. You don't normally get to the top of a foodchain without being an apex predator.
First thing that came to my mind too.
I think it would also be easier to add some meaningful variation to the resulting graph removals by building up instead of trying to remove and retain properties. The proposed algorithms are perhaps too predictable by the player for the game, depending on how it is played.
> Why don't companies fire all their developers if they can have an algorithm that can output cheap and quality code?
Because it takes an experienced developer to get the machine to output cheap and quality code well enough to be useful.
That developer is just a whole lot more valuable now, because they can do more work at a higher quality.
If I'm reading this right,
.setHTML("<h1>Hello</h1>", new Sanitizer({}))
Plus this is defense-in-depth. Backends will still need to sanitize usernames on some standard anyhow (there's not a lot of systems out there that should take arbitrary Unicode input as usernames), and backends SHOULD (in the RFC sense [1]) still HTML-escape anything they output that they don't want to be raw HTML.
Complaining about Electron is an international sport. Don't take it too seriously though, all the other x-platform UI frameworks are much worse. The #1 option I think is still an ordinary web application which doesn't have any install BS, electron is #2 if you really need something a plain web app can't do.
Hehe, that one will never die. It's the comment that more or less defines HN.
First of all, it helps to actually use a proper compiled Prolog implementation like SWI Prolog.
Second you really need to understand and fine tune cuts, and other search optimization primitives.
Finally in what concerns Game AIs, it is a mixture of algorithms and heuristics, a single paradigm language (first order logic) like Prolog, can't be a tool for all nails.
No, it's Node.js. I kid you not. I keep coming across Node in places where I really would not expect it.
>so I got a human baseline through Rapidata (10k people, same forced choice): 71.5% said drive.
What kind of idiot would say "walk"?
I guess if they were average and above they wouldn't gig at Rapidata. Either that or foreigners with mediocre understanding of the English language. Or some bored teenagers that get their $0.20 or whatever Rapidata pays whatever they click (was it a multiple choice) - the (studied and reported) regression in reading comprehension levels doesn't help either.
"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"
Several things going on here:
- concurrency is very hard
- .. but object storage "solves" most of that for you, handing you a set of semantics which work reliably
- single file throughput sucks hilariously badly
- .. because 1Gb is ridiculously large for an atomic unit
- (this whole thing resembles a project I did a decade ago for transactional consistency on TFAT on Flash, except that somehow managed faster commit times despite running on a 400Mhz MIPS CPU. Edit: maybe I should try to remember how that worked and write it up for HN)
- therefore, all of the actual work is shifted to the broker. The broker is just periodically committing its state in case it crashes
- it's not clear whether the broker ACKs requests before they're in durable storage? Is it possible to lose requests in flight anyway?
- there's a great design for a message queue system between multiple nodes that aims for at least once delivery, and has existed for decades, while maintaining high throughput: SMTP. Actually, there's a whole bunch of message queue systems?
It used to be GNU/Linux for a reason, Android/Linux is surely not GPL userland and there are others as such.
There is also a reason why all the GNU/Linux competition on embedded space, including Linux Foundation's own Zephyr, aren't GPL licensed.
People seem to forget Linux is only a kernel.
It's frying quite a lot of brains on the way down, sadly.
Especially when the censored internet already exists, the selection pressure is going to make the uncensored internet the CSAM distribution channel.
Everything is easy if you don't care about getting pwned, and you don't consider yourself responsible if this has negative effects on other people.
Except C being typed Assembly is a myth, first of all there were already high level systems languages during the decade that predates C, secondly there are plenty of CPU capabilities not exposed in C, if at all only via compiler specific language extensions, beyond the language standard.
And what hard drives and memory slots would those chips be able to use?
That is the problem though, DSLs always end up becoming turing complete, because there is always that use case they don't cover.
The reality of such platform is observable in Inferno and Plan 9, that had no C++ compilers, and while Alef failed in Plan 9, Limbo came to be in Inferno.
Likewise, trying to write pure C or C++ services in iOS or Android is more pain than gain.
> developers who for decades have been advocating for best practices when it comes to security and privacy seem to be completely abandoning all of them simply because it’s AI
Risk and reward. That balance, currently, seems tipped to favour risk taking. (Which in turn encompasses both boldness and recklessness.)
Skimming the API docs on MDN, it makes sure the site vendor gets to run filtering code over anything you'd want to inject via e.g. user script or console, securing it with CSP. I expect this to make user scripts work as well as they do on Chrome now. If there's a workaround, I'd love to hear about it.
I don't know about machinists but I do know about (and know one personally) welders with certain specialties that can basically name their price. Such as the ones that can fix gear in running steelplants where shutting the thing down would require a rebuild.
yet another chromium clone iirc.
> If a jury thinks "well I could have done that either!" You win
“A federal judge” recently “rejected Tesla's request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over the 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S” [1]. If a human supervising still incurs liability, human-like errors, particularly if Waymo and BYD aren’t making them, is a poor defense.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-upholds-243-million-v...
one can imagine unintended consequences and liability cascades from imperfect repair
We already have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
What features does one specifically mean by "UNIX-like"? Unified filesystem with a single root? A CLI shell with the classic abbreviated comands? Preemptive multitasking? Multiuser-oriented permissions?
https://x.com/Daractenus/status/2025202437955490263
> Not to burst your AI bubble which is making everything from electricity to consumer electronics more expensive for all of us, but here's Elon Musk predicting fully self-driving Teslas by next year for ten years straight
Sites wanting to block AI scraping should simply ask questions like these, instead of furthering the complexity-driven monopoly of Big Tech by requiring specifically sanctioned software and hardware. This is how you determine human intelligence, and not mindless compliance.
If you want something you can install on your personal computer, I made one:
https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot
Obviously, it can't do everything OpenClaw can, because it doesn't have unfettered access to data you don't even know it has, but it'll only have access to the data you give it access to.
It's been really useful for me, hopefully it'll be useful to someone here.
If a loved one is suffering from this, this diagnostic would allow for interventions such as guardianship to assume financial and logistical responsibility for them with less subjective decisioning based on observations alone.
The accuracy of this test is nowhere nearly good enough to do population-wide screening. The clinical setting for this test is memory clinics in which Alzheimers is already relatively highly likely differentially, and even there you're going to get a surprising number of false positives.
(There's enough info in the supplemental link on this page to have an LLM do the Bayes math for you.)
I knew about this, though I'd never listened to it. I gave it a shot now, and I wanted to like it, but... it's terrible, unfortunately.
Is it sufficient to use a VM for isolation? Docker?
More cloud services now need role accounts. You need a "can read email but not send or forward" account, for example. And "can send only to this read-only contacts list".
The federal government regulates interstate commerce. Apple and Google fit that definition. This is really no constitutional ambiguity here. Congress is 100% capable of acting if they wanted to.