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Neither does any other hardware vendor, even the likes of Dell, Lenovo and Asus clearly state on their online shops that their laptops work best with Windows, even when something like Ubuntu or Red-Hat is an option.
Also they hardly ship any updates.
The problem with Kubernetes, Docker and anything CNCF related is what happens when everyone and their dog tries to make a business out of an OS capability with venture capital.
>Have you considered that “all that criticism” may come from a relatively homogenous, narrow slice of the market that is not representative of the overall market preference?
Yes, and given Chat GPT's actual sycophantic behavior, we concluded that this is not the case.
Others having different ideas and opinions doesn't mean that those ideas and opinions are correct, or that they are beneficial. They might be detrimental to the FOSS movement or to society in general.
So "to each their own" only goes so far.
One can very well accept that other devs/teams have different ideas and opinions && that they can (by law) have such ideas and opinions, but also think that they have them for the wrong reasons, and that they shouldn't have them, and that we'd all be better off if they didn't.
I don't mind other people having trash taste. The problem is when I then have to consume their trash taste because they are in the majority.
Every medium ever gets degraded over time to the point that you might as well do without it.
Sure, but we're talking insane amounts of time unless it hits something head one. Even the electronics are still alive and in 2024 after a long break we managed to get signals back. It is anybody's guess at this point how long the craft will remain functional but it will take a long, long time (long after humanity will either have destroyed itself or has figured out how to overtake it) before it is 'a melted lump of metal'.
Look at the metal that we routinely dig up in the hostile environment known as 'Earth' and which wasn't particularly designed to be long lasting. Voyager is just that: designed to last for a really long time. At a minimum several millennia, though of course by that time the electronics will no longer function, and not because they no longer have power but simply because they have degraded due to their rather more sensitive nature than the rest of the craft.
Then came John Stevens.[1] Stevens was responsible for converting many American railroads from light to heavy duty. The Duluth South Shore was first. Then the Great Northern and the Rock Island. Then the Panama Railroad for building the Panama Canal. Then Russia, Siberia, China...
Just use the Web client instead.
Another example of WinUI anemic state.
And they might eventually steer all games into XBox store.
I am expecting the day Microsoft decides to take all their studios out of Steam, if SteamOS starts to be too much of a pain.
I remember doing voice and video calls, and of course IM, on a PC with 128MB of RAM and a single core CPU around the turn of the century. It's amazing how far we've regressed in efficency.
If most Windows users are using WhatsApp web on Microsoft Edge then making it an app like this saves them a huge chunk of effort in maintaining two apps (WhatsApp web and a separate Windows app)
it has an integrated touch screen display with a viewable diagonal size of 10,16 centimetres (or 4,0 inches) or more, but less than 17,78 centimetres (or 7,0 inches);
I wonder if 3.99 inch and 7.01 inch smartphones will start appearing again.
No, they miss a lot. ~5:1. But that still makes them cheaper than artillery rounds and they do a lot of damage and can do both recon and the subsequent attack with the same package, and without delay.
Maybe 'in his pocket' is the better term.
So why would you drive to increase that choke hold?
Cash is the way for small retailers to allow people who have very little money to stay away from the lure of easy credit. If you force them to use cards they will lose track of their spending completely and that will surely not help.
Probably for a couple reasons:
First, HN prefers the source title unless that title is misleaing clickbait.
Second, the problem is not consistently off-by-one errors, as there is a manifestation shown in the bug of an off-by-much-less-than-one error. The problem looks like a "for some reason it seems to be roundtripping numbers in text through a numeric representation which has about [perhaps exactly] the same precisions issues as float64" issue.
> All the examples of "warmer" generations show that OpenAI's definition of warmer is synonymous with sycophantic, which is a surprise given all the criticism against that particular aspect of ChatGPT.
Have you considered that “all that criticism” may come from a relatively homogenous, narrow slice of the market that is not representative of the overall market preference?
I suspect a lot of people who are from a very similar background to those making the criticism and likely share it fail to consider that, because the criticism follows their own preferences and viewing its frequency in the media that they consume as representaive of the market is validating.
EDIT: I want to emphasize that I also share the preference that is expressed in the criticisms being discussed, but I also know that my preferred tone for an AI chatbot would probably be viewed as brusque, condescending, and off-putting by most of the market.
> which is a surprise given all the criticism against that particular aspect of ChatGPT
From whom?
History teaches that the vast majority of practically any demographic wants--from the masses to the elites--is personal sycophancy. It's been a well-trodden path to ruin for leaders for millenia. Now we get species-wide selection against this inbuilt impulse.
I'm starting to think the tech community is running out of shitpost ideas.
Additional citation:
The 2024 Trump "realignment" is already over - https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-winning-2024-coaliti... - November 7th, 2025
Backblaze should get ironclad guarantees that decomissioned drives have been destroyed, besides that their storage system should not be storing anything in plaintext at all.
Or "add [bx+si], al" for those from an earlier era.
I still remember when it was as simple as a request to /get_video?video_id=XXXXXXXX with possibly a &fmt=YY parameter.
Great fuckings to those at YT, I wonder if they ever feel bad for what they're doing or they are just happy to get $$$.
I'd trust Sam Altman about as far as I could throw him and there is absolutely no way OpenAI should be having sensitive private conversations with anybody. Sooner or later all that data will end up with Microsoft who can then correlate it with a ton of data they already have from other sources (windows, office online, linkedin, various communications services including 'teams', github and so on).
This is an intelligence service's wet dream.
Perhaps 2020 hindsight, even.
Or someone comes up with an easy adb wrapper and now it becomes the go-to way to install apps.
And for sure people will buy it. I don't think there is a price point where some people would not buy it. Fashion doesn't make sense, it never has.
There is a great joke about this:
A woman rushes into Yves St. Laurent's studio.
"Oh Yves!" she cries, "you've got to help me, I'm in a panic, I have this gala coming up and I have no hat to wear"
Calmly, Yves walks to the nearest table, picks up some rolls of ribbon and starts draping them around the woman's head, and in 10 minutes flat he has made this fantastic creation.
She looks in the mirrow "Oh, Yves, you've saved me, how much do I owe you?"
He says "make it 2500 euros"
She starts yelling "2500 euros??? are you mad? for a bunch of ribbon?"
Calmly, Yves starts to unwind the ribbons spooling them up as he goes and when he's done he hands the woman the ribbons. "The ribbons, you can have for free."
That's a disingenuous argument though: they are in that position because they chose to make themselves the only way that a 'normal' user is able to install software on these devices. If not for that these governments wouldn't have a point to apply pressure on in the first place.
That was a slightly different business model, vs a different technology.
We should be making some effort to quantify the amount and cost of slop produced by both AI and simpler automated systems (spinners etc), it's a huge negative externality.
They're probably buying this equipment anticipating that the current demand will continue. If it stops, all the surplus will need to be sold.
If you are a developer who needs a specific old version of PHP or Node or whatever and you're not using Docker then I have great news for you on how you can solve your problem.
“The bill, written by a physician and an amateur mathematician, never became law.”
> Gatekeeper will ever so slowly tighten so that people don't realise like a frog boiled in water is continuing to be true
Gatekeeper can be disabled. Given Cupertino’s pivot to services and the Mac’s limited install base relative to iPhones (and high penetration among developers) I’m doubtful they’d remove that option in the foreseeable future.
Completely agree on your first point: software development is so much more than writing code. LLMs are a threat to programmers for whom the job is 8 hours a day of writing code to detailed specifications provided by other people. I can't remember any point in my own career where I worked with people who got to do that.
There's a great example of that in the linked post itself:
> Let's build a property-based testing suite. It should create Java classes at random using the entire range of available Java features. These random classes should be checked to see whether they produce valid parse trees, satisfying a variety of invariants.
Knowing what that means is worth $150/hour even if you don't type a single line of code to implement it yourself!
And to be fair, the author makes that point themselves later on:
> Agentic AI means that anything you know to code can be coded very rapidly. Read that sentence carefully. If you know just what code needs to be created to solve an issue you want, the angels will grant you that code at the cost of a prompt or two. The trouble comes in that most people don't know what code needs to be created to solve their problem, for any but the most trivial problems.
On your second point: I wouldn't recommend betting against costs continuing to fall. The cost reduction trend has been reliable over the past three years.
In 2022 the best available models was GPT-3 text-davinci-003 at $60/million input tokens.
GPT-5 today is $1.25/million input tokens - 48x cheaper for a massively more capable model.
... and we already know it can be even cheaper. Kimi K2 came out two weeks ago benchmarking close to (possibly even above) GPT-5 and can be run at an even lower cost.
I'm willing to bet there are still significantly more optimizations to be discovered, and prices will continue to drop - at least on a per-token basis.
We're beginning to find more expensive ways to use the models though. Coding Agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI can churn through tokens.
It is still around, even if documentation is only on archives.
> forcing AI companies to use power more efficiently
How? Also, why? Why are datacentres the use to tamp down on versus other industrial and commercial uses?
This reminds me of California rationing residential water use so alfalfa farmers can flood their fields.
They really don't want data scrapers.
So the critical question here really is whether they are selling API access to their models for less than the unit cost it takes to serve them.
Do you have a legal opinion that this is legal under US securities law?
Maybe this will have better luck this time, and who knows, studios might finally care to do at Steam OS native builds.
I remember going to the drugstore and buying two pieces of candy for a penny each. I added a third for sales tax. The cashier handed back the penny because the tax didn't kick in until 10 cents.
This stat seems far-fetched. When has a cross-sectional IQ survey of CS graduates ever been taken?
"What are we going to do about the rounding problem?!"
INCLUDE TAX IN THE PRICE, then you won't have a rounding problem!
The common argument against that is "but there are so many tax jurisdictions"
One, Europe has a bunch too and has solved this, and two, it would only apply to in person cash transactions. You should be able to figure out the tax rules for the one specific place the transaction is taking place.
> I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop when it comes to GLP-1s
We know there are downsides. They’re just irrelevant compared to being obese. (Or alcoholic. Or, potentially, overweight.)
It might be a vitamin, where there literally aren’t any downsides. I’m sceptical of that. But to the degree there is mass cognitive bias in respect of GLP-1s, it’s against them. (I suspect these are sour grapes due to the drugs being unreachable for many.)
My frank concern is we’re separating into a social media addicted, unvaccinated and obese population on one hand and a wealthy, insured, disease free and fit one on the other. Those are dangerous class and physical divides to risk becoming heritable (socially, not genetically).
Yeah, most GLP-1 benefits (or even adverse effects, like muscle loss) seem to be caused by the weight loss. We already knew obesity massively increases risk from a host of diseases, but GLP-1s are still treated with scepticism of the "oh but what about the side-effects we don't know about?!" variety?
Many Americans drive a car every day, even though ~40k people a year die in car accidents. Why? Because the benefits outweigh the risk.
(my partner is on a GLP-1, and lost ~25 lbs in 3 months)
But what did you think of the article?
That's a cute little article.
The key diagram is the one that shows the signal path through the amplifier. Input feeds grid, plate feeds next grid, final output is from plate. Everything else is supporting circuitry.
Note that between each stage there's a capacitor in the signal path. That's to block DC. If you want an amp that amplifies DC, each stage has to run at a higher voltage than the previous stage. The plate must be above the grid in voltage. This was a huge headache in tube computers, both analog and digital.
Transistor circuits don't have the increasing voltage problem. Outputs and inputs are in the same voltage range. That's because transistors are current gain devices, not voltage gain devices.
I've noticed a pattern of companies writing their customers open letters asking them to do their contract negotiations for them. First it was ESPN vs. YouTube (not watching MNF this week was the best 3 hours I've ever saved, sorry advertisers). Now it's OpenAI vs. The New York Times.
Little do they know that I care very little for either party and enjoy seeing both of them squirm. You went to business school, not me. Work it out.
In this case, it's awfully suspicious that OpenAI is worried about The New York Times finding literal passages in their articles that ChatGPT spits out verbatim. If your AI doesn't do that, like you say, then why would it be a problem to check?
Finally, both parties should find a neutral third party. The neutral third party gets the full text of every NYT article and ChatGPT transcript, and finds the matches. NYT doesn't get ChatGPT transcripts. OpenAI doesn't get the full text of every NYT article (even though they have to already have that). Everyone is happy. If OpenAI did something illegal, the court can find out. If they didn't, then they're safe. I think it would be very fair.
(I take the side of neither party. I'm not a huge fan of training language models on content that wasn't licensed for that purpose. And I'm not a huge fan of The NYT's slide to the right as they cheerlead the end of the American experiment.)
> First paragraph sums it up in a nutshell, but putting aside the violence, why would a fishing boat, or some other non-illegal-operations vessel, not comply with an airplane or boat that is clearly attempting to interdict?
For one thing, the US forces aren't even attempting to “interdict”, so the question has a false implicit premise.
Second, consider if it Venezuelan government vessels or aircraft attempting to “interdict” US vessels in US or international waters on the premise that they were suspected of running arms that might be used in Venezuela.
I am more worried about risk like “they said it would take 5 years to build and it really takes 20”
To be fair I read that licensing application that Oklo wrote and I thought they spent a huge amount of space on things that were not relevant like “what if it gets blown up by a supervolanco?” but none on “How do you detect and out sodium fires?”
I went looking for the API details, but it's not there until "later this week":
> We’re bringing both GPT‑5.1 Instant and GPT‑5.1 Thinking to the API later this week. GPT‑5.1 Instant will be added as gpt-5.1-chat-latest, and GPT‑5.1 Thinking will be released as GPT‑5.1 in the API, both with adaptive reasoning.
Often it seems like The New York Times finds something is “news” when the rest of us knew it 20 years ago. When something gets in the Times it signals the Laggard that they’d better get with it
What kind of supply chain attack can one mount with a disk?
No, because the law applies to individual transactions, not averages.
They haven't mentioned it anywhere, but non-upgradable CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD would be a massive deal breaker.
Also why announce it without a price?
Just set a global prompt to tell it what kind of tone to take.
I did that and it points out flaws in my arguments or data all the time.
Plus it no longer uses any cutesy language. I don't feel like I'm talking to an AI "personality", I feel like I'm talking to a computer which has been instructed to be as objective and neutral as possible.
It's super-easy to change.
All the examples of "warmer" generations show that OpenAI's definition of warmer is synonymous with sycophantic, which is a surprise given all the criticism against that particular aspect of ChatGPT.
I suspect this approach is a direct response to the backlash against removing 4o.
I'm really wary of these initiatives, because perfect law enforcement is how society ossifies. Imagine if we could prosecute all homosexual tendencies when they happened, or all interracial relationships, or any other antiquated law. Society would never progress.
What happens if the government can now perfectly enforce that people under 18 can't do X or Y?
So much talk about privacy and how this is my private data that the NYT has no right to access.
If this is truly my data then it should be okay for me to download it and train my own model on it right?
Nope, that would explicitly be disallowed under the terms OpenAI has made me sign and they would ban my account and maybe even sue me for it.
So yeah, they are full of shit.
$0.666. Half the population would think it's the mark of the beast, the other half rounds up to 6-7.
Different sized bills are harder to stack in a wallet. Braille is a much better way to handle the problem. No cost to the majority, while solving the problem for the minority.
Too early to say "ever", considering there has been no act of congress on this matter and the penny continues to be legal tender. The decision to stop minting it is a (legally debatable) executive order, and the next president or even the current one can change their mind about it tomorrow.
... but isn't it using a wireless dongle to connect to the headset to the PC so HDMI doesn't get involved?
It seems to me the wireless is pretty important. I have an MQ3 and I have the link cable. For software development I pretty much have to plug the MQ3 into my PC and it is not so bad to wander around the living room looking in a Mars boulder from all sides and such.
For games and apps that involve moving around, particularly things like Beat Saber or Supernatural the standalone headset has a huge advantage of having no cable. If I have a choice between buying a game on Steam or the MQ3 store I'm likely to buy the MQ3 game because of the convenience and freedom of standalone. A really good wireless link changes that.
This is absurd, and it's a**hole behavior you're defending.
You don't need to break any laws to get to where you're going, what are you even talking about? And you think that just because you're in a taxi you should get to magically cut to the front of a line of cars, made of the vast majority of New Yorkers who actually respect each other? What could possibly make you feel so entitled?
And if you think waiting in line for an exit takes multiple hours, I question whether you've ever been to NYC in the first place.
I remember moving out of a place (decades ago). I was the last roommate out, and so was stuck with some of the cleanup (wanted to get that deposit back!).
One of the things we had was a ton of pennies (no idea why). I had no room in my car, so I spend a few minutes late at night flinging pennies out onto the sidewalk after a long day of cleaning the place.
Old VCRs looked for a hidden signal that rental videos put out so you couldn't record them. But it was easy to block with a cheap device that you put in the middle.
> it would have taken at least 10 more minutes to arrive. (And it wouldn't have been an authentic NYC experience)
Lived in New York for 10+ years and still go back regularly. This is unacceptable behaviour by a cabbie.
Given the amount of construction and thus police presence on that route right now, you’re lucky you didn’t get a 60-minute bonus when the cab got pulled over. (The pro move during rush hour and construction is (a) not to, but if you have to, (b) taking the AirTrain and LIRR.)
Not everyone can see.
Australian notes vary in size for this reason.
I've only beat the game by playing it in the debugger. I'm not sure if anyone has really beat it honestly.
Helm is truly a fractal of design pain. Even the description as a "package manager" is a verifiable lie - it's a config management tool at best.
Any tool that encourages templating on top of YAML, in a way that prevents the use of tools like yamllint on them, is a bad tool. Ansible learned this lesson much earlier and changed syntax of playbooks so that their YAML passes lint.
Additionally, K8s core developers don't like it and keep inventing things like Kustomize and similar that have better designs.
Sure, but CDNs for static content feel to me like effectively a solved problem in 2025.
There are plenty of good providers and some of them are practically free.
I mean sure, if you want to roll your own CDN by hosting boxes in colos across multiple continents and applying geographical load balancing via DNS you're taking on a whole lot of extra complexity, but I think outsourcing that to Cloudflare or Fastly or Fly.io or whomever is a reasonable strategy that still counts as "self-hosting", at least in comparison to using YouTube.
NREL: Inertia and the Power Grid: A Guide Without the Spin - https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/73856.pdf
NREL: Understanding Inertia Without the Spin [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9JN7kj1tso
Battery storage synthetic inertia has the potential to negate the need for synchronous condensers, whether dedicated installations, or thermal generators that have been modified with a clutch system to allow for syncon operating modes when not firing with fuel.
While usually using native syntax rather than strings, somethign like that exists for most languages of any popularity (and many obscure ones), in the form of miniKanren implementations.
Here's a recipe for running the proof of concept using Docker on a Mac:
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/crashappsec/h4x0rchat/blob/9b9d0bd5b2287501335acca35d070985e4f51079/h4x0rchat.c
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/src" \
-w /src gcc:13 bash -lc 'gcc -Wall -O2 \
-o h4x0rchat h4x0rchat.c && ./h4x0rchat'
Not sure if they are smart or just lucky.
A friend of mine got evicted illegally from the homeless shelter and got a moderately sized settlement which was a challenge for him to receive because he made it to his 50s without ever getting a bank account.
He started getting scam texts from someone who kept needing money to get a bus ticket to visit him and one time claimed to be at the local airport needing money for a cab ride. One of our friends convinced him to take a cab to the airport himself to meet this "person" who wasn't there.
We were thinking that they might have targeted him based on public records but I can say in the last few months I've met five people who are think are scammers sending me DMs on the like of Mastodon, Bluesky and Tumblr.
The linked article raises a few problems that the US could have with that solution:
> Four states - Delaware, Connecticut, Michigan and Oregon - as well as numerous cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Miami and Washington, DC, require merchants to provide exact change.
God, I had a manager who was the worst manager I ever had who was the last one to stay at Transmeta to turn off the lights. Between working there and working at DEC he could boast that he'd supervised both Dave Cutler and Linus Torvalds.
One time I had to unravel a race condition and he seemed pissed that it took a few days and when I tried to explain the complexity he told me his name was on a patent for a system that would let several VAXes share a single disk and didn't need a lecture.
> giving a corporation infamous for promoting authoritarianism
The NYT is certainly open to criticism along many fronts, but I don't have the slightest idea what you mean in claiming it promotes authoritarianism.
> Is it so hard to understand that men can be parents too?
Overton window and cultural norms take time to slide. Might be there after another generation, too early to tell.
It's such an incoherent article that it's hard to do more than react to the title.
It doesn't surprise me at all. It's not like there is really a central system for martial arts ranks. When I was a kid I went to this Dojo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kempo_Karate
which has a slightly different system of belts and isn't taken seriously by everyone. Despite that, decades later, the last time somebody held a fake gun to my head they were tasting dirt and then it hit me that I would have done the same thing if it was a real gun.
A non-"AI" template is probably getting filled in with numbers straight from some relevant source. AI may produce something more conversational today but as someone else observed, this is a high-hallucination point for them. Even if they get one statistic right they're pretty inclined to start making up statistics that weren't provided to them at all if they sound good.
> Why does the successor to the terminal need to be text oriented at all?
Terminals are not "text oriented". They are based on a bidirectional stream of tokens - that can be interpreted as text, or anything else.
That simplicity allows for Unix-style composition. If you make the output something different, then the receiving program will need to be able to parse it. The Amiga OS had some interesting ideas with different data types as system extensions - you'd receive "an image" instead of a JPEG file and you could ask the system to parse it for you. In any case, that's still forcing the receiving program to know what it's receiving.
One way to add some level of complexity is to add JSON output to programs. Then you can push them trough `jq` instead of `grep`, `sed`, or `awk`. Or push it through another tool to make a nice table.
> it’s all legacy invented for a world that is no longer relevant.
I hear that since the Lisa was introduced. Character streams are a pretty common thing today. They are also very useful thanks to their simplicity. Much like Unix, it's an example of the "worse is better" principle. It's simpler, dumber, and, because of that, its uses have evolved over decades with almost no change to the underlying plumbing required - the same tools that worked over serial lines, then multiplexed X.25 channels, then telnet, now work under SSH streams. Apps on both sides only need to know about the token stream.
They get lost. They aren't backed up. You can't search them. They run out of pages precisely when you forget to bring another one. You can't reorder pages. There's no easy way to keep professional and personal notes separate without carrying two notebooks, or keep them separated and organized by subject without carrying even more of them. Etc etc.
Yeah the ntpsec story, not great. I don't believe they're taken especially seriously. There are people close to Harlan Stenn who believe the project is essentially fraudulent.
No, that's Microsoft's other work in the XBox line. Try saying "Xbox Series X" and "Xbox Series S" and "XBox One S" to ten normal people and asking them to find the correct matching product in a store.
This is obviously not plausible. They're never going to shut off browser access on people's laptops. Watching YT at work is a major thing.
I have to assume you're joking, but I honestly can't figure out what point you're even trying to make. Do it think it's surprising that an ad-supported site has anti-scraping/anti-downloading mechanisms? YouTube isn't a charity, it's not Wikipedia.
It's just a matter of DRM-ing the smart connectors.
I wonder if that would hint at manipulating higher dimensions in order to "project" a virtual mass (positive or negative) for propulsion purposes.
They should just switch it off for a day or two, I don't think they'll have trouble getting funding after that.
> Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?
I'm buying one just for this sentiment alone.