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The dimensional differences of modern cars are striking. You'd need to make a 6:5 larger scale model of the original car in many cases. Or worse, if you've ever seen a classic Mini next to a modern Mini.
(yes, I will admit that a lot of that is for crash safety, but not all of it)
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tillage/news/feed-imports-into...
It seems like both of these are true: "Cattle are predominantly grass-fed" - yes, but this is seasonal; when they're eating something other than grass, it's an import.
When was it introduced and why? It seems in the opposite direction of travel from many languages, which have been trying to make more gender neutral options available.
(exception: Chinese didn't really bother with gendered pronouns until about the nineteenth century, due to the need to translate European languages, so some had to be introduced)
I've ended up with a "hybrid" system, which (claims to) automatically choose which of gas and electricity is cheaper on a minute by minute based on COP derived from temperature. I have solar panels but not a battery. On net, it's ended up as roughly the same price as the old gas boiler. Better CO2 emissions but not that much cheaper.
It's not automatically linked to rate updates. There's probably a way of automating that for Vaillant systems?
(Shoutout to ProllyInfamous, who's been making the great point that in many climates HW systems that also cool and dehumidify are a great benefit. Not here at 56N, though)
The problem of "instant legacy" systems: something that's vibe coded and reached unmaintainable by either the AI or humans, but is also now indispensable because users are relying on it.
Not on my devices. Auto update has been abused so often now that it is an embarrassment to the industry. Auto update should be for bug fixes and security issues only.
> looking up who is the actual person
"Fallacies programmers believe about people"
(you can sort of do this in countries with national ID schemes if you don't care about foreigners; for example, various people have found this in China where random things are gated behind having a WeChat account which requires a Chinese ID. You can't do this in the US or UK, which are big pushers of the ""age verification"" scheme)
Agree on title. Too dramatic.
The author seems to be obsessing about the overhead for trivial functions. He's bothered by overhead for states for "panicked" and "returned". That's not a big problem. Most useful async blocks are big enough that the overhead for the error cases disappears.
He may have a point about lack of inlining. But what tends to limit capacity for large numbers of activities is the state space required per activity.
> The book does what it says on the tin but it's more on persuasion methods and framing, which of course can be used for nefarious purposes.
An interesting result of reading those books is one starts to recognize when one is being manipulated.
Just the other day a door-to-door salesman appeared at my door, and he tried a number of classic sales techniques on me. He lacked, however, some accouterments that a legitimate salesman would have, so I had to be pretty firm in saying no.
Yeah, but then you have about 5 minutes time to change it to whatever what you want.
Tagging isn't a feature in HN.
The very first example that this study says is "false or unproven" uses ambiguous language at best:
> Animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein.
All commonly consumed sources of animal protein (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, etc.) are complete proteins, meaning they provide all essential amino acids. This is not true for all sources of plant-based protein. In addition, "protein" as is often used to indicate a part of a meal (I mean not just the technical definition of a chain of amino acids). Vegans are nearly always advised to supplement with B12 because good plant protein sources like legumes are poor sources of B12.
I understand what the study is getting at with the question, for as far as I am aware there are no studies that show that getting, say, 10 grams of complete protein from animals is any different from getting 10 grams of complete protein from plants. Still, given this question is easily ambiguous for valid definitions of "healthier", I find this study suspect, despite having no problem with the general idea that tons of people believe absolute batshit insane ideas about health and nutrition.
As do almost every microservice out there, by storing credentials in environment variables, an exploit that manages to read container's memory is enough.
I keep looking for frameworks that do it the right way, holding critical data encrypted all time, but it isn't a thing most people worry about.
Or tune the engine correctly. Probably has an off-the-shelf "performance" carb that's set much richer than it should and a "full race" cam that only makes sense for a track car, giving horrible fuel economy and actually less low-end power.
My daily driver is roughly as old, has a 400 V8 with a 4-barrel, idles so quietly I've had passengers surprised that the engine was running, and gets around 20-25mpg if I resist the urge to open it up all the way.
Without disassembling and tracing the Intel Windows drivers (something I don’t feel like doing)
As someone who generally doesn't use AI in software development nor RE, this is one thing that I'd recommend trying one on to see what it can do: the problem is clearly defined and a solution is easily validated, and it's a problem you're not intersted in digging deeper yourself. The other comment here about 0000 and FFFF checksums seems like a good place to start.
A little more digging found this discussion from TODAY regarding what looks like a very similar bug in one of Intel's Linux NIC drivers: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/4/1886
Same here, gen-x, in what concerns cinema, sometimes I do reserve if it is in high demand, but that is about it.
How well does that long translation prompt work?
... and that bug was spotted in the canary release, reported and fixed.
Sounds like responsible open source software development to me. That's what pre-releases are for.
r/wallstreetbets has been having an absolute field day with this interview, gotta admit it's pretty hilarious.
I guess wallstreetbets can giveth (given they're probably the primary reason Gamestock even still exists as an independent company today) and taketh away.
Does anyone have a link to a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in Edmonton?
OK, who? Vagueposting doesn't help anyone.
…how does GameStop have $55 billion?
10x makes sense only in terms of specific technology platforms.
I'm a 10x programmer at building Django apps compared to a developer who has never worked with Django before.
Someone who developers against WordPress on a daily basis will easily 10x my own attempts at building things on that platform.
I don’t understand this formulation of “no one will be relocated.” People have agency to move themselves. Maybe not everyone, but if the majority of folks started moving out due to the risk of flooding then that would create a strong impetus for the government to assist poor people in relocating.
Many of them also have vested interests in furthering corporate authoritarianism, which is why letting users have full control over their devices is considered a security risk to them.
Haha, wow, I never thought I'd see a voice model that was too quick, but 3.1 live felt like it responded unnaturally quickly! I'm kind of blown away, I'd want to insert a 100ms delay to make it sound more natural, wow. I never thought I'd see that.
The absence of a legal mechanism does not imply the absence of a mechanism (or even the absence of a peaceful mechanism.)
While there is a legal process for amending the Constitution which, as you note, is likely intractable in the status quo conditions, Constitutional change—whether peaceful (even if there is the implicit consequence of force if compromise is not reached) or not—historically and globally is often an extralegal process that is retrospectively legalized, rather than a legal process under pre-existing rules.
What disposability? Kerbals were never disposable! If you crash your little green astronauts on some moon or planet, you're supposed to send a rescue mission after them. And should that rescue fail too, stranding more Kerbals, you just keep launching more rescue missions, until you successfully establish a colony :).
The HN story autoformatter changes titlecase on well known terms, which I'm betting is what happened here.
"only about 20 percent of households had access to green loans from banks to do so, because they often require sufficient equity in a house and for the homeowner to have an active mortgage."
I get the equity requirement. But why an active mortgage?
> but take a 20% fuel consumption increase for granted when they buy a big SUV
My '22 Subaru Outback burns less per mile than my '03 Volkswagen Jetta did, for what it's worth.
> Having dark matter particle(s) is also not that strange. As far as we know there's no requirement that a particle interacts with any of the known forces beyond gravity.
This is the key thing. As we still don't have a theory of everything, which explains the fundamental reasons why every particle is the way it is, dark matter is a very straightforward and simple explanation.
The name makes it sound stranger than it is. It's just particles that have mass and are affected normally by gravity, but which are unaffected by the electromagnetic force.
It's not a particularly exotic or implausible or wild idea. In fact it's so simple it's almost boring. It's just obviously inherently difficult to test directly, since gravity is such a weak force.
> Is that really a moat though or something like a firehose of gasoline?
It's a moat from a defensive perspective. It's a firehose from an offensive one. Outside state capture, most moats are both.
The subject here is literally websites trying to push passkeys on users. That is who is asking us to.
About every week now Amazon tries to trick me into creating a passkey. It doesn't even ask, it just goes ahead and triggers my browser passkey creation mechanism without my consent. PayPal recently tried to force me to create one too and I had to kill and restart the app because that was the only way to skip it. I'll stick to my password with 2FA, thanks.
I've had a lot of mold problems with mine. Because they have to be strong enough to handle the coldest winter days, which makes them way overpowered when running air-conditioning in the summer, which means that when you run them in energy efficient mode, they are actively cooling only a small fraction of the time and all of the condensed water just sits there growing mold all day long. It also leaves the home far more humid than usual because it's not removing nearly as much humidity from the air as a less powerful unit running constantly would.
This isn't a problem with regular air-conditioning that is provisioned correctly for the size of your home, because it winds up actively running a lot of the time so the water is draining as new humidity condenses.
Is there a good overview source on what this is? I don't want a takedown. And I don't want to be sold. I just want a solid explainer.
I'm excited to read the first cogent piece making this point that doesn't devolve to gatekeeping, a detached and vaguely hostile professional software developer telling people with a newfound capability to solve practical problems for themselves with new software that they don't or shouldn't want the thing that they want, because whatever it is they come up with won't be "fit for purpose" until blessed by the guild, which has bylaws extrapolated from Brooks about the fundamental "limitations of LLMs".
> We've built a society where our only consistent interaction with community (for many people) is via the labor market
Modern society arguably has more opportunity for play–and evidence of adults playing–than ancient socities.
We also have a larger fraction of labor that one can genuinely like doing, versus being forced to do.
I took my 1972 Dodge small block engine out and converted it to 400 hp. Had to upgrade the transmission, driveline, brakes, radiator, and suspension to match. I self-drive it.
Can’t say I really trust that stuff like “charge only when green energy is available”. It’s a nice idea but whenever I’ve used Android devices my expectation was that sometimes I plug in my device at night but it doesn’t really charge and I am not going to pay top dollar and deal with life in a walled garden to have that experience.
Yup. It was pure malicious compliance by the tracking industry with the hopes of killing the regulation.
No, it's a reminder of why not letting your country descend into fascism matters more than ever.
There are two separate issues: addictive technologies, and mandated technologies. Instagram and TikTok are examples of the first. Google Play Store and Microsoft 360 are examples of the second. The second is more of a concern than the first.
Google Chrome is trying hard to become a mandated technology, but hasn't quite succeeded yet.
> they will only get better.
Then came the new Claude update, which many people say is worse. Even Anthropic says it got worse.[1] HN discussion back on April 15th: [2]
Some of this is a pricing issue. Turning "default reasoning effort" down from "high" to "medium" was a form of shrinkflation. Maybe this technology is hitting a price/performance wall.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
More to the point, the vendor will have to make the correct deals with and contributions to firms and foundations owned and operated by the President’s friends and family members.
There's a frickin' huge literature on planning that goes way back to the Golden Age of AI not to mention operations research, project management, etc. Any yeah, asking ChatGPT to write you a plan is not a good plan!
No maybe they are looking for somebody who knows something about that, they certainly need somebody who know something about that, but what is that person going to conclude from that blog post about this company being able to put them to use profitably?
On top of the GDPR/American concept of "it is all OK if there is consent" which applies to most organization, health related organizations face stronger HIPPA regulations in the US.
I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand.
It's what they probably should have done from day one.
I'm not saying the Thrawn trilogy is like the highest art ever made. It's glorious pop schlock fun, as Star Wars should be. But it reminds me of the way that manga is so often treated as storyboards for the anime adaptations. The books, being books, can't be quite so directly translated, but it's close enough that it shouldn't strain any competent scriptwriter. Assuming Disney still knows how to find such people, a proposition not well supported by recent evidence.
Also, automatic three-movie plan, which could be used to fix up one of Hollywood's biggest problems. I don't know where Hollywood gets its swaggering confidence that they can make multi-movie epics while simultaneously having no plans whatsoever for what the next movie will be, after their repeated, catastrophic, and expensive failures trying to create them. What if, and hear me out here, try not to let your head explode at the audacity of this idea, they didn't try to spend billions of dollars just sort of "winging" it? What if they had an actual plan for how they were going to spend billions of dollars over the course of a decade? I know, I know, it's a crazy idea, but maybe they should give it a try.
Initial take: as vulnerability stories go, this is a pretty boring one; what they have here is a target that was secured largely by the fact that few people knew about it. The most work done in this blog post is establishing that a training platform deployed by DoD might be much more sensitive than the same kinds of applications which are ubiquitous throughout corporate America and which are generally boring targets.
The vulnerability itself appears to be something anyone with mitmproxy would have spotted within minutes of looking at the platform; apparently, rotating object IDs worked everywhere in the app, and there was no meaningful authz.
It's interesting if AI systems can "spot" these, in the sense of autonomously exercising the application and "understanding" obvious failed authz check patterns. But it's a "hm, ok, sure" kind of interesting.
> our waitinglist are 80% battery and heatpump sellers in the Benelux
Lean into that. You’re currently a generic sales product. Focusing on a growing space, provided it doesn’t have an existing solution, will focus your team, product and pitch to both customers and investors.
I know this isn't as good as a "hey we've fully launched" announcement, but a lot of people have been curious as to what we're up to with jujutsu, so we figured we'd do a little "hello, world!" blog post with some context.
More to come, as well as technical articles on various topics too!
I still see no monetization with Bun and Deno to keep them going.
You see this all over the place with other programming languages.
The ones that have bleeding edge features do so, because there are companies, or universities (for their PhD and Msc thesis), that invest into those ecosystems.
In the end nodejs will keep improving, with Microsoft and Google's baking, and that will be it.
It's not great. Just talked to a hubber last week. They said everyone inside feels pretty dejected right now, and these posts don't help.
I feel for them -- with AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that along with the maintainers. That's a lot of work that gets done with each PR.
But they need to make some changes quickly.
I build a microsite with Vite and then run a Python script that copies the files to S3 and does the Cloudfront setup which is usually just an invalidation because I will put many microsites on the same domain. I don’t see what is so hard about it.
Quite possibly all those other people believe something like that. The "elites" are vulnerable to Internet brain worms like everyone else.
Yes, but thinking this is a safeguard presumes the exchange value of the coin must outweigh any other concerns the actor has.
Can you tell us what the actual message is?
It's a pretty strong endorsement for the idea that coding agents, used skillfully by experienced developers, can further amplify their expertise.
The phone numbers in these data sets are weird and problematic, but the equivalent data in the US is usually public, and available for free to any registered candidate.
> specifically mentioned "bettors" - day traders/speculators, not long time investors
Forex is zero sum before fees and negative sum after. It’s distinct from capital markets. I wouldn’t extrapolate losses from FX.
You are correct. Non-chain gas stations often make only as little as one or two cents per liter, and that's before you look at pump maintenance, inspections, periodical tank replacements/upgrades/liners and other costs.
Manned stations really need that shop otherwise they'd go bankrupt.
Chains make a bit more money but mostly because they can play longer games with stock and options on much larger volume buys.
Source: former gas station owner.
> All flagship phones have hit the requirements
Lots of non-flagship phones making e-waste. This is a sensibly-tailored regulation, targeting the problem instead of specifying a solution because some bureaucrat likes replaceable batteries.
Which is obviously complete bullshit. National Security is the 'trump' card played to explain almost every inexplicable policy. It comes with the added advantage that if someone doesn't want to play the game you get to label them as 'not a patriot'.
I built a glider and flew it exactly once because I was too scared of crashing it after all the time that went into built it. The whole RC industry has made massive leaps, the first time I saw a modern radio I thought I'd received an empty bag...
And the fork author was given a oppertunity to remediate without further drama. Instead, the fork author doubled down, where the possible reasons for that behavior are hard to interpret in good faith.
Betting venues can make money on transaction volume rather than holding an edge against their customers on the actual bets.
I mean I don't love eBay, but it's certainly not dying, where did you get that idea? Its revenue has continued to grow every year post-COVID, and competitors all face the central challenge of eBay's network effect.
It's not experience massive growth but that's because it's a pretty mature market by this point. People who want to sell their stuff already use eBay. It works. It's mature.
Which is why you should only give warranted compliments.
You're right, telling someone bald that they have a great head of hair is not going to work well.
Fortunately, virtually everyone has something you can compliment them about. Even if they're a surly old frumpy shopkeeper, maybe they keep their store super clean and organized. Maybe you're impressed by their loyalty to serving the community for so many decades.
Never say anything that isn't genuine. Fortunately, most people have qualities you can be genuine about.
> It never* does.
Can you substantiate this claim a bit?
This seems to be a cultural problem to me.
There are societies where talking to strangers all over the place is normal, without any hidden agenda.
Or even dancing with random people at the club, many times never to be seen again. Just to give a more intim kind of example.
While in other cultures, seems that unless there is something to gain from the effort, people don't even try.
Software companies so far have been getting away with it, because the industry is relatively young versus others, and outside high integrity computing liability is yet to be a common expectation.
If everyone asked for returns, or sued, software companies the same way they deal with other goods, the atittude would most likely have changed by now.
Not to mention the whole EULAs ("we don't have any idea what we are doing here, please sign") disease.
More damage has been done by that book than by any Herbert Schildt C language book.
I used to play penny stocks for fun and it was a blast to be doing $3000 trades and be responsible for 30% of the volume for the day. You can learn a lot about how markets work if you adopt a penny stock, particularly the kind that trades in a wide range where you can buy in at 0.03 and figure "I'll sell when it hits 0.12" and sooner or later it does... then falls back down to 0.02.
I'd just do it with Pillow.
MOND does amazingly well at galactic rotation curves, less well at anything else. If you think it started with Vera Rubin in 1966 MOND seems natural, but if you know that it started with Fritz Zwicky in 1933 than dark matter is easier to believe.
> and then they list it on eBay and turn a bit of a profit with a local pickup option available
Sort of wondering why nobody did this already. I know that the better charity shops do this with rare and unusual books/records. The UK equivalent CeX has an online offering through webuy.com, which appears to be a Chinese owned multinational.
I've never been anywhere that had more of a climate of anxiety than Boston, and I live near an unusually anxious city.
Interesting. I'd have thought that Linux users would go traditional (vi vs. Emacs) or for something heavier (vscode), or quick and easy for when you just need $EDITOR (nano).
On a related note:
"Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets" https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-h...
I think Revanced has/is a framework around modding as well, but yeah, that's the extent of my knowledge. I'd obviously ask Claude :P
Yes. See [1] for an overview of how this works.
When the SEC filing is made, we'll get to see how the deal is structured. The $20 billion from TD Securities becomes a debt obligation of the combined company. There's a tax break in equity to debt conversion, and a second tax break for carried interest. [2] There may be a preferred stock deal or debt refinancing so that TD gets their $20 billion back. Usually, the private equity firm exits within a few years.
[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.23.1.121
[2] https://www.pgpf.org/article/what-is-the-carried-interest-lo...
One man's useless trivia is another man's ideas for a project name :).
Isn’t that just a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout ?
Kant on AI:
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people, even after nature has long since declared them of age (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless choose to remain immature throughout their lives; and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so convenient to be immature. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who judges my diet for me, and so on, then I need not exert myself. I have no need to think, as long as I can pay; others will take care of that tedious business for me.
(Translated with DeepL)
And everything continues to turn to shit
It's novel if you never played with img2img, including especially several forms of (text+img)2img. Or, if you never tried editing images by text prompt in recent multimodal LLMs.
That said, I spent plenty of time doing both, and yet it would probably take me a while to arrive at this approach. For some reason, the "draw a sketch, have a model flesh it out" approach got bucketed with Stable Diffusion in my mind, and multimodal LLMs with "take detailed content, make targeted edits to it". So I'm glad the OP posted it.
> Hardware is cheap ; human labor is not.
Especially true when you're paying for neither hardware nor labor.
Writing inefficient client-side software, whether it's desktop or webshit, makes the customers / users pay for the hardware, and pay with their time.
>The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible. There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a terminal, it is inherently accessible.
Nope, nobody believes that. Devs say that for text documents which is somethig else entirely -- and, with provisions, for terminal single command apps (like grep, cut, ls, and so on). Nobody said it for TUIs.
>People keep throwing this phrase around in relation to LLMs, when not a single “fundamental limitation” has been rigorously demonstrated to exist
Some limitations are not rigorously demonstrated to be fundamental, but continuously present from the first early LLMs yes. Shouldn't the burden of proof be on those who say it can be done?
And some limitations are fundamental, and have been rigorously demonstrated, e.g.:
Funny analogy, in that when the high caliber shells start raining, most forms of cover won't make a difference. The ones that will, are not something you want to stay behind on days when you're not being actively bombed. In fact, keeping you behind such protections is by itself a military tactic - it lets the enemy roam freely and maneuver around you.
But the basic flaw of this analogy is that it implies you're at war, and your system is always in battle.
Yes, and yes. Yet most of the world's cheap plastic stuff is made that way. Here's the hobbyist version.[1]
The power of money.
I spent some time on legged locomotion back in the 1990s. It was clear then that you wanted torque control, and I did some work on the theory for that, trying to solve it from first principles, not machine learning. Got some nice theory and a patent out. But the parts just weren't there to build such things. As the article points out, the key to this is motor back-drivability. The final drive has to survive shock loads, and it has to dump forces into the motor, where the magnetic fields can take it. As I've quoted before, "you cannot strip the teeth of a magnetic field", a comment from early General Electric locomotive sales. (Locomotives are Diesel-electric, not Diesel with a clutch and shifting gearbox, because the clutch required is huge. Yes, it's been tried.) That's something few areas of engineering cared about, with the exception of aircraft flight control systems with mechanical backup.
Pneumatic actuators looked promising, but proportional dynamic valves were big, heavy, and about $1000 each. Linear motors (not ball screws) looked like the coming thing back then, as 10:1 power/weight ratio had been achieved. But that technology never got much further, and Aura, the biggest player, collapsed in a financial scandal. Series elastic actuators were (and still are) a race between the spring compressing and the ball screw motor starting up. Hydraulics were too clunky; Boston Dynamics built a 400 pound mule, but the Diesel power pack never worked. Direct drive pancake motors were used by some SCARA industrial robots, but those were too big for leg joints. I thought someone would crack the direct drive problem eventually, but nobody ever did. We're still stuck with some gear reduction.
Some of the exotic ideas for muscles mentioned in this article go back that far. The McKinney muscle is old, and not too useful. There was some interest in electrorheological fluids, fluids whose mechanical properties change when an electric field is applied. That didn't become useful either. Shape-memory alloys were a dead end; liquid cooling can overcome the slowness problem, but not the inefficiency problem. Everybody went back to good old electric motors, although they became 3-phase AC instead of DC. It helped that the drone industry made 3-phase motors and their controllers small, cheap, and powerful.
Academic robotics groups were tiny. MIT and Stanford had less than a dozen people each. Progress required hundreds of millions of dollars for all that custom engineering and R&D. The level of effort just wasn't there. Nor would throwing money at the problem prior to machine learning have led to useful products.
It's impressive what's been accomplished in the last five years. It took a lot of money.
This is a wild story about creating a business that buys and sells not using electricity. I jokingly suggested you could build an 'energy consumption facility' which was just a big resistor connected to ground (which is all an unprofitable bitcoin mining rig is) and then get paid for not using it.
The original source for this was Matt Levine over at Bloomberg. His take is also quite good: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-04-30/sel...
To the point it got replaced by std::function_ref() in C++26.