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Don't forget underseas cables: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
We know that to be the case with Musk. He's admitted it. Andreessen, don't know.
It gets better every release, but there are missing language features:
https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/
And parts of the stdlib that don't work:
Why would I want to own a cut-off datacenter in Dubai?
Healthcare will carry the economy, 4M Boomers retire every year and these jobs cannot be offshored like finance and tech.
Issuing US treasury debt to those still willing to buy it.
No, but determinism reduces the number of stones you need to turn over when debugging hairy problems such as your program occasionally returning different results for the same inputs. You may not have control over the timing of I/O operations or order of external events (including OS scheduler), but at least you know that your side of the innovation/response is, in isoaltion, behaving predictably.
Linus agrees: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-No-RISC-V-BE
Good. Call your reps and ask for more action.
Say what you want about cryptocurrency, at least their bug bounties pay well.
Trying to milk the last drop before the patents expire? H.264 patents have already expired in most of the world and the remaining ones, which might not even be necessary for the vast majority of H.264 use, are also approaching expiry very soon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...
The Philippines may be a US client state since MacArthur liberated them from Japan, but they need to deal with Iran to keep the lights on. The rationing situation is quite bad in a lot of east Asian countries.
Richard Stallman's "Right to Read" is worth reading again, because it portrays a very similar scenario.
This was a fantastic YouTube video on flat earther beliefs from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
Spoiler - they mostly switched to QAnon instead.
There is no point engaging in any way with people who believe in such "theories". They are like trolls, the only way to deal with them is not at all. Don't engage, don't disagree, just nothing, total silence. One can choose to be a wilful edit and waste your life and time on complete bullshit, but the rest of us should just ignore those people completely.
hate to break it to you but life is probabilities all the way down
The US has lost mutiple KC-125 tankers and an E3 as well, although those were destroyed ont he ground rather than shot down.
building all of this military infrastructure at the expense of living conditions for its people
Just yesterday, Trump was talking about another $1.5 trillion for defense in the coming fiscal year, and saying the US can't afford things like daycare, medicare etc.
Iran's military budget as a % of GDP has historically been inthe low single digits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_Iran
The rare earth dependency on China is very much overblown. The U.S. has very significant natural reserves of rare earth minerals. The problem is the same with all mining - it's uneconomic to mine minerals in the U.S. because the job of "miner" is unattractive to Americans (both the laborers and the governments that sign environmental permits) when there are cleaner, safer, and more highly paid jobs available.
They're also just as much of a CO2 solution as electric trains are, i.e. it depends on the fuel source for the local electric grid (which today is overwhelmingly solar in most of the places where EVs are popular).
Never been stuck behind someone doing 45 in a 55? Really?
You don’t have to speed. It’s a choice. You shouldn’t make the choice in the passing lane, though.
(1) conventional spell checkers still exist
(2) it's ok to ask "is this grammatical?"
(3) I will bounce ideas off chatbots but I think I've used just once AI generated sentence in the last two years. On one hand it is not my voice and it also sticks out like a sore thumb. I mean, if I hear "you're not a fur, you're a therian" another time I'm going to howl at the moon or something.
We have some friends who have a really well-built chicken coop. Sometimes we help them with the birds when they are out of town and bring back eggs.
A while back they had a stump in front of the house with a family of foxes living in it and they pointed a game camera at it.
Night after night they got footage of the fox mama bringing back other people's chickens to feed to her kits.
The moral is, I think, that the well-built chicken coop is a good investment.
SSH certificates aren't X.509 certificates.
That's the sort of "we started at the acronym and worked backwards" approach the Pentagon loves to do.
It's also worth remembering that markdown tried very hard to encode conventions that were already used in Usenet, email, and other text media. A > to indicate a quote was widespread Usenet convention. Asterisks or underscores to indicate emphasis was also a common convention; both are legal because both were common. Double asterisk or double underscores to indicate really, really emphasizing something was also a common convention. So were asterisks to display a bulleted list, blank lines to separate paragraphs, and indenting 4+ spaces to write code.
It's a good example of "pave the path" design philosophy, where you do what users are already doing rather than trying to impose some platonic ideal of what the world should be like. And it works quite well at that.
Useful study. UK-based.
The "authenticity" thing of podcasters is only meaningful if the podcaster was there. Sometimes that happens, and those are the good ones. There are good protest videos. Not many war videos. Secondary sources are just pundits, of which we have too many. It's easy to be an influencer who covers entertainment - entertainment wants to be watched. It's hard to be an influencer who covers, say, unemployment. It's possible, but you have to go and talk live to people who just got laid off. That's reporting.
It's not the delivery system. It's whether the source goes out and pulls in news. Most don't.
“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news." - City Editor of a Chicago newspaper, 1918. Look at a news story and ask "did this begin with a press release or a speech?". If so, it's publicity. HN had an article from a few days ago about "CEO says" journalism. It's worse on the political front.
Democracy requires that a sizable fraction of voters know what's really happening. This is a big problem.
Influencers can be controlled. Dubai has cracked down on war reporting by the large number of influencers there.[1] Right now, Iran claims a missile hit on an Oracle data center in Dubai. The UAE denies this. Did anybody in Dubai drive over and take pictures? Call up Oracle and ask? Nah.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/dubai-...
The corporate version of Stockholm Syndrome.
Aaron had very little to do with Markdown, other than reviewing the spec once at the end.
Right. R in RAG stands for retrieval, and for a brief moment initially, it meant just that: any kind of tool call that retrieves information based on query, whether that was web search, or RDBMS query, or grep call, or asking someone to look up an address in a phone book. Nothing in RAG implies vector search and text embeddings (beyond those in the LLM itself), yet somehow people married the acronym to one very particular implementation of the idea.
So this is the end of the Drift project, right?
Back at the top of the crypto hype cycle I wouldn't be surprised to see a project survive even a situation like this one, but now that the hype has died down is it still possible to come back from a loss of this magnitude?
The transition is happening rapidly in Pakistan: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/pakistan...
Seek throws up a „please don‘t disturb nature“ modal at every single start that you need to click away. Usually at that point the bird has gone away, too.
The iNaturalist app doesn‘t. It has more features, but Seek‘s former advantage „let me just the a photo and auto-identify“ is now in the iNaturalist main app, as well, so it is my default now.
Got to love whoever looked at prescription drugs as a political issue and concluded what’s needed are higher prices in an election year.
Similar category: Merlin Bird ID [1]. Uses audio to identify the birds around you.
The iNaturalist API is an absolute gem. It doesn't require authentication for read-only operations and it has open CORS headers which means it's amazing for demos and tutorials.
My partner and I built this website with it a few years ago: https://www.owlsnearme.com/
(I realize this is a bit on-brand for me but I also use it to track pelicans https://tools.simonwillison.net/species-observation-map#%7B%... )
That's the bit that scares me. I've often found myself installing software in a hurry to join a meeting on some platform that I've not previously used via my current machine.
The time pressure means I'm less likely to pay attention to what I'm installing.
Also in sort of stark contrast to the "here's my elden ring build", which was pretty incoherent, and so was believed to be actually his.
How is this riskier or less “mentally sound” than what European countries do? European drug price caps are premised on the threat that, if drug companies don’t sell at those prices, that the government will bar sales of the drug in the country, or drop the drug from coverage under the public health system.
Here, there is no threat that the drugs will be banned from the market completely. The threat is that the drug companies will face high tariffs that reduce sales. That’s a much less extreme threat than what the European countries use as leverage.
Same applies to Windows or UNIX based packages, other than systems like iDevices, Android or UWP, where applications are sandboxed.
However people around here hate sandboxing on their OSes.
The EU should abandon the stupid Commission structure and have a real Parliament that can actually draft legislation. The current one can just vote down legislation drafted by the Commission.
Anthropic acquisition, what do you expect as outcome?
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
The US military is in the middle of a top-level political purge; both honesty and competence as an institution will be below normal levels for the forseeable future, and honesty about sensitive operations during wartime is never much even as a baseline.
Weapons are designed with an opponent in mind, and guarded against the expected threat models from that opponent. Everything breaks down when the opponent does not what you want them to.
I suppose you could avoid eating hours before a mission, and not eat gassy foods.
> In hindsight we know, that these models were wrong
The number of near misses and actual deaths in the Apollo programme loosely indicate the models were right. We just had to up our risk threshold to make the Moon with the era’s technology.
They can and they will. In the longer term there simply won't be anything else.
He likes to molest/rape underage girls. If he just molested money that wouldn't be that much of a problem.
Also doesn't help that wealth means they can own newspapers or social media to promote their shitty takes as gospel, and have armies of regular Joe fanbois, that kiss their ass and tell us how wise they are...
You left out 'unarmed'.
Hegseth is not in charge of the Iranian military.
I mean, being aware of that (and adjusting behavior for it) is a form of introspection.
Without introspection you'd just dive into the pit.
be bop be bop ! why yes, yes i am.
I remember a time when UIs looked consistent, instead of custom-branded, and I still think the "completely reasonable and normal" state is the former, not the latter.
C-130s and helicopters flying low over Iran right after they shot down an F-15 in the same spot is wild. Whatever I think of the war idiocy, that's brave.
Speech is free, listening is priceless.
But seriously I have tried to market quite a few things and the normal condition is that people are indifferent and you have to work about 25x harder than you think [1] to get people's attention. Maybe 1 time in 10 or less you have something that resonates with people and that they get excited about.
[1] not hyperbole!
It's the "tyranny of structure"
Suing for damages here isn't profitable enough for attorneys, because "damages" with free healthcare means "missed a week of work", instead of "got a $200k bill".
> Notably, more than 60% of all fossil fuel subsidies granted in 2023 were spent in three countries: Germany (EUR 41 billion), Poland (EUR 16 billion), and France (EUR 15 billion).
This is another one of those cases where people say "Europe" when meaning something much more country specific.
I can't find any detailed breakdown of this; I'm guessing it's something to do with coal mining in Germany?
France has absolutely no excuse, though. Largest nuclear power generation in Europe and subsidizing fossil fuels? I bet it's something to do with farming.
“Almost every engineer will work on a product people hate.”
No. Forcing people to use a product they hate is privilege. It’s about power. Monopolists like Microsoft and Google can do it, companies that face market competition can’t.
Depends on which OS we are talking about.
I know a few where that doesn't hold, including some still being paid for in 2026.
Here's the one I use: https://issinfo.net/artemis
be bop be bop ! why yes, yes i am.
There are so many interesting things that can be done with an Android phone. Tomorrow, if the Google Play store decides not to publish this app, I can still install it via the APK file. I wonder how many of these apps will be usable after Google's new rules about sideloading.
Like a Borg cube - if there's one thing more scary than a cube full of drones, it's one that's mysteriously empty.
Sure, that is why I see translation and asset creation teams being let go, replaced by AI.
Or head count in dev teams, now doing even more with less.
Not to count all those gas stations, supermarket checkouts, or underground lines that are fully automated.
Still wondering when I will also be shown the door.
couple that with the "the ray tracer challenge" book, and you can generate some pretty cool images :o)
We've been in low-key WW3 since 2022 or maybe even since 2014, it is just that like WW2 it did not arrive everywhere at once. But there are a lot of countries at war now and if the fall out from this entirely manufactured energy crisis is going to get just a tad worse then I expect more countries to join in shortly.
Imagine the degree of fall out if say Estonia allowed Ukraine to use their country to set up a base and they started attacking russian infrastructure or Kaliningrad from there. I'm fairly sure russia would see that as Estonia having joined the war.
And for once I would agree with russia. So Iran has - in my opinion - a legitimate claim that if the USA uses other countries to launch their aircraft from that those countries have effectively joined the war.
Colo and cloud providers that provide real SLAs exist. But they're pricey because they tend to insure against breach of that that SLA and they pass on the cost of that insurance. If you're a run-of-the-mill e-commerce company then it probably doesn't make much sense. But if you yourself are providing critical services to others and they have you by the short hairs in case you don't perform you better make sure that you're not going to end up holding the bag.
One simple example: energy market services, 15 minute ahead and day ahead markets require participants to have the ability to perform or they will be penalized severely, to the point where they can lose that access, the damage of which could easily be in the 10's of millions to 100's of millions depending on their size. Asset owners and utilities both would be able to hit them hard if they do not perform, the asset owners for lost income and the utilities for both government penalties and possibly for outages and all associated costs. These are not the kind of contracts you enter into lightly.
I've been telling everybody around me to prepare for a massive price increase in various must-haves because I don't see how we're going to avoid that.
Fertilizer and fuel are a massive problem and once reserves run out (and we're not that far from that depending on where you live, in some places we're already there) the problems will multiply very rapidly. Trump is the biggest idiot that ever sat in a seat of power and the whole world (but of course, as always, the poorer parts first) will end up paying the price, and if the harvest is bad quite possibly the ultimate one.
SF should just name it "Chavez", as a convenience. Lots of people are named Chavez. No rush. Shorten the signs as they are routinely replaced.
Going back to "Army" would be silly, especially since the U.S. Army never had a presence on that side of town. It was all Navy near the bay. The Army was up at the Presidio.
SF has this silly thing of giving streets secondary names. Who knows where "Herb Cain Way" or "Isadora Duncan Lane" is?
Numbered streets have their own problems. In San Francisco, 4th St. and 16th St intersect near the UCSF hospital complex.
UAE has always been one of the more repressive government on the planet.
More like turn them both into a liquid.
That's the "digital escort" process mentioned in the very long OP. Understandably, the US government got mad when they found out that cheap Chinese tech support staff were being used for direct intervention on "secure" VMs.
Likewise, I read it as "Fake Rescue Packet"
It would be far more interesting to look at what this was "compiled" from; it looks like the output of a state-machine generator.
Why go through all that trouble to reinvent SMTP? Outlook is trash, but the web is even worse.
That's been done as "The Store is Closed."[1]
IKEA threatened to sue.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/sK5wPE-aQwc?autoplay=1&enablej...
In these cases, report to Brian Krebs instead.
> Because you can't do the Nazi Germany thing these days. I mean... disgust aside, it kinda failed.
It failed because Nazi Germany was not militarily superior to combination of the nations that it got upset with it externally, not because of any internal failure of control. While its nice to think that Nazi Germany “failing” somehow disproves the viability of the same broad kind of one-party, massacre-the-opposition totalitarianism, it isn't really justified.
> options have been replaced more and more these days with RSU's (plain old grants)
RSUs are also much-less liquid and tightly controllable by companies than actual stock. That has made them attractive to management and insiders.
> on the guidance computer
Source for this running on the GN&C (guidance and nav) computer? Isn’t that built by the ESA?
To clarify, the parent here didn't actually give the model a way to run the commands. The model just wrote the script/command and then, being unable to run anything, just mentally calculated what the result would probably be (and got it wrong).
Yes the answer was wrong, but so was the setup (the model should have had access to a command runner tool).
Wait, the thing we're talking about is Apache 2.0?
I want more — of your writing. Where can I find it?
I nicknamed ESPN in the US EBetPN
The specific lie discussed was the idea that granting options was not somehow an "expense" and could be excluded from the accounts.
(Google tells me this is a relevant summary of US GAAP https://carta.com/uk/en/learn/startups/equity-management/asc... )
I've found half a dozen sites to track the progress of Artemis II ... this is among the best.
> Do we ever see "oil prices are down 3.5%, we are lowering our prices by 3.5%"? Never.
Companies lower prices all the time. It's the competitive market at work. They just don't tend to say why, because nobody cares about the reason, so it's not necessary.
E.g. snack prices are coming down, to pick one recent example: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697941/pepsi-prices-ch...
But it's human bias to notice when things get worse, but not when things get better.
Sometimes I wonder if we just do these wars so that companies can raise prices and when the war ends, not lower them. Do we ever see "oil prices are down 3.5%, we are lowering our prices by 3.5%"? Never. "But the free market will force someone to do this to gain marketshare." But Amazon is the only Amazon, so I doubt that will happen.
None of this makes them “enemy combatants.”
What is a difference? If the "elaborate harness" consists of mix of "classical" code and ML model invocations, at which point it's disqualified from consideration for "thinking machine"? Best we can tell, even our brains have parts that are "dumb", interfacing with the parts that we consider "where the magic happens".
The strict definition of touch typing reminds me of how when I was a kid, my parents would always tell me that there’s a specific way of holding chopsticks. You gotta hold the top one like a pencil, and rest the bottom one between the crook of your fingers and your ring finger, and make sure they’re the same length and the bottom one isn’t moving and you’re just using it as a base to press against.
And then I became an adult and visited China and met actual Chinese immigrants and married a native chopstick holder. And half of them don’t hold chopsticks “the real way”. Somehow it all works out. As long as you can eat a peanut with them, you pass.
As an adult I learned that there’s also a whole lot of prescriptive bullshit that basically nobody pays attention to. The strict definition of touch typing seems like one of those. If you can type without looking at the keys, you can touch type.
In any significant war the Internet is going to go down. That's what has happened empirically in countries undergoing significant wars or social unrest, like Russia, Iran, Yemen, Ethiopia, Syria, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. While IP packet routing itself may have been designed to survive a nuclear war, there have been many centralized systems built on top of it (DNS? Edge caching? Cloudflare? Big Tech) that are essential to the functioning of what we know of as the Internet.
If your threat model includes war and you want to have some of the conveniences of the Internet, you should make plans for how to host local copies of data and develop local-scale communications for the people you regularly talk with. The Internet is too big of a security and propaganda risk for governments to allow it to continue to exist when they are engaged in a real existential war.