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If someone would like to and is willing to make the time, that’s fine, but you don’t owe them this if they are not a good person or worth spending time with imho. Connection and community is earned, not a given. My lived experience is there are some good old people you strive to make time with, some who are fine but I wouldn’t go out of my way to make time for, and some who are just terrible people who are going to die alone because of who they are. Your life experience and decisioning process about how and with whom to spend precious, non renewable time may differ.
Don’t set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.
I regret only having one upvote for this.
I note that games are mostly art assets and things like level design, and players are already happy to instantly consign such products to the slop bin.
The whole thing is "market for lemons": app stores filling with dozens of indistinguishable clones of each product category will simply scare users off all of them.
Why does the agent have your credentials? There's no need for that! I made one that doesn't:
It absolutely is. They are simply spreading malware. You can't claim to be a 'dumb pipe' when your whole reason for existence is to make something people deemed 'too complex' simple enough for others to use, then you have an immediate responsibility to not only reduce complexity but to also ensure safety. Dumbing stuff down comes with a duty of care.
That’s not the operative principle in a democracy where people with many different moral ideologies must cooperate under the banner of a single government.
Unicode should be for visible characters. Invisible characters are an abomination. So are ways to hide text by using Unicode so-called "characters" to cause the cursor to go backwards.
Things that vanish on a printout should not be in Unicode.
Remove them from Unicode.
> The left wing constantly says “we started letting women work”.
I’ve literally never seen anyone on the left (and rarely even the liberal capitalist center-right) say that. I’ve seen people on the hard right, when complaining, use that framing, though.
And, look, here its part of a complaint glorifying the defects of the capitalist-patriarchal family and whining that more equal treatment of women in the economic sphere hurt the “family unit” rather than recognizing that capitalism wrecks the family unit and greater equality for women just reduces the particular systematic of oppression of women within the capitalist-patriarchal system, but neither cures nor causes the damage to the family unit that comes from capitalism.
It must be nice to live in a world where your country is always morally right just because it's your country. It's much simpler that way.
> they can inflict massive damage
Damage. Not massive damage.
Drones seem to have reached their zenith of operational freedom. I’m genuinely surprised the U.S. and Israel don’t field gun- and laser-based anti-drone demonstrators.
Related: "High-bandwidth flash progress and future" (15 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700384
In an era of RAM shortages and quarterly price increases, Optane remains viable for swap and CPU/GPU cache.
This looks interesting but I have no idea what it's talking about. I assume this is how non-techies feel when reading a programming article.
AI is extremely good at the things that it has many examples for. If what you are doing is novel then it is much less of a help, and it is far more likely to start hallucinating because 'I don't know' is not in the vocabulary of any AI.
> DR DOS® 9.0 is a faithful clean-room reimplementation
With a 3D printer and some 'ordinary household chemicals' to quote a certain movie you can do pretty scary stuff.
Hm, what's wrong with it?
> curious lack of any data regarding the actual accuracy of the system
No lack of entrackment data generated by [edit] d̶i̶g̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶t̶w̶i̶n̶ github repo of "the system".
Apparently it means profile photo.
What’s childish is thinking that calling the Department of War by a euphemism changes what it is and always has been. The Department of “Defense” killed a bunch of people Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and countless minor actions. These bubbles of civilization we enjoy are built on adults killing a bunch of people, as necessary, to establish the order that allows more childish people to build social media websites.
Yeah, this genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
The Oscars are the heart of the problem. One definition of “celebrity” is “person who is celebrated”
Hollywood is so used to getting high on its own supply that it really thinks we want to see an AI slop video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise. People there just don’t have any information at all about what anybody outside their bubble thinks so of course they make samey big budget pictures and samey small budget pictures. Unless they shut down their communications channels and disperse geographically they are going to keep doing the same thing over and over again and be wondering why they keep getting the same results.
And that gets us to why they will never reform, they know their numbers are terrible but think this is (1) cyclical and (2) due to technological changes so they’ll never get it that running ads that make it sound like somebody else cares about Tom Cruise doesn’t really make people care about Tom Cruise, it just makes them ignore advertising messages.
> Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal?
I wish more people would ask themselves those questions.
Sadly Charles himself didn't appear to conclude that yes, it's naïve to expect AI to be "smart" (whatever that means) and yes, he and many other people get hung up on the word "intelligence" in AI, a field that's been called that since the 1950s.
I tried to say this on another thread, where it got the reception I expected, but I'll say it here too: People say "let me get to know you, mistakes and all" and then downvote me. If you want me to not run my comments through an LLM, stop reacting badly to the delivery.
I think you could pick out a movement from this and then a movement from that. I can see somebody wanting to have classical music playing all day without having to pick out specific tracks, like listening to the radio.
Isn't it obvious that, if one person can do it, many more can do it as well, and probably have? It's not like they'll put it on GitHub.
Exactly. "An Apache can shoot down a drone" is like "Tiger tanks were better than Shermans": the relative numbers of each matter.
Translation: everyone should be able to shoot down an airliner, not just nations.
Probably behind my usual reading rate since I have been busy with foxography. I greatly enjoyed
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Planning-Disasters-California-D...
And the light novel for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbed_in_a_Backwater_Dun...
I’ve got a lot of books on daoism, animal tracking, character acting, physical cultivation and such that I am making slow progress on.
Note the military has a fractal structure such that you still have smaller units inside a bigger operation. I think that’s part of the solution.
It's quite frightening when we see Oracle leveraging government contracts for hosting government data about the population on Oracle's infrastructure while Oracle infrastructure is used by the government to run AI, possibly on government's hosted data about the population funneling the money to build a media empire that includes CNN.
Well, if society feels the need of inflicting this on you, it's a win-win, so why not?
I rather do my own mix tapes, or mix MP3, taken from CDs that I still buy, occasionally directly from bands after concert.
Otherwise a few European radios, even if with ads, as a second goal is to keep my foreign language skills up to date.
Also a few lucky algorithm gems on YouTube, or the KEXP, Tiny Desk, ARTE Concerts, Colours channels.
Never got into Spotify.
> This is an attempt to give parents the tools to manage what their children see on the internet.
You're just gullible.
There is no website that I've ever uploaded my driving license or other ID to, the only place that I need that for is my bank and that's about a real world relationship, not about an online one.
Any website that wants me to verify my age is going to have to do without me, that's just none of their business. What children see on the internet is not going to change because of this, any parent that wants to modify their kids' behavior is going to have to do some actual parenting rather than to rely on gatekeeping technology because kids are far more capable than their parents when it comes to circumventing such restrictions.
Is it really the enshittification of books, or the enshittification of printers that's responsible?
Are you saying that the solution here is to sell computers so locked down that no user can install anything other than verified software?
Yeah, that's where he lost me too. Strikes me as very pretentious.
He didn't even say "classical", he was circumspect with "that moste illustriouse of musical traditionnes".
Indefinite imprisonment isn't the only way to solve this. Over here we just have trials without the defendant, and they usually don't end up well for them. Better than indefinite imprisonment, though.
For example, the requirements for a CPU instruction set, in order for it to be properly virtualizable, had been known in the mainframe computing world for many, many years, when Intel and AMD came up with their unvirtualizable (except for VMware‘s heroic tricks) 32 bit instruction sets.
Those requirements and their different jargon from the mainframe world were re-discovered from the literature when virtualization in the PC world became a selling point.
(Edouard Bugnion et. al. - Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization)
It is explicitly that now. Bezos policy change back in 2025: "Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is directing the paper’s opinion section to focus on “personal liberties and free markets,” he announced Wednesday, leading to editorial page editor David Shipley’s resignation."[1]
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/jeff-bezos-washingt...
Besides all answers, this concept exists in modern IDEs like Eclipse, anything JetBrains, Netbeans, Visual Studio,...
Even though their appear to be file based, the plugins API makes use of a virtual filesystem that allows for managing the code as if it was the image based concepts from Smalltalk, Lisp and other systems like Cedar, Mesa, Oberon,....
Also something that many don't think about, databases with stored procedures.
Years ago, when California had a really severe drought, I saw a large version of this to grow grass for horses. It had a stack of trays with lights, and each day, you harvested one tray, fed your horse, and replanted the tray. It was only cost-effective when grass hay was really expensive.
A bit sad to see another famous hacker turning to the "dark side" --- as "security chips" are a treacherous slippery slope, no matter who controls them. Just because it's "open source" doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Edit: give Stallman's "Right to Read" another read.
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that other people had already thought of applying the multi-pass technique on GPU, but the idea is not very widely known.
The demoscene is particularly insular, but even within the field of computing in general it seems that there is not a lot of knowledge diffusion between all the different areas, leading to some reinventions (often with distinct terminology.)
The chances of that happening are 0.0001% compared to the chances of the visitors misbehaving.
You can't resolve criminal liability without compliance to judicial authority. It's not even a meaningful demand. If you don't trust the judiciary you can't trust any other component of the system!
I still don't understand why people don't cheat in FPSes by looking at the video stream and having a USB mouse that emits the right mouse movements. (The simplest thing is to just click when someone's head is under your crosshair, in games with hitscan weapons.)
> i hope we never assign a piece of code, AI or not, to be the decision maker.
This is already a past station, just not at Airbus.
But then if you edit a note in the morning to add something, by night it'll be locked.
I wonder why there are not more programming languages not only with non-English keywords, but with different grammars. For example, if X then Y and many other constructions closely follow English grammar, but when you study other languages you quickly become away of many other possible constructions.
Hasen't that been the case for decades?
It's part of a whole bundle of tightening censorship and increasing control in a pivot towards techno-feudalism, and militarization of society...
Nothing that saying they're sorry for being offensive and seeking a peace deal can't fix...
We can't let a left-of-center (if that) government mess up a good dictatorship-nostalgic far-right neo-liberal thing
"It's not just X, it's Y" is what caught my attention first. Then I noticed the em-dashes.
Original title “Construction finishes on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first during Trump's time in office” compressed to fit within title limits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard_Wind
Great piece, very similar to the decline of religious private schools in the US. A demographic cliff story.
VPNs for desktop users have very few security use cases since most traffic ended up being https, but they're very useful for evading geoblocks.
Yeah, true, it's all downside for them for this, basically. Still, there must be some price for which companies will let other companies use die space, but maybe that price is higher than just doing the thing yourself...
That all depends on what the meaning of is is.
Related:
Complete Off Grid Energy System | DIY Electricity & Hot Water - Charcoal Retort [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEop8qmmt4M
Charcoal-Powered Generator | Charging Off-Grid Battery with Homemade Power [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjBlfd3s4g
Feeding The Fire By Robot - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/feeding-the-fire-by-robot/ - January 15th, 2024
Why is this the right way to go? It's not solving the problem it looks like it's solving. If your challenge is that you need to communicate with a foreign API, the obvious solution to that is a progressively discoverable CLI or API specification --- the normal tool developers use.
The reason we have MCP is because early agent designs couldn't run arbitrary CLIs. Once you can run commands, MCP becomes silly.
There is a clear problem that you'd like an "automatic" solution for, but it's not "we don't have a standard protocol that captures every possible API shape", it's "we need a good way to simulate what a CLI does for agents that can't run bash".
I'm reminded of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli fiasco: nobody sued, but revealing they were lip syncing killed their career.
"this isn’t about avoiding paying for legitimate usage. It’s about accidental seat additions, refund handling, and pricing transparency."
For Claude Code, you use up 12% of your weekly allotment every session, so 8 sessions per week.
If you are only using a session a day, you're wasting a session. :)
Very much like electric utility time of day pricing, using economic incentives to shift demand to trough periods.
Perhaps an opportunity for them to improve workload scheduling orchestration, like submitting a job to a distributed computing cluster queue, to smooth demand and maximize utilization.
The fee isn’t being paid to the “Trump administration.” It’s being paid to the U.S. Treasury: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-set-rece... (“Sources familiar with the matter indicate that the Treasury received an initial $2.5 billion payment upon the deal’s closing in January, with the remainder to be paid in installments until the $10 billion threshold is met.”).
Exaggerating straightforward facts to maximize clicks for every story undermines the other reporting of the plenty of sketchy things the administration is actually doing.
Their last success was acquiring Instagram in 2012. Every new effort since then has been hemorrhaging money. They get away with it because they have two limitless money faucets in Facebook and Instagram, but their product strategy as a whole has been a disaster.
> where you also have room to put in enough solar panels and batteries to power the data center
Environmental reviews. (The further from civilization the higher the chances the Southern farting nuknuk or whatever nests in your nowhere.) And construction costs.
> Police unions aren't the same thing as other unions
What about California teachers’ unions? European notaries?
> With a valid measure I would expect a roughly even distribution over time between underestimates and overestimates
This is a valid hypothesis. It’s wrong, and I’ll explain why. (It’s a bad and invalid thing to conclude.)
If measurement errors were iid, you’d be correct. But they’re not. They’re well documented for not being so. Earlier survey results are biased by directional response bias inasmuch as the employers with the lease changes respond first. So the earliest releases tend to match whatever was going on before. Then the employers who had to do paperwork respond. And then, finally, someone gets around to calling the folks who never got back. Some of them aren’t around anymore.
So yeah, the directional tendency in revisions is well documented. And for a long time, the early releases were appreciated. But maybe American statistical and media literacy is such that only final releases should be released, which would mean we’d always be working with data 6 months to a year out of date.
Another point you missed, the microphones also have better quality, they don't get all the surrounding noises as most wireless ones.
24 hour debate
Why are Americans like this If there's a lot to talk about, just stop at 7pm (or whatever) and continue the deabte the next day. Better yet, have proponents and opponents pick a few specialists like a debate team and let them debate while the whole chamber listens.
Legislatures in the US keep doing these dramatic gestures of legislative action, but hardly anyone has time to listen to it all and they don't listen themselves, very often you find your representative has been giving passionate speeches that look/sound great in campaign ads...to an empty chamber. In many instances, the process is gamed to the point of being a scam on the voters at this point.
The amount of coupons, conditional sale prices, and member savings has skyrocketed.
This is a Bad Thing. Sure when I do grocery shopping I keep an eye out for bargains, but I also don't want to have my buying choices overly shaped by the retailer so I end up spending money on stuff I don't really want. I especially don't want to deal with coupons and buy-this-get-that offers. Planning out what to eat and remembering to get what I need is enough mental effort without having to spend time on discountmaxxing which is really just another kind of advertising.
acceptable range [...] Cheese $3 / lb
I don't know what kind of cheese you're getting for $3/lb but I'm pretty sure it isn't good for you.
My browser highlights a few hundred accounts. For HN and other comment-oriented sites, local userscripts are supported by browser plugins, including mobile Safari. These can highlight known usernames and implement blocklists. Most LLMs can generate a userscript on demand for non-obfuscated sites, including userid list for manual edit.
> a little bit of hammering got it looking good as new
A hammer and an oxy-acetylene torch is all that a good mechanic needs.
I'd call it write-only memory.
Plenty of people do.
AI is one of the few major general technological breakthroughs, comparable to the Internet and electricity. It's potentially applicable to everything, which is why right now everyone is trying to apply it to everything. Including developing new optimization algorithms, optimizing optimizing compilers, optimizing applications, optimizing systems, optimizing hardware, ...
Big AI vendors are at the forefront of it, because they're the ones who actually pay for the AI revolution, so any efficiency improvement saves them money.
Obituary: https://archive.is/gQ3HB
This problem has been solved already by Lisp, Scheme, Java, .NET, Eiffel, among others, with their pick and choose mix of JIT and AOT compiler toolchains and runtimes.
That was solved long ago with invention of pockets.
SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/habermas...
My favorite quote of Habermas ist about Luhmann’s[1] theory: "It‘s all wrong, but it‘s got quality".
[1] the Zettelkasten person
SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/habermas...
My favorite quote of Habermas ist about Luhmann’s[1] theory: "It‘s all wrong, but it‘s got quality".
[1] the Zettelkasten person
I love his
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)
but feel this ponderous two-volume set
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...
is thoroughly refuted by our last two decades of experience with electronic communications.
Still waiting for that Contact link...
>Suppose anthropic reached out to you and gave you a model id you could pin down for the next year to freeze any a/b tests. Would you really want that?
Where can I sign up?
I don’t think it was ever very good.
This is a very interesting take.
From the article:
> Because sites on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet, they don’t behave like traditional websites. They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be. Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.
One of the main ideas of the internet, and therefore WordPress, is to be able to share stuff on the public internet.
Without that capability, I wonder who would this be targeted towards. For personal note taking there are numerous software already out there.
It is interesting to make the opposite case: particularly in the WinTel world we’ve been losing huge amounts of potential performance because we are still supporting computers that came out in 2008.
Not in many countries outside US, or similar salary levels, unless it comes bundled with some offer like a cable TV contract.
I'm confident "in most cases" is not correct there. If they lose money on the $200/month plan it's only with a tiny portion of users.
Yahoo was the front door of the Internet, once.
Getting stores to adopt this is unlikely, unless you get the European Union to mandate it or something like that. But using a crawler to find items for sale and an LLM to interpret the item listing might work. Then resell the processed pricing info. Publicize by using it for inflation calculations and such.
Government accounting operation on a strictly annual basis is ruinous.
That's the real loss.
The original idea behind Stars and Stripes was that it was a general newspaper for US troops. Reading it gave general world awareness. DoD's own output is very narrow. Here are DoD's current press releases.[1] They're written in a very evasive style now. Here's the one on de-emphasizing the Havana Syndrome research office, titled "War Department Announces Realignment of Anomalous Health Incidents Cross-Functional Team to the Office of Research and Engineering "[2] Unless you know the background, that's totally meaningless. Much DoD PR today seems to be at that level - too defensive and obfuscated. Either that, or it's just administrative announcements. There's almost nothing about the current wars.
DoD used to have something called "The Early Bird", discontinued in 2013. This was a reprint of press clippings for Pentagon-area staff.[4] It was supposedly restricted to DoD personnel to avoid copyright issues. It was politically neutral, but prioritized DoD issues, such as command changes and procurement, that would be very minor stories in the public media.
Worth noting is that this war does not seem to have war correspondents embedded with US troops. There's not much info coming in from ground level on the US side. Al Jazeera has coverage from the Arab world. CNN has some people in Tehran who were based there before the war and are still sending.
[1] https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/
[2] https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4411182/wa...
[3] https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Artic...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Early_Bird_(newsletter)
[5] https://www.aljazeera.com/