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https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack
https://github.com/oduwsdl/warrick
(older code, might be brittle, but communicates a potential path to recover what might available in Wayback)
This is very unfortunate, usual advice to keep backups (3-2-1 backup strategy).
If only someone in the Oval Office was this smart.
> what the average passbook interest rate is in the USA? I just checked my bank (Chase) and right now it's... 0.01%
Not sure what the point is. Chase checking accounts pay for access to branches and other Chase products. If you want yield there are checking accounts that provide that. Though the correct move is to use currency correctly by using the transacting medium (cash and checking) separately from the store-of-value medium (money markets and Treasuries).
This infographic basically explains it:
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
tl;dr: Urban water use is tiny. In NorCal, the vast majority of the water flows unimpeded to the sea. In the Central Valley, most water is used for agriculture. Agricultural water use in any one of the 3 major basins in the Central Valley is more than all urban areas in California combined. Unsurprisingly, urban use is the primary one in the SF and LA areas, but the absolute totals are very small compared to total CA water supplies.
All call centers are actually located in Lake Wobegon, where all the call wait times are above average.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#Recurring_monolog... , for the probably many people who don't know the reference.)
3-electrode EEG devices don't really work and that's one of the reasons why biofeedback was a fad of the 1970s. There are some very slick devices out there now like
but at that price it is not going to replace the Polar H10 in my biosignals kit, the respiration radar or the GSR and EMG sensors -- and any of those hidden under coat can tell my phone to tell me that I tilted before I realize it on my own.
I have it on good authority they only use SuperMicro ;)
Ugh. The worst of SEO, but a bunch more of it? Noooooo.
> seriously doubt there is a country on earth which lacks the capability to detect an aircraft carrier
They probably lack the ability to figure out which specialists are on board.
It seems to be little known you can not file your tax returns for years and usually nothing happens but in the current situation I suspect that some years could get added to those years unless like, they found out I wrote some post here where I said something like "Trump wasn't the best president of all time" and then they decide to come rip up all my floorboards looking for gold bars.
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/10-facts-you-may-not-know-abou...
> New York City’s water (including drinking water) is unfiltered, making it the largest unfiltered water system in the country. Were New York to begin filtering its water, it would cost the city approximately 1 million dollars per day to operate the filtration plant.
They have hundreds of sampling stations to check daily.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/nyregion/nyc-tap-water-qu...
This causes some issues for observant Jews, because the water technically might not be kosher.
https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-news/nyc-water/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/the-waters-fine-...
This is what makes RISC-V so much fun.
You might never be able to get a RISC-V laptop that can compete with an ARM laptop, but you sure can take a RISC-V core and modify it in whatever way you can imagine.
> Unrelated but the UK has 2 aircraft carriers (but not enough planes, but that's for a different time). Why aren't they being deployed?
Because the UK isn't really in the war, and doesn't want to be?
Nobody's lobbying achieved objectives in the Illinois primary, which is more a statement about the ineffectiveness of lobbying (at least in these kinds of races) than anything else. The candidates that won were the candidates you'd expect to win given demographics and the recent political history of the region.
> I've found every support department has been trained to treat every single person as if they were a dumb 5 year old.
That's quite reasonable on their part.
I do wish I could take a quiz to bypass it, though.
The norcal/socal divide caused by the river is funny to me. I grew up in LA, then moved to the Bay Area for college. In LA we never really talked about where our water comes from. But we were always 'in a drought' and always taught to conserve water.
My wife grew up in the Bay Area, and was told the same.
But her family is from Sacramento. Up until about 15 years ago, everyone in Sacramento paid the same for water (based on square footage of your home). There were no water meters. So they didn't conserve. They ran the sprinklers in 100 degree heat for hours, they washed sidewalks with water instead sweeping, and all the other things.
But when the meters came, her Uncle blamed SoCal for "stealing his water". He complained every month when the bill came about how he has to pay more now because of SoCal.
The fact that they have their whole lives tied up there, may not speak another language and inevitably have older family members that they can not easily take along but are feeling responsible for. Iranian family ties are something else compare to your average Western family.
> It's not exactly "US" so much as it is Trump and Bessent if you read the article.
That's true, but from an international policy perspective they are part of the US.
I'd been assuming that the Chinese AI labs producing excellent LLMs despite the NVIDIA export restrictions was due to them finding new optimizations for training against the hardware they had access to.
I wonder if any of those $2.5B of smuggled chips ended up being used for those training runs.
Any non-trivial program that has never had an optimizer run on it has a minimal-effort 50+% speedup in it.
In the last 10 years, driven a lot by school shootings, the tide shifted and parents started fighting schools about letting their kids keep their phone "so they can be contacted in emergencies". The schools gave up fighting with the parents.
Laws like this give the school cover to confiscate the phones and say "talk to your congressperson if this bothers you, my hands are tied".
They need more battery storage for grid health, both colocated at solar PV generators (to buffer voltage and frequency anomalies) and spread throughout the grid. This replaces inertia and other grid services provided by spinning thermal generators. There was no market mechanism to encourage the deployment of this technology in concert with Spain’s rapid deployment of solar and wind.
Lets see how long it holds, being hopeful it will stick.
Some NRW libraries used to be on SuSE, are nowadays Windows on kiosk mode.
Is it false or you’re just assuming it’s so?
Do not despair, I felt the same. Mine are halfway to 18, still feel the same, unsure if it changes. I love them, just not the experience. I have friends who feel the same, so I/we are not alone.
I tell others not to do it unless they are prepared to suffer. You won't know if its for you until you've already gone through the one way door. I wish others luck. For the unlucky, I wish grit and stoicism.
Nice one. K-Means is one of those neat little powertools that once you get the hang of it you find more and more applications for, but it can be a bit slow for larger data sets. So this is very nice to have, thank you matt_d for posting.
And great technologies as well, HP-UX (Vault was one of the first UNIX containers), Modula-3 (Olivetti/Compaq became part of HP), ...
~40-50% of the S&P500 rely on this continuing.
S&P 500 Concentration Approaching 50% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384002 - March 2026
> No of course there isn't enough capital for all of this. Having said that, there is enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer. -- Gil Luria (Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson)
OpenAI Needs a Trillion Dollars in the Next Four Years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45394071 - September 2025 (8 comments)
I loved that show! I was a teenager. Peak 1990s.
It's more about job seeking than anything. If you jump on a fad early, and it turns out to be the winner, when you're looking for work you can say you have X years of experience with it, which will be a few more than most of the other candidates.
It also shows a passion for learning and improvement, something hiring managers are often looking for signals of.
But of course it's a trade off. This rewards people who don't have family or other obligations, who have time to learn all the new fads so they can be early on the winners.
Excelsior JET, now gone, but only because GraalVM and OpenJ9 exist now.
The folks on embedded get to play with PTC and Aicas.
Android, even if not proper Java, has dex2oat.
"Deeply principled" really doesn't describe Obama birther conspiracists.
I disagree, because C++ Builder also exists. :)
Although .NET also follows along, pity that it took so many years for Microsoft to actually care about native compilation beyond NGEN.
> the up-front costs of massive desalination
Desalination is dominated by operating costs.
To this point, some cultures see schizophrenia as friendly, not scary.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luh...
> In the United States, the voices are harsher, and in Africa and India, more benign, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford professor of anthropology and first author of the article in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Sure. The cops just mysteriously act differently across tens of thousands of stops across the country when the sun goes down and they can't see the car's occupants, in a way verfiably tied to the sun and not the clock time.
I do appreciate the proof you're not discussing in good faith.
I'm definitely having a blast, but I agree with the author. You're not going to get left behind, the "getting left behind" rhetoric was just cryptocurrency pump-and-dumpers. It's fine to wait and not engage if you don't want to.
> be on the cutting-edge of something, but be willing to bail out at the moment its future starts seeming questionable
The problem is this leaves you undifferentiated from every hype chaser in Silicon Valley. Our world is littered with folks who went to coding school, traded Bitcoin, did something in the metaverse and blogged about AI. That jack-of-all-trades knowledge can be useful. But only if you’re making unlikely connections. Having the same cutting-edge familiarity as every tech journalist doesn’t that make.
Better: develop deep knowledge and expertise in something. Anything. Not only does this give you some ability to recognize what expertise looks like from afar, it also lets you dip into new topics and have a chance at seeing something everyone else hasn’t already. That, in turn, gives you the ability to be a meaningful first mover.
Not really a meaningful comparison. Telegram is a personal messenger while Slack and Teams are for work. Telegram should be put alongside WhatsApp, iMessage, WeChat etc., which all have user bases in the billions.
And TFS, ClearCase, Mercurial, Plastic, Perforce, Fossil, CVS, RCS, ....
Then there are those still using folders with timestamps.
"Every employee across the industry should be given a shovel and asked to dig for gold. Completely unrelated – we are selling a new line of shovels for $49.99 a piece."
Is an aircraft carrier's location supposed to be secret? Pretty hard to hide from a satellite I'd imagine.
472 pages. That's going to be a nice bit of reading this weekend. It is very nice to see such a comprehensive report as well as the fact that it was made public immediately.
Microsoft has a handful big clients - Dell, Lenovo, HP being the top three. They are the ones that make Windows be the default operating system on everyone's computers and they need to be happy, not the person who buys the computer. When the computer becomes unusable, they'll just get another from the same brands and everyone, except the user, are happy.
Corporations don't run Windows. They run Outlook, Excel, and Teams. Windows and generic PCs (or thin clients and VDIs) is just the cheapest way to achieve that goal.
You don't have to throw a chef's knife away when it becomes dull, you just sharpen it.
I'm annoyed that we still don't know for certain which base model they used for Cursor 1.
This feels really rude to me. I have no problem with them fine-tuning open weight models to create their own - they are getting great results, and Cursor's research term should be respected for that. But deliberately hiding the base model they use is disrespectful of the researchers who created that model.
Then you give them the finger and walk away.
One of them is written in Rust....
Well, I’d argue that many things in the semweb are not expressive enough and lead to the misunderstandings we have.
People think, for instance, that RDFS and OWL are meant to SHACL people into bad an over engineered ontologies. The problem is these standards add facts and don’t subtract facts. At risk of sounding like ChatGPT: it’s a data transformation system not a validation system.
That is, you’re supposed to use RDFS to say something like
?s :myTermForLength ?o -> ?s :yourTermForLength ?o .
?s :lengthInFeet ?o -> ?s :lengthInInches 12*?o .
Similarly the problem of ordered collections has never been dealt with properly in that world. PostgreSQL, N1QL and other post-relational and document DB languages can write queries involving ordered collections easily. I can write rather unobvious queries by hand to handle a lot of cases (wrote a paper about it) but I can’t cover all the cases and I know back in the day I could write SPAQL queries much better than the average RDF postdoc or professor.
As for underengineering, Dublin Core came out when I worked at a research library and it just doesn’t come close in capability to MARC from 1970. Larry Masinter over at Adobe had to hack the standard to handle ordered collections because… the authors of a paper sure as hell care what order you write their names in. And it is all like that: RDF standards neglect basic requirements that they need to be useful and then all the complex/complicated stuff really stands out. If you could get the basics done maybe people would use them but they don’t.
You’re correct. All this talk about when people choose to have kids over-intellectualizes that what is a biological function. My wife and I have three kids. I’m not sure you can say any of them resulted from a rigorous analysis. We had our first in law school as a happy surprise. We theoretically planned our second and third, a six year gap after the first. But that the timing coincided with moving from an apartment to a house. We weren’t thinking about more kids when we moved—we wanted to take advantage of good interest rates. But my wife observed later that the availability of more space for kids probably subconsciously influenced our decision to have more.
When talking about hormone disruption, I think people over-focus on how that affects the ability to have kids. But that overlooks how hormones can change behaviors and desires. I don’t see anyone rebutting the fact that testosterone levels in prime-age men have dropped by half compared to the 1960s. Yet nobody seems to be talking about that as a probable cause in the drop in fertility rates. Even if these men are technically able to have kids if they want. Is it possible that the drop in testosterone levels means that men are less interested in having kids, and perhaps less able to persuade women into doing so?
"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"
is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS
That's why I'm a great fan of positive confirmation steps before such changes with possibly large implications. The whole change needs to be shown to the user with all changes marked and then you confirm once more that that is what you want and then that and only that gets executed. All these 'video game' interfaces with implicit saves and underwater API calls are super dangerous.
Just fucking buy them already -- they have a better product than yours
Why? It seems foolish to have a knee jerk reaction to someone using a tool that got them where they needed to be.
I think 'upsample' is the root cause here. Technically that is a misnomer.
The benefits keep stacking up!
Joking aside, that was one of the worst own goals in history.
It’s the best ship. One like the world has never seen. It’s huge. And it has great toilets. The best toilets in the world. They are beautiful.
I don’t get why the age verification thing would be a thing for systemd.
"The world’s biggest energy consumer nations are now back at the drawing board: Europe last week unveiled new financial guarantees for atomic power after decades of closing nuclear plants. Other major importers are planning to source fuel from a broader array of suppliers to hedge their risk."
I'm not seeing it.
The European plan sounds like another goal to have a proposal in ten years [1]. And hedging imports of fossil fuels doesn't reduce dependence, just dependence on a particular source.
[1] https://www.nucnet.org/news/von-der-leyen-sets-out-eu-smr-st...
I've used Cockpit and quite like it. Very clean way to get the full picture of the system.
However, I was wondering if there was any way to login using an SSH key rather than a password?
I could of course pipe it via SSH. But is there any way we can authenticate using SSH on the web?
Maybe someone here can help?
> ... no?
Which part are you confused about?
> what about a self-driving car that looks the same as every other car?
My Aussie friends, when they visit America, don't put up a sign in their window saying they're Aussie and will occasionally try to turn left at a red.
> They got into more accidents, none of which where their own fault, than expected and realized that they had to make it behave more like a human to not confuse human drivers
Sure. I'm still filing this in the nothingburger file. If anything, it screams that we have a lot of people on the road who should not be.
Yes, that is what happens with UWP applications, or sandboxing apps installed via the store with MSIX package identity.
The one thing I wonder is, if this data is for sale, who else, and where else, will it be available?
We can hope they get shut down as soon as a sane government is installed.
Everything is a file doesn't play well with how GPUs work, especially modern ones.
Plan 9 and later Inferno, just had plain 2D rendering.
At the other end of the scale, looking at classic 10M Ethernet signaling is perfectly doable with a sub-$1k scope, and 100M should also be fine with anything 500MS/s or higher. Note that Cat5 is rated for a bandwidth of 100MHz.
OK, the majority of code I've produced.
That worries me.
Self-driving vehicles need aircraft-type maintenance. Yet there's nothing like the FAA to enforce a minimum equipment list, maintenance intervals, or signoffs by approved mechanics.
Is there a scratch or chip in the scanner dome? Are both the primary and backup steering actuators working? Is there any damage to the vehicle fender sensors? Is dispatch allowed with some redundant components not working? If so, for how long?
Here's the FAA's Minimum Equipment List for single-engine aircraft.[1] For each item, you can see if it has to be working to take off, and, if not, how long is allowed to fix it. There's nothing like that for self-driving land vehicles.
What's the fleet going to look like at 8 years of wear and tear?
[1] https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/MMEL_SE_Rev_2_Draft....
Nowadays these frustrations shouldn't be a thing any more. If the author used uv, the script would be able to install its own dependencies and just work.
Every one of BM's episodes is extremely good. Fifty Million Merits has so many parts that show precisely how evil technology can be.
The UK is no longer part of Europe.
What you’re describing is how administrative bureaucracies used to work in the U.S. before the 1920s and in Europe before the E.U. That’s consistent with democracy. The anti-democratic part is when the elected officials began delegating more and more power to those bureaucracies and those bureaucracies became more independent and insulated from elections. That when the backslide happened.
In the U.S. that happened because of legislation and new legal doctrines in the 1930s. In Europe it happened because of increasing delegation of power to the centralized E.U. bureaucracy.
I hope the EU cracks down on them like they did with Apple.
Yet more reasons to keep using an old rooted Android for as long as possible and contribute to any efforts that make it easier to do so. I suspect the reason Android become dominant was the ease of modding and the community that created, and now they're trying to turn it into another authoritarian walled-garden like Apple. To paraphrase the famous Torvalds: "Google, fuck you!"
"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Right. If anything, this "tiny part" has pretty much taken over Python and turned it from OSS BDFL language into a company-backed one (like Erlang, Scala, C#).
Sometimes we trust the wrong people, sometimes we love the wrong people, sometimes the wrong people luck into incredible wealth and downstream power from said wealth. Most of life is luck. It is a gift when someone shows us who they are, removing any doubt or ambiguity.
> Where I live, in EU, parking meters even take cards.
Unfortunately, a more accurate way of putting it is: stuff takes cards in lieu of coins. Like, where I live (also EU), ticket machines in buses and trams have gradually been upgraded over the past decade to accept cards, and then to accept only cards.
It's a ratchet. Hidden inflation striking again. Cashless is cheaper to maintain than cash-enabled, so it pretends to be a value-add at first, but quickly displaces the more expensive option. Same with apps, which again, are cheaper to maintain than actual payment-safe hardware.
It's near impossible to reverse this, because to do that, you have to successfully argue for increasing costs - especially that inflation quickly eats all the savings from the original change, so you'd be essentially arguing to make things more expensive than the baseline.
The key issue uv solved wasn't dependencies, it was environments.
I used to have hundreds of venv folders scattered around my machine. These days I use "uv run" or "uvx" or "uv run --with boto3 python" and uv handles all of the bookkeeping for me.
I didn't see more details in the article, but my guess is they were taking and averaging multiple temperature reads across the body. That is, core temp should only be within a narrow range like you say, but fingertip temp will vary much more widely.
All in all I found this to be a very strange article. If you just look at the data, I think a reasonable conclusion is that modern gear is vastly better at its function than old time Mallory gear. It's much lighter and keeps the wearer much warmer than old gear. But the whole tone of the article is about "myth busting" and how there haven't been really that many improvements in gear. I'm just looking at their charts and data and wondering what they're smoking.
Does anyone else remember when someone ported kill to the DOOM engine? So you could fire up DOOM and kill processes using different guns for different kill levels?
I don't know why but this reminded me of that.
Salesforce has lost half its market cap in the last ~year. Spending time and money to acquire a calendar scheduler shows just how badly they have lost the plot.
I know this is an HN meme but can someone look at https://www.getclockwise.com/overview and explain why an internal team couldn't build this in a couple of weeks? And it's not like Salesforce is lacking engineers - they employ 83,000 (!!) people globally.
The web sites seized are listed in the DOJ release.[1]
One of them is archived. It seems to be primarily about Albania.[2][3] Albania and Iran are not currently getting along; they severed diplomatic relations in 2022. This seems to be from an anti-Albania organization. Looks like an ordinary extremist site. Unclear why the US DOJ is involved with that one. Doesn't seem to involve the US directly.
One of the other sites is associated with the Stryker cyber attack, so that shutdown makes sense.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-i...
[2] https://justicehomeland.org/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20260119141559/https://justiceho...
Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without having to buy the whole of Man U.
I wonder how effective the UK "green flash" plates (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/road-to-zero-in-sight-as-...) have been at EV marketing. I'm making a habit of looking out for them since I'm considering getting an EV myself.
Nobody on our street has one. I wonder if I get one it will spark a trend.
> Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th.
It's pretty clear that a substantial number of them were killed by the Israeli military in the course of its deliberate war crime of indiscriminate attack with civilians in the line of fire under the "Hannibal Directive". Investigations by Israeli and Western media and numerous Israeli (both military sources and civilian witnesses) accounts support this.
Its gotten relatively little play in US media specifically, but US media acts as a propaganda arm of the IDF and the Israeli government as much (even more, arguably) than it does for the domestic military and police forces, ignoring damaging stories, and when it can't completely ignore them using exonerative and passive voice framing to avoid attributing effects to the actors and actions causing them.
Ironic to see this on the front page just next to the report about Waymos being 13 times safer than humans.
Related blogpost: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/break-paxos.html
Salesforce seems to be doing a shutdown of many of their "pre-AI" products.[1]
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/controlled-demolition-salesfo...
"In the crashes that ODI has reviewed, the system did not detect common roadway conditions that impaired camera visibility and/or provide alerts when camera performance had deteriorated until immediately before the crash occurred."
Does it not detect them at all, or fail to deal with detected sensor degradation adequately? Does "Full Self Driving (assisted)" slow down under conditions of poor visibility?
Does Tesla even look for the road surface? One big advantage of those up-top LIDAR units is that you have a good scan of the pavement ahead. If you're not sensing flat pavement ahead, don't go there. That's basic. Vision-only systems, going back to Mobileye, have been overly dependent on looking for known kinds of obstacles. Original Mobileye could only detect car rear ends.
Marine Traffic: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:45... (IMO: 7390454)