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I love this comment:
"Btw, we rolled this out over 3 weeks ago and I think you're the first person to ask about it on HN. There was one earlier question by email. I think that qualifies as a splash-free dive."
I had no idea and I'm an HN addict!
> Life is not safe, nor can it be made safe without taking away freedom.
So... no food and safety regulations, because life is not safe, and people should have the freedom to poison food with cheaper, lethal ingredients because their freedom matters more?
You're right that things can't be made more safe without taking away the freedom to harm people. Which is why even the most freedom-loving countries on earth strike a balance. They actually have tons and tons of safety regulations that save tons and tons of lives, even you from your point of view that means not "treating people as adults". You have to wear a seatbelt, even if you feel like you're not being treated like an adult. Because it's also not just your own life you're putting at risk, but your passengers' as well.
You're taking the most extreme libertarian stance possible. Thank goodness that's an extremely minority view, and that the vast, vast majority of voters do actually think safety is important.
OK. You seem pretty confident. Let's make it easy on you. Name a single police department in the United States from which you can present evidence from the past 10 years that they have an IQ or general cognitive cap on applicants.
Should be straightforward, since the root of this thread confidently asserts that police generally disqualify applicants based on high IQ.
I remember when folks here were shilling the "Israel promises they'd never bomb a hospital" and "Hamas is lying about the death toll" lines.
All the hospitals are now rubble, and the IDF quietly let it slip that the death toll is legit recently. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.p...
There's damning video of this specific incident, recovered from the dead. I suspect subsequent massacres made a policy of finding and destroying all the phones. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...
While great option, LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp should not be overlooked, too many focus on SBCL + Emacs and then complain about Lisp tooling.
Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup had well concluded and just a couple of hours before the Senate committee was to vote on it -- managed to neuter one of the key protections in the bill.
This is why I'm increasingly jaded with 'get involved with your local legislative process!' proponents. If you don't have the ability to lobby around the clock and make campaign or in-kind political donations (and know how to communicate your willingness to do that), then you're at a massive disadvantage. As well, the process itself is highly corruptible, eg altering the text of a bill just before a scheduled vote.
As a general matter, I'm increasingly disgusted with the prevalence of tactics like holding votes in the dead of night or in closed sessions. Politicians engage in a lot of tricks to evade scrutiny from their constituents, relying on the fact that once a piece of legislation is passed people might be angry but the politician can often get away with saying 'there was no other choice, we have to work within the process' or some similar empty truism.
I have to say I worry a bit when I see these circular bets designed to pump up share cost without fundamentally increasing underlying company value. I get subprime vibes every time this happens and it’s happening a lot with extremely large dollar numbers.
Yes, I was hoping for a system where Claude was informed it was communicating with an unusually intelligent dog whose ability to communicate was limited by dog anatomy, and that the AI would not to hold the dog's interest with its output.
And to be clear, there is a difference between America not being obligated to save lives and tearing away treatment once you’ve started providing it. DOGE did the latter, and some of the cases are horrific, experimental devices being left implanted in study participants.
South America as well, in particular with regard to the US. Too many coups and sponsorship of military dictatorships will do that.
There are other forms of money transfer than revenue.
nb: there is a SBCL release at end of every month: https://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html
Wasn't it always an expectation, not a commitment?
If they didn't appropriately account for risk that the expectation would not pan out, well, that's on them.
Unfortunately some things never change in war crimes, see Stalingrad.
> OpenAI is projecting that its total revenue for 2030 will be more than $280 billion
For context, that is more than the annual revenue of all but 3 tech companies in the world (Nvidia, Apple, Google), and about the same as Microsoft.
OpenAI meanwhile is projected to make $20 billion in 2026. So a casual 1300% revenue growth in under 4 years for a company that is already valued in the hundreds of billions.
Must be nice to pull numbers out of one's ass with zero consequence.
That may change as they get more widely deployed; scale matters.
https://courthousenews.com/judge-holds-norfolks-license-plat...
> "Because rapid technological advances, such as the rise of artificial intelligence, make it impossible to predict how police surveillance will evolve, the Fourth Amendment analysis must remain nimble even as it remains grounded in founding-era traditions," the George W. Bush appointee wrote in a 51-page opinion. "Plaintiffs are unable to demonstrate that defendants' ALPR system is capable of tracking the whole of a person's movements."
> Davis drew distinctions from two significant precedents in determining that the pair's Fourth Amendment challenge lacked merit. In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the government violates the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a suspect's historical cell site location information without a warrant. The Fourth Circuit ruled in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department that the department's surveillance program, which captured and stored aerial images of nearly the entire city, violated the Fourth Amendment.
> Davis ruled that, unlike in cases where the government tracked people's movements through cellphone data and aerial photos, the collection of Flock data does not capture enough information to catalogue citizens' movements in their entirety. Davis reasoned that the 176 cameras, located in 75 clusters across the city, do not constitute a search.
Tesla stock up 15% on the news, probably.
Even if the cost of software is truly going down (which is debatable), what makes you think the savings will be passed down to you?
This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
That businesses will eventually care about quality.
As proven by offshoring, it is a race to the bottom, as long as software kind of works.
Maybe because for us tea leaves fall under herbs, as general purpose description.
However the right wording is Chá, and it needs to be explicitly mentioned of what.
Chá preto - black tea
Chá de ervas - herbs tea
And so on.
Harder for activist investors to get into a private company than a public one imho. Keeps out those who would squeeze the business and bail, and potentially kick out the founders. With sufficient cashflow (which Stripe most certainly has), you can buy out existing investors without going public.
(not ex-Stripe, but own startup equity and have no problem with them never going public if that is the choice; optimize for the enterprise and existing stakeholders, not the public market mechanics broadly speaking)
You can. It would just cost you so much in legal to not be worth it.
The reason it's worth it for these companies is because the number of zeroes involved. The legal costs are a rounding error for them.
There is the ideal of school and then there is school.
I was very 'school-shaped' if by school you mean I could sit quietly and read books and solve problems. More school-shaped than the other kids.
If by school you mean that bullies don't find you interesting, that nobody threatens to kill you, then I was not 'school-shaped' at all.
I was really excited to go to school on day one, within a year it tuned very bad and I wish, retrospectively, I'd had the courage to stay home.
Which introduces variables such as: "believes in righteous anger"
When I am finding tasks hard to complete I fall back to paper lists. These are privileged relative to all the things that live on a screen and compete with all the things I need to deal with to get the tasks done that... also live on a screen.
The society you exist in, and are enabled to generate income from, is paid for via taxation.
This is why legislation matters, capitalism cannot sort out such misbehaviors when the public keeps giving money to the same bad actors.
LD 2164 Tracker: https://legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/2164?legisl...
LD 2164 Bill: https://legislature.maine.gov/backend/App/services/getDocume...
Housing study: https://mainehousing.org/docs/default-source/default-documen...
Related:
More [Maine] schools have closed in Maine thus far in 2025 than all of 2024 - https://www.nepm.org/2025-07-01/more-schools-have-closed-in-... - July 1st, 2025
Funny. We had a security guard that had memorized all the faces of the employees. If he knew you he'd buzz you through. If he didn't know you you'd have to be vouched for by someone that he did know or by showing your credentials. By day #3 he'd know you, and he also somehow knew when you were no longer with the company.
There never was a line and there were 1400 people in those buildings.
I never realized how incredibly that guy's contribution was but this story made it perfectly clear.
Also, I don't actually buy the story as related here. It would seem to me that within minutes of that queue building up the turnstiles + card system would be disabled because something clearly was not working.
Well... It is more that a traditional oil refinery has a BTX section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)
which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasoline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reforming
and that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene
is another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.
Related:
Exercise may relieve depression as effectively as antidepressants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541672 - January 2026
Exercise twice as effective as anti-depressants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396047 - February 2024
Running from the Pain (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27306725 - May 2021
Running from the Pain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573009 - March 2018
The court system is designed to optimize throughput at the expense of latency, against the background of a system where authority is vested in a relatively small number of presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed constitutional officers. About 350,000 civil cases and 65,000 criminal cases are filed every year, spread out across less than 700 district court judges.
To maximize throughput, proceedings are structured like batch processing systems. You submit work, it waits in the queue until the system gets to it, some intermediate decision is rendered, and then you submit some more work. For constitutional reasons, criminal cases cut in line, which can further increase the latency of civil cases. That means that, in a four-year case, the lawyers don't actually work on the case for four years straight. They do batches of work a couple of months at a time, and then work on other cases while waiting for the output.
Moreover, court case are, to a degree, inherently serial. Motions to dismiss--briefs that argue a case must be dismissed because its legally defective--must be filed before you start deposing witnesses or exchanging documents. You generally need to do depositions of witnesses after you've reviewed all the relevant documents. And all the fact gathering must be done before you file summary judgment motions--briefs that argue a case can be decided on the factual record without a trial.[1]
Part of the inherent delay is that the legal system is already an "exception path" in the ordinary course of business. A lot of time is spent waiting for people outside your organization who don't work for you. For example, when you're deposing a witness, they have work responsibilities, vacation plans, etc., and everyone has to work around that.
It's possible to structure cases where everything can be done in a year. That's what happens at the International Trade Commission, for example. Arbitration proceedings can also be structured like that.
[1] This also means that legal teams aren't very big. Massive corporate cases with billions of dollars on the line are handled with core teams of a dozen or so lawyers--with maybe another dozen or two parachuting in to help with specific phases like trial. Technology was squeezed out a lot of the parallelizable work. The days of 20 junior attorneys sitting in rooms reviewing boxes of paper documents are gone.
Not to mention: Stripe doesn't want your money, whether or not you're accredited.
This is not relevant to LFP and sodium ion chemistries, which most of the industry is moving towards.
If they are ex-Stripe they are likely holding shares, and so yes they would personally profit from going public.
At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.
It will be fun to watch the companies trying to migrate their COBOL systems...
This is basically describing the Cayman Islands. Or, to lesser extents, UAE or Malta (e.g. https://taxjustice.net/2026/02/24/malta-the-eus-secret-tax-s...).
The problem with this warm Galt Gulch idea is that someone has to do the actual work, and if the top level government is just a corrupt sinecure designed to shield the corporation from actually paying taxes, then nothing works properly. Comfortable island living is also surprisingly expensive, you have to import everything.
I would rather see that it does not rely on open source projects that have not given permission to be used to train that particular AI on.
Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.
The list is getting longer and longer, but a good touchstone is simply net worth. You don't normally get to the top of a foodchain without being an apex predator.
First thing that came to my mind too.
I think it would also be easier to add some meaningful variation to the resulting graph removals by building up instead of trying to remove and retain properties. The proposed algorithms are perhaps too predictable by the player for the game, depending on how it is played.
If I'm reading this right,
.setHTML("<h1>Hello</h1>", new Sanitizer({}))
Plus this is defense-in-depth. Backends will still need to sanitize usernames on some standard anyhow (there's not a lot of systems out there that should take arbitrary Unicode input as usernames), and backends SHOULD (in the RFC sense [1]) still HTML-escape anything they output that they don't want to be raw HTML.
Complaining about Electron is an international sport. Don't take it too seriously though, all the other x-platform UI frameworks are much worse. The #1 option I think is still an ordinary web application which doesn't have any install BS, electron is #2 if you really need something a plain web app can't do.
My understanding is it's a few things:
1. Get more followers. A lot of people see follower count as a goal that matters to them. Replying to high follower counts may earn you a follow from them or from someone reading their replies who doesn't catch that you are a bot.
2. Establish account credibility. Does Twitter's algorithm rank posts higher from accounts that have a long history of engaging with other accounts? I don't know for sure, neither do they but they may believe it's worth trying anyway.
3. Accounts for sale. There's a market for used Twitter accounts with plenty of realistic looking activity. Maybe these spammers are building inventory.
Hehe, that one will never die. It's the comment that more or less defines HN.
Great to see this start to show up, but it looks like it will be a while before browser support is widely distributed enough to rely on it being present: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_element_sethtml
I'm not sold on that idea yet.
I don't just have LLMs spit out code. I have them spit out code and then I try that code out myself - sometimes via reviewing it and automated tests, sometimes just by using it and confirming it does the right thing.
That upgrades the code to a status of generated and verified. That's a lot more valuable than code that's just generated but hasn't been verified.
If I throw it all away every time I want to make a change I'm also discarding that valuable verification work. I'd rather keep code that I know works!
Just like executing a serial killer brings back all the victims, right? No harm done!
First of all, it helps to actually use a proper compiled Prolog implementation like SWI Prolog.
Second you really need to understand and fine tune cuts, and other search optimization primitives.
Finally in what concerns Game AIs, it is a mixture of algorithms and heuristics, a single paradigm language (first order logic) like Prolog, can't be a tool for all nails.
No, it's Node.js. I kid you not. I keep coming across Node in places where I really would not expect it.
>so I got a human baseline through Rapidata (10k people, same forced choice): 71.5% said drive.
What kind of idiot would say "walk"?
I guess if they were average and above they wouldn't gig at Rapidata. Either that or foreigners with mediocre understanding of the English language. Or some bored teenagers that get their $0.20 or whatever Rapidata pays whatever they click (was it a multiple choice) - the (studied and reported) regression in reading comprehension levels doesn't help either.
> As soon as he died, we took it into high gear and started posting AI-generated podcasts of what Scott might say now about current events.
“As soon as he couldn’t object…”
> If there was anything suggesting he didn't want this, I'd stop.
> I feel for his family. I know they're upset about this…
I’m not kidding here, these two paragraphs are right next to each other in the piece.
"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"
Several things going on here:
- concurrency is very hard
- .. but object storage "solves" most of that for you, handing you a set of semantics which work reliably
- single file throughput sucks hilariously badly
- .. because 1Gb is ridiculously large for an atomic unit
- (this whole thing resembles a project I did a decade ago for transactional consistency on TFAT on Flash, except that somehow managed faster commit times despite running on a 400Mhz MIPS CPU. Edit: maybe I should try to remember how that worked and write it up for HN)
- therefore, all of the actual work is shifted to the broker. The broker is just periodically committing its state in case it crashes
- it's not clear whether the broker ACKs requests before they're in durable storage? Is it possible to lose requests in flight anyway?
- there's a great design for a message queue system between multiple nodes that aims for at least once delivery, and has existed for decades, while maintaining high throughput: SMTP. Actually, there's a whole bunch of message queue systems?
It used to be GNU/Linux for a reason, Android/Linux is surely not GPL userland and there are others as such.
There is also a reason why all the GNU/Linux competition on embedded space, including Linux Foundation's own Zephyr, aren't GPL licensed.
People seem to forget Linux is only a kernel.
It's frying quite a lot of brains on the way down, sadly.
Especially when the censored internet already exists, the selection pressure is going to make the uncensored internet the CSAM distribution channel.
Everything is easy if you don't care about getting pwned, and you don't consider yourself responsible if this has negative effects on other people.
Except C being typed Assembly is a myth, first of all there were already high level systems languages during the decade that predates C, secondly there are plenty of CPU capabilities not exposed in C, if at all only via compiler specific language extensions, beyond the language standard.
And what hard drives and memory slots would those chips be able to use?
That is the problem though, DSLs always end up becoming turing complete, because there is always that use case they don't cover.
The reality of such platform is observable in Inferno and Plan 9, that had no C++ compilers, and while Alef failed in Plan 9, Limbo came to be in Inferno.
Likewise, trying to write pure C or C++ services in iOS or Android is more pain than gain.
> developers who for decades have been advocating for best practices when it comes to security and privacy seem to be completely abandoning all of them simply because it’s AI
Risk and reward. That balance, currently, seems tipped to favour risk taking. (Which in turn encompasses both boldness and recklessness.)
I don't know about machinists but I do know about (and know one personally) welders with certain specialties that can basically name their price. Such as the ones that can fix gear in running steelplants where shutting the thing down would require a rebuild.
yet another chromium clone iirc.
I'm torn on whether to see this "AI Kill switch" as a win on respecting the users, or something to keep us distractewd while they ship through "Trusted Types" API that sounds like further restriction of end-user computing freedoms.
> If a jury thinks "well I could have done that either!" You win
“A federal judge” recently “rejected Tesla's request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over the 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S” [1]. If a human supervising still incurs liability, human-like errors, particularly if Waymo and BYD aren’t making them, is a poor defense.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-upholds-243-million-v...
one can imagine unintended consequences and liability cascades from imperfect repair
We already have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
What features does one specifically mean by "UNIX-like"? Unified filesystem with a single root? A CLI shell with the classic abbreviated comands? Preemptive multitasking? Multiuser-oriented permissions?
https://x.com/Daractenus/status/2025202437955490263
> Not to burst your AI bubble which is making everything from electricity to consumer electronics more expensive for all of us, but here's Elon Musk predicting fully self-driving Teslas by next year for ten years straight
Sites wanting to block AI scraping should simply ask questions like these, instead of furthering the complexity-driven monopoly of Big Tech by requiring specifically sanctioned software and hardware. This is how you determine human intelligence, and not mindless compliance.
If you want something you can install on your personal computer, I made one:
https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot
Obviously, it can't do everything OpenClaw can, because it doesn't have unfettered access to data you don't even know it has, but it'll only have access to the data you give it access to.
It's been really useful for me, hopefully it'll be useful to someone here.
If a loved one is suffering from this, this diagnostic would allow for interventions such as guardianship to assume financial and logistical responsibility for them with less subjective decisioning based on observations alone.
The accuracy of this test is nowhere nearly good enough to do population-wide screening. The clinical setting for this test is memory clinics in which Alzheimers is already relatively highly likely differentially, and even there you're going to get a surprising number of false positives.
(There's enough info in the supplemental link on this page to have an LLM do the Bayes math for you.)
I knew about this, though I'd never listened to it. I gave it a shot now, and I wanted to like it, but... it's terrible, unfortunately.
Is it sufficient to use a VM for isolation? Docker?
More cloud services now need role accounts. You need a "can read email but not send or forward" account, for example. And "can send only to this read-only contacts list".
No, they're applying statistics.
I'm pretty sure mammals and birds are conscious. Insects, probably not.
No, not at all.
They're banned from using them with flat-fee subscription accounts meant only for first party tools.
You're entirely welcome to use them with pay-as-you-go API access. That's what the API is for.
I have always loved writing with pen and paper, and making lists is the easiest. I have changed and tried many formats, and I will continue to tweak and simplify further. Right now, I use a simplified Bullet Journal Method to plan the day, from running errands to eating the frog. Of course, I do use a lot of digital tools too (Calendar, Emails).
I’m happy to say that I’m having success helping two elderly (an erstwhile teacher and a businessperson) remember things by just writing them down. Carry a pocket notebook attached with a simple pen.
Nothing fancy, put a dot or a circle, and start your list item. Done ones are ticked or crossed out, ignored ones are crossed out, and if the list fills up on a page, that is too behind › carry forward and re-write the item.
Early stage, but it seems to be working.
Right, you're the 2nd most liberal muni in Illinois after us. But Wilmette still has theirs, just like River Forest still has their ALPRs. I think a lot of munis will drop Flock, because of the bad PR, but they're just going to stand up no-name ALPRs.
(For people unfamiliar with Chicagoland, Oak Park borders Chicago to its west and is like our version of Park Slope, and Evanston, which houses Northwestern University, borders Chicago to the North and is like our Westchester County.)
I was pretty irritable about us cancelling our Flock contract. We did a metric fuckton of regulation on our cameras; I think we may have had the most sophisticated ALPR regulation of any ALPR in the country (granted, that's a statement about how little regulation there is of them, but still). We could have disabled our cameras but kept the contract, kept our standing as a municipality that uses Flock, and then shopped our ordinances and police general orders to the neighboring municipalities.
Instead, we performatively cancelled our contract, while remaining 4.5 square miles surrounded on all sides by totally unregulated ALPRs.
I'm enthusiastic about AI (it's gone from the 2nd most important thing to happen in my career to tied for first, with the Internet) and I am baffled by OpenClaw.
Use Redis as a shared metrics data store to coordinate back off in the aggregate and to track collective throughput (and the delta between functional baseline and when you’re exceeding counterparty limits). Make workers aware of allowance state, and responsive to it and limits.
Via this mechanism, you should be able to pause your worker fleet as it scales out as well as regulate its request rate while monitoring on health of the steady state interface between your workers and other systems.
How much capital was wiped out for it to be cheap after the bust? Someone is going to eat the exuberance loss in the near term, even if there is long term value.
Shatner ... knows ... how to ... have fun ... in his 90s!
How are they 'immediately jumping to violence'? This surveillance debate has been going on for years.
The forensic reconstruction to this level of detail is novel and interesting, both for the methods deployed and for the likelihood that the half-life of unsolved war crimes appears to be decreasing.