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by kevinpacheco | 2025-04-11 18:27:59+00:00
If you intend to stick with Windows for the long haul, you will have to upgrade eventually. I hung on to 7 for a while, but several apps stopped getting updates: iTunes, the Spotify desktop client, Google Chrome, and even Firefox dropped support. I was using iTunes to download podcasts, which after a while became impossible with some feeds because I would get an SSL error each time on that old version. For 10, the ESU period ends one year after 10/14/25 for consumers and three years for organizations. It's possible that apps will continue to receive updates during that time.
by pmags | 2025-04-11 18:28:10+00:00
Do you consider a further 4-day delay as requested by the DOJ to be "reasonable" given the prior events in this case?

For example, in the Supreme Court ruling Justic Sotomayor included the following statement:

"The United States Government arrested Kilmar Ar-mando Abrego Garcia in Maryland and flew him to a “terrorism confinement center” in El Salvador, where he has been detained for 26 days and counting. To this day, the Government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison. "

So:

* Warrant-less arrest

* Government admitted it was in error

* 4 weeks in a foreign jail

And it's OK for the DOJ to say "we want 4 more days" to develop a plan that you asked us to start developing more than a week ago?
by fragmede | 2025-04-11 18:28:11+00:00
https://youtu.be/vQDhzbTz-9k

Not quite the point of the article, but Kawasaki recently announced the Coreleo, a (faster?) robot horse you can ride and holy shit I want one. No chance this thing sees the light of day, and the video is a CGI render, but oh man.
by santoshalper | 2025-04-11 18:28:24+00:00
Where a console rates on the all-time sales leader board is pretty irrelevant, since the industry has grown so much in absolute terms. As when looking at movie box office revenue, you need to look at more than one number if you want to judge the real performance of a console in the market.

Here is a good example: The PS3 sold only slightly more than half as many units as its predecessor, the PS2, did. Most businesses would, in fact, consider it a failure if their 3rd generation product sold much more poorly than the second generation. Sony's rapid move away from the PS3/Cell architecture gives you a pretty good reason to believe they considered it a failure too.
by gnulinux | 2025-04-11 18:28:59+00:00
It's not at odds at all but it'll be "Monadic" in the sense that the output of system A will be part of the input to system A+1 which is complicated to organize in a systems setting, especially if you don't have access to a language that can verify. But it's absolutely achievable if you do have such a tool, e.g. you can do this in nix.
by badsectoracula | 2025-04-11 18:29:04+00:00
Modern GPUs - and really GPUs for about 10 years - are stupidly fast when it comes to rasterizing triangles, so artists simply work with quads (and polygons of more than four vertices - when Blender added "n-gons" back in the day many artists rejoiced) and they just subdivide them if they want neater looking interpolation before triangulating them. But a lot of detail nowadays come from geometry anyway.

This could have been nice ~15 years ago when using much fewer poly counts and relying a lot more on textures for detail was more common. But at the same time, GPUs were also much slower so this approach would be slower too.

So in practice this is really a niche approach for when you want to have a large quad that isn't "perfectly" mapped to an underlying texture and you can't subdivide the quad. Nowadays such use cases are more likely to come from more procedural sides (or perhaps effects) of the engine than artists making assets for the game.

It might be useful for an artist wanting to use a modern engine running on a modern PC to make a low-poly retro-styled game though.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-04-11 18:29:09+00:00
>In a similar vein, I've some friends who worked at a hush hush defense facility. The vast majority of the people at the facility are hired through a contractor. The employees are unionized, have a pension, and when a new contractor wins the bid, they have to agree to keep the staff in their current positions.

Not defense, but my government contract works the same way. I'm on company number two, but I know people who have worked for 4 different companies, all while doing the same job on evolutions of the same contract. There are people who have done full careers working onsite for my agency without ever converting to be a civil servant.
by donjoe0 | 2025-04-11 18:29:42+00:00
*leading orchestrator of propaganda alongside the US, which has the most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world, more effective even than its actual military

All you need is to check the miles-long list of antidemocratic coups d'etat organized by - or with the critical support of - the US, and what the press or the public thought at the time if you asked them if the US was doing that.
by groby_b | 2025-04-11 18:29:47+00:00
If you want faster horses, breed your own horses.

Ford wasn't interested in either your horse, or your transportation need. Ford was interested in what you'd buy. That means when there was ample competition, you'd likely get something that very much felt like a faster horse, because... you did want to go faster than your existing horse, and you didn't care the new thing wasn't horse-shaped.

Fast-forward until meaningful local competition is gone, and you get the F150, the Bronco, and the Mustang. It isn't really what you want (for most people, I know some of you love yours, moving on), but given the other choices, general availability, and popular sentiment, it's close enough that enough people will say, "OK, fine, definitely not a horse any more, but still sorta works for me."

You'll get bland pablum that's smeared out across the average opinion of a sufficient amount of people while maximizing total profit under the curve. That's the logical outcome of any mass production.

IOW: If you care about what you need, support open source authors. Write open source. And be prepared to tinker to tailor it to your needs. Horses are individual, and need care and support more than your car does.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-11 18:31:01+00:00
I see the Ars comment section is full of the usual insightful "we need Chinese slave labor otherwise the flow of my shiny new Apple devices will be shut off". It's really a product of selfishness.

Imagine if in the 1960s the US simply said regarding the space program, "Welp, let the Russians do it, can't be done". And they DID give up, until SpaceX came along the US was relying on the Russians to ferry astronauts on Soyuz.

People forget that 30 years ago China was still shipping low quality crap. It is because of companies like Apple that worked with Foxconn to bring that up to standard.

The defeatist attitude will not bring about progress. It will not happen overnight but it can be done.
by mjevans | 2025-04-11 18:31:09+00:00
I think my country (USA) would be healthier if a common sense viewpoint was selected and held.

Conflicts are always terrible, and the Eurasia / Africa region countries are particularly brutal.

Every citizen of every country has a human right (in a civilized civilization / society) to live a life that does not involve violence. A life where they are not worried about RPGs, bombings, (etc,) or military invasions.

Some sources of conflict involve places which various (different) religions hold as sacred / holy. Those sites should become UN world heritage locations and be managed by the UN in ways that only allow non-military peaceful access for any who want to visit.

With respect to Gaza my personal opinion remains unchanged. Both an innocent civilian people who suffer, and a terrorist government, remain in that region. The civilians should be evacuated. The terrorists who remain after (or whom are caught and found guilty in a trial) should be purged. The country should then be cleaned up, rebuilt, and returned to the innocent people along with a training-wheels UN supported government that brings stability, peace, and prevents a resurgence of hate and terrorism. In a few generations the country can grow more stable and graduate from the guided government structure.

That would be not just a two state solution, but a two states and global peace sites solution.
by dimava | 2025-04-11 18:31:16+00:00
tl;dr for those who didn't read the actual article:

They are changing to

x h1 { warning: semantically questionable }

from

/* where x is :is(article, aside, nav, section) */ x h1 { font-size: h2 } x x h1 { font-size: h3 } x x x h1 { font-size: h4 }

which was removed from spec in 2022

So anyone who doesn't place H1s where they shouldn't have been anyways is fine
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-11 18:31:44+00:00
Realistically, how can we uncover this type of foreign interference? As in, is there any hack someone in our community can perform to expose Israeli propaganda? Israel locked journalists out of Ghaza, and has pretty much dominion over social media in the US. How can someone remain informed or expose misinformation campaigns (ideally without repercussions, which is a dangerous control they have over our gov)?
by naenin | 2025-04-11 18:32:17+00:00
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defe...

It says that "gender identity" mustn't be used in lieu of sex and that the ideology that underpins it mustn't be promoted.

So if researchers holding datasets which currently have "gender identity" as a variable instead use more matter-of-fact descriptors like "desires to be the opposite sex" then this should be acceptable.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-11 18:32:55+00:00
Mobile CPUs embraced this hardcore; but the problem is that most of those cores don't have the programmer interfaces exposed. The most dissimilarity you get on mobile is big.LITTLE; you might occasionally get scheduled on a weaker core with better power consumption. But this is designed to be software-transparent. In contrast, the device vendor can stuff their chips full of really tiny cores designed to run exactly one program all the time.

For example, Find My's offline finding functionality runs off a coprocessor so tiny it can basically stay on forever. But nobody outside Apple gets to touch those cores. You can't ship an app that uses those cores to run a different (cross-platform) item-finding network; even on Android they're doing all the background stuff on the application processor.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-04-11 18:32:55+00:00
Working for the Federal government used to provide a solid pension, solid healthcare for life, and rock solid job security. The first has been mostly eroded away over the last decade. The last of course has completely evaporated over the past 3 months. AFAIK you still get healthcare for life if you manage to retire. All in all, I can absolutely see why someone would take the US civil service deal 20 years ago. Not so much 5-10 years ago.
by mef51 | 2025-04-11 18:33:01+00:00
The HRW report[1] goes into details, at least on the 1050 takedowns they documented

> A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content post-October 7th found that, of 1,050 posts HRW documented as taken-down or suppressed on Facebook or Instagram, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine, while just one post was content in support of Israel."

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
by kazinator | 2025-04-11 18:33:18+00:00
On the contrary, I implemented a substantial facsimile of it in a Lisp dialect yesterday; see my comment history.

1> (load "template") nil 2> (let ((field "name") (table "customers")) (te `SELECT @field FROM @table`)) #S(template merge #<interpreted fun: lambda (#:self-0073)> strings #("SELECT " " FROM ") vals #("name" "customers")) 3> *2.(merge) "SELECT name FROM customers" 4> [*2.vals 0] "name" 5> (set [*2.vals 0] "id") "id" 6> *2.(merge) "SELECT id FROM customers" 7> (upd *2.vals (map upcase-str)) #("ID" "CUSTOMERS") 8> *2.(merge) "SELECT ID FROM CUSTOMERS"

Unlike template strings, it was done in the language. There already are quasi-strings in the form of `...` syntax. We can quote that syntax (e.g. implicitly as a macro argument) and then pull apart its pieces to construct an object. It should work even in a years-out-of-date installation of the language. No new tooling is required; no changes to syntax highlighting in the editor, nothing.

It's a parlor trick that doesn't have any uses. The structured log messages use case is the most promising, because it has a consumer which actually wants the interpolated pieces that it would otherwise have to hackily parse out.

I predict that Python will eventually get dedicated HTML syntax: perhaps something that uses indentation to indicate element nesting. Let's "vibe pseudocode" a sketch:

html: div (class='main' id='1'): p: "paragraph text"

or whatever.
by keeptrying | 2025-04-11 18:33:54+00:00
With LLMs the ability to create your own experience whilst using services as "databases" is really possible.

My crazy though is that this is where the internet will go.

One of the big problems with SaaS is that the apps are tuned to increase company profit - not user agency.

All that will flip. Agents are the first barrage in that direction but the movement is only just starting.

One barrier is configuration (code at scale) - ie a way to communicate exactly what you want.

Once we have that we compile from our needs (configuration) to an app thats exactly what we want backed by our accounts on amazon, uber, google, openai as databases and processing.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-11 18:34:40+00:00
This serves to demonstrate that “Arabs” residing in Israel (with all the complexities of Israeli residency omitted for the sake of time) are relatively underrepresented in the Knesset.

You’ve shown less than 10% of the Knesset is “Arab” (for Israel’s peculiar definition of “Arab”), whereas 20+% of the population is.
by dang | 2025-04-11 18:35:25+00:00
Edit: ok you guys, all your responses have convinced me that I misread the room, and I'm going to reverse the title edit now.

-- original reply: --

I did those title edits to (marginally) reduce the flamebait effect of the title, in keeping with standard moderation practice (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Titles have by far the biggest impact on discussion quality, so this is a big deal. Especially when the topic is divisive.
by westurner | 2025-04-11 18:35:31+00:00
There are certainly infinitely non-halting automata on deterministic electronic processors.

Abstractly, in terms of constructor theory, the non-halting task is independent from a constructor, which is implemented with a computation medium.

FWIU from reading a table on wikipedia about physical platforms for QC it would be possible to do quantum computing with just electron voltage but typical component quality.

So phase; certain phases.

And now parametic single photon emission and detection.

"Low-noise balanced homodyne detection with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39537236

"A physical [photonic] qubit with built-in error correction" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243929

"Quantum vortices of strongly interacting photons" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5315 .. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05967 .. "Study of photons in QC reveals photon collisions in matter create vortices" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600736

"How do photons mediate both attraction and repulsion?" (2025) [as phonons in matter] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42661511 notes re: recent findings with photons ("quanta")
by joe_the_user | 2025-04-11 18:35:33+00:00
The thing about the situation is, now that when Tik-tok-ification has grown big enough, it (no-choice interfaces, "enshitification", etc) becomes the only paradigm UI designers, managers and investors understand. Moreover, it's interface that essentially completely controls the user - all the choices they have are essentially fake and control always appeals to managers and control may not immediately make money but it can make money long term so it can be justified.

You can see how Sonos enshitified their interface and even with a user rebellion wouldn't back down, just as an example.
by tomnipotent | 2025-04-11 18:35:37+00:00
I see this a lot in hero shooters, like Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. A hero you're great at but is bad for the job is worse than a hero you're bad at but is good for the job. It's funny to watch people complain "But I'm not good with X!" then they switch and are at the top of the leaderboard.
by pmags | 2025-04-11 18:35:41+00:00
Pete Hegseth faces new allegations of alcohol abuse and misconduct

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270033/pete-hegseth-fa...

Hegseth’s ex-wife gives new statement to FBI amid scrutiny over his nomination

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/pete-hegseth-ex-wife...
by neogodless | 2025-04-11 18:35:43+00:00
It always surprises me how quickly people forget nuance.

OK so we're discussing niche vs mainstream, or "what most people want" vs "what a few want".

The few cars you listed are not popular in the ownership sense, but they are well-known and aspirational.

People can buy them to show off status / money / exclusivity, or perhaps beauty. Speed is table stakes, of course. They have to objectively be better than most cars but also special. They can be strikingly beautiful or strikingly hideous but they must not be ordinary.

If you watch / read reviews of those cars, then it tends to be from the enthusiast driver point of view. Is it good at racing, cornering, reading the driver's intentions and reacting instantly and accurately? But then more often than not, those that can afford them do not buy them to use them for that purpose (or at least not frequently.) Many are treated a bit like investments or merely items in a collection.

What a long-winded way to get back to the original point of faster horses and enshittification of software, eh?

Netflix and Spotify might as well be a Toyota Corolla or Prius. I lost my train of thought. I think I just wanted to pontificate about exotic cars for a while.

(I drive a Polestar 2. It looks like a Volvo, is heavy as a dump truck, but damn is it fast as hell.)
by boogieknite | 2025-04-11 18:35:52+00:00
first, great well structured and accessible post.

convinced me to maybe try datastar out next prototype where its applicable. reminds me of htmx with hyperscript if hyperscript wasnt kind of a joke. to clarify, the author of hyperscript calls it a sort-of joke and im not trying to slam it.

ive used htmx and hyperscript for prototyping because its entertaining and the novelty is motivating. i found similar issues as the author of this post where i talk myself out of using htmx for the product by the end of prototyping.

all that said we've been evaluating a react sdk provided by ESRI (experience builder) and diving into that makes me stare longingly at datastar where it seems like i could use signals to update client-side data from 3rd party apis
by drdeca | 2025-04-11 18:36:34+00:00
I don’t know what Islam says about this, but the Old Testament certainly speaks of God allowing enemies to do things to Israel (by which I mean biblical Israel — I don’t intend to express any position on the relationship between that country and the current day country ) for various reasons.

So, if Islam’s view of things is similar, I don’t think this would be a refutation?

(Now, to be clear, I believe that Islam is false. But I’m not convinced that “bad things are happening to them” is something they would have reason to conclude is good evidence for it being false. Of course, one could just see this as another instance of the question of theodicy (“Why does God allow bad things to happen?”), and I’m not sure this instance of it makes the question particularly more difficult to answer? Though I suppose if Islam includes claims about like, always winning or something, or always winning conditional on X,Y,Z when X,Y,Z are true, then it would contradict that.)
by devilbunny | 2025-04-11 18:37:07+00:00
I just don't see a way that a two-state solution works. A three-state solution might be feasible (Gaza and West Bank governed separately), but then you have to deal with internal Israeli politics, and I really don't know enough about them to make even an educated guess about how hard it would be to get that through (I would imagine very, but like I said, I know very little about their politics).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-11 18:37:09+00:00
> I won't pretend to know what makes us human, but ultimately I believe it has to be rooted in something neurological

In terms of intelligence, yes, but in terms of what we've achieved then "technology" such as writing/archiving certainly has made a massive difference, else we'd be limited to what could be built by passing down oral history and skills passed from one generation to the next, much like Aboriginal Australians.

I suspect that the neurological (& vocal) differences that make us more intelligent than other apes are likely extremely few - more like "fine tuning" differences than anything major.
by freedomben | 2025-04-11 18:37:18+00:00
This gets especially interesting when you consider that horses are still better than motorized vehicles at accessing certain terrain. For example, a horse can trivially climb a steep hill in the wilderness with no road, or ford a river with no nearby bridges, that even rugged ATVs can't really handle. The vast majority of transportation needs are better served by motorized vehicles, but horses still have some unique advantages and in some areas are unbeatable. Now that said, some of the freaky AI robots with legs might finally render horses inferior, but those are pretty inaccessible to most people.
by dang | 2025-04-11 18:38:04+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you more than once to stop. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by kouteiheika | 2025-04-11 18:38:14+00:00
There's no cross-vendor API which exposes the full power of the hardware. For example, you can use Vulkan to do compute on the GPU, but it doesn't expose all of the features that CUDA exposes, and you need to do the legwork yourself reimplementing all of the well optimized libraries (like e.g. cublas or cudnn) that you get for free with CUDA.
by NoTeslaThrow | 2025-04-11 18:38:20+00:00
Indeed. The editorial boards of these newsrooms are often staffed with people who attended the same schools and classes as those running the country. The social circles of the two worlds are extremely closely linked.

Of course, this means that the reporting isn't very good at addressing its blind spots–i.e., most of the news in the country, let alone the world, that isn't relevant to the ivy league coastal elites. And I say this as a member of that same class. Most of the political perspectives in my life are completely unrepresented in the opinion columns, which generally tend to pander upwards rather than downwards.

I don't tend to put much weight in freedom of the press so long as that press is floating on the cream of society and asking the government permission to report on what they're doing.
by michaelteter | 2025-04-11 18:38:33+00:00
While there's almost certainly a good amount of waste in these consulting contracts, there's also a strong possibility that these cuts were done without a clear sense of what would be lost without them.

But hey, I suppose sometimes we just deem projects too big and messy to comprehend, so we just toss it all and start over. It rarely turns out as nice or easy as we thought it would be.