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by theologic | 2025-09-15 19:19:37+00:00
Ah, you are dredging up memories.

I've done both marketing and engineering. I managed a group at RTP responsible for a part of the engineering for PC, Thinkpads, and the Server group. While I had people go to Greenock, I never went personally. So, in some sense, I don't feel like I can give an adequate impression and background.

I will tell you that our team out of Greenock had a big impact on manufacturing, and some real live wires. I remember being at home on the weekend, and have a VP of manufacturing hunt me down to say words that normally IBMer wouldn't say in that I was bringing down his line. It really was the stereotypical Scottish Soccer fan type interaction. In this case, it turned out that it wasn't my group. After I left IBM, I ended up supplying tech to all my IBM competitors. I observed what I thought was basically all of IBM processes in their processes. Similar terminology that I know started at IBM. While we did see some people move, a big part of this was the supplier base.

We did do a lot of work with outside resources. For example, we "qualified" power supplies, but we basically did co-engineering. Part of our problem in that we would significantly change everybody's product, then they would sell it to Dell or Gateway. This was a very quick path to get your processes into the comp as the suppliers would "suggest" things that they had learned at IBM.

The hard drive issue is a bit more subtle. IBM was not the original supplier to our own PCs--and they had a melt down with a massive recall. I don't remember us making hard drives in Scotland. I remember Mainz, Rochester MN, San Jose, and Fujisawa. The PC client group took almost exclusively Fujisawa products. The server group worked to take San Jose/Rochester server products. Rochester was the 5.25 and then 3.5" lines for AS/400, so they were at first leading with the PC server group. I will relate that I think HDDs were always the #1 reason for Quality No Ship (QNS), mainly due to shock specs, which got better over time.

As to the delivery of tech in the UK. I would state that it is similar inside of the USA. Try as many want, tech seems to be focused in the New York, Bay Area and in Puget Sound. While I was in RPT, and this state killed themselves to get tech (including 3 incredible Universities right next door), for some reason it never turned into a tech hub. Without research, I would state that there is also an element of chance or luck that gets a region going, and can't be planned for. However, maybe your just pointing out that UK never even gave themselves any chance, which I am just not close enough to understand.
by pflenker | 2025-09-15 19:20:01+00:00
Find joy in the craft, don’t rely on the outside world to feed you excitement. A well-crafted wooden box can spark as much joy as a well-crafted piece of software or a well-written document.

Taxes are boring, no kid at kindergarten states they are going to be tax advisors when they grow up, yet tax advisors exist and they do not all despise their jobs, because doing your job well can be intrinsically motivating.
by tootie | 2025-09-15 19:20:08+00:00
Bitcoin is not remotely predictable. The value has swung wildly over the past 5 years. Dropping more than 50% then gaining 200%. By comparison, USD has been rock solid even with the recent run of inflation. An actually circulating currency causes a panic at an 8% drop in value and yet there was zero macroeconomic impact from BTC dropping 50%. BTC is less stable than Turkish Lira.
by brailsafe | 2025-09-15 19:20:31+00:00
Can anyone speak to whether the performance of the Settings app has been improved? In Seq and every version since they redid it in presumably SwiftUI, if you select one of the navigation panes and then hold either the up or down arrow keys to quickly navigate between them, something like a memory leak occurs due to (seemingly) launching all of the nested panes as separate apps (this is what appears to be the case in activity monitor) and the Settings app will start lagging until you fully quit and reopen.
by FabHK | 2025-09-15 19:20:49+00:00
Frankly, I am shocked by this. I don’t mean that to criticise you or others that didn’t know the term, but the quality of the discourse/media.

Pig butchering and related crypto scams are an enormous problem. Latest estimates are that the cyber scam industry revenues exceed the illegal drug trade. There are so many victims, both cyber trafficking victims promised great jobs then forced to perpetrate the scams, as well as victims handing over huge sums. Both suffer not only financial loss, but psychological damage.

Lastly, this threatens to destabilize whole countries - as the narcos screwed up Colombia and Mexico, so these scammers are screwing up the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar etc.

Again, that such a massive problem is so little known is in itself scandalous.
by codyb | 2025-09-15 19:20:56+00:00
A long time ago someone bought a pizza.

Most large company entries into the crypto space seem to fizzle out and disappear due to lack of use, and how annoying it is to deal with currencies which fluctuate in value between the time you've spent them and the time the transaction is approved (I understand there are lightning networks), and then there's the issue with maintaining wallets.

It really just adds nothing but extra complexity to the existing electronic payment methods. And takes away tons of things like regulators, regulations, consumer protections, strong case law.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-15 19:21:29+00:00
There's some truth to the software getting worse, but it's also a different world (e.g., I see the decline as being a result of supporting different devices [and especially syncing between them]). But my point is more that still making the best GUI software around is pretty good for a company of Apple's size and complex priorities! (I don't think Apple makes software that's better than everyone else, but I do think most of their core apps are on par with the best.)
by throwup238 | 2025-09-15 19:21:31+00:00
It’s how the size of the waves is calculated. They talk about it in the first season of the 100 Foot Waves TV show mentioned in the article. Video from several angles is analyzed using the surfer or another known object for scale.

It’s not easy to measure ocean waves unless you have a jetski riding right on the crest or a LIDAR system on shore which is expensive.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-15 19:21:42+00:00
What's the condition in which you're trying to focus that input? Usually you're doing that in response to some sort of user action, in which case the time to handle that is within an event handler.

> And the idea is (I assume?) that the DOM is the external system! This absolutely bonkers! The DOM is my app!

External systems usually means stuff like an event system, network requests, or something else not managed directly by React. Unless you're reaching outside the area of the DOM React is managing, you can usually do this in event handlers or (for spookier cases) ref callbacks. There are certainly exceptions, but it's often an architectural smell.

Further down in the docs you'll see[0]:

> Effects are an “escape hatch”: you use them when you need to “step outside React” and when there is no better built-in solution for your use case.

[0] https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffect#wrapping-effects...
by EnPissant | 2025-09-15 19:21:47+00:00
The problem is when there are long stretches of little to no power generation. Fully covering those gaps with batteries would require very large (and costly) storage. During this time the grid needs to be large enough to support everyone, just the same as if solar did not exist. You can say it's terrible for utilities, but at the end of the day they will have to pass the cost of maintaining the grid along to non-solar customers.
by mikestew | 2025-09-15 19:21:59+00:00
Though The Chronicle is pretty bad, it is generally what I see when I surf without a Pi-Hole (or choose your fave ad-blocking tool). And, yeah, I honestly don’t know why people put up with it. I offered to put a Pi-Hole on my parent’s network. Mom wrote code for 30 years, she can handle the minimal intervention needed. Nope, they turned me down, they’re fine with things the way they are. First thing they did with that new TV was connect it to the Internet, too. For some folks, the slightest inconvenience is apparently enough to sit and look at ads all day.

Which reminds me that I need to pull a RPi off the shelf and provision another Pi-Hole for the camper now that there’s a Starlink attached. I’m not paying by the byte to have ads delivered.
by StratusBen | 2025-09-15 19:22:27+00:00
We just launched an MCP for getting data from the dataset behind EC2instances.info. This includes both pricing as well as specification data from the site including:

- Hardware specs (CPU, memory, storage, networking) - Pricing (on-demand, reserved, etc) - Region availability - Instance-specific features (Graviton, NVMe, EFA)

Would appreciate feedback and thoughts on this as we're trying to get information to people via MCP to keep up with the times :)
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-15 19:22:42+00:00
This is largely an aside but the I was at the local 50's themed diner down the street and asked for a coffee and apple pie David Lynch style and you know what those bastards brought me? One of those packaged mini pies and then they directed me to the counter to pour my own coffee.

My point is that when it comes to π it's just like people don't care like they used to. I hope you don't take that as a criticism.
by thamer | 2025-09-15 19:23:07+00:00
Is this only about remote MCP servers? The instructions all seem to contain a URL, but personally almost all the MCP servers I'm running locally are stdio based and not networked. Are you planning to support those in some way?

There's also this new effort by Anthropic to provide a packaging system for MCP servers, called MCPB or MCP Bundles[1]. A bundle is a zip file with a manifest inside it, a bit like how Chrome extensions are structured (maybe VSCode extensions too?).

Is this something you're looking to integrate with? I can't say I have seen any MCPB files anywhere just yet, but with a focus on simple installs and given that Anthropic introduced MCP in the first place, I wouldn't be surprised if this new format also got some traction. These archives could contain a lot more data than the small amount you're currently encoding in the URL though[2].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/mcpb

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/mcpb/blob/main/README.md#direc...
by mcv | 2025-09-15 19:23:26+00:00
> Accented letters you mostly couldn’t do at all

Typewriters supported accented letters better than modern keyboards do. I believe on our typewriter either the ' ` and " didn't move you forward, or there was a separate key to move the same space back, so you could basically put any symbol above any letter. Kinda like how LaTeX does it.
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 19:23:41+00:00
One of the most important new types of renewable, deep offshore wind, is just becoming very economical, and was on the precipice of being deployed at large scale in the US.

However, Trump has issued stop-work order on the only two projects, both multi-billion dollar, with issued permits. They are the ~800MW Empire Wind Project and the ~700MW Revolution Wind project:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administration-offsho...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/fishermen...

The Empire Wind project was allowed to continue after negotiation from NY's governor, but these sorts of mafia tactics will stop the development of new off shore wind projects. Multi-billion dollar projects getting shakedowns midway through is no way to run a country.

Perhaps even worse, it prevents the US form acquiring the construction skills to work on this on our own in the future. We are getting extremely far behind on a crucial technology for renewables at the population centers for northern latitudes.
Show HN: Helios, an open-source distributed AI network using idle community GPUs
by fnoracr | 2025-09-15 19:23:51+00:00
Hi Hacker News, I'm the creator of Helios, and I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to share it with you all. The "Why": Like many of you, I've been fascinated by the power of modern AI models, but frustrated by the high cost and centralization of GPU resources. I started wondering if we could apply the old-school distributed computing model (like SETI@home or Folding@home) to the modern AI stack. The goal was to build a network where anyone could contribute their idle compute power and, in return, get access to a powerful, multi-modal AI. The "What": Helios is an open-source platform to build that network. It consists of two main parts: an orchestrator server that manages a job queue and the workers, and a client-side worker that anyone can install on Windows or Linux. Users run the worker, contribute resources, and this forms a global, decentralized supercomputer capable of handling text, image, and audio tasks. The "How" (Tech Details): Architecture: It’s a classic Orchestrator-Worker model, written entirely in Python. The Orchestrator (orchestrator.py) is the brain, handling job distribution, worker registration, and a simple web UI. The Worker (worker.py) is the muscle that users run on their machines. Proof-of-Contribution (No Crypto!): This is the core access mechanism. To prevent spam and freeloading, you can only submit jobs to the network if you are an active, contributing worker with a good reputation. It's not based on tokens or blockchain; it's a simple, fair system based on participation. Dynamic Experts: Workers don't come pre-loaded with every model. The Orchestrator assigns AI models (e.g., a specific translation model, an image captioning model) to workers dynamically based on the current job queue. These models are pulled directly from the Hugging Face Hub, keeping the worker client lightweight. Multi-Modality: It's designed to route different job types (text, audio, image) to workers that have the appropriate models and resources available. This is very much an experimental, v1.0 project. I know there are huge challenges, especially around security (sandboxing tasks is a major next step), but I wanted to get a working prototype out there to see if the idea resonates with the community. I'd love to get your feedback on the architecture, the concept of Proof-of-Contribution, and any suggestions you might have. GitHub Repo (Code is here): https://github.com/fnoracr/helios-distributed-ai Project Page (Demo & Docs): https://huggingface.co/spaces/fnoracr/Helios_Distributed_AI-... Installers (.exe/.tar.gz): https://github.com/fnoracr/helios-distributed-ai/releases/ta... Thanks for checking it out!
by bayesianbot | 2025-09-15 19:23:58+00:00
I've been extremely impressed (and actually had quite a good time) with GPT-5 and Codex so far. It seems to handle long context well, does a great job researching the code, never leaves things half-done (with long tasks it may leave some steps for later, but it never does 50% of a step and then just randomly mock a function like Gemini used to), and gives me good suggestions if I'm trying to do something I shouldn't. And the Codex CLI also seems to be getting constant, meaningful updates.
by hbarka | 2025-09-15 19:24:01+00:00
The Powerwall system prioritizes filling up the batteries first. I assume it will take pretty much your entire solar day to fill your three batteries so why didn’t you choose the model that fills up your buckets as the first priority? I think the rule is “optimize on hourly storage” and the hourly production should follow that requirement. Doesn’t the 74% give you a bigger area under the production curve than the 72%?
by dingnuts | 2025-09-15 19:24:31+00:00
The complaint was that the post has a lot of basic inconsistencies which is a problem regardless.

If your content is as bad as AI slop it doesn't really matter if it is or not, but I think it's safe to assume that when a verbose and grandiose post is internally inconsistent and was written after 2022, it's slop[0]

0 https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/f0e/0bb/d9346e02d8d7173a6a9d...
by craftkiller | 2025-09-15 19:24:50+00:00
I do. I watch scifi shows over the internet with my friends. We watch it together on a web page with an html5 video element served out of my apartment. I've had to re-encode it to 3 megabits per second (to avoid stutter/buffering) with no b-frames. When initially setting it up, I tested both H264 and AV1 at that bitrate and H264 looked considerably worse. No surprise there, considering H264 is old enough to drink (22 years) whereas AV1 is only 7 years old.
by other8026 | 2025-09-15 19:25:41+00:00
The basic thing is that the developer had been swatted multiple times right before that video. Swatted by a fan of the YouTubers who made the video that Louis commented on.

But the targeted update thing isn't even possible on GrapheneOS. The update server is basically a basic web server. The updates are stored on the servers and the update client downloads them. All update files follow the same naming system and the update client downloads updates using that system.

The update client never sends any IDs either.

So if GrapheneOS can't get unique IDs, then how can targeting be done? It's just not possible.
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 19:26:11+00:00
you are right about the additional layer of needing ratification by US states, but other than that, i see no difference. in the end it's just a name for a specific concept, and the concepts of Grundgesetz and Verfassung are not different enough to argue over which name is correct. i disagree that the difference is the reason why germany named it Grundgesetz. they could have decided to name it Verfassung instead, and nothing would have changed. we would still have the same rules to change it. there is nothing in the name that forces a different approach.

more interesting is the actual contents and the principles that are being covered. debt brake for example in my opinion has no business being part of a constitution or Grundgesetz. it should never have been added there in the first place. that's not what a constitution is for. putting stuff like that in there weakens the Grundgesetz and makes a mockery of it. it reeks of planned economy.

that doesn't mean that the debt brake is bad, or that it should not be protected by requiring a 2/3rd vote to change it. there just should be a different place for that, in order to keep the Grundgesetz focused on issues that you really don't want to change. in other words, even if only a single 2/3rd vote is necessary to approve a change, a change to the Grundgesetz should be a rare exception.
by const_cast | 2025-09-15 19:26:26+00:00
No, it's not, not always is my point. We don't count the asset of having the home because we're comparing that part to the stock market investment.

Made up numbers: consider:

Mortgage: 2,000 Home price: 200,000 Difference from rent: -500

Rent: 1,500 Home price: 0 Difference from mortgage: +500

If (500/month invested over 30 years) > (200,000 appreciated home price over 30 years) then you came out on top by renting.

It might be or it might not be.

Also, the type of asset matters. Stock might be a more flexible asset than real estate, in which case you should probably rent depending on your location.
by bri3d | 2025-09-15 19:26:42+00:00
Ha! I actually use TinyPilot all the time, nice!

> I agree that would be nice, but it also doesn't sound all that practical for a small vendor.

Personalizing / customizing per device always introduces a huge amount of complexity (and thus cost). However, this is TP-Link we're talking about, who definitely have the ability to personalize credentials at scale on other product lines.

And again, to be clear, I'm not trying to argue that the current way is some horrible disaster from TP-Link, just advocating for a better solution where possible. I think the current system reads as fine, honestly, it sounds like typical cobbled together hardware vendor junk that probably has some huge amount of "real" vulnerability in it too, but this particular bit of the architecture doesn't offend me badly.

> now you have to unwind your manufacturing and fulfillment pipeline to get back all the devices you've shipped.

This can be avoided with some other type of proof-of-presence side channel which doesn't rely on manufacturing personalization - for example, a physical side-channel like "hold button to enable some PKI-based backup pairing or firmware update mode." For a camera, there should probably be an option to make this go away once provisioning is successful, since you don't want an attacker performing an evil maid attack on the device, but for pre-provisioning, it's a good option.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-15 19:26:50+00:00
In the 1950s through the beginning of the 1970's the government (ARPA) was paying young scientists and innovators to do their PhD thesis' in computer design to create the next generation of human oriented computer interfaces. Now we have articles talking about how shit it is to work with computers. What the fuck man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)
by mcv | 2025-09-15 19:27:28+00:00
I'm old enough to remember when supermarkets had boxes. All the goods they sell comes to them in big cardboard boxes, and and supermarkets would have a fenced off area where they dumped all those boxes, so whenever a customer needed a box to put their groceries in to take them home, they'd get a box from that fenced off area.

I haven't seen those in decades unfortunately. It was a great way to reuse those boxes.
by DennisP | 2025-09-15 19:27:33+00:00
If it really is the goal to increase treasuries demand by means of stablecoins, then I would expect them to enforce this. If the stablecoins aren't really buying the assets then they do nothing for demand.

If another goal is to enrich the Trump family, then the SEC could forgo enforcement on the World Liberty Financial stablecoin. But they could still enforce the act for everyone else.

Increasing demand for treasuries, thus keeping interest rates down, also directly benefits Trump because he's bought at least $100 million in bonds since becoming president.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-buys-more-100-mill...
by free_bip | 2025-09-15 19:27:33+00:00
I understand the point you're trying to make, but I think I can at least sort of understand why they're going with this speed of release cadence. If the release cadence is too slow, you might end up with another JPEG situation where the new codec is undeniably better in every way, but nobody wants to implement it since the old standard was around for so long without any competition.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-15 19:27:50+00:00
I'm confused. So you are dismissing them?

Then I do disagree with you. Dismissing the ingredients needs an actual reason they're bad, not just a way to replace them.

If you were only saying it's possible to replace them with simple ingredients, that would not be a dismissal of the ingredients themselves.

> I took the two comments together trying to say that the boxed goods do things impossible for a home baker.

I don't think so. bruce511 was replying to a completely different part of the ancestor comment, disliking the list of chemicals regardless of whether they do something unique, and tavavex was rebutting a dislike of chemicals.
by henearkr | 2025-09-15 19:28:29+00:00
Ok, thank you, that's clearer.

But the whole point, on my side, is to emphasize that in some cases "socialist" means "authoritarian communist" (that's been only when the word is used by some Americans) and in some cases (the most of the time e.g. if you are dialoguing with somebody from Europe) it means something else. See my other comments for more.