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by Spooky23 | 2026-01-22 15:11:11+00:00
Nah, I'll move much of it locally when it becomes cost justified to do so.

I doubt that the exponential cost explosion day is coming. When the bubble pops, the bankruptcies of many of the players will push the costs down. US policy has provided a powerful incentive for Chinese players to do what Google has done and have a lower cost delivery model anyway.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-22 15:11:44+00:00
See another comment.

Using nolibc is fine when you compile it together with the kernel.

The parent article is about a C header that you can use to compile your program independently of the source files of the Linux kernel.

Even the presence of the Linux kernel sources on your computer is not enough to enable the compilation of a program that uses directly the syscalls, as the raw sources do not contain any suitable header. You must first compile the kernel with the desired configuration, because header files are selected or auto-generated accordingly. That is enough for nolibc, which lives in the kernel source tree, but it would still be difficult to identify which are the header files that could be used to compile an external program.

Moreover, including Linux header files in your program is an extremely bad idea, because they are not stable. It is frequent that a minor version increase of the Linux kernel breaks the "#include" directives of external programs (such as out-of-tree device drivers), because items are moved between headers or some headers disappear and other headers appear.
by linsomniac | 2026-01-22 15:11:57+00:00
I had an Ender 3 Pro, and it was also very finicky, ~18 months ago I replaced it with a Bambu P1S and that thing is just a (nearly) fire and forget machine. I've been super happy with it. In the 18 months I've had it, I've probably gone through 10-20 rolls of filament, in the 4 years I had the Ender I went through maybe 3-4 (because every time I wanted to print something I knew I'd have to spend an hour fiddling with it). A coworker has the Ender 3 though and his has been reliable, so it seems YMMV.
by lazide | 2026-01-22 15:11:57+00:00
Most of the tests are BS too.

And nobody is talking about verifying if the AI bubble sort is correct or not - but recognizing that if the AI is implementing it’s own bubble sort, you’re waaaay out in left field.

Especially if it’s doing it inline somewhere.

The underlying issue with AI slop, is that it’s harder to recognize unless you look closely, and then you realize the whole thing is bullshit.
by nindalf | 2026-01-22 15:12:03+00:00
I read this as "anything can be used as evidence if it confirms my preconceived notions". Your anecdotes about a friend or two are just that - anecdotes.

This claim of "a single man could feed a whole family on one factory job" is misleading and untrue. It's usually the 1950s that people claim this was true and they wish we could go back to the 1950s. It's easy to show that that the 1950s were no picnic (https://archive.is/oH1Vx).

It's always some time in the past that the nation was great. They pick 1950s, you pick the 1990s. What you don't understand is that people are usually longing for a time when they weren't alive or when they were children. They want to go back to living the stress free life of a happy childhood, when your parents shielded you from all the vagaries of life.

You cite cartoons, they cite memes. If you ask them how a meme could possibly be used as evidence, they say much the same as you - anecdotes about their grandparents.
by bsoles | 2026-01-22 15:12:07+00:00
Design Thinking is the Data Science of UX: an attempt to gain influence in fields that you don't have expertise in.

Even though there might be universal design principle that can be applied in many fields, the Design Thinking people think that they can just come in and design user interfaces, etc. without really having an expertise in the particular field.

Design Thinking works for selling consulting and not much else. Nobody wants another Agile(TM) process imposed on software developers (in my particular case) that attempts to turn developers into factory line workers.
by MBCook | 2026-01-22 15:12:16+00:00
On the flip side I’ve been following him for a while on Mastodon.

I’ve basically watched the AI crap cycle go from “this is a weird report, oh it’s fake” to “all the reports are trash, it’s so hard to find real humans in the flood” through his posts.

I suspect I would’ve stepped down long ago. I feel so bad for the open source maintainers who are just being assaulted with nonsense.
by spyrja | 2026-01-22 15:12:55+00:00
When the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons arrived in England around fall of Rome in the early 400s, the "official" language was Latin (as Britain had been a Roman colony since 43 AD) whereas locals spoke various Celtic dialects. The newcomers brought with them Scandinavian tongues and for the next 500 years or so Old English developed with minor changes (with sparse inclusions from Latin and Celtic influences). That all changed in 1066 with the Norman Invasion where Old Northern French became the new official language. (French also began as a Nordic language, but over time only a few hundred or so words remained, with the rest being mostly Latin-based.) As far as Modern English is concerned, while only ~20% is based on Old Norse, those words form more than 80% of what is most commonly used on a day-to-day basis.
by thinkcontext | 2026-01-22 15:12:58+00:00
> Corn is used as a tool in the crop rotation to enable growing foods for humans to eat. As we learned before ethanol's time in the sun, farmers are going to grow it anyway to support their rotations. The only question is if it is better to recapture that into usable energy or to let it rot out in the field.

This doesn't make sense in light of the large expansion of corn acreage that corresponds to ethanol policy.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10323
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_corn_acres_planted
by vonneumannstan | 2026-01-22 15:13:26+00:00
>his rejects any fixed, universal moral standards in favor of fluid, human-defined "practical wisdom" and "ethical motivation." Without objective anchors, "good values" become whatever Anthropic's team (or future cultural pressures) deem them to be at any given time.

Who gets to decide the set of concrete anchors that get embedded in the AI? You trust Anthropic to do it? The US Government? The Median Voter in Ohio?
by mikailk | 2026-01-22 15:13:32+00:00
I do realize now I accidentally shifted the language from "universal" morals to "objective" morals. If a moral principle is claimed to be universal, it must, by definition, be applicable to all possible scenarios.

An objective moral isn't invalidated by an immoral choice still being the most correct choice in a set, but a universal moral is invalidated by only a single exception.

I suppose it's up to you if you were agreeing with the OP on the choice of "universal".
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-22 15:13:34+00:00
So I don't see those particular Dems doing that as much as I see the Schumers & Pelosis doing it. And to that end, I agree completely.

Though not introduced by Dems, this is a great example of just how stupid all of this is: http://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-res...

Of all of the things currently plaguing the US, the fact that they think this is appropriate speaks volumes.
by onraglanroad | 2026-01-22 15:13:43+00:00
I don't think LOTR supports your case at all.

I guess Frodo is the main hero. He is left the ring and is forced to leave his home. His shortcut through the old forest nearly kills the entire party until he's rescued by Tom Bombadil. He then nearly dies in the barrow until he's rescued again by Tom.

He doesn't know what to do at Bree until Strider helps him. He succumbs to the temptation to put on the ring at Weathertop and then becomes a burden to the rest until Rivendell.

He doesn't know how to get into Mordor until Gollum helps him. He gets stung by Shelob and captured by orcs and it's only because Sam took the ring that the whole mission isn't blown.

He runs out of strength climbing Mount Doom and again he's saved by Sam carrying him. When he gets to the Cracks of Doom he fails to destroy the ring and is saved by Gollum attacking him.

And even back in the Shire, he can't settle and ends up leaving.

He's just not a very heroic figure and more affected by circumstance, continually requiring rescue. Maybe a bit more like Arthur Dent than it first appears. :)
by codebyaditya | 2026-01-22 15:14:30+00:00
Excellent point. My analysis calculated Level I concentration within each employer type but not absolute volumes.

You're correct that if staffing firms file significantly more total applications, their absolute number of affected Level I positions could exceed product companies despite lower concentration.

To properly claim "3x harder hit," I'd need to show either:
1. Total Level I applications by employer type, or
2. Total estimated selection losses by employer type

Without those absolute numbers, the "3x harder" claim overstates what the data shows. The accurate claim is that product companies have 3x higher Level I concentration - but that's not the same as 3x more impact.

This is a good catch. The proportions tell us about hiring patterns but not total system impact.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-22 15:14:31+00:00
They need someone to cook their meals, clean their bedroom, &c. while they spend their whole day on low life activities, they want to be 16 forever and live like when they had a mom to take care of the "annoying" things.

I know people my age (30+) who spend 8 hours a day gaming and the rest of their free time collecting pokemon cards, funkopops, scifi books they never read and have the audacity to complain about women not being """traditional""" anymore. They're basically out of shape teenagers with money, and they don't understand why it's not attractive. Some of them actually do live with their parents.
by mort96 | 2026-01-22 15:14:42+00:00
Neither $X nor $Y are going to be hard dollar values. If I semi-arbitrarily pick some $X and some $Y, put in $X+$Y as my max bid, and lost the item due to $0.01, I would be annoyed not due to some irrationality but because $X and $Y were never cent-accurate in the first place.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-22 15:14:46+00:00
> What happens if China leaps ahead by not seeking profits of all this?

Isn't this essentially where we are right now? In this century China has launched three crewed space stations, the rest of the world has launched zero. (Bigelow launched two demonstrators, but they were never crewed). The US has a lot of stations that should go up this or next year in response to the ISS retiring, meanwhile China is quietly operating their current station since 2021

I am confident that at least one of the US programs will succeed. But right now the US doesn't have the lead
by freedomben | 2026-01-22 15:15:16+00:00
Yes, definitely a culture thing. I had a very difficult time finding most British humor funny when I was younger, but my personality combination of loving humor and comedy and also being incredibly interested in people, drove me to want to understand why British humor was funny when most of the time it just seemed so absurd.

It was a multi-decade path so it's very difficult to identify progression points, but slowly through exposure I began to "get it" and now I adore British comedy and humor. I still adore American comedy and humor as well, but the more exposure to the culture I got, the more I understood it.

Obviously that's just anecdotal, but I personally find it strong evidence that the humor divide is indeed cultural. The more similar cultures are to begin with, the easier the leap is.

To me the most exciting part of this is that it means there are thousands of other cultures on this planet that have humor that I have not unlocked yet. Someday I hope to!

Edit: for a very fascinating example of differences, I love comparing the UK version of the office to the US version of the office. To many Americans, David Brent mostly just came off mean and an asshole, even a poisonous one, whereas Michael Scott comes off as eccentric and clueless and unable to read the room, but overall a mostly good guy. That perception makes David Brent kind of hateable whereas Michael Scott kind of lovable.

Another fascinating point of comparison is the UK version of ghosts, versus the US version of ghosts. I'll leave comparisons and contrasts on those to others as I haven't watched all of the UK version of ghosts yet. I'd be fascinated to hear what others think of that, and the office for that matter.
by sanderjd | 2026-01-22 15:15:50+00:00
Very interesting! Except I noted that he referred to David Brent from The Office, and we have a direct corollary to that character, of course, in Michael Scott from The Office. They really didn't change the formula for American audiences, he's absolutely still a comedic failure. Starting in the second season, he becomes a bit more of a lovable comedic failure, but the basic point of the character stands. And he is beloved by American audiences!
by bethekidyouwant | 2026-01-22 15:15:50+00:00
Is Arthur Dent the hero? I imbibed him more as a passive vessel to experience the absurdity of Douglas Adams universe. But it’s been a while since I read it, but from memory all the situations are so absurd that I never felt myself yelling at the hero to make a more logical, or “herioc” decision because there wasn’t really a lot of sense in that sort of thing
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-22 15:15:53+00:00
Various versions of Windows have had their source code leaked out in part or almost whole. If Claude produces an exact copy, like LLMs used to do with the fast inverse square root from Doom, Microsoft would have good reason to sue and it'd be on the project to prove that the copyright violation was done by a bot (which makes it legal now).

With the project essentially implementing the entire API method by method, the chances of LLMs repeating some of the leaked source code would be tremendous.

A one-directional fork of ReactOS might be able to make some fast progress for a few people who desperately need certain programs to work, but I don't think the project will benefit from LLMs.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-22 15:16:06+00:00
In my town, a capital city, near my home there is a vape lounge. In the parking lot of this lounge are 3 Ford F-350 King Ranch Dual Rear Wheels, adorned with a small amount of decalling on the side for the vape lounge. Each of these trucks goes for about $80K.

But I suppose they're "company vehicles".

And this is before we get to the really wealthy.
by biofox | 2026-01-22 15:16:28+00:00
I think there is a lot of truth in that. It led to the death of patriotism (which is now considered embarrassing outside of sport), national purpose, institutions, empire, and coincided with the decline of heavy industry (which only happened much more recently in the US).

EDIT: Saying that, there is still a strong positive national identity. We're just too embarrassed to express it strongly (see patriotism), because of our fall from grace.
by morpheos137 | 2026-01-22 15:17:00+00:00
I must use AI differently than most because I find it stimulates deep thinking (not necessarily productive). I don't ask for answers. I ask for constraints and invariants and test them dialecticaly. The power in LLM is in finding deep associations of pattern which the human mind can then validate. LLMs are best used in my opinion not as an oracle of truth or an assistant but as a fast collective mental latent space look up tool. If you have a concept or a specification you can use the LLM to find paths to develop it that you might not have been aware of. You get out what you put in and critical thinking is always key. I believe the secret power in LLMs lies not so much in the transformer model but in the meaning inherent in language. With the right language you can shape output to reveal structure you might not have realized otherwise. We are seeing this power even now in LLMs proving Erdos problems or problems in group theory. Yes the machine may struggle to count the 'r's in strawberry but it can discern abstract relations.

An interesting visual exercise to see latent information structure in language is to pixelize a large corpus as bit map by translating the characters to binary then run various transforms on it and what emerges is not a picture of random noise but a fractal like chaos of "worms" or "waves." This is what LLMs are navigating in their high dimensional latent space. Words are not just arbitrary symbols but objects on a connected graph.
by merpkz | 2026-01-22 15:17:14+00:00
Going to get this and install it on my old Asus core2duo laptop from circa 2008 - damn thing still is going strong, despite plastic becoming so brittle it has not one single panel left without cracks in it. Currently it has XP on it, but that is missing whole bunch of drivers, like touchpad not working and BIOS AHCI has to be in compatible mode otherwise it will bluescreen. It's going to be nostalgia machine where all the games I used to play back in the days are installed.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-22 15:17:25+00:00
Old news but worth revisiting. There has been and continues to be open corruption in the Trump administration. If you donate to them and support their political positions blindingly, you get contracts or regulatory help or maybe a lack of regulatory trouble.

A good example is Jensen Huang donating to the ballroom project and Nvidia’s Groq acquisition not being blocked for antitrust. But you see this with many other leaders too. The All In podcast is basically a MAGA podcast now. Many VCs are silent about current events as they hope their portfolio companies get defense contracts.
Show HN: OopsAgain – a small iOS app to stop forgetting birthdays
by n0rthk1n9 | 2026-01-22 15:17:48+00:00
I built OopsAgain to solve a specific problem: iOS makes it easy to forget birthdays, even when they’re in Contacts.

The app lets you view existing birthdays or add missing ones to contacts, set per-person reminder schedules (including multiple reminders), and surface upcoming birthdays via a home screen widget.

OopsAgain stores contact name, picture, and birthday locally only, purely to enable displaying the upcoming birthday on the widget. Nothing is uploaded or synced to any server.

This is an early version and I’m mainly looking for real-world feedback on whether the reminders, widget, and overall flow are actually useful.

You can try it via TestFlight here:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/VnugUCbA

I’m around in the comments for questions and feedback.
by stainablesteel | 2026-01-22 15:18:12+00:00
i honestly can't understand people using AI to do things for them, the only real thing I'll have it do for me is write code if I'm feeling lazy, but I always know it's going to make mistakes and I'll have to manually skim through it depending how important it is

for me, it's purely a research tool that I can ask infinite questions to
by sarchertech | 2026-01-22 15:18:16+00:00
No one is arguing that temperatures never go outside of 0-100. The argument is that a scale that generally falls between 0-100 is inherently slightly more convenient than that that generally falls between -17 and 37.

Obviously both can be adapter to.

But if you took a group of aliens and asked them to come up with a temperature scale that was only used to convey how cold or warm the temperature felt to humans, they would almost certainly use human body temperature in their design process not the freezing and boiling points of water.

This isn’t to say that Celsius isn’t perfectly fine and superior in most ways. I’m not insulting you or attempting to participate in some kind of culture war.

But if you find yourself unable to agree that one system has some inherent advantages over another, even if they don’t outweigh the disadvantages, you should step back and think a little more objectively.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-22 15:18:23+00:00
Dunno how to break it to you but most of the people using AI the most, they are not very good at computers.

I think with AI we quickly progress to level where it needs to essentially run in nice lil isolated sandbox with underlying project (and definitely everything else around it) being entirely read only (in form on overlay FS or some similar solution), let it work in the sandbox and then have user only accept the result at end of the session in form of a separate process that applies the AI changes as set of commits (NOT commiting direct file changes back as then malicious code could say mess stuff up in .git dir like adding hooks). That way at very worst you're some commit reverts out in main repo.
by empiricus | 2026-01-22 15:18:29+00:00
Hi, thanks for the recommendations.
I looked a little at the book, basically at the end we can compute some properties for small molecules sitting alone in space?
What about arbitrary molecules, interacting? Or computing reaction rates? In a solvent? My understanding is that there are some algorithms for all of these, and there is probably progress made, but I never seen (online) anyone complaining that we cannot compute even this basic chemistry. I feel like we should care more about this problem.
by JamesSwift | 2026-01-22 15:18:31+00:00
> For a project of this scope, you’re probably going to peak at one or two 3 person teams with at least one principal dev per team

I think thats probably 1 team short, but I agree on the order of magnitude. So if we assume 12 devs, how long do we think its going to take to fix 5k github issues lol?

Again, I 100% agree the flicker bug should be at the top of the list. And I agree their products in general are riddled with bugs. But Im just saying I can understand the situation even if I think this specific bug should have been fixed already if they were regularly using a setup that runs into it (which I have to assume they arent).
by vintermann | 2026-01-22 15:18:33+00:00
Duck Tales is basically an attempt at doing Carl Barks era adventure style minus Donald, but Scrooge being made more heroic/sympathetic (he's pretty much a lovable jerk at best in the old stories). I think Disney really wanted to tell the Donald stories Europe loved to Americans.

The persistence of Carl Barks and Don Rosa style stories here is surprising even to me. My son, born 2005, seems to know every single Barks story by heart - and I can't say I pushed it that hard.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-22 15:18:35+00:00
> Would you actively defend this decision tomorrow if it was challenged?

I don't like that words.

If I'm one of the proponents, I'll defend it.

If I'm against, I may accept and implement that decision, but I'm not going to die in that hill.

PS: Just reading this, brings me nightmares from the 2020 Zoom meetings.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-22 15:19:20+00:00
>The problem: A search monopoly

...

>We tried to do it the right way

This sign-up to retrieve better information idea will never take-off the way they think it will. A white label search will get you nowhere. They are silently failing because they're just too stubborn to do it the hard way. Kagi needs to pivot and succeed on useful and interesting edge cases first. Build us out a subject-relevant search, such as displaying vetted content from forums when searching a product/service, and then tying it into Facebook Marketplace for local items or services and Amazon for new. That is called building a product for yourself that others will use. Now you have your very own cashflow for clicks; use that cashflow to buy more corporate access, thereby proving you can succeed without any other search business propping you up and into relevancy. You don't need to start with the giants either. Start with something that works on local hunting, fishing, shooting, and knitting forums. When grandmothers need high quality green yarn today, make their muscle memory point to Kagi local, not Google.