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by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-22 19:33:47+00:00
> Im not sure why you’re digging in this way. The marketing material is clearly making security arguments.

Oh, I see where you're misunderstanding the claim I'm making, continued from what simoncion was saying.

Yes, the marketing is making security arguments. The PIX is a security device as one of its main functions.

The feature that was put in specifically for security is its firewall. The NAT isn't adding anything on top of that, security-wise.

> Whether or not you agree with them is entirely irrelevant because the statement was that NAT was marketed as a security feature.

The original claim is that companies generally saw NAT itself as a security feature. That goes beyond a single incoherent sentence in a piece of marketing about a device that had NAT and a firewall. Again, I accept that the sentence is some evidence for the idea but it's so weak. This is something that happened just a couple decades ago, there should be plenty of evidence of actual decisionmaking.

Also it occurs to me that the phrase "know which machine on the corporate network is using a Class C address" might be talking about NATing entire IPs, every port at once. In which case that's very much not a security feature. NAT like that puts the machine naked on the internet. It's about as secure as having your devices get publicly routable addresses out of DHCP. So if that's what they meant, that sentence is making unjustified claims. Did one easily disproven line in a pamphlet convince an industry?
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-22 19:33:49+00:00
It's not zero sum but different physical layouts of energy generation do have different captial and operating costs. Rooftop solar power goes into the grid but maybe not at the most ideal time and scale for the grid operators, which justifiably affects what price they're willing to pay for that power, which justifiably affects the ROI for homeowners with rooftop solar panels.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 19:33:50+00:00
OP isn't American.

That said, it's hard to overstate how much a beating the EU's reputation took after the Mercosur fiasco.

Lula took a massive political risk to push the EU-Mercosur FTA despite the power behind the throne in Brazil being wooed/bribed by the Trump admin [0] and was already on the fence about the EU-Mercosur FTA [1] AND during a hotly contested election year.

This only makes the EU look like a less attractive negotiating partner, and incentivizes countries to unilaterally negotiate with individual EU states instead of the EU as a whole, thus undermining the entire EU.

If the EU alienates China, the US, Russia, Brazil, India, ASEAN, Japan, Korea, etc who else is left?

That is the whole crux of Carney and Zelenskyy's speeches at Davos.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-18/brazil-s-...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/d293237e-e39f-4f4c-89e7-4c52cf937...
by IshKebab | 2026-01-22 19:34:26+00:00
The problem with solar isn't the night. Getting enough batteries to cover that is totally doable. The issue is the winter. And not even because of fewer daylight hours - on sunny winter days there is usually still a good amount of solar.

The problem is its often very cloudy in the winter. In the UK in winter we regularly have periods of 5 cloudy days in a row where solar output is virtually zero.

I don't know what the answer to that is. In a calm cloudy winter week all renewables and battery storage are totally screwed. Space based solar is a scam. Maybe we just have to live with it until fusion works (if it ever does).

(But it's still academic at the moment because we're still far from the point where building more renewables is a bad idea.)
by keeda | 2026-01-22 19:34:30+00:00
I would hope so, but it's not yet clear if the economics pan out for large scale deployment. The ride is amazing, but the sensor-laden cars are also very expensive.

The only sensible aspect of Elon's boneheaded move to remove non-camera sensors from Tesla models is the drive to reduce costs, because low costs are essential for mass adoption. Yes, sensors are rapidly dropping in cost, making the move even more boneheaded, but the theory is sound.

Some Waymo exec claimed that they are seeing very encouraging unit economics, which gives me hope for mass diffusion, but we'll only know when the rubber actually hits the road (heheheh).
by mrweasel | 2026-01-22 19:34:46+00:00
Sure, but it also guarantees that people will think twice about buying their service. Support should have reached out and informed them about whatever they did wrong, but I can't say that I'm surprised that an AI company wouldn't have an real support.

I'd agree with you that if you rely on an LLM to do your work, you better be running that thing yourself.
by AphantaZach | 2026-01-22 19:34:51+00:00
Modern encoders (especially Opus) are indeed impressive at preserving the stereo image at high quality settings. If you are on a stable connection getting the full 192kbps+ stream, the phase error is likely negligible.

The issue is that we can't control the delivery.

Streaming platforms use adaptive bitrate. If a user's bandwidth dips on mobile, the player might switch to a lower tier where the model starts aggressively quantizing the Side channel (L-R) to
save space.

Since the binaural effect relies entirely on that Side channel difference, I wanted to remove the variable entirely.

By generating it client-side with the Web Audio API, we get mathematical certainty regardless of the user's connection speed.
by saghm | 2026-01-22 19:34:59+00:00
I recently learned that Windows binaries contain metadata for what version they are (among other things, presumably). I was discussing in-progress work on making a mod manager for a popular game work on Linux with the author of the tool, and they mentioned that one of the things that surprised them was not being able to rely on inspection of a native library used by most mods to determine what version they had installed on Linux like they could on Windows. It had never occurred to them that this wasn't a first-class feature of Linux binary formats, and I was equally surprised to find out that it was a thing on Windows given that I haven't regularly used Windows since before I really had much of a concept of what "metadata in a binary format" would even mean.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2026-01-22 19:35:44+00:00
There are a great many views about this depending on who you talk to. In Christian circles, it’s essentially the infallibility vs inerrancy topic, with fundamentalist denominations leaning toward inerrancy (which is the view that original manuscripts have complete historical accuracy).

Obviously, you have to take a strong “religion first” lens to everything about the world from there.

But of course, there were ancient cultures that pre-date Judaism (and by extension Judeo-Christian sources), which share many similar stories but with different details and descriptions. Large scale flood myths and arks are common in history. You can read the Mesopotamian version in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is strikingly similar to Noah’s ark.
by epolanski | 2026-01-22 19:35:46+00:00
Your last argument could apply to anything really.

Why should I subsidize farmers if they can't compete?

Why do I have subsidize our own manufacturing companies if they can't compete so their workers have a job, at my expense?

Why do I need to subsidize car owners to have yet another lane but can't get a decent train instead?

Here in Poland suddenly all miners pretend to be subsidized by the state, even if they work for private companies.

Why do I need to subsidize them if the companies they work for can't turn a profit, or when they did for decades chose to pay dividends and do buybacks instead of investing? And now I pay the bill?

I mean, at some point you need to cope with the fact that money has to be spent and circulate in some fashion to promote economic activity and projects.

You could argue that subsidizing solar brings energy prices down in any case.
by ctoth | 2026-01-22 19:35:49+00:00
> rather the tasks of detecting errors have become increasingly difficult because of the associated effects of GPT.

Did the increase to submissions to NeurIPS from 2020 to 2025 happen because ChatGPT came out in November of 2022? Or was AI getting hotter and hotter during this period, thereby naturally increasing submissions to ... an AI conference?
by EugenioPerea | 2026-01-22 19:36:14+00:00
I've long suspected that I have a particular form of...dyslexia?, because I suffer from that Pull/Push thing, but also freeze when confronted with elevator door buttons that look like this: <>/><, and with public bathroom entrances, because in Spanish it's usually H/M (hombres/mujeres), but in English it's M/F (male/female), so the presence of the M throws me for a loop. My read on this is that if I see both options at the same time, my brain stutters for a second.
by landryraccoon | 2026-01-22 19:36:14+00:00
This blog post feels really fishy to me.

It's quite light on specifics. It should have been straightforward for the author to excerpt some of the prompts he was submitting, to show how innocent they are.

For all I know, the author was asking Claude for instructions on extremely sketchy activity. We only have his word that he was being honest and innocent.
by geocar | 2026-01-22 19:36:18+00:00
> But it is also ebay's right to decide whether or not its computer will allow requests from your computer.

That is dangerous thinking right there: Ebay does not have rights.

Of course ebay may do it anyway, and it may take time for justice to correct things, but it is not Right, nor their right, to violate law even to protect themselves.
by genewitch | 2026-01-22 19:36:31+00:00
scroll down to the second to last group, the second one down is obama speaking english, the third one down is trump speaking japanese (a translation of the english phrase)

besides, they know what side their bread is buttered on. I feel like this is almost not the real announcement; or, the engineers that wrote this up and did the demos just ran it that way. The normal speech voices are fine (lower than the anime ones on the page.) i agree that the first few are very infantile. I'll change that word if i can think of a better one.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-22 19:36:35+00:00
> If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with some distribution of altitudes and atmospheric drag, it's not that hard to do the math

One, it is. And two, you need insane distributions to get over the energy requirements of plane changes.

> on a 100 year timescale

Irrelevant in LEO.
by ACS_Solver | 2026-01-22 19:36:55+00:00
I'd still consider them more similar than not.

Hurd was not a research project initially. It was a project to develop an actual, usable kernel for the GNU system, and it was supposed to be a free, copyleft replacement for the Unix kernel. ReactOS was similarly a project to make a usable and useful NT-compatible kernel, also as a free and copyleft replacement.

The key difference is that Hurd was not beholden to a particular architecture, it was free to do most things its own way as long as POSIX compatibility was achieved. ReactOS is more rigid in that it aims for compatibility with the NT implementation, including bugs, quirks and all, instead of a standard.

Both are long irrelevant to their original goals. Hurd because Linux is the dominant free Unix-like kernel (with the BSD kernel a distant second), ReactOS because the kernel it targets became a retrocomputing thing before ReactOS could reach a beta stage. And in the case of ReactOS, the secondary "whole system" goal is also irrelevant now because dozens of modern Linux distributions provide a better desktop experience than Windows 2000. Hell, Haiku is a better desktop experience.
by crowlyvideo | 2026-01-22 19:36:57+00:00
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by skrebbel | 2026-01-22 19:37:26+00:00
Fwiw I think it’s perfectly fine if people downvote me if they disagree with me. I think that’s an unavoidable effect of having up/down arrows, regardless of what the rules say. If i say something controversial I expect some downvotes. I just hadn't expressed myself clearly enough initially, everybody took me as a “money makes right” capitalist (not a weird assumption, theres plenty of those here on HN) and fortunately could still edit to clarify.
by necovek | 2026-01-22 19:38:15+00:00
To separately answer the killer workflow: I'd love to reduce a number of devices, and another one might be an e-ink note taking screen to dock to (yes, I've got a reMarkable Paper Pro and Kindle Scribe). But other than docking to my keyboard, screen(s), external camera/mic and network, phone, laptop and eink with pen is what I care about.

I'd also want more built-in, fast storage (2tb) to keep my basic data always with me (photos, documents...).
by chrisjj | 2026-01-22 19:38:40+00:00
Some good thoughts undermined by some nonsense thinking e.g.

when someone bought a CD in 1995, the artist earned roughly $2 from that single sale after label splits. Today, to earn that same $2, around 50 people need to stream the entire album front-to-back.

No. To earn that same $2, the guy who played the CD 50 times would today need to stream it... 50 times.
by Prof_Sigmund | 2026-01-22 19:39:11+00:00
The authors talk about "a model's ability to align with human decisions" as a matter of the past. The omission in the paper is RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). All these companies are "teaching machines to predict the preferences of people who click 'Accept All Cookies' without reading," by using low-paid human evaluators — “AI teachers.”

If we go back to Google, before its transformation into an AI powerhouse — as it gutted its own SERPs, shoving traditional blue links below AI-generated overlords that synthesize answers from the web’s underbelly, often leaving publishers starving for clicks in a zero-click apocalypse — what was happening?

The same kind of human “evaluators” were ranking pages. Pushing garbage forward. The same thing is happening with AI. As much as the human "evaluators" trained search engines to elevate clickbait, the very same humans now train large language models to mimic the judgment of those very same evaluators. A feedback loop of mediocrity — supervised by the... well, not the best among us.
The machines still, as Stephen Wolfram wrote, for any given sequence, use the same probability method (e.g., “The cat sat on the...”), in which the model doesn’t just pick one word. It calculates a probability score for every single word in its vast vocabulary (e.g., “mat” = 40% chance, “floor” = 15%, “car” = 0.01%), and voilà! — you have a “creative” text: one of a gazillion mindlessly produced, soulless, garbage “vile bile” sludge emissions that pollute our collective brains and render us a bunch of idiots, ready to swallow any corporate poison sent our way.

In my opinion, even worse: the corporates are pushing toward “safety” (likely from lawsuits), and the AI systems are trained to sell, soothe, and please — not to think, or enhance our collective experience.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-22 19:39:26+00:00
It could also have been both, as well. In the immediate moment it functions as an interjection and as the rest of the sentence develops it fills in a pronoun gap. Like starting a shanty with a loud, slow single syllable to get attention (and maybe catch others on to the key) and that still being also a part of the first line of the song.
by btmiller | 2026-01-22 19:39:27+00:00
Thanks for the reply. The perception of safety in attended ride shares is masking the larger economic constraint. So let's assume for sake of conversation that your safety concerns are warranted. I'd ask you to consider how much money additional money you're willing to spend on ride shares. The urban utopia of autonomous vehicles is often championed, yet fully unconsidered in a capitalist regime. How much additional money do you expect most Americans to spend toward ride shares, to the degree that they abandon vehicle ownership? What degree of broad behavior and spending change do you expect to occur as result of unattended ride shares?
by eightysixfour | 2026-01-22 19:39:53+00:00
> Out of all of the different things these agents can do, surely most forms of "routine" customer support are the lowest hanging fruit?

I come from a world where customer support is a significant expense for operations and everyone was SO excited to implement AI for this. It doesn't work particularly well and shows a profound gap between what people think working in customer service is like and how fucking hard it actually is.

Honestly, AI is better at replacing the cost of upper-middle management and executives than it is the customer service problems.
by genewitch | 2026-01-22 19:40:07+00:00
hey if you want to collab or trade notes, my email is in my profile.
there was java software that did FANTASTIC work cleaning up crappy transfers of audio, like, specifically, it was perfect for "AM Quality Monaural Audio".

Observe, original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRcOVDAryM
my edit (took about an hour, if memory serves, to set up. forgot render time...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazubVJ0jz4

i say "was [...] software" because the last 2 times i've tried to use it, it did imperceptible cleanup, making it worthless. Anyhow, all my radio plays are from OTRR, i think.

p.s. are you a "dude named Ben"?
by sanderjd | 2026-01-22 19:40:07+00:00
Fair!

But I also think it's correct that the US version is much softer-edged and that it would not have been so wildly popular were that not so.

I mean, there are harder edged comedies in the US, but they certainly aren't as popular. Would they be more so in England? I dunno, maybe. I suppose the US version of The Office was probably more popular across the pond than the homespun version as well?
by viccis | 2026-01-22 19:40:17+00:00
Not sure what your point is. They have the right to kick OP out. OP has the right to post about it. We have a right to make decisions on what service to use based on posts like these.

Pointing out whether someone can do something is the lowest form of discourse, as it's usually just tautological. "The shop owner decides who can be in the shop because they own it."
by keybored | 2026-01-22 19:40:41+00:00
> My "actual job" isn't to write code, but to solve problems.

Air quotes and more and more general words. The perfect mercenary’s tools.

The buck stops somewhere for most of us. We have jobs, we are compelled to do them. But we care about how it is done. We care whether doing it in a certain will give us short term advantages but hinder us in the long term. We care if the process feels good or bad. We care if it feels like we are in control of the process or if we are just swimming in a turbulent sea. We care about how predictable the tools we use. Whether we can guess that something takes a month and not be off by weeks.

We might say that we are the perfect pragmatists (mercenaries); that we only care about the most general description of what-is-to-be-done that is acceptable to the audience, like solving business problems, or solving technical problems, or in the end—as the pragmatist sheds all meaning from his burdensome vessel—just solving problems. But most of us got into some trade, or hobby, or profession, because we did concrete things that we concretely liked. And switching from keyboards to voice dictation might not change that. But seemingly upending the whole process might.

It might. Or it may not. Certainly could go in more than one direction. But to people who are not perfect mercenaries or business hedonists[1] these are actual problems or concerns. Not nonsense to be dismissed with some “actual job” quip, which itself is devoid of meaning.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692039
by bsoles | 2026-01-22 19:40:45+00:00
It is the practice that matters, which is the "designers" trying to elevate their position to something more special by inserting their special rules into the design process, often at the expense of other people involved, including the experts.

"Working with the experts" always turns into weird formalized brainstorming sessions or other rituals, where the designer defines the process and the rules, and others' role is just to be little players in the game, but not the referee.

This is nothing new. We have seen the same thing with PMs and "scrum masters" inserting themselves into the software development process with shit like Agile, Scrum, etc.

If design thinking is just a problem solving approach, experts and practitioners in the field are perfectly capable of doing that. We don't need the shamans of Design Thinking to guide the process.
by javier123454321 | 2026-01-22 19:41:17+00:00
Yes, the flipside of this is that we're eroding the last bit of ability for people to make a living through their art. We are capturing the market for people to live off of making illustrations, to making background music, jingles, promotional videos, photographs, graphic design, and funnelling those earnings to NVIDIA. The question I keep asking is whether we care to value as a society for people to make a living through their art. I think there is a reason to care.

It's not so much of an issue with art for art's sake aided by AI. It's an issue with artistic work becoming unviable work.
by raattgift | 2026-01-22 19:41:20+00:00
Indy led Belloq to the Ark. Belloq was looking in the wrong place because he only had the side of the headpiece of the Staff of Ra that was seared into Toht's palm, thus without Jones in the movie, the Nazis might never have acquired the Ark, failing to "take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew God, whose Ark this is".

Moreover, if Indy had not gone to Nepal, then Toht (having obtained the headpiece) and Belloq might have used a staff of the right length to find the Ark. Had they also captured Marion and taken her along to their secret island base, Jones would not have been there to tell her not to look, and thus her face would have melted off too.

Of course, Toht and his henchmen might also just have killed her in Nepal.

Alternatively, as Toht and company followed Jones to Marion, and might not have found her otherwise, they might never have had even half the headpiece of the staff of Ra, and the Ark thus would have remained undisturbed in its resting place, leaving the baddies to deal merely with the wrinkles and creases associated with aging appearing on their faces in the fullness of time.

So: Jones keeps Ravenwood alive, and puts the Belloq and his Nazi colleagues in a position to have their faces melted off. Jones also offed a couple of Nazis and other baddies along the way.
Show HN: Orange Elephant – a browser extension to add annotations to HN users
by sebastianlay | 2026-01-22 19:41:51+00:00
A little browser extension I wrote for myself because sometimes I want to add little notes about other users. It's fun to see familiar faces pop up in random threads. I know it's not for everyone, and that's okay. For me it renewed a sense of community, which I found interesting, so I wanted to share it.

I consider the extension feature-complete, mostly because I don't want to deal with high maintenance when browser extension APIs invariably change.
by palmotea | 2026-01-22 19:42:47+00:00
IIRC, that article mentioned older buildings tend to be more convertible to residential, because of their layouts, and modern office buildings (with giant open floor spaces for seas of cubicles) are almost impossible to convert.

There should probably building code changes to ban the latter type of office building, and keep the space more flexible and convertible to residential. A big plus is the resulting office space would probably be nicer to workers.