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by teraflop | 2026-02-02 22:26:30+00:00
If you read the discussion, they weren't kept because of their encyclopedic value, or because they were "widespread". I'm not sure why the parent commenter said that.

They were kept to preserve a record of their having been uploaded, and to not create a legal risk for third parties who might be relying on the Commons page as their way to provide attribution.

The original proposal was to keep the image pages with the metadata, but delete the image files. That turned out to have some technical hurdles, so instead the images were overwritten with versions containing big ugly attribution messages, to discourage their use.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-02 22:26:52+00:00
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by mcnamtm1 | 2026-02-02 22:27:01+00:00
Very interesting use of Firecracker for agent isolation.

How do you handle network identity for the agents themselves?
Are you using something like mTLS/SPIFFE to identify the workload inside the VM, or is it purely network-policy based at the host level?
Can you explain the "runtime enforcement" and the "enforcing tool proxy?
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-02 22:27:13+00:00
They said:

> It made me feel horrible. Each time it would take me a few days to recover, feeling dizzy and mentally exhausted.

That doesn't happen with a genuinely easy effort.

> By push through it I meant keep it up for a while longer even though it made them feel unwell, thinking they would get past the unwellness.

Yes, that is really bad advice and will lead to overtraining in a very unfit person.

> I wasn't intending to suggest anything remotely in the same ballpark as overtraining, that's not the kind of pushing I had in mind.

I don't know what you mean by overtraining, but pushing through feelings of unwellness or fatigue and continuing to workout is exactly how you get into that territory.
by reify | 2026-02-02 22:27:22+00:00
They eventually burn out. Like me.

I did a 24/24/24/12 shift pattern for 6 months. Yes, 24 hours a day for three days and then 12 hours rest.

Before going back to university to train as a psychotherapist, I was a vehicle technician for Jaguar/Daimler. I did my engineering apprenticeship there.

When I made the decision to change careers, I left jaguar and got a job as an AA echo recovery driver. The small van with the spectacle lift on the back

The shift pattern consisted of three men. who took it turns to be first, second and third, three men who worked 3 x 24 hour non stop shifts.

When on first, every job that came in over the radio you had to attend. If the 24 hours to got too busy, the second man would then be called out to support you. if you were both busy, the third man would be called out the help.

Being based in London, I might attend a breakdown in Chelsea and the owner lived in Norwich, a three hour drive away. Unable to repair the car roadside, I would have to hook the car onto the spectacle lift and drive the owner to his home address. Now the second man and the third man would take over to manage the London area.

The second 24 hours, I would then be the second man, On the third 24 hours I would be the third man. and so on until 72 hours later, I was then allowed a 12 hours rest.

there was no respite for any man, we were always super busy for the entire 24 hours, it didn't matter of you were first, second or third.

I was 31 years old super fit. I lasted 6 months.

I woke one night in my AA van, to the police smashing in my side window. They saw me get up and stopped smashing in the window. The copper said, Thank god you are OK, we thought you were dead, we could not wake you, we've been banging on the window for ages and decided to smash it in. and staff at the AA had not heard from you for hours.

I had pulled over on a busy road and fallen asleep.

I realised I had been in Zombie mode for 6 months and left the job immediately

Looking back this was extremely dangerous for me and other road users.

This was 38 years ago, and I am sure there are now time limits for lorry drivers and professional drivers.

the stupidity of being young and feeling invincible.

I did earn, what I thought was a lot of money. My take home pay was about £720 each week, for 72 hours, twice that of working at Jaguar.

However, when I sat down and divided the hours I worked, with the wages I earned. I really was being paid shit. like minimum wage.

720/2 = 360. £360 for 36 hours. I was earning £400 at Jaguar for 40 hours

72 hours on minimum wage seemed like a lot of money.

I basically worked two weeks hours in one week.

There is no financial benefit working extreme hours.

For the rest of my working life I did a regular 37.5 hours working week and volunteered nine hours each week in the evenings, as a therapist.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-02-02 22:27:36+00:00
> It does say he's planning an AI sun

Everything I've heard from Musk in the past decade has been against my will and has made me dumber. (no I do not care to verify or know whether the above is true)

Edit: ah fuck ya got me "the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe" what the cultish bullshit is this. In a just world investors would be fleeing in droves from this cuckoo behavior (I know xAI & SpaceX are private)
by q3k | 2026-02-02 22:28:01+00:00
Only if that bitflip happens somewhere in your actual data, vs. some GPU pipeline register that then locks up the entire system until a power cycle. Or causes a wrong address to be fetched. Or causes other nasty silent errors. Or...

Try doing fault injection on a chip some time. You'll see it's significantly easier to cause a crash / reset / hang than to just flip data bits.

'rad-triggered bit flips don't matter with AI' is a lie spoken by people who have obviously never done any digital design in their life.
by rglullis | 2026-02-02 22:28:05+00:00
> holding back industry from making something truly better and more reliable.

What "industry"?

If you are talking about the software industry, then I'd say you are creating a circular reasoning. If you are talking about all the other things that we actually need to do and which only incidentally have become too reliant on software to do it, then see back my original point: people don't need "better and more reliable" software to keep running their businesses.
by bshul-silkline1 | 2026-02-02 22:28:22+00:00
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by jacksplash | 2026-02-02 22:28:24+00:00
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by karussell | 2026-02-02 22:28:28+00:00
I think this can work and instead of that the heatpump pumps the heat into your house (when "solar is plenty") it would pump it into the storage. (I have a similar setup, but heat the water but of course this is rather limited)

unrelated: a simple technical solution to your window problem would be home assistant and a few sensors to notify you when the windows are open too long or open when too cold inside.
by phatfish | 2026-02-02 22:28:37+00:00
This captures succinctly the one of the key issues with (current) AI actually solving real problems outside of small "sandboxes" where it has all the information.

When an AI can email/message all the key people that have the institutional knowledge, ask them the right discovery questions (probably in a few rounds and working out which bits are human "hallucinations" that don't make sense). Collect that information and use it to create a solution. Then human jobs are in real trouble.

Until that AI is just a productivity boost for us.
by Retro_Dev | 2026-02-02 22:28:44+00:00
There's solid reason for the translation here; the Zig core team is aiming to eliminate duplicated code and C functions, and avoid the need to track libc from multiple sources. In the future, LLMs could serve as part of this, but they are currently quite terrible at Zig (as far as I understand it, it's not a lack of Zig code samples, it's an imbalance of OLD Zig to NEW Zig, as Zig changes quite frequently).

You would need to consider if it is even worth it translating your C code. If the paradigm is identical and the entire purpose would be "haha it is now one language," surely you could just compile and link the C code with libzigc... In my opinion, it's not worth translating code if the benefit of "hey look one language" requires the cost of "let's pray the LLM didn't hallucinate or make a mistake while translating the code."
by dang | 2026-02-02 22:28:48+00:00
Related. Others?

The largest number representable in 64 bits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38414303 - Nov 2023 (105 comments)

The largest number representable in 64 bits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35677148 - April 2023 (42 comments)

(I haven't put 2023 in the current title since the article says it's been significantly expanded since then.)
by lapcat | 2026-02-02 22:29:15+00:00
> Feels like a few things are getting conflated.

By whom?

> DFU the protocol isn’t the issue

I never said it was.

> the ambiguity is around which physical port actually exposes DFU at boot

Yes.

> This reads less like “DFU is broken”

I never said that.

> and more like a documentation gap

The title literally contains "documentation is wrong".
by incr_me | 2026-02-02 22:29:21+00:00
How is File Pilot for accessibility and for all of the little niceties like native scrolling, clipboard interaction, drag and drop, and so on? My impression is that the creator is has expertly focused on most/all of these details, but I don't have Windows to test.

I insist on good UI as well, and, as a web developer, have spent many hours hand rolling web components that use <canvas>. The most complicated one is a spreadsheet/data grid component that can handle millions of rows, basically a reproduction of Google Sheets tailored to my app's needs. I insist on not bloating the front-end package with a whole graph of dependencies. I enjoy my NIH syndrome. So I know quality when I see it (File Pilot). But I also know how tedious reinventing the wheel is, and there are certain corners that I regularly cut. For example there's no way a blind user could use my spreadsheet-based web app (https://github.com/glideapps/glide-data-grid is better than me in this aspect, but there's no way I'm bringing in a million dependencies just to use someone else's attempt to reinvent the wheel and get stuck with all of their compromises).

The answer to your original question about why these billion dollar companies don't create artisanal software is pretty straightforward and bleak, I imagine. But there are a few actually good reasons not to take the artisanal path.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-02 22:29:22+00:00
Musk: "What do we have that OpenAi doesn't have?"

Musk aide while high: "sPaCe"

Slightly less high Musk aide: "But what is the synergy, where's the moat and how could that be done in practice and most importantly is there any limiting factor on Earth before we have to bring AI into.."

Musk : "SPACE!!!!!!"

It is incredible to think that the extremes of the stock market are actually pretty similar, pink sheets/cryptos and these mega companies are actually the same. News fueled pumps and dumps to win the cycle of hype of the week
by aftbit | 2026-02-02 22:29:32+00:00
Yeah I think the problem is that most of the main chains had astronomical transaction fees; most of the side chains that solved this problem had a trust problem; and Bitcoin Lightning was sorta dead on arrival, though it had both the trust and the technology solution. At that point, this forum had already moved BTC from "amazing new technology" to "huge threat to social order and environment".
by unsupp0rted | 2026-02-02 22:29:47+00:00
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by wildredkraut | 2026-02-02 22:30:07+00:00
Well, not only this, the private movement of avoiding American stuff is also getting stronger in the EU. Somehow it's like game in the store, YESSsss, +1:EU -1:US. It's feels so satisfying to find and buy alternatives to US products where it's possible, from tech over clothes to food. Somehow Trump is doing the EU a favor by pushing us to become independent again. It will take time, but we'll get there.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-02 22:30:13+00:00
> There's alot of fat to be cooked out of this stuff, and AI will help smaller entrants attack

truer words have never been spoken. I work in some of these platforms and lead teams of developers who write customizations. These customizations are not rocket surgery, basic CRUD with some logic requirements that can't be met ootb. It's very time consuming and therefore expensive to clients. The significant moat incumbents have is brand recognition and trust. On the other hand, a hot new "Agent First" consulting firm at 1/3 the price would be hard for a director to not at least experiment with.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-02 22:30:20+00:00
The next step will be merging SpaceX and Tesla.

Tesla has probably the most valuable shareholders on Earth. Over years of empty promises and meme status, the stock has pretty much purged all the level heads. So it's mostly deluded Elon sycophants giving placing their tithe on the alter of his sci-fi fantasy smoke and mirrors game.

In reality he will be dumping the debt of twitter and xAI (and maybe spacex?) on Tesla shareholders, and buoying that with the added layer of hyper that spaceX brings.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-02 22:30:24+00:00
It would be cool if I didn't have to worry about whether I was "in" or "out" of the AI TUI. Right now, I need at least two terminals open: One running my shell, that I use to issue shell commands, and one running Claude, where I can't. It would be nice if it could just be my shell, and when I wanted to invoke claude, I'd just type:

c Do this programming task for me.

Right in the shell.
by vessenes | 2026-02-02 22:31:06+00:00
I am super intrigued that Elon thinks this. He's got more information about space based compute deployments than any other person in the world, I think -- every Starlink satellite has a linux box in it -- and to my mind the heat problems and hardening problems seem like they would dominate.

But, apparently not, to Elon. I will say there's a MASSIVE cost to getting power infrastructure, land, legal stuff done on terra firma; all that just sort of .. goes away when you're deploying to space, at least if you're deploying to space early and fast.

At any rate, I'm intrigued. For reference, people like Larry Ellison, another hyper-informed genius business man, are investing in and buying small nuclear reactors for power right now on earth, so we are at some sort of inflection point for datacenter demand. I wonder what the first independent service business is going to be in space. Probably satellite clearing / decommissioning.
by Daves | 2026-02-02 22:31:49+00:00
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by zdragnar | 2026-02-02 22:32:19+00:00
Liability is capped by court (e.g. small claims court) or by specific claim type depending on the legislation of the jurisdiction (e.g. speeding tickets typically have set fines varying by state).

Liability is not capped by your ability to understand the law. If that is your concern, you shouldn't be doing business anywhere, US or otherwise.
by rancevent | 2026-02-02 22:32:19+00:00
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by TheGRS | 2026-02-02 22:32:28+00:00
I'm not big on this subject, but I understand that heat transfer is difficult in space, because there's little to transfer to. If the solution is just making large radiators, then that means you're sending some big payloads full of radiators. Not to mention all the solar panels needed. I wanna live in sci-fi land too, but I don't see how it makes any sense compared to a terrestrial data center.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-02 22:32:31+00:00
Correct. That's not true in Europe either. IIRC it's not true in Asia either. I don't understand why so many people who don't have even the most basic understanding or experience of licensing feel they must post their opinion as if they were facts. People are certainly entitled to their opinion. But so many comments here are speaking absolute nonsense about licensing as if they were facts. I genuinely don't understand why people feel compelled to do so.
by godelski | 2026-02-02 22:32:36+00:00
My bad, I was confused given the context of the comment you responded to. Maybe I should quote the next line instead?

You are licensed to use the source code in Admin Tools and Configuration Files (server/templates/, server/i18n/, server/public/, webapp/ and all subdirectories thereof) under the Apache License v2.0.

So I read

Apache (OSS):
|- server/
| |- i18n/
| |- public/
| |- templates/
|- webapp/

Not Apache (pay us/not OSS):
|- api/
|- e2e-tests/
|- server/
| |- bin/
| |- build/
| |- cmd/
| |- enterprise/
| |- scripts/
| |- Makefile
| |- path.go
| |- this is not a complete list but you get the point
|- tools/

Part of the code is open source. Part of the code is source available (source visible).

Again, I am open to misunderstanding but that's my read.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-02 22:32:38+00:00
It would take 5,000 starship launches.

The ISS power/heat budget is like 240,000 BTU/hr. That’s equivalent to half of an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack. So two internal space stations per rack. Or about 83,000 international space stations to cool the 10GW “Stargate” datacenter that OpenAI’s building in Abilene.

There are 10,000 starlink satellites. Starship could probably carry 250-300 of the new V2 Mini satellites which are supposed to have a power/heat budget of like 8kW. So about 5,000 Starship launches to match OpenAI’s datacenter.

Weight seems less of an issue than size. 83,000 NVL72’s would weigh 270 million lbs or 20% of the lift capacity of 5000 starship launches. Leaving 80% for the rest of the satellite mass.

Elon's napkin math seems off though:

> a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton

The NVL72's use 74kW per ton. And that's just the compute, without including the rest of the fucking satellite (solar panels and radiators). So that estimate is complete garbage.
by pc86 | 2026-02-02 22:32:44+00:00
If you truly believe this, slowly divest everything into cash, wait for the crash, then buy back in. Even buying in slowly over the course of a crash, on the way down, will save you a ton of money if you're out before it hits.

But you're more likely to just cash out early, lose a bunch of gains, then buy back in later at higher prices.

If you can time the crash you can make a shitload of money. But you can't, so you'll come out better if you just keep buying in every paycheck and ride it out just like you have been.