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Show HN: We're building Payments Infra so AI can make payments on its own
We're building Prava-Payments Stack for AI Agents. using Prava's api anyone can give their AI Agent a wallet of its own, which can be topped up by user.

Thus, allowing AI Agent to make payments on its own. We are also building a security guardrail for AI making payments over and above the existing infra.
Elon Musk Made Visit to NSA
Great onboarding. Super smooth.
Why isn't there a try again even if you succeed. Congrats
Ask HN: Productivity Buddy Website
I used a productivity buddy website 4–5 years ago where you could pair with someone on Google Meet and work silently. Does it still exist?
I do like the safety found in newer cars. I also like fuel efficiency (gas or electric) in newer cars. Cars are important to me for transportation, but I do not really care for them otherwise. The newer cars just feel less and less mine. If I were not in a rural area I would consider not owning a one.
> Life is short and Aaron received a fraction of that. One can only imagine what would've been had Aaron received more time.

You'll have to be more explicit about what you are intending to communicate by making this statement in the context of a thread about the death of a man who, when he was the same age Aaron Swartz was at the time the latter died, was a prominent member of a neo-Nazi party.
Show HN: Cross platform binary to launch native binary using Cosmopolitan Libc
You say that, but the reality is that all open models rely heavily on synthetic data generated with ChatGPT. They don't like it, but it happens anyway. You can't really protect a public model from having its outputs exfiltrated.

This started in 2023 when LLaMA 1 was released, and has been going strong ever since. How strong? there are 330K datasets on HuggingFace, many of them generated from OpenAI.
https://archive.is/42Id5
I remember being told to 'specialize in something' when I first started. Looking back I think this is terrible advice.
This is great; inspired by Pulp Fiction I call my fiancée “Bee” (over the years: Honey Bunny -> HB -> Bee).
Amazing presentation. It really helps to understand the concepts.

The only add is that it understates the impact of SSD parallelism. 8 Channel controllers are typical for high end devices and 4K random IOPS continue to scale with queue depth, but for an introduction the example is probably complex enough.

It is great to see PlanetScale moving in this direction and sharing the knowledge.
Ah, but a thermal solar panel is more like 60% efficient, and it's built of glass, black spray paint and a garden hose. If the ultimate goal is to heat something with sunlight, you know which approach is the best. Several times as much area coated in special silicon stuff, or.... garden hose spray-painted black.

If the purposes are mixed, of course a photovoltaic panel can generate electricity for many purposes, while sunlight shining on a garden hose can only heat water. So it might be a more useful system, even more cost-effective, despite being much less thermally efficient.

It's the same with burning things to make heat, versus burning them for electricity and then using electric heaters.
CRACKED BY MR Z...
That might be local hardware related? These are loading up in under 3s for me.
Ah ok I thought SiriusXM could be used on older cars too. I don't have any experience with that system, it's not available in Europe.
Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
The law which prevented US corporations from using bribery to win business in other nations was recently rescinded on exactly this basis: US corporations are hamstrung unless they can buy their wins. Superficially, this makes sense, and that was all that was offered to justify the change. That guardrail was dumb! But like most things, there are reasons to not do this which were completely ignored.

For instance, a company may not desire to hand out cash to win business; previously, when solicited they could say, "Sorry, it is illegal for me to do so." Now there is no such shield.

Second, in many cases it will be two or more US businesses trying to win business in some other country, and the change of the law only makes it more expensive for those two companies, as they now must play a game of bribery chicken to win the business.

Third, the US loves to claim it is is a democracy and is working to spread democracy. By legitimizing bribes paid to foreign officials over the interests of their voting populace, we are undermining democracy in those countries (not that anyone who pays attention believes that the US's foreign policy is anything but self interested and divorced from spreading democratic ideals).
Mold doesn't grow well outside of around 60-80F (15-26C), and it needs food. Steam and hot water systems also use treated water to help reduce corrosion in pipes. That said, radiators themselves still do corrode and create nasty looking water even if it's generally sterile.

You should be more worried about Legionella, but proper steam and hot water systems will stay above 140F (60C) as that temperature not only prevents the bacteria from multiplying but will kill 90% of them within 2 minutes.
Racket 8.16 is now available
Moats are not a problem if your liege lord teleports in and lowers the drawbridge for you.
Even HPC, unless there is some surprising wind of change, Chapel has much more adoption opportunities than Rust will ever had.

Like GC/RC languages are now considering how to introduce linear/affine/effects into their type system in ways that aren't too alien, Chapel is being designed from start with similar approach.

The productivity of automatic resource management most of the time, with the knobs of advanced type system, for when actually matters.
Yes.

Most of everyone who was hired to replace all of those fired controllers are now retiring or have retired within the past few years which has impacted the understaffing we are now facing.

Because of the surge of controllers leaving the workforce (being fired), there was a surge of controllers to replace them, and now there is a surge of controllers retiring.

If I had to guess, most controllers retire between ages 50-56: from when most are eligible (annecdotal to people I've asked), to when forced out by age limit. So not slowly spread out over time as to allow for a more gradual replacement.

If you take a steady state and make a drastic change, it's not going to correct itself instantly.
It is, of course, but that doesn't mean California can't regulate it; simply that federal laws take precedence.

If states couldn't regulate interstate commerce taking place in their own states, they effectively couldn't regulate any commerce because court decisions have found that essentially all economic activity, even growing food for your own consumption, falls under the banner of interstate commerce.
I'm not convinced it even works very well for either of those cases. It's common in many applications to return the result of a computation as an object in memory, like an array or string of arbitrary length or a treelike structure. Without the ability to allocate memory which exists after a function exits, I'm not sure how you'd do that (short of solutions which create arbitrary limits, like writing to a fixed-size buffer).
If you're coming straight out of University, there are likely several dozen people who have a reasonable idea of your capabilities -- your classmates and your professors. That's your network.
Career advice for young system programmers (2023)
I had a lot of fun with Coolify running my app and my database on the same machine. It was pretty cool to see zero latency in my SQL queries, just the cost of the engine.
... but they know about it.
Yes, cars at least that old are the only option I'm really OK with. Everything newer seems to have a data connection with someone, which is a complete showstopper for me.

Although, in a pinch, I could probably disable the cell radio in a car, but it's just better to not have to bother with that.
An unmarked white van (without windows) parked a house or two down the street hacking your wifi might not be that noticeable. One across the street with a radio dish spinning around and a parabolic mic sticking out the window and a few people entering and exiting it with donuts and coffee multiple times probably would be.
Portfolio Performance: FOSS tool to evaluate performance of investment portfolio
clear attempt circumnavigate the clear copyright violations of the AI era and kick the can down the road.
> You’re potentially losing side airbags, collision avoidance and other safety features that became relatively universal since 2010.

I'm good with that.
Zonian: my father was born to an American family but outside the Canal Zone (Panama City). I asked my Dad whether they considered themselves Americans or Panamanians growing up. He said his parents (my grandparents) considered themselves Panamanians and that they strongly supported handing over the canal during the treaty negotiations. What was the feeling like among the “Zonians”?

We just had a family reunion of sorts in Panama and needless to say the relatives that still live there (all over the political spectrum) were not enthused by the new U.S. posture.
Ah, I was always wondering why they weren't more commonly used, but that's a pretty horrible coefficient of performance. I guess it's really only worth it if you want no moving parts for quiet or maintenance-free operation?
Tesla working with Baidu to improve assisted driving system in China
'cos you put yourself out there
https://archive.is/eLLJ1

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898369343399899218

I didn't see it linked in the article, but this is the tweet (what are tweets called now that it's not Twitter?).
Are you in an alternate dimension where Snow Crash literally happened?!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
But the people who pay the bills didn't....
The fact that Chris Lehane is the one involved in this should tell you all you need to know about how on the level all this is.
It absolutely is fair use to copy a book for your personal archives.

The fair use criteria considers whether it is commercial in nature (in this case it is not) and the “ the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work” for which a personal copy of a personally owned book is non existent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

You would get laughed at by the legal system trying to prosecute an individual owner for copying a book they bought just to keep.
haven't I seen this same headline 5 times over the last 3 years? still nothing?
that coincides with industrialization and the subsequent rise of trade unions. the alternative was violence against capital.
Lines of code can be very long though.

At this point, maybe they're talking about the perfect LLM Chatbot frontend and the cost of deobfuscating!
> I support multiple models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Deepseek.

Are there risks associated with sending DB info off to these third parties?
I assume fsyncing a whole file does more work than just ensuring that specific blocks made it to the WAL which it can achieve with direct IO or maybe sync_file_range.
Discussion (252 points, 17 hours ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
Truly wow. The sucking up to coroporations is terrifying. This, when Aaron Swartz was institutionally murdered by the institutions and the state for "copyright infringement". And what he did wasn't even for profit, or even a 0.00001 of the scale of the theft that OpenAI and their ilk have done.

So it's totally OK to rip off and steal and lie through your teeth AND do it all for money, if you're a company.
But if you're a human being, doing it not for profit but for the betterment of your own fellow humans, you deserve to be imprisoned and systematically murdered and driven to suicide.
Hehe NO PAURING you’re right the results are very inconsistent.
You are right that Congress are the immediate legislative agents, but the Congressional responsibility is back-stopped by the people, because ultimately (with the exception of impeachment and removal from office, which is asking the legislature to police itself) only the people can decide to stop supporting them. And you're right about the 17th Amendment, but that's in the past; modern American voters have more power to choose their representatives than they have in most of American history, and they do not exercise it.

I don't know who else's fault it can be but the electorate when they saw how the current President operates and re-elected him. To say nothing of re-electing the same Congress over and over despite that body having a sub-30% approval rating.

... and if the people don't hold the responsibility, what would you recommend the people do? I'm not sure what "a notion of jurisprudence" means in this context: are you suggesting replacing he power-at-a-distance of an unpopular legislature with rule by nine unelected life-appointed officials and their underlings?
Back to the Future: China Revives Blimps, Now Electric
College Kids Burned to Death Inside a Cybertruck Because the Doors Wouldn't Open
:-o

Wow! I defer.

A CD not a CD-ROM, but you're right.
This reminds me of the old "Where in the USA/World is Carmen Sandiego" games...but the accuracy and of the history and kids friendliness would need to improve for me.
Tying an onion to your belt, like in the old days, is a sure way to a new career.
Well whatever it is and if there is correlation or not. We work less now.
Study: Physical activity's longevity benefits may not be as clear-cut as thought
This is a big problem with younger devs right now, too.

There are a lot of young developers who got new jobs in the 2021-2022 job market who don’t have any other frame of reference. They preach their experience to even younger devs and college grads as if it was normal, without understanding how unusually good the job market was at that time.

Browse any of the advice forums and you’ll find people confidently telling others to quit jobs they don’t like because it’s really easy to find a new job. Then you ask for details and they reveal that they did this in 2021 and it was fine.

I can’t count how many times I’ve had to tell young developers to ignore bad advice from people with 5 YOE who have never experienced a difficult job market.
According to the article: "The tech industry of 15 or 20 years ago was, again, *dramatically* different from tech today."
>Romania’s election commission has blocked pro-Russian candidate Calin Giorgescu from running in its rescheduled presidential elections, on the grounds that he has illegally benefited from Russian support. https://conservativehome.com/2025/03/13/from-garvanwalshe-ro...

People are touchy about Russia rigging things these days. They seem to be causing a fair bit of havoc quite likely flipping things in the Brexit vote and the 2016 US election, plus the invasion stuff.
If the publisher decides to release them without DRM, yes.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free

In other cases it's not difficult to remove the DRM yourself.
You can have respect for this and his decisions and still think it is doesn't look good for c#.
In this case, as bucket content aproaches 0 drops, 1 drop becomes infinitely more, at least in calculus.

Limits in calculus:
"When a real function can be expressed as a fraction whose denominator tends to zero, the output of the function becomes arbitrarily large, and is said to "tend to infinity" For example, the reciprocal function, f ( x ) = 1/x tends to infinity as x tends to 0.

Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
I like Rust, however for me when not doing C#, Java, Typescript, it is also C++.

Mainly because when working with those ecosystems, runtimes and native libraries, when playing around with LLVM, or GPU coding, it is all about C++, unless I would like to build ecosystem instead of actually implementing what I wanted to do in first place.

Also because for better or worse, I have the scars already.
Putin backs ceasefire idea for Ukraine in principle, suggests it needs reworking
This isn't shockingly original advice, but it did spur me to stop overthinking it and just spend some time with 'em. Tx!
Google allows users to personalize their Gemini conversations with new features
Also hard to do when you're not a networking person. I'm a programmer for a reason, and part of that reason is that I'm a bit of a misanthrope. A friendly misanthrope, but a misanthrope, nonetheless.
For network-attached storage IOPS limits packets per second, not bandwidth, since IO operations can happen at different sizes (e.g. 4K vs. 16K blocks).
It's fine that Apple wants to ship with those bits unflipped. What's unreasonable is that Apple stops you from flipping them.
A touchpad seems to really cripple the gameplay -- one idea could be to ask what device players are using and make slight adjustments. For touchpads, moving the cursor is slower, and the drag-pull mechanism doesnt really work -- and its easy to misclick a drag.

Some rougelike mechanics would also make it possible to naturally level the gameplay -- ie., the more failures a person has the more metaprogression they get, so worse players unlock a natural easy mode.
Zitadel v3: AGPL License, Streamlined Releases, and Platform Updates
Strongbox Joins Applause
> There are a bunch of options for blocking cells from being edited etc.

I’ve already addressed this and the problems with that approach.

> Excel pros (I am none) can do quite some nice tools on top of Excel.

As I explained in my OP, I was one of them.

> Excel runs the world ...

I agree. I never claimed otherwise. So I don’t really understand your point here if it’s not to make a strawman argument.
Outside Apple, Swift is now around the state .NET Core 2.1 used to be, kind of.

It is a great language, and should be used as much as possible, but mainly on Apple's kingdom.
By not having 'subscriptions'.
I was thinking about that. It sounds like a great setting for a story but I felt like I’d seen it before and I guess this is why.
The technology, the types of software being developed, what the major players (FAANG, etc) are focusing on, the rise of AI, the wealth of information available on the internet, the hardware, politics, etc. etc.
> It absolutely is fair use to copy a book for your personal archives.

There's no legal precedent for this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356042

> the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work

A copyright holder's lawyer would argue that having and using a photocopy of a book keeps the original from wearing out. This directly affects the potential market for the work, since the owner could resell the book in mint condition, after reading and burning their photocopies.

> You would get laughed at by the legal system trying to prosecute an individual owner for copying a book they bought just to keep.

I mean maybe this is true. But the affected individual will have a very bad year and spend a ton of money on lawyers.
Growing up, my grandpa would joke that "someone tripped over the extension cord" when the power went out.
Why "labour shortages" don't exist
https://archive.today/Xxgmp
I don’t get the argument. Hours are hours and that there is no correlation to technical advancements is an extrem position to have… but hey you are not alone.
OpenAI didn't pay for most of the content it used.
> Both have been willing to break the law in the name of their political ideology.

Aaron Swartz did not commit any crimes. Pretty sure that's what the parent commenter was getting at.
1 in a million is the probability that all three servers die in one months, without swapping out the broken ones.
So at some point in the month all the data is gone.

If you replace the failed(or failing) node right away, the failure percentage goes down greatly.
You would likely need the probability of a node going done in 30 minutes time space.
Assuming the migration can be done in 30 min.

(i hope this calculation is correct)

If 1% probability per month then
1%/(43800/30) = (1/1460)% probability per 30 min.

For three instances:
(1/1460)% * (1/1460)% * (1/1460)% = (1/3112136000)% probability per 30 min that all go down.

Calculated for one month
(1/3112136000)% * (43800/30) = (1/2131600)%

So one in 213 160 000 that all three servers go down in a 30 minute time span somewhere in one month.
After the 30 minutes another replica will already be available, making the data safe.

I'm happy to be corrected.
The probability course was some years back :)
There's a related section about 'mathiness' in section 3.3 of the article "Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship" https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03341. I would say the situation has only gotten worse since that paper was written (2018).

However the discussion there is more about math which is unnecessary to a paper, not so much about the problem of math which is unintelligible or, if intelligible, then incorrect. I don't have other papers off the top of my head, although by now it's my default expectation when I see a math-centric AI paper. If you have any such papers in mind, I could tell you my thoughts on it.
Beautiful JS code, happy to see this after people started to create DOOM using TypeScript types.

Edit: yay, beat all levels after learning I can use slingshot multiple times
“The ride is over. When mediocrity, excuses, and bullshit take root, they take over.”

That's actually move profound than may seem. I recorded in my notes of important ideas.
How long before Android and Windows are also walled gardens that are completely locked down? They're certainly moving into that direction.

If you buy a device you should be allowed to fully own it. You shouldn't be forced to buy niche inferior alternatives or pay a huge premium.
Nah, but what makes peace last is military power
Nasal spray shows preclinical promise for treating traumatic brain injury
I can’t explain why but I get anxiety just looking at that.
It would be incredibly cool if this were used in high school curricula.
yeah this sounds like it'll be reliably enforced for sure
I suggest you read this page about the Dungeon Master ('87) copy protection which includes an interview with its main programmer and author of its (ingenious) copy protection.

http://dmweb.free.fr/community/documentation/copy-protection...

Nearly 40 years later, I still wouldn't call it "wasted time".
I would expect it to mostly work. Standardizing the interface between the window manager and clients. So as long as Plasma isn't depending on any special behavior (by intention or assumption) of KWin it will work just fine.
Yes desktop is extra challenging. On mobile you can spam slingshots with all 10 fingers but on desktop you’ve got to be leet fast.
The term "Free Software" sucks from the marketing point-of-view, as ~everyone except FSF fanboys understands it to mean "price = $0". Sorry, that ship has sailed.
Unless their a superseding federal law, yeah, California can successfully prosecute businesses for breaking the laws within its' jurisdiction.
> 1. The ratelimit on "IOPS" is precisely a ratelimit on a particular kind of network traffic, right? Namely traffic to/from an EBS volume? "IOPS" really means "EBS volume network traffic"?

The EBS volume itself has a provisioned capacity of IOPS and throughput, and the EC2 instance it's attached to will have its own limits as well across all the EBS volumes attached to it. I would characterize it more like a different model. An EBS volume isn't just just a slice of a physical PCB attached to a PCIe bus, it's a share in a large distributed system a large number of physical drives with its own dedicated network capacity to/from compute, like a SAN.

> 2. Does this save me money? And if yes, is from some weird AWS arbitrage? Or is it more because of an efficiency win from doing less EBS networking?

It might. It's a set of trade-offs.
Here you go: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki