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>"billionnaire that builds companies that utterly depend on government subsidies but the companies are not doing well, goes into government to make the government more efficient and spend less"

Given that he's cutting government workers and programs he despises (eg. "DEI" or foreign aid), that's not too surprising. What people think is important is in the eye of the beholder, so it's not incongruent for someone to be pro government subsidies in their industry, but against other forms of government spending.
Any patents on the 8086 have long expired, and so have the ones from the last century. As Ken says, the microcode is copyrighted but you don't need to use that to make a compatible version.
Given that one of the most powerful people with the US Government right now is a member of a group called the PayPal Mafia

well

sigh
> After seeing a brief demo of a grotesque zombie-esque creature

Reacting to an animation where a gross critter "learned to walk using AI" instead of being animated by a person 8+ years ago, and ended up using its head as a leg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

It has nothing to do with the current image generation topic beyond the "AI" label being stuck on both of them

Which is not to say I expect he's thrilled about ChatGPT cloning the art style on a mass scale, but that quote that everyone keeps reposting doesn't have anything to do with it
In 2023, EU exported $6.43T (28.4% of global exports) and imported $6.56T (29% of global imports).

https://oec.world/en/profile/international_organization/euro...

Not a lot "stands out" - their exports are a rich diversity of many smaller items, Pharma, electronics, many types of machines.

The OEC link has internal and external trade breakdowns by product if you scroll down.
That accident happened long ago, on a testing track, due to bad signalling/communications, leading to maintenance equipment still on the tracks, and the maglev running into that.

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

The slowing of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train is caused more by economical factors like ridership and electricity costs.
This space is honestly a mess. I did an in depth survey around 1.5 yrs ago and my eventual conclusion was just to build with airflow.

You either get simplicity with the caveate that your systems need to perfectly align.

Or you get complexity but will work with basically anything (airflow).
Taylor Swift and Elon Can Fly Private Without Being Tracked – New FAA Rule
The Only Narcan Vending Machine in Alabama
Ghibli art is famous because ghibli art means ghibli movies. It is more beautiful in motion than still, the beauty is in part due to the emotion evoked by the story.

There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom. The same will be true of AI art copycats.

This, however, is not the first time ghibli has had competition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_and_the_Witch's_Flower in fact they have a whole studio dedicated to copying ghibli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ponoc

Yes they used to work at ghibli, but so too did john romero work at id, and yet daikatana was not a quake-killer.

This doesn't devalue ghibli at all, I think

(In fact, I think AI will always have the fundamental problem that most people have no taste or sense or introspection, they don't know why good things are good, and can't see that crap things are crap, so they are predestined to only be able to produce garbage. Nod to Ted Sturgeon.)
It's all the same to me but that's often how it goes. Everyone is a sleeper agent until compelled to act by whatever means. Israelis do the same thing under the sayanim program (appeal to loyalty). Malware agents are staged until called upon using the same strategy.

I don't know what motivated this guy's disappearance but you don't get quietly fired, scrubbed from public association and have the FBI raid your apartment when you're a victim of abduction. We know some sort of federal crime took place to justify the raid so my guess is the guy is not an abductee but a fugitive.
A lot of trucks with cars.
> I am sure this is true. But I seem to have had good results building static executables and libraries for C/C++ with cmake (which presumably passes -static to clang/gcc). golang also seems to be able to create static executables for my use cases.

Depends on what you link with and what those applications do, I would also check the end result. Golang on top of a Docker container is the best case, as far as compatibility goes. Docker means you don't need to depend on the base distro. Go skips libc and provides its own network stack. It even parses resolv.conf and runs its own DNS client. At this point if you replace Linux kernel with FreeBSD, you lose almost nothing as function. So it is a terrible comparison for an end-user app.

If you compile all GUI apps statically, you'll end up with a monstorous distro that takes hundreds of gigabytes of disk space. I say that as someone who uses Rust to ship binaries and my team already had to use quite a bit nasty hacks that walk on the ABI incompatibility edge of rustc to reduce binary size. It is doable but would you like to wait for it to run an update hours every single time?

Skipping that hypothetical case, the reality is that for games and other end user applications binary compatibility is an important matter for Linux (or any singular distro even) to be a viable platform where people can distribute closed-source programs confidently. Otherwise it is a ticking time-bomb. It explodes regularly too: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1129310/discussions/0/6041473...

The incentives to create a reliable binary ecosystem on Linux is not there. In fact, I think the Linux ecosystem creates the perfect environment for the opposite:

- The majority economic incentive is coming from server providers and some embedded systems. Both of those cases build everything from source, and/or rely on a limited set of virtualized hardware.

- The cultural incentive is not there since many core system developers believe that binary-only sofware doesn't belong to Linux.

- The technical incentives are not there since a Linux desktop system is composed of independent libraries developed by semi-independent developers that develop software that is compatible with the libraries that are released in the same narrow slice of time.

Nobody makes Qt3 or GTK2 apps anymore, nor they are supported. On Windows side Rufus, Notepad++ etc. are all written on the most basic Win32 functions and they get to access to the latest features of Windows without requiring huge rewrites. It will be cursed but you can still make an app that uses Win32, WPF and WinUI in the same app on Windows, three UI libraries from 3 decades and you don't need to bundle any of them with the app. At most you ask user to install the latest dotnet.
It gets more interesting the older I get seeing people speculate about the now vs. early internet without having lived through the 90s internet. My first response is "do you not remember what that was like?!" then I remember, no, in fact they might not have even been born yet.
Trump threatens important data deal – German companies alarmed
And COBOL.
It is _maybe_ a great deal for the average consumer, who might not be putting any effort into finding deals. It's emphatically not a good deal for the (probably small) group of users who _would_ have put in the effort and found the _actual_ best deal, but trusted Honey who said they would provide the best deal and then knowingly gave worse deals (lied, potentially committed fraud?).
> and which youtube doesn't really have power over.

I can’t be certain but I remember sponsorships and other monetization methods being against the rules from 2005 to around 2010. Everything had to be done through the official affiliate program (YouTube Partners, I think they called it), which required an application and a large number of views and subscribers. I don’t remember seeing sponsored segments regularly until well after 2013. Sponsorblock already crowdsources this information. It wouldn’t be a technical hurdle to require uploaders to demarcate sponsored segments.
Heat a lithium secondary cell too much and it goes into runaway. When the cells are packed together in one device if one of them goes up it can take the others with it. The bigger the device the hotter it will be and harder to avoid it turning into a disaster.
Presumably it would be possible to write a compositor shader to generically remove all blinks?
"Oracle, where the Sun don't shine no more."
Cognition explain why we dramatically overestimate the size of minority groups
This video is shared a lot to represent Miyazaki's feelings on AI, but all I see is him reacting to one specific video on the screen - grotesque/bloody figures crawling on the floor in totally unnatural motions. He specifically says he doesn't like it because it seems to make light of the suffering of disabled people. There zero feedback on the AI whatsoever. Who knows what he would have said if the engineers had built something closer to the company's artistic vision.
Nobody claimed it was somehow 100% accurate. After all, it's not like many stores ask for your tax returns before telling you the price (although they might very much would like to). The point holds even if it's approximately true.
I dislike affiliate and ads just like anyone else, but without them, people just will never find your product. At some point you just have to hope some reviewer picks you up and gives you some boost, but even then how will the reviewer find you?
I think they refer to the fact that Honey also sets itself as affiliate when not finding any code.
This is not a new development; HN has been discussing this issue since it became apparent that the content did not meet the expected standards. The situation changed when Google made an effort to implement a whitelist channel feature.
There are actually no direct results that prove an actual missile running Linux. Simulations yes. Linux running a missile itself no.
very similar to my goals but i went different way.

I chose wasm for package format. so everyone can choose the programming language they are familiar with. caveat: rust still has best support for wasm. everything else is hit or miss.

I chose OCI registry for package publishing because that's what everyone already has in their infrastructure. or just use dockerhub/GHCR.

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp
Exactly. I'm willing to believe some of these people were indeed "bad dudes", but literally 0 evidence was provided one way or the other. And these people weren't just deported back to their home countries - they were imprisoned in demonstrably brutal fashion.

Yeah, yeah, Godwin's Law and all that, but the similarities with mid-20th century fascism are undeniable here. The administration specifically started with targeting a small, well-defined minority (that is, people in the US illegally, or at least purported to be here illegally), and then extended to valid visa holders (what's the point of being on legal visa if it can be revoked at any moment with no judicial review and then you can be imprisoned for weeks/months) and now legal permanent residents. It's just classic creeping fascism.
Firefighting in the US is not (generally?) done by private corporations.
weren't they inserting themselves even in cases where there was no available coupon? Finding the user a deal isn't "doing literally nothing", and the argument for honey inserting itself in that case is at least not crazy. But as I understand it, they inserted themselves in every case even when they very literally did nothing (no deal, nothing).
You sound like Fortune 500 CTO material young man.
Nice! I know it's super hard to sota a benchmark, especially a few years into it, so congrats on the milestone!
Please refrain from trolling on Hacker News.
Which was exactly correct!
Related

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada (93 points, 4 days ago, 79 commments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501084

University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust (78 points, 4 days ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495824
Records in Java have final fields.
On the other hand, Japan pretty much ignores the amateur comics community using copyrighted works for their fan fiction. Even when they have big, well known, events where they sell the comics.
I’ve just moved from expensive claudecode to cursor and Gemini - what are you thoughts on cursor vs cline?

Thank you
There’s 17 games… not 170.

Any given Sunday.
FreeBSD is more of an admin's system than a user's system and this perfectly illustrates one of the reasons why. Outside of this forum, in regular consumer land, OS users don't want to know or care about the distinction between base and ports, and nothing anyone says about it is going to change that. So I run lots of BSD at home but I recommend Mint to family.
They get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Controversi...
I use FreeBSD for my home server and I have for years. For me, the biggest reason is just the stability from a user perspective. I don't mean system stability, although it has been rock solid, I mean the stability in terms of administration - the tools don't change frequently.

`ifconfig` just works, like it has worked for 20 years. On my linux servers, it's all swallowed into `ip addr` now. I don't mind that, I certainly understand why these things change, but when I update an Ubuntu server I always worry that next time I log in a tool I am used to will be broken or removed.

I simply don't have those concerns on FreeBSD.
I don't know where that ranking comes from. It also matters that attackers adapt: UAF exploitation is harder than out of bounds, but it is well understood, and attackers can switch to it, so shutting off one source of UB isn't as effective in practice as you might expect.
I don't know, eventually while this was cool and got lots of attention from internet at scale, it is largely irrelevant in $ terms.
> It just turns into a firmer cheese by then

Really? I thought it was the other way around, starting relatively firm and liquefying as it rots.
The Ghibli stuff is really amusing but for me the best are the infographics - you can make amazing stuff with basically 0 2D CG know-how for e.g. a presentation, web page, documentation, blog, etc.

The biggest difference to what was previously available is the accuracy - especially the text. This opens up a plethora of possibilities.
The issue is that many essential libraries and tools rely on setting internal final fields. I assume that's why the options around this have remained open-ended.

The problem with these various "integrity by default" options is that, in most cases, granting access to one effectively grants access to all. For instance, JNI, agent libraries, and JPMS options can each be used to bypass restrictions, making the separation between them largely illusory. Integrity, as framed here, is ultimately binary.

The unfortunate reality of the "integrity by default" crusade is that applications relying on libraries and tools that modify internals will continue to do so. The JDK hasn’t filled any gaps—it has only made an already delicate situation worse.
I have tried several times to run FreeBSD on my home servers and every single time it fails to boot let alone run. Each happily runs Linux (with ZFS) all day long with no issues.

I know the project is smaller in scope and has less funding than Linux (distros and subprojects included) but it's kind of ridiculous. It's incredibly frustrating to set aside the time to set up a machine only to have the kernel panic half way through booting the install media.

From there it's an annoying and exhausting yak shaving exercise just trying to get the machine to start. Eventually I just give up and put the latest Ubuntu LTS which boots and installs with no problems. I import my ZFS pool and everything just hum along.

I cut my Unix teeth on FreeBSD 3 and 4. I want to use modern FreeBSD but it never seems to run on hardware I actually own. That's why I don't run FreeBSD on my home servers.
Pursuing the electrical fluid: How scientists discovered the electron
Why stop there? Anybody making deals with Honey is co-conspirator under RICO.
> We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.

Are you suggesting the rules of sports are a natural property of the universe? It’s all completely arbitrary. That’s kind of the point: we watch people perform these arbitrary tasks and then we celebrate.
Considering eBay also had management that harassed people by mailing them live spiders and dead pig fetuses... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ebay-pay-3-million-empl...
Tech won't freeze in place exactly where it's at today even if some people want that, and even if in some cases it actually would make sense. And.. if you advocate for this I think you risk losing credibility. Especially amongst technologists it's better to think critically about structural problems with the trends and trajectories. AI is fine, change is fine.. the question now is really more like why and what for and in the interest of whom. To the extent models work locally, we'll be empowered in the end.

Similarly, software eating the world was actually pretty much fine, but SaaS is/was a bit of a trap. And anyone who thought SaaS was bad should be terrified about the moats and platform lock-in that billion dollar models might mean, the enshittification that inevitably follows market dominance, etc.

Honestly we kinda need a new Stallman for the brave new world, someone who is relentlessly beating the drum on this stuff even if they come across as anticorporate and extreme. An extremist might get traction, but a call to preserve things as they are probably cannot / should not.
Unlikely since there's a studio led by a former ghibli lead that does visuals in the very same style.
you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.
Playing on my phone. Got to just under 12,000 before I got a txt and when I went back to the game it had restarted.

Two things that would be nice. Show the optimal score possible for any level, with a single puzzle mode (maybe puzzle of the day) to replay to try and achieve the best score on a single level.

A more significant penalty for moving into unsafe squares. Perhaps losing moves rather than points. An increasing penalty for second and third hit might mitigate the just blunder your way through approach.

I felt like I was in no danger of losing, but if it had a strongger penalty for being hit I think I would hit a limit in a reasonable amount of time.
R/Place but as a Minecraft Skin
Being born into money also certainly helps. It's one of the seeds of inequality.
Sure, I'm not attempting to comment specifically on French laws, I don't know French laws nearly well enough.

The comment I relied to was talking about judicial powers in general, and referenced the US rather than France.

My point really isn't specific to any one country though. If an electoral system is meant to be democratic, IMO people should be able to vote for whomever they want. If a candidate can get enough support to win, so be it.

That doesn't preclude us from having laws protecting our right to free and fair elections though. A candidate will absolutely influence the vote, that's the candidate's whole job. There has to be lines drawn where it goes from campaigning to impeding a democratic election, I wasn't arguing against that.
If managing clients' shares gives them such colossal power, how come the founder of Vanguard was worth less than the founder of In-N-Out Burger?
The “consensus” was only in the EU. The US never had a browser mandate and never forced Microsoft to ship Windows without IE.

And browser choice in the EU had little long term affect

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/windo...
18 years ago you wrote an essay which shares the general premise with this short story: https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation/

What exactly do you mean by "plagiarizing" here? Sharing the basic idea?
Of all the terrible attacks on the 1A, I find this one the most disturbing as it amounts to nothing less than mafia-style extortion:

> The POTUS recently issued several executive orders railing against specific law firms with attorneys who worked legal cases against him. On Friday, the president announced that the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono work on issues that he supports.

> Trump issued another order naming the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which ultimately agreed to pledge $40 million in pro bono legal services to the president’s causes.
Nope. It will (somehow) not be their fault.
I don't know how to move a piece, does not work neither on firefox nor chromium.
> It should go without saying, the idea that tariffs will not be born by consumers and the idea that they will generate $500 billion dollars a year in income cannot both be true.

(Before I start: I am a Canadian supporter of the decidedly left-wing New Democratic Party. Responses attempting to dismiss me as a "Trump supporter" etc. will be ignored.)

Sure they can, logically speaking. Trump's belief is that shelf prices will not increase; the money will come from the exporting country, in that they will end up with 20% less money for a given good (sold at the original price after applying a 25% tariff). Which is to say, not so much a "tax hike" as a savings on the same imported goods.

I am, of course, simplifying by ignoring the domestic part of the supply chain after receiving the import. But there really is a coherent vision by which it could work. A higher shelf price means lower demand; this either must force down the price (unlikely insofar as the retailer can't afford it) or the supply. But the supplier's "supply" to the consumer is equivalent to "demand" from a wholesale source, etc. back to the originating country, for imported goods.

The narrative that tariffs are universally and obviously bad in any amount everywhere is just too simple and convenient for me to take seriously. It doesn't square with the history of tariffs or with the fact of people repeatedly coming up with the idea (nor does it take into account that optimizing for the specific metrics negatively impacted by tariffs is necessarily globally optimal). And if you want to talk about deadweight loss, please make sure your view of tariffs is consistent with your view of a) minimum wage policy and b) rent control. I have found that many people do not, due to the interference of their political beliefs.
> Look at what's happening in Turkey, where the popular opposition candidate was just barred from running.

Ironically Turkey is in this situation precisely because Erdogan removed term limits and spent decades consolidating his power. Same with China where Xi Jinping did the same. And Russia with Putin. All prime examples of functioning democracies, right?

These rules are specially to prevent people from setting themselves up as emperor for life and if they are removed that's almost always the exact thing that happens.

Democracy isn't a perfect system, as much as Americans tend to believe it is. It needs some guidelines to keep it functional. And even with them it's a compromise, not perfection.