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What exactly is calling things "isolationist" supposed to do, and why should people be concerned about fighting that designation?

They're a standard economic tool. They don't have to be run past free traders for their approval.
But so do security threats.
nothing excepts it doesn't make sense for them

basically the mandate requires them to not hamper WI-FI Aware in anyway which pushes developers into using AWDL instead, i.e. they require it to be as good +- some technical differences in features not so relevant for 3rd party use cases

and if you provide something which works as good why should they keep AWDL around, it's just double the dev cost and AWDL is getting older and Wi-Fi Aware is getting nice WiFi7 improvements soon

so as long as they don't have some use case outside of what Wi-Fi Aware is supposed to do which happens to work with AWDL they keeping both around long term is not a very good decision economically
Right! Thank you for clarifying :)
closest thing we have on hn to being a reddit like comment/remark lol
This has been true every major Windows release.
There's no rational explanation,
Oh of course! Thank you for pointing that out :)
One Island, Two Worlds
Once they get to experience the freedom of the US health system they will vote republican.
>A story about the most destructive man in the history of high technology

This seems a bit, uh, hyperbolic
Well, sales-wise it seems to mostly be driving people towards macbooks, but yes, also linux.
What's the difference? As silly as that question sounds, the point is that ICE has the same issue of shoddy components. Ford (but not limited to) enjoys replacing critical metal parts with plastic and dunking rubber in oil. Now they have a reputation for blowing engines and being scrapped because shaving a few cents off the BOM was deemed preferable to not requiring engines to be completely removed to replace said parts that would have cost a dollar to manufacture quality versions of. There are aftermarket manufacturers that make higher quality replacements for a lot of modern OEM parts.

Bean counters ruin everything and they seem to have infected almost every business.
Thanks, I missed that one.
Note that these are near-term impacts. In the long term the listed prices may be undercut by domestic manufacturers popping up or expanding their product lines. I haven't heard much analysis on that scale, but would be interested to read more if anyone finds some.
EV fire in an underground parking garage or home garage is a scary thought.
I've been skipping dealing with a MS id every day for coming up on seven years now :-) and I had been (ab)using OpenBSD for a few years before that, so it's been a nice long hiatus.

I do, however, miss the early F# on WinXpPro64, having bought the Pro install version a million years ago for a clean install, using it for quite a few years on an early q6600, I'd love to be able to fire up one of my boot disk images into a no-network VM subnet from those years, maybe even creating network drives to connect and disconnect to in order to migrate files to and from. It was fully registered and current, with up-to-date service packs and everything, and quite a bit of nice MS dev software as well, and nicely stripped down by cannonballing down into the registry morass and tweaking as many sections as possible over the years.

Any clues on which modern 64bit linux or BSD would allow it to boot and run and as a functioning MS instance to run old-school commandline F# fsi.exe, including the recompiled one I made a tiny prompt change to? [That was some high-nerd-reward spelunking that I never really took advantage of.]

Maybe QEMU?

I loved the commandline interactivity; I had built up quite a suite of code to do some slick processing using F#'s mind-blowing pipe operator.

Anyway, AtDhVaAnNkCsE, and Happy Friday, all.
If someone had asked me 2 years ago how long it would take China to overtake the US in world power, I'd have guessed 20 years, now I'd guess 2 years.
Since there’s a good chance someone involved will read this, I mean this in the most sincere way possible and I hope you take it to heart:

Just fuck off.
Yup, we're going to have to go back to standing National Guard in the Red states.
Aren’t those needed overwhelmingly as a result of being connected to the internet?
Last time I activated a Windows 11 system, I had already entered my Wifi credentials, and then couldn't find any way out of the online account trap. Eventually backed out far enough, deleted my wifi credentials again, forward again and created a local account. Have they closed that loophole too, i.e you can't activate it at all without cloud connectivity?

Another question, once you've activated it with an online account, is it possile to then create another local user and simply use that?
> unless you are vastly incompetent at basic police work.

Boy do I have news!
I'll give you that I was being overly harsh or generalizing too broadly, perhaps with the hope that someone would challenge that.

The points you make about DJs are valid but irrelevant to the hardware. If "all else is equal," the newer tech just has the benefit of decades of engineering and feedback loops and is purpose-built for that exact application.

It's not going to be beat by 1970s tech, your once-in-a-blue-moon anecdote is outweighed by countless frustrations with turntables[1], and you won't find anyone in the industry that thinks it's going to work easier/better to set up turntables than CDJs. Supporting vinyl is a huge hassle and it's generally only done for special events or artists (or vinyl-specific bars that have gone to great lengths and leave their setup intact).

[1] Not to mention that yes, having a replacement on hand (or already hooked up) is the pro move to solve that problem quickly. As badass as it is, I don't think it's all that desirable for a DJ to be opening up hardware mid-gig.
> They have figured out the most genius plan “Tax corporations. Tax the rich” as if corporations won’t just adjust pass the cost on to their consumers, and the “rich” won’t just adjust their expectations from their corporations.

This is true proof you live in Seattle, as I.
CSV encoded in EBCDIC is an improvement over YAML. God what an awful format...
I just looked and quite a few of the world's top economists endorsed Harris/Walz for president.

Will wonders never cease!
I second the "be sure to get Windows Pro" if you are getting windows primarily for WSL usage.
Where do you even start with a comment like this? It wildly mischaracterizes what “the left” wants and constructs a strawman to argue with.
Because Tesla abandoned the SolarCity model? Like, SolarCity was a bunch of sales people going door-to-door to sell questionable leases on solar systems and hawking off the junk bonds resulting.
The loan is not collateralized with TSLA stock. He used Twitter’s assets to collateralize it.
I've mostly dropped it, I have a couple of windows machines for dev stuff but I really don't enjoy using the OS, each time I log in there is a new annoyance.

If I got to a point where I couldn't use it without a Microsoft account I would just drop it entirely.
Is Bankman-Fried next?
> Strange all I hear about with modern EVs are issues due to fire. In theory EVs should be far safer than any fossil fuel cars.

Never try to extrapolate frequency or risk based on news headlines.

Combustion-engine cars catch fire all the time, but that rarely makes headlines.

> US fire departments responded to an estimated annual average of 215,096 vehicle fires in the United States from 2018–2022[1]

That's 600 vehicle fires per day.

Search for recent results of "car catches fire" on google news or wherever, and you'll only get a dozen incidents for the past day.

If a car burns down and few are impacted in any way, it doesn't make the news. Unless it's an EV.

[1] https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-re...
Musk can be fairly compensated and US national security preserved via nationalization.
I mean… RFK famously believes that AIDS is caused by poppers, and not a virus. So I can’t say this move surprises me.

But it’s still quite sad to see us becoming a laughingstock.
How come the EU do not kick MS back into the stone age for shenanigans like these?

Does using a yubikey instead of a password works in that heap of shitpile? Or we need to wait for that another 10+ years?
Bad leadership/ direction of product. These decisions are bad in the long term as people find alternatives. Windows will just be used by large non-tech orgs that need excel and are locked in that ecosystem. Then there is the gaming crowd and I think Steam is in a unique position to do something here. Everything points to Windows 11 being the last Windows, but not for the reasons MS intended.
Funny how you don't often hear this kind of argument made for estimating the prevalence of tax fraud. And there the risk vs reward calculation is much worse. I would trust more common sense arguments. People who respond to economic incentives are economically motivated.
He also repeatedly claimed that "tarriff" is his favorite word next to "God" and "love". I wouldn't be surprised if that turns out to be the actual reason...
Hard to make direct comparisons though, right? A battery fire poses different risks.
Humans though, can create more humans, but viruses can't create more viruses without using the machinery within a cell that it compromises.
I actually do have some websites blocked on my iphone using the "block adult websites" feature
Vile, but that sounds like a favor for L.P. Jobs/The Atlantic, who were Ozy's biggest backers. I have no idea why else he would be commuting the head of a would-be anti-Trump center-left media empire. Just an affinity for financial scammers?
Oh, another M$ account creation trick. When they discontinued Skype they said you could just log into Teams with your Skype credentials. Not so! That just forces you to enter an email address (that's not already associated with a M$ account) and guess what.. now you have ANOTHER M$ account. After this the Skype credentials are invalidated.
The current administration promised to lower prices immediately. I guess I'm not understanding why it hasn't happened yet.

He wouldn't have promised something that he knew he could never deliver, because that would make him a demagogue.
MAGA is not Maoism. Stop.
Don't they have a lot to lose if stock analysts respond to the drop, though?
If the results of that determination only apply after I'm dead, then their definition of good is not entirely relevant to me.
I use them because I wind up having to bag my groceries anyway.

Also, I am less rushed because I can go at my own pace.
You can't really retroactively fix things with money, the idea that it "compensates" in some equal way is simply wrong. Money helps with the medical bills, disability, etc. It's better than nothing, but even if you pursue civil or criminal litigation it's not going make any one else take paying attention to controlling their heavy machinery more seriously. The perception of consequences diminishes, even though there are real consequences they seem like tail end risks since causing an accident doesn't typically result in jail time or civil litigation. I guess my hypothesis, based on a single observation is that people take extra risk because they have insurance and so feel like if they get in a wreck - it won't be that bad and they might get a new car.
Auto tariffs make perfect sense when you realize every car in the market except Tesla are going to cost 25% more starting next week.
My understanding is that Google "owns" reddit in the sense that they paid to use it as source of training data. And goodle paid reddit so much that they have exclusive rights for that.

Probably this is the reason why all the reddit free public APIs are gone - to block scraping.
I'm a bit confuses. Is this meant to compete with native desktop software or with other web UIs?
Well you see, contrary to the rampant speculation you get on sites like HN, when we deployed a telemetry update to report on how many of our users have no internet connectivity, the data showed 100% of respondents had internet connectivity.

/s obviously
I think its enough to disconnect your wifi/router and installer will give you an option to proceed without internet.
That's why Canada would be the 51st state. Only 2 senators for all of Canada, so not much increase in Democratic representation. Representatives would of course lean Democratic, but if Trump engineers a collapse in Canada's economy, some voters may be willing to vote Republican if they're promised a bailout, given the fait accompli of annexation. Plus, if the NDP sticks around, that's fewer Democratic representatives. Sure NDP would probably vote with Democrats in most situations, but it might be easier to peel their representatives away for crucial votes.

Greenland could probably be induced to vote Republican fairly easily, and so send 2 Republican senators to Congress.

I've just spitballing, of course - in the current situation the GOP is not in the position to throw away any advantage in the House.
Yes, but what's the link between those 2 news ?

They are most probably related, but I don't see how.
If you're looking to setup a GPS-disciplined time-server at home, I highly recommend this writeup: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/14/revisiting-microse...

In the author's latest post he also sets up a pi as PTP grandmaster: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/18/nanosecond-accurat...
Who are the silent investors anyway? VP and Saudis?
You forgot he commuted the sentence for the scammers impersonating that YouTube exec:

https://archive.is/ODjP0

White collar crime is legal, folks. (Donation required)
I’m going to acquire you and together we will be worth one hundred billion quadrillion
This makes journalism on controversial subjects unprofitable. Who would want to do a content based ad on Israel/Gaza?
What they're doing might actually be illegal under antitrust law, since it's effectively 'tying' a market-dominant desktop OS to provision of online services. If they are genuinely determined to get rid of the existing workarounds, there might be grounds for a formal complaint on that basis.
Now xAI should just issue more stock that X would buy with xAI’s funds. Dilute until financiers have nothing — a move known as the tech bro classic.
I certainly can't get it to reliably play music on my Pixel 8. Mostly it summons YT Music, only occasionally do I get my music player, and sometimes I merely get "I'm an LLM, I can't help you with that."

And you used to be able to say "Find my phone" and it would chime and max screen brightness until found. Tried that with Gemini once, and it went on with very detailed instructions on using Google or Apple's Find My Device website (depending on what type of phone I owned), maybe calling it from another device if it's not silenced, or perhaps accepting that my device was lost or stolen if none of the above worked. Did find it during that lengthy attempt at being helpful though.

Another fun example, weather. When Gemini's in control, "What's the weather like tonight?" gets a short ramble about how weather depends on climate, with some examples of what the weather might be like broadly in Canada, Japan, or the United States at night.

Unlike Assistant where you could learn to adapt to its unique phrasing preferences, you just flat out can never reliably predict what Gemini's going to do. In exchange for higher peak performance, the floor dropped out the bottom.
Interesting link bait:

> The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.

It’s beloved by millions that care about privacy and security.

Is it even relevant that Elon Musk likes it? He wasn’t even a character in the latest scandal.
It is standard practice to stretch the truth to a breaking point. In this case, Microsoft could argue that a connected account leads to a better experience. It also (more tenuously) argue that it leads to better security, in terms of protection against ransomware via OneDrive backups.

I hate this practice.
If you don’t take care to understand what the LLM outputs, how can you be confident that it works in the general case, edge cases and all? Most of the time that I spend as a software engineer is reasoning about the code and its logic to convince myself it will do the right thing in all states and for all inputs. That’s not something that can be offloaded to an LLM. In the SQL case, that means actually understanding the semantics and nuances of the specific SQL dialect.
As a christian, I can handle this concept. But only in the context where the deity accepts that I can never be perfect and yet can be acceptable. This concept, though biblical, is hardly ever taught because of the fear of it being taken advantage of. The deity requires effort, not perfection. If this is false, then the messiah was a complete waste of time.
It’s nice that a Swift LSP exists, is supported by the company behind the language, and is actively being worked on, because that makes it much more feasible to do things like build alternative IDEs.

Contrast this to Kotlin, which doesn’t have an LSP due to conflicts of interest with Jetbrains’ business. You either use a Jetbrains IDE or you don’t write Kotlin.
I don't think I can ELI5 this one, but here's an ELI15 version: Wasp genitals don't actually resemble human ones very much, but if they did, these wasps would have had - not only a set of "labia majora" that would in itself be unlike anything else now living or yet known - but 'labia' also fringed with stiff, Venus-flytrap-like hairs that the wasp might use to pin her reproductive host 'prey' (probably a caterpillar or beetle, or an arachnid, or like that) for long enough to oviposit, before releasing the host to go about a life now shortened by its parasitic passenger. While parasitoid oviposition is extremely ordinary (in fact, by far the most common reproductive habit by species count) in wasps, these 'Venus flytrap,' 'labioid' accessory structures are almost totally novel among not just wasps but all insects.

Longer, more complicated first draft: The final two segments of the wasp's abdomen are modified into something totally unknown in modern hymenopterans ~(ants, bees, wasps) and most closely analogous in modern arthropods, though not remotely homologous, to something like the dragonfly's reproductive claspers. Different fossilized adults show one of these organs articulates with respect to the other, presumably in a way that can be differentiated from the distortion often typical of the fossilization process, which would suggest the animal had volitional control over what would otherwise, after all, obstruct her quite severely in the use of her genitals. (Exoskeletal animals' muscles insert into their sclerites a lot like how ours attach to our bones, and just as with our bones, the skeletal structures that have evolved to give mechanical leverage to that muscle attachment may survive to offer insight into how
the organs might have worked, on largely mechanical principles similar to how an idler implies a shaft and a belt.)

The surmise with regard to functionality, which is all it could be on so little evidence, is that with the gross (fossilized) anatomy resembling that of a Venus flytrap to the extent of bearing similar marginal setae (hairs around the border), this anatomy served the reproductive purpose of temporarily immobilizing prey during oviposition, which would occur via closely
colocated genital organs which, though I didn't them
see discussed in the paper and may not have been sufficiently preserved in fossilization, would likely have been similar to a more basal ('primitive' though the term is inexact, properly more similar to an older common ancestor) version of the ovipositor that modern parasitoid wasps have.

It isn't an unreasonable surmise that these newly identified organs would be used in that way, though I expect if I had yet read further into the paper I would find some consideration of possible reproductive accessory use, such as engaging a male wasp somehow during mating, or helping deny access to unwanted suitors. I'd like to hope for the close analysis of muscle articulations I suggested earlier, but for fossils from 100Mya, it's probably a marvel we have so many specimens of one species from even so long populous and cosmopolitan a clade as the Hymenoptera.
The outside investors in X made a profit on paper; Twitter was bought for $44B but the deal was financed with like $31B in equity and $13B in debt. It’s not a big profit (in fact it’s worse than you would have done in T-bills), and of course they’re swapping one illiquid and hard-to-value asset for another, but Elon isn’t giving them a 25% haircut at all.
You are far more likely to be killed by a citizen than an illegal alien, and even that chance is tiny compared to an automobile death. You've been lied to by people trying to manipulate you for their own political power. Don't get suckered by then. They are not your friend.
Have your tried running base models? I would try a base model instead of an instruct model it. I would prompt it like this:

# Grammar correction ....
:input:A couple of sentences from your text here:input:
:output:

And see what it fills in after the output.

>They always tend to add or remove sentences of there own.

You may be running into context size issues here. Try going small a sentence at a time. And using a new chat for each sentence.

btw: When I am saying a base model, I mean try using it in a text generation mode not a chat mode.

edit: There are models specifically trained for grammar correction though, for the multilingual case you may have to train one. See a link to an explanation of how someone did it for a google model from 2019: https://deeplearninganalytics.org/nlp-building-a-grammatical...
I have it on very good authority (Fox News if you want to know) that Trump just says these things.

With the stock market down 5 or so trillion dollars, I am sure the president is very busy using his renowned financial acumen to get things under control. He doesn't have time for war.

Gosh, can't anyone take a joke these days?
Realistically, people connect to the Internet. Air-gapped environments aren't using Windows 11 Home.
Is it more scary than an ICE car fire? A fuel tank of most ICE cars carries more energy than even the largest EV batteries - and many underground garages and homes have been burnt down to a crisp from a regular car fire, once it gets going it really doesn't matter what type of car it is.

In fact one of the largest car insurance claims in history is from a Ford truck that caught fire on a ferry in transit, burning down all of its (very expensive) cargo.

https://www.jalopnik.com/how-one-suv-fire-destroyed-45-milli...
It's probably safe to assume that they'll remove the BypassNRO functionality altogether from Setup, not just the script that enables it.
That as well. They also don't respond to their environment.
That is absolutely not true. Whoever you heard that from is lying to you. Local citizens cause way more crime than immigrants. Maybe think about where you are getting your news from, because it is bullshit.
iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?
So, Apple sends the wrong EHLO domain when trying to send emails out. This results in them dropping emails to their own users. Can't get past Apple's level 1 support. How can I get to someone that maintains their SMTP k8s cluster?
> X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth

Lol
> questionable leases

I have a SolarCity install that came with the house.

The Power Purchase Agreement lease seemed shady at first, but ultimately I believe it's working out better for my family than for Tesla.

I'm paying just under 11 cents per kWh and it can only go up a maximum of 3% per year for the next ~15 years.
For how big of an advantage trans women supposedly have, they don't seem to win very often. People have been discussing this issue for decades but all of a sudden people are freaking out about it without doing any research or having any level of nuance.