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No it is not. Right leaning opinions are heavily censored and shunned in all major publishing platforms that bots can scrape.

For example, before Trump, if you contested the utterly normal common sense and scientifically sound idea that a trans woman is still a man, you would be banned - therefore, people with common sense will simply disengage, self-censor and get on with life.
It was easily comprehensive enough, that I printed it out and was showing people today what the differences were in the last couple of os releases, while ruminating about snow leopard. No one mentions that the blue box became Rosetta, and Rosetta II did the same thing in the switch from Intel to ARM.

There are some very tiny points, but this is easily very best to date. ( I started with Rhapsody, and Linux in swedish, and NT 3.1 )( Ran MKLinux on a 7100, but never got accelerated video to work. )
So... I can speak to this because I've listened to almost the entire TAL back catalog, lol.

The show has a stronger journalistic focus now than it did 10 years ago and _way_ more than it did 20 or (almost!) 30 years ago. It's always been part of the show—people who complain that TAL "didn't used to be political" clearly don't remember how many segments they ran about the Iraq war—but for the first decade or so the show had a very strong focus on the arts; they'd have a lot of guests sharing personal essays, short fiction, etc.

The serious journalism-type stories were generally either (1) on-the-ground reporting from their own staff, like a really great episode where they toured an aircraft carrier (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/206/somewhere-in-the-arabia...), (2) stories sourced from other journalists or professional organizations who had serious reputation to lose if they were caught in the supply chain of misinformation, or (3) "this is a thing that happened to me"-type firsthand accounts and observations. And I guess the now-debunked Apple factory story falls into the third category, but the types of stories that had previously fallen into that category tended to be far smaller in scale and/or were presented as more subjective than the Apple story had been.

All of that to say that I think you raise a valid question, and I'm sure some stuff slipped through the cracks over the years, but I also think the implication of that crack-slipping was far less dire in the show's earlier days, and there were just fewer news-ish stories overall.
This was a pleasant and encouraging article to read.

I do think that open source is slowly growing in traditional enterprises, although I think recent interest in cloud computing and artificial intelligence has pushed a lot of software contracting out of the company. Open source migrations might become harder in the future when the enterprise no longer controls their own databases and models.
Fwiw, I am one of the other two people with Firefox on Android and am not having this issue, so it might be a question of screen size rather than browser?
OpenAI may not be the culprit. Patrick Boyle claims ChatGPT answers the question a little differently. It has been proposed that they actually asked Grok, which would certainly be on-brand. So long as there is doubt over which LLM they actually used, there's plausible deniability over where to point the finger.

But that's not the real story of all this.

An AI just made a government decision at the highest level for one of the most powerful countries on the planet, affecting the lives of billions of people.

All it needed was some stooge to ask it for assistance.

Safety researchers must be kicking themselves right now. They've spent years fixating on misalignment and dishonesty[1] when the greatest danger of AI is actually the staggering fallibility of human operators[2].

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer_(...

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Apple_(episode)
> It's also not a "nothingburger." How much area do you think one liter covers in ground area?

Quite a lot? This makes it even safer. The next rainfall, and all the retardant is diluted to safe levels.

> All that crap washes down into waterways or leeches into the soil, then into the water table.

It's already there. Where do you think arsenic, chromium, lead, and other minerals come from?

> Chromium doesn't have a safe level

You do realize that chromium is a component of stainless steel? Your cookware leeches plenty of it.

And it's not particularly dangerous, either, unless it's in its hexavalent form.

> just like there's no such thing as a safe level of radiation.

There is. The normal background are about 20 micro-Roentgens per hour.
I've built a server for generating OpenStreetMap vector tiles on demand from a GeoDesk database, which is barely larger than an .osm.pbf (100GB vs. 80GB for current planet.osm.pbf) - much smaller than a PostGIS instance: https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles
How do we know that isn't TFJ's story, that Hoefler doesn't have a very different one, and what the truth is?
looks like it devolved rapidly
Fire retardant is typically delivered via air. If the aircraft is running on avgas, the retardant may mix with the exhaust on release.
2x35€ = 70€
for better or worse, decisions with great impact are taken by people in power. this view of history as a pachinko ball may numb us to not question the people in power.
Depends on your position. I was employed but the company was going down the tubes when I got my last job through a connection. I didn't really negotiate and the one thing I would have liked to have negotiated (paid time off) was made clear was not on the table even before I said anything. And the offer was not FAANG levels but was incredibly good relative to what I was making.
For me, it was. Couldn't find anything for 4 months, and suddenly I had 3 offers. It often works out like that. It's as if companies suddenly smell you've become desirable or something.
Completely forget about MkLinux. The timing is fascinating.

MkLinux was released in February 1996 whilst Copland got officially cancelled in August 1996.

So it's definitely conceivable that internally they were considering to just give up on the Copland microkernel and run it all on Linux. And maybe this was a legitimate third option to BeOS and NeXT that was never made public.
Throwing from balconies doesn't work. Pavel Durov tried it in 2012, it quickly turned into a brawl under the balcony. So the one above got bad reputation, being called out by the media for making PR stunts in bad taste, and the ones below might have even had negative ROI, if that money went to pay for medical bills.
I was always told it was boron (or borate?). People always called them boron bombers.

Yes, that was a thing. https://www.borax.com/news-events/november-2022/boron-flame-...
Finetune and Run Llama 4 with Unsloth
Getting to Yes is a good very short book that has some gems in it. We used it in some business school class or other I took.
Wero is the last attempt. We'll see how that goes...

https://wero-wallet.eu/
> 1000 persons that want that kind of product

I'd say advertising is in good portion what creates the "want" instead of a "need". If we were to rebalance the amount of purchases driven by needs instead of wants, we'd overall reduce the total amount of purchases. Each of them would also not have the extra cost of advertising included in their price.
Referral Programs for Mobile Apps
I don't think so. Here's a report from this month: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/february-2025-laptop-supp...

Looks like (some) laptops might sleep and wifi is on the way! (with help from Linux drivers)
Can agree that right now the market is tough.

Some years ago there were job posts left and right, salaries were high and hiring was smooth - now there are comparatively fewer jobs posted, salaries are almost half of what it was before, and many don't even write back.

Many companies are even turning away from remote work. It used to be very doable to find a job in the US from Europe, now everyone is demanding you have work authorization and can be in the US.
It is not and has never been half. 2024 voter turnout was 64%
WSL2 is just a Linux VM, and the POSIX subsystem is just a kluge
I never heard of an OS/2 subsystem for NT, for which Cutler would take extreme umbridge in.

I have three charts on my wall( now 4): the Unix timeline, the windows timeline, and the Linux distribution tree,and now a very decent MacOS X timeline.

The personalities became containers which is just the windows version of common subsystem virtualization. Containers were based on VirtualPC, but with the genius of Mark Russinivich.
nope. they go down for some people and up for other people. if these nurses are the second kind then that is interesting.
You have it. You can self-publish.

Publishers are not actually idiots. By and large, they know what sells.
Because its not illegal to do shenanigans and they indeed invaded all product review sites with dishonest reviews
I subscribe to a magazine that publishes tests and reviews of everything from lawn fertiliser to spices, via vacuums and mobile phones. It costs money and I trust that they are not bribed.

It seems rather certain an end to advertising would mean the death of lots of low-quality "media".
It should show instructions the first time, without prompting. I was just confused for a long time.

The icons at the start and end of each row were distracting and confusing.
As the saying goes, never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by incompetence.
The only time I’ve had trouble with Macs sleeping recently is when they have wake on LAN enabled. Switching that off makes sleep work as expected.
Same if you use ~/.ssh/conf.d/.

I have been bitten by this before. :(
Because presumably the GPL would force them to release their modifications. Apple gets/got away with leeching off the BSDs because of the permissive license.
"At the same time, NT (up to and including Windows 2000) shipped with an OS/2 subsystem which ran character-mode 16-bit OS/2 applications." From OS/2 museum.
It’s not even good CGI!
That’s with sparsity. So it’s 29% down from 40%.
Or consumers could contribute back to them making them free resources. Remember the early internet? It was free and it had no ads. That until the pop-ups and flashy banner ads showed up murkying the waters. It appears that advertising inherently wants to agressively take all out attention.
While the efforts are laudable, it remains to be seen where it will stand against regular Python and Julia, that actually have support from card vendors directly.
Next time she should get The Telegraph to help her word these things the way they do.
I just experimented with it. I couldn't get ChatGPT 4.5 to generate what I wanted, probably due to censorship or rate limits (ChatGPT Pro subscription); but Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental did the trick.

This is the end result:
https://medium.com/@robertolupi/how-beelzebub-was-born-92352...

If you like it, please upvote on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599273

This is the conversation: https://g.co/gemini/share/21bbaae2a26e

I switch mid-prompt from Italian to English. It is interesting to see that Gemini reasoned in English even when writing back the initial answers in Italian.

Basically, I gave a somewhat exhaustive but generic track then asked it to give enough information to create a theatrical piece. I provided some stylistic references. A piece suitable to create a script for a tragedy is less abstract than the average output of a LLM, and forces it to create characters.

Then I asked to rewrite it as a short story a couple of time, asking to make adjustments (add more details and action, less abstract ideas) until I was satisfied.

I think I'd consider using NotebookLM or RAG-based, if I wanted something bigger and coherent.
The conf.d isn’t because the config file is large. It’s because it’s easier to disable or enable something with an “echo blah > conf.d/10-addin.conf” or an “rm conf.d/50-blah.conf” than it is to do sed -i or grep blah || echo blah >>
Such and interesting thought provoking situation. So much money circulates and thrives off the idea of advertising. The concept of YouTube would cease to exist. Some products would never even get off the ground without some level of advertising.

What constitutes advertising vs marketing?

Does product placement count as advertising or marketing?

Does opening up a pop shop count as advertising or marketing?

So much to this, ultimately we do need to regulate advertisements. But I am not sure we can survive without them.
And the practical flops always end up lower. As an example a V100 has 125 according to spec, but the ideal case is more like 100 and non-ideal like 60.
The fact that the boundary can be a bit blurry does not prevent it to be useful. Yes there may be corner cases to thunk about ans that can vary, as with all laws. It's bot perfect but its better than current out of control situation.
> [The Manifold prediction market] only requires 30% of judges to vote YES for it to resolve to YES.

That’s a misreading. If 30% of judges vote YES, then only 30% of the prediction’s market cap is awarded to those who bet YES, while the remaining 70% of the market cap is awarded to those who bet NO. The market correctly rewards those who bet NO in such a case. Therefore, bettors have no reason to bet YES if they really think NO.
Great idea, like the game. Thanks for making and sharing!
I should add, I have never seen accelerated video in Linux, except for built in Intel video and it's fine.
I was going to buy my first GPU for DL in 2018, but crypto didn't make it easy. I waited for the prices to fall, but demand kept up, then covid happened, then LLM happened and used GPUs now cost more than their original new prices. ... as we can see by the paper launch from Nvidia, lack of competition, and the prices of the 5000 series easily 50% above original MSRP. Demand is still here, now we have tarrif... Folks got reasons to collect, hoard or do whatever you think they are doing, even if it's just for street cred.
I’m not sure if I/O kit was written in this c++ subset just for speed. There was this controversial at the time. Apple announced MacOS X and said that it won’t be compatible with current software. All partners would need to rewrite the software in Objective-C. This didn’t go over well. Apple back paddelt and introduced “carbon”. An API layer for cpp applications as well as “Core Foundation” an underpinning to the objective-c base Framework “Foundation”. Also the reason why we have Obj-c++. The interesting part is that they managed to get the memory management toll free. Means an object allocated in the c/cpp world can be passed to obj-c without extra overhead.
For a company I've interviewed with, I've been asked twice a salary range and declined both times. I was even transparent for the 2nd time (which happened months later) and answered that it's not in my interest to give a number first.

Well, I received an offer from them and I would have undercut myself by 30%.

This is perhaps—or perhaps not—an extreme example, but I only applied what I was told in the negotiation articles and books I've read.

When you read a book, you're going to think "It's just fantasy; no way this is going to happen to me" but if you actually apply that knowledge it can truly work in your favor.

I also declined an offer 2 months beforehand because the salary was ridiculously low, despite being unemployed at the time.

Want is fine, need is not.
> It isn't the responsibility of the manufacturer to provide samples for analysis

In a sane world it would be
This is all very simple to dostinguish: did you pay or have any other kind of contract with the person talking about you/your product? Then it's an ad, and could be made illegal. Are you just talking to people and hoping you'll convince them to talk to others in turn? Free speech, perfectly fine.
Kind of, still misses a few platforms that have had JVM support outside mainstream computing, but yeah mostly great experience for target platforms.

The IDE story is a bit complicated though, either you go for Rider, or have to delve into the internal politics of VSCode vs VS, and features that VSCode will never get because there are those VS licenses to sell.
Meta will most likely compare against it when they release the upcoming Llama 4 reasoning model.
No, convincing is not advertising. Mein Kampf is not an ad, as abhorrent as it is.
My Cowboy Classic E-Bike Review After 3.000 KM
Given the temperatures some wildfires are burning at, I suspect water isn’t available in suitable quantities to act as a retardant for fires that require these kinds of measures.
You could try Cline. But mono repos suck with LLMs right now because context windows are too small. This might be fixed once Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro with 2 million tokens limit. But even then, large code bases will still hit a limit at some point.

Until we get billion token context windows, I find the microservices approach works well, where each repo contains a specific microservice. That way the LLM can know everything about the code.
Yeah you can! Wet forest does not burn as well as dry forest!

Water is absolutely a fire retardant, however it may not be quite as effective as the red stuff from the article.
Wish I could read it. The menu stays open on Firefox even if you hit the X.

https://imgur.com/a/T6tY7dc
If they believe their message is important they should do grassroots, talk to people and convince people to talk to other people. Trust me, if the message is good people volunteer their time.

The reality is that more often than not these messages are self serving and profit driven, many times borderline fraudulous in claims or questionable at best
I tried everything and I still don't understand. Left/right/middle click everywhere, typing numbers on the keyboard, space, enter... What is happening?
https://archive.ph/gIjim
Yep, and many of us who grew up in the DOS era promptly switch them back to F-keys the way IBM intended (but really mostly because muscle memory is a thing).
The first paragraph of the article links to the buttons.

> Some examples of sites sharing some thematic elements spanning over 25 years:

> (…)

> They all feature 88x31 buttons in some capacity and those buttons reflect the website and it's designer in some way.
One lesson is that you have to be willing to walk away. Doesn't mean you can't negotiate at all otherwise. But you're in the strongest position when you legitimately can go "take it or leave it" if it comes to that.

And you also don't want to throw away a great opportunity because you didn't wring every last dollar out of it.
The federal government is at least somewhat aware of these issues

https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-05/documents/fl...

Historically, its not unusual for California's government and industry to dump chemicals all over the state.
I don't know that _efficient_ is the best word. If you use goto to force a particular control flow rather than a more constrained form of control flow (e.g. if), you make it harder for the optimiser to work; it can only make "as-if" changes, ones that mean the code that executes looks as if it's what you wrote.

The most efficient control flow is one that describes only what your algorithm needs, coupled with an optimiser that can exploit the particular flow you're describing.

Among the many things discovered by the author of https://blog.nelhage.com/post/cpython-tail-call/, Clang/LLVM was able to optimise the standard switch based interpreter loop as if it had been written with computed gotos.
Generally speaking, yes, companies with more money can pay more. But there's plenty of companies with lots of money, yet their teams have no budget. And it depends if you came in through a recruiter or not, or are a contractor or not, or if it's a startup throwing around cash or being thrifty. Start by applying to the ones that list a high range, and then the companies with lots of money, and then the rest.

I've found that if they're a startup based out of a high-income city, they're most likely to throw money at you. Larger companies based out of high-income cities have to be more stingy and will limit based on your location, but you can push for more. A corporate hiring structure will often enforce salary caps based on title, so if you ask for too much, they may have to invent a new title for you and get it justified to their executive leadership, which is politically fraught. So if you get to the top of the salary band, don't push hard, or they will be in a corner and have to choose between you (a near-impossible candidate) and a candidate they can actually hire.
The point is that the answer is inherently speculation. There is no way to objectively measure it. Which allows the conclusion to be shaped by local political biases or the self-interest of politicians who would rather have more money to spend now than a long-term stronger economy.
I don’t disagree with the other points but:

> storing the data three or four times in order to charge more money.

Given that they’re not disputing that it was being stored that many times, then it’s plausible the vendor was using replication as their error recovery strategy which isn’t an invalid choice. Erasure coding is a more difficult alternative to implement. This is too short a sentence with too little detail to draw any actual conclusion from. Heck, maybe the software even had a configuration option but there was no in-house expertise to configure it properly.
It's unreasonable to expect someone who posts free blog entries about fun stuff in their specific area of expertise to either 1) hire an illustrator or 2) manage and motivate volunteers.

"As a visual artist, why don't you compose the music too?"
A language with rules you won't know until it's too late
Please edit swipes out of comments on Hacker News. We're trying for curious conversation here. If you could remind yourself of the guidelines that would be appreciated: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“Adding a regulation mandating manufacturer to provide samples for analysis would put too much of a regulatory burden on them and destroy the economy”

A conservative representative somewhere, maybe.
>I’ve been modifying the the MIR c2mir JIT compiler to extend the c11 compiler to support simple classes, boxed strings(immutable, nun-nullable) with AOT support

Is the project public? Really interested in the AOT support, I've always wanted to see its generated code but didn't find an easy way to dump it.
You don't think F1 would follow the law?