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This essay seems to be built on a flawed analogy.

Clayton Christensen’s model of disruption (or models, counting his low end version) involves innovation by both the incumbent and disruptor. The disruptor’s innovation is immediately appealing to the low end of the market while the incumbent is focused on the high end.

His example of Hong Kong factories manufacturing Fairchild chips doesn’t fit this template even though he claims it does. It’s just targeting the low end of the market with lower prices. That’s just basic business competition, it’s not disruption as he defined it in this piece.

Side note, I’ve never been a big fan of his giant block quotes, especially when he does not bother to summarize them much. It’s asking the reader to connect to the dots and arrive at the insights he is supposed to be providing.)
> Don’t just take a wiped phone

Oh, and if I don't have (bring) a phone at all?
One of his preferred "gurus" is a guy who pushed one of those self-help bullshit "if you just believe hard enough, you'll manifest your desires!" proto- The Secret frameworks, and he does appear to operate that way—strident bluster, declaring defeats and "white peace" as unqualified victories, willfully ignoring inconvenient facts, all that stuff. Like, look at the totally-bizarre sharpie incident in his first term, for a trivial but illustrative example.

However, it's worked out well for him personally (less so for those he does business with, or near, or for the US...) so despite being on-paper delusional, I admit the waters are rather muddied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale#Influence
New technology halves cost of recycling activated carbon
There's a non-zero chance that it was around 30 pieces and we felt it like 100. Our quick testing the game for the jam was not very scientific. I just changed it to "~30"
I believe my original sentence was accurate. I was expecting the article to provide an objective comparison between TPUs and their main competitors. If you’re suggesting that El Capitan is the primary competitor, I’m not sure I agree, but I appreciate the perspective. Perhaps I was looking for other competitors, which is why I didn’t really pay attention to El Capitan.
Looking at the archive.org mirror, the content is 2000 words and a few images. It constantly astounds me how much "compute" people seem to need to serve 10K of text in 50K of HTML.
This is how Linux From Scratch is done, and I've used the same technique to install missing video drivers that the Ubuntu install didn't include for whatever reason.
You should read up on "autarquia federal". The Central Bank is not part of the government.
No specific evidence, just that the State department and the analysis branches of various agencies still exist and are staffed by professionals whose job it is to conduct such analyses. It's not out of the question that some of these might have filtered up and in some way influence decisions.

If the tariffs remain in place then one result that is guaranteed is that they will reduce trade between the US and the rest of the world, and reduce the most with the most tariffed countries. Whether that's rational or irrational I guess is the question I'm asking, and I'm looking for reasoned opinions either way
YouTube keeps recommending SpacetimeDB to me even though I have never made a videogame. Now I'm seeing it on HN too.

Are there any game devs here who can comment on how useful this actually is? The pitch seems pretty cool but I can't tell how much of it is just good marketing.
This is kind of a ridiculous take.

Not going to speak for the author, but some of us just want to be able to write a blog post and publish it in our free time. We're not trying to "maintain systems" for fun.

Some of those posts get zero views, and some of them end up on the front page of Hacker News.
Can you propose something better that provides money and purpose?

Keep in mind that most people are unwilling and unable to sustainably maintain self-employment.
Indeed! (It’s in the blog post)
Behaving irrationally, intentionally or not, is scaring investors away rather than attracting them.

Seen from abroad, trust in the rule of law and property rights has been eroded. Today Trump sends randos to El Salvador, maybe tomorrow he will nationalize enterprises or other assets, with no meaningful opposition from the Congress and the judiciary? Germany is already pulling gold from the US, that had been stored there for decades. Better safe than sorry.
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It's marginal. The difference exists because Function adds syntactic sugar to make the developer experience of calling the compiled functions easy and smooth. The Function call isn't a direct call; whereas the Rust one is.

It's possible to hack Function to perform a direct call and avoid (most of) the overhead, but in 99.99% of use cases this won't matter cos most processing time will be spent in the body of the function, not the scaffolding that Function uses.
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This article is a nice reminder that free speech is awesome.

Also, it is terribly unhelpful and uninformative.

Schneier’s blog post on this has tons of useful information in the comments: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-op...

The EFF wrote the canonical guide to this in 2017: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017. I don’t know if it has been updated, but there is a lot that’s useful there.

I think the main thing to decide ahead of time is: will you unlock a phone on request, or are you willing to lose the powered-down phone or be denied entry if you refuse? Most of your decisions flow from there.

If unlocked and it leaves your sight, ALL your messages and photos and documents will be stored forever and are available warrantless in probably every country in the world.
After April Fools' Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos
You have to be some kind of idiot to mouth off about royalty in Thailand. It’s well known for its policies on that.
You're right intelligence is multifaceted.

But when you say things like "Even the smartest businessmen who donated money to him didn't think this was coming", I cannot agree because as I said, plenty of people saw this coming. The smartest businessmen did think it was coming, they were right. They got the signal from the noise. They put the puzzle together.

The ones who didn't think it was coming were not among the smartest. They were fooled by the noise and didn't connect the dots.
>Neither company can be "nationalized

In response to shenanigans like TikTok US branch being nationalized, or CFIUS mass reversing PRC MNC portfolios, i.e. shares/purchases of US assets. They can be functionally "nationalized" in retaliation as in just have whatever is in country siezed, as in their presence in PRC. It means WFOE like Tesla losing their factory, whose workers will make domestic cars. Apple losing some R&D centres, all the capex infra build for foxconn can be messed with. Continue hampering capex/engineer export to India or whereever Apple wants to setup their none PRC operation to make process as painful as possible... or simply just kill Apple hardware 90% dead like US tried with Huawei/ZTE.

> replace with domestic companies

Because it's been ~30 years, foreign MNCs who wanted to be in PRC are in PRC. In the short term domestic companies better positioned to soak up domestic demand, which has been independant trend in past few years.

> this number based on

Some PRC finance portal reposted #s from Hurun Research report on US enterpises in PRC last year. There was IIRC Macquarie report a few years ago that tallied 3T in revenue in past 15-20 years or something that comports. Like US is fully of Chinese goods, and PRC is full of US brands, and in both cases US captures most of the value, or at least PRC captures very relatively little merely being margin producer.

> it's hard to get the full impact

Yeah, I'm just pointing out as you did, the situation isn't simple, not because PRC may have 300B more to lose, but potential of US loss maybe closer, not farther accounting diversion, mnc profits... services, ip/patent/licensing fees. I'm highlighting trade diversion/circumvension is not likely going to be on the scale of 100s of billions of US MNC revenue. Hence relative loss likely not as lopsided.

> likely

Full sale was never likely. Some sort of 51%+ US JV (which afaik US investors already owns majority) maybe. But tarrifs obviously blew everything up. So now it's wierd scenario where Trump seems loath to ban, as in very much want US to own so nationalization of US operations doesn't seem unfathomable.
I stopped going when they introduced fingerprinting. This is not just a point of principle. While it is not known whether fingerprints are unique (as is often claimed), it is known that the information that is stored about fingerprints and which is used as the basis for matching records is not unique. The equivalent of hash collisions exist. Fingerprints are great as corroborative evidence, but if they are used as the means to find a suspect, you don't want your fingerprints in the system when Cletus Thugfester (the actual perpetrator) has matching prints that are not in the system. Far too likely that you'd get hauled across the Atlantic on this basis, then have to deal with the "justice" system over there.
It's always great when your shitty streamer or TV's dedicated button for a service goes to a dead product. What a great idea, and a great combination with Google, well known for killing products.
I’m describing why the flatlanders wouldn’t see multiple circles even though a 3D tube is composed of infinitely many 2D circles.
I was replying to your comment about you wanting to control QoS for relaying.
"same vein" there are people who would iv it if they could.

It is a widespread addiction, tho. I would bet on more home brew and less Starbucks
It looks like if I use your hosted service to stream then you become the distributor of any copyright material in that torrent. Is that correct, and if so aren't you likely to be taken down or blocked in jurisdictions where that is enforced?
View -> Page Style -> No Style.
The primary architect of trumps tariff strategy in his first and second term is Peter Navarro. If you want to understand the tariffs today, just go read one of his many books. His goals are pretty simple:

reindustriaize America

No more free trade

China is evil and the worlds enemy

It should be no surprise to anyone observing trump since he took office that the end goal was always to decouple from China.
I know you're asking "why not outsource ALL manufacturing and agriculture if someone else can do it cheaper" in jest, or as a rhetorical device, but basically every single economist on earth will say "Yes, we should do that, that's a good thing"
The idea that you need "workers" and compute to serve 10KB of words...
IRS agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
It can be a bit hard to go to the source when you don't know the name of your problem.
I think part of it is that many people hadn't yet cottoned on to how powerful the LLM+tools pattern has got.

A lot of the MCP buzz is more "wow, you can give an LLM access to custom tools and it can take actions on your behalf!" - if MCP is the first time you've truly understood that, I can see why you'd be very excited about it.
A student accidentally broke the laws of thermodynamics while mixing fluids
The problem when someone only hires sycophants is that competence is pretty far down the list of requirements. And, even if someone is competent they won't share dissenting ideas out of fear they'll end up replaced by another sycophant.
I really like the implied general principle of the wall kick - if the user tries to do an action in a state that doesn't allow it, if there's something that's useful and pretty close, do that instead.

For instance, I'm building a tree editor with vim movement keys, and I found that a "j" that brings me up to the first child or next sibling node is strictly more useful than a "j" that only descends to children and a "l" that only goes to the next sibling.

Obviously, you have to be very careful to avoid introducing footguns, but the idea of "don't dogmatically adhere to operation semantics" is good.
What's Up with Auth.js?
France exports EUR3.8 BILLION a year in booze to the US, Italy about EUR2 billion, and Ireland about EUR1 billion, so they are rightly worried about their industry should the US hit with a 200% tariff.
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America
For MCP I found the tutorials at https://github.com/block/goose made it click for me.
Getting used to browsing info pages in Emacs is something that is rather nice. You can do similar with man pages, there. Often times, it will let you jump directly to the source code of includes and such, if you want to take a peak at the actual code.

To that end, I fully agree with the idea. The richness of existing man pages is far nicer than many people seem to realize.

I do find a bit of dismay at the folks that want to ditch some of that richness and move to markdown or similar. That lets you layout some things fine, I think. I am 100% convinced that as you try to get all of the linking and general semantics of the existing solution done, you will find that you have added a lot of "schema" expectations to markdown that isn't there by default. And then you will start to build "markdown schema" tools to check that what you have fits some standards. And then...

Seriously, just look at a lot of the data that moved to JSON from XML. I saw they are trying to add namespaces to JSON in some projects. Truly terrifying to see people slowly and poorly add the features of the more complicated thing they avoided the first time around.
GrapheneOS has the duress password feature [1]. I have it enabled, but have never needed to use it.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/features#duress
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People who buy their stock.
Ben Thompson was a leading industry commentator in the 2010s. He was well suited for those times. Less so for these, perhaps.
Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon Code Breaker
Sure, chroot can be useful in a pinch, but it would not be the first thing I'd reach to. If you got the partitions mounted, you can already do quite a lot of things without needing to chroot.
I think with necessary effort websites with most of the frameworks could be loaded quite fast (with some obviously it is easier), the thing is it's rarely the priority compared to the business needs that are getting addressed.
I am a kernel dev and you've captured my thoughts on the matter quite well. I would very much rather stick with man, even with the deficiencies the article discusses, than use markdown and web.
'Amazon Prime, but with human beings'
I think the one thing I am not seeing much discussion on is, will the end consumer pay for these $150 sneakers or will they simply switch to lower cost alternative brands?
For me what has helped is to realize the triggers that make me distracted which is why I emphasized the emotional part.

I tend to distract myself under stress/boredom e.g., when I realize this is happening I get back to working and resist the urge of distracting.

In time, you get better, you need to train it till it starts being more natural.
I can envision a future where we maintain a set of AI agent subscriptions that can perform tasks for us based on what we pay for, with the best models and agents costing much more that the freemium ones. This along with a heavily tweaked and customized open-source community that maintains their own non-subscription capabilities.
Maybe add some sun-facing windows to said garage? Insulation alone won't keep a space without a heat source warm...
... at which point, one does wonder why we use man at all instead of markdown.
Life goals! I'd love to do this if I ever retire.
Meanwhile, Apple stock is up 3.5% at the time of writing. What gives? Has Wall Street already priced in the "104% is so unreal, there has to be some kind of deal or exemption in the works"?
Will I be struck down or downvoted into oblivion if I mention man2html? Definitely not light weight since it also installs Apache, but I do like to view man pages in the browser. I think 'python3 -m http.server' could be substituted for the server and perform well enough for a single user system.

It's unfortunate that Markdown isn't better standardized so it could be extended to better meet the needs for man pages. (Do we need a new standard to rule them all? Yes, I'm thinking of the XKCD comic.)
I guess that's what you're implying, but my bet is that you would look suspicious.
To be fair, the object "FredWhileShaving" is a state (of Fred), or simply an event, and as such it arguably is not a person in the first place. As persons are presumably neither states nor events.
Fundamentally, the problem is that manpages are a framework (and not actually a bad one, if everyone where to adhere to it and populate every section), but writing good documentation is an art and not a well-taught one.
This outcome is probably the end result for either scenario. The degree to which China is dependent on the US has been steadily decreasing. There's no law of nature that says the US will keep winning and have its advantages forever.
> The administration characterizes trade imbalances as countries taking advantage of us.

it seems likely to me that they know their voting base is too dumb to understand, so they make up stuff that sounds good to get the support.
Their population is declining, and they are a long way away from parity with the west on a per-capita basis. I think China missed their opportunity.

Also, the UK hasn't dominated finance for a century and has never been dominant in services, so it doesn't seem like an apt comparison.
Makes sense, that's definitely a downside with Mojo. But my understanding is they made this tradeoff because compiling the python code directly would not work out. So is this something that is for the function-level (hence the name) and you don't plan to do this for full programs?
Perhaps China should get Taiwan. Seems like a much better option than remaining allies with USA.
Specialization. Ie specialized for inference.
One big area the last two years has been algorithmic improvements feeding hardware improvements. Supercomputer folks use f64 for everything, or did. Most training was done at f32 four years ago. As algo teams have shown fp8 can be used for training and inference, hardware has updated to accommodate, yielding big gains.

NB: Hobbyist, take all with a grain of salt
> While I don't love Dollar General or shop there very often, I have a hard time understanding why it's a "swindle."

In the case of Dollar General specifically, it is literally a swindle, with high levels of violations of deceptive pricing laws (higher prices at checkout that marked) — and which has followed up on those by removing customer-facing POS screens in many stors, high levels of weights and measures violations, and — swindling a different side of the community — labor and occupational safety violations.
got it charged, but not willing to unplug it to test, so a quick shot out the door:

http://projectftm.com/#H-6GJlHgGFA8Yek86MrkVw "Neutral Density" unedited but cropped
this post is not really practical advice if you want to actually enter the US.

here's some: mail it
The agent doesn't know what tools are available on your host. And searching for the documentation is slower and less reliable. It's an optimization.
From documentation: "TLDR; Agentic applications needs both A2A and MCP. We recommend MCP for tools and A2A for agents."

Agents can just be viewed as tools, and vice versa. Is this an attempt to save the launch after getting scooped by MCP?
Seems at most a transitory situation until places retool for dedicated bot environments. Its simply less efficient to cater to humanoid workers.
Best comment from last time this got posted:

I kept on reading expecting to see motion prediction, multiversion, or similar given the name and focus on games, but no. This is a totally normal database, designed for low latency and with support for WASM stored procedures. You can host your own server or they will rent you one.
Don't get me wrong, this looks very nice. It looks like a solid building block for persistent worlds in multiplayer games. You'll just have to do your lag masking netcode yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593913
Open Agent Management Protocol
Honestly? I'm working on one and I'd be hesitant to share because it's such a competitive space. Finding the problem is not that hard but creating a defendable moat is.
Fwd: Cloudsec North America 2025 CFP
Well that's one take on it. From the western perspective Taiwan was part of China and when the communists overthrew the government in the mainland with military force it retreated to Taiwan. Now Taiwan is effectively an independent democracy and the commies want to overthrow its government militarily against the wishes of the locals as usual. The world's democratic governments generally oppose the overthrow of democratic governments by dictators who want to grab some place by killing the locals.

A civilized compromise might be a union like the EU with both governments continuing on an equal basis.
The supply chain vulnerability in any extension is obvious. The problems with telemetry - any at all - are wide ranging and it's crazy to me that people don't see this.

Any covert, involuntary, automatic surveillance of a person for any reason whatsoever should have a court order and legal authority behind it - it's gross and exposes the target to vulnerabilities they're not cognizant of.

For telemetry tracking user behavior to be useful at all, it's got to be associated with a user. The idea of telemetry anonymization is marketing speak for "we obfuscated it, we know deanonymization is trivial, but people are stupid, especially regulators."

Any anonymization done is sufficiently obfuscated such that corporate asses get covered in the case of any regulatory investigation. There's no legitimate, mathematically valid anonymization of user data that you could do without destroying the information that you're trying to get in the first place through these tools. This means that any aggregation of user data useful to a malicious actor will inevitably be compromised - the second Posthog or Amplitude become a desirable target, they'll get pwned and breached, and much handwringing will be done, and there will be no recourse or recompense for damages done.

The only strategy to prevent the dissemination of surveillance data is not to collect it in the first place. It should be illegal to collect the data without voluntary, user initiated participation, and any information collected should be ephemeral with regular inspection to ensure compliance. Any violation of user privacy should result in crippling fines, something like 5% of the value of the company per user per day of violation - if you can't responsibly manage the data, you shouldn't be collecting it.

This means all the automatic continuous development a/b testing intrusive corner cutting corporate bullshit would have to stop. Continually leaking surveillance data to malicious actors year over year with no repercussions has thoroughly demonstrated that people cannot be trusted with safekeeping data.

I will build and use my own automation if I need to, based on products that don't covertly, involuntarily, ignorantly surveil their users, without even being aware of potential for harm, and I'll continue to point it out when it shows up in random projects and products, because it's wrong and it should stop.

We should stop embracing the things that enshittify the world, and stop sacrificing things like "other people's privacy" for convenience or profit.