tacticalturtle

Touché.

This will arouse the ire of the “copyright infringement isn’t theft” people - but we also have the government enforce shoplifting and larceny from retail businesses.

I believe the legal cost to recoup the loss of either IP revenue or physical property will be born by the victim though.

The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself.

The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allowed to make a claim, if you choose to do so.

This is like complaining that businesses get to use roads for free - ignoring that we all pay taxes already and built this infrastructure for enabling exactly that purpose.

Ok Looking at Anthropic’s response they agree with the parent response:

> Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement. Legally, a supply chain risk designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of Department of War contracts—it cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...

Looks like the NYT might have gotten it wrong…

That doesn’t seem to match up with the original tweet though - it sounds a heck of a lot stronger:

> Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic

Emphasis mine.

And I’m looking at news organizations that presumably have staffs of legal analysts pouring over this stuff, and they also seem to be saying that it can’t be any commercial activity:

> The label means that no contractor or supplier that works with the military can do business with Anthropic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/anthropic-mil...

Unless he links directly to evidence that backs up what he says, I’ve learned to tune out Robert Reich.

For a guy who is a Rhodes Scholar, a college professor, and a former Secretary of Labor he has a remarkable tendency to leave out qualifying context when making these statements.

He’s smart enough to formulate arguments with the appropriate context and still make it accessible to the general public - but he consistently chooses not to.

A few weeks ago he was trying to compare the “millionaire tax” of my home state of Massachusetts, with the proposed California wealth tax as evidence that the California tax would not cause flight of wealthy taxpayers:

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/what-really-happens-...

Never once did he mention that the Massachusetts tax is a bog standard conventional tax on income, compared to this new concept of a global total wealth tax.

The site guidelines is supposed to be anything that a hacker finds interesting.

This feels a bit like dumping the manual to a Toyota Camry without explanation. It’s technical, but what’s interesting?

Maybe there is interesting stuff in here - but I’d love to see submissions do some kind of analysis to justify it - like an appreciation of an example of well-run user documentation, or a highlighting a clear and concise explanation of how a particular subsystem works.

These posts just rocket to the top of Hacker News with no discussion.

Half of these items can be attributed to the fact that low density, rural states have a structural advantage in representation in federal governments, and in the current political era these states lean conservative.

Some of these are just wrong - unions generally lean democratic:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/17/key-facts...

I’m also skeptical of the media organization claim.

And it should surprise no one that purely profit driven corporations switch their professed values with different administrations - see the rapid adoption of DEI programs during the Biden administration, then subsequent abandonment in the Trump era.

I don’t want to purchase property, so where do I live?

The head of the organization responsible for the deaths of almost 3000 civilians was known to be present in Afghanistan, and the government refused extradite him.

That seems like a solid casus belli.

> What’s Howard University and what makes it reputable enough to mention here, presumably as some sort of appeal to authority?

It’s arguably the most well known and prestigious of the historically black college and universities in the US:

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

It’s a pretty recognized name in the US. Certainly enough to qualify a professor as an authority - as much as any university association can.

They really do not understand software. Or at least human friendly interfaces.

I have a GBX-100, which does have basic smart features when connected to a phone. If you get a text or email, it will tell you that you have a notification.

You also have the option to read the contents of the message, if you press a single button six(!) times!

Fortunately I bought it because I wanted the time and I liked the way it looks.

> This latest move signals that Amazon is likely realizing enough AI-driven productivity gains within corporate teams to support a substantial reduction in force," said Sky Canaves, an eMarketer analyst. "Amazon has also been under pressure in the short-term to offset the long-term investments in building out its AI infrastructure."

What is this take based on?

How likely are the cuts due to overhiring for projects that are being axed, vs for projects that are continuing with automation?

And no offense to Ms Canaves, but why is an “eMarketer analyst” being called on to explain Amazon hiring decisions relating to their progress in AI?

Most of the 5 petabytes is a model used to determine if your sharpies are counterfeit.

I had a problem with the ESP32 implementation specifically. The micropython implementation itself runs as a task under ESP-IDF, rather than bare metal, which is the case on some other microcontrollers like rp2350. So it doesn’t have access to the full resources of the board - as a good chunk is reserved for IDF.

I had a project where I had would make repeated API calls, which returned small to moderate json payloads.

To avoid running out of heap, I had to constantly force python garbage collection. That took a long time, so I wasn’t able to call the APIs on the intervals I needed.

Eventually I gave up and moved to using ESP IDF directly, which IMO was super easy to do - Espressif has made a great integration with VS Code. If anyone’s on ESP32, i would skip micropython.

I knew this comment was coming on HN.

The answer, as the other commenter suggested, is that I’m providing feedback for technical communication.

If your documentation or marketing materials are making me focus on unreadable font choices or poor color schemes, it’s not doing it’s job.

Similarly, if your marketing materials are making me think about a convicted sex offender instead of your project, they’re not doing their job.

Serious recommendation: I would not have R. Kelly anywhere on your project page.

If you’re trying to give a 30 second elevator pitch about what your project does, you should not have a name be a guy spending 30+ years in prison for child sexual abuse.

I think there’s an expectation on the Supreme Court to overturn many of the tariffs when it takes up the case in November.

There’s already a market forming in trading the right to tariff refunds.

From his website, I learned that he is a “VISIONAIRE, INVENTOR, and PHILANTROPIST (sic)”:

https://www.sebastienlagree.com/

You might find these posts informative:

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/why-x86-doesnt-need-to-die

All instructions across x86 and Arm are being decoded to micro-operations, which are implementation specific. You could have an implementation which prioritizes performance, or an implementation that prioritizes power consumption, regardless of the ISA.

Decoding instructions, particularly on a modern die, doesn’t consume a significant amount of area or power, even for complicated variable length instructions.

Even if they never actually solve winter driving, they could just… not drive during the winter?

If there’s a high probability of below freezing temperatures, cars can just make their way out of the city to some parking lot to hunker down.

Or move them elsewhere in the country during the winter months.

Did they give up on the “Core” branding?

When I was looking at this a month ago it was the “Core 2 Duo”

https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...

Maybe Intel had a word?

Not a fan of the national guard deployment, but I don’t see why they would bother staging a carjacking when they can reference the very real murder of a congressional intern last month.

In fact that’s actually what they’re doing:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/president-trump-wash...

Yeah I think my original comment was too cynical and misplaced when lumping in all of the Strong Towns organization with Not Just Bikes style content. I’ll read through what they have today.

Admittedly my experience might be colored by the fact that they don’t seem to have much of a presence in my home town of Boston - it’s more other groups like the Cyclist Union showing up at meetings carrying forward things like bike lane advocacy, etc.

As soon as I saw it was the founder of Strong Towns it all made sense.

Strong Towns, Not Just Bikes, and all those content creators are fulfilling the “hobby” of city planning (ie, watching hours of city planning YouTube videos, but never actually organizing at a local level)

This is a really great video about one man’s experience with trying to improve his community, getting involved in local government, and his criticism that the city planning YouTubers always gloss over what this actually looks like - they just point out what we’re doing wrong.

https://youtu.be/bUs0ecnbOdo?si=8dVweyWfvIF5ddg-

So I think that’s why the logic doesn’t make sense. It’s not meant to be actionable. It’s meant to be easily digestible so that people participating in the hobby can feel enlightened.

That article has been posted several times in this thread.

But that article lists out several solutions for using water cooling - one of which is evaporative. And another mentioned is closed loop.

How do we know which solution Meta is using here?

I think the flag system in HN is unnecessary and prone to abuse in threads like these.

Some comments that clearly break the rules should be removed by the community. But that should take multiple downvotes.

The flagging just allows one or two people to remove a part of the discussion, and we rely on other users to view dead or flagged comments to “rescue” them

You can look at the post history of some of the comments here - some of the most prolific commenters in this thread appear to only comment on the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Boston. DC. Chicago.

I’ve heard Philly and SF as well, but have never been.

By the letter of the Texas law, neither do the commercial entities that have to verify identity:

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB01181F....

Edit: Key bit there, the commercial entity or third party verification “may not retain any identifying information of the individual”.

But why not just tax the owners of the corporation more to accomplish those same goals?

Why doesn’t the moral obligation rest with the owners of the company, rather than this legal construct that was created on paper?

Corporations aren’t rich people - they are machines that allocate capital and eventually return the money with profit to the owners. They can be owned by rich people, and we can tax them.

When we add taxes on corporations, we introduce compliance issues, accounting and forecasting requirements - all complications that take away money from the actual good things we can get from corporations - jobs in the community, better product development, etc.