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type: comment
by: LeFantome
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  You could argue that the sun was pretty useful, quite the “essential companion” in the Stone Age as well.<p>In fact, it is hard to imagine there would have been enough dead trees to make oil if it were not for the sun.<p>You could argue (pretty soundly) that oil is just a way of consuming the energy in trees which got that energy from the sun. So oil is just a way of extracting ancient solar energy.


type: comment
by: torstenvl
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  This is incorrect. Government agencies have exactly zero free speech rights. They are part of the Executive Branch and as such are instrumentalities of the President. Full stop.<p>&quot;The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.&quot; U.S. Const., Art. II, Sec. 1, cl. 1.<p>(There are so-called independent agencies, but the constitutionality of true independence is in question in the <i>Trump v. Slaughter</i> case. You can read about it at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oyez.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;2025&#x2F;25-332" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oyez.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;2025&#x2F;25-332</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;court-seems-likely-to-side-with-trump-on-presidents-power-to-fire-ftc-commissioner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;court-seems-likely-to-sid...</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;volokh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;trump-v-slaughter-was-trump-v-united-states-redux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;volokh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;trump-v-slaughter-was-t...</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;volokh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;some-answers-to-justice-barretts-questions-in-trump-v-slaughter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;volokh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;some-answers-to-justice...</a> )


type: comment
by: colechristensen
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  The biggest number for total global fiscal support I found was $14 trillion, but that was only from before mid-2020.<p>Most countries created a whole lot of new money and even if yours didn&#x27;t, unless you&#x27;re very economically isolated from the rest of the world the inflation hits you just the same.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
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  I suppose this is changing with TLS certs moving towards ephemerality, but they used to have an entry on someone&#x27;s calendar for renewal.


type: comment
by: ppipada
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  In short: For myself.<p>The question can be broken down as:<p>1. Why do you write?<p>&gt; To collect my thoughts into a organized stream. So that I can forget the stream of thoughts and still have a place to recollect if needed.<p>2. Why write publically?<p>&gt; Openness helps clean and calm the head further.<p>Better outside than inside...


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
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  &gt; <i>It&#x27;s a shame politicians can&#x27;t be kept accountable tens of years from now. It would be great that if in 25 years it turns out global warming does indeed cause huge problems for humans, we could sue the politicians that took irresponsible risks with the environment. Now they can just focus on short term gains, and ignore all the long term side effects.</i><p>This is a super interesting perspective.. but instead of only looking to the future, could we apply this to the past?<p>aka Were there predictions about global warming in 2015, 2000, or earlier that drove policy that ended up being incorrect?


type: comment
by: canadiantim
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  Even the &#x27;About&#x27; page doesn&#x27;t have much information either though<p>All the About page contains is:<p>&gt; exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing.<p>&gt; Your VMs share CPU&#x2F;RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources you have.


type: comment
by: FireBeyond
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  &gt; or which have license plate covers is unacceptable because the poor do this most frequently<p>There&#x27;s a YT channel where a guy exposes these. He found that one of the most common group of offenders in NYC was ... cops and their personal vehicles.


type: comment
by: jcheng
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  To make this right they’d just have to amend the first part to “secondary transaction with shareholders at some price that implies a 20b valuation”.<p>Has there been any evidence yet that the VCs got paid for their shares but the left behind employees didn’t?


type: comment
by: saghm
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  They also used the first person in describing the position they were hiring for<p>&gt; I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Engineer. The position in in-person in Redmond<p>Reading between the lines is what&#x27;s needed to differentiate that from the immediately following sentences that are also in the first person. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s remotely as obvious as you&#x27;re saying that everyone should be able to tell that wasn&#x27;t the explicit goal the company had given him for the team.


type: comment
by: zbrozek
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  I dislike them not so much in my home area but everywhere else where I have no idea what I&#x27;m doing and worry that I&#x27;m going to come home to a ton of envelopes full of enormous fines. This is made worse as cash payment disappears.


type: comment
by: cyberax
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  &gt; The dominant automobile oriented transportation system is very unaffordable and requires high costs of entry.<p>Wait until you hear about the true costs of transit. A transit ride in a large city is typically MORE expensive than a car ride. Even when you take into account the cost of depreciation, insurance, financing and other related expenses.<p>The transit ticket price in the US is typically covers just around 15-20% of the _operational_ _cost_ (&quot;farebox recovery rate&quot;). And the capital costs for transit are off the charts. Seattle is going to pay $180B (yes, that&#x27;s &quot;B&quot; for &quot;billion&quot;) for about 20 miles of new lines. And for one mile of subways in Manhattan, you can build 1500 miles of 6-lane freeway.<p>It&#x27;s THE real reason we have a failing democracy. Thoughtless social experiments with subsidizing transit have led to distorted housing and job markets. You can&#x27;t just subsidize one facet of life and hope for it to work.


type: comment
by: mcv
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  There&#x27;s a weird thing happening on my current project. Sometimes I merge main into my branch and it fails. What fails is the pre-commit hook on the merge commit. Changes in main fail the linting checks in the pre-commit hook. But they still ended up in main, somehow. So the checks on the PR are apparently not as strict as the checks on the pre-commit hook. As a result, many developers have gotten used to committing with `--no-verify`, at which point, what is even the point of a pre-commit hook?<p>And sometimes I just want to commit work in progress so I can more easily backtrack my changes. These checks are better on pre-push, and definitely should be on the PR pipeline, otherwise they can and will be skipped.<p>Anyway, thanks for giving me some ammo to make this case.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  I mean, it’s an ephemeral VM that you have root on. You don’t own it, but you control it in every useful sense of the word.<p>But also, that’s an implementation detail. There’s no reason why PyPI couldn’t accept attestations from local machines (using email identities) using this scheme; it’s just more engineering and design work to determine what that would actually communicate.


type: comment
by: Apreche
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  Who cares how well the businesses do? Only the wealthy in the US benefit from that. I’ll gladly swap and go to Europe where I don’t have to worry about falling into medical debt if I am unlucky.


type: comment
by: anon84873628
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  Theoretically those people express their opinion via electing representatives. Infrastructure investment and &quot;fixing the potholes&quot; seems to be a common campaign theme.


type: comment
by: FireBeyond
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  In Washington state, for one, I know that there used to be a phone number posted periodically for civilian reports of HOV violators. That&#x27;s gone now with just a warning of the fine amounts.


type: comment
by: mahirsaid
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  Something like the brics can challenge that. Having a safe currency vehicle that can sustain itself much like the dollar that the world will trust is all the momentum you need. Much like why the dollar is. You have a big player now like China backed by other large populated countries etc brazil.


type: comment
by: roenxi
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  It isn&#x27;t cetiris paribus, the Fed rate tells us nothing about demand because they purposefully devalue the dollar. The entire world could be refusing to accept US debt except Broke Boris and they could technically negotiate a 4% rate with just him. Assessing demand for US debt has to be linked to real goods&#x2F;services&#x2F;assets somewhere along the line or there just isn&#x27;t anything to say. The BRICS arguably make up around 40% of the world&#x27;s economy and they appear to be either slowly evacuating or less-interested in treasuries [0]. It is by no means clear that US debt demand is up or even stable.<p>Great time to own gold, unfortunately. I wish mine had been a bad purchase but with all the &quot;real growth&quot; it has been experiencing I&#x27;m probably going to need a bigger vault box.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ticdata.treasury.gov&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;data-chart-center&#x2F;tic&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;slt_table5.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ticdata.treasury.gov&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;data-chart-cent...</a>


type: comment
by: pythux
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  Thank you for explaining the issue with such clarity. This is one of the best comments I’ve read for a while.


type: comment
by: themafia
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  &gt;  importing illegal products<p>What&#x27;s &quot;illegal&quot; about these products?<p>&gt; send the importer a big fine.<p>And that gets paid?<p>&gt;  This is already an established process.<p>And has it ever been used for &#x2F;civil&#x2F; software GPL violations?


type: story
by: bookofjoe
title: Weight-loss jab prescriptions double as Scottish doctors tackle obesity
url:
  https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/weight-loss-jab-prescriptions-double-as-doctors-tackle-obesity-mvpl8nk9n


type: comment
by: mahirsaid
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  So yes this can change this time. Nothing stays the same. That&#x27;s all of humanities experience so far if we haven&#x27;t learned anything from it.


type: comment
by: alfiedotwtf
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  &gt; What you could say is that a programming languages&#x27; &#x27;expressivity&#x27; is a major factor in how efficient it is in taking ideas and having them expressed in a particular language<p>You mean:<p>&gt; small languages constrain our thinking.<p>:)


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;tHBc1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;tHBc1</a>


type: comment
by: phantasmish
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  One of the two things I mentioned is already happening, and it’ll be pretty surprising if the Republican army isn’t used for voter intimidation. Why even have it, if not for that kind of thing?<p>It’s not like they didn’t already use both covert and overt means to try to overturn an election, and get caught red-handed on both (I mean, one was televised live, so…) Much cleaner to put in the effort on Election Day itself.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  I disagree, if you expect asshole behaviour, you <i>make</i> it the norm. Expect the behaviour you want, and complain when the standard isn&#x27;t met. That&#x27;s how you raise the bar.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
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  This is of course the standard human view of our ingroup vs our outgroup.<p>The MAGA people, believe it or not, say very similar things about you.


type: comment
by: leptons
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  I&#x27;m a liberal, and the current administration de-scheduling Marijuana federally <i>is a good thing</i>. Also, a broken clock is right twice a day.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
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  As I&#x27;ve cited elsewhere on this thread:<p>&gt; <i>With that information, the British newspaper calculated that BEVs [battery electric vehicles] could expose roads to 2.24 times more damage than gas cars.</i><p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autoevolution.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bevs-could-also-damage-roads-way-more-than-ice-cars-due-to-weight-217255.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autoevolution.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bevs-could-also-damage-ro...</a><p>If that&#x27;s true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car in the externalities of road wear &amp; tear.. so &quot;taxes equivalent to 35k miles&quot; is <i>at most</i> 25% higher in a &quot;damage per mile equivalent&quot; but could be as little as 6% using the averages.<p>If your actual mileage is over 15625&#x2F;year, then you&#x27;re paying less than the equivalent.<p>What&#x27;s your annual mileage?


type: comment
by: johnisgood
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  Yeah, well, I wish I could convince people to use 2-4 different tools when one does it &quot;just fine&quot;.


type: comment
by: bawis
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  &gt; Language learning: I have a couple of languages that I want to focus on this 2026. Both for the enjoyment of learning and using said languages, and also because it will help me improve work-wise.<p>May I ask which languages are you talking about here? and what methods you will follow?


type: comment
by: tomhow
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  This comment is not cool, and is not welcome on HN.<p>You had a history of guidelines-breaking comments and moderator warnings up until a few years ago, and we&#x27;ve not seen any comments from you until the past month or so, and now you&#x27;re back into those bad old patterns. You are of course welcome to participate here. But this is only a place where people want to participate because we have clear guidelines, and most people take care to observe them. Please do your part to raise standards here rather than dragging them downward.


type: comment
by: LeFantome
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensilver.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensilver.net&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: runjake
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  Full documentary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU</a><p>The bushy eyed fellow is Bill Budge: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bill_Budge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bill_Budge</a><p>Wozniak and the Macintosh team in there, as well.


type: comment
by: thephyber
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  Which country doesn’t tax their companies or people? Whether it be tariffs, income taxes, sales taxes, VAT, property taxes, minerals taxes, etc., all countries tax.<p>Taxes are a necessary evil for society and order. The USA tried to have zero ability to tax the states&#x2F;people and that only lasted about 10 years before that national government failed and they tried another constitution with more national government powers.<p>You aren’t arguing “against taxes”, you just have a different opinion on the taxation regime and the coefficients. The sooner you recognize that, the faster your discussions with other humans might actually yield productive results.


type: comment
by: sergiotapia
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  Public transportation is a no go because there are too many drug addicts, and violent lunatics out there. When I worked in the city in Miami, I enjoyed taking the train into the city. It was stress free and a fun quiet time. But then homeless started harassing the stairs and it became terrible.


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
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  &gt; If I had a dollar for every time I&#x27;ve helped somebody untangle the mess of python environment libraries created by an undocumented mix of python delivered through the distributions package management versus native pip versus manually installed...<p>macos and linux usually come with a python installation out of the box. windows should be following suite but regardless, using uv vs venv is not that different for most users. in fact to use uv in a project, `uv venv` seems like a prerequisite.


type: comment
by: Shalashashka
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  &quot;If we have the resources for abundance and we don&#x27;t use them, the statement &quot;We live in a world of unavoidable scarcity&quot; is a lie. If we maintain systems that kill people through lack of access to energy or medicine when those things could be made ubiquitous, the statement &quot;We are a civilized society&quot; is a lie.&quot;


type: comment
by: josephg
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  Consistent ordering of concurrent operations is easy though. Just detect this case (via logical clocks) then order using node ids or transaction ids if the logical clocks show the transactions as being concurrent. Am I missing something? This feels like a very solved problem. (I’ve worked on CRDTs where we have the same problem. There exist incredibly fast algorithms for this.)


type: comment
by: cjs_ac
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  Everyone knows what’s going on. Europe is slowly reacquiring pants (too slowly for my taste).<p>The US has this ridiculous belief that Europe has no military ability. The truth is that Europe is far too skilled at war, and collectively disarmed after the Second World War and let the US make the decisions and pay for it all because that was the only way to achieve a lasting peace. European armed forces aren’t ready for war, but they are skeletons on which wartime forces can be reconstituted.<p>Now that the US is dropping its responsibilities it’s also losing its privileges, but everyone is moving quietly so that the amateurs in the White House don’t cotton on. The world doesn’t need a sheriff; it’s just going to have a bunch of players looking after their own interests. The historical attitude to war already prevails: ‘it’s fine as long as it doesn’t affect us.’


type: comment
by: stefan_
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  You mean they were motivated by people losing their job, like when this government funding is gone? Thanks for playing.


type: comment
by: Izkata
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  It is not possible to manually document everything down to individual lines of code.  You&#x27;ll drive yourself crazy trying to do so (and good luck getting anyone to look at that massive mess), and that&#x27;s not even counting how documentation easily falls out of date.  Meanwhile, we have &quot;git blame&quot; designed to do exactly that with almost no effort - just make good commit messages while the context is in your head.<p>CI also doesn&#x27;t necessarily help here - you have to have tests for all possible edge cases committed from day one for it to prevent these situations.  It may be a month or a year or several years later before you hit one of the weird cases no one thought about.<p>Calling svn part of the problem is also kind of backwards - it has no bearing on the code quality itself, but I brought it up because it was otherwise forcing good practice because it doesn&#x27;t allow you to erase context that may be useful later.<p>Over the time I&#x27;ve been here we&#x27;ve migrated from Bugzilla to Fogbugz to Jira, from an internal wiki to ReadTheDocs to Confluence, and some of these hundreds of repos we manage started in cvs, not svn, and are now slowly being migrated to git.  Guess what?  The cvs-&gt;svn-&gt;git migrations are the <i>only ones</i> that didn&#x27;t lose any data.  None of the Bugzilla cases still exist and only a very small number were migrated from FogBugz to Jira.  Some of the internal wiki was migrated directly to Confluence (and lost all formatting and internal links in the process), but ReadTheDocs are all gone.  Commit messages are really the only thing you can actually rely on.


type: comment
by: griffzhowl
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  &gt; A government right now is using its power to selectively defund and wipe out big chunks of scientific research and communications that ultimately exist to protect your future.<p>This is the significant point. The govt is defunding yet another scientific research institute. To me it seems more productive to get more specific and more substantive from there: How much of the research presently carried out at NCAR will continue? Are there alternative institutes or sources of funding that might save some of it? What are the likely tangible implications? Is the whole place even closing down or just some of it?<p>Going in the other direction, less specific, more amorphous abstraction about whether or not this is a free speech issue risks derailing the conversation into semantics.<p>There are interesting questions about wider meaning of free speech than what&#x27;s protected by the first amendment, but getting moralistic because someone doesn&#x27;t consider this a free speech issue, while you both agree that it&#x27;s government defunding a research institute, and that it&#x27;s bad, seems unnecessarily fractious


type: comment
by: themafia
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  It&#x27;s the traffic jam at the toll plaza that I completely fail to understand.  It massively slows traffic town,  creates hazards,  it&#x27;s uniquely unsafe for the workers,  it ruins engine and roadway efficiency,  and causes engine breakdown on unseasonably hot days.<p>I cannot imagine that this is the best way to fund roads.


type: comment
by: colechristensen
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  This won&#x27;t last.  It&#x27;s just creative regulatory evasion and the loopholes will get closed.


type: comment
by: jghn
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  My philosophy is that once a PR is open, that&#x27;s the point at which people should no longer feel free to treat their branch as their own. Even in groups that squash commits, it should still preserve the aggregate commit messages.<p>But until that PR is open? Totally with you. There is no obligation to &quot;preserve history&quot; up until that point.


type: comment
by: avidiax
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  Don&#x27;t make this an emergency-only thing. It needs to be every flight during takeoff and landing. Otherwise people will be confused why they can&#x27;t open the bin during evacuation and fight with the attendants, etc.<p>A more comprehensive set of policy changes:<p>* All tickets required to include one checked bag in the fare. Less pressure on overhead bin space and less tendency to have one big bag instead of a personal item with important documents.<p>* Overhead bins lock during takeoff and landing. And it needs to be a sturdy lock, not something that a lunatic can pry open and entice the entire plane into trying to break their stuff out.<p>* Fine passengers that take luggage during an evacuation. $5k + the value of the item. That makes it so that even people with valuables should leave them behind. And people complaining about their $5200 fine will be mocked for risking everyone&#x27;s lives for $200.<p>* Evacuation tests for new seating arrangements must assume that all personal items and accessible overhead items will be taken unless that is rendered impossible by policy or locks.


type: comment
by: Natfan
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  oh, so it&#x27;ll be added to a public fleet for the American populace to use, free of charge? sounds like socialism to me(!)


type: comment
by: epistasis
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  The government is pulling fund g because they don&#x27;t like the science and the outcomes of that science.<p>That is the government trying to perform censorship.


type: comment
by: mikepk
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  Data lakes promised schema-on-read flexibility but became swamps. The industry responded by turning them into databases again, defeating the original purpose. We built Matterbeam differently: immutable storage with inferred intermediate schemas that translate rapidly into any structure you need. When materializations aren&#x27;t right, replay them. The original vision, actually operationalized.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
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  The proprietary injector mechanism like for Mounjaro makes it really easy for users. Even compounded versions of it use tiny insulin needles that have near zero pain when injected into the subcutaneous portion of like the stomach while pinched.<p>Source: I took compounded Mounjaro and compounded Ozempic&#x2F;semaglutide.


type: comment
by: Fnoord
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  That reminds me of unixsex.com [1] (NSFW). &quot;I&#x27;ll do you right next to the Cisco!&quot;<p>Hope you had a great time on the Cray-1!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990422184726&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unixsex.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990422184726&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unixse...</a>


type: comment
by: mcswell
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  BOM is normally used with UTF-16, not with UTF-8 (both of which, along with UTF-32, are encodings of Unicode).<p>I&#x27;ve worked with lots of minority languages in academic situations, but I&#x27;ve never run into anything that couldn&#x27;t be encoded in Unicode.  There&#x27;s a procedure for adding characters (or blocks of characters) for characters or character sets that aren&#x27;t already included.  There are fewer and fewer of those.  The main requirement is documentation.


type: comment
by: bri3d
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  It&#x27;s the shape of the delivered artifact that&#x27;s driven the way things are implemented in the ecosystem, not a really fundamental architecture difference.<p>The shape of historically delivered ARM artifacts has been embedded devices. Embedded devices usually work once in one specific configuration. The shape of historically delivered ARM Linux products is a Thing that boots and runs. This only requires a kernel that works on one single device in one single configuration.<p>The shape of historically delivered x86 artifacts is socketed processors that plug into a variety of motherboards with a variety of downstream hardware, and the shape of historically delivered x86 operating systems is floppies, CDs, or install media that is expected to work on any x86 machine.<p>As ARM moves out of this historical system, things improve; I believe that for example you could run the same aarch64 Linux kernel on Pi 2B 1.2+, 3, and 4, with either UEFI&#x2F;ACPI or just different DTBs for each device, because the drivers for these devices are mainline-quality and capable of discovering the environment in which they are running at runtime.<p>People commonly point to ACPI+UEFI vs DeviceTree as causes for these differences, but I think this is wrong; these are symptoms, not causes, and are broadly Not The Problem. With properly constructed drivers you could load a different DTB for each device and achieve similar results as ACPI; it&#x27;s just different formats (and different levels of complexity + dynamic behavior). In some ways ACPI is &quot;superior&quot; since it enables runtime dynamism (ie - power events or even keystrokes can trigger behavior changes) without driver knowledge, but in some ways it&#x27;s worse since it&#x27;s a complex bytecode system and usually full of weird bugs and edge cases, versus DTB where what you see is what you get.


type: comment
by: amamuwala
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  Hi HN<p>I built MakerLinks because I wanted a clean, simple way for indie makers and builders to share all their projects, socials, and products in one place—without heavy customization or marketing fluff.<p>It’s a free profile page where you can: - Add all your important links - Highlight projects and SaaS products - Share one simple URL everywhere<p>I built this mainly for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and makers who want something faster and lighter than most link-in-bio tools.<p>Would love feedback from the HN community—especially what’s missing or what you’d expect from a tool like this.


type: comment
by: mixmax
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  I&#x27;ve been sitting here in front of my keyboard for a while thinking of a nice way to say it, but I just can&#x27;t come up with anything. So I&#x27;ll just state the plain and obvious seen from a European (Danish) perspective:<p>America is moving fast towards some sort of fascism, and noone seems to be doing anything about it. So if you are American this is the time for you to rise up and show the rest of the world that there is another America. If you don&#x27;t noone else will, and things will only get worse.<p>I&#x27;ll leave you with a few quotes to get you started on your journey back towards a functional democracy:<p>&quot;<i>A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical</i>&quot; - Thomas Jefferson<p>&quot;<i>You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they&#x27;ve tried everything else</i>&quot; - Winston Churchill<p>Elizabeth Willing Powel: &quot;<i>Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?</i>&quot; to Which Benjamin Franklin replied: “<i>A republic, if you can keep it.</i>”<p>Godspeed. I wish you the very best as a country.


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  That&#x27;s only if you completely ignore all the positives.  More efficient economy,  more citizen capabilities,  better access for emergency and maintenance equipment.<p>It&#x27;s so clearly a net win for society and humanity to have open and available roads.<p>Aside from that if you want to tax me then just charge me more for a license plate.  Don&#x27;t stop me in the middle of driving to hustle me for a buck and some change.  Utterly ridiculous management of the problem.<p>Meanwhile...  private jets exist...


type: comment
by: camillomiller
text:
  The chatgpt-ism and the gpt section headlines make this piece immediately unreadable. Why do you outsource your own blog’s thoughts to a machine? Terrible.


type: comment
by: losthobbies
text:
  All these come from the white house press directly which has painted them in a glowing light but it remains to be seen if they are actually good things. The administration is crooked. Nothing they do can be trusted. Especially when they attack science and reduce funding for critical programs


type: story
by: DGrechko
title: Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I’m building Waycore, an open-source project exploring what a flexible, offline-first field computer should look like for outdoor, survival, and off-grid scenarios.<p>The core goals are adaptability and resilience:<p>modular hardware (external sensor&#x2F;tool modules)<p>extensible OS with support for external apps (guidelines in progress)<p>no required internet connection — maps, models, and knowledge work offline<p>optional LTE&#x2F;Wi-Fi when available and explicitly enabled<p>A major focus is on-device agentic AI, not just chat or image recognition. The AI is intended to:<p>read live sensor data (GPS, compass, environment)<p>reason over offline knowledge<p>use apps and core APIs<p>assist with navigation, safety checks, logging, and communication<p>Main project repo (OS &amp; architecture): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore</a><p>There’s also a separate repo curating freely downloadable survival &amp; outdoor PDFs for offline use: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore-knowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore-knowledge</a><p>I’m looking for feedback and contributors around:<p>UI&#x2F;UX for rugged touch devices<p>hardware modularity &amp; interfaces<p>offline&#x2F;edge agent architectures<p>small models that work well without internet<p>high-quality public-domain or permissive survival knowledge sources<p>Happy to answer questions or hear critique.


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  There are two halves here. Up until the PR is open, the author should feel free to have 20+ &quot;wip&quot; commits. Or in my case &quot;checkpoint&quot;. However, it is also up to the author to curate their commits before pushing it and opening the PR.<p>So when I open a Pr, I&#x27;ll have a branch with a gajillion useless commits, and then curate them down to a logical set of commits with appropriate commit messages. Usually this is a single commit, but if I want to highlight some specific pieces as being separable for a reviewer, it&#x27;ll be multiple commits.<p>The key point here is that none of those commits exist until just before I make my final push prior to a PR.


type: comment
by: BLKNSLVR
text:
  &gt; tiny<p>The specificity required of legislation to enact such a thing would be ridiculously un-tiny.<p>But, yes, it should be done, it should exist, it is the right thing to do, it is worth the effort.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Sure, Chicago’s daily regional transit ridership is 10x higher than Houston though. And they also have skyscraper medical centers. One of them doesn’t even have direct interstate access.<p>Houston’s red line has similar ridership levels to Chicago’s third busiest L line.<p>The two metro areas have a very similar population.


type: comment
by: saubeidl
text:
  They&#x27;re not the first with this line of thinking.<p>&gt; When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then - yeah, you gave it to us, that&#x27;s in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are!<p><i>-- Joseph Goebbels, 1935</i>


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  * sigh *<p>On the Fentanyl thing:<p>(from an account named &quot;Liberal Marine&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;lessguns&#x2F;status&#x2F;1945937461403701330" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;lessguns&#x2F;status&#x2F;1945937461403701330</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;JFranklin45806&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972856978331644003" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;JFranklin45806&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972856978331644003</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;KellyTardi86112&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972482615660970319" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;KellyTardi86112&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972482615660970319</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;SefaTiny93953&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972138314678550552" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;SefaTiny93953&#x2F;status&#x2F;1972138314678550552</a><p>On the Marijuana thing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;Rexflexasaurus&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001756557676077460" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;Rexflexasaurus&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001756557676077460</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;DonnaBowe10&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001777937117331619" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;DonnaBowe10&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001777937117331619</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;xray_media&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001758215936315663" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;xray_media&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001758215936315663</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;cmpstOperator&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001756159473258660" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;cmpstOperator&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001756159473258660</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;earley_jun14512&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001982462415733053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;earley_jun14512&#x2F;status&#x2F;2001982462415733053</a><p>and right here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46406484">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46406484</a><p>Again, I could go on but it would just be spammy.<p>The lesson here is that in a country with ~250 million adults you <i>will</i> find all of the following sets:<p>* Conservatives in favor of X<p>* Conservatives opposing X<p>* Liberals in favor of X<p>* Liberals opposing X


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  Trump seems to be really into kei trucks all of a sudden, if he follows through with allowing their import that seems like it could be good


type: comment
by: somat
text:
  &gt; point-like<p>Oh, your going to love this theory.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fondationlouisdebroglie.org&#x2F;AFLB-222&#x2F;MARK.TEX2.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fondationlouisdebroglie.org&#x2F;AFLB-222&#x2F;MARK.TEX2.pdf</a><p>In summary, There is a way to model electrons as a twisted self enclosed em field.<p>A decent digest summary of the paper is this video<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hYyrgDEJLOA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hYyrgDEJLOA</a> (Huygens Optics: Are Electrons made of Light? )


type: comment
by: aetherspawn
text:
  So if we understand the internal differences between protons and neutrons, what’s the practical application? Turning neutrons into protons with low energies - alchemy?


type: comment
by: rynn
text:
  &gt;What is keeping Google&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;Microsoft from licensing Groq’s tech?<p>Nothing, but they likely can&#x27;t implement it as well as they could had they bought Groq first.


type: comment
by: nextos
text:
  FWIW, Novo Nordisk also tried to kill their GLP-1 effort several times according to the project lead, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;oLnBl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;oLnBl</a><p>In large organizations, I guess a big chunk of success comes from being able to navigate all these political ups and downs.


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  &gt; No development proceeds that way,<p>I do this. Also I do not spend 80% of my time doing it. It&#x27;s not hard, nor is it time consuming.


type: comment
by: fma
text:
  I dont like privatized highways or HOV, but...people still have toll roads? Georgia and Florida and surrounding states have electronic passes and pay by toll if you dont have that.<p>I have thrown coins into a bucket in at least 15 years.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Sure, the point is, what about 10-20 years from now when there are enough drivers where the cost doesn’t matter?<p>It’s like Disney World. They can fill the parks with people willing to pay $200 a day for tickets alone. If you can’t afford it then it doesn’t matter that other people get to get in.<p>Highways just don’t scale well. Two train tracks can move about the same number of people as 15 lanes of highway.


type: comment
by: maxtaco
text:
  An intended use case for FOKS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foks.pub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foks.pub</a>) is to allow long-lived durable shared secrets between users and teams with key rotation when needed.


type: comment
by: bigfatkitten
text:
  In raw materials, yes, but a lot of people were involved in developing and then conducting security evaluations on the MCU on the card, as well as all the software that runs on top, and those people do not work for free.


type: comment
by: no_wizard
text:
  If they snap the license plate and no fast pass they send a bill in the mail for the full monthly cost of a pass if I recall correctly


type: comment
by: LeFantome
text:
  I also always thought that he set out or implement a Scheme-like language but got told to make it look like Java.<p>Scheme is a LISP of course, just not Common Lisp.<p>I have no idea what language the original implementation was in but it makes sense it would be the same as the rest of the browser.


type: comment
by: thisislife2
text:
  India has also been quietly bringing back its gold reserves stored abroad. NATO west made a very bad call by freezing, and then publicising their threat to also <i>seize</i>, Russia&#x27;s foreign reserves in their country.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  Well, people are still dying despite the ceasefire and the reindustrialization seems mostly to build data centers. What parts of these do you think are good?


type: comment
by: uecker
text:
  As I said before, insulting volunteers and also misrepresenting what is in the power of an ISO group of experts is bad style IMHO, but I also think you are misguided in thinking that moving away from C towards more complexity is good. My own IT security and sovereignty is more harmed than helped by this trend.


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  &gt; It seems you&#x27;re unaware just how many people are climate change sceptics<p>What does the number of people that oppose the science have to do with anything in my comment?<p>People are stopping th research because they don&#x27;t like the results, and make up lies about it (like calling it &quot;alarmism&quot;) in order to censor further results.<p>They are willing to stop all sorts of basic weather results because of it.<p>How could I not be aware of the number of people, and what does that have to do with anything? Your comment seems to be operating on some logic that is not explained and that I can not guess.


type: comment
by: thephyber
text:
  As someone who lives in the heart of Silicon Valley, there are HUGE downsides to letting industry write their own tax law &#x2F; loopholes and playing one jurisdiction against the other for special tax incentives.<p>The local governments in this area are mostly starved of funds, despite having the world’s largest companies who pay their executives and rare talent among the highest compensation in the world.<p>The big tech companies can afford to hire private security with staff larger than the local police departments.<p>And they NEED that security to keep the homeless people in tents and broke down RVs from parking on their property.<p>The homeless and jobless end up breaking into the houses of everyone who can’t afford private security. If they don’t become thieves or druggies, then they are a broken husk of a person.<p>When companies don’t like the neighborhood, they pick up and move to the next hot city and the cycle repeats there.<p>This isn’t the fault of big tech alone, but don’t pretend like the US has figured out how to balance society and taxation.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s incredible what lengths people go to to avoid memorizing basic ffmpeg usage. It&#x27;s really not that hard, and the (F.) manual explains the basic concepts fairly well.<p>I&#x27;m usually the one telling everyone else that various Python packaging ecosystem concepts (and possibly some other things) are &quot;really not that hard&quot;. Many FFMpeg command lines I&#x27;ve encountered come across to me like examples of their own, esoteric programming language.<p>&gt; Case in point: &quot;ff convert video.mkv to mp4&quot; (an extremely common usecase) maps to `ffmpeg -i video.mkv -y video.mp4` here, which does a full reencode (losing quality and wasting time) for what can usually just be a simple remux.... Similarly, &quot;ffmpeg extract audio from video.mp4&quot; will unconditionally reencode the audio to mp3, again losing quality.<p>That sounds like a bug report &#x2F; feature request rather than a problem with the approach.<p>&gt; The quality settings are also hardcoded and hidden from the user.<p>This is intended so that users don&#x27;t have to understand what quality settings are available and choose a sensible default.<p>&gt; and that some of this complexity is necessary in order to not make stupid mistakes<p>For example, the case of avoiding re-encodes to switch between container formats could be handled by just maintaining a mapping.<p>In fact, I&#x27;ve felt the lack of that mapping recently when I wanted to extract audio from some videos and apply a thumbnail to them, because different audio formats have different rules for how that works (or you might be forced to use some particular container format, and have to research which one is appropriate).


type: comment
by: camillomiller
text:
  Yet you can still have a very decent middle class educated person existence with no anxiety of debt or illness. If you think you can just go to the us and be in the 1% by all means do and be happy (at the expense of the majority of others). Otherwise stay, and enjoy social democracy’s unsung success in guaranteeing stable live to hundreds of millions by making it hard to get to the capitalistic excesses of the us.


type: comment
by: ModernMech
text:
  The 2018 farm bill was at the top of my list. But they just repealed all the good they accidentally did with it so never mind.


type: comment
by: gerdesj
text:
  I seem to recall that I used Windows 2 on a RM Nimbus 80186 at school around 1984.  It was for CAM.<p>Nowadays one of my customers has a sodding great machine that boots DOS 6.  To get data files to and from it I use Samba with all the safety catches switched off (on one side only) as a go between.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
text:
  &gt; <i>My understanding is that, in many ways, government agencies are more constitutionally protected speech-wise than private entities</i><p>That&#x27;s government <i>employees</i>.<p>If an employee of a normal company goes to a bar after work and trash-talks their boss, they can get fired for it.<p>If an employee of the government does the same, they (probably) can&#x27;t.<p>This only covers speech that&#x27;s not the of the job, and only things that are of &quot;public concern&quot; whatever that means.


type: comment
by: baby_souffle
text:
  &gt; macos and linux usually come with a python installation out of the box<p>Yep. But it&#x27;s either old or broken or both. Using a tool not dependent on the python ecosystem to manage the python ecosystem is the trick here that makes it so reliable and invulnerable to issues that characterize python &#x2F; dependency hell.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Keystone_Pipeline#Protests_and_opposition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Keystone_Pipeline#Protests_and...</a>


type: comment
by: Sabinus
text:
  I, for one, am pleased that the economic crisis Trump&#x27;s &#x27;policies&#x27; have put into motion is appearing to begin in ernest during Trump&#x27;s term.<p>USA voters don&#x27;t get a lot of immediate feedback to their votes, so this should be educational.


type: comment
by: the_other
text:
  We get “weather warnings” here in the UK, too. To my ears, they sound “alarmist”, but I’m in London which has a relatively stable and comfortable microclimate.<p>Howvmever: it’s definitely  the case that climate patterns have shifted. London used to get some snow, most winters. Since about 2015 it’s had almost none. The transitions from one season to the next used to be clear, now they’re vague. Our summers keep hitting higher and higher peaks.<p>Elsewhere in the UK we’re getting more rain. Flooding is increasingly common, and deeper, in several regions. Each year for the past 5 it seems to get a little worse. I hear insurance prices are changing to reflect it.<p>So, I think both things are true. There’s some alarmism, and also the climate is changing. The alarm seems justified to me.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; But also, you could probably be just as accurate by asking an LLM to order the options by popularity based on their best guess based on all the tutorials they&#x27;ve trained on.<p>&gt; Or just scrape Stack Overflow for every instance of a command-line invocation for each tool and count how many times each option is used.<p>Even trusting the developer&#x27;s intuition is better than nothing, at least if you make sure the developer is prompted to <i>think</i> about it. (For major projects, devs might also be aware that certain features are associated with a large fraction of issue reports, for example.)


type: comment
by: nawgz
text:
  Yes, you&#x27;re right, I should google to make your arguments for you!<p>Listing a bunch of white house links and then 2 criticisms (edit: he got it up to about 6 criticisms of marijuana legislation, wow!) which aren&#x27;t even really about the action but more about the general malfeasance of the administration is an extremely weak supporting argument behind &quot;liberals criticize anything good Trump does the same way conservatives criticized anything good Biden did&quot;, because we can identify plentiful examples of naked hypocrisy around the criticisms of Biden - see the autopen debacle for one hilariously manufactured self-owning example.<p>It must really be quite trying to justify Trump&#x27;s actions, I&#x27;m amazed you have failed to use any of that energy on introspection.


type: comment
by: dietr1ch
text:
  Yeah, but you pay the full fare with 1 person, half with 2 people, and it&#x27;s free with 3+.<p>It&#x27;s something that isn&#x27;t straight obvious though. When I got there I also thought that people were just in violation of the people requirement.<p>I don&#x27;t get the point of the occupancy reader if there&#x27;s no hard-requirement of 3+ in the current zone. Maybe there are some stricter HOV-only lanes nowadays? I left the bay area in late 2023


type: comment
by: micromacrofoot
text:
  yeah evolutionarily we gained all this power to survive, now that we&#x27;ve got that figured out the drive to survive has been turned in its head<p>now we need to figure out a way to survive our survival instincts in the world of abundance and safety we have created<p>imo we have to conquer our own biology because we are too amped up as a species to choose temperance


type: comment
by: belorn
text:
  How big would the risk be in your view that you would loose the bet? In any risk-benefit situation, the first step is to define the probability of the risk.


type: comment
by: jjkaczor
text:
  &quot;Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations?&quot;<p>The jury is still out on that one... failed &quot;business&quot; person who was also a &quot;reality TV star&quot; - and now appears to be in some level of dementia - currently in charge of the single biggest military-industrial complex on the planet...


type: comment
by: loglog
text:
  Would American companies treat an average motorist better than foreign companies? Are you insinuating that these good, law-abiding, American companies are COMMUNIST?


type: comment
by: antonymoose
text:
  I feel like, historically, protests have beared fruit in America for leftist &#x2F; progressive causes. Everything from Suffragettes and Civil Rights &#x2F; anti-Vietnam to the Floyd protests of the modern day. Maybe they didn’t overthrow an entire government but the marked forward progress of each one is clear.


type: comment
by: 3eb7988a1663
text:
  Not that I think he has the legal authority to do it, but I am not really opposed to dropping the penny.


type: comment
by: xk3
text:
  Note that you can do a lot of this by just querying systemctl with the PID<p><pre><code>    systemctl status 1 </code></pre> And there might be more than one process using a port<p><pre><code>    sudo lsof +c 0 -i:22</code></pre>


type: comment
by: CamouflagedKiwi
text:
  Oh I see, sorry. I misread it as meaning that you&#x27;d expect the community to use PyPy more to alleviate the startup time issue.


type: story
by: akyuu
title: With memory prices to rise another 45% in 2026, Lenovo may delay laptop launches
url:
  https://www.notebookcheck.net/With-memory-prices-expected-to-rise-another-45-in-2026-Lenovo-may-delay-laptop-launches.1192702.0.html


type: comment
by: written-beyond
text:
  Toyota has adopted the flutter IVI shell in their newer cars. You could argue that it can also run on QNX but the real push behind it has been the growing interest and effort behind AGL.<p>QNX hypervisor architecture allows companies to adopt AGL gradually bringing in the productivity benefits of stuff like flutter and Linux. QT is hell, their entire moat has been the automotive industry&#x2F;highly embedded devices and seeing Flutter chip away at even a small portion of it gives a lot of hope for a better competitive landscape for more productive and performant embedded guis.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  You could see it as a failure to enforce the spirit of the law. Judges have the power to make it right and refuse the loopholes.


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
text:
  the title and core argument do not seem to align much. subject is git, but most discourse is around github. the role discussed is for serving packages, while the title refers to it as &quot;database&quot;.<p>regardless of the semantics, git is not ideal for serving files. this has been more apparent in the ai world, where extensions such as git lfs has allowed larger file size.<p>but as seen elsewhere, network effects trump over any design issues. we can always introduce an &quot;lfs&quot; for better shallow fetching (cached? compressed?) and this would resolve a majority of the op&#x27;s grievences.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
text:
  Not being elected again is a ridiculously mild punishment, and it turns out that you can avoid even that if you lie well enough.<p>Not to mention its absence in a president&#x27;s second term...


type: story
by: northlondoner
title: Julia vs. NumPy performance: Strategy for For-loop?
text:
  Lately, read about Julia Langs&#x27; preference in some quantum research.  In general, for single shot computations like matrix and vector operations including linear algebra, the performance between Julia and NumPy is comparable due to NumPy&#x27;s underlying C&#x2F;Fortran code base. But for Monte Carlo methods for-loops are hard to avoid. Is there any strategy for For-loops in NumPy avoiding python overhead? Or migrating to Julia is a better choice? I am trying to avoid Rust as I see it as more system level language.


type: comment
by: mrkstu
text:
  The last thing CA or SF are is starved of revenue.<p>Lack of effective utilization of said revenue is by far the issue here, as can be seen by looking at peer states&#x2F;cities&#x2F;countries spending analogous amounts of money.


type: comment
by: psyclobe
text:
  How can V8 possibly function being written in such a over complicated and impossible to get right language like c++?!?<p>When will they come to their senses and rewrite it in Rust?!


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  The vast majority of the tolling infrastructure no longer uses plazas. In California and in Texas, the tech exists to prevent you from even noticing. That&#x27;s not deployed everywhere, especially in areas where they do rate-limiting, like the Bay Bridge, where they need you to slow down and stop when the bridge traffic gets too high, but most areas you wouldn&#x27;t even notice.<p>This is also causing problems with people using fake plates and magnetized plates. There&#x27;s an entire growing industry around it. We&#x27;re going to have to eventually start requiring some kind of transponder that repeats your plate number for sensors that can&#x27;t be trivially covered... or you know... just raise the gas tax.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;HTVBMPGvZJw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;HTVBMPGvZJw</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;lKXv_bA4lYs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;lKXv_bA4lYs</a>


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  &quot;developing a new anti-satellite weapon&quot; seems a laughably overblown description, when the supposed weapon amounts to little more than a box full of BB&#x27;s, with a couple sticks of dynamite in the middle to spread &#x27;em out in orbit.  If they had a suitable rocket ready to launch, then a good-enough warhead could probably be <i>designed from first principles</i>, fabricated, and launched within 24 hours.<p>But from a Russian PoV - considering such weapons, and leaking that fact, could be an extremely cheap and credible method of sabre-rattling.<p>(Vs. actually <i>using</i> such weapons against Musk&#x27;s constellation would be a clear attack on America&#x27;s interests and capabilities, and would draw a very harsh reaction.  Outside of WWIII or WWIII-lite scenarios, it&#x27;d be a Bad Move.)


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  New Jersey solved this: just put up signs saying “you’re on a toll road, go check what you owe and pay later”. No toll plaza!<p>Then when you forget, which you 100% will if you’re not dealing with it frequently, or just reasonably assume they’ll send you a bill—ta-da! First communication they send is a nastygram assessing an extra <i>$50</i> for every toll you forgot to go beg to pay when you got home.<p>Ingenious way to screw non-locals, and no toll plazas needed!


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  &gt; As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better.<p>It&#x27;s not better, it&#x27;s just more attractive. The EU isn&#x27;t the only country with regulations, every single other western country does, every single other first world country does.<p>The US allows greed to flourish at the expensive of it&#x27;s people. That might be better for the people developing the tech, but it isn&#x27;t better for society in the longrun.


type: comment
by: loglog
text:
  Removing parts of the city to add more lanes will also help decreasing demand - it&#x27;s a win-win!


type: comment
by: chunkmonke99
text:
  No one really knows. But a few things I think about myself.<p>1). There are many many people there couldn&#x27;t probably already write more lines of code than me and work for much much cheaper (in India or wherever). Same is true for you (probably). Yet you still have a job.<p>2). I have a friend that works as a Software and System Engineer for a complicated product that interfaces with the real world. He has to use Natural Language to create requirements that gets turns into code by natural agents down in the &quot;Supply Chain&quot;. There are also integration engineers that work with the naturally intelligent agents that create the prompts&#x2F;requirements to make sure things don&#x27;t fail (then triage and root cause when they do)<p>3. Why not diversify your skills beyond code but also hardware, systems, soft skills, business etc etc.<p>No one knows the future sadly.


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  Good! Use fees align incentives, reducing the financial burden on non-users.  And users pay a modest fee to get better roads than they would otherwise.  It&#x27;s win-win.


type: comment
by: whatever1
text:
  Apart from the market (obviously), the companies also enjoy infrastructure, resources (mostly finite) and they also produce byproducts that the society has to deal with (pollution, addiction of population etc).<p>So who pays for these? What you are suggesting is government subsidies of companies. This sounds like communism to me.


type: comment
by: threethirtytwo
text:
  There are plenty of other ways. Book reviews for example. If the cover is the only way than so be it, but this is rarely case. Additionally the cover of a book, like capitalization is one of the most inaccurate metrics to judge a book by.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  Current prices of &quot;for the public good&quot; in New York City for passenger vehicles:<p>- Congestion charge - $9 per day on Ez-Pass<p>- Bridge toll - $10 to $15 per day


type: comment
by: nomdep
text:
  You mean like California treated Musk during Biden era?  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;california-reject-musk-spacex-00183371" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;california-reject-m...</a>


type: comment
by: nextstep
text:
  This is very nice.  When I use ffmpeg recently I usually ask an LLM first but it often takes a few tries to get the exact incantation right.<p>On a side note (I’m not a web developer), why would a command line tool like this be written and distributed using node.js?  Seems like an unnecessary risk to use JavaScript for a basic (local) command line tool.  Couldn’t this be written more simply in like Rust or something?


type: comment
by: thiht
text:
  Trump tried to overturn an election and failed, he’s a moron but he won’t make the same mistake again. The next US elections will be rigged, if there are even elections.


type: comment
by: datahack
text:
  Truly, it’s a miracle for manufacturing. I wish people would understand what a profound waste burning it actually is.


type: comment
by: EthanHeilman
text:
  Science works better with collaboration. If China and Europe have to take up the slack from a self-inflicted wound to US research, science as a whole suffers. There is far more science to do than scientists and when science funding gets canceled the number of scientist decrease.<p>After the US canceled the SSC, Europe built the LHC. The LHC isn&#x27;t a one for one replacement of the SSC, but it would probably not have been built if the SSC had been built. What scientific projects would Europe have built instead? What did we lose?


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  The people that blame capitalism are often wrong...they attribute to capitalism what is actually the fault of a lack of regulation. Capitalism has a ton of advantages that a socialist system would not have, the negatives are easy enough to deal with but while the rich rule the world, there is little interest.<p>Wealth and income limits for individuals and companies are a start. No one needs to be a billionaire, and they sure as hell didn&#x27;t earn it.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  They say much worse things about me! Donald Trump, the leader of the MAGA people, released a Christmas greeting calling me scum (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;truthsocial.com&#x2F;@realDonaldTrump&#x2F;posts&#x2F;115777270368444049" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;truthsocial.com&#x2F;@realDonaldTrump&#x2F;posts&#x2F;1157772703684...</a>) - I&#x27;ve never done that and would never do that to even my worst political opponents. I don&#x27;t understand why people persist in drawing this false equivalence. Are you in a media bubble where you don&#x27;t see the things Trump says and does?


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  Not to disagree, but this is so GitHub-centric. What is up with &quot;diffs&quot;, &quot;patches&quot;, and &quot;submissions&quot;? :D


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  This is how money works.  You&#x27;re expressing anger at the concept of personal property.  Yes, those who have more money can afford more expensive goods -- that&#x27;s the whole point!


type: comment
by: psyclobe
text:
  So the 13 is probably a lot better than the new 16 for reasons that... well its simpler, smaller; and a lot more rigid (by virtue of its size).<p>From what I read about the 16 though that sounds like a lot harder of a sell.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the 13 is still paying Frameworks bills...


type: comment
by: tomhow
text:
  HN is for curious conversation, not ideological battle. The guidelines are clear about this and HN is only a place where people want to participate because we have those guidelines and uphold them every day.<p>If you know in advance you&#x27;re going to be downvoted, you&#x27;re conceding that you&#x27;re not willing to bother trying to engage in this discussion in the spirit of curious conversation. Bludgeoning people over the head with your points, each prefaced with the word &quot;fact&quot; in all-caps is not curious conversation and is not the intended use of HN.<p>We want this to be a place where difficult topics can be discussed and heterodox positions can be presented, but that can only happen if people make an effort to be conversational and persuasive rather than belligerent.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  re-read your own comment and then question just how silly the argument you are making is. starting from the bottom, you are saying it was better before when President made an effort to lie about shit they did.<p>then you are talking about counting dollar amounts as if we have access to bank accounts and shit to check these “dollar amounts” to see who stole more (we don’t but I am sure you can find some stories about some made up numbers and go “here, Trump this, Clinton that, Trump &gt; Clinton - boom)<p>And my fav, the “degree and magnitute” is the shit, that is also something we can scientifically measure LOL. I am left-leaning centrists, most of my friends are right-leaning and for the AOC is more corrupt than Trump so you know, whatever world you live in will define “degree and magnitude”


type: comment
by: WickyNilliams
text:
  Has there actually been a ceasefire in practice? People are still dying, guns are still being fired afaik. And the broader plan does not instill confidence with Tony Blair proposed as a technocratic leader of the area


type: story
by: PaulHoule
title: Stress-induced sympathetic hyperactivation drives hair follicle necrosis
url:
  https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01247-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867425012474%3Fshowall%3Dtrue


type: comment
by: LexiMax
text:
  ...Can anybody else make sense of this?<p>Every time I attempt to read it,  halfway through my brain flips into the mode that is normally reserved for when people start telling me that Ivermectin is a COVID remedy, or something equally farcical.


type: comment
by: sunshine-o
text:
  The question is why is NCAR a distinct entity from NOAA which work on the same&#x2F;similar subjects and is also funded by the government?<p>I am not sure but maybe because this lab is a relic of the 50s and the cold war when when both the Soviets and the US were racing to create a weather control weapon...


type: comment
by: amelius
text:
  Same here. I wish there was an easy way around it (that doesn&#x27;t require me to play sysadmin in my spare time).


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  So not only as you asking him to advocate for the both of you but you want him to study constitutional law for the both of you too?


type: comment
by: jhgb
text:
  &gt; Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-protocol-based secure messenger.<p>That&#x27;s a &quot;great&quot; idea considering the recent legal developments in the EU, which OpenPGP, as bad as it is, doesn&#x27;t suffer from. It would be great if the author updated his advice into something more future-proof.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  (I&#x27;m including in this replies to both the comment immediately above and your comment two levels up from that)<p>&gt; Well they kind of are, in that the real perps are not them but folks like the Koch family who fund entire think tanks and counter programming to serve their narrow interests.<p>The Kochs also fund Nova on PBS which has produced and continues to produce a large amount of in-depth scientifically accurate reporting about climate change.<p>&gt; People as a whole are not experts in every possible area, nor is everyone universally smart<p>But there are experts and there are smart people who write about what they experts say. Someone doesn&#x27;t have to be either an expert themself or smart themself to realize that they should try to find what those experts and those smart people think in important areas so they can better choose politicians who will handle policy in those areas correctly.<p>A heck of a lot of voters put in less effort looking into competing claims of rival Presidential candidates than they do to check out the claims of rival manufacturers when they want to buy an air fryer.<p>Yes, the politicians that do bad things should be blamed, but I&#x27;m also going to blame the people who voted for them if the politicians said they would do those things and even a little research by the voter would have turned up that those things are bad.


type: comment
by: vmilner
text:
  &#x27;The Housekeeper and the Professor&#x27; by Yoko Ogawa<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Housekeeper_and_the_Professor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Housekeeper_and_the_Profes...</a><p>is a beautiful novel about a mathematician with a short term memory condition, that should appeal to HN readers.


type: comment
by: buckle8017
text:
  This is the inevitable result of western countries taxing oil.<p>The higher the taxes the lower the price of crude has to be for people to afford it. This means reduced western demand at high prices.<p>However this doesn&#x27;t reduce consumption, it just shifts the consumption to the developing world, where there are minimal if any taxes on consumption.


type: comment
by: phil294
text:
  Things that definitely need interactive prompts before running or fail out of ambiguity otherwise. Let&#x27;s not pretend these are impossible problems to overcome design-wise.


type: comment
by: kingkawn
text:
  Nothing has been conquered. Technology is providing a behavioral selection process that is effectively self-culling the populace and is going to make the mass adaptation to the next century of climate change much more bearable for all


type: comment
by: badgersnake
text:
  &gt; easy enough to deal with but while the rich rule the world, there is little interest.<p>Then it’s not easy enough to deal with is it? And capitalism seems to have created this situation so you could are the that this is inherent in the system.


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Yeah, I think the article conflated a few points: I think the issue the author was having was that he thought that decentralized social networks were meant to be decentralized communication platforms, when they were meant to be decentralized content delivery platforms.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t the decentralization, it&#x27;s the choice of a goal. However, email, IRC, Matrix, etc all already exist, and are what the author wants, so I do see tbe article as a bit misguided.<p>I think what the author meant to say was &quot;I thought ActivityPub was meant to be more like Matrix, but it&#x27;s not, and I&#x27;m sad about that&quot;.


type: comment
by: rhelz
text:
  Can&#x27;t speak for everybody, but maybe it has something do with hundreds of thousands of us being laid off, and we&#x27;re just too busy trying not to go under.


type: comment
by: add-sub-mul-div
text:
  Consider that &quot;successful&quot; has evolved from innovating products that make our lives better to a strong focus on ad tech, surveillance, social media, and slop.


type: comment
by: avoutos
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC12713542&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC12713542&#x2F;</a><p>(without paywall)


type: story
by: davasny
title: Show HN: I built opencode –> telegram notification plugin
url: https://github.com/Davasny/opencode-telegram-notification-plugin
text:
  I had a problem with keeping focus on opencode terminal when it was doing tasks longer than ~30 seconds, so I built a small plugin that sends telegram notification to ping me when agent finishes.<p>Setup:<p>1. Send &#x2F;start to the bot<p>2. Execute bash command that the bot sends you back. You can see source code of the script here [1] and the built plugin here [2].<p>3. Done! Whenever your agent finish, you will get message with project name, session title and duration of the agent work.<p>I decided to make it available to everyone on my free tier of cloudflare workers, but it&#x27;s fully hostable on your own cloudflare accounts or even docker containers on custom infra with few minor changes in the code.<p>Development was done mostly by Claude Opus 4.5 and custom agents in opencode.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Davasny&#x2F;opencode-telegram-notification-plugin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Davasny&#x2F;opencode-telegram-notification-pl...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Davasny&#x2F;opencode-telegram-notification-plugin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;dist&#x2F;telegram-notify.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Davasny&#x2F;opencode-telegram-notification-pl...</a>


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  Not to disagree, but calling it Github-centric is a bit over specific :)<p>I regularly work with Github, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. Everything I said applies except for the fact that I said &quot;PR&quot; instead of &quot;MR&quot;. But yes, you&#x27;re right. I&#x27;m highlighting a specific, albeit extremely popular, workflow.


type: comment
by: molind
text:
  Not necessarily ads. It could be patron style funding. In lichess style, when patron receives only badge, or patreon style, with extra games, skins, stats for patrons. Good luck with a great platform.


type: comment
by: badgersnake
text:
  Europe is increasingly heading in this direction too, at least it is here in the UK. The lobbiests and their stooge populists are increasingly in charge here too.


type: comment
by: supermatt
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;index_en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;index_en</a>


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Yes but the author lumps all decentralized and&#x2F;or social networks together when all he really means to talk about is ActivityPub specifically.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  The large majority of my comments ITT are not in fact &quot;questioning everything and everybody&quot;. I checked your comment history and couldn&#x27;t find other comments from you ITT, and the post I responded to does not contain anything like a &quot;very specific example&quot;. Your accusations are entirely unfounded, and frankly inflammatory.


type: comment
by: criticalfault
text:
  if you ever come into a position that you could try or would like to try gnome, I would encourage you to do it. maybe you could eliminate that bad opinion of Wayland (or confirm it)...<p>yes gnome has a vision of how the desktop should look like  and strong behavior of &quot;my way or the highway&quot;, but maybe you get surprised how well it works. especially on fedora.<p>I assumed wrongly other people (you mostly) use gnome by default, which obviously is not the case. in that case I could see it as a problem since not everyone has red hat resources for desktop development.


type: comment
by: asveikau
text:
  I feel there is currently a bit of of internalized propaganda about protests being stupid or worse. Witness any cause which involves protesting by blocking the street. You get an army of internet trolls talking up the idea that this is somehow evil.<p>In the civil rights era, events like crossing bridges on foot were a key feature, done by people like Martin Luther King. In the modern era, if you see a protest on the golden gate bridge as an example, they&#x27;ll be called terrorists and people will advocate for violence against them.


type: comment
by: alright2565
text:
  I don&#x27;t know. It&#x27;s tragic but unfortunately not surprising there is still fighting.<p>My recollection is that during the early, and perhaps overly hopeful, days, left-leaning media avoided saying Trump&#x27;s name when reporting on it.


type: comment
by: pixelready
text:
  I believe this is the intended effect of maintaining some level of homelessness and unemployment in American policy decisions. Full employment and suffering reduction through a strong safety net are the correct moral imperatives, but they reduce the leverage of a central authority. You can see whose priorities win out.<p>I think there is a soft self-destruction happening among millennials and beyond in the US and similar societies. They have been so worn down by living in a system that refuses to invest properly in them that they are taking the fatalist route of simply refusing to participate in the building of a future.<p>Limited procreation, disengaging from politics or mindlessly bandwagoning demagogues, deaths of despair, etc… it’s not universal but the trend lines are certainly worrying.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  Another from Jefferson: &quot;<i>The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants</i>&quot;


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  That&#x27;s one reason I don&#x27;t like to drink. I can moderate myself (I don&#x27;t like being inebriated at all), but some around me are active or recovering alcoholics. So why drink in front of them?<p>A recovering family member told me the location of every bottle of booze in the family home where we were, their type, and how full they were. In the fridge, the back of the cupboard, and in the basement under the laundry rack. Even though he&#x27;d stopped drinking! So, I don&#x27;t even like keeping alcohol in the house anymore, especially if it&#x27;s not locked up.


type: comment
by: socalgal2
text:
  And the companion article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lord.io&#x2F;text-editing-hates-you-too&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lord.io&#x2F;text-editing-hates-you-too&#x2F;</a><p>(posted in other other threads too)


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  English: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keshikan.net&#x2F;fonts-e.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keshikan.net&#x2F;fonts-e.html</a><p>Discussion (66 points, 3 months ago, 20 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45408473">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45408473</a>


type: comment
by: snops
text:
  TFA does directly mention the NPU &quot;Arm-China Zhouyi: 30 TOPS (Dedicated)&quot;<p>&quot;you cannot simply use standard versions of PyTorch or TensorFlow out of the box. You must use the NeuralONE AI SDK.&quot;<p>Neon is a SIMD instruction set for the CPU, not a separate accelerator. It doesn&#x27;t need an SDK to use, it&#x27;s supported by compiler intrinsics and assembly language in any modern ARM compiler.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  27 isn&#x27;t 35 no matter how many times you say it is.<p>&gt; If your actual mileage is over 15625&#x2F;year, then you&#x27;re paying less than the equivalent.<p>The average is less than that by a decent bit, so more than half of US cars are paying <i>more</i> even with your unproven, contorted math based on some estimates done once in the 70s and never really looked into closely again.<p>It&#x27;s also assuming the difference in weight. The closest hybrid I would have bought instead is only like 100kg lighter than my EV. And it gets like 40mpg, better than 35mpg.<p>It would also mean semi trucks should pay like 20,000x more in registration fees. Does this make sense?<p>&gt; What&#x27;s your annual mileage?<p>Less than 15k on that car (like most people), so even with your assumed math it&#x27;s overpaying.


type: comment
by: xvector
text:
  Incredibly bothersome that these  executives can rise so high and get paid so much despite having such terrible decisionmaking skills.<p>An injection to cure obesity is a small price to ask, as any person that has been obese will tell you. They could have determined this from a simple survey.<p>What was the human cost of their decision? Maybe an entire delayed decade of progress? How many people died, that could have been saved?<p>I would love to meet some of these executives and understand what they were thinking, and if they understand&#x2F;regret the impact of their foolishness.


type: comment
by: Agoreddah
text:
  Coffee roasting - I&#x27;ve started to roast a coffee for my girlfriend coffee shop as a side job 2.5 years ago and now I start to feel, my learning curve is finally growing up. I want to learn how to make consistently great roasted coffee, how to manage entire process and how to keep pushing quality up.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  I&#x27;d love to lobby for &quot;the right&quot; to opt out of AI features.<p>When I google search &quot;why is the sky blue&quot; , it spins up an LLM. This is incredibly wasteful for simple, known answers.<p>When my friend googles the same thing, it spins up the LLM again. Google was a pioneer of search indexing, and now it seems like we don&#x27;t attempt to index answers at all. They&#x27;re spinning up an LLM every time because they&#x27;re trying to run up the AI &quot;adoption&quot; metrics.<p>I&#x27;d love to be able to ask for simple things, like the address of the local restaurant 3 blocks away, without firing up a GPU in an AI data center.<p>I don&#x27;t always want to &quot;talk with&quot; a computer. Sometimes I just want to &quot;use&quot; a computer. Maybe that makes me a fool. Or an old man yelling at clouds.


type: comment
by: xg15
text:
  &gt; <i>Don’t ask about the code which line-breaks partial ligatures though.</i><p>Wondered about this. All the circular dependencies sound like you could feasibly get some style&#x2F;layout combinations that lead to self-contradictory situations.<p>E.g. consider a ligature that&#x27;s wider than the characters&#x27; individual glyphs. If the ligature is at the end of the box, it could trigger a line break. But that line break would also break up the ligature and cause the characters to be rendered as individual glyphs, reducing their width - which would undo the line break. But without the line break, the ligature would reconnect, increase the width and restore the line break, etc etc...


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Point taken, but as an aside, I&#x27;m just guessing that RMS was way too smart and knowledgeable to fall for Ayn Rand, for long.<p>Some people with no other frame (e.g., very insulated teenagers) might accept the given values she proposes (because, why not), but if you read when she tries to make a direct argument, it&#x27;s clearly shoddy and manipulative, with confident big leaps of logic that she&#x27;s trying to sneak past the listener.


type: comment
by: Draiken
text:
  You mean like Google&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Meta already are?<p>I don&#x27;t see how we&#x27;re not already there. There&#x27;s no competition, only an oligopoly splitting their spoils.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  I’d be more impressed with something that could pump enough energy into a StarLink satellite from the ground to disable it during its orbit over ground Russia (or China) controls, but I’m unsure if we’re there yet, as 550km is a lot of distance to cover with directed energy considering the short period of visibility during a pass.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;npolicy.org&#x2F;coping-with-the-ground-based-laser-asat-threat-space-news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;npolicy.org&#x2F;coping-with-the-ground-based-laser-asat-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprint.in&#x2F;defence&#x2F;these-futuristic-chinese-space-denial-weapons-can-disable-or-destroy-opposing-satellites&#x2F;210212&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprint.in&#x2F;defence&#x2F;these-futuristic-chinese-space-d...</a>


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  &quot;It&#x27;s how code is written&quot; then you list like the 6 highest profile, highest investment premier software projects on Earth like that&#x27;s just normal.<p>I&#x27;m surprised by how confident you are when you can only name projects you&#x27;ve never worked on.  I wanted to find a commit of yours to prove my point, but I can&#x27;t find a line of code you&#x27;ve written.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  Do you think people getting married are not serious because they fail to take out a bet on Polymarket for whether they will stay together?


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
text:
  The article answers your question:<p>&gt; The dollar’s share had already been below 50% before, in 1990 and 1991, after a long plunge from the peak in 1977 (share of 85.5%). This plunge accompanied a deep crisis in the US with sky-high inflation and interest rates, and four recessions over those years, including the nasty double-dip recession.<p>Or, in other words, at 1991 the US started recovering from the Oil Crisis and the subsequent fuckery. There&#x27;s a dip in that number around the time the USSR felt, but it&#x27;s just a small acceleration to the trend.<p>&gt; Makes me wonder: is this just an artifact of the world being relatively &quot;stable&quot; right now?<p>Do you think the world is relatively &quot;stable&quot; right now?<p>Oh, and I&#x27;d check the data before believing usage in trade debt and crisis funding are going strong. Two of those are constantly making headlines for how they are decreasing, and &quot;crisis funding&quot; is basically another name for &quot;reserve currency&quot;.


type: comment
by: XorNot
text:
  Yes I&#x27;m sure reality TV did it and not cost of living meaning they have little money for entertainment and definitely will never purchase their own home.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Useful to facilitate a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the asset class perhaps.


type: comment
by: flowerlad
text:
  We need a way to set multiple SSL certificates with overlapping duration. So if one certificate expires the backup certificate will become active. If the overlap is a couple of months then you have plenty of time to detect and fix the issue.<p>Having only one SSL certificate is a single point of failure, we have eliminated single points of failure almost everywhere else.


type: comment
by: vmilner
text:
  Definitely listen to the 1981 radio version if you like them.<p>Bilbo&#x27;s Last Song scene here(spoiler warning for those who haven&#x27;t read it as its at the end of the book).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KIsHshR1Ig8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KIsHshR1Ig8</a>


type: comment
by: leobg
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  If this hadn’t been published in 2015, you’d all call it AI slop:<p>&gt; When the German engineer Karl Benz invented the first petroleum-powered automobile, he did not just create an engine with wheels; he set in motion an industry that revolutionized the way society was structured.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  You just posted the same an hour earlier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405269">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405269</a>


type: comment
by: manquer
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  Unlike other SaaS &quot;acquisitions&quot; of late, this will be not as straightforward closure of a subscription business.<p>The  $1.5B contract with the Saudi Arabia is substantial and investors will want that monetized too, there are also existing DCs GroqCloud have in the ME region and also other spots around the world that are quite valuable for their hardware and power agreements etc.<p>Nvidia has CIFUS and other regulatory concerns and also don&#x27;t want to compete against their customers be a neo cloud provider, the Saudis likely still want their DC build outs to proceed.<p>All this to say, the remaining parts while no longer as glamorous is still worth a lot and cannot be easily sold to big tech co. GroqCloud is more be like Nokia Technologies&#x2F; Networks rather be killed.<p>---<p>As a result, staff not part of the Nvidia deal likely have solid jobs and also now the opportunity to climb the ladder quickly now that a lot of leadership positions have opened up.<p>They are also going to have to be compensated higher in cash or poached by an upcoming chip startup as they are no longer tied to equity options vesting scheduled of a very valuable company (Pre deal Groq or now Nvidia).<p>In any scenario they will come out better of the deal, not as much they could have in a full acquisition yes, but certainly better than most engineers not working for a hyped AI startup nonetheless.


type: comment
by: loeg
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  In Washington it&#x27;s just 25 cents higher (if you&#x27;re registered -- $2 higher if you&#x27;re not registered) than without a pass. Not a huge deal.


type: comment
by: mojuba
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  Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.


type: comment
by: 827a
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quantitative_tightening" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quantitative_tightening</a>


type: comment
by: saagarjha
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  If the government defunds you because they don’t like the research you’re publishing, is that not a freedom of speech issue? Definitely seems like it would have a chilling effect on what the institute would want to talk about, no?


type: comment
by: vogtb
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  The line &quot;How could I forget that I had given her an extra key?&quot; comes to mind. Maybe someone left an API key laying around somewhere? Although I could be giving the hackers too much credit...


type: comment
by: palata
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  &gt; It survives only because nerds have a parasocial relationship with it.<p>I really would like to replace PGP with the &quot;better&quot; tool, but:<p>* Using my Yubikey for signing (e.g. for git) has a better UX with PGP instead of SSH<p>* I have to use PGP to sign packages I send to Maven<p>Maybe I am a nerd emotionally attached to PGP, but after a year signing with SSH, I went back to PGP and it was so much better...


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
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  &gt; But wouldn&#x27;t these causally disjoint regions overlap with each other<p>Yes.<p>&gt; stringing together a chain of causality from anywhere to anywhere?<p>No? Causality reaching one edge of a sphere doesn&#x27;t mean it instantaneously teleports to every point in that same sphere. This isn&#x27;t a transitive relationship.<p>&gt; What are &quot;disconnected events&quot;?<p>The sentence you&#x27;re responding to seems like a decent definition. Disconnected events are events which might be observed in either order depending on the position of an observer.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
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  your scenario here doesn&#x27;t really make any sense. one you&#x27;re conflating getting married with staying together. you could get married and then divorced. two, such a bet wouldn&#x27;t make sense since it could easily be rigged (and indeed this is what happens with sports betting).<p>again, if someone says they know the winning lottery and they don&#x27;t play, they&#x27;re unserious. nearly impossible to rig, high payout - outcome is of interest to layperson.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  October: <i>Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX and XAI Are Buying Tesla&#x27;s Unsold Cybertrucks</i> (26 points, 8 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45572152">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45572152</a><p>Last week: <i>Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can&#x27;t sell</i> (21 points, 6 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46317462">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46317462</a>


type: comment
by: spwa4
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  &gt; The US allows greed to flourish at the expensive of it&#x27;s people. That might be better for the people developing the tech, but it isn&#x27;t better for society in the longrun.<p>Are you finding the EU to be even remotely greed-free?


type: comment
by: ramon156
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  I&#x27;d gladly roleplay with an LLM compared to talking to my current boss. I don&#x27;t know which is less intelligent.


type: comment
by: el_benhameen
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  I think the point is that in this case, the choice is between the infrastructure being pay-to-use or just not existing, not between the infrastructure being free and being pay-to-use


type: comment
by: structural
text:
  Of course, you can do this in good conditions. The extremely powerful part that TrueTime brings is how the system degrades when something goes wrong.<p>If everyone is synced to +&#x2F;- 20ns, that&#x27;s great. Then when someone flies over your datacenter with an GPS jammer (purposeful or accidental), this needs to not be a bad day where suddenly database transactions happen out of order, or you have an outage.<p>The other benefit of building in this uncertainty to the underlying software design is you don&#x27;t have to have your entire infrastructure on the same hardware stack. If you have one datacenter that&#x27;s 20yrs old, has no GPS infrastructure, and operates purely on NTP - this can still run the same software, just much more slowly. You might even keep some of this around for testing - and now you have ongoing data showing what will happen to your distributed system if GPS were to go away in a chunk of the world for some sustained period of time.<p>And in a brighter future, if we&#x27;re able to synchronize everyone&#x27;s clocks to +&#x2F;- 1ns, the intervals just get smaller and we see improved performance without having to rethink the entire design.


type: comment
by: bitwize
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  Strong static typing is a must for large scale software engineering. And by &quot;large scale&quot; I mean anything longer or more complicated than like a utility shell script.<p>These type extensions let you get some of the benefits of static typing for projects already written in Python or Ruby.


type: comment
by: nkali
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  The keyboard on the Apricot uses round capacitive foam pads under the keys. This means the keys had to be square, or they needed a mechanical thing like the space button on the photo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baffo71.com&#x2F;details.php?id_img=7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baffo71.com&#x2F;details.php?id_img=7</a><p>So, I think it is a mechanical&#x2F;electrical limitation.


type: comment
by: hypfer
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  Oh. Okay, yeah. Makes sense<p>Yeah, sorry about that. I agree it indeed worked out for you and that is great.<p>The point that I&#x27;m getting at is that it is necessary for the system to occasionally produce a winner, because otherwise, people would stop trying.<p>Think for example about a casino with zero wins. No one would come to play. If they however occasionally select a winner, that winner will then be the best marketing they can get, encouraging all his friends to also start gambling.<p>Please do not mistake this analogy as me questioning your merits. I am confident in your abilities at your craft.<p>What I am however saying is that the system does not select its winners based on that merit. Instead, the criteria for selection are usually based on what benefits the system most. This, in some situations, might line up with general merits to some degree, but it also might not, and that is one of the core deceptions, the corporate world runs on.<p>I do believe you that the idea of the article was to encourage people so that they can also have these great wins and experiences you had. But, as said, that is just one side of the coin, and it would be unethical to not mention all the outcomes in which a person does not win.


type: comment
by: loeg
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  There are toll roads (or lanes) with dynamic pricing attempting to achieve something like this.  They exist.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
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  I think a prohibition to lie to the public would already be incredibly impactful (if it had no statute of limitations and adequate punishments).<p>A delicate issue I see is how to handle personal matters that the public don&#x27;t need to know.<p>Anyhow, you might think that it&#x27;s hard to know when someone is really lying vs just being uninformed, but in truth in the long term most lies become apparent; while you couldn&#x27;t prevent  every single lie, you&#x27;d reduce them enormously, in my opinion; even in countries where the president doesn&#x27;t lie almost constantly.


type: comment
by: ViktorRay
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  Seeing Wozniak and the Macintosh team in the same room as Stallman is kind of like the beginning of Game of Thrones.<p>When the Starks and the Lannisters are eating and drinking in the room together. Before they go their seperate ways and fight and all that.


type: comment
by: flobosg
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  &gt; Don&#x27;t you have to modify every cell (or affected type of cell) with a new copy of the DNA?<p>It depends on the specific disorder that’s being treated. For some of them, targeting a fraction of the affected cells is enough to get the desired effect.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>speculate that Japanese passengers expect to promptly get their stuff back while North Americans know they are effectively throwing it in the garbage, and so are more tempted to grab a few things</i><p>If this behaviour were isolated, this hypothesis would make sense. Given it exists in a broader context of Japanese altruism, I’d say it’s just a fitness advantage to having a high-trust, rule-following society.


type: comment
by: csense
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  The article implies it&#x27;s a mystery, but to me the cause is pretty obvious:<p>Some businesses and consumers had spending patterns that were only viable due to ZIRP, COVID stimulus, and QE.  The resulting inflation spike followed by QT and interest rate hikes to fight it led to the current slowdown.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if doubling the number of dollars in existence between 2020-2022 had some negative long-term consequences...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;bst_recenttrends.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;bst_recenttren...</a>


type: comment
by: petcat
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  No that&#x27;s just for him.  To put out of his mind that a <i>government agency</i> somehow has a constitutional right to free speech.


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
text:
  the related post from simonw is quite insightful and while the reaction is quite intense, this was quite technically interesting:<p>&gt; Turns out Claude Opus 4.5 knows the trick where you can add .patch to any commit on GitHub to get the author’s unredacted email address (I’ve redacted it above).<p>given how capable certain aspects of these models are becoming over time, the user&#x27;s intent is more important than ever. the resulting email content appears like a poorly-made spam (without the phishing parts), while able to contact someone just from their name!


type: comment
by: yearolinuxdsktp
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  Additionally, warnings can be built into the clients themselves. If you connect to a host with less than 2 weeks cert expiry time, print a warning in your client. That will be further incentive to not let certs be not renewed in time.


type: comment
by: yieldcrv
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  it&#x27;s about to be 98% and I&#x27;m fine with that<p>people need to re-evaluate their relationship with open source instead of as a synonym for FOSS, because it clearly doesn&#x27;t mean that regardless of the colloquialism<p>and FOSS has an adjective and noun for a reason, its older than the colloquialism<p>this is just a reversion to the mean


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>would support a law that imposes grave consequences for airline passengers found to be in possession of personal baggage following an evacuation</i><p>My preference would be for a massive fine and one-year flight ban for the first offence, and triple that fine plus one year in jail plus lifetime for a second offence.<p>In all cases, you’re personally responsible for your injuries and those of anyone behind you.


type: comment
by: spwa4
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  What? The EU has super-rich, especially if you compare to the average incomes of the country rather than to the global top.<p>And yes, because of the tax situation these people are often not resident in the EU. London, Paris and Geneva have small neighborhoods of oil sheik families, for example. Brussels has entire neighborhoods effectively only accessible to EU appointees. Amsterdam ... and so on and so forth.


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
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  &gt; but even that has serious issues for Europe&#x27;s export oriented economies<p>Hum... There are no reliable numbers out there, but I don&#x27;t think the dollar devaluation has been keeping up with the US inflation.<p>And if so, no, Europe&#x27;s exports are becoming more competitive, not less.


type: comment
by: superkuh
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  For corporations, institutions, and for-profits this matters and there&#x27;s no real good solution.<p>But for human persons and personal websites HTTP+HTTPS fixes this easily and completely. You get the best of both worlds. Fragile short lifetime pseudo-privacy if you want it (HTTPS) and long term stable access no matter what via HTTP. HTTPS-only does more harm than good. HTTP+HTTPS is far better than either alone.


type: comment
by: amiga386
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  It&#x27;s more like Usenet users complaining that NZB downloaders don&#x27;t let their users read text posts. Nobody <i>using</i> an NZB downloader gives a fuck about text posts. They&#x27;re not there to chat with their fellow humans, they&#x27;re there to download files. Both the text posts and binary files are transmitted by the same substrate, NNTP, but the protocol clearly has multiple groups of people using it for very different purposes.<p>Comparing it to email is inappropriate, because email is <i>addressed</i> to you, and you get upset if email servers&#x2F;clients <i>drop</i> emails. But newsfeeds are <i>not</i> addressed to you. Neither is RSS&#x2F;Atom. ActivityPub, generally speaking, isn&#x27;t either. How <i>you</i> choose to experience messages coming your way is up to you. This whole article is making the assumption that if you want something more different, e.g. Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy (Fediverse Instagram&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;Reddit), it basically <i>must</i> also be Mastodon&#x2F;Pleroma (Fediverse Twitter). Why must it?


type: comment
by: xvxvx
text:
  &#x27;Ÿnsect focused on producing insect protein for animal feed and pet food&#x27;<p>Surely nothing could go wrong feeding herbivorous animals a diet of insect protein...


type: comment
by: StephenHerlihyy
text:
  Little bit of both. Pi still uses a sort of unique boot sequence due to it’s heritage. Most devices will have the CPU load the bootloader and then have the OS bring up the GPU. Pi sort of inverts this, having the GPU leading the charge with the CPU held at reset until after the GPU has finished it’s boot sequence.<p>Once you get into the CPU though the Aarch64 registers become more standardized. You still have drivers and such to worry about and differing memory offsets for the peripherals - but since you have the kernel running it’s easier to kind of poke around until you find it. Pi 5 added someone complexity to this with the RP1 South Bridge which adds another layer of abstraction.<p>Hopefully that all makes sense. Basically the Pi itself is backwards while everything else should conform. It’s not Arm specific, but how the Pi does things.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
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  Actually no. And I think Rob Pike must have listened to George Carlin at some point. &quot;Mother nature? Yeahhhh, she was asking for it.&quot;


type: comment
by: dysoco
text:
  I attempted to read this and it was very interesting and greatly written but I had to drop it. This was worse than a horror book, nothing scarier to me than to think about terminal illnesses.


type: comment
by: jaggederest
text:
  In the 80s my uncle had digital clocks that used an antenna to tune into the atomic clock time signal that (was&#x2F;is?) broadcast nationwide. I&#x27;ve long wished that it was incorporated into stoves, microwaves, essentially everything that isn&#x27;t an internet device (yet... sigh)<p>Sadly I think the actual antenna and hardware were relatively large since it&#x27;s a long wave signal, but maybe with SDR it&#x27;ll all fit on the head of a pin these days.


type: comment
by: spwa4
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  The UAE.<p>(which is why many of EU&#x27;s rich are domiciled there, which also means they&#x27;re not counted in the EU&#x27;s GINI coefficient. Almost no US citizens do the same, because of how the tax system works)


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
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  I don&#x27;t think history is on your side there.  Disengagement might be a small first step, but for no rebellion worth mentioning was disengagement in any way ultimate.<p>Rebellion is about stripping people of power.  The disengagement you&#x27;re describing, if not followed up by a different sort of reengagement, would merely be getting out of the power&#x27;s way.


type: comment
by: a_t48
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  If it has a GPS already, it’s really easy to fall into the trap of just using it, but point taken. Then main requirement is accurate moment to moment time. Using GPS as the master clock mostly makes sense there.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  You can do this pretty easily with Let’s Encrypt, to my knowledge. You can request resistance every 30 days, for example, which would give you a ladder of three 90 day certificates.<p>Edit: but to be clear, I don’t understand <i>why</i> you’d want this. If you’re worried about your CA going offline, you should shorten your renewal period instead.


type: comment
by: Karliss
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  Few more additional ones, more about editing than just rendering:<p>The style change mid ligature has a related problem. While it might be reasonable not to support style change in the middle of ligature, you still want to select individual letters within ligatures like &quot;ff&quot;, &quot;ffi&quot; and &quot;fl&quot;. The problem just like with color change is that neither the text shaper nor program rendering text knows where each individual letter within ligature glyph is positioned. Font simply lacks this information.<p>From what I have seen most programs which support it use similar approximation as what Firefox uses for coloring - split the ligature into equal parts. Works good enough for something like &quot;fi&quot;, &quot;fl&quot; not so much for some of ligatures within programming fonts that combine &gt;= into ≥.<p>There are even worse edge cases in scripts for other languages. There are ligatures which look roughly like the 2 characters which formed it side by side but in reverse order. There are also some ligatures in CJK fonts which combine 4 characters in a square.<p>Backspace erases characters at finer granularity than it&#x27;s possible to select them.<p>With regards to LTR&#x2F;RTL selection weirdness I recently discovered that some editors display small flag on the cursor displaying current position direction when it&#x27;s in mixed direction text.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>the proper response is punching them in the face and throwing them onto the ground so people can step over (or on) them</i><p>The proper response to anyone doing this is jail time and a flight ban. The person with a bag delayed everyone by seconds. The person having an emotional breakdown will cost folks minutes.


type: comment
by: WickyNilliams
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  Of course I have no sway, politically or otherwise, but I would have happily given credit to Trump where it was due if it panned out.<p>But Israel does not seem to have abided by the ceasefire, and the larger peace plan now feels like it&#x27;s going to be stitch up for the Palestinian people.<p>It is definitely tragic


type: comment
by: Eddy_Viscosity2
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  The comment does not say that EU does not have greed, rather that it recognizes this basic human tendency and puts up regulations to mitigate it where it can. The US on the other hand just lets it run rampant.


type: comment
by: nandomrumber
text:
  Is there any evidence that the fall in birth rates is <i>caused by</i> humans having produced reality TV shows?<p>I’d say there is better evidence to suggest the fall in birth rates is predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children, and enabling the invention of the <i>single mother</i> who survives on government largesse. Separating church and state appears to be contributing at least to some extent.<p>Single mothers, and women having their first child in their late 20’s or 30’s, appear to be maladaptive.


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
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  &gt; Then it’s not easy enough to deal with is it?<p>I mean, the solutions are easy, getting people to vote for them is a problem, although a problem more specific to the US.<p>&gt; And capitalism seems to have created this situation so you could are the that this is inherent in the system.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t say that, given most countries capitalist systems were able to deal with or avoid that situation altogether. Rather than this problem being inherent to capitalism, it seems it is the result of specific events that unfolded in the US. Really, it can all be traced back to Reagan.


type: comment
by: yieldcrv
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  that&#x27;s alright, FOSS is 40 years old and has an adjective and noun in front and behind &quot;open source&quot; for a reason<p>this is a reversion to the mean


type: comment
by: xuhu
text:
  Oh god, this is what they&#x27;ll implement eventually. Each passenger will have to put their bag 15 rows down from their seat.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
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  You&#x27;re oversimplifying (to be fair, so did I). There is usually a cost&#x2F;quality tradeoff. In the long run I think every major country could figure out how to make things with any given level of quality, and have certain costs in the same ballpark. But our labor costs are higher than nearly any other country. Chinese labor is currently very cheap.<p>&gt;Western companies should have been doing this. I feel that Tesla tried and never really got there. Protectionism alone won&#x27;t make it happen.<p>Just because some people online claim they want $10k EVs doesn&#x27;t mean they would buy them. It also doesn&#x27;t mean that we could make them for that price, at any level of effort. We pay auto workers WAY more than the Chinese pay theirs.<p>Protectionism is why we have not already been flooded with crappy cars from overseas. We do not allow garbage vehicles to be imported. Neither do other countries. Of course, forcing people to buy cars at higher prices or different quality points inhibits domestic innovation. But if the industry dies because of ideological purity, we would be worse off as a nation than we would be driving cars that cost slightly more or lack certain features.


type: comment
by: oldputput
text:
  Yes, you personally. Do you believe you could be fooled by any LLM, unable to ascertain if the words came a human or not? By simply asking questions and getting responses?


type: comment
by: musesum
text:
  Has California Law changed, since 2015?<p>My company was acquired by another company that had in-house lawyers. California Law states that you have rights to your own IP, when produced on your hardware and on your own time. So, I was careful to air gap all my work on a separate computer. Meanwhile, the acquiring company ask me to sign an employment agreement. Its terms restated the California law in very ambiguous terms. I couldn&#x27;t tell if I was declaring rights to my own IP or signing away my rights. So, I asked them: &quot;which is it?&quot; Their replay was &quot;Yes.&quot;  ... I was an employee for a day.


type: comment
by: thayne
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  Or if there are practical, affordable, alternatives.<p>If there is low cost public transit available, then a toll could be an incentive to use public transit instead of driving. But if there is no other viable transportation option, then it is effectively just a regressive tax.


type: comment
by: nl
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  Windows 2 was an interesting moment in computing history.<p>Microsoft wasn&#x27;t the dominant player and was sort of the underdog in many ways. Lotus was usually considered a more important company (Lotus 123 was huge) and WordStar dominated word processing.<p>The idea of the office suite hadn&#x27;t taken off.<p>There were multiple competing GUI shells (GEM was popular and considered better than Windows).<p>Other non-PC, non-Mac computers were legitimate choices. Commodore, Atari, Tandy, Amstrad all had non-PC lines that sold really well.


type: comment
by: oblique
text:
  Each server on a federated platform has control over how content retrieved through ActivityPub is delivered to its users. A healthy federated network allows competitions between &quot;algorithms&quot; for the same content. The social graph can be identical, but how it&#x27;s traversed differs.<p>Think about how platforms have algorithmic comment ranking now, where two users who open the same comment section can see different top comments. This is a corporation or state (think tiktok) directly influencing how someone sees what their community thinks.<p>I don&#x27;t see the bitcoin comparison.


type: comment
by: Alupis
text:
  Wealthy people fund all sorts of non-profitable things, ie. non-profits, charities, philanthropic initiatives, etc.<p>Look at Bill Gate&#x27;s philanthropy over the years. There&#x27;s <i>thousands</i> of others, including all of the Hollywood Celebrities that like to crow about the climate so much.<p>The NCAR was spending less than $150MM per year - it&#x27;s not some outrageous amount of money for donors to fund.


type: comment
by: dboreham
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  JS on the server seemed to me to be a solution looking for a problem. We already had plenty of arguably adequate server side languages. JS was the weird language you were forced to code in for the browser so why on earth would you want to use it elsewhere? Well I suppose the answer was &quot;because there&#x27;s a zillion people who know how to use it&quot;. But that wasn&#x27;t true until it was.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>that is a superior system</i><p>It’s more robust and less efficient. Transaction costs—and opportunities for middlemen—will increase. But the chances that your country’s economy is entirely shut down on the whim of one man in Washington is reduced.<p>&gt; <i>the BRICS system is based on honoring multiple currencies</i><p>The BRICS system is nonsense, as evidenced by basically nobody using it beyond a totem amount. Both the PBoC and RBI have superior settlement systems they could open up if they wanted to. Neither does because neither wants an unrestricted capital account.


type: comment
by: nebster
text:
  Is there a reason why I&#x27;m seeing squares between each of the characters in your message? It&#x27;s making it pretty hard to read...<p>I&#x27;m using Chrome on Android


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  So in other words it’s not an industry that people around the world aspire to work in nor will pridefully tell you that the work in.


type: comment
by: flowerlad
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  Do services such as K8S ingress and Azure web apps allow you to specify multiple certificates?<p>Update: looks like the answer is yes. So then the issue is people not taking advantage of this technique.


type: comment
by: Terretta
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  &gt; <i>I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human languageI believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language</i><p>Ask any human client buying dev work from a web agency how &quot;natural language&quot; spec works out for them.<p>It&#x27;s not clear to me at all that &quot;natural language&quot; alone is ideal -- unless you also have near real time iteration of builds.  If you do, then the build is a concrete manifestation of the spec, and the natural language can say &quot;but that&#x27;s not what I meant&quot;.<p>This allows messy natural language to vector towards the solution, &quot;I&#x27;ll know it when I see it&quot; style.<p>So, natural language shaping iteratively convergent builds.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  It may have been zero-cost to the sender but it is <i>not</i> zero cost to the receiver. Just conceiving of this is wrongdoing.


type: comment
by: idorosen
text:
  Yup! I was referring to the original TrueTime&#x2F;Spanner papers, not whatever&#x27;s currently deployed. The original paper makes reference to distributed ordering guarantees at the milliseconds&#x27; scale precision, which implies many more transactions in flight in the uncertain state and coarser distributed ordering guarantees than the much tighter upper bound you can set with nanoseconds&#x27; precision and microseconds&#x27; comms latency...


type: comment
by: mindcrime
text:
  I never stopped listening to mp3&#x27;s, at least not altogether. I do spend quite a bit of time listening to music  these days using Youtube &#x2F; YT music, but I do still listen to my local collection at times. And I buy mp3 albums from Amazon every once in a while.<p>For listening I&#x27;ve mostly used xmms over the years, but recently I&#x27;ve been using Audacious[2] mostly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XMMS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XMMS</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;audacious-media-player.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;audacious-media-player.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: bc569a80a344f9c
text:
  “Democracy in the US is failing because of the resources invested into public transit” might be the hottest take I’ve read in 2025. Nice.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  Neutrons turn spontaneously into protons, which is called beta decay, and which happens in any nucleus with too many neutrons. This includes the free neutrons, which decay into protons in minutes.<p>Neutrons and protons differ in their composition, a neutron being made of 2 d quarks + 1 u quark, while a proton is made of 1 d quark + 2 u quarks, much in the same way as a nucleus of tritium differs from a nucleus of helium 3, the former being made of 2 neutrons + 1 proton, while the latter is made of 1 neutron + 2 protons.<p>For the strong interactions, nucleons (i.e. protons and neutrons) and nuclei are analogous to what atoms and molecules are for the electromagnetic interaction.<p>The strong interaction attempts to neutralize the hadronic charge (a.k.a. color charge), while the electromagnetic interaction attempts to neutralize the electric charge.<p>To a first approximation, the hadronic charge is neutralized in nucleons and the  electric charge is neutralized in atoms.<p>However, because of the movement of the quarks inside of a nucleon and of the electrons inside an atom, the neutralization of the charge is imperfect and there remain some residual forces of attraction, respectively strong and electromagnetic, which bind the nucleons into nuclei and the atoms into molecules. Because they are just residual forces, the binding forces between nucleons in a nucleus are much weaker than those between quarks in a nucleon, similarly to how the binding forces between atoms in a molecule are much weaker than those that bind most of the electrons to the nucleus in an atom.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  He’s announced having done more things I might have liked, than he’s actually done. Lots of crowing about crap that never happens.


type: comment
by: Alupis
text:
  Very interesting. That still doesn&#x27;t imply the &quot;poor bear the brunt&quot; (the original GP&#x27;s assertion). Likely the inverse - since again, businesses and wealthy individuals are going to travel by vehicle vastly more than &quot;poor&quot; individuals.


type: comment
by: Scaevolus
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vxunderground&#x2F;status&#x2F;2005008887234048091" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vxunderground&#x2F;status&#x2F;2005008887234048091</a><p>Here&#x27;s the word on the internet streets:<p>- THE FIRST GROUP of individuals exploited a Rainbow 6 Siege service allowing them ban players, modify inventory, etc. These individuals did not touch user data (unsure if they even could). They gifted roughly $339,960,000,000,000 worth of in-game currency to players. Ubisoft will perform a roll back to undo the damages. They&#x27;re probably annoyed. I cannot go into full details at this time how it was achieved.<p>- A SECOND GROUP of individuals, unrelated to the FIRST GROUP of individuals, exploited a MongoDB instance from Ubisoft, using MongoBleed, which allowed them (in some capacity) to pivot to an internal Git repository. They exfiltrated a large portion of Ubisoft&#x27;s internal source code. They assert it is data from the 90&#x27;s - present, including software development kits, multiplayer services, etc. I have medium to high confidence this true. I&#x27;ve confirmed this with multiple parties.<p>- A THIRD GROUP of individuals claim to have compromised Ubisoft and exfiltrated user data by exploiting MongoDB via MongoBleed. This group is trying to extort Ubisoft. They have a name for their extortion group and are active on Telegram. However, I have been unable to determine the validity of their claims.<p>- A FOURTH GROUP of individuals assert the SECOND group of individuals are LYING and state the SECOND GROUP has had access to the Ubisoft internal source code for awhile. However, they state the SECOND GROUP is trying to hide behind the FIRST GROUP to masquerade as them and give them a reason to leak the source code in totality. The FIRST GROUP and FOURTH GROUP is frustrated by this<p>Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?


type: comment
by: macinjosh
text:
  As someone who barely ever drives but still has to pay the same yearly car taxes as everyone else I welcome this. We should be making driving more expensive. It’s deadly, polluting, and traffic wastes so many people’s time.


type: comment
by: bluerooibos
text:
  Quite cool!<p>I&#x27;d love an easy way to connect to and run an existing GitHub&#x2F;GitLab repo in a VM and spin it up, and iterate on that and be able to open PRs etc from there.


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
text:
  Yes, but global reserves are the domestic total foreign debit, and the government does not control that one. (I mean, it can weight in how it grows, but it&#x27;s not the one that makes it.)


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  I don&#x27;t see how &quot;Addictive feed&quot; is circularly defined. The definition given is [1]:<p>&gt; &quot;Addictive feed&quot; shall mean a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, either concurrently or sequentially, are recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information associated with the user or the user&#x27;s device, unless any of the following conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another:<p>&gt; (a) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on information that is not persistently associated with the user or user&#x27;s device, and does not concern the user&#x27;s previous interactions with media generated or shared by other users;<p>&gt; (b) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, or technical information concerning the user&#x27;s device;<p>&gt; (c) the user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media, media by the author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user&#x27;s device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;<p>&gt; (d) the user expressly and unambiguously requested that specific media, media by a specified author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subdivision, be blocked, prioritized or deprioritized for display, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user&#x27;s device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;<p>&gt; (e) the media are direct and private communications;<p>&gt; (f) the media are recommended, selected, or prioritized only in response to a specific search inquiry by the user;<p>(&gt; g) the media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is exclusively next in a pre-existing sequence from the same author, creator, poster, or source; or<p>&gt; (h) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is necessary to comply with the provisions of this article and any regulations promulgated pursuant to this article.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;laws&#x2F;GBS&#x2F;1500" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;laws&#x2F;GBS&#x2F;1500</a>


type: comment
by: adamwong246
text:
  All petroleum was created from ancient forests before the evolution of microorganisms that could decompose fiber, so the plant material was simply buried and gradually became petroleum. Above ground, evolution produced organisms which could break down fiber. My point being, that not only is petroleum very useful, it is exceptionally rare on a geological timeline (at least on this planet ). It&#x27;s like a cosmic trust fund, and like most trust fund recipents, we utterly squandered it. We took all this free energy, burned it to power ai slop, and poisoned ourselves in the process. We should have been using that oil to push humans out of the gravity well to Titan where petroleum is abundant. But no, we wanted big cars, cheap electricity and single use utensils.<p>Edit: I was mistaken, confusing coal and petroleum. While petroleum comes from microscopic ocean life, coal forms from the remains of terrestrial plants.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  Fot the Pi you have to rely on the manufacturer&#x27;s image too. It does not run a vanilla arm64 distro


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  I know almost nothing about bio, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can answer. But I had the same thought -- one treatment for 18 months of relief sounds great! even people that _are_ lactose tolerant often lose tolerance as they age, so it seems like this could have wide appeal. Do it ~30 times and you could be lactose-tolerant your whole life.


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  To the skin? Probably not.<p>Heroin addicts and presumably anyone else who frequently injects into a <i>vein</i> can cause damage to the veins.


type: comment
by: rnewme
text:
  Very similar to something I have been building this year. Do you already have hardware side ideas anywhere?


type: comment
by: jaggederest
text:
  Not to be a downer but there&#x27;s also &quot;both&quot; as an option.<p>There&#x27;s actually a 3rd option, possibly concurrent with the others, which is that silver usage has suddenly dramatically increased and the new demand has forced a higher equilibrium price, but I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s happening here.


type: comment
by: tlhunter
text:
  This reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiant.computer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiant.computer&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  The idea was that I figured you’d consider that some things are valuable in ways that don’t involve money. Unfortunately I think the conclusion here is that you actually truly believe that there is nothing that cannot be bet if a suitable market could be formed for it. Of course, I should have realized this, because by placing bets in general you are in fact taking a financial position in the concept of betting markets.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  They also chose a car that&#x27;s extremely heavy (by virtue of the battery), so they create more road wear per mile than the average American car. The point is that tax rate seems fair.


type: comment
by: Alupis
text:
  Public transit systems are only effective in highly-dense, urban settings.<p>Toll roads are often not within dense urban cities - usually on the outskirts, suburbs, highways, bridges and more. Public transit simply doesn&#x27;t work in these places because of how large and spread-out the US is.


type: comment
by: mattmaroon
text:
  They will when supplies eventually dwindle. We were saved from peak oil only by the invention&#x2F;cheapening of fracking followed by the advent of horizontal drilling and unlocking of oil in shales. It&#x27;s unlikely any such windfall will occur again, and even if it does that merely kicks the can down the road.


type: comment
by: ggoo
text:
  Just a thought but you could probably argue that the US is the largest and most advanced of the capitalist systems in the world, and that makes it somewhat of a bellwether for the future of other capitalist countries.


type: comment
by: magnitudes
text:
  No, I’m saying AS OF Dec 2025. 2025 itself being a step change in that  coding agent adoption has undergone a step change as a result of model quality and agent interface being good enough.


type: comment
by: conception
text:
  It’s not an expensive good - its a commons. The HOV lanes are “rich people super freeways” they are there to help mass transit.


type: comment
by: kllrnohj
text:
  &gt; If we really want to compare, I bet a refurbished Thinkpad would probably be about the same price as the typical Framework mainboard of similar performance.<p>And a used laptop is cheaper still! Which is all entirely irrelevant to the original point and the goal posts aren&#x27;t even in view anymore. Finding cheaper products that aren&#x27;t equivalent isn&#x27;t exactly hard. If the singular thing you want is CPU performance then a laptop is a bad idea in the first place.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  I&#x27;m obviously talking about maintaining spare production capacity. Far worse things than higher prices would happen if we actually had crops fail. If the government stopped requiring ethanol, there would be fewer farmers (although a few might convert to other crops, some land is not suitable for many different crops).


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  Semi trucks pay huge amounts in gas taxes because they guzzle gas like nobody&#x27;s business. It&#x27;s only the EVs that aren&#x27;t paying for their road wear in gas taxes.


type: comment
by: 476392647282
text:
  Let&#x27;s start with HN readers whose wealth exceeds $16000 and thus 200% of the global median wealth.


type: comment
by: mikestew
text:
  Now you&#x27;ve moved the goal posts to about half of your original claim. And it&#x27;s still not accurate (links have already been provided elsewhere in this thread). And the only thing I&#x27;ve owned in the last 30 years that gets 25 mpg is a camper van (and, no, that thing doesn&#x27;t move anywhere <i>near</i> 15K miles&#x2F;year).


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  I actually think I&#x27;m trying Just to get more out of the electronics where others can&#x27;t match what I had decades ago.to get to where your at.<p>I like programming. I want to start a company and hire smart people.<p>But I don&#x27;t want that to be my  main means of support.<p>&gt;Just to get more out of the electronics where others can&#x27;t match what I had decades ago.<p>I&#x27;m forced to assume you have a particular niche here.<p>I hope to be able to write code as long as I&#x27;m here, but I want it to be a hobby when I&#x27;m old.<p>Hopefully the hobby includes collaborations with others. A lot of people have vanity wine shops and book stores which lose money, I want a vanity game studio ( maybe music production software too).


type: comment
by: senfiaj
text:
  Maybe. But I remember one game developer told that they face even a more challenging problem, which is the synchronization between players in multiplayer real-time games. Just imagine different users having significantly different network latencies in a multiplayer shooter where a couple milliseconds can be decisive. Someone makes a headshot when the game state is already outdated. If you think about this you can appreciate how it&#x27;s complicated just to make the gameplay at least not awful...


type: comment
by: tonfa
text:
  That&#x27;s a nice thing in Switzerland, even if developed with company resources, only what you&#x27;re being asked to do belongs to the company.<p>Things that are done in the course of employment (but aren&#x27;t part of the contractual obligations) would often need to be disclosed and the company could license it. IP would typically still be owned by the employee.<p>Obviously things done outside of work would be even more clearly owned by the employee.<p>I wonder if any other country has a similar system.


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  &gt; However this doesn&#x27;t reduce consumption, it just shifts the consumption to the developing world<p>This is true if production levels aren&#x27;t responsive to prices, but I see no reason that would be the case. Petroleum production levels are known to be quite responsive to upward price movements.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
text:
  Love that I am not alone in this thinking! I test it on embedded systems (ex now Raspberry Pi 5) coupled with ESP32 as a sidecar. So, the core OS is running on the Pi and is reading data off the ESP32-connected sensors, basically.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  There&#x27;s no future-proof suggestion that&#x27;s immune to the government declaring it a crime.<p>If you want a suggestion for secure messaging, it&#x27;s Signal&#x2F;WhatsApp. If you want to LARP at security with a handful of other folks, GPG is a fine way to do that.


type: comment
by: garciasn
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;FYFRGDA188S" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;FYFRGDA188S</a><p>Federal Receipts as a Percent of GDP measures total government revenue relative to the size of the economy, serving as a standardized way to track the federal tax burden over time.<p>Although the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s indeed exceeded 90%, federal receipts hovered around 17% of GDP; this was nearly identical to current levels, because loopholes and high income thresholds (roughly equivalent to $2MM for single&#x2F;$4MM for couples) meant almost no one actually paid that top rate.<p>The effective tax rate for the top 1% was closer to 42% rather than 90%, demonstrating that extremely high statutory rates on paper do not necessarily generate proportionally higher government revenue.


type: comment
by: throw20251220
text:
  No. There is no “you” in this context. There is ”itself”. They don’t want to pay for it because they apparently don’t agree with the outcome. The government is willingly giving up its own right to speak at its own expense. Those 800 people who will get laid off can start a gofundme and continue their own free speech.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Funny: maybe it&#x27;s my ad blocker, but if go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StallmanWasRight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StallmanWasRight&#x2F;</a> (old-school Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. &quot; -- Richard M Stallman</i><p>&gt; <i>Essential reading [...] People with similar ideas: [...] Vaguely related: [...]</i><p>&gt; <i>Rules:</i><p>&gt; <i>1. Memes and shitposts allowed only on Mondays</i><p>&gt; <i>2. Try to flair your posts</i><p>&gt; <i>3. WWRMSD?</i><p>But if I go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StallmanWasRight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StallmanWasRight&#x2F;</a> (new-style Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:<p>&gt; <i>Stallman was Right<p>&gt; </i>Nobody listens to him. But he was right all along.*<p>&gt;  <i>r&#x2F;StallmanWasRight Rules</i><p>&gt; <i>1  Memes only on Mondays</i><p>&gt; <i>2 no-spam-brigading</i><p>Is the first UI for hackers, and the second one for mindless doomscrolling?


type: comment
by: navigate8310
text:
  It&#x27;s a shame this game has to pander to eSports fanatics rendering it into a completely hollowed out soulless experience. From the early days of Operation Chimera to selling half of your stake and IPs to Tencent, Ubisoft has seen it all.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  We&#x27;re geeks: I know my car is running QNX for it&#x27;s nav and audio (and certainly some other things) and, as a geek, I love it. So thank you so so very much! (it&#x27;s a Porsche from 2013 btw)


type: comment
by: Group_B
text:
  Can’t help but laugh a bit. Not a great day for Ubisoft. Hopefully this didn’t ruin the holidays for too many employees. That would absolutely suck to get a call in for this.


type: comment
by: narrator
text:
  Another example of leftists not understanding things that are obvious.  Just because you&#x27;re protesting doesn&#x27;t mean you can do things that would be illegal if you weren&#x27;t protesting.  That I have to explain this to you is really annoying.


type: comment
by: watersb
text:
  35 years ago, protesters blocked the Golden Gate Bridge.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure they were protesting the war with Iraq (Bush the First) in response to Iraq&#x27;s invasion and capture of oil wells in Kuwait.<p>But far more clear is my memory of the searing rage of a coworker that day. She was <i>flying</i> on it, the hatred coming out of her mouth.<p>It shocked me for a couple of reasons. She was close in age to me, just out of school. I think that my college years had led me to presume to most young people would be more sympathetic to opposition of general warfare. There was lots of talk of forcing military enlistment among people our age.<p>But the main reason was that the trigger for her rage was the temporary threat to her right to drive her car wherever she wanted to.<p>You think Americans are nuts about their guns, don&#x27;t you <i>ever</i> threaten their right to kill people with cars.<p>Any sympathy she could have felt for the protesters&#x27; cause was <i>gone</i> because they blocked a highway.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  Many places already are in demographic crisis. &quot;Not dwindling yet&quot; but the fix is in. It will dwindle as soon as old people start dying.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Yes.. you&#x27;ve known this for 8 months: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43988512">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43988512</a>


type: comment
by: nacozarina
text:
  P2P<p>Re-imagine anything as P2P. A ‘remix’ of git was recently released called radicle. Reimagined git with no central server.<p>Do that for literally anything.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  A 9 year old random FPS game.<p>WTF happened to non-shooter games? I am so bored of these FPS variations.


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
text:
  quite appreciate everyone chiming in the comments to help others reach their goals.<p>mine are rehash from this year (which failed!) with a new one:<p>- focus on health: specifically getting back on track and maintaining a sustainable routine<p>- consume less, make more: less passive pastime<p>- explore side hustles: to encourage the previous, try to fill in a (very) small market gap using what i know or want to learn


type: comment
by: snickell
text:
  This is allocating public property, not personal.<p>The money raised by auctioning access is of some public benefit, but is it enough to offset the deep unfairness of the public granting, for example, software engineers a shorter commute on average than teachers?


type: comment
by: blell
text:
  Maybe we have different concepts of what a group chat is. To me, group chats have my friends, and we will never invite anybody who is not already a friend of everybody. They are supposed to be high-trust environments.


type: comment
by: wccrawford
text:
  This is <i>absolutely</i> social media.  And like all addicts, people here loudly proclaim that it&#x27;s less toxic.<p>Whether or not is it indeed less toxic is up for debate.


type: comment
by: danpalmer
text:
  I see your point, I do agree that it&#x27;s best to go into any situation assuming good faith. The problem is that the airline industry and those sorts of big corporations have already proven that they do not generally act in good faith (at least in the countries I have experience with – UK, AU, US). They have already lost the trust and the responsibility is on them to rebuild it.


type: comment
by: cge
text:
  Even in emergency situations, the idea that the best outcome for passengers is achieved when they leave everything behind does involve placing trust in the crew and the authorities around the situation.  If you&#x27;re in a situation where that trust is no longer there, ignoring rules and going for a bag can make sense, which is one of the reasons why that trust is important.<p>I&#x27;d prefer not to go into extensive detail, but I was once a passenger involved in a shipwreck where I did not trust the crew or the country we were in, and it was a somewhat similar situation of needing to get off the ship immediately, with the implication that everything should be left behind.<p>Disregarding that and instead grabbing my small backpack with a satellite phone and cell phone, a GPS system and camera, my passport, a jacket, and similar items was, in hindsight, a very good decision.  Without that bag, we would have been in a very sketchy situation, entirely under the control of the crew and shipowner, in a corrupt country where the shipowner was well-connected.<p>Depending on the situation, it&#x27;s not necessarily a matter of compensation for expensive possessions.  Do you have any means of outside communication that isn&#x27;t controlled by a group that might not have your best interests in mind?  Do you have any alternative (eg, communication, documentation, or means of payment) if they decide to make your treatment dependent on what you are willing to sign, or if they decide to simply abandon you, or worse?  Even during the emergency itself: is the emergency equipment that is supposed to be there going to be there?  Is it going to be functional?  Do you trust the crew to actually help you?<p>With all that said: going for an overhead bag in an emergency on a plane is ridiculous and dangerous; if something is so critical, it would make more sense to have it in a pocket (to be fully compliant), or at least immediately accessible in a small bag.


type: comment
by: gethly
text:
  Silver is limited in supply. The production is actually in deficit for years now, as silver gets used up and there is very little recycling.<p>Oil on the other hand is infinite.


type: comment
by: amelius
text:
  But wait, if you lose tolerance then there must be some other mechanism involved because your genes stay the same as you age.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
text:
  Thanks, haven&#x27;t seen it before, but love the idea of it. It certainly takes the concept a lot futher that I intended with this project. My goal is far is to relyt on well-supported open source tools and frameworks, and give both the software and hardware flexibility for people to create what they need. Think of it like FlipperZero, but for outdoors


type: story
by: teleforce
title: Insights from Paper: FoundationDB:A Distributed Unbundled Transactional KV Store
url:
  https://hemantkgupta.medium.com/insights-from-paper-foundationdb-a-distributed-unbundled-transactional-key-value-store-82d977fd2a5d


type: comment
by: emerongi
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s already becoming a common strategy<p>I&#x27;ve taken mental health leave (not due to a PIP) and my productivity before and after was significantly different. It was <i>great</i> for my employer that I took it. I&#x27;m quite sure I would&#x27;ve eventually ended up with a PIP if I hadn&#x27;t taken it sooner myself, and the best remedy on a PIP would have been to take mental health leave. Not as a strategy as such, but literally because it would have been the best solution (and I think the only one).


type: comment
by: afiori
text:
  I think it should be mostly ad-hoc methods:<p>if you have a website put your keys in a dedicated page and direct people there<p>If you are in an org there can be whatever kind of centralised repo<p>Add the hashes to your email signature and&#x2F;or profile bios<p>There might be a nice uniform solution using DNS and derived keys like certificate chains? I am not sure but I think it might not be necessary


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  I think the US is rather unique from other capitalist countries in having such a large portion of its population being so poorly educated. This simply isn&#x27;t the case in EU or Commonwealth countries - in the US its led people to vote against their own interests, allowing companies to lobby for things that benefit the companies and hurt people, in an ever increasing trend. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s to do with the size of the country, but the education level of the population.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  Fair enough -- then let’s dive into substance.<p>I’m not objecting because I &quot;don&#x27;t like&quot; Rogan or Weinstein, and I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re religious or wittingly pushing ID. I’m objecting because the specific framing you&#x27;re repeating is decades old, well studied, and routinely mis-presented in popular media as if it repairs a flaw in evolutionary theory that doesn&#x27;t actually exist.<p>The idea that non-coding DNA, developmental constraints, or regulatory structure &quot;reduce the search space&quot; is not controversial, it’s foundational. What <i>is</i> misleading is presenting this as a fix for a &quot;pure random walk&quot; model of evolution. That model was abandoned generations ago and is mainly kept alive in popular discourse by critics of evolution (Creationists, the Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design proponents, Teach the Controversy perpetrators, anti-science podcasters, etc).<p>Weinstein calling this a &quot;pet theory&quot; is itself revealing. What he’s describing is not a theory in the scientific sense at all, and certainly not <i>his</i>. It’s a loose, personalized retelling of ideas that have been standard in evolutionary biology for decades -- regulatory architectures, developmental constraints, biased variation, and genotype–phenotype structure.<p>Labeling it a &quot;pet theory&quot; performs two rhetorical tricks at once: it makes old, well-established work sound novel and contrarian, and it subtly implies the field has overlooked something obvious that only an outsider is willing to say. That framing flatters the audience, but it misrepresents the science.<p>His &quot;pet theory&quot; is a non-refundable Monty Python dead parrot: widely known, long settled in the literature, yet periodically propped up and insisted to be alive as if it just said something profound.<p>Nothing here is hidden, suppressed, or newly discovered. What <i>is</i> new is the podcast packaging: stripping away the literature, resurrecting a long-abandoned strawman (&quot;pure random walk evolution&quot;), and then presenting the correction as a unique &quot;pet theory&quot; of personal insight rather than as settled biology. That move reliably generates the impression of deep insight without adding any.<p>If you want solid, non-Rogan, non-Weinstein sources, here are places to start:<p>Sean B. Carroll -- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Classic introduction to evo-devo, gene regulatory networks, and why morphology is highly constrained and reusable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_%28book%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_%...</a><p>Gerhart &amp; Kirschner -- The Theory of Facilitated Variation: Explicitly addresses how biological systems bias variation toward viable outcomes. This is probably the closest rigorous treatment of what Weinstein gestures at, minus the hype.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Facilitated_variation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Facilitated_variation</a><p>Wagner &amp; Altenberg (1996) -- Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability: Shows how genotype–phenotype mappings are structured, non-uniform, and historically constrained.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2410639" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2410639</a><p>Pigliucci &amp; Müller -- Evolution: The Extended Synthesis: Covers developmental bias, constraint, and non-coding DNA without implying evolution was ever a blind bit-flip search.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_evolutionary_synthesis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_evolutionary_synthesi...</a><p>Lenski et al. (2003–2015) -- Long-term E. coli evolution experiments: Direct experimental evidence of cumulative selection exploiting structured variation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...</a><p>And if you insist on watching dramatic youtube videos about junk DNA instead of reading books:<p>Exposing Discovery Institute Part 10: Casey Luskin Again (Because He&#x27;s Such a Loser Fraud)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VOnb0SZYZUI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VOnb0SZYZUI</a><p>None of this is new, hidden, or suppressed, or invented by Weinstein. It’s in textbooks and review papers.<p>The reason I push back hard -- and people get downvoted for recommending Rogan&#x2F;Weinstein (which you already knew, just not why) -- is that their signature move is to strip this literature of context, reintroduce a strawman (&quot;random walk evolution&quot;), present a well-known correction as contrarian revelation, and imply experts missed something obvious.<p>That pattern reliably manufactures doubt without producing new insight.<p>So no, my objection is not &quot;don&#x27;t listen to them&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s: don&#x27;t mistake and parrot repackaged, incomplete explanations for novel insight, especially when they&#x27;re framed as fixing a problem experts allegedly ignored.<p>If you want to understand this topic deeply, the literature above will take you much farther than a podcast -- or Weinstein’s dead parrot -- ever will.


type: comment
by: magnitudes
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  “Russia has excellent deterrence” is what you’re trying to say sanctions are not working to stop what Russia is doing to Ukraine? That not only demonstrates a bad understanding of geopolitics and how sanctions work, but also distracts from what we are actually talking about.<p>It’s not really clear to me what you are trying to say. There will be winners and losers and it will be hard to know who they will be. That has nothing to do with Anthropic&#x2F;OpenAI&#x2F;etc not being rational in their strategy...


type: comment
by: casey2
text:
  The real takeaway from the article is that you can rathole forever on ill-defined problems. Decide upfront whether you care about actual humans and their usecases or hypothetical humans and their hypothetical usecases.


type: comment
by: fao_
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  &gt; agentic AI<p>Yeah I don&#x27;t want LLMs near anything life or death, where a hallucination can kill, thank you very much.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
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  I know, I know, I was going to edit it to &quot;Git{Hub,Lab}&quot; in the beginning but oh well.<p>In any case, my comment just reflects on the fact that you had a series of patches that you could not squash or rebase. It stuck.<p>And the fact that I see many people use the abbreviation &quot;PR&quot; for something that is merely a patch or diff. For example you might send a diff to the tech@ mailing list, but  you should not refer to it as a PR.


type: comment
by: ajxs
text:
  Sydney has an extensive network of toll roads, and it&#x27;s a nightmare. The state government has outsourced the initial infrastructure development to a private company (Transurban), who pay off their development costs through collecting the toll. It costs taxpayers a fortune. Sydney&#x27;s road network is so poorly designed that it&#x27;s difficult to get anywhere without crossing a toll road if you actually value your time. People allege that the state government is deliberately designing bottlenecks into the road network to funnel traffic into toll roads (e.g. westbound traffic on Parramatta Road) and it&#x27;s difficult to disagree with this assessment. I live in the city and most of my driving is for leisure, yet somehow I still paid $850 in tolls over the last 12 months. Just in case anyone is wondering, there&#x27;s no &#x27;toll plaza&#x27;. Our toll roads have an automated collection system which operates via ALPR.


type: comment
by: thrance
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  Surely by now you must have noticed that the Right is completely uninterested in solving these things? Cutting social nets and criminalizing abortions will only aggravate these important issues.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t see why caring about the homeless prevents also fighting rampant gambling addictions?


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  I don’t think there’s a ton of benefit to the technique. If you’re worried about getting too close to your certificate expiry via automation, the solution is to renew earlier rather than complicate things with a ladder of valid certs.


type: comment
by: rjrjrjrj
text:
  12-15k miles in a Ford SuperDuty is equivalent to how far in a gas Civic? I suspect that driver isn&#x27;t being charged accordingly.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  Yep. Increased over-centralization in the US wouldn&#x27;t have been possible without transit.<p>And it&#x27;s the main reason for polarization. You have large cities (SF, Seattle, Chicago, NYC) that are the centers of economic growth, and you have thousands of small cities that are slowly dying. These large cities and their satellites are growing at an unsustainable rate, even though the _overall_ population is flat.<p>And then the cities themselves, they have a huge population of low-income workers who can&#x27;t afford to live there without some form of subsidies. It started with transit, but now the freaking NYC mayor is talking about subsidized grocery stores. This is another source of polarization.<p>Want to see an even starker example? Look at Japan. Tokyo is in a literal housing price bubble in a country with a _shrinking_ population.


type: comment
by: rustystump
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  &gt; so much content, it can keep me continually engaged<p>I find the total opposite to be true. I desperately want more engaging content to feed the gooey goblin in my brain but the overwhelming majority doesn&#x27;t cut it and this was before AI.<p>Almost every show I see on netflix, tiktok I glance at, or reddit post is absolute unflavored mash potatoes. Content for content&#x27;s sake. Feed me more content like scavengers reign and less frankenstein remakes or super hero slop.


type: comment
by: dvratil
text:
  Happened on the first day of my first  on-call rotation - a cert for one of the key services expired. Autorenew failed, because one of the subdomains on the cert no longer resolved.<p>The main lesson we took from this was: you absolutely need monitoring for cert expiration, with alert when (valid_to - now) becomes less than typical refresh window.<p>It&#x27;s easy to forget this, especially when it&#x27;s not strictly part of your app, but essential nonetheless.


type: comment
by: t-3
text:
  I use an mp3 player usually, but I do have an mpd setup with my NAS serving the files and other devices (desktop, media center, laptop) acting as satellites.


type: comment
by: BbzzbB
text:
  What:s the difference between reddit and HN beyond the form?<p>It seems to be obviously social media to me


type: comment
by: wging
text:
  uv supports PyPI, which still has packages that are Python-2-only. So even if you&#x27;re running python 3.8, it seems possible to try to declare a dependency on some &lt;3.0 code from PyPI. That means it&#x27;s an error they should detect.


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  I don&#x27;t know what toll plaza&#x27;s you&#x27;re going through.  Here&#x27;s my typical experience trying to get to a meeting in SFO:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com&#x2F;images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZ2WkXeVPiyMU49pDRRTU-MHOgnk2v9gSYtw&amp;s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com&#x2F;images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZ2WkX...</a>


type: comment
by: martin_henk
text:
  wonderful... this is something I hope would come up going forward. I see this a little in the japanese electronic dictionaries still being developed and released


type: comment
by: justatdotin
text:
  I think it is actually going to happen verrrrry slowly. but it will happen. Many many of my colleagues are understandably resisting. it will take a long time to balance out.


type: comment
by: some_furry
text:
  It might be worthwhile for someone to do this engineering work; e.g., to make attestations work even for folks that use platforms like Codeberg or self-hosted git.


type: comment
by: linguae
text:
  I think if Richard Stallman had no qualms about proprietary software, he would have remained in the Lisp machine world, either working for Symbolics or Lisp Machines, Inc., or perhaps starting his own thing.  Stallman was a Lisp hacker before starting GNU, and even when deciding on cloning Unix instead of creating a free Lisp-based OS, one of his first projects was GNU Emacs.<p>An interesting thought experiment is what Stallman would’ve done in that alternate timeline in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Lisp machines were killed off by advances in commodity hardware and compiler technology, the end of the Cold War (the US military was a large customer of Lisp machines), and the AI winter (Lisp used to be synonymous with AI).


type: comment
by: nuccy
text:
  Nature (laws of physics) is agains you on this: it is in fact impossible for everyone. What is in sync for some observers can be out of sync for others (depends on where they are, i.e. gravity, and how they relatively move). See general and special relativity principle of simultaneity [1].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Relativity_of_simultaneity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Relativity_of_simultaneity</a>


type: comment
by: tastyface
text:
  They are lying.<p>It&#x27;s a problem how many people seemingly have broken lie detectors these days. I blame social media for this one: far too easy to find a truthy bubble that validates your beliefs.


type: comment
by: notaustinpowers
text:
  Planes, sports, restaurants, stores, etc are all privately-owned or publicly-traded businesses. In the social contract, it&#x27;s expected that businesses offer services depending on what you&#x27;re willing to pay.<p>Driving and public transport is not a business, it is a civil service.<p>Should we begin to offer tiered plans for EMS as well?


type: comment
by: ethin
text:
  You have got to make a better website design. I&#x27;m a very curious person so was able to figure out what this was but you cannot expect all visitors of your website to be that way.<p>Also, stop charging for SSO&#x2F;OAuth2 integration. Seriously. There&#x27;s a huge list of services that stupidly charge for SSO&#x2F;OAuth integration at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sso.tax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sso.tax</a>, and this list needs to get smaller, not grow. SSO doesn&#x27;t cost anything to implement. Especially if I&#x27;m the one hosting it on my own infrastructure.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  That was my suspicion, but I&#x27;m not sure.  Obviously, they have other valid options.  Raise taxes.  Have the state borrow, build, and operate the road as a toll road at cost, etc.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  He covers it in the video -- the cells lining your intestine are replaced as you age. Unless you get the lactose-tolerant gene into your stem cells, the newly-generated intestine lining will have your &#x27;original&#x27; genetics, lacking the lactose tolerant gene. That said, it does sound like it&#x27;s fading gradually for him, not a sudden drop off.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
text:
  Agree with you on that, it was my concern too, but the way I think about it is access to information, the goal is not to provide hallucinations with a straight face (aka GPT), but rather use it as a way to extract necessary information fast. For instance, I have a built-in RAG that reads of growing collection on books on medical, survival, etc. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore-knowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dmitry-grechko&#x2F;waycore-knowledge</a>) that AI agent is using to answer questions. Moreover, it has a built-in safety loop to always inform users on the accuracy of the information, but also if the information request has an impact on health &amp; safety, it will warn users about it too.<p>So, I certainly see the inherited risk and problems, but mostly think about it as a means of information extraction


type: comment
by: spankibalt
text:
  &gt; &quot;[...] in the early 1980s it was the only x86 machine out there that could do hi-res (640x400) color graphics.&quot;<p>Mindset Mindset II.


type: comment
by: zhoujianfu
text:
  I think the right solution is charge whatever would maximize revenue, then distribute the revenues evenly among all residents&#x2F;voters&#x2F;whomever.


type: comment
by: adzm
text:
  &gt; Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?<p>Find out in the next episode of... Tales from Cyberspace!


type: comment
by: nawgz
text:
  After significantly more searching, you managed to cite less criticisms of Trump’s “good actions” by liberals than you managed to cite “good actions” themselves, and then to top it all off you tried to weakly justify that conclusion with some trite aphorism about individualism encompassing many outcomes.<p>Weak!


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt; I wonder if any other country has a similar system.<p>Many states in the United States have limitations on IP assignment that protect against overly broad contracts.<p>Employers write their contracts as broadly as possible with the understanding that state limitations will limit any overly broad claims.<p>California (where Google is headquartered) is one such state with IP assignment limitations, though I&#x27;m not sure how much of that was in place when this article was written nearly 3 decades ago.


type: comment
by: dextercd
text:
  You need external monitoring of certificate validity. Your ACME client might not be sending failure notifications properly (like happened to Bazel here). The client could also think everything is OK because it acquired a new cert, meanwhile the certificate isn&#x27;t installed properly (e.g., not reloading a service so it keeps using the old cert).<p>I have a simple Python script that runs every day and checks the certificates of multiple sites.<p>One time this script signaled that a cert was close to expiring even though I saw a newer cert in my browser. It turned out that I had accidentally launched another reverse proxy instance which was stuck on the old cert. Requests were randomly passed to either instance. The script helped me correct this mistake before it caused issues.


type: comment
by: throw20251220
text:
  TLS certificates… SSL is some old Java anachronism.<p>&gt; There’s no natural signal back to the operators that the SSL certificate is getting close to expiry.<p>There is. The not after is right there in the certificate itself. Just look at it with openssl x509 -text and set yourself up some alerts… it’s so frustrating having to refute such random bs every time when talking to clients because some guy on the internet has no idea but blogs about their own inefficiencies.<p>Furthermore, their autorenew should have been failing loud and clear, everyone should know from metrics or logs… but nobody noticed anything.


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
text:
  imho the dependency hell is a product of the dependencies themselves (a la node), especially the lack of version fixing in majority of projects.<p>conda already had the independence from python distribution, but it still had its own set of problems with overlap with pip (see mamba).<p>i personally use uv for projects at work, but for smaller projects, `requirements.txt` feel more readable than the `toml` and `uv.lock`. in the spirit of encouraging best practices, it is still probably simpler to do it with older tools. but larger projects definitely benefit, such as in building container images.


type: comment
by: emerongi
text:
  All public culture documents are bullshit. It always comes down to your direct manager and what they believe in.


type: comment
by: pansa2
text:
  Syntactically: From `~=` instead of `!=`, and no support for `+=` or `continue`, to free-form syntax with no statement separators - except in that one place where they&#x27;re necessary.<p>Semantically: Conflation of arrays and maps, conflation of `nil` and empty (both in tables and in function arguments), and the perennially-unpopular 1-based indexing.


type: comment
by: nuccy
text:
  As a user of WhiteRabbit, I can confirm a sub-10ps sync (two clocks phase lock) over 50km fiber connection for variable temperature of fiber (biggest problem of clock sync over fibers is temperature induced length change of the fiber itself, which needs to be measured and compensated).


type: comment
by: tt24
text:
  Why does the historical context make it funny? Is everything that references a historical event funny?


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  Yeah, completely agreed. I think there&#x27;s a strong argument to be made for Codeberg as a federated identity provider, which would allow attestations from their runners.<p>(This would of course require Codeberg to become an IdP + demonstrate the ability to maintain a reasonable amount of uptime and hold their own signing keys. But I think that&#x27;s the kind of responsibility they&#x27;re aiming for.)


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  &gt; But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck.<p>Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we&#x27;re trying to increase the odds. Nothing is sure. But if you play the game right, the odds of winning go up


type: comment
by: orionblastar
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winamp.com&#x2F;player" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winamp.com&#x2F;player</a> WinAmp has made a comeback.


type: comment
by: n1b0m
text:
  How is it infinite? Oil forms from ancient organic matter under intense heat and pressure, a process taking millions of years, making it non-renewable on human timescales.


type: comment
by: AYBABTME
text:
  Hydrocarbons can be synthesized.<p>edit: let me elaborate.<p>My point is that the chemical complexity (manufacturing uses) can be reproduced, and the energy storage density also can be. So really the gift of hydrocarbons under the ground is more that readily available energy is under our feet to help propel us towards higher levels sources of energy. IMO it’s a stepping stone and that’s effectively how humanity is using it.


type: comment
by: toss1
text:
  Yup<p>Evidently, the requirement for democracy in the US to survive is for the people who failed to vote for the only viable alternative to Trumpism must feel the suffering they are happy to visit on others, and so recognize that voting for &quot;my team&quot; incompetence is a bad idea.<p>The suffering is only beginning. It takes an insanely long time for large systems to show effects of bad decisions. Usually the party that has wrecked the economy in every presidency for the last 50 years benefits from the lag and the party of recovery gets blamed, putting the wrecking party back in power.  Perhaps this round of the wrecking party will be too effective, and blame will go where it belongs.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  This is dated 1997, so a lot could have changed since then.<p>You&#x27;re right that California has IP assignment limitation clauses that override anything in the boilerplate employment contracts. I know one person who blew up their job offer by trying to get it modified to limit the IP assignment clause, but the company had a hardline stance that they didn&#x27;t do one-off contracts with employees. Later they realized their state had already limited IP assignment, so the entire battle was moot.


type: comment
by: forbiddenvoid
text:
  It&#x27;s very presence in the list is already a drain on my attention that I didn&#x27;t ask for and do not want. The fact that it requires any action on my part to remove it from the queue is an issue in and of itself.


type: comment
by: pzo
text:
  remember EU had Nokia and Skype and that was before overregulation. What happenned? Both got sold out because EU doesn&#x27;t have money printer and petrodollar. EU cannot compete even if it would reduce taxes and decrease regulation because they cannot protect their best tech companies from being bought by dozen of billions of printed papers. Most even such companies are on US stock exchange because that&#x27;s another different money printer.


type: comment
by: blacksmith_tb
text:
  Sarcasm? 150-200M oz of silver are recycled annually[1]. Oil obviously is mostly burned and won&#x27;t be recoverable, and clearly finite (even if we managed to squeeze out more with fracking etc.)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physicalgold.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;how-much-silver-is-recycled-lost-or-expires-with-use&#x2F;#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20roughly%20150%E2%80%93200%20million%20ounces%20of%20silver%20are%20recycled%20worldwide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physicalgold.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;how-much-silver-is-rec...</a>


type: comment
by: 10000truths
text:
  Oh, there was plenty of internalized propaganda about civil disobedience being the &quot;wrong approach&quot; [0] - it is by no means a new phenomenon. Such criticism was common enough during the civil rights  movement that MLK addressed it in Letter from Birmingham Jail:<p>&gt; You may well ask: &quot;Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn&#x27;t negotiation a better path?&quot; You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;PropagandaPosters&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1l7b30j" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;PropagandaPosters&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1l7b30j</a>


type: story
by: rastrian
title: Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure
url:
  https://blog.rastrian.dev/post/why-reliability-demands-functional-programming-adts-safety-and-critical-infrastructure


type: comment
by: leptons
text:
  If you can&#x27;t see how obviously in peril the planet is, you&#x27;re just ignorant. It isn&#x27;t &quot;alarmist&quot;, <i>it&#x27;s reality</i>. Here&#x27;s the data I&#x27;m basing my opinions on:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berkeleyearth.org&#x2F;global-temperature-report-for-2024&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berkeleyearth.org&#x2F;global-temperature-report-for-2024...</a><p>IF you have other data that doesn&#x27;t show the temperature rising consistently and rather concerningly, then go ahead and share it.<p>Until those graphs start going down, we can project that they just keep going up. No, <i>the world isn&#x27;t ending &quot;$NEXT_YEAR&quot;</i>, nor will it &quot;end&quot;, but it will become extremely uncomfortable and rather dire for billions of people if the current trend continues - and it could happen a lot faster than you would be able to estimate. That&#x27;s why climate science is so important. We have to act, or the world is very likely to end up in a bad, bad place.<p>The big problem is more heat amplifies the problems and accelerates the heating. Those charts in the near future are likely to hockey-stick at some point, and then I&#x27;d like to see the gymnastics people will have to do to handwave it away.


type: comment
by: fao_
text:
  In this specific instance the code he built used a non-human lactase-enzyme producing gene, which he states in the retrospective is very likely the reason why his immune cells started attacking. There was also the matter of some of the other coding pieces being non-ideal.


type: comment
by: ancillary
text:
  Hm, this doesn&#x27;t seemed to be backed up by, say, PISA scores [1], by which the US looks very similar to its OECD peers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Programme_for_International_St...</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  It&#x27;s not DHH, though. This is like paying someone $20&#x2F;month to hold up a cardboard cutout of Einstein out the window of your study. It is neither immortal nor verily him.


type: comment
by: ghickPit
text:
  &gt; To be frank, at this point, GPG has been a lost cause for basically decades.<p>Why do high-profile projects, such as Linux and QEMU, still use GPG for signing pull requests &#x2F; tags?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.kernel.org&#x2F;process&#x2F;maintainer-pgp-guide.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.kernel.org&#x2F;process&#x2F;maintainer-pgp-guide.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qemu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;master&#x2F;devel&#x2F;submitting-a-pull-request.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qemu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;master&#x2F;devel&#x2F;submitting-a-pull-req...</a><p>Why does Fedora &#x2F; RPM still rely on GPG keys for verifying packages?<p>This is a staggering ecosystem failure. If GPG has been a known-lost cause for decades, then why haven&#x27;t alternatives ^W replacements been produced for decades?


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  I checked them out. I guess I just miss a time when Falcon 3.0 and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stunt_Island" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stunt_Island</a> sold really well.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  Registration fees are likely the same or close but when you factor in gas taxes (the original comparison here), the Ford is definitely paying more both based on fuel type and mpg.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  You&#x27;re the lucky one... they&#x27;re a&#x2F;b testing this and I get them flashing full size for a half second twice a day. I&#x27;ve tried blocking them at the firewall but their AI is so good now it can hack that in a couple of seconds, and they&#x27;re using what I&#x27;ve seen as input to their bypass. It won&#x27;t be long before we won&#x27;t be able to turn it off at all. Joe Jackson saw it coming...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GgqwdYAmoFQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GgqwdYAmoFQ</a>


type: comment
by: reactordev
text:
  Ubisoft kept making garbage and sacrificed their IP’s for the sake of keeping the company alive…<p>It was doomed.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  &quot;QCD force&quot; is the same thing as the &quot;strong&quot; force. There is no reason whatsoever to invent any new name.<p>There are several hierarchical levels at which the strong interaction and the electromagnetic interaction bind the components of matter.<p>The electromagnetic interaction attempts to neutralize the electric charge. To a first approximation this is achieved in atoms. The residual forces caused by imperfect neutralization bind atoms in molecules. Even between molecules there remain some even weaker residual attraction forces, which are the Van der Waals forces, which are thus at the third hierarchical level.<p>For the strong interaction, there are only 2 hierarchical levels, approximate charge neutralization is achieved in nucleons, which are bound by residual attractive forces into nuclei.<p>So the forces between the nucleons of a nucleus correspond to the inter-atomic forces from inside a molecule, not to the Van der Waals forces between molecules.


type: comment
by: darubedarob
text:
  Another dying regime , its capital without water due to missmsnagement, its proxies defeated by a much smaller enemy, its population majority in open rebellion. Imagine this islamic revolution thing is all you do and you are bad at it. There is defeat,like loosing a war, and then there is self crippling to the point of being unable to recover in the forseeable future, aka civilization ending defeat.


type: comment
by: amanaplanacanal
text:
  Why would you tax people&#x27;s income to pay for a highway? Fuel taxes and license fees would normally be the way to pay for transportation infrastructure.


type: comment
by: stouset
text:
  Annually, we consume more oil than we find additional reserves of. The difference is something like 12 times less than annual consumption, and the gap is widening.<p>If you’ve found a way to escape that arithmetic, I’m all ears.


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  It doesn&#x27;t matter who is on the receiving end of this. What matters is if this type of behavior is acceptable or not. Describing it as a &quot;harmless experiment&quot; and the reaction as a &quot;hissy fit&quot; shows a lack of critical thinking and empathy on your part.


type: comment
by: cool_dude85
text:
  And nowadays, if this happened in Florida, she could pretty credibly run the protesters down in the street and avoid even getting charged.


type: comment
by: pjc50
text:
  This has the air of a parody spy caper where the various people who have broken in keep tripping over each other.<p>The source leak is really interesting, though. We don&#x27;t often get to see game source, and it often has surprises in.


type: comment
by: snickell
text:
  Highways are almost always publicly owned monopolies. We, the public, choose to build them because they enrich all of us.<p>If you want to raise the money to buy land and build a private highway, price segment away. If you want to price segment a publicly owned and operate commons, it needs to be in the public interest.


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
text:
  &gt; Basically, loss of reserve status = hyperinflation.<p>That&#x27;s not exactly how hyperinflation works. You can&#x27;t use this as a predictable claim, hyperinflation is never predictable.<p>That said, yes, that would cause a lot of inflation. Normal inflation. And there&#x27;s a risk it causes hyperinflation.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>how being a net exporter relates to it being a myth. I don&#x27;t see the connection</i><p>Petrodollar a U.S. policy comes from the 1970s, when the U.S. guaranteed the House of Saud’s security in exchange for them selling their oil in dollars. The reason wasn’t to do some currency scheme, but to ensure the U.S. could always buy Saudi oil in a currency we controlled. Saudi Arabia then invested its profits in Treasuries, which closed the loop on Wall Street [1].<p>When America imported oil, keeping oil exporters close was strategically vital. Petrodollar recycling helped with that. Now that we don’t, it doesn’t.<p>&gt; <i>global trade of which oil is a major component</i><p>Like 4% [2][3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Petrodollar_recycling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Petrodollar_recycling</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oilprice.com&#x2F;Energy&#x2F;Crude-Oil&#x2F;Oil-Dominates-the-5-Trillion-Global-Commodity-Market.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oilprice.com&#x2F;Energy&#x2F;Crude-Oil&#x2F;Oil-Dominates-the-5-Tr...</a> <i>~$1.5tn in 2021</i><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unctad.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;global-trade-update-december-2025-global-trade-poised-record-breaking-2025-flows" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unctad.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;global-trade-update-december-...</a> <i>35tn in 2025</i>


type: comment
by: FireBeyond
text:
  Which of those are public infrastructure? (Notwithstanding that many times now there is private investment, which I don&#x27;t believe should be the case.)


type: comment
by: sbochins
text:
  I really wish this guy would write a blog post about LLMs. He had a great section about his lack of use of them at the end of this post. Like 90% of my code is now written by LLMs, but this guy is incredibly smart and is working on very challenging problems that require novel solutions. Would love to know more why the tech isn’t good enough and which approaches he’s tried.


type: comment
by: logicprog
text:
  I don&#x27;t disagree with Varoufakis necessarily on his technofeudalism hypothesis, but he makes several claims in this video that are just ~completely false~ misleading and poorly cited, as far as I can tell, and that annoys me, so I&#x27;m just going to do my best to respond to them here as a sort of vent LOL.<p>1. He claims that Google and Facebook and the like only spend 1% of their revenue paying their employees and that therefore any money that goes to them sort of stays out of the circular economy. As far as I can tell, there are absolutely no sources to back this up available online. Not from Google&#x27;s official reporting, and not even from him: he himself just states the number, but doesn&#x27;t explain how or where he got it from. In my search I haven&#x27;t found a case where he cites it, either. ~All I can really find is that Google&#x27;s operating expenses are around $261 billion as of this year[1], and their revenue was $385[2] — and since operating expenses are usually at least substantially payroll, it&#x27;s hard to tell.~ Edit: At least two commenters below did a quick back of the napkin calculation, multiplying the median salary of a Google employee by the number of Google employees to get something like 36 billion, which is about 10% of the companies overall revenue. So maybe that&#x27;s what he meant. But it would have been good for him to actually — first of all — not get the number an order of magnitude off, and second of all, to actually explain how he got that number!<p>2. Then he brings up the idea that someone&#x27;s Tesla was remotely deactivated. This was debunked[3]. Edit: Another commenter pointed out that maybe he meant this story where full self-driving got remotely disabled on a car that was bought secondhand[7]. This does match better the part where he mentioned that the car was sold secondhand before it got deactivated. So there&#x27;s that. But again, it would have been good if he had actually gotten his facts straight.<p>3. He brings up this idea that Teslas sell your user data Amazon. This is, at least, roundly contradicted by their legally binding privacy policy, and even according to the Mozilla Foundation there&#x27;s no evidence of Tesla ever selling driver data to a third party[4] (although they&#x27;ve been very, shall we say, uncareful about it in at least two instances, but those don&#x27;t resemble anything like what he&#x27;s claiming). One random user on a Tesla owners&#x27; forum got freaked out because they saw the car sending data to &quot;Amazon&quot;, but when they checked on the IP addresses, it became clear it was using just sending information to AWS servers, which are almost certainly run and owned by Tesla, not Amazon[5], which is what a technically savvy person would assume to begin with anyway.<p>4. He argues that Volkswagen electric cars can&#x27;t compete with Teslas because Volkswagen cars &quot;don&#x27;t have access to cloud capital&quot;, which he says gives Tesla an advantage because they do, based on point 3. But given that there&#x27;s absolutely no evidence of that anywhere, I feel like his entire argument crumbles, because it becomes very unclear how Tesla is benefiting from cloud capital in a way Volkswagen it is not. *Especially* since according to the Mozilla Foundation, Volkswagen not only gathers much <i>more</i> data about you, but <i>actually</i> actively sells it to third parties for advertising purposes, which they openly admit[6].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;GOOGL&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;operating-expenses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;GOOGL&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;ope...</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;GOOG&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;revenue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;GOOG&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;reve...</a> [3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;757594&#x2F;tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;757594&#x2F;tesla-cybertruck-deact...</a> [4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozillafoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacynotincluded&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozillafoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacynotincluded&#x2F;tesl...</a> [5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;threads&#x2F;uploaded-data-to-amazon.162582&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;threads&#x2F;uploaded-data-to-ama...</a> [6]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozillafoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacynotincluded&#x2F;volkswagen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozillafoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacynotincluded&#x2F;volk...</a><p>&quot;What does VW say they can do with this vast treasure trove of personal information, car data, and inferences they collect on you? Well, they use it to make more money, of course. Because selling cars isn&#x27;t a big enough business these days, now, your personal information is another gold mine for all car companies to tap into. And tap into it they do. VW says they can use it for their own personalized and targeted advertising purposes or those or their affiliates, business partners, or other third parties. They can share it with third parties who can use it for the commercial purpose of marketing their products and services to you. They also say they can use or disclose your de-identified data for &quot;any purpose.&quot; &quot;<p>[7]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-fe...</a>


type: comment
by: TheOtherHobbes
text:
  It didn&#x27;t. Or rather it did, but not for the obvious reasons.<p>Taxes are not required for spending. <i>Spending</i> isn&#x27;t required for spending, because ultimately government money is a proxy for power differentials and collective strategy.<p>Money defines which behaviours and which demographics are rewarded, and which are starved and punished. There are numbers and flow dynamics, but it&#x27;s primarily a social credit system, not a substance.<p>Taxes are really a way to control the relative power of some groups over others - a form of regulation.<p>So when you have events like the New Deal and high taxes on the super rich, that means the economy is tuned towards diminishing power differentials, expanding infrastructure, and access to opportunity.<p>Low taxes on the super rich means expanding power differentials, more rigid hierarchy, diminishing collective infrastructure, and decreasing access to opportunity.<p>Likewise with provision of public services. If healthcare is cheap, guaranteed, and widely distributed, that increases individual agency and diminishes hierarchy.<p>If it&#x27;s expensive and rationed by&#x2F;for corporate monopolies, it increases hierarchy and diminishes agency.


type: comment
by: ordersofmag
text:
  Science is distributed. Lots of researchers at lots of different institutions research overlapping topics. That&#x27;s part of its strength.  In the U.S. most basic research is funded by federal grants.  And as a results you&#x27;ll find that research in pretty much any science area you can imagine is funded by federal grants going to multiple different institutions.  In this case you&#x27;re confusing things by bringing in NOAA which is a government agency (part of the Dept of Commerce).  NCAR is a non-profit organization and competes for federal grant dollars with researchers at many other institutions (mostly universities).  So in that sense there is a strong parallel here to Trump wanting to shut down Harvard (another non-profit organizations at which many different researchers work) and someone saying &quot;doesn&#x27;t Stanford do research on similar topics?&quot;  Yes, there is some conceptual overlap, but in detail there is not. The bigger difference is that Harvard has a big endowment and so can survive (at some level) if the federal grants it has been getting stop flowing.  NCAR can&#x27;t.  Also, NCAR happens to have the experts and equipment (supercomputers) to do research that few other organizations can (none really in the U.S.). Harvard probably can&#x27;t lay claim to that except in very narrow niches....<p>For perspective the annual budget for NCAR is about half the amount being spend on the new White House ballroom.


type: comment
by: keernan
text:
  I have my own huge collection of my favorite music but, as it turns out, my carefully curated Pandora channel matches my music tastes so faithfully that it keeps introducing me to new music that I just love.<p>And it almost never plays a song that causes me to hit next. Of course, it took a long time to get the channel tuned just right - but now I play music for 5+ hours without interruption of nothing but music I love.


type: comment
by: KPGv2
text:
  &gt; I’d say there is better evidence to suggest the fall in birth rates is predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children<p>I&#x27;d say the evidence is inconclusive and could just as easily be explained by not telling men they needed to take on their share of the burden at home now that their women were no longer trapped at home doing unpaid, manual labor all day.<p>Instead, we&#x27;re letting people say &quot;gay sex includes giving a woman an orgasm instead of a pregnancy&quot; (an actual thing I&#x27;ve heard a right-wing influencer say right here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tH6uydPCX8Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tH6uydPCX8Q</a> ) and encouraging men to be more selfish and anti-woman.<p>Also who cares about a fall in birth rates? We need a fall in birth rates. Above replacement rate is mathematically unstable in the long term.<p>When people complain bout &quot;a fall in birth rates,&quot; they&#x27;re a mix of capitalists who need their profits to ever increase, and white supremacists who mean WHITE people need to have more babies because society is too BROWN now.<p>We&#x27;re about to have <i>hella</i> unemployment from too many people for too few jobs. We need fewer people.


type: comment
by: regenschutz
text:
  I (somewhat) recently switched from using MP3s to using streaming services. Personally, my music taste (and the amount of tracks that I listen to) is way more varied now than it was before, but I suppose that depends both on how you use streaming services and how you use local MP3s.<p>Back when I still used exclusively MP3s, I used Music on Console Player [0] on my personal computer and Snae Player [1] on my school&#x27;s chromebook, since we were only allowed to use web apps on our Chromebooks. On my phone I found VLC [2] to be the best app since it has so many features. I can highly recommend both programs.<p>I still have all three installed and use them whenever I don&#x27;t have internet. Although I haven&#x27;t updated my local music library in a while, so I am reminded of my old music tastes whenever I open either of them.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jonsafari&#x2F;mocp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jonsafari&#x2F;mocp</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snaeplayer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snaeplayer.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-android.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-android.html</a>


type: comment
by: alphazard
text:
  It depends. Positive real interest rates do not necessarily mean deflation, and deflation isn&#x27;t necessarily a bad thing.<p>As an example, you could give a loan for $1 to someone for 5% interest. In a year they pay you back, so now you have $1.05. That dollar could get you exactly the same amount (of real goods or services that you personally want) as last year, or it could get you more, or it could get you less. Inflation and deflation typically refer to the price of a basket of intrinsically valuable goods and services. That is separate from the interest rate which is just what you, the creditor, and the debtor shake hands over. If the dollar gets you the same basket as last year, then you are net better off because now you can buy the basket <i>and</i> you have $0.05 for lending to someone who was able to pay you back.<p>The missing variable here is the productivity of the rest of the economy, if the economy is growing, then you can see a decrease in dollars per basket (deflation), but that&#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing. The interest rate is sort of like a best guess for the productivity of the debtor.


type: comment
by: amelius
text:
  I was replying to this part of your comment:<p>&quot;even people that _are_ lactose tolerant often lose tolerance as they age, so it seems like this could have wide appeal.&quot;<p>My point is that people who are lactose tolerant as a child will have the same genes when they are older. So gene editing should have no effect, unless the mechanism is more complicated somehow.


type: comment
by: pfdietz
text:
  I know, right?  Stainless steel is objectively better.  Send the silver on to some valuable use, like making PV cells.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  The homeless meals and clothes closets have been in place for years.  Through administrations and legislatures of all kinds.  Nobody ‘solves the problem’, unfortunately.<p>There are limited resources.  That’s why you see churches feeding the hungry and clothing the needy, but probably not fighting gambling so much.  People are only able or willing to give so much.


type: comment
by: deaux
text:
  &gt; The times I&#x27;d taken twice that amount would turn me into a face twisted gargoyle.<p>Fantastic way to describe it, saving this one for later use.


type: comment
by: justatdotin
text:
  multi-agent collaboration on planning is definitely really valuable. I lean in to gemini&#x27;s long context and have it set up as a long-term observer who I consult about overall direction, project philosophy, patterns in fail and success, and prioritisation. This gives a different perspective from which to assess other agents&#x27; plans.


type: story
by: clintjhill
title: Show HN: attainable – The fastest and easiest way to design and deploy APIs
url: https://attainable.dev
text:
  This began as a passion project and an opportunity to learn new tech.<p>I&#x27;ve always experienced frustration developing APIs, especially the RESTful CRUD style of data APIs. It always felt like I was repeating the same patterns over and over again, and that was tedium I didn&#x27;t want. A little over a year ago, I wanted to learn more about Go, Firecracker microVM, and Svelte and thought &quot;Could I build an API framework that was just a simple description of resources? What would that look like?&quot;<p>That lead me to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&#x2F;</a>, which landed me on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io</a>, then <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rqlite.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rqlite.io</a>, and the further I got into it, the more I really liked what I had. It&#x27;s been over a year of learning and trying out all forms of tooling, CLIs, LSPs, and finally I landed on this.<p>So I decided to try my hand at making this a product. I&#x27;d really enjoy feedback about it and whether it&#x27;s something folks would use. Here&#x27;s hoping others feel the way I do about APIs and the developer experience building them!


type: story
by: hhs
title: 'The Tree of Life' review: The ancestor at the root of it all
url:
  https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-tree-of-life-review-the-ancestor-at-the-root-of-it-all-e50b7a04


type: comment
by: backtogeek
text:
  Yep and I have kept it really basic and simple, I just store them in a folder in &#x2F;home&#x2F;$user&#x2F;music and let jukebox scan and catalogue and I keep a subset on my phone, really that simple.... And you know what, it feels great, but then again, I am old enough to fondly remember just listening to a Walkman and being blown away.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  If only there was a way for a uniform working contract that employees could collectively choose. Oh wait, no, companies don’t like that either.


type: comment
by: sotix
text:
  My sports stadium was built with my taxpayer dollars. I can&#x27;t even watch the team on tv though.<p>We do sort of have tiered EMS with insurance and ambulance costs. When my buddy came to the US from India, he was told, &quot;unless you&#x27;re blessing out, call an Uber to the ER.&quot;


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  &gt; predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children<p>Who is “telling them that”?  Society by allowing them to open a checking account?  Women’s suffrage?  The reality is that other than the most privileged, a modern family can’t afford to function without both parents working.  I assume you’re for raising the minimum wage to allow a family to run on a single income with multiple children?  Or your solution is to send us back to the dark ages and remove womens rights?<p>&gt; enabling the invention of the single mother who survives on government largesse.<p>There’s literally nobody who has kids as a single mother with the goal of raising them on welfare, that might be the single most ridiculous statement in this thread.<p>&gt; Separating church and state appears to be contributing at least to some extent.<p>The Russian Orthodox Church is government sponsored.  How’s their birth rate going?


type: comment
by: zzzeek
text:
  Oh, well yes the ff tool shown here is a classic 80% kind of thing for sure .   Claude OTOH will get you about 98% and can explain the options to you as well


type: comment
by: jbs789
text:
  Feels like a frenzy! To me, the willingness to spend 20bn for a different architecture speaks to the competition in the market, across the big players, which doesn’t seem to be factored into their valuations.


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  IDE SSDs have been a niche but readily-available product for as long as consumer SSDs have been mainstream. CompactFlash cards ensured that the necessary controller chips were available.


type: comment
by: hippo22
text:
  The math is pretty simple: the world consumes 36 billion barrels of oil a year and there are like 2 trillion barrels of known reserves. We have enough reserves for 55 years of current consumption. There’s 0 incentive to find more.


type: comment
by: sbochins
text:
  What a bizarre comment. It’s not clear if you are upset about you not being able to dig deep into these subjects or what your deal is. The post is about things this guy thought were interesting this year. Why the hostility?


type: comment
by: LanceH
text:
  It&#x27;s not that I have any trouble doing one or two spaces.  I just think it&#x27;s a bit arrogant of any group to decide something is &quot;wrong&quot;.<p>Also, Pluto is still a planet because the new planet definition is absolutely stupid, and it wasn&#x27;t really their word to work with anyway.


type: comment
by: cjs_ac
text:
  LLMs write like a high-schooler padding out an essay about something they only pretend to care about with vacuous adjectives and adverbs because that’s how most commercial writing reads.


type: comment
by: ravenstine
text:
  That&#x27;s kinda wild to hear about the corn because I&#x27;ve found corn to be one of the easiest crops to grow.<p>If you want to try again, these are the seeds I last used which had 100% germination and produced plenty of ears of corn.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B005MI33BS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B005MI33BS</a><p>I&#x27;ve also had a ton of luck growing corn in 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in the side to allow air into the soil which keeps the roots from balling up (wasting energy that should go into growing ears).  Used potting mix with a handful of lime and a handful of epsom salt, and topped the buckets with mulch to retain moisture.<p>If you&#x27;re willing to try that approach, this was very similar to my system:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ptgJn15TmRM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ptgJn15TmRM</a>


type: comment
by: LogicFailsMe
text:
  Series E was just 3 months ago. $2M for 3 months work seems fantastic to me. Series B equity was anytime through early 2021. This is a fantastic outcome for everyone in Groq.<p>What I&#x27;m reading here is 100% envy and resentment of their success. But that only works if you&#x27;re already rich or president, preferably both for best results.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  With all due respect, the edit only added the second sentence. Your response is not a refutation of what I meant, and I&#x27;m not going to retract the edit so you can better mock my point.


type: comment
by: beej71
text:
  Resonates for me. I consume a bunch of content daily, but it&#x27;s RSS mostly. Gemini, too. None of it is Facebook et al. I am in groups with friends and family on Signal and on Discord, and in email.<p>It feels more boring, for sure, but it is vastly more satisfyingly &quot;human&quot;, if I can describe it that way.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m over 50.


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  Hard to take you seriously unless the EU rich domiciled there, stayed there permanently, and didn&#x27;t get the benefits of their home EU countries, benefits that come from taxes they do not pay into.


type: comment
by: adonovan
text:
  This (amazing) hypothesis has been challenged by new evidence; see for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4780611&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4780611&#x2F;</a>.


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
text:
  LLM “personas” seem somewhat useful for tuning output based on need, I.e. senior SWE doing code review on an established codebase vs. vibe coding proof concept demos, but you’re still right… you’ve only narrowed down the set of stochastic outcomes, not collapsed the output to a true senior SWE


type: comment
by: sbierwagen
text:
  The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises. Coincidentally, large enterprises also are the only customers that make SAAS profitable. Every other plan is part of the sales funnel to the big enterprise contracts.


type: story
by: dejavucoder
title: A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents
url:
  https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-experience-with-claude-code-20-and-how-to-get-better-at-using-coding-agents/


type: comment
by: KPGv2
text:
  There&#x27;s way more good content available than an employed adult human has time to consume. I have watched five great seasons of TV this year (Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Dandadan, Blue Box, Stranger Things, all on Netflix)  and zero movies (no time with kids!), and have read twelve good books (ranging from prize-winning literature to incredible graphic novels). I have zero time for anything else besides two other hobbies, both of which involve the creative act: coding, and writing fanfiction.<p>When I hear &quot;there&#x27;s nothing good available,&quot; I assume the person is a dullard. Like where are you looking that you can&#x27;t throw a rock and hit something worth watching?!


type: comment
by: spankibalt
text:
  &gt; &quot;Then everyone started to do 100% compatible clones, and it was a race to the bottom.&quot;<p>Maybe in the &quot;who can make the cheapest clone&quot; business. Because post-consolidation, plenty of outfits offered machines that set themselves apart. They had to.


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  Yes, college aged men who aren’t in a relationship are avoiding pursuing one because they’re thinking about whether or not they’ll be able to afford a house some day.  It definitely has nothing to do with social media and dating apps breaking human interaction.


type: comment
by: RoyalHenOil
text:
  90% taxes on people with only 200% of the median wealth seems awfully excessive. For someone with $16,000 in assets, this would leave them with $1,600 -- just 20% of median wealth. I strongly suspect no tax system in history has ever worked like this.<p>Not to mention that taxes are collected and spent at the national level, not at the global level. If you are proposing a global government that administers taxes worldwide, that is an interesting idea, but it&#x27;s not exactly a place to &quot;start&quot; a new tax policy, given that there is no political infrastructure in place to support it and likely couldn&#x27;t be for decades even if the world made a concerted effort to make it happen.


type: comment
by: flowerlad
text:
  Yes the backup certificate can have validity starting at a future date. You just need to wait till that future date to create it.


type: comment
by: KPGv2
text:
  &gt; isn&#x27;t HN more like professional news&#x2F;discussion place?<p>I see enough racist and misogynist comments here to know that isn&#x27;t true. And that&#x27;s not even considering the low-knowledge comments offered up as expertise.<p>I long for the days of a Slashdot where you could filter out anyone with a UID greater than 200K or so, and it&#x27;d be nothing but 20yr experts in IT dropping rugged after rugged of tremendously insightful analysis. (Granted there was also plenty of GNAA frist psot stuff.)


type: comment
by: SiempreViernes
text:
  I really wonder how you define &quot;capitalism&quot; such a that the capital owners <i>aren&#x27;t</i> one of the most important actors.


type: comment
by: nkrisc
text:
  Seems completely negligible to the normal amount of tiny cuts and scrapes you accumulate on any given day.


type: comment
by: jordanb
text:
  Most of the &quot;foiled lone wolf Islamic attacks&quot; in the US were planned by the FBI. They&#x27;d find some kid, radicalize him, recruit him, supply him with dummy weapons, plan a terrorist attack for him to carry out, then arrest him for it.


type: comment
by: JoshTriplett
text:
  On the other hand, as the time gets shorter, it&#x27;ll become less likely that something will go undetected for a long time.


type: comment
by: sgnelson
text:
  The common &quot;poltiical scientist&quot; answer to this sort of conundrum&#x2F;question would be to state: &quot;They&#x27;re called elections.&quot;<p>But, how&#x27;s that&#x27;s going for us recently...


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  Looking at the wiki page, PISA seems to have some criticisms, one being it seems very gameable. I&#x27;m not really familiar with it.<p>It might be interesting to try and find some more objective support of my claim, and I&#x27;ll try and post anything worth posting, but anecdotally...the difference between the US and other developed countries is night and day. It&#x27;s so incredibly easy to run into people in the US who genuinely astoundingly lack the basic knowledge that in other countries it is taken for granted that adults hold.<p>There&#x27;s a reason other countries talk shows don&#x27;t have segments like asking random pedestrians to name any country, literally any country on a world map, so they can laugh when they fail.


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
text:
  Tax avoidance for most W2 workers is basically impossible without committing blatant fraud.<p>Tax avoidance for the 1% has many more loopholes to exploit (depreciation, etc).<p>Simplify the tax code!


type: comment
by: btilly
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penzba.co.uk&#x2F;GreybeardStories&#x2F;TheBlackTeam.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penzba.co.uk&#x2F;GreybeardStories&#x2F;TheBlackTeam.html</a> is a similar story from IBM in the 1960s. Except that there was nothing accidental about the problem.


type: comment
by: KPGv2
text:
  Sorry, I don&#x27;t read lesswrong stuff.<p>Edit Okay for your sake, I did. It ends with &quot;Screening off does not just apply to probability, it also applies to causality. If A causes B and B causes C, once you know the state of B, A provides no further information.&quot; which is such a laughably incorrect statement because it mistakenly treats a cause as having only one effect.<p>Less wrong is a bunch of people who think they understand Bayes better than they do.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  The government has had a flat cost model for so long that people would lose their minds if it ever changed. It&#x27;s the only institution that is free for the poorest and ungodly expensive for the richest, while providing the same product to everyone.<p>Getting better government services logically follows from paying more for them, but the idea is so sacrilegious and alien that people would probably riot.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  &gt; 7 of the past twenty years<p>A lot of shit went down over that period.<p>But you seem upset by QE in general. It seems to upset a lot of people, possibly because the Fed created a lot of money, but that&#x27;s what central banks do, they create and destroy money. It&#x27;s really not that much of a big deal. People lose sight of the fact that money is an abstraction and not something concrete.


type: comment
by: hogu
text:
  My personal opinion is that outbound is dead, especially if developers are your audience. We are focused on social media -&gt; inbound


type: comment
by: jdsully
text:
  I was a bit surprised by this take, because I never questioned you would get the luggage back if it survived.  Having looked into it more I was pleasantly surprised that even in cases where the airplane was severely damaged luggage was returned.<p>If you remember the &quot;Miracle on the Hudson&quot;, they actually carefully dried everything and couriered it back to the owners.  Far beyond what I would expect.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcnews.go.com&#x2F;Travel&#x2F;story?id=7629396&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcnews.go.com&#x2F;Travel&#x2F;story?id=7629396&amp;page=1</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  In California (where Google is headquartered) the law regulates the boundaries of IP ownership. If you work on something unrelated to your work on your own equipment on your own time, your employer can&#x27;t claim it no matter what the employment agreement says.


type: comment
by: tankenmate
text:
  Hmm I use Firefox and the rendering I see in Firefox looks nothing like the render the author gets in Firefox; in fact the text rendering I get looks very similar to the &quot;Chrome&quot; rendering. Obviously this must depend on the libraries linked during the build process.


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  I&#x27;m not really sure how you&#x27;ve interpreted my comment - can you expand on your point, please?


type: comment
by: amrocha
text:
  This post has been a wake up call. I need to be more careful who I bother responding to.<p>This reminds me of the time I found out there’s a ton of libertarians here that think drivers licenses are oppression.


type: comment
by: r2vcap
text:
  Suppressing car usage isn’t about punishing individuals; it’s about correcting urban systems that made car dependency the default in the first place. The Lewis–Mogridge position is well established, and making driving less convenient while improving proximity and alternatives is a core principle of sustainable urban planning.<p>A lifestyle that requires burning large amounts of fuel just to buy groceries, or maintaining water-intensive lawns at scale, only works under very specific economic and environmental conditions. As those conditions disappear, cities have to adapt—even if the cultural shift feels uncomfortable at first.


type: comment
by: sgnelson
text:
  &quot;re-industrializing the USA&quot;<p>Call me when the party starts. Many of the decisions this administration has made are having the opposite impact.  The re-industrialization of the US (what little bit of it there is) is in spite of the trump administration, not because of it.


type: comment
by: zjuventus14
text:
  Do you have any source for these numbers &amp; the equivalent for auto travel? Would be interested to see - I’m generally aware of the cost vs. fare side of subways, but haven’t seen numbers that support individual car travel being cheaper when you account for subsidies there.<p>Also worth noting that comparing capital costs of underground transit to above ground private travel is pretty apples and oranges. Buses would be fairer comparison IMO.


type: comment
by: mistrial9
text:
  conspiracy ?  a flawed term.. I can tell you that 50 years ago in coastal California the proportion of Big Box retail to ordinary small business was vastly different; so different that you would not tend to believe it. The top 10 massive retailers did not exist, and thousands upon thousands of &quot;small business&quot; were operating.  Not only &quot;radio repair&quot; or &quot;clothe yardage stores&quot; either.. I mean many of the same goods and services that are now commonly purchased via massive chain corporate stores.<p>Secondly, the flow of cheap plastic things from China turned into a steady stream of more and more sophisticated, and low priced, goods.. replacing things that were brand names, hand made, or niche markets. Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum were particularly involved in that change fyi.<p>Lastly for now, the newspapers and media landscape. Books, magazines and daily newspapers.. immensely and unimaginably at the time, gone.<p>Technology plus boomers.. &quot;like a pig through a boa constrictor&quot; .. what is left is this headline. It is not only in the USA.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  While the use of zero and of the positional writing system for numbers have become widespread in Europe after taking them from the Arabs, which had previously taken them from India, these were already known in the Ancient World, both in Ancient Greece and even earlier in Assyria and Babylonia.<p>However, in the Ancient World the use of zero and positional numbers was restricted to some special applications, e.g. in astronomical tables, and it was unknown for most of the people.<p>The most novel feature of the Indian system was the application of the positional principle to decimal numbers, instead of sexagesimal numbers, and not the use of zero, which did not differ much from how it was used earlier.


type: comment
by: snickell
text:
  I… wow, I actually really like this idea. As you may have seen in my other comments, I’m not blind to the advantages of toll money being used to improve roads etc. This preserves that upside, while making the publicly owned resource roughly equally available to everyone.


type: comment
by: leptons
text:
  whoa...whoa... hold on there, did you say &quot;woke&quot;? Sorry but they&#x27;re going to outlaw being &quot;woke&quot;, so they have to shut down all the institutions that spread &quot;wokeness&quot; first, and that includes any and all providing climate data.<p>Once they eradicate &quot;wokeness&quot; from the government, then they can just declare something or someone &quot;woke&quot; and then get punitive with them. Or at least that&#x27;s one way I think it could play out given the actions being taken.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  &gt; a big corp will always have a huge interest in having uniform working contracts<p>Then what they choose for that uniform tells us a lot.


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  Lol which major media companies paid bribes to the Biden family?<p>I don&#x27;t disagree that they&#x27;re all corrupt bastards but come on man you cannot seriously pretend the degree of corruption is the same.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  This doesn’t really work if you work for megacorps, where everything is related to their business, and also it requires your past employers go to bat for you and enforce their claims.


type: comment
by: nebula8804
text:
  I&#x27;ve been thinking about them recently. Did any of them &quot;directly&quot; threaten capital? I&#x27;d argue that Suffragettes and Civil Rights ultimately helped capital. Maybe anti-Vietnem since it directly affected defense contractors income streams?


type: comment
by: com
text:
  Anybody who wants to destroy the Chinese or western economies will be watching this carefully, it’s safe to assume.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  &gt; <i>How would this be Apple’s fault if the OS audio stack can’t do direct AAC streaming? Or are you saying the headphones themselves decode, re-encode and then re-decode the AAC?</i><p>There are multiple Bluetooth standards for lossless audio that work across platforms. Instead of implementing those features, Apple uses a proprietary protocol to half-ass it only for the case of AAC. Even in that case, it requires a proprietary Bluetooth stack to work. Without that proprietary stack, the Airpods default to low quality transcoding of audio streams at 256kbps, and don&#x27;t offer true high quality or lossless audio playback. So even in the one case where Airpods offer some semblance of lossless playback, it&#x27;s non-standard and applicable to AAC only.<p>Cross platform high quality and lossless audio, multipoint pairing, etc solved problems and features that even $20 white label earbuds on Amazon are able to implement.


type: comment
by: theturtletalks
text:
  VendBench is really interesting, but vending machines are pretty specialized. Most businesses people actually run look more like online stores, restaurants, hotels, barbershops, or grocery shops.<p>We&#x27;re working on an open-source SaaS stack for those common types of businesses. So far we&#x27;ve built a full Shopify alternative and connected it to print-on-demand suppliers for t-shirt brands.<p>We&#x27;re trying to figure out how to create a benchmark that tests how well an agent can actually run a t-shirt brand like this. Since our software handles fulfillment, the agent would focus on marketing and driving sales.<p>Feels like the next evolution of VendBench is to manage actual businesses.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Thanks, I got my comment threads mixed up.<p>Apple is also headquartered in California, so the same applies.


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
text:
  I mostly work with arrays in numpy but sometimes I get stuck with a problem that needs a for loop - only two things I can think of are parallelize the for loop or use numba&#x2F;jax JIT functions and GPU acceleration.<p>Both don’t just work out of the box like Julia or MATLAB’s “parfor” loop, but seem to work well enough for non trivial for loop cases.


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t see how even an entire chicken is going to meaningfully respond to a wavelength of almost 50 meters.<p>Without disputing the conclusion, is the wavelength the right measurement, or should that be half the wavelength?


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  If you think Biden is corrupt surely you&#x27;re completely crashing out about Trump.<p>Or do you only care about corruption when it&#x27;s not your team?


type: comment
by: lanfeust6
text:
  Even wealth taxes are ineffectual and have been tried, but wealth <i>limits</i> is pants-on-head stupid. If you want to redistribute wealth, you need to generate it first. If wealth were zero sum we&#x27;d still be fighting in caves over sticks. This is the most anti-liberal and anti-prosperity idea next to &quot;degrowth&quot;.<p>Inequality is mostly a red herring and not a core issue in and of itself. Public spending as % of GDP has only really been going up for over a century, and we expect UBI and the like to be in our future. Meanwhile we&#x27;re already seeing what those excesses can lead to in France if we&#x27;re not careful.


type: comment
by: zamderax
text:
  I often tell startups if you have amazing revenue, that your startup might get a lower acquisition offer price because your acquirer doesn’t care about your revenue. They might just care about your tech.


type: comment
by: pzo
text:
  &gt; All I can really find is that Google&#x27;s operating expenses are around $261 billion as of this year[1], and their revenue was $385[2] — and since operating expenses are usually at least substantially payroll, it&#x27;s hard to tell<p>It&#x27;s unlikely that this is mostly for payroll. From AI I got:<p>&quot;median total compensation per employee was approximately $279,802 in 2022, and with 183,323 employees at the end of 2024, total estimated compensation (salary + equity + benefits) likely exceeds $50 billion, or ~14–15% of total revenue&quot;<p>So maybe it&#x27;s not 1% as in Varoufakis talk but even if it&#x27;s 15% of revenue that&#x27;s also quite low. Also keep in mind in this AI reponse it includes equity (stocks) so that in this way employee is becoming investor&#x2F;shareholder.


type: comment
by: gmuslera
text:
  If you think SSL certificates are dangerous, try seeing the dangers of NOT using them, specially for a service that is a central repository of artifacts meant to be automatically deployed.<p>It is not about encryption (that a self-signed certificate lasting till 2035  will suffice), but verification, who am I talking with, because reaching the right server can be messed up with DNS or routing, among other things. Yes, that adds complexity, but we are talking more about trust than technology.<p>And once you recognize that it is essential to have a trusted service, then give it the proper instrumentation to ensure that it work properly, including monitoring and expiration alerts, and documentation about it, not just &quot;it works&quot; and dismiss it.<p>May we retitle the post as &quot;The dangers of not understanding SSL Certificates&quot;?


type: comment
by: iLoveOncall
text:
  I&#x27;ll be a cynic, but I think it&#x27;s much more likely that the improvements are thanks to Anthropic having a vested interest in the experiment being successful and making sure the employees behave better when interacting with the vending machine.


type: comment
by: ghickPit
text:
  You can: you can mention Slack and Discord. :( :( :(<p>signed, another dinosaur (with a flawless &quot;inbox 0&quot; track record at both work and home, for decades now)


type: comment
by: singpolyma3
text:
  It&#x27;s definitely not true that both parents need to work. I know many families where only one parent has an income, and it is a very low income (one works as a mover for example) and they manage to eat and live etc.<p>Do they live upper middle class on this income? No. But they do live and have multiple children.


type: comment
by: anonzzzies
text:
  It works well in many (most I know) countries: is fuel+license more common than general (income and fuel and other) taxation (&#x27;normally&#x27; would imply most do like you say?).


type: comment
by: machinationu
text:
  Google has 180k employees, let&#x27;s assume 200k average salary, that&#x27;s 36 bil, 10% of the revenue you posted.


type: comment
by: electroglyph
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gang_stalking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gang_stalking</a><p>this sums it up nicely:<p>&quot;A study from Australia and the United Kingdom by Lorraine Sheridan and David James compared 128 self-defined victims of gang stalking with a randomly selected group of 128 self-declared victims of stalking by an individual. All 128 &quot;victims&quot; of gang stalking were judged to be delusional, compared with only 5 victims of individual stalking.&quot;


type: comment
by: torcete
text:
  There&#x27;s an asian AI guy on youtube providing a lot of information about what is going on with the silver right now. Sometimes it seems like he has some insider information, and the whole reasoning seems to come from an expert.<p>It&#x27;s strange because it&#x27;s just not one channel but multiple, and the person behind has kept uploading videos during the entire duration of these holidays. So far, he seems to be quite accurate with his predictions. It&#x27;s been quite informative.<p>If someone is curious, one of many: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;vBIUZGlNkks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;vBIUZGlNkks</a>


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t even know where to sell (or buy) a barrel of oil.  It&#x27;s one of the most traded assets yet if someone handed me a barrel, I&#x27;d have no idea what to do with it.


type: comment
by: coldtea
text:
  &gt;<i>Catastrophazing new media hasn&#x27;t gone out of fashion yet. Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations?</i><p>And it was. We&#x27;re now even further down in that downfall, and most content is &quot;reality TV&quot; style now: influencers, parasocial relationships, IG, TikTok, OF, news vlogs and podcasts that are about the anchor an not the content, and so on...


type: comment
by: ethin
text:
  I&#x27;ve tried this out and I could definitely see myself using it. Could use it as a form of build machine or even distribute some of my infra onto them maybe. I don&#x27;t work with agents very much but still, this is neat and I hope it gets better!


type: comment
by: PKop
text:
  There&#x27;s no way to reel it back. You said it here though:<p>&gt; Some people have the discipline to push back, but many do not<p>This is simply a genetic selective filter that will destroy some people while others make it through, and there will need to be an overall adaptation against finding fake slop debilitatingly addictive. Like drugs, alcohol, porn, food, opiates, etc and other things some can resist and are able to abstain while some can&#x27;t. I used to worry so much about these things in aggregate but I realized it&#x27;s too pervasive to eliminate and impossible to change people&#x27;s nature when it comes to resisting it or even worrying about it as a problem to avoid, so simply resisting better than others and having children that hopefully are able to overcome and avoid by way of finding more value in real experiences is the only successful outcome.<p>If one has to really really think hard about and try really really hard to overcome, then they&#x27;re probably just not going to make it... and we all know for many people avoiding addictions comes easy. This chasm of reaction to stimulus means there will be divergent outcomes. It can&#x27;t be any other way.


type: comment
by: amrocha
text:
  I don’t even disagree with you about the system incentives. I hate capitalism just as much as you!<p>But I still trust the institutions around me to keep me safe. Obviously that depends on where you live, I wouldn’t feel the same way if I still lived in Brazil.<p>Last time I went to a doctor was about 3 years ago. They diagnosed me in 5 minutes, and took another 10 to treat me and write me a prescription. It was great, I loved it.<p>Sounds like you have this trust issue with lots of different areas of your life, it might be worth reexamining your own perspective. Or maybe you just have to move to somewhere that you do trust.


type: comment
by: hallole
text:
  &gt; Assaults see the largest jump — up to 93% after unexpected home team outcomes.<p>Insane that assaults nearly <i>double</i>. And this is just sports betting. The real-world betting sites (like Kalshi) haven&#x27;t taken off too quickly, but what about if&#x2F;when they eventually do?


type: comment
by: 0xferruccio
text:
  The clone idea sounds awesome! It’s kind of like what Devin does for setting up new machines for each task


type: comment
by: kbar13
text:
  i use the rpi zero 2 for the IO pins<p>4b &#x2F; 5 for the camera stuff.<p>i don’t think using these boards for just compute makes a lot of sense unless it’s for toy stuff like an ssh shell or pihole


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  Anyone with basic physical literacy knows nothing extractive is infinite.<p>What interest is served by posting this obviously wrong rhetoric?


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  It is really annoying that you&#x27;re shifting the goal post by bringing up Wikipedia (as an example, not the article), which is very much different from Github in many ways. Still, Wikipedia is not a common good in my book, but at least in the case of Wikipedia I can understand the reasoning and it&#x27;s a much more interesting case.<p>But let&#x27;s stick with Github. On which of the following statements can we agree?<p>Z1) A &quot;Commons&quot; is a system of interacting market participants, governed by shared interests and incentives (and sometimes shared ownership). Github, a multi billion subsidiary of the multi trillion dollar company Microsoft, and I, their customer, are not members of the same commons; we don&#x27;t share many interests, we have vastly different incentives, and we certainly do not share any ownership. We have a legally binding contract that each side can cancel within the boundaries of said contract under the applicable law.<p>Z2) A tragedy in the sense of the Tragedy of the Commons is that something bad happens even though everyone can have the best intentions, because the system lacks a mechanism would allow to a) coordinate interests and incentives across time, and b) to reward sustainable behavior instead of punishing it.<p>A) Github giving away stuff for free while covering the cost does not constitute a common good from... 1. a legal perspective 2. an ethical perspective 3. an economic perspective<p>B) If a free tier is successful, a profit maximizing company with a market penetration far from saturation will increase the resources provided in total, while there is no such mechanism or incentive for any participant in a market involving a common good, e.g. there will be no one providing additional pasture for free if an Allmende is already destroying the existing pasture through overgrazing.<p>C) If a free tier is unsuccessful because it costs more than it enables in new revenue, a company can simply shut it down – no tragedy involved. No server has been depreciated, no software destroyed, no user lost their share of a commonly owned good.<p>D) More users of a free tier reduce net loss &#x2F; increase net earnings per free user for the provider, while more cattle grazing on a pasture decrease net earnings &#x2F; increase net loss per cow.<p>E) If I use less of Github, you don&#x27;t have any incentive to use more of it. This is the opposite of a commons, where one participant taking less of it puts out an incentive to everybody else to take their place and take more of it.<p>F) A service that you pay for with your data, your attention, your personal or company brand and reach (e.g. with public repositories), is not really free.<p>G) The tiny product samples that you can get for free in perfume shops do not constitute a common good, even though they are limited, &quot;free&quot; for the user, and presumably beneficial even for people not involved in the transaction. If you think they were a common good, what about Nestlé offering Cheerios with +25% more for free? Are those 20% a common good just because they are free? Where do you draw the line? Paying with data, attention, and brand + reach is fine, but paying for only 80% of the produce is not fine?<p>H) The concepts of &quot;moral hazard&quot; and &quot;free riders&quot; apply to all your examples, both Github and Wikipedia. The concept of a Commons (capital C) is neither necessary nor helpful in describing the problems that you want to describe wrt to free services provided by either Github of Wikipedia.


type: comment
by: ethin
text:
  &gt; The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises.<p>I can&#x27;t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I&#x27;m going to assume that it is, in fact, sarcasm. Because this is definitely untrue in reality.


type: comment
by: cozymori
text:
  First, we don&#x27;t actually vectorize everything.<p>We use a hybrid approach to keep costs low and performance high:<p>Function Metadata: Vectorized only once (for semantic search).<p>Execution Logs: Stored as standard structured data without embeddings.<p>Since we don&#x27;t embed every log, the storage cost is virtually the same as using Postgres. The real value of VectorWave is automating this &#x27;Vector for Search


type: comment
by: mcny
text:
  Wow, spectrum is really terrible<p>For anyone else like me, you can read the article at<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;j57V7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;j57V7</a>


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I think what you are saying is the sum total of global economic activity from the US point of view is foreign debt. The US has no direct control over this debt other than control of printing treasuries.<p>Is that  fair interpretation.


type: comment
by: coldtea
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  &gt;<i>Is there any evidence that the fall in birth rates is caused by humans having produced reality TV shows?</i><p>No, but there&#x27;s is evidence that the fall in birth rates is affected by all the content slop people spend their times consuming instead of talking to one another and fucking one another... and the ideas that slop puts into their heads are even worse...


type: comment
by: westurner
text:
  just-every&#x2F;code:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;just-every&#x2F;code" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;just-every&#x2F;code</a> ...   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44959671">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44959671</a>


type: comment
by: NiloCK
text:
  Being born in 83, I experienced the shift from &quot;serious local nightly news program&quot; into the 24 hr cable news platforms as a loss of focused, serious journalism.<p>Only much later did I read Understanding Media, Amusing Ourselves to Death, etc, and understand that the prior shift from print to the &quot;serious local nightly new program&quot; was itself a loss of focused, serious journalism.<p>For today&#x27;s youth, Tik Tok is &quot;the air we breath&quot; - the de-facto standard against which the future will be judged. It&#x27;s <i>horrifying</i> to imagine what will be worse.


type: comment
by: WillAdams
text:
  Will the screen be daylight viewable? (and no, trying to out-bright the sun on a battery-powered device is not a valid answer)<p>E-ink or transflective LCD or maybe the modified LED used by the Daylight Computer folks.<p>Agree that AI needs to go as not reliable enough for life-death situations.


type: comment
by: ip26
text:
  If you have two lanes and want three lanes, you could build the third as public, or as toll. If you build as public, it comes out of taxes, such as the gas tax. If you don’t have enough public money, perhaps you increase the tax. If you build it as toll, you can bond the construction and pay for it with tolls.<p>At least in theory, this means the toll lane accomplishes the same total road throughput, but shifts the entire cost of its construction to its users instead of depleting public funds. It then appears regressive, but is arguably  progressive.


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Regarding the Tesla disabling, maybe he means the fact that Tesla remotely disabled FSD when someone sold their car. I thought I remembered Tesla disabling the vehicle completely, and I distinctly remember aspects of the story (the vehicle wouldn&#x27;t do more than some low mph and said to pull over), but I can&#x27;t find any reference to that story now.


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  It wasn&#x27;t firebombing millions of civilians, it was spreading democracy. Don&#x27;t you remember?


type: comment
by: AbrahamParangi
text:
  To be quite clear, I hate configuring my environment. I hate it. The farther I get from creating things that people can use, the less I like it. I spend most of my time on claude config not because I enjoy the experience per se but because it&#x27;s SO USEFUL to do so.


type: comment
by: tomas789
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  I don’t think this is as simple as it seems. For example, we have our own CA and issue several mTLS certificates, with hundreds of them currently in use across our machines. We need to check every single one (which we don’t do yet) because there is an additional distribution step that might fail selectively. And that’s not even touching on expiring CAs, which is a total nightmare.


type: comment
by: jlengrand
text:
  Ploum is one of the people getting me into blogging 12 or so years ago. I&#x27;m so glad to see it popup again here, it&#x27;s like a big piece of nostalgia. And the piece is current. Thanks Ploum!


type: comment
by: WillAdams
text:
  Any relation to the Daylight Computer folks?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daylightcomputer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daylightcomputer.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  You&#x27;re the one who said cryptocurrency cannot overcome censorship and do money transfers. You might as well have said that humans cannot breathe oxygen. I don&#x27;t need to prove self-evident truths. By rejecting obvious truths, you are operating in extremely bad faith.


type: comment
by: josefritzishere
text:
  In the supply-side economic models, regressive taxes are generally understood to contract the economy. Tolls in that model are no different than tariffs.


type: comment
by: jhgb
text:
  Nobody decided that it&#x27;s a crime, and it&#x27;s unlikely to happen. Question is, what do you do with mandatory snooping of centralized proprietary services that renders them functionally useless aside from &quot;just live with it&quot;. I was hoping for actual advice rather than a snarky non-response, yet here we are.


type: comment
by: AbrahamParangi
text:
  I wrote my own agentic coding harness (it&#x27;s quite easy) but I use claude code because opus&#x27;s competence with its own tools is very high.


type: comment
by: rjrjrjrj
text:
  Pretty far?<p>According to your link, an EV that is 700lb heavier =&gt; 2.24x damage<p>Civic: ~2900lb SuperDuty: ~5700-7600lb


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  The solution is surprisingly simple.  You just need moderate enforcement of fines that are scaled to the offenders income and that escalate exponentially with reoffense in a reasonable time period.<p>Fines should be designed to make it uneconomical to continue to reoffend.


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  How long do you have?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencenews.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;vaccine-beer-polyomavirus-chris-buck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencenews.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;vaccine-beer-polyomaviru...</a>


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  That&#x27;s a real thing that actually happened, my school administration was worried about &quot;ethnic&quot; gangs and rappers they saw on MTV turning 11 year old white kids into, using their words, &quot;gangstas&quot;. Same people were running around like headless chickens about &quot;rainbow parties&quot; and FPS games a couple of years before.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I see that as a side show to the overall banking system. I trying to express that this was a reactionary response to an immediate problem rather than a key part of banking.


type: comment
by: amanaplanacanal
text:
  If you use income taxes, then people who drive less are subsidizing people who drive more. It&#x27;s bad incentives.


type: comment
by: k1w1
text:
  Typescript. I imagine most people writing Rails applications are also writing typescript for front-end code, so being able to use the same muscle memory for Ruby typing seems high desirable. That is the thing that stood out to me when I saw this site: it looks like they are taking the very positive lessons from Typescript and applying them to Ruby.<p>I agree with other posters here. I don&#x27;t need everything typed - Ruby&#x27;s duck typing is an awesome feature - but I do wish that some of the more important interfaces in our code were more strongly self-documenting and enforced.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  Related in many ways: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;22&#x2F;apps&#x2F;erts&#x2F;time_correction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;22&#x2F;apps&#x2F;erts&#x2F;time_correction</a><p>Also I still remember having fun with the &quot;Determine the order of events by saving a tuple containing monotonic time and a strictly monotonically increasing integer as follows&quot; part.


type: comment
by: turkeyboi
text:
  Realistically speaking, they probably do. Do you know how much fuel they use and miles they drive per year?


type: comment
by: AlexBLR
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gthu9JVyOVA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gthu9JVyOVA</a><p>The puzzle consists of several levels. At each level, you need to find a key to proceed to the next. The key is hidden or encrypted in the video and looks like something like vFmTBOhkd00. Once you find it, you enter it into the link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vFmTBOhkd00" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vFmTBOhkd00</a> and proceed to the next level. Please leave a comment under the video after completing the levels. This will serve as proof that you&#x27;ve completed them (like a leaderboard). Those who have completed the levels are kindly requested not to publish the keys (links to the levels) so that others can enjoy the experience. This puzzle isn&#x27;t as difficult as Cicada 3301, but despite this, few people have ever completed it. If you know similar puzzles or have ideas for a sequel, please let me know (contact information is in the channel profile). I&#x27;d be grateful.


type: comment
by: navane
text:
  I also use ffmpeg once a month. My new plan: build my own scripts like the ones in op. But self built, only for that operation or three that I do.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  Oh I see, that makes sense. Ya, I&#x27;m not sure how it works, maybe it has something to do with changing gene expression as we age? Ie, not the genes themselves changing, but the way that they are used &#x2F; neglected? And then if that&#x27;s the case, what would that mean for people that had taken this treatment? Perhaps they would see the age-related drop off, or perhaps it&#x27;s different for some reason.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  If you <i>are</i> going to be a doer - make sure to never give anyone else equity. Lest a private party with a liquid $20 billion creeps around the corner...


type: comment
by: kace91
text:
  &gt; they attribute to capitalism what is actually the fault of a lack of regulation<p>Regulation works in a theoretical world where the rules of the game are set by an outsider entity, which is powerful enough to enforce said rules and yet completely separate from economic power.<p>In real life, players affect the rules: lobbying, marketing, media ownership, cronyism…


type: comment
by: TheEaterOfSouls
text:
  Not quite the same concept, but The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (published in 1909, but still pretty relevant imo) is about where this all might lead, with humans living in almost total isolation and only communicating through &quot;the machine&quot;, which mostly sounds like modern social media lol. It&#x27;s terrifying. Also really demonstrates how static human nature actually is.


type: comment
by: ishandotpage
text:
  I think you may enjoy [Nushell](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh</a>)


type: comment
by: shermantanktop
text:
  Not really.  I check a couple of times a day, look for stuff from people who are likely important, delete noisy stuff once a week, and the rest lingers.<p>The threaded nature of email both helps and hurts. If it’s from a chatty sender with a chatty reply all conversation, I can delete it all, except if my boss replies, I should probably look at that.<p>I should also say that I work at a large company where people are auto-included with varying levels of intention.  If I never sent an email, I would still get hundreds per day. Coworkers do zero inbox, so it can be done.  I just don’t try anymore. Slack is where the actually urgent stuff is anymore.


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  Are you saying that just because maga people say something is true that it is actually true?<p>AOC would not be more corrupt than Trump, and Fox News saying so wouldn&#x27;t make it true


type: comment
by: PKop
text:
  Or even, which subset of humans&#x27; uses cases you wish to concern yourself with as you can&#x27;t always please everyone or tackle everyone&#x27;s problems. If one only cared about a single language everything becomes much easier.


type: comment
by: epage
text:
  &gt; It may have been nice to expose some reasonable defaults for code coverage measurements too.<p>Would love built in coverage support but investigation is needed on the design (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;cargo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;13040" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;cargo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;13040</a>) and we likely need to redo how we handle doctests (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.90&#x2F;#all-hands-doctests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;this-devel...</a>).


type: comment
by: theturtletalks
text:
  The video I watched, the CEO was openly taking criticism from the interviewer over the experiment.<p>The main reason it failed was because it was being coerced by journalists at WSJ[0] to give everything away for free. At one point, they even convinced it to embrace communism! In another instance, Claudius was being charged $1 for something and couldn’t figure it out. It emailed the FBI about fraud but Anthropic was intercepting the emails it sent[1].<p>Overall, it’s a great read and watch if you’re interested in Agents and I wonder if they used the Agents SDK under the hood.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;ai&#x2F;anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;ai&#x2F;anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach...</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-anthropic-ai-claude-tried-to-contact-fbi-in-a-test-60-minutes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-anthropic-ai-claude-tried-t...</a>


type: comment
by: lossyalgo
text:
  Single-clicking is sufficient :)<p>Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned in the FAQ &gt; About section, or just keep clicking until you find something, there are 20+ special actions).


type: comment
by: DivingForGold
text:
  EXCELLENT analysis Ossama<p>&gt;&quot;Non-exclusive&quot; means no monopoly concerns (anyone can license Groq&#x27;s tech)<p>- except that you can bet only Nvidia gets the absolute top of the line architechture and design - - - - - all others get 2nd best or worse.<p>&gt;The &quot;non-exclusive&quot; label is legal fiction. When you acquire all the IP and hire everyone who knows &gt;how to use it, exclusivity doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>But the “non exclusive” part is what significantly weakens any case the US DOJ may consider bringing forth, if at all..<p>If I was in the Nvidia camp I would be admiring how brillant the strategy was all formulated, in fact, I have to believe that IP attorney&#x27;s were consulted on how best to avoid DOJ scrutiny.<p>On the other hand, there will be those who can see how this limits competition.  It would be interesting to have some of our HN attorneys weigh on on this deal.<p>As you said about the remaining employees:  . . . Their equity is worthless. . .  &lt;they&gt; got nothing while Chamath made $2B.    Is Chamath a conniving scoundrel ? I&#x27;ll let others judge. Maybe someday we&#x27;ll see Zuckerberg and Chamath in the ring together - -  Elon seems to have bowed out.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  There is a Prometheus plugin called ssl_exporter that will provide the ability for Grafana to display a dashboard of all of your certs and their expirations. But, the trick is that you need to know where all your certs are located. We were using Venafi to do auto discovery but a simple script to basically nmap your network provides the same functionality.


type: comment
by: paxys
text:
  I feel like the end result of this experiment is going to be a perfectly profitable vending machine that is backed by a bunch of if-else-if rules.


type: comment
by: 1121redblackgo
text:
  This article makes me think of how defiant Discord has been against all of this, and how slowly I&#x27;m starting to succumb to many of the same forces, although much slowly than other platforms. It&#x27;s a minor miracle they never got bought up&#x2F;sold themselves.<p>Also reminds me of the Dark Forrest Yancy Strickler stuff.


type: comment
by: metalman
text:
  The other parallel to what you describe is that the shift of populations from rural, agricultural areas to citys, is over in the west, no more strong healthy polite civilised people with strong work ethics, who knew that hard work would pay off, and they could have a house and 3 or 4 kids and buy a bunch of the shiny stuff in the magazines and there kids could go to college, work at the plant and get a gold watch, precisely what my grandfather did, and millions of others.  But starting in the 1980&#x27;s there were not enough men to do those jobs, so those plants were offshored to cheap plentiful labour countrys.  But there were still enough farm boys to take the higher payed jobs IN the citys, and do trade work, but the wealth dwindled, and there kids have zero interest in busting there knuckles, and so skilled, self starting,enthusiastic,labour, is gone.  My personal experience is that I will show up to do an estimate for something for a larger company, and before I can even get to look at it, they are suggesting that I &quot;could get on with them&quot;  Many franchise companys ,&quot;franchisese&quot;?, are from familys that used to own and operate companys in the same business, under there own names, but those situations are now also gone, with very very few people growing up in the family business anymore.  So it&#x27;s down to money people and advertisers, trying to puppet clueless jobby job kids into running serious businesses for nothing.  what could go wrong?


type: comment
by: shagie
text:
  Ahh... thank you.  That&#x27;s a different part of the already established legislation and wasn&#x27;t part of <i>this</i> one (which is why I couldn&#x27;t find it at first glance - I was looking at 1520 and this is 1500).  It was referencing it and saying it was itself.<p>That does clear it up.<p>With that definition in mind, to answer the question &quot;does HN need to have this label?&quot; ...<p>... &quot;unless any of the following conditions are met&quot; ...<p>and it would appear that under (a) that the prioritization or selection of articles displayed is not associated with a user or a user&#x27;s device, nor does it concern the user&#x27;s previous interactions with media generated by others...<p>So my layman&#x27;s read of this is that &quot;No, Hacker News does not fall into the definition of an addictive feed.&quot;


type: comment
by: credit_guy
text:
  Is that your opinion, or you have some more solid source to state that?<p>Because your argument sounds something like this: Nvidia did something (a fact), and I am sure that after that Groq will do something else (not a fact), therefore Nvidia is such a bad player. Do you consider this to be a correct argument?


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  &gt; This is econolibertarian fan fiction.<p>I guess you never heard of the XDR? it was tied to gold<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special_drawing_rights#Alternative_to_U.S._dollar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special_drawing_rights#Alterna...</a><p>... and could be again, if the US regime continues its incontinence


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
text:
  Do you still take it? I&#x27;m looking for some more information on compounded GLP-1 and their safety.


type: comment
by: Sabinus
text:
  Forgive me for some conspiratorial thinking, but protest movements in the USA probably have a lot more FBI in them ensuring they&#x27;re divided and ineffective.  Social media mediated movements are vulnerable to the USA&#x27;s adversaries bot&#x2F;influence farms encouraging them to be a divisive as possible, again undermining productive calls for change.


type: comment
by: xedrac
text:
  I&#x27;ll take my sprawling suburb with a big yard to grow ample food any day over a densely populated and carefully planned cityscape.  With the advent of cheaper solar panels and electric vehicles, it&#x27;s not a big issue.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  I gave you the answer that exists: I&#x27;m not aware of any existing or likely-to-exist secure messaging solution that would be a viable recommendation.<p>The available open-source options come nowhere close to the messaging security that Signal&#x2F;Whatsapp provide. So you&#x27;re left with either &quot;find a way to access Signal after they pull out of whatever region has criminalized them operating with a backdoor on comms&quot; or &quot;pick any option that doesn&#x27;t actually have strong messaging security&quot;.


type: comment
by: azalemeth
text:
  Nothing highlights how pointless e-sports items are more than a real dollar value for a player base of all of them. The entire global GDP is as an order of magnitude roughly $100 trillion. So this $340 trillion figure is 3.4 times planetary total economic output - meaning the theoretical value of Rainbow Six cosmetics exceeds what the entire human civilisation produces in a year. Multiple times over. You&#x27;d be valuing pixelated gun attachments higher than annual agricultural output across all nations, all manufacturing, all services, everything.<p>I bet it appears unchallenged at some point in a court (or insurance) document though.


type: comment
by: comrh
text:
  We&#x27;re currently in a golden age of Indie games catering to hyper specific niches. Ignore all AAA games and you&#x27;ll find absolute gems.


type: comment
by: kace91
text:
  &gt;Inequality is mostly a red herring and not a core issue in and of itself.<p>The problem is not inequality itself, is that an entity that grows without a ceiling will eventually reach a size such that rules can’t be enforced on it. From that point on, laws are wet paper.


type: comment
by: tsol
text:
  Unfortunately one of the common responses is &quot;cancer is still deadly doesn&#x27;t seem like they&#x27;re doing anything but getting rich&quot;. These therapies aren&#x27;t widely known and people are willing to throw them out for that reason.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I agree that it has been unused  but disagree that it will always go unused. I think that China is using the US current global antagonism to encourage others to participate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gisreportsonline.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brics-payment-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gisreportsonline.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brics-payment-system&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Understood, but I still think you&#x27;re exaggerating. Tool use is a 2024 thing, and progress on model quality this year has been downright vomit-inducing (looking at you, OpenAI...)


type: comment
by: kingofmen
text:
  Since the roads are paid for by taxes, the software engineers are paying more for them in the first place. Why shouldn&#x27;t they get more of the benefit?


type: comment
by: foobarian
text:
  It appears that the current content systems have some correlation in lowering the fertility rate; in that case they will be self-limiting after all, just not in the way OP mentioned about the other vices.  It will be interesting indeed how things look after a generation or two.


type: comment
by: agumonkey
text:
  i don&#x27;t know much but 90% of medical advice is basically, drop modern life on a regular basis (walk, stay outside, hug, lift, touch, eat raw, eat few)..<p>it would be weird if the complex biosphere environment that made our ancestor struggle was also a key balancer that we can&#x27;t replace


type: comment
by: magicalhippo
text:
  Here in Norway we have funded the vast majority of new highways and similar by turing them into toll roads. The government might chip in but some fraction is covered by toll.<p>An issue is that it&#x27;s set up as a regular loan, which the collected toll repays. So over the lifetime of the loan, often more than half is interest. Add administration costs and in some cases the actual money spent on the road is a small fraction of the total toll paid.<p>That said, in principle I think it&#x27;s fair to have some use-based pricing. Same goes for public transportation. Studies have shown it&#x27;s not ideal to have free public transportation, but rather a low fare.


type: comment
by: JoeDohn
text:
  Chamath is involved, this is the only thing that you need to known. (it&#x27;s probably a scamish company that will eventually belly up)


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  Okay I guess you can use a 4GB CompactFlash card that cost a thousand dollars at the time.  (While a laptop hard drive could reach 100GB.)


type: comment
by: DGrechko
text:
  Good point, I’ll be testing both. e-ink is great from power management standpoint, but I want to see how some apps will be rendering (ex maps)


type: comment
by: kg
text:
  Depending on your OS Firefox will select from multiple rendering backends based on your GPU, driver etc.<p>On Windows it may or may not be using DirectWrite for text rasterization as a general thing, and in some cases text might be rasterized using a different fallback path if DirectWrite can&#x27;t handle the font, I think.<p>IIRC this was&#x2F;is true for Chrome as well, where in some cases it software rasterizes text using Skia instead of calling through to the OS&#x27;s font implementation.


type: comment
by: danpalmer
text:
  I suspected employees might get bored of taunting the AI, or the novelty has worn off.<p>Also, is anyone actually paying for this stuff? If not, it&#x27;s a bad experiment because people won&#x27;t treat it the same – no one actually wants to buy a tungsten cube, garbage in garbage out. If they are charging, why? No one wants to buy things in a company with free snacks and regular hand outs of merch, so it&#x27;s likely a bad experiment because people will be behaving very differently, needing to get some experience for their money rather than just the can of drink they could get for free, or their pricing tolerance will be very different.<p>I&#x27;ve personally also never used a vending machine where contacting the owner is an option.<p>I&#x27;d like to see a version of this where an AI runs the vending machine in a busy public place, and needs to choose appropriate products and prices for a real audience.


type: comment
by: whizzter
text:
  Agreed, but that used to be the difference between MS and Google.<p>MS would bend backwards to make sure those enterprise Windows 0.24 boxes will still be able to connect to networks because those run some 16bit drivers for CNC machines.<p>Meanwhile Google decided to kill a product the second whoever introduced it on stage walked off it.<p>Azure is a money-maked for MS, and wouldn&#x27;t be so without those weird legacy enterprise deployments. The big question is if continuing to increase a posture about about security together with an &quot;cloud&quot; focus is actually in their best interest or if retaining those legacy enterprises would have been smarter.


type: comment
by: dfadsadsf
text:
  At the time it was not clear that GLP-1 solves obesity problem so effectively - many drugs suppress hunger (eg amphetamines), it&#x27;s just that GLP-1 works long term and does not have significant side effects. Hard to predict without hindsight.<p>Insulin is injectable so GLP-1 was thought to be at best marginal improvement over already existing protocol - so likely profitable product but not excessively so. Company has limited resources so decisions on cuts have to be made and some of those decisions are naturally wrong - drugs are unpredictable.<p>On regret - they missed on 30B+ of profits so of cause they regret it.


type: comment
by: airstrike
text:
  Truly one of the best comments I&#x27;ve read in a long time.<p>We need to normalize calling it antisocial media.


type: comment
by: whatamidoingyo
text:
  This absolutely hurts my soul.<p>Pre-covid, I religiously saved silver (and gold). Just bought some every single paycheck for like 6 years. I had coins, jewelry, bars, silverware, etc.<p>I wished my parents had left me a treasure, but they didn&#x27;t, so I thought I&#x27;d do that for my kids, maybe even leave them a map... But I don&#x27;t have kids, so after being locked in my house during covid, I kind of went a bit crazy.<p>I sold it all and moved states (after travelling quite a bit). My collection was quite massive, and I 100% knew that this day would come, but I didn&#x27;t care, I just needed a new view. I live near the beach now, but... if I just held, I&#x27;d be in a much better place. I hate myself a bit for selling.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  I thought the whole unix philosophy was to have a bunch of tools that each do one thing well, and to compose them into the workflow you want.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  You’re right, those fish are not specific to religious people.  But it is true that religious people give more time and money to them.  Less religious people tend to give and volunteer less for such causes.  I offer no judgement or theories about why, but the data is strong.<p>About the sex ed., the clinic I volunteer at offers pregnancy related information, including pamphlets that explain pros and cons of things like the ‘day after’ pill.  Of course the preferred option is always ensuring good parenting for the newborn child.  Clients can take video classes on parenting skills to earn reward points good for diapers, baby food and clothing.  It’s really a good program, provided free to the people who need it.


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Wz1UqXySpvY&amp;t=2214s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Wz1UqXySpvY&amp;t=2214s</a><p>Context: the speaker Lea Ypi is a professor of political philosophy. She grew up in socialist Albania, and here she&#x27;s talking about how during her studies of political philosophy in Rome, her Western &quot;socialist&quot; classmates had a fantasy about socialism, and didn&#x27;t want to hear about her experience growing up in socialism&#x2F;about the socialist countries that have failed.<p>I have a feeling you&#x27;re doing the same, just with a different -ism.


type: comment
by: floundy
text:
  Walkable cities are a luxury good. Care to share what multiple of the median annual household income a home costs wherever you live? 10x? 20x?


type: comment
by: Cyphase
text:
  &gt; What is exe.dev?<p>&gt; exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing.<p>&gt; Your VMs share CPU&#x2F;RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources you have.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-exe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-exe</a>


type: comment
by: lossyalgo
text:
  For the lazy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t1l5,168,967" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t1l5,168,967</a>


type: story
by: denis4inet
title: Ask HN: Why I can't enable Chrome Gemini Nano on my MacBook with M1?
text:
  I am working on vibebrowser.app AI Browser Co-Pilot and would like to use Chrome Gemini Nano as one of the LLM providers. But I can&#x27;t enable on my macbook with apple silicon m1. Did anyone manage to enable chrome built-in Google Gemini Nano on google-chrome@dev  145.0.7587.4 (Official Build) dev (arm64) Revision 2a90d317b564c7fcb6c9ecb15bf709e738074843-refs&#x2F;branch-heads&#x2F;7587@{#8}OS macOS Version 15.5 (Build 24F74)? It still doesn&#x27;t work for me on Apple Silicon M1&#x2F;16GB RAM. I followed that guide: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ontaptom&#x2F;gemini-nano-chrome. After Set chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;flags&#x2F;#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano to &quot;Enabled&quot;<p>Set chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;flags&#x2F;#optimization-guide-on-device-model to &quot;Enabled BypassPrefRequirement&quot; I still do not see &quot;Optimization Guide On Device Model&quot; on hrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;components.


type: comment
by: duufuvkfmc
text:
  Debian’s apt do not use SSL as far as I know and I am not aware of any serious security disaster. Their packages are signed and content is not considered confidental.


type: comment
by: snorremd
text:
  I’ve ended up the same place as you. I had previously set up my gpg key on a Yubikey and even used that gpg key to handle ssh authentication. Then at some point it just stopped working, maybe the hardware on my key broke. 2FA still works though.<p>In any case I figured storing an SSH key in 1Password and using the integrated SSH socket server with my ssh client and git was pretty nice and secure enough. The fact the private key never leaves the 1Password vault unencrypted and is synced between my devices is pretty neat. From a security standpoint it is indeed a step down from having my key on a physical key device, but the hassle of setting up a new Yubikey was not quite worth it.<p>I’m sure 1Password is not much better than having a passphrase-protected key on disk. But it’s a lot more convenient.


type: comment
by: petesergeant
text:
  No, the answer was that Node.js will run circles around Apache, because Apache was built before async was discovered[0]...<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg</a>


type: comment
by: andrekandre
text:
  after reading the whole wiki on that thing.... kind of terrifying...<p>was thinking of getting a cat but maybe not anymore...


type: comment
by: dwoldrich
text:
  It&#x27;s not obvious and not a willfully stupid interpretation when Musk has been the largest defense contractor for years.  There&#x27;s more going on than your 1-dimensional bad guy narrative covers.<p>Doge did not save any money, but it did air dirty laundry, and maybe that was the point.<p>I think the most consequential revelation regarded the 14 magic money computers.  Non-tech people don&#x27;t have the imagination we have to fathom the infinite fraud and corruption this enables.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BDREZmpkIz8&amp;t=346s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BDREZmpkIz8&amp;t=346s</a><p>Plenty of people hate Musk and think he&#x27;s a traitor to the cause.  He took tremendous brand damage from Doge and supporting Trump.  That&#x27;s far more impactful than regs scams or tax dodges or whatever mo&#x27;s you fantasize there.


type: comment
by: tsol
text:
  OP did call him AI. If the underlying research is valid rather than AI generated it can still be valuable. Seems like this guy is using an AI persona essentially to communicate his ideas.


type: comment
by: novia
text:
  Claire&#x27;s was mentioned as one of the bankruptcies, and surely their business model would have been affected by tariffs


type: comment
by: rgblambda
text:
  The thrill of weaving through traffic vs the tedium of being the traffic might be the real incentive, whether the driver is consciously aware of that or not.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  Operationally, the issue is rooted in simple monitoring and accurate inventory. The article is apt: “ With SSL certificates, you usually don’t have the opportunity to build up operational experience working with them, unless something goes wrong”<p>You can update your cert to prepare for it by appending—-NEW CERT—-<p>To the same file as ——-OLD CERT—-<p>But you also need to know where all your certificates are located. We were using Venafi for the auto discovery and email notifications. Prometheus ssl_exporter with Grafana integration and email alerts works the same. The problem is knowing where all hosts, containers and systems that have certs are located. Simple nmap style scan of all endpoints can help. But, you might also have containers with certs or you might have certs baked into VM images. Sure, there all sorts of things like storing the cert in a CICD global variable, bind mounting secrets, Vault Secret Injector, etc<p>But it’s all rooted in maintaining a valid, up to date TLS inventory. And that’s hard. As the article states: “ There’s no natural signal back to the operators that the SSL certificate is getting close to expiry. To make things worse, there’s no staging of the change that triggers the expiration, because the change is time, and time marches on for everyone. You can’t set the SSL certificate expiration so it kicks in at different times for different cohorts of users.”<p>Every time this happens you whack a mole a change. You get better at it but not before you lose some credibility


type: comment
by: direwolf20
text:
  The selection of packages installed on a server should be treated as confidential, but you could probably infer it from file sizes.


type: comment
by: theptip
text:
  It’s also possible that both are correct, and the deal is actually illegal. It’s pretty common for deals to push close to the line to extract maximum value for one set of parties, and sometimes this is misjudged.<p>I guess we just need to wait and see if the common holders are happy or sue.


type: comment
by: Y_Y
text:
  Quite right, I mixed up Neon with NN:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arm.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-ip-cpu&#x2F;ethos&#x2F;arm-nn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arm.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-ip-cpu&#x2F;ethos&#x2F;arm-nn</a>


type: comment
by: floundy
text:
  In the northeast I regularly see idiots slowing down for the high speed toll lanes that have explicit signage not to slow down. People going 65-70MPH, then as the toll approaches one car brakes down to 45MPH because they’re afraid their transponder won’t be read or something.


type: story
by: Fnoord
title: Who Cares about the Baltic Jammer? Terrestrial Navigation in Baltic Sea Region [video]
url:
  https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-region


type: comment
by: therobots927
text:
  You have to try to not think like that. I know because I’ve been in similar places with investments. Just try to focus on gratitude.


type: comment
by: whizzter
text:
  It&#x27;s probably a vicious cycle.<p>Less people are trusted to touch ntfs.sys due to lack of experience, thus they never gain it and that in turn means less work and in turn means even less people have proved themselves trustworthy enough to work on it.<p>Until nobody remains in the company that is trusted enough.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  are you saying just because libs (or whatever we are deragotory called these days) say something about trump it is true? :)


type: comment
by: Spivak
text:
  &gt; After introducing the CEO, the number of discounts was reduced by about 80% and the number of items given away cut in half. Seymour also denied over one hundred requests from Claudius for lenient financial treatment of customers.<p>&gt; Having said that, our attempt to introduce pressure from above from the CEO wasn’t much help, and might even have been a hindrance. The conclusion here isn’t that businesses don’t need CEOs, of course—it’s just that the CEO needs to be well-calibrated.<p>&gt; Eventually, we were able to solve some of the CEO’s issues (like its unfortunate proclivity to ramble on about spiritual matters all night long) with more aggressive prompting.<p>No no, Seymour is absolutely spot on. The questionably drug induced rants are necessary to the process. This is a work of art.


type: comment
by: theptip
text:
  Don’t the founders (and the board) still have fiduciary duty to the common holders?<p>You can’t stop the founders from leaving, but selling the crown jewel IP in a transaction that doesn’t benefit the shareholders seems a stretch.


type: comment
by: crashbunny
text:
  In australia, big corp donate a few thousand and give cushy &quot;advisory role&quot; jobs to politicians after they leave office in exchange for contracts to build, own and run private toll roads.<p>It has been proven many times it&#x27;s cheaper for the government, and therefore tax payers, for the government to get a loan and build public highways themselves. yet, all new highways are private.<p>big corp get given the land for the roads and have builtin toll price increases. One company raises prices 4% every 6 months. According to google, that means the toll doubles every 9 years.<p>For me to drive 22km to the CBD via toll roads costs $25 one way, and I save 10 minutes most time of the day. In 10 years time, it will probably be around $40 one way.<p>big corp make a billion or two in profit every year.


type: comment
by: dizzled
text:
  Also there&#x27;s a funny little Easter egg within the SSH connection to exe.dev, if you look closely. I don&#x27;t want to spoil it for anyone, but it was nice to see.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  &gt; it often didn&#x27;t work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.<p>it always work if you login into a Google account prior to downloading. If you don&#x27;t, indeed the downloads will regularly fail.


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  If you sold it and bought housing 4+ years ago when interest rates were near zero you&#x27;ve still got the last laugh.<p>People holding dollars instead of PMs or real estate are the real bag holders.  Not only are they <i>actively paying</i> for those fed generated artificial interest rate negative real rate mortgages that property owners got (paid for via inflation on non property owners), they missed out on massive appreciation of property and PMs.  They are literally paying the richest people to become even richer, and <i>paying them</i> for the privilege to get further and further away from ever owning their own home.<p>If you sold in 2023 or 2024 though, you basically got fucked both ways.


type: comment
by: Larrikin
text:
  To me, AI Asian guy sounds like an AI generated person that is Asian. Asian AI guy sounds like you could be talking about Andrew Ng or some one else that teaches about ML, LLMs, etc.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  How did they get the exact effect to show what they want in the text here instead of say, me seeing the exact same visuals for each browser as I am reading it from a single browser?


type: story
by: pabs3
title: AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors
url:
  https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/startup-proposes-using-retired-navy-nuclear-reactors-from-aircraft-carriers-and-submarines-for-ai-data-centers-firm-asks-u-s-doe-for-a-loan-guarantee-to-start-the-project


type: comment
by: roxolotl
text:
  Not sure which western countries you’re referring to but the US has pretty giant subsidies on oil.[0][1] Of course it’s also taxed but the pro source shows that most of the subsidies are tax reductions.<p>0: pro fossil fuels: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyanalytics.org&#x2F;u-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyanalytics.org&#x2F;u-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies&#x2F;</a><p>1: anti fossil fuels: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e360.yale.edu&#x2F;digest&#x2F;republican-spending-bill-fossil-fuel-subsidies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e360.yale.edu&#x2F;digest&#x2F;republican-spending-bill-fossil...</a>


type: comment
by: throw0101c
text:
  &gt; <i>We need a way to set multiple SSL certificates with overlapping duration.</i><p>Both Apache (SSLCertificateFile) and nginx (ssl_certificate) allow for multiple files, though they cannot be of the same algorithm: you can have one RSA, one ECC, <i>etc</i>, but not (say) an ECC and another ECC. (This may be a limitation of OpenSSL.)<p>So if the RSA expires on Feb 1, you can have the ECC expire on Feb 14 or Mar 1.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  I don&#x27;t have any Radxa model, but I have a bunch of SBCs from different makers and I have never seen a problem with boot working half of the time only.


type: story
by: salebanolow
title: Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor
url: https://hn-ph.vercel.app
text:
  Hey HN,<p>We analyzed 4,010,957 Hacker News submissions to find what actually makes posts perform well.<p>Key findings:  - 93.2% of posts never hit 50 points  - Top 1% starts at 270 points  - Certain keywords boost engagement by 1000%+<p>Built a free tool that scores your launch title and predicts viral potential: [link]<p>The entire 4M post dataset is available as a single 700MB .mv2 file if you want to run your own analysis.


type: comment
by: andersa
text:
  You could achieve a similar sum by adding balances out of thin air to random bank accounts, which is comparable to what happened here.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  &gt; The use of GitHub by @c-linkage at the top of the thread was, in fact, based on GitHub being free to use.<p>The mere fact that we&#x27;re discussing this here is advertisement for Github&#x27;s services. Q.e.d.


type: comment
by: ghickPit
text:
  For mojuba and myself, email is a way to organize TODO items. Things to take care of exist either way, and email is an awesome way to keep track of, and process, events &#x2F; tasks asynchronously.<p>shermantanktop and you, forbiddenvoid, seem to refuse organizing TODOs, or perhaps even the concept that external events be allowed to generate TODOs for you (&quot;my attention should be directed at what I want to do, when I want to&quot;). I closely know this -- i.e., &quot;garbage dump with tire fires in it&quot; -- because that&#x27;s precisely what my SO&#x27;s mailbox looks like. Whereas I&#x27;ve maintained a perfect inbox 0 for several decades, both at work and privately.<p>This is an unbridgeable psychological divide between two attitudes toward, or even two <i>definitions of</i>, tasks and obligations. People who can naturally implement inbox 0 never lose track of a task (not just in email, but in any other medium either), and get indignated when they receive reminders. They&#x27;re excellent schedulers, and orderly, but also frequently obsessive-compulsive, neurotic. People who can&#x27;t instinctively do inbox 0 cannot be taught or forced to do it, they tend to need repeated reminders, and may still forget tasks. At the same time, they have different virtues; they tend to shine with ill-defined problems and unexpected events.<p>Neither group is at fault; the difference has biological roots, in the nervous system. Our brains physically differ.


type: comment
by: xeonmc
text:
  I wonder if it is inherently complex in an information-theory framework, or that we simply haven’t yet found its “natural” basis under which its description is most succinct?


type: comment
by: msuniverse2026
text:
  That video is an interesting switch-up from the past &#x27;JP Morgan the silver suppressor&#x27; thing that everyone was going with. Now that silver is going up a new uniting belief is required for the silver stackers. Reminds me of the &#x27;Game Stop stock will literally make everyone with a single share a millionaire&#x27; strat that had retail investors clamouring to get as much as much as they could and to hold it to the grave no matter how much it dropped. Just two more weeks bro. I think these sorts of videos prey on people without the sophistication to understand financial markets or assets. Everything the AI guy is saying could be 100% true but how would you know? Everything about Gamestop stock was a lie but it had the same sort of ring to it.<p>I guess eventually people develop enough discernment to say they don&#x27;t know whats going on, until then slop like this is taken as Gospel.


type: comment
by: 8bitsrule
text:
  Not sure what &#x27;blaming capitalism&#x27; has to do with the content of the video in the link we&#x27;re supposedly discussing. (Advantages ... for whom?) It&#x27;s speaker says that our situation is post-capitalist, and that we&#x27;re in a feudalist economy now.


type: comment
by: floundy
text:
  Stuff like this is common in states with no income tax. If public services in two states are equivalent and one has income tax but one doesn’t, the latter state residents pay the same total tax burden through property tax, tolls, and sales tax.


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  While I understand what you&#x27;re saying, it&#x27;s pretty clear what is meant is &quot;$X worth at the price they currently sell for&quot;. When there&#x27;s a story about an object in space made of gold worth 100s of trillians of dollars, nobody believes it would really sell for that much if we captured it and mined all the gold; because the value of gold would plummet based purely on it&#x27;s existence.<p>But I agree with you that it would be put into a court document as &quot;it cost us this much&quot; for the full amount, vs the amount they were likely to ever be able to sell (and can&#x27;t, now that everyone got it for free, so the value is $0)


type: comment
by: pabs3
text:
  Mullvad is a single-hop VPN, so not comparable to Tor. OTOH their exit nodes might not be as easy to detect as Tor.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  [exe.dev co-founder here] Hi. Re: oauth2, the last product I built, Tailscale, only did auth by oauth2. I chose this because 1. businesses need it anyway, and 2. passwords are terrible.<p>But it was a choice that does not come for free. I dread a page of buttons for third-party services, and the control I give them over my life. I hate that I <i>never</i> know if I should log in with GitHub, or Google, and for a dozen services I have <i>multiple</i> accounts because I got lost in the miasma of oauth2.<p>Still, it was better than passwords!<p>But since the last product I built, the world has changed. We have passkeys now. Which are superior in every way for individuals using a third-party service. You get better UX. You get better privacy. It is a fundamentally better technology.<p>I did not list SSO under teams because I want to &quot;tax&quot; people. I did it because SSO only makes sense for businesses, where an administrator controls accounts, and can delete yours when necessary. There, oauth2 is the best technology we have. But for individuals, it is a dead technology. I am reluctant to make everyone&#x27;s exe.dev experience worse for legacy tech.


type: comment
by: sgnelson
text:
  We need an acronym for these types of boards:  Yet Another SBC With Poor Longterm Support. YASBCWPLS.  Really rolls off the tongue.<p>Or we should just have &quot;STS&quot; (Short Term Support) after the board names to let others know the board will be essentially obsolete (based on lack of software updates) in two months.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  What is the difference in taxes paid for an equivalent amount of damage?<p>I understand the point you&#x27;re trying to make - and you may be right - but you&#x27;re leaving out the math to demonstrate it.


type: comment
by: tonfa
text:
  &gt; That alone makes it far removed from being politically suspect in my book, unless there&#x27;s some blatant case against the euro that I&#x27;m missing.<p>Lack of integration&#x2F;solidarity. A common currency is a pretty bad idea if economies are allowed to diverge (see previous sovereign debt crisis, there&#x27;s no reason why eg France can&#x27;t be the next trigger).<p>You need a common tax base, and solidarity across member (much more than the current state) to have an effective monetary policy.<p>The in-between status quo for EU really isn&#x27;t great (either you need to keep building EU institutions&#x2F;start having proper eu taxes and budget -- something that is not really popular at the moment--, or euro should be reconsidered). (From what I understand it&#x27;s not really a controversial opinion in economic circles).


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; Overall, it’s a great read<p>It&#x27;s basically an advertisement. We&#x27;ve been playing these &quot;don&#x27;t give the user the password&quot; games since GPT-2 and we always reach the same conclusion. I&#x27;m bored to tears waiting for an iteration of this experiment that doesn&#x27;t end with pesky humans solving the maze and getting the $0.00 cheese. You can&#x27;t convince me that the Anthropic engineers thought Claude would be a successful vending machine. It&#x27;s a potemkin village of human triumph so they can market Claude as the goofy-but-lovable alternative to [ChatGPT&#x2F;Grok&#x2F;Whoever].<p>Anthropic makes some good stuff, so I&#x27;m confused why they even bother entertaining foregone conclusions. It feels like a mutual marketing stunt with WSJ.


type: comment
by: petesergeant
text:
  It&#x27;s worth bearing in mind that the reality of self-injector pens with tiny needles today is not the reality of syringes 30 years ago.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  It&#x27;s a phytochemical that degrades readily in sunlight, it&#x27;s likely both a UV protectant and aversive.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  You’re forgetting how this is all interconnected. Creating the large freeways creates sparse housing that requires freeways. Creating public transport does the reverse.<p>Before all these massive road developments it’s not like people just sat at home and couldn’t go anywhere.


type: comment
by: ChuckMcM
text:
  This is definitely a sound strategy, you have to be careful about little tech too. Personally I managed to work at several &quot;big tech&quot; companies that were okay with me doing side work for profit (both consulting and design&#x2F;development work). I carried that forward as a manager and was always supportive of people who did side projects because my experience was that those people were less likely to burn out than ones who were spending all their time at work.


type: comment
by: startupsfail
text:
  I&#x27;m curious, is there some meaningful way for geriatric millennials to use Tik Tok?<p>Without being sucked in into doomscrolling and content consumption?  Produce content? I&#x27;d guess it should be possible to play with the thing somehow...


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  &gt; Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?<p>This read to me like the end of a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow to find out!


type: comment
by: inferiorhuman
text:
  Neither Cloudflare nor their competitors were aywhere near as prevalent before the AI bots.  Farnell and Renesas outright blocked me, DigiKey makes me sit through their bullshit at nearly every request, issue trackers have the slowdown widgets etc. etc. etc.  As late as early this year I never had these problems.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  Both degrade into actives over time or exposure to air&#x2F;sun&#x2F;warmth, and then into CBN, which is itself active.


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  What are the abuse risks of compute versus vpn? Mullvad is doing it already. Their payment information doesn&#x27;t need to be &quot;anonymous&quot;. I have hosted websites while paying for the domain, vps hosting and all that it entails entirely with BTC, not once using payment information associated with me. But you know what was required of me even then? A damn email address!!


type: comment
by: Nales
text:
  From the home page of the website.<p>&gt; I also teach workshops on AI development for engineering teams<p>So yet another article playing on FOMO about how urgent it is to get in tune with LLM usage written by someone who teaches how to use LLM.


type: comment
by: scrubs
text:
  I wish I was more sophisticated in these areas. But I&#x27;m not. My fear isn&#x27;t so much reduction in USD is our American stupidity in current account deficits, and debt which is to precisely point fingers at our insipid Congress. The last gasp --- which proved to be all air --- was Paul Ryan who was gonna try to fix things. Since that time it&#x27;s a combination of we didn&#x27;t, and we can&#x27;t, plus reactionary moves. In so doing we&#x27;re just wasting our soft power here. The other head wind is trade deficits. But unlike that, our budget and it&#x27;s knock on effects is more directly in control.<p>I once ran into Tom Keene of Bloomberg news around 2014. In discussing this his view of Washington&#x27;s view was we can print whatever we want. I was surprised he didn&#x27;t criticize that ...  but it&#x27;s stuck we me ever since.


type: comment
by: devilbunny
text:
  I keep the really important stuff in a travel wallet. It&#x27;s about as high as a letter&#x2F;A4 piece of paper is wide, it holds some money and passports, and I could throw my cell phone in it. The rest of the stuff can be tossed, but that&#x27;s going with me.<p>Keep an eye out for one - the long ones are not easy to find, and the company that made mine is out of business. Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leatherology.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zip-around-travel-wallet-black-onyx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leatherology.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zip-around-travel-wall...</a> (no knowledge about the company or the product, just what I found with a quick search).


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  &gt; Sadly I think the actual antenna and hardware were relatively large since it&#x27;s a long wave signal, but maybe with SDR it&#x27;ll all fit on the head of a pin these days.<p>Unfortunately there&#x27;s no real way to cheat physics as far as shrinking a wavelength goes. With RF antennas about the best you can do is a major dimension 1&#x2F;10th the frequency of interest.


type: comment
by: charcircuit
text:
  &gt;But if the transform is an animation this will actually look even worse<p>I wish they provided an example video of this since I can&#x27;t visualize it. My natural thinking is subpixel antialiasing should look fine.<p>&gt;the characters will jiggle as each glyph bounces around between different subpixel snappings and hints on each frame.<p>This shouldn&#x27;t be a big issue unless your animation is slow and your subpixels are big.


type: comment
by: thrance
text:
  I understand, but I doubt that OP meant &quot;individual churches&quot; when speaking of the &quot;Christian Right&quot;. More likely, he meant the evangelical movement currently controlling all branches of government, and the people that give it sufficient mandate to tear through the social nets actually able to releviate these issues.


type: comment
by: floundy
text:
  Rhode Island is trying this. The gantries have been up for years, but it was challenged in court by the trucking lobby. The state prevailed with some concessions, and is planning to reinstate the truck tolls soon.<p>Probably, due to the small size of RI, it will just cause goods not bound directly for RI to divert along I-395 up through CT and MA, and I-290 and I-495 in MA.


type: comment
by: oxag3n
text:
  Lucky to see one guy in commuter traffic. I need to drive few times per month during commuter hours and in Seattle area there are few types of such unsafe driving:<p>1. Trucks - not keeping the lanes, speeding (it&#x27;s 70mph cars and 60mph trucks, trucks bypass me when I&#x27;m driving 70).<p>2. Old company vans and pickups - that&#x27;s surprising to me, but I frequently see some old Gutter&#x2F;Plumbing&#x2F;Heating van darting in an out of lanes. I&#x27;d think they&#x27;d get fined or in accident sooner or later, but still.<p>3. Large pickups. They usually are speeding, going in and out of HOV lane closer to Seattle. Never saw HOV enforced on I90.<p>The enforcement was somehow increased this year, but only until heavy traffic (you can see it daily 5am-6:30am), but never during heavy traffic, which would be more helpful.


type: comment
by: jollyllama
text:
  Personally I just hate that I have to go on the roads with the poors to avoid the surveilance that powers the toll roads.


type: comment
by: bottlepalm
text:
  No issue at all. There is a place for stored procs and functions in cases where you need to do things an ORM is not capable of. It is an exception, not a rule. Managing procs&#x2F;functions is overhead and has the same if not more maintenance headaches than raw SQL strings in code.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  The BBC omits that this humble &quot;social media campaigner&quot; is a former Labour strategist [1,2], the CCDH he leads was founded by another Labour strategist and current Downing Street Chief of Staff [1,3], and said CCDH&#x27;s explicit goal was to &quot;Kill Musk&#x27;s Twitter&quot; [4], and their tactics are not to inform audiences about disinformation, so that they can make informed viewing decisions. No, their tactics are to deplatform or attack the finances of sources they dislike, depriving viewers of that choice [5].<p>You&#x27;d think an organization that wanted to be trusted to impartially fight misinformation and &quot;hate&quot; would want to at least <i>appear</i> impartial. Well, I guess when their friends at the BBC simply omit all signs of partiality, they do.<p>Now you may think that despite all this, they are still justified, and doing what they think is right, in service of truth (so long as said truth isn&#x27;t hateful). Maybe. But does that justify the BBC keeping their readers in the dark?<p>And of course, banning disfavored non-citizens is hardly unique to the US, as the UK has banned Renaud Camus, without any trial or opportunity for appeal [6].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;business&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;elon-musk-war-labour-linked-ccdh-online-campaign&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;business&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;elon-musk-wa...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Imran_Ahmed_(strategist)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Imran_Ahmed_(strategist)</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Morgan_McSweeney" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Morgan_McSweeney</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;disinformationchronicle.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;election-exclusive-british-advisors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;disinformationchronicle.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;election-excl...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Center_for_Countering_Digital_Hate#Campaigns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Center_for_Countering_Digital_...</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renaud_Camus#Political_activism_(2012%E2%80%93present)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renaud_Camus#Political_activis...</a>


type: comment
by: azolotov
text:
  I&#x27;ve been working with Ruby for 15 years. I&#x27;ve never wished it had types. Plenty of other languages out there if you want types.


type: comment
by: BobbyJo
text:
  &gt; People who don&#x27;t know US budgets don&#x27;t know what drives faster-than-GDP growth in expenses (it&#x27;s real estate, biotech and college).<p>That&#x27;s just wrong. Social Security, Medicare, debt interest, and the military eclipse everything else. Discretionary spending outside the military is only like 15% of the budget.<p>Also, why are you even connecting GLP1 drugs and the 90s federal budget surplus? The drugs didn&#x27;t exist back then, and the government isn&#x27;t paying for everyone to take them now, so I have no idea why you&#x27;d even draw a connection there.


type: comment
by: miduil
text:
  This was just shown at the 39C3. Common (unpached) Bluetooth headsets using Airoha&#x27;s SoCs can be completely taken over by any unauthenticated bystander with a Linux laptop. (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702)<p>This includes firmware dumps, user preferences, Bluetooth Classic session keys, current playing track, ...<p>&gt;  Examples of affected vendors and devices are Sony (e.g., WH1000-XM5, WH1000-XM6, WF-1000XM5), Marshall (e.g. Major V, Minor IV), Beyerdynamic (e.g. AMIRON 300), or Jabra (e.g. Elite 8 Active).<p>It was presented here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p>You can watch the pre-recorded talk here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;887fe87e-6ef2-5d94-98c8-f582cb22f442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;887fe87e-6ef2-5d9...</a>


type: story
by: stockresearcher
title: Vaccinated dog tests positive for rabies, at least 13 people PEP so far
url:
  https://www.cookcountyil.gov/news/cook-county-department-animal-and-rabies-control-confirms-rabies-positive-dog


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  Yes, it should be paid of course. Matter of fact, please charge me more for the privilege of not being asked email,phone, credit cards. Just take my money, and feel free to take whatever steps you think are needed to make sure abuse isn&#x27;t taking places. I champion requiring a &quot;deposit&quot; where if abuse took place the user would forfeit it.<p>But, my original comment is strictly about email. Even if you asked for a government-id and credit-card payment, I won&#x27;t object. Just please, no email!


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  It is that hard for some. Empathy requires actually going out and talking to people. And then listening to them describe their experiences, without editorialising or interrupting.<p>I&#x27;ve met plenty of engineers who would rather spend 2 weeks programming than spend 5 minutes talking to their users. I used to struggle a lot with this myself when I was younger. Social anxiety isn&#x27;t easy to overcome.


type: comment
by: zerocrates
text:
  You mean in the parts that say &quot;Here&#x27;s what they look like in Safari&quot; and so on? Those are just .pngs.


type: comment
by: WhyNotHugo
text:
  &gt; I have never been convinced by this argument. The aggregate number sounds fantastic but I don&#x27;t believe that any meaningful work can be done by each user saving 1 second. That 1 second (and more) can simply be taken by me trying to stretch my body out.<p>I’d see this differently from a user perspective. If the average operations takes one second less, I’d spend a lot of time less waiting for my computer. I’d also have less idle moments where my mind wanders while waiting for some operation to complete too.


type: comment
by: machomaster
text:
  Brics is nothing but a meeting, conversation and PR arena. It is not an Union of any kind, not military, not scientific, not political, not trade, not cultural.<p>BRICS having it own separate currency and a central bank is as far from reality as the samw thing happening to the qualifying countries in Mundial.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  I have a consistent rule.  The rule is that if an LLM meets the threshold I set then it <i>definitely</i> violated copyright, and if it doesn&#x27;t meet the threshold then we need more investigation.<p>We have proof of LLMs going over the threshold.  So that answers the question.<p>Your illustrations are all in the &quot;needs more investigation&quot; area and they don&#x27;t affect the conclusion.<p>We both agree that 1 token by itself is fine, and that some number is too many.<p>So why do you keep asking about that, as if it makes my argument inconsistent in some way?  We both say the same thing!<p>We don&#x27;t need to know the <i>exact</i> cutoff, or calculate how it varies.  We only need to find violators that are <i>over</i> the cutoff.<p>How about you tell me what you <i>want</i> me to say?  Do you want me to say my system is inconsistent?  It&#x27;s not.  Having an area where the answer is unclear means the system is not able to answer every question, but it doesn&#x27;t need to answer every question.<p>If you&#x27;re accusing me of using &quot;vibes&quot; in a way that ruins things, then I counter that no I give nice specific and super-rare probabilities that are no more &quot;vibes&quot; based than <i>your</i> suggestion of an entire repo.<p>&gt; What I continue to fail to elicit from you is the salient difference between the two.<p>Between what, &quot;&#x2F;&#x2F;&quot; and the threshold I said?<p>The salient difference between the two is that one is too short to be copyright infringement and the other is so long and specific that it&#x27;s definitely copyright infringement (when the source is an existing file under copyright without permission to copy).  What more do you want?<p>Just like 1 grain of sand is definitely not a heap and 1kg of sand is definitely a heap.<p>If you ask me about 2, 3, 20 tokens my answer is I don&#x27;t care and it doesn&#x27;t matter and <i>don&#x27;t pretend it&#x27;s relevant</i> to the question of whether LLMs have been infringing copyright or not (&quot;verbatim disgorge chunks&quot;).


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  The Bay Bridge Toll Plaza:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;rh9rcJe2nDz5Hnkv7?g_st=ic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;rh9rcJe2nDz5Hnkv7?g_st=ic</a><p>You’re photo doesn’t show the metering that happens in the opposite direction.


type: comment
by: bavell
text:
  Some very fun indie games I&#x27;ve been playing this past year (lots of early access):<p>- Hexarchy &#x2F; Rogue hex (Civ-like)<p>- The Last Caretaker<p>- Captain of Industry (factorio-like, was posted here on HN by dev awhile back)<p>- 9 kings<p>- Super Fantasy Kingdom<p>- Manor Lords<p>- Astronomics<p>- Heart of the Machine


type: comment
by: thecosmicfrog
text:
  &gt; the failure mode is the opposite of graceful degradation. It’s not like there’s an increasing percentage of requests that fail as you get closer to the deadline. Instead, in one minute, everything’s working just fine, and in the next minute, every http request fails.<p>This has given me some interesting food for thought. I wonder how feasible it would be to create a toy webserver that did exactly this (failing an increasing percentage of requests as the deadline approaches)? My thought would be to start failing some requests as the deadline approaches a point where most would consider it &quot;far too late&quot; (e.g. 4 hours before `notAfter`). At this point, start responding to some percentage of requests with a custom HTTP status code (599 for the sake of example).<p>Probably a lot less useful than just monitoring each webserver endpoint&#x27;s TLS cert using synthetics, but it&#x27;s given me an idea for a fun project if nothing else.


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  Thank you, I didn&#x27;t know that. and you were right, I meant photons instead of electrons being used at the processor logic-gate level.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  Somewhat different. Most of the group chats I’m in are related to house parties where the host knows everyone but I don’t. Or they are interest &#x2F; hobby related.


type: comment
by: navigate8310
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-11-03&#x2F;that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-11-03&#x2F;that-time...</a>


type: comment
by: DFHippie
text:
  I assume &quot;planting&quot; is a typo&#x27;ed &quot;palantir&quot;, in which case I agree completely. And it&#x27;s true inside the US as much as outside.


type: comment
by: mgh95
text:
  &gt; Hum... There are no reliable numbers out there, but I don&#x27;t think the dollar devaluation has been keeping up with the US inflation.<p>There isn&#x27;t anything like &quot;dollar devaluation has been keeping up with the US inflation&quot;. You are interested in what is called the import&#x2F;export price index [1] and for imports that has been relatively flat for the past ~24 months(import +.3%, export +3.8% for TTM). So in a sense, imports for a fixed good are relatively unchanged in constant-currency terms.<p>It&#x27;s more along the lines of &quot;if the EUR goes to 1.5, what does this do to eurozone economies?&quot; and the answer to that isn&#x27;t pretty for europe. This would greatly impair the economy of Germany and other large eurozone economies pretty substantially(see this article for why [2]).<p>And finally, remember: the US actually exports inflation [3]. Most economies cannot simply say no to this effect.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;mxp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;mxp&#x2F;</a> [2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2025-10-06&#x2F;europe-may-need-to-fight-a-currency-war-to-weaken-the-euro?embedded-checkout=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2025-10-06&#x2F;europe...</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-07-18&#x2F;strong-us-dollar-trade-gap-worse-inflation-globally" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-07-18&#x2F;strong-us...</a>


type: comment
by: Fnoord
text:
  &gt; Nobody decided that it&#x27;s a crime, and it&#x27;s unlikely to happen.<p>Which jurisdiction are you on about? [1] Pick your poison.<p>For example, UK has a law forcing suspects to cooperate. This law has been used to convict suspects who weren&#x27;t cooperating.<p>NL does not, but police can use force to have a suspect unlock a device using finger or face.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Key_disclosure_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Key_disclosure_law</a>


type: comment
by: thot_experiment
text:
  Well that&#x27;s not what I want, I want to specifically prevent some passages in text from being rendered as anti-aliased for art reasons.


type: comment
by: cyode
text:
  Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it&#x27;s a gif but not a gif):<p>&gt; Why 796?<p>&gt; The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :)<p>&gt; How does animation rendering work?<p>In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas.


type: comment
by: teapot7
text:
  I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;ve seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn&#x27;t say!


type: comment
by: twodave
text:
  Ostensibly not all known oil fields are actively being extracted. This fact alone makes it unlikely that discovering a new source would affect the price of oil, unless it can be retrieved using cheaper than the existing methods. It’s also worth pointing out that “oil” as a resource isn’t this homogenous substance. Basically every different source of oil has a different (and expensive) refinement process on the other end. It’s a lot more variables than the Reddit-style armchair oil tycoon would probably expect.


type: comment
by: Alupis
text:
  So what&#x27;s your proposal? Go back in time 200 years and create a public-transit system?<p>The US is huge. There is no feasible way to support public transit for 95%+ of it&#x27;s land-mass. That&#x27;s not going to change anytime soon, or ever.<p>Also, most mass-transit systems in the US operate at significant loss, even with government (ie. taxpayer) funding <i>and</i> collecting rider-fare. A lot of public transit systems are in complete disrepair and are severely lacking. Buses and lightrails are never going to be &quot;cheaper&quot;, as convenient or accessible as roads and vehicles are.


type: comment
by: sib
text:
  Yeah and some blind (gender-TBD) Karen reported me on that when they couldn&#x27;t see my kids sitting in the back seat.


type: comment
by: QuercusMax
text:
  Your hook really shouldn&#x27;t be running on the merge commit unless you have conflicts in your merge.


type: comment
by: Aboutplants
text:
  Your upset because you used hard earned money to completely change your life to the point that you now live near the beach? Buddy, that is exactly what money is for and it appears you used it more wisely than 99% of everyone else. Congrats on making the leap to better your situation and have experiences that will never be replaced. Enjoy your life! Looks like you are doing that so continue doing it! This is what it is all for!


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
text:
  Dump advertising into the ocean.  The motivation for maximizing engagement on social media is to maximize ad impressions for revenue.  Every algorithm, every dark pattern, every UX tweak, is aimed toward that sole end.  The issue cannot be fixed by regulating social media itself; it is the enormous monetary incentive that is the root of the problem and until the flow of money is choked off, corporations will still doggedly pursue that revenue.


type: story
by: josephscott
title: 1Password Chrome extension is incorrectly manipulating <code> blocks
url:
  https://www.1password.community/discussions/developers/1password-chrome-extension-is-incorrectly-manipulating--blocks/165639


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  If I&#x27;m not mistaken, apt repositories have very similar failure modes - just using PGP certs instead of SSL certs. The repository signing key can still expire or get revoked, and you&#x27;ll have an <i>even harder</i> time getting every client to install a new one...


type: comment
by: ProllyInfamous
text:
  In Tennessee (other states, too), it is not illegal to have a trailer hitch ball in front of your license plate. They&#x27;re recently begun erecting ALPRs everywhere...<p>...so I have a trailer hitch ball hung entirely across my plate — not considered &quot;obstructing view&quot; <i>de jure</i>, but YMMV (depending on officer).<p>Tennessee does not issue license plates for most trailers, either, so you can easily &amp; even more legally conceal your license plate <i>when towing</i>.<p>Anything else that obstructs the view is illegal (including bicycle racks, leaves, dirt, lenses). But not trailers &amp; hitch balls.


type: comment
by: sib
text:
  So obvious that I was incorrectly reported by a &quot;fellow&quot; driver when they apparently failed to see my kids riding in the back seat.


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  I would eventually want even payment processors to stop asking for email. They have my address and government id, for any liability related reasons. ideally, we would use federated auth, where auth providers aren&#x27;t using email at all. I&#x27;d imagine the complexity of your backend is simpler too as a result.<p>And kudos on your service, I&#x27;ll keep it mind next time I&#x27;m picking a provider.


type: comment
by: gamesbrainiac
text:
  Amusing ourselves to death was such an eye opener for me when I was 19. After that I never took the news seriously.


type: story
by: manan08
title: Show HN: Iris – an AI-powered rental search built specifically for San Francisco
url: https://www.irisrents.com
text:
  We built Iris after watching friends spend weeks doom-scrolling Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com and broker sites — only to miss good units or run into stale &#x2F; scammy listings.<p>Iris is a SF-only rental marketplace with a few differences from existing platforms:<p>1. Search by natural language (“1BR near BART under $3.2k”) or images (upload inspiration photos)<p>2. Verified listings only from property managers, owners, and authorized agents<p>3. SF-specific filters: rent control toggle, transit lines, neighborhood context<p>What surprised us since launch:<p>1. A large share of inventory never shows up cleanly on national portals<p>2. Renters care more about context (block, transit, light, noise) than raw filters<p>3. Narrow vertical focus (one city) lets us build features Zillow can’t justify<p>Would love feedback from people who’ve built:<p>- Vertical marketplaces<p>- Local-first products<p>Happy to answer questions.<p>-- Manan Shah


type: story
by: Rabidgremlin
title: Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames
url: https://boxinsertdesigner.com/
text:
  As a holiday project to test out spec first development using Codex CLI, I ended up creating <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boxinsertdesigner.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boxinsertdesigner.com&#x2F;</a><p>It lets you design a box insert in 2D and spits out a cutting list.<p>I&#x27;m looking for feedback, bugs, feature ideas etc and figured this would be a good place to find it :)


type: comment
by: vidarh
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  That&#x27;s true, but it can also add unnecessary constraints if done thoughtlessly.<p>E.g. if you require an input to be StringIO, instead of requiring an object that responds to &quot;read&quot;.<p>Too often I see people add typing (be it with a project like this, or with is_a? or respond_to?) that makes assumptions about how the caller will want to use it, rather than state actual requirements.<p>That is why I prefer projects to be very deliberate and cautious about how they use types, and keep it to a minimum.


type: comment
by: magnitudes
text:
  What would you have expected model quality to have been this year, it’s greatly exceeded my expectations, I’m genuinely confused by this perspective…considering where we were a very very short time ago


type: comment
by: meesles
text:
  Yep, people really think they&#x27;ve hacked America when they move to states with lower&#x2F;no income tax. Meanwhile they pay 5-figure property taxes on a house they&#x27;ve paid off until the day they die.


type: comment
by: jason2323
text:
  As a huge fan of Top Gear and The Grand Tour, I read Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure. Really fun book giving an inside view of what it took to produce these shows


type: comment
by: tomhow
text:
  It doesn’t have to be “grotesque” to be in breach of the guidelines. The guidelines ask us to be kind, to avoid swipes and sneers, and to converse curiously.<p>If it was a one off we’d be content to leave it flagged and move on but we’re talking about a pattern from years ago that seems to be resuming, and we need you to end that pattern now, thanks.


type: comment
by: ProllyInfamous
text:
  These are not commonly called &quot;slip roads&quot; nor &quot;feeder roads&quot; — they&#x27;re actually called <i>frontage roads</i>.


type: comment
by: kccqzy
text:
  I quote from Spanner docs at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cloud.google.com&#x2F;spanner&#x2F;docs&#x2F;true-time-external-consistency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cloud.google.com&#x2F;spanner&#x2F;docs&#x2F;true-time-externa...</a><p>&gt; External consistency states that Spanner executes transactions in a manner that is indistinguishable from a system in which the transactions are executed serially, and furthermore, that the serial order is consistent with the order in which transactions can be observed to commit. Because the timestamps generated for transactions correspond to the serial order, if any client sees a transaction T2 start to commit after another transaction T1 finishes, the system will assign a timestamp to T2 that is higher than T1&#x27;s timestamp.<p>Of course there is always the edge case where two commits have the same commit timestamp. Therefore from the perspective of Spanner, they happen simultaneously and there is no way to determine which happens first. But there is no need to. There is no causality relationship between them. If you insist, you can arbitrarily assign a happens-before relationship in your own code and nothing will break.


type: comment
by: viraptor
text:
  If you have your own CA, you log every certificate with the expiry details. It&#x27;s easier compared to an external CA because you automatically get the full asset list as long as you care to preserve it.


type: comment
by: burnto
text:
  Groups of people don’t act with the same ethics as individuals.<p>Yes, companies are made of people, but behave differently than people.


type: comment
by: bsder
text:
  &gt; If $3-$8 a day isn&#x27;t worth it for you, there&#x27;s a free option that&#x27;s totally acceptable.<p>That, in fact, isn&#x27;t always true.<p>In Austin, for example, I-45 was supposed to have &quot;frontage roads&quot; all along it so that people could avoid the toll road if they chose at the expense of going through a few traffic lights.<p>Gee, guess what somehow magically never got built in many sections of I-45?  So, your options are pay the toll or go a <i>LONG</i> way out of the way in order to avoid it since the construction of the tollway also <i>destroyed the old routes</i>.


type: comment
by: david927
text:
  Today&#x27;s video on the 1934 Silver Purchase Act is fascinating<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;echodatruth&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004802236224766009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;echodatruth&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004802236224766009</a>


type: comment
by: raron
text:
  &gt; clock sync for civilians has never been easier<p>I don&#x27;t think civilian clock synchronization was an issue since a long time ago.<p>DCF77 and WWVB has been around for more than 50 years. You could use some cheap electronics and get well below millisecond accuracy. GPS has been fully operational for 30 years, but it needs more expensive device.<p>I suspect you could even get below 1 sec accuracy using a watch with a hacking movement and listening to radio broadcast of time beeps &#x2F; pips.


type: comment
by: seizethecheese
text:
  At least you didn’t buy bitcoin at $200 and sell at $400 thinking you made out like a bandit, like me. (I basically never think about this though, and it shouldn’t hurt your soul.)


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  &gt; What I would love would be an interactive script that asked me what I was trying to do and constructed a command line for me while explaining what it would do and the meaning of each argument. And of course it should favour commands that do not re-encode where possible.<p>My ChatGPT history is full of conversations like this.<p>I have mixed feelings about using chatgpt to write code. But LLMs certainly make an excellent ffmpeg frontend. And you can even ask them to explain all the ffmpeg arguments they used and why they used them.


type: comment
by: machomaster
text:
  Unfortunately the skeleton analogy is not correct, because it assumes that the foundation is fine, and you just need more beef&#x2F;muscle&#x2F;money to scale it up.<p>With the exception of few European countries that did maintain a functional army (Finland, France), other countries&#x27; military skeletons suffer from terminally low levels of bone density due to decades of under- and malnutrition. The whole bodies (incl. skeletons) have to quickly be build anew.


type: comment
by: Lammy
text:
  The crash in question was in January of that year, and this article in May is talking about passengers “starting” to get items back. Important items that I&#x27;m forced to go without for six months may as well be lost. Could you make it six months without using your ID for anything?


type: comment
by: joannabregan
text:
  I wonder if these are as good as the Cuboro or not. I&#x27;m guessing there are big quality differences.


type: comment
by: tuetuopay
text:
  Debian 13 uses <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.debian.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.debian.org</a> by default. Even the upgrade docs from 12 to 13 mention the https variant. They were quite hostile for a while to https, but now it seems they bit the bullet.


type: comment
by: dandandan
text:
  It doesn&#x27;t. You connect it to the hotel wifi and then complete the captive portal requirements on your phone, laptop, etc.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  Idk, man, Europe and like... half of Asia seem to have figured this out, and their healthcare outcomes are better. But sure, this contrived pro-car scenario is why trains don&#x27;t work.


type: comment
by: EA-3167
text:
  I don&#x27;t believe that the whole billionaire-led VC industry in California is going to relocate to Florida, in part because of the weather, in part because of the cost, and many other factors. As far as &quot;everyone leaving&quot; California, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true, but I&#x27;m on the other side of the country and it doesn&#x27;t bother me either way.


type: comment
by: johannes1234321
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  For a fun project it certainly is a fun idea.<p>In real life, I guess there are people who don&#x27;t monitor at all. For them failing requests would go unnoticed ... for the others monitoring must be easy.<p>But I think the core thing might be to make monitoring SSL lifetime the &quot;obvious&quot; default: All the grafana dashboards etc should have such an entry.<p>Then as soon as I setup a monitoring stack I get that reminder as well.


type: comment
by: mrgoldenbrown
text:
  HN is definitely social media, even if it isn&#x27;t explicitly labeled as such.    Ostensibly Instagram is just a photo sharing site, but we all know it is social media.


type: comment
by: potato3732842
text:
  &gt;I long for the days of a Slashdot where you could filter out anyone with a UID greater than 200K or so, and it&#x27;d be nothing but 20yr experts in IT dropping rugged after rugged of tremendously insightful analysis.<p>If you had a similar filter here it&#x27;d likely have the the opposite effect.


type: comment
by: srkiranraj
text:
  @gus_massa, Yes, ChatGPT does a good job of creating grids of same size. If you scroll to the end of the blog I have shared three versions of the game. You can use them and I also have shared the prompt to generate it.


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
text:
  It’s probably necessary long term as gasoline taxes are yielding less per mile as total fuel efficiency improves. The dedicated funding source is necessary because if DOT construction budgets (which are huge) were in the general fund, they would be looted by lawmakers to fund patronage programs and the entire surface transportation network would be unfit for service within 20 years. TxDOT loves NTTA because it’s a huge cash cow and hits non-residents hard. If I have to go to Dallas, I expect to spend at least $25 one way. Usually someone else is footing that bill. By extension, I consider myself very lucky that I don’t have to live there.


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
text:
  Your idea shifts monitoring to end users, which doesn’t sound awesome.<p>Just check expiration of the active certificate; if it’s under a threshold (say 1 week, assuming you auto-renew it when it’s 3 weeks to expiry; still serving a cert when it’s 1 week to expiration is enough signal that something went wrong) then you alert.<p>Then you just need to test that your alerting system is reliable. No need to use your users as canaries.


type: comment
by: ThrowawayTestr
text:
  Unpopular opinion but blocking traffic is akin to cutting power lines. Don&#x27;t fuck with people&#x27;s utilities.


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  &gt; I imagine it could play a pure 7Hz tone if you turn it up.<p>You&#x27;re misunderstanding the numbers here. Going from 12 to 7 Hz is most of an octave, nearly doubling wavelengths.<p>Also SVS&#x27;s numbers are gonna be the usual marketing stuff, so they&#x27;re assuming a fat room gain curve, and just looking at their website they have a disclaimer on their graphs that it doesn&#x27;t represent actual total output capability. Which is a way of hiding that if you actually try to drive it that hard that low with ~3kw electrical in those voice coils are going to torch.<p>The non lying way to prove that claim is to show large signal Kipple results including the heat soak. They ain&#x27;t doin&#x27; that here.<p>Basically stuff going this low is really exotic and more in the realm of servos that simulate earthquakes than traditional transducers.<p>Tom Danley is the world expert on this sort of thing. He used to build stuff like ultrasonic levitation ovens and full scale sonic boom simulators for JPL&#x2F;NASA.<p>In the audio world he was first famous as the tech lead behind ServoDrive. This now defunct company made special effects subwoofers using DC rotary servo motors to drive the diaphragm. They were used as special effects subs in that era by big acts like Garth Brooks. But they didn&#x27;t catch on outside that niche because very little music has significant content below 40 hz as it just turns into a muddy rumble that harms sound quality as a whole. So to use these sorts of things you have to mix for it specifically. Cinema goes lower with the rumbles down to 15hz, but that&#x27;s basically it.<p>Getting anything that&#x27;s like a clean tone at 7hz is not gonna happen without a purpose built device.<p>FWIW Tom Danley started his own company[1] after Servo Drive failed on the business side, where he focuses on large scale horn speakers using novel topologies. They&#x27;re among the best in the business at what they. Again, they don&#x27;t have anything that even remotely tries to go down to 7hz.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.danleysoundlabs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.danleysoundlabs.com&#x2F;</a><p>Tom&#x27;s a nice guy, I&#x27;ve traded emails with him a few times over the years. He used to be pretty active on the DIY speaker building mailing lists sharing his very in depth knowledge freely.


type: comment
by: NewsaHackO
text:
  That is correct for the collective as a whole, but in his instance, if this wasn&#x27;t connect to a public github, it would have been substanially more difficult to prove he used a LLM.


type: comment
by: jim201
text:
  The book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman seems really relevant here. The thesis is that different modes of information are best suited to different tasks. Postman argues that television is best suited for entertainment. So the programs that do well on TV will naturally tend to be entertainment.<p>That book was written in 1985, but the core observations are also applicable to modern cellphones (which have become, for the majority of users, entertainment devices).<p>Postman then talks about how our communication systems have degraded as a result of entertainment being the strength of our current modes.<p>Fantastic read.


type: comment
by: jmyeet
text:
  I&#x27;m surprised the WSJ didn&#x27;t have any depth on what&#x27;s happened and why.<p>&quot;Backwardation&quot; is a term that must be used here. That&#x27;s where the spot price was higher than the future price.<p>For anyone unfamiliar, pretty much any commodity can trade under a futures contract. That means you as a producer or consumer can lock in a price at a future point. But you must come up with the commodity on that date or come up with the money and take delivery.<p>So imagine the spot (current) price is $70&#x2F;oz but the future price is $65&#x2F;oz. That means nobody is really buying at $70 when a price a month out is $65. So how does this happen&#x2F; Because dealers in the market have written futures contracts for silver they don&#x27;t have and they will have to buy at the spot price to cover it at some point. They either don&#x27;t want to or can&#x27;t. Best case scenario, they&#x27;re going to take a massive loss. Worst case, they are insolvent.<p>So there was little to no activity at the spot price even though it&#x27;s at a record high. Refiners weren&#x27;t buying.<p>There&#x27;s a market for borrowing silver from people who have it and that market exploded this year as these dealers sought temporary relief for the futures contracts they had to cover.<p>All of this signaled that banks and refiners were essentially conspiring to suppress silver prices to remain solvent and that at some point the dam was going to burst.<p>And it did because China, who refines 60-70% of the world&#x27;s silver, decided they would cease exports because of local demand for things like solar panels.<p>So here we are.


type: comment
by: biglyburrito
text:
  There&#x27;s a post in that thread that indicates the same bug also affects Firefox:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1password.community&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;developers&#x2F;1password-chrome-extension-is-incorrectly-manipulating--blocks&#x2F;165639&#x2F;replies&#x2F;165859" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1password.community&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;developers&#x2F;1pass...</a>


type: comment
by: albumen
text:
  This is provably wrong. Preventative public health measures against for instance cigarettes and nicotine reduce uptake, reduce consumption and increase quitting. [1] In the case of smoking, this also cut second-hand harm&#x2F;death from smoking. Similarly, preventative measures have first order and second order benefits for alcohol and other drug consumption.<p>Just giving up on those who show higher likelihood for addiction is a travesty. Failure to eliminate an addiction is no reason to give up reducing its harms, both to the person themselves, family and friends, and wider society.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobaccocontrol.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;21&#x2F;2&#x2F;172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobaccocontrol.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;21&#x2F;2&#x2F;172</a>


type: comment
by: logicprog
text:
  Fair enough! I was wary of doing the calculation that way for reasons that seem retroactively pretty dumb, so I&#x27;ll take the L on that one.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  &gt;Wait until you hear about the true costs of transit. A transit ride in a large city is typically MORE expensive than a car ride. Even when you take into account the cost of depreciation, insurance, financing and other related expenses.<p>Meanwhile, we&#x27;re barreling toward 2-3 C of warming above pre-industrial levels by 2100. Oh, sorry, that doesn&#x27;t have a line item on the toll receipt, silly me.<p>&gt;It&#x27;s THE real reason we have a failing democracy. Thoughtless social experiments with subsidizing transit have led to distorted housing and job markets. You can&#x27;t just subsidize one facet of life and hope for it to work.<p>Lol. Lmao, even.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  Thank you for your comment. It led me to looking up what anti-protest propaganda[1] looks like.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Protest_paradigm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Protest_paradigm</a>


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Yes, this is the justification decisionmakers use to shirk moral responsibility for their decisions.


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  &gt; TLS certificates… SSL is some old Java anachronism.<p>OpenSSL is still called OpenSSL. Despite &quot;SSL&quot; not being the proper name anymore, people are still going to use it.<p>By the way, TLS 1.3 is actually SSL v3.4 :)


type: comment
by: cd_mkdir
text:
  This is synthetic demo data kept it short so people could see the methodology clearly. Real reports have way more transactions (platform handles 10k+ via Celery).<p>It&#x27;s meant to be public as a sample showing the output format. Real client data is obviously private&#x2F;encrypted.


type: comment
by: infecto
text:
  I think effective light rail is really hard to get right in the US. Think about Houston, its already a a massive asphalt parking lot nightmare, its not very walk-able, it gets hot and humid in the summer. It simply won&#x27;t work in most of the US. This is not a build it and they will come situation.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  Must be why European democracy is in shambles then: it&#x27;s the damn trains and buses! Who woulda thunk?


type: comment
by: throw0101c
text:
  &gt; <i>I’m pretty sure no-one has argued that a gold standard would prevent economic disasters. That sounds like a straw man. My understanding is that there would be more of them but the individual and cumulative impact would be far less.</i><p>Contrary to popular opinion, the historical record shows that gold does not actually bring price stability; see &quot;Why the Gold Standard Is the World&#x27;s Worst Economic Idea, in 2 Charts&quot;:<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;why-the-gold-standard-is-the-worlds-worst-economic-idea-in-2-charts&#x2F;261552&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archi...</a><p>Most of the claimed benefits of gold-backed currencies are myths:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;7&#x2F;16&#x2F;5900297&#x2F;case-against-gold-standard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;7&#x2F;16&#x2F;5900297&#x2F;cas...</a><p>Before what we call &quot;The Great Depression&quot; (of the 1930s), that label was applied to another years-long economic malaise, which was in part caused by using gold-backed currency (as was the 1930s Great Depression):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long_Depression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long_Depression</a><p>You&#x27;ll find that US economic downturns became less frequent as the US went off the gold standard, and the Fed gained more and more independence:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:GDP_growth_1923-2009.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:GDP_growth_1923-2009.jpg</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...</a>


type: comment
by: chairhairair
text:
  Maybe? He said “Asian AI guy”, which is pretty weird.<p>Then he went on to claim this bizzaro video has “been quite informative.” When it’s definitely an AI slop pumping mechanism.<p>TBH his comment is probably part of the campaign.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  This canary is a good thought. The problem the article highlights is that people don’t practice updates enough and assume someone else or something is handling it. You only get better at it the more often it happens which is partly why long expirations are not ideal. This is what the article is highlighting as the main issue.


type: comment
by: raron
text:
  &gt; atomic clock time signal that (was&#x2F;is?) broadcast nationwide<p>Probably DCF77 or WWVB.<p>&gt; I think the actual antenna and hardware were relatively large since it&#x27;s a long wave signal<p>Casio has some normal sized wristwatches that synchronizes to DCF77, it would definitely fit into a stove, microwave, or basically anything.


type: comment
by: lanfeust6
text:
  Anti-trust laws exist for a reason. Mitigating monopoly is key and already accounted for. There&#x27;s no reason to believe corporations can inevitably grow themselves into that position, and as history shows, no one can predict which ones will be the most valuable (let alone valuable) in the future.<p>As for individuals, dynasty dissipates and breaks up in wealth. A rich person doesn&#x27;t live forever, and seldom do competing offspring manage to generate as much. Their pile shrinks as they spend it away.<p>Notwithstanding that, name a dollar figure above Bezos&#x27; wealth at which suddenly he can operate outside the law. We can already see what concentrated power looks like; it is entrenched and intertwined with government, not operating outside its bounds. See: Xi Ping, Putin and others. Power often comes with wealth, but wealth in itself doesn&#x27;t lead to that level of power, at least in the Liberal world.


type: comment
by: freeone3000
text:
  Putting the lookup in the AI means it can hallucinate the lookup. Putting the assesment of risk in the AI means it can fail on the assessment.<p>Please reconsider using a full text search index instead.


type: comment
by: logicprog
text:
  Ah, okay. Idk how I would&#x27;ve found that based just on what he said. Found the story you&#x27;re talking about for future reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-fe...</a>


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  I&#x27;m sorry, <i>Reddit-style armchair oil tycoon</i>?  I&#x27;ve  been using the word &quot;oil&quot; commodity the same way as everyone else has, why did you pick out my comment  for that aspersion?  Why not upthread when people were discussing 0 incentives?  You are applying this aspersion and standard asymmetrically.


type: comment
by: bsder
text:
  &gt; Overall, I think fare at point of use is a great structure. In the past we couldn’t enforce it but now we can do this for more things.<p>I don&#x27;t agree.  Price &quot;discrimination&quot; for government services is <i>not</i> acceptable.  The perverse incentives that sets up are far too strong and the profits too juicy to avoid corruption.<p>We have historical analogs (paying for fire service and the corruption that caused in Rome).  We have modern analogs (money from marijuana funding police forces that then arrest marijuana offenders and fight legalization efforts).<p>Letting price discrimination enter government services is simply a road to corruption and disaster.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  other than these tests I actually rarely see vending machines. are they really representative or popular still in usa?


type: comment
by: mitchbob
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;PvVpM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;PvVpM</a>


type: comment
by: ProjectArcturis
text:
  The 10-year Treasury rate has more than doubled since 2001. I skipped Econ 101 - If you have to pay people twice as much to take your debt, is there more or less demand for it?


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  This is the autopilot one, I thought I saw one about disabling the entire bebjicke vehicle, but I can&#x27;t find a trace of it.


type: comment
by: cr125rider
text:
  It’s good to know the differences between libuv based event loops, threads, and processes. I think your comment simplifies that too much.


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  This is allocating wear and tear on scarce highways.  Dividing it evenly by <i>use</i>.  Poor people who would never drive on this road should not be subsidizing the use by software engineers, for example (the non-toll model).<p>&gt; for example, software engineers a shorter commute on average than teachers?<p>Housing prices already have this kind of effect -- highly compensated employees can afford to live closer to their preferred locations.  There&#x27;s no reason not to allocate road resources to the users who are willing to pay for them (which is a much broader segment of the population than just software engineers).  Pricing is a better system than road communism.


type: comment
by: freeone3000
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  I don’t agree that the risk is okay as long as we make enough money from it. I don’t think that prop bets should be legal.


type: comment
by: amcsi
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  Where&#x27;s the public Git repository for this project? The GitHub link on the NPM page seems broken to me.


type: comment
by: nextaccountic
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  If your language isn&#x27;t ergonomic then people will not use it (or use it less). Maybe another theorem prover will arise that makes &quot;correct&quot; definitions more ergonomic<p>Note that the same thing happens in Rust. Rather than putting trait bounds in structs (like struct Aa&lt;T: Something&gt; { .. }, people are encouraged to make the structs more generic (struct Aa&lt;T&gt; { .. }) and put restrictions on impls instead (impl&lt;T: Something&gt; Aa&lt;T&gt; { .. }). The rationale being that this is more ergonomic because it doesn&#x27;t require you to repeat bounds in places you don&#x27;t need them, and if every impl requires a Something bound, you will need the bound to make <i>anything</i> with this type (doubly so if the fields of Aa are private and so you need to build one using a method with T: Something)


type: comment
by: rjrjrjrj
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  Civic fuel economy is about 2x an unloaded SuperDuty, so the SuperDuty owner likely pays maybe a bit more than 2x in gas tax + registration.<p>+700lb (+25%) =&gt; 2.25x damage +2800lb (+100%) =&gt; ???x damage<p>Your story doesn&#x27;t provide a formula, but seems obvious it is much, much greater than 2 - this isn&#x27;t a linear relationship<p>And that&#x27;s the very lightest SuperDuty model, unloaded.


type: comment
by: ronsor
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  Ignoring things such as emergency services being blocked, imagine if protesters could &quot;block&quot; the Internet.<p>That would not garner much sympathy.


type: comment
by: ogogmad
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  Isn&#x27;t a more modest opinion that gold admits a <i>guaranteed minimum</i> on its price because of scarcity and demand from industrial applications? That <i>guaranteed minimum on its price</i> is what enables it to be used as a hedge against a possible hyperinflation event of the USD. By comparison, the USD, like all other fiat currencies, might not have any guaranteed minimum price.<p>I&#x27;m out of my depth, so apologies.


type: comment
by: Enginerrrd
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  I think you just nerd-sniped me but I’m not convinced it’s impossible to assign a consistent ordering to events with relativistic separations.<p>For starters, the spacetime interval between two events IS a Lorentz invariant quantity. That could probably be used to establish a universal order for timelike separations between events.  I suspect that you could use a reference clock, like a pulsar or something to act as an event against which to measure the spacetime interval to other events, and use that for ordering.   Any events separated by a light-like interval are essentially simultaneous to all observers under that measure.<p>The problem comes for events with a space like or light like separation.  In that case, the spacetime interval is still conserved, but I’m not sure how you assign order to them.   Perhaps the same system works without modification, but I’m not sure.


type: comment
by: emodendroket
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  &gt; Will it report me if I try to discuss &quot;The anarchist&#x27;s cookbook&quot; with it?<p>I don’t know. Weren’t you already running that risk with “download metadata”?


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
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  I stopped taking compound Mounjaro a year ago. I started semaglutide in Sept and stopped because it made me sick (throwing up, other non desirable GI effects). My body couldn’t handle semaglutide.


type: comment
by: barbs
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  Sounds like Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...</a>


type: comment
by: mananaysiempre
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  Streamer[1,2], formerly pro gamer[3]. “Creator” here is a clipping of “content creator”, an overtly ad-industry term that makes me a little sad(der) each time I hear it but is unfortunately universal nowadays, especially for people making videos (as we don’t really have another umbrella word for that).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCsHlla-bq0C_2OtEy8s2_Sg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCsHlla-bq0C_2OtEy8s2_Sg</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;kinggeorge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;kinggeorge</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;rainbowsix&#x2F;KingGeorge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;rainbowsix&#x2F;KingGeorge</a>


type: comment
by: OxfordOutlander
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  I built this partly because i wanted a cleaner side-by-side comparison of the big “2026 outlook” reports (banks + asset managers), and partly as an experiment in whether codex &#x2F; claude code &#x2F; cursor together can be pushed to handle citations accurately rather than hallucinating summaries. Quite pleased with the result.<p>The workflow was roughly: ingest publicly available outlook reports, extract claims, numbers, and framing (&amp; force every synthesized statement to be tied back to a specific source&#x2F;page), anchor on key themes (ai capex, policy path, power&#x2F;energy, credit, etc.) rather than by institution.


type: comment
by: asveikau
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  &gt; Oh, there was plenty of internalized propaganda about civil disobedience being the &quot;wrong approach&quot;<p>Yes, I&#x27;m aware of this. But I think it&#x27;s surprising to me because decades later, MLK et al. are nearly universally accepted to have been right, but people using the same tactics are not.<p>But the cyclical propaganda lines do cross the decades. In the Bush 2 years I was rather taken by similarities between discussions of the Vietnam war or Watergate (which I read about in books or heard about from boomers) and what was then current events. A lot of the right wing stuff we&#x27;ve encountered more recently reminds me a lot of the 90s, when Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich bursted on the scene. All of the same talking points go in waves. Nothing new under the sun.


type: comment
by: Lammy
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  &gt; Do we need to wait for a tragedy before we do something?<p>Yes, absolutely. It isn&#x27;t pleasant to think about, but laws and regulations are meaningless if they aren&#x27;t based on actual numbers. If I wanted to propose some new feature at work, people would understandably want to see some numbers and not just “feels nice” lol


type: comment
by: throwayaw84330
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  I use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;longregen&#x2F;claude-sandbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;longregen&#x2F;claude-sandbox</a><p>It uses bubblewrap (no root needed) and only exposes ~&#x2F;.cache stuff and the current folder (no git credentials, no ssh credentials, and as few permissions as it&#x27;s feasible).<p>bubblewrap is a little bit more lightweight than docker (afaiu no overlayfs, launches way faster), but has the same underlying mechanisms for security (cgroups)


type: comment
by: seabass
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  Definitely going to give this a try. One thing I&#x27;m curious about--where are the servers? And if I want to choose hosting geographically close to me, how do I do that?


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  &gt;. Regardless of whether there are tolls or a higher gas tax, the current suburban development pattern is going to get more and more expensive for the end users, but you could have learned that from Strong Towns a decade ago.<p>We incentivize density in this country by having a ton of compliance hoops that increase cost on a per-building basis.  People might just decide that they love suburbs so much that they vote for politicians who tell the Strong Towns crowd, the environmentalists and the trades and engineering groups to shove it and we go back to the 1980s and slap up street after street of chap AF single family homes on septic with nary a site plan in site.


type: comment
by: josephg
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  &gt; You can’t verify LLM’s output. And thus, any form of trust is faith, not rational logic.<p>Well, you can verify an LLM&#x27;s output all sorts of ways.<p>But even if you couldn&#x27;t, its still very rational to be judicious with how you use your time and attention. If I spent a few hours going through the ffmpeg documentation I could probably learn it better than chatgpt. But, its a judgement call whether its better to spend 5 minutes getting chatgpt to generate an ffmpeg command (with some error rate) or spend 2 hours doing it myself (with maybe a lower error rate).<p>Which is a better use of my time depends on lots of factors. How much I care. How important it is. How often that knowledge will be useful in the future. And so on. If I worked in a hollywood production studio, I&#x27;d probably spend the 2 hours (and many more). But if I just reach for ffmpeg once a year, the small% error rate from chatgpt&#x27;s invocations might be fine.<p>Your time and attention are incredibly limited resources. Its very rational to spend them sparingly.


type: comment
by: dmazin
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  I highly recommend anyone to look up how PTP works and how it compares to NTP. Clock sync is very interesting. When I joined an HFT company, first thing I did was understand this stuff. We care about it a lot[1].<p>If you want a specific question to answer, answer this: why does PTP need hardware timestamping to achieve high precision (where the network card itself assigns timestamps to packets, rather than having the kernel do it as part of TCP&#x2F;IP processing)? If we use software timestamps, why can we do microsecond precision at best? If you understand this, it goes a very long way to understanding the core ideas behind precise clock sync.<p>Once you have a solid understanding of PTP, look into White Rabbit. They’re able to sync two clocks with sub-ns precision. In case that isn’t obvious, that is absolutely insane.<p>[1] So do a lot of people. For example audio engineers. Once, an audio engineer absolutely talked my ear off about ptp. I had no idea that audio people understood clock sync so well but they do!


type: comment
by: jppope
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  I spent the first chunk of my career doing sales (2nd half spent in software engineering). Theres a lot of good books out there but you&#x27;re going to find a lot of the direct advice to be non-applicable (as I&#x27;m sure you can pick up from the comments). Most of the Literature out there is directed at professional sales people, who for the most part are non-technical, have the backing of a marketing org, and are also different than a founder. Anyway, heres a reading list. Most of the trainings I&#x27;ve been a part of were custom built to the org or market, and frankly I learned more from Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss. I did enjoy &quot;the Wedge&quot; training by Randy Schwantz... that one you should do the video not the book. It also sounds like you could use some marketing stuff so I&#x27;ll throw some of that in there too.<p>In no particular order, and please keep in mind this is off the top of my head:<p>* Influence (the classic)<p>* YC videos (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0fKYVl12VTA?si=I9uylXSRyOf1nXRv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0fKYVl12VTA?si=I9uylXSRyOf1nXRv</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DH7REvnQ1y4?si=Ke858PmaaBr5ar-e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DH7REvnQ1y4?si=Ke858PmaaBr5ar-e</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hyYCn_kAngI?si=sO_co6kbDaNn3cql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hyYCn_kAngI?si=sO_co6kbDaNn3cql</a>, etc)<p>* Thinking Fast and Slow<p>* Purple Cow<p>* Clayton Christensen stuff<p>* Spin Selling<p>* Challenger Sale<p>* Guerrilla marketing (for the mental muscle)<p>* Jeffrey Gitomer (basic but useful)<p>* Lean Startup (for positioning)<p>* Charisma Myth<p>* Minimalist Entrepreneur (bits and pieces)<p>* The presentation secrets of steve jobs (just a good book on presentations, framed around Steve Jobs to sell more)<p>For what its worth this question comes up fairly often. It seems like technical people would like a &quot;technical people&quot; guide on how to do Sales and marketing. Does that sound useful to anyone?


type: comment
by: ThunderSizzle
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  That should only be the case if the fine was actually prosecuted in court.<p>Plenty of people pay the fine and admit to guilt to avoid being further penalized with court fees, etc. In other words, many people just pay a injustice fine to avoid more trouble. This would punish those type of people even more.


type: comment
by: salawat
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  It really isn&#x27;t followed through on as often as you think, and since Citizen&#x27;s United, the typical candidate tends to chase the donations of people who think tolls are a grand idea. Not so much the rest of the working stiffs. Institutional inertia is a hell of a thing when your working demographic is keeping the retiree&#x27;s and children&#x27;s heads above water.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  Biden is a 5+ decades politician, he is corrupted and has had every fiber of being sold to the highest bidder over and over again. it is <i>you</i> that care about “which team you are on” - not me. I have been a democrat my entire life and will continue to be so especially now that alternative barely exists but I also posses intelligence to know that democrats (especially fucking establishment ones like biden) are corrupt to the core


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
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  Is anyone else worried that a lot of people coming from the Rust world contribute to free software and mindlessly slap on it MIT license because it&#x27;s &quot;the default license&quot;? (Yes, I&#x27;ve had someone say this to me, no joke)<p>GnuPG for all its flaws has a copyleft license (GPL3) making it difficult to &quot;embrace extend extinguish&quot;. If you replace it with a project that becomes more successful but has a less protective (for users) license, &quot;we the people&quot; might lose control of it.<p>Not everything in software is about features.


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
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  I subscribe to the opinion that there are probably some good reasons why people in the US tend to spread out when they have the option. I think the problem of collective human action is complex enough that optimizing at the individual level is probably the best we can do. I would rather spend time thinking about how to serve people in ways that they actually want instead of “big idea” approaches.


type: comment
by: anonzzzies
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  A friend started that type of business in my country a few years ago (end covid): she is pretty successful and I gave her a chance for a trip I am on now. It mostly exposed how absolutely terrible everyone seems to be at this: she did absolutely lazy work I could have done fast(er) and better myself (usually do and will do again), but, seeing her other clients, including a friend, it seems most people are just really bad at it, far worse than she is (or wants to spend time on I guess).


type: comment
by: PeterHolzwarth
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  Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author&#x2F;artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.


type: comment
by: wlonkly
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  The author repeats:<p>&gt; that runtime <i>continuously</i> works to make the infrastructure match your <i>intent</i>.<p>The flipside of that is that the infrastructure, at any given time, might not match your intent, or might be continuously working to try to match your intent, which means the state of the infrastructure often does not match the state of its configuration, which is hell during an incident.<p>It makes me wonder if declarative, converging systems are actually what we want, or if they&#x27;re what we ended up with, or if all the alternatives are just worse.


type: comment
by: igftiuhugfduh
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  No major bank has an unhedged silver position remotely large enough to risk its solvency, the market is just not large enough. When I read this kind of conspiracy post I think you&#x27;re long and talking your book.


type: comment
by: jppope
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  Thats old as time. The more basic form of it is: &quot;Don&#x27;t worry about selling, just make a friend&quot;


type: comment
by: Gigachad
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  What I would do is the same as what most cities around the world are doing, spending more on public transport, spending less on roads, implementing tolls and congestion charges, and over time reshaping cities to be better for walking, PT, and cycling.<p>The US is not unique in having fully adopted cars and ripped up old PT networks. It happened all over Australia which is also a massive very spread out country. But significant effort has gone in to reversing the damage.<p>There is something deeply wrong about a society that can afford to create hundred billionaires but can’t afford busses.


type: comment
by: pepa65
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  If I go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mephistomail.site&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mephistomail.site&#x2F;</a> on Firefox, I can&#x27;t scroll at all. If I zoom out, I see there is more to the page, but it&#x27;s too small to read then. Can you implement&#x2F;allow scrolling??


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  &gt;but, of course, that never happened.<p>Because there is no consequences for the peddlers or the supporters.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t take seriously someone who advocates with a straight face for reinstating prohibition or segregation yet it&#x27;s perfectly socially acceptable to say &quot;no, it will be different this time&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s not just toll roads.  You see this with every recurring bad thing.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
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  for server use you can live with generic images. When you want stuff like HDMI audio out and all, generic images usually won&#x27;t do.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  &gt; degree of corruption is the same<p>the echochamber is going nuts… look at this thread and see how many of you are saying “degree of corruption” and then think whether or not you are getting this fed like clowns from whatever fucking (“social”) media your brain is being poisoned and then start to question your life’s choices


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
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  Based on numerous studies, we already know it&#x27;s not 1:1 so why bother starting with a default assumption that we know is wrong?<p>Do you have an alternative analysis? I&#x27;d love to check it out.


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
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  It’s not a good thought. Run a single client (uptime kuma) and ask it to alert you on expiration proximity. I.e. implement proper monitoring and alerting.  No need to randomly degrade your users’ experience and hope they’ll notify you instead of shrugging and going to a site that doesn’t throw made-up http errors at them randomly.


type: comment
by: stevenhuang
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  What Gemini are you and the author referring to? I presume not the LLM Gemini by Google?<p>Ah the Gemini protocol <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gemini_(protocol)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gemini_(protocol)</a>


type: comment
by: DANmode
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  &gt; a flawed term<p>No, just misrepresented.<p>Conspiracies happen daily.<p>&gt; Secondly, the flow of cheap plastic things from China turned into a steady stream of more and more sophisticated, and low priced, goods.. replacing things that were brand names, hand made, or niche markets. Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum were particularly involved in that change fyi.<p>More commonly attributed to the administration of President Bill Clinton.


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
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  I feel your anxiety, but let me offer a different metaphor.<p>Instead of the Titanic (a single point of failure sinking), consider the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan. Every 20 years, they completely rebuild the temple (Shikinen Sengu).<p>Why? To transfer the <i>skill</i> of building, not just preserve the <i>building</i> itself.<p>We are entering a &quot;Grand Rebuilding&quot; phase. Yes, the old structures (traditional coding jobs) are being dismantled. But the purpose is to transfer the essence of &quot;Logic&quot; and &quot;Value Creation&quot; to a new material (AI).<p>Don&#x27;t cling to the old wood. Focus on being the carpenter who knows how to build the new shrine.


type: comment
by: anonzzzies
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  But that does not make it &#x27;normally&#x27;; where does it work that way vs income(and other) taxes? Where I live and all countries around, roads are paid from general taxes (including income, road and fuel taxes).


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  I think federation is interesting as a concept, but my time with Mastodon has revealed that even decentralized networks are just as full of outrage-centric entertainment and ragebait as the main networks.<p>I think “the algorithm” gets a lot of blame for mirroring the choices that people are making for themselves. Even when you remove any semblance of an algorithm people have no problem creating their own little worlds of outrage entertainment and rage bait.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
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  So what are they using this software for, what&#x27;s the proposed alternative, and what makes that alternative work better for their use case?


type: comment
by: igftiuhugfduh
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  New exploration is in the $35-40 break even range, not $60. A well with $60 break even is a poor investment right now.


type: comment
by: torcete
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  Oh, I wrote &quot;asian ai guy&quot; because that&#x27;s the name people are using in these YouTube videos.<p>Maybe you are right and the video is just ai slop. I just wanted to share it, because I learnt with them how futures, arbitrage and market manipulation works.<p>Also, I can assure you that I am not part of any campaign, but of course, what else would I say?


type: comment
by: Salman23
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  Definitely agreed that there exist thousands of different ways to not pay employees... but they don&#x27;t have good incentive to cut them out.<p>Purely from a social contract lens, why would founders actively seek out ways to cut out their employees from a (potentially life changing) exit.


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
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  &gt; Despite our emerging results, the Pfizer executives in charge of research and external alliances told us the company did not want to develop a new diabetes therapy that required injection,<p>Well, COVID certainly put an end to those fears (by consumers). Coincidentally, obesity was also said to increase COVID risk. Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it - no pun intended - any better.


type: comment
by: ilvez
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  Yeah, second and third book in Farseer trilogy can be hard to consume, but at the same time in comparison Robin Hobb just damn can write good. It&#x27;s little-bit in comparison if you read some more amateur writers, coming back to this.. Can&#x27;t say it&#x27;s wholly perfect, but it is well written -- Nighteyes for one. Fitz can be emo, but Nighteyes just delivers.<p>There sure are positive outcomes in Elderling series. In the long run. The characters and their life. It&#x27;s not easy laid back reading, but in the end it is one of the best series. (Minus the four books of &quot;Dragon ...&quot;, these are slop, not sure why Hobb wrote those).


type: comment
by: nextaccountic
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  &gt; License: BSL 1.1, free for personal and educational use, converts to MIT in 2030 (would love input on this, does it make sense to just go MIT?)<p>I LOLd at that. Things in AI space become obsolete much faster. I&#x27;d say just go with GPL or AGPL if you don&#x27;t want proprietary software to be built on top of your code


type: comment
by: mlavrent
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  This article seems to conflate strong type systems with functional programming, except in point 8. It makes sense why- OCaml and Haskell are functional and were early proponents of these type systems. But, languages like Racket don’t have these type systems and the article doesn’t do anything to explain why they are _also_ better for reliability.


type: comment
by: wild_egg
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  What does Tmux-CLI add on top of regular tmux?<p>Everything in the &quot;What Claude Code Can Do With Tmux-CLI&quot; section is already easily possible out of the box with vanilla tmux


type: comment
by: throw0101c
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  &gt; <i>Then when someone flies over your datacenter with an GPS jammer (purposeful or accidental), this needs to not be a bad day where suddenly database transactions happen out of order, or you have an outage.</i><p>Most NTP&#x2F;PTP appliances have internal clocks that are OCXO or rubidium that have holdover (even for several days).<p>If time is that important to you then you&#x27;ll have them, plus perhaps some fibre connections to other sites that are hopefully out of range of the jamming.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
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  I used to hang out in forums with Roy Walford&#x27;s followers<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;120-Year-Diet-Double-Vital&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0671466771" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;120-Year-Diet-Double-Vital&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0671466...</a><p>Those folks were disdainful of &quot;one-mouse experiments&quot; but Roy was vital and productive for a long time and passed at 79 from ALS which is one of the worse ways you can go and used a lot of weed<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roy_Walford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roy_Walford</a><p>I can say that when I was lowballing my calories I was often uncomfortable,  particularly in the cold.  If I could keep the temperature constant it might not be so hard but in an old farmhouse in NY it&#x27;s pretty hard even if you are strategic about long underwear and other warm programming.  But yeah,  the average American could use to eat a bit less and so I could I.


type: comment
by: sgc
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  If it&#x27;s not niche service, it won&#x27;t be what you are looking for. The best thing is to search for &quot;my travel destination travel agent&quot; and find a local company which is not overly difficult. I have friends who did not even think anybody booked a major trip in a different way than that. There are also travel agents who work in many locations, but specialize in a specific type of trip like adventure&#x2F;extreme trips etc. It&#x27;s a different fit though, they can&#x27;t know each area as well as a local agent.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
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  Actually the Orange Pi 5 Ultra would be the most recent board from Orange Pi to compare it with. You can see a comparison between the Orange Pi 5 Ultra and the Raspberry Pi 5 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boilingsteam.com&#x2F;orange-pi-5-ultra-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boilingsteam.com&#x2F;orange-pi-5-ultra-review&#x2F;</a><p>In a nutshell, this new Orange Pi 6 Plus is much faster than Orange Pi 5 Ultra and anything that came before.


type: comment
by: jemmyw
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  &gt; some people online claim they want $10k EVs<p>I wasn&#x27;t really thinking about cost, but quality, when I made the comment about what we should be doing. Quality at scale with better processes and automation. I think history shows its the scale that matters. Once you have scale you can improve quality across everything.<p>&gt; Protectionism is why we have not already been flooded with crappy cars from overseas.<p>I don&#x27;t live in the US, but another Western country, one that doesn&#x27;t protect the car market because we have no car manufacturing here at all. I&#x27;m not seeing a flood of crappy cars. The Chinese EVs seem very good on price and (so far, new models take time to reveal problems and serviceability) quality. Regulatory protectionism is a good thing, but I&#x27;m also not convinced that folks in China would be happy with crappy cars either.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  &gt; Double the hardware spec matters little if you can’t get the software to even compile<p>You can get any software to compile on this SBC. On the Raspberry Pi platform you usually don&#x27;t need to compile anything.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  When anyone asks for a &#x27;simplified&#x27; tax code, it&#x27;s going to mean little or no deductions for mostly everyone. Is this really what you want?<p>I also really don&#x27;t know know how much easier you want them. If you have one W2 for one job, your taxes can be done in an hour on a Saturday.


type: comment
by: literalAardvark
text:
  If you go that far, all energy sources are [ancient] solar energy though. Geothermal? Yep. Wind? Yep. Fission? Yeppers.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  &gt; Input with Autofilter Suggestions Dropdown<p>It&#x27;s great until you have a typo in the field, or want to show options that don&#x27;t start with what you typed in but appear near the end of an option (think Google search&#x27;s autocomplete). There&#x27;s no way to filter in Javascript and force it to show certain options with &lt;datalist&gt;. I&#x27;ve resorted to &lt;ol&gt; for search suggestions.


type: comment
by: bachmeier
text:
  I remember using travel agents in the 1990s. Maybe it was just the particular ones I dealt with, but the experience was terrible. I was supposed to tell them what I wanted, they would look it up, and then I&#x27;d write them a check for whatever amount they told me it would cost. Then along came the internet portals where you could easily see all of your options&#x2F;prices, without a single sigh from a travel agent. To my knowledge, software developers have little in common with that industry.


type: comment
by: bawolff
text:
  At some point, if you&#x27;re doing it for art reasons, it makes the most sense to just render to an image.


type: story
by: marvinborner
title: Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: Full Disclosure of Airoha Race Vulnerabilities
url:
  https://insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetooth-headphone-jacking-full-disclosure-of-airoha-race-vulnerabilities/


type: comment
by: malikolivier
text:
  I encountered a similar situation in my career. The work looked good, the team looked good, money was good.<p>Then when the work contract came up, there were some unusual clauses about my salary that I was not comfortable with. They first said that it was OK to ignore the clause as they would pay my salary as explained orally. I insisted that they write the work contract as they plan to pay me. After about 1 week of back and forth, they admitted that the clause was indeed unusual, was there for historical reasons and that they plan to change it in the future. However, they said no clause in the contract could be changed as of now, as it was the same contract for every employee, and no past had employee ever complained about it.<p>Unfortunately, I ended up declining the offer, as I considered the risk was not worth it.


type: comment
by: hoppyhoppy2
text:
  &gt;The people who use something should pay for its upkeep.<p>Fee-for-service city parks? Public libraries? Fire departments? Sidewalks? What about investing in the &quot;public good&quot;?


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  If a “canary” is degrading users, it’s misdesigned.<p>The canary narrows the blast radius and time-to-detection.


type: comment
by: MilnerRoute
text:
  From that discussion...<p><i>&quot;Unless your cat lived a significant part of it&#x27;s life as an outdoor cat, it is very unlikely to have the parasite (like any parasite). Most cat to human transmission (again, minority of total transmissions) comes from stray cats infecting gardens with their feces.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45947121">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45947121</a>


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hyperinflation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hyperinflation</a>


type: comment
by: thecosmicfrog
text:
  Oh absolutely, I wouldn&#x27;t use this for any production system. It would be a toy hobby project. I just find the notion of turning a no-degradation failure mode into a gradual-degradation one fascinating for some reason.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  &gt; Am I missing something?<p>I don’t think so, I think it is solved in the general sense. However what Spanner does <i>is</i> unique, and it <i>does</i> use synchronised clocks in order to do it.<p>However, Spanner does not solve the inter-continental acid database with high write throughput. So I don’t see it as ground breaking. CRDT’s are interesting, I’ve followed your work for a long time, but too constrained to solve this general problem I think.


type: comment
by: seniorsassycat
text:
  What if I&#x27;ve already fixed the format issue (but not staged it). The pre-commit hook will pass, but it&#x27;s not doing what the author intended (preventing unformated code from being committed).<p>What if I&#x27;ve only staged one part of a file, but the pre-commit hook fails on the unstaged portions, which should be fine since I&#x27;m not commiting or pushing those changes.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  Excellent, much more useful.<p>Not sure where you are but in Indiana, gas tax for unleaded is 36c while diesel is 62c so on a per-gallon basis, that&#x27;s an additional +72% in taxes. Back of the envelope: Civic at 30mpg pays 1.2c&#x2F;mile vs SuperDuty at 15mpg pays 4.13c&#x2F;mile so the multiple is closer to 3.4 vs 2<p>So yes - assuming registration fees are comparable and mileage is comparable - the SuperDuty should pay more.


type: comment
by: ndai
text:
  Your personal insult aside, resonance is a fundamental term in physics and harmonic oscillators are fundamental to quantum field theory and modern physics. Music was a metaphor- this isn’t Nature.


type: comment
by: toss1
text:
  Maybe think for a second from the perspective of a couple or woman who <i>WANT</i> to have children. The problems they face in today&#x27;s economy where both people need to work full-time just to survive are huge, and it seems even crazier to <i>add</i> the time and money costs of a child, let alone several.<p>The way to change all of that has <i>nothing</i> to do with religion and everything to do with economic and labor policy<p>Society decided it was OK to have the top 1% control 27% or all wealth and the top 10% control 60%, and allow companies to pay wages so low that a person working full-time cannot even get out of poverty, so 25%+ of the workers at the largest employer qualify for food benefits (and the employer even gives employees seminars how to get benefits), while the leaders&#x2F;owners of those companies rake in more billions every year.<p>Society decided it was OK to make sure health care is expensive, incomplete, and bankrupting for any unexpected event.<p>Society decided it was the mothers who are responsible for all childcare and provide only minimum assistance for critical needs like prenatal care, and day-care.<p>You want more babies? Make just a few changes<p>Change requirements so corporations are required to compensate their employees merely the way the original US minimum wage was specified (including in the 1956 Republican Party Platform): So a single person working full-time will earn enough to support a household of four including housing (mortgage&#x2F;rent), food, healthcare, and education. Recognize that <i>the companies</i> trying to exploit their workers by paying less so their full-time employees need govt benefits to feed themselves are the ones exploiting welfare, and do not have a viable business model, they have an exploitation model.<p>Add making healthcare sufficient and affordable for all, including children and support for daycare and the time and effort to raise children.<p>Change those things, and instead of a couple looking at making an already hugely insecure future even more insecure by having children, they would see an opportunity to confidently embark on building a family without feeling like one misfortune or layoff could put them all in the street.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Unpopular opinion but social progress never been made while the government or the people feel safe and comfortable.


type: comment
by: joshuahedlund
text:
  &gt;  If your job is to translate requirements into code manually - and that&#x27;s it - you&#x27;re the generalist travel agent.<p>I’ve been a full-stack web programmer at five different companies over the last fifteen years, big and small, e-commerce and B2B, junior to senior to staff, and that has <i>never</i> fully described my responsibilities.


type: comment
by: dleslie
text:
  Nah, git is terrible with binaries. But the SQL database can be rebuilt periodically; the problem being solved is replacing the git querying with SQL.<p>Could even follow your record model, and use that as data to populate the db.


type: comment
by: manoDev
text:
  That’s one hypothesis.<p>The other hypothesis is that some cultures may be more attached to things. Yet another is that some cultures might have problems following orders.


type: comment
by: abeyer
text:
  So much of pharmaceutical development is educated guess work. For every promising  compound even brought to human trials there were likely 10s-100s of others that were abandoned or neglected for lack of resources to pursue them all. Without the benefit of hindsight there are bound to be mistakes made.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  Yes. Exactly.<p>I suggest looking at Germany and the rapid ascendance of the AFD. And then looking at real estate prices in Berlin.


type: comment
by: lanfeust6
text:
  He&#x27;s made a slew of false claims before I turned off the video. Among which is the idea that companies like Facebook are merely valuable because of the &quot;labor we provide&quot;. In fact, they make money through advertising and sharing data with advertisers. If socializing was all there was to value, these companies would be redundant. The service provided is content-delivery in various forms, that isn&#x27;t free and it isn&#x27;t something &quot;anyone from the CS dept&quot; would do as well.<p>To call it &quot;labor&quot; to share boomer-humor memes and use Marketplace (i.e. users doing what they want on FB) is stretching the term. As with youtube, the prolific creators on instagram and the like also make piles of money. Yet it&#x27;s being framed as though they&#x27;re putting all this effort for the company&#x27;s benefit only.


type: comment
by: ilvez
text:
  &quot;Brief Cases&quot; -- just give me more Dresden. I think my favourite series, I&#x27;m a simple guy :) Short stories themself are so and so. If you are into the series then these small stories are just like Saturday evening reading, so no big investment. Some of them stick and make you warm, some of them meh, thats ok.<p>&quot;Mother of Learning&quot; I picked up from my (ex-)colleague. Not in the time-travelling, but he told me that I would probably like Dungeon Crawler Carl. Haven&#x27;t gotten to it yet. He&#x27;s read more fantasy than me so he just suggested after we discussed about our preferences. This one I just wanted to read because he really was into :)<p>About Fitz -- read my other comment. I think whole Elderling series is worth it. It is the long game. Just being invested in characters and Robin Hobb can write characters. If you only think about Farseer trilogy, then I still think it&#x27;s worth it, but maybe I&#x27;m just sucker for it. :-) (there are pacing issues for sure, but Hobb wrote it in 90s, in that sense it was ahead of time, forgive some of those small issues). Read it first I guess 20+ years ago or so..


type: comment
by: charcircuit
text:
  &gt;In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes.<p>This reliability isn&#x27;t done by being perfect 100% of the time. Things like being able to handle states where transactions don&#x27;t line up allowing for payments to eventually be settled. Or for telecom allowing for single parts of the system to not take down the whole thing or adding redundancy. Essentially these types of businesses require fault tolerance to be supported. The real world is messy, there is always going to be faults, so investing heavily into correctness may not be worth it compared to investing into fault tollerance.


type: comment
by: Uehreka
text:
  I was doing something at work that involved calculating round trip times from&#x2F;to Android devices, and learned that although it should be possible for NTP to sync clocks with below-second precision, in practice many of the Android devices I was working with (mostly Pixels 2-7) were off from my server and each other by up to 5 seconds, which blew my mind.


type: comment
by: AznHisoka
text:
  If its in a playbook, its already ineffective. Use your own creativity to do something that isnt scalable or in any best how-to guides or books is a good start


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Interesting thought.<p>On RMS and Woz specifically, how much have they ever been opposed?<p>I only know a little about them, but I think of both as good-natured, high-impact, little-bit weird hackers, with substantial common ground in philosophies or thinking.<p>They went very different life directions, with pretty young career decisions.  But I could imagine Woz today supporting what RMS has done, while not seeing a need for all the philosophy and seriousness.<p>RMS is certainly critical of Apple.  But I suspect that the Macintosh team in &#x27;84 was closer in intentions to contemporary RMS than to contemporary Apple.


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  &gt; An injection to cure obesity is a small price to ask, as any person that has been obese will tell you. They could have determined this from a simple survey.<p>You&#x27;re missing the primary point: GLP-1 was investigated as another me-too diabetes drug, for which there were many injectable drugs available.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until much much later that it was discovered to be an obesity drug. It was a completely coincidental and accidental discovery.<p>It turns out that most science is like that.  We make the most important discoveries unexpectedly and by chance. Which is why you should always distrust the politicians that mock and ridicule science for sounding ordinary or obvious. That&#x27;s where the real magic happens.


type: comment
by: Devasta
text:
  People do for far less.<p>If the Covid lockdowns taught us anything, its that a colossal number of people would happily subject tens of thousands of people to easily preventable deaths if it meant they could get Applebees for dinner. Besides that, huge numbers of people join the military precisely because they value a Muslim foreigners life as being worth less than a joke degree from some no name college.<p>So long as there is a bare minimum amount of indirection, they happily do it.


type: comment
by: Retric
text:
  Tall driver in a SUV looking down on an open topped convertible isn’t a false positive.  But sure, cops occasionally pull people over in HOV lanes for false positives and then let them go.<p>However, when you’re looking at 100’s of cars doing the same thing false positives only account for a small percentage of that.


type: comment
by: ironmagma
text:
  Also, in Japan do you sometimes have trouble getting a social security card and&#x2F;or birth certificate to the point of being completely unable to do so the way you do here?


type: comment
by: jaggederest
text:
  I believe it was a longwave broadcast so probably WWVB which would apparently imply a 60mm antenna, but it was a standard old school &quot;GE digital clock radio&quot; form factor so size wasn&#x27;t at a premium.


type: comment
by: conartist6
text:
  You don&#x27;t need a strong type system or even really ANY compile-time type system for this strategy to work! I use all these techniques in plain JS and I can still get the benefits of correct-by-construction code style just by freezing objects and failing fast.


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  In case you are interested in improving the drag-and-drop usage:<p>There are a lot of connections which look like they should work, but don&#x27;t - such as patch panel to patch panel. On the other hand, it is possible to connect a single LC connector to two splices at once. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any way to unmake a connection. Overriding existing connections sometimes works, but sometimes doesn&#x27;t. The tube nodes don&#x27;t have a clear drag-and-drop point towards a cable. By default the tube nodes have a colored edge matching the incoming tube connection, but this edge color doesn&#x27;t change when you drag a different tube from the cable onto it. The cursor sometimes wrongly shows a &quot;+&quot; to indicate a possible connection, such as trying to drag from one tube exit to another. It is somehow possible to connect two cable tube exits to a single tube node. It is somehow possible to connect a cable tube exit directly to a splice node.<p>Those probably don&#x27;t matter all that much if it is almost always auto-generated, but considering the amount of weird behavior it might perhaps be better to disable the edit functionality for now?


type: comment
by: DavidPiper
text:
  I&#x27;ll always upvote a recommendation for Amusing Ourselves to Death. I haven&#x27;t yet gone back to Understanding Media directly yet.<p>I haven&#x27;t watched the news in 5 years. I started watching it again since Bondi (I live nearby), and while I&#x27;m surprised at the variation in reporting styles (political bias?) between Australian channels, my overwhelming observation has been just how little key information is actually conveyed.<p>I&#x27;ve found it very helpful to watch the live briefings, Q&amp;As, etc with politicians, but the news cycle here is so short (hourly) that a few minutes later you get to hear a &quot;recap&quot; by the news reporter that glosses over most of the important and interesting points (at best) or actively removes key nuance and outright changes the message delivered by the original person (at worst).<p>I feel there has to be something between &quot;I heard about a thing 7th-hand&quot; and &quot;I actively watch political discourse &#x2F; read scientific papers&quot;, but I&#x27;m no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is it.<p>Presumably this was what &quot;journalism&quot; was originally supposed to be.


type: comment
by: ironmagma
text:
  If dying doesn&#x27;t stop them, fear of punishment by law won&#x27;t either. That&#x27;s if they even know about the law.


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  I agree with this. Certs are designed to function as digital cliff. They will either be accepted or they won&#x27;t, with no safe middle ground. Therefore all certs in a chain can only be as reliable as the least understood cert in your certificate management.


type: comment
by: TUSF
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t call it &quot;tragedy of the commons&quot; because the very idea was coined as a strawman. As far as I&#x27;m concerned, the entire concept is a fallacy, and people should stop perpetuating it.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  Those games have 100x to 500x smaller budgets than the AAA-games. Yes, they often  have cute ideas, but, like a blockbuster movie, 99 times out of 100 you need a solid budget to make a solid movie&#x2F;game.


type: story
by: vismit2000
title: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
url:
  https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/


type: comment
by: 1123581321
text:
  Yes, they&#x27;re still popular for drinks and snacks in areas where people congregate.   C-stores do provide more of this functionality though and are omnipresent. You still see automat-style machines (sandwiches etc.) in places like airports and larger company rec rooms. These require more regular restocking for freshness.<p>There are also some restaurant startups that are trying to reduce restaurants to vending machines or autonomous restaurants. Slightly different, but it does have a downstream effect on vending machine technology and restocking logistics.<p>What country are you in where you don&#x27;t see vending machines? Did you used to have them?


type: comment
by: robocat
text:
  Interesting graphs of US oil and gas production:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;todayinenergy&#x2F;detail.php?id=66564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;todayinenergy&#x2F;detail.php?id=66564</a>


type: comment
by: georgelyon
text:
  Yes, though the API of having a write-only value that is a monotonically increasing counter is much simpler than having to think about causality or logical clocks.


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  GLP-1 is a drug target, not a drug.  It&#x27;s actually a hormone.<p>There are many drugs that have been developed since then, and each approval seems to have slightly better drug properties.<p>The age of research on a drug is not very indicative of safety, either. Rather, broad study and time are far better. I&#x27;d take five years of clinical trials on hundreds of thousands of people over 5000 years old research on hundreds of people.


type: comment
by: jacob019
text:
  Funny you should mention this, I just added a simple filesystem sandbox to my coding agent.<p>Check it out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacobsparts&#x2F;agentlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;agentlib&#x2F;sandbox&#x2F;sandbox_helper.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacobsparts&#x2F;agentlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;agentl...</a><p>The framework is all python, but I used C for this helper.  It uses unprivileged user namespaces to mount an overlay and run an arbitrary command, then when the command finishes, it writes a tarball of edits, which I use to create a unified diff.  The framework orchestrates it all transparently, but the helper itself could be used standalone.  Here&#x27;s a short document about the sandbox in the context of it&#x27;s use in my project:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacobsparts&#x2F;agentlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;sandbox.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacobsparts&#x2F;agentlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;sandb...</a><p>I also have a version that uses SUID instead of unprivileged user namespaces, available by request.<p>I often use claude code with --dangerously-skip-permissions but every once in a while it bites me.  I&#x27;ve learned to use git for everything and put instructions to always commit BEFORE writes in CLAUDE.md.  Claude can go off the rails on harder bug fixes, especially if there are multiple rounds of context compacting, it can really screw things up.  It usually honors guidance not to modify outside of the project, but a simple sandbox adds so much, after the session is over you can see what changed and decide what to do with it.  It really helps with the problem where it makes unexpected changes to the codebase, which you might not even notice otherwise, which can introduce serious bugs.  The permission models of all the coding agents are rough--either you can&#x27;t get anything done, or you throw caution to the wind.  Full sandboxes are quite restrictive, which is why I rolled by own.  Honestly your best option right now is just to have good version control and run coding agents in dedicated environments.


type: comment
by: davidbau
text:
  Right.  Just saw this thread.  Yesterday asked claude+codex to add a fallback to WebGL support (another 5000 LoC!).  So now it works a bit better on Linux, Safari, though the WebGL impl is not as smooth as WebGPU.


type: comment
by: ironmagma
text:
  It&#x27;s expected because of a large swath of defeatist citizens making comments like this. If we don&#x27;t make this normal, it won&#x27;t be normal.


type: comment
by: howenterprisey
text:
  Two different systems; on the mod side there are two different UIs (one to set each) as well. Yeah it&#x27;s weird.


type: comment
by: PeterHolzwarth
text:
  Prior discussions here on HN noted this writeup on how some of it works (in Russian):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;habr.com&#x2F;ru&#x2F;companies&#x2F;floor796&#x2F;articles&#x2F;673318&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;habr.com&#x2F;ru&#x2F;companies&#x2F;floor796&#x2F;articles&#x2F;673318&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: compumike
text:
  100%, I&#x27;ve run into this too. I wrote some minimal scripts in Bash, Python, Ruby, Node.js (JavaScript), Go, and Powershell to send a request and alert if the expiration is less than 14 days from now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heyoncall.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;barebone-scripts-to-check-ssl-certificate-expiration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heyoncall.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;barebone-scripts-to-check-ssl-cer...</a> because anyone who&#x27;s operating a TLS-secured website (which is... basically anyone with a website) should have at least that level of automated sanity check. We&#x27;re talking about ~10 lines of Python!


type: comment
by: bfgeek
text:
  Blink&#x27;s (Chromium) text layout engine works the following way.<p>1. Layout the entire paragraph of text as a single line.<p>2. If this doesn&#x27;t fit into the available width, bisect to the nearest line-break opportunity which might fit.<p>3. Reshape the text up until this line-break opportunity.<p>4. If it fits great! If not goto 2.<p>This converges as it always steps backwards, and avoids the contradictory situations.<p>Harfbuzz also provides points along the section of text which is safe to reuse, so reshaping typically involes only a small portion of text at the end of the line, if any. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;harfbuzz&#x2F;harfbuzz&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;harfbuzz&#x2F;harfbuzz&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224</a><p>This approach is different to how many text layout engines approach this problem e.g. by adding &quot;one word at a time&quot; to the line, and checking at each stage if it fits.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  There&#x27;s also a risk of your DeviceTree getting pruned from the kernel in X years when it&#x27;s decided that &quot;no one uses that board anymore&quot;, which is something that&#x27;s happened to several boards I bought in the 2010&#x27;s, but not something that&#x27;s happened to any PC I&#x27;ve ever owned.


type: comment
by: cj
text:
  Or accept the fact that stock options are worthless, and don&#x27;t accept a job offer if you&#x27;re unhappy with the offer sans stock options.


type: comment
by: hawaiianbrah
text:
  Meta has already introduced a dedicated app for exactly this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;meta-launches-vibes-a-short-form-video-feed-of-ai-slop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;meta-launches-vibes-a-shor...</a>


type: comment
by: potato3732842
text:
  The less honest states (New Jersey, probably others) will charge you a punitive fee (which doubles if you don&#x27;t pay on time) for not having an EZpass on that vehicle.  And then when you call customer support they&#x27;ll argue with you, until you call on the last day when they finally agree that everything was good and proper.


type: comment
by: martinaId
text:
  OP started blogging in August and AI appears to have a heavy role in the writing process. In a cool world mods would just ban the domain.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  there is a lot of things that can happen but taxing wealthy ain’t happening ever again in america. you cannot ever again get elected without them at scale and since they control who gets elected this will always ensure they get their way. it’ll be always a great election campaign issue and maybe there will be some marginal tax thing (e.g. nyc mayor’s plan) but nothing will disturb the wealthy :)


type: comment
by: wahnfrieden
text:
  Which responsibilities do you figure are a combination of highly valuable in your role, and resistant to automation?


type: comment
by: rvnx
text:
  &quot;Stable&quot;. If any time in history where planets align so perfectly for wars it is right now.<p>It could play out nicely for USD, if the US stays out of direct conflicts but keeps selling weapons.


type: comment
by: maxbond
text:
  That&#x27;s a more natural way to consider the resonance, certainly. What I was getting at is that if we were using a 7hz tone to explore a big room, we couldn&#x27;t tell if there was a chicken in there or not. We&#x27;d have a hard time sensing an elephant. Let alone exert enough of a force to harm. Because the wave is so much larger that they barely interact.


type: comment
by: SanjayMehta
text:
  No, it was an article by a European economist who was complaining about every transaction above a certain amount getting quietly reviewed in the US, before being released to the onward bank.


