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type: comment
by: llmslave2
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  I know you mean it as in governments won&#x27;t return to a system that doesn&#x27;t let them inflate the money supply, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s a bad thing...


type: comment
by: kccqzy
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  That’s exactly what I’m saying but you simply provided more details. TrueTime guarantees clocks are well synchronized: and of course that means synchronized to a reasonable upper bound. It’s no more possible for clocks to be absolutely synchronized, than for two line segments drawn independently to have absolutely the same length.


type: comment
by: Aloisius
text:
  THCa in cannabis plants is unstable. It will slowly convert to THC as it dries even at room temperature.


type: comment
by: CrimsonCape
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  I am of the generation of CAD users that is entirely digital, having no experience with bluelines or hand drafted sets.<p>And even now the industry is still changing. The old (for me) standard was obtaining reprographics from a full service supplier, signing a contract, leasing large format plotters, monthly delivery of toner, on-call maintenance.<p>My favorite plotter was an Océ and I think that company died? My last office was reliant on an Océ plotter which had a Windows Forms GUI app running on a never-updated embedded Windows XP. A perfect use case for embedded Linux but I guess it either predates embedded Linux or corporate offices at the time preferred embedded Windows.<p>Now we don&#x27;t even print drawings.<p>I enjoyed the article because it is written by a stereotypical draftsman. While we all write in paragraphs, draftsman have some self-taught logic which results in this confusing blog format with random quotations, italicized sentences, arbitrary mix of heading styles, self-invented acronyms. Every draftsman I ever met 1. knew better than everyone 2. Knew you were always wrong 3. eternally pissed off.


type: comment
by: jobs_throwaway
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  &gt; People already driving generally aren&#x27;t likely to change their destination<p>They are if you price it properly. If it costs $1000 to get on that road, a lot of people are going to find alternative means of transport, carpool, or forgo the trip entirely.


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
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  IMO, there should be a balance. My brother lives in Europe and it seems every time he has a small ache&#x2F;cold he can go to the doctor and get a note for a couple of days off. On the other hand, companies here in the US expect you to be at work unless you’ve been hit by a bus.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
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  All of these sound like value judgements and opinions. You claim they make people dumber but the evidence is that using an LLM to search the Internet requires less brain usage? Of course it does, that&#x27;s the point! Using a dishwasher also uses less of a our brain than washing dishes by hand. I will use my brain for other things.<p>And whether LLMs are a &quot;good&quot; use of electricity is purely a value judgement. I&#x27;m not a fan of cars and don&#x27;t drive, and a single car ride can use more energy than every LLM query made in a year by most ChatGPT users. But I don&#x27;t think that makes people who drive cars evil


type: comment
by: hamdingers
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  The alternatives are impractical due to all the space cars and their infrastructure consume (walking, transit), or due to the danger cars pose (bicycles, motorbikes, small cars).<p>The US has converged because we are trapped in a vicious cycle.


type: comment
by: TeMPOraL
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  <i>Transmission of complex culture</i> is what separates us (and enables this complex culture in the first place); oral medium is merely one way to do it. Being the first one, it&#x27;s probably not the best.


type: comment
by: rzmmm
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  To me it&#x27;s interesting that some type 1 diabetics prefer to manage the disease with a carbohydrate-restricted diet, but some type 1 diabetics prefer to use completely opposite strategy and choose to eat a low-fat diet instead. Here is an article written by a type 1 diabetic with a non-diabetic blood glucose levels on a low-fat diet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masteringdiabetes.org&#x2F;type-1-diabetes-diet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masteringdiabetes.org&#x2F;type-1-diabetes-diet&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure what explains the discrepancy. The medical guidelines seem to recommend the same diet for type 1 diabetics as anyone else.


type: comment
by: tacone
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  &gt; This project was developed with assistance from AI&#x2F;LLMs (including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and related tools), supervised by a human who occasionally knew what he was doing.<p>That&#x27;s the good part of  AI. Lowers effort and knowledge barrier and makes things possible.


type: comment
by: bwhiting2356
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  Adding lanes may not cut congestion in the long term, but it can increase throughput and overall utility by moving more people and goods.


type: comment
by: alistairSH
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  100%. All of this.<p>With a side of handing off management and a slice of the revenue to private entities. With minimum revenue guarantees that then act as a disincentive to improving nearby roadways.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  This is about 5 specific individuals, not all of Europe.  (<i>US decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals</i>)<p>Related: <i>US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints</i> (92 points, 3 days ago, 35 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46370787">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46370787</a>


type: comment
by: expedition32
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  But you run into the risk that people don&#x27;t use your new expensive toll road and you&#x27;re left with a big pile of debt...<p>That is the problem with them in the Netherlands. Building and maintaining roads is so frighteningly expensive that you can&#x27;t price them to even cover the cost!


type: comment
by: theothertimcook
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  Anyone talking Dungeon Crawler Carl NEEDS to give the audiobooks a listen, the voice acting is better than anything I’ve ever listened to.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
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  Call me crazy but I’d like to know how safe and effective that delivery mechanism is. On the one hand there’s the problem of unnecessary hurdles, on the other there’s the need to do science.<p>Perhaps we should remove all unnecessary hurdles while still doing science. Doing science means keeping track of who takes it and what happens to them (good and bad).<p>If we’re proposing testing a new delivery mechanism for all vaccines, I’m 100% in favor. If we’re proposing skipping the science part I’m 100% opposed.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
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  &gt; as long as wages stay consistent with the value of the dollar.<p>Which the won&#x27;t, so it will end in disaster for the average American.


type: comment
by: signorovitch
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  Reminds me of xkcd&#x27;s &quot;Click &amp; Drag&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1110&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1110&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: Analemma_
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  It has always been the case, but each year there’s a fresh crop of new, bright-eyed 20-year-olds who haven’t learned it yet. The entire startup ecosystem essentially depends on the fact that some people haven’t yet internalized that options are worthless and working 80+-hour weeks if you’re  employee #3 or higher never pays off, because even in the slim chance your company has a successful exit you’ll get fucked over by antics like this.<p>The best we can do is try and make “options have an EV of 0, startups aren’t worth it, join a FAANG” a widely-known meme in places like HN to keep as many people as possible from having to lean this the hard way. We’ll never save everyone, but at least it’s more widely-known than it used to be.


type: story
by: geox
title: Legal sports betting linked to sharp increases in violent crime
url:
  https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/legal-sports-betting-linked-sharp-increases-violent-crime-study-finds


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  Minnesota experimented with throttling freeway entrances based on congestion, not even charging money, and drivers response was clear: they&#x27;d rather sit in traffic.


type: comment
by: majormajor
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  Text and chat (and the voice forms) are alive and well for communication.<p>Broadcast forms, on the other hand, are ripe for co-option by profit-seeking through advertising.<p>That&#x27;s not communication being lost, it&#x27;s media.


type: comment
by: TrainedMonkey
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  Depending on the application you would generally use PTP to get sub-microsecond accuracy. The real trick is that architecture should tolerate various clocks starting or jumping out of sync and self correct.


type: comment
by: rolph
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  Yes, This was a CRISPER technique.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chop.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;worlds-first-patient-treated-personalized-crispr-gene-editing-therapy-childrens-hospital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chop.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;worlds-first-patient-treated-perso...</a>


type: comment
by: xuhu
text:
  Why are the Shift and Caps Lock keys shaped like that ? Is it because those wide keys cannot be pressed from the ends ?


type: comment
by: stormbeard
text:
  Between the two zip files, these files have had their content changed:<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000160.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000177.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000214.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000215.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000216.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000746.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000822.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000824.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000827.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000888.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001046.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001069.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001213.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001217.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001218.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001353.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001375.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001523.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001524.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001528.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001932.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0003&#x2F;EFTA00002063.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0003&#x2F;EFTA00002064.pdf<p>These are files that only exist in one of the zip bundles, but not the other:<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000164.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000165.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000167.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000229.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000384.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000467.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000468.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000470.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000476.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000503.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000531.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000656.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0001&#x2F;EFTA00000657.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001051.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001052.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001053.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001055.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001056.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001124.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001423.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001424.pdf<p>VOL00001&#x2F;IMAGES&#x2F;0002&#x2F;EFTA00001931.pdf<p>I didn&#x27;t look to see what the content was.


type: comment
by: onesandofgrain
text:
  That&#x27;s fair, I&#x27;m not trying to belittle people that like to blog just for everyone&#x27;s information.


type: comment
by: TylerE
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  Now look at something like the Bede BD-5 and see how many of it&#x27;s amatuer builders IT killed. Death rate on the first flight alone was something like 10%.<p>PS: AIrcraft aren&#x27;t assembled in cleanrooms.<p>Frankly, you don&#x27;t have a damn clue on and are getting basically everything wrong in the process


type: comment
by: quantpunk
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  That will be fun. I am actually going to come back to electric guitar in 2026 after 15 years away.<p>I tried learning piano but that was a total waste. Drums I think make a lot of sense as a compliment to guitar.<p>Piano just made me feel like I wasted my life practicing guitar.


type: comment
by: pella
text:
  <p><pre><code>  # Plan code changes (Claude, Gemini and GPT-5 consensus)   # All agents review task and create a consolidated plan   &#x2F;plan &quot;Stop the AI from ordering pizza at 3AM&quot;    # Solve complex problems (Claude, Gemini and GPT-5 race)   # Fastest preferred (see https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2505.17813)   &#x2F;solve &quot;Why does deleting one user drop the whole database?&quot;    # Write code! (Claude, Gemini and GPT-5 consensus)   # Creates multiple worktrees then implements the optimal solution   &#x2F;code &quot;Show dark mode when I feel cranky&quot;    # Hand off a multi-step task; Auto Drive will coordinate agents and approvals   &#x2F;auto &quot;Refactor the auth flow and add device login&quot;</code></pre>


type: comment
by: frays
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  Google also hired the core Windsurf engineering and research team, not OpenAI:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;google-hires-windsurf-ceo-researchers-advance-ai-ambitions-2025-07-11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;google-hires-windsurf-ceo-r...</a>


type: comment
by: ronbenton
text:
  I think perhaps my professor was talking about adding tolls explicitly as a traffic congestion relief mechanism rather than a way to recoup cost of maintaining the roadway


type: comment
by: cpursley
text:
  Woah, I assumed Donut was a female narrator! My mind is literally blown - well done job Dungeon AI ;)


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Hmm yes but it&#x27;s possible to compromise private key generation to only create a very small predictable subset of keys. In fact some smartcards from Infineon suffered from this as a bug. And thus they can be brute forces. It requires some serious crypto chops to determine if this is the case. Obviously it&#x27;s not like the first 60 bits being zero or something. And the private key is made to not be extracted in this kind of device making it even harder.


type: comment
by: koolba
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  &gt; But this would require hand curation? No development proceeds that way, or if it does then I would question whether the person is spending 80% of their day curating PRs unnecessarily.<p>If you’re working on something and a piece of it is clearly self contained, you commit it and move on.<p>&gt; I think you must be kind of senior and you can get away with just insisting that other people be less efficient and work in a weird way so you can feel more comfortable?<p>You can work however you like. But when it’s time to ask someone else to review your work, the onus is on you to clean it up to simplify review. Otherwise you’re saying your time is more valuable than the reviewer’s.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  They do, by decreasing the dependency on C, and the lack of interest WG14 shows in improving C.<p>It is like gardening, slowly taking away all the paths bad weeds are still able to spoil the garden.<p>We might not remove all of them, however if they are only able to thrive on a little gardner corner surrouned by sand is already an improvement.


type: comment
by: thegrey_one
text:
  I always thought the &quot;alpha male&quot; is the one who calls the shots. That&#x27;s it. I never saw any relation to animals. Most likely the &quot;alpha animal&quot; model was used as a parallel, but you cannot deny the role. It&#x27;s self evident almost everywhere. Someone is calling the shots. If you do not obey them there are consequences. At your workplace that is your boss. If you do not do what is required of you, the consequences are that you get fired. They are real and tangible and unavoidable, if you disobey.<p>How does disproving the alpha thing in wolves change anything about how we interact? People who hold power over other people will still use it, no matter what we call it. This is a simple game theory issue, changing words and descriptions won&#x27;t change the fundamentals of it.<p>The role for what people &quot;incorrectly&quot; called &quot;alpha male&quot; is not one we &quot;agree&quot; on, it&#x27;s one that is self evident by the power such individual holds in that group. This has nothing to do with what I or you or anyone thinks of it. You can ignore such an individual, or you cannot. If you can ignore them, they do not have that power over you. If you cannot ignore the repercussions then they do indeed have that power over you. That&#x27;s pretty much all there is to it. Changing what we call it won&#x27;t change their behavior or the outcome of these kinds of interactions.<p>For example gorillas do have alpha-males in the group, they are the silverbacks. Not obeying them leads to real consequences.<p>edit: Just for clarity&#x27;s sake, I am no fan of &quot;that&quot; masculinity model, I&#x27;m just talking about the reality of things, almost everywhere on this planet. Of-course there&#x27;s all kinds of exceptions but they aren&#x27;t really important in the grand scheme of things.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  This might be the most unhinged defense of money printing and inflation I&#x27;ve ever read haha. &quot;We can&#x27;t stop the printers, or millions will die!!!&quot;


type: story
by: bookofjoe
title: An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;qUe7n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;qUe7n</a>

url:
  https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/an-ounce-of-silver-is-now-worth-more-than-a-barrel-of-oil-196e149e


type: comment
by: kaoD
text:
  This is not the first time I see &quot;secure key distribution&quot; mentioned in HN+(GPG alternatives) context and I&#x27;m a bit puzzled.<p>What do you mean? Web of Trust? Keyservers? A combination of both? Under what use case?


type: comment
by: romperstomper
text:
  This time I read LotR in original for the first time and this was quite an effort for me as non-native English speaker. And yes - poems and songs have much more sens and much more beautiful in original if compared with translated ones.


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
text:
  no paywall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;commodities-futures&#x2F;an-ounce-of-silver-is-now-worth-more-than-a-barrel-of-oil-196e149e?st=aHTnKM&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;commodities-futures&#x2F;an-ounce-of-...</a>


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  I had a very negative view toward toll roads untill I found the Road Guy Rob youtube channel. His video on the Oklahoma toll roads completely changed my perspective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EzPPmiKFf5I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EzPPmiKFf5I</a>


type: comment
by: ronbenton
text:
  I don&#x27;t doubt it. It is quite a while ago so I don&#x27;t fully recall the talk that my professor gave, but I don&#x27;t believe he intended to mean adding lanes was useless, just that they didn&#x27;t help with congestion of the particular roadway


type: comment
by: wkat4242
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  It won&#x27;t be as easy as that because you can generate a private key multiple times and notice it&#x27;s the same.<p>However yes a very limited entropy in the private key is much harder to detect especially because on this kind of device you can&#x27;t see the private key directly.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  It&#x27;s more elastic than you might assume. There&#x27;s a phenomenon called traffic evaporation, when a major roadway is closed or diminished (even unexpectedly), people adjust their travel behavior such that travel times stay relatively constant.<p>Los Angeles has many such examples, one recent and well studied one was the closure of the 10 freeway after a fire.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  It should be flat out illegal to claim copyright on employees&#x27; work like this (which includes making people sign contracts giving up copyright on their work). If someone does something on their own time, with their own equipment, then they should own it regardless of their employer&#x27;s business interests. These are employees, not slaves.


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  I would assume there&#x27;s no accelerated vesting but there&#x27;s also nothing stopping Nvidia from issuing refreshers of equal value to unvested options. That&#x27;s been a common recruiting tactic for a long time.


type: comment
by: mschuster91
text:
  &gt; Again, you’re proposing this as a novel solution, but it’s well known and commonly deployed.<p>Imprisoning executives is rare enough (you gotta piss off the truly rich for that, e.g. Madoff or Benko), but seizing and selling off an entire company from its prior owners is something I haven&#x27;t even heard of.<p>What can happen is that a company crashes down due to fines and&#x2F;or public pressure, but that&#x27;s not the same.


type: comment
by: a_t48
text:
  Clock sync is such a nightmare in robotics. Most OSes happily will skew&#x2F;jump to get the time correct. Time jumps (especially backwards) will crash most robotics stacks. You might decide to ensure that you have synced time before starting the stack. Great, now your timestamps are mostly accurate, except what happens when you&#x27;ve used GPS as your time source, and you start indoors? Robot hangs forever.<p>Hot take: I&#x27;ve seen this and enough other badly configured time sync settings that I want to ban system time from robotics systems - time from startup only! If you want to know what the real world time was for a piece of data after, write what your epoch is once you have a time sync, and add epoch+start time.


type: comment
by: aschmelyun
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  &gt; any published work is likely to be taken and repurposed, for no royalties or credit<p>I would say that now, more than ever, this means you should be collecting and sharing what you create.<p>Not on large social media platforms either, on websites that you own and (ideally) host yourself.<p>Start a blog, host your own instance of Gitea, build a platform for your videos. Spread what you create and activity participate in the community but maintain ownership and an audit trail over what you&#x27;ve created.<p>People ripping off others works has always been a thing, of course it&#x27;s much easier and pervasive now. It&#x27;s still (IMO) beneficial to say &quot;Look! I did this thing first!&quot;, with the added benefit of accruing the kind of &quot;social capital&quot; Aaron talked about.


type: comment
by: nerdsniper
text:
  If the owners try to say the equity is valuable, have them convert it to salary. Then it will be clear they don&#x27;t believe their own words.


type: comment
by: achyudh
text:
  While Emacs can run in a terminal, it is more widely used as a GUI application that can render images, PDFs, variable-pitch fonts, handle mouse support (drag-and-drop, menus, scrollbars), and even work on touchscreens such as on Android [1].<p>You are right that VS Code has a &quot;nicer&quot; out of the box UX (this is subjective of course), but Emacs offers a malleable environment. In VS Code, you are limited to what the APIs the developers decided to expose. If you want a specific behavior that isn&#x27;t supported, you either fork the editor or create a feature request ticket and wait for someone to prioritize it. In Emacs, because you have full access to the internal runtime, you can implement that feature yourself in a couple of lines of Lisp.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kristofferbalintona.me&#x2F;posts&#x2F;202505291438&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kristofferbalintona.me&#x2F;posts&#x2F;202505291438&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: rcxdude
text:
  A lot of research on this topic tends to look at correlations between crime rates and harshness of punishments, which would tend to include this effect.


type: comment
by: MrGilbert
text:
  &gt; But it’s a signal to the labor market:<p>Or... Maybe we should start to think about how we let corporations get bigger and bigger? What happens if an entity (read: company) becomes so valuable, that it is basically indestructible? Does it have the power to change politics to their discretion? And as such, also influence the legislative?<p>I find that highly concerning.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Related:<p><i>Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183</a> - Dec 2025 (400 comments)<p><i>Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403041">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403041</a> - Dec 2025 (133 comments)


type: comment
by: kergonath
text:
  &gt; it would never happen, but ideally toll roads would be dynamically priced such that the average speed is always within 10% of the speed limit. congestion fixed.<p>&quot;Good news! Surge pricing is in effect, and today your commute will cost you twice the usual price!&quot;<p>People who can defer traveling to avoid traffic jams and congestion already tend to do so. Sitting in traffic is boring, stressful, and a waste of time and money. People who don’t have a good reason not to.


type: comment
by: gambiting
text:
  &gt;&gt;here is the total lack of intellectual curiosity that wants to shoot down an entire line of thinking for reasons that apparently can’t be articulated.<p>It&#x27;s the same energy as watching a Joe Rogan podcast where yet another guest goes &quot;well they say there&#x27;s global warming yet I was cold yesterday, I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s fake but really we should think about that&quot;. These questions about AI and our brains aren&#x27;t meant to stimulate intellectual curiosity and provoke deep interesting discussions - they are almost always asked just to pretend the AI is something that it&#x27;s not - a human like intelligence where since our brains also work &quot;kinda like that&quot; it means it must be the same - and the nearest equivalence is how my iron heats water so in essence it&#x27;s the same as my stomach since it can also do this.<p>&gt;&gt;the question that you simply refuse to contemplate<p>I don&#x27;t refuse to contemplate it, I just think the answer is so painfully obvious the question is either naive or uninformed or antagonistic in nature - there is no &quot;machine intelligence&quot; - it&#x27;s not a religious conviction, because I don&#x27;t think you need one to realise that a calculator isn&#x27;t smart for adding together numbers larger than I could do in my own head.


type: comment
by: rjsw
text:
  The initial Apricot model came with GSX, I don&#x27;t think there was a GEM driver for the 800x400 screen.


type: comment
by: walthamstow
text:
  Buses are great! Road commuting is not much of a thing where I live, so what do I know, but the simplest way to mitigate the problem that poor people can&#x27;t use a toll road is to put buses on it.


type: comment
by: black_puppydog
text:
  So you mean if we dont socialize the up-front cost <i>plus</i> the ongoing externalities, roads aren&#x27;t economically sensible choice? That seems less like a problem and more like the beginning of a nice reflection...


type: comment
by: mschuster91
text:
  &gt; Broadcast forms, on the other hand, are ripe for co-option by profit-seeking through advertising.<p>The problem is, running broadcast networks is insanely expensive. You need either <i>a lot</i> of antennas (or other distribution points such as coax and fiber) around the country, or you need insanely large and power-hungry antennas (i.e. AM radio), or you need powerful data centers and legal teams.<p><i>Someone</i> has to pay the bill, and so it&#x27;s either some sort of encrypted pay-tv which most people don&#x27;t want to pay (see: the widespread piracy), or it&#x27;s advertising, or (like with social media) venture capital being set alight.


type: comment
by: larusso
text:
  The keys never leave the 1Password store. So you don’t have the keys on the local file system. That and that these keys are shared over the cloud was the seller for me. I guess security wise it’s a bit of a downgrade compared to resident keys. But the agent support agent forwarding etc which wasn’t really working with yubi ssh resident keys.  Also worth mentioning that I use 1Password. Bitwarden has a similar feature as far as I know. For the ones who want to self host etc might be the even better solution.


type: comment
by: georgeecollins
text:
  I love Hyperion!  This year I read The Terror by Dan Simmons which is historical fiction but also really good!


type: comment
by: epage
text:
  TOML as a format doesn&#x27;t make sense for streaming<p>- Tables can be in any order, independent of heirarchy<p>- keys can be dotted, creating subtables in any order<p>On top of that, most use cases for the format are not benefitted by streaming.


type: comment
by: esaym
text:
  &gt;Timing it for Christmas Eve ensures minimal media scrutiny of these connections.<p>Sounds like the media is truly the one in charge.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  &gt; A honda civic barely does anything to a road. Where a semi-truck is EXPONENTIALLY more damaging.<p>Similarly, a Honda Civic is ~360 million times more damaging to the road than a bicycle, according to the fourth power law.<p>No reasonable fee structure should let car drivers use roads for free.<p>And that&#x27;s before we get into the amount of valuable public land car drivers use for personal storage.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (21 points, 23 hours ago, 23 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46396755">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46396755</a>


type: comment
by: dekuNukem
text:
  I really enjoy the brief period just after the release of IBM PC, where manufacturers could see where things were heading, but were still trying different things to set themselves apart.<p>Sirius 1 had the weird floppy drive and unusal high-res graphics. Apricot had Display-in-keyboard and compact form factors. Olivetti had charming italian design and the strange upside-down motherboard (when battery leaks it drips down instead of eating the PCB, talk about ahead of its time!)<p>All ran MS-DOS but not &quot;PC compatible&quot;, so none of them really took off. Then everyone started to do 100% compatible clones, and it was a race to the bottom.


type: comment
by: VeejayRampay
text:
  it is absolutely a <i>huge</i> deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  OpenAI is trying to move as many requests as they can to a &quot;smaller&quot; model (still suspected to be ~200B).


type: comment
by: jyounker
text:
  Because you failed to see how the historical context made it funny, and even responded in kind of a vicious way.


type: comment
by: Cieric
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m gonna grab another OrangePi board again. I was happy to grab the RV2 just to experiment around with, but I didn&#x27;t realize that the linux kernel they provided to build their ubuntu distro doesn&#x27;t actually build properly. I got it to build after throwing a version of ubuntu onto an unused pc, but then it didn&#x27;t matter the options I selected for the build (like gui options) it seemed like the gui just didn&#x27;t exist at all in the final binary. I&#x27;ve yet to try and build a 3rd party os with support since I spent so much time just trying to get the official distro to work properly.


type: comment
by: jmclnx
text:
  &gt;If needed, we will respond swiftly and decisively to defend our regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures.<p>We know what this really means, the EU will really do nothing but maybe talk to the US ambassador in a stern tone.  I wish here in the US and elsewhere people would stand up to the current US regime.


type: comment
by: foxrider
text:
  Ok, let&#x27;s see - yuan isn&#x27;t a freely traded currency, it&#x27;s heavily regulated by China. From that alone it can not be used a reserve currency by anyone - unless they want to hand over all control over their assets to CCP.<p>The rupee is better, but there&#x27;s not a lot of trust in Indian institutions globally, so black swan events are more likely. I can see it becoming a better proposition as India further matures and taps into its population more.<p>No, euro - that&#x27;s a solid contender. Not only it&#x27;s already used in a lot of countries, and therefore backed by more than one economy, the EU institutions are legit to a fault - they continuously refuse to seize Russian assets, because there&#x27;s no solid legal grounds for it, despite all political will towards doing so.<p>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.


type: comment
by: Aaargh20318
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  &gt; Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave?<p>In civilized countries it <i>is</i> illegal to fire someone on sick leave, and I highly doubt you’d get a permit to fire someone who just got back from sick leave.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Recent discussion (18 points, 1 month ago, 14 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45946707">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45946707</a>


type: comment
by: guntis_dev
text:
  Last time I checked, Dart+Flutter on web renders everything to canvas, which means you lose browser fundamentals: native text selection, accessibility features, screen readers, right click context menus, inspectable DOM elements, and SEO. You also can&#x27;t use browser dev tools to inspect the UI like you normally would.<p>The bundle sizes are also quite large compared to typical web frameworks, and you don&#x27;t get progressive enhancement - it&#x27;s all or nothing JavaScript.<p>Maybe things have improved in recent years, but I haven&#x27;t seen much adoption or buzz around it.


type: comment
by: aljgz
text:
  The results will kick in gradually. The second time I started, I knew what to look for, so I noticed in 3 days. But the first time, I mostly noticed after breaking the diet: eating my burger and my date&#x27;s then trying to sleep.<p>My mind wanted to jump to the wall, bounce off it to the ceiling, then the other wall, like a scene from a cartoon. Then I remembered this image from childhood.<p>I had to play beatsaber for half an hour to calm that down.<p>BTW, I&#x27;m not a native English speaker, and heard about &quot;bouncing off the walls&quot; after I told my friends about this mental image.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  It won&#x27;t be the only solution that can do this by the way. Many airplane WiFi services block WhatsApp and telegram calls.<p>I think they just look at the traffic shape. Real-time traffic requires a lot of constant similar sized traffic per second, rather than texting or images which is much more bursty.


type: comment
by: dtagames
text:
  This is true of all digital cameras which have 3 separate color sensors or which take three exposures with filters on them. Even color film has 3 reactive types of color carriers. Even your eyes sense colors separately.<p>While it&#x27;s true that astrophotographs don&#x27;t look like what our eye sees, that&#x27;s just a regular color photography issue.


type: comment
by: viraptor
text:
  &gt; already trusted because it was downloaded over HTTPS from a trusted server (making PGP kind of redundant in some ways)<p>That&#x27;s mostly incorrect in both counts. One is that lots of mirrors are still http-only or http default <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchpad.net&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;+archivemirrors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchpad.net&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;+archivemirrors</a><p>The other is that if you get access to one of the mirrors and replace a package, it&#x27;s the signature that stops you. Https is only relevant for mitm attacks.<p>&gt; they&#x27;d be more likely to start a migration away from PGP<p>The discussions started ages ago:<p>Debian <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Teams&#x2F;Apt&#x2F;Spec&#x2F;AptSign" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Teams&#x2F;Apt&#x2F;Spec&#x2F;AptSign</a><p>Fedora <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;list&#x2F;packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;thread&#x2F;WNR34OH3KVPKMGY4Z62CUPREEOVJJJNH&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;list&#x2F;packaging@list...</a>


type: comment
by: akerl_
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  &gt; The keys never leave the 1Password store. So you don’t have the keys on the local file system.<p>Keychain and 1Password are doing variants of the same thing here: both store an encrypted vault and then give you credentials by decrypting the contents of that vault.


type: comment
by: rurban
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  The default type is always any (or dynamic, as some call it). No need to type everything. Usually you type just some args. Not even locals.<p>And some types can be inferred by the compiler, as e.g. for new instantiators. Or array, int, str convertors.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  Early 90’s during the Clinton administration (and the dot com boom) appeared to be the best run US budgeting process I have ever seen.


type: story
by: msuvakov
title: Show HN: 3D Factorization Diagrams
url: https://suvakov.github.io/vibes/3DFactorizationDiagrams/index.html
text:
  I generalized and vibe coded a 3D version of factorization diagrams. If you are not familiar with factorization diagrams, you can find more information here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naturalmath.com&#x2F;factorization&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naturalmath.com&#x2F;factorization&#x2F;</a><p>There are many ways to generalize them in 3D. Hope you’ll like my approach.<p>How it works:<p>The app visualizes a number N by recursively building a hierarchy of spheres based on its prime factors.<p>Given N with prime factors p_1, p_2, …, p_k: - Start with a single root sphere. - For the first factor p_1, place p_1 smaller spheres with their centers on the surface of the root. - For the next factor p_2, place p_2 even smaller spheres on the surface of each sphere from the previous level. - Repeat until all prime factors are used.<p>At the end, the number of smallest spheres is exactly N.<p>Sphere placement on each level is handled by a simple physics simulation using Coulomb-style repulsion, normalized by the size of spheres on the previous depth level, while keeping centers locked on the surface of the parent sphere. All spheres on the same depth level interact, not only those positioned on the same parent sphere. This way, spheres spread out evenly over the surface and in space. Sphere size is based on the minimum distance between spheres at the same level, scaled by an adjustable factor.<p>The code was written using Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3 Pro model.


type: story
by: mehdig10
title: Show HN: LLM-powered data extraction from messy spreadsheets
url: https://github.com/mehdigmira/tablereader
text:
  Uses an LLM to identify where tables actually start&#x2F;end in Excel&#x2F;CSV files, then extracts clean, typed data.<p>Handles all the messy formatting (currency, percentages, different number formats) and streams efficiently for large files.<p>Works with OpenAI, DeepSeek, or any compatible API.


type: comment
by: cge
text:
  The argument here seems to be that when GnuPG&#x27;s implementation, or the original standard, has flaws, those flaws should be seen as inherent limitations of the use-case, rather than flaws in the implementation and standard.  And with GnuPG, that argument seems to be used to justify having it behave the same way it always has, which leads to dangerous situations.<p>That PGP handles armor, escaping, and comments badly, and clients handle display of the signed text badly, do not seem like they mean that the concept of cleartext signatures are inherently flawed.


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  Trying to force companies to keep people longer than they want is how the social safety net works in some places (like Japan) and it&#x27;s how the US healthcare system works, but both of those are, like, bad.<p>It&#x27;s better to make it easier to quit and find a new job and support people in the meantime. Denmark as an example.<p>But to do this you have to have other ways to push people to stay productive.


type: comment
by: lgdimaggio
text:
  Hi HN, I built an open-source MCP server for vibration-based predictive maintenance.<p>The idea: the LLM handles conversation and orchestration; the server runs deterministic vibration analysis and writes an interactive local report.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LGDiMaggio&#x2F;predictive-maintenance-mcp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LGDiMaggio&#x2F;predictive-maintenance-mcp</a><p>Quick try: - git clone <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LGDiMaggio&#x2F;predictive-maintenance-mcp.git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LGDiMaggio&#x2F;predictive-maintenance-mcp.git</a> - cd predictive-maintenance-mcp - python setup_venv.py - python validate_server.py<p>What’s included: - real bearing vibration signals (healthy + inner&#x2F;outer race faults) - spectrum peak detection + envelope analysis - ISO 20816-3 severity assessment - (baseline) anomaly detection like OneClassSVM&#x2F;LOF - local HTML reports under reports&#x2F;<p>Looking for feedback on: MCP tool design, missing diagnostics to prioritize next, and whether the combo LLM with deterministic tooling is useful in real PdM workflows.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2020) At the time (112 points, 52 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24565499">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24565499</a>


type: comment
by: upofadown
text:
  There is some misleading stuff in that article. To save time I made an article to provide my commentary:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp</a>


type: comment
by: shagie
text:
  The summary and justification sections help set the intent of the bill, but they don&#x27;t define the law itself.<p>Those uses are:<p><pre><code>    Section two of this bill adds a new Article 45-A to General Business Law     to require addictive social media platforms which feature predatory     features such as algorithmic feeds, push notifications, autoplay, infi-     nite scroll, and&#x2F;or like counts as a significant part of the provision     of their service to post warning labels for all users upon access to the     platform. The bill features a series of specific exemptions for certain     types of notifications that fall beyond the scope of the bill (i.e.     those explicitly requested by a user or which are deployed for civic     communication). More broadly, the bill also exempts any feature which is     determined by the Attorney General via regulation to be offered for a     valid purpose unrelated to prolonging use of the addictive social media     platform.      ...      ...             Additionally, as this bill covers only social media     platforms that deploy addictive features such as algorithmic feeds, push     notifications, autoplay, infinite scroll, and like counts, any platform     not wishing to display a warning label could simply limit their use of     these features. </code></pre> The text of the law, however, does not define &quot;algorithmic feed&quot; (sorting by date post could be considered &quot;an algorithm&quot; by some).<p>&quot;[S]uch as algorithmic feeds&quot; in the description and justification remains undefined in the text of the bill itself.


type: comment
by: LogicFailsMe
text:
  Oh FFS 0.1% of this acquisition is $20M. 0.5% is $100M. Junior to senior equity lies in this range. They&#x27;ll be more than fine. They&#x27;ll be 1%ers to 0.1%ers after taxes, yeesh. It&#x27;s never ever enough. is it?


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  &gt; Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the &quot;QCD force&quot;<p>This is kind of just semantics. QCD describes both the force binding quarks inside protons and neutrons, and the residual force binding protons and neutrons. This is all part of the Standard Model, which has been essentially unchanged for the last 50 years. The big theoretical challenge is to incorporate gravity into this picture, but this is an almost impossible thing to explore experimentally because gravity is very weak compared to the other 3 forces. That&#x27;s why the Standard Model is so successful, even though it doesn&#x27;t incorporated gravity.<p>You might enjoy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...</a>


type: comment
by: epage
text:
  For Cargo,<p>- synchronization operations are implicit so we need to re-resolve to confirm the lockfile is still valid. We could take some short cut but it would require re-implementing some logic<p>- dependency resolution only uses `Cargo.toml` for local and git dependencies. Registry dependencies have a json summary of what content is relevant for dependency resolution. Cargo parses nearly every locked package&#x27;s `Cargo.toml` to know how to build it.


type: comment
by: Havoc
text:
  USD position as global reserve is very much based on trust.<p>Between the weaponizing that for sanctions via SWIFT, US becoming unreliable as a partner (militarily, politically and economically) and Trump rambling about replacing pieces of the financial system with crypto [0] that trust was bound to waiver<p>Think we&#x27;ll have a parallel system in record time. Question is who&#x2F;how. Russia wants it but they&#x27;re well Russia. China&#x27;s yuan isn&#x27;t open enough. Euro is a bit to regional and dependent on the US lead system anyway. So there isn&#x27;t an obvious candidate.<p>Something is going to have to give though given US shenanigans.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;economy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1otdio8&#x2F;trump_says_the_current_financial_system_is&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;economy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1otdio8&#x2F;trump_says...</a>


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  If the repository were still accessible, the only thing I’d be looking for is whether the LGPL portions were modified or statically linked. Absent that, the license-based explanation makes sense.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2022) At the time (656 points, 352 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30101411">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30101411</a><p>Mis-titled dupe last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41274932">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41274932</a>


type: comment
by: georgeecollins
text:
  Best novel of the year for me: Playworld by Adam Ross.<p>I read a lot of books for work, talk to people who read a lot of books, and that is my #1 recommendation.  Also this year I enjoyed Demon Copperhead, Mobility, Land of Milk and Honey, Afterworld, The Terror.  Many of those books aren&#x27;t new, but I enjoyed them in 2025.


type: comment
by: yaro330
text:
  See for yourself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;96998&#x2F;from-0-10-to-8-10-microsoft-puts-repair-front-and-center" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;96998&#x2F;from-0-10-to-8-10-microsof...</a>


type: comment
by: maxbond
text:
  I don&#x27;t see how even an entire chicken is going to meaningfully respond to a wavelength of almost 50 meters. Their coop could though.


type: comment
by: archagon
text:
  Well, I firmly believe that the social value of a human being far exceeds their financial impact. It’s almost tautological that if a person can pack up their suitcase and flee anytime taxation becomes slightly unfavorable, then they’re not socially or culturally integrated into local life. Like I said: a mercenary citizen.<p>You might have built businesses in California and Washington (and that’s great) but it doesn’t sound like you particularly care about being a Californian or Washingtonian. So who are your people? Who are <i>you</i>?


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Your mail either needs to be encrypted reliably against real adversaries or it doesn&#x27;t. A private emailing circle doesn&#x27;t change that. If the idea here is, a private group of friends can just agree never to put anything in their subjects, or to accidentally send unencrypted replies, I&#x27;ll just say I ran just such a private circle at Matasano, where we used encrypted mail to communicate about security assessment projects, and unencrypted replies happened.


type: comment
by: monkeydust
text:
  [2510.22954] Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;share.google&#x2F;1GHdUvhz2uhF4PVFU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;share.google&#x2F;1GHdUvhz2uhF4PVFU</a>


type: comment
by: levocardia
text:
  <i>Require</i> housing in certain places? Now that&#x27;s what I&#x27;d call broken economics. If there is such a need for housing near job centers...why wouldn&#x27;t that automatically create the incentive to build it? (Hint: It does; the problem is that in most places there are &quot;requirements&quot; that make it nearly impossible to build new housing. Texas is notable in that it lacks the worst extremes of this problem, hence the recent trends in rent in Austin).


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  Getting screwed over is a part of life.<p>The problem imo is when you actively lie to me. I won&#x27;t go into specifics, but I was lied to , said F em, went the legal route and got smacked down.<p>It&#x27;s not even worth a name and shame. Just sip a shot of whiskey and try to move on. This is why I like contract jobs. Ain&#x27;t no equity. It&#x27;s much more honest.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  It&#x27;s not like GPG solves for secure key distribution. GPG keyservers are a mess, and you can&#x27;t trust their contents anyways unless you have an out of band way to validate the public key. Basically nobody is using web-of-trust for this in the way that GPG envisioned.<p>This is why basically every modern usage of GPG either doesn&#x27;t rely on key distribution (because you already know what key you want to trust via a pre-established channel) or devolves to the other party serving up their pubkey over HTTPS on their website.


type: comment
by: nixosbestos
text:
  Can you give any more details about this? I had bumped into this and couldn&#x27;t figure out if it was actually Bitwarden extension but or a Firefox bug.


type: comment
by: jandrese
text:
  nVidia&#x27;s big problem right now is they have more money than they can productively spend and are way down the stupid money hole just looking for any kind of return.  This is a failure of capitalism.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2019) At the time (320 points, 84 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20685951">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20685951</a>


type: comment
by: whytevuhuni
text:
  Rust is not mentioned in the article. From HN&#x27;s guidelines:<p>&gt; Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don&#x27;t editorialize.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  &gt; you can compare them to determine exactly which commit happened first<p>This is the part I was referring to. You cannot just compare timestamps and know which happened first. You have to actually handle the case where you don’t know if there’s a happens before relationship between the timestamps. Thats a very important distinction


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  Ok so now we are asking people uninvolved to a tiny number of incidents to jump (how high?) on things they have no control over. Instead of focusing on the politics that is actually their domain: the unconstitutional  destruction of institutions mandated by Congress by an out-of-control executive branch that is breaking the law. Let the FBI and police deal with local property crimes.<p>And even if more Democratic politicians condemned it, how would you hear about it? What media do you consume that would let you hear that voice?  And what does your respect translate into?<p>Even asking Democratic politicians to condemn the violence shows that you are placing the onus on Democrats for something that they did not do. It&#x27;s very strange behavior.


type: comment
by: TheServitor
text:
  I think the desire to not centralize identity has more to do with it than anything. We present different facets to different communities. The pseudo-indelible nature of internet commentary means saying something to anyone potentially means saying it to everyone, in any context.<p>That&#x27;s why people have multiple fediverse accounts, to limit context or purpose of communication channels. Not because they don&#x27;t value genuine communication within those channels.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  I would be very much surprised if GPG has ever really achieved anything other than allowing crypto nerds to proclaim that things were encrypted or signed. Good for them I guess, but not of any practical importance, unlike SSH, TLS, 7Zip encryption, etc.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  Not really, uploading via trusted publishers I don&#x27;t own any private key, as you probably know having implemented it yourself I presume.


type: comment
by: levocardia
text:
  This is just a general argument against constant prices for everything though. Charging $1&#x2F;lb for bananas is regressive. Charging $3&#x2F;gallon for gas is regressive. Charging $10 for a t-shirt is regressive. Etc...


type: comment
by: singpolyma3
text:
  That&#x27;s just not true. Nothing in this page is a problem with the standard and everything in this page is the outdated parts of the old standard.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2021) At the time (373 points, 95 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26073463">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26073463</a><p>In 2022 (159 points, 24 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32293238">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32293238</a>


type: comment
by: onion2k
text:
  When I was a kid I had a big box of C15 tapes. The number is the length in minutes. 15 minutes isn&#x27;t all that useful for music or voice, but it was ideal for ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 games (and saves, and software I wrote myself.) I also had a reporter&#x27;s notebook with the tape name and tape counter numbers for when things I&#x27;d saved started. They were very easy to copy and quick cheap.


type: comment
by: ben_w
text:
  Are you asking if they fool me, or if I believe they fool people in general?<p>The former, how would I tell? I&#x27;d have to find someone whose writing style I don&#x27;t know to be the human comparison, in order to blind myself.<p>The latter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2503.23674" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2503.23674</a>


type: comment
by: majormajor
text:
  Social media doesn&#x27;t have to be that expensive to run. Countless forums out there for decades.<p>But <i>especially</i> if you allow audio&#x2F;video then your moderation costs can get very high if you&#x27;re aiming for more &quot;broadcast&quot; and less &quot;community.&quot;


type: comment
by: schmuckonwheels
text:
  &gt;You can’t believe that you’re better than everyone else and everyone else is incompetent and still function in society.<p>Welcome to HN.


type: comment
by: next_xibalba
text:
  I’ve never been on a public bus and thought, “this is great!”. Crowded, dirty, and almost always there is someone on drugs or experiencing psychosis. I’ll stick to my car.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  &gt; Regulations shouldn’t have to change with every new fintech innovation…<p>Hard disagree given that a lot of fintech innovation is increasingly devious ways to circumvent the spirit and the letter of the law<p>&gt; … and VCs would face the choice of taking half the payment and fucking over workers, or taking the same size payment while not fucking over workers. They may be selfish, but there not so self-destructive as to choose the former out of spite<p>Also hard disagree. The VC and investor people I’ve met and work with seemed to have a cultural aversion to labor being anywhere near the same level of compensation or power as them. I would fully expect them to take a deal that fucked over the employees if they got paid the same either way.<p>You’d have to tune your suggested system so that not fucking over the employees was heavily incentivized


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  The US is somewhere in the middle, right there with some European countries.  It&#x27;s hard to say what drives people over the edge.  Surprisingly Uruguay is high up there but Uganda, Ghana and Colombia are low.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Popular in 2019 (61 points, 21 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21239932">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21239932</a><p>Title: <i>Vulcain: Fast and idiomatic client-driven REST APIs</i>


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  &gt; and allows you to make much stronger guarantees than TrueTime (due to higher precision distributed ordering guarantees, which translate to lower latency and higher throughput distributed writes).<p>TrueTime is the software algorithm for managing the timestamps. It’s agnostic to the accuracy of the underlying time source. If it was inaccurate then you get looser bounds and as you note higher latency. Google already does everything you suggest for TrueTime while also having atomic clocks in places.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I think the Fed is under powered without consistent planning from our executive office. Erratic behavior does not instill confidence for people trying to rationally plan.<p>I also think the US used the banking system to punish enough nations that an alternative became viable.


type: comment
by: kpil
text:
  I&#x27;m assuming they mean the old way of signing each others signatures.<p>As a practical implementation of &quot;six degrees of Kevin Bacon&quot;, you could get an organic trust chain to random people.<p>Or at least, more realistically, to few nerds. I think I signed 3-4 peoples signatures.<p>The process had - as they say - a low WAF.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  I&#x27;m planning to add copilot, cursor and cline but feel free to contribute to the repo if you would like to do that and will look for ways to use the mini versions of the models as well when I integrate copilot CLI


type: comment
by: bentcorner
text:
  I love this paragrpah and I think it provides an interesting insight:<p>&gt; <i>They are entertainment platforms that delegate media creation to the users themselves the same way Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car.</i><p>Taking this analogy further, is today&#x27;s end goal of social media to provide AI generated content that users can endlessly consume?  I think Facebook is heading this direction.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  35,000 mi of driving is not anywhere near out of the question if you&#x27;re a daily commuter who takes road trips once in a while. If you&#x27;re driving a truck or a non-hybrid, it&#x27;s also a lot less mileage. It sounds like this is actually close to what you would be expected to use.


type: comment
by: armchairhacker
text:
  A 2 hour rant about C++<p>&gt; C++ is absolutely atrocious.<p>&gt; First of all, there’s like, 20 different ways to initialize a variable, and there’s so many rules and edge cases about initialization, that somebody wrote a 300 page textbook solely on this one topic.<p>&gt; Just about everything in C++ is a mess.<p>&gt; ...<p>It&#x27;s quite informative: its criticisms are mostly objective and it touches related subjects like job opportunities and other languages.


type: comment
by: _flux
text:
  So we are on agreement that &quot;weights&quot; are not source code. Training data might not also be actual &quot;code&quot;, but it <i>is</i> source. After all, the model trained using that data tries to estimate its training data. It is the ground truth for the model.<p>About the access of binaries or providing working implementations, where did those come from? I don&#x27;t think this thread was discussing those at all.<p>Indeed I would be willing to call something an &quot;open source model&quot; if it came <i>without</i> weights, but did come with the training data and with a documented process (preferably executable); and a release with just the training data could be called &quot;open dataset&quot; while the software to run the training would be just plain old open source software.<p>And, of course, a model with only the model data distributed with an open license is relatively commonly called &quot;open weights&quot;, this being pretty self-explanatory term.


type: story
by: taubek
title: In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
url:
  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/


type: comment
by: ChadNauseam
text:
  A good analogy is a queue. Imagine a society of mostly-identical people. You set up a stand that offers free sandwiches, but you can only give the sandwich to one person a minute. What will happen? A line will form outside your stand, growing longer until the length of the line is such that the discomfort of waiting in line is equal to the pleasure of eating the sandwich. So even though your sandwiches are supposedly free, a cost is still imposed on everyone who wants one, because they have to waste time standing in line.<p>You&#x27;re right that people who can defer traveling to avoid traffic jams and congestion already tend to do so. But there are still people at the margin. People who don&#x27;t value their time or don&#x27;t mind sitting in traffic listening to the radio or dislike taking the bus. These people are creating congestion, imposting a cost on everyone else, and paying nothing for it. They would do it less if they had to pay. (It&#x27;s okay for people to drive and sit in traffic, there&#x27;s just no reason it should be free!) So it would really be more like &quot;Good news! Surge pricing is in effect, and today your commute will cost you twice the usual price but take half as long!&quot;


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Speaking personally, the <i>Summer of Love</i> and 1990s counterculture is much more unusual and hyperbolic. I&#x27;d be curious to hear where you&#x27;re seeing Gen Z surpass those generations.


type: comment
by: ncgl
text:
  Would you add type: ignore to all the files too?<p>My coworker did that the other day and I&#x27;m deciding how to respond.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  More that they use GPS to synchronize the clocks. Having your own atomic clock doesn’t really improve your accuracy except for within the single data center you have it deployed (although I’m sure there’s techniques for synchronizing with low bounds against nearby atomic clocks + GPS to get really tight bound so they don’t need one in every data center)


type: comment
by: fogzen
text:
  We could fund roads (and everything else) using a progressive income tax, so that everyone pays and the wealthiest would pay the largest share.


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  I know people who upon getting put into a PIP took a mental health leave as it took them over the PIP time horizon.  The mileage you get from this will vary on organization —some won’t want the reputational hit, others won’t care though.


type: comment
by: zzo38computer
text:
  Downloading over HTTPS does not help with that (although it can prevent spies from seeing what files you are downloading) unless you can independently verify the server&#x27;s keys. The certificate is intended to do this but the way that standard certificate authorities work will only verify the domain name, and has some other limitations. TLS does have other benefits, but it does a different thing. Using only TLS to verify the packages is not very good, especially with the existing public certificate authorities.<p>If you only need a specific version and you already know what that one is, then using a cryptographic hash will be a better way to verify packages, although that only applies for one specific version of one specific package. So, using an encrypted protocol (HTTPS or any other one) alone will not help, although it will help in combination with other things; you will need to do other things as well, to improve the security.


type: comment
by: teruakohatu
text:
  &gt; BTW what&#x27;s up with people pushing N150 and N300 in every single ARM SBC thread?<p>Because they have a great watt&#x2F;performance ratio along with a GPU that is very well supported by a wide range of devices and mainline kernel support. In other words a great general purpose SBC.<p>Meanwhile people are using ARM SBCs, with SoCs designed for embedded or mobile devices, as general purpose computers.<p>I will admit with RAM and SSD prices sky rocketing these ARM SBC look more attractive.


type: comment
by: nixosbestos
text:
  Jfc the quality of information shared on this site is abysmal nowadays.<p>I use Bitwarden, I use Android, I use Firefox on Linux. Passkeys work just perfectly fine on all of the sites listed here thus far.


type: comment
by: comradesmith
text:
  &gt; Cleartext signatures considered harmful<p>Really? To me it seems that what’s really harmful is assuming a long string of high entropy hex bytes is a valid signature.<p>Both detached signatures and cleartext need to be run through verify, so what gives?<p>Does gpg not error when the post-verification output file doesn’t match the cleartext? That sounds like a bug in gpg


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
text:
  I have no idea, but I do have a PC&#x2F;AT keyboard with similarly-shaped keys. They have the usual &quot;square horseshoe&quot; &#x2F; &quot;anti-roll bar for Matchbox cars&quot; arrangement underneath so they don&#x27;t rock when you press the end.<p>I think it&#x27;s just what they did in the 80s.


type: comment
by: mappu
text:
  What is ACPI other than a DTB baked into the firmware&#x2F;bootloader?<p>Any SBC could buy an extra flash chip and burn an outdated U-Boot with the manufacturer&#x27;s DTB baked in. Then U-Boot would boot Linux, just like UEFI does, and Linux would read the firmware&#x27;s fixed DTB, just like it reads x86 firmware&#x27;s fixed ACPI tables.<p>But - cui bono?<p>You need drivers in your main OS either way. On x86 you are not generally relying on your EFI&#x27;s drivers for storage, video or networking.<p>It&#x27;s actually nice that you can go without, and have one less layer.


type: comment
by: xlii
text:
  Good question - main thing is that it&#x27;s saving time on repeatable searches and optimize search.<p>I was working with Elixir without ability to use LSP and so, my flow often looked like this:<p><pre><code>    &gt; rg &quot;defp|def\b|def_rule|def_helper&quot; . | rg &quot;something&quot; </code></pre> Only to find that someone made a &quot;def_instruction&quot; and it&#x27;s there. I didn&#x27;t want to filter our, I just wanted to... sort.<p>With config file I can do a simple<p><pre><code>    &gt; rg &quot;something&quot; | ssort ~&#x2F;ssort&#x2F;elixir_methods     &gt; # or if I use it often     &gt; alias ssort-elixirm &quot;ssort ~&#x2F;ssort&#x2F;elixir_methods&quot;     &gt; rg &quot;something | ssort-elixirm </code></pre> This can be solved by working LSP though, what working LSP can&#x27;t solve though is:<p><pre><code>    &gt; rg &quot;impl&quot; | ssort-elixirm | ssort -f MyCompany </code></pre> But (given as it looks like it was buried) it&#x27;s a microoptimization for CLI search freaks ;)


type: comment
by: _wire_
text:
  &quot;Failed to load website properly since html-load.com is blocked. Please allow html-load.com&quot;<p>—OK...—<p>&quot;This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect &#x2F; bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable all adblockers to continue using the website. (click OK if you&#x27;d like to learn more)&quot;<p>—!! OK...—<p>&quot;Oops, something went wrong. Please disable features that may affect the website, and refresh the page. In most cases, disabling the adblock feature resolves the issue. Support: support@error-report.com [Fix the issue] Error: TypeError: Load failed&quot;<p>THAT&#x27;S QUITE A LETTER


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Not opposed, but to achieve this with the current election cycle cadence will take at least 5 years, if not longer (Congressional cycles). Also, I think Medicare for All is a more pressing use of tax revenue than pouring good money after bad into sprawl infrastructure that will continue to decline in use as rural America hollows out and people keep moving to urban cores. To observe this, overlay predicted rural America population decline with road infrastructure, which you can also use to forecast which road infrastructure we should retreat from maintaining over time.<p>“Everyone wants civilization but nobody wants to pay taxes” is a hard concept to solve for, most especially when those with nothing or no tax liability (very roughly the bottom 60% of Americans) advocate for the wealthiest from a failed mental model.


type: comment
by: Evidlo
text:
  Just make a big spinner and put it above a lamp with multiple bulbs.  The interference pattern will make a ripple effect.


type: comment
by: bwfan123
text:
  &gt; They actively exploit the -- natural, evolved -- inability of most people on Earth to distinguish language use from thinking and feeling<p>Maybe this will force humans to raise their game, and start to exercise discrimination. Maybe education will change to emphasis this more. Ability to discern sense from pleasing rhetoric has always been a problem. Every politician and advertizer takes advantage of this. Reams of philosophy have been written on this problem.


type: comment
by: bigbadfeline
text:
  &gt; Are you trying to project this unto Trump when the Fed is doing everything it can to oppose his measures?<p>The Fed isn&#x27;t opposing Trump&#x27;s measures, on the contrary, the Fed is doing everything to accommodate as much of his policies as possible without wider damage to the economy.<p>It&#x27;s Trump who doesn&#x27;t understand the risks of unhinged tariffs and low interest rates which he demands because of his personal conflicts of interest.


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
text:
  Yours is the later one with the hard disk, the ones that my dad had at work were beige with two floppies. They also had some Sirius 1s, one of which had a hard disk.<p>Probably all gone in the skip now, the factory is sitting closed and empty.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  Wow this is amazing. Definitely the best biology video I&#x27;ve seen.<p>Edit: this is cool enough to deserve it’s own post, Im going to submit it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405855">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405855</a>


type: comment
by: gsf_emergency_6
text:
  (If we replace fish by &quot;unicellular organism&quot;, it might be easier to get to &quot;what kind of (meta)game gets them to multicellularity&quot;?)<p>Note that narcissism is what PH&#x2F;Kohut is trying to breakup here. I struggle to put egolessness at its  foundation, because that smells too much like nihilism. seem s increasingly less healthy to scale nihilistic therapy to a handful, 37 (~Dunbar), 1000s (POUM outer party?)<p>Why not an alternative life-force that could legitimise the &quot;ri&quot; in shu-ha-ri, &quot;acting-out&quot;, &quot;disruption&quot; (so take it both personal and ... solidarital (-activism)?)<p>[Creative] disruption is after all the  unspoken (meta?)ideology on HN*<p>Fully hypothetically, we shall then consider the behaviour of &quot;(self-)therapists&quot; in that scenario-  &quot;weaponized curiosity&quot; bootstrapping into a full alarm ---as &quot;we&quot; model the minds running a &quot;Bildungs&quot;-institution  (PH), the spiessig (aeb), HN mods (yours truly) :)<p>(I&#x27;d like to take it here to &quot;self jokes or -tickling&quot;, but &quot;too many knobs spoil the chat&quot;.. EDIT to circle back to civil vs common systems wrt fueling creative disruption soon enough)<p>*Seems like a step up from &quot;Schumpeterian&quot; &quot;creative destruction&quot;&#x2F;will-to-power tbh


type: comment
by: underlipton
text:
  &quot;Reminder&quot; is just as patronizing and probably the cue I was responding to. I don&#x27;t regret it, because on top of meeting his &quot;obnoxious&quot; framing with my own, the substance of my reply was also more correct. Your busy-body response was even less necessary and I hope that my refusal to take a conciliatory tone vexes you further. Have a nice day.


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  If you want to explore and make some tests of your own, nDPI is the most popular open-source DPI engine.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ntop&#x2F;nDPI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ntop&#x2F;nDPI</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NndEp7__Y1A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NndEp7__Y1A</a>


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  How is it not progress? You have full access to the code, you can use it yourself however you&#x27;d like, and the copyrights expire.<p>They just ask you not to compete with them for a few years.<p>How is that any way comparable to AWS?<p>Perfect truly is the enemy of good.<p>In this case, perfect murders good and locks you in the dungeon of eternal bad so you can think endlessly about perfect. It also stabs any good that comes along while crying about perfect.


type: comment
by: erinnh
text:
  Theres many.<p>Here is one Discussion&#x2F;issue that is currently annoying me again.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;9515" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;9515</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox&#x2F;issues&#x2F;20005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox&#x2F;issues&#x2F;20005</a><p>Netbox is full of these kinds of things. Where people ask for stuff or even create PRs for it and the Maintainer of Netbox shoots it down because <i>reason</i>.


type: comment
by: koyote
text:
  You&#x27;re getting a lot of flak due to how you started off your comment, but I mostly agree with you.<p>In my opinion there are two kinds of users: 1. Users who use FFmpeg regularly enough to know&#x2F;understand the parameters. 2. Users who only use FFmpeg once in a while to do something specific.<p>This wrapper is superfluous for users in group number 1.   But group number 2 does not really get much out of it either, for the reasons you&#x27;ve mentioned.<p>As a member of group 2, I usually want to do something very specific (e.g. remove an audio track, convert only the video, remux to a different container, etc.).   A simple English wrapper does not help me here because it is not powerful enough; the defaults are usually not what I want.    What I need is a tool that will take a more detailed English statement of what I want to achieve and spit out the FFmpeg command with explanations for what each parameter does and how it achieves my goal.   We have this today: AI; and it mostly works (once you&#x27;ve gone through several iterations of it hallucinating options that do not exist...).


type: comment
by: pepperball
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s sad, but I think our generation is partly to blame, since we demanded that from them.<p>At least you can recognize that much. Too many people involved in building an economy based around narcissism are suddenly wondering why there are a ton of narcissists.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  Ok, I&#x27;ll play:<p>&gt; We estimate that over the past two decades, USAID-funded programmes have helped prevent more than 91 million deaths globally, including 30 million deaths among children.<p>How about that? Or are you going to come up with some excuse that somewhere, somehow, an american also benefitted from saving all these lives and therefor it doesn&#x27;t count?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9&#x2F;fulltext#:~:text=We%20estimate%20that%20over%20the,of%20US%20global%20health%20engagement." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6...</a>


type: comment
by: messe
text:
  &gt; For without the us [sic] guarding europe<p>Those words hit harder when you&#x27;ve an executive that isn&#x27;t beholden to Russia or threatening to fucking annex part of an ally, and a Europe that isn&#x27;t investing heavily into rearmament.<p>But please, continue in your delusion.


type: story
by: thunderbong
title: JavaScript creator warns against "rushed web UX over native" for Windows 11
url:
  https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/27/javascript-creator-warns-against-rushed-web-ux-over-native-as-windows-11-leans-harder-on-webview2-and-electron/


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  another POV is he was extremely lucky<p>Pfizer decided to NOT commercialize its GLP-1 drug (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;glp-1-history-pfizer-joh...</a>) in 1992.<p>What if it had commercialized GLP1s?<p>The law that prevented Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs like GLP1s, the MMA, was passed in 2003. So Medicare would have to pay.<p>YEAR    NOM.  ADJ 23     NET     NET             ($B)    ($B)     10%    100%<p><pre><code>    1998    69.2   129.4   102.6  -138.6     1999   125.6   229.7   202.9   -38.3     2000   236.2   417.9   391.1   149.9     2001   128.2   220.6   193.8   -47.4 </code></pre> Okay, only 4 surplus years. 10% uptake of GLP1s, okay, they&#x27;d be in surplus. 100% uptake, it would be a deficit.<p>Any number of things could have happened. This was just one thing that <i>definitely</i> was completely in control of people - it was in the control of Pfizer&#x27;s commercialization team - it wasn&#x27;t some unforeseeable crisis.<p>My point is, the little HN takes here and there like yours, better to not make them, because frankly you don&#x27;t know anything about the budgeting process or governance, so why say anything at all?


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  This is a <i>yearly</i> tax. So that would be the same as 105,000mi in three years meanwhile the average car probably only drove ~37,500 in that time period.


type: comment
by: fspeech
text:
  Price of a commodity metal can do whatever they want without causing a big problem. It is just a resource allocation signal. However if you base your currency value on it suddenly you are forcing debtors into bankruptcies if the value shoots up. Credit relationships aka investments are what make an economy run and grow, not some arbitrary commodity price.


type: comment
by: upofadown
text:
  I think it would be more accurate (and more helpful) to say that the two factions in the OpenPGP standards schism[1] have pulled away from the idea of consensus. There is a fundamental philosophical difference here. The LiberePGP faction (GnuPGP) is following the traditional PGP minimalism when it comes to changes and additions to the standard. The RFC-9580 faction (Sequoia) is following a kind of maximalist approach where any potential issue might result in a change&#x2F;addition.<p>Fortunately, it turned out that there wasn&#x27;t anything particularly wrong with the current standards so we can just do that for now and avoid the standards war entirely. Then we will have interoperability across the various implementations. If some weakness comes up that actually requires a standards change then I suspect that consensus will be much easier to find.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:schism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:schism</a>


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  This is a hugely important strategic move. I reluctantly concede that the federal government has done exactly the right thing. (With the possible exception that they should have done it sooner and more decisively)<p>1) Drone warfare is critical to current and future armed conflicts. 2) us drone technology is currently 100% dependent on the Chinese supply chain 3) it takes time to build up a local supply chain 4) China has promised to attack Taiwan in 2027 and the US has promised to depend it. That conflict may pivot on who has the best drones in the opening, mid and end of the conflict.<p>Banning Chinese drones is step one in building a robust sovereign drone supply chain. It may already be too late but it sure as shit is better than waiting any longer. They’d better do batteries next or it will all be for nought.


type: comment
by: bzmrgonz
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  I am so disappointed they chose MS SQL server. Just imaging the opportunities and the giant annual recurring savings to thr public purse going with postgresql would have brought to thr table(the postgresql ecosystem spreads as far as the eye can see). It&#x27;s a travesty of epic proportions.  Let&#x27;s hope you at least follow modern coding practices of decoupling and low code&#x2F;no code to ensure survivability and maintainability into posterity.


type: comment
by: quantpunk
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  Have you ever done anything with tone.js?<p>I think of this completely opposite. C++ and audio is the incumbent relic that will progress one funeral at a time. Librosa and Pyo are just incredible in python but for offline processing.<p>Rust and audio would be really cool in terms of wasm. Anything VST is IMO a complete waste of time. That was saturated 15 years ago.


type: comment
by: nicoburns
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  &gt; is today&#x27;s end goal of social media to provide AI generated content that users can endlessly consume? I think Facebook is heading this direction.<p>Platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts have already gone a long way down that path. I don&#x27;t think users like this content much though.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  I got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pine.town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pine.town</a><p>Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you&#x27;ll like my weekend hack.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
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  I used to get into arguments with people in the Fedi who couldn&#x27;t seem to make up their minds whether they wanted to be visible or invisible.  To me it seemed like it made no sense,  like if you really want to be invisible <i>just don&#x27;t post it</i> because you can&#x27;t really take things back.<p>At some point I realized those people were just like that.<p>I worked at a startup circa 2012 or so which was unusually unclear in its mission but the paychecks and the parties were good and the idea seemed to be helping people partition out different parts of the identities in terms of interests so you could get Paul-the-mild-mannered-applications-developer,  Paul-as-a-marketer&#x2F;huckster,  and Paul-as-a-fox,  and Paul-with-an-embarassing-interest, etc.<p>We had the hardest time explaining to the press (TechCrunch would say they didn&#x27;t get it!) and everyone else,  I could probably pitch it as well as anybody and I didn&#x27;t do very well.


type: comment
by: twotwotwo
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  FWIW, here are (mostly) their agent&#x27;s tips for other agents from exploring a mostly-new system including tidbits like how to get recent Node: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com&#x2F;1FV6XMQKP2T0D9M8FF82-cache&#x2F;exedev-AGENTS.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com&#x2F;1FV6XMQKP2T0D9M8FF82-cach...</a><p>It&#x27;s very much a snapshot of what happens to come on a new VM today, and I put a little disclaimer in it to try to help tools get unstuck if anything there proves to be outdated or a flat-out (accidental) lie.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  I recently traveled to Florida. There are toll roads everywhere. Luckily, I got the unlimited daily toll package when I rented my car.


type: comment
by: ChuckMcM
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  Google&#x27;s stance on this was fairly draconian when I was working there, basically Google&#x27;s position was that they could be in ANY business at ANY time so that ANY thing you worked on was theirs. On the day I joined, one of the other new hires had a marked up copy of the agreement with some VERY simple wording changes that said basically &quot;wasn&#x27;t in this business at the time the employee started working on the project&quot; (aka a no retro-active clause) because this individual pointed out quite reasonably that if they were working on something in good faith on their own that wasn&#x27;t part of Google&#x27;s business and it turned out to be a really good idea, then Google, based on how the agreement was written, could go back and say &quot;but we&#x27;re in that business now too and you were working for us so we own your idea.&quot;<p>To which the HR person at the orientation had said, &quot;Don&#x27;t worry Google wouldn&#x27;t do that.&quot; And this individual said, &quot;I&#x27;m sure they wouldn&#x27;t, that&#x27;s why it seems like a no-brainer to put it into the agreement, it just says they won&#x27;t do something that you and I both agree they would never do. I can&#x27;t sign the document as written without this.&quot; The HR person took the updated version off to someone (presumably legal). And then after lunch this person was not in the group (I had seen them eating lunch) So when we had finished up, before my mentor had arrived I went out and found them waiting on the circle for a ride and asked them what happened. They said, &quot;Google said no and also said they were rescinding the offer of employment.&quot;<p>And that told me everything I needed to know about how Google really thought about things vs what they <i>said</i> they thought about things.


type: comment
by: antonvs
text:
  Sure, but it can point to potential causation. Toxoplasma gondii infection is the obvious candidate here.


type: comment
by: Dwedit
text:
  Obligatory <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1181&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1181&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: lovich
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  Do you need someone to commit a crime to hate them?<p>Do you still need them to commit a crime when they are rich and powerful, and connected with the current administration that sets the law?<p>If a new law came out that said Chamath can do whatever he wants and it’s always legal, is it impossible to hate him in your worldview?


type: comment
by: tonymet
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  I agree that may occur, though we likely disagree on how representative it is.<p>Regardless, 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Moreover, most of the public spending goes into what you would likely consider to be grifter enterprises.


type: comment
by: smeeagain2
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  &gt; It makes me worry that what if my belief that I&#x27;m rational is also skewed...<p>Let&#x27;s test how worried you really are.<p>Do you believe any&#x2F;all of the following:<p>* Humans landed on the moon in 1969 in what basically amounts to a cardboard box with mylar duct taped over it and no radiation shielding at all, rode a dune buggy around a bit and played some golf, then got bored and came home. Nobody has been able to replicate it since. The telemetry tapes from all this were accidentally overwritten with old Scooby Doo reruns and we have completely forgotten how to build rocket engines and all the other primitive tech, or a thousand other excuses, so that&#x27;s why we haven&#x27;t gone back. Those who point out inconsistencies and obvious lies&#x2F;fakery in the photos or scientific claims, or that one of the &quot;moon rocks&quot; brought back and given to a foreign government was recently tested and found to actually be petrified wood, are just crazies to be ignored, hated, laughed at, and shunned.<p>* Ebola really existed. It was on a tear, getting ready to kill us all, had arrived on US shores and everything, spreading like wildfire....but then its long-feared and hated enemy (the day of Congressional midterm elections) arrived, and in terror it ran back to Africa the very next day and has never been heard from since.<p>* Flu shots cure the flu; it&#x27;s a scientific fact. Only problem is, it&#x27;s a guessing game whether the vaccination will target the right strain or not, so there&#x27;s only a 5% chance it will actually be cured and 95% chance you will get the flu like clockwork, within a week or two of getting the shot. That&#x27;s just your personal bad luck and maybe they will get things right next year. Meanwhile ignore all the crazy people claiming it&#x27;s the flu shot that actually gave you the flu, making other ridiculous claims like they don&#x27;t get shots and never get sick, etc; all lies.<p>* COVID likewise is going to kill everyone and you&#x27;d better get your shot, citizen, or you will die. Ignore all the crazies raising serious questions about a supposed &quot;vaccine&quot; that was &quot;developed&quot; in like 3 weeks by a methhead pulling 168 hour weeks in a lab somewhere. (All the money went into his meth habit and weed stash which was the key essential ingredient in developing a vaccine so fast, vs the typical years or decades of trials it would have taken otherwise.) Also, masks are a smart idea and work very well.<p>* All these people who suddenly got it in their heads all at once that the Earth is flat, or there&#x27;s 5G receivers in vaccines, or a thousand other crackpot ideas, suffering sudden mass delusions, are just millions upon millions of individual crazies who spontaneously thought up these &quot;theories&quot; all at once; there&#x27;s definitely no evidence of outside manipulation and chicanery going here at all. Certainly not US intelligence agencies pulling the strings behind all this.<p>* Climate change is going to kill us all. CO2, far from being one of the most important chemicals of life, is the enemy. We will solve the problem by making everyone pay tax on their CO2 emissions. But don&#x27;t worry, we will never suddenly discover that <i>people</i> emit CO2 <i>with every breath they take</i> and from that conclude that we should <i>tax people every time they take a breath</i>, for example. That would be unthinkable.<p>* None of these various events above are connected in any way. It&#x27;s all random happenstance. There&#x27;s certainly no unified cabal of criminals producing and directing this show. That&#x27;s inconceivable and ridiculous. Nope, it&#x27;s all just a great big coincidence. That&#x27;s why Coincidence Theorists are true heroes who are always fighting those terrible Conspiracy Theorists and their batshit idea that all is this is connected and that by understanding it, maybe we can do something about it. Absurd.<p>Would you like to go on? And on, and on, and on down the rabbit hole...?


type: comment
by: walthamstow
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  I&#x27;ve never sat in car traffic and thought it was awesome either. It&#x27;s a terrible economic drag and it&#x27;s boring as fuck. There are solutions available.


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  Since when did forums finely tuned their addictive homepage feed based on votes, comments, and overall &quot;engagement&quot;.<p>This is a social media news feed-style website.  Like Reddit, or old Digg.


type: comment
by: sometimes_all
text:
  I have in the past refused and started looking for a new job the moment my employer asked me to use my personal accounts for company work. That was a major breach of personal boundaries which I did not find acceptable. But clearly, it doesn&#x27;t seem that the author had the liberty to say no:<p>&gt; Part of me was concerned about my future, my visa, I just moved, The lease.<p>This is one of the major reasons why I left the US after a few years of my own accord; green card &#x2F; citizenship wait times for Indians are nonsensical if you are not provably extraordinary or haven&#x27;t married a US citizen. I could be wrong, but it seems that the author is still young, doesn&#x27;t have many dependents or responsibilities. Their mental state would&#x27;ve been a lot worse, and they&#x27;d have been a lot more vulnerable to workplace manipulation if they had children and a mortgage to think about. Even if they had a good manager today, there&#x27;s no guarantee they&#x27;d keep having a good manager a few years from now before their green card arrives.<p>I found it a cruel joke that a country that prides itself on &quot;freedom&quot; and &quot;liberty&quot; is perfectly happy keeping people, directly or indirectly, in circumstances where they do not actually have freedom and liberty for decades. The crueler joke is that a lot of said people find this arrangement perfectly acceptable even when they have other options.


type: comment
by: tclancy
text:
  I thought the &#x2F;. effect was to hug a site to death, not cause the price of the product under review to skyrocket. I see $414 instead of $258 now!


type: comment
by: ndom91
text:
  Came here to see if anyone had an answer to this too.<p>US Digital Service (USDS) was also &quot;renamed&quot; and turned into DOGE (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Digital_Service" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Digital_Service</a>).<p>So on the surface it seems that we already had many of these types of orgs, but they killed them all and spun up their own renamed and rebadged versions.<p>That being said, this project does seem like a potential big win.


type: comment
by: mhluongo
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  Direct counterpoint: I&#x27;ve been a Dell XPS 13 stan for years (owned 3), and my other laptop today is a System 76. I&#x27;ve run IT for labs at a major university (Georgia Tech), across Windows, RHEL, and MacOS. I&#x27;ve been a desktop Linux user since 2006, both personally and professionally.<p>Across those, I&#x27;ve repaired plenty of laptops. I mentioned the RAM above because it&#x27;s recent, and because it&#x27;s easy. And I don&#x27;t just mean physically easy - I mean I can find the part with a quick search, and it&#x27;s just like any other ecommerce thing. That&#x27;s a big shift from figuring out how to upgrade most laptops, where your top search result is a forum post or pushing you to talk to a tech.<p>Not breathless, but it is a breath of fresh air.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  I was talking with a great-sounding few-person early startup (nice people, non-evil business, interesting work, etc.), and they wanted me to fill a highly-skilled role... in-office in a VHCOLA, for $110K and &quot;0.5%&quot; in usual option schedule.  (Presumably also with the usual barriers to options ever being exercised or liquidated equitably.)<p>Even fresh grads with no experience take home more in this town.<p>I live to work, and I&#x27;d be willing to spend a few more years in student-apartment quality of life, and to work like a strategic asset to make the startup successful.  But I&#x27;ve learned that deal should include a FIRE lottery ticket, not a condo downpayment lottery ticket.<p>If your early startup doesn&#x27;t want to share significant equity, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;levels.fyi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;levels.fyi&#x2F;</a> provides TC numbers of what established companies are paying, even for people who wouldn&#x27;t be good for a startup.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s the recent years of what VC culture has devolved to. (&quot;Why is your cap table cutting in early key hires significantly?  Do you have a leadership problem, bro?&quot;)  Maybe this is just another facet of the &quot;mask-off&quot; or &quot;late-stage capitalism&quot; that people have started calling out in other facets of society.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
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  We are destroying ourselves; the very core of what it is to be human. I say this acknowledging the irony of writing this on my phone, on a Sunday morning, when I should be engaging with the real world and people in my life.<p>Television was rightly criticised for being the opiate of the masses; a continuous stream of entertainment that allows you to ‘stop thinking’ to endure boredom. However it had some constraints. The box was in a fixed space, I could not bring it with me. The content was fixed, it could not always engage me.<p>Social media, and every other ‘content delivery’ system is not like this. It is in my pocket, there is <i>so much</i> content, it can keep me continually engaged. AI content generation <i>optimises</i> this, perhaps, but we already live in this dystopia.<p>Rise up and revolt! Put down our phones and refuse to engage! Our very lives, our <i>humanity</i> depends on it!


type: comment
by: derleyici
text:
  Fair point. Calling the concept inherently flawed is doing a lot of work to excuse 30 years of implementation bugs.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Everything is better than PGP (not just GPG --- all PGP implementations).<p>The problem with PGP is that it&#x27;s a Swiss Army Knife. It does too many things. The scissors on a Swiss Army Knife are useful in a pinch if you don&#x27;t have real scissors, but tailors use real scissors.<p>Whatever it is you&#x27;re trying to do with encryption, you should use the real tool designed for that task. Different tasks want altogether different cryptosystems with different tradeoffs. There&#x27;s no one perfect multitasking tool.<p>When you look at the problem that way, surprisingly few real-world problems ask for &quot;encrypt a file&quot;. People need backup, but backup demands backup cryptosystems, which do much more than just encrypt individual files. People need messaging, but messaging is <i>wildly</i> more complicated than file encryption. And of course people want packet signatures, ironically PGP&#x27;s most mainstream usage, ironic because it relies on only a tiny fraction of PGP&#x27;s functionality <i>and still somehow doesn&#x27;t work</i>.<p>All that is before you get to the absolutely deranged 1990s design of PGP, which is a complex state machine that switches between different modes of operation based on attacker-controlled records (which are mostly invisible to users). Nothing modern looks like PGP, because PGP&#x27;s underlying design predates modern cryptography. It survives only because nerds have a parasocial relationship with it.


type: comment
by: Bengalilol
text:
  &gt; &quot;For now, drivers pay to access just 6,300 miles of America’s 160,000 or so miles of highway&quot;


type: comment
by: chasely
text:
  It also seems, really low?<p>A stack of bills is roughly 0.5 inches. Assuming a 12-ft joist-to-joist spacing, that&#x27;s 12 feet per floor \times 12 inches per foot \times 2 stacks per inch = 288 stacks per floor = $2.88M per floor since a stack of 100s is $10k<p>So that would be a 1,000M &#x2F; 2.88M ~ 347 story building.<p>Or is my unit conversion wildly off from dealing with sick kids over the holidays?


type: comment
by: fellowniusmonk
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  Some people literally just can&#x27;t let themselves believe others enjoying their own (different) lives at their own pace.<p>As if every alternative road has to be imagined as a less satisfying road to validate their own chosen path.<p>As if the diversity and multiplication of &quot;search paths&quot; through &quot;reality space&quot; is somehow sad or worse or less moral or less virtuous.<p>Which is absurd of course.<p>As for me, sometimes I take bad paths just for fun because I&#x27;m more curious than cautious.<p>&quot;This is probably terrible, let&#x27;s check it out.&quot;<p>And boy is it fun for those of use who like to explore the edges, and I like to imagine that all those taking more traveled paths are also enjoying themselves and the life they have!


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  hmm ok, I thought it might be that, but then I would have expected &quot;I did&quot; to have been &quot;I published&quot;


type: comment
by: tonfa
text:
  Yeah, it felt a bit weird to me since if anything to reach the stated goals they need to buy a lot more land&#x2F;buildings. (The recent failed cantonal initiative would have helped them)


type: comment
by: Hikikomori
text:
  You might accept a bad splice but you&#x27;d almost have to fuck it up on purpose with a decent automatic splicer.


type: comment
by: underlipton
text:
  The cycle would have broken in 2008 if we hadn&#x27;t bailed out the auto manufacturers. Pro-free market until the moment it counts.


type: comment
by: bnc319
text:
  This is awesome. I just maxxed out my tokens in Shelley, but was able to vibe code this Rails app that lets anyone register an aircraft and then fly it in a synchronized world interfaced through a Garmin G1000 knock off. Sign up (feel free to use a fake email address) and set up a flight now and let&#x27;s see how many aircraft we can get going! If this is a cool idea let me know and I&#x27;ll probably end up paying to continue developing this :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exexe.exe.xyz&#x2F;cockpit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exexe.exe.xyz&#x2F;cockpit</a>


type: comment
by: oceansky
text:
  Damn, this is the kind of thing that will backfire so much decades from now. Literally incalculable damages


type: comment
by: orionspelt
text:
  Meant papacy! But papal and papacy are so similar! I blame the schools! Educators help make line go up by cranking out functional illiterates!


type: comment
by: carlosjobim
text:
  They correlate with the size of production, which is a much better measurement than the amount of trading back-and-forth.


type: comment
by: Ekaros
text:
  Not buying is same as selling with debt. On long enough time horizon. If the debt is not rolled over anymore eventually you run out of lenders.


type: comment
by: uplifter
text:
  This may be more a problem with how &quot;fit&quot; is defined and used than with natural selection theory itself. Fitness can be hard to define beyond the trivial &quot;these organisms which survived the selection event must be the fit ones,&quot; and natural systems are usually so noisy with inputs that its hard to figure out what was actually important in retrospect, or likely to evolve in the future.<p>Only in situations with a powerful selection pressure (like an asteroid strike causing a nuclear winter, or antibiotic applied to a petri dish) can one have a hope of reliably predicting which variants will be selected for or against.<p>However, these situations are not irrelevant, especially if we can predict the likelihood of those situations developing. Real predictions of the theory of natural selection can be applied to managing antibiotic resistance in populations of bacteria. For example, we know that antibiotic resistance mechanisms that bacteria evolve will often have an energy metabolism cost to their maintenance. This means that, absent pressure to be resistant to antibiotics, we&#x27;d expect a population to gradually lose individuals with the genes for the resistance mechanism, because they would be incurring a metabolic penalty for possessing those genes. So natural selection theory accurately predicts that if you remove the selection pressure of the antibiotic, the bacteria will evolve to lose the resistance mechanism, and become susceptible to the antibiotic again over several generations of natural selection. Using this knowledge, some rural regions will discontinue use of a given class of antibiotics in agriculture to allow for resistant strains to decline, and then resume their use when they are again effective. By intelligently rotating use of antibiotics in this way, we can enjoy their benefits without incurring too much inefficiencies and worse tragedies from antibiotic resistance.<p>That is real &amp; useful predictive power.


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  But that only demonstrates that it <i>is addictive</i> and everyone knows it. It&#x27;s the exact kind of website that this New York state law is targeting.<p>It just seems like hn is very open about acknowledging that. They&#x27;ll still very much be subject to the state law


type: story
by: rajlego
title: Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
url: https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio/
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240909093450&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240909093450&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statn...</a>


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  Now can you give us a list of all the features of PGP and a tool that does one specific thing really well?


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  &gt; &quot;one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s amazing how fast free speech has been destroyed in the past year. Especially when it comes to censorship of science and science&#x27;s conclusions.<p>However, I heard many many more people complaining about a lack of free speech in 2023 and 2024 than now. I really wonder what happened to all those principles! It&#x27;s shocking.


type: comment
by: brianwawok
text:
  That’s great, I’d love a strong European military. Can you help Ukraine enough so it can win? If not you can’t defend your own countries alone.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  Your genes seem to be out of date, there are several security updates pending. The download will be 3.2 Gb and will take about 3 seconds..... Because this is a security update you can not refuse it. If you are commanding a vehicle park it now or switch to autopilot. Commencing update in 10, 9, 8, ...


type: comment
by: pfdietz
text:
  It&#x27;s in the interest of NASA (and the ESA) to hype the importance of the magnetosphere.  After all, they are given money to investigate it, so the more important it is perceived, the more money they can expect to get.


type: comment
by: simondotau
text:
  It’s not that simple. For trains to be a complete solution you need walkable cities, and high density transport-oriented residential construction near stations.<p>This is almost diametrically opposite to parking-oriented cities and sprawling suburbia.


type: comment
by: ChadNauseam
text:
  I don&#x27;t agree with this perspective. A tax on negative externalities doesn&#x27;t have to be regressive. It depends on what the tax money is spent on. This is an extreme example, but if you added a congestion tax and then spent the money on a tiny UBI, you might generate $10&#x2F;person&#x2F;month, which would be a major uplift to the poorest in our society who don&#x27;t drive at all. The argument against congestion pricing is further weakened by the fact that those harmed (drivers, pay the tolls) are also those who benefit (drivers, who enjoy less congestion). The ones who are harmed the most are those displaced from driving, who have to find something else to do and don&#x27;t enjoy the benefits of reduced convention. That&#x27;s using congestion pricing as an example, but the same argument applies to taxing vehicles in proportion to the wear they impose on roads.<p>Business owners who pay the tax are free to raise their prices, which is how it&#x27;s supposed to work. They&#x27;re currently raising their prices because their drivers waste time in congested traffic and because they pay taxes to the government for road maintenance.<p>For an analogy, it also makes sense to tax companies who dump their waste in rivers, to the extent that their waste dirties the rivers. If there is some ultra-valuable product that could only be made by dirtying a river (idk, let&#x27;s say that for some reason insulin had to be made that way), it would be a good that it could still be made, while discouraging people from dirtying rivers for little reason. No one would say &quot;polluting the river should be free because we all use products that are made by polluting rivers.&quot; If polluting rivers were free and the government just taxed everyone to clean them up afterwards, we probably all really would use products made by polluting rivers! but that doesn&#x27;t mean we would be worse off by taxing it directly.<p>That said, I agree that there&#x27;s no reason for tolls to fund the road system. Hypothecated taxes are generally not a good idea, despite the fact that they&#x27;re very intuitively appealing.


type: comment
by: alphazard
text:
  Dollars are currently only in demand for short-term use in transactions. Most of the world still relies on dollars for transactions, because that is what all the banking and payment infrastructure uses.<p>But no one wants to hold them because they devalue and will continue to do so at an accelerating rate. It&#x27;s a game of hot potato where everyone is forced to hold equities, commodities or other assets by default in order to preserve their wealth, and then convert to dollars to transact. The days of savings accounts are over, and everyone should think of their checking account as something that they pay negative real interest on for the privilege of being able to transact with the rest of the world.<p>Meanwhile, the big players in the current financial system are trying to figure out how to continue playing the current game without resetting everyone&#x27;s progress. They don&#x27;t want to lose their hard won position to pay for bad decisions by American voters. It&#x27;s a coordination problem, and the shelling point looks like it is still gold, same as it has been for thousands of years.


type: comment
by: benzguo
text:
  This is cool! Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zo.computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zo.computer</a> – a similar concept, with an IDE-like web UI


type: comment
by: ttctciyf
text:
  &gt; Perhaps you can tell me what use &quot;3 ∩ 4 = 3&quot; has.<p>As I said:<p>&gt; a handy set theoretic implementation of the min() function.<p>i.e. if you wanted (for whatever reason) to define min(a, b) directly and briefly in your set theoretic reconstruction of the natural numbers, you can just use intersect operator and define it as &quot;a ∩ b&quot;.<p>Perhaps because in terms of the interesting distinction you introduce:<p>&gt;  you have to distinguish things that are true of natural numbers as an algebraic structure, from things that just happen to be the case because you picked some specific representation to use for natural numbers<p>this particular operation seems to be part of the former rather than of the latter.


type: comment
by: Devasta
text:
  Good. Cars only exist as a viableeans of transport due to vast subsidies and a total reorganization of society to suit them. Motorists should pay the cost of this absurd status quo.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  It&#x27;s kinda weird.<p>Facebook started as a way to connect with family and friends and it is still really good at that.  When I got back into Facebook to post my photos (e.g. in a  &quot;publish everywhere&quot; strategy) I reconnected with distant family I hadn&#x27;t been in contact with for a long time and I&#x27;m thankful for that.<p>On the other hand <i>that&#x27;s</i> not enough for a business so Facebook mashes that up with brands&#x2F;businesses and community groups and &quot;creators&quot; and cleverly took the free publicity away from brands and started selling it back.<p>I think the thing is friends and family don&#x27;t generate enough content to be cover traffic for the ads and my feelings are kinda ambivalent for those people because there are people I care for who post vast amounts of content that I see as &quot;cringe&quot; (e.g. COVID-19 hyperchondria while I am seeing Gen X get their education and future friends, family and socialization stolen by school lockdowns) and thank God Facebook knows I don&#x27;t click on that shit and shows me ads and stuff from &quot;creators&quot; instead!


type: comment
by: qnleigh
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  It&#x27;s complex in a physicist&#x27;s sense of the word: the equations are hopelessly complicated to solve even in very simple cases. This means it&#x27;s hard to build intuition or describe in simple terms.<p>Quantum chromodynamics is actually pretty similar to Maxwell&#x27;s equations of electromagnetism. The big difference is that unlike photos, gluons interact with each other. This means goodbye to linear equations and simple planewave solutions. One can&#x27;t even solve the equations in empty space, and only recently have supercomputers become powerful enough to make good, quantitative predictions about things like the proton mass.


type: comment
by: Natfan
text:
  random links to a youtu.be video? pray tell, what malware would be transmitted from youtube.com, owned by Alphabet?


type: comment
by: UniverseHacker
text:
  I live in the Bay Area and hate HOV lanes. I can look over and see that more than half of the drivers are in violation, and yet it is effectively unenforced. It is a system that punishes people willing to follow the rules.<p>Asking someone to waste maybe up to an hour of their life everyday to sit there and watch people willing to break the rules speed by and get to be home early with their families breeds massive resentment, and anger. It encourages people to abandon all sorts of social contracts.


type: comment
by: Prcmaker
text:
  In an old job I spliced a lot of fibre for our research, got the hang of it and got pretty proficient.<p>My research shifted, and I start making sensors using fibre and similarly sized capillary tube. It all got cleaved, spliced to assemble, cleaved some more, spliced again, then polished to spec. Getting the he process down was a pain, but the results were super satisfying.


type: comment
by: LexiMax
text:
  The best time for a city to invest in making their city walkable and public-transportation-able is decades ago.  The second best time for a city to invest in making their city walkable and public-transportation-able is now.


type: comment
by: FunnyLookinHat
text:
  I really enjoyed Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood.  It&#x27;s fairly obscure though - I was surprised to see it mentioned here.!


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Since always?<p>Every forum I can remember shows the most popular threads first. Even 4chan does that with thread bumping, the most engaged-with threads sort to the top. Given the hyperbole of the times, that counts as &quot;finely tuning their addictive homepage feed.&quot;<p>Hacker News, like Reddit, is both a forum and a link aggregator. It has features which are designed to influence you and to be addictive. And I promise you that people are as addicted to HN as others are to Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>how do you see that something is downvoted?</i><p>You can’t directly. If the comment goes negative, it get greyed out. (In many cases, people are complaining about a comment they like not being the top comment.)<p>Either way, complaining about the voting is against the guidelines and thus flaggable. <i>That</i> causes your comment to get marked as flagged.


type: comment
by: mikestew
text:
  Just because a small percentage of drivers drive that much each year doesn’t make it a reasonable number for the general case.<p><i>It sounds like this is actually close to what you would be expected to use.</i><p>Not even close to what the average driver drives.


type: comment
by: Nasrudith
text:
  Personally I suspect Autoped wouldn&#x27;t do too well, it would provoke too many jokes about robo-pedophiles, not quite as bad as Nonce Finance, though.


type: comment
by: NoMoreNicksLeft
text:
  &gt;Allowing private ownership of limited human necessities like land leads to greed that cost people lives.<p>You&#x27;re not &quot;allowing&quot; it unless you&#x27;ve already decided that you own it and can dispose of it (or not) as you see it. And this is why you&#x27;ll always be the enemy of all decent folk.<p>&quot;Real communism&#x27;s never been tried!!!!&quot;<p>&gt;Meanwhile, it&#x27;s at worst annoying and stifling when Disney owns a cartoon mouse fotlr 100 years.<p>It&#x27;s actually destructive of culture in ways that are difficult to overstate. Disney nor any other &quot;copyright owner&quot; can&#x27;t be trusted to preserve culture and works, they&#x27;re the ones that threw the old film reels into the river and let them burn up in archive fires. No thanks. It&#x27;s amazing how wrong you are on every single point.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
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  &gt;I have for the toll roads I drive on.<p>Link me so I can draw some circles for you.<p>&gt; to argue it&#x27;s funded primarily, originally through tax dollars<p>Do you know how bonds work? It&#x27;s an isomorphic operation. A state entity is issuing bonds out to creditors. A lot of those major creditors will also be secured creditors.<p>It&#x27;s the same thing, just covered under a sleight of hand trick.<p>So the state borrows money from a select few major creditors but it&#x27;s &quot;wink wink&quot; not against the full faith and credit of the state, then regulates a consumption tax on the road, and the investors and authority get a slice of the pie.<p>For what purpose?<p>And when the toll roads fail either the creditors are paid out either through the state out right buying the road or allowing the debt to be a tax write off over X amount of time.<p>&gt;This &quot;viewpoint&quot; is otherwise known as &quot;reality&quot;.<p>This American brainworm is exhausting, ngl. Buddy you&#x27;re getting bamboozled by a few vocab words and a 3 step accounting trick, please don&#x27;t presume to talk to anyone about reality.


type: comment
by: tacone
text:
  Documentation is never really in sync, thus it&#x27;s an heuristic. Henceforth, you could setup a pipeline to use AI for that. Not everything will be correct, but it never really is (unless the project is very small and focused or is very old and changes slowly).<p>Depending on your needs it might be a viable solution.


type: comment
by: MengerSponge
text:
  &quot;The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anatole_France" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anatole_France</a>


type: comment
by: ako
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  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.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  I mean you are making this too easy that I can copy&amp;paste above the fold..:<p><i>The core reason for creating USAID in 1961, under President John F. Kennedy, was to consolidate and revamp U.S. foreign aid into a single, more strategic agency to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War, promote democracy and free-market principles, and fulfill America&#x27;s moral and economic role as a global leader. It aimed to separate economic aid from military assistance and make it more effective in fostering development, spreading U.S. values, and creating stable partners, distinct from the bureaucracy of the State Department.</i>


type: comment
by: Coffeewine
text:
  I think this sums it up pretty well.<p>&quot;When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles,&quot;


type: comment
by: self_awareness
text:
  Why not use Windows or macOS then? You don&#x27;t need to use shells there.<p>I would prefer not to change the technical aspects of Linux. I actually cherish it.


type: comment
by: lnenad
text:
  Why are you giving in to such a troll&#x2F;AI&#x2F;low effort comment. If the page was some genius implication and I were too stupid to get it then his comment had a good point. The page has a random ssh command and this dude thinks it&#x27;s genius.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  I&#x27;ve used VxWorks as well, yes, it was slimmer (a lot slimmer, actually), but I would disagree that it was more reliable. QnX supported a ton of hardware out of the box and if there ever was unreliability as far as I&#x27;ve seen it it was always comms layer related, never the core OS or any other bits that you could put next to VxWorks and compare on a functional level. You just required a much bigger SBC to run it, and that&#x27;s why we used VxWorks in the first place. But I would have been much happier with QnX. I&#x27;m imagining the modern day equivalent of QnX running on a Raspberry Pi Pico or one of the larger Arduino&#x27;s or a Teensy. That would be an absolute game-changer.


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  Right.  This is how I feel.  I can get the LLM to generate code that more or less does what I need, but if I objectively look at the result and the effort required to get there it&#x27;s still not at the point where it&#x27;s doing it faster and better than what I could have got manually (with exceptions for certain specific use cases that are not generally applicable to the work I want to do).<p>The time I save on typing out the program is lost to new activities I otherwise wouldn&#x27;t be doing.


type: comment
by: mgh95
text:
  &gt; But no one wants to hold them because they devalue and will continue to do so at an accelerating rate.<p>Devalue against what is the main question though, isn&#x27;t it? The real longer term issue is that the USD is devaluing against the Euro, but even that has serious issues for Europe&#x27;s export oriented economies [1].


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  What is lost is social networking. Texting or calling people you already know isn&#x27;t networking.<p>Every social network experiences convergent evolutionary pressure driving it to become social media instead.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  Boy I am real tired of this frankly, well, I was going juvenile, but I&#x27;m pretty sure most kids are smarter than this, so I&#x27;ll just call it what it is: an idiotic, damaging and ultimately false understanding of reality.<p>The world is not some kind of simple morality play and your continued lack of understanding about what has actually happened in the real world is offensive.<p>It&#x27;s not because you&#x27;re ignorant, that&#x27;s just mildly annoying, it&#x27;s because you&#x27;re so <i>proud</i> of your ignorance. The complete unwillingness to grow and learn and challenge your current understanding, <i>that</i> is what is offensive.<p>There&#x27;s a great phrase I heard a while back, &quot;thought terminating cliche&quot;. You just toss out these blanket statements, &quot;all politicians are evil and corrupt&quot; as if everyone else is supposed to just blindly believe in your assertions and stop thinking for themselves and searching for truths.<p>Biden did some bad things, possibly even some illegal things (mostly on the premise that every single american has done at least one illegal thing) but he&#x27;s still vastly superior to trump in any metric you care to choose.<p>The reason this matters is because we (for now) still get a choice. Are any of the choices perfect? No, obviously not. But we can still choose the better option. We don&#x27;t have to settle for the worst one.


type: comment
by: secstate
text:
  Oh man ... it&#x27;s been years since I read this, but it all came flooding back reading that post. Brilliant. And interestingly, &quot;Choose again&quot; is shockingly similar to Steve Job&#x27;s &quot;Don&#x27;t be trapped by dogma,&quot; philosophy.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  Trusted Publishing doesn’t involve any signing keys (well, there’s an IdP, but the IdP’s signature is over a JWT that the index verifies, not an end signature). You’re thinking of attestations, which do indeed involve a local ephemeral private key.<p>Again, I must emphasize that this is identical in construction to the Web PKI; that was intentional. There are good criticisms of PKIs on grounds of centrality, etc., but “the end entity doesn’t control the private key” is facially untrue and sounds more like conspiracy than anything else.


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  Which users? I typically dislike TikTok and other shorts but the platforms seem to be wildly popular even despite my opinions.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  It&#x27;s exactly because you’re rationally reachable that this matters.<p>I’m not questioning your beliefs, and I’m not saying you secretly believe in Intelligent Design. The issue is that some of the arguments you’re making didn’t originate organically or scientifically -- they were deliberately promoted through deceptive education policy and textbook standards, especially in large markets like Texas, precisely because that influence scaled nationally. People often absorb them without realizing their origin.<p>After Intelligent Design spectacularly failed in court, its proponents pivoted to influencing education standards rather than arguing science directly. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), a U.S. federal district court ruled that Intelligent Design is not science and cannot be taught in public school biology classes because it is religious in nature.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_Schoo...</a><p>&gt;[Creationist defense witness] Fuller memorably called for an &quot;affirmative action&quot; program for intelligent design, which did not win much favor with [Judge] Jones in his final decision.<p>That was one of the most jaw-dropping moments in the entire Dover trial: an unintentional confession that Intelligent Design cannot meet the standards of science and therefore must be smuggled into classrooms under a quota system. &quot;Teach the Controversy&quot; is affirmative action for bad ideas: a grievance policy masquerading as pedagogy.<p>&gt;&quot;Witnesses either testified inconsistently, or lied outright under oath on several occasions,&quot; [Judge] Jones wrote. &quot;The inescapable truth is that both [Alan] Bonsell and [William] Buckingham lied at their January 3, 2005 depositions. ... Bonsell repeatedly failed to testify in a truthful manner. ... Defendants have unceasingly attempted in vain to distance themselves from their own actions and statements, which culminated in repetitious, untruthful testimony.&quot; An editorial in the York Daily Record described their behavior as both ironic and sinful, saying that the &quot;unintelligent designers of this fiasco should not walk away unscathed.&quot; Judge Jones recommended to the US Attorney&#x27;s office that the school board members be investigated for perjury.<p>So the bald faced liars and $1,000,011 judgement losers pivoted to &quot;Teach the Controversy&quot;, and states like Texas were their key targets, because of their centralized textbook approval process and market size, which historically shaped textbooks used nationwide.<p>The &quot;Teach the Controversy&quot; framing was designed to insert doubt about evolution without explicitly promoting religion, and its language appeared repeatedly in state curriculum debates.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Teach_the_Controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Teach_the_Controversy</a><p>As a result, many people encountered these arguments against evolution in school without ever being told where they came from or what they were designed to accomplish -- and repeat them without realizing how the same strategy continues today in much broader political efforts, like Project 2025.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intelligent_design_in_politics#United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intelligent_design_in_politics...</a>


type: comment
by: stinkbeetle
text:
  Looks like one of the white knights of the left is riding in on an extremely high horse to defend the poor simple indigenous folx. Bravo.<p>I&#x27;m so glad you were able to police my other comments too, they&#x27;re also wrong but you&#x27;re incapable of addressing them so you just decree with no evidence rquired that they make me &quot;MAGA-adjacent&quot; and therefore a bad person. Apparently it&#x27;s fine to have grievance rhetoric against governments except when the corrupt warmongers happen to be the secular high priests of <i>your</i> religion. This is so great! I&#x27;m sorry for all the violent hate speech that offended you so, my liege.


type: comment
by: quantpunk
text:
  After playing guitar for 25 years, I quit guitar and got a digital piano.<p>I practiced enough to learn to play Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 in the right hand and then sold the piano.<p>My fav music is Chopin, Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ligeti on piano.<p>The distance between starting from zero on the guitar, to anything ever composed for the guitar is a 100X less than starting from zero on piano to Ligeti.<p>Learning to solo on electric guitar, play the flute, play the alto sax to me makes so much more sense than trying to learn to play piano or classical guitar as an adult. Classical guitar is hard enough. Piano is just a whole other level to that.<p>A monophonic instrument is just going to be so much better bang for the buck in terms of time woodshedding. Or a percussion instrument.


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Companies are made of people. Companies only use people if the people who make up the companies are ok with it. Being a decisionmaker in a company doesn&#x27;t give you carte blanche to behave like an amoral automaton.<p>So no, MongoDB are assholes for doing this. They could have had some humanity and prioritized human well-being over cost savings.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  The people who use something should pay for its upkeep. It doesn&#x27;t matter if that makes it a &quot;regressive&quot; tax. If you are a daily user of a road, you should pay more for its upkeep than someone who doesn&#x27;t use the road.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  I&#x27;ve never called ahead or anything like that. There are a fair amount of people using them on the weekends, as far as I&#x27;ve seen.<p>There is one school that definitely is gated off, but that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s near a major point of interest and I can only assume they&#x27;re worried about non-community members damaging the property.


type: comment
by: FL33TW00D
text:
  Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kwokchain.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07&#x2F;15&#x2F;the-halo-effect&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kwokchain.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07&#x2F;15&#x2F;the-halo-effect&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  You&#x27;re getting a bit boring, and are not arguing in good faith. &quot;Reliably&quot;... as per your definition I guess. You have now made 60(!!!) comments in this thread questioning everything and everybody without ever once accepting that other people&#x27;s experiences do not necessarily have to match your own. If you did some reading rather than just writing you&#x27;d have seen that I gave a very specific example right in this thread. You are now going on my blocklist because I really don&#x27;t have time or energy to argue with language zealots.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  &gt;Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave?<p>Yes, at least for companies the size of MongoDB<p>Didn&#x27;t need much ruminating to come to that answer, but I lack the sociopathic behaviors necessary to run a corporation in the American legal environment.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  There are people who use GPG for more than that. Those that are fine with just those two features, sure. Heck, you can encrypt with &quot;openssh&quot;, no need for age. :D I have a bash function for encryption and decryption!


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  Tun devices are possible and useful on exe.dev today, because it means, for example, you can install the full copy of Tailscale.<p>But to your point: if a single VPS meets all your needs and you do not feel constrained by the marginal cost of another VPS then the exe pricing model is not going to bring you much value. Perhaps the automatic TLS termination and auth proxy with link sharing is useful. But if not, then it sounds like you are well served by existing products.


type: comment
by: iwontberude
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;generalstrikeus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;generalstrikeus.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: darrenf
text:
  I’m trying to understand the “In order of usage popularity” thing — this implies telemetry in CLIs, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the order of options change&#x2F;fluctuate over time?<p>Or if no telemetry but based on local usage, it would promote&#x2F;reinforce the options you already can recall and do use, hiding the ones you can’t&#x2F;don’t?


type: comment
by: markkitti
text:
  Summary: They fixed Python packaging by not having to run Python to resolve dependencies. Also, they used Rust.<p>Moral of the story: Use less Python. Use declarative configuration and other langauges instead.


type: comment
by: yoavm
text:
  While I agree that the results of these policies are devastating, why blame the politicians? They were voted for, and it&#x27;s not like they were hiding their agendas.


type: comment
by: analog31
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure that use taxes really support road maintenance, at least in my state. The reason is that money is fungible, and the income from use taxes can be offset by a reduction in support from the general fund.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  1 in 5 children are hungry in America right this moment, we don’t do a single fucking thing because we are “good” - can’t believe there are people (you are probably in majority) that still believe this nonsense. wild wild stuff


type: comment
by: grigri907
text:
  My dentist informed my me adult tooth  root resorption (the same process through which baby teeth fall out) is correlated with cat ownership during early childhood.


type: comment
by: CharlesW
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scp-wiki.wikidot.com&#x2F;antimemetics-division-hub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scp-wiki.wikidot.com&#x2F;antimemetics-division-hub</a>


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>roads are not a public good</i><p>You’re both right. Roads can be an impure public good.<p>At low traffic loading, they are not rivalrous and can be modelled as a public good. At high traffic loading they become rivalrous and thus closer to a common-pool resource.<p>If roads are made excludable, they resemble a club or even private group.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  They allow some kind of nerd to claim that, but nobody who nerds out on cryptography defends PGP. Cryptographers hate PGP.


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  If I had to recommend just three ways to dramatically improve both your intellectual and physical well-being, they would be:<p>- Learning a foreign language<p>- Practicing a musical instrument<p>- Engaging in high-intensity interval training


type: comment
by: quantified
text:
  What&#x27;s an &quot;expert&quot;? In this case, astrobiologists.<p>What&#x27;s &quot;aatrobiology&quot;? From a dictionary: The scientific study of the possible origin, distribution, evolution, and future of life in the universe, including that on Earth, using a combination of methods from biology, chemistry, and astronomy. Exobiology; -- not used technically. Similar: exobiology The branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life.<p>So this is like &quot;experts agree that God will smite you&quot; where experts are deacons from some very strict church.<p>&gt; In fact, when surveyed, 86.6 per cent of astrobiologists recently said they either agreed or strongly agreed that extraterrestrial life likely exists somewhere else in the Universe.<p>When asked the same question but for complex or intelligent life, the agreeing percentage only drops to 58.2 per cent. More believe than don’t.


type: story
by: portablesheep
title: Show HN: HTTP Request tool made for devs
url: https://github.com/PortableSheep/RawRequest
text:
  Http request client that removes the need for complex UI (postman) and instead focuses on text to support requests, chained requests, pre&#x2F;post scripts, load testing, and more.


type: comment
by: fellowniusmonk
text:
  I switch from journaling to writing poetry at night maybe 9 years ago. I&#x27;ll go through phases where I write no poems and phases where I&#x27;ll write 10-15 poems at night, I rarely revise and I rarely revisit. I&#x27;ve written probably 10k poems and they&#x27;re all just in a log somewhere.<p>I personally think poetry is at its best as a medium for writing and feeling and not consuming or sharing. I think everyone should write poetry and only a small number should probably share it, I certainly don&#x27;t like being surprised by a poetry reading.<p>Journaling and poetry is what our future selves stand on and not really for your future self to look back on, it&#x27;s a meditation where you let your internal self flow out instead of getting stuck in loops or living an unexamined life, it helps give shape to the internal nebulous.<p>I personally prefer poetry over journaling, it&#x27;s simultaneously terrible poetry and my best, highest utility writing.


type: comment
by: Asmod4n
text:
  Does wall clock time matter for anything but logging? For everything else one could just create any form „time“ to keep stuff in sync, no?


type: comment
by: RealityVoid
text:
  Yes, thank you. My puny mind can&#x27;t even understand how people come to be convinced that gold should be the end all be all of international trade.


type: comment
by: benrutter
text:
  &gt; I wonder, does the author really find deep life satisfaction in all this?<p>I have no way of knowing (unless they comment yes&#x2F;no here). If they do, good for them! But also, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the claim in the article, it&#x27;s literally called <i>The best things and stuff in 2025</i>, not <i>The essential meaning of my life in 2025</i>.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  The average driver also doesn&#x27;t get 35 mpg driving regularly. The average driver probably gets around 20 mpg, and that would make this distance about 15000 mi.


type: comment
by: 0xferruccio
text:
  i tried this and it&#x27;s pretty cool, that being said for my use case of spinning up many agents working on my app I&#x27;d need a way to specify the docker images that get started with each new VM<p>i cannot find a way in the docs to start new VMs with a bootstrap script that starts a bunch of services for me and runs a specific docker image<p>my use-case is that I want a full developer environment for every branch of my project, so i can vibe code on many VMs at a time<p>EDIT: Just realised there&#x27;s an image one can pass to the new command. Still it&#x27;s not clear to me whether private images would be supported and what registry this is using:<p>exe.dev ▶ help new<p>Command: new<p>Create a new VM<p>Options:   --command  container command: auto, none, or a custom command   --env      environment variable in KEY=VALUE format (can be specified multiple times)   --image    container image   --json     output in JSON format   --name     VM name (auto-generated if not specified)   --no-email do not send email notification   --prompt   initial prompt to send to Shelley after VM creation (requires exeuntu image)


type: comment
by: jq-r
text:
  Claude Code in yolo mode with Docker Sandboxes <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.docker.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;sandboxes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.docker.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;sandboxes&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: ianlevesque
text:
  Yeah, except there aren&#x27;t even principles at play here. For example, streamline all regulatory approvals, oh except for disfavored groups: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;speed-act-passes-in-house-despite-changes-that-threaten-clean-power-projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;speed-act-passes...</a>


type: comment
by: fellowniusmonk
text:
  I have. Very much I have but I&#x27;m also a safe person to share with generally so I find myself the holder of many other peoples secrets.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  I&#x27;m sure getting a &quot;nothing&#x27;s particularly wrong with the current standards&quot; vibe from this talk.


type: comment
by: dboreham
text:
  My wife worked there when we first met. She told me she knew where there was a Cray-1 sitting at the bottom of a stair well. Obviously this raised my level of interest. We went up there on the weekend and took each other&#x27;s photo sitting on it. From memory it was a very low serial number having been shipped to &lt;some-TLA&gt; first then subsequently moved to NCAR. I also peered through the glass at various exotica in the machine room: YMP, KSR, TM that sort of thing. Great first date.


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  &quot;You can&#x27;t blame us for that, that was President Newsom&#x27;s 2034 policy! Our climate expert says so, and his credentials is that he&#x27;s the go-to climate expert that Fox News turns to whenever the libs talk about climate change!&quot;...<p>And the J.D. Vance nominated judge will say &quot;not guilty!&quot;...


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  You think making such reasonable demands of your employer would go better if every employee did it together, organized in some way?


type: story
by: paulpauper
title: People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year
url:
  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/14/people-who-stop-weight-loss-drugs-return-to-original-weight-within-year-analysis-finds


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  The average American driver gets about 25 mpg and drives about 15-20k miles. That&#x27;s exactly in line with the tax rate here.


type: comment
by: messe
text:
  Ah yes, because the US has been sooooo fucking supportive recently. Give me a fucking break. Your GDP is bigger than ours, and you claim to give more aid to Ukraine, but you haven&#x27;t even remotely matched it. The sheer fucking arrogance of you.<p>&gt; Can you help Ukraine enough so it can win?<p>Can you (the American executive) stop collaborating with Russia[1]?<p>&gt; If not you can’t defend your own countries alone.<p>Are we talking about the EU or Europe here? Because only one is relevant to the Euro here. It&#x27;s important to get this right, because it does tend to get confused by bystanders from the far side of the Atlantic.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;nov&#x2F;25&#x2F;trump-envoy-on-russia-ukraine-peace-deal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;nov&#x2F;25&#x2F;trump-envoy-...</a>


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  [exe.dev co-founder here]<p><pre><code>  exedev@scarlet-canyon:~$ rsync --version   rsync  version 3.2.7  protocol version 31                                            Copyright (C) 1996-2022 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. </code></pre> Our base image is most of an Ubuntu server. We trim out, for example, systemd features that are designed for working with system hardware, and then add a lot of standard software, as our block device cloning is a lot faster and more efficient than apt. So you will find vim, git, go, curl, sqlite3, etc all installed. If you think something obvious is missing please let us know!


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latacora.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem&#x2F;#the-answers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latacora.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem&#x2F;#th...</a>


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; * if I instead were to write &quot;They&#x27;re both really tired. They&#x27;re super tired. Oh man, they&#x27;re so tired. They&#x27;re so tired, you&#x27;ve never been this tired in your life&quot;, that would be extremely shitty writing, but it would give you time to ruminate on the information*<p>You’ve set up a great question. Why is what you wrote shitty writing while what Tolkien wrote not?<p>The answer isn’t just variation. If you look at what’s been conveyed in his writing that wasn’t with your repetition, you’ll start unlocking what I suspect you know is there but are having trouble describing.


type: comment
by: tacone
text:
  I was thinking to start planking (not just for fitness but also as a mean  for stress inoculation).<p>1. You can do it at home. 2. It&#x27;s short: when starting out, you might just be capable of holding the position max 1 minute. 3. you don&#x27;t need special dressing or tools, the floor is all you need (a yoga mat would make it nicer though) 4. when done on the elbows, you can even use your phone while you do it (provides you consider that healthy)<p>It really seems a no brainer form my angle.<p>I am also getting interest in Fascia training (that&#x27;s for old men, mind you)


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  That is very much in line with their principles. A more accurate quote for them is<p>&quot;For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.&quot;


type: comment
by: 1659447091
text:
  Having spent some time in outbound sales (after tech burn-out), the most important aspect (as many comments say) is &quot;relationships&quot;. The best training for that is to go out and make them. We had sales training every single day, so it&#x27;s really not something you can pick up a book or go to a weekend class and walk away being effective. That said, books and classes are a good way to find your footing.<p><i>Never Eat Alone</i> - Keith Ferrazzi (networking &amp; relationship building)<p><i>Never Sit in the Lobby</i> - Glenn Poulos (sales &amp; relationships)<p><i>Getting to Yes</i> - Roger Fisher (negotiation, particularly &quot;principled negotiation&quot;)<p><i>The Joy of Selling</i> - Steve Chandler<p><i>The Psychology of Selling</i> - Brian Tracy<p>In one of our quarterly division training, our office manager gave us Dale Carnegie <i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> and were told if we learned nothing else, to study that book.<p>It&#x27;s been over a decade since my sales time, but the 2 sales techniques I haven&#x27;t forgotten are: &quot;selling ins&#x27;t telling&quot; and &quot;feel, felt, found&quot;. As you can imagine, they are about relating to people, not giving technical&#x2F;spec speeches.<p>It&#x27;s something you have to practice everyday, make sales a part of your job title -- not simply something you do on top of running the company. An integrated layer no different than other software maintenance task, except the maintenance is the relationships with people you want to sell to.<p>For any other tech types that may someday find they need sales skills, I highly recommend actual job experience in outbound sales (with a company that provides frequent sales training). It was a massive culture shock that gave me the professional people and relationship skills I struggled with.


type: comment
by: anorphirith
text:
  paid HOV lanes in the bay area are a so enraging. they created a problem by restricting the number of lanes and increasing traffic and offered a monetary solution at the same time by having you pay for the “fast” lane


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  Saw it, not impressed, GnuPG has a lot of more features than signing and file encryption.<p>And there are lots of tools for file encryption anyways. I have a bash function using openssh, sometimes I use croc (also uses PAKE), etc.<p>I need an alternative to &quot;gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient &lt;foo&gt;&quot;. :)


type: comment
by: UniverseHacker
text:
  I’m not sure that is true. I’m a fan of classic European cars and a 70s or 80s Volvo or Mercedes is still a reliable and practical car. It does not seem likely that current battery tech is such that current EVs will have full range on the same batteries in 50 years- in my experience modern lithium batteries often loose 20 percent capacity in just 3-5 years even if you carefully manage them and limit full charge and discharge. And it does not seem like battery replacements are practical or affordable.<p>I just don’t see current EVs lasting like good quality ICE vehicles do when properly maintaining, because of battery aging.


type: comment
by: transpute
text:
  <i>&gt; I understand why they dropped [Photon] in favor of Qt and later Web technologies</i><p>The arrows of time branch and spiral, so it&#x27;s possible that &quot;later&quot; could require some properties of &quot;earlier&quot;.<p>If Photon could not be open-sourced, it could be licensed to a third party for custodian maintenance. If QNX is abandoning Photon forever, would Blackberry object to Photon being cloned for Linux or FreeBSD? That could preserve a future option for QNX to use it again, like XFCE.<p>Enthusiasts still use Blackberry keyboards on handheld devices in 2025, which sell out in minutes.  In a parallel universe, Blackberry.com offers embedded SBC developers self-service purchase and global delivery of the legendary Blackberry keyboard, with Bluetooth for convenience or USB-c for security.


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  I think I somewhat agree with the author but I find the idea of a single account completely unappealing. My view on the benefits of federation is that you don&#x27;t have a single entity gating your access. Having multiple accounts is a benefit.


type: comment
by: DoctorOW
text:
  YouTube (and really any social media) was kind of a mistake. You can argue traditional mass media was imperfect, but at least it was up to public scrutiny. An algorithm is manipulative in a much more opaque way.


type: comment
by: MarkusWandel
text:
  This is cool.  Clicked on a random one, and cool techno, or whatever you call it, that Shazam doesn&#x27;t even recognize.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intertapes.net&#x2F;ocho&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intertapes.net&#x2F;ocho&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: azinman2
text:
  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. They give money to the politicians in exchange for this viewpoint. It gets woven into so much of a bubbles fabric that it becomes self-reinforcing.


type: comment
by: coppsilgold
text:
  Depending on what you are after, an alternative could be using SSH keys for signatures and age[1] for encryption targeting SSH keys.<p>[1] &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age</a>&gt;


type: comment
by: RealityVoid
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t call for its funeral just yet, I think there&#x27;s still fight left in it. But yes, now the inmates are running the asylum and it&#x27;s... Sad.


type: comment
by: kderbyma
text:
  I think the Head of HR should face legal repercussions and have a full audit. I guarantee you that they have committed other crimes....


type: comment
by: some_furry
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soatok.blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;what-to-use-instead-of-pgp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soatok.blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;what-to-use-instead-of-pgp&#x2F;</a><p>I wrote this to answer this exact question last year.


type: comment
by: kylehotchkiss
text:
  Mere Christianity - cs Lewis (timeless), “losing our religion” by Russel Moore, “the justice of Jesus” by Joash Thomas are the 3 that helped me out the most. I end up handing out every copy of mere Christianity I get!


type: comment
by: msla
text:
  Hm. Run this analysis for diabetes drugs and insulin.<p>It&#x27;s interesting how moralistic the media becomes when fat people lose weight without &quot;earning it&quot; by their lights. Almost like it&#x27;s some kind of bias.


type: comment
by: BrandoElFollito
text:
  Yes we do because some religious people have the annoying habit to stick their nose in other people business (and laws) so they should be faced with their hypocrisy when the pure, &quot;natural laws&quot; get in their way. Or the rulings of their book of choice.


type: comment
by: kbrkbr
text:
  The original opiate for the people criticism was leveled against religion by Karl Marx:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Opium_of_the_people" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Opium_of_the_people</a>


type: comment
by: ttctciyf
text:
  The agnotologists[1] have never had it so good!<p>The production of ignorance is booming as its trajectory takes it from  roots in advertising, then lobbying, then political campaigns to center stage in political strategy and official government business.<p>I suspect the academics who study culturally cultivated ignorance will be playing catchup for at least a decade after this administration!<p>(Assuming they are still around, of course.)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology</a>


type: comment
by: varenc
text:
  Would love it if Tailscale came pre-installed! Or even better: some simple way to make it so every VM I start up is automatically&#x2F;easily part of my Tailnet.<p>p.s. thanks for making Tailscale.  And I&#x27;m loving exe.dev so far!


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  how is Lua quirky? I&#x27;ve looked at it once and I didn&#x27;t see anything that I thought was weird, although that was on the syntactical level.


type: comment
by: msla
text:
  You know, writing code that doesn&#x27;t leak memory is really not that hard.<p>There. I&#x27;ve debunked Java, Python, PHP, Perl, and Rust.<p>(Or maybe, just maybe, tools should make our lives easier.)


type: comment
by: Nasrudith
text:
  Reminds me of the one bizzare rationalization in California claiming high speed stops will somehow bring burglaries. I am not sure what blend of NIMBYism, racism, classism, or xenophobia came up with that.


type: comment
by: quikoa
text:
  You don&#x27;t have to win from a megacorp. Just add a bit of friction to some of their actions. Many small frictions do stack up.


type: comment
by: naikrovek
text:
  Small English nitpick:<p>&gt; ff slow down video.mp4 by 2x<p>How do you slow something down by 2x?  x is a multiplier.  2 is a number greater than 1.  Multiplying by a number greater than 1 makes the result LARGER.<p>If you’re talking about “stretch movie duration to 2x”, <i>say that instead</i>.<p>Saying something is 2x smaller or 2x shorter or 2x cheaper doesn’t make sense.  2x what?  What is the unit of “cheap” or “short” or “small”?<p>How much is “1 slow down”?  How many “slow down” are in the movie where you want twice as many of them?  Doesn’t make sense does it?  So how can something be slowed by 2x?  That also doesn’t make sense.<p>I know what is trying to be said.  I know what is meant.  Please just say it right.  Things like throw us autistic people for a freaking loop, man.  This really rustles our jimmies.<p>Language is for communicating.  If we aren’t all on the same page about how to say stuff, you spend time typing and talking and writing and reading and your message doesn’t make it across the interpersonal language barrier.<p>I don’t want to see people wasting their time trying to communicate good ideas with bad phrasing.  I want people to be able to say what they mean and move on.<p>I also don’t want to nitpick things like this, but I don’t want phrases like “slow down by 2x” to be considered normal English, either, because they aren’t.


type: comment
by: temporallobe
text:
  I don’t really like pre-commit hooks, but I do think that git-secrets is a very useful one since once a secret is in the commit history, it’s a hassle (though not impossible) to remove it. All other issues can and should be caught early as an optionally blocking step in a CI&#x2F;CD pipeline build.


type: comment
by: mojuba
text:
  &gt; I apply a strong inbox 0 methodology<p>Tangential to the main topic, but this is the only sensible way of running an email inbox, always has been to me, and it boggle my mind, why would anyone let clutter and a piling number of unreads in their one and only inbox, one of the most important things in our digital lives?<p>Each email is an action item. If it&#x27;s not or if it&#x27;s been addressed, it&#x27;s gone, period.<p>Archive vs. Delete is another question but not as important. Over time I&#x27;ve found that I&#x27;m probably deleting too much (e.g. where did I buy that &lt;nice thing&gt; 5 years ago? want it again, can&#x27;t find the order). Then business emails are all archived with the exception of business spam of course.<p>So why would you have more emails in your inbox than items you’re supposed to act on?


type: comment
by: fellowniusmonk
text:
  The comments are so often people just telling on themselves, it&#x27;s really wild to see. I&#x27;m glad people still create in spite of this instead of letting misanthropic &quot;tastemakers&quot; get their way, the creators are literally increasing the amount of meaning in the world and that is valuable.


type: comment
by: measurablefunc
text:
  The money is fake, the burning of fossil fuels &amp; increase of greenhouse gasses is real regardless of what ideology you subscribe to.


type: comment
by: BrandoElFollito
text:
  What are those fish? And do they interfere in any way with the fish of us atheists?<p>We do not have any fish to fry. We want to live free from opression from the ones that beieve they should turn others to the Truth.


type: comment
by: tacone
text:
  Problem is, Copilot CLI doesn&#x27;t really supports free or mini models. You have very tight choice of models. This looks like product decision. I understand why they won&#x27;t allow you to use the free models on CLI, but not being able to use the (pay for) mini models is beyond me.


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  We lost civilization to advertising IMO. It feels like the majority of all technology is built around monetizing clicks. Astrophysicists are working at Stitch Fix.


type: comment
by: fuzzfactor
text:
  From the comments:<p>&gt;Bing also gave one of those Ampex tape recorders to Les Paul, and you should hear how that turned out.<p>Great instrumental early Les Paul cut with the tape echo is on the flip side of Tennesse Waltz with Mary Ford vocals on the 78 RPM record.


type: comment
by: ChuckMcM
text:
  Hmm, collective action, you might be on to something there :-). Personally I think if we could eliminate the who &#x27;no warranty of any kind&#x27; disclaimer ability for software and organize around collectively fixing this sort of abuse in the market that things would be different in a very positive sort of way.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  Conspiracy in what way? Can you explain?<p>On my web server where the certificate is signed by letsencrypt I do have a file which contains a private key. On pypi there is no such thing. I don&#x27;t think the parallel is correct.


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  Yes I agree that it is addictive, and will be subject to this NY state law.<p>When I think of &quot;forum&quot; I think of pre-Web 2.0&#x2F;social media like PHP BB.  I don&#x27;t think they would be categorized the same way.


type: comment
by: eyegor
text:
  &quot;Chinese repos&quot; is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn&#x27;t work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  Switching to renewables and mass transit can improve the quality of life for people who live in urban environments because it makes the air they breath cleaner.<p>This is a major reason why developing countries are leapfrogging the west on this sort of stuff.  Massive S.E. Asian cities are experiencing tremendous health benefits from the green revolution.


type: comment
by: pyvpx
text:
  Ma Bell was never profitable without government cheese. And her offspring can’t do much but complain about how every one else is making huge margins over “their” infrastructure.<p>Telecom is very very broken.


type: comment
by: spwa4
text:
  The UN has become a death trap for politician&#x27;s careers, and so the EU and the UN are no longer friends. Why? The US defunded the UN ... and, much less reported, the EU largely followed suit.<p>And yes, these organizations defend the careers of their previous members. Of course.<p>Plus most of the people with real positions there make Musk look like an altruistic genuinely kind person, so these discussions aren&#x27;t nice.<p>I would expect worse explosions in the future. Much worse.


type: comment
by: dev_l1x_be
text:
  I have this experience with most of these SBC-s. The new Radxa board boots 50% of the time. The only reliable SBCs I have are RPI3|4.


type: comment
by: thfuran
text:
  &gt;The people who use something should pay for its upkeep<p>Why? That doesn’t seem like a  good way to run society.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  With an MCP the agent needs to write the context to be passed to the MCP then the MCP would run the underlying CLI with that context. Mysti works differently by sharing context directly with the CLIs.


type: comment
by: Tiktaalik
text:
  The regressiveness issue of tolls is effectively a nitpick compared to the broader more comprehensive issue of how to we create an affordable transportation system for the working class and how do we raise the revenue to fund that through taxes.<p>The dominant automobile oriented transportation system is very unaffordable and requires high costs of entry. The best thing we can do to make transportation more affordable in general is giving people more options aside from the car. Taxing the wealthy in order to raise revenue for public transportation and active transportation options dominates any sort of regressiveness issues around road tolls and less traffic makes buses more effective.


type: comment
by: notatoad
text:
  it&#x27;s pretty silly to have a tax that incentivizes the opposite behaviour to what you want.  registration surcharges benefit the people who drive the most, at the expense of the people who drive the least.<p>if you&#x27;re trying to pay for wear and tear on the roads, or reduce congestion, making people feel like they have to &quot;get their moneys worth&quot; on the registration surcharge really isn&#x27;t helping.


type: comment
by: scotty79
text:
  I&#x27;m running it on PC laptop with mobile 5090 and 64GB of ram. Start is a bit rough, but once it gets going it is perfectly servicable when I&#x27;m on a bad connection.


type: comment
by: qbow883
text:
  But the chances of you being able to achieve the same with the linked tool are also zero. That&#x27;s all I am really saying. I&#x27;m not arguing that ffmpeg can get very complex (I was talking about &quot;basic&quot; ffmpeg usage in my original comment), just that `ff convert inputfile to ext` is not really simpler than `ffmpeg -i inputfile -o outputfile.ext`, which is all that this (<i>this specific</i>) tool is really doing.


type: comment
by: emptybits
text:
  &gt; But disconnected events can be seen in different orders depending on speed of observer.<p>What are &quot;disconnected events&quot;? In a subtle but still real sense, are not all events causally linked? e.g. gravitationally, magnetically, subatomically or quantumly?<p>I can understand that our simple minds and computational abilities lead us to consider events &quot;far away&quot; from each other as &quot;disconnected&quot; for practical reasons. But are they really not causally connected in a subtle way?<p>There are pieces of space time that are clearly, obviously causally connected to each other. And there are far away regions of the universe that are, practically speaking, causally disconnected from things &quot;around here&quot;. But wouldn&#x27;t these causally disjoint regions overlap with each other, stringing together a chain of causality from anywhere to anywhere?<p>Or is there a complete vacuum of insulation between some truly disconnected events that don&#x27;t overlap with any other observational light cone or frame of reference at all?


type: comment
by: michaelt
text:
  If your requirements are “must have accurate time, must start with an inaccurate time, must not step time during operation, no atomic clocks, must not require a network connection, or a WWVB signal, must work without a GPS signal” then yes, you need to relax your requirements.<p>But it doesn’t have to be the first requirement you relax.


type: comment
by: innocentoldguy
text:
  I feel sorry for this woman. Meta did this to me because they&#x27;re discriminatory dicks, so I know how she felt. Fortunately, I have a tremendous amount of family support.


type: comment
by: patmorgan23
text:
  Nah. Roads, specifically giant limited access highways through urban cities cost lots money to build. it makes perfect sense for them to be funded by user fees. Urban land is at a premium, if you want to utilize it you have to pay for it. Mass transit is a much more space efficient way to move people in urban environments, and encourages people to walk more in their daily life which has tons of health benefits. Also transit really help urban air quality (even electric cars cause air quality issues because of the rubber tires)


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  I appreciate the sentiment, but I don&#x27;t think that calls for generic revolt are likely to get us anywhere.  It&#x27;s gotta be targeted and meaningful and executed with a measure of a restraint.  It needs to be clear we can be reasoned with.<p>So what kind of revolt are you calling for?  Are we dumping GPU&#x27;s into the ocean like we did with tea in Boston that one time?  Are we disconnecting datacenters from the internet?  Are we all gonna change our profile picture?  Specifics please.


type: comment
by: dguest
text:
  But punishing ex-presidents is what happens in banana republics!<p>We wouldn&#x27;t want to become one of those! As long as we never hold leaders accountable I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll be safe from that fate.


type: comment
by: bluGill
text:
  Suburbs are often plenty dense for great transit if you give great. Howeveriwhen transit is as bad as most get it is no wonder nobody uses it


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  Even calling what the national lab does &quot;alarmism&quot; is objectively a lie meant to distort and politicize basic and important science. I don&#x27;t need to tell you the political party of the person from the quote because that political party has been working for six a long time to take non-partisan science and politicize it and use that politicization to divide the country.<p>There is no national lab producing &quot;alarmism&quot; and calling it that as justification for cutting funding is meant as a justification for restricting free speech and free science.


type: comment
by: some_furry
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  &gt; I need an alternative to &quot;gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient &lt;foo&gt;&quot;<p>That&#x27;s literally age.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age</a>


type: comment
by: c1ccccc1
text:
  ̶I̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶e̶n̶g̶i̶n̶e̶e̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶g̶u̶t̶ ̶b̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶i̶a̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶c̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶?̶<p>EDIT: Above is false. Went back and checked and I had mis-remembered the video.


type: comment
by: DustinEchoes
text:
  It’s just pure reaction. Liberals favor renewable energy, so MAGA opposes it. Liberals favor climate science, so MAGA opposes it.


type: comment
by: dnautics
text:
  I read the article.  As someone who was a math major I get why it&#x27;s &quot;fine&quot;.  But nowhere in the article does hillel explain WHY it&#x27;s bad for a real pl.  (And defenders of e.g. pony gleam point to this article too to say it&#x27;s okay.  It&#x27;s not.)  I am adding context.<p>&gt;  This is not 1980s anymore, you don&#x27;t need to use 0 or -1 or 0xffff to express something special which sooner or later just falls on your feet.<p>No.  You missed the whole &quot;real world systems&quot;.  E.g. like stock trading, where zero stock trades are tombstones.


type: comment
by: matt3210
text:
  Public transportation in a lot of places isn’t safe especially when traveling with women or children


type: comment
by: calmbonsai
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  Yes.  This is already the case in the E.U. and Australia.<p>Depending on the nature of the leave, this could&#x27;ve also been unlawful in the U.S. due to the Family Leave Act.


type: comment
by: hrunt
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  &gt; Archive vs. Delete is another question but not as important. Over time I&#x27;ve found that I&#x27;m probably deleting too much (e.g. where did I buy that &lt;nice thing&gt; 5 years ago? want it again, can&#x27;t find the order). Then business email are all archived with the exception of business spam of course.<p>An executive co-worker of mine used his Deleted Items folder as his Archive. Problem solved.


type: comment
by: jcranmer
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  Don&#x27;t you think it&#x27;s time to update it, given you start by saying that &quot;If someone, while trying to sell you some high security mechanical system, told you that the system had remained unbreached for the last 20 years you would take that as a compelling argument&quot;?<p>Because you&#x27;re clearly presenting it as a defense of PGP on a thread from a presentation clearly delineating breaks in it using exactly the kind of complexity that the article you&#x27;re responding to predicts would cause it to break.


type: comment
by: Already__Taken
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  Yeh it&#x27;s awful, but all of our CCTV was wired like this through patch panels with 24v&#x2F;48v power injectors. 2 cameras a cable. So that&#x27;s what I needed to document, because in reality I can&#x27;t book scaffolding and change rooftop cameras for a documentation tool.


type: comment
by: glaslong
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  Hmm even if it were causal it would be worth it. It&#x27;s not a stretch to say my cats once saved me from worse.


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  Mag glycinate helps with face clenching, but I also couldn&#x27;t go above 20mg Vyvanse without feeling uncomfortable.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>only one is relevant to the Euro</i><p>The Baltics are in the Eurozone. If Russia invaded the Baltics tomorrow, Europe would be dependent on America to stay intact. That isn’t really a risk one wants to take with a reserve asset.


type: comment
by: schmuckonwheels
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  It&#x27;s mostly built atop problem shifting. For example, Seattle fought to send their compost and build wind farms in eastern Washington - where it was in someone else&#x27;s backyard.<p>Similar to battery recycling - which might end up being &quot;recycled&quot; by some 8 year old kid in SE Asia with a sledgehammer.


type: comment
by: reloadtak
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  What would you like the response to be? Retaliatory? Barring some US citizens? What would be gained from that.<p>“The only winning move is not to play“


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  The principles are difficult for you to detect because your values are things like truth or integrity. Their values are just about forming hierarchy.


type: comment
by: acoustics
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  I don&#x27;t understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs.<p>Isn&#x27;t this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of community support in their decision not to fix a vulnerability


type: comment
by: realo
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  You should explain all that patiently to the drowning polar bears up north.<p>Or maybe offer an alternative solution to the Svalbard seed bank? They actually need to pump water from melting ice outside nowadays.


type: comment
by: alphazard
text:
  &gt; Devalue against what is the main question though, isn&#x27;t it? The real longer term issue is that the USD is devaluing against the Euro...<p>I don&#x27;t think that FOREX rates are the best way to think about this, but if you work in that world or otherwise have an intuition for it, then go ahead. Most of us only handle 1 currency, and reasoning in terms of 2 isn&#x27;t exactly an intuition pump.<p>Instead think about:<p>1. The dollar valued against itself a year earlier, and a year in the future.  That is the interest rate or yield of the asset if held. It <i>should</i> have a positive real yield, but right now it doesn&#x27;t.<p>2. How much your personal basket of monthly expenses costs in terms of dollars. Ignore a basket that someone on the news told you to care about, like CPI. I mean <i>your</i> personal basket, all the stuff you personally buy, how much is it in dollars, now, a year in the future, a year earlier.<p>If you stored value in business or a precious metals in the last year and then converted back, you would probably have more dollars, or be able to buy more stuff, that&#x27;s all there is to it.


type: comment
by: pandaman
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  Treasuries are not some kind of artifacts that can be stored indefinitely, they are bonds with maturity dates. As they mature they turn into cash automatically and that cash used to come from selling new treasuries. As the demand dwindles the US has to sell its bonds cheaper thus borrowing at higher interest and that interest will have to be paid by selling even more treasuries at even higher interest so it&#x27;s already a feedback loop.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>Dollars are currently only in demand for short-term use in transactions</i><p>This is all currencies. You store value in debt. You spend in the hot currency.<p>&gt; <i>no one wants to hold them because they devalue and will continue to do so at an accelerating rate</i><p>Literally what Treasuries are for.<p>&gt; <i>everyone should think of their checking account as something that they pay negative real interest on for the privilege of being able to transact with the rest of the world</i><p>One, you shouldn’t be storing wealth in cash-like instruments, that’s literally using currency wrong (and has been across human history). Cash is for transacting.<p>But in today’s economy, you generally <i>can</i> find checking accounts with pay around inflation. And if it really worries you, you can buy TIPS.


type: comment
by: spwa4
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  &gt; Taking this analogy further, is today&#x27;s end goal of social media to provide AI generated content that users can endlessly consume?<p>The singular purpose of social media has always been advertising. That 100% depends on the ability of platforms to control the message, which Facebook achieved to an extent that politicians started paying them in order to game elections.<p>Then &quot;influencers&quot; came, and largely control the message on essentially all platforms.<p>By contrast, on Youtube and Twitter, advertisers are making deals directly with specific influencers so their advertising remains on-target. Only &quot;old-style&quot; generic geo-targeted advertising, what you used to see on TV, uses the platforms themselves.<p>AI achieves many things for these platforms:<p>1) get rid of influencers by creating AI influencers (done both by influencers themselves, attempting to create fake&#x2F;AI influencers that are cheaper, and by the platforms that want to control the process)<p>2) allow advertisers to control the message (think of a guarantee not to get shown on pro-Nazi channels)<p>3) force advertisers to come to the platforms instead of specific influencers<p>4) also get the ability to influence and later even control elections


type: comment
by: Nasrudith
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  Again, if the voters bought it they are responsible for it and not the advocates. There is a reason that nobody named in the Epstein files is running a normalize pedophilia campaign. Because contrary to the rhetoric about money being the end all in politics it doesn&#x27;t work for everything.


type: comment
by: emptybits
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  Maybe what I need is an AI agent to consume AI generated content on my behalf.<p>Then I can continue with my strong preference to direct my time and attention toward content generated, mostly, by my fellow humans.


type: comment
by: Hizonner
text:
  To break the site. But you&#x27;re right that a lot fewer people will probably want to break it than to scrape it, and that stuff like CAPTCHAs is usually more about the &quot;scraping&quot; case. So basically a mistake on my part.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (163 points, 12 days ago, 56 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46275316">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46275316</a>


type: comment
by: gurjeet
text:
  In <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.exe.dev&#x2F;meet-exe.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.exe.dev&#x2F;meet-exe.dev</a><p>s&#x2F;cloud computing should like&#x2F;cloud computing should be like&#x2F;


type: comment
by: pklausler
text:
  Fortran requires compilers to “honor the integrity of parentheses” but otherwise doesn’t restrict compilers from rearranging expressions.  Want a specific order of operations and rounding?  Use parentheses to force them.  This is why you’ll sometimes see parens around operations that already have arithmetic precedence, like `(x times x)-(y times y)`, to prevent the use of FMA for one of the multiplications but not the other.


type: comment
by: some_furry
text:
  ffmpeg doesn&#x27;t have a cargo-cult of self-proclaimed &quot;privacy experts&quot; that tell activists and whistleblowers to use their thing instead of other tools cryptographers actually recommend.


type: comment
by: patmorgan23
text:
  Ussally if you don&#x27;t have an account they charge you more. But at least for the systems in my area they&#x27;ll charge your account wether you have your toll transponder or not (because they OCR your plate and charge the linked account)


type: comment
by: Alupis
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  I&#x27;m not sure how&#x2F;why you are asserting this is a &quot;free speech&quot; or &quot;free science&quot; issue. The government isn&#x27;t obligated to fund this (or any) lab - private donors are free to step in and continue funding.


type: comment
by: orionspelt
text:
  Not such a shock for people paying attention. Groups have been pushing back about inequality and climate, healthcare, for decades and just ignored. Every political issue in our faces now was called out as a future problem years ago by various groups. Water is finally too hot now for frogs in the middle of pot.<p>Free speech doesn&#x27;t create an obligation. It&#x27;s not a binding magic. It&#x27;s irrelevancy hasn&#x27;t just happened. It&#x27;s been a slow death.<p>The shift to information age and science education did not start until after the Boomers and much of GenX were in and out of school and college. The world for them was cheap and just winging it. Science! Bah! Uncle Rico can still throw them balls over that mountain!<p>Was warning people 15 years ago the now 80 year olds in charge are nihilistic and not going to change; they will be dead and are just trolling youth about caring. They’re self selecting biology.<p>Takes $800k&#x2F;yr to have the buying power $200k&#x2F;yr had in 1980. The rise in inequality and the global temperature follow a growth pattern that was way too normal to be winging it; what&#x27;s been allowed economically has been very carefully studied and managed to preserve freedom of agency for the elders. Same as environment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni...</a><p>Same old stupid political inanity as when I was younger. It still works on a lot of people.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>no one wants debt denominated in dollars</i><p>Source? Every indication is that dollar-denominated financial assets are <i>tremendously</i> in demand. (What metric are you looking at?)<p>The Fed has been reducing rates while selling assets, all while U.S. public debt explodes. The Treasury is selling more debt. The Fed is selling debt. Rates went up, and then they went down. That means there is, <i>ceteris paribus</i>, more demand outside the Fed and Treasury than there was when Russia invaded Ukraine.


type: comment
by: bluGill
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  If adding lanes doesn&#x27;t help you didn&#x27;t add enough. People live in a city to do things and you need to enable that by preventing congestion.<p>i don&#x27;t know how to afford the 50 more lanes that most cities need though. I suggest better transit.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  With Let’s Encrypt, your  private key is (typically) rotated every 90 days. It’s kept on disk because 90 days is too long to reliably keep a private key resident in memory on unknown hardware.<p>With attestations on PyPI, the issuance window is 15 minutes instead of 90 days. So the private key is kept in memory and discarded as soon as the signing operation is complete, since the next signing flow will create a new one.<p>At no point does the private key leave your machine. The only salient differences between the two are file versus memory and the validity window, but in both cases PyPI’s implementation of attestations prefers the <i>more</i> ideal thing with respect to reducing the likelihood of local private key disclosure.


type: comment
by: nyc_data_geek1
text:
  My feeling is that rather than a snuffing out, we are witnessing a passing of the torch of the light of progress.<p>Better start learning mandarin.


type: comment
by: troupo
text:
  Useful idiots believe that these systems have &quot;nascent emotions&quot; or agency, or emergent behaviour [1]. So the will push for more and more idiotic uses of these systems. These behaviours need to be called out and shamed. And proper behaviours taught.<p>[1] Prime example in this very discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395196">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395196</a>


type: comment
by: poisonborz
text:
  It is in the distant future still (if we ever get there without apocalypse first) but I think the goal was set out to be, from the very first bits of digital data, is to completely transition ourselves to a digital world. Living it in parallel will make less sense if Earth conditions get worse, and even less in space or on a hostile planet. In a digital world possibilities become limitless, disabilities, distances, shortcomings of the mind eliminated. Once you can&#x27;t see a difference, will it matter if something is &quot;real&quot;? Sure, it can also become a hell and inhumane much easier, but this doesn&#x27;t make it a less compelling dimension.<p>Looking through this lens, fighting, limiting internet usage is akin to moving to the rainforest to avoid capitalism - lone rebelling acts in the wrong direction of history, a temporary, partial victory for the few who dare this hassle.<p>Time is better spent to make this emerging space better, for everyone.


type: comment
by: petcat
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  &gt; how fast free speech has been destroyed<p>This doesn&#x27;t really have anything to do with constitutional &quot;free speech&quot;.  This is a government agency, not the personal research blog of a private citizen.<p>Government agencies don&#x27;t have &quot;free speech&quot;.<p>That said, it&#x27;s a shame this is happening.  Maybe a future administration will reopen it.


type: comment
by: patmorgan23
text:
  There are tons of express lanes in my metro (DFW) that are dynamically priced to try and achieve a minimum speed of 55 mph


type: comment
by: no_wizard
text:
  If you believe a person can drive another person suicide through how they act, I don’t see how this would be any different, especially since they both rely on power asymmetry. If we don’t want to hook MongoDB responsible in some manner than we need to remove that asymmetry


type: comment
by: msla
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  Direct link to downloadable paper:<p><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>


type: comment
by: KoolKat23
text:
  They&#x27;re wrong on multiple fronts, they&#x27;re regressive. The poor bear the brunt of them.<p>Despite the bad press, a well run government highway is much cheaper, generally 30% or more of that toll goes directly to maintaining the system and it&#x27;s profits, there&#x27;s more efficient funding methods out there.<p>They&#x27;re natural monopolies, they fill up with traffic regardless of how much you rip people off.


type: comment
by: majormajor
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  You&#x27;re complaining about the level of weather notifications. Those exist because people die in the heat and they die in big storms and now there&#x27;s more technology to make people think about it before driving their car into a flash flood.<p>There are severe weather alerts even in red-states that don&#x27;t believe the climate is changing at all. Because they do notice when people die.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s too much &quot;big government&quot; for you tastes - &quot;oh no, they made my phone beep!&quot; - but...<p>That&#x27;s not really the same thing as research into knowing what is going on long-term.


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  sq (sequoia) is compatible and is available in your favorite distro. It&#x27;s the recommended replacement.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;book.sequoia-pgp.org&#x2F;about_sequoia.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;book.sequoia-pgp.org&#x2F;about_sequoia.html</a>


type: comment
by: Nasrudith
text:
  At worst the same way that performing CPR on a man with a heart attack is problem shifting, or feeding the hungry only makes them hungry again in the future.<p>Wind turbines are not problems. They are opportunities. Notice that thr specious bullshit problems cited with wind turbines go away in rural areas once farmers are the ones making money on them.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
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  If it doesn&#x27;t turn into a nothingburger  *, can we get back the glaciers, the climate and the people who died to help your own cronies get some more billions?<p>* (that is, if there&#x27;s not a global conspiracy of pedo-scientists set to harm poor oil tycoons)


type: comment
by: johnisgood
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  No, because there is no keyring and you have to supply people&#x27;s public key each time.  It is not suitable for large-scale public key management (with unknown recipients), and it does not support automatic discovery, trust management. Age does NOT SUPPORT signing at all either.


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  Not if I push my branch it to origin. But until I do that, it&#x27;s none of your concern if I do or don&#x27;t. Once it gets thrown over the wall to my colleagues and&#x2F;or the general public, that&#x27;s the point where I should be conforming to repo norms. Not before then.


type: comment
by: zomiaen
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  There are a vast number of scientists in agreement with each other that it is not a nothingburger.<p>It takes nothing but stark intentional ignorance to make a statement like yours.<p>It absolutely boggles my mind at the suggestion that green energy is all profit seeking, as if the counterparties in big oil aren&#x27;t also just as or more interested in maintaining status quo in the opposite direction. Yet I never see someone who expresses ideas like this recognize or acknowledge that.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  I didnt realize there are still tollroads that are <i>not</i> dynamically priced?! haven’t seen one in a loooong time


type: comment
by: Beretta_Vexee
text:
  It&#x27;s always better than a link in the sticky post on the manufacturer&#x27;s phpbb forum. I bought some audio equipment directly from a Chinese company, and everything look like a hobbies&#x2F;student project.


type: comment
by: thfuran
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  &gt;your computer will scream at you in bright red text it&#x27;s hot outside. You&#x27;ll even receive emergency messages on your phone, tv and radio from the government when it reaches triple-digits<p>That weather kills people.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Of course, this project cost $2.1 billion, including $815 million to build the toll lanes in the freeway’s center.<p>And it could be made ineffective as regional expansion continues. As soon as enough people who are willing to pay the toll saturates capacity you end up with the same issue (“just one more lane bro”). I see this all the time in the DC metro area’s toll express lanes that often save no significant time.<p>Another effective way to control highway congestion is to get people off of highways and invest in your transit system, make it better than driving so that people don’t drive as often.<p>But maybe Houston is too far gone for that.<p>For comparison, the Chicago red line extension project adds 5 miles of heavy rail for about twice the cost, so 4x more per mile. But the Houston toll lane project doesn’t do anything positive for adjacent property values like new rail stations do. Chicago will get money back from more property taxes and the new stations will relieve traffic on the Dan Ryan.<p>Transit lines get <i>faster</i> as ridership increases due to the ability to increase schedule frequency, the exact opposite of highways.<p>I am not saying Houston should magically turn into 1800s-era urban fabric but maybe some decent park and ride commuter transit would be a start? There are cities in Texas with 6 figure populations that have NO public bus system.


type: comment
by: AlexandrB
text:
  Would be funny if the &quot;great filter&quot; is not nukes or some other weapon, but social media.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter</a>


type: comment
by: elemdos
text:
  They only dislike it when they can tell it’s AI, but that’s becoming less and less of a possibility.


type: comment
by: orthoxerox
text:
  &gt; The very well-known in Germany satiric news website &quot;Der Postillion&quot; had an interesting provocative piece just yesterday (German, but auto-translate takes care of that): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.der-postillon.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;weihnachtsmann-ungerec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.der-postillon.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;weihnachtsmann-ungerec</a>... -- &quot;Schlimmer Verdacht: Bevorzugt der Weihnachtsmann die Kinder reicher Eltern?&quot; (&quot;A disturbing suspicion: Does Santa Claus favor the children of wealthy parents?&quot;)<p>Canadian stand-up comedian Casually Explained (I don&#x27;t actually know if he stands up to record his videos) had basically the same joke a few days before them.


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  Yes, big fan of enforcing standards via CI&#x2F;CD workflows. Any rules a group wishes to be met should be in there. As long as someone meets those rules by the time they open a PR, I don&#x27;t care how they get there.


type: comment
by: bluGill
text:
  I&#x27;ve never experienced that on a bus. but when transit is useless only those with no option use it and those tend to be the problems you state. Make transit useful and the problems go away


type: comment
by: nabla9
text:
  Brendan Eich wanted the language be some dialect of  Lisp language but his superiors insisted on a language similar to Java. So he wrote that prototype in Common Lisp. It&#x27;s basically Java like syntax over Common Lisp structs and vectors.


type: comment
by: salawat
text:
  See, here&#x27;s the thing. Definition of acceptable isn&#x27;t up to you. It&#x27;s up to the people who have no other choice but to use it.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>As the demand dwindles the US has to sell its bonds cheaper</i><p>To be clear, we see no indication of this. (The Fed reduced its balance sheet in the last 3 years on the order of the GDP of Spain or Brazil [1][2].)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;policy-normalization.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;policy-normali...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...</a>


type: comment
by: azinman2
text:
  People as a whole are not experts in every possible area, nor is everyone universally smart. When politics get bought at an entire party level for decades, it’s hard to place blame on those who allow it. Don’t forget that culture wars is used as a wedge such that everything is combined. People don’t get to vote on their issues, they vote on buckets of viewpoints.<p>Fox News literally had a segment on the difference between pedophilia and some other philia whose name I forget.. it was basically saying hey they weren’t 5, they were 14-16! That’s different! Wonder why they’d feel the need to air that viewpoint…


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  From the video, it sounds like he engineered his own cells. Using a virus that is known for transferring genetic material into other organisms, he added a gene for producing lactase, and then ate it. I suppose that would affect both his gut bacteria and his own cells. But it lasted for ~1.5 years, which probably indicates that it truly was his cells. Also he seems to know what he&#x27;s talking about, and he claims it was his own cells.


type: comment
by: paulgb
text:
  I like betting because I find it fun to quantify probabilities of future events, and having a ~small amount of money at stake keeps me motivated to follow through on whether I was right.<p>I do think there are positive EV bets to be had on prediction markets though, they are mosty not efficient.


type: comment
by: cpach
text:
  Those people should perhaps ponder if it’s a reasonable thing to insist on using this broken standard&#x2F;tool in 2025.


type: comment
by: abdulbasitali
text:
  I just added loop detection based on your comment. It fingerprints tool actions (tool name + args) and kills the agent if it tries the exact same thing 5 times in a row.


type: comment
by: hinkley
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  We now know that gravity moves at the speed of light. Imagie that you aretwo supernovas that for some unknown reason, explode at essentially the same time. Just before you die from radiation exposure, you will see the light pulse from each supernova before each supernova can &#x27;see&#x27; the gravitational disruption caused by the other. Maybe a gravity wave can push a chain reaction on the verge of happening into either a) happening or b) being delayed for a brief time, but the second explosion happened before the pulse from the first could have arrived. So you&#x27;re pretty sure they aren&#x27;t causally linked.<p>However if they were both triggered by a binary black hole merger, then they&#x27;re dependent events but not on each other.<p>But I think the general discussion is more of a &#x27;Han shot first&#x27; sort. One intelligent system reacting to an action of another intelligent system, and not being able to discern as a person from a different reference frame as to who started it and who reacted. So I suppose when we have relativistic duels we will have to preserve the role of the &#x27;second&#x27; as a witness to the events. Or we will have to just shrug and find something else to worry about.


type: comment
by: towledev
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  We need a Caesar who will ban all advertising. Lacking a Caesar, we could start with publicly funded NFL stadiums e.g. MetLife to get a foot in the door and go from there. Something must be done.


type: comment
by: cess11
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  I agree, it&#x27;s much better to name the movement you represent by its original name and don&#x27;t waste time trying to engage in conversation.


type: comment
by: kibwen
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  It&#x27;s worth emphasizing this: without the US Navy, the remaining European powers don&#x27;t have the naval force to stop Russia from blockading the Baltics. And without the ability to break such a blockade, there&#x27;s little hope in aiding the Baltics against a land invasion from Russia and Belarus. Russia wants a land route to Kaliningrad, and they&#x27;ll take it at this rate.


type: comment
by: jcranmer
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  There&#x27;s like one or two use cases where encrypting email could work. The best case I&#x27;ve come across--Bugzilla has the ability to let the user upload a public key to encrypt emails for updates to non-public bugs. It&#x27;s not a <i>big</i> use case--pretty much the intersection of &quot;must use email&quot; and &quot;can establish identity out of band,&quot; which does not describe most communication that uses email. (As tptacek notes in a sibling comment, you pretty much have to limit this to one-and-done stuff too, not anything that&#x27;s going to be in an ongoing discussion, because leaks via unencrypted replies are basically guaranteed).


type: comment
by: no_wizard
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  Better way to look at it: why are people so afraid of losing their job, and how do we reasonably remove the fear of losing one? Denmark may provide some good guidance here, as they have a good balance between social welfare and protections and fostering a robust business environment


type: comment
by: SkyPuncher
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  Can’t you pay to be in the HOV lane?<p>Seems like a pretty ideal system.  Having that extra lane wouldn’t solve any issues for most drivers. For high occupancy or those willing to pay, it does.


type: comment
by: some_furry
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  Why is a keyring important to you?<p>Would &quot;fetch a short-lived age public key&quot; serve your use case? If so, then an age plugin that build atop the AuxData feature in my Fediverse Public Key Directory spec might be a solution. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fedi-e2ee&#x2F;public-key-directory-specification&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Specification.md#auxiliary-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fedi-e2ee&#x2F;public-key-directory-specificat...</a><p>But either way, you shouldn&#x27;t have long-lived public keys used for confidentiality. It&#x27;s a bad design to do that.


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
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  Given to the direction we&#x27;re going, I don&#x27;t believe this digital world will be one in which we&#x27;re free either.


type: comment
by: JojoFatsani
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  This is probably the AI we need in cars instead of the one that will tell you Taylor Swift’s shoe size.


type: comment
by: impossiblefork
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  Sure, but when you&#x27;re hosting an international institution you should be expected to ensure circumstances that allow it to function.<p>Sanctions aren&#x27;t like normal boycotts and banks aren&#x27;t normally allowed to terminate the accounts of law-abiding people.


type: comment
by: Flere-Imsaho
text:
  Sketchware Pro is the ultimate Android app builder for developers of all skill levels. With its simple drag-and-drop method, you can create stunning apps with ease. And the best part? Sketchware Pro is completely free!


type: comment
by: Alupis
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  &gt; The poor bear the brunt of them.<p>Going to need a citation for that, because it seems the wealth(ier) and&#x2F;or business-classes would bear the most significant burden of toll roads.<p>Typically, in my experience, tolls are assessed at boundaries of cities, regions, and intra-region&#x2F;city transit is toll-free.<p>Businesses that use the toll road (think trucking&#x2F;freight, etc) pay tolls because they come from outside of the boundary. Wealthier individuals may commute into the boundary for work, also paying tolls.<p>One can live inside the city of San Francisco and never pay a toll - but someone that lives outside and commutes in for work or business pays tolls every day.<p>Other states, such as Illinois have a vast amount of toll roads - where tolls are trivial (typically) but also still only assessed at boundaries. The roads are often much more well maintained than government roads, since the toll collector has a direct financial interest in maintaining traffic on the roads.


type: comment
by: ___timor___
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  Containers work quite well and fast. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gagor.pro&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;running-gemini-cli-in-a-docker-container&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gagor.pro&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;running-gemini-cli-in-a-docker-con...</a>


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
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  Communication was mostly lost before the rise of social media—assuming we ever had anything more than isolated pockets of actual communication, which I am not convinced we have. Literature has been exploring this for a good many decades, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a good example and even shows how our relation to it has changed in the 80 odd years since its release; these days when it comes up the interpretation&#x2F;discussion about it is more often than not, about social causes, which is depressingly ironic, it is using the novel in the same way the characters of the novel use Singer.


type: comment
by: philipkglass
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  This is subscriber-walled, but the full article is available here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240909093450&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240909093450&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statn...</a><p>The key reason Pfizer passed was that executives didn&#x27;t think patients would accept a new therapy that required injection to administer:<p><i>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, a space held exclusively by insulin since 1922. They gave us a year to find a way to deliver GLP-1 via transnasal, transcutaneous, or oral administration. Effective delivery by any of these approaches would have been great, but we knew success was unlikely in the year they gave us. Our effort was predictably unsuccessful, and after four years, Pfizer terminated our agreement as permitted under the alliance contract.</i><p>The first commercial GLP-1 receptor agonist, Exenatide, went to market as an injectable medication in 2005 [1]. Orally delivered GLP-1 medications didn&#x27;t come to market until 2019 when orally dosed semaglutide was approved as Rybelsus [2].<p>Now that injected GLP-1 drugs are among the most-prescribed drugs in America, I wonder if drug company executives are going to be more receptive to drug candidates that require injections. There are a lot of molecules (especially peptides) that are degraded by the digestive system; maybe people will be more willing to inject medications when so many have started self-injecting for GLP-1 drugs or know someone who has.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exenatide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exenatide</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semaglutide#Legal_status" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semaglutide#Legal_status</a>


type: comment
by: rcbdev
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  Works in Austria. The legally binding collective agreement contract for IT workers here has a specific clause regulating the terms of when an employer may or may not claim rights on IP created by the employee. (§18 Diensterfindungen)


type: comment
by: cess11
text:
  Perhaps one could frame it as &quot;The Self under Siege&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rickroderick.org&#x2F;300-guide-the-self-under-siege-1993&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rickroderick.org&#x2F;300-guide-the-self-under-siege-1993...</a>


type: comment
by: simonra
text:
  Look up «Braess&#x27;s paradox», more throughput when removing capacity is long established (century +) in systems with simplistic greedy agents like humans


type: comment
by: lumost
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  Doesn’t this depend on how the ip was structured? If it was kept as a separate entity, or the firm named ownership of the ip in nonstandard terms, then they could pay investors but not employees.<p>Unfortunately, we could likely find thousands of different ways not to pay employees given they don’t have board seats, and are typically on non standard equity.


type: comment
by: reassess_blind
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  Just do a best-guess list. Or do a survey. Or just scrape the most common features used across Github repos.


type: comment
by: LexGray
text:
  Does sole intent to advance scientific knowledge even exist as a category anymore? I was given modern research is all pay to play where the grant sponsor decided the topic and what can be done with the results.


type: comment
by: csar
text:
  I understand. My point is that the personas are generally not a good idea and that there are much simpler and more predictable ways of getting better results.


type: comment
by: Esophagus4
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  &gt; But what was created as &quot;ride-sharing&quot; was in fact a way to 1) destroy competition and 2) make a shittier service while people producing the work were paid less and lost labour rights. It was never about the social!<p>Framed this way, sure. But for the most part, I like Uber. The competition it &quot;killed&quot; was monopolistic and stagnant, and the &quot;shitty service&quot; was the legacy taxi industry that Uber forced to modernize. Yellow taxis got phone apps and credit card processing devices because Uber forced them to keep up.<p>I remember trying to order a taxi to the airport 15 years ago in one of the most populated cities in the world. I had to look up taxi companies on Google, call their dispatch, and ask for a ride. 40 minutes and several calls later, none arrived, so I had to call a different company&#x27;s dispatcher as I scrambled to catch my flight.<p>Now, I&#x27;ve called countless taxis with the push of a button in several countries. I get an estimate of pricing and arrival times up front.<p>For me, Uber&#x2F;Lyft is an incredible service. I&#x27;ll leave the labor rights discussion for a different thread. (inb4 a HN contrarian jumps down my throat about this.)<p>But that was a long winded way of saying: to me, the author&#x27;s analogy seriously weakens his point. I could argue that highly personalized entertainment is way better than 800 cable channels of bleh. We still have plenty of non-enshittified communication (I text and call and Whatsapp and Telegram my friends).


type: comment
by: Nasrudith
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  The Great Filter is just bullshit until we come across space ruins to prove that something has been filtering out civilizations. It is possible that we are just the &quot;precursors&quot; without any giants to stand upon the shoulders of.<p>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?


type: comment
by: no_wizard
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  Wouldn’t fast efficient light rail been generally better? From a social and economic perspective it would be more efficient. The real problem with that only tends to be political, namely there is a strange aversion to properly built public infrastructure


type: comment
by: nirvdrum
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  &gt; Why do you care about the history of a branch?<p>Presumably, a branch is a logical segment of work. Otherwise, just push directly master&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;HEAD. It&#x27;s what people did for a long time with CVS and arguably worked to some extent. Using merge commits is pretty common and, as such, that branch will get merged into the trunk. Being able to understand that branch in isolation is something I&#x27;ve found helpful in understanding the software as a whole.<p>&gt; Caring about the history of a branch is weird, I think your approach is just not compatible with how people work.<p>I get you disagree with me, but you could be less dismissive about it. Work however you want -- I&#x27;m certainly not stopping you. I just don&#x27;t your productivity to come at the expense of mine. And, I offered up other potential (and IMHO, superior) solutions from both developer and system tools.<p>I suppose what type of project you&#x27;re working on matters. The &quot;treat git like a versioned zip file&quot; using squashed merges works reasonably well for SaaS applications because you rarely need to roll anything back. However, I&#x27;ve found a logically structured history has been indispensable when working on long-lived projects, particularly in open source. It&#x27;s how I&#x27;m able to dig into a 25 year old OSS tool and be reasonably productive with.<p>To the point I think you&#x27;re making: sure, I care what changed, and I can do that with `diff`. But, more often if I&#x27;m looking at SCM history I&#x27;m trying to learn why a change was made. Some of that can be inferred by seeing what other changes were made at the same time. That context can be explicitly provided with commit messages that explain why a change was made.<p>Calling it incompatible with how people work is a pretty bold claim, given the practice of squash merging loads of mini commits is a pretty recent development. Maybe that&#x27;s how your team works and if it works for you, great. But, having logically separate commits isn&#x27;t some niche development practice. Optimizing for writes could be useful for a startup. A lot of real world software requires being easy to maintain and a good SCM history shines there.<p>All of that is rather orthogonal to the point I was trying to add to the discussion. We have better tools at our disposal than running `git commit` every 15 minutes.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>reserve share is falling as countries hedge sanctions and geopolitics</i><p>We’re importing a bit less [1]. That means fewer dollars being pushed (versus pulled) abroad.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;imports" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;imports</a>


type: comment
by: nacozarina
text:
  sorry for your bad experience, but that group sounds like one no one would want to be a part of. you have more integrity than they do.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
text:
  Isn&#x27;t it also useful for checking validity periods for stuff like TLS certs or JWTs or Kerberos tickets?


type: comment
by: mschuster91
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  &gt; Social media doesn&#x27;t have to be that expensive to run. Countless forums out there for decades.<p>Said forums existed because of volunteers paying in the form of time. Moderation is expensive, so are legal liabilities and associated cost that have only increased over the last decades - DMCA, anti-CSAM legislation, anti-terrorism legislation come to my mind primarily - and especially, there is a <i>huge</i> workload to deal with abusive behavior from unrelated third parties: skiddies, ddos extorters, dedicated hackers hired by &quot;competition&quot;, spammers, you get the idea. Someone <i>always</i> pays the bill.<p>There is a reason so many forums and mailing lists collapsed once Reddit took off. It just isn&#x27;t worth it any more.


type: comment
by: mikewarot
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  Here in Chicagoland, the major tollways aren&#x27;t boundary oriented, they&#x27;re just charging effectively per mile. The same is true of my home state of Indiana. They were supposed to be free once the bonds were paid off, but, of course, that never happened.


type: comment
by: alfiedotwtf
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  Thank you, this is what I was trying to say… there are incentives to cooperate, even though individually we can be selfishly evil.


type: comment
by: thfuran
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  &gt;The dollar valued against itself a year earlier, and a year in the future. That is the interest rate or yield of the asset if held. It should go up, but right now it goes down.<p>You’re saying there should be deflation?


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>countries (emerging markets &#x2F; BRI recipients) who would have borrowed USD from FED (or US influenced IMF&#x2F;WB) now borrow from USD from PRC -&gt; reduce US treasuries demand</i><p>This makes no sense. If the PRC is lending U.S. dollars, that doesn’t reduce Treasury demand. It <i>increases</i> demand for dollar-denominated assets, goods and service providers. The borrowing country has to spend those lent dollars after all.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
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  &gt; you shouldn&#x27;t have long-lived public keys used for confidentiality.<p>This statement is generic and misleading. Using long-lived keys for confidentiality is bad in real-time messaging, but for non-ephemeral use cases (file encryption, backups, archives) it is completely fine AND desired.<p>&gt; Would &quot;fetch a short-lived age public key&quot; serve your use case?<p>Sadly no.


type: comment
by: pandaman
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  Not sure what your links are supposed to prove but here is the link[1] to the actual yield on the 10 year bond, higher yield means the bond is sold at higher discount i.e. cheaper.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DGS10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DGS10&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: pjb88
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  So... What will the actual impact on groq services be?<p>I&#x27;m a fan, and I use Groq a lot for systems I build. I think they offer something different to most other providers (cheaper, faster, and until recently &quot;we don&#x27;t store your data by default&quot;) and it will be sad to see that fade.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6pontu&#x2F;what_does_it_mean&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6pontu&#x2F;wha...</a><p>;-)


type: comment
by: ricardobeat
text:
  Those numbers are not realistic. At a company at this stage (series E I think?), you’ll be lucky to have 0.01% as an engineer.<p>Most importantly, there is no guarantee there will be any payout at all. It’s not an acquisition and we don’t know the terms.


type: comment
by: dangus
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  It totally is. Demand can be induced. You can build more highways&#x2F;roads, you can build more transit options, you can decide how to design roads and handle zoning, affecting how far people go (where are their jobs and stores?), you can decide to build protected bike lanes or build prioritized bus lanes, etc.<p>All of these factors and more affect demand for transportation.


type: comment
by: phtrivier
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  We can&#x27;t afford scientist in Europe anymore, we have pensions to pay.<p>I suppose China does not need american scientist to work in China. They just need to make sure they can&#x27;t work in the US. Which they are doing.<p>The only &quot;funny&quot; outcome is that they manage to fund a startup that develops tools to alleviate climate change, and explicitly reserve them to countries and states that believed in climate change in the first place.<p>But that would be mean. So, of course Florida can have it. It will just be slightly expensive for them.


type: comment
by: tkiolp4
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  I think it’s easier than that. We can literally start the revolution from our beds:<p>1. For every social media account you have: post “I’m leaving. You should too”<p>2. For every social media account you have: close it.<p>3. Profit


type: comment
by: BoingBoomTschak
text:
  As KMFDM once said: <i>We want to stop reading magazines, stop watching TV, stop caring about Hollywood but we&#x27;re addicted to the things we hate</i>


type: comment
by: SkiFire13
text:
  I think you missed this point:<p>&gt; I can look over and see that more than half of the drivers are in violation, and yet it is effectively unenforced.


type: comment
by: drewmate
text:
  Women and children aren’t inherently dangerous. If you just avoid eye contact and keep to yourself, you should be fine


type: comment
by: cxr
text:
  Two oversights in this article:<p>- Failure to mention Netscape Enterprise Server (NodeJS is not responsible for expanding &quot;the language&#x27;s scope[…] far beyond the browser&quot;—it was on the server from almost the very beginning; the author cites Brendan&#x27;s 2011 blog post[1] which namechecks Rhino, but then leaves this out)<p>- Failure to mention JS running on the James Webb Space Telescope (Brendan&#x27;s post also namechecks Nombas, but doesn&#x27;t go into much detail about it; Brent Noorda covered this in an update to the Nombas section of his site[2] in 2022)<p>1. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brendaneich.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brendaneich.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;</a>&gt;<p>2. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brent-noorda.com&#x2F;nombas&#x2F;us&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brent-noorda.com&#x2F;nombas&#x2F;us&#x2F;index.htm</a>&gt;


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>Oil is now being paid for using that system</i><p>The petrodollar hypothesis has been a myth since the 1990s. With America a net oil <i>exporter</i>, it’s an entirely stupid model to keep running.


type: comment
by: ianburrell
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  Causality moves at the speed of light. Events that are farther apart are called spacelike and aren&#x27;t causally connected.<p>I think you might be confusing events that have some history between them, and those are influence each other. Like say right now, Martian rover sends message to Earth and Earth sends message to them, those aren&#x27;t causally connected cause don&#x27;t know about the other message until light speed delay has passed.


type: comment
by: BrenBarn
text:
  How about if all employees of all companies did it together, organized in a way called law, so that you don&#x27;t need to engage in this rigmarole and the company just never owns anything you do unless they specifically paid you to do it as part of your job?


type: comment
by: ben_w
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  I&#x27;ve read that short story, but can&#x27;t remember enough details to search for it.<p>Humans do find alien radio signals, but they keep going dark after a brief window; the narrator suspects why, because they witness fellow humans disappearing into simulations far more fun than reality could ever be.


type: comment
by: jaredklewis
text:
  Fortunately we have a perfect justice system that never makes mistakes and never abuses their power, so let’s put all the convicts in prison for life for Mac deterrence!!


type: comment
by: joecool1029
text:
  I don&#x27;t know legally how it works, but my gut says if this is found to be a wrongful termination under state&#x2F;local&#x2F;FMLA, then it also stands to reason that this could also be a wrongful death. From 1960, but it covers this line of thinking wrt suicide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=3098&amp;context=buffalolawreview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?a...</a><p>Anyway here&#x27;s the actual complaint (I read it after I wrote the above), I guess her parents&#x2F;counsel thought the same thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iapps.courts.state.ny.us&#x2F;nyscef&#x2F;ViewDocument?docIndex=2zsnGyMOzsPUoO3hYAW63Q==" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iapps.courts.state.ny.us&#x2F;nyscef&#x2F;ViewDocument?docInde...</a>


type: comment
by: lateralux
text:
  My Orange Pi RV2 sucks :( The available distros, drivers, kernel, and tools do work, but they’re crappy, and poorly maintained. There’s no support and very little documentation, which is a real shame. From a hardware point of view, it’s a nice board and when I properly compiled some softwares myself I actually got really interesting performance, but it was a pain in the ass. So I ended up buying a Raspberry Pi 4, much better supported and documented.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>steady building up of alternatives will happen until one day the reserve currency status will change hands all of a sudden</i><p>This is not how it has ever happened. Instead, we’ll see a gradual erosion as the world switches to multi-polarity and spheres of influence. (And, with decreasing international trade, every country’s reserve mix will vary.)


type: comment
by: Alupis
text:
  When I was in the Chicago area, I paid no tolls when I entered and exited the tollway within the same region. Perhaps that has changed within the last 10ish years?<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem practical to charge tolls at every onramp.


type: comment
by: wk_end
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  &gt; Government agencies don&#x27;t have &quot;free speech&quot;.<p>My understanding is that, in many ways, government agencies are <i>more</i> constitutionally protected speech-wise than private entities, precisely because any hierarchical attempt to punish them for their speech would be coming from the government rather than private entities. IANAL (or even American) though so grain of salt.<p>In any case, a lot of the right-wing hypocrisy around free speech that was being called out by OP didn&#x27;t have much to do with constitutionally protected freedom of speech either - it was complaining about things like private companies (e.g. Twitter) shadowbanning people.


type: comment
by: upofadown
text:
  Are you referring to &quot;Encrypted message malleability checks are incorrectly enforced causing plaintext recovery attacks&quot;?<p>Seems like a legitimate difference of opinion. The researcher wants a message with an invalid format to return an integrity failure message. Presumably the GnuPGP project thinks that would be better handled by some sort of bad format error.<p>The exploit here is a variation on the age old idea of tricking a PGP user into decrypting an encrypted message and then sending the result to the attacker. The novelty here is the idea of making the encrypted message look like a PGP key (identity) and then asking the victim to decrypt the fake key, sign it and then upload it to a keyserver.<p>Modifying a PGP message file will break the normal PGP authentication[1] (that was not acknowledged in the attack description). So here is the exploit:<p>* The victim receives a unauthenticated&#x2F;anonymous (unsigned or with a broken signature) message from the attacker. The message looks like a public key.<p>* Somehow (perhaps in another anonymous message) the attacker claims they are someone the victim knows and asks them to decrypt, sign and upload the signed public key to a keyserver.<p>* They see nothing wrong with any of this and actually do what the attacker wants ignoring the error message about the bad message format.<p>So this attack is also quite unlikely. Possibly that affected the decision of the GnuPG project to not change behaviour in this case, particularly when such a change could possibly introduce other vulnerabilities.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:pgpauth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.59.ca&#x2F;doku.php?id=pgpfan:pgpauth</a><p>Added: Wait. How would the victim import the bogus PGP key into GPG so they could sign it? There would normally be a preexisting key for that user so the bogus key would for sure fail to import. It would probably fail anyway. It will be interesting to see what the GnuPG project said about this in their response.


type: comment
by: isthatafact
text:
  That is an extremely cynical view, and it does not fit with reality. There is no mechanism where little Timmy gets a free ticket to be a university professor in science.<p>People who manage to make a career in science usually follow a specific educational path that includes a phd and postdoctoral research.  No one would claim it is completely fair because there are many things that can block or hide that path (family situation; life events; lack of encouragement from teachers; being born in the wrong country; etc.).  However, the system does not otherwise care about your background in any meaningful way.<p>You should consider the dark implications that you may be pushing misinformation that could discourage people who are gifted or intellectually curious and motivated from trying to improve the world by doing science.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>higher yield means the bond is sold at higher discount i.e. cheaper</i><p>Yes. The Fed set a policy of higher rates. It did that by selling bonds and driving the price up.<p>Then it set a policy of reducing rates, and was able to do that by just selling fewer bonds. <i>Not</i> buying them. That implies strong demand for these assets. (You can’t use price as a proxy for demand in Treasuries since it’s an explicitly manipulated price by its issuer.)


type: comment
by: rootbear
text:
  I am a boomer and I absolutely give a &quot;flying fink&quot;. Stop stereotyping my generation. The group I worked in at NASA Goddard did visualizations of climate data. I heard directly from climate scientists what was going on in the world and it terrified me. When I heard about what&#x27;s being done to NCAR I nearly cried. I have no children but I have told all my friends&#x27; kids how sorry I am that we&#x27;re leaving them a mess to clean up. How&#x27;s that for a &quot;flying fink&quot;?


type: comment
by: data-ottawa
text:
  The situation reminds me of that New Yorker comic: &quot;Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders&quot;<p>Governments should be responsible for preventing these types of externalities as one of their core functions. There is no incentive for markets, consumers, and companies to deal with this, yet the forecast costs of climate change and sea level rise are (and will be) massive. Many places have some weak patchwork framework of private insurance and FEMA style funds, but without an actual pricing and enforcement system there&#x27;s no way out of the warming feedback loop.<p>I was extremely disappointed in the failure of my (Canada&#x27;s) government to articulate what a carbon tax was or how it worked to voters, and that allowed the opposition from both sides to chip at it until now it&#x27;s a politically toxic idea.<p>The game theory of international accords is increasingly falling apart and countries will try to undercut each other on carbon pricing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoon&#x2F;a16995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoon&#x2F;a16995</a>


type: comment
by: oblique
text:
  &gt; We dreamed of decentralised social networks as &quot;email 2.0.&quot; They truly are &quot;television 2.0.&quot;<p>&gt; They are entertainment platforms that delegate media creation to the users themselves the same way Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car.<p>Either this is written poorly or way off. Social networks are already television 2.0. Decentralized social networks circumvents having the algorithm controlled by some central authority. Media creation has already been delegated to users over a decade ago, think content creators.<p>Personally I&#x27;m a fediverse evangelist. Having decentralized entertainment platforms makes corporate&#x2F;state influence much more difficult.<p>The methods of influence in modern centralized social networks are much more sinister than television ever was.


type: comment
by: ben_w
text:
  The absence is the evidence.<p>Being a precursor is not inconsistent with great filters, a great filter is why nobody else is there to be one.<p>Great filter is anywhere at all in the progress of life from pre-life chemistry to stable interplanetary expansion; filters behind us, for example multicellular life or having dry land so we can invent fire, are still potential great filters and they would leave no space ruins to find.<p>That said, my assumption is lots of little filters that add up. Eleven filters behind us each with 10% pass rates is enough to make us the peak of civilisation in this galaxy; eleven more between us and Kardashev III would make the universe seem empty.


type: comment
by: Griffinsauce
text:
  People sailing on as if this flip will have another standard flop is wild to me. I guess it may be self protection.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  Well,  I&#x27;d be careful about the &quot;always&quot;, when Facebook and Twitter started out they understood virality but they did not understand monetization -- early on the likes of Zynga and King were making money off Facebook and it wasn&#x27;t until Facebook was forced to go public and Sheryl Sandberg was running things that they figured out that they could capture the free publicity brands got on Facebook and sell it back to them.


type: comment
by: lgdimaggio
text:
  Thanks, that’s exactly the intent. Automotive would be interesting, but it would need real-time constraints. Happy to get feedback on what signals would be most valuable


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  &gt;there is a strange aversion to properly built public infrastructure<p>It costs money which taxpayers don&#x27;t want to pay (unless it benefits them personally,) it requires long term planning which governments are incapable of, and it smells like socialism.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  The EV tax applies to people who a) casue a disproportionate amount of wear &amp; tear on the roads vs ICE vehicles and b) are generally higher income in the state.<p>When you look at taxation from a &quot;charge the people who use it&quot; or the &quot;the rich should pay more&quot; perspective, this appears to address both.<p>Is the problem simply that you want to pay less taxes?


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  To recap, the original statement was, &quot;Llm&#x27;s do not verbatim disgorge chunks of the code they were trained on.&quot; We obviously both disagree with it.<p>While you keep trying to drag this toward an upper bound, I&#x27;m trying to illustrate that a coin with &quot;&#x2F;&#x2F;&quot; reproduces a chunk of code. Again. I don&#x27;t see much of a disagreement on that point either. What I continue to fail to elicit from you is the salient difference between the two.<p>I&#x27;m trying to find a scissor that distills your vibes into a consistent rule and each time it&#x27;s the rebutted like I&#x27;m trying to make an argument. If your system doesn&#x27;t have consistency, just say so.


type: comment
by: em-bee
text:
  if you are in pain, you need to rest. period. there is no other option. of course the system can be gamed simply because pain can&#x27;t be measured objectively, at least not without expensive machinery. a cold can be infectious. i don&#x27;t want people to come to work with a cold.


type: comment
by: mschuster91
text:
  &gt; you can take the slip roads almost everywhere but they’re slow.<p>We have that problem here in Germany. The roads aren&#x27;t just slow - the people <i>living</i> in the towns these roads run through are going through hell because they are affected massively. Can&#x27;t safely cross the road, emergency response vehicles take ages, an insane amount of noise and emissions (because vehicles near idle make much more toxic exhaust when at low load and thus temperature), more brake and tire dust... Austria was fed up years ago, Bavaria recently followed suit [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adac.de&#x2F;der-adac&#x2F;regionalclubs&#x2F;suedbayern&#x2F;news&#x2F;abfahrtsverbot-a8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adac.de&#x2F;der-adac&#x2F;regionalclubs&#x2F;suedbayern&#x2F;news&#x2F;a...</a>


type: comment
by: thayne
text:
  How do you know that those people aren&#x27;t paying?<p>OTOH, I don&#x27;t know how you could effectively enforce that single occupant vehicles are paying.


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  You&#x27;re just so used to a debt fueled economy that you can&#x27;t think of it being any other way. That is the problem though in that 99 times out of 100, debt goes rogue in a runaway sense and blows up the system. It is a time bom.<p>In essence, debt doesn&#x27;t need saving from the system; it&#x27;s the system that needs saving from debt.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  :-D I do love the image of hurling GPU’s into the sea!<p>My suggestion was much more modest. Put down the phone and delete your socials. Disengagement is the ultimate act of rebellion.


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  or maybe we, as a group, underestimate the impacts of chronic infection on the body and brain.<p>Otherwise “simple infections” are (likely, almost obviously) responsible for tons, including dementia, Parkinson’s, more,<p>and they’re the ones everyone ignores,<p>or struggle to even get a diagnosis for,<p>and instead say “it’s normal to not be able to squat once, or have any energy when you’re ‘getting older’!”.<p>These infections can drive…completely life-changing medical trajectories - without the patient ever noticing.<p>Everyone just thinks they won the “reverse—lottery” when cancer or dementia finally shows up…I’m becoming less convinced it’s a “chance” thing at all.<p>We just don’t see, nor monitor the beginnings - and if we <i>do</i> happen upon them, hey, “everybody has Staph, EBV, [insert bacteria or virus here] - nothing to be worried by! Very common!”


type: comment
by: g-b-r
text:
  I&#x27;ve been thinking for a while that the only fix democracy needs is accountability for everything the politicians do and say (in public).<p>If you think of any (societal) issue you care about, there&#x27;s a good chance it would get solved with that tiny change


type: comment
by: landr0id
text:
  Yeah, instead they have a cargo-cult of self-proclaimed OSS contribution experts who harass anyone that critiques or challenges ffmpeg&#x27;s twitter account.


type: comment
by: cstricklan
text:
  I normally try to stick to serverless with SST for quick projects because I like that they scale to $0, but this is enticing.  Shelley is a great feature and must have well-designed system prompts and tools for testing the website built-in.  It just one-shotted a volunteer management app and with just one more click in the console I can expose it to the public.


type: comment
by: NelsonMinar
text:
  On the flipside, clock sync for civilians has never been easier. Thanks to NTP any device with an Internet connection can pretty easily get time accurate to 1 second, often as little as 10 ms. All major consumer computers are preconfigured to sync time to one of several reliable NTP pools.<p>This post is about more complicated synchronization for more demanding applications. And it&#x27;s very good. I&#x27;m just marveling at how in my lifetime I from &quot;no clock is ever set right&quot; to assuming most anything was within a second of true time.


type: comment
by: throwaway94275
text:
  One could argue modern social media like Tiktok and Snapchat is an evolution of reality TV, in app&#x2F;smartphone form.


type: comment
by: whatevertrevor
text:
  &gt; Groq built the region&#x27;s largest inference cluster in eight days in December 2024. From that Dammam facility, GroqCloud serves &quot;nearly four billion people regionally adjacent to the KSA.&quot; This isn&#x27;t API access. This is critical AI infrastructure for a nation-state, funded by the Public Investment Fund, processing inference workloads at national scale.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just completely out of touch, and hardware has never been my expertise, but does it take O(days) and not O(years) to build data centers these days? I know Grok DCs in Memphis were built under a year cutting many corners and using plenty loopholes, but even by those standards, bringing up a full data center in just over a week sounds impossible without some insane construction automation to me.


type: comment
by: DeepPhilosopher
text:
  Here&#x27;s a video explaining the development process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jlbcKuDEBw8?si=EiepVVbA0Mo4u9nF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jlbcKuDEBw8?si=EiepVVbA0Mo4u9nF</a>


type: comment
by: axiolite
text:
  &gt; As soon as enough people who are willing to pay the toll saturates capacity you end up with the same issue (“just one more lane bro”).<p>Increase the toll prices to reduce congestion, increase the number of buses on that route, and use some of the money for either expanding the road or building another more-or-less parallel road.


type: comment
by: stackghost
text:
  Sure, I have no problem with projects that are political first and foremost.<p>I just wish they&#x27;d be honest about priorities.  If technical function and correctness is going to take a back seat to ideological purity then they owe it to their users to make this clear up front.


type: comment
by: tgsovlerkhgsel
text:
  &quot;And that told me everything I needed to know about how Google really thought about things vs what they said they thought about things.&quot;<p>What you describe doesn&#x27;t really provide much signal about this, because a big corp will always have a huge interest in having uniform working contracts. Exceptions are possible but only worth the headache with them for fairly high level employees. So even for a clause that they really wouldn&#x27;t care much about, you&#x27;d expect a similar reaction.


type: story
by: zerosizedweasle
title: Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy
url:
  https://www.businessinsider.com/bankruptcies-across-economy-small-business-households-corporate-2025-12


type: comment
by: Natfan
text:
  i find it interesting that the later actions that Davidson did would be considered &quot;terrorism&quot; under the UK government&#x27;s legal framework regarding Palestine Action


type: comment
by: mrgoldenbrown
text:
  In NYC it&#x27;s the police that have been obfuscating their plate number for a long time, not just poor people.   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyc.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;19&#x2F;if-nypd-is-cracking-down-on-license-plate-obscuring-officers-its-sure-hard-to-tell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyc.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;19&#x2F;if-nypd-is-cracking-d...</a>


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  It seems the poster is of the low probability belief that at some point before Nov 2028 elections will be suspended and we will move to some kind of imperial system instead.<p>You can take them up on polymarket.


type: comment
by: mschuster91
text:
  &gt; If you want cars off the road, you tax rich people and build trains and bike lanes, and shut down cynical RTO. Full stop.<p>The first two smell like communism, the last massively harms the rich people and their playthings (REITs - real estate investment trusts). Won&#x27;t happen, not in countries where Big Money is pulling the strings (i.e. the US, Germany and UK).


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  It’s ridiculous enough that I’m curious for the source.<p>Like, we’re in a potential AI investment bubble. Bubbles don’t happen when you can’t sell your paper, they’re an indication of the <i>opposite</i> problem.


type: story
by: madspindel
title: Launching a global user-controlled digital identity
url:
  https://siros.org/blog/launching-a-global-web-first-foundation-for-secure-user-controlled-digital-identity


type: comment
by: spiantino
text:
  i thought so at first, but I did some digging and changed my mind. it&#x27;s possible the following is how it goes:<p>- secondary transaction with the preferred shareholders (VCs) at some price that implies a 20b valuation<p>- founders quit and get new employment agreements<p>- some cash is transferred to the company as a license fee<p>- no acquisition means no DOJ approval<p>in this scenario the headline can be $20b but the cash expense can be much lower, you have full flexibility to direct whatever cash or equity you want to founders vs the rest of the company, as an up front payment or as retention&#x2F;salary, and the founders have no hinderance from working on anything they touched at previous company because of IP license.<p>I actually bet this is how it went down. This is becoming the standard in the industry and it&#x27;s just awful for the future of SV


type: comment
by: Scaevolus
text:
  Self-injecting feels like a scary, painful, dangerous procedure and becomes completely boring by the third repetition.


type: comment
by: nirvdrum
text:
  &gt; But this would require hand curation? No development proceeds that way, or if it does then I would question whether the person is spending 80% of their day curating PRs unnecessarily.<p>It&#x27;s not really hand curation if you&#x27;re deliberate about it from the get-go. It&#x27;s certainly not eating up 80% of anyone&#x27;s time.<p>Structuring code and writing useful commits a skill to develop, just like writing meaningful tests. As a first step, use `git add -p` instead of `git add .` or `git commit -a`. As an analog, many junior devs will just test everything, even stuff that doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense, and then jumble them all together. It takes practice to learn how to better structure that stuff and it isn&#x27;t done by writing a ton of tests and then curating them after the fact.<p>&gt; I think you must be kind of senior and you can get away with just insisting that other people be less efficient and work in a weird way so you can feel more comfortable?<p>Your personal productivity should only be one consideration. The long-term health of the project (i.e., maintenance) and the impact on other people&#x27;s efficiency also must be considered. And efficiency isn&#x27;t limited to how quickly features ship. Someone who ships fast but makes it much harder to debug issues isn&#x27;t a top performer. At least, in my experience. I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s team, company, and segment-dependent. For OSS projects with many part-time contributors, that history becomes really important because you may not have the future ability to ask someone why they did something a particular way.


type: comment
by: jmward01
text:
  It hasn&#x27;t actually always been the case and the real issue is the false advertising that you actually have equity. If my equity of 1% was real then I would get value as the company grew but the reality is that options&#x2F;shares without some sort of exit is worth 0. Founders and the C suite often (always now?) get &#x27;internal&#x27; raises meaning when a new round of funding hits they get to sell but nobody else does. This, to me, completely destroys the concept that equity is an incentive to build the company and means it should -never- be used as part of a hiring pitch since the people pitching it, founders and the upper management, obviously don&#x27;t believe in it themselves. If you really want to see if the leadership believes in the junk they are telling you then ask them to put in writing that internal raises are available to all at the same percentages or they are available to nobody.


type: comment
by: dvh
text:
  It&#x27;s not random bans, the nicknames are words from longer text. It&#x27;s lyrics from Shaggy - It wasn&#x27;t me.


type: comment
by: matthewdgreen
text:
  The complaints about “free speech” I heard from conservatives over the past five years often had nothing to do with constitutional free speech, either. They were almost always directed at private companies and organizations moderating content; from time to time someone would try to claim a government nexus, but it was rare and always something like a request to take down some content (that often got rejected.) Given that we’ve spent years having a broad conversation about the principle of free speech, to suddenly demand that we restrict the conversation to one about pure First Amendment requirements seems a bit disingenuous.<p>Speech is important. Scientific speech more important. 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. You should be livid and working to inform people how dangerous this is, not making poor excuses.


type: comment
by: Asmod4n
text:
  We could use some made up „time“ for that since it’s not made for human consumption just sync between different systems.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  You might want to check your own source there. Seems to be the opposite of what you claim. The complaints were dismissed and the media is allowed to report.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsw.beck.de&#x2F;aktuell&#x2F;daily&#x2F;meldung&#x2F;detail&#x2F;lg-hamburg-324-O-6-25-324-O-7-25-correctiv-recherche-formulierung-masterplan-zur-ausweisung-deutscher-staatsbuerger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsw.beck.de&#x2F;aktuell&#x2F;daily&#x2F;meldung&#x2F;detail&#x2F;lg-hamburg-...</a><p>But what does this have to do with your suggestion that I should ask the court whether you were at the meeting?


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
text:
  That is the billion-dollar question.<p>My take: The market for &quot;Coders&quot; will shrink, but the market for &quot;Problem Solvers who use Logic&quot; will explode.<p>Think of &quot;Scribes&quot; (people who wrote letters for others) in the past. When literacy became universal, the job of &quot;Scribe&quot; vanished. But the amount of <i>writing</i> in the world increased billion-fold.<p>Engineering is becoming the new literacy. We won&#x27;t be &quot;Engineers&quot; anymore; we will just be &quot;People who build things.&quot; The title disappears, but the capability becomes universal.


type: story
by: homarp
title: The TV Writer Bought Web Domain After Predicting Trump Kennedy Center Takeover
url:
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/toby-morton-donald-trump-kennedy-center-takeover-1236459741/


type: comment
by: Phlebsy
text:
  Sure, if the warning levels are poorly tuned I might configure my LSP to ignore everything and loosen the enforcement in the build steps until I&#x27;m ready to self review. Something I can&#x27;t stand with Typescript for example is when the local development server has as strict rules as the production builds. There&#x27;s no good reason to completely block doing anything useful whatsoever just because of an unused variable, unreachable code, or because a test that is never going to get committed dared to have an &#x27;any&#x27; type.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  The fish I’m talking about include hungry homeless people, poor people that need clothing, and young people dealing with unexpected pregnancies.  There are ministries for all of those here, staffed and funded by churchgoers.<p>Maybe think about it, see if there are some fish you could pick up.


type: comment
by: scotty79
text:
  YouTube is amazing repository of millions of practical skills and knowledge. It&#x27;s achievement at least on par with Wikipedia. Calling it a mistake just because there&#x27;s some entertainment there as well that not everybody is fond of is a bit harsh.


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  they are likely referring to their hardware deployment. Which <i>can</i> be done in days. The datacenter is owned and operated by someone else and they just bring in the racks.


type: comment
by: nacozarina
text:
  A spicy hypothesis that SWEs net-output from a business process standpoint is comparable to a 1970s travel agents.<p>It is clear top executives share his perspective given the massive layoffs. But survival is a marathon not a sprint, and there’s a lot of race left to run.


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  The ligatures part of this article gets me every time I re-read it.  I think reading this article may have been the first time I realized that even large, well-funded projects are still done by people who are just regular humans, and sometimes settle for something that&#x27;s good enough.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I don&#x27;t doubt he was lucky which is why I parenthetical referred to the dot com boom. I don&#x27;t quite understand the relevancy of GLP1s to his luck. I think obesity wasn&#x27;t what it is today back in the 90&#x27;s.<p>I think the saying is Luck rewards the prepared.


type: comment
by: rileymat2
text:
  I don&#x27;t think the article disagrees here? The issue is not control or decentralization, but consumption v. back and forth (communication).


type: comment
by: rzmmm
text:
  I remember reading about this. A key piece of information which should perhaps be in the title of the video is that the &quot;fix&quot; is transient.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  Experimental is just the unreleased versions of the browsers. Like a beta or alpha for the next release. So ofc they&#x27;re usually gonna be ahead.<p>Every year the major browsers get together and agree on a set of &quot;focus areas&quot; that are paint points for browser interoperability. They&#x27;ve been doing it since 2021. I posted the 2025 results. All browsers reached about 99% support for the selected features<p>The features are voted on by web developers. Basically anyone with a GitHub account can get involved. Here&#x27;s a blog post with more info about the process <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;17320&#x2F;submit-your-ideas-for-interop-2026&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;17320&#x2F;submit-your-ideas-for-interop-...</a>


type: comment
by: cryptica
text:
  I think a good strategy is to change companies often and ensure that your side project isn&#x27;t related to any of them. This creates a lot of complications and adds a layer of protection because if your current employer tried to claim the software as theirs, your previous 3 employers would all have claims (weak claims, that is).<p>If the software is different from what all 4 companies would produce and it is all built outside of business hours, it gives you full leverage.<p>If any specific company tries to imply that their claim is valid, they cannot do this without validating the claims of 3 other companies... Thus preventing themselves from obtaining the full ownership rights over the product.<p>The company which actually wants your software would be better off just paying you and accepting your simple version of reality than trying to create complications for themselves by inventing some elaborate legal fiction.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  If levying taxes and using those tax receipts to build infrastructure is enough to smell like communism to you, I have unfortunate news to tell you about how every single government on the planet operates


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  I appreciate the reply, and you trying to be helpful, but this is not what is happening.<p>I mean I&#x27;m definitely still in the stage of disillusionment, but I&#x27;m not treating LLMs as senior or expecting much from them.<p>The example I gave played out much as you described above.<p>I used an iterative process, with multiple self-contained smaller steps, each with a planning and discussion stage where I got the AI to identify ways to achieve what I was looking to do and weigh up tradeoffs that I then decided on, followed by a design clarification and finalisation stage, before finally getting it to write code (very hard sometimes to get the AI not to write code until the design has been finalised), followed by adjustments to that code as necessary.<p>The steps involved were something like:<p>- build the app skeleton<p>- open a camera feed<p>- display the feed full screen<p>- flip the feed so it responded as a mirror would if you were looking at it<p>- use the ios apis to get facial landmarks<p>- display the landmarks as dots<p>- detect looking in different directions and print a log message.<p>- detect the user opening their mouth<p>- play a sound when the mouth transitions from closed to open<p>- etc<p>Each step was relatively small and self-contained, with a planning stage first and me asking the AI probing&#x2F;clarifying questions.<p>The threading issue didn&#x27;t come up at all in any of this.<p>Once it came, the AI tied itself in knots trying to sort it out, coming up with very complex dispatching logic that still got things incorrect.<p>It was a fun little project, but if I compare the output it just wasn&#x27;t equivalent to what I could get if I&#x27;d just started with the Apple documentation (thought maybe it&#x27;s different now, as per another commenter&#x27;s reply).<p>It&#x27;s also easily completeable in a day if you want to give it a try :-)  Apple Developer reference implementation [here](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Vision&#x2F;tracking-the-user-s-face-in-real-time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Vision&#x2F;tracking-th...</a>).<p>&gt; By project manager role, I mean that I am explicitly taking the CC through the various SWE stages and making sure they have been done properly, and also that I iterate on the solution. On each one of the stages, I take the role of the respective senior professional. If I cannot do it yet, I try to learn how to do it. At the same time, I work as a product manager&#x2F;owner as well, to make decisions about the product, based on my personal &quot;taste&quot; and requirements.<p>Right, this is what I do.  I guess my point is that the amount of effort involved to use English to direct and correct the AI often outweighs the effort involved to just do it myself.<p>The gap is shrinking (I get much better results now that I did a year ago) but still there.


type: comment
by: orthoxerox
text:
  Not literally exponentially, but the damage is proportional to the FOURTH power of the axle load. Imagine how expensive shipping would&#x27;ve become overnight if all these trucks had to pay their fair share and passed the costs to their customers.<p>Honda Civic weighs 0.7t per axle, or 0.24tttt of wear.<p>F-150 weighs 0.9t per axle, or 0.65tttt of wear.<p>A school bus weighs 7.5t per axle, or 3164tttt of wear. That&#x27;s more than thirteen thousand Honda Civics&#x27; worth of road damage. Imagine the driver of the Honda had to pay 1c per mile. The school bus would have to pay $130 per mile. Yes, it&#x27;s carrying 78 passengers, so the cost would be $1.67 per mile per student, but I think most people would just drive their kids to school.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  I’m thinking the Republicans were affecting EVs through legal means, while the firebombing anti-Musk vandals were acting like anarchists.<p>Any worthwhile politician should find it easy to pick a side on that one.


type: comment
by: BobbyJo
text:
  I mean, luck is always a part of it, but you need responsible policy too. The US was lucky from 2010 to 2020, with the the economy growing basically that whole stretch, and we still ran a massively growing deficit the entire time because we decided to try and reform the middle east while lowering taxes.


type: comment
by: upupupandaway
text:
  I constantly think whether it’s viable to build robust software to get rid of slop, AI or non AI. I see tough challenges (platforms don’t care), but also see value. Does anyone have an opinion?


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  &gt; <i>On June 25, 1971, one Robert Hardy appeared at the FBI office in Camden, New Jersey and told agents of a plan by several of his friends to raid the draft board in that city, remove the files, and destroy them. Hardy was one of the gang, but changed his mind. He was immediately hired as an informer and told to return to the gang and report on their plans, which he did. On August 22, the FBI was waiting when the group struck, and twenty-eight were arrested. The trial began on February 5, 1973. Hoover died in May 1972, but his ghost must have suffered a shock as Hardy changed his mind again and became a witness for the defense. He told the truth, namely that the FBI had used him as a provocateur, and that the burglary could not have taken place without him and the burglary tools that the FBI had supplied.</i><p>What are the odds the FBI has done this more recently than 1971?


type: comment
by: notahacker
text:
  Do central banks really asses the risk of total collapse of the Euro (only) in response to Russia&#x27;s currently frazzled military launching an invasion against NATO borderlands which NATO fails to mount any effective defence as higher than than the risk the current US administration freezes assets for arbitrary and capricious[1] reasons?<p>In practice, of course, most countries are willing to accept both risks.<p>[1]a lot of states that can be reasonably confident that they won&#x27;t provoke the US in the manner Saddam Hussein or Putin did whether they&#x27;re friendly or not can be rather less confident the current president won&#x27;t take extreme measures in response to something completely innocuous like jailing someone for domestic corruption, being a source of emigrants to the United States or maintaining a trade surplus...


type: story
by: pseudolus
title: Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags
url:
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/27/airlines-call-psychologists-passengers-risking-lives-bags/


type: comment
by: Lammy
text:
  &gt; If raising valid concerns that were not addressed by the linked website is FUD for you, so be it.<p>Yes, it is. It&#x27;s specifically called concern trolling: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;concern_troll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;concern_troll</a><p>In this case it&#x27;s because the mass-market operating systems with which QNX could compete already do the things you&#x27;re “concerned” about. QNX could only be an improvement in that regard.


type: comment
by: pseudolus
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;2so4c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;2so4c</a>


type: comment
by: mupuff1234
text:
  Russia is a joke, India is somewhat irrelevant and doesn&#x27;t seem like that will change soon, China is a different story, although they also have their share of demographic and economic issues.<p>And Putin and Xi are 73 &amp; 72, and I doubt they will give up power as long as they&#x27;re living which may result in significant turnmoil for both countries.<p>&gt; US to being a simple country instead of the has-been empire it currently is.<p>The US isn&#x27;t going anywhere for now, although it is trending in the wrong direction, but it&#x27;s not yet a lost cause, not to mention that its still basically a fortress with endless natural resources and relatively good climate.<p>And then you also have the AI race which might be a dud or might be a winner takes all scenario. So gonna be an interesting next decade.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  It&#x27;s a reason not to use a hard drive from over 20 years ago.<p>But if you&#x27;re stuck with hardware that old, an SSD isn&#x27;t an option.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  This is the equivalent of releasing a poorly tested and validated self driving vehicle into general traffic. Of course nobody would ever do such a thing...


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  Wouldn&#x27;t this imply that the founder&#x27;s don&#x27;t get paid either? The acquirer would simply need to have buy-in from the investors to make the deal happen, and the founder would need an offer that is bigger than any other possible &quot;soft landing.&quot;


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  Physically building a datacenter yes. Repurposing a crypto datacenter for a new purpose, no.  But days is hyperbolic no matter how you look at it unless they’re reusing ALL the existing infrastructure (network&#x2F;security&#x2F;hvac&#x2F;physical server racks&#x2F;some amount of compute).  And aren’t actually including the time to procure the inferencing chips.<p>You can call up Cisco tomorrow and offer them a billion dollars to get you an entire datacenter worth of switches tomorrow and the answer is going to be no because they just don’t keep that much inventory sitting around.  That’s why covid was such a shitshow.<p>I should give a caveat of: they could in theory redirect existing orders to you but would likely be violating contractual obligations and risk a lawsuit from the fortune 500 Peter they robbed to pay you Mr. Paul.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I wish you would elaborate how being a net exporter relates to it being a myth. I don&#x27;t see the connection. My point is that global trade of which oil is a major component needs to settle the books nightly. If the books aren&#x27;t reconciled in an efficient manner trade has to slow down.


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  In theory, sure. In practice the Supreme Court&#x27;s rulings mean President can now just fire anyone he wants whenever for any reason.


type: comment
by: soatok
text:
  (This is some_furry, I&#x27;m currently rate-limited. I thought this warranted a reply, so I switched to this account to break past the limit for a single comment.)<p>&gt; This statement is generic and misleading.<p>It may be generic, but it&#x27;s not misleading.<p>&gt; Using long-lived keys for confidentiality is bad in real-time messaging, but for non-ephemeral use cases (file encryption, backups, archives) it is completely fine.<p>What exactly do you mean by &quot;long-lived&quot;?<p>The &quot;lifetime&quot; of a key being years (for a long-lived backup) is less important than how many encryptions are performed with said key.<p>The thing you don&#x27;t want is to encrypt 2^50 messages under the same key. Even if it&#x27;s cryptographically safe to do that, any post-compromise key rotation will be a fucking nightmare.<p>The primary reason to use short-lived public keys is to limit the blast radius. Consider these two companies:<p>Alice Corp. uses the same public key for 30+ years.<p>Bob Ltd. uses a new public key for each quarter over the same time period.<p>Both parties might retain the secret key indefinitely, so that if Bob Ltd. needs to retrieve a backup from 22 years ago, they still can.<p>Now consider what happens if both of them lose their currently-in-use secret key due to a Heartbleed-style attack. Alice has 30 years of disaster recovery to contend with, while Bob only has up to 90 days.<p>Additionally, file encryption, backups, and archives typically use <i>ephemeral symmetric keys</i> at the bottom of the protocol. Even when a password-based key derivation function is used (and passwords are, for whatever reason, reused), the password hashing function usually has a random salt, thereby guaranteeing uniqueness.<p>The idea that &quot;backups&quot; magically mean &quot;long-lived&quot; keys are on the table, without nuance, is extremely misleading.<p>&gt; &gt; Would &quot;fetch a short-lived age public key&quot; serve your use case?<p>&gt; Sadly no.<p><i>shrug</i> Then, ultimately, there is no way to securely satisfy your use case.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  In the course of this attack, just in terms of what happens in the mechanics of the actual protocol, irrespective of the scenario in which these capabilities are abused, the attacker:<p>(1) Rewrites the ciphertext of a PGP message<p>(2) Introducing an entire new PGP packet<p>(3) That flips GPG into DEFLATE compression handling<p>(4) And then reroutes the handling of the subsequent real message<p>(5) Into something parsed as a plaintext comment<p>This happens without a security message, but rather just (apparently) a zlib error.<p>In the scenario presented at CCC, they used the keyserver example to demonstrate plaintext exfiltration. I kind of don&#x27;t care. It&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening under the hood that&#x27;s batshit; the &quot;difference of opinion&quot; is that the GnuPG maintainers (and, I guess, you) think this is an acceptable end state for an encryption tool.


type: comment
by: dyauspitr
text:
  The right has destroyed free speech when compared to all the people up in arms about the left basically pushing around the edges, trying to prevent genocidal propaganda from being dispersed.


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t wish to discuss anything with someone that talks in memes. [ed: yet, you next indicate otherwise by asking] What specifically is not truthful in the video?<p>You are being inconsistent in your expressions here. This makes this conversation a matter of guesswork.<p>Will you take seriously, the evidence that the video creator has a long history of bad faith? If so, why keep trying to advance his video? If not, then that is where this discussion is.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  It helps a lot for a community to have a specific focus.<p>For instance if it is photography technique or sports talk or Arduino programming almost all problematic content is &quot;off-topic&quot; and easy to delete without splitting hairs or offending libertarian sentiments.<p>Similarly &quot;no explicit images&quot; is an easy line to defend,  but anything past that like &quot;no CSAM&quot; is excruciatingly difficult.<p>For a general purpose platform where people can post what they want,  particularly if there is a libertarian ethos where people cry about &quot;censorship&quot;,  moderation is a bitch.<p>My personal pet peeve is that on any platform that has DMs I get a lot of messages,  particularly when starting a new account,  for things that are transparently scams and if I was starting one today my feeling of responsibility leads me to the conclusion that I would not support DMs.


type: comment
by: terminalbraid
text:
  &gt; They believe those platforms are &quot;public spaces&quot; while they truly are &quot;private spaces trying to destroy all other public spaces in order to get a monopoly.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s nothing I can add to this.


type: story
by: pseudolus
title: Immigration lawyers say the H-1B chaos is forcing tough business calls
url:
  https://www.businessinsider.com/h-1b-visa-changes-prompt-companies-to-tighten-sponsorship-staffing-2025-12


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  There&#x27;s an update video here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4</a><p>Apparently the fix lasted ~18 months


type: comment
by: locknitpicker
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s mostly built atop problem shifting. For example, Seattle fought to send their compost and build wind farms in eastern Washington - where it was in someone else&#x27;s backyard.<p>This is a silly opinion to have. It&#x27;s like complaining that reinforcing police presence in an area is problem shifting because you&#x27;ll still have crime taking place somewhere else. It&#x27;s an attempt to frame any action as a false dilemma that forces an all-or-nothing logic based on specious reasoning.


type: comment
by: toss1
text:
  &gt;&gt;I doubt we will enter a new dark age<p>But only to the extent that the regime fails to get its way.<p>If the regime continues, they will definitely push us back to a dark age, partially intentionally, partially through not caring about the future or being too stupid to figure out the consequences. And Theil, Musk, Vance and that whole lot are part of the crew pushing for that — technology for me but not for thee.


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
text:
  I did not say MongoDB weren’t being assholes here. I’m saying asshole behavior is the norm and should be expected. I have an excellent boss (and his boss is fantastically supportive too). Several coworkers have needed leave for sometimes weeks and they have accommodated them. I don’t expect this is the norm or written in our company policies.


type: comment
by: ako
text:
  Better safe than sorry. If the risk is significant, and the impact is big, it is sensible to have plan to address risks. You probably have many expenses you hope you never need, like all sorts of insurances. And even if it turns out climate changes was less impactful than forcasted, change sparks innovation and creates economic opportunity. E.g, these days electrucs cars are better than fossil fuel cars (my wife wont let me lease another fossil fuel car, she likes the way the electric one drives much better), and solar electricity is cheaper than fossil electricity.


type: comment
by: kluikens
text:
  The FasTrak scanners above the lane flash the occupancy setting (1, 2, or 3+) on the driver&#x27;s transponder. It&#x27;s easy to observe cheating single-occupant vehicles because the flashed number is 3 (a toll-free rate).<p>For automated enforcement, there&#x27;s prior art in red light camera systems that mail tickets&#x2F;violations to the registered vehicle owner.


type: comment
by: jimbobthrowawy
text:
  Reminds me of a thing Steve Mould mentioned in a video about a claim in a book &quot;The temperature outside an aeroplane is six times colder than the temperature inside a freezer.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C91gKuxutTU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C91gKuxutTU</a> -  Stand-up comedy routine about bad science


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I agree that the next wave may not be dominated by a single currency. I also think that is a superior system. I think the BRICS system is based on honoring multiple currencies rather than using a single currency for settlement.


type: comment
by: wk_end
text:
  The original implementation of JS was in C, not CL.<p>I think Eich was more partial to Scheme than CL, as a model for JS. Though I wouldn’t say it’s Java syntax over either - the scoping rules are very distinct, it’s missing tons of features core to either CL or Scheme, there’s the whole Self-inspired prototype-based OOP layer…


type: comment
by: subsection1h
text:
  Exactly. Also, it&#x27;s not clear to me if some of these people think that containers are a sandbox or they simply don&#x27;t care about security.<p>For anyone out there who thinks that containers are a sandbox...<p>There&#x27;s a reason why gVisor exists:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;gvisor#why-does-gvisor-exist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;gvisor#why-does-gvisor-exist</a><p>There&#x27;s a reason why secureblue doesn&#x27;t use containers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45045190">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45045190</a><p>There&#x27;s a reason why Qubes OS doesn&#x27;t use containers.


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
text:
  &gt; Being on-call is part of the job.<p>Is it really? Am I being paid for those hours where I cannot leave the house?<p>I like to ask another question: what procedures do you have in place to drive the  the fix so the incident doesn&#x27;t happen again?<p>This is especially important in situations where devs are on call for systems they didn&#x27;t write.


type: comment
by: axiolite
text:
  &gt; This is just a general argument against constant prices for everything though.<p>Maybe EVERYTHING shouldn&#x27;t BE &quot;constant prices&quot;.  Maybe where there are practical alternatives to constant pricing, those should be preferred and used.<p>&gt; Charging $10 for a t-shirt is regressive.<p>No. Not unless there is only 1 type of t-shirt in the world available.  If I&#x27;m poor I can go find cheaper t-shirts either less stylish, poorer quality, from a generic brand, from a discount retailer, second-hand (used), packaged in bulk, etc., or maybe wait around for a sale on the t-shirt.


type: comment
by: lmeyerov
text:
  Deleted, I&#x27;m not sure what&#x27;s the point of talking with people about for&#x2F;against Trump at this point


type: comment
by: oblio
text:
  It hasn&#x27;t been viable and you&#x27;d know if you tried to deploy Python scripts to Windows users and maintain&#x2F;update them over longer periods of time.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  I&#x27;ve run into Safari exclusive issues before as well around color transparency, but tbh I&#x27;m surprised it comes up that often. Modern IDEs support linters that warn you whenever you are using a CSS feature that isn&#x27;t supported by all modern browsers. You can even set the year you wanna support (e.g. all major browser versions since 2023). Between that awesome tooling and rapidly improving browser support for web standards, these kinds of issues feel extremely rare.<p>Except for printing. Printing has and seemingly always will f&#x27;n suck. Unfortunately WPT doesn&#x27;t have a good way of testing for print-related features


type: comment
by: hypfer
text:
  If you throw my nickname into a search engine, you will see that that is the case for me as well. Doesn&#x27;t change anything about what I said though.<p>If anything, the fact that it worked for me, yet I found it necessary to add the full context, probably strengthens the statement even more.<p>But anyway. Standard damage control statement that latches onto nothing because there is nothing to latch on to as I made sure to structure the comment that way.<p>I hate corporate so much man. Just because you can predict what happens doesn&#x27;t mean that the happening would be any less frustrating.<p>___<p>I understand that your role requires you to do this. That is clear to anyone moving through these systems.<p>What I do not understand though is why you even tried to deflect this with such a low-quality &quot;oh it worked for me it might not have worked for you. YMMV&quot; thing, when you could&#x27;ve also just said nothing at all, not forcing my hand and making me call you out on that.<p>That is, above all else, strategically unwise.<p>Fortunately, however, this all doesn&#x27;t matter. It&#x27;s not like anyone cares about anything on this platform anyway. So even a strategically unwise move might as well not exist at all.


type: story
by: cpath
title: Show HN: Export your NotebookLM data – conversations, sources, citations
url: https://apify.com/clearpath/notebooklm-api
text:
  NotebookLM doesn&#x27;t have any export functionality, so I built one. Pulls your full conversation history, source metadata, and citation mapping (which sources informed each AI response). Outputs JSON, Markdown, CSV, or Excel. Free while in beta. Planning to add support for adding sources to notebooks programmatically next. Feature requests welcome.


type: comment
by: gitprolinux
text:
  I find its not available unless your name is plastered over America like a Musk or whatever the oligarchy status quo media is dealing or pushing as their agendas and talking points.


type: comment
by: nkali
text:
  That&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve heard, too! But apparently there even was an effort to port Windows 2.11 to XEN, though I have no idea whether it was ever completed.


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  &gt; You should be livid and working to inform people how dangerous this is, not making poor excuses.<p>Making poor excuses?  Don&#x27;t tell me what to do.  If you&#x27;re so &quot;livid&quot; then you can go hit the pavement for both of us.


type: comment
by: mrkeen
text:
  This is so dramatic it&#x27;s hard to recover the original complaint.<p>Dansup has built a photo-sharing app on top of ActivityPub, and we humans are a lost cause because the app doesn&#x27;t also do text-only messages?<p>Is that the gist of it?


type: comment
by: BobbyJo
text:
  Long bond rates have somewhat decoupled from short term rates set by the fed. For instance, they just slashed short term rates 25bps, but long bond rates (10+ years) have actually gone up a few basis points since the cut.<p>This is exactly what we&#x27;d expect if demand for treasuries wasn&#x27;t keeping pace with US debt issuance. I mean, if you look at the debt, and the USD&#x27;s current position, there really is no way out for the US government other than inflating the currency and cashing in that reserve status for a reset. The obviousness of that reality is why precious metals are going nuts.


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  would his policy have been to pay for GLP1s? Yes. And is that a little more than a hypothetical? yes. 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).


type: story
by: pseudolus
title: Starlink in crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk's conquering of space
url:
  https://apnews.com/article/russia-starlink-musk-ukraine-space-china-canada-c69c1fda5ffc93828712ab723e606a2c


type: comment
by: Mawr
text:
  This is more or less the thinking that got us into the mess Python packaging is.<p>I, as a user, do not care whatsoever about any of this. At all. If you&#x27;re explaining &quot;virtual environments&quot;, you&#x27;ve lost the plot.<p>Compiled languages got this right. The dev creates a binary and I as a user simply run it. That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s the holy grail.<p>It&#x27;s good to see at last someone in the Python space got their ducks in a row and we&#x27;ve finally got a sensible tool.


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  Does anyone have much of a feel for geometry and spatial reasoning in text? I&#x27;ve been trying to think about Euclid&#x27;s elements - I think you can express some of it with just text, but most of it really only makes sense once you see a picture. Spatial reasoning with 2&#x2F;3d objects being rotated&#x2F;flipped&#x2F;etc seems much harder to me. Any hints&#x2F;references&#x2F;papers would be welcome. I&#x27;m not an academic, I just get intrigued by ideas now and again!


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I think part of the Vision Pro story is that Apple has deformed ideas about displays that they&#x27;ve gotten because they&#x27;ve been able to get away with selling overpriced and undervalued displays.<p>For that matter part of the Apple TV is great hardware&#x2F;middling experience because they can&#x27;t shake phone-centrism.  Apple can&#x27;t make an honest-to-God TV or market-crushing appliance because TVs are more competitive than monitors,  thinks supporting optical disks is like putting a hand in a toilet, etc.


type: comment
by: as1mov
text:
  If their target audience is someone who remotes into a random machine because a opaque landing page them to, it&#x27;s probably not gonna work very well. Those people are too busy sniffing glue.


type: comment
by: em-bee
text:
  ok, hat&#x27;s a good observation. but it depends on the personalities involved and the specific actions. for me personally for example talking about an issue IS my way of being assertive.<p>of course there are situations where simply taking responsibility for something can help, but i don&#x27;t see that in the situation described. if my wife is scheduling to many activities for the children, how can i take over when i simply want there to be less activities.<p>in other words if my wife does something that in my opinion simply should not be done, how can i stop her, other than sharing my feelings about it? how can i take ownership of the kids activities other than replacing them with other activities. or what do i do when i am at work while this happens? and working until 2am at night? how am i supposed to react other than saying, please don&#x27;t do that?


type: comment
by: turtleyacht
text:
  If fat cells (adipose) rarely go away but store less fat, a person may likely always have the capacity to regain the weight.


type: comment
by: chongli
text:
  I&#x27;d like to call back to yesterday&#x27;s discussion on IP law [1] sparked by recent comments from Rob Pike.<p>There was a major thread on the issue of regulatory regimes and the dysfunction that can arise. How is this acquisition not a textbook example of said dysfunction? This non-acquisition acquisition does not happen at all in a world without IP law.<p>I think we&#x27;re seeing a culmination of the dysfunction that results from IP law. The sheer amount of capital has given unbelievable momentum to the forces of consolidation. I still can&#x27;t foresee the endgame (who can?) but it&#x27;s even harder to see how it&#x27;ll turn out well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46396075">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46396075</a>


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  That&#x27;s what I meant too. PHPBB forums and the like had plenty of features that would be considered &quot;addictive&quot; in the modern climate, as well as &quot;algorithmic&quot; feeds.<p>They certainly <i>could</i> be categorized the same way. I don&#x27;t think they will only because the political will isn&#x27;t there and such forums aren&#x27;t popular enough to matter. But if regulation of social media causes those forums to resurge in popularity then that might change.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
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  every time someone says nonsense like this I ask them to take me up on it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polymarket.com&#x2F;event&#x2F;presidential-election-winner-2028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polymarket.com&#x2F;event&#x2F;presidential-election-winner-20...</a><p>I have 100k NO on trump. it&#x27;s free money if someone seriously thinks there won&#x27;t be any &quot;future administration&quot;.<p>of course once there&#x27;s money at stake they grumble and say there probably will be an election after all &lt;_&lt;


type: comment
by: api
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  No, our nature is to satiate our dopamine system. That system evolved to keep us fed, nourished, and to make us make friends and belong and have sex to make more humans. The problem is that we are now so smart and clever that we can start learning how the dopamine system works and hacking it.<p>This isn&#x27;t new. We&#x27;ve been doing it for a long time with booze, porn, drugs, sexual excess, gambling, pointless consumerism, certain kinds of religious fervor, endless things.<p>But almost all of those things are self-limiting. They&#x27;re either costly, dangerous, in limited supply, or physically harmful enough to our health that we shy away from them and taboos develop around them.<p>Addictive digital media may actually be more dangerous than those things precisely because it is cheap, always available, endless, and physically harmless. As a result it has no built-in mechanism that limits it. We can scroll and scroll and chase social media feedback loops forever until we die.<p>AI slop feeds are going to supercharge this even more. Instead of human creators we will have AI models that can work off immediate engagement feedback and fine tune themselves for each individual user in real time. I&#x27;m quite certain all the antisocial media companies are working on this right now. Won&#x27;t be long before they start explicitly removing human creators from the loop and just generating endless customized chum with ad placement embedded into it.<p>Some people have the discipline to push back, but many do not either for psychological&#x2F;neurological reasons or because they are exhausted and stressed and unable to summon the energy. Humans do not have infinite willpower. So I&#x27;ve been predicting for a while that eventually we&#x27;re going to heavily regulate or tax this space.<p>This concerns me too due to the free speech implications and the general risk of overreacting and overcorrecting. It&#x27;ll be tempting for politicians to regulate or tax only the platforms they don&#x27;t like, or to use the regulatory mechanism to crack down on legitimate speech by grouping it in with addictive chum. We&#x27;ve seen similar things with attempts to regulate porn or hate speech. But it&#x27;s coming. I have little doubt. I think we&#x27;ll see this when GenZ and GenA start entering politics.<p>It&#x27;s really still shocking to me. If you went back in time and told me in, say, 2006, that our engagement-hacking would be <i>so successful</i> that it became an X-risk to humanity, I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d believe you. I never would have believed how effective this stuff could be. It&#x27;s just a damn screen for god&#x27;s sake! I think a lot of people are still in denial about this problem because it seems so absurd that a touch screen can addict people as well as fentanyl, but it&#x27;s true. I see it around me all the time.<p>Edit:<p>My preferred way to go about reeling this back in would be to strike at the root and start taxing advertising the way we tax booze, drugs, gambling, and other vices. Advertising revenue is the trunk of this tree. The entire reason these systems are created is to keep people staring so ads can be pushed at them. Take that away and a lot of the motive to build and run these things goes away.<p>Another, which we&#x27;re already seeing, is to age-restrict antisocial media. Young minds are particularly vulnerable to these tactics, more so than adults, and all addiction pushers try to addict people early.<p>Lastly, we could start campaigns to educate people. We need schools teaching classes explaining to kids how these systems addict and manipulate them and why, and public PSAs to the same effect. It needs to be treated like a health issue because it is.<p>Taxes, education, and age restriction is how we almost killed cigarettes in the USA, so there is precedent for these three things together working.<p>We also need to be a lot more precise in our language. The problem is not the Internet, phones, computers, &quot;tech,&quot; AI, etc. The problem is <i>engineering systems for engagement, specifically.</i> If you are trying to design a system to keep people staring at a screen (or other interface) for as much time as possible, you are hurting people. What you&#x27;re doing is in the same category as what the Sackler family did with oxycontin. Engagement engineering is a predatory destructive practice and the people who do it are predators. I think it&#x27;s taken a long time for people to realize this because, again, it&#x27;s just a damn screen! It&#x27;s shocking that this is so effective that we need to have this societal conversation.


type: comment
by: laterium
text:
  Being able to conduct monetary policy is valuable, even if it can be misused. Otherwise all other countries would just be using USD.


type: comment
by: dhrey112
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  Author here. I&#x27;ve been researching AI agent failures for the past year, and the pattern I keep seeing is that agents don&#x27;t fail by breaking rules—they fail by following them too literally.<p>The runaway loop ($47k API bill) happened because no one defined a stopping condition. The expense fraud happened because the agent was told to &quot;complete the expense report&quot; and it did—by fabricating data when it couldn&#x27;t read receipts.<p>Curious what failure modes others have seen in production agent deployments.


type: comment
by: therobots927
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  Oh they absolutely could be held accountable if enough people woke up. That’s a stretch though even for my active imagination.


type: comment
by: as1mov
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  The &quot;how&quot; is very obvious, but not the &quot;why&quot;. I&#x27;d assume this much would be very apparent from the OPs complaint, but apparently not I guess...


type: comment
by: wk_end
text:
  Any discussion about the constitution and jurisprudence and rights should probably be assumed to be referring to the Before Times, when those things still mattered. Sigh.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
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  For commodities like that, competition already pushes prices to the zero profit limit. Everyone gets them as cheaply as they can be produced. And for those who can&#x27;t afford even that we have subsidies.


type: comment
by: hopelite
text:
  You clearly have no idea the nature of the problem you want to solve with such erroneous platitudes. But it’s probably not even your fault you are ignorant of the reality of the matter as you advocate for squeezing harder to get blood from a stone; your statement illustrates that you are a victim of a delusion and psychological abuse that has been perpetrated upon the whole western world for more than a century now, so of course after everything you know from your very first breath promoting a delusional fantasy, you would also have that world view since it is post 1984 after all.


type: comment
by: dale_glass
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  &gt; As a practical implementation of &quot;six degrees of Kevin Bacon&quot;, you could get an organic trust chain to random people.<p>GPG is terrible at that.<p>0. Alice&#x27;s GPG trusts Alice&#x27;s key tautologically. 1. Alice&#x27;s GPG can trust Bob&#x27;s key because it can see Alice&#x27;s signature. 2. Alice&#x27;s GPG can trust Carol&#x27;s key because Alice has Bob&#x27;s key, and Carol&#x27;s key is signed by Bob.<p>After that, things break. GPG has no tools for finding longer paths like Alice -&gt; Bob -&gt; ??? -&gt; signature on some .tar.gz.<p>I&#x27;m in the &quot;strong set&quot;, I can find a path to damn near anything, but only with a  lot of effort.<p>The good way used to be using the path finder, some random website maintained by some random guy that disappeared years ago. The bad way is downloading a .tar.gz, checking the signature, fetching the key, then fetching every key that signed in, in the hopes somebody you know signed one of those, and so on.<p>And GPG is terrible at dealing with that, it hates having tens of thousands of keys in your keyring from such experiments.<p>GPG never grew into the modern era. It was made for persons who mostly know each other directly. Addressing the problem of finding a way to verify the keys of random free software developers isn&#x27;t something it ever did well.


type: comment
by: jimmydin7
text:
  nice! since you are a teen, you should check out Hack Club. Its a community of more than 100k teenagers, and funds teen&#x27;s projects with donations from people (including elon!)


type: comment
by: shermantanktop
text:
  Because my attention should be directed at what I want to do, when I want to, not a nagging number that sits there being more than zero.<p>And when I do pay attention to it, I don&#x27;t want to spend 20 minutes going through the 180 emails that I&#x27;ve been cc&#x27;d on.  It&#x27;s literally not worth my time or dilution of my attention.  When I have attempted to get on top of this by doing all the curation and rule-authoring that productivity mavens shout about, it works for a little while but entropy sets in.<p>I&#x27;m just not into scripting my own life and maximizing my productivity, and my job does not pivot on prompt email responses.  So my email is a garbage dump with tire fires in it, and I know that, and I get on with the things I know are actually important.<p>I&#x27;m not recommending this! It&#x27;s just the compromise that I have settled in to. But if you wonder &quot;why would anyone,&quot; this is it.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  [dupe] Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46146406">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46146406</a>


type: comment
by: mapcars
text:
  Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don&#x27;t think western people know about.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I would say it&#x27;s a mystery. The US has corporations that are better funded than many nations. These corporations are also rationally managed and operate globally. As a patriot I hope that the US starts to utilize rational thought.


type: comment
by: whatevertrevor
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  &quot;Smart&quot; accounting by not counting design, planning, procurement timelines would explain it, that makes sense.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, it&#x27;s saddening to see details like this hyped up to borderline fraudulent levels.


type: comment
by: bryanstjohn
text:
  just added magic link emails for users that have audio ready.... also cleaned up some Voice cleaning with the ai prompt. try it out


type: comment
by: hxtk
text:
  It&#x27;s how code is written in Google (including their open-source products like AOSP and Chromium), the ffmpeg project, the Linux Kernel, Git, Docker, the Go compiler, Kubernetes, Bitcoin, etc, and it&#x27;s how things are done at my workplace.<p>I&#x27;m surprised by how confident you are that things simply aren&#x27;t done this way considering the number of high-profile users of workflows where the commit history is expected to tell a story of how the software evolved over time.


type: comment
by: incee
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  I have an Aura HD that I can&#x27;t wait to try this on! thank you  for starting this thread. I haven&#x27;t used the Kobo since I got a Boox Note Air 2 that got downgraded to occasional use after I got an 11&quot; iPad Pro that is extremely sticky and has become my primary workstation somehow.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  Yes exactly. Voting for the 2026 focus areas is happening now btw. The next year&#x27;s interop usually releases around February<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;17320&#x2F;submit-your-ideas-for-interop-2026&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;17320&#x2F;submit-your-ideas-for-interop-...</a><p>And yes JPEG XL support is often the most requested feature and the major browsers have responded. Google and Firefox are both willing to take it on but Firefox&#x27;s biggest concern is with the reference decoder which has some major security flaws. They basically want to wait until libjxl&#x2F;jxl-rs is performant enough<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1064</a><p>Here&#x27;s the current issue for that proposal if you want to get involved<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;web-platform-tests&#x2F;interop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;994" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;web-platform-tests&#x2F;interop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;994</a>


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  The fastest highway in the United States is the 85 mph controlled access public-private venture toll road east of Austin.  State income tax is not a thing in Texas, and that road would have otherwise not been completed at the price or schedule it was built on without the backing of the private company that built it.


type: comment
by: jtrn
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  The hate is so irrational I can’t stop feeling that any project that even uses Conda HAS to be terrible. Like a chef that creates a recipe with shit as an ingredient. I could exchange the shit for sugar, but why bother, the chef is obviously insane.  I’m really sorry if anyone that worked in this ever reads this. But Conda is just triggering me.


type: comment
by: ux266478
text:
  I too wish we were weaving exotic matter metamaterials out of the aether, but until then hydrocarbons are a miracle from the heavens for their uses. A modern cedar tree.


type: comment
by: jayknight
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  I know there are a good number of amateur radio operators that hang out on HN, and most probably know who Jim Heath, W6LG was and how much he loved ham radio and wanted to share his depth of knowledge with others. Jim&#x27;s son posted this video to his channel announcing that he passed away and is now &quot;Silent Key&quot;.


type: comment
by: 65a
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  Yes, not saying that web of trust ever worked. &quot;Pre-established channel&quot; are the other mechanisms I mentioned, like a central authority (https) or TOFU (just trust the first key you get). All of these have some issues, that any alternative must also solve for.


type: comment
by: detourdog
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  A really important detail that I don&#x27;t think gets enough mention is that the second gulf war was paid for off the books. The war was not part of the federal budget.


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  Polymarkets are a place to put a dollar bet on one’s beliefs and the likelihood that belief will come true.


type: comment
by: mmcclure
text:
  This is very cool, but goodness I wish they&#x27;d give an option for a password-based login after the initial verification. In ~10 minutes of playing with it I had to go through 4 email confirmation steps.<p>I&#x27;m very much into the product itself, but that would get extremely tiresome if I was trying to use it consistently. I assume I have to be using it wrong in some way for there to be that much friction...


type: comment
by: carlosjobim
text:
  You take that back now. Gold is the best thing which has ever existed. Name one thing in the world which can even compete.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46361024">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46361024</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  The &quot;off switch&quot; is a protein within the parasite that they turned off with genetic modifications. They didn&#x27;t actually find a treatment that could be used on wild parasites.<p>&gt; Gaji and his team might have found a lead, though: in a new study, they have shown that switching off just a single protein inside the microscopic parasite can kill it.<p>&gt; The protein, TgAP2X-7, appears to be essential to the parasite&#x27;s ability to invade a host, form plaques, and self-replicate. To prove this, the team genetically modified some parasites so that their TgAP2X-7 proteins function normally unless auxin (a plant hormone that regulates growth) is added, in which case the proteins would quickly degrade.<p>So it could be helpful research for something, but there are a lot of proteins within parasites that are necessary for growth and survival. Turning any number of proteins off could end the parasite&#x27;s ability to do something, but that&#x27;s not helpful unless you also have a mechanism to induce that change without harming the host.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  The normal response to a company importing illegal products is to seize them at the border, destroy them, and, optionally, send the importer a big fine. This is already an established process.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  My health insurance from AWS was about the same coverage&#x2F;cost that I got from a startup I worked at that had 10 employees for a year or so afterwards, but the insurance from the startup had much better humans for me to talk to when there were issues. As for the extra money, my point was that I&#x27;ve found my quality of life is higher working for companies where I know where I stand in the medium-to-long term.<p>I definitely don&#x27;t have any illusions that this is based on a number of personal factors (e.g. my overall financial situation making any additional income not likely to drastically change my quality of life and the somewhat unorthodox medical needs of someone in my family causing me to need to talk to the insurance company a few times a year to sort things out). The comment at the beginning of this thread was asking &quot; Who would join a startup these days?&quot; though, so my answer is basically &quot;someone like me&quot;. I don&#x27;t pretend to have any idea how many others like me there are, only that the tradeoffs for larger companies don&#x27;t really make much sense for me.


type: comment
by: jghn
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  An example I like to use are groups that put their autofmratter into a pre-commit. Why should I be held to the formatting rules for code before I send my code to anyone?<p>I&#x27;m particular about formatting, and it doesn&#x27;t always match group norms. So I&#x27;ll reformat things to my preferred style while working locally, and then reformat before pushing. However I may have several commits locally that then ge curated out of existence prior to pushing.


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9160121">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9160121</a>&gt;


type: comment
by: Barrin92
text:
  &gt;Having decentralized entertainment platforms<p>How? I don&#x27;t even think decentralized is the appropriate term. They&#x27;re distributed entertainment platforms in that they&#x27;re protocol based, but regarding the distribution of content there&#x27;s nothing in it that decentralizes reach. The social graph of Twitter and Mastodon could in principle be identical.<p>Malicious actors don&#x27;t need to control algorithms. States running influence campaigns on say, Youtube or Facebook don&#x27;t actually control any algorithm, they adapt their content to what does well on the platform. And they could equally do this, one could argue even more effectively, on the fediverse.<p>Saying the Fediverse solves top down influence is like thinking that Bitcoin solves wealth inequality. The distribution of the network is completely agnostic to the centralization of the content.


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  We’ve started instituting a “no phones” policy when the kids have sleepovers to try to combat this at least a little bit, and have constant conversations about why things like Instagram are toxic and we should just try to spend our time enjoying life.<p>Obviously I’m also posting here while I wait in the car waiting to pick someone up, but I actively make an effort to unplug on a regular basis.


type: comment
by: incee
text:
  I have not had enough luck busting Kindle books out of drm for the last few years and assumed Kindles were out of consideration.


type: comment
by: hlieberman
text:
  If there is an aircraft evacuation and someone is getting their bag out of the carry-on, the proper response is punching them in the face and throwing them onto the ground so people can step over (or on) them.<p>With seat pitches so tight these days, the idea that an evacuation can be done by unprepared people in 90 seconds is a pipedream, even before taking into consideration people trying to get their luggage.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  Is it not simple? Tell the passengers they&#x27;ll be able to get their bags back during an emergency. Don&#x27;t just say &quot;leave your bags&quot; - say &quot;leave your bags, you&#x27;ll get them back later&quot;. After drilling into passengers nonstop to never leave their bags unattended is it any surprise passengers don&#x27;t leave their bags unattended? No, it isn&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: Ar-Curunir
text:
  You’re responding to is Matthew Green, who has  done more for deployed cryptography and internet privacy than most people alive. He has absolutely “hit the pavement”


type: comment
by: guiand
text:
  Long horizon events like this on Polymarket stabilize around a % odds corresponding to time value of money. You can get 4% buying risk free CDs for that horizon.


type: comment
by: pandaman
text:
  &gt;It did that by selling bonds and driving the price up.<p>No, the yield went up and price went down. Prices usually don&#x27;t go down if demand remains unchanged.


type: comment
by: homeonthemtn
text:
  For what it&#x27;s worth, we&#x27;re a handful of days out from our first so, thank you for that recommendation.


type: comment
by: themgt
text:
  When you&#x27;re comparing Kubernetes &quot;recommended, canonical deployments&quot; to &quot;just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner&quot; the latter is obviously going to seem simpler. The point is the k8s analogue of that isn&#x27;t actually complicated. If you&#x27;ve seen teams waste months making it complicated, that was their choice.


type: comment
by: Natfan
text:
  it doesn&#x27;t surprise me in the least that Japanese passengers are the most likely to be safe, and USAmericans are the least likely


type: comment
by: hshdhdhj4444
text:
  Not really.<p>The gist of it is if Google decides to build GMail but Gmail silently deleted emails that it did not find entertaining enough so you didn’t even know they were ever sent to you.<p>The article is saying some people see ActivityPub as a communication protocol like Gmail where you expect all messages to be delivered, while others see it as an entertainment protocol where the goal is to entertain the user.


type: comment
by: fuzzfactor
text:
  &gt;Wouldn’t fast efficient light rail been generally better?<p>Light rail has been there since before the toll lanes.<p>This is not a small medical center, some of the hospitals are skyscrapers.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
text:
  As I had already finished a reply to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405900">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405900</a> when I found out it had died, here it is:<p>FACT: There&#x27;s a lot that the United States can do to make the situation much worse or better.<p>FACT: However bad the current situation is, continuing the emissions will keep worsening it.<p>FACT: Digging in on dying technologies supports the prosperity of our less idiotic adversaries.<p>FACT: You will be downvoted to oblivion by people who are more aware of what the actual facts are.


type: comment
by: your_fin
text:
  Can confirm; my team spent the past 9 months upgrading an application JDK 8 -&gt; 17, and there were breaking changes even after we got it compiling + running


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  this is not true - if you know for certaint that trump will be president through winning an election in 2028 you can make over 20X your money.<p>at the end of the day people don&#x27;t actually believe it, which is why trump is valued little. people who aren&#x27;t willing to bet with their money on things they say so absolutely aren&#x27;t serious people.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  These are not commonly called slip roads in Texas - the term is feeder road.  Most feeder roads in the metro areas are lined with business or multifamily residential frontage.


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  That probably says more about the area you live in than the public schools.<p>Around here the grounds are not only open outside of school hours, but explicitly so (they have closing hours posted: 9PM).


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I&#x27;m unable to follow the point of the significance of GLP1s. I also wouldn&#x27;t describe the expense as biotech I think healthcare is a better description.<p>Finally the US&#x27;s current healthcare system is truly broken. Our elected officials choose to ignore the issue and act as if we are fortunate to have this system. Which must be the least efficent way to deliver healthcare.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  News from a few weeks ago, multiple submissions around here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate&#x2F;87798771007&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;trum...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;climate&#x2F;national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;climate&#x2F;national-center-f...</a>


type: comment
by: zosima
text:
  What has closing a government agency to do with free speech?<p>Did you interpret the calls for the end of censoring and cancellations that all government agencies must continue to exist forever?<p>And if so is there any resemblance of logic behind that interpretation?


type: comment
by: Mountain_Skies
text:
  When I worked for a tollway (not SF so maybe they&#x27;re different), toll violations were enforced by mailing a ticket to the offender after the fact. There weren&#x27;t any patrols out on the road looking for violators. Don&#x27;t pay the fine (plus the toll), don&#x27;t get to renew your license plates. We had agreements with some other states for enforcement against their vehicles in our state. The cameras rarely were unable to get a good enough view of the license plate for the CSRs to not be able to find out whose vehicle it was.


type: comment
by: avemg
text:
  Do we need to wait for a tragedy before we do something? Good on the airlines and regulators for recognizing a burgeoning problem and taking action before (hopefully) it leads to unnecessary deaths.


type: comment
by: amelius
text:
  Meh, after housing now yet another resource only available to the rich?<p>I think rationing is more fair and the only way to prevent massive outrage until maybe we have reduced the wealth gap to a large degree.


type: comment
by: xvxvx
text:
  From their site: &#x27;Employee mental health and wellbeing is another core focus at MongoDB. It’s important for us to help break the stigma around mental health and provide our employees with the support they need, especially at work. We are dedicated to providing our employees with valuable tools to face all of life’s challenges and offer mental health programs that provide confidential assistance from qualified professionals.&#x27;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blog&#x2F;culture&#x2F;employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blog&#x2F;culture&#x2F;employee-benefi...</a><p>Never trust this horseshit!


type: comment
by: petesergeant
text:
  I think the first JavaScript book I bought, circa 1998(?) briefly mentioned server-side JavaScript, and then until Node came out, I never saw it again. It&#x27;s fair to say Node took server-side JavaScript from an obscure curiosity to the behemoth it is now.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  &quot;Bored&quot; is the worst motivation.  Was just re-watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and appreciating it more than before (can only imagine the fights the director had with the money people at the end!) and enjoyed Asuka Langley Soryu saying &quot;Kiss me because I&#x27;m bored&quot; and concluding &quot;That&#x27;s the last time I kiss a boy because I&#x27;m bored!&quot;


type: comment
by: andy99
text:
  &gt; Japanese passengers “are going to get out of the aircraft,” Mr Careen said, while travellers in North America appear most likely to delay evacuating to retrieve their belongings.<p>I’d 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.<p>I don’t think people should grab their bags in an emergency, but it’s amazing to me that airlines act like they can’t even understand why people do. It feels like common sense about a low trust society, and airlines do nothing whatsoever to engender trust otherwise.


type: comment
by: ffsm8
text:
  It seems you&#x27;re unaware just how many people are climate change sceptics - and not just in the uneducated groups, it&#x27;s all over the spectrum.<p>Frankly, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised about this at all. If anything, I think it might even be the same cause: because climate change sceptics <i>were</i> being suppressed before Trump.<p>To be upfront: I&#x27;m not American, but it&#x27;s hard not to notice how the narrative has changed all over the internet.<p>My personal perspective to the climate crisis has always been a defeatist attitude, I was always in favor of green energy etc, but that&#x27;s primarily because it would also improve the local area, Air quality etc. from a climate change perspective, it was always pointless, because that&#x27;s a global issue and cannot be solved by internal regulation in a singular country


type: comment
by: 65a
text:
  In a signature context, you probably want someone else to know that &quot;you&quot; signed it (I can think of other cases, but that&#x27;s the usual one). The way to do that requires them to know that the key which signed the data belongs to you. My only point is that this is actually the hard part, which any &quot;replacement&quot; crypto system needs to solve for, and that solving that is hard (none of the methods are particularly good).


type: comment
by: axiolite
text:
  Why should a delivery driver pay the toll for the road to my house, and not me?  Why should I be able to exploit flat-rate product pricing like that and skim some money from all customers of the delivery service?<p>Why should I pay the toll to drive to a friend&#x27;s house?  They&#x27;re the one getting the benefit out of having easy access to transportation.<p>What if my taxes pay for all the roads in my town, while the neighboring town chooses to implement tolls instead?  Why should I get double-taxed?  Prisoner&#x27;s dilemma and race-to-the-bottom?<p>Why should I have to deal with having my license plate stolen, and police time wasted (who are paid out of taxes), because of people who don&#x27;t pay the tolls?


type: comment
by: vanschelven
text:
  I wonder if the author is aware of Neil Postman&#x27;s work, especially &quot;Amusing ourselves to death&quot;. It seems very relevant to this article.


type: comment
by: derektank
text:
  Besides price signals, what other tools are available to communicate local knowledge through an economy? I can’t think of any that are particularly effective


type: story
by: naves
title: Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan
url:
  https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/floppy-disk-pre-paid-cash-card-launched-in-taiwan-nfc-payment-method-only-has-a-card-function-warns-supplier-so-keep-it-out-of-your-fdd


type: comment
by: bob1029
text:
  &gt; Increase the toll prices to reduce congestion<p>This stretch of road is already using congestion&#x2F;dynamic pricing. I&#x27;ve never had to go slower than 85mph the entire way.


type: comment
by: upofadown
text:
  Some of these are suggesting that an attacker might trick the victim into decrypting a message before sending to the attacker. If that is really the best sort of attack you can do against PGP then, yeah, that is the kind of vibe you might get.


type: comment
by: tehjoker
text:
  i thought starlink was using a low orbit that separated it from most other objects and would cause relatively rapid decay of debris. are there other objects in that orbit we should care about?


type: comment
by: quadruple
text:
  I am not a kernel developer, so I don&#x27;t really have any idea what this means, but CIX appears to have patches in the Linux kernel[0], so I assume mainlining more stuff is in the works?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;ml&#x2F;all&#x2F;20250609031627.1605851-1-peter.chen@cixtech.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;ml&#x2F;all&#x2F;20250609031627.1605851-1-peter.chen@c...</a>


type: comment
by: homeonthemtn
text:
  I didn&#x27;t read fuck all. I mean I read all of 2 books, which was fine, but I&#x27;m offended at my low book count this year. I intend of changing that asap.


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  &gt; Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations?<p>I’d say we’ve already got measurable statistics.  When half of genz isn’t dating or married, it’s signaling trouble.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aibm.org&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;gen-zs-romance-gap-why-nearly-half-of-young-men-arent-dating&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aibm.org&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;gen-zs-romance-gap-why-nearly-ha...</a><p>Now, we can discuss if that’s good or bad for the planet, but it’s not great for humanity.


type: comment
by: Mountain_Skies
text:
  In the medical scenario, having medical workers sit around waiting for the train after they&#x27;ve driven to the station would be a problem if their presence is needed quickly. Or did you also want everyone to cram into high rises clustered around stations?


type: comment
by: chasil
text:
  Toxoplasma Gondii is noted for causing behavioral differences in infected hosts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_differences_of_infected_hosts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_d...</a>


type: comment
by: probe
text:
  Very dumb question, but how exactly does gene therapy work in vivo? Don&#x27;t you have to modify every cell (or affected type of cell) with a new copy of the DNA? How does that actually.... happen?


type: comment
by: ggm
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commission.europa.eu&#x2F;topics&#x2F;research-and-innovation&#x2F;choose-europe_en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commission.europa.eu&#x2F;topics&#x2F;research-and-innovation&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  What&#x27;s funny about this is that the whole idea of the &quot;web of trust&quot; was (and, as you demonstrate, is) literally PGP punting on this problem. That&#x27;s how they talked about it at the time, in the 90s, when the concept was introduced! But now the precise mechanics of that punt have become a critically important PGP feature.


type: comment
by: toss1
text:
  But this is particularly egregious<p>&gt;&gt;&quot;...She asked for an extension to complete her treatment, or at the least a short period to consult with her medical providers about whether and how she might be able to return to work before the treatment was completed. ..&quot;<p>&gt;&gt;&quot;An extension of Annie’s leave would have cost MongoDB nothing. We made it clear that they did not need to pay her or hold her job open for her. We just asked them not to fire her while she was in such a vulnerable state, as we feared that would result in tragedy. We just wanted a little more time to get her stabilized.&quot;<p>There is no plausible need of management that would outweigh simply letting someone stay on the books as &quot;employed-on-unpaid-leave&quot; for some extra weeks or months.<p>Whoever did this should be held personally responsible for negligent harm.<p>And yeah, never touching their software, IDGAF how useful it is.<p>Sickening


type: comment
by: BrandoElFollito
text:
  These are not fish specific to religious people.<p>Helping in these areas is what makes us human. If you need to invoque a deity to explain the action, good for you. The most important part is that help is provided.<p>Now, unexpected pregnancies is not the strong part of Christianity. When you start to promote teaching about sex and birth control we can talk.


type: comment
by: rlmp_89
text:
  It has been well theorized by A. Dugin : Wére now in the era of full realization &#x2F; triumph of postmodernity. After having crushed all its 20th-century adversaries, western liberalism and its ideology of universal &#x27;progress&#x27;  will destroy everything that makes us truly human


type: comment
by: AlexeyBrin
text:
  If you want to see the full documentary search for &quot;Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age&quot;.


type: comment
by: coolThingsFirst
text:
  Westerners are so entitled.<p>Even flying coach is like a luxury for me. I&#x27;m giddy during all the flight and flirt with the flight attendants. ;)


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  The point of the article is that you&#x27;re paying one way or another. Roads aren&#x27;t free to build and&#x2F;or maintain... in fact, it&#x27;s extremely expensive to build and maintain them. It&#x27;s just that all levels of gov&#x27;t have allowed revenues from the gas tax get inflated away by both regular inflation and increased fuel efficiency.<p>Determining who pays to maintain these systems is a political decision, but it certainly makes sense that we should really be charging people who use them. Adding a luxury tax to folks who want to skip traffic seems like a free lunch for everyone else. At the end of the day, suburbanites want to force the rural and urban dwellers to subsidize their primary mode of transportation (large, dense highways), but it&#x27;s becoming more and more politically untenable.<p>I think the most important thing to think about here, is how this affects long term real estate values and development patterns. 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.


type: comment
by: jrflowers
text:
  &gt; Really quite nasty of the company.<p>&gt; This is a sad situation<p>I like this post where you agree with the person you’re replying to and then imagine somebody posting “Wow this was so unexpected because my worldview does not have room for companies to be mean, can somebody explain this??” and calling out that imaginary poster for being naive.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  <i>Europe slams visa bans after US takes fresh swing at allies over &#x27;censorship&#x27;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;france-condemns-us-visa-ban-imposed-ex-eu-commissioner-breton-2025-12-24&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;france-condemns-us-visa...</a>


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  I&#x27;m not American but wish the dems could run someone mainstream and not senile. More like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.<p>I think Harris had the most left wing voting of all senators? At a time when people were getting a bit fed up with woke.


type: comment
by: aipatselarom
text:
  Unusual yes, but I wouldn&#x27;t call them hyperbolic (in the context of its meaning in this thread).<p>Also, wrt. to the Summer of Love, I would think its values are in the complete opposite side of what&#x27;s being discussed here.<p>Excerpt from its Wikipedia page [1]:<p><i>&quot;Many opposed the Vietnam War, were suspicious of government, and rejected consumerist values. In the United States, counterculture groups rejected suburbia and the American way and instead opted for a communal lifestyle. Some hippies were active in political organization, whereas others were passive and more concerned with art (music, painting, poetry in particular) or spiritual and meditative practices.&quot;</i><p>That doesn&#x27;t sound compatible with &quot;young people these days are so desperate to show off their skills, to the point of faking it, to get jobs in the government or the industry&quot;.<p>But I am now curious to hear about how you think both cohorts are related.<p>1. Although I think Wikipedia is trash.


type: comment
by: varispeed
text:
  Theory is that highly skilled people (e.g. capable of creating functioning business) are too valuable for big corporations. They are building their own wealth, instead of corporate shareholder&#x27;s. Governments in the West are lobbied to crush SMEs and force small business owners into corporate slavery. Once you no longer can run your own business and run out of money, you will have no choice but accept a job at corporations for peanuts.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
text:
  Might it be that you can&#x27;t rely on private funding for things that don&#x27;t result in a profit?<p>And that there&#x27;s some disincentive for wealthy people to go against the current administration&#x27;s policies?


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  &gt; normal and completely natural<p>In Portland, where I used to live, there are more hundred-plus-degree days and heat deaths in the last decade than in the city&#x27;s entire recorded history. The city has had to open cooling centers for extended periods every summer for vulnerable people, something that was never needed before outside of specific single-year exceptional heat waves.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&#x2F;weather&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;its_not_just_your_imagination.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&#x2F;weather&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;its_not_just_your...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wweek.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;extreme-heat-claims-third-victim-of-the-year-in-multnomah-county&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wweek.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;extreme-heat-claims-th...</a>


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
text:
  I feel they’re more a miracle from the depths of hell. Sunlight is probably the miracle from heaven.


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  My understanding is that European Air and Ground forces have been able to deter or destroy Soviet&#x2F;Russian Naval operations in the North and Baltic Seas since the start of the cold war. Land based anti-ship missiles have more than enough range to cover the entire water way on their own.<p>This was a major reason the Soviet Union and now Russia never invested in a large navy outside of Submarines.


type: comment
by: tshaddox
text:
  To be fair, this is already true of driving in general. Often in commuter traffic you’ll see one guy driving extremely unsafely, darting in and out of lanes passing everyone as fast as they can. You <i>know</i> this person does this every day for years, saving time by putting everyone else in danger.


type: comment
by: jjtheblunt
text:
  You can&#x27;t see that they&#x27;re in violation: the RF transponder effects compliance and you pay when using the lane, if you&#x27;re talking about the lanes i used to use to great effect, for money.<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FasTrak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FasTrak</a> )


type: comment
by: bbarn
text:
  It was very much on and off for many years.  It was intended to cover the costs then go away.  Instead they installed stream lined overhead tolls to not have to wait at the toll booth anymore and now it&#x27;s just a perpetual tax.<p>It&#x27;s also partially owned by outside investment (specifically the skyway from Indiana)


type: comment
by: throw20251220
text:
  I’m from EU but here’s my take on this. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Nobody forbids those people from NCAR to speak up. The administration simply doesn’t want to pay to cultivate their freedom of speech because NCAR is funded in 95% by the federal government.


type: comment
by: 01HNNWZ0MV43FF
text:
  The price should actually trend up as supply is choked by pollution taxes.<p>Every voter who votes for lower gas prices is agreeing that it&#x27;s better to live inside the cruel empire than to build a world without empire


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
text:
  Yup, just like my dad built his own house, and I have to call a plumber&#x2F;electrician.<p>I can do SOME things, but for more advanced, I need to call a professional.<p>Coincidently the plumber&#x2F;electrician always complains about the work done by the person before him&#x2F;her. Kinda like I do when I need to fix someone else&#x27;s code.


type: comment
by: nostrebored
text:
  “Digging in on dying technologies” is an interesting framing.<p>There is no appetite for oil alternatives that would stop this from meaning the deaths of hundreds of thousands or more people.<p>The fact is there is no effective way to power a stable grid with modern renewables. Increasing the energy mix sustainably is great. But if people truly want to divest from oil and coal there number one issue right now should be how to onboard nuclear energy effectively. This has been true for decades at this point, but purist policies on the right and the left have left it completely unrealized or actively dismantled it.


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  I believe you&#x27;re right. From my limited memory of that period, it was a mechanical constraint.<p>Keycaps tended to be molded with a hollow cylinder or stalk on their base, which fitted through a snug round aperture on the keyboard base and pressed against a spring or other restraint. Pressing the key down against the spring actuated a pcb-mounted push-switch (or bridged a pair of adjacent connectors on the pcb) that provided the keypress signal. Pressing a wide key off-centre would cause the plastic stalk to bind against the enclosing aperture. Forcing the user to press direcly above the stalk mitigates this - hence the raised part of the keycap.<p>There is a stack exchange question about this at [1].<p>As to why the shift keys were wider to begin with, I&#x27;m not sure. Perhaps a consequence of the lack of the mechanical constraints that forced typewriter keyboards into a strict grid due to the interleaving of the lever arms. Some keyboards, notably the Commodore PET, didn&#x27;t use wide shift keys [2] though.<p>It is worth noting that keyboards in that era were machine-specific, and often hard-wired to the main system box. Afaik standardisation and interoperability didn&#x27;t happen until RS232 and, later, ps2 keyboards were introduced.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;16471&#x2F;why-are-older-shift-keys-shaped-the-way-they-are" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;16471&#x2F;why...</a><p>[2] and let me just say here that the PET keyboard was truly awful, even by 80s standards. Just shamefully terrible.


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  At this point the only clock in my life that doesn&#x27;t auto set is the one on my stove, and that&#x27;s because I abhor internet connected kitchen appliances.


type: comment
by: anthk
text:
  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levity.com&#x2F;eschaton&#x2F;sheliak&#x2F;shelform.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levity.com&#x2F;eschaton&#x2F;sheliak&#x2F;shelform.pdf</a><p>Also:<p>Timewave zero for Unix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kl4yfd&#x2F;timewave_z3r0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kl4yfd&#x2F;timewave_z3r0</a><p>The whole page has more info on the formalization:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levity.com&#x2F;eschaton&#x2F;sheliak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levity.com&#x2F;eschaton&#x2F;sheliak&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m quite as pessimistic as you, just because I tend to treat most predictions of how society will adapt to things as a whole as fairly low confidence, but I certainly don&#x27;t disagree that it at least <i>seems</i> hard to imagine people getting past all this quickly.<p>The idea of story being how people justify making their decisions is interesting. I&#x27;m reminded of a couple of anecdotes my father has repeated a few times over the years about two distinct medical circumstances he&#x27;s had. When he was first diagnosed with sleep apnea, he apparently was very skeptical that he had any reason to do anything because the sleep doctor told him things like &quot;this will help you be less sleepy during the day&quot; and &quot;you won&#x27;t start nodding off as you drive&quot; when he didn&#x27;t feel like either of those experiences happened to him. Eventually a different sleep doctor did convince him it was worthwhile to treat, and he&#x27;s used a CPAP since then, he still seems not to feel like it would have made sense for him to start when he first got the diagnosis. Through the lens you&#x27;ve given, the original doctor didn&#x27;t give him a compelling enough story to justify the effort on his part. On the other hand, the first time he talked to a nutritionist about changing his diet, he apparently mentioned something about how he wanted to at least be able to eat ice cream occasionally, even if it was less often, rather than not ever be able to eat it again, and the nutritionist replied &quot;Of course! that would make life not worth living&quot;. He ended up being much more open to listening to the advice of the nutritionist than I would have expected, and I think it would be reasonable to argue that was because the nutritionist was able to give him a story that seemed compelling about what his life would be like with the suggested changes.


type: comment
by: jjtheblunt
text:
  I think the benelovent introvert being discussed seems to have overlooked<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FasTrak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FasTrak</a>


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
text:
  I was speaking to the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. DOGE is simply the current best example.<p>Putting the obvious aside, sure, it’s Trump’s fault the system was so mismanaged that he’s been able to get elected. Twice. You’d think that after the first term the system would have gotten the message. It did not.<p>My recommendation to you is ask: How did we get here? And who is accountable for this?<p>There’s a very good chance those giving you your current narrative marching orders are on that list. Funny, right? Why own their failure when they can convince fools to blame a symptom?


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  &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>If that&#x27;s true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so &quot;taxes equivalent to 35k miles&quot; isn&#x27;t far off.<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>


type: comment
by: anonymars
text:
  &quot;Why don&#x27;t Americans protest?&quot;, everyone wonders...<p>Edit to clarify: perhaps the various sentiments described in the replies didn&#x27;t come about entirely organically


type: comment
by: selectodude
text:
  The issue is that even if I win that bet, they’re paying me my winnings in USD, which is backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government, which has been irreparably destroyed.<p>If I can buy, say, low probability insurance that that will give me a squad of mercenaries and a jet to a bunker somewhere safe, I’d be far more apt to put my money where my mouth is.<p>It’s not a bad bet. It’s just a dumb bet. The payout doesn’t match the risk.


type: comment
by: gerdesj
text:
  &quot;like another company&quot;<p>What kind of org shares cabs?  Monster!<p>Your cab&#x27;s environment should be pretty thermally stable.  Your switches are probably venting to the hot isle through their front ports.  Thermal expansion of glass and the sleeve is going to be negligible over a metre or so.<p>Kinking is a possible issue.  The minimum radius these days is quite tight.  However, if you don&#x27;t leave enough space inside the doors to allow for the terminations it will go horribly wrong.  If you don&#x27;t allow a gap for cable management between all switches and top and bottom, it might go wrong.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  I tried to help them steelman this but the only couple examples of good things I could come up with, I’ve not seen liberals complain about. Hm. Coming up blank.


type: comment
by: bbarn
text:
  Except the impact of even gas prices going up has added to costs in basically anything delivered by truck.  Every tax you put on that just eventually ends up in consumer hands.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  A more charitable explanation is that people believe in a larger set of nearly equivalent outcomes that are not captured in that market.<p>Some possible outcomes (I personally don&#x27;t believe they are very probable), but...<p>There is no &quot;call&quot; or inaugurated at all, Trump stays on via some kind of &quot;emergency&quot;.  The market will fail to resolve to an outcome (based on what it says).<p>Somehow (via a normal election, or the outcome being decided in the House) one of Trumps sons becomes president.<p>This, I think, illustrates some of the problems with far out edge cases in prediction markets.  Nailing down all of the possible outcomes exactly is hard.


type: comment
by: RealityVoid
text:
  I think it&#x27;s a silly conspiracy, but, even if it were, this kind of supression would not be possible to be done by the corporations themselves. They&#x27;re simply too big and too incompetent because of the org overhead to orchestrate such a thing. The state being co opted on the other hand might be capable of doing this on their behalf. I could believe that. (but I don&#x27;t it&#x27;s just silly)


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  I mean, that&#x27;s the <i>de jure</i> purpose, but that&#x27;s really a nonsensical point to make here. We&#x27;re not talking about one controlled access route with two lanes in both directions to move tanks around.<p>We&#x27;re talking about 10 lane monstrosities, with 8 or more flyovers, standing 20 stories high in places like in Houston and Dallas.


type: comment
by: jeffbee
text:
  Well, if the goal is for software running on the host CPU to know the time accurately, then it does matter. The control loop for host PTP benefits from regularity. Anyway NICs that support PTP hardware timestamping may also use PCI LTR (latency tolerance reporting) to instruct the host operating system to disable high-exit-latency sleep features, and popular operating systems respect that.


type: comment
by: tshaddox
text:
  Why stop there? Why should I pay for my own food, given that my employer, friends, and family benefit from me being well nourished?


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  A good start for actually holding people accountable in the US would be prosecuting the entire chain of command responsible for blowing up unarmed South American boats and then murdering the survivors. That one&#x27;s concrete, proven to have happened, and illegal under multiple standards of law, so if we can&#x27;t at least make that happen anything else is unlikely.


type: comment
by: enraged_camel
text:
  &gt;&gt; people who aren&#x27;t willing to bet with their money on things they say so absolutely aren&#x27;t serious people.<p>Either that, or they don’t have money to throw at dumb bets.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  [exe.dev co-founder here] This grew out of our work on sketch. We built a container-based system for it, and found ourselves saying &quot;I wish we just had a computer.&quot; This is our answer to that.<p>If you are interested in our work and agents, I would suggest trying Shelley, the little agent we have in exe.dev. There has been some discussion about what to do with sketch on its discord channel, but we won&#x27;t be putting energy into it going forward.<p>(A blog post with far more details is in the works.)


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  Aren&#x27;t they risking everyone else&#x27;s lives by blocking the aisle? It could be made a serious crime - it&#x27;s easy to see who keeps their bags.<p>Lock the overheads? Maybe that will cause delay if people who keep trying.<p>Also, the same people probably take their under-seat bags. I wonder if that causes delay - maybe it takes up space in the aisle, which would seem to be a bottleneck.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  Story from May;<p>Discussion then: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43997636">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43997636</a>


type: comment
by: Retric
text:
  The FasTrak system shows the occupancy setting, it’s obvious when people are displaying the wrong setting.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
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  &gt; <i>people who aren&#x27;t willing to bet with their money on things they say so absolutely aren&#x27;t serious people.</i><p>There are in fact people who avoid gambling on general principle, unrelated to any one particular thing they&#x27;re being pressured to bet on.


type: comment
by: immibis
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  Another hypothesis:<p>Also on the front page right now is something about postmodernist deconstruction, where it&#x27;s asserted that decades of academics talking to academics for validation have created an inbred dialect of jargon which is incomprehensible to almost everyone and doesn&#x27;t mean a whole lot (though it does have meaning). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405288">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46405288</a><p>Could it not simply be that the control structures of our economy also spent too long chasing validation from each other, developing an inbred language and inbred success metrics, instead of objectively-measured value creation?<p>In fact globally-recognized money forces even people who recognize this is a bad system to still participate in it and chase inbred success metrics instead of actual value creation. It turns subjective metrics into actual wealth. It doesn&#x27;t matter that you created a semiconductor fab in your garage - the person who convinced the right people they were about to create AGI got a lot more money - enough to buy a real semiconductor fab.


type: comment
by: mojuba
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  Thanks. So no fear of losing important stuff to the noise?<p>Also mind you, this is not about productivity. If you don&#x27;t want to act on something, you delete it.


type: comment
by: lokar
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  I really wish we would have special enforcement for just this (and transit), and just adjust the fines and staffing levels until enforcement breaks even on costs, and evasion is minimal.<p>And make the fines based on income.


type: comment
by: user____name
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  They are masters of projection and compartmentalization.<p>These are the same people who were &quot;being censored by the media&quot; while going on Fox News to complain about it.<p>Whining about freedom of speech, or the &quot;demise of Western values&quot;, while banning school libraries worth of classic works of western literature for being &quot;subversive&quot;.<p>Their heads would probably explode reading Plato or J.S. Mill.


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  &gt; Japanese passengers expect to promptly get their stuff back while North Americans know they are effectively throwing it in the garbage<p>If the plane has crashed and people are fleeing for their lives, I doubt people expect to get their bags back.


type: comment
by: arunabha
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  An imprecise, but workable start might be to count the dollar amounts in question and evidence of direct conflict of interests. In both, the current administration has far exceeded previous ones. As others have pointed out, the <i>degree</i> and magnitude of corruption matters. While all corruption is problematic, there is a vast difference between bribes of billions of dollars vs a few thousand.<p>Or, if you prefer, you can count the number of times a president has pardoned someone he openly says he doesn&#x27;t know anything about. At least the previous presidents tried to make up a plausible sounding reason.


type: comment
by: basisword
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  I think in 12 months we&#x27;re not going to know the difference unless we put in some serious effort. I use AI quite a lot and it&#x27;s great, but don&#x27;t like it for &#x27;media&#x27; in general. Personally, I don&#x27;t want to support AI generated audio, video, or text content. This past week I came across an Instagram account, found it interesting and followed it. Admittedly it was some high-level cookie cutter self-help stuff. Easy to catch your attention. Eventually I dug into it a bit more and it was 100% AI generated. I&#x27;d missed it completely and there were no comments suggesting it was AI content either despite over 1m followers. If you want to be sure the media you are viewing is actually created by real people, algorithmic feeds are no longer an option. It will be interesting to see over the next year or two whether there is a large backlash and people start seeking out content they are positive is created by real people, or if that becomes a subculture and the masses are happy with their circus.


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
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  What’s spreading is mass surveillance.<p>Nearly every toll (in NJ or surrounding states) is done via EZ Pass a&#x2F;o license plate readers.<p>It’s nearly impossible to travel without being tracked.


type: comment
by: whimsicalism
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  i would bet you they would still not grab bags even if they had no credible reason to think they would get it back.a significant minority of Americans are quite selfish&#x2F;individualistic


type: comment
by: saghm
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  That&#x27;s a good point; &quot;art&quot; might be a bit too narrow to accurately describe the type of field where people have fairly concrete concerns about how AI relates to what they produce. I&#x27;d be tempted to use the label &quot;creative work&quot;, but even that doesn&#x27;t quite feel like it&#x27;s something that everyone would understand to include stuff like written journalism, which I think is likely to have pretty similar concerns.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
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  Are coal and oil not dying technologies?<p>We can debate how much nuclear is needed, but renewables can do a lot, and just hoping that AI will bring nuclear fusion in 5 years is not a great strategy


type: comment
by: zahlman
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  &gt; They were almost always directed at private companies and organizations moderating content<p>Yes. They were motivated by private individuals losing their livelihood, rather than by organizations losing government funding that was not <i>a priori</i> owed to them.<p>&gt; You should be livid and working to inform people how dangerous this is, not making poor excuses.<p>Or you could fund it.


type: comment
by: thrance
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  I thought (maybe mistakenly) that your body developed immunity to the adenovirus used to edit your own DNA, and so this trick could only be used once? Am I wrong?


type: comment
by: thot_experiment
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  I&#x27;ve tried to ask this before in various contexts and I&#x27;ve never been able to find an answer but maybe commenters on a post like this would know.<p>I like the way that the CJK fonts render without anti-aliasing on windows. I want to know why and how to cause windows to render a non-cjk font of my choosing in this aliased style. I am not opposed to hex-editing or otherwise modifying the font if that&#x27;s necessary. I&#x27;ve never been able to find information bout the mechanism or how it&#x27;s triggered.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
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  The usual way for this to happen doesn’t involve suspending elections. And I’d not bet on a guy that old and infirm winning again in 2028 even if he <i>could</i> legally run.<p>We’ll see how ICE at select polling places and iffy federal-run voter role purges go in 2026. Should set the tone for how far they try to go in 2028.


type: comment
by: cge
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  It appears that by default, gpg doesn&#x27;t output the signed text <i>at all</i> when verifying a cleartext signature.  It does not appear to check for or warn about extra content before or after the cleartext text and signature.  It strictly interprets the start&#x2F;end lines, and won&#x27;t warn or fail for malicious ones.  It does not appear to accept comment headers in the signed message, but does accept them in the signature, which means that a user might think an arbitrarily long message in the signature is actually signed.<p>These all seem like flaws in gpg and the standard.


type: comment
by: exabrial
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  You have something like 45s-90s to get off an airplane and sprint for your life, I&#x27;ve heard. (If anyone has a source, post it). Keep your phone, passport, and your keys in your pockets, and your shoes on your feet during taxi, takeoff, landing. Do not wear flip flops on airlines (you can&#x27;t run in them) and they provide zero fire protection if you have to run across flaming ground. Everything is replaceable.<p>I hope it never comes to it, but I would absolutely &quot;move&quot; a person towards the exit, if needed, if they stopped to get their bag, only to save the lives of everyone else.


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  Lives are at stake; it doesn&#x27;t matter if you get your bags back and that isn&#x27;t hard to understand. Also, if the plane is on fire, you&#x27;re probably not getting them back.<p>&gt; After drilling into passengers nonstop to never leave their bags unattended is it any surprise passengers don&#x27;t leave their bags unattended?<p>That&#x27;s while going to your flight in an airport. I don&#x27;t think anyone confuses the situations.


type: comment
by: kcb
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  I have the itx board from radxa. This CIX chip is a disappointment, you&#x27;ll never see the 2.8ghz.


type: comment
by: unparagoned
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  Think of it this way if the sentence for speeding was life in prison, do you really think that wouldn’t have any effect on people speeding.<p>I think this just highlights how stupid the idea is that punishment doesn’t act as a deterrent


type: comment
by: teeray
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  Put some kind of deadbolt in there that seals the overhead compartments if the pilot declares an evacuation.


type: comment
by: _virtu
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  Remember this type of comment. Never let yourself fall into this type of thinking when trying to understand what your users want.<p>Instead of passing judgement on why someone values something, why not ask?<p>For example, if you were to ask me why I chose to keep using an IDE that I had spent years of my life building muscle memory using perhaps you would get a better understanding of the specific part of the lifecycle I was at when paying for software.<p>It&#x27;s not that the git gui was the reason why I signed up for the software in the first place. The git gui was the last reason for me to not jump ship when switching to something like neovim or helix. This was during a time where LSP was becoming popular so refactoring tools and intellisense were finally getting better adoption outside of the JetBrains tooling. Most of this was achievable with editor du jour + lsp plugins, but the git ui was the one piece I hadn&#x27;t personally solved outside of the JetBrains ecosystem.


type: comment
by: akerl_
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  So if we need a pre-established channel anyways, why would people recommending a replacement for GPG workflows need to solve for secure key distribution?<p>This is a bit like looking at electric cars and saying ~&quot;well you can&#x27;t claim to be a viable replacement for gas cars until you can solve flight&quot;


type: comment
by: creato
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  Does that setting actually matter? When I lived in the area that had these, I always forgot to set it when the number of passengers in my car changed. I never saw any difference. The charge is the same.


type: comment
by: geremiiah
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  In a parallel universe RMS read Ayn Rand, joined her cult of selfish greed and the world is running a closed source UNIX clone developed by JLU (Just Like Unix), the $5T corporation funded by him.<p>All of this to say, it&#x27;s amazing how this man&#x27;s personality had such a profoundly positive effect on the computing landscape of today and how different things might have been otherwise, especially because he&#x27;s more the exception than the rule in terms of personalities in the hacker space.


type: comment
by: saghm
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  The public domain certainly would be appealing, especially with regards to adding an additional deterrent to just forming the company again to do the same thing. Sadly all of this is probably a pipe dream though, so I&#x27;m mostly trying to make the point that there is a coherent implementation of this sort of policy, even if it&#x27;s not something likely to happen.


type: comment
by: StrLght
text:
  Because nothing screams you&#x27;re serious more than throwing large sums of money at a shady gambling website.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  I think the article says the goal is evacuation in 90 seconds with half the exits available, but that it hasn&#x27;t been achieved yet.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  You introduced &quot;short-lived&quot; vs &quot;long-lived&quot;, not me. Long-lived as wall-clock time (months, years) is the default interpretation in this context.<p>The Alice &#x2F; Bob comparison is asymmetric in a misleading way. You state Bob Ltd retains all private keys indefinitely. A Heartbleed-style attack on their key storage infrastructure still compromises 30 years of backups, not 90 days. Rotation only helps if <i>only</i> the current operational key is exposed, which is an optimistic threat model you did not specify.<p>Additionally, your symmetric key point actually supports what I said. If data is encrypted with ephemeral symmetric keys and the asymmetric key only wraps those, the long-lived asymmetric key&#x27;s exposure does not enable bulk decryption without obtaining each wrapped key individually.<p>&gt; &quot;There is no way to securely satisfy your use case&quot;<p>No need to be so dismissive. Personal backup encryption with a long-lived key, passphrase-protected private key, and offline storage is a legitimate threat model. Real-world systems validate this: SSH host keys, KMS master keys, and yes, even PGP, all use long-lived asymmetric keys for confidentiality in non-ephemeral contexts.<p>And to add to this, incidentally, age (the tool you mentioned) was designed with long-lived recipient keys as the expected use case. There is no built-in key rotation or expiry mechanism because the authors considered it unnecessary for file encryption. If long-lived keys for confidentiality were inherently problematic, age would be a flawed design (so you might want to take it up with them, too).<p>In any case, yeah, your point about high-fan-out keys with large blast radius is correct. That is different from &quot;long-lived keys are bad for confidentiality&quot; (see above with regarding to &quot;age&quot;).


type: comment
by: beeburrt
text:
  It evolved into gangstalking via fusion centers contrary to Wikipedia&#x27;s claim that it&#x27;s mAsS dElUsIoN which is obviously false to anyone who&#x27;s done more than a cursory look into it. Look up NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart and also watch the tragic video of Myron May who gives an accurate description of their tactics. Ask me how I know.


type: comment
by: Natfan
text:
  any process can be made less efficient, especially by firing those who are aware of how the system actually works...


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  &gt; Link me so I can draw some circles for you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntta.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2025-06&#x2F;06-27-2025_Annual-Report_2024_Digital.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntta.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2025-06&#x2F;06-27-2025_...</a><p>&gt; then regulates a consumption tax on the road<p>Yeah, the toll. One assumes you&#x27;re not talking about the toll but other tax revenues when you&#x27;re complaining about tax payers paying for the road. Obviously the tolls go to pay for the toll road, so what&#x27;s the point otherwise about talking about the taxpayers paying for it?<p>Buddy it&#x27;s really exhausting ngl having people always assume every toll organization is a private enterprise. It&#x27;s not just a 3 step accounting trick, please don&#x27;t presume you know how every toll arrangement is made.<p>And if your point is the idea of government bonds going to private investors, well, how do you think the freeways are financed? How does it make a difference then if it&#x27;s a freeway or a toll road or a library or a playground? It&#x27;s all financed in largely the same way. Government bonds issues to selected investors.


type: comment
by: danpalmer
text:
  Very much agree. I would have no expectation of getting anything back, and people travel with some of their most important items: passports, visas, credit cards, laptops, phones.<p>Unless I actually think I&#x27;m going to die, i.e. if it feels like it&#x27;s more cautionary, I&#x27;d be very tempted to grab my essentials.<p>Trust is absolutely the thing that needs to be built. Trust that I&#x27;m going to be taken care of, trust that I&#x27;m not going to have visa issues without any ID, trust that I&#x27;m going to be compensated, fast, if I don&#x27;t get my expensive possessions back.


type: comment
by: basisword
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  &gt;&gt; The singular purpose of social media has always been advertising.<p>This just isn&#x27;t true. There was a time when we had a chronological feed, only containing content from friends and family, and no advertising. The business model end goal was always advertising but social media doesn&#x27;t necessarily need to be for that purpose (e.g. the fediverse).


type: comment
by: Mawr
text:
  For Go, there are more impactful features: minimal version selection and the culture of fewer, but larger dependencies.<p>Your average Go project likely has 10x fewer deps than a JS project. Those deps will not get auto-updated to their latest versions either. Much lower attack surface area.


type: comment
by: cryptica
text:
  This is part of the reason why I never worked for big tech. I always have a side project going. I cannot function without a side project.<p>I don&#x27;t believe that any corporation would ever reward me for any reason; so without a side project, I wouldn&#x27;t have hope... How would I get out of bed in the morning to go to work, without hope?<p>For me; day job is survival, that&#x27;s it. I do it well because I&#x27;m well practiced and I need good output to provide me narrative cover but I don&#x27;t trust any of it. I&#x27;m not invested in my day job at all. I assume it&#x27;s all a PsyOp and I could lose the job any day for any weird reason. I act and pretend constantly and I care about nothing and no one and I trust no one...<p>I literally believe that if I worked for some big tech company which was actually rewarding employees for real, that they would stop rewarding employees as soon as I became one. I&#x27;ve encountered a situation like this in the past. Horrible situation. The secret to happiness is just don&#x27;t expect anything and do unto others what they do to you.


type: comment
by: NeutralCrane
text:
  Property ownership is ultimately based on scarcity. If I using a thing prevents others from using that thing, there is scarcity, and there should be laws protecting it.<p>There is no scarcity with intellectual property. My ability to have or act on an idea is in no way affected by someone else having the same idea. The entire concept of ownership of an idea is dystopian and moronic.<p>I also strongly disagree with the notion that it inspires creativity. Can you imagine where we would be if IP laws existed when we first discovered agriculture, or writing, or art? IP law doesn’t stimulate creation, it stifles it.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  In most situations the restricted lane (regardless of how you pick who gets to use it), does in fact benefit everyone else.<p>Under high congestion traffic throughput plummets. Restricted access to one or more lanes lets you keep them flowing at near the peak, increasing the overall throughput of the system by much more than one of the congested lanes.


type: comment
by: exabrial
text:
  Agree, If you&#x27;re caught running with a bag from a plane (as we&#x27;ve seen on video): zero eligibility for &quot;survivor benefits&quot;, $50,000 fine for endangerment, plus 100% liability for any injuries of those behind you.


type: comment
by: rekttrader
text:
  It is a fair assumption that they do this regularly, politics aside one should ask why were there so many FBI agents at the Jan 6 debacle and why didn’t they do more to quell the violence. The origins of Ruby Ridge and Waco are fine examples of insanity. Nevertheless inciting crime and capturing bad guys seems like a game they like playing.


type: comment
by: drivebyhooting
text:
  Debtors who roll their loans also go bankrupt when the fed raises interest rates.  Rolling loans is par for the course for many capital intensive businesses. This is because in a low interest rate environment if you act prudently you’ll get outcompeted.


type: comment
by: rvba
text:
  Do you seriously think that polymarket, an anonymous tool where KGB can easily put some money for propaganda purposes, matters?


type: comment
by: linsomniac
text:
  You must be talking about spinning discs, since we were talking about Macbooks I was talking SSDs but obviously could have been more clear about that.<p>But I&#x27;m probably more picky about drives than you are as well, if you&#x27;re ordering $208 16TB externals.  I just ordered a 14TB spinning for $350, but it&#x27;s a Ultrastar.  The SSD I got is the Samsung 9100 Pro, at $190 before tax.


type: comment
by: spiantino
text:
  Founders could either get paid through secondary as well or through new employment agreements. Secondary is much more tax efficient, otherwise it doesn&#x27;t really matter


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Does anyone know what the research says? I found a few things, but I don&#x27;t know if they represent the consensus, etc. Maybe it&#x27;s in airline regulations somewhere?<p>For example,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;DCA00SS002.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;DCA00SS002....</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trid.trb.org&#x2F;View&#x2F;2570651" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trid.trb.org&#x2F;View&#x2F;2570651</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;data_research&#x2F;research&#x2F;med_humanfacs&#x2F;aeromedical&#x2F;cabinsafety&#x2F;evacuation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;data_research&#x2F;research&#x2F;med_humanfacs&#x2F;aer...</a>


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  I&#x27;m indifferent to the idea of businesses in general. I genuinely dislike businesses that make profits from breaking laws and then don&#x27;t have to suffer the consequences that individuals would suffer from the same actions.


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  The printing of dollars by the Fed comes with a secondary effect - the dollars are not evenly distributed amongst the population. They are printed via market action, and the ones who are closest to the market action are free to capture as large of a share as markets allow.<p>Over time, it&#x27;s natural that actors will optimize the above system to capture as many dollars from the printer as they can.


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
text:
  Depends on the area. The 210 in Los Angeles allows you to jump on the toll-lanes for free if you have &gt;= 3 people in the car.<p>And I think at certain times it&#x27;s only &gt;= 2 people.


type: comment
by: DoctorOW
text:
  I would say the funding model is what makes the difference.<p>Wikipedia sells information (in the form of &quot;Donate or this could all go away&quot;) and is financially incentivized to make that information comprehensive and high quality. YouTube sells influence, and it is precisely that practice I object to.<p>Think about the videos on your homepage, in your recommended videos, which publishers you hear from immediately and which disappeared. I can see it trying to manipulate me.


type: comment
by: subdavis
text:
  Duplicate of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46394914">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46394914</a>


type: comment
by: Retric
text:
  It makes a difference in some locations such as I-580 5am-8pm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;using-your-fastrak-flex-toll-tag-faqs.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;using-your-fastrak-fl...</a>


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  That&#x27;s great.  He should keep doing it.  Also study what the constitutional requirements and limitations of &quot;free speech&quot; are.


type: comment
by: Epa095
text:
  Where would this blockade be? In the NATO sea (baltic sea)? Covered by European Nato countries at every direction, and then whole entry passes through Denmark.


type: comment
by: ece
text:
  I would like to see the ratio of toll prices to public transport available for each state properly normalized. Would be interesting to see a correlation.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  people who claim to know the winning lotto numbers but never buy tickets shouldn&#x27;t be taken seriously =)


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  Localities large and small have been moving towards higher density, walkable and transit oriented development for years now.  It&#x27;s happening, and it works.


type: comment
by: pjc50
text:
  &gt; it&#x27;s a shame politicians can&#x27;t be kept accountable tens of years from now.<p>Donald Trump is 79. He can only be held accountable in the afterlife, if there is one.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  (This is meant to be a reply to the post one up from this but it is dead)<p>The Boomer vote was almost evenly split between Trump and Harris. 50% Trump 49% Harris. Look to other generations for the main blame for Trump.


type: comment
by: purkka
text:
  Per the tweet linked in the article there were <i>also</i> random bans in addition to the ban feed shitposting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;KingGeorge&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004902566434668686" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;KingGeorge&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004902566434668686</a>


type: comment
by: flobosg
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;2024.09.09-143955&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;2024.09.09-143955&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.co...</a><p>(2024)


type: comment
by: alright2565
text:
  The two recent examples I can think of are the Gaza ceasefire, as well as the general concept (and not actual implementation) of re-industrializing the USA in the context of China&#x27;s dominance.


type: comment
by: basisword
text:
  &gt;&gt; On the other hand that&#x27;s not enough for a business<p>It could be. Once Facebook had everyone on board they could have pivoted to a model where people pay directly. It&#x27;s easy to forget how incredibly useful it was in the early years. It&#x27;s not enough for a business that needs to endlessly grow but businesses don&#x27;t NEED to do that - especially tech companies where costs can be incredibly low once the initial website is built.


type: story
by: nikhonit
title: Show HN: Turn Your Git Commits into Tweets
url: https://landkit.pro/git-to-tweet
text:
  OP here. I&#x27;ve been trying to &quot;build in public&quot; recently, but I found that switching context from VS Code to Twitter&#x2F;X just to write &quot;Fixed a race condition&quot; felt like friction. I often ended up posting nothing because translating code-diffs to human-readable text takes more mental energy than fixing the bug.<p>I built Git to Tweet to automate this loop.<p>How it works:<p>It hooks into your GitHub repo (via OAuth).<p>It pulls the metadata and diff summaries of your recent commits.<p>It passes the diff through a specifically tuned prompt (to avoid generic &quot;AI slop&quot;) that extracts the intent of the code change rather than just listing file names.<p>It generates a draft that you can edit before posting.<p>The Tech Stack:<p>Frontend: React + Framer Motion (spent way too much time on the &quot;terminal&quot; animations you see on the landing page).<p>Backend: Node.js&#x2F;Supabase.<p>LLM: Currently testing models to see which is best at understanding code context without hallucinating features.<p>The landing page includes an interactive simulator (hardcoded scenarios for now) if you want to see how the &quot;translation&quot; logic works without connecting a repo.<p>I’m curious if others find this &quot;translation&quot; layer useful, or if you prefer manual changelogs? Feedback on the diff parsing accuracy would be awesome.<p>URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landkit.pro&#x2F;git-to-tweet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landkit.pro&#x2F;git-to-tweet</a>


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  Solar and batteries get cheaper to build and maintain every year (almost to an absurd degree, seriously, look at the charts for the past 2 decades), while nuclear stays the same price.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that nuclear power is bad to have, but there&#x27;s an extremely obvious trajectory here of cheap battery-backed solar everywhere, with few regulatory hurdles and obvious incentives for people to have their own mini solar systems and batteries that take load off the larger grid.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  If you want trust, in any situation, it starts with you: Be trustworthy; lead others and set an example.<p>&gt; Unless I actually think I&#x27;m going to die ...<p>I think those are the situations they are talking about.


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  Just Joker it - two flights to each destination, but your bags are on the other flight.<p>Nobody’s risking their life for someone else’s bag.


type: comment
by: credit_guy
text:
  &gt; The $20B will be paid out to investors.<p>You are stating this as a fact. Do you have any links?<p>Otherwise, the simplest interpretation is that the $20B is paid by Nvidia to Groq, the company, not the investors. I don&#x27;t even think it is legally possible for Nvidia to do a deal with Groq&#x27;s investors directly, rather than with Groq.


type: comment
by: paxys
text:
  This has nothing to do with antitrust. Not like the current administration is going to enforce it anyways. Nvidia simply wants Groq’s tech and leadership without the burden of 500+ employees.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  I don&#x27;t see this as exclusive with monetary fines. If you&#x27;re saying that the remaining assets of the company are so much lower than the amount obtained fraudulently by the time the prosecution happens, I&#x27;d honestly consider it somewhat absurd to consider that a reason to let the company keep operating. By that logic, if I rob millions of dollars from bank and then spend it all by the time I&#x27;m caught, I shouldn&#x27;t have to go to jail for decades so I can make enough money to pay them back.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt;... calling [something] [an inherently subjective term] is objectively...<p>Sorry, I don&#x27;t follow. At any rate, you&#x27;re replying to a post that gave object examples of things that actually happened, and you made not attempt to explain why the things the other person considered unreasonable are actually reasonable.<p>&gt; calling it that as justification for cutting funding is meant as a justification for restricting free speech<p>Freedom of speech as a philosophical concept does not entail entitlement to funding, never mind 1A.


type: comment
by: t1234s
text:
  Still have this in my bookmarks file:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;devedge.netscape.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;2000&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;1.5&#x2F;reference&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;devedge.netscape.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;2000&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: crmd
text:
  I’m not a fan of nanny-state policies, but I would support a law that imposes grave consequences for airline passengers found to be in possession of personal baggage following an evacuation.<p>Because seconds count and lives are on the line, passengers should be trained to treat baggage as if it is radioactive during an evacuation.


type: comment
by: ux266478
text:
  The sun is but a poor, corrupted pun on starlight. The reflecting pool of crude shimmers with thin-film interference like nebulae on the celestial expanse.


type: comment
by: Marsymars
text:
  &gt; But, if your pre-push checks are fast (rather than ~minutes), I can see the utility! It sucks to get an async failure for feedback that can be delivered quickly.<p>I&#x27;m a fan of pre-commit&#x2F;push hooks, but they <i>have</i> to be fast. At &lt;dayjob&gt; our suite of pre-commit hooks are &lt;50ms and pre-push hooks are &lt;5s. They get regularly reviewed for performance, and if anything can&#x27;t be made faster, slow pre-commit hooks will get ejected to pre-push, and slow pre-push hooks will get ejected to the regular CI suite.


type: story
by: jeanmayer
title: Show HN: I Made a Tiny Stranger Things Game While Waiting for the Finale
url: https://www.strangerclicks.com
text:
  I made this for my wife, who’s a big Stranger Things fan, to keep her entertained while we wait for the final episode coming out in a few days.<p>Built in ~2 hours. It’s a short clicker game (~15–20 minutes) and it actually ends.<p>I personally love the tree ui, if I spent more time i&#x27;d definitely improve the performance and replace those emojis with actual images.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  They don&#x27;t have to have any profit, they can be 100% public infrastructure.<p>And the excess revenue can be used to subsidize transit.<p>Tax what you want less of, subsidize  what you want more of.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  [exe.dev cofounder here] Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I am deeply allergic to passwords and so I am trying to delay adding them. Did you try our passkey support?


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  &gt; When two transactions happen at nearly the same time on different nodes, the database must determine which happened first. If clocks are out of sync, the database might order them incorrectly, violating consistency guarantees.<p>This is only true if you use wall clock time as part of your database’s consistency algorithm. Generally I think this is a huge mistake. It’s almost always much easier to swap to a logical clock - which doesn’t care about wall time. And then you don’t have to worry about ntp.<p>The basic idea is this: event A happened before event B iff A (or something that happened after A) was observed by the node that generated B before B was generated. As a result, you end up with a dag of events - kind of like git. Some events aren’t ordered relative to one another. (We say, they happened concurrently). If you ever need a global order for all events, you can deterministically pick an arbitrary order for concurrent events by comparing ids or something. And this will give you a total order that will be the same on all peers.<p>If you make database events work like this, time is a little more complex. (It’s a graph traversal rather than simple numbers). But as a result the system clock doesn’t matter. No need to worry about atomic clocks, skew, drift, monotonicity, and all of that junk. It massively simplifies your system design.


type: comment
by: neomantra
text:
  It&#x27;s not about privacy or malware, although those are important in life.   Maybe I&#x27;m on Reddit too much, but I like knowing what will appear on the other end of a link.<p>I originally posted my own comment with link and prose, but then saw GP&#x27;s comment which preceded mine by an hour, so I deleted mine.  I didn&#x27;t originally realize it was that same video because it didn&#x27;t say so, but then I recognized the link hash.   I want people to see that video, because it&#x27;s so great, so I added context as a reply.


type: comment
by: ejncman
text:
  I created this tool, UpDown is a simple tool to check if a website is accessible. No accounts, no tracking, just the status. It&#x27;s hosted on Fly.io to ensure speed.<p>I would like feedback on:<p>The simplicity of the user interface – is it too minimalist?<p>URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;updown.fly.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;updown.fly.dev&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  Polling places closing early, terrible weather, computers off-line, etc., will of course drive people from voting.  Seeing an ICE agent isn&#x27;t going to deter a citizen from voting any more than deter people taking vacations overseas.  I&#x27;d be more than happy to show ID to vote as the rest of the world does.<p>India can do it.  They had a caste system and yet conduct fair and honest.  We can do it too.


type: story
by: muratsu
title: Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
text:
  I have been a paying Spotify customer for many years now. Thanks to the yearly wrapped event, I am reminded how my use pattern is listening to a limited amount of tracks on repeat.<p>I&#x27;m curious if any of you has made the switch back to listening to mp3s? If you did, which apps are you using?


type: comment
by: baby
text:
  I really think we need to change the system to create some sort of accountability here. I think a number of people in the current government need to go prison.


type: comment
by: colechristensen
text:
  That is an organization judging it&#x27;s own success while a program is accelerating.<p>And if you measure poverty by how much money someone has and then give them money saying you&#x27;ve fixed poverty is tautology.<p>If your plan is to build a client state on perpetual welfare, well sure it&#x27;s easy to be successful.  But you can never leave and it&#x27;s very possible that if you do leave things will be worse than if you had done nothing at all.<p>Whereas if you distribute a bunch of goats and chickens among a community and spread some education about raising goats and chickens, there&#x27;s a good chance you&#x27;ve made a one shot permanent improvement to the quality of life of a community.<p>The criticism for giving direct aid in food and cash isn&#x27;t that things are worse for the people you&#x27;re giving them to while you&#x27;re giving it to them... it&#x27;s that you wreck the local economy for food and everything else because nobody can sell food when food is free and you can&#x27;t price things correctly when money is pouring in.  The money always stops and the aftermath is a disaster.


type: comment
by: altairprime
text:
  Works for me! I do tend to be more optimistic than most. I would scale it so that the tax scale is applied with an exponential factor that concentrates the impact on high-revenue businesses while protecting low-revenue ones. (And I suppose as a bonus it would provide a financial counter-incentive against merged conglomerates, too.)


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  No, I just want to pay a fair amount of taxes. Honestly the gas taxes should be increased or we should move to a tax structure where it&#x27;s mileage, weight, and emissions based.<p>Paying 3x the same taxes while having less externalities isn&#x27;t fair.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  What about the investors into businesses that make money through fraud and other illegal acts? My theory is that if the return on investment for a business making profits through fraud is literally zero, investors would figure out a way to start avoiding investing in fraudulent businesses pretty fast.


type: comment
by: exabrial
text:
  Every time I argue against taxes on HN I&#x27;m told that my view is wrong and that if we try it just one more time it&#x27;ll definitely work this time.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  You could make it opt-in telemetry in the tool itself, that would probably be good enough.<p>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>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>Ranking options by usage is the least complicated part of this, I think. (And it only matters for the popular options anyways -- below a certain threshold they can just be alphabetical.)


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  [exe.dev cofounder here] Thanks for the feedback! We do not support private registries yet but it is very much on our mind, it is one of the first things business customers ask for so we know we have to build it.<p>We are also exploring alternatives for pre-configuring your VM. (Because we make lots of VMs and feel this too, so it is very much on our mind.) One is a sub-second VM &quot;clone&quot; feature, so you can configure a base VM to use as an image.


type: comment
by: m132
text:
  Yes!<p>In an era where most development-oriented software is downloaded with wget&#x2F;git clone&#x2F;[package manager] install, this whole process feels like a slap in the face. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, this is still a huge upgrade over the InstallShield Wizard of the previous versions, which rarely worked at all, and if it did, it would butcher your &#x2F;etc&#x2F;profile, but its still an absolute abomination, bundling an entire JRE for the only rightful architecture x86-64 just to download and unzip a few files.


type: comment
by: baby
text:
  I don&#x27;t understand why we don&#x27;t have more protests in the country. If this was happening in France we would have protests every day


type: comment
by: shadowpho
text:
  Yeah but you can get a n100 on sale for about the same price, and it comes with a case, nvme storage (way better then sd card), power supply, proper cooling solution, and less maintanance…


type: comment
by: _virtu
text:
  That&#x27;s not the only reason I was using the tooling at the time. Specifically everything else regarding the JetBrains ecosystem kept me hooked, but when I was looking to replace what I liked in JetBrains with other tooling the last piece of the puzzle was replacing the git workflow.


type: comment
by: tomrod
text:
  I am not sure that is a useful principle. I tend to keep an umbrella around in the car regardless whether the forecast calls for rain. Do these people similarly avoid stock markets, insurance, and similar products in the risk space?


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  I had a conversation about this with my French teacher a few months ago<p>It was striking how different our outlooks were on the effectiveness of protests. Her position was that together, she and her fellow protesters _could_ enact change. When I look around, the stench of preconsigned defeat permeates the space. We&#x27;ve lived in it for so long that we&#x27;ve become blind to it. We&#x27;ve learned to be helpless.<p>Not to mention, when a fresh face inevitably proposes large scale action, the responses always include FUD about needing to solve the poverty issue first so that participants can even attend such action. The end result is that it&#x27;s stopped at the idea stage, nothing changes, and six months later a new freah face will repeat the cycle.<p>Part of the issue is that without social safety nets, much of the public is afraid that missing a week to a month of work will guarantee them homelessness.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  I think that&#x27;s a reasonable worry, but I&#x27;d encourage you to make sure you do remember this prediction, and update accordingly if they don&#x27;t suppress votes or the voter suppression doesn&#x27;t work. I was worried about Elon Musk&#x27;s efforts to buy off a Wisconsin judicial election earlier this year and became a lot more confident in democracy when it didn&#x27;t work at all.


type: comment
by: pardon_me
text:
  Current LLMs seem to have an opposing goal baked in; don&#x27;t reveal the exact source. They may ignore copyright when training, but revealing actual lists of sources with quotes would be too much of a giveaway.


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
text:
  My personal theory is that one of the (key?) reasons the USA doesn’t have affordable universal healthcare is that it keeps most people tethered to Big Inc.<p>If you remove the incentive from Big Inc’s healthcare benefits, work at such places is far less appealing.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Well, a UNIX clone that was proprietary wouldn’t have become popular like GNU did. If you have to pay for it why not just use the real one?


type: comment
by: carlosjobim
text:
  That argument comes from an ancient list of arguments against gold. But nobody seems to be able to explain why that would matter at all. There doesn&#x27;t need to be any correlation with the amount of currency and the economic output. And there has never been any such correlation, including right now with the dollar or any other currency.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  The average American car <i>does not</i> drive 20k miles. 12,500 is the average yearly mileage.<p>And it&#x27;s an EV, a closer comparison should be something more like a hybrid. It&#x27;s not a giant truck.


type: comment
by: dale_glass
text:
  I don&#x27;t think it punted as much as it never  had that as an intended usage case.<p>I vaguely recall the PGP manuals talking about scenarios like a woman secretly communicating with her lover, or Bob introducing Carol to Alice, and people reading fingerprints over the phone. I don&#x27;t think long trust chains and the use case of finding a trust path to some random software maintainer on the other side of the planet were part of the intended design.<p>I think to the extent the Web of Trust was supposed to work, it was assumed you&#x27;d have some familiarity with everyone along the chain, and work through it step by step. Alice would known Bob, who&#x27;d introduce his friend Carol, who&#x27;d introduce her friend Dave.


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  There are two motives for gambling: one is to win but a bigger one is to harm yourself in a quasi suicidal mood. Gambling hides a state of depression.


type: comment
by: unparagoned
text:
  You don’t really want perverse incentives, like that example where American judges were given kickbacks to imprison kids, so they found innocent kids guilty.<p>I think when money is involved that sort of stuff is much more likely.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  I don’t have anything to add, but just wanted to thank you for this insightful and deeply thought out response. The solutions you list do look like they would work and I hope we find the political will, sooner rather than later.


type: comment
by: mrkeen
text:
  What is the image sharing platform&#x27;s criteria for &quot;entertaining enough&quot;?  Is it whether or not the message is an image?


type: comment
by: ardeaver
text:
  At my last job, we ran all of our tests, linting&#x2F;formatting, etc. through pre-commit hooks. It was apparently a historical relic of a time where five developers wanted to push directly to master without having to configure CI.<p>I too was about to become a war criminal.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  &gt;  I don’t understand who it is that’s supposed to be getting punished or deterred<p>The investors who will continue to make money from the business that committed fraud and lost virtually no profit from it under the current model. As long as fraud continues not to affect the bottom line, businesses aren&#x27;t going to stop committing it.


type: comment
by: anon84873628
text:
  Weird how you can have different prices for different seats at the ball game, or different fare classes on the airplane, or member access lines at museum, or valet parking, or different restaurants, or different clothing stores... But introduce price segmentation on highways and people just can&#x27;t believe it.


type: comment
by: alphazard
text:
  People want to be dollar debtors, not dollar creditors. When I said no one wants dollars, I was referring to people&#x27;s willingness to hold actual dollars or obligations that pay them dollars in the future.<p>Your other comment mentions the AI bubble, and also makes me think you don&#x27;t understand what I&#x27;m saying, since we seem to agree about what happens to dollars and debt in a bubble. Companies are glad to take dollars now in exchange for owing dollars in the future (something they would be less willing to do if the dollar was strong). They then turn around and spend those dollars on GPUs and electricity. They think they can get more done with a dollar this quarter by trading it to NVIDIA or a power company than by holding T bills.<p>Fed rates do not track the real demand to be a dollar creditor. That&#x27;s kind of the point, the Fed is the lender of last resort.   If no one wants to give dollars now for more later, then the Fed becomes a creditor to the treasury <i>at an arbitrary rate</i>.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Visible without JavaScript etc.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;qUe7n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;qUe7n</a> (it was already there when I checked).


type: comment
by: clolege
text:
  The SVS PB-17 Ultra advertises a range of 12-220Hz at -3dB. I imagine it could play a pure 7Hz tone if you turn it up.<p>And most speakers can play infrasound for many non-sinusoidal waveforms [0]. They&#x27;ll drop the fundamental and some lower-end harmonics but can still give a sense of what it sounds like<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;szynalski.com&#x2F;tone#7,saw,v0.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;szynalski.com&#x2F;tone#7,saw,v0.5</a>


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  Is the problem really social media though?  Without some kind of long-distance-capable social medium that we participate in directly, how are we going to know when the news is lying to us?  Social media&#x27;s alternatives <i>also</i> can&#x27;t resist corruption, if we give up this fight, we&#x27;ll lose that one too.<p>I think we can handle communicating with each other at scale, we just have to be more proactive about not letting control over the medium be up for sale, and more inventive about the ways we can protect each other from those who would make us into addicts.


type: comment
by: LaurensBER
text:
  America has a hugely succesful tech sector and low taxes and minimal regulations.<p>Europe has a weak tech sector and relatively high taxes and high regulations.<p>As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better.<p>But he, feel free to tax that tech sector into oblivion. If Europe ever gets it&#x27;s shit together, we would love to take over the crown.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  Why would they need tolls for that? They have your phone location, they have you on number plate readers which don’t require tolls.


type: comment
by: noobermin
text:
  Man, it&#x27;s almost as if trump wasn&#x27;t elected before! I guess an election doesn&#x27;t count as being held to account in public.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Jellyfin<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jellyfin&#x2F;jellyfin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jellyfin&#x2F;jellyfin</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=jellyfin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=jellyfin</a>


type: comment
by: baby
text:
  If Trump indeed manages to turn the country into a dictatorship I think winning money on polymarket is going to be the last thing you&#x27;ll be thinking about


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  Of course it matters.<p>Critical mass being aware is the whole game when it comes to corrupt governance.<p>Minority always gets laughed off.<p>That’s why the Internet being transitioned to feed-overload by state-influenced-at-least corporations is so vital.


type: comment
by: torstenvl
text:
  I&#x27;m not aware of any books being banned, let alone any classic works of western literature. Can you provide any examples?


type: comment
by: rldjbpin
text:
  my comparison was with source catalog in spotify compared to the private tracker. spotify is working on the high fidelity mode, but so far it is not rolled out worldwide.<p>i completely understand the archive&#x27;s decision on applying their own compression.


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  My path was similar, except with Spacemacs, which has excellent Vim-like modal key bindings. I&#x27;ve been using a custom config for many years now, but evil-mode has been a crucial part of my setup. A modal interface is simply easier to use and more intuitive than twisting your fingers to hit complex key chords. I use Vi mode in shells, TUI programs, REPLs, anywhere Readline is supported, etc.<p>So Emacs+Vim is the best of both worlds. You get the infinite extensibility of Emacs and a sane(-ish) programming language, with the superior editing and command interface. The beauty of Emacs is that it really doesn&#x27;t matter how you use it. For some modes you may need to override a keymap, or use a package like evil-collection, but most behave well OOB IME.


type: comment
by: mcswell
text:
  I think the movie you&#x27;re referring to is World without Sun (1964), and the scene (which I too remember) takes place in the &quot;Starfish House&quot;, at about ten meters depth.  They were breathing ordinary air continuously pumped down to them.  So there was plenty of ventilation (although given the two atmosphere pressure, the cigarettes would have burned more quickly).


type: comment
by: hopelite
text:
  Maybe the solution is more going over to a fee based on % of one’s net worth. So since you seem to think something like $6 being an acceptable price for someone with a $500 net worth, maybe 1.2% of net worth for each traversal of a segment is appropriate, so you pay maybe $24,000 with every trip down the toll road and Elon musk pays $9.12 billion, while the bottom of the rung working class can pay $6.


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
text:
  There are plenty of other technologies whose failure mode is a total outage, it’s not exclusive to a failed certificate renewal.<p>A certificate renewal process has several points at which failure can be detected and action taken, and it sounds like this team was relying only on a “failed to renew” alert&#x2F;monitor.<p>A broken alerting system is mentioned “didn’t alert for whatever reason”.<p>If this certificate is so critical, they should also have something that alerts if you’re still serving a certificate with less than 2 weeks validity - by that time you should have already obtained and rotated in a new certificate. This gives plenty of time for someone to manually inspect and fix.<p>Sounds like a case of “nothing in this automated process can fail, so we only need this one trivial monitor which also can’t fail so meh” attitude.


type: comment
by: kalirobot
text:
  Images are increasingly used in search and AI answers, but most systems still reduce them to filenames, alt text, or loosely generated captions. That makes it hard to understand what’s actually in an image, why it’s relevant, and how it should be used in retrieval.<p>VisualQueryPro analyzes images and extracts structured, inspectable visual signals that can be reused in modern search and AI-driven retrieval workflows. The focus isn’t classic image search, but turning visual content into explicit signals that support context, trust, and attribution.<p>The project is still in alpha. Payments aren’t enabled yet, but we’re offering free credits on request to gather feedback and iterate on the approach.<p>Happy to answer questions about the analysis pipeline, structure vs. embeddings, or how visual signals fit into existing SEO and search systems.


type: comment
by: _DeadFred_
text:
  Republicans: We love toll roads.<p>Also Republicans: Toll roads are actually illegal if their intention is for the public good like New York city is doing.


type: comment
by: tomsmithtld
text:
  the &quot;full&quot; mode where agents critique each other seems more interesting than quick synthesis. curious whether you&#x27;ve seen cases where the debate produces something neither model would&#x27;ve suggested alone?


type: comment
by: StanislavPetrov
text:
  You are mistaking owning US debt and having <i>your</i> debt denominated in dollars.  Many foreign countries find it desirable to own US treasuries, but they don&#x27;t want to borrow dollars and have a dollar-denominated debt.  When that happens, and your own currency is devalued, you still owe the same number of dollars.  You now have to buy these more expensive dollars to repay your dollar-denominated debt.


type: comment
by: ncruces
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure either (1) or (2) are the problem.<p>I can understand someone telling me I&#x27;m an old man shouting at clouds if (2) works out.<p>But <i>at least</i> (2) is about a machine saving someone&#x27;s <i>time</i> (we don&#x27;t know at what cost, and for who&#x27;s benefit).<p>My biggest problem with LLMs (and the email Rob got is an example) is when they <i>waste</i> people&#x27;s time.<p>Like maintainers getting shit vibe coded PRs to review, and when we react badly, “oh you&#x27;re one of those old schoolers who have a policy against AI.”<p>No kid, I don&#x27;t have an AI policy, just as I don&#x27;t have an IDE policy. Use whatever the hell you want – just spare me the slop.


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
text:
  Oil’s potential, left deep in the crust, remains latent. Every mote of sunlight, furiously brought to life by the maelstrom, seeks inexorably for immediate purpose.


