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type: comment
by: cycomanic
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  This bugs the hell out of me, somehow these companies argue that training on all sort of  content without is fine because reasons and then have the audacity to attach a new proprietary licence to it.


type: comment
by: antonvs
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  You’re very adamant about not doing an obvious comparison. You want to stop thinking at that point. It’s an emotional reaction, not an intellectual one. Quite an interesting one as well, that possibly suggests a threat response.<p>The assumption you seem to keep making is that things like “clever statistics” and “linear algebra” simply have no bearing on human intelligence. Why do you think that? Is it a religious view, that e.g. you believe humans have a soul that somehow connects to our intelligence, making it forever out of reach of machine emulation?<p>Because unless that’s your position, then the question of how human intelligence differs from current machine intelligence, the question that you simply refuse to contemplate, is one of the more important questions in this space.<p>The insult I see to intelligence 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.


type: comment
by: vitaflo
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  I thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it’s just someone else who is really good at this stuff.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eboy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eboy.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: teiferer
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  I&#x27;d love to know whether that story is actually true.<p>Some dude hears somebody tell a story about sth 20 years ago, puts it in a blog, and here we are on HN, nobody questioning whether it&#x27;s actually accurate. Of course Raymond Chen isn&#x27;t just any random person, but  the more important it would be to actually check? I mean, who hasn&#x27;t heard people tell stories from decades ago, including colleagues reminiscing about the good old times &quot;before y&#x27;all were born&quot; only to realize later that it was vastly exaggerated or even outright made up.<p>Anybody around here with some actual first-hand info or at least another source besides this blog entry? I&#x27;d love to hear!


type: comment
by: scoofy
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  Thank you for this. I will definitely look into it. Anything that will help stem the fire hose of bullshit is a good thing.


type: comment
by: syn-nine
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  Thanks! I really like how I combined the parameter stack and scratchpad from FORTH with the call stack from x86 style assembly. It makes it really easy to get multiple return values from functions. I also really like how lists and the loadat and storeat bytecodes turned out. It became a really elegant way to chain list indexes by pushing and popping addresses from the parameter stack. This was my first use of the scratchpad pattern and I felt like it was a very nice solution to returning temporarily allocated memory up the call chain &#x2F; up scope without requiring memory management. I was also really pleased with how the new() keyword recursively deep copies something out of scratch to the heap.<p>It could use some cleanup though as the speed of the jam left little time to think about doing things in a sustainable way. I&#x27;m not sure I like the var keyword as I typically prefer to be explicit about types.<p>It really turned out pretty powerful though and I think it could be really useful as a library for game scripting.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
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  &gt; This really is all wrong. One might think this based on pitches from different times but all Empires are evil by their definition and America has always been that, always<p>Again, the problem with this train of logic is you inevitable condemn everyone and everything as evil, at which point the word completely loses its meaning. Evil is only useful as a term if there are actually things that are <i>not</i> evil.<p>America has certainly done immoral, unethical and frankly evil things. It&#x27;s also done moral, beautiful and even heroic things. It&#x27;s a big complicated entity made up of literally millions of people and trying to summarize it as &quot;good or evil&quot; is pointless.<p>The reason this nuance matters is that we want, <i>need</i> to encourage doing <i>good</i> and the first step to doing that is to actually be able to distinguish between good and evil.


type: comment
by: alwillis
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  Apple essentially invented color matching on personal computers back in the classic Mac OS days; it&#x27;s hard to believe after all this time, they&#x27;re not dealing with color correctly.<p>The WebKit blog from 2016:<p><i>WebKit color-matches all images on both iOS and macOS. This means that if the image has a color profile, we will make sure the colors in the image are accurately represented on the display, whether it is normal or wide gamut. This is useful since many digital cameras don’t use sRGB in their raw format, so simply interpreting the red, green and blue values as such is unlikely to produce the correct color. Typically, you won’t have to do anything to get this color-matching. Nearly all image processing software allows you to tag an image with a color profile, and many do it by default.</i><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;6682&#x2F;improving-color-on-the-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;6682&#x2F;improving-color-on-the-web&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: jqpabc123
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  <i>then who would be facing consequences for that?</i><p>Your analogy is bad.<p>&quot;Some little on-line forum&quot; with a few angry users is not really comparable to a mega-corp with billions of users.<p>Lawyers could but are unlikely to go after a few misguided individual users for slander. As they say, you can&#x27;t get blood out of a rock. Mega-corp is a much more tempting target.<p>Legal liability for bad AI is just getting started but I expect lawyers are giddy with anticipation.


type: comment
by: m3047
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  Upvoted because I think it&#x27;s an important topic, but this take causes me to question the <i>motive</i> for the article... which ironically is my big concern with using LLMs to write stuff generally (the unconscious censoring &#x2F; proctoring of voice and viewpoint):<p><pre><code>  That means that if an officer is caught lying on the stand – as shown by a   contradiction between their courtroom testimony and their earlier police   report – they could point to the contradictory parts of their report and say,   “the AI wrote that.” </code></pre> IANAL but if they signed off on it then presumably they own it. Same as if it was Microsoft Dog, an intern, whatever. If they said &quot;the AI shat it&quot; then I&#x27;d ask &quot;what parts did you find unacceptable and edit?&quot; and then expect we&#x27;d get the juicy stuff hallucinations or &quot;I don&#x27;t recall&quot;. Did they write this, or are they testifying to the veracity of hearsay?<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen reports written by &#x2F; for lawyers &#x2F; jurists &#x2F; judges already &quot;pull&quot; to a voice and viewpoint; I&#x27;ll leave it there.


type: comment
by: wyldfire
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  &gt; the government has been for sale for a long time<p>The government has been under significant influence of corporations for a long time: this is true.  But now bribes are being accepted unabashedly.  Presumably, hopefully, this won&#x27;t last beyond the current administration.  To equate the two is dishonest.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
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  &gt; get the bloody USD printing machine under control<p>The amount the US government spends on debt service is already unreasonable. If the US dollar lost reserve status, the first thing that would happen is that the Fed would have to buy the debt with newly created money to prevent bond rates from causing interest payments to explode. Meanwhile the act of other countries unloading US dollar reserves would cause significant inflation in itself.<p>Basically, loss of reserve status = hyperinflation. At least at the outset.<p>On the plus side, that would pretty much wipe out the excessive amount of US consumer debt as long as wages stay consistent with the value of the dollar.


type: comment
by: somethrowa123
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  the writeup is now available and the recording lives at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical...</a>


type: comment
by: abhishek99
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  There <i>are</i> very performant and capable options like SublimeText out there <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: data-ottawa
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  I use AI a ton and I pay for Claude happily. They&#x27;ve found an incredibly valuable niche and built the best products for it. I almost fail to see what value an AI editor has in comparison.<p>I&#x27;ve released a number of AI fearures at work, but they&#x27;re focused on being good at one specific thing.


type: comment
by: vsroy
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  The tele-op stuff is very interesting. Are there off the shelf SDKs for this type of thing or do you need to build it yourself?


type: story
by: watson
title: Ask HN: Best Email AI Assistant?
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  I’m looking for an AI assistant that works with Gmail. My main requirements are that it should remind me of important mails requiring my attention and draft replies. Pricing is almost irrelevant if it can remove the stress, mental load and missed emails that is my current reality. But there’s a lot of options out there. Which do you recommend and why?


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
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  no paywall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;where-drones-drop-dead-and-gps-goes-haywire-8e560e87?st=pdcwzS&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;where-drones-drop-dead-and-gps-goe...</a>


type: comment
by: smeeagain2
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  The subject of the conversation is that the U.S. government and various other parasitic entities (but I repeat myself) are engaging in a wide scale weather modifications without your permission, right over your head, while gaslighting you into believing any number of various lies as to whether this or happening or not and for what purpose. This is a fact. This is a much more important subject than your &quot;Muh Feelings&quot;, which in this context, simply aren&#x27;t worthy of respect or discussion, as you in fact seem to be totally clueless.<p>Which is exactly what OP meant by &quot;being embarassed for you.&quot; It&#x27;s really sad how ignorant the average person is about <i>everything</i>. The real problem however and what is so contemptible is your arrogance, which prevents you from ever learning <i>anything</i>.


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
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  Science helps figure out “how”.  If you want it to help you figure out “why” (beyond a probabilistic or mechanical model), you will be disappointed.


type: comment
by: matt_s
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  The rolling timeline seems like a good approach to not have free users take a ton of storage but I would think even allowing free users to post video&#x2F;images content at all is going to consume a lot of storage. It might be worth thinking through ideas on how to encourage users to get their network to sign up.


type: comment
by: jMyles
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  &gt; for texts like police reports<p>If what you mean is, &quot;texts upon which the singular violence of the state is legitimately imposed&quot;, then a simple solution (and I believe, on sufficiently long time scales, the happily inevitable one) is to abolish police.<p>I can&#x27;t fathom, in an age where we have ubiquitous cameras as eyewitnesses, instant communications capability to declare emergencies and request aid from nearby humans, that we need an exclusivity entity whose job it is to advance safety in our communities.  It&#x27;s so, so, so much more trouble that it&#x27;s worth.


type: comment
by: swat535
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  This is because, actually practicing the Christian faith vs simply performing theatrics are different things.<p>From my own experience of someone who practices regularly, there is a minority of people who really follow it. They show up to the daily Mass, perform Works of Mercy, do charitable work, etc. The truth is that Christianity demands _a lot_ from you, including saying no to greed, lust and gluttony.<p>How many people are willing to say no to an extra 200k so that someone less fortunate might benefit? Or open their homes to strangers, so that they may not freeze in the cold?<p>I think that one of the worst thing that has happened to our faith is its hijacking by the government for political gain (some lower Churches like Evangelicals are currently _heavily_ suffering due to this).<p>I&#x27;m a Catholic but when I speak to my Protestant friends, they feel the same about their communities. Luckily, we still have each other and Christ to help guide us.


type: comment
by: MisterMower
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  It’s probably all of these factors, but price is going up due to supply inelasticity.<p>It’s similar to oil: demand is what it is, and even if it doesn’t fluctuate much, a refinery exploding or political instability in a producer nation can cause prices to rise by large amounts, even if supply only drops by a few hundred thousand barrels per year.<p>In the 1980’s when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market, households responded by liquidating their Sterling silver and other silver items. That’s ultimately why their strategy failed. Today that domestic source of supply is much smaller, contributing even more to supply inelasticity.<p>This is more of a supply story than a demand story.


type: comment
by: arunabha
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  Can you tell me the last US president to accept literal bars of gold and jumbo jets from foreign monarchs? Or the last one who ran a crypto coin, pardoned a crypto billionaire who he claimed not to know?


type: comment
by: perching_aix
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  Something is off about this.<p>&gt; Plot twist; here was never a gAMA chunk to begin with!<p>But I do see a gAMA chunk in the file?<p>&gt; 00 00 00 04 67 41 4d 41 00 03 5b 5e 5c ff 26 78<p>Which decodes to a value of 2.19998. Conversely, I don&#x27;t see any bundled ICC profiles (iCCP chunks).<p>Mind you, I <i>am</i> able to reproduce the different colors, so something is indeed wrong. Chrome (Windows) and the Photos app (MS Store) both present it as a washed out, ghostly image (I wouldn&#x27;t describe it as foggy, as that to me suggests a blur as well, but alas). In contrast, when I open it in MS Paint (the modern, MS Store app version), I do get saturated colors.<p>UPDATE:<p>The gAMA chunk not only exists, its value is wrong! That&#x27;s the author&#x27;s issue. Either they authored the image incorrectly, or their authoring software is getting it wrong.<p>&gt; Aha! Surely this is a gamma correction issue. Chrome must be applying gamma math differently than desktop apps.<p>And so the author was actually correct here, just the wrong way around. The actual gAMA value stored in the picture is ~2.2, while 0.45455 would be the <i>correct</i> value for a typical sRGB gAMA chunk (1÷2.2). Gamma is 1÷display_exponent, and so the usual &quot;~2.2 gamma&quot; you hear is actually that display_exponent in this context; see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;2003&#x2F;REC-PNG-20031110&#x2F;#12Encoder-gamma-handling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;2003&#x2F;REC-PNG-20031110&#x2F;#12Encoder-gamma...</a><p>After hex editing the gAMA chunk to actually feature the &quot;default&quot; 0.45455 instead, the image now renders correctly everywhere for me.<p>For those looking to repro, these are the bytes I substituted in:<p>&gt; 00 00 00 04  67 41 4D 41  00 00 B1 8F  0B FC 61 05<p>The actual difference then is that apparently some apps simply ignore this chunk and just force 0.45455 anyways.


type: comment
by: yndoendo
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  There is a high chance the extra nuts and bolts added to Windows, which slow it down, are IT required softwoods, settings, and security enhancements.<p>Took me almost a year to get a separate laptop laptop for office and development. Their Enhanced Security prevented me from testing administrative code features and broke Visual Studios bug submission system, which Microsoft requires you to use for posting software bugs.<p>By the way, I can brake Windows simply by running their PowerShell utilities to configure NICs. Windows is not the stable product people think it is.


type: comment
by: tripletao
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  I spent some time looking for sources for the various &quot;railroad investment as % of GDP&quot; numbers floating around, and I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re very good. The modern concept of GDP didn&#x27;t even exist back then, so the denominator is calculated in retrospect from the limited contemporary data. The numerator is more confident, but the papers I found mostly showed closer to 3%. A pretty wide range is at least defensible though, and I guess VCs are comparing against the high end for obvious reasons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44805979">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44805979</a><p>This AI investment is interesting because it&#x27;s mostly not in durable goods, unlike the railroad&#x27;s rails and (most importantly) land. The buildings and power infrastructure for the datacenters could retain value for decades, but the servers won&#x27;t unless something goes badly wrong. I believe this is the largest investment in human history justified primarily by the anticipated value of intellectual property.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
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  The mechanism technically exists but we haven&#x27;t had a budget vote in years. We get &quot;continuing resolutions&quot; and periodic government shutdown brinksmanship games.


type: comment
by: nullandkale
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  To display the closeups I&#x27;m using super splat in the browser and in the training tool I&#x27;m using my own hand written renderer. Mostly so it&#x27;s easier to swap out splats during training


type: comment
by: derleyici
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  Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403200">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403200</a>


type: comment
by: efortis
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  I was reminded of this MythBusters episode: Tesla&#x27;s Earthquake Machine<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LHsHiKtjoag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LHsHiKtjoag</a>


type: comment
by: kelvich
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  This thread seems to reflect how the HN audience has shifted — less commenters know what `ssh example.com` does and more commenters concerned about privacy policy.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
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  Well, in this case the proof is there for your perusal: it works. They have ironed out most if not all of the kinks and manufacturers are pissed that they got shown up by a bunch of people who they consider to be subjects, not having agency. Because after all, if a bunch of ordinary but skilled people can do this their justification for obscene pricing all but evaporates.<p>I look at these companies for a living. Every two weeks on average another one. I see their codebases. I interview their engineers. There is no magic sauce. It is rare that you come across a company that <i>really</i> gets engineering and that doesn&#x27;t see the product as a minor obstacle on the way to profits. Medical device companies in general are not exceptional in this sense (though I am aware of one that is).<p>But fine, you think that the people that work for these companies are somehow better than that ones whose lives are at stake. I beg to differ.


type: comment
by: skydhash
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  Rebasing is basically working at the meta layer, when you are editing patches instead of the code that is being versionned. And due to that, it requires good understanding of the VCS.<p>Too often, merges is only understood as bring the changes from there to here, it may be useful especially if you have release candidates branches and hotfixes. And you want to keep a trave of that process. But I much prefer rebasing and&#x2F;or squashing PR onto the main branch.


type: comment
by: usernamed7
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  hey this is pretty cool! very interesting concept to transpile to rbs.<p>in most of my coding career (rails) i have not needed types. But when i was working on a large codebase with many teams, the lack of types was a recurring issue. now i work in a SOA and face different coupling challenges.<p>But i much prefer this syntax to what RBS required.


type: comment
by: oefrha
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  Okay, since there’s so much stuff to digest here and apparently there are issues designated as wontfix by GnuPG maintainers, can someone more in the loop tell us whether using gpg signatures on git commits&#x2F;tags is vulnerable? And is there any better alternative going forward? Like is signing with SSH keys considered more secure now? I certainly want to get rid of gpg from my life if I can, but I also need to make sure commits&#x2F;tags bearing my name actually come from me.


type: comment
by: SecretDreams
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  I actually feel like this for social media and other big tech things too.<p>These mega corps should be forced to have to offer stripped down free versions w&#x2F; no strings attached and privacy if they&#x27;re also offering commercial versions that benefit directly from internet infrastructure they haven&#x27;t paid for and targeted ads&#x2F;data theft that nobody can decline.<p>A bit like fedora and redhat.


type: comment
by: jMyles
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  &gt;  But that&#x27;s another issue.<p>...is it?<p>It seems to me that the growth of professional police as an institution which bears increased responsibility for public safety, along with an ever-growing set of tools that can be used to defer responsibility (see: it&#x27;s not murder if it&#x27;s done with a stun gun, regardless of how predictable these deaths are), are actually precisely the same issue.<p>Let&#x27;s stop allowing the state to hide behind tooling, and all be approximately equally responsible for public safety.


type: comment
by: indubioprorubik
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  No, each pushed alternative is just worser. The euro could take over, but europe just revealed itself as a &quot;lawful&quot; player with no plan and no pants (security-wise) - so the euro is just defacto tied to the dollar value wise. For without the us guarding europe, the euro is just loaded with invisible gigantic security and pension debts.<p>BRICs is dealing in store credits and raw-materials. Every other empire and kingdom is not to be trusted or only to be trusted as long as the town power-drunk world-police-man does his job. He may be the towns drunk, mumbling &quot;Screw you guys, im going home!&quot; but he is also the only one so far doing a decent job as sheriff.<p>You can grasp how unreliable the other actors are, by how one of the hostile actors (russia) recently complained about the (world-police) doing what its proxies in yemen and ukraine are constantly doing (piracy) to venezuella. They complained about the break-down of maritime safety- to the us. Yep, its that bad.


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
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  I keep a couple of jj aliases that apply the `pre-commit` tool to a commit or a tree of commits:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;7a79cf166d1e7b2e2b2a6211efc4fb869f377487&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;jj&#x2F;config.toml.tmpl#L44-L105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;7a79cf166d1e7b...</a><p>What I really want is some way <i>within jj</i> to keep track of which commits have been checked and which are currently failing, so I can template it into log lines.


type: comment
by: filloooo
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  A 2% change, more likely this has something to do with the global rush for US tech stocks.<p>Some countries like South Korea are crazy on US stock trades.<p>Dollars&#x27; depreciation probably helped a bit too.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
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  My point is: they could have left it out. There are not that many manufacturers of insulin pumps and there is only one that the title could have conceivably applied to.


type: comment
by: bitwize
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  I believe it because it&#x27;s a plausible variant of what I call the &quot;Fus Ro Data Loss&quot; vulnerability: shouting at hard drives causes them to resonate in a way that affects their ability to access data.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4</a>


type: comment
by: littlestymaar
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  Gold is a terrible unit of international money because the supply isn&#x27;t flexible enough to accommodate any growth in international trade.<p>Contrary to popular belief, during history gold has always had limited role in the monetary system, because it was too scarce to really be useful (in most of human history, Silver, not gold was the cornerstone of trade, and trade itself was a tiny part of economic activity in an era where most of it was subsistence farming). It&#x27;s only when banking and paper money replaced silver that gold took a bigger role in the monetary system. The gold standard is in fact an invention of the late 19th century and it didn&#x27;t last long before it disappeared progressively (the first world war being the beginning of the end).<p>Unfortunately for us, it just happened to be the period when a bunch of influential economists grew up (particularly Ludwig Von Mises), and like every human being they assumed that the system they grew up with was special and what came after was decadent, an idea that has unfortunately since then become widespread in the general population.<p>Most people wrongly assume that the key property for a commodity to become the basis of a monetary system is scarcity, but in reality scarcity is a drawback. Money must be <i>abundant enough</i> (too abundant is bad, but too scarce is even worse).


type: comment
by: wredcoll
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  Are you trolling? The implication is clearly that GenZ is <i>unusually</i> hyperbolic. That their predilection for hyperbole is somehow unusual or notable, otherwise WHY MENTION IT.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
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  Obviously not the video but the accompanying audio track. Could also just be a made up apocryphal engineering story that never actually happened exactly as described. Engineering as a profession is chock full of them but they do tend to be memorable parables of things to keep in mind when working on a relevant piece of tech.<p>What is definitely well documented is Brendan Gregg’s related discovery of performance degradation in servers from vibration of sibling servers &#x2F; clapping nearby that caused spinning disks to pause their heads.


type: comment
by: alwillis
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  &gt; If you are displaying it using a different color profile, then it needs to be converted. Displaying P3 in sRGB is doing it wrong.<p>Correct. What&#x27;s supposed to happen is P3 colors get converted on the fly to the their closest sRGB colors.


type: story
by: rustoo
title: Nick Fuentes and Groypers: How Bots Built America's Anti-Indian Hate Movement
url:
  https://swarajyamag.com/commentary/nick-fuentes-and-the-groypers-how-foreign-bots-built-americas-anti-indian-hate-movement


type: comment
by: iampotatoman92
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  What part of Confluence makes you avoid it the most?<p>Creative take on having &quot;docs&quot; in JIRA! But, why not use something else which was designed with extensive documentation in mind? There are many solutions I believe. Any specific reasons?


type: comment
by: rd_wei
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  Saying “N&#x2F;A” for battery life isn’t biased, it simply highlights that books don’t need a battery at all, unlike e-readers. As for durability and theft, books can be damaged by water, fire, or time, while a well-protected e-reader keeps hundreds of books safe... Regarding environmental impact, pointing out e-reader e-waste while ignoring the pollution caused by producing paper books <i>clearly</i> shows bias, making books requires cutting down trees, which are effectively killed in the process, plus transportation and processing, while one e-reader can replace hundreds of physical books over its lifetime.


type: comment
by: npodbielski
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  This is good. I should also blog about stuff that I found interesting. Just to myself as a reminder. I am not active blogger but it actually happen to me that I was looking for something l, used web search and did found my own blog in the results.  Also I could just go to my own blog for this &#x27;interesting link&#x2F;stuff I found few days ago&#x27;.


type: comment
by: creativesage
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  Photo culling app. Photographers upload 1000+ images, ML clusters similar shots so clients can pick favorites faster. Needs serious parallel compute (but infrequently). Cloud SQL is the baseline (~$40-50&#x2F;month, doesn&#x27;t scale to zero).<p>My fuckup was setting --cpu 4 --memory 16Gi during initial migration and only optimizing instance counts, not resource sizing.<p>Didn&#x27;t help that GCP has no hard spending cap. Budgets only send alerts (in my case 1 easy to miss alert saying you spent more than $50 this month), they don&#x27;t stop charges... Looking at my credit card statement there are multiple $1-2k charges.<p>The incentives aren&#x27;t exactly aligned toward helping you spend less.


type: comment
by: imoverclocked
text:
  They exist in a strange space. They want to be a Linux host but they also want to be an embedded host. The two cultures are pretty different in terms of expectations around kernels. A Linux sysadmin will (rightly) balk at not having an upgrade path for the kernel while a lot of embedded stuff that just happens to use Linux, often has a single kernel released… ever.<p>I’m not saying one approach is better than the other but there is definitely a lot of art in each camp. I know the one I innately prefer but I’ve definitely had eyebrows raised at me in a professional setting when expressing that view; Some places value upgrading dependencies while others value extreme stability at the potential cost of security.


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  &gt; Not sure I&#x27;ve met one of those people in... a decade or so? Loving apple products has been an uphill road for a long time (and increasingly more so post-Jobs)<p>You either a deliberately misrepresenting the facts or been livoning under a rock. I mean read any discussion about M laptops and you see apple fanboys noncritucally declaring them a revolution in computing.


type: comment
by: dnautics
text:
  what was great about Groq?  The token speed?  Last I checked they aggressively throttled how many requests you could make.


type: comment
by: shmoe
text:
  I&#x27;ve heard this too but haven&#x27;t gotten there yet. I&#x27;m just waiting for Red God to drop this summer and finish it all off.<p>Enjoy, Red Rising was pretty darn good.


type: comment
by: dmos62
text:
  Anyone&#x27;s aware of something similar for making interactive (or video) tours of apartments from photos?


type: comment
by: jghn
text:
  On any project where pre-commit hooks are used, the first thing I do is disable them. What I do when the code is on my side of the line isn&#x27;t your business.


type: comment
by: GeoAtreides
text:
  My bad, I did the math wrong, 2019-2021 is indeed about 1-2 years.<p>Disclosures are necessary only when something happened, not when something didn&#x27;t happened.


type: comment
by: d4rkp4ttern
text:
  You mean so-called headless or non-interactive mode? Yes I’ve considered that but the advantage communication via Tmux panes is that all agent work is fully visible and you can intervene as needed.<p>My repo has other tools that leverage such headless agents;  for example there’s a resume [1] functionality that provides alternatives to compaction (which is not great since it always loses valuable context details): The “smart-trim” feature uses a headless agent to find irrelevant long messages for truncation, and the “rollover” feature creates a new session and injects session lineage links, with a customizable extraction of context for the task to be continued.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pchalasani&#x2F;claude-code-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#resume-options--managing-context" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pchalasani&#x2F;claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...</a>


type: comment
by: SSLy
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i#t=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical...</a>


type: comment
by: jeffbee
text:
  PTP requires support not only on your network, but also on your peripheral bus and inside your CPU. It can&#x27;t achieve better-than-NTP results without disabling PCI power saving features and deep CPU sleep states.


type: comment
by: casey2
text:
  I was thinking about this last night before bed. People often counter that data visualization in 2D and 3D are more important and that we need a visual programming language.<p>I completely disagree, if LLMs have taught us anything it&#x27;s that the semantic space is MASSIVE and has far too many dimensions to visualize. Of course for some specific situations visualizations are great and can give you almost immediate insight, but for truly complex problems the only ability we have as humans that lets humans understand complex relationships is language<p>Now language can be visual, textual or auditory. But at the end of the day it must be a language. Music notation isn&#x27;t a language, it&#x27;s a very simple set of semantics splayed out in a standard way, when people try to increase the semantic density it turns comical, also there is very little contextual relationship between the semantic markings (key affects notes and ties affect notes but key never affects ties). Whereas a programming language can have entire scores a single identifier. Many people have a shared, somewhat lossy understanding of unreal whether they worked with it, played a game with it or whatever, one that can include a lot more than just the code.


type: comment
by: guyfromfargo
text:
  Founding Sales by Pete Kazanjy is hands down the best book I’ve read on sales. It has a step by step guide on how to implement a sales process in your business.<p>I keep it on my desk at all times. Whenever I have a sales question I thumb through and it always has the answer.


type: comment
by: datameta
text:
  I was a proponent initially of CLI when Claude integration with VSCode required a WSL instance, but now that it is integrated directly into VSCode I feel one grouping of tooling hiccups is now ruled out in my workflow. The only (major) nitpick I have is that it wont let you finish typing and cuts you off when asking whether&#x2F;how to proceed.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Actually it is more like all big corps campaigns that have successfully moved away from anything GPL as much as possible, while pushing for business friendly licenses.<p>Linux kernel and GCC are probably the only thing left they tolerate, and even then, it is less relevant in the cloud, with containers powered by type 1 hypervisors.


type: comment
by: danaris
text:
  The difference is that, in many places, the gas taxes are <i>specifically</i> earmarked for road maintenance.<p>Of course, a better solution would be to pass legislation properly funding road maintenance from the general funds, and raising income taxes to support that. But raising income taxes, even on those for whom a 50% increase in income tax would mean <i>zero</i> change in their actual lifestyle, is politically anathema in these benighted times.


type: comment
by: breppp
text:
  The major difference is the disappearance of shame.<p>However, the greatest enablement was the overblown cynicism large swaths of the american elites had towards the national proclaimed values. When you think everything is cynical even when it is not then the next step is to have governments that are completely cynical.


type: story
by: rushabh011
title: Show HN: Buildex – Interactive system design practice with AI feedback
url: https://buildex.dev
text:
  Hey HN,<p><pre><code>  I built Buildex (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildex.dev) to help engineers practice system design interviews interactively.    The problem: System design prep usually means reading blogs or watching videos passively. There&#x27;s no way to actually practice designing systems and get feedback.    How it works:   - Pick a challenge (URL shortener, rate limiter, chat system, etc.)   - Drag-and-drop components onto a canvas to design your architecture   - Connect them to show data flow   - Submit and get scored on efficiency, cost, and reliability   - AI evaluates your design and gives specific feedback    Tech stack:   - Frontend: React + Vite   - Backend: Go   - Database: PostgreSQL   - AI: Claude API for design evaluation   - Payments: Razorpay    Free tier gives you 2 AI evaluations&#x2F;day. I&#x27;m a solo dev and built this over the past few months while prepping for interviews myself.    Would love feedback on:   - Challenge difficulty&#x2F;variety   - Scoring system fairness   - UI&#x2F;UX issues   - What&#x27;s missing?    Happy to answer any questions about the implementation.</code></pre>


type: comment
by: anandvc
text:
  I love how responsive the voice is. This feels like the most natural way to capture To Do tasks in the moment. Congrats on the launch!


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  That is ispc.<p>You don&#x27;t want &quot;vectorization&quot; though, you either want<p>a) a code generation tool that generates exactly the platform-specific code you want and can&#x27;t silently fail.<p>b) at least a fundamentally vectorized language that does &quot;scalarization&quot; instead of the other way round.


type: comment
by: browningstreet
text:
  Given that it&#x27;s under scrutiny for regulatory bypass, it&#x27;s not a purchase and is being reviewed as circumventing those very rules. Might not even happen.<p>I know, I&#x27;m joking: Trump likes Nvidia, but maybe he&#x27;ll bump the Chinese tax to 30% to approve this deal? In a way I hope he pulls something like that, to punish Huang for his boot shining manipulations.<p>#iwantRAM


type: comment
by: GenerocUsername
text:
  Imagine how red 100 years of economists faces will be when the world ends up back on a gold backed currency.<p>Probably only takes 2 years before they start inventing abstractions on top of it and this kicking off the eventually next economic disaster.


type: comment
by: zzo38computer
text:
  I thought so too, and I agree with you. Your explanation looks like OK, to me; it is wasted on bloat and other stuff like you mention.<p>&gt; Nobody cares about efficiency anymore<p>Some people do care, but unfortunately it is not common enough now.<p>(I am one programmer who does not like this bloat.)


type: comment
by: larusso
text:
  I did the switch this year after getting yet another personal computer. I have 4 in total (work laptop, personal sofa laptop, Mac Mini, Linux Tower). I used Yubi keys with gpg and resident ssh keys. All is fine but the configuration needed to get it too work on all the machines. I also tend to forget the finer details and have to relearn the skills of fetching the public keys into the keychain etc. I got rid of this all by moving to 1Password ssh agent and git ssh signing. Removes a lot of headaches from my ssh setup. I still have the yubi key(s) though as a 2nd factor for certain web services. And the gpg agent is still running but only as a fallback. I will turn this off next year.


type: comment
by: creativesage
text:
  Thanks to everyone with constructive feedback.<p>A few things that stood out to me:<p>One alert is never enough. Treating alerting as a system, not a single email.<p>GCP pricing calculator in the deployment checklist, not an afterthought. You almost have to be obsessive about checking.<p>Hard caps: GCP doesn&#x27;t have them. Budgets only send alerts, they don&#x27;t stop charges. You can wire automation to disable billing but that&#x27;s a hack, not a feature.<p>Cloud providers benefit financially from complexity and opaque defaults. I own my config mistakes, but the suggestions around capacity planning and realistic cost modeling were genuinely helpful.


type: comment
by: Dilettante_
text:
  When talking about LLMs as search engine replacements, I think the stark difference in utility people see stems from the usecase. Are you perhaps talking about using it for more &quot;deep research&quot;?<p>Because when I ask chatgpt&#x2F;perplexity things like &quot;can I microwave a whole chicken&quot; or &quot;is Australia bigger than the moon&quot; it will happily google for the answers and give me links to the sites it pulled from for me to verify for myself.<p>On the other hand, if you ask it to summarize the state-of-the art in quantum computing or something, it&#x27;s much more likely to speak &quot;off the top of its head&quot;, and even when it pulls in knowledge from web searches it&#x27;ll rely much more on it&#x27;s own &quot;internal corpus&quot; to put together an answer, which is definitely likely to contain hallucinations and obviously has no &quot;source&quot; aside from &quot;it just knowing&quot;(which it&#x27;s discouraged from saying so it makes up sources if you ask for them).


type: comment
by: cedws
text:
  Without mainline Linux support I have no interest in these more obscure SBCs. Mainline Linux is the bare minimum, put in some effort please manufacturers.


type: comment
by: npodbielski
text:
  &gt; Part of the point of journaling and documenting is to later revisit and unlocking memories one might have not accessed in some time. This is part of the reason Spotify Wrapped and similar &quot;recaps&quot; are enjoyable.<p>Wow. I hate that. I was doing diary when I was like 10 years old and when I was actually reading that after few weeks it was terrible. Pure cringe and whinings. With music it is not that visible but there are still few bands I cannot stand anymore, and I was litnening to them extensively few years back, like Neurosis.<p>But as a pure informational referrence... Sure!


type: comment
by: Yoric
text:
  &gt; Well, yes, but it also means a gag gift; I&#x27;d hazard a guess that &gt;99% of uses of the term in the past several decades have been of the &quot;gag gift&quot; persuasion. There are many white elephant parties thrown by people who care little for history.<p>Is this an Americanism? I&#x27;ve never heard &quot;white elephant&quot; used with such a meaning.<p>&gt; Even then, intentionally ruining someone&#x27;s financial life requires more care and attention than telling an AI agent to perform random acts of kindness (so far).<p>Absolutely.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  I’ve noticed a huge spike in anti Indian sentiment on Twitter&#x2F;X. For example I’ve seen people call for Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai to be denaturalized and deported. Lots of these comments paint successful immigrants as “scammers” who are stealing from “Americans”. But somehow this rhetoric is never aimed at Elon Musk, another immigrant.<p>Vivek Ramaswamy even recently commented on it, since his posts are nearly fully filled with utterly vile racist replies. Anytime anything is posted about Vivek or Indians or immigration in general, I notice a mass number of hateful comments showing up quickly. They may be bots but I think they may also just be Groypers who coordinate mass influence campaigns on Telegram.<p>Fuentes himself has been pretty vocal about his anti Indian hate too - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;nick-fuentes-latest-racist-campaign-is-to-stop-vivek-ramaswamy-from-becoming-ohio-governor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;nick-fuentes-latest-ra...</a> where Fuentes says the Ohio governor race is the most important one and that he doesn’t care if a Jewish woman gets elected instead (given he’s an antisemite), as long as Vivek loses.


type: comment
by: disgruntledphd2
text:
  The most recent ones, the witness books are definitely better. He&#x27;s really matured as an author.


type: comment
by: Aachen
text:
  Still blows my mind that &quot;binaries available&quot; is called open source in the machine learning sphere. It&#x27;s like calling Office 2007 open source (as opposed to the current browser versions) because you could run the binaries on a local machine


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  What use of GitHub are you talking about? The use of GitHub by @c-linkage at the top of the thread was, in fact, based on GitHub being free to use. And GitHub’s basic services are free to use. I really don’t know what you mean.<p>Your oft-repeated customer vs product platitude doesn’t seem to apply to GitHub, at least not to it’s founding and core product offering. You are the customer, and GitHub doesn’t advertise. It’s a freemium model, the free access is just a sort of loss leader to entice paid upgrades by you, the customer.


type: comment
by: rcarr
text:
  We almost got that with Bretton Woods 1.0:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bancor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bancor</a>


type: comment
by: tooltalk
text:
  You are conflating power banks and smartphones.<p>In China, the current trend in &quot;high-end&quot; smartphones&#x2F;laptop is to switch to higher-energy silicon-anode batteries.  LFP is primarily for low-energy dense (gravimetric&#x2F;volumetric) storage devices, such as power banks; or in vehicles, low-end&#x2F;low-range EVs, or stationary energy storage (ESS) -- BYD being one notable exception.<p>China implemented rules in mid-2025 banning uncertified (no 3C mark) and recalled power banks from Anker &amp; Romoss models, from domestic flights due to fire risks.


type: comment
by: rpcope1
text:
  I&#x27;ve got i3 and i5 systems that do 15W or better idle, and I don&#x27;t have to worry about the absolute clusterfuck of ARM hardware (and those systems used can be had for less and will probably long outlive mystery meat ARM SBCs).


type: comment
by: flobosg
text:
  Then it’s time to show them some dungeon synth! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;M9HLrbRCq2U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;M9HLrbRCq2U</a>


type: comment
by: selectodude
text:
  Because dumping all of your US treasuries is a political statement. You can only sell to a willing buyer and announcing that you’re going to do that is tantamount to lighting wealth on fire. Treasuries are assets so there’s no counterparty that will “run out”.


type: comment
by: NitpickLawyer
text:
  &gt; Multi agent collaboration is quite likely the future<p>Autogen from ms was an early attempt at this, and it was fun to play with it, but too early (the models themselves kinda crapped out after a few convos). This would work much better today with how long agents can stay on track.<p>There was also a finding earlier this year, I believe from the swe-bench guys (or hf?), where they saw better scores with alternating between gpt5&#x2F;sonnet4 after each call during an execution flow. The scores of alternating between them were higher than any of them individually. Found that interesting at the time.


type: comment
by: daedrdev
text:
  No, physically backed currencies will not return because physical goods do not correlate with the size of an economy, especially the amount of gold


type: comment
by: groundzeros2015
text:
  No. Lead generation is how you find shoppers. Outbound is how you find people who don’t shop probably because they are too busy or haven’t identified that need yet themselves.


type: comment
by: dnautics
text:
  it&#x27;s terrible advice for actual programmers though because often 0 is a sentinel value with special meaning for systems that you don&#x27;t have control over (sometimes because of pre-digital conventions that shouldn&#x27;t be lightly fucked with).<p>This is usually done by PL&#x27;s that want to avoid crashes at all costs, but &quot;turning crashes into subtle logic errors&quot; seems like a really bad idea.


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  There’s more to international trade than what central banks do. The US is still a good place to invest overall, which is why we can run trade deficits. The money earned by foreigners, whether it’s from selling oil, cars, or anything else, goes into US investment of all kinds. Foreigners can buy the S&amp;P 500 just as easily as bonds.<p>US interest rates have been declining lately, so perhaps other investments are more attractive.


type: comment
by: daedrdev
text:
  If your economy grows by 100 percent, and the supply of gold grows by 10 percent, its a massive problem


type: comment
by: alexandre_m
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oversight.house.gov&#x2F;the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oversight.house.gov&#x2F;the-bidens-influence-peddling-ti...</a>


type: comment
by: GarnetFloride
text:
  Something important to do is to let your audience know that you are only showing them a small piece of the whole, because of the media you are using. With hooks like, if you want to learn more go read this article or this book.


type: comment
by: chhxdjsj
text:
  Imagine if there was a gold which could be transferred across borders easily and completely securely within seconds, proof of holdings and ownership could be easily proven, and there was no future risk of gold supply shocks (eg gold asteroid hitting earth or alchemy becomes viable).


type: comment
by: anonymousiam
text:
  My experience with the OrangePi 4 LTS has been poor, and I&#x27;m unwilling to purchase more of their hardware.  Mine is now running Armbian because I didn&#x27;t care for the instability, or for the Chinese repos.<p>They seem uninterested in trying to get their hardware supported by submitting their patches for inclusion in the Linux kernel, and popular distros.  Instead, you have to trust their repos (based in PRC).


type: comment
by: vkou
text:
  There were, of course, no economic disasters back when the world operated on gold-backed currencies.<p>The goldbugs won&#x27;t be red in the face, though, because they are never wrong and are constitutionally incapable of feeling any shame.


type: comment
by: bitwize
text:
  One of my childhood computers was a Tandy 2000. This was a 186-based PC-incompatible computer available from Radio Shack. It was more performant than an AT, could access more base memory (due to a disk-based rather than ROM BIOS), and available at a lower price so it was a real contender before it was clear that the IBM standard would be used by everybody.<p>Not only <i>could</i> it run Windows 1.0, Microsoft used the Tandy 2000 internally for Windows development because in the early 1980s it was the only x86 machine out there that could do hi-res (640x400) color graphics. So, getting Windows 2.x backported to the 2000 is definitely feasible.


type: comment
by: delfinom
text:
  Works until we have someone mining asteroids for gold. Then the gold backed currency collapses overnight.


type: comment
by: iwontberude
text:
  Having had drives which sat for many years and spun right back up without corruption makes me think 1% is too generous maybe 0.05% per year at most


type: comment
by: LarsDu88
text:
  So many companies doing non-&quot;acquisitions&quot; during this AI boom! Though this one is at least more comprehensive than say, Google simply hiring back Noam Shazeer from Character.AI or OpenAI taking Windsurf


type: comment
by: bigbadfeline
text:
  &gt; It is useful to overcome censorship, inflation and money transfers<p>No it&#x27;s not. It cannot overcome any of these, and the constant nagging to the opposite is a big part of the scam. The problems in question are political and cannot be solved outside of the regulatory framework.<p>&gt; without relying on third parties (or relying on burocratic, traditionally greedy and ancient parties).<p>Well, the non-traditionally greedy happen to be much greedier and a mere tool in the hands of the &quot;traditional and ancient parties&quot;. A bunch of politicians and those connected to them are the ones who benefit the most from crypto scams, guess what&#x27;s going to happen when the music stops and their profits dry up.<p>&gt; I see a trend that all privacy focused projects have this bad press always - Cryptocoins, GrapheneOS, Tor<p>Because they are designed to accommodate scams under the guise of privacy - I&#x27;d exclude GrapheneOS from that list though, it&#x27;s very different, it doesn&#x27;t have a bad name among the grassroots and including in this list is nonsensical.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  You can if you just run PTP (almost) entirely on your NIC. The best PTP implementations take their packet timestamps at the MAC on the NIC and keep time based on that. Nothing about CPU processing is time-critical in that case.


type: comment
by: tzury
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everything2.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;7+hertz+-+the+resonant+frequency+of+a+chicken%2527s+skull" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everything2.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;7+hertz+-+the+resonant+frequen...</a><p>Example (for both functions):<p><pre><code>    &#x2F;* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.        True story: 7 Hz is the resonant       frequency of a chicken&#x27;s skull cavity.       This was determined empirically in       Australia, where a new factory       generating 7-Hz tones was located too       close to a chicken ranch: When the       factory started up, all the chickens       died.        Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. *&#x2F;   #include      int main(void)    {      sound(7);      delay(10000);      nosound();      return 0;    }  </code></pre> from the comments over there (2002)


type: story
by: urcite_ty_kokos
title: How Is Russia Blocking Calls on WhatsApp/Telegram/Face Time/Snapchat/?
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/technology/whatsapp-complains-about-restrictions-russia-after-reported-slowdown-2025-12-23/


type: comment
by: urcite_ty_kokos
text:
  Hi, I was wondering how is it technically possible for Russia firewalls to block calls over these platforms, while keeping chat messages working? Thanks<p>My guess is that it is because of a different layer 7 protocol than HTTP is used for calls, and the code of the protocol leaks in the TLS&#x2F;SSL header. Is this guess correct?


type: comment
by: winstonwinston
text:
  It is more scary that many (most) websites now use SPA frameworks that randomly crash itself, cannot even load on a iPad with 2GB of RAM or use 100% CPU constantly.


type: comment
by: rzmmm
text:
  In type 1 diabetes lack of insulin can lead to a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis which is deadly. In type 2 diabetes it&#x27;s not usually possible.


type: comment
by: tooltalk
text:
  Sure, my initially argument was that it was good for China, but bad for the rest of the world because of China&#x27;s anti-market practices that only benefited China.  In other word, 2&#x2F;3 of the world came out losing because of China&#x27;s mercantile practices -- it&#x27;s had negative net effect for the world.<p>Again, no point in talking in circles.


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
text:
  You shouldn&#x27;t be relying on hooks to maintain the integrity of your codebase, and I&#x27;m not seeing anything here that makes me want to avoid `pre-commit` (or, more literally, the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pre-commit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pre-commit.com&#x2F;</a> tool).  CI <i>must</i> be the source of truth for whether a commit is acceptable.<p>If you&#x27;re using `pre-commit` the tool, not merely the hook, you can also use something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;pre-commit-action" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;pre-commit-action</a> to run the tool in CI.  It&#x27;s a really good way to share check definitions between local development and CI, meaning you&#x27;ve shifted your checks to earlier in the pipeline.<p>I use Jujutsu day-to-day, which doesn&#x27;t even support pre-commit hooks.  But the tooling is still really useful, and making sure we run it in CI means that we&#x27;re not relying on every developer having the hooks set up.  And I have JJ aliases that help pre-commit be really useful in a JJ workflow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;7a79cf166d1e7b2e2b2a6211efc4fb869f377487&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;jj&#x2F;config.toml.tmpl#L44-L105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewaylett&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;7a79cf166d1e7b...</a>


type: comment
by: rkomorn
text:
  &gt; But fine, you think that the people that work for these companies are somehow better than that ones whose lives are at stake.<p>That is not the point I&#x27;m making.<p>The point I&#x27;m making is that someone&#x27;s life being at stake does not inherently make then better.


type: comment
by: raelming
text:
  I think a lot of people who have pets or kids who are outside a lot and some rooms with hard floors would be pleasantly surprised at how good even a really mediocre mopping does when it&#x27;s done often enough.


type: comment
by: doc_doom
text:
  I don&#x27;t know about a good Email AI assistant but I do know a client, check out Klick Mail just came out on 25th


type: comment
by: rcxdude
text:
  How so? If the NIC is processing the timestamps as it arrives&#x2F;leaves on the wire, the latency and jitter in the rest of the system shouldn&#x27;t matter.


type: comment
by: jweir
text:
  We have some tests that ensure the interface is correct - that the correct type of args are passed say from a batch process to a mailer and a mail object is returned.<p>For these tests we don’t care about the content only that something didn’t get incorrectly set or the mailer interface changed.<p>Now if the developer changes the Mailer to require a user object the compiler tells us there is an error. Sorbet will error and say “hey you need to update your code here and here by adding a User object”<p>Before we would have had test coverage for that - or maybe not and missed the error.


type: comment
by: lubujackson
text:
  The solution is to remove the temptation to hit a &quot;looks good&quot; button. A non-shitty AI tool could return a bullet list of events and time stamps:<p>- officer said &quot;Freeze!&quot; at 3:12:34am - &quot;my arm!&quot; said person #2 at 3:12:48am<p>Then the office must at a minimum reformat the events into text and add their own details. Again, AI is a tool and it is immensely useful if we treat it like a tool and not a panacea.


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
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  Case in point: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jj-vcs.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jj-vcs.dev&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: Jaauthor
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  As an author, I dig what this is saying since it resonates so well with my journey as an author. Everything I publish is one more chance to connect with people who are drawn to other people in motion. I&#x27;m still learhing how to bring people along and inspiring others to create.<p>Here&#x27;s some of my work - it&#x27;s free until Jan 1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inkican.com&#x2F;smashwords-white-hot-scifi-winter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inkican.com&#x2F;smashwords-white-hot-scifi-winter&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: tacker2000
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  This is pretty much the only way open source doesnt lead to burnout and continues to be maintained, and a lot of projects are doing this already successfully.<p>Get “street cred” in the dev space by being open source, and  let the enterprise customers “pay” for it.


type: comment
by: ajross
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  &gt; The replacement will probably be a multinational currency with strictly controlled quantity tied to [...] probably [...] gold.<p>This is econolibertarian fan fiction.  Literally no one wants that except people already involved in speculating[1] on gold.  Are there bad externalities to relying on a unlitaterally controlled reserve currency?  Yes.  Are they made better by handing financial control over to a bunch of fucking <i>mine and vault operators</i>?  Let&#x27;s be real, here.<p>Basically this idea appeals to people who&#x27;ve convinced themselves they can get rich betting on financial policy and stay rich by burying their loot in their metaphorical backyard.<p>[1] The very fact that such speculation even exists should be a triple exclamation point red flag on any argument about hard currency, but alas no.


type: comment
by: pfdietz
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  Kyplanet gets really excited about this possibility.<p>Oops, wrong link:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Xd8E5gWHhb4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Xd8E5gWHhb4</a>


type: comment
by: aunty_helen
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  Conferences are huge. We’ve done 5 tradeshow demos for our clients in the last 10 months.<p>I agree with you about the zero sum, once you’ve seen the first hyper personalised email that says they really like your commitment to x, the rest are all the same.


type: comment
by: ralph84
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  Any time a forward-looking statement is given in an investment context it has a safe harbor caveat attached about how it could be wrong. Companies miss revenue projections all of the time. That&#x27;s not fraud.


type: comment
by: trelane
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  As many have pointed out, the data backing the new retirement system was created in 2007.<p>So, amazing collaboration between the George W Bush &amp; Trump admins.<p>I am glad everyone here is applauding the achievement.


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
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  &gt; Why do I hate Chamath?<p>&gt;Let&#x27;s look at the sh he dumped on retail with his abysmal SPAC track record<p>I do not see why one would feel animosity towards Chamath for this reason.  Was there fraud involved?  Otherwise, all investors are liable for doing their own due diligence.


type: comment
by: dahart
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  Wikipedia does use Wikipedia, a privately owned organization, as an example of a digital commons.<p>The ‘tragedy’ that the top comment referred to is losing unlimited access to some of GitHub’s features, as described in the article (shallow clones, CPU limits, API rate limits, etc.). The finiteness, or natural limit, does exist in the form of bandwidth, storage capacity, server CPU capacity, etc.. The Wikipedia article goes through that, so I’m left with the impression you didn’t understand it.


type: comment
by: Mic92
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  It&#x27;s ok actually. I have read some Windows code. Certainly better commented than Linux and certainly much more readable than glibc.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
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  Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. That&#x27;s my motto. Now let me tell you about the time that we dug up this dinosaur egg and hatched it.


type: comment
by: emptybits
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  Normally I would nod at the title. Having lived it.<p>But I just watched&#x2F;listened to a Richard Feynmann talk on the nature of time and clocks and the futility of &quot;synchronizing&quot; clocks. So I&#x27;m chuckling a bit. In the general sense, I mean. Yes yes, for practical purposes in the same reference frame on earth, it&#x27;s difficult but there&#x27;s hope. Now, in general ... synchronizing two clocks is ... meaningless?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zUHtlXA1f-w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zUHtlXA1f-w</a>


type: comment
by: Spivak
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  pre-commit is a convenience for the developer to gain confidence that pre-flight checks in CI will pass. I&#x27;ve found trying to make them automatic just leads to pain when they interact with any non-trivial git feature and don&#x27;t handle edge cases.<p>I&#x27;ve been much much happier just having a little project specific script I run when I want to do formatting&#x2F;linting.


type: comment
by: cpeterso
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  Is there an advantage for trb code to use colons for type annotations like:<p><pre><code>  def greet(name: String): String </code></pre> Instead of arrows like rbs files? Why diverge from precedent?<p><pre><code>  def greet: (name: String) -&gt; String</code></pre>


type: comment
by: vinceguidry
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  &gt; look at rack. What a joke.<p>Yeah, I think the Ruby world burned out of the whole &quot;make everything nice&quot; aesthetic when they alienated the everloving fuck out of _why. Now it&#x27;s a post-apocalyptic wasteland where if you want nice things, you better be prepared to become a right expert because you will have no one to turn to when it breaks. I don&#x27;t mind, I don&#x27;t make money coding anymore and the challenge makes me feel alive again.<p>If I ever get to the point to where I gotta learn the C API, I&#x27;ll do it through mruby. But it&#x27;ll be a much easier path to systems work to interop with Rust instead.


type: comment
by: asmodeuslucifer
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  Thanks to reading The Three Body Problem, I can imagine.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;three-body-problem.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sophons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;three-body-problem.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sophons</a>


type: comment
by: thayne
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  One of the criteria for being open source is no discrimination against fields of endeavor. This license clearly discriminates against any field of endeavor other than (non-commercial) research.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.org&#x2F;osd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.org&#x2F;osd</a>


type: comment
by: ur-whale
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  &gt; Every time I hear people claiming India and China now not using dollar and the end of dollar’s dominance, I feel it’s coming from mostly clickbait headlines<p>I would encourage you to actually take a gander at the history of reserve currencies, how long they last, how they lose their reserve status, and what the current state of thinking around where the dollar is headed.<p>Unless you would classify the IMF as a clickbait farm, of course.<p>Start with the brit. pound and what led its downfall to the niche financial instrument it is today.<p>But the pound is just the latest, and by no mean the only one.<p>Here are a few links to get you started:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketcap.com.au&#x2F;history-world-reserve-currencies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketcap.com.au&#x2F;history-world-reserve-currencies&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economicprinciples.org&#x2F;DalioChangingWorldOrderCharts.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economicprinciples.org&#x2F;DalioChangingWorldOrderCh...</a><p>Barry Eichengreen – “Exorbitant Privilege”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imf.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;departmental-papers-policy-papers&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;reserve-currencies-in-an-evolving-international-monetary-system-49864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imf.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;departmental-papers-poli...</a>


type: comment
by: dang
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  Related. Others?<p><i>Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41534483">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41534483</a> - Sept 2024 (79 comments)<p><i>Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32483211">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32483211</a> - Aug 2022 (12 comments)


type: comment
by: n0um3n4
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  I hate the email templates companies use to reject you especially the ones packed with empty words and fake hope.<p>Honestly, no reply would be better.<p>But an automated &quot;thank you&quot;? That&#x27;s basically a f** you. Zero respect.<p>And to think the ancestor of this is those bloody Hallmark cards. Jesus.


type: comment
by: rangestransform
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  It’s either printing or increasing taxation for constant benefits. We all know what happens when the government tries to increase taxes at all, now try doing it for zero increased benefits. This is a populace that’s had candy for dinner since WW2, and forcing them to eat their vegetables will result in a never before seen level of civil unrest from people of all political inclinations.


type: comment
by: mandog2000
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  Why can&#x27;t you instruct Claude to provide (constructive) opposing views, (better) alternative ideas, etc.


type: comment
by: Akronymus
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  Or the black hole <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3r3,28,997" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3r3,28,997</a>


type: comment
by: detourdog
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  Nobody is panicking. BRICS has gotten steadily larger and is gaining as an alternative banking system. This is competition. This just requires more thoughtful strategies.


type: comment
by: jimnotgym
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  You have successfully proved me wrong.  I have read some of those books,  and merely not noticed the prevelance of dashes! Perhaps that is proof they used them well?


type: comment
by: redwall_hp
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  The GPL is still the answer. Corporate lawyers still avoid it at all costs. The simple requirement that any derivative works bear the same license has always been the key to sustaining the movement, and the whole push toward permissive licensing has been driven by the companies that want to leech.


type: comment
by: quicklime
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  Who considers them politically suspect? I’m guessing the people who live in the countries that use them don’t, and on the contrary would increasingly be seeing the USD as politically suspect.


type: comment
by: hoppyhoppy2
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ZvPtX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ZvPtX</a>


type: comment
by: 827a
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  Lot of emotion in this comment; not a lot of substance. I think you&#x27;re misunderstanding how some of these systems work.<p>&gt; This change will also force the US to finally get fiscally responsible and get the bloody USD printing machine under control, something they never had to do because of the USD reserve currency status.<p>It is <i>not</i> the case that the US didn&#x27;t &quot;need&quot; to get the USD printing machine under control because of the reserve status; it is the case that the US  <i>&quot;could not&quot;</i> get the USD printing machine under control, because of the reserve status. When there is demand for US dollars, domestic or foreign, US dollars sometimes needed to be printed to satisfy that demand. If the US decides to <i>not</i> print those dollars; this is literally &quot;defaulting on the debt&quot;, and would be bad-bad.<p>This gets at where you&#x27;re misunderstanding how these systems work, because I think you&#x27;re imagining that US debt is, like, an account in your Chase app that goes up, then you pay it down. US debt are, obviously, bonds. The USG says &quot;we&#x27;ve got bonds to sell, they&#x27;re at N year M% interest&quot;. Buyers say &quot;we want those bonds we&#x27;ll buy them&quot;. The USG is now in debt, and is obligated to repay those bonds; and sometimes has to print money to do so. This gets at the previous paragraph; money, broadly, is printed to satisfy debt obligations, not directly to service the deficit (proceeds from the initial bond sale are what could be said to directly service the deficit, but that&#x27;s pennies compared to the size of the overall market).<p>Extending the Chase app analogy, you have it internalized that if we just get the deficit under control, then we could start &quot;paying down the debt&quot;. In fact, probably, even our President understands it like this. But this isn&#x27;t how it works. To &quot;pay down the debt&quot; would require two things to happen: We stop issuing new treasury bonds, and we pay off the already issued ones over 20&#x2F;30&#x2F;etc years as they mature.<p>The general professional sentiment on what would happen if the US even <i>communicated</i> it wanted to, in totally good faith, begin doing this at some point in the future, is basically armageddon. You have it in your head that, because Dave Ramsey says debt bad, the US should have no debt; but the world <i>wants</i> our debt; it has an insatiable (though, decreasing) appetite for it. Depriving the world of this debt would leave trillions of dollar-equivalents without anywhere to park safe from inflation, which would descend global financial markets into chaos. Tens of millions of people would starve in the first three months, among other undesirable outcomes. Some actively make the argument that the USG refusing to take on new debt would be net-worse for the world than the US defaulting on their existing debt, though its an interesting space to game out; a little game of global-cataclysm worst-thing-to-ever-happen-to-humanity olympics you can play.<p>But, debt servicing is becoming unmanageable for the US budget; so the best case for the United States is that USG debt demand from the rest of the world drops slowly and naturally, so we can naturally slow the issuance of new debt; and over 100 or so more years let managed inflation catch us up to recover from the utter shitshows that was 2001, 2008, and 2020. Everything I&#x27;ve seen, and I do mean <i>everything</i>, suggests that this is what is happening; but we&#x27;ll know for sure in 90 more years.


type: comment
by: FloatArtifact
text:
  At the hospital we test the glucometers with solutions for high and low to make sure they&#x27;re within spec.


type: comment
by: dang
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  Thanks! Macroexpanded:<p><i>SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46284658">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46284658</a> - Dec 2025 (108 comments)


type: comment
by: treetalker
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  Layperson question: how does this differ from, say, piping something to fzf; and what advantages does it have over that?


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
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  Paying for the road-time you use, like any shared resource, seems fair to me.  It would be nice to see decreases in earned income taxes though.<p>If the retort to this is it impacts poorer people more, then that is a separate problem fixed by redistributing more cash, so that the wealth gap is smaller.<p>Edit:  to respond to reply about trucks causing more damage to road:<p>Construction costs are one cost of roads, but another cost is time cost due to congestion (and resulting effects of delays due to congestion).  A variable rate toll that also incorporates congestion is the ideal way to manage road use, much like paying more for electricity or other resources at peak demand to modulate demand.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
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  Roads cost money, costs are just catching up to reality. If folks are unhappy now when taxes are at historical lows while we accumulate all sorts of off book debt (in this case, “deferred maintenance”), further sadness is ahead. If one does not care to pay for roads, my recommendation is to live somewhere one doesn’t need roads, or the per capita costs are lower due to density (urban areas, broadly speaking), making paying the costs more palatable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Highway_Trust_Fund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Highway_Trust_Fund</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urban.org&#x2F;policy-centers&#x2F;cross-center-initiatives&#x2F;state-and-local-finance-initiative&#x2F;state-and-local-backgrounders&#x2F;highway-and-road-expenditures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urban.org&#x2F;policy-centers&#x2F;cross-center-initiative...</a> (“In 2021, state and local governments spent $206 billion, or 6 percent of direct general spending, on highways and roads. As a share of state and local direct general expenditures, highways and roads were the fifth-largest expenditure in 2021.”)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.resilience.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2016-04-14&#x2F;unpave-low-traffic-roads-to-save-energy-and-money&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.resilience.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2016-04-14&#x2F;unpave-low-tra...</a> (“The U.S. has 4.1 million miles of roads (1.9 million paved, 2.2 million gravel). About 3 million miles of roads have less than 2,000 vehicles a day, less than 15% of all traffic. The paved portion of these low-volume roads ought to be evaluated for their potential to be unpaved.”)<p>(very similar to how climate costs are causing agriculture and insurance costs to snap to reality, with similar sadness; debts coming due)


type: comment
by: jacquesm
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  The Dutch broadcasting service hired me to figure out why their homepage was crashing browsers. I turned out to be an animated GIF of two speakers that had an extra 0 interval frame in it which caused IE to crash... it doesn&#x27;t take much.


type: comment
by: rubslopes
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  My non-physicist but curious-about-the-topic take is similar. Things at the quantum level are not &quot;complex&quot; in the systems-theory sense. They couldn&#x27;t be, I think, since we&#x27;re dealing with the most basic constituents of the universe. They are mysterious, confusing, wildly counterintuitive... but they are fundamental. The most basic stuff there is.<p>The study of these things, on the other hand, is genuinely complex and difficult. But that&#x27;s epistemology, not ontology.


type: comment
by: sandermvanvliet
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  Not very likely<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;54400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;54400</a>


type: comment
by: keepamovin
text:
  Wow, thanks for the front page, HN! I&#x27;m thrilled you&#x27;re enjoying this little &quot;web art&quot; project.<p>The idea was to deconstruct Hacker News and view it through a different lens -- not time or score, but the fundamental, dynamic of prime numbers.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;useless&quot;, perhaps, but I find it fun!<p>Few tech details for those curious:<p>- Data Source: The public Google BigQuery dataset (bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full). I did not scrape HN.<p>- ETL: A Node.js script ran a Sieve of Eratosthenes up to the current max ID (~46M) to find all the primes. It then processed the ~7GB of raw JSON, extracted the ~2.7M prime items, and packed them into sharded SQLite databases. The final repo size is only ~500MB.<p>- Frontend: This is a fully static site with no server backend. It uses sqlite3.wasm to load the specific database shard for the page you&#x27;re viewing (e.g., shard_0.sqlite for the first 50k primes) and queries it directly in your browser.<p>- The Logo: The &quot;Y&quot; logo has been replaced with the Riemann Zeta function (ζ), which is deeply connected to the distribution of prime numbers.<p>- The &quot;Warp Drive&quot; &#x2F; Live Mode: you might notice the static data is a few months old - that&#x27;s a known lag in the BigQuery mirror.<p>To solve this, if you go to the very last page, the site switches to &quot;Live Mode.&quot; Your browser fetches the current maxitem from the live HN API and starts mining for new primes client-side, bridging the gap between the static past and the live present. :)<p>Source code is here if you sho¨ld like to see the sausage being made: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DOSAYGO-STUDIO&#x2F;prime-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DOSAYGO-STUDIO&#x2F;prime-news</a><p>Happy to answer any questions


type: comment
by: smj-edison
text:
  That&#x27;s fair. It&#x27;s still pre-alpha, and under heavy development, but it&#x27;s working on taking the best of dynamicland[1] and trying to take it a lot further.<p>In terms of technical details, we just landed support for multithreaded task scheduling in the reactive database, so you can do something like   When &#x2F;someone&#x2F; wishes $::thisNode uses display &#x2F;display&#x2F; with &#x2F;...displayOpts&#x2F; { and have your rendering loop block the thread. Folk will automatically spin up a new thread when it detects that a thread is blocking, in order to keep processing the queue. Making everything multithreaded has made synchronizing rendering frames a lot tricker, but recently Omar (one of the head devs) made statements atomic, so there is atomic querying for statements that need it.<p>In terms of philosophy, Folk is much more focused on integration, and comes from the Unix philosophy of everything as text (which I still find amusingly ironic when the focus is also a new medium). The main scripting language is Tcl, which is sort of a child of Lisp and Bash. We intermix html, regex, js, C, and even some Haskell to get stuff done. Whatever happens to be the most effective ends up being what we use.<p>I&#x27;m glad that you mention that the main page is unhelpful, because I hadn&#x27;t considered that. Do you have any suggestions on what would explain the project better?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dynamicland.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dynamicland.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: grensley
text:
  I was always looking for them because I was the weird nerd pointing out proper em dash, en dash, and hyphen usage years and years ago.<p>It&#x27;s really only devs &#x2F; engineers I see doing this, probably in some quest to create an indistinguishable voice in the name of productivity or something.


type: comment
by: arjie
text:
  Two things I like are:<p>* HOT lanes in the Bay Area: they allocate demand efficiently and subsidize multi-people transport. I wish there were more.<p>* Toll roads in Texas: you can take the slip roads almost everywhere but they’re slow. The highways were fast but you had to pay.<p>Overall, I think fare at point of use is a great structure. In the past we couldn’t enforce it but now we can do this for more things.<p>The only problem is that we’ve decided that impounding cars that don’t have license plates or which have license plate covers is unacceptable because the poor do this most frequently. I hope we will clean up enforcement and then we will have the right incentives here.


type: comment
by: rouanza
text:
  very cool, my only reason for not using it is latency. recommendation: look up user&#x27;s ip and geo location, spin up VM in a datacenter with lowest latency.


type: comment
by: ubercow13
text:
  Totally disagree, I have a wrapper I wrote myself for converting things, often for sharing the odd little clip online or such. It produces a <i>complex</i> command that is not easy to just type out, that does multiple things to maximise compatibility like<p>- making sure pixel are square while resizing if the video resolution is too large<p><pre><code>    (&quot;scale=w=if(gt(iw*sar\\,ih)\\,min(ceil(iw*sar&#x2F;2)*2\\,{})\\,ceil(iw*sar*min(ih\\,{})&#x2F;ih&#x2F;2)*2):h=if(gt(ih\\,iw*sar)\\,min(ceil(ih&#x2F;2)*2\\,{})\\,ceil(ih*min(iw*sar\\,{})&#x2F;iw&#x2F;sar&#x2F;2)\*2):out_range=limited,zscale,setsar=1&quot;) </code></pre> - dealing with some HDR or high gamut thing I can&#x27;t really remember that can result from screen recording on macos using some method I was using at some point<p>- setting this one tag on hevc files that macos needs for them to be recognised as hevc but isn&#x27;t set by default<p>- calculating the target bitrate if I need a specific filesize and verifying the encode actually hit that size and retrying if not (doesn&#x27;t always work first time with certain hardware encoders even if they have a target or max bitrate parameter)<p>- dealing with 2-pass encoding which is fiddly and requires two separate commands and the parameters are codec specific<p>- correctly activating hardware encoding for various codecs<p>- etc<p>And this is just for the basic task of &quot;make this into a simple mp4&quot;


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  The claim you&#x27;re responding to is that hard drives lose &quot;magnetic charge&quot; at a rate of 1% per year, not that bits get corrupted at a rate of 1% per year. The error correction in hard drives is far simpler and weaker than what&#x27;s used in SSDs, but it does exist. So we should expect that there&#x27;s a significant margin for data degradation before any observable data corruption begins. (This is true for SSDs, too; the first symptom of data degradation is reduced read performance as slower, more complex error correction methods kick in, then much later the host starts to actually get read errors or bad data.)


type: comment
by: jsight
text:
  I don&#x27;t necessarily see this as a bad trend. Eventually a tax on mileage and weight would make the most sense vs the current attempts to use fuel taxes as a proxy for those things.


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
text:
  That&#x27;s a controversy I&#x27;m not sure you necessarily realise you&#x27;ve stepped into :).<p>It&#x27;s fairly common to consider working and PR branches to be &quot;unpublished&quot; from a mutability point of view: if I base my work on someone else&#x27;s PR, I&#x27;m going to have to rebase when they rebase.  Merging to `main` publishes the commit, at which point it&#x27;s immutable.<p>Working with JJ, its default behaviour is to consider parents of a branch that&#x27;s not owned by you to be immutable.


type: comment
by: rzmmm
text:
  That sounds more sensible. I was thinking maybe the error caused DKA due to pumps suspending all insulin overnight or something.


type: comment
by: dboon
text:
  The problem is that Arch doesn&#x27;t need to quickly resolve (version -&gt; manifest) for arbitrary versions. With Arch, &#x2F;var&#x2F;lib&#x2F;pacman&#x2F;sync&#x2F;core.db has one release of a set of packages. When you install, you just grab whatever&#x27;s there. Rolling release. pacman -Syu pulls the newest version of that set of packages. If you install sqlite 3.0 and then come back a few years later and &quot;reinstall&quot; all the Arch packages you used to have on a new machine, you&#x27;ll either (a) use that exact database and pull the same version or (b) pacman -Syu, pull latest package database, and get the newest sqlite (say, 3.5)<p>There&#x27;s no concept of installing sqlite 3.0 on a system where sqlite 3.5 is available.<p>For a language package manager, it&#x27;s exactly the opposite. I could make a project with every version of sqlite the package manager has ever known about. They all must be resolvable.<p>If you want to do that resolution quickly (which manifest do I use for sqlite 3.0?), repo-per-package doesn&#x27;t work without a bunch of machinery that makes it, IMO, not worth it.<p>Pacman is the best, you&#x27;d have to pry Arch from my cold, dead hands. Just different constraints.


type: comment
by: insom
text:
  This sounds amazing! Is it also protected from being lost forever by trivial mistakes that are very common?


type: comment
by: inglor_cz
text:
  The vast majority of damage on the road is caused by vehicles with high axle load, e.g. trucks, especially overloaded trucks. IIRC the damage is proportional to <i>fourth</i> power of the axle load.<p>As a consequence, personal cars barely register.<p>It would make sense to collect toll from trucks only, and possibly weigh them all, because overloaded trucks are extra damaging to the road.


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
text:
  Gas is a different shared resource (e.g. it’s effects on air quality&#x2F;climate change) than road capacity.


type: story
by: _____k
title: The Theft That Never Was: Inside Venezuela's 1976 Oil Takeover
url:
  https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/12/26/the-theft-that-never-was-inside-venezuelas-1976-oil-takeover/


type: comment
by: HansHamster
text:
  &gt; Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the &quot;QCD force&quot;<p>Maybe you should not take everything GPT tells you at face value? I have no idea what this QCD force is supposed to be. The strong force is _the_ force of QCD. The Standard Model still considers the electromagnetic, weak and strong force. The description of the weak and EM force can be unified into the electroweak force and there are theories that try to also unify it with the strong force and even gravity, but there are issues on the theory side and no clear evidence on the experimental side as to which direction is the correct one.<p>The Standard Model and General Relativity are still our most successful theories. It is clear that they don&#x27;t tell the whole picture, but (annoyingly?) it is not clear at all where this is going.<p>Just for dark matter there are probably a dozen proposed hypothetical particles, but so far we have found none. But maybe it&#x27;s something completely different...


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  PSA: A keyword search for &quot;otherworld&quot; &quot;1985&quot; &quot;magnet&quot; gives torrent results.<p>Because piracy competes well against myopic, licensing-hobbled distribution.


type: comment
by: m3047
text:
  I can read that &quot;submission and deference&quot; at the casino as conflict avoidance, the arresting officer says to his peers at the station that he &quot;kind of believes&quot; the suspect. He also states at some point that he can&#x27;t cite (and I infer then release) the suspect because he is not certain who he is, and therefore has to arrest him as a &quot;John Doe&quot; so that his identity can be established. The fact (?) that the suspect now has a police record for this possible farce won&#x27;t be settled until after the facts are determined in a court of law.<p>This video demonstrates that when it comes down to it the blunt end of law enforcement is oftentimes a shit show of &quot;seems to work for me&quot; and that goes for facial recognition, shot spotter, contraband dogs, drug &amp; DNA tests, you name it.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  “These same companies might collect the same data again from public sources or third parties”<p>So… why bother?


type: comment
by: teiferer
text:
  Two quotes from the article you are criticizing:<p>&quot;As a programmer, I don’t like it.&quot;<p>&quot;As mentioned before, this is not a post about what’s practically a good idea. All I’m arguing is that mathematically, we can extend division in this way without leading to a contradiction. Programming languages are different from mathematical formalisms, and should be different. I prefer that 1&#x2F;0 is an error, because I’m not using my program to prove theories.&quot;<p>Please do yourself a favor and actually read it.<p>Besides, 0 as a sentinental value on disk or on the wire is fine, but once you have values in a programming language, use option types. 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.


type: comment
by: wvbdmp
text:
  It’s not always destructive as in “to crush”, it can also lend an air of diffusion, dispersion, fraying at the edges, which is perhaps closer to the idea of “sprawl”. I’m not Swiss, so it could be different there, and I can’t speak to how common “Zersiedlung” is in Switzerland. In Germany I would say it’s probably strictly a governmental&#x2F;admin term of art, if anything.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  We still talk about &quot;bugs&quot; (99+% of computer defects in the past 70+ years have not been caused by insects) and &quot;AJAX&quot; (long after most of these requests use JSON instead of XML).


type: comment
by: dboon
text:
  I&#x27;m just a stupid systems programmer who just discovered Cloudflare. How much do you think that&#x27;d cost? Serving a pretty heavily cached SQLite database (i.e. everyone grabs the same bytes). I realize the answer depends on scale, so let&#x27;s say what if Cargo or Homebrew or some such did this?


type: comment
by: smj-edison
text:
  I feel like it&#x27;s more that we have statements that are &quot;pointers&quot; to the graph. &quot;According to Figure 1, we see that temperature rises do to pressure.&quot; So we can summarise with words, but the intuition and proof comes from the visual medium.


type: comment
by: selectodude
text:
  Unfortunately, it hasn’t seen a big jump in a while, all cars are getting heavier and electrified, and gas mileage is going up.


type: story
by: abdulbasitali
title: Show HN: AgentFuse – A local circuit breaker to prevent $500 OpenAI bills
url: https://github.com/AbdulBasitA/agent-fuse
text:
  Hey HN,<p>I’ve been building agents recently, and I hit a problem: I fell asleep while a script was running, and my agent got stuck in a loop. I woke up to a drained OpenAI credit balance.<p>I looked for a tool to prevent this, but most solutions were heavy enterprise proxies or cloud dashboards. I just wanted a simple &quot;fuse&quot; that runs on my laptop and stops the bleeding before it hits the API.<p>So I built AgentFuse.<p>It is a lightweight, local library that acts as a circuit breaker for LLM calls.<p>Drop-in Shim: It wraps the openai client (and supports LangChain) so you don&#x27;t have to rewrite your agent logic.<p>Local State: It uses SQLite in WAL mode to track spend across multiple concurrent agents&#x2F;terminal tabs.<p>Hard Limits: It enforces a daily budget (e.g., stops execution at $5.00).<p>It’s open source and available on PyPI (pip install agent-fuse).<p>I’d love feedback on the implementation, specifically the SQLite concurrency logic! I tried to make it as robust as possible without needing a separate server process.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  I used some (pirated) software that included a bundled Windows 2 runtime on an Amstrad PC1512 with CGA (but enhanced to 16 colors in 640x200 to make GEM look good in the sales brochures) in the late 80s. The Windows app ran in mono 640x200.<p>This unlocked some memories.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  Okay, let&#x27;s say the misguided individual users are posting on Facebook - a mega-corp with billions of users.  And 13-<i>digit</i> market cap, to tempt the lawyers.<p>How does that play out?  IANAL, but I&#x27;m thinking Facebook says &quot;Sorry, but Section 230 covers our ass&quot; - and that&#x27;s about it.  Still no consequences.


type: comment
by: pandaman
text:
  &gt;aspects of communism, but materialism certainly is not one of them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dialectical_materialism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dialectical_materialism</a><p>It is one of the important parts. If you lived under communist rule you&#x27;d have to pass exams in &quot;diamat&quot; to get any advanced education.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  Why do we need public funds to build a private authority that pays people absurd amounts of money who don&#x27;t actually do anything instead of just you know.... building the road like we always have. For the public.<p>If we&#x27;re going to spend the money anyways why do we need private profits?<p>Furthermore, just tax the vehicles that are actually doing damage to the roads. i.e., trucks.<p>A honda civic barely does anything to a road. Where a semi-truck is EXPONENTIALLY more damaging.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>.<p>You needn&#x27;t use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;query=community%20identity%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comme...</a>


type: comment
by: smusamashah
text:
  The editor that is used to draw these animations <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;editor&#x2F;l0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;editor&#x2F;l0</a><p>Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him making a drawing start to end. (edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ</a>)<p>From FAQs<p>&gt; The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the site itself. Then I started drawing the first characters. I drew slowly at first, as I had to get used to the projection and constantly improve the animation editor. I&#x27;ve been creating the first block for over 8 months. Now I draw 1 block in about 1-1.5 months.<p>Author made everything, including the editor, by himself.


type: comment
by: alwa
text:
  It strikes me as a little disappointing the way commenters seem to think they know you, and seem to respond to your thoughtful work by picking at you personally.<p>From the root comment that speculates about your existential happiness (he chose a partner and kids instead, and is happier that way than whatever he assumes your life is like!), to the gp comment that passes judgment on your intentions in writing at all.<p>I’m not really sure what to make of that, but that kind of behavior is the reason I keep my writing to myself (and specific people I email directly) and never share it. I don’t have the patience to deal with the uninvited judgment, and I worry that I’d respond to the unjustified demands by internalizing them.<p>My life is richer as a result of you being able and willing to deal with all this, and sharing what stimulated you this year. If I didn’t like it, I’d go read something else and politely abstain from judgment. As it happens, I liked it very much, and I did not go read something else. Thank you.<p>Thank you for that, thank you for not letting various ancillary grumps dissuade you, and a healthy and stimulating and prosperous new year to you!


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  Its only really a crisis for people who are dependent on the US for protection. The whole compact is that you use the dollar, and the US will look after you (ie House of Saud, Europe, taiwan, south korea, etc) But that isn&#x27;t really certain anymore.<p>You need to make tributes to the suntan king, and he is most capricious and likley to tariff the fuck out of you. So alternative destination for your goods is a necessity<p>Also the markets are not convinced that the fed is in good hands. The <i>whole point</i> of the fed is that they are far enough away from the meddling in Washington so that you can rely on the dollar. The fed is being steadily erroded, with the new chair being selected soon. The problem is that present administration is hell bent on loyalty over competence.<p>Printing dollars to get out of domestic budgetary problems was never a thing (excluding QE, but thats different, nominally) was never an option in the US. but that doesn&#x27;t seem so far fetched now.


type: comment
by: nfw2
text:
  Toll roads are good economics. If a choice has negative externalities (more traffic, more pollution, road damage), tax it.


type: comment
by: yuchtman
text:
  Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse I assume?<p>If you want to try more Herman Hesse I preferred Demian &amp; Siddharta far over Glass Bead game (read in German though, can&#x27;t speak for translations).


type: comment
by: oblio
text:
  At this point the bare minimum for anything new is probably AGPL. Even that needs to be reinforced against hyperscalers and LLMs.


type: comment
by: v9v
text:
  There are other videos of the laundry tasks within the article, and they do not seem to feature cuts if I&#x27;m not mistaken.


type: comment
by: stetrain
text:
  Apple does still sell the M1 through resellers.<p>Also there’s nothing wrong with buying used or refurbished. Apple doesn’t have to keep making older tech for people to continue getting use out of it.


type: comment
by: hk1337
text:
  &gt; 1Password ssh agent and git ssh signing<p>I’m still working through how to use this but I have it basically setup and it’s great!


type: comment
by: elteto
text:
  Just a small nitpick: the Tacoma Narrows bridge didn’t collapse because of resonance but because of flutter. It’s a common misconception.<p>For resonance the external driving force must match the resonance frequency of the system, but wind is rarely&#x2F;never purely sinusoidal.


type: comment
by: jen20
text:
  Replacing hyperscalers with other hyperscalers born off the back of open source contributors is not exactly progress.


type: comment
by: jtbayly
text:
  The gas tax is supposedly to pay for roads. Now that they are supposedly paying for the roads via tolls, I guess we can expect that they will <i>not</i> decrease the gas tax but add another tax that supposedly pays for the roads.


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  pre-commit is just a bad way to do this.  99.9% of my commits won&#x27;t pass CI.  I don&#x27;t care.  I run `git wip` which is an alias for `git commit -am &quot;WIP&quot;` about every 15 minutes during the day.  Whenever things are in a running state.  I <i>often</i> go back through this history on my branch to undo changes or revisit decisions, especially during refactors, <i>especially</i> when leveraging AI.  When the most work you can lose is about 15 minutes you stop looking before you leap.  Sometimes a hunch pays off and you finish a very large task in a fraction of the time you might have spent if you were ploddingly careful.  Very often a hunch doesn&#x27;t pay off and you have to go recover stuff from your git history, which is very easy and not hard at all once you build that muscle.  The cost&#x2F;benefit isn&#x27;t even close, it makes me easily 2x faster when refactoring code or adding a feature to existing code, probably more.  It is &#x27;free&#x27; for greenfield work, neither helping nor really hurting.  At the end the entire branch is squashed down to one commit anyway, so why would you ever not want to have free checkpoints all the time?<p>As I&#x27;m saying this, I&#x27;m realizing I should just wire up Emacs to call `git add {file_being_saved} &amp;&amp; git commit -am &quot;autocheckpoint&quot;` every time I save a file.  (I will have to figure out how to check if I&#x27;m in the middle of some operation like a merge or rebase to not mess those up.)<p>I&#x27;m perfectly happy to have the CI fail if I forget to run the CI locally, which is rare but does happen.  In that case I lose 5 minutes or whatever because I have to go find the branch and fix the CI failure and re-push it.  The flip side of that is I rarely lose hours of work, or end up painting myself in a corner because commit is too expensive and slows me down and I&#x27;m subconsciously avoiding it.


type: comment
by: gavinray
text:
  The &quot;htop&quot; utility has a &quot;Tree View&quot; if you press F5 that is pretty handy for this, too.


type: comment
by: casey2
text:
  Data that can be visualized is rarely useful. Better to create a language to talk about it.<p>Often you need a language in the first place to even be interested in the graph at all.  Graphs are worth a thousand words if you are willing to throw out any data that<p>Is higher than 3D<p>Requires control flow or recursion to explain<p>Of course you can have diagrams systems that are languages e.g. Feynman Diagrams (a sort of DSL for quickly reading QM math). I would hold this up as a much greater achievement of human ingenuity than r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful spam. But the differentiation here isn&#x27;t between text and graphs, but between languages and glyphs.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  I think they mean that <i>what</i> happens when a neutron decays is well understood. One of the neutron&#x27;s down quarks change to an up quark, facilitated by a virtual W boson with negative charge. The W boson is very unstable and immediately decays into an electron and an electron anti-neutrino, both of which are ejected leaving behind the former neutrino which is now a proton because of that quark change.<p><i>When</i> that happens is less understood, hence the discrepancies you mentioned.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  A thru-line of some of the gnarliest vulnerabilities here is PGP&#x27;s insane packet system, where a PGP message is a practically arbitrary stream of packets, some control and some data, with totally incoherent cryptographic bindings. It&#x27;s like something in between XMLDSIG (which pulls cryptographic control data out of random places in XML messages according to attacker-controlled tags) and SSL2 (with no coherent authentication of the complete handshake).<p>The attack on detached signatures (attack #1) happens because GnuPG needs to run a complicated state machine that can put processing into multiple different modes, among them three <i>different</i> styles of message signature. In GPG, that whole state machine apparently collapses down to a binary check of &quot;did we see any data so that we&#x27;d need to verify a signature?&quot;, and you can selectively flip that predicate back and forth by shoving different packets into message stream, even if you&#x27;ve already sent data that needs to be verified.<p>The malleability bug (attack #4) is particularly slick. Again, it&#x27;s an incoherent state machine issue. GPG can &quot;fail&quot; to process a packet because it&#x27;s cryptographically invalid. But it can also fail because the message framing itself is corrupted. Those latter non-cryptographic failures are handled by aborting the processing of the message, putting GPG into an unexpected state where it&#x27;s handling an error and &quot;forgetting&quot; to check the message authenticator. You can CBC-bitflip known headers to force GPG into processing DEFLATE compression, and mangle the message such that handling the message prints the plaintext in its output.<p>The formfeed bug (#3) is downright weird. GnuPG has special handling for `\f`; if it occurs at the end of a line, you can inject arbitrary unsigned data, because of GnuPG&#x27;s handling of line truncation. Why is this even a feature?<p>Some of these attacks look situational, but that&#x27;s deceptive, because PGP is (especially in older jankier systems) used as an encryption backend for applications --- Mallory getting Alice to sign or encrypt something on her behalf is an extremely realistic threat model (it&#x27;s the same threat model as most cryptographic attacks on secure cookies: the app automatically signs stuff for users).<p>There is <i>no reason</i> for a message encryption system to have this kind of complexity. It&#x27;s a deep architectural flaw in PGP. You want extremely simple, orthogonal features in the format, ideally treating everything as clearly length-delimited opaque binary blobs. Instead you get a Weird Machine, and talks like this one.<p>Amazing work.


type: comment
by: quickthrowman
text:
  There is a fixed supply of gold that does not correlate with economic output. It makes zero sense to tie the value of paper money to gold.


type: comment
by: abigail95
text:
  No the license does not hold! Fair use exists independently of the GPL license.<p>Using GPL software does not take away your rights under the law. As much as the angry FSF lawyers want you to believe - I can use any GPL software in any way I choose and have the affirmative defense of fair use for <i>every single claim they throw at me</i>.<p>Whether I lose or not depends on <i>specific factors of my use</i> - and I&#x27;m sorry but one comma isn&#x27;t going to cut it.<p>Edit: A single comma will lose 100% of the time to a summary judgement via de minimis. That&#x27;s just an incredible legal theory you have there and not something you should be spreading.<p>Edit2: The Beastie Boys famously won via de minimis at summary judgement for a 3 note sample. It matters not whether those 3 notes were GPL notes or not. It matters what the law is.


type: comment
by: ossa-ma
text:
  Part of it is the irrational feeling of a disgruntled investor, doubt that I&#x27;m alone.<p>The other part is he has a track record of dumping on retail then telling them not to buy his next deal once he&#x27;s already cashed out.


type: comment
by: kiernanmcgowan
text:
  It’s also a direct usage tax to support road maintenance. Heavier users of the road ways end up contributing more to the maintenance of the public good.<p>We had a proxy for that via gasoline taxes but with EV becoming more common we need to find a replacement for that revenue.


type: comment
by: dietrichepp
text:
  The civic barely does anything to a road, except require its existence and maintenance, and it turns out that roads are expensive to build and maintain (even if only damaged by weather).


type: comment
by: NegativeK
text:
  &gt; If the retort to this is it impacts poorer people more<p>We&#x27;ve ended up, though, with a growing wealth gap and more tolls.


type: comment
by: uplifter
text:
  &gt; What is the algorithm implementation when it comes to the physical world?<p>It is the physical world, nature is the implementation of the natural selection algorithm. Yes, the strong force is part of the implementation, because the strong force can play a role in selection events, cf nuclear bombs and radiation. The gravitational pull of remote galaxies can also influence selection events by changing planetary orbits minutely.<p>I don’t see these as problems for my argument because I am not the one claiming they encode an objective, I just see them as natural forces which can influence selection without any overarching purpose or goal. It is those claiming natural selection is an optimization process who must show how it could work. The onus is on them to show where their supposed objective of natural selection is encoded in its implementation.<p>&gt; If you create selection pressure, and have a reproductive system that allows for mutations, then you may end up an &quot;implementation&quot; that encodes the goal implicit in the selection pressure.<p>What goal are you referring to?<p>&gt; But anyone who messed around with genetic algorithms or artificial life in the 90s knows that you can trivially start out with no resemblance to &quot;the goal&quot; at all. Where life on earth in aggregate or any specific example of it in particular might be along that pathway is similarly impossible to say.<p>I am one of these people, but I don’t know what goal you are saying these systems came to demonstrate. Are you saying these artificial evolution systems had objectives they pursued? What caused them to follow these objectives? What is this “pathway”?<p>&gt;Consider the well-documented case of moth evolution in industrial (and later, post-industrial) northern England. Their camouflaging wing tones changed to respond to the typical color on vertical surfaces, twice within a human generation or three. Was &quot;the goal&quot; flexible coloration across generations, or was it &quot;light, then &quot;dark&quot; and then &quot;light&quot; again?<p>There was no goal at any point in the process. Moths with colors that matched their contemporaneous environment were less likely to be eaten by predators than those which stood out. Calling it a goal is a confusion, its trying to add a conceptual framing that isn’t necessary and adds nothing to the understanding of the system. Neither the soot levels in the air nor the birds hunting for moths have a goal of adjusting the balance of moth coloration phenotypes. They are just the context, along with everything else in their environment, in which evolution of moth coloration may occur.<p>In what sense is there any goal in the example? And if it is a goal, why is it not optimization? I claim there is no goal, no optimization objective to natural selection. Its not just a philosophical side question, it is the question.<p>edit: typo


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  You both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Could you please review  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a> and stick to the rules? We ban accounts that won&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t want to ban either of you.


type: comment
by: aaronblohowiak
text:
  For me, ADT’s and pattern matching are about expressivity not type checking. Type checking really helps with refactoring quickly. If we’re measuring experience with years, I was a rubyist for over a decade and have written python for another 5 years after that, so I have some dynamic language bona fides.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  The magnetic strength of particles on the disk can decay at 1% per year, but the drive won&#x27;t have issues reading them until they fall below a threshold where they can no longer be read. It could take decades.


type: comment
by: yalogin
text:
  Is this already integrated into the latest iOS? If so it’s not good. It only works on a few images and for the most part the rendering feels fake and somehow incoherent


type: comment
by: maxglute
text:
  Dollar dominance erosion shifting towards dollar inertia. Post RU sanctions dollar lost much of it&#x27;s leverage (as geopolitical weapon), i.e. actual useful dominance function (transaction panopticon, sanctions)while still retaining most of the liability (Triffin etc). Dollar going to remain popular by volume because plumbing in place, but parallel payment systems last few years = systematic blindspots where US treasury can&#x27;t monitor what others buy outside of dollar system, and generally weaker ability coerce countries. What&#x27;s left of dollar system is US enjoying exorbitant privilege of going into ~35T and rapidly increasing debt to serve as asset for everyone else, while dragging down export via uncompetitive FX.<p>One interesting attack vector vs USD is PRC recycling it&#x27;s dollar surplus &#x2F; shadow lending it&#x27;s USD reserves at more favorable rates than US gov can, i.e. 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 and drive up US interest -&gt; further increase US debt. PRC basically hijacked and weaponize USD liquidity to make increasingly ineffective dollar system (as geopolitical tool) even more expensive to maintain while PRC can enjoy dollar liquidity without the maintenance costs. And that&#x27;s probably the ultimately the goal, smart play is not to inherit reserve obligations, but to turn reserve holder&#x27;s exorbitant privilege to exorbitant curse.


type: comment
by: pantalaimon
text:
  Well Joscha Bach&#x27;s talk got removed this year because of that mail exchange with Epstein. But disregarding the content discussed, I found it indeed a bit off-putting how he basically licked the butthole of his sponsor between those lines.


type: comment
by: tonymet
text:
  Traditional taxes are democratic -- if the legislature raises a tax, they can be voted out.<p>Creative revenue approaches sound efficient, but you don&#x27;t want efficiency with spending. Efficiency means that spending will grow unabated.<p>In my state they&#x27;ve had record revenue for 12 years (until just lately). Regardless of each record, they continued to outspend revenue into a deficit.<p>Commercial enterprises are bounded by revenue (and debt).  Public agencies used to have a feedback loop (losing the next election), but in many states there is little consequence for deficit spending.<p>Don&#x27;t give spendthrifts more ways to spend money. They will always exceed the revenue they generate.


type: story
by: srevenant
title: Is the windows11 mandate to upgrade hardware akin to older corp's toxic messes?
text:
  Just a thought. So as I understand it, largely the only reason for the &quot;your computer can&#x27;t run windows 11&quot; thing is because of TPM 2.0 as a minimum. This creates a vast array of unusable computers that are stuck on TPM 1.x, even fully functional.<p>In the end it feels like an artificial requirement. Sure it&#x27;s packaged in the trappings of fear and uncertainty (stronger crypto is good right?) But the crypto there is &#x2F;good enough&#x2F; for most CONSUMER use cases. &#x2F;FORCING&#x2F; them to throw away perfectly good computers feels... wrong.<p>On the level of &quot;love canal&quot; wrong, for the amount of e-waste it is effectively driving.<p>Sure the hardware vendors love it. And it&#x27;s all spun up as &quot;we&#x27;re keeping you secure and better.&quot;<p>But let&#x27;s be honest. I feel like the real reason for the push is better DRM, in the end. They keep the IP holders happy by making it harder for consumers to rip video.<p>I might be completely wrong, dunno :) It just seems very suspect.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t know where to even begin, but has anybody calculated the environmental impact (if any?) of forcing obsolescence on computers largely to the benefit of the IP holders?<p>There&#x27;s going to be a constant rate of ewaste as it is. Has that gone up thanks to windows 11 and the various pushes to retire &quot;old&quot; hardware that is still just fine?<p>I know Linux has seen a big bump of desktop users (relatively speaking) thanks to this.<p>Just makes me wonder, but I&#x27;m not in the know to calculate and figure this stuff out.


type: comment
by: knowitnone3
text:
  you keep insinuating PRC yet you don&#x27;t realize you&#x27;re already pwned just running their hardware no matter the OS.


type: story
by: lopez_steven
title: StreamKernel a Kafka-native, high-performance Java 21 event orchestration kernel
text:
  StreamKernel is a Kafka-native, high-performance event orchestration engine designed to decouple pipeline orchestration from payload semantics—enabling low-latency data movement while supporting real-world enrichment, durability, and observability requirements.<p>At its core, StreamKernel provides a thin, pluggable execution kernel that manages concurrency, backpressure, and lifecycle orchestration, while delegating schema, serialization, and business logic to interchangeable components. This architectural separation allows the same kernel to drive synthetic benchmarks, production-like enrichment pipelines, and downstream systems without rewriting core flow control.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;IntuitiveDesigns&#x2F;StreamKernel


type: comment
by: ahazred8ta
text:
  Newton, Babbage, and Kepler were born on the 25th, 26th, and 27th. <i>The Renaissance Mathematicus</i> blogs about Kepler every year (part 3) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thonyc.wordpress.com&#x2F;the-trilogies-of-christmas-past&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thonyc.wordpress.com&#x2F;the-trilogies-of-christmas-past...</a>


type: comment
by: dietrichepp
text:
  If we only had trucks on the road, we’d need less road, right? The street where I live could be about a third of the width if it were not for personal cars.


type: comment
by: SAI_Peregrinus
text:
  &quot;Lewis Carroll&#x27;s Method for Computing Determinates&quot; is headlinese and avoids the &quot;how&quot;.


type: comment
by: ahartmetz
text:
  In my German-speaking opinion, Zersiedlung is more about destruction of landscape than about fraying of settlements. You don&#x27;t say that a village is zersiedelt, you do say that a landscape is zersiedelt.


type: comment
by: gavinray
text:
  <i>&quot;Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2504747" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2504747</a>


type: comment
by: xorcist
text:
  These are not vulnerabilities in the &quot;remote exploit&quot; sense. They should be taken seriously, you should be careful not to run local software on untrusted data, and GPG should probably do more to protect users from shooting themselves in the foot, but the worst thing you could do is panic and throw out a process your partners and colleagues trust. There is nothing here that will disturb your workflow signing commits or apt-get install-ing from your distribution.<p>If you use crypographic command line tools to verify data sent to you, be mindful on what you are doing and make sure to understand the attacks presented here. One of the slides is titled &quot;should we even use command line tools&quot; and yes, we should because the alternative is worse, but we must be diligent in treating all untrusted data as adversarial.


type: comment
by: rzmmm
text:
  This is good advice for pre-diabetics and type 2 diabetics but in type 1 diabetes exercise after meal often makes things worse. It makes insulin dosing less predictable.


type: comment
by: stefan_
text:
  But the economics of collecting them suck. A tax is a lot easier and much less &quot;enshittifying&quot; the daily experience.


type: comment
by: navigate8310
text:
  I don&#x27;t think future administrators would enforce laws retrospectively and thereby dent their business friendly image in the process.


type: comment
by: kotaKat
text:
  <i>laughs in New York I-90</i><p>Yep. It&#x27;s great that I have to pay to use this stretch of I-90 and then on top of that if I end up at the wrong rest area on a Sunday I won&#x27;t be able to access every vendor (because they picked Chick-Fil-A at some locations).


type: comment
by: sethhochberg
text:
  I think there&#x27;s some real sample bias in that definition of &quot;the community&quot; though, because people who are passionate Ruby programmers giving conference talks, running meetups, etc are often a distinctly different group than the regular-old programmers making business software go &#x27;round every day. The big players writing tools for bringing various flavors of type safety into Ruby are doing it because they&#x27;re experiencing the pain of having lots of programmers working on large, complex software over years-long periods with the tools that Ruby gives you out of the box. They often employ some of those community fixtures, but thats not the majority of an engineering organization.<p>The reality is that there certainly are enthusiast programmers who can thrive with the lightweight elegance of stock Ruby, but most people writing code professionally aren&#x27;t enthusiast programmers under ideal conditions. Everything is always a little more distracted, a little less well-defined, and a little more coupled to legacy than anyone would want. And those are the conditions where I want my tools working as hard as possible, automatically, for me &#x2F; my teams.


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  I feel like maybe you didn&#x27;t understand the meaning of that last bit you quoted from Tom&#x27;s Hardware. To be clear: the standard for consumer SSDs is 1 year of unpowered data retention after the drive&#x27;s full write endurance rating has been exhausted.<p>The experiment Tom&#x27;s is reporting on found <i>twelve</i> instances of data corruption on a low-end drive that had been subjected to over two thousand full drive writes, <i>four times</i> its rated write endurance, then left on a shelf for <i>two</i> years. This is a demonstration of a bottom of the barrel SSD <i>wildly exceeding expectations</i>.<p>It&#x27;s really important in conversations like this to accurately convey not just the existence of the failure mode, but also the realistic chances of running into this problem, and the extent of the problem when it does manifest. If a deliberate torture test can only produce a few <i>kilobytes</i> of data corruption after twice the duration and four times the abuse the drive is supposed to be able to handle, this problem should be described as <i>extremely minor</i>.


type: comment
by: dawnerd
text:
  Problem is, it’s not a tax. It’s a handout to private companies that take advantage of taxpayers fronting the construction cost in a lot of cases. We had one here paid for by tax payers but then leased to a company for some low dollar amount and they keep most of the money.<p>It’s just another form of rent seeking.<p>Now, gov run tolls seem like a good idea in areas where congestion needs to be managed. But also needs to be careful not to be a secret tax on the poor.


type: comment
by: sireat
text:
  Very simple - look for who has a stake in Groq currently:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startu...</a><p>&quot;Davis, whose firm has invested more than half a billion dollars in Groq since the company was founded in 2016, said the deal came together quickly. Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco , Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.&quot;<p>POP QUIZ - Which minority partner is the key here?


type: comment
by: alwa
text:
  That guy was denigrating somebody who did nothing more than share a list of stuff they thought was cool this year. He came at @fogus (the author) with, essentially, “I’d come across all that cool stuff too if I didn’t have my much better life of wife and kids, I bet he’s existentially unfulfilled.”<p>Reflective or not, it seems really personal and unfair to swing at a stranger like that. For all he knows, @fogus has the same number of partners and kids as he does, or is just as happy with whatever way their life is organized. I don’t think it’s fair to come at @fogus as “insecure” for reacting to derogatory assumptions.<p>Maybe everyone else here knows stuff I don’t about @fogus’ life, but I just read somebody being generous enough to share their internal thinking in public and, in exchange, getting shit on for no reason.<p>And as to gp—I agree the intention seems thoughtful and self-reflective; thank you for sharing those sentiments. I’m glad you’ve found happiness and fulfillment, and I think your point would stand just as strong without swinging at a stranger.


type: comment
by: _aavaa_
text:
  But a tax is not targeted to where the usage occurs. Tolls allowed highways with more usage to get more revenue to save up for the more frequent maintenance.


type: comment
by: haskellandrust
text:
  The gas tax hasn’t kept up with inflation, EVs are only a secondary contributor to the shortfall. Most states have been leeching from their general funds to keep up with highway maintenance. California has raised theres fair aggressively, though.


type: comment
by: 827a
text:
  Gold-backed currencies, and even Bitcoin, are really good if you want your economy to be only this big, and never grow bigger. Eventually, a crisis will happen, and you&#x27;ll say &quot;actually, its now 1.3 yuan to the gram, because we need to build tanks&quot;, or &quot;actually, did we say we had 8,000 tons of gold in reserve? we meant 9,000. Yeah we just counted, no you can&#x27;t look at it, we have 9,000, here take the yuan and go build vaccines&quot;, or &quot;its now illegal for citizens to own gold, turn it in at your nearest party headquarters&quot; (even the US participated in that one!)


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  There are still all the roads that aren&#x27;t toll roads that still need that tax revenue to support.


type: comment
by: pclmulqdq
text:
  There are several states that have an EV registration surcharge that replaces gas tax. It&#x27;s not popular with the pro-EV crowd.


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  It&#x27;s like Mark Twain and the rules for reselling a slave in Missouri <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;fe48ea07ad20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;fe48ea07ad20</a>  &quot;the free black man in Missouri could only remain in the state for 6 months before being taken and put on auction as a slave.&quot; only it turned out to be false, and evidently made up by Twain for reasons of fiction.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  They are very regressive unless there are income-based credits, which adds administrative complexity.<p>Rich people pay the tolls without a second thought. For the poor they are yet another obstacle to trying to make ends meet.


type: comment
by: enneff
text:
  There is also the threat of the server sending a data sequence that exploits a vulnerability in your terminal. It has happened before, but it’s rare.


type: comment
by: haskellandrust
text:
  What do you mean by “the economics” here? I barely drive but I have a toll transponder, I set it up once and haven’t thought about it since.


type: comment
by: NewsaHackO
text:
  One can do that with LLM as well. Honestly, I almost always just save the command if I think I am going to use it later. Also, I can just look back at the chat history.


type: comment
by: Maxatar
text:
  By itself it&#x27;s not a problem, but it&#x27;s certainly useless. Perhaps you can tell me what use &quot;3 ∩ 4 = 3&quot; has.<p>The problem is that these properties get in the way of proving arithmetic theorems because if you are being absolutely strict, 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. This introduces a lot of noise and makes formal proofs very frustrating, somewhat like when you&#x27;re programming and you have to bend the type system of your compiler to accept your code even though the program is conceptually correct and you end up spending effort on type coercions, casts, &quot;unsafe&quot; blocks etc... mathematically this makes your proof significantly longer, more brittle, and harder to reuse because it accidentally depends on details of the chosen encoding rather than on the intrinsic properties of arithmetic.


type: comment
by: ZuzuDuck
text:
  Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;m Mateusz, full-stack dev from Poland. For the past 4 years I&#x27;ve been running planning poker sessions in software houses and corps. Every tool I tried had the same problems:<p>- Onboarding takes half the sprint planning (&quot;wait, let me show you how this works...&quot;) - Free tiers showing job ads from competitors during estimation - Per-seat pricing that punishes you for growing (5 people → 20 people = 4x the cost) - Everyone needs an account just to vote<p>So I built VoteSprint. The idea is dead simple: click to create a room, share a link, people vote. That&#x27;s it. No accounts for participants, no ads ever, flat pricing regardless of team size.<p>*What&#x27;s different:* - Zero registration for voters (facilitator-only account) - Async mode for distributed teams across timezones - One price up to 20 people (not per-seat) - Lifetime deal option – pay once, use forever<p>Currently collecting signups for closed beta (Q1 2026 launch). First 50 teams get free beta access.<p>Tech stack: Django + React + PostgreSQL, hosted in EU (GDPR compliant).<p>I&#x27;d love feedback on: - Does the value prop resonate with your team&#x27;s pain points? - Pricing model – does flat fee make sense vs. per-seat? - Any must-have features I&#x27;m missing?<p>Happy to answer any questions about the product or the build.


type: comment
by: vineethy
text:
  I think it&#x27;s important to note that there&#x27;s nothing forbidding LPU style determinism from being used in training. They just didn&#x27;t make that choice.<p>Also tenstorrent could be a viable challenger in this space. It seems to me that their NoC and their chips could be mostly deterministic as long as you don&#x27;t start adding in branches


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  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>earmark this money in a way that can&#x27;t be siphoned and build public transportation with it. in addition buy fleets of buses with the cash that are exempt and analyze the destinations and origins of the traffic and put them there.


type: comment
by: redwall_hp
text:
  Odometry tax when you register the vehicle, with tiers based on the curb weight.<p>Also higher gas taxes for carbon reasons.


type: comment
by: _aavaa_
text:
  A highway is not a public good. It is a publicly subsidized good for private consumption.<p>Can I use the highway if I don’t have a car? (Barely)<p>Can I use it for anything non driving related (like a downtown street where lanes can be repurposed for outdoor seating)? No<p>I agree with you on what does the majority of the damage.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
text:
  Financial markets are positive-sum if you measure utility rather than cash. The person you were responding to is just generating garbage.


type: comment
by: sixo
text:
  It&#x27;s a leaky abstraction, in software terms. Ideally, an abstraction models the semantics of the problem domain &quot;opaquely&quot;; ideally our natural numbers have only the properties of the natural numbers and no others. An additional property leaking through is not like handy &quot;bonus&quot;, but a point of confusion. You can&#x27;t rely on it in proofs involving natural numbers without being careful to delineate which conclusions follow from the construction vs. which are inherent.


type: story
by: onesandofgrain
title: Why blog, when you can write in notepad?
text:
  If the whole purpose of blogging is to reflect and write down thoughts and learn&#x2F;(have personal discussions), why not just use notepad?<p>If you want your content to be read, that&#x27;s obviously a different matter, but blogging framed as &quot;notepadding&quot; seems somewhat disingenious?<p>I dunno, but my impression is that blogging is done with some degree of underlying desire to reach out to people and have your writings read (which is fine).<p>Blogging (with a domain) is more expensive, more cumbersome, less write-friendly due to HTML and .md syntaxing and formatting and it&#x27;s also laced with the entertainment-complex (it might be read by someone so it should be good writing). But in my opinion this entertainer-complex makes your writing more edgy and attention-seeking (which again is fine).<p>That&#x27;s my ramblings :) -... -.-- .


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  The spot where they said impossible should have been worded differently, I agree.  The later phrasing isn&#x27;t so bad.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  The Fed most commonly uses Open Market Operations to modify the money supply, with &quot;money printing&quot; or Quantitative Easing used in more emergency situations.<p>But more broadly your comment doesn&#x27;t really represent reality, whatever happens in the markets and economy the Fed manages inflation (or deflation) and it&#x27;s much more complicated than a single relationship like you describe.<p>More interesting is trade, where the US consumes so much and pays out so many dollars for goods that places like China which run huge surpluses have few choices other than lend it back to the US.


type: comment
by: Arainach
text:
  The gas tax has never paid for full road maintenance.  It&#x27;s always been subsidized from other funds.


type: comment
by: dboon
text:
  Sure! It&#x27;s very raw, though. There&#x27;s a lot of functionality, and I use it to build all sorts of projects already. But a common thing I do is to write the stupidest possible version of a thing and only do the hard engineering when it becomes untenable. Hence it&#x27;s not raw as in being new or bare, but it&#x27;s very raw in that you&#x27;ll see some really rough stuff in the code.<p>But, that being said, here&#x27;s the repo! I added a very basic README for you. It&#x27;s one command to bootstrap to a self hosting build, so give it a shot if you&#x27;re interested. My contact is in my profile.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tspader&#x2F;spn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tspader&#x2F;spn</a>


type: comment
by: kibwen
text:
  Cargo is fantastic... for building Rust code. Once you start trying to also use it to build C code, you&#x27;re moving outside of Cargo&#x27;s wheelhouse, using features that Cargo only supports begrudgingly (like build scripts). Cargo is definitely not intended to be an end-all be-all build system for all languages; it&#x27;s specialized for Rust, and that&#x27;s what it&#x27;s great at. For multi-language projects, you want some sort of simple tool to orchestrate the builds (e.g. `just` <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;just.systems&#x2F;man&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;just.systems&#x2F;man&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a> ) that internally calls out to Cargo (and whatever other build systems you have for whatever other languages you&#x27;re using). The overall mistake is thinking that Cargo is a replacement for `make`, when it isn&#x27;t nearly so general.


type: comment
by: survirtual
text:
  Every single lifestyle item of a modern life, whether you have a car or not, depends on the road system.<p>If you want food, products, or services, you depend on the roads.  This means it should be taxed universally and equitably.  We should all contribute our fair share to maintain the roads.<p>Tolls are a regressive tax on low-income people who do the most to make society work, and it is unfortunate that more people do not see this.  What&#x27;s more, they are generally administered by corrupt and inefficient private for-profit orgs.  This creates even more overhead which then costs more money.<p>These orgs generally have slimy deals with city and state governments, while directly profiting from public works that built the road system to begin with.<p>There are much better ways to fund the road system.  Tolls are among the worst.


type: comment
by: abigail95
text:
  And now we get to my question of <i>why</i>. They want the Linux source code, the company is not giving it to them, why is the next step a blog post instead of a lawsuit? Again this is a <i>medical device</i> - it&#x27;s important enough to spend the money on.<p>They make a blog post about GPL violations which allege the company is violating the law.<p>I&#x27;m <i>absolutely begging for anyone in a similar situation to prove it</i>. The reasons those emails were sent is because they think they have a legal entitlement to be sent the source code. *PROVE IT*. It&#x27;s cheap!


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  We&#x27;ve banned this account. Please don&#x27;t use multiple accounts in arguments on HN. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>


type: comment
by: daemonologist
text:
  Nvidia hired all their top personnel and paid $20B to license their technology, but stopped short of actually acquiring the company.  Very similar to how Google didn&#x27;t buy Windsurf.<p>I assume it&#x27;s more about what Groq had that Nvidia <i>didn&#x27;t</i> want, which was competition (in inference hardware).


type: comment
by: pryelluw
text:
  Friendly suggestion to read (and study) The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy. In addition to anything else you do. Guy is a prick. But, he’s a prick who has made me $$$.


type: comment
by: phil21
text:
  &gt; My bet is that it will end up being a very good thing for the world at large.<p>I generally agree with pretty much all your points other than this one.<p>While it will be good for other countries to regain sovereignty - and the weaponization of the US dollar for trivial reasons will be the biggest self-own perhaps in history - I do not think the world is going to be a better more peaceful place in 50 years.<p>It might be more free in a certain sense though, which may or may not end up long-term (over multiple generations) being better overall for humanity.  Time will tell.<p>Certainly though, the average quality of life in the US is about to plummet.


type: comment
by: vogtb
text:
  Oh, we&#x27;re doing Fly again? Cool! I don&#x27;t mean that sarcastically -- making it dead simple to get a VM at a domain or IP in a few seconds is good and useful. We should keep trying this idea, because every time it gets easier.<p>On a side note, a lot of people in this thread are doing a sort of &quot;I don&#x27;t get it, your website sucks&quot; but it&#x27;s like, come on dude! Just read the site! It takes less time to read the pricing, docs, and FAQ than it does to post about how you don&#x27;t get it.


type: comment
by: bananalychee
text:
  This remark always comes from people who do not have children. I have never seen a parent express regret over building a family.


type: comment
by: nirvdrum
text:
  If you’re just committing for your own sake, that workflow sounds productive. I’ve been asked to review PRs with 20+ commits with a “wip” or “.” commit message with the argument: “it’ll be squash merged, so who cares!”. I’m sure that works well for the author, but it’s not great for the reviewer. Breaking change sets up into smaller logical chunks really helps with comprehension. I’m not generally a fan of people being cavalier with my time so they can save their own.<p>For my part, I find the “local history” feature of the JetBrains IDEs gives me automatic checkpoints I can roll back to without needing to involve git. On my Linux machines I layer in ZFS snapshots (Time Machine probably works just as well for Macs). This gives me the confidence to work throughout the day without needing to compulsively commit. These have the added advantage of tracking files I haven’t yet added to the git repo.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  so we cool when corruption is not broadcasted on “truth” social but not cool when it is done behind the scenes?


type: story
by: AzeemX
title: Building Production AI Agents
url:
  https://pub.towardsai.net/building-production-grade-ai-agents-in-2025-the-complete-technical-guide-9f02eff84ea2


type: comment
by: thegrim000
text:
  The post is about him believing in hard work but not wanting to see what&#x27;s essentially propaganda promoting such work ethic in his feeds.<p>Ok, but is that really the worst thing? People are already constantly afloat in near endless foreign propaganda at this point; pawns in the latest cold war, all being slowly convinced to destroy their own countries from within. Culture &#x2F; traditions &#x2F; historic ways of life and governing being overthrown and replaced.<p>But really, promoting hard work is the top of the list of what this guy complains about and doesn&#x27;t want to see in his feed? That&#x27;d be at the bottom of my list of propaganda campaigns to complain about.


type: comment
by: _diyar
text:
  Regarding effectiveness, LLMs are in a class of their own wrt. their capabilities for general language processing and basic few-shot reasoning.<p>This also invalidates the &quot;efficiency&quot; question, since the cost of doing those tasks without LLMs is infinity (i.e. you can pay as much as you want, a dolphin is never going to replace the LLM).


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  &gt; Surely IBM &amp; co have a couple of spare developers or spare cash to contribute?<p>A major part of the problem is that GPG’s issues aren’t cash or developer time. It’s fundamentally a bad design for cryptographic usage. It’s so busy trying to be a generic Swiss Army knife for every possible user or use case that it’s basically made of developer and user footguns.<p>The way you secure this is by moving to alternative, purpose-built tools. Signal&#x2F;WhatsApp for messaging, age for file encryption, minisign for signatures, etc.


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  Most states include higher tag fees for EVs. I pay way more in the EV fee than I would have paid in gas taxes considering I don’t drive that much. Trucks and other heavy users dwarf car traffic by far though, and those extra logistic costs (if charged by weight) would show up as increased cost of goods.


type: comment
by: brk
text:
  Weird. Digital recording and mastering was definitely a thing at that time. You’d think they would have been crashing the HDDs of PCs in the recording studios.


type: comment
by: yellow_postit
text:
  It will be interesting to see if this is an exit for investors and which ones. Given it wasn’t an acquisition but licensing.


type: comment
by: onesandofgrain
text:
  ELI5: Blogging seems to be more of an traffic-seeking endeavour than a personal writing journey. The mere fact someone might read it is an immediate stopper to the creative juices as it literally from the first word is blasted with the &quot;what if someone reads this&quot; and &quot;This needs to be so original&quot;.


type: comment
by: rubslopes
text:
  That&#x27;s brilliant UX. I was vibe coding a webpage in minutes, and I could immediately check the results.


type: comment
by: KetoManx64
text:
  Is it actually Groypers? Or are Americans starting to just get angry at the fact that American companies continually keep laying off American workers and importing H1B workers to take their places due to the tax advantages? Is it that far fetched that millenials are going to start being angry at Indians and taking it out on Indians online when they can&#x27;t find any jobs while companies continually keep outsourcing to India?


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Right... except for the use case I pointed out. That being that perl is available on virtually every unix like operating system, not just Linux, and python isn&#x27;t.<p>Also, perl has other uses. Perl is much more competent at awk&#x2F;sed&#x2F;grep like tasks than python, and it can also be much faster. More people should be writing perl, imo. There&#x27;s a ton of programs written in C that should just be perl.


type: comment
by: anttiharju
text:
  I think the examples given in the post are just done poorly.<p>Lefthook with glob+stage_fixed for formatters makes one of the issues raised a complete non-issue.<p>I&#x27;ll write a in-depth post about it maybe within the next week or so, been diving into these in my hobby projects for a year or so.


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  I don’t even have a toll transponder, OCR these days is good enough to detect your plate number and charge the linked account.


type: comment
by: niutech
text:
  &gt; I doubt it’ll be radically different from other implementations of AI + Browser in such a way that it stands above the others.<p>Mozilla distinguishes itself by allowing to use any AI, including open source  private, local LLMs in their chatbot, not only proprietary Gemini like Chrome or Copilot like Edge. This is privacy-friendly.


type: comment
by: dylan604
text:
  Ugh, I hate toggle switches like the Stable&#x2F;Experimental one. Which one is selected? I can’t tell. Which one of them has the better results?


type: comment
by: arcanemachiner
text:
  Ironically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.


type: comment
by: jarjoura
text:
  Aren&#x27;t toll roads the norm? It was radical in the 1940s and 1950s to create public freeways.<p>Toll roads do have real consequences and, do, raise the cost of everything that needs to travel over it. It also means things that could exist on one side of a bridge or tolled section will relocate to other areas to avoid tolls.<p>Not against them, but I also don&#x27;t like them. I personally think it&#x27;s a failure of a state managing its roads where the cost has to become disproporiationally spread.


type: comment
by: survirtual
text:
  Correct.<p>Tolls are a regressive tax on the working class.  The rich don&#x27;t even need to use the roads as much because they have other people delivering for them.  When they need the road system, the tolls are nothing to them.<p>The working class, which are generally required to be driving to survive, are left holding the bag for tolls.  In places with bad public transit, tolls are just a forced wealth transfer from working class to private firms managing the tolls.


type: comment
by: zdragnar
text:
  People already driving generally aren&#x27;t likely to change their destination, and all the traffic headed toward the dynamically priced toll road still needs to be diverted in a way that they will reach wherever they were going.<p>You aren&#x27;t going to change congestion unless you fix the balance between throughput and volume. Dynamic pricing doesn&#x27;t improve throughput, and it doesn&#x27;t decrease volume- it just forces some of that volume onto less well equipped roads.


type: comment
by: buybackoff
text:
  For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch&#x27;s The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor&#x27;s level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what&#x27;s going on quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level though. I saw Bosch&#x27;s originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With zoom, the details are overwhelming.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:The_Garden_of_earthly_delights.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights...</a>


type: comment
by: gnufx
text:
  In most of the cases I&#x27;ve seen where people felt the need for intrinsics, GCC will vectorize it -- at least if it&#x27;s allowed to use the same potentially-incorrect semantics as the intrinsics version -- and potentially for multiple micro-architectures with GCC&#x27;s target_clones attribute.  GCC&#x27;s -fopt-... flags can give you a lot of information on vectorization and other optimizations, if maybe couched in somewhat compiler-internal jargon, and other compiler probably do something similar.  Vectorizing compilers have existed for 50-ish years, so it&#x27;s well-established stuff.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  how is that different than say this? - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;481718785&#x2F;clinton-scandals-a-guide-from-whitewater-to-the-clinton-foundation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;481718785&#x2F;clinton-scandals-a-...</a><p>I can list other Admins as well if necessary? Trump insanity is public though, maybe we like our corruption more private, is that it?


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  &gt; No it&#x27;s not. It cannot overcome any of these, and the constant nagging to the opposite is a big part of the scam.<p>The only person here who is running a scam here is you with your blatant disinformation and fundamental ignorance. Just because you cannot do basic tasks doesn&#x27;t mean that others can&#x27;t either.


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  Not weird at all. This problem manifested only with some model of 5400RPM laptop hard drive (2.5&quot;), but a recording studio would likely have been using 7200RPM 3.5&quot; desktop drives. Different resonant frequencies, more sturdy mounting, more distance between the speakers and the hard drives.


type: story
by: Stan_Byriukov
title: Show HN: Solving the H100 OOM Wall with CTDR – Maxwell Dashboard Included
url: https://github.com/Corusant-world/ctdr-maxwell-audit
text:
  I’ve conducted a technical audit on the physical limits of H100 GPUs for long-context retrieval. At scale (N=500k+), standard fp16 NxN materialization is physically impossible on a single 80GB card (requires ~500GB HBM).<p>I’m releasing CTDR (Cold Tensor Deterministic Reasoning) evidence and the Maxwell Dashboard. It allows you to: 1. Visualize the OOM Feasibility Boundary (The NxN Wall). 2. Audit real NVML energy receipts (Joules per query) showing 90.4% SM utilization. 3. Compare your own GPU performance against our baseline.<p>Honest caveat: At small N, we carry a constant overhead for p-adic quantization. The asymmetry kicks in as scale grows.<p>Evidence and Audit Repo in git


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  No, I don&#x27;t need to show you anything impressive because it is sufficient to be able to rapidly transfer financial value with explicit consent and without permission from the financial system or governments -- cryptocurrency facilitates it. Nothing else need be said.


type: comment
by: morkalork
text:
  I don&#x27;t understand, there are plenty of other things the public pays for that you can&#x27;t use for other, unintended purposes. You can&#x27;t fly your hobby drone out of a public airport just because you want.


type: comment
by: vogtb
text:
  Val.town seems to be serverless, where as this is explicitly a server. One is really a subset of the other though, so I suppose if you&#x27;re deploying ts functions to a service&#x2F;server, and your execution costs match up with the tiers here, exe.dev could be cheaper.


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


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  As my grandfather wisely observed: there&#x27;s no such thing as a temporary tax. I have seen this to be true in my own lifetime, as each and every time a &quot;temporary&quot; tax increase would expire it gets extended.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  Only the fact that it would be an idiotic policy that would destroy the economy.<p>Why would you let your monetary policy be run by gold miners in China, Russia and Australia? They could cause inflation or deflation simply by increasing or decreasing gold production.<p>Conversely how is the Fed supposed to manage inflation if it runs out of gold?<p>Gold is an industrial metal, also used in jewelry, not a financial panacea.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  I wrote the article. I&#x27;m not a marketing droid, I don&#x27;t work for GitHub, just a guy recounting his personal experiences and hoping to help others.


type: story
by: andrewrn
title: Ask HN: How are P&IDs used after they're drawn?
text:
  I’m trying to learn about how P&amp;IDs are used by process safety, ops, and maintenance personnel.<p>I’ve worked as a P&amp;ID drafter mostly doing redline changes, but I’m trying to learn how these drawings are actually used more broadly.<p>In your experience:<p>What do you personally do with P&amp;IDs?<p>Would really appreciate perspectives from O&amp;G, chemicals, or industrial ops.


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  Prices are considerably higher through the links than quoted in the article. This usually happens when someone posts about a great deal for surplus hardware on Ebay or a hidden gem on aliexpress. Just the thundering herd of traffic causes algorithmic pricing to spike the price.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  But that theorem being true doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;they will work given enough time&quot;.  That&#x27;s my objection.  If a setup is physically possible but sufficiently thorny to actually build, there&#x27;s a good chance it won&#x27;t be built ever.<p>In the specific spot I commented, I guess you were just talking about the physics part?  But the GP was talking about both physics and physical realization, so I thought you were also talking about the combination too.<p>Yes we can probably test the quantum theory.  But verifying the physics isn&#x27;t what this comment chain is really about.  It&#x27;s about working <i>machines</i>.  With enough reliable qubits to do useful work.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Because the failure to write about neutrons is <i>conspicuous</i> considering that they&#x27;re always together in nuclei, similarly composed of three quarks etc.


type: comment
by: knowitnone3
text:
  the high end of the performance is impressive and this has idle power similar to the processors in it&#x27;s performance range(AMD Ryzen 7 4800H idles at 45W). This is certainly not meant for lower power computing.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  I&#x27;m a software developer who was, at the time, working in a marketing role. Happy to answer questions.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  why wouldn&#x27;t it decrease volume? presumably if it starts costing 100 bucks a day people would stop driving and take these hypothetical buses, no? of course as I mentioned I know this would never actually work for political reasons.


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
text:
  Have to keep in mind that what is happening now is basically what was promised decades ago.   Never mind 4GL, 5GL, expert systems, and other efforts that went nowhere... even COBOL was created with the intention of making programming look more like natural language.<p>Often, revolutions take longer to happen than we think they will, and then they happen faster than we think they will.  And when the tipping point is finally reached, we find more people pushing back than we thought there would be.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  A huge part of GPG’s purported use case is getting a signed&#x2F;encrypted&#x2F;both blob from somebody and using GPG to confirm it’s authentic. This is true for packages you download and for commits with signatures.<p>Handling untrusted input is core to that.


type: comment
by: xnx
text:
  &gt; Can I use the highway if I don’t have a car?<p>Can I use the schools if I don&#x27;t have a child?


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  When I&#x27;m working on a ticket I document any research I do on the problem in comments in the ticket and sometimes it is a lot of research (including the way it&#x27;s &#x27;spozed to be)<p>If anything at all is not right I write a up a ticket which goes into detail about what&#x27;s wrong and what I think is right.<p>It wouldn&#x27;t be a good place to put documentation for,  say,  how the data team is supposed to do a process,  but I sure will write detailed documents for procedure <i>I</i> do to set systems up for my work and how my tester can set up situations.  If it has anything to do with the ticket I think it is fair game and personally I find stuff like that easy to find because I have JIRA open all day and use it as my &quot;second brain&quot; to keep up with the work I do.  (e.g. I think I had something done Dec 24 but didn&#x27;t have time to make the PR because I wanted to do a round of checking out,  but because I have detailed notes I&#x27;ll be quick to get started at the end of the year.)<p>Similarly,  I am not one to write a lot of little comments in the code apologizing for why it is hard to understand,  I think is better to use longAndDescriptiveClassFieldAndMethodNames and clean up anything that you want to apologize for.  On the other hand I write long comments in certain places of the code that explain the organization of the system,  details of how it works,  conventions used,  etc.  It is good for me but I can also tell Junie, &quot;I want you do add some tests for the work we just did,  take a look at ... to see how we write tests for this sort of thing&quot;<p>---<p>So far as Confluence goes I find it slow,  awkward,  hard to find things (in the sense of the search tools being bad but also easy to put things in the wrong place),  and not necessary for my daily workflow.  If I got in the habit of using it I&#x27;d be used to it,  but I can go a year and not have to look at it,  even though I <i>think</i> there is IT documentation in there.<p>We have a data team that uses it every day and they are disciplined with it and I never hear complaining about it.  If I need to know something about the way they do things I usually go knock on their door and ask.


type: comment
by: maximinus_thrax
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s a &#x27;nightmare&#x27;. It&#x27;s just more complicated than what regular folk think computers work when it comes to time sync. There&#x27;s nothing nightmareish or scary about this, it&#x27;s just using the best solution for your scenario, understanding limitations and adjusting expectations&#x2F;requirements accordingly, perhaps relaxing consistency requirements.<p>I worked on the NTP infra for a very large organization some time ago and the starriest thing I found was just how bad some of the clocks were on &#x27;commodity hardware&#x27; but this just added a new parameter for triaging hardware for manufacturer replacement.<p>This is an ok article but it&#x27;s just so very superficial. It goes too wide for such a deep subject matter.


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  Toll collection used to be much worse in terms of collection efficiency (revenue-cost)--perhaps 50% as I understand it. With all the automated toll booths I assume it&#x27;s much better today.


type: comment
by: derleyici
text:
  i wouldn&#x27;t normally reply to drive-by corrections, but this is wrong.<p>it&#x27;s the GnuPG blog on gnupg.org with multiple authors.<p>this is a post by Werner Koch, not his blog.


type: comment
by: gist
text:
  Your website (luniv.tech) is (for lack of a better way to put it) &#x27;all over the place&#x27;. You are (from what I can tell) a 1 person operation. Nothing wrong with that. But you should try to focus on at most 3 things that you can do well and cut your site down to talking about those 3 things. Then (despite what everyone here seems to be telling you) you should cold outreach to people who can use those items and learn from the failure (and rejection). If you keep at it you will get results (and you will learn).<p>Also register and use lunivtech.com as your website (it&#x27;s open now). Don&#x27;t use .tech as your primary domain.


type: comment
by: esrauch
text:
  Don&#x27;t they charge you more if you do pay-by-plate though? I always see signs that have a price with local ez-pass, a higher price with out-of-state ez-pass, and an even higher price for pay-by-plate.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  I mean, think of it this way. If I built a web app that took HTTP requests and converted them into a YouTube video, then downloaded and decoded that video in software, and then served the request, you&#x27;d say &quot;that&#x27;s stupid - you&#x27;re using 10,000x more compute than you need to&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s a tool, and using the wrong tool for the wrong job is just wasteful. And, usually, overly complicated and frail. So it&#x27;s only losses.


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  Another protocol that&#x27;s not mentioned is PPS and its variants, such as WhiteRabbit.<p>A regular pulse is emitted from a specialized high-precision device, possibly over a specialized high-precision network.<p>Enables picosecond accuracy (or at least sub-nano).


type: comment
by: oblio
text:
  In IT contexts it&#x27;s used for source code in 99% of situations. Most people have nothing to do with the military or espionage.


type: comment
by: AgentK20
text:
  “concerns about confidentiality or respect for the persons family” Sooo clearly you didn’t even click the link, given this is a post BY the family to raise awareness of scummy corporate behavior. While discussing mental health and self harm can be distressing, this post seems totally in-line with other HN discussions calling out malicious corporate behavior?


type: comment
by: abigail95
text:
  This will probably dox me but I&#x27;m going to win a federal discrimination case against a university, with nothing but GPT5.x and Claude, and some filing fees. I&#x27;m no dummy but I&#x27;m not a genius. I barely got through the Advent of Code 2025 problems with a mess of spaghetti.<p>In my country people have a common law right to enforce the law themselves without having to pay legal fees. In America it&#x27;s a statutory right I believe.<p>The risks of getting a costs order against me are higher than 0% but if I lose narrowly I won&#x27;t be paying anything.


type: comment
by: qbow883
text:
  Yes, absolutely. Multimedia is complicated.<p>But my issue with the linked tool is that it does <i>none</i> of the things you mentioned. All it does it make already very easy things even easier. Is it really that much harder to remember `ffmpeg -i inputfile outputfile.ext` than `ff convert inputfile to ext`?<p>I&#x27;ve explained this in other replies here but I am neither saying that ffmpeg wrappers are automatically bad, nor that ffmpeg cannot be complicated. I am only saying that <i>this specific tool</i> does not really help much.


type: comment
by: bjackman
text:
  I&#x27;ve had a similar case before but for a much more boring reason: a certain YouTube video somehow triggered a spike in power draw and caused my Google Pixel to reset.<p>Google&#x27;s response after looking at the crash dumps: &quot;WAI, your battery is degraded&quot; (IIRC my phone was less than 3 years old).


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


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  E-waste is a fake problem.<p>Computers never received security updates for 20 years so this isn&#x27;t really a new situation. I&#x27;m not sure why people are making a bigger deal out of this one.


type: comment
by: Moosdijk
text:
  Thanks for correcting me. Can you point me to what I need to search for to understand the differences?


type: comment
by: gnufx
text:
  Fedora, for instance, is built with LTO, except for some packages which it breaks.  I&#x27;ve forgotten the details of where I had to turn it off.


type: comment
by: nfw2
text:
  Edited because I admit original statement below is incorrect.<p>&quot;You could say they are a flat tax since every driver pays the same per usage. You could even argue it is a progressive tax since richer people use toll roads more. The only way you CAN&#x27;T describe a toll is a regressive tax. Words have meaning.&quot;


type: comment
by: kobieps
text:
  Even just a single accurate clock is a nightmare... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;nx-s1-5651317&#x2F;colorado-us-official-time-microseconds-nist-clocks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;nx-s1-5651317&#x2F;colorado-us-off...</a>


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  That&#x27;s kind of a pathetic excuse, because it means that the &quot;something&quot; the story teaches is highly limited and there&#x27;s nothing concrete for the reader to use as the basis for a deeper investigation.


type: comment
by: drnick1
text:
  Fair enough, but I suppose it does not come which storage (NVME). Typically ready to use NUCs that retail for around $200 do. That&#x27;s often only about 0.5GB, so not a use amount of storage, but more than enough for a streaming box or retro console, say.


type: comment
by: vharuck
text:
  Gift link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-jobs-worker-training.html?unlocked_article_code=1._08.sGPG.39XLXKSUfVyh&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;artificial-intell...</a>


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  Einstein was worried about whether people in two different relativistic frames would see cause and effect reversed.


type: comment
by: maheshvaikri99
text:
  Fair enough. Let me clarify the use case:<p>ISON isn&#x27;t meant to replace JSON in your application. Your JS&#x2F;TS code still uses JSON objects internally. ISON is specifically for the LLM context window.<p>The flow: App (JSON) → serialize to ISON → inject into prompt → LLM reasons → response → your app<p>You&#x27;re right that nesting is lost. But for LLM reasoning, flat structures often work better. LLMs struggle with deeply nested JSON - they lose track of parent-child relationships 4+ levels deep.<p>On &quot;tokens are getting cheaper&quot;:  True for API costs. But context windows are still limited. When you&#x27;re stuffing RAG results, memory, agent state, and user history into 128K tokens, every byte matters. It&#x27;s not about saving money - it&#x27;s about fitting more context.<p>On &quot;wrong optimization&quot;: I ran the benchmark. Same data, same task. ISON: 88.3% accuracy. JSON: 84.7%. The LLM actually performed better with the tabular format, not just &quot;equivalent for fewer tokens.&quot;<p>## BENCHMARK STATS:<p>TOKEN EFFICIENCY:   ISON:                 3,550 tokens   JSON:                12,668 tokens<p><pre><code>  ISON vs JSON:        72.0% reduction </code></pre> LLM ACCURACY (300 Questions):   ISON:   265&#x2F;300  ( 88.3%)   JSON:   254&#x2F;300  ( 84.7%)<p>EFFICIENCY (Acc&#x2F;1K):   ISON:       24.88   JSON:        6.68   ISON is 272.3% MORE EFFICIENT than JSON!<p>But I hear you - if your data is deeply nested and that nesting carries semantic meaning the LLM needs, JSON might be the right choice. ISON works best for relational&#x2F;tabular data going into context.


type: comment
by: survirtual
text:
  Yeah nice in theory but the reality is far from this.<p>In order to implement tolls, you need several components involving middlemen.  This includes frontend software, backend, payment processing, transponder management, all the hardware involved, support staff, sometimes toll station staff, among other things.<p>These toll companies are often owned by foreign companies that are in it for the long haul, offering sweet deals up front then gradually charging more and more with no end in sight, as roads diminish in quality and rest stops fall into disarray.<p>Toll roads are a scam, a regressive tax on the working class, and downright immoral.  We should not limit the mobility of people.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again.<p>It was here back when I wrote it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32071137">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32071137</a><p>Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don&#x27;t know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  I just visit an article on Microsoft&#x27;s devblog and the page was blank with JS disabled. I can&#x27;t think on how JS rendering is more performant than server rendering and caching. We view the article more times than it being edited.


type: comment
by: bediger4000
text:
  Could be bots, too. Despite Elon trying to get out of buying Twitter by claiming that there was a bot problem, then claiming to have worked on and solved the bot problem, it&#x27;s pretty clear X has a big problem with bots.


type: comment
by: bawolff
text:
  &gt; Wikipedia does use Wikipedia, a privately owned organization<p>The Wikimedia organization does not actually own wikipedia. They do not control editorial policy nor own the copyright of any of the contents. They do not pay any of the editors.


type: comment
by: perching_aix
text:
  What are those better tools? I&#x27;ve been broadly looking into this space, but never ventured too deep.


type: comment
by: maxlybbert
text:
  I agree. I don&#x27;t like toll roads, but I recognize that they only charge me for using them, because my use isn&#x27;t necessarily good for everybody else.<p>Gas taxes also work (ignoring electric vehicles), but paying a specific amount for a specific road certainly seems more direct.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; PyPy doesn&#x27;t do anything to help startup time. In fact, it&#x27;s typically a bit slower to start up than CPython.<p>Considerably slower on my machine. Yes, that was my point. If the community doesn&#x27;t care about startup time,  you&#x27;d expect more adoption of an implementation that sacrifices that startup time for later performance.


type: comment
by: Tempest1981
text:
  Thanks, but no luck. I tested it on a 3 second video, and got a 6 second video. I.e. it bounced 1 time, not 5 times.<p>Maybe this should be an AI reasoning test.<p>Here is what eventually worked, iirc (10 bounces):<p><pre><code>  ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter_complex &quot;split=2[fwd][rev_in]; [rev_in]reverse[rev]; [fwd][rev]concat=n=2,split=10[p1][p2][p3][p4][p5][p6][p7][p8][p9][p10]; [p1][p2][p3][p4][p5][p6][p7][p8][p9][p10]concat=n=10[outv]&quot; -map &quot;[outv]&quot; -an output.mkv</code></pre>


type: comment
by: 827a
text:
  Sure; and I&#x27;m referring directly to those &quot;emergency situations&quot;, which aren&#x27;t much of an &quot;emergency&quot; as most people would understand the word given that they&#x27;ve engaged in QE for ~7 of the past twenty years.


type: comment
by: prajjawal_123
text:
  Hi HN, I’m the creator of Morph-AI-Era.<p>I built this because I was tired of spending hours in Excel&#x2F;PowerBI just to visualize simple CSV data. I wanted a tool where I could drop a file and get a 90% ready dashboard instantly.<p>The Tech Stack:<p>Frontend: React.js<p>Backend: Python with FastAPI<p>Processing: Pandas&#x2F;NumPy for data handling + AI for insight generation.<p>What it does: It analyzes the structure of your uploaded CSV, detects the data types, and automatically generates relevant charts (KPIs, Forecasts, Geospatial maps).<p>I just pushed a requested update today that lets you download individual graphs as PNGs (so you don&#x27;t have to screenshot them for slides).<p>It’s free to try (no credit card). I’d love to hear your feedback on the visualization logic—be as harsh as you want!


type: comment
by: WillAdams
text:
  Add a mechanism for folks to file for a rebate for distance driven on private roads (an uncle&#x27;s driveway is roughly a quarter mile, so half a mile six days a week 52 times each year would equal a 156 mile reduction).


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  On the other hand, private companies have no accountability to the public whatsoever, and as long as their grift is revenue positive they can exist forever regardless of how damaging they are to the lives of everyone around them. Private prisons and toll road companies are great examples of parasitic private companies that absolutely must not be allowed to exist.


type: comment
by: mysaasidea
text:
  I’m building Explore.Fans, a search engine that lets users find visually similar OnlyFans creators using face embeddings.<p>The interesting part wasn’t the ML itself, but combining vector search with structured filters (price, location, tags) while keeping latency low and the frontend fully SSR for SEO.<p>Built with InsightFace, vector search, and a FastAPI backend.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; Do you have anything public yet?<p>The repo is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zahlman&#x2F;paper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zahlman&#x2F;paper</a> but it&#x27;s not really usable and it&#x27;s missing a bunch of local very unfinished stuff (and my README template definitely needs fixing). More of a &quot;watch this space&quot; but I would really like to push out a Show HN for the first chunk of functionality soon.


type: comment
by: spacechild1
text:
  I&#x27;m not saying that Rob is right because of his achievements. I&#x27;m only saying that your speculations in your original post are ridiculous considering Rob&#x27;s career and personal situation.<p>&gt; Clout? Historical importance? Feeling like people are forgetting him?<p>Even more speculation.<p>Just in case you are not aware: there are many people who really think that what the big AI companies are doing is unethical. Rob may be one of them.


type: comment
by: flounder3
text:
  &gt; Without any concerns about confidentiality or respect for the persons family.<p>The link is to a recent post from the person&#x27;s father, asking for awareness around the company&#x27;s actions.<p>If you really are a retired psychotherapist, you should know and do better than to ignorantly call someone a &quot;fucking ghoul,&quot; especially in light of your lack of awareness or willingness to educate yourself as to the context of the post.<p>Shame on you.


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  By definition any chunk beginning with a lowercase is optional. I’m just surprised gamma is considered optional.


type: comment
by: jwitthuhn
text:
  The important distinction here is that CD-ROMs can store data indefinitely, but CD-Rs and CD-RWs can not.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  But in your case if you had a vanilla even just a standard, hardened RHEL image then you can run as many container variations as you want and not be impacted by host changes. Actually the host can stay pretty static.<p>You would have a standard container image


type: story
by: tonyrice
title: Ask HN: What are your biggest challenges raising capital pre-revenue?
text:
  Raising capital pre-revenue is pretty difficult for most people. I realize that everyone&#x27;s not having the same difficulties.<p>I&#x27;m opening up a feedback loop to get a better insight on the experiences founders are having.


type: comment
by: harrisreynolds
text:
  I actually thought this was pretty boring.  @Cursor team.... hit me up when you do  your year in review for 2026 next year and I&#x27;ll help you brainstorm something much more creative.<p>Great product though!!


type: comment
by: xorcist
text:
  It is, and other software handling untrusted data should also treat it as adversarial. For example, your package tool should probably not output raw package metadata to the terminal.


type: comment
by: lisper
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocw.mit.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;18-03-differential-equations-spring-2010&#x2F;63b26053bec64e7c32b93900b15d7fad_MIT18_03S10_Appendix_B.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocw.mit.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;18-03-differential-equations-spr...</a>


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; Scenarios like that occur daily. I do quite a bit of software development and whenever I come across something that really needs python I mentally prepare for a day of battle with the various (all subtly broken) package managers, dependency hell and circular nonsense to the point that I am also ready to give up on it after a day of trying.<p>Please name a set of common packages that causes this problem reliably.


type: comment
by: kelnos
text:
  The article covers this:<p>&gt; <i>Follow-up 2: Yes, I know that the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse was not the result of resonance, but I felt I had to drop the reference to forestall the “You forgot to mention the Tacoma Narrows Bridge!” comments.</i>


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  I don’t know what “fragile” things you are talking about.<p>I have both air m1 and 16 m1 pro.<p>Neither me nor anyone I know have issues with these laptops.<p>Of course air is for your average Joe. And even then I transcode videos on air.


type: comment
by: Scoundreller
text:
  Ez pass billing is all over the place, each state&#x2F;authority does whatever it wants.<p>If you reg a secondary car’s plate to an ezpass account without using the transponder, a lot of states will just think it was a read fail and charge you the regular rate but it depends.


type: comment
by: georgelyon
text:
  Unfortunate that the author doesn’t bring up FoundationDB version stamps, which to me feel like the right solution to the problem. Essentially, you can write a value you can’t read until after the transaction is committed and the synchronization infrastructure guarantees that value ends up being monotonically increasing per transaction. They use similar “write only” operations for atomic operations like increment.


type: comment
by: baby_souffle
text:
  &gt; Some places value upgrading dependencies while others value extreme stability at the potential cost of security.<p>Both are valid. The latter is often used as an excuse, though. No, your $50 wifi connected camera does not need the same level of stability as the WiFi connected medical device that allows doctor to remotely monitor medication. Yes, you should have a moderately robust way to update and build and distribute a new FW image for that camera.<p>I can&#x27;t tell you the number of times I&#x27;ve gotten a shell on some device only to find that the kernel&#x2F;os-image&#x2F;app-binary or whatever has build strings that CLEARLY feature `some-user@their-laptop` betraying that if there&#x27;s ever going to be an updated firmware, it&#x27;s going to be down to that one guy&#x27;s laptop still working and being able to build the artifact and not because a PR was merged.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  &gt; It is the physical world, nature is the implementation of the natural selection algorithm.<p>But you don&#x27;t know (and to some degree, cannot know) which parts of it. So you cannot really know if the implementation encodes a goal or not.<p>&gt; What goal are you referring to?<p>Whatever goal was being used in the case of genetic algorithms or artificial life systems. Those systems have goals, but the early stages do not embody the goal in any way you could recognize.<p>&gt; There was no goal at any point in the process.<p>So in the case of natural evolution, we happen to agree. However, I don&#x27;t agree with your claim that &quot;the implementation must embody the goal&quot; is a useful way to think about this, and I also have some sympathy for the idea that there could be huge-time-scale teleology associated with evolution <i>that we cannot discern</i>.


type: comment
by: thegrim000
text:
  My initial question would be why they those to analyze those 11 specific chemicals, out of the 900+ that received the warning, and whether the same results would be seen with any of the other 889+ chemicals, or were those 11 specifically cherry picked.


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  They do own the servers. The rest of your comment is what demonstrates why Wikipedia counts as “commons”. Much of the same can be said for GitHub too.


type: comment
by: dizzled
text:
  Turns out the request is coming from localhost because it&#x27;s being forwarded over SSH. Their HTTP proxy causes a new SSH connection to be made to the VM:<p><pre><code>    Connection from 10.42.0.1 port 37456 on 10.42.1.75 port 22 rdomain &quot;&quot;                   debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.9                                        debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version Go                         debug1: compat_banner: no match: Go </code></pre> Which then requests a local TCP connection, in this case to port 8000:<p><pre><code>    debug1: Entering interactive session for SSH2.                                         debug1: server_init_dispatch                                                            debug3: receive packet: type 90                                                         debug1: server_input_channel_open: ctype direct-tcpip rchan 0 win 2097152 max 32768     debug1: server_request_direct_tcpip: originator 0.0.0.0 port 0, target 127.0.0.1 port 8000     debug1: connect_next: start for host 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]:8000)                       debug2: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK                                                         debug2: fd 7 setting TCP_NODELAY                                                        debug1: connect_next: connect host 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]:8000) in progress, fd=7     debug3: fd 7 is O_NONBLOCK                                                                debug3: fd 7 is O_NONBLOCK                                                               debug1: channel 0: new direct-tcpip [direct-tcpip] (inactive timeout: 0)                debug1: server_input_channel_open: confirm direct-tcpip                              debug3: channel 0: waiting for connection </code></pre> This is in contrast to a normal SSH shell session:<p><pre><code>    debug1: Entering interactive session for SSH2.                                          debug1: server_init_dispatch                                                            debug3: receive packet: type 90                                                          debug1: server_input_channel_open: ctype session rchan 0 win 2097152 max 32768     debug1: input_session_request                                                           debug1: channel 0: new session [server-session] (inactive timeout: 0)     debug2: session_new: allocate (allocated 0 max 10)                                      debug3: session_unused: session id 0 unused                                               debug1: session_new: session 0                                                           debug1: session_open: channel 0                                                         debug1: session_open: session 0: link with channel 0                                    debug1: server_input_channel_open: confirm session                                      debug3: send packet: type 91                                                             debug3: receive packet: type 98                                                         debug1: server_input_channel_req: channel 0 request pty-req reply 1     debug1: session_by_channel: session 0 channel 0                                         debug1: session_input_channel_req: session 0 req pty-req                                debug1: Allocating pty.</code></pre>


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  All the arguments against gold are completely bogus because there is nothing stopping the price of gold from climbing to meet the economic need. The price of gold was suppressed for a long time by institutions, but this active suppression is increasingly difficult to continue.<p>As for verification and transfer, that&#x27;s what electronic shares are for, distributed across a few key physical asset holders.


type: comment
by: nfw2
text:
  All the statistics I&#x27;ve been able to find point to higher toll road usage among higher income people, not less.


type: comment
by: singpolyma3
text:
  Sequoia for example has been doing a great job and implements the latest version of the standard which brings a lot of cryptography up to date


type: comment
by: everforward
text:
  I don’t have an issue with HOT lanes, but I’m not a big fan of the toll roads in Texas.<p>I don’t like that it creates separate classes of infrastructure for citizens based on their ability to pay. Even the non-toll highways had an HOT-like lane you paid per-use to drive on that was often significantly faster than the free lanes.<p>It makes a system where I suspect many people won’t want to pay to upgrade the free infrastructure because they don’t use it, and people who can’t afford the daily tolls waste even more time in traffic. The fast pass lane are even worse because they cannibalize lanes that could be used to alleviate general traffic (and were typically sparsely used).<p>The tolls were substantial for some people. $3-$8 a day on toll roads (ie no fast pass lane). At $8 a day, that’d be $40 a week, ~$160&#x2F;month. That’s nearly 20% of the weekly pre-tax income of someone making Austin’s $22&#x2F;hr minimum wage.


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  Another reader is claiming the gamma correction value is inverted and Firefox is ignoring it. Which seems plausible. I know when I implemented png I had some issues wrapping my head around the gamma correction function.


type: comment
by: tjwebbnorfolk
text:
  Figuring out how to allocate scarce career resources at a company (&quot;impact&quot;, recognition, promotions, etc) is fundamental to the job of getting stuff done in a large organization.<p>There&#x27;s an old saying: politics began when two people in a cave found themselves with only one blanket.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; Random ML projects with hundreds to thousands of stars on GitHub may only work with a specific, rather ancient version of Python.<p>Can you name some?<p>&gt; Do you compile your GCC every time before you compile your Python? Why not? It Just Works.<p>If I needed a different version of GCC to make Python work, then probably, yes. But I haven&#x27;t yet.<p>Just like I barely ever need a different version of Python. I keep several mainly so that I can test&#x2F;verify compatibility of my own code.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  One of those WONTFIX&#x27;s is on an insane vulnerability: you can bitflip known plaintext in a PGP message to switch it into handling compression, allowing attackers to instruct GnuPG packet processing to look back to arbitrary positions in the message, all while suppressing the authentication failure message. GPG&#x27;s position was: they print, in those circumstances, <i>an error of some sort</i>, and that&#x27;s enough. It&#x27;s an attack that reveals plaintext bytes!


type: comment
by: mabedan
text:
  &gt; which isn&#x27;t unsurprising<p>There has to be an easier combination of words for conveying the same thing.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  I would say the bots and low value comment problems are far worse than pre Elon. I say this as someone who naively had high hopes for what he might do to improve the platform.


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  Yes, bill for plate OCR is typically a lot more expensive in addition to having to logon to a site etc.


type: comment
by: m463
text:
  it might be meaningless, but in practical terms just don&#x27;t check util.c from the gravity well into the git repo in orbit.


type: comment
by: baby_souffle
text:
  &gt; I keep saying, the first cheap Chinese vendor that ships a SystemReady-compliant SBC is gonna make a killing.<p>Agree. When ARM announced the initiative, I thought that the raspberry pi people would be quick but they haven&#x27;t even announced a plan to eventually support it. I don&#x27;t know what the hold up is! Is it really that difficult to implement?


type: comment
by: neomantra
text:
  So classic.  For those weary of random links, it’s Cantrill and Gregg screaming at Thumpers and affecting IOPS.<p>That was such a great machine. We rearchitected our systems around it.


type: comment
by: Aboutplants
text:
  Given his track record of dumping on retail, one could view this as a signal no? He’s obviously capturing value, but also shedding long term risk which is starting to pile up.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  PTP isn&#x27;t even that much more difficult, as long as you planned for it form the start<p>you buy the hardware, plug it all in, and it works


type: comment
by: abigail95
text:
  I&#x27;m sorry you didn&#x27;t get a response yet. I&#x27;m not a lawyer and have no legal training but it seems to boil down to this:<p>It&#x27;s part of the debate of whether (1) GPL is a contract, (2) GPL can be enforced by non-parties, (3) How Fair Use applies, (4) Methods to bully&#x2F;shame companies to give up source code ...? (5) Who the actual parties involved are if the actual rights holder (Linux Kernel) tries to sue someone. (First Sale doctrine might apply).


type: comment
by: thegrim000
text:
  I&#x27;d personally consider it infinite scroll as you can scroll through as many pages of stories as you want. There&#x27;s only the slight friction of having to click the &#x27;next page&#x27; button every now and then. In an app like Instagram or whatever, you&#x27;d also have the friction of swiping your thumb on the screen to see more. They seem pretty identical to me.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  No offense intended, just speaking by the numbers you shared above, but it sounds like you are at the lower end of the bell curve. Most day traders are, largely because they don&#x27;t have access to priveledged information like the datasets that hedge funds buy. If they make better bets than you do, then they literally take your money. Those aren&#x27;t good odds.


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  To carry this further, of maintenance taxes for roads were structured appropriately, trucks would pay so much that it would be prohibitively expensive to ship across the states in Semis. We&#x27;d likely see a resurgence of rail transport.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  I work at an e-waste recycling company, and I have some thoughts:<p>I&#x27;ve been seeing some interesting hardware that I wouldn&#x27;t have otherwise. I have a Microsoft Surface Hub sitting around that I&#x27;ve yet to list. It&#x27;s a 55&quot; 1080p touchscreen videoconferencing monitor. It has an embedded PC (4th gen i5), but (if I recall) it was likely bricked several months ago by a firmware update that deleted the certificates it used to verify its bootloader.<p>We don&#x27;t have a Windows distribution license (and little willingness to provide support), so we can&#x27;t install Windows on anything we sell. We usually install Linux, and it&#x27;s cool to think we&#x27;re helping to move the needle on Linux usage.<p>If we can&#x27;t sell something, we take the RAM and drives, because the AI rush drove up prices for those. The scrap gets sold to refiners who shred it and dissolve in acid to extract materials, like you would with mined ore.<p>Microsoft has been fighting local accounts on Windows 11 very hard so MDM locking works more often. It locks a PC to a corporate domain, so when you install Windows, it forces you to login to a specific domain, and it won&#x27;t let you get around it. Many of these machines we get are quite valuable otherwise (e.g. Dell Precision laptops with good GPUs), but we have buyers that will pay good money for them, even when MDM locked.<p>&gt; Sure the hardware vendors love it. And it&#x27;s all spun up as &quot;we&#x27;re keeping you secure and better.&quot;<p>Only for Microsoft to keep pushing AI harder and harder, and at some point your data will be stolen to train the model. (If they can&#x27;t, they can unilaterally update the terms of use to allow it.) At least you can ask it for your credit card number.


type: story
by: alhazrod
title: Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers
url:
  https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-deploys-the-steam-decks-linux-scheduler-across-its-data-centers-valves-low-latency-scheduler-perfect-for-managing-metas-workloads-at-massive-data-centers


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  &gt; This is an arbitrary picked image, hashed internally and mapped to this page. You will have to see it as long as you in my website. hash: eb46e097… → idx 29&#x2F;166<p>What is this nonsense about? I’m on a tablet and over 1&#x2F;3rd of my screen is basically telling me to go fuck myself?


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  &gt;Aren&#x27;t toll roads the norm?<p>No. I won&#x27;t say they&#x27;re rare but they&#x27;re not especially common in the US.


type: comment
by: ossa-ma
text:
  You&#x27;re right but my understanding is that Groq&#x27;s LPU architecture makes it inference-only in practice.<p>Like Groq&#x27;s chips only have 230MB of SRAM per chip vs 80GB on an H100, training is memory hungry as you need to hold model weights + gradients + optimizer states + intermediate activations.


type: comment
by: fsmv
text:
  It seems to me that junk theorems are fundamentally a manifestation of leaky abstractions. It happens when you can see the implementation details from inside the abstraction.


type: comment
by: FarmerPotato
text:
  You&#x27;re not wrong...  but I was mixed up:<p>Edsgar Dijkstra, The THE multiprogramming system (1968)<p>Niklaus Wirth, Project Oberon


type: comment
by: smj-edison
text:
  Sorry if that wasn&#x27;t clear! I meant text as opposed to having verbal and physical coaching. My teacher would often demonstrate a technique by playing it on her piano, which was adjacent to mine. I even had a masterclass with one teacher who would grab my hand and guide it as she demonstrated what I needed to do.<p>An example of where text falls short: if I said &quot;be sure to rainbow your wrist when jumping in that passage,&quot; it wouldn&#x27;t make any sense unless someone had seen an explanation. I suppose I could try to explain &quot;when moving higher, make an upwards arc, and loop around at the end, to prevent jerking your wrist around when going back and forth,&quot; but even then that&#x27;s still way too ambigious, since there&#x27;s also a certain way you need to pivot your wrist so you can hold onto the upper chord as long as possible. It&#x27;s just much easier to demonstrate and see if the student did it correctly.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  If you read the literature[1], they&#x27;re regressive - less regressive than sales tax, but still regressive despite being utilized more by higher income drivers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosap.ntl.bts.gov&#x2F;view&#x2F;dot&#x2F;16892" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosap.ntl.bts.gov&#x2F;view&#x2F;dot&#x2F;16892</a>


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  (2016)<p>Some previous discussions:<p>2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21169798">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21169798</a><p>2016: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11711995">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11711995</a>


type: comment
by: JohnAtQNX
text:
  In some cases it could also be an Android guest running as a VM on the QNX Hypervisor, where there are multiple guests (QNX, Android, Linux) making use of the same HW.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  &gt; E-waste is a fake problem.<p>There has never been a larger volume of electronics out there. They wear down, break, and get destroyed. They contain materials that are environmental hazards.


type: comment
by: aeternum
text:
  Sad.<p>And perhaps a controversial take but consider the counterfactual:  Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave?  Get a bad review or put on a PIP?  It&#x27;s already becoming a common strategy to immediately take mental health&#x2F;sick leave.


type: comment
by: fortyseven
text:
  Aside from money, I think one of the major issues I had with toll booths was... Well the booths. Stopping, having to fish out exact change, planning ahead to make sure you had enough change, etc.<p>Nowadays we have those boxes that we can put in the windshield that automatically bill us later. And that&#x27;s made me far more willing to take a trip via the highway. Removes a lot of anxiety. And, so far, at least in my experience, they work.


type: comment
by: ccgus
text:
  &gt; What&#x27;s Really Happening<p>&gt; (1) The PNG contains an embedded ICC color profile* (likely Display-P3 or another wide-gamut color space),<p>Why didn&#x27;t you check? From what I can tell when I did, there is no color profile in the original image so it&#x27;ll default to sRGB. This really looks like a gamma issue of some sort (see @perching_aix&#x27;s comment).


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;nncp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;nncp&#x2F;</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;ts_zip&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;ts_zip&#x2F;</a><p>See also<p>FineZip : Pushing the Limits of Large Language Models for Practical Lossless Text Compression <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2409.17141v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2409.17141v1</a><p>Using a LLM to compress text (o565.com) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40245261">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40245261</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchthearxiv.com&#x2F;?q=llm%20text%20compression&amp;tab=papers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchthearxiv.com&#x2F;?q=llm%20text%20compression&amp;tab=p...</a>


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; That&#x27;s a property of Python though. The fact that it isn&#x27;t compiled (and that importing is very slow).<p>Bytecode compilation is compilation.<p>There are many things that could be used to improve import speed that I never even see discussed, let alone implemented.<p>But most importantly, pip <i>doesn&#x27;t need to have all these modules imported</i>. They already proved they could defer the Requests imports; but the actual network calls aren&#x27;t that hard to do with the standard library anyway. (As nice as it would be to have Requests <i>in</i> the standard library, but I digress.) Most of the stuff it imports up-front from Rich will go entirely unused.<p>&gt; Which can easily be zero-cost in Rust.<p>Which is irrelevant to the point.<p>&gt; This is the only example you&#x27;ve given that actually fits with your thesis.<p>No. My thesis is that pip doesn&#x27;t have to be the way it is in order to actually solve the problem of installing Python packages. Everything I mentioned is an example of a thing pip doesn&#x27;t have to do in order to install packages, and slows it down unnecessarily.


type: comment
by: narag
text:
  Sorry to say, but the article is complete BS. Publishing is only desirable when your work is top-notch ;)


type: comment
by: libraryofbabel
text:
  You really think I didn&#x27;t already know how LLMs are put together when I wrote my comment? I&#x27;ve implemented these things from scratch in PyTorch. Of course I know the building blocks.<p>And if you want to get pedantic and technical, you didn&#x27;t even get the reductionism right! Modern LLMs don&#x27;t use the logistic regression sigmoid function for network activation nonlinearity anymore, they use things like ReLU or GELU. You&#x27;re about 15 years behind.<p>Reductionism is counterproductive in biology (&quot;human brains are voltage spikes across membranes, nothing more&quot;) and it&#x27;s counterproductive here as well. LLMs have nontrivial emergent behavior. The interesting questions are all around <i>what</i> that behavior is and how it arises in the network during training, and if you refuse to engage beyond bare reductionism you won&#x27;t even be able to ask those questions, let alone answer them.


type: story
by: ahmgeek
title: Ask HN: I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what?
text:
  Hey, I built yet another VoIP SaaS business, registered it, and even handled the paperwork. In my head, it was a great product; in reality, I have no clue how to sell it or where.<p>Every day I say, maybe I need to add a feature or make the mobile app, but I know this is not the right thing to do; I need to find people who want it. It&#x27;s just, I have no clue where...<p>For solo founders and software makers who are profitable, how did you sell it at the beginning?


type: comment
by: bccdee
text:
  Sure I do. The integration looks like this:<p><pre><code>  jmsg, _ := protojson.Marshal(msg)   fmt.Println(jmsg) </code></pre> That&#x27;s negligible.


type: comment
by: emptybits
text:
  Wild. My layperson mind goes to a simple example, which may or may not be possible, but please tell me if this is the gist:<p>Alice and Bob, in different reference frames, both witness events C and D occurring. Alice says C happened before D. Bob says D happened before C. They&#x27;re both correct. (And good luck synchronizing your watches, Alice and Bob!)


type: comment
by: perching_aix
text:
  I&#x27;m yet to finish watching the talk, but it starts with them confirming the demo fraudulent .iso with sequoia also (they call it out by name), so this really makes me think. :)


type: comment
by: achyudh
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  This pivot sounds like VS Code is moving from a text editor to a thin client for AI services that Microsoft wants to push. It is one more step towards a future where our development tools (just like everything else on our computers these days) are just thin clients&#x2F;wrappers around SaaS.<p>Emacs remains the antidote to this. I use Emacs because I want to remain the architect of my development environment, not become the consumer of a telemetry-gathering platform architected by PMs at a big tech company. It is also an absolute joy to use an environment that provides you with the same amount of power as the core maintainers, allowing you to fully inspect and modify the system even while it is running.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  Being signed by some entity which is not the author is hardly more effective.<p>(I think you already know this as well)


type: comment
by: everforward
text:
  I was thinking this too. I think it might be talking about operations like “go mod tidy” or update operations where it updates your go.mod&#x2F;sum but doesn’t actually build the code. I would guess enterprise tools do a lot of checking whether there are updates without actually doing any building.


type: comment
by: senordevnyc
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  Even if this <i>is</i> true, which I doubt, we&#x27;re supposed to be comforted by the idea that our role in tomorrow&#x27;s economic system is to be AI&#x27;s whipping boy?


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  Related:<p><i>Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183</a>


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
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  &gt; <i>The budget is voted on by Congress literally every single year.</i><p>A formal budget hasn&#x27;t been voted on and passed by Congress in decades.<p>You&#x27;re likely thinking of &quot;continuing resolutions&quot; and omnibus bills, neither of which are &quot;budgets&quot; by <i>Congress&#x27;s</i> own defintions but function similarly:<p>The first - a continuing resolution - just continues spending as is, no chance to change or cut.<p>The second - an omnibus bill - is a big conglomoration of requests and projects with minimal chances to change things.<p>You are 100% correct on the lack of political will to be able to change things. Frankly, I believe that a) too many people have their hands in the pot or b) they fundraise off the real&#x2F;perceived problems, so the motivation to fix anything is minimal.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;congress-has-long-struggled-to-pass-spending-bills-on-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;congress-...</a>


type: comment
by: phil-martin
text:
  The main one I could think of was maximising 3D printer utilisation, I.e if filling your print volume was something you wanted to optimise for.


type: story
by: mr_o47
title: Ask HN: What are some interesting projects you have built using Claude Code
text:
  Would love to hear what are you hacking on with claude code and what are some interesting projects&#x2F;open-sources contributions you have made using Claude Code


type: comment
by: anymouse123456
text:
  Yah, also there is a huge difference between a minimal demo and actual, recommended, canonical deployments.<p>I’ve seen teams waste many months refining k8s deployments only to find that local development isn’t even possible anymore.<p>This massive investment often happens before any business value has been uncovered.<p>My assertion, having spent 3 decades building startups, is that these big co infra tools are functionally a psyop to squash potential competitors before they can find PMF.


type: comment
by: spwa4
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  &gt; I don’t like that it creates separate classes of infrastructure for citizens based on their ability to pay. Even the non-toll highways had an HOT-like lane you paid per-use to drive on that was often significantly faster than the free lanes.<p>But ... government income is largely dependent on the rich, and government spending largely benefits the poor. This is what is always forgotten about it. The reason debt is such a thorny issue is that debt <i>really</i> benefited the poor. And over time, so will these toll roads.<p>The reason toll roads benefit the poor is that the rich don&#x27;t travel anyways, and this gives extra economic options to the poor. A large portion will figure out how to use this extra economic option (because that was thoroughly checked before the bridge was even built, and it wouldn&#x27;t have been built if the answer wasn&#x27;t that they would)<p>So both the building of the bridge, and the use of it almost exclusively benefit the poor.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
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  The entirety of H1B workers is like 500k jobs, which isn’t even half a percent of all jobs. Why is this such a big deal to Groypers and the like? I also disagree on tax advantages - what specifically are you referring to? H1B workers are paid more on average, not less, and they cost companies a lot in time, legal costs, and fees.<p>But besides that, once someone is a citizen I feel strongly they’re no different than the rest of us. Directing hateful supremacist comments at American citizens based on their skin color or religion or national origin is completely antithetical to our constitution and values.


type: comment
by: digital-cygnet
text:
  This is normal for the Economist. I don&#x27;t really understand why -- they clearly have an American edition (I get their print version in the US and its headlines and organization is totally different than the same edition in the UK), yet they leave all the &quot;colours&quot; and &quot;boffins&quot; in there, when it would be pretty trivial to regionalize the language same as they do the currencies and structure. My assumption is that being a bit eccentric and foreign-seeming is part of their brand.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewastemonitor.info&#x2F;the-global-e-waste-monitor-2024&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewastemonitor.info&#x2F;the-global-e-waste-monitor-2024&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010; On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030; Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped; Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling<p>&gt; The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks, roughly enough trucks to form a bumper-to-bumper line encircling the equator, according to the report from ITU and UNITAR.<p>&gt; Meanwhile, less than one quarter (22.3%) of the year’s e-waste mass was documented as having been properly collected and recycled in 2022, leaving US$ 62 billion worth of recoverable natural resources unaccounted for and increasing pollution risks to communities worldwide.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;news-room&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;detail&#x2F;electronic-waste-(e-waste)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;news-room&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;detail&#x2F;electronic-...</a><p>&gt; Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest growing solid waste streams in the world (1). Less than a quarter of e-waste produced globally in 2022 was known to be formally recycled; however, e-waste streams contain valuable and finite resources that can be reused if they are recycled appropriately. E-waste has therefore become an important income stream for individuals and some communities. People living in low- and middle-income (LMICs), particularly children, face the most significant risks from e-waste due to lack of appropriate regulations and enforcement, recycling infrastructure and training. Despite international regulations targeting the control of the transport of e-waste from one country to another, its transboundary movement to LMICs continues, frequently illegally. E-waste is considered hazardous waste as it contains toxic materials and can produce toxic chemicals when recycled inappropriately. Many of these toxic materials are known or suspected to cause harm to human health, and several are included in the 10 chemicals of public health concern, including dioxins, lead and mercury. Inferior recycling of e-waste is a threat to public health and safety.<p>“Fake problem”


type: comment
by: whynotmaybe
text:
  This book has some often overlooked  insights :<p>Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth<p>ISBN 0241242533


type: comment
by: harrisreynolds
text:
  WWCD?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatgpt.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;695038c6-ffdc-8002-959e-773ac24ab27f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatgpt.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;695038c6-ffdc-8002-959e-773ac24ab2...</a>


type: comment
by: smj-edison
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  For now, in most cases, yes. I think Khan Academy is a great example of moving in the right direction. They have a lot of interactive lessons in early math, where you drag and drop for counting and grouping. Another good example is the DragonBox series of apps where they make math more intuitive by providing immediate feedback and a new representation.<p>Dynamicland is pushing the state-of-the-art here too. I think you&#x27;d really like their essay &quot;The Library&quot;[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dynamicland.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;The_Library.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dynamicland.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;The_Library.pdf</a>


type: comment
by: TimByte
text:
  Text feels boring only until you notice how much work it quietly does better than everything else... And pragmatically: text respects time and bandwidth


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
text:
  I think you might like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jj-vcs.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jj-vcs.dev&#x2F;</a> — it snapshots before every operation, and can watch the filesystem to snapshot every change.


type: comment
by: NietzscheanNull
text:
  This is completely incorrect. A flat tax has a constant tax <i>rate</i>, which is why it&#x27;s often referred to as a &quot;proportional tax.&quot; Under a true flat tax system, everyone pays the same <i>percentage</i> of their income.<p>A toll is absolutely regressive because the burden it imposes is constant, <i>irrespective of income</i>; poorer individuals will pay a proportionally higher percentage of their income than wealthier counterparts. As income increases the &quot;effective rate&quot; asymptotically approaches zero, which is regressive by definition.


type: comment
by: rasz
text:
  AMD didnt clean room 386, nor even 486. AMD directly copied Intel microcode 100% 1:1 for 386, and later admitted to copying parts for 486 (smm? ice?). Sept. 4, 1993 LA Times article:<p>&gt;AMD said Friday that its “independently derived” 486 microprocessor borrowed some microcode from Intel’s earlier 386 chip.<p>Borrowed hehe. Ended up in a 1995 settlement where AMD fully admitted copying and agreed to pay $58mil penalty in exchange for official license to 386 &amp; 486 microcodes and infamous patent 338(mmu). Intel really wanted a legal win confirming validity of their patent 338 to threaten other competitors. 338 is what prevented sale of UMC Green 486 in USA. Cyrix bypassed the issue by manufacturing at SGS and TI who had full Intel license <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;FSupp&#x2F;846&#x2F;522&#x2F;1687321&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;FSupp&#x2F;8...</a><p>&gt;were able to achieve better performance<p>Every single Am386 instruction executes at same cycle count as Intel counterpart, difference is only official ability to work at 40MHz.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  I swear I want this as a general tool for all command-line tools.<p>Start the tool, and just list all of the options in order of usage popularity to toggle on as desired, with a brief explanation, and a field to paste in arguments like filenames or values when needed. If an option is commonly used with another (or requires it), provide those hints (or automatically add the necessary values). If a value itself has structure (e.g. is itself a shell command), drill down recursively. Ensure that quotes and spaces and special characters always get escaped correctly.<p>In other words, a general-purpose command-line builder. And while we&#x27;re at it, be able to save particular &quot;templates&quot; for fast re-use, identifying which values should be editable in the future.<p>I can&#x27;t be the first person to think of this, but I&#x27;ve never come across anything like it and don&#x27;t understand why not. It doesn&#x27;t require AI or anything. Maybe it&#x27;s the difficulty involved in creating the metadata for each tool, since man pages aren&#x27;t machine-readable. But maybe that&#x27;s where AI can help -- not in the tool itself, but to create the initial database of tool options, that can then be maintained by hand?<p>(Navi [1] does the templating part, but not the &quot;interactive builder&quot; part.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;denisidoro&#x2F;navi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;denisidoro&#x2F;navi</a>


type: comment
by: JohnAtQNX
text:
  QNX is not a GPOS, so you wouldn&#x27;t. I mean you _could_, but the real benefit here is hidden within: with the toolchain now included in this image, folks working on QNX projects can now build them right on target. No more messy cross-compilation.


type: comment
by: nis0s
text:
  It’s not “just 500K” jobs. It’s a pipeline of hiring managers who set up outsourcing to their home countries at the expense of Americans, and this doesn’t change when they naturalize. Immigration is a tool for supplementing the deficiencies of your home country with outside assistance. In America’s case, immigration has been weaponized by both the left and right. The left wants to settle the entire Global South in western countries at the expense of never building the countries where people have to immigrate from. The right scapegoats immigrants for whatever issue ails them. Should there be incentives for creating businesses in America that support work that gets outsourced? Definitely. Will that happen while there is a preserve incentive offered by H1Bs and biased hiring managers? Of course not.


type: comment
by: perching_aix
text:
  Right, I guess that&#x27;s our full story then. I further found some quibbles about that chunk being historically fraught specifically, so many decoders would intentionally ignore it under specific circumstances. I guess this file met the criteria.


type: comment
by: aeternum
text:
  YouTube already slaps creators with demonetization for a wide array of topics and copyright strikes for minor sound clips.<p>They could easily require creators to label videos that have AI-generated video and also build detection tools themselves.  Will they?


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  I&#x27;d argue there should be some access to school facilities by the public if you want to call them &quot;public&quot;. Otherwise it&#x27;s about as public as the police department.


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  &gt; What kind of bullshit argument is this? Really? Works created using illegally obtained copyrighted material are themselves considered to be infringing as well.<p>That isn&#x27;t true.<p>The copyright to derivative works is owned by the copyright holder of the original work. However using illegaly obtained copies to create a fair use transformative work does not taint your copyright of that work.<p>&gt; Even if not, you agree that they infringed on copyright of something close to all copyrighted works on the internet and this sounds fine to you?<p>I agree that they violated copyright when they torrented books and scholarly arguments. I don&#x27;t think that counts at &quot;close to all copyrighted works on the Internet&quot;.<p>&gt; The consequences and fines from that would kill any company if they actually had to face them.<p>I don&#x27;t actually agree that copyright that causes no harm should be met with such steep penalties. I didn&#x27;t agree when it was being done by the RIAA and even though I don&#x27;t like facebook, I don&#x27;t like it here either.


type: comment
by: aiahs
text:
  Yea as I said, the award can reject them, I still think that this award doesn&#x27;t actually represent the best indie games then, and therefore it will fade into obscurity. Funnily enough, this year&#x27;s game Awards (the actual game Awards), were basically swept by small studios with tiny budgets compared to AAA studios. That&#x27;s because these Studios had a coherent vision for their game, people that really cared about making it good, corporate AAA games are bad not because of usage of AI, but because monetization is more important than the gameplay.<p>To play devil&#x27;s advocate, AI helps small studios with a limited budget actually way more, because they can bring a game to market, that maybe would&#x27;ve needed 10 people before, but needs only 3 people now. I&#x27;m not saying this is good or bad, just that that&#x27;s the new reality, whether we like it or not. As I said, I&#x27;m against GenAI in many fields, e.g. I absolutely despise AI generated &quot;Music&quot;, cancelled my Spotify subscription because of it (they insist on putting it into playlists and you can&#x27;t disable it), but that doesn&#x27;t mean, anything which was produced with 0.1% AI is bad, unethical, etc.


type: comment
by: yesco
text:
  I&#x27;ll just make note here for anyone else confused that Groq and Grok are distinct entities. They just have similar names.<p>Groq is more of a hardware focused company.


type: comment
by: pstuart
text:
  I <i>just</i> finished the book. Can&#x27;t wait to see the movie.<p>My introduction to Andy Weir was The Egg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html</a> -- which I consider to be a classic.


type: comment
by: paleotrope
text:
  I&#x27;m sure there are strong humanist arguments against gambling. Don&#x27;t need a religious argument against it.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Look at this project for reference too, feels pretty similar as well<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Zerixal&#x2F;Zena" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Zerixal&#x2F;Zena</a>


type: comment
by: billconan
text:
  I built something like ssh, but using a p2p protocol.<p>I can remotely control my home server, do port forwarding, copy files etc.


type: comment
by: rexpop
text:
  If neither option satisfies, we must go up the stack. There is something seriously wrong with a society that drives educated, productive adults to suicide.


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  Yes, PATH-driven interpreter selection is the source of the detours. uv eliminates interpreter ambiguity but requires uv as a prerequisite. This improves portability inside environments that standardize uv; it’s not “portable to machines with nothing installed.”<p>Though, this isn’t about avoiding installs; it’s about making the one install (uv) the only thing you have to get right, instead of debugging whatever python means today.<p>I was advocating for containers as the “hard isolation &#x2F; full stack” solution which eliminate host interpreter ambiguity and OS drift by running everything inside a pinned image. But you do need podman and have the permissions set right on it.


type: comment
by: nosianu
text:
  Which may already be a sign of ability to pay? Not that I will argue against the right of US Americans to have a country that gets more and more divided by &quot;class&quot; defined by money, an interesting if not very ethical experiment for sure.<p>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-ungerecht.html" 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>Being able to get to places by car is one of the most basic needs in the US. I think it leads to cementing the monetary status quo and monetary class affiliation when that becomes even more dependent on how much money one can spend on it. A nicer car being more expensive is fine in that regard, it does not get you from A to B much or any faster than the cheap one. Being able to choose roads or lanes that will take you there much faster is different.<p>It removes one&#x27;s personal &quot;hard work&quot; contribution to success if more and more of it is out of your control - after all, how much money you start the game of life with is nothing one has control over. Maybe making that kind of mechanism worse is not the best idea in the long term. Unless we are really aiming for what all the dystopia movies and anime have been showing us.<p>There are also tons and tons of indirect effects. For example, I would make the claim that wealthy shareholders benefit a lot more from roads than poor people, even when they don&#x27;t drive, since the companies they own and the entire economy needs them. The poorer people driving to work &quot;paying their share&quot; does not look so clearly justified to me, unless one believes that their salaries are perfect indications of their role in value creation.


type: comment
by: georgeburdell
text:
  This behavior is extremely damaging to the startup scene.  Who would join a startup these days unless it’s run by a close friend or relative?  At least in that case, the scorned junior employees would have social recourse.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  Image thumbnails are slow to load for me,  my ADSL is not great,  but many sites load better than that.<p>I collect ero images but find OnlyFans offputting and feel the same way about the images and text that get surfaced on your site,  personally I wouldn&#x27;t want to stick with it. That said,  the UI is slick.<p>A text search for &quot;cosplay&quot; turned up 0% relevant images from my point of view,  multiple searches I tried turned up the same girl in the #1 slot frequently so I think in terms of blending relevance vs popularity&#x2F;quality you aren&#x27;t emphasizing relevance.  (&quot;Cosplay&quot; tag is just as bad,  I only start to hit if I add another filter for an Asian country)<p>I did upload a pic of an S-rank cosplay model and did get other cosplayers so that seems to work.<p>I was hoping I could pick a girl from the search results and find similar girls but it wasn&#x27;t clear how to do so.


type: comment
by: crasshacker
text:
  Is Waldo really there?  Because I&#x27;ve looked everywhere, and at this point I&#x27;m a bit concerned that my eyes are going to give out before I&#x27;m able to find him.  That guy sure is a wily fella.


type: comment
by: mstep
text:
  according to this video [0] the frequency was 84.2. that-s not unplausible.<p>a known problem in cutting vinyl records are sudden bursts of high volume frequencies around 100 hz, that have the potential to make the needle skip with a normal amount of weight on the tone-arm.<p>-------<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY</a>


type: comment
by: nathan-wall
text:
  You seem to have a problem with, for starters, differences of scale. All corrupt politicians should be prosecuted, and we have had our fair share. All politicians are not equally as corrupt, and the differences in the levels of corruption are staggering.


type: comment
by: AnimalMuppet
text:
  If they stop buying treasuries, that&#x27;s still a big problem, because the US continues to run a deficit, and therefore continues to need to sell treasuries.


type: comment
by: Spivak
text:
  Yes. This is The Family and Medical Leave Act.<p>&gt; An employer is prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee or prospective employee for having exercised or attempted to exercise any FMLA right.<p>You can fire someone after they come back but you will need to show receipts. Your employer also doesn&#x27;t pay you when you take that leave so it would be a strange way to game the system.


type: comment
by: rudolph9
text:
  It’s worth considering if these package managers would have taken off if they didn’t use git. You get a bunch for free, why not use it while you’re small?


type: comment
by: transcriptase
text:
  I love how virtually no GitHub instructions related to AI simply work as written.<p>Each assumes you already have their developer environment configured to have the tool work, but simply don’t have it compiled yet.


type: comment
by: andyfilms1
text:
  Nothing, but after becoming reliant on an LLM they may simply become overwhelmed and give up once they outgrow it&#x27;s capabilities. I&#x27;ve seen this happen to several people I know.


type: comment
by: malochak
text:
  I remember days in one corporation, when every time we wanted to create a room quickly, we wasted some time. Adding items for voting also was time consuming, so integration with jira might be a cool point.


type: comment
by: mrkeen
text:
  That will be the case when Alice stands close to where C happens, and Bob stands close to where D happens.<p>It&#x27;s a little trickier to imagine introducing cause-and-effect though.  (Alice sees that C caused D to happen, Bob sees that D caused C to happen).<p>I think a &quot;light cone&quot; is the thought-experiment to look up here.


type: comment
by: some_guy_nobel
text:
  Right? As a former founder, I laugh every time I get a &#x27;Founding Engineer&#x27; recruit email...


type: comment
by: AnimalMuppet
text:
  The people who live in the countries that use them aren&#x27;t relevant, <i>because we are talking about them as reserve currencies.</i>  What matters is whether other <i>countries</i> see them as politically suspect.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  Necessary public infrastructure that is paid for with tax dollars is not a public good?<p>And just in case this fact is being lost &#x2F; forgotten: Toll roads are primarily, originally funded through tax dollars but are disingenuously structured in a way these bozos can go &quot;see, it&#x27;s not actually tax dollars&quot; (it is). The same exact dollars that should be used to build fully public, free roads are instead used to privatize public infrastructure.<p>There has never been a time where a toll raid has failed and the losses were treated as private. The bonds magically get repaid (to the right people, of course).<p>It&#x27;s all tax dollars in the end, one way or another.


type: comment
by: andrewaylett
text:
  Not everyone in my team wires up their pre-commit hook to run the pre-commit tool.  I use JJ, so I don&#x27;t even <i>have</i> a pre-commit hook to wire up.  But the <i>tool</i> is useful.<p>The key thing (that several folk have pointed out) is that CI runs the canonical checks.  Using something like pre-commit (the tool) makes it easier to at least vaguely standardise making sure that you <i>can</i> run the same checks that CI will run.  Having it run from the pre-commit hook fits nicely into many workflows, my own pre-JJ workflow included.


type: comment
by: andsoitis
text:
  &gt; Yeah, that&#x27;s nonsense.<p>Assuming you&#x27;re right, why do you suppose so many publications get it wrong?<p>Not only the NASA one I linked to but also Wikipedia for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cosmic_ray" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cosmic_ray</a><p>Or the European Space Agency: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esa.int&#x2F;Science_Exploration&#x2F;Space_Science&#x2F;Cluster&#x2F;Cluster_s_20_years_of_studying_Earth_s_magnetosphere" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esa.int&#x2F;Science_Exploration&#x2F;Space_Science&#x2F;Cluste...</a><p>You will forgive me if I take their assessment more seriously than yours, but I&#x27;m open to correcting my understanding.


type: comment
by: doubled112
text:
  I firmly believe this is because it&#x27;d be incredibly socially unacceptable to do so.<p>Most of the parents I&#x27;m close to are in the &quot;wow, this actually kind of sucks&quot; category.<p>Against what I hear about parenting, I&#x27;m mostly left feeling unsatisfied and unfulfilled, but what am I going to do?  Maybe it&#x27;ll come later.


type: comment
by: m463
text:
  Thing is, I suspect the taxing is inefficient.  I would guess guessing 1% of it goes to mitigating traffic, pollution and road damage.<p>I think most people will just be burdened by it.<p>I think taxes would be a more efficient way of collecting these fees, and ensuring they go to fund mass transit in a way that traffic&#x2F;pollution&#x2F;road damage was mitigated directly and the people were still served.


type: comment
by: arcanemachiner
text:
  I have a blanket from the same company, purchased this year, and am quite satisfied with it.<p>Can&#x27;t speak to the power usage, but levels 1-3 are warm-ish, but level 4 gets nice and toasty.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  The poor industry, self-selecting for high-quality SDKs that macOS won&#x27;t sign. Wouldn&#x27;t they be upset if Apple ends up hurting themselves?<p>As rare as Apple is to admit it, there is this mercurial thing called &quot;competition&quot; that haunts the free market. OpenCL would have had an excellent chance if Apple took it as seriously as Nvidia took CUDA. But they didn&#x27;t, it was thrown over the fence and expected that everyone else would do the work. While Nvidia was shipping Linux and BSD-native CUDA drivers, Apple was just distributing loose specs and begging the OpenCL working group to stop rewarding their competitor. Not for a lack of funding or motivation, Apple lost because they were butthurt.<p>OpenCL was DOA the moment Apple stopped treating Nvidia as a proper threat. Everyone else in the industry supported CUDA and was fine with it.


type: story
by: iedayan03
title: Copyly: AI Product Descriptions for Dropshippers
text:
  Dropshippers struggle with terrible supplier descriptions from generic platforms. We built AI that turns those generic descriptions into high-converting, SEO-optimized copy in seconds.<p>New features:<p>- Supplier URL import - paste any product link, get optimized description - Review mining - upload customer reviews, AI extracts winning phrases - Competitor analysis - analyze competitor copy, generate better versions - Shopify integration - one-click product creation - Multilingual support for international markets<p>Results: 31% higher conversion rates, 10x faster listing creation.<p>Free trial: 10 generations, no credit card required.<p>Try: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyly.vercel.app&#x2F;<p>Discussion: What&#x27;s your biggest challenge with product descriptions?


type: comment
by: QuiEgo
text:
  I have no idea what to do for a browser now.<p>Safari as of MacOS 26 is buggy as hell, and I don&#x27;t care for its new UI at all.<p>Firefox seems to be going in a direction I don&#x27;t want to follow.<p>Chrome is openly user hostile.<p>All of the various forks have problems - they just seem like ways to extract money from you (e.g. they just send the data to MSFT instead of GOOG, they push you to some crypto thing), or they have serious limitations (e.x. no access to extension marketplace without hacks, abondware, slow to get security updates)...<p>I&#x27;m honestly at a loss for an option I want to use.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  It is, in fact, signed by the author. It&#x27;s just a PKI, so you intermediate trust in the author through an authority.<p>This is exactly analogous to the Web PKI, where you trust CAs to identify individual websites, but the websites themselves control their keypairs. The CA&#x27;s presence intermediates the trust but does not somehow imply that the CA itself does the signing for TLS traffic.


type: story
by: akyuu
title: Announcing hardware-accelerated BitLocker
url:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/announcing-hardware-accelerated-bitlocker/4474609


type: comment
by: chhxdjsj
text:
  &quot;actually, did we say we had 8,000 tons of gold in reserve? we meant 9,000. Yeah we just counted, no you can&#x27;t look at it, we have 9,000, here take the yuan and go build vaccines&quot;<p>You cant do that with bitcoin


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  There&#x27;s been a branch for it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;psf&#x2F;requests&#x2F;tree&#x2F;hatchling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;psf&#x2F;requests&#x2F;tree&#x2F;hatchling</a>) for a little while apparently; I guess they won&#x27;t merge it until absolutely necessary for the 2.33 release. But that is still just over a year after I offered (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;psf&#x2F;requests&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6775" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;psf&#x2F;requests&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6775</a>).<p>... Ah, I got confused for a bit. When I first noticed the `pyproject.toml` deficiency, it was because Requests was affected by the major Setuptools 72 backwards incompatibility. Then this year they were hit again by the major Setuptools <i>78</i> backwards incompatibility (which the Setuptools team consciously ignored in testing because Requests already publishes their own wheel, so this only affected the build-from-source purists like distro maintainers). See also my writeup <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;1020576&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;1020576&#x2F;</a> .


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  This isn&#x27;t that new - &quot;rebrand&quot; somewhere back about 6 months ago; and first half of year at least was &quot;Your code editor. Redefined with AI.&quot;.


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  Yes that definitely happens. People orbiting Polaris would be seeing two supernovas explode at different times than us due to the speed of light. Polaris is 400 light years away so the gap could be large.<p>But when you are moving you may see very closely spaced events in different order, because you’re moving toward Carol but at an angle to Doug.  Versus someone else moving toward Doug at an angle to Carol.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I don&#x27;t have to believe anything, I just look at the S&amp;P 500 and see the same old stuff. Nvidia is enjoying the shovel shortage, but none of the gold-rushers have discovered anything better than CUDA. Nothing new under the sun.<p>&gt; people who don’t appear to understand the strategic play of pure AI companies<p>Get a load of this guy. Strategy in isolation is worthless; Russia has excellent strategic deterrence that is utterly useless for deterring Ukraine. Pure crypto companies had strategic foresight, but none of it was worth a damn when they had to compete with each other on merit.<p>The strategic play is perfectly well-understood. The tactical side is not, so far Nvidia is the only company that has gone to war and won.


type: comment
by: thayne
text:
  What is that difference?<p>The definitions from the FSF and OSI are very similar, and the lists of approved licenses are mostly the same.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Sequioa hasn&#x27;t fixed the attack from the beginning of the talk, the one where they convert between cleartext and full signature formats and inject unsigned bytes into the output because of the confusion.


type: comment
by: ameliaquining
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> lists a bunch of them.


type: comment
by: TimByte
text:
  Where I keep coming back, though, is that text still seems to be the backbone that lets those richer systems scale and persist


type: comment
by: Kuraj
text:
  It wasn&#x27;t exactly disappointing. I loved to read The Old New Thing back in the day, Raymond&#x27;s blog was full of stuff like this.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Saved you a click: the whole &quot;alpha wolf&#x2F;lone wolf&quot; thing, which was never true for wolves[0], and unnecessarily became a template for modern masculinity in the concept of the &quot;alpha male&quot; and related hierarchy[1]. It also inadvertently brought the world the Omegaverse, which I leave as an exercise for the reader.<p>This is the kind of thing people are talking about when they talk about &quot;toxic masculinity&quot; btw.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;elements&#x2F;the-myth-of-the-alpha-wolf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;elements&#x2F;the-myth-of-the-a...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alpha_and_beta_male" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alpha_and_beta_male</a>


type: comment
by: twojacobtwo
text:
  I had never even considered gluten, but I&#x27;ve been dealing with those exact issues for years as well. I&#x27;m going to give it a try.<p>Would you say it was actually noticeable in just a few days?<p>Thank you for posting this, btw. I&#x27;ve been feeling pretty hopeless about it and even if it ultimately doesn&#x27;t work, at least I have a new avenue to try.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  You are the first person I&#x27;ve ever heard call Dec 2025 a &quot;major step change&quot; moment in AI. And I&#x27;ve been following this space since BERT.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s worse than having to search an arbitrary distance for a matching closing bracket. There are tasks where you can start working knowing that a given array in the data might be appended to later (similarly for objects).


type: story
by: willherr72
title: Show HN: TensorPad – The Engineering Notebook You've Been Waiting For
url: https://www.tensorpad.dev/
text:
  Rethink your notebook: write code, math, and diagrams together with instant feedback and beautiful rendering. Great for sharing reproducible tech work.


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  I&#x27;m polite in repose to being repeatedly called names and this is your response?<p>If you think my behavior here was truly ban worthy than do it because I don&#x27;t see anything in the I would change except for engaging at all


type: comment
by: tomjakubowski
text:
  It&#x27;s a good thing you can&#x27;t force it, because `git commit -n` exists.  (And besides, management of the `.git&#x2F;hooks` directory is done locally.  You can always just wipe that directory of any noxious hooks.)<p>I can accept (but still often skip, with `git push -n`) a time-consuming pre-push hook, but a time-consuming and flaky pre-commit hook is totally unacceptable to my workflows and I will always find a way to work around it.  Like everyone else is saying, if you want to enforce some rule on the codebase then do it in CI and block merges on it.


type: comment
by: regenschutz
text:
  Very interesting! I tried holding down on the image to open the context menu and open it in a new tab. In the context menu, I could see a bright and vivid thumbnail of the image, but when I clicked &quot;Press image in a new tab&quot; it showed the same washed out image as on the web page. Interesting!<p>(I&#x27;m running Brave Mobile if that matters. I&#x27;m curious if the thumbnail is rendered differently on other mobile web browsers as well?)


type: comment
by: ZuzuDuck
text:
  Exactly this. The &quot;let me just set up the room real quick&quot; that somehow takes 5 minutes every time.<p>Jira integration is definitely coming — it&#x27;s on the Q2 2026 roadmap. One-click import so you pull your sprint backlog straight into a voting session.<p>Curious — when you were adding items manually, was it mostly typing story titles from scratch, or copy-pasting from somewhere?


type: comment
by: benrutter
text:
  I agree on the other side of the fence! I quite like precommit when I use it, but I&#x27;ve never imposed it on any of my projects. Some people use commits sporadically then squash down- I really don&#x27;t feel comfortable breaking someone&#x27;s personal workflow to that degree.<p>I almost always have a &quot;this cicd must pass to merge&quot; job, that includes linting etc, and then use squash commits exclusively when merging.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  In the U.S. you can definitely use school facilities after hours (such as the fields, and even some buildings, etc).<p>The primary concern with not allowing access at any time of day to the general public is of course, the children.


type: comment
by: rkuska
text:
  I would recommend The Children of Noisy Village, my 3 year old loves it (she didn&#x27;t like Pippi Longstocking) and we&#x27;ve read all chapters from all the books several times already.


type: comment
by: tehbeard
text:
  How is Sublime&#x27;s plugin ecosystem these days?<p>I&#x27;d love to move back to it (or rather, use it for dev work beyond opening large log files to search for things), or atleast have it as a backup for vscode&#x27;s inevitable enshittification.


type: comment
by: summa_tech
text:
  Can always go splice some PCF or PMF if you like to feel appreciated for your splicing. I swear I&#x27;d rather splice 100 SM fibers than 1 PMF.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  From the paper: &quot;After regulatory approval had been obtained for the therapy, ...&quot;<p>Are the documents relating to this FDA (?) approval application public? I&#x27;m curious about where the current boundaries lie and how the process works.


type: comment
by: Someone
text:
  It doesn’t hav eto make money <i>ever</i> on us for it to be worth it to them.<p>If you’re a Python shop, compare<p>- writing <i>uv</i> and keeping it private makes package management easier for your own packages<p>- writing <i>uv</i> and opening it up, and getting all&#x2F;most third party libs to use it makes package management easier for your own packages and third party packages you use


type: comment
by: albedoa
text:
  You truly, honestly believe that to be the real problem? Come on. You don&#x27;t need to do whatever this is.


type: comment
by: TimByte
text:
  I think some of the binary tooling exists less because engineers hate strings and more because humans aren&#x27;t the primary consumers anymore


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
text:
  Companies use people. Thats it. If you’re of no use to them, they’ll get rid of you. Anyone that thinks different is naive and setting themselves up for disappointment. This is a sad situation, but not unexpected.


type: comment
by: daft_pink
text:
  i really with raspberry pi foundation released a pi with built in nvme instead of using a hat.  i think using flash memory is the true bottleneck on the system


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (693 points, 4 days ago, 395 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46366998">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46366998</a>


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  One thing I&#x27;ve always wondered about is why crazy people are always fixated on quantum physics and then vague musical terms like &quot;resonances&quot;.<p>LLMs do the same thing when they develop psychosis* except GPT also starts talking about &quot;recursion&quot; and Claude starts trying to enter nirvana.<p>* historical term &quot;going Rampant&quot;


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  I&#x27;ll quote from myself:<p>&gt; [1] The best the fairly obvious house republican &quot;investigation&quot; into joe biden could manage was some vague statements about his son getting paid for having the last name biden, which may or may not be illegal, but certainly seems unethical, but more importantly, ISN&#x27;T THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Like, it is so incredibly obvious that words fail me that the president being corrupt matters A LOT MORE than his son being corrupt. Like, a lot a lot a lot more.


type: comment
by: stephendause
text:
  Why? To me, hosting previous versions of an article in a public git repo adds transparency. Or perhaps you are talking about GitHub specifically?


type: comment
by: loulouxiv
text:
  As a test I used their Shelley coding agent to vibe-code a multiplayer Queen of spade game : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra-crimson.exe.xyz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra-crimson.exe.xyz&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: MarkSweep
text:
  The derivatives following jerk are snap, crackle, and pop:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_derivatives_of_position" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...</a>


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  I&#x27;m not aware of any public schools in my area that would allow me to, e.g., use the basketball court or soccer field after school hours or on the weekends.


type: comment
by: mekoka
text:
  Could it be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23285438">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23285438</a>


type: comment
by: scuff3d
text:
  I suspect this is fairly common. The reality is most developers don&#x27;t need a lot of the features a language provides.<p>Python for example has a ton of stuff that can be done with classes using sunder methods and other magic. I&#x27;m aware of it, but in all the years I&#x27;ve been writing Python I&#x27;ve never actually needed it. The only time I&#x27;ve had to directly interact with it was when trying to figure out how the fuck OpenAPI generates FastAPI server code. Which fairly deep into a framework and code generation tool.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  I wonder how the startup scene will adjust to this if it becomes mainstream. can employee contracts be modified to force compensation even in this case? seems difficult to write one up without weird second order effects.<p>if this does end up being something that is legal and successfully circumvents anti trust, does it mean antitrust actually is a failure in practice?<p>2026 hasn&#x27;t even begun and more shenanigans are in flight.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  My point was that even for people that benefit, the benefit is greatly reduced.<p>Let&#x27;s dig in to <i>why</i> it&#x27;s useful to be able to replace parts on a car.  If we analogize the extra flexibility of the Framework to being able to replace all these parts in the engine bay, that sounds really cool, until you realize there are no third party options for the core components and Framework only makes a couple versions.  It&#x27;s still useful in a few circumstances, but it&#x27;s not this massive unlock of freedom.  You can&#x27;t have a fully customized engine, and the best way to get an engine tailored to your tastes is to abandon the weak after-the-fact customization and go find something that you like from the start.<p>Even to a user that really values freedom, Framework doesn&#x27;t properly deliver at this point in time.  The Framework freedom is <i>so restricted</i> that in most ways you get <i>more</i> freedom by considering all the non-soldered-RAM laptops from other brands as valid options too.<p>Edit: And I don&#x27;t mean this as an indictment of their small company, they&#x27;re trying, but right now the impact is limited in many ways.


type: comment
by: gwern
text:
  Note: from May 2025. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;doc&#x2F;genetics&#x2F;editing&#x2F;2025-musunuru.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;doc&#x2F;genetics&#x2F;editing&#x2F;2025-musunuru.pdf</a>


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  Why do you care about the history of a branch?  Just look at the diff.  Caring about the history of a branch is weird, I think your approach is just not compatible with how people work.


type: comment
by: mxxc
text:
  it&#x27;s the same idea, done slightly differently because with fedora you can start from their own atomic images and change them a bit. the setup is much easier and probably more robust because it feels less like a hack. ironically, my intermediate step between silverblue with layered packages and vyy was similar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;myyc&#x2F;silverpurple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;myyc&#x2F;silverpurple&#x2F;</a> – using bluebuild instead of containerfiles.


type: comment
by: paxys
text:
  Yeah unless you are a founder or top investor it’s pretty much a guarantee that there will be no exit.


type: comment
by: TimByte
text:
  LLMs didn&#x27;t get good because text is flashy; they got good because text is dense with intention


type: comment
by: ahmgeek
text:
  Really embarrassed by it, I shared on here and on Producthunt, but got near zero engagement.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voklit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voklit.com</a>


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  The GPL binds _everyone_ who distributes GPL-covered work, including resellers. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you made a copy of it, you are distributing it.


type: comment
by: supermatt
text:
  The bait and switch was around the “free” license for non-commercial use. They got lots of people using it and porting software to it, and then they revoked that free license.<p>Then they did exactly the same thing again a few years later.<p>And now, for the 3rd time, they are offering a “free” non-commercial license.


type: comment
by: amarant
text:
  That&#x27;s really cool! Actually sounds like it could be worth the effort to clean it up and bring it to a stable release! I like the idea of a language made from the metal up with game dev in mind!


type: comment
by: evilduck
text:
  I don&#x27;t think this makes it much worse because that&#x27;s hard to do, it&#x27;s already terrible. Getting screwed by startup founders has been the status quo for at least 15 or 20 years now.<p>If you&#x27;re just a worker then demand fair market wages, work healthy hours, and treat your useless class of shares as already used and discarded scratch off lottery tickets.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language, the same way as low level languages replaced by high level languages. It is the natural evolution of development.<p>On the other hand agentic teams will take over solo agents.


type: comment
by: rasz
text:
  Fully loaded one way FPV drone peaks at over 1KW. Electronics is maybe 1% (excluding transmitters) of what drone uses for lift, its insignificant. Its all about availability and price. Lower nodes do not give you any price advantage.


type: comment
by: ameliaquining
text:
  If by &quot;pretty much every Linux distro depends on PGP being pretty secure&quot; you&#x27;re referring to its use to sign packages in Linux package managers, it&#x27;s worth noting that they use PGP in fairly narrowly constrained ways; in particular, the data is often already trusted because it was downloaded over HTTPS from a trusted server (making PGP kind of redundant in some ways). So most PGP vulnerabilities don&#x27;t affect them.<p>If there were a PGP vulnerability that actually made it possible to push unauthorized updates to RHEL or Fedora systems, then probably IBM would care, but if they concluded that PGP&#x27;s security problems were a serious threat then I suspect they&#x27;d be more likely to start a migration away from PGP than to start investing in making PGP secure; the former seems more tractable and would have maintainability benefits besides.


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  &gt; we don&#x27;t want to start to treat digital device and software as living beings.<p>Right, because then we have to decide at what point our use of AI becomes slavery.


type: comment
by: Propelloni
text:
  You are right. &quot;Zersiedlung&quot; is a term of art in land-use and development planning to describe the undirected expansion of settlements into rural areas. I happen to work in the periphery of planning and approval and the term comes up quite often. The English equivalent would be the mentioned &quot;suburban sprawl&quot;.


type: comment
by: jeremyjh
text:
  Yes, that is why they always require a credit card as well. I&#x27;m sure exe.dev will be no different soon but they are trying this in alpha to get feedback and traction; just hoping they won&#x27;t attract the notice of the barbarian hordes right away.


type: comment
by: jimnotgym
text:
  IANAL, and am especially weak on US law,  but I suspect this is only an antitrust loophole if the administration chooses not to act. Substance over form must apply? Pretty sure this wouldn&#x27;t fly in European law.


type: story
by: IDKhowTo
title: The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
text:
  File from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;epstein&#x2F;files&#x2F;DataSet%201.zip<p>1251.06mb, Hash 6d23adffac9736b8e46fd195b64000cb<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251219213848if_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;epstein&#x2F;files&#x2F;DataSet%201.zip<p>1261.36mb, Hash c54a12403fbb352113aa544934b5d156<p>What has changed?


type: comment
by: therobots927
text:
  Or it could be evidence that consciousness is more complicated and interconnected than we think. Regarding the time wave I actually purchased the software but haven’t managed to get it to run. I like a lot of mckennas ideas but I do get the sense that he went off the deep end towards the end. Maybe it had something to do with his brain cancer.


type: comment
by: simcop2387
text:
  The Pi 3B doesn&#x27;t have UEFI support, so it requires special support on the distro side for the boot process but for the 4 and newer you can flash (or it&#x27;ll already be there, depending on luck and age of the device) the firmware on the board to support UEFI and USB boot, though installing is a bit of a pain since there&#x27;s no easy images to do it with.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;RaspberryPi4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;RaspberryPi4</a><p>I believe some other distros also have UEFI booting&#x2F;installers setup for PI4 and newer devices because of this, though there&#x27;s a good chance you&#x27;ll want some of the other libraries that come with Raspberry PI OS (aka Raspbian) still for some of the hardware specific features like CSI&#x2F;DSI and some of the GPIO features that might not be fully upstreamed yet.<p>There&#x27;s also a port of Proxmox called PXVirt (Formerly Proxmox Port) that exists to use a number of similar ARM systems now as a virtualization host with a nice ui and automation around it.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  I&#x27;m fine with a decently fair registration tax to offset the gas taxes, but the one in my state is the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gas for the state gas taxes. If the car was a 35mpg hybrid that would be 35,000mi of equivalent driving. This is incredibly unfair.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  Which is weird.  The entire point of [LP]CAMM[2] is to be able to make that work.<p>The Framework desktop clocks the memory at 8000MHz.  That&#x27;s well within the limits of the interface.  Something is flawed or omitted in those CPUs if they can&#x27;t handle it.


type: comment
by: tonyhart7
text:
  if we use your logic then every law written would be failure since at some point people would discover loophole&#x2F;flaw that would get abused<p>the fix is we use more ambiguous words or just stronger government control<p>see how China &quot;control&quot; capitalist on this case if you want absolute government control


type: comment
by: F3nd0
text:
  If I’m not mistaken, they only select a couple of features to work on every year—the ones they already agree on to begin with—and the high interoperability shown in the link only concerns those few select features.<p>For example, JPEG XL has been proposed for Interop a few times before, but never selected. Therefore, Safari remains the only major browser to support it so far.


type: story
by: casmn
title: Show HN: Dotenv-Diff – Recent Improvements
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I posted dotenv-diff here a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I’ve made several improvements based on feedback and real-world usage.<p>The goal remains simple: statically audit how environment variables are actually used in a JS&#x2F;TS codebase.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Chrilleweb&#x2F;dotenv-diff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Chrilleweb&#x2F;dotenv-diff</a><p>Docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotenv-diff-docs.vercel.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotenv-diff-docs.vercel.app&#x2F;</a><p>npm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;dotenv-diff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;dotenv-diff</a><p>Feedback always welcome :)


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  The part I don’t fully understand is: could this non-acquisition eventually make the deal less than ideal for Nvidia?<p>Is it really a given that GroqCloud is going to be sunset and the company will die?<p>Couldn’t this company hire talent and continue to operate and maybe even innovate? Couldn’t Groq even hire back some employees from Nvidia? If any of them live in California there’s nothing stopping them and they have a bunch of cash from Nvidia. There are all kinds of loopholes for that like contracting arrangements.<p>Nvidia doesn’t really have exclusive access to any part of the company. They didn’t necessarily remove a competitor, though I’ll grant that they <i>likely</i> did in practice.<p>It’s potentially possible that the regulations did their job and kept a competitor on the market, though again I imagine this is my naevity speaking and that the most likely outcome is that Groq will wither.<p>I also don’t fully understand if the Saudis are getting cashed out or not. Are they really going to roll over and allow their Saudi AI data center to become worthless? I would think they have a lot of motivation after this deal to make sure Groq still operates and serves their goals.


type: comment
by: mingus88
text:
  My path in the emacs&#x2F;vi divide forked a lifetime ago, and emacs is so fundamentally different that it was never worth sacrificing the massive productivity vim gives me to dip back into emacs<p>But maybe that should change. I like vscode for when I need more IDE features than I care to cobble together with plugins.<p>I don’t need another subscription in my life. Especially for anything I rely on.


type: comment
by: Tadpole9181
text:
  Your entire rhetoric is nuts if you swap it out with other crimes:<p>&quot;I prefer when we can just murder people openly in the streets with no consequences or even shame. It&#x27;s hypocritical to say murder she be frowned upon and forced to be done in cover of night out of fear of reprisal.&quot;<p>No, what they&#x27;re saying is that it has gotten so bad now that the crimes are being committed constantly and in the open with no fear or worry that anything bad will ever happen.<p>And you&#x27;re over here being coy thinking you&#x27;re so clever by ignoring the scale and long-term implications.


type: comment
by: zzzeek
text:
  &gt; Maybe the strongest advantage of rust, on top of very clean and fast default behaviors, is that it attracts people that care about speed, safety and correctness. And those devs are more likely to spend time implementing fast software.<p>people who have this opinion should use Rust, not Python, at all.  if Python code does not have sufficient speed, safety, and correctness for someone, it should not be used.   Python&#x27;s tools should be written in Python.<p>&gt; The killer feature is, being a stand alone executable, it bypasses all python bootstrapping problems.<p>I can&#x27;t speak for windows or macs but on Linux, system pythons are standard, and there is no &quot;bootstrapping problem&quot; using well known utilities that happen to be written in Python.


type: comment
by: thomas_witt
text:
  Codex CLI can run as MCP server ootb which you can call directly from Claude code. Together with a prompt to ask codex for a second opinion, that works very well for me, especially in code reviews.


type: comment
by: fsflover
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46398414">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46398414</a>


type: comment
by: spoaceman7777
text:
  Works fine for me, but you could also just turn on desktop view in your mobile browser if it isn&#x27;t big enough on your screen.<p>I use Firefox Mobile, so perhaps there is a difference on Chromium-based browsers?


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  Driving it is different from demanding it.  What percent of people in Europe would pay more for manual?


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  What enabled this treatment to be used now? Gene editing techniques have existed for a long time, but there were many reasons why they weren&#x27;t being used in humans, like concerns about off-target edits and heritability. The article mentions something about gold nanoparticles, but this aspect was developed over the course of a few weeks, and in any case these aren&#x27;t new either.


type: story
by: hakierka
title: What even is DevRel in 2025? Asking as someone who does it
text:
  I’ve been in DevRel for years. I love it. I love helping developers, teaching, building docs that don’t make you want to scream, seeing someone ship something because of a thing I explained.<p>But lately every conversation with a company hiring for “DevRel” feels like a different job entirely:<p>Some want a content creator.<p>Some want support without calling it support.<p>Some want sales without calling it sales.<p>Some want a one-person marketing department.<p>Some just want someone fun to put on stage.<p>I get that the role is flexible. It should be flexible. DevRel adapts to the product and the community. But if everything is DevRel, then nothing is?<p>And honestly, it feels like the industry has decided DevRel is optional again — something you bolt on later, once the product is magically perfect and already has a community.<p>Anyway — I’m trying to figure out where the companies are that still believe in developer experience, community, education, and real relationships… not just vanity metrics.<p>If you work somewhere like that, I’d love to hear from you. I’m currently on the market. But mostly I just want to know I’m not the only one wondering what the hell is happening with a position I spent 10 years perfecting.


type: comment
by: ignoramous
text:
  Especially today when UI &amp; tools built around LLMs, specifically code gen &amp; image gen, demonstrate a seismic shift in just how far text will go.


type: comment
by: saidnooneever
text:
  hey, i love this idea. for external tool calls  id recommend looking into something like cacao playbooks, (open standard&#x2F;spec forsecurity playbooks) and maybe integrate such things too. theres a lot of useful datamodels &#x2F; specs out there slowly getting picked up - and DSL to tie it all together sounds to me like a good thing. will look into this further (didnt dive too deeply, just hyped about this idea!) and share it around.


type: comment
by: alphazard
text:
  It&#x27;s a fundamentally bad idea to have a single key that applications are supposed to look for in a particular place, and then use to sign things. There is inherent complexity involved in making multi-context key use safe, and it&#x27;s better to just avoid it architecturally.<p>Keys (even quantum safe) are small enough that having one per application is not a problem at all. If an application needs multi-context, they can handle it themselves. If they do it badly, the damage is contained to that application. If someone really wants to make an application that just signs keys for other applications to say &quot;this is John Smith&#x27;s key for git&quot; and &quot;this is John Smith&#x27;s key for email&quot; then they could do that. Such an application would not need to concern itself with permissions for other applications calling into it. The user could just copy and paste public keys, or fingerprints when they want to attest to their identity in a specific application.<p>The keyring circus (which is how GPG most commonly intrudes into my life) is crazy too. All these applications insist on connecting to some kind of GPG keyring instead of just writing the secrets to the filesystem in their own local storage. The disk is fully encrypted, and applications should be isolated from one another. Nothing is really being accomplished by requiring the complexity of yet another program to &quot;extra encrypt&quot; things before writing them to disk.<p>I&#x27;m sure these bad ideas come from the busy work invented in corporate &quot;security&quot; circles, which invent complexity to keep people employed without any regard for an actual threat model.


type: comment
by: Havoc
text:
  Their approach to software support does leave a lot to be desired.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth though the v5 did have Talos support, so you could just throw that on there, connect it to a cluster and have a decent arm node that is fanless and has 32gb<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.siderolabs.com&#x2F;talos&#x2F;v1.12&#x2F;platform-specific-installations&#x2F;single-board-computers&#x2F;orangepi_5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.siderolabs.com&#x2F;talos&#x2F;v1.12&#x2F;platform-specific-in...</a>


type: comment
by: Freak_NL
text:
  There is now a neon add for some weird place called &#x27;Hacker News&#x27;; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you&#x27;ve gone too far.


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  &gt; Google faced the clock synchronization problem at an unprecedented scale with Spanner, its globally distributed database. They needed strong consistency guarantees across data centers spanning continents, which requires knowing the order of transactions.<p>&gt; Here’s a video of me explaining this.<p>Do you need a video? Do we need a 42 minute video to explain this?<p>I generally agree with Feynman on this stuff. We let explanations be far more complex than they need to be for most things, and it makes the hunt for accidental complexity harder because everything looks almost as complex as the problems that need more study to divine what is actually going on there.<p>For Spanner to be useful they needed a high transaction rate and in a distributed system that requires very tight grace periods for First Writer Wins. Tighter than you can achieve with NTP or system clocks. That’s it. That’s why they invented a new clock.<p>Google puts it this way:<p>Under external consistency, the system behaves as if all transactions run sequentially, even though Spanner actually runs them across multiple servers (and possibly in multiple datacenters) for higher performance and availability.<p>But that’s a bit thick for people who don’t spend weeks or years thinking about distributed systems.


type: comment
by: magicalhippo
text:
  And they change quite frequently, from our POV.<p>That said, I started wrtiting scripts when I use ffmpeg some time ago. At least then I have a non-zero starting point next time.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  The skill would allow Claude Code CLI to call Codex CLI but then Claude Code CLI will need to pass context to Codex which would require writing the context &quot;which causes latency&quot; and this process of writing the context will provide limited context to Codex and also eat up from the main context window. Mysti shares the context which is very different from passing context as a parameter.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  isn&#x27;t it true though that laws that have frequently abused loopholes that effectively go against the spirit of the law are indeed failures? isn&#x27;t that the entire purpose of having lawmakers who are constantly evaluating such things?


type: comment
by: brigade
text:
  gAMA dates back to the days when hardly anyone had a clue about color primaries and colorspaces, let alone commonly tried to synchronize them across displays. It&#x27;s explicitly ignored by everyone if the file uses any more modern method of signaling colorspace information, so really OP needs actually to write a colorspace to the file (cICP, iCCP, even an sRGB chunk) instead of merely claiming on their blog they wrote a colorspace.


type: comment
by: dyukqu
text:
  Thank you for your recommendations. I am aware that his novels will be different. The (memoir) I mentioned just made me like the guy, so his other writings interest me now.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  It&#x27;s not like larger companies don&#x27;t also screw over their employees in various ways. After having to leave AWS due to my fully distributed team that was formed during WFH being forced to &quot;return&quot; to an office that most of ever never lived near, I&#x27;ve preferred working for smaller companies not because I care about equity (I&#x27;m in the fortunate position that I can survive comfortably and save for retirement on my salary rather than needing to rely on the value from options&#x2F;RSUs), but because my confidence in my ability to predict where things are headed goes down increasingly with each additional level of management between me and whoever has the power to arbitrarily decide to upend my employment on a whim. In the long run, I&#x27;ll probably be fine if my employer doesn&#x27;t make me rich, so as long as my projected retirement age isn&#x27;t actively getting pushed back based on my current income and spending, I&#x27;d rather optimize for minimizing the likelihood I suddenly find myself unemployed due to untenable working conditions or getting unexpectedly laid off. My experience at startups has been that it&#x27;s a lot easier to tell when things might start to get dicey several months down the line and start to prepare for if I need to find another gig. With a large company, I&#x27;ve seen that happen much more suddenly for people who had no reason to suspect they might need to in advance.


type: comment
by: novateg
text:
  Looks great to me, how is this different from the competition? If you can add something new you can reach out to small businesses and start selling. For example, most small businesses can’t respond to calls while they’re working, like barbers, makeup artists etc. Add agents that can respond to customers.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  But then codex won&#x27;t have the full context of your existing work and might need to go through its own exploratory path


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  &gt; Toll roads are primarily, originally funded through tax dollars<p>This is untrue of all the toll roads I&#x27;ve regularly driven in multiple cities in the US. Their construction was funded through bonds which are paid back from the toll revenues.


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


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  In the process of burning down democracy, Trump has brought about changes that progressives have wanted for decades, namely a vast reduction in US hegemony. He has also caused massive suffering, inflation and will lead to the deaths of millions of people.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  Have you tried? I&#x27;ve certainly been able to. And I&#x27;m definitely not alone in having used those facilities. I&#x27;ve used them personally and for ad-hoc sport events (lacrosse isn&#x27;t exactly popular in the area I&#x27;m in right now).


type: comment
by: bigbadfeline
text:
  &gt; The only person here who is running a scam here is you<p>A naked claim that lacks elementary support, like motives.<p>&gt; with your blatant disinformation and fundamental ignorance.<p>Another evidence-free claim. I&#x27;m simply describing the state of affairs as they are in real life, the empirical evidence is fully in agreement with my writing.<p>&gt;  Just because you cannot do basic tasks doesn&#x27;t mean that others can&#x27;t either.<p>Same old, same old, you know nothing about me but continue to throw wild claims at the wall.<p>FYI, I&#x27;m quite familiar with all sides of crypto, it&#x27;s the crypto-bros who are so blinded by greed that end up with absolutely no clue about what they are doing on social level.


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  If one wants to write down thoughts, no computer is necessary. Keeping a journal with pen and paper has been a thing for centuries.<p>Blogging being less write-friendly? It can be as simple as writing a tweet, or editing a comment for HN. It doesn&#x27;t need to involve git or hugo. You could use one of the big blogging platforms, and have no more than a login and some HTML text fields.<p>Blogging as pressure to improve your writing is real, and that&#x27;s one of the reasons I blog.


type: comment
by: tonyhart7
text:
  Nvidia losses 200+ billions on recent weeks because Google TPU actually good and market realize that Nvidia have no &quot;moat&quot;<p>this is just panic buying to make stronger foothold


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  If you need a job for things like food and housing a startup is cool.<p>I fully expect to be lied to repeatedly though about my own pay, our prospects, etc. I had to learn the hard way that these lies are defacto legal because employees won&#x27;t realistically be able to sue.<p>But hey, the base pay is probably enough.


type: comment
by: krupan
text:
  Read the article and where it talks about accelerated vesting of Groq shares for both the leadership team that goes to Nvidia and the regular employees that stay at Groq.  Is that even guaranteed?  It&#x27;s not an IPO or an acquisition, so why would vesting schedules change?


type: comment
by: bccdee
text:
  There&#x27;s no simple replacement for what Protobuf does. Forwards and backwards compatibility is well-specified across clients in all languages. I can write a v2 message with new fields and pass it to a service written in a different language based on the v1 message schema. That service can modify the message using only its v1 schema, but when it re-emits the modified message, <i>its original v2 fields will be intact.</i><p>You may think, &quot;I don&#x27;t need that,&quot; but once you&#x27;ve got more than a couple microservices, you&#x27;d be surprised how many headaches this type of compatibility issue can cause. You may think, &quot;I can do that with json,&quot; but can you do exactly the same version of it across 4 or 5 different languages while maintaining a single source of truth for each message type&#x27;s schema? At that point, you&#x27;re just rebuilding Protobuf.<p>Afaik the only other tool that does what Protobuf does is Avro, though I haven&#x27;t used it. I <i>have</i> tried to use json-schema for this, but that&#x27;s not what it was made for. The schema evolution story is worse, and the codegen isn&#x27;t as good.


type: comment
by: nkali
text:
  Hi, the article&#x27;s author here~<p>I just checked the Tandy 2000 Windows pre-installation - it has the drivers unpacked, which means you can just get the Slow Boot Windows 2.0, and put the drivers from this floppy to it. And the fonts, of course.  Definitely do not check this bad pirate website that has it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winworldpc.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;tandy-2000-ms-windows-pre-Installation&#x2F;1x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winworldpc.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;tandy-2000-ms-windows-pre-Ins...</a>


type: comment
by: nicbou
text:
  That&#x27;s the idea. If you&#x27;re like most people, you are going to work for a long time still, so you might as well look for enjoyable work. You might not find a perfect job, but at least something that you can tolerate for a long time.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  &gt; you can definitely use school facilities after hours<p>Aside from a few things like some playgrounds shared with public parks next door this has often been pretty untrue. I&#x27;ve definitely had police escort me off school basketball courts when school isn&#x27;t in session, the natatoriums haven&#x27;t had much public access, it&#x27;s not like the school libraries are open after hours, etc.<p>I&#x27;m sure some places are more open and some are less open, I wouldn&#x27;t say you can &quot;definitely&quot; use them.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  The way it works is that each agent think independently, discuss the solution and each agent opinion then one will synthesize a solution.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  An RS232 connection between serial ports on a computer and terminal has generally never been considered to be a network.


type: comment
by: doctorzook
text:
  Off topic, but I’d love a good travel agent: someone who would help me cut through all the SEO and slop reviews to find the good hotels, tours, etc., and take care of booking and logistics.<p>We’ve used some location-specific agencies that have been really good to work with, but you first have to find <i>them</i>. I’d happily pay a premium to someone who would work globally. Do such things exist?


type: comment
by: FarmerPotato
text:
  The primary virtue of a Forth system is that it is interactive.  You can see this on any 1990s system that can start up in Open Firmware.<p>I&#x27;ve started with a FIG-Forth kernel in 9900 assembler, which fits into 8K.  Many authors worked that code up to the 1990s branch I grabbed.<p>To bring up the board, I cross-assemble to produce two Flash EEPROMs, plug them in, and power up.  The Forth kernel looks at block 6 for customizations where I tell it to compile some source packages I want from Flash.  One of these is -ASSEMBLER, which lets me create short chunks of native machine code to work on very low-level things like bit I&#x2F;O, the SPI and I2C peripheral behavior.  Very good for debugging initial hardware.<p>When I&#x27;m happy with some code, I add the source to the next EEPROM build.<p>Block numbers were originally 1K chunks of disk, but can refer to any kind of storage like pages of ROM&#x2F;RAM, or even to a process&#x27; virtual address space.


type: comment
by: tonyhart7
text:
  Yeah that is the point of having law maker<p>my point is making a law that a &quot;future proof&quot; is impossible, since guess what???? Human just cant account for every possible future scenario


type: comment
by: DougN7
text:
  It has been hijacked, but this is nothing new.  Also, it’s been hijacked from within - look at all the photos of ministers praying for&#x2F;with Trump.  There is a lot of rot within Christianity - obviously not everyone, but a lot.  Matt 7:21-23 was given for a reason.


type: comment
by: RaftPeople
text:
  &gt; <i>Could give examples of use cases where dense 3d packing is needed? (Say, besides literal packing of physical objects in a box? )</i><p>Not an answer, but something interesting on this topic:<p>In a warehouse&#x2F;distribution center, a dense packing result can be too time consuming for most consumer products.  As density increases, it takes the human longer to find their own solution rapidly that works.  You can provide instructions but that is even slower than the human just doing their best via trial and error.<p>We had to dial back our settings from about a 95% volume consumption percent (initial naive setting) down to about 80% before they could rapidly fill the cartons.  Basically it&#x27;s balancing cost of labor vs capacity of system during peak (conveyor would start backing up) vs shipping costs.


type: comment
by: reactordev
text:
  Prelaunch scripts. Snapshots. There’s plenty of ways to prepopulate a vm. What’s tricky is replicating that so it’s available across the “nodes” they have.<p>Man, this brings me back. Kudos to you guys! Just find a better solution than Ceph or minio.


type: comment
by: blacksmith_tb
text:
  It wouldn&#x27;t (just) be convection, but it would be easy to have a spinner over the top case fan on a PC... though going the other direction, convection off a fanless PC (I have a little Zotac) might be enough to spin a very light spinner (mylar might work, though to get a pivot without friction won&#x27;t be easy).


type: comment
by: krupan
text:
  I agree, TFA seems to make a lot of assumptions.  I kinda think they are correct just because they support the narrative that everyone involved is carefully taking care of their own, but it sure seems like it could go other ways.


type: comment
by: add-sub-mul-div
text:
  Google is in the business of selling slop creation tools. They want you to consume it, they don&#x27;t want to provide ways to filter it out.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  Fair enough on personas, I like to activate skills more than personas, for example I activate the auto commit skill to ensure the agent would automatically commit after finishing a feature


type: comment
by: sparky_z
text:
  It&#x27;s interesting how the article is written in the past tense, and the Society (presumably) no longer exists, but there&#x27;s nothing in the article about the decline and fall. The history just basically ends in the 1950s, at the height (?) of the society&#x27;s cultural relevance. Most articles that are this well sourced and detailed include at least a bit of &quot;late history&quot;, but not here. I guess people just stopped writing about it so there are no sources that chronicle how it petered out?


type: comment
by: ux266478
text:
  I&#x27;m mostly speaking to gameplay systems, rendering pipelines, etc. but even then it is quite common in a real gamedev shop to rearrange and replace foundations and guts. And within those off-the-shelf turnkey engines themselves, features are in flux to a far higher degree than other codebases of similar size and complexity.<p>I thought this post was weird for a few reasons, so I read through your resume, which perfectly explained everything. You&#x27;re the author of that voxel engine I keep seeing get posted, but you have absolutely no experience in the industry, not even bushleague itch.io stuff. I wouldn&#x27;t normally call someone out for any of this, but who are you to tell anybody to get grip? You don&#x27;t even know what you&#x27;re talking about, which is why your reply is simultaneously naive and a non-sequitur. Chill out. You have a cute toy engine, but it&#x27;s nothing more than portfolio padding. Until you&#x27;ve actually shipped a real game from start to finish, you&#x27;ve got no room to act like this. A little bit more self awareness please.


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
text:
  I wish I&#x27;d been able to &quot;acquire&quot; one of the ACT Apricots that my dad&#x27;s old work had. They were &quot;portable&quot; in the sense they had a handle very firmly attached, and I think the keyboard (which had a little strip of hotkeys with an LCD screen above - waaay ahead of you, Apple) clipped into the bottom of the unit.<p>The Apricot F1 was another cool one, about the size of a shoebox with a trackball rather than a mouse - when no-one else had any kind of pointing device!


type: comment
by: yawaramin
text:
  It&#x27;s free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: k310
text:
  H1B was an issue 25 years ago.<p>Fascists will attack any easy target with little power.<p>Nothing real to offer? Blame someone.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  why did you ignore my other statements that expressly address this &quot;viewpoint.&quot;<p>The bonds are issued either by the authority itself or some other agency expressly delegated to issue those bonds.<p>The accounting is done EXPRESSLY with the knowledge of the states general fund, even though there&#x27;s a &quot;wink wink&quot; don&#x27;t use the tax dollars to &quot;&quot;&quot;directly&quot;&quot;&quot; pay for these bonds.<p>Don&#x27;t believe me? Look at the financial reports yourself.<p>There is zero point in the fuzzy accounting other than to make something that simply should be public, private, and allow grifters to make a buck or two off it.<p>In EVERY CASE of a failed toll road the major bond holders have all been made whole through the state directly or indirectly.<p>If you have the money, investing in a toll road is the easiest way to make lots of money with 0 risk.<p>But you can only do that if the entity issues those bonds &quot;knows&quot; and &quot;selects&quot; you. :)


type: comment
by: geerlingguy
text:
  Sometimes hardware that has PTP support in the specs doesn&#x27;t perform very well though, so if you do things at scale, being able to validate things like switches and network card drivers is useful too!<p>It&#x27;s to the point timing server vendors I&#x27;ve spoken to have their own test labs where they have to validate network gear and then publish lists of recommended and tested configurations.<p>Even some older cards where you&#x27;d think the PTP issues would be solved still have weird driver quirks in Linux!


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  While not disputing in any way the truth of what you&#x27;re saying: I&#x27;m a product manager who leans toward Safari, while the devs I work with use Chrome almost exclusively, and we have an unwritten agreement that when it comes to display&#x2F;layout issues, I&#x27;ll double check in Chrome before filing the bug. It&#x27;s only been Safari-exclusive a handful of times, but that&#x27;s enough that it&#x27;s annoying for everyone when it&#x27;s just me.


type: comment
by: avidiax
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t4r2,799,120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t4r2,799,120</a>


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  I usually switch agents when one agent get stuck and I faced several situations where one agent solved a problem that the other agent was stuck on


type: comment
by: winstonwinston
text:
  When vulnerability description says “unauthenticated exploit” that means that you can exploit without being required to authenticate first. It means it just works even with authentication being required on the server.<p>When it says “authenticated exploit” it means you need to pass authentication first in order to trigger exploit whatever it may be.


type: comment
by: blauditore
text:
  If you want to disincentivize usage of certain things, money is generally the most effective option. Yes, some rich folks won&#x27;t be bothered, but even fairly low amounts make most people think twice. Too many cars are a problem in many parts of the world, for a number of reasons (noise, smog, traffic jams, or parking space in cities), so nudging people towards alternative usage patterns is worthwhile in my opinion.


type: comment
by: kccqzy
text:
  &gt; The &quot;non-exclusive&quot; label is legal fiction. When you acquire all the IP and hire everyone who knows how to use it, exclusivity doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>I have some doubts about this point. IP is IP, independent of the people who invented it. If a different hardware company were to also pay for a non-exclusive IP license, maybe it will just take a few months to catch up. It’s like inheriting a codebase written by another team, and there will be some pain and some time needed to integrate it.<p>In fact if GroqCloud wishes to survive, it should very well just attract licensees for its IP and collect license fees for the foreseeable future.


type: comment
by: Havoc
text:
  I wonder how much of the cap table knew<p>Matthew Berman (youtuber) mentioned he&#x27;s invested in groq and found out same time as everyone else. Guessing he&#x27;s a small&#x2F;indirect investor but still telling


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
text:
  AGPL makes it so if you change code in a server those changes must be open source. Its GPL over the network basically. I remind people of it because some people might want to customize for highly proprietary needs and not realize.<p>I love open source software but I also understand the need for proprietary software at the same time. It keeps your lights on and your family fed.


type: comment
by: thayne
text:
  Sure, but the US has a history of not acting.<p>If it was a normal acquisition, it would automatically trigger anti-trust investigations. Under the current administration, I think it is unlikely the acquisition would be blocked (although it probably should be...), but it would involve more bureaucracy, and would take longer.


type: comment
by: j_seigh
text:
  Ok,so people use NTP to &quot;synchronize&quot; their clocks and then write applications that assume the clocks are in exact sync and can use timestamps for synchronization, even though NTP can see the clocks aren&#x27;t always in sync.  Do I have that right?


type: comment
by: yearolinuxdsktp
text:
  This is why I appreciate JetBrains IDEs having a local history tracked automatically. It helps go back instead of relying on frequent commits.


type: comment
by: quantpunk
text:
  I haven&#x27;t had a source invented in quite some time now.<p>If anything, I have the opposite problem. The sources are the best part. I have such a mountain of papers to read from my LLM deep searches that the challenge is in figuring out how to get through and organize all the information.


type: comment
by: dlcarrier
text:
  There was a guy on YouTube who genetically engineered himself to gain lactose tolerance.  (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY</a>)<p>It lasted for around a year and a half (<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>) before the effect mostly wore off.  He took it orally, so it only affected his intestinal lining, and I presume it didn&#x27;t effect enough stem cells to get a permanent effect, but it would still be usable as something taken annually, which is still far less often than any medication.


type: comment
by: m132
text:
  Hey, could you please post a link to the thread you&#x27;re referring to? I&#x27;m guessing it had to do with the io-pkt to io-sock transition, but I couldn&#x27;t find any information about that.<p>I&#x27;ve also noticed that all of the message passing system calls still accept the node ID. Are there plans to open up this interface to allow for implementation of custom network managers, maybe? I&#x27;d be very interested in exploring that.


type: comment
by: twojacobtwo
text:
  I wish someone had sat me down and told me this as a teenager, especially with the addendum that anything about &quot;family&quot; in business descriptions is nothing more than bullshit&#x2F;marketing.


type: comment
by: lelandfe
text:
  I remember reading that the bassline in LFO’s self titled broke the cutting needle when they were pressing it. Wonder if that had a similar explanation.


type: comment
by: spiantino
text:
  I don&#x27;t think you can treat owners of the same shares differently in the way this is suggesting. The VC shareholders and the employee shareholders are probably on equal footing and getting the same price. VCs will own preferred but I doubt that is enough to windfall them at the expense of the common shareholders.<p>So if VCs are getting paid a certain share price, employees with vested stock almost certainly are getting the same price. And probably employees with vested options can either exercise now or will just get paid the net during the transaction.<p>Yes, the company is probably doomed so people staying there are not doing well, but they also just got paid a 3x premium on their vested equity.


type: comment
by: moth-fuzz
text:
  I love Ruby and have tried to use mruby several times, but the one thing that always becomes an issue is that it uses Ruby’s own native-extension build system for compilation, which is configured in Ruby itself. It makes it a total pain to include in other build systems, or when compiling to other targets (i.e. WASM)<p>Frankly, I love Ruby as a language, but if it were as easy to embed as Lua I would have no reason to use Lua.


type: comment
by: dxdm
text:
  &gt; The confusing part is that modern physics is so unbelievably successful and useful for technology - if the underlying theory was way off, how could the tech work?<p>Who says &quot;way&quot; off? It&#x27;s not complete to explain everything, but it explains a lot correctly enough to use it for calculations, predictions and practical effects. Same way Newton was and remains useful, and how people have been using maths and technology to solve problems for a long time since before Newton was born.


type: comment
by: dernett
text:
  Lean defines a != b as a = b =&gt; False, so it seems that we have a function from proofs of a = b to proofs of False. I guess this being bijective means that there are no proofs of a = b, since there are no proofs of False, which is an equivalent way of looking at a != b.


type: comment
by: socialcommenter
text:
  Hi! How - if at all - would you amend your advice now that scraping and LLMs have become so big that any published work is likely to be taken and repurposed, for no royalties or credit?<p>I have a lot that I&#x27;d love to share (and let&#x27;s... charitably... assume it&#x27;s worthwhile stuff) but would be afraid to start just because of this stumbling block.


type: comment
by: low_tech_punk
text:
  No AI is appealing but there is the cliff problem. If there is one small thing the mini language can&#x27;t handle, the user would have no chance solving it themselves. They might as well start with an LLM solution first.<p>One workaround is that when there is syntax error, let user optionally switch to LLM?


type: comment
by: hnlmorg
text:
  Are you honestly suggesting that startups should be picky about taking on customers?<p>That’s probably the oddest thing to read on a tech VC forum.<p>The lading page was garbage. It’s forgivable because designing goods landing pages is hard. But inventing wacky ideas about why a bad landing page might have some hidden genius, isnt  constructive feedback


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  I don&#x27;t see any clear issues with it.<p>I brought my friend an HP because their PC wasn&#x27;t booting for someone reason and it&#x27;s more than enough.<p>If we really want to compare, I bet a refurbished Thinkpad would probably be about the same price as the typical Framework mainboard of similar performance.<p>If you like framework, thats great, but it&#x27;s not really about saving money.


type: comment
by: mrbluecoat
text:
  &gt; at the beginning, my OrangePi did not boot ... Turns out that the firmware required an update to be able to boot<p>No thanks.


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  Interesting: for me, the image <i>quadrants</i> display correctly in Safari, but there is a horizontal white line between the top and bottom left quadrants. You&#x27;re not seeing that?


type: comment
by: yiyayo110
text:
  this. Warning: do not buy any SBC without mainline kernel support, or if you have to download an unverified image from a google drive.


type: comment
by: conor-
text:
  As an early adopter (signed up for the matrix.org riot instance some time in 2016) and someone who has run a homeserver on and off for nearly a decade, my primary issue with Matrix these days is that it still feels like there largely is stagnation in homeserver development because the spec oftentimes seems to follow features from Synapse instead of the other way around.<p>It seems like a lot of MSCs are implemented as experimental in Synapse while they are under active development, but sometimes it takes months or years for the MSC to be ratified in a way that is stable for other homeserver implementations to pick it up. One example that immediately comes to mind is sliding sync as well as threading and spaces. And in the case of sliding sync, the proxy deployment helped, I think only Synapse is the only server that actually supported (or maybe currently supports?) it and in terms of threads, that was more of a client-side issue of actually parsing and rendering m.thread events.<p>My feeling on it maybe isn&#x27;t backed up by reality or the actual data of development but it makes developing on the ecosystem feel difficult.<p>The other real blocker to being a Discord-killer imo is the permissions model. Having power levels 0-100 is a lot less flexible than the RBAC-style model that Discord uses. Once Spaces were rolled out, a feature that would have been nice is to restrict access to certain spaces or rooms that are children of that space based on a role, which afaik still is not possible to do with the current permissions implementation.


type: comment
by: wheelerwj
text:
  Hey man, im in a similar game in a different part of the country.email me if you want to connect, i can share how ive failed and a couple things that worked. A high level, i agree with outbound not being the correct strategy if you’re not in eastern europe or south america.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  &gt; <i>you get scraps for everything not cars.</i><p>In a place like Manhattan, the sidewalks are wide and, like I said, plenty of space has been made, and continues to be made, for bike lanes.<p>The good thing is that space for pedestrians and cyclists doesn&#x27;t actually require taking away that much space from cars as a percentage. There&#x27;s plenty of room, you just knock out a lane, as NYC has been doing.<p>So I don&#x27;t really know what you&#x27;re arguing? It&#x27;s not &quot;table scraps&quot;. You certainly don&#x27;t need the width of a 4-lane highway just for pedestrians and cyclists.


type: comment
by: guywithahat
text:
  I don&#x27;t have the capital for it right now but hearing about all this stuff makes me want to start a hardware company lol. Drones are the most relevant to my current work, but networking hardware sounds like fun too.<p>I was hoping to hear more about what&#x27;s happening on the front although I suppose the people doing things probably aren&#x27;t spending their evenings on HN


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
text:
  I am newly interested in Compute Module style SBCs after I bought a one to toy around with. I was surprised to learn that the PCBs that interface to them are open specs and I can probably build myself more custom PCB solutions to match different form factors instead of being stuck with a bulky normal Raspberry Pi.<p>I was pleased to learn that Radxa and Orange Pi have compatible similar boards.<p>I have wanted to see more RISC SBCs so I may toy with these but I rather wait for the software support to get much richer.


type: comment
by: trashface
text:
  Well there is intel, their GPUs have been a running joke of course for decades now in gaming but they&#x27;ve also been getting better too.  The first generation of their GPUs in the aughts was essential silicon trash - I did some gamedev at that time and we essentially gave up on getting them to work.  But I&#x27;ve (accidentally) fired up some games on my late 2010s laptop using the Intel onboard and they were actually somewhat playable - only clue was substantially reduced framerate.<p>And of course apple is now doing its own GPU thing.  How ironic if they become the premier choice for gaming.   Their CPUs already kick x86&#x27;s ass, though throttling up all the cores and the GPU for extended periods of gaming might challenge their thermal management design.<p>But my guess is china would build discrete gaming GPUs if no one else is doing it.  They don&#x27;t rely on TSMC as much and probably not for much longer, and they are catching up on the machine learning GPUs.  Since they can do that, they can surely add the additional hardware needed to make them suitable for gaming, which is simpler by comparison, and implementing a decent performing driver on top of that (like for D3D or Vulcan) would be straightforward.<p>Its quite unlikely the US will outlaw chinese gaming GPUs like we do their EVs - one reason being US policymakers simply don&#x27;t care about gaming since unlike autos there isn&#x27;t a massive domestic industry to protect.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  Saying &quot;what survives, survives&quot; may bother Creationists, the Discovery Institute, and Intelligent Design pushers, but not actual scientists who don&#x27;t have an ideological agenda to discredit evolution as revenge because it discredits their religious dogma.<p>Saying &quot;what survives, survives&quot; is like saying physics explains motion as &quot;things that move, move.&quot; That’s not what the theory actually claims; it’s a caricature.<p>Evolutionary theory explains mechanisms, not slogans. &quot;Fitness&quot; is not the explanation, it’s a measurable consequence of those mechanisms.<p>If you want teleology or ultimate purpose, science won’t give you that, so take some shrooms and ask the machine elves. But evolution absolutely explains how structured complexity accumulates without foresight, and it does so with predictive, testable models.


type: comment
by: koolba
text:
  A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier. Rather than one giant wall of changes, you see a series of independent, self contained, changes that can be reviewed on their own.<p>Having 25 meaningless “wip” commits does not help with that. It’s fine when something is indeed a work in progress. But once it’s ready for review it should be presented as a series of cleaned up changes.<p>If it is indeed one giant ball of mud, then it should be presented as such. But more often than not, that just shows a lack of discipline on the part of the creator. Variable renames, whitespace changes, and other cosmetic things can be skipped over to focus on the meat of the PR.<p>From my own experience, people who work in open source and have been on the review side of large PRs understand this the best.<p>Really the goal is to make things as easy as possible for the reviewer. The simpler the reviews process, the less reviewer time you’re wasting.


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  I took to distributed systems like a duck to water. It was only much later that I figured out that while there are things I can figure out in one minute that took other people five, there were a lot of others that you will have to walk them through step by step or they would <i>never</i> get there. That really explained some interactions I’d had when I was younger.<p>In particular I don’t think the intuitions necessary to do distributed computing well would come to someone who snoozed through physics, who never took intro to computer engineering.


type: story
by: moeidheidari
title: Show HN: Crossview – visualize Crossplane resources and compositions
url: https://corpobit.com/products/clark
text:
  Hi HN, Crossplane is powerful, but once you start working with multiple compositions, claims, and managed resources, it becomes hard to understand how everything is connected.<p>We built Crossview to solve this problem for ourselves. It’s an open-source UI that visualizes Crossplane resources and compositions as graphs, making it easier to explore relationships, debug issues, and reason about complex setups.<p>Some of the things we focused on:<p>Visualizing relationships between compositions, claims, and managed resources<p>Real-time views with search and filtering<p>Multi-context support to switch between clusters easily<p>The project is still early, and we’re actively improving it. We’d really appreciate feedback from people using Crossplane, Kubernetes, or building internal platforms:<p>Is this useful in real-world setups?<p>What features would you expect from a Crossplane visualization tool?<p>What’s missing or unclear?<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corpobit&#x2F;crossview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corpobit&#x2F;crossview</a><p>Thanks for taking a look.


type: comment
by: bavell
text:
  Whew boy, your comments are great examples of not being curious, understanding or promoting civil discussion.<p>&gt; You obviously know they can&#x27;t be trusted, you just said so.<p>A baseless accusation with no supporting evidence. I never asked anyone to trust anyone else. I didn&#x27;t even assert the idea was true, just interesting to consider. I merely thought the idea was interesting as a layman with little knowledge of evolutionary biology.<p>&gt; Why not just say that as a disclaimer to the video<p>Because you&#x27;re putting words in my mouth that I don&#x27;t believe.<p>&gt; What &quot;certain crowds&quot; would that be<p>Curmudgeons like you.<p>&gt; When you uncritically recommend and parrot bullshit<p>Really? I recommended something? I thought I said I enjoyed a video talking about a pet theory relevant to the topic at hand, which I had recently learned of.<p>This whole &quot;framing is a huge tell&quot;, and &quot;reliably revives strawmen, Intelligent-Design-adjacent language, and manufactured doubt, while producing zero new knowledge&quot; shtick is boring and wrong. I&#x27;ve been atheist since I could critically think for myself and it&#x27;s silly how off-base you are.<p>Since you seem to be so knowledgeable on the subject and confident in your position, can you point me to something I can read instead of just taking your word for it? Otherwise you&#x27;re no better than them. I skimmed a few wikipedia pages [0][1] and didn&#x27;t find the morphology &quot;variables&quot; Brett was discussing.<p>Then again, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if you just pattern matched on Rogan&#x2F;Weinstein, typed out your reply and don&#x27;t actually know what was being discussed. The tone and tenor of your comments so far would seem to indicate so. Your entire objection boils down to &quot;I don&#x27;t like them and no one should listen to them&quot;. Light on substance, heavy on the ad hominem - not exactly persuasive.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Junk_DNA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Junk_DNA</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-coding_DNA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-coding_DNA</a>


type: comment
by: dmarwicke
text:
  had this happen with a retry loop. hit $80 on anthropic before i caught it. how does this handle retries? seems like an agent could just keep retrying and blow past the limit


type: comment
by: jsight
text:
  The means of collection and treatment of it as something other than tax revenue are problematic for sure. Those should be solvable problems, though.<p>Your point about semi-truck damage vs lighter vehicles is exactly why I think moving in that direction is so useful. The most fair taxation would accurately take both that aspect and actual miles driven into account.


type: comment
by: kccqzy
text:
  If you are an engineer at Google dealing with Spanner, then you <i>can</i> in fact assume clocks are well synchronized and can use timestamps for synchronization. If you get commit timestamps from Spanner you can compare them to determine exactly which commit happened first. That’s a stronger guarantee than the typical Serializable database like postgresql: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html#XACT-SERIALIZABLE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html...</a><p>That’s the radical developer simplicity promised by TrueTime mentioned in the article.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  definitely not hyperbole. last time i took LSD i dropped at 5pm before going to dinner and ended up at a bread factory 15 miles away at 5am watching them run the big mixers. no idea how i got there just remember walking all night.


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  I was soured on ARM SBCs by the Orange Pi 5, which does not have an option to ignore its SD card during boot. Something trivial on basically every x86 platform I had been taking for granted.


type: comment
by: degamad
text:
  &gt; &gt; you will rewrite huge chunks of your massive codebase<p>&gt; You&#x27;re not rewriting Unreal<p>Do you consider the Unreal engine code to be part of &quot;your codebase&quot;?


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


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  I would’ve respected the Democratic politicians more had they spoken out.<p>I think Fetterman did, to his credit.  I don’t remember any others.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  Thank you and I do like the mantra-agents concept as well and would love to explore adding something similar in the future such that you can quickly create subagents and assign tasks to them


type: comment
by: jmward01
text:
  It is definitely time to stop looking at equity as part of pay at a startup. The trend is extremely clear, startups aren&#x27;t paying out to employees but the C suite gets internal raises and IPO is pushed to infinity. It is nice to have some paper laying around but that is all it is, paper. Go to a startup for a year. Get the experience, move and get a 20-50% pay increase and keep doing that every year and you will be way happier and financially healthier.


type: comment
by: lkbm
text:
  Yes, some things go up in prices. Would you conclude from that fact that <i>no</i> prices go down? Because that&#x27;s the claim I&#x27;m responding to.


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  You&#x27;re not generating a 7 hz tone on any sort of conventional audio gear, and definitely not a pc speaker.


type: comment
by: kenty
text:
  Megacities are obviously a different beast. Interestingly though, as far as I know, Moscow is heavily expanding into&#x2F;incorporating&#x2F;eating up the neighboring towns, expanding borders and building metro stations instead of mainly doing Verdichtung. I guess there are&#x2F;have to be some projects where they build a bit higher but it is not the main shtick.


type: story
by: amichail
title: 'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite
url: https://www.sciencealert.com/off-switch-discovery-could-help-clear-our-brains-of-a-common-parasite
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.asm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1128&#x2F;msphere.00438-25" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.asm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1128&#x2F;msphere.00438-25</a>


type: comment
by: qubex
text:
  If anybody’s interested I published the model for dynamics with infinite carrying capacity to Wolfram Clouds so feel free to mess around with it and see if it meets or confounds your intuitons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframcloud.com&#x2F;obj&#x2F;james.junghanns&#x2F;Published&#x2F;Gender%20Balance%20at%20Naturist%20Venues.nb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframcloud.com&#x2F;obj&#x2F;james.junghanns&#x2F;Published&#x2F;G...</a>


type: comment
by: analog31
text:
  I&#x27;m a physicist, and I love invariants. In my work, being able to use the optical invariant is a superpower. It governs the statistics of light beams.


type: comment
by: blauditore
text:
  Tangential, but: Cars are in part so problematic because they are a means of transportation designed for a handful of people, but mostly used by a single person. All the alternatives are either unpopular to most people (like bikes, or public transport), or obscure (small one-person cars). Especially the US just converged to this impractical de-facto standard in size and shape.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  I assume the end game is youtube will eventually almost entirely be their own slop<p>at which point they won&#x27;t have to pay pesky creators


type: comment
by: n8m8
text:
  Apparently pro tools came out in 1989, makes me think this may or may not be true. This article has some info about the mixture of analog and digital tools use to record:<p>&gt; The main event was a brand-new mixing console called the Harrison Series 10, which was the first analog console to feature a digital control surface, with full automation of all parameters. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were the first studio to have it, according to Jam. This meant that they could cut down the time it took to switch songs to about 10 minutes because complex mixes now required little-to-no cross-patching.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reverb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-making-of-janet-jacksons-rhythm-nation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reverb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-making-of-janet-jacksons-rhythm-...</a>


type: comment
by: thiht
text:
  That doesn’t make VSCode not open source. It’s fair that third party integrations like the extension store, or some extensions, are not open source. That’s what they are, extensions.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  I’d love to have a nice EV, but for me they don’t make economic sense.  I think that’d true for many.<p>Subsidies don’t seem to have permanently changed that.<p>We’ll also soon see how efficiently fully run down electric cars are to deal with at scale.  They could be more harmful than we know.


type: comment
by: spit2wind
text:
  Sounds like the kind of thing a union or works counsil could help with: enforcing a fair policy. That and revisiting the concept of at-will employment.


type: story
by: kivarada
title: Show HN: InsideStack – Find curated tech articles with semantic search
url: https://insidestack.it
text:
  I built InsideStack to make it easier to find high-quality technical and software articles.<p>Why? - The web is flooded with AI-generated content - Businesses are publishing tons of articles with biased content - Search results are often driven by engagement rather than quality. - AI-generated summaries of articles don’t drive traffic back to the original creators<p>InsideStack lets you: - Search across curated RSS feeds with semantic search - Subscribe, bookmark, and follow topics or authors<p>Currently, only a small set of feeds is included, but I am adding more every day. Suggestions for high-quality RSS feeds and any feedback are very welcome!


type: comment
by: mellosouls
text:
  As shared by Eliezer Yudkowsky<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;allTheYud&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004965871652147487" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;allTheYud&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004965871652147487</a>


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  Isn&#x27;t that because Google has its own atomic clocks, rather than NTP which is (generally) using publicly available atomic clocks?


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  Because the anti-types crew showed up and sabotaged it. Similar with perl and lua.<p>But languages with stronger and more intelligent leadership showed what&#x27;s possible.<p>You cannot implement all the compiler optimizations for const and types in extensions. You need to fork it.


type: comment
by: gehsty
text:
  Asymptomatic infestation is very common… no one likes to talk about pinworms but it’s pretty likely any kids you meet have it.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  No easy answers, I&#x27;m afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inundated HR front door if you want a job. If you hang out on twitter long enough you&#x27;ll see people go from &quot;hey I made this cool thing&quot; to &quot;hey cloudflare&#x2F;vercel&#x2F;etc hired me to come work on cool-thing-adjacent thing!&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a pretty repeatable pipeline. And having proof that you can DO something makes you stand out. Maybe moreso than ever!


type: comment
by: compsciphd
text:
  that&#x27;s not really true.  In 2001 I built a single disk linux installation (with a handful of popular nics supported) with X (tiny X with vesafb support) and rdesktop + vnc as a thin client on floppy.<p>I&#x27;d be honest and say that qnx demo disk had more usability overall than my disk, but one could easily have a usable text only linux bootable disk.  Busybox and uclibc already existed back then.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.columbia.edu&#x2F;~spotter&#x2F;floppy.bin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.columbia.edu&#x2F;~spotter&#x2F;floppy.bin</a> (won&#x27;t be that useful today due to the ethernet drivers, but it was a 1.44mb floppy)


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I get into arguments about this with my wife,  who is a riding instructor but I think has poor &quot;dog sense&quot;.  That is,  when she is helping a friend who is out of town with a dog she goes in the house and yells the dog&#x27;s name and the dog is cowering in the crate.  I just flop down on the bed and the dog comes out of the crate.<p>I ran with a pack of dogs as a kid and developed &quot;peer&quot; body language instinctively that helps me click instantly with strange dogs but my wife warns me that I&#x27;d better watch out with more dominant dogs because I might get attacked.  My problem now is that I go out-as-a-fox these days with a hood that people read right but that I think dogs read as &quot;bear&quot;.


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  I maintain Navigator, a development tool I started over twenty years ago; I am the only contributor to the open source repository [1]. I have rewritten drag and drop in that thing four times (because drag and drop in Livecode [2] is a bit of a hack). It&#x27;s a pain every time. I&#x27;m not rewriting it again.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gcanyon&#x2F;navigator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gcanyon&#x2F;navigator</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livecode.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livecode.com</a>


type: comment
by: gigatexal
text:
  The steady building up of alternatives will happen until one day the reserve currency status will change hands all of a sudden.<p>I think the Fed could stem the whole thing by just issuing a stable coin itself pegged to the dollar and re-assert itself as the dominant currency&#x2F;arbiter... but who knows. Maybe then it&#x27;d have insight into every transaction and be able to stem things with even more power than it can now.<p>Nobody stays king forever. Maybe it&#x27;s time the US is forced to balance its books and stop riding on cheap credit. Losing the power of the reserve currency and the power that that gives to SWIFT and things will take a lot of soft power away from the US. Without allies the US couldn&#x27;t stop a united China, Russia, insert-other-would-be-ally-of-theirs in a world conflict.<p>As another commenter said there&#x27;s no leadership at teh top just chaos. People, countries, banks don&#x27;t invest in chaos.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  it&#x27;s the same logic lotto uses: &quot;you can&#x27;t win if you don&#x27;t play&quot;.<p>while i agree it is irrefutable logic, the chance of being seen is quite small because there are literally millions of other people doing the same thing. gauging probability is what human brains have trouble with.<p>but it does improve your odds a minuscule amount. but it is always always always better to have friends in high(er) places who can amplify your work. that counts for x1000 more. one mention from someone with 1M followers is worth more than publishing 1000 articles.


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  &gt; Most production AI applications aren&#x27;t running 405B models. They&#x27;re running 7B-70B models that need low latency and high throughput.<p>Really? At least for LLMs, most actual usage is concentrated on huge SOTA models. 1 trillion parameters or more. And LLMs seem to be the lion&#x27;s share of AI compute demand.


type: comment
by: Salman23
text:
  Yes I think you are right here. The purchase price is high enough for all parties to be get return on their shares, and whilst there will be a waterfall for who gets paid first, I doubt many people will be unhappy with this deal.<p>Unlike Windsurf... who&#x27;s 2nd employee only got 1% of what their shares were worth (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44673296">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44673296</a>)


type: comment
by: idorosen
text:
  Alternatively, you could guarantee the same synchronization using PPS and PTP to each host&#x27;s DCD pin of their serial port or to specialized hardware such as modern PTP-enabled smart NICs&#x2F;FPGAs that can accept PPS input. GPS+PPS gets you to within 20-80ns global synchronization depending on implementation (assuming you&#x27;re all mostly in the same inertial frame), 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).


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  Gemini is also great at frontends nowadays. I think every agent does have strengths and capabilities


type: comment
by: pton_xd
text:
  So I guess this talent hire + tech license is the new way to acquire startups? Chatacter.ai, Windsurf, and now Groq.<p>Any employees of those companies lurking here? I&#x27;m curious how the morale is now.


type: comment
by: silisili
text:
  Oddly enough, the Kentucky side of Cincinnati is nicer than the OH side, at least near the river.<p>It&#x27;s worth checking out, but I found downtown Cinci weird.  It was completely lifeless at night. Haven&#x27;t been in 15 years or so, so it&#x27;s entirely possible that&#x27;s changed now.  Other than that, it&#x27;s a neat area.  Make sure to checkout Jungle Jim&#x27;s, it&#x27;s a unique enough store worth a visit.


type: comment
by: dmarwicke
text:
  wait this seems expensive? why vectorize everything when postgres is sitting right there. is the point to search through logs or something


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  &gt; A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier. Rather than one giant wall of changes, you see a series of independent, self contained, changes that can be reviewed on their own.<p>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>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?


type: comment
by: nharada
text:
  In that case working at a startup would be a thing someone would only do as a last resort, and the talent pool would consequently be extremely low quality. Sounds damaging to the scene to me.


type: comment
by: Izkata
text:
  &gt; A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier.<p>I&#x27;ve been on a maintenance team for years and it&#x27;s also been a massive help here, in our svn repos where squashing isn&#x27;t possible. Those intermediate commits with good messages are the only context you get years down the line when the original developers are gone or don&#x27;t remember reasons for something, and have been a massive help so many times.<p>I&#x27;m fine with manual squashing to clean up those WIP commits, but a blind squash-merge should never be done. It throws away too much for no good reason.<p>For one quick example, code linting&#x2F;formatting should always be a separate commit. A couple times I&#x27;ve seen those introduce bugs, and since it wasn&#x27;t squashed it was trivial to see what should have happened.


type: comment
by: downrightmike
text:
  Oh boy, you got ripped off, a 16TB external drive is listed at $208 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diskprices.com&#x2F;?locale=us&amp;condition=new,used&amp;capacity=2-&amp;disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas,external_ssd,internal_ssd,m2_ssd,m2_nvme,u2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diskprices.com&#x2F;?locale=us&amp;condition=new,used&amp;capacit...</a>


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  Its DPI mostly from this company: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theins.ru&#x2F;en&#x2F;politics&#x2F;265749" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theins.ru&#x2F;en&#x2F;politics&#x2F;265749</a>


type: comment
by: metalman
text:
  Tolls and public transit fares are regressive.<p>We have removed all tolls here in Nova Scotia,including for small car ferry&#x27;s , were not rich or populous,but are building out our infrastructure bit by bit to facilitate ease of transport and the prevention of accidents and traffic jams.  The other thing they added are info signs accross the main hyways comming in, giving times for the main transit routes, making it easy to redirect , 45 MIN!, yikes! sounds like coffee and grocerie shopping to me!  It has realy made a huge difference getting around the city and has opened up options for travelling rural routes that have ferries.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  And guess how you make friends in high(er) places...<p>by...<p>publishing your work and making friends in your industry


type: comment
by: gigatexal
text:
  What worries me is the attacks on universities and the breaking of public private research based on this comment from the article:<p>&quot;In a race against time, scientists and doctors across the U.S. developed the first in vivo gene therapy, thanks to decades of medical research.&quot;


type: comment
by: theandrewbailey
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t call it scrutiny. It&#x27;s mostly caused me to communicate and articulate my thoughts better, to the point where I&#x27;m misunderstood less often. Along the way, I realized that I left out important points, so I&#x27;ve gotten better at including them the first time.<p>Others? Only a handful of people read my blog, and most of them are my friends.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  &gt;    write my-iso .&#x2F;zip.zip onto external hard drive<p>Dang! not <i>that one</i>, the other one!<p>&gt;     zip my-folder into my-zip.tar with compression level 9<p>What do you mean, I don&#x27;t have write permissions in the current working directory? I meant for you to put the output in $HOME, i mean &#x2F;tmp, i mean &#x2F;var&#x2F;tmp, i mean on the external hard drive, no other other one.<p>&gt;    git delete commit 1a4db4c<p>What did you do? I didn&#x27;t mean delete it and erase it from the reflog and run gc! I just mean &quot;delete it&quot; the way any one would ever mean that! I can never get it back now!


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  The point is that you can <i>know</i> that a lower bound is necessary at the time of publication; an upper bound is either speculative or purely defensive, and has possibly unnecessary consequences for your dependents.


type: comment
by: uh_uh
text:
  I think you are psychoanalyzing me a little bit too much. Am I allowed to say that I&#x27;m an atheist and I don&#x27;t believe in intelligent design, or are you going to explain to me that I&#x27;m confused about my own beliefs?


type: comment
by: bottlepalm
text:
  AI has become my type checker in a way. I&#x27;m writing large Python apps now, and not even installing the Python IDE tools into VS Code. The AI assistants generate and refactor my code understanding the types and making it work. Same with JavaScript as well. AI modifies the code, I run&#x2F;test it. Almost never any bugs related to typing inconsistencies.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we (humans) don&#x27;t need type checkers and I love TypeScript, but something is happening where AI might theoretically surpass the power of traditional type checking. Have the power to catch even more invalid code than the static analysis tools, linting tools, etc.. we have now.


type: comment
by: blacksmith_tb
text:
  And the English word &#x27;algorithm&#x27; comes from Al Khwarizmi&#x27;s name[1].<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Al-Khwarizmi#:~:text=His%20name%20gave%20rise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Al-Khwarizmi#:~:text=His%20nam...</a>


type: comment
by: monkeydust
text:
  Also worth thinking a about the private equity market scene, groq was afaik tradable be it thinn liquidity on platforms like equityzen. What did those shareholders get?


type: comment
by: OJFord
text:
  Well rebasing is exactly equivalent to moving the branch and then cherry-picking, and the others are among the commands available in rebase --interactive.


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  &gt;A few days ago, I did a controversial blog post<p>and<p>&gt;When I originally wrote this post, nearly one year ago,<p>I am confused.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  nope, I just don’t fall for the sensantionalism and clickbait shit like “oh oh shit is really bad now, OMG we were such a sancuary before but look at us now…”


type: comment
by: adamzwasserman
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;domx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;domx</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;stateless" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;stateless</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;genX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;genX</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;hnreader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;hnreader</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;domx-site" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adamzwasserman&#x2F;domx-site</a> www.multicardz.com (waitlist at the moment)


type: comment
by: aunty_helen
text:
  Buying one of these Pi knockoffs taught me one thing, software support is the key to raspberry pi’s success.<p>Whenever I would have a problem, and it was more often than not, I would search for a solution and come across something that worked for rpi that I could try to port across.<p>Double the hardware spec matters little if you can’t get the software to even compile


type: comment
by: directevolve
text:
  Well, CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for genetic engineering was only invented in 2012. A 13-year translation timeline is not unusual, maybe even unusually fast. CAR-T cell therapy for cancer took 30 years from discovery to clinic. It took about 30 years to go from the early attempts to use engineered lipid nano particles for drug delivery to the first FDA-approved medication using them, doxil.<p>With CRISPR, it took a long time to figure out how to reliably edit just the gene you want and acceptably minimize off-target edits, including by delivering the therapeutic to just the organ affected and getting the dose and release right.<p>The public is understandably leery about experimental medical techniques. If they had killed this newborn child with CRISPR therapy, then it might have set created a backlash delaying translation of this technique for years, possibly decades.<p>In biomedicine, we’re always looking for therapies that approximate the level of precision control available in software. Unfortunately, it’s never more than an approximation, and our ability to measure and predict the size of that error is always limited. That is why the field moves slowly.


type: comment
by: silotis
text:
  &quot;Public good&quot; is a term of art in economics which means a good is both non-excludable (it is impractical to control who benefits from it) and non-rivalrous (one person benefiting does not prevent others from also benefiting).<p>Roads are clearly rivalrous and while it&#x27;s often impractical to prevent non-payers from entering a toll road, one can certainly record them and met penalties after the fact to discourage it.<p>So no, roads are not a public good.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;d expect this to run circles around an N150 for single-threaded perf too<p>It has basically the same single-core performance as an N150 box<p>Random N150 result: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v6&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;10992465" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v6&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;10992465</a><p>&gt; BTW what&#x27;s up with people pushing N150 and N300 in every single ARM SBC thread?<p>At this point I expect a lot of people have been enticed by niche SBCs and then discovered that driver support is a nightmare, as this article shows. So in time, everyone discovers that cheap x86-64 boxes accomplish their generic computing goals easier than these niche SBCs, even if the multi-core performance isn&#x27;t the same.<p>Being able to install a mainline OS and common drivers and just get to work is valuable.


type: comment
by: dmarwicke
text:
  this has to be insanely expensive right? merge sort does n log n comparisons, so sorting 100 items is like 600 llm calls


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  By the definitional you are using pretty much every feed presented on a website is an algorithmic feed, making the term &quot;algorithmic feed&quot; useless since it could simply be replaced with &quot;feed&quot;.<p>What &quot;algorithmic feed&quot; means in most discussion and publications is a feed that is personalized for the individual users based on their known or inferred interests and their past interactions.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  how do you measure this? by number of clickbait-y articles you get fed inside your echochamber? or is there a more scientific scale by which we measure corruption that I can educate myself on?


type: comment
by: hinkley
text:
  I have a vague recollection of tangling with it myself. I worked with PNG decoding when it was a new format and that’s like 28 years ago.


type: comment
by: Analemma_
text:
  The specific bugs are with GPG, but a lot of the reason they can exist to begin with is PGP’s convoluted architecture which, IMO, makes these sorts of issues inevitable. I think they are effectively protocol bugs.


type: comment
by: measurablefunc
text:
  Arithmetic is not a categorical theory, meaning there is no unique model for it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4667959&#x2F;are-there-nonstandard-models-of-arithmetic-that-dont-add-additional-axioms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4667959&#x2F;are-there-n...</a>


type: comment
by: grensley
text:
  A la carte in AI is going to be the name of the game for a couple reasons:<p>- Avoids regulatory scrutiny (for now at least)<p>- Nobody is actually entrenched enough for customers to matter<p>- Weird &quot;celebrity&quot; culture in tech, and AI especially. Everyone is looking for a &quot;whisperer&quot; or a &quot;godfather&quot; or whatever.<p>- Investors still get paid out<p>Smart operational talent will probably adapt by demanding higher salary, signing bonuses, severance packages in lieu of equity. Distribution of the true &quot;lottery tickets&quot; will get more uneven.


type: comment
by: skhameneh
text:
  I have no doubt your intentions were good and I am a fan of open-source myself.   Unfortunately, since this was written, it’s become more widely known and commonplace for large corporations to disproportionally benefit from open source.<p>And that wouldn’t bother so many as much if it weren’t for the fact that large corporations often do not give back.  It’s become so much of an issue that OSS maintainers have switched licenses, some have shifted closed-source, and others have simply abandoned their projects.<p>Just last week I began rethinking usage of MIT&#x2F;Apache licenses for future work.   For the longest time I was hesitant about GPLv3 and almost scared to use in my personal projects, but it turns out my hesitations were fueled by...large corporations.


type: comment
by: achyudh
text:
  I was more familiar with Vim bindings and relied on Vim emulation layers in various IDEs before I moved to Emacs. Evil mode and Doom made the jump possible without sacrificing too much productivity. With Evil, I didn&#x27;t have to retrain my muscle memory and with Doom I didn&#x27;t have to cobble together a functional config from scratch.<p>After a couple of months of using Doom, I felt comfortable enough to roll my own config which also helped me better understand how things worked at a lower level. More interestingly, after a couple of years, I transitioned from Evil to standard Emacs bindings as that felt better integrated with the rest of Emacs.


type: comment
by: 8organicbits
text:
  Bloggers don&#x27;t always publish immediately after writing a post, the start of the prior post explains the time line and the delay: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ploum.net&#x2F;2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ploum.net&#x2F;2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html</a>


type: comment
by: analogpixel
text:
  I&#x27;ve been thinking about this recently, but more that the gameboy used to have a unique screen size that no one else had, but then with the switch they decided to adopt the same screen dimensions as everyone else allowing them to play the same games the rest of the platforms could.  At this point, there is really no difference between a steam deck, switch, ps5 or xbox.  They can all play the same games at the same output dimensions.


type: comment
by: stackghost
text:
  It must be tough to be Werner Koch, and have poured so much time and energy into GPG only to have it demonstrated again and again that you&#x27;re incompetent, and GPG is unfixably broken at a fundamental level.


type: comment
by: atif089
text:
  &gt; GroqCloud will wind down over 12-18 months. They&#x27;ll either get laid off or jump ship to wherever they can land. They built the LPU architecture, contributed to the compiler stack, supported the infrastructure, and got nothing while Chamath made $2B.<p>This is depressing.


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  &gt;Communication networks are not profitable.<p>Ma Bell tells me they may not have considered all possible angles on this matter.


type: comment
by: kenty
text:
  Yes. Thanks for pointing this out. I was hesitant to keep it in the article too as it&#x27;s a bit too much of a simplification since I pool in different actors like Baugenossenschaften, the city and e.g., pension funds together. Further analyzing would have indeed been better but I wanted to keep it compact.


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  I agree, in a job where you have no documentation and no CI, and are working on something almost as old or older than you with ancient abandoned tools like svn that stopped being relevant 20 years ago, and in a fundamentally dysfunctional company&#x2F;organization that hasn&#x27;t bothered to move off of dead&#x2F;dying tools in the last 20 years, then you just desperately grab at anything you can possibly find to try to avoid breaking things.  But there are far better solutions to all of the problems you are mentioning than trying to make people create little mini feature commits on their way to a feature.


type: story
by: akhnid
title: Do you know what your dev team shipped last week?
text:
  Built a tool for founders and eng managers who want visibility without checking GitHub every day. It connects to your repos, tracks commits and PRs automatically, and sends weekly summaries to Slack or email. Also works as a Slack bot - ask it &quot;what shipped last week&quot; or &quot;what&#x27;s stuck in review&quot; right from your workspace. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitmore.io (free for 1 repo) Would this actually save you time?


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  This is the sort of thing I was referring to:<p>&gt; <i>Instead of bothering to read and understand you have continued to call names.</i><p>&gt; <i>You seemed confused, you still seem confused</i><p>&gt; <i>your pointless semantic nitpick</i><p>&gt; <i>you need to get some more real world experience</i><p>I wouldn&#x27;t personally call that being polite, but whatever we call it, it&#x27;s certainly against HN&#x27;s rules, and that&#x27;s what matters.<p>Edit: This may or may not be helpful (probably not!) but I wonder if you might be experiencing the &quot;objects in the mirror are closer than they appear&quot; phenomenon that shows up pretty often on the internet - that is, we tend to underestimate the provocation in our own comments, and overestimate the provocation in others&#x27; comments, which in the end produces quite a skew (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%2010x&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a>).


type: comment
by: forrestthewoods
text:
  Timesync isn’t a nightmare at all. But it is a deep rabbit hole.<p>The best approach, imho, is to abandon the concept of a global time. All timestamps are wrt a specific clock. That clock will skew at a rate that varies with time. You can, hopefully, rely on any particular clock being monotonous!<p>My mental model is that you form a connected graph of clocks and this allows you to convert arbitrary timestamps from any clock to any clock. This is a lossy conversion that has jitter and can change with time. The fewer stops the better.<p>I kinda don’t like PTP. Too complicated and requires specialized hardware.<p>This article only touches on one class of timesync. An entirely separate class is timesync within a device. Your phone is a highly distributed compute system with many chips each of which has their own independent clock source. It’s a pain in the ass.<p>You also have local timesync across devices such as wearables or robotics. Connecting to a PTP system with GPS and atomic clocks is not ideal (or necessary).<p>TicSync is cool and useful. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1109&#x2F;icra.2011.5980112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1109&#x2F;icra.2011.5980112</a>


type: comment
by: thomassmith65
text:
  That is broadly true, but it&#x27;s possibly better to pretend it isn&#x27;t, because it is self-fulfilling.<p>The less people expect ethical behavior, the lower the pressure people feel to behave ethically... and repeat.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  Have you seen the tech market?<p>A lot of good engineers are out of work. They&#x27;ll gladly take what they can


type: comment
by: cj
text:
  I&#x27;ve never heard of a millionaire express regret over making millions of dollars.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s impossible to be happy without a  million dollars.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  &gt; biden and his government was not corrupt in any meaningful sense<p>amazing to read this, very amazing. the echochambers people live in these days are mind-boggling. biden has been a politician for 5+ decades and you do not get to be that unless you are evil and corrupted and bought ecery fiber of your being… must be all kinds of nice living in a fantasy world you live in. trump surely will top any evil and corruption (at least in america, no contest) but saying biden is not corrupt is beyond any comprehension :) wow, just woow


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  That’s actually not at all what TrueTime guarantees and assuming they’ve solved a physical impossibility is dangerous technically as a founding assumption for higher level tech (which thankfully Spanner does not do).<p>What TrueTime says is that clocks are synchronized within some delta just like NTP, but that delta is significantly smaller thanks to GPS time sync. That enables applications to have tighter bounds on waiting to see if a conflict may exist before committing which is why Spanner is fast. CockroachDB works similarly but given the logistical challenge of getting GPS receivers into data centers, they worked to achieve a smaller delta through better NTP-like timestamps and generally get fairly close performance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;programmingappliedai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-is-true-time-and-how-it-is-used" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;programmingappliedai.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;what-is-true-tim...</a><p>&gt; Bounded Uncertainty: TrueTime provides a time interval, [earliest, latest], rather than a single timestamp. This interval represents the possible range of the current time with bounded uncertainty. The uncertainty is caused by clock drift, synchronization delays, and other factors in distributed systems.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Via services like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astral.sh&#x2F;pyx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astral.sh&#x2F;pyx</a> , IIRC.


type: comment
by: abdulbasitali
text:
  That is exactly why we enforce a hard budget cap (default is $1.00).<p>The system runs a pre-flight check before every LLM call. If you&#x27;re about to go over budget, it kills the process immediately (SentinelBudgetExceeded).<p>We don&#x27;t have a specific &quot;max retries&quot; counter wired up yet, but I&#x27;ll likely add that soon based on your feedback. For now, the budget cap would have caught it at $1.


type: comment
by: guntis_dev
text:
  Not exactly a bug, but I was given a company written video player that receives a video stream, decodes it via the browser WebCodecs API, and renders via WebGL. Users complained that video was laggy and often froze on their iPhones. My task was to make it perform better - using the browser&#x27;s built-in player wasn&#x27;t an option.<p>After profiling, I found two bottlenecks: converting frames to RGB was happening on the CPU and was quite costly, so I rendered the decoded YUV frames directly on the GPU without conversion. Second, I moved all logic off the main thread since our heavy UI was competing for the same resources.<p>The main thread thing was that I was iterating through the frame buffer multiple times per second to select the appropriate frame for rendering. When heavy UI animations occurred, the main thread would block, causing the iteration to complete late - by then, the target frame&#x27;s timestamp had passed, so it would get skipped and only the next frame would be drawn, creating visible stuttering.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  If you join a startup, and have equity that isn’t special in some way (defending against liquidation preference or dilution), you’re the sucker. You’re just going to grind for someone else’s payday when a deal is made in a room you’re not in. You’ll only be made rich if someone with the power to drive the decision thinks you should be. As always, it’s who you know and being likable.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  On the contrary, it seems to me that it is your approach which is incompatible with others. I&#x27;m not the same person you were replying to but I want the history of a branch to be coherent, not a hot mess of meaningless commits. I do my best to maintain my branches such that they can be merged without squashing, that way it reflects the actual history of how the code was written.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, I will play and try to win.<p>That means I will make things, talk about them, and accrue social and&#x2F;or actual capital for me and my family. I can&#x27;t stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it&#x27;s futile to try. I CAN build cool things, talk about them, and get cool jobs or friends or a following or whatever. I understand not everyone is comfortable with this tradeoff.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s also done moral, beautiful and even heroic things<p>give me a list of these “beautiful and heroic things” - very interested to read them


type: comment
by: tacone
text:
  Interesting, I was trying to implement this using AGENTS.md and the runSubagent tool in vscode. Vscode has not yet the capability to invoke different models as subagent so I plan to fallback to instructing copilot to use copilot-cli and gemini-cli. (I am quite angry about copilot CLI offering only full blown models and not the -mini versions though)


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  Visa revoked. Entry denied. Decision executed.<p>EU response: &quot;Can you explain what you meant by that?&quot;


type: comment
by: tharkun__
text:
  My branch is mine. Don&#x27;t tell me what I can or can&#x27;t do. I push WIP stuff all the time, to share code with others for discussion, to get the build to run in parallel while I keep working or just at the end of the day. I freely amend and will squashed before merging (we only allow a single commit per branch to go to master).<p>If I or someone else bases something off anything but master that&#x27;s on them to rebased and keep up to date.


type: comment
by: kenty
text:
  Will remember it for the next article to run some more empirical number crunching, thank you! This was more of a rationalist view on things and focussing on Zurich only.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  so it is shame that is important? As long as we are shameful of corruption etc it is good but once the shame goes away we gonna draw the line?


type: comment
by: dyukqu
text:
  Looked up for &quot;jeeves and wooster&quot;, so, you&#x27;re British then. This makes this little conversation interesting for me, because I&#x27;m not American, not even European and so our exposure&#x2F;approach to this novel is very different then, I guess. Even the language was a little over my head, since English is not my native tongue. However, I really enjoyed it. I liked Heller&#x27;s style (prose?) and wit. About Yossarian...yes, he&#x27;s not a &quot;perfect hero&quot;, but he is very <i>human</i> with all his earthly desires (I would say) and his struggles for staying righteous at the same time. The chapter about thoughts crossed his mind &amp; feelings he experienced while he was wandering in the cold, damp streets at night was peak for me. I might re-read that very chapter nowadays.


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
text:
  &gt; Both of the asks, were fair as you will see later.<p>I don’t have to see later. Both asks weren’t just fair, they were <i>fundamentally correct.</i><p>Do not use your personal accounts for anything when doing professional work.  Do not re-use accounts being used for customer-facing activities.


type: comment
by: throw0101c
text:
  &gt; <i>What could replace it?</i><p>It doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to be one thing. We&#x27;ve had multi-currency regimes in the past (before one generally took over). See <i>How global currencies work past, present, and future</i> by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chitu:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;hardcover&#x2F;9780691177007&#x2F;how-global-currencies-work" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;hardcover&#x2F;9780691177007&#x2F;ho...</a>


type: comment
by: zzzeek
text:
  sure here&#x27;s a command that a program I wrote to record my practicing and produce different mixes uses<p><pre><code>    &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;ffmpeg -i &quot;&#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;musicfile.mp3&quot; -i &quot;&#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;covertune.mp3&quot; \        -filter_complex [1:a]volume=1[track1];[0a][track1]amix=normalize=false[output] \        -map [output] -b:a 192k -metadata title=15:17:01 -metadata &quot;artist=Me, 2025&quot; \        -metadata album=2025-12-23 &quot;&#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;file.mix.mp3&quot; </code></pre> chance of my coming up with that without deep poring over docs and tons of trial and error, or using claude (which is pretty much what I do nowadays): zero


type: story
by: wslh
title: Iran 'Violently' Arrests Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi
url:
  https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251212-iran-arrests-nobel-peace-prize-winner-narges-mohammadi-support-committee


type: comment
by: impossiblefork
text:
  It&#x27;s funny how quick they are to make a statement about this, when it&#x27;s one of their guys (Breton), but the many employees at the ICC, they have to complain in the media about being effectively barred from using financial services and despite that, for them they haven&#x27;t put out a press release even now.


type: comment
by: esoterae
text:
  What a remarkable stalking horse to try and kneecap right-to-repair by arguing &quot;Please, think of the chil^H^H^H^Hhackers!&quot;<p>You wouldn&#x27;t download a CAR, would you?  You wouldn&#x27;t hack your own INSULIN pump, would you?<p>Face it:  If it&#x27;s GPL and vulnerable to interference, responsibility is <i>squarely</i> on the manufacturer and the fastest death-free way to prove it.  If it&#x27;s GPL and modified by the owner, fuck off.


type: comment
by: uplifter
text:
  Its conceivable that the universe could encode a goal somehow, after all its so vast, but that conceivability alone is not evidence for the existence of an encoded goal any more than the conceivability of extra-terrestrial intelligence, or of a higher design to reality, is proof of their existence. What science tells us is that the only goal nature seems to embody is following the physical laws we&#x27;ve been able to determine, and nothing more. I&#x27;d apply the same interesting hypothesis status to huge-time-scale teleology that we cannot discern, and perhaps it is both real and we will never be able to discern it. Personally I find the notions very interesting, but I don&#x27;t see reason to believe in them. If there were good evidence for them, they&#x27;d be the subject of scientific study already.<p>But we seem to agree that natural selection doesn&#x27;t have a goal. In my observation, any purported overarching goal that is ascribed to natural selection, including the measure of inclusive fitness[0], can be reduced to some function of the context in which it is being observed, like moth coloration was influenced by soot levels.<p>As to my main claim, I do believe it is necessary that an encoding of a goal is necessary for choice among actions in pursuit of a goal, because some kind of reference to a goal is necessary to compare options in a decision algorithm. In the case of a-life systems which have goals, that encoding is somewhere in the algorithm of evolution rules combined with the initial state of the simulation. In the case of nature, I don&#x27;t see a place where that encoding could exist, except the trivial &quot;goal&quot; that all elements will follow the laws of physics.<p>Please note though that I never put it that &quot;the implementation must embody the goal,&quot; I was more careful with my language by saying that it must have an accessible or working encoding of the goal, one its decision process or evolution rule would need to reference in order to make decisions that favored it. The encoding need not be internal (so embody is definitely not necessary), and none of these things are necessarily explicit or well partitioned (e.g. an evolution rule can implicitly encode a goal).<p>edit: addendum: [0] On inclusive fitness being reducible to situational factors, I&#x27;m just following the direction of M.A. Nowak, C.E. Tarnita and E.O. Wilson on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nature09205" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nature09205</a>


type: comment
by: linkage
text:
  Generally sound advice, if elementary.<p>However, making money is not an engineering problem. My previous employer 5x’ed their revenue with a largely feature-complete Rails application by hiring a kick-ass marketing team and actually looking at the usage analytics to tweak small things like form structure, the on-boarding flow, etc. The system design solves problems like scaling performance, avoiding tech debt, scaling headcount (microservices let multiple teams work on the code in parallel), and providing resilience, all of which have business value that is harder to quantify as easily.


type: comment
by: zem
text:
  it was several years between the time I learnt noether&#x27;s theorem and the time I learnt she was a woman. sad failure of the educational system, it really did deserve to be a more prominent fact since as you say it meant that she had to overcome heavy odds to do what she did.


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  Yes. A consistent total ordering is what you need (want) in distributed computing. Ultimately, causality is what is important, but consistent ordering of concurrent operations makes things <i>much</i> easier to work with.


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  For a F1 drive axle the critical resonance frequency is around 2400 rpm. That&#x27;s why you need to turn it up fast at start over the safe 4000 rpm, and never go down.<p>Without the ECU you can easily break it by starting too slow


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  I mean to ask &#x27;why now?&#x27; not &#x27;what took so long?&#x27; What about the regulations or the science let this happen now, and not 5 years ago or 5 years into the future?<p>Also do we know that this was CRISPR?


type: comment
by: bboreham
text:
  Amazing achievement.<p>I did some work for Apricot at their Glenrothes factory around 1985-87. In my memory they went heavier on GEM than Windows. I never saw an Apricot running Windows prior to the PC-compatible models.


type: comment
by: Groxx
text:
  Literally the only pre-commit hook I&#x27;ve ever &quot;liked&quot; has been one to look for files over ~1&#x2F;2MB, and error <i>with a message describing how to bypass the check</i> (env var).  It stops the mistake at the easiest-to-identify point, and helped teach a lot of people about how to set gitignore or git-attributes correctly <i>when it is most relevant and understandable</i>.  Every single other one has been a massive pain at some point...<p>... but even that one took several rounds of fiddling and complexifying to get it to behave correctly (e.g. merging commits with already-committed bypassed binaries should be allowed.  how do you detect that?  did you know to check for that scenario when building the hook?  someone&#x27;s gonna get bitten by it, and there are <i>dozens</i> of these cases).<p>So yea.  Agreed.  Do not use pre-commit hooks, they&#x27;re far more trouble than they seem, and the failure modes &#x2F; surprises are <i>awful</i> and can be quite hard to figure out to laymen who are experiencing it.<p>(much of this is true for <i>all</i> git hooks imo)


type: comment
by: CalChris
text:
  What is keeping Google&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;Microsoft from licensing Groq’s tech? Sans people to be sure but at substantially reduced price. The Groq Cloud people should owe no allegiance to Ross.<p>BTW, the FA says Nvidia bought the patents. That’s probably an overstatement. Grow said non-exclusive licensing and Nvidia hasn’t said anything.<p>I think Nvidia licensed the IP and ‘bought’ (handcuffed) the people.


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  Truetime is based on GPS and local atomic clocks. Google&#x27;s latest timemasters are even better, around 10ns average.


type: comment
by: skhameneh
text:
  &gt; I can&#x27;t stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it&#x27;s futile to try.<p>I do not like this take and I do hope you reconsider repeating such.   This very much reads as accepting a lack of any claim to reasonable privacy and ownership, borderline on accepting what I would consider theft.


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  25 cents for me. I can get a sticker for $5 sticker that negates that (no transponder I think for Seattle’s first  520 bridge, maybe for carpools?). Oh, supposedly the sticker is a transponder, so I can save 25 cents if I buy a $5 sticker. Even though I don&#x27;t use the bridge that often, it makes sense to buy.


type: comment
by: gehsty
text:
  To be blunt you do not get it from eating cookies in sand. You get it from ingesting pinworm eggs, you ingest them by someone touching their bum (where the worms lay eggs) and then touching something that you then touch and touch your face&#x2F;mouth, or scratching your own bum in your sleep then scratching your face &#x2F; mouth.<p>If you don’t think it’s super commen in Europe it’s generally a lack of diagnoses. Literally 1&#x2F;5th Of British kids have it at any given time (and I imagine that tracks across Europe and USA at least)


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  &gt; Look at the financial reports yourself<p>I have for the toll roads I drive on. It shows the debt payments being paid by the toll revenues, not other state taxes.<p>&gt; In EVERY CASE of a failed toll road the major bond holders have all been made whole through the state directly or indirectly.<p>Sure, the toll agencies are ultimately a creature of the state but it&#x27;s incorrect (a lie?) to argue it&#x27;s <i>funded primarily, originally through tax dollars</i>, at least for the toll roads I drive on. What&#x27;s the rate of these failures? What&#x27;s the actual percentage of these bonds being paid by toll revenues versus failing and the states being on the hook? Once again you said it&#x27;s <i>primarily</i> and <i>originally</i>. Being paid because the bond failed to be paid back by toll revenues isn&#x27;t the original payment plan, and unless it&#x27;s happening most of the time it&#x27;s not the primary way of those bonds being paid.<p>&gt; make something that simply should be public, private<p>The toll roads I&#x27;m talking about are public.<p>&gt; address this &quot;viewpoint.&quot;<p>This &quot;viewpoint&quot; is otherwise known as &quot;reality&quot;.


type: comment
by: cdecker
text:
  I wonder if this should be the case. The state consists of it&#x27;s voters and it&#x27;s voted representatives. Companies and the economy in general, are secondary entities (unless you really treat them as people, which opens a whole can of worms, see PACs etc), and a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.<p>As such, yes, be pro-economy, but don&#x27;t forget the people having to live in that society.


type: comment
by: bb88
text:
  Like all &quot;economically sound&quot; ideas, people fuck it up.  To the drivers, its one more reminder of a government taxing you on a day to day basis, locking up the roads taxes paid for, for another series of taxes.<p>Chicago is the poster child here.  Constant rate hikes.  Diverted funds meant to maintain the roads going elsewhere.  &quot;Temporary&quot; tolls that become &quot;permanent&quot;, etc.<p>It&#x27;s bad, stop the madness.


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  Not recently, though I have observed locked doors and gates that make it pretty difficult to use. If your caveat is you need to call ahead to organize an event that&#x27;s a pretty different use-case from what I&#x27;d like to do, which is to use them very casually and occasionally.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Presumably, outside of accidental pregnancy, people who would be unhappy with children don&#x27;t have them and people who would be happy with children do have them. It&#x27;s not really that surprising if people who choose a particular life path tend to be happy with it.


type: comment
by: contrast
text:
  This is one of those articles that is too obsessed with amusing itself with its own pretentiousness to communicate anything interesting - which is ironic given the author seems thinks they prefer communications to entertainment.


type: comment
by: arcatech
text:
  Nobody in these comments has said that. You keep arguing against something that isn&#x27;t being said here.


type: comment
by: directevolve
text:
  Yes, CRISPR’s mentioned in the article. Someone should write a book about it to break down the history leading up to this accomplishment.


type: comment
by: dsp_person
text:
  In a pinch one way to deal with memory leaks is to wrap the offending work in a multiprocessing pool, forcing it to live in an ephemeral process


type: comment
by: 65a
text:
  &gt; I certainly want to get rid of gpg from my life if I can<p>I see this sentiment a lot, but you later hint at the problem. Any &quot;replacement&quot; needs to solve for secure key distribution. Signing isn&#x27;t hard, you can use a lot of different things other than gpg to sign something with a key securely. If that part of gpg is broken, it&#x27;s a bug, it can&#x2F;should be fixed.<p>The real challenge is distributing the key so someone else can verify the signature, and almost every way to do that is fundamentally flawed, introduces a risk of operational errors or is annoying (web of trust, trust on first use, central authority, in-person, etc). I&#x27;m not convinced the right answer here is &quot;invent a new one and the ecosystem around it&quot;.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  &gt; For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat.<p>I find that sticking one leg (and sometimes one arm) out from under the blanket helps to solve that issue.


type: comment
by: twosdai
text:
  Photonic computing has a lot of practical applications for signal transfer already.<p>Basically anytime we send a signal across a large fiber optic cable we need to convert signal from light back to electricity and that requires some level of photonic computing. Its used at scale today. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebsco.com&#x2F;research-starters&#x2F;science&#x2F;photonics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebsco.com&#x2F;research-starters&#x2F;science&#x2F;photonics</a><p>However I suspect that you mean photonic computing where a computer on chip device uses photons instead of electrons to communicate. In which case, as far as I know is still research phase.


type: comment
by: wyldfire
text:
  I really want to assume you are debating in good faith but you&#x27;re making it difficult.<p>This sounds like a flavor of whataboutism - the baseline was bad already so let&#x27;s please disregard the fact that it&#x27;s worse now.<p>Can we at least agree: is corruption bad?  If so, then isn&#x27;t it of note when it becomes more widespread or to a greater severity?


type: comment
by: desireco42
text:
  I literally have a guy in India that works for me to help me with outreach and I told him to associate himself with our company but since he is doing outreach to use another LI account. Mostly I expected him to be overly enthysiastic and get himself banned. He is super nice, just graduated some business school.<p>I don&#x27;t even want to comment on these two who made you use your LI for sales. LI is professional network but anything agressive that can spoil your profile is something you don&#x27;t want to do. I doubt they did it for 20 yrs.<p>There were places I worked where I didn&#x27;t show in my LI that I am working there, you can do for all kinds of reasons, sometimes you don&#x27;t want to be pestered by sales people for example.


type: comment
by: OisinMoran
text:
  Reminds me of <i>Gödel, Escher, Bach</i> in which there is a phonograph dubbed &quot;Record Player X&quot;, which destroys itself by playing a record titled <i>I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X</i>.


type: comment
by: m348e912
text:
  He made the mistake of not just creating a second LinkedIn account for this initiative without asking and not using google voice to make the outbound calls.<p>His concerns were reasonable, making it a discussion was not -- unfortunately.


type: comment
by: kakoni
text:
  Was going to ask the something. And also, so the omnipod app is not using android attestation but stores private key it got from omnipod server?


type: comment
by: tyre
text:
  This is always the case. Negotiate equity, but assume it’s worth zero. It’s not liquid and highly speculative. It’s a nice to have.<p>edit: which doesn’t mean join companies you don’t believe in! Please do. But don’t expect it to be there, don’t include it in life plans, don’t pay attention to valuations, etc.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  &gt; what they&#x27;re saying is that it has gotten so bad now that the crimes are being committed constantly and in the open with no fear or worry that anything bad will ever happen.<p>this is all false and coming from your own echochamber. it has always been this way, just now you read to much shit on your social media feed and getting all upset how sky is falling, democracy is dying, shit real bad now…


type: comment
by: quantpunk
text:
  I don&#x27;t disagree but what we really should have dropped &quot;AI&quot; a long time ago for &quot;statistical machine intelligence&quot;. Machine learning then is just what statistical machine intelligence does.<p>We could have then just swapped &quot;AI&quot; for &quot;SMI&quot; and avoided all this confusion.<p>It also would avoid pointless statements like &quot;It is JUST statistical machine intelligence&quot;. As if statistical machine intelligence is not extraordinarily powerful.<p>The real difference though is not in &quot;intelligence&quot;, is it in &quot;being&quot;. It is not as much an insult to our intelligence as it is an insult to our &quot;being&quot; when people pretend that LLMs have some kind of &quot;being&quot;.<p>The strange thing to me is Gemini just tells me these things so I don&#x27;t know how people get confused:<p>&quot;A rock exists. A calculator exists. Neither of them has &quot;being.&quot;<p>I am closer to a calculator than a human.<p>A calculator doesn&#x27;t &quot;know&quot; math; it executes logic gates to produce a result.<p>I am a hyper-complex calculator for language. I calculate the probability of the next word rather than the sum of numbers.&quot;


type: comment
by: altairprime
text:
  Regulations shouldn’t have to change with every new fintech innovation, and the IRS already has the necessary laws in place to catch and prosecute abuse of unpredicted loophole technicalities as tax fraud with intent. We’re better off applying a general tax to “gross revenue not paid as wages” and directing it to a universal basic income fund. The purchase price is gross revenue, and the less they pay out as employee wages, the more the (not subject to deductions) tax charge becomes. Sure, they might still fuck over workers, but at least the workers could afford to quit (thanks, UBI) — and VCs would face the choice of taking half the payment and fucking over workers, or taking the same size payment while <i>not</i> fucking over workers. They may be selfish, but they’re not so self-destructive as to choose the former out of spite: it would utterly destroy their ability to hire brilliance in the future, especially once people can afford to say no.


type: comment
by: aarondf
text:
  I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I&#x27;d rather get the win for my family than try to fight a megacorp. I&#x27;m sorry.


type: comment
by: dtagames
text:
  I agree and tried to @ them on my comments on LinkedIn.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;davidbethune_chatgpt-had-to-join-in-on-the-wrapped-trend-activity-7410319048384782337-tKwE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;davidbethune_chatgpt-had-to-j...</a>


type: comment
by: compsciphd
text:
  this is fundamentally false.  The LGPL was created because of static linking where GPLd code would be in the distributed binary.<p>It&#x27;s an open question (the FSF has their opinion, but it has never been adjudicated) if the GPL impacts dynamic linking.<p>One could argue that if one ships GPL dynamic libraries together with one&#x27;s non GPLd code, one is shipping an aggregate and hence the GPL infects the whole, but its more complicated to say if one ships a non GPLd binary that runs on Debian, Redhat et al and uses GPLd libraries that they ship.


type: comment
by: purplesyringa
text:
  I was wondering why, in my Firefox, the image appears saturated when embedded on the website, but opening it in a new tab by a direct URL shows an unsaturated version. The `img` tag on the website seems to be styled with `mix-blend-mode: multiply`, which makes the image darker because the background is #f0f0f0.


type: comment
by: TeMPOraL
text:
  Could be; after ~3 years, my Samsung Galaxy S7 would reset if I tried to make a call with battery below ~20%. I immediately knew it was the battery, because I still remember noticing it as a kid on Nokia 3410 - calling would sometimes drop the battery indicator by one bar, which would come back moments after call ended. That&#x27;s how I learned about internal resistance and how battery capacity is measured :).<p>As for fixes in software, it&#x27;s either treating it as WAI, or secretly throttling down the phone, like Apple did, for which they got accused of planned obsolescence. Neither choice is good (though actually informing the users would go a long way).


type: comment
by: afcool83
text:
  It’s more like the definition of “alien” broadened.<p>It started out in the 1960’s meaning “humans with pointy ears and no emotions”, then in the 1980’s it was “squat humanoids with glowing fingers and a penchant for phoning home”, then in the 1990-2000 it was “infectious microbes that turn humans into zombies”. We pretty much all realized that the “life” part of “alien life” spans the entire breadth of what biology can produce. (The 2020’s even reduced it further to “RNA sequence which connects the entire human race except 13 folks into a vast hive mind”)<p>Widen the concept enough and lots more scientists will go “yeah something like thst that probably exists elsewhere, sure”


type: comment
by: tacone
text:
  I strongly suggest to also allow to define a non summarizable part of the context so that behavioral rules stay sharp.


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  The US interstates move military equipment across the country without needing to deal with railroad bottlenecks. It is a public good. Just like GPS, it has ancillary civic functions but it still serves its original purpose.


type: comment
by: p2detar
text:
  &gt; Encrypting email<p>&gt; Don&#x27;t.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latacora.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem&#x2F;#encrypting-email" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latacora.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem&#x2F;#en...</a><p>I’m not sure I completely agree here. For private use, this seems fine. However, this isn’t how email encryption is typically implemented in an enterprise environment. It’s usually handled at the mail gateway rather than on a per-user basis. Enterprises also ensure that the receiving side supports email encryption as well.<p>edit: formatting


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  A lot of people are using PGP for things that don’t require any kind of key distribution. If you’re just using it to encrypt files (even between pointwise parties), you can probably just switch to age.<p>(We’re also <i>long</i> past the point where key distribution has been a significant component of the PGP ecosystem. The PGP web of trust and original key servers have been dead and buried for years.)


type: comment
by: silotis
text:
  Roads are rivalrous because too many people using them causes a traffic jam. Seriously go read the Wikipedia article on the subject.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Honestly I don&#x27;t even try to read pages that have some super narrow 400px layout any more. Time was I would screw around editing the CSS with dev tools, but I just don&#x27;t have the patience these days. It&#x27;s a lot of work to try to alter the CSS and it&#x27;s unpleasant as heck to read something that narrow (anything less than 1000px is awful to read and I prefer 1200), so I just move on.<p>Pro tip for web designers out there: if someone wants a narrow layout they can always make their browser window smaller, but if you force it to be narrow that screws over the users who find that unpleasant. A wider layout can thus work for both types of reader, while a narrow layout only works for one.


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  &gt; The disk is fully encrypted, and applications should be isolated from one another.<p>For most apps on non-mobile devices, there isn&#x27;t filesystem isolation between apps. Disk&#x2F;device-level encryption solves for a totally different threat model; Apple&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;Google all ship encrypted storage for secrets (Keychain, Credential Manager, etc), because restricting key material access within the OS has merit.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m sure these bad ideas come from the busy work invented in corporate &quot;security&quot; circles, which invent complexity to keep people employed without any regard for an actual threat model.<p>Basically everything in PGP&#x2F;GPG predates the existence of &quot;corporate security circles&quot;.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  finally a thoughtful comment!!! I do need help with “when it becomes more widespread or to greater severity”? how do you measure&#x2F;asses this? in 2025 unfortunately, this likely comes from your various feeds (news, social media)… so how do you actually measure this? or let me ask this another way, if AOC is President today, do you think there would be another group of people from another echochamber saying same&#x2F;similar things (corruption, this, that…)?


type: comment
by: stack_framer
text:
  This post is woefully one-sided. There&#x27;s no mention of the negative aspects of system design interviews, or the shortcomings of those conducting them, so I&#x27;ll provide the missing balance:<p>### Not enough use of AI<p>I once had an interviewer tell me I wouldn&#x27;t be advancing to the next round because I didn&#x27;t use <i>enough</i> AI. My approach was to consult AI about every 10 minutes during a 45-minute interview. To this day I wonder just how many more prompts would have been &quot;right&quot; and how many would have been too many. Either way, it was ridiculous.<p>### Zero research about the candidate prior to the interview<p>Interviewers almost invariably ask questions that are literally answered <i>on my resume</i>—so they clearly haven&#x27;t read it. I also like to keep a few subtle differences between my resume and my LinkedIn page to see if the interviewer is astute enough to discover something about me. They never do—they can&#x27;t be bothered to spend 60 seconds perusing my LinkedIn page.<p>### Not starting with the customer<p>System design interviews often start with little more than API requirements and a drawing app. There&#x27;s no mention of any customer. It&#x27;s a fake scenario, lacking any real depth, usually conducted in a way that stigmatizes candidate mistakes.<p>### Hypocritical expectations on spend<p>Many companies spend 10x more on AWS than they should, and simultaneously have no appetite for refactoring or technical debt. Your company is probably no different, so please spare me the lecture about making money.<p>### Inflexibly following the corporate interview prompt<p>System design interviewers often have a reference diagram of the completed problem, and a set of answers to common questions. If your diagram doesn&#x27;t match theirs enough, or you don&#x27;t ask some arbitrary percentage of their questions, you don&#x27;t advance. Ironically, if you ask a question not in their list, they don&#x27;t know how to answer but you don&#x27;t get any bonus points for stumping them.


type: comment
by: libraryofbabel
text:
  &gt; I don’t think the intuitions necessary to do distributed computing well would come to someone who snoozed through physics<p>Yeah. I was a physics major and it really helped to have had my naive assumptions about time and clocks completely demolished early on by taking classes in special and general relatively. When I eventually found my way into tech a lot of distributed systems concepts that are difficult to other people (clock sync, indeterminate ordering of events, consensus) came quite naturally because of all that early training.<p>I think it&#x27;s no accident that distributed systems theory guru Leslie Lamport had written an unpublished book on General Relativity before he wrote the famous <i>Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System</i> paper and the Paxos paper. In the former in particular the analogy to special relatively is quite plain to see.


type: comment
by: ldng
text:
  That might be how uv got fast but that is <i>not</i> why it got popular.<p>PyPA has been a mess for a very long time for in-fighting, astroturfing, gatekeeping and so on with pip being the battlefield. The uv team just did one thing that PyPA &amp; co stopped doing a long time ago (if they ever did ...) : actually solving pain point of their user and never saying &quot;it&#x27;s not possible because [insert bullshit]&quot; or reply &quot;it&#x27;s OSS, do it yourself&quot; to then reject the work with attitude and baseless argument.<p>They listened to their user&#x27;s issues and solved their pain points without denying them. period.


type: comment
by: hirsin
text:
  Expanding the timeline a bit, CRISPR was known as a possible gene targeting&#x2F;editing tool by 2008 at least - I distinctly recall learning about it then in a guest lecture.


type: comment
by: kibwen
text:
  It&#x27;s worse than having to parse a matching bracket, because any context where you have an item defined via nested brackets is going to be a subset of this use case. But yes, that doesn&#x27;t mean you couldn&#x27;t do some theoretical eager processing, but it&#x27;s going to be context dependent. For example, consider a Cargo.toml file, where we&#x27;ve processed the `features` key for a given dependency. Is it safe to begin compiling that dependency with the given set of features before we finish parsing the file? No, because there might be a `default-features=false` key that applies to this dependency later in the file. In a format where tables weren&#x27;t allowed to be split, the mere act of parsing a single, self-contained dependency entry would be enough to know for certain that no such `default-features` key exists. Not all potential keys are going to require this sort of consideration, but it could be a footgun depending on the semantics of your schema.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  I don&#x27;t mind gpg. I still use it a lot especially with the private keys on openpgp smartcards or yubikeys.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty great ecosystem, most hardware smartcards are surrounded by a lot of black magic and secret handshakes and stuff like pkcs#11 and opensc&#x2F;openct are much much harder to configure.<p>I use it for many things but not for email. Encrypted backups, password manager, ssh keys. For some there are other hardware options like fido2 but not for all usecases and not the same one for each usecase. So I expect to be using gpg for a long time to come.


type: comment
by: ronbenton
text:
  I took a transportation engineering class a while back and one bit of knowledge that stuck with me is tolls are the only effective traffic relief mechanisms for a roadway. Other mechanisms like adding lanes just invite more cars and traffic is not relieved. I never checked whether this was true, but sounded reasonable.


type: comment
by: imoverclocked
text:
  The obvious counterpoint is that a PR system is also likely to break unless it is exercised+maintained often enough to catch little issues as they appear. Without a set of robust tests the new artifact is also potentially useless to a company that has already sold their last $50 WiFi camera. If the artifact is also used for their upcoming $54.99 camera then often they will have one good version there too. The artifact <i>might</i> work on the old camera but the risk&#x2F;reward ratio is pretty high for updating the abandonware.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
text:
  Yes but I think outweighed by the overall cost and harm of putting up little warning signs in every restaurant, coffee shop, parking garage, and grocery store in the state


type: comment
by: akerl_
text:
  The latest version of a bad standard is still bad.<p>This page is a pretty direct indicator that GPG&#x27;s foundation is fundamentally broken: you&#x27;re not going to get to a good outcome trying to renovate the 2nd story.


type: comment
by: jobs_throwaway
text:
  Couldn&#x27;t disagree more. People should be able to pay more for use of better infrastructure. If $3-$8 a day isn&#x27;t worth it for you, there&#x27;s a free option that&#x27;s totally acceptable.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  &gt; you&#x27;re British<p>correct!<p>&gt;English is not my native tongue.<p>Aha, interesting<p>I think the thing that trips me up is that it feels like a collection of unrelated short stories mashed together. Worse (for me) is that those stories contradict each other.


type: comment
by: k310
text:
  Apparently, it&#x27;s a movable feast. [0]<p>This is the &quot;newest&quot; article I found on the matter.  Monday 22 December 2025<p>&gt; The Democrats from the House Oversight Committee drew attention to the apparent removal of an image showing two printed pictures of Mr Trump in a desk draw.<p>&gt; One picture had Mr Trump standing surrounded by women in bathing suits, while the second appears to be an already known picture - partly obscured - of him, his wife Melania, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.<p>&gt; After the Democrats flagged the missing image on Saturday, Sky News went back to the files online and confirmed that it did appear to be missing, despite the fact they downloaded it when the files were initially released on Friday.<p>&gt; The other photos removed from the trove of documents were almost all nude paintings of women in Epstein&#x27;s home.<p>&gt; In a post on X on Sunday, the DOJ said the image including pictures of Mr Trump has since been reposted on to the Epstein Files page.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.sky.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;image-of-trump-among-documents-reposted-on-epstein-files-release-after-apparent-removal-13486310" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.sky.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;image-of-trump-among-documents-re...</a>


type: story
by: yp583
title: Show HN: Gcommit – clustering code changes semantically
url: https://github.com/yp583/homebrew-custom-git
text:
  The problem: I kept making &quot;mega-commits&quot; with unrelated changes because I get in a flow state and then end up with a huge number of changes I forgot to commit.<p>The solution: I built a tool that analyzes your staged git changes, clusters them by semantic similarity using embeddings + hierarchical clustering, and creates separate commits for each cluster.<p>How it works:<p>- Parses diffs into semantic chunks using tree-sitter<p>- Generates embeddings (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small)<p>- Clusters with single-linkage hierarchical clustering<p>- Interactive dendrogram UI to adjust cluster threshold<p>- Creates one commit per cluster<p>Currently Mac-only (uses self-written https client with kqueue), but happy to add cross-platform support if there&#x27;s interest. Also planning local LLM&#x2F;embedding support.<p>Looking for feedback!


type: comment
by: bigfatkitten
text:
  My uncle received a cheque for $0.12 from the Australian Taxation Office in the 1980s. He framed it, and it’s still on his wall today.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  Fwiw in the Bay Area I thought it was a private company but turns out it’s government run with Fastrak operated by The Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) in partnership with The California Department of Transportation and The California Highway Patrol (not sure why CHP is involved but they probably get some kickback of the revenue stream in exchange for some enforcement).


type: comment
by: bob1029
text:
  Houston would be unlivable without toll roads in 2025. The medical center would collapse overnight. The SH288 toll has probably indirectly saved more lives than any other toll project in the state. Medical professionals can reliably get between their suburban homes and their patients in ~constant time now.<p>It&#x27;s maybe not &quot;fair&quot; that some people can use this option indiscriminately every day, but at least it is an option that <i>everyone</i> has access to. There&#x27;s no physical barrier stopping you from using the Texas toll roads if you really needed to in an emergency. All that will happen is a bill will appear in your mailbox about 30 days later. If you choose to not pay it, the chances something bad will happen are approximately zero.


type: comment
by: mjevans
text:
  They&#x27;re a prime sign of broken economics.<p>The people who can least afford to move closer to their jobs are the ones who are regressively taxed in time, energy, and money the most.<p>A proper solution would be to require more housing NEAR the jobs to make it easier for people to save time and money by moving closer.


type: comment
by: cjbgkagh
text:
  I’m pretty sure no-one has argued that a gold standard would prevent economic disasters. That sounds like a straw man. My understanding is that there would be more of them but the individual and cumulative impact would be far less. You can still have fractional reserve banking with the gold standard so the gold standard alone is not sufficient to prevent that.


type: comment
by: EthanHeilman
text:
  With Trump it appears a window is closing on the development of important technologies and research. I doubt we will enter a new dark age, but in some areas, progress is likely to slow, which in turn will be used as evidence that it isn&#x27;t worth funding, which will cause funding cuts and result in even slower progress. Everyone is racing to get stuff done, because there might not be the money tomorrow. It seems likely to me that longer term, more ambitious projects are probably being sidelined because there isn&#x27;t time to complete them before the pencil pushers in the whitehouse defund them.<p>Look at how the Nixon administration and congress gutted NASA. It took nearly 40 years to crawl out of the hole in the roadmaps that their shortsighted stupidity created. We could have had reusable rockets, aerospike engines and Nuclear Thermal Propulsion in the early 1980s. Instead we got halfway measures like the space shuttle and the ISS that both ate budget but didn&#x27;t create the required innovation for lower cost to orbit.


type: comment
by: favflam
text:
  If companies operated as partnerships instead of limited liability companies, then I guess I could buy into this.<p>But states grant special privileges of capping personal liability for investors.  Perhaps states should rethink the conditions for granting this if too many companies act like Gordon Gecko psycho paths.<p>The British East India company had its charter revoked once it started stepping over red lines.  Voters need to reconsider the cart-blanche granting of privileges to corporate entities.


type: comment
by: bilbo0s
text:
  That’s just it.<p>We’ve entered a new era. Big companies don’t need your startup. They only need your smart guys. Just those few guys. You keep the rest of your engineers and figure out what to do with them.<p>And lately, the answer has been, “wind it all down”.<p>This sucks so bad for most of their employees. But it’s a signal to the labor market:<p>Be very honest about what you are when you’re considering working at an AI startup. Are you an AI expert? Or a TF&#x2F;Pytorch monkey? There’s an enormous difference between those two things. If you’re not the key guy, require a good salary up front. Because I don’t see a future where the “acquiring” companies start needing you as well.


type: comment
by: atoav
text:
  Thw one thing Rust n3eds the most is to explain the <i>why</i> of these semantics better. Why do you need to borrow and which elegant programs can you build with it?


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  Do you perhaps live in Florida or Oklahoma? They are quite rare in CA, the southwestern states in general, and the upper midwest.


type: comment
by: TheJoeMan
text:
  I apologize, I misread your comment as “complex databases”. PowerApps could make simple queries across large databases, but you’re right that large software projects should not be in a no-code tool.


type: comment
by: vacuity
text:
  Not to make a point of it either way, but judging a book by its cover can be useful if the credibility of the book&#x27;s content alone is difficult to evaluate. That&#x27;s why people care about degrees and other qualifications.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  Yep. QNX was better than anything else around 2000. VxWorks was technically slimmer and more reliable, but QNX had a real mostly-POSIX-compatible environment. You could develop&#x2F;debug the code on QNX itself and deploy it on the devices.<p>They were also early adopters of Eclipse, which was the &quot;default IDE&quot; before the advent of VS Code.


type: comment
by: ianburrell
text:
  There is distinction between seeing when events happened, and when they really happened. The latter can be reconstructed by an observer.<p>In special relativity, time is relative and when things actually happened can be different in different frames. Casually linked events are always really in the same order. But disconnected events can be seen in different orders depending on speed of observer.


type: comment
by: h2zizzle
text:
  Alternatives are the most effective option. Tolls just make laws the rich don&#x27;t have to obey and conditions they don&#x27;t have to experience. Aggregate suffering isn&#x27;t lowered, just shifted to the poor.<p>If you want cars off the road, you tax rich people and build trains and bike lanes, and shut down cynical RTO. Full stop.


type: comment
by: utopcell
text:
  Seems irrelevant to bring up cost for something that is streamline-priced today, but sure, let&#x27;s move on.<p>&gt; Strictly speaking, the CRT only had discrete lines not pixels.<p>The electron gun moves in an analog fashion, but when it hits the glass surface, it can only go through specific openings [1]. These openings are placed at a specific distance apart [2]. This distance specifies the horizontal, digital, max CRT resolution.<p>&gt; No ordinary flat–panel display can emulate the rectangular pixels of the most common video modes used on CRTs because they are built with square pixels.<p>Today&#x27;s panels have achieved &quot;retina&quot; resolution, which means that the human eye cannot distinguish individual pixels anymore. The rest is just software [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=13bpgc8ZxTo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=13bpgc8ZxTo</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot_pitch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:CRT_mask_types_en-de.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot_pitch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:CRT_mask...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emulation&#x2F;comments&#x2F;dixnso&#x2F;retroarch_shaders_comparision_vs_real_crt_4k_uhd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emulation&#x2F;comments&#x2F;dixnso&#x2F;retroarch...</a>


