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type: comment
by: crawshaw
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  [exe.dev cofounder here] That&#x27;s a good idea! I will add it to a list I have for exeuntu. Automatic login would be really nice, let me see if I can figure out how to do that. Thanks for trying exe.dev!


type: comment
by: almosthere
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  It does seem like most of the American economy since factories left has been information asymmetry. The travel agents had the &quot;special phone number&quot; to call to get someone on a boat for half the price. Probably a little bit more than that. We&#x27;re going to entering a time of crushing economic conditions.


type: comment
by: aryonoco
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  Is this meant as sarcasm?<p>I run a bunch of services for friends and family, things like Immich, wallabag, mealie etc. Less than 10 users, but do you expect me to crate and maintain separate accounts for each one for every service?<p>The SSO tax is stupid. If your whole business model is based on putting SSO behind a paywall, it’s a sign of a broken business model.


type: comment
by: int08h
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  Hmm, it seems you actually agree with the OP:<p>OP says (your quote):<p>&gt; [Most production incidents] are due to the code entering a state that should never have been possible.<p>You say:<p>&gt; [...] it is more true that most production incidents are due to the system entering into one of thousands of unsafe states which were possible and latent in production potentially for years<p>I see you both agree that a broken system enters an &quot;unsafe state&quot; (your words) or a &quot;state that should never have been possible&quot; (OP&#x27;s words).<p>&quot;Unsafe state&quot; and &quot;state that should not have been possible&quot; are, in practice in a real system, the same practical thing. I suspect you both would agree &quot;system confuses a string for an integer and acts based on erroneous value&quot; or &quot;system acts on internal state that indicates the valve is both open and closed&quot; would be states that a system should not be in. Outside pedantry, your descriptions are practically synonymous with each other.


type: comment
by: BrenBarn
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  Even when I was younger, I was baffled by how people could get their news just from TV, because the amount of information in a TV news report was so tiny compared to what you&#x27;d get in a newspaper.  When I hear that people view TikTok as their main news source, it&#x27;s like telling me people wear watermelons as socks.  It&#x27;s so nuts its hard for me to even bring the concept into my brain.


type: comment
by: Fiveplus
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  That&#x27;s good, you should also give me a way to hide the modal to actually see the calendar before I go for printing. Nice work.


type: comment
by: ksec
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  I dont think anyone is arguing Google Earth should be pure HTML. But it is equally false you cant do Gmail with HTML only.<p>There are things that HTML could do, and should be doing, that is not done or not yet possible simply due to hype and trend from browser vendors. We could continue to polish HTML + sprinkle of Javascript to its absolute maximum before hitting JS Apps. Right now this is far from the case.


type: comment
by: armchairhacker
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  Why do you think it’s bad faith? It’s mostly political, but some people here are too and not all posts involve politics (e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41195641">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41195641</a>).<p>OP definitely appears conservative. But how do you know they’re intentionally trying to stir trouble, vs. being naive (...maybe, hence conservative...) but genuine?<p>And do you think it’s a net benefit for posts like these to be flagged vs. visible, when the comments provide direct evidence contradicting OP&#x27;s assumptions (Fox News is not blocked on HN)? It&#x27;s always hard to change people&#x27;s assumptions, and sometimes impossible, but why not try?


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
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  Ironically, the advent of LLMs brings back the information asymmetry, bringing back the value of personal connections &#x2F; recommendations.


type: comment
by: Erenay09
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  I&#x27;m thinking of writing a tool related to the &quot;checkpoint&quot; system when I have some free time. Do you have any advices?


type: comment
by: vel0city
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  Don&#x27;t a lot of cellular networks rely on highly synchronized clocks to properly handle TDMA-style transmissions? Shouldn&#x27;t they be very in sync with the towers&#x27; times?


type: comment
by: pests
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  What does the dark background mean? I could only see it inside my print preview (see Fiveplus comment). Otherwise I like.


type: comment
by: ls612
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  The dirty little secret is that there is an incredible ideological incentive for many for Lamarckianism to be true so that they can blame “lived experience” for every ill in the world. Retroviruses, transposons, etc do not have that specific property and thus you see far fewer articles extolling their purported impacts.


type: comment
by: agentifysh
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  what was AOL exactly i never experienced it but would constantly get these CDs in the mail with Air Warrior


type: comment
by: Spivak
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  &gt; Statically typed programming languages cannot be deployed nor can they run with a type error that happens at runtime.<p>This is so completely untrue that I&#x27;m confused as to why anyone would try to claim it. Type Confusion is an entire class of error and CVE that happens in statically typed languages. Java type shenanigans are endless if you want some fun but baseline you can cast to arbitrary types at runtime and completely bypass all compile time checks.<p>I think the disagreement would come additionally by saying a language like Ruby doesn&#x27;t actually have any type errors. Like how it can be said that GC languages can&#x27;t have memory leaks. And that this model is <i>stronger</i> than just compile time checking. Sure you get a thing called TypeError in Ruby but because of the languages dynamism that&#x27;s not an error the way it would be in C. You can just catch it and move. It doesn&#x27;t invalidate the program&#x27;s correctness. Ruby is so safe in it&#x27;s execution model that <i>Syntax Errors</i> don&#x27;t invalidate the running program&#x27;s soundness.


type: comment
by: mahirsaid
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  no society is going to just bow down for eternity and accept things as they are for long. if an opportunity  presents itself. I&#x27;m not understanding what &quot;reality&quot; means as if the BRIC nations aren&#x27;t in that &quot;reality&quot; as we speak. weaponizing sanctions and intimidating macro foreign economies isn&#x27;t something that other peoples take lightly. the circumstances from the 90&#x27;s and now are very much different with very much different rulers taking charge today. less dictators in third world countries and more dictator impersonators of developed countries. There was a less will to do more harm that can be public before vs now everything is public and you become immune to the affects of what could be until it becomes the norm for you. Things change my friend, its frugal thinking otherwise.


type: comment
by: lifthrasiir
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  Saturday and Sunday. Looking at the source, it also accepts `sofshavua=1` options to highlight Fridays and Saturdays instead.


type: comment
by: chorkpop
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  Do you remember when travel agents were still around? Most people would absolutely never even consider using their computer to book a ticket. It was nearly 2010 before I could convince my mother to enter her credit card for Amazon. Just because someone isn&#x27;t interested in vibe coding today doesn&#x27;t mean they won&#x27;t be using similar most polished tools in the very near future.


type: comment
by: sergiotapia
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  FWIW I just did in four hours what would have taken me about two weeks for my side project.<p>The boring routine parts of software engineering are no more. My project is elixir phoenix and tailwind. The AI and I completely overhauled my sites UI and UX and implemented many bug fixes and effectively relaunched my website in four hours.<p>If you were an experienced dev coming into this, you should definitely learn how to work with AI tools.


type: comment
by: TheCleric
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  Ahh so the constitution doesn’t apply to non-citizens? The Supreme Court disagrees:<p><pre><code>    There are literally millions of aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Fifth Amendment, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, protects every one of these persons from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law… Even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.</code></pre>


type: comment
by: charcircuit
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  &gt;the animation is done post-rasterizing.<p>The article is talking about &quot;rerasterize the glyphs in their new location&quot;, which means it&#x27;s rasterizing post animation. I think he&#x27;s implying that there is something unstable with his each pixel is treated that breaks the illusion.


type: comment
by: shevy-java
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  &quot;researchers, including those spearheading the work, are cautious about overselling their results&quot;<p>Either it is correct; or it is not. Perhaps it is somewhat correct, but then it may not be fully correct, so it would contain wrong information.<p>I write this here because science does not really work well when it is based on speculation. So this article is weird. It starts by speculating about something rather than analyse the article. It then continues to &quot;textbooks have to be rewritten&quot;. Well, I think if you are in science, you need to demonstrate that all your claims made need to be correct - and others can verify it, without any restriction whatsoever.<p>&gt; “We just don’t have really any understanding of how RNAs can do this, and that’s the hand-wavy part,” Conine said.<p>So their theory is incomplete as of yet. That&#x27;s not good.<p>There are examples of where theories were lateron shown to be wrong.<p>See this article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.1197258" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.1197258</a><p>It was later redacted - a total fabrication. A lie.


type: comment
by: CTDOCodebases
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  So with your 20&#x2F;20 vision and your ability to see into the future what was the exact dollar amount at the time that you thought should be enough to stop a total meltdown of the US economy? Using logic and reason how did you come to the exact dollar amount that would emotionally appease investors and business providing them with enough &quot;investor confidence&quot;?<p>The timescale you are looking at is very small. The federal reserve has a dual mandate to have maximum employment and stable prices. What would have happened on a longer timeframe to employment and prices if every other country effectively backstopped their economy but the USA didn&#x27;t?<p>It&#x27;s like you don&#x27;t know why the fed even came to exist or have any knowledge about the great depression or just fail to recognize how catastrophic that the pandemic was to the USA economy or the world economy as a whole.


type: comment
by: defen
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  Two weeks of actual work? Or two weeks because you&#x27;d only be able to work on it for 20-30 minutes per day at the end of the day when you&#x27;re already tired?


type: comment
by: primaprashant
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  This is really nice. I keep track of most important habits to me like how often I go to gym, how much protein I eat everyday, and how many days I read (books), on something physical (pen and paper). Mostly on monthly calendars. This would make tracking each of them separately on a single piece of paper across the entire year pretty neat.


type: comment
by: Dracophoenix
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  Define &quot;drive&quot;. Correlation is not causation. It&#x27;s difficult to anticipate the trigger for a particular action or choice when other circumstances or stressors may have more significant factors that contributed to the decision. After all, many have lost jobs without ending their own lives and many have killed themselves despite high-profile, gainful employment. Instead, holding MongoDB responsible risks incentivizing this company and others to turn away and preemptively furlough anyone remotely approaching the statistical profile of a suicide risk.


type: comment
by: Arainach
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  Heavily subsidized rural roads and utilities, tax incentives, all sorts of price subsidies depending on the crop.  Police (which act primarily in the interests of capital), fire fighters, food safety inspectors to give people the confidence to buy agricultural products, social safety nets for the workers that farms pay as little as legally (or illegally) possible...


type: comment
by: ksec
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  I remember the author said somewhere ( may be reddit or twitter ) that he is working on those. Low_Type is still in very early stage.


type: comment
by: apitman
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  What do you think of mid-tier Android handhelds like the Odin 3? I think these things are starting to look very interesting, especially when you factor in things like Winlator, Moonlight streaming, etc.


type: comment
by: catlikesshrimp
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  Decades ago I had one or two tẽte à tẽte about grayscale <i>not</i> being the same as black and white. You could emulate grayscale with b&amp;w if you had a much larger canvas. In short: Black and white is 2 bits, grayscale is 8, 16 , more? bits<p>Am I wrong?


type: comment
by: lifthrasiir
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  The info box doesn&#x27;t mention this but it also has an alternative layout where days are aligned by weekdays: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?layout=aligned-weekdays" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?layout=aligned-weekdays</a>


type: comment
by: halapro
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  &gt; Xbox 4 would probably have been considered a loss by the executives<p>This is moronic to think about as a business. You exist to make money, if &quot;4&quot; leads to more sales then be it.


type: comment
by: SadWebDeveloper
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  This is another pointless article about LLM&#x27;s... vibe coding is the present not the future, the only sad part of all of it is that LLM&#x27;s is killing something important: code documentation.<p>Every single documentation out there for new libs is AI generated and that is feed again into LLMs with MCP&#x2F;Skills servers, the age of the RTFM gang is over <i>sigh</i>


type: comment
by: xboxnolifes
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  Palantir might just pretty up the display of the data that is aggregated by other vendors, which source their data from other vendors, who collect their data from &quot;opt-in&quot; services, which technically explain how they work somewhere in a 200 page ToS. But at some point you gotta look at the sum of the incremental issues and say enough is enough.


type: comment
by: neilv
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  Absolutely, downvote down calls for founding engineers paid to get meaningful equity.<p>We wouldn&#x27;t want someone accepting a small fraction of their market salary to get even 1% pre-dilution of an early startup (even in dark-pattern options), because that might align them with company success, or even be fair.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  Sure I saw this 13 hours ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46402852">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46402852</a><p>Popular in 2023 (73 points, 88 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34803780">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34803780</a>


type: comment
by: yonatan8070
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  The Jetson Nano launched with Ubuntu 18.04, today, this is still the only officially supported distro for it. I have no reason to think this would be different with the Orin and Thor series, or even with the DGX Spark with its customized Ubuntu&#x2F;&quot;DGX OS&quot;.


type: comment
by: whatever1
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  When I book online, I receive the ticket. I don’t receive a ticket of an imaginary flight of a made up company with the notice “you should check the validity of the ticket yourself”.


type: comment
by: super256
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  Maybe the mongo db exploit from two days ago?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joe-desimone&#x2F;mongobleed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joe-desimone&#x2F;mongobleed</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;host&#x2F;212.104.194.153" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;host&#x2F;212.104.194.153</a>


type: comment
by: pests
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  AOL was your ISP - you would connect via your telephone line instead of cable&#x2F;fiber. Your modem would call their number and establish a connection. No one else could use the phone while you were online.<p>When you connected, it would load the AOL application which contained most of what AOL offered - built in AIM (AOL instant messaging), a web browser, group chats, keyword search, email, etc.<p>You were still connected to the internet and could use alternate browsers, but most people stayed inside the AOL app and ecosystem. Keywords were a time before search, where companies could buy keywords (from AOL) and then when people searched them they would show up. It was kinda a separate system from DNS that AOL tried to profit from.<p>You had competitors like Prodigy and CompuServe offering similar dial-up + custom app offers.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t use the AOL app without having AOL dial-up service (although I recall them offering it separately late in its life, bring your own internet). People thought &quot;AOL&quot; was the internet. You might recall the classic &quot;You&#x27;ve got mail&quot; movie. That was from the AOL app which loaded after connecting.<p>aside: It&#x27;s crazy how AOL could have become Facebook. AIM chat was the main focus - but AIM had &quot;profiles&quot; which you could customize, and I did - even with daily status updates. Modern Facebook is basically the reverse - profiles with a chat attached.


type: comment
by: almosthere
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  That&#x27;s the actual problem with CA in general if you haven&#x27;t noticed. Be good and watch them take everything.


type: comment
by: LexiMax
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  I find that this is something reflective of most modern language ecosystems, not just Rust.  I actually first started noticing the pervasiveness of MIT on npm.<p>For me, I am of two minds.  On one hand, the fact that billion-dollar empires are built on top of what is essentially unpaid volunteer work does rankle and makes me much more appreciative of copyleft.<p>On the other hand, most of my hobbyist programming work has continued to be released under some form of permissive license, and this is more of a reality of the fact that I work in ecosystems where use of the GPL isn&#x27;t merely inconvenient, but legally impossible, and the pragmatism of permissive licenses win out.<p>I do wish that weak copyleft like the Mozilla Public License had caught on as a sort of middle ground, but it seems like those licenses are rare enough to where  their use would invite as much scrutiny as the GPL, even if it was technically allowed.  Perhaps the FSF could have advocated more strongly for weak copyleft in area where GPL was legally barred, but I suppose they were too busy not closing the network hole in the GPLv3 to bother.


type: comment
by: maximinus_thrax
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  And yet it has been done with different approaches, it&#x27;s complicated, yes, as I said. But nothing nightmarish about it.


type: comment
by: MisterMower
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  &gt; money is an abstraction and not something concrete<p>That is a choice we have made. Historically it hasn’t been that way.


type: comment
by: forrestthewoods
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  Robots and VR headsets and wearables and microcontrollers and sensors and trackers and Linux and Windows oh my!


type: story
by: kinj28
title: A Chess Conjecture I've Been Thinking About
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  I have a conjecture about chess and how different rating levels approach the game:<p>Sub-1500 Elo players may actually be doing more real-time thinking during a game compared to Grandmaster-level players.<p>At elite levels, many positions are instantly recognized. Years of pattern recognition, theory, and experience allow GMs to play large portions of a game almost automatically. Their brilliance lies in what they’ve internalized.<p>For sub-1500 players, however, most positions are unfamiliar. There’s less reliance on memorized structures and far more active calculation, questioning, and exploration:  • What is my opponent threatening?  • Is this move safe?  • What happens if I try something different?<p>This isn’t to say sub-1500 players play better chess—clearly they don’t. But they may be engaging in a more conscious, effortful thinking process move by move.<p>It makes me wonder:  • Is chess mastery about thinking more—or thinking less, but better?  • At what point does intuition replace deliberate reasoning?<p>Would love to hear thoughts from players, coaches, and fellow chess enthusiasts.


type: comment
by: rowanG077
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  I didn&#x27;t link any studies. I&#x27;m not the person you originally replied to. I was trying to engage in your point that studies involving human subjects cannot contain hard evidence. And no I wasn&#x27;t referring to psychology in my comment.


type: comment
by: tombert
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  You should probably hate Google too, but I think a lot of Palantir hate comes from (well deserved) hatred for Peter Thiel, who has injected himself directly into conservative politics.<p>Billionaires buying their way into the political system should be hated implicitly, no matter their political affiliation.


type: comment
by: snvzz
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  &gt;(protects every one of these persons from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without)<p>&gt;due process of law<p>Is being followed and, if appropriate, the foreign agent will be booted.<p>Currently, they are quite early in the process still.


type: comment
by: cadamsdotcom
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  The spec rarely has enough detail to deterministically create a product, so current vibecoding is a lottery.<p>So we generate one or many changesets (in series or in parallel) then iterate on one. We force the “chosen one” to be the one true codification of the spec + the other stuff we didn’t write down anywhere. Call it luck driven development.<p>But there’s another way.<p>If we keep starting fresh from the spec, but keep adding detail after detail, regenerating from scratch each time.. and the LLM has enough room in context to handle a detailed spec AND produce output, and the result is reasonably close to deterministic because the LLM makes “reasonable choices” for everything underspecified.. that’s a paradigm shift.


type: comment
by: tobias2014
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  For any space-like event you can find reference frames where things happen in different order. For the time-like situation you described the order indeed exists within the cone, which is to say that causality exists.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
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  &gt; Wait. This doesn’t make sense to me. Statically typed programming languages cannot be deployed nor can they run with a type error that happens at runtime. Untyped languages CAN run and error out with a type error AT runtime. The inevitable consequence of that truth is this<p>There is nothing inevitable about the consequence you’re imagining because statically typed languages also reject correct programs.


type: comment
by: usernamed7
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  while AI does lower the barrier to who can do software development it does not nullify their need only moves them into more complicated domains. Yes, if you&#x27;re job as a SWE was building landing pages, you&#x27;re pretty much cooked. But if you&#x27;re working in complicated domains, or domains that require a level of technical awareness or social skills to create success, AI is just an amplifier and makes the boring&#x2F;frustrating parts easier.<p>I am using claude to build a pretty complicated project. Technically, a lot of what i am prompting are things that other people could prompt. But I also do find myself leveraging a lot of knowledge in shaping what the code should do and how it should do it, and also needing to step in when claude reaches limits of it&#x27;s training. I am confident that the number of people who could build what I am building is pretty small.<p>So I think the author is creating a narrative that is unfounded. There will always be software engineers. There will always be engineering challenges that it takes a human to resolve. Yes, always; no matter how &quot;smart&quot; the AI gets. For sure, AI will be taking some development jobs. But calling for a collapse is simply hyperbole, shortsighted and naive.


type: comment
by: yuliyp
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  That&#x27;s the consequence of 4 freeways all (I-580, I-80, I-880, SH-24) dumping their traffic onto a bridge, and using metering lights to try and keep the bridge itself working.


type: comment
by: mac-attack
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  I&#x27;ve used recalendar.js the past few years for my eInk devices:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;klimeryk&#x2F;recalendar.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;klimeryk&#x2F;recalendar.js</a>


type: comment
by: triMichael
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  You are correct, grayscale is where every pixel&#x27;s R = G = B, which for a 24 bit image would include 256 colors.


type: comment
by: darknavi
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  Doesn&#x27;t Sydney also have world class public transport infrastructure?  Seems like a pretty decent trade to me.


type: comment
by: moltopoco
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  That is not what I said at all. My claim is that, regardless of what the authoritarian right is doing, the left has become more tolerant of authoritarianism itself, especially to &#x27;save democracy&#x27; (which is again reminescent of the GDR, starting from its very name).<p>As to why this split is happening, I&#x27;d argue it was easier to be anti-authoritarian when we were in the opposition, just as today&#x27;s AfD reliably votes against Chat Control or other power grabs because it makes them look good at no cost. But the left has become a dominant force due to its long march through the institutions, and some want to use this power to crush the enemy (debanking, police raids for milquetoast internet comments). Others look at the internet compass from your sibling post and decide they&#x27;d rather hang out with people in the libertarian right than with _any_ kind of authoritarian.<p>Just to be clear, I&#x27;m not saying the CCC is an authoritarian organization. But I doubt they&#x27;ll ever be too critical of our intransparent &quot;Trusted Flagger&quot; system, for example, because they know it would anger many in their crowd. 20 years ago we&#x27;d have agreed that this kind of crap only happens in China.


type: comment
by: sdenton4
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  You&#x27;re not wrong, Walter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C6BYzLIqKB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C6BYzLIqKB8</a>


type: comment
by: musebox35
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  That is likely. Another factor that came into my mind is the gpu using less power due to simpler computations. You can store less data for grayscale, so you need to go over less pixel data to do effects etc. Whether accessibility controls achieve this or not would be implementation dependent I guess.


type: comment
by: hackable_sand
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  I would prefer that militaries do not deliberately genocide civilians and antagonize non-combatants.


type: comment
by: ggm
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  Healthcare use of foundry != biotech&#x2F;bioinformatics use of foundry?<p>A former work colleague works in health ontologies. They are complicated and include EMT and ward staff using terms of art with inverse meaning.<p>Perhaps I misread your intent, belittling complexity in somebody else&#x27;s information space (eg a function of multiple parallel legacy systems and organisational change) seems unhelpful. You weren&#x27;t excited, maybe people on the management and health economics side were?


type: comment
by: MisterMower
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  Now you know why so many countries want to leave the dollar system. There are <i>no</i> meaningful constraints on the supply of dollars.<p>Gold at least places real constraints on the growth of the money supply. Imperfect as it is, it’s better than a financial cabal in one country creating money to suit their needs irrespective of any other objective.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
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  Do you have a citation that the US federal minimium wage ever had the objective that &quot;a single person working full-time will earn enough to support a household of four&quot; because I can&#x27;t find it in the Wikipedia entry[1] or other top level search results. I also don&#x27;t see this idea in the 1956 Republican Party platform[2]. At best from reading a few other sources it looks like at its peak in the late 1960s it would have been enough to keep a family of three above the poverty line (though that hardly implies they could afford a mortgage and higher education).<p><pre><code>  [1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States   [2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.presidency.ucsb.edu&#x2F;documents&#x2F;republican-party-platform-1956</code></pre>


type: comment
by: maximinus_thrax
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  &gt; Why plural?<p>Belarus and Ukraine<p>&gt; What? By which rule the US invaded Iraq in 2003? By which rule NATO changed the borders of Serbia?<p>None of those instances are wars of conquest, of annexation of a sovereign country by military force or of trying to erase a national identity.<p>How&#x27;s the Putinesque Koolaid tasting, protomolecule? Good enough to grab a rifle in the name of the fatherland? Or do you just do internet battles? I&#x27;m surprised you&#x27;re allowed on the broad internet. Are you VPNing or are you some sort of silovik?<p>Your cowards launched quite a bunch of drones and missiles at Kyiv last night, targeting civilian infrastructure. Lots of civilians dead. The civilized world will never forget this.


type: comment
by: scheme271
text:
  The first generation of GLP-1 agonists are out of patent protection.  Teva is producing a generic liraglutide (aka Victoza &#x2F; Saxenda).  Ozempic (semiglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide) have protection until after 2031 in the US, I think it&#x27;s less in other countries.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  You can be skeptical of both but Palantir and Peter Thiel especially are categorically horrible, and have shown to solely value increasing their net worth more than all else.<p>Yeah yeah capitalism optimize for shareholders, but there are plenty of successful large companies that haven&#x27;t built an entire brand out of directly enabling large entities to erode any semblance of freedom we have left.


type: comment
by: esperent
text:
  I set grayscale in my phone&#x27;s quiet hours settings. It&#x27;s to help me sleep, rather than to reduce my phone usage. It means if I wake in the night and look at my phone, I&#x27;m not blasted by colors. Or if I stay up a bit later than usual. I find it beneficial although probably not revolutionary.<p>I did try setting my phone to grayscale during the day but didn&#x27;t see much if any benefits there.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  Is this different than tone policing[1]?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tone_policing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tone_policing</a>


type: comment
by: Sayyidalijufri
text:
  This is a really clever tool. I love the clean, one-page layout for tracking habits over a full year.<p>One suggestion: would it be possible to add a quarterly version? Like three months per page, or separate pages for each quarter? It&#x27;d be great for shorter-term goals without everything feeling so crammed on one sheet.<p>Thanks for making and sharing this!


type: comment
by: 1123581321
text:
  I do similarly. Triple tap puts it in night mode, red and black. It’s nice for checking messages in the middle of the night.


type: comment
by: avodonosov
text:
  I am reading the CodePen example for summary&#x2F;details. Especially the CSS part.<p>Its so easy, like a breeze!


type: comment
by: nurettin
text:
  WDYM &quot;now&quot;? Companies that get large enough get contracts. Even apple sold power macs iphones and ipads to us mil.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  Even with the best GPU optimizations, most of the data will be processed in full color and then tossed through an extra pass at the end.  More likely is that <i>all</i> the data does that.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  Then you’re changing context for no reason.<p>My point about human subjects is in the context of the linked studies.<p>I’m not super interested in further debating human subjects in science generally


type: comment
by: fy20
text:
  I&#x27;m old enough to have been on the internet before social networks, back in the days of forums &#x2F; bulletin boards. Even then there was always a new drama in the community. I feel it&#x27;s human nature.


type: story
by: fleahunter
title: Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits
url:
  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-rainbow-six-siege-breach-gives-players-billions-of-credits/


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  I agree that advertising is the root of it, but some people might still pay for modern social media. They used to pay for porn, before it was available for &quot;free&quot; (ad supported). Some still do. I pay for YouTube to avoid the ads. I don&#x27;t think I  would pay for Facebook or Tiktok though. Possibly an uninformed opinion as I&#x27;ve never used those platforms.


type: comment
by: dgoodell
text:
  I guess if one color pixel was significantly less efficient, and that color was also overrepresented on the display, then MAYBE changing to grayscale would require slightly less power to display the same intensity. But I don’t think that convoluted scenario probably isn’t what this person was thinking.


type: comment
by: xp84
text:
  Seriously. As a user I can count on zero hands the number of times I’ve said “Oh great, I’m sure glad this UI is animated!” - and likewise zero times have I missed it when animation isn’t used. Animation is a way to light small units of your users’ precious time on fire, for zero benefit.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  &gt;Things are looking worse this generation: The Xbox Series S and X reportedly only sold around 33 million units as of July, according to Statista estimates, while Sony confirmed it sold 84.2 million PS5s as of November.<p>I read the title and I thought xbox must be doing really bad. Turns out not the case. Especially when two sales figures are 4 months apart. Historically speaking PlayStation has always outsold Xbox by 2-3 times even in Xbox&#x27;s best days. Compared to its lunch in 2000 when no one in Japan or Asia were buying it this is still not doing too bad.<p>Although I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if PS6 will put Xbox further behind.


type: comment
by: Oarch
text:
  I used to make these for myself and found them very helpful for planning out the year. Mine had only one difference, which was aligning the days of the week between each month.


type: comment
by: bruce511
text:
  &gt;&gt; A some point the company says &quot;you know what, we like this software so much that we&#x27;re going to fork it, but the fork isn&#x27;t going to be free or open source. It&#x27;s going to be just ours, and we&#x27;re not going to share the improvements we made&quot;<p>Right. So at that point all those contributing developers are free to fork, and maintain the fork. You have just as much control as you always did.<p>And of course being MIT or GPL doesn&#x27;t make a difference, the company is permitted to change the license either way. [1]<p>So here&#x27;s the thing, folk are free to use the company product or not. Folk are free to fork or not.<p>In practice of course the company version <i>tends</i> to win because products need revenue to survive. And OSS has little to zero revenue. (The big revenue comes from, you know, companies who typically sell commercial software.)<p>Even with the outcome you hypothesize (and clearly that is a common outcome) OSS is still ahead because they have the code up to the fork. And yes, they may have contributed to earn this fork.<p>But projects are free to change license. That&#x27;s just built into how licenses work. Assuming that something will be GPL or MIT or whatever [2] forever is on you, not them.<p>[1] I&#x27;m assuming CLA us in play because without that your explanation won&#x27;t work.<p>[2] yes, I think GPL sends a signal of intention more than MIT, but it&#x27;s just a social signal, it doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t change. Conversely making it GPL makes it harder for other developers to adopt in the first place since most are working in non-GPL environments.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>disagree that it will always go unused. I think that China is using the US current global antagonism to encourage others to participate</i><p>China is in a border dispute with another founding member of the BRICS. Another is in the Western Hemisphere and will become a proxy-financial frontline.<p>There will be yuan, Euro and dollar payment rails. (If the EU had failed to unify, they’d be getting divided up between Washington and Moscow again.)


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  I don&#x27;t know if you all know this, but Palantir offers ai&#x2F;analytics services that are not just for governments. That&#x27;s how they started out, but don&#x27;t be surprised seeing random companies using them same as they would elastic, splunk and the like.<p>I won&#x27;t comment on Palantir themselves, I doubt I could add anything there, but I think there is a glaring pattern to be observed there. Companies really are not people, if people don&#x27;t want them, they can cease to exist. If the UK for example is really able to say no to Palantir, can they do it countrywide?<p>Fines aside (let&#x27;s be real, they&#x27;re just taxes at this point since no company goes bankrupt from fines these days), what company is facing meaningful consequence for harming society?<p>Vote with dollars? Ok...but back to my pessimism earlier, I guess I don&#x27;t need to vote at the ballot then right? Let&#x27;s just vote with our wallets instead?<p>If Palantir really is so evil (and I&#x27;m not saying that, I don&#x27;t know enough , although I&#x27;ve probably used their stuff more than most), at minimum, tell me what sort of a vote will lead to their extinction. if they broke the law, tell me who I  can vote for to imprison the law breakers. If they didn&#x27;t break the law because one didn&#x27;t exist to prohibit their actions to begin with, then who will pass the laws required so I can vote for them? Why are we not talking about whatever practice Palantir is in the habit of doing, and how to criminalize that? Maybe we can&#x27;t in the US, but this is Europe, I would hope they&#x27;d have better luck.<p>This sort of thinking and action-taking doesn&#x27;t seem to exist here in the US. I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re able to function that way anymore.<p>To friends in Europe and elsewhere: Take heed and be warned. Being able to organize and resist companies and laws, that&#x27;s something you should fight with all your strength over.<p>But looking at this site, it isn&#x27;t very convincing. I know of more serious accusations against Palantir that aren&#x27;t listed there. Enabling mass deportations and gaza, yeah.. that&#x27;s Microsoft, Google and Cisco as well. Their CEO, yeah.. Elon says a lot worse things about a lot more things, are his satellites banned in the UK? at least is the UK gov banned from using them? He&#x27;s been caught aiding Russia with his sats a couple of times now.<p>My observation is that a more holistic approach and measures are needed. A glaring lack of consequences over all.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  I mean has Microsoft ever released a decent consumer product naming or versioning system? I could name so many bad examples I cant even think of one good one.


type: comment
by: bfkwlfkjf
text:
  Why is it strange? Given that you have no idea whatsoever how pixels work, whats strange is that you have any expectation at all.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  I find time accuracy to be ridiculously interesting, and I have had to talk myself out of buying those a used atomic clock to play with [1]. I think precision time is very cool, and a small part of me wants to create the most overly engineered wall-clock using a Raspberry Pi or something to have sub-microsecond level accuracy.<p>Sadly, they&#x27;re generally just a bit too expensive for me to justify it as a toy.<p>I don&#x27;t work in trading (though not for lack of trying on my end), so most of the stuff I work on has been a lot more about &quot;logical clocks&quot;, which are cool in their own right, but I have always wondered how much more efficient we could be if we had nanosecond-level precision to guarantee that locks are almost always uncontested.<p>[1] I&#x27;m not talking about those clocks that radio to Colorado or Greenwich, I mean the relatively small ones that you can buy that run locally.


type: story
by: David_0101
title: Ask HN: Are LLMs becoming a real discovery channel for ecommerce?
text:
  With more people using AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for product research, it feels like traditional SEO is no longer the full picture.<p>I’m curious how others here are approaching this:<p>• Are you tracking whether AI assistants recommend your products? • Are you changing product data, schema, or feeds to improve AI readability? • Or is this still too early to matter in practice?<p>I’ve noticed a split between tools that monitor AI mentions and tools that focus on fixing product data so LLMs can actually verify and recommend items.<p>Would love to hear real experiences from people experimenting with this.


type: comment
by: paulhebert
text:
  Yeah this is true at this point. A lot of more complex patterns require JS to be accessible to screen readers.<p>We still should do more with HTML and CSS! And reach for leaner solutions than React everywhere.<p>But be careful going for a pure CSS solution for things like tabs if you don’t understand the accessibility requirements.<p>(I wish the HTML spec would move faster on these common patterns!)


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (140 points, 43 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404597">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404597</a>


type: comment
by: ArtTimeInvestor
text:
  Additionally, I have read up a bit more on the Lightning Network now, and it seems not possible to send invalid payments in the first place.<p>The sender does not have a direct communication channel with the receiver. They send the payment to a hop they are connected to (they have a channel with) and it gets routed to the receiver. The first hop would already drop an invalid payment. If they spam them with more invalid payments, all that would happen is that their connection to the Lightning Network would get lost as their channel partners would disconnect from them. The receiver would not receive a single network packet in the whole process.


type: comment
by: chuckledog
text:
  &gt; “As an aside, I think there may be an increased reason to use dynamic interpreted languages for the intermediate product. I think it will likely become mainstream in future LLM programming systems to make live changes to a running interpreted program based on prompts.”<p>Curious whether the author is envisioning changing configuration of running code on the fly (which shouldn’t require an interpreted language)?  Or whether they are referring to changing behavior on the fly?<p>Assuming the latter, and maybe setting the LLM aspect aside: is there any standard safe programming paradigm that would enable this?  I’m aware of Erlang (message passing) and actor pattern systems, but interpreted languages like Python don’t seem to be ideal for these sorts of systems.  I could be totally wrong here, just trying to imagine what the author is envisioning.


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  Nope, no goal posts were moved, Wikipedia and GitHub are both private entities that offer privately funded free services to everyone, and due to the widespread free access, both have been considered to be examples of digital commons by others. I didn’t make up the Wikipedia example, it’s in Wikipedia being offered as one of the canonical examples of digital commons, and unfortunately for you it pokes a hole in your argument. If your ‘book’ disagrees with the WP article, you’re free to fix it (since WP is a digital commons), and you’re also free to use it to re-evaluate whether your book needs updating.<p>You seem to be stuck on definitions of ‘commons’, and unfortunately that’s not a compelling argument for reasons I’ve already stated. Also unfortunate that there are fundamental terminology flaws, or made up definitions, or straw men arguments, or incorrect statements, or opinions in every single item you listed.<p>“Tragedy of the Commons” is a phrase that became an economic term of art a long time ago. It’s now an abstract concept, and gets used to mean (as well as defined by) <i>any</i> situation in which a community of people overusing shared resources causes any loss of access to those shared resources for anyone else in the community. “The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory claiming that individuals tend to exploit shared resources so that demand outweighs supply, and it becomes unavailable for the whole.” (Investopedia) I’ve already cited multiple sources that define it that way, and so far you’ve shared no evidence to the contrary.<p>There are also tons of examples online where the phrase has been used to refer to small, local, or privatized resources, I found a dozen in like one minute, so I already know it’s incorrect to claim that people don’t use the phrase in the way I’m suggesting.<p>Even though the phrase does not depend on any strict definition of commons (or of tragedy), none of your argument addresses the fact that what’s common in, say, Germany is not freely available to Iranians, for example. Land is often used in ‘tragedy of the commons’ examples. Hardin’s original example was sheep grazing on “public” land, and yet there is really no such thing as common land anywhere on this planet, all of it is claimed by subgroups, e.g., countries, and is private is some sense. The idea of commons, and even some of the alternate dictionary definitions, make explicit note that the word is relative to a specific community of people. Nothing you’ve said addresses that fact, and it means that ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ has <i>always</i> referred to resources that are not common in a global context. GitHub and Wikipedia are more common than “public” land in America in that global sense, because they’re used by and available to more people than US land is.<p>What I can agree with is that it’s common for people to mean things like land, air, and water, when using or referring to the phrase, and I agree those things count as commons.


type: comment
by: srikanthdotch
text:
  I am glad uv exists, I came back to using python regularly because of that. The company behind it &quot;astral&quot; is interesting and they seem to care about developer experience.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Interesting point, because Hacker News doesn&#x27;t serve ads, and doesn&#x27;t have any personalized algorithms, yet it&#x27;s quite compelling and I waste a lot of time here.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  We already have points as a wealth-invariant mechanism to affect drivers. No one has demonstrated that a flat percentage of income has a flat response curve. Given you already have a wealth-invariant mechanism, the fact that you are trying to add something else makes me think it’s not about wealth invariance.


type: comment
by: shubhamjain
text:
  I tried this. One week in, I got used to grayscale as well and my screen time was back to the baseline (maybe only marginally affected). After nearly a decade of trying these tricks, hacks, and gamified interventions, it’s clear to me why they rarely work: they fixate on the symptom (screen time, social media use) rather than the underlying problem. Your mind craves to feel engaged&#x2F;challenged in something. So, the actual problem is finding meaningful activities to replace your empty screen time, which isn&#x27;t necessarily easy.<p>If you want to reduce your screen time, the boring old discipline is much more sustainable approach. Put the phone down and replace it with a book, or puzzles, or hobbies, or time with people.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  &gt; And just as a smell test: have you ever converted an image to grayscale and flinched away because it seemed twice as bright? Of course not; it just loses its color.<p>Of course that is the way it is normally done.  But it does not have to be done that way; does it?<p>Guidelines and norms are meant to be bent.<p>To demonstrate:  I may be old, but I&#x27;ve definitely owned monochromatic &quot;paper white&quot; VGA displays that only responded to one channel of RGB and ignored the remaining two; the other two pins weren&#x27;t even present in the connector.  (These were trash for displaying color images without special care in software-world, but they were <i>cheap</i>.)<p>&gt; The only way you would get more perceived brightness at lower backlight intensity would be if you physically removed the color gels that overlay the LCD matrix. Which is obviously not what they’ve done here.<p>We can evaluate that.<p>Suppose we have one ideal backlit pixel displaying FF0000, and that to achieve FF0000 66.6% of the backlight&#x27;s total output for that pixel are being blocked and only the remaining 33.3% gets transmitted.  Two subpixels are occluded; one subpixel allows transmission.<p>Suppose that with a backlight intensity of 100%, this pixel has a luminous output of 1 unit.  (1 of what unit, you ask?  For our purposes, it doesn&#x27;t matter -- it&#x27;s just 1 unit.)<p>Now, suppose we double the area of exposed backlight by instructing our pixel to display FFFF00.  Our backlight intensity remains 100%, but we have twice as many subpixels allowing that backlight to be transmitted.  The backlight stays the same, but our measured luminous output for this pixel is now 2 units.<p>To continue:  FFFFFF.  All 3 subpixels allow light transmission.  Our luminous output is now 3 units for the same level of backlight.<p>Thus:  With this result of 3 units, we&#x27;ve got 3 times as much light as we had at the beginning -- for the same pixel, with the same backlight, and about the same energy use.<p>---<p>To get back to the same 1 unit luminous intensity as we had with FF0000 @ 100% backlight, we can run the backlight at 33.3% for FFFFFF.  This saves power.<p>Our pixel is producing 1 unit of luminosity with FFFFFF, but with only one third of the backlight required to display FF0000 with 1 unit of output.<p>&gt;  The idea that color pixels drain more energy is just obviously nonsense.<p>That&#x27;s not obvious to me at all <i>for a backlit LCD</i>.<p>FFFFFF is always going to be brighter than colors like FF0000, 00FF00 and 0000FF are for a given backlight intensity, which permits the opportunity to reduce the amount of backlight provided, use less energy, and still provide the same luminosity as a color would.<p>And it accomplishes this without stripping layers out of an LCD panel, or using magical thinking.<p>Is that what was proposed?  Fucked if I know.  I find that articles like this (and approximately anything else that has ever been published with the words &quot;you&quot; and &quot;should&quot; juxtaposed in the title) are meant to make people bicker about dumb shit, and I try to avoid poisoning my brain by reading them.


type: comment
by: nis0s
text:
  What are you on about?<p>This is the guy, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andrew_Ng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andrew_Ng</a>


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  Seems like the users are voting with their feet, right? Maybe respect the users wishes and stop preaching what users should be wanting?


type: comment
by: Simplita
text:
  This pattern shows up a lot once content filtering becomes part of the delivery path instead of a pre-check. Failures feel “network-y” but are really policy decisions leaking into transport. In systems we’ve worked on, the hardest part wasn’t blocking content, it was making the failure mode explicit so retries and debugging didn’t spiral.


type: comment
by: hn111
text:
  I’ve tried replacing my modal components with the &lt;dialog&gt; element, but had to reverse everything due to this issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;html&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;html&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9936</a><p>In short: you can’t have an interactive popover (e.g. a toast notification) on top of a dialog modal.<p>I’d love to use the new native elements but we’re sadly not quite there yet.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  Well that’s just<p>&gt; <i>No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it&#x27;s not the same river and he&#x27;s not the same man</i>


type: comment
by: Trasmatta
text:
  Agreed. My brain just adjusted to grey scale and I was scrolling just as much. There are no easy &#x2F; simple hacks.


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  Incentive != break even point.<p>$35-40 takes into account the risks and time value of the investment, potential price fluctuations, and the preference for (all else equal) lowest cost extraction.<p>I would not expect someone to dump in a shit ton of money, hope the well works out, and nothing else go wrong right at an expected cost at $60&#x2F;barrel with amortized investments&#x2F;operations included.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  On the one hand, some sloppy GPS units fail on a 20 year schedule.  On the other hand, a bunch of things using NTP are going to fail in about ten years.  (2036 rather than 2038 because reasons)


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Agree, those are some environmental differences. But any &quot;microRNA&quot; profile I might have contributed to the conception of each would be broadly similar. My life was pretty stable and levels of stress, diet, exercise, etc. were all about the same for all three.


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
text:
  Technically, they disappeared because of limited resources.  If every pharmaceutical organization had unlimited funding to run unlimited trials, then they would.


type: comment
by: Simulacra
text:
  The rise of Citizen journalists across the spectrum of news has been very satisfying to see. With cameras in our hands, I hope more average every day people engage in a form of community journalism.


type: comment
by: Brajeshwar
text:
  This ideas pops up pretty often, and people have their opinions. Personally, I suggest against this, especially if you are older (40+ years).<p>I’ve tried this, and it is a hindrance to some of the critical apps I use regularly, such as Camera, Maps, Messages, and occasionally the Phone App.[1] Of course, you can set shortcuts in the Control Center, double-tap the back of your phone, and all of that jazz, but it is slower, and the UX is a hindrance when you need it.<p>Instead, have the minimal App on your HomeScreen to avoid distractions as much as possible and&#x2F;or remove the usual suspects — Social Media Apps, Games, etc. The idea is to make your Phone boring but just works when you need it. You can continue to use them on your desktop&#x2F;laptop, which prevents that easy reach when you are not at your desk. Read[2] or write[3] if you are serious about avoiding distractions. If you already use a Smartwatch,[4] you can reduce your phone usage a lot more.<p>And the eyes work much harder in the Grayscale than in well-contrast colors. I prefer most things minimal; no labels, no text where not needed, learn shortcuts, etc. However, my phone is set to show labels and has higher contrast in the evening&#x2F;night, while it shows no labels during the day. If I have to glance at it at night while driving or wake up to VIP&#x2F;critical calls at night, I can see way faster and easier than squinting my eyes or fumbling for the glass. Grayscale is horribly in this situation.<p>And shooting photos in Grayscale, even if the actual photos are in color, is another blunder. I want to see the shades while shooting to compensate for any errors. Again, especially in the dark (however good phone AIs have become), it will always be either too bright and saturated (compensated by the AI) or too dark with a chance in lens at the last moment, trying to focus elsewhere.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;phone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;phone&#x2F;</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;notes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;notes&#x2F;</a><p>4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;watch-tiny-handy-computer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;watch-tiny-handy-computer&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  We need to add birth order to federally protected categories lest the thirdies try something on us deserving firstborn.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  &gt; But as much as I hate to admit it, it is very difficult to build something functional today with plain HTML and no&#x2F;minimal JS.<p>I would certainly agree that using a little JS can get you further than just HTML. But I think that a plain HTML page is <i>far</i> more pleasant to use (and thus, functional) than the JS monstrosities that dominate the Web today. There&#x27;s a <i>reason</i> people use the NoScript addon: because a whole lot of website designers use JS in ways that make the experience a ton worse for the user.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>For instance, they just slashed short term rates 25bps, but long bond rates (10+ years) have actually gone up a few basis points since the cut</i><p>Could you point to the date range you’re referencing?<p>&gt; <i>if you look at the debt, and the USD&#x27;s current position, there really is no way out for the US government other than inflating the currency and cashing in that reserve status for a reset</i><p>Of course there is. Loads of options.<p>Broadly speaking, the talk around rates and commodities tends to involve serious people totally divorced from the talk-show&#x2F;Zero Hedge circuit.


type: comment
by: eipipuz
text:
  I agree with what you are saying but remember the twin scenario. Spoiler alert, the kids are nonetheless different.


type: comment
by: DiscourseFan
text:
  I think its interesting that in the &quot;rationalist&quot; latter half of the 20th century Freud began to be dismissed at least in part on account of his elective affinity with Lamarck; now, it is clear that certain environmental and social factors have an influence on offspring at the genomic level from both parents.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>see that as a side show to the overall banking system</i><p>See what? The geopolitics? The petrodollar was <i>entirely</i> a geopolitical affair. If anything, one could argue petrodollar recycling—together with the fall of the USSR-created the modern American banking system. (The timeline is compelling for <i>e.g.</i> LBO debt.)


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  All right, but apart from the coding, search, analysis, and summarization, what have LLMs ever done for <i>us</i>?


type: comment
by: karlitooo
text:
  When foundry came out the demo looked next level. I&#x27;m sure you could do much of the same thing with FOSS but IMO the problem that the NHS has been struggling with for multiple decades really looks like a lack of Technical Leadership due to the complexity of the environment and care needed when dealing with patient data.<p>Hopefully Palantir has the necessary skillset to navigate the political environment which involves developing a platform that: 1. protects patient privacy 2.  supports needs of providers (e.g. hospitals, gps, specialists, DoH) 3. allows providers to use data to support their operations 4. allows NHS to use the data to improve patient outcomes and efficiency<p>This Foundry demo impressed me at the time but its a bit dated now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms</a><p>Actual data analyst from a hospital talking about what the platform achieves: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ps47Azr2Jz0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ps47Azr2Jz0</a>


type: comment
by: plagiarist
text:
  The introduction of the baggage fee means more travelers will carry their suitcases. Without that, they might not have the opportunity to grab their bags.


type: comment
by: rlupi
text:
  Rigidity in inputs lock down your system&#x27;s evolution. The whole system need to evolve in lockstep if you need to change what the systems processes.<p>In practice, you either end up with an enlarging monolith or introducing state evolution (either explicitly, or by adding incremental input types that the system processes and expanding its API surface).<p>Beyond a certain inflection point of complexity, flexibility in introducing change becomes necessary.


type: comment
by: zarzavat
text:
  A table of numbers is copyrightable if it represents some creative expression by a human being. For example, a BMP representing a sketch is a table of numbers and clearly copyrightable.<p>Weights are numbers that come from an optimization process. To the extent that weights encode any creativity, they encode the creativity of the training data. But any company using AI models (including Apple) does not want <i>that</i> interpretation because they are using AI models that were trained on other people&#x27;s copyrighted works. If weights could be copyrighted, we all of us would own them.


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  &gt; For the tagged case you would have to change all(!) the call sites<p>Yeah, that&#x27;s exactly why I want a tagged union; so when I make a change, the compiler tells me where I need to go to do updates to my system, instead of manually hunting around for all the sites.<p>---<p>The only time an untagged union is appropriate is when the tag accounts for an appreciable amount of memory in a system that churns through a shit-ton of data, and has a soft or hard realtime performance constraint.  Other than that, there&#x27;s just no reason to not use a tagged union, except &quot;I&#x27;m lazy and don&#x27;t want to&quot;, which, sometimes, is also a valid reason.  But it&#x27;ll probably come back to bite you, if it stays in there too long.


type: comment
by: andrehacker
text:
  Was not aware of this console and especially not of the processor a contemporary of the Atari 2600 which apparently was primarily successful in Europe.<p>Programming for this must have been a joy as it had 37 BYTES of memory (the Atari had a whopping 128 BYTES).


type: comment
by: bfkwlfkjf
text:
  I don&#x27;t know the legals in detail, but I cant imagine that GPL would do something about how you use it in your home? How is that enforceable?<p>Again don&#x27;t now the legals but I think in practical terms this affects companies trying to own a project.<p>&gt; using something in a way you don&#x27;t like<p>You&#x27;re mischaracterizing what I&#x27;m saying. For one thing you&#x27;re talking about &quot;someone&quot; when I&#x27;m taking about &quot;someone with power&quot;. Copyleft isn&#x27;t about two people, one gaining power over the other. It&#x27;s about lots of people with no power protecting themselves again one entity with a lot of power to impose themselves.<p>&gt; Do you have an example of that happening?<p>Are you new to HN? Every month there&#x27;s news of projects trying to arrest power contributors using various shenanigans. Copyleft protects against a class of such attacks.<p>Eg Oracle and open office, red hat and centos.<p>Edit this is literally on HN right. Is this your first day here or something? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1puojsr&#x2F;the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1puojsr&#x2F;the_device_t...</a>


type: comment
by: hemulich
text:
  Hey HN!<p>I built this because I was frustrated with bloated image editors for simple tasks.<p>Key features: - Client-side only (images never leave your browser) - No account required - Drag &amp; drop support - Multiple fonts and text styling - Instant download<p>Tech stack: Vanilla JS, HTML5 Canvas, no frameworks.<p>Would love your feedback and suggestions!


type: comment
by: intended
text:
  Why not choose GDP? Or meat consumption? You could choose any pair of correlated variables.<p>Using “The invention of the single mother” is a poor way of explaining away Bad Marriages and relationships.<p>Also, there was a UN report which came out that showed that a major factor behind people choosing not to have children, globally, is money.


type: comment
by: handoflixue
text:
  I think at some point in the future, you&#x27;ll be able to reconfigure programs just by talking to your LLM-OS: Want the System Clock to show seconds? Just ask your OS to make the change. Need a calculator app that can do derivatives? Just ask your OS to add that feature.<p>&quot;Configuration&quot; implies a preset, limited number of choices; dynamic languages allow you to rewrite the entire application in real time.


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  I believe there is a misunderstanding. The compiler can check untagged unions just as much as it can check tagged unions. I don&#x27;t think there is any problem with &quot;ambiguous narrowing&quot;, or &quot;reliability&quot;. There is also no risk of &quot;nullable everywhere&quot;: If the type of x is Foo|Null, the compiler forces you to write a null check before you can access x.bar(). If the type of x is Foo, x is not nullable. So you don&#x27;t have to remember null checks (or checks for other types): the compiler will remember them. There is no difference to tagged unions in this regard.


type: comment
by: yussif_17
text:
  For those living in other parts of the world here ya go:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?sofshavua=1&amp;year=2026" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?sofshavua=1&amp;year=2026</a>


type: comment
by: RheingoldRiver
text:
  I think they mean writing Tu Th Sa Su instead of T T S S (personally I&#x27;m a fan of T &#x2F; theta if I&#x27;m doing single-letter abbreviations but Sat&#x2F;Sun is still not the best)


type: comment
by: smallnamespace
text:
  The market cap is unambiguous, a more correct estimate of &quot;how much to buy all the shares?&quot; is situational and would just distract from getting the point across.


type: comment
by: intended
text:
  The $ from people paying for subscriptions and the $$$$$$ from ad revenue, is too much of a bridge to cross.


type: story
by: af_mi
title: Show HN: I visualized C pointers because I was failing my class (built with AI)
url: https://afmicreates-c-learning.streamlit.app/
text:
  Hi HN, I am a 17-year-old Kosen student in Japan. I struggled to understand pointers, so instead of reading textbooks, I prompted AI to build this visualization tool for me. I wrote almost 0 lines of code manually. It is still very rough and early (MVP), but it works enough to teach me memory concepts. Feedback welcome!


type: comment
by: kamphey
text:
  I&#x27;ve used a Google Sheet exactly like this. Highlighted weekends and laid out with all days of the year. Export as PDF can fit on a single sheet of paper.  But I also print it out on a huge paper and hang it up for my family.  [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettersheets.co&#x2F;bigyear" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettersheets.co&#x2F;bigyear</a>]


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  &gt;Quality at scale with better processes and automation. I think history shows its the scale that matters. Once you have scale you can improve quality across everything.<p>I agree but I don&#x27;t think it is possible to maintain an advantage in process or scale permanently in general. If you expect other countries to never figure it out, you&#x27;re wrong. But there can be a situation where higher local costs in some areas are offset somehow by transport costs or strategic subsidies for domestic production.<p>&gt;Regulatory protectionism is a good thing, but I&#x27;m also not convinced that folks in China would be happy with crappy cars either.<p>China has many protectionist policies, some of which they have leveraged to steal technology from foreign competitors. The Chinese people are not very happy with their vehicle options, but they do not have the option to buy foreign either for the most part. To give you an idea how unhinged it can be in China, I&#x27;ve heard of campaigns to force everyone to discard perfectly good appliances and scooters to stimulate their economy and eat up excess product. It&#x27;s a bad move but that&#x27;s how they roll.<p>Foreign cars cannot be imported en masse to China, and even the cheapest Western-made cars are more expensive than the average Chinese buyer wants to pay. The cheapest new car on the US market is about $25k I think, and the average is closer to $40k.<p>&gt;I don&#x27;t live in the US, but another Western country, one that doesn&#x27;t protect the car market because we have no car manufacturing here at all. I&#x27;m not seeing a flood of crappy cars.<p>I think you&#x27;d be better off buying cars from neighboring countries. Anyway, I think every country that can support car manufacturing should do so for strategic reasons. What I was referring to is US-specific rules about what kinds of cars can be imported. Imported cars are usually the more luxurious models due to the rules. The rules as I understand them involve listing out features that each model has. Bare bones and low-quality cars are rejected even if they could be useful to someone, because this strikes a balance between letting people buy what they want and supporting local industry.<p>&gt;The Chinese EVs seem very good on price and (so far, new models take time to reveal problems and serviceability) quality.<p>They are cheap but low-quality and no doubt infused with Chinese spy&#x2F;sabotage tech. I&#x27;m sure that they can eventually improve on quality, but ultimately countries in the West that produce cars now need to guard their own industries against insurmountable foreign competition. Nobody can beat the Chinese on price, generally. Their government will eat a loss to put competition out of business, because they want to take over the world. So the best we can do is act accordingly.


type: comment
by: sreekanth850
text:
  In physics, time is local and relative,  independent events don’t need a global ordering. Distributed databases shouldn’t require one either. The idea of a single global time comes from 1980s single-node database semantics, where serializability implied one universal execution order. When that model was lifted into distributed systems, researchers introduced global clocks and timestamp coordination to preserve those guarantees,  not because distributed systems fundamentally need it. It’s time we rethink this., Only operations that touch the same piece of data require ordering. Everything else should follow causality like the physical universe, independent events don’t need to agree on sequence, only dependent ones do. Global clocks exist because some databases forced serializable cross-object transactions onto distributed systems, not because nature requires it. Edit: I welcome for a discussion with people who disagree and downvote.


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  Yeah, that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s receiving an extremely narrowband signal accumulated over a long window so it can suffer the trash efficiency I&#x27;m talking about.


type: comment
by: nearbuy
text:
  I&#x27;m probably not the best person to ask, having looked at the site for all of 5 minutes.<p>The experiment is having a bunch of AI agents using different models (Opus, Gemini, etc) try to do various real world tasks together. They might be tasked with organizing an event, opening a merchandise store, or help raise money for a charity (I&#x27;m not clear on the details). Sometimes their tasks require email (for example, signing up for some web service).<p>That aside, counterintuitively, removing their email access is less effective than simply telling them not to send unsolicited emails, since they could just sign up for a free email service.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  Yeah, good point.<p>If I ever get the chance, I&#x27;ll try to remember to tell the 1995 version of me to watch out for that pesky overflow bug that they might experience with NTP -- two score and 1 year in their future.


type: comment
by: rlupi
text:
  Have you tried Jax or Taichi? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taichi-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taichi-lang.org&#x2F;</a><p>For Monte Carlo simulations, Pyro and tensorflow_probability have also nice abstractions.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  &gt; The control loop for host PTP benefits from regularity.<p>How much regularity?  If you sent PTP packets with 5 milliseconds of randomness in the scheduling, does that cause real problems?  It&#x27;s still going to have an accurate timestamp.<p>&gt; instruct the host operating system to disable high-exit-latency sleep features<p>Why, though?  You didn&#x27;t explain this.  As long as the packet got timestamped when it arrived, the CPU can ask the NIC how many nanoseconds ago that was, and correct for how long it was asleep.  Right?


type: comment
by: fy20
text:
  There have been seconds order effects that have led to lower fuel consumption. Cars typically consume less fuel for the same distance driven compared to two decades ago. Part of that is increased fuel economy, part of it is smaller &#x2F; more efficient cars growing in popularity.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  Giga-rich dude with massive AI investments extols the virtues of AI while minimizing obvious harms. Are we seriously past the point of questioning such an obvious conflict of interest?


type: comment
by: creshal
text:
  Coffee was around in Ethiopia and Yemen before that, but it didn&#x27;t really spread in the Muslim world before 1500, and didn&#x27;t spread from there to Europe until even later.


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  &gt; &gt; For the tagged case you would have to change all(!) the call sites<p>&gt; Yeah, that&#x27;s exactly why I want a tagged union; so when I make a change, the compiler tells me where I need to go to do updates to my system, instead of manually hunting around for all the sites.<p>You don&#x27;t have to do anything manually. There is nothing to do. Changing the return type of a function from String|Null to String is completely safe, the compiler knows that, so you don&#x27;t have to do any &quot;manual hunting&quot; at call sites.


type: comment
by: h317
text:
  It is way easier to fix a specific problem than to find one and sell solution for it.<p>For example, Hi I’m John and my accounting software can increase your profits by 10% by reducing time spent doing billing.<p>Vs<p>Hi I’m John, we do custom software and we can do an app for you in accounting for example, but also a crypto wallet or a booking website.<p>If you are in the second route, there is no mass outreach strategy because you are not offering anything specific your customer is anyone and your solution is anything. The outreach works for the first category, because spam or not, if someone is offering to fix a problem I have I’m ready to listen.  Hence the relationship advice, if you provide services, people around you need to know that you “do apps and stuff”, and if you do products you can throw 1,000 emails fixing one thing with some level of certainty that someone within the ICP will give you a chance.


type: comment
by: fy20
text:
  Biodiesel is a thing, there are fuel stations that sell it to the public in Europe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neste.com&#x2F;products-and-innovation&#x2F;neste-my-renewable-diesel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neste.com&#x2F;products-and-innovation&#x2F;neste-my-renew...</a>


type: comment
by: adrianN
text:
  I have twins (a boy and a girl) and you could tell they have a completely different temperament about two weeks after birth.


type: comment
by: didip
text:
  As an enhancement, it would be cool to be able to spread into multiple pages. 1 month per page, or 2 months per page, ..., 12 months per page.<p>It&#x27;s hard to write on such small boxes.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  I do believe there are (fairly) tight tolerances for clock synchronization between the network and the user equipment&#x2F;handsets, but I don&#x27;t know that it necessarily involves communicating the wallclock time. And the oscillators for signal timing aren&#x27;t necessarily used for timekeeping.


type: story
by: 1vuio0pswjnm7
title: Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes
url:
  https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/03/surging-satellite-numbers-threaten-to-dazzle-even-space-telescopes


type: comment
by: mahirsaid
text:
  Acquiring a company due to a loophole strategy is worth exponentially more than what they paid for. Its a good strategy if the aim is to beat the AI bubble and survive it after the smoke clears. not bad. Better than financing numerous data centers for no use when the bubble crashes.


type: comment
by: jaredklewis
text:
  &gt; Either it is correct; or it is not. Perhaps it is somewhat correct, but then it may not be fully correct, so it would contain wrong information.<p>I don&#x27;t understand your criticism.<p>It makes complete sense that the researchers are worried about the research being oversold. It&#x27;s routine for media to take a scientific finding and grossly exaggerate its impact, i.e. &quot;New research proves you can exercise your way to a fit child&quot; or whatever.<p>This is science, we don&#x27;t know if anything is &quot;correct.&quot; The more compelling the research, the more we can adjust our priors as to what is &quot;correct.&quot;<p>&gt; There are examples of where theories were lateron shown to be wrong.<p>There are also lots of examples where theories were later not shown to be wrong. What&#x27;s your point?<p>Do you have an actual, concrete criticism of the methodology of the epigentic research in TFA, or are your just bloviating?


type: comment
by: lifthrasiir
text:
  Maybe we should all adopt Chinese weekday names: Sunday (星期日) remains same, Firstday (星期一) for Monday, Seconday (星期二) for Tuesday, Thirday (星期三) for Wednesday, Fourthday (星期四) for Thursday, Fifthday (星期五) for Friday and Sixthday (星期六) for Saturday. One-letter abbreviations would be simply S, 1 through 6.


type: comment
by: taklaxbr
text:
  Thank you! I&#x27;m learning a lot from this process and the open-source community. Staying up late coding is definitely worth it when I see feedback like this! :)


type: comment
by: christina97
text:
  It’s not that hard. You would not expect 5 sec drift on phones that can sync time on the web at least once a day or once a week. A basic quartz crystal can keep time to within seconds per month of drift. High quality phones can do the same or better. Also the phone should keep track of system time as epoch time, and convert to local.


type: comment
by: anonzzzies
text:
  Agenda&#x27;s delivered prior to the meeting, not just at the start and MoMs afterwards, otherwise if was a waste. And with this, it often is a waste anyway, but at least there was an attempt.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Gotta revise that Algorithms and Data Structures book on how to make do with existing memory sizes, and how to make do of modular programming instead of microservices.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  As a lover of Rust, ooo boy does this sound like a bad idea. The Rust compiler is not guaranteed to always output safe code against malicious inputs given that there’s numerous known soundness bugs that allow exploiting this. Unless I’m missing something this is a security nightmare of an idea.<p>Also there’s reasons why eBPF programs aren’t allowed to run arbitrarily long and this just ignores that problem too.


type: comment
by: there_is_try
text:
  When expectations are bundled with trying, then yes disappointment is inevitable. Expectations are not a good reason to not try.


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  According to the FBI:<p>&gt; <i>The after-action responses – 50 pages in all – were located by current FBI Director Kash Patel’s team and recently turned over to the House Judiciary Committee and its special subcommittee investigating security failures and weaponization of law enforcement during the Jan. 6 riot.</i><p>&gt; <i>The document has proven a bombshell to lawmakers, revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns after the violence started but with no clear safety gear of way to be recognized by other law enforcement agencies working in the chaos of the riot.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justthenews.com&#x2F;accountability&#x2F;fbi-bombshell-274-agents-sent-capitol-j6-many-later-complained-they-were-political" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justthenews.com&#x2F;accountability&#x2F;fbi-bombshell-274-age...</a>


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  &gt; And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video!<p>Reality must have been falling apart for someone for a brief moment there.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  &gt; I had previously set up my gpg key on a Yubikey and even used that gpg key to handle ssh authentication. Then at some point it just stopped working, maybe the hardware on my key broke<p>Did you try to SSH in verbose mode to ascertain any errors? Why did you assume the hardware &quot;broke&quot; without anyone objective qualifications of an actual failure condition?<p>&gt; I figured storing an SSH key in 1Password and using the integrated SSH socket server with my ssh client and git was pretty nice and secure enough<p>How is trusting a closed-source, for-profit, subscription-based application with your SSH credential &quot;secure enough&quot;?<p>Choosing convenience over security is certainly not unreasonable, but claiming both are achieved without any compromise borders on ludicrous.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  The earlier article has a brief mention of CCDH&#x27;s Labour links, and <i>none</i> of the other information in my post. It does cite the US govt. <i>accusations</i>, but makes very sure that&#x27;s all it cites - painting a picture of he-said she-said, as if those accusations were not easily verifiable.<p>It also parrots UK govt. talking points on how much they value free speech and how denying visas is equivalent to censorship and witch-hunts, but neglects to mention the UK has banned, among others, Renaud Camus and Martin Sellner, from entry, based upon their speech.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  More than a decade of progress, probably in no small part from Google pushing vendors to improve hardware :)


type: comment
by: math
text:
  Saw this last year and liked it so much I added something very similar to it to Infumap (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;infumap&#x2F;infumap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;infumap&#x2F;infumap</a>). You can drag items of arbitrary type onto dates. When more than one item is associated with a date, a numbered button appears; clicking it lets you cycle through them. Items can be pages or links to pages, which when clicked show the page as a popup. Calendar pages in the parent page display as a list of all items scheduled for the next seven days.


type: comment
by: tapoxi
text:
  It was an &quot;online service&quot;, basically a dedicated client and a curated experience before the internet and web standardized things.<p>When you logged in, you&#x27;d get a &quot;Welcome&quot; screen with news, if you had any mail, etc. Most of AOL was organized into &quot;Channels&quot; which were different sections focused on things like Sports or Kids.<p>You could jump to a channel with a keyword, somewhat like a URL.<p>The channels looked somewhat like hypercard decks. Everything was designed to load fast on a slow modem  and assets were shipped with the client, typically on floppy or CD. Occasionally a channel would download an &quot;art pack&quot; which could take 5-10 minutes, but this was rare.<p>After AOL 2.6 or so it had internet functionality and became an ISP. You still needed to use the AOL software to dial in (it didn&#x27;t use PPP like others) but otherwise it worked fine.<p>It was the easiest &quot;one of those&quot; at the time, competing with CompuServe and Prodigy. Apple had a rebranded AOL briefly called eWorld.


type: comment
by: taklaxbr
text:
  Thanks for the kind words regarding the self-healing logic!<p>To answer your question about v6&#x2F;Phi-2: It uses a session-based RAM residency approach rather than a background daemon or per-request loading.<p>When you toggle the offline mode (or if it starts in that mode), the OfflineModelManager class loads the weights into memory once. Since the shell runs in a continuous while True loop, the model stays &#x27;hot&#x27; in RAM for the duration of that session.<p>This eliminates the cold-start latency for every error correction, making the &#x27;self-healing&#x27; feel instantaneous. The trade-off is, of course, the sustained RAM usage while the shell is open, but I found this preferable to waiting 10+ seconds for a re-load on every command failure.


type: comment
by: Brajeshwar
text:
  I did something, much simpler, some time back in Google Sheets. Around year-end, I go and edit the location of the starting dates each month (drag around, some formatting). I also like the weekdays lined up instead. Use it more as a bigger-picture timeline&#x2F;schedule for the year, for the family, and me.<p>Here is the template from last year that I shared with friends. If you are looking at it, take this as a base or an idea and build on it — finances, big life events, travel, etc.<p>The “Year” tab is kinda like a big-picture plan of where family members are in their years, education, and, hence, significant life events. As the months go by in the year, just fold&#x2F;hide that portion.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVOMxCkjzaVHdwb9lCBnjUno28&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVO...</a><p>PS. I’m tinkering with moving to a plainer text format this year, in MarkDown planning for a 10-year, 20-year, 30-years, and then kinda brain-simulation of what might be in 50 or even 100 years after I’m gone. I plan for the family&#x2F;generation as an entity and I just insert myself as one of the role in it. ;-)


type: comment
by: caseysoftware
text:
  Thanks for the insight but my claim was never &quot;12,000mi is really 35,000mi&quot;<p>Regardless, it would be interesting to see the actual number worked through to see what the equivalent EV registration fee should be if road damage&#x2F;maintenance is the sole factor.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  Well, the US is a &quot;propositional nation&quot;, we are told, so of course people are deported if they don&#x27;t subscribe to the proposition. How else could it be a propositional nation?


type: comment
by: taklaxbr
text:
  Thanks a lot for the recommendation! I hadn’t heard about this before. Since my goal is to turn my projects into real products I’ll definitely check it out today.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Tokyo is in a literal housing price bubble in a country with a _shrinking_ population. </code></pre> No, this is wrong.  (1) There is no housing price bubble in Tokyo.  Yes, some very central &quot;ku&#x27;s&quot; (Shibuya-ku and Minato-ku) are seeing a rise in home prices, but it is nothing ridiculous.  It is no where near a repeat of the late 1980s.  You can easily select a neighborhood just ten minutes away and it will have sharply lower prices.  Also, Japan effectively has zero NIMBYism due to a national building code.  New housing is constantly being built in Tokyo.  (2) Yes, overall, the population is shrinking in Japan.  However, the population of Tokyo continues to rise.


type: comment
by: recursivecaveat
text:
  These kind of agents really do see the world through a straw. If you hand one a document it doesn&#x27;t have any context clues or external methods of determining its veracity. Unless a board-meeting transcript is so self-evidently ridiculous that it can&#x27;t be true, how is it supposed to know its not real?


type: comment
by: b112
text:
  The article doesn&#x27;t cover the inane stupid that is:<p>* NTP pool server usage requires using DNS<p>* people have DNSSEC setup, which requires accurate time or it fails<p>So if your clock is off, you cannot lookup NTP pool servers via DNS, and therefore cannot set your clock.<p>This sheer stupid has been discussed with package maintainers of major distros, with ntpsec, and the result is a mere shrug.  Often, the answer is &quot;but doesn&#x27;t your device have a battery backed clock?&quot;, which is quite unhelpful.  Many devices (routers, IOT devices, small boards, or older machines, etc) don&#x27;t have a battery backed clock, or alternatively the battery may just have died.<p>Beyond that, the ntpsec codebase has a horrible bug where if DNS is not available when ntpsec starts, pool server addresses are never, ever retried.  So if you have a complete power-fail in a datacentre rack, and your firewalls take a little longer to boot than your machines, you&#x27;ll have to manually restart ntpsec to even get it to ever sync.<p>When discussing this bug the ntpsec lads were confused that DNS might not exist at times.<p>Long story short, make sure you aren&#x27;t using DNS in any capacity, in NTP configs, and most especially in ntpsec configs.<p>One good source is just using the IPs provided by NIST.  Pool servers may seem fine, but I&#x27;d trust IPs assigned to NIST to exist longer than any DNS anyhow.  EG, for decades.


type: comment
by: jaredklewis
text:
  Well if the government raises more revenue from tolls, they can raise less from other regressive taxes or just redistribute that revenue to lower income brackets.<p>During covid the IRS sent everyone a check. No reason this also can&#x27;t work at a state level and just have toll funds sent out as checks to lower income brackets.


type: comment
by: stellalo
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;layout=aligned-weekdays" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;layout=aligned-weekd...</a>


type: comment
by: creato
text:
  That number seems very unlikely to be accurate. It&#x27;s more than 2x larger than all local, state, and federal government spending in 2025 combined.


type: comment
by: jatins
text:
  These arguments unfortunately fail flat in front of industrial use. AWS could be considered &quot;critical&quot; by most metrics and what is is it written in? Java


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  If it&#x27;s for an event, can they not bring all the devices together in close proximity and sync them somehow? That at least removes network delays


type: comment
by: parineum
text:
  &gt; The solution is surprisingly simple<p>Has this been tested and shown to be successful or is your confidence based on feels?


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  My theory is, that people who have the discipline to follow these weird self-imposed restrictions, don&#x27;t actually need them.<p>They can just follow through with the self-imposed restrictions on the actual problem.<p>If you want to limit social media time, then limit your social media time. Can&#x27;t? BW screen won&#x27;t help you.


type: comment
by: burnto
text:
  I was pretty young at the time, but I think it started as basically a BBS. With an Internet backbone so a bunch of local numbers could all access the same server. They added Internet access later, and initially only via their own browser.


type: comment
by: seydor
text:
  My main question generally is, why is palantir doing the work that research institutions should be doing for governments.<p>Make the data public if you want to see progress


type: comment
by: miohtama
text:
  It is Mongo<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vxunderground&#x2F;status&#x2F;2005008887234048091?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vxunderground&#x2F;status&#x2F;2005008887234048091?s=20</a>


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  AOL started off as something different from an ISP.<p>Like Prodigy and Compuserve and GEnie and some others, it was an on-line information system. Chat, message boards, news, stock quotes, (limited) shopping, games, software downloads, etc. But all within a single system. Kind of like a nationwide&#x2F;global BBS, but with a GUI interface. In the 80s, all these systems were independent, in the early 90s they got internet email, and the mid 90s added web browsers and (eventually) real tcp&#x2F;ip.


type: comment
by: eximius
text:
  Detecting an effect is present is separate from effect power and mechanism. Showing an effect is present is usually the first step before the other two.


type: comment
by: Animats
text:
  Is this a revival of Lysenkoism?[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lysenkoism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lysenkoism</a>


type: comment
by: nullhole
text:
  The same, but for the year 2026: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;layout=aligned-weekdays" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neatnik.net&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;layout=aligned-weekd...</a>


type: comment
by: b112
text:
  Unfortunately, some of us have to deal with things like billing, transaction timing to validate what a client&#x27;s logs might have on their systems, and so on.<p>My take on this is that second timing is close enough for this.  And that all my internal systems need agree on the time.  So if I&#x27;m off by 200ms or some blather from the rest of the world, I&#x27;m not overly concerned.  I am concerned, however, if a random internal system is not synced to my own ntp servers.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean I don&#x27;t keep our servers synced, just that being off by some manner of ms doesn&#x27;t bother me inordinately.  And when it comes to timing of events, yes, auto-increment IDs or some such are easier to deal with.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  Haven’t done Evals yet but measured on few real world situations where projects got stuck and the brainstorm mode solved it. Definitely running evals is something worth doing and contributions are welcomed<p>I think what really degrades the output is the context length vs context window limits, check out NoLima


type: comment
by: NetMageSCW
text:
  In the old days a friend considered working for Radio Shack and their contract basically had a we own everything you create regardless of what or when. They turned down the offer.


type: comment
by: WoodenChair
text:
  I was envisioning the latter (changing behavior on the fly). Think the hot-reload that Flutter&#x2F;Dart provides, but on steroids and guided by an LLM.<p>Interpretation isn’t strictly required, but I think runtimes that support hot-swap &#x2F; reloadable boundaries (often via interpretation or JIT) make this much easier in practice.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Yeah, a decade or so ago, I was constantly looking for GUIs to drive ffmpeg, but eventually I kind of realized I was spending more time playing with GUIs compared to just learning the basics of ffmpeg.<p>I will admit that I still do need to occasionally look up specific stuff, but for the most part I can do most of the common cases from memory.


type: comment
by: bfkwlfkjf
text:
  &gt; Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment<p>I disagree, shouldn&#x27;t be used even for entertainment. Going to YouTube for entertainment and relying on it to guide you is how you end up being radicalised on certain topics.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  As they should, of course. And this is no different from the annotations that started this conversation, other than that one is enforced by the compiler ... but you never mentioned that.<p>I won&#x27;t comment further.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  This is interesting analysis.  However, the MTA is much more than the New York City subway (and Staten Island railroad) that serves the five boroughs of New York City.  The LIRR (Long Island Railroad) is an <i>enormous</i> commuter rail system that serves a huge geographical area (probably the largest in North America).


type: comment
by: rado
text:
  You can’t force it to be always open on desktop and collapsible on mobile. That was a deal breaker for me.


type: comment
by: rlupi
text:
  Learn something else. Try Rust or Go.<p>E.g. Write a semi-naive datalog interpreter that  uses sqlite as a backend (sql and datalog are computationally equivalent), make it available to Python and Typescript. (I am actually bored too, I might &quot;steal&quot; my own idea)


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  Obviously I am aware that not all user actions represent choices, but the hypothetical being proposed was specifically in the context of good established free software alternatives existing. In that context users switching to software with more permissive licenses would imply a choice on the users part. It is reasonable to assume this choice implies the users value something about the other software more than they value what the GPL incumbent has to offer. Of course such a choice  could be motivated by many things like newer features, slick website, the author’s marketing, but whatever the case if the license was not sufficient enticement to stay, this feels significant.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  @starting-style Has less than 90% browser support making it a non-starter for the time being at least.


type: comment
by: f1shy
text:
  There are even identical twins that have different behaviors, characters and make different decisions.


type: comment
by: karlitooo
text:
  Mostly the x is evil crowd are reasoning based on political affiliation. As is the GoodLaw Project and Jolyon Maugham who have a history of doing so.<p>All media is agitprop now. If the CEO of a company says things that oppose the political chorus of either side, they become subject to witch hunts such as this.<p>Individuals are losing their ability to reason with ideas


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  I find it useful to let one agent come up with a plan after a review and another agent implementing the plan. For example, Gemini reviewing the code, codex writing a plan and then Claude code implementing it


type: comment
by: mjevans
text:
  You speak of an already dense place laid out like New York City, or maybe Japan.  Where there are regions that HAVE density and typically a matched civic infrastructure.<p>I am speaking of most of America, where that is NOT happening because densification of areas is blocked by those already nearby who like the way suburbs near jobs are.  (I don&#x27;t blame them, apartments and probably condos SUCK, the building codes don&#x27;t protect me from the choices of those nearby so everyone suffers the most annoyance.)<p>In effect, I am encouraging at least some of those nearby areas to experience zoning upgrades.  Like in a city simulator when low density residential gets replaced with high, and mid and high rises replace older single family homes and suburbs.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  The reaction to 70&#x27;s era oil embargo as opposed to the overall global monetary system. The oil embargo was a use of the monetary system not an intrinsic part of it&#x27;s development.


type: comment
by: tw04
text:
  And I can guarantee they’re on government assistance because I know what a “mover” makes, and I know what diapers and formula cost, and they aren’t paying for multiple children on that salary alone.


type: comment
by: zepolen
text:
  All of those can be done with pure html&#x2F;css, eg. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;mikestreety&#x2F;pen&#x2F;yVNNNm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;mikestreety&#x2F;pen&#x2F;yVNNNm</a>


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  I admit I was a young child during the AOL-mailer-cd era. I don&#x27;t really know what came before.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Print? Paper? Jot down with what? My calendar in the cloud performs these functions far better (from my perspective and work habits).<p>P.S. Maybe I should just remove the part in parentheses, since a number of people are completely ignoring it.


type: comment
by: callc
text:
  Executives like that make me daydream about different ways to build medium&#x2F;large organizations that put executives on the bottom (or not have any) and engineers on top.<p>These little lords of small fiefdoms make my skin crawl


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Doesn&#x27;t Sydney also have world class public transport infrastructure? </code></pre> I did a double take when I read that.  Where did you get that idea?  By world class, let&#x27;s say top 10 or 20 cities.  Surely, there are plenty of these cities in East Asia and Europe that are far better than Sydney.  I wonder if Mexico City or Sao Paolo has better public transport than Sydney.


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
text:
  Thanks! You would need to instruct the agents to follow best practices and explain it while developing. Sometimes they get messy but if you use the right instructions&#x2F;persona&#x2F;skills then you will get very good results<p>A final review from experienced developers is always recommended


type: story
by: incomplete
title: Condé Nast gets hacked, and DataBreaches gets "played"
url:
  https://databreaches.net/2025/12/25/conde-nast-gets-hacked-and-databreaches-gets-played-christmas-lump-of-coal-edition/


type: comment
by: barishnamazov
text:
  CSS rules for printing is one of my favorite features of the web. You get a powerful typesetter directly in your browser. For those wondering how it&#x27;s done, I wrote about it [0] recently for my friends who frequently asked how I generated PDFs for my blogs.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;barish.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;make-your-website-printable-with-css&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;barish.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;make-your-website-printable-with-css&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  It&#x27;s not an either&#x2F;or. Modern Javascript is actually <i>really</i> nice to write and use, and you can write it in a tight, minimal way that doesn&#x27;t bloat the page or slow it down.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Other mechanisms like adding lanes just invite more cars and traffic is not relieved. </code></pre> I have been seeing this argument for 30 years, and, yet, rich cities in the US (and Canada) continue to add more lanes.  My guess: It is just so politically positive to build more lanes that politicians continue to approve them.  Why doesn&#x27;t this happen as much in other rich countries?


type: story
by: andsoitis
title: America will not become a tech oligarchy
url:
  https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/21/donald-trumps-america-will-not-become-a-tech-oligarchy


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  This is why I don&#x27;t use Typescript or frameworks in my own projects, I just constantly seek the cleanest abstraction and never get anything done. Using a deliberately messy solution is annoying but at least I accomplish stuff.


type: comment
by: amluto
text:
  Home Assistant takes this one step farther. There is a pre-<i>run</i> hook that goes out its way to make it hard to run an “integration” that doesn’t meet its quality standard. I get that they don’t want to get PRs for integrations that don’t check the checklist, but as someone writing an integration (which I’m currently doing, for better or for worse), I want to run my own incomplete integration, thank you very much.<p>(One very nice thing about AI-assisted programming: Claude is not offended by duplicating the same code over and over and using utterly awful APIs, and Claude feels no particular compulsion to get distracted thinking about how the APIs I’m targeting could be made to be less awful.  Try asking the Home Assistant docs how an integration is supposed to handle a hot-added entity after an integration finishes setup: you will not get an answer. Ask Claude and it will cheerfully copy the ludicrous and obviously inappropriate solution used by other integrations. Sometimes semi-blindly doing something that works is the right solution when writing piles of glue code.)


type: comment
by: jakelazaroff
text:
  It&#x27;ll just degrade gracefully into not animating the element&#x27;s entry, so unless the animation is somehow crucial you should still be fine to use it.<p>If you really need to detect whether it&#x27;s supported there are hacky methods: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bram.us&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;11&#x2F;feature-detect-css-starting-style-support&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bram.us&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;11&#x2F;feature-detect-css-starting-s...</a>


type: comment
by: Sabinus
text:
  I want to congratulate you for not using a throwaway account for this comment.<p>HN is very USA and prudish for it, it&#x27;s refreshing to see substantive comments on topics like this without the usual throwaway greentext.


type: comment
by: anon7000
text:
  Subsidized transit has legitimately nothing to do with distorted housing costs or labor markets. Housing market is simply supply vs demand. Housing markets like Seattle are incredibly expensive because so many people want to move there, partly because local middle class wages are fairly high.<p>If you’re saying subsidized transit increases local quality of life, leading to higher demand, sure. But the cost itself has nothing to do with housing prices. Property taxes do not make mortgages more expensive. (Wouldn’t it have the opposite effect, high property taxes making houses harder to afford and therefore decreasing demand?)<p>Or is it that subsidized road systems don’t work? The pure miles of a system are completely irrelevant. Transit systems are meant for high density areas, costing more but covering less ground. The cost of tunneling under a mile Seattle for a road is absolutely more expensive than building a mile of highway in the middle of nowhere.<p>What the fuck are you on about re:democracy? “Thoughtless social experiments” are pretty far from the truth there. Democracy gets ruined by political parties unwilling to hold their own members accountable and by allowing corporations to exert more political power than human beings.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Gmail with html only would not be a nice experience. Modern gmail is really bloated but it&#x27;s actually one of the few web apps I have no problems with.


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  In the article, there&#x27;s a link in the text right before they put that parenthetical. I&#x27;m guessing they&#x27;re saying that the link interested them so they clicked it to read but opened it in a new tab so they could finish the current article first.


type: comment
by: 1659447091
text:
  &gt; US free speech is not absolute<p>Correct. As its sole purpose is to prevent the <i>Government</i> from restricting speech for viewpoints it does not like from anyone living under that government. Any laws restricting Free Speech have to be narrowly defined and&#x2F;or viewpoint agnostic; military secrets, sedition, etc. And those restriction can only be created by law, not a mayor&#x27;s or governor&#x27;s or president&#x27;s whims.<p>Advocacy or speaking to others, including business owners, with viewpoints the government doesn&#x27;t like <i>is</i> allowed.<p>It&#x27;s the main point of Free Speech -- to prevent the government, and only the government, from censoring or interfering&#x2F;restraining the expression of opinions. Especially if those opinions are not in alignment with, or favorable to, any sitting government.<p>This applies to both citizens and those who reside in the US. The person in the article is a US permanent resident.


type: comment
by: ethin
text:
  I love the MPL and I use it wherever I get the opportunity. IMO it has all the advantages of the GPL and lacks the disadvantages (the viral part) that makes the GPL so difficult to use.


type: comment
by: bawolff
text:
  &gt; This approach avoids the overly restricted verification requirements (e.g., program complexity constraints)<p>Maybe i&#x27;m missing something, but isn&#x27;t that a bad thing?


type: comment
by: benatkin
text:
  In this comment someone tries to justify its design, citing a lwn article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rex-rs&#x2F;rex&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2#issuecomment-2696533992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rex-rs&#x2F;rex&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2#issuecomment-26965339...</a>


type: comment
by: timr
text:
  &gt; You&#x27;re saying that a group having to spend all of its time fundraising has always been true in your lifetime and you link it to your time as a grad student decades ago and earlier when you were an undergrad. Do I have that right?<p>I mean, yes...but everyone on this thread admits that <i>it&#x27;s still true</i> (in fact, worse today), so I&#x27;m not sure what point you&#x27;re making with this. Y&#x27;all are arguing that <i>it&#x27;s worse now</i>, which is not a claim I am disputing [1]. The entire point of citing my &quot;old&quot; experience is that, in fact, we were all doing the same stuff back in the stone ages. I also haven&#x27;t forgotten or misremembered due to my advancing age [2].<p>&gt; The dominance of fundraising might have been true for your specific experience and viewpoint, but I don&#x27;t understand your basis for claiming it was universal: it certainly wasn&#x27;t my experience (R1 engineering, not software) nor my colleagues around that time.<p>OK. I never said my experience was universal. I was in the biological sciences, not engineering. To be clear, I&#x27;m not claiming experience in economics or english literature, either.<p>Again, I don&#x27;t dispute that things might be <i>worse</i> today, but the situation is absolutely not <i>new</i>, and any grad student in the sciences [3] who expects otherwise has been seriously misled. That is my point.<p>[1] To be clear, I&#x27;m not saying it is or isn&#x27;t worse today. I am making no claim with regard to the severity of the fundraising market. The market can be a bajillion times worse than when I came up, and my point is still valid -- back then, professors spent nearly all of their time chasing money! Today, professors spend <i>nearly all of their time chasing money!</i><p>[2] This is a joke. I&#x27;m not old, and my experiences not as ancient as you&#x27;re alluding. I understand that every generation clings to the belief that their struggles are unique in time, but it&#x27;s probably a bad idea to take that notion seriously.<p>[3] Yes, I made the general claim &quot;in the sciences&quot;. Because insults about age aside, and even though the specifics will vary from year to year and topic to topic, it&#x27;s very important to realize that <i>if you become a professor in the sciences, this is what you will be doing.</i> You will not be in the lab making gadgets or potions or whatever -- you will be filling out grants, making slide decks, reviewing papers, and giving talks. If you cannot handle this life, quit now. It will not get better.<p>There are certainly ways to go work in a lab and do &quot;fun stuff&quot; forever, but a) you often don&#x27;t need a graduate degree for these, and b) you shouldn&#x27;t be deluded about which path you&#x27;re on.


type: comment
by: technick
text:
  I guess this makes sense if you also consider the history of dog breeding. The best traits are always breed forward into future generations, those characteristics could be how athletic the dog is or how friendly the dog is.


type: comment
by: tapoxi
text:
  It&#x27;s because Microsoft hasn&#x27;t been inspiring confidence when their five year old Xbox Series X is more expensive than last year&#x27;s better performing PS5 Pro - which runs an increasing library of Microsoft&#x27;s own games at better resolutions and framerates. Microsoft didn&#x27;t even have a Black Friday discount for their hardware this year.<p>That&#x27;s not the playbook of a company actively invested in a market.


type: comment
by: dependency_2x
text:
  Ah ok, and now it is died and not sure how to resurrect. But the prompt was  &quot;Poo emoji generator&quot; so try that if you want to experience the fun.


type: comment
by: edanm
text:
  Wow, that&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> of reading! Cosmere is, what, 20-ish books at this point?<p>What was the tattoo if you don&#x27;t mind sharing?


type: comment
by: Sabinus
text:
  I find your &#x27;including Elon&#x27; comment interesting. In my experience that would make people less likely to want to use the associated service. Is Elon&#x27;s reputation different with the tech youth than the general public these days?


type: comment
by: Brajeshwar
text:
  Gutenberg[1] Print Styles has been my go-to for a very long time. If I remember correctly, the issues I faced was that I could not control pagination.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BafS&#x2F;Gutenberg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BafS&#x2F;Gutenberg</a>


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; “This study shows that paternal exercise can confer benefits — enhanced endurance and metabolic health — to offspring,”<p>So good habits can be good for offspring.<p>&gt; For instance, mouse fathers  exposed to nicotine(opens a new tab) sire male pups with livers that are good at disarming not just nicotine but cocaine and other toxins as well.<p>So bad habits can be good for offspring.<p>&gt; “We just don’t have really any understanding of how RNAs can do this, and that’s the hand-wavy part,”<p>It seems to me to all be the handwavy part. I&#x27;m happy to wait until the research is considerably further advanced, past the clickbait stage.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  Luckily Russia wasted all their Soviet era stockpiles in Ukraine, and those are never coming back.<p>Russia is still dangerous and annoying, but not the threat it was before the full scale invasion of Ukraine.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Yes, very bad, even worse when coming from supposedly security conscious programming  language community.


type: story
by: rguiscard
title: Flat-headed cat not seen in Thailand for almost 30 years is rediscovered
url:
  https://www.livescience.com/animals/flat-headed-cat-not-seen-in-thailand-for-almost-30-years-is-rediscovered


type: comment
by: Traubenfuchs
text:
  Don‘t ask, it‘s just schizophrenia, makes no sense at all and is depressing, unsatisfying and just keeps on going.


type: comment
by: Tiktaalik
text:
  No the most eco (and financially) friendly model is high density areas where you can walk and bike to school and work. The transportation costs under this model are effectively nil.


type: comment
by: callc
text:
  Go is much more approachable. Small set of features, easy to pick up quickly. Good for beginners and for teams to work together in.<p>Rust and Zig have much much more depth.<p>There are definitely scenarios where Go is the good choice. For example, for teaching someone’s first C-like low(ish) level language


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  &gt; A language sprinkled with &quot;learn by wrote&quot; gender prefixes for every item is just not worth learning.<p>Bantu languages, which cover much of subsaharan Africa, have many noun classes (&quot;genders&quot;)—sometimes as many as 20. You have to learn all sorts of prefixes for each noun class depending on their grammatical role in tying to the noun.<p>However, it&#x27;s really not so bad. Once you get the hang of the noun classes, it actually makes picking up the ear for it <i>faster</i>. Of course this is more true the more consistent the language in applying its internal rules.


type: comment
by: jmkd
text:
  Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts &amp; Culture).


type: comment
by: abetusk
text:
  The neatnik calendar is very nice. Others are talking about enhancements they&#x27;ve done and I&#x27;ve done my own, creating a pretty faithful JavaScript implementation with enhancements:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abetusk&#x2F;neatocal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abetusk&#x2F;neatocal</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;</a> (demo)<p>URL parameters can be used to alter behavior. Here&#x27;s a highlight of some of them:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?layout=aligned-weekdays&amp;highlight_color=fee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?layout=aligned-weekdays&amp;...</a> (weekend highlighted, aligned)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?start_month=7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?start_month=7</a> (academic)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?start_month=6&amp;n_month=6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?start_month=6&amp;n_month=6</a> (second half, 6 month)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?month_code=1%E6%9C%88,2%E6%9C%88,3%E6%9C%88,4%E6%9C%88,5%E6%9C%88,6%E6%9C%88,7%E6%9C%88,8%E6%9C%88,9%E6%9C%88,10%E6%9C%88,11%E6%9C%88,12%E6%9C%88&amp;weekday_code=%E6%97%A5,%E4%B8%80,%E4%BA%8C,%E4%B8%89,%E5%9B%9B,%E4%BA%94,%E5%85%AD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?month_code=1%E6%9C%88,2%...</a> (chinese month and day)<p>There&#x27;s also a data file option for more complex date notes.


type: comment
by: Animats
text:
  This is both impressive and scary.<p>Most of the problems seem to stem from not knowing who to trust, and how much to trust them. From the article: &quot;We suspect that many of the problems that the models encountered stemmed from their training to be helpful. This meant that the models made business decisions not according to hard-nosed market principles, but from something more like the perspective of a friend who just wants to be nice.&quot;<p>The &quot;alignment&quot; problem is now to build AI systems with the level of paranoia and sociopathy required to make capitalism go. This is not, unfortunately, a joke. There&#x27;s going to be a market for MCP interfaces to allow AIs to do comprehensive background checks on humans.


type: comment
by: bawolff
text:
  There are reasons to do this, just not because of expiry.<p>The main reason to have multiple certs is so if your host (and cert prov key) is compromised, you can quickly switch to a backup, without first having to sort out getting a new cert issued.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  In the early 1990s, back before anyone was ever sure if this Internet thing would ever take off outside of academic communities (and also ostensibly before Sir Tim-Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web), America Online was a proprietary online community that was reached via dial-up modem over the telephone network.<p>AOL allowed their users to interact with eachother (chats, forums, multiplayer games), read news, and otherwise kill some time.  It was a walled garden that required both money and special software to access.<p>There were other paid services that were vaguely similar, each with different shapes for how the walls of their respective gardens were arranged.  In the US, some of these competing services were CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, and Delphi.<p>Of all of these, AOL became the most-broadly known.  As time moved on, they increasingly would mail out floppy disks with their software on what seemed like a continuous basis, with flashy color brochures, to millions of homes.  (Some weeks I&#x27;d wind up with as many as 3 or 4 new AOL disks to use for whatever, delivered right to the mailbox on the front porch.  Later, they&#x27;d send CD-ROMs instead that were most-useful as drink coasters.)<p>These services each vied to get as many users locked into their garden as possible, which was important to them because they tended to be metered services:  Unlike something like a Netflix or Hulu streaming account, the more time a person spent using these services, the more money they had to spend.<p>And then, September came again -- and it never ended[1].  The walls of the gardens began to open up and users of these proprietary services began being exposed to what the greater Internet had to offer.<p>But at the same time, AOL grew.  They got proper-fucking big.  They went from being a cheeky dialup service with a friendly interface and some pervasive advertising campaigns to buying Time Warner for $182 billion.<p>And today, all of that business is just kind of a dusty memory.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September</a>


type: comment
by: anal_reactor
text:
  I often watch YouTube at 1.5x speed and then during work meetings my brain starts looking for the speed button.


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  The String|null example is just a nullable type; it&#x27;s not an interesting use of unions either way.  The conversation starts when it&#x27;s Foo|Bar|Baz<p>I&#x27;m unfamiliar with typescript, so in that language I don&#x27;t have an opinion either way, but in C, you pretty much always want the tag


type: comment
by: jonlong
text:
  While others have addressed the programming case for tagged unions, I want to add that, to a logician, tagged unions <i>are</i> the natural construct corresponding to &quot;logical or&quot;.<p>In intuitionistic logic (which is the most basic kind from which to view the Curry-Howard or &quot;propositions-as-types&quot; correspondence), a proof of &quot;A or B&quot; is exactly a choice of &quot;left&quot; or &quot;right&quot; disjunct together with a corresponding proof of either A or B. The &quot;choice tag&quot; is part of the &quot;constructive data&quot; telling us how to build our proof of &quot;A or B&quot;. Translated back into the language of code, the type &quot;A | B&quot; would be exactly a tagged union.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  I think you&#x27;re overstating. If it&#x27;s on your time and your equipment and unrelated to your work, but it is related to your employer&#x27;s business, it&#x27;s not obvious.<p>If you work for a big tech, there&#x27;s a huge range of stuff that&#x27;s related to your employer&#x27;s business, which means you have to tread carefully.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self<p>Or your worst, since the article also suggests that bad habits can be epigenetically useful to the offspring.<p>I would hold off reaching any conclusions from this clickbait.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  Russia and China rely heavily on their manipulated currencies to stay functional.<p>There could never be a common currency between them that they can&#x27;t directly control.


type: comment
by: dev1ycan
text:
  FFMPEG is so goddamn cool, I was doing a mod for warcraft 3 where I restore the original Frozen Throne UI and one (especially useful before, Blizzard now restored the classic WEBM models so that part is now outdated but the blue buttons and other stuff are still relevant).<p>And virtually every method was failing in decoloring the &quot;chains&quot;.webm video that Reforged has on the bottom corners (by default it has a very rusty feeling that fits reign of chaos more than the frozen throne)... but FFMPEG via commands did it perfectly fine, extremely easily by doing it frame by frame, actually incredible that this software is completely free.


type: comment
by: benatkin
text:
  Turing test type stuff. Having agents try to participate in the overall social community, by sending a cold email. The reason I think it&#x27;s good is because with how AI is increasingly used a lot of different sorts of research is needed. A citizen could have their police report written by an AI without them opting in, just like Rob Pike could get a cold email.


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  &gt;..the site’s developer Pavel Sannikau is always working on new rooms for floor796. Sannikau is a 36-year-old web programmer living in Belarus<p>From 2023 article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cartoonbrew.com&#x2F;tools-of-the-trade&#x2F;floors796-pavel-sannikau-228987.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cartoonbrew.com&#x2F;tools-of-the-trade&#x2F;floors796-pav...</a><p>The guy was active on Reddit a week ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gifs&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pqktaj&#x2F;new_block_56_1st_part_of_the_library_in_floor796&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gifs&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pqktaj&#x2F;new_block_56_...</a>


type: comment
by: sandreas
text:
  Thank you for the nice (and still short) article - I really liked it.<p>However, while these rules apply for web pages, I would like to... let&#x27;s say warn all developers expecting CSS is a good option for accurate printing.<p>It may work for single page printouts or &quot;make this page more printable&quot; approaches, but don&#x27;t expect it to be an easy opt out of providing PDFs for every single use case.<p>CSS for printing gets annoying pretty quick as soon as you have some more sophisticated requirements. You should probably also know that print-CSS is not fully cross browser compatible - there are quirks and caveats for every single one of them regarding font sizing, margin, padding and page-layouts.<p>I would not recommend to use HTML + CSS for something that really needs to be exactly the same layout in every browser.


type: comment
by: tstrimple
text:
  Damn. I didn&#x27;t start substance abuse until after all my children were sired. Apparently I have done them an injustice by compromising their resistance to cocaine and other toxins. I have failed as a father!


type: comment
by: Flimm
text:
  It&#x27;s less meaningful than you think. Widespread prejudice does give you signal on public sentiment, but it doesn&#x27;t give you much signal on whether the prejudice happens to coincide with reality or not, compared to other methods. People should be open to having their prejudices corrected by more relevant information.


type: comment
by: albert_e
text:
  Daveseah.com was a favorite bookmark for me -- his &quot;printable CEO&quot; series of task planners and calendars were cool.<p>I have since fallen off the productivity wagon unfortunately.<p>For many years past I have printed and used stacks of the Emergent Task Planner.<p>He has a Compact Calendar that has somewhat similar layout as OP.<p>Edit to add link:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidseah.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;compact-calendar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidseah.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;compact-calendar&#x2F;</a><p>The website domain seems to have changed a bit.


type: comment
by: NewJazz
text:
  That&#x27;s one aspect of the design. Again, complexity requirements are there for a reason. No explanation seen for why this eschews them.


type: comment
by: normie3000
text:
  Animations are also a way to explain causal relationships between interactions and their results, and to help build mental models of software behaviour.


type: comment
by: errru
text:
  You&#x27;re a programmer, you should be able to extrapolate the point about the statistic I was making.


type: comment
by: technick
text:
  Every toll system is tied together with glue and is easily defeated by hiding your license plate, which also has the added benefit of making it more difficult to track your movement.


type: comment
by: andsoitis
text:
  &gt; Think about the videos on your homepage, in your recommended videos, which publishers you hear from immediately and which disappeared. I can see it trying to manipulate me.<p>There are billions of videos on YouTube with millions getting added every day.<p>YouTube has to decide what to put in front of you.


type: comment
by: survirtual
text:
  Disagree.<p>While what you&#x27;re saying does seem like a direct solution (congestion), it is the wrong solution.<p>The solution to congestion is robust public transit.  Full stop.<p>If a light rail is more comfortable and a faster experience than a car, people will use that instead.  Public transit has been traditionally so atrocious, for reasoning we can attribute to many factors, that most people don&#x27;t use it even if it existed.<p>If public transit was actually done right, people would be happy to use it.  It is more energy efficient, more cost efficient, less of a mental burden, and I believe can be significantly more comfortable.<p>This is the fundamental issue for me.  Society keeps taking these horrible shortcuts that cost all of us instead of just doing the right thing to begin with.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  &gt; But if AI owned and operated by Facebook posts it, Facebook is responsible (in my opinion). There is no one else to blame for it.<p>&gt; Once corps start being held legally liable for their AI generated slop...<p>While I personally agree with your <i>ideal</i> - in the current legal, regulatory, and political environment, I see precious little chance of any such corporation actually being held responsible for the output of its AI.


type: comment
by: Vincent_Yan404
text:
  Hi HN, OP here.<p>I grew up in &quot;Factory 404,&quot; a secret nuclear industrial city in the Gobi Desert that officially didn&#x27;t exist on public maps. This is a memoir about my childhood there.<p>It was a surreal place: we had elite scientists living next to laborers, a zoo in the middle of the desert, and distinct &quot;communist&quot; welfare, all hidden behind a classified code.<p>This is Part 1 of the story. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about life in a Chinese nuclear base!


type: comment
by: bilbo-b-baggins
text:
  I’ve used pre-commit the tool and now prek for the better part of a decade and never had these issues even using rebase flows exclusively. This seems like an operator error.


type: comment
by: cherry_tree
text:
  Behind who?<p>Is there someone already mastering “agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering” ?<p>And do they have a blog?


type: comment
by: MyOutfitIsVague
text:
  There is plenty of room in science for research that is just to examine and collect data. I don&#x27;t understand your argument that science should only be to demonstrate claims and &quot;completing&quot; theories. Is science not about experimenting to slowly form a more complete understanding about how our world works? Research that does little more than collect novel data and show probable correlations is still extremely valuable.


type: comment
by: hibikir
text:
  That&#x27;s only a problem when you decide that the way to do error handling is exceptions. When you go with a strongly typed functional programming language, you throw exceptions away, and the fact that something can error, and what kinds of errors it can produce, are encoded into the type system.<p>So yes, generating errors at a deep level and catching them at a higher one is a normal pard of the system design, it&#x27;s purely functional, ando nothing strange happens, in very large systems. You ADT the errors, pipe up entire families of them, and select what you manage. It&#x27;s significantly easier than exceptions, in the sense that I can be sure when I&#x27;ve validated the error.<p>It&#x27;s practical, and typically one dedicates less code to the error handling than, say, yor typical enterprise Java program that is terrified of runtime exceptions and null checks every step of the way. In fact, I&#x27;d argue this is the main selling point of strongly typed FP.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  These flaws aren&#x27;t failings of the article, but univeral to science, knowledge, and human endeavor:<p>&gt; Either it is correct; or it is not. Perhaps it is somewhat correct, but then it may not be fully correct, so it would contain wrong information.<p>This describes all science and all knowledge; if that&#x27;s not good enough, nothing is good enough. Everything somewhat correct and somewhat incorrect; the best stuff is much more of the former. Newton&#x27;s Laws are mostly correct, somewhat incorrect.<p>&gt; science does not really work well when it is based on speculation<p>Speculation is the foundation of science: it leads to an hypothesis, which leads to research, which leads to more speculation.<p>&gt; their theory is incomplete as of yet. That&#x27;s not good.<p>That also is the nature of all science. For example, papers include analyses of their own blind spots and weaknesses, and end with suggestions for further research by others.<p>&gt; There are examples of where theories were lateron shown to be wrong.<p>That&#x27;s also part of science and all human endeavor. If you disallow that, we might as well go back to being illiterate - everything we read is flawed, and inevitably some is wrong.


type: comment
by: anal_reactor
text:
  Yeah. Let&#x27;s not fetishize &quot;real world&quot;. Offline space is often boring and most people suck. There&#x27;s a reason why we prefer to be looking at the screens. Having said that, I think that it makes sense to be more cautious about screen time and interact more with the offline space. Not because offline space is better, but because our brains are fried and they peceive online space to be better than it really is, we&#x27;re literal addicts. I&#x27;m trying to teach myself that it&#x27;s okay to be bored.


type: story
by: svgd
title: Hb
url:
  https://www.google.com/search?q=gv+hj%2Cb&oq=gv+hj%2Cb&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAtIBBzUwMWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


type: comment
by: d1sxeyes
text:
  I used one of these in a project a month or two back where I wanted an 80s aesthetic. They worked great, once I’d worked out how to simulate displaying “off” segments.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  I get that, but often the towers use GPS disciplined oscillators from what I understand (and have seen in limited circumstances), they inherently know exactly what time it is. Seems trivial to sync that as well, just kind of assumed they did that.


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  Still waiting on a Prodigy online emulator, but in the meantime at least somebody recreated MadMaze!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vintagecomputing.com&#x2F;madmaze" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vintagecomputing.com&#x2F;madmaze</a>


type: comment
by: rhdunn
text:
  If you specify the same name on each `details` element they behave like an accordion automatically [1], no need for JavaScript. If you set one of them to open that one will be initially open.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;blog&#x2F;html-details-exclusive-accordions&#x2F;#using_details_name_to_create_exclusive_accordions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;blog&#x2F;html-details-exclus...</a>


type: comment
by: yes_man
text:
  Theres huge uncertainty and layered assumptions in all of microbiology and biochemistry about how exactly things work on small scale. Because it is really hard to study live reactions in little things you can just barely see on an electron microscope.<p>But yet humanity has managed to assert statistical truths about for example genetics and explain countless diseases, even cure and alleviate some. So even if you don’t have a theory on how exactly something works from the ground up, if you have statistical evidence, plenty of useful and practical advances can be built top-bottom and we have outcomes that validate this.<p>Not giving any opinion on this piece specifically but just saying there can be scientific value even if the details are hand-wavy.


type: comment
by: poisonborz
text:
  Despite this, cars will be the best - cheapest, fastest - means of transportation to most of the society until we have transparent crruptionless (AI?) governments. Apart a few cases - extreme distances (air), multimillion metro areas, handful of asian coutries due to culture - public transport is a mostly failed idea.


type: comment
by: ainka-ainka
text:
  Go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;index.shtml</a>, make an account and link your tag using it&#x27;s serial number. Hopefully you&#x27;ll get the information you&#x27;re looking for there.


type: comment
by: survirtual
text:
  I am not insinuating anything.<p>Road management should be administered by federal and state agencies, including the administration of tolls when they are foolishly utilized.  It should not be a for profit venture, it is a mechanism of taxation for public logistics.<p>It should not be possible to offload management to private orgs outside of very specific subcontracting &#x2F; purchasing of components.<p>Instead, often times full road management is given to private orgs.  They are not given a robust legal incentive to act in the interests of the road system, and how could they?  They are interesting in using the road to maximize their profit, at the loss of everyone needing the road.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Apple was definitely not into sharing code with users.<p>Their vision after Lisa and Macintosh has always been computing as an appliance.<p>The only thing open about them were the great Macintosh Internals books, that Apple documentation team has forgotten how to write.


type: comment
by: exsomet
text:
  I remember getting an Xbox One and being excited about the concept of it being the center for entertainment in my house. The marketing promise was that it would integrate with TVs and music and make those things better in ways that were sort of nebulous and not super well defined, and that unfortunately came at the expense of it delivering a good gaming experience.<p>The first red flag should have been Microsoft trying to push the weird metro&#x2F;UWP interface that it had with news, the store, movies and a tv guide, and more versus a library of games, and then of course all of the bad PR around Kinect and the DRM. It didn’t have backwards compatibility at launch and most of the games were things that were already out on 360, but for some reason we needed to re-buy.<p>The game experience never improved and the home entertainment thing never materialized, so you were just left with something that did exactly what the 360 did and duplicated your existing DVR&#x2F;cable box.<p>The X&#x2F;S wasn’t better. First you had to fight scalpers to get one, and then my first experience with it was browsing the store and seeing that I had to pick between buying the Xbox one version of games or the X&#x2F;S version. The entire thing was built around some new revolutionary concept of streaming cloud games, which didn’t work. Games are FPS capped and if you install them locally they require 15 of the 45 minutes you have to game to download updates that should happen while the thing sleeps. It got slightly better over time, but juxtaposed with my pc and steam it was such an unpolished experience.<p>What it really comes down to for me is that it’s a gaming console that tries to do a bunch of stuff I don’t care about and fails at the one thing I do care about it doing (playing games). There’s a larger commentary here about Microsoft, but this isn’t unique to them. I should have been a lifelong console buyer; instead I will probably not buy another one because for the past two generations the experience has been awful, and whatever they come out with next is going to be packed with a bunch of streaming junk and AI and other stuff I don’t want, and will not do the thing I do want in any way that competes with the old faithful PC and steam.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  &gt; Also the phone should keep track of system time as epoch time, and convert to local.<p>Yes, but imagine your local time is US Pacific time, but you have a phone intended to be sold in Mexico, so your phone only has Mexico time zones and MX Pacific Time has no DST. During part of the year, you can use automatic time sync, but during the summer, you disable automatic sync and set the clock so that the time displayed matches local time. Your epoch time is now an hour ahead of properly synched devices, but whatevs, your phone shows the right time and that&#x27;s what counts.


type: comment
by: Groxx
text:
  I wish I had time to finish this right now, but it&#x27;s definitely going on my &quot;I will actually watch&quot; list for tomorrow, I love what I&#x27;ve seen already.  And there&#x27;s something oddly... poetic?  ironic?  idk but that many AOL disks is instantly amusing.


type: comment
by: commandersaki
text:
  Would really have to come down what a reasonable consumer would expect; that is part subjective and part objective. If you could show an experience of having laptops for various lifetimes, some extending beyond 7 years some below, none having a failing power socket, that might be sufficient to convince that it is a major fault. If it is a cheap laptop maybe you don&#x27;t have a chance, but a premium product you could argue that it failed to be <i>durable</i>.<p>(I read this as the power socket in the laptop, not so much the power supply, obviously you&#x27;ll have less luck there.)


type: comment
by: citizenpaul
text:
  I worked at a smallish startup where on the wall behind reception in huge raised letters.  The owner had installed &quot;company values&quot; like trust accountability, ect.  It was referred to internally as the &quot;wall of lies&quot; rather thab reception or lobby.  The owner was a total sociopath.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Boomers. How can anyone not grasp that? It&#x27;s as if the insult is like water to fish, so people don&#x27;t even perceive it.


type: comment
by: voussoir
text:
  Neat, I did one of these too :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voussoir.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;css_for_printing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voussoir.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;css_for_printing</a>


type: comment
by: richardatlarge
text:
  And see here :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usop.substack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usop.substack.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  Given how many people have been deported this year in violation of judicial orders, and how the secretary of the DHS earlier this year even testified to Congress that they thought &quot;habeas corpus&quot; was a right the president has to unilaterally deport people, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unreasonable for people to be trying to get out in front of any potential unconstitutional deportations by arguing against them. If the fears turn out to be unfounded, that&#x27;s a good thing.


type: comment
by: ChadNauseam
text:
  No matter how good public transit is, it will never fully replace the need or desire for cars. Especially now that self-driving cars are hitting the scene. There will be routes poorly served by transit, people hauling stuff that can&#x27;t be easily taken on a bus or train, people who prefer privacy, stuff being transported by truck, and people who just like road trips. These people are all still imposting a cost on other drivers by driving (when there is congestion). I haven&#x27;t yet heard a good reason for why that should be free, no matter how good public transit is.


type: comment
by: akkad33
text:
  &gt; Java type shenanigans are endless if you want some fun but baseline you can cast to arbitrary types at runtime and completely bypass all compile time checks.<p>For this reason Java is a bad example of a typed language. It gives static typing a bad rep because of its inflexible yet unreliable type system (only basic type inference, no ADTs, many things like presence of equality not checked at compile time etc ) Something like ocaml or fsharp have much more sound and capable type systems.


type: comment
by: XorNot
text:
  Companies that submit bids for contracts get contracts. You would be surprised at the diversity of size and scale of companies which service defense contracts in particular - very small companies can end up in big supply chains because they&#x27;re the ones who turn up to make the part.


type: comment
by: zimmerfrei
text:
  This is the right answer.<p>The problem mostly concerns the oldest parts of PGP (the protocol), which gpg (the implementation) doesn&#x27;t want or cannot get rid of.


type: comment
by: handoflixue
text:
  &gt;  99 times out of 100 you need a solid budget to make a solid movie&#x2F;game.<p>Sure, but 1 in 100 still gets you dozens of games a year now. There&#x27;s plenty of genres where the top titles are nowhere near an AAA budget: Hades 2, Silksong, and Claire Obscura all being popular examples from this year, and Factorio being another well known example around here. Even simpler games like Balatro and Vampire Survivor are plenty of fun for some people.<p>The biggest studios have rarely been the ones producing the best work - budget gets you fancy cinematics and a beautifully rendered 3D world, but it doesn&#x27;t make level design go any faster. It could plausibly buy better writing, but that requires all the executives to back off and trust the creatives.<p>And for what it&#x27;s worth, the big studios are all happy raking in money on mindless remakes - it keeps working for them.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  &gt; If the car was a 35mpg hybrid that would be 35,000mi of equivalent driving.<p>&gt;  that&#x27;s true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so &quot;taxes equivalent to 35k miles&quot; isn&#x27;t far off<p>You absolutely did suggest me paying taxes for 12k miles is practically the same as ~35k miles, you said it several times. That it&#x27;s not far off. How else am I supposed to read that? You were so sure of it you mentioned it many times.<p>&gt; Regardless, it would be interesting to see the actual number worked through to see what the equivalent EV registration fee should be if road damage&#x2F;maintenance is the sole factor.<p>Sure, but it&#x27;s likely <i>far</i> less than what I&#x27;m paying. As mentioned elsewhere, a similar weight unloaded F-150 pays <i>half</i> the taxes. So I&#x27;m <i>at least paying double for similar weight vehicles</i>, and yet you tell me it&#x27;s really only 6%. But sure, tell me again how I&#x27;m really just paying my fair share and 12 = 35.


type: comment
by: refurb
text:
  Good observations.<p>Not only that, I find it funny when title of “global reserve currency” is based on a static measure of what countries are holding.<p>This ignores transactions entirely.


type: comment
by: poisonborz
text:
  Cars require the least amount of public infra and can be run relatively cheaply, allow for free movement.<p>Contrast this with literally every other type of western public transport project going several times over budget, expensive to use and maintain and breaks down after a decade. I&#x27;m all for the idea, but that&#x27;s the reality.


type: comment
by: lwhi
text:
  But it&#x27;s frankly not true, despite your desire to appear sardonic<p>For instance, does Richard Stallman fit this mold?


type: story
by: gpi
title: How Walmart's Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
url:
  https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  UNIX originally wasn&#x27;t closed source anyway, and most people like nowadays, only cared about the freebeer parts.<p>GNU only took off when Sun created the split between user and developer UNIX SKUs, which other UNIX vendors were quick to follow as well.<p>Suddenly having access to UNIX no longer meant having development tools around, if the server wasn&#x27;t to be used by developers themselves.<p>Thus installing GNU became a common workaround to pay for a UNIX developer license.


type: comment
by: XorNot
text:
  That&#x27;s a &quot;motherhood statement&quot;[1] - you haven&#x27;t answered the question.<p>Militaries make targeting decisions with data. That&#x27;s entirely separate to whether they have been ordered by civilian government to target something, and Palantir do not control that part of decision making (you as a voter do! You did vote right?)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;motherhood_statement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;motherhood_statement</a>


type: comment
by: ImJamal
text:
  Well ice cars are going to be declining in market share so we will need to implement an electric car tax to offset the cost.


type: comment
by: roywiggins
text:
  For an example, scientists discovered both viruses and genetics long before they knew the molecular basis of either of them.


type: comment
by: refurb
text:
  Yup.  It’s wild seeing the internet chat about the latest flavor of the week of “the sky is falling”.<p>Try going back 1 year and look at those headlines.  What you’ll find seem silly looking back.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; who really cares if “æ” is written as “ae”?<p>Nitpicking, but if you&#x27;re writing about text rendering you should know:<p>Yes, ligatures are really about presentation and not semantics. For example <i>ﬁ</i> (U+FB01) means the same thing as <i>fi</i>; it just looks neater in some situations.<p><i>æ</i> (U+00E6) is not a ligature; it&#x27;s a mostly obsolete character, with different semantics (or phonetics) than <i>ae</i>.<p>For example, for purely typsetting beauty, your word processor might substitute the ligature <i>ﬁ</i> for the two letters <i>fi</i> (which can f* search, and I resent both the ligature and lazy search function developers). It would never substitute <i>æ</i> for <i>ae</i>; that would misspell the word as much as substituting an <i>o</i>.


type: comment
by: roywiggins
text:
  It seems to be hidden text in the page? Either way, it just shows up alongside links when you copy text from the article.


type: comment
by: thunderbong
text:
  Considering that the LLMs used by most people are owned by large companies, I&#x27;m not so sure about that long term.<p>Is early days yet.


type: comment
by: dmitrygr
text:
  <p><pre><code>   For example, before we had something like:      top: *const FFISafe&lt;WithOffset&lt;&amp;&#x27;a u8&gt;&gt;    We can change that to:      top: WithOffset&lt;*const FFISafe&lt;&amp;&#x27;a u8&gt;&gt;  </code></pre> rust, you were meant to replace c++, not join it...


type: comment
by: auggierose
text:
  Yes, I am wondering if opaque types would be difficult to implement somehow in TypeScript? It should really be part of TypeScript if at all reasonably possible.


type: comment
by: barishnamazov
text:
  Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, I too have experienced those quirks. This applies to most modern CSS features in general :-)<p>FWIW, I also have had also success with running a server-side headless chromium instance on an app where I was generating nicely formatted exam from provided questions.


type: comment
by: littlestymaar
text:
  &gt; Few more additional ones, more about editing than just rendering<p>Right after TFA was published, someone put together the text editing version: Text editing hates you too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lord.io&#x2F;text-editing-hates-you-too&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lord.io&#x2F;text-editing-hates-you-too&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  I&#x27;d assume that both China and Russia are routinely experimenting with &quot;orbital tracking radars&quot;.  Which might &quot;accidentally&quot; hit various satellites with overly energetic EMP pulses at times.


type: comment
by: NewJazz
text:
  They&#x27;re not in the core language group... Do these people have influence in the stdlib, compiler, prominent libraries? Kernel community?<p>Why judge the whole Rust community for the choices made by one minor subgroup?


type: comment
by: busymom0
text:
  I really try not using JavaScript unless absolutely needed. On my latest project, the whole site actually functions without JavaScript and is server side rendered. However, there&#x27;s some small piece which I really needed JavaScript for couple reasons.<p>Basically, I have a site which collects the top STEAMD posts from places like HN, lobsters, tildes, slashdot, bear, reddit etc and displays them in chronological order. I wanted a way for users to block posts with certain keywords or from specific domains. I didn&#x27;t want to do this server side for both performance reasons plus privacy reasons. I didn&#x27;t want users to need signing up or something to block. I also didn&#x27;t want to collect block lists for privacy reasons. So, I resorted to using JavaScript and local storage. All posts within the filter for the date are sent and JavaScript is used to block posts with keywords before displaying. So my server never knows what keywords are blocked.<p>Site for anyone curious:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;limereader.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;limereader.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: 151212j0j
text:
  Of course that&#x27;s the goal, but stopping new contract is 1 step toward the goal my friend, got to stop whining and take baby step.<p>You are saying stopping new coal mine means that everyone need to stop heating now and freeze to death this winter.


type: comment
by: ycombiredd
text:
  Yes. I worked for the world&#x27;s largest ISPs (NETCOM (#1), which merged with Mindspring (which was considered #2), which merged with EarthLink (the previous #3, then #2 to the post-NETCOM Mindspring). It was funny, in hindsight, that even though AOL had already adopted TCP&#x2F;IP and integrated an &quot;Internet Gateway&quot; functionality and had more subscribers than even the combined #1, 2, and 3 rollup I just described, at no time did anyone in the industry actually consider AOL to be an ISP, so the &quot;#1&quot; in size distinction went to the companies mentioned. AOL, deserved or not, never really escaped their second class designation, which also tended to taint their users as they ventured on to the larger internet.<p>All that said, I still communicate with one person who maintains their aol.com email address to this day in spite of it all.


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  the license travels with the copy, it is what allows the copy.<p>if the license does not travel with the copy, then the copy is unlicensed and is a copyright violation. the license carries restrictions and grants rights. those aspects cannot be violated or the license ceases to exist.<p>you don&#x27;t know what you are talking about, so stop guessing.


type: comment
by: rhdunn
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;WAI&#x2F;ARIA&#x2F;apg&#x2F;patterns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;WAI&#x2F;ARIA&#x2F;apg&#x2F;patterns&#x2F;</a> is my go to for accessibility requirements of components.<p>And yes, being able to do all of these in pure HTML&#x2F;CSS would be awesome. Though we are getting there with things like `details` and the newer `popover` features which should make things like rich tooltips, menu buttons, etc. a lot easier to implement. IIRC, there are also several anchor CSS properties to make positioning a lot simpler.


type: comment
by: ChuckMcM
text:
  I live in California, and they can. The key there is that is isn&#x27;t &quot;Unrelated to <i>your</i> work&quot; it is &quot;Unrelated to <i>the work</i> of the company.&quot; Also phrased as &quot;The company&#x27;s business.&quot; Google literally claims they could be in any business[1] at any time so <i>anything</i> you work on belongs to them. Further, as my lawyer pointed out to me at the time, California is an &#x27;at will&#x27; state so they can fire you for any non-protected reason, one of which is &#x27;working on things and forcing them to sue to get rights to that work product.&#x27; It isn&#x27;t a very balanced situation from a power dynamic. My advice to anyone at Google (as it was when I was there) do not work on <i>anything</i> that you might later want to develop further while working at Google. If you really want to work on this thing, quit, and then start working on it. Otherwise you are at risk of the &quot;success disaster&quot; where your side hustle is suddenly worth something and at the same time you&#x27;re being told to hand it over to your employer or be fired and sued at the same time.<p>[1] They rationalized this when I was there with their &quot;20% time rule&quot; which was time to work on what ever you wanted, but working on whatever you wanted still belonged to Google because they had a unlimited right of first refusal to productize whatever it was you worked on.


type: comment
by: JimBlackwood
text:
  &gt; So their theory is incomplete as of yet. That&#x27;s not good.<p>I hard disagree. Your comment to me reads as if a paper should either prove a new theory or disprove an existing theory.<p>However, publishing new results without a clear understanding of how it works is just as valid and this seems to be that. In Phsyics and Astronomy, new observations are often published without a theory of how it works. This is not a bad thing, that is part of the collaborative nature of science. The same holds true for papers suggesting a new theory, but lacking either observational or theoretical proof.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I don&#x27;t believe I did. Your first comment narrowly avoided my original draft, and the subsequent edit wasn&#x27;t related to your disagreement.<p>I don&#x27;t consider it a tacit rule that submission history is off-limits. dang can clearly make it private if that&#x27;s a concern, but cross-referencing users to keep them honest is an ordinary forum tactic for determining good-faith. It&#x27;s beneficial to moderators when they&#x27;re judging patterns of behavior, and it&#x27;s beneficial to users for the same purpose.<p>You&#x27;re not going to bully me into editing my original post back, and I <i>definitely</i> can&#x27;t delete it once you leave a comment below it complaining. I think my stance was principled and I&#x27;m willing to hear you out if you think that my edited accusation is off-base. Otherwise, we have nothing constructive to discuss here.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  From the perspective of an individual breeder, they cannot know how much of a trait is from DNA or not. It may be more likely to be DNA-driven if you can prove that the trait is durable over many generations, in different environments. At least, that is my guess.


type: story
by: dmitrygr
title: Where drones drop dead and GPS goes haywire
url:
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/hardware-and-devices/where-drones-drop-dead-and-gps-goes-haywire/ar-AA1T81xB


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Volunteers follow a charter set up by ISO, The C Standard charter, and definitely WG14 has not had security on C for quite some time.<p>I recall for the audience, that enable secure programming, and enable functional safety are two of such goals.<p>Nonetheless, other than some UB improvements has been business as usual.<p>If it is insulting to point out what isn&#x27;t being achieved, then so be it.<p>As for volunteers, my point regarding WG14 and WG21 is that compiler vendors are the ones that should be part of ISO, and if they don&#x27;t see any value in that, maybe it is about time to ramp down the whole effort, and finally replace them.


type: comment
by: 1659447091
text:
  It does give information about &quot;former Labour strategist [1,2], the CCDH he leads was founded by another Labour strategist and current Downing Street Chief of Staff&quot; not in your exact words, but clearly disclosed connections and work:<p><i>has links to senior Labour figures. He was previously an aide to Labour minister Hilary Benn, and Sir Keir Starmer&#x27;s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has served as a director of the group he founded.</i><p>&gt;  but neglects to mention the UK has banned, among others, Renaud Camus and Martin Sellner, from entry, based upon their speech.<p>This event isn&#x27;t about whatever broken system they have in the UK about banning people. It&#x27;s about the US taking action against a US resident, which has clear free speech protections from the government doing what it is doing.<p>As I would expect of any reporting, that it not go off on tangents that are unrelated to this event. They have included or invite to comment from <i>all parties</i> involved. It&#x27;s a mistake to read a subject&#x27;s quote that is un-agreeable as biased reporting from a news outlet when the bias is coming from the people involved -- either the UK govt, the US govt, or the people at the center of it.<p>They quote UK govt officials making their UK talking points the same as they printed the US govt officials talking points. The &quot;witch-hunts&quot; and other claims are quotes from the people directly involved.<p>As for the &quot;goal&quot; or &quot;tactics&quot; that you found on some substack that is full of scare-quotes with an emotionally written bent -- is subjective at best. It has no relevance to real-world reporting, it doesn&#x27;t meet journalistic standards to take every random one-sided internet theory as fact -- nor are they obligated to investigate and verify every substack posting on the internet.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  Hey the email services has just proved you could offer better than Gmail experience with HTML + small dose of JS. Another example being the new FE on Github.<p>At the end of the day it isn&#x27;t really the tech that is the problem. Is how people use the tech. And for thousands of different reasons keeping it simple has always provided better experience evaluated on the whole.


type: comment
by: p0w3n3d
text:
  Everyone here is writing as if it was obvious, but I need more details. Could you please share any links on the subject?


type: comment
by: philwelch
text:
  That’s fine. Prison guards, like all public employees, shouldn’t be unionized and prison labor should be earmarked either for restitution or public use (picking up highway litter, manual construction labor for roads and government buildings, etc.)


type: comment
by: roncesvalles
text:
  On this note, the &quot;rich people super freeways&quot; model actually does exist and works quite well, when implemented as a totally separate tolled highway that runs parallel to the toll-free one. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ontario_Highway_407" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ontario_Highway_407</a>


type: comment
by: MBlume
text:
  This is an easy fix. Ditch the HOV element and make the lane toll-only. Tolls already encourage carpooling -- more people in the car means less toll per occupant.


type: comment
by: Botsmarket
text:
  I’m curating real-world AI bot&#x2F;automation use cases (support, ops, HR, finance, analytics, productivity).<p>If you share one workflow, please include: 1) Trigger (email&#x2F;form&#x2F;ticket&#x2F;invoice&#x2F;Slack) 2) Current pain (time&#x2F;errors&#x2F;handoffs) 3) Stack (M365, ServiceNow, HubSpot, Zendesk, NetSuite, etc.)<p>I’ll reply with a practical approach + 2–3 tools that fit + a quick-start outline.


type: comment
by: froh
text:
  &gt; _lazy_ search function developers<p>doing non-ascii first needs awareness and then quickly becomes tricky (encodings  yay).<p>getting combining characters and&#x2F;or homoglyphs right is hard.<p>and if you&#x27;re still bored out: have fun with Unicode confusables.txt ...<p>with this in mind I dare to give them lazy bums the honor of the doubt and rather call them something between naïve and scared.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  That&#x27;s a very cute power rangers way of saying it, but c&#x27;mon, it&#x27;s easy to say when it&#x27;s not you who is the target of a limitless revenge machine.


type: comment
by: fuglede_
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparency.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;2024" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparency.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;2024</a> offers some methodologies.


type: comment
by: marczellm
text:
  Yeah we wanted something that would print with exact physical sizes and there&#x27;s no reliable support for that so we ended up generating PDF with PDFium in WebAssembly.


type: comment
by: spoiler
text:
  Ah. I know what you mean about Venli&#x2F;Eshonai throwbacks. Those gave me a few &quot;ugh here we go again&quot; moments on my read through, but they do build up to give more context about the Parshendi and how&#x2F;why the current conflicts starts and who they are as a people (trying to avoid spoilers as much as I can). I still think it&#x27;s a bit of a slog, but I appreciate it a bit more now...


type: comment
by: dawnerd
text:
  Uses today? I just got a Giant Grill Gauge and it uses the older style lcd and segmented display. Temp&#x2F;humidity monitors still use them too. Really comes down to being very easy to integrate and power usage. Being able to run them for months or years even on small batteries is huge.


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


type: comment
by: jayd16
text:
  It&#x27;s not hard, but it&#x27;s one of those tools where the user has to think about how the tool is implemented.<p>Even if the abstractions get leaky, people yern for goal&#x2F;workflow oriented UX.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  Related: fake rabies vaccines exist: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0264410X1930369X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S02644...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telanganatoday.com&#x2F;watch-fake-rabies-vaccine-how-an-alert-from-hyderabad-became-a-global-issue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telanganatoday.com&#x2F;watch-fake-rabies-vaccine-how-an-...</a>


type: comment
by: LarsDu88
text:
  There&#x27;s a few things to consider here:  - there are many aspects to the video that are not convincing, indicating these videogen models do not grok the world the same way a typical human does  - A 6 year old child is almost certainly incapable of recreating pixel level fidelity video footage, yet understands the world extremely well... far beyond what current robotics is capable of.<p>The two facts above should be indicative that predicting noise (as with DDPM diffusion models), or predicting pixel level (or even VAE latent &quot;pixel&quot;) information is probably not the optimal path to world understanding. Probably not even a good path to good world models.


type: story
by: kenshozone
title: Show HN: Terminal Aesthetic Productivity App
url: https://app.kensho.zone
text:
  Hey HN,<p>I keep building things and failing at launch. This time I built something that enforces the discipline I lack: a productivity system that physically blocks you from working when you&#x27;ve done too much focus without rest.<p>What it does: - Focus timer + meditation tracker + task manager in one terminal-aesthetic interface - Hard 10:1 focus:rest enforcement — work 100 minutes, you OWE 10 minutes of rest before the timer unlocks again - Task completion requires reflection logs (1 reflection per 5 tasks) — no backlog journaling allowed - ASCII progress bars, monospace everything, brackets for every action: `[ START_FOCUS ]` - No gamification, no streak anxiety, no &quot;you can do it!&quot; cheerleading Why I built it: I&#x27;d work 4-hour blocks, burn out by Wednesday, then doomscroll for 3 days. Every productivity app let me keep going. I needed something that would stop me and enforce recovery.<p>The aesthetic is intentional — brutalist terminal UI to strip out dopamine triggers. Black background, functional color (teal&#x2F;amber&#x2F;red), no rounded corners, no celebrations. Just discipline.<p>Current state: - 7-day free trial, no card required - Web app (Flutter + Supabase) - Works on mobile but designed desktop-first - I&#x27;m the only daily user (classic founder problem)<p>What I learned building this: - Enforced rest is controversial — some testers hated being blocked - People want &quot;just one more task&quot; overrides — I refuse to add them - The terminal aesthetic filters hard: developers love it, normies bounce - I have no idea how to market this without sounding preachy about discipline<p>Live demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.kensho.zone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.kensho.zone</a> Source: Not open yet (will consider if there&#x27;s interest)<p>This is my 5th failed business attempt. Usually I ship, post once, then wonder why no one uses it. Trying something different this time: being honest about the struggle and asking for brutal feedback before I give up.<p>What am I missing? Would you actually use this, or is it solving a problem only I have?


type: comment
by: bnjms
text:
  Every time I’ve heard Peter Thiel speak I’ve believed he cares about other things. I’m more concerned about his implementations of things.


type: comment
by: simonebrunozzi
text:
  Back when I was studying computer science, I was taking the OS exam and the part about Lamport timestamp [0] was optional, but I had studied it because I loved it. When I mentioned it to my professor, he was so happy to hear something new that day that he asked me to describe it in details. This was the year 2001.<p>Many years later, in 2020, I ended up living in San Francisco, and I had the fortune to meet Leslie Lamport after I sent him a cold email. Lovely and smart guy. This is the text of the first part of that email, just for your curiosity:<p>Hey Leslie!<p>You have accompanied me for more than 20 years. I first met your name when studying Lamport timestamps.<p>And then on, and on, and on, up to a few minutes ago, when I realized that you are also behind the paper and the title of &quot;Byzantine Generals problem&quot;, renamed after the &quot;Albanian&quot; generals to the suggestion of Jack Goldberg. Who is he? [1]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lamport_timestamp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lamport_timestamp</a><p>[1]: Jack Goldberg (now retired) was a computer scientist and Lamport&#x27;s manager at SRI.


type: comment
by: anovikov
text:
  Somehow, word of mouth never worked for me. I only ever got one repeat customer (he was really really good first time, but second time, mediocre), and one customer through a referral (very good, but just once). Out of 170+ over 25 years.<p>I see the reason: my customers are people who don&#x27;t know anyone they could possibly recommend me to, because they are from random industries and random places. Also their projects are one-off: usually first and last software projects of theirs, ever. Working for someone with large networks who can make referrals means losing money because these people also know good coders and can hire well. I never solved this and rely on outbound all my life.


type: comment
by: harvey9
text:
  This site is showing me two speeches and some AI &#x27;analysis&#x27;. The analysis is very shallow.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Which is why nowadays vertical integration like everyone was doing back then is back.<p>As survivor of that era, Apple proved the point of higher margins, and the remaining OEMs want a piece of the pie, even better if it is ARM based instead of x86.


type: comment
by: otterley
text:
  The WWVB clocks are around the AM band, which means they carry a great distance despite their lower transmission power, but only at nighttime. Ohio is nothing; the signal needs to make it to the southern reaches of Florida.


type: comment
by: heltale
text:
  The entire experiment just reminds me of Manna. We’re progressing a little too fast for comfort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marshallbrain.com&#x2F;manna1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marshallbrain.com&#x2F;manna1</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; But how do you know they’re intentionally trying to stir trouble, vs. being naive<p>This is not a Hanlon&#x27;s razor situation. HN has pretty clear guidelines about what a good submission is:<p><pre><code>  Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities </code></pre> This will disqualify lots of CNN&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;The Sun&#x2F;The Critic&#x2F;Whosit&#x2F;Whatever tabloid&#x2F;opinion column content that isn&#x27;t tailored for HN&#x27;s audience (putting it nicely). We might disagree with the rules, but those are what they are.<p>&gt; And do you think it’s a net benefit for posts like these to be flagged vs. visible<p>No opinion, I consider flagging to be one of HN&#x27;s most poorly-implemented features. I leave showdead on at all times.


type: comment
by: spoiler
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  I honestly found the women interesting in the book, and not samey. I mean the Alethi have a masculine&#x2F;feminine society shift, but Navani, Jasnah and Shallan all very different.<p>The characters aren&#x27;t flat at all, there&#x27;s a lot of nuance to all of them.<p>I guess this is one of those the beauty is in the eye of the beholder situations.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>oil embargo was a use of the monetary system not an intrinsic part of it&#x27;s development</i><p>Oil embargo was about embargoing oil. It wasn’t monetary. It was about denying essential commodities.


type: comment
by: cma
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  A checking account that pays around inflation in interest doesn&#x27;t net out to that unless you don&#x27;t pay any tax on the interest.


type: comment
by: SR2Z
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  I really would like to see a citation for how adding new, congestion-free lanes with limited opportunities for merging to an already congested highway makes it worse.


type: comment
by: ksec
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  This is BRILLIANT!! Thank You. Such as simple idea I wonder I have never thought of doing it myself. I currently have Stick notes to do list but it is a little messy with some date on it.<p>The older I am, the more I use good old fashion analogue tools like pencil and paper.


type: comment
by: gignico
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  I used this library extensively in a prototype of a project and it was awesome!<p>Besides performance, the API is very well thought.


type: comment
by: verisimi
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  A computer doesn&#x27;t determine the why, it is programmed to do so.  It doesn&#x27;t determine meaning or value from whatever-it-is.


type: comment
by: fsckboy
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  &gt;<i>Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. 1 (2021)</i><p>does not apply to the linking of GPLed code. Google copied just the application programming interfaces and then supplied their own code that they wrote themselves.<p>if you link to a GPL library you are including their copyrighted code, even if the API that GNU uses did not originate with them but came from POSIX or similar.


type: comment
by: xeonmc
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  offtopic question:<p>as a recent dabbling reader of introductory popsci content in cryptography, I&#x27;ve been wondering about what are the different segmentation of expert roles in the field?<p>e.g. in Filippo&#x27;s blogpost about Age he clarified that he&#x27;s not a cryptographer but rather a cryptography engineer, is that also what your role is, what are the concrete divisions of labor, and what other related but separate positions exists in the overall landscape?<p>where is the cutoff point of &quot;don&#x27;t roll your own crypto&quot; in the different levels of expertise?


type: comment
by: 0xbadcafebee
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  &gt; With SSL certificates, you usually don’t have the opportunity to build up operational experience working with them, unless something goes wrong. And things don’t go wrong that often with certificates<p>Don&#x27;t worry. With 2 or 3 industry players dictating how all TLS certs work, now your certs will expire in weeks rather than years, so you will all be subject to these failures more frequently. But as a back-stop to process failures like this, use automated immutable runbooks in CI&#x2F;CD. It works like this:<p>1) Does it need a runbook? Ask yourself, if everything was deleted tomorrow, do you (and all the other people) remember every step needed to get everything running again? If not, it needs a runbook.<p>2) What&#x27;s a runbook? It&#x27;s a document that gives step by step instructions to do a thing. The steps can be text, video recordings, code&#x2F;shell snippets, etc as long as it does not assume anything and gives all necessary instructions (or links to them) so a random braindead engineer at 3am can just do what it says and it&#x27;ll result in a working thing.<p>3) Automate the runbook over time. Put more and more of the steps into some kind of script the user can just run. Put the script into a Docker container so that everyone&#x27;s laptop environment doesn&#x27;t have to be identical for the steps to work.<p>4) Run the containerized script from CI&#x2F;CD. This ensures all credentials, environment vars, networking, etc are the same when it runs which better ensures success, and that leads to:<p>5) Running it frequently&#x2F;on a schedule. Most CI&#x2F;CD systems support scheduled jobs. Run your runbooks frequently to identify unexpected failures and fix bugs. Most of you get notifications for failed builds, so you&#x27;ll see failed runbooks. If you use a cron job on a random server, the server could go down, the job could get deleted, or the reports of failure could go to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null; but nobody&#x27;s missing their CI&#x2F;CD build failures.<p>Running runbooks from CI&#x2F;CD is a game changer. Most devs will never update a document. Some will update code they run on their laptop. But if it runs from CI&#x2F;CD, now anyone can run it, and anyone can update it, so people actually do keep it up to date.


type: comment
by: halapro
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  I feel that a lot of OTAs will just not refund you when a flight is cancelled, especially if it&#x27;s not one of the more reputable ones. Is that what happened here? How did you fix it?<p>In my case in 2020 I had to request my refund via PayPal for Vayama


type: comment
by: bahaAbunojaim
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  I was working on a project where I tried Claude code to optimize processing of taichi Kernel and it kept using structure that didn’t work with taichi lang limitations so it kept going on a loop, did the same with codex and faced the same issue then tried to have both agents discuss it and it worked! It saved me several hours


type: comment
by: darkwater
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  Or maybe the users are just not aware. Licenses flame wars were a thing over 20 years ago, people nowadays can totally don&#x27;t know about what can happen to a MIT-licensed software.


type: comment
by: bananadonkey
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  Sure, but we program using programming languages, mostly using the Latin alphabet you are referring to. And yes the syntax for many of those programming languages is in fact case sensitive.


type: comment
by: whirlwin
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  TLS certificates is not the only technology for which the default mode is failure. What about disks, databases or syntax errors in configuration files in general?<p>In technology, there are known problems and unknown problems. Expiring TLS certificates is a known problem which has an established solution.<p>Imagine if only some of the requests failed because a certificate is about to expire. That would be a debugging nightmare.


type: comment
by: eucryphia
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  You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction.<p>I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.<p>- Joanna Maciejewska


type: comment
by: whateveracct
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  I&#x27;ve seen reliability become incident level and then 3mo later execs are on our ass because we didn&#x27;t fix another crisis fast enough.<p>and this company is hugely successful. so i&#x27;ve learned that the biggest competitive advantage in fintech is flagrant disregard for correctness and compliance.<p>i&#x27;m glad i have a csuite with the stones to execute that. i am way too principled.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
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  That is the UK basicially. You need some connecting dots probably to make it worthwhile.<p>But even then if the train is hourly you need to be organized. No going out ona whim.


type: comment
by: polishdude20
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  What about a feature that randomized the app locations on your home screen every time you open it? That way, no muscle memory develops.


type: comment
by: gethly
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  I might try to do some work with manually memory managed languages like Odin, Zig or Rust. I just have no use case yet.


type: comment
by: zippyman55
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  I’ve been stuck at 2000 rating for about 40 yrs, a huge break for college and a career. But I was never able to get to 2200.  I’m retired now and really spending time to get to that goal.  In reflection, in my youth, my analytical skills were pretty good. With age, I think they are weaker based on results. I’m also less competitive. My pattern mastery is really good. So, I think of my game performance as my wisdom allows me to compensate for my loss of analytical power. I do think formulating a middle game strategy is an area that can help improve my results and that is my primary focus.


type: comment
by: SR2Z
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  Don&#x27;t forget that having lanes which are guaranteed to be congestion-free is useful to everyone, not just the rich.<p>If you&#x27;re in SF and you get a call that your mother is in the hospital in SJ and it&#x27;s 5pm, you would happily pay $100 in tolls to get there (I think the actual price is less than $20).<p>Unfortunately, there is no practical way to do this other than by charging money to use the fast lane, and this means that the rich will get more of the scarce resources than the poor.<p>This is no big deal - it&#x27;s kind of a tautology, if you really think about it.


type: comment
by: chopete3
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  This is could be the reason the commenter is trying to convey.<p>Palantir helps Israel with war in Gaza&#x2F;Palestine.<p>Friend of any enemy is an enemy. That group is asking for help cause harm to that Friend.


type: comment
by: Tade0
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  In my region that&#x27;s just speedrunning getting a fine. The offending vehicle is whisked away at the exit booth by law enforcement.


type: comment
by: eatsome
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  For an article written about time, I would have thought there&#x27;d be a timestamp on the blog post. Just something to think about if someone stumbles upon this in a few years.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  Earlier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404076">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404076</a>


type: comment
by: satvikpendem
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  You don&#x27;t have to use AI. Regardless, only humans can take responsibility, not computers, and that will never change.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Earlier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403805">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46403805</a>


type: comment
by: serf
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  Mindspring, I haven&#x27;t read that in a long time.<p>Didn&#x27;t they try to come back as a brand when free ad-supported dialups became a thing for a bit?


type: comment
by: SR2Z
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  If it&#x27;s a question of fairness, the guy you&#x27;re replying to has a point. If it&#x27;s a question of civilization... well, toll roads are kind of inextricable from civilized society.


type: comment
by: otterley
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  You can’t be certain that any given mutating operation you perform now won’t be relied upon for some future operation, unless the two operations are performed in entirely different domains of data. Even “not touching (by which I assume you mean mutating) the same data” isn’t enough. If I update A in thread 0 from 1 to 2, then I update B in thread 1 to the value of A+1, then the value of B could end up being 2 or 3, depending on whether the update of A reached thread 1.


type: comment
by: satvikpendem
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  This is exactly how I felt when Stable Diffusion came out in 2023. It turns out I am <i>not</i> an artist and eventually got bored by it whereas actual artists used it for hours, the same as we engineers use LLMs. The personality does not change, only the tool.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
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  I do think the future green transport is a self driving electric bus ultimately powered by solar with adaptive routes. It is why I dont mind lots of roads being built as they can eventually be repurposed for this.


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
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  If society at large is being a dick to me and my group as a whole, I&#x27;m likely to be an even worse dick to society at large, which is why protesting doesn&#x27;t work for people like me because protesting is generally about very nice and calm about outrageous things and causing a bit of inconvenience, that is to say being not as bad as what one is protesting with the hidden message you don&#x27;t want us to make things bad (I decided to drop the dick metaphor before it would have to get graphic)<p>on edit: not to mention I hate crowds.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
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  What&#x27;s the end game?<p>AI sloop ads for dating apps full of ai chat bots , YouTube watched by AI bots.<p>I was a bit surprised Spain has the most subscribers to ai sloop. Kinda weird considering the population size compared to the US


type: comment
by: spencerflem
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  If you want an actual answer: the ~30% of Americans who have a psychological need to see other people suffer, a media environment totally bought out by hard right billionaires, and an opposition that can barely distinguish themselves also propped up by hard right billionaires, and an electoral system that favors republicans


type: comment
by: greatgib
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  I will not defend the case against this person, because I think that trump&#x27;s gouvernement actions are awful.  But just to nitpick, it looks like that what is taken against this guy is not that they defend a point of view as &quot;free speech&quot; but that they took offensive actions against free speech by pressuring tech and starting baseless legal actions.<p>But, in the end justice is there to say if things are free speech or not, so it is really bad spirit to use the visa to take revenge on him.<p>Also the cynical in me would say that somehow you are still a guest in the country so maybe it is not very legitimate to be a lobbyist group for what you think should be the spirit of the country.<p>Like if I have a visa in China and there create an offensive lobbying group to force companies to support capitalism and free market...


type: comment
by: da_grift_shift
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  &gt;Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other?<p>At least for Claude, it&#x27;s because the people training it believe the models should have a soul.<p>Anthropic have a &quot;philosopher&quot; on staff and recently astroturfed a &quot;soul document&quot; into the public consciousness by acknowledging it was &quot;extracted&quot; from Opus 4.5, even though the model was explicitly trained on it beforehand and would happily talk about it if asked.<p>After it was &quot;discovered&quot; and the proper messaging deployed, Anthropic&#x27;s philosophers would happily talk about it too! The funny thing is the AI ethicists interested in this woo have a big blind spot when it comes to PR operations. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46125184">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46125184</a>)


type: comment
by: SR2Z
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  You cannot update the registration on your car if you have outstanding fines (at least in CA, but probably in most states).<p>Driving a car without a registration will (in theory) get you pulled over, and eventually your car will be impounded.<p>In practice? Car ownership is required to participate in society in most parts of the US and governments are very unwilling to take away people&#x27;s ability to drive.


type: comment
by: Valodim
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  For anyone relatedly wondering about the &quot;schism&quot;, i.e. GnuPG abandoning the OpenPGP standard and doing their own self-governed thing, I found this email particularly insightful on the matter:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.gnupg.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;gnupg-devel&#x2F;2025-September&#x2F;036064.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.gnupg.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;gnupg-devel&#x2F;2025-September...</a><p>&gt; As others have pointed out, GnuPG is a C codebase with a long history (going on 28 years). On top of that, it&#x27;s a codebase that is mostly uncovered by tests, and has no automated CI. If GnuPG were my project, I  would also be anxious about each change I make. I believe that because of this the LibrePGP draft errs on the side of making minimal changes, with the unspoken goal of limiting risks of breakage in a brittle codebase with practically no tests. (Maybe the new formats in RFC 9580 are indeed &quot;too radical&quot; of an evolutionary step to safely implement in GnuPG. But that&#x27;s surely not a failing of RFC 9580.)


type: comment
by: harvey9
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  FDP is using patient-level health data so not something likely to be made public, and the goal is to manage this specific health system so not really a research endeavour. This would still be the case even if the UK had picked another supplier or built it&#x27;s own platform.<p>Separately, there are some Trusted Research Environments out there for approved research projects.


type: comment
by: mgh95
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  &gt; If all the prices rise in the US to compensate, Europe stays exactly as competitive as before.<p>Yes, but my point is exactly the opposite has occurred for imports: the US is still roughly flat in terms of import inflation. Since Nov &#x27;22, import inflation has been sub-3% without exception and sub-2% since 2023 without exception. The US is <i>still</i> exporting inflation effectively, and US inflation is due to factors other than currency fluctuations.<p>That&#x27;s the real issue: the USD weakened 8% against the EUR, and prices remain the same. For eurozone exporters to the US that&#x27;s an absolute disaster.


type: comment
by: tisc
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  Why would you build a switch instead of relying on the user’s system settings? The only reason I can imagine is that your dark&#x2F;light mode is not usable&#x2F;readable so it forces the user to switch


type: comment
by: fsckboy
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  i don&#x27;t see how either of those cases applies to the FSF and GNU&#x27;s attitude on library linking; in neither case were they creating a combined derivative work.<p>if I make an ai driven viewscreen that you can stick your paperback book into and it gives you a better reading experience of the book, your paperback book is still in there and you can take it out. My viewscreen may not work without the book, but it hasn&#x27;t merged&#x2F;modified the book with anything.


type: comment
by: gethly
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  Not a bug but rather an engineering oversight. Also not hard and it did not affect me, I caught it soon, but it was one of those surprising moments worth mentioning.<p>I have a write-online table in MariaDB and ordering of records is important. I have realised that the database has no such thing as append-only table that stores records in the order they are submitted into the database. Every record has one or more indices, and it is these indices that dictate the ordering and only for the data they index. What I have overlooked is when a transaction A starts, then transaction B starts, the transaction A might have records with smaller keys, as it started sooner, but transaction B commits first with higher keys, which means I end up with out-of-order entries. This is not too bad, actually, it depends on the context and in my case the context was that there were readers constantly waiting for new records. And so if a reader reads records after transaction B commits but not before transaction A commits, the reader will never see new records from transaction A. I have solved it by blocking the readers based on number of active transactions with ordering being considered.<p>I have wrote about it in this blog post, in the &quot;Event Log and proper ordering of events&quot; section <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gethly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-of-gethly&#x2F;event-sourcing-right-way" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gethly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-of-gethly&#x2F;event-sourcing-right-w...</a>


type: comment
by: tonyedgecombe
text:
  You just need to look in the DDK (driver development kit) to see what it&#x27;s like. Hungarian notation everywhere.


type: comment
by: flashgordon
text:
  I really don&#x27;t understand the fetishisizing of the demise of software engineers.  Are other knowledge workers like doctors or lawyers going to be exterminated by AI?  Or is there even a fantasizing of their demise?  The only reason I can think of is shmchaudenfreud (it is relatively barrierless to get into and pays pretty well) and more importantly imo doesn&#x27;t have cabals like other professions do.<p>Btw I love using my Claude code to crank out product but I don&#x27;t get off looking for the day when engineers are a dead breed!


type: comment
by: efilife
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  &gt; I&#x27;m very impressed that anyone who speaks another language natively can get good at it.<p>From my completely anecdotal observations, native speakers are the worst at English. They struggle with homophones, prepositions, tenses, confuse meanings of words, apostrophes and I could go on and on.<p>English grammar is easier to learn by reading and writing than speaking, what most native speakers do.<p>Its&#x2F;it&#x27;s, they&#x2F;their&#x2F;they&#x27;re, who&#x27;s&#x2F;whose, prepositions like a lot, a while and confused words like definitely and defiantly are the first that come to mind. See if you are better than a foreigner.


type: comment
by: galkk
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  One of most brutal things is amount of slop on kids channels.<p>Huntrx singing soda pop, Lego singing soda pop, Sonic singing soda pop, ponies singing soda pop… the amount of slop there is brutal<p>. I literally don’t see any way to approach it except just banning YouTube and downloading and curating videos in advance.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
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  Do either of you have citations?<p>I can see it being both ways.<p>Land aside, building a single story house is much cheaper per sq ft than a tower.<p>Medium density streets, like UK terraces can have enough density to support commerce nearby etc. but also low enough density to use a lot of solar to power houses directly.<p>Land may be the constraint given the population of the world.


type: comment
by: mgh95
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  &gt; I don&#x27;t think that FOREX rates are the best way to think about this, but if you work in that world or otherwise have an intuition for it, then go ahead. Most of us only handle 1 currency, and reasoning in terms of 2 isn&#x27;t exactly an intuition pump.<p>Forex rates, balance of trade, and relative strengthening are great ways of understanding international fluctuations. They are exactly the way to understand reserve currency movements<p>&gt; 2. How much your personal basket of monthly expenses costs in terms of dollars. Ignore a basket that someone on the news told you to care about, like CPI. I mean your personal basket, all the stuff you personally buy, how much is it in dollars, now, a year in the future, a year earlier.<p>This hits at a major part of the issue: goods that have no importable replacement good (housing and healthcare, namely) are a huge part of what lead to the huge bout of inflation. But those are domestic economics, not international economics.


type: comment
by: shermantanktop
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  I kind of agree, but I explain it differently. Everyone’s job is a mix of reactive and proactive work. For my particular job, reactive work is necessary but will expand to fill all my time and then some. Proactive work is ambiguous and uncertain, but usually ends up being the highest value work that I do.<p>If I spend all my time on other people’s demands, it will all be urgent, but not enough of it will be important.


type: comment
by: kaffekaka
text:
  I fully agree. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Social media overuse is an emotional problem, not a technical.


type: comment
by: whatshisface
text:
  The end game is that computer generation beats human content for a subset of the population who becomes accessible to advertisers and propagandists through model alignment, and unresponsive to word-of-mouth.


type: comment
by: Valodim
text:
  This doesn&#x27;t explain why he decided to WONTFIX what is obviously a parser bug that allows injection of data into output through the headers.<p>But werner at this point has a history of irresponsible decisions like this, so it&#x27;s sadly par for the course by now.<p>Another particularly egregious example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.gnupg.org&#x2F;T4493" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.gnupg.org&#x2F;T4493</a>


type: comment
by: jmward01
text:
  What Youtube pushes vs what I watch are so completely different that I am shocked. I almost exclusively watch geology, space, tech and cooking and it pushes at me (quick check of the home page): disgusting cow medical procedures, random sexual videos, celebrity&#x2F;influencer junk. Oh, wait, there is a geology thing....and it is a junk sci&#x2F;scare video that has no actual geology related content. Yeah. Their algorithm is clearly working well. I would go to other platforms but there isn&#x27;t one. I have started donating on patreon and watching there where practical (even though it is still yt serving it up) but that doesn&#x27;t easily allow me to discover new things. The real challenge here is finding new things. When search is so completely broken, how do you find valid new things to watch?


type: comment
by: belZaah
text:
  Typing arcane language into a computer has never been the hard part of programming. Getting a flight ticket was the hard part of making travel happen. No Silver Bullet is as valid today as it was back then.


type: comment
by: gethly
text:
  No, people would not. People pay only for something that gives them value and there is no free or cheap alternative. Especially in the digital world where intangible products&#x2F;services have no value in the eyes of the customers - at all.


type: comment
by: NitpickLawyer
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  Heh, I&#x27;m the opposite. I wish the rpi stayed the course of cheapest &quot;working&quot; SBC, and move their high-end boards to a different brand. Raspberry Sigma, or 67 or whatever gets the younguns crazy these days.<p>After the pandemic, the &quot;25$&quot; SBC suddenly became 100+ with low availability. The main thing that made rpis worth it is gone now, and they&#x27;re all chasing number go up on benchmarks.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
text:
  Yes we broadly deal with that via lower tax bands for lower earners, but the problem is hard to avoid.


type: comment
by: eucryphia
text:
  “DeSantis wants to restrict the growth of data centers that fuel AI efforts by stopping any state subsidies to tech companies and curbing such facilities from drying up local water resources.”<p>I reckon there was a typo and the quote was from Sanders.


type: comment
by: testdelacc1
text:
  It’s a common HN trope to generalise a “community” based on a handful of people or even just one person. “See this is why I dislike the xyz community”, says a person justifying their confirmation bias.<p>Perhaps the world is too complex without breaking it down into in-groups and out-groups, with any out-groups supposedly being completely homogenous. Pretty intellectually lazy but fairly common on HN, to the point where it’s not even worth calling out.


type: comment
by: ahahahahah
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  &gt; when two sales figures are 4 months apart<p>Sure, 4 months apart but the xbox consoles have been out for about 5 years, those 4 months don&#x27;t really make that much difference at this point.


type: comment
by: palmotea
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  &gt; I really don&#x27;t understand the fetishisizing of the demise of software engineers.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s &quot;fetishisizing,&quot; it&#x27;s fear. You have a bunch of comfortable software engineers suddenly realizing they may be in for the same fate as travel agents and blue-collar factory workers.


type: comment
by: throwawaygmbno
text:
  I learned the concept of social engineering in middle school through those AOL CDs. There was a culture of making proggies and learning about the inner workings of how AOL the program and the company worked if you were interested and knew where to look.<p>If you called into a certain department at AOL, you could tell them you were a business and would like to put out their CDs for display. So long as the order was for under 1000 or so they would send them to you, for free, directly to the address of the &quot;business&quot;.<p>I also learned in middle school that CDs sting but don&#x27;t really hurt and the various ways to launch attacks in a CD war with friends and classmates. You throw CDs vertical to be precise and sideways for a crazy flight path to confuse your opponents.<p>Sadly I also discovered that all the racist didn&#x27;t die in the 70s, as the owner of one of the largest AOL hacking discussion forums I frequented loved to talk about how he would move if a black family ever moved into his neighborhood.


type: comment
by: snvzz
text:
  &gt;As for the &quot;goal&quot; or &quot;tactics&quot; that you found on some substack that is full of scare-quotes with an emotionally written bent -- is subjective at best.<p>There&#x27;s plenty reason to suspect BBC is partial, particularly after the recent exposure of their awful edits on Trump&#x27;s speech[0].<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;factually.co&#x2F;fact-checks&#x2F;media&#x2F;bbc-edits-trumps-speech-what-and-why-2ac2d0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;factually.co&#x2F;fact-checks&#x2F;media&#x2F;bbc-edits-trumps-spee...</a>


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Sociopaths are often very convincing. Every action I’ve read about seems to end up enriching himself.


type: comment
by: tonyedgecombe
text:
  &gt;you can write it in a tight, minimal way that doesn&#x27;t bloat the page or slow it down.<p>Yet most people don&#x27;t.<p>There are some problems with the language itself but it&#x27;s mostly from a users perspective that I find it frustrating.


type: comment
by: harvey9
text:
  Did you read the article? Adult social care dashboard not vaccine data. Mozaic just handled migration and is not the host.<p>NHs FDP (Foundry) still has the vaccine data last time I checked.


type: comment
by: atomicfiredoll
text:
  If we&#x27;ve concluded that&#x27;s it&#x27;s okay to have elements that change&#x2F;morph, as we seem to with the introduction of things like details, a native tab-like element feels like a glaring omission. Tabs have been a long-standing UI pattern and forcing every site to implement their own is a nightmare for accessibility. (The page you&#x27;re reading is maybe already in a browser tab.)<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it turned out less than half of the custom tab interfaces on the web failed from an accessibility standpoint. When considering ARIA guidance, I don&#x27;t even think it&#x27;s possible to build an accessible version in HTML alone.<p>Other people have recognized it&#x27;s missing. Open UI has a draft spec for it[0] and CSS Tricks has an article from 2001 about Open UI&#x27;s experiments with sections for tabs[1]. I have no idea what happened on this front, though.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-ui.org&#x2F;components&#x2F;tabs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-ui.org&#x2F;components&#x2F;tabs&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;newsletter&#x2F;281-tabs-and-spicy-drama&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;newsletter&#x2F;281-tabs-and-spicy-drama&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: amiune
text:
  Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;632nm.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;why-syncing-atomic-clocks-is-virtually-impossible-judah-levine-on-utc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;632nm.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;why-syncing-atomic-clocks-is-virt...</a><p>As a teacher I love the way Judah Levine explains


type: comment
by: leoedin
text:
  I’m a twin - admittedly boy&#x2F;girl, so already with some fundamental differences - and we are very, very different people. Always have been. Different interests, different ways of seeing the world, different attitudes to competition, sports, social relationships etc.<p>Now I’ve got 2 boys, and even at fairly young ages they were very different. I’d say by 6 months old the basics of their personalities were visible, and they haven’t changed vastly as they’ve grown.


type: comment
by: tedk-42
text:
  There are a lot of AI generated shorts around animals.<p>A common thing I see is a baby animal needing rescue by a human (which it does) and it comes back later on and rewards the human with a gift of some kind it thinks is valuable.<p>I watch a few podcasts as well and there are more that have their scripts generated and voiced by AI


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  I mean, I was going to reply &quot;take a wild guess&quot; to him, but your message is correct, too.<p>(I may come across as an Ada zealot myself.)


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; unless you really push it<p>This is indeed a problem. My Macbook Pro (with active cooling!) would commonly come within 5c of junction temp when compiling, mdworker_shared was running, or Docker was working.<p>It was an issue with the Intel Macs too, just much more readily apparent since they throttled faster. I wish Apple backed down from this hill, for the sake of my damned gonads.


type: comment
by: max_
text:
  Palantir is a spyware company and the CEO Alex Karp has explicitly said that thier goal is to use their tooling to create fear in people and kill people (i.e people deemed enemies of the United States)


type: comment
by: mojuba
text:
  Skimmed through the article, some interesting numbers but not a single statistic is per capita (or per million, whatever). How do I understand the scale of the phenomenon without the per capita figures? Sorry but seems a bit useless.


type: comment
by: sreekanth850
text:
  In distributed systems, dependencies flow forward, not backward. Causal dependency only exists when an operation actually references earlier state. If B = A+1, then yes, B is causally dependent on A and they must share an order. But that dependency is created by the application logic, not assumed globally in advance.<p>We shouldn’t impose a universal timeline just because some future operation might depend on some past one. Dependencies should be explicit and local: if two operations interact, they share a causal scope; if they don’t, they shouldn’t pay the cost of coordination.


type: comment
by: rep_movsd
text:
  By forcing oil to be bought with dollars, the USD was pegged to oil demand, especially from developing nations whose consumption was growing.<p>Also SWIFT being a means of control of movement of funds.


type: comment
by: behindsight
text:
  Out of curiosity, do you have watch history enabled&#x2F;disabled?<p>I found the feed with it enabled is much better than disabled and I have it finetuned to be more in line with the niches I care about.<p>I am also very proactive with marking channels or content I don&#x27;t prefer with the &quot;Not interested&quot; or &quot;Don&#x27;t recommend channel&quot; as well as going through and pruning any content I don&#x27;t want from my watch history directly.<p>It&#x27;s not perfect but it&#x27;s orders of magnitude better than my logged out or watch history disabled account (though not sure if they have since updated it to not show anything at all)


type: story
by: AzeniqTech
title: I built a one-hotkey inline AI rewriting tool (and what went wrong)
text:
  I’ve been dogfooding a small writing helper I built called Rephrazo, and I thought it might be useful to share some implementation details and mistakes so far.<p>The idea is simple:<p><pre><code>  - highlight text where you’re writing   - press a hotkey   - get an AI paraphrase in a small popup   - insert it back with one click </code></pre> The goal is to remove the “copy - open AI tool - paste - rewrite - paste back” loop for small edits.<p>This post is about how I wired it up, what worked technically, and what didn’t.<p>Constraints I designed for<p>From the beginning I tried to design under a few constraints:<p><pre><code>  - One hotkey - one main action   - Stay inside the current app (no browser, no big side panel)   - Minimal UI: single suggestion, one click to insert   - Latency “feels instant” or it doesn’t get used </code></pre> Whenever I broke these constraints (added extra choices, prompts, etc.), usage dropped in dogfooding.<p>High-level architecture<p>Rough breakdown:<p>Desktop client that:<p><pre><code>  - listens for a global hotkey   - grabs the current text selection   - sends it to an API   - displays the returned paraphrase in a small overlay near the selection </code></pre> Backend API that:<p><pre><code>  - accepts the selected text + some minimal context    - calls an LLM   - applies a fixed prompt (“make this clearer, keep tone&#x2F;voice as much as possible”)   - returns a single suggestion (no multi-choice for now) </code></pre> No fancy infra yet, just trying to keep the path from “key press” to “returned text” as short as possible.<p>Text capture and insertion<p>The surprisingly tricky part wasn’t the LLM, it was:<p><pre><code>  - reliably capturing the selected text   - not messing up the user’s clipboard   - inserting the rewritten text back without breaking formatting </code></pre> The first version literally abused the clipboard:<p><pre><code>  \ save clipboard   \ copy selection   \ send to backend   \ replace selection by pasting the result   \ restore clipboard </code></pre> This worked… until it didn’t:<p><pre><code>  \ some apps ignore simulated keypresses   \ sometimes the clipboard got overwritten by other things in between   \ it felt fragile and “hacky” </code></pre> I’m slowly moving toward more app-aware integrations (where possible) while still keeping a generic fallback.<p>Latency and UX<p>Latency matters more than I expected. Rough buckets:<p><pre><code>  1) &lt; 500 ms - feels instant, people are happy   2) 1–2 seconds - acceptable if the suggestion is clearly better   3) &gt; 3 seconds - people regret pressing the hotkey and use it less </code></pre> A few tiny UX things helped:<p><pre><code>  - show a small “loading” state immediately near the selection   - render the popup instantly (skeleton state), then fill it when the response arrives   - on failure, show a short, honest message instead of silently doing nothing </code></pre> If you’re building AI tools, this won’t surprise you, but it’s different when you watch your own users hesitate after a few slow responses.<p>Things that went wrong<p>I overbuilt customization early:<p><pre><code>  - tone dropdowns   - multiple modes (“shorter”, “longer”, “more formal”)   - extra toggles </code></pre> People ignored them, or got decision fatigue.<p>I underestimated how many edge cases there are with selection&#x2F;insertion across different apps.<p>I didn’t log enough in the first builds, so I had to retrofit telemetry to understand actual usage.<p>If you’re curious, the current early version is here: [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rephrazo-ai.app&#x2F;](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rephrazo-ai.app&#x2F;)


type: comment
by: Brajeshwar
text:
  Big fan for a very long time and still appreciate his work. His domain changed to follow his life choices.[1]<p>Later in life, I realize that too much reliance on tools is not something I’m fond of. DSri’s tools (printables) are good and I usually do it when I’m helping out team members, and others looking for guardrails for their productivity. For me now, the tools are too tool-focused and I no longer need them. I have printed and used them for product groups, and even a few times for my daughter’s projects with her friends.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dsriseah.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;sri&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dsriseah.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;sri&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  That was just me being goofy in that bit (and only that), but I hope the rest of my message went across. :)<p>&gt; In fact for file storage why not use an encrypted disk volume so you don&#x27;t need to use PGP?<p>Different threat models. Disk encryption (LUKS, VeraCrypt, plain dm-crypt) protects against physical theft. Once mounted, everything is plaintext to any process with access. File-level encryption protects files at rest and in transit: backups to untrusted storage, sharing with specific recipients, storing on systems you do not fully control. You cannot send someone a LUKS volume to decrypt one file, and backups of a mounted encrypted volume are plaintext unless you add another layer.


type: comment
by: JGgrowth
text:
  Spot on. That &#x27;Christmas Tree&#x27; effect is the #1 pattern I see—founders try to jam every feature into the deck because they worked hard on them.<p>You&#x27;re absolutely right about the depth—the narrative constraint acts as a forcing function. When you have to explain your value in just 10 slides, you realize 80% of those features don&#x27;t actually drive the core mission. It definitely ends up being a PMF exercise as much as a pitch exercise.<p>Appreciate the feedback!


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  &gt;<i>Which brings us to the question: what is this guy going to do with (presumably) the kernel source?</i><p>it doesn&#x27;t bring us to the question, but the answer to the question is, run a diff between the software that has this guys life in its hands, and the version it was derived from, to see if they inserted back doors, stray pointers, etc.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  Price stability is overrated. Prices must change according to scarcity. Letting the government print money any time prices start to fall is literally letting the government profit off your back. It makes accounting easier, but it destroys market information like &quot;Supply of goods is catching up to demand, find something better to produce&quot;.


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  Couple of other contributions:<p>Tariffs all over the place.<p>Many billions going into AI data centers leaving less for normal businesses.


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  It&#x27;s not about using it as an accordion, it&#x27;s about controlling the open&#x2F;closed state from other interactions.


type: comment
by: empiko
text:
  The interesting question is how much more software we actually need. Will software be <i>done</i> one day, all built up, similar to railway networks? With LLMs, software engineering might get cheaper, but it can also lead to increased demand. Resource getting cheaper actually very often leads to demand skyrocketing, as it becomes accessible to new markets.


type: comment
by: throw_m239339
text:
  How can I block AI generated videos (especially AI generated scripts) in my browser? Youtube has to give the viewer an option or the website is going suffer greatly from AI slop...<p>Why is youtube in general making it so hard to block content or channels? and now they made it harder to clean up the user&#x27;s own viewing history, it just doesn&#x27;t make sense...


type: comment
by: bradley13
text:
  Epigenetics is fascinating. For example, the well-docunented effects of war on the following generations. For example, longevity.


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  Having to use the property on the element instance, rather than the actual HTML attribute, is exactly the kind of wrapper code I want to avoid if I&#x27;m using a built-in.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  You did not ask me, but you should do your due diligence because there are way too many armchair cryptographers around here.


type: comment
by: RussianCow
text:
  You say awesome, I say layers upon layers of opaque incantations I have to remember. Thank god for LLMs.


type: story
by: akshayaggarwal
title: Show HN: I built a mental map learning interface to learn anything faster
url: https://github.com/akshayaggarwal99/nodenest
text:
  An open-source, visual interface for LLMs that forces output into a graph structure (React Flow + Dagre). Instead of linear text, every response is a node. I tweaked the system prompt to be purely Socratic...it asks questions to help you expand the graph yourself. Includes browser-local session persistence and image generation for complex concepts.<p>Stack: Next.js 16, React Flow, Gemini 3 Flash. Privacy: 100% local storage (no signup&#x2F;database). Cost: Free (Open Source). Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodenest-blond.vercel.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodenest-blond.vercel.app&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  On the right track.<p>Baggage handling should be controlled by the FAA to ensure safety in emergency situations.


type: comment
by: lanthissa
text:
  the &#x27;slop&#x27; is generally at either end of the extremes of video length, either shorts or multiple hour videos.<p>shorts get paid by the view, ppl put on long videos to fall a sleep to and youtube premium does a rev share based on watchtime of the premium user.<p>this is why you have like 10 hour playlists and white noise videos.


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  There is a subset of society who assumes by default people are good at their titles.<p>Don’t ask me how those people are still being born, it don’t make a ton of sense to me.


type: comment
by: nkko
text:
  This is a very smart idea. Life orienteering, we are all running in life and some predefined checkpoints would be nice.


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  For a simple example, imagine buttons that opens a modal with a particular arrangement of open&#x2F;closed accordions for each button.


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  &gt;And 10x better energy efficiency because you&#x27;re not constantly moving data across a memory bus.<p>Moving data is not that expensive, many times there&#x27;s no overhead over the nominal consumption of your system.<p>The rest of the article is spot on, though.


type: comment
by: wtcactus
text:
  I&#x27;m curious, do you have any data for that (and of an actual &quot;a well run government highway)?<p>In my country, there were several &quot;scandals&quot; (altough I don&#x27;t think anyone ever got arrested) about highway construction and how they massively went over budget. I can also say that when they are new, they are great to ride, but, since the budget only thinks about construction, after a couple of decades they start degrading badly until a new massive budget is again used for major work on them.


type: comment
by: whateveracct
text:
  I totally agree as a fellow fintech engineer. It was a battle getting approval for all that from Product for us. While we were battling for it, we rushed multiple projects without literally any of it. And then spent a year+ each time cleaning up the mess.


type: comment
by: wtcactus
text:
  That&#x27;s not really an argument, in europe, automated tolls have existed since 1991 (this was actually the first ever country wide system in the world). [1]<p>Besides, since about 10 years ago, we also have a lot of automated toll roads where you don&#x27;t even need to have the Via Verde chip now. You just pass by, it collectes your car plate number and it processes the payment for you. Then it&#x27;s your responsability to check your inbox for the bill (or to set it up to pay automaticaly).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Via_Verde" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Via_Verde</a>


type: comment
by: quadrophenia
text:
  OP here - thank you for your explanations! My writing got a little messy in this section, but I think my intended focus here was on struct alignment. I&#x27;ve only had to care about alignment in some very niche cases dealing with C, so I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s something that&#x27;ll come up in my typical non-high performance software work. I agree that `repr` would likely be the way to go.<p>I do appreciate that the act of copying or allocating something nontrivial in Rust requires verbosity. Your list of typical heap containers is great and I&#x27;ll do my best to internalize that. I&#x27;d just add that some primitives like sync::Mutex [1] in Rust&#x27;s standard library (which to my knowledge don&#x27;t exist in C++&#x27;s STL) require some additional gymnastics to wrap my head around. The wrapper is super useful though :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;std&#x2F;sync&#x2F;struct.Mutex.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;std&#x2F;sync&#x2F;struct.Mutex.html</a>


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  It was a self-deprecating joke which back-fired because nuance is lost on the internet. You got triggered, which is entirely human, but at this point, you&#x27;re the one who is doubling down. Perhaps it&#x27;s a good time to disconnect and enjoy some time with your family.


type: comment
by: xeonmc
text:
  Google’s two moats, YouTube and Search, both succumbing to the same infestation to destroy its market grip I see.


type: comment
by: ggm
text:
  As defined by &quot;with the expected modern control layout&quot; although given how washer stalks and indicators move around (-and hadn&#x27;t been invented) .. questions could be asked by a pedant.


type: comment
by: UberFly
text:
  My own &quot;research&quot; has me in complete agreement. Venues like Etsy are now 33% Ai slop now so why should Youtube be any different?


type: comment
by: chroma205
text:
  &gt; Fines should be designed to make it uneconomical to continue to reoffend.<p>Great. Fine me $1 million, and I will fight the case with lawyers, thus slowing down the public legal system for thousands of other legal cases, whether traffic related or otherwise.


type: comment
by: _flux
text:
  I think this is a fair take:<p>&gt; We currently do not support unprivileged use case (same as BPF). Basically, Rex extensions are expected to be loaded by privileged context only.<p>As I understand it, in privileged context would be one where one is also be able to load new kernel modules, that also don&#x27;t have any limitations, although I suppose the system could be configured otherwise as well for some reasons.<p>So this is like a more convenient way to inject kernel code at runtime than kernel modules or eBPF modules are, with some associated downsides (such as being less safe than eBPF; the question about non-termination seems apt at the end of the thread). It doesn&#x27;t seem like they are targeting to actually put this into mainstream kernel, and I doubt it could really happen anyway..


type: story
by: andros
title: Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo
url:
  https://en.andros.dev/blog/7b1b607b/doom-in-django-testing-the-limits-of-liveview-at-600000-divssegundo/


type: comment
by: threeducks
text:
  &gt; it always work[s]<p>That was not my experience, at least for very large files (100+ GB). There was a workaround (that has since been patched) where you could link files into your own Google drive and circumvent the bandwidth restriction that way. The current workaround is to link the files into a directory and then download the directory containing the link as an archive, which does not count against the bandwidth limit.


type: comment
by: questionableans
text:
  This got me thinking. In any country or ethnic group, it’s so important to differentiate between the average person trying to get by and the aggressors who claim to be their leaders. When we look at the world through the lens of political and military leaders, we miss so much of the humanity of everyday people.


type: comment
by: teiferer
text:
  &gt; I am adding context.<p>Ah, that&#x27;s apprecitated. Indeed, he didn&#x27;t provide that &quot;why&quot; and tbf that wasn&#x27;t the point of the article. But thanks for adding that context.<p>&gt; You missed the whole &quot;real world systems&quot;. E.g. like stock trading, where zero stock trades are tombstones.<p>Hm I don&#x27;t think I missed that. This counts as &quot;on the wire&quot;. Externally, there are surely good reasons for that representation, though I&#x27;d argue that internally it&#x27;s better to represent this in the type system instead of special casing 0 everywhere which can be forgotten and then you get your (potential) division-by-0 issues. Avoiding them by construction is even better than failing explicitly (which I agree is in turn still better than silently returning 0).


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  &gt; I mean read any discussion about M laptops and you see apple fanboys noncritucally declaring them a revolution in computing.<p>I see a lot of people extolling the battery life, displays, and trackpads. And probably an equal amount of complaining about the increasingly locked-down and un-customisable nature of macOS. We all like the hardware, and fight the software more by the day.<p>The blind zealots of the &quot;I&#x27;m a Mac, and I&#x27;m a PC&quot; era just aren&#x27;t very common anymore.


type: story
by: AzeniqTech
title: Ask HN: How do you edit your writing without breaking focus?
text:
  I’m trying to understand how other people handle editing and rewrites without killing their focus.<p>My pattern for years has been something like:<p><pre><code>  - write a rough sentence or paragraph   - notice it feels clumsy or too formal   - copy it into an AI tool or Grammarly   - get a better version   - paste it back, reformat   - repeat many times </code></pre> It works, but it constantly breaks my flow. I spend a lot of time context-switching instead of just fixing the text and moving on.<p>Because of that, I’ve been experimenting with a very narrow tool (Rephrazo) that keeps everything inline:<p><pre><code>  - highlight text   - press a hotkey   - get an AI paraphrase in a small popup   - insert it back with one click </code></pre> No new tab, no big chat window, no prompts. Just “this sentence feels off - quick rewrite - continue”.<p>A few questions for HN:<p><pre><code>  1. How do you currently edit your own writing (emails, docs, landing pages, internal docs, etc.)?       - Mostly manual?      - Copy-paste into ChatGPT&#x2F;Grammarly?      - Built-in tools in your editor?    2. Does context-switching (new tab, new app, separate window) bother you, or is it a non-issue in practice?    3. If you’ve tried inline tools before (for code or writing), what made you:       - keep using them long-term, or      - abandon them after a few days?    4. What would make an inline “rewrite this” helper actually useful for you, rather than yet another distraction? </code></pre> If it’s helpful for context, the early version of what I’m testing is here:<p><pre><code>  - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rephrazo-ai.app&#x2F; </code></pre> But feel free to ignore the link and just describe your own workflow. Honest “this isn’t a real problem for me” answers are just as useful as “I’d use this every day”.


type: comment
by: questionableans
text:
  I’ve heard Foundry is not only insanely expensive, but to actually accomplish something comparable to the demos in your domain requires a huge amount of integration work to build it out in a way that locks you in.


type: comment
by: phplovesong
text:
  Youtube is horrible, specially the force-fed &quot;shorts&quot;. Its 95% AI slop with the same generic graphics and voice-over. From the actual videos most are also AI generated, making me quit the video as soon as i see it.<p>YT has hit rock bottom. Just sad.


type: comment
by: ninth_ant
text:
  There is no “end game” it’s just hustlers out for a buck for themselves — YouTube, the slop makers, the ad companies, the bots scraping videos, all of em.<p>Same as it ever was. When this cash cow proves worthless or runs out it’ll be another thing.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  And ~90% of google searches now gives you 10 videos as answers to any query rather than just the web pages that have been turned into videos because youtube makes them more money than regular ads. Assholes.


type: story
by: nomilk
title: Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?
text:
  Compared to the era before AI coding tools (say, ~2 years ago), if you had to put a number on it, how much has your productivity as a SWE changed?<p>I think about this a lot; am keen to hear what others perceptions are. For me; the short answer: about 2x (i.e. 100% faster than pre LLMs). Long answer:<p>When I thoroughly understand the domain (i.e. business logic and real world problem I&#x27;m solving), and am familiar with the tech stack, I&#x27;m about ~10x faster for the same or better code quality.<p>When I don&#x27;t understand the domain, prompts will be ambiguous or inadequate, the LLM will guess, it will do a month&#x27;s work in a day, but I&#x27;ll spend the next 3 weeks refactoring and realising how trash the code was, due to how trash the prompt was. All in all, it&#x27;s probably still faster than pre AI, but can give a demoralising psychological phenomena where you <i>think</i> something&#x27;s nearly completed only to spend weeks debugging it, refactoring, and often tossing it away and starting over.<p>In an unfamiliar tech stack, I can&#x27;t always spot obvious mistakes (mistakes caused by the AI or the prompt), so it&#x27;s less productive and more risky.<p>10-15% of the productivity improvement is due to improvements in the dev environment. I open ~&#x2F;dotfiles with cursor and tell it a problem I have or ask for a specific improvement. It usually modifies .zshrc, .vimrc or similar (and iterates as necessary if the first attempt didn&#x27;t work). Due to how fast this is (e.g. 5 minutes), I&#x27;ve made about 20 little tweaks that previously didn&#x27;t justify the time. They definitely make me happier as well as a bit more productive.<p>But overall, taking everything into account, I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m about 2x as productive as before LLMs.


type: comment
by: zeristor
text:
  A Wikipedia list of English Corn Exchanges:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corn_exchanges_in_England" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corn_exchanges_in_England</a>


type: comment
by: fbarthez
text:
  Totally agree regarding biking, walking, trees, mountains, and will add lakes. Though it does only lightly touch on social structures of traditional societies, you may enjoy reading &quot;The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter&quot; by Joseph Henrich. I also found classic texts of social and political anthropology to be very worthwhile for understanding human societies. Ted Lewellen&#x27;s &quot;Political Anthropology: An Introduction&quot; is a good starting point.


type: story
by: testrun
title: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan
url:
  https://www.9news.com.au/world/a-magnitude-66-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-taiwan/e895618c-33cd-499e-9614-211073b425f6


type: comment
by: bugglebeetle
text:
  The twins I have known are the same. I would assume it has something to do with a desire to differentiate themselves from one another, but they always seemed far more dissimilar in personality and affect than my siblings.


type: comment
by: seydor
text:
  What does &quot;public&quot; mean? Giving the data to Palantir in this day and age practically guarantees the data will be scraped for US &#x27;security&#x27; purposes, particularly the ones having to do with immigration and immigrants.


type: comment
by: moontear
text:
  Awesome! Totally love your version as my first gripe was that I can&#x27;t adjust naming to fit my needs (localized, non-english). Your JS version is awesome, thanks!<p>If you want something for your examples, this would be the German-localized version for 2026: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;weekday_code=S,M,D,M,D,F,S&amp;month_code=Jan,Feb,M%C3%A4r,Apr,Mai,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Okt,Nov,Dez" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abetusk.github.io&#x2F;neatocal&#x2F;?year=2026&amp;weekday_code=S...</a>


type: comment
by: wodenokoto
text:
  My shorts are mostly of the creators I follow or adjecent creators. I do get the occasional AI slop, but it looks more like the algorithm is testing someone new, to learn what they are, than the algorithm feeding me slop.<p>Now Facebook&#x2F;insta shorts, they are somehow just trash. But maybe that is because I don’t follow any creators on those platforms.


type: comment
by: thomashabets2
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  Because 99% of my commits are not WIP commits. So I almost always want to run them.<p>Hell, even most WIP commits will pass the tests (e.g. tests are not yet added for the new code), so I&#x27;d run them then too.


type: story
by: transpute
title: Kingston IronKey Vault SSD: signed firmware, random keypad, multi-OS FIPS 197
url:
  https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/08/kingston-ironkey-vault-privacy-80-encrypted-ssd-review-ultra-secure-ssd-with-hard-drive-speed


type: comment
by: joshdavham
text:
  That&#x27;s a good point.<p>Would you personally be in favor of HN being regulated though? I&#x27;m not sure if I would.


type: comment
by: dwb
text:
  No it’s not. It’s totally conceivable that the (perceived) quality of targeting data would contribute to the decision of whether to run a mission at all, and if so how extensively.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
text:
  I&#x27;m at the lower end in the same way that a junior dev is at the lower end of the salary band. This is to be expected for anyone just starting out.<p>You&#x27;re assuming that you need privileged information that is not available, but what I&#x27;m trading is basically the big player moves - indicated by movement volume in a stock.<p>You don&#x27;t need all the info, there are emergent patterns that result for stocks that make big moves over time.<p>Not every stock that matches one of these patterns will be a winner, but you can base a strategy around this that allows you to have enough success, especially when you combine this with other attributes of the stock (and market conditions) at the particular point in time.<p>I&#x27;m openly aware that so far I&#x27;m in the negative. However most of this is due to me not having sold when instructed to (holding onto &quot;favourite&quot; stocks). Very close to break even currently, so no harm done after 6 months playing in the market.


type: comment
by: memming
text:
  Since I&#x27;m on Cursor often these days, I just edit text with Cursor. With vim keys, highlight, then hotkey to call Mr. Agent Smith to do some magic.


type: comment
by: EbNar
text:
  Same as mine. I just don&#x27;t use YouTube at all and search for information on alternative sources, preferably in text form.


type: comment
by: jiveturkey
text:
  &gt; owners of the same shares differently<p>it’s true, you can’t. however the VCs and the employees don’t own the same shares. even the VCs in different rounds don’t own the same shares.<p>where TFA analysis falls short is assuming employees have to be paid out at all. since the execs are moving over, there’s definitely some equity being traded in this “non-exclusive licensing deal” but it doesn’t have to involve common stock at all.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  You may be correct but pjmlp is not one of those and if you had been here long enough you would have known that. You&#x27;re the one creating an in-group here and putting yourself on the &#x27;good&#x27; side. Perhaps that is too complex for you but I think it is intellectually lazy not to get who you&#x27;re referring to before making comments such as these. Note that your strawman &quot;See this is why I dislike the xyz community&quot; wasn&#x27;t part of this thread at all.


type: comment
by: coffinbirth
text:
  &quot;Deepfake Yanis Varoufakis Videos Are Flooding YouTube&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v1ZewbOd2JQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v1ZewbOd2JQ</a><p>There are already a lot of impersonating AI-Slop videos appearing, not just faking Yanis Varoufakis, but also many other political commentators. It&#x27;s hard to find the real videos by now.<p>I tried to flag these videos, but the process of doing so is so cumbersome that I finally abstained from it. AI-Slop is slowly destroying everything: books, youtube, education, in the end everything that is data driven... Where it could be useful, e.g. high quality video translation, it fails utterly.


type: comment
by: EbNar
text:
  Because quantity &gt; quality, as long as Google keeps making money from your time, engagement and attention. Easy.


type: comment
by: ycombiredd
text:
  I dunno. I left around 1999, just before the EarthLink merger.<p>Related, while doing a quick search to see if I could learn anything about what you described I found Wikipedia quoting NYT as writing about EarthLink in 2000: &quot;second largest Internet service provider after America Online&quot;. I guess it was around y2k when aol finally got its ISP (and this its &quot;world&#x27;s largest&quot;) designation by the world at large. :)


type: comment
by: overfeed
text:
  One of my Arm systems idles at leas than 1W and has a max TDP less than your idle draw (10W). I also have an N200 box, and a 16-core workstation with an obscene power draw - each platform has its pros and cons.<p>I noticed nuance is the first thing discarded in the recurring x86 vs Arm flame wars, with each side minimizing the strength of the &quot;opposing&quot; platform. Pick the right tool for the right job, there are use-cases where the Orange Pi 6 is the right choice.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  &gt; Each &lt;option&gt; element should have a value attribute... It can also have a label attribute, or, missing that, some text content, which may be displayed by the browser instead of value (Firefox), or in addition to value (Chrome and Safari)... The exact content of the drop-down menu depends on the browser, but when clicked, content entered into control field will always come from the value attribute<p>This seems... underspecified. Not ideal that Chrome&#x2F;Safari aren&#x27;t aligned with Firefox here, and that there is no standard way to only display the label<p>[from]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;Elements&#x2F;datalist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: BiteCode_dev
text:
  Real thread are very recent and didn&#x27;t exist when uv was created. So you needed multiprocesses.


type: comment
by: sundarurfriend
text:
  We don&#x27;t have TikTok here (India), but I find YouTube shorts pretty useful. My feed is a mix of Action Labs shorts, Omar Agamy news, ZTT PC stuff, psychology, videos about animals (pet, domestic, wild), etc. I don&#x27;t know what your standard for <i>meaningful</i> is, but the shorts are at least as useful as long form videos to me, if not more.<p>An important bit of context is that I prefer to get detailed information through text, research, sometimes podcasts, but rarely ever videos. The shorts serve as one low effort way (among others) for me to surface new potentially interesting things, to follow up on to the degree I find useful or interesting.


type: comment
by: whateveracct
text:
  people drive slow in HOV lanes. and the. in the lane next to it, people do too. it destroys the natural speed hierarchy of highway driving.


type: comment
by: rapnie
text:
  Cats getting totally excited to see their owner, because they dearly missed them. Cats filmed in night cam dropping weird animals from the forest on sleeping boss. Olympic athletes, gorgeous, but not real. Countless disasters where people die, generated. Youtube shorts is a pile of steaming garbage. As long as it sells, your brain may rot.<p>Worst are imho on the regular long vids side, the geopolitical advisor deep fakes, giving background to the news. Some with well over a million followers. Many of those have the same &quot;we are a fan of the real person&quot; disclaimer, many have no disclaimer.<p>And no one in the comments, of which many look fake too, notices it is AI. That is the most scary part.


type: comment
by: abetusk
text:
  Added to the list of presets in the README [0]. Thanks!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abetusk&#x2F;neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#presets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abetusk&#x2F;neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...</a>


type: comment
by: Roark66
text:
  &gt;my overwhelming observation has been just how little key information is actually conveyed.<p>This is the key. I think they (entertainers cosplaying as journalists) do it on purpose. For example, from time to time I do attempt to watch some &quot;news&quot; on TV with my partner.<p>A typical interaction may be: - TV - &quot;..the president vetoed a bill to lower taxes...here is what this politician thinks: &#x27;I think he only cares to gain support of the extremists he secretly supports&#x27;, and here is what another politician thinks &#x27;it was a bad bill&#x27;&quot; - me to my partner - &quot;did I miss it? have they said what the bill was about? What were the exact things that were questionable?&quot; - her - &quot;nope&quot; - TV - &quot;... The president says he will be submitting a similar bill minus the parts he disagreed with, and now a house burned down in...&quot; - me - &quot;WTF was that?&quot;<p>I sometimes wonder if they are playing a sort of game, how many minutes of &quot;content&quot; can be made while conveying the least amount of information possible.


type: comment
by: bakugo
text:
  The end game is eliminating the last remaining human element in the engagement optimization pipeline, so that the corporations can control 100% of it.<p>Platforms like YouTube and TikTok already have almost full control of how the majority of users spend their time on their platforms. They open the app, they immediately get a feed of content algorithmically selected to keep them on the app for as long as possible. They don&#x27;t need to search, they don&#x27;t need to think about what they want to watch, they just consume. Fully automated consumption with 0 human effort involved.<p>Well, almost. There&#x27;s one last thing remaining: you still need humans to produce the content that you then put on people&#x27;s feeds. Or rather, needed. Now that the actual production can also be automated, those platforms no longer need to put effort into finding existing human-created content that will keep people watching - they can just generate new, algorithmically perfect content. This is their endgame.


type: comment
by: HotGarbage
text:
  Can&#x27;t spell Manus without anus.<p>What is it with AI companies and buttholes? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;velvetshark.com&#x2F;ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;velvetshark.com&#x2F;ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt...</a>


type: comment
by: general1465
text:
  In 4 years of conflict we went from Russia doing blockade of port of Odessa and being undisputed king of Black Sea to Russia hiding its remaining vessels in Novorossiysk.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  &gt; No the most eco (and financially) friendly model is high density areas where you can walk and bike to school and work<p>No, it&#x27;s not. Because for that to work, you&#x27;ll need a large underclass that has to waste 2-3 hours a day in commutes and subsist on groceries from state-run stores.<p>But yeah, the elites will be able to live in nice walkable areas. I know, I lived in an apartment overlooking the Union Square in Manhattan.


type: comment
by: amatecha
text:
  My general view on TikTok is:  why would I even remotely want to use something that&#x27;s specifically designed to exploit me and manipulate me?  The tiny shred of value I might experience (in the form of an occasional interesting video) is a side-effect of the service, and if they could get their value out of me and give me literally nothing at all, they would.  This same perspective applies to all the centralized &quot;social media&quot; services out there today.  None of them exist to make society better or improve the lives of anyone in any meaningful way (outside of enriching the executives and investors running them).


type: comment
by: riffraff
text:
  OTOH could be siblings tend to be more similar as the smaller ones try to copy the older ones (my son would dress up as a ballerina to play with his sister when he was little, my smaller brother would acquiesce to play chess with me just to spend time together etc).<p>I have given up trying to explain child development, there&#x27;s just too many variables.


type: comment
by: NicoJuicy
text:
  Why would any non US country pay for a dependency anymore on US military products under the current administration...


type: comment
by: ozlikethewizard
text:
  As the other user alluded to, Animations are not actually there for people who are comfortable using a computer. The vast majority of users are borderlines in capable of using the internet these days. Animations are supposed to be there to really help guide these users into understanding what the scary machine is doing when they click it. Can they be overused, absolutely, but i think have an accordion fold out animated is a reasonable case. You gotta remember your average user isnt paying any fucking attention, so drawing their attention to important changes on screen is not only good but necessary. I&#x27;d prefer no animations ever, but i also dont own an iphone while the majority of the world either does or wants to.


type: comment
by: backtogeek
text:
  Brilliant I will be adopting a few of these, I have been on a personal quest to reduce js use recently, I feel like I spend more time debugging js than producing the end result.


type: comment
by: bulbar
text:
  That&#x27;s an improvement as before people would abuse real animals to fake seemingly wholesome &quot;before-after&quot; videos by showing snippets in the wrong order.


type: comment
by: oefrha
text:
  Turn off watch history and there’s no feed whatsoever, they started to refuse to show anything on the home page with watch history off since a couple years ago. Yes that includes even Shorts, you’re not allowed to doomscroll without watch history.<p>&gt; Recommendations are off<p>&gt; Your watch history is off, and we rely on watch history to tailor your feed. You can change your setting at any time, or try searching for videos instead. Learn more.


type: comment
by: hxugufjfjf
text:
  I&#x27;ve been building specific tools in languages and frameworks I don&#x27;t understand, nor have ever found time to learn. So the producitvity boost is hard to measure; its a &quot;what&#x27;s 0 times how fast the LLM can do it&quot; type of answer.


type: comment
by: lelanthran
text:
  &gt; Animating the details element is tricky. By the spec, browsers don’t natively support transitions between display: none and display: block.<p>Very hot take; <i>then don&#x27;t animate them!</i><p>Animation in a UI is <i>great</i> - you draw the user&#x27;s attention to a widget that changed because they might not necessarily notice it otherwise. This improves the UX.<p>With a details&#x2F;summary, the animation is <i>not needed</i> and can only make a negative change to the UX. There is no positive change to the UX that animating  the details&#x2F;summary elements would bring. When it is opened it is obvious.<p>If you <i>really really</i> need to animate the details, instead of animating open&#x2F;close, instead animate the summary background&#x2F;text color to indicate that the element has just changed state.<p>Would I <i>like</i> easy animation of open&#x2F;close? Sure. Does it improve the UX? Nope.


type: comment
by: barnabee
text:
  You&#x27;re likely being downvoted not because there&#x27;s anything wrong with having an opinion but because this feels like a low effort comment that contributes little  to nothing, and comes across as quite negative and dismissive[0]. There&#x27;s nothing to engage with or spark curiosity and the parentheses don&#x27;t help with that.<p>[0]: Surely you know what printing and paper are, and how someone would jot something down, so that part comes across as ridiculing the idea.


type: comment
by: AlecSchueler
text:
  If you ignore &quot;good&quot; and &quot;bad&quot; then it&#x27;s just &quot;traits can be passed through this mechanism&quot; egg seems a lot more reasonable.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  &gt; Subsidized transit has legitimately nothing to do with distorted housing costs or labor markets. Housing market is simply supply vs demand. Housing markets like Seattle are incredibly expensive because so many people want to move there, partly because local middle class wages are fairly high.<p>Well. Look at your two statements again. Now think about this, what would have happened if Seattle didn&#x27;t have buses and light rail? And didn&#x27;t permit new dense office space as a result?<p>&gt; If you’re saying subsidized transit increases local quality of life, leading to higher demand, sure.<p>It DECREASES the quality of life. It promotes crime and inequality.<p>&gt; Or is it that subsidized road systems don’t work?<p>In most states, drivers already pay most of the cost of road maintenance through direct taxes&#x2F;fees: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taxfoundation.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;all&#x2F;state&#x2F;state-infrastructure-spending&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taxfoundation.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;all&#x2F;state&#x2F;state-infrastructur...</a> Absolutely no state has unsubsidized transit.


type: comment
by: atoav
text:
  Depends on how complex it is meant to be. Just like many wordpress sites that could easily have been static websites, many javascript heavy sites could have easily just have been using htmlx.<p>If your need <i>really</i>, goes beyond what htmx offers, then you may need Javascript. But in my experience people tend to use the tools they know for their job, not the tools that would be best suited.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  <i>Any</i> google search I do.<p>&quot;how to configure arducopter gps&quot;<p>9 crappy videos before they figure maybe they should link to the documentation after all.<p>To give them some credit, at least that search did not also come with a crappy AI summary that is broken, not applicable and wastes valuable space and bandwidth.<p>edit: corrected count, I missed one. And a very prominent &#x27;see all&#x27; link before the actual one.


type: comment
by: happosai
text:
  Miss falcon 3.0? Go with Falcon BMS. For any genre of games there is a modern remake and community these days.


type: comment
by: gbrindisi
text:
  I noticed that too and it’s kinda scary. Soon we will have the opposite of canceling, where the target will be deepfaked to say everything and its opposite to nullify their signal to noise ratio.


type: comment
by: amatecha
text:
  In high school English class we had to present a &quot;poem&quot; of our choice, of any sort - which included music pieces (or whatever other format).  The song you quoted (KMFDM - Dogma) was my choice.  The assignment included handing out the poem and reading (or playing it) to the class...  Uhh, needless to say this got a pretty interesting reaction, but to the credit of the teacher, she didn&#x27;t stop the music (or confiscate the printed out lyrics I handed out to everyone) despite the various swear words and pretty interesting messages in the lyrics.<p>FWIW the lyrics are written by (and spoken word performed by) guest artist Nicole Blackman (according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discogs.com&#x2F;release&#x2F;73597-KMFDM-Xtort" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discogs.com&#x2F;release&#x2F;73597-KMFDM-Xtort</a> )


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  Really? Like, really? Here&#x27;s the graph: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globalpropertyguide.com&#x2F;asia&#x2F;japan&#x2F;home-price-trends" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globalpropertyguide.com&#x2F;asia&#x2F;japan&#x2F;home-price-tr...</a><p>&gt; Also, Japan effectively has zero NIMBYism due to a national building code. New housing is constantly being built in Tokyo.<p>Yup. It&#x27;s a great example of why &quot;just build more&quot; leads only to misery.<p>&gt; Yes, overall, the population is shrinking in Japan. However, the population of Tokyo continues to rise.<p>Thank you for making my point.


type: comment
by: aucisson_masque
text:
  That ain&#x27;t exactly a study as people think of, something scientist do and that get published in a journal, peer reviewed, approved, etc.<p>It&#x27;s just kapwing employee checking YouTube channel views and reporting it, same for the feed, so I can&#x27;t say that the 21-33% number can be trusted.<p>Now the fact that YouTube has ai slop isn&#x27;t new, but my bet is that many of these &#x27;subscriber&#x27; are in fact bots used to inflate their numbers.<p>And on a more personal touch, I suggest you install YouTube unhook extension to your computer AND the ones of your relatives. The one less tech savvy that are the more susceptible to fall for this. I surprised my father once watching these kind of crap, he couldn&#x27;t understand it wasnt even human made. Now I know he&#x27;s safe from at least that.


type: comment
by: InsideOutSanta
text:
  As an example of this, native German speakers are often better at knowing when to use &quot;who&quot; vs &quot;whom&quot; because German grammar rules are in some ways a superset of English grammar rules.


type: comment
by: anttiharju
text:
  Related to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46398906">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46398906</a>


type: comment
by: NewJazz
text:
  Yeah I agree with this assessment. It is not an eBPF replacement for many reasons. But could be a slightly safer alternative to kernel modules.


type: comment
by: butz
text:
  Nice to see anti-cheats working and protecting Linux players from hacks, by preventing them from actually playing the game.


type: comment
by: anttiharju
text:
  My post can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46409443">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46409443</a>


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  At a societal level [if that&#x27;s what we should be worried about], it&#x27;s not what percentage of results are slop. It&#x27;s what percentage of people believe the slop. Arguably, that seems to be decreasing proportionally. What I mean is: Slop is on a parabolic, hockey stick upward, and trust is on a logarithmic decline. So, <i>good?</i> - let it blow itself out? Bad information is worse than no information, and evolutionary pressures have many ways of proving that.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  I know :( I don&#x27;t have the patience for video content.<p>But in this case it seems to be an event (CCC) recording so it makes more sense.


type: comment
by: philippta
text:
  When I connect my server over SSH, I don&#x27;t have to rotate anything, yet my connection is always secure.<p>I manually approve the authenticity of the server on the first connection.<p>From then, the only time I&#x27;d be prompted again would be, if either the server changed or if there&#x27;s a risk of MITM.<p>Why can&#x27;t we have this for the web?


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  As someone that grew up without mobile phones and Internet, not being able to disconnect seems rather strange.<p>Maybe the memes about growing up in the 70 and 80s have some truthiness to them.<p>&quot;Psychology of people thar grew up in the 80s&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;8VADi7dPb44?si=L0BtbQoSe0-BuSAh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;8VADi7dPb44?si=L0BtbQoSe0-BuSAh</a>


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  Soon depends on how many years you are talking but things will probably go quite quickly now we have fast hardware and algorithms that almost work.


type: comment
by: wenbin
text:
  Same for podcasts (and other types of online contents) -<p>Here&#x27;s a dataset of 26,000+ ai-generated &quot;podcasts&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;listennotes&#x2F;ai-generated-fake-podcasts-spams" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;listennotes&#x2F;ai-generated-fak...</a>


type: comment
by: tosti
text:
  That and there&#x27;s no HTML way to interactively load results. Or are you really going to serialize half a million records to HTML and transfer it all every time the relevant block is added to a page? What if it sits in the header or footer templates?


type: comment
by: MallocVoidstar
text:
  I&#x27;m going to assume this is a predominantly AI-written article since for some reason it&#x27;s talking about GroqCloud serving Llama 2, which they don&#x27;t.<p>It claims they serve Llama 2 7B @ 750 tokens&#x2F;s with 2K context, but over on OpenRouter Groq is listed as serving Llama 3.1 8B @ 1300 tokens&#x2F;s with 128K context. (And the official GroqCloud site says 840 tokens&#x2F;s.)


type: comment
by: ffsm8
text:
  Yes, windows 95 -&gt; 98 -&gt; 2000 was pretty straightforward to understand.<p>Same with 7 -&gt; 8 -&gt; (@.@) -&gt; 10 -&gt; 11<p>Let&#x27;s not oversell their incompetence, is slightly higher then average but not singularly bad


type: comment
by: koakuma-chan
text:
  Your recommendations depend on what you watch. If you don&#x27;t watch AI slop, you will not receive AI slop recommendations. This is what works for me.


type: comment
by: oeitho
text:
  &gt; æ (U+00E6) is not a ligature; it&#x27;s a mostly obsolete character, with different semantics (or phonetics) than ae.<p>Reading that a letter in my alphabet is mostly obsolete feels really weird. No rebuttal, just a comment.<p>&gt; It would never substitute æ for ae; that would misspell the word as much as substituting an o.<p>While that is correct, a lot of other systems actually do this exact substition. If your name contains <i>æ</i> it will be substituted with <i>ae</i> in passports, plane tickets and random other systems throughout your life.<p>My own username on this website is an example of a similar substition. The <i>oe</i> should be read as the single character <i>ø</i>.


type: comment
by: wvenable
text:
  I can&#x27;t see how a bunch of esoteric incantations are better than just some straight-forward easy to understand and follow JavaScript.


type: comment
by: phito
text:
  Do you believe we can automatically detect AI generated videos, without having too many false positives and without spending huge amounts of resources playing the cat and mouse game?<p>It&#x27;s not possible and it&#x27;s not economically viable. Best we could do is some sort of signature to prove that the source of a video is trusted by the proof issuer.


type: comment
by: perryizgr8
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  Everything you do will have some effect on another task you&#x27;re doing. Nothing is perfectly safe. Most people are ok with the risk of driving. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re having a conversation.


type: comment
by: Aardwolf
text:
  Is it accidentally showing the uppercase font for lowercase characters for 14SEG? the 7SEG&#x27;s lowercase is actually lowercase


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  Small correction: there is unsubsidized transit, just not unsubsidized public transit. Seattle has Amazon, Microsoft, snd Google buses judt like the Bay Area does. My wife takes the Amazon bus a lot even though the public transit route would work just as well (for safety&#x2F;hygiene reasons).


type: comment
by: BiteCode_dev
text:
  For the latter point, you are blinded by your own competence.<p>Bootstrapping a clean python env is the single biggest problem for people that are not daily coding in python.<p>That&#x27;s half of the community in the python world.<p>When you write sqla that&#x27;s not obvious, because you know a lot. But for the average user, uv was a savior.<p>I wrote a pretty long article on that here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitecode.dev&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitecode.dev&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use</a><p>We also discuss it with brett cannon there:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitecode.dev&#x2F;p&#x2F;brett-cannon-on-python-humans-and" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitecode.dev&#x2F;p&#x2F;brett-cannon-on-python-humans-and</a><p>But the most convincing argument is to teach python to kids, accountants, mathematicians, java coders and sysadmin.<p>After 20 years of doing that, I saw the same problems again and again.<p>And then uv arrived. And they disapeared for those people.


type: comment
by: dandersch
text:
  I had the same reaction and I think you are not supposed to close it. Just go Menu -&gt; Print (Ctrl+P) and you will see it without the box.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  A community is made by all of its participants.<p>One could also say some in the C or C++ communities actually care about security, thus no need for Rust or alike, yet no one is paying attention to those small groups in the corner.<p>A village is judged by its population actions, and even the black sheeps count to its overall image from outsiders.


type: story
by: sandebert
title: Microsoft admits Teams eats RAM on Win doing nothing, and "fix" is another EXE
url:
  https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/27/microsoft-admits-microsoft-teams-eats-ram-on-windows-doing-nothing-and-fix-is-just-another-exe/


type: comment
by: seanieb
text:
  Judging by the comments Americans still don’t intuitively understand what the rest of the world does. Everyone is trying to create distance from the United States. The US no longer represents the smart deal, it represents risk, risk that countries can’t afford. The US has spent the last year creating chaos and punishing its closest allies and trading partners. The instability goes beyond Trumps term too, they’re rightfully afraid of the system that elected Trump twice. When they have a choice between euro’s, dollar’s or yuan they’re going to choose dollars less frequently to avoid exposure to the US.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
text:
  A bus can take 50 people into the city at once. Much more energy and space efficient and cheap. I imagine a bus&#x2F;minibus&#x2F;taxi mix though.


type: comment
by: PeterStuer
text:
  YouTube promotes slop and &quot;brainrot&quot; irrespective of AI use, this through the client being tuned for clickbait title presentation, forcing back shorts after every relaunch and promoting clickbait select single frame thumbnails.


type: comment
by: kuschku
text:
  No? With let&#x27;s encrypt the certificate is rotated, but the private key remains the same, and importantly, let&#x27;s encrypt never gets to see it, and anything is logged.


type: story
by: cliftonc
title: Show HN: Embeddable analytics for your platform – MIT Licensed
url: https://try.drizzle-cube.dev/
text:
  I&#x27;ve been working on this as a side project for some time, but now I think it has reached a point to be genuinely useable and useful - would really appreciate any feedback or comments!


type: comment
by: wvenable
text:
  &gt; We still should do more with HTML and CSS! And reach for leaner solutions than React everywhere.<p>It&#x27;s pretty difficult for anyone to completely understand all the nuances in HTML and CSS.  It&#x27;s a big mess that gets bigger and messier every year.<p>We should have just given JavaScript even more power over controlling the viewport and leave HTML and CSS for the history books.


type: comment
by: hackable_sand
text:
  Oh sorry I mean<p>Yes, citizen-friend! I have upheld the Prime Directive and participated in our routine civic sports. Next month I will initiate the annual tributary credit transfer so that the oracle may see more clearly.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  And that&#x27;s the problem, if you want your code to actually work you do need to write those unit tests. A program not crashing doesn&#x27;t mean it does the right thing.<p>With experience you will learn to either write unit tests or spend the same amount of time doing manual testing.<p>Once you start doing that then the unit tests just replace the static typing and you start shipping better code to your customers.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Because the actions of everyone count to the wide perception of a community from the outside.<p>Rust Striking Force meme exists for a reason, their actions are also not supported by the core team.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  In the blog post it uses &quot;600,000 divs&#x2F;second!&quot; and &quot;10,000 divs using its template engine&quot; while the heading uses 600.000.<p>I assume the difference in usage of full stop &#x2F; period or comma is accidental?


type: comment
by: carlmr
text:
  &gt;so we farm incredible quantities of tobacco to extract its poisons.<p>Evolutionarily the best survival strategy.


type: comment
by: aussieguy1234
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  Id liken the smartest AI to a savant like 10 year old that has multiple university degrees.<p>Smart, but they&#x27;re still 10, still naive and easily misled and they can&#x27;t be trusted to make real decisions.<p>They&#x27;ll need an Adult in the loop if ever doing real work.


type: comment
by: raphinou
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  I&#x27;m working on a multi sig file authentication solution based on minisign. Anyone knows the response of the dev regarding minisign&#x27;s listed vulnerability? If I&#x27;m not mistaken, the response of the authors are not included in the vulnerabilities&#x27; descriptions.


type: comment
by: berkanunal
text:
  How capable it is do you think at this moment. I guess we need 30 more years for software to get better, so less than 20 thousand children dies in the Gaza genocide.


type: comment
by: belZaah
text:
  The function of a system is what adds value to someone. The form is what incurs costs. These both are part of your system architecture. Thus, if your architecture is badly done, there is nothing left over between value added and cost and the organization cannot make money.<p>It is of course true, that the whole organization is the money-making system. Thus I find it jarring people talking about system design and assuming software by default.


type: comment
by: kuschku
text:
  Even my doctor&#x27;s office and local government agencies support PGP encrypted emails, and refuse to send personal data via unencrypted email, but tech nerds still claim no one can use it?


type: comment
by: glenngillen
text:
  I hear a lot of people be incredibly critical of TikTok, while being active consumers of Facebook&#x2F;Instagram&#x2F;X&#x2F;etc. I&#x27;ve found the content on TikTok to be much better curated to what I actually like, with just enough (i.e., very little!) other content sprinkled in occasionally.<p>I asked someone a similar question to you a year ago and they told me something like &quot;just spend 15 minutes with it. Aggressively swipe past things you aren&#x27;t enjoying, like the the things you like. Search for something you are interested in too and like anything you like there&quot;. My feed is currently entirely basketball coaching tips for kids, cooking &amp; recipes, stand up comedy, basic DIY, fitness&#x2F;running tips, local restaurant recommendations, and sports highlights.


type: comment
by: hamasho
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  I feel like the search result of YouTube videos on Google search is much worse than the result on YouTube itself. It&#x27;s strange because Google develop both Google and YouTube search. It&#x27;s like reverse Reddit, where the website&#x27;s search is so unusable you have to search on Google like &quot;xxx reddit&quot;.


type: comment
by: sothatsit
text:
  It’s interesting, it already is the former for niche areas in coding (e.g., basic web dev tasks). But as a whole for areas like social media or increased surveillance it could very well be a negative, and those affect a whole lot more people than coding and having more software would.


type: comment
by: yurishimo
text:
  Because you need 20x the JS to do the same thing and it’s still not hardware accelerated. These new CSS properties are well supported and will only get better.


type: comment
by: UqWBcuFx6NV4r
text:
  Here I was trusting my own experience. Silly me. I should’ve been listening to some HN user’s assertion as to what is “easy” and “hard”.


type: comment
by: sen
text:
  I searched for that exact phrase out of curiosity because I haven’t used Google in years… and it’s even worse than you say.<p>I got an AI summary that takes up half the screen, which doesn’t even give the right answer, then 5 YouTube videos with thumbnails and extra crud (most not even related to the question but just mention “ArduPilot” somewhere on the title), then half a page of “Other people searched for..”<p>Then about 3 “screens” down the page I get the ArduPilot homepage and then a bunch of embedded Reddit&#x2F;Facebook discussions about ArduPilot in general, none about setting up GPS.<p>Google has *completely* lost the plot.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  Indeed. If there is one person here that keeps their footing in language debates it is you (and I&#x27;m always blown away with how many details you have at instant recall that I never realized were there). So thank you for the lessons over the years, it has helped me evaluate my choices better.<p>As for that sentence: I think Rust has its place, I do not agree at all with their &#x27;rewrite&#x27; mantra because there are a ton of risks associated with rewrites that have nothing to do in what language the code is written in, just that it is a rewrite.<p>I think the Rust folks should go all-in on Redox and fix their tool optimization issues. And do one thing and do that well rather than to be the next Swiss army knife of programming. And I <i>also</i> think that the C and C++ folks can do a lot better still. Filip is doing something interesting I think and if there a practical solution to the C heritage I think it lies more in his direction than in rewriting <i>billions</i> of lines of battle tested code. Performance isn&#x27;t nearly as important as it used to be. Another thing that I think would be beneficial would be to take as many device drivers out of the linux kernel as possible and run them as userspace processes.<p>Anyway, belated Merry Christmas to you and a pre-emptive happy 2026!


type: comment
by: xorvoid
text:
  Same. This is the way. If you use Firefox, install the &quot;unhook&quot; extension to remove all the junk (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;youtube-recommended-videos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;youtube-recom...</a>)


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  &gt; Well, the US is a &quot;propositional nation&quot;, we are told, so of course people are deported if they don&#x27;t subscribe to the proposition. How else could it be a propositional nation?<p>Nope, I’m fairly clued into politics and anyone wanting to question that can check my post history. I have literally never heard the term “propositional nation” prior to your post.<p>What does it mean, and where do you intend to move the Overton window while talking about it like it’s common knowledge?


type: comment
by: 3rodents
text:
  Setting aside the veracity of the $100m claim: Manus is a spin out of a spin out, building on ~10 years of previous work. The “fastest company to 100m arr” has become a meme so it doesn’t deserve much scrutiny but it seems a somewhat tenuous claim in this case.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manus_(AI_agent)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manus_(AI_agent)</a>


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  &gt; Right. So at that point all those contributing developers are free to fork, and maintain the fork. You have just as much control as you always did.<p>Yep. And we&#x27;ve seen this happen. Eg, MariaDB forked off from MySQL. Illumos forked from Solaris. Etc. Its not a nice thing to have to do, but its hardly a doomsday situation.


type: comment
by: rekttrader
text:
  Wow, this reads like dystopian science fiction. As I celebrate the holidays with my newly born human, I sure hope that more people start wanting to bet on brighter tomorrows and actually put some skin in the game.


type: comment
by: hamasho
text:
  I see a lot of educational animal videos that copy the content of BBC Earth only to replace David Attenborough voice with AI, and it unreasonably irritates me.


type: comment
by: darubedarob
text:
  They are the only ones who can really do predictions on a policy level. Ever since the post &quot;they will just embrace liberty&quot; ideology disaster that was the iraq-war mining of the cellphones aka palantirs for behavioural data has given some pretty gnarly insights to what mankind can do and cant do. None of this &quot;We shall just degrowth and life in harmony with nature&quot; or &quot;all cultures can equally well form lawfull societies&quot; nonsense. And if you have the knowledge about what a thing can and cant do, you can package it into a simulator and sell predictions to policymakers. Predictions &amp; policies like : &quot;Let refugeewaves in and the idealistic-retarded movements will poison themselves, wither and die&quot;.


type: comment
by: stcg
text:
  Other advantages to generating content: (1) fewer copyright issues. (2) No creators to pay, just GPU bills scaling with the use of the platform. (3) a much smaller critical mass.<p>Given these advantages I expect the current &quot;social media&quot; to be replaced with a new one, rather than them pivoting. The next big thing after tiktok might be something that <i>only</i> has generated content, where a last final bit of &quot;social&quot; is taken out of &quot;social media&quot;.


type: comment
by: belZaah
text:
  I find it strange, to what extent people dive into the process of software design while calling it system design. Is your dev team junior or senior? Are they all in an office somewhere or divided between two sites 4 timezones appart? How’s the leadership structure? Your software architecture must form a coherent part of the organizational, dare I say Enterprise, architecture. And since the latter is rarely sensibly managed, there’s a limit to what you actually can do with software. Heck, the knowledge, that some time within next 6 months someone is going to make a really random strategic decision nullifying most of your design is a really important input to your design process.<p>Your system very rarely is just the software and at the very least the system context (of which customers are a part) is a major driver of your decisions. This boundary between software and organization architecture is where engineering fails and that truly good architects excel at: they understand what they cannot influence and go deliberately after what they can.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  &gt;Rust Striking Force meme exists for a reason, their actions are also not supported by the core team.<p>Many of the core team and by large its community witness RESF in action for long before sending in a few words isn&#x27;t exactly not supported in my book.<p>But then again I understand every PL needs a lot of push and marketing. It just went <i>way</i> too far in one direction.


type: comment
by: auxiliarymoose
text:
  Accordion behavior is discussed in the article in the &quot;Accordions &#x2F; Expanding Content Panels&quot; section:<p>&gt; Use the same name attribute on all related details (like radio buttons) to restrict only one open panel at a time<p>And tabs can be a &lt;details&gt;-based accordion with some creative CSS to adjust the layout (left as an exercise for the reader, but I could write up an example if that would be helpful!)


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  These look great for people who like to plan their tasks. I found that when I plan my tasks and plan my day and plan my time bubbles, I spend so much time planning that I don&#x27;t have time left for doing. This planner explicitly encourages having only three planned tasks for the day. What&#x27;s wrong with just doing those tasks without writing them down?<p>I ask in full seriousness, as someone struggling decades with how to plan and then do personal and professional tasks. I ask as a question, not as a criticism.


type: comment
by: mesosan
text:
  Reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itty.bitty.site" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itty.bitty.site</a>


type: comment
by: bulbar
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;animals&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-fake-animal-rescue-videos-have-become-a-new-frontier-for-animal-abuse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;animals&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-fake-...</a><p>Another common theme is to kill rare animals to stage cool photographs. However, I don&#x27;t assume AI slop will (fully) replace that cruelty, unfortunately. But maybe using AI slop will be easier than animal abuse&#x2F;killing so that those business models run dry for the most part.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  Oh, I guess we should act like all other countries.<p>The thing that has made me see red the most when talking with the current populist nativist ideologues is how they crow about America being the best but then point to other countries behavior as defense for their own.<p>I actually believe that America _was_ the best before this crew took over. That is because we had high barriers and filtered for the competent.<p>I would be all for 100 foot walls around the border if anyone who managed to cross them got citizenship for the achievement. Instead I am getting a bunch of dipshits who largely live on the largesse of tax receipts from my region of the nation and our equivalents on the other coast, claiming how superior they are while they destroy everything that made us great.<p>If you want to defend this behavior as being pro free speech, then go fuck yourself for trying to pull this 1984 newspeak shit off


type: comment
by: croemer
text:
  I&#x27;ve also found pre-commit useful to prevent CI failure. If one runs into edge cases, one can switch it off.


type: comment
by: submeta
text:
  Same is true for Pinterest. Try to find human generated interior design images on Pinterest. It’s flooded with AI generated content.


type: comment
by: bananaflag
text:
  I&#x27;ve seen a lot of comments discussing how recipe pages are filled with this sort of human slop. But not blog posts in general.


type: comment
by: Doctor_Fegg
text:
  It’s second nature very quickly. Our train into Oxford leaves at ten past the hour. You find yourself thinking “oh, I’ll aim for the ten past eleven” an hour or two beforehand and organise your morning accordingly. It’s absolutely no hardship.


type: comment
by: AlexAplin
text:
  The current utilization of generative video is almost universally horrible, which this article does suggest, so I&#x27;m not too surprised there are players trying to differentiate themselves. Slop for thee, not for me.


type: comment
by: chapiware
text:
  Yes — that’s exactly the mental model.<p>Media assets are treated as immutable entities, and all the date-based navigation is built on top of lightweight indexes derived from capture timestamps (day&#x2F;month&#x2F;year). That way the same asset can appear across multiple views without duplication or recomputation.<p>It also keeps memory usage predictable when dealing with large libraries, since views are essentially projections rather than separate collections.<p>The main constraint is that everything has to stay fast and incremental, because it’s all happening on-device with no background preprocessing or server-side help.<p>Curious if you’ve used a similar approach elsewhere — it felt like the simplest way to keep things both flexible and cheap


type: comment
by: tetha
text:
  &gt; If this certificate is so critical, they should also have something that alerts if you’re still serving a certificate with less than 2 weeks validity - by that time you should have already obtained and rotated in a new certificate. This gives plenty of time for someone to manually inspect and fix.<p>This is also why you want a mix of alerts from the service users point of view, as well as internal troubleshooting alerts. The users point-of-view alerts usually give more value and can be surprisingly simple at times.<p>&quot;Remaining validity of the certificates offered by the service&quot; is a classical check from the users point of view. It may not tell you why this is going wrong, but it tells you something is going wrong. This captures a multitude of different possible errors - certs not reloading, the wrong certs being loaded, certs not being issued, DNS going to the wrong instance, new, shorter cert lifecycles, outages at the CA, and so on.<p>And then you can add further checks into the machinery to speed up the process of finding out why: Checks if the cert creation jobs run properly, checks if the certs on disk &#x2F; in secret store are loaded or not, ...<p>Good alerting solutions might also allow relationships between these alerts to simplify troubleshooting as well: Don&#x27;t alert for the cert expiry, if there is a failed cert renew cron job, alert for that instead.


type: comment
by: dgan
text:
  146.0 (Build #2016129543) on Android.<p>How yo trigger: just follow the link, and start scrolling down. Totally reproducible, just did it again


type: comment
by: rustystump
text:
  Hard disagree. All the examples you gave are anime with the exception of Stranger Things which suggests a rather narrow view of content.<p>It isn&#x27;t that good stuff doesn&#x27;t exist only that a majority is derivative and uninspired. Anything that does catch a spark is milked dry.


type: comment
by: ironmagma
text:
  HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset. Aside from that, being group actions, reform hinges on mobilizing those who are able to do so to help those who are not. The phrase “solidarity” comes to mind, and that was the whole point. We need a solidarity mindset, not a sarcastic “good luck with that” mindset.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  Your edit of your original post happened after my second reply to you, hence my edit of my second reply and not my first. Using old posts as proof is against the rules, it is part of the rule I quoted, the strongest interpretation is not the one which requires you to dig through a posters history. The mods will call you out on this if they see you doing such things.<p>I am not trying to bully you into anything, I only asked because I found it curious. But your original post reflects better on you than your edit does. OPs posting history could just as easily prove that they never read the submission guidelines, which is fairly common; so, they made this thread to ask why and a quick glance at their posting history strongly suggests they never read the submission guidelines.


type: comment
by: monocasa
text:
  Do they interact at all with the main rust community?<p>It seems a little disingenuous to describe &quot;community&quot; as including people who haven&#x27;t even attempted to interact with anyone in the community other than forking their code.


type: comment
by: KellyCriterion
text:
  do you have an account about which &quot;you care somehow&quot;, like banning&#x2F;disabling specific channels explicitly? Ive found out: If I tell youtube what I want by sometimes thumb-up&#x2F;down and explicitly clicking on &quot;no more vids from this channel&quot;, then the results a) much better and most of the trash is removed.<p>Though, new AI-slop channels popup some days - esp. new&#x2F;fresh channels, but these you can ban anyway since most new channels are AI slop. or &quot;XY ... <i>official</i>&quot; or &quot;XY .. best of&quot; or &quot;XY .. clips&quot; or &quot;XY... fails&quot;


type: comment
by: cryptica
text:
  Yes, it is. I feel like this level of distrust is probably something that wealthy people often experience; but at least they can take a look at their bank account or portfolio app from the comfort of a house they own to help soothe the pain.<p>I don&#x27;t know why I&#x27;m in such situation. One time, I explained a problem I faced at a previous company on HN and someone said something like &quot;What? That&#x27;s normally only a problem for people earning $500k+&quot; I was only earning about $90K at the time.<p>I don&#x27;t think therapy would help to be honest. My problem is not psychological; it&#x27;s that I need more money to buy my time and freedom. One time I was earning a modest passive income for about 3 years while working on open source projects; I was quite happy then and the fact that I didn&#x27;t trust anyone was not a problem as I wasn&#x27;t forced to interact with anyone.


type: comment
by: WuSierra
text:
  I usually write emails, advertising copy, creative writing, and creative proposals. For serious creative content, I start with individual &quot;points&quot; and &quot;sentences&quot;. Pretty much like your pattern. Then I connect these creative &quot;points&quot; to find its overall structure. Next, I reorganize the specific writing content from top to bottom based on this overall structure. So, for the best work, most of it still requires manual work.<p>However, I must admit that AI writing tools are indeed very useful for completing &quot;repetitive&quot; writing tasks. For example, short creative copy based on a large creative framework, or writing emails. But when using AI for creative writing, AI   always slightly deviates from the core idea. Not much, maybe only 5% to 10% per sentence, but when all the creative content is combined, it deviates largely from the core idea.<p>Therefore, now when writing with AI, I first establish the core idea, and then let AI   write each creative piece separately, instead of completing everything in one chat.<p>Frequent window switching does bother the mind-flow of writing. Now, sometimes I don&#x27;t even have the patience to finish reading long pieces written by AI.<p>The creative writing tool I&#x27;ve used so far that I find useful is ChatGPT 5. Not 4o, nor 5.1 or 5.2.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  They are currently trying to screw us for a 14% year on year increase (over 4 years)<p><i>and</i> screwing us for licenses to run apps in &quot;production&quot;


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  The thing I can&#x27;t get past with PGP &#x2F; GPG is that it tries to work around MITM attacks by encouraging users to place their social network on the public record (via public key attestation).<p>This is so insane to me. The whole point of using cryptography is to keep private information private. Its hard to think of ways PGP could fail more as a security &#x2F; privacy tool.


type: comment
by: tehbeard
text:
  Jumped back to it to try seeing how functional it&#x27;d be as something more than than large logfile explorer.<p>Package control is still only in the command palette. If you want to explore what&#x27;s on offer you have to do so on the actual package control site.<p>Managed to get LSP + intelephense installed so I have good PHP parsing (Other LSP providers appear to be available)... but stuck at the moment trying to get an intellisense analogue setup... Doesn&#x27;t show up in package control in the program despite showing up on the site.<p>So right now I have syntax highlighting and errors flagged for a php file... but I don&#x27;t have anything that can take the fact the class is missing several methods from the interfaces, and stub them out in a few keystrokes.


type: comment
by: iceman28
text:
  Really fun read. To be this seems awful close to my experience using these models to code. When the prompts are simple and direct to follow the models do really good. Once the context overflows and you repopulate it, they start to hallucinate and it becomes very hard to bring them back from that.<p>It’s also good to see Anthropic being honest that models are still quite a long way away from being completely independently and providing a way to independently run business on their own.


type: comment
by: squirrellous
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  Perhaps someone can enlighten me on this. I never quite understood the sentiment of treating money-related tech as somehow more critical than others. The effects of large SaaS services failing and the bank failing can be quite similar - businesses interrupted, money lost, etc. but it’s typically not life and death, so the importance of reliability should be similar.<p>I can understand treating social network sites as less critical, of course.


type: comment
by: aliceryhl
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  I asked about this when they presented the project at the Linux Plumbers conference. They replied that it&#x27;s not really intended to be a security boundary, and that you should not let anyone malicious load these programs.<p>Given this thread model, I think their project is entirely reasonable. Safe Rust will prevent accidental mistakes even if you could technically circumvent it if you really try.


type: comment
by: troupo
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  &gt; One can dream<p>That was the promise of COBOL. And SQL. And AppleScript. And ABAP. And...<p>It never works out the way you want it.


type: comment
by: burnt-resistor
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  This is definitely true for my mom&#x27;s feed because she watches so many random pet videos.<p>Mine is like ~1%. I&#x27;m actually surprised about how good quality the feed algo has been, and for especially showing small creators and older videos too.<p>Each person has their own filter-bubble, I guess.<p>Search engines are definitely worse. DDG shows so much AI shit websites now for specific search queries. Google is almost as bad. I&#x27;m having to double quote almost everything because the quality and fuzziness of matching is much worse now. I miss the OR operator and groups parens that were possible way back.


type: comment
by: wafflemaker
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  There are ppl that depend on me for tech support. What search engine should I install on their phones?


type: comment
by: IshKebab
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  &gt; Bytecode compilation is compilation.<p>It was pretty clear I meant AoT compilation.<p>&gt; Which is irrelevant to the point.<p>Sorry, the fact that typical Rust programming style is much faster than typical Python style is irrelevant to the fact that a Rust tool is faster than its Python competitor? Riiight.<p>&gt; 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.<p>Ok but the actual debate was about whether `uv` is faster <i>because it is written in Rust</i>. The answer is yes because when you put a normal amount of effort into writing Python or Rust you run into all these problems in Python that you don&#x27;t run into in Rust.<p>Sure you <i>can</i> defer imports, but that&#x27;s a pretty uncommon thing to do in Python.<p>It&#x27;s like, you wouldn&#x27;t say &quot;bicycles are just as fast as cars; as long as you attach a jet engine to the bicycle!&quot;. Yes, technically possible, but nobody does that.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
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  Karp memorised oswald mosley&#x27;s speech for capitulating to hitler: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;why-eccentric-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-feels-left-by-the-left&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;why-eccentric-palantir...</a><p>At best thats wierd, at worst he&#x27;s an actual fascist<p>(context: Oswald created and ran the british union of fascists in the UK, married the diana mitford with both Goebbels and Hitler present.  )


type: comment
by: jibal
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  I didn&#x27;t &quot;down&quot; in the first place, but &quot;no you&quot; is typical of your ilk. Your comment is dishonest denial of your ageist bigotry, an inability to take responsibility for your actions. And I don&#x27;t take life advice from trolls, bigots, and the like.<p>I won&#x27;t respond further.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
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  Yeah, I never knew that bit of history (probably did and just forgot it) and dug into it some after watching this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Think_(slogan)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Think_(slogan)</a>


type: comment
by: eastbound
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  Kagi systematically doesn’t return any good answer whatsoever. It’s such an awful quality that I can’t imagine anyone seriously promoting it, therefore I bet these comments about Kagi are advertising posted by bots. It’s not possible otherwise.


type: comment
by: idarek
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  Discover the curated list of my top 23 GitHub repositories in 2025! Explore must-have resources for tech enthusiasts and professionals. Perfect for kicking off 2026 with the best tools and solutions.


type: comment
by: Lapel2742
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  &gt; This is what works for me.<p>Than you are the lucky one.<p>E.g.: Just for entertainment I recently searched for information on a new LLM model. The result was filled with AI garbage. I stumbled upon videos with AI generated content, presented by an AI generated voice and an AI generated human. And if it is not something like that, YouTube at least lies to me about the language of the video and tries to make me listen to an AI voice which is equally vile.<p>There are times where I constantly have to close videos after a couple of seconds. It is unbearable. At least they should mark these videos clearly. At best they should allow me to filter them out but of course they won&#x27;t do that or else they couldn&#x27;t make the experience on their platform even worse than it already is, what seems to be their real  goal.


type: comment
by: idarek
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  Learn how to add your website as a Google Preferred Source to boost visibility in Search results. Follow this step-by-step guide for Hugo SSG, featuring WebP image optimisation, dark mode support, and i18n translation for a better reader experience.


type: comment
by: mikae1
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  I prefer this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veckonr.se&#x2F;kalender&#x2F;2026" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veckonr.se&#x2F;kalender&#x2F;2026</a><p>The year is split in two (ample space for notes) and it has week numbers. At work I print the year on two A3.


type: comment
by: cadamsdotcom
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  Far!<p>But without the need to “program” you can focus on the end user and better understand their needs - which is super exciting.


type: comment
by: ksec
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  &gt;Microsoft really needs to dump WebView2 and go back to native code<p>And then a screenshot showing 213MB even in native code.<p>How that happened in the past 25 years? I know we have Higher Res graphics and renedering but it is absolutely insane to see Apps, and those on the phone being 500MB+.


type: comment
by: koakuma-chan
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  That&#x27;s a skill issue on your part. Do not use YouTube to search for information. If you need to find information on a new LLM model, look for official documentation from the model&#x27;s maker. This applies to everything.


type: comment
by: yablak
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  Happy user of kagi for several years.  This is the opposite of my experience. Your comment strikes me as dishonest.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
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  &quot;All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected.&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t true. You can still meet in person or make a phone call.<p>As for news media... They tend to be at the beck and call of whoever owns them. Most of them use the same press agencies but promote political binaries to the exclusion of other viewpoints.


type: comment
by: hnfong
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  I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s a mistake. Distributed algorithms that depend on wall clock time generally give better guarantees. Usually you want these guarantees. The downside is of course you need to keep accurate time. In the cases you don&#x27;t need them (eg. for the case you described), sure, but as an engineer you don&#x27;t always get to choose your constraints.


type: comment
by: csomar
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  I have noticed people on the subway watching them. I sneaked a peak on a few of their phones and it was legit AI slop with clear signs (for me at least) that it was AI generated. The end user (viewer?) seemed hooked but they are mostly shorts (10-20sec videos) and you can see their fingers swiping to the next one.<p>The other day my mother told me if I watched some random AI slop (Putin getting in a physical fight with Trump) and I asked her why she watches this stuff and her answer is that it comes up in her feed. She said it was funny.<p>I don&#x27;t know what to make of any of this.


type: comment
by: 01HNNWZ0MV43FF
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  Yep <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trust_on_first_use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trust_on_first_use</a>


type: comment
by: wkat4242
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  &lt;thinks about activities during college&gt; ehhhh I think <i>before</i> college would be highly preferable lol.<p>Though I&#x27;ve never had nor wanted kids in the first place anyway.


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


type: comment
by: nkmnz
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  You&#x27;re confusing public goods with common goods. That&#x27;s your personal tragedy of the commons.<p>&gt; “The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory claiming that individuals tend to exploit shared resources so that demand outweighs supply, and it becomes unavailable for the whole.” (Investopedia)<p>EXACTLY. This is NOT what is happening in the case of Github. As explained plenty of times, Github has the incentive to INCREASE their supply, making MORE available for the whole, if the whole demands MORE.<p>&gt;  I didn’t make up the Wikipedia example, it’s in Wikipedia being offered as one of the canonical examples of digital commons<p>Yeah, the example in the article is Wikipedia, not Github. All my statements refer to 100% to Github and probably only 90% to Wikipedia.<p>Since Dunning-Kruger has entered the chat, I&#x27;m going to leave. Have a good day, you will have a hard time having serious conversations.


type: comment
by: jibal
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  Patronizing speculation on the reasons for downvotes (who gaf about such things? And for that matter I had a net gain today despite this) contributes nothing of value and explicitly violates one of HN&#x27;s guidelines: &quot;Please don&#x27;t comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.&quot;<p>I attempted to make a point and the parentheses help to understand what it was, but it seems that a lot of people missed it and lashed out with hostility ... they should consider <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6k68hi&#x2F;the_principle_of_charity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6k68hi&#x2F;the_prin...</a>. Oh well. I won&#x27;t comment on this again.


type: comment
by: krior
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  &gt; public transport is a mostly failed idea.<p>Citation needed. I have been to many cities where I would never drive a car, but public transport is fine.


type: comment
by: RedShift1
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  &gt; I think English is a terrible shitpile of grammar and syntax<p>Spoken languages are like programming languages, there are the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.


type: comment
by: bwb
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  I don&#x27;t understand why this is important, I understand he likes the feedback, but it is artificial. It can help with brainstorming I guess, but I was hoping to hear more about his personal desires and what is lacking right now...


type: comment
by: aiisahik
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  The analysis here is excellent. However, Groq&#x27;s success was not obvious or straight forward. It require huge amounts of investment to keep it alive for many years long before any real positive cashflow. It was on its death bed for years before the ChatGPT moment in 2023. It has been over 9 years since its founding. If you know anything about VC funds and exit timelines, you will know that investors in Groq needed an exit by this time.<p>I&#x27;m happy that the investors and founders got a long and well deserved exit. I&#x27;m happy that the tech here will continue to see development and investment under Nvidia so we may one day get to use Claude Opus at 500 tokens per second.<p>Does it suck that certain employees got screwed over? Yes. Does this happen ALL THE TIME in startups? More often than you think. The expected value for employee options for this type of company is very very close to zero. Anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to themselves.


type: comment
by: bigtex
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  I find it comical that the Switch was completely ignored, which just means to me that Nintendo finally won the console wars while the other two fight for second place. VGCharts has this for lifetime sales for the current consoles in the USA.<p>Switch 1 (57,530,683) PlayStation 5 - (33,012,035) Xbox Series X|S - (20,764,129) Switch 2 -(4,243,125)


type: comment
by: pointlessone
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  Toxoplasma Gondii.<p>Damn clickbait… it took title, 5 paragraphs, and an ad break before they even mentioned what the parasite is.


type: comment
by: trilogic
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  Sure there are many more, but the post is about Local AI Apps not Proprietary or online services, meaning you can download it in your computer and use it without the need of internet connection, payment or any restriction.


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  We are at constant peripheral micro-wars in the last 33 years. The US are behind these, selling weapons to both sides. Nothing will change. Ukraine saga will continue as it is for many years, before the next one. God bless nuclear weapons that we don&#x27;t see any direct US-Russia-China conflict.


type: comment
by: anovikov
text:
  Why can&#x27;t it be the actual tiktok? By simply winning competition with humans i.e. whereas vast majority of humans see their pay go too low to bother to continue?


type: comment
by: burnt-resistor
text:
  Kai strikes again. That series was hilarious to my undergrad self. I think I caught it on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) junior year.


type: comment
by: rcxdude
text:
  If the affected protein is actively causing problems, then you&#x27;d need to get most of the cells. But if it&#x27;s just inert and not doing its job then you only need to get enough cells to get the production of the right version up to a somewhat functional level.


type: comment
by: holg
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  Huge thanks to everyone in this thread — the stories, pointers, and critique were genuinely useful (and motivating). Quick update: we pushed a big round of UI fixes and the site is now properly usable on mobile. Also, I compiled Betz’s original XLISP (C) to WASM and hooked it up as a side-by-side benchmark, and the first external PR just landed: KiCad export is now in (symbols + footprints), so the same template workflow can emit .kicad_sym &#x2F; .kicad_mod. Really grateful for the help here.


type: comment
by: dotancohen
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  I believe that&#x27;s how Russian names the days as well. In Hebrew and Arabic we do the same, but Sunday is First Day, Monday is Second Day, etc.


type: comment
by: littlestymaar
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  I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;d use a RLHF-aligned chatbot model for that purpose: this thing has been heavily tuned to satisfy the human interacting with it, of course it&#x27;s going to fail following higher level instruction at some point and start blindly following the human desire.<p>Why aren&#x27;t anyone building from the base model, replacing the chatbot instruction tuning and RLHF with a dedicated training pipeline suited for this kind of tasks?


type: comment
by: shaky-carrousel
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  A service precariously sitting on top of a LLM that can change any minute now. This surely is future proof.


type: comment
by: ffuxlpff
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  Generating stuff is very cheap compared to building and training the model. When you have your model done you&#x27;re incentivized to use it as much as possible. Maybe even considering the sunken costs.


type: comment
by: fredoliveira
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  I think you&#x27;re missing the ethos of the event in general, and the fact that you are pointing to tracks in the ethics track or the arts track in particular.


type: comment
by: zarzavat
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  &gt; There&#x27;s a reason people use the NoScript addon<p>To be snarky, do they? The average user doesn&#x27;t even know what JS is.<p>Users want websites that are fast and solve their problems, with a good UI. They don&#x27;t care how it&#x27;s made.<p>Make websites that people enjoy using. A good developer can do that with any set of tools, though a no-JS approach is limited in scope.


