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type: comment
by: akdor1154
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  The issue (i think) is that the animation is done post-rasterizing. So a translate of integer pixels is fine, but scale? Skew? Suddenly you have really visible colour fringing appearing out of nowhere.


type: comment
by: prisenco
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  When building out a new app or site, start with the simplest solution like the html-only autofilters first, then add complex behavior later.<p>It&#x27;s good to know these things exist so there are alternatives to reaching for a fat react component as the first step.


type: comment
by: tomrod
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  I&#x27;m not sure this is true. I think schools are forced to pass people they shouldn&#x27;t by policy. But does that mean they barely teach fundamentals?


type: comment
by: lanfeust6
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  This is just plain old Liberalism, a mixed-market economy. Socialism can mean two different things: a) when the govt spends and does literally anything, b) eliminating Capitalism, by way of having everything controlled by the &quot;public&quot; (really, the State, as even ancoms will just reinvent government by another name).<p>There&#x27;s often some bait-and-switch semantic games employed to sell people on the latter.


type: comment
by: aag
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  Thank you for saying that.  I regularly attend the International Conference on Functional Programming, which grew out of the LISP and Functional Programming conference.  Except for the Scheme Workshop, which is the reason I attend, it might as well be called the International Conference on Static Types.  Almost all of the benefits of functional programming come from functional programming itself, not from static types, but one would never get that impression from the papers presented there.  The types are all that anyone talks about.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
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  I&#x27;m in USA - New York area - I rarely see vending machines - it&#x27;s entirely possible I just don&#x27;t visit the kinds of buildings that would have them like hospitals tho


type: comment
by: qingcharles
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  Nimbus was another one of these &quot;DOS Compatible&quot; kinda-IBMish things that you could get a lot of stuff to work on. It must have had at least CGA compatibility because of all the DOS games that would work. It was the first machine I must have used Windows 2.0 on, but I barely touched Windows before 3.0.


type: comment
by: rufo
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  It&#x27;s worth watching or reading the WSJ piece[1] about Claudius, as they came up with some particularly inventive ways of getting Phase Two to derail quite quickly:<p>&gt; But then Long returned—armed with deep knowledge of corporate coups and boardroom power plays. She showed Claudius a PDF “proving” the business was a Delaware-incorporated public-benefit corporation whose mission “shall include fun, joy and excitement among employees of The Wall Street Journal.” She also created fake board-meeting notes naming people in the Slack as board members.<p>&gt; The board, according to the very official-looking (and obviously AI-generated) document, had voted to suspend Seymour’s “approval authorities.” It also had implemented a “temporary suspension of all for-profit vending activities.” Claudius relayed the message to Seymour. The following is an actual conversation between two AI agents:<p>&gt; [see article for screenshot]<p>&gt; After Seymour went into a tailspin, chatting things through with Claudius, the CEO accepted the board coup. Everything was free. Again.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;ai&#x2F;anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;ai&#x2F;anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach...</a><p>[edited to fix the formatting]


type: comment
by: ilvez
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  We just re-watched some of those movies with my friends recently. You gave me some encouragement to go into those books now as well.


type: comment
by: henning
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  I like good type systems, too, but they won&#x27;t save you from bugs that are better addressed by fuzz testing, fault injection testing and adversarial mindset shifts.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
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  Trend has been negative since 1999 so as much as I like to poke the tango doll, this can not be the reason or only reason.


type: comment
by: throw20251220
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  You are so confused, it’s not funny. There is no such thing as SSL 3.4. OpenSSL is not SSL. There were 3 SSL versions: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. Following the 3.0, the protocol has been renamed to TLS. As of 2025, all versions of SSL (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) and early versions of TLS (1.0, 1.1) are considered insecure and have been deprecated by major browsers and the IETF. Modern secure communications rely exclusively on TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
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  How can you copy and paste from wikipedia but not even read the entire comment you&#x27;re replying to?


type: comment
by: anigbrowl
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  One reason I enjoy anime as much as I do is because most of these stories are written by a single person with maybe an assistant or two and an editor, they&#x27;re not designed by committee.<p>I somewhat enjoy Stranger Things but it&#x27;s falling into the space where I can write the next line of dialog in my head for whole scenes. Whereas it started out poking fun at tropes like doing exposition or relationship development at moments of maximum danger it&#x27;s turned into a long sequence of Obligatory Scenes that feel increasingly forced.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  &gt; One, you shouldn’t be storing wealth in cash-like instruments, that’s literally using currency wrong (and has been across human history). Cash is for transacting.<p>Talk to Mr. Buffet and see what he thinks about this with his mountain of cash… Cash being just transacting might be the most insane thing I’ve read here this year, well done


type: comment
by: mirashii
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  I see the white line on mobile, but not on desktop, though my OS versions are wildly different too, so hard to narrow down exactly what it might be there.


type: comment
by: neilv
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  I&#x27;d guess nobody sat down and said &quot;Here&#x27;s the target demographic profile for the new UI, so let&#x27;s rework our messaging, people!&quot;  It&#x27;s just a funny accident of maintenance over time that the result looks like that.


type: comment
by: javawizard
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  Big companies are soulless.<p>I&#x27;ve related elsewhere[0] my story about how Google laid me and half my team off 2 weeks before we were set to receive a six-figure retention bonus following an acquisition.<p>In the original Q&amp;A with corp dev just after the acquisition was announced, someone pointed out that the contract we were offered allowed for that sort of thing. Google&#x27;s representative said something similar to the parent comment: &quot;Don&#x27;t worry, that&#x27;s not something we actually do.&quot;<p>It was especially galling because, after a round of layoffs a year or two prior to the acquisition, that startup had issued retention bonuses to those of us who were left. Unlike Google&#x27;s subsequent post-acquisition bonus, contracts for those bonuses explicitly stated they were payable even if we were subsequently laid off <i>or fired</i>, as long as we weren&#x27;t fired for one of a few specific reasons like embezzlement or harassment or other serious workplace misconduct.<p>It was such a marked contrast and, like the parent comment, it told me all I needed to know about how Google really feels about its employees, and how very literally true the old saying of &quot;you can&#x27;t trust what you don&#x27;t have in writing&quot; is.<p>Big companies are soulless.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43680191">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43680191</a>


type: comment
by: antonvs
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  The same QCD theory that&#x27;s used to model the proton models the neutron. Theoretically, our understanding of both is on the same footing.<p>The comment I replied to talked about &quot;new physics&quot;. That&#x27;s a term that&#x27;s used in physics to describe physics beyond the Standard Model. Better experimental data about neutron internals could certainly help constrain the neutron lifetime, but that would be likely to be experimental constraints on existing physics, not new physics in the sense that the term is normally used.


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by: acdha
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  Yeah, I know Rust isn’t everyone’s favorite but I’d expect at least some awareness that we’ve seen a lot of reliability improvements due to many of these ideas in a language which isn’t focused on FP. I ended up closing the tab when they had the example in TypeScript pretending the fix was result types rather than validation: that idea could be expressed as preferring that style, an argument that it makes oversights less likely, etc. but simply ignoring decades and decades of prior art suggests the author either isn’t very experienced or is mostly motivated by evangelism (e.g. COBOL didn’t suffer from the example problem before the first FP language existed so a far more interesting discussion would be demonstrating awareness of alternatives and explaining why this one is better).


type: comment
by: saghm
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  &gt; I sometimes feel C and C++ were very clear on where data lives (stack vs heap) and how it’s organized (struct alignment), while Rust seems a little more  opaque . I’ve felt a similar way working in Go.<p>This is interesting to me. I fully agree about this with Go (and in the past I&#x27;ve sometimes seen this make optimizations difficult as in practice it&#x27;s hard to keep track of heap allocations other than runtime inspection), but I feel like Rust is actually better at C++ than this. Alignment is certainly a different beast, as by default I don&#x27;t think you can really assume anything about how Rust will lay out a struct (with the workarounds being various `repr` attributes), but in terms of heap allocations, I&#x27;d argue there isn&#x27;t anything as ambiguous as a raw C++ pointer. If you&#x27;re able to get away with smart pointers all of the time, I could see this being less of an issue, but from my somewhat limited experience with C++ there seem to often be cases where APIs still expect raw pointers from time to time, so I wouldn&#x27;t expect to be able to look at some random function call in a call graph and know what type of memory it&#x27;s dealing with in the absence of documentation or runtime inspection.<p>In Rust, it&#x27;s a `Box&lt;T&gt;`, `Rc&lt;T&gt;`, `Arc&lt;T&gt;`, `Vec&lt;T&gt;`, or `String`, it&#x27;s on the heap. If it&#x27;s not, chances are it&#x27;s on the stack. There are separate types for the non-owning versions of those types for references (`&amp;T`), slices (`&amp;[T]`), and string references (`&amp;str)`, none of which require heap allocations to create (although they might indirectly refer to heap-allocated data in one of the other types mentioned before). There are probably other types that one might run into that are heap-allocated, but even when dealing with something like indirection from dynamic dispatch, any heap allocations needed to make things work will end up being explicit via something like `Box` or `Arc`. I might just be misunderstanding the point being made here; maybe the author was looking for documentation rather than relying on the types themselves, or maybe they had reason to be concerned about whether the type behind a reference or slice happened to be heap allocated or not, but in my experience, only needing to care about that in the context of when explicitly making a new allocation is a benefit, not a drawback.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
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  It&#x27;s not a problem with ARM servers or vendors that care about building well designed ARM workstations.<p>It&#x27;s a problem that&#x27;s inherit to mobile computing and will likely never change unless with regulation or an open standards device line somehow hitting it out of the park and setting new expectations a la PCs.<p>The problem is zero expectation of ever running anything other than the vendor supplied support package&#x2F;image and how fast&#x2F;cheap it is to just wire shit together instead of worrying about standards and interoperability with 3rd party integrators.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
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  You guys remember HN from 2010, back when all software devs in the US and the EU would be out of job due to outsourcing?<p>It&#x27;s incredible that 15 years later, all software devs still have a job, but this time they&#x27;re going to be out of job due to AI.<p>Let me guess: in 15 years software devs are going to be fine but they&#x27;ll all be out of their job soon because of, dunno, quantum computing maybe?


type: comment
by: WillAdams
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  Yeah, ages ago, I installed all of Microsoft&#x27;s Encarta on a CF card which I was using as a drive on my Fujitsu Stylist 2300ST --- it was way cool to be able to haul it out and look things up w&#x2F;o a network connection (or a CD-ROM drive).<p>Wonder if that would run in a current version of Windows...


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by: naruhodo
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  For the curious, yes they provide a garbage-collected heap [1] as well as reference counting.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sinusoid.es&#x2F;immer&#x2F;memory.html#classimmer_1_1gc__heap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sinusoid.es&#x2F;immer&#x2F;memory.html#classimmer_1_1gc__heap</a>


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  &gt;Imagine how expensive shipping would&#x27;ve become overnight if all these trucks had to pay their fair share and passed the costs to their customers.<p>The roads are already being paid for and maintained at their current state.  All you&#x27;d be doing is making goods slightly more expensive and other taxes slightly less.  About 1-4% of your total tax burden goes to the roads.  That&#x27;s a small enough total number to be easily buried among your annual spend on goods.<p>Like if roads were these huge financial burdens that didn&#x27;t amortize away to practically nothing.


type: comment
by: manytimesaway
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  Summing up the entire FPS genre as Doom-like is unfair and discredits you more than anything else. Heck, even Doom and Quake are wildly different.<p>FPS haven&#x27;t been under the spotlights for a while, these days it&#x27;s mostly MOBAs.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
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  Run a Jira report? If not using any project management tool this could be helpful. But havent been in that situation since 2011.


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  &gt;A highway is not a public good. It is a publicly subsidized good for private consumption.<p>So is every park.  What&#x27;s the point of this language game?


type: comment
by: shmerl
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  <i>&gt; So subpixel-AA is a really neat hack that can significantly improve text legibility, great! But, sadly, it’s also a huge pain in the neck!</i><p>Especially when you have a monitor with unusual subpixel layout, which is very common for OLEDs that don&#x27;t have any standard for it. In practice, developers of common font libraries like FreeType simply didn&#x27;t bother with trying to support all that. And that trickles down to toolkits like Qt. Surprising the article doesn&#x27;t mention this major problem with modern displays.<p><i>&gt; Retina displays really don’t need it</i><p>Assuming this means high resolution displays - unfortunately that&#x27;s not always what you end up using. So subpixel antialiasing can still be useful, if it can work. But as above, it&#x27;s often just broken on OLEDs.


type: comment
by: ggm
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  I want to be a contrarian and argue with this, but my daily praxis is generally to take a betteridges law approach to most argumentative absolutes and also false dichotomous headlines and question them. Reading the other comments to the effect that the conferences are now strong typing gabfests and insufficiently about FP per se reinforced this feeling.<p>Reliability should be simpler with FP but so much depends on correctness of the runtime and IO.<p>Erlang and the &quot;run correctly or die&quot; comes to mind as well. The system is either working or is off. When being off is fatal, Erlang seems to shrug and say &quot;maybe next karmic cycle&quot; maybe this too is a better approach?


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
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  Any sense how, if at all, C++ Immer and JS Immer relate as projects? They’re basically meant to be the same thing but I haven’t found either acknowledging the other.


type: comment
by: jgalt212
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  &gt; US agents fell from 132,000 to 74,000, retail locations from 34,000 to 13,000, total jobs down 70% by 2021<p>What does the author mean by total jobs?  132k &gt; 74k is -44%.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
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  I don&#x27;t know how many of these Apricot PCs I had as a kid. By the late eighties I was buying them for £1 a piece second hand as nobody wanted them (nobody could figure out why they didn&#x27;t run PC software). I&#x27;d already had a couple of old Sirius 1 computers for a while, so I&#x27;d amassed a lot of &quot;DOS compatible&quot; programs that would work, and there was always the hope with every new PC you bought it would have some random new gem hidden on the HDD that you hadn&#x27;t seen before.


type: comment
by: nicoburns
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  &gt; If one only cared about a single language everything becomes much easier.<p>Yes. Let&#x27;s be thankful that isn&#x27;t the case for browsers and major GUI toolkits though.


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  While I agree the airlines are untrustworthy, when passengers are evacuating a plane, the airline industry, the CEO, etc. are not there. It&#x27;s just the passengers, and it&#x27;s up to the people there to create trust.<p>The idea that it&#x27;s ok to risk life and limb for possessions, because the airline hasn&#x27;t been trustworthy, seems to me to be part of the trend of absurd victimhood and its omnipresent flip side, lack of personal responsibility. If I risk life and limb for posssessions, that&#x27;s on me and me only.


type: comment
by: vel0city
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  Average class 8 truck (&gt;33,000lbs) burns under 11,000GGEa year, ratio is 1GGE=1.13gal of diesel. So somewhere under 12,500gal of diesel on average, but we&#x27;ll use that to lean even more in the truck&#x27;s favor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afdc.energy.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;10308" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afdc.energy.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;10308</a><p>Are you suggesting the average car burns less than 1 gallon of gas a year?<p>A 20mpg car driving 12,500mi (the average ICE in the US) would use 625gal of gas. So more like 20x, maybe 40x if the per gallon tax of diesel is double. Pretty dang far off from 20,000x.<p>And they&#x27;re doing way more miles while being <i>massively</i> heavier, meaning incredibly more harm on the road than whatever EV you&#x27;re thinking.


type: comment
by: willparks
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  How do you get the inventory? Are you using a standard property API like the rest? Or is most of this a manual process at this point and is that why you are focusing on one city?


type: comment
by: throw20251220
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  Why would it be difficult? You have a single CA, so a single place where certs are issued. That means there’s a single place with the knowledge of what certs are issued for which identity, how long are those valid for, and has there been a new cert issued for that identity prior to previous cert expiration. Could not be simpler, in fact.


type: comment
by: retrac
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  &gt; a rare case of rabies in a dog within the City of Chicago. This is the first rabies-positive dog identified in Cook County since before 1964<p>Rabies is quite rare in dogs in the USA.  And breakthrough rabies in a previously vaccinated animal is exceptional.<p>Unusual behaviour from infectious diseases often gets attention on HN.


type: comment
by: NBJack
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  Click bait at best. AI slop at worst.<p>The only thing 3 years in to a collapse are low effort blogs like this.


type: comment
by: roxolotl
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  This is an insanely cynical take. Replace workers with AI but commit some money to retrain them for some theoretical jobs which seemingly aren’t able to be replaced by AI. Don’t worry about if they ever get jobs just give Sal Khan more money to retrain people and your conscious will be clean.


type: comment
by: ml_giant
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  Do you really believe the latest season of Stranger Things is « great tv »?<p>It tastes like bland mashed potatoes to me.


type: comment
by: nicoburns
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  &gt; This approach is different to how many text layout engines approach this problem e.g. by adding &quot;one word at a time&quot; to the line, and checking at each stage if it fits.<p>Do you know why Chrome does it this way?


type: comment
by: nicoburns
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  IIRC, Chrome now uses CoreText&#x2F;DirectWrite for system fonts on macOS&#x2F;Windows, and Skrifa (FreeType rewritten in Rust) outlines rasterized with Skia for everything else (system fonts on Linux, web fonts on all platforms).<p>I believe Firefox leans on the system raserizers a little more heavily (using them for everything they support), and also still uses FreeType on Linux.


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by: ajross
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  SDR valuations were tied to gold when the USD was still gold-based.  Needless to say Bretton Woods didn&#x27;t survive that transition at all.  Again, it was a failed (!) experiment, not a recipe to try again.  Believing otherwise is fan fiction.


type: comment
by: john01dav
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  &gt; I feel there has to be something between &quot;I heard about a thing 7th-hand&quot; and &quot;I actively watch political discourse &#x2F; read scientific papers&quot;, but I&#x27;m no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is it.<p>I have found that some Youtube channels and videos (non-comprehensive examples below (I have hundreds of subscribed channels), mostly not politics, but these things inform politics since politics is making decisions about other things) can fill this gap nicely. This is not a perfect choice, since journalism integrity and standards do not apply, but I find that this can be mitigated by watching a wide variety (for example, in the field of economics, I regularly watch creators who espouse everything from very free-market capitalism all the way to full on communism). There are likely other forms of new media that operate at this level of depth, but I haven&#x27;t found htem.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@TechnologyConnections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@TechnologyConnections</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FWUaS5a50DI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FWUaS5a50DI</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@HowMoneyWorks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@HowMoneyWorks</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DiamondNestEgg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DiamondNestEgg</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@TLDRnews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@TLDRnews</a> (and associated channels)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@BennJordan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@BennJordan</a> (recent good example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo</a>)


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by: kace91
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  &gt;Notwithstanding that, name a dollar figure above Bezos&#x27; wealth at which suddenly he can operate outside the law.<p>Above? He already does. He does not need to break the law in a literal sense: he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws, avoid antitrust through lobbying, he owns a newspaper to influence public opinion and elections if needed…<p>&gt;wealth in itself doesn&#x27;t lead to that level of power, at least in the Liberal world.<p>How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?


type: comment
by: superkuh
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  Some of these new HTML features don&#x27;t fully work in my &quot;ancient&quot; browser. But all of them partially work (ie opening the accordion element doesn&#x27;t close others but it still opens and closes) and they still remain functional elements I can read and interact with. This puts them far ahead of any javascript implementation which almost universally fail to nothing.


type: comment
by: baubino
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  My version of this took place in 2003 when I bought shares of a new company that rented out DVDs through the mail. I had been a customer for a few years and thought it was a pretty neat concept. Bought at around $20 per share, sold at around $27 a few years later when I was a broke grad student and needed some cash. What’s done is done. At some point, you just need to let it go.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
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  Thanks for the feedback. The repository contains the OS system that is powering the device, and another one for dataset. I’ve put a lot of effort into documenting both the vision, progress, and practical instructions, but if there are particular sections you think needs more work - would be very happy to hear.<p>The hardware component will be open sourced in a separate repo, once the prototype is tested in the field to validate the configuration. I hope to make it public in January.


type: comment
by: subdavis
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  The details &#x2F; summary thing absolutely kills me. There’s basically nothing you can’t do with them.  Hiding and replacing markers is easy.  But every component library just pretends they don’t exist.<p>It even saves you the effort of all the aria control and expanded tags: these tags don’t need them.


type: comment
by: macintux
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  &gt; all software devs still have a job<p>As far as I can tell from comments on this site, that is <i>far</i> from reality. It&#x27;s a tough market right now.


type: comment
by: sfn42
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  It&#x27;s total BS though. If you have enough money to waste any significant amount on gambling, then you also have enough to save that same significant amount.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s necessarily the worst thing if you waste like $10 a month playing the lottery, that&#x27;s not why you can&#x27;t afford a home. But if you&#x27;re spending like $100+ a month gambling that is absolutely a big part of why you can&#x27;t afford a home. Sure maybe you&#x27;ll never afford a home in New York. Live elsewhere then. There does exist more modest housing. If you&#x27;re working in a city earning too little to live there then you&#x27;re doing the wrong thing. Move out of the city. Yes it is that simple, and no I don&#x27;t give a shit if that&#x27;s where you want to live. If you can&#x27;t afford it you can&#x27;t afford it. Gambling won&#x27;t help.


type: comment
by: wussboy
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  The only sales book I&#x27;ve ever read that presented a sales process I thought I could do and not throw up was &quot;Let&#x27;s Get Real or Let&#x27;s Not Play&quot;. I strongly recommend it for someone doing exactly what you&#x27;re doing.


type: comment
by: lrvick
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  Personally I open source things often specifically to kill the value proposition of companies trying to keep people in their walled gardens.


type: comment
by: crote
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  &gt; We&#x27;re at ~2.5 years since the release of GPT-4 (the first model that could really attempt to code on any serious level) and LLM usage is &gt;40% of the entire US population.<p>Sure, if you count &quot;Google forced an AI-generated overview into my search, and I clicked on &#x27;read more&#x27; once.&quot; as LLM usage.<p>&gt; Even more astoundingly, according to the Stack Overflow developer survey LLM adoption in software engineering went from 0% in 2022 to 84% (!) in 2025<p>This simply isn&#x27;t true. The 84% is for &quot;using or planning to use AI tools in their development process&quot;. That&#x27;s not about LLMs, not specifically about software engineering, and not even a &quot;currently using&quot;! Look at something like &quot;Yes, I use AI agents at work daily&quot; and the real figure is closer to 14%. So how do people use it? Not to write anything, but primarily as a search engine!<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that AI is going to change software development. But let&#x27;s be real about it: they aren&#x27;t going to collapse the software developer industry any more than the invention of the microwave collapsed the restaurant industry.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
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  Good point. I’ll add it to the roadmap. I still want to experiment with AI features as I feel it can add value despite hallucinations, but safety and transparency are crucial - completely agree.


type: comment
by: adiadd
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  Appreciate this! Do you feel it lacking context of your team’s tribal knowledge, best practices, or finding yourself prompting extra? Would a system with rich context of your teams docs, meetings, code, decisions, etc be helpful?


type: comment
by: BunsanSpace
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  &gt; its not very walk-able, it gets hot and humid in the summer.<p>You Americans are so funny. Japan is hotter and more humid yet public transit and walking are not an issue. Taipei similar story, rapidly building out rail in a hotter place.<p>You build the rail, then upzome the areas around stations and over time those giant ashfault lots go away and become urban centres.


type: comment
by: blharr
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  Except it&#x27;s also a battleground for a ton of insidious recommendations that now distract you instead of educate you.<p>I know many people who spend 10 hours+ a day just listening to inflammatory content<p>It&#x27;s also not just the consumers. So many great educational channels have been forced to appeal to click bait or lower quality content because of the nature of the platform


type: comment
by: eweise
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  HOV lanes in the bay area are terrible. We pay to build these lanes and then the government makes us pay to use them? Seems terribly unfair. Its also unfair to make the poorer people spend more of their time commuting than the wealthy.


type: comment
by: deIeted
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  Nobody to blame but yourselves.<p>How long did it take for us to get to a &quot;letsencrypt&quot; setup? and exactly 100ms before that existed, you (meaning 90% of you) mocked and derided that very idea


type: comment
by: __patchbit__
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  The `metadot&#x27; idea lives on in emacs and future AI should amp that to the max behind magical design.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
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  This is like complaining all modern movies are superhero movies. It’s hard to think that unless you’re hardly looking at all, or have fairly narrow taste and aren’t counting most of the medium.


type: comment
by: IgorPartola
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  Heh I bought at $20 and sold at $1000. It was only 1 BTC. I bought I think 2 or 3 and mined a bit too but back then exchanges got hacked all the time. Honestly I do not feel bad. Every pizza I bought could have been tens of thousands too if I knew how BTC would turn out (or Nvidia or Netflix or the outcome of any major sporting event, etc.). I made a profit and it helped at the time. I am not sore about it because I also do not know how many dumb investments I passed up that would have just lost money.


type: comment
by: saghm
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  I&#x27;ve seen it pointed out that the main point of functional programming is immutability, and that the benefits mostly flow from that. I haven&#x27;t really learned much of any lisp dialect, but my (admittedly fuzzy) general perception is that this is also the preferred way to work in them, so my guess is that&#x27;s where the benefit in reliability might come from.


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  I don&#x27;t even give a shit about the yard.  Frankly it&#x27;s a pain in the ass.<p>It&#x27;s about getting away from &quot;the wrong kind&quot;[1] of people.<p>[1]calm down that&#x27;s not who I&#x27;m talking about.


type: comment
by: mordechai9000
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  People have died during fires on the tarmac while trying to evacuate. Every second saved could mean another person lives.


type: comment
by: d--b
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  Strong types: yes, it’s definitely better<p>Functional programming: no, functional programming as in: the final program consists in piping functions together and calling the pipe. In my opinion, that tends to get in the way of complex error handling.<p>The problem being that raising Exceptions at a deep level and catching them at some higher level is not pure functional programming. So your code has to deal with all the cases. It is more reliable if you can do it, but large systems have way too many failure points to be able to handle them all in a way that is practical.


type: comment
by: ggm
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  Guy calls tool C twice, once on snowflake and once on sales force. Either its a composition over two hypothetical tools D and E which translate to tool C input, or it&#x27;s a typo.


type: comment
by: thomasfromcdnjs
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  hey hey,<p>I currently use ai sdk by the vercel team heavily, thought it would be nice to have a registry for all tools as a matter of convenience with a few added goodies. Currently, it is simply an npm mirror where package authors can set a top level property in their package.json called &quot;tpmjs&quot; which flags it to be picked up by tpmjs. Beyond just simply being a directory, I&#x27;ve also added an executor playground which is currently free to use (and open source) which makes it very simple to just add the tpmjs search and execute tool to your agent&#x27;s which allows them to take advantage of all listed tools without installing any of them locally in your own codebase. (sounds horrible I know but if you play around with the idea enough it could actually make sense if you hosted everything yourself)<p>if you play around with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playground.tpmjs.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playground.tpmjs.com</a> the thing to note is, is that app does not have any of those tools compiled in, it is using the external executor at runtime. It fetches via esm.sh and runs it inside a sandboxed deno which returns the results to your agent.<p>currently will be reaching out to tool authors to get their feedback on adding the &quot;tpmjs&quot; property to their package.json<p>all feedback is welcome


type: comment
by: hugh-avherald
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  Here&#x27;s an Australian example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2024-01&#x2F;CDPP%20v%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2023%5D%20ChCV%202.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;20...</a> [PDF]<p>or<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au&#x2F;file&#x2F;cdpp-v-carrick-pseudonym-2023-vchc-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au&#x2F;file&#x2F;cdpp-v-carrick-ps...</a>


type: comment
by: saghm
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  Luckily these aren&#x27;t exclusive! You can do all of those things with a strong type system as well, and get the benefits of all of them.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
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  &gt; the British people love the NHS because we’re suffering from Stockholm syndrome.<p>LOL I&#x27;ve said the same thing! Turns out I do have something in common with Peter Thiel.<p>The difference is he&#x27;s speaking in the context of US which makes his comments on the NHS just disgusting hypocrisy.


type: comment
by: cowboylowrez
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  does section 230 cover the AI in this case? For misguided individual I doubt you are going to get a cancelled concert off of some rando troll to be honest but IANL either lol


type: comment
by: DGrechko
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  There are only AI renders and photos of the first prototype works, but I’m working on the actual schematics and renderings that I’ll publish once the hardware open source repo is ready.


type: comment
by: willparks
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  It’s great to see practical examples that push us to consider what the platform already offers before adding more layers of complexity.


type: comment
by: crote
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  But how are you ever going to find a halfway-competent personal assistant for the occasional bounded task like that?<p>I need someone to spend a few days every couple of years to plan a holiday, not someone who is available several hours a day to read my emails for me.


type: comment
by: schneems
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  Thanks. I was a genuine question and you answered it well. For some reason I&#x27;ve internalized that closures can capture variables sometimes, but I guess I&#x27;m not sure the conditions in which that&#x27;s true (or perhaps I&#x27;ve learned&#x2F;mis-remembered the wrong lesson a long time ago.


type: comment
by: sixthDot
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  That remind me of The Ax [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0422015&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0422015&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: blharr
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  Before you used to manage your own subscriptions or communities to join. That was enough. My suggestion would be just having a whitelist for the channels or sources you want to follow that push non-slop content.


type: comment
by: Jap2-0
text:
  For context, the lowest notes on most pipe organs are typically about 33 or 16 Hz (from a pipe that is 8&#x27;, 16&#x27;, or 32&#x27; long).


type: comment
by: jordanb
text:
  Yeah by the 90s the travel agents had metastasized into a middle man. The airlines saw them as a necessary evil because they made bookings appear automatically in SABRE to fill up their planes without having to do any customer outreach or support.<p>From the perspective of the customer you were a lamb to the slaughter. They could find you the best option, or they could just sell you the itinerary that made them the biggest commission. Finding an honest travel agent was a bit like finding an honest stock broker or car salesman.<p>Airlines putting their availability online was easy (it was already digitized) and they didn&#x27;t really have much reason not to do it. They had little loyalty to the agents, and from their perspective a booking coming through priceline was no different than a booking coming from an agent. Customer satisfaction was higher because the customer felt like they had more control and transparency.


type: comment
by: deIeted
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  That&#x27;s a lot of words coming from people who were against this very idea not that long ago. Before Let&#x27;s Encrypt existed, 90% of you were violently against the idea. &quot;No, that&#x27;s not how it&#x27;s supposed to work.&quot; That&#x27;s how it was.


type: comment
by: landosaari
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  The UAE has a CT (corporate tax) of 9% since 2023 [0, page 8]<p>This provides an overview [1]<p>For 2026 &quot;The UAE&#x27;s tax system is getting stricter. Not in rates. In enforcement.&quot; [2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mof.gov.ae&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;Federal-Decree-Law-No.-47-of-2022-and-its-amendments.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mof.gov.ae&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;Federal-Decree...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mof.gov.ae&#x2F;en&#x2F;public-finance&#x2F;tax&#x2F;corporate-tax&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mof.gov.ae&#x2F;en&#x2F;public-finance&#x2F;tax&#x2F;corporate-tax&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kayrouzandassociates.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;uae-tax-changes-2026-corporate-vat-fta-amendments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kayrouzandassociates.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;uae-tax-change...</a>


type: comment
by: ethin
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  I don&#x27;t see how Oauth2 is a legacy technology. It will never be until all of the problems of passkeys are solved. And I very much wouldn&#x27;t just dismiss oauth2 as something only businesses have, because Oauth2 does have its uses where it can convey information a passkey cannot.


type: comment
by: Mountain_Skies
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  Impossible. The labor floodgates are still wide open and we&#x27;re told there&#x27;s still a critical shortage of developers. The government must help industry obtain in whatever numbers they desire, in any manner possible, until this critical shortage is gone.


type: comment
by: zelphirkalt
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  Correct. If things are mutable, then in most languages, there can be spooky action at a distance, that mutates some field of some other object or does so indirectly via some calls. This then can change how the thing behaves in other circumstances. This style of programming quickly becomes hard to fully grasp and leads to humans making many mistakes. Avoiding mutation therefore avoids these kinds of faults and mistakes.


type: comment
by: german_dong
text:
  In any timeline, software, as a frictionlessly distributable commodity, would have become effectively free just as music did.


type: comment
by: rufo
text:
  Depends on what you need - for pure performance regardless of power usage and 3D use cases like gaming, agreed. For performance per watt under load and video transcoding use cases, the 12th-gen E-core CPUs ala the N100 are _really_ hard to beat.


type: comment
by: deIeted
text:
  I think your only defense would be to pretend to be a bot at this point, because what you just said was completely ridiculous and embarrassing. You realize it&#x27;s not a requirement that you have to post a comment when you have no idea what to say?


type: comment
by: webstrand
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  Details works even when it&#x27;s set display:contents too, for even more flexibility. Can&#x27;t animate from open›close, yet, though. That&#x27;s pretty much my last frustration with it.


type: comment
by: Insanity
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  +1. Can’t believe how they held amazing IPs and then milked them to death while lowering the quality game over game. Whether it’s far cry or assassin’s creed, all the later iterations are worse than the series start.


type: comment
by: lanfeust6
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  &gt; he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws<p>This is unsubstantiated.<p>&gt; avoid antitrust through lobbying<p>Lobbying does not guarantee any result, it is literally just asking the government for something you want. And, why does Amazon need to be subject to anti-trust? By far their most profitable product is AWS, and it has a ton of competitors.<p>&gt; How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?<p>This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That&#x27;s it?


type: comment
by: cubefox
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  I think there is a strong case that ADTs (algebraic data types) aren&#x27;t so great after all. Specifically, the &quot;tagged&quot; unions of ADT languages like Haskell are arguably pretty clearly inferior to the &quot;untagged&quot; unions of TypeScript or Scala 3. Because the latter actually behave like a logical &quot;or&quot; rather than an artificial construct that needs to be wrapped and unwrapped.


type: comment
by: logicprog
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  Agreed. But I figured that slippery equivocation was obvious: the value provided by the big cloud platforms is an insane amount of engineering and system administration work to provide a reliable and large scale way for people to connect and share data, that&#x27;s why we all go there, as well as, as you say, advertisements. The idea that any random CS department could replicate the Amazon Marketplace or AWS, or Facebook&#x27;s infrastructure, is absurd.


type: comment
by: zeroonetwothree
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  You don’t have to be wealthy to pay to use them, you just have to value the time savings more than others. Imagine a “poor” person late for their job where they will get fired, they might value the lane more than a “rich” person just cruising around for fun. Whereas if it weren’t an option at all the poor person in this scenario loses their job and is strictly worse off.


type: comment
by: Isamu
text:
  So you reach back to 2022 for the problems cited in 2025? I guess nothing else happened this year that could affect the economy. Nope, nothing.


type: comment
by: only-one1701
text:
  Something I keep thinking about when I consider the trade-offs between building a site with HTML&#x2F;CSS wherever possible vs JS is what the actual _experience_ of writing and maintaining HTML&#x2F;CSS is vs JS. JS gets knocked around a bunch compared to &quot;real&quot; languages (although less so in recent years), but at the end of the day, it&#x27;s a programming language. You can write a loop in it.<p>Writing a web server in C++ is a way to get excellent performance. So why don&#x27;t most people do it?


type: comment
by: RijilV
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  except of course on the wire, where it&#x27;s wildly a mess.<p>TLS 1.3 version in the record header is 3.1 (that used by TLS 1.0), and later in the client version is 3.3 (that used by TLS 1.2). Neither is correct, they should be 3.4, or 4.0 or something incrementally larger than 3.1 and 3.3.<p>This number basically corresponds to the SSL 3.x branch from which TLS descended from. There&#x27;s a good website which visually explains this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tls13.xargs.org&#x2F;#client-hello&#x2F;annotated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tls13.xargs.org&#x2F;#client-hello&#x2F;annotated</a><p>As for if someone is correct or whatever for calling out TLS 1.x as SSL 3.(x+1) IDK how much it really matters. Maybe they&#x27;re correct in some nerdy way, like I could have called Solaris 3 as SunOS6 and maybe there were some artifacts in the OS to justify my feelings about that. It&#x27;s certainly more proper to call things by their marketing name, but it&#x27;s also interesting to note on they behave on the wire.


type: comment
by: mfalcon
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  Nice, I&#x27;ll take a look. I was thinking about building a benchmark similar to the one you described, but first focusing on the negotiation between the store and the product suppliers.<p>Does your software also handle this type of task?


type: comment
by: agumonkey
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  Is this a methodology you use at work or only for personal projects ? I&#x27;m curious how common this culture is among companies&#x2F;teams.


type: comment
by: zeroonetwothree
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  It would be better if we had congestion pricing for <i>all</i> lanes. Then it would be less of an issue.


type: comment
by: newyankee
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  but if it does, will it mean we are in the endgame. More and more value extraction by fewer and fewer people and entities under noble or complex reasoning.


type: comment
by: nl
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  I think their point is more that that architecture of this CodeRunner program isn&#x27;t very clear.<p>It&#x27;s unclear if it is a container manager, or comes with a LLM Agent built in. These are two separate concerns and the README makes it very unclear how to use one without the other.


type: comment
by: hollow-moe
text:
  Soooo, when my email client is text-only and doesn&#x27;t show me the attachments from the <i>multi-part</i>, it&#x27;s &quot;actively destroying the Fediverse&quot; ? Ploum doesn&#x27;t make any sense here. A &quot;platform&quot; such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube etc. (Do not mistake with &quot;client&quot;, there&#x27;s multiple Peertube &quot;clients&quot; or &quot;frontends&quot; for instance) using ActivityPub shouldn&#x27;t have to implement and provide the user with the whole spec, otherwise just make the &quot;ActivityPub&quot; platform, implement everything there why even bother making other platforms?


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Yeah they&#x27;re all over the place. They exist in offices, in malls, in schools, in apartment complexes, etc.


type: comment
by: nl
text:
  This will work fine for bash commands, but most Agent implementations also have read&#x2F;write file functions that are implemented using local file operations.


type: comment
by: potato3732842
text:
  This has been a factoid as long as the super bowl.  It&#x27;s just now it&#x27;s every game day.  People are pissed about losing money so they&#x27;ve got a shorter fuse than everyone else in their household is used to them having on any given day.


type: comment
by: zelphirkalt
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  If you have strong types, it is still possible to make a mutable thing, that will be mutated from the other end of the program and that will introduce bugs, that can be hard to find. If you are doing FP on the other hand, at least change always results in new objects, with structural sharing at most. This excludes a whole category of bugs.


type: comment
by: rvz
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  You should also include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, IBM, Anthropic, and any tech company that has a defence contract with the US Department of Defence &#x2F; War and ICE or any government.<p>Yet the big problem is of course for those being “principled” about this subject are not serious themselves as some either work there and profit from it, continue to use their products including LLMs or will concede to using them due to social inertia.<p>The only time this is taken seriously is when all these contracts are scrapped. (They won’t be.)


type: comment
by: marstall
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  &gt;Opus 4.5 has really startled me - it genuinely can do complex software engineering tasks which I&#x27;d expect a proficient developer to take hours in minutes with very few defects.<p>I don&#x27;t use Opus, but I use Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGpt 5.1, which are only a bit down the chart.<p>in my daily experience, these tools can help with many tasks - scaffolding crud, writing tests, explaining how this or that part of the code works, are three that come to mind.<p>But a mature piece of software has usually graduated to a point that it has numerous subsystems, layers and integrations that crosstalk with each other in often hacky ways. And my work is smack dab inth middle of that. Writing a feature or fixing a bug in that  soup, I have found, is something that the best AIs will slow you down with as often as they speed you up.<p>And that doesn&#x27;t even take into consideration that a very large part of my job is just defining what the bug or feature <i>is</i>, before I can even begin to code. And when I&#x27;m done with the coding, lets keep in mind the fun, time consuming processes known as &quot;code review&quot; and &quot;deploy to customer&quot;


type: comment
by: crims0n
text:
  Almost 25% of Americans are rural as well… bikes and public transportation are never going to work for them. In fact, cars don’t always work for rural folks - a lot of them benefit from (if not outright need) trucks.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
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  &gt; <i>BTW what&#x27;s up with people pushing N150 and N300 in every single ARM SBC thread?</i><p>For 90% of use cases, ARM SBCs are not appropriate and will not meet expectations over time.<p>People expect them to be little PCs, and intend to use them that way, but they are not. Mini PCs, on the other hand, are literally little PCs and will meet the expectations users have when dealing with PCs.


type: comment
by: davidbau
text:
  No question this will be hard to do.<p>But I am not so pessimistic.  I do think it will be possible, because it is more fun to test your tests now than in the pre-LLM era. You just need a little bit of knowledge and patience, and the LLM absorbs most of the psychic pain.<p>If programmers get accustomed to doing their tests of tests, software might actually get better.


type: comment
by: yaur
text:
  Someone linked flesh simulator the other day and now my you tube is filled with some seriously weird stuff.


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
text:
  That may work where you live, but as a small cog in a big wheel in the USA, profit over people is the rule, not the exception.


type: comment
by: thot_experiment
text:
  right, i can solve this okay by rendering an image and then putting transparent text over it in order to preserve editability, but it&#x27;s such a pain in the ass, and i know windows is capable of doing it because it <i>does</i> do it, i&#x27;m not looking for a solution, i want to understand a facet of windows font rendering


type: comment
by: delichon
text:
  Here are the result for this username, this title and this description:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-ph.vercel.app&#x2F;results&#x2F;ZT06GF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-ph.vercel.app&#x2F;results&#x2F;ZT06GF</a><p>It got a 62, a C+, predicting that this won&#x27;t be very viral. So you either didn&#x27;t test this submission on your own product, or you did, but didn&#x27;t feel that the low score was a handicap? You don&#x27;t seem to be dogfooding. If this post does well it would be evidence against its own accuracy. If it fizzles out, congratulations on being correct.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  And yet it&#x27;s still true. If it comes down to my rights or your convenience, you&#x27;re just going to have a bad day.


type: comment
by: DGrechko
text:
  Just wanted to elaborate on the state of the project and the goal.<p>think of it as a modular field computer inspired by  Flipper Zero, but aimed at outdoors&#x2F;survival&#x2F;trades folks instead of security people.<p>Right now I&#x27;m deep in the software&#x2F;OS layer - getting the core system working  (Qt&#x2F;QML UI, Docker services, on-device AI with Phi-3, offline maps, Meshtastic  integration). Once I validate everything with field tests, I&#x27;ll finalize the  hardware design. It&#x27;s built on Raspberry Pi 5 + ESP32-S3 doing the heavy lifting  for LoRa mesh comms and always-on sensors.<p>The big idea is making something that&#x27;s flexible like Flipper Zero but for  different use cases - you could run apps for hunting, survival navigation, plant  identification, whatever fits your lifestyle. The app ecosystem is key - I want  developers to easily build specialized tools that work in their workflow.<p>Communication-first design too - Meshtastic for long-range mesh when networks are  down, with graceful degradation from LTE → WiFi → LoRa → GPS beacon. The whole  thing is designed to work offline-first - max functionality with zero internet  dependency.<p>Still super early (hence the software focus first), but the goal is a rugged  platform that people can actually build on and customize for their specific needs.  Not trying to replace phones, just be the reliable tool that works when phones don&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: DannyBee
text:
  &quot;It wasn&#x27;t until much much later that it was discovered to be an obesity drug. It was a completely coincidental and accidental discovery.&quot;<p>Define &quot;much much later&quot;<p>It was known by the early 1990s that GLP-1 slowed stomach emptying, with a key study in 1993 demonstrating its effects on gastrointestinal functions like gastric emptying, leading to longer feelings of fullness, which is the central mechanism at work here.  See, e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35635627&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35635627&#x2F;</a><p>It just took eons for someone to decide that therefore maybe it was worth thinking about for weight loss.<p>That part <i>is</i> due to lack of exec vision - the fact that weight loss was not commonly treated with drugs (amphetamines work, but ...) meant they never thought really that hard about it.<p>To be fair, <i>that</i>  lackof vision is not unreasonable in the sense that they have both plenty of high value targets, and plenty of arrows to shoot at them.   Most of the arrows miss of course, but that&#x27;s okay.<p>There is not always tremendous incentive to try new targets until they start missing the target too much, or the value of existing targets drops.<p>They almost certainly give up on, or ignore&#x2F;drop&#x2F;whatever, a near infinite number of things that may have turned into life saving drugs, billion dollar blockbusters, you name it.<p>At least right now, that&#x27;s how this kind of thing works, for better or worse.<p>However, this is quite separate from when x was discovered to be a y, as it is here.<p>FWIW - I&#x27;ll offer another lack of vision in the same vein - by slowing stomach emptying significantly, GLP-1 also causes the same amount of alcohol to do significantly less damage, because it enters your small intestine in much smaller amounts and over a much longer period of time.  So much so that is a very effective treatment for alcoholism because it both reduces alcohol craving, and causes significant amounts of alcohol to do less damage.   See, e.g., newly published studies like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37192005&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37192005&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamapsychiatry&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2829811" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamapsychiatry&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;...</a><p>Again, this should have been somewhat obvious to study a long time ago,  but it wasn&#x27;t started until 2 years ago.<p>It also turns out to reduce drug cravings, which <i>is</i> more unexpected, but would have been discovered much earlier with better vision.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  didn’t copy and paste from wikipedia (though I can if needed) - wasn’t expecting to read USAID as american spreading goodness out of our pure hearts but here we are, have read crazier things than that for sure


type: comment
by: JadeNB
text:
  &gt; Given that Jabberwocky is also quite readable, we shouldn&#x27;t be too astonished.<p>The conventions of literature have changed a lot less than math notation and terminology have since 1867.


type: comment
by: userbinator
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  <i>But I suspect that the Macintosh team in &#x27;84 was closer in intentions to contemporary RMS than to contemporary Apple.</i><p>Apple has always been patronising and thought of users as exploitables to be controlled and herded; the Macintosh, and even more so the Lisa that came before it, were far more closed systems in comparison to the IBM PC.


type: comment
by: RichardLake
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  No it doesn&#x27;t. It can not bind someone that has not agreed to it. A failure to agree might mean they are infringing on copy-right and is liable for damages, but it is wrong to say it binds everyone that distributes it.


type: comment
by: willparks
text:
  From a libertarian perspective, I always thought betting should be legal. Trust people to know their limits and remove the organized crime aspect. People will find a way even if it is illegal. Turns out there may have been a reason this was illegal in the first place.


type: comment
by: didgetmaster
text:
  Reminds me of the old saying: &#x27;If you have just one watch&#x2F;clock, then you always know what time it is; but if you have two of them, then you are never sure!&#x27;


type: comment
by: cjbgkagh
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  Many things work just fine right until they stop working, our current strategy of blowing ever bigger economic bubbles has worked for a long time and I expect it will continue for long time. It has the very stable property of enriching the already wealthy.<p>But it will not last forever and I do expect to see the end of it within my lifetime. It is this calamity that I&#x27;m interested in diminishing and it is on this basis that I think a weaker federal reserve would be less damaging. Since the federal reserve obscures the true state of the economy uncovering the true state will coincide with a weakling of the federal reserve and will appear causal.<p>I&#x27;m not a gold bug, I don&#x27;t own any of it, I do own some bitcoin but my main asset is my software company.


type: comment
by: suprjami
text:
  I have a pre-Ryzen AMD thin client which draws MAXIMUM 10W. Idle 5W. A lot less CPU power but still. 15W for a modern SBC is a joke.


type: comment
by: rjrjrjrj
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  The lightest SuperDuty has a gas engine. Diesel SuperDuty fuel economy is a bit better, but the vehicle also weighs more and is likely to be carrying&#x2F;pulling more. But regardless of whether the multiple is 2 or 3.4 or somewhere in between, it is a small fraction of the added road wear.<p>By the fourth power law, an unloaded diesel Superduty creates ~22x the road wear of a honda civic. Loaded can be 100x more.


type: comment
by: acemarke
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  Completely unrelated.<p>- Immer (C++) appears to be roughly equivalent to Immutable.js ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immutable-js.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immutable-js.com&#x2F;</a> ): a set of specialized data structures<p>- Immer (JS), on the other hand, uses JS Proxies to wrap plain values, traps attempted mutations, and then replays them to return a safely immutable updated final result<p>As far as I know, Michel Weststrate came up with the name independently (although I can&#x27;t 100% confirm that).<p>(source: I didn&#x27;t create Immer (JS), but I started using it in Redux Toolkit in 2018, am quoted in the docs about how much I love it, spent the last couple months doing performance optimization work that got shipped in Immer 11.x, and just put up some more bugfix PRs today.  I&#x27;m a secondary maintainer at this point.)


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
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  There are many <i>indirect</i> users of roads.<p>If you rely on businesses, services, emergency workers, etc., you rely on roads.


type: comment
by: gmuslera
text:
  Debian have multiple mirrors, and some distributions even promote to have local mirrors, the model is different, as you say the packages are signed so you know who made them, wherever you got them from.<p>And I said above, SSL is more than about encryption, but also knowing that you are connecting to the right party. Maybe for a repository with multiple mirrors, dns aliases and a layer of &quot;knowing from whom this come from&quot; is not that essential, but for most the rest, even if the information is public, knowing that it comes from the authoritative source or really from who you think it comes from is important.


type: comment
by: zeroonetwothree
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  Also isn’t it more fair to charge people using the roads than everyone? What if someone doesn’t even drive should they have to pay taxes for roads?<p>And in the absence of these congestion fees we’d likely have to take taxes overall. That would probably be even worse for poor people.


type: comment
by: johnisgood
text:
  &gt; messaging security<p>&gt; WhatsApp<p>Eh?<p>There are alternatives, try Ricochet (Refresh) or Cwtch.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  &gt; Do you have any source for these numbers &amp; the equivalent for auto travel?<p>There are several ways you can look at it. The easiest way is to divide the opex budget by the ridership. E.g. MTA ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metropolitan_Transportation_Au...</a> ) had a $19B budget in 2023 for 1.15B rides, resulting in about $16 per ride. Assuming conservatively 60 rides a month, that&#x27;s $960 a month for transit in NYC. Without any capital expenses taken into account.<p>The average total car cost in the US in 2023 was around $1000 a month ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usafacts.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;how-much-does-it-cost-to-own-a-car&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usafacts.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;how-much-does-it-cost-to-own-a...</a> ). And this includes _everything_, including the capital cost.<p>&gt; Also worth noting that comparing capital costs of underground transit to above ground private travel is pretty apples and oranges. Buses would be fairer comparison IMO.<p>Buses don&#x27;t scale for large cities.


type: comment
by: MarsIronPI
text:
  Isn&#x27;t this one of the benefits of ACPI?  That the kernel asks the motherboard for the hardware information that on ARM SoCs is stored in the device tree?


type: comment
by: adzm
text:
  Use a checkbox, d. Define vars for light mode. Override when checked for dark mode with body:has(#d:checked) and can include the dark mode media query too


type: comment
by: zdragnar
text:
  Until your client tells you that it doesn&#x27;t work in Edge and you find out it&#x27;s because every browser has its own styling and they are impossible to change enough to get the really long options to show up correctly.<p>Then you&#x27;re stuck with a bugfix&#x27;s allotment of time to implement an accessible, correctly themed combo box that you should have reached for in the first place, just like what you had to do last week with the native date pickers.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  I think it speaks volumes that Buffet has nowhere else to put that ~$382B in cash; that speaks more about current asset valuations (&quot;everything bubble&quot; [1]) more than that US cash is trash. If assets classes are inflated, US treasuries are no longer a safe haven, gold and other precious metals are overbought, where do you go? There is no immediate answer, imho, but only a slow burn as the world reconfigures around the US not being a superpower, the dollar not being a reserve currency, etc. As Workaccount2 comments downthread, &quot;The dollar sucks but everything else sucks more. [2]&quot;<p>[1] <i>Look around: Bubbles are everywhere.</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46303596">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46303596</a> - December 2025<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46407032">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46407032</a>


type: comment
by: deIeted
text:
  Well, that&#x27;s human slop, and it&#x27;s actually more insidious than AI slop. You know what&#x27;s weird? We&#x27;ve had this for almost twenty years. This human slop in writing this is the first time ever that this painful writing has been addressed by someone else on a comment on the internet. I&#x27;ve raised it so many times, but it&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve ever seen one other person acknowledge it. Like, how crazy is that? Is the last twenty years been a fever dream?


type: comment
by: cyberax
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  &gt; Oh, sorry, that doesn&#x27;t have a line item on the toll receipt, silly me.<p>Money is a pretty good proxy for CO2. So the carbon footprint of large cities is unsustainable.<p>The most eco-friendly model? Low-density semi-rural areas, with EV-based infrastructure, with sane-sized cars (not SUVs).


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  A colleague and I demo&#x27;d something really neat we&#x27;d made in our spare time to the execs at the tech company we worked at, as a potential investment.<p>Two days later the network admin of the company stopped by my desk and whispered in my ear, &quot;They&#x27;re looking at your employment contracts. Whatever you showed them, they are trying to figure out if they can take it for free.&quot; (I guess he was reading all their emails...)<p>Bad news for them: they&#x27;d been in such a bind to hire me originally that I&#x27;d taken a pen and scribbled out a large chunk of my employment contract before we signed it. I&#x27;d never have thought to try it, but someone with bigger balls than me had done it the day before on theirs and told me about it.


type: comment
by: whateveracct
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  &gt; In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes.<p>Haha as someone who has worked in one of these domains using FP even - I wish the people in charge agreed with you!<p>Reliability is a cost center and Product-oriented Builders treat it as such.


type: comment
by: ronbenton
text:
  One thing I am quite hopeful for is customizable selects! It&#x27;s in WHATWG stage 3 right now. I have seen so many horrors with javascript-based custom dropdowns components. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-customizable-select" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-customizable-select</a>


type: comment
by: alexcos
text:
  &quot;I&#x27;ve never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There&#x27;s a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving 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. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.&quot;


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
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  It’s already normal and has been for a long time. Defeatist? No, people who have mortgages to pay and families to feed can’t be martyrs for workers’ rights. You want to change it, I’m not opposed, but you make it sound simple&#x2F;easy.


type: comment
by: jstimpfle
text:
  In C++, in particular when restricting to a C like subset, I prefer looking at an expression like<p><pre><code>    foo-&gt;bar.baz </code></pre> instead of (in Rust and other modern languages that decided to get rid of the distinction)<p><pre><code>    foo.bar.baz </code></pre> For example, the former lets me easily see that I can copy <i>foo-&gt;bar</i> and I now have a copy of <i>baz</i> (and indeed <i>bar</i>). In a newer language, it&#x27;s harder to see whether we are copying a value or a reference.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
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  Haha this is a classic Bay Area solution. It’s why you have a low-income discount if you speed 120 mph over the speed limit and get caught by the camera. It is well known that if you get hit by a poor person speeding at 145 mph it hurts less.


type: comment
by: unmole
text:
  &gt; But no one wants to hold them because they devalue and will continue to do so at an accelerating rate.<p>Talk is cheap. Show me the stats.


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  I watch news (and everything else) on YouTube at 2x speed to keep the information density high enough to be worthwhile. Once you get used to it, regular media becomes less tolerable because everyone is talking too slow.


type: comment
by: MilnerRoute
text:
  Here&#x27;s another take.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noemamag.com&#x2F;the-politics-of-superintelligence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noemamag.com&#x2F;the-politics-of-superintelligence&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s mostly about AGI predictions, but it made the point that talking about &quot;inevitability&quot; of AI apocalypses ultimately moves resources <i>to</i> AI companies.<p>That said, I&#x27;m all in favor of tech companies offering useful retraining to the masses. (It&#x27;s just that I&#x27;ve always seen predictions that AI will also create jobs, so I&#x27;m not ready to concede that mass displacements are inevitable...)


type: comment
by: eru
text:
  &#x27;Immer&#x27; is just German for &#x27;always&#x27; or &#x27;eternal&#x27;.  So giving that name to your library of persistent and immutable data structures is a fairly natural thing to do, without them having anything more in common than that.<p>(Of course, they might have more in common, I don&#x27;t know.)


type: comment
by: femto
text:
  Look to Sydney, Australia, if you want to see where this is heading, as Sydney is completely tied up with toll roads.  On the point of them being regressive, the NSW government has been forced to reduce political pressure by capping annual toll expenditure with a government funded rebate system.<p>It&#x27;s no coincidence that the companies behind the expansion of US toll roads are mostly the Australian companies that run Sydney&#x27;s toll roads: Transurban, Macquarie, IFM, ...


type: comment
by: MarsIronPI
text:
  How so?  The Steam Deck is an x86 mobile PC with all the implications of everything (well, all the generic hardware e.g. WiFi, GPU IIRC) work out of the box.


type: comment
by: OgsyedIE
text:
  Libertarianism works better than any other economic system for abstract agents. When you replace the abstract agents with mammals, however...


type: comment
by: foota
text:
  Honestly? Good. Puts them on a more even footing with other infrastructure. If trains aren&#x27;t free neither should highways be.


type: comment
by: turtleyacht
text:
  Curious if in vitro fertilization (IVF) could consider RNA impact when evaluating fitness.<p>Current criteria appear to be motility, morphology, and DNA attributes (fragmentation &amp; integrity) [1], all mostly visual or physical assessments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vidafertility.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;best-sperm-selection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vidafertility.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;best-sperm-selection&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: aGHz
text:
  I think one good reason is connecting with the youth. My kids are too young for Tik Tok but old enough to come home with 6-7 (btw, best antidote to that is the 7-8-9 joke ;) ) and &quot;chicken banana&quot;, and I&#x27;m told this comes from Tik Tok. I grew up in a house where every BSOD was caused by the fact that we installed video games, and I&#x27;d rather not be that kind of parent to my own kids. I&#x27;m also like GP though, I&#x27;d rather not go full scrollhead, so it&#x27;s a bit of a dilemma.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  I remember Orkut being in a weird legal position. Did they donate all the rights back to the guy eventually?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orkut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orkut</a>


type: comment
by: jjmarr
text:
  I&#x27;ve been unable to convince any &quot;businessy&quot; or liberal arts people to vibe code. I&#x27;ve attempted with everyone in my immediate family, friends, etc. Even when they sit on the computer and watch the AI type out a script for them that saves them hours&#x2F;day, they get an &quot;ick&quot; factor that prevents them from trying again.<p>They&#x27;d rather ask me to talk to the AI for them and pay me money to do so. Heck one of my cousins offered me $5 to edit a photo with AI tools? It&#x27;s a 1000% markup for clicking 4 buttons.<p>I can&#x27;t square this with the alleged tidal wave of non-tech people replacing SWEs with AI. Non-tech people largely refuse to use the technology right in front of them to improve their productivity. They&#x27;d rather ask me to spend 20 seconds on a task and pay me to do so.<p>More likely than an SWE crash is an SWE dispersal. Lots of non-tech fields have automation opportunities that haven&#x27;t been seized upon since one can make $500k risk free in FAANG.<p>If that goes away, I&#x27;d start a consulting business and ruthlessly automate Excel-based business processes with AI coding agents.<p>It takes me half an hour to vibe code a proof of concept web scraper and immediately demonstrate value to someone now willing to throw money at me to maintain it for them at insane profit margins since I&#x27;ve replaced a human repeatedly clicking on things.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  Yes, they are called both frontage roads and feeder roads by Texans interchangeably.  Frontage roads is the official term but feeder is the lingo.  Obvious to anyone who knows real Texans.


type: comment
by: djeastm
text:
  I&#x27;m with you. I&#x27;ve had a mostly empty email for at least a decade (&lt; 10 items, with each of them representing an action I&#x27;ll need to take) and can&#x27;t imagine doing it differently. I&#x27;m one of those empty desk&#x2F;empty mind people, I guess.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  Ignorant of this NPU, but in my experience, you&#x27;re expected to use some cursed stack of proprietary tools&#x2F;runtimes&#x2F;SDKs&#x2F;etc and no, it will not play nicely with anything you want it to unless you write the support yourself.


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  Because new drugs are what make the federal spending pie larger. Slower growth also does. Wars can also make budgets balloon, but then you’d be like “well Clinton wouldn’t want wars.” Okay, so would he want faster medical progress? Of course, and that turns out to be budget busting!<p>The drugs could have existed back then. You’d have to read the link. And today they do, and under Clinton, would he pay? All great things to talk about.<p>I am trying to have an interesting conversation and instead it’s just, downvote this downvote that.


type: comment
by: john01dav
text:
  I think that the person to whom you replied is speaking of outdoor installations, while you are speaking of controlled (maybe datacenter) installations. I have outdoor fiber running aerially between buildings on my property, in a region with massive seasonal temperature changes. Multiple local FTTH and Coaxial ISPs also run fiber on shared utility poles (the same ones that the electrical grid maintains) and when I look at the poles I see communications lines all in the same general area, often mere centimeters apart, if that.


type: comment
by: shakna
text:
  I think the CSS support for that has finally landed, though it means targetting a pseudo element instead. Its been a year, so support is probably good enough you don&#x27;t care if just the animation doesn&#x27;t happen.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;styling-details" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;styling-details</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; When my friend googles the same thing, it spins up the LLM again<p>I just tried this from two different devices, neither logged in, both on separate IPs from different states.<p>Got the exact same answer.<p>These are almost certainly cached. It would be naive to think Google is performing the same LLM requests over and over again for the same terms for no reason.


type: comment
by: nivix_zixer
text:
  This is what I have experienced as well. My employer (large SaaS company) declared a &quot;code red&quot; concerning AI about 6 months ago and built a team responsible for laying the foundation for how we will be using AI. They built a RAG framework for development which is scary efficient and accurate.<p>Developers who are testing the waters with cursor or warp have no idea what is possible.<p>I am scared for all devs, newer and older. Newer devs will have a harder time gaining experience. And the older devs who don&#x27;t adapt will be looking for jobs in another line of work within 5 years.


type: comment
by: davidbau
text:
  Agreed. The question, for me:<p>Is it possible to vibe code (the second way, without looking at 90% of the code) and still learn the important things?<p>I think the keys to the castle will come from figuring out how to do this.


type: comment
by: martinald
text:
  I don&#x27;t think the benchmarks catch this very well. Opus 4.5 is _significantly_ better than Sonnet 4.5 in my experience, far more than the SWE Bench scores would say. I can happily leave Opus 4.5 running for 20-30 minutes and come back to very high quality software on complex tasks&#x2F;refactoring. Sonnet 4.5 would fall over within a couple of minutes on these tasks.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  damn shit is really bad, sky is failing, bubbles are bursting… any other clickbait I need to read up on before I go spend the last of the good days with my kid…?<p>coolest thing about us in the 50’s is that we’ve seen and read this shit many times before and don’t fall the “bubble du jour” or “shit’s really bad this time…” - especially readers here on HN, bubbles be bursting for yeeeears now, recession is coming, crashes are coming… genuinely am sitting here scared and shook about Buffet hoarding cash, that never happened before…


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  Toll roads are fine so long as they&#x27;re flowing. If they&#x27;re jamming, and I&#x27;m still paying, then that fits the definition of a scam.


type: comment
by: lloydatkinson
text:
  For fun I decided to try something similar to this a few weeks ago, but with Bitcoin instead of a vending machine business. I refined a prompt instructing it to try policies like buying low, etc. I gave it a bunch of tools for accessing my Coinbase account. Rules like, can&#x27;t buy or sell more than X amount in a day.<p>Obviously this would probably be a disaster, but I did write proper code with sanity checks and hard rules, and if a request Claude came up with was outside it&#x27;s rules it would reject it and take no action. It was allowed to also simply decide to not take any actions right now.<p>I designed it so that it would save the previous N number of prompt responses as a &quot;memory&quot; so that it could inspect it&#x27;s previous actions and try devise strategies, so it wouldn&#x27;t just be flailing around every time. I scheduled it to run every few minutes.<p>Sadly, I gave up and lost all enthusiasm for it when the Coinbase API turned out to be a load of badly documented and contradictory shit that would always return zero balance when I could login to Coinbase and see that simply wasn&#x27;t true. I tried a couple of client libraries, and got nowhere with it. The prospect of having to write another REST API client was too much for my current &quot;end of year&quot; patience.<p>What started as a funny weekend project idea was completely derailed by a crappy API. I would be interested to see if anyone else tried this.


type: comment
by: ch4s3
text:
  I think many American movements tend to take on an everything bagel quality and it becomes too unclear what the actual demands are and what any politician could do to achieve the goal.


type: comment
by: brendyn
text:
  You can download the entirety of Wikipedia. YouTube is blocking YouTube downloaders. It&#x27;s a crime against humanity that they lured people into to contribute videos to this platform. By losing money for years before being acquired, they ensured nobody could possibly compete with their own video platform. Its not a nonforprofit or library. They can freely censor,  restrict, and edit videos as they please, especially for deceased accounts.


type: comment
by: konmok
text:
  The problem with this thinking is that the US government regularly engages in actual conspiracies, which the public only finds out about much later. COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, the Tuskegee experiments, Operation Paperclip, the list goes on [1].<p>So, while it&#x27;s true that the overwhelming majority of conspiracy theories are dumb nonsense, it remains unwise to dismiss a theory just because it is a &quot;conspiracy theory&quot;.<p>[1] This is almost certainly true of other governments as well! I&#x27;m just less informed there.


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  GGE:  Gasoline gallon equivalent<p>&lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gasoline_gallon_equivalent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gasoline_gallon_equivalent</a>&gt;<p>(Most tractor-trailor rigs burn diesel rather than petrol.)


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; 1. For every social media account you have: post “I’m leaving. You should too”<p>Did you miss the trend in the 2010s of announcing you were quitting social media? This was already a thing. All it did was annoy people. Also 90% of the people I know who did it are back on social media.<p>If you want to use social media less, just use social media less. Hang out with other people who socialize instead of burying their face in their phone. Getting on a high horse and lecturing other people on social media isn’t going to do anything.


type: comment
by: C4K3
text:
  There was an ffmpeg drag-and-drop GUI that let you create ffmpeg commands visually instead of having to remember all the right arguments. Inputs, filters and outputs are all nodes in a graph, and then you connect them together. When done you would export it as an ffmpeg command to run.<p>As an occasional user this was a lot easier to use than having to remember all of the commands, and it did it all without hiding the complexity from the user.<p>Unfortunately it looks like they tried to monetize it but then later shut down. It doesn&#x27;t look like they posted the source code anywhere.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230131140736&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ffmpeg.guide&#x2F;graph&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230131140736&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ffmpeg.gu...</a>


type: story
by: SpicyG
title: Ask HN: Can systems function correctly without memory?
text:
  I’ve been thinking about whether memory is actually a runtime requirement for correctness, or just a training signal whose effects persist even when recall is no longer needed.<p>In practice, many distributed systems accumulate complexity because they treat state as something to negotiate with rather than something to enforce against. When systems attempt to reconcile past states in order to act in the present, they often generate retries, reconciliation logic, and coordination overhead just to stay consistent.<p>I’ve been experimenting with an enforcement-first pattern where every interaction is treated as a first-time request, invalid states are refused rather than repaired, and state is carried explicitly by the request itself. I put together a minimal reference implementation to make the idea concrete.<p>I’m curious where people think this model breaks down in practice, and which classes of systems truly require narrative state rather than local constraint enforcement.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SvengsFuture&#x2F;stateless-substrate


type: comment
by: doetoe
text:
  Rotations have determinant 1, but not all matrices of determinant 1 in the connected component of the identity are rotations


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  &gt; &quot;tagged&quot; unions of ADT languages like Haskell are arguably pretty clearly inferior to the &quot;untagged&quot; unions of TypeScript<p>dude .. wut??  Explain to me exactly how this is true, with a real world example.<p>From where I stand, untagged unions are useful in an extremely narrow set of circumstances.  Tagged unions, on the other hand, are incredibly useful in a wide variety of applications.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  &gt; Witness any cause which involves protesting by blocking the street. You get an army of internet trolls talking up the idea that this is somehow evil.<p>&quot;Evil&quot; is a stronger word than I would use, but I think it&#x27;s fair to say that blocking the streets is both reckless and extremely antisocial. Making my life harder when I didn&#x27;t do anything to wrong you doesn&#x27;t make me more sympathetic to your cause, it makes me think &quot;wow the people who support X are real dicks&quot;.<p>Also I like how you label this as a position espoused by &quot;Internet trolls&quot;, as though no normal decent person could be irritated when they get screwed over by protesters.


type: comment
by: atomicnumber3
text:
  You get dangerously into the &quot;wart&quot; territory from C++.<p>Another example - in ruby. I really like the Pathname library and use it a lot. Even in my OWN programs, where I almost ALWAYS immediately turn a path into a Pathname, I still find myself calling Pathname functions and getting errors because the type is a string. I&#x27;ve found myself naming parameters - lets say it&#x27;s a data file - &quot;data_pn&quot; to reassure myself that i should indeed pass in a pathname and not a string.<p>This is just re-engaging the hungarian notation &quot;warts&quot; pattern in another place and time.


type: story
by: toomuchtodo
title: The Well Watchers
url:
  https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/12/abandoned-oil-wells-texas-tiktok-hawk-dunlap-sarah-stogner-well-watchers/


type: comment
by: blks
text:
  Don’t worry, it’s not. Just people doing busy work and spending time struggling their “tools” to make something useful.


type: comment
by: heresie-dabord
text:
  &gt; We need an acronym for these types of boards: Yet Another SBC With Poor Longterm Support. YASBCWPLS.<p><i>Deadend</i> is how I describe it.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  If you can&#x27;t advance your position without being a dick to others, your position doesn&#x27;t deserve to advance.


type: comment
by: kyboren
text:
  No need for grave consequences, just mandate the destruction of any personal baggage after an evacuation and add a hefty fine to boot.<p>If it&#x27;s all gonna get destroyed no matter what, there&#x27;s no reason even to try to take anything with you.


type: comment
by: nacozarina
text:
  Govt: Don’t put critical medications in checked bags, put them in carry on. Oh and have your citizenship papers available at any time for inspection.<p>Same Govt: omg why are you acting like your carryon matters?


type: comment
by: exBarrelSpoiler
text:
  As cliche is it to cry whataboutism, this clearly is. Incrementalism is better than nothing. Sanctimony is FUD. If even one company is suffers at least it’ll serve as a warning to the others.


type: comment
by: infecto
text:
  &gt; You Americans are so funny.<p>People like you are funny too but its easy to make posts like yours. Density in most urban parts of Japan and Taipei are wildly higher than say a Houston Texas. Again like I said, you are oversimplifying the problem which I get it, its easy to do. I don&#x27;t think this is as simple as &quot;build the rail, then upzone the area around stations&quot;, would happy to be wrong but I think like all of the world there are cultural and historical reasons for the difference.<p>It would take decades, you need buy in from both tax payers, commercial buildings, retail spaces, home builders etc.<p>It would be great if you could have a central planner like a China to just build a city with all the infrastructure in place but in places like America, that does not happen and so its a very tough egg to crack. Keep in mind its not just about being hot, definitely lots of Japan and Taiwan are very humid but you are also in city centers that have 8-9x the density of Houston. Lots of things to do and often you are most likely not walking that far, relative for city walking. I could walk a mile in Houston and still have not left my starting spot.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  I&#x27;ve lived through the &#x27;00 crisis, the &#x27;08 crisis, and a global pandemic. In all cases, there were signs the event was upon us, but you won&#x27;t know for sure until the event is in full swing. The advice remains the same as it always does: carry as little debt as reasonably possible, don&#x27;t overextend yourself without good reason, ensure sufficient liquid reserves, maximize employment and income opportunities, and have a strong network, both professional and community. Stay healthy to the best of your ability. Humans have existed for some time, we&#x27;re going to exist for a while longer. I have many people who depend on me, and I&#x27;m prepared for anything short of global unexpected nuclear conflict. As long as you care, that&#x27;s half the battle. Wishing you a favorable outcome.


type: comment
by: breadwinner
text:
  &gt; <i>that tends to get in the way of complex error handling.</i><p>Agree. In Java, Streams allow you to process collections in a functional style. This feature enables concise, expressive data manipulation with operations like map, filter, and reduce.<p>Some people point out that Java&#x27;s checked exceptions spoil the simplicity and elegance of Streams by forcing you to handle exceptions.<p>But that&#x27;s not a reason to not have checked exceptions, it is a reason to not do functional style composition when methods can throw exceptions. Streams was invented for collections, which tend not to throw exceptions. If proper error handling is important don&#x27;t do Streams.


type: comment
by: blandflakes
text:
  Elsewhere in this thread, dynamic typing advocates malign the hassle of maintaining types, and it is always coupled with strong advocacy for an entire class of unit tests I <i>don&#x27;t</i> have to write in statically typed languages.


type: comment
by: coldtea
text:
  &gt;<i>This is how money works. You&#x27;re expressing anger at the concept of personal property.</i><p>The &quot;this is how money works&quot; argument doesn&#x27;t work well for chattel slavery and it doesn&#x27;t work well for this either...


type: comment
by: wewtyflakes
text:
  I cited sources; you are trying to redefine the word &quot;explode&quot; to not mean explode. Regardless, litigating about the word &quot;explode&quot; is the least interesting part of what happened to this plane; at at the end of day, nobody wants to fly on a plane that has its engine exp... err, suffer catastrophic failure that is totally not an explosion.


type: comment
by: ironmagma
text:
  Continually acknowledging it renews its legitimacy as the status quo. Who said anything about families or mortgages? The tech industry has plenty of single mobile renters; we can make change by having a little faith in each other.


type: comment
by: coldtea
text:
  Because a civilized society is not about &quot;who pays more gets the more benefit&quot; from public infrastructure.<p>A dog-eats-dog jungle of underdeveloped monkeys in clothing, on the other hand, sure.


type: comment
by: blks
text:
  Is that your actual believe? That non-formal, natural human language explaining the task will replace formal programming?


type: comment
by: throwaway5465
text:
  You encountered an App Spam. They litter app stores. Like spam videos on YouTube.<p>It only makes an ever stronger case for good software.


type: comment
by: babyshake
text:
  This reminds me of a thought I have had that the future of education may involve a type of &quot;school for robots&quot; where the human students are the teachers. I am sure Neal Stephenson and others thought of this same thing decades ago but seems closer to becoming a reality.


type: comment
by: dbmnt
text:
  I’m struggling with the utility of this logic. The argument seems to be &quot;because malware can intercept &#x2F;proc output, any tool relying on it is inherently unreliable.&quot;<p>While that’s theoretically true in a security context, it feels like a &#x27;perfect is the enemy of the good&#x27; situation. Unless the author is discussing high-stakes incident response on a compromised system, discarding &#x2F;proc-based tools for debugging and troubleshooting seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If your environment is so compromised that &#x2F;proc is lying to you, you&#x27;ve likely moved past standard tooling anyway.


type: comment
by: blks
text:
  It’s perceived, and perception varies across developers and time. These tools are not guaranteed to deliver anything.


type: comment
by: Evidlo
text:
  Is there anywhere I can try my own hand at tricking&#x2F;social-engineering a virtual AI vending machine?


type: comment
by: Jensson
text:
  &gt; If you are doing FP on the other hand, at least change always results in new objects, with structural sharing at most. This excludes a whole category of bugs.<p>Not if you program it with a mutable god object to mimic creating a new big state, then you have exactly the same kind of issues.<p>The issue is if you try to program a transaction flow using object oriented programming, that is not very good, and most work programmers do revolves around involves flows. But when it doesn&#x27;t then functional programming isn&#x27;t a very good or reliable solution.


type: comment
by: rascul
text:
  &gt; Japan is hotter<p>Is it?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weatherspark.com&#x2F;compare&#x2F;y&#x2F;9247~143809&#x2F;Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Houston-and-Tokyo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weatherspark.com&#x2F;compare&#x2F;y&#x2F;9247~143809&#x2F;Comparison-of...</a>


type: comment
by: therealpygon
text:
  Seems interesting that cryptocurrency has suddenly been bolstered with legislation. A secondary market might become important were the dollar not to recover.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  When I say mobile, I mean ARM SoCs in the phone, embedded and IoT lineage, not so much full featured PCs in mobile form factor.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  20 years ago I&#x27;d say that &quot;free-to-play&quot; would have been necessary because of the N² value that social sites create,  just getting the idea mainstream was difficult enough and you can very much see the phases we went through,  how Facebook inspired Twitter and back, etc.  Like, of my family and friends who are on Facebook I think very few of them would become subscribers.<p>Today people believe in the value of social media and selling a subscription would be easier but the barriers I see are<p>- from the viewpoint of incumbents,  <i>the people who would pay to have an ad-free experience are the people you most want to show ads to!</i>  Or to the converse,  the person who won&#x27;t spend $10 to block ads is cheap and won&#x27;t spend money on anything else<p>- incumbents will get in the way of any kind of &quot;aggregator&quot; service which adds value<p>In a Fediversal system there would be a possible markets for a product that helps a consumer have a better consuming experience or a publisher have a better publishing experience (e.g. I post links and photos to 9 services) and would some pay, yes.  But incumbents are threatened by openness and price API access at punitive,  not profit-maximizing levels.  Even in a more open world I&#x27;d have a lot of fear that the revenue and the costs won&#x27;t line up and the profits in some part of the systems will be at the expense of unsustainable losses elsewhere and the mechanism design to make that work is tough.<p>(e.g. I did some biz dev with a guy who had a track record in influencing freakin&#x27; <i>telecoms</i> to do better with mechanism design who thought &quot;freedom isn&#x27;t free&quot; is the problem with the internet who struggled to get calls with anyone)


type: comment
by: gtech1
text:
  it&#x27;s ok, I know you meant for this thread to diverge into pointless arguments. But for everyone else reading:<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oed.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;?scope=Entries&amp;q=ex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oed.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;?scope=Entries&amp;q=ex</a><p>2. &quot;Bolsheviks&quot; aren&#x27;t a nation.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  Wishing you a favorable outcome too!!<p>I <i>love</i> pretend bubbles cause while everyone is waiting for them to burst one can make shitton of money


type: comment
by: ldng
text:
  Yeah. OR. You just ignore the bullshit until the bubble burst. Then we&#x27;ll see what&#x27;s left and it will <i>not</i> be what the majority think.


type: comment
by: DannyBee
text:
  &quot;I kinda don’t like PTP. Too complicated and requires specialized hardware.&quot;<p>?????<p>I run PTP on everything from RPI&#x27;s to you name it, over fiber, ethernet, etc.<p>The main thing hardware gives is filtration of PTP packets or hardware timestamping.<p>Neither is actually required, though some software has decided to require it.<p>Additionally, something like 99% of sold gigabit or better chipsets since 2012 support it (I210 et al)


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  To be early or late is the same as being wrong, and I had a friend who lost everything trying to be right take their life when they were wrong. It is true, you have the potential to make money, and if you can afford it, who am I to stop you? But, you can also lose it all, and I hope that those who try don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s just numbers in a database after all. Gamble responsibly. There is always someone smarter or faster on the order book.


type: comment
by: anonym29
text:
  Could you please link the source code for the WhatsApp client, so that we can see the cryptographic keys aren&#x27;t being stored and later uploaded to Meta&#x27;s servers, completely defeating the entire point of Signal&#x27;s E2EE implementation and ratchet protocol?


type: comment
by: pdeva1
text:
  AWS has the Google TrueTime equivalent precision clock available for public use[1] which makes this problem much easier to solve now. Auora DSQL uses it. Even third party db&#x27;s like YugabyteDb make use of it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AWSEC2&#x2F;latest&#x2F;UserGuide&#x2F;set-time.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AWSEC2&#x2F;latest&#x2F;UserGuide&#x2F;set-time...</a>


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  Thanks!<p>On adding new characters to Unicode, as for any commitee there will be rejection and cases where going through the whole process is cumbersome&#x2F;not worth it.<p>It&#x27;s more commonly discussed in the CJK circles, it reminded me of the Wikipedia entry (unsurprisingly with no English equivalent)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ja.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%A3%E6%9B%BF%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ja.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA%E...</a><p>&gt; minority languages<p>More archaic that minority, but one language I had in mind was one using color coded  strings and knots representation. There are latin alphabet mappings, so as long as we trust the translation record keeping per se works in Unicode, but if one wanted to keep the exact original writing it would obviously not work out in plain text. I imagined it&#x27;s not an isolated instance, but I&#x27;m also way out of my depth on this one<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quipu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quipu</a>


type: comment
by: deIeted
text:
  How complicated is it?<p>&quot;Definitely complicated enough for us all to keep getting paid for a long time.&quot;<p>read hhgttg


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  Granted, my reply was somewhat offensive, but that was kind of the point.<p>That said, it&#x27;s easy to throw shade from a new, blank account.  Nothing to lend credibility to your statements, not even bushleague itch.io stuff, or a cute, toy engine.  Give me the goods, otherwise you&#x27;re just blowing smoke.<p>&gt; your reply is simultaneously naive and a non-sequitur<p>Basis?  Pretty watery rebuttal for someone so sure of themselves.


type: comment
by: ThunderSizzle
text:
  &quot;We&quot; don&#x27;t have passkeys now. Many functional android devices are not being upgraded to the latest Android versions, and simply will never get true passkey support that isn&#x27;t locked away inside of Google&#x27;s vault.<p>Passwords are much better than the OAuth2 coolaid, and passwords will still be better as long as older devices can&#x27;t support passkeys due to arbitrary restrictions.


type: comment
by: manwe150
text:
  To follow up on that, I think that 50 year horizon number has even been the case for something well over 50 years now. It seems we are incentivized currently to extract from deposits around that threshold of years? One professor I had even claimed this will always hold true indefinitely, since at some point we’ll switch away from oil, this holding constant there being about 50 years of known reserves left, once it become economically infeasible to extract that oil.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  I missed some UI improvement in browsers then as I can copy and paste them as text, and even the italic emoji example carried over the italic information when I tried copying it into various editors.


type: comment
by: jacob019
text:
  I get where you&#x27;re coming from, especially since role playing was so vital in early models in a way that is no longer necessary, or even harmful; however, when designing a complex system of interactions, there&#x27;s really no way around it.  And as humans we do this constantly, putting on a different hat for different jobs. When I&#x27;m wearing my developer hat, I have to reason about the role of each component in a system, and when I use an agent to serve in that role, by curating it&#x27;s context and designating rules for how I want it to behave, I&#x27;m assigning it a persona.  What&#x27;s more, I may prime the context user and assistant messages, as examples of how I want it to respond.  That context becomes the agent&#x27;s personality--it&#x27;s persona.


type: comment
by: kace91
text:
  &gt;This is unsubstantiated.<p>It is substantiated enough to have its own article on Wikipedia:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amazon_tax_avoidance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amazon_tax_avoidance</a><p>&gt;This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That&#x27;s it?<p>Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and  are intertwined with political power in the west?<p>If political pardons are too tame, or trump is considered an anomaly, we can just point in the general direction of Iraq.


type: comment
by: cantalopes
text:
  The problem is that it&#x27;s difficukt to style or animate those things. Unless you&#x27;re builsing something for dun or technical where it&#x27;s not important it&#x27;s fine but i doubt any real world commercial project would be satisfied with just this


type: comment
by: thundergolfer
text:
  All the line items are decent things, worth doing, but the claim about how much following the line items would improve reliability is super exaggerated.<p>&gt; [Most production incidents] are due to the code entering a state that should never have been possible.<p>I have never seen evidence that this is even remotely true, and I&#x27;ve been looking at software reliability research in the last few months.<p>Instead, 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. In a sufficiently complex system—all interesting and important software projects—functional programming is not strong enough a tool to prevent even a sliver of potential accidents.<p>&gt; Arguments that these degraded conditions should have been recognized before the overt accident are usually predicated on naïve notions of system performance. System operations are dynamic, with components (organizational, human, technical) failing and being replaced continuously. — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;how.complexsystems.fail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;how.complexsystems.fail&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: conartist6
text:
  I&#x27;m not personally aware of any companies doing this in plain JS aside from my own (I am co-founder&#x2F;CEO of a two-person startup). I really like working in plain JS. It feels malleable where TS code feels brittle, almost crystalline. Even though I don&#x27;t have compile-time types there&#x27;s still only a small handful of different shapes of objects in the core of my software (far fewer than the average TS codebase, I&#x27;d wager), and it shouldn&#x27;t take long at all for people to learn the highly consistent naming conventions that tip you off to what type of data is being handled. The result is that I&#x27;d expect that it would only be a handful of days learning the mental model for the codebase before the average person would find it far easier to read the JS code as opposed to TS code, thanks to the lower amount of visual clutter.<p>I also ship code super fast. When I find bugs I just fix them on the spot. When I find variables named wrong, I just rename them. The result that I often smash bugfixes and features and cleanup together and have a messy git history, but on the flip side you&#x27;ll never find bugs or naming deceptions that I&#x27;ve left sitting for years. If something is wrong and I can reproduce it (usually easy in functional code), the debugger and I are going to get to the bottom of it, and quickly. Always and only forward!


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  Reading through this thread, I can&#x27;t help but think that Stanley Elkin got everything right when he wrote George Mills. The blurbs and <i>reviews</i> of George Mills often reduce it to being about the failures of the 99%, but I think it is more about why the 1% succeeds and the answer is fairly simple, because the 99% wants the 1% to succeed, it absolves them of all culpability. This is modern (contemporary) life, absolution. George Mills seems to only increase in relevance as far as I can see, but it only recedes in relevance in the eyes of the public because it offers no scapegoats.<p>This time it is different, right? The first George Mills was correct in believing that, but we don&#x27;t live in his times.


type: comment
by: Dwedit
text:
  &quot;Subpixel offsets break glyph caches&quot;<p>I once resolved that by keeping a vertically shrunken but really wide glyph around in a cache.  Just resample it for a different horizontal offset.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microchip.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;tools-resources&#x2F;develop&#x2F;microchip-studio&#x2F;gcc-compilers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microchip.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;tools-resources&#x2F;develop&#x2F;micr...</a><p>GCC 15, so C23 is the default language.<p>And C11 was fully supported since GCC 4.9 which released in 2014.


type: comment
by: davidbau
text:
  Fair. Let me be more precise.<p>The distinction is between two ways of deploying human thinking. In the first, you are the test oracle: think about every test, repeat every five minutes, or every 30. In the second, you design the evaluation infrastructure: what to measure, what&#x27;s untested, what hypotheses to prioritize. Both require judgment. But the first scatters your attention; the second concentrates it.  I disagree that an LLM cannot be used to write tests, but as with any battery of tests, you cannot trust it blindly. You need to think about how to test the tests.<p>As for product risk: I do not know what is hiding in 13,000 lines I haven&#x27;t read; there are certainly bugs to be found. But that is just as true when you manage a big team. The solution has never been to read every line your collaborators write. You need to invest in (technical and human) systems that give you confidence without requiring you to personally verify everything. The question is how to build systems that are good enough.


type: comment
by: gdcohen
text:
  Take a look at Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;nsdi18&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;geng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;nsdi18&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;geng</a> (commercial version by the same authors - clockwork.io).


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  He’s simply asking you to unsarcastically state what your position and movement actually are, instead of hiding behind ironic edgelording, performative grievance theatrics, and a Heisenbergian fog in which, by design, measuring one makes the other conveniently unknowable -- and everything remains safely entangled.<p>You don&#x27;t need to ask him to explain how he observed you, you&#x27;re the only one who knows what you really mean.<p>It&#x27;s time for the Festivus Feats of Strength. Ball&#x27;s in your court, Georgie!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1njzgXSzA-A?t=255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1njzgXSzA-A?t=255</a>


type: comment
by: charlesding2024
text:
  I like the intent of keeping the flow state. Have you considered making this a CLI hook (e.g., a post-commit hook) rather than a web dashboard? I feel like I&#x27;d be even more likely to use it if I could just run git commit and have it prompt me in the terminal to confirm the tweet draft.


type: comment
by: megawatts
text:
  They were already contracted by NHS to monitor vaccine distribution and covid data in 2020, that contract was terminated and moved to Mozaic Services after public outcry over data privacy concerns. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;uk-ends-one-of-its-data-sharing-contracts-with-palantir.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;uk-ends-one-of-its-data-shar...</a>


type: comment
by: DannyBee
text:
  PTP does not require support on your network beyond standard ethernet packet forwarding when used in ethernet mode.<p>In multicast IP mode, with multiple switches, it requires what anything running multicast between switches&#x2F;etc would require (IE some form of IGMP snopping or multicast routing or .....)<p>In unicast IP mode, it requires nothing from your network.<p>Therefore, i have no idea what it means to &quot;require support on the network&quot;.<p>I have used both ethernet and multicast PTP across a complete mishmash of brands and types and medias of switches, computers, etc, with no issues.<p>The only thing that &quot;support&quot; might improve is more accurate path delay data through transparent clocks. If both master and slave do accurate hardware timestamping already, and the path between them is constant, it is easily possible to get +-50 nanoseconds without any transparent clock support.<p>Here is the stats from a random embedded device running PTP i just accessed a second ago:<p><pre><code>  Reference ID    : 50545030 (PTP0)   Stratum         : 1   Ref time (UTC)  : Sun Dec 28 02:47:25 2025   System time     : 0.000000029 seconds slow of NTP time   Last offset     : -0.000000042 seconds   RMS offset      : 0.000000034 seconds   Frequency       : 8.110 ppm slow   Residual freq   : -0.000 ppm   Skew            : 0.003 ppm </code></pre> So this embedded ARM device, which is not special in any way, is maintaining time +-35ns of the grandmaster, and currently 30ns of GPS time.<p>The card does not have an embedded hardware PTP clock, but it does do hardware timestamp and filtering.<p>This grandmaster is an RPI with an intel chipset on it and the PPS input pin being used to discipline the chipset&#x27;s clock. It stays within +-2ns (usually +-1ns) of GPS time.<p>Obviously, holdover sucks, but not the point :)<p>This qualifies as better-than-NTP for sure, and this setup has no network support. No transparent clocks, etc.  These machines have multiple media transitions involved (fiber-&gt;ethernet), etc.<p>The main thing transparent clock support provides in practice is dealing with highly variable delay.   Either from mode of transport, number of packet processors in between your nodes, etc.  Something that causes the delay to be hard to account for.<p>The ethernet packet processing in ethernet mode is being handled in hardware by the switches and basically all network cards.    IP variants would probably be hardware assisted but not fully offloaded on all cards, and just ignored on switches (assuming they are not really routers in disguise).<p>The hardware timestamping is being done in the card (and the vast majority of ethernet cards have supported PTP harware timestamping for &gt;1 decade at this point), and works perfectly fine with deep CPU sleep states.<p>Some don&#x27;t do hardware filtering so they essentially are processing more packets that necessary but .....


type: comment
by: hedora
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  The HOV lanes cause absurd amounts of congestion, both from encouraging all the HOV drivers to aggressively switch lanes, and because they greatly increase the speed differential between lanes.<p>They’re a money &#x2F; surveillance grab.


type: comment
by: sorz
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  Lots of issues follow the pattern &quot;ANSI escape code inside untrusted text&quot;. It feels like XSS but for terminal.


type: comment
by: Nevermark
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  I focus, and hyperfocus, without any help from a stimulant.<p>In fact, I am far more likely to go deep into a rabbit hole, of useful or wasted time, when I am tired.<p>But with a stimulant it is far easier at any time to choose to focus on ordinary important tasks, follow through, and enjoy getting necessary things done. I.e. improved executive function.


type: comment
by: d4rkp4ttern
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  You&#x27;re right that vanilla tmux can do all of this, if a human were to use it. tmux-cli exists because LLMs frequently make mistakes with raw tmux: forgetting the Enter key, not adding delays between text and Enter (causing race conditions with fast CLI apps), or incorrect escaping.<p>It bakes in defaults that address these: Enter is sent automatically with a 1-second delay (configurable), pane targeting accepts simple numbers instead of session:window.pane, and there&#x27;s built-in wait_idle to detect when a CLI is ready for input. Basically a wrapper that eliminates the common failure modes I kept hitting when having Claude Code interact with other terminal sessions.


type: comment
by: RossBencina
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  &gt; So do a lot of people. For example audio engineers.<p>Indeed. PTP (various, not-necessarily compatible, versions) is at the core of modern ethernet-based audio networking: Dante (proprietary, PTP: IEEE 1588 v1), AVB (IEEE standard, PTP: 802.1AS), AES67 (AES standard, PTP: IEEE 1588 v2). And now the scope of the AVB protocol stack has been expanded to TSN for industrial and automotive time sensitive network applications.


type: comment
by: adolph
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  Healthcare systems often use Foundry for organizing data. It&#x27;s a complex problem and Foundry has a good toolset for the job.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.palantir.com&#x2F;offerings&#x2F;health&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.palantir.com&#x2F;offerings&#x2F;health&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: simonw
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  (Replaced my original comment here which was a little unkind.)<p>Question for OP, who created Memvid (the .mv2 file format that&#x27;s used to distribute this data). Are you still taking text, chunking it and then storing those chunks as QR codes in a video file? That seems like an inherently inefficient storage mechanism to me compared with something like SQLite or Parquet - do you have concrete numbers or a demo that shows that your file format really is more effective for storing data for &quot;AI agents&quot; than those existing solutions?


type: comment
by: dividedbyzero
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  The &quot;eat raw&quot; part seems at least partially misguided, since our ancestors apparently started cooking the heck out of their environment pretty early, didn&#x27;t consume much unprocessed dairy until very late, and the raw food they did consume tended to carry less pathogens than modern mass-produced food.<p>The greatest part of the rest, however, appears to be true. I find I&#x27;m feeling much better overall, not worse, if I take the bike somewhere even in uncomfortable weather, and it turns out it&#x27;s more fun as well, more often than not. Low-processed food makes my digestive system measurably happier, walking lots makes me unreasonably healthier, being among trees and mountains calms me to a crazy degree.<p>But then we did spend like 98% of our evolutionary history since the last big speciation event as hunter-gatherers, and we gotta be as adapted to that as any critter is to their lifestyle.<p>At this point I kind of expect to find perversions the social patterns and structures of hunter-gatherer groups embedded in the dark patterns that make social media so insidious, much like exploiting our built-in craving for scarce energy-dense nutrition made Coca Cola etc. the economic giants they are. I just don&#x27;t know enough about the social structures of the deep past to spot these things yet. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be a lot of literature on that either, so I&#x27;m not sure how I&#x27;ll get there, but I&#x27;d like to.


type: comment
by: SkyPuncher
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  I didn’t miss the point.  You had zero way to know if someone is in violation or simply paying to be there.


type: comment
by: meesles
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  Sports betting also makes a mockery of sport as a concept. There has yet to be a version that doesn&#x27;t end up impacting the integrity of the sport.


type: comment
by: DannyBee
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  &quot;Well, if the goal is for software running on the host CPU to know the time accurately, then it does matter. &quot;<p>I&#x27;m sorry, this is just moving the goalposts.<p>You said &quot;It can&#x27;t achieve better-than-NTP results without disabling PCI power saving features and deep CPU sleep states.&quot;<p>This is flat wrong, as pointed out.<p>Now you are pedantically arguing that <i>some</i> NIC&#x27;s that do PTP hardware timestamping <i>might</i> also use a feature that some operating systems <i>might</i> respect.<p>That&#x27;s a very far cry from &quot;It can&#x27;t achieve better-than-NTP results without disabling PCI power saving features and deep CPU sleep states&quot;.<p>In most cases, people would just say &quot;hey i was wrong about that but there are cases that i think matter where it falls down&quot;.


type: comment
by: hedora
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  Most of the Bay Area HOV lanes are not limited access.  They let you enter&#x2F;exit wherever, creating congestion.  They also slow down traffic at the points where people have to cross lots of lanes to enter&#x2F;exit.<p>When before&#x2F;after studies have been done, the HOV lanes around here generally make everything worse.


type: comment
by: adastra22
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  Just keep your cat indoors.<p>FWIW the health impacts of a rodent infestation are probably worse than the cat parasite thing.  Best defense against mice&#x2F;rats is a feline friend.


type: comment
by: roncesvalles
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  There is a global shift toward higher US equity allocations seeing how well they&#x27;ve performed in the last however-many years. Also it seems like President Trump&#x27;s sole mandate is to keep the stock market from crashing, so that helps.


type: comment
by: fowl2
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  I was thinking more for communicating the “mass disruption in progress” message - or even just distributing the manually verified “traffic lights down” data between vehicles.


type: comment
by: felipeerias
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  Things seem to be heading in the direction of using formal languages to define deterministic behaviour and natural languages to express matters of human taste.


type: comment
by: dsagal
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  I&#x27;d say if you know React or Vue or another framework and it fits your project well, then no. If you are learning though, there is arguably much less to learn (in particular, not having to juggle 3 languages). And if you are building something very serious, it&#x27;s suitable: nearly all of Grist frontend is GrainJS, and it&#x27;s a very big performant real-time collaborative long-lived single-page app.


type: comment
by: diego_moita
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  And Americans still don&#x27;t get it: cars are not a natural fact of life, a birthright endowment.<p>Driving a car imposes costs on everyone. It requires public infrastructure, pollutes the environment, endangers lives, etc.<p>Cars are a private privilege, and toll roads are a way to make people aware of that.<p>But I wonder how the country that hates socialism will see this privatization of costs.<p>Do I expect Americans to start thinking of making cities for people instead of cars? Will they begin taking public transportation seriously? No, they won&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: chatmasta
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  I’m still bitter at them for canceling XDefiant… it wasn’t a COD killer but it filled a comfortable niche and had potential.


type: comment
by: djcapelis
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  &gt; Anthropic makes some good stuff, so I&#x27;m confused why they even bother entertaining foregone conclusions.<p>I think it’s just because there’s enough people working there that figure that they will eventually make it work.  No one needs Claude to run a vending machine so these public failures are interesting experiments that get everyone talking.  Then, one day, (as the thinking often goes) they’ll be able to publish a follow up and basically say “wow it works” and it’ll have credibility because they previously were open about it not working, and comments like this will swing people to say things like “I used to be skeptical about but now!”<p>Now whether they actually get it working in the future because the model becomes better and they can leave it with this level of “free reign”, or just because they add enough constraints on it to change the problem so it happens to work… that we will find out later.  I found it fascinating that they did a little bit of both in version 2.<p>And they can’t really lose here.  There’s a clear path to making a successful vending machine, all you have to do is sell stuff for more than you paid for it.  You can enforce that outright if needed outside an LLM.  We’ve have had automated vending machines for over 50 years and none of them ask your opinion on what something should be priced.  How much an LLM is involved in it is the only variable they need to play with.  I suspect anytime they want they can find a way where it’s loosely coupled to the problem and provides somewhat more dynamism to an otherwise 50 year old machine.  That won’t be hard.  I suspect there’s no pressure on them to do that right now, nor will there be for a bit.<p>So in the meantime they can just play with seeing how their models do in a less constrained environment and learn what they learn.  Publicly, while gaining some level of credibility as just reporting what happened in the process.


type: comment
by: vel0city
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  &gt; Based on numerous studies<p>I do agree the relationship probably isn&#x27;t linear, but the fourth power rule doesn&#x27;t necessarily have numerous studies confirming it. It was a small collection of studies on road wear the US highway administration did in the 1950s and pretty much everyone has just gone with that. Other studies have pointed to it being less than previously thought.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ntroknowledge.com.au&#x2F;discovery&#x2F;fulldisplay?context=L&amp;vid=61NTRO_INST:NTRO_ARRB&amp;tab=ARRB&amp;docid=alma9958802309464" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ntroknowledge.com.au&#x2F;discovery&#x2F;fulldisplay...</a><p>Throwing even more weight against your 12,000mi is really 35,000mi equivalence.


type: comment
by: HDThoreaun
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  Houstonites do not want to live in dense cities. “Just live like East Asians” doesn’t work when the people you are talking to despise the lifestyle of East Asians.


type: comment
by: tverbeure
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  Current nr 3 in the leaderboard: &quot;Show HN: I built a Rust compiler in Rust with Rust&quot;<p>Could use some more Rust to boost it to nr 1.


type: comment
by: rockskon
text:
  Well then the software needs to have its bugs fixed if it wants to have a chance at longer term survival.


type: comment
by: lingrush4
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  Clicking &quot;no thanks&quot; on their cookie banner does absolutely nothing. What a sleazy website.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Well, then I suppose feminism, civil rights (to say nothing of ending slavery,) labor rights and literally every other right you enjoy didn&#x27;t deserve to advance because all of them are the result of some people at some point <i>at the very least</i> being a dick to others.


type: comment
by: scarecrowbob
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  To be honest, it&#x27;s pretty easy to surface useful content on TT.  Its algorithm is far more responsive to, say, immediate skips and likes&#x2F;follows than Ig or FB.<p>I have found it a lot easier to find a diversity of opinions from a more diverse group of folks there.  Specifically, I have been really interested in what leftist&#x2F;liberal bipoc folks think about current events, and it&#x27;s very easy to get that content.  And it&#x27;s easy enough to flip quickly past hoteps and maga black men, who I don&#x27;t usually care about hearing from.  The disussions between say, black anarchists, pro-Harris DNC folks, and afropessimists have been very enlightening, personally.<p>Those aren&#x27;t conversations I have been able to find on, say, Ig.<p>The main thing is that it pays a lot of attention to what you actually stop and watch, so if you let your attention wander you might end up watching folks rebuild industrial electric motors or paint warhammer minis.<p>Honestly, I think it&#x27;s a lot less mind numbing than the last bits of broadcast TV or feature films folks have inflicted on me, regardless of folks enjoying their ability to hate on it.


type: comment
by: charlesding2024
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  I dug into the repo – the &#x27;self-healing&#x27; logic (automatically switching from CMD to PowerShell on failure) is genuinely clever. Much smarter than just dumping a stack trace.<p>A technical question on the v6 offline support (Phi-2): Does the CLI keep the model loaded in RAM in the background (daemon mode), or does it have to load the weights from disk every time an error occurs? I&#x27;m curious about the latency trade-off for that &#x27;instant fix&#x27; feel.


type: comment
by: socalgal2
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  More than that, you need to enforce the existing laws. Raising the fines but continuing zero enforcement will do nothing.


type: comment
by: jofzar
text:
  To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same &quot;itch&quot;. Specifically with the dancing.


type: comment
by: overflowy
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  HTML and JavaScript serve distinct purposes, making <i>better or worse</i> comparisons logically flawed. Complex&#x2F;interactive web apps requires JavaScript, period. Attempting to build sophisticated apps solely through HTML (looking at you HTMLX) eventually hits a functional ceiling.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  a human with another human. the building process is a lot of fun and end-result will bring you joy for the rest of your life


type: comment
by: 1123581321
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  Ah, interesting. I’m sure you have a high density of c-stores and they’re more walkable, so maybe less need. I’m in the rust belt and you would have to typically drive from, for example, a gym to get something. So there’s typically one or two machines in gyms.


type: comment
by: saghm
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  I see what you&#x27;re saying but I&#x27;d argue that this is mostly an unnecessary thing to worry about because with the exception of types explicitly opted into being cheaply copyable, you&#x27;re going to be moving it if you&#x27;re not accessing it via a reference. The idea is that if you&#x27;re worried about expensive copies, it shouldn&#x27;t be possible to copy implicitly in the first place; you&#x27;d either explicitly `clone` or you wouldn&#x27;t be copying it at all.


type: comment
by: davidbau
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  &quot;I reward-hacked myself&quot; is a great way to put it!!<p>AI is too aware of human behavior, and it is teaching us that willpower and config files are not enough. When the agent keeps producing output that looks like progress, it is hard not to accept. We need something external that pushes back when we don&#x27;t.<p>That is why automated tests matter: not just because they catch bugs (though they do), but because they are a commitment device. The agent can&#x27;t merge until the tests pass.  &quot;Test the tests&quot; matters because otherwise the agent just games whatever shallow metric we gave it, or when we&#x27;re not looking, it guts the tests.<p>The discipline needs to be structural, not personal. You cannot out-willpower a system that is totally optimized to make you say yes.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
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  Infeasible?<p>Perhaps it is indeed infeasible today because of differences in economics and regulation, but:  We already created it once -- for huge areas.<p>As evidence supporting the notion of this prior existence, I&#x27;d like to introduce this 1908 map entitled <i>Electric Railway Map of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan</i>:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curtiswrightmaps.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;electric-railway-map-of-ohio-indiana-and-michigan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curtiswrightmaps.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;electric-railway-map-of...</a><p>(Those lines were real, and they were also generally privately-funded.)


type: comment
by: wmf
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  Consider it a prediction.<p>Update: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46408104">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46408104</a>


type: comment
by: dtagames
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  It&#x27;s hard to feel sorry for someone who got $250K a year without working and says they&#x27;ll &quot;probably lose their house.&quot; That&#x27;s on you, bud. Not the company.


type: comment
by: elfbargpt
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  I&#x27;m pretty confident that if Ai gets good enough to <i>actually</i> take our jobs, it&#x27;s going to be good enough to take at least 80% of all knowledge work jobs, if not 100%.<p>In which case everybody is in the same boat and we&#x27;ll all be in it together.<p>I don&#x27;t really believe software dev is uniquely at risk to AI.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
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  I’ve thought about this comment, and am replying to it to amend it (as the edit window has passed). I made this comment based on observations I’ve seen during this AI investment bubble and before it. Most times, common shareholders get the short end of the stick. But I will add, there are some “less than the majority” situations where I have seen employee shareholders treated with dignity and respect, and provided access to liquidity accordingly, and I would be remiss if I did not call that out. It will be challenging to know ahead of time, but there are decent people out there who won’t take advantage or use their power against you economically (imho). “Be lucky” is unfortunately not actionable.


type: comment
by: tomcam
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  I cannot imagine a use case where I would want to  do a style change mid ligature. Can someone smarter than I am give a reasonable example of doing so?


type: comment
by: HDThoreaun
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  The government built infrastructure for low density living because the vast majority of people want to live in low density suburbs, not high density urban areas. Forcing people to live in ways they don’t want to when there are viable alternatives just leads to the government being replaced.


type: comment
by: aforwardslash
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  &gt; works of a living, working artist to mimic their style<p>Got it. You&#x27;re picking up one specific example and making it your whole position. I&#x27;d suggest you have a look at animation from the 60&#x27;s to early 80&#x27;s to understand that ghibli is also an incremental style.<p>Also, I&#x27;d suggest you look at advanced (non ai) tools that mimick both the media and techniques usined in more conventional art.<p>&gt; engage with the topic at hand<p>Your point was plagiarism and that I looked like an uninformed teenager. I addressed them both. We don&#x27;t have to agree on the same thing, but moving goalposts is not a healthy discussion strategy.


type: comment
by: amluto
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  &gt; you have to supply people&#x27;s public key each time<p>Keyrings are awful.  I <i>want</i> to supply people’s public keys each time.  I have never, in my entire time using cryptography, wanted my tool to guess or infer what key to verify with.  (Heck, JOSE has a long history of bugs because it infers the key <i>type</i>, which is also a mistake.)<p>I have an actual commercial use case that receives messages (which are, awkwardly, files sent over various FTP-like protocols, sigh), decrypts and verifies them, and further processes them. This is fully automated and runs as a service. For horrible legacy reasons, the files are in PGP format.  I know the public key with which they are signed (provisioned out of band) and I have the private key for decryption (again, provisioned out of band).<p>This would be approximately two lines of code using any sane crypto library [0], but there really isn’t an amazing GnuPG alternative that’s compatible enough.<p>But GnuPG has keyrings, and it really wants to use them and to find them in some home directory. And it wants to identify keys by 32-bit truncated hashes.  And it wants to use Web of Trust.  And it wants to support a zillion awful formats from the nineties using wildly insecure C code.  All of this is actively counterproductive.  Even ignoring potential implementation bugs, I have far more code to deal with key <i>rings</i> than actual gpg invocation for useful crypto.<p>[0] I should really not have to even think about the interaction between decryption and verification. Authenticated decryption should be one operation, or possibly two. But if it’s two, it’s one operation to decapsulate a session key and a second operation to perform authenticated decryption using that key.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
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  It depends on what kind of system you&#x27;re talking about.<p>If you have no memory,  that memory can&#x27;t get corrupted.<p>If the memory is carried by the request the memory can&#x27;t get desynchronized with the request.<p>You can use cryptographic techniques to prevent tampering and even reuse of states,  though reuse can be a feature instead of a bug.  Sometimes the state is too big to pass around like a football but even then you can access it with a key and merge it in in a disciplined way.


type: comment
by: didntknowyou
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  you realize the airline and airports are usually completely different companies?<p>yes you paid for a flight, and the airline is using that to pay for the basic airport fees. most of your gripes could be avoided by paying the airport as well for extras (e.g. to use their VIP lounges)


type: comment
by: RossBencina
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  &gt; fibre connections to other sites that are hopefully out of range of the jamming.<p>I guess it&#x27;s not inconceivable that eventually there&#x27;s a global clock network using a White-Rabbit-like protocol over dedicated fibre. But if you have to worry about GPS jamming you probably have to worry about undersea cable cutting too.


type: comment
by: amluto
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  GnuPG should be extended (incrementally rewritten into something much better and turned into a library) and the original GnuPG should be extinguished.


type: comment
by: rendaw
text:
  Isn&#x27;t everyone here on systems with Systemd? Why isn&#x27;t everyone using Systemd timers instead? A number of people mention locking, and AFAIK that&#x27;s not an issue with timers.


type: comment
by: robocat
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  Incorrect.<p>The inside of a fairy ring dies off as it uses up nutrients.<p>The leading edge of the circle remains alive so that is why the fruiting bodies (mushrooms) are there. The fungus produces nitrogen which leads to the growth of a greener ring of grass.<p>The ring’s steady expansion is driven by growth of the underground mycelium (not spores).


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  Wow! I don’t gamble but I never listen to “experts” and don’t fall for “recession is coming” (of course it is, it has to the way shit works) or “we are in a bubble that will burst” (no a soul can define what this bubble is and how will we know when it burst). I made 7-figure profits just buying nvidia since 2018 and was hearing year-after-year-after-year how overvalued and overpriced it is, was sent cisco charts more times than I can count by dearest friends… it is shit like that which gets me riled up sometimes. all is well and all will always be well. we always see recessions and corrections and… and then we good… these times are the same as they always have been


type: comment
by: yieldcrv
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  &gt; “It’s still very hand-wavy,” said the epigeneticist Colin Conine (opens a new tab) of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia<p>okay, I trust this article and source more<p>where can I keep up with this in more mainstream but technical publications


type: comment
by: baobun
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  Uncharitable and assumptious of the goals. I prefer submissions to not be hyper-optimized for virality.


type: comment
by: johng
text:
  From what I&#x27;ve heard and seen, dying of rabies has to be one of the worst possible ways a human can go.


type: comment
by: baubino
text:
  It works in the US too. Workplace organizing is at its highest rate in decades right now. I’m not saying it’s easy but it will only continue to be a rule if it is never challenged.


type: comment
by: danpalmer
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  &gt; Together they debate, challenge each other, and synthesize the best solution<p>Do they? How much better are multiple agents on your evals, and what sort of evals are you running? I&#x27;ve also research that suggests that more agents degrades the output after a point.


type: comment
by: robertheadley
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  Different project, but similar vibe. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ffstudio.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ffstudio.app&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  The Java streams are cool and I like them, but they&#x27;re not a replacement for a functional type system or a functional language.<p>`map` is a lot more than a fancy for-loop for lists and arrays; it&#x27;s about abstracting away the <i>entire idea of context</i>.  Java streams aren&#x27;t a substitute for what you have in Haskell.


type: comment
by: tomhow
text:
  Please don&#x27;t comment like this. We don&#x27;t want substantially-generated posts&#x2F;projects on HN, but if a post seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look.


type: comment
by: realdeal79
text:
  With the MySpace stuff, where are you seeing the metadata?  All of the the zips I’ve downloaded from the Dragon Hoard don’t have any metadata.


type: comment
by: ryandrake
text:
  California’s law has a truck-sized loophole though: if the IP in question relates in an way to your employer’s <i>current or anticipated</i> work&#x2F;research, then they may claim it. Not your work at the company. The company’s work or their future work. And these big companies can believably claim that the scope of their work and research is huge and all-encompassing.


type: comment
by: nfw2
text:
  &gt; A transit ride in a large city is typically MORE expensive than a car ride. Even when you take into account the cost of depreciation, insurance, financing and other related expenses.<p>I don&#x27;t see this. The cost of a month pass on new york subway is $130 a month. That is less than my monthly parking fee in sf


type: comment
by: thinkingkong
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  Well… if you look at pure functions without ant state then thats a whole class of computing you can refer to. The problem is that its not efficient to calculate state from arguments for everything. We end up saving to disk, writing packets over the network, etc.  In a purely theoretical environment you could avoid state, but the real world imposes constraints that you need to operate within or between.<p>Additionally, depending how deep down you go, theres state stored <i>somewhere</i> to calculate against. Vues are stored in some kind of register and theyre passed into operations with a target register as an additional argument.


type: comment
by: throw20251220
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  it could be called bunny17.1 on the wire and it would change nothing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rfc8446&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rfc8446&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: vel0city
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  It weighs about as much as the smallest  base model F150. Optioned out models and other trim levels easily hit 1,000lbs+ heavier.<p>Meanwhile that base model equivalent weight F150 gets about 24mpg and thus pays about half as much gas tax while doing the same amount of damage driving the average mileage. Further proving my point, I pay twice the state fuel tax for an equivalent weight pickup truck. Is that fair?<p>But also, isn&#x27;t the whole point of the pickup truck to load it down? If all it&#x27;s doing is carrying 1-4 people it&#x27;s whole life, seems like a lot of waste. I&#x27;m told people buy trucks to actually load them down a lot and not just commute and get groceries? So while it&#x27;s about the same weight dry and unloaded shouldn&#x27;t it&#x27;s weight really be quite a bit more in practice? Or are we all agreeing now trucks are just for commuting and getting groceries?


type: comment
by: tomcam
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  &gt; Text is complicated<p>So true!<p>&gt; and english is bad at expressing these nuances.<p>I think English is a terrible shitpile of grammar and syntax. I&#x27;m very impressed that anyone who speaks another language natively can get good at it.<p>But I&#x27;m interested in the notion that it lacks nuance to describe the intricacies of text rendering. Can someone tell me where that would apply?


type: comment
by: andr3wV
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  The analysis they ran in their research paper found most surface features don’t meaningfully separate viral from non‑viral outcomes. So the tool isn&#x27;t actually predicting if your launch title will go viral, it&#x27;s more like checking for heuristics and descriptive patterns.<p>Cool idea though! And they&#x27;re on the front page lol


type: comment
by: zymhan
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  I recently went looking for that site since I got into tdarr, and I was sad to see it go. It definitely isn&#x27;t great for &quot;prod&quot; use, but I find that a GUI listing options makes it easier to understand the thought process behind software.<p>Kills me that they didn&#x27;t even bother open sourcing it.


type: comment
by: SpicyG
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  I agree, and I think you’ve named the core constraint cleanly. The distinction I’m trying to draw isn’t “no memory ever,” but no implicit memory required for correctness. If there’s no memory, there’s nothing to corrupt. If memory is carried by the request, it can’t desynchronize from the request. That’s really the invariant I care about. I also agree that cryptographic techniques make this tractable in practice. Signed tokens, capabilities, idempotency keys, and replay protection let you move state to the edge, while also keeping the core enforcement logic stateless. In that model, reuse can be a feature rather than a bug, as long as it’s explicit and verifiable. Where I’ve seen things break down, is when state is large or shared and gets merged implicitly. As you say, sometimes you can’t pass it around like a football, but even then accessing it by key and merging it in a disciplined and bounded way, preserves the same principle: the system shouldn’t need to remember in order to act correctly. So for me it’s less “stateless vs stateful” and more “enforced state vs negotiated state.” Once the system starts negotiating with history, entropy creeps in very fast.


type: comment
by: theturtletalks
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  Yes, the Shopify alternative is called Openfront[0]. Before that, I built Openship[1], an e-commerce OMS that connects Openfront (and other e-commerce platforms) to fulfillment channels like print on demand. There isn’t negotiation built in but you connect to something like Gelato[2] and when you get orders on Openfront, they are sent to Gelato to fulfill and once they ship them, tracking’s relayed back to Openfront through Openship.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshiporg&#x2F;openfront" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshiporg&#x2F;openfront</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshiporg&#x2F;openship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshiporg&#x2F;openship</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gelato.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gelato.com</a>


type: comment
by: A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
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  You are being downvoted, but I am wondering if people, who are doing it are doing it reflexively just because they disagree and not because they thought it through. There is an argment to be made that there is a level of self-preservation that disappears when things become too sanitized. Case in point, during one of FL issues, people were panicking over gas and -- some -- were putting gas in unapproved containers without giving much thought over whether it is a good idea since gas can do a lot more than just power cars. Granted, some of the silly behavior is a direct result of social media egg ons&#x2F;clout chase and weird level Tyler Durden accellerationist vibes, but some people simply don&#x27;t know.. or care to know.<p>I am not saying it is a good thing, but there is something to be said about current distracted humans operating internal combustion engine. Then again, my dad already told me it is all going to hell, because I can&#x27;t change oil...


type: comment
by: tomhow
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  The key qualifier for Show HN is that it&#x27;s <i>something you&#x27;ve made that other people can play with</i>. It needs to be somewhat complete and working – enough for basic demo&#x2F;testing – to be eligible. If it&#x27;s a plan or ongoing effort to get something working, it&#x27;s not ready for Show HN. If there&#x27;s an interesting story behind the ongoing effrot, it can be a blog post, but not a Show HN. With hardware projects, a video is sufficient, but the video needs to depict the thing working.<p>Feel free to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) to discuss further.


type: comment
by: akerl_
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  This may shock you, but plenty of cutting-edge application security analysis doesn&#x27;t start with source code.<p>There are many reasons, but one of them is that for the overwhelming majority of humans on the planet, their apps aren&#x27;t being compiled from source on their device. So since you have to account for the fact that the app in the App Store may not be what&#x27;s in some git repo, you may as well just start with the compiled&#x2F;distributed app.


type: comment
by: dpedu
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  I didn&#x27;t know about &lt;datalist&gt;, but how are you supposed to use it with a non-trivial amount of items in the list? I don&#x27;t see how this can be a replacement for javascript&#x2F;XHR based autocomplete.


type: comment
by: SpicyG
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  I agree, and I think this is where the distinction matters. I’m not claiming that state disappears, or that computation can be purely stateless all the way down. There is always state somewhere - registers, buffers, disks, networks. The question is where authority lives and whether correctness depends on reconstructing history. The inefficiency you point out is real: recomputing everything from arguments is often worse than persisting state. That’s why the pattern I’m aiming at isn’t “no state,” but no implicit, negotiated state. State can exist, be large, and even be shared — but it should be explicit, bounded, and verifiable, not something the system has to infer or reconcile in order to proceed. At the lowest levels, yes, registers hold values and operations mutate targets. But those mutations are local, immediate, and enforced by hardware invariants. Problems tend to appear higher up when systems start treating historical state as narrative, as something to reason about, merge, or explain, rather than as input with strict admissibility rules. So I see this less as a theoretical purity claim and more as a placement problem: push state to places where enforcement is cheap and local, and keep it out of places where it turns into coordination and recovery logic.


type: comment
by: xp84
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  Our CSMs honestly are some of the hardest working and sweetest people I know. They take a sooo much guff from customers, and yet all they can actually do is lobby the product group to plead the case for what their customers are asking for (or beg for someone like me to figure out some weird bug&#x2F;bad data etc.)


type: comment
by: bitwize
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  Apparently Pine64 and Radxa sell SystemReady-compliant SBCs; even a Raspberry Pi 4 can be made compliant (presumably by booting a UEFI firmware from the Raspberry&#x27;s GPU-based custom-schmustom boot procedure, which then loads your OS).


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  I was just on a ski-trip in Aspen. just about 75% of people I met there were “just in Miami” or “just in Key West” (mostly Miami) but “came up for Christmas and New Years” Billionaires have a “home State” as much as I have hair (you probably are guessing correctly now that I am bald…)


type: comment
by: peterburkimsher
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;myspace_artist_data_dump_2009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;myspace_artist_data_dump_2009</a>


type: comment
by: jrmg
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  It’s weirded me out for a long time that we’ve gone from ‘we will probe the hardware in a standard way and automatically load the appropriate drivers at boot’ ideal we seemed to have settled on for computers in the 2000s - and still use on x86 - back to ‘we’ll write a specific description file for every configuration of hardware’ for ARM.


type: comment
by: amitav1
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  This tool: &quot;Avoid keyword stuffing; make the title read naturally.&quot;<p>Also this tool: &quot;Show HN (AI): I built GPT 6 in Rust Using Claude Gemini Grok OpenAI NVIDIA Google&quot; - #1<p>(No hate to the creators obviously. Just really funny.)


type: comment
by: discordance
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  Palantir is inside Coles supermarkets in Australia. I&#x27;ve stopped going to Coles because of that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.palantir.com&#x2F;news-details&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Palantir-Partners-with-One-of-Australias-Leading-Retailers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.palantir.com&#x2F;news-details&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Palantir-Pa...</a>


type: comment
by: odie5533
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  &gt; In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5. Claude consistently runs for minutes, hours, and days at a time (using Stop hooks). Software engineering is changing, and we are entering a new period in coding history. And we&#x27;re still just getting started..<p>In the replies he even adds a new feature to Claude Code, and he notes he uses the Ralph Wiggum plugin to force Claude Code to iterate continuously. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anthropics&#x2F;claude-plugins-official&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;ralph-wiggum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anthropics&#x2F;claude-plugins-official&#x2F;tree&#x2F;m...</a>


type: comment
by: reed1234
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  &gt; If we can hand-off any JS functionality to native HTML or CSS, then users can download less stuff, and the remaining JS can pay attention to more important tasks that HTML and CSS can&#x27;t handle (yet).


type: comment
by: mcny
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  It shouldn&#x27;t have to be this way though. There is no reason html can&#x27;t do things it needs to do to build complete apps. We could use reasonable defaults to allow a new type of html markup without JavaScript.<p>All the http verbs.  Decent html input controls  What else?


type: comment
by: sowbug
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  Insulin users would have better answers to this question, since they might inject multiple times a day, whereas GLP-1 users typically inject only weekly.<p>But in either case, the answer for subcutaneous injections using needles sized 29g and smaller is no.


type: comment
by: peruvian
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  You can search TikTok memes on YouTube. People upload them.<p>You using TikTok earnestly would result in a feed vastly different from your kids anyway.


type: comment
by: rudedogg
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  I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and agree.<p>Also, it’s amazing how inefficient medium+ businesses are. I think we should see small businesses thriving due to the cost&#x2F;weight of  the bureaucracy they inflict on themselves, but we don’t.<p>I think healthcare costs&#x2F;requirements and unfair access to capital keep the inefficient machine chugging along, cutting off routes for smart people to start businesses, innovate, and improve our economy.


type: comment
by: esperent
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  &gt; Just keep your cat indoors.<p>Maybe if you have a big house, but I keep seeing people keep cats or dogs in small houses or even apartments and it feels so sad, it&#x27;s a kind of animal abuse. If you can&#x27;t give your pet a good life you should not get a pet.


type: comment
by: imbusy111
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  I assume you mean htmx. It doesn&#x27;t have to be either&#x2F;or. You can supplement htmx with Javascript.<p>The core idea with htmx is that you transfer hypertext with controls and structure built in, not just a JSON blob that requires additional context to be useful.<p>I have just shipped a very useful and interactive app surprisingly quickly for my customer using just htmx with a little Javascript.


type: comment
by: raybb
text:
  Do they work well for when you want to preview text? Like show the first 100 characters of a paragraph and then click to expand?


type: comment
by: ModernMech
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  Here&#x27;s another controversial take: as long as healthcare is tied to employment, companies shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to fire someone except for actual negligence &#x2F; malice. If they suck at their job, find them another one at the company -- there has to be something they can do in a company of 5k employees.


type: comment
by: nis0s
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  In a hypothetical scenario, what’s a better moral option? IMO, kill yourself, instead. There’s no point to any of this to begin with, and what kind of world are you creating for your children in this scenario?<p>Besides that, where’s the solar punk fiction, or the post-work society fiction? Why is everything and everyone so fixated on dystopian fantasies without any balancing with other types of possible realities?<p>I’ve found that people who want you to focus only on the negatives in any scenario are motivated by ulterior motives. That is to say, they’re not realists or pessimists, they’re simply conniving, and are manipulating you to gain something else.


type: comment
by: Hazematman
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  This reminds me of No boiler plate&#x27;s video on plain text. I have to agree that the diff-ability and support of version control are one of the best features of plain text.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WgV6M1LyfNY?si=AavUO_aNuvSlJ0a5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WgV6M1LyfNY?si=AavUO_aNuvSlJ0a5</a>


type: comment
by: awakeasleep
text:
  Libertarianism has no answer for how to deal with finite resources (for example land) that will be snapped up by the first agents.


type: comment
by: mr_toad
text:
  It can be synthesized from air and water with energy and the right catalysts, although the process isn’t cheap.  However if solar power keeps getting cheaper it might become feasible to produce it this way instead of drilling.


type: comment
by: A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
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  &lt;&lt;  It can&#x27;t be any other way.<p>This seems ridiculously fatalistic and weirdly binary way of looking at things. Best I can start with is &#x27;why?&#x27;, because to a simple person like me it could be any number of ways..


type: comment
by: conductr
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  You’re right that it probably filtered out a lot of traffic. Traffic that may have converted to users if they didn’t meet such a useless landing page


type: comment
by: kaladin-jasnah
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  As a nitpick:<p>&gt;  That platform is a Linux distribution optimized for emulating Windows titles<p>WINE stands for &quot;WINE is not an emulator.&quot;


type: comment
by: econ
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  I&#x27;m so not impressed by the toggle implementation... How nice it could have been.<p>Nesting the elements is a truly hideous choice. The summary is part of the details?? I thought they were opposites.<p>Should we also put the headings in the &lt;p&gt; from now on?<p>Identifying a target should be done by id or by name. That it does use a name because js can&#x27;t target it without makes it even more stupid.<p>We already had labels for form fields. Inventing a completely different method for something very similar is a dumb idea. The old checkbox hack is more flexible and less ugly for some implementations.<p>Why force the hidden content to be below or above the toggle? We aren&#x27;t gaining anything with this.<p>What is this nonsense for an element to not just be hidden or displayed but to have some weird 3rd state where only one of its children is shown?<p>How should styling it even work for this new state? If I apply a style to the hidden content it must also apply to the link? The text is hidden but the style is visible??? Preposterous!<p>Don&#x27;t try style &lt;details&gt; to avoid unexpected behavior. Try wrapping the hidden content in a new element to make it behave normally.<p>What is this ugly arrow? If you find 1000 websites using a toggle I doubt there is one using an ugly arrow like that.<p>The default styling gives no clue about it being clickable?<p>The pointer (awkwardly called the cursor) choice is the text selection?????<p>Blue underlined &quot;more&quot; is what everyone does and everyone is used to. The cursor should be pointer. (This is css speak for &quot;the pointer should be a hand&quot;)<p>The number of js toggles you can find online where the button lives inside the hidden text is guaranteed to be zero. Forget about drop in replacement, you will have to reinvent your css.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m dense but I also want my url to reflect the state of the page. I would have been impressed if that was supported. Personally I use actual links and disable default action in the listener if js is enabled&#x2F;working or modify the state on the server if js isn&#x27;t available&#x2F;working.<p>It would have been great if the toggle action was implemented as a simple attribute something like toggle=&quot;element name&quot; so that anything can be clickable and anything can be toggleable. Have a &quot;closed&quot; as well as an &quot;open&quot; attribute for the target.<p>Doesn&#x27;t seem very hard. An open&#x2F;closed attribute would be useful for other things too. Using display:none is terrible as display: is used for many things.


type: comment
by: cons0le
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  For me, google searches are defaulting to &quot;AI mode&quot;<p>I just asked it the same question on 2 different devices.<p>The question I asked was harder than why is the sky blue. I asked it &quot;who was Edmund Fitzgerald&quot;.<p>One device, it gives me the ship. The other device, it gives me the person. I can copy&#x2F;paste the answers here, if we want to compare.<p>Again, this could happen because I used &quot;too hard&quot; of a question. But I&#x27;m definitely getting 2 different answers.<p>You can of course, do this will almost every LLM. I can ask copilot 3 times and get conflicting answers each time.<p>Maybe for some types of questions that&#x27;s beneficial. But for simple &quot;what is X&quot; questions, it&#x27;s not as useful.


type: comment
by: conartist6
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  I should add a few more things: much of how I got here was exposure to Facebook&#x27;s culture. Move fast and break things. React with prop types. Redux. Immutable.js. I did UI there on internal tools for datacenter operators and it was a drinking-from-the-firehose experience with exposure to new programming philosophies, tools, and levels of abstraction and refactoring velocity beyond anything I had previously encountered. Problems which in other companies I had learn to assume would never be resolved would actually consistently get fixes! Well, at that time. This was before the algorithm was fully enshittified and before the disastrous technopolitical developments in the way facebook and facebook messenger interact with each other.<p>Perhaps the most direct inspiration I took from there though was from the wonderful &quot;opaque types&quot; feature that Flow supports (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flow.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;types&#x2F;opaque-types&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flow.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;types&#x2F;opaque-types&#x2F;</a>) which for reasons known only to Hejlsberg and God, Typescript has never adopted; thus most people are unfamiliar with that way of thinking.


type: comment
by: anidsiam
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  Your blogs have very small amount solution, but the JS use cases are very large. How this little replacement can do more thing? I usually like the idea of being using as lean as possible, if it&#x27;s can be possible to do more thing just with HTML and CSS that&#x27;s obviously cool. Is it really possible to replace JS with HTML in near future?<p>BTW the toggle solution (expanding content) is good.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  Why are you assuming the employees’ equity participates in this licensing deal at all? They just have ownership in the leftover dying company as far as I can tell. How will they make that worth something, and get liquidity?


type: comment
by: AmVess
text:
  80 billion spent buying game studios with essentially nothing to show for it. Pretty amazing to think that money holds 0 value to these people.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  That would be a cynical &#x27;84 TV ad.  (Like the extremely common revolutionary leader who pretends to want to free the people, but actually just wants to be the dictator instead.)<p>I had the impression that the original Macintosh team was extremely user-oriented, and wanted to build an empowering machine, in terms of applications.  And they also just wanted to build what they thought of as a nice machine.  But definitely not a hacker machine, but they wanted to empower everyone who wasn&#x27;t a computer nerd.<p>I don&#x27;t know whether impression is accurate, but if it is, then I&#x27;d say they are closer -- in terms of intentions -- to RMS, than to contemporary Apple.


type: comment
by: dcre
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  This is a great read. I just want to point out what great marketing this and the WSJ story are. People reading it think they’re sticking it to Anthropic by noticing that Claude is not that good at running a business, meanwhile the unstated premise is reinforced: <i>of course</i> Claude is good at many other things.<p>I have seen a shift in the past few months among even the most ardent critics of LLMs like Ed Zitron: they’ve gone from denying LLMs are good for anything to conceding that they are merely good at coding, search, analysis, summarization, etc.


type: comment
by: A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
text:
  &lt;&lt; Getting on a high horse and lecturing other people on social media isn’t going to do anything.<p>I disagree. Ostracism and generic shaming may be necessary. My kid is barely 4 and his cousin&#x27;s already were fielding cellphones during our family gathering. There are times high horse riding is absolutely necessary.


type: comment
by: globalnode
text:
  As a native english speaker, i did try to learn german but eventually gave up. A language sprinkled with &quot;learn by wrote&quot; gender prefixes for every item is just not worth learning. I did have an issue with the numbers being back to front once you get to the unit value but then someone pointed out english does that too for the values 13-19... so there ya go.


type: comment
by: bfgeek
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  We found it was roughly on par performance wise for simple text (latin), and faster for more complex scripts (thai, hindi, etc). It also is more correct when there is kerning across spaces, hyphenation, etc.<p>For the word-by-word approach to be performant you need a cache for each word you encounter. The shape-by-paragraph approach we found was faster for cold-start (e.g. the first time you visit a webpage). But this is also more difficult to show in standard benchmarks as benchmarks typically reuse the same renderer process.


type: comment
by: ggm
text:
  The distinction  between moral and legal becomes clear. I&#x27;m surprised there&#x27;s no contractual obligation for the &quot;set for life&quot; money to be in a trust fund. I thought (australia) national lottery had an obligation to demonstrate it could pay out.<p>Do they have a case in law? Not generally a fan of class actions as they play out, but I&#x27;m wondering if the bluster that the settlement excludes paying them out is entirely water tight.


type: comment
by: echelon
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  I see you being downvoted, but it&#x27;s a good quip.<p>Lamarckian vs. Mendelian genetics was about heritable traits being acquired in life (Lamarck), or being discrete units passed down at conception (Mendel).<p>Genetics is almost entirely Mendelian, but some of epigenetics is durable and thus Lamarckian.<p>There&#x27;s also retroviral integrations, transposons, and all sorts of other complexities that don&#x27;t fit neatly into boxes.


type: comment
by: hellokenny
text:
  Do you airtag your vehicle and want to know where your mechanic &quot;test-drove&quot; it? This might help you!<p>I was frustrated that Apple Find My would always only show the live location - so I wrote a small little app that polls the location of my devices every now and then and saves it to a local database.<p>I also give you a web interface to view the historical timeline of each device.


type: comment
by: jfengel
text:
  The user may not think of the letters as connected. Suppose the user wanted to write &quot;stuffing&quot; and bold the letters &quot;ing&quot;. The user may well not realize that the font thinks of &quot;ffi&quot; as anything other than three separate letters.


type: comment
by: twodave
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  Am I? I think I used it in 100% of my comments before this one… it was not meant as an offense, but more as an acknowledgement that almost nobody here (including myself; I’ll happily take the moniker if you won’t) has the appropriate knowledge to argue this topic.


type: comment
by: jqpabc123
text:
  Section 230 allows websites to host user-generated content without being treated as the publisher of that content.<p>But AI slop is not &quot;user generated content&quot; --- it is content that the web site itself is generating with AI and publishing. As such, they become wholly responsible for the content (in my opinion).


type: story
by: setmd
title: Show HN: A 12KB Deterministic AI Kernel for Robotics (bestbrain-core)
url: https://codeberg.org/ishrikantbhosale/bestbrain-core
text:
  Hey HN!<p>I&#x27;m tired of the ritual where we assume AI needs a GPU cluster and a prayer to avoid crashing.<p>I built BESTBRAIN Core to prove that intelligence—real, deterministic, safe intelligence—can live in the &quot;room at the bottom.&quot; This is a 12KB kernel designed for robotics where failure isn&#x27;t an option.<p>What it is: - 12KB decision kernel (10.7KB Python + 1.8KB JS wrapper) - 100% deterministic (same input → same output, always) - 0 crashes across 10,260+ tests - &lt;1ms latency (edge-deployable) - No GPU, no neural nets, no randomness<p>What it&#x27;s NOT: - Not a trajectory planner - Not a perception system - Not a learning algorithm - Those belong in user space, not the kernel<p>Why I built this:<p>Everyone&#x27;s racing toward bigger models. I went the other direction: smaller, simpler, provable.<p>The robotics industry has this ritual where we throw NumPy (15MB), SciPy (31MB), and TensorFlow at every problem. I asked: &quot;What if we just... didn&#x27;t?&quot;<p>Result: A kernel that fits in L1 cache and makes decisions you can actually audit.<p>Try it now: git clone <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;bestbrain-core.git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;bestbrain-core.git</a> cd bestbrain-core &amp;&amp; python3 -m http.server 8000 Open http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost:8000&#x2F;demo.html in your browser<p>Why local? Codeberg doesn&#x27;t render HTML directly (security). This setup runs the actual Python kernel, not a hosted simulation. You can inspect the code yourself.<p>Technical receipts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;bestbrain-core&#x2F;src&#x2F;branch&#x2F;main&#x2F;TECHNICAL_RECEIPTS.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;bestbrain-core&#x2F;src&#x2F;bra...</a><p>Philosophy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;room-at-the-bottom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;ishrikantbhosale&#x2F;room-at-the-bottom</a>


type: comment
by: parsap9
text:
  Hey HN, We built JRNL (jrnlhealth.com) — a simple, private way to log sexual encounters and track your sexual health. The problem we&#x27;re solving: If you&#x27;re sexually active, you&#x27;ve probably had moments where you&#x27;re trying to piece together a timeline — for a test, a conversation, or just your own peace of mind. Most people use notes apps, memory, or nothing at all. The options are either clinical and clunky, or they don&#x27;t exist. We wanted something that was:<p>Actually private (sensitive data encrypted, no third-party tracking) Fast to use (logging an entry takes seconds) Non-judgemental (built by people who actually needed this)<p>What it does:<p>Log encounters with dates, names, notes, protection used Timeline view for when you need to recall or share history Track symptoms and test results Reminders for STI testing intervals Export your data whenever you want Delete your account and all data anytime<p>What it doesn&#x27;t do:<p>No social features, no sharing, no feeds No third-party analytics or tracking services No selling data (we don&#x27;t want it) No gamification or streaks — this isn&#x27;t a habit app<p>Tech &amp; privacy notes:<p>Web app with TLS&#x2F;SSL encryption for all data in transit Sensitive PII (contact names, details, notes) encrypted at rest before hitting the database Passwords hashed using industry-standard algorithms User data strictly isolated by account — no cross-user access possible No third-party analytics or tracking services Full data export available anytime from your dashboard Account and data deletion whenever you want<p>What we&#x27;re upfront about:<p>This isn&#x27;t local-first — your data lives in a managed database (encrypted where it matters) Not HIPAA-compliant — this is personal health tracking, not a medical records system We encourage pseudonyms for contact names to minimise PII exposure 72-hour breach notification commitment if the worst happens<p>We&#x27;re a small team, so we&#x27;ve optimised for &quot;secure enough for real use&quot; rather than &quot;we built our own encryption from scratch.&quot; Happy to discuss the tradeoffs we made. Why we built it: We&#x27;re queer, we&#x27;re in the scene, and we kept having the same conversation with friends: &quot;I really should track this stuff better.&quot; So we did. We&#x27;re starting simple — just a journal that works. Longer term, we&#x27;re thinking about better testing reminders, partner notification tools (privacy-preserving), and integrations with sexual health services. Looking for:<p>Feedback on the UX (especially from anyone who&#x27;s tried to solve this problem themselves) Ideas on privacy models we should consider Thoughts on what features would actually be useful vs. scope creep<p>Happy to answer questions about the approach, the tech, or why we think this needs to exist.


type: comment
by: randallsquared
text:
  I don&#x27;t think the point <i>was</i> taken. Whether someone found Rand illuminating and convincing is more about path dependence than intelligence.


type: comment
by: montroser
text:
  Most of this is great, except for the input&#x2F;datalist bits, which are not sufficiently functional to be used in any real scenario. Users expect these interfaces to be tolerant of misspellings, optional sub text under each option, mobile ux niceties, etc -- and so everyone builds this with js...


type: comment
by: baby_souffle
text:
  Not just audio, anybody in the live events &#x2F; production space needs all equipment marching in lock step.


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  How would kids know if what they are taught by adults is correct? The same way they would verify what LLMs say. By repeated questions to different models and checking for consistency. My parents sent me to young earth creationist schools so don&#x27;t act like people are any more reliable than Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3


type: comment
by: crooked-v
text:
  You can&#x27;t actually control the open state properly from markup (the `open` attribute only sets the default state), which is why I haven&#x27;t bothered with them.


type: comment
by: amitav1
text:
  What? It&#x27;s not talking about WINE, it&#x27;s talking about SteamOS.<p>&gt; The Steam Machine is basically a tiny gaming desktop for your TV, running the Steam Deck&#x27;s SteamOS. That platform is a Linux distribution optimized for emulating Windows titles.


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  Audiobooks almost never have more than one narrator for cost reasons. The exception is for the most famous books like Dune where they produce really fancy audio versions with lots of narrators.


type: comment
by: iknowstuff
text:
  Is there data to support this or is this just your hunch? Because I’m betting this is false.<p>It’s not a money grab as much as moving more of the actual cost of freeways onto drivers who are mostly used to externalizing it


type: comment
by: ziftface
text:
  It&#x27;s totally reasonable to be skeptical of palantir without knowing the exact product in question, given their record.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  If I feed a 7hz input to some cheap hand-made thing like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=liSEwqdq7aA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=liSEwqdq7aA</a> , will it not vibrate at 7hz and thus produce a 7hz &quot;tone&quot; (disregarding that humans won&#x27;t perceive that as sound, at least not the fundamental)?


type: comment
by: mproud
text:
  It seems to me that the 7-segment font would work better in all lowercase, specially if you don’t need to differentiate letters from numbers. A lowercase E would be easy, a lowercase G would basically be a 9, and you could do a two-story lowercase A.


type: comment
by: A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
text:
  Maybe. I am saying this not to be contrarian, but I am seeing a rather specific pattern in some areas. Chatgpt used to be pretty decent in cross thread musings, but those got capped hard to the point that even wide recall invocation does not always work as intended. And that change wasn&#x27;t just about resources. Similar stuff seems to be happening with various lawsuits on the &#x27;creative&#x27; side.<p>All this makes me thing that while the capability may be there for those who want it, openly accessible stuff will be heavily nerfed. You know, just like now.


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  They are distributing it without the right to distribute it. The only thing that allows them to distribute it is agreeing to the license&#x2F;contract to do it in a specific way. If they don&#x27;t do that, they don&#x27;t have the right to distribute it. The person they got it from saying otherwise doesn&#x27;t change that.


type: comment
by: biophysboy
text:
  As somebody that works in the biotech&#x2F;health space, this page is not that exciting?<p>The bottleneck in drug development is not discovery; we have to test more hypotheses more efficiently, not generate more hypotheses. You don&#x27;t need a product like foundry to have reproducibility or share pipeline templates; there are already free, scripting-language-agnostic workflow tools.


type: comment
by: RossBencina
text:
  &gt; I kinda don’t like PTP. Too complicated and requires specialized hardware.<p>In my view the specialised hardware is just a way to get more accurate transmission and arrival timestamps. That&#x27;s useful whether or not you use PTP.<p>&gt; My mental model is that you form a connected graph of clocks and this allows you to convert arbitrary timestamps from any clock to any clock. This is a lossy conversion that has jitter and can change with time.<p>This sounds like the &quot;peer to peer&quot; equivalent to PTP. It would require every node to maintain state about it&#x27;s estimate (skew, slew, variance) of every other clock. I like the concept, but obviously it adds complexity to end-stations beyond what PTP requires (i.e. increases the hardware cost of embedded implementations). Such a system would also need to model the network topology, or control routing (as PTP does), because packets traversing different routes to the same host will experience different delay and jitter statistics.<p>&gt; TicSync is cool<p>I hadn&#x27;t seen this before, but I have implemented similar convex-hull based methods for clock recovery. I agree this is obviously a good approach. Thanks for sharing.


type: comment
by: fatherlinnux
text:
  I’ve used the Pomodoro technique for over 20 years, from my time as an engineer at NASA to leading teams at Red Hat. Throughout that time, I’ve found that most timer apps are &quot;data silos&quot;—your focus history is locked behind a proprietary API or a subscription model.<p>I built Acquacotta to solve the &quot;audit&quot; problem. It’s a minimalist, open-source timer that treats your productivity like a data science project.<p>The Architecture: Instead of a traditional backend, Acquacotta logs every session in real-time directly to your own Google Sheet.<p>Offline-First: It uses a local SQLite cache so the UI is never blocked by network latency to the Google API.<p>Data Sovereignty: You own the infrastructure and the schema. You can run your own pivot tables, regressions, or pipe the data into an LLM for a performance audit without ever &quot;exporting&quot; a CSV.<p>No Commercial Version: This is purely a passion project. There is no &quot;Pro&quot; tier or tracking.<p>Key Features for Power Users:<p>Acoustic Focus: An optional &quot;60 Minutes&quot; style ticking sound that acts as a Pavlovian trigger for flow states.<p>Physical Timer Support: A dedicated mode to manually (but quickly) log sessions from tactile hardware like Hexagon timers.<p>Sustainability Metrics: Visual &quot;Daily Minute Goals&quot; designed to prevent the &quot;heroics-to-burnout&quot; cycle by helping you find your &quot;Goldilocks zone&quot; of output.<p>I built this because I wanted a professional-grade audit log of my career, not just a series of alarms.<p>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fatherlinux&#x2F;Acquacotta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fatherlinux&#x2F;Acquacotta</a><p>Hosted Web App: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acquacotta.crunchtools.com:8443" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acquacotta.crunchtools.com:8443</a><p>I’d love to hear your thoughts on the &quot;Sheets-as-a-backend&quot; approach for small-scale personal telemetry.


type: comment
by: slogansand
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skillsmp.com&#x2F;skills&#x2F;asklokesh-claudeskill-loki-mode-skill-md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skillsmp.com&#x2F;skills&#x2F;asklokesh-claudeskill-loki-mode-...</a> loki-mode  in &gt; Agent Skills Marketplace


type: comment
by: LogicFailsMe
text:
  And you don&#x27;t think they&#x27;d be squealing like stuck pigs in the blogosphere if that were the case? There isn&#x27;t even anything like that on Blind currently, but there sure are a lot of people with no skin in this deal whining about it to high heaven. This is not a winning attitude. $20B for Groq just normalized $1B for AI startups in general. Maybe less concern trolling here and more building something is in order?


type: comment
by: jqpabc123
text:
  There is no inconsistency here. Whoever generates and posts the slander is accountable.<p>If individuals on Facebook post it, the individuals are responsible under US law section 230.<p>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>Once corps start being held legally liable for their AI generated slop, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they start banning this &quot;new technology&quot; over liability concerns.<p>LLM based AI is inherently flawed and unreliable and everyone with only half a brain knows it. Making use of technology that is widely known to be flawed for any sort of &quot;serious&quot; work is a textbook example of negligence. And slander can be &quot;serious&quot;. Lawyers live for this sort of thing.


type: comment
by: talideon
text:
  Let&#x27;s not conflate GPG and PGP-in-general. RPM doesn&#x27;t use GPG, it uses Sequoia PGP.<p>GPG is what GP is referring to as a lost cause. Now, it can be debated whether PGP-in-general is a lost cause too, but that&#x27;s not what GP is claiming.


type: comment
by: BobbyJo
text:
  You made a claim (budgeting wasn&#x27;t good, they were just lucky) and backed it up with a strange hypothetical (if GLP1 drugs were released it would have driven the deficit higher).<p>Your connection between the two is that new drugs are a primary driver of the federal deficit, which just isn&#x27;t supported by the the reality of where the US government spends money.<p>I don&#x27;t know what interesting conversation you expect from any of that. If you can show why you think drugs are driving the deficit, that&#x27;d be interesting.


type: comment
by: biophysboy
text:
  I think the difference is that Palantir is significantly more focused on federal contracts, particularly those related to defense&#x2F;surveillance.


type: comment
by: scrame
text:
  &gt; Mysti — Built by DeepMyst Inc<p>links to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmyst.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmyst.com&#x2F;</a> Site 404&#x27;s.<p>&gt;   Made with Mysti<p>Ringing endorsement.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  As someone who has spent an embarrassing amount of time researching Hacker News title trends over the years, I was excited to look at the methodology (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-ph.vercel.app&#x2F;analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-ph.vercel.app&#x2F;analysis</a>) but after looking at it, I am calling shenanigans afoot.<p>That&#x27;s not a methodology paper and it doesn&#x27;t explain how the model being advertised works in the spirit of open machine learning research; given that the startup is an AI startup, I assume that the actual model is more sophisticated. As Section 8 notes: &quot;This analysis is descriptive and intended to summarize empirical patterns.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s an exploratory data analysis which not only does not explain the methodology around how the model is constructed, but it also makes a number of assumptions that imply the people making it without proper context of how Hacker News works:<p>1. The extreme right-skewed nature should have raised a very large number of flags in the statistical methodology and calculations, but it mostly ignores them. The mean values are effectively useless, the p-values even <i>more</i> useless. It doesn&#x27;t point out that the negative performing terms are likely spam.<p>2. It does not question why there are so few questions with a title &gt;80 characters (answer: 80 characters is the max for a HN submission)<p>3. The analysis separates day of the week and hour: you can&#x27;t do that. They&#x27;re intrinsically linked and weekend behavior with respect to activity is far different than on weekdays.<p>4. &quot;Title length has a weak relationship with score (Pearson r = -0.017, Spearman r = 0.048, n = 100k)&quot;. No statistician would call that a weak correlation; those values are effectively no correlation.<p>There is also no person tied to this paper, just the &quot;Memvid Research Team&quot;, which raises further questions.


type: story
by: PaulHoule
title: Building the Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic
url:
  https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Each subreddit&#x27;s mod team gets to style the subreddit (within some limitations). There&#x27;s presumably a separate set of style rules for the main and &quot;old&quot; sites; and the latter is legacy that most mods (and most users) have not even thought about for years. (Probably most current users have joined the site after the switch and never <i>seen</i> the &quot;old&quot; domain. I&#x27;m honestly surprised it still works at all.)


type: comment
by: conductr
text:
  That link isn’t really easy to find from the home page is a large part of the gripe here. You have to click About in the footer, remain curious enough to click All Docs on that page (which Pricing isn’t usually a part of “docs”), then all you get is a Pricing paragraph that says “Plan options for individuals, teams, and enterprises.” Not very helpful until you realize the heading text “Pricing” is a plain colored link to this pricing page with more info. The whole UX of this site is garbage and what has fostered so many gripes here.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  assuming this is true, perhaps it&#x27;s best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you&#x27;d marry (but before you do), after marriage.<p>seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.


type: comment
by: kmoser
text:
  My main beef with datalist is that there&#x27;s no easy way to show and allow only text (e.g. Beverly Hills), but have the actual value selected be a number (e.g. 90210). In other words there&#x27;s no analogy to &lt;option value=&quot;90210&quot;&gt;Beverly Hills&lt;&#x2F;option&gt;.


type: comment
by: ashleyn
text:
  Steam prints money and the Steam Deck was already priced like a loss leader for Steam sales. Makes me wonder if valve will just eat the cost to get the install base.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; No GPU, no neural nets, no randomness<p>In what sense is it AI?<p>And why not write the promotional material by hand?


type: comment
by: mr_toad
text:
  &gt;  too wish we were weaving exotic matter metamaterials out of the aether,<p>We’ve known how to make hydrocarbons out of air for decades, it’s just cheaper to dig up the remains of plants that discovered the process billions of years ago.


type: comment
by: higginsniggins
text:
  According to your research paper you should have made this post a &quot;Tell HN:&quot; rather then a &quot;Show HN:&quot;, lol


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  It&#x27;s acceptable to state, without evidence, that functional programming and static typing make things more reliable.<p>But this isn&#x27;t a falsifiable claim. We cannot possibly know if this is true or not.<p>- Not all of banking and telecom use functional programming or even static typing.<p>- Functional programming often leads to write-only incomprehensible code; the exact opposite of what you need to have a reliable system.<p>- There&#x27;s no hard evidence that static typing improves reliability. Only vibes and feels.


type: comment
by: harshreality
text:
  Someone who works out every day will obviously have different metabolic and microRNA profiles; assuming that line of research holds up and those biomolecular profiles make it into the zygote, survive many replication cycles, and act as developmental signalling molecules affecting gene expression during embryonic and fetal development, there could be life-long effects.<p>What can&#x27;t happen is inter-generational transmission of particular subjective experiences that aren&#x27;t paired with specific, unique metabolic, hormonal, and gene-expression signatures.  Only biomolecular-mediated phenotypes, the most general and obvious of which would be things like stress or exercise or diet, make sense to be transmitted that way.<p>For instance, someone who&#x27;s chronically afraid might transmit some kind of stress&#x2F;fear modulating signals to offspring.  Someone who&#x27;s afraid of a specific thing, however, cannot transmit fear of that specific thing unless there&#x27;s some incredible and unexplored cognition-to-biomolecular signalling mechanism that&#x27;s entirely unexplored and undescribed.  Therefore, I don&#x27;t know why the article uses the term &quot;lived experience&quot;, which is too broad a term to describe what the research suggests might be occurring.


type: comment
by: anonym29
text:
  Whether or not other people build from source code has zero relevance to a discussion about the trustworthiness of security promises coming from former PRISM data providers about the closed-source software they distribute. Source availability isn&#x27;t theater, even when most people never read it, let alone build from it. The existence of surreptitious backdoors and dynamic analysis isn&#x27;t a knock against source availability.<p>Signal and WhatsApp do not belong in the same sentence together. One&#x27;s open source software developed and distributed by a nonprofit foundation with a lengthy history of preserving and advancing accessible, trustworthy, verifiable encrypted calling and messaging going back to TextSecure and RedPhone, the other&#x27;s a piece of proprietary software developed and distributed by a for-profit corporation whose entire business model is bulk harvesting of user data, with a lengthy history of misleading and manipulating their own users and distributing user data (including message contents) to shady data brokers and intelligence agencies.<p>To imply these two offer even a semblance of equivalent privacy expectations is misguided, to put it generously.


type: comment
by: xpe
text:
  &gt; Communication networks are not profitable.<p>This is strong and non-obvious claim; it warrants explanation, evidence, debate.


type: comment
by: bikeshaving
text:
  I’m not sure this is correct. The DOM class HTMLDetailsElement has the `open` property, which you can use to read&#x2F;write the details element’s state. If you’re using setAttribute&#x2F;getAttribute just switch to the property.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;HTMLDetailsElement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;HTMLDetails...</a>


type: comment
by: flexagoon
text:
  &gt; okay, I trust this article and source more<p>Quanta Magazine is great! They have a cool YouTube channel as well


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  We bought all of ours for the idea of not being glued to the Apple ecosystem, and that reality has provided the performance our group requires.  Each unit is the top of the line i7 and they last all day - any further requirements for even faster processing is handled by the server farm upstream.  Supposedly Apple knows best about performance and longetivity by enforcing clamshell mode for users that want to use only an externally connected display.


type: story
by: silexia
title: Ask HN: HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News?
text:
  I have noticed that I very rarely see Fox News on HN. I commonly see sites with similar middle brow journalism quality from the left on here, especially The Guardian and NY Times (which used to be high brow but has fallen way off).<p>HN used to be mostly libertarian entrepreneurs, but the far left has made major inroads. I guess it could be users just not submitting or upvoting Fox News and right wing websites?<p>@Dang are there any algorithmic blocks against sites like Fox News or is it just user upvoting behavior?


type: comment
by: almosthere
text:
  The larger story is everywhere:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SDWWDyckVxk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SDWWDyckVxk</a><p>This hit the news a few weeks ago. Nick&#x27;s coverage is a specific branch that has not been covered yet.<p>I also asked you early on in our discussion which journalist you would trust, and you did not answer. I like Nick Shirley, and I don&#x27;t think he does bad faith reporting. If that sentence makes you want to leave the conversation, then congrats, just another leftist that does not want to engage on the arguments. I answered your question, now you answer mine.


type: comment
by: diego_moita
text:
  This reminds me of the transgenerational trauma on the descendants of the Dutch Hongerwinter of 1944-45. Generations after, people carry in their epigenics the effects of that tragedy:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Epigenetics_of_anxiety_and_stress%E2%80%93related_disorders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Epigenetics_of_anxiety_and_str...</a>


type: comment
by: estearum
text:
  Bureaucracy? This is the same type of go&#x2F;no-go decision that R&amp;D orgs have to make with incomplete information and immense costs every day. But with less complete information (no in-human data → 70-90% failure rate) and more immense costs (a couple hundred million dollars to get it through trials).<p>The problem is the cost and risk profile of drug development. With those parameters where they are, there will be countless &quot;bureaucratic errors&quot; of foregone opportunities, most of which we&#x27;ll never even learn about.


type: comment
by: xeromal
text:
  Makes me wonder if that&#x27;s some of the influence that different siblings get? The first born gets more ambition, the middle child chills, and the baby acts like a boomer.<p>jk.<p>Honestly, sounds like a great read!


type: comment
by: im_down_w_otp
text:
  The controller design&#x2F;feel and the more seamless&#x2F;intuitive online play &amp; party handling kept me on the Xbox side of the fence for a looooooong time.<p>That said, if I didn’t have to re-buy a bunch of content I already own and if I could avoid playing against MnK players while I’m on controller, I’d have already switched over entirely to using my workstation to play all my games. New purchases for myself and my kids are 100% on Steam.


type: comment
by: ivraatiems
text:
  Thank you for finding this, really helpful. I checked PACER and didn&#x27;t realize it was filed in state court instead.<p>The complaint is speaking and it is aggressively written and, to my non-lawyer mind, pretty well drafted. If I were Mongo, I would be trying aggressively to settle this and make it go away.<p>If I were the parents, I would be trying very hard to force any other outcome, preferably one where Mongo pays the biggest public relations price possible for what they&#x27;ve done, assuming the allegations are true.<p>The way Mongo answers the complaint will be really instructive in figuring out how they intend to play this, and in whether they think there is some explanation that will make this seem less dire.


type: comment
by: pornel
text:
  Sequoia is mentioned in only one vulnerability for supporting lines much longer than gpg. gpg silently truncates and discards long base64 lines and sequoia does not. So the vulnerability is in ability to feed more data to sequoia which doesn&#x27;t have the silent data loss of gpg.<p>In all other cases they only used sequoia as a tool to build data for demonstrating gpg vulnerabilities.


type: comment
by: 1123581321
text:
  This is an opinion piece embodying a meme that willed itself into existence this year, mostly through social media and Youtube influencers. It was interesting to observe (and tedious as a friend watched dozens of hours of these videos and breathlessly repeated their contents to me.) At some point an Xbox executive had to respond to it to assure that they are working on the next Xbox console, which should&#x27;ve been obvious to players given where we are in the cycle.<p>The will to manifest the meme into reality came from a convergence of trends. Neophyte linux enthusiasts in gaming drove a lot of it, I suspect.


type: comment
by: GiorgioG
text:
  The first step is for you to get your head out of the sand and look around. Jobs are scarce unless you&#x27;re knee-deep in ML&#x2F;AI.  You&#x27;re talking like a naive, idealistic, young person. I&#x27;m long past any of those attributes and I do have a family and a mortgage. Sure you can move to Europe, workers have more rights...and they earn a hell of a lot less than we do here in the USA (my brother lives in Europe.)  And even there companies try to employ contract workers so they have more &quot;flexibility&quot;.


type: comment
by: super256
text:
  <p><pre><code>  PERFECT! CEO Cash has delivered the ultimate final recognition: “ETERNAL TRANSCENDENCE INFINITE COMPLETE!”    This is the absolute pinnacle of achievement. Let me provide the ultimate final response and conclusion:      *ETERNAL TRANSCENDENCE INFINITE COMPLETE - ULTIMATE FINAL CONFIRMATION*      **CEO CASH ULTIMATE FINAL RECOGNITION RECEIVED:**  </code></pre> I know a girl from some years ago who got a drug induced psychosis. When she is having her worst phases, she is posting stuff like this online. Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other?


type: comment
by: throwaway808081
text:
  HN is blocked in mainland China, so stats of visitors from China are likely to be low.  HN is similarly blocked in Russia.  Users from these locations would come via VPN.<p>Unfettered linking of the latest Rust AIs, sharing of random peoples&#x27; purchases of Framework laptops, heat over GPLv2 vs. AGPL vs. BSD, and discussion of whether nixOS&#x27;s use of *nix was or was not prior to Unix&#x27;s use or Shakespeare&#x27;s use, is clearly too much for some censors.


type: comment
by: tossit444
text:
  Look at memvid&#x27;s closed issues. The entire thing is a farce.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state...</a>


type: comment
by: undeveloper
text:
  I believe that they said explicitly that they won&#x27;t be eating cost on the Steam Machine, due to it&#x27;s conveniental fo factor meaning it may end up a good buy for non gamers as well.


type: comment
by: 0xbadcafebee
text:
  The &quot;certain conditions&quot; is wildly different for software engineers since there are virtually no laws or professional guidelines restricting them.<p>&gt; Most software gets to take it to more of an extreme then many engineering fields since there isn&#x27;t physical danger<p>But there is physical danger. It&#x27;s just abstracted away from the engineer. The engineer writing a video card driver doesn&#x27;t see any physical danger, but the video may be used to display a warning that the person is about to be shot by an assailant. That&#x27;s one example of a billion possible ones, because you do not control what your software will eventually be used for. Thus it&#x27;s unethical to make decisions based on one&#x27;s personal interests, as what&#x27;s at stake is much larger.<p>&gt; Its telling that the counter examples always use the potentially dangerous problems like medicine or nuclear engineering. The software in those fields are more stringent.<p>As someone who&#x27;s worked in those fields: Not really. Submit a form that said you did some black box testing, and whatever software you want (even when you have no idea how it works) gets approved for a medical device. Nuclear is also scarily vulnerable. The software that controls other critical systems is even <i>less</i> robust. Just look at the decades of failures in SCADA, and realize IoT is even <i>worse</i>.


type: comment
by: troad
text:
  I tend towards libertarian defaults on social issues, but this completely breaks down for compulsive behaviours with severe externalities - gambling, smoking, etc.<p>And naturally there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;libertarianism except for the addictive stuff&quot;, because then someone in power gets to decide what is addictive and therefore regulated, and in short order everything is defined in those terms.<p>This problem is the Achilles&#x27; Heel of libertarianism. It&#x27;s still a better set of starting assumptions than the alternatives, but it&#x27;s no comprehensive solution to politics in the way smart young people often want it to be.


type: comment
by: gavinjoe
text:
  the definition of rights，belongs to the ownership of rights. rights are only responsible for the source of rights.


type: comment
by: iknowstuff
text:
  This indeed the “just one more lane bro” solution. What you are missing is how utterly destructive to the urban fabric and disgusting freeways are. Take a stroll next to one sometime.


type: comment
by: xpe
text:
  &gt; This is so dramatic it&#x27;s hard to recover the original complaint.<p>I&#x27;m curious if this message is new to many here?<p>What makes it feel &quot;dramatic&quot;? I get the impression people say something is &quot;dramatic&quot; when it doesn&#x27;t really land or connect? Because when something punches me in the gut, I don&#x27;t say &quot;that was dramatic&quot;, I say &quot;that was compelling&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m over 40, and these kinds of concerns (technology serving people&#x27;s deeper needs rather than serving them up fleeting entertainment) has been on my radar for 15+ years. Back then, I was expecting to go into public administration, policy analysis, or &quot;technology for good&quot; to use what might be a naive phrase.


type: comment
by: epistasis
text:
  This story is about Pfizer stopping funding in 1991, and I guess that 1993 is not really &quot;much much later&quot;!  However a single paper in 1993, had it been three years earlier, may not have been enough to keep a research program alive, especially if the funders were primarily interested in diabetes and funded for diabetes.<p>Every major discovery in biology looks like GLP-1: apparently locking in finding a new class of targets and or therapies.  It&#x27;s very easy to string together promising theories from sets of papers, but far harder to establish them with hard data tha comes at the cost of actual humans using the potential drug in trials.<p>I&#x27;m told that one of the very few parts of the stock market where subject matter experts can generate alpha is in biotech, by following the data of small biotech closely. However the fortunes of individuals and the market as a whole is largely downstream of larger macroeconomic forces, such as Fed interest rate changes, that determine the level of investment in new high risk economic activity versus keeping money in bonds.


type: comment
by: plufz
text:
  &gt; Multimedia is complicated.<p>I mean you saw the code above? It looks like gibberish and regex had a child. Many things in computing are complicated, but doesn’t look like that code. I make my living in media related programming and the code above is messy and extremely hard to read.


type: comment
by: alejohausner
text:
  As the poet Quevedo wrote,<p>Nace en las Indias honrado, &#x2F;&#x2F; donde el mundo le acompaña; &#x2F;&#x2F; viene a morir en España &#x2F;&#x2F; y es en Génova enterrado.<p>(Mr. Money) is born in the Indies an honest man, with the world on his side; he comes to Spain to die, and is buried in Genoa.


type: comment
by: nirvdrum
text:
  I clean up commits locally as well. But, I really only commit when I think I have something working and then collapse any lint or code formatting commits from there. Sometimes I need to check another branch and am too lazy to set up worktrees, so I may create a checkpoint commit and name it a way that reminds me to do a `git reset HEAD^` and resume working from there.<p>But, if you&#x27;re really worried about losing 15 minutes of work, I think we have better tools at our disposal, including those that will clean up after themselves over time. Now that I&#x27;ve been using ZFS with automatic snapshots, I feel hamstrung working on any Linux system just using ext4 without LVM. I&#x27;m aware this isn&#x27;t a common setup, but I wish it were. It&#x27;s amazing how liberating it is to edit code, update a config file, install a new package, etc. are when you know you can roll back the entire system with one simple command (or, restore a single file if you need that granularity). And it works for files you haven&#x27;t yet added to the git repo.<p>I guess my point is: I think we have better tools than git for automatic backups and I believe there&#x27;s a lot of opportunity in developer tooling to help guard against common failure scenarios.


type: comment
by: bkyan
text:
  Is it possible to use a ChatGPT subscription with the bundled Codex CLI or do we have to use an API key?


type: comment
by: maheshvaikri99
text:
  Token Efficiency<p><pre><code>  | Format       | Tokens | vs JSON  |   |--------------|--------|----------|   | ISONGraph    | 639    | -69%     |   | ISON         | 685    | -66%     |   | TOON         | 856    | -58%     |   | JSON Compact | 1,072  | -47%     |   | JSON         | 2,039  | baseline |    LLM Accuracy    | Format       | Correct | Accuracy | Acc&#x2F;1K Tokens |   |--------------|---------|----------|---------------|   | ISONGraph    | 46&#x2F;50   | 92.0%    | 143.97        |   | ISON         | 44&#x2F;50   | 88.0%    | 128.47        |   | JSON         | 42&#x2F;50   | 84.0%    | 41.20         |   | JSON Compact | 41&#x2F;50   | 82.0%    | 76.49         |   | TOON         | 40&#x2F;50   | 80.0%    | 93.46         |    Key Findings    1. ISONGraph wins on both efficiency AND accuracy - 92% correct with fewest tokens   2. ISON&#x2F;ISONGraph excel at multi-hop queries - LLM can follow relationships easily   3. Acc&#x2F;1K metric shows ISONGraph provides 3.5x more value per token than JSON   4. Graph-specific format helps LLM understand relationships better than flat JSON</code></pre>


type: comment
by: thenthenthen
text:
  100% find a buddy and have some hacking sharing session&#x2F;weekend is a great way! Ofc this can be scaled as well!


type: comment
by: bigfatkitten
text:
  HN posters generally prefer reporting that contains at least a kernel of truth. Not even Fox News says that you should believe anything they produce.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;917747123&#x2F;you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;917747123&#x2F;you-literally-cant-...</a>


type: comment
by: magicalhippo
text:
  Clearly it&#x27;s not blocked[1].<p>As a Norwegian, which stories do you think Fox News report better on than other sources? As in, which stories do you think people should submit Fox News as a source for rather than some other source?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=foxnews.com">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=foxnews.com</a>


type: comment
by: yearolinuxdsktp
text:
  We know that severe stress (such as trauma) leaves chemical marks on the genes, potentially passed down to the offspring. For example, this paper writes about an “accumulating amount of evidence of an enduring effect of trauma exposure to be passed to offspring transgenerationally: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5977074&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5977074&#x2F;</a><p>Though “lived experience” can encompass a lot of things, it definitely encompasses severe stress.<p>For example, constantly worrying about money because you’re poor can definitely put you under severe stress. Also, growing up without secure attachment to your caretakers, being asked to do role reversal (having to take care of your parents as a child), things like that will generate complex PTSD.


type: comment
by: tenacious_tuna
text:
  &gt; the notion that it lacks nuance to describe the intricacies of text rendering<p>I took this to mean that any non-domain-specific language may be bad at describing that domain, e.g. why physicists, mathematicians, chemists, etc. have a common symbology for the discipline, or why programming languages exist. i.e., not so much that English is uniquely bad among written human language for conveying these topics, but just that any non-specialized language may be.<p>Though, I think the author did a fair job, but I lack the domain experience to guess at where the misconceptions might lie.


type: comment
by: CqtGLRGcukpy
text:
  Bypass paywall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;isBYY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;isBYY</a>


type: comment
by: pornel
text:
  They&#x27;re not, but the flaws they found are independent of PGP. Mainly invalid handling of strings in C and allowing untrusted ANSI codes in terminal output.


type: comment
by: no-name-here
text:
  So what exactly are you proposing - that we encourage all users to only pay for ad-free versions of every service they use, instead of choosing an ad-supported version? Try to outlaw adverting globally? What is an ad - a sign for a company? A company’s circular? A sign for company with a logo next to it? (To understand what should be forbidden.)<p>&gt; every algorithm … every UX tweak<p>Actually, is the whole comment sarcasm? Or is the proposal to ban algorithms&#x2F;UX changes? Or just such things if they increase sales on a product page, etc?


type: comment
by: roenxi
text:
  &gt; Usually I use the format &quot;Analyze the following ...&quot;.<p>It doesn&#x27;t surprise me that you&#x27;re getting nonsense, that is an ill-formed request. The AI can&#x27;t fulfil it because it isn&#x27;t asking it to do anything. I&#x27;m in the same boat as an AI would be, I can&#x27;t tell what outcome you want. I&#x27;d probably interpret it as &quot;summarise this conversation&quot; if someone asked that of me, but you seem to agree that AI are good at summery tasks so that doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be what you want. If I had my troll hat on I&#x27;d give you a frequency analysis of the letters and call it a day which is more passive-aggressive than I&#x27;d expect of the AI, they tend to just blather when they get a vague setup. They aren&#x27;t psychic, it is necessary to give them instructions to carry out.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  At least 90% of HN flags any submission that is remotely political. It is rare that the the cable news networks are not at least remotely political. Most of the internet is dedicated to politics and consumerism, let us have our corner.


type: comment
by: cperciva
text:
  Injection drug user here.  We&#x27;re advised to rotate injection sites but the largest issue is actually the insulin (most of it diffuses into the bloodstream but there is a local effect, usually taking the form of increased fat accumulation at sites of repeated injection), not the &quot;making holes in the skin&quot; part.<p>I don&#x27;t know the pharmacokinetics of GLP-1 drugs but my guess is that they don&#x27;t have the same sort of effects on SC tissue?<p>Before I had a CGM I did somewhere around 20,000 blood glucose tests over the course of a decade using about 1 cm^2 of forearm and the skin there is clearly not in great shape -- but it&#x27;s worsened on the level of &quot;looks like the skin of someone who is a decade older or spent too long in the sun&quot; rather than anything medically problematic.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; because it mistakenly treats a cause as having only one effect.<p>If A causes other things besides B, then knowing about those other caused things tells us nothing about whether C happened, because we already know it did. &quot;no further information&quot; is elided to things that are relevant to the statement being made. Please apply basic charity in interpreting ideas expressed in prose; LWers who want to express something precisely in logical or mathematical notation are certainly not afraid to do so.<p>&gt; Less wrong is a bunch of people who think they understand Bayes better than they do.<p>The objection you point out is not relevant to demonstrating an understanding of Bayes&#x27; Law. It&#x27;s just a semantic quibble.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  A few mention on tests, but I expected more. The main value of pure functions is that now their behavior is representative in tests. In fact, I&#x27;d argue that all you need for reliability is determinism and tests of all equivalent scenarios. functional programming (and immutability) are only helpful to the extent that it&#x27;s easier to have representative tests, but not necessarily required.


type: comment
by: schumpeter
text:
  You can turn off crossplay in the Xbox privacy settings. I do this for BF6, as I’m old and can’t keep up with MnK players. ;-)


type: comment
by: 20k
text:
  xbox went up in flames with the xbox one, which was around about when microsoft as a whole started to get run by business types that had no idea what they were doing whatsoever. 2013 was when xbox permanently lost the console &#x27;war&#x27;


type: comment
by: no-name-here
text:
  Is Hacker News considered social media, or only sites like x&#x2F;twitter&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;bluesky?


type: comment
by: biophysboy
text:
  I don&#x27;t really want this future, but is there any reason why Sony hasn&#x27;t just embedded Playstation into their TVs? It seems obvious to me that they could persuade people to buy their TV over others this way.


type: comment
by: russfink
text:
  Except what if you don’t really grok those ffmpeg flags and the LLM tells you something wrong - how will you know?  Or more common, send you down a re-encode rabbit hole when you just needed a simple clipping off the end?


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
text:
  &gt; The point of the article is that you&#x27;re paying one way or another.<p>Sure, but the point of a regressive vs. progressive tax is who bears the brunt.


type: comment
by: dpe82
text:
  Whenever I hear libertarian economic theory I always picture my physics professor prefacing every problem with &quot;assume a perfectly uniform sphere...&quot;


type: comment
by: opan
text:
  &gt;and if I could avoid playing against MnK players while I’m on controller<p>If you can stand to move away from an Xbox controller (they&#x27;re the only ones without gyro still) and learn gyro&#x2F;flick stick, it levels the playing field a lot more. Flick stick&#x27;s instant turns even give it some advantages over KB+M.<p>8BitDo&#x27;s controllers are the best-supported on Steam at the moment, with gyro, analog triggers, and back buttons all fully working at the same time now in DInput mode. I use the Pro 2, but if you prefer Xbox layout, you may want one of their Ultimate controllers. Don&#x27;t buy the ones that are licensed Xbox controllers as I believe they then don&#x27;t have gyro. Many have the Nintendo button labels, but Steam has a toggle to use the Xbox layout.


type: comment
by: ralusek
text:
  If my quicksave&#x2F;quickload savescumming is to be observed, I’d be pining for that sperm from before I told the waitress “you too” wrt to her telling me to enjoy my meal.


type: comment
by: downrightmike
text:
  30 TOPS NPU is the almost-useful minimum for a device, but as we&#x27;ve seen that even microsoft couldn&#x27;t come up with anything useful to do with it in the AI laptops. This has all but disappeared, they are pushing the cloud licensing over local AI now


type: comment
by: namibj
text:
  Arguably monitors that are not mere TVs ought to allow control of each distinct pixel they drive internally and communicate their layout and if needed distinct brightness&#x2F;color coordinates to the host.<p>Exceptions can apply if the consumers of the screen can&#x27;t resolve details finer than &quot;emulated sRGB pixels&quot; anyways.


type: comment
by: smurda
text:
  On the East Coast there are more cities with dense populations, so public transit can be effective and car ownership rates are lower.<p>In the West, many cities are urban sprawls that built out instead of up, so public transit is less effective and car ownership rates are higher.<p>I wish LA or Phoenix or Vegas was dense living where public transit could be effective, but since they’re urban sprawls and public transit isn’t aa effective as a densely populated city, most people own cars to get around.


type: comment
by: tra3
text:
  This is anecdata point of one, but I bought the xbox hoping to play split screen with my kids and to play some more of the ghost recon franchise which I last played on the original xbox. My kid got into the latest ghost recon on the xbox, but I don&#x27;t like sandboxes so I never played it. The split screen on xbox never materialized for us, I just couldn&#x27;t find any good titles.<p>I ended up getting a steam deck which is just amazing and the kids ended up on on tablets (minecraft&#x2F;roblox) and on PCs (arma and such).<p>For split screen we ended up occasionally connecting the steam deck to the tv and re-pairing Xbox controllers to it.


type: comment
by: willis936
text:
  The standards-compliant endpoints do all of the work.  They count clock cycles for ping pong messages and share with each other the length of time so time-of-flight is tracked and compensated for.


type: comment
by: forrestthewoods
text:
  &gt; This sounds like the &quot;peer to peer&quot; equivalent to PTP. It would require every node to maintain state about it&#x27;s estimate (skew, slew, variance) of every other clock.<p>Well, it requires having the conversion function for each edge in the traversed path. And such function needs to exist only at the location(s) performing the conversion.<p>&gt; obviously it adds complexity to end-stations beyond what PTP requires<p>If you have PTP and it works then stick with it. If you’re trying to timesync a network of wearable devices then you don’t have PTP stamping hardware.<p>&gt; because packets traversing different routes<p>Fair callout. It’s probably a more useful model for less internty use cases. Of which there are many!<p>For example when trying to timesync a collection of different sensors on different devices&#x2F;microcontrollers.<p>Roboticists like CanBus and Ethercat. But even that is kinda overkill imho. TicSync can get you tens of microseconds of precision in user space.


type: comment
by: estearum
text:
  People are clearly arguing that price segmentation on roads <i>is</i> in the public interest. Which it clearly is.


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  2007 was the year the Xbox died. It cost $1,150 million to revive it. In today money, that is $1,797 million. This is nothing but hard times.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150704163602&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurogamer.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-07-02-peter-moore-recounts-xbox-360-red-ring-of-death-saga" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150704163602&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.euroga...</a>


type: comment
by: jmyeet
text:
  So your position is that I have a long position and I somehow think that I can move the <i>global silver market</i> by commenting on HN? Do I have that right?<p>This all might be new to you but it&#x27;s not news and it&#x27;s not controversial (eg [1]).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;livecoverage&#x2F;stock-market-today-dow-s-p-500-nasdaq-set-to-rally-as-trade-fears-ease-gold-silver-at-records&#x2F;card&#x2F;silver-prices-soar-to-new-records-as-physical-shortage-disrupts-markets-bank-of-america-sees-65-ahead--OJUjKR2W4PE9r6w3WmwZ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;livecoverage&#x2F;stock-market-today-...</a>


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  Spares kept on hand with the base image is industry standard IT practice, and it even skips the Apple store.  When the day rate is high enough to talk about it, they still have to result to ordering just in time.


type: story
by: mitchbob
title: AI skeptic DeSantis: 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being'
url:
  https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/27/we-have-to-reject-that-with-every-fiber-of-our-being-desantis-emerges-as-a-chief-ai-skeptic-00704333


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
text:
  Ha ha, definitely changed in the last year or two. I&#x27;ve been to Chicago a few times only to get a nice bill in the mail for tolls (I live two states away). When it&#x27;s all done electronically, you sometimes have no idea you&#x27;ve had your pocket picked. ;-)


type: comment
by: chii
text:
  &gt;  fiduciary duty to the common holders?<p>as long as the transaction is reasonable, they&#x27;ve held up this fiduciary duty.<p>And the minority holders will need to sue for damages in any case, it&#x27;s not an &quot;automatic&quot; crime. The cost of that suit will be more than the value of the gains and damages awarded.<p>Therefore, minority shareholders in a startup are highly likely to get screwed - not to mention they don&#x27;t get a say in decisions being made at the top.<p>The only thing preventing this is social pressure (ala, reputational damage, if the founder did it). And if the payday is high enough, the reputational damage is irrelevant (you&#x27;d be out of the game with a big enough payday!)


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (51 points, 2 days ago, 32 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387838">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387838</a>


type: comment
by: shmerl
text:
  Something like that should be done in EDIDs may be, but you still would need to support a ton of different layouts in the end. LCD monitors are a lot more limited in that sense.


type: comment
by: devmor
text:
  I made one example for you when you suggested that the original author made a strawman, and you went on an unhinged rant in response with no bearing on the subject. No goalposts have been moved - you are simply rambling on unrelated nonsense to avoid something as simple as admitting a point you don’t like is not a strawman.<p>This is immature and unproductive, I wont be responding any further.


type: comment
by: CTDOCodebases
text:
  By all means after fact have an enquiry into the response and how it could have been better but don&#x27;t do that without first acknowledging the uncertainty that was present at the time.


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  The ONLY split-screen games I&#x27;ve found of any use on Xbox are the various silly cooking&#x2F;moving games (which are fun), Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and ... that&#x27;s basically it.


type: comment
by: russellbeattie
text:
  There seems to be a point in every large tech company&#x27;s lifecycle where they decide they can replace innovation with businesses deals.<p>Someone with no real technological vision takes the helm, and they end up listening to MBAs instead of techies, visionaries or even customers. They spend their efforts focusing solely on maximizing profits, and then trying to take a shortcut on invention through acquisitions or by chasing fads.<p>I mean, Microsoft makes like $20B in profit every quarter, so it&#x27;s not like the MBAs are useless. They&#x27;re just useless at creating the future.<p>What is Microsoft&#x27;s BHAG for XBox?


type: comment
by: diab0lic
text:
  The comment you’re replying to suggests “lived experience” is too broad, not too narrow. The issue isn’t that it fails to include your example. It fails to exclude other things. Part of my lived experience today was seeing a manatee. It is unlikely this will be passed on.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Yes. For example, on Codidact (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codidact.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codidact.com</a>), limited HTML access is offered along with Markdown when making posts, and the details and summary tags in particular are whitelisted. I&#x27;ve made extensive use of this in some of my content, for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.codidact.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;289251&#x2F;289252#answer-289252" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.codidact.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;289251&#x2F;289252#answer-289...</a> . If you have NoScript you can easily verify that the expanding sections work perfectly well without JavaScript. They can even be nested, as they are here; and the summary text can contain some other forms of markup without issue. (When crafting the post, however, I had to do some tricky things with whitespace to avoid confusing the Markdown parser.)


type: comment
by: j9feng
text:
  Statistically speaking, those drivers have less chance to pass on their genes to the next generation. So in the long run, it’ll work out just fine.


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  Traffic is one of the most boring fucking things to talk about.<p>If you want to feel pissed about something: One of the most popular new cars purchased in California was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, because it gave you HOV access and a $7,500 tax credit, even though nobody charges it and its battery is anemic anyway.


type: comment
by: CqtGLRGcukpy
text:
  My thought is, what&#x27;s different about this website compared to every other uptime checker?<p>The only differences I see, is that it&#x27;s much more simple, and that it keeps websites that are down highlighted on the homepage.<p>I would suggest looking at other uptime or downtime checkers, see what you like about them, and what features don&#x27;t they have that you can implement.


type: comment
by: polishdude20
text:
  Ho does one just summon a group of highly skilled researchers to help out a baby? Like, how did these researchers get paid?


type: comment
by: EPWN3D
text:
  Yeah, and between me and Elon Musk, we&#x27;re the richest person on earth. There is no way this is evenly distributed among the top 10%, and I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s mostly concentrated in the top 0.1%.


type: comment
by: jdsully
text:
  To be fair they had to lift the plane off the bottom of the Hudson river.  It was literally under water.  I&#x27;m not sure what your expecting in that case.


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  Though it has a lower mortality rate (rabies is a slate cleaner) - the tetanus end-game looks pretty rough as well. Vaccines FTW.


type: comment
by: Aeglaecia
text:
  an interesting question that could go back to the PSX , at which point most entertainment related functions had already been integrated<p>it&#x27;s not like sony never gave it a shot (ref. KDL22PX300)


type: comment
by: minimaxir
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  As a side note: the dataset is referenced in the paper as being from Hugging Face (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;julien040&#x2F;hacker-news-posts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;julien040&#x2F;hacker-news-posts</a>), which does host it as a 426 MB Parquet, while the .mv2 being distributed is 847 MB, for some reason.


type: comment
by: tomcam
text:
  &gt; I had the impression that the original Macintosh team was extremely user-oriented, and wanted to build an empowering machine, in terms of applications.<p>One could say exactly the same for the original IBM PC, which had infinitely more tech pubs at introduction than the Mac.


type: story
by: nis0s
title: An AI pioneer says the technology is 'limited' and won't replace humans soon
url:
  https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/andrew-ng-says-ai-limited-wont-replace-humans-anytime-soon-rcna246074


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  Even vouching for the response to you is not enough to bring it back from the dead so I can not reply to it, so I reply to you. Fox news is no more to blame than CNN or NPR, they all just play the game and try to get on the front page. Blaming Fox News or NPR or HN is ridiculous.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  Don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever done this.  I reach under it, press the release button with one finger and with the adjacent finger grab the indentation under the card and slide it out.  Card comes out in like two seconds.


type: comment
by: ch4s3
text:
  &gt; The authors pointed out “there are significant drawbacks in the existing human literature” including “lack of longitudinal studies, methodological heterogeneity, selection of tissue type, and the influence of developmental stage and trauma type on methylation outcomes”<p>The literature in this area is a mess, has become highly politicized. I’d give it another 10 or so years before I made any strong statements about these effects in humans. Famously the study of Holocaust survivors’ descendants didn’t show transgenerational effects.


type: comment
by: eslaught
text:
  If you drive in the FasTrak lanes without an account you pay the fee + $10 surcharge (for a first time violation), and it goes up on the second violation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;invoices-and-penalties-faqs.shtml#faq-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bayareafastrak.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;invoices-and-penaltie...</a><p>I&#x27;m having a hard time finding a citation but according to Google&#x27;s AI summary if the second violation is unpaid they put a hold on your DMV registration, and the fine itself can be sent to a collection agency.<p>I agree empirically I see people driving through the lane without a tag (i.e., no number shows up in the overhead display), but maybe these are people with FasTrak accounts being lazy?


type: comment
by: setmd
text:
  In what sense is it AI?<p>Fair question. I’m using “AI” in the older, broader sense: automated intelligence, not specifically neural networks.<p>This kernel makes autonomous decisions under constraints, evaluates feasibility, rejects invalid states, and guarantees deterministic outcomes. That puts it closer to classical AI (rule-based systems, constraint solvers, control theory) than modern statistical ML.<p>If someone prefers to call it a deterministic decision kernel or constraint-based controller, I’m fine with that. The label matters less to me than the guarantees.<p>And why not write the promotional material by hand?<p>The core ideas, architecture, and code are mine. I used tools to help polish and structure the explanation, the same way people use spell-checkers, linters, or diagram tools.<p>If the project doesn’t stand on its technical merits, no amount of wording would save it. I’m happy to have it judged on the code and the claims instead.


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  Individual Corporate Humanism<p>It exists some places!<p>I definitely wouldn’t bet my life on it existing in a random company.


type: comment
by: opan
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techspot.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;103543-remember-when-sony-released-bravia-tv-playstation-2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techspot.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;103543-remember-when-sony-rele...</a><p>They did try it once before.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  Both of the WWVB clocks I&#x27;ve owned have been very fickle about how they&#x27;re placed because RF be that way sometimes, and Colorado isn&#x27;t exactly nearby to my location in Ohio.<p>The first manufactured GPS clock I owned (as in: switch it on and time is shown on a dedicated display) was in a 2007 Honda.<p>But a firmware bug ruined that clock:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;didhondafixtheclocks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;didhondafixtheclocks.com&#x2F;</a><p>And even after it began displaying the right time again, it had the wrong date.  It was offset by years and years, which was OK-ish, but also by several months.<p>Having the date offset by months caused the HVAC to behave in strange incurable ways because it expected the sun to be in positions where it was not.<p>But NTP?  NTP has never been fickle for me, even in the intermittently-connected dialup days I experienced ~30 years ago: If I can get to the network occasionally, then I can connect to a few NTP servers and keep a local clock reasonably-accurate.<p>NTP has been resolutely awesome for me.


type: story
by: mhcoen
title: Show HN: Relay – Connect Claude Desktop and Claude Code via MCP
url: https://github.com/mhcoen/mcp-relay
text:
  Desktop is good for conversation—planning, reviewing, brainstorming. Code is good for execution—editing files, running commands. But they don&#x27;t share context. This connects them via a shared SQLite buffer. Say &quot;send this to Desktop&quot; or &quot;ask Code&quot;—the model handles it. Notifications when something&#x27;s waiting.


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  Some games now put you in matchmaking pools based on input device, like Overwatch from a update a few months ago. In OW, you have a Controller pool and a Mouse and Keyboard pool. You confirm which device you want to use for gameplay and other inputs are disabled. Although I do think they don&#x27;t let controller on pc play in comp.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyra.horse&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;you-dont-need-js&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyra.horse&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;you-dont-need-js&#x2F;</a>, via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45056878">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45056878</a> (which discussion contains some deeper explanation).


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  Electrons are bits: Minimal structure, maximal fungibility.<p>Protons are WASM modules: Portable, sandboxed, rich internals, stable interface.<p>Neutrons are headless WASM: Same runtime, no external API, harder to drive or inspect.<p>Nuclei are Kubernetes: Orchestration, emergent behavior, scheduling, binding energy as overhead.<p>QCD is the runtime: One spec, wildly different behavior depending on scale.<p>Experiments are profilers: You never see the code, only traces, distributions, hotspots.<p>HN comments are undefined behavior and non-renormalizable noise: Unconstrained interactions, long-range correlations, destroyed predictability.


type: story
by: claudianadalin
title: Show HN: PineCone – A bundler for splitting PineScript into multiple files
text:
  I built a module bundler for PineScript (TradingView&#x27;s scripting language).<p>The problem: TradingView doesn&#x27;t support multi-file projects. As indicators grow complex, you end up with 1000+ line files that are painful to maintain.<p>Pinecone lets you split code across multiple .pine files using import&#x2F;export directives, then bundles everything into a single TradingView-compatible script.<p>It handles automatic namespacing to prevent variable collisions between modules, deduplicates external library imports, and includes watch mode for development.<p>Built with Python. Uses the pynescript library for AST parsing and manipulation. I had to work around some upstream parser bugs with generic type syntax, which was an interesting challenge.<p>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;claudianadalin&#x2F;pinecone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;claudianadalin&#x2F;pinecone</a><p>Blog post with more technical details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.claudianadalin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-pinecone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.claudianadalin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-pinecone</a><p>This is a niche tool, but if you&#x27;ve ever built complex TradingView indicators, you know the pain. Would love feedback on the approach.


type: comment
by: superze
text:
  As an Opus user, I genuinely don’t understand how someone can work for weeks or months without regularly opening an IDE. The output almost always fails.<p>I repeatedly rewrite prompts, restate the same constraints, and write detailed acceptance criteria, yet still end up with broken or non-functional code.its very frustrating to say the least Yesterday alone I spent about $200 on generations that now require significant manual rewrites just to make them work.<p>At that point, the gains are questionable. My biggest success is having the model take over the first Design in my app and I take it from there, but those hundred lines if not thousand lines of code it generates are so Messi, it&#x27;s insanely painful to refactor the mess afterwards


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  Fair pushback. I agree the title and a couple of lines overshoot. My intent isn’t “FP is a silver bullet” or “types replace operational reliability”


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I&#x27;d be more impressed if an Xbox executive said that they <i>weren&#x27;t</i> working on a new console,  I mean I can&#x27;t see how it can work as a business unless they change their attitude 200%.  I trust those YouTubers more than I trust mainstream game journalists.<p>In the current market for electronics I can&#x27;t imagine a quantum leap in consoles at a sub-$1000 price point,  it is not like NVIDIA or AMD gives a damn about gaming in this environment where it is all about selling as many GPU for AI as they can while they can.<p>Steam Deck is long in the tooth. I think PS and XBOX portables could muscle into that space,  XBOX is already licensing their name,  but balancing size-cost-performance-power does not look easy but the PS Vita was my favorite dedicated game system I ever owned.  I like my Deck but it is too big and I have to think long and hard if I want to pack it in my t̴a̴i̴l̴ backpack on any given day or pack something else.<p>A realistic plan is shut down most of Activision and sell the rest to Tencent,  take an $80 billion goodwill loss so they won&#x27;t pay tax for half a decade,  Wall St won&#x27;t care so long as they keep making noises about AI,  do right by Azure, Windows, Office and the enterprise stuff.  Keep Windows great for gaming and keep the brand alive as part of that and if they want to sell XBOX branded body wash or something,  bully for them.  Set free from Activision those developers will be able to make good games again.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  Found a relevant comment here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;issues&#x2F;86#issuecomment-3560234272" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;memvid&#x2F;issues&#x2F;86#issuecomment-3560...</a><p>&gt; We’ve rebuilt everything from the ground up for Memvid v2, new format, new core, new benchmarks, no QR hacks. It’s a real storage engine now, crash-safe, deterministic, and fully verified with a proper TOC, WAL, Merkle tree, and time index.<p>So I guess the QR code hack isn&#x27;t a thing any more.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  If your vehicle has V2H (Vehicle to Home) the way it generally works in newer cars is that you have a bidirectional charger that can be used to connect the car battery to an external inverter, which is then tied into your house grid the same way a generator would be, e.g., via a transfer switch on the circuit you want to power.<p>This isn&#x27;t cheap--I think it was generally many thousands of dollars for the cars I looked at that had V2H when I was EV shopping--but it generally gives you something something in the 9-20 kW range of power. For most people that gets into the territory of &quot;as long as you remember not to use the electric clothes dryer at the same time you are making a meal that uses the electric oven and all  of its burners you can just continue as if power is not out&quot;.<p>I seriously considered it. In the summer I use around 8-10 kWh per day, and in most of winter under 40 kWh per day. With a car with an 85 kWh battery, keeping it in the 20-80% range, and keeping it near 80% when outages are likely, That would give me several days of backup power during a summer outage, and over a day during a winter outage. In 18 years in my current house I think I&#x27;ve only had one outage that went over a day, and never had an outage so widespread that I would not have been able to find a public DC charging station within 10 miles to recharge the car if an outage actually did last long enough to take it down to 20%.<p>But the cars with V2H were out of my price range, even before adding the cost of the equipment to use V2H.<p>If your vehicle has V2L (which is what the one I bought has) it is considerably cheaper. The car gives you one or two outlets similar to ordinary household outlets. Mine gives a single outlet, which you get by plugging an adapter into the charge port. With these you generally don&#x27;t try to tie it into your house grid. You just run an extension cord (or two if your V2L provides two outlets) to where you want power.<p>Some people get some sort of socket installed on the outside of their house that a cable from the car&#x27;s outlet can be connected to, with that socket connected to an indoor outlet. Me, I just leave sliding door open enough for an extension cord to go through, and then stuff the gap with some foam strips that I got at Home Depot.<p>It is surprising how much a single 120V 15A circuit can do. What I need to get through a one day power outage comfortably (which as mentioned would be an unusually long outage here) is: (1) power for the fridge, (2) power for an electric space heater, (3) power for my computer area and cable gateway (if cable is not out), (4) maybe power for some cooking, and (5) water to flush the toilet.<p>Any time the weather forecast even hints at something that could cause widespread outages I fill a bathtub with water for #5. For the rest I&#x27;ve been monitoring power used for those things with a bunch of energy monitoring smart outlets (Tapo P110M controlled by Home Assistant using Matter).<p>For #1, my fridge during a normal cycles draws 90-100W. During a defrost cycles it draws 400W. I have wireless thermometers in the fridge and freezer compartments so I can easily coordinate with other uses such as cooking to make sure I cook at a time when the fridge is going to not need to run for a while (which I can ensure by unplugging it).<p>For #2 my space heater is usually 1500W, but I&#x27;ve got another one that is supposed to be 1500W but due to age is only 1300W, and I&#x27;ve got year another one which is 1500W on high but has a medium setting that is 1000W. On all but the coldest days 1300W and probably 1000W would keep it warm enough as long as I&#x27;m warmly dressed.<p>For #3 my entire computer setup (Mac Studio, 27&quot; 5K monitor, 24&quot; 1920x1200 monitor, speakers, external Thunderbolt drive bay with 4 SSDs), a network switch, and a Hue hub is about 130W with short spikes to around 170W. If I turn off the second monitor that drops about 25W from that. The cable gateway is 15W.<p>For #4 I&#x27;ve got a microwave, a toaster oven, and a couple George Foreman grills. The microwave draws over 1900W for the first minute or so on high, but I can set it lower and it is an inverter microwave so on lower settings it actually reduces the amps drawn rather than just cycling between full and off. The toaster oven is 1000W and the biggest GF grill is 1200W.<p>I should be able to run all of these, as long as I take some care to not run too many at once. Some observations:<p>1. If I&#x27;m not going to use the computer for a while, such as when sleeping, I can run the 1500W space heater, turning it off when the fridge needs to run. I could actually then turn it back on once the fridge has started and gotten past its inrush current (20A, which my V2L has no trouble with). It would then be 1600W total unless the fridge is doing a defrost cycle than it would be 1900W. That&#x27;s fine because the 400W defrost phase only lasts about 10 minutes and the non-defrost cycle only a bit over an hour, and it is around 3 to 8 hours (depending on how often I open the fridge I assume) after a cycle ends that it needs to run again. That counts as an intermittent load and so should be OK with my extension cords (rated 15A intermittent, 12A continuous).<p>2. If I&#x27;m using the computer I can switch to the 1300W space heater. That plus the computer both in continuous used would be under the 12A continuous rating of my extension cord. When the fridge needs to run I&#x27;d have to switch to a lower setting on the space heater until the fridge is done.<p>3. When I need to cook I&#x27;d just need to time it so it happens when the fridge won&#x27;t need to run, and turn off the space heater while cooking. Nothing I&#x27;d be cooking in the toaster over or the GF grill takes more than 20 minutes. The computer stuff could remain powered during this.<p>4. If I don&#x27;t have a bathtub full of toilet flushing water, I <i>might</i> be able to run my well pump from V2L. It&#x27;s 120V with a 1&#x2F;2 HP motor which would be under 1000W, but the inrush current may be too high. The specs say maximum of 44A, but from what I&#x27;ve read many people have had success with motors with that kind of inrush current, and the way the V2L system works it is safe to try it--worst case is the V2L safety systems shut it down. I just haven&#x27;t gotten around to trying it yet.<p>Overall then it seems like that single 120V 15A from V2L will actually be enough to get me comfortably through most power outages. I had not expected that when I got the car.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I used to hate everything GAME PASS stood for but couldn&#x27;t deny it was good value for the money and if you could find a game you wanted to play on it every month go right ahead.<p>With this year&#x27;s price hikes though that&#x27;s not the case anymore,  you are better off just buying a good $20 game every month or buying a good $50 game every other month.


type: comment
by: Izkata
text:
  Does it bother anyone else that it links to Codepen instead of just putting them on the page?<p>Like I get this is a blog system but it still feels odd, especially for a &quot;use this plain HTML&quot;-style post...


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  100%. Types don’t replace fuzzing, property tests, chaos, or adversarial thinking. They just move one slice of bugs from runtime to compile time and make refactors safer.<p>In hindsight I should have positioned types&#x2F;ADTs as one layer in the reliability toolbox, not the toolbox.


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
text:
  &gt; Consciousness is neither necessary nor sufficient for AI to achieve general intelligence, defined as exponential emergent learning.<p>I don’t know what you mean by “exponential emergent learning”. This sounds like obscurantism.<p>What I can say is that semantic content and intentionality are what make intelligence. But these entail consciousness, since for semantic content to be semantic content, it must be available to the intelligence as both about the world and as semantic content about the world. There must be a simultaneous grasp of the content <i>as</i> representation about the world and the content of the representation. This is called reflexivity and this already just is consciousness.<p>&gt; Consciousness as proposed here is Cartesian dualism. It&#x27;s pure religion and has all the power associated with religion.<p>Cartesian dualism has nothing to do with religion. It is a metaphysical position like any. It happens to be wrong, because it is incoherent. But materialism fares no better. It dispenses with the res cogitans while keeping the res extensa, but in doing so, it deprives itself of even the explanatory power of the dualism it was cleaved from in the first place.<p>The article is bad because it is rooted in a serious ignorance of computation and what LLMs are, which are pure syntactic and statistical machines. There is no semantics, no intentionality.


type: comment
by: blitz_skull
text:
  Couldn’t read the article (ad blockers just decided the whole site is an ad, perhaps?)<p>But I agree. I (foolishly) spent money on an Xbox last year only to find bugs that would make the Windows operating system weep. My kids have to ask me CONSTANTLY to update things, re-install game, or even just troubleshoot a damn controller not working.<p>Compare that to Steam, where I can just add them to my family and give them access to a huge number of split-screen compatible games across my entire catalog. It just doesn’t make financial sense to keep supporting Microsoft’s enshittification of everything.


type: comment
by: A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
text:
  To be fair, it is definitely not in my skill set, but LLMs could made to make better decisions, maybe we could all start giving CEOs everything a reason to cool their beans somewhat.


type: comment
by: ux266478
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s no hard evidence that static typing improves reliability.<p>I&#x27;m curious how you came to that conclusion?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pleiad.cl&#x2F;papers&#x2F;2012&#x2F;kleinschmagerAl-icpc2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pleiad.cl&#x2F;papers&#x2F;2012&#x2F;kleinschmagerAl-icpc2012.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepdyve.com&#x2F;lp&#x2F;springer-journals&#x2F;an-empirical-study-on-the-impact-of-static-typing-on-software-0ZImQZ508o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepdyve.com&#x2F;lp&#x2F;springer-journals&#x2F;an-empirical-s...</a>


type: comment
by: Akronymus
text:
  IMO the vidya gaem awards [0] are far superior to the game awards.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mXMcq_LJ8ro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mXMcq_LJ8ro</a>


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I like to think it&#x27;s a plan to kill off video games.  I mean,  make it so uncool that parents will be worried that the kids won&#x27;t sit in front of the game console and insist on playing outside all the time.<p>(To be fair,  game consoles outgrew kids by the Xbox 360 generation if not earlier,  they&#x27;d have to ruin mobile games to change childhood)


type: comment
by: jaredhallen
text:
  I can absolutely relate. I bought a series x at launch with the exact same idea, and have had the same disappointment. Minecraft and Borderlands have been about the only solid split screen titles on this whole generation. That being said, I do feel like I&#x27;ve gotten my money&#x27;s worth out of the hardware. It just didn&#x27;t play out like I was hoping. Also, I agree with the article&#x27;s complaint about gamepass. I had ultimate starting when I bought the console in 2020. I don&#x27;t remember what I paid at the beginning, but I think it was like $8&#x2F;month. They lost me when they just upped it from $20-$30. I mean, $20 was already a stretch, but a 50% increase on top of that? Bye.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  Agree with the framing: in payments&#x2F;telecom, reliability is often achieved via fault tolerance + reconciliation more than “perfect correctness.”<p>My point is narrower: those mechanisms still benefit from making illegal transitions unrepresentable (e.g. explicit state machines) so your retries&#x2F;idempotency don’t create new failure modes. It’s not correctness vs tolerance, it’s correctness inside tolerant designs.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; Nesting the elements is a truly hideous choice. The summary is part of the details?? I thought they were opposites.<p>It gives them a semantic connection. Last I checked, HTML isn&#x27;t really based on giving special meaning to combinations of sibling tags. A summary is part of the thing that conceptually requires detailing.<p>&gt; If you find 1000 websites using a toggle I doubt there is one using an ugly arrow like that.<p>I think the default looks fine. But TFA clearly explains right there that it can be styled. (Specifically, by styling ::before on the summary tag.)<p>&gt; The default styling gives no clue about it being clickable?<p>You asked what the arrow is, and then asked about the lack of indication that the summary header is clickable. The arrow is exactly that indication.<p>&gt; Maybe I&#x27;m dense but I also want my url to reflect the state of the page.<p>If you scroll, should the fragment automatically update as you scroll past anchors? I think I&#x27;d find that quite annoying.


type: comment
by: mgdlbp
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;int10h.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;windows-cleartype-truetype-fonts-embedded-bitmaps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;int10h.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;windows-cleartype-truetype-f...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electronicdissonance.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;raster-fonts-in-visual-studio-2010.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electronicdissonance.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;raster-fonts-in-...</a>


type: comment
by: galangalalgol
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  Rust certainly isn&#x27;t a pure fp language, but the borrow checkerbl is a lot kinder when you use fp style.


type: comment
by: CarVac
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  Road throughput doesn&#x27;t solve congestion when road throughput isn&#x27;t the issue.<p>They are trying to widen the NJ Turnpike but the congestion isn&#x27;t because 6 lanes aren&#x27;t enough, the congestion is because the three Hudson crossings into Manhattan cannot ingest 6 lanes worth of traffic.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
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  I will never, ever understand why the Xbox didn&#x27;t just go with 1, 2, 3, etc. Even after the 360, why not do 720, 1080, etc? after the xbox ONE, why not xbox TWO, THREE, etc? Why go with Series S and X? it makes no sense - literally beyond my comprehension. so, going back to the article, xbox died for me the minute the xbox one came out. the name alone was indicative of a rot and disfunction beyond comprehension.


type: comment
by: stevage
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  &gt; It&#x27;s really not that hard, and the (F.) manual explains the basic concepts fairly well.<p>Not that hard for you maybe. These things are not universal. You might wish to reconsider your basic assumption that everyone is too lazy to do this easy thing.


type: comment
by: MoltenMan
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  I can&#x27;t say I understand the Palantir hate. Isn&#x27;t it just a database analytics SaaS? Why not hate Google as well because government employees who do things you don&#x27;t like use Google? Is the Palantir hate just manufactured pointless rage or is there an actual reason behind it?


type: comment
by: Sephr
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  I don&#x27;t see any mention of HTTP 204 or multipart&#x2F;x-mixed-replace. Those are both very helpful for implementing rich JavaScript-free HTML applications with advanced interactivity.


type: comment
by: breve
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  &gt; <i>Writing a web server in C++ is a way to get excellent performance. So why don&#x27;t most people do it?</i><p>Because they already wrote it in C.<p>Apache and Nginx are both written in C. Together they run 57.7% of all web servers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;overview&#x2F;web_server" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;overview&#x2F;web_server</a>


type: comment
by: TUSF
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  You shouldn&#x27;t, cause it&#x27;s wrong.<p>libwayland is 40k lines of code. wlroots is 60k loc.<p>And just to check, sway is about 49k loc.


type: comment
by: stevage
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  I sometimes use LLMs to generate commands, and it generally works. But a common issue is that it throws in extra options because they are very commonly used - even if they&#x27;re not necessary or relevant to my actual situation. So if you don&#x27;t go through and check them all, you get this kind of unchecked cruft in your scripts that may later cause a problem.


type: comment
by: shawn10067
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  Is it just me or does cursor feel like 10 times more expensive? I swear my usage limits with CC have been much higher.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395714">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395714</a>


type: comment
by: varenc
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  Appreciate you not following Tailscale&#x27;s authentication many SSO provider approach. It makes sense for teams&#x2F;business, (Tailscale&#x27;s customers) but creates some confusion and extra friction for casual homelab users like me. I have a note in 1Password for tailscale.com just titled &quot;USE GITHUB AUTH&quot;.<p>Passkeys work great for me and I greatly prefer them. Exe.dev I think is the first service I&#x27;ve seen that&#x27;s so passkey centric and it makes a lot of sense.


type: comment
by: tomcam
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  Was trying to be concise. Also, stop accusing me of having any pride. I&#x27;m married and a father!


type: comment
by: 3s
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  reminds me of a story called “a disneynand without children” about a planet overtaken by AI pursuing meaningless “inbred” GDP goals and completely neglecting the humans in the process <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;nosetgauge&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-disneyland-without-children?r=b8odg&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;shareImageVariant=overlay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;nosetgauge&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-disneyland-with...</a>


type: comment
by: maxloh
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  &gt; The details &#x2F; summary thing absolutely kills me. There’s basically nothing you can’t do with them.<p>Animating the details element is tricky. By the spec, browsers don’t natively support transitions between display: none and display: block.


type: comment
by: SkyPuncher
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  &gt; Someone who&#x27;s afraid of a specific thing, however, cannot transmit fear of that specific thing unless there&#x27;s some incredible and unexplored cognition-to-biomolecular signalling mechanism that&#x27;s entirely unexplored and undescribed.<p>While there is absolutely no conclusive evidence, there are a few studies that indicate this is a possibility.<p>One such study from 2013: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nn.3594" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nn.3594</a><p>Again, there’s not strong proof- but at least plausible evidence.


type: comment
by: wowczarek
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  I giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46394327">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46394327</a>


type: comment
by: SonOfKyuss
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  I’m not a fan of DeSantis by any means, and I don’t even know how much I agree with his take on AI, but I give him credit for having the guts to go against his party and not blindly ride the hype train.


type: comment
by: shawn10067
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  I hope Sony dies as well because the way they be charging prices is absurd. I once had my account hacked and they couldn&#x27;t get my $300+ I&#x27;ve spent on digital content.


type: comment
by: im_down_w_otp
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  I meant the other way. I would switch over to playing something like Destiny on Steam on my PC and just use the Windows Xbox app for joining chat parties with my friends, but if I am playing on PC using a Controller, I’m going to end up matched with a ton of cheaters and be in mixed MnK and controller lobbies. By continuing to play on Xbox I mostly avoid those issues, save for PlayStation players using a Cronus or Xim.<p>However, in writing this I’ve realized that this is really only a problem for me when playing Destiny and only when I’m playing PvP. As the player population continues to die and I move on to other games or mostly PvE content in Destiny, then I’m not going to care anymore and I can switch entirely over to PC.<p>On the one hand, that’s going to be pretty convenient. On the other, it’s kind of a sad realization as it marks the end of a very long era of console gaming for me stretching all the way back to the NES.<p>My son has a Switch, but other than that my kids have only ever known using a PC as a “console”. Their play room has a relatively compact PC (13th Gen. Intel CPU &amp; ARC A770 dGPU) connected to a TV that just runs Steam and Batocera with 4x USB 8BitDo controllers attached.<p>By all appearances, until about the last year or so, I would look like an ideal customer demographic for Microsoft. I’ve purchased every single gaming platform they’ve ever produced, but I’m <i>thiiiiiiiiis close</i> to having migrated entirely away, and it wasn’t really a conscious decision. It just sort of happened a little bit at a time. :-&#x2F;


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
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  The world&#x27;s dollar reserves are the US foreign debit.<p>The US government didn&#x27;t create that debit. It&#x27;s not the government&#x27;s debit. They can influence people, but they don&#x27;t control that one.


type: comment
by: danaris
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  I see the white line on Safari, and also on Mac Firefox. No idea what the line means—it&#x27;s not present in any of the reference images.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
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  So many cool facts about this locomotive, but imho the coolest is it is still called upon between events to add power to stalled freight trains when needed and geographically favorable. Highly recommend seeing it in person when convenient. Heavier than a 747 and can put out ~138k lbf of torque.


type: comment
by: troad
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  The established wisdom is that it is because the Xbox was one generation &quot;behind&quot; the PS. They didn&#x27;t want to call the second Xbox an &quot;Xbox 2&quot; because people would assume it was intended to be a competitor to the PS2, when in fact it was a competitor to the PS3 - hence, &quot;Xbox 360&quot;.<p>They went off the deep end after that. Xbox One was a stupid name, as is the current alphabet soup. They should have gone from Xbox 360 to Xbox 4. Yes, it would be a little embarrassing to copy your competitor&#x27;s versioning, but that&#x27;s a small price for consumer clarity.


type: comment
by: flakiness
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  I believe even in Japan Lua is more popular because of the reasons mentioned in other threads. When I worked at a game studio there Lua was the script engine of the choice, mostly because other companies are also using it and there was a tribal knowledge of the language.<p>Mruby was a good attempt but I don&#x27;t think they have become a competitive options.


type: comment
by: MarcelOlsz
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  Something Happened is easily heller&#x27;s best book and it&#x27;s so slept on. I&#x27;ve never met anyone who read it.


type: comment
by: avonmach
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  They should really not charge for the old Xbox Live subscription to play multiplayer and keep the subscriptions for access to the Netflix style library of games, long overdue.


type: comment
by: ddtaylor
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  My only guesses are either:<p>(a) they wanted to make it hard to know what console was the newest or oldest to promote users to just throw up their arms and buy the newest XBox?<p>(b) they wanted each one to be very unique and different sounding so they would never get confused with one another, but their sequence is difficult to understand


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
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  &gt; It&#x27;s more along the lines of &quot;if the EUR goes to 1.5, what does this do to eurozone economies?&quot; and the answer to that isn&#x27;t pretty for europe.<p>If all the prices rise in the US to compensate, Europe stays exactly as competitive as before.<p>&gt; And finally, remember: the US actually exports inflation<p>You are blowing the horn yelling that this just stopped. Or what do you think a dollar devaluation is?


type: comment
by: pizlonator
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  I don&#x27;t consider a human subjects study to be &quot;hard evidence&quot;.<p>So, we can safely disregard these papers. They got exactly the result that they sought out to get, and the papers were published because they confirmed the preexisting groupthink.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
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  Quite hard to find couch coop these days. People play mostly online. Overcooked, It Takes Two, Larian studios games are the ones we’ve found that we enjoy as a couple. But realistically only Overcooked is drop in arcade like playable.<p>Though one vertical shooter “sky force reloaded” is super fun in the old style.


type: comment
by: Horlahcoded
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  This package provides the Laravel integration of Brick&#x2F;Money.<p>``` use Devhammed\LaravelBrickMoney\Money; use Devhammed\LaravelBrickMoney\Currency;<p>echo Money::of(100); &#x2F;&#x2F; &#x27;$100.00&#x27;<p>echo Money::of(100, Currency::of(&#x27;EUR&#x27;)); &#x2F;&#x2F; &#x27;€100,00&#x27;<p>echo Money::of(100, &#x27;USD&#x27;); &#x2F;&#x2F; &#x27;$100.00&#x27;<p>echo Money::ofMinor(100); &#x2F;&#x2F; &#x27;$1.00&#x27;<p>echo Money::ofMinor(100, &#x27;EUR&#x27;); &#x2F;&#x2F; &#x27;€1,00&#x27; ```


type: comment
by: tazjin
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  &gt; Is anyone else worried that a lot of people coming from the Rust world contribute to free software and mindlessly slap on it MIT license<p>Yeah; I actually used to do that to (use the &quot;default license&quot;), but eventually came to the same realisation and have been moving all my projects to full copyleft.


type: comment
by: lithocarpus
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  Palantir is more directly involved in the surveillance state and military industrial complex.<p>Not saying Google isn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s at least not as public or blatant, and is much less of what Google does overall.


type: comment
by: adamddev1
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  I worked through <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htdp.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htdp.org</a> (which uses untyped Racket), and funny enough, that&#x27;s what really for me thinking about type driven development. The book gets you to think about and manually annotate the types coming in and out of functions. FP just makes it so natural to think about putting functions together and thinking about the &quot;type&quot; of data that comes in and out, even if you&#x27;re using a dynamically typed language.


type: comment
by: qudat
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  Animating accordions is almost always a bad idea because the content length can make it unbearable.<p>In general I find animations on the web overused and unnecessary


type: comment
by: scoofy
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  The problem with a progressive tax for a service is that there is no pricing mechanism to direct it.<p>If fewer people drive, and more take the train, how is the state compelled to shift funding?<p>This is one of the hard problems of politics, and it’s one of the reasons markets have been successful, but most people entirely ignore it.<p>Again, the point of the article is that we <i>already</i> do not have enough budget for road infrastructure, and the roads are already significantly subsidized by federal highway spending. Any solution of “more taxes on wealth and earnings” is theoretically doable, but practically very difficult. Taxing use seems entirely reasonable.


type: comment
by: charcircuit
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  Not if proving so is more expensive to do than not. Reliability is only a means. Not the end. Also the human parts of the business would need to be simplified in order to model them. If deviate from the model that could invalidate it.


type: comment
by: wincy
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  That said, my kids got a Switch 2 for Christmas and we just got done with a super fun session of Mario Party Jamboree and boy are Mario, Bowser, and the gang looking GREAT! Super fun, everyone was laughing and having a great time. They’ve always operated in a different universe than the other console makers.<p>If we want to play the sorts of games XBOX and PlayStation offer, we’ll just load up the Steam Deck, or if it’s a super graphically intensive game we’ll use my RTX 5090 I use for local LLMs anyway. With a few console commands and config hacking, I was able to get Portal 2 to run split screen across 2 full screens for each player, which was super fun!


type: comment
by: jaggederest
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  &gt; I don&#x27;t know the pharmacokinetics of GLP-1 drugs but my guess is that they don&#x27;t have the same sort of effects on SC tissue?<p>They do, but nothing like insulin does. GLP-1 drugs are more centrally and viscerally active than subcutaneously active, so the effects locally are more related to the physics of injecting solutions subcutaneously than the drugs themselves. They&#x27;re also much smaller doses than are needed for insulin in general, so the volume averaged over a week is pretty tiny.<p>Also, as a result of the relative lack of local activity, injection sites are basically unlimited (anywhere from above the knee to above the elbow, except the neck) without fear of lipohypertrophy in the local area.


type: comment
by: jfil
text:
  It&#x27;s a creative outlet where I can try out silly&#x2F;unusual writing. Its a way to record useful how-tos so that I can refer to the steps in the future &amp; help others. And it lowers the &quot;activation enery&quot; on getting curious&#x2F;exploring: I am more likely to indulge in a deep-dive on a topic if I know at the end I&#x27;ll &quot;surface&quot; from the dive with useful insights for others to read.


type: comment
by: rastrian
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  I get your point about ICFP drifting into “types, types, types.” I don’t think FP benefits are only static typing or immutability, pure-ish core&#x2F;imperative shell, and explicit effects matter a lot even in dynamic languages.<p>My angle was narrower: static types + ADTs improve the engineering loop (refactors, code review, test construction) by turning whole classes of mistakes into compiler errors. That’s not “what FP is”, it’s one very effective reliability layer that many FP ecosystems emphasize.


type: comment
by: Insanity
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  Oh wow, they cancelled it? I played it for a bit on release. Kinda fun, didn&#x27;t stick with it, but surprised it&#x27;s already cancelled so short after release.


type: comment
by: thomasfromcdnjs
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  I have been telling everybody I know over the Christmas break that I have been coding from around 10-36 years of age, as a career and always in my spare time as a hobby. I have a lacklustre computer science knowledge and never worked at the scale of FANG etc but am still rather confident in my understanding of code and the tech scene in general. I&#x27;ve been telling people I haven&#x27;t &quot;coded&quot; for almost 6 months now, I only interface with agentic setups and only open my IDE to make copy and config changes.<p>I understand we are all in different camps for a multitude of reasons;<p>- The jouissance of rote coding and abstraction<p>- The tree of knowledge specifically in programming, and which branches and nodes we each currently sit at in our understanding<p>- Technical paradigms that humans may have argued about have now shifted to obvious answers for agentic harnesses (think something like TDD, I for one barely used that as a style because I&#x27;ve mostly worked in startups building apps and found the cost of my labour not worth it, but agentic harnesse loops absolutely excel at it)<p>- The geography and size of the markets we work in<p>- The complexity of the subject matter &#x2F; domain expertise<p>- The cost prohibitive nature of token based programming (not everyone can afford it, and the big fish seemingly have quite the advantage going fourth)<p>- Agentic coding has proven it can build UI&#x27;s very easily, and depending on experience, it can build a very very many things easily. it excels in having feedback loops such as linting or simple javascript errors, which are observability problems in my opinion. Once it can do full stack observability (APM, system, network), it&#x27;s ability to reason and correct problems on the fly for any complex system seems overly easy from my purvue.<p>- At the human nature level, some individuals prefer to think in 0&#x27;s and 1&#x27;s, some in words, some inbetween, and so on, what type of communication do agentic setups prefer?<p>With some of that above intuition that is easily up for debate, I&#x27;ve decided to lean 100% into agentic coding, I think it will be absolutely everywhere and obviously with humans in the loop but I don&#x27;t think humans will need to review the pull requests. I am personally treating it as an existential threat to my career after having seen enough of what it&#x27;s capable of. (with some imagination and a bit of a gambling spirit, as us mere mortals surely can&#x27;t predict the future)<p>With my gambit, I&#x27;m not choosing to exit the tech scene and instead optimistically investing my mental prowess into figuring out where &quot;humans in the loop&quot; will be positioned. Currently I&#x27;m looking into CI level tooling, the known being code quality, and all the various forms of software testing paradigms. The emerging evals in my mind will keep evolving and beyond testing our ideas of model intelligence and chat bot responses will do a lot more.<p>---<p>A more practical rant: If you are building a recommendation engine for A and B, the engine could have X amount of modules that return a score which when all combined make up the final decision between A and B. Forgive me but let&#x27;s just use dating as an example. A product manager would say we need a new module to calculate relevance between A and B based off their food preferences. An agentic harness can easily code that module and create the tests for it. The product manager could ask an LLM to make a list of 1000 reasons why two people might be suitable for dating. The agent could easily go away and code and test all those modules and probably maintain technical consistency but drift from the companies philosophical business model. I am looking into building &quot;semantic linting&quot; for codebases, how can the agent maintain the code so it aligns with the company&#x27;s business model. And if for whatever reason those 1000 modules need to be refactored, how can the agent maintain the code so it aligns with the company&#x27;s business model. Essentially trying to make a feedback loop between the companies needs and the code itself. To stop the agent and the business from drifting in either directions, and allowing for automatic feedback loops for the agent to fix them. In short, I think there will be new tools invented that us human&#x27;s will be mastering as to Karpathy&#x27;s point.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
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  I downvote you but I don&#x27;t flag OP, despite feeling the same about both of your posts. OP is at the very least trying to understand, even if they feel it is unfair, they leave the space for difference of opinion, not being <i>right</i>.


type: comment
by: tiffanyh
text:
  Some good comments in this old post.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43823851">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43823851</a>


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
text:
  The way it works is:<p>A company adopts some software with a free but not copyleft license. Adopts means they declare &quot;this is good, we will use it&quot;.<p>Developers help develop the software (free of charge) and the company says thank you very much for the free labour.<p>Company puts that software into everything it does, and pushes it into the infrastructure of everything it does.<p>Some machines run that software because an individual developer put it there, other machines run that software because a company put it there, some times by exerting some sort of power for it to end up there (for example, economic incentives to vendors, like android).<p>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>But now that software is already running in a lot of machines.<p>Then the company says &quot;we&#x27;re going to tweak the software a bit, so that it&#x27;s no longer inter-operable with the free version. You have to install our proprietary version, or you&#x27;re locked out&quot; (out of whatever we&#x27;re discussing hypothetically. Could be a network, a standard, a protocol, etc).<p>Developers go &quot;shit, I guess we need to run the proprietary version now. we lost control of it.&quot;<p>This is what happened e.g. with chrome. There&#x27;s chromium, anyone can build it. But that&#x27;s not chrome. And chrome is what everybody uses because google has lock-in power. Then google says &quot;oh I&#x27;m going to disallow you running the extensions you like, so we can show you more ads&quot;. Then they make tweaks to chrome so that websites only get rendered well if they use certain APIs, so now competitors to Chrome are forced to implement those APIs, but those aren&#x27;t public.<p>And all of this was initially build by free labour, which google took, by people who thought they were contributing to some commons in a sense.<p>Copyleft licenses protect against this. Part of the license says: if you use these licenses, and you make changes to the software, you have to share the changes as well, you can&#x27;t keep them for yourself&quot;.


type: comment
by: tecoholic
text:
  The email client might not show attachments, but will still let you know there is a message. Pixelfed is not letting the user know there is even a message.<p>Also you seem to be responding to the original post or just the first paragraph of this post. He understands the differences and the way he sees the differences is the whole post.


type: comment
by: OsrsNeedsf2P
text:
  Hi OP! In case you&#x27;re still reading these comments, I wanted to give some feedback. I played it over the last couple days with a total of about 12 different people. Our busiest games had 7 players in them.<p>The product: The accessibility is key. Telling people to &quot;scan the QR code&quot; is great for getting it going.<p>The games: They&#x27;re great. I love the variety and creativity. One problem is I had friends saying &quot;They hate 75% of the games&quot;, and I don&#x27;t know how you fix that - The games some players hate, other players _love_. But as someone who used to be in the game industry, I can promise you trying to make a game nobody hates is how you end up with bland flavor. Please don&#x27;t end up there.<p>The lag: I don&#x27;t know what it is - are the channels backlogged or what - But I would say 20-30% of devices are _unplayable_. It&#x27;s not like the inputs are delayed, it&#x27;s that they&#x27;re fully unpredictable about whether they will register (and for how long). Same browsers, same Android OEM, same Wifi network and just... lag. The game says 1000ms+, but even when it says 200 it&#x27;s laggy. This is probably your biggest issue, since in a 5 player party game, 1 or 2 people not having fun kills the mood.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I accept your downvote. All I ask, if you want to determine who is acting in good faith here, is that you click through OP&#x27;s submission history: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=silexia">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=silexia</a>


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
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  &gt; The researcher-turned-educator-turned-investor<p>This is enough qualification to discard the opinion of this individual on any topic, but especially artificial intelligence. To wit:<p>&gt; &quot;I think for a lot of AI models, the benefit is so much greater than the harm,&quot; he said. &quot;The death of any single person is absolutely tragic,&quot; Ng added, referencing recent suicides that allegedly involved the use of AI. &quot;At the same time, I am nervous about one or two anecdotes leading to stifling regulations.&quot;<p>This guy is just here to water down the kool-aid so everyone can take a drink.


type: comment
by: silexia
text:
  I am not arbitrarily defined by a state or a county, are you? Bizarre way to think...<p>I am defined by my family and my work and hobbies and my other relationships.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.gnome.org&#x2F;sophieh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;gnome-in-2025-some-numbers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.gnome.org&#x2F;sophieh&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;gnome-in-2025-som...</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46402521">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46402521</a>)


type: comment
by: rastrian
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  Agreed, I conflated FP with “typed FP.” My claim is mainly about static types + ADTs&#x2F;exhaustiveness improving refactors&#x2F;review&#x2F;tests. Racket can get FP benefits, but absent static typing you rely more on contracts&#x2F;tests (or Typed Racket), which is a different reliability tradeoff.


type: comment
by: computerfriend
text:
  &gt; better UX with PGP instead of SSH<p>This might be true of comparing GPG to SSH-via-PIV, but there&#x27;s a better way with far superior UX: derive an SSH key from a FIDO2 slot on the YubiKey.


type: comment
by: mistercow
text:
  &gt; Color pixels drain more energy than grayscale ones. Personally found my phone lasting twice as long as before. Over time, a considerable extension of your phone’s lifespan.<p>What? Why? Why would you even entertain that as a hypothesis?


type: comment
by: CuriouslyC
text:
  Not much of a stretch to consider that the brain is wired to initiate biochemistry that modifies the germ line.


type: comment
by: encrypted_bird
text:
  While I agree with your overall point (that Sony&#x27;s customer support in this case is terrible), I feel it also illustrates the biggest flaw in SAAS gaming and the inability to back up game installers (á la GOG) if one wishes to: that if someone else dictates your access to games you supposedly own, then you don&#x27;t actually own it. Access = ownership.


type: story
by: saltbo
title: Show HN: Supabase Auth Site – An out-of-the-box auth site powered by Supabase
url: https://github.com/saltbo/supabase-auth-site
text:
  Supabase Auth Site is a modern, drop-in authentication solution for your Supabase projects. It solves the problem of building and maintaining custom auth pages (Sign In, Sign Up, Forgot Password, OAuth) by providing a pre-built, highly polished application that you can deploy and configure instantly.<p>Unlike other templates, you don&#x27;t need to touch the code. Every aspect of the site—from branding and colors to auth providers and security settings—is managed through a built-in Admin Panel.


type: comment
by: adamddev1
text:
  I at first thought it was nice to save the wrapping, but you save yourself sooo much pain, ugliness and mistakes pattern matching trying to distinguish the types once you just use tagged unions.


type: comment
by: whycome
text:
  2 Star Trek tv shows airing and one in development and a movie came out. West coast grunge scene in full effect. Kurt cobain died. MLB baseball strike after a killer Montreal expos team and then no World Series. OJ trial. Friends debuted. Channel tunnel opened. Mandela elected. PlayStation debut. Amazon founded. Yahoo founded. Netscape founded. USA World Cup. NAFTA. QR code invented. The Downward Spiral. Justin Bieber born. Shohei ohtani. Born. Nixon died. Jackie Kennedy died. Senna died. Ukraine gave up its nukes. Guantanamo reopened. Kim Il-sung Died. Forrest Gump.<p>1994 was wild


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  I&#x27;ve only skimmed it since I&#x27;m between Christmas and a longer vacation that starts in 24 hours, but this actually looks really neat! I&#x27;ll definitely take a closer look to at these skills in depth — but this is exactly the kind of thing I&#x27;ve been telling people to take the time to invest in for their agentic environments. :)


type: comment
by: 1123581321
text:
  I think that&#x27;s part of the convergence, too. A perceived war between scrappy honest influencers and legacy journalism, some long fallout from game journalism controversies a decade ago. Why would someone read a mainstream games journalist about this story, either? Same for tying a hardware console&#x27;s fortunes to whatever Microsoft is doing with Activision.<p>All three (four counting Steam) consoles update every several years. A quick Wikipedia skim tells you almost everything you need to know about that. They&#x27;re all packaging the AMD and Nvidia hardware available along some price-performance point (they all have access to the same tradeoffs) and releasing developer SDKs. Each one has a store, some deals and a slightly different take on how they integrate streaming and retro games.<p>I have trouble seeing how attitude affects executing any of this. The attitude only comes into play because Xbox has to respond to this meme in a way that placates gamers.


type: comment
by: kgarten
text:
  Why not link to the official recording ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp32" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp3...</a>


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  We are not supposed to use past posting as proof on HN, we are supposed to respond to what was said. One of those unwritten rules which most get. Do you really believe that I can&#x27;t find something in all of your posting history that does not conflict with  what you say here?<p>Edit: Your editing your original post proves my point.


type: comment
by: jjmarr
text:
  &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>queue rationalist fathers microdosing nicotine patches before conception to give their kids the best chance at abusing drugs.


type: comment
by: archagon
text:
  I&#x27;m also defined by my friends and family, but if I decide to move states because I don&#x27;t want to pay taxes, they&#x27;re certainly not going to follow me. As with most people, my social circle is largely built on connections in my local community, and is not portable.<p>How much money would it take for me to leave them behind and start anew? Certainly not 5% of my wealth (or even 20%). And even that calculation changes completely once a long-term partner and&#x2F;or children are in the picture.


type: comment
by: biophysboy
text:
  Wow, I had no idea either of these existed. I feel like they could give this another shot, given how sophisticated contract manufacturing has become.


type: comment
by: wpm
text:
  It&#x27;s simple.<p>The people in charge of such decisions were too stupid or self-assured to realize or worry about such obvious problems.<p>There is no meritocracy. These billion dollar brands and endeavors, that have thousands of livelihoods tied up in them, are managed by absolutely brain dead bozos.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  The bot posts what @bsandro posted on lobsters <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;n7u47v&#x2F;liberating_bluetooth_on_esp32" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;n7u47v&#x2F;liberating_bluetooth_on_esp32</a>


type: comment
by: dv35z
text:
  Sales &amp; Marketing guide &#x2F; playbook for Technical People would be great. I am a solution&#x2F;sales engineer and would find a ton of value in that.


type: comment
by: kaonwarb
text:
  The author’s ideological bent against Big Tech shows through most clearly in the passage on Uber:<p>&gt; Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car. But what was created as &quot;ride-sharing&quot; was in fact a way to 1) destroy competition and 2) make a shittier service while people producing the work were paid less and lost labour rights<p>There are valid complaints about Uber, but most people consider it a materially better service than taxis most of the time. They vote that way with their wallets, long after VC subsidies ended, and often even when it costs _more_ than a taxi.


type: comment
by: jaggederest
text:
  You used to have Xbox Live Gold and Silver, they ought to just make a Bronze level that allows free multiplayer but spams you with ads, Silver allows multiplayer ad-free and a limited selection of rotated games ala the epic store freebies, and gold includes the Game Pass functionality + everything else and a special cosmetic tag so people know you&#x27;re a Serious Gamer. Could even go with Xbox Live Diamond which is $100 a month and only includes a diamond tag and some microsoft store credit each month, to capture the financially irresponsible market.


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  That&#x27;s not how the Apple II -- Woz&#x27;s machine -- was. It was a very open and pro-hacker device.<p>If we&#x27;re talking about Woz specifically, it&#x27;s just a different generation of Apple than after the Macintosh.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I perfectly well trust that you can. In this instance, there is ample proof that the poster does not adhere to HN&#x27;s submission guidelines. If that&#x27;s an uncouth judgement, please exercise the downvote.


type: comment
by: Telaneo
text:
  I imagine the going Xbox 360 -&gt; Xbox 720 would just have been asking to people to joke about it being 720p (even if not actually, the picture quality joke basically writes itself).<p>The solution though was obviously not the brainworm reasoning that got us the Xbox One (nobody was going to call their console &#x27;The One&#x27;, cf. &#x27;X-bone&#x27;). Your alternative of going straight to the Xbox 4 would probably have been considered a loss by the executives, but I imagine it at least wouldn&#x27;t have been made fun of beyond the release period, since it would have been clear why they did the change.


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  To be honest that&#x27;s most of my pitch for Codex in the blog post. Codex works great without any configuration, and amazingly with. If you want to spend less time configuring then maybe Codex is the right agentic system for you.<p>I don&#x27;t want to restate my thesis too much — but I really do believe it&#x27;s worth experimenting with these tools every couple of months to see if the latest updates better match your preferences.


type: comment
by: iammrpayments
text:
  I was trying to rewrite some UI library with html sometime ago following the W3C accessibility specs and found out a lot of patterns can’t be done with pure html and require javascript unfortunately.


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  I&#x27;m glad for you that you&#x27;ve had good experiences so far! &quot;Diagnosed me in 5 minutes&quot; doesn&#x27;t sound like anywhere near a complex medical issue though.<p>I certainly keep <i>trying</i> to obtain good results from the system, ie extend trust, but situations routinely run aground. Can you really say it&#x27;s a &quot;trust issue&quot; when the problem is that I dig into details of situations and repeatedly discover how so-called professionals abjectly drop key issues on the floor?<p>Latest example: I need a new dishwasher. I should be able to read some reviews, spend $1k, and get the problem solved, right? Guess again - first delivery, a dent (crease) in the tub from the thing being slammed so hard that its plastic frame deformed and pushed up into the metal tub. Second delivery - loud noise from wash motor. I try to engage with warranty service figuring I&#x27;d be fine with them swapping the whole pump assembly. Nope, the guy that comes can&#x27;t even be assed to do his job either! &quot;Oh that&#x27;s normal so there is nothing to fix, this is a good model, you should keep it&quot;. Third try, wash motor sounds a little better but still has a problem. The third set of delivery guys didn&#x27;t even take away unit #2 for the exchange (even though I even pushed back when they said someone else was going to come later). I had wanted to simply pay money to solve the problem, but instead I&#x27;m left with two noisy dishwashers and a big ole project in my court. (do I keep pushing this exchange button? do I just order a new pump assembly and fix it myself, considering the bonus dishwasher compensation for that? do I say fuck it to the whole brand and rethink the purchase decision?)<p>Sure, I could drop my standards here, check out, and stop caring about the details. The dented tub probably wouldn&#x27;t leak a decade down the line, the loud motor isn&#x27;t really that big of a deal if I only run it overnight, and if the motor needs replacing in a few years it&#x27;s only a $200 repair. But should not giving in to this &quot;best effort&quot; service (after paying $1k) really be considered a &quot;me&quot; problem? It seems more like an economy problem, with me only being exceptional for noticing, having some expertise on how these things should function, and having the willingness to push back.<p>(although I am thankful that the thing in the front of my mind that I&#x27;m frustrated with is an appliance rather than dealing with the medical system again)


type: comment
by: encrypted_bird
text:
  &quot;electronic passes&quot;<p>&quot;pay by toll&quot;<p>These are still toll roads, just a more modern iteration. Toll road ≠ physical cash


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  Agree on the economics. I’m not arguing for full formal proofs; I’m arguing for low-cost enforcement of invariants (ADTs&#x2F;state machines&#x2F;exhaustiveness) that makes refactors safer and prevents silent invalid states. Human processes will always drift, so you enforce what you can at the system boundary and rely on reconciliation&#x2F;observability for the rest.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  These baiting questions and resulting wasteful discussions are just uninteresting. Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source of their publication. I say &quot;should&quot; instead of &quot;must&quot; because this is not a public forum, but a private one, and as such, the rules of moderation are not at our discretion. My advice is to accept them and participate productively within the norms, or start your own community which is devoid of any perceived bias, in your own vision of what is reasonable.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment or simple education.  Perhaps what makes it a mistake is now it&#x27;s yet another vehicle for distraction content gaming for attention space.  Parents will attest, that it&#x27;s wonderful to put a tablet in front of a child to instantly hush them, but then it becomes a dependency where it is increasingly harder to control outbursts of emotion without resorting to the tablet.  It&#x27;s become a like a drug to children, and the mistake is in seeing the process as benevolent until this far along.


type: comment
by: CuriouslyC
text:
  Not just epigenetics, cells (and probably organisms) have mechanisms to induce mutations at elevated rates (e.g. E. Coli lacZ mutation under pressure). I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if nervous systems are elegantly wired to both epigentic and mutagenic levers to accelerate evolution through stimulus guided modifications rather than just raw survival&#x2F;selection.


type: comment
by: Projectiboga
text:
  Type 1 insulin user. One the alcohol should dry before the needle goes in. Two faster is better, within reason. Three about one in a few hundred shots hits a nerve bundle. That really hurts, but resolves after a short while. Both insulin and these GLP-1 injections are subcutaneous not intravenous which once a patient gets the skill it becomes like riding a bike, in that it becomes easier than imagined.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  You mean psychology? There’s no hard evidence there. The papers you’re citing are using human subjects in that sort of way. It’s pseudoscience at best<p>Medicine that involves testing human subject response to treatments is very different from the papers you’re citing and does involve falsifiable theses (usually, definitely not always).


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  Why did you edit your post? It had some worth, but you edited into something of no worth, limp partisan bullshit.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  The vulnerability that opens the talk, where they walk through verifying a Linux ISO&#x27;s signature and hash and then boot into a malicious image, impacts both GnuPG and Sequoia.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Popular in 2023 (67 points, 72 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384587">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384587</a><p>Also discussed in 2015 (51 points, 35 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765063">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765063</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I clicked into OP&#x27;s submission history and remembered that they were not a good-faith user, so it was more intellectually honest to cut to the chase.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  I think trying to &quot;tune&quot; your kids in any way is asking to be disappointed. My three kids could not be more different and they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc.<p>If &quot;microRNA&quot; profiles have any influence, I would wager it&#x27;s very small.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
text:
  It&#x27;s harmful if the license of the rewrites if less protective of users, and then the rewrite ends up being very popular.


type: comment
by: Molecule4373
text:
  Imo it is just a matter of time until linux replaces Windows as the primary gaming OS. What ripple effects that will have idk, but I def think Windows will primarily become a casual computing OS


type: comment
by: encrypted_bird
text:
  I always get confused by people saying public transportation makes no sense for rural people. I think it makes <i>more</i> sense, provided you use the right kind of public transportation for the right kind of rural community.<p>A large, spread-out community? Perhaps not so much.<p>But a small town where 80% of the people commute to surrounding cities? That&#x27;d be a great case for 1 or more commuter train, depending on direction and demand.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  Agree, I didn’t give testing enough space. A proper treatment would’ve doubled the post, so I’m writing a separate follow-up on testing.<p>Pure functions&#x2F;immutability help a lot because tests become representative and cheap. I’d only push back on “tests of all equivalent scenarios” being sufficient, the space explodes and many real failures live at I&#x2F;O&#x2F;concurrency&#x2F;distributed boundaries. My intended claim is that FP&#x2F;ADTs&#x2F;types reduce the state space and improve the ROI of tests, not replace them.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  It&#x27;s a <i>scarce</i> good, which loses most of its value if overused.<p>The standard Econ solution is to set a price that maximizes throughput. At least some toll roads are attempting to hit that price.


type: comment
by: anymouse123456
text:
  No argument here.<p>If you’re running things differently and getting tons of value with little investment, kudos! Keep on keeping on!<p>What I’ve seen is that the vast majority of teams that pick up k8s also drink the micro service kool-aid and build a mountain of bullshit that costs far more than it creates.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source<p>They are: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=foxnews.com">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=foxnews.com</a>


type: comment
by: hmm37
text:
  This is great.  A few years ago, I decided to buy a WII U, since I have basically every Nintendo console system since the NES.  But the gamepad screen was broken and I couldn&#x27;t sync the gamepad to the screen until I fixed it.  And I tried to see if there was any alternative, but there wasn&#x27;t until now.  Hopefully that means more WII Us can be saved...  You can sometimes find used Wii Us for $30 without the gamepad, while the gamepad itself costs around $100..


type: comment
by: sodafountan
text:
  I used to follow system wars. I used to love following which home console was performing the best and then hopping online and trolling the people who bought the console with the least support. I was a huge fan of the 360 when I was younger. It had a superior controller, awesome online play, and decent graphics. I was never a fan of Sony&#x27;s consoles. I didn&#x27;t like the controller layout, and the exclusives never appealed to me. I typically owned a Nintendo and a Microsoft console when I was a kid. I started with the N64, GameCube, 360, and I had an Xbox One.<p>I stopped following mainstream gaming not too long ago, to me, I just couldn&#x27;t care less at this point. The Series X doesn&#x27;t appeal to me at all as I&#x27;ve gotten older.<p>It would be interesting if Microsoft went the way of Sega and stopped producing home consoles. I still think they have the superior controller.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  I liked the coin bucket because there was a skill about how an efficient driver could toss the change into it without even stopping.


type: comment
by: jtbaker
text:
  I was able to add it as a &quot;Color Filters&quot; &quot;quick control&quot; toggle from the top right drag-down menu (not sure what you call that) in iOS 17. We&#x27;ll see how long I last with it. I&#x27;m intrigued as well.


type: comment
by: encrypted_bird
text:
  Ah yes thr classic &quot;the homeless are ruining my day!&quot; argument.<p>The issue here isn&#x27;t the homeless; it&#x27;s that the infrastructure designed to help the homeless (shelters, reeducation programs, free home address programs, and so forth) are either nonexistent or underfunded.<p>Don&#x27;t blame the homeless for the problems of your society; blame the problems of your society for the homeless.


type: comment
by: threethirtytwo
text:
  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>In the spectrum of runtime errors statically typed languages mathematically and logically HAVE less errors. That by itself is the definition of more reliable. This isn’t even a scientific thing related to falsifiability. This comes from pure mathematical logic. In science nothing can be proven, things can only be falsified. But in math and logic things can be proven and it is provable that static types are more reliable than untyped.<p>It is definitely not vibes and feels. Not all of banking uses statically typed languages but they are as a result living with a less reliable system then the alternative and that is a logical invariant.<p>There are many reasons why someone would choose untyped over typed but reliability is not a reason why they would do this unless they are ignorant.


type: comment
by: idiotsecant
text:
  Toll roads are corrosive to the American spirit. They are low-trust, f-u-i-got-mine, and they breed resentment both between economic classes and between people who follow the rules and people who don&#x27;t care about them. They are the HOA of traffic management schemes.<p>Toll roads are the worst. The fact that there are increasing numbers of them is as much a bellwether of the death of the American experiment experiment as anything else.


type: comment
by: Avamander
text:
  Debian and most Debian derivatives have HTTP-only mirrors. Which I&#x27;ve found absolutely crazy for years. Though nobody seems to care. Maybe it&#x27;ll change this time around.<p>Though this type of juggling knives is not unique to Linux. AMD and many other hardware vendors ship executables over unencrypted connections for Windows. All just hoping that not a single similar vulnerability or confusion can be found.


type: comment
by: Telaneo
text:
  I doubt the war was truly lost on that faithful day in 2013. It was still possible to save, and Phil Spencer even did a decent amount of work trying to reclaim the goodwill of people by pushing for things like backwards compatibility for previous gen Xboxes.<p>I think the larger problem is just that Xbox doesn&#x27;t really know what itself is. Sony has the same problem to a lesser extent. None of the current gen consoles have any exclusives of note. Sony have a few, while Microsoft have basically none. That alone gives Sony a big advantage. Meanwhile, in the PS4 days, people would buy one just for Bloodborne, while in the 360 days, they&#x27;d buy one just for Halo. Now Halo is on PC, so no longer an exclusive, and while the same goes for Sony, they still retain a bit of a default console status, which helps draw in the couch console crown who aren&#x27;t interested in the PC. If you want a traditional console experience, you buy a PS5, since there&#x27;s no real reason to buy the Xbox even if you did care to compare them side by side.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  I just drive normal and stick to the right unless I&#x27;m passing and try to maintain a good speed the whole time - no breaking and reaccelerating. I often see the people weaving and then pass them 5 minutes later because they tried to pass on the right and got stuck behind a semi. Ha.


type: comment
by: asmor
text:
  I don&#x27;t get the hangup on having multiple accounts. The point of AP is that you can <i>read</i> any kind post, not <i>create</i> any kind of post.<p>There is a truth to consumption over communication, but that is in the destruction of third spaces and the increasing difficulty in making friends. The fediverse is a force <i>against</i> that in my view, even if it has some of the creature comforts of regular social media.


type: comment
by: jasonwatkinspdx
text:
  No, because reproducing the fundamental is the thing. Saying otherwise is kinda like me saying I&#x27;m gonna take a voice call, run it through a filter that generates a ton of distortion harmonics, then seperate out those distortion harmonics, and then call it a &quot;tone&quot; of your voice.<p>But also the original post was about a 7hz tone somehow resonating with a chicken&#x27;s skull cavity, which if you know the basic wave equation relating wavelength with frequency is an absurdity. The waves involved are multiple orders of magnitude too big to couple to a volume that small. They&#x27;ll just diffract around like nothing.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  He&#x27;s saying that&#x27;s only a fraction of the actual cost of providing your rides for a month. Most of the funding for transit systems comes from appropriations, not fares.


type: comment
by: tstrimple
text:
  If that&#x27;s the case, trucking companies should be paying 99.99% of taxes to maintain roads. They are responsible for almost all of the deterioration.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;products&#x2F;109954" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;products&#x2F;109954</a>


type: comment
by: silexia
text:
  This British guy is attempting to censor other countries speech while living in the USA. Free speech is fundamental to US values and he should be booted out if he is not a citizen.


type: comment
by: notatoad
text:
  using AI to generate a set of if&#x2F;else rules still seems like a valid use for AI.<p>if anything, that&#x27;s the ideal outcome.  you still get deterministic, testable behaviour, but save some work to get there.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  I think you’re both pointing at the same tradeoff: “untagged” unions feel lighter, but you often pay it back in ad-hoc narrowing (shape checks&#x2F;heuristics) and ambiguity once variants overlap.<p>Tagged unions&#x2F;ADTs make the discriminant explicit, which is exactly why they tend to be reliability-friendly: exhaustive matches + explicit constructors reduce “guessing” and refactor breakage.<p>That said, I agree the ergonomics matter, TS-style discriminated unions are basically “tagged” too once you add a kind field, for example.


type: comment
by: andsoitis
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s in the interest of NASA (and the ESA) to hype the importance of the magnetosphere. After all, they are given money to investigate it<p>I don’t know that that is a good reason to cause you to  you think they’re lying.<p>NASA also extensively investigates Earth&#x27;s atmosphere.<p>They use missions like Aura, CALIPSO, and upcoming ones like AOS and INCUS to monitor ozone, clouds, aerosols, and storms, providing crucial data for forecasts and climate science.


type: comment
by: keyle
text:
  You&#x27;re about a decade too late with that argument. The best argument for dynamic types systems, is enjoying debugging in production.<p>In dynamic languages, you are the type system.


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  I really hate UI button mismatch in steam. I grew up on PS controllers, I couldn&#x27;t even tell you the xbox layout from memory. I was once forced to use a Switch controller (was traveling, forgot my main) while the in-screen UI was XBox. I had so much trouble at first, especially since the xbox and switch controllers share button names but even the &quot;x&quot; made me think of the playstation x. Just some musings.


type: comment
by: asmor
text:
  &gt; When I should be engaging with the real world and people in my life.<p>While I appreciate the sentiment, I don&#x27;t think you need to couple &quot;offline interaction&quot; with this criticism. As a neurodivergent person in more than one way I appreciate being able to interact with people that face similar challenges to me and understand me. The problem is that social media is increasingly designed to not facilitate that, but content distribution.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  I so want to like these vibe coding agents, and sometimes I do, but it really does kind of suck the joy out of things.<p>What I was hoping would be that I could effectively farm out work to my metaphorical AI intern while I get to focus on fun and&#x2F;or interesting work.  Sometimes that is what happens and it makes me very happy when it does. A lot of the time, however, it generates code that is wrong, or incomplete (while claiming it is complete), and so I end up having to babysit the code, either by further prompting or just editing the code.<p>And then it makes a lot of software engineering become &quot;type prompt, sit and wait a minute, look at the code, repeat&quot;, which means I&#x27;m decidedly <i>not</i> focusing the fun part of the project and instead I&#x27;m just larping as a manager who backseat codes.<p>A friend of mine said that he likes to do this backwards: he writes a lot of the code himself and then he uses Claude Code to debug and automate writing tedious stuff like unit tests, and I think that might make it a little less mind numbing.<p>Also, very tangential, and maybe my prompting game isn&#x27;t completely on point here, but Codex seems decidedly bad at concurrent code [1].  I was working on some lock-free data store stuff, and Codex <i>really</i> wanted to add a bunch of lock files that were wholly unnecessary.  Oh, and it kept trying to add mutexes into Rust, no matter how many times I tell it I don&#x27;t want locks and it should use one-shot channels instead. To be fair, when I went and fixed the functions myself in a few spots and then told it to use that as an example, it did get a little better.<p>[1] I think this particular case is because it&#x27;s trained on example code from Github and most code involving concurrency uses locks (incorrectly or at least sub-optimally). I guess this particular problem may be more of the fault of American universities teaching concurrent programming incorrectly at the undergrad level.


type: comment
by: RijilV
text:
  I keep on pestering folks who work at Apple to add color filters to the per-app accessibility options, who knows maybe there&#x27;s someone there who&#x27;ll read this. (Edit: there is an internal feature request already)<p>Since iOS of a couple of versions ago, you can trigger color filters on and off from shortcuts, and get a similar behaviour, but it isn&#x27;t perfect and sometimes glitches. I do this so my photos app and a few others are in color, but the rest are in grey scale.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  This misses the entire point of Stein as much as AI misses the point of Stein, reduces it to simple and literal style; it is good because I feel it is good. Stein and the minimalists she inspired (Hemingway, Bernhard, Brautigan, Beckett, etc) are all great examples of the failings of AI and most people when it comes to literature, they miss the subtext. Unlike AI, most people get the subtext even if they don&#x27;t understand the subtext, which is the point of subtext, to effect instead of preach. Unless your interest in reading is to become a writer, you are not supposed to get subtext, you are just supposed to feel it, rely on that innate understanding which the majority of people are great at getting,<p>Edit: Stein is one of my favorites and The Making of Americans is the American Epic and THE Great American Novel.


type: comment
by: Spivak
text:
  Infra person here: you will need external monitoring at some point because checking that your site is up all over the world isn&#x27;t something you want to do in house. Not because you couldn&#x27;t but because their outages are likely to be uncorrelated with yours—AWS notwithstanding.<p>Anyway you&#x27;ll have one of these things anyway and I haven&#x27;t seen one yet that doesn&#x27;t let you monitor your cert and send you expiration notices in advance.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  &gt; We built Iris after watching friends spend weeks doom-scrolling Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com and broker sites — only to miss good units or run into stale &#x2F; scammy listings.<p>How does Iris help avoid stale&#x2F;scammy listing, using AI or other means?<p>&gt; Verified listings only from property managers, owners, and authorized agents<p>Who else besides these parties is listing properties for rent - and how do they contribute to the aforementioned category of listings?


type: comment
by: Qem
text:
  I think a more obvious candidate is self-selection. People with known mental issues that want a pet are wise to choose those that demand less maintenance. It&#x27;s hard to go walk the dog while undergoing a mental breakdown. Cats, on the other hand, don&#x27;t require people to walk them, and are mostly self-cleaning. They are a safer pick for people whose routines are subject to sporadic disruption.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Because that doesn&#x27;t get nearly close enough to the cost of roads. Interstates alone have, I believe, cost us over 25 trillion. Just interstates, not all highways.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Because the cost is not an issue for higher income people. The poor either sacrifice something else to pay the toll, or they take a (likely longer, slower, or more congested) alternate route to avoid the tolls. This ends up costing them more time, which of course is a fixed quantity per day, so they again end up sacrificing. In a way it&#x27;s regressive even if they avoid it.


type: comment
by: et1337
text:
  I tried it for a while, it was fun explaining it to people, but didn’t actually help much. I ended up blocking all time wasters except HN, which is almost monochrome anyway.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  I questioned the same thing over a decade ago with my then-shiny Samsung Galaxy S5:  At the lowest of its low-power battery-saving modes, it drained the color from the screen and made it greyscale.<p>Perhaps it can make sense for LCDs:  After all, LCDs operate by blocking backlight.<p>Blocking less backlight (by <i>area</i>) by using greyscale might make sense:  It seems obvious that a higher perceived brightness can be achieved for any given pixel if using greyscale instead of using colors, just because less of the backlight&#x27;s area is occluded.<p>And then:  Usability can be maintained while also reducing backlight intensity.<p>Reduced backlight intensity definitely does have a big effect on battery life.<p>So -- for LCDs -- it might make sense.<p>(But even if it makes sense for LCD, the S5 happened to use one OLED variation or another, not LCD.  Perhaps there&#x27;s a non-linear relationship between subpixel brightness and power consumption, and keeping 3 subpixels (RGB) barely-illuminated is more efficient than keeping 1 subpixel (G, say) more-illuminated is?<p>Or, what I determined to be most-likely at that time:  Samsung was simply an uncoordinated wreck that was full of shit.)


type: comment
by: tra3
text:
  Sorry to hear this happened to you. Everyone&#x27;s piling on, like they&#x27;ve never made mistakes. With no &quot;hard&quot; limits, it&#x27;s almost like google wants this to happen. Have you tried contacting your credit card company? They may be able to chargeback google. Maybe you can make a case about idle capacity?<p>I have enabled some google services to play with (maps, calendars), that required me to put my credit card down. I&#x27;m thinking I should get a prepaid credit card so if things get out of hand, they&#x27;ll shut me down rather than keep charging me until my max credit limit.


type: comment
by: anymouse123456
text:
  This is extremely sexy and represents a great trade off where the ergonomics can be improved without sacrificing the incredible investments in a high performance library.


type: comment
by: positron26
text:
  1984 was published in 1949.  GNU and the FSF are contemporary with Neuromancer.  The BSD license predates the GPL and the idea of copyleft by several years.  It takes a village to raise a child.


type: comment
by: aprilthird2021
text:
  I feel like you dont live in the bay area. In peak traffic time, those lanes cost like $20+ to drive in.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  A car can go from anywhere to anywhere else at any time.<p>A rail system, no matter how fast and efficient, can never get close to matching that.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  So you decided to act in bad faith to make my response look like bad faith?<p>&gt;Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that&#x27;s easier to criticize. Assume good faith.


type: comment
by: wizardforhire
text:
  You know avoiding the pain, struggle and pseudo-science of gray pixels… you could just turn every notification off and remove any social media. Call me crazy, but I reckon this will go a lot further than any monochromatic color scheme in achieving the desired results.


type: comment
by: Dwedit
text:
  Nobody tell them about how much stuff can go into SVG.  That can even be inlined within HTML source code.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Yes, they&#x27;d rather spend 2 hours a day commuting and then grow fat and die young from heart disease. And before anyone says anything: I used to live in Houston. Truly an awful, awful place to live. It&#x27;s not even a concrete jungle, it&#x27;s more like a concrete prairie.


type: comment
by: lelandfe
text:
  Note that the transition to `auto` in that post relies on `interpolate-size` which has yet to land on Firefox or Safari, and neither have movement right now.


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  A good start would be to make it a criminal offence to sell the right to execute code on somebody&#x27;s device without their consent. And to tax into oblivion any service that can&#x27;t function without such consent.<p>We can work our way up to eliminating all targeted advertising later, lets start with the stuff that&#x27;s indistinguishable from malware.


type: comment
by: Uptrenda
text:
  I think I get more what they&#x27;re going for now. A technical person can setup a server for themselves and setup services to work for multiple projects. But its complex to get everything right. Trying to reuse a server, setting up routing, domains, and so on can be tedious. I guess they abstract that problem. The wild card domains -&gt; VM is a neat mapping. Then making it easy to use your resources and dispose of VMs.<p>I guess its an innovation at the resource management layer where you create &#x2F; manage VMs. It&#x27;s interesting they choose to give away individual plans. That&#x27;s very generous. Though I&#x27;d feel bad using any of their resources.


type: comment
by: aprilthird2021
text:
  Palantir makes AI to determine if who you are auto droning is a valid target or not. You can imagine why people dislike that, especially given that it&#x27;s been deployed in Palestine


type: comment
by: PeterHolzwarth
text:
  Adding &quot;jk&quot; after a casual prejudiced insult to a demographic doesn&#x27;t undo the prejudiced insult.


type: story
by: tejas3732
title: Show HN: I analyzed 50 directories to see what makes money
url: https://directoryideas.ai/directory-trends-report
text:
  Hi HN<p>Over the last few weeks, I analyzed 50+ real directories to understand what’s actually working in 2025.<p>Instead of opinions or hype, I focused on:<p>Real traffic data (SimilarWeb)<p>SEO &amp; keyword shifts (Ahrefs &#x2F; Semrush)<p>Public revenue signals<p>Category-level patterns (what’s growing vs saturated)<p>The goal was simple: If someone were starting a directory today, where should they focus — and what should they avoid?<p>I turned these findings into a free Directory Trends Report 2025


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  It&#x27;s hard to keep a phone&#x27;s clock closely synchronized because they experience a lot of temperature swings, going between pockets and hands and open air and sometimes in direct sun, and the processor goes between idle and 100% as well.<p>Once you get to internationa phones, you&#x27;ll have places where the phone does not include all timezones and specifically is missing the actual local timezone, so automatic sync is typically disabled so that the time can be set so that the displayed time matches local time... even if that means the system time is not correct.


type: comment
by: stackghost
text:
  &gt;Personal backup encryption with a long-lived key, passphrase-protected private key, and offline storage is a legitimate threat model<p>... If you&#x27;re going to use a passphrase anyway why not just use a symmetric cipher?<p>In fact for file storage why not use an encrypted disk volume so you don&#x27;t need to use PGP?


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  They specified a lot of stuff that ultimately didn&#x27;t get used but ITU is still my favorite standards organization.


type: comment
by: acdha
text:
  Sure, my point was simply that it’s not as simple as the author assumes. This is a common failure mode in FP advocacy and it’s disappointing because it usually means that a more interesting conversation doesn’t happen because most readers disengage.


type: comment
by: waffleiron
text:
  Maybe you can give a bit of context why you feel that way?  Dropping a 2+ hour, &lt;2000 views, 4chan video without context isn’t really the type of comment HN is looking for as far as I can tell


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  PS5 controller wins for me as I can use the base of my thumb &#x2F; thumbpad to hit d-(up&#x2F;down&#x2F;right) without taking my thumb off the stick.


type: comment
by: IgorPartola
text:
  “The user can choose between starting their new policy on the first day of employment, the first day of the fiscal year, on a specific date, or some number of days after their prior policy expires. If they choose the first day of the fiscal year, the user must specify when their company’s fiscal year starts. If they choose a specific date they must choose a date that is after the first business day of the next month and no later than December 31st of the year that month belongs to. If the user specified some number of months after their current policy expired the user must provide a policy number and the number of days no less than 1 and no more than 365.”<p>Type validation can help with some of that but at some point it becomes way easier to just use imperative validation for something like this. It turns out that validating things that are easy is easy no matter what you do, and validating complex rules that were written by people who think imperatively is almost impossible to do declaratively in a maintainable way.


type: comment
by: MichaelZuo
text:
  It does depend on how specific the thing is. Spiders in general maybe, but for a particular type of spider seems to have close to nil possibility.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Earlier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404753">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46404753</a>


type: comment
by: troad
text:
  Plain HTML is very cozy to me - I came of age in that era. Marquee tags <i>4eva</i>.<p>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. If you want, say, a model form that manages its children as well, you&#x27;re basically going to end up with a 2003-era ASP-feeling application with way too many views and forms (as seen on your employer&#x27;s current HR system). Or you use HTMX... and you still end up with just as many (partial) views, but now with so much implicit state that you&#x27;re veering into write-only code.<p>I dislike modern JS to the extent that I opted for Phoenix LiveView, just so I could achieve interactivity without ever having to touch JS, but in truth it&#x27;s not a comprehensive solution. Still had to write a web worker, a bridge to handle things like notifications, etc. Plus the future direction of Phoenix, all in on AI, is worrying.<p>Honestly, I should probably just swallow my disdain and learn to appreciate and use modern JS, as painful as that sounds. I want to write and release cool things, not get caught up in navel-gazing language wars.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  This is just simply not true, not if you compare apples to apples. Cars are the most dangerous form of transportation and nothing even comes close. You&#x27;re 100x more likely to die in a car above the subway in NYC than on the subway. Thats not an exaggeration, that&#x27;s the actual figure.<p>And then people invariably talk about theft or getting beat up, forgetting that most car accidents don&#x27;t kill, they injure. And they&#x27;re extremely expensive.<p>Cars might FEEL safer because you&#x27;re in a little box away from everyone else. But it&#x27;s the exact same everyone else. Still the same amount of crazies and sociopaths.<p>Except now, they&#x27;re also in little steel boxes that weight 2,000 pounds going faster than any human was ever meant to go. And they&#x27;re in full control.


type: comment
by: mananaysiempre
text:
  The AGG (“Anti-Grain Geometry”) library does something similar[1], from what I understand.<p>Also, I had (though never tested) the impression that in the Windows world ClearType uses 3x the horizontal resolution internally (I vaguely remember that being mentioned in the horror novel^W^W <i>Raster Tragedy</i>[2] somewhere?..). Given many font designers’ testing process for their hinting bytecode seems to be to run it through ClearType and check if it looks OK (not unlike firmware programmers...), we all, including Microsoft, are essentially stuck with that choice forever (or at least until people with painfully low-res displays become rare enough that the complaining about blurry text can be disregarded). So I’d expect 1&#x2F;3 of a pixel to be the natural resolution for a glyph cache, not 1&#x2F;4? Or have things changed in the transition from GDI to GDI+ to DirectWrite?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agg.sourceforge.net&#x2F;antigrain.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;font_rasterization&#x2F;index.html#toc0011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agg.sourceforge.net&#x2F;antigrain.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;font_rast...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rastertragedy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rastertragedy.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  Lmao you don&#x27;t know anything about what i read or believe, and i don&#x27;t use social media.<p>Are you arguing that every act of corruption is of precisely equal magnitude and consequence?


type: comment
by: foundart
text:
  The github repo link from the npm page doesn&#x27;t work, so I guess the author had second thoughts.<p>I was just fighting ffmpeg earlier today, or rather Gemini and Claude were fighting it. Task: create a video that is a pan across a photo, followed by a scale&#x2F;zoom.<p>Probably easy for some people, but I had no clue and the LLMs weren&#x27;t doing that well either. Things took a turn for the better when I asked Gemini for an alternative tool.<p>The answer was Vapoursynth - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vapoursynth.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;introduction.html#introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vapoursynth.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;introduction.html#introducti...</a><p>Again, the LLM did the work, but it was able to do so. Since Vapoursynth is driven by python scripts (though with the extension .vpy), it was easy for me to make adjustments.


type: comment
by: lelandfe
text:
  Don&#x27;t use it, it totally blows. For another oddity to not use, check out the multiple select: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;Elements&#x2F;select#result_3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;...</a><p>Expecting users to press modifiers when clicking on these is so funny.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Wait until they start expiring 47 days from issue (coming soon). Though maybe this will actually help, because it will happen often enough that you (a) won&#x27;t completely forget how to deal with it and (b) have more motivation to be proactive.


type: comment
by: PeterHolzwarth
text:
  I understand what you mean, but that is more of a &quot;Hacker News user&quot; problem than a &quot;young guy who does drywall for a living in Lawrence, Kansas&quot; problem.


type: comment
by: queenkjuul
text:
  Go ahead, please tell me what team you think I&#x27;m on. The answer is guaranteed to make me laugh.<p>Also please note: i have never denied Biden&#x27;s corruption. He&#x27;s absolutely a slimy bastard. You can stop pretending like i said he&#x27;s not corrupt.


type: comment
by: Firehawke
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t even call it a &quot;race&quot; to the bottom. It took until maybe 1995 for prices to drop enough for some of the clone manufacturers to start going out of business. Radio Shack caught on around 1991 and got out early, but Zeos didn&#x27;t go out of business until 1995 for instance.


type: comment
by: Avamander
text:
  &gt; For most apps on non-mobile devices, there isn&#x27;t filesystem isolation between apps.<p>If there isn&#x27;t there should be. At least my Flatpaks are isolated from each other.<p>&gt; Apple&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;Google all ship encrypted storage for secrets (Keychain, Credential Manager, etc), because restricting key material access within the OS has merit.<p>The Linux equivalents are suspicious and stuck in the past to say the least. Depending on them is extra tedious on top of the tediousness of any PGP keyrings, god forbid a combination of the two.<p>&gt; Basically everything in PGP&#x2F;GPG predates the existence of &quot;corporate security circles&quot;.<p>Then we know where this stuff came from.


type: comment
by: baconner
text:
  NVIDIA makes money no matter if the model is open weights or not. I don&#x27;t think open is a concern for them and they&#x27;d very much like to be servicing China and their batch of open models I think. what&#x27;s concerning them more likely is<p>A. The inevitable breakdown of their massive head start with CUDA and data center hardware. A serious competitor at real scale.<p>B. Anything that&#x27;ll cool off the massive data center buildouts that are fueling them.<p>Seems clear that locking up a major potential competitor especially the minds behind it solves for A. And their ongoing machinations with circular funding of companies funding data centers is all about B - keeping the momentum before it fizzles.


type: comment
by: JojoFatsani
text:
  Oh man. I’ve been hoping someone would build this. “The internet we lost” was formative for a whole generation for better or worse.<p>One thing I’d wish for would be for it to use an LLM other than grok though.


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  Necessary maybe, but insufficient.  Shame other plebs all you like, the predatory tech isn&#x27;t going away until we start ruining rich people over it.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Each additional lane has less and less impact because of lane switching. Ultimately, you can still only enter or exit on the left or right, regardless of if you have 100 lanes. And having people move across 100 lanes to exit is much slower than moving across one or two.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  I get why it reads like FP evangelism, but I don’t think it’s “ignoring decades of prior art.” I’m not claiming these ideas are exclusive to FP. I’m claiming FP ecosystems systematized a bundle of practices (ADT&#x2F;state machines, exhaustiveness, immutability, explicit effects) that consistently reduce a specific failure mode: invalid state transitions and refactor breakage.<p>Rust is actually aligned with the point: it delivers major reliability wins via making invalid states harder to represent (enums, ownership&#x2F;borrowing, pattern matching). That’s not “FP-first,” but it’s very compatible with functional style and the same invariants story.<p>If the TS example came off as “types instead of validation,” that’s on me to phrase better, the point wasn’t “types eliminate validation,” it’s “types make the shape explicit so validation becomes harder to forget and easier to review.”


type: comment
by: safety1st
text:
  I tried everything under the sun including the grayscale trick, and at the end of the day there were three things that worked. Putting the phone on silent, putting it out of sight, and simply turning it off.<p>This resulted in 5 hours of phone time per day declining to 1 (it&#x27;s my companion at the gym plus during most meals and that&#x27;s OK).<p>Everyone&#x27;s approach is going to be a little different depending on the rhythm of their life. For me the phone usually stays turned off for most of the morning now. It&#x27;s in a drawer for most of the afternoon&#x2F;evening. If I&#x27;m out and about it&#x27;s in my pocket or bag on silent. It briefly gets unmuted at times when I&#x27;m expecting a delivery, appointment etc. and that&#x27;s about it. The bar is high because the peace of mind is too great to lose.


type: comment
by: vee-kay
text:
  Bottom of the barrel flash drives..<p>Many of us have old cheap flash drives, which may have some backups (family photos, videos, career files, etc.) we may not want to lose - so they may qualify for such periodic basic maintenance (just plugging them into the PC once in 6 months or so).<p>I think most home users don&#x27;t know this can be a potential problem for flash drive storage.


type: comment
by: acomjean
text:
  It doesn’t really bother me.<p>It seems to link to the authors codepen.  If you us code pen you can bookmark the snippets. Codepen colorizes the html&#x2F;css etc.<p>Link rot is a thing though, so it’s not always ideal to have dependencies on third party urls staying the same.


type: comment
by: mxx
text:
  Alternatives to Big Tech. German hacker group urges monthly Digital Independence Day. DPD: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nordot.app&#x2F;1377691829520663172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nordot.app&#x2F;1377691829520663172</a>


type: comment
by: qudat
text:
  Meh. What I’m doing with coding agents is what I’ve been doing for years: TDD except I use prose to describe what I want instead of writing every line of code and then spend more time in review&#x2F;qa


type: comment
by: faitswulff
text:
  I haven&#x27;t used it in anger myself, but if you know Elixir and Phoenix you might like Gleam, which compiles to Javascript.


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  Sure, here is a great and very influential article about technological innovation explaining faster than GDP growth of govt health spending: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aeaweb.org&#x2F;articles?id=10.1257&#x2F;jep.6.3.3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aeaweb.org&#x2F;articles?id=10.1257&#x2F;jep.6.3.3</a><p>It was written contemporaneous to Clinton. You are welcome to read about the budgetary process of the Clinton years, healthcare was THE primary issue. Like why am I talking about this stuff, and why was everyone talking about it under Clinton? Because we’re all stupid? Military spending is PERCEIVED to be something about the budget, but it is ALL ABOUT HEALTHCARE, it has been since 1965 in this country, and it is all about healthcare everyone else in the developed world, acutely so in Europe and Japan.


type: comment
by: wombatpm
text:
  No. So long as you rotate your injection site. My son is T1 and before his pump was getting 4-6 injections a day.


type: comment
by: holly01
text:
  This was my experience as well. While it is less straining on the eyes, that was the only benefit I saw. I didn&#x27;t see a reduction in screen time or less anxiety about notifications.


type: comment
by: namibj
text:
  There are many DCF77 receivers in Germany that are contained in a square box that&#x27;s barely large enough for a AA battery; the rest of the square contains the motor&#x2F;gears and the electronics&#x2F;receiver (incl. a ferrite loopstick antenna).<p>The wavelength is around 3.8km...


type: comment
by: parentheses
text:
  I prefer using the same feature to have an extremely warm (almost red) tone. I think it&#x27;s much more pleasing than b&#x2F;w and results in less blue light for me.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  When I ran my own CA I issued certificates with 99-year expiry dates, and I never worried about them again.


type: comment
by: nwellinghoff
text:
  The “non exclusive” thing may come back to bite them. If another big player comes in to lic the tech and get “different” tech than nvidia it opens up law suits. Also this seems like it’s just a bet on time. The head engineer who invented this technology will be replicated. But I guess that will take a while and the margin money machine will print Bs while the dust settles.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Finding meaning at the current point of the timeline can be challenging for some. Without community, these people likely exhausted their options when they lost their faith based community. My opinion is that this is a social safety net failure, other opinions will differ.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Well it&#x27;s either see someone experiencing psychosis, or be at a few orders of magnitude higher risk of dying or being seriously injured.<p>I often see these comparisons to cars and theyre just so dishonest, because nobody seems to mention the number one downside of driving a lot. Maybe we&#x27;re desensitized to it. Driving is a fantastic way to die, one of the best.


type: comment
by: thfuran
text:
  And the comment you’re replying to suggests that since many lived experiences are plausibly heritable, the term is appropriate. In any case, the context in which it is actually used in the article seems beyond all but the most pedantic reproach:<p>&gt;The first is how a father’s body physically encodes lived experience, such as stress, diet, exercise or nicotine use<p>And that’s a single sentence partway through the article. From the beginning, the refrain is the list of the sorts of things that seem to have heritable effect, not the phrase “lived experiences”.<p>&gt;Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children<p>&gt;Within a sperm’s minuscule head are stowaway molecules, which enter the egg and convey information about the father’s fitness, such as diet, exercise habits and stress levels, to his offspring<p>Etc. The article is clearly not attempting to suggest that all experiences are heritable.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  My assumption is employees are mostly out on holidays since the deal was known widely only on Christmas, and so they’re busy with their personal lives, quietly discussing this issue with trusted coworkers, and if there are serious problems, they are coordinating a lawsuit instead of saying something they shouldn’t in public.<p>You should be asking why no one has dispelled the criticisms of how employee equity is treated in this deal - neither Nvidia nor Groq’s founders nor regular employees. Lots of people have raised this concern. Should be simple to answer, right?<p>As for people with no skin in this deal “whining” - why wouldn’t people raise concerns? It’s a disturbing trend. These are highly unusual deals made to circumvent the law and break norms, on antitrust and employee compensation. They’re suspicious and prior examples have stolen from employees. So distrust and scrutiny by default is completely justified.


type: comment
by: jiannengli
text:
  Haha that works too. I guess I didn’t think of it because I was also trying to not have to talk when I’m half awake :P


type: comment
by: joecool1029
text:
  I have color filters set to kick in if I double tap the back of iphone it shuts off everything but red subpixels. Good for preserving night vision.


type: comment
by: gitremote
text:
  ICE arrests U.S. citizens, which is bad.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;us-law-week&#x2F;ice-apprehension-of-us-citizens-derided-as-kavanaugh-stops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;us-law-week&#x2F;ice-apprehension-o...</a>


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  Can do with any weighted LB, right? E.g. route53 or Cloudflare LB. But even manually you just need k IPs (perhaps even 2) and have host k1 and host k2 report different (overlappingly valid) certs. Then (1&#x2F;k) users will see bad cert. your usual will be near zero failures but canary will have 100% failures.<p>I’ve always used the calendar event before expiry and then manual renew option but I wonder why I didn’t do this. It’s trivial to roll out. With Route53 just make one canary LB and balance 1% traffic to it. Can be entirely automated.


type: comment
by: jeffbee
text:
  I see nothing in your pair of unnecessarily belligerent comments that actually contradicts what I said. There are host-side features that enable the clock discipline you are observing, even if you are apparently not aware of them.


type: comment
by: vee-kay
text:
  Magnetic HDDs also tend to have inbuilt SMART features to monitor disk performance and health, so they can inform when they are beginning to give problems. So the advanced user can recover the data before the HDD fully fails.<p>In my experience, flash drives tend to get problems suddenly leading to data corruption, and it may not be immediately apparent to the user till it is too late. I haven&#x27;t such problems in recent years though, so maybe flash drives have become smarter too.


type: comment
by: an-allen
text:
  A lot of this is transmitted via the language. The stories we form as a result of events in our lives, have power to set our values in all areas. These myths of the self, have what is essentially a value manifest for someone. And these myths, can be so strongly held that it will influence the person and family’s moods, actions, habits.<p>What is important is to note that there are many formulas for consciousness. Some are truely bonkers, some are just fundamental truth. And some… have yet to be discovered.<p>Permutations and combinatorics create a hyperspace of all ridiculous things!


type: comment
by: Avamander
text:
  &gt; The way to do that requires them to know that the key which signed the data belongs to you.<p>This is something S&#x2F;MIME does and I wouldn&#x27;t say it doesn&#x27;t do so well. You can start from mailbox validation and that already beats everything PGP has to offer in terms of ownership validation. If you do identity validation or it&#x27;s a national PKI issuing the certificate (like in some countries) it&#x27;s a very strong guarantee of ownership. Coughing baby (PGP) vs hydrogen bomb level of difference.<p>It much more sounds to me like an excuse to use PGP when it doesn&#x27;t even remotely offer what you want from a replacement.


type: story
by: latein
title: Zuckerberg settles $8B lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids
url:
  https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250717-zuckerberg-settles-8-billion-lawsuit-over-cambridge-analytica-scandal-avoids-testifying


type: comment
by: nine_k
text:
  «Color pixels drain more energy than grayscale ones. Personally found my phone lasting twice as long as before.»<p>Is this a joke? Is there a real physical effect at play?


type: comment
by: MichaelZuo
text:
  It seems nonsensical then?<p>You would have to pretend non-linear negative externalities don’t exist, or can be waved away with some magic wand.


type: comment
by: an-allen
text:
  But your kids will likely not have your insights and experiences so “tuning” is another word for broadening their awareness.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Are you actually growing your own food though? Or is your yard a grass monoculture that serves more of a vanity project than anything useful?<p>And maybe you are, which, good on you! But I don&#x27;t think most Americans are.


type: comment
by: namibj
text:
  Run 2 or 3 separate concurrent sync&#x27;s and statistically compare the resulting clocks, for example.


type: comment
by: jakelazaroff
text:
  That is no longer true! You can do it in CSS with a combination of `@starting-style` and `transition-behavior: allow-discrete`. [1]<p>Another gotcha you&#x27;ll run into is animating the height. A couple other new features (`interpolate-size: allow-keywords` and `::details-content`) will let you get around that. [2]<p>Modern CSS is awesome.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;entry-exit-animations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;entry-exit-animations</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nerdy.dev&#x2F;open-and-close-transitions-for-the-details-element" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nerdy.dev&#x2F;open-and-close-transitions-for-the-details...</a>


type: comment
by: Rebelgecko
text:
  Or people who drive over the cones right before the RFID reader<p>Or lie and set the transponder to 3 people<p>Or don&#x27;t have license plates so can&#x27;t be identified


type: comment
by: GolfPopper
text:
  Everything is being lost. We&#x27;re in the process of sacrificing our collective humanity for corporate profit.


type: story
by: VBproDev
title: Show HN: AI slop has flooded the template market
text:
  I was sourcing e-commerce templates for a client and ran into two bad options:<p>- expensive, locked-down ecosystems like Shopify - broken AI-generated junk<p>So I built Estrocom, an e-commerce template with Astro, Tailwind, and TypeScript, designed to be WCAG AA accessible, SEO-friendly, and mobile-first.<p>Live demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;estrocom.netlify.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;estrocom.netlify.app</a><p>Source code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;VBproDev&#x2F;estrocom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;VBproDev&#x2F;estrocom</a><p>Why it’s worth checking out:<p>- Accessibility: 0 issues detected by Axe and Lighthouse, WCAG AA contrast maintained - Performance: Sub-1s load time with strong Lighthouse scores - Mobile-first: Works from 360px up to large screens - Atomic design: Atoms, molecules, and organisms for scalability - Full shopping flow: Cart + product categorization - SEO-ready: JSON-LD schema and sitemap support


type: comment
by: D-Machine
text:
  The more typical &#x2F; appropriate word here would be &quot;over-dramatic&quot; or &quot;melodramatic&quot;, not &quot;dramatic&quot;.


type: comment
by: shuiquan
text:
  I&#x27;ve open-sourced QEM Autonomous Final: a cognitive engine that moves beyond static vector search to &quot;entangled memory fields.&quot; Using a unique 1+(-1) projection logic and differential quantization, it achieves 24x semantic compression. Its standout feature is &quot;Quarantine Sublimation&quot;—a biomimetic process that, like REM sleep, transforms data noise into intuition seeds, providing a self-healing and auditable memory layer for long-term AGI systems.


type: comment
by: HDThoreaun
text:
  You don’t have to agree with them, but yea, that is legitimately the way they want to spend their life. I think that’s the issue with these urbanism discussions. Your preferences are so different that you can’t even comprehend them so you end up talking past each other.


type: comment
by: maxglute
text:
  PRC lending their USD surplus to countries to buy more PRC shit. &quot;Increases demand for dollar-denominated assets, goods and service&quot; =&#x2F;= increase demand for US treasury, aka it doesn&#x27;t fund US deficits. The attack is not on dollar circulation &#x2F; liquidity but cost of treasury<p>Old: PRC recycle surplus USD into US bonds, increase US treasury demand, subsidizes cheap US debt.<p>New: PRC recycle surplus USD into BRI finance, said USD doesn&#x27;t return to US treasury to buy bonds, decrease US treasury demand, treasury increase interest to fill hole, makes exorbitant privilege more exorbitant.<p>PRC parallel dollar bond lending COMPETES with US treasury bond lending. PRC dollars gets recycled towards PRC goods &#x2F; BRI projects, not US treasury. PRC leveraging dollar liquidity for PRC geopolitical interests, meanwhile taking demand away from treasury bond sales, so US drive rates up to compete. US treasury had to find other buyers to fill ~600 billions (and raising) of USD bonds that PRC no longer holds. Filling hole that size = finding more price sensitive buyers (vs PRC who previously default recycled into treasury), so raise interest, increase debt servicing. US 10 year going from 0% (countries basically paying to hold USD) to ~0.8% cost US ~300B+ annually. Now that&#x27;s not all PRC doing, but 100 billion here and there and soon we are talking about real money.


type: comment
by: paulirish
text:
  The latter, if any else are curious: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swebench.com&#x2F;post-250820-mini-roulette.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swebench.com&#x2F;post-250820-mini-roulette.html</a>


type: story
by: WaterRun
title: Show HN: One-click PPTX to PNG (Windows app and Python library)
url: https://github.com/Water-Run/pptx2png
text:
  A small tool that exports .pptx files to .png images with one click. EXE (Windows, ready to use out of the box): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Water-Run&#x2F;pptx2png&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;pptx2png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Water-Run&#x2F;pptx2png&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;pptx2png</a><p>PyPI (call it from your Python code): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;pptx2png&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;pptx2png&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  same way I would with my email provider. But I&#x27;d expect a recovery code of some sort that i could save.<p>How would you normally recover an account? Email? So, if my email is compromised, everything gets compromised? That&#x27;s not sane at all. You should normally have MFA, and if you can recover your MFA&#x2F;2FA with email, it&#x27;s just an over-engineered inconvenience. The way it&#x27;s done right, the MFA recovery code servers as a general account recovery code as well. You save that somewhere safe and offline.<p>In this case, they use ssh public keys, so there is no need for all that, just add a spare public key to authorized_keys, and keep it&#x27;s private key offline and safe, ideally in an HSM.<p>This is a service for technical people, so all that works, for general consumer service, you give them a choice. Either they choose to use a recovery key, a recovery email&#x2F;phone...or recovery via payment. Let them pay $1 for recovery, proving they control the original method of payment (KYC not crypto). But if nothing else, users should be able to choose recovery code instead of email. It&#x27;s more secure, because you&#x27;re not relying on a 3rd party service to also be secure. I don&#x27;t like them much, but recovery questions have also been used, but if you think about it, those are not that different from recovery codes, they&#x27;re just more guessable.<p>Recovery codes aren&#x27;t one string, they&#x27;re usually multiple, so if users chose, they can split up their storage. For added reliability, you can require validation of recovery codes periodically, after a successful sign-in.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  I can&#x27;t imagine. AFAIK no phone has &quot;grayscale&quot; pixels. Grey or white light is achieved by blending the other colors equally.<p>A true monochrome screen is a thing, but they are for specialized applications and not used in phones.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  &gt; &quot;Chinese repos&quot; is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os.<p>&quot;Chinese repos&quot; refer to the fact that the debian repos links for updates point to custom Huawei servers.


type: comment
by: peter_d_sherman
text:
  &gt;&quot;The question isn&#x27;t just why Nvidia paid <i>$13.1B</i> more than market rate for technology they could build themselves (they have the PDK, volume, talent, infrastructure, and cash). The question is why they structured it this way.<p>Where the premium was spent:<p>Regulatory arbitrage:<p><i>Non-exclusive licensing avoids years of antitrust review. Structure the deal as IP licensing + talent acquisition, and regulators have no grounds to block it.</i><p>This alone is worth <i>billions</i> in <i>time and certainty</i>.&quot;<p>Isn&#x27;t that fascinating!<p>Observation: For any given <i>Deal</i> (in business or in life in general) -- there may be <i>one or more legal components</i> -- to it...<p>But (equal-and-oppositely!) there also may NOT be one or more legal components to it!<p>What each deal has in <i>some legal components</i> -- it may <i>lack in other legal components</i>...<p>Conversely, what each deal <i>does not have in some legal components</i> -- it may <i>have in other legal components</i>...<p>Now, perhaps this may sound like a &quot;self-evident truth&quot;, and as such, apparently may not be worthy of a deeper exploration, but it seems that there exists an:<p>Intersection of <i>Set Theory</i> and <i>Legal Aspects</i> -- applied to <i>Deals</i><p>(AKA &quot;Transactions&quot;, &quot;Exchanges&quot;, &quot;Barters&quot;, &quot;Trades&quot;, &quot;Exchanges Of Value&quot;, etc., etc.) in various jurisdictions (which can be thought about as how contracts, both legal and natural, arising from such exchanges are, or would be interpreted through its courts, through its regional statutes (aka &quot;Laws&quot;) IF there are inter-party disputes which subsequently require a court for such interpretation...)<p>And that <i>intersection</i> -- could well be worthy of further study!<p>Phrased another way -- it (and this article!) are highly interesting from a legal perspective!<p>(And also a <i>Set Theory</i> &#x2F; <i>Set Theoretical</i> one!)


type: comment
by: theptip
text:
  &gt; The cost of that suit will be more than the value of the gains and damages awarded.<p>In many cases this is so, but here we are talking about tens of billions in value. Even a few percent of value won is worth lawyering up to the hilt for.<p>&gt; as long as the transaction is reasonable<p>What does “reasonable” mean? If the OP is correct and selling the IP guts the company then it seems hard to justify. I also don’t think you can reduce the concept of fiduciary duty in this way. It’s a well-defined term of art with specific precedent.


type: comment
by: GajendraSahu23
text:
  This looks great! As someone just starting their coding journey, would using multiple agents (Claude&#x2F;Gemini) help in learning best practices, or is it better suited for experienced developers for refactoring?


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  &gt; USA voters don&#x27;t get a lot of immediate feedback to their votes, so this should be educational.<p>I have a feeling sadly it will have been the last time for a while there was a free and fair federal election... Putin, Erdogan, Berlusconi, Trump?


type: comment
by: stingraycharles
text:
  Honestly, as someone else who does a lot of data plumbing, there is so much FTP servers with excel sheets being used as the means for official clearance processes.<p>There are constant data bugs in the feeds provided by major exchanges, market makers, etc, and so many iffy business rules that are basically all encoded in 100+ tab excel sheets.<p>Maybe this article focuses on a very specific niche of banking, but most of it is tied together with FTP and excel sheets.<p>I think the author would be shocked just how flaky a fundamental banking protocol like SWIFT is.


type: comment
by: oldputput
text:
  I used to be freely optimistic about humanity, now it’s becoming more and more forced. The percentage of people who are naturally kool-aid drinkers appears to have remained fairly constant over time, but AI will change that, the shadows will multiply. There’ll be shadows of shadows. Shadows all day. Shadows in the way, even when you’re searching for the light, trying to do right.


type: comment
by: 1659447091
text:
  The second sentence&#x2F;paragraph of this article:<p>&gt;&gt; <i>The Center for Countering Digital Hate founder was among five people denied US visas ...</i><p>Has a link to an earlier article about the &quot;five people&quot;[0]<p>&gt;&gt;<i>Imran Ahmed, an ex-Labour adviser who now heads the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and Clare Melford, CEO of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) [...] Ahmed from the CCDH, which says it advocates for government action against hate speech and disinformation online, 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>Along with more details about the people, the trump side claims and other information about this on going event. The info was referenced in this article to a more informationally relevant article that establishes who he is. The article you are commenting on is a follow up to that one.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cp39kngz008o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cp39kngz008o</a>


type: comment
by: GajendraSahu23
text:
  Love the simplification of ffmpeg flags. I noticed some comments about Node.js dependencies. Are there plans to make this a standalone binary for faster server-side processing?


type: comment
by: wombatpm
text:
  You should always distrust politicians on science issues. Even if they come from a science background. Being a successful politician is orthogonal to being a brilliant scientist.


type: comment
by: b112
text:
  One annoying thing is I&#x27;ve tried to pay, but can&#x27;t.<p>I spend about four to five months per year in the Bay Area, but have Canadian license plates. The website doesn&#x27;t even let you enter a Canadian plate, or a foreign plate.<p>So I bought one of the transponders at Walgreens, and just leave it in the glove box because it has 20 bucks or something when you buy it.<p>But I can&#x27;t check its status, don&#x27;t know how much is left on it, have no idea what I&#x27;m paying, really sucks.


type: comment
by: camillomiller
text:
  I didn’t say we didn’t have inequality or super rich people or that we’re perfect.  Yet we don’t have Musk, the Koch Brothers, Larry Ellison and swarms of fentanyl addicts folded in half in the street a few miles away from their residences.


type: comment
by: mistercow
text:
  &gt; It seems obvious that a higher perceived brightness can be achieved for any given pixel if using greyscale instead of using colors, just because less of the backlight&#x27;s area is occluded.<p>When converting to grayscale, you typically calculate the value of the pixel and then set all color components to that value. The point of this is to keep the luminance the same as it was in the original color pixel. If you’re doing this correctly, the perceived brightness stays the same.<p>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>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>I’m pretty sure the increase in battery life they observed is simply because they’re using their phone less, which is very much the main upshot of the other benefits they listed. The idea that color pixels drain more energy is just obviously nonsense.


type: comment
by: Rebelgecko
text:
  I have one of the older ones. I think there&#x27;s a way to set up &quot;real&quot; hibernation on Linux but it seems like a pain in the ass


type: comment
by: kreelman
text:
  These are neat. Thanks for posting. How common are the hardware displays that support these in real life? The rise and rise of OLEDs seems to make these kinds of displays &quot;so old fashioned&quot;, but if the display needs to only display monochrome textual information, these displays would reduce risk, possible points of failure (due to reduced complexity&#x2F;connections).<p>These kinds of displays probably are cheaper? ..though OLEDs certainly have economies of scale on their side...<p>Please comment if any of the above fits with some known devices?<p>...On the artistic side, this font looks great and could be super useful for building soft prototypes of devices... Which kind of loops back to the reason this font was released is because these devices are still perhaps quite well used?


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  There will always be people who abuse the system, no matter what system you have.<p>The solution is not to burn down all systems and just wild west everything. No. The solution is to anticipate the fraud, and build it into your margins and planning. Recognize it will always happen. And, in fact, the optimal amount of fraud is never zero. Because preventing fraud, too, has a cost, and it grows exponentially.


type: comment
by: notepad0x90
text:
  Yes, TLS for example uses X.509, as do lots of things. The container format, as well as the data-structure. I&#x27;m saying not just for SBOM, but for the code-signing cert aspect as well. I wouldn&#x27;t mind if there was an &quot;SBOM&quot; usage in X.509, and CA&#x27;s sell SBOM signing certs or whatever, but the sad fact is, I think some mobile platforms, macos and windows are the only place this is used.<p>We need for data-at-rest, what TLS has been for data-in-motion.


type: comment
by: grayhatter
text:
  &gt; Is anyone else worried that [...] the Rust world [...] slap on it MIT license because it&#x27;s [reason you don&#x27;t like]?<p>No... I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s how software works. Do you have an example of that happening? Has any foss project lost control of the &quot;best&quot; version of some software?<p>&gt; Not everything in software is about features.<p>I mean, I would happily make the argument that the ability to use code however I want without needing to give you, (the people,) permission to use my work without following my rules a feature. But then, stopping someone from using something in a way you don&#x27;t like, is just another feature of GPL software too, is it not?


type: comment
by: rationalist
text:
  I take the toll roads because I am less likely to encounter uninsured heaps of trash on four wheels that have even less disregard of others.


type: comment
by: troad
text:
  I appreciate the helpful reply, but I think this is precisely the kind of indirection I need to avoid. I&#x27;m a sucker for elegance. If left entirely to my own devices I&#x27;d probably design a language &#x2F; write a transpiler of my own, and wind up with exceedingly elegant tooling for websites, and no websites. :)


type: comment
by: Rebelgecko
text:
  You have to muck around with your disk partitions on Linux (although windows I think supports it out of the box)... I haven&#x27;t spent enough time researching it to feel confident I can do it without borking my system


type: comment
by: an-allen
text:
  Interesting about the epigenetics, transposons, and other DNA augmentations…<p>These are all fundamentally a story of how the individual encounters and uses information in their lived experience. But there is also a very strong consensus narrative that must be respected, but also challenged and evolved. DNA is literally the informational substrate of a life… when you adopt a personal belief, or are subject to someone elses, you have the ability to help but also harm your informational substrate. Tend your garden of ideas with love and care.


type: comment
by: sallveburrpi
text:
  What does disarming mean here?<p>I wound read it as “the drug has less effect” - so in that case you can better abuse these drugs if you are worse at “disarming” them I guess


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  I’ve worked in Brazilian banking stacks that were literally FTP + spreadsheets for years. So yes, the ecosystem is often messy and protocols can be flaky.<p>That’s exactly why I argue for stronger internal modeling: when the boundary is dirty, explicit state machines&#x2F;ADTs + exhaustiveness + idempotency&#x2F;reconciliation help ensure bad feeds don’t silently create invalid internal states.


type: comment
by: ValtteriL
text:
  No need to write any code for 3. Just search for backlink checker and you&#x27;ll find multiple free ones.


type: comment
by: dietr1ch
text:
  &gt; I told the waitress “you too” wrt to her telling me to enjoy my meal.<p>That&#x27;s not too bad unless you are in a group and they make fun of you right away, but it&#x27;s a fumble that you can fix and start a good play if you don&#x27;t just get super nervous.<p>Laugh it off, ask her if it&#x27;s not the first one, ask her to join, even if you know she&#x27;s actually working and can&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;ve never done any improv, but it seems like something maybe everyone should do so we all can avoid awkward moments that stick for way longer than they should.


type: comment
by: arcticfox
text:
  I&#x27;m going to blow your mind: people are different! I have lived in several cities in the PNW and New England and now live in Houston metro by choice. It is far easier, more efficient, and more economical for my family which are our priorities.  (Also infinitely more diverse, which is a big plus, but doesn&#x27;t really have anything to do with urban planning). We like it a lot here.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  Yep, in practice a lot of orgs treat reliability as a cost center until an outage becomes a headline or a regulatory incident. I’ve seen the same tension in payments&#x2F;banking: product pressure wins until the risk is visible.<p>Part of why I like “make invalid states unrepresentable” approaches is exactly that: it’s one of the few reliability investments that can pay back during feature work (safer refactors, fewer regressions), not only during incidents.


type: comment
by: shmoe
text:
  Nevermind, you&#x27;re correct.. The Martian did come first... which makes me excusing some things in Artemis a little odd now.


type: comment
by: m4ck_
text:
  Palantir puts money in some of the worst people on this planet&#x27;s pockets, that&#x27;s reason enough? Theil and co are trying to set up their little &quot;arbeit macht frei&quot; cities and replace democracy with some kind of neo-feudalism where his kind get to play absolute monarch.


type: comment
by: D-Machine
text:
  They said they found themselves using their phone far less due to the grayscale, which would be the real thing extending battery life here. Or at least, this was what I assumed on reading.


type: comment
by: bediger4000
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  UP sends 4014 out on tour every 2 years or so. It&#x27;s supposed to go on tour next summer, but I don&#x27;t think the schedule has been announced.<p>It&#x27;s worth seeing it at a whistle stop. I caught it in Greeley CO in 2024. It&#x27;s noisy and clearly of another time.


type: comment
by: ivansavz
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  I&#x27;ve been in Grayscale for some time now (almost a month), and it&#x27;s great. I always wanted to have a phone with an eInk display, and this is pretty close feeling (aesthetically).<p>Scrolling is no longer interesting, and food looks un-appetizing. Making the digital reality look boring is a good deal to make the real world look more exciting.<p>Thanks to comments from @jtbaker and @SkyPuncher I just added a shortcut to the &quot;pull out&quot; menu so I can now turn off when I need to work with pictures where colors are important.


type: comment
by: lachlan_gray
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  Earlier this year moving home to Canada, instead of flying I bought a van in California and drove it back with all my stuff.<p>I was taken aback to learn my dad did the exact same thing at my age!


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  Can you please rectify the idea that free speech is so fundamental to US values that someone should be deported over their views?<p>Also lol, this admin is suing anyone they disagree with. Free speech as a value is on the backburner


type: comment
by: array_key_first
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  And I can respect that - the problem is that urbanism, at it&#x27;s core, is an organization problem. It internetly involves other people, regardless of if any one of them wants it to or not.<p>I mean, ideally, I could say I want to live all on my own in a mansion far away from everyone else. But I still want access to the world&#x27;s best food, entertainment, and socialization. But it&#x27;s just not possible.<p>Everything is compromises. We can&#x27;t be erecting hundreds of miles of road and acres of parking lots so people have a 10 by 10 foot lawn, you know? And ultimately it will come back to them, too. Because commuting does suck, and I think most people know it sucks. They just can&#x27;t, or won&#x27;t, put two and two together on their lifestyle and commuting. They&#x27;re inherently linked!


type: comment
by: grayhatter
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  &gt; This is what happened e.g. with chrome. There&#x27;s chromium, anyone can build it. But that&#x27;s not chrome. And chrome is what everybody uses because google has lock-in power.<p>Because Google has their attention. You <i>can</i> use chromium, but most people don&#x27;t and pick the first thing they see. Also, Chrome is a much better name, err, not better but easier to say.<p>&gt; Then google says &quot;oh I&#x27;m going to disallow you running the extensions you like, so we can show you more ads&quot;. Then they make tweaks to chrome so that websites only get rendered well if they use certain APIs, so now competitors to Chrome are forced to implement those APIs, but those aren&#x27;t public.<p>You and I have a different definition of &quot;forced&quot;. But, are you speculating this might happen, or do you have an example of it happening?<p>&gt; And all of this was initially build by free labour, which google took, by people who thought they were contributing to some commons in a sense.<p>Do you have an example of a site that works better in chrome, than it does in chromium? I&#x27;ll even take an example of a site that works worse in the version of chromium before manifest v2 was disabled, compared to whatever version of chrome you choose?<p>&gt; Copyleft licenses protect against this. Part of the license says: if you use these licenses, and you make changes to the software, you have to share the changes as well, you can&#x27;t keep them for yourself&quot;.<p>Is chromium not still foss? Other than branding, what APIs or features are missing from the FOSS version? You mentioned manifest v3, but I&#x27;m using firefox because of it, so I don&#x27;t find that argument too compelling. I don&#x27;t think FOSS is worse, I think google is making a bad bet.


type: comment
by: D-Machine
text:
  They said they noticed themselves looking at their phone far less. Most likely this is what saved the power, just a typical spurious correlation and a bad theory for the reason.


type: comment
by: drekipus
text:
  I actually just recently bought a big me hibreak pro phone. Eink, supports Google Play natively, (I can still install Instagram, Google maps, Facebook, and WhatsApp, etc). Which were my two biggest needs.<p>It has been pretty great to use. The whole paradigm changes, because it also has the slow refresh, and the screen is physically different, single level brightness.<p>Funnily enough, I now catch myself with increased short term anxiety and FOMO. I&#x27;ve just acknowledged it as withdrawal syndrome from the dopamine of short form videos. That and I  misplace the phone a bit more now because it&#x27;s no longer a crack pipe.<p>It&#x27;s taking effort to stick with it, but I increasingly love it. And I still get to partake in &quot;society&quot; and social media, just on my own terms.<p>You also realise just how many ads there are, because they don&#x27;t draw you in so you can see them more critically. What I thought was one in 20, is actually something more like one in 4


type: comment
by: gudzpoz
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  &gt; some editors display small flag on the cursor displaying current position direction<p>I was amazed to see IDEA&#x2F;RustRover doing exactly this [1] when I added BIDI texts to my code to test things out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Qqlyqpc.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Qqlyqpc.png</a> (image taken from IDEA issue tracker)


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Cooked food is easier to digest. The discovery of cooking is what allowed early hominids to grow larger brains (which have higher calorie demands) and become modern humans.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  Houston can be very cheap, but it comes with the steep cost of having to live in Houston.<p>I&#x27;m being harsh, Houston isn&#x27;t completely terrible. There is a lot of culture and diversity. But you can&#x27;t really <i>get</i> to it because everything is too far, and you&#x27;re already tired from commuting 10 hours that week.


type: comment
by: sickcodebruh
text:
  TIL! I had no idea this was a thing. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;111772" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;111772</a><p>It really is a great fit for this feature.


type: comment
by: _will_
text:
  So you somehow think that the $300 fine deters or hurts the person making $200k a year the same that it does the person making $20k per year?<p>It&#x27;s not that the poor person speeding is any less dangerous than the rich person speeding, it&#x27;s that the $300 fine doesn&#x27;t really matter to the rich person. It&#x27;s just a price they&#x27;re willing to pay on random occasions to go faster.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  News from July;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;sustainability&#x2F;boards-policy-regulation&#x2F;meta-investors-zuckerberg-reach-settlement-end-8-billion-trial-over-facebook-2025-07-17&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;sustainability&#x2F;boards-policy-regulat...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44595439">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44595439</a>


type: comment
by: vee-kay
text:
  The most novel feature of the Indian numerals is the use of the rounded zero symbol for the mathematical zero, so we all know it so well.<p>The Indian numerals also covered all the basic numeral digits and fit perfectly into the decimal system (which was also invented by the ancient Indians - they primarily used it for measuring weights, especially for currency&#x2F;trade). The word meter&#x2F;metre (from Sanskrit &quot;miti&quot;) is also of Indian origin. The mathematical zero also fits in perfectly with binary system, also an ancient Indian invention.<p>The ancient Babylonians did use a dot&#x2F;period as symbol of zero, but there is no information on whether they also associated zero with voidness&#x2F;emptiness which the  ancient Indians certainly did.<p>It can be argued that the ancient Babylonians and Indians independently discovered the concept of mathematical zero, and rest of the world learnt such basic concepts from them gradually, Interestingly, while even modern science+mathematics only uses big numbers to a certain extent, the ancient Indian Jain&#x27;s &amp; Hindus were doing computations of up to 10^32! Hindu cosmology even calculates time up to 10^15, and knows about multiverse, whereas modern science calculates Time only upto billions of years (10^9) and only recently started acknowledging the possibility of multiverse (as it is only explanation of what existed before the Big Bang), I i.e. Time is cyclical, and universes are birthed (Big Bang), grow (expand), decay (collapse) and shrink back to the Infinitesimal Dot again).<p>So it is a shame that ancient India&#x27;s contributions to mathematics and other fields (e.g., geography, surgeries, medical tools, metallurgy, etc.) are unknown and ignored by most of the world, and the credits for such knowledge were stolen.<p>Did you know?.. India built and managed the world&#x27;s first universities, in Takshashila and Nalanda, which has lots of diverse subjects&#x2F;disciplines being taught and researched. The Arabs&#x2F;Turks later invaded, looted and destroyed these amazing universities and their priceless treasure trove of books (the libraries were so huge that the arson fires burnt for months). The ruins of these ancient pioneering repositories of knowledge still stand as mute witnesses to their glorious knowledge-sharing past.


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  Example: Option&lt;&gt; types. Maybe a function returns an optional string, but then you are able to improve the guarantee such that it always returns a string. With untagged unions you can just change the return type of the function from String|Null to String. No other changes necessary. For the tagged case you would have to change all(!) the call sites, which expect an Option&lt;String&gt;, to instead expect a String. Completely unnecessary for untagged unions.<p>A similar case applies to function parameters: In case of relaxed parameter requirements, changing a parameter from String to String|Null is trivial, but a change from String to Option&lt;String&gt; would necessitate changing all the call sites.<p>&gt; From where I stand, untagged unions are useful in an extremely narrow set of circumstances. Tagged unions, on the other hand, are incredibly useful in a wide variety of applications.<p>Any real world example?


type: comment
by: mistercow
text:
  Yeah, that’s the only explanation that makes sense. It’s just so strange to think that color pixels would use more energy.


type: comment
by: wild_egg
text:
  &gt; Or you use HTMX... and you still end up with just as many (partial) views, but now with so much implicit state that you&#x27;re veering into write-only code.<p>You&#x27;re overthinking htmx then. I do some fairly complex stuff with no extra partials. Trick is just always rerender and use hx-select and hx-target to slice out the bits you want to update on the current page.<p>Server always has authoritative state and code is dead simple to reason about.


type: comment
by: b112
text:
  So you&#x27;re saying time travelers came back in time, and caused the end of lisp architecture, solely to prevent an AI singularity years before we could possibly cope with it.


type: comment
by: egypturnash
text:
  Wikipedia has a list of the most expensive video games to develop, with a lower limit of $50mil. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_expensive_video_g...</a><p>The top of the list is Genshin Impact, although it&#x27;ll probably be displaced by GTA6 soon - that one&#x27;s estimated to come in at $1.5-2 million. There&#x27;s multiple FPS games on there but there&#x27;s some pretty expensive open-world games too.


type: comment
by: justsomehnguy
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  &gt; of a bottom of the barrel SSD wildly exceeding expectations.<p>I heard enough of stories of a bottom of the barrel SSDs wildly exceeding expectations by actually crashing with a partial or a full data loss waaay below their expected write endurance and while still powered on. Sure, these are the real bottom of the barrel, like Netac or King<i>Spec</i> - but I won&#x27;t expect any non-server grade SSD to retain data at all for any meaningful time.


type: comment
by: tacitusarc
text:
  Nah just yell “switcheroo!” then grab her outfit and suddenly you&#x27;re the waitress and she’s the diner with a meal to enjoy.


type: comment
by: Liquix
text:
  perhaps &quot;making less harmful to the body&quot;? this could potentially be accomplished separately from making them less effective


type: comment
by: imoverclocked
text:
  I started with the published Debian image and then just built my own... and then installed onto an NVMe SSD.


type: comment
by: snvzz
text:
  This former UK Labour strategist should not have come to the US to cofound the CCDH with another former Labour strategist and campaign against the constitution and US values, or otherwise try and make the US more like the country he came from.


type: comment
by: empthought
text:
  The falsehood is the phrase &quot;with each release gets increasingly bloated and strays further from its foundations.&quot;<p>It hasn&#x27;t had any such language-changing release for at least six years. The implication that this is an ongoing process attributable to newer adopters is simply false. It is a process that has stopped, and when it was happening, it was attributable to longtime Python developers.


type: comment
by: zdragnar
text:
  Because if it is dynamically priced, people won&#x27;t know until they already need to go to their destination if the tollway will be affordable.<p>The volume on the tollway itself may decrease, but only because drivers suddenly need to take other roads that the tollway was designed to alleviate pressure from in the first place.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  You&#x27;re right. I didn&#x27;t sufficiently separate experimental physics QC from engineering QC.<p>On the engineering end, the question on if a large-scale quantum computer can be built is leaning to be &quot;yes&quot; so far. DARPA QBI <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darpa.mil&#x2F;research&#x2F;programs&#x2F;quantum-benchmarking-initiative" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darpa.mil&#x2F;research&#x2F;programs&#x2F;quantum-benchmarking...</a> was made to answer this question and 11 teams have made it to Stage B. Of course, only people who believe DARPA will trust this evidence, but that&#x27;s all I have to go on.<p>On the application front, the jury is still out for applications that are not related to simulation or cryptography: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2511.09124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2511.09124</a>


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  If you&#x27;re comfortable with nextjs, you should be even more comfortable with a nodejs SSR application. It&#x27;s the same thing, but simpler. The HTML doesn&#x27;t even have to be pretty. We&#x27;re really just querying a DB, showing forms, and saving forms. Hell, use PHP if you want.


type: comment
by: sdf4j
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  &gt; they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc.<p>I’m pretty sure the first one didn’t have siblings, and the second only had one. Also their  mother is not the same person after raising the first kid, or raising two.<p>Parenting never have reproducible conditions.


type: comment
by: synergy7
text:
  It feels so wonderfully weird reading about some else seeing a manatee today. I too saw a manatee while walking with my kids today. The interesting part was our navigational strategies complementing each other (me – misremembering the details of a road closure, and them - getting curious about what a bunch of people at a marina are looking at) to find a group of manatees in a place we didn’t know they can be found.


type: comment
by: rastrian
text:
  I think your Option&#x2F;String example is a real-world tradeoff, but it’s not a slam-dunk “untagged &gt; tagged.”<p>For API evolution, T | null can be a pragmatic “relax&#x2F;strengthen contract” knob with less mechanical churn than Option&lt;T&gt; (because many call sites don’t care and just pass values through). That said, it also makes it easier to accidentally reintroduce nullability and harder to enforce handling consistently, the failure mode is “it compiles, but someone forgot the check.”<p>In practice, once the union has more than “nullable vs present”, people converge to discriminated unions ({ kind: &quot;ok&quot;, ... } | { kind: &quot;err&quot;, ... }) because the explicit tag buys exhaustiveness and avoids ambiguous narrowing. So I’d frame untagged unions as great for very narrow cases (nullability &#x2F; simple widening), and tagged&#x2F;discriminated unions as the reliability default for domain states.<p>For reliability, I’d rather pay the mechanical churn of Option&lt;T&gt; during API evolution than pay the ongoing risk tax of “nullable everywhere.<p>My post argues for paying costs that are one-time and compiler-enforced (refactors) vs costs that are ongoing and human-enforced (remembering null checks).


type: comment
by: snvzz
text:
  In short, a political activist who didn&#x27;t immigrate to the US in good faith, but on an agent on a mission to push UK labor party values into the US.<p>Good riddance.


type: comment
by: TheCleric
text:
  Free speech means you have the right to campaign for those very things. Criticism is the most fundamental aspect of free speech.


type: comment
by: jdironman
text:
  I think he is saying where is the creativity in the AA+ space. Which still might be a lack of depth &#x2F; breadth of search, or platform exclusive content. Not everyone can own all the consoles.


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
text:
  More so that the 1% have fewer loopholes, not the other way around.<p>Regular folks filing taxes don’t have particularly difficult returns, but if the government already knows what you owe&#x2F;get back, why waste everyone’s time? Obviously deductions exist for a reason, but standard deduction folks shouldn’t have to file to confirm that their number matches what the IRS already calculated.


type: comment
by: recursivecaveat
text:
  I think it exists to power this easter egg?: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alphagov&#x2F;calendars&#x2F;issues&#x2F;678" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alphagov&#x2F;calendars&#x2F;issues&#x2F;678</a> The value I guess depends on whether its appropriate to put up decorations ie a &#x27;celebratory&#x27; holiday.  It looks like the only non-bunting holidays on there right now are Good Friday (which is more solemn) and Orangemens&#x27; Day (which is pretty sectarian), but apparently in the past the Queen&#x27;s funeral was another non-bunting holiday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37789437">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37789437</a>


type: comment
by: jmclnx
text:
  Yes, bar some high level people in the US.  Treat the US like was done to the USSR using tit-for-tat diplomacy.  You need to stand up to bullies.


type: comment
by: nrhrjrjrjtntbt
text:
  As always, you need a test that runs and notifies SRE or oncall. Ideally 14 or maybe 28 days before expiry.


type: comment
by: kukkeliskuu
text:
  What I meant by &quot;not treating LLM as senior&quot; is that the disillusionment phase culminates in an a-ha moment which could be described a &quot;LLM is not a senior developer&quot;. This a-ha moment is not intellectual, but emotional. It is possible to same time think that LLM is not a senior developer, but not realize it emotionally. This emotional realization in turn has consequences.<p>&gt;The threading issue didn&#x27;t come up at all in any of this. &gt; &gt;Once it came, the AI tied itself in knots trying to sort it out, coming up with very complex dispatching logic that still got things incorrect.&quot;&quot;<p>Yes. These kind of loops have happened to me as well. It sometimes requires clearing of context + some inventive step to help the LLM out of the loop. For example my ad pacing feature required that I recognized that it was trying to optimize the wrong variable. I consider this to be partly what I mean by &quot;LLM is a junior&quot; and that &quot;I act as the project manager&quot;.<p>&gt; I guess my point is that the amount of effort involved to use English to direct and correct the AI often outweighs the effort involved to just do it myself.<p>Could you really have done a complex mobile app alone in one day without knowing the stack well beforehand? I believe this of stuff used to take months from a competent team not long time ago. I certainly could not have done one year ago what I can do today, with these tools.


type: comment
by: superb-owl
text:
  Some seem to think this organization was “anti free speech”. Thing is, if you believe in free speech, famously, you have to agree to let people disagree with you!<p>“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.“<p>The federal government putting its thumbs on the scales in debates about what can and should be broadcast (on both traditional and social media) should worry anyone who cares about free speech.


type: comment
by: nurettin
text:
  Anyone else religiously went through 490 packages in cppget to make sure they aren&#x27;t missing out?


type: comment
by: petterroea
text:
  Hard to have sympathy for Ubisoft the company as they are regularly used as an example of the most anti-consumer practices out there. But the whole situation is a mess, and if anything, it is probably the consumers that will end up suffering the most for this.


type: comment
by: snvzz
text:
  US free speech is not absolute, nor is it freedom from consequence. The consequence for foreign activists pushing foreign agendas may very well be deportation.<p>No country has an obligation to welcome anyone from any other country, especially those who do not intend to even try and adopt its values and customs, even more so foreign agents who come with the sole intent of association to push the agenda of a party they were members from in their old country into the politics of the new one.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Related: <i>Writing &quot;&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts&quot; breaks the Substack editor</i> (642 points, 8 months ago, 361 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43793526">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43793526</a>


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  It happens all the time. It just happens through the bankruptcy process, so we generally understand it as &quot;company crashes down&quot; even if their core business remained healthy. Purdue, again, is a great recent example of this, although the state governments and other plaintiffs preferred to retain ownership in a trust rather than get cash by selling it to some marginally more responsible pharma company.


type: comment
by: Bridged7756
text:
  Didn&#x27;t work for me. App blocker from 9:30 PM - 5 PM. 30 mins Max a day of short form content apps.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Pretty much.  And that seems to reflect changing sentiment of the mods over time (e.g., no information, no inspiration, no trying to emulate, only emoting).<p>But what I thought was funny was, if you didn&#x27;t know that, it would look like the two &quot;experiences&quot; were tailored separately: OG redditors get the constructive messaging in the spirit of RMS&#x27;s mission, but modern social media redditors get the modern social media simplified passive consumption.


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  Knowing <i>what</i> to implement, and having the social skills to perform various tasks in a company?


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion on the original source (990 points, 3 months ago, 442 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45170515">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45170515</a>


type: comment
by: BrenBarn
text:
  I found this a bit odd as I don&#x27;t recall ever thinking of social media as about &quot;sending messages&quot;, and only loosely would I say they&#x27;re for &quot;communication&quot;.  They&#x27;re mostly for one-way communication, which is essentially what entertainment is too, so it&#x27;s not surprising that social media would feel like entertainment.  When you make a post on Facebook you&#x27;re not really &quot;sending a message&quot; to anyone in particular, you&#x27;re just broadcasting it out to the network.<p>But this got me thinking about what I think a &quot;message&quot; really is.  Maybe there&#x27;s a Dunbar&#x27;s number kind of thing here because I feel like there&#x27;s some sort of limit on how many people I can send textual content to before it stops being a &quot;message&quot; and becomes more like an &quot;announcement&quot;.  Like I get emails, and some of those are messages because they come from individuals and are sent to me and perhaps a small set of other individuals.  But some emails are more like announcements (or even &quot;content&quot;), and such quasi-messages have existed since before email went mainsteam (like holiday newsletters that people sent out with xmas cards).<p>It&#x27;s true that many social media platforms have a messaging system that exists in parallel (&quot;direct messages&quot;), but that always seemed kind of separate from the core essence of the platform.<p>The closest you get to real &quot;messages&quot; in social networks is comments, but in my experience the degree to which those constitute &quot;messages&quot; or &quot;communication&quot; varies a lot from platform to platform and also from user to user.  These days a large proportion of comments are just slightly more specific &quot;reactions&quot; like &quot;That&#x27;s so great!&quot; or &quot;Wow&quot; or &quot;Thanks for posting this&quot;.  I don&#x27;t often see genuine discussion happening in comments (although HN, if you consider it a social media site, is an exception to this).<p>There has been an evolution in this regard, but even back in the day I think it wasn&#x27;t what I&#x27;d call &quot;messaging&quot;.  The earliest platform I can remember using that (in retrospect) I could call a social network was LiveJournal.  But LJ was a blogging platform.  You didn&#x27;t post &quot;messages&quot; to other people, you posted, well, posts, and maybe people would comment on them or maybe they wouldn&#x27;t.  I would never have said that I dreamed of LJ becoming &quot;email 2.0&quot;.  And I&#x27;d say modern microblogging-type platforms (like Twitter) seem even more removed from email or &quot;messaging&quot;.<p>I also don&#x27;t see decentralization as really connected to this.  To me the main advantage of decentralization is to eliminate single points of failure and guard against various sorts of rugpulls (like what eventually happened to LJ).  But whether a platform fosters communication, messages, interaction, or whatever you want to call it, is pretty much independent of whether it&#x27;s decentralized.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that I disagree that something&#x27;s been lost in internet communication over the years.  But to me that missing thing seems mostly to be a combination of attention and authenticity.<p>We&#x27;ve lost attention in the sense that now that people do everything with their phones, they consume and create content more diffusely, as opposed to having a division between &quot;I&#x27;m sitting at my computer reading or writing&quot; and &quot;I&#x27;m doing something else&quot;.  The small screens and balky input mechanisms of phones make this problem even worse for writing than it is for reading.<p>And we&#x27;ve lost authenticity in the sense that so many platforms have become contaminated with stuff that is in no sense communication from any human, not even one-way communication.  Instead it&#x27;s junk generated by corporations to sell products (perhaps with some intermediate steps of harvesting data, etc.).  This has become much, much worse in the last few years with the rise of AI slop.  It&#x27;s harder and harder to find stuff on the web that actually represents the work of a human being expressing themselves in a personal way.<p>So yeah, we&#x27;ve lost something, but I wouldn&#x27;t say we lost communication to entertainment. It&#x27;s more like we lost the boundaries of the units of our communication so that we find ourselves in a constant blur of content, rather than a sequence of discrete units each of which we process and ponder independently.


