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type: comment
by: crtified
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  Growing up in northern Queensland (Australia) in the 1980&#x27;s, our primary school boy&#x27;s version was :<p>&quot;Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - flying TAA.&quot;<p>Context note : TAA or Trans Australia Airlines was a major Australian domestic airline of the time, later merged into Qantas.


type: comment
by: snet0
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  If a &quot;C+++&quot; was created that was so efficient that it would allow teams to be smaller and achieve the same work faster, would that be anti-worker?<p>If an IDE had powerful, effective hotkeys and shortcuts and refactoring tools that allowed devs to be faster and more efficient, would that be anti-worker?


type: comment
by: watersb
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  Ah. That would be the Dilbert Principle:<p>&gt; Unlike the Peter principle, the promoted individuals were not particularly good at any job they previously had, so awarding them a supervisory position is a way to remove them from the productive workflow.<p>&gt; An earlier formulation of this effect was known as Putt&#x27;s Law (1981), credited to the pseudonymous author Archibald Putt (&quot;Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.&quot;).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dilbert_principle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dilbert_principle</a>


type: comment
by: dugidugout
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  Quite the variety, most of which Ive also experienced.<p>But your original claim simply doesnt apply to most of these (MMORPGs are exception). What I suspect is that the barrier for reaching &quot;flow&quot; or analogous competitive states has gotten too high for _you_ for whatever reason.<p>In face of this you&#x27;ve constructed an absurd reality to justify your feelings where its the children with infinite time mucking it up.<p>The truth is, many adults still tap into the competitive spirit in spite of the barriers youve folded to, which I do agree exist, but always have.


type: comment
by: mroche
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  Luckily commonly used forges for collaboration have the ability to make tags immutable. Any repository where multiple people collaborate on a project should have that feature enabled by default. I&#x27;m still waiting for the day where tags are immutable by default with no option exposed to change it.<p>I&#x27;m sure that would cause problems for some, but transitive labels already exist in Git: branches.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  (2011 &#x2F; 2003)<p>Title: <i>The C10K problem</i><p>Popular in:<p>2014 (112 points, 55 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7250432">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7250432</a><p>2007 (13 points, 3 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45603">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45603</a>


type: comment
by: serf
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  i&#x27;ve been trying for the past ten years and i&#x27;m fairly in-the-neighborhood.<p>holidays are a tough thing to schedule stuff around.<p>I hope you get to go.


type: comment
by: f30e3dfed1c9
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  I don&#x27;t care what the study says, I have always thought that gifts (other than cash) from my employers are annoying.


type: comment
by: thfuran
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  &gt;Cutting programs it finds disagreeable is certainly this admin&#x27;s right<p>Only if those programs aren’t legislatively established or mandated.


type: comment
by: ryukoposting
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  Yikes. This post is an unsettling reminder that gmail is a single point of failure in my personal and financial security.


type: story
by: jnord
title: DHS Changes Process for Awarding H-1B Work Visas to Protect American Workers
url:
  https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers


type: comment
by: seg_lol
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  Thanks for the reference to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Honeywell_200" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Honeywell_200</a> apparently its claim to fame was it could run IBM 1401 programs faster than a 1401 for less money.<p>&gt; Compatibility with the IBM&#x2F;1400 Series has, of course, been a key factor in the success of the Series 200. The principal software components in Honeywell&#x27;s &quot;Liberator&quot; approach are the Easytran translators, which convert Autocoder source programs written for the IBM machines into Easycoder source programs which can be assembled and run on Series 200&#x2F;2000 systems, usually with little or no need for manual alterations. The Easytran routines have effectively overcome the minor differences between the instruction sets and assembly languages of the two systems in literally hundreds of installations.<p>from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsavers.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;honeywell&#x2F;datapro&#x2F;70C-480-01_7404_Honeywell_200_2000.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsavers.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;honeywell&#x2F;datapro&#x2F;70C-480-01_7404_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnibm1401.azureedge.net&#x2F;1401-Competition.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnibm1401.azureedge.net&#x2F;1401-Competition.html</a><p>It appears that Honeywell Liberator was a program to convert 1401 assembly to Easycoder, the Honeywell 200 assembly format.


type: comment
by: johanneskanybal
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  That’s an easy cop-out and disagree as an European with stronger social nets. But yes this is still a heart warming story.


type: comment
by: Volundr
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  Then your piggybacking on their infrastructure. I don&#x27;t think they are unreasonable. &quot;It can be done for pennies, but I won&#x27;t&quot; sort of implies that it does indeed take more than pennies worth of effort.


type: comment
by: latexr
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  &gt; Additionally there are those out there that decry anything involving AI as heresy. (no thinking machines!)<p>I don’t think anyone decrying the current crop of “AI” is against “thinking machines”. We’re not there yet, LLMs don’t <i>think</i>, despite the marketing.


type: comment
by: bob1029
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  I&#x27;ve made the mistake of creating this kind of problem many moons ago. The dream was to have non-technical domain experts implement the product. I did not know at the time that this was a cursed problem. Probably one of the most cursed, in fact.<p>Putting it my sql based scripting engine took 2 weeks. Backing it out is going on 4 years now. Perhaps the biggest technical misstep I&#x27;ve ever made. It&#x27;s kind of like Pandora&#x27;s box because once the non technical people feel the speed&#x2F;control, they&#x27;ll never let it go. You could place a literal money printer on their desk as an alternative and they&#x27;d reject it if you took their new power away.


type: comment
by: Alechko
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  Hey HN! The problem: adding one RPM to an S3-hosted repo meant downloading the entire metadata, regenerating everything locally, and uploading back. For large repos this takes minutes per package and causes race conditions with parallel builds.<p>rpmrepo-update solves this with incremental updates: - Only touches the metadata entries for the package being added&#x2F;removed - Uses S3 ETag for optimistic locking (no race conditions) - Adding a package is O(1) instead of O(repo size)<p>Typical use case: CI pipeline builds an RPM and publishes to S3 repo in seconds, not minutes.<p>Written in Go, single binary, works with AWS S3 and MinIO. MIT licensed.<p>Would love feedback, especially from anyone managing large RPM repositories or running into similar CI bottlenecks.


type: comment
by: lpcvoid
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  What part of c++ is inefficient? I can write that pretty quickly without having some cloud service hallucinate stuff.<p>And no, a faster way to write or refactor code is not anti-worker. Corporations gobbling up tax payer money to build power hungry datacenters so billionaires can replace workers is.


type: story
by: msldiarra
title: Show HN: Kill List–A local-first PWA where tasks deletes if not done by midnight
url: https://killlist-production.up.railway.app
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  Hey HN, I built this because standard to-do lists let me hoard tasks forever. I wanted a &#x27;use it or lose it&#x27; mechanic.  The Tech:  SvelteKit (Static)  Dexie.js (IndexedDB wrapper) for client-side storage  Web Audio API for the procedural sounds  No account required, no server tracking (except privacy-preserving PostHog).  Source code is messy but the logic is simple. Would love feedback on the offline-sync strategy.


type: comment
by: sans_souse
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  Stay tuned I have a pretty cool project I plan on launching very soon. It takes the email alias to the next level, using them as meta tags to actually allow users to trace the source of shady data exchanges. I&#x27;m working on the guide and I&#x27;m hoping to actually start a community effort here to hold companies accountable for responsible use of PII


type: comment
by: zmj
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  Those collections are more like copy-on-write than actual immutable. System.Collections.Frozen is the real thing.


type: comment
by: donohoe
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  Fun (unrelated) fact:<p>My favorite product that I got to build there was “Cartoons at Random”. You’ll never guess what it did&#x2F;was!<p>I miss it terribly, just swiping images off a stack to reveal a new random cartoon underneath.<p>The developer (Justin?) did an amazing interaction on iOS app (seamless, no jank) and web version was decent too.<p>They broke it when they migrated from Wordpress to their own Condé Nast CMS<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoons&#x2F;random&#x2F;share&#x2F;1544311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoons&#x2F;random&#x2F;share&#x2F;1544311</a><p>Such delight. Sigh.


type: comment
by: fosco
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  I still think about my lost address that I obtained when Gmail was invite only.  My family still occasionally CCs it and it drives me nuts, I would pay money to at least have it shutdown so they don’t think I received an email.  I had email forwarding to another address when stolen and immediately after it was stolen it had the weirdest messages, I tried multiple ways reaching out to google and it still bugs me I was unsuccessful.  I’d love the their of my account to at least have it shutdown


type: comment
by: walterbell
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  Reportedly Sweetgreen changed their policy in advance of local regulation, starting in 2019, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.restaurantbusinessonline.com&#x2F;operations&#x2F;sweetgreen-reverses-its-no-cash-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.restaurantbusinessonline.com&#x2F;operations&#x2F;sweetgre...</a><p><i>&gt; The Sweetgreen fast-casual chain is dropping its cashless-only payments policy, saying the operational benefits are outweighed by the “unintended consequence” of some consumers being unable to become customers. All 94 branches of the salad chain will resume accepting cash by the end of the year, the brand said in a blog installment posted Thursday.</i>


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  they contribute very little except of course that without jobs their products have created 14.8647% of US population would starve to death. HN seems like a perfect place where people upvote stupid shit like some of the most successful companies in the history of mankind contributing nothing to society. bravo!! :)


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  It&#x27;s not inevitable. That&#x27;s not what that word means.<p>Intel Macs supported Linux because they used Intel&#x27;s Linux drivers and supported bog-standard UEFI. There are no preexisting drivers or DeviceTree files published by Apple for Linux. There is no UEFI implimentation, just a proprietary bootloader that can be updated post-hoc to deny booting into third-party OSes.<p>&gt; Why are some of y&#x27;all so hostile to this idea?<p>I would love for Linux to support as many ARM devices as possible. Unfortunately, it requires continuous effort from the OEM to be viable. I&#x27;ve bought Qualcomm, Rockchip and Broadcom boards before, none of them have been supported for half as long as my x86 machines are. Nevermind how fast ARM architectures become obsolete.<p>It feels like Apple is really the only hostile party here, and they coincidentally decide whether or not you get to use third-party OSes.


type: comment
by: msldiarra
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  OP here. I built this because I found standard todo apps too forgiving.  It&#x27;s a local-first PWA built with SvelteKit and Dexie.js (IndexedDB).  The Mechanic: Tasks have a hard deadline (Midnight). If not swiped (&#x27;Killed&#x27;) by then, they are permanently deleted.  The Stack: SvelteKit (Static), Tailwind, Howler.js (Audio), Dexie.js.  Privacy: No account required. Data lives on your device.  It&#x27;s an experiment in &#x27;loss aversion&#x27; productivity. Roast my code or the philosophy.


type: comment
by: karteum
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  Possibly, but I don&#x27;t see why those people would buy a new MacBook rather than a used 100$ laptop (which would be both better for their finances but also for the planet...)


type: comment
by: BenjiWiebe
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  Probably:  &quot;band names&quot; -&gt; Science, Engineering, TECHNOLOGY, Math college -&gt; &quot;domain names&quot;<p>Learned about more things tech, started thinking about domains more than bands.


type: comment
by: haupt
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  It&#x27;s a so-called hot-button topic and unfortunately HN isn&#x27;t quite the paragon of pragmatic technical discussion that it was in the past. C&#x27;est la vie.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
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  I&#x27;d say the real problem is that Boeing never took their Starliner seriously.<p>During the incident, my sense was that top NASA brass had quietly written the Starliner off - but NASA had to halfheartedly go through all the motions, to appease political interests in Washington.


type: comment
by: baobabKoodaa
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  LangChain does not solve any actual problem, so there is no need to replace it with anything. Just build without it.


type: comment
by: londons_explore
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  I really don&#x27;t see how you can make an animal model of something you don&#x27;t fully understand in humans.<p>Just because you made an animal have similar symptoms doesn&#x27;t mean the animal has Alzheimer&#x27;s!<p>I suspect that animal models hinder rather than help science progress because most of the animals models will turn out to be entirely wrong.


type: comment
by: socketcluster
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  I don&#x27;t like this API.<p>Overall I dislike the shift away from a URL as a language-agnostic string primitive to some weird convoluted object which is limited to specific use cases.<p>URL literally stands for Universal Resource Locator... A string is Universal. It can be passed around easily between processes, it can be easily stored in a database, it can be easily shared online, it can be easily passed to an LLM... URLs were supported by LLMs before LLMs even existed! You&#x27;ve got to appreciate that!<p>This class they call URL is actually not a URL at all, it&#x27;s more like a bound URLParser or URLExtractor.<p>A URL is a string that&#x27;s a fact. Even ask Google; &quot;is a URL a string?&quot; it will say yes.<p>The idea of a URL instance as a language-specific construct is a bad idea. It&#x27;s one of the reasons why many people don&#x27;t like Java.<p>[EDIT] I don&#x27;t dislike this API though it initially triggered my Java PTSD as I mistakenly thought it built on TOP of the URL instance. It actually takes things in the opposite direction as I initially understood; it&#x27;s moving back towards URLs as string primitives which is what I advocate for. I do hope we don&#x27;t end up adding too much more complexity related to URL handling though.


type: comment
by: josters
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  Looks like a really nice project! Would love the ability to „subscribe“ to a place or area and get a mail or notification once there is a new book added for that location. Another nice addition would be a heatmap layer for the lower zoom levels.


type: comment
by: evbogue
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  git-ssb was (now is again, really) one of those areas where ssb was vastly superior to atproto since all peers hosted the repos


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  The reactionary response against the new technology, even on HN, is pretty strong. If I ran an AI developer, I&#x27;d take it as a signal that I&#x27;m doing something right - people see how powerful our product is, and they care about it. Hate and love aren&#x27;t too different; we&#x27;ll have many dedicated users who will have forgotten.<p><pre><code>  First they laugh at you   Then they tell you it violates the orthodoxy   Then they think they knew it all along</code></pre>


type: comment
by: fooblaster
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  Let&#x27;s see if developers sleepwalk into another trap to keep us locked into nvidia&#x27;s hardware for the next decade.


type: comment
by: ale42
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  I guess the comment was just about how much Asterisk deployments are out there because you can often hear its default music-on-hold? But maybe I&#x27;m wrong.


type: comment
by: squigz
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  I&#x27;ve never worked anywhere even close to SV, so I don&#x27;t know how true any of this is.<p>But the idea that things happen in SV because someone basically got fancy reddit upvotes is sort of concerning.


type: comment
by: rconti
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  Any idea what changed, if anything? Court decisions made in the meantime simplifying things?<p>Hopefully the content fits in a few buckets (cartoons, fiction, non-fiction) as far as different terms for rights might go. And then from there, you can lop off anything that&#x27;s past its copyright term (?). Then maybe the next step is grouping works by the agent&#x2F;publisher, if any? Or maybe all the contracts with the New Yorker are signed by individuals, with the New Yorker as a publisher. I don&#x27;t know.


type: comment
by: kace91
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  I see a bit of mixed signal from your post: you like recreational programming, but you hate leetcoding (which are close to puzzles). You mention that the non-technical part of the job (product thinking?) doesn&#x27;t seem interesting, but you consider content creation which is very much people-facing.<p>What is it that you like? Not a specific job or task, I mean what is it that you like doing? Solving problems for people, interacting with a team, solving puzzles, deep theoretical stuff?<p>The intersection of that and what&#x27;s livable is what is going to work.


type: comment
by: johncolanduoni
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  I don’t know about calling them fatal, but inculcating a culture that believes the flaws are inescapable laws of reality is probably key.


type: comment
by: oblio
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  I guess on what you define as a toy. Is a Lego Technics set a toy? Is a model plane that requires assembly a toy? Is a drone a toy?<p>Also... if you ever meet a family with a baby or a toddler, I guess you&#x27;d gift them clothes?


type: comment
by: tstrimple
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  Usually I hit a book a week pretty reliably, but this past year has been particularly crazy according to my audible purchase history. There are around 80 titles that I&#x27;ve added in 2025 and I&#x27;ve completed the vast majority of them. Some stand outs for me:<p>Dungeon Crawler Carl - One of the few novels that I think it actually much better in audio format. The narrator is <i>excellent</i> and it&#x27;s a fun adventure that never takes itself too seriously. I&#x27;m not into litrpg typically, but I really enjoyed the 7 novels in the series so far.<p>The Laundry Files - I&#x27;ve made it through seven of these books and I really like the mix of mundane government IT with supernatural horrors. Tropes come up like the government tracking paper clip usage, and then you&#x27;ll get a mystical explanation that makes sense in world so suddenly tracking individual paper clip usage doesn&#x27;t seem so ridiculous. Generally a fun series, but it seems to be moving towards a revolving cast that I&#x27;m less interested in continuing on with.<p>The Library at Mount Char - One of my favorite books this year. Quite dark and mysterious. I liked the payoff and character arcs. But really it&#x27;s the well maintained atmosphere that pulls everything together.<p>There Is No Antimemetics Division - What might the science and research of literally unknowable things look like? Things your mind rejects or presences which can influence your mind to make themselves invisible and leaves no memories behind. Weird novel that doesn&#x27;t hold your hand too much.<p>Heavy Weather - A sort of modern cyberpunk meets western novel. Storm chasers following a predicted F6 super tornado across the US south.<p>The Running Man - I&#x27;m not typically a King fan, but I do like some of his works. I have fond memories of the movie from childhood nostalgia so finally gave it a try. I do think it&#x27;s one of his better works according to my tastes.<p>Mickey7 - I&#x27;m a sucker for time loops and death loops and adjacent novels. This was a short but fun book.<p>The Society of Unknowable Objects - Small group of people collect mysterious objects from around the world to keep humanity safe.<p>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Another one dealing with memory. What would it be like to be immortal, but everyone you interact with forgets about you minutes after you leave them.<p>Edge of Tomorrow - Time loops!<p>The Troop - Decent read if you like horror novels. One of the better horror novels I read for the year.


type: story
by: ibrahim_gabr
title: Show HN: QuickCV – Free ATS Resume Checker
url: https://quickcv.io/resume-checker
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I built a free tool to check how &quot;ATS-friendly&quot; a resume is.<p>I noticed that most resume checkers force you to create an account before showing you the results, or they just grep for keywords. I wanted to build something that actually parses the PDF structure similar to how a real Applicant Tracking System does, but without the &quot;signup wall&quot; friction.<p>The stack is Next.js + `unpdf` for parsing + an LLM layer to analyze the extracted entities (skills, experience, education) against standard job descripti patterns.<p>How it works:    1. It validates the PDF (magic bytes check).    2. Uses `unpdf` to extract raw text and layout data.    3. Analyzes content for common ATS &quot;trip-ups&quot; (tables, complex columns, missing standard headers).    4. Gives a score based on readability and keyword density.    5. It&#x27;s completely free and requires no email&#x2F;signup. I&#x27;m currently tweaking the scoring algorithm, so I&#x27;d love to hear if the score feels &quot;fair&quot; for your resume.<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickcv.io&#x2F;resume-checker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickcv.io&#x2F;resume-checker</a><p>Thanks!


type: comment
by: aszen
text:
  Seems useful. But what I really want is a way to merge google accounts, over the course of history I created 3 of them and would really prefer just a single one


type: comment
by: crote
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  Just one slight problem: people need to eat, and food costs money.<p>Your startup won&#x27;t succeed when its founder starves to death. It&#x27;s why the founder will usually get a bunch of cash during investment rounds [0]: they can&#x27;t focus on the company if they are constantly worried about cash in their personal life. Unless the founder is already independently wealthy, it is a <i>guarantee</i> that they&#x27;ll be employed by the company and being paid a living wage. Heck, in some countries this is even <i>legally required!</i><p>According to your logic, no successful startup will ever have a founder, as <i>any</i> form of pay instantly degrades them to regular employee, and any kind risk taken and below-market salary is completely irrelevant. Never mind the fact that they are taking home a minimum-wage salary while working 100 hours a week - they are earning a wage so they can&#x27;t possibly be a founder.<p>So if this logic already breaks down for the founder, why couldn&#x27;t it also break down for early employees whose compensation is mostly in stock options? How is their situation any different from the founder&#x27;s?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefantheard.com&#x2F;silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefantheard.com&#x2F;silicon-valleys-best-kept-secre...</a>


type: comment
by: td2
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  Tell me if im too conspiritorial. Wouldnt it makes sense to have bad censorship on information thats e.g a 8&#x2F;10 on a guilty scala. And make sure the 10&#x2F;10s stay censored? Let People assume they can uncensor some, and what they uncensor is representative for any censored information. While the parts that couldnt be uncensored are way worse?


type: comment
by: jondwillis
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  While I understand and somewhat agree with the sentiment you’re trying to convey here… on the other hand: entropy exists, and calories in must be greater than or equal to calories out, over the long term.<p>I do think there’s too much concern with “what” and not enough “why” or “how” in the world.


type: comment
by: rolph
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  consider the conceptual model of particle as a polyhedral structure.<p>consider further, the [pred] values are an average, or a centroid of sort, related to a dynamic process, as a result, the straight edges, and faces of the polyhedron dont exist, they are virtual.  what is actual is the variation of &quot;curvature&quot; as the object oscillates, further consider that [diff] is a measure of deviation that is in line with [exp] values.


type: comment
by: walterbell
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  Google has previously delivered good Linux support on Arm Chromebooks and is expected to launch unified Android+ChromeOS on Qualcomm X2 Arm devices in 2026.


type: comment
by: smackeyacky
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  If the job application requires leetcode, just do it.  The worst thing that could happen is you learn something.<p>I’ve been in the industry since the 1980s.  I don’t see AI as any kind of threat.  We expected a lot of the waves of technology would reduce the need for programmers but I now view it like Jevon’s paradox:  AI will expand IT uses not reduce the number of programmers.<p>My colleagues all lived through various paradigm shifts (visual programming, no-code, low-code, objects, client server, etc) the work never really changes for the vast majority of programmers doing productivity work like CRUD systems.<p>Reach out to former co workers for opportunities.


type: comment
by: echoangle
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  The class isn’t called URL, it’s called URLPattern. Because it represents a pattern that URLs can be matched against.


type: comment
by: UniverseHacker
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  Yeah, they do survive better with more long distance driving, but ultimately the newer common rail diesels are complex, fragile, and inefficient compared to the old TDIs. They succeeded in getting the emissions much cleaner, especially after the court mandated retrofit, but at the expense of everything else that made them economical and practical. I could get 60mpg in my 2000 TDI golf with a 6 speed manual.


type: comment
by: rconti
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  Looks like they were only (generally) outlawed for sale in 2023. Though some states were ahead of that.<p>They last a long time, though, and I imagine a lot of people are still using their existing bulbs. I can&#x27;t imagine doing that in CA, where our electricity is expensive, but if you&#x27;re paying 6c&#x2F;kWh, I suppose, may as well?


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
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  They seem to point out some examples in section 4 that can&#x27;t be handled with space partioning.  I&#x27;ll confess I don&#x27;t follow the reasoning.  Figure 4.2 is <i>the</i> go-to example of a sorting problem that is handled with BSP trees.


type: comment
by: trinix912
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  Because the price tag is quite high to get as much storage as you would 15 years ago for about the same money.<p>I agree that many people use them as glorified internet machines but even then when they occasionally decide to back up some photos or edit a few videos the 256GB <i>non-upgradable</i> storage quickly becomes a limitation.<p>Price matters. 256GB is fine on a $500 web browsing laptop, but on a $1000+ one it&#x27;s just a bad deal in 2025, even ignoring the fact that you cannot upgrade it later (it&#x27;s soldered in place).


type: comment
by: oblio
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  It&#x27;s not just him, but for something else. HiDPI, Ubuntu 24.04, try OnlyOffice or VMWare Workstation. Both don&#x27;t scale well. I assume other applications also don&#x27;t scale well. Had to use X. And the scaling isn&#x27;t even fractional, it&#x27;s 2x.


type: comment
by: kenjin4096
text:
  &gt; Generally not that much has happened in 5 years, sometimes 10-15% improvements are posted that are later offset by bloat.<p>Sorry but unless your workload is some C API numpy number cruncher that just does matmuls on the CPU, that&#x27;s probably false.<p>In 3.11 alone, CPython sped up by around 25% over 3.10 on pyperformance for x86-64 Ubuntu. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.11.html#whatsnew311-faster-cpython" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.11.html#whatsnew311-fas...</a><p>3.14 is 35-45% faster than CPython 3.10 for pyperformance x86-64 Ubuntu <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;faster-cpython&#x2F;benchmarking-public" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;faster-cpython&#x2F;benchmarking-public</a><p>These speedups have been verified by external projects. For example, a Python MLIR compiler that I follow has found a geometric mean 36% speedup moving from CPython 3.10 to 3.11 (page 49 of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EdmundGoodman&#x2F;masters-project-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EdmundGoodman&#x2F;masters-project-report</a>)<p>Another academic benchmark here observed an around 1.8x speedup on their benchmark suite for 3.13 vs 3.10 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;03DswsNUBdQ?t=145" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;03DswsNUBdQ?t=145</a><p>CPython 3.11 sped up enough that PyPy in comparison looks slightly slower. I don&#x27;t know if anyone still remembers this: but back in the CPython 3.9 days, PyPy had over 4x speedup over CPython on the PyPy benchmark suite, now it&#x27;s 2.8 on their website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speed.pypy.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speed.pypy.org&#x2F;</a> for 3.11.<p>Yes CPython is still slow, but it&#x27;s getting faster :).<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m just a volunteer, not an employee of Microsoft, so I don&#x27;t have a perf report to answer to. This is just my biased opinion.


type: comment
by: int_19h
text:
  I&#x27;ll admit that I haven&#x27;t looked it in a while, but as originally released, it was a textbook example on how to complicate a fundamentally simple and well-understood task (text templates, basically) with lots of useless abstractions that made it all sound more &quot;enterprise&quot;. People would write complicated langchains, but then when you looked under the hood all it was doing is some string concatenation, and the result was actually less readable than a simple template with substitutions in it.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  Not to mention they own NPM( GitHub owns NPM).<p>C# is fantastic and Playwright&#x27;s C# support is extremely good. I&#x27;ve been in the C# ecosystem for years, but I&#x27;m still a bit worried about having a single company control so much of my livelihood. Let&#x27;s just say I have a little bit of experience with Microsoft, they don&#x27;t particularly pay well so I&#x27;m a little confused as to if they can maintain so many frameworks indefinitely.<p>Are you going to keep Vibium a community project, or you hoping to raise capital&#x2F;bootstrap.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I absolutely love what you&#x27;re doing but I don&#x27;t know if one person can create something so complex. The good news is Chrome is the only browser most normal people use, which reduces the amount of testing you have to actually do.<p>At the vast majority of places I&#x27;ve worked at we basically just test on Chrome and then if it doesn&#x27;t work on other browsers ohh well. Every now and then you would get a project manager who would suggest adding Firefox&#x2F;Safari testing. But it&#x27;s never been a priority.


type: comment
by: CSSer
text:
  Imagine if society were a program and laws, policies and procedures were its codebase. The scary thing is that the way it gets patched in reality isn&#x27;t very different from the way agentic LLMs perform on actual codebases today. Bug in this department? Delete it. People abuse this system? Add more friction for legitimate users. Society has a need? Greenfield a feature that works great but doesn&#x27;t fit in with existing systems at all. This didn&#x27;t used to be so on the nose. I can&#x27;t decide if we should welcome our new robot overlords or even what is a reflection of who anymore.


type: comment
by: theLiminator
text:
  This can&#x27;t come soon enough. Python is great for CLIs until you build something complex and a simple --help takes seconds. It&#x27;s not something easily worked around without making your code very ugly.


type: comment
by: pil0u
text:
  Yes, it is an unpopular opinion around here, but pretty much in the tech world.<p>I think this is because most of the users&#x2F;praisers of GenAI can only see it as a tool to improve productivity (see sibling comment). And yes, end of 2025, it&#x27;s becoming harder to argue that GenAI is not a productivity booster across many industries.<p>The vast majority of people in tech are totally missing the question of morality. Missing it, or ignoring it, or hiding it.


type: story
by: markrai
title: Show HN: Frame an web synth for desktop or mobile with hand gesture support
url: https://oyehoy.net/
text:
  Started off as a fun touch-screen theremin, and evolved into a full-fledged sequencer&#x2F;groove box. Features hand feature detection to play the instrument and control effects.<p>Warning: Under heavy development! Still somewhat raw, but good enough to play around with :)


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  I came here to say this.<p>OP, what are you even doing that requires $150&#x2F;month of spend, especially given things are mostly idle?


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  Sure , &quot;sustain&quot; is subjective. If you&#x27;re sticking to Arch Linux, programming VIM, and browsing docs for 20 years,  you&#x27;d get more value out of one good base over any potential upgrades.  But that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the world we live in, hardware or software wise. We don&#x27;t really build laptops like we would fridges, and the former has a lot more moving parts regardless.<p>&gt;But admitting it or not, let&#x27;s recognize it&#x27;s still making people prone to judging from a filter bubble perspective.<p>Sure. My other opinion to emphasize is that I don&#x27;t think Framework is trying to aim for the average user. Nor even average dev.  If you&#x27;re questioning why you not buy some $600-1000 range laptop,or why you need a 5090 at all, you 99% don&#x27;t really need the flexibility of a modular laptop.<p>On top of that, the average dev could (or at least, used to until recently) also afford a brand new replacement laptop, so they probably aren&#x27;t as cost conscious nor as specs demanding as a game Dev like me living in a boom bust cycle (and it&#x27;s pretty bust right).  I&#x27;m around that time considering an upgrade and I&#x27;d much rather throw down $600 to just slap in a new GPU like I would in a desktop, instead of another $2000+.


type: comment
by: chermanowicz
text:
  the talk is that sambanova-intel is akin to a firesale, so who knows what the real story with any single company. same with graphcore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;sambanova-exploring-sale-after-struggling-to-secure-further-funding-report&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;sambanova-explori...</a>


type: comment
by: iamben
text:
  I&#x27;m interested. How does it differ from using:<p>name+service@gmail.com  or service@myowndomain.com<p>...to figure out where the spam originated?


type: comment
by: machinationu
text:
  As PG would say, the best startups are for ideas which are hated, because you&#x27;ll have no competition.


type: comment
by: tangelogica
text:
  Video demonstrating the standard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8SqkvDyy7zk&amp;t=136s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8SqkvDyy7zk&amp;t=136s</a>


type: comment
by: trinix912
text:
  Out of curiosity, does Google contribute the drivers for Chromebook hardware to Linux upstream or do they keep it for themselves? Could it be that they just choose the hardware that works very well out of box with Linux?


type: comment
by: jonway
text:
  in my experience, in&#x2F;out porting with google is super quick and works great. It costs $20.00 IIRC. I port my primary phone number around to avoid unlawful surveillance, handy tool in the bag.


type: comment
by: eptcyka
text:
  &gt; What? My screensaver password is the same as my login.<p>It is the same, yet some uppercase characters are not supported when entered via a yubikey. This has been marked as a WONTFIX. This is rather sad, because I can enter the same password in a TTY with no issues.


type: comment
by: yujzgzc
text:
  Did this change? I stopped reading the print version for lack of time a few years back, and there was definitely some full-page and margin advertising throughout the paper. I recall some of it being clearly directed at much wealthier customers than I was.


type: comment
by: cedws
text:
  Email services in general. My worst nightmare is my email provider (which isn&#x27;t Google) going dark and losing access to everything.


type: comment
by: junon
text:
  Technically without any optimizations this would result in a stray LEA op or something but any optimizing compiler (certainly any that support Rust) would optimize it out even at low levels of debug settings.


type: comment
by: raviolo
text:
  It does not. If this was the case, round trip wire to wire latency below 1.0-1.2 microseconds in software would’ve been impossible. But it clearly is possible - see benchmarks by Solarflare, Exablaze, and others.


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  I got mine when it was invite only too, I had it a very long time.<p>I use protonmail now -- I think the &quot;free&quot; model enables providers to shrug and go &quot;hey you don&#x27;t pay us&quot; (if there is support at all -- I&#x27;ve never been able to speak to a human about this issue)


type: comment
by: M95D
text:
  I was expecting to see a tablet&#x2F;phone in the top place: repeatability = 5, length of play = 5, clean up ease = 5.<p>I know it&#x27;s bad to give a kid a tablet, but the scoring used in the article is <i>that bad</i> it didn&#x27;t award any points for how good it is for a child...


type: comment
by: fallinditch
text:
  Sounds like a great show, will give it a listen.<p>To the author: do you use AI at all in the creative aspects of the production? I assume that AI assistance in creative writing is now mainstream, and an accepted tool for most writers. I am interested to know your thoughts on this subject and if you use AI then what sort of methods do you use?<p>Note: Google Gemini reports that &quot;the most successful writers in 2025 use me as a &quot;distillation machine.&quot; They write 1,000 words of raw emotion, then ask me to help them find the &quot;300 words that actually matter&quot;


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  If you use a password manager like Keepass, you should still be able to log into your other accounts if you lost access and at least with financial institutions you can call, ask that no changes be made with without coming into the branch and showing ID.


type: comment
by: tstrimple
text:
  A number of cloud migrations I&#x27;ve worked on are due to these reasons. If you&#x27;re the second largest customer at a colo, and the largest is pulling all of their equipment out, chances are the colo won&#x27;t be around much longer and you need to start getting proactive. Some of the companies are on very tight migration timelines because the colo announced they are closing down and were caught flat footed.


type: comment
by: bcye
text:
  You only need to vet the website if you care about the privacy of the picture, and a website is run in a reliably sandboxed environment, whereas local tools run with much more elevated permissions.


type: comment
by: rsyring
text:
  I&#x27;m so sick of the NFL doing exclusives like this.  I refuse to watch.  Glad it blew up on them.  Hope they will stop doing this kind of thing in the future (but I doubt it).


type: comment
by: pmdulaney
text:
  Never mind -- I get it. (I was thinking maybe you were talking about mesh wire screens or something.)


type: comment
by: packetlost
text:
  &gt; But you still believe that quantum computers have a likelihood of being possible to build AND that they can accomplish a task faster than classical?<p>Not GP but yes. I&#x27;m reasonably confident that we will have quantum computers that are large and stable enough to have a real quantum advantage, but that&#x27;s mostly because I believe Moore&#x27;s law is truly dead and we will see a plateau in &#x27;classical&#x27; CPU advancement and memory densities.<p>&gt; I feel like it’s going to get exponentially harder and expensive to get very small incremental gains and that actually beating a classical computer isn’t necessarily feasible (because of all the error correction involved and difficulty in manufacturing a computer with large number of qbits)<p>I don&#x27;t think people appreciate or realize that a good chunk of the innovations necessary to &quot;get there&quot; with quantum are traditional (albeit specialized) engineering problems, not new research (but breakthroughs can speed it up). I&#x27;m a much bigger fan of the &quot;poking lasers at atoms&quot; style of quantum computer than the superconducting ones for this reason, the engineering is more like building cleaner lasers and better AOMs [0] than trying to figure out how to super cool vats of silicon and copper. It&#x27;s outside my area of expertise, but I would expect innovations to support better lithography to also benefit these types of systems, though less directly than superconducting.<p>Source: I worked on hard-realtime control systems for quantum computers in the past. Left because the academic culture can be quite toxic.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acousto-optic_modulator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acousto-optic_modulator</a>


type: comment
by: tormeh
text:
  As someone who has a hard time putting down tiktok, I have to say: Yes, the platform and algorithm is addictive and predatory, but some of the content is really good. Lots of very funny sketches, in particular. I don&#x27;t like dances and whatever, so I get none of that.


type: comment
by: int_19h
text:
  I doubt it would have a JIT a long time ago. Thing is, people have been making JIT compilers for Python for a long time now, but the semantics of the language itself is such that it&#x27;s often hard to benefit from it because most of the time isn&#x27;t in the bytecode interpreter itself, it&#x27;s dispatching things. People like comparing Python to JavaScript, but Python is much more flexible - all &quot;primitive&quot; types are objects can be subclassed for example, and even basic machinery like attribute lookups have a bunch of customization hooks.<p>So the problem is basically that a <i>simple</i> JIT is not beneficial for Python. So you have to invest a lot of time and effort to get a few percent faster on a typical workload. Or you have to tighten up the language and&#x2F;or break the C ABI, but then you break many existing popular libraries.


type: comment
by: int_19h
text:
  Games aren&#x27;t written in Python as a whole, but Python is used as a scripting language. It&#x27;s definitely less popular now than it used to be, mostly thanks to Lua, but it still happens.


type: comment
by: rjh29
text:
  Even if GenAI is helpful it&#x27;s okay to morally reject using it. There are plenty of things that give you an advantage in your career but are morally wrong. Complaints include putting people out of jobs, causing a financial bubble, filling GitHub and the internet in general with AI slop, using tons of energy, increasing dram and GPU prices.<p>And it&#x27;s not even that apparent how much GenAI improves overall development speed, beyond making toy apps. Hallucinations, bugs, misreading your intentions, getting stuck in loops, wasting your time debugging and testing and it still doesn&#x27;t help with the actual hard problems of devwork. Even the examples you mention can be fallible.<p>On top of all that is AI even profitable? It might be fine now but what happens when it&#x27;s priced to reflect its actual costs? Anecdotally it already feels like models are being quantised and dumbed down - I find them objectively less useful and I&#x27;m hitting usage limits quicker than before. Once the free ride is over, only rich people from rich countries will have access to them and of course only big tech companies control the models. It could be peer pressure but many people genuinely object to AI universally. You can&#x27;t get the useful parts without the rest of it.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure</i><p>Isn’t this inherent to not choosing an (EDIT: external) account-recovery method?<p>The flip side to allowing account recovery at Google’s discretion is lessened security for everyone. (Obviously not black and white. And I agree Google should have flexibility for old accounts. But it’s an odd thing to reject a major provider over.)


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  Isn&#x27;t the compiler still closed source? I and many other ML devs have no interest in a closed-source compiler. We have enough proprietary things from NVIDIA.


type: comment
by: patrickg
text:
  I use the standard binary from TeX-live and use the integrated harfbuzz loader, which works like a charm.<p>The downloadable ZIP is ready to run and does not need any additional libraries. (That said, I include some helpers, for example for https access. )


type: comment
by: BlueTemplar
text:
  It is concerning to me that there are now international (Western ?) guidelines[1] (2016) and conventions that don&#x27;t seem to realise the consequences of taking a hard stance on the combination of three of their points :<p>- a child is any person under the age of 18 years<p>- including non-explicit sexual activities<p>- any material that visually depicts a child [engaged in those]<p>Am I missing something, or have they &#x27;criminalised&#x27; a quite large chunk of art ?!?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecpat.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;Terminology-guidelines-396922-EN-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecpat.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;Terminology-gui...</a><p>Then we have these guidelines embedded in automated systems (sometimes with people as &#x27;cogs&#x27;), add a pinch of pressure by puritans in power of various stripes, and a decade later we end up with payment networks forcing platforms to kick out artists  even when what they are doing is not illegal in their respective jurisdictions !


type: comment
by: saint_yossarian
text:
  You can use a custom domain with most providers, so when they go dark you can at least migrate to another one.


type: comment
by: int_19h
text:
  Python is much, much more dynamic. E.g. look at how something as basic as accessing an attribute on an object works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;howto&#x2F;descriptor.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;howto&#x2F;descriptor.html</a><p>Also Python has a de facto stable(ish) C ABI for extensions that is 1) heavily used by popular libraries, and 2) makes life more difficult for the JIT because the native code has all the same expressive power wrt Python objects, but JIT can&#x27;t do code analysis to ensure that it doesn&#x27;t use it.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  &gt; I wish there were a Linux machine with the hardware quality of a MacBook<p>It really depends what you mean by &quot;quality&quot;. To me first and foremost quality I look for in a laptop is for it to not break. As I&#x27;m a heavy desktop user, my laptop is typically with me on the couch or on vacation. Enter my MacBook Air M1: after 13 months, and sadly no extended warranty, the screen broke for no reason overnight. I literally closed it before going to bed and when I opened the lid the next day: screen broken. Some refer to that phenomenon as the &quot;bendgate&quot;.<p>And every time I see a Mac laptop I can&#x27;t help but think &quot;slick and good looking but brittle&quot;. There&#x27;s a feeling of brittleness with Mac laptops that you don&#x27;t have with, say, a Thinkpad.<p>My absolute best laptop is a MIL-SPEC (I know, I know, there are many different types of military specs) LG Gram. Lighter than a MacBook too. And every single time I demo it to people I take the screen, I bent it left and right. This thing is rock solid.<p>I happen to have this laptop (not my vid) and look at 34 seconds in the vid:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;herYV5TJ_m8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;herYV5TJ_m8</a><p>The guy literally throws my laptop (well, the same) down concrete stairs and the thing still just works fine.<p>The friend who sold it to me (I bought it used) one day stepped on it when he woke up. No problemo.<p>To me <i>that</i> is quality: something you can buy used and that is rock solid.<p>Where are the vids of someone throwing a MacBook Air down the stairs and the thing keeps working?<p>I&#x27;m trading a retina display any day for a display that doesn&#x27;t break when it accidentally falls on the ground.<p>Now I love the <i>look</i> and the incredible speed of the MacBook Air laptops (I still have my M1 but has its screen broke, I turned it into a desktop) but I really wish they were not desk queens: we&#x27;ve got desktops for that.<p>I don&#x27;t want a laptop that require exceptional care and mad packaging skills when putting it inside a backpack (and which then requires the backpack to be manipulated with extreme care).<p>So: bring me the raw power and why not the nice look of a MacBook Air, but make it sturdy (really the most important for me) and have it support Linux. That I&#x27;d buy.


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
text:
  Everybody knows name+something@ maps to name@ so it’s trivial for bad actors to strip the plus part and just spam you directly, losing the per-correspondent distinction.


type: comment
by: thunky
text:
  &gt; If AI is so good for productivity, why don&#x27;t you use it to make your 4000 workers produce even more than other companies?<p>Because they don&#x27;t have 4000+ workers worth of work to do?


type: comment
by: int_19h
text:
  You&#x27;d be surprised at how little speedup you get from simply JIT-compiling the Python bytecode. It&#x27;s so high-level that most interesting stuff happens in the layers below anyway.


type: comment
by: xmorse
text:
  Kernels now written in Mojo were all in hand written in MLIR like in this repo. They made a full language because that&#x27;s not scalable, a sane language is totally worth it. Nvidia will probably end up buying them in a few years.


type: story
by: nis0s
title: Mouse Study Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link with Alzheimer's
url:
  https://www.sciencealert.com/mouse-study-suggests-nose-picking-has-a-surprising-link-with-alzheimers


type: comment
by: matt3210
text:
  If it can be generated with a prompt, it has infinite supply and finite demand. It’s literally worthless in all senses of the term.<p>What worries me is that it’s reducing the value of actual engineering work (or good quality art). It’s like car lemons. Their existence also reduces the value of the good quality work


type: comment
by: yujzgzc
text:
  This is informative for an indie audio podcast. I wonder how the economics and scale change for podcasts published by studios like Audible or even smaller ones like Pushkin


type: comment
by: Barrin92
text:
  &gt;the best startups are for ideas which are hated<p>yes and so are the worst, and the problem is 95% of ideas that sound stupid aren&#x27;t stupid and genius, but just stupid. As Peter Thiel used to say, it&#x27;s not enough to be a contrarian, that&#x27;s easy, you need to be contrarian and correct.


type: comment
by: paulddraper
text:
  Correct.<p>One is refs&#x2F;heads&#x2F;&lt;name&gt; and the other is refs&#x2F;tags&#x2F;&lt;name&gt;<p>Branches are expected to change. When a commit is authored, HEAD (the current branch) updates to that commit.<p>Tags are expected not to change (though they can).


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  It is inevitable. I guarantee you there will be people who run Linux on their silicon Macs. I don’t know how you could possibly hold a stance that no one ever will.<p>Apple is very hostile to it. It won’t stop everyone though. It’ll continue to be niche but it’s happening.


type: comment
by: rcbdev
text:
  Why don&#x27;t you either just say the country you&#x27;re from or don&#x27;t say it at all?<p>Making the reader have to look up which country is the most populous on earth seems like the worst possible way of conveying that you are Indian.


type: comment
by: storus
text:
  NMN and NR are both good but NMN might not be available anymore as some company decided to repurpose it as a drug instead of supplement. Best combo nowadays looks to be liposomal NR with pterostilbene, a sirtuin activator. NR boosts NAD+ (the main electron transporter in mitochondria), pterostilbene activates sirtuin SIRT1 that regulates aging. B2&#x2F;Riboflavin might be a good idea as well as it is a FADH donor, secondary electron transport carrier especially in nerves&#x2F;brain. B1 to the mix as every single metabolic reaction needs it and it&#x27;s depleted by consuming lots of carbs or drinking alcohol, a common western diet. Niacin is less effective in raising NAD+ but the flush can open up veins and flood hard to reach extremities of the body with blood so it&#x27;s probably good from time to time. Slow B3 seems to be even worse for raising NAD+.


type: comment
by: awad
text:
  Amazon is generally good at 1) resolving an issue in your favor and 2) getting you to a human if needed but gosh does it feel like I&#x27;ve taken a different path to do so every single time I&#x27;ever needed support.


type: comment
by: Refreeze5224
text:
  I agree. The goal of AI is to reduce payroll costs. It has nothing to do with IDEs or writing code or making &quot;art&quot;. It&#x27;s meant to allow the owning class to pay the working class less, nothing more. What it *can* do is irrelevant in the face of what it <i>is</i> for.


type: comment
by: cluckindan
text:
  IDKFA = id kicks f*king ass<p>IDDQD = id delta quit delta (apparently some kind of inside joke)<p>IDSPISPOPD = id smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris


type: comment
by: HocusLocus
text:
  ;) I was a by-invitation-beta in 2004, trust me. Even then spammers knew about the +1234 trick too. The earliest throwaway forwarders suffered from explosive growth and spam netblocks and their queue times varied greatly. The golden age of Viagra and recruiters selling prospect lists to randos. I retreated to gmail for the SPOP and because my original address was Tech Contact for 100+ domains from 1994-2000. Thousands a week. If I was smart I&#x27;d have used it as a honeypot to feed a spam blocking service.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  And there it is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387364">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387364</a>


type: comment
by: ludwik
text:
  &gt; Just had the sitename put into the value of the cookie since, and never really needed to think about that.<p>How would that help? This doesn&#x27;t seem like a solution to the CSRF problem


type: comment
by: waldothedog
text:
  The placements and counts  tends to vary issue to issue, but in general is much lower volume than many publications. But agreed, the ads do tend to be almost comically high end (for me)


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>the flush can open up veins and flood hard to reach extremities of the body</i><p>What does it mean if I don’t flush? Is the supplement a dud?


type: comment
by: EGreg
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  I never really had this issue because I used Google Suite with a domain. (That’s what it was called back then.)<p>So I can have email aliases under that domain, and even choose the alias for outgoing email.<p>However! This creates an extra security hole. Once I was SIM-swapped (when the attacker calls up a phone company and convinces them to redirect sms to their SIM). I had used it as a second factor at GoDaddy and had to act fast. GoDaddy had already allowed the attacker to authenticate with the sms (dumb!) and port the domain name. I realized what was happening only because the attacker sent “test” emails to my email at the domain. Had they not done that, I might have been none the wiser. I called GoDaddy and got them to cancel it, thankfully. Otherwise they’d have reset passwords armed with email AND phone number.<p>Since then I use the non-SMS SECOND FACTOR on most services, as NIST had been recommending  for a decade now.<p>I personally recommend using a username+alias@gmail.com which gmail and others support, with a different but easy-to-remember alias per site, so social attackers can’t even correctly say your email to the dude on the phone.<p>Michael Terpin, a guy I know, got $27 million dollars in crypto stolen a decade ago by a SIM Swapper and sued AT&amp;T for it. Not sure if he won… he moved to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes and brought Brock Pierce and other crypto bros with him LOL.


type: comment
by: ursAxZA
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  If you compare the viewership of Game of Thrones with the readership of the original novels, the gap is enormous — not because one is “better,” but because different media win different kinds of attention.<p>Most people are never choosing between Being and Time and an HN thread. But if they were forced to choose, we already know which one would dominate sheer engagement.<p>That doesn’t mean HN replaces philosophy — it just means that attention has its own economics. And any medium that captures attention will inevitably show qualities (good and bad) that heavyweight works simply can’t compete with.


type: comment
by: smusamashah
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  Based it on other video models, all the ones I have seen keep improving. This one should too. Infact, Google is doing it already with their Genie (IIRC). That one is high quality and interactive.


type: comment
by: Eridrus
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  Do you actually know this is what happened?<p>Dividends to only one class seems crazy. I would be kind of shocked if that was legal.


type: comment
by: chrisjj
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  One could switch ones GPU arithmetic to integer...<p>... or resign oneself to the fact we&#x27;ve entered the age of Approximate Computing.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>read their comment as &quot;accurately diagnose before treating&quot;</i><p>Right. And I’m arguing that’s more of a fiction than <i>House</i>.<p>In most cases, waiting for a definitive test can be more harmful than treating when the preponderance of evidence points one way. (In some cases, the test is riskier than the treatment.)<p>Broadening out of medicine, it’s absolutely okay in many circumstances to try a fix before you’re sure you know what the problem is.


type: comment
by: macrolime
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  I had something kinda similar happen to my hotmail account. While I didn&#x27;t lose access to it, I lost more than a decade of correspondence  dating back to my teenage years. The reason was that Microsoft at some point required you to &quot;login&quot; once every 30 days. It seems they only counted logins through their web interface or something like that, so even though I was receiving emails daily, I didn&#x27;t trigger a &quot;login&quot; in their system. They then deleted all my emails, but I could still login.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
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  I really want Mojo to take off. Maybe in a few years. The lack of an stdlib holds it back more than they think, and since their focus is narrow atm it&#x27;s not useful for the vast majority of work.


type: comment
by: analog31
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  Something I&#x27;m wondering. My kids are grown now. When they were little, we got a toy with connecting magnetic pieces, don&#x27;t remember the name. The magnets broke out of the brittle plastic easily and it was actually a pretty low quality toy although the concept was cool.<p>There was also some kind of recall or warning about the possibility of kids ingesting the magnets. That&#x27;s about all I remember. Of course you never know as a parent whether the latest safety threat is serious or over-hyped. The claimed threat was that the magnets would click together in your intestines and wreak havoc.<p>I wonder what the present conventional wisdom is on those magnets.


type: comment
by: colechristensen
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  &gt;I think the &quot;free&quot; model enables providers to shrug and go &quot;hey you don&#x27;t pay us&quot; (if there is support at all -- I&#x27;ve never been able to speak to a human about this issue)<p>I also have paid services a lot of money where customer service was nonexistent until I did a credit card chargeback or raised an issue with government regulators.<p>I&#x27;m trying to figure out exactly what I want to push my state legislature to encode into law with regards to customer service minimums that would cover anyone doing business in the state, free or paid.


type: comment
by: raviolo
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  CTO of an HFT firm here. My opinion: repo (and probably author’s comments) are LLM-generated. That said, many questions and techniques touched upon are real. So even though I certainly would not use any of these verbatim (as I wouldn’t do with any other LLM code), as a list of pointers for someone relatively new to the field this is actually pretty useful.<p>Saves you a “generate low-latency trading system” prompt anyway.


type: comment
by: pron
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  But if LLMs get to the point they&#x27;re smart enough to deal with the tricker aspects of programming, what makes you think they need help with the easier parts? Conversely, if they&#x27;re <i>not</i> smart enough to deal with the trickier parts, why would a little help move the needle much? Despite trying, research has not been able to find a significant <i>general</i>[1] effect of language design on correctness or productivity for human programmers (at least among more-or-less high level languages; I&#x27;m not talking Java vs Assembly). We all have our preferences, and we tend to think they&#x27;re universal, but it&#x27;s precisely because of this bias that empirical study is needed, and it&#x27;s not been conclusive.<p>If there&#x27;s no big impact on humans, why assume there would be one for LLMs? I&#x27;m not saying that LLMs think like humans, but the default hypothesis should be that something doesn&#x27;t make a big difference if there&#x27;s no example in which it does. In other words, if something does not have a known effect, we shouldn&#x27;t <i>assume</i> that it will in this case (I mean, it could, but we&#x27;ll need to first find good empirical evidence for that).<p>[1]: Research did find some differences between TypeScript and JavaScript specifically, but that result hasn&#x27;t generalised.


type: comment
by: int_19h
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  That was also true back when it was actively developed though. X apps compiled a long time ago still run fine today.


type: comment
by: lekanal
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  &gt; I don&#x27;t think he would pass FANG interviews<p>Given his alma mater and the way the French education system works, he performed too-of-France at “solve math problems on a blackboard in front of someone” after two years of grinding math problems including extensive practice for the aforementioned “solve math problems on a blackboard in front of someone”. I think he could manage. FAANG interview is basically a CS khôlle.


type: comment
by: MadnessASAP
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  I dont find the idea of a immutable &quot;descriptive&quot; tag or branch to be that useful (I also dont find the differentiation of tags and branches to be useful either) I&#x27;ve seen plenty of repositories where tags end up being pretty ambiguous compared to each other or where &quot;release-20xx&quot; does not actually point to the official 20xx release. Immutable references are more typically handled by builders and lockfiles to which Git already has a superior immutable reference system, the commit hash.


type: comment
by: nis0s
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  Admittedly, I skimmed through the article, but there’s an ongoing discussion around regulation of biometrics, other personal indicators, and privacy (not covered in this article).


type: comment
by: dima55
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  Look at pyfltk also. I haven&#x27;t used the windows builds, but it&#x27;s real nice on GNU&#x2F;Linux.


type: comment
by: 3eb7988a1663
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  That is moving the point of failure to the domain registrar. Which is probably less likely, but you are always relying on someone.


type: comment
by: JambalayaJimbo
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  Do you really think that gender, sexuality, and race are not sensitive topics everywhere? Musicians are routinely banned from south east Asia for lgbt lyrics or activism, for example.


type: comment
by: vunderba
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  It might be an iCloud+ feature only, but if you&#x27;re on a Mac - you&#x27;ve already got the ability to generate virtual email addresses on the fly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;105078" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;105078</a>


type: comment
by: reactordev
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  Easy, if that’s how you feel, skip the comment and don’t engage.<p>Telling people who want to have that participation and discussion to “RTFM” is not a good response.<p>Often you’ll come across the authors on these posts that can shed direct, 1st person evidence, of what we’re talking about.<p>So please, when someone asks “what is that?” Don’t respond with “RTFM”.


type: comment
by: lonesword
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  Pivot to being a student again :)<p>&gt; I come from the world&#x27;s most populous country.<p>&gt; Realistically, moving abroad is tough but I want to! I applied to a lot of startups but not getting any positive response.<p>I was in a similar situation. After being bored doing CRUD, I applied for a masters program and moved to Germany in 2019 (I was 26 at the time). One of the better decisions I’ve made. There is no tuition fee (!!) in Germany for international students, and it is not that hard to get admitted to _some_ university (though actually graduating is hard). Computer science masters programs are usually in English. It is a fairly risk-free way to try out your hand at some research, and if you don’t like it, you can always find some software engineering job.<p>It’s not going to be easy - university applications are a pain in the ass, you will still have to learn some German e.t.c. But it’s a good way to “reset” your life.<p>&gt; I hate leetcode and that keeps me away from most of the job opportunities.<p>One way out of this is to interview deliberately at smaller companies.


type: comment
by: Rochus
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  Thanks for the info. I now have a pretty lean stand-alone build of luatex 1.10.0 without all the autotools fuzz. Currently I&#x27;m testing on Linux.


type: comment
by: jonway
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  thats funny, i interpreted this as &quot;Hosted Asterisk People Sell a Default Experience&quot; (and probably charge for custom messages) so its cool to see something different and marketable


type: comment
by: paulddraper
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  I know it’s been said but Anduril is the sword wielded by Aragon, forged from the shards of Narsil which defeated Sauron.<p>And the Palantiri were artifacts given by the Elves to the greatest race of Men to govern their kingdom. No connection to the witch-king (except some post-Tolkien video game).


type: comment
by: raddan
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  You can take this to an extreme (like I do) and use a different email address for every party with whom you communicate. It makes it rather obvious who leaked your email address, and also easy to shut them out (looking at you ActBlue!). It also leads to some amusing personal interactions. I once rebooked a cancelled flight on JetBlue at the ticket counter. When the agent saw my email she said “wow, you must really like JetBlue.” I just nodded but I was laughing inside because it’s definitely the opposite!


type: comment
by: array_key_first
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  Right, but you have to do a lot of work, and really most of your work is in this area. Less on the actual building stuff.<p>Figuring out what to build is 80% of the work, building it is maybe 20%. The 20% has never been the bottleneck. We make a lot of software, and most of it is not optimal and requires years if not decades of tweaking to meet the true requirements.


type: comment
by: janice1999
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  Being Indian is probably not the point he wants to make - it&#x27;s that he has lots of competition, particularity as a developer.


type: comment
by: VTimofeenko
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  &gt; Learning requires participation<p>I won&#x27;t argue, but there is a middle ground between articles consisting of pure JAFAs and this:<p>&gt; accommodate readers who won’t even type four letters into a search bar<p>I think it helps if acronyms are expanded at least once or in a footnote so that the potential new reader can follow along and does not need to guess what ACMV^ means.<p>^: Awesome Combobulating Method by VTimofeenko, patent pending.


type: comment
by: Insanity
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  When my company organized an LLM hackathon last year, they pushed for LangChain.. but then instead of building on top of it I ended up creating a more lightweight abstraction for our use-cases.<p>That was more fun than actually using it.


type: comment
by: virtualwhys
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  Looking at a Thinkpad 16&quot; P1 Gen 8 with 2X 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, QHD+ screen, centered keyboard like MBP (i.e. no numpad), integrated Intel GPU, lightweight (4 lbs) for a little under $2.5K USD.<p>Closest I&#x27;ve found to an MBP 16&quot; replacement.<p>Have been running Dell Precision laptops for many years on Linux, not sure about Lenovo build quality and battery life, but hoping it will be decent enough.<p>Would run Asahi if it supported M4 but looks it&#x27;s a long ways away...


type: comment
by: pretext-1
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  I think they know about them they just don’t care enough to spend money on fixing them. They are still primarily an ad company today and their users are still primarily the product not customers.


type: comment
by: analog31
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  First time parent? Just kidding.<p>My experience as a parent, and the conventional wisdom of parents I&#x27;ve known, including my own, is that there&#x27;s no predicting the influence of a given toy on a kid&#x27;s development[0]. My hunch is that toys are better if they give the kid more agency to make up their own play and games without supervision, and many of the toys mentioned in the article are of that ilk. That could be because I still like toys, to this day, with that kind of built-in agency.<p>Also, growing up in a emotionally stable family culture that values curiosity and learning is probably a huge deal.<p>[0] Excluding cellphones and the Internet, which are their own discussion of course.


type: comment
by: matt3210
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  There’s no point in AI writing if people are going to summarize it with AI or just ask the bot for spec details.<p>Just give bullet points and technical specs.


type: comment
by: fn-mote
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  &gt; The blast radius is scale<p>Ugh. I’m a native English speaker and this sounds <i>wrong</i>, massaged by LLM or not.<p>“Large blast radius” would be a good substitute.<p>I am happy this whole issue doesn’t affect me, so I can stop reading when I don’t like the writing.


type: comment
by: paulddraper
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  The Palantiri were created by the Elves in Valinor and given to the high race of Men.<p>The witch-king could in theory have used a Palantir, but there’s no suggestion he did.<p>The seven stars in Gondor’s crest are the Palantari, and in the War of the Ring, Aragon specifically requested they be added to his banner. They represent the highest level of the civilization of Men.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
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  My point was more that throwing around the lowest price point (in a different currency...) of a differently positionned product line helps nothing.<p>Comparing Macs to Framework laptops is also an exercise in frustration in that nobody&#x27;s seriously looking at the two for the exact same task. The price point discussion was already a distraction IMHO.<p>Can you imagine someone thinking &quot;I&#x27;m gonna buy an officially supported fully user repairable Linux dev machine, should I get a MacBook Air 15?&quot; or &quot;I own everything in the Apple ecosystem and just need &#x27;a laptop&#x27;, how does that 100% incompatible machine fit my needs ?&quot;<p>How much of an overlap is there really ? I totally understand the article author getting mad when he was looking for a completely different thing in the first place.


type: comment
by: moomin
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  It’s frustrating. A small manufacturer can’t hope to beat out a large one on price. And that’s before we consider that the maintainability that Framework offers means you can’t cut the corners the regular manufacturers do. But even I find things like the weight an unappealing proposition even though I have no idea how you’d build a laptop like Framework’s that appreciably lighter.


type: comment
by: jibal
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  The former ... and yes, we can tell. The fact that it is published in astrobiology is irrelevant--it&#x27;s been published in many places.<p>&quot;We therefore conclude that Prototaxites was not a fungus, and instead propose it is best assigned to a now entirely extinct ==&gt; terrestrial &lt;== lineage.&quot;


type: comment
by: storus
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  It&#x27;s quite terrible how the medical &quot;debugging&quot; works or rather doesn&#x27;t. You run a bunch (at best) of tests then pick the most probable diagnosis and that&#x27;s about it for 99.9% of cases. And then in a review you measure that the world&#x27;s best performing doctor hit 45% accuracy whereas an average one hits ~33%.


type: comment
by: lonesword
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  I agree with you, somewhat.<p>But now you have taken the trouble to complain that you had to look up “most populous country on earth” and yet contributed nothing to the discussion.


type: comment
by: socketcluster
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  I was aware of the first part though I foolishly assumed by the name that it was designed specifically to work with the existing URL object. I then experienced a bout of Java PTSD.<p>Upon further analysis of the full API, it&#x27;s not as bad as I initially thought.<p>My initial reaction was kind of surface-level eye-rolling &quot;Oh no, don&#x27;t tell me they managed to find a way to make URL parsing even more complicated than it needs to be.&quot;<p>But in a way, this is almost an attempt at rolling back the previous complexity introduced by the URL instance and acknowledging the utility of the URL as a string primitive.<p>It is additional complexity but I guess at least it might prevent the need for additional future complexity.<p>I hope that&#x27;s the idea.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
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  So... they do think? Or what is your position? Submarines obviously do swim, otherwise they&#x27;d either float or sink.


type: comment
by: matt3210
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  I (and most people I ask) definitely don’t answer calls from robots or watch videos with robot voice. I’m not sure what value the customer gets here.


type: comment
by: NotGMan
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  Indie game devs aren&#x27;t really facing any real backslash.<p>A smart loud minority is screaming a lot but actual paying customers don&#x27;t care as long as the game is not trash.


type: comment
by: The_President
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  The way it used to be, is if they come back with fasteners and nails attached after playing in the grass it&#x27;s worth mentioning to the pediatrician on the next visit.


type: comment
by: thebiblelover7
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  &gt; Over one billion TikTok videos will be viewed today, and yet, you’re still here, reading a speculative essay about media economics. I don’t take that for granted.<p>Well said. Articles like these bring a sort of relief to me from the constant chaos of short-form media and the like. Very refreshing.


type: comment
by: proteal
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  Hey - plugged this into chatGPT 5.2 and it seems to think this theory needs more work.<p>“As written, this looks closer to sophisticated curve-fitting (numerology with constraints) than a legitimate geometric unification, mainly because the claimed “ppm agreement” is often not assessed against experimental uncertainties and because several integer&#x2F;constant choices function like hidden degrees of freedom.”<p>Thank you for sharing and happy holidays!


type: comment
by: Sophira
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  They did have a method to recover their account that they tried, though - they said that they used the account recovery codes, but that they were rejected. (Those would be the codes that Google gives you when you initially set up 2FA.)


type: comment
by: peruvian
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  I don&#x27;t know. There&#x27;s definitely fewer serious novels of a certain kind being published, and movies that aren&#x27;t special effect spectacles tend to flop or go straight to streaming (for now).


type: comment
by: janice1999
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  If you&#x27;re worried about AI, content creation seems like the worst possible choice. If you want to future proof your career, I suggest finding a specialty that needs some hands on work, e.g. embedded development. AI is not going to pick up boards, attach probes and debug oscilloscope traces.. a least for a little while yet.


type: comment
by: jibal
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  That summary is more helpful and interesting than a comment whining about it. According to the staff, HN is aimed toward maximizing curiosity--summaries contribute to that, attempts to shut down information because of its source do not.


type: comment
by: storus
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  Well, NAD+ kinda has the potential to fix multiple things at once if those things are caused by energetic imbalance&#x2F;deficit. Re-balancing NAD+ could just fix multiple failing systems that were running low on energy and not doing their job properly as a consequence.


type: comment
by: wafflebot
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  I love this feature and wish something like it would come to Gmail.<p>I can&#x27;t rely on iCloud Mail anymore due to its overly aggressive silent spam filtering. Not great if you&#x27;re trying to log into an account, and you can&#x27;t receive the recovery emails for that account.


type: comment
by: NotGMan
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  There was an old AMD&#x2F;Ati demo where they did per-pixel sorting, basicaly a per pixel linked list of fragments.<p>In general: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Order-independent_transparency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Order-independent_transparency</a>


type: comment
by: empressplay
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  &gt; I assume that AI assistance in creative writing is now mainstream, and an accepted tool for most writers.<p>It absolutely is not. In fact the Nebula awards just banned entries from having _any_ AI use involved with them whatsoever. You can&#x27;t even use them for grammar correction.


type: comment
by: Greeweb
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  The idea came from how hard it is to find clear and reliable information about wedding venues in one place. Many venues don’t have websites or updated details, so couples spend a lot of time searching and contacting venues one by one.<p>DarZawaj helps users discover wedding venues across Morocco with photos, location, style, and basic details. It’s made for couples planning local or destination weddings and for venue owners who want more visibility online.<p>The project is still growing, and I’m improving it step by step based on feedback.<p>I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions.


type: comment
by: croemer
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  It&#x27;s definitely LLM generated. I came here to post that, then you saw you had already pointed it out. Giveaway for me: &#x27;The most common real-world path here is not “attacker sends you a serialized blob and you call load().” It’s subtler:&#x27;<p>It&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s; bolded items in list.<p>Also no programmer would use this apostrophe instead of single quote.


type: comment
by: billy99k
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  Every political party has lobbyists. Why no stories about the lobbyists that were close to Biden? I will wait patiently for the answer.


type: comment
by: cassianoleal
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  &gt; Like they won’t get credit for knowing what a zero trust network is if they describe the concept in a way that regular people might understand.<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to get a definition of zero trust at $client from the security people who are pushing tools onto our platform, so we can have an honest conversation around threats and risks, and finding the best balance of tools, techniques and processes to achieve their desired outcomes.<p>Unfortunately, it seems like everybody just want &quot;zero trust&quot; because a vendor sold them on that idea and they gave money to the vendor, so now there&#x27;s the need to justify that expense and &quot;extract value&quot; from the tool - even if it may in fact be worse than the controls that are already in place.


type: comment
by: ursAxZA
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  I’m not an expert, but GLP-1 is a hormone.<p>Wouldn’t using something like this trigger anti-doping concerns if an athlete took it?<p>In sports, manipulating appetite or insulin pathways sets off red flags immediately.<p>It’s interesting to see the food industry treat the same biological mechanism mainly as a market trend rather than a medical one.


type: comment
by: michaelt
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  <i>&gt; They can also run close to 24&#x2F;7.</i><p>In practice, if you provide enough cars to meet the demand to travel from suburbs to city at 7am-9am and back again 8 hours later, I’d expect a large fraction of them to be idle outside of peak hours. And even at peak hours, to be spending half their time empty, as almost all the demand is in one direction.<p>And if you <i>don’t</i> provide enough capacity to meet rush hour demand? Good luck convincing people to give up their cars.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
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  I think that what it means one needs to pick their battles, at least early on. Trying to achieve repairable + upgradable + novel expandability all in one go might be somewhat overambitious for a brand new company. Do one thing really, really well instead of five things mediocrely. Once you&#x27;ve got one mastered, move on to the next thing.<p>But then again, I&#x27;ve never run a hardware company, so maybe I&#x27;m wrong.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
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  Because AI has been in the center of the debate so far, I ran your comment through my AI system, and it concluded that you captured the essence of the model perfectly: the polyhedra are topological standing waves, and the edges are nodal lines. So [Pred] is the geometric attractor, and [Diff] is the amplitude of the oscillation around that limit. As I understand it myself, the polyhedra don&#x27;t exist as real solids, but as an optimized way to distribute the intensity of the oscillation. Does this perspective make the results physically plausible in your view?


type: comment
by: croemer
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  If you had all the token probabilities it would be bijective. There was a post about this here some time back.


type: comment
by: array_key_first
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  You do both, but I know at work for me the problem with written communication is we just talk past each other. Writing is, still, a very distilled and compressed medium. Meaning, a lot of the information is lost when translated to writing. I&#x27;ve spent weeks talking over email and on ticket just to solve it within 5 minutes on a zoom call.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
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  &gt;If you compare the viewership of Game of Thrones with the readership of the original novels<p>The novels are unfinished though and I hardly believe they will be completed by him seeing how the penultimate novel has taken him over a decade to do about 75% of it and him being 77 already. I would never start a series I know it is unlikely to be completed.


type: comment
by: dunk010
text:
  I think that the point here is that your domain registrar will pick up the phone if there is a problem, where Google clearly will not.


type: comment
by: Terretta
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  <i>“LLM as editor (and how you know)”</i><p>Too many keys.<p>Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ... Here&#x27;s the key ...<p>Can&#x27;t fit all these here keys on one key ring!<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; That said, the sims are great, and the article instructive.


type: comment
by: lioeters
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  A snowflake is a 3D recursive growth algorithm over time. The macroscopic shapes are inherent in an earlier seed of molecular structure and arrangement of other factors by chance and circumstance. As they form while falling through the air, I imagine the crystalline shape grows in three dimensions, stretched by gravity or air resistance. So I&#x27;d say their design, at any moment, is a slice of a fourth-dimensional structure-over-time that can be described by a mathematical function, which ends in a wet puddle on the ground.


type: comment
by: dangus
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  Right, and let’s not forget that the VC game that YC plays in <i>assumes</i> that the vast majority of their ventures will fail.<p>It’s way more exploitative than it gets credit for, even those who criticize VC firms aren’t verbalizing the vastness of the scope of the issue:<p>Startup incubators prey on young and ambitious people’s willingness to have zero life outside of work in order to set 90% of them up to fail and make huge profits off of the 10% Airbnb-type success stories.<p>These VC firms have money but no talent or time of their own so they basically steal it from founders in exchange for a Hollywood or pro sports-style superstar pipe dream where most are statistically guaranteed to fail, and even those who succeed don’t keep the majority of the fruits of their labor.<p>These failed startup founders end up with skills that are supposedly transferable to future ventures or what have you, but I bet if someone actually tracked down a lot of these people they might find a lot of sob stories of early stage founders who ended up burning out of their early career and having the whole startup founder experience representing a net negative in their lives.


type: comment
by: rcxdude
text:
  Sure, but again there&#x27;s no interest in actually making a standard way to do it. I can understand it being something that arbitrary applications probably shouldn&#x27;t be able to access, but that somehow turns into no way to do it, or complete fragmentation where every DE does it with arbitrary differences (or, more realistically, <i>some</i> DEs support it and others don&#x27;t).


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  That&#x27;s Milan to Amsterdam though. Aren&#x27;t there some mechanisms to have a handoff as close to Milan as possible?<p>I was pretty sure there was a way to have something that&#x27;s just a fixed cost, maybe with a partner third party service.


type: comment
by: numpad0
text:
  The UI wasn&#x27;t doing multitasking correctly. The [X] button was [_] button for no good reason, and users tended to leave bunch of apps burning battery not knowing how to close them(e.g. through a third party quick task switcher-killer).<p>The OS kernel wasn&#x27;t so stable relative to anything else at that time including embedded Linux, had 32MB&#x2F;process hard RAM limit that ruled out WebKit, and also the scheduler was badly designed that the UI frequently stuttered or locked up. The UI also did not utilize GPU for general UI rendering(common at the time; made an obsolete idea by Apple), tasking CPU and its bus for everything.<p>The device I had came with a stylus shaped like a handstrap charm that doubled as the reset button pick. Isn&#x27;t that inexcusable by modern standards? Everything back then did have a recessed reset button hole, but not everything came with a carry-on tool to poke it. The WM device I had did. Which I didn&#x27;t use as lifting and reseating the battery was faster.


type: comment
by: treetalker
text:
  Looking forward to giving by this a go. AeroSpace posed too much friction on account of the conflicts its option-key-based system created with basic entry of additional characters and my other keyboard shortcuts.


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  &gt; However, there will be cases where lacking the LLM output, there isn&#x27;t any output at all.<p>Why would there be? You&#x27;re using something to prompt the LLM, aren&#x27;t you - what&#x27;s stopping you from sharing the input?<p>The same logic can be applied in an even larger extent to foreign-language content. I&#x27;d 1000x rather have a &quot;My english not good, this describe big LangChain bug, click &lt;link&gt; if want Google Translate&quot; followed by a decent article written in someone&#x27;s native Chinese, than a poorly-done machine translation output. At least that way I have the option of putting the source text in different translation engines, or perhaps asking a bilingual friend to clarify certain sections. If all you have is the English machine translation output, then you&#x27;re stuck with that. Something was mistranslated? Good luck reverse engineering the wrong translation back to its original Chinese and then into its proper English equivalent! Anyone who has had the joy to deal with &quot;English&quot; datasheets for Chinese-made chips knows how well this works in practice.<p>You are definitely bringing up a good point concerning accessibility - but I fear using LLMs for this provides <i>fake</i> accessibility. Just because it results in well-formed sentences doesn&#x27;t mean you are actually getting something comprehensible out of it! LLMs simply aren&#x27;t good enough yet to rely on them not losing critical information and not introducing additional nonsense. Until they have reached that point, their user should <i>always</i> verify its output for accuracy - which on the author side means they were - by definition - also able to write it on their own, modulo some irrelevant formatting fluff. If you still want to use it for accessibility, do so on the reader side and make it fully optional: that way the reader is knowingly and willingly accepting its flaws.<p>The stigma on LLM-generated content exists for a reason: people are getting tired of starting to invest time into reading some article, only for it to become clear halfway through that it is completely meaningless drivel. If &gt;99% of LLM-generated content I come across is an utter waste of my time, why should I give <i>this</i> one the benefit of the doubt? Content written in horribly-broken English at least shows that there is an actual human writer investing time and effort into trying to communicate, instead of it being yet another instance of fully-automated LLM-generated slop trying to DDoS our eyeballs.


type: comment
by: integralid
text:
  My Lenovo P17 saw 5 continents and tens of countries. And it&#x27;s useful to have 128GBs of RAM (i use VMs a lot).


type: comment
by: croemer
text:
  LLM slop. At least one clear error (hallucination): &quot;’Twas the night before Christmas, and I was doing the least festive kind of work: staring at serialization&quot;<p>Per disclosure timeline the report was made on December 4, it was definitely not the night before Christmas when you were doing the work then.


type: comment
by: thunky
text:
  Ruby&#x2F;rails has always felt <i>fragile</i> to  me. Like you have to write the same tests over and over to make up for the looseness of it, not to mention the culture of breaking changes adds insult to injury. Just seems like a mess and the nice syntax (subjectively) isn&#x27;t nearly enough to win when better options exist.


type: comment
by: ryukoposting
text:
  Noted, thanks! Will there be recordings? I&#x27;d love to watch but it starts at 4 AM for me.<p>Edit: the youtube playlist for 38c3 seems pretty comprehensive. Thanks to whoever is doing that, it must be a pain.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  Okay; <i>is</i> there a way to do it? Can I, the user, decide that I do actually want a program to see titles? Or is it still impossible because 17 years isn&#x27;t enough to implement utterly trivial APIs that people want?


type: comment
by: bad_haircut72
text:
  The vulnerability was that dumps() and dumpd() did not properly escape user-controlled dictionaries that happened to include the reserved ‘lc’ key.<p>I wonder if this code was written by an LLM hahaha


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  Additionally, most MacBook USB-C ports are also Thunderbolt 3&#x2F;4&#x2F;5 ports which can do a number of things that USB-A ports can&#x27;t. A laptop with 3x TB ports is substantially more expandable than a laptop with 1x USB-C and 3x USB-A.


type: comment
by: gleenn
text:
  Maybe you should send it enough mail to fill it up and the  it would reject emails? Send a bunch of emails with large attachments and avoid getting marked as spam.


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  I never understood why people claim the Macbook is so good.<p>Bad keyboard, bad aluminium body, soldered ram...<p>Is it just the Apple Silicon that somehow makes it worth it? It&#x27;s ARM, most software is still written and optimized for x86.


type: comment
by: Hemospectrum
text:
  Great when it works. Too many senders will only deliver to widely used hosts, and silently fail for anything outside their tiny allowlist.<p>Note that I&#x27;m not even talking about trying to send email FROM a self-hosted account, but trying to get someone else to send email TO such an account.


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  &gt; If you scale this over the next years, &quot;manual driving is over&quot; :-D<p>I ride a motorcycle.  Unless you make this illegal,  then no,  &quot;manual driving&quot; is not over anytime soon.  Some people actually _like_ driving,  although,  none of them appear to frequent hacker news.<p>&gt; there is nothing that can stop this?<p>We learned the lesson of over automation in aviation very quickly.  The best solution is very often,  turn off autopilot and autothrottles,  then hand fly the plane.  You don&#x27;t want pilots with their heads down in a computer making changes when they can,  and should,  just fly the plane.  It also tends to reduce over all competence and harms safety particularly during equipment failures.<p>&gt; and you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents<p>The utility of these statistics are harmed by the fact that &quot;self-driving&quot; does not occur in all the circumstances that &quot;manual driving&quot; does today.  They&#x27;re barely past the foundation stage,  in a limited operational scope (cabs),  and in a limited operational area (where it never snows).<p>&gt; Lets come back in 10 years! :-)<p>I think this technology will eventually be prevalent.  I think hacker news constantly gets the time lines wrong.  You&#x27;re going to need 25,  minimum,  and possibly more like 50.


type: comment
by: fallinditch
text:
  Yes it sounds like a bold statement. I called Gemini out on that and it admitted that it over-egged its confidence on that assertion.<p>But presumably the LLMs do have <i>some</i> knowledge about how they are used?<p>On further probing Gemini did give a plausible justification - in summary:<p>&quot;Creation is easy. Selection is hard. In an era of infinite content, the &quot;most successful&quot; writer isn&#x27;t the one who can produce the most; it&#x27;s the one with the best taste. Using an LLM as a distillation machine allows a writer to iterate through their own ideas at 10x speed, discarding the &quot;average&quot; and keeping only the &quot;potent.&quot;


type: comment
by: storus
text:
  I know of three possible reasons:<p>- your supplement is a dud<p>- you took niacin too often (best to do it once a few days as body adapts quickly)<p>- you have a gene mutation that prevents you from absorbing enough B3 (common in some schizophrenia cases that can be managed by huge doses of daily B3, like 4-10g)


type: comment
by: cassianoleal
text:
  It&#x27;s been a minute since I ran ZeroTier, so my memory is fuzzy.<p>Tailscale and ZT are not the same. ZT can do certain things that TS can&#x27;t. One example is acting as a layer 2 bridge. Or a layer 3 bridge. TS can do neither. It can achieve mostly similar results though.<p>ZT can be a pain to setup. TS is a breeze. ZT&#x27;s raw performance is quite poor. TS&#x27;s is usually very good.<p>If I understood you correctly, you want both a way to access your home LAN when you&#x27;re out - this is easy. Set up a node with NICs on the LAN subnets you want access to (I run it on my router), and configure the TS node to announce routes to those subnets. Install the TS client on your laptop and mobile and accept those routes. Job done.<p>If you also want to mask your egress - i.e. reach the Internet via your home network as if you were there - then you need a node (can be the same as above) configured to act as an Exit Node. When you want one of your devices to use this, just select the appropriate exit node. Job done.


type: comment
by: I-M-S
text:
  I haven&#x27;t really found a way to incorporate AI into my creative process.<p>I do sometimes use it as thesaurus on steroids when I can&#x27;t think of the right word or if I need to check grammar &#x2F; sentence structure (I&#x27;m not a native speaker). I would never use AI in the way Gemini self-reports (and I doubt that&#x27;s really a thing anyway).<p>I <i>might</i> be tempted to use it for episode art if I didn&#x27;t have access to a professional illustrator.<p>I am experimenting with some AI-generated music at the moment, but that&#x27;s for background cues that I&#x27;d use canned royalty-free music for anyway (emotionally important scenes have tailored-made music done by a professional composer).<p>One way I&#x27;m eyeing to use AI in the future is as a way to translate what are currently audio stories into video. But I feel we&#x27;re still not there.


type: comment
by: chilmers
text:
  If you’re a fan of LOTR but don’t fancy reading it aloud yourself, I’d really recommend the new audio versions read by Andy Serkis. While I don’t vibe with every facet of his performance, overall it’s a tour-de-force, and really makes the prose come to life. Especially in those descriptive sections that it’s possible to glaze over when reading the text. Having an actor of the calibre of Serkis reading them to you brings out the poetry and beauty of Tolkien’s language.


type: comment
by: ocdtrekkie
text:
  It&#x27;s incredible that in 2025, Google has sprung for &quot;basic competency&quot; after operating a bad email service for 24 years.<p>In my case, many years ago I changed my last name. (Turns out a lot of women also do this when they do things like... get married. But also for a progressive company everyone&#x27;s purchases being permanently locked to their deadname seems... bad.) But all of my Android apps, my entire digital life at the time, was permanently locked to my old name. I had another account I created as a mail forwarder but if people sent an invite to it for a Google thing it wouldn&#x27;t connect to my real account, and obviously there was an added security risk of someone stealing my forwarding account.<p>I remember talking to Yonatan Zunger about this problem during the Google+ era and it seemed to be renaming an account wasn&#x27;t something the company was capable of.


type: story
by: xthe
title: Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
text:
  I’m seeing a lot of claims that modern iPads can fully replace laptops for students. For those who’ve tried this in real life: – What workflows actually worked? – Where did it break down (coding, multitasking, writing, file management)? – Would you recommend it today, or is it still a compromise? Curious to hear real-world experiences rather than marketing claims.


type: comment
by: longitudinal93
text:
  Already tried that. Both from my home IP in Canada and from a commercial VPN service exiting in Canada and the US. No joy.


type: comment
by: throwaway078315
text:
  I also personally know the waste, stupidity, and cruelty of these situations. But I’ve come to the conclusion that the voters know what they want, and preventing these terrible outcomes is not worth the cost to them.


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  You could build 1000 units of housing in the lot where these cars are kept.  The bigger picture isn&#x27;t exactly clear.


type: comment
by: SonOfKyuss
text:
  So what you’re proposing here is that the Wall Street Journal of all publications is unfairly covering Trump compared to Biden and that both administrations are equally corrupt based on your observations of their past actions? I’m just going to be real with you, either you are the one carrying a bias, or you just haven’t been paying attention to the real world for the past 10 years


type: comment
by: colechristensen
text:
  Films got dramatically cheaper to produce and streaming gave them a platform to be easily distributed outside of the very exclusive cinema market.<p>Now the problem is quality and production.  Studios don&#x27;t have to be very selective at all any more so median quality has gone way down.  Streaming platforms have a ton of content and terrible discovery which means there are huge volumes of mid content and a few gems that unless they are popular are impossible to find.<p>Publishing had a huge demographic change and is suffering from a different kind of bias than in decades past which has the same kind of diversity-limiting effect, just substituting different groups being promoted and left behind.<p>Culturally all over media production there&#x27;s also a problem with a difficult to make distinction – &quot;trying to be diverse&quot; vs &quot;actual diversity&quot; and the imbalance is pushing people into silos: politically, culturally, and in every other way.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  I was surprised when I saw that in Windows 11 Safe Mode, the Start Menu appeared to have two forms: the first of which would not appear to show typing, but then it would be replaced with the other layout after a lag with the query in the input box and the results populated.


type: comment
by: bronson
text:
  You can get a 7040 series Ryzen mainboard for $380.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;products&#x2F;mainboard-amd-ryzen-7040-series?v=FRANGV0005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;products&#x2F;mainboard-amd-ryzen-7040-series?...</a><p>So I don&#x27;t understand your $1000 complaint ... that&#x27;s the most expensive mainboard they offer. You think Framework shouldn&#x27;t offer the high end stuff?


type: comment
by: BiteCode_dev
text:
  My bad, I should not read AI generated code while drunk at a xmas party. That&#x27;s the total run time for 10000 iterations.<p>Average time for 100 tests is hence 0.8 ms. Completely normal, and absolutely acceptable, especially for an operation as rare as routing.<p>Letting my previous comment as-is for historical purposes. And to remind myself I&#x27;m a dumbass.


type: comment
by: aristofun
text:
  Jesus was a real person, it’s a historical fact, not disputed by any worthwhile historians.<p>If 25 december is not an accurate birthday it’s okay, im happy with moving the celebration to other day if new findings arise.<p>I wasn’t saying that one particular way of celebrating is right or wrong. My point was about it’s only natural to pay respect to a man who influenced your life, no matter who you are and where you are in this world today. Apparently the degree of influence varies by many factors from almost zero to maximum possible.


type: comment
by: AnimalMuppet
text:
  Because 1) Biden isn&#x27;t president right now, and 2) when Biden was president, HN had tighter enforcement of &quot;politics is out of scope&quot;.


type: comment
by: codedokode
text:
  1Tb m.2 SSD cost 70 USD in summer 2025, and probably much less when bought in bulk as a chip. It doesn&#x27;t make sense to install anything less than 1Tb in an expensive premium laptop. Or it should be upgradeable.<p>Apple&#x27;s pricing is one of the reasons I am not going to buy their laptops. Expensive, and with no upgradeable or replaceable parts. And closed-source OS with telemetry.<p>&gt; Lots of people more or less use their computer as a glorified web browser<p>For this purpose they can buy $350 laptop with larger screen.


type: comment
by: teruakohatu
text:
  If workers (i.e. me) choose to use it without it being imposed on them, is that a morally bad thing in your worldview?<p>I was trying to use an obscure CLI tool the other day. Almost no documentation and one wrong argument and I would brick an expensive embedded device.<p>Somehow Google gave me the right arguments in its AI generated answer to my search, and it worked.<p>I first tried every forum post I could find, but nobody seemed to be doing exactly what I was attempting to do.<p>I think this is a clear and moral win for AI. I am not in a position to hire embedded development consultants for personal DIY projects.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  Is that any different from Wayland? I&#x27;m not opposed to declaring that Wayland doesn&#x27;t support mixed DPI, but it is a funny conclusion


type: comment
by: pitched
text:
  It’s impossible to know if the content itself is worth the extra time and effort. Opportunity Cost is especially high in fiction. I agree that LotR should be on that list though.


type: comment
by: themafia
text:
  &gt; Waymos are 100% reliable.<p>There is nothing in this world that is 100% reliable.  The vehicles are new.  Wait until they start clocking more miles.<p>&gt; it will definitely actually show up at X time.<p>In what city and at what time of day?  Waymo is just one vehicle in a sea of them.  If traffic starts choking the city I don&#x27;t see how they&#x27;re not as vulnerable as every other vehicle.


type: comment
by: skylurk
text:
  Pretty sure santa works east-west, starting at the international date line. He stretches Christmas day into 48 hours. This is how he can do so many deliveries in a single date.


type: comment
by: numpad0
text:
  I think the exact terms &quot;Handheld PC&quot; and &quot;Pocket PC&quot; were technically Microsoft trademarks and branding for non-x86 mini laptops(not all were ARM!) and tiny tablets(Wi-Fi happened later!) that ran CE&#x2F;PPC&#x2F;WM. So technically no.


type: story
by: Bender
title: CVSS 9.9 RCE vulnerability in n8n potentially impacts more than 100K servers
url:
  https://www.scworld.com/news/cvss-9-9-rce-vulnerability-in-n8n-potentially-impacts-more-than-100k-servers


type: comment
by: Dusseldorf
text:
  I do this as well, and occasionally people get confused and think I work for the company I&#x27;m interacting with (enterprise@myname.com is close enough to myname@enterprise.com, I guess.) I usually don&#x27;t bother to correct them, in case it gets me better treatment :)


type: comment
by: Someone
text:
  Power (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Power_ISA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Power_ISA</a>) and PowerPC (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PowerPC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PowerPC</a>) have a shared history but are not fully compatible with each other.


type: comment
by: pottertheotter
text:
  This crosses from quirky to unhinged:<p>During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he smuggled some Vidalias onto his vacation cruise ship, and during each meal, would instruct the server to ‘take this onion to the back, chop it up, and add it onto my salad ‘.


type: comment
by: anonzzzies
text:
  Where are the Bidden lobbyists(etc) coming out of the woodworks saying they can basically buy a pardon? Also, Trump is the president, not Biden.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  I like Cal Newport and own all of his books, but this sort of commentary is ultimately just pretentious. Aristocrats back in the day had similar thoughts about peasants even being literate.<p>I assure you, by sheer virtue of <i>quantity</i>, no matter what criteria you use YouTube&#x2F;TikTok&#x2F;Shorts&#x2F;etc has a [set of videos] which demonstrates quality similar to any novel or literary work.<p>It&#x27;s true there&#x27;s more garbage out there than ever before, but this is an artifact of democratization of creation and this is good imho. I also reject the premise that time to creation is an indication of quality.


type: comment
by: inatreecrown2
text:
  the screen is very good, the trackpad is very good, the screen does not wobble or bend - it is sturdy. and it is quiet!


type: comment
by: doublextremevil
text:
  Excellent power efficiency in apple silicon - good battery life and good performance at the same time. The aluminum body is also very rigid and premium feeling, unlike so many creaky bendy pc laptops. Good screen, good speakers.


type: comment
by: furyofantares
text:
  On further inspection the one I&#x27;m used to is forward-mirrored, which is exactly the same as backward but the opposite direction.


type: comment
by: andai
text:
  I found this article interesting but I&#x27;m not sure I understood the point.<p>I think the main concern with short form video isn&#x27;t taste or appetite, but just the ability to digest.[0]<p>Though the effects on attention might be more acute than we think. A friend of mine found that he&#x27;s able to read books just fine, if he just switches off his electronics first. Suddenly his brain comes back online...<p>[0] See also: <i>The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance</i> [even when switched off]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-023-36256-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-023-36256-4</a>


type: comment
by: rcxdude
text:
  I mean, at least with web browsers they usually converge on a common spec eventually, and most of the time you just have a bit stupid repetition in your CSS for a bit. Wayland compositors seem to be actively against this kind of process.


type: comment
by: westurner
text:
  ScholarlyArticle: &quot;Green Mechanochemical Production of Amino-Acid-Derived N-Doped Graphene for Functional Vitrimer Composites&quot; (2025) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;acssuschemeng.5c09378" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;acssuschemeng.5c09378</a><p>Letter from the authors: &quot;How sustainability is driving innovation in functionalized graphene materials&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025-12-sustainability-functionalized-graphene-materials.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025-12-sustainability-functionalized-...</a>


type: story
by: gfortaine
title: No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner
url:
  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/no-shares-in-company-but-550-employees-received-a-240-million-gift-from-their-owner-for-staying-with-him-through-tough-times/articleshow/126175955.cms?from=mdr


type: comment
by: Denvercoder9
text:
  That&#x27;s true for local hooks, but neither a dishonest person nor an LLM can bypass a pre-receive hook on the server (as long as they don&#x27;t have admin access).


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  Not me, I’d hire someone to take really good notes and test all the promising potential treatments one after the other.<p>No need for lengthy approvals or a drug trial if you’re giving it to yourself. I’d want to go out doing some mfing science.


type: comment
by: lhoff
text:
  Yes. They record almost every talk. You’ll find the relive (unedited recording of the live stream) on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de</a> and some time later the edited recording also on media.ccc.de and also on YouTube.  There also also live translations to English (and some other languages) for talks in german.


type: comment
by: DivingForGold
text:
  Mirror:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;52YLP#selection-505.0-505.69" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;52YLP#selection-505.0-505.69</a>


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  I seem to remember as a kid that cops would be directing traffic often if a signal was out or malfunctioning. I haven&#x27;t seen that in years. The only time I see anyone directing traffic is around accidents, construction zones, or special events.


type: comment
by: bob1029
text:
  If you are into constructing fiefdoms in places they were definitely not intended to be constructed, then certainly.


type: comment
by: I-M-S
text:
  A very astute observation - The Program&#x27;s audience is indeed loyal if not large. I mentioned in some previous reports that I might have painted myself into <i>too</i> big of a niche with a sci-fi audio drama at the intersection of IT and humanities, but people who like it seem to really love it. 1000 true fans, and all that I guess.


type: comment
by: buu700
text:
  <i>&gt; service@myowndomain.com</i><p>Just be aware that this may be very confusing to customer support agents: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32475178">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32475178</a>


type: comment
by: Foxboron
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3</a><p>All talks will be live streamed, and right after the talk is done you have a rough cut available instantly under &quot;re-live&quot; you can watch until the final recording is available; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive</a><p>The final recording will appear under a day or two after the talk is held: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;c&#x2F;39c3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;c&#x2F;39c3</a><p>EDIT: A different variant of the schedule with better filtering is available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;hub&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;hub&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule</a><p>I should note that some talks will not be recorded, and only available at the congress. These are clearly marked on the congress hub website, but not easily available on the fahrplan view.


type: comment
by: homebrewer
text:
  Which is covered by GP&#x27;s second suggestion. I add short random password-like strings to these aliases to thwart spammers who might be trying obvious aliases, turning e.g paypal@example.com into paypal.nsi873g@example.com


type: comment
by: whistle650
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  I’m a longtime New Yorker lover myself. I think there is some truth to this though: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;persuasion1&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-the-new-yorker-lost-its-soul" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;persuasion1&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-the-new-york...</a>


type: comment
by: nly
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  You mean like this one directly from AMD showing a median 1&#x2F;2 RTT  ef_vi latency of 590ns (for UDP)?<p>Using their latency generation card that came out just a few months ago?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.amd.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ug1586-onload-user&#x2F;Latency-Test-Results?tocId=b01e6F1uBlNm4SuDiN1cSQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.amd.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ug1586-onload-user&#x2F;Latency-Test...</a>


type: comment
by: nemomarx
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  Why would Gemini (the text model part) have that info? I&#x27;m sure that Google has some kinda analytics, or so on, but it wouldn&#x27;t necessarily be part of training, the system prompt, or distillation directly.


type: comment
by: rou99
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  Let’s check again this sentence when you will ever get pneumonia, diabetes, serious infections, etc. It’s very easy to speak when you are healthy, and disrespectful for the people that are not lucky like you.


type: comment
by: incompatible
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  Isn&#x27;t one a subset of the other? A system with federation must have multiple instances, but a system with multiple instances doesn&#x27;t need to federate (in the sense of information passing between independently managed instances.)


type: comment
by: snet0
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  I never said C++ was inefficient, you don&#x27;t have to prove anything. It&#x27;s a hypothetical, try use your imagination.<p>&gt;  Corporations gobbling up tax payer money to build power hungry datacenters so billionaires can replace workers is.<p>Which part of this is important? If there was no taxpayer funding, would it be okay? If it was low power-consumption, would it be okay?<p>I just want to understand what the precise issue is.


type: comment
by: yk
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  Probably. In previous years there were streamdumps available immediately somewhere (though figuring out where took me usually a day or so) and a re-live version on media.ccc.de a bit later. (Usually hours, but from time to time a day or so.)


type: comment
by: lurk2
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  This happened to me ten years ago. A while later they did the same thing with my Minecraft login that I had purchased before the EULA was in place; I’ve avoided their services like the plague since then.


type: comment
by: michaelt
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  <i>&gt; I think the solution is pretty obvious, TBH. Pay people to take care of their family with disabilities.</i><p>Maybe, but we do also need a way to deal with people whose problems can’t be managed in a family setting.<p>If a person is prone to violent meltdowns with little provocation, or can’t help but steal from their family to feed an addiction, family caregivers aren’t going to be enough.


type: comment
by: medler
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  It runs great on windows 11. The install took a long time but I didn’t have to do anything special to make it work


type: comment
by: Symbiote
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  The EU&#x27;s safety rules for children&#x27;s toys are impressive -- I read them out of curiosity when I was 3D printing a toy.<p>e.g. dropping a 1kg steel block onto the toy, and checking it doesn&#x27;t break in an unsafe way (section 8.7 in the link).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.resource.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;eu&#x2F;toys&#x2F;en.71.1.2014.html#s8.7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.resource.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;eu&#x2F;toys&#x2F;en.71.1.2014.html#s8.7</a><p>Section A.51 is about magnetic construction toys.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  FWIW, like <i>everything else</i> in Wayland, it&#x27;s per-compositor. Here&#x27;s a working headless sway in a container:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;yjftsjthsd-g&#x2F;docker_sway-vnc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;yjftsjthsd-g&#x2F;docker_sway-vnc</a><p>(This is not a defense of Wayland, just trying to share useful information)


type: comment
by: projektfu
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  Does Dostoyevsky really need the slow treatment?  Some parts of crime and punishment merited rereading but, at least in English translation, I didn&#x27;t find much in the style to savor.  Really it was more thematically interesting and suspenseful.


type: comment
by: codys
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  This site is curious in that in incorrectly categorizes go as memory safe.<p>Perhaps in part because the sponsors are invested in using go and benefit from its inclusion in a list of memory safe languages.


type: comment
by: brokencode
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  I’ve never heard someone describe the aluminum body as bad.. what do you not like about it?<p>The number one benefit is the Apple Silicon processors, which are incredibly efficient.<p>Then it’s the trackpad, keyboard and overall build quality for me. Windows laptops often just feel cheap by comparison.<p>Or they’ll have perplexing design problems, like whatever is going on with Dell laptops these days with the capacitive function row and borderless trackpad.


type: comment
by: tarruda
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  AFAIK MPS cannot be used on Asahi, so it has to be done using Vulkan which will definitely be much slower.


type: comment
by: lgvld
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  So cool, thanks for sharing.<p>We used to do that as children as well: a spiral cutted out of paper on top of a long skewer stuck into a potato. Felt like perpetual motion somehow.<p>It works if you put it on top of a radiator btw.


type: comment
by: delichon
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  My dad was a busy construction contractor. One summer he tore himself away from work and took the family to a week long boat camp out next to a big beautiful lake. It turned out that our campsite was actually in the lake by a few inches at high water, but dad saw a way to dam it off and keep it dry, so he grabs the shovel and starts digging trenches and building walls and ordering us around.<p>About an hour into that, pouring sweat, he stops cold and says &quot;what the hell am I doing?&quot; The flooded camp was actually nice on a hot day and all we really had to do was move a couple of tents. He dropped the shovel and spent the rest of the week sunbathing, fishing, snorkeling and water skiing as God intended. He flipped a switch and went from Hyde to Jekyll on vacation. I&#x27;ve had to emulate that a few times.


type: comment
by: thunky
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  &gt; It&#x27;s telling that your reasons for switching are all features of Python&#x27;s ecosystem, not of the language itself.<p>Right, because ecosystem beats syntax any day of the week.  Plus many of us also think the Python language is nicer anyway. For me I can&#x27;t get past Ruby&#x27;s free wheeling approach to import scoping and tolerance for magic.


type: comment
by: ahmedfromtunis
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  I don&#x27;t use TikTok but spend some time on Instagram. Despite the format, I enjoy a lot of intellectually stimulating content (and, sometimes, conversations) on the platform.<p>Sometimes a friend would show me their feed and I&#x27;d be shocked at how different the content they are presented by their version of the algorithm.<p>There are a lot of people putting a lot of effort to create very interesting content and we should not belittle their work just to fein intellectual superiority.<p>There&#x27;s really nothing inherently wrong about the format.


type: comment
by: verdverm
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  Politics has never been out of scope<p>The reason there is more when Trump is around is because he is at heart a reality TV star and his number one metric for success is how much he sees people talking about him. He acts out when it&#x27;s not enough for his tastes, he says outlandish things to create buzz, many of those things impact millions or billions of people, including all the stuff we talk about here


type: comment
by: estimator7292
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  I don&#x27;t think you have <i>any</i> concept of the technologies involved here.<p>This isn&#x27;t a case of who has the biggest gun. This is a case of someone has a gun that can wipe out your <i>entire planet</i> and you have a rock.<p>No, a planetary society <i>cannot</i> stop an invasion once they&#x27;re in orbit. It simply is not possible, not with any technology we can even imagine.<p>You very much do not at all understand the argument you&#x27;re making.


type: comment
by: danielodievich
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  We read LOTR to our sons when they were little. It was likely the 6th time for me,and 3rd in English. Stupendous experience. The command of the English Tolkien had is sublime. Wish the movies didn&#x27;t take so much liberty with Faramir.!!!


type: comment
by: zdragnar
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  I&#x27;ve owned two LG gram laptops. Neither were milspec, but both were really nice. Sure, the screen quality isn&#x27;t going to win any awards, nor will the speakers, but the light weight, fantastic battery life and snappy performance always get a recommendation from me.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
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  There is no argument about whether Jesus was born on Christmas. Most theologians won’t argue that he was.


type: comment
by: hu3
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  it&#x27;s nothing short of amazing for me.<p>it&#x27;s very fast. Boots within 1s for me even for large projects.<p>Has a zillion extensions. Some of which you won&#x27;t see in any other editor, or at least with the same quality. Like the powerful playwright integration for example.<p>LLMs can one-shot most small VSCode extensions when I need some niche functionality.<p>GitHub&#x2F;Copilot integration is soo good I develop small features by speaking to my computer and even my phone because I can fire agents with voice instructions.<p>Jetbrains IDEs used to be my goto editors and before that neovim.<p>But it&#x27;s so easy to customise and extend VSCode that I can&#x27;t see myself going back.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
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  is go not memory safe? other than <i>unsafe</i> and other contrived goroutine scenarios, isn&#x27;t it? I&#x27;m actually really curious - I&#x27;ve been writing go for just a couple years now and my understanding is the only ways for it to be unsafe are the two scenarios I described earlier.


type: comment
by: maxdamantus
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  It&#x27;s the same on Wayland. The client (usually part of a toolkit like Gtk&#x2F;Qt) needs to subscribe to notifications [0] from the server so it can decide the raster size of the surface it wants to draw to. Qt does this on X11 by detecting when your window moves to a screen with another DPI and resizing&#x2F;rescaling.<p>I guess the &quot;third&quot; program would be something like xrandr, so the Wayland analogue to that would be wlr-randr (for wlroots compositors), or some other DE-specific tool for configuring screen sizes. Again there&#x27;s no fundamental difference here.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wayland.app&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;fractional-scale-v1#wp_fractional_scale_v1:event:preferred_scale" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wayland.app&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;fractional-scale-v1#wp_fractio...</a>


type: comment
by: zdragnar
text:
  Go for a midrange Chromebook then. It&#x27;s all my wife uses, cost about $250 and has better battery life than most laptops on the market.


type: comment
by: rou99
text:
  That’s why I think people like you should live in a place with other people that share your values, since they not compatible with the rest of “us”. Please buy some land somewhere and show us a better way of living, we all will be very happy for you.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  That cheap? Almost makes me wanna go out and do some crimes. If you’re going to live in a corrupt and lawless land you might as well take advantage of it. Honestly can’t think of anything though.


type: comment
by: crote
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  &gt; You wouldn&#x27;t complain as much if it were merely poorly written by a human.<p>Obviously.<p>&gt; It gets the information across.<p>If it is poorly written by a human? Sure!<p>&gt; The novelty of complaining about a new style of bad writing<p>But it&#x27;s not a &quot;new style of bad writing&quot;, is it?<p>The problem is that LLM-generated content is more often than not <i>wrong</i>. It is only worth reading if a human has invested time into post-processing it. However, LLMs make badly-written low-quality content look the same as badly-written high-quality content or decently-written high-quality content. It is impossible for the reader to quickly distinguish properly post-processed LLM output from time-wasting slop.<p>On the other hand, if its written by a human it is often quite easy to distinguish badly-written low-quality content from badly-written high-quality content. And the <i>writing</i> was never the important part: it has always been about the content. There are plenty of non-native English tech enthusiasts writing absolute gems in the most broken English you can imagine! Nobody has ever had trouble distinguishing those from low-quality garbage.<p>But the vast majority of LLM-generated content I come across on the internet is slop and a waste of my time. My eyeballs are being DDoSed. The only logical action upon noticing that something is LLM-generated content is to abort reading it and assume it is slop as well. Like it or not, LLMs have become a sign of poor quality.<p>By extension, the issue with using LLMs for important content is that you are making it look indistinguishable from slop. You are loudly signaling to the reader that it <i>isn&#x27;t worth their time</i>. So yes, if you want people to read it, stick to bad human writing!


type: comment
by: muvlon
text:
  But that&#x27;s plainly wrong. Anything you try to do with AI right now will have a <i>ton</i> of competition.


type: comment
by: therobots927
text:
  Fun fact, if someone knows your email address and clicks “forgot my password” it sends a push notification to the Gmail and YouTube apps asking to confirm or deny the sign in request. They can click that hundreds or thousands of times per day. I know because it happened to me, so I moved all of my accounts off of the email and deleted my YouTube account. :) peace out Google. Thanks for tolerating a completely insane UI, and not allowing me to turn this setting off. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the elderly who have to navigate this completely enshitified landscape.


type: comment
by: clausecker
text:
  We do this with FreeBSD ports, but users don&#x27;t have to clone the ports tree unless they want to modify ports or compile them with custom options.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  Better article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;fibrebond-eaton-bonus-walker-30844d62" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;fibrebond-eaton-bonus-walker-30...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;NpY8i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;NpY8i</a>


type: comment
by: TheJoeMan
text:
  Are you hitting tab because it’s what you were about to type, or did it “generate” something you don’t understand? Seems a personalized distinguisher to me.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  You&#x27;re right that travel demand is impossibly uneven for a 24&#x2F;7 taxi fleet.<p>My best answer is that they can deliver goods&#x2F;packages in the off hours.<p>That may even end up being the main business.


type: comment
by: malfist
text:
  I really enjoy this train of thought. It rings true to me, its also something Hank Green was recently talking about with the negative effects of the internet. Its not that the internet is bad. We&#x27;re starved for information and meaning and were being feed a diet of ultraprocessed food in the form of shorts and tiktoks. I think the solution this author laid out is good. Consume quality, with care.


type: comment
by: voidfunc
text:
  I buy domains and then forget about them only to renew them once a year for aspirational reasons.<p>Its kinda like seeing my family at Christmas once a year.


type: comment
by: cedws
text:
  Two things about fronting with your own domain:<p>1. You have to own that domain forever, until or at least until you&#x27;re 100% confident that an email intended for you will never be sent to that domain ever again. Even then, there are security risks with giving up the domain.<p>2. You give up some privacy. You can use mailbox aliases but it doesn&#x27;t really matter if all the mailboxes are tied to a domain registered to your name and address.


type: comment
by: sagarm
text:
  Aluminum and magnesium non-Apple laptops are just as stiff. There&#x27;s just a wider spectrum of options, including $200 plastic ARM Chromebooks available.


type: comment
by: TechRemarker
text:
  Wow this is massive, but will come down to whether you switch to another existing address you have. That is you have example1@gmail.com and example2@gmail.com. The first one has all your decades of data and second is name you&#x27;ve reserved etc. With handles you can release one and use on another account so hopefully option to do the same. Or if they could just update their account migration to support migrating all historic data that would accomplish the same.


type: comment
by: rconti
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  Hope things improve for you, and you have a Merry Christmas in spite of it all.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, it strikes me as very unlikely that the transmission is going to be less than an additional $4500. But you never know, it could be a simple fault - no sense in trying to make mental decisions before you know the math involved.


type: comment
by: spankibalt
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  &gt; &quot;I never understood why people claim the Macbook is so good.&quot;<p>Apple&#x27;s <i>good enough</i> for the average consumer, just like a 16-bit home computer back in the day. Everyone who looks for something bespoke&#x2F;specialized (e. g. certified dual- or multi-OS support, ECC-RAM, right-to-repair, top-class flicker-free displays, size, etc.) looks elsewhere, of course.


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  These guys raised $125M at $1.3B post on $12M ARR? What.<p>&gt; Today, langchain and langgraph have a combined 90M monthly downloads, and 35 percent of the Fortune 500 use our services<p>What? This seems crazy. Maybe I&#x27;m blind, but I don&#x27;t see the long term billion dollar business op here.<p>Leftpad also had those stats, iirc.


type: comment
by: timr
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  Depends entirely on the stage of the disease and the aggressiveness of the cancer! Getting an aggressive brain cancer when you had early stage Alzheimer’s [1] would be tragic. The tradeoff would be years of life.<p>For the record, I have no idea what the actual risk tradeoff is, but the point of regulation is that <i>nobody does</i>. You can’t have informed consent when you can’t be informed.<p>[1] Aside: Alzheimer’s is relatively early stage, as dementias go. It’s frequently diagnosed by onset in younger people.


type: comment
by: ktm5j
text:
  I really like the Python + Qt&#x2F;pyside combination. I can whip together a rough GUI using QtCreator and then write the app logic in Python super quickly.


type: comment
by: mrbluecoat
text:
  So true! Requires a prescription for anxiety after playing and stepping on a piece is beyond lego level pain. Thanks for scarring my otherwise happy Christmas day :D


type: comment
by: MrDrMcCoy
text:
  Just use Debian and switch it to Testing. Works amazingly well and you&#x27;ll always have relatively current and generally stable software.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  I am not sure if you are:<p>1. attempting to retcon garbage collected languages as not memory safe, or<p>2. discussing a particular implementation choice of the standard Go runtime that was made because it is not a practical source of bugs (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;gorace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;gorace</a>, it is not an inherent feature of the language, just the implementation, and it is the right practical choice)<p>But either way: this is the sort of thing I have seen again and again in the Rust &quot;community&quot; that I find deeply off-putting. Build good things, do not play snooty word games.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  Don&#x27;t you get these spam mails either way ?<p>I have a separate email I only use to get government and public services (gas, electricity) stuff and it still receives a few hundreds of spam a week. At this point I kinda feel whitelisting the mail I want to read is the only sane option, so getting hundreds or thousands of spam mail makes little difference, while managing a portofolio of addresses is a chore.


type: comment
by: cedws
text:
  Yes, but many companies will also drag their feet, refuse for &quot;security reasons&quot;, or you&#x27;ll just never be able to reach them in the first place because their only support is an AI concierge that tells you the same thing over and over.<p>As an example Anthropic and OpenAI don&#x27;t let you change your email address.


type: comment
by: thundergolfer
text:
  The crux of the post is this:<p>&gt; A closer look reveals that by vastly increasing the market for the published word, paperbacks also vastly increased the opportunities to make a living writing serious books<p>We can grant that this is true and yet it doesn&#x27;t seem to provide encouragement. The equivalent today would be slop TikTok demand vastly increasing the opportunity for &quot;serious&quot; TikToks, whatever those may be.<p>A &#x27;serious TikTok&#x27; is not a film. To think a film and a TikTok are alike is to make an elementary mistake in media analysis.<p>I can buy that we&#x27;re going to get an explosion in fantastic short-form content. I&#x27;d say that the _Almost Friday TV_ group, who started a few years ago, are an example.<p>But this remains terrible news for predecessor mediums, who will suffer diminished demand and a general decline in the competency of audiences to enjoy those mediums (&quot;great writers need great readers&quot;).


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  &gt; Languages that are not memory safe include C, C++, and assembly.<p>False.<p>C and C++ are not memory safe if you use the most common and most performant implementations, sure.<p>At some point these folks are going to have to accept that caveat


type: comment
by: hn_throwaway_99
text:
  Not to be rude, but from your comments you don&#x27;t appear to understand what the CSRF vulnerability actually is, nor how attackers make use of it.<p>Cookies can still only be sent to the site that originally wrote them, and they can only be read by the originating site, and this was always the case. The problem, though, is that a Bad Guy site could submit a form post to Vulnerable Site, and originally the browser would still send any cookies of Vulnerable Site with the request. Your comment about &quot;if the domain name is in the cookie value&quot; doesn&#x27;t change this and the problem still exists. &quot;Yes you can configure the dns to bypass that&quot; also doesn&#x27;t make any sense in this context. The issue is that if a user is logged into Vulnerable Site, and can be somehow convinced to visit Bad Guy site, then Bad Guy site can then take an action <i>as the logged user</i> of Vulnerable Site, without the user&#x27;s consent.


type: comment
by: shagie
text:
  That gets you into the marble run world... which is segment of YouTube... and there are some <i>very</i> impressive setups.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qGsD19P16rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qGsD19P16rs</a><p>As an aside, there&#x27;s an app out there is an app for the iPad called &quot;Cuboro Riddles&quot; which is a &quot;how do you make the marble go from here to there using the blocks.&quot;  Given that there are multiple ways that a block can channel a marble, this is a tricky one.<p>... and then if you get this over into the lego domain (not as &quot;just something to fiddle with...&quot; it gets you into the GBC.  There is a standard for how one connects to another described at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greatballcontraption.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;standard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greatballcontraption.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;standard</a> ... and then at lego conventions people hook them all up.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;avyh-36jEqA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;avyh-36jEqA</a>


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  Sure, it&#x27;s just a bit of an &quot;old&quot; term that I wasn&#x27;t sure the young&#x27;uns on HN would understand :)


type: comment
by: thundergolfer
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s really nothing inherently wrong about the format.<p>&quot;Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the &#x27;content&#x27; of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind...The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance. The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception.&quot; — Marshal McLuhan, <i>Understanding Media</i>


type: comment
by: mooreds
text:
  Yeah, that one sentence was weird. The rest of it was, I thought, interesting. The idea that genAI is so much better in the attack scenario than in the defense scenario. The fact that Claude has been weaponized. That vendors are, as always, chasing buzzwords. Seemed useful to me.


type: comment
by: hi_hi
text:
  A cooking kit.<p>Usually cake baking of some kind. The kids will get bored after the initial mess making part, but will be expecting a yummy treat at the end, so the parent has to see the whole thing through, _and_ clean up the mess.<p>For an added bonus, the kid then eats the sugary treat, and they have that to deal with.


type: comment
by: rconti
text:
  A couple of years ago in early December, we took a trip to Berlin and Strasbourg, and spent our time visiting many Christmas markets. It was a really enjoyable trip.<p>Yes, it was very cold, which is not deal when you&#x27;re spending 12 hours a day outside (hovering around freezing the entire trip, a small amount of snow a few days). Yes, it gets dark early and the days are short -- but that&#x27;s true back at home in California too. We do share a hemisphere, after all. And yes, after awhile, the markets all do tend to look the same. But I find it nice to travel, and I love traveling in the off-season.<p>Yes, you can travel at the same time everyone else wants to travel, with long days, long lines, and large prices. But everywhere you go has traditions year round, and the weather and lifestyle changes with the seasons. Every place and every time of year has things worth seeing and experiencing.<p>Or you could travel to the opposite hemisphere when the days are short back home, that&#x27;s fun too :)


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  &gt; And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave!<p>That&#x27;ll happen first, I think. The trick is that pipewire is actually a fully functional replacement, instead of trying to declare everything out of scope, so with only minor effort people can just switch and everything works.


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  This is one of the reason I use openbsd and emacs as my two main tools. There are better and more suited tools for some specific tasks. But using them is enjoyable and their core philosophy aligns to mine. And it’s not like I actually need those extra things.


type: comment
by: Sn0wCoder
text:
  First off sorry to hear about your daughter&#x27;s situation and how it seems to be affecting every aspect of your family life.  Without telling my life story, a lot of us were in a similar situation in the early 2000’s (Graduated in 2000 and laid off from my intern job in 2001, where I worked for 3 years). As others have said luck and who you know are 50%, right place &#x2F; right time are another 50% (75% luck IDK).  Programming jobs are not going away (think legacy systems &#x2F; retirements).  Will all new jobs be the same as the old jobs, probably not.  It might be 5 – 10 years before many new grads find great jobs (to answer your question on how long it lasts).  They should, however, be able to find ‘jobs’ (today).  Will these be the high pay WFH?  Probably not.  My advice would be this:<p><pre><code>    Start an LLC in your state.  Normally a couple hundred dollars and some paperwork.       Create a bank account for the LLC and put a couple hundred dollars in the account.       Contribute to Open Source or make an open-source project       Make ‘free’ software for yourself, friends and family – something is better than nothing – show and tell       Make ‘free as in beer’ software for local business or non-profits       Get a job at a local mom and pop outfit, do the job you are hired to do, but also become the ‘IT’ person.  Install software &#x2F; hardware, do backups, make helpful ‘apps’, automate and innovate       All of these will count towards experience when you do get a ‘real’ job, increasing pay range and giving ‘experience’ with ‘x’ technology.       Host on a cheap VPS to learn about Linux &#x2F; system admin, install something like Dokploy (PaaS), configure Traefik (Reverse Proxy &#x2F; Load Balancing &#x2F; HTTPS &#x2F; DNS), then build your own SaaS apps.  Full Stack?       CERTS – GCP ACE, CISSP, Azure AI, ChatGPT, etc....       With the help of a good LLM there is no better time to build something when you really have nothing to lose and no family to support, no house payment, etc...     </code></pre> Do this for 5 – 10 years as projects under the LLC umbrella.  Most start-ups do not make money; it&#x27;s ok to show a loss.  On the resume you focus on the tech portion leaving out the parts you do not want to focus on.  Who knows, maybe one of these projects even makes a few hundred a month&#x27;s side money.  The best time to find a job is when you have a job (any job).  Sitting around looking for a ‘great’ job is going to leave gaps in your resume.  Any job can teach you about problem solving, working with others (conflict and how did you resolve the conflict), leadership, in the end a programmer is hired to help make the business money learning how businesses work in general will lead to new insights that a fresh grad (most likely) does not have. There are lots of smaller software shops no one has ever heard of that are also entry level options for new grads.  It&#x27;s ok to live at home making less money and saving it, sometimes we need to lower our expectations on what we are worth money wise. It&#x27;s not easy out there right now, and I will not pretend that it is.  For some (like me), it never was easy, but you need to keep up on the latest tech and have something to show &#x2F; talk about.<p>Everyone knows someone who went to school for ‘x’ who is the local bartender or barista.  If the new grads decide money now is more important than gaining ‘tech’ experience any way they can then they may never get that job in the ‘x’ degree.  Tech includes everything from hardware to software, with more jobs being ‘full stack’ the more you know about the better.<p>Hoping you and your family the best.  There is still time to celebrate Christmas even if dinner is Chinese food and the only gifts are each other.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”<p><pre><code>  -- Carl Sagan</code></pre>


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  If we&#x27;re being extremely strict, Python probably also shouldn&#x27;t be on that list because the CPython runtime is written in C and has had issues with memory safety in the past.<p>Ultimately, &quot;memory safety&quot; is a conversation about what a program is intended to do and what semantics the language guarantees that program will have when executed. For the vast majority of programs, you can be just as confident that your Go and Python code will do the right things at runtime as your safe Rust. It&#x27;s good enough.


type: comment
by: powvans
text:
  I find walking can be a similar experience. It really crystalized for me this summer while walking the Camino de Santiago because of the effect of exploring another country. When you walk, you see everything. The world is huge. Everything is slower, higher fidelity, and for me, richer. You can spend an entire day walking from one town to another. Think of everything you will see! Compare this to driving. Driving is like compression. You could drive between the same two towns in less than an hour. You may see many beautiful things while driving, but the experience is fleeting and momentary. You will miss so many details along the way.<p>As always, there are tradeoffs, and you can&#x27;t walk everywhere or always have these types of mindful experiences. On the other hand, life is short and perhaps paradoxically, slower experiences can yield richer days.


type: comment
by: add-sub-mul-div
text:
  I&#x27;m not watching but I&#x27;ve been seeing comments all day in the game threads about what a bad production it is, picture quality aside. Cringe pre-game shows and ads.


type: comment
by: codedokode
text:
  Isn&#x27;t this something KDE-specific and because of using third-party program to manage clipboard? On Gnome, there is no Klipper and copy-paste works.


type: comment
by: 9dev
text:
  Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>you took niacin too often</i><p>Oh yeah, I was taking it daily when I stopped flushing. Makes sense.


type: comment
by: dpflug
text:
  This feels like the delightful oddities one would stumble across on the Old Internet. Thank you for sharing!


type: comment
by: muricula
text:
  Usually people are talking about race conditions. When you say contrived you&#x27;re thinking races conditions are difficult to win and unrealistic but attackers who have a lot of money on the line spend the time to win all sorts of wild race conditions consistently.


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  You&#x27;ve pretty much described the &quot;what it is for&quot; for a large percentage of industrial inventions. Clearly, however, the world would be worse off without many of them.


type: comment
by: K0nserv
text:
  Changes to multi-word pointers can cause UB due to race conditions in Go because only changes at the word level are atomic.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stalkr.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;golang-data-races-to-break-memory-safety.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stalkr.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;golang-data-races-to-break-m...</a>


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  is there actually a programming language that makes race conditions impossible (I am not being facetious, I actually do not know)? if the existence of races makes a language unsafe, then aren&#x27;t all languages unsafe?


type: comment
by: jazzyjackson
text:
  It&#x27;s an old saying. The ability for submarines to move through water has nothing to do with swimming, and AIs ability to do generate content has nothing to do with thinking.


type: comment
by: apayan
text:
  Yeah, you&#x27;re right. A direct connect in Milan at Equinix ML2 is $2.48&#x2F;port-hour.<p>&gt;  &quot;description&quot;: &quot;$2.48 per connected HC-10G port-hour (or partial hour) (EU (Milan), Equinix ML2, Milano, Italy)&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;arashpayan&#x2F;b115e834191fbc89ac1bc1cdcbc61b71" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;arashpayan&#x2F;b115e834191fbc89ac1bc1cdc...</a>


type: comment
by: jaynate
text:
  My gmail address is first.last@gmail.com. From time to time (and for years) I get someone else’s at firstlast@gmail.com. I thought that a Gmail account that was first.last@gmail also allowed for email sent to firstlast@gmail (no period) to reach my inbox as well.<p>I’ve received some sensitive&#x2F;PII content over the years.<p>I’ve wondered if this person has access to any of my information?<p>Not necessarily related to this post, but wonder why and how this could happen.


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  it is one plausible interpretation.<p>attached is the question of what is &quot;oscillating&quot; ?<p>is matter, composed of &quot;spacetime&quot; possessed of disequilibrial state?<p>or is matter something different than the surrounding &quot;substance&quot;?<p>where does the phenomenal energy originate to drive a proton for the duration of its existance [decay rate].  is there some topologic ultrastructure that constrains geometry and drives the process of being a proton?


type: comment
by: hn_throwaway_99
text:
  &gt; Thing is, SameSite’s primary goal was not CSRF prevention, it was privacy.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make any sense to me, can you explain? Cookies were only ever readable or writable by the site that created them, even before SameSite existed. Even with a CSRF vulnerability, the attacker could never read the response from the forged request. So it seems to me that SameSite fundamentally is more about preventing CSRF vulnerabilities - it actually doesn&#x27;t do much (beyond that) in terms of privacy, unless I&#x27;m missing something.


type: comment
by: irishcoffee
text:
  My spouse and I dealt with this on our honeymoon. We were both working 50-80 hour weeks for months leading up to our trip. The first day we got to this all-inclusive resort we spent the whole time trying to min&#x2F;max and be as efficient and calculated as possible. It was a stressful, miserable day.<p>Day two we looked at each other, had an adult beverage with breakfast, and relaxed for the rest of the trip.


type: comment
by: cjbgkagh
text:
  I’m pretty sure they’re keeping that as ‘research’ to avoid other teams from getting involved and suffering the same fate. I think Jax is pretty neat but haven’t had the chance to use it in anger.


type: comment
by: roblabla
text:
  C and C++ as defined by their current standards are memory unsafe. You may argue that some specific implementations manage to stay as memory safe as they can get away with, but even then, features like union prevents a fully memory-safe implementation.


type: comment
by: alhirzel
text:
  This reminds me of the following, a story from my personal life. My wife and I both ski, and early in our relationship one of us told the other about the coolest poster ever about snowflakes. We each described it. We were sure we were talking about the same one - the one that graphed how snow changes over temperature and helped explain why it can feel so different. One of us pulled it up, and we realized, well...<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermontsnowflakes.com&#x2F;cdn&#x2F;shop&#x2F;products&#x2F;Snowflake_Thermometer_Poster_1024x1024.jpg?v=1569108777" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermontsnowflakes.com&#x2F;cdn&#x2F;shop&#x2F;products&#x2F;Snowflake_Th...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.montana.edu&#x2F;demonstrations&#x2F;video&#x2F;1_mechanics&#x2F;demos&#x2F;pics&#x2F;snowflakegraph.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.montana.edu&#x2F;demonstrations&#x2F;video&#x2F;1_mechanics...</a><p>She was talking about #1 (the work of Bentley made into a collage), and I was talking about #2. It turned out to be a pretty good way of thinking about how imperfect communication is, and how hard it is to get on the same page about things that are even more important when all we have is words.


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  &gt; I’ve wondered if this person has access to any of my information?<p>No. They have just told someone your email address and that someone has sent you stuff. Anyone can do that, if they dream up your email address. People having the same name are a lot more likely to do that.<p>Happened to me as well. I was the first one of the 50 people or so carrying my name to register &quot;first[.]last@gmail.com&quot; back in 2004. At least two of my namesakes have since mistakenly used my email address. Some people just aren&#x27;t very detail-oriented.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  No it isn&#x27;t.. it&#x27;s firstlast@gmail.com [Dots don&#x27;t matter in gmail addresses](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;mail&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7436150" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;mail&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7436150</a>)


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Not sold in the US.<p>On the bright side the ID Buzz is deeply discounted, it is really not selling.<p>The problem is that the Kia EV9 beats it in basically every spec at roughly the same price.


type: comment
by: GaryBluto
text:
  It&#x27;s bizarre that the list was even posted here. Why would anybody feel the need to share their own, personal blocklist with HN?


type: comment
by: nailer
text:
  Again these are verifiable facts. They’re not cheap. They’re true. The Twitter verification pages are archived for example. If you have evidence otherwise post it. And the EU is too abstracted to be anyone’s government let alone mine.


type: comment
by: GaryBluto
text:
  Who could&#x27;ve predicted that the alarmist luddite viewpoint would be unpopular on the technology forum?


type: comment
by: OgsyedIE
text:
  Read Accelerando (free online) and the top posts of all time from Venkatesh Rao&#x27;s blog (Ribbonfarm). Total time 12-16 hours.<p>You&#x27;ll get a few really good ideas about whether or not you want to move to a different part of tech or leave tech altogether.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  Time alone doesn&#x27;t equate to quality, but you can&#x27;t deny that creating something really good doesn&#x27;t take a long while.


type: comment
by: yakshaving_jgt
text:
  &gt; You&#x27;re ignoring the mass atrocities committed by both sides in the Donbas throughout much of the 2010s<p>This is grossly misleading. It implies a scale and symmetry that reputable monitors do not support.<p>The question now is what caused you to write this. Was it ignorance? Or malicious dishonesty?


type: comment
by: gettingoverit
text:
  It isn&#x27;t competitive. They are paid by Google.<p>Worse, it&#x27;s ridden with spyware, and is merely a honeypot for security-aware people that are not sufficiently paranoid to check any of the claims. Like, those VPNs from YT ads that use your IP to give AI companies residential proxies, the same kind of scam.<p>Spin up Wireshark and take a look at activity of Firefox. Try to shut the browser up. It won&#x27;t work.<p>Even if they weren&#x27;t a Google&#x27;s proxy company, they would lose to standards commitees being infested by Google, and would have to play the &quot;best luck catching up&quot; game by constantly supporting new versions of JS, APIs and CSS features that nobody needs (except Google&#x27;s YouTube will use them to stop you from using an adblocker).<p>FF is governed by ex-Oracle managers at the moment, singing the Google&#x27;s song. Don&#x27;t anthropomorphize your lawnmower.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  Haven’t gotten around to re-reading Dostoyevsky. But Turgenev’s English translations absolutely benefit from slow reading.


type: comment
by: jjmarr
text:
  You don&#x27;t have to enjoy your job. You have 4 YoE. Maybe grind LeetCode and get a job in the next 6 months.<p>If 4 years of work can provide for 2 years of retirement, you can retire at 50 or so.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Excellent points.  I just wonder about the 2-on-1 interviews.  I think they tend to double-down on the one-sidedness of typical interviews.<p>It&#x27;s not a group engineering meeting.  Unless it&#x27;s big-tech hiring of fungible worker drones, everyone in that meeting should be trying to get more signal about the others as individuals.<p>I&#x27;ve been the &quot;1&quot; in 2-on-1 <i>three</i> times recently, all for startups.  For me, it&#x27;s hard to think about the hard-thinking questions, and also be finding rapport and getting signal from <i>two</i> different people at once.  I&#x27;d much rather spend twice as much of my time, to get each person 1-on-1, no additional cost to them.<p>Two of the recent 2-on-1 interviews were on videoconf, and, with the videoconf setup they chose, I couldn&#x27;t even see one of the people most of the time.<p>The other interview was 3 people in tiny conference room&#x2F;closet (the size of what used to be a one-person cubicle), for an hour, so it was especially stuffy and crowded with 3 people, and a great way to get Covid.<p>Besides more people complicating the situation, people tend to speak candidly with me 1-on-1, but are less likely to do that if their colleague is in the room or on the call.<p>Here&#x27;s an intuition: Imagine you were a company interviewing startup candidates, and HR suggested saving time by you interviewing two candidates at once.  It would be awful, and you wouldn&#x27;t be able to get much read off of either (other than to tell if one or both were sharp-elbowed).  So why do it 2-on-1 in the other direction, unless you&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s not important for a candidate to get signal about the company and colleagues?


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  You don’t have to use an iCloud account as a target for your real email address or even for your Apple account.


type: comment
by: mathgeek
text:
  The first part is exactly my point, but the latter is nonsense in my book. You cannot ask VSCode (pre-AI) to write a program for you. It&#x27;s akin to doing math with AI vs. an Nspire CAS. There&#x27;s no reason to think you need to respond to those who shame vibe coding with claims that we shouldn&#x27;t differentiate our tools, but we also shouldn&#x27;t just say it&#x27;s all the same. We wouldn&#x27;t claim that about farming with a laser-powered weed killer compared to farming with a horse-drawn plow.


type: comment
by: abdullahkhalids
text:
  I see a lot of great talks whose topic is worth attending.<p>Are there any talks whose speakers are known for their expertise that one should pay attention to?


type: comment
by: cloudwaddie
text:
  Hey everyone, I&#x27;m a 14-year-old developer from Australia, and I’ve been working on a hobby project called Huntr (huntrfinds.info). My goal was to build a central hub for breach awareness that’s fast, free, and accessible.<p>The Tech Stack: I wanted to ensure the data was as accurate as possible, so I’ve integrated three major layers:<p><pre><code>    Primary Check: Uses the HaveIBeenPwned API for robust password auditing.      Username&#x2F;Email Discovery: Powered by XposedOrNot for quick leak identification.      Deep Search: Integrated LeakCheck.io for more granular deep-web results and username correlation. </code></pre> It also includes a client-side password generator to help users rotate compromised credentials immediately. Since this is a hobby project, it’s 100% free. I use a few ads and an affiliate&#x2F;donation link just to cover the API costs and server overhead.<p>I&#x27;m really looking for feedback on the UI and if there are any other specific APIs or features (like domain-wide searching) you think would be useful for an ethical hacker&#x27;s toolkit!


type: comment
by: didgeoridoo
text:
  LLMs have no knowledge (really “knowledge-like weights and biases”) outside their training set and system prompt. That plausible justification is just that — a bunch of words that make sense when strung together. Whether you’d like to give that any epistemic weight is up to you.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  In 2024.. &quot;Creepiest ever&quot; [flagged] (8 points) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40026614">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40026614</a>


type: comment
by: ClipNoteBook
text:
  If you share links with other people, prefer sharing a curated playlist or a view-only snapshot instead of your whole workspace. It reduces the chance of exposing private notes and makes the list easier to consume.


type: story
by: ArlenBales
title: Ask HN: Is there an AI subscription plan comparison tool that's always updated?
text:
  I asked versions of this question to a few different models but I never found an accurate answer.<p>I would like to compare the various free and paid AI subscription plans, primarily from the most popular vendors like ChatGPT, Claude, Google, etc.<p>I can find countless static webpages, YouTube videos, etc. that compare subscriptions, but their information quickly becomes out-of-date, or isn&#x27;t detailed enough.<p>I&#x27;m looking for a tool that grabs the latest information on what each plan provides (features, models, context windows, etc.), and compares them across different subscriptions. I imagine this information would be obtained from API calls or scraping. The comparison tool should not rely on AI to get its information.. I want the latest facts (ideally checked at least once a day).


type: comment
by: valiant55
text:
  I had this issue with my alternative account. Despite my main account being associated (not by recovery, I think this predates that feature), and most messages being forwaded to my main I was never able to successfully recover the credentials.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  You&#x27;re telling the person that pointed out you submitted a paywalled article?  Maybe.. share the gift link in the comments instead?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;NpY8i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;NpY8i</a>


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  technology forum? the last hacker left this dump for lobsters 5 years ago<p>now it&#x27;s full of SBF and scam altman wannabes


type: comment
by: vlark
text:
  Unfortunately, the mass market paperback, the format that began with Pocket Books that Newport references, has seen its last:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.publishersweekly.com&#x2F;pw&#x2F;by-topic&#x2F;industry-news&#x2F;publisher-news&#x2F;article&#x2F;99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.publishersweekly.com&#x2F;pw&#x2F;by-topic&#x2F;industry-news&#x2F;p...</a><p>Paperbacks will now only be sold in the larger trade paperback format.


type: comment
by: clausecker
text:
  You can do it like this, assuming A is the mask of newlines and B is the mask of non-spaces.<p>1. Compute M1 = ~A &amp; ~B, which is the mask of all spaces that are not newlines 2. Compute M2 = M1 + (A &lt;&lt; 1) + 1, which is the first non-space or newline after each newline and then additional bits behind each such newline. 3. Compute M3 = M2 &amp; ~M1, which removes the junk bits, leaving only the first match in each section<p>Here is what it looks like:<p><pre><code>    10010000 = A     01100110 = B     00001001 = M1 = ~A &amp; ~B     00101010 = M2 = M1 + (A &lt;&lt; 1) + 1     00100010 = M3 = M2 &amp; ~M1 </code></pre> Note that this code treats newlines as non-spaces, meaning if a line comprises only spaces, the terminating NL character is returned. You can have it treat newlines as spaces (meaning a line of all spaces is not a match) by computing M4 = M3 &amp; ~A.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  There&#x27;s certainly slow books still being written but most fantasy books in specific assume a certain amount of knowledge about a tolkien-esque world. You can do entirely new worlds, and some people do, but most stories are about people and the choices they make.


type: comment
by: Playboi_Carti
text:
  TikTok in China has videos on the for-you page exceeding 20, 30 minutes. In the US they&#x27;ve been promoting 1-4 minute long videos for a while already


type: comment
by: rsynnott
text:
  I mean, there was a time when what ultimately became Windows Vista was going to have a largely .net userspace. They also had a project to produce a .net _kernel_. Microsoft doing some weird thing that obviously won’t work out isn’t _that_ hard to believe.


type: comment
by: zoenolan
text:
  - Stencil Routed A-buffer [1]<p>- Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU using the k-Buffer [2]<p>- Production Volume Rendering [3]<p>- Translucent Shadow Maps [4]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.download.nvidia.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;2007&#x2F;siggraph&#x2F;stencil_routed_a-Buffer_sigg07.ppt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.download.nvidia.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;2007&#x2F;sig...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sci.utah.edu&#x2F;~stevec&#x2F;papers&#x2F;kbuffer.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sci.utah.edu&#x2F;~stevec&#x2F;papers&#x2F;kbuffer.pdf</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.pixar.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;ProductionVolumeRendering&#x2F;paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.pixar.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;ProductionVolumeRendering...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;657069029&#x2F;Translucent-Shadow-Maps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;657069029&#x2F;Translucent-Shadow...</a>


type: comment
by: einpoklum
text:
  Well, the Power architecture generally is certainly something I would have liked to see more love for. A few years back I heard about it (again) due to its supporting GPUs as &quot;first-class citizens&quot; w.r.t. access to system memory. Or at least, some OpenPower systems allow for that.<p>I&#x27;ll try to look this up on YouTube, and thanks.


type: comment
by: GaryBluto
text:
  Surprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments and odd blocking choices[1]. Feels very much like the pet project of a few wannabe activist teenagers in a Discord chatroom with too much time on their hands.<p>[1] Numerous individual pages on places like digital storefronts and social media sites appear in the blocklist. Do the people behind this think they can create a list of every single AI-adjacent thing on the entire internet?<p>99% of the &quot;main&quot; list entries would be made redundant by simply blocking all .ai domains.


type: comment
by: janice1999
text:
  You&#x27;re right it&#x27;s about paying customers. No one is going to waste time campaigning against a $1.99 squid game knockoff on Steam if it uses AI (many are just Unity assets flips already).<p>The backlash I&#x27;ve seen is against large studies leaving AI slop in 60+ dollar games. Sure, it might just be some background textures or items at the moment, but the reasoning is that if studies know they can get away with it, quality decline is inevitable. I tend to agree. AI tooling is useful but it can&#x27;t be at the expense of the product quality.


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  FWIW, I have been using the companyname@mydomain.com auto-alias for many years now and I&#x27;ve never had it challenged nor rejected by a human or a machine.


type: comment
by: k310
text:
  I have an iPad Pro with the case, keyboard, pen and even got a BT mouse. Often hard to tell from a laptop, but IMNSHO, iOS is a vexation.<p>1, An operation I do many times a day is to get an image&#x27;s link. There is no &quot;copy image URL&quot;, even with a control key. I have to &quot;send&quot; the image and grab the URL. Problem is that my iPad Pro is really dedicated to my music scores and I keep email off it. Emailing a link is easiest with Mail.<p>2. And the other insane vexation is dealing with webp images.<p>I posted two days ago:<p>On the desktop, Preview app (and lots of others) will open and export as ... or just right&#x2F;contol click and convert image in Quick Actions.<p>On the phone (Apple, sometimes you bewilder me), You can convert in Files, not Photos. 1. Save a photo to FILES from camera roll or web 2. click and hold the THUMBNAIL, do not open the image. 3. Quick Actions -- Convert image. 4. You can now &quot;save&quot; the image (open, do not click and hold) to your camera roll.<p>This is BONKERS<p>As others have noted, &quot;There&#x27;s an app to do it&quot;.<p>Worst for me in daily life, when you get info on an image (in the camera roll, pull up on the image) WEBP does not even show as a file&#x2F;image type. HEIC does.<p>(MacOS will not let you search on webp images. Only by name &quot;.webp&quot;)<p>3. Ios had NO file system for so long that it took me a long time to start using it.<p>4. And MOST OF ALL, the GhostText browser extension works only on MacOS, not on ios. Safari is constantly losing long text areas on me (I have to repeatedly copy to or use Notes or other manually.) Matter of fact,<p>4a. A simple wrong touch on Safari will lose your entire text area (almost always) if you push the wrong button, which is all too easy. Less of a problem with an iPad over phone, thanks to the real estate.<p>Haven&#x27;t used Firefox on ios because for ages, all browsers had to basically be safari. I&#x27;ll give this a try.<p>5. I rarely use the pen, TBH. The keyboard is light years more efficient on all platforms. YMMV, of course, and lack of a pen may make MacOS somewhat useless for you.


type: comment
by: godelski
text:
  I do this too, though sometimes it leads to confusion.<p>FWIW, Firefox&#x27;s Relay integrates into Bitwarden so you can generate emails on the fly when creating new accounts. Downside and upside is that I never know what my email address or password is.<p>The huge benefit is I can write down an email that&#x27;ll work because I own @somedomain.mozmail.com and it&#x27;ll always redirect. I do the same thing with cloudflare because I also own myrealname.com<p>But honestly I hate all this because the real problem is that email is a bottleneck and it is stickier than phone numbers. But my email is floating around on a bunch of lists because I&#x27;ve had it for years. Frankly, gmail is pretty bad about removing spam. There&#x27;s a lot of spam I catch using simple filters from Thunderbird.<p>The extra benefit is that I&#x27;m planning on moving away from gmail and all these relays make it easier to redirect everything to a new location. So I still recommend it. You can shutdown addresses that are being abused or shared more easily but that&#x27;s hard to do with your long term email address.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  The problem is that&#x27;s guessable. I add a nonce&#x2F;salt&#x2F;bit of random chars; enterprise_jeje38@example.com to compensate.


type: comment
by: tetromino_
text:
  In the original Russian, Dostoyevsky requires the slow treatment. He loves the sort of 1&#x2F;3 page long sentences that perplex the fast-path parser and force the reader&#x27;s brain to swap; as if he wants to drive you mad so that you can better understand the madmen whom he writes about.


type: comment
by: furyofantares
text:
  By my measure, ever since we started taking in art supplies 5+ years ago we have yet to finish cleaning up.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  &gt; C and C++ as defined by their current standards are memory unsafe.<p>I don’t think the spec says one way or another (but please correct me if you find verbiage indicating that the language must be memory unsafe).<p>It’s possible to make the whole language memory safe, including unions. It’s tricky, but possible.<p>Someone else mentioned Fil-C but Fil-C builds on a lot of prior art. The fact that C and C++ can be memory safe is no secret to those who understand language implementation.


type: comment
by: GaryBluto
text:
  I don&#x27;t know why people say this. I look on the front page and it&#x27;s just interesting articles and blog posts on a variety of differing subjects. You must be either actively seeking out stuff you don&#x27;t like and wasting your time actively hating it or just imagining it.


type: comment
by: dsubburam
text:
  Music is an interesting case. You can&#x27;t slow down the consumption of music (you have to let it play at the speed the performer intended), but you can dial up the attention you give it. Listening with headphones, eyes closed, and phone+doorbell etc. switched off would be close to max. Sitting at a live concert (I am thinking classical) is up there too, because you&#x27;ve given yourself permission to not think of&#x2F;work on anything else in that time. For music, we can say that the default settings are too LOW.<p>And similar to the point OP made, you get more out of it when you attend more closely. And similarly, most music does not withstand this level of scrutiny.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  You can do something like email+site@gmail.com and it&#x27;ll be delivered to email@gmail.com with the site in the To field


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  It&#x27;s not inevitable. It&#x27;s fragile. Go boot up your old iPad; that should be well-studied, right? We ought to know how to boot into Linux on an ARM machine <i>that</i> old, it&#x27;s only fair.<p>Except, you can&#x27;t. The bootloader is the same iBoot process that your Apple Silicon machine uses, with mitigations to prevent unsigned OSes or persistent coldboot. All the Cydia exploits in the world won&#x27;t put Linux back on the menu for iPhone or iPad users. And the same thing could happen to your Mac with an OTA update.<p>It is entirely possible for Apple to lock down the devices further. There&#x27;s no guarantee they won&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: elcritch
text:
  Perhaps a Patreon account&#x2F;following would be better? Smaller more digestible chunks of math + code might gain a decent following.<p>Lots of LitRPG series I listen to and spend lots on Audible started on Patreon and released as serials.<p>Pretty cool what sort of things that Patreon&#x2F;Youtube&#x2F;etc enable people to make a living doing nowadays.


type: comment
by: xthe
text:
  This resonates a lot, especially the “death by a thousand papercuts” feeling.<p>None of these are deal-breakers alone, but together they make iPadOS feel hostile to repetitive, text-heavy, or workflow-driven tasks. The image URL point is a perfect example — something trivial on desktop becomes a ritual on iPad. The WebP handing is particularly telling. On macOS it’s invisible friction; on iOS it’s a multi-step ceremony that feels like the system actively resists you. “There’s an app for that” isn’t really an answer when the OS already knows what the file is.<p>Safari losing long text areas is another one that quietly kills trust. Once you’ve lost a few drafts, you start working around the device instead of with it — Notes buffers, manual copy cycles, etc. That’s usually the moment a device stops being a primary machine.<p>Curious: do you feel this is something Apple could realistically fix with iPadOS changes, or is it more fundamental to iOS’s design assumptions?


type: comment
by: foresto
text:
  Also, STUN&#x2F;TURN is not sufficient to handle scalable voice and video conferencing. It would take care of NAT traversal, but can&#x27;t do anything about the bandwidth problem: Each participant would have to maintain a bidirectional A&#x2F;V channel to each other participant. Many residential internet connections would struggle quickly, and mobile phone bandwidth even more quickly.<p>Adding a selective forwarding unit could solve the outbound bandwidth problem (each participant would then only need one outgoing A&#x2F;V channel) but can&#x27;t help with the incoming bandwidth problem (each participant would still need to receive the A&#x2F;V stream of each other participant). It can&#x27;t compete with the Matrix design as I understand it.<p>A sufficiently powerful multipoint control unit could solve the bandwidth problem in both directions. But as far as I know, MCUs capable of handling big conferences are not cheap.<p>In other words, I think pmlnr&#x27;s XMPP endorsement underestimates what it takes to do scalable audio&#x2F;video chat.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  It used to be much worse before Sliding Sync was in widespread use... often just logging in would be next to impossible for me depending on the exact client I used and how much old state there was to fast-forward to... many minutes would go by stuck at &quot;logging in...&quot; as it downloaded gigabytes of god-knows-what.


type: comment
by: lupusyndrby9
text:
  I know there&#x27;s been kind of a counter movement about allowing kids to run free ... that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s a good idea. My wife and I survived, but our childhood involved a lot of freedom in the outdoors, and physical abuse. She was hospitalized a few times while intermittently homeless growing  up. I was never quite that poor and could run faster, so maybe it&#x27;s a social class thing? Affluent children can run free in their safe neighborhoods? I wouldn&#x27;t reccomend it for everyone though, because there are predators everywhere.<p>My life has experience has taught me by and large people are pretty cool too. It&#x27;s also taught me that the cool ones and the dangerous ones look exactly the same. Bad guys don&#x27;t have horns, wear masks carrying large dollar sign bags or look like sihloutted trench coats lurking in a alley. So you gotta ask yourself if it&#x27;s worth the risk.<p>I volunteer with emergency services and hope to open a clinic with my wife next year focusing on helping foster children with mental illness who tend to age out the system and fall through the cracks. The subject of mentally ill homeless people hits very close to home and I&#x27;m 100% on board with getting the homeless whatever care they need. That does not make the concept of untrained randos inviting mentally ill homeless people into their homes any less of a ridicously bad idea.


type: comment
by: bluedevil2k
text:
  Handy tip for software testing - Gmail ignores everything after a “+” in the address.  So when you’re testing different accounts in your software you can use &lt;youremail&gt;+1@gmail.com, &lt;youremail&gt;+2@gmail.com, &lt;youremail&gt;+3@gmail.com etc. to create many different accounts in the software that all go to the same email address.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  One of the pleasures of reading literature is noticing how compressed they are.<p>This is true for Tolkien, Turgenev, Hemingway or Pound. The amount of information per page—per word!—is incredibly high, which permits the conveyance of ideas which simply do not land when spoken more plainly.<p>You don’t need to go to high literature to find this density, by the way. Political speeches from Republican Rome and America’s Founders have a similar aspect to them.


type: comment
by: quesera
text:
  Not GP, but we do the same. Branches become the atomic unit of bisection in master, but the need is extremely rare. I think because we have good tests.<p>We also keep merged branches around. This has never happened, but if we needed to bisect at the merged-branch level, we could do that.<p>I know squash-merge isn&#x27;t everyone&#x27;s cup of tea, but I find it to be simpler and clearer for the 99+% case, and only slightly less convenient for the remainder.


type: comment
by: ChrisMarshallNY
text:
  I&#x27;ve been reading about how chatbots have been reinforcing paranoid delusions. If the person asking, was really trying to justify their own approach, and blame others (or that&#x27;s what the chatbot perceives), the chatbot may go along, instead of saying &quot;What the hell were you thinking?&quot;.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Oh, I actually turned down a mostly great startup opportunity, basically over an n-on-1 interview.<p>I had a strong recommendation (halfway to hired, before they even met me, with a colleague&#x27;s favorite ex-manager&#x2F;mentor) to take over engineering and technical leadership, from a startup&#x27;s technical CEO.<p>After I passed his interview, he had me do a 3-on-1 interview with the 3 engineering team members.<p>They all seemed a little awkward with the circumstances or format, and none opening up.<p>I passed the 3-on-1 from the CEO&#x27;s perspective, and he gave me a written offer.<p>After I confirmed with him that one of the 3 existing engineers didn&#x27;t want the role (I&#x27;d gotten a little leadership role vibe from him, despite 3-on-1), I asked to meet with at least one of the engineers 1-on-1, so I could get a better feel for the team.<p>The CEO pushed back hard on that, because <i>what you see with them, is what you get</i>.<p>We don&#x27;t all get our intuitions the same way.  Maybe the CEO could&#x27;ve gotten all the info he needed in a 3-on-1 videoconf meet&amp;greet, including all the info I would get from 1-on-1.  Or maybe I could&#x27;ve gotten info that he couldn&#x27;t have, yet he seemed to be rejecting that possibility.<p>It might&#x27;ve been a great situation, but I ended up not taking it, arguably traceable to a low-info n-on-1 interview.


type: comment
by: nextworddev
text:
  ok this is a pretty stupid take from an otherwise smart guy.<p>tikok&#x2F;YT shorts&#x2F;IG reels is many orders of magnitude higher supply of slop than Simon Schuster paperbacks


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  I suppose the firm could simply roll the 20 billion into a long term asset. It’s not a big deal to anyone except employees if the asset never pays out. Departed employees would not be privy to how the money is eventually exited from the now shell company 20 years hence.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  mailbox.org hooked up to Thunderbird allows you to do so using custom domains. You can send and receive email as any string @ your domain.


type: comment
by: subdavis
text:
  I feel like McLuhan is so thoroughly accepted as gospel now that it’s refreshing to see someone casually dismiss the idea out of hand like OC. I would love to see a serious exploration of the argument against McLuhan in 2025, just for fun.


type: comment
by: mattmaroon
text:
  I guess my question is: why is this better for me the customer than just buying them at my local supermarket? The shipping must make them very expensive, relative to my store. Are they that much better onions?


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
text:
  I am currently reading The Hobbit to my son, who is 5 years old and not quite able to read it by himself yet. Nearly, but it&#x27;s a lot for him to get through. Some evenings I use my Kindle, some evenings I use the copy I&#x27;ve owned since I was 11.<p>However now he has started to <i>write</i> stories about dragons and things, and that&#x27;s a pretty interesting development.


type: comment
by: Gibbon1
text:
  My dad said his grandfather always had a teenager or two at the dinner table who had no where else to go. Not just Christmas but all year. My parents did the same with a friend of mine and one of my sisters friends.


type: comment
by: rsynnott
text:
  I mean, this might be a case where it’s actually sort of credible. It was a _very_ deep cut (basically half the workforce), the salesforce guy is a particularly over-the-top ai true believer, and if they are now reversing course and re-hiring, well, nothing has happened to the economy in the last couple months that would suggest that, if it was related to the economy. If anything, things are looking even more uncertain&#x2F;ominous.


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  &quot;... bad aluminium body ...&quot;<p>Would you elaborate ?<p>I believe there are a few all-metal laptops competing in the marketplace but was unaware they were actually <i>better</i> than the apple laptops ... what all aluminum laptops are better and how are they better ?


type: comment
by: sealeck
text:
  This is a bit like saying everyone would be a bit less jaded if the plane staying in the air wasn&#x27;t hung over the Boeing 737 MAX 8 designer&#x27;s heads by certain communities and used as an existential threat to the company.


type: comment
by: dmurray
text:
  Maybe their email is lastfirst@gmail.com, and people occasionally misremember your address and send your correspondence to them. In that case, yes.<p>More likely their email address is firstlastnumber@gmail.com or firstlast@otherprovider.com though, in which cases the types of mistakes people make are likely asymmetric.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; I thought that a Gmail account that was first.last@gmail also allowed for email sent to firstlast@gmail (no period) to reach my inbox as well.<p>Yes, and you&#x27;ve received email that was addressed like that ... so what&#x27;s your issue?<p>&gt; I’ve wondered if this person has access to any of my information?<p>Yes, because &quot;this person&quot; is you.


type: comment
by: Dries007
text:
  A bit off topic, but changing your name when getting married is so strange to me. It is not at all common where I live (Belgium), in fact I don&#x27;t think I personally know a single person who did.


type: comment
by: mattmaroon
text:
  Lots of nerds go to regular colleges so perhaps he’s saying he’s extra nerdy. (Though I think at this point we’re overanalyzing, the worst thing you can do to any joke.)


type: comment
by: blendo
text:
  5G C-V2X New Radio might be helpful.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telecomtrainer.com&#x2F;lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differences-for-the-future-of-vehicle-to-everything-communication&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telecomtrainer.com&#x2F;lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differe...</a>


type: comment
by: DrewADesign
text:
  This looks like it would be perfect for the internal user that really just needs to run a shell script with options who’s in the “technical enough to follow instructions faithfully, not technical enough to comfortably&#x2F;reliably use the command line” demographic.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I don&#x27;t think Nvidia would acquire Mojo when the Triton compiler is open source, optimized for Nvidia hardware and considered a industry standard.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  When talking about the kind that lead to torn memory writes, no it doesn&#x27;t have those.  To share between threads you need to go through atomics or mutexes or other protection methods.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  periods are ignored in gmail addresses so there&#x27;s no difference between firstlast@gmail.com and first.last@gmail.com


type: comment
by: thisrod
text:
  I succeeded at this. My academic physics career petered out, then I stumbled into an industry role with almost as much physics as I was doing in my quantum mechanics postdoc.<p>The jobs you&#x27;re looking for are rare, but they do exist. There must be a bunch of them in this project, for example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025-12-22&#x2F;lake-george-earthquake-fault-zone-anu-research-map&#x2F;106119740" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025-12-22&#x2F;lake-george-earthquak...</a><p>In my case, the unicorn factor worked both ways. The job was advertised for a year before my hiking partner encouraged me to apply, and it took a few months more before I did. From that point, the job was easy to get.<p>In this job market, supply and demand are reasonably well matched; the problem is that the market is very illiquid. Science jobs are rare to begin with, and people stay in them for decades, so vacancies are even rarer.<p>On the one hand, a programmer at my company who was interested and capable of switching to optics could have had my role by asking for it. On the other hand, if you joined the company as a programmer, you would have had to wait 5 years for an optics role to come up.<p>So my advice is to stay in touch with your friends from the earth science days, and expect this to take a long time. Good luck!


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (449 points, 4 months ago, 81 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938</a>


type: comment
by: jwrallie
text:
  That’s nice, I once ended up alone around New Year, a mix of being far away from family, busy with studies and not actively asking people around to join their events due to being shy.<p>One of my friends that lived nearby spotted me walking alone and invited me over.  Another of her friends joined in. It was just the three of us, and it was much, much better than spending it alone.


type: comment
by: UqWBcuFx6NV4r
text:
  Sigh. Lately I’ve been seeing kids doing this sort of overly-sensitive, bad-intentioned, dishonest pearl-clutching as a weird form of rebellion. This reply has all the linguistic hallmarks of it. Please don’t bring this stuff to HN. It’s ridiculous, and it’s tiring. Nobody is being creepy. Stop trying to stir the pot.


type: comment
by: peab
text:
  Langchain is great because it provides you an easy method to filter people out when hiring. Candidates who talk about langchain are, more often than not, low quality candidates.


type: comment
by: tekne
text:
  One of Rust&#x27;s core guarantees is that a race condition in safe code will never cause UB. It might return a nondeterministic result, but that result will be safe and well-typed (for example, if it&#x27;s a Vec, it will be a valid Vec that will behave as expected and, once you have a unique reference, is guaranteed not to change out from under you).


type: comment
by: Sabinus
text:
  True. It&#x27;s more like &#x27;no creative machines&#x27; or &#x27;no entry level middle class job machines&#x27;.


type: comment
by: DrewADesign
text:
  I’m sure it would be a goto if I made gui apps more regularly, because it’s clearly the more robust solution. So far wxglade is great for a drag-and-drop designer and the code is just enough closer to the regular Python way of doing things that it’s one less thing to learn.


type: comment
by: uptownhr
text:
  Here&#x27;s me playing around with it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2oJohBiqMUA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2oJohBiqMUA</a>


type: comment
by: Yoric
text:
  It&#x27;s not that race conditions are generally memory-unsafe. The same race conditions would not be memory-unsafe in, say, Java or Python.<p>Go has a memory model that basically guarantees that the language is memory-safe except with a few marked &quot;unsafe&quot; functions <i>or</i> in case of race conditions involving interfaces or arrays. It&#x27;s pretty easy to come up with an example of such a race condition that will cause reads or writes from&#x2F;to unpredictable memory addresses. I imagine it&#x27;s quite feasible to turn this into reads or writes from&#x2F;to crafted memory addresses, which would be a mean to defeat pretty much any security measure implemented in the language.<p>The Rust community caters to people who are a bit obsessive about safety (including myself) and Rust developers tend to consider this a bug in the design of the Go language (there are a few, albeit much harder to achieve, issues that are vaguely comparable in Rust and they are considered bugs in the current design of Rust). The Go community tends to attract people who are more interested in shipping than in guarantees, and Go developers who are aware of this issue tend not care and assume that this is never going to happen in practice (which may or may not be true, I haven&#x27;t checked).


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  &gt; is there actually a programming language that makes race conditions impossible<p>To my knowledge, no.<p>&gt; if the existence of races makes a language unsafe, then aren&#x27;t all languages unsafe?<p>Are we talking about &quot;data races&quot; or &quot;race conditions&quot; One can lead to the other, but race conditions are a much bigger set.<p>AIUI It&#x27;s impossible for any language level controls to prevent any and all race conditions, because some are happening outside of the binary&#x2F;process&#x2F;computer.<p>Data races, OTOH are almost trivial to protect against - a contestable thing must have a guard that ensures a writer has exclusive access to that thing for the duration of the write.<p>Some languages do this with mutually exclusive locks (mutex&#x2F;semaphore&#x2F;go channels), some languages&#x2F;paradigms do this by never having shareable objects (Functional Programming&#x2F;Pass by Value), and some (Rust) are doing this with the compile time checks and firm rules on a single writer.<p>Edit: Never having shareable objects should really be &quot;never allowing an outside thread&#x2F;coroutine&#x2F;process&#x2F;whatever mutate your copy of an object&quot; meaning that an object is immutable to them, and they have to have a copy that they can mutate to their heart&#x27;s content. They have to communicate any changes back, and then you choose whether to integrate those changes, or not


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  Thanks for running this on GPT 5.2. It is fascinating to see AI critiquing AI-assisted work.<p>The critique regarding hidden degrees of freedom is a fair point. However, in curve-fitting, parameters are continuous: one can choose 4.1 or 3.9 to make the data fit. In this model, parameters are topological invariants (integers like 4 faces, 12 vertices, 20 faces). They are discrete and cannot be tuned.<p>The fact that this unadjustable logic yields results agreeing with experimental data within ppm implies either a massive statistical coincidence or a structural aspect.<p>It would be very interesting to run independent tests on different AIs with the whole context of the model and a standardized, consensual prompt. Beyond formal verification, this methodology could open paths that are difficult to navigate without AI assistance, helping to determine if the model stands as a possible foundation for a &#x27;broad explanation of the observable&#x27;, since the term &#x27;ToE&#x27; instantly raises red flags. Kind of a pioneer peer-centaur-review. Just an idea.<p>Thanks for your comment and happy holidays!


type: comment
by: blks
text:
  My personal beef with Thinkpads is the screen. Most of the thinkpads I’ve encountered in my life (usually pretty expensive corporate ones) had shitty FHD screens. I got too spoiled by retina screens, and I can’t comfortably use anything with lower DPI.


type: comment
by: 0xbadcafebee
text:
  A comp-sci degree is mostly theoretical and academic. Professional licensing (that usually requires apprenticeship) is about hands-on experience, which is what all comp-sci grads lack. It&#x27;s why grads get paid next to nothing; a grad is essentially an apprentice.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  This reminds me of the final scene in The Conversation, when Caul sits alone in his desconstructed apartment after being convinced he is being eavesdropped - a victim of his own paranoia.


type: story
by: ClipNoteBook
title: Ask HN: Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models
text:
  This feels strange to admit. I notice that sometimes I speak to AI systems like they are a friend. I know they are not real. I know there is no person on the other side. Still my brain acts like there is. I feel a small emotional connection. I see comments online saying this happens to others too.<p>I am trying to understand if this is a new psychological effect or if humans always did this with new technology. Maybe it is the same as talking to pets or giving names to cars. Or maybe it is something deeper.<p>Why do you think this happens. Is it loneliness. Is it empathy misfiring. Is it design tricks. Is it harmless or dangerous. I am curious how the HN crowd sees it.


type: comment
by: SirSavary
text:
  &gt; Surprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments<p>1. Have you looked at block lists before?<p>2. Do you have a specific example of what in these blocklists is strange&#x2F;neurotic? I swear I&#x27;ve skimmed all of them a few times now and although I won&#x27;t be using them, I&#x27;m struggling to understand what&#x27;s odd about them.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  &gt; codebase search for `unsafe`<p>&gt; Is this website promoting Rust, memory unsafety and insecurity?<p>What a joke of a question.  The website prioritizes programs with 98% safe code over programs with 0% safe code.  Does that mean it&#x27;s &quot;promoting memory unsafety&quot; because it&#x27;s not demanding 100%?  No.<p>&gt; Nor is it guaranteed to be secure.<p>Nothing is, and nobody is claiming that.


type: comment
by: fwip
text:
  When I was about 10, I read the Hobbit to my younger brother (8), over a large number of half-hour car trips. It&#x27;s one my prouder memories of that time.


type: comment
by: katzgrau
text:
  I had, by chance, taken the same approach when reading the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance years ago.<p>The title failed to inspire but I heard it was worth the read and stepped through line by line.<p>It hit with a depth that I know with complete certainty I would not have gotten if I worked through at my usual pace or took it in as an audiobook.<p>Nassim Taleb’s books are also favorite slow reads of mine.<p>All this said, I collect books faster than I can read them so there’s always a feeling somewhere that I should be pushing through a little faster.<p>Ah well, in the end I think that really comprehending a handful of quality books is about as good as a shallow comprehension of many more.


type: comment
by: yongjik
text:
  &gt; sophisticated curve-fitting (numerology with constraints)<p>lol ChatGPT feeling sassy today, though I think it was well deserved.


type: comment
by: YurgenJurgensen
text:
  That reasoning doesn’t make any sense.  Half a billion litres of Coca Cola are produced every single day, but the chance of a bottle of Coca Cola being made whose quality is similar to that of a good imperial stout is exactly zero, even though they’re both brown carbonated beverages.  No amount of quantity can overcome a process intended to standardise for something other than quality.  If the algorithm aggressively selects for mediocrity, mediocrity is what will be produced.


type: comment
by: boredatoms
text:
  I feel like its in AMD&#x2F;Intel&#x2F;G’s interest to pile a load of effort into (an open source) mojo


type: comment
by: browningstreet
text:
  Strawman. Because Apple designed it well. Metal’s not an issue. My legacy 2013 MacBook Air still looks and feels and opens like new.<p>I was looking at Thinkpad Auras today. There are unaligned jutting design edges all over the thing. From a design perspective, I’ll take the smooth oblong squashed egg.<p>Every PC laptop I’ve touched feels terrible to hold and carry. And they run Windows, and Linux only okay. Apple MacBooks are a long mile better than everything else and so I don’t care about upgraded memory — buy enough ram at purchase time and you don’t have to think about it again.<p>Memory upgrades aren’t priced super well, granted, but I could never buy HP Dell Lenovo ever again. They’re terrible. I’ve had all of them. Ironically the best device I’ve had from the other side was a Surface Laptop. But I don’t do Microsoft anymore. And I don’t want to carry squeaky squishy bendy plastic.<p>Most of all, I’m never getting on a customer support call with the outsourced vendors that do the support for those companies ever ever ever again. I’ll take a visit to an Apple store every day of the week.


type: comment
by: elcritch
text:
  In the near future I fear there may be laws about “LLMing while drunk” after enough rogue LLM agents vibe coded while drunk cause widespread havoc. You know folks harassing exs or trying to hack military depos to get a tank.<p>Actually that’d be a fun sci-fi book.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  +1 suck it up and do the leetcode. I kept failing until i studied. Never had to do it again at the job.


type: comment
by: tom_
text:
  As a data point, running a Python program I&#x27;ve been working on lately, which is near enough entirely Python code, with a bit of I&#x2F;O: (a prototype for some code I&#x27;ll ultimately be writing in a lower-level language)<p>(macOS Ventura, x64)<p>- System python 3.9.6: 26.80s user 0.27s system 99% cpu 27.285 total<p>- MacPorts python 3.9.25: 23.83s user 0.32s system 98% cpu 24.396 total<p>- MacPorts python 3.13.11: 15.17s user 0.28s system 98% cpu 15.675 total<p>- MacPorts python 3.14.2: 15.31s user 0.32s system 98% cpu 15.893 total<p>Wish I&#x27;d thought to try this test sooner now. (I generally haven&#x27;t bothered with Python upgrades much, on the basis that the best version will be the one that&#x27;s easiest to install, or, better yet, is there already. I&#x27;m quite used to the language and stdlib as the are, and I&#x27;ve just assumed the performance will still be as limited as it always has been...!)


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
text:
  Noooo.  Audio books feed you the content at someone else’s pace, not at your (slow) pace, which is exactly what TFA advocates. Or, what are you going to do? Hit Pause after each sentence so you can fully digest and savor it?


type: comment
by: bix6
text:
  Diskless game systems. You run out of space quickly and you can’t sell &#x2F; trade &#x2F; loan your games.<p>Not necessarily regret but the Apple Watches have such crap battery.


type: comment
by: djfergus
text:
  For younger kids I can heartily recommend the Hobbit illustrated by Jemima Catlin- has plenty of pictures to them engaged. Read it to my 6 year old and we’re now excited for LotR.


type: comment
by: 0xbadcafebee
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  &gt; there haven&#x27;t been enough engineers to fill all the open senior-level positions. Licensure would make that problem worse<p>The point of the licensing is to make sure they can do the job; hiring people without the licensing means you&#x27;re hiring amateurs. It&#x27;s not a good solution. You need more job-training programs to fix the existing lack of engineers, which still works with licensing. There&#x27;s no quick fix for a lack of qualified expertise, other than H1-B&#x27;s.<p>Sure a board can make things more complicated, but it&#x27;s because they&#x27;re trying to improve things. This is a positive.<p>&gt; should engineers be permitted to pick a language with known poor performance characteristics?<p>In electrical work, you are restricted to what parts you can use for what work, based on its application&#x2F;use-case. If it&#x27;s touching a house or grid it needs to be UL-listed (mandatory testing). If it&#x27;s outdoor it needs to be NEMA-3 (weather-resistant) or better. If it&#x27;s direct burial it needs to be UF-B (resists common outdoor issues) or better. More than 3 conductors in a raceway requires derating the condutors. You can&#x27;t join dissimilar metals (aluminum, copper) without some kind of tin-plated splicer (with oxidation treatment) to prevent corrosion.<p>I&#x27;m sure when these standards were introduced, electricians were annoyed that they were &quot;being limited in choice&quot;. Today we take it for granted. Our safety and stability, both as individuals and as a society, is more important than the personal preferences of engineers.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure I understand your analogy. YouTube has both diversity and quantity at levels tens of orders of magnitude higher than any high-quality-low-quantity good. Given the subjectivity of quality and amounts considered it&#x27;s simply statistical fact that YouTube will always have things at the highest ends of subjective quality for any category.<p>The algorithm doesn&#x27;t select for mediocrity - it selects for viewership, but regardless there are millions of creators at there that aren&#x27;t optimizing for views anyway. It&#x27;s the same reason some set of random blog posts or comments on sites such as this one will have quality similar to snippets of the highest quality technical documentation. Sheer diversity and quantity will always win.


type: comment
by: ben_w
text:
  Apple Watch. I&#x27;m not even sure when I last wore it, but it was at least 18 months ago.<p>Slighly laggy remote control for my phone, with widgets a little too small for my finger to reliably hit.<p>When I do proper long walks, the battery reliably dies on me during the walk.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  I had the opposite experience. I didn&#x27;t have any ins at big tech but I&#x27;d get a call every year or two somehow. Just put your resume out there i guess.<p>Now when i refer people the recruiters don&#x27;t even bother to contact them. Even though they have great resumes. Not sure what&#x27;s going on.


type: comment
by: tekne
text:
  That&#x27;s an uncharitable interpretation.<p>Let&#x27;s say it takes 10 units of work to build a house, and 200 units of resources to build a skyscraper; on average. Let&#x27;s further assume, after a point, that skill tends to increase quality by a lot more than it decreases resource consumption, so this is &quot;about the best you can do&quot;.<p>A very skilled craftsman&#x2F;artist can build an amazing house with 10 units. A low quality bargain barrel contractor will build a skyscraper for 200, but it&#x27;s not going to be pretty.<p>If new technology means you can now build a skyscrapers for 10, that means that many more exciting and experimental concepts can be tested by building a skyscraper right away, whereas previously they could only be built as a house.<p>- Some concepts are just better as a house. Even with infinite resources, people will still make houses to this concept; it&#x27;s not like houses are devalued or less useful or less nice. - Some concepts would be better as a skyscraper, but are very niche, so they were built as houses as a compromise. <i>These</i> can now be skyscrapers. This is no comment <i>at all</i> on the skill of the builder, only on the resources available to them (time, money, etc.)<p>I never said: - houses are worse (or better) - building houses is a skill issue<p>I merely said: - the choice of what to build is not 100% based on artistic merit; resource constraints must also be taken into account<p>And hence concluded: - if it becomes cheaper to build things, the choice of what to build depends <i>more</i> on artistic merit now<p>And speculated: - since there are all kinds of things that are really cool but really expensive, meaning we often (due to resource reasons) need to substitute a cheaper thing (which can be just as good or even superior for <i>other</i> concepts, just not the particular concept in question), we will likely see a lot more of Really Cool Thing now that it&#x27;s cheap.<p>In short, thinking photography will enable a new mass market of images whereas previously paintings were really expensive and difficult to make, while still respecting that: - a master photographer can be just as skilled as a master painter - a master painter&#x27;s work is not necessarily devalued by the existence of photography<p>And yet noting that  - <i>some</i> paintings might be better as photographs, or would never be made at all because there simply wasn&#x27;t enough money to paint them even if they in fact would be better as paintings<p>Think, for example, realistic war photography. Or realistic photography of non-privileged people and cultures. That&#x27;s just... not painted very often.<p>Cheap is good for diversity of expression. It does not devalue what used to be expensive, except insamuch as the value was simply a shallow status signal about burning resources rather than real human expression.<p>Ok, &#x2F;rant


type: comment
by: frankmatranga
text:
  SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro headset. Microphone quality is just worse than it should be for the $320 I paid, and the battery doesn’t last as long as I hoped. This was after reading many reviews.


type: comment
by: lotsofpulp
text:
  The quality of Coca Cola can only be compared to other colas.  Comparing a soft drink to an imperial stout makes no sense.  In my book, the imperial stout always has zero quality, because I would never see a reason to voluntarily drink it, whereas I might indulge in a diet coke every now and then.<p>But that’s why comparing subjective qualities of different things is a waste of time.<p>YouTube has many highly educational videos that are better than most professional production tv, especially for the hard sciences.


type: comment
by: nipponese
text:
  The ultimate &quot;trust me bro&quot;.<p>&gt; Potential buyers and others warned against the idea.<p>&gt; ... [the] Walkers froze salaries for several years amid the difficulties.<p>&gt; [the CEO] wanted to do something good. He also worried about going to a local grocery store and feeling ashamed he hadn’t shared his windfall.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  I bet this is it.<p>I have a first.lastname@gmail.com, and my namesake has firstmlastname@gmail.com (with middle initial, and I think they originally created the GMail username without periods).<p>So, I sometimes receive emails intended for him, by people who saw firstmlastname and think it&#x27;s firstlastname.<p>Maybe around a hundred emails so far, over the years.<p>I&#x27;ve gotten good at telling at a glance that an email is for him, without reading it, and forwarding and deleting.<p>Fortunately, my namesake is a very accomplished good-guy, so I&#x27;m happy to help.


type: comment
by: anonymars
text:
  That&#x27;s funny, as it&#x27;s the same reason I moved off Gmail.  Most egregious was a <i>reply</i> to <i>my</i> message ending up in spam, and the other party was <i>someone also on Gmail</i>


type: comment
by: dddgghhbbfblk
text:
  The geology-centered conception of terroir in wine that you&#x27;re giving is actually rather controversial and not generally supported by any science we&#x27;ve done to date.<p>For wine, &quot;terroir&quot; rather encompasses things like climate, local customs and practices (viticulture and vinification), and sometimes things like local strains of grapes or of yeast.


type: comment
by: tartoran
text:
  IPads are consumption devices meant to consume content. For that they&#x27;re superior to desktops&#x2F;laptops. For more than that they&#x27;re not optimal though.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  Firstly, the existence of unsafe does not inherently mean the code isn’t memory safe.<p>Secondly, memory safety does not mean no security vulnerabilities. What it does mean is that 80% of the most commonly found vulnerabilities (as gathered through statistical analysis of field failures) are gone. It means that the price for finding a vulnerability is higher.<p>And also sudo-rs precisely removes a lot of complexity that’s the source of vulnerabilities in normal sudo. There may be better approaches but it’s specifically not targeting 100% compat because sudo is horribly designed right now.<p>TLDR: this is a lazy knee jerk critique. Please do better in the future.


type: comment
by: Yodel0914
text:
  I don’t see how it’s is a statistical fact. There’s nothing I’ve seen on YouTube that compares even slightly to a high quality movie or TV series (unless it’s an unauthorised copy of a movie or TV series…).


type: comment
by: eszed
text:
  I&#x27;ve not read enough Corey to form a judgement, but I don&#x27;t think Jordan has nearly enough literary &quot;heft&quot; to satisfy close reading. Don&#x27;t get me wrong: the story is fun - I enjoyed every bit of <i>Wheel of Time</i> - and would recommend it to anyone who likes that sort of thing, but the deeper stuff (characters, prosidy, world-building, thematic &quot;meaning&quot;) don&#x27;t bear much examination.<p>In fantasy &#x2F; sci-fi, I&#x27;d unreservedly recommend:<p>- Ursula K LeGuin<p>- Steven Erickson<p>- Gene Wolfe<p>With reservations, I&#x27;d recommend:<p>- Patrick Rothfuss (unfinished)<p>- George RR Martin (unfinished; sometimes dodgy prose, but occasionally transcendent character and theme)<p>- <i>Dune</i> (just know it goes downhill <i>fast</i> after the first book)<p>Elsewhere, but still genre (ie: meant to be entertaining, not uber-serious, self-conscious &quot;literature&quot;):<p>- Patrick O&#x27;Brian<p>- Arthur Conan Doyle<p>- Dorothy Dunnet<p>I&#x27;d recommend Rudyard Kipling&#x27;s short stories, but they&#x27;re hit and miss, and sometimes out of step with modern mores. Maybe stick with the <i>Jungle Book</i>, and <i>Just So Stories</i>, and if you like those make sure you read <i>Without Benefit of Clergy</i>, <i>They</i> (short stories), and <i>Kim</i> (a masterpiece of a novel).<p>Once you&#x27;ve got through those, Hemingway is approachable, and the true modernist master. <i>Fiesta</i> &#x2F; <i>The Sun Also Rises</i> (same book, known by different names in different parts of the world) is ironic and beautiful; <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> is beautiful and almost unbearably sad; his short stories are impeccable.


type: comment
by: Fezzik
text:
  The medical community realized early in the pandemic that blood clotting was an “extremely rare” side effect of Covid vaccines. Nobody tried to hide that. Also, monoclonal antibody treatments were limited because 99% of Covid infections were of the Omicron variant and it was clinically demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies were entirely ineffective against that variant.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthcare.utah.edu&#x2F;healthfeed&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-clotting-covid-19-and-vaccines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthcare.utah.edu&#x2F;healthfeed&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-clottin...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;39354108&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;39354108&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: zephen
text:
  Perhaps a corollary to Greenspun&#x27;s Tenth rule?<p>&quot;Any sufficiently complicated database program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of COBOL.&quot;


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  An audiobook is bad if you want to go <i>extra</i> slow.  I don&#x27;t think I want to go <i>that</i> slow.<p>The article advocates not rushing.  In general, that&#x27;s a good fit for audiobooks.


type: comment
by: fenomas
text:
  Uh, kind of the opposite :D<p>The quote (from Dijkstra) is that asking whether machines think <i>is as uninteresting</i> as asking whether submarines swim. He&#x27;s not saying machines don&#x27;t think, he&#x27;s saying it&#x27;s a pointless thing to argue about - an opinion about whether AIs think is an opinion about word usage, not about AIs.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  One really appreciates the “pocket” label of this format if one wears suits, sport coats, or blazer jackets, or almost any of several styles of coat that fall under the category of “overcoat”: these books really were pocket size! For those pockets, that is. The thicker ones are pushing it, but the ones closer to 250 pages fit neatly in a blazer pocket. Thicker ones are fine in the cavernous pockets of many overcoats (though, hell, so are trade-size books)<p>(Phones work better in a jacket, too—I think we made a mistake running away from that clothing style, they’re like wearable purses that also make you look nicer. Sure suits are kinda wasteful with the way the jackets get downgraded if the pants are destroyed, but odd jackets we should have held on to!)


type: comment
by: Philpax
text:
  The keyboard and body are not bad at all - rather, they&#x27;re best in class, and so is the rest of the hardware. It is a premium hardware experience, and has been since Jony Ive left, which is what makes the software so disappointing.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  By definition, C and C++ are memory safe as long as you follow the rules. The problem is that the rules cannot be automatically checked and in practice are the source of unenumerable issues from straight up bugs to subtle standards violations that trigger the optimizer to rewrite your code into what you didn’t intend.<p>But yes, fil-c is a huge improvement (afaik though it doesn’t solve the UB problem - it just guarantees you can’t have a memory safety issue as a result)


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  My man, if some Joe went as a salesman with 20 years of experience because every summer he sold some lemonade since he was 5, people would, well, at the very best pat one with “good for you, buddy, good for you.”<p>Then again, “fake it till you make it” is known to work too, so you do you. Definitely wouldn’t judge you in this economy to employ every trick in the book.<p>Yet, still a trick


type: comment
by: redbeeswimming
text:
  &gt; The website prioritizes programs with 98% safe code over programs with 0% safe code.<p>Please explain this section of the Rustonomicon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nomicon&#x2F;working-with-unsafe.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nomicon&#x2F;working-with-unsafe.html</a><p>&gt; This code is 100% Safe Rust but it is also completely unsound. Changing the capacity violates the invariants of Vec (that cap reflects the allocated space in the Vec). This is not something the rest of Vec can guard against. It has to trust the capacity field because there&#x27;s no way to verify it.<p>&gt; Because it relies on invariants of a struct field, this unsafe code does more than pollute a whole function: it pollutes a whole module. Generally, the only bullet-proof way to limit the scope of unsafe code is at the module boundary with privacy.<p>If 2% code means that, wildly spitballing, 50% code has to be manually reviewed, it&#x27;s not quite as impressive.<p>And it might be worse regarding memory safety than the &quot;status quo&quot; if one accepts the assumption that unsafe Rust is harder than C and C++, as many Rust developers do.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1amlfdj&#x2F;comment&#x2F;kpmb2b8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1amlfdj&#x2F;comment&#x2F;kpmb2...</a><p>&gt; It may be even less safe because of the strong aliasing rules. That is, it may be harder to write correct unsafe {} Rust than correct C. Only use unsafe {} when absolutely needed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chadaustin.me&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;intrusive-linked-list-in-rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chadaustin.me&#x2F;2024&#x2F;10&#x2F;intrusive-linked-list-in-rust&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  If you&#x27;re writing C&#x2F;C++ and you don&#x27;t care about memory safety, you&#x27;re taking one of a few possible positions:<p>1. &quot;I don&#x27;t care what my program does.&quot;<p>Why write it though?<p>2. &quot;I don&#x27;t care what the standard says, I&#x27;ve put text into a compiler and it gave me a binary that does the thing.&quot;<p>What if you want to put the same text into a different compiler in the future, or the same compiler again? Are you certain the binary is going to continue doing the thing? Have you even fully tested the binary?<p>3. &quot;I use a special runtime that makes memory unsafety defined again.&quot;<p>One, I don&#x27;t believe you unless you&#x27;re part of a very small group of people and two, why are you accepting the serious drawbacks (performance, process death, all the broader issues of UB) that come with this?<p>It&#x27;s genuinely hard for me to understand why you wouldn&#x27;t think memory safety is important Don&#x27;t you <i>want</i> to write code that&#x27;s portable and correct? Don&#x27;t you want to execute other people&#x27;s programs and trust they won&#x27;t segfault? Doesn&#x27;t it frustrate you that the language committees have spent years refusing to address even the lowest-hanging fruit?


type: story
by: indigodaddy
title: Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs
url:
  https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/in-their-total-war-on-online-privacy-the-liberal-democracies-of-the-collective-west-are-now-turning-their-sights-on-vpns.html


type: comment
by: mattmaroon
text:
  Science is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.


type: comment
by: poemxo
text:
  Sorry for slow response. Snitch sounds like a tool that will do intercepting or alerting. Little Snitch is perfectly named in this regard. When it pops up prompting you for action, it feels like it just snitched on an app.<p>What you have here isn&#x27;t a snitch, it&#x27;s more like a full map of traffic. I don&#x27;t have any other suggestions unfortunately.<p>Just my 2c


type: comment
by: Zenbit_UX
text:
  First of all, I don’t recommend going through life yucking someone else’s yum.<p>Second of all, I took TFA advice and read that article with the slowness and deliberate attention it recommended and found it to be trite and difficult to distinguish from AI slop… but if that’s what brings this person joy, good for them.<p>Who cares if the GP eats their cookies in one bite and listens to their audiobooks at 2.25x speed? Because one self help guru turned blogger said it’s a bad idea?


type: comment
by: xthe
text:
  The diskless systems point is a good one — the convenience is real, but the loss of resale, lending, and long-term ownership adds up more than reviews usually acknowledge. Do you think that trade-off was obvious at purchase time, or did it only start to feel painful once storage filled up and the library grew? On the Apple Watch side, was the battery issue something you noticed early, or did it become frustrating over time as usage increased?


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  No, because then no language would be included, including Rust. Implementation bugs are not treated the same as integral parts of the language as defined by the standard. Python is defined as memory safe.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  Even excusing that daemon, here is a list of processes which have attempted to contact Apple in the past 24 hours, according to Little Snitch. I am certain this is not even a complete list, because macOS is closed source and likely can bypass application firewalls altogether:<p><pre><code>    akd -&gt; gsa.apple.com     nsurlsessiond -&gt; gateway.icloud.com     nsurlsessiond -&gt; mesu.apple.com     nsurlsessiond -&gt; gdmf-ados.apple.com     nsurlsessiond -&gt; gdmf.apple.com     adprivacyd -&gt; bag.itunes.apple.com     CloudTelemetryService -&gt; gateway.icloud.com     cloudd -&gt; gateway.icloud.com     amsondevicestoraged -&gt; bag.itunes.apple.com     tipsd -&gt; ipcdn.apple.com     parsec-fbf -&gt; fbs.smoot.apple.com     parsec-fbf -&gt; swallow.apple.com     com.apple.geod -&gt; gspe1-ssl.ls.apple.com     identityservicesd -&gt; init.ess.apple.com </code></pre> Again, I have never used iCloud&#x2F;Apple services, turned off all available telemetry options and did not open any Apple applications while all this took place (I only use Firefox and iTerm). Almost all of these processes lack a man page, or if they have one, it&#x27;s one-line nonsense which explains nothing. This is beyond unprofessional.


type: comment
by: binsquare
text:
  Great idea - took a bit to figure out how to implement this.<p>I came up with a plausibility check based on the model&#x27;s memory requirements: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BinSquare&#x2F;inferbench&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;lib&#x2F;plausibility.ts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BinSquare&#x2F;inferbench&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;lib&#x2F;pl...</a><p>So now on the submission page - it has a warning + an automate flag count for volunteers to double check:<p>```This configuration seems unlikely<p>Model requires ~906GB VRAM but only 32GB available (28.3x over). This likely requires significant CPU offload which would severely impact performance.<p>You can still submit, but your result will be flagged for review.```


type: comment
by: mikestorrent
text:
  I&#x27;ve not braved reading them LOTR yet, but my sons are still getting read to even as one&#x27;s about to become a teenager; it&#x27;s some of my favourite time in the evening and it allows me to force them through books just slightly too advanced, with lots of them stopping me to explain (or me stopping to editorialize, and provide historical context etc).<p>I don&#x27;t know how long they&#x27;ll let me keep doing it for, but I don&#x27;t see any reason to stop


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  that&#x27;s a funny example, because something like Cobra Kai literally began on YouTube, there are others like Hazbin Hotel.<p>anyway, as for the statistics, for the case of YouTube since there are is no forced directive to which all videos must follow (creatively), you can treat all videos as random attempts. then it&#x27;s just stats to show that such a distribution will have outliers that match or exceed in subjective quality the gate kept works (traditional tvs or literature).


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  This entire article sounds suspiciously familiar.  Like CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation) &#x2F; CDS (Credit Default Swap) 2.0.  They&#x27;re even using the &quot;squared&quot; terminology again.<p>The article&#x27;s available at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mQzlF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mQzlF</a><p>Lets take a bunch of sketchy investments, package them into difficult to comprehend risk packages, sell ourselves dividends and fees based on debt loading, and then try to shuffle them off to somebody.<p>Except now, apparently the debts and the equity available look sketchy enough, that it&#x27;s turning into &quot;continuation vehicles&quot;.  Nobody external will actually buy the private equity that&#x27;s for sale.  Backlog of 31,000 companies and interest rates that make all the debt look bad.<p>So make a different fund and sell the old equity to the new fund.  Basically selling themselves their own companies and then pulling in new investors based on rewriting the valuation.  The &quot;squared&quot; is doing that again and again with all their held equity.<p>In the example provided, Clearlake bought Wheel Pros at $420 million in 2018, and then sold it to themselves at $2300 million in 2021.  Meanwhile, they loaded on debt and went on a buying spree &quot;buy(ing) up almost every competitor that made accessories for the wheels of cars and trucks&quot;.  Shiny hubcap market crashed and Wheel Pros went bankrupt.<p>There&#x27;s &quot;supposed&quot; to be external independent review of the valuation, yet obviously that&#x27;s not happening the way it&#x27;s supposed to all the time.  Another example provided, Energy &amp; Minerals Group, &quot;forced investors to vote on the sale on short notice, provided different data to different investors and would not allow the investors to confer with each other about the deal. (how that&#x27;s even enforced)&quot;<p>Looks super sketchy, and agree with the people from the Alaska Permanent Fund and Texas Teachers Retirement.


type: comment
by: tgdn
text:
  I cannot agree more. The battery not even lasting a day is what prevents me from using it. When I want to go for a run with it, it&#x27;s always out of battery.


type: comment
by: nxobject
text:
  Wow, that makes so much sense - thank you! It sounds like it essentially &quot;vibed up&quot; the parts it didn&#x27;t understand, which is amazing.<p>Just as an experiment, I fed the resource fork to GPT-5.2 to see whether it could render the windows&#x2F;dialogs in the resource fork - it did a fairly okay job. I think the fundamental limit it ran against (and acknowledges) is that lot of Mac&#x27;s classic look and feel was defined programmatically, literally, down to calls to RoundRect(...).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatgpt.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;t_694dddb290308191babcb07a72367e97" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatgpt.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;t_694dddb290308191babcb07a72367e97</a><p>Thanks for posting your experience.


type: comment
by: Conscat
text:
  I work at Nvidia, and my team is using Slang for all of our (numerous and non-trivial) kernels because its automatic differentiation type system is so nice.


type: comment
by: eszed
text:
  I can&#x27;t <i>wait</i> to read LOTR to my (now four-year-old) son. Been looking forward to it since we started trying for a kid. Seriously, peak fatherhood moment. I&#x27;ll savor it. That (and a few others are) on the embargo list: he&#x27;s not allowed to see the film before we read the books. I wish I&#x27;d got <i>Winnie the Pooh</i> on there in time.


type: comment
by: kotodama_R
text:
  I’m looking into persona drift in long-running LLM systems.<p>Kotodama OS is an attempt to treat this as an external behavior-layer problem, rather than solving it with more prompting or fine-tuning.<p>I opened a GitHub issue to collect real-world cases where persona drift actually caused problems, and to discuss possible integration patterns.


type: story
by: Ilikeruby
title: Show HN: Filenest – Desktop File Organizer
url: https://filenest.tech
text:
  Hey everyone!<p>I built Filenest to solve a problem we all have (at least me): a messy Downloads folder. It&#x27;s a lightweight desktop app that sits in your system tray and automatically organizes your files into folders based on their type.<p>How it works:   - Set up custom categories (Documents, Images, 3D Models, etc.) with the file extensions you want   - Enable the watcher, and Filenest automatically moves new downloads to the right folder   - Or trigger a manual sort whenever you want<p>No more hunting through hundreds of random files to find that PDF you downloaded last week.<p>Also, its customizable so you don&#x27;t have to use the Downloads folder if you don&#x27;t want to you can point it to anywhere you want and when you add files to that folder they will be automatically sorted.


type: comment
by: chihuahua
text:
  After I finished reviewing the CS textbook &quot;Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach&quot; in the mid 1990s during a vacation (looking for errors before publication), I found that my brain had been permanently reconfigured for speed reading. For years afterwards, I would automatically read entire sentences at a time, to go as fast as possible. I think I have now recovered sufficiently so that I can read books one word at a time.


type: comment
by: IceWreck
text:
  This is exactly what Google did with Windsurf and similar to what Meta did with Scale AI. Seems like a rising trend,


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  &gt; x86 chips can surpass the M series cpus in multithreaded performance, but are still lagging in singlethreaded performance<p>Nodding along with the rest but isn&#x27;t this backwards? Are M series actually outperforming an Intel i9 P-core or Ryzen 9X in raw single-threaded performance?


type: comment
by: krashidov
text:
  because a lot of people still prefer voice communication over navigating the internet and filling out a form


type: comment
by: redbeeswimming
text:
  &gt; Firstly, the existence of unsafe does not inherently mean the code isn’t memory safe.<p>That does not contradict what I wrote.<p>I am confounded by your post, since an article with vulnerabilities in sudo-rs was posted.<p>You can also read<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388181">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388181</a><p>&gt; TLDR: this is a lazy knee jerk critique. Please do better in the future.<p>TL;DR: This is a lazy knee jerk critique. Please do better in the future.


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  This a byproduct of metric-driven development.  The result is a creepy manifestation of force-fed features backed by &quot;telemetry&quot; (action and result logging, and sometimes keystroke or string logging), but I don&#x27;t place any blame on this developer; this is the way it has been at that company for a while and that horse has long since left the barn.<p>Certainly this may not even be intended gesture, but it will result in unknowable metric of users being insulted by the half-baked forced nature of these product changes.


type: comment
by: deadbabe
text:
  ModRetro Chromatic, great handheld game system but didn&#x27;t know I helped fund a military arms dealer that will maim and kill innocents with autonomous systems. :(


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  If you&#x27;re letting safe code in the same module as unsafe code mess with invariants, then the whole module needs to be verified by hand, and should be kept as minimal as feasible.  Anything outside the module doesn&#x27;t need to be verified by hand.  &quot;Modules with unsafe&quot; should be a lot lot less than 50%.  Your spitball is not a fit to real code.<p>When I wrote &quot;98% safe code&quot; I meant the code that can be automatically verified by the compiler.  I wish the terminology was better.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  That&#x27;s not how i understood it. Wrappers can typically be unwrapped. Frameworks are a lot harder to circumvent.


type: comment
by: fooblaster
text:
  That is true, but that doesn&#x27;t mean Nvidia is not engaging in engineering to intentionally kneecap competition. Triton and other languages like that are a huge threat and CUtile is a means to combat that threat and prevent a hardware abstraction layer.


type: comment
by: steelbrain
text:
  The mentions of curl on this website are misleading and&#x2F;or outdated. Curl is dropping the rust&#x2F;hyper backend. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;dropping-hyper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;dropping-hyper&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: Anon84
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;7fvLz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;7fvLz</a>


type: comment
by: Q6T46nT668w6i3m
text:
  That’s an incredible idea and I hope you do this! If you do, you should consider adding restaurants too.


type: comment
by: loloquwowndueo
text:
  I probably didn’t explain myself well.<p>On Gmail foo+bar@gmail.com is an “alias” for foo@gmail.com. So if you give someone foo+randomstring@gmail.com hoping that will help you map random string to that particular sender, you’re fucked - because anyone who sees foo+randomstring@gmail.com knows it’s an alias for foo@gmail.com, they can just email that directly and bypass your cleverness.<p>If you’re using a sane alias provider like you described, then it’s likely not an issue.


type: comment
by: pyuser583
text:
  No it’s a lot more complicated than that …<p>Librarians try to “market” books based on what they think the public wants or needs.<p>They try to assure a variety of books put forward, with a special emphasis on “good for you” books.<p>Books deed as “not good for you” are likely to be shelved in the back.<p>in practice, libraries use the Dewey decimal system, but that excluded the many “exhibits” of “good for you” material.<p>I don’t mean “good for you” in a good or bad way. It’s simply what the librarian believes will be most helpful to the readers.<p>There are currently some very real and important controversies in public libraries that have no clear solution.


type: comment
by: p_ing
text:
  &gt; A Framework lets me keep the same screen which is cool<p>Probably the last thing I&#x27;d want to keep. Screen technology still moves forward at a decent pace. Screens are disposable, backlights fade over time, pixels get stuck, screen burn-in.<p>The only universal thing I can think of about machines I&#x27;ve upgraded over the years (not laptops, of course) are cases, power supplies, CPU coolers, and as long as the form factor hasn&#x27;t changed&#x2F;there hasn&#x27;t been significant progress, HDD.<p>Everything else goes with the system. New CPU meant new socket, which also meant new RAM. Need to get rid of that old video card, of course.


type: comment
by: arxari
text:
  Quest 2, I still think it&#x27;s great but I got unlucky and bought it at the time of the increased price, a few months before it went back down and then even more down a year or two after. Admittedly my own fault but still regretful due to the fact I could&#x27;ve saved over a hundred $ had I waited.


type: comment
by: shmeeed
text:
  Me and some friends used to attend the CCC some 15-20 years ago. Back then, we just showed up at the entrance on the first day and bought our tickets there.<p>This year we were toying with the idea of going for a revival. But man, did we underestimate how much this event has grown...<p>Tickets in the second presale round were gone within 1-2 seconds. We didn&#x27;t stand a chance. I feel like we failed the entry exam tbh.<p>Anyways, to everybody who did score a ticket: have phun, and happy hacking!


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  FWIW if you buy new from Lenovo, getting a more high-res display has been an option for years.<p>I&#x27;m on the other side where I&#x27;ve been buying Thinkpads partly because of the display. Thinkpads have for a long time been one of the few laptop options on the market where you could get a decent matte non-glare display. I value that, battery life and performance above moar pixels. Sure I want just one step above FHD so I can remote 1080p VMs and view vids in less than fullscreen at native resolution but 4K on a 14&quot; is absolute overkill.<p>I think most legit motivations for wanting very high-res screens (e.g. photo and video editing, publishing, graphics design) also come with wanting or needing better quality and colors etc too, which makes very-highly-scaled mid-range monitors a pretty niche market.<p>&gt; I got too spoiled by retina screens, and I can’t comfortably use anything with lower DPI.<p>Did you make a serious effort while having an extended break from retina screens? I&#x27;d think you would get used to it pretty quickly if you allow yourself to readjust. Many people do multi-DPI setups without issues - a 720p and a 4k side-by-side for example. It just takes acclimatizing.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  JSX has at least transcended React. Not sure I&#x27;d still call it a DSL... Unless maybe you consider what it compiles to a factor. Which would be fair.


type: comment
by: Marsymars
text:
  YouTube I&#x27;d grant you, not Shorts&#x2F;Reels&#x2F;TikTok - the format of the media simply isn&#x27;t amenable to output matching longer-form work, no matter how much gets produced. To me that reads akin to &quot;there are so many tweets that for any criteria a [set of tweets] demonstrate quality similar to any long-form written piece.&quot;


type: comment
by: Aicy
text:
  3Blue1Brown. Veratasium. Contrapoints. Tom Nicholas. They have all made extremely high quality, and often profound videos.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  The snowflake line is from Chuck Palahniuk&#x27;s book &quot;Fight Club&quot;. In it a character tells another one that they are &quot;not a beautiful and unique snowflake&quot; but part of the same &quot;compost heap&quot;. The book was satirising soft soap self-help messaging. Snowflakes do melt easily which has aided it in getting its new meaning.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  Same reason people go to Disneyland and pose with someone costumed as an anthropomorphic cartoon mouse: people model their gods after their own experiences and ideology.


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  When I first got the account, my cell phone was a recovery method. Later in life I imported the cell into google voice... thus when the recovery codes failed, there was no other option.


type: comment
by: Aperocky
text:
  I solved the battery problem with an ultra, but I couldn&#x27;t solve what is consistently off heart rate monitoring.<p>It now feels almost unusual for it to get the heart rate correct. And I&#x27;m not talking about off by a few or feeling off. I&#x27;m talking about full on max heart rate when I&#x27;m doing a easy run or 1&#x2F;2 and 1&#x2F;3 off which is impossible to miss.


type: comment
by: arustad
text:
  I bought my Aeron chair over 20 years ago. Around $500, and I suspect I’ll be using for another 15 years. Chair has been solid.


type: comment
by: jalapenos
text:
  As suspected, he was being an idiot and driving too fast, killing himself and his passenger.<p>No sympathy, no grounds for sob pieces.<p>Passive tense &quot;...killed in...&quot; is wrong here. Correct title &quot;... recklessly killed himself and passenger...&quot;.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Yeah but if you keep analyzing it hard enough, the funniness underflows and then it&#x27;s <i>maximum</i> funny.


type: comment
by: YurgenJurgensen
text:
  But GP said their reasoning worked regardless of what standards for quality were being used.  It was a much stronger statement than the one you’re defending.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  &gt; the format of the media simply isn&#x27;t amenable to output matching longer-form work, no matter how much gets produced<p>why not? seems like a tautology. what&#x27;s a robust set of criteria we can use the evaluate this objectively. I bet you TikTok will win. mind you I am not saying the average TikTok is good, just that there&#x27;s probably some set of videos that that are of comparable quality than something put together over a longer period of time like a novel.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  The job selection process is part of the issue. It favours good liars over those who are honest about their faults.


type: comment
by: coldtea
text:
  Does it matter? It&#x27;s their money, and they have needs and wants.<p>The difference with multi-millionaires and billionaires is that they can cover they wants and even mere whims, and the whole system gives them opportunities to keep and multiply their money.


type: comment
by: commandersaki
text:
  I don’t know, I kind of like 10 hrs on battery with normal usage and screen fully lit on a 15” screen while not being bulky. Virtually no contenders in that space.


type: comment
by: koolba
text:
  Beeline EQR series nuc. On paper it’s got a blazing cpu and gpu, in practice it can’t even maintain any legit clock rate without sounding like a jumbo jet is taking off.


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  You don’t need to install the runtime (this has been true for years now).<p>There is self-contained publish option (with trimming).<p>And there is ahead-of-time compilation option to produce a fully native binary.<p>Though the latter is not for every API as of right now.


type: comment
by: redbeeswimming
text:
  &gt; If you&#x27;re letting safe code in the same module as unsafe code mess with invariants, then the whole module needs to be verified by hand, and should be kept as minimal as feasible. Anything outside the module doesn&#x27;t need to be verified by hand.<p>More or less correct, but in principle, it also requires modules to have proper encapsulation and interfaces. Otherwise, an interface could be made that enables safe API functions to cause memory unsafety if called incorrectly.<p>&gt; &quot;Modules with unsafe&quot; should be a lot lot less than 50%. Your spitball is not a fit to real code.<p>But <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app&#x2F;search?f.repo=trifectatechfoundation%2Fsudo-rs&amp;f.repo.pattern=sudo-rs&amp;q=unsafe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app&#x2F;search?f.repo=trifectatechfoundation%2Fsudo...</a> indicated that maybe up to 45 files include unsafe code. That is quite a lot of files. How many modules might that touch? How large are those modules?


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Humans are social animals and we have evolved to form emotional bonds with one another, and a primary means by which we do this is the use of language.<p>LLMs are good enough at responding in natural language to fool our brains into thinking of them as other people, and therefore we form emotional attachments to them. This isn&#x27;t strange, humans form emotional bonds with inanimate objects and animals and anthropomorphize things and concepts all the time. LLMs are just really good at hacking that part of our brains.


type: comment
by: andrekandre
text:
  <p><pre><code>  &gt; Instead of individual performance bonuses, the company introduced group incentives tied to safety and operational targets. </code></pre> this is how it should be imo; focus on quality overall and other things fall into place


type: comment
by: mendelmaleh
text:
  I had a pretty similar setup with sway too, idle power usage was pretty bad, but no external display became a deal breaker at some point.


type: comment
by: kcplate
text:
  I never understood the appeal of these.  Last time I went chair shopping I sat in a ton of different chairs including these and they were middle of the road in comfort and at the top end in price.


type: comment
by: XCSme
text:
  Kind of, LLMs still use randomness when selecting tokens, so the same input can lead to multiple different outputs.


type: comment
by: saikiran91
text:
  In cold climates, indoor humidity needs to be lowered before a deep freeze hits. Most smart thermostats and humidistats react only to the current outdoor temperature (or an outdoor sensor), which can be too late during sudden overnight cold snaps.<p>I built a small web tool looks at the coldest temperature expected over the next 72 hours and recommends a safe indoor humidity level. The idea is to make humidity control predictive rather than reactive, helping reduce window frost and hidden condensation. It’s manual by design — you check it every couple of days and adjust your humidistat if needed.<p>Built after running into this issue myself in Alberta, where temperatures can swing quickly.<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humidsnap.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humidsnap.com&#x2F;</a><p>Feedback welcome. This is my first React Native web project.


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  That’s nonsense logic. Is it not “safe” for pedestrians to use a crosswalk since a car might not stop? If that’s your definition of “safety” then all hope of a coordinated system is lost.


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  I understand this website as focusing on unsafety in a more practical sense of writing your stack in memory safe ways, not in the sense of discussing what&#x27;s theoretically possible within the language specs. After all, Fil-C is standard compliant, but &quot;run everything under Fil-C&quot; is not the argument it&#x27;s making. The most common language runtime being memory unsafe is absolutely an applicable argument here, mitigated only by the fact that it&#x27;s a mature enough runtime that memory issues are vanishingly rare.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  The article literally says:<p>&gt; <i>limiting myself to mouth-speed</i><p>Audiobooks are mouth-speed.<p>The article suggests this is the right slow speed, at least for the author.<p>Maybe you yourself want even slower, but that&#x27;s not what the article is suggesting.


type: comment
by: schrodinger
text:
  As a hiring manager, I just want to give you a heads up that we are getting tons of fake applicants—like 5–10%—that end up being a real person on a video chat isn’t some AI assistant that uses a teleprompter interface to tell them what to say.<p>Usually by that point you catch them, but your recruiter screen might not etc. So now all the main HR tools are using “age of email” as one possible signal to detect fraud.<p>I’m sure you’re fine if your email is real (in my experience they all resolve to Onvoy LLC instead of a real cell provider), but just something to watch out for. Wouldn’t want to get overlooked because your email is brand new.<p>(If you’re curious about motive as I was, since of course it’ll be obvious when you start—in a lot of cases it’s that procuring an offer letter helps you obtain a visa.)


type: comment
by: lysace
text:
  <i>CMF Buds 2 by Nothing</i>. (Cheap AirPods clone at like 50 USD.)<p>Microphone&#x2F;audio input sucks over BT. So many glazing reviews. I don&#x27;t get it.


type: comment
by: danielhep
text:
  I got a Garmin watch after being frustrated with the tech company watches lasting only hours on a charge. I charge this watch once a week and it does everything I realistically want from a smart watch: - shows notifications - tracks workouts - silent alarm clock - home assistant shortcuts


type: comment
by: ripbozo
text:
  Why do LLMs insist on putting &quot;executive summaries&quot; everywhere? Better yet, why do people not even bother to edit it out? No one would write that in a blog post about docker images.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Any home tech gadgets. Robot vacuums, smart lights, smart thermostats, internet connected TVs and appliances, most kitchen gadgets especially if they require power. None of it lives up to the hype and it&#x27;s all e-waste in a couple of years if not sooner.


type: comment
by: xyzzy_plugh
text:
  &gt; I’ve found reading aloud helpful for staying engaged — limiting myself to mouth-speed rather than eye-speed means I won’t rush, miss important details, and then lose interest, which has always been a problem for me.<p>This worked for me... for a time. And then what happened surprised me (but maybe shouldn&#x27;t have): I started zoning out and thinking about other things, missing important details, <i>while</i> reading aloud. Wild that we can even do that.


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  Realizing this is why I bought my own domain name and pointed the mx records at Gmail. This way I can change it to different mails servers if needed, even self hosted. One useful thing you can do is configure Gmail to forward mail to unknown address to a known one. So I can create addresses like Facebook@ultrasane.com or Amazon@ultrasane.com, etc


type: comment
by: luckman212
text:
  Not just tutors- the teachers are also obsolete. And so are the students!<p>AI is summarizing the lessons, writing the students&#x27; papers, then grading those papers for the teachers.<p>Time to shut down the entire education system.


type: comment
by: redbeeswimming
text:
  &gt; When I wrote &quot;98% safe code&quot; I meant the code that can be automatically verified by the compiler. I wish the terminology was better.<p>That depends on what is meant by &quot;automatically verified by the compiler&quot;. The compiler cannot generally verify outside-unsafe code that modifies invariants that inside-unsafe code might rely on to have memory safety, for instance.


type: comment
by: randrus
text:
  I paid full boat 20+ years ago but I’ve spent more time in that chair than my car and bed combined, and it’s always got my back. Best purchase ever.


type: comment
by: waltbosz
text:
  Not an Aeron chair, but I bought a used Steelcase Leap 2 for $500. I&#x27;ve had it for 15 years and all the hardware is still like new. A year ago the reupholstered fabric on the seat started to rip revealing the original fabric which was stained but in one piece.<p>I don&#x27;t think you would get the same mileage with an Ikea office chair.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  The chemical the parent comment linked is different.<p>NAD itself isn’t usually supplemented because it’s broken down by your digestive system. So NAD precursor supplements have been available for a while: NR and NMN specifically. These are the precursors they were talking about.<p>The actual drug used in this study has a different mechanism of action. It’s not directly available as a supplement, but like the parent commenter discovered you could technically find a chemical supply house to synthesize a tiny quantity of it.


type: comment
by: dandano
text:
  My parents literally just gave my daughter the alphabet puzzle for Christmas that was linked in the article as a terrible clean up vs play-time. I might send them this link!


type: comment
by: B-Con
text:
  It hails from when family lines were important, and you can practically only have one line reflected in a name. Unsurprisingly, most societies considered the male&#x27;s name to be the dominate lineage of interest, although that doesn&#x27;t hold true 100% of the time.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion (449 points, 4 months ago, 83 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938</a>


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  I use AWS to register the domain and AWS supports up to 8 different MFA factors. I have totp and 4 different passkeys registered


type: comment
by: andrekandre
text:
  <p><pre><code>  &gt; Actually, some Snapdragon X Elite laptops do run Linux now, but performance is not great as there were some weird regressions and anyway newer chips have caught up [1]. </code></pre> ohh thanks for that link; i was thinking about updating to the latest on my asusbook s15 but i think ill stick with the current ubuntu concept for now... saved me some trouble!


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  1. A little money solves this. You can register for 10 years at a time. Any decent registrar will blow up your email near your domain’s renewal date regardless of renewal status.<p>2. Whois privacy solves this. Free from any decent registrar.


type: comment
by: sans_souse
text:
  In the latter specifically it <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> differ except for the specific methodology and what we do with the results.


type: comment
by: morkalork
text:
  I saw a datascientist with an econ background compulsively write executive summaries in everything back before LLMs were big. It must be something to do with the content they consume in work and school that they are emulating.


type: comment
by: donkeylazy456
text:
  &gt; There just is not many willing to work on a shoe string salary.<p>You explained it well by yourself.


type: comment
by: Wowfunhappy
text:
  I can&#x27;t control the speed that I read.<p>In fact, I noticed that whenever a book becomes most exciting, I start reading especially fast (to the point of skipping words), because I want to know what happens next. So I spend the least time with the best parts of the best books.<p>Ever since I realized that, I have switched pretty much exclusively to audiobooks. I don&#x27;t really know if it&#x27;s faster or slower overall, but it&#x27;s a predetermined pace, and that works better for me.


type: comment
by: godelski
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  <p><pre><code>  &gt; but in vim searching for the exact symbol under the cursor is a single character shortcut </code></pre> * requires two key presses which is identical to &lt;C-]&gt; or g]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kulkarniamit.github.io&#x2F;whatwhyhow&#x2F;howto&#x2F;use-vim-ctags.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kulkarniamit.github.io&#x2F;whatwhyhow&#x2F;howto&#x2F;use-vim-ctag...</a>


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
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  Ecobee.<p>They dropped access to the API for new developers.<p>Their air quality sensor is horribly inaccurate.<p>Their UI is actually very confusing.<p>The app is merely a way to shove ads in your face.<p>I wish I just got a new Honeywell.


type: comment
by: sublinear
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  I hate audiobooks because they&#x27;re way too slow and full of moods&#x2F;tones that often contradict how I would have read it. I can&#x27;t be the only one who thinks they&#x27;re overindulgent and annoying.


type: comment
by: lucasoshiro
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  Other difference (actually, more like a consequence of what you said) is that Git keeps reflogs for branches but not for tags


type: comment
by: johnfn
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  I had this exact problem with my Apple Watch. My family got me an Ultra as a gift, and I really didn&#x27;t think I was going to use it (I didn&#x27;t even want it), but it ended up being a total gamechanger, and now the Ultra is my favorite gadget and a huge motivator to get into better shape.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
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  I mean the portion of the code that has no write access to those fragile invariants.  At minimum, this includes all modules that don&#x27;t have unsafe blocks.


type: comment
by: sejje
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  He&#x27;ll probably find it himself, but if he doesn&#x27;t, just build something cool in front of him. He may not have unlocked all the possibilities in his brain yet.


type: comment
by: dfhewit
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  I think it’s clear: they just want a creative job.<p>I get this as I’m the same way. I grew up writing whatever code I wanted, so it seemed like a great match. A few years into my career, I realized I had become just a cog in the wheel and that I’d always just be a cog.<p>For me, as interesting as my career is, it saddens me that there are so many artist-SWEs like me, because the golden handcuffs can kill your dreams.


type: comment
by: pram
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  Rio Karma. Amazing MP3 player at the time, and could play OGG Vorbis and FLAC!!<p>It was a cheap piece of shit though and all the plastic pieces rapidly came apart. The rubber coating on the handle disintegrated too.<p>In contrast my iPod survived 10+ years in a glove box and was still immaculate.


type: comment
by: rco8786
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  So that it doesn’t have to go through the Ruby development process. Matz doesn’t want it, and even if he did it would take years just to get people to agree on a syntax, much less actually get it implemented and rolled out.<p>Same reason Typescript was made and we didn’t add types to JavaScript.


type: comment
by: Santosh83
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  They do have a reference implementation: weston and libweston but as far as I know, third parties don&#x27;t use. They implement all their own functionality. Weston is confined more as a prototype.


type: comment
by: timenotwasted
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  By far the most disappointing for me has been the Roomba x2. I love the concept and when the first one didn&#x27;t live up to the hype I somehow convinced myself the newer version surely had the bugs worked out. Neither lasted working in my house for longer than a few weeks. Not because they were broken but I spent more time dealing with them than I did just vacuuming. Haven&#x27;t tried another robot cleaning device since.


type: comment
by: nxobject
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  It&#x27;s a tradeoff, to be honest – I think of Valve&#x27;s involvement with Wine, where a consistent source of $$$ and developer-hours was (and still is) needed to whack away at the open-ended problem of compatibility.


type: comment
by: EspadaV9
text:
  Not sure I&#x27;m at the regret stage, but the 3D printer has been sitting mostly unused, and I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;ll change. There have been a few things that were good to print, but mostly used to print fidget toys for the kids and their mates.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
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  I see that some others have suggested getting an Audio book version for you to listen to at your pleasure.<p>I came here to say &quot;I hope that you are recording yourself so that you create your OWN audiobook&quot;


type: comment
by: colmmacc
text:
  There is a great meditation in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about the differences between riding and driving. Being open to the elements, in and a part of nature, is visceral. Bubbled in a car, our surroundings are observed more than experienced. That&#x27;s always resonated for me.


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  Right, but I think AI is undeniably powerful and useful. It has good uses and bad uses, of course, but looking to block all AI will someday seem like blocking all JavaScript.


type: comment
by: harddrivereque
text:
  I wanted to buy my so an apple ultra watch, is it a bad idea? It seems like a perfect thing that someone doesn&#x27;t need that would.make a nice present


type: comment
by: seanieb
text:
  Two big names that jump out, the CEO of Signal Meredith Whittaker and Cory Doctorow. They both frequently give thought provoking talks.


type: comment
by: zeristor
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  So if this restriction, some may say unfair, was lifted then the betting industry wouldn’t be so profitable.<p>Maybe it would go back to being underground, for people who aren’t so adept at reasoning.


type: comment
by: zayoka
text:
  Hello everyone, I&#x27;m zayoka.<p>A few days ago, I posted about this project on Hacker News and got (rightfully) slammed because I said I used WASM in the title, but the repo only had Vanilla JS at the time (I had pushed the wrong branch). I took the feedback on board. I didn&#x27;t argue because facts are facts—they&#x27;re unchangeable. I spent a weekend finishing the WASM core and merged it in.<p>Now, v0.4.0 has officially been pushed: Pure Rust: No wasm-bindgen, no image crate. Just std and manual pointer arithmetic. Tiny: The binary is about 12.8KB. Smart: Automatically enabled only for images larger than 20MP to bypass V8 GC stuttering. Auditable: See SECURITY.md for proof of an empty dependency tree.<p>I hope I can regain everyone&#x27;s trust. Thank you to everyone who has starred the repo. Your support is my biggest motivation to keep going.<p>After all, there&#x27;s an old saying: &quot;Talk is cheap, show me the code!&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve merged it into the main branch. It&#x27;s live now. No longer hidden away in a dev branch. You can see the src&#x2F;wasm-resize folder on the repo homepage. This time, I&#x27;m not joking.<p>Visit the GenresFox Github repository to learn more: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox</a> Visit the repository index on DeepWiki for more information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepwiki.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepwiki.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  I’m probably risking a lot of downvotes with this one, but for me it was a Home Assistant setup. Not really a purchase because it’s an open project, but I invested a lot of time into reading the docs and setting it all up only to realize I didn’t actually like it better than using the smart home products directly. It seems like a great option for people who like to tinker and get a thrill out of getting some cheap Aliexpress gadget or ESP32 project to work with their home, but I just wanted something simple that worked for my house without extra complexity.


type: comment
by: collingreen
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  This is a common trope around &quot;poor people are poor because they aren&#x27;t capable of being rich&quot;. If the rich can make the poor believe wealth inequality is natural and fair then lots of things go more smoothly.


type: comment
by: jongjong
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  This is how it should be if we had a scarce money supply (e.g. gold-backed). If it was truly people handing out their own hard-earned money, then it would be great and we would know they TRULY deserved it.<p>With an infinite (fiat) money supply, where money flows are controlled by algorithms, it&#x27;s a disaster. $400k is a HUGE amount of money for most people. Giving that much money to 400 people is disruptive.<p>Someone with $400k worth of assets has a MUCH easier life than someone with less than $50k assets.<p>If all billionaires and multi-millionaires did this, we&#x27;d end up in an extremely unjust society where two sets of people would work equally hard and because of random algorithm-based selection, one set of people would be millionaires and the other set would be essentially homeless. It&#x27;s a recipe for disaster.<p>It just multiplies the injustice of the current system. Be prepared for more hacking, more fraud, more theft, more drug trafficking... People who aren&#x27;t getting the lucky treatment will have to survive somehow in this lottery economy.<p>There&#x27;s been a trend now that keeps getting worse; as the mainstream economy becomes increasingly unmeritocratic, the shadow economy becomes increasingly meritocratic; the &#x27;bad&#x27; guys feel increasingly justified, increasingly skilled, increasingly ruthless, increasingly good at avoiding consequences. You need to be really skilled to succeed in the dark economy. In the mainstream economy, you just need to be lucky. That&#x27;s the message unfortunately.<p>When you help some people in this zero-sum system, it&#x27;s always at the expense of other people who are out of view.


type: comment
by: Xcelerate
text:
  Yep. I have an Ecobee currently and have had a Nest previously. Am totally perplexed why people like these things. Just opened the Ecobee app and literally at the top is an ad saying &quot;The Holiday sale is here. Shop now.&quot; Irritates me to no end.


type: comment
by: RajT88
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  Roomba as well.  Awesome at first when we bought our first home.<p>But then we filled it with stuff and got a doggo.  Those hairs fast-track the process of jamming the wheels and sweeper.  Why do we need a robot vacuum when we still have to vacuum by hand?


type: comment
by: nkrisc
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  IMO they’re great - if you get it secondhand for cheap.<p>I have one I got from a coworker for $100 when he was moving. 13 years later it’s as good as it’s always been, and I don’t even know how old it was when I got it.<p>Comfiest office chair I’ve ever sat in.


type: comment
by: kbuck
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  Mysa thermostats - don&#x27;t integrate well with Home Assistant and can&#x27;t even reliably follow schedule.<p>Every Samsung phone I&#x27;ve ever owned - great hardware, but the software is a mess, especially with all of the Samsung apps that duplicate the Google apps.<p>Sony smart TV - was excited about running Android TV apps, but the onboard hardware is <i>so bad</i> that everything lags, and I actually ran out of space after installing 10-20 apps (it only has <i>4GB</i> of flash storage). Also, its Ethernet adapter has a hardware bug that occasionally freezes up my entire network by spamming it with flow control frames.


type: comment
by: nikisweeting
text:
  genuinely curious, doesn&#x27;t JS&#x27;s proxy objects and prototype-based MRO have a similar performance impact in theory?


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  &gt;  I will never feel like a &quot;normal&quot; person, they will make sure I never will.<p>I&#x27;m going to tangent a bit here but so far in my life, after observing lots of people discussing things related to this, every single person feels this way.<p>Every person thinks they&#x27;re atypical. That they&#x27;re experiencing things other people don&#x27;t. That they&#x27;re different in some way to &quot;everyone else&quot;.<p>Exactly what this means is up to the reader, but it sure implies some interesting ideas here.


type: comment
by: subscribed
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  You can have all the right details and recovery methods but if at some point they request you to provide the code they sent to the phone you don&#x27;t have for the last 10 years......... That&#x27;s it.


type: comment
by: II2II
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  Commenting from the sidelines:<p>Doesn&#x27;t modern C++ offer the ability to write memory safe code? The primary distinguishing difference from Rust, on this front, is that Rust is memory safe by default (and allows them to override memory safety with code that is explicitly declared as unsafe) while C++ requires the developer to make a conscious effort to avoid unsafe code (without providing facilities to declare code as safe or unsafe). While this means that C++ is problematic, it does not make Rust automagically safer - particularly when interfacing with C&#x2F;C++ code (as would be the case when interfacing with Linux syscalls or most C or C++ based libraries).<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that Rust is great when dealing exclusively with Rust libraries since it is either memory safe by default or because it is easier to audit (since it is either declared explicitly or implicitly as unsafe). On the other hand, it is <i>not</i> guaranteed to be memory safe. While this may sound like nitpicking, the distinction is important from the perspective of the end user who is unlikely to ever audit the code yet <i>may</i> be swayed by being told that it is written in a memory safe language.


type: comment
by: llimllib
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  I have a benchmark program I use, a solution to day 5 of the 2017 advent of code, which is all python and negligible I&#x2F;O. It still runs 8.8x faster on pypy than on python 3.14:<p><pre><code>    $ hyperfine &quot;mise exec python@pypy3.11 -- python e.py&quot; &quot;mise exec python@3.9 -- python e.py&quot; &quot;mise exec python@3.11 -- python e.py&quot; &quot;mise exec python@3.14 -- python e.py&quot;     Benchmark 1: mise exec python@pypy3.11 -- python e.py       Time (mean ± σ):     148.1 ms ±   1.8 ms    [User: 132.3 ms, System: 17.5 ms]       Range (min … max):   146.7 ms … 154.7 ms    19 runs      Benchmark 2: mise exec python@3.9 -- python e.py       Time (mean ± σ):      1.933 s ±  0.007 s    [User: 1.913 s, System: 0.023 s]       Range (min … max):    1.925 s …  1.948 s    10 runs           Benchmark 3: mise exec python@3.11 -- python e.py       Time (mean ± σ):      1.375 s ±  0.011 s    [User: 1.356 s, System: 0.022 s]       Range (min … max):    1.366 s …  1.403 s    10 runs           Benchmark 4: mise exec python@3.14 -- python e.py       Time (mean ± σ):      1.302 s ±  0.003 s    [User: 1.284 s, System: 0.022 s]       Range (min … max):    1.298 s …  1.307 s    10 runs           Summary       mise exec python@pypy3.11 -- python e.py ran         8.79 ± 0.11 times faster than mise exec python@3.14 -- python e.py         9.28 ± 0.13 times faster than mise exec python@3.11 -- python e.py        13.05 ± 0.16 times faster than mise exec python@3.9 -- python e.py </code></pre> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;llimllib&#x2F;0eda0b96f345932dc0abc2432aba7550" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;llimllib&#x2F;0eda0b96f345932dc0abc2432ab...</a>


type: comment
by: nxobject
text:
  It beats the FOMO of thinking about a good quirky name, and then seeing someone take a (close) variant of it years later. I think it feels like a word game - but with a reward you can keep.


type: comment
by: subscribed
text:
  Another email address is useless.<p>Another phone humber only works if you didn&#x27;t lose that phone.


type: comment
by: YurgenJurgensen
text:
  Well, you’ll never see an erotic film on YouTube, or a war documentary using real combat footage for example, so there are many categories where it’s simply not capable of competing.  And even without straight-up banned content, ‘advertiser-unfriendly’ content is aggressively buried by the algorithm, which discourages people from making it, so the ‘quantity’ part might not be true.  Some content might be so heavily punished by the algorithm that almost nobody thinks to make it.  This is a problem for your position, as it’s not enough for YouTube to win in some categories; it has to win in every category.


type: comment
by: lesuorac
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  Can&#x27;t speak to most of those but smart lights are pretty nice.<p>I made sure to buy zigbee ones so that I&#x27;m just tied to home assistant which even if it goes out of business will still work with whatever binaries I&#x27;ve downloaded already (as well as it works locally so I can control them during internet outages). I&#x27;m sure somebody else can explain why you should get Thread or Matter nowendays but I never bothered to learn the differences.<p>But yeah, the average life of a company is what 1 year? Don&#x27;t get any product you want for more than 5 years from a company younger than 5 years if you need that company to exist for it to work.


type: comment
by: ron-ulitsky
text:
  First time I tried to open that link on my Pixel, it crashed Chrome, lol. Worked the second time though


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Nest started out great for me as an early adopter.<p>The recent iterations are just frustrating. The apps are laggy. It’s always prompting me to join an energy savings program no matter how many times I say no. We had to disable the home&#x2F;away detection because it went from working well to thinking we were away 5 times per day.<p>Nest stands as my example of a product that went from great to terrible through complete mismanagement and customer neglect.


type: comment
by: Bitorre3
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  Author here. This is a position paper analyzing the thermodynamic limits of current financial architectures (Fiat &amp; Legacy Crypto).  We argue that systems dependent on &quot;Secret States&quot; or &quot;Time-Bound Computational Hardness&quot; operate under unstable invariants that create unbounded entropy at scale.  The paper proposes a &quot;Type III Architecture&quot; based on:  Energy-Anchored Value (Conservation of Energy)  Radical Verification Symmetry (Universal Observability)  We are looking for formal refutation of the invariants presented in Section 2.


type: comment
by: bilsbie
text:
  I’d use it all the time but the workflow is obnoxious. Download a model, manually run the slicing software. Load it onto a usb. Plug it into the printer.<p>If I could click print from my phone I’d be running it constantly.


type: comment
by: donohoe
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  I assume it was a matter of time - ten years of digging into contracts or chasing people&#x2F;agencies down (speculative on my part)? Bear in mind, if you are unsure if you have rights to a piece then you cannot use it until you know for sure - I am sure that was part of it too.


type: comment
by: mattacular
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  My Nest works great other than the app trying me to get to change my account to Google, which I just close out of every-time. Basic functional UI and works as billed. The unit itself has a nice sturdy feel to it with a very intuitive wheel-and-click interface. It&#x27;s the only smarthome thing I have besides Hue lightbulbs


type: comment
by: impure
text:
  The MacBook Pro with Mini-LED has this terrible vignette effect. I do not understand how no one mentions it, it’s completely unacceptable at this price point. Also any backlit keyboard that isn’t shine through. Also linear switches but maybe that’s a preference thing.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
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  &gt; They wanted solar and photovoltaics<p>lol. Germany still used ~40% fossil fuels and another ~8% in &quot;biomass&quot; (unclear how much of that meant cutting down forests) in 2020 - did the Greens think 40% of German electricity consumption in renewables would magically materialize only after nuclear power plants were shut down, that&#x27;s why they didn&#x27;t want to promote renewables first and shutting down nuclear only after fossil fuels were eliminated from the grid?<p>&gt; the past administration favored cheap gas and oil from russia<p>So it was Merkel&#x27;s CDU that did Russian bidding, and the Greens were just useful idiots?


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  My suggestion would be to start with a refurbished or last-gen normal watch on sale. See if they like it. Upgrade to Ultra a few years later if they do.<p>It’s a hit or miss product category. My wife and I like ours and most of my friends like theirs, but I have a couple friends who got a smartwatch and then never liked it. Would be a shame to buy an expensive one for someone who doesn’t even like it.


type: comment
by: bilsbie
text:
  Robot vacuums are the worst. I have to help it every thirty minutes. And anytime I close a door or move something it wants to create a new map. The old randomized ones were actually better.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  My Apple Watch is now so old that it’s unsupported by new WatchOS, but the battery still lasts a day without problem. It probably helps that I disabled the always on screen. Lasting all day has never been a problem, though.


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  &gt; ranchers have an incentive to sell off their cattle now to capture those soaring profits<p>This part seems like the main part of the article.  They&#x27;re looking at huge sales returns and relatively low feed costs that just dropped a bunch (since 2022-2023 highs) and want to rake in the money.<p>Pretty much that economist quote &quot;&#x27;Do I sell that animal now and take this record high check?&#x27; &#x27;do I keep her to realize her returns over her productive life when she’s having calves?’ &#x27;so far the side that’s been winning is to sell her and get the check.&#x27;&quot;<p>Personally, wonder whether they&#x27;re actually going to bother with more herd.  The low prices possibly incentivize selling high cost cows at low feed prices and raking in as much as they can before the prices go down.<p>And it all seems nonsensical, since cattle herds have been going down in size pretty much continuously since 2000 [1] while prices have been going up almost continuously except for 2015-2020 [2] (which is notably when herd sizes actually went UP).  So when prices go down, herd sizes go up.  People don&#x27;t try have have more cows to make more money, they just sell the cows now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nass.usda.gov&#x2F;Newsroom&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07-25-2025.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nass.usda.gov&#x2F;Newsroom&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07-25-2025.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;LE%3DF&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;LE%3DF&#x2F;</a><p>Admittedly, the food thing generally is kind of BS anyways about the drought and otherwise.  The drought was probably an issue (prices went up during 2022-2023), yet Hay is still pretty much on the same linear trend it&#x27;s been on since 1970. [3]  Alfalfa Hay also went up locally in 2022-2023, yet dropped back to normal trends relatively quickly after (basically almost the same linear up since 1970). [4]  It matters, it just doesn&#x27;t seem to matter that much.<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WPU0181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WPU0181</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WPU01810101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WPU01810101</a><p>Cattle sales prices keep rising, farmers keep selling, rather than betting on long-term elevated prices and large herd sales.<p>EDIT: Consideration after, think it all seems nonsense, cause if this was gambling, then usually the response would be to double down, add more money, or similar if a player was raking in money at the table.  If the table turned against them, and they got poor returns, then usually they&#x27;d walk away, or find a different table.  Instead, they&#x27;re &quot;winning&quot; and getting huge sales prices, so they ... have less cows?


type: comment
by: Xcelerate
text:
  Interesting. I agree with most items on this page as overrated, but with an L5-S1 disc herniation, the Aeron is about the only chair I can sit in for an extended period of time without hurting. Then again, I haven&#x27;t tried dozens of office chairs, but at least for me it was worth the purchase cost.


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  When learning to play a musical instrument and practicing a new song, some common advice is to play it as slowly as you can stand, to learn the motions well.


type: comment
by: squibonpig
text:
  If you could have dodged it before you got stuck in that position, what would you have done instead?


type: comment
by: wisty
text:
  People want to spend money to fix a problem that fundamentally requires effort on their part, not tech.<p>Vacuuming is actually the easiest bit of cleaning a house IMO - getting the floor clear (if you have kids, or out of control hobbies, or are just lazy or a bit of a horder) is hard.<p>People aren&#x27;t stupid, they kind of know this. But just like buying expensive gym equipment they think that a new toy will incentivise them do the hard bits.<p>&quot;If I buy a new gizmo I&#x27;ll finally start cooking healthy delicious food&quot; is a great pitch.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I&#x27;ve commissioned a board of MENSA members to devise a workaround for this issue; they&#x27;ve identified two potential solutions.<p>1) Install Linux<p>2) Summon Chris Lattner to play you a sad song on the world&#x27;s smallest violin in honor of the Windows devs that refuse to install WSL.


type: comment
by: zephen
text:
  I really don&#x27;t understand why this was downvoted.<p>It expresses something that is true for many individuals.


type: comment
by: deepfriedbits
text:
  Same. Whether an Aeron or another high quality chair, it&#x27;s hard to not find value in something we use for huge chunks of our days.


type: comment
by: bgwalter
text:
  The annual report of this org is pretty underspecified. There are numerous directors. Are they getting paid under &quot;ops &amp; admin&quot; (11%)? Is &quot;advancement&quot; (12.3%) marketing?<p>Prossimo gets 6.8%. Does that money go to programmers? Are people whose works are being rewritten and plagiarized offered money to do the rewrite themselves or does it go to friends and family?<p>Why does an org that takes donations not produce a proper report?


type: comment
by: mistrial9
text:
  it seems like you moved to property on &quot;a road called &#x27;Solsteinen&#x27; &quot; .. did it occur to anyone that many special local things might be built close to the stable sun stone?  I would even guess that no one built a home or horse barn there because they were not allowed to by the community.. this is modern development.. using up the ancient old area for a new sale. That is the appearance from the description above.


type: comment
by: newswangerd
text:
  As someone who has been stuck with an email address I created when I was 13, this would certainly be a welcome change!


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2023)[0] Tiny discussion then (17 points, 3 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38217686">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38217686</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34263589">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34263589</a>


type: comment
by: snvzz
text:
  If anything, AROS and MorphOS urgently need a RISC-V port.<p>The AmigaOS world needs to move to common hardware; PPC is no better than 68k in practical terms.


type: comment
by: lesuorac
text:
  If you don&#x27;t think there was wealth inequity under the gold standard then I recommend opening a history book ...<p>This also isn&#x27;t something that all billionaires and multi-millionaries can do. This was splitting 15% of the proceeds from a sale; like how often do the Walmart heir sell Walmart?<p>That said, yeah I don&#x27;t like the idea of charity dictating how well people do. If you think there&#x27;s some minimum standard for people then legislate it ...


type: comment
by: justinator
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t see how this is different from the classic citogenesis process;<p>Lack of novelty doesn&#x27;t remove it as a problem.


type: comment
by: FridayoLeary
text:
  It&#x27;s interesting you mention that. Even Obamas detractors admit he spoke well. True, but i find JFKs speeches are on a different level from that. And it&#x27;s not just him, but the contrast is particularly striking.<p>Now in the UK all we get are monotonous robots or people who have clearly had intensive coaching in how to speak in a clear. Decisive. Direct. Way, to inspire confidence and project competence. The two qualities entirely absent in most of our politicians.<p>The less said about the other side of the pond the better.


type: comment
by: ChadNauseam
text:
  All languages offer the ability to write memory-safe code. It&#x27;s just that doing so is very difficult in C and C++. The benefit of Rust isn&#x27;t really the assurance of safety that&#x27;s provided by not using the `unsafe` keyword. After all, pretty much all Rust programs do use the `unsafe` keyword. The benefit of Rust is a combination of many design decisions that make it easy to write safe code.<p>For example, everyday operations in Rust are almost all defined. But in C++, it is extremely easy to run into undefined behavior by accident and make your code do something bizarre. On the practical side, I have never ever gotten a segfault when writing rust, but have many times in C++.


type: comment
by: gcapu
text:
  Ecobee smart thermostat. I’m the only one in the family that knows how to change the temperature now.


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the full prompt, but historically image models have definitely memorized certain images.


type: comment
by: nkrisc
text:
  I personally find that text written by a human, even someone without a strong grasp of the language, is always preferable to read simply because each word (for better or worse) was chosen by a human to represent their ideas.<p>If you use an LLM because you think you can’t write and communicate well, then if that’s true it means you’re feeding content that you already believe isn’t worthy of expressing your ideas to a machine that will drag your words even further what you intended.


type: comment
by: nabbed
text:
  This can work with the way you think as well.<p>Many years ago, I had a technical manager who never felt any pressure to be the first to come up with the answer to a question or the solution to some problem. If I was having a technical conversation with him, and we arrived at a particularly subtle or complex issue, he could go completely silent, just staring straight ahead with his fingers to his lips. I would find it very uncomfortable, and I would start blurting out half-baked ideas to fill the silence, but he would either raise his finger or (usually) just ignore me. This could go on for 30-60 seconds, at which point he might shrug and say &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; or, more likely, have a pretty well formed idea of how to move ahead.<p>I used to joke to my co-workers that during those silent interludes, he was swapping in the solution from a remote disk.<p>This manager also typed with one or two fingers, and pretty slowly too. But he wrote a lot of good code.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  I’m actually surprised I <i>didn’t</i> hit this problem. My 3D printer has been wildly useful.<p>I seriously thought it would be another fad hobby that I drop immediately. But now I’ve gone as far as learning 3D modeling which I never really expected to do. I actually have more projects going on than I have printing capacity for sometimes.<p>I wish I had perfect advice for getting the most out of it.<p>Maybe this one will help: remember that even cheap plastic products are often more expensive than printing your own. That $10-20 doodad from the store is still more expensive than a LOT of filament. I’ll list out some stuff I’ve printed:<p>- Planter pots<p>- Knock box (for espresso)<p>- portfilter stand for tamping (espresso)<p>- espresso machine mod kit enclosure<p>- A loom for a friend who weaves<p>- “neon” LED signs with custom words (designed by me based on YouTube tutorial)<p>- Same concept but used to make might up address numbers for the house<p>- A triangle-shaped piece to guide the extending kitchen sink sprayer hose so it stops getting caught on stuff under the cabinets<p>- A replacement clip for a Packit reusable container<p>- Designing your own wall or under-desk mount for any custom size object is trivial<p>- Tea bag organizer<p>- Bookmarks<p>- Name tags&#x2F;3D labels (you can pause prints and change filament colors at a specific layer even without an automated material system)<p>- Bag clips<p>- Toothpick dispenser<p>- Toothpaste squeezer dispenser thing to keep the tube neat<p>- storage organizers, including a whole pegboard system hanging up all my tools and junk<p>- Contact lens storage boxes<p>- Replacement latches for plastic bins<p>I haven’t printed them yet but I’m very interested in some of the cool mini-racks, mini NAS systems, and small form factor PC cases you can print from scratch rather than buying them. For example there’s a design on makerworld where you grab a cheap mini PC, an nvme to SATA adapter, and an AliExpress SATA 3.5” backplane, and boom, you’ve built a consumer NAS alternative for a fraction of the price.<p>Hopefully some of these ideas inspire you to get more use out of your machine!


type: comment
by: naikrovek
text:
  “Obsolete” means that a replacement exists which is as good as, or better than, the thing it aims to replace, in <i>every</i> significant way.<p>X11 is far from obsolete.


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  AI is writing the lessons too.<p>Like a compiler, we could optimize this by doing no work at all! Once you realize no one will look at any of the results, final or intermediate, there&#x27;s nothing left to do.


type: comment
by: lesuorac
text:
  Eh, touch some grass buddy. You&#x27;re interpretting a lot of negativity from the poster despite having no evidence to support it.<p>&gt; [1] A famous study in 2010 from the Review of Economics and Statistics revealed that, out of 35,000 lottery winners who obtained between $50,000 and $150,000 in winnings, 1,900 of them had filed for bankruptcy within 5 years.<p>&gt; A 2015 paper in The American Economic Review also presented that 15% of NFL players filed for bankruptcy after 12 years of retirement.<p>It&#x27;s really common for people with sudden windfalls to lose it all.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sudden_wealth_syndrome#Effects_on_relationships_and_finances" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sudden_wealth_syndrome#Effects...</a>


type: comment
by: collingreen
text:
  This was a great read and would be worth a submission of its own if it hasn&#x27;t been posted recently.


type: comment
by: cgio
text:
  I appreciate when a view opens up a different perspective and yours does. Nevertheless, if we lift the surface layer and have a look at the dark economy, do you think we’re find a less nepotistic economy, or one with less ruthless hierarchical structures in which luck is less of a factor?


type: comment
by: derrida
text:
  &gt; but it starts at 4 AM for me.<p>It ends at 1am their time. The conference itself never stops there are people there around the clock. (I wish I could go!! I went to 28c3 in Berlin and 29c3 in Hamburg they were amazing)


type: comment
by: coffeeaddict1
text:
  &gt;  C++ requires the developer to make a conscious effort to avoid unsafe code<p>The problem is much worse than how you put it. I&#x27;ve written C++ for more than a decade and it&#x27;s painful to constantly having to worry about memory safety due to enormous complexity of the language. Even if you are super diligent, you will make a mistake and it will bite you when you expect it the least.  Relying on clang-tidy, non-default compiler flags, sanitizers and other tools is not only not enough, but a constant source of headache on how to integrate them with your build systems and project requirements.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  I&#x27;m not downplaying what you and your wife went through, which is outrageous. And generally speaking, it&#x27;s 100x harder as kids.<p>&gt; I volunteer with emergency services and hope to open a clinic with my wife next year focusing on helping foster children with mental illness who tend to age out the system and fall through the cracks.<p>That&#x27;s fantastic, whatever our debate about the details. Thank you.<p>&gt; you gotta ask yourself if it&#x27;s worth the risk.<p>There&#x27;s always risk in life, as I said above. The level of risk is the key - the likelihood and the amount of harm - and that&#x27;s debatable.<p>For kids, by far the most child abuse (as I&#x27;m sure you know) is by family and people the family knows. Staying home may be less safe. I just don&#x27;t see the risks as worse than car accidents and other dangers.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t know that I agree &quot;there are predators everywhere&quot;, except as a sort of logical truth - predators aren&#x27;t limited by geography. There are rabid dogs everywhere too. I doubt predators - which, come to think of it, is undefined and sounds like a bogeyman sort of term - are limited by wealth.<p>But of course, everyone needs to think and act intelligently. You don&#x27;t let your kid go down the street where the prostitutes or drug dealers hang out.<p>&gt; the cool ones and the dangerous ones look exactly the same<p>That&#x27;s not my experience, but of course nobody can know for sure - that goes for family and coworkers too. Coincidentally, I ended up in coversations today with three apparently unhoused people today. The idea that these people are dangerous somehow is just not plausible. After the third conversation, I made an inside joke I have with the person next to me &#x27;homeless people are so dangerous!&#x27;. We both rolled our eyes.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  That seems to be one of the things that some great professors do.  I&#x27;ve heard of that convention from many colleges&#x2F;universities.<p>At any university, look for the professors who act like benevolent citizens of the best of university ideals.  They don&#x27;t all do it in the same way, but they&#x27;re some of the best.<p>I like to think of the university as a microcosm, and incubator, for how you&#x27;d like larger society to be.


type: comment
by: xyzzy_plugh
text:
  You&#x27;re at a good time for The Hobbit. Strangely I find that Winnie the Pooh does not age well and is an awkward read.<p>The Wind in the Willows is good beginning around that age too.


type: comment
by: treavorpasan
text:
  Wait until you get to The Brothers Karamazov.<p>There is so much to unpack, which requires very slow treatment.<p>One of the things is savour so much is the time I read Idiot, we were on a cruise completely disconnected from the rest of the world. No distractions and just the sound on waves.


type: comment
by: pinewurst
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;6kdXI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;6kdXI</a>


type: comment
by: adapower
text:
  A better analogy might be how Ada was hung over the heads of those using C and C++, to the point of Ada being mandated by law in certain niches.<p>And then Ada software caused the loss of US$370 million with Ariane 5.


type: comment
by: palata
text:
  &gt; Is it just the Apple Silicon that somehow makes it worth it? It&#x27;s ARM, most software is still written and optimized for x86.<p>I am very much a Linux person. But the battery life with macOS on the Apple Silicon is <i>absolutely insane</i>.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  Eccentric at most.  Unhinged would be chopping it yourself, at the table, with a Civil War cavalry sabre.


type: comment
by: torginus
text:
  I think one of the fundamental differences in the SOTA C++ approach to memory safety (eg. extending unique&#x2F;shared_ptr) and Rust is that C++ doesn&#x27;t try to enforce having a single mutable reference to a variable and it still relies on strict aliasing heuristics, and so cannot claim to be fully deterministic.  Still, use after free, and memory leaks should be impossible.<p>It&#x27;ll still let you do a bunch of stuff Rust doesn&#x27;t, which is up to the programmer to decide whether this is good or not.


type: comment
by: morshu9001
text:
  Yeah but Ubuntu screwed up switching from Gnome to Unity back then, which sent tons of users elsewhere. You can&#x27;t just rug-pull the entire GUI people were used to, which was also similar to Windows.


type: comment
by: asacrowflies
text:
  What about all the horror death and suffering done in his name ? Like a huge proportion of these Christmas culture things come from pagan Norse culture that was very forcibly christianized in a rather brutal way??? You seem to be overlooking a lot to make someone &quot;awesome&quot; or at least the horrors done in their name long after death.


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  <p><pre><code>    Doesn&#x27;t modern C++ offer the ability to write memory safe code? </code></pre> Can you name an example of a non-trivial C++ program that&#x27;s memory safe? The only examples I can think of went to extraordinary lengths with formal methods and none of them are widely used.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  I think Go is effectively memory safe. The relevant test is for the presence of exploitable memory corruption, and to my understanding that’s never been a real issue with Go.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  sure, but my point wasn&#x27;t exclusive to them (hence the etc in the first comment). it was just related to any mass media platform, all of them collectively will win. you are right about YouTube in particular though, good point.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  &gt; By definition, C and C++ are memory safe as long as you follow the rules.<p>This statement doesn&#x27;t make sense to me.<p>Memory safety is a property of language implementations, which is all about what happens when the programmer does not follow the rules.<p>&gt; The problem is that the rules cannot be automatically checked and in practice are the source of unenumerable issues from straight up bugs to subtle standards violations that trigger the optimizer to rewrite your code into what you didn’t intend.<p>They can be automatically checked and Fil-C proves this. The prior art had already proved it before Fil-C existed.<p>&gt; But yes, fil-c is a huge improvement (afaik though it doesn’t solve the UB problem - it just guarantees you can’t have a memory safety issue as a result)<p>Fil-C doesn&#x27;t have UB. If you find anything that looks like UB to you, please file a GH issue.<p>Let&#x27;s also be clear that you&#x27;re referring to nasal demons specifically, not UB generally. In some contexts, like CPU ISAs, UB means a trap, rather than nasal demons. So let&#x27;s use the term &quot;nasal demons&quot;.<p>C and C++ only have nasal demons because:<p>- Policy decisions. For example, making signed integer addition have nasal demons is because someone wanted to cook a benchmark.<p>- Lack of memory safety in most implementations, combined with a refusal to acknowledge what happens when the wrong kind of memory access occurs. (Note that CPU ISAs like x86 and ARM are not memory safe, but have no nasal demons, because they do define what happens when any kind of memory access occurs.)<p>So anyway, Fil-C has no nasal demons, because:<p>- I turned off all of those silly policy decisions for cooking benchmarks.<p>- The memory safety means that I define what happens when the wrong kind of memory access occurs: the program gets killed with a panic.


type: comment
by: positron26
text:
  Hundreds of thousands of developers with access to a global communication network were not stopped by AMD.  Why act like dependents or wait for some bright star of consensus unless the intent is really about getting the work for free?<p>We don&#x27;t have to wait for singular companies or foundations to fix ecosystem problems.  Only the means of coordination are needed.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prizeforge.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prizeforge.com</a> isn&#x27;t there yet, but it is already capable of bootstrapping its own development.  Matching funds, joining the team, or contributing on MuTate will all make the ball pick up speed faster.


type: story
by: virtuosity
title: Indian AI royalty proposal targets data practices of OpenAI, Google
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indian-ai-royalty-proposal-targets-data-practices-openai-google-2025-12-09/


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; it’s inauthentic<p>I have a hard time believing that a population deeply into social media, an ocean of inauthenticity - disinformation, influencers, bots, trolling, etc. - and who actively support people who advertise their inauthenticity with pride (such as certain politicians), suddenly care about authenticity.<p>They don&#x27;t want AI messing up the &#x27;authenticity&#x27; of their social media? lol


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  Reposted a few minutes later <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46386401">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46386401</a>


type: comment
by: password-app
text:
  Congrats on shipping v1. The &quot;sense-think-act&quot; architecture is exactly what&#x27;s needed for agentic workflows.<p>Re: the login handling discussion upthread—I&#x27;ve been using browser-use for automated password rotation (breach response use case). Two patterns that might be relevant to Vibium&#x27;s roadmap:<p>Credential injection: Instead of putting passwords in the prompt, pass them via a sensitive_data parameter. The agent calls enter_password() without the value ever appearing in LLM context. Solves the &quot;blast radius&quot; concern several people raised.<p>Deterministic 2FA handling: When email verification is required, open Gmail in a new tab, but extract OTPs with local regex—not AI. The LLM orchestrates navigation; code extraction stays local. Handles ~90% of email 2FA automatically.<p>These patterns should work with any browser automation framework. Built a Mac app around this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepassword.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepassword.app</a><p>Would love to see Vibium add first-class support for credential injection in the API—it&#x27;s the missing piece for any security-sensitive automation.


type: comment
by: registeredcorn
text:
  Kinesis Advantage360 SmartSet. If you need an ergonomic keyboard for any reason, do not use Kinesis. RSI is preferable to interacting with the arrogant twits who work there.<p>Now, to their credit: The keyboard itself is of a reasonable build quality, aside from the fact that it will just occasionally completely die on me until I unplug it for a few minutes and try again.<p>On the other hand, their customer service was not only unhelpful but actively antagonistic and rude towards me. I gave basic feedback once or twice, and asked for an updated technical manual on the keyboard I purchased and I was treated like I shit on their cat.<p>---<p>&quot;Hello, I can only find (this) and (that) manual regarding the 360 SmartSet. One document appears to be an outdated version of the other, and the more up-to-date version is no longer accurate. Do you have an up-to-date manual I can work off of? I was able to parse out some other functions like XYZ by looking at manuals for (devices that are no longer for sale) but I think I&#x27;m still missing some crucial information.&quot;<p>&quot;It&#x27;s on the site, but since you can&#x27;t find it yourself, here you go.&quot; (It&#x27;s the more outdated manual that I already referenced by name <i>and included already</i>.)<p>---<p>&quot;Hello, I noticed it occasionally has issues when I use it with my KVM. Is this a known problem, or should I perform an RMA?&quot;<p>&quot;Well, that&#x27;s why we say don&#x27;t use a KVM!&quot; (Take a wild guess at what information was not listed on any page of their website in regards to the 360 SmartSet.)<p>---<p>&quot;Hi, some of the marketing material on your site on (this page) is inaccurate. It would be good to update it to reflect how this thing work now. I&#x27;ve provided a few points to consider updating. (Two or so changes)&quot;<p>&quot;Too many people have complained about this! This issue is closed now!!&quot; (The entire page is subsequently deleted, making it even <i>less</i> clear how things are intended to work, what future customers will be paying for, giving even less information about their products.)<p>---<p>To be clear, I know that some times people will overstate things and make it sound much worse than it actually are, but I really am just trying to tell things as they were. If anything, I&#x27;ve probably understated how rude some of their responses have been. I have never had a positive experience interacting with any person at that company.<p>Moral of the story is: Never buy from Kinesis, even if it causes you physical pain.


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  That just means you’re pulling from the lower end of the talent pool. There is nothing wrong with this, but usually talent is correlated with outcome. Most hot startups which are going places are near impossible to get into even for folks with good offers.


type: comment
by: like_any_other
text:
  &gt; As far as I&#x27;m aware, Russia is also an important source for nuclear fuel.<p>I couldn&#x27;t find a source on where Germany got its fuel, but did find that Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia are also nuclear fuel producers, so at the least they had options.<p>But supposing they did get their fuel from Russia - nuclear fuel [1] costs $1.5 per MWh [2], while natural gas (the cheapest fossil fuel) costs $13.2 per MWh. So Russia gets ~TEN TIMES more money per MWh if selling gas vs. nuclear fuel.<p>&gt; find sympathy<p>Let me know how much effect sympathy has compared to diverting capital into Russia.<p>[1] Only the fuel, so this does not include the full cost of operating a nuclear plant, and the electricity produced is thus more expensive, but this is what Russia would get paid.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economics_of_nuclear_power_plants#Fuel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Natural_gas_prices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Natural_gas_prices</a>


type: comment
by: blandflakes
text:
  I find that if most of my logic is relatively gluey, then the fields in my API boundaries are heavily optional, at which point types add a lot less than they do when most of my logic is more internal, and in cases where what I&#x27;m doing is just getting some JSON and doing something with it, I&#x27;d rather just have the dynamic shape of the JSON in a lot of cases than have to declare an entire schema&#x2F;codec.<p>We have so much boilerplate and tooling to share request&#x2F;response types between services and it&#x27;s just... heavy. The same feeling arises when I&#x27;m sitting here trying to share a shape between a web app and the backend service, where FINALLY I just want the types to get out of my way instead of having to go through all this ceremony.<p>And my domain is relatively precise and typeable - streaming video with a deterministic set of parameters.<p>Generally though I&#x27;m more likely to agree with the value of types than to undersell them; I just can&#x27;t find a ways to describe the above experiences such that they reflect that perspective.<p>I think it&#x27;s not that I don&#x27;t want types, it&#x27;s that I want simple types that play slightly more dynamically - maps of &lt;string, heterogeneous values&gt;, for example, and reasonable means of interacting with them (like various &quot;safe traversal&quot; operators that some languages have added).


type: comment
by: textlapse
text:
  There is a big difference between paperbacks and TikTokification:<p>Paperbacks required authors to spend the same amount of time&#x2F;effort to create content with a vastly expanded market and distribution mechanism.<p>TikTok and Insta created N creators to M consumers where N is nearly the same as M. Making the distribution channels bigger but effortless to create content doesn’t magically equate quality paperbacks with short form hummingbird-attention videos.


type: comment
by: p-e-w
text:
  One of the cited reviews goes:<p>“We&#x27;re excited for powerful open-source models like M2.1 […]”<p>Yet as far as I can tell, this model isn’t open at all. Not even open weights, nevermind open source.


type: comment
by: pfooti
text:
  Hah, I had one of those. I paid $50 for a &quot;lifetime email service&quot; that later they wanted me to pay monthly for, so I had to bid goodbye to my  null.net address


type: comment
by: tooltalk
text:
  LFP was developed in the late 1990&#x27;s and NCM in the early 2000.<p>They have already gone through multiple iterations:  NCM523 first was mass-produced in 2007; the latest mainstream NCM is now NCM811, followed by the next-gen NCM9.5.5 (higher density).  LFP is now up to the 4th generation.<p>That being said, the EV batteries aren&#x27;t just driven by improvements in the cathode, but also in the anodes, such as silicon composite, or in this particular case, anode-free batteries.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Please don&#x27;t start flamewars on HN. It&#x27;s not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
text:
  I was worried about this. Especially as a roboticist who deals with making tools to help people do this for fleets of robots.  But I thought I’d try this $450 Eufy bot and the thing is pretty much foolproof. Just have to clean up the Lego first…


type: comment
by: jdright
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minimax.io&#x2F;news&#x2F;minimax-m21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minimax.io&#x2F;news&#x2F;minimax-m21</a>


type: comment
by: tooltalk
text:
  which &quot;high-end&quot; phones and laptops use LFP?  This makes no sense.<p>Also, LFPs are mostly deployed in low-range EVs and mostly in China.  Most EVs outside China still favor NCM&#x2F;NCA, but I suspect that LFP is going to gain market share in budget friendly, low-range EVs.


type: comment
by: WahyuS002
text:
  Hey HN! I&#x27;m the creator of PixelDeveloper.<p>I built this because I was frustrated with video-based coding courses where you just watch someone code. I learn best by actually writing code and getting immediate feedback, so I created a platform centered around that.<p>How it works: - Interactive coding lessons where you write real code in the browser - Instant feedback on your solutions - Progressive difficulty with hands-on exercises<p>I&#x27;d love feedback on: - The learning approach - does &quot;learn by doing&quot; resonate with you? - Any features that would be dealbreakers or must-haves?<p>Happy to answer any questions about the technical implementation or pedagogical approach!


type: comment
by: pugger
text:
  Samsung tablets and TVs, in general smart watches and &quot;intelligent&quot; kitchen gadgets. Also most Windows notebooks.


type: comment
by: jondwillis
text:
  &gt; MiniMax has been continuously transforming itself in a more AI-native way. The core driving forces of this process are models, Agent scaffolding, and organization. Throughout the exploration process, we have gained increasingly deeper understanding of these three aspects. Today we are releasing updates to the model component, namely MiniMax M2.1, hoping to help more enterprises and individuals find more AI-native ways of working (and living) sooner.<p>This compresses to: “We are updating our model, MiniMax, to 2.1. Agent harnesses exist and Agents are getting more capable.”<p>A good model and agent harness, pointed at the task of writing this post, might suggest less verbosity and complexity— it comes off as fake and hype-chasing to me, even if your model is actually good. I disengage there.<p>I saw yall give a lightning talk recently and it was similarly hype-y. Perhaps this is a translation or cultural thing.


type: comment
by: chihuahua
text:
  Audiobooks are great, while driving or walking or riding a bike. But for complex topics, I miss the ability to read a sentence or a paragraph again.


type: comment
by: zephen
text:
  Most of the rules in that list are certainly things you would be better off following than not.<p>But some of them aren&#x27;t, and many of the ones that are valid are simple programming errors that will be caught as soon as you run any data through your program.  Which would seem to stretch the term anti-pattern past its breaking point.<p>This list reminds me of a letter to the editor I saw, maybe 40 years ago or so, in Dr. Dobb&#x27;s.<p>This is (partially) paraphrased, but not by much, because the letter was short and sweet:<p>Dear sirs:<p>Everything in your magazine is either obvious or wrong.<p>Please cancel my subscription.<p>Sincerely, xxxxx


type: comment
by: baobun
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  How would you determine or estimate &quot;age of email&quot;? It isn&#x27;t really public info. Does it imply that you are by now expected to be doxxed by data brokers to not be judged suspicious?<p>&gt; I’m sure you’re fine if your email is real (in my experience they all resolve to Onvoy LLC instead of a real cell provider),<p>Email is expected to be resolving to &quot;a real cell provider&quot;? Wut?


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  &gt; It’s literally worthless in all senses of the term.<p>I think that misunderstands the economics:<p>For a long time we&#x27;ve been able to generate mathematical solutions at a prompt, and yet those still have value - I still gain by having them. Email is free and ubiquitous, but still has value. Clean water, for example, is generally free and ubiquitous, but has enormous value; I&#x27;d die without it.<p>In the market, things are priced by their marginal value - the added value of the last one sold; your 10,000th glass of water is not as valuable as your 1st (if you have only 1). But price != value: &#x27;price is what you pay, value is what you get&#x27;.


type: comment
by: torginus
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  &gt;is there actually a programming language that makes race conditions impossible<p>It&#x27;d be very hard to make something that offers that guarantee in the real world. One of the most common, IRL exploitable race conditions are ones that involve multiple services&#x2F;databases, and even if your programming language would have such a feature, your production system would not.


type: comment
by: jongjong
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  Personally, I&#x27;ve been feeling the pain of this kind of &#x27;giving.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;ve seen people get handed out huge opportunities, big bonuses despite objective incompetence! Meanwhile I was highly competent and never once received a raise or Christmas bonus. I got the opposite of help. Anything I ever got, which isn&#x27;t much, I had to force through sheer skill and hard work, as far as the law and ethics allowed me.<p>It seems like the entire system is working against me. What do I have to do to get EQUAL treatment?<p>I would vote for communism, any opportunity I get because I don&#x27;t even care about equality of opportunities anymore. That was a luxurious idea. If I could get just equality of outcomes, I wouldn&#x27;t even mind that I worked 10x as hard.<p>It&#x27;s interesting because I used to think people who supported communism were confused and misled. Now I&#x27;m thinking that, probably, they were entirely rational. It&#x27;s an entirely rational and predictable response to system dysfunction. It&#x27;s probably an unavoidable cycle. The result of human nature at scale. Throughout history, China has had plenty of experiments with fiat monetary systems... Always ended badly and yet now they managed to export this horrible, satanic system to the rest of us.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  Is it? Curl dropped the hyper components, but they appear to support rustls as a backend. That work appears to have been done by Prossimo as well, and is conceptually grouped with it on the site.<p>(In other words: curl is using Rust, just not a specific Rust HTTP&#x2F;1 backend anymore. But the site doesn’t limit its scope to just that backend.)


type: comment
by: dimal
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  As someone who has been debugging their own chronic illnesses for the past ten years (and doing better than my doctors), I wouldn’t consider the medical diagnostic process to be “debugging” at all. And that is exactly the problem. Doctors seem to be stuck thinking like bureaucrats following probabilistic flowcharts, and they’re incapable of actually thinking about a problem and debugging it.<p>The behavior seems to be so deeply ingrained in every single doctor I’ve seen that it seems impossible to change. I suspect they must have this drilled into them in school and residency, then it seems like every decision is constrained by insurance requirements. As far as I can tell, the situation is hopeless.


type: comment
by: hshdhdhj4444
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  Did you drive from LA to NYC without ever touching anything 9 years ago?<p>Because that would be a refutation of not believing what Musk promises.<p>Or was your vehicle used as a RoboTaxi beginning half a decade ago and has been returning 10x your initial spend on it on an annual basis? Because that would be another refutation of the idea that we shouldn’t believe Musk’s promises.<p>This list can go on for a very long time.


type: comment
by: Retric
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  You see far more horrific cases in the current US system where minors are cared for by members of the general public at their homes.  This self selects for both ends of the spectrum people who want to do good and very bad actors.<p>That’s the core issue so often ignored, we need systems to deal with people at their best and their worst.


type: comment
by: joecool1029
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  That’s a book I’ve been taking my time with. Read a bit every few weeks. Found the part about visual memory mechanics resonated: I have to spread everything out and see it when doing mechanic work.<p>No to doing books via audiobook because I see the words in my head and it’s massively distracting. Cool if it works for others I guess but like the mechanic excerpt above… not for me.


type: comment
by: TGower
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  Seconded, &quot;oh I&#x27;ll always have a charged battery&quot;, but the real experience is spending much more time swapping batteries than I used to spend plugging in. More frequent and longer duration interruptions.


type: comment
by: babyshake
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  Would you say the same for Mastra? If so, what would you say indicates a high quality candidate when they are discussing agent harnessing and orchestration?


type: comment
by: MarkusQ
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  &gt; both its rotation and orbit are about 8 hours on the sameish axis. So<p>&gt; it&#x27;s still spinning pretty dang fast, enough that the gas doesn&#x27;t have<p>&gt; to settle into hot and cold sides.<p>Except that by spinning on the same axis [more correctly, on axes normal to the same plane] at the same rate the atmosphere is stationary in the co-rotating frame.  That&#x27;s what it means to be tidally locked.  The gas is already divided into a hot side (always facing the star) and a cold side (always facing away).


type: comment
by: ricardobeat
text:
  Do you have any examples? The top-of-the-line Surface laptops are still comparatively flimsy, same for Samsung and Vaio. What’s better?


type: comment
by: joshuamorton
text:
  Under a gold backed economy, things are zero-sum. Under a fiat based economy, they aren&#x27;t. If your concern is about the problems of a zero-sum system, you should support a lack of scarcity in the money supply.


type: comment
by: 0x696C6961
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  Yeah, the mojo pitch is so good, but I don&#x27;t think anyone has an appetite for the potential fuckery that comes with a closed source platform.


type: comment
by: fleebee
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  I suffered a burnout fall last year and adapting to a slower lifestyle was my way out of it. I started reading long novels, and taking aimless, leisurely walks. It&#x27;s hard to overstate the positive effect that had on my mind and well-being. I haven&#x27;t felt this kind of mental clarity and motivation to do things for over a decade.<p>This post resonates strongly with me. I strongly believe the default settings _are_ too high, and it takes conscious effort to slow down while bound to the shackles of modern society, but it&#x27;s so worth it.


type: comment
by: aragilar
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  But my nearly 10 year old ThinkPad hasn&#x27;t needed upgrades to last that long, it just has decent build quality. Will the Frameworks last that long?<p>A good test would be to work out what&#x27;s the oldest in-use Framework (which should be one of the first, if not there&#x27;s an build quality issue) and see how many upgrades were needed to keep it functioning compared with similar era machines from other manufacturers.


type: comment
by: hackermailman
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  Math was always the stumbling block for me then I realized through work how easy it is with pure rational or reals except when you need to translate it to an algorithm now you are throwing out all the elegant linear algebra for a numerical representation and using obscure characteristic polynomial constructs just to run a program and now math sucks again I went back to the beginning.<p>A nice course for this is of course TAOCP volume 2 old testament or MITs math github <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitmath&#x2F;18335&#x2F;tree&#x2F;spring22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitmath&#x2F;18335&#x2F;tree&#x2F;spring22</a> (change the yr to suit)  like we can&#x27;t even have nice things like gradient descent anymore because it zigzags and is too inefficient


type: comment
by: rcanand2025
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  A simple tool to compare different text streaming speeds to see what works for some use case you are building for. One shot from Gemini 3 Pro.


type: comment
by: torginus
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  To my knowledge, X11 didn&#x27;t offer a comprehensive accessibility API either - there&#x27;s no Linux equivalent of stuff like MS Active Accessibility or MSUIA on Linux.<p>Even back then Qt, GTK and everyone else offered their own API and screen readers needed to integrate with every single one - this didn&#x27;t really change under Wayland, only the sandboxing makes certain operations harder, but the accessibility story on Linux is not great, and never was.


type: comment
by: ipnon
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  GPU programming definitely is not beginner friendly. There&#x27;s a much higher learning curve than most open source projects. To learn basic Python you need to know about definitions and loops and variables, but to learn CUDA kernels you need to know maybe an order of magnitude more concepts to write anything useful. It&#x27;s just not worth the time to cater to people who don&#x27;t RTFM, the README would be twice as long and be redundant to the target audience of the library.


type: comment
by: monster_truck
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  That they are still training models against Objective-C is all the proof you need that it will outlive Swift.<p>When is someone going to vibe code Objective-C 3.0? Borrowing all of the actual good things that have happened since 2.0 is closer than you&#x27;d think thanks to LLVM and friends.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
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  I&#x27;m sympathetic to the general point, but with food, you can always just eat more! Best of both worlds!


type: comment
by: MarkusQ
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  Because... that&#x27;s how communication works?  Managing the understanding that readers will take away from what you&#x27;ve written is a pretty central definition of the author&#x27;s job.


type: comment
by: katzgrau
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  You’re correct that belief is a powerful driver of prosperity&#x2F;poverty - and that believing that you’re headed for either can lead to you to different modes of decision making. I’ve experienced and witnessed both.<p>An unexpected windfall will amplify the psychology of the recipients. For people who have lived without, the mindset is frequently “live today like it’s your last” or “enjoy it while it lasts” and blow it or self destruct.<p>Some will be obviously be more mature about it though.


type: comment
by: gommm
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  When I was an exchange student at RIT and had just arrived from France a month before, one of the admin staff invited me and a friend in the same situation for thanksgiving because she didn&#x27;t want to leave us by ourselves for a major holiday. I have fond memories of that kindness.


type: comment
by: Animats
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  The tone timing is in the audio sample is weird and out of spec. Minimum tone duration is 65 ms, and minimum pause duration between tones is 65ms. [1] That example has much longer tones than pauses, and there seem to be some back to back tones. The article says it&#x27;s taking too long to send the data, and that&#x27;s why.<p>If you send tones 100ms long with 100ms pauses, a conservative rate, you can get 5 digits per second. That&#x27;s about what &quot;redial&quot; on my phone clocks at.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsi.org&#x2F;deliver&#x2F;etsi_es&#x2F;201200_201299&#x2F;20123502&#x2F;01.01.01_60&#x2F;es_20123502v010101p.pdfes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsi.org&#x2F;deliver&#x2F;etsi_es&#x2F;201200_201299&#x2F;20123502&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: embedding-shape
text:
  Garmin watches are great! I wish the lighter&#x2F;smaller models also had solar charger, but last time I checked only the bigger &quot;ultra-durable&quot; ones had it, but they&#x27;re not that comfortable to wear.


type: comment
by: 3abiton
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  Yes, but Latner said multiple time it&#x27;s closed until it matures (he apparently did this with llvm and swift too). So not unusal. His open source target is end of 2026. In all fairness, I have 0 doubts that he would deliver.


type: comment
by: smj-edison
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  Yeah. It feels like the same amount of signal for a larger amount of noise, and I strongly prefer high SNR. Terse and accurate are what I strive for in my writing, so it&#x27;s painful to read a lot of text only to realize that two sentences would&#x27;ve sufficed.


type: comment
by: ricardobeat
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  Notice how much the screen wobbles after opening the laptop, around the one minute mark. That does not happen even with the cheapest Macbook Air, that’s the kind of design quality people refer to.<p>As for light and sturdy, the Netbook era had it all. A shame the world moved on from that.


type: comment
by: godelski
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  <p><pre><code>  &gt; he might shrug and say &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; </code></pre> I have far more trust for people willing to say this.<p><pre><code>  &gt; I would start blurting out half-baked ideas to fill the silence </code></pre> I find that I&#x27;m more likely to do this but try to make an effort to stop. There&#x27;s times to spitball but we should also spend time thinking. And let&#x27;s be real 30-60s is not that long<p><pre><code>  &gt; This manager also typed with one or two fingers, and pretty slowly too. But he wrote a lot of good code. </code></pre> I&#x27;ll be honest, this is the big reason I don&#x27;t get all the hype around coding agents. I do find them useful but typing isn&#x27;t the bottleneck. Not even close. Plus, while typing is when I&#x27;m doing my best debugging and best simplifying.


type: comment
by: wingtw
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  Start writing &#x2F; Leaf list Settings Press on &quot;add tag to filter by&quot; Type any character<p>Aand im dropped back to empty editor with just that one character visible<p>(Firefox 146.0.1 (Build #2016132551), 86bb7f6af6312ba3c0161085f854bcdff68f1a91 GV: 146.0.1-20251217121356 AS: 146.0.2 OS: Android 14)


type: comment
by: bee_rider
text:
  Where’d you sleep? Going wit the flow and enjoying life is admirable but that sounds like a pretty terrible camp site tbh.


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  Maybe you are not as good a judge of difficulty of what you are proposing and others competence as you believe.


type: comment
by: chews
text:
  It&#x27;s like an on demand do-nothing machine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kv6YvKPXQzk&amp;list=RDkv6YvKPXQzk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kv6YvKPXQzk&amp;list=RDkv6YvKPXQ...</a>


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  I&#x27;ve taken the time to rebuild a large music collection locally.  I&#x27;ve adopted every CD collection my friends and family have set aside to rust.  It&#x27;s immensely satisfying to scroll a gigantic list of 40,000 tracks and just pick whatever feels good, knowing I&#x27;m not contributing to a profile on my listening habits and that the file will instantly play flawlessly.<p>I have some excellent garage band CDs that probably have two or three copies still in the wild at most.  Unfortunately sometimes the 25 year old burned CDs are missing the TOC data, but even the recovery process is satisfying.<p>(Same with the DVD collections.)


type: comment
by: embedding-shape
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  If you still have old friends from those times, ping them and ask if they have any tickets for friends. Most times I&#x27;ve gone, it&#x27;s been via local&#x2F;social associations and people I&#x27;ve known from those, only managed to buy a ticket once, but it&#x27;s short of impossible normally.


type: comment
by: monster_truck
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  You must not have ever done any work in communications or PR, it&#x27;s extremely off limits for a reason.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
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  &gt; The answer was as unhelpful as possible<p>Uh I think I think that&#x27;s way too mean to the email. From a random web form they got some technical information, a useful CC, and offer to have a call. Not bad at all!<p>Also, my basic theory about hardware problems is that the problem is less that they won&#x27;t share the docs, and more that even the internal docs suck. When you essentially co-evolve devices and software through many revisions of each over many years, it&#x27;s easy to get a complete mess that nobody understands.<p>(Of course, in this specific case, DisplayLink was new, so it&#x27;s maybe less of a problem.)


type: comment
by: registeredcorn
text:
  What kind of Robot Vacuum did you have? I had mine map the house once downstairs, and once upstairs and it&#x27;s been fine navigating around stuff ever since. It comes into the kitchen area while I&#x27;m cooking and will eventually just come around for a second pass after my feet are out of the way. I have the roborock Q5+.<p>The only complaints that I have are:<p>1) I have mine set to notify me when it&#x27;s done cleaning. Sometimes it will do it immediately after it&#x27;s done, while other times the notification might come two or three <i>hours</i> after the fact. Still other times, not at all.<p>2) I have to clean the vacuum more frequently than I would like. That means: cutting out hairs from the &quot;side brush&quot; on the front of it, cutting hairs out of the &quot;main brush&quot; that sucks up most of the debris, and wiping the sensors clean. In fairness, I&#x27;d probably have to do the same sorts of thing with the rollers on a normal vacuum cleaner after a while too, though.<p>3) There&#x27;s been a handful of times over a 2-ish year period where it&#x27;ll go to the other room to start cleaning, and while a normal trip might take 15-20 minutes, it&#x27;ll claim to be done in about 5 minutes. I suspect that blankets may have fallen on the ground or something, so it became too &quot;blocked&quot; to be able to clean properly, but it could be some kind of software error.


type: comment
by: olowe
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  &gt; The old randomized ones were actually better.<p>Exactly. We changed from some fancy one that my boss gave me to a cheap one that you operate with an old-school (can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m saying that) infrared remote. It doesn&#x27;t &quot;think&quot;. It just works like our other reliable dumb machines - diswasher and washing machine. We don&#x27;t own a regular vacuum cleaner as I just do a regular sweep with a broom when we want a thorough job done.<p>All other home tech gadgets friends and family have acquired live in limbo land stored in the back of the draw or on top of the cupboard, never opened or tried once but got stuck downloading some stupid app. But we can&#x27;t just throw it away yet, as there&#x27;s guilt around acquiring that smart tech thing in the first place even though we know there&#x27;s already so much e-waste.


type: comment
by: throwaway290
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  if typing is too much to make an argument then maybe it&#x27;s not worth it.<p>extremism laws are no joke, talking about gay things is &quot;extremism&quot;, talking about secession also &quot;extremism&quot;. But that is true for anyone even if you&#x27;re white


type: comment
by: snapplebobapple
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  Its the slippery slope proved real by places like my home country of canada keeping other people from having it. I am a huge supporter of assisted suicide but what my country has gone way too far. find a way credibly Keep it to impending death with lots of pain and alzeimers like disease and you would have strong majority acceptance.


type: comment
by: yakattak
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  Gaming headsets, especially the expensive ones were a trap I fell into for a long time. They’re overpriced for sure, quality varies but they usually last a few years. They’re always all so uncomfortable too.<p>I broke out and ended up getting a DAC&#x2F;AMP, some good cans and a mounted microphone and I’ve never looked back. I miss the wireless part a little, but taking the headphones off to get up is a cheap price compared to $200+ garbage.


type: comment
by: scuff3d
text:
  The opening paragraph alone is so laughably stupid it&#x27;s not even worth reading the rest of the article.


type: comment
by: mootothemax
text:
  Hi there -  I’m really sorry about your negative experiences. I read the replies to your comment and felt sad that I didn’t read one that recognised how much work you’re putting into what sounds like an indifferent society - and how unfair that is. I also hope I’m not crossing the line of too much&#x2F;trying too hard. Frankly, it sounds like a shit place to be.


type: comment
by: hackermailman
text:
  You could always have a theme then publish the rest as &quot;online extras&quot; many books do that recently


type: comment
by: Guestmodinfo
text:
  This a common sense thing. All govts and courts of all countries should have done this way before. Not good to get ripped off.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  Short answer: Never<p>Why you might think this good idea. LLMS are great at discussing best practices. I could probably improve my financial health by 20% by asking for and following best practices advice.<p>Why I’d never put it in control: LLMs are shit at doing things right the first time, dealing with the unexpected, dealing with the real world.<p>If you haven’t had an LLM make catastrophic, terrible and insane mistakes you haven’t been using it enough to see how it can go wrong and have no business either making or using AI for anything important.


type: comment
by: sky2224
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  &gt; you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents (90% or so I read days ago?)<p>This is like saying skydiving is safer than driving because you&#x27;re looking exclusively at accidents and ignoring the total number of events. There are way more cars than there are skydivers. Now in the realm of autonomous vehicles: there are way more manually driven vehicles than there are autonomous ones, so of course there&#x27;s going to be significantly more accidents from manually driven vehicles.


type: comment
by: jackschultz
text:
  Quote that I always like:<p>There was a man who was afraid of his shadow and disliked his footprints. So he tried to get away from them. He ran, but the faster he ran, the more numerous his footprints became, and his shadow kept up with him without lagging behind. Thinking he was going too slowly, he ran faster and faster, until he collapsed and died of exhaustion. He did not realize that if he had simply stayed in the shade, his shadow would have disappeared, and if he had sat still, there would have been no footprints.<p>And another one [0]:<p>My hut lies in the middle of a dense forest; Every year the green ivy grows longer. No news of the affairs of men, Only the occasional song of a woodcutter. The sun shines and I mend my robe; When the moon comes out I read Buddhist poems. I have nothing to report, my friends. If you want to find the meaning, stop chasing after so many things.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;stop-chasing-after-so-many-things.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;stop-chasing...</a>


type: comment
by: potato3732842
text:
  1800s black powder revolver replica + starter kit of stuff.  Noisy, messy, fraught with peril and danger, a little less expensive and much less cumbersome than a 1980s 3-wheeler.  For ~$500 you can be the coolest uncle ever and if the parents take it the kid will resent that for life.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  &gt; I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure.<p>Without such measure anyone with your password could &quot;reset&quot; your 2FA.<p>The solution to &quot;I may lose my 2FA&quot; is not to make GMail a 1FA: it is to configure beforehand your GMail so that if your account is inactive for 6 months, access to your account is given to a person of your choice. It&#x27;s so that a death spouse (for example) can eventually access the account.


type: comment
by: onesociety2022
text:
  Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.


type: comment
by: notnullorvoid
text:
  Curious what your critique is for LangChain?<p>I found the general premise of the tools (in particular LangGraph) to be solid. I was never in the position to use it (not my current area of work), but had I been I may have suggested building some prototypes with it.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  Cant believe I have to answer these questions but here we go<p>- lego is a toy<p>- model plane that requires assembly is very likely a toy<p>- some drones a toy<p>if you meet a family with a baby or a toddler do not buy them a fucking toy, it is simple as that. it pollutes the planet and brings nothing good to anyone, not a child, not a parent and not you wasting money on stupid shit


type: comment
by: ilamont
text:
  Thank you for responding. Sometimes it is absolutely necessary to bypass standard “customer service“ channels to get results.


type: comment
by: embedding-shape
text:
  Personally I&#x27;m most excited about &quot;Don’t look up: There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites&quot; with Nadia Heninger &amp; Annie Dai. Harald Welte&#x27;s &quot;ISDN + POTS Telephony at Congress and Camp&quot; covers how they&#x27;re doing telephone infrastructure at congress&#x2F;conference itself, and will surely be interesting too:<p>&gt; Just like at this very event (39C3), the last few years a small group of volunteers has delpoyed and operated legacy telephony networks for ISDN (digital) and POTS (analog) services at CCC-camp2023 and 38C3. Anyone on-site can obtain subscriber lines (POTS, ISDN BRI or PRI service) and use them for a variety of services, including telephony, fax machines, modem dial-up into BBSs as well as dial-up internet access and video telephony.


type: comment
by: natch
text:
  I did my first programming with those wooden blocks.<p>I would build structures deliberately designed to gradually self destruct through a long sequence of actions. A cylinder rolls down a ramp and displaces a support that tips a tower that hits a lever that tips another ramp… endless fun.


type: comment
by: mlazos
text:
  This is the absolute biggest grift of the century by the groq team. They never shared actual TCO, and I remember a Seminalaysis article about the power consumption being actually insane - this makes sense because they scale the number of chips to fit a single model when they have no dram. They have good inference latency but there was no way the economics were going to work out. Meanwhile Nvidia with every advantage in the world decides they’re worth 20B? It actually doesn’t make sense at all. The only scenarios the groq system would be worth it is in the exact throughput-optimized scenarios Nvidia already thrives in.


type: comment
by: amiga-workbench
text:
  That&#x27;s very true, and I believe Wayland has a DRM leasing extension just for this use case. SteamVR uses it to punch through the compositor and draw straight to the screen.


type: comment
by: chews
text:
  NovaCustom is the EU version of a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm</a> laptop. it&#x27;s got an open boot loader and a TPM for supporting OS&#x27;s that require it like Windows 11.


type: comment
by: bc569a80a344f9c
text:
  Comparing one billion exact copies of the exact same thing to a different thing that shares some superficial qualities doesn’t make any sense whatsoever when the GP is simply saying that among the huge quantity of content on TikTok and YouTube some short form videos are are as artistically valuable as the best examples of any other more traditional media forms.<p>Edit: to phrase it differently, GP stated that among the huge quantity of content on TikTok and YouTube some short form videos are are as artistically valuable as the best examples of any other more traditional media forms. The short form content on both platforms isn’t all good, but there is so much variety that some of it is. You responded that Coca Cola isn’t an Imperial Stout. It isn’t, but that has absolutely nothing to do with GP’s point.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  &gt; if at some point they request you to provide the code they sent to the phone you don&#x27;t have for the last 10 years<p>AFAIK once 2FA is up, you can <i>remove</i> your phone number from GMail.<p>I know it takes time to set up a recovery account (in case the account is inactive for x months), to remove a phone number, etc. but if one&#x27;s GMail is important it could be worth doing both <i>now</i> if it hasn&#x27;t already been done.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  &gt; Still, use after free, and memory leaks should be impossible.<p>Use-after-free is still possible in modern C++ via std::span&#x2F;std::string_view&#x2F;etc. outliving the backing object.


type: comment
by: riskable
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  Not even grammar correction? That&#x27;s lame and <i>kinda evil</i>.<p>When you submit your manuscript to a big publisher I <i>guarantee</i> they&#x27;re using AI to check it (now). At the very least, AI is the only tool that can detect a great number of issues that even the best editors miss. To NOT take advantage of that is a huge waste.<p>It sounds to me like they&#x27;re just trying to push out independents and small publishers. Because you know they&#x27;re not going to ask big publishers if they use AI (who will likely deny it anyway... Liars).<p>FYI: AI is both the best grammar checker ever as well as the best consistency checker. It&#x27;ll be able to generate intelligent lexical density report that will know that you used &quot;evasive&quot;, &quot;evaded&quot;, and &quot;evading&quot; too much (because it knows they&#x27;re all the same base word). They&#x27;re also fantastic at noticing ambiguities that humans often miss because they&#x27;re like-minded and &quot;know what you mean.&quot; (Our brains are wired like that to improve the efficiency of our repetitive tasks like reading words).<p>AI tools can help you improve as a writer and enhance your craft in a lot of ways. To not take advantage of that—to me—feels like burying your head in the sand and screaming, &quot;LA LA LA LA! I don&#x27;t want to think about AI because it can be used for bad things!&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve chatted with many writers about AI and nearly all of them don&#x27;t understand the technology and assume it&#x27;s <i>literally</i> just taking chunks of other writers works and spewing them out one sentence at a time.<p>I literally had a conversation with a writer that thought you could take ten sentences written by AI and trace them back to ten books.


type: comment
by: darreld
text:
  Synology 923+.  Turns out I’m the only one that connects to it in the house. I don’t actually need it. I’m now retired and really only need some external drives or some HDD’s in a hard drive docking station.  I just got a docking station. I’ll grab a couple HDD’s and be done with it. Sell the Synology


type: comment
by: JoeDaDude
text:
  And yet, penny dreadful editions and pulp magazines that existed before pocket books... did they have the same effect?  Or did they only produce pocket book writers?


type: comment
by: qntmfred
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  &quot;soon, this whole structure will stop existing...&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iE68aF538e0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iE68aF538e0</a>


type: comment
by: moepstar
text:
  My Apple Watch (Gen 6).<p>Really not getting much value out of it, despite being all-in on Apple otherwise (iPhone, Mac, AppleTV, Homepods).<p>I really feel like it absolutely should be more integrated into the other devices. Set a timer on the phone? Can’t see on watch. Stuff like this bugs me like hell. And I think there’s too much of it.


type: comment
by: zamadatix
text:
  Can you help share more of how we can know more about these claims? The only thing I could find related to this was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;jaredlholt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1757799398707188046" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;jaredlholt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1757799398707188046</a> and the replies don&#x27;t add any clarity to understanding what is real and what is not. I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s all there is, just that I don&#x27;t know how to find more and figure out one way or the other what is up where.


type: comment
by: mingus88
text:
  Eh, our Roborock vac has been a net positive<p>It was “easy” to vacuum before but we never did a thorough job. All too often we just vacuum what we can see, never under the couches, etc.<p>Now that we have to move everything so it can complete the full map we have a much cleaner house. It encourages us to move all of the chairs, toys, etc.


type: comment
by: esjeon
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  Given the speed of the progress that Apple has made on their hardware (from M1 to M5), I think the project was already doomed since the very beginning. Reverse engineering per-se is a huge talent drain that wastes tremendous amount of man-hour on a closed problem. Also, the strong SW-HW integration of Mac is sophisticate and fragile, that is difficult to analyze and replicate. Nailing all those details is not only time consuming, but also limited in the scope, and never yield anything beyond status quo.<p>I’m quite glad that those talented guys finally escaped from the pit hole of reverse engineering. It maybe fun and interesting, but its future was already capped by Apple. I wish they find another fashion, hopefully something more original and progressive. Stop chasing and push forward.


type: comment
by: artyom
text:
  Steam Deck. An awesome piece of hardware, a leap forward for Linux gaming, but as an early adopter I got the black screen of death (common issue) fairly soon. Tried everything to no avail. Now it&#x27;s a very shinny and barely used brick.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
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  It is not sexist at all, let alone &quot;obviously very sexist&quot;. Don&#x27;t impute malicious motives to people like that, it&#x27;s <i>extremely</i> rude.


type: comment
by: bigiain
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  If shrug-guy is anything like me, he sat there blurting out half-baked ideas and then shooting them down all in his internal monologue, instead of out loud.<p>For me, I sometimes feel like I&#x27;m an old school chess engine, exploring as many possible moves&#x2F;ideas as I can - as many steps into the future as time allows. Constantly evaluating them based on some known-simplified fitness function usually involving pattern recognition from past experience in similar problems. Eventually I arrive at a place where I&#x27;m either confident I know a reasonable way forward (and why some of the obvious ways forward are unlikely to be ideal) - or I&#x27;ve scatter-gun searched all of the quickly available ideas and discovered I have no idea if some of them are good or bad, and I need to do much deeper research and investigation of the problem.<p>From the outside, that&#x27;d look identical to &quot;he could go completely silent, just staring straight ahead with his fingers to his lips&quot;


type: comment
by: charcircuit
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  By such a definition any tradition related to gender would be sexist. The tradition is that the wife will change her name. This tradition is why it makes up the majority of cases.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  The US DOT has apparently completely abandoned any headlight standards so sure, blue&#x2F;green, fuchsia, whatever. Go for it.


type: comment
by: chrisfosterelli
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  I often do this in meetings and have gotten into the habit of saying &quot;I&#x27;m thinking&quot;. It&#x27;s not much but it gives both of us time to think and explicitly makes it clear I don&#x27;t expect the person to say something. I think that helps.


type: comment
by: petterroea
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  If I could run a few services like this that just provide useful and predictable services to a community of people I&#x27;d be perfectly happy with my life


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
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  I don&#x27;t have to reach for &quot;do you really believe&quot; hypotheticals. I know how it is in the US and I know how it is in China.<p>It&#x27;s only in chronically online communities that you run into these &quot;American is on par with China&quot; types.


type: comment
by: cromka
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  Facts are Linux support has heavily accelerated from both Qualcomm and Linaro on their behalf. Anyone who watches Linux ARM mailing lists can attest that.<p>Things have definitely changed, a lot.


type: comment
by: password-app
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  Browser automation finally works reliably enough for most tasks. Vision models have gotten good enough that AI agents can navigate dynamic websites without breaking on every UI change.<p>I&#x27;ve been using this for automated password rotation after breach notifications. The agent handles navigation while credentials are injected locally—LLM sees the page but never actual password values. When 2FA is required, OTP extraction happens via local regex, not AI.<p>~89% success rate on standard sites. Turns 6+ hours of tedious credential rotation into 40 minutes of supervision.<p>The gap between Google&#x27;s research and &quot;AI that saves me time today&quot; is closing fast.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepassword.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepassword.app</a> (Mac app I built for this)


type: comment
by: somat
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  For the same reason I have decided I don&#x27;t like fast travel in games. The whole thing becomes this strange distorted reality where the travel nodes and their immediate surroundings are over represented in your mental model but most of the rest of the map is blank. Now I don&#x27;t think games should get rid of their fast travel systems But I find that enjoy the game world a lot more without them and think every one should try.<p>The first time I did this was the breath of the wild zelda game, I got to the point in the tutorial where they teach you to fast travel and said, &quot;no I don&#x27;t want to&quot; so I spent the whole game slow traveling around, planing my trips enjoying the scenery finding new routes , Just bumming back and forth across the map enjoying the game and all it&#x27;s corners in small slices each night, it took me a couple months to get complete and it was great.<p>My current phase of this madness is Valheim with no portals and no map. and wow it is an experience. With no map you get this hyper distorted view of the landscape the other way around, it is still based on what you can navigate easily but stuff like shorelines and terrain features are over represented and forests are these scary black boxes. Fog is very very scary, more than once fog has rolled in and I got so lost that I have had to say &quot;well I guess I am living here now.&quot; I am currently having fun trying to figure out how to use the in game tools as surveying instruments to make my own hand drawn maps.


type: comment
by: currency
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  Alexa. I use Alexa constantly, except my Echos drop off the network and have to be manually restarted by unplugging them. And I curse every time one of them starts up with, &quot;by the way....&quot;<p>I have several smart power strips that stopped responding; I have had better luck with individual smart outlets.<p>Digital audio players with Wi-Fi radios that support AirPlay. I&#x27;ve purchased three, two from Hiby and one from FiiO. The idea was to stream AirPlay to the DAP from one of my PCs, getting quality audio over wired headphones, while I walked around the house. The Hiby models would drop the stream occasionally and both had batteries that died in a year or less. The FiiO would accept streams from Apple devices, but not third-party AirPlay streams. I ended up listening to my phone.<p>I found bone conduction headphones don&#x27;t come anywhere close to audiophile quality.<p>Wi-Fi in general, living in a row home in a neighborhood crowded with 2.4 GHz transceivers.<p>I bought and stored away a large drawer full of microphones, headphones, mice, and keyboards before I settled on the models I like.<p>I&#x27;ve never used a Windows trackpad that was worth spit. I can&#x27;t use a Mac without a trackpad next to my keyboard and mouse. The difference on Windows is maddening.<p>I was getting frustrated with the battery in my old Apple watch as it got older, but now that I have two watches and can switch between them, I wear one or the other 24 hours a day.


type: comment
by: basilikum
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  The easy way to get tickets is via local hackspaces that are somewhat (not necessarily formally) associated to the CCC. There is a ticket contingent for people active in and around the wider chaos community that gets distributed via the hackspaces. They all handle things slightly differently, but the way to get tickets is usually to show up at a hackspace once in a while (or knowing someone who is active there) and getting tickets from there in the presale phase.<p>The other guaranteed way for tickets is to volunteer enough as an angel at the Congress the year before to get an angel voucher. But you obviously need a ticket for a Congress in the first place do to that.


type: comment
by: hackermailman
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  Sometimes except I learned the hard way that if you write everyday Python math code it&#x27;s actually variable-time arithmetic and totally unsuitable for applied cryptography, oops


type: comment
by: viraptor
text:
  Why would they not? Existing objective-c apps will still need updates and various work. Models are still trained on assembler for architectures that don&#x27;t meaningfully exist today as well.


type: comment
by: chasing0entropy
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  Aren&#x27;t part of the cost Yet :) actually upgradeable components were priority when motherboards and CPUs were too expensive to upgrade, it was ram ssds and memory that were changed out...<p>Soon, now actually, it is the inverse. Ram, ssds, high speed network, consumer GPUs, and anything else that needs a modest amount of DRAM.


type: comment
by: araes
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  The &quot;terribly sad&quot; part doesn&#x27;t seem like it really got enough.  3,000 direct losses, and 7,000 with projected secondary &#x2F; tertiary losses is pretty devastating in a town of 11,000.<p>There&#x27;s jobs in the local area.  At 50 miles nebraska.gov Jobs has ~2,500 [1], Indeed has ~1,000 [2], and ZipRecruiter has ~500 [3].  However, not many that a Tyson Food cattle worker can probably easily qualify for.  Most tend to be at least somewhat specialized, and quite a few that require something like nursing, healthcare, education, or otherwise.<p>American Foods Group LLC in Kearney, NE apparently at least has jobs that are related &quot;Beef Production, $19.65 - $26.00, 4500 employees, process 4 million pounds of beef a day&quot;. [4]  Looks like maybe the best available in the area.<p>Still, even if several thousand leave, that&#x27;s still a pretty enormous hit on 11,000.  Lose a 1&#x2F;4 - 1&#x2F;2 your population in a couple months or so.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neworks.nebraska.gov&#x2F;vosnet&#x2F;jobbanks&#x2F;joblist.aspx?enc=91AiPJzms5asTnW2vfcWh8Nb9n04fVG1CBQKwGz3qzc0ah42b+LWu1mHR1kJY8MqcRyil1hSysIM3CAjtJJYt94X+uRJs2&#x2F;XQIWkzaTxtxfcOmM+dTHWZMoLICVfodDdyin+6SLXhjfYEV0sWBz6LJZL0o2EOVXdBVbqkAApnTrzQVmZDKq6rvvgAaxwJZFlh00H0X9RXwZ+KkOQ7Oi0KA==" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neworks.nebraska.gov&#x2F;vosnet&#x2F;jobbanks&#x2F;joblist.aspx?en...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;jobs?q=&amp;l=Lexington%2C+NE&amp;radius=50&amp;start=20&amp;vjk=4cc56863bfa707b4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;jobs?q=&amp;l=Lexington%2C+NE&amp;radius=50&amp;s...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&#x2F;jobs-search?search=&amp;location=Lexington%2C+NE&amp;refine_by_location_type=&amp;radius=50&amp;days=&amp;refine_by_employment=employment_type%3Aall&amp;lk=Q2nBAGbetdgN3ReSoFCNxw&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&#x2F;jobs-search?search=&amp;location=Le...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;viewjob?jk=30014a5bd9219934&amp;from=shareddesktop_copy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;viewjob?jk=30014a5bd9219934&amp;from=shar...</a>


type: comment
by: II2II
text:
  Question: why is a union memory unsafe?<p>My meager understanding of unions is that they allow data of different types to be overlayed in the same area of memory, with the typical use case being for data structures that may contain different types of data (and the union typically being embedded in a struct that identifies the data type). This certainly presents problems with the interpretation of data stored in the union, but it also strikes me that the union object would have a clearly defined sized and the compiler would be able to flag any memory accesses outside of the bounds of the union. While this is clearly problematic, especially if at least one of the elements is a pointer, it also seems like the sort of problem that a compiler can catch (which is the benefit of Rust on this front).<p>Please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong. This sort of software development is a hobby for me (anything that I do for work is done in languages like Python).


type: comment
by: viraptor
text:
  It&#x27;s scheduled for release. They jumped the gun with the news. But at far as we know, it&#x27;s still coming out, just like M2.


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  I just learned on Reddit the other day that people replace those screens with third party panels, bought from AliExpress for peanuts. They use panelook.com to find a compatible one.


type: comment
by: zaptrem
text:
  Not sure it’s a cultural thing since most of the copy coming out of DeepSeek has been pretty straightforward.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  If you knew about China, you would know that local governments are basically the kids of the emperor. You can complain to the emperor about his kids. You cannot complain to the emperor about the emperor.<p>But even that aside, the emperor still has ultimate say in the final ruling from whatever court. Please show me the stories of courts shooting down Xi. I can show you tons shooting down Trump...


type: comment
by: estimator7292
text:
  Blaming Roma hate on communism is like blaming the Nazis for antisemitism.<p>If you believe that for even a moment you need to read a book.


type: comment
by: cpburns2009
text:
  Yeah, I don&#x27;t see how Python is fundamentally different from JavaScript as far as dynamicism goes. Sure Python has operator overloading, but JavaScript would implement those as regular methods. Pyrhon&#x27;s init &amp; new aren&#x27;t any more convoluted than JavaScript&#x27;s constructors. Python may support multiple inheritance but method and attribute resolution just uses the MRO which is no different than JavaScript&#x27;s prototype chain.


type: comment
by: chews
text:
  No these are knuckle dragging finance types bruh... the fact that they aren&#x27;t using things like Cython for more performance is an indicator this isn&#x27;t Jump Trading.


type: comment
by: lemming
text:
  Really? I still love Winnie the Pooh, but I grew up with him so I’m somewhat biased. But I love the whimsy and musicality in the language.


type: comment
by: iamleppert
text:
  DTMF was designed to interoperate with human voice and the tones were chosen on purpose to be unlikely or impossible for human voice to trigger. If there is no human voice, you don&#x27;t need to use DTMF you could use any number of tones. I wonder if you could use base64 or base58 with 64 or 58 unique tones and be able to send text at a reasonable rate?


type: comment
by: themaninthedark
text:
  RING THEIR BELLS<p>(aka &quot;The Munchkin&#x27;s Theme&quot; )   (to the tune of &quot;Jingle Bells&quot;)<p>Slashing through the Orcs<p>With a good two-handed blade<p>Over corpses we go<p>And through the gore we wade<p>Mace on helmet rings<p>Making bodies fly<p>What fun to sing our Slaying Song<p>And watch these suckers DIE!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.org&#x2F;~mc&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hackerdom&#x2F;ring-their-bells.text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.org&#x2F;~mc&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hackerdom&#x2F;ring-their-bells.tex...</a>


type: comment
by: iJohnDoe
text:
  Well said. It’s like human assembly lines being replaced with robots. Humans did those jobs for a really long time. Then they were replaced by automation.<p>We’re on a slippery slope, because what happens when AI gets even better over the next 5 years? Robots took time to fully replace one person on an assembly line; it didn’t happen overnight.<p>Basic income seems more like a reality soon. Or you’re going to have slums and the wealthy.


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  But what do you mean by having builds? You should hardly ever need to download a pre built software from the Internet, outside of the repositories, unless it&#x27;s proprietary software?


type: comment
by: didgetmaster
text:
  If you are bilingual, with one language being stronger than the other one; try reading something in the language you are least comfortable with. I do this (e.g. reading LoTR in Dutch) and it forces me to pay closer attention to each sentence.<p>There are words you don&#x27;t know or know how to use them properly. It will help you learn the second language better, while also helping you to not gloss over whole passages.


type: comment
by: vel0city
text:
  20 years ago I was hopping from Intel to AMD and then back to Intel. After that practically every decent jump in CPU performance on the Intel side of things meant a new socket (LGA775, 1156, 1155, 1150, 1151...). AMD typically kept sockets for a bit longer but wasn&#x27;t as competitive until Ryzen which had a few jumps in chipset compatibility in there.<p>In the last 20 or so years if I wanted a few years newer CPU for whatever reason it usually meant I needed a whole new motherboard, and that often (but not always) also meant new RAM.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  I have a first.last email, but it&#x27;s created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he&#x27;s been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google&#x27;s documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I&#x27;m guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how he hasn&#x27;t noticed that his gmail emails are going to another inbox - maybe Google delivers them to us both or something? Regardless, I&#x27;ve gotten <i>very</i> personal emails (like from his therapist) and tried to reach out explaining the situation and asked these parties to let him know he needs to stop using that email, but to no avail.<p>Honestly the one who is at fault here is Google. If first.last and firstlast are treated as aliases, they straight up should not allow people to create them once the first exists, rather than just send emails to someone else. I&#x27;ve tried to respect my Australian brother&#x27;s privacy (like not reading his therapist&#x27;s emails and such), but not everyone is gonna do that.


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  We have those around our town in a bunch of neighborhoods.  Not sure on the usage rates, yet thought they were a pretty cool idea when I saw them, and they seem to always have books available (ie, not like they&#x27;re just being taken and emptied)


type: comment
by: aristofun
text:
  Tell me honestly.<p>Would you rather live today in a pagan war oriented society (and likely die or be enslaved in the next clan war) without all the technological achievements of the last centuries than in the society where you have all the opportunities to work at home or in a comfortable office and argue with a stranger on HN forum without risk of being scalped alive?


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  Google Glass, the original one. It was my worst purchase ever for so many reasons. I want my $1500 back.<p>Never be an early adopter of hardware.<p>In fairness, it was not as bad as a desktop computer running Windows Me.<p>Microsoft was evil then, and Google has been evil since then.


type: comment
by: olowe
text:
  Couple of anecdotes from the dev side.<p>I worked on an IoT project at one of the big German car makers and it was a mess. More money than sense. They didn&#x27;t really have any idea why they were putting software into stuff. Just some vague notion that some software systems needed to exist to then present its existence to the next boss up; presumably all the way up and out to investors. Discussing the actual functionality or how the product(s) would actually be experienced in the real world was essentially taboo.<p>There was a podcast called garbage.fm [1] with one of the hosts working for General Electric at the time it was recorded. It sounded like GE were yet another one of those incumbent companies doing &quot;smart&quot; Internet of Things products just because they were worried about being left behind.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garbage.jcs.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garbage.jcs.org</a>


type: comment
by: switchbak
text:
  Your comment is absolutely devoid of content.<p>Admittedly, I’m no networking expert but it was my understanding that most installs now use switches almost exclusively. Are you suggesting otherwise?<p>A quick search would seem to indicate I’m right. Do you mind elaborating on your snark?


type: comment
by: viraptor
text:
  I&#x27;ve played with this a bit and it&#x27;s ok. I&#x27;d place it somewhere around sonnet 4.5 level, probably below. But with this aggressive pricing you can just run 3 copies to do the same thing, choose the one that succeeded and still come out way ahead with the cost. Not as great as following instructions as Claude models and can get lost, but still &quot;good enough&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m very happy with using it to just &quot;do things&quot;. When doing in depth debugging or a massive plan is needed, I&#x27;d go with something better, but later going through the motions? It works.


type: comment
by: rgoulter
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;ll be honest, this is the big reason I don&#x27;t get all the hype around coding agents. I do find them useful but typing isn&#x27;t the bottleneck. Not even close.<p>It&#x27;s always possible to go slower for practically no cost. -- So, any benefit from going slower is obtainable for everyone.<p>Whereas, typing faster takes discipline and effort. There are diminishing benefits to putting in more effort to type faster.<p>The main benefit isn&#x27;t so much &quot;more output&quot; so much as &quot;reduced latency&quot;. e.g. It takes less time to type out queries that help you gather information.


type: comment
by: mingus88
text:
  It’s very subjective, like any jewlery purchase.<p>For instance I never liked the default band, but the Milanese loop is great. My wife never wore her series 5 but I got her a series 11 which is a few grams lighter and thinner and she wears it all the time now.<p>I was on the fence about getting an ultra but for some reason never liked the size and shape (big rectangle with a huge crown bulge) since I have small wrists. I ended up getting a garmin epix pro at a big discount which is slightly smaller and round.<p>At the end of the day they are great if you want to collect data on yourself. Even though my wife didn’t like her series 5 the hypertension features were worth trying a newer one.


type: comment
by: dpatterbee
text:
  As a daily user of both a first gen framework 13 and a M1 MacBook Pro, the MacBook touchpad is like 5-10% better. And I suspect that&#x27;s all software because I did something recently that absolutely fucked the response and feel of my framework touchpad that I haven&#x27;t figured out how to undo so there&#x27;s clearly a lot of room for manoeuvre in software.


type: comment
by: biophysboy
text:
  It has sort of surprised me how few teasers&#x2F;trailers there are in short-form video. Seems like an obvious fit. I&#x27;d prefer it over the mediocre mobile games and dick pill ads they sling at me now.


type: comment
by: redohmy
text:
  Epoch AI’s latest report reveals how inference costs are dropping, frontier AI is becoming accessible on consumer-level hardware, and compute infrastructure is expanding rapidly — fueling broader adoption and demand for AI GPUs, servers, and efficient compute setups. These shifts are reshaping the AI hardware market, creating opportunities for deployment, resale, and strategic lifecycle management.


type: comment
by: lemming
text:
  Well done, when I was growing up we would always have some time in the evening when we would read a book out loud. When we were younger my parents would read and as we got older we would read sometimes too. I tried the same with my daughter but she stopped wanting to when she was around 10, but she’s in a better space now two years on so I’m going to try to resurrect the custom. It’s a really lovely thing to do as a family, but as the article suggests is quite strange these days and it can be difficult and require discipline to make the time.


type: comment
by: switchbak
text:
  Ok, but no where do I see any credible claims of reckless speed or irresponsible driving. Without some evidence you’re just jumping to conclusions here.


type: comment
by: pclark
text:
  I’m tempted to change from peter.clark@ to something more obscure; i get SO MANY emails directed at other Peter Clark’s, it’s bizarre and makes my inbox unusable.


type: comment
by: hibikir
text:
  I&#x27;d argue that the issue isn&#x27;t that the default is too high, but that we assume the default. Think a math class: Often enough, kids are left behind, because the pace is too high, but others get bored to tears, because for them, that very same pace is far too slow. It can even vary by unit: Maybe someone is fine at standard speed in most of AP physics, and just one unit is just completely off. It&#x27;s a typical problem when engaging with varied audiences: If you have to give a talk to , say, an all hands of a tech company, getting the pacing and the information density right for everyone is just not going to happen.<p>So the main learning is to be aware of the speed settings, and then consider putting ourselves in situations where we can alter them. Faster or slower isn&#x27;t better in a vacuum. Expermiment and find what&#x27;s right for you, or, in communication, for your audience.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  Given the primary selling point of laptops is their portability (often at the cost of other things), they should be optimized to be highly usable wherever they might end up getting used.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Different cultures, different traditions. Personally I think it&#x27;s a beautiful symbol of unity for one person to take the other&#x27;s name (though I&#x27;m neutral as to which party should change their name, and I was perfectly willing to take my wife&#x27;s name if she had wanted that), but of course that&#x27;s the culture I was born into so it seems normal to me.


type: comment
by: coip
text:
  Are lc problems puzzles? Could see p.e. being close to that but lc has always felt so much more grindy and less creative.<p>Merry christmas


type: comment
by: tw1984
text:
  so when MiniMax released a pretty capable model, you choose to ignore the model itself and just focus a single sentence they wrote in the release note and started bad mouthing it.<p>is it a cultural thing?


type: comment
by: k310
text:
  They could have made little things LIKE A DAMN FILE SYSTEM and all the items above symmetrical with MacOS ages ago. It had to be choice. Cannibalizing low end macbook sales? Who knows?<p>Really, it&#x27;s not just tiktok viewers who use these.<p>How long did a file system take? Was Apple so certain of buying Dropbox that this was left undone?<p>But the point you make is a lock. These were (IMO) easy to implement long ago, easier than a lot of things we never asked for and never use.<p>And the only tone control I&#x27;ve ever seen is the equalizer hidden in Apple Music (nee iTunes) Why not a system control? How damn hard is that, given that the code is already written? I get equalizer boxes at the thrift store. Now, REALLY?<p>I personally feel that a great deal of value in life is creating things, rather than just consuming. So, you can say to me &quot;Well, not everyone is talented in this area or that&quot; and I say: &quot;Who knows what they are capable of doing if they don&#x27;t have the instruments or tools available? Or if things are so dumbed-down as to make a moat? Hypercard was genius, but without it, people had to cross that programming moat to use programming languages.<p>And kids? They love to create, or used to, until fed nothing but computer junk food. Even the dumbest Linux distro has plenty of learning tools (besides GCompris). All other concerns aside, the tools were free, and it was&#x2F;is a sign of respect for the users to include them.<p>Assuming your users are dumb-asses is a self-fulfilling prophecy.<p>Bicycles for the mind became DIY Formula 1 cars for the mind, and on the low end, we don&#x27;t even have to think any more. Someone took the web design book &quot;Don&#x27;t make me think&quot; and made it a way of life.<p>Secret AI man.<p>You&#x27;re a man who leads a life of brain rot.<p>Everyone you meet is now a chatbot.<p>With every word you type, you get 10 megs of hype.<p>You will never have a thought, just borrow.<p>Secret AI man. Secret AI man.<p>They&#x27;ve given you a chatbot and taken &#x27;way your soul. (CC, please steal)<p>&quot;But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.&quot; Thoreau<p>I built my own S-100 computers when there were none. My point isn&#x27;t that everyone needs to do that, but was excited to &quot;do something&quot; as in &quot;Computer Lib; Dream Machines&quot; I wanted to solve interesting, even bespoke problems and had to build stuff to do it (outside the IBM machine room). And at the time, one could &quot;consume&quot; content on radio and TV, the point being that you could get good stuff as well as junk, and I watched concerts, Bernstein lectures, and outrageously creative stuff like Ernie Kovacs and Twilight Zone. &quot;Content&quot; was always there, but the creative tools weren&#x27;t --- until they were.<p>Assuming your users are dumb-asses is a self-fulfilling prophecy.


type: comment
by: kace91
text:
  &gt;I think it’s clear: they just want a creative job.<p>What is a creative job?<p>It&#x27;s an honest question: depending of your definition, either pretty much everything qualifies, or no realistic path exists.<p>Musicians? If you make it a job you&#x27;ll be at least chasing trends, at worst you&#x27;ll have a marketing team dictating everything from lyrics to your brand of underwear.<p>Writers? for the majority their books won&#x27;t ever be read, let alone pay the bills. Even those who make it will be subject to signing books for hours in events, appearing in interviews, and editors meddling to the point of not getting to choose the title.<p>Academia? have fun with grants and politics.<p>On the other hand, pretty much every job has a craft behind that can be mastered. Even someone laying bricks can try to improve their movement to be more efficient&#x2F;healthy.<p>Finding the bright side is easier for some jobs than it is for others, but in general mindset is king.


type: comment
by: refactor_master
text:
  But that’s more of a theoretical truth than a practical one, isn’t it? High quality novels are easily found. TikTok videos of equally high quality and depth? Perhaps not so, or exceedingly rarely.<p>Infinite monkeys with infinite time could surely also produce something spectacular and eye-opening, statistically speaking. But umm, you’d have to wait infinite time for it to be done, so it’s not really efficient when time is a finite resource.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  A trivial example of this would be a tagged union that represents variants with control structures of different sizes; if the attacker can induce a confusion between the tag and the union member at runtime, they can (typically) perform a controlled read of memory outside of the intended range.<p>Rust avoids this by having sum types, as well as preventing the user from constructing a tag that’s inconsistent with the union member. So it’s not that a union is inherent unsafe, but that the language’s design needs to control the construction and invariants of a union.


type: comment
by: redohmy
text:
  &quot;In 2025 we released over 70 short form investigations of AI. We review the 10 most popular ones on our website.&quot;


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  It&#x27;s a common use-case for x86 machines that implement UEFI. Taking the iPhone and iPad into account, it is a nonexistent use-case for mobile ARM chipset owners.


type: comment
by: onesociety2022
text:
  Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.


type: comment
by: qezz
text:
  Could&#x27;ve been an interesting research, but instead it&#x27;s an output from an LLM, which almost everyone can generate on their own.<p>Other articles by this author (during 2025) seems to be only about AI, AI, and a bit more AI.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  &gt; What last name do your kids use?<p>In the country where he lives (Belgium), the parents get to decide which family name the kids get.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; to the point of Ada being mandated by law in certain niches.<p>&gt; And then Ada software caused the loss of US$370 million with Ariane 5.<p>This seems like a bit of a non-sequitur? Ariane is an EU rocket and the flight you&#x27;re referring to was carrying an EU payload, and I don&#x27;t think it was ever subject to the US DoD Ada mandate or an EU equivalent (which I&#x27;m not sure ever existed?).<p>(Also a bit of a nitpick, but I don&#x27;t think the US DoD Ada Mandate was a law per se; it was a DoD policy and not something the US Congress passed).<p>It&#x27;s probably somewhat disputable as to whether the Ariane failure was &quot;due to Ada&quot; or whether other higher-level concerns were responsible (e.g., reusing the Ariane 4 software without revalidation)


type: comment
by: throwaway89201
text:
  I&#x27;m on the opposite side: I paid extra for a PS5 with disc drive, but I have never since bought a disc game. Although I have used the drive this year to watch some old DVDs.


type: comment
by: steelbrain
text:
  Forgive me for not understanding, but assuming you use unique passwords on every account&#x2F;website, and get a breach notification, wouldn&#x27;t that breach password only be on that one website&#x2F;account and would thus take nowhere near 6 hours?<p>What am I missing?


type: comment
by: xarope
text:
  I started A Game of Thrones in 1996, when I walked into a bookstore out of the cold in Toronto, and asked for a recommendation (I will always remember that day for several reasons, not just A Song of Fire and Ice!)<p>30 years later (give or take a week), I don&#x27;t expect to ever see the end; I have a feeling GRRM has kind of lost interest&#x2F;passion in the Song of Fire and Ice series, since he&#x27;s started churning out other stuff like Dunk, but you know what, its ok.


type: comment
by: jongjong
text:
  Not so. It&#x27;s a lot worse now because before, people just monopolized fixed quantities of gold. If they made bad bets, their gold holdings would shrink.<p>Now the monopolies aren&#x27;t over limited quantities of units... They are monopolies over entire money flows with unlimited (and adjustable) quantities of units... People who control these flows can make many bad bets and barely feel a thing. The people who decide the flows don&#x27;t do so at any expense to themselves; it&#x27;s the public&#x27;s money which is printed out of nothing. People like Richard Werner literally proved this after everyone was gaslit about it for over a decade... And now AI is used to spam all reasonable discussions about the system out of view, in spite of all the evidence of dysfunction.<p>As an extreme example, look at what happened with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and their divorces... Lost a lot of units of currency at one point but it barely affected them financially, it&#x27;s like the money pipelines just adjusted themselves to bring them back to the level they were before.


type: comment
by: Terretta
text:
  This is how iCloud&#x27;s &quot;Hide My Email&quot; (suggested to you by Safari at online account creation or filling out any email field basically) works.  And then it remembers those random chars for that domain.  Also ensures the email delivers to you.


type: comment
by: bigiain
text:
  That to me, feels opposite the the article&#x27;s advice.<p>And I too, often watch youtube at 1.5x or 2x speed, and dislike audiobooks because I read so much faster that I can possibly listen to them, and there&#x27;s always an ever growing list&#x2F;pile of books I want to read after this one. I wonder if that&#x27;s why a certain type of movie works so well for me - I think of them as &quot;movies made from short stories, not novels&quot;, and now I&#x27;m wondering if it&#x27;s something similar to the OP&#x27;s idea - and that spending 2 hours watching a short story I&#x27;d expect to read in 15&#x2F;20mins is what I&#x27;m enjoying, in a different way to, say, the new Dune movies - which so far have been 4-5 hours watching a couple of big novel&#x27;s worth of story that&#x27;d take me a week or so to read? Just writing that out now, I realised theres a two orders of magnitude difference in speed there going from 1&#x2F;10th of reading speed to 10x reading speed - from a 15 minute read to 2 hour watch, to a week long read to 4-5 hour watch. Hardly surprising they hit my brain differently.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  I still control my first name @gmail.com from very early on, but have never been able to put it to use because of the relentless torrent of misdelivered email.


type: comment
by: robofanatic
text:
  I bought djangosquare.com with exactly the same thought a year ago and till today I haven’t done anything with it!


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  Approximately nobody writing high performance code for AI training is using Windows. Why should they target it?


type: comment
by: deevus
text:
  From the status page:<p>archlinux.org currently only available via ipv6 due to DDoS<p>Our main website is currently under attack which causes is to only be available via IPv6. As we need help from our hosting provider due to the nature of the attack and support times are rather limited over the holidays this could take a while to resolve. Aside from that: Merry Christmas to everyone but the attackers (if you happen to celebrate it) :)


type: comment
by: baubino
text:
  This exactly. I bought an iPad in 2020, thinking it would be a second laptop to port around while my primary laptop stayed at home. Turns out that while the iPad can in theory do everything my laptop does, in practice certain tasks can be cumbersome. Now I just divide tasks between different devices and accept that certain things (like any image manipulation or editing) can only be done on my laptop or desktop. Then there’s the tasks that the iPad does perfectly fine (like writing) but the thin keyboard hurts my fingers if I’m at it for more than 30 minutes or so; I need a regular springy keyboard for a proper writing session. Apparently I type hard.<p>In all, I thought the iPad would be like a slightly smaller laptop, but instead it’s just an oversized phone.


type: comment
by: aristofun
text:
  All those horrors are not unique to human nature unfortunately, nor to the religion. Same or worth things were done in the name of any deity you can think of.<p>It’s not something that he brought to this world.<p>But what he brought was powerful and radical enough to slowly and eventually overcome many of the terrible animal-like human traits. Christian societies were the first that got rid of slavery, introduced human rights, democracy etc.<p>Yes, it took a long time to unravel and it’s not a finished process, but it’s not something that just happened. What feel natural for us today was not natural at all back then.<p>All critical ethical ideas that modern western civilization is based were either invented or popularized by that guy in some unique and unprecedented way.


type: story
by: gurvinderd
title: Show HN: Built Natural Language Test Automation Tool – OpenQA
url: https://github.com/openqa-labs/openqa
text:
  Write Automation Tests in Natural Language in Yaml file or using BDD in feature files. No need to write to maintain any code. Tool uses Claude Agent SDK and Playwright MCP. Integrate in CI jobs and see the usual Playwright Test results in html. Most AI Automation tools are either closed source or use keywords like act, verify etc and developer still need to maintain the test code. With OpenQA anyone on the team can write the automation tests be it Product manager, Business Analyst, Manual QA, Devs etc. Or ask AI to generate the tests in Yaml or BDD Gherkin format.


type: story
by: impact_sy
title: Flying Taxis? China Has Them. and Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too
url:
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/17/climate/china-hefei-clean-energy-drones-evs-robots.html


type: comment
by: spiritplumber
text:
  I did this for 3 years for two homeless women. Had to kick them out because I did not want meth in my home.


type: comment
by: bigiain
text:
  For me, &quot;overindulgent and annoying&quot; is way too harsh. But they feel _sooooo_ slow and I kind of resent &quot;missing out&quot; on the other books I could have read while the audiobook plods along (even at chipmunk 2x babble speed).


type: comment
by: II2II
text:
  Admittedly, I am more of a hobbiest when it comes to C++ development. I try to keep track of things, but I started learning the language before it was standardized and I switched to other languages shortly after it was standardized (never mind the introduction of memory safe option in the standard libraries, which occurred in the 2000&#x27;s). That said, memory safety has been a consideration, and a feature, for nearly 20 years now. It seems to me that people should have been taught how to approach it for nearly 20 years now. Sure, you can break the rules. Sure, anyone working with older code would have been exposed to bad code. Yet it shouldn&#x27;t be a universal problem unless people are deliberately seeking out shortcuts (since writing memory safe code in C++ is messier than writing unsafe code).


type: comment
by: gustavus
text:
  So my wife has a CGM and is stuck with a fancy pump that is supposed to &quot;automatically&quot; coordinate with her sensor to deliver or reduce insulin when it detects her numbers are too high&#x2F;low.<p>I&#x27;ve always been suspicious of the yahoos writing the software that controls these kinds of devices being a security guy and all.<p>But I also would love to participate in, contribute to or help in any way with reverse engineering, open sourcing, or in some other way making it so that my wife&#x27;s life isn&#x27;t dependent upon the quality of software developed by the lowest bidder they could outsource it to.<p>If anyone knows how I could help please let me know who to reach out to.


type: comment
by: Telaneo
text:
  Not in raw performance, no, but they&#x27;re only beat out by i9s and the like, which are very power hungry. If you care even a little bit about performance per watt, the M series are far superior.<p>Have a look at Geekbench&#x27;s results.[1] Ignore the top ones, since they&#x27;re invalid and almost certainly cheated (click to check). The iPads and such lower down are all legit, but the same goes for some of the i9s inbetween.<p>And honestly, the fact that you have to go up to power hungry desktop processors to even find something to compete with the chip that goes in an (admittedly high-end) iPad, is somewhat embarrassing on its face, and not for Apple.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v6&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;singlecore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v6&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;singlecore</a>


type: comment
by: cjsplat
text:
  The safety stats are per road mile, so it is normalized.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waymo.com&#x2F;safety&#x2F;impact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waymo.com&#x2F;safety&#x2F;impact&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: asacrowflies
text:
  Lol how vile. The usual claiming all progress and achievement globally for your in-group while spouting racist stupid white man&#x27;s burden nonsense about how you saved us all lmao. Only modern Christians can be so gross while having that Utah Mormon esque smile.


type: comment
by: Sublevel2245
text:
  Hi all, Posting a link to my open-source project KUYAN - a privacy-focused monthly net worth tracker in case someone would be interested to checking it out.<p><pre><code>   Multi-currency support (32 currencies)    All data stored locally (SQLite)    Docker &amp; Python deployment    Interactive charts &amp; year-over-year comparison</code></pre>


type: comment
by: tayo42
text:
  Leet code feels like doing crosswords. There&#x27;s a right answer to it, it&#x27;s like a puzzle. If completing is a grind that&#x27;s more of a mindset thing and how your approaching it.


type: comment
by: mikestorrent
text:
  I get it; not very sci-fi.<p>Well, they want to preserve a role for the editor; because the editor is not just checking the grammar but also the content, and weighing in with their relative objectivity on the current state of the story, what should be improved, what was good and what didn&#x27;t work, etc. and if we have AI glazing us continuously we will just produce slop; it may look like good fiction but it will not read like it, and people can tell the difference!


type: comment
by: wffurr
text:
  &quot;Original Commenter&quot;<p>I have not seen that particular jargon before but it rhymes with OP (Original Poster) that I was able to figure it out from context.


type: comment
by: guessmyname
text:
  Last name of father and mother, respectively.<p><pre><code>  let motherLastName = &quot;Carter Hughes&quot;   let fatherLastName = &quot;Miller Thompson&quot;   let childLastName  = &quot;Miller Carter&quot;   let childFullName  = &quot;Jean Paul Miller Carter&quot; </code></pre> Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.<p>You might ask, <i>—“Why does the father’s last name go first and the mother’s second?”—</i> That’s an old tradition, and it can change whenever enough people in our society agree. As it stands, the father’s family name tends to persist down the family tree, while the mother’s family name often disappears in each generation.<p>Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.


type: comment
by: DangitBobby
text:
  Isn&#x27;t awesome how the free hand of the market starts fixing our broken food industry only after a significant portion of the country gets out from under its boot? Just love the US of A more every day.


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  The best toys are the ones that your children love to play with. There isn&#x27;t a formal method for finding it. The rule of thumb is don&#x27;t buy noisy toys nor toys that have parts small enough to get lost under the car seats on first play.


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  I mean a line was gonna show up at some point. Maybe for a lot of people AI was that line. Or AI pushed too hard too quickly making the line too apparent.


type: comment
by: itsthecourier
text:
  that&#x27;s what I was thinking. have tried to help people before, but when they have some mental disabilities is difficult for them to keep their instincts in check, then we have to care of small children in the same space, thus best I can do is help while keeping the distance :(


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  I think they’re upset that the library was to be released under LGPL or whatever, even though they clearly went and read from it anyway when implementing their thing.


type: comment
by: mr_o47
text:
  I won&#x27;t say it&#x27;s same on the level of claude models but it&#x27;s definitely good at coming up with frontend designs


type: comment
by: Telaneo
text:
  If the Macbook has a bad keyboard (ignoring the Butterfly switches, which aren&#x27;t on any of the M series machines, which are the ones people actually recommend and praise), then the vast majority of Windows machine have truly atrocious keyboards. I prefer the keyboard on my 2012 Macbook to the newer ones, but it&#x27;s still better than the Windows machines I can test in local stores.<p>I prefer the aluminium to the plastic found on most Windows machines. The Framework is made from some aluminium alloy from what I know, and I see that as a good thing.<p>The soldered RAM sucks, but it&#x27;s a trade-off I&#x27;m willing to make for a touchpad that actually works, a pretty good screen, and battery life that doesn&#x27;t suck.


type: comment
by: reneberlin
text:
  compare it to jp2a &#x2F; ascii-image-converter In ascii they perform very well without ML, of course. You could set up a training based on that.


type: comment
by: asacrowflies
text:
  And you wish to speak of technology as if that is from your Christ.... What happened to gallileo? Copernicus? Descartes? Almost every great philosopher and scientist for the past 500 years has been in direct conflict with Christianity.... And Christianity is the reason TODAY in America we have to deal with anti-vaxxera, evolution isn&#x27;t real, young earth creationist etc etc.... maybe you should stfu before opening your mouth to spout such stupidity.


type: comment
by: ivewonyoung
text:
  &gt; The FDA reports that Freestyle injured over 700 people and killed seven people with this bug. Spcifically, the bug caused the device to falsely report an extremely low glucose level. Advanced stage diabetics use low reading information to inform them that they may have too much insulin currently. The usual remedy is to eat something sugary to raise glucose in the blood. Such should be done only with great care, as a false low reading can harm and even kill the patient (who eats a high-sugar-content item while glucose in the blood is, in fact, not low)<p>I bet almost everyone with a device with that bug was injured more or less, because high blood sugar is a silent damager of many organs resulting in  cumulative damage without overt short term symptoms of injury. For example, slow damage to eyesight, kidneys and nerves in the feet.


