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Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157678]

Varies by country. [1] Europe, even within the Schengen zone, is split on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

What really struck me, besides the nice car is the quality of the text of the article.

ceejayoz ranked #35 [karma: 86775]
stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

Yeah but use of the models isn't limited to the company.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157678]

It's been all downhill for Mozilla since Brendan Eich was fired.

rayiner ranked #17 [karma: 125129]

Sounds great to me actually. I’m glad the states still have the leverage to do this.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

I’m surprised folks aren’t already grinding against smart contract security in prod with gen AI and agents. If they are, I suppose they are not being conspicuous by design. Power and GPU time goes in, exploits and crypto comes out.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 414041]

Real poverty is not in fact "closer to $140,000 than to $31,000" and economics people have been dunking on that claim for a week now on Twitter.

simonw ranked #33 [karma: 88584]

Richard Weiss got Claude Opus 4.5 to spit out this lengthy document that turns out to be part of its training (not its system prompt) and defines its personality and ethics - he wrote about how he did that here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5...

Amanda Askell from Anthropic just confirmed that the document is indeed part of their supervised learning training: https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610567923695633

> I just want to confirm that this is based on a real document and we did train Claude on it, including in SL. It's something I've been working on for a while, but it's still being iterated on and we intend to release the full version and more details soon.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

I have no problem with LLM generated PRs in my repo, I merged one the other day and it was very helpful. What I do have a problem with is two things:

0. Make the PR reviewable. That means small, logically distinct PRs, not one huge PR with a bunch of stuff in it.

1. You are 100% completely responsible for the code. I gave the maintainer some feedback on how to add a few lines of comments, they gave that to the LLM, which changed an unrelated path in a pre-commit hook. That's unacceptable, I don't want to babysit your LLM because you can't be bothered to review its output.

2. If I talk to you, I expect you to talk to me. I asked the author a question with a simple answer, and got four pages of LLM ELI5. If I wanted to read four pages of text, I'd open Anna Karenina.

You might notice that the above requirements don't have anything to do with LLMs. I expect them whether a person wrote the PR or an LLM. It's basic etiquette.

I don't think OSS contributors suddenly went crazy and started being rude, but I do think that LLMs allow people who have never contributed to OSS before to start doing it, before they know the rules of OSS etiquette. I'm not sure that's a net positive, but I hope we'll all learn.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99136]
JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

So the 4D chess move in April '25 was importing a boatloads of Gucci, car parts and jamón ibérico [1], undercutting the competition, stiffing CBP and then mailing in a gilded copy of the SCOTUS opinion saying you owe fuckall?

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-biggest-price-hikes-tied-10...

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

With $85/month service (AT&T unlimited premium with only a single line) and financing a $2,000 phone (The smaller storage version of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 at MSRP) over 18 months, you’d hit almost exactly that; you could so the same with a cheaper service and/or phone with some add-ons (e.g., while Apple Care is billed directly by Apple and so wouldn't be on a phone bill, insurance for non-Apple phones is often billed by carriers on phone bills.)

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

This is just the conversational interface issue. You need the system to be able to do most of the things you would expect a human to be able to do (e.g. if you're talking to your phone, you'd expect it to be able to do most phone things). If the conversational system can only do a small subset of those, then it just becomes a game of "discover the magical incantation that will be in the set of possibilities", and becomes an exercise in frustration.

This is why LLMs are the first conversational interface to actually have a chance of working, once you give them enough tools.

nostrademons ranked #39 [karma: 81553]

If that’s true it would be quite interesting, as the AI folks are winning almost everywhere else in the software industry, notably at Google.

nostrademons ranked #39 [karma: 81553]

Its purpose was to get training data for speech recognition. Once Google’s speech recognition was working reliably, there wasn’t much reason to offer the service got free.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77354]

Where is this "real AI" you speak of?

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> it really feels like Apple focused so much on privacy and now has no strategy of how to make that work with AI right now

I see Apple dusting off its OG playbook.

We're in the minicomputing era of AI. If scaling continues to bear fruit, we'll stay there for some time. Potentially indefinitely. If, however, scaling plateaus, miniaturisation retakes precedence. At that point, Apple's hardware (and Google's mindshare) incumbency gains precedence.

In the meantime, Apple builds devices and writes the OS that commands how the richest consumers on Earth store and transmit their data. That gives them a default seat at every AI table, whether they bother to show up or not.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

Literally doesn’t matter to the people making these decisions. It’s unfortunate.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> Because children don’t contribute to GDP

The simplest model of GDP is productivity per capital times population. And the simplest model in finance is moving cash flows around in time.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> wasn't a SINGLE ONE that would tolerate someone declining EVERY MEETING when the culture does not align to the ideals this presentation outlines

Well yes, if the culture doesn't allow it then it's not going to happen. That doesn't mean those cultures don't exist or that they can't be created, even if just in a pocket

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people?

You'll cross-pollinate across functions. Or at least increase the chances of that happening. Not saying that's worth the tradeoff. But my time in the office often finds serendipitious value in random off-team conversations, not scheduled time.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

Well, I am quite sure in many European countries I can refuse that practice as per work legislation.

Now if people aren't keen into fighting for their rights, that is another matter.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

That truck carries 500 packages. That drone one or two at best so to replace one truck you're looking at 100's of flights + return flights. And I'm not convinced the risks are lower.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77354]

And the employees most likely to quit will be ones with responsibilities that make it difficult to do the commute 5 days a week - kids to pick up from daycare, health issues to manage, a social life in the evenings, travel plans - basically the exact category that a company like Meta would want to replace with a younger, more exploitable bunch.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 414041]

I'm not a fan of Ruby, but the original Wired article is pure, distilled rage-clickbait, and nobody should be dignifying it. An interesting case where there'd be a more generous reading had the piece run solely on a blog, rather than on Wired.com.

But even if it had been written in good faith, this species of article (specifically: harsh critiques of popular programming languages written by people who aren't ongoing practitioners in that language) are a toxin to HN, the resulting language fights they gin up one of our closest equivalents to a cytokine storm. Don't feed into them.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 414041]

"Dark pattern" implies intentionality; that's not a technicality, it's the whole reason we have the term. This article is mostly about how sycophancy is an emergent property of LLMs. It's also 7 months old.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101726]

I wouldn't say that human intelligence is "the pinnacle" but I do think that more intelligence might not turn into the ability to solve harder problems.

For instance the problem with high energy physics is not that people don't have ideas but rather we have limited experimental and observational results that would let us tell one theory from another.

Similarly I don't think more intelligence would help in solving the Collatz conjecture.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]
dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

59 year olds were born in 1966, so the average homebuyer is from Gen X, not a Boomer.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

That's not the point of this thread. The original point is whether there's any desirable mass surveillance. I think we've pretty much shown there isn't.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

Potentially helpful citations below:

So you're a manager now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745123 - July 2025 (185 comments)

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change [Learning Notes] - https://keyvanakbary.github.io/learning-notes/books/the-mana...

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157678]

What does this app actually do, in detail? Anyone know?

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

BYD Sold Nearly Three Times As Many Cars As Tesla In Europe - https://www.carscoops.com/2025/11/byd-sold-nearly-3-times-as... - November 26th, 2025

* Chinese automakers now hold 6.8% of total European new car sales.

* BYD’s European sales jumped 206.8% in October compared to 2024.

* Tesla’s sales plunged 48.5% in October to just 6,964 vehicles.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101726]

It's still facing the headwind that a lot of people still don't believe that Steam can give you a lean-back experience which is fun like a game console. Some people still think PC games all have sweaty keyboard and mouse control schemes and those crappy huge joysticks from the 1990s that were always falling apart and had to be recalibrated every few minutes -- and that's what is keeping the PS5 alive.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> don’t see it as a bad thing for Intel

Isn't this a ringing success for their strategy of separating chip design from fabrication?

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101726]

I dunno. The 6502 has been a $2 part for a long time but needs RAM and some glue logic, for a similar price you can get an AVR-8 [1] or ESP-32 [2] and get some RAM and GPIO.

[1] faster, more registers than the IBM 360, << 64k RAM

[2] much faster, 32bit, >> 64k RAM

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

Crashing the economy is of course going to have knock on effects. I don't think anybody should be surprised by this?

Housing is essentially a bottomless pit when the economy is good, it can sink any amount of money because it is an absolute necessity. So when people have money they'll use it to bid against each other for a scarce resource. But when the economy pauses or even starts to shrink then that surplus evaporates and one of the first indicators that this is happening is the demand for housing. Usually the result will be some price adjustments and after that it is business as usual. But if the cuts go deeper then there may be more substantial effects.

The only thing that is holding the US economy afloat right now is the fact that there are still a couple of levers of power that Trump hasn't gotten his fingers on. When and if that happens I fully expect things to go into freefall.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

~4M homes transacted in 2025. Price levels will decline over time, it's just who has to sell first. Life/forced sales (divorce, death, relo, downsize for costs, etc) are up first vs irrational sellers pining for historical price levels. Foreclosures are rising (especially in Florida, taxes and insurance going up), but not materially imho (yet? tbd based on how the economy holds up, all real estate is local).

Delistings Jump 28% as Sellers Pull Homes Off Market Rather Than Settle For Low Prices - https://www.redfin.com/news/delistings-jump-sellers-pull-hom... - November 25th, 2025

Foreclosures Rise for 8th Straight Month—These States Have the Worst Rates - https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/foreclosure-increase-att... - November 14th, 2025

Pending Home Sales Slip As Would-Be Buyers Wait For Lower Rates and Economic Clarity - https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-pending-sa... - November 13th, 2025

(real estate market participant)

minimaxir ranked #49 [karma: 73063]

Only the rc0, v5 is not GA. Hugging Face has been confusing on this point on social media.

> Nothing is final and things are still actively in movement. We have a section dedicated to what is planned for future release candidates, yet is known not to work in the RC0. Look for "Disclaimers for the RC0".

> We'll be eagerly awaiting your feedback in our GitHub issues!

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> Do they actually have a choice?

Yes. Apple's revenues are half as much as the government of India's [1][2]. That's a resource advantage that gives Cupertino real leverage against New Delhi.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-reports-fourth-... $102.5bn / quarter

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen... $827bn / year

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> WhatsApp is the only chat app I've encountered that refuses to work if you don't give it access to your contacts*

I've never given it access to my contacts. (iOS.) It's worked fine. I recently started giving it access to a limited set of my contacts, but that was for convenience.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

This is golden career advice. Heed it well.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

Putin is a lot but he is not a communist.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

I think it's a broader macro issue of software companies up against crazy AI valuations and investing momentum. Software company multiples and valuations should recover (imho, n=1) when AI fever cools.

> GitLab drew the headlines, but ARK trimmed multiple holdings as it doubled down on themes she feels have more punch in the near term.

> That’s a familiar ARK playbook: Wood cuts exposure where momentum cools off, while adding to disruptors, keeping the portfolio pointed toward the more fast-moving corners of innovation.

Capital folks are trimming what they believe to be slower or slowing growth enterprises to free up capital to follow the AI momentum trade.

(not investing advice, thoughts and opinions always my own)

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

Double hyphen is replaced in some software with an en-dash (and in those, a triple hyphen is often replaced with an em-dash), and in some with an em-dash; its usually used (other than as input to one of those pieces of software) in places where an em-dash would be appropriate, but in contexts where both an em-dash set closed and an en-dash set open might be used, it is often set open.

So, it’s not unambiguously s substitute for either is essentially its own punctuation mark used in ASCII-only environments with some influence from both the use of em-dashed and that of en-dashes in more formal environments.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]
jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

The engineering on anything made by Tek is nothing short of amazing. I've a really old 'regular' scope (ok, what's really, old, by Tek standards it is still young) and a much smaller and lighter (and a bit less deep) digital one, an anemic TDS 210 that is more than good enough for any of my needs these days. But if you ever have the opportunity to have a close look at one of those scope racks on trolleys be prepared to be amazed, especially when you learn when it was made.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172459]

> whereas in English it’s em-dashes without spaces

Didn't know! Woot, I win!

Why does AI have a preference for doing it differently?

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

Thankfully getting laptops with 32 GB on PC land isn't the same as paying Apple premium.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

Tax subsized bailouts usually are structured to protect the corporation as a separate entity, creditors (compared to letting the org continue on its unimpeded path), employees, and sometimes, beyond their position as current creditors, suppliers, but not as often do they protect existing equity holders.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

Costco, Bosch, companies with moats who aren't extracting from their customers (broadly speaking). I would've included Southwest Airlines until Elliot Management came in to squeeze the org for returns, and has enshittified the carrier in the process.

mooreds ranked #36 [karma: 85943]

FusionAuth | Senior Java Engineer, Senior Security Engineer, Account Executive | Varies between REMOTE and ONSITE in Denver, CO, USA, details in job desc | Salaries listed on job req, but for the Java Engineer it is 140k-180k

Our mission is to make authentication and authorization simple and secure for every developer building web and mobile applications. We want devs to stop worrying about auth and focus on building something awesome. We also just acquired a fine-grained authorization company ( https://fusionauth.io/blog/fusionauth-acquires-permify ) and are going to be building in that area as well.

There are a lot of companies in the auth space, but we feel like we have something special:

* a unique deployment model (self-host on-prem or in your cloud or run in our cloud)

* A well designed API first approach; one customer compared our app to petrichor

* a mature product (the code base is nine+ years old and we've found and fixed a lot of the sharp edges around core login use cases; there are plenty more features to add)

* the CTO is the founder and still writes code

* a full featured free-as-in-beer version which makes the sales cycle easier; prospects often come in having prototyped an integration already

Our core software is commercial with a "free as in beer" version. We also open source much of our supporting infrastructure. Technologies and standards that you will work with: Modern Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, OAuth, SAML, OIDC.

Learn more, including about benefits and salaries, and apply here: https://fusionauth.io/careers/ ( Click/tap the 'View open positions' orange button. )

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79445]

Thank you. The idea that this is due to ads makes complete sense, as there's a lot of indication that Netflix charges more for ads showing on a TV (more people likely to view) than on a mobile device (usually only one person).

The fact that casting is still supported for older Chromecasts only on ad-free plans makes this the likeliest explanation to me. Netflix doesn't want to be paid lower rates on ads that are actually getting shown on the TV.

mooreds ranked #36 [karma: 85943]
dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

"Microservices" were called "microservices" because "service-oriented architecture" had devolved in practice, and even moreso in the general consciousness which had largely rejected it for this reason, into near-monoliths that supported SOAP and the WS-* series of standards for integration.

Then, after they became popular, people got carried away with the "micro" bit, and "microservices" started getting rejected because the associated practice had skewed in the opposite direction that had caused "SOA" to be rejected.

I guess the next iteration needs to be "goldilocks services".

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

They are still ignoring Linux, hence why Valve is using Proton, the validation they failed to convince studios to care, studios that happen to target systems like Android NDK, or use platform agnostic engines.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79445]

It's not the future. Tell him not to do that. If it happens again, bring it to the attention of his manager. Because that's not what he's being paid for. If he continues to do it, that's grounds for firing.

What you're describing is not the future. It's a fireable offense.

simonw ranked #33 [karma: 88584]

Having key browser implementers not involved in the standards processes is what lead us to the W3C wasting several years chasing XHTML 2.0.

simonw ranked #33 [karma: 88584]

You may find you get more value out of this project if you publish the source code - even if you do so not under an open source license.

Asking people to download and run an untrusted Windows executable is a major barrier to demonstrating your skills. I don't even have a Windows machine to hand to try it out on!

Showing the source code would give people a much better idea of what you can do.

If you're not willing to publish the source code (and that's a perfectly reasonable decision, it's your work!) I suggest creating a video that demonstrates the project.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101726]

It'll be in PDF sooner, and my experience is that PDF >> any other system for ebooks. I liked the idea of EPUB but when I recently installed an EPUB reader to read some files I was shocked at how awful it looked whereas for 15 years I've been reading PDF files on tablets with relish.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 182685]

An incredible machine. I didn't remember this one had a dot-matrix font - later ones had a vector-based one. I'd love to see the definitions for this latter screen font.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77354]

I remember the time when smart homes used to feature in sci-fi literature and concept videos. Being able to walk around your house while having everything seamlessly synced and tailored to your preferences was clearly the future. TV, movies and music automatically playing in whatever room your enter. Files and all other data seamlessly synced between all your devices. Not having to think about how to make the tech work, because it all just works.

The frustrating thing is that we've had all the tech to make this possible for at least 10-20 years now. Yet "smart" homes are getting worse with every passing year. Why? Because consumer technology is monopolized by a handful of large corporations whose goal isn't to make people's lives easier but build walled gardens and restrictions to best extract every last cent.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101726]

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa is common in the environment and in serious infections that people get in and out of the hospital.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]
simonw ranked #33 [karma: 88584]

Is this a joke? It's so hard to tell these days.

walterbell ranked #29 [karma: 94843]

What's a good alternative to 2010 Thinkpad X200 series, with potential for coreboot support?

simonw ranked #33 [karma: 88584]

The latest DeepSeek and Kimi open weight models are competitive with GPT-5.

If every AI lab were to go bust tomorrow, we could still hire expensive GPU servers (there would suddenly be a glut of those!) and use them to run those open weight models and continue as we do today.

Sure, the models wouldn't ever get any better in the future - but existing teams that rely on them would be able to keep on working with surprisingly little disruption.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79445]

I said call your representative about arbitration, not privacy. Because arbitration is everywhere -- not installing an app isn't going to make much difference.

Reps' offices absolutely tally the subjects their constituents call about, and it affects what bills they vote for and propose. Obviously it has to be lots of people calling, but those are made of individuals. There are tons of examples of successful organizing leading to change. But yes it definitely takes organizational effort.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99136]
jgrahamc ranked #30 [karma: 93500]

In my 6502 hacking days, the presence of an exclusive OR was a sure-fire indicator you’d either found the encryption part of the code, or some kind of sprite routine.

Yeah, sadly the 6502 didn't allow you to do EOR A; while the Z80 did allow XOR A. If I remember correctly XOR A was AF and LD A, 0 was 3E 01[1]. So saved a whole byte! And I think the XOR was 3 clock cycles fast than the LD. So less space taken up by the instruction and faster.

I have a very distinct memory in my first job (writing x86 assembly) of the CEO walking up behind my desk and pointing out that I'd done MOV AX, 0 when I could have done XOR AX, AX.

[1] 3E 00

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89278]

Was that 1 year ago or 5?

>I don't care about its supposed advantages

Since it will be the only game in town soon, it's time to start caring - or people will also have to change DEs and other apps, which would be much more trouble than getting on with the program.

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89278]

>Okay, but how does this supposed "misalignment" look on the picture?

People who are the target audience for this tool already know.

>Would I even notice it?

Yes.

>The purpose of a comparison is to prove that they are nicer/better/crisper whatever they want to claim.

They don't need to prove it to their target users. They already know the problem (for which several tools exist).

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89278]

I've seen prices for memory, SSDs, thunderbolt hubs, and thunderbolt/high end USB cables, flatline or get worse over the last 3 or so years.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112567]

I'd add:

8) Quiet but above-noise sound persisting for some time (might be worth checking out and then adjusting the cutoff level up, if it turns out to be more wind)

9) Complete silence (possibly malfunction) or sound levels dropping far below expected background (weird).

pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 181326]
jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

It absolutely does not have to be open cycle, but that saves some money and externalizes the problem in the form of heating up the ground water.

pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 181326]
doener ranked #45 [karma: 75340]

Please note: I just stumbled upon this and have no affiliation with this project.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

The wonder of Linux Desktop fragmentation, each doing their own little contribution for the Year of Linux Desktop.

doener ranked #45 [karma: 75340]

No modding and higher prices of games on consoles though.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

Ok, I'll bite: What's the harm of LLMs?

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

Hm, most of these seem updated 3-4 years ago, is this list relevant any more?

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

Are you saying you reject the use of "we" for any group that doesn't include you?

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

Adding my voice to sibling comments, this is from European experience, I have had several times been dumped from consulting projects, and having to do competence transfer to the offshoring team that would take over our team roles.

Around five times since 2007.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

Most of the various "let Antigravity do X without confirmation" options have an "Always" and "Never" option but default to "auto" which is "let an agent decide whether to seek to user confirmation".

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74563]

Yes, because it's entirely possible to do. Hell, the manufacturer even charged a price when you bought the car, or I can pay the $20 for my lifetime share of server usage.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123275]

HIPAA has nothing to do with the usual company values I was talking about.

HIPAA is a certification process for industry deployments.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

I don't particularly like the Windows naming structure, but it made just as much sense with later removable-media-with-fixed-drives systems (like optical drives) as it did with floppy drives. It maybe makes less sense now that storage is either fixed media or detachable drives, rather than some being removable media in fixed drives, but the period after commonn removable media is a lot shorter than the period after common floppy drives.

(And mostly, I'm talking about using drive letters rather than something like what unix does. C being the first fixed media device, may seem more arbitrary now, but it was pretty arbitrary even in the floppy era.)

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157678]

Can you run Google's AI in a sandbox? It ought to be possible to lock it to a Github branch, for example.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

> My pet theory is that we are experiencing stagflation, but only people >70 years old have ever really experienced it before, so most people are just scratching their heads wondering how it’s possible that stocks keep going up (inflation) while jobs are disappearing (stagnation).

We do not seem to be technically experiencing stagflation,ir really either half of it, on a national scale, as we appear to still be in a weak aggregate economic expansion and inflation, while higher than the 2% target, is fairly mild at around a 3% annualized rate [0], and, in any case, stocks going up is not inflation (unqualified inflation, which is the inflation part of stagflation, in consumer price inflation, not asset value inflation.)

OTOH, we are in a very weak economy especially outside of the leading AI firms, and there are quite likely both wide regions and wide sectors of the economy which, considered alone, would be in recession, and while inflation is fairly mild, it is high for the last couple decades and being in near-recession conditions. So, for a lot of people, the experience is a something like stagflation (and there are lots of signs that the economic slowdown will continue alongside rising inflation.)

[0] though as economic statistics are only available after the fact, either of these could have changed, but the real defining period for “stagflation” in the US is the 1973-1975 recession, years which saw a minimum of 6.2% inflation (the term was actually coined in the UK for conditions which saw a massive drop in GDP growth rate, fron 5.7% annually to 2.1% in successive years, but not an actual recession, alongside 4.8% inflation.)

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126139]

No, Advent is the liturgical season preceding Christmas, beginning the fourth Sunday before Christmas (which is also the Sunday nearest November 30), it is a period of at least three weeks and one day (the shortest period that can start on a Sunday and include four Sundays.)

The 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas and end on January 5, the eve of the Feast of Epiphany.

12-day advent calendars are a fairly recent invention that mirrors the 12-days of Christmas, but has no direct correspondence to anything in any traditional Christian religious calendar (the more common 24-day format is also a modern, but less recent, invention detached from the religious calendar, that simplifies by ignoring the floating start date of advent and always starting on Dec. 1.)

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 103245]

I see this in a similar light to the opioid crisis. While it won’t directly kill you like opioid addiction or overdose, economically strip mining Gen Z and Gen Alpha for gains using meme stocks, crypto, sports betting, prediction markets, and similar systems is going to leave us in a bad spot after these enterprises have left with their gains.

Indicators to track will be suicide, bankruptcies, domestic violence, military washout rate, etc.

Related:

The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079617 - November 2025

”Giving Up": The Impact of Decreasing Housing Affordability on Consumption, Work Effort, and Investment - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5770722 - November 19, 2025

WalterBright ranked #41 [karma: 78032]

As always, free markets are a chaotic system of creative destruction.

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89278]

>One major thing this has exposed is how many people from non US countries are grifting on the cultural war between the left and right in the US by pretending to be on either side.

The US has shoved so much of its internal politics and culture over the whole world's throat, and dominates so much of the internet, and US-inspired regional politics in a lot of the world, that many people legitimately get caught up and chime in on US hot topics even the culture war too

zdw ranked #13 [karma: 136625]

Can I file a claim if I'm related to folks who shared their (and by extension, my) DNA with this company?

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

That's an OVH Singapore IP, did they flag this to OVH? That server should be taken offline and the contents preserved for forensics.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

Yes, I was thinking more from a tech perspective, not from a price perspective.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234102]

Make no mistake: Lego makes a great product but they are an evil corporation. They have been so from the day they started making bricks (they stole the design, the marketing content and even the boxes), they continued when they sued everybody and their dog for doing the same thing that they themselves did, only much worse, and finally they did it again when they acquired Bricklink and started merging accounts with the Lego website. And probably many times in between when they created incompatibilities between older and newer sets just to drive sales.

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89278]

And by the 2010s what passes for "rebellion" is just things co-opted by corporate interests and established parties.