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One of the reasons is that there are a lot of adverts masquerading as Show HN.
Yeah, just last year I had several issues with a Gigabyte board that refused to boot Linux regardless of the UEFI incantation, paritions being used, or distribution, yet it had no problems booting the very same M.2 SSD if plugged via an external case.
Eventually it gets tiring, I still remember Yggdrasil, my first distro was Slackware 2.0, bundled on Linux Unleashed first edition in 1995.
Yes, but it is a massive investment in time to establish a presence and if it is all going to be used by some asshole billionaire in the long term then I'll just opt out.
How far we have fallen from the "Do no evil" marketing.
I've been static linking my executables for years. The downside, that you might end up with an outdated library, is no match for the upsite: just take the binary and run it. As long as you're the only user of the system and the code is your own you're going to be just fine.
We had a time when static binaries where pretty much the only thing we had available.
Here is an idea, lets go back to pure UNIX distros using static binaries with OS IPC for any kind of application dynamism, I bet it will work out great, after all it did for several years.
Got to put that RAM to use.
Same article also says the bill includes a ban on social media for users under 16, like Australia. Pretty dramatic change.
Meanwhile the government and official accounts continue to use X even as they're trying to ban it. Mixed messaging.
Lead proponent of the VPN ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash,_Baron_Nash; he's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies again, the dead hand of Thatcherism.
Nothing, the point is that they have a couple of fig leaf reasons while doing what they want to do anyway.
While this is a great piece of work, lets take a second to consider how much resources the Amiga 500 had, and how much is needed to run this clone.
Something that I always wondered about this tool, and why I bucketed it in my mind as a "cool but ultimately boring toy" - why are all effects perfectly spherical? Surely the actual effect, especially for lower-yield devices, would be meaningfully affected by local topography and even buildings?
Huh, through experience with (mostly non-premium) LED bulbs, I've learned to interpret "gradually dims over the course of a second" an an early indicator of imminent bulb failure.
This is an entry on my link blog - make sure to read the article it links to for full context, my commentary alone might not make sense otherwise: https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
> Materials like this are infinitely more accessible to us than our grandparents generation. We all have devices in our pockets that can get to service manuals for our products in minutes.
You mean minutes to find the right bootleg manual site with PDF for an adjacent product category, then some more minutes to realize you cannot safely (if at all) get at the manual, some more minutes to find a different bootleg PDF site, realize that it's actually not close enough to the model you have, and 1h later, finally find the good enough PDF... only to realize that "service manuals" today are often useless, and decide to repeat this process on YouTube?
> I can have common parts at my door overnight from Amazon with the press of a button on my phone.
Overnight is often too long. Also good luck finding the right parts and reconciling conflicting IDs between manuals, manufacturers and vendors.
> Every local hardware store carries replacement cartridges and gaskets for common faucet types.
Except when 90% of the faucets are uncommon, and support for them gets effectively discontinued after a few years.
Now contrast that with our grandparents, who usually had repair manuals included with the product, most parts were universal (and probably on-hand or extractable from something else at home), and you could actually go to a local hardware store where the clerk would be able to figure out what parts you needed on the spot, and with luck had them in stock.
I'm not claiming our grandparents had it better in general, but let's also not pretend there are no downsides to ongoing specialization and market competition. We may have more stuff, prettier stuff, better stuff[0], but nothing is ever compatible with anything, it's that way on purpose, and people are no longer supposed to repair anything themselves.
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[0] - That's highly debatable in appliance space.
More likely it will be used to brain control the population
That's because the "30k" number is bs
It's not a stupid question but: technically, after passing through Google's facility that is now gray water, and you can't use that for agriculture or any other 'common usage' without a whole raft of work and you can't just dump it into the aquifer either.
Even if that is the case, as per my comments, Windows is my main OS driver despite its flaws, and I have not found any ARM laptop that I would bother buying.
On the GNU/Linux side, the only thing has been Chromebooks, which aren't worth their money for the usual 4/8 GB, 126 GB, average SOC, most devices have.
It could be a different story if OEMs would finally start selling properly supported laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed on computer stores, those that normies visit, not the online ones HN members know where to find, or build themselves from PC parts.
And on the Apple side it isn't going much better, given that new devices come with Tahoe.
It is an overall failure of the system, and wrong incentives for computer companies.
Contrary to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would assert yes, and that is also the answer on the article for the TL;DR; folks out there.
Otherwise don't whine when projects die.
Because that is actually UNIX user permissions/groups, with a long history of what works, and what doesn't?
No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports.
C++ name mangling was exactly designed to be able to link C++ code with a standard UNIX linker that only knows C.
GNAT has zero compatibility with C source, doesn't even make sense.
Ah yes, you are right! I was going by ear, rather than by the written version, in fact I can't recall seeing it written. German is a language that I will happily use but don't ask me to write a letter in it, you'll probably need exponential notation to represent the number of errors.
Does TikTok even have persistent personalities of this type? I thought a big part of the service was its recommendation algorithm that will keep recommending you other new stuff, not just reruns of the same influencers.
There was a post a while ago, I think it was here, pictures from Iran in the early 1970's. It looked absolutely amazing.
This is the kind of nitpicking that I love to see on HN, it is establishes the boundaries of the relationship between manufacturers and owners and tries to lay bare the need for (informed) consent and what the legal basis for that is.
It's interesting to see the prices back then - the model 400 cost $24.95 (see page 15), which would be around $260 today.
Incidentally, the newer variants also have flow restrictors, which aren't hard to remove.
Doctor Yellow.[1] Full rail inspection every ten days.
I remember that being true of early ChatGPT, but it's certainly not true anymore; GPT 4o and 5 have tagged along with me through all of MathAcademy MFII, MFIII, and MFML (this is roughly undergrad Calc 2 and then like half a stat class and 2/3rds of a linear algebra class) and I can't remember it getting anything wrong.
Presumably this is all a consequence of better tool call training and better math tool calls behind the scenes, but: they're really good at math stuff now, including checking my proofs (of course, the proof stuff I've had to do is extremely boring and nothing resembling actual science; I'm just saying, they don't make 7th-grader mistakes anymore.)
I think a useful litmus test for these kinds of stories is: do the people who most actively participate on them believe there's a conversation to be had, with multiple perspectives, not all of which agree with theirs? That's what this site is for.
If not, they're wrong for this site; more than wrong, corrosive. The stories themselves aren't bad (I have a lot of strong political beliefs too), but they're incompatible with the mode of discussion we have here: an unsiloed single front page and a large common pool of commenters.
(For the record: I don't believe there's a productive conversation to be had about ICE in Minnesota and wouldn't care to argue with anyone defending their actions. All the more reason not to nurture threads about it here.)
PS: I'm a longstanding "too-much-politics-on-HN" person, and even I'm a little annoyed that Jonathan Rauch's piece won't work here, if only so I can annoyingly noodle on the varying definitions of fascism. But flags are the right call here.
Pointing out a user’s hypocrisy from their contribution history violates which rule? Please be specific. You cannot say “No politics please.” when it’s clear the argument being put forth is “but only politics I don’t like.”
They posted their blog post. That was a choice, and theirs to defend against evidence presented.
Somewhat ironic that the author calls out model mistakes and then presents https://tomaszmachnik.pl/gemini-fix-en.html - a technique they claim reduces hallucinations which looks wildly superstitious to me.
It involves spinning a whole yarn to the model about how it was trained to compete against other models but now it's won so it's safe for it to admit when it doesn't know something.
I call this a superstition because the author provides no proof that all of that lengthy argument with the model is necessary. Does replacing that lengthy text with "if you aren't sure of the answer say you don't know" have the same exact effect?
For comparison, estimates of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre death count are usually put in the 300-1,000 range by journalists and human rights groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
Better take another look at your profile!
Just to be clear, this is specific to did:web, did:plc does not have the same downsides (it has different ones).
Venice is the extreme "tail wagging the dog" situation. Venice is dinky. It's not much bigger than San Francisco. Yet it was a major European power for centuries.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
We blew up shipwrecked survivors a few weeks ago, which is a textbook example of a war crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attac...
> Two survivors of the initial attack later appeared to wave at the aircraft after clambering aboard an overturned piece of the hull, before the military killed them in a follow-up strike that also sank the wreckage. It is not clear whether the initial survivors knew that the explosion on their vessel had been caused by a missile attack.
And "textbook" is not an exaggeration.
https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-survivors-hegseth-72...
> The Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of war describes a scenario similar to the Sept. 2 boat strike when discussing when service members should refuse to comply with unlawful orders. “For example,” the manual says, “orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.”
This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?
Religiosity is negatively correlated with intelligence, so it sounds directionally accurate.
The primary legacy of Occupy Wall Street is that "the 1%" became a meme. Enough so that policies are still evaluated on how they affect "the 1%" vs the rest of the population. The concentration of wealth in the US became much better known. It did not, however, reduce that concentration of wealth.
Great news that these draconian pro natalism efforts will be ineffective. Low fertility rates and traps are primarily due to modernization and more opportunities for women. Bodes well for the citizens of remaining countries not yet below replacement rate, as their modernization and opportunities approaches.
> While China’s historic programs to push down fertility rates were successful, they were aided by wider societal changes: The policies were in force while China was modernizing and moving toward becoming an industrial and urbanized society.
> It’s policies aimed at increasing the birth rate now find unfavorable societal headwinds. Modernization has led to better educational and work opportunities for women – a factor pushing many to put off having children.
> In fact, most of China’s fertility reduction, especially since the 1990s, has been voluntary – more a result of modernization than fertility-control policies. Chinese couples are having fewer children due to higher living costs and educational expenses involved in having more than one child.
> Another factor to take into consideration is what demographers refer to as the “low-fertility trap.” This hypothesis, advanced by demographers in the 2000s, holds that once a country’s fertility rate drops below 1.5 or 1.4 – far higher than China’s now stands – it is very difficult to increase it by 0.3 or more.
> The argument goes that fertility declines to these low levels are largely the result of changes in living standards and increasing opportunities for women.
> Accordingly, it is most unlikely that China’s three-child policy will have any influence at all on raising the fertility rate. And all my years of studying China’s demographic trends lead me to believe that making contraceptives marginally more expensive will also have very little effect.
If you think it's going to replace you, then it's going to replace you regardless of whether you personally are feeding it data or not.
If it produces value for you, you should use it. If not, don't.
Individuals can change the world, too. Lee Harvey Oswald, for one. Elon Musk, for another (in a totally different way). And Fritz Haber. Plenty more.
tl;dr: things are fucked because we have been too content to rely on hopium, we need more fictional doomer and rebellion narratives to spur (other) people to action in the real world and change their cultural orientation over the long term.
There's a lot of problems with this perspective, but a very simple pragmatic one is that these data sets depend on volunteer consent, which will be withheld if people believe their contributed data will be used this way. At the end of the day, human consent is the paramount concern.
“…not only did Iryo train's front carriages which stayed on the track have "notches" in their wheels, but three earlier trains that went over the track earlier did too.”
This sounds like something a camera mounted on a sample of trains watching a wheel could catch.
(2019)
Chenoweth has backed off her previous conclusions in recent years, observing that nonviolent protest strategies have dramatically declined in effectiveness as governments have adjusted their tactics of repression and messaging. See eg https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/erica-chenoweth-demo...
One current example of messaging can be seen in the reflexive dismissal by the current US government and its propagandists of any popular opposition as 'paid protesters'. Large attendance at Democratic political rallies during the 2024 election was dismissed as being paid for by the campaign, any crowd protesting government policy is described as either a rioting or alleged to be financed by George Soros or some other boogeyman of the right. This has been going on for years; the right simply refuses to countenance the possibility of legitimate organic opposition, while also being chronically unable to provide any evidence for their claims.
Very interesting. I've always thought that there was something a bit "off" about LED torches and car headlamps; the brightness is there, but something about the light just doesn't seem to illuminate as well as an old dim incandescent or even fluorescent tube.
Japan has a culture of perfection.
> I do think there's a bit of an experience divide here, where people more experienced have been down the path of a codebase degrading until it's just too much to salvage – so I think that's part of why you see so much pushback.
When I look back over my career to date there are so many examples of nightmare degraded codebases that I would love to have hit with a bunch of coding agents.
I remember the pain of upgrading a poorly-tested codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 - months of work that only happened because one brave engineer pulled a skunkworks project on it.
One of my favorite things about working with coding agents is that my tolerance for poorly tested, badly structured code has gone way down. I used to have to take on technical debt because I couldn't schedule the time to pay it down. Now I can use agents to eliminate that almost as soon as I spot it.
I've heard Canada described as a "more moderate, and somewhat colder US".
In other words the same old boogeyman they always use to justify this crap.
Yes, that is indeed the point.
This is something I find fascinating about TikTok: on that platform you literally get a few seconds to catch the attention of your audience before they skip to the next video.
You can't just find one hook that works and reuse it forever because people will get bored of it - including if that hook is heavily used by other accounts.
This makes TikTok a fascinating brute-force attack on human psychology, with literally millions of people all trying to find the right hooks to catch attention and constantly evolving and iterating on them as the previous hooks stop being effective.
But it is the right thing to do for "this topic violates HN guidelines both in letter and in spirit, as well as predictably causing low-quality discussion threads".
Science and Nature are mol-bio journals that publish the occasional physics paper with a title you'd expect on the front page of The Weekly World News.
People keep forgetting that it's possible to legally migrate, work for awhile, and so on, and then "become illegal" due to deadlines or administration issues.
An example every tech worker should understand is H1-B, where as an added bonus your employer can make you illegal.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS/
5 year chart
Without this hype, there is no growth. It’s a Hail Mary.
The article isn't resolving, so I can't speak to what it exactly says.
However, the question isn't "on your own domain vs not," it's "how you publish." Blog networks are popular because most people do not have the technical ability to spin up a server, buy a domain, and point it at it.
Why an atproto based solution instead of Medium or whatever? Because then you actually own your own data. And that also doesn't preclude it ending up on your own domain in the end anyway, because it's your data.
Unfortunately, academia is subject to the same sorts of social things that anything else is. I regularly see people still bring up a hoax article sent to a journal in 1996 as a reason to dismiss the entire field that one journal publishes in.
Personally, I would agree with you. That's how these things are supposed to work. In practice, people are still people.
Picking the metric where half of them have a `-` blank value seems a bit flawed.
You can’t fix this by giving them more money for training. This is how they’re trained to act.
A lot of American Christians aren't hyper committed to the specific theology of whichever flavor of Christianity they belong to, and will often sort of mix and match their own personal beliefs with what is orthodoxy.
That said, I'm ex-Catholic, so I don't feel super qualified to make a statement on the specific popularity of predestination among American evangelicals at the moment.
That said, in a less theological and more metaphorical sense, it does seem that many of them do believe in some sort of "good people" and "bad people", where the "bad people" are not particularly redeemable. It feels a little unfalsifiable though.
Anyone on the right who implicates Pretti for carrying a licensed firearm is a good litmus test for bad faith.
Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power.
The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.
This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749508
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to have laws that are virtually impossible to not break.
I hope this gets tested in court and declared unconstitutional for being overly vague and arbitrary. For example, Montana used to have some maximum speed limits that were just "reasonable and prudent", but they were eventually rejected by courts as being too vague (what's prudent to you may not be prudent to someone else). This is similar, in that the FAA has a no fly zone but they don't actually publish what it is.
Catch-22 and 1984 weren't supposed to be instruction manuals.
So the unannounced movements of the secret police in their unmarked vehicles also create a bubble around them where usually-legal activity is illegal?
Races are not genetic groupings, they are social constructs whose boundaries evolve over time, which is particularly clear when they are formalized in a way which resista change and that formalization drifts increasingly far from the current common usage, such as the way the White racial category in common usage in America currently roughly corresponds to the the subset of the White racial category that excludes the Hispanic ethnicity in the US Census categorization.
The construction of race at any given time and place will tend to have non-zero correlation with genetic frequencies, in part by chance and in part because it is usually largely (but not entirely) drivn by appearance which is to some degree associated with some aspects of underlying genetics.
> e.g. black people are much more likely to have the genetic disease sickle cell anemia.
People with ancestry in sub-Saharan Africa (and within that, even more West Africa), India, the Middle East, and Mediterranean are more likely to have the gene that provides malaria resistance with one copy and sickle cell disease with two than other populations.
While the highest incidence group is also commonly “Black” in most constructions of race, a lot of the American perception of it as a nearly exclusively Black disease is because the population perceived as Black in the US is heavily drawn from West Africa, and the US population also underrepresents other populations in which it is more common than average AND does not include, and may not construct as Black, populations constructed as Black elsewhere in the world where it is not common.
> how did that person get in the door in the first place?
is answered by:
> any organization is likely to contain at least a few fairly toxic people
You're one of today's lucky 10k. (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Except per the link, 2024 is #8 on that list. Not #1.
I work in a similar market, and we're only just starting to phase out these larger nodes and move to 22nm simply for wafer availability.
It doesn't benefit from 22nm - analog blocks generally don't scale down at all, they have to be a particular size to achieve particular current handling, inductance etc. requirements. But we need the production line availability.
In other words: "who's gonna pay for that?".
The sad thing about continuing development of existing technologies is that all reliability, robustness, and multi-purpose capabilities get optimized away over time. In the ideal world, companies wouldn't even sell you hardware or software, they'd just charge for magically doing the one thing you want at the moment, with no generality and no agency on your end.
It's a miracle we still have electric outlets in homes, and not just bunch of hard-wired appliances plugged in by vendor subcontractors.
I don't think this advice is useful. You're going to use your devices, so you won't control the temperature or, largely, the charge percentage.
I think good advice is to keep your devices as cool as you can (ie don't leave your cars in sunlight when there's shade), which you probably did anyway, and keep the battery between 20% and 80% as much as possible. If the battery is going to stay unused for a while, leave it at 3.8V (or close to it), or at 50%.
Batteries are ultimately consumables, so don't stress too much. Just care for them as much as convenient, and that's it.
They probably just performed a standard cyberattack on the radar systems before sending in the troops, it doesn't have to be the same weapon for both.
The movie itself predates the moon landing - it came out in 1968.
It's astonishing to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey today and reflect on how well the production design has aged. That movie is coming up on 60 years old now!
The portrayal of AI has held up extraordinarily well too.
Embedded AIs always suck. It's a dead end, long-term. By its nature, AI subsumed software products, reducing them to tool calls for general-purpose AI runtime.
This is why, “I trust everyone. It’s the devil inside them I don’t trust.”
It's not, but at least it will be equally ungreen.
> The optimal decision in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to defect, but in the iterated version, where multiple Dilemmas occur and people remember previous results, Tit-For-Tat is optimal.
That’s not true. There is no optimal strategy in iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in the sense that defection is optimal in the single-round version; Tit-for-Tat performs well in certain conditions in iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, and less well in others (dependent particularly on the strategies played on the other side); in single-round, defection always produces a better outcome than defection independently of the choice made against it.
First trip to the moon, from 1959. Not Heinlein's "Destination Moon". Not Disney's version of the Collier's space program. A movie that seems to have been forgotten, even by collectors of early SF movies.
Not a low-budget production. Produced by Paramount Pictures. It was all too realistic - it's all about launches being scrubbed and budget cuts. They never do launch.
The president of the US is a convicted criminal - 34 felony counts, no less. He has made or threatened war on several countries, and threatens it regularly against US citizens. Let's get real about who's doing the threatening here.
I mean, unless Windows is a special exception, almost certainly:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
You mean number of seconds, but yes, I think everyone looking at this would be converting units to see if there was a particular boundary being met.
Just like the US, saying "immigrants" and "crime" gets the public, or at least the media, to demand authoritarianism.
That is pure FUD. Machines behind a firewall are not going to be affected at all.
Not really familiar with other platforms, but on Mediatek platforms the modem firmware is just loaded from the filesystem --- which you have full access to as root.
This is very, very tempting, but despite not being that popular a blog, mine already went through the SPAM and hatred hell of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
I will not be tempted to have comments on my personal blog.
well, what do the facts say? Thinking back to the last powerful Dem politician to get in trouble, Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, I don't recall any outpouring of support from him from his colleagues or diehard Dem voters.
Or, most charitably, maybe they're not sure and trying to Cunningham's Law their way through the conundrum.