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by blindriver | 2025-04-16 14:24:43+00:00
The amount of pooh-poohing of this idea is even more than I would have expected from HN, despite tech’s love of belittling others ideas.

The reason we need manufacturing is because the middle class is decimated. None of us tech workers feel it because we don’t live in neighborhoods that have been decimated by it. We have all benefitted from globalization immensely but we don’t have neighbors, families or friends that have been destroyed by it.

Too many people say it will take “years” to get factories operational. That’s why Elon is there. He knows and has done this, to point out which regulations need to be axed in order to improve the time to market for new factories. Trump will listen to him and get rid of any regulation that doesn’t make sense, or even regulations that do make sense but take too much time. For better or worse factory building will be faster over the next 3 years.

Now that we have these greenfields for new manufacturing opportunities, instead of standing there with your arms crossed, shaking your head why the idea won’t work, how can you take advantage of this new opportunity to get rich?
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-16 14:24:49+00:00
I completely disagree with you and find the comma misplaced in a jarring way. It interrupts the flow of thought for me in a negative way: much more than a brief pause, it places a marker that the syntax of "richer" isn't fully bound to the previous words. There's also no ambiguity in the last two words without the comma.

I think if the author wanted a "pause the sound while keeping the syntax flowing" mark, the ellipsis (...) would have done the trick much better. In my opinion, though, this sentence did not merit any pause between "rich" and "richer" since there's nothing surprising about that word.
by tovej | 2025-04-16 14:24:56+00:00
No moderation is still worse. It means that -- especially with 4chans activity-based thread sorting -- the most "engaging" (read: rage-inducing) content gets bubbled up without fail. AND that you can drive away all reasonable people with, e.g. gore or absolutely reprehensible political views. Views that are not only explicitly racist but genocidal. The board is called /pol/, but it doesn't actually discuss politics, it discusses racist or otherwise hateful worldviews. There's no serious policy discussion going on here. Let's not kid ourselves.

I was a regular in 2007-2010 on /g/, /sci/, /mu/ and /fa/. The boards had their share of trolling then, but were mostly alright. I cannot recognize the boards anymore. They are full of vile garbage. Nobody is interested in discussing the interests that the board is there for, they're just posting the most outrageous thing possible. It's slop for the brain just as much as any social media feed is.

Whatever communities I found on 4chan have managed to survive outside of it, and none of us go there anymore. I don't use reddit, but it is still 100x better than 4chan.
by jdkoeck | 2025-04-16 14:25:21+00:00
> Instead of having your ORM's objects, to be converted to JSON, sent, parsed, and finally manipulated to your UIs needs, you skip the whole "convert to JSON" part. You can go straight from your ORM objects (best for data operations) to UI (best for rendering) and skip having to think about how the heck you'll serialize this to be serialized over the wire.

I can't let go of the fact that you get the exact same thing if you just render html on the server. It's driving me crazy. We've really gone full circle, and I'm not sure for what benefit.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-16 14:25:30+00:00
I think the core issue is that everyone reacts differently to different approaches of conveying a problem. Some people you scream at them "You're trash, you suck!" and their motivation to succeed explodes. Do it to others and they just collapse and check out. Some people screw up big, get a gentle talking to, and walk away feeling like it's no big deal. Others are dead inside and know they can never make that mistake again.

There is no magic response, it needs to be tailored to the individual, and being able to read what kind of response is right for which individual is part of what separates shitty and great managers.
by jtagliabuetooso | 2025-04-16 14:25:31+00:00
Looking to get feedback for a code-first platform for data: instead of custom frameworks, GUIs, notebooks on a chron, bauplan runs SQL / Python functions from your IDE, in the cloud, backed by your object storage. Everything is versioned and composable: time-travel, git-like branches, scriptable meta-logic.

Perhaps surprisingly, we decided to co-design the abstractions and the runtime, which allowed novel optimizations at the intersection of FaaS and data - e.g. rebuilding functions can be 15x faster than the corresponding AWS stack (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17465). All capabilities are available to humans (CLI) and machines (SDK) through simple APIs.

Would love to hear the community’s thoughts on moving data engineering workflows closer to software abstractions: tables, functions, branches, CI/CD etc.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-16 14:26:01+00:00
And in contrast to Atari, this works for Steam because Steam isn't paying a giant pile of resources per title. The fractions-of-a-cent-per-GB raw cost of digital distribution means they don't risk getting sunk over-hyping an E.T... They can let a thousand indies make a thousand E.T.s, and it doesn't matter because they're also the place you download Helldivers 2 or Monster Hunter Wilds.
by daveguy | 2025-04-16 14:27:52+00:00
Ah yes. Industry funding. We all know how independent and dedicated to the scientific pursuit of truth industry funded research is.

It very much will be the dark ages if the only money available for research is at the mercy of industry. It probably won't be dark ages for the whole world -- just the countries that squander their research advantage. Brain drain from the US is already starting. Hopefully there will be a clear cease and desist message sent to this regime when the people vote again Nov 2026.
by BotJunkie | 2025-04-16 14:28:34+00:00
I'm the author of this piece, and I'm happy to tell you where it came from.

I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on their robotic code of conduct. I hadn't heard of robots for cows before, and thought it was fascinating. I happened to be in Rotterdam last fall for another conference, which was close enough to the Lely headquarters for a visit.

Lely is somewhat unique in that they're a robotics company rather than an agricultural machinery company that also makes some robots. There are a few other companies that make robotic systems like these, but Lely is the largest by a significant margin. Farms will often choose what brand of robot to buy based on what service center is closest to them, in case something goes wrong. I believe that Lely promises that they'll have someone on-site to fix (or, start fixing) a broken robot within about 2 hours.

The majority of farms who switch to these robots keep them- an expert that we talked to said that it's not common to go back, and only a small percentage do.
by rchaud | 2025-04-16 14:29:28+00:00
That's happening because crypto 'value' doesn't exist in a vaccuum, immune to the vagaries of the tradFi markets. When shit hits the fan, credibility matters. That's why traders park cash in government bonds when a market sell-off happens; a government bond essentially guarantees you get your money back quickly when you're ready to go back into the markets.

The recent moves by the administration have been so incompetent as to tank the bond market as well, thereby leaving few safe harbors. And no harbor is less safe than crypto.
by allears | 2025-04-16 14:29:42+00:00
This is the kind of study that makes me distrust science. For one, the conclusion is blindingly obvious; for another, innumerable studies have already delineated the differences between the attitudes of conservatives and liberals. I fail to see the novelty or the usefulness of this work, and I'm concerned that throwing money at studies like this will only provide more ammunition for the anti-science types.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-16 14:29:53+00:00
> to loop over every possible input (which may tend to infinity).

This attitude is defeatist. The success of property based testing (see QuichCheck in Haskell or Hypothesis in Python) especially when combined with fuzzing shows that instead of looping over every possible input, looping over thousands of inputs tend to be good enough in practice to catch bugs.

Throwing infinity as a cop out is a lazy opinion held by people who don't understand infinity, or rather, the concept of infinity that's countable. Everything we model on a computer is countably infinite. When we have multiple of such countable infinite sets, the standard dovetail constructions guarantees that their union will be countable. Their Cartesian product will also be countable. You can always obtain an interesting prefix of such an infinite set for testing purposes.
by freedomben | 2025-04-16 14:29:55+00:00
> Importantly, large-scale suspensions sometimes spark concerns over how fairly a company applies its rules. Google said it offers an appeal process that includes human reviews to ensure it took “appropriate action.”

> “Oftentimes, some of our message wasn’t as clear and transparent about specifics, about what the rationale was, or reasoning, and sometimes that left the advertiser a little more confused. We ended up updating a bunch of our policies as it related to that, a bunch of our transparency capabilities in terms of the messaging around what and why to help the advertiser…It’s been a big focus for the team as part of 2024 and into 2025,” Rodriguez said.

That was the most relevant part to me. I'm glad they at least have a process, though I'm skeptical about how usable it really is for the suspended party. I'm also a little skeptical about how long it will last as they gain more confidence in their models.
by dcow | 2025-04-16 14:30:25+00:00
I don’t think it’s so clear cut… Even the most adamant “facts are immutable” person can agree that we’ve had trouble “fact checking” social media objectively. Fluoride is healthy, meta analysis of the facts reveals fluoride may be unhealthy. The truth of the matter is by and large what’s socially cohesive for doctors’ and dentists’ narrative, that “fluoride is fine any argument to the contrary—even the published meta-analysis—is politically motivated nonsense”.
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 14:30:45+00:00
It says "only 20% of Americans thought that they would be better off if more Americans worked in factories." Which isn't the same as believing they would be better off if they worked in a factory.

I agree with that sentiment. I would be better off if more of you, just not me, worked in factories instead of trying to compete with me for my non-factory work.
by dhosek | 2025-04-16 14:30:49+00:00
I remember the annoyance a lot of people had with the non-sequential layout of text/graphics memory on the Apple ][ (thanks to Woz’s clever hacks to reduce chip count), but when writing assembly code to access screen locations, it turned out that it was actually easier to deal with the somewhat weird arrangement of bytes than it would have if everything were sequentially arranged in memory. Those little 8-byte gaps every three (non-consecutive) rows made calculating row starts much simpler.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-16 14:30:52+00:00
The distinguishing feature of Nintendo is they're a toy company. That's the angle they approach the whole ecosystem from. It tends to result in consoles with features that are unusual (or, more specifically, it has ever since they decided to get off the CPU/GPU integration competition train Sony and Microsoft have first-class tickets on and made the Wii instead).

It's also why they released a fancy alarm clock with the same breathless excitement as a new game console.
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by Sabinus | 2025-04-16 14:31:02+00:00
>If you want to restrict imports from China, it is somewhat necessary to restrict trade from Western countries as wel

A good strategy would be not to impose tariffs all goods, just the more important ones, and you would do it WITH your allies. Threaten the same tariffs on allies as China if they do not get on board. You could even use the leverage to get China to increase domestic consumption so they aren't exporting so hard.

Trump's policies aren't going to achieve what he thinks they will.
by thih9 | 2025-04-16 14:31:35+00:00
> Don't use AI. Actually care.

I agree with this. Also, whenever I care about code, I don’t use AI. So I very rarely use AI assistants for coding.

I guess this is why Cursor is interested in making AI assistants popular everywhere, they don’t want the association that “AI assisted” means careless. Even when it does, at least with today’s level of AI.
by cestith | 2025-04-16 14:32:01+00:00
> “i386” (the first Intel microarchitecture that implemented protected mode)12

This is technically incorrect. The 286 had protected mode. It was a 16-bit protected mode, being a 16-bit processor. It was also incompatible with the later protected mode of the 386 through today’s processors. It did, however, exist.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-16 14:32:25+00:00
Cursor results are going to depend heavily on the model; Gemini 2.5 pro exp seems the overall strongest. You’re probably defaulting to 3.7 sonnet which is completely unusable; it was good at first but I am convinced anthropic “updated” (degraded) it behind the scenes to lower their inference costs. OpenAI did the same with GPT-4o for a bit a while back before making it better again.

3.7 also seems to have converged more on the hybrid reddit user/npr listener/HR lady tone and manner of speaking that makes me want to punch a wall. Genuinely people could probably increase LLM usage just by fixing this problem and banning r*fit from the training set.
by Etheryte | 2025-04-16 14:32:41+00:00
Not necessarily, this is a classic misunderstanding. As a famous example, Uber did not make a profit for 14 years, all the way up to 2023. For taxable profit it's even more severe, they've built up a considerable backlog of losses, so they'll pay very little in taxes for the foreseeable future, even though they're now profitable.
by chowchowchow | 2025-04-16 14:32:53+00:00
Actually Trump repeatedly said he didn't know about project 2025. He's so scattered in his campaigning that it's possible to pretty much justify any action as "what he said he would do." But saying executing project 2025 is exactly what he SAID he would do defies all reality. It may be what intelligent observers expected him to do but it is not what he said.

Edit: good lord people I’m not defending Trump I’m saying he lies about everything including that he lied and said he wasn’t going to do project 2025. Read the post I’m responding to!
by throw4847285 | 2025-04-16 14:33:56+00:00
I'll admit this is a bugbear of mine, but I think this is the reason "steelmanning" is counterproductive.

Steelmanning is a neologism that serves no purpose other than in-group signaling. There was already a perfectly acceptable term for the same concept, one with more nuance and a rich history: Charitability.

The major difference is that charitability is about treating your interlocutor with respect. Steelmanning is about using one's own intellect to make your interlocutor's argument better than them. Because charitability is based on a concept of mutual respect, if somebody clearly doesn't respect you one iota, then why would you be charitable? Steelmanning tries to divorce the person from the argument, and is ironically both arrogant and naive.
by netcan | 2025-04-16 14:33:59+00:00
>The business modelling behind it must be quite intense, I hope this doesn't blow up in JetBrains' face

Historically... this tends to work out. Reminds me of Gmail initially allowing massive inbox. YouTube doing free hosting. All the various untethered LAMP hosting...

If necessary they'll add an anti-abuse policy or whatnot to mitigate the heavy users.

The sophisticated modeling is basically "just get going" with a guesstimate and adjust if needed.

I doubt that pricing structure will sink any ships. It's going to be about utility.
by avastel | 2025-04-16 14:34:01+00:00
Author here: I've been in the bot industry/bot detection field for ~ 10 years. I frequently see strong opinion about bot detection on Reddit and HN, in particular why it doesn't make sense for bot detection companies (I won't name who, but you will guess), to treat you so differently based on your user agent, and why it shouldn't matter when it comes to bot detection.

That's why I wrote a blog post about the role of the user agent in bot detection. Of course, everyone knows that the user agent is fragile, that it is one of the first signals spoofed by attackers to bypass basic detection. However, it's still really useful in a bot detection context. Detection engines should treat it a the identity claimed by the end user (potentially an attacker), not as the real identity. It should be used along with other fingerprinting signals to verify if the identity claimed in the user agent is consistent with the JS APIs observed, the canvas fingerprinting values and any types of proof of work/red pill
by ajross | 2025-04-16 14:34:09+00:00
> This is patently false. Any Undefined Behavior is harmful because it allows the optimizer to insert totally random code

Undefined to who, though? Specific platforms and toolchains have always attached defined behavior to stuff the standard lists as undefined, and provided ways (e.g. toolchain-specific volatile semantics, memory barriers, intrinsic functions) to exploit that. Even things like inline assembly live in this space of dancing around what the standard allows. And real systems have been written to those tools, successfully. At the bottom of the stack, you basically always have to deal with stuff like this.

Your point is a pedantic proscription, basically. It's (heh) "patently false" to say that "Any Undefined Behavior is harmful".
by quesera | 2025-04-16 14:34:12+00:00
It's only superficially ridiculous.

"CVE" is trademarked and emphasized (e.g. included in the shorthand notations, e.g. CVE-2014-0160), explicitly to prevent other groups from using "CVE" in a way that causes confusion in the marketplace. And yes, this is the same reason trademarks exist for commercial purposes.

But imagine if Microsoft could issue CVEs against Apple ... or OpenAI against Anthropic, etc.

The label "CVE" has to have a known authority to be useful. And the only way to ensure that is to trademark it. See also: "Linux™".
by seventhtiger | 2025-04-16 14:34:23+00:00
Reddit: I've seen and wishlisted or ignore every game on steam. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dm3gxh/ive_seen_a...

It turns that there are actually not that many hidden gems. The indie game dev community has a lot of discussion about hidden gems, and the prevailing opinion is there are very very few, especially in the avalanche of crappy games that is today's landscape.
by seventhtiger | 2025-04-16 14:34:46+00:00
Reddit: I've seen and wishlisted or ignore every game on steam. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dm3gxh/ive_seen_a... It turns that there are actually not that many hidden gems. The indie game dev community has a lot of discussion about hidden gems, and the prevailing opinion is there are very very few, especially in the avalanche of crappy games that is today's landscape.
by pif | 2025-04-16 14:34:51+00:00
> We have all benefitted from globalization immensely but we don’t have neighbors, families or friends that have been destroyed by it.

Blue collar workers were the first to push for globalization, because they suddenly could afford a lifestyle that used to require the salary corresponding to a couple of steps upper in the corporate ladder. A blue collar salary suddenly could provide for many more amenities... til the salary was no more!

Everyone wants manufacturing back, but only for the products they can produce, because everyone still wants to buy at Chinese prices.

Furthermore, the regulations that most stand in the way of cheap manufacturing are environmental regulations, and good luck with that! We have got used to breathe clean air, and I feel most people still love clean air more than they hate globalization.
by gilleain | 2025-04-16 14:35:01+00:00
Interesting, so it looks at polymerisation of tartaric acid (TA, or O=C(O)C(O)C(O)C(=O)O in SMILES notation):

> They discovered that calcium dramatically alters how TA molecules link together. Without calcium, pure left- or right-handed TA readily polymerises into polyesters, but mixtures containing equal amounts of both forms fail to form polymers readily. However, in the presence of calcium, this pattern reverses -- calcium slows down the polymerisation of pure TA while enabling mixed solutions to polymerise.

Not so sure about their suggestion that poly-TA might be some kind of RNA or DNA precursor.
by hedora | 2025-04-16 14:35:27+00:00
I’d argue their last two custom hardware competitors were xbox 360 arcade (the indie store) and cell phone games.

(I’m counting competitors as “the game mechanics are more important than production values”)

In a massive self-own, Microsoft killed arcade at xbone launch (worst. console. ever.), and cell phone games were ruined by pay to win (most games) and lack of first party physical controllers (the other games, e.g., Apple Arcade).

These days, it’s just steam, abandonware and nintendo. I used to pay for nintendo online to get the emulation games, but the library kind of sucked, and (more importantly) if you pay for it, there’s no way to turn off in-game ads for online play in stuff like mario, making the entire system inappropriate for kids.

I’m curious to see how the switch 2 does. The lock screen on our switch is wall-to-wall ads for it, but nothing looks compelling so far. The kids are more excited about an old switch 1 port of a wii game...