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by amy214 | 2025-04-15 05:32:28+00:00
Just to expand upon this in HN terms:

- R-selection is just a confusing bit of technojargon, really what we're talking is a zerg style build strategy, lots of units for cheap, as far as our organism in the game of life. So organisms with this build strat will raid an ecological niche like it's 2021 and Biden just unlocked the border

- K- selection, another confusing bit of technojargon (K stands for konfusing here), is more of a protoss build, not nearly as many units but higher quality. this is for scenarios where a raid won't work, kind of like a buffed commando type unit in command and conquer
by refurb | 2025-04-15 05:33:06+00:00
Worthwhile read!

I’m a huge nerd when it come to the First and Second Indochina wars. It’s a super interesting mixture of Western colonialism (France), Eastern colonialism (Japan), Cold War (China, USSR, USA, South Korea, AUSNZ), civil war (all the competing factions in Vietnam), guerilla and conventional warfare, geopolitical propaganda, etc

It has something for every history buff.

But I think this article does a nice job of scratching the surface of the mythology that surrounds the American War. If the communists get credit for anything, it’s communication both locally and globally, and their ability to use those stories to unite half of a country to fight and sacrifice for over 30 years to fight opponents (both foreigner and Vietnamese).

I lived in Vietnam for about 5 years and that same mythology is still use by the government to unite people (not a knock as every country does this).

But if you scratch below the surface (as this article does) you pretty quickly find out the national mythology isn’t true at all

But the current government still knows how to leverage the story - a great example is this year’s 50th anniversary of the end of the American War.

Being able to celebrate defeating the US at the same time you’re attempting to strength your relationship with the US is tricky. How did they do it? The 50th celebration is also the 30th celebration of normalization of the Vietnam-US relationship. So they can tell one story locally, and another internationally and win both sides.
by jujube69 | 2025-04-15 05:33:07+00:00
I read a study a while ago, the study found common vitamin deficiency in depressed humans.

I researched more about it and looks like some of the deficiency in the vitamins in the study are correlated with higher IL-17 levels.

Carnitine: Seems to have some effect in decreasing IL-17?

Vitamin D: Highly impacts IL-17 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4609465/)

COQ10: Decreased plasma levels of IL-17 (https://www.clinicalnutritionespen.com/article/S2405-4577(22...)

Folic Acid: Reduces IL-17 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8839991/)

Lutein: I didn't find any study that seems to study the effect on IL-17

Citrulline: No relevant studies

This is the study I'm referring to: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02696-9

I think we're getting closer to find some blood level correlations, so we can fix them!

I can say for a fact when I take CoQ10, I feel my energy levels going up so it really has some effect.
by gngoo | 2025-04-15 05:33:34+00:00
I once sat down to calculate the costs of my app if it ever went viral being hosted at vercel. That has put me off on hosting anything on vercel ever or even touching NextJS. It feels like total vendor lock in once you have something running there, and you're kind of end up paying them 10x more than if you had taken the extra time to deploy it yourself.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-15 05:33:40+00:00
> humans are animals. this entire topic is "what separates humans from animals--oh, less than we thought".

You're using two different definitions of "animal" in the same sentence here. That's only going to cause problems.

> also, stop accusing people of racism all the time, it makes me think you are a worse person, not a better one.

No person was accused of racism. It was a theoretical argument brought up and dismissed in the same sentence, as a rhetorical device to show a problem with a different argument.

> studying hunter gatherers gives us a lot of important data, and they can't help their race, nor can the researchers, it's an immutable characteristic.

But they are not fundamentally set apart and a different species from other humans. And the idea under discussion only works if major groups without writing are fundamentally set apart and a different species.

If the data showed those differences, it would not be racist. But we know those differences don't exist. Humans are all extremely similar.

So the only way someone would think they are fundamentally different is because some neuron misfired in their brain, or they got to that conclusion based on racist teachings or racist reasoning.

And it's more than 99% likely it's the latter. That's enough confidence for me to claim it's a racist idea.

And again, this is based on the actual data, not what anyone wants to be true.
by kgwgk | 2025-04-15 05:34:06+00:00
Cosmologists are not serious people.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/energy_...

“Is Energy Conserved in General Relativity?”

“In special cases, yes. In general, it depends on what you mean by "energy", and what you mean by "conserved".”
by k310 | 2025-04-15 05:34:29+00:00
It's from Cal Matters. The main point is:

> There are laws requiring the DMV to suspend a driver’s license for various convictions. A first DUI conviction, for example, is a 6-to-10-month suspension. Felony vehicular manslaughter is a three-year loss of driving privileges. The agency isn’t necessarily required to give a license back if its driver safety branch deems a motorist too dangerous to drive, agency officials said.

> But CalMatters found the agency regularly gives drivers their licenses back as soon as the legally required period ends. And once crashes, tickets and suspensions fall off a driver’s record after a few years, it’s often as if the motorist’s record is wiped clean. So even if the driver gets in trouble again, the agency often treats any future crashes and traffic violations as isolated incidents, not as part of a longer pattern of reckless driving.
by alganet | 2025-04-15 05:35:23+00:00
It's kind of true story actually.

I found one of my license texts for a hobby project[0] in a Microsoft product[1]. I have no idea how they use it.

Copilot is very poor at understanding how the DSL arrangement of the project works or how to assemble validator trees. Before Copilot many other "enterprise" stuff like JetBrains IDEs had problems auto-completing it. But it was always good enough for me, for my own things.

It obviously have value. Maybe they're lazy and using it for something unrelated like the TLD list. I really don't know. What I know is that something of my amateur dish ended up being served in what I consider to be a fast food chain.

No, copilot is not endlessly variable. It works best with typed languages and an enterprise mindset. That's exactly the point against "vibe coding" they push. MS seems to despise anything that doesn't follow that.

Look, I love typescript and all that stuff. As I said, McDonalds meals are delicious.

But I don't want that approach for everything I code. This project is not the only one with that issue. I noticed the same in a portable shell compatibility layer, it can only help if I make it to look like other script languages.

"You're asking too much, how can copilot help with a language it was not trained on?"

I am not asking it to be good at that. Just don't make asshole posts saying anything other than MS pasteurization is "vibes".

If they paid me, then that would be another story. But they didn't, and used my "vibe" project anyways.

I am not complaining about software I released for free, before anyone tries to go for that.

I am making an observation about kinds of software that copilot can't help with. My kind of software development, in which I might take months to decide a name or redo everything several times just to try a new kind of sauce.

[0]: https://github.com/Respect/Validation [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-teams-t...
by Aurornis | 2025-04-15 05:35:54+00:00
There is a minimum fee for packages, yes. At this point I've lost track of all the changes but at one point I remember seeing $100 or $150 per package under some conditions.

Carriers will also charge a fee for brokering it. USPS has a $9 fee, other carriers are higher.

We went from being free to order things internationally to having out of control fees and taxes on top of everything.

There's a lot of sneering at Temu and Shein, but the hobbyist and electronics worlds are about to get hit extremely hard by the lack of access to tools and parts from Aliexpress. It's really sad.
by energy123 | 2025-04-15 05:36:11+00:00
> Then again, the way things are rapidly improving I suspect I can wait 6 months and they'll have a model that can do what I want.

I believe this. I've been having the forgetting problem happen less with Gemini 2.5 Pro. It does hallucinate, but I can get far just pasting all the docs and a few examples, and asking it to double check everything according to the docs instead of relying on its memory.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-15 05:36:17+00:00
How does the geographic context explain how the US was (apparently) an excellent fit for passenger rail until the 1920s-1930s, but not anymore?

I don't think geography is the explanation. US geography is great for passenger rail. Japanese geography is terrible for it (too many mountains). In my opinion Japan's passenger rail situation today would be no different than the US if American rail companies had managed Japanese rail lines throughout the 20th century.

It's nice to imagine that geography is the reason, and so everything is as it should be, this was the fated result. But that's simply not the case.

Of course, rail is not a good fit for a weekend getaway from LA to New York. Even in Japan, where you can ride the bullet train all the way from Kyushu to Hokkaido, almost anyone would book a flight for that unless they really hated flying. But that doesn't mean that rail isn't well suited to American geography.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 05:38:46+00:00
> Move them faster than their family, friends, and legal counsel can possibly follow. Get them on a plane to El Salvador

The question is whether these folks would be better off if the abductors were obstructed. They’re no longer operating under the colour of law. Disabling vehicles, possible officers, or otherwise creating chaos that makes moving victims around starts to make sense. Because if the other side isn’t playing by the rules, it really doesn’t make sense for you to.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-15 05:38:58+00:00
There's so much chaos being flooded out all at once that things that massively impact normal people don't have time to gain traction in the news. And the moment things do make the news, there's an even larger flood of people everywhere saying, "Fake news. Didn't happen." followed by "So what? How does this affect you personally?" and then ending with "This is actually a great thing and you're suspicious if you're against this."
by imgabe | 2025-04-15 05:39:05+00:00
> 1. As previously stated not all universities are doing what you claimed. Ohio for one, and the first link says "some" but there are thousands.

Not all, but most. It may have decreased as some universities have started to abandon it now that it is falling out of fashion, but it was a large percentage, I'd estimate 90% offhand, but it's not like there's a lot of sources on this. It is a movement led by an aggressive and militant minority who silences and drives out anyone who disagrees. Most professors, who just want to do their research on 19th century French poetry or the mating habits of dung beetles or whatever they care about just shut up and try to keep their heads down so they don't get denied tenure or have students protesting at their office because they said the wrong pronoun. If you know people in academia and they trust you they will tell you off the record that it is nearly universal and so, so much worse than what is publicly reported. Sorry, I can't provide sources for this. You can trust me or not, but I know what I've seen and what people have told me.

> There are private schools that receive public money but discriminate against LGBQT [1] However nothing has been said or done about this by Trump in the past or now. These religious schools are more conservative and attacks would likely anger the base.

There is a religious freedom issue, because religion is also a protected class. I don't know, religious schools are not that many and they are not a big factor in academia. If you really care about that religion, then you go there, if not there are lots of other places. I don't know why an LGBQT person would want to force their way into going to a school where everyone thinks they're sinful and destined for hell. Seems like masochism to me.

> My opinion is that Vance is attacking universities not because he cares about merit based hiring or the quality of students but for selfish political reasons.

Well, neither of us can read his mind, but he benefited from a system that espoused meritocracy and used it to improve his life from growing up very poor to becoming vice president of the United States. I think it's reasonable that he would want to preserve that so other people could also have that opportunity and not get denied because they were the wrong race.
by khafra | 2025-04-15 05:39:16+00:00
> the need for translating vague desires from laypeople into a precise specification will remain

What makes you think LLMs will never be able to do that?

Have you tried any of the various DeepResearch products? The workflow is that you make a request for a research project; and then it asks various clarifying questions to narrow down the specific question, acceptable sources, etc.; and only then does it do all the research and collate a report for you.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-15 05:39:45+00:00
> If we rethink our consumption, we could become happier, need less space and spend less money even at higher prices.

I can't believe how many people are trying to put a positive spin on the government imposing massive taxation on people's right to buy things from other countries.

It's easy to sneer at junk fashion from Temu or whatever, but access to cheap tools and parts was the lifeblood of hobbyists and experimenters across the country.

It's not just cheap clothes from Temu. This administration just took away your right to buy anything cheaply internationally. That's not a good thing.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-15 05:40:06+00:00
You're talking about something entirely different. The typical case for the renting medieval peasant is that the rent on a given plot of land is set by custom, the nominal amount has been the same for centuries, and it can never be changed for any reason. No administrative task could ever be simpler than collecting the rent.

Landowners responded to that by adjusting the size of the units in which land rents were due, which is why a major demand of peasant movements was for standardized units.

The fact that rents were absolutely nonnegotiable led to other developments, such as the lord being so indifferent as to exactly who was renting from him that the renter was free to leave his status to whoever he chose in his will.
by dogacel | 2025-04-15 05:42:03+00:00
Two different flows, an online and an offline.

TOTP devices can be powered offline, which makes it extra secure, as you don't transfer any data around, possibility of leaking it is extremely low.

Random numbers could only work in online flow, where server sends you a one-time code using a secure communication method, such as a trusted phone number or email address.
by karhuton | 2025-04-15 05:42:11+00:00
As someone who’s stuck with Whatsapp and no way out (friends and family won’t switch), I dearly hope for a split.

I do struggle to understand how we here casually lump tohether totally different platforms as comptetitors.

It’s not like I can use Youtube or Tiktok instead of Whatsapp with my family for direct and group discussion. Even X and Instagram would be a stretch, as their raison d’être is public social media and not instant messaging.

Sure the platforms have overlapping features, but you ain’t gonna use a knife insted of a spoon.
by simgt | 2025-04-15 05:42:17+00:00
Very nice article!

Every time I was part of a team designing IoT devices, there would be a slightly more security-focused engineer who would manage to have some level of protection for the boot. I'm surprised there was no resistance here to dump and reflash the firmware. Why would they not even bother encrypting the flash? How common is that?

It would have been nice to give the product name.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-15 05:42:25+00:00
For many products, domestically manufactured substitutes still have some inputs that come from international suppliers.

Could be some raw materials, the machines that make it, or the packaging. Now everything is going to be massively more expensive and it's going to have impacts even on domestically manufactured goods.

There's also the substitution effect, where heavy tariffs on one thing will increase demand on substitutes and therefore raise their prices.

It's really bad policy all around. Nobody who has any familiarity with manufacturing thinks it's going to encourage more domestic manufacturing because the tariffs suddenly restricted your ability to buy inputs and machines at reasonable prices. You're better off building a factory in another country to service global demand.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-15 05:42:25+00:00
Its the usual anti semitic, disguised as anti israel colonislism , disguised as an open question , asked by someone who us part by a movement that has genocided the whole middle east of all minorities . Its as deeply intellectually dishonest, as the whole "russia is a anti imperal power" tankies were, a narrative ignoring the horrors on the ground and willing to support israeli extremists and sacrifice the Palestinian people as pawns.
by otherme123 | 2025-04-15 05:42:45+00:00
Do they? AI bots provide me with nothing (best case scenario) or giving my content in their pages without "read more" links thus lowering my number of visitors.

Search bots, and specially Google, provide my site a lot of value. They respect the robots.txt, I can see that about half my visits come from search, they identify properly as bots. It's almost impossible to notice a search bot in the graphs.

But AI bots suck. They don't even read the robots.txt, they hit the site as hard as it can hold, when they receive a 5xx, a 444 or a 426 they interpret it as "keep requesting hard until you get a 200", they can easily DoS or bankrupt a small site, they use fake user agents. As the OP post shows, their activity can be clearly seen in the log graphs as huge spikes coming from a single client. OpenAI scanned 100% of one of my sites (more than 20,000 individual pages) in two days causing intermitent DoS, while the Google is at 80% of the sitemap.xml. And cherry on top, I still can't see a single visit in my logs that come from their services.

I think you might be confusing search bots with AI bots.
by wruza | 2025-04-15 05:43:00+00:00
If one doesn't want to regenerate passwords, don't log people out. The only reason this "workflow" works is that email sessions work for years, sometimes decades, without nagging users to re-login.

Sites, do yourself a favor and store active sessions indefinitely and the only password-dealing scenario you'll ever see will be (1) at sign up, once per user, (2) when users clear cookies, which the login-problematic types rarely do for obvious reasons.

95% of my family password support is the sites that log them out on their own.

Edit: grammar/pronouns
by notpushkin | 2025-04-15 05:44:10+00:00
Not sure about emails (probably reasonably secure, I think most MTAs use TLS now).

For text message codes though, there’s plenty of attacks. In authoritarian regimes, government can monitor your text messages directly – I think some protestors in Belarus have lost their Telegram accounts due to this. There’s also the SIM swapping attack, where an attacker pretends to be you and ports out your number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
by Aurornis | 2025-04-15 05:44:11+00:00
It's not that complicated.

They don't pay the tariffs. The person receiving the package does. Many carriers will slap you with the tariff charge, a brokerage fee, and then send you to collections if you don't pay it.

The vendors don't care because they're making the sale and the tariffs are the other person's responsibility. Caveat emptor.
by mcv | 2025-04-15 05:44:19+00:00
I see plenty of stories from Europe, and they too complain about work, but never about having to work 60-80 hours. Even if it's rare in the US, it still seems more common than in Europe. Similarly, I hear stories about working 3 jobs in the US which I don't hear from Europe. I do hear people complain about managers, pay, or office politics in Europe.
by tgma | 2025-04-15 05:44:34+00:00
Sure, that's the narrative to manufacture consent from the naive, but I don't buy it at all. Perhaps for very small fledgling universities that makes partial sense; even then I am skeptical. For Harvard, definitely not.

At very least, if your endowment is growing on an inflation-adjusted basis, it does not appear to me that you need further subsidies; your primary business is to be an hedge fund and the treasury of an empire, not education for the masses. Gains should be taxed like a hedge fund at that point.

If you want to subsidize education as a society, there are much better ways: fund research directly and cut through the indirect cost crap (which was popular among academics up until the moment the current administration started advocating for it).
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-04-15 05:45:34+00:00
I'm sorry for your convenience loss, but I'm happy for the environment.

Not only because of the unrestricted consumerism, but also because of the environmental costs of logistics. I too have ordered fusible resistors from aliexpress that I could not find locally.

But things I barely need, only for a small dopamine kick ? I do my best to not have a small baggie shipped from the other side of the planet for that.

And not even mentioning the effects of insatiability on myself.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-15 05:45:48+00:00
This is about the problem with vibe coding your way to a product. But if the vibes are strong enough, maybe we don't need products at all?

They do tend to complicate things, with all of their moats and such. I never wanted a product that did the thing, I really just wanted to do the thing. "Works on my machine" might be good enough if you're unlikely to want to repeat yourself on a different machine.
by rkagerer | 2025-04-15 05:46:07+00:00
Personally I'm frustrated how most companies followed the lead of the likes of Google, and effectively tied security of your account on their website to that of your email.

If you control the email address signed up with, you have "god" access to the account (can perform password resets, etc). They essentially outsourced security to your email provider.

But some of us would prefer to keep more separation between their email accounts and other services. Eg. If my email's hacked, I don't want that to pwn my other stuff.

2FA helps but often there are ways around it if you control the email account.