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by jijijijij | 2025-04-13 12:03:07+00:00
I honestly have a hard time coping with it. No joke. It's revolting, how that wasn't the end. Right after the Hawk Tuah girl was burnt at the stakes for the same stunt, too.

It's not even that it is pure evil and predatory, it's the aesthetics of it... It tainted civilization, at the very least America! It's so, so pathetic and cringe. Unbearably distasteful and undignified. Too much cringe.

The only thing topping this, was the president of the United States selling cars in front of the white house, a few weeks later. I can't.

Man, imagine an alien patrol passing that Tesla (a billionaire's fucking car in space as a beacon of Earth life's legacy, honestly makes wanna puke) and then learning about the state of things here. I feel embarrassed to the core living in this period of time. I'd rather shit my pants on live TV.

I crave the cleansing heat and certainty of thermonuclear warheads. Shoot these fucker with a bullet of frozen sewage and then sterilize this place for we all sinned collectively. Send some tardigrades to Mars and hope for something better, but turn off the lights on Earth.

Tainted.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-13 12:03:08+00:00
> The most common thread in these ...

Superficially, yeah. I'd read that situation as a combination of (1) "millions of clicks from wanna-feel-happy lefties pay the bills" journalism, and (2) editors wanting "friends" in the "so rich I can afford to be a blinkered ideologue" progressive set.

For those inclined to real-world public policy, the main result I see is that the complex "needs testing" part of existing entitlement and welfare programs is 99% ideological/political bullshit and bureaucratic make-work.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-13 12:03:27+00:00
> In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this will create a massive barrier to entry … Don't even get me started on the green house gas emissions of data centers...

My (naive?) assumption is that all of this will come down: the price (eventually free) and the energy costs.

Then again, may daughters know I am Pollyanna (someone has to be).
by pridkett | 2025-04-13 12:04:13+00:00
Ditto. I bought them because I travel a lot for work and TVs at hotels are always a mess when it comes to HDMI in. I use them on maybe 1 of 4 flights I’m on (usually on SteamDeck with XR plug-in in Decky), and rarely at the hotels.

The only time they were really helpful for me was one flight when I had to work on some sensitive content and the person next to me was obviously trying to shoulder surf me.

Maybe it would be more productive if I had a newer iPhone with USB -C or the XReal One glasses. But having to use all the dongles to get to go from iPhone to lightning/HDMI adapter to HDMI to USB-C cable to original XReal Beam (which is way underpowered), to USB-C to glasses, that’s a ton of cables. And some forget, you’ve now got to pair your AirPods with the Beam! Ughh. It’s a little better with the Beam Pro. It’s faster and generally a good experience, but it’s still another device and still doesn’t have a good way to stream 3D content from Plex/NAS. Ugh.

That being said, when I put in the effort, the picture is very nice.
by kstrauser | 2025-04-13 12:04:14+00:00
Just my own take here:

3.5 and 3.9 felt like “3.1 plus some bundled, licensed shareware”. Which is fine! It’s nice to have a baseline where you know everyone running that version has a particular TCP stack or dock app or whatever. But 3.1.x and 3.2 to me “feel” like newer versions of 3.1 with actual OS updates (and also plenty of bundled shareware).

I wouldn't argue against someone who sees it the the opposite way.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-13 12:04:36+00:00
the most important tidbit

> Apple already pays tariffs on products including the Apple Watch and AirPods, but hasn't raised its prices in the United States.

so, they fear tariffs because their price is already at the highest their products would sell? that's an interesting point most people don't understand. the tariffs were only 15% then, but still interesting to see how it played out.
by sathackr | 2025-04-13 12:05:02+00:00
yea I tried the Viture and the headtracking was nowhere near where it needed to be. I really liked everything else about the Viture Pros. They were lighter than the Xreal ones, generated less heat, and had individual diopter adjustments on each lense.

Xreal One however has rock-solid head tracking. It does drift occasionally but it's very tolerable. I returned the Viture Pro and ketp the Xreal one.
by versluis | 2025-04-13 12:05:38+00:00
Good that you mention it. I will add contact details. It has been a while so I don't remember the exact wording. I wouldn't use the same wording since it is not a petition and doesn't add value. They want to research if it is an unfair practice. In my opinion banking and wireless payments is a common good. Having two companies, who only approve software of partners, most of them including unremovable spyware, is limiting on access to banking and privacy (although privacy is another department). I mentioned security since that is Google's argument for the block even though GrapheneOS is more secure than approved builds. I gave the number of GrapheneOS users to make clear it doesn't affect only a few individuals. I think LineageOS users might also be affected?
by losvedir | 2025-04-13 12:06:14+00:00
Yeah, it's interesting because the focal distance in the Quest is a fixed ~5 ft, regardless of the apparent depth of the thing you're looking at in VR. This is a pretty comfortable spot for old eyes, so it can make things a little crisper compared to real life, at shorter and further apparent distances.

Though it comes with its own set of discomfort issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergence-accommodation_confl...
by Neywiny | 2025-04-13 12:07:15+00:00
When I got my car I had to drive it 1500 miles back to my home and did it alone. I would stop when the tank needed filling. I got maybe 450 miles per tank, so maybe every 6-7 hours or so. That's 10 minutes per 6 hours, which is (10/6 / 20/3 =) 1/4th the overhead you're describing. So I'm agreeing with OC: when it's just me, 20 minutes every 2 hours starts becoming a bit much.
by krisoft | 2025-04-13 12:07:52+00:00
> You must be a rare carhead...

Which I'm not. This is my point. I do not know of the reputation of Porsche. If you tell me they are shitty cars I would shrug and believe you. I do not even recognise the brand of a car. I see flashy car, bright colours, fast looking body, deep bone-shaking engine sound and I conclude "wow, that's a cool car". This is based on how it sounds and looks. Since I don't know anything about the reputation of the car it cannot be based on that.

If you are a carhead maybe you are mistaken about how regular people judge these things.

> I don't think it needs proving..,

Sounds like we disagree on how or why regular, not vehicle enthusiast, people recognise a car to be desirable. I proposed a test how we can figure out which one of ours theory is right. Do you agree in principle if people were to rate fictional cars as highly desirable that would show that reputation of the manufacturer is not what factors into that decision?
by Tmpod | 2025-04-13 12:09:44+00:00
I don't know of any active implementation in Go, but there is actually a nice parallel in Rust: Valence [0]. It follows the same framework approach as opposed to a plug-and-play package, like Glowstone (now abandoned).

You also have Pumpkin [1] and Ferrum [2] that are trying to implement a vanilla-like server, but are a little ways off still. The former has an interesting plugin system already; works with shared libraries.

One of the neat things of these Rust implementations, apart from good base performance (though Java's JIT can be pretty good on this type of software), is the memory footprint, one of the main painpoints of hosting large server networks. The official server implementation is extremely memory hungry, with lots of allocations everywhere; even with optimization forks like Paper, you can't really run away from it too much. Minestom is also nicer in that regard, but not on the same level as Pumpkin or Ferrum. The Minestom people are also waiting on Project Valhalla to unlock some optimizations on that front.

Another interesting approach would be Erlang or some other BEAM language, but there isn't much activity on that front either, as far as I know. McEx [3] was pretty neat, but it has long since been quiet.

[0]: https://valence.rs [1]: https://pumpkinmc.org [2]: https://github.com/ferrumc-rs/ferrumc [3]: https://github.com/McEx/McEx
by perihelions | 2025-04-13 12:09:51+00:00
There's a large number of very well-capitalized startups in China trying to build reusable rockets, in competition to SpaceX. It's a significant national security priority for them. I'm pretty sure one of them will succeed soon. I don't understand your argument why they must all fail—I'm not clear if you've articulated such an argument, really, beyond "many people have failed, so it's probably impossible".

But SpaceX itself is existence proof that it's possible to do the things SpaceX does. And: the market in China is still wide-open for the taking, since SpaceX itself can't sell there.

Chinese newspace seems to be at an inflection point at this moment. I think there's five different private-sector teams that will attempt their first orbital booster recovery, either in this year or in 2026. That's: Deep Blue (Nebula-2); Landspace (Zhuque-3); Space Pioneer (Tianlong-3); iSpace (Hyperbola-3); Galactic (Pallas-1). Four of those five startups have already launched to orbit—Landscape even beat SpaceX (and Blue Origin) to the first orbital methane/oxygen rocket. (Not that you'd have heard about that on a Western-focused place like HN[0]. China's space startups are a blindspot for us, and, I think we're going to end up blindsided by them very soon, in the same way we were blindsided by Huawei, by DeepSeek, by BYD. We just ignore all the fast-moving developments there right up to the point they're impossible to ignore...)

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zhuque-2 (0 comments)
by tialaramex | 2025-04-13 12:10:40+00:00
I really like Lem, but Solaris is probably my least favourite of his stories. It does have the thing I most admire in Lem's work of being about true aliens - that is, not just us again but in a Halloween costume like a Star Trek alien - but somehow Solaris doesn't "work" for me even though say, Memoirs Found In A Bathtub or Futurological Congress do.
by seydor | 2025-04-13 12:11:02+00:00
He really seems delighted when foreign countries reach out to him and to his friends for "making deals". It's all about personal connections with his big supporters and donors, who are all apparently part of the greater government now. It should be called the "recorruption" of the US.

The US is about to find out that the rest of the world is much more adelt dealing with a corrupt government because they have more experience with it
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-13 12:11:02+00:00
Yup, but you need to involve yourself deep into quite the diverse range of programming, computer science, math and physics questions to be able to even read the specs, much less implement them. Codecs involve highly arcane math, an emulator not only needs to take care about the CPU but a whole bunch of side chips and associated timings, compilers are an entire field of academic study, and to work with LTE or anything RF in general you need a solid background in RF hardware electrical engineering, RF propagation, antenna theory and god knows what else, just to be able to have a "testbed" that works with your test device but doesn't shut off service to everyone in a few hundred meters around you.

This kind of mental flexibility is what I really admire.
by ChrisSD | 2025-04-13 12:12:05+00:00
I think the two basic synchronisation primitives are atomics and thread parking. Atomics allow you to share data between two or more concurrently running threads whereas parking allows you to control which threads are running concurrently. Whatever low-level primitives the OS provides (such as futexes) is more an implementation detail.

I would tentatively make the claim that channels (in the abstract) are at heart an interface rather than a type of synchronisation per se. They can be implemented using Mutexes, pure atomics (if each message is a single integer) or any number of different ways.

Of course, any specific implementation of a channel will have trade-offs. Some more so than others.
by rafram | 2025-04-13 12:12:32+00:00
> A premium 'I need it now' service where you pay say £200 and an Uber driver is dispatched on a motorbike direct from the parcels current location to you.

Until your parcel arrives at a local facility, it’s likely in a gigantic stack along with hundreds of others heading to the same destination area. There would be no way to retrieve it early without spending hours breaking that stack apart, searching it, and putting it back together. Postal logistics just doesn’t work that way.

> 'Choose address later' service for sender's. I package up an item and send it to royal mail, and later can tell royal mail where to deliver it. Would be very handy for online shops. Royal mail then becomes an Amazon logistics competitor.

This would require a lot of warehouse space that they don’t have. They could spend the money to acquire it, but why? Shouldn’t they focus on their core service instead of trying to branch out into a totally separate field that they’ll have a hard time competing in?
by pards | 2025-04-13 12:13:08+00:00
> code output is rarely the reason why projects that I worked on are delayed

This is very true at large enterprises. The pre-coding tasks [0] and the post-coding tasks [1] account for the majority of elapsed time that it takes for a feature to go from inception to production.

The theory of constraints says that optimizations made to a step that's not the bottleneck will only make the actual bottleneck worse.

AI is no match for a well-established bureaucracy.

[0]: architecture reviews, requirements gathering, story-writing

[1]: infrastructure, multiple phases of testing, ops docs, sign-offs
by Kon5ole | 2025-04-13 12:13:18+00:00
>The only reason we don't have nice things like this: universal housing, healthcare, income, food security, is because a handful of dragons sit on and hoard unfathomably sized mountains of gold

This is simply not true. Barring pathologies like dictatorships, Billionaires ("Dragons") are generally not hoarding anything that affects anyone. Their fortunes are not "mountains of gold", but an estimate of how much value they could theoretically get from the rest of society if they sold their company.

It's not money that is "kept away" from the rest of us, in any way at all. We already have it. And if we don't, neither does the Dragon.

A wealthy society will create more billionaires ("Dragons") than a poor one, and a wealthy society also has more hospitals and food to share with the unfortunate than a poor society does.

Bezos, Gates etc are not hoarding hospitals, cheese or apartments. They cause more hospitals, cheese and apartments to exist since their companies employ people that need and can pay for all those things.

Even China has realized this by now. Hundreds of millions of people in China have had immense increase in standard of living the past few decades, while a few hundred billionaires have appeared.

Nobody has figured out how you get one without the other.
by dctoedt | 2025-04-13 12:13:23+00:00
1. iMemories is a service that will digitize your old videotapes, photos, etc., and will keep them online as long as you're a subscriber. I used them some years ago and have kept the subscription active for convenient on-line access.

2. In updating my credit-card information, I noticed a reference to updated terms of service ("TOS"). This includes the following text:

"By providing Your Content to the Services, you grant to iMemories and its third party service providers and designated agents and subcontractors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use Your Content (including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform it) in connection with the Services and iMemories' business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services. ..."

(There are no section numbers; the heading is "Your Content.")

3. I haven't taken the time to check whether the above is new, or whether it's something that's been there all along.
by EffrafaxOfWug | 2025-04-13 12:14:14+00:00
When installing graphene os I would consider very carefully if you want to relock the bootloader. In the past I have installed graphene os on my pixel 7a and a normal system update broke my system and made it unbootable. Because of the locked bootloader you can't reflash the os without wiping your data. It may be a very uncommon bug that may never happen to you, but honestly it shouldn't have happened to me either.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-13 12:15:08+00:00
I think it's fair to be skeptical, but I'm aligned with the overall approach the author took and I think the approach itself is what is interesting (pure TS + AOT).

Author + contributors and ts-patch team[0] seem up for a rewrite in Go based on that thread! Might be bumpy, but a pure TS approach is really appealing. I'm rooting for them :)

[0] https://github.com/nonara/ts-patch/issues/181#issuecomment-2...
by dctoedt | 2025-04-13 12:16:55+00:00
1. iMemories is a service that will digitize your old videotapes, photos, etc., and will keep them online as long as you're a subscriber. I used them some years ago and have kept the subscription active for convenient on-line access.

2. In updating my credit-card information, I noticed a reference to updated terms of service ("TOS"). This includes the following text:

"By providing Your Content to the Services, you grant to iMemories and its third party service providers and designated agents and subcontractors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use Your Content (including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform it) in connection with the Services and iMemories' business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services. ..."

(There are no section numbers; the heading is "Your Content.")

3. I haven't taken the time to check whether the above is new, or whether it's something that's been there all along.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-04-13 12:17:11+00:00
I don't think the energy waste shuffling batteries around would be anything significant relative to the actual energy usage of driving cars around.

The rest of your points are things that battery swapping needs to address. But yet here we are - a Chinese EV company has 3000 battery swap stations in operation: https://cnevpost.com/2024/12/31/nio-adds-record-high-swap-st...
by vdupras | 2025-04-13 12:17:13+00:00
Before I began the m68k port, I was eyeing the rosco_m68k[1] as an initial m68k port, which would have been easier than going straight for the Powerbook 520.

But after a vintage buying spree a few years ago, I told myself that I wouldn't buy hardware anymore (unless it was really really cool or really really needed), so I'm on a strict "make do with what you have on hand" discipline :)

But that SBC looks nice.

Oh, I see that they don't sell kits anymore, you have to do the sourcing yourself. Maybe it's a bit more complicated.

[1]: https://rosco-m68k.com/
by Tenoke | 2025-04-13 12:21:34+00:00
I can empathize. Part of what we require seems to be better detection and signaling of which accounts are most and least likely to be human but I'm not sure if we'll get that in the biggest forums.

LLMs can practically pass the Turing test in this context so on one hand, this should become worse, but on the other hand we are not that far from where the LLM comments are about as worth as the random real ones anyway. And if you want more than this level, you have to curate better.
by rjbwork | 2025-04-13 12:22:00+00:00
I'm reminded of some of the 'virtue' of the crassness and unfriendliness of the chans - namely, they are not friendly to corporations. No corporation wants to be found to be associated with such a place, spewing slurs and bigotry, however ironic, in order to sell their goods.

This has its own problems, obviously, but there is something to a monied-interests-unfriendly set of cultural shibboleths.
by tc4v | 2025-04-13 12:22:39+00:00
How to define "floating freely" is not easy to define. The potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r wgich makes it a long range interaction. So if the earth attraction is small enough that you want to neglect it, you may still be trapped in the sun potential well. And if you can escape the sun attraction you are still prisoner of the galaxy. There is no 0 gravity, but there is various levels of neglectable gravity of course. But neglectable is always defined relative to whatever you want to measure.
by kranke155 | 2025-04-13 12:23:25+00:00
Nobody’s perfect, but not allowing GMOs without long term impact assessments was seems like the right decision.

It might have the saved the EU tens to hundreds of billions in fixing the after effects of glyphosate on human food, which the US is now dealing with.

It’s quite simple - protect your food source, protect it from any change whatsoever that’s not 100% necessary, and you are likely protecting the health of hundreds of millions.
by ksec | 2025-04-13 12:23:27+00:00
Before Apple moved to TSMC, 95% of so called tech world has no idea what TSMC was. Even on HN.

In 10 - 20 Years time, most hardware will be free and subsided by Software. Because hardware is easy to copy and make while Software is infinite complexity. That is what I believe Bill Gate said in late 90s or early 2000.

And that has famously stuck with Silicon Valley ever since. No one gives a damn about hardware. iPhone was expected to start a trend ( or not for some ), the industry didn't expect Apple's iPhone to be as big, they all thought these expensive iPhone would only be 1 - 2% of the market.

There is no money in PC or hardware. Dell famously sold PC nearly at a loss and only earn money from Intel's marketing programme as well as preinstalled software.

It is precisely this idea the west has simply gave up on anything Hardware and all focus on either software or Hardware IP.

All while China went "ALL IN" with making Hardware. Not only do they have far more efficient Government, they also have far more subsidies. Take TSMC for example, if money wasn't a problem, how fast could you build a new Fab in US compared to Taiwan? Which for TSMC operate at similar level of efficiency compared to Chinese Government.

And US Government isn't even slow, try UK, EU, Canada or AUS.
by sgarland | 2025-04-13 12:24:05+00:00
You are a sad minority, IME. I’m right there with you. I extended the uuid library to generate UUIDv7, based off of the RFC. It’s pretty easy to implement, as it turns out. Overruled, because “we don’t want to have to maintain additional code.” As if the ABI for bitshifts is going to change?!
by sureglymop | 2025-04-13 12:24:09+00:00
I'd be interested in more specifics here. I've been in a few bootloops with GrapheneOS early on but I've always been able to get out of them by keeping cool and not prematurely trying to reflash and wipe. Eventually the phone always booted (I think that it's due to the A/B partition system where eventually the phone will try to boot the other "working" partition again. But sometimes this would take a while).

It hasn't happened in a year though and I've been happily upgrading lately. I'm not saying you couldn't have run into a unique bug but I'd find it surprising if your phone was really left completely bricked except for reflashing/wiping it.