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by cgio | 2025-05-11 02:29:00+00:00
I wanted to be more fair and less dismissive, even though from my perspective the problematic second part is the main focus. But I did spend more time on the third part, and has it made it even worse? First some generalities about how poor people should not care about money and some protection of rights (which was a previous achievement already). Then a call to action, with expedience at that to quoting

"it is expedient to bring under special notice certain matters of moment. First of all, there is the duty of safeguarding private property by legal enactment and protection. Most of all it is essential, where the passion of greed is so strong, to keep the populace within the line of duty; for, if all may justly strive to better their condition, neither justice nor the common good allows any individual to seize upon that which belongs to another, or, under the futile and shallow pretext of equality, to lay violent hands on other people's possessions."

And then even worse still

"When work people have recourse to a strike and become voluntarily idle, it is frequently because the hours of labor are too long, or the work too hard, or because they consider their wages insufficient. The grave inconvenience of this not uncommon occurrence should be obviated by public remedial measures; for such paralysing of labor not only affects the masters and their work people alike, but is extremely injurious to trade and to the general interests of the public; moreover, on such occasions, violence and disorder are generally not far distant, and thus it frequently happens that the public peace is imperiled. The laws should forestall and prevent such troubles from arising; they should lend their influence and authority to the removal in good time of the causes which lead to conflicts between employers and employed. "

So stop industrial action immediately and in the future try to remove the causes!

Thank you for convincing me to read it further, it gave more gravitas to a hastily formed opinion on my end, but did not change it. Back to my message, I hope this is not what we get from Leo XIV on the new challenges, even though the fact that he chose his name on the basis of Leo XIII is not very promising.

Actually, I respect more something as honest as: Ἀπόδοτε τὰ τοῦ Καίσαρος τῷ Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ.
by ENadyr | 2025-05-11 02:29:56+00:00
It's interesting to see this discussion about Kyrgyzstan. As someone originally from there, I find it a country of contrasts. Officially, the GDP per capita is quite low (around $1,970 in 2023), which paints a picture of widespread poverty. However, this figure doesn't always reflect the full reality, as many people, particularly outside the capital, rely heavily on subsistence farming. It's common for families to grow a significant portion of their own fruits and vegetables, and sometimes raise livestock, which contributes to a degree of self-sufficiency that statistics might miss.

That said, experiences can vary, especially for visitors. In the capital, Bishkek, tourists might unfortunately encounter opportunistic behavior. There have been instances where police officers have been known to stop foreigners and effectively extort money. This is a serious issue and something visitors should be aware of.

On the other hand, the country offers incredibly unique and positive experiences, especially when you get out into nature. I have vivid memories of hiking in places like Ala Archa National Park. You can be trekking through a valley, thinking you're completely alone, and then stumble upon a traditional nomadic family spending their summer there. These encounters feel worlds away from anything I've experienced in Western countries. I recall one time offering to buy kumis (a traditional fermented mare's milk drink) from a nomad, and he genuinely refused to take any money for it, simply offering it as a gesture of hospitality. These moments highlight a different, very memorable side of Kyrgyzstan."
by Grosvenor | 2025-05-11 02:30:01+00:00
Well, that's not at all true.

The 286 in the benchmark was using 60ns Siemens ram, and a 25mhz unit which virtually no one has ever seen in the wild. 286's that people actually bought topped out at 12mhz.

The 386 in the test was using 70ns ram.

Lets see them both with 60ns ram.
by cryptolibertus | 2025-05-11 02:30:15+00:00
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Would a platform that lets you dynamically bid for inference compute be compelling for your use cases? How important is pricing transparency and the ability to choose your hardware provider directly?

We're trying to better understand different user scenarios and prioritize features that directly address the community's needs. Any insights or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
by chrismeller | 2025-05-11 02:30:33+00:00
I was surprised when I moved to Europe that at least several (many?) EU countries don’t even authorize any ADHD drugs to be prescribed. So sure, maybe the doctor knows you have it, but even if they say you have it… so what, what can they do about it?

As someone with some horrific environmental allergies, I see it as similar. The US has a ton more allergy medications available (both RX or OTC) than any of the other countries I’ve lived in or visited, so of course there are more people who have a diagnosis. In Finland they just stared at me wide-eyed and shook their heads when I asked if they had Sudafed. “Oh no, very strong…”
by kortilla | 2025-05-11 02:30:35+00:00
It doesn’t really have anything to do with HN. It’s anyone who cares about the truth.

Stuff that sounds believable because it “sounded good” and was argued by charismatic people plagued medicine until shockingly recently.

It’s human nature to believe people and your snarky reply is evidence of that. Your gut reaction should be to agree with the comment or call out the author for fabricating stuff, not to dismiss intellectual rigor.
by int_19h | 2025-05-11 02:31:59+00:00
It doesn't matter whether the monopoly position was achieved "fairly" or not. Either way it is detrimental to the overall health of the economy and to consumer choice, and that alone is good enough reason to bust them. Those laws were passed for a reason - people saw what the end result looked like, and they didn't like it.

If you don't want someone to come and bust a monopoly you've spent years and billions building, then don't use your time and money to build a monopoly.
by TheGrognardling | 2025-05-11 02:32:05+00:00
This is absolutely a crucial and salient point; call me an optimist, but I'm encouraged by the fact that it seems as technological advancement has progressed throughout human history, the speed of responses has accelerated in conjunction with shortened timelines - steam and mechanization, electricity and mass production, telecommunications and media, digital information, and now artificial intelligence have respectively seen faster response times compared to each previous revolution.

I think short-term suffering, or at the very least disruption (as we're seeing) is essentially inevitable, but with all of these preemptive frameworks being implemented, or at the very least discussed (though just the latter isn't really good enough at all, of course) in turnaround times that are unprecedented, I really do not foresee a techno-dystopia; however, again, perhaps that's just wishful thinking.

Quite honestly, I think a pragmatic place to start, outside of theology and moral philosophy, is to make AI development necessarily adherent to some consortium of standards outlined by governments and implemented by boards within industries - like what we see with many engineering professions in the US and other countries.
by bloaf | 2025-05-11 02:32:06+00:00
It sounds to me like you're drawing distinctions without a difference.

Aquinas, in his Summa, makes a series of assertion-of-fact about souls. Specifically, he claims that the soul explains (or "is the principle of") certain otherwise-unexplained phenomenon.

It doesn't matter how he got there (i.e. whether he was arguing with someone online, or trying to explain catholicism in terms of Aristotle, or if he was just an LLM stochastically putting ink on parchment), the fact is that inventing a supernatural thing that explains a bunch of unexplained phenomenon is precisely what I meant by "god-of-the-gaps style reasoning."
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-11 02:32:10+00:00
Ahh, I actually ran into this question, at least indirectly, about a month ago!

I was writing an email validator for my project which I'm so excited to announce soon. And my research (some stackoverflow answers) suggested that, yeah, you can have "a@b" as a valid email, as long as there's a one-letter TLD that can have MX records.

Which it seems there can be!

So my email validator is essentially just /^.{1,}@.{1,}$/ ... yay.
by defrost | 2025-05-11 02:32:30+00:00
That's a good question .. Ireland moved forward with a Hate Crime Bill (proposed law for debate) in 2021 (IIRC) which has been through the house and passed into Irish law as of October 2024:

Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act 2024 : https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/105/

It appears, by my very brief skimming, to cover issues raised in the article here but is seen as light on the Hate Speech aspects ...

Hate crime legislation came into effect at the end of December last year but controversially omitted references to hate speech, defined as public incitements to violence of hatred against a group or member of a group based on certain characteristics.

So .. Nuremberg style rallies (speech alone) are currently fine in Ireland but criminal in the EU?

With mosque burning, synagogue grafitti, shop front smashing in the {X} neighbourhood, etc. criminal acts in both IE and the (non IE) EU.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-11 02:33:15+00:00
Google works because of it's ad network and tracking. Everything Google does is a money furnace without a centralized ad network.

People may celebrate the break-up of google, but it will be short lived when they find that now everything they do on the internet that they used to do through google costs a monthly sub. Or is ad supported with zero tolerance for ad-blocking.

The reason competing with google is impossible is because people are deathly allergic to paying for things that they think are free. Vid.me sucked all the air out of the room for a few months in 2017 and was pulling tons of yotubers over. Then it went bankrupt because "People don't like subscriptions, people don't like ads."
by amluto | 2025-05-11 02:33:59+00:00
Is it compressed air? The article says, and I quote:

> To store energy, excess electricity is used to pump water out of the sphere, creating a relative vacuum. To release energy, we open the valve: the water, pushed by the external pressure, rushes into the sphere and turns the turbine, producing electricity.

If you take air at ~50 bar and release it into the atmosphere and try to extract energy from the water replacing it spinning a turbine, you are throwing away most of the energy stored in the compressed air.

In any case, the math works out for pumped hydro. Ask Google:

(4.5m)^3 * 4/3 * pi * 500m * 1 g/mL * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh

This gives 520 kWh, which is consistent with the article’s claims.

edit: One can ballpark the storage capacity of compressed air storage, too. Assuming isothermal compression (which would be a nice ideal case and is not easy to achieve unless one compresses very slowly), the work is nRT • ln (volume ratio). nRT = PV measured at any point in the process, which is conveniently exactly the calculation above: 520kWh. For the pumped hydro model, I lazily assumed that they pumped all the way to vacuum, which is obviously wrong (some water would boil), but it makes almost no difference. But here we need to compare the actual pressures, and the pressure ratio (equivalently volume ratio) is around 50 between sea level and 500m deep. So multiply by ln 50 to get around 2MWh.

But that’s the actual work done in a perfect isothermal process. In the real world, the starting and ending states will be around the same temperature, but the process will be far from isothermal, so a good deal more than 2MWh will be used to compress the gas and a good deal less will come back out.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-11 02:34:28+00:00
Feudalism isn't necessarily that bad if your environment is stable. A lot of people moved into industry during the 18th and 19th centuries not because working the land was so awful to begin with, but because it became increasingly untenable as formerly public lands were privatized by legal fiat, and private landholdings were aggressively consolidated. Around the beginning of the Industrial revolution, the number of private landowners in the UK fell by over 80%, from about 1 person out of every 60 to 1 in 600 or so (the population grew about 25% over the same period).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_act has an OK overview but is a bit thin and just a starting point. The political upheavals still echo in British politics today. I think it's fair to say that some of the changes were driven by the lure of profit (and associated national revenue) and some out of a desire to avert a domestic repeat of the American and French revolutions.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-11 02:34:37+00:00
> the fact is that inventing a supernatural thing

And therein lies my point: the purpose of Aquinas was purely to explain preexisting Catholic theology, using Aristotle as a starting point. He invented nothing.

You can say "the Catholic Church invented the soul to explain [etc]" and then I'd just push it back to Christianity itself, and if you'd concede on that, we'd have resolved my initial argument.
Show HN: git-coverage - Open Test Coverage In A Web Browser
by egz | 2025-05-11 02:35:24+00:00
Hi! I made a small tool to open test coverage uploaded to Codecov[1] in a web browser with a few helpful flags:

- branch: A target branch

- path: The specific file

- remote: An upstream

Frequent clicks through the same paths and manual changes to the URL was a solid motivation for me. Learning more about Zig was a nice happening too.

Not sponsored but that'd be cool ;)

[1]: https://about.codecov.io
by motohagiography | 2025-05-11 02:35:54+00:00
disappointing as it appears the EU is doing the opposite of what it was founded for, which was to end european wars. i dont think people understand how the recolonization of ireland is landing with the actual irish, an indigenous population with over a millennium of history and a distinct culture and identity facing erasure by EU anti-sovereign policies.

dismissals from the administrative classes only inflame it. we are anticipating similar speech laws in canada to prevent resistance to a commitment by the new PM to double the national population within 14 years (5% annual immigration compounding).

the message from the EU and the networks behind these policies elsewhere reduces to, "resistance is hate, citizen" and they're trying to move fast enough to get ahead of the growing sentiment for a just war of defence they know they are starting with their erasure of national cultures.

i wouldnt underestimate the impact of these laws and the efforts behind them or the reaction that has been building.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-11 02:37:25+00:00
I think it’s funny that so many of these comments assume the person clicking the “enable screenshot protection” checkbox will be unaware that participants might have camera phones. It’s equally funny to read the comments imagining participants with elaborate pre-built workarounds like hidden pinhole cameras or pre-configured HDMI splitters going into full-screen video capture on another system.

The people using this feature aren’t going to imagine it as 100% protective against any and all possible methods of exfiltrating data. It’s a feature for discouraging casual data capture and dissemination. It serves to remind people doing spontaneous captures that they aren’t supposed to, but everyone knows a dedicated person could find a way to get that photo if they really, really want.

That doesn’t make it useless. Every time you raise the level of difficulty for accomplishing something, a percentage of attempts are thwarted or discouraged. As it turns out in the real world, raising the bar even a little tiny bit is effective in thwarting or discouraging the majority of attempts across the average user base. You’re not defeating the dedicated attackers, but you’re reducing the overall number of successful attacks and even attempts.

The same is true for things like the office firewall blocking websites: Yes, we all know a dedicated engineer can create a way around it, but it’s going to stop most employees from getting to those sites and serve as a reminder to others that they’re not supposed to access them.
by beloch | 2025-05-11 02:37:53+00:00
Labour laws were a big problem. e.g. In the early stages of the revolution in England, it was illegal to leave your job and take another one. It was a choice between poor pay/unsafe working conditions and jail. Even once workers won the right to find jobs elsewhere, pay was still so poor that entire families, including children, had to work for families to stay afloat.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-11 02:38:02+00:00
You gravely misunderstand what you are reading. If you wish to understand what Aquinas means, you ought to understand what Aristotle means by substance, form, and soul, what powers are in this context. You appear to be sneaking in a Cartesian dualism here.

If you want a tidy introduction to metaphysics of this sort, consider this one [0].

[0] https://a.co/d/3g8SgTf
by gopherloafers | 2025-05-11 02:38:04+00:00
I started at intel in 1988 and loved working there up until about 2005. The author of this article did a fantastic job enumerating the number of launched products, but there were twice as many that were cancelled. It became such a clusterfuck of leaders vying for promotion to bigger projects and taking over flailing ones only to can them after a year. The 80s and 90s were hyper efficient and focused on churning out clear roadmaps. But the fragmentation of the market was something intel couldn’t handle: its platform didn’t cover all segments no matter how hard it tried it couldn’t do everything. I think the market is still reconverging after all the segmentation. The term “ubiquitous computing” was thrown around a lot in 2000, and it finally happened but it is arm that won. I think there will be a reconvergence of personal computing platforms and I can’t wait to see who vacuums up all the little guys. But after reading this, damn I missed launching the 486 and Pentium. Those were some of the best days of my career.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-11 02:39:00+00:00
Garmin user here. Maybe the last one on the planet? (my kid thinks I'm nuts).

Many of the comments are about how great Google's products are (or aren't). But the case is about anti-competitive behavior. Personally, I hate how a bulk of the internet now consists of surveillance. All this amazing tech brilliance.. resting on a foundation that's about getting us to buy more junk. I will be happy if this lawsuit reduces that (even a little bit).
by SunlightEdge | 2025-05-11 02:39:02+00:00
We all read people to an extent. Behavioural signs will show to a degree their emotional state, their status, their attention and interest in you/the conversation. Combine it with how they use language and you get a good idea of how they think and how self aware they are. You can see if people monologue at you or if they are interested in turn taking. You can get a feel for how quickly people can grasp information, how relaxed/restless they are, how internal they are, how nice they are, how insecure they are, how aggressive they are etc.

I suppose I also look also for how real a person is. For example in a work setting some people are much more prone to wear masks and fake emotions and some people don't do that. I do try to factor in how much games playing some people do/don't do.
by WoodenChair | 2025-05-11 02:39:26+00:00
Yes, "The Little Kingdom" is a great book (the very slightly updated edition is called "Return to the Little Kingdom" but really just adds a short epilogue), and in my opinion (having read most of them), the best book on early Apple. It gives you more insight into some of the other characters at the early company (Mike Markkula and Mike Scott for example) than some of the other books. Interestingly, the author, Mike Moritz (a lot of Mikes), went on to be a highly successful venture capitalist. So he must've had some keen insights about the tech industry.

I was a guest on a podcast called "CFO Bookshelf" to discuss that book if you want to hear a discussion of it before making the commitment to dive in:

https://cfobookshelf.com/return-to-the-little-kingdom/
by smitty1e | 2025-05-11 02:39:48+00:00
There is an absolute need for people to mature and perpetuate a peaceful society.

Maturity implies that, while I might retain a right to be a dickhead, everyone (including me) would be better off if I put on my big-people pants.

Beside just repackaging your point, though, there is tremendous power to be had in setting oneself up as a gatekeeper.

The power to regulate where the line is drawn on just how free speech can be is a gateway drug to tyranny.

Thus, the concern is less the speech itself than the tyranny begotten from regulating the speech.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-11 02:40:17+00:00
> I have asked them to do an anonymous survey of users to ask what action they would take if they were blocked from taking screenshots and users universally say they’d take a picture of their screen with their phone.

Everyone knows this. You don’t need this survey (which surely was a real thing that actually occurred and not something you just conveniently imagined for this argument, right?) to tell you that.

It’s literally written in the linked article.

We know. There are ways around it. But it’s friction, and friction has value. People know it’s not perfect, but it’s another reminder that people aren’t supposed to be doing it.
by pabs3 | 2025-05-11 02:40:49+00:00
Some analysis of the RHEL situation here, sounds like Conservancy thinks that RedHat are mostly "probably not violating the GPL":

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...

I think RedHat's theory is that the GPL doesn't entitle you to updates or support, so restricting them can't be considered an additional GPL restriction.

You could say that without the updates, RHEL is not fit for purpose, and therefore you should be entitled to them. Sounds like a complicated legal argument to have though.

I agree that RedHat are certainly not ethical actors in the FOSS community though.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-11 02:41:12+00:00
> you will see that Aquinas' language suffuses most official Catholic teaching on the soul

I wish I could find the document, but about 2 years ago, the Vatican released an official document explaining that Rome had been using certain philosophical traditions, including Thomism, in its official documents and councils for a few hundred years, because it was convenient, yet without making it official to any degree. I was so happy when it came out because it vindicated what I had been telling all my Thomist friends, that Thomism is not official Catholic doctrine.