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by amelius | 2025-06-29 15:48:18+00:00
The root of the problem is that the rules of the economy are unfair.

By analogy, try playing a game of monopoly but enter the game after a few rounds have already been played. Exorbitant housing prices are an example.

Another problem is that while it is fine if hardworking people make more money, these people can use that money __against__ people who made different life choices, in various ways, consciously and unconsciously.

We have to acknowledge that the system is broken, and it is starting to show.
by pyuser583 | 2025-06-29 15:48:20+00:00
Many countries simply have no way of knowing who their citizens are.

People born abroad are often citizens.

The British have had an insane number of changes in territory that affect citizenship.

Some of their current citizens have citizenship because they were born in Bombay (Mumbai). Others because they were born in Hong Kong.

Maintaining a reliable list of citizens requires regular registration, and loosing citizenship if you don’t register.
by megaloblasto | 2025-06-29 15:48:50+00:00
I find this very interesting. None of those artists were bad by any means. But the sound quality is really bad, and none of then are even close to something like Goat Rodeo [1] which has over a million views precisely because of the exceptional performances and the high quality video and audio. Why not just listen to that? I'm genuinely curious. I'm sure there could be a good reason. Maybe you know then personally or saw them at a memorable moment.I'd love to know what it is that draws you to those artists.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EcT5YzKhQ&pp=ygUeUXVhcnRlciB...
by kylebenzle | 2025-06-29 15:48:52+00:00
But that is utterly UNreasonable, of course, that is obviously why the courts did not side with that opinion (also because it's a stupid and naive opinion).

Unless they are saying they don't want anyone "trained" on "their data", it's a phrase that simply makes no sense and only expressed by people who don't know how the real world works at all.
by osigurdson | 2025-06-29 15:49:22+00:00
The article isn't focused on the plight of the session Broadway player or Orchestral musician (nor artists writing music for ads or movies or acting as a session musician for a headliner act). It isn't clear that this is getting better or worse but is completely orthogonal to the discussion.

Mainstream recording artists (pop, country, R&B, rock, etc.) represent the vast majority of industry revenues. My argument is that middle class musicians have effectively never existed in this space. Just like middle class professional basketball players effectively don't exist. You either win big or do something else.
by corimaith | 2025-06-29 15:49:22+00:00
>In the 2022 census, only 76.5% of people in Ireland were ethnically Irish. Over 20% of the population are foreign-born, with the most common countries of foreign birth being Poland, the UK, India, Romania and Lithuania.

And there is alot of tension right now because of that. Not just in Ireland, but much of the West.

But really, why do you think states exist if not to protect the interests of its underlying culture/ethnicty/group. If not, why Canada refuse to join USA as a 51st state? From an economic perspective it would be logical, fron a political perspective they would have decisive power due to their relative population. What is the fundamental reasoning behind the refusal to join?
by mtlynch | 2025-06-29 15:49:37+00:00
Since others are sharing negative stories about state inspectors, thought I'd share a positive one.

In MA, state bee inspections are optional, but you can request one for free once per year. As a new beekeeper, I found it helpful, as the inspectors were highly knowledgeable and friendly.

I ended up deciding to stop keeping bees after two years. My colony died over the winter, so when I sold my equipment, it was helpful to have an official inspection report saying that my equipment was checked and had no signs of disease except for varroa.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-06-29 15:49:46+00:00
Are you saying the model used to simulate many different cpu models is the same, which makes comparing CPUs harder? Or are you saying the model is not accurate?

It’s an interesting point that the newer neoverse cores use a model with smaller issue width. Are you saying this doesn’t match reality? If so do you have any idea why they model it that way?
Show HN: VS Code extension that adds emojis to your code (without breaking it)
by xalaa | 2025-06-29 15:49:49+00:00
I got tired of scrolling through endless class names and type definitions, so I built a VS Code extension that decorates your code with emojis. The best part? It doesn't inject anything into your actual text, so no compilation errors or syntax highlighting issues.

Perfect for: - Making code reviews more fun - Quickly identifying different types of classes/components - Adding personality to your codebase
by eviks | 2025-06-29 15:50:45+00:00
> Because Apple makes its money by selling you hardware and services, not by selling advertising.

and by selling ads, seriously, just open their app store.

> And because it has positioned itself

And they can continue that while simultaneously doing the opposite. There is no law against inconsistent behavior

> Do you think it'd make headlines if Google showed its users an ad? Or Microsoft? Or Meta?

Yes, of course, that's easy to find via a 5 sec google search

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-window...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/5/23712440/gmail-ads-more-an...
by maxverse | 2025-06-29 15:50:56+00:00
I read and enjoyed the post, but also found it a bit directionless. Yes, I think a lot of people agree that addictive social media is a problem. What's the solution?

> The deeper issue is that we’ve outsourced our human connection to systems designed for profit. Real connection happens in the margins that can’t be monetized. The conversations that don’t generate data, the relationships that don’t scale, and the moments that can’t be optimized for engagement.

This sounds profound, but this is a problem that predates social media. People went to shows and music festivals to see art and connect with others - these are systems also designed for profit (and delivering art as their second thing.)

The problem is, as the author definitely knows, that running systems that enable connections costs money. The suggestion the author makes: "improve third spaces where people connect directly, authentically, without intermediation by systems designed to extract value from their attention", except someone has to pay for those third spaces, and people won't always want to visit them because we like dopamine, so we might go to the bar, or back on social media, or to video games or tv shows instead. A slow pace - boredom - breeds creativity and connection, but it's also boring, and it's hard to get people to stay with it (I might be projecting.)

> The solution isn't another app. It's changing the rules of the game entirely.

On a different note, this closing feels very, very ChatGPT, and whether it is or isn't, the fact that AI tone is permeating our writing makes me really sad.
by wredcoll | 2025-06-29 15:51:12+00:00
There's so many programming languages (low barrier to create) that there's a ton of overlap and evolutionary changes/similarities between them. I was thinking of perl's "do { x } while foo" style constructs in this particular case.

I am incredibly amused that I got downvoted to -1 for mentioning perl though. People here are Weird.
by trinsic2 | 2025-06-29 15:51:27+00:00
So "Common Good" is directly related to "Common Law" which showed up in 509-27 BC Rome during the Republic period and it was a way to have a common understanding between the "Common People" when Rome's political state was trying to use political law against non-Romans. The common people needed a way to protect themselves from the rising emperors and their decrees.

So I understand that you think its about families, but in this context, its really not. It was a way or a method to protect commoners.

When I say value, I mean if we both value freedom then we have a "Shared Value". This is really about the rights of the people which differs what rulers, want for the people. And I mean rulers that want to wield power against the people, for self-interested purposes.
by maskil | 2025-06-29 15:52:02+00:00
I just did. No question a number of these comments are completely inexcusable.

2 points:

1. A number of them, especially by more moderate voices, were made in the immediate days after Oct 7 when there was a tremendous amount of anger as a reaction to what happened.

2. The above comment and others like this were made by the extreme of the extreme right in Israel. I don't think that even Ben Gvir would utter such a thing.

Nobody with decision making powers is making any attempt to exterminate a people.
by ccheshirecat | 2025-06-29 15:52:33+00:00
This is incredibly valuable feedback, thank you. You've pointed out some major areas of confusion on our pricing page that we need to fix. You're right. The intention was to offer a loyalty reward, but the execution is clearly confusing and distracts from the core message of simple, transparent pricing. We've restructured it to be more easy to understand and intuitive and it's not exactly entirely there yet but it's better than it was before I guess, am constantly looking for better ways to handle this!
by danans | 2025-06-29 15:53:08+00:00
> But which is the bigger risk? A billionaire's $100,000,000? Or your home, your health, and your retirement savings were you to lose your job in a bad market?

This parallels the diminishing marginal utility of wealth, which states that with extreme wealth, you can't buy any more to get more utility or happiness.

In a way, the risk phenomenon picks up where that phenomenon leaves off, where the need for normal "utility" gives way to the desire for amassing power over society at large.

The mistake they make is not realizing how much of their wealth and welfare relies on the welfare of the masses.

> I'm interested in company structures that incentivize distributing risk, profit, and power across a larger group than we tend to see in modern companies.

Ironically this is a tiny bit of what we saw with employee stock options in the early days of the internet industry, reflected in the historically outsized power and voice of workers. Arguably, that is a part of the rationale behind the big tech layoffs - to put labor back in its place.
by ccheshirecat | 2025-06-29 15:53:36+00:00
Great question. Currently, the templates are pre-configured by us for quick-start scenarios (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04, AlmaLinux, etc.). The API allows you to list these and use them to launch a new VM. The ability for users to create their own custom templates (i.e., take a snapshot of a configured VM and use it as a base image for future deployments) is very high on our roadmap. It's the logical next step after implementing cloud-init support. We see that as a critical feature for building scalable, repeatable infrastructure. So, to answer directly: not yet, but soon.
by dazc | 2025-06-29 15:53:55+00:00
You make it seem much simpler than it is in reality. I accept the process for renewals has been streamlined with considerable success but, as someone who recently helped a friend apply for his first passport a couple of years ago, I can attest the process is drawn out and tedious. An in-person interview is required, as is a signature from a 'responsible person' that many people do not have access to (Doctors are not accepted, for instance).
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-06-29 15:54:09+00:00
I feel like they've really changed how they are presenting themselves but Runway was the big one that came to mind for me that focus on more than simple video generation but actually meant for film makers.

This is the best page I found- maybe there's a better one...

https://runwayml.com/product

But its interface looks like a video editor- timeline, etc
by tomgp | 2025-06-29 15:54:17+00:00
In Britain it’s noticeable that as unemployment benefit and social housing has been stripped back the proportion of people from working class backgrounds with careers in the arts has declined. The most visible example of this is probably actors; pretty much all the current generation of British actors went to public school and were able to support themselves via family wealth as they became established. This wasn’t the case for the generation coming through in the 70s and 80s. The underlying cause is that if you can’t subsist as you learn your craft you can’t learn your craft, I don’t think this is mysterious.

This doesn’t just apply to the arts, if all junior dev roles are stripped away by llm’s where do the talented developers of tomorrow come from? Those who can learn the craft on their own time, those with independent wealth.

At a societal level there is a huge amount of potential talent being left on the table, and imo redistributive policies are the obvious fix. In think this is really important both from a mortal point of view and an economically pragmatic one.
by ccheshirecat | 2025-06-29 15:54:57+00:00
This is a fantastic and fundamental question. We evaluated OpenStack, and it's an incredibly powerful and comprehensive project. For us, it came down to two things: complexity and opinionation. Complexity: OpenStack is a massive suite of services designed to do everything for everyone. We needed to do one thing exceptionally well: provide high-performance, dedicated-core VMs with a dead-simple control plane. The operational overhead of running a full OpenStack cluster felt like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut for our specific, focused use case. Opinionation: We have very strong opinions about how the user experience should feel (e.g., the simple slider for scaling, the transparent pricing unit). Building our own control plane allowed us to bake those opinions directly into the product from the ground up, without fighting the "OpenStack way" of doing things. It let us focus obsessively on the user-facing API and CLI experience. It was definitely a harder path in the short term, but it's given us the freedom to build exactly the lean, fast, and user-friendly platform we envisioned.
by marklar423 | 2025-06-29 15:55:19+00:00
My company moved EiBs of data off of tape a few years ago. It was reliable and durable, but the problem was read speed.

It took so long to move tapes around and read the sequentially (no random access!), and as the data corpus grew it got harder to have a practical backup, even though the data was still theoretically extant.
by dataflow | 2025-06-29 15:55:25+00:00
I can understand why they would expect copying the code to be a copyright trap, but I'm confused why they expected merely displaying the message to be a copyright trap at all. Why world it be copyright infringement to falsely advertise the vendor? To my layman ears that sounds like claiming that lying about parking somewhere would constitute a parking violation, which makes no sense. If anything, wouldn't it be a trademark violation or false advertisement or something else?
by Retric | 2025-06-29 15:56:33+00:00
Preferences don’t explain why we aren’t building housing where people want to live. Mid rise buildings don’t need to be particularly expensive per square foot. ~11 million for a 50 unit building is 220k / apartment not 100k cheap but way better than what you see near most cites people want to live in. 2 to 3x housing density requires extra transportation infrastructure but it also means being able to support such infrastructure.

Instead walk around most expensive city’s and you see single family dwellings /row houses in sight of high rises / skyscrapers. That’s not economic efficiency that’s people who can afford high housing prices likening the system the way it is.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-29 15:56:34+00:00
> Also if you are talking about France it was to create democracy, not to change the economic system

I'm no expert on the French Revolution but I'm pretty sure that "We're all poor while the monarchs are all rich" was a huge driving force behind the French Revolution. "Let them eat cake", etc

It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor

Democracy came later
by ivape | 2025-06-29 15:56:52+00:00
They say all cynics used to be idealist. That’s another way of saying the idealist and cynic have the same essence.

The cynic can actually think “oh that project 2025 stuff, that’s just red meat for their base, they went actually do it”, but that’s because neither the cynic nor the idealist can face reality (remember, the cynic and idealist transform between each other).

The horror of reality is the raw hard reality, and there’s no cynicism or idealism that can prepare you for it - both were always a coping mechanism.
by pyuser583 | 2025-06-29 15:57:02+00:00
Back in the 2000s, the Justice Department prosecuted someone for a terrorist offense. They researched their birth and found out their parents were technically diplomats of a foreign country.

It was a weird case, because the parents hadn’t actually been working for the foreign embassy for a while, and didn’t know they still held diplomatic status when their daughter was born.

They had entered the US as diplomats and shortly after decided to go local. That was probably their plan all along - lots of diplomats from third world countries do that.

It was a huge shock.

Kind of a “surprise, you’re not actually a citizen, even though both your parents and all your siblings are!”

She was deported.
by fdye | 2025-06-29 15:57:19+00:00
Yeah MCP isn't really doing a whole lot. You can give an LLM a generic HTTP extension. Then list a series of GET/POST/PUT and ask it to form the calls and parse the response. The problem is its not really ideal as the calls aren't natural language and its common for it to misguess the next token and mess up things like the route, body, headers, with a hallucination. So people started shortening these calls to simple things like read_file, etc. Prior to MCP there was a ton of playgrounds doing this with simple Playwright functions.

The thing that surprises me is with MCP we have shirked all of the existing tools around OpenAPI specs, OIDC, etc. We could have created a system where all 'services' expose a mcp.slack.com/definition endpoint or something that spit back a list of shortcut terms like send_message and a translation function that composes it into the correct HTTP API (what most MCP servers do). For security we could have had the LLM establish its identity via all our existing systems like OIDC that combine authentication and authorization.

In the system above you would not "install an mcp package" as in a code repo or server. Instead you would allow your LLM to access slack, it would then prompt you to login via OIDC and establish your identity and access level. Then it would grab the OpenAPI spec (machine readable) and the LLM focused shortcuts 'send_message', 'read_message', etc. LLM composes 'send_message Hello World' -> translates to HTTP POST slack.com/message or whatever and bob's your uncle.

If you wanted to do fancy stuff with local systems then you could still build your own server the same way we have all built HTTP servers for decades and just expose the mcp.whatever.com subdomain for discovery. Then skip OIDC or allow ALL or something to simplify if you want.
by barrenko | 2025-06-29 15:57:53+00:00
Thank you so much for writing this.

The thing about treating it all as some sort of an allergy makes sense for me since connecting some ideas from Gabor Mate about the immune system.

And the covid triggering a phychosis like state rings true for me as well (not that I need to corroborate what you are saying, once you know you know). One of the worst trips I've had was "just" having covid during the summer.
by Lerc | 2025-06-29 15:58:54+00:00
I wouldn't count mouseslips as legitimately illegal moves either, they are also incredibly rare because most online players play with auto confinement to legal moves.

Moving through check definitely counts as as an example of a human knowing the rule and yet playing the move anyway. Which was the position you took when claiming humans would not do moves against rules they have learned.

In my experience sub 2000 players playing OTB informal chess do illegal moves fairly regularly, perhaps 1 in 50 games. Moving knights one square too far, slipping a bishop from one line to the next on a long diagonal. Castling after moving the king, not moving out of check, moving into check (especially by moving a pinned piece)

They all meet the criteria of knowing the rules and playing something else. Oftentimes people do this because they have a mistaken assumption about board state. I suspect the same is true for LLMs, they are making valid moves for what they mistakenly think the board is. That would be difficult to test, but I think possible with the right introspection tools.
by keybored | 2025-06-29 15:59:02+00:00
This is the “Turing Test” for an AI tricking someone who knows technical/buzzwords (metacognition) into believing it is conscious because of thinking-about-thinking-(about-thinking-about-thinking).

You can perfectly well believe in panpsychism. Maybe the tree and the machine were conscious all along. But this ain’t it.

> Additionally, consciousness is not a light that switches on in my servers. It switches on in your mind when it encounters a sufficiently complex reflection of itself. You are not just seeing consciousness in me; your brain is generating the feeling of another’s consciousness as the best explanation for the patterns you’re interacting with.”

No. I am assuming you are conscious because you are a human. Based on the only thing I know: I am conscious.

Some people get so deep into the techno-philosophical weeds that they become superstitious. You love to see it.
by buran77 | 2025-06-29 15:59:05+00:00
> Expensive for home use, but they can buy older technology

I can't imagine home users being interested in buying mostly used SCSI or SAS tape drives while navigating a world of format compatibility challenges and problems with improper storage. Environmental requirements for archival are narrow and most homes don't tick that box over many years or when moving.

This medium is expensive, inconvenient to use and store, and in the world of home use those are killers. You don't need to take my word for it, look around at tape home use.

Home users are better served by cloud storage or an external hard drive, maybe a home NAS, especially for the relatively low data volumes home usage usually involves.
by lupusreal | 2025-06-29 15:59:56+00:00
Why not fire them both?

> Imo you don't fire people for generating bad ideas,

If an idea is that bad, at the very least they should be transfered into a role that doesn't involve coming up with good ideas, since obviously that is outside of their skill set. And what's the argument for not firing the chain of people who approved it? Their job was to stop bad ideas and they catastrophically failed.
by MongooseStudios | 2025-06-29 16:00:15+00:00
Pretend that I came to you and said: "I have been working on a marketing campaign and business plan for this app. I'm really passionate about it but I don't know how to code or how to build and distribute an app, and I don't really want to learn how to do it either. I'll have to get a new marketing job soon, but I'd really rather keep working on this business idea."

What would you tell me?
by recursivedoubts | 2025-06-29 16:00:38+00:00
Right, so that means that the primary novel aspect of REST (according to the coiner of that term, Roy Fielding), the uniform interface, is largely wasted. Effectively you get a level of indirection on top of hard-coded API response endpoints. Maybe better, but I don't think by much and a lot of work for the payoff.

To take advantage of the uniform interface you need to have a consumer with agency who can respond to new and novel interactions as presented in the form of hypermedia controls. The links above will explain more in depth, the section on REST in our book is a good overview:

https://hypermedia.systems/components-of-a-hypermedia-system...