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by ExoticPearTree | 2025-06-22 20:42:45+00:00
> Of course. How is that controversial?

Take the US for example: if the president, secretary of defense and probably the head of the joint chiefs decide it is OK to nuke half the planet because "reasons" - how is that different from a traditional coup?

> Which makes France, USA and Israel some of the countries that get to have nukes and Iran one of the countries that don't get to have nukes.

Power is always taken, never given. Following your rationale, Iran should do whatever to get its hands on some nukes real fast.

> Have you heard what the stance of Russia is for example?

Have you heard of peacocking? If it were actually true, they would have nuked the world way before probably me and you were born.
by narnarpapadaddy | 2025-06-22 20:43:02+00:00
Any given model has less fidelity than reality. An atlas map of the US has less detail than the actual terrain. The Planck constants represent the maximal fidelity possible with the standard model of physics. We can’t model shorter timeframes or smaller sizes, so we can’t predict what happens at scales that small. Building equipment the can measure something so small is difficult too… how do you measure something when you don’t know what to look for?

It may be that one day we come up with a more refined model. But as of today, it’s not clear how that would happen or if it’s even possible.

Imagine going from 4K to 8k to 16k resolution and then beyond. At some point a “pixel” to represent part of an image doesn’t make sense anymore, but what do you use instead? Nobody currently knows.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-22 20:43:44+00:00
Is it really high by historical standards? My parents rate was over 15%.

Also, if you had extra money laying around would you want to loan it out at 2-3%? I think 5-9% seems more reasonable rate of return for taking some risk etc. I don't understand why anyone would want to loan out for the low rates that we have been loaning money out at over the past 15 years.
by minimaxir | 2025-06-22 20:43:46+00:00
> The Jony Ive and OpenAI deal is on track and has NOT dissolved or anything of the sort, I’m told. Here’s what happened: they were sued over the name IO and there was a restraining order issued by the judge. They had to pull all materials with the name.

https://x.com/markgurman/status/1936887629993464248

> Spokesperson on IO name lawsuit: "This is an utterly baseless complaint, and we’ll fight it vigorously."

https://x.com/markgurman/status/1936889049991762119

Sam Altman's tweet announcement is still up, for now: https://x.com/sama/status/1925242282523103408
by wbl | 2025-06-22 20:44:16+00:00
Very little rhythm and emotion?

First emotion https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFi-7H9TKs

https://youtu.be/rVw6NRXSDhM?si=wchNK9I3RO_XJxeG

Rythym: let's start with the most infamous percussion sequence of all time https://youtu.be/wZtWAqc3qyk?si=B47DQZ1auKx53OaD

Unless you're listening to extremely niche heavy metal, electronica, or the kind of jazz that they don't play on the radio you aren't listen to anything with the skill and complexity of classical. And the people who do also show up to new music.

I don't think there is any video game that comes close in depth to the Ring Cycle.
by foldr | 2025-06-22 20:44:58+00:00
I think an interesting cultural difference between Rust and Go is that Rust is a 'sufficiently smart compiler' language and Go isn't. In other words, in Rust, it's idiomatic to create an enormous chain of function calls and assume that the compiler will boil it down to an efficient loop in release builds. In Go, you generally write code as if for a dumb compiler (even though the Go compiler is pretty sophisticated by now). If you want the code to compile down to an efficient loop, you just write the damn loop. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
by technothrasher | 2025-06-22 20:45:24+00:00
I literally started by buying a bunch of cheap Waltham movements on eBay and tearing them apart. From there my progression was read a few books, watch some videos, buy some tools, join the NAWCC and go to some local meets, and meet local folks to teach me directly. Once you make some helpful friends who are a lot more knowledgeable and experienced than you are and are eager to teach, you're off and running.

I actually discovered pretty early on that my interest was more in clocks than watches, but the early explorations in the watch realm were almost entirely applicable to clock repair as well. I have since repaired at least a hundred clocks and pocket watches. Next month I'm going down to the NAWCC school of horology in Columbia, PA to take my third workshop there, this one on the repair of wooden works clocks. The school was closed for a number of years, but has fired back up in the past few and I know they're actively working on getting more watch repair workshops going. Last time I was there they were just putting together a killer watch lab with some very expensive benches and equipment.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-22 20:45:25+00:00
The aspersions are yours and yours alone. And the provenance far from being apparent actually took some effort to discern, as it involves checking out whether and what sort of editorial board was involved for one thing, as well as looking for review processes and submission guidelines. You should ask yourself why you think so badly of Show HN posts, as you so clearly do, that when it's pointed out that such is the case you yourself directly leap to the idea that it's bad when no-one but you says any such thing.
by tptacek | 2025-06-22 20:46:30+00:00
This could not be less true and I really wish people would stop spreading this idea, because it's costing other people lots of money. In fact, the Venn diagram mapping "software celebrities" like Patrick and expert negotiators has not much overlap at all. You've never heard of some of the best-compensated developers I know (and they don't work on "celebrity" projects, either); meanwhile, I can think of multiple "celebrities" who have gotten extremely raw deals --- one, for instance, was brought in to lead engineering & R&D at a security company working against organized crime, and didn't even get any equity.

Patrick is right: compensation is much more about negotiating skill than it is about reputation or (especially) notoriety, holding everything else equal.
by renewiltord | 2025-06-22 20:46:32+00:00
Modern people are so risk averse. Back in the day we would rob trains. These days society is the equivalent of a HOA - freedom is fast forgotten and trains go mostly unmolested except through that one bastion of liberty: Los Angeles. Society is full of tattletales and stool pigeons. A criminal society is a free society. Order is antithetical to expression.
by pydry | 2025-06-22 20:46:50+00:00
It actually already collapsed in 2022-2023 according to projections from March 2022:

https://theconversation.com/the-russian-economy-is-headed-fo...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-faces-biggest-economic...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/vlad...

nm, Im sure the more up to date projections are accurate and the projections from 2022, 2023, 2024 and early 2025 were abberations.
by nsingh2 | 2025-06-22 20:47:48+00:00
The religious absolutism you criticize is present in Israel's current leadership. Smotrich and Ben Gvir call Gaza reconquest and West Bank annexation a religious duty, claim that it's a redemption. Justifying tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and a war bill funded mostly by the US [1].

There is also hatred within the Israeli population against Arabs and Iranians in the region, and still that's no reason to justify continued aggression.

I'm seeing these no-nuance, dehumanizing, views everywhere on this thread, though I'm not sure why I expected better. Maybe because this "Iran big bad" rhetoric closely mirrors what happened during the Iraq war, and only helps justify further escalation.

[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-22 20:48:25+00:00
Compliance with the law is a separate issue from the contents of the law. If switching to a fine-based bounty system like this suddenly causes an uproar over a given law, then I submit the proper thing is to look over that law and perhaps tear it down. Any "law" that people put up with because it isn't enforced 9 times out of 10 is little more than a tax upon those too honest to get away with it.

As for businesses using it against one another in competition: Same deal, I think that's an excellent thing. If this idling law causes NYC businesses to shift en masse to faster loading and unloading practices because their competitors are watching them like hawks, I don't think that's a bad thing.
by kybernetikos | 2025-06-22 20:49:09+00:00
> The goals of israel are regime change and nuclear disarmament -- these cannot be achieved from the air. It might be that israel is content to lose on these objectives, and so be it.

This is key. The only way for this set of actions to go well is if there is regime change, otherwise the most likely outcome is that Iran's resolve to acquire nuclear weapons as quickly as possible has been dramatically solidified.

Like you though, I struggle to see any clear path for positive regime change to occur. The nearest attempt would be boots (but whose?) on the ground, but even that seems unlikely to work out well. Maybe there could be some sort of internal resistance, but I don't see how they could operate successfully while the country is under external attack.

My assumption with how things are at the moment is that the actions by Israel and the USA have all but guaranteed that Iran acquires a nuclear weapon in the next few decades, and so have dramatically increased the risk of Israel being attacked with one. One has to assume that radical Islamist terrorism in western countries will increase too.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 20:49:26+00:00
My RSS reader knows I like articles about the green energy transition so it has shown me a lot of articles about ideas similar to this, see

https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-c...

my take though is that aluminum is made electrolytically at great energy expense so at best this is a way to transport hydrogen in metallic form which could be relevant since transporting and storing hydrogen is problematic. (I think how most metals will react with acids to make hydrogen [1] but Al reacts with bases to produce hydrogen too)

The demand is high so there is a lot of research on ways to make hydrogen, especially tuning up hydrolysis but also finding it underground [2] so call it high impact but high competition.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/12/2009/2009-...

[2] https://www.eenews.net/articles/gold-hydrogen-the-next-clean...
by troupo | 2025-06-22 20:50:09+00:00
> authors aren't limited to the sociopolitical realities of 18th century South America, they can invent whatever systems they like, and then the question is whether their world-building skills are good enough to avoid obvious inconsistencies.

To do that authors need to very well versed in the sociopolitical realities of 18th century South America, and ancient China, and moden Europe, and... Most modern authors couldn't be bothered to do even basic research. Or can't afford to, because the pay is shit, and the deadlines are tight, and you have to produce a trilogy a year just to survive.

I've read a lot of scifi over the past few years. Most books are bad rehashes of existing ideas written in an extremely poor language (nouns and verbs with complete lack of adjectives and adverbs, poor and nonexistent metaphors, middle-school-level sentence structure etc.)

Fantasy books fare much better because they can easily borrow and steal "sociopolitical realities" and transfer them to pages wholesale.
by tucnak | 2025-06-22 20:50:57+00:00
The proposition that Electron apps are somehow "saving time" is preposterous!

Of course, the real cost-saving is in labour—web development presents a radically lower barrier to entry compared to even non-native, cross-platform UI/UX platforms such as Qt, or Flutter, or what-have-you, let alone simply managing multiple native applications.

So this is not a bill-of-materials kind of analogy, it's a statement about talent.

Web leaders have grown complacent; at times, it seems they don't take things seriously. I mean, just take a look at something like SvelteKit. I'm not a web developer, however I happen to like Svelte a lot, but also despise SvelteKit equally as much.

Every major release is like "fuck you."
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-22 20:51:08+00:00
A speed trap is a kind of violence, yes. Have you ever hit one of those things at high speed before? Ouch.

EDIT: I've been away from the States for too long. I was indeed thinking about speed bumps, not traps. Traps are cameras, and they therefore get a thumbs up from me in the beautiful bounties-on-everything-we-care-about future.
by potholereseller | 2025-06-22 20:51:28+00:00
> All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them.

For those reading the above, wondering about this phenomenon, read Baudrilliard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Even if you don't agree with Baudrilliard's overall thesis, the facts he brings up are still cogent (e.g. a photo from the Exon Valdez spill was used instead of an actual photo of the Iraqi military's destruction of Kuwaiti oil fields). The media has been a critical aspect of war since at least the Falklands War.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-22 20:52:39+00:00
I think there's somewhat of a misunderstanding. The suggestion is that warranties not be denied due to user modifications that are unrelated or trivial to revert. It's the logical extension of Magnusun-Moss from aftermarket parts to aftermarket software packages.

1. I expect wiping any given component to be entirely up to the manufacturer's discretion. If doing so is not trivial and is legitimately required for the repair to proceed then I'd expect the user to be charged for the additional service.

2. Violating manufacturer specifications and being at fault for damages are sometimes distinct. A manufacturer arbitrarily saying "you must not do X" should not necessarily mean that doing X will void the warranty. It might though. Discretion is obviously required.

3. If your car stops working after you mess with the firmware and you take it in to the dealer I imagine they'd charge you to reflash things since the issue was caused by your own actions. That doesn't mean they should be able to decline to cover entirely unrelated defects.

Also I don't think vehicle firmware would be caught up by the original proposal in the first place since cars aren't generally intended to run third party software. There's a grey area with infotainment systems that have an app store depending on if those are viewed as standalone or part of the larger vehicle. However reframing the proposal to revolve around intent would likely leave the firmware on unrelated embedded components in the clear to be locked down so long as those components don't interfere with the ability to freely use the general purpose computing element.

Personally I'd like vehicle firmware to be covered by similar protections but I recognize that falls outside the scope of a proposal about products intended for use as general purpose computing devices.
by roncesvalles | 2025-06-22 20:52:45+00:00
In my experience, the proclivity of a company to negotiate entirely depends on how quickly they need to hire someone. If the requirement is to scale up immediately, once at the offer stage you're the fastest person on the planet who can start working in the role, and this gives you significant leverage.

If the company can afford to onboard someone any time in the next few months, they don't need to negotiate. They just need to keep the pipeline flowing until some candidate accepts their lowball number.
Ask HN: How do you think AI will change education?
by andrewrn | 2025-06-22 20:53:15+00:00
Hi HN. I was hoping to spur a discussion on AI and edtech.

I'm from Alaska, which has fallen to 49th place in national testing scores. In some ways I feel like I barely made it out of that educational system, and as a technologist I have pondered how AI might create some positive change.

Its a bit of a touchy subject it would seem, as from a few discussions I have had with my former teachers, it sounds like ChatGPT has created more problems than it has solved, thus far. Further, many of the problems are not obviously tractable (things like problematic home life, short attention spans). More optimistically, I have heard that teachers' busywork might stand to be expedited by AI.

In any case, I am doing some research into the space and hoping to find others who are interested or passionate about improving education quality, so if anyone has anecdotes or first-hand experience, I'd love to hear.
by 05 | 2025-06-22 20:53:24+00:00
> I thought a second fusion stage required modeling and testing well beyond basic development

The bottleneck is UF₆ centrifuges, not the modeling. They're definitely aiming for a fission-fusion design: "The sources note that Iran has attempted to produce deuterium-tritium gas on its own inside Iran - with the help of Russian scientists - but has so far been unable to do so, and due to pressures by the Iranian leadership to accelerate the weapons production program, decided to try to purchase this substance abroad." [0]

India and Pakistan did their first tests ~30 years ago, a lot has changed since then and if you're building a nuke in '25 might as well spend some cash on a simulation cluster and buy some multiphysics simulation software from Russia..

[0] The sources note that Iran has attempted to produce deuterium-tritium gas on its own inside Iran - with the help of Russian scientists - but has so far been unable to do so, and due to pressures by the Iranian leadership to accelerate the weapons production program, decided to try to purchase this substance abroad.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-22 20:53:25+00:00
Nobody "lent" money to normal people at prime rates.

Almost the only people buying Treasuries are:

1) The Fed (to manipulate prices)

2) Foreign governments (because they basically have to for international trade to function)

3) Pension funds (because they are literally mandated by federal governments)

4) bond traders (who don't think the yield is an investment, but that they know where the price is headed and can make money selling at a better price in the near future)

5) 401k funds - of which US Treasures are typically a very small percentage, given that "bonds" as an entire asset class rarely exceeds 40%.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-22 20:53:26+00:00
The problem with that is all nodes stop-start is not a partition!

A partition is when some nodes can’t reach other nodes.

Zookeeper instead has an issue where it does try to restart but the timeout (why?!) is too short, something like 30 seconds. If the majority of your nodes don’t all start within a certain time window the whole cluster stays down until someone manually intervenes.

I discovered this fun feature when keeping non-prod systems off to save money in the cloud.

It also has an impact when making certain big bang changes in production.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-22 20:53:47+00:00
I don't know what could possibly make me read books. Reading is a chore, and not very efficient at the best of times. There's also the eye strain and the neck pain, and comfort in general. Best would be to read from bed, but bed is for sleepy time, a hard earned lesson.

But that's just me. Here's why I think books are no longer being read in general.

It's simply a format that time has moved on from. First came the radio, but radio wasn't gonna compete with books. Radio was succeeded by television though, and that sure could, but television is presently being succeeded by the internet, with TV companies desperate for any remaining attention, attention that they keep bleeding.

All this time the format has failed to find a foothold, and carve out its stay. You may discover that this is not universally true across the world, such as in Japan, where light novels are decently popular. It has its own place, but in the Western world, the only reliable place books have is in the classroom. I stipulate that the reason you see a prominently female readership is for the same reason: girls are (were?) taught in school that they're the more artsy type, that humanities should interest them more, and so they proceed(ed) to take that on the chin. Fast forward a few decades, and there you go.

The same applies for all other foregone forms of art. Theater? Opera? Ballet? Classical music performances? You'd have to pay or coerce me to attend these. Where I live, all the institutions hosting these are living off of government money, as they're simply unable to sustain themselves otherwise. People just don't care. The shows put on are basically live-action museum exhibitions. Although I guess even museums should be included in this list. Modern audiences are simply completely out of tune with these, they are an exercise in anachronism. And until the communities behind these continue to hammer in their formal position in art over their actual one, rather than try to connect with said modern audiences, this trend will continue. That is assuming such a connection is even possible still at this point.
by xKingfisher | 2025-06-22 20:54:29+00:00
It's a "rain shadow"[0]

The predominant wind is from the east, and the air cools aid forms rainclouds as it tries to rise over the mountains in the center of the island. Then warms again as it descends down the eastern slopes.

So the eastern (Hilo) side is pretty lush jungle, and the west(Kona) is desert. With snowy mountains in between.

[0]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/rain-s...
by mhuffman | 2025-06-22 20:56:19+00:00
>Compliance with the law is a separate issue from the contents of the law.

Agree. More of my thought is what happens when everyone is incentivized with money to spy on everyone else? How can you misuse this as a government? How can unscrupulous businesses misuse this?

>If switching to a fine-based bounty system like this suddenly causes an uproar over a given law, then I submit the proper thing is to look over that law and perhaps tear it down.

I would submit that there is the danger that people might want to keep a bad law if they continue to make money by snitching. In fact, money is the exact wrong incentive for this sort of thing.

>Any "law" that people put up with because it isn't enforced 9 times out of 10 is little more than a tax upon those too honest to get away with it.

Think a little harder and see if you can imagine why a law that isn't strongly enforced still might exist.