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by stoneman24 | 2025-06-23 15:37:29+00:00
Not sure how to do it, but a history of the campaign from the different viewpoints would be an interesting read.

Perhaps a journalist piecing together the information, 6 months to a year after the events. Once the ripples have settled, more or less.

I might be biased as I have been reading 3 part history of the American Civil War, which also suffered from the fog of war and very slow information propagation.

Of course, history is always written by the victors after their glorious triumph has been consolidated and the losers comprehensively defeated.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-23 15:37:59+00:00
Our brains summarise all the time.

I can't remember exactly what texture/shade is on the ceiling of my bathroom, but I remember roughly what colour it is. If you asked me if there's a bit of pain flaking off and where it is, I couldn't tell you to save my life.

When I open HN (or most things) I will skim down the list of titles and it's keywords that will jump out at me.

When I read threads I will start skimming when the conversation evolves into endless debate, unless I'm interested in said debate.

Processing every possible bit of input in full would not make for a very efficient or worthy experience, but of course this is contextual. Someone a contract should read every word; though this has been weaponised in the form of long ToS - they know most people don't read those at all.
by Jensson | 2025-06-23 15:38:06+00:00
Which country are you talking about? Women have been allowed to own property in USA from the beginning. Married women lost their right to own property separately, but that is the opposite of what you are suggesting, women still married men, some women did intentionally not marry though to not lose their property rights.

If we made women have all control over the property after marriage as you suggest we go back to then that would just make men marry women at even lesser rates.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-23 15:38:38+00:00
Yes, and? It's a good thing to get crimes reported more often, faster, and with more and higher quality evidence. (That last statement doesn't directly follow from bounties in the short term, but it does once you start considering the competitive pressures crime detectors face in such a market.)

You can run a thought experiment to confirm this. Suppose 1/2 of all crimes committed in your area currently get reported. You are offered the option to move to two new places, identical in every way to your starting point, except New Town A has 3/4 of the crimes committed get reported*. New Town B has only 1/4 of the crimes committed get reported. Do you move? Where to?

The important thing to notice is less that New Town A seems like a pretty good deal, than that New Town B seems like a really bad one. Plenty of people would move to New Town A for the obvious additional security. Some of people would elect to stay, for reasons like New Town A isn't guaranteed to be exactly like where you currently are into the future, and home is home. But almost nobody would move to New Town B. The people who would jump for joy at moving to New Town B may even be criminals themselves trying to escape charges or just hedge their futures.

* For the sake of completeness, you can consider this property preserved across different types of crime. E.g. if 90% of homicides get reported in your current locale, 95% do in New Town A, and only 45% in New Town B do. If 20% of money laundering schemes get reported, 60% do in New Town A, and 10% in New Town B. Etc. The general idea of everything being more or less detectable is more important than the specific numbers.
by jdranczewski | 2025-06-23 15:38:58+00:00
PhD theses often have many figures, and these are often not optimised. My thesis is around 30MB, and that's after I optimised a couple of the most egregious figures. I'm planning to make it better in the corrections phase, but file size is really not something most people will be concerned in the writing phase, and so compile times are likely to suffer.

For further reference, a single-pass compilation of my thesis currently takes 25 seconds, and multiple passes are of course needed if the layout/bibliography changes. I ended up setting up TeXstudio to always compile only once for the preview, and then run the full N complications for the final build. That plus liberal use of \includeonly made compile times not that much of an issue
by everythingbagel | 2025-06-23 15:39:15+00:00
This is why I've accepted it about my process. Even if something new only boosts my productivity for a little while, a bump is better than nothing, and I often learn something new about myself in the process. So, instead of beating myself up about going whole hog into something I saw online or heard in a podcast, I just accept it and enjoy the increase in energy and motivation for the time that I'm trying it.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 15:39:18+00:00
> Splitting drinking from other uses is far more efficient.

This isn't universally true. Pipework (laying+maintaining), collection and storage is generally the expensive bit of any water system. The actual purification is fairly cheap.

That means having two sets of pipes to every house (one for drinking water, one for mid-grade water) usually costs more than just one set of pipes and having all water drinkable. Thats why it's rarely done.

The alternative is you use the pipes for non-potable water, and tell people to buy bottled water for drinking - more than half the world is in this position I believe. It helps that people drink perhaps only 1% of the water they use - so bringing 1% of the water via bottles on the back of a motorbike is viable.
by jbentley1 | 2025-06-23 15:39:20+00:00
If I hit the rate limit in 2 hours and got value out of each prompt I ran, that's better than doing the same amount of work in 6 hours and not hitting the limit.

Personally, I'm running 2 accounts and switching between them for maximum productivity. Just as a function of what my time is worth it is a no brainer.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-23 15:40:11+00:00
It's nice to work for an organization that you're proud to be at; even as an older person. Pretty rare, but can happen. The mercenary approach that so many low-level employees have, is a bit depressing. When we spend the majority of our time somewhere, it's kinda nice to feel good about it (BTW: The company would have paid for it. It was for company gear, to help build the brand, when working with outside entities. I didn't use the laptop for personal stuff -I actually had a much better one, for my own work).

But it's entirely possible that I'm crazy, anyway. You're probably quite perceptive.
by mindslight | 2025-06-23 15:40:49+00:00
So then USPS should be working on designing and testing that solution, demonstrating the costs are lower, and then creating an analysis that the costs of maintaining the few bespoke purpose-built vehicles are higher than additional capital spending on replacing them with the newer "COTS" [0] vehicles. And do all of this in-house with USPS/othergov employees to make it so there isn't a private contractor turning the "COTS" solution into another expensive one.

As I've acknowledge twice now, yes there are serious problems with the way the government specs and procures things. The problem here, and why I phrased my comment in terms of a "full stop" to any change rather than merely focusing on this issue, is that naive ideas about how things should be simple are just being used as a cover to enable more brazen looting - this isn't about getting a better vehicle solution for USPS, but rather destroying government assets for cash that can then be pocketed. Talking about progress or reform in the context of anything this administration does is specious. We need to be focusing on not going backwards before we can even think about going forwards.

[0] eg there are no "off the shelf" domestic market vehicles with right hand drive.
by hn14442 | 2025-06-23 15:41:00+00:00
Yes, the vine being planted ( or let to grow ) is a deliberate choice :). It's not unique to Japan thou.

> I don't understand how people can willingly spend every couple of hours every week to trim their lawn to a pristine, perfect cube of grass.

The funny thing is that you will fine plenty of Western-style gardens in Japan too: perfectly trimmed, symmetrical, sometime even next to Japanese garden. Japanese aristocrats quite love this back in the day.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 15:41:24+00:00
As is typical: "The government did x y z things to destroy trust!"

"Can you show me where?"

"No, but there's less trust now, ergo the government did it!"

Another hypothesis for you: You were peppered with bullshit from non-government sources so thoroughly and so frequently that you abdicated your responsibility to understand what's true and what's not.

This is, of course, the goal of such information campaigns.

In theory, I buy the argument that the government should be able to successfully overcome the 24/7 bullshit machine that you plugged yourself into, but I personally struggle to imagine a good/safe/non-authoritarian way for it to achieve that.

So I'm left with the conclusion that we each bear some amount of responsibility to try to counteract the game of telephone when it comes to understanding matters of personal or national importance, and you (like many other perfectly fine/smart/honorable people) failed to meet that obligation. Not really a personal critique given you didn't know the game you were playing and how proactive you needed to be in it, but here we are, and I'd recommend a high-agency look at how you chose to find and interpret information. The institutions were not the problem here.
by mkoubaa | 2025-06-23 15:41:34+00:00
I think you're confusing critical and analytical reading with narrative reading. It is definitely true that critical reading ability is uncommon but that doesn't mean a typical reader can't follow a story.

Sidenote - Dickens is unreadable to me for two reasons: that version of English is not the same language I speak natively and he uses so much visual descriptions and I'm an aphant.
by jonnycomputer | 2025-06-23 15:41:43+00:00
I kinda gave up on using it because so many of my remotes are tunneled through a jump host and I never could get it to connect seamlessly. It seems like it ought to, but when vscode just works with my ssh config, I decided debugging it was not a good use of my time. Might have something to do with being on a Mac, idk.
by roxolotl | 2025-06-23 15:42:56+00:00
Except that you can point to deaths, loss of productively, loss of revenue, etc caused by racist attitudes. And you can point to benefits caused by immigration.

I still have yet to hear an answer from my initial question about why any of this is a genuine problem aside from housing which I agree with but disagree on the solution.

To make progress concrete things need to exist for discussion around them to happen.
Show HN: Link your LLM conversations to your code via GitHub Issues
by rdmolony | 2025-06-23 15:43:28+00:00
(Like many of you) I'm creating a lot of experiments these days with Claude Code.

For the benefit of others (or my future self), I really like linking Git commits to GitHub Issue threads so that I can better understand the code's context.

This simple CLAUDE.md configuration extends this idea by "teaching" and "asking" the LLM to use tools to sync LLM conversations with the code that is generated by them.

> This is really just another flavour of what @simonw is already doing with https://github.com/simonw/tools

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Future work -

1) This should really be a deterministic sync rather than "asking" an LLM to do it

https://github.com/rdmolony/sync-claude-code-with-github-iss...
by sofixa | 2025-06-23 15:43:56+00:00
> On one side, France in particular, but many other "developed" nations as well have stepped in to build the infrastructure and provide clean water to places where it was problematic.

> Only to monopolize water distribution one way or the other, resulting in people not able to afford the water at the end, while losing their previous precarious access to dirty but natural sources as well.

> Nestle, Danone are the poster child of these predatory moves.

I've heard of Nestlé monopolising water in developing countries, but didn't know Danone nor France itself (private companies, Swiss or French, aren't "France") being involved. Do you have concrete stories you can share?
by gs17 | 2025-06-23 15:44:04+00:00
> Walmart had the first five books of Bocchi the Rock and #7 but not #6

Wonder if it's similar to what this comment mentions about Amazon (even down to the example being 5 and 7 but no 6): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354938 Maybe Walmart is trying to match Amazon's stock to avoid spending too much to compete with them.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-06-23 15:44:06+00:00
Nuclear weapons are already in the hands of crazy Jewish ethnonationalists and religious nuts. Those guys have been going completely crazy for the last two years, carrying out a genocide in Gaza, invading Lebanon and Syria, and attacking Iran.

By comparison, the Iranian goverment looks calm and rational. Israel has attacked Iran three separate times in just the last two years. The first two times, Iran tried to prevent escalation by calibrating its response and informing Israel beforehand.

It's pretty obvious why Iran would want nuclear weapons. The US and Israel have made it clear that they want regime change in Iran. Iran tried making a deal with the US, and what happened? The very next US administration ripped up the deal. Then, the Iranians tried to negotiate a new deal, but Israel and the US attacked them while the negotiations were ongoing. What lesson are the Iranians supposed to draw from that?
by pluto_modadic | 2025-06-23 15:44:09+00:00
"far cheaper than providing large amounts" that doesn't factor in the cost of plumbing an entire town with 3 sets. remember photos of the tangle of wires when DC vs AC fought? It's more expensive especially for a suburb of single family homes to plumb in sewers and water mains (long distances for low flows), vs plumbing in duplexes and apartments.

having a secondary water system (e.g., purple pipes / grey water), for general lawn/washing and one for drinking/cooking - strikes a good balance. You don't want your potable water system to move too slowly.

You also should have water towers at different heights (higher pressure in the potable system). any accidental interconnects (these do happen) will flow /away/ from the potable one.

finally, letting people use rainwater, runoff, and letting them recycle lightly used potable water for other uses (like flushing toilets, watering gardens) is good - try to get every liter of water used twice as a goal.

bonus: get past the ick factor and allow your sewage to be re-used (purple pipes) as the greywater after treatment at the plant.
by galangalalgol | 2025-06-23 15:44:19+00:00
Are we sure people don't work that way? Almost all of us operate on instincts almost all of the time. We have guardrails, people who operate them are often committed to institutions. When we choose to do things, it is based on that static hardwiring. Our meta model later comes up with reasons why we did the things. Sometimes, but rarely, it is correct. The human brain is extremely heterogenous, modular even. Some of our modules function remarkably like a memory store fed back into a context window. Adding a meta model to an llm that is updated autonomously by an additional model that analyzes outcomes to upde this predictive meta model would quite likely result in the agent's models mistaking the meta model for a self. Much like we do.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-23 15:44:24+00:00
Afaik not really. The ones that scan humans are tuned for a specific proton resonance frequency, so they basically measure hydrogen density. But you get a 3D-Plot because they do a computed tomography of that density.

The chemistry NMRs are spectrographs, so you dial through a whole frequency spectrum and look at the reflected/transmitted signal. With that you get different peaks for different nuclei plus some deviations for crystal or molecular structure.

But I have to admit, that I'm a little rusty on that topic, so you might be right anyways.
by absurdo | 2025-06-23 15:44:24+00:00
I have reservations about adding YouTube as it’s got a massive amount of useful content; a little curation and it won’t show you any nonsense. Reddit is a mid-range, so I can understand it. It’s hard to separate the good and the bad there I suppose, especially if you’ve gotten into constantly checking for updates.

But I would almost certainly and without any qualms put HN on the default noallow list. The SNR and potential for learning things is atrocious to nonexistent most of the time - and you can find better sources than HN. No, I’m not joking unfortunately it’s just what the site has become over the years.
by nradov | 2025-06-23 15:44:51+00:00
There are a lot of different artificial dyes. Most of them haven't been extensively studied in a rigorous way. It probably isn't even possible to determine whether they have any negative effects on human health because there's no ethical or affordable way to run that experiment. Since dyes are purely cosmetic and there's no actual need for them then it might be better to just avoid the risk.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-23 15:46:32+00:00
Yes, but Apple has deep pockets, and a very mature brand.

I worked for a 100-year-old company that has one of the most respected brands in the world. I am quite familiar with what it takes, to make the highest-Quality stuff.

That said, it's downright impossible to start from scratch, creating high-Quality stuff.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-23 15:47:29+00:00
When you follow niche interests like velomobile construction (just the example I thought of first), you find most of the useful stuff is from before 2006, and the best discussion venues old-school forums that have barely changed in at least 15 years, but are sometimes still alive.

(Older sites rot less, too; but even when you find archives of somewhat newer stuff, on average the content wasn’t so valuable.)

I miss the old web.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-06-23 15:47:36+00:00
The subsidy is blatantly obvious when you compare the cost of self-hosting versus subscription, and the subscription is dramatically dramatically cheaper.

The difference between Blue Apron and many AI tools is that the value add does exist. You can cut meal prep from your life, but by 2030, cutting whatever agentic code copilot exists by that point will be like cutting off your fingers for many workers and businesses.

Then the extortionate pricing can start rolling in
by rsynnott | 2025-06-23 15:48:09+00:00
I mean, if that were to happen, they wouldn't exactly be the first. It's not particularly rational, but "launch very late thing in an unacceptable state and then pull it a few weeks after" is not an uncommon industry pattern. Admittedly, it's unusual for _hardware_ (though not totally unknown; see the Humane AI thing, say).
by gs17 | 2025-06-23 15:48:11+00:00
> They'll purchase 10k of vols. 5 and 7 of a series and only 1k of vol. 6. Guess how many of that 10k of vol. 7 end up selling when that happens?

I've noticed that too in manga. It's amazing they screw it up so bad, given their origin as a book seller.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 15:48:30+00:00
The problem isn't whether they pay taxes. The problem is that we've effectively increased the number of poor people in the country, or at the very least my state, on a whim. And that imperils all the social safety net programs or at the very least degrades them for the populations that they were intentionally envisioned to serve (which also imperils them, but politically instead of financially).
by lxgr | 2025-06-23 15:48:56+00:00
Does all of that (i.e. GPU rasterization and GPU compositing) really work over the network with common browsers?

Based on my limited experience, the performance of running Firefox remotely on a local X11 server was very poor, and I assumed that the absence of these types of acceleration were to blame.

I could imagine XRender to work, though, which would at least support blitting most of the pixels up/down in case of scrolling, and would only require pushing new ones over the network for any newly exposed areas.
by ColinWright | 2025-06-23 15:49:31+00:00
There may be some youngsters who don't know who Cliff Stoll is.

He wrote "The Cuckoo's Egg" which is a riveting tale, capable of entertaining nerds and non-nerds alike.

He sells glass Klein Bottles, huge, medium, tiny, earrings, and more.

He's given a TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

He's brilliant, bonkers, and wonderful company. I spent a fantastic morning with him early last year (2024) and it was brilliant fun. I will for many, many years treasure my signed Klein Bottle and my signed copy of "The Cuckoo's Egg".

Thanks Cliff
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-06-23 15:49:44+00:00
> Would you just roll over and let Russia invade your country?

Apparently, many Ukrainian men would. Or maybe they'd seen it like a mere change in upper management, initially. Otherwise the Ukrainian government would not have felt it necessary to forbid them from leaving the country or to press/force them into military service.

(And, frankly, the people affected are the only ones whose opinion should matter in this situation.)

> Bleeding to repel the Russian invasion, you mean

It's always easy to spill other people's statistical blood from the other side of the planet.
by latexr | 2025-06-23 15:49:45+00:00
> Japan-everything fetishizing so prominent on Hacker News

It’s far from exclusive to Hacker News. In fact, it doesn’t seem to be that prevalent here, as when it’s mentioned it at least tends to be in relevant context. Reddit, Tumblr, Imgur, and plenty of other communities both on and offline have an appreciation for Japanese culture.

> although I've come to realize that it's mostly Americans holding up an example of everything they feel they lack domestically, and in that sense isn't so much about Japan as it is about America

Also not related to America at all. It’s just as common in Europe and western countries in general. Generation probably plays a role. Find anyone who had their mind blown by an anime at a formative age, and you’ll find someone who to this day is likely to have some degree of fascination with Japan.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-23 15:49:46+00:00
Tramp is how I finally got over the chronic problem of having to use vim just for remote editing files on remote machines over an ssh session. It does sometimes hang and chug inconveniently, but dealing with that is far easier than delicately holding a config file like a flower while I remember the precise vim commands (and work around the TTY special code interpretation issues that break arrow keys) to make my edits to one line.

N'ah, forget that. It's worth the setup time to make Tramp go brr.
by ajmurmann | 2025-06-23 15:49:54+00:00
Many small business like this are also run by retirees who want to meet people and bring some value to their community. It's legal to run a small business from a certain percentage of your ground floor in any location in Japan.

It also doesn't have to be your primary source of income. If you can run it from a structure like this you could just operate a cocktail bar on the weekends. Even in the US I know of a small pizza place that offers takeout only on a few days each month and it's operated out of the owners mom's kitchen. Not sure how legal that is and turning that inti a sit-down place would certainly be an issue.
by hiergiltdiestfu | 2025-06-23 15:50:10+00:00
After skimming through the comments derailed into AfD/BSW discussions, I'm happy to find this comment, because as a non-extremist German, this is the reason I want the German gold out of the USA. Right now, it makes as much sense as storing the gold in North Korea. It will just be held hostage or stolen by the local dictator.