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by tw04 | 2025-06-28 22:35:03+00:00
> go after people committing violations

At this point it’s a bold assumption they’ll go after people violating anything. It’s become apparent the decade of accusations of “weaponizing government” was a projection and the only people they’ll go after are people they consider enemies, whether they’re breaking any laws or not.

That’s the beautiful part of a puppet Supreme Court, you don’t actually need to worry about the laws, you can just make it up as you go.
by Dig1t | 2025-06-28 22:35:09+00:00
Comparison of everything you don’t like to Nazis and Hitler doesn’t work anymore. Nobody cares because one side has spent the last 8 years calling everyone they don’t like Nazis.

Immigration law has existed forever, and it will be enforced. It’s actually overwhelmingly popular with the electorate. “Unfairness” is just your opinion, just because you don’t like the law doesn’t mean it’s okay to threaten violence against innocent families.
by InkCanon | 2025-06-28 22:35:18+00:00
The situation now is radically different. In the late 2000s/early 2010s, most H1B applications got approved (something like 80%). For a time before that, the H1B cap wasn't usually maxed out and any application would succeed. If I'm being blunt this is because of one country. H1Bs are dominated by this country. This country makes up 75% of applications and without these, H1Bs would actually be undersubscribed.

The significant shift comes a lot from how this country has massive systems in place to perform wage arbitrage through IT consultancies. Compared to Chinese industrial outsourcing (which requires capex), wage arbitrage is pure profit in that there's almost no overhead. So these IT companies got phenomenally rich. These companies have a US branch, usually having a manager based in the US while the others are based in India. So it's no longer getting the best and brightest through H1B, but just a way to make money off the vast difference in economic conditions between a third and first world country. And there's a direct incentive to depress the economic conditions of workers, because that's money right there. Then this goes into overdrive when many US companies realize it's even cheaper to do it themselves and set up shop in this country.

What happened to the US industrial base/blue collar workers is happening right now to white collar workers, except it'll go much faster because there's no physical equipment to move.
by kragen | 2025-06-28 22:36:15+00:00
I don't know. Oracle was written to run on a VAXCluster with a shared disk with a seek time in the tens of milliseconds, and things like Postgres are kind of architected for that world. The world has changed a lot. Anything you could fit on disk in 02000 fits in RAM today, most of our programmable computing power is in GPUs instead of CPUs, website workloads are insanely read-heavy (favoring materialized views and readslave farms), SSDs can commit transactions durably in 0.1ms and support random reads while imposing heavy penalties on nonsequential writes, and spinning up ten thousand AWS Lambda functions to process a query in parallel is now a reasonable thing to do.

I think you could make reasonable arguments for SQLite, Postgres, MariaDB, Impala, Hive, HSQLDB, SPARK, Drill, or even Numpy, TensorFlow, or Unity's ECS, though those last few lack the "internal representation independence" ("data independence") so central to Codd's conception.

What's your opinion?
by ndiddy | 2025-06-28 22:37:02+00:00
The JavaScript name came out of a cross-licensing deal between Netscape and Sun where Netscape would bundle a copy of the JVM with their browser. Sun needed a way to put the JVM on most Windows users' computers to get developers to write Java software instead of Windows software, and they knew Microsoft wouldn't ship a product that would threaten the Windows platform's domination, so they figured that bundling with Netscape was their next best option. If you read the initial JavaScript press release ( https://www.tech-insider.org/java/research/1995/1204.html ), it's mainly marketed as a way to write glue code to make it possible for Java applets (where the real application logic would go) to interact with an HTML page:

> With JavaScript, an HTML page might contain an intelligent form that performs loan payment or currency exchange calculations right on the client in response to user input. A multimedia weather forecast applet written in Java can be scripted by JavaScript to display appropriate images and sounds based on the current weather readings in a region. A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly. A page might contain JavaScript scripts that run on both the client and the server. On the server, the scripts might dynamically compose and format HTML content based on user preferences stored in a relational database, and on the client, the scripts would glue together an assortment of Java applets and HTML form elements into a live interactive user interface for specifying a net-wide search for information.

> Java programs and JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers, with JavaScript scripts used to modify the properties and behavior of Java objects, so the range of live online applications that dynamically present information to and interact with users over enterprise networks or the Internet is virtually unlimited. Netscape will support Java and JavaScript in client and server products as well as programming tools and applications to make this vision a reality.

> "Programmers have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Java because it was designed from the ground up for the Internet. JavaScript is a natural fit, since it's also designed for the Internet and Unicode-based worldwide use," said Bill Joy, co-founder and vice president of research at Sun. "JavaScript will be the most effective method to connect HTML-based content to Java applets."

This was all implemented, and Java applets had full interoperability with JavaScript. Applets could call JavaScript functions, and JavaScript functions could call applet methods. Of course over time people gave up on Java applets and JavaScript became a good enough language to write real application logic directly in it. It's true that JavaScript now has virtually nothing to do with Java, but that wasn't the case initially, and the name has at least some logic behind it.
by DrillShopper | 2025-06-28 22:38:31+00:00
Note that this response is from a cynical American sick of Israel always Getting Away With It. I have no problem with Jewish people, but I strongly distrust the state of Israel and believe that it's a force that makes Jewish people less safe as the state screams it is doing what it is doing to protect Jewish people. One of my close college friends is a rabbi, and we've been talking about this since the start of the hostage crisis.

> 1. The article itself says there is an ongoing investigation into some of these accusations. I hope that, to whatever extent this is happening, it's not widespread, and anyone committing war crimes is very visibly and publicly tried in court.

There is zero chance that happens as long as Netanyahu, Likud, Trump, or the Reupublicans are in power. Trump would immediately offer asylum in the US to anybody accused of such a thing.

Even if Israel did investigate, there's nothing more classic than Israel going "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong".

So if you want accountability, drive that internally with your politicians and get Netanyahu/Likud out of office
by 7sigma | 2025-06-28 22:38:38+00:00
Just because they are not native doesn't mean they can't live there, but they shouldn't live while oppressing the native Palestinians and prevent them from returning in order to preserve an ethnic majority.

Jews outside of Palestine are not uniquely descended from Jews that lived there 2000 years ago. Also the idea of Jews as a homogeneous people is a fairly recent phenomenon, people married into Jewish families, converted etc...

Even having mixed parentage can make you an oppressor. During slavery, mixed race people were often used in Brazil to hunt escaped slaves. At the end of the day its not about people's parentage but to what group they get put into and whether they choose to use any privilege they have to fight against oppression.
by Cyph0n | 2025-06-28 22:40:23+00:00
Was the problem with my comment the use of profanity? I did not insult the commenter, nor did I make any ad hominem attacks.

I don’t see any rules against profanity in general, or the use of profanity to respond to an argument. I also took the time to clarify why the argument is “bullshit”. But maybe I am missing something.
by Dig1t | 2025-06-28 22:40:57+00:00
I think it’s fine to just obey the letter of the law. If legally an officer is required to self identify in a specific circumstance then they should absolutely do so. If they are not required to, then why should they voluntarily identify themselves if it means their family is going to receive death threats?

If you want them to identify themselves more frequently then try using democracy to pass new laws requiring them to identify in more circumstances.
by npteljes | 2025-06-28 22:41:45+00:00
Win 11 is a bloated piece of shit, so I'm not surprised people are hesitant to adopt. Besides, it has nothing to offer over Win 10. Win 10 worked just fine, so why bother with the upgrade? People are also no strangers to running outdated hardware. At least 31% of the active Android users are running an EOL version of it.

https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobi...

My gaming Windows 10 LTSC will stop get support at January 12, 2027. I will probably hold out until then, and see what the landscape is then.
by tw04 | 2025-06-28 22:42:09+00:00
> already had a strong wired switches division

Huh? They had basically 0 market share outside of SMB in the switching space.

Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Force10 (Dell).

Foundry was the bottom dollar alternative before being acquired by brocade, which Broadcom eventually ruined. And mellanox in the HPC space.

I’ve literally never run across HP switches in any enterprise datacenter, including shops that were “all in” with HP.
by lakotasapa | 2025-06-28 22:42:21+00:00
Yes but I'm inclined to not allow "public" cloud of personal photos. I'm almost positive all your files are being used to train AI. Not to mention nothing works on iOS except apps from aapl.

So long term, I'm thinking of private cloud and a cross platform app where its sole purpose in life is to xfer all files in a particular folder on the device to the private cloud.

Most are not tech savvy enough to setup that backup. Not to mention I'll need access to aquire.

Long list of why's.....
by Throwaway42754 | 2025-06-28 22:42:43+00:00
I have schizoaffective disorder, induced by a bad trip from marijuana. It was like the 3rd time I had tried weed, and I naively took too much.

For me psychosis feels like pattern matching going on extreme overdrive, while at the same time memory goes to shit. It's truly an awful illness, and what's worse is that the current medical treatments are bad. I've been fortunate enough where I can get by on a low dose olanzapine, but for many people they simply don't work at all.

Even though I'm doing well enough to function normally and hold down a good, well paying job, it's impossible to find a partner. If I were to have kids, I would have to go through one of the embryo prescreening services. I am strongly in support of these screening services - the disease is truly horrible.

There has been little progress on treatments for schizophrenia, the mechanism of action of these drugs has remained the same for decades. The side effects are almost as bad as the disease, which is why so many schizophrenic stop taking them. The only novel medication recently released is Cobenfy, which I have not tried yet.

Personally I am holding out hope that schizophrenia has some basis as an autoimmune disease. There was a cancer patient who had a bone marrow transplant and ended up being cured: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophre...
by drmpeg | 2025-06-28 22:42:55+00:00
It's certainly a contest for some groups, but I can't say what percentage that would be. There's many many groups that aren't even remotely competitive and for some groups it's primarily a social event.

When we participated with W6YL, we had our own tent, food, and mass quantities of beer. Aside from folks stopping by the tent out of curiosity, it was not a social event at all.

One guy who was a master CW operator wanted to see how the satellite worked. We hooked his keyer up to the 70cm transmitter and let him go at it. At first, hearing his own signal after a 250 millisecond delay confused him a little but I turned the receive audio down to help him out.
by johnea | 2025-06-28 22:43:27+00:00
Nice article!

So much great tech has been lost to aggressive business practices of entrenched companies it would have disrupted.

The theme has been repeated... repeatedly: VHS vs Beta being maybe the typically cited archetype of business model vs technical specs.

To me the dominant example in the world today though, is that s/w engineers continue to use windows 8-(

C:? Does anyone ever stop to think about the abstraction of a file system directory hierarchy? The whole point is to remove the specifics of the h/w implementing it, and provide a logical abstraction of nested "directories". Explicitly specifying drive "letters", is the opposite of that. The only reason it ever existed was because the primordial DOS didn't have the horsepower to manage something like a unix mount. But why do we still have it in 2025?

Business triumphs over technology.

One aspect of the article that didn't track my experience was the description of linux in 2015. By that point I had long ago settled onto the fluxbox window manager, because I didn't like the constant churn of "desktop environments". It all just seemed too much like windows.

In 2025 I'm still using it, and it's still exactly the same, which to me is one of it's greatest features. Personally, I don't want the latest brainchild of some UI engineer at Canonical disrupting my workflow.

This veto power of equity over technical possibility is the story of modern tech development. Cory Doctorow cites this 2014 article in his post today:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

tl;dr US political policy making is 100% controlled by large financial equity stake holders. The support, for or against, a policy by the overwhelming majority of the population has a 0% effect.

This is also true of corporate decisions. "Innovation" is pursued if and only if it benefits equity, regardless of potential advantages to users, or the progress of the tech itself.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-28 22:44:43+00:00
> Which is why we need a social medium that is not controlled by anything more centralized than "all the users".

Right, which is impractical, and after direct democracy comes representational democracy. Eventually you get things like libraries or public parks, public goods managed by government employees. The main difference this time is the need for more transnational cooperation. Other than that, it should be relatively easy and cheap.
by greggsy | 2025-06-28 22:45:14+00:00
This is the wrong way to look at it from a business perspective. They don’t directly profit off licensing or support or anything like that, but they gain free advertising.

They gain absolutely nothing by handing over the name and brand - in fact they lose valuable brand recognition.

Obviously most people in the industry hate them with a passion (see this thread as evidence), but many see the association as evidence that they might at least have some expertise with that product set. I certainly don’t agree with their position, but it makes sense commercially.
by YZF | 2025-06-28 22:45:48+00:00
As another Jewish Israeli I agree this is concerning.

I do want you to consider the context here on Hacker News though. You and me have context, we understand the history, we understand at least something about wars and how they are fought. Most people here do not.

The problem isn't whether firing on civilians with no reason when they come to get food is wrong or right. We all know it's wrong. The soldiers in Gaza know it's wrong. We all know this is a war crime.

Most cases of war crimes during war are not prosecuted at all and not visibly. This is true for US wars in the middle east. It's true for the war the West wages against ISIS. It's true for Ukraine and Russia. It's a sad but unfortunate reality of our world. The current political climate and government in Israel are also not the best for the kind of outcome you are describing.

Iran and Hamas firing missiles and rockets into population centers is a war crime too. So is their embedding and use of civilians. The entire strategy of Israel's opponents in the middle east is to engage in war crimes.

Where do we place Israel on that scale? Is there more attention on Israel vs. other similar world events? Why? Do we see similar public debate and discussion of the morality of those wars in other countries? Again, where is Israel on that scale (not of idealistic fantasy world of justice but in the real world)?
by abathologist | 2025-06-28 22:47:12+00:00
> F# as essentially Ocaml running on the .NET

IMO, a language without proper modules, GADTs, or (now) an effect system, does not seem to me like it could plausibly be described as "essentially OCaml". Your point about having ad hoc polymorphism (outside of an object system) is another good point about why F# really is not OCaml on .NET.

Not to mention the difference of being trapped in (or having the luxury of, as you prefer) .NET vs. compiling to native binaries.

Glad you like F# tho!
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-28 22:47:16+00:00
Of course there are. I'm guessing you're insinuating two things, it's highly improbable that individuals can have this many simultaneous issues, and it's impossible for medical researchers to miss such an anomaly. The Ehlers Danlos subset is shorter but still covers a huge amount of issues (https://ohtwist.com/about-eds/comorbidities).

Well there is a reason why doctors kept telling me I am a hypochondriac, but I do have a whole zoo of conditions simultaneously, and this is a pretty common state for people with hEDS and I'm on the extreme end of it. So while milder versions of it are ~2% of the population the extreme versions of it are < 1/20K.

And yeah, medical researchers are in fact in the aggregate really bad at their jobs. Look how long it took to convince surgeons to wash their hands. But a lot of the genetic stuff relies on Linear Regression for GWAS which assumes independents of SNPs, otherwise you get multicollinearity problems, this is not a safe assumption and they've confused their results as confirming their assumptions. Instead of listing everything they get wrong a much shorter list is what they get right, Dr Jessica Eccles (https://x.com/BendyBrain) does great research into Long Covid and Generalized Joint Hypermobility which should put to bed the theory that GJH is benign - still good luck trying to talk a doctor out of that train of thought.

If you find someone who has hEDS the odds are they have a very large number of those things and most of them don't even know the names of most of the conditions, just one or two that bother them the most. The RCCX / hEDS list is a distinct subset of all possible things, the list of all medical maladies is far longer. It becomes highly improbable that a set of people have the same set of maladies - doctors tend to chalk this up to social contagion but that doesn't bear out. Genetic and behavioral causes have distinct diffusion patterns.

It's confirmable with WGS which I've done and I've encouraged many others to do and it turns out that you can indeed predict with a great deal of reliability if someone has TNXB / CYP21A2 SNPs. Unfortunately it's harder to find people who have C4 since they're likely to have schizophrenia.
by 1dom | 2025-06-28 22:47:19+00:00
> I agree burning books is bad on principle, but disagree that what the author did was comparable. They didn’t take away from human knowledge, like book burning does. They deleted personal notes no one else was ever probably going to read anyway. The difference is massive.

There's so much we know about the world from personal notes the author never knew or intended to be read. There's no way of knowing if your personal notes will be valuable to inconceivable futures. We all have to endure a little struggle to maintain society's knowledge. I respect and understand that you disagree with me in various nuanced ways. We're not going to agree, not for any reasons other than we just have fundamentally different views on the world, or one of us is disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing, possibly without realising.

I'm sorry, to anyone who's read this far. Instead of my "... I'll give you one more, but I probably wont respond...." I should have just said "let's just agree to disagree" and stopped there. I don't think either of us have added much valuable at all since.

Sincerely, apologies for any offence caused or time wasted in frustration.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-28 22:47:50+00:00
That's not surprising. They remember the scenes of ecstatic celebration on the streets of Gaza and the West Bank on october 7. And the fact is that the people of Gaza could end the conflict whenever they want. All they need to do is surrender and hand over the hostages. You might think i'm oversimplifying but actually that's really it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-28 22:47:57+00:00
Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago. He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan. He says he could get nothing done without out but I don’t see him getting anything done. Wouldn’t be surprised if will fall and break his hip 20 years early.

I’ve seen plenty of those pills get diverted with outcomes like somebody stays up for 4 days and gets hospitalized so, yeah, I want to diss ADHD medication. It is clear it helps in the short term, not so clear if it helps in the long term.
by ergocoder | 2025-06-28 22:48:24+00:00
I remember. The year that it started maxing out was from 2013.

We all know how to solve this problem e.g. ranked by compensations maybe with some restrictions and diversifying occupations a bit. We know which companies abuse it. The number of H1B with their salaries is public.

Yet this article from Bernie grand-stands random stuff.
by lupusreal | 2025-06-28 22:49:02+00:00
This seems like revisionist cope. Ariane 4 and 5 were extremely successful in the commercial launch market in the 90s and 00s before SpaceX trounced them. Now that they're floundering, it's not because they failed to keep up but because they never meant to be successful in the first place? That's just not true.
by II2II | 2025-06-28 22:50:17+00:00
It's pretty much what you make of it. I participated in Field Day with a club many years ago. It was basically an excuse to get out of town, setup a station (led by people who loved that aspect, and they served as mentors to those who were new to setting up a station), make contacts or achieve goals that would be difficult to do under ordinary circumstances, give new members a chance to learn new skills, test an experimental rocket engine, get to know people with the club, and many other things. Yes, you have to treat the people you're contacting as though they are die-hard contesters. On the other hand, that is not an excuse to not have fun.

That said, I can understand how it would be difficult to have fun if you were operating solo.