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by sevensor | 2025-07-13 21:11:19+00:00
As I’m sure you know, Gibson himself briefly worked as a fashion model. Unlike most male authors and most sci-fi authors, and especially unlike most male sci-fi authors, he describes what people are wearing with great precision and creativity. For example, Molly’s first appearance in Johnny Mnemonic has her “wearing leather jeans the color of dried blood.” I wanted to dig up a contrasting quote from Asimov, so I went to my Asimov shelf and although I had a great time looking, I had trouble finding a description of what any of the characters looked like, let alone what they were wearing.

Edit: ok, I found one. “They wore scarlet and gold uniforms and the shining, close-fitting plastic caps that were the sign of their judicial function.” But I think this proves my point. I know exactly what Molly’s jeans look like. Those uniforms are much harder to visualize.
by ta8645 | 2025-07-13 21:12:14+00:00
Many people buy a lot of games just to give them away on steamgifts.com. I used to be heavily involved over there, giving away many thousands of game copies, and ended up with over 4,800 games in my own Steam library, and I still haven't played more than 200. I don't think I have enough days left in my life to ever play them all.
by BjoernKW | 2025-07-13 21:12:17+00:00
Quite to the contrary, the C64 instantly booting into what was both an operating system and a readily accessible programming environment to start creating with right away already was an immensely powerful concept - an empty canvas to fill with your own creations.

I wrote about this subject in more detail here: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/03/13/load81/
by timr | 2025-07-13 21:12:24+00:00
I actually agree with most of what you said, up until the last paragraph. Specifically this part:

> If we have a strong signal that this is true (in this case the economic and social reality of broad acceptance and integration of undocumented immigrants) we should be especially cautious to be reasonable in how we enforce the laws.

Maybe the laws are wrong -- and I disagree with many! -- but street protests and loud people on social media are not sufficient proof that we should abandon enforcement. Consider, for example, that you might be surrounded by a bubble of opinion that matches your own, while ignoring the opinion of a larger group of people who disagree with you. Or (similar to my own case), there are a large number of people who disagree who simply keep quiet, most of the time, because they don't want to be insulted, or worse.

If you don't like the laws, you can try to elect people who will change them, influence their behavior via legal speech, etc. But if your favored people don't get elected, or they otherwise ignore you, that's tough beans. We live in a republic.
by bhattisatish | 2025-07-13 21:12:29+00:00
As I haven't tried many games, I am not sure what I really like.

Card games are out unless I am playing in real life ;-)

I haven't played board games much. I tend to zone out pretty fast.

First shooters, feels immersive enough, but when they become fast paced and need quick reaction, I get overwhelmed and zone out.

I guess I am looking for something that is immersive, but forgiving in it's gameplay. As I have RSI injury on my wrist, any mouse based games are out.

Your reco on Zachtronics, looks interesting, will definitely try out the publisher.
by cgriswald | 2025-07-13 21:13:20+00:00
This is sort of a ramble, so I apologize in advance.

I love the idea of writing up my ultimately-successful experiences of using open source software. I'm currently working on a big (for me anyway) project for my homelab involving a bunch of stuff I've either never or rarely done before. But... if I were to write about my experiences, a lot of it would be "I'm an idiot and I spent two hours with a valid but bad config because I misunderstood what the documentation was telling me about the syntax and yeah, I learned a bit more about reading the log file for X, but that was fundamentally pointless because it didn't really answer the question." I'd also have to keep track of what I did that didn't work, which adds a lot more work than just keeping track of what did work.

There's also a social aspect there where I don't want to necessarily reveal the precise nature of my idiocy to strangers over the internet. This might be the whole thing here for a lot of people. "Look at this awesome script I made because I'm a rugged and capable individualist" is probably an easier self-sell than "Despite my best efforts, I managed to scrounge together a system that works using pieces made by people smarter than me."

I think I might try. My main concern is whether it will ruin the fun. When I set up Prometheus, I had a lot of fun, even through the mistakes. But, would also trying to write about it make it less fun? Would other people even be interested in a haphazard floundering equivalent to reading about someone's experience with a homework assignment? Would I learn more? Would the frustrating moments be worse or would the process of thinking through things (because I am going to write about it) lead to my mistakes becoming apparent earlier? Will my ego survive people judging my process, conclusions, and writing? I don't know. Maybe it'll be fun to find out.
by palata | 2025-07-13 21:13:58+00:00
> They are based on what others pay.

That's the excuse given to make you accept those higher salaries. The truth is that there are not infinitely many positions for a CEO. There are certainly more people who can be competent CEOs than CEO positions.

If you give an indecent salary to your CEO, you will get a CEO who looks for a crazy salary. That doesn't mean it's the most competent CEO you could get. Try offering a decent salary and you'll see that people still apply. You may not get the typical narcissistic profile, but it's probably not a loss.
by Reason077 | 2025-07-13 21:14:03+00:00
Less competition would certainly be bad for consumers and drivers. But has that actually happened here?

Doordash and Deliveroo do not operate in the same markets, so their merger would not reduce competition in any given market.

Prosus is a big conglomerate with its fingers in many different industries. But unless it starts buying multiple delivery companies that operate in the same markets, its acquisition of Just Eat also doesn’t appear to be reducing competition.
by andybak | 2025-07-13 21:15:30+00:00
I still tend to discover a takeaway or restaurant and then figure out how to get them to deliver.

I've never not ordered from somewhere I was keen on based on their choice of delivery service.

If the consolidation results in price hikes and poor service, what's the lock-in? Why can't the takeaways just go rogue and offer independent deliveries?
by bhattisatish | 2025-07-13 21:17:05+00:00
Oh I have a good monitor, but I don't have an high end GPU. I do have couple of mechanical keyboards, and split keyboard which I use for my programming.

Any youtube channels you can recommend? Especially for older people with RSI :-)

As for what genere I like, I am not sure. I am looking for something that is immersive, where I can spend some long hours during my downtime. But that does not require any mouse. This is a deal breaker

I will try out some of your recos.
by valleyer | 2025-07-13 21:17:25+00:00
IMO, you should consider only the ICE numbers, not the CBP numbers. The CBP numbers are people being turned away at the border, which is a different category of action than arresting people already living in the US (sometimes for many years).

If you look just at the ICE numbers, the difference is much more stark: a 3.5x increase.

I do think the Web site here could do a better job of clarifying this.
by roscas | 2025-07-13 21:18:03+00:00
Ads companies like google and facebook make their core business to put ads on your face. Same as, someone pays them loads of money for them to show you ads, so you can buy things you don't want or need. So when you use any of their "products", you are the product. This is nothing new. I hope that is not new to you. That said, their business spy also is good for spy agencies, so they take care of each other's business.

And please don't ever say "social media" or "social plataforms" because those are not social. Those are indeed anti-social platforms. You can call them that.

Take a look at twitter and what is has become. It was already bad.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-13 21:18:30+00:00
It was tried:

For example, before Facebook, in Germany there existed studiVZ, schülerVZ, meinVZ (basically the same social network of the same company for different audiences). But this social network wasn't a commercial success, even though for some time it was much more popular in Germany than Facebook.

Generally, many successful German software companies were simply bought by US-American companies:

- SuSE was bought by Novell

- DLD (company: Delix; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Linux-Distribution ) was bought by Red Hat

- Star Division (the company behind Star Office) was bought by Sun (which again was bought by Oracle)

- In 2023, Software AG was bought by the private equity company Silver Lake

- Recently, Hornetsecurity was bought by Proofpoint.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-13 21:19:27+00:00
This makes no sense. RL training data is predicated on past behavior of the agent. Whoever wrote this doesn't seem to fundamentally grasp what they are saying.

LLMs can be trained on an unsupervised way on static documents. That is really the key feature that lets them be as smart and effective as they are. If you had every other technology that LLMs are built on, and you didn't have hundreds of terabytes of text laying around, there would be no practical way to make them even a tiny tiny fraction as effective as they are currently.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-13 21:19:43+00:00
> You’re thinking too highly about the incentives of the US healthcare system. Since insurance is tied to your employer (and therefore changing every few years)

Most people don’t change jobs or insurance companies every few years. When they do, it’s often within similar regions and industries so the chances of ending up right back under the same insurance company are significant.

Regardless, the issue is more complicated than your line of thinking. Insurance companies have very small profit margins. Current GLP-1 drugs are expensive, around $1,000 per month.

So each patient on GLP-1 drugs costs an extra $12K per year (roughly) or $120K per decade. That would have to offset a lot of other expenditures to break even from a pure cost perspective, which isn’t supported by the math. So the only alternative would be to raise everyone’s rates.

I know the insurance industry is the favorite target for explaining everything people dislike about healthcare right now, but at the end of the day they can’t conjure money out of nothing to cover everything at any cost demanded by drug makers. These drugs are super expensive and honestly it’s kind of amazing that so many people are getting them covered at all.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-07-13 21:20:21+00:00
Perfect is the enemy of good, and Rust's compile times are good enough.

When choosing between languages, compile times should be a tie-breaker at most. If Rust had focused on super fast compilation from the start, it probably would have slowed developing the features that actually made it successful.

Its like a startup that spends forever building the perfect scalable backend instead of just solving customer problems. The hacky solution usually wins.

> Is there anyone out there who has tried to fork the rust ecosystem ... I have a feeling that such an effort ... would actually take off and be able to replace the current ecosystem relatively quickly

Forking the entire Rust ecosystem seems pretty unlikely to work, but everything's open source so anyone can give it a shot.
by Jare | 2025-07-13 21:20:29+00:00
It's not so simple. While it may not be causation ("they're successful because they don't make sales" is likely not true), the correlation can be almost as strong: the philosophy / mindset that leads you to make that choice of strategy is the same philosophy that also informed various other decisions that led to you developing a successful game.

I think a good example of this was the Blizzard of old. They "could afford" to only launch things that were near perfect because they were successful, but they also were successful because they never relented on their perfectionism.

So you shouldn't blindly imitate the choices of successful people, but taking a few pages out of their core values and driving pillars will likely help a lot.
by sshine | 2025-07-13 21:20:31+00:00
> this anti-consumer, anti-business viewpoint will help noone

It helps regulators.

And it does protect consumers, in some ways.

Although it protects the common good more, which people may disagree about.

It just also removes a lot of choices, because the level of compliance makes production not affordable.

For example, the EU imposes a lot of rules on electric kettles; safety, eco design / power limitation (saving 4.8--8.7 TWh per year), restriction of hazardous substances.

These are perfectly reasonable requirements. Perfectly reasonable death by bureaucracy.

You can't easily buy a toxic kettle that might explode and will keep water constantly boiling in the EU.

But also, it functions as a market barrier. I'm not sure what factors contribute exactly, but it's practically impossible to get an electric kettle with anything but a bimetallic thermometer, which eventually wears down. Doesn't matter the price. Whereas kettles in China have all kinds of fancy materials (e.g. glass) that don't respect eco design and can be programmed in all sorts of eco unfriendly ways.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-13 21:21:11+00:00
Yes. I get it that people also want to try and play various games. I think that 'eventually' everyone has their go-to game, just like everyone has their 'go-to' takeout/takeaway. I want pizza or burger. I will try a different joint, but it will be one or the other. The same for gaming. Defender of the Crown, AoE II, Fortnite. I stopped buying games a long time ago. I am sure that there are many great games.. but... I like pizza, I like burger. You can tempt me with sushi once per quarter, but DotC, AoE, FN.. and that's that. I got 'no time' to learn/master a new game. Or rather I got time, but I will not 'invest' it to start another open-world game that will require 5 years!
by sky2224 | 2025-07-13 21:21:22+00:00
With regard to window management, this will certainly depend on the distro. Ubuntu's WM has been quite good I'll admit, but that seems to have occurred in only pretty recent versions in the past 5 years or so. My previous experience with Ubuntu had the window management closer to the experience that MacOS provides (albeit slightly better). Ultimately, this point is subjective, so maybe it wasn't the best example.

Driver support is still a very big problem in my opinion, especially if you're a laptop user. There was a lot of tweaking with power configuration that I needed to do to prevent my laptop running Ubuntu 22.01 from dying in 2 hours. Additionally, trackpad drivers were horrendous, which made two-finger scrolling next to impossible to do with any sort of accuracy. Hardware accessories like printers, keyboards, etc. are still a gamble.

You're right though that it has gotten a lot better, but it's these little things that prevent most users from making the switch.
by sublinear | 2025-07-13 21:22:04+00:00
How are those ideas anti-consumer or anti-business?

For a very long time now the operating system has been an app delivery platform for both businesses and consumers, not an innovative technology in itself. Most apps are already built on more open source than proprietary code. Most infrastructure is already running linux. The purpose of regulation would simply be to better maintain these relationships with foundational pieces of software.

I don't think even AT&T ever owned copper mines. Imagine a world where the quality of copper in your city was so terrible that you couldn't make a call ~15% the time because of hand wringing about cost or pseudo-philosophizing about big bad government overreach. That's the world we're living in right now with cybersecurity incidents, businesses unintentionally reinventing the wheel, consumers being duped into scams, etc.
by ks2048 | 2025-07-13 21:23:18+00:00
I'm pretty sure the food supply sources are massively consolidated. I don't know about the delivery part or why that would matter more than the actual food production.

A quick search will lead to quotes like "Four companies now control more than half of the market in chicken processing (Tyson, JBS, Perdue, and Sanderson), close to 70 percent in pork (Smithfield, JBS, Tyson, and Hormel), and nearly three quarters in beef (JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef)"
Show HN: Shadow VCS quarantines AI generated commits before they break your repo
by akifq | 2025-07-13 21:23:37+00:00
Last month, I watched two AI coding agents work on our codebase simultaneously. One refactored authentication, another updated tests. Both passed CI individually, but the merge broke our entire auth flow.

That's when I realized we need infrastructure designed for AI agents, not just better prompts. SAV (Shadow VCS) creates a staging area between AI agents and Git. Every change lands in .sav/commits/ first - never touches your working directory until you approve it.

What makes it different:

Risk scoring: Analyzes file patterns, secrets, binary size to flag dangerous changes Policy engine: YAML rules can auto-approve docs, block anything touching auth/ Audit trail: Every decision logged in SQLite for compliance Concurrency-safe: Multiple agents can work without stepping on each other

Try it:

pip install savai sav init sav commit -m "AI refactor" src/* sav review <commit-id> sav approve <commit-id>

The bigger picture:

This is v0.1 of what I think will become essential infrastructure.

The roadmap includes:

- Agent orchestration with dependency graphs (so agents can coordinate complex changes) - Machine learning risk models trained on your approval patterns - Multi-repo coordination for microservices

Why this matters now:

AI agents are getting more autonomous. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Devin-style tools are moving from "suggestions" to "autonomous PRs". We need VCS infrastructure that assumes machines are contributors, not just humans with better autocomplete. I'd love feedback from anyone dealing with AI-generated code at scale. The repo is MIT-licensed: https://github.com/AKIFQ/sav
by hopelite | 2025-07-13 21:23:43+00:00
I find this topic rather interesting from a historical and sociopolitical one.

I’m assuming the creators of this site are attempting to make an economic argument for how Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad that the detentions are because it has “$1.49 billion” economic impact which is “$438.10 million annually in lost tax revenue”. But it is really a rather abusive perspective that ignores the inverse, because the inverse is that it is “$1.49 billion” that Americans are not earning and the “$438.10 million annually in lost tax revenue” would not have been lost if it had been Americans doing the work.

Arguably, the case could also even be made that the tax revenue would have been higher because Americans would have been paid higher wages simply due to the increased effects of the supply decline and demand that would increase wages/salaries.

Additionally, arguably, considering that official estimates are that foreign national workers of all manner send ~$150,000,000,00.00 out of the USA every year, that is also money that is not only not earned by Americans, or kept in the American economy.

No one seems to want to care about the actual American working and lower class. Why should foreign nationals that have broken the law and are being used by the ruling class to enrich themselves by lowering wages and salaries take priority over American citizens? Are we no longer doing this democracy thing? Do citizens no longer have rights in their own countries anymore; while we advocate for the “rights” of foreigners to remain in a country they did not even ask, let alone receive permission to be in?

It does not seem like that can go on indefinitely without things breaking, economically, culturally, socially. Are we just not going to care about that?
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-13 21:23:49+00:00
I’m using node exporter to Prometheus and grafana. I also use uptime kuma, and send alerts via pushover.

It’s shockingly easy to setup. I have the monitoring stack living on a GCP host that I have setup for various things and have it connected via tailscale.

It actually paid for itself by alerting me to low voltage events via NUT. I probably would have lost some gear to poor electrical conditions.
by spacephysics | 2025-07-13 21:24:19+00:00
Lots of their infrastructure for handling orders (iPads, software integration into their payment system) was done around Covid, and some have started to integrate in-person orders through the same “single unified system” creating a higher and higher cost to switch delivery systems.

AFAIK there’s no well-supported open source order/delivery management software. The companies that were ready during covid took all the extra, enormous demand for building delivery and order online systems built atop a typically antiquated order management system and have stuck around since

Sometimes i’ll get a cheaper delivery/food cost calling vs ordering online, but now some places are just raising their other prices to match online
by tptacek | 2025-07-13 21:24:31+00:00
There was a discourse prior to the last election about how cost of living was out of control based on people sharing delivery bills from their "burrito taxi". I do get that this article isn't "about" that discourse, it's about an investment thesis, but my real point is just: there is no reason to believe any part of this market has settled to the point where you could make reliable predictions. Everything is very new.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-13 21:25:15+00:00
On a sad follow-up, (because it happened 'near me'), once the 'collector' dies, his/her kids will never play those games. Today's 15yo boys will never try to play Zaxxon, Wizball, Saboteur 2. So someone who is 30+ buying (e.g.) 100 games, should know that their kids will safely ignore 99 of them. As game-tech progresses, I think that it's only me (the dinosaur) or few of us that play on a PC and all youngsters play on them fancy consoles. 'Any day now' games will require a VR set (10-15 years?), so no more.
by cm2187 | 2025-07-13 21:26:00+00:00
It depends how you define "short period of time". When I started, I lost 40kg in a matter of 5 months. Is that short? If you develop a tolerance to the product, then it doesn't protect you long term from gaining back weight, combined with you losing the option to do a rapid descent.

I am not saying that those variations are great from a health point of view, but they are certainly not as bad as staying obese.
by Xorlev | 2025-07-13 21:26:03+00:00
This is often (though not always) blanket statement.

Logs are always generated, and logs include some amount of data about the user, if only environmental.

It's quite plausible that the spellchecker does not store your actual user data, but information about the request, or error logging includes more UGC than intended.

Note: I don't have any insider knowledge about their spellcheck API, but I've worked on similar systems which have similar language for little more than basic request logging.
by Llamamoe | 2025-07-13 21:26:09+00:00
I've skimmed lots of studies about the relationship between light and health in the past.

In both humans and other animals, our internal sleep-wake clocks are synchronized to the day-night cycle through light exposure(and indeed, without it aren't even 24h-long), and have broad implications for mood, wakefulness, metabolism, and general health. I well might have seen something about cardiovascular problems specifically, though I don't remember.