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by cauch | 2025-07-25 23:09:22+00:00
Not sure what is your point?

It feels a bit like saying "there is a bug in software X, but there is also a bug in software Y, so let's not fix the bug in software X".

Of course, men also suffer from problems. It even feels that it is usually also due to machismo or something similar. Sometimes, it feels like the majority of men's problem is in fact self-inflicted by the manosphere. They both complain of suicide rate, army draft, violence against men, but they also promote a culture of not-showing-emotion-otherwise-you-are-not-manly, a-man-is-worthless-if-they-dont-succeed, army-is-manly-and-women-are-weak, a-man-should-show-dominence-and-other-men-are-a-threath, ...

People likes to see things in black or white, but the reality is more complicated, and there is no advantages that does not bring also some disadvantages.
by the_af | 2025-07-25 23:09:25+00:00
> Is it?

Yes, it is.

Let me see: they seem to receive funding from evangelical organizations; the founder speaks/writes at Christian venues and is pro-life, anti-gay/trans; they are targeting games because that's what they happen to focus on right now. They've also campaigned against Rap music and artists in the past. They managed to get articles critical of them pulled from VICE, etc. Their modus operandi is typical of religious conservatives.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-25 23:09:30+00:00
Regular speed freight is fine for a lot of things but it is comparatively slow. It can take weeks for products on train lines to make it from California to New York, which would be bad for things like food.

Reefer (refrigerated) trucking is a HUGE portion of the trucking pie. If you could replace that with faster trains you could decrease the cost of foods (due to spoilage losses) while increasing its quality for the consumer.

Also, there's a decent amount of flight traffic that is just for mail. Running mail via high speed train would decrease pollution and still provide "good enough" speeds for a large majority of mail.

Further, it could improve the tourism of any intermediary hub cities it goes through, and provide healthy tax revenue and other financial boosts to middle america.

There are undoubtedly trillions of dollars on the table up for the grabs with something like a cross country high speed rail. as shown here:

Creates Jobs: Building high-speed rail will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Every $1 billion in investment creates 24,000 jobs. These are highly skilled jobs that will revitalize the domestic rail industries supplying transportation products and services. Many additional jobs are created through the commerce fostered through the economic activity and development which they spark.

Increases Economic Activity: Every $1 invested creates $4 in economic benefits. Upgrading passenger operations on newly revitalized tracks, bridges and rights of way is spurring business productivity along corridors. The rail services will connect America’s economically vital mega-regions and help keep them mobile, productive, efficient and internationally competitive.

Reduces Congestion and Boosts Productivity: Congestion on our nation’s roads costs $140 billion in lost time and productivity. The U.S. population is projected to grow by another 100 million people in the next 40 years. The population growth is creating mega-regions that will not prosper unless they can be freed from the stranglehold of highway and airport congestion. At the same time, the United States cannot build enough highway capacity or airport runways to meet demand.

Reduces the Nation’s Dependence on Foreign Oil: Implementing high-speed rail will keep billions of dollars in the U.S. economy by decreasing the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes. According to the International Association of Railways (UIC), high-speed rail is eight times more energy efficient than airplanes and four times more efficient than automobile use. It will also decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality.

Expands Travel Choices and Improves Mobility: High-speed rail can deliver people from one downtown to another as fast as or faster than air travel. The addition of HSR as an integrated part of America’s transportation system will help airports work better and highways work better. It will also expand options for citizens in rural and small urban communities with increased transfer points and feeder services that connect with new HSR corridors.

https://www.apta.com/research-technical-resources/high-speed...
by matt_s | 2025-07-25 23:09:47+00:00
You didn’t explain why you wanted to use debian, you don’t have to, but there are a lot of x86 based laptops out there that will run various linux distros so I wonder why you’re on a Mac to start with? Employer choice and not yours?

You mention Typescript which I’ll assume means some sort of web development, one thing to maybe consider is looking at https://omakub.org/ for inspiration on hardware choices and a setup. I don’t use it but was looking at it recently out of curiousity (I do Rails so thats how I’m aware of DHH and him leaving Apple HW).
by WrongOnInternet | 2025-07-25 23:10:27+00:00
Not to get all conspiratorial, but if I was an incel, or other type of woman-hating-man, with an axe to grind, creating an app to "protect" women and their dirty secrets, then having their data "breached" would be a pretty diabolical revenge plan. Only women can join the app, but the only person running the app is a man? Nothing suspicious about that...
by shermantanktop | 2025-07-25 23:10:28+00:00
What are good examples of apps that have managed to monetize the precise location of millions of users in a way that isn't obvious (e.g. location-based advertising, or location-based filtering of social media content)?

Collecting that data sounds creepy and nefarious, but if i think about what Experian and everyone else already knows about me, I don't know what information my phone's location would actually add that has enough value to build a massive telemetry engine.

But perhaps I am insufficiently paranoid.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-25 23:10:31+00:00
The AI on display, Surgical Robot Transformer[1], is based on the work of Action Chunking with Transformers[2]. These are both transformer models, which means they are fundamentally token-based. The whitepapers go into more detail on how tokenization occurs (it's not text, like an LLM, they are patches of video/sensor data and sequences of actions).

Why wouldn't you look this up before stating it so confidentally? The link is at the top of this very page.

EDIT: I looked it up because I was curious. For your chosen example, Waymo, they also use (token based) transformer models for their state tracking.[3]

[1]: https://surgical-robot-transformer.github.io/

[2]: https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha/

[3]: https://waymo.com/research/stt-stateful-tracking-with-transf...
by Zambyte | 2025-07-25 23:11:52+00:00
> What exactly is "human" in dense human anthills with 30-story towers?

Living with and regularly interacting with "people" instead of living in a personal convenience store.

> Cars have people inside them.

Cars kill people. A lot. Like, orders of magnitude more than literally anything other mode of transportation. If you die in a car, it was almost certainly the fault of a driver. If you die walking or cycling, it was almost certainly the fault of a driver. Cars a human-hostile in the most literal sense. Cars kill people. The solution to the problem of cars killing people is not putting more people in cars, because cars are happy to kill people in cars. Because cars kill people.

> And unlike buses, cars allow people to have much more living space

Please elaborate on this. What does "living space" mean to you?

> cars are available at any time of day and night, you don't have to wait for a car for 30 minutes, etc.

Buses only exist because so much money has been spent on car infrastructure, and they are the only mode of public transportation that can directly use that car infrastructure. Once you stop spending insane amounts of money on car infrastructure, more reliable transit can be built (trams, subways, heavy rail, cycling infrastructure, walking infrastructure).

> Cars are human-friendly! Far more so than ANY other transit mode.

Have you - heck, have anyone you know - ever made a friend while driving? Or does human-friendly not include being friendly with humans?

> And cities should be built for humans, not for transit and bikes.

Kachow!
by mystraline | 2025-07-25 23:11:55+00:00
> Some porn is exploitative, but also so are other things. Why is the attack being made upon porn and not exploitation?

If we are to talk about exploitation, then capitalism itself is subject to be attacked and prohibited.

If we work for a living, we sell our bodies to someone else for a time (40h a week or more). Does it really matter if we work on a factory floor doing parts, sitting and coding at a desk, or having sex in front of a camera? Labor is labor.

Sure its the christian 'sex is bad' in various stripes (puritanical to catholic to baptist etc). But in reality, its just different labor.

Now, capitalism in exploitive in that you generate X value, and you get a small percentage of your labor's output. Some owner is who collects the surplus.

So if exploitation is the problem, then its time to start looking at worker cooperatives, unions, banning shows like Shark Tank, and all the capitalist propaganda.

But no, its just 'sex icky'. We won't actually look at the root of exploitation.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-07-25 23:12:37+00:00
I guess from the down votes I'm getting that people don't have the full context here and won't seek it out on their own - something I should have foreseen.

I'm speaking of Hikaru Nakamura, who is one of the best chess players in the world. He is also a streamer on kick, and actually talks in the way I demonstrated. It's not an exaggeration, he actually repeats the same thought ~5 times in the regular.

He is the only kick streamer I know, so that's what I think of when I hear kick.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-25 23:13:44+00:00
I just despise the constant popups "The experience is better on the app, click here to download!"

I read news sites I pay for by scrolling through the home page and opening stories I want to read in new tabs, and then slowly reading and closing them throughout the day. Your app can't do that. Your app doesn't support tabs. It also doesn't support basic things like letting me zoom in on an image. And sometimes it crashes when I try to load comments.

I'm a paid subscriber, and I still get constant nagging every single day to use the app instead that is worse in every way.

And I don't even know why. They're just news sites. They don't ask for any permissions to slurp up my data. I honestly don't have the slightest idea why they keep pushing the app.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-25 23:13:46+00:00
Libraries have an entire concept of weeding, and numerous criteria for doing so: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeding_(library)

Libraries are constantly bringing in new materials and very few are capable of constantly increasing in size to match. I believe national libraries like the Library of Congress tend not to weed, but they do have to offload material to satellite locations and storage facilities.
by ggm | 2025-07-25 23:14:24+00:00
A useful reminder that economics plays as much, if not more import in what is taught and how it is taught, as any pedagogical drive. If attendance drops, universities can pivot. Gotta get the bums on seats.

20 years ago Cisco came shopping in Australia for ee grads who could do microcode. The US degree mills had stopped teaching students how to code an edge case for most jobs, and the router and switch vendor had to find places who still did that.
by Calavar | 2025-07-25 23:14:41+00:00
I used to think this myself in the past, but my opinion has shifted over time.

If a surgeon needs to do X number of cases to become independently competent in a certain type of surgery and we want to graduate Y surgeons per year, then we need at least X * Y patients who require that kind of surgery every year.

At a certain point increasing Y requires you to decrease X and that's going to cut into surgeon quality.

Over time, I've come to appreciate that X * Y is often lower than I thought. There was a thread on reddit earlier this week about how open surgeries for things like gall bladder removal are increasingly rare nowadays, and most general surgeons who trained in the past 15 years don't feel comfortable doing them. So in the rare cases where an open approach is required they rely on their senior partners to step in. What happens when those senior partners retire?

Now some surgeries are important but not urgent, so you can maintain a low double digit number of hyperspecialists serving the entire country and fly patients over to them when needed. But for urgent surgeries where turnaround has to be in a matter of hours to days, you need a certain density of surgeons with the proper expertise across the country and that brings you back to the X * Y problem.
by al_borland | 2025-07-25 23:15:47+00:00
If it doesn’t feel like fun the kid probably won’t want to spend much time on it.

If you want to start with the CLI, you’ll need a way to make that seem fun and engaging, with a path forward to make it even better. Without any prior knowledge or the internet, that isn’t something they will be able to do on their own. And managing files isn’t that interesting.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-25 23:16:21+00:00
I've had an interesting experience taking apart my 72 Dodge and putting it back together again. It's clear that there was a great deal of thought put into its design. It's simple, easy to take apart, easy to fix, easy to put back together. The money is only put where it is needed. Frankly, it's first class engineering.

Contrast that with a Mercedes I used to have of similar vintage. It had expensive parts sabotaged by being bolted to inexpensive parts. It was difficult to assemble correctly. Money was spent in the wrong places. I had a long list of complaints about the erratic engineering in it.

For example, it had sodium-cooled valves, something one finds only on a race engine. They are used for cooling. The values slid into bronze valve guides. The bronze valve guides were pressed into aluminum heads. The trouble was, aluminum expands at twice the rate of bronze. So when the engine got a little hot, the valve guides would come loose, and you'd have to rebuild the cylinder head. The sodium-cooled feature was completely sabotaged by those valve guides. A proper design would have mechanical retention of the valve guides, and not rely on a press fit.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-25 23:16:36+00:00
Sorry, some people drink beers and message their ex's. I apparently post poorly written Ask HN's.

My original thought here was: chill out everyone! Even if we had AGI, even ASI today... neither of those systems could know everything that you have seen, heard, dreamed, or thought. They cannot truly replace you... unless all audio, video, and eventually neuro signals in your lifetime are recorded. This is really important, as all of those things influence you to make the decisions that you make. This is what makes you unique, and important.

Then the next thought was... is that something worth fighting against? Or, should I welcome my individually trained technological replacement?

When I was talking about this with a co-worker earlier today, the thought occurred: this is not only the final frontier of privacy, but of individuality.
by fleebee | 2025-07-25 23:17:11+00:00
Depends on what you're using for routing.

In Tanstack Router it's a boolean you set when creating the router. The documentation nicely lays out what's being done under the hood, and it's quite a bit.[1] I wouldn't try that at home.

In React Router you just chuck a <ScrollRestoration /> somewhere in your DOM.[2]

[1]: https://tanstack.com/router/v1/docs/framework/react/guide/sc...

[2]: https://reactrouter.com/6.30.1/components/scroll-restoration
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-07-25 23:17:28+00:00
We're in agreement. Is an anonymous takedown app the solution for reputation management that enables civilization? If someone is trying to destroy your reputation, on which your entire livelihood depends, should you at least know who the accuser is, how reputable they are, what evidence they have? Do you want to give the Internet a magical button to destroy you on a whim?
by montroser | 2025-07-25 23:17:34+00:00
The author is not contesting that the app experience is better. Yeah, the web experience is worse -- because the product people are treating the entire web presence as a _marketing surface_ for the app. So, the web version is basically an ad for the app. This is true of Reddit, Yelp, and others. How could it not be worse?

It's too bad because it's not like the web is incapable of providing a beautiful ux for those products. But then so why do you think these companies employ massive teams of devs, for Android, and then again for iOS, reimplementing their functionality on every platform? All that to provide you with that sweet extra smooth native "feel", 2% nicer than the web could do? No, it's not for you...
by mixologist | 2025-07-25 23:18:09+00:00
This actually took longer than I thought. It is really weird that for all my adult content I have to go to a dedicated adult store, yet for games I can find them on Steam and gog where kids shop for games.

You don’t get porn movies on Netflix or Disney stream. You don’t get adult toys in your local grocery store. Why do we sell porn on Steam?

Why haven’t game stores just spin off separate store front for porn content? It is basically free, since they already have the infrasructure.

While being removed from general stores, porn has become very visible on big gaming platforms which majority of customers don’t associate with porn. Backlash is inevitable.

I think we can expect a bigger push against porn in general as pendulum swings back on the other side.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-25 23:20:08+00:00
> What do you consider "healhty", though?

Whatever you want. Substance abuse rates. Marriage or long-term partnership rates. Employment. Income. Wealth. Serum cortisol.

My assumption is someone actively participating in something, even something unhealthy, is going to maintain cognitive and executive function above someone simply observing. (To the degree these games may be destructive, I'd argue it's in its game mechanics.)

We have no evidence pornography causes negative outcomes across population. (Versus among a vulnerable subset.) We have lots of evidence for social media addiction causing broad psychological issues, particularly in children.
by pwg | 2025-07-25 23:20:51+00:00
If that's the reason, then the solution is a license plate on both the front and rear of the vehicle.

But much like the 'little country town' where the speedlimit goes from 55 to 25 instantly on the road into town so the local sheriff can ticket all those "speeders", they won't issue front and rear plates because doing so would cut off a revenue stream.
by andrewaylett | 2025-07-25 23:21:30+00:00
What counts as "SPA" and what's an "MPA"? I've got a NextJS site (my personal website, you can probably find it given you know my last name and that I'm in the UK) that renders pretty much everything server-side. Technically it's still an SPA because if you turn on Javascript it'll load RSC and do client-side navigation.

If you turn off Javascript? Pages with client-only components (like the 100% client-rendered QR code generator) will show their fallback, everything else will load and render perfectly -- if a little less quickly -- than if you let Next do its thing. It's all rendered into the HTML, and it's actually more effort to not render components on the server. Progressive enhancement for the win!
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-07-25 23:21:37+00:00
It's fair that men and women have different challenges here. But humans are squishy and chaotic and self-interested, they're not angels of pure wisdom, fairness and justice. Giving someone a repercussion-free button to destroy someone else the instant they feel slighted, vindictive, threatened, jealous, disrespected, is a recipe for disaster. There's a reason these apps have not once worked sustainably, they always turn into a vile cesspool that brings the worst out of mobs.

I don't have a fix for this, it is entirely fair to want justice for the defenseless. At the same time I have a strong hunch that there is no problem-solution fit here, at least not with this sort of app.
by scal4r | 2025-07-25 23:22:00+00:00
Compressed gas storage scales better than any battery chemistry. Energy Dome claims >75% round-trip efficiency [0], and just inked a deal with Google [1].

[0]https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/03/12/energy-dome... [1]https://energydome.com/energy-dome-inks-a-strategic-commerci...

Once R&D costs are covered, capacity scales with the size of the gas bag. Without competition from EVs or the volatility of resource extraction markets there's a clear path to profit here for 10hr+ grid-scale energy storage.
by nomel | 2025-07-25 23:22:31+00:00
> if your app's entire functionality could be done in a regular website or PWA, then you can't put a native app on our stores

A very silly threshold, since this would knock out probably 95% of the app store, including games, since "websites" are extremely capable these days, with full 3d graphics, etc. Then, each time safari added a new modern browser feature, more would get knocked out.
by drmath | 2025-07-25 23:22:48+00:00
> I've tried to ask dozens of companies that wanted to hire me just for how many shares were outstanding and/or authorized.

"Wanted to hire me" as in they made an offer, or an earlier step? At offer stage, I've never had a company refuse to answer these questions. I don't have "dozens of companies" worth of experience though, maybe one dozen if that.
by yownie | 2025-07-25 23:23:15+00:00
it doesn't seem like you even read the relatively short post since:

"The native app experience for every app noted in the article" doesn't make any sense, the article lists none.

"Lots of people hate Electron apps, which suggests to me that my preference for native apps isn’t unique."

again......what does this have to do with the article at all? Aren't you merely reinforcing the articles point?

" Just reject it, there’s nothing that says you have to accept on either platform, so to say that’s a negative for native apps is odd."

Except that most app's would stop working if anyone confined them to the minimum amount of data required, case in point any scooter app that won't let you rent unless you have google location services turned on vs just regular GPS.

OPs point is that app are a walled garden of functionality that lock users in because of expedience for living life.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-25 23:23:56+00:00
> No one said that

If the precautionary principle should always prevail, then yes, that's what's being said.

In this case, it's difficult to even disentangle what the status quo is. Pornography, this group's bogeyman, is millenia old. Computer games, decades. The combination is a bit novel, but it's also more precedented than these bans.

> I have seen zero evidence that any of these games are harmful

Yeah. I see evidence they're demanded by the people who we're putatively protecting, however. And I see lots of evidence of other harmful things that aren't banned. Herego, why the fuck are we kneejerking on this?