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by cj | 2025-07-31 23:14:33+00:00
I agree, although bubbles don’t always have to pop in huge ways like it did in the dot com crash.

E.g. crypto displayed many, many characteristics of a bubble for a number of years, but the crypto bubble seems like it has just slowly stopped growing and slowly stopped getting larger, rather than popping in a fantastical way. (Not to say it still can’t, of course)

Then again, this bubble is different in that it has engulfed the entire US economy (including public companies, which is the scary part since the damage potential isn’t limited to private investors). If there’s even a 10% chance of it popping, that’s incredibly frightening.
by vel0city | 2025-07-31 23:14:41+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind this especially with my devices that handle connected standby fine. I'm happy the moment I open my laptop I'm connected and even things like ssh sessions and what not we're still connected the whole time and my headphones are immediately available.

It's only been a problem with problematic devices that cause it to fully wake and never go back to sleep. Disabling those devices in sleep usually solves this.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-07-31 23:15:28+00:00
This is a good article about trying to get large engineering companies to do anything. Way too much of it rings true.

I'd like to mention that there's a converse. Say you're in a meeting and some idea comes up which you don't like the look of. There are different ways to sabotage it which probably also apply across multiple companies.

The most vicious I know of is to emphasise both the value and the risks of the idea if it goes slightly wrong to justify looping in a substantial number of senior people, ideally a pre-existing committee structure. Provided you can get a couple of people with no free time to engage with the idea and schedule a recurring meeting about it, you've successfully stalled the project for a number of years. That's usually enough for the proposer to run out of patience.

Also, I'm curious whether this style of engineering is what tends to kill established companies. A sort of stagnation until the competition overtakes it.
by skissane | 2025-07-31 23:16:02+00:00
Why run your K8S cluster on IPv6 when IPv4 with 10.0.0.0/8 works perfectly with less hassle? You can always support IPv6 at the perimeter for ingress/egress. If your cluster is so big it can’t fit in 10.0.0.0/8, maybe the right answer is multiple smaller clusters-your service mesh (e.g. istio) can route inter-cluster traffic just based on names, not IPs.

And if 10.0.0.0/8 is not enough, there is always the old Class E, 240.0.0.0/4 - likely never going to be acceptable for use on the public Internet, but growing use as an additional private IPv4 address range - that gives you over 200 million more IPv4 addresses
by lelandfe | 2025-07-31 23:16:16+00:00
NYC here, whole lot of cash still showing up in tip jars - there are still and loads of cash-only places around, from bars, restaurants, to street carts, you name it. JG Melon, for instance, is famously cash only. But so too is the bar around the corner from my apartment (Dynaco, do recommend).

...So people often tend to be carrying cash still.
by generalizations | 2025-07-31 23:16:25+00:00
Not sure if you’re serious. Is this something you’re proposing be used in an urban environment?

Using a bomb to flatten the nearby trees/debris/buildings/people to make way for solar panels strikes me as not preferable to a clean standalone box providing a MW of power for 5 years at a time.

Also the environment would thank you for choosing nuclear over this.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-07-31 23:16:42+00:00
Some loans require PMI if your outstanding balance is larger than the current value. PMI is very expensive and, unlike a TV or car, you might be forced to give up your house because it devalued too far and you can no longer afford mortgage and PMI.

I'm not saying we shouldn't make housing affordable, but it's worth considering the impact for everyone.
by jim201 | 2025-07-31 23:16:43+00:00
I sympathize—the web needs a decentralized chat platform. And Matrix seems to be the current best solution. But ignoring real issues with the platform is actively harmful.

For example, if you’re active in any FOSS channels, you’re likely to receive spam invites to rooms containing illegal content (with disturbing room images and names that appear on the invite). This has been a known issue for years, and a high visibility issue about it (with responses from Matrix’s managing director) from last summer remains open and largely unaddressed.

This issue link is for the Element client, but it contains links to several related proposals for home servers, clients, and the protocol, many of which are still open/completely unresolved. Notably, the MSC related to invite blocking via policy servers or suggestions about ignoring invites via client settings.

https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2486
by rufus_foreman | 2025-07-31 23:17:15+00:00
Whether a house is worth $400k or $300k is, sometimes, a choice the government makes.

It isn't always, but sometimes it is. Through regulations, through monetary policy, through other policies.

Now if the government decides that you, you personally, standardUser, are going to lose $100k, I don't think the government should bail you out. It's called "moral hazard". You lost $100k. Deal with it.

If the government decides that I, me personally, am going to lost $100k, I would say that I am old and I vote in every single election, and despite my failing memory, I will remember that lost $100k until the day I die and no politician who voted for that will ever get my vote again. I will remember who did that to me.
by phs318u | 2025-07-31 23:17:18+00:00
Ah yes. The “elites”. The invisible yet omnipresent, subtle yet ubiquitous, global cabal that no matter how fragmented and divided society gets, always speaks with one voice[0] and acts in seamless unison.

[0] It’s an endless source of fascination to me that it always seems to be non-elites that have the inside scoop on what the elites are thinking and deciding. I’d love to know where they get that insight if not from their own hyper-pattern-matching imagination.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-31 23:17:25+00:00
> Well, you know how when you move to a new place and all of your unpacked boxes confront you every time you come home? And you know how, if you just leave them there for a few weeks, the boxes stop being boxes and start being furniture, just part of the layout of your apartment, almost impossible to perceive?

No, I do not know this. I've moved ~29 times in my life. I've never once had a problem unpacking. I packed up shelves and drawers and dressers and closets. When I get to the new place I open a box, see what's in it, "oh, this was the stuff in bedroom drawers" so I go put the stuff in there in just a few seconds. In a few hours I'm 100% unpacked.

I've never really understood why it would be any different for anyone else except if maybe if they moved to a much smaller place.

Is it really that common of an experience?

More to the point of the article though - I'm not entirely sure I want to unpack my job - I feel like lots of people would not "do the thing" if they knew how hard it would be. But, looking back, they're proud they "did the thing". I know for me, I started some companies and projects years ago. I was able to do this because I didn't know how much work it would be. Now that I know, I find it extremely hard to get started again. I wish I could go back to my old naive self.

Maybe a better example, all though one I have unfortunately not experienced, would anyone have kids if you "unpacked" what having kids is actually like? I think you could list 100s or 1000s of "unpleasant on paper" things but I don't really think you could write the positives in a compelling way against that list of negatives. And, yet I believe the majority of parents would tell you having children was the most fulfilling thing in their lives. I think many of the things mentioned in the post might also have a similar issue.
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-31 23:18:37+00:00
If she likes to hold them to expiry like you pointed out, then isn’t it odd to not have let the nvidia options expire? I’d need to see her full trading history to make sense of whether or not she is using insider information to influence her trading patterns. Given her net worth of over 100 million dollars I am a little suspicious, but lacking details it’s hard for me to make a judgement and I assume you are correct.

Or we can ban members of the government from trading stocks and investing while they hold office and then not have to have this discussion. I hate all politicians republicans democrats and Bernie’s (not picking on Mr. Sanders but I don’t know if there’s another registered independent in high level government) if they even have a sniff of engaging in fuckery, the job should be too important to show any possible signs of impartiality. That boat seems to have sailed away though minus their being an actual grassroots populist movement to overhaul government. And those keep seeming to dissipate or get co-opted when they do start to foment, like the occupy Wall Street type things that in my life seem to keep popping up, gaining traction, and then becoming something no one hardly talks about anymore.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-31 23:19:29+00:00
I think what has happened is the following:

A whole bunch of folks got into management thinking coding is beneath them, they are now wielding the power - let the code-monkeys do the typing. Then, turns out, coders are continuing to call the shots, and the management folks have coder-envy.

Now, with LLMs, coding is again not only within management's reach, but they think it is trivial, and it can be outsourced to the LLM code-monkeys, and management has regained power from the pesky coder-class.

So, you have management of all stripes "shipping" things, and dictating what coders should do - not realizing that they should stay in their lanes, and let coders decide for themselves what works best in their craft.
by bondolo | 2025-07-31 23:19:42+00:00
I have similar issues over the years on various devices and it has always been frustrating to determine the cause. Power management in general is so inscrutable. I wish there was a tool which let me go back through recent history, even just since the last 100% charge, and tell me why my machine was not sleeping or idling and what was consuming power. Apple has added some energy tools over the years but has never offered tools to explain system behaviour.
by layer8 | 2025-07-31 23:19:48+00:00
If there isn't a strong uptick in the general quality and usefulness of software within the next couple of years, then it's not clear what AI coding/design is actually buying us. Other than possibly some cost reduction, but it would be optimistic to assume that the savings go to the users and not to big tech. Regardless, the proof will be in the pudding.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-07-31 23:20:44+00:00
Unfortunately I think that falls under the "Not a bug" category of bugs. Keeping the endpoint concealed all the way to the TLS endpoint is a feature* of HTTP/3.

* I do actually consider it a feature, but do acknowledge https://xkcd.com/1172/

PS. HAProxy can proxy raw TLS, but can't direct based on hostname. Cloudflare tunnel I think has some special sauce that can proxy on hostname without terminating TLS but requires using them as your DNS provider.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 23:21:02+00:00
Well, you have the economics wrong, and our ability to handwave at each other about whose policy is "miguided" and "utopian" seems like a pretty boring conversation. Regardless: it's obviously not "trickle-down economics". Trickle-down economics are policies that deliberately and directly subsidize the wealthy in the hopes of spurring demand.
by digitcatphd | 2025-07-31 23:21:18+00:00
Agreed. I think most of the arguments are premised on AI getting infinitely better for some reason, without anyone outlining clear arguments addressing the inherent architectural limitations of today's LLMs. I have been in this space since 2021 and honestly, beside maybe voice and Gemini Deep Research, things aren't much better than GPT-4.
by chubot | 2025-07-31 23:21:41+00:00
You said heavily processed and barely-reported

If you want to say Fridman's content is "barely-reported", i.e. he barely does journalism, then I won't really argue.

But the interviews are NOT heavily processed, and that's precisely why some on the left won't sit with him. (But not Thompson and Klein, because they actually have something to say.)

So ironically, it kinda balances out. Being credulous attracts guests who talk almost as if they are off the record
by MobileVet | 2025-07-31 23:22:15+00:00
I toast jacobalberty once or twice a year when I login to my Synology / Docker / UniFi Controller app and gaze upon the pretty graphs and throughput visualizer.

Love it. Thank you kind sir for your work!

As others have said, UniFi had some tough years but that early stuff just works and my uptime is in years.
by MrJohz | 2025-07-31 23:22:32+00:00
Part of the design of the feature is that the website doesn't have to specify "on hover" or "on focus", but instead they can just write "eagerness: moderate" (or "conservative", or "eager") and let the browser decide what the exact triggers are. If it turns out that keyboard focus is a useful predictor of whether a link is likely to be clicked, then browsers can add that as a trigger at one of the indicator levels, and websites will automatically get the new behaviour "for free".

Currently, "eagerness: conservative" activates on mouse/pointer down (as opposed to mouse/pointer up, which is when navigation normally happens), which will work for mobile devices as well. And "eagerness: moderate" includes the more conservative triggers, which means that even on devices with no hover functionality, prerendering can still kick in slightly before the navigation occurs.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 23:22:54+00:00
I'm not making a value judgement. There are analysts and opinion writers I enjoy reading and get a lot of value from. But hosting a podcast interview with someone is basically the opposite of shoe-leather reporting. I guess if you did "stitch incoming" every couple minutes and cut to Fridman calling someone else to have conversations with other sources about whatever claim his primary guest just made, you'd be getting closer.

My point is: some of the prevailing take on HN about journalism probably comes from the fact that we tend to pay much more attention to the Fridmans and much less to shoe-leather reporters.

That's all!

Much later: a funny thing I could point out here is that the same thing I'm saying about Fridman also applies to Ezra Klein, Thompson's "Abundance" co-author --- I like Klein a lot!
by pron | 2025-07-31 23:24:02+00:00
> There's no obvious barrier to it

It's like saying that there's no barrier to turning lead into gold except for the fact that it's easier to get gold by other means; that's a good thing! The cost of deriving formal deductive proofs is high, while unsound methods are much cheaper and highly effective.

The reason proofs can be expensive is that proving things has an intrinsic computational complexity cost (it's a search problem in a large space). A decade ago I summarised some relevant results of the last three or four decades about the difficulty in proving programs correct: https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity

If software were generally simple enough for all of its interesting properties to be easily proven, that would mean that there wouldn't be much point in the software at all. I think it was a formal methods researcher/practitioner at NASA who once said something like, "computers were built to surprise us; if they didn't, there would be no point in building them in the first place."

> We build everything on quicksand.

You do realise that while an abstract algorithm or a program on the page can be proven correct, it is impossible to prove that a software system is correct, because it's a physical system, and not a mathematical object anymore (you cannot prove that hardware will behave as specified). If mathematical proofs were the only thing that's not "quicksand", then everything in the physical world is quicksand.
by bsder | 2025-07-31 23:24:03+00:00
> But today, who's getting tips in cash?

Every server who waits on me.

I make it a point to carry cash and tip the waitstaff in cash even if I pay the bill on my credit card.

1) Tips on credit cards are a "dark pattern" meant to increase the house rake of the credit card handling companies.

2) Tips on credit cards are controlled by the owner and often never make it to the waitstaff.

I can short circuit this by giving my servers tips in cash.
by petsfed | 2025-07-31 23:24:55+00:00
The scenario to address is people who are forced to move (via e.g. layoffs, company relocations, industry collapse, etc) who are also suddenly saddled with a mortgage far higher than they can realistically payback while still moving on to whatever opportunity necessitated the move in the first place.

The first order consequence of treating housing as an investment vehicle is high prices, sure, but the second order consequence is that you dramatically increase the stakes when individual people buy any house whatsoever.

I would much rather give checks to every homeowner whose home value falls than to force even a single laid-off autoworker or whatever into bankruptcy (good luck buying a home after that) if they elect to move somewhere else for a new job and can't sell their house for enough to pay off their mortgage. If the consequence of a government policy to build more housing is that more people become homeless, then its failing.
by dingnuts | 2025-07-31 23:25:35+00:00
people call buying a house to live in an investment but that's because they don't know the technical term is a "hedge"

so you know: most localities do treat the house you live in very differently from a tax perspective than they do any additional properties you might have, because everyone is born short housing, until they own 1 place to live.

so yes, the proposed bailouts up thread would be for people who bought a house because they didn't want to be short housing; a hedge, not an investment.

also if the house has hedges then your hedges are a hedge. I'll see myself out
by c0nsumer | 2025-07-31 23:26:16+00:00
The thing that made me move off of it was issues connecting to devices on mesh'd APs if the ARP entry for that device timed out on the main AP.

Literally couldn't connect to my mobile phone, and after a lot of troubleshooting (which Unifi does pretty much nothing to help you with) I found that when the phone had roamed to the mesh'd AP, ARPs for it wouldn't get answered. If I forced it back to a wired AP or manually added it to the table... all worked fine. Went unfixed for years, heck, I still don't know if it is...

And all the "alerts" about malicious traffic that a bunch of prosumers seem to love? It's not very actionable for figuring out if it's really a problem nor digging deeper...

Oh, and when they had a firmware update that changed the SSID maximum length from 32 (the spec) to 31. My SSID is 32 characters and after that I could no longer edit the network without a UI error. That sucked.

I'm now on OPNsense and Ruckus APs and while it's not as integrated, I couldn't be happier.
by kkukshtel | 2025-07-31 23:26:26+00:00
Everyone here missing some the main features of modern dotnet: cross-platform by default with the new runtime, CoreCLR (no more Mono).

Additionally, blazingly fast, especially as they continue to use stronger memory-aware primitives like Span<T> under the hood, and back that work with code in System.Numerics that continues to lean into hardware intrinsics.

C# itself is also an incredible language, much maturing since .NET 4. Things like Source Generators, record types, collection expressions... you can be _nearly_ as terse as something like python but with all the added benefit of C#'s type system (AND you get LINQ!).

People act like C# is some weird hanger-on dinosaur of a previous age of "tech" that people hang on to out of stubbornness, but IMO it's one of the most forward thinking languages today with an incredibly powerful runtime to boot.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 23:27:37+00:00
Just ask: whoever moves into the new place, where did they live before? Does their previous apartment vanish into the ether?

This is an aside to your thing here, but I don't think any of us can do better than the HN commenter on the other housing thread today who said (paraphrasing) that this concern about building market-rate housing is like expressing concern that nobody builds used cars.
by prewett | 2025-07-31 23:27:44+00:00
Why should housing be a human right? Human rights came from seeing all people as made in the image of God, but since God is out of fashion, what justification is there? And even if you argue "image of God", human rights have hithertofore been about human interactions, not possessions or use of things. On the latter, Paul instructs thieves to stop stealing and work, so that they have something to give to the poor--it's not clear to me that a Christian position would necessarily consider housing or income to be a right of existence. [1]

If housing is a human right, then I think you need some human responsibilities, too. Like giving back to society in some way, e.g. Paul. Rights of interaction go both ways, but right to housing/basic income only go one way and that is not workable. Communism tried right to work / right to housing, and it never worked. You could say, well, the probably was command economy, but how would you guarantee work/housing without a command economy? As it is, society informs you how it values what your giving in the form of money, which you then use to buy housing. It isn't perfect, either, but it seems to work better.

But going back to human rights being derived from all people being made in God's image, the Christian view is that it is each individual's responsibility to care for the poor. Making no-poverty a human right turns it into society's responsibility, and I'm not convinced that is workable. Society doesn't exist; society is the interactions of individuals, and if you don't transform the individuals to each care for each other, it will be impossible for society to. Marxism makes the claim that society is the problem, but so far no workable solutions have emerged on how society can solve the problem. (To be fair, Christianity did not solve the problem, either, although the early church sure tried, especially with Basil et al after Constantine increased their resources)

[1] As a possible counterpoint, St. Basil said that everything you earn over subsistence belongs to the poor, but that seems a unworkable unless you, like him, are part of a rich monastic/ecclesiatical community that provides for you in exchange for individual poverty.
by rapnie | 2025-07-31 23:28:22+00:00
Just half-serious here when musing: not in any practical sense, but philosophically perhaps. The bartender is in the Hospitality business, and assuming that the essence of that business is genuine hospitality, there is no dark pattern if the compliment and wink are genuine. But if they are just a marketing gimmick that the bartender pulls at every table like a used cars salesman, then it is a deception pattern.
by Aloisius | 2025-07-31 23:28:42+00:00
I live in California and this isn't true here. All restaurant workers receive at least minimum wage before tips. In my city, that's $19/hour with health insurance.

Of course, you're still expected to leave a tip and suggested minimum is now 20%, plus even McDonalds is charging $15 for a 4 oz burger, so I rarely go out to eat at places that expect a tip anymore.

I'm not sure why they specifically should be tax exempt though. Cash tips often were, practically speaking, so a lot of tax evasion was happening, but it still seems odd to single them out.