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by exiguus | 2025-07-11 22:56:48+00:00
I really enjoyed the article. I have to say, though: sorry, not sorry, but application size is a poor measure of performance. A 128KB size limit doesn't account for pictures, videos, tracking, ads, fonts, and interactivity. Just avoid them, is not a real world strategy.

Suggesting that an application should stay within a 128KB limit is akin to saying I enjoy playing games in polygon mode. Battlezone was impressive in the 90s, but today, it wouldn't meet user expectations.

In my opinion, initial load time is a better measure of performance. It combines both the initial application size and the time to interactivity.

Achieving this is much more complex. There are many strategies to reduce initial load size and improve time to interactivity, such as lazy loading, using a second browser process to run code, or minimizing requests altogether. However, due to this complexity, it's also much easier to make mistakes.

Another reason this is often not done well is that it requires cross-team collaboration and cross-domain knowledge. It necessitates both frontend and backend adjustments, as well as optimisation at the request and response levels. And it is often a non-functional requirement like accessibility that is hard to track for a lot of teams.
by verdverm | 2025-07-11 22:56:52+00:00
You should do CS and be around like minded people. You'll learn way more useful.stuff to apply to your interests. Business classes will get in the way compared to CS classes which is what it sounds like you actually enjoy. You'll be able to ask your professors questions about your interest and get helpful and encouraging answers.

I started out in business school until I found CS and never looked back.
by nemo | 2025-07-11 22:57:05+00:00
>While some have members who aren't religious, the 12 steps are a religious doctrine.

I found groups that weren't religious, but if you go to an AA meeting you are participating in religious rites masquerading as addiction therapy. The placebo effect makes it work for some small number who keep going to meetings, and attributes magical healing powers to those groups and their rites, as cults do. The folks I met there were mostly really nice, and they were usually trying to downplay the fact that the 12 steps and all the structures around it are an embodiment of Protestantism.

Like Higher Powers, the Disease Model of AA is also religious doctrine, and particularly pernicious. The system (regardless of the group or their intents) pushes learned helplessness to keep people in the cult where they all see themselves as inherently deficient in a way that forms a group identity, attributing participation in the group and it's religious rites of confession (sponsor) and penance (the resentments business) to spiritual healing.

Personally I find it a repugnant organization that preys on the vulnerable to get them to join a cult rather than deal with their problems.

Anyway, I'm doing great thanks. I don't have a disease, and things are going well, I use some drugs in moderation when they're fun, and don't attribute liking the sensation with any kind of narrative about that being a spiritual disease. Liking drugs is just part of being a normal healthy human, moderation is the key.

All the best to you as well, good luck out there.
by rapind | 2025-07-11 22:57:18+00:00
You're looking at (coloured) diffs in your shell is all when it comes to coding. It's pretty easy to setup MCP and have claude be the director. Like I have zen MCP running with an OpenRouter API key, and will ask claude to consult with pro (gemini) or o3, or both to come up with an architecture review / plan.

I honestly don't know how great that is, because it just reiterates what I was planning anyways, and I can't tell if it's just glazing, or it's just drawing the same general conclusions. Seriously though, it does a decent job, and you can discuss / ruminate over approaches.

I assume you can do all the same things in an editor. I'm just comfortable with a shell is all, and as a hardcore Vi user, I don't really want to use Visual Studio.
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-07-11 22:57:26+00:00
> - He sued Apple and Google for monopolistic behaviour. He's been fighting for fair access and better deals for all developers, not just Epic Games Store.

And yet he did not sue Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft. Each of whom represent a much larger share Epic's revenue than Apple or Google.

And he admitted in court that he was willing to throw all other developers under the bus if Apple had given him the discount he wanted for Epic.
by tkgally | 2025-07-11 22:57:59+00:00
Only anecdotal, but I’ve noticed recently what seems to be a gap in the social-media-driven concentration of tourists in Japan: traditional museums.

I have lived in Japan since 1983, and my sisters and their husbands recently spent three weeks in Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka, and Tokyo. It was the first visit here for three of them. They’re all in their early 70s and don’t use social media much, so they got most of their ideas for places to go from web searches, which led them to travel blogs and to sites like Tripadvisor.

I tried to steer them away from the areas that I knew would be overcrowded, but with mixed success. I warned them in particular that Kyoto would be packed, but they insisted on taking a day trip there from Osaka anyway. It turned out to be the most unpleasant part of their trip because of the crowds.

As their trip progressed, they focused more on avoiding the crowds, and they gradually started adding more museums to their itinerary. I took them to the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living and the Tokyo National Museum, and on their own they visited the Osaka Museum of History, Yushukan Museum at the Yasukuni Shrine, JCII Camera Museum, and several others. None of them were crowded, and they seemed to enjoy them all.

I was particularly surprised at how empty the Tokyo National Museum was, as forty years ago it was a standard destination for foreign visitors. It still has a great collection, but very few of the thousands of tourists wandering around nearby Ueno that day chose to go there.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-07-11 22:58:06+00:00
I would rather we have a system that is too generous and gets taken advantage of than one that is too parsimonious where people die for want of food and shelter that we could provide for them.

We exist in a world where people can be unable to work or even advocate for themselves through no fault of their own. As we raise the bar for how people have to prove that they "need" help, there will be people who die because they don't have the capacity to prove that. In theory we have social workers (as a societal role) but in reality they're underfunded/don't have capacity for the same reasons.

This feels like the same moral argument behind the presumption of innocence in the American legal system: far better to let criminals walk free than to falsely imprison an innocent person. Why do we not apply the same logic to welfare?

I mean, I know why: we're worried the system would get taken advantage of and not serve the people it's "meant" to help.... but then, who does it help? How much effort is it worth making people spend to prove they need help when that effort comes with a blood cost?

I agree with GP that welfare systems make for better societies--see also, public healthcare. I have several friends who are alive because of welfare systems. I grew up with people whose family squandered the welfare they got, but I don't view that as sufficient reason to withhold welfare from anyone else; I just accept that's the cost of a system that helps people.
by strken | 2025-07-11 23:00:35+00:00
Can I recommend thinking about your own country and then extrapolating from there to understand how foreigners feel? For example: I'm Australian. I actively want you to come be a tourist here! What I'd like you to do, though, is not go to the exact same place as 80% of the rest of the tourist inflow goes.

You don't need to go to the Gold Coast: the entire country is surrounded by water ("girt by sea" is in our national anthem), most of it has great beaches, and you're legally allowed to be on any of those beaches up to the high water mark! The 12 Apostles are cool, sort of, but they're surrounded by beautiful coastline and rainforest filled with waterfalls which a big chunk of international tourists drive through without stopping longer than a toilet and coffee break. The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House are neat and they aren't too busy, but they're also just a bridge and a big building. Uluru is big and impressive, but it's next to the far more interesting Bungle Bungles which get a tenth of the visitors each year, and the entire centre of Australia is scattered with gorges and craters and rock formations.

Go somewhere other than the top places! The best thing you can do for the locals struggling with house prices on the Gold Coast is to save your own money, skip the queues, and go literally anywhere else along the coast in NSW or QLD. Australia has the same population density as Idaho. We can absorb an effectively unlimited number of tourists as long as they ramp up slowly and spread themselves out. It's easy to be an ethical non-disruptive tourist if you just ignore tiktok and don't treat other countries like bingo cards.
by rickydroll | 2025-07-11 23:01:12+00:00
OTOH, my partner has a kid with disabling autism. He will never live alone and cannot survive without some caregiver support for basic needs like shopping for food or handling money. So instead of having children to care for you as you age, you spend the rest of your life caring for a child who will never be independent, and you beat yourself up for not finding the magic something that would have enabled the child to live an independent life.

yea, kids are such a joy
by caim | 2025-07-11 23:01:25+00:00
C ABI is the system V abi for Unix, since C was literally created for it. And that is the abi followed by pretty much any Unix successor: Linux, Apple's OS, FreeBSD.

Windows has its own ABI.

The different abi is pretty much legacy and the fact that x86_64 ABI was built by AMD + Linux etc, while Microsoft worked with Intel for the Itanium abi.
by mtomweb | 2025-07-11 23:01:33+00:00
Apple hasn’t resolved any of the main issues.

Install and discoverability is still hidden. Push is gated behind install. Safari’s scroll bugs haven’t been fixed despite us extensively documenting them, emailing to Safari’s leadership and raising them every year as the number one bug.

The number one thing we’ve asked for is third party browser engines on iOS.

What goalposts do you think have moved?
by nullc | 2025-07-11 23:01:38+00:00
Most people who commit suicide were not hounded to the end of their rope, these people were murdered by torture via the legal system. The proximal cause of their death was their own hand, sure, but their deaths should properly be seen as some form of murder or at least manslaughter.

These deaths had an unambiguous causal actor other than/in addition to themselves.

It's an exceptional condition particularly since if you are harassed by any ordinary person you have a multitude of recourse-- up to fleeing or going into hiding and so we should be very very hesitant to attribute suicide to the actions of a third party in general. But in the case of harassment perpetrated by or via state power the victims are far closer to an inescapable situation and because of the vastly greater power the state must carry vastly greater responsibility for the total consequences of their malicious and improper actions.
by vincent-manis | 2025-07-11 23:02:51+00:00
Quick answer: is our software any more usable, any more reliable, than it was 50 years ago? The more code you write, the more dependencies you require, the more opportunity for bugs and design errors to creep in. I get the impression that many software projects have enough fixes and kludges slathered on them to make them work nowadays.

(Remember Bill Atkinson's famous response, quoted here to how much code he'd written that week: -3000. He had reworked Quickdraw so that it was faster and better, with a net loss of 3000 lines of code.) Of course the classic Mac had its own constraints.
by chc4 | 2025-07-11 23:02:56+00:00
Following Magic the Gathering and DnD is always fun, because the dynamics are they are the two products that Hasbro make a profit on and keep the company afloat while they repeatedly lose money on every other toy line...while everyone is also alarmed about how they're running MTG and DnD into the group in favor of short-term profit.
by lackoftactics | 2025-07-11 23:02:56+00:00
Stay tuned, a new study is coming with another revelation: you aren't getting faster by using Vim when you are learning it.

My previous employer didn't even allow me to use Vim until I learned it properly so it wouldn't affect my productivity. Why would using a cursor automatically make you better at something if it's just new to you and you are already an elite programmer according to this study?
by tootie | 2025-07-11 23:03:35+00:00
I think the recent Grok release and considering xAI was relatively late to the game shows that the only moat to training giant models is how many GPUs you can buy. ChatGPT was earth-shattering and it took less than two years for multiple credible competitors to match or exceed them. Making these models profitable is proving extremely difficult in the face of so much competition and such unsustainable expectations being set. Google seems to be most likely to sustain themselves through this melee. Them and the Chinese companies.
by astura | 2025-07-11 23:04:23+00:00
>thinking you can overcome addiction by yourself is one of the reasons that addiction is prevalent.

This is complete BS, the majority of addicts overcome addiction without any specific treatment.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-addiction-simply-gro...

https://aeon.co/essays/most-drug-users-stop-without-help-so-...
by dekhn | 2025-07-11 23:04:25+00:00
Drug culture had a big influence on the creation of modern desktop computing. https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Per... is the best-researched book I've seen on this, but after living in the bay area for 35 years and talking to lots of people, there is a lot more drug use that impacts technology than most people would expect.
by frollogaston | 2025-07-11 23:04:27+00:00
I've owned multiple iPhones that I've kept for a long time. The iPhone 6 was the only one that shut down randomly, and the phone was only 2 years old then, so yes it seemed defective. After it did that once, it got throttled to the point of being nearly unusable for several months until Apple pushed an update to let me disable that.

Most users seemingly responded by just buying newer iPhones that didn't have this problem, before Apple even offered the $29 fixes. I got an old iPhone 5 instead, and it was fine. So I'm pretty convinced the 6 was just bad.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-07-11 23:04:29+00:00
> it was one of the most horrific mass murder in history

This implies intent.

> One pilot asked “why did you turn them off?” and the other said “I didn’t.”

To me this reads like an unintentional error with colossol implications.

Are you suggesting there was malicious intent and then a delibrately crafted denial by the perpetrator?
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-11 23:05:18+00:00
> if AI capabilities taper off

AI growth has slowed to a crawl, and it's priced it self out vs cost of compute.

NVIDIA feels a lot like SUN.

> amazing documentary

Been there, done that: 2001, Startup Dot Com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP4PGjnZwJE
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-11 23:05:20+00:00
I am, and I’m willing to stake my reputation on it. If I’m wrong, I’ll hang up my hat and never cover live news again.

Pilots are drilled from day one that the fuel switches are sacred. After a few accidents where one engine failed and the pilot accidentally turned off the remaining functional engine, the training was overhauled so that it would be impossible for it to be an easy action done by mistake. One pilot is required to ask the other for confirmation before toggling the switch, I believe. It wouldn’t be something you’d do from muscle memory.
by xtiansimon | 2025-07-11 23:06:11+00:00
> “I feel like the power of an idea is woefully underestimated.”

You’ve heard of the “meme”? That afterthought of idea by Richard Dawkins? I first learned of it during COVID lockdown. There was a post—somewhere—linking to a post from NASA making a bunch of their publications available for reading. In these was a whole anthology titled Cosmos and Culture. One of the articles is by a professor and writer Susan Blackmore. She wrote an article, something like, What The Pandorans Knew. In it she makes the argument that what we will find, if we explore the cosmos past earth, is most likely not alien civilizations, but the remains of extinct civilizations. She argues that ideas are in fact dangerous and might just be the death of civilization. And with this in mind, we’re more likely to find evidence of the extinct civilizations than live ones.

It’s a radical idea. At least that’s what I thought until people in positions of trust started into their non-scientific medical ideas during COVID.

While I find memes of great interest, don’t expect to find memes beyond a curiosity.

The big problem is, what can you do with memes that you can’t do with the current academic orthodoxy? I think if it like someone espousing on the merits of their favorite programming language, and the main line language users scoff and say they have work to do.

Neither speculative non-fiction, nor meme theory, nor programming languages compare to the matters of health and wellness. This is the crisis of our time.

My2c

https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resour...
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-11 23:06:19+00:00
The report says the co-pilot was flying.

The report says the black box reports the fuel cutoff switches being activated. That doesn't necessarily mean that either of the two pilots activated them, it just means that the fly-by-wire system reacted to a fuel cutoff event.

"The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cutoff.

In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff.

The other pilot responded that he did not do so."
by recursivecaveat | 2025-07-11 23:06:24+00:00
W/r/t oil: suppose before you survey there is a 25% chance that there is oil under your property. So the unimproved value of your land is surface_value + 0.25 * oil. After you drill, 75% of the time you receive a reduction in value of 0.25 since you have good evidence of the absence of reserves, 25% of the time you increase the value by 0.75. It seems to me that the LVT has no impact at all on the expected value of surveying for oil.

Of course if you believe the estimate to be incorrect, the incentives can shift, and there is some opportunity for mafiscence by falsely showing the 'absence' of oil that you know exists for a temporary tax break.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-11 23:07:14+00:00
> What does Cursor/Windsurf offer over VS Code + CC?

Cursor's @Docs is still unparalleled and no MCP server for documentation fetching even comes close. That is the only reason why I still use Cursor, sometimes I have esoteric packages that must be used in my code and other IDEs will simply hallucinate due to not having such a robust docs feature, if any, which is useless to me, and I believe Claude Code also falls into that bucket.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-11 23:07:48+00:00
it makes sense to me that the pilot who said "I did not do it" actually did do it without realizing it, was supposed to be putting the landing gear up when he committed a muscle memory mistake. it happened around the time the landing gear should be up, and this explanation matches what was said in the cockpit, and the fact that the landing gear wasn't retracted. I think this idea was even floated initially by the youtube pilot/analysts I watch but dismissed as unlikely.
by olejorgenb | 2025-07-11 23:09:49+00:00
Idk. When you're doing something it really gets it's super nice, but it's also off a lot of times and it's IMO super distracting when it constantly pop up. No way to explicitly request it instead - other than toggling, which seems to also turn off context/edit tracking, because after toggling on it does not suggest anything until you make some edits.

While Zed's model is not as good the UI is so much better IMO.
by nirav72 | 2025-07-11 23:11:49+00:00
Great seeing Pangolin posted on Show HN. I just got pangolin installed and configured this afternoon on a VPS. With Newt running locally on a cheap mini-pc to establish wireguard tunnel. It was a fairly easy process. Watched couple of videos on YT and then went through the well documented procedure on their site. So far everything seems to be working. I currently only have couple of apps exposed. Plus a private relay for Rustdesk. All working great. Plan on exposing/moving stuff off CF in the coming days. Once I lock down my home network and isolate stuff on separate VLANs.

While CF tunnels were nice and solved my ISP imposed issue with exposing ports via their crappy fiber gateway for couple of years. But I wanted more control. Specifically control over what I can expose without worrying about violating cloudflare’s TOS and ambiguity around media streaming. (Jellyfin/Emby).
by perching_aix | 2025-07-11 23:11:53+00:00
The sheer existence of established and (partially) self-reinforcing sets of cultural standards doesn't strike me as a good basis to explore the fundamental complement of it all, or to describe it altogether as something assuredly misleading and "bad". This should be especially apparent if you've ever tried creating something that is self-justifying (it's usually a hard, valuable, and sought after effort).

Put differently, while an idea being established and self-justifying doesn't necessarily mean it's exclusive in these traits and should be bolted in, sure, an idea being fringe also doesn't necessarily mean it's unjustly fringe at all, or that it's being unfairly discriminated against. To claim so without evidence is little more than conspiratorial thinking and self-victimization.

It further sounds really quite self-serving to paint e.g. me as some misguided sheep part of some malicious cabal for this. It's a little more than just a variation on the all too common ill faith ways of argumentation; mixing in the semantic specifics of psychedelic experiences, name dropping people, movements, and quotes, and deferring to a "specific" culture's particularities serves at most as a distraction from this.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-11 23:12:03+00:00
I guess I let my emotions get in the way. But nobody seems to be saying that we’ve witnessed one of the worst acts of mass murder in history. Most of the notorious serial killers don’t come close to killing 300 people.

It feels qualitatively different than someone pointing a gun at someone else and then themselves, which is usually what pops to mind when you hear “murder-suicide”.

You’re correct though, it qualifies.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-11 23:12:46+00:00
This is a disgraceful story from start to finish. Many of the postmasters have still not been compensated and no-one in the post office or Fujitsu has been properly held to account yet, all these years later. In fact most of them have retired on big pensions. Paula Vennels was nearly parachuted in as a Bishop. The UK tax payer is footing the compensation bill. And Fujitsu continue to get fat contracts from the British Government. Kudos to Alan Bates, Private Eye, Computer Weekly and a few others who fought many years to get this far. But justice has still not been done.