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by ryao | 2025-08-18 01:35:55+00:00
Do you have links to information on what DPDK and VPP are doing in the area of bufferbloat? I have not kept up with them since I cannot use them in my day to day life, but I would love to update myself on the subject.

By the way, when I wrote in another comment that bufferbloat was solved, I meant it in the same way that IPv4 exhaustion is solved by IPv6. We have the ability to deploy solutions that largely fix things, but whether we do is another matter. You are right to say that the past 10-15 years have started to make a dent in the problem. I had not meant to suggest otherwise.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-18 01:35:58+00:00
>I think many people don't realise that we are very much in the middle of shit creek and without a paddle.

To be fair, the current powers are trying to pretend we're rafting in a chocolate river, because we won a golden ticket and it's gonna make us rich. Whether that's on the adminsitration for lying or the people for believing, that's for the reader to place blame on.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-18 01:36:08+00:00
He fired the Supercharger team in a cost savings tantrum after poor sales figures. Talent secured their own investment.

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365681 - May 2024

Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347924 - May 2024

Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253773 - May 2024

Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382 - April 2024
Ask HN: Approaches to decluttering a disorganised digital hoard?
by phs318u | 2025-08-18 01:37:05+00:00
My partner has ADHD and recently started on medication to help her focus. She wants to declutter her “digital hoard”. Multiple mailboxes with 24K unread messages (and many more read). Multiple drives, folders, online storage, across which she had loads of similar (sometimes duplicate) content, not grouped by theme, subject or project. Myriad notes across paper, phone, emails and other apps. I’ve tried to help her by at least syncing her iPhone and MacBook. Shown her how to begin the process of unsubscribing and deleting big chunks of her inbox. But I’m at a loss of how to even begin with the rest. I have my own techniques which I’ve evolved over years drawing on things like GTD, zero inbox etc. Has anyone else helped someone start this long road and how did you do it? Any advice gratefully appreciated!
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-18 01:37:33+00:00
If you're taking money from X to try to push people to buy X instead of saying "our honest opinion is that Y is the best-value product and we recommend it" and putting that front and center, it's safe to say that you are manipulating people. The non-manipulative use of that real estate is showcasing high value products such that you feel it reflects well on your business to point them out. If they were organically there already, they wouldn't need to pay you.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-08-18 01:38:22+00:00
How come this doesn't match my experience as a customer?

When I buy an iPhone, a vacuum (robotic or handheld), a drone, a camera, a KitchenAid kettle, a silicone brush, an electric fan, a battery-electric drill, just about anything really -- the expensive models might say "designed in USA" but they'll still say "made in China". The US used to be the go-to place to make all of these categories of products. So I don't believe the only thing that's happened is that American factories set up robots, laid off the workers, and got more productive than ever.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-18 01:39:19+00:00
It's a very simple database engine, effectively the same as Microsoft Access but 64-bit and server hosted. The internal data representation is also sub-optimal because it uses a triplestore (key-column-value) to support LDAP schema changes without having to apply matching SQL schema changes. I don't believe it has any sort of full-text indexing capability either, it just uses ordinary sorted indexes. Hence, some search types are effectively table scans.
by ac29 | 2025-08-18 01:39:22+00:00
> Egg prices are up 200% at my store and have not gone down. The point isn’t “can I buy a carton of eggs” it’s “has a carton of eggs become a luxury item I no longer buy”.

The average price of a dozen eggs is $3.59: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

Yes, that's double what it was 5 years ago, but its also not a luxury item.
by abe_m | 2025-08-18 01:39:47+00:00
I think we're starting to see the pile up that assuming people who worked assembly lines will just become robot tech isn't happening. For the entirety of humans, there have always been a place for low-skilled labour. We had subsistence farming, then as the industrial revolution came on, we ended up with a lot more types of labour jobs. As farms mechanized, we got factories, and as factory output went up, new products were created that needed labour to install them. Now that the remaining factories are requiring smarter workers, farms are pretty well fully automatic, we have a glut of working age people sitting on the sidelines unable to find work that is worthwhile doing.

I think we're at the point where more automation means more loss of work, as opposed to people moving into the new jobs created, for an ever larger portion of the population.
by pushkar_aditya | 2025-08-18 01:40:51+00:00
So,apps like Lovable, V0 and similar tools use GPUs to render your UIs after generation. As for the second part, you said “no” most of these challenges can be easily tackled with prompting, fine tuning, code context, and a little human intervention. And the fact that in just five years of mainstream AI we have already reached the point where we can use LLM code generation for production apps is incredible. Just imagine what we will achieve in the next 5 to 10 years
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-08-18 01:41:28+00:00
The volume of work required to get a language going practically requires full-time headcount. Language design/compiler, community website, documentation, CI, libraries (json, datetime, regex, database connectors, web server, etc), treesitter IDE plugins. A lot of different required hats.

Sure, you can scrape by with a rag tag group of volunteers, but to ever get to mass adoption requires a lot of work and dedicated resourcing. Zig has been in development for how long now, and that is with the designer now working on it full time.
by ericmay | 2025-08-18 01:41:30+00:00
There are 340 million or so people in the United States - what’s the human capital problem? It seems like we have a skills gap, and I’d agree if that’s what you had in mind, but shear manpower? I’d have to see some extraordinary evidence to convince me otherwise. Even for agriculture or construction it’s not like America can’t issue seasonal work permits or something. We have plenty of levers there and plenty of folks who would come work here.

> Besides that, bringing everything back would surely raise prices quite substantially and we've seen how voters reacted to COVID inflation.

Agreed, but if both parties get behind it, I don’t think it would matter too much.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-08-18 01:41:37+00:00
Guaranteed, reST is more feature-complete and extension-friendly, but it is simply unusable for me because it wasn't designed for agglutinative languages like Korean. Markdown is much better in this case (though CommonMark has an annoying edge case [1]).

[1] https://talk.commonmark.org/t/foo-works-but-foo-fails/2528
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-18 01:43:02+00:00
Probably that's good? Look at this Nim thread I just close-tabbed[1] including:

- "you should reevaluate your experience level and seniority."

- "Sounds more like "Expert Hobbyist" than "Expert Programmer"."

- "Go is hardly a replacement with its weaker type system."

- "Wouldn’t want to have to pay attention ;-)"

- "I'm surprised how devs are afraid to look behind the curtain of a library"

- "I know the author is making shit up"

- "popular with the wannabes"

Hacker News comments are absolutely riddled with this kind of empty put-down that isn't worth the diskspace it's saved on let alone the combined hours of reader-lifetime wasted reading it; is it so bad to have a reminder that there's more to a discussion than shitting on things and people?

> "legitimate technical criticism"

So what? One can make correct criticism of anything. Just because you can think of a criticism doesn't make it useful, relevant, meaningful, interesting, or valuable. Some criticism might be, but not because it is criticism and accurate.

> "they can undermine others' thinking skills"

Are you seriously arguing that not posting a flood of every legitimate criticism means the reader's thinking skills must have been undermined? That the only time it's reasonable to be positive, optimistic, enthusiastic, or supportive, is for something which is literally perfect?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931415
by bsder | 2025-08-18 01:43:16+00:00
Perhaps what this is pointing out is that a lot of writers of the genre of "fantasy" produce mostly formulaic, trope-laden piles of crap that AI is pretty good at mimicking?

This is neither new nor news. "The Well-Tempered Plot Device" is almost 4 decades old (see: https://news.ansible.uk/plotdev.html).

It does suggest that publishers might want to screen new writing with a quick "Did AI write this?" and only publish the ones where it is obvious to humans that AI did not write it.
Beg HN: I Am Looking for a Friend
by lihaciudaniel | 2025-08-18 01:43:33+00:00
The neccesities aren't special

1. Be known in technology like use Linux and be able to use terminal 2. Be more advance in hacking than myself, I am looking for someone to learn from. 3. If you are russian, even better because I am close to Russia, maybe guide me to Russian technologies: telegram, vk, even explain Yandex.

Thank You very much
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-18 01:43:48+00:00
China doesn't have what I'd say good labor laws. But you can't jsut lay someone off at a moment's notice. This generally means that employees stay around, build expertise, and generally have progression to care for when building a career.

The US... I'm sure we all know the story. So much bearacracu and crazy turnover. So many times I'm communicating with a partner and then things stall because that partner's liaison was suddenly gone. No backup to pick up the ball, no sense from anyone else on what this context really was. So at best it's weeks spent re-aligning on stuff previously discussed. Worst case you end up ghosted and your partnership silently dies (at least from my end. I'm sure higher up the law firms are being revved up).

There is also culturally just a lot of disdain here. Hyper-individualistic culture can make it hard to work together at times. Be it because of pride or because they are barely keeping themselves afloat. There's very little stability and it's long gotten to a point where the dysfunction reflects outwards, publicly on display. Especially these days with Vulture capitialists grabbing brands to pick off what remains instead of trying to turn a company around.

It's all a mess here.
by dyauspitr | 2025-08-18 01:44:19+00:00
What exactly is made in the US though? Besides cars and some forged tools, I can’t think of a single thing made in the US.

Edit: I looked it up, it’s a lot of things. Airplanes, military aircraft, helicopters, satellites, rockets, construction/agriculture equipment (Caterpillar, John Deere), ICE and EV cars, chips, medical equipment (MRI, CT scanners), lots of defense stuff, drugs and pharmaceutical, processed agri goods etc.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-18 01:44:43+00:00
If you are a customer, it is almost by definition "low-value manufacturing", because you have only one household's worth of money to spend, and not a Fortune 500 company's or nation-state's budget to spend. If you're buying jet engines or nuclear reactors or jet fighters, they are probably made in the U.S. (I probably erred in choosing "consumer electronics" as an example, because most of those are made abroad. Even so, there are some surprises: I just bought a brand-new Toyota Sienna manufactured in Indiana, and a System76 Thelio workstation manufactured in Colorado.)
by aeonik | 2025-08-18 01:45:18+00:00
The language itself is still getting updates, a new major release was just dropped a month or two ago.

I do find that for about 5 years things seemed to be slowing down. Though I keep seeing it pop up, and new exciting projects seem to pop up from time to time.

Just today I saw an article about Dyna3, a relational programming language for AI and ML that was implemented on top of Clojure.

I miss the Strange Loop conference. I think a lot of Clojure buzz was generated there. Clojure West and a few others so a decent job, but the quality of the talks at Strange Loop were second to none. Not that it was a Clojure specific conference, but it had that focus on elegance that I don't see very often, and the organizer was a something like the Prince of Clojure, if I recall correctly.

I'm still enjoying the language, and all my projects still build and run just fine.

The major frustration I have with the platform is 3D graphics. That's a JVM issue overall though.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-18 01:45:35+00:00
> I could really really use something that would OCR and classify all the screenshots I take of stuff to remember.

IMHO, a Spotlight Importer[0] would be the way to go. A quick search found the MacOS Vision OCR[1] project, which might be able to be incorporated as an importer.

In any event, whatever OCR approach you prefer, leveraging Spotlight would obviate the need for a service to index and then find screenshots.

0 - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ca...

1 - https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr
by abe_m | 2025-08-18 01:45:37+00:00
I'm split on this. Tradesmen that came up through their apprenticeship say that people need to learn the old manual machines to "feel what the machine is doing", before you can move over to computer controlled machines. But I think that is just the tendency of people to say the path to their current location is the path they took. Not that another path isn't actually a better way to get there for the current environment.

I also think there has been a bit of bias in trade schools towards learning manual processes because it is cheap. You can have a room full of students spend weeks learning to use a file to shape a small block of steel to precise dimensions. A $5 file and $10 of material is easier to supply than a $1XX,XXX computerize manufacturing machine that can process $XXX of material or more per day. But spending weeks to learn how to precision hand file is pretty well a waste of time for modern manufacturing.
by kijin | 2025-08-18 01:45:47+00:00
South Korea has implemented something similar, but through private corporations, not directly by the government.

When you sign up with a South Korean online service that might contain age-restricted content, you provide your name, date of birth, and phone number. The service operator uses a special telecom-provided API to have a 6-digit code sent to your phone. (The code is generated by the telecom, not the service operator.) When you enter the code, the telecom confirms the name and date of birth. No need for random online services to ask for government IDs, because they're allowed to pass the burden of proof to telecoms who have already verified it offline.

You could probably do something similar via banks, schools, the social security system, or any other regulated industry that has KYC rules.
by lihaciudaniel | 2025-08-18 01:46:12+00:00
Digital Hoarding is a symptom not a disease. But even in disease if symptom is problematic then we have problem

What does she hoard? Non sense tiktok videos, if these are research paper. It's not only smart it's awesomely genius to hoard on digital intellectual. The mind of genius

Don't ask if it's wrong, ask how is it wrong
by ericmay | 2025-08-18 01:46:27+00:00
> I doubt any "make in America" policy would lead to more jobs

This seems guaranteed to be false because at a minimum you’d have construction workers building manufacturing facilities. But I don’t think you meant it literally, which leads to my next point which is that even if moving a factory making X widget from (insert country here) resulted in a single job at the expense of any number of jobs in (insert country), I would deem that trade off to generally be worth it. Now as we add in prices and cost and all those things it means there’s a social cost to moving those jobs back, but often times the “jobs” angle is that moving production here or even to other western countries won’t create that many jobs, but even if it’s 1 it’s 1 more than before. I think it’s better and more important to think of the whole package of trade-offs instead of caring about number of jobs.
by Ancapistani | 2025-08-18 01:46:30+00:00
My assumption is that it will always be a problem.

There was a case in Virginia where a man was killed by a US civil-war era artillery round in his garage. Granted, he was in the process of making it safe at the time, but this was ~2010 from memory - so ~150 years after the conflict occurred.

Given that, we can obviously expect that some ordnance from WW2 will still be dangerous in 2095.
by mc32 | 2025-08-18 01:47:00+00:00
It's estimated that even during the Q'ing dynasty, literacy rates were at or below 10%. Over 90% of people were rural four centuries ago. No way you had country bumpkins being able to read and write. Same for Europe. You may have had 30% literacy in the few towns/cities, but those were by and large a small proportion of the populations --most people lived in rural areas doing farming and related activities.
by mattmaroon | 2025-08-18 01:47:21+00:00
Sure but if a luxury car is safer than any other car it’s not because it was regulated to be. The laws don’t discriminate.

It’s because they have to sell higher priced cars by making appealing features and that includes safety. And then the features make their way to the lower end cars.

So having a market where rich people can buy greater safety in the end gives greater safety to everyone.
by jofla_net | 2025-08-18 01:48:24+00:00
Its not the 'voluntary' services that may or may not want to see your ID, its the existence of any and all Mandatory legislation, which would be a nightmare.

This is a tech site so I imagine the average user has some deeper understanding than most(technically), but I guess imagination is off the table.

What this would do (requiring all sites) is basically be the end for any and all attempts against identity fraud protection. Indulge a bit of imagination for a moment. If EVERY site is now required to do some form of verification, than everyone's infrastructure now becomes prime targets for PII and troves of identity information, and wherein amazon, banks, and ID.me can be considered to be at or near the top (i'd hope) for keeping their machines tied down, the reality is that EVERYONE'S servers ARE NOT so will maintained. They WILL be attacked, and shims inserted to steal such identity information, as people have ZERO idea, as they're being shunted around to all thees angel-invested ID startups, as to what is or isn't legit, during signup. Wholly, identical pages/domains, as are often seen to steal traditional PCI information, will now be repurposed to this. Its not that the reputable ones are likely to fall, its the small vendors who don't understand that once a customer is EXPECTED to fork over ID to sign up, any hiccup in the process will be unnoticed, and it'll be ripe for abuse if the server/service is ever compromised.
by tom_ | 2025-08-18 01:49:39+00:00
You can probably make it happen. If your program uses all the same tricks that worked with 6502 BBC BASIC to reduce the interpreter overhead, the ARM BASIC version will run as well as it can. Then imagine your program does a lot of integer maths with the resident integer variables, multiplication in particular, and (for whatever reason) it needs the full 32 bit integer precision - I'm sure you would stand a chance! 32 bit operations are cheap on the ARM, and it's got a multiply instruction. No such luck with the 6502.
by halfcat | 2025-08-18 01:50:22+00:00
> Engineers should be writing SQL, period.

As another commenter wrote:

”If you're doing OLAP…SQL isn't wholly adequate for this, it's hard work to get the SQL right and if there's joins involved it's not hard to accidentally fan out and start double counting.”

I feel this in my bones. Anytime someone in the business changes something in a source system, the joins create extra rows. Trying to address this with SQL is like plowing a field with a spoon.

And I don’t think ORMs are the answer. Just imperative code. The ability to throw in a few lines of sanity checking outside of SQL is such a massive boost to reliability and data quality, when the source systems are moving underneath your feet.
by Jensson | 2025-08-18 01:50:23+00:00
> For me it all made sense when I heard that IQ/g-factor basically vanishes in the absence of time pressure (heard if from Richard Haier on Lex).

That cannot be true as there are valid IQ tests that doesn't have a time component, and people don't all score the same on those. He must have meant something different than you think.

For example Raven's matrices was originally an untimed test, how can that be if there is no G-factor in untimed tests?
by abe_m | 2025-08-18 01:51:30+00:00
While official unemployment is low, that is only people actively looking for work. Labour force participation is way down from it's highs when it peaked in the late 90's. From a peak of around 67%, the US is currently at 62%[1], and the fall off corresponds to the time when imports from China were rising hard and it was the trendy thing to do among executives to shutdown US plants and move production to China.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART/

Many people and towns that lost work in the manufacturing shut downs still don't have replacement work, and I think part of that is we lost a lot of low-skilled labour work as the factories left.

Now a question would be, if the work does come back, will it be low skilled enough to be able to hire the same pool of people formerly employed?
by mikrl | 2025-08-18 01:52:10+00:00
> I think a better justification for it is depth of experience and knowledge being lost

My favourite example from Adam Smith remains the nail maker. At the time, London factories were churning out iron nails by the bushel, whereas the provincial Scottish blacksmith was able to craft perhaps 10 in a day.

Is it so terrible that no one these days knows how to make nails? That our physical and mental capabilities are put to more productive ends?

That’s how I see these skill sets ‘lost’, national security related industries notwithstanding.