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by didibus | 2025-08-01 19:18:49+00:00
> on nothing but anti-capitalist dogma

What I remember from the proposal of it, it was making a pro-capitalist argument.

Based on a quick AI chat it seems that: "Some argue this form of passive income generation through rent-seeking is actually parasitic on productive capitalism rather than being truly capitalistic itself, since it doesn't create new value or contribute to economic productivity"

I think this is what I remember from the article. They claim landlords are anti-capitalistic, and one of the last holdout of pre-capitalism in our economy. They argued banning this rent-seeking behavior was needed to turn the housing market into a capitalist one.
by leptons | 2025-08-01 19:18:51+00:00
> "They bombed Gaza's airport and implemented a land and sea blockade where they controlled everything that went in or out (to the point where they put the Palestinians on a diet with calorie counting at one point). That's not pulling out."

You're taking this way off the topic I was replying to about why the ports and borders in Gaza are blocked. It's because they are used to import weapons to kill Israelis (Jewish people).

But now you're moving goalposts and changing the topic because the truth is the people of Gaza want more weapons to kill more Israelis (Jewish people).
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 19:18:53+00:00
I was always surprised that the "remote work boosters" rarely considered the double-edged sword they were rooting for. If your job can be done remotely, why pay you American-level salaries if the job can be done just as well with LatAm or European-level salaries?

I've worked with fantastic engineers from Argentina, Poland, Ukraine, etc. and since everyone is on Zoom anyway, them being remote makes no difference (this was not the case prior to about 2015 or so, when video conferencing got good enough), and they all adapt to US time zones.

I've seen lots of CEOs announce layoffs and plug how AI is making them so much more efficient, but I think the reality, besides previous over-hiring in general, is that it's much easier to find and utilize high quality offshore talent. I know some managers at Google who say they have drastically reduced junior engineer hiring in the US (and obviously they had layoffs at Google), while still hiring in lower cost countries.

Be careful what you wish for.
by pengaru | 2025-08-01 19:19:32+00:00
Having cut my teeth writing asm on 386/486 in ms-dos, these comments are kind of hilarious to me because Pentium is well into "you can write most of it in C" territory.

By the P2 era (97-98), especially as consoles show up, assembly's not desirable at all.

Pmode/w was released in 97 which speaks to the demand for a Watcom C/C++ protected mode extender at the time...
by observationist | 2025-08-01 19:19:38+00:00
https://archive.is/o9mim (No cookie link)

"We don't ban legal content! Oh no, we just follow the law."

>>Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations. Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.
by neko_ranger | 2025-08-01 19:19:40+00:00
It would be interested to see a list of American tofu dregs projects. We only see what is still standing.

The difference now I guess is that we eventually learned and (mostly) everything is built without issue, sometimes at the tradeoff of time. But some countries are going through their own growing pains right now (with the tradeoff of money/people/shortcuts)
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by adamrezich | 2025-08-01 19:19:58+00:00
So if I'm understanding the situation correctly:

- Activism group lobbies banks/card companies/payment processors to ban content

- itch.io takes immediate action to prevent them from losing access to payment processing

- Mass outrage, lots of confusion, various conflicting claims such as “I've had games vanish from my account”

- The developers of “Mouthwashing”, in particular, complain about having had their game delisted on itch.io

- itch.io responds saying “Mouthwashing” was delisted a long time ago, because their “Download” button was a link to their Steam page. Also says they're looking into resolving things with Paypal and Stripe (their payment processors)

- itch.io responds again saying free NSFW content will be reindexed, and that hopefully soon paid NSFW content will be reindexed and made available soon once talks with payment processors resolve issues

- Now, Mastercard says none of this is their fault, they've had the same policies as always, e.g. anything's fine as long as it's not illegal

It's hard to figure out what's actually going on here. Is it Stripe and Paypal that are preventing itch.io to resume operations as normal, because they think the card companies like Mastercard are going to impose new restrictions as a result of activist lobbying? Or what?

Regardless, the beating itch.io has been taking on social media has been incredibly disheartening to see. It's obvious that they don't want to have to deal with this problem any more than anyone else, and that it's been thrust upon them—yet, there's been a lot of incredibly histrionic overreaction from users on social media, directed at itch.io, for their defensive actions.
by timeinput | 2025-08-01 19:20:00+00:00
At a FAANG company? A 5% or higher false positive rate in the FAANG hiring process. I feel like I specifically said that.

At the company I worked in at the time? An ineffectual hiring process for different reasons that was more on "feels", these folks probably would have been hired whether or not they worked for FAANG, but "they worked for FAANG" was always in the out brief. They seemed talented (I'm sure that's why they were hired at FAANG companes). I'm not proposing a solution, or saying that the company I worked for was perfect, but <worked for FAANG> means they made it through a 95%cutoff that is unreliable rather than they're a good SWE.

Additionally emulating FAANG hiring processes is probably not a great idea unless you can hire 1000 engineers and fifty of them as that is what FAANG does. If you can only hire 10 engineers you can not realistically mimic FAANG hiring processes.
by ptx2 | 2025-08-01 19:20:03+00:00
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by nkrisc | 2025-08-01 19:21:14+00:00
She knew he was just trying to help. I think she didn't appreciate having the crying child brought to her attention which would have interrupted her conversation she was having with her friends.

The insinuation was, "stay out of my business or I'm going to tell a lie that could ruin you". He was clearly not bothering the child, anyone could see that, she could saw it herself. Whatever her game was, it was completely deliberate.

Since the child wasn't actually in any real danger, we chose to simply remove ourselves from that situation and not involves ourselves with a crazy person. Unfortunately being a shitty parent isn't illegal.
by kulahan | 2025-08-01 19:21:23+00:00
Clicking through the links in his article, I came across a guy who apparently did the same thing at Apple - he introduced the "auto remove" feature for expired passes added to your wallet, then promptly quit. I had no idea that's how that feature came about, but now I'm going to send a little mental thank you to him every time I get off a plane. That shit was FRUSTRATING.
by RangerScience | 2025-08-01 19:21:26+00:00
I've seen four "in person", one very public (just purely IRL public).

I didn't see anyone (with one exception) pick sides immediately; although most people's "picked" side was "not involved". (The one exception was a community organizer who definitely has Been Through This Before).

For three of those, I did my own homework - a lot of asking around, and then a lot of conversations with both people. In the end, most of that didn't matter: the accused ended up damning themselves (or not!) pretty immediately when I talked to them about it.
by duped | 2025-08-01 19:22:02+00:00
> NPR didn't do that, ever.

Right now I'm drinking out of my NPR mug that I pay $12/month for. I've been a daily listener since college, it's my default radio station in the car, and when I road trip I like searching for the local station. But I disagree with this. There are a number of nationally syndicated shows (at least, in all the markets I've lived in) that I'd put in this category. 1A just off the top of my head. Reveal is another, but that's because their mission is to find things that need to be revealed and they're usually pretty upsetting.
by starkparker | 2025-08-01 19:22:24+00:00
Yep. Public media operations in rural and small-city markets are often as small as one full-time employee and cover large spans of territory. A cut to each of those stations might be as small as $150k but could represent much of their ability to do much more than minimal playback of out-of-market packages (which also degrade since many are published in part or full through CPB grants).
by dang | 2025-08-01 19:22:24+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Hyrum’s Law in Golang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201892 - Nov 2024 (183 comments)

Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673295 - Sept 2024 (41 comments)

Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401973 - Feb 2024 (66 comments)

Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34631275 - Feb 2023 (76 comments)

Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33283849 - Oct 2022 (52 comments)

Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29848295 - Jan 2022 (36 comments)

Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27386818 - June 2021 (5 comments)

Hyrum's Law: An Observation on Software Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21515225 - Nov 2019 (6 comments)

Hyrum's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249199 - Feb 2019 (1 comment)
by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 19:22:27+00:00
I don't think these are comparable. The accusations in this case are about systematically sleazy behavior and hint at not-so-consensual sex, which isn't exactly the same as "this guy bothered my kid somehow for a minute".

Also, to be clear, the accusations the article is about are false and unsubstantiated according to the author. It's a "he said, she said".

He's managed to agree with a small number of signatories of the Open Letter that they acted on no evidence (in a jurisdiction where the burden of proof for libel is on the defense, so if they had decided not to agree they'd have had to prove this wrong), but not e.g. the original accusors. The fact that he wrote an epic blog post without being clear on this doesn't really make him look great, though I acknowledge he wanted to focus on a different aspect.

The court case (ending in a consent order, not a judgement) is an interesting story about "as a UK citizen, should you be signing an Open Letter if you merely believe accusers, but don't know them to be right, and can demonstrate how you know", but it has little to do with the accusations themselves.
by didibus | 2025-08-01 19:22:41+00:00
I don't know about the left/right. But like I said, when I read this idea, it was presented as an argument that the housing market was not capitalist enough, and that was the issue. In order to properly make it capitalist, so it can act like our other markets, you need to ban rent-seeking and landlordism which are pre-capitalism models that date from the old days.

It would not allow for example the government to hand out "cheap to rent housing either".
by positr0n | 2025-08-01 19:22:50+00:00
Haha I think you have the history backwards here. Tmux was created as a replacement for screen when it was 20 years old! Speaking as someone with ‘set -g prefix c-a’ in their .tmux.conf because my muscle memory is so used to the screen hotkeys.

GNU screen was released in 1987.

tmux was created in 2007.
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by ajross | 2025-08-01 19:22:54+00:00
As gets pointed out ad nauseum, the very first "cruise control" product in cars was in fact called "Auto-Pilot". Also real "autopilot" systems in aircraft (where the term of art comes from!) aren't remotely supervision-free.

This is a fake argument (post hoc rationalization): It invents a meaning to a phrase that seems reasonable but that has never been rigorously applied ever, and demands that one speaker, and only that one speaker, adhere to the ad hoc standard.
by MajimasEyepatch | 2025-08-01 19:23:02+00:00
It may help prevent linkjacking. If an old URL no longer works, but the goo.gl link is still available, it's possible that someone could take over the URL and use it for malicious. Consider a scenario like this:

1. Years ago, Acme Corp sets up an FAQ page and creates a goo.gl link to the FAQ.

2. Acme goes out of business. They take the website down, but the goo.gl link is still accessible on some old third-party content, like social media posts.

3. Eventually, the domain registration lapses, and a bad actor takes over the domain.

4. Someone stumbles across a goo.gl link in a reddit thread from a decade ago and clicks it. Instead of going to Acme, they now go to a malicious site full of malware.

With the new policy, if enough time has passed without anyone clicking on the link, then Google will deactivate it, and the user in step 4 would now get a 404 from Google instead.
by testing22321 | 2025-08-01 19:23:14+00:00
> If that was true, losing the CPB would be a travesty.

America and many Americans have lost their way, and have always struggled to get perspective on a topic.

As out outsider looking in, let me be clear.

This IS a travesty, and will be a notable mark in the history books when people look back in 50 or 100 years and ask “how did it happen?”
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 19:23:15+00:00
Honestly, I agree with your point so wholeheartedly. I was really into p2p technologies like iroh etc. and at a real fundamental level you are still trusting that someone won't just suddenly leave things so things can still very well go down... even in crypto

But I think compared to sqlite torrent, the part about crypto might be the fact that since there's people's real money involved (for the worse or for the better) it then becomes of absolute permanence that data stored in blockchain becomes permanent.. and like I said, I can use that 60 nodes for absolutely free due to absolutely 0 gas fees compared to Sqlite torrent.
by 37824912238 | 2025-08-01 19:23:18+00:00
> You actually think it's justified...

Well, I agree it's morally questionable, but it's all a big spectrum. I'm not really trying to say what is or isn't "justified" in the abstract. Both of these people made bad decisions in different ways, and both suffered mighty consequences.

> Consent must be enthusiastic and sober

If two people each drink a beer and then have sex, did they rape each other? It's just not so black and white.
by jerlam | 2025-08-01 19:23:38+00:00
> Where are all the cheep rubber dome splits?

The only halfway decent player in this category was Microsoft, with its line of Natural Keyboards. I've used four or five of them, decent enough. I doubt Microsoft was making a lot of money.

The line was discontinued in 2023 and sold to Incase:

https://www.incase.com/pages/incase-designed-by-microsoft-co...
by intended | 2025-08-01 19:23:55+00:00
The GoP does not need to make things work. One of its pillars has been to ensure a hamstrung government, and take a position that government is ineffective.

Any time the other party comes to power, they are unable to make significant change or headway - and the Republicans are proven right.

The Dems are by default the party of Governance so unless they too get on board with gutting institutions, and removing safety nets, they will always be stuck with this weak hand.

The Republican strategies (all of which are publicly discussed in various news articles over the years) do not need to manage a big tent, because even when out of power, they simply need to ensure governance is ineffective.

And given their near mind control via Fox and their content economy - they can even blame the opposition for problems when they are in power.
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by LZ_Khan | 2025-08-01 19:24:23+00:00
I feel like being at the bottom of the value chain is a mis-categorization. If you consider base LLM model as their sole offering I agree with you, but these companies have shown an eagerness to eat their way up the value chain. Agent mode, Search, Study Mode, AI code editors, are such examples of products that could be higher-on-the-chain startups but are offered in-house by OpenAI.

This reminds me of Amazon choosing to sell products that it knows are doing well in the marketplace, out-competing third party sellers. OpenAI is positioned to out-compete its competitors on virtually anything because they have the talent and more importantly, control over the model weights and ability to customize their LLMs. It's possible the "wrapper" startups of today are simply doing the market research for OpenAI and are in danger of being consumed by OpenAI.
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by ameliaquining | 2025-08-01 19:24:48+00:00
The problem is, what exactly do you do when your program hits a precondition or invariant violation?

There are basically only two possibilities: abort the process, or jump to a top-level handler that logs the error and returns a 500 response (or whatever the equivalent is, for a long-running program that's not a web server). In neither case is there any interesting decision to be made about how the direct caller should handle the error. In return, whenever you subscript an array or otherwise do anything that has preconditions or invariants, you have to add a question mark to every function that can transitively call it and every call site of same, throughout the codebase. This task requires no intelligence—it can be done algorithmically without error—so why require it?

If you could actually prevent precondition and invariant violations at compile time, that would be quite a different proposition, but Pony can't actually do that (because it requires dependent types) and the intermediate solution they've hit on appears to be the worst of all worlds.

Also, it seems perverse to have a syntax for calling fallible functions and propagating failures up the call stack, but then not allow it to be used for exceptional results, which are the kind of failure that's actually worth propagating up the call stack.