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by atoav | 2025-08-15 15:19:58+00:00
It may be a surprise to you, but there was nothing in your post that I didn't knew. I know all that. Just like I know the rationale behind Blender's Right-Click-select.

The terminal as a tool is shaped by its history, but that doesn't mean we have to carry that history with us forever, especially not at all cost. And I say that as someone who values history and has a self-designed physical terminal bell next to my desk. Does your terminal emulator strike a physical bell when you send BEL? If it does not than your terminal has moved on in time for one reason or another.

My point comes from the observation that the terminal is an extremely valuable tool to learn purely from an practical standpoint. Much more of that value comes from what it allows you to do, than from understanding how it works. Just like with Blender, where I as a former feelancer in VFX had no issue at all with right-click select, but occasional users would shake their fist at the heavens and complain about how bad Blender UI was with all its clever concepts. To them the historical understanding of the intricacies of the Blender UI and why "they are holding it wrong" would be utterly meaningless, what counts to them is that they can use the tool. And I agree.

Would I be happy with just any redesign of the terminal? No. But would I be okay if a good redisgn stopped it from working with physical type writers hooked up to main frames or from talking telnet to my oscilloscope? Yeah. I am okay with that. If I really need that there is probably software that still support that and I install that. I know that this is not a simple change, but it is 2025 and we can think about how things should be instead of staying with how they always have been without reason, especially if we are just talking about the defaults.
by grumpy_coder | 2025-08-15 15:20:20+00:00
Yeah, I think the first mistake is thinking 'large software project' is specific enough to have any good advice at all.

Large software projects could include AAA console videogame, or banking mobile app, or embedded vehicle entertainment system, or airport baggage handling system, or hundreds of other totally different domains.

The only good advice I can think of is given a large software project try to hire someone (or a whole team) that have built something pretty similar before.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-08-15 15:20:21+00:00
You can mock this, but the data doesn't care what either of us think.

Current Mediterranean water temps are +6C above normal, as observed over peak human civilization in the 20th century. That is 6kWh per cubic meter, in just the Mediterranean. The article briefly mentions this extending 30m down.

To give the order of magnitude of the energy involved, the Mediterranean surface area is 2,500,000,000,000 sq m. At 6kWh cu m and 18m deep, that is the energy equivalent of about 390,000 megatons. Or about 8,000 Tsar Bombas. The Mediterranean is small, about 0.7% of ocean surface area.
by armitron | 2025-08-15 15:20:24+00:00
Even if you don't get the public key through a web of trust, you download it "once" not every time you download a file, then you keep using it until it expires.

You also typically download it from a different place than the storage location of the signed binary artifacts. This means that an adversary will have a hard time trying to replace a public key and remain undetected.
by bsenftner | 2025-08-15 15:21:08+00:00
> A large part of it is that we maxed out a lot of how communication tech can impact daily life, at least in terms of communication,

Perhaps for uneducated casual communications, lacking in critical analysis. The majority of what passes for "communications" are misunderstood, misstated, omit key critical aspects, and speak from an uninformed and unexamined position... the human race may "communicate" but does so very poorly, to the degree much of the human activity in our society is placeholder and good enough, while being in fact terrible and damaging.
by pllbnk | 2025-08-15 15:21:09+00:00
That's fair, I apologize. I just meant to point out that these people are the prisoners of their regimes regardless of where they live, hence the inability to trust their actions not because of their personal prejudices but their inherent ties to their origins. However I understand it was worded in such a way which might have looked like attack on their nationalities or personalities, which it wasn't.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-08-15 15:21:12+00:00
Hammer-fired guns have a similar issue if you drop them directly on the hammer (or on parts that can move the hammer) when the hammer is cocked. When the hammer is not cocked, there's no available energy in the firing mechanism to discharge the gun. Striker fired guns are effectively in the cocked state at rest, though. In a "cocked and locked" state, you would need the drop to disengage or overcome the safety, not just the normal trigger mechanism.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-08-15 15:21:20+00:00
This is not what enshittification means. Facebook enshittified itself without ever having sold a product to its users. They were selling their users' personal data before they ever became enshittified.

Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse.
by netsharc | 2025-08-15 15:21:44+00:00
On the opposite side (i.e. the side of what Bender called meatbags), there are a lot of jobs where judgment and empathy are not allowed. E.g. TSA agents examinining babies for bombs in case they're terrorists -- they were told "You must do this to every passenger, no questions asked" and making a decision means deviating from their job description and risking losing it.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-15 15:21:53+00:00
I think the arguments are even stronger in this case. I’m not asking the website owner to make any accommodations to me at all. I’m not asking them to change a single line of code or tweak a single setting. A physical business owner may not own the sidewalk in front of their business while still being legally obligated to maintain it, and I’m not even asking that.

I’m asking that they don’t go out of their way to take expensive and complex technical or legal steps that prevent me from bringing my own accommodations with me, ones that have zero effect on other visitors and cost the owner zero time, effort, and money.

Yes, I’m sure they’d prefer I watched the squares of pixels they sold to 3rd parties. I also bet they’d prefer not to have to pay to install a wheelchair ramp, but they don’t get to make that decision, either.
by hellojesus | 2025-08-15 15:22:25+00:00
A lot of the big players have enacted nearly permanent bans. I'd have to look up the specifics, but generally the process is:

1. Require an approved phone number upon signup or instant account "permanent suspension"

2. Require video of face and you holding id card

3. Associate "forever identifiers" in android with past accounts and ban your new, functional account if it shows up on a device that was previously associated with a banned account. I'm not sure if Apple has similar hard-reset-surviving identifies.

4. Ban accounts that somehow got passed your prior checks but you have reason to suspect they aren't conforming to normal behavior.

I think all these practices are bad, bad, bad, so I don't use any sites that require them, but that is mostly how Meta and other large social networks operate these days. I assume they do it for surveillance reasons, associating an account with the correct person to get more money out of their data, but since the precedence exists, it makes it that much easier for other sites to follow.
by tines | 2025-08-15 15:22:44+00:00
Not sure if someone else has already commented on this, but this is the fate of people who primarily use LLMs to code. They’ll be like second-generation children of immigrants, who can vaguely understand the meaning of their parents’ native tongue, but lack the ability to produce utterances on their own.

The ultimate goal of AI companies imo is to disincentivize people from pursuing programming as a career by loss-leading with low LLM prices until nobody actually knows how to code without an LLM, and then jack up the prices.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-15 15:23:01+00:00
How is this political correctness?

If the legal language mandates an equal split between men and women, where could that possibly leave non-binary people, other than without representation, right?

I’m curious especially as a black guy, why this wouldn’t land for you. Imagine a legal body obligated to be composed of equal representation, racially, that explicitly requires white, brown, red, and yellow members - but doesn’t mention black.

That hardly sounds fair, does it? So why deride efforts to institutionalize inclusivity, integration, and equal representation as ‘crazy?’
by solveit | 2025-08-15 15:23:47+00:00
It's frustrating how far you can go out of your way to avoid being associated with such superficially similar tropes and still fail miserably. Yudkowsky in particular hated that he couldn't get a discussion without being typecast as the guy worried about Terminator. He hated it to the point he wrote a whole article on why he thought Terminator tropes were bad (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...).

As a side note:

> any serious attempt at discussion gets bogged down by [...] without taking a single shower in the same span of time.

This is unnecessary and (somewhat ironically) undermines your own point. I would like to see less of this on HN.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-15 15:24:48+00:00
The Twitter Files, much like the Mueller Report is useful to determine who the disingenuous or ignorant are. The people most likely to bring them up make claims completely opposite to what is actually contained within the documents because that's what they were told was in them. They can't ever be bothered to actually read the things they are using as "evidence". They just have to point to them ominously.

To them the Twitter files proves that Democrats and Twitter collaborated to suppress conservative voices and boost liberals despite showing nothing to that effect.

To them the Mueller Report fully exonerates Trump and proves it was nothing but a Democratic smear campaign. Despite it showing the opposite.

Reality doesn't matter anymore. These are "facts" to roughly 1/3rd of the US population.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-15 15:25:19+00:00
"ordinary people simply do not believe that adding more housing to the regional stock would reduce housing prices. Across three original surveys of urban and suburban residents, only a minority of respondents say that a large, positive, regional housing supply shock would reduce prices or rents. These beliefs are weakly held and unstable (suggesting people have given the issue little thought), but respondents do have stable views about who is to blame for high housing prices: developers and landlords. Large, bipartisan supermajorities support price controls, demand subsidies, and restrictions on putative bad actors, policies which they believe would be more effective than supply liberalization for widespread affordability. " -- https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428

Not that I expect you to care about evidence.
by Zak | 2025-08-15 15:25:42+00:00
> They also don't say which failure modes were fixed and what remained.

The article links a document[0] which lists them. My reading of this is that it's not listing issues that were found in the P320, but issues that can occur in handguns in general. One of the items is "unsafe hammer decock", which has never been possible with the P320 because it does not have a hammer. It is listed as eliminated.

The remaining medium risks are:

- The user might accidentally pull the trigger by resting their finger on it when they do not intend to fire the gun

- Mishandling the gun might cause a foreign object to pull the trigger

- A drop or vibration might cause the gun to fire

- The user might accidentally pull the trigger a second time due to motion during recoil

- The user may accidentally pull the trigger while clearing a jam

- A broken firing pin could lodge in the firing position, causing the gun to fire when the slide closes

- The user might accidentally pull the trigger during holstering or unholstering

- The sear might fail to retain the striker, causing an uncommanded discharge when chambering a round, or a second uncommanded shot after an intentional shot

- Defective ammunition could rupture and injure the shooter or bystanders

- Recoil can lead to repetitive motion injuries

- Incorrect disassembly and reassembly can lead to a firearm which does not function correctly

Two of these (drop/vibration, failure to retain striker) describe the current uncommanded discharge problem. Five of the issues are different ways someone with insufficient training might mishandle a gun and pull the trigger unintentionally.

[0] https://smokinggun.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/gov.uscour...
by mikestew | 2025-08-15 15:26:00+00:00
Because the climate in the Okanagan is, and always has been, just like Ontario.

For those playing at home, it’s a desert-like (if not outright desert) region, and for bonus points it’s on the other end of Canada. Talk about a not “particularly good example”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanagan
by incomingpain | 2025-08-15 15:26:16+00:00
Most professionals do need the Max plan.

To me, this is the sole reason I went local. I dont have limits. Get yourself 32gb of vram and you're going to be able to run good coder models without limits.

If you've got the $, go even more. Though obviously a $3000-10,000 setup is a pretty long roi.

The alternative, you go through openrouter and pay by the tokens. You never run out, but you pay for what you use and it's easy to change providers.
by ansaqib | 2025-08-15 15:26:16+00:00
Apart from MS taking over GitHub, most AI agents or automation in CI/CD and governance are either centralized or unverifiable. We can’t prove the agent’s integrity, nor guarantee it hasn’t been tampered with.

Shade agents solve it by:

- Shade Agents are autonomous services that run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), producing cryptographic attestations of every action they take.

- Unlike traditional CI/CD bots or automation scripts, which require blind trust in a hosting provider, Shade Agents give us mathematical proof that the code we audited is the code running in production.

- All agent actions and decisions are recorded on-chain, creating an immutable, verifiable audit trail.

This makes them an ideal fit for our TSX/SEV-inspired vision of an uncapturable, open-source development and deployment platform.
by jandrese | 2025-08-15 15:26:29+00:00
It's telling that before the Patent system the solution was secretive guilds that jealously (sometimes lethally) guarded their secrets to avoid competition. This was obviously terrible since it greatly slowed down innovation.

I'm not sure what the correct solution is to this problem. We want to avoid anything that causes a return of the guild system, but at the same time we don't want small inventors steamrolled by large corporations.

That said, I think corporations should be much more limited in their Patent powers. In fact it's questionable how much value society gets out of large corporation patents. If another large corporation "steals" the idea and capitalizes on it first that is their own fault. The only people who profit are the lawyers.
by stefanv | 2025-08-15 15:26:29+00:00
What if the problem is not that we overestimate LLMs, but that we overestimate intelligence? Or to express the same idea for a more philosophically inclined audience, what if the real mistake isn’t in overestimating LLMs, but in overestimating intelligence itself by imagining it as something more than a web of patterns learned from past experiences and echoed back into the world?
by coding_coffee | 2025-08-15 15:26:43+00:00
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You can also checkout my latest project at https://semaphore.chat. The is a chat application that offers a streamlined, no-nonsense AI chat experience. It provides access to multiple large language models (LLMs) from various vendors. Key features include markdown rendering of AI outputs, syntax highlighting for code, and the ability to display Mermaid.js diagrams on a canvas. The app supports real-time synchronization and resumable streams using Zero (sync engine), enabling users to share links, and allows for collaborative use of LLMs with peers. Authentication is handled via Google OAuth, the database is Postgres, frontend is in NextJS, self-hosted on an Hetzner server. You can checkout the source code here: https://github.com/codingCoffee/semaphore

Ideally I'd like to work for a product startup in capacity as the CTO or engineering manager or staff / principal engineer. (Not super interested in crypto or Web3)
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-15 15:27:04+00:00
> Cops treat Americans like wild animals. ...

Yes truly horrendous. I wonder how that could become that worse. It sounds like you got the repressive state police earlier than the commanding dictator.

> I'm not sure how this is news to someone in 2025.

I have of course heard about that. However for me the USA is a "far"-away country somewhat about the ocean(, that still affects me negatively).

As anything reported I expect this to be somewhat exaggerated. Surely not every policeman will be like that. I would expect them to be a very "vocal" (/active) minority.

I just don't see how your advice helps the victims here. When you encounter that gang, you basically have already lost? When you fight back won't you just bring the state against you, so that also the non-gang policeman are against you? And on the (rare?) chance that you meet a decent policeman, you will also turn him against you, which will make the current encounter unpleasant for both of you, might expose you to the "gang" and also serves as a justification for their barbaric behaviour.

> I checked your post history, you are a smart and informed individual

Thank you very much. :-)

> this gap in your knowledge

This "gap in my knowledge" is mostly me failing to see some idiotic US men with guns as the pinnacle of a policeman.

> I just don't want armed, well funded gangs running amok with no accountability, robbing people blind and beating them with no recourse. That's all. Too much to ask?

Yes and no. No, I'm with you on that wish; yes, because the majority of people live not in a first-world country. Sadly this also (now?) applies also to the US-citizens.

I seriously think your only chance at improving the situation is becoming a policeman. Ideally the judicative would hold them accountable, but this is messed up in your country as well. Being a policeman protects you from the fate and also lets you be a better civil servant.
by mindslight | 2025-08-15 15:27:50+00:00
It's ultimately still supporting this hostile paradigm wherein corpos legally dictate the processing your user agent is allowed to do on your personal computer, just also grasping at straws trying to bargain for some logically-consistent justice within that paradigm. In reality, this type of support only helps the corpos get the overall legal regime they desire, and then if any such lesser obligations actually do get imposed as well, they will just find ways to weasel out of them later.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-15 15:28:15+00:00
> But the whole selling point of a toolkit is consistency, especially around more advanced widgets.

In theory yeah, but that consistency is out the window anyway when some apps I'm using are GTK, others Qt, and yet others Electron with the JS framework flavour of the week.

A standard shim library which would map to the user's preferred framework (e.g. GTK or Qt) would at least be visually consistent between GTK and Qt - and not just for the window chrome) - even if it only offers a common subset of GTK vs Qt vs ... features.
by OJFord | 2025-08-15 15:28:46+00:00
I don't think GP's comment shows the lack of understanding of evolution that you're trying to point out: numerous similar events occurring to a range of herds over a period of time is exactly how that would happen isn't it?

Not to say I agree (or not) this particular case would be effective, or that it's fine for man's influence to cause it, or anything. Just I don't think they showed any sign of thinking caribou would suddenly evolve like a Pokémon to have a stronger hoof or something.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-15 15:29:07+00:00
> It’s very subjective, but I think the uniform stsrts looking reasonably good at a sample size of 8. The exponential however takes much longer to converge to a normal.

That's a good observation. The main idea behind the Central Limit Theorem is to take the Fourier Transform, operate and then go back. After that, after normalization the result is that the new distribution for the sum of N variables is something like

Normal(X) + 1/N * "Skewness" * Something(X) + 1/N^2 * IDont * Remember(X) + ...

Where "Skewness" is a number defined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness

The uniform distribution is symmetric, so skewness=0 and the correction decrease like 1/N^2.

The exponential distribution is very asymmetrical and and skewness!=0, so the main correction is like 1/N and takes longer to dissapear.
by In5an1ty | 2025-08-15 15:29:25+00:00
Actually, there is no limit on facial recognition in China, government uses it, universities use it, even middle schools use it. yes there is a consent form for u to sign and you can refuse to sign it, but then lots of trouble come: e.g. you need facial recognition to enter school, so now since you didnt sign the consent form, you need to spend half an hour or more arguing with the security guard.