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by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-09-11 14:05:11+00:00
> Why is something which shall makes things easy and secure so complicated? > I'm used to: > > g++ -o hello hello.cpp

That is simple, because C++ inherited C's simplistic, primitive, and unsafe compilation and abstraction model of brute-force textual inclusion. When you scale this to a large project with hundreds of thousands of translation units, every command-line invocation becomes a huge list of flag soup that plain Makefiles become intractable.

Almost all other reasonably-recent programming languages have all of the following:

- a strong coupling of dependency management, building, installation, and publishing tools

- some description of a directed acyclic graph of dependencies, whether it be requirements.txt, cargo.toml, Maven, dotnet and Nuget .csproj files, Go modules, OPAM, PowerShell gallery, and more

- some way to describe the dependencies within the source code itself

C++20 modules are a very good thing, and enforce a stronger coupling between compiler and build tool; it's no longer just some weekend project chucking flags at g++/clang++/cl.exe but analysing source code, realising it needs a, b, c, x, y, z modules, ensuring those modules are built and export the necessary symbols, and then compiling the source at hand correctly. That is what `clang-scan-deps` does: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/StandardCPlusPlusModules.html#di...

I concede there are two problems with C++20 modules: we didn't have a working and correct compiler implementation before the paper was accepted into C++20, and secondly, the built/binary module interface specification is not fixed, so BMIs aren't (yet) portable across compilers.

The Meson developer is notorious for stirring the pot with respect to both the build system competition, and C++20 modules. The Reddit thread on his latest blog post provides a searing criticism for why he is badly mistaken: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1n53mpl/we_need_to_ser...
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-11 14:05:22+00:00
> The reason nothing gets done in the EU is because the power is too decentralized and we're not all pulling in the same direction.

Look at what EU wants to do. I would be glad if nothing got done but unfortunately a lot of their horrible regulations do and Europeans suffer for it.

> The fix is the exact opposite - take power from the nation states and centralize it in the EU.

No.
by charcircuit | 2025-09-11 14:05:58+00:00
>just to do system management tasks

End users should not have to do system management at that kind of low level. They should be able to focus on accomplishing what they actually want to do and not have to maintain the system themselves.

>you could address more effectively on traditional systems by saving a temporary FS snapshot

That's an implementation detail. Every modern OS uses essentially snapshots for A/B updates to avoid wasting storage space.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-09-11 14:06:13+00:00
It's straight from the GZIP spec if you assume there's a single GZIP "member": https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt

> ISIZE (Input SIZE)

> This contains the size of the original (uncompressed) input data modulo 2^32.

So there's two big caveats:

1. Your data is a single GIZP member (I guess this means everything in a folder)

2. Your data is < 2^32 bytes.
by cman1444 | 2025-09-11 14:06:31+00:00
Of course there are instances of this on both sides. Kirk was just a prominent example of this on the right.

I'm not sure books or blogs are a good example of this though. While they may contain lies or disingenuous talking points, they are quite different from the type of "debating" Kirk partook in on college campuses. Specifically, that strategy is characterized by speaking quickly and finding "gotcha" moments that play well on social media and short form video like reels or tiktok.

Written material can still be harmful of course, but I feel that it lacks a certain infectious, viral aspect to it that is so politically divisive these days.
by trentnix | 2025-09-11 14:08:03+00:00
Texas banned phones in schools as well. A local school administrator told me “in the high school, the lunch room is now loud with talking and laughter!”

There are still parents that complain. Turns out they are as addicted to texting with their kids all day as their kids are addicted to the same.

Regardless, it’s great to see that the ban has seemingly nudged things in a healthier direction. Its a failure of leadership that schools needed a statewide ban to make such an obviously positive change.
by z3t4 | 2025-09-11 14:08:11+00:00
I have Windows, Linux with various desktops, iPhone, Android, and of course web browsers, and I think the apps look and behave pretty much the same across all devises. Maybe because almost all apps are web apps in a native shell. UI components it seems was a matter of performance rather then usability and developer experience!? Or it's just scripting madness gone framework insane.
by dcminter | 2025-09-11 14:08:45+00:00
Pancreatic cancer can be curable in some cases - see the Whipple procedure:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreaticoduodenectomy

That said, it would depend on several other factors, not least catching the tumour early enough - and it looks like a pretty tough thing to go through even if successful.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-11 14:09:10+00:00
> It also requires human labor, which isn't impacted by tariffs directly, but may be impacted by other government actions in the US.

If people think prices will go up they will insist on bigger raises. It's why expectations can be as important as what 'actually' happens:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage–price_spiral
by garciasn | 2025-09-11 14:09:38+00:00
Your statement is patently false; gangs do commit mass shootings. While there is no 'standard' definition of one, let's use the somewhat accepted definition of 4+ humans shot. Gangs definitely do commit shootings that fall into this category.

That said, it's absolutely disingenuous for 2nd Amendment advocates to point fingers at marginalized groups (trans, the mentally ill, POC, etc) as the reason for mass shootings. This is a standard Conservative trope; point fingers at 'the others' in order to ignore the root cause of the issue which would most certainly reduce the severity and frequency of these happening in the US.
by cs702 | 2025-09-11 14:09:50+00:00
The Fed's inflation target is a long-term stable 2% annual increase in prices of personal consumption expenditures (PCE):

https://www.federalreserve.gov/economy-at-a-glance-inflation...

The motivation for 2%/year is that when inflation is lower, businesses and consumers tend to hoard more cash, instead of spending or investing it, reducing economic activity, and when inflation is higher, it tends to become self-reinforcing and can spiral out of control: Businesses raise prices and employees demand higher pay to keep up with expected rising costs. Deflation (prices decreasing every year) is undesirable, because it forces businesses and consumers to spend and invest less, but no one ever wants to earn less (e.g., employees don't like pay cuts), so deflation tends to shrink economic activity even more, and in the worst case, can induce a depression, with businesses spending and investing less because consumers are spending less, and consumers, in turn, spending less because businesses are spending and investing less. I'm of course oversimplifying, to keep things short.

Inflation remains above target, but thankfully, as of now, it doesn't appear to be self-reinforcing. I mean, I hope it isn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182111
by Luker88 | 2025-09-11 14:09:57+00:00
This is kinda paranoid speech. GrapheneOS and Tor remain two of the best projects out there for privacy. I'd love to hear of other open alternatives, if any.

..."I don't trust google hardware, but I trust hardware from a dictatorial controlling regime" also does not really help your argument, sorry.

Besides, they seem to be working with some OEM to get their own phone out.

I'd love to receive daily updates on this, but it's a new development, updates are scarce and this things take time.

I hope sometime they'll collaborate with fairphone and others.
by duxup | 2025-09-11 14:10:15+00:00
My kid's middle school made national news for their ban for several weeks.

Really it wasn't a new thing at all, just enforced appropriately. Teacher sees electronics (of any kind) and it's taken and you pick it up at the office. Multiple violations and parents get to meet with the staff to talk about it (that's the real kicker).

Yeah it wasn't new, for some reason these articles just never mention that it's really about a "new" policy that means actual enforcement.
by GloriousMEEPT | 2025-09-11 14:10:16+00:00
> Most of us who were around 15+ years ago recall a lot of BigCorp had to be dragged unwillingly into mobile by internal useres/devs who got their first iPhone and saw the light.

Yeah thanks guys. Now I have outlook/teams on my phone and am expected to be reachable 24/7. If not, I'm expected to respond to text, and share my phone number with my colleagues. Those I don't directly share it with will get it from someone who knows me.
by jalapenos | 2025-09-11 14:10:17+00:00
We're legit not. We're showing anger at the attitude that just because someone's an obnoxious mouth-runner, it's OK he's shot.

Guess what, there's plenty of people out there - on either side - who would be genuinely happy if they got their civil war, their opportunity to replace their dull lives with the Viking-like excitement of slaying enemies.

The rest of us in the middle will, to put it bluntly, very much not enjoy it if they get their wish.

The path to that future is precisely the retarded shit-headedness being displayed around this. Someone shooting him, and then seemingly a horde of people on the internet very freely expressing that not only does that not bother them, the thing that does bother them is the stuff he'd said before he got shot.

So while I think some people would deserve the future they endorse, the rest of us would prefer that future didn't happen.
by shoo | 2025-09-11 14:10:17+00:00
I agree! But the US only adds about 1% new dwellings each year.

So I'd naively expect that 99% dwellings are existing housing stock and so might not to be sensitive to increased construction costs, because they've already been constructed.

I was wondering if BLS might use a model of estimated replacement cost in their CPI estimate, incorporating construction costs, but from a quick skim read it doesn't sound like they do that.

For estimating rental costs, they ask people how much rent they've paid this month:

> “What was your total rental payment for this month for this unit? Include any extra charges for garage or parking facilities, but do not include direct payments by local, state or federal agencies.”

+/- a lot of stuff about weighting that I didn't follow.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
by cratermoon | 2025-09-11 14:10:22+00:00
What areas of the US did you have in mind, specifically?

I must point out that much of the available space is marginally suitable, at best, for residential communities. We already have large cities in places that require unsustainable levels of resource consumption to continue existing.

Just considering water: Los Angeles is a desert made green by importing water from hundreds of miles away (and destroying the communities that used to exist near the water sources). The Colorado River is oversubscribed, and most years never reaches the ocean. Groundwater sources like the Ogallala Aquifer are depleted.

This doesn't begin to count the effects of sprawl and urbanization on wildlife populations.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-11 14:10:24+00:00
In my experience no not really. I'm sure it has some effect but compared to chemical bleach or even just using a clothes dryer the wear is not noticeable.

When you do it with actual flax linen it is quite stiff afterwards and it may form permanent creases if you treat it in certain ways immediately after, depending on the weave. But that's to some extent always true with linen.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-09-11 14:10:24+00:00
If a state attacks, just for example, civilian hospitals (which typically do not contain valid military targets) then, in my view, the burden of proof lies on the attacking state.

Leaving aside, of course, the fact that attacking a civilian hospital, even one that has some military targets in it (say wounded combatants), would also certainly mean killing or injuring many invalid targets, and at that point you should really provide not just evidence of a military target but also evidence that you couldn't attack the target in any other way and that the target is valuable enough to justify the deaths of innocent people.

Which Israel has not done, and really, can't do. Because there really aren't many targets worth bombing a hospital for.
by troyvit | 2025-09-11 14:10:44+00:00
I see what you're saying and it exposes a gap in my logic. I think the reason _I_ see it as hard is because I live in one of those gaps, so service is relatively limited compared to places further east with more density. Buuut the whole point is that, even though there are 95k of us in my town, we're still expensive to service for a 50 mile ride to the hub.
by thrgfu568 | 2025-09-11 14:10:45+00:00
I'm also not a chemist... but I do have a PhD in mtls science from a top 10 program. My dissertation was on computational chemistry on organic compounds.

You're 100% right.

As long as the photon is energetic enough, it can cause a radical and therefore break a chemical bond.

Brighter the sunlight, more peroxides (or radicals) made, more damage to your skin or your cloth's fibers.

This is also why anti-oxidants are so effective at protecting the body, why inflammation is so damaging (body produces peroxides to eliminate what it believes is a threat), over consumption of food, too much/little exercise, etc. they all affect peroxide concentration or their halflife.
Anyone exploring creating new children's character IPs using AI 3D animation?
by vivek0989 | 2025-09-11 14:10:48+00:00
I am exploring AI powered 3d animation space. Even with current limitations and considering future trajectory of this tech, i feel it is possible to create memorable characters beloved by kids for 100x cheaper cost than traditional animation studios with GPU farms by focusing on storytelling through minisodes.

Not memes or spoofs. but actual storytelling by creating iconic characters from scratch.

Has anyone already explored this and has some views/feedback? Is anyone interested to explore this space together?
by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-09-11 14:10:53+00:00
You dont buy WoW, you purchase access to use and play on their servers, I'm sure somewhere in their ToS it says something along the lines of "Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. reserves the right to revoke access to WoW servers at its own digression." It sucks that this is legal, but you're paying for a service, you're not buying a product necessarily, even if it might feel like you are. Blizzard has no obligation to unban you even if you are completely innocent, and I'm not confident they would even if they had to. Corporations are soulless only seeking the most profit they can and by reducing support staff and investing in overzealous detection algorithms to keep the majority of players happy, they're accomplishing their goals.
by ho_schi | 2025-09-11 14:10:54+00:00
Thank you. That's right and where usually issues arise and tools challenged. If the hello worlds case starts that complicated already I'm going to being careful.

I'm eager to gather info but the weak spots of headers (and macros) are obvious. Probably holding a waiting position for undefined time. At least as long Meson doesn't support them.

Wikipedia contains false info about toolings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modules_(C%2B%2B)#Tooling_supp...

Meson doesn't support modules as of 2025-09-11.

PS: I'm into new stuff when it looks stable and the benefits are obvious. But this looks complicated and backing out of complicated stuff is painful, when necessary.
by hopelite | 2025-09-11 14:10:58+00:00
When you try to identify a type of apple, do you just throw your arms up in total capitulation because you cannot identify the likelihood of an apple being a Granny Smith apple vs a Ruby Red apple because "color is a terrible identifier"?

You people have had your minds so warped and messed up like is common in most cults, that you can't even see what is right before your very eyes and have to rationalize away what you see due to the abusive conditioning. It's very common among all mentally and emotionally abused people. It's why all abused people will defend their abusers beyond all edges of reality.

Now genetics is also "of dubious usefulness" because it is irrefutable proof and must be rationalized away because your abusers have conditioned you to that position?

It's insanity, my friend. Reality is fine, come join us, even if your abusers hate that you may break away from their abuses and the conditioning that serves them and their sadistic ways. You are better than this, you deserve sanity and reality. You deserve to believe the truth.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-11 14:11:02+00:00
Phones might be as much a symptom as a cause

The related issue is parents are overly protective of teens and don't give them enough independence. You see this in a lot of different ways from parents wanting to text their kids, to only letting kids do highly managed structured activities, to treating teens as their best friends, to helicopter parenting protecting kids from all adversity, etc etc

And a similar thing happens not just with parents, but society, there are not a lot of places teens can just hang out. A lot of fun things teens would do increasingly ban minors.

If you want teens off devices, you need to give them alternatives
by latexr | 2025-09-11 14:11:21+00:00
Sounds like a lot of work for something which wouldn’t produce that good of a result. If you ever tried to take a colour from a picture with the eyedropper tool, you quickly realise what you see as one colour is in fact disparate number of pixels and it can be quite hard to get the exact thing you want. So right there you find the initial hurdle of finding and mapping the colour to change. Finding the edges would also be a problem.

Not to mention every screen is different, so whatever changes you’re doing, even if they looked right to you in the moment, would be useless when you sent your image to your computer for further processing.

Oh, and our eyes can perceive it differently too. So now you’re doing a ton of work to badly change the colours of an image so they look maybe a bit closer to reality for a single person on a single device.
by chuckadams | 2025-09-11 14:11:41+00:00
Kerberos doesn't concern itself with authorization, just authentication. It's up to the app to accept or reject a ticket, and that process is completely opaque to kerberos. It _could_ be extended since Kerberos allows pretty much any damn thing you want to happen with vendor extensions, but I'm not sure that's a situation you want AD to be handling given its track record in the rest of the security space.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-11 14:11:50+00:00
> Rents would go down because deportation of illegals will reduce demand

Genuinely curious because I've never heard someone state this quite so credulously. How many people do you think are in the country illegally, that they're moving the housing market in a substantial way? In my experience seasonal farm workers (both with status and without) are usually housed in what are essentially dorms. These buildings are borderline illegal from a building perspective and not housing supply you would compete for.

Who are the millions of undocumented people renting a 2000/month 2 bedroom 1 bath condo?
by cj | 2025-09-11 14:12:06+00:00
Compared to the past 12-24 months, 2.9% doesn't seem to be particularly worse than previous months. E.g. it was even higher at 3% at the beginning of the year and it has been at 2.7% for the past few months.

Might not be at the 2% target, but at least looking at the graph, 2.9% isn't making me panic. Maybe the panic is warranted, I don't know.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/consumer-prices-rose-at-annu...

Edit: Although maybe it does get more worrying if the hypothesis is that reducing rates will result in upward pressure on inflation. That could be worrisome.
by evilduck | 2025-09-11 14:12:48+00:00
"Servers are more powerful" isn't a super strong point. Why aren't all PC gamers rendering games on servers if raw power was all that mattered? Why do workstation PCs even exist?

Society is already giving pushback to AI being pushed on them everywhere; see the rise of the word "clanker". We're seeing mental health issues pop up. We're all tired of AI slop content and engagement bait. Even the developers like us discussing it at the bleeding edge go round in circles with the same talking points reflexively. I don't see it as a given that there's public demand for even more AI, "if only it were more powerful on a server".
by Aurornis | 2025-09-11 14:12:51+00:00
> Yeah it wasn't new, for some reason these articles just never mention that it's really about a "new" policy that means actual enforcement

This is confirming some of my suspicion.

Smartphone ban articles are trending, so journalists feel pressured to write something about it. They all around to schools and learn about their smartphone policy, then write that as a new-ish thing so they can jump on the trend.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-11 14:12:56+00:00
I think part of the issue is that a lot of the changes have been fairly incremental, and therefore fairly easy to include back into NodeJS. Or they've been things that make getting started with Bun easier, but don't really add much long-term value. For example, someone else in the comments talked about the sqlite module and the http server, but now NodeJS also natively supports sqlite, and if I'm working in web dev and writing servers, I'd rather use an existing, battle-tested framework like Express or Fastify with a larger ecosystem.

It's a cool project, and I like that they're not using V8 and trying something different, but I think it's very difficult to sell a change on such incremental improvements.
by bri3d | 2025-09-11 14:13:05+00:00
This is a deeply horrible take.

“From a forensic perspective” if one uses a cheap Chinese phone, as you suggest, anyone with one of tens of forensic extraction tools (including the US government!) will immediately own your phone as soon as they plug into it (seriously, as a very public example MediaTek SOCs until very recently all have fatal flaws in the boot ROM).

If you use a Google phone, maybe a deeply embedded secret NSA implant will eventually activate late one night under the glow of your tinfoil hat, but by and large most people will not be able to extract all of your data in ten seconds by plugging into your phone.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-09-11 14:13:23+00:00
yes it does.

if i loan you 100. in my head i have 100 of assets coming to me, and you have 100, so the system now has 200.

if you default, "so sorry throwaway you ain't seeing it", i have to write down the expectation im getting that 100 back. which means that i have 0, and the 100 is out in the system, spent. the system now has 100.

it is the case that some people refer to things like bailouts and inflating away your debt as soft "defaulting" but those are special cases and not the general case.
by gf000 | 2025-09-11 14:13:59+00:00
> and remember the battery with a daily charge will degrade significantly. If it's borderline on release, it'll be inadequate after a year.

That has not been my experience though - having used both an Apple Watch and a Pixel Watch for years on end every single day. Absolutely outside my area of expertise, but I would imagine that you can design batteries to have a much longer lifetime (no of recharge cycles) when their capacity is smaller.