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by ggm | 2025-09-23 00:52:11+00:00
This isn't wrong about Boeing and Intel. But it is wrong about Apple I think.

Apple have kept their powder dry, and not over invested in AI because mostly its still in bubble territory. They'll do what they always do: Buy it in from experts until they are ready to embrace-extend-control.

The shareholders are still happy. They have a shedload of cash on hand. They managed to own their own VLSI IPR pretty well. They are making book on the device side of things, and if s/w is making money for others on other platforms, so be it. Apple is making good enough for the board and the shareholders.

When apple invest in DC worldwide, we'll know they're taking icloud into new territory and AI will presumably be there. For now, apple private relay seems to run as overlay on other people's regional build out, mostly.

Apple has not had an MCAS moment btw.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-23 00:53:02+00:00
8%, or 1 in 12, prisons being private isn't that encouraging when blowing up the statistic to the scale of a country. That's still thousands of facilities with perverse incentives.

But yes, the ones really profiting are those making deals to service the prison. Those who bring food, or repair the infrastructure, or custodial duties. A lot of seemingly unrelated industries have every reason to lobby in the background to focus on "hard on crime".
by rainsford | 2025-09-23 00:53:11+00:00
> Seeing that video, I don't have high confidence that I would have dodged that hazard - maybe 70% sure?

Really? The people in the video clearly identify a large stationary object in the road a good 7 seconds before hitting it. You don't exactly need lightning quick reflexes to avoid hitting something in that scenario. Maybe more importantly, the Tesla did not seem to see the object at all at any distance. Even if you don't think you could have avoided it, do you think you would have entirely failed to see it and driven right into it at full speed? Because that's what the Tesla did.

Such an event might not be super common, but that doesn't make it an unfair criticism of Telsa's self-driving. Even if they've never seen a large object in the road before or react the wrong way, humans are generally capable of recognizing it when it happens and at least considering it's something they should take action on. The fact that Tesla can't do the same makes this an area where FSD is categorically worse than humans, and "avoiding stuff in the road" feels like an area where that's not a good deficit even if there generally isn't stuff in the road.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 00:53:25+00:00
Don't get too exited. This is a fight that's been happening for over 20yr now. Whoever is throwing the political football of any given wind project or who is receiving it in the end zone is just a name. They'll be gone in a few years. The institution of fighting over off shore wind farms in the Boston to NYC area was there before them and will be there after them.

Regardless of the pretext of any given action the the way things generally are is that the people who have a view they want to protect, the tourism industry and the hippie/nature/biology types are on the no-wind side and the climate types, green energy people, domestic energy and big business types are on the other. Sometimes one side wins, sometimes another side wins. But nobody ever gets a win streak long enough to bring anything to fruition.

The area is well suited to wind power but the area but it's also chock full of rich people and moneyed interests that can afford to fight it, likely to the long term detriment of the region, but like locusts they will be gone and cashed out by then so they don't care. That's probably when these things will finally get built.

I'd love to see some wind turbines go up but I'll believe it when I see it. And even then, I bet they'll find some way to make everyone's bill go up instead of down because of it.

Sincerely and with the utmost disrespect,

A cape wind proponent.
by Veserv | 2025-09-23 00:53:34+00:00
Then you were not listening [1]. Tesla covered up 150,000 suspension defects, affecting approximately 5% of cars, with literal thousands of actual failures in operation. They blamed their defective suspensions on the customers for years and required over 30,000 of them to pay for repairs in defective components that, if not covered up, would have legally been Tesla’s responsibility to fix on their own dime.

A company actively covering up things that egregious can only be assumed to be doing things even worse regularly.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
by marcusfrex | 2025-09-23 00:54:27+00:00
Switchborn, the raw cyberpunk odyssey from Marcus Frex, skewers the "enshittification" of cybersecurity, a hollow race to cheap illusions where automated scanners and AI hype peddle pretty PDFs over genuine protection, as exposed by blunders like the 2017 Equifax breach. Marcus champions unbuyable artistry, human curiosity, and integrity amid corporate checklists, urging listeners to demand real fortresses over flattering facades in a digital world where true security whispers from the shadows of consequence. A rallying cry for discerning defenders, ethical innovators, and rebels against the commodified void.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-09-23 00:55:16+00:00
>Do we have conclusive evidence that causality isn’t actually reversed here in a large percentage of cases? >As in, a certain % of the population is, very unfortunately and not of their own volition, born with innate antisocial traits.

Assuming the certain % is something meaningful and not like 1% then:

Yes, given that America and the world has run the largest ever social experiment, America imprisoning a higher percentage of their population than any other country and most other countries continuing to thrive with lower crime numbers than America (in cases where countries do not thrive obvious external and environmental factors are seen) it follows that America, a nation of immigrants with higher heterogeneity of the population than other nations of the Earth, does not have a population with a greater percentage of the population genetically predisposed to anti-sociability.

America has a population where 1 in 3 adults has a criminal record. If criminality was in any significant way genetically hard-wired in Americans it seems difficult to believe the country would have lasted as long as it has, although I admit my argument here may be slightly weak given the current state of things, but I think one can argue that is not the fault of the anti-social population.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-23 00:55:40+00:00
Remember when Pennsylvania judges took kickbacks to send teenagers to for-profit detention centers? They ruined thousands of people's entire lives, but hey they made a quick buck!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

How many others are profiting from keeping prison populations topped up? Perverse incentives, ensuring the US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with only the People's Republic of China rivalling it for prison population. Make slavery legal again with this one weird trick called the 13th amendment's "except as punishment for a crime"

I am OK with prisoners being rehabilitated, this includes them working. I am not OK with their jailers profiting. Nor am I OK with employers profiting by having unfair power over pay and conditions they wouldn't have with free citizens.
by ggm | 2025-09-23 00:55:45+00:00
And then the world moved, and became ARM inside. Printers however, stayed MIPS inside.

> ARM architectures are trying to displace x86-64 in both consumer and server markets. It can still happen, but maybe not on the timeline that some are hoping for.

How many handsets and tablets run on x86? Or ISP home routers, switches, IoT devices..
by david-gpu | 2025-09-23 00:56:17+00:00
> I see a lot of posts here along these lines. It turns out there is a trade-off between knots: how easy they are to undo vs how likely they are to spontaneously untie, particularly when not under load.

Agreed. There are many tradeoffs, indeed. But just because there are ten common knots that can do a bend, it doesn't mean that a person benefits from using all of them -- they all perform the same function, so knowing a single secure bend is enough, especially for a beginner asking these sorts of questions.

Personally, I have chosen my knots based on how safe and effective they are, as well as how easy they are to remember, tie, dress, verify and untie after load. The Zeppelin bend is hard to verify against e.g. the hunter's bend or Ashley's -- but it's just as secure as a flemish bend at a fraction of the effort to tie. The double sheet bend is bleh, but I didn't want to get into the weeds of what to do when joining ropes of very dissimilar diameters.

> Most of the "every knot you need" recommendations here seem to come from people tying things down for a short haul, and consequently come from the the "easy to untie" end of the spectrum

Agreed. I would say camping-style knots tend to be easy to tie, easy to untie, and not adequate for safety critical applications.

> Your knots look to be at the "easy to untie" kind

If you mean "easy to untie after being heavily loaded", then we agree. If you mean "can become untied accidentally after e.g. intermittent loads", we disagree. They are climbing knots, after all.

I specifically did not include knots that are commonly recommended even though they untie easily e.g. under intermittent loads, such as the sheet bend or the bowline, precisely because of how easily they become untied.

> It's popular with climbers, but I would not recommend it for tying down a load.

I am not in love with the alpine butterfly variations in general, but in the specific context of making a midline fixed loop without access to either end, there's not much to choose from as far as I know. The Figure-8 capsizes in that application, for example. That said, I would rather use an accessory line with a friction hitch (e.g. Prusik loop), but an alpine butterfly is commonly used in safety critical applications as you mention, so I'm curious to learn what you would rather use in that situation.

As for fishermen and safety, how do you explain that they still commonly use the bowline or the sheet bend?
by stickfigure | 2025-09-23 00:57:49+00:00
This is mostly false.

* Nobody died in the capital bombings.

* Two former Weather Underground members became professors, and they were very controversial at the time

* Mainstream liberals and Democrats rejected the radicals rather than embracing them.

* In Quebec, the violent FLQ didn't come to power. The peaceful PQ did.

* The Québécois democratically chose the official language of their province. The majority are Francophone.

Chatgpt makes it so damn easy to fact check bullshit online. I love it.
by godelski | 2025-09-23 00:59:03+00:00
> They’re more like academic papers (peer-to-peer communication of new discoveries)

This made me laugh because I frequently see HN comments on arxiv papers claiming things like the authors are trying to show off with their math rather than the math just being an effective communication tool. Honestly, if anything, papers are written to too broad of an audience and we get these 10 page papers that could be communicated in 3. I'm unsure if this has been a good change. (Yes, I read the whole comment)

Just because you have access to the text doesn't mean you're the intended audience.

Probably a good thing for us to all remember here on the interwebs where everything is accessible but written for no one
by bigyabai | 2025-09-23 00:59:25+00:00
Shareholders will always be happy... until their App Store monopoly is dismantled and iPhone hardware margins dissipate. At that point, Apple will once again be forced to compete au-naturale, and the shareholders will (rightfully) panic. Cook might be able to handle the supply chain, but he can't bring the Jobs-esque energy back to Apple.

The iPhone margin golden days are behind us now, and Mac/iPad market share isn't expanding that much. They canned the Apple Car, shipped an embarrassingly half-baked Vision Pro, and now are reprising the $1000 "recession indicator" smartphone meme. If they have something magical up their sleeves, they better announce it soon.
by Veserv | 2025-09-23 00:59:33+00:00
It is unclear if it can even read signs at all. FSD, not Autopilot, on the current version can not read “Do Not Enter” and “Road Closed” signs and will entirely ignore them. It would be reasonable to assume it can not read any signs at all. But it will be safer than a human driver in just negative 9 years.
by openclassaction | 2025-09-23 01:00:55+00:00
Facebook Settlement Payments Are Now Being Sent Claimants have begun receiving their payouts from the $725 million Facebook privacy settlement. Emails from the official Facebook user privacy class action settlement administrator are confirming payments sent through PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, direct deposit, prepaid card, and paper checks. The first wave of payments is already landing in user accounts, and distribution will continue in batches over the coming weeks.

Early reports show that most claimants are receiving around $30, while those with accounts active for the entire qualifying period of time to have a Facebook account (2007 - 2022) are seeing higher amounts of payments in their inboxes. Payments are being issued in the exact method each claimant selected when filing, with Venmo and PayPal transfers hitting first, followed by Zelle and direct deposit, and paper checks being mailed out shortly after.

Facebook Privacy Settlement Distribution Begins The long-awaited payments from the $725 million Facebook privacy settlement have officially begun rolling out in September 2025. U.S. Facebook users who filed valid claims by the August 25, 2023 deadline are starting to receive notifications from the official settlement administrator confirming that payments will be issued in the next 3 to 4 business days. Claimants are receiving emails from donotreply@facebookuserprivacysettlement.com with payment details and instructions.

Average payments are expected to be around $30, though the exact amount varies depending on how long a person had an active Facebook account between May 2007 and December 2022. Users who were active for the full period can expect higher payouts compared to those who had accounts for fewer months or years.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-23 01:01:04+00:00
So you’re saying when you run those jobs or the team you sell the job to have no one that’s ever built anything before to see plans and ask questions? So if I accept the premise that a single person designed a bridge that that’s all that would be done to ensure it meets the specifications? You’re saying that nobody would ever review the plans? Nobody would say the bolts being used are too small for purpose, or any number of things that could pop up? The concrete pads are insufficient? The steel I-beams are too thin? Someone would just take the plans exactly as listed, purchase the material as listed, and not one question ever would be raised? I would never trust a construction team that didn’t raise questions if not even to see if they themselves could skimp on material to pocket the difference.
by nyolfen | 2025-09-23 01:01:07+00:00
if somebody defects against society very seriously, damaging others, i have no problem with stripping them of legal rights. this is in fact exactly the principle underlying imprisonment. constitutional rights are granted by men, not god, in service of shared prosperity; democracy is good insofar as it produces good results, not because it is the intrinsic source of good. there is no higher construct to appeal to, like this platonic ideal of democracy you're gesturing at
by shirro | 2025-09-23 01:01:13+00:00
I don't remember having "range anxiety" under S3 suspend on my old intel laptops. It just worked and they woke up reasonably reliably and quickly under linux if you had a regular thin and light with integrated graphics. I had an Apple intel laptop that might have been marginally faster returning to life but it basically just worked on either.

The move to modern standby has been a mess. It seems to have improved a lot but my kid always shuts down his windows laptop before putting it in a bag because it seems to have become urban folklore that laptops turn on in bags, overheat and get damaged. That is new. I carried laptops in bags suspended for years and nobody thought that. It just worked.
by ggm | 2025-09-23 01:01:15+00:00
Given how much cryptocurrency is used to perform broad criminal acts (from tax evasion upwards) .. wouldn't anyone in posession of crypto illegally acquired be at high risk of being chased both sides? ie cops and robbers want their vig?

The "crypto queen" who rug-pulled and has $billions, nobody hears from: I find it more likely there's a simple reason why, and it isn't "she spent big to hide herself really, really well"
by oefrha | 2025-09-23 01:02:13+00:00
Go simply doesn't have discriminated unions, so a number of pattern can all be called "discriminated unions" in Go. I was simply emphasizing that sharing common fields between pure data structs with struct embedding (commonly seen in but not limited to discriminated unions) but now people are weirdly hung up on discriminated unions. I just showed a data model with a discriminator (.Type), there are a number of mechanisms to discriminate depending on your actual needs. You can make the types conform to an interface, pass an interface value around and cast to specific types. You can get a fat row with a bunch of left joins from your database then immediate create type-specific structs and call type-specific methods with them. You can get a discriminated union on the wire, unmarshal the type field first, then choose the type-specific struct to unmarshal to. Etc. These are largely irrelevant in a discussion about type embedding.
by mistercheph | 2025-09-23 01:02:25+00:00
Yeah, and my fisher price car is a lot easier for my 3 year old to drive than my car.

Sometimes powerful tools need sophisticated users that have time to invest in learning to use the tool. "Inferior" might depend on who is trying to accomplish what, but it's hard to argue that if you're trying to do or build the most sophisticated and cutting edge things that computers are capable of doing, you probably don't want to be using macOS or window.

That doesn't mean that it doesn't work marvelously when you have 0 time to invest in learning to use your computer, and all you want is to access web applications and manage a few files on a screen bigger than your smartphone and with a physical keyboard.
by dtkav | 2025-09-23 01:03:32+00:00
I'm building a file-over-app local-first app call Relay [0] (it makes Obsidian real-time collaborative) and I agree with you.

We have a business model that I think is kind of novel (I am biased) -- we split our service into a "global identity layer"/control plane and "Relay Servers" which are open source and self-hostable. Our Obsidian Plugin is also open source.

So while we have a SaaS, we encourage our users to self-host on private networks (eg. tailscale) so that we are totally unable to see their documents and attachments. We don't require any network connection between the Relay Server and our service.

Similar to tailscale, the global identity layer provides value because people want SSO and straightforward permissions management (which are a pain to self-host), but running the Relay Server is dead simple.

So far we are getting some traction with businesses who want a best-in-class writing experience (Obsidian), google-docs-like collaboration, but local-first. This is of particular interest to companies in AI or AI safety (let's not send our docs to our competitors...), or for compliance/security reasons.

[0] https://relay.md
by sgnelson | 2025-09-23 01:03:34+00:00
My thing is this: You don't have to read it. You don't have to read the article and you don't have to read the comments. HN is just about the simplest aggregator website there is. Simply scroll down two lines and you're onto the next story.

But instead of ignoring it, there is very much a contingent of people on this website that would rather that no one discuss these controversial topics. Because you don't simply want to ignore it, you want others from seeing it. As afterall, there is the hide command, which you could also use.

But I (and I believe others) think that these sorts of discussions are important, and people around here want to discuss them. Not all "political" stories are the same. This isn't "politics," where we're talking about taxes, or which minor laws are being passed, who's winning in what political race. This is about the future of American Democracy being gutted before our very eyes.

But it's okay, you just go ahead and keep your eyes closed. I'm sure it'll all just go away because you want to ignore it.
by throwacct | 2025-09-23 01:03:54+00:00
I'm independent, and the $2.7 billion (which is a crazy amount of money) was basically to pay to procecute +1000 rioters.

That is vastly different from burning cities, etc...

Now, I've seen what antifa militants do almost every time they protest, and to be honest, they should have been declared domestic terrorists sooner rather than later. You can protest without having to vandalize/burning buildings, etc.
by Archelaos | 2025-09-23 01:04:45+00:00
I can recommend organic maps: https://organicmaps.app

The quality of the maps depends on the region, though. But for me it is typically good enough. I not only like the local maps, but also that I can save waypoints locally. And I can contribute things like points of interest to Open Street Map directly via the app. In my opinion, the biggest disadvantage is that there is no traffic information.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 01:05:00+00:00
There was state run prison slavery before the institution of chattel slavery in North America, there was state slavery after it. Why wouldn't there be? The government always exempts itself from laws of that sort.

What was gross margin per average (because the cook picks no cotton) of your typical plantation?

I'd bet it's a whole lot less than the federal .gov's margin on someone in one of the 20+% brackets. State .govs are probably all over the place.

Hard to account for because the .gov "doesn't show a profit" in the same way that "we're totally a nonprofit <wink>" hospitals don't but should be a doable calculation.
by crote | 2025-09-23 01:05:21+00:00
I have mixed feelings about this. On paper you're of course right and a copyleft license would be better, but in practice I don't think it matters all that much for something as small as coreutils. It's just yet another implementation of a standardized interface, nobody is going to fork it and build a billion-dollar business around it. Any change or improvement is probably worth more when upstreamed than when kept in a proprietary fork, just because your maintenance burden is lessened.

Besides, we've evolved a bit since the 90s/00s: the main risk to software freedom is no longer binary blobs but cloud services - and the GPL doesn't save you there. And any license requiring disclosing your coreutils to anyone accessing your computer over the internet would be a massive dealbreaker to most people...