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by db48x | 2025-09-24 04:16:45+00:00
Except that a lot of what was banned were _not_ conspiracy theories. The truth is that the NIH _did_ fund gain of function research and that research _was_ conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those are the facts that the government worked so hard to suppress our knowledge of. And they were able to use Google’s policies of suppressing “misinformation” to do it for several years.
by nradov | 2025-09-24 04:16:59+00:00
I have seen the US recently. I'm not going to attempt to defend the President but regardless of whether he is right or wrong about autism this is hardly an existential threat to the Republic. Presidents have been wrong about many things before and that is not a valid justification for censorship. In a few years we'll have another president and he or she will be wrong about a whole different set of issues.
by toast0 | 2025-09-24 04:17:28+00:00
You can't get a new eSim without working network and working carrier provisioning. I recently observed a friend try to get a new eSim for a new phone... no wifi, so he hotspotted from the old phone... carrier kicked the old phone before the new sim was downloaded, so he was stuck until he got somewhere with wifi he could use. Physical sim would have been easy peasy.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-24 04:19:50+00:00
I'm not sure the article really backs up the point that the difference here was markets. As it says, the problem with the initial system was that it "operated in ignorance of what food banks needed". It looks down its nose at this "centralized system", but the new system was also centralized. As far as I can see, the main difference between the old and new systems is that the old system did not provide a way for individual food banks to indicate what goods they needed.

That's not to say that the market system they devised is a bad idea. But it seems a bit disingenuous to trumpet that markets were the panacea when there was a lack of information flow that could have been alleviated in other ways.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:20:32+00:00
The West should have put boots on the ground in Ukraine before Russia invaded. That was the one thing that would have prevented the war. Hell, they should have had EU peacekeepers along the line of contact back in 2015.

The kind of sanctions that we've seen since then seem to be mostly about appearances, with EU trying to pretend that it "really cares" despite this epic failure of foreign policy.
by saghm | 2025-09-24 04:21:36+00:00
I think they meant it was "flawless" in terms of not being a degraded experience compared to Windows. Bugs will obviously still happen, but I'd also argue that the sheer breadth of the bugs they continue to squash over two years after the full game came out without having charged a cent for any new content that got released after the fact very well might be unparalleled by any other popular mainstream game. Over the summer, they released a set of fixes that included bugs like "one specific set of gloves were rendered poorly when worn by one specific race in combination with one specific set of armor[1]. When plenty of live-service games have much worse bugs than that they don't even get acknowledged for months at a time, it just doesn't seem useful to criticize a relatively small studio that's clearly going above and beyond to continue supporting a game with the only benefit for them being continued goodwill.

[1]: https://baldursgate3.game/news/room-temperature-fix-33-now-l...
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-24 04:21:37+00:00
I’m talking about space stations and mining Psyche 16. My head is way, way above the clouds, friend.

The Earth would be far better off if we moved all heavy industrial manufacturing to space and left the Earth to flourish as the only garden we have.

Yeah, it’s a pipe dream. Thats the point. We could do it - we don’t, because we’d rather argue about whose opinion is better, at mass scale.
by NoPicklez | 2025-09-24 04:21:54+00:00
Yes, but my response to you was in relation to your comment. That I don't think it would be unreasonable for someone to spend a lot of money on a good monitor and still use glasses at night that might alter the color of said monitor if they thought it benefited their health. Afterall, there has been enormous evidence saying they did benefit you, it's only now its coming to light it might have been poor science.

Furthermore, yes monitor companies do develop monitors with blue light in mind, for example Asus has a low blue light filter certification on some of its monitors which is independently certified by TUV, of which TUV claims can help reduce sleep disruptions due to blue light. Based on this doco, that claim is also debunked.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-09-24 04:22:35+00:00
Because it isn't that simple.

If we could just educate people and make sure they don't fall for scams, we'd do it. Same for disinformation.

But you just can't give that sort of broad education. If you aren't educated in medicine and can't personally verify qualifications of someone, you are going to be at a disadvantage when you are trying to tell if that health information is sound. And if you are a doctor, it doesn't mean you know about infrastructure or have contacts to know what is actually happening in the next state or country over.

It's the same with products, actually. I can't tell if an extension cord is up to code. The best that I can realistically do is hope the one I buy isn't a fake and meets all of the necessary safety requirements. A lot of things are like this.

Education isn't enough. You can't escape misinformation and none of us have the mental energy to always know these things. We really do have to work the other way as well.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-24 04:22:58+00:00
Systems tend to not have particularly strong guardrails against pathological access patterns which aren't trying to use 100% but a large multiple of that or are abusing some subsystem or another. The application is almost always also unresponsive.

Putting up those guardrails temporarily hides big problems more often than it avoids needing to have them solved.
by protocolture | 2025-09-24 04:23:26+00:00
Facebook does its utmost to subject me to Tartarian, Flat Earth and Creationist content.

Yes I block it routinely. No the algo doesnt let up.

I dont need "faith" when I can see that a decent chunk of people disbelieve modern history, and aggressively disbelieve science.

More data doesnt help.
by CJefferson | 2025-09-24 04:23:30+00:00
I hope I’m wrong, but I think America is fundamentally done, because it turns out the whole “checks and balances” system turned out to be trivial to steamroll as president, and future presidents will know that now.

By done I don’t mean it won’t continue to be the worlds biggest and most important country, but I don’t expect any other country to trust America more than they have to for a 100 years or so.
by mbStavola | 2025-09-24 04:23:31+00:00
I had tried to run BG3 on my Steam Deck a couple months back. It ran... okay. Lot's of hitches and I had to tune things way way way down, but somewhat playable.

I'm very grateful that they took the time to build a native Steam Deck release for the game, not really something I had ever expected. Hopefully with this I can actually jump in and enjoy the game!
by _giorgio_ | 2025-09-24 04:24:14+00:00
This kind of professor must disappear.

They always want to teach the more elegant and divine method that, in reality, nobody uses.

I studied Pascal and Fortran when they could have taught me more widely used languages. Shame on them.

If Fortran is so useful and clear, just offer some lessons on it. Surely students will be enlightened and captivated by it.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:24:50+00:00
I have friends and relatives living in various regions in central and south Russia, and most of them don't feel like their quality of life took a big hit. The main frustrations that I hear are from drone attacks and associated inconveniences, not so much anything economic.

Anecdotally I have also heard that many factory towns are booming because the factories are re-opened or expanded to fulfill all those military orders.
by hansvm | 2025-09-24 04:25:00+00:00
Yeah, it's fairly new. Maybe 0.14.1?

Those cases are definitely supported. Here's a reasonably faithful re-interpretation of Duff's device which generates the right assembly. If you'll take my word for it, code and assembly equivalent to goto in the middle of a loop body isn't an issue either. The only thing you're losing is the unreadable syntactic interleaving you can do in C.

pub fn copy(T: type, noalias dst: []T, noalias src: []const T, unroll: comptime_int) void { if (unroll < 2) @compileError("No-op unrolls not supported"); std.debug.assert(dst.len == src.len); std.debug.assert(dst.len > 0); var n: usize = (src.len + unroll - 1) / unroll; var i: usize = 0; duff: switch (src.len % unroll) { inline 0,2...unroll => |x| { dst[i] = src[i]; i += 1; continue :duff (unroll + x - 1) % unroll; }, inline 1 => { dst[i] = src[i]; i += 1; n -= 1; if (n == 0) break :duff; continue :duff 0; }, else => unreachable, } }
by CJefferson | 2025-09-24 04:26:58+00:00
I have two metrics:

1) languages I know and like.

2) what are other things in the same area written in? This doesn’t mean those languages and libraries are best, but it does mean they will be well supported. Someone will update stuff to iOS 16, or when chrome changes how cookies work, or care when one of your users has 4 monitors all at different resolutions. If you pick something obscure enough, you are fixing all those things yourself.
by Arnavion | 2025-09-24 04:27:32+00:00
>Hold on. This wasn't a wrapper around a loop pattern - this was a first-class atomic operation, sitting right there next to fetch_add and fetch_or. Java doesn't have this. C++ doesn't have this. How could Rust just... have this?

C++26 (work-in-progress) does have std::atomic<T>::fetch_max . Not implemented in any toolchains yet, though.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic/fetch_max

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p04...
by mdani | 2025-09-24 04:27:40+00:00
The MVNOs such as MobileX mentioned above do not have their own towers or the cellular backbone i.e. the core network. They'll merely use the MNO such as Verizon or T-Mobile and have a commercial arrangement in which MVNO just handles the marketing and the customer support. So the MVNOs may not have the right tools or data or incentives to catch these sim farms.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-24 04:27:42+00:00
I was banned because I was simply in a covid sub debating with the covid-deniers. The "powers-that-be" mods literally banned anyone on that particular sub from popular subs, some of which I hadn't even been in, ever. There was (is?) a cabal of mods on there that run the most popular subs like pics/memes/etc that definitely are power hungry basement dwellers that must not have a life.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-24 04:28:33+00:00
Huh. If you hate AI as you sorely do, you will find any excuse to be dismissive.

Besides AI development, Python is used heavily in data processing and data science, also in writing bots of any kind, and as a glue language to do numerous tasks. It is true that it is being replaced by Go in web backends, but it still sees heavy use in that too. Moreover, Python is the only language that many AIs can interactively use in their chat sessions.
by tbrownaw | 2025-09-24 04:28:38+00:00
> There isn't anything to learn about the event, other than humans gonna human.

US money wasn't supposed to be used to fund that kind of research. So people violated policy and evaded detection until the leak happened. How? Who? Would different audit controls have helped?

The was a cover-up after the fact. Again, how did it work and who was involved? What could have made it less effective?

The lab accident itself is the least interesting part, it's all the bureaucratic stuff that really matters. For boring generic bureaucratic-effectiveness reasons, not any "someone tried to do a bioweapon" silliness.
by Waraqa | 2025-09-24 04:29:15+00:00
[The following is an AI generated description]

The book is a theoretical and practical guide to understanding the principles of programming languages. Unlike books that teach a single language for application development, this one focuses on the semantics, syntax, and core concepts that are common across languages. It uses Scala as the main teaching language to build interpreters and type checkers, but its goal is not to teach Scala itself; rather, Scala is a tool to explore universal programming language principles.

The book covers key programming language features such as immutability, functions, pattern matching, recursion, mutation, garbage collection, lazy evaluation, continuations, type systems, algebraic data types, and polymorphism. It introduces these by first presenting them in simplified “toy” languages and then showing how to implement interpreters and type checkers for them. This approach ensures readers understand not just how to use language features, but why they work and what rules govern them across programming languages.

Its importance compared to other programming books lies in its generalization. Most beginner programming books teach one specific language (e.g., Python, Java, C++) and focus on syntax and usage. This book instead equips readers with the foundational concepts of programming languages so that they can more easily learn any new language in the future. By separating syntax (surface-level appearance) from semantics (underlying meaning), it teaches readers to recognize the deep commonalities among languages, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, and advanced programmers aiming to go beyond coding into programming language theory and design.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-24 04:31:16+00:00
The 1st amendment doesn't prevent the government from making suggestions to private companies. They aren't allowed to coerce them into censoring things. So it still isn't a crime.

What the Biden admin did was not acceptable, and even at the time I got plenty of heat from HN for thinking that it was a sketchy loophole for the government to use, that it was against the spirit of the law.

I'm trying to emphasize the distinction because the companys' self-serving language is going to be abused to claim that the current admin - that has just threatened to sue a TV channel for bringing back a show they tried to threaten the channel into getting rid of - is actually a defender of free speech.
by whycome | 2025-09-24 04:31:56+00:00
I wish mlb would bring all the cricket tech. The audio meter thing is wiiiiild. (Where they use high precision microphones to determine if the ball made contact with the bat).

Also there’s no excuse for not having full 360 3D representative video for each base. Having some sort of pressure sensor would be useful too.

Better safety features would be useful (like better face protection like the cricket steel grill).

And just more damn cameras for all the edges (like home run or foul lines).
by groby_b | 2025-09-24 04:31:59+00:00
Simple fact: AI is extremely powerful, in the hands of experts who invested time in deeply understanding it, and in understanding how to actually use it well. Who are then willing to commit more time to build an actually sustainable solution.

Alas, many members of the C suite do not exactly fit that description. They just have typed in a prompt or three, marveled that a computer can reply, and fantasize that it's basically a human replacement.

There are going to be a lot of (figurative, incorporated) dead bodies on the floor. But there will also be a few winners who actually understood what they were doing, and the wins will be massive. Same as it was post dot-com.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-24 04:32:12+00:00
It is not as cut and dry as you think. Also it is rather hard to get any evidence when you aren't allow to visit the "scene of the crime" so to speak and all data is being withheld.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid...

Even Dr Fauci said in 2021 he was "not convinced" the virus originated naturally. That was a shift from a year earlier, when he thought it most likely Covid had spread from animals to humans.

https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2021/5/24/22451233/coron...

(..February 2023..) The Department of Energy, which oversees a network of 17 U.S. laboratories, concluded with “low confidence” that SARS-CoV-2 most likely arose from a laboratory incident. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it favored the laboratory theory with “moderate” confidence. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from natural zoonotic spillover, while two remain undecided.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2305081

WHO says that "While most available and accessible published scientific evidence supports hypothesis #1, zoonotic transmission from animals, possibly from bats or an intermediate host to humans, SAGO is not currently able to conclude exactly when, where and how SARS-CoV-2 first entered the human population."

However "Without information to fully assess the nature of the work on coronaviruses in Wuhan laboratories, nor information about the conditions under which this work was done, it is not possible for SAGO to assess whether the first human infection(s) may have resulted due to a research related event or breach in laboratory biosafety."

https://www.who.int/news/item/27-06-2025-who-scientific-advi...

WHO paraphrased: We have no data at all about the Wuhan Laboratory so we can not make a conclusion on that hypothesis. Since we have data relating to natural transmission from animals we can say that situation was possible.
by dillydogg | 2025-09-24 04:32:32+00:00
I personally don't care for the challenge system because if the ABS is the ground truth, why aren't we using that for every single pitch? Why put the burden on the batter to say "tell me the correct call" when you could just have the correct call be radioed into the umpire's earpiece? It just means that the rules of the game aren't being applied every pitch, just when the batter asks. I do not find this to be a strategically interesting role for the batter to play. I want them to bat well, and hit the ball. Not have to sit there and have a call we know for certain is incorrect go through because their team happened to challenge the wrong calls earlier in the game. I just cannot imagine a situation where I think it is better for a call that we know is incorrect to stand. I know this is an ice cold take, but if the tech is there, just use it.
by timschmidt | 2025-09-24 04:33:43+00:00
> While it's easy to start believing this is the only motive

No one said that. Files leaked by Snowden describe NSA's activities as durable, even against legal attack, thanks to layers upon layers of digital, procedural, legal, and other forms of defense in depth. Among them, plausible deniability and dual use technologies. You have pointed toward both. So their tactics worked on you.

> But yes, there is no doubt that what you mention is a major motivator for at least some of the people pushing for it.

Don't forget that ubiquitous surveillance is exactly the tool most useful for blackmailing or discrediting opponents as well.
by rapsey | 2025-09-24 04:34:12+00:00
> I believe that their stock price is highly overflated and past performances aren't indicative of future performances

You are confusing a popular, cover my ass legal statement with market truth. Past performances absolutely are indicative of future performance the vast majority of the time. They are of course not a guarantee. Inflated price is also not a particularly good indicator of future performance. A stock generally has a high valuation for a reason.

> What do you mean to think that AI would deliver to its prices as it seems to be either only hyper applicable in tech and all other AI tech is seemingly run at a loss and I can see no way how they might force normal users when there is so much foss ai to actually pay for ai...

Google, Microsoft and others run real world AI and I doubt it is at a loss. They make a ton on money on infrastructure. OpenAI operates at a loss, but it is a private company.

> I feel like that things might fall down quicker than we think as AI is kinda scrambling through, A lot of people felt disappointed in gpt-5. Reality is settling in, but is reality settling in those magnificient 7 stocks?

You consider yourself to be an average investor, yet you disagree with the market, thus you think you are smarter than the market. This is cognitive dissonance. The market is a public consensus of the future. Stocks that are more valued have a higher price, because people are willing to bet money they will do better in the future.

This is not toolip mania, or even the dotcom bubble. Bull markets are always caused by investment cycles. Before AI it was mobile and cloud. Those were not bubbles. Neither is AI, because the real world usage is undeniable. The user growth trajectory of ChatGPT was unprecedented. Google deepmind founders got a nobel prize for their work, for something that happened just a few year prior, but was so groundbreaking it deserved it.

Also I am not some investing guru, I just listen to some great investment podcasts. The Real Eisman Playbook (Steve Eisman is the person portrayed by Steve Carell in The Big Short) and Compound and friends.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:35:02+00:00
I'm a Russian citizen. I'm not okay with what my government is going. What do you suggest I do about it?

As it is, I can't even get rid of my Russian citizenship. The only option to renounce it requires doing so in person, and it can't be in a consulate - I'd have to travel to Russia for that to submit the request in person. But I doubt I'd get a chance to do so if I ever set foot there again - they arrested Ksenia Karelina in the airport and imprisoned her for 12 years for the crime of giving $50 to some generic Ukrainian charity; I give hundreds of dollars every month specifically to crowdfund drones and thermals for Ukrainian units.
by void-star | 2025-09-24 04:35:11+00:00
Just want to say: Thanks! I was waiting for this article.

Thanks to Ernie Smith, to tedium.co, to HN, to community.

This is the kind of curious and intelligent response to FUD that I want to find whenever major news outlets start an insane new spin-cycle (as increasingly is the way of things in the world).

I’ll let the HN comment thread spin out (as it must), but amidst that, I just want to say that this right here is the reason I still keep coming back to this place and read all of it. So, thanks!

Great post/read!
by saghm | 2025-09-24 04:35:24+00:00
That's a pretty uncharitable take, given that they already had it working via Proton for years. Sure, there's always more a company could do short of literally providing unlimited support and open sourcing everything, but they could have very easily stopped without taking the time to make a Linux native build at all. Most game developers don't even put in this amount of effort, and they did it over two years after the game originally came out without making any additional money beyond the initial purchase from DLC or subscriptions. Linux ecosystems aren't the only place where treating everything as a binary is problematic.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-24 04:35:34+00:00
To me this is sort of like saying why do we need seat belts when we could just have people go to the gym so they're strong off to push back an oncoming car. Well, you can't get that strong, and also you can't really educate people well enough to reliably deal with the full force of the information firehose. Even people who are good at doing it do so largely by relying on sources they've identified as trustworthy and thus offloading some of the work to those. I don't think there's anyone alive who could actually distinguish fact from fiction if they had to, say, view every Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/everything post separately in isolation (i.e., without relying on pre-screening of some sort).

And once you know you need pre-screening, the question becomes why not just provide it instead of making people hunt it down?