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by watwut | 2025-09-21 19:41:18+00:00
German citizen and German nazi sympathizer are two different things. They are overlapping, obviously, but they are not nearly the same thing. As in, German citizens were not free nor felt free by 1938 - very dominant feeling was fear. Evans quotes a non Jew German who said that living inside Reich meant living in constant fear (of being denounced due to either saying something wrong or just simply because someone wants to harm you).

1.) Notably, German Jews were German citizens, fought in WWI and actually frequently patriots. Likewise their non Jew partners. But beyond that, German political opposition were not free nor felt free, but they definitely were German citizens too. It is present in their writings.

2.) As for Jews, we have literal diaries (most notably by the Victor Klemperer) show fear, disgust and hate toward former friends Germans that went Nazi. In statistics, we see Jews committing suicides in larger numbers and running away.

> Was there a reason you cited that particular quote..?

Because that annoyed me the most. It is very cherry picked example that creates completely wrong picture of what Jews were saying and writing at that time.

> only being Jewish because of birth into Its customs

Nazi defined Jewishness per blood, if you had one grand parent who was Jew, you was Jew. They did not used religious definition and they did not cared about lifestyle.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-21 19:41:24+00:00
The UK IIUC has a lot of offshore property they can put wind farms (I don't know what that does to traditional uses of the waters, such as fishing; I'm sure there's a row about it).

In contrast, they have no domestic uranium sources, right? And while an idea like "One or two nuclear plants could provide for 100% of demand" sounds good, that means there's two locations to target to bring the entire grid down, which has strategic consequences.

I'm pretty pro-nuclear and I concur that for the UK, I don't think the risk/reward chart actually pans out the way they want it to.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-21 19:42:18+00:00
To be clear, I also don’t think it really matters. :)

That said, my assumption is that most people want to charge overnight precisely because they do not want to have to remember to do a fast charge in the morning. Maybe that’s just me tho. Assuming you want to charge overnight, I totally agree that spending less time between 80% and 100% is good, and software that either prevents this or limits it is good. But whether you have such a device or not, for overnight charging a lower power charger seems prudent.
by lode | 2025-09-21 19:42:51+00:00
This has been national news in Belgium over the past few days.

It seems the company operating check-in services for many airports, Collins Aerospace (no news on their website so far - https://www.collinsaerospace.com/news?#newssearchresults_but...) was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday night, disrupting operations at Brussels Airport, London Heathrow, Berlin and Dublin airports.

Media are reporting that apparently Loki Locker ransomware was used. Check in desks are reverting to pen and paper, and many flights have been cancelled. More disruptions and cancellations are expected tomorrow (Monday September 22nd).
by jltsiren | 2025-09-21 19:44:14+00:00
I've seen several different takes on that. They vary on how they value the externalities, and which components of the transit infrastructure they consider subsidies. For example, you could consider all infrastructure subsidies, or you could claim that basic 1+1 lane roads are essential infrastructure, while everything beyond that is subsidized.

The conclusions vary, except that they generally agree that driving in dense urban areas is heavily subsidized. And if you accept the roads as essential infrastructure claim, driving in rural areas is too heavily taxed.
by hkt | 2025-09-21 19:44:40+00:00
> This >100% language is marketing for people who do not understand thermodynamics or who dont want to bother with specifics.

That is a little unfair: this is the language of economics rather than physics, so if you are paying for 100w and getting 300w, that is indeed over 100% efficient. SCOP is a more "correct" term but is less clear when communicating with the public and (IMO) is mostly for professionals or people with a technical understanding of heat pumps. Nobody thinks they defy the laws of physics though.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-21 19:46:49+00:00
And, if you're like me, you notice sometimes that you've been rediscovering the same interesting thought over and over again, and should really give it some structure and start building on it, rather than rewriting it again and and again, years apart. That's on the list of things I think that LLMs could help with.

Of course that's also an opportunity to combine the best of all of those iterations together, and still toss out a bunch of paper (or archive a bunch of bits.)
by rcxdude | 2025-09-21 19:47:10+00:00
It'll be ludicrously expensive to built, and then you'll also have a ridiculous amount of heat to get rid of. The main challenge will be keeping that from melting the ice again (this, in general, is the underlying issue with TECs: they don't have any means of stopping heat from flowing back through them, so it's a bit like trying to bail out a leaking boat, and it gets worse the larger the temperature difference you're trying to achieve. TECs max out their efficiency at a mediocre COP at very low temperature differences, in comparison to compressor based systems which can achieve better COP with more than 10x the temperature difference)
by growse | 2025-09-21 19:48:06+00:00
Interestingly, some colleges tacitly subdivide these groups further.

Christ's Cambridge famously used to hand out "2 E" offers to those in the first group who they know would put the effort in anyway, but "3/4 A" offers to those in the first group they thought might just coast with a 2E offer.

A "2E" offer was certainly a mark of prestige.

(You get your offer in around December time, but sit your A levels in the summer).
by pjmlp | 2025-09-21 19:48:27+00:00
Yes really, I gave you the examples from industry giants.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have no reason to drop Rust and replace ongoing efforts with Zig.

Nor Apple is going to drop Swift for Zig.

Vercel tooling is powered by Rust, as yet another example. Which is quite relevant given how many SaaS products only support Next.js on their SDKs.

Anyone using a recent Volvo car is also running Rust code on some canbus units, by the way.
by londons_explore | 2025-09-21 19:49:10+00:00
In the last 4 years china has really cracked down on dangerous products, so anything newly made will generally have at least the basics of protections. For example all products with batteries have over and under voltage protection with a dedicated chip rather than some microcontroller hopefully stopping the charge at the right time as used to be done in 2018 to save a few cents.
DietPi released a new version v9.17
by StephanStS | 2025-09-21 19:49:24+00:00
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the version DietPi v9.17 on September 20th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are: Dietpi-Backup: Faster and less disk space consuming backups HifiBerry: Support of newer hardware variants Roon Server: Early access toggle config option via dietpi.txt Rockchip SoCs (e.g. Orange Pi 5): SPI storage flashing issues solved Fixes for Navidrome, NZBGet, DietPi-Config, DietPi-Software, Portainer, HomeAssistant, Icecast/DarkIce The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_17/
by dang | 2025-09-21 19:50:30+00:00
Linking to past threads with comments (i.e. actual discussions) is a longstanding convention here. There's no implied criticism, as other users have already pointed out.

We do treat reposts as duplicates when a story has had significant attention in the last year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but that's a separate issue.
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 19:50:31+00:00
Well, isn't it because kids in independent school are in the school from 8am till 6pm, including Saturdays, since the age of 9, and by the age 11 they board, and all their lives revolve around learning?

In my sons' prep school, I have seen kids playing musical instruments so good, they could do concerts for a general public. I have seen boys taking GCSEs in Year 6.

And 100% of parents are university educated, often high achievers. Don't let me start speaking about Chinese, where kids come from school 6pm, and they often get two more lessons at home (Chinese + music instrument most often).

Parents in state schools don't put in even half of the effort on average.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-21 19:50:47+00:00
> Wasn’t there a study that said that using LLMs makes people feel more productive while they actually are not?

Curious about specifics of this study. Because in general, how one feels is critical to productivity. It's hard to become more productive when the work is less and less rewarding. The infamous "zone" / "flow state" involves, by its very definition, feeling of increasing productivity being continuously reinforced on a minutes-by-minutes level. Etc.
by danlitt | 2025-09-21 19:51:06+00:00
The mean talent at Oxbridge and at the Ivy League is pretty similar. The talent level of Ivy League scholarship holders is significantly higher than either. Obtaining a scholarship is a significant hurdle that not all applicants clear - so it is very naive to act as if any Oxbridge candidate could just walk into a scholarship. And if you agree that they couldn't walk into it, then it obviously is a hurdle, contrary to your comment.

> Debase the currency, surprised when it has less value?

This bizarre comment is not related to the issue at all.
by casenmgreen | 2025-09-21 19:51:53+00:00
No - I've said nothing about how this idea of a basic rule should be done; so I've made no observations about regulations.

What I would observe regarding regulations is that there must be an entity with the power to enforce regulations, which is to say, to coerce or deceive.

If we imagine such an entity, and we imagine it acts only in defence of itself or others, then we could it seems to me be comfortable.

If we imagine such an entity, and we imagine it acts for reasons other than defence of itself or others, then it seems to me we run into problems when Governments go bad, as with the current Trump administration.
by dazc | 2025-09-21 19:52:15+00:00
Renewables in the UK are intermittent, all at once at not at all. We also have a crazy scenario where we have so much wind power at times that it has to be turned off because the grid can't handle the load and battery storage is scarce - we then compensate the owners of the turbines for the income they lose as a consequence.

Gas is very expensive here, we don't buy any from Putin, we import it from the US where it is liquefied, shipped thousands of miles and then un-liquefied for end use.

Our businesses are dying trying to compete with countries that pay multiples less for energy than we do.

More nuclear would give us long-term, uninterrupted supply - especially since small modular reactors can be located where the power is needed without needing the national infrastructure to be upgraded.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-21 19:53:40+00:00
I’m managing hundreds of terabytes on (Open)ZFS in 2025. It’s as promising and capable as ever.

It doesn’t really have a stable and battle tested competitor in the FOSS arena considering its feature set.

(Of course there are things like Lustre and Glustre, but these are orthogonal solutions for different use cases.)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-21 19:53:41+00:00
> Yet in conclusion, this self-reported figure is stated as an independently observed fact. When people without ADHD take stimulants they also self-report increased productivity, higher accuracy, and faster task completion but all objective measurements are negatively affected.

Interesting analogy, because all those studies with objective measurements are defied by US students year by year, come finals seasons.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-09-21 19:54:09+00:00
Airplane stick is actually consistent but in a different way. The stick always rotates the plane around it's center in the direction the stick is moved.

It's an example of "move the object" instead of "move the observer", in that the goal is to control a vehicle not to control the view in the windshield. And the "object" you're "grabbing" is only rotating the vehicle around it's center, not panning around a flat surface.
by weaksauce | 2025-09-21 19:54:23+00:00
I am by no means an expert at sharpening knives but I can get my knives to razor sharp edges on a 20 dollar whetstone and an old pair of jeans glued onto a piece of plywood with some polishing compound on it as a strop. really isn't rocket science to do it right and it would take decades of daily sharpening(no one does this outside of chefs maybe) to make any kind of noticeable dent in the metal. if you can push it through paper(not just slice it) it's more than sharp enough and even a slicing cut on paper is fine.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-21 19:54:43+00:00
Even if using a framework like RN, solo devs would be putting themselves in a precarious position if they don't understand the underlying systems and frameworks. Without that knowledge they won't be able to effectively debug and figure out if issues are stemming from the cross-platform framework or the native platform/framework and subsequently will be entirely dependent on outside parties for fixes.

So if they're learning the native frameworks anyway, they may as well use them. These days with Swift and Kotlin most logic code transfers pretty cleanly and most apps can be LEGO'd together from UIKit/SwiftUI/Compose components, so the workload isn't as high as one might expect.

Aside from that, early on it's usually better to start with one platform, nail the UI and interaction, and then once the app is proven worry about the other platform.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-21 19:55:06+00:00
The best way I’ve come to describe LLMs is as an ambitious, occasionally bewilderingly stupid but always incredibly hard working junior employee.

You have to watch what it’s doing. And you can’t let it take out into territory you don’t understand, because it will fuck up off leash. But it will thanklessly iterate revision after revision in the way one would ordinarily do with a team, but now don’t need to for tasks that would bore them.
by gruez | 2025-09-21 19:55:09+00:00
>I'm guessing that colluding with China to break international human rights laws is not protected by a contract as it's illegal in the USA and likely illegal in the UK

The wikipedia article says facebook tried to appease chinese censors. That's bad, but so far as I can tell, isn't illegal under US or UK law. Microsoft complies with chinese censor demands for bing and they seem to be doing fine, for instance. The only plausible case for "they're breaking laws" is them breaking the UDHR, but that's an unenforceable document that's not worth the paper it's printed on.
by mft_ | 2025-09-21 19:55:19+00:00
As much as I’d love to agree with you, Cook’s job isn’t to grow a spine and be a moral leader; it’s to do whatever is best for Apple’s shareholders.

You can bet that they’ve got experts advising on this and have probably war-gamed different scenarios. Given how hugely exposed Apple is to the geopolitics that Trump cares about, and as Trump could cost them huge amounts on a whim, he’s probably right to be inoffensive and obsequious.
by fainpul | 2025-09-21 19:55:36+00:00
You go into work and discover that a coworker isn't happy with some code you wrote because they don't like it. They go to your manager and tell them that you're being a problem by writing code they don't like. Your manager, being very skilled in conflict resolution, makes a technical decision to avoid whatever tool you used which caused the problem. In your case it was OOP.

That's it. You've been told. No more OOP.

The manager has figured out what's good for the business and you figure that listening is what's good for your job.
by rwyinuse | 2025-09-21 19:55:40+00:00
Whether having a car is necessary or not depends on where you live. Here in Northern Europe we literally can't reach my or my partner's parents with public transport, because they happen to live in the countryside. For us having a car is not a luxury, it's a necessity if our kids ever want to see their grandparents.

So yeah, making car ownership generally expensive is a bad idea, and would only make Europe's already expensive housing market worse. There are more fair and effective ways to make city centres car-free, and suburb-dwellers to pay their fair share for infrastructure.
by jgraham | 2025-09-21 19:56:27+00:00
In addition, the colleges have a lot of data about the people they interview and how well they do during the degree programme.

My understanding (based on a discussion with one Natural Sciences admissions tutor at one Cambridge college nearly 20 years ago, so strictly speaking this may not be true in general, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't common) is that during the admissions process, including interviews, applicants are scored so they can be stack-ranked, and the top N given offers. Then, for the students that are accepted, and get the required exam results, the college also records their marks at each stage of their degree. To verify the admissions process is fair, these marks are compared with the original interview ranking, expecting that interview performance is (on average) correlated with later degree performance.

I don't know if they go further and build models to suggest the correct offer to give different students based on interview performance, educational background, and other factors, but it seems at least plausible that one could try that kind of thing, and have the data to prove that it was working.

Anyway my guess is that of the population of people who would do well if they got in, but don't, the majority are those whose background makes them believe it's "not for the likes of me", and so never apply, rather than people who went to private schools, applied, and didn't get a place.

(also a Cambridge alumni from a state school, FWIW),
by ieuanking | 2025-09-21 19:56:44+00:00
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by pseudalopex | 2025-09-21 19:57:01+00:00
> Right, but if the book hasn't been written congress can still subpoena her to get her testimony and that wouldn't break the NDA.

Congress could have sought her testimony before the book and legal battle became news. They did not.

> I agree having it in book form is more convenient, but it's not like if Zuckerberg burned down an orphanage and he got the only witness to sign a NDA he would get away with it.

Pretending to agree with a weak claim I didn't make is a sign of bad faith. And do you believe public interest is limited to atrocities?
by randomname93857 | 2025-09-21 19:57:29+00:00
>> Imagine how many companies would not take off because there’s no one to implement the founder’s idea... Why should we do imaginary stats with narrated conditions? America striven on startups well before H1B became expanded so much it's barely doesn't include janitor positions... with smaller H1B pool, startups may need pay more. But also more compensation and demand in IT in US would make more people go to IT - smth-smth middle class, not poor class. BTW, what's the stats on how many doctors and lawyers come to US on H1B?
by username332211 | 2025-09-21 19:57:32+00:00
Perhaps very many. Perhaps few. Perhaps none.

I'd like to sidestep the question, and ask, is lethal violence justified as a retaliation? But I'd like to ask that as an ethical, not as a strategic question.

Suppose the starts align and the omens are good. Imagine the assassination of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would be highly beneficial to all your pet political issues. Would killing them be a good thing?
by dang | 2025-09-21 19:57:45+00:00
> Your rhetoric sounds fascist.

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell like this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Your comment would be (mostly) fine without that bit.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: we've had to ask you this several times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403432 (June 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830571 (Oct 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41710557 (Oct 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852424 (July 2024)
by gazpachotron | 2025-09-21 19:57:51+00:00
Offering a contrasting opinion: I enjoyed the book, and I don't think the author comes off as "sour grapes" at all. Instead, she joined Facebook out of an unwarranted and frankly silly idealism that FB could be a transformational force for good in the world. Even she admits this in the book. However, Meta execs came off far worse in this book than they already seemed, and that's saying a lot. Mark's indifference to Meta's impact on elections was horrifying to read about. And the chapter "Lean In and Lie Back" put a deeply disturbing bow on all the awfulness about Sheryl Sandberg.
by leptons | 2025-09-21 19:57:54+00:00
JSON does not necessarily come from untrusted sources if you control the entire system. Not everything needs to be absolutely 100% secure so long as you control the system. If you are opening the system to the public, then sure, you should strive for security, but that isn't always necessary in projects that are not processing public input.

Here's an example - I once coded a limited JSON parser in assembly language. I did not attempt to make it secure in any way. The purpose was to parse control messages sent over a serial port connection to an embedded CPU that controlled a small motor to rotate a camera and snap a photo. There was simply no way for any "untrusted" JSON to enter the system. It worked perfectly and nothing could ever be compromised by having a very simple JSON parser in the embedded device controlling the motor.
by p_ing | 2025-09-21 19:58:05+00:00
> Purportedly codenamed "NT OS/2" during development

Not purportedly, absolutely was. It's in the design docs.

> many people have mistakenly thought "NT" stood for "Network Technology."

Never heard that one. It's always been "New Technology" (which is what it does stand for) or "NTen" after the Intel N10 it was going to ship on.

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Anyways, not much to say about the article. It's short and not very deep.