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by gjm11 | 2025-09-25 21:14:37+00:00
Huh, interesting. For what it's worth[1], here's how I see the same matters:

[1] Which may not be much; I will in no way be offended if you don't care.

I didn't miss that the person I was replying to said that "used to" is odd and confusing. I wasn't arguing that "used to" isn't odd (still less that it isn't confusing for novice English-speakers -- it certainly is).

I was arguing that it's a different kind of odd from e.g. "at trække vejret" in Danish, and (to me, but evidently not to you!) I think it's an interestingly different kind of odd, which is why I thought it was worth pointing out.

I wasn't attempting to "explain what it means", which obviously the person I was replying to already knows. I was attempting to explain why it means what it does.

(In particular, it isn't true that "used to" has no inherent meaning[2]. It really is a past tense of "use", and while the specific meaning it's a past tense of is largely dead you can still, if you squint at it, see how it's of a piece with the other meanings of "use".)

[2] Except in so far as no word has inherent meaning.

Evidently, none of that came across the way I intended (or, perhaps, it came across fine but I misjudged how interested anyone else might be in the history): I should probably either have been more explicit or not bothered at all :-).
by vbezhenar | 2025-09-25 21:14:50+00:00
In the past, rich people had horses, while ordinary people walked. Today many ordinary people can afford a car. Can afford a tasty food every day. Can afford a sizeable living place. Can afford to wash two times a day with hot water. That's incredible life by medieval standards. Even kings didn't have everything we take for granted now.

However some things are not available to us.

One of those things is personal assistant. Today, rich people can offload their daily burdens to the personal assistants. That's a luxury service. I think, AI will bring us a future, where everyone will have access to the personal assistant, significantly reducing time spent on trivial not fun tasks. I think, this is great and I'm eager to live in that future. The direction of ChatGPT Pulse looks like that.

Another things we don't have cheap access to are human servants. Obviously it'll not happen in the observable future, but humanoid robots might prove even better replacements.
by newpavlov | 2025-09-25 21:14:55+00:00
I still disagree with their decision to make libc THE system interface. I understand why it's important to provide a compatibility layer, bit, ideally, I would like to see a Linux-like (potentially semver-versioned) stable sycall API, or at the very least something like libsystem, i.e. a thin wrapper around technically unstable syscalls API.
by mystraline | 2025-09-25 21:15:30+00:00
Bingo.

Today its the pedophiles and 15-17-philes (those are this fake group adolescent, which are also tried as adults when convenient).

Tomorrow, its the adult sex workers.

Then its the fringe group's topics that is on the outs with the majority.

Then they come for you, and nobody is able to speak up because they banned protests.

... To paraphrase Martin Niemoller.
by Matticus_Rex | 2025-09-25 21:15:46+00:00
Huh?

I think it's hard to make a case that the left is meaningfully more violent, even weighing in stuff like riots/arson/looting (and it's not actually fair to pin all that on the left, when we know so much is opportunistic and only loosely ideology-driven).

But you can't name an act of violence committed by someone on the left recently? Not one?
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-25 21:16:02+00:00
This post just feels like an unhinged rant against people the author politically disagrees with. It’s also emblematic of a trend that has existed for a long time, which is that the word “fascist” has no meaning. It’s just a label used to attack others without any substance.

But ultimately the post boils down to this: the projects he’s attacking are not inherently political, and in fact they seem more politically neutral than many other projects including many prominent open source ones (whose increasing ideological creep is heavily documented). If you’re threatened by political neutrality or choice or free speech, it may be time to reconsider who the fascist is. The irony isn’t lost when this blog has an antifa flag plastered on it either.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-25 21:16:22+00:00
The description makes me think it might be a Horseshoe Orbit [0], where something spends time in about the same circular orbit, but slowly bounces back and forth through the unoccupied portion.

Looking up 2025 PN7 [1], it says:

> Over time, it may transition between quasi-satellite and horseshoe orbits due to gravitational perturbations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_orbit

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_PN7
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-25 21:16:29+00:00
They are:

Much like phone-a-friend, when the Waymo vehicle encounters a particular situation on the road, the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to contextualize its environment. The Waymo Driver does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times. As the Waymo Driver waits for input from fleet response, and even after receiving it, the Waymo Driver continues using available information to inform its decisions. This is important because, given the dynamic conditions on the road, the environment around the car can change, which either remedies the situation or influences how the Waymo Driver should proceed. In fact, the vast majority of such situations are resolved, without assistance, by the Waymo Driver.

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

Although I think they overstate the extent to which the Waymo Driver is capable of independent decisions. So, honest, ish, I guess.
by Animats | 2025-09-25 21:17:08+00:00
Back in that era I went to an EE380 talk at Stanford where the people from HP trying to do a compiler for Itanium spoke. It the project wasn't going well at all. Itanium is an explicit-parallelism superscalar machine. The compiler has to figure out what operations to do in parallel. Most superscalar machines do that during execution. Instruction ordering and packing turned out to be a hard numerical optimization problem. The compiler developers sounded very discouraged.

It's amazing that retirement units, the part of a superscalar CPU that puts everything back together as the parallel operations finish, not only work but don't slow things down. The Pentium Pro head designer had about 3,000 engineers working at peak, which indicates how hard this is. But it all worked, and that became the architecture of the future.

This was around the time that RISC was a big thing. Simplify the CPU, let the compiler do the heavy lifting, have lots of registers, make all instructions the same size, and do one instruction per clock. That's pure RISC. Sun's SPARC is an expression of that approach. (So is a CRAY-1, which is a large but simple supercomputer with 64 of everything.) RISC, or something like it, seemed the way to go faster. Hence Itanium. Plus, it had lots of new patented technology, so Intel could finally avoid being cloned.

Superscalars can get more than one instruction per clock, at the cost of insane CPU complexity. Superscalar RISC machines are possible, but they lose the simplicity of RISC. Making all instructions the same size increases the memory bandwidth the CPU needs. That's where RISC lost out over x86 extensions. x86 is a terse notation.

So we ended up with most of the world still running on an instruction set based on the one Harry Pyle designed when he was an undergrad at Case in 1969.
by schiffern | 2025-09-25 21:17:26+00:00
"Floating around" isn't accurate. "Screaming around at 8 kilometers per second" is more accurate.

The fact that debris objects swee through an enormous volume of space per year (and are up there for years to centuries) makes it much worse.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbital_Debris_Lifet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ3Lr-Tj6A
by inkysigma | 2025-09-25 21:17:55+00:00
I think you're selling this too far with "one of the more ethical tech companies around" and "a force for good". You'll have to clarify what exactly that comparison is based on.

I'm not a total fan of Apple here but it's weird to contrast them with Apple in this case when they don't enable a genocide (having a closed ecosystem is a UX decision compared to genocide). You mention that Microsoft is now "pro-Linux", but if that's your measure, many other tech companies contribute significantly more to the Linux kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/1031161/

With respect to anti-trust, some of their bundling decisions absolutely deserve to be scrutinized (e.g. Teams).

Furthermore, Microsoft is still doing business with the IDF. If your bar is "enabling a genocide" (presumably by being in contract with the IDF), I don't think that's changed too much, just the most egregious example of cloud services in service of that are being challenged (Unit 8200 stuff). It looks like that work is now moving the AWS though.
by randycupertino | 2025-09-25 21:18:01+00:00
> Backing the decision, Walliser said: “There is a dip in demand for luxury electric vehicles, and customer demand is not yet strong enough to support an all-electric strategy. The luxury market is a lot different today than when we announced Beyond100.

> "Electrification is still our goal, but we need to take our customers with us.”
by kayodelycaon | 2025-09-25 21:18:20+00:00
It's possible that the majority of people are fine with it. I thought it would hate it but I love iOS 26. It adds much needed depth and allowed me to turn off accessibility options.

- Button Shapes: Buttons actually look like buttons.

- Reduce Motion: Animations are a lot more fluid and the parallax effects are more subtle. They don't trigger motion sickness like the previous ones did.

- Larger Text: The worst areas of the UI have better contrast.

- Reduce Transparency: While there's more transparency effects, they're a lot better.

- Increase Contrast: If I do need to turn this back on it is a much better integrated effect than previous version.

The changes in macOS 26 are half-finished. Anything with raised glass looks like plateaus in the middle of a flat desert. Only half the apps have the new rounded corners on window and they do not match the rounded corners in the rest of the interface. They even cut off parts of the interface like the bottom of every scrollbar.

It's disappointing. I loved Windows 7's aero theme.
by kiitos | 2025-09-25 21:18:22+00:00
> The argument here is that the reason CORBA failed is because it lacked the language-level concepts to make it work well, in particular strong asynchronous programming primitives and promise pipelining.

i'm honestly not sure how to respond to this

CORBA failed because it didn't understand or accommodate the fundamental constraints of distributed computation. specifically the idea that you could define a useful abstraction of an object that worked the same way whether the implementation was local or remote. this is a protocol/design level error, nothing to do with any language-level concept, like async primitives or promise pipelining or whatever. i'm not sure how those things even entered the discussion? and i'm not trying to be glib, i'm really just re-iterating basic "lessons from CORBA 101" type stuff, which I've understood as common knowledge since the mid 90's...
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-25 21:18:35+00:00
Yes, but this is not across a trust boundary. Since these are in the same process/program. Rust "only" applies checks at compile time, it doesn't enforce security.

Not sure, if I'm clear. Rust is like cooperative multitasking, nice but not guaranteed. My claim here is, that we actually want preemptive multitasking.
by kingnothing | 2025-09-25 21:18:36+00:00
Amazon's 2024 net income (profit) was $59B on $638B revenue.

The median US household income is $80k and has a savings rate (profit) of 3.6%, or $2880.

This $2.5B fine is equivalent to the average US household being fined $115 or, basically, a traffic ticket.
by taf2 | 2025-09-25 21:18:38+00:00
This has been surprisingly helpful for me. I've been using this for a little while and enjoyed the morning updates. It has actually for many days for me been a better hacker news, in that I was able to get insights into technical topics i've been focused on ranging from salesforce, npm, elasticsearch and ruby... it's even helped me remember to fix a few bugs.
by troupo | 2025-09-25 21:18:58+00:00
Simple things are simple everywhere.

And then suddenly you need to be aware of the quirks: https://htmx.org/quirks/

And then you need your backend to handle all the weird new headers: https://htmx.org/reference/#request_headers

And then you need to learn completely non-HTML things like "attribute inheritance" https://htmx.org/docs/#inheritance

And then you need to learn a whole new DSL https://htmx.org/docs/#trigger-modifiers

HTMX probably has more concepts than react at this point in time.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-25 21:19:08+00:00
The Medicare budget is approximately $1400/month for each person over 65. A completely plausible means testing approach isn't "if you have a million dollars you have to go pay a billion dollars for healthcare" but rather that if you have that much money you have to pay the $1400 to get Medicare. Someone with $600,000 and earning 5% APY would be getting more than that in interest, not including appreciation or imputed rent on the $400,000 house, and would stop having to pay the full rate if their net worth fell below the threshold anyway.
by srkdaniel | 2025-09-25 21:19:19+00:00
I’ve been working on an AI tool called Brandiseer, and just shipped a feature I’m calling Vibe-Designing.

The idea: instead of one-off AI images or generic templates, it keeps a persistent memory of your brand (logo, colors, typography, style) and then generates any asset you need — social posts, pitch decks, mockups — all consistent with your brand’s visual DNA.

Why I built it: as a founder running my family business, I struggled with inconsistent branding (different logos/fonts/colors everywhere). Agencies were expensive, AI tools were random, Canva felt too template-y. I wanted something that makes sure every visual is always on-brand, instantly.

Right now it works like this:

Upload or create your brand once (logo, colors, fonts)

Select your brand in the app

Generate visuals in seconds — all styled to match your brand

I’d love feedback from this community:

Does this solve a real problem for early-stage teams and indie hackers?

What’s missing or broken in the idea of “Vibe-Designing”?
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-25 21:19:28+00:00
Refusing to distinguish between random Palestinians and Hamas members is literally the entire problem

I have ZERO issue with the IDF killing Hamas. That's what you do in a war. But we have ample evidence that Israel and the IDF is not making any effort to not kill random Palestinians.

They made some stupid AI algorithm to feed data into in order to generate target lists. They accepted something like 10:1 "innocent palestinian":"literal terrorist" ratios. They have no qualms about killing a 10 innocent Palestinians to kill a single Hamas terrorist

This is unacceptable.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-25 21:19:33+00:00
I am a long time skeptic of self-driving cars. However, Waymo has changed that for me.

I spend a lot of time as a pedestrian in Austin, and they are far safer than your usual Austin driver, and they also follow the law more often.

I always accept them when I call an Uber as well, and it's been a similar experience as a passenger.

I kinda hate what the Tesla stuff has done, because it makes it easier to dismiss those who are moving more slowly and focusing on safety and trust.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-25 21:19:34+00:00
Don't worry; HN makes such statements all the time, you can't accuse me of not grasping the format. On that note, not once did I use the words "complete failure" or "all people" despite your quotation in this thread, so please don't argue dishonestly yourself.

I cited a reality: We went from SOPA/PIPA over copyright, to no question about age verification on morality grounds. It shows a trend towards zero interest in free and open internet activism. Such a trend indicates something is severely wrong, and the idea of an open internet has become disconnected from popular belief, internationally, as something to strive for. Prove me wrong.
by kiitos | 2025-09-25 21:20:05+00:00
> trying to make network calls look like local calls hides important details which distributed applications must handle, like latency and network instability.

among many other concerns, yes

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

> My argument is that asynchronous programming, promise pipelining, and exceptions largely solve these issues just fine, and practical experience backs this up.

you can't solve fundamental distsys problems at the language level (lasp &c. notwithstanding)

hopefully not controversial
by deaddodo | 2025-09-25 21:20:43+00:00
Executing 16-bit code in Compatibility Mode (not Long Mode) is possible, that's not the problem. The problem is lack of V86 allowing legacy code to run. So Real Mode code is out wholesale (a sizable chunk of legacy software) and segmented memory is out in Protected Mode (nearly the totality of remaining 16-bit code).

So yes, you can write/run 16-bit code in 64-bit Compatibility Mode. You can't execute existing 16-bit software in 64-bit Compatibility Mode. The former is a neat trick, the latter is what people actually expect "16-bit compatibility" to mean.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-25 21:20:48+00:00
> Which of course never happened, as each member country retains full sovereignty in every possible way you can think of, which is actually fully enshrined in the way EU works.

Which of course is false.

> The principle was derived from an interpretation of the European Court of Justice, which ruled that European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law
by vanderZwan | 2025-09-25 21:21:01+00:00
At least Norbauer immediately states that it's "probably the world's most insanely irrationally hyperengineered keyboard" and later on continues that "nobody needs a 3000 dollar keyboard."

It's clear from that it's a sincere hyper-obsession, shared by others within a small community. I can respect that more than just making something expensive for the sake of appealing to ultra-rich who wish to flaunt their wealth.
by captainkrtek | 2025-09-25 21:21:03+00:00
Society accepts that humans make mistakes and considers it unavoidable, but there exists a much higher bar expected of computers/automation/etc. even if a waymo is objectively safer in terms of incidents per miles driven, one fatality makes headlines and adds scrutiny about “was it avoidable?”, whereas humans we just shrug.

I think the theme of this extends to all areas where we are placing technology to make decisions, but also where no human is accountable for the decision.
by graeme | 2025-09-25 21:21:16+00:00
Thank you! I can see that now. Checked, I have recordings. The SQLite seems to have very little data, despite recordings being present, and no cards show up in app. Possibly an LM Studio issue. I'll fiddle around with it and send an email if I can't get it working. Will test with Ollama in case there's some LMStudio error the API tester isn't catching.

This is the error I got: reason: No valid observations generated from frame fallback
by panick21_ | 2025-09-25 21:21:27+00:00
Nonsense, deregulation happen in Europe as well with many of the same effects.

And in both the US and in Europe airlines are 'heavily' regulated. That's a meaningless distinction.

Ironically, South West was the most successful budget airline in the US, and it was way better then Raynair the most successful budget airline in Europe.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-09-25 21:21:31+00:00
Both apple and android are teeing their infra up to support deleting apps they don’t like. Windows is moving towards e2e attestation, and Mac is basically already there. Once that’s all done, you just need to enforce hardware manufacturers boot only into ‘trusted’ operating systems. No more Linux. No more unsigned execution. No more encryption.
by openasocket | 2025-09-25 21:21:39+00:00
The AN-TPY/2 radar only sees in a 90 degree arc. Given the primary threat in terms of ballistic missiles is from Iran and maybe Yemen (do the Houthis have ballistic missiles that can range Qatar?) they probably weren’t facing in that direction. I’m not sure how SBIR sensors are managed, but I’m assuming Space Force, and I don’t think there is standard automated data sharing of those findings to THAAD or Patriot batteries in the field. So you would probably be looking at someone in Space Force noticing this and sending some sort of priority alert to everyone in the area. Then the battery crews see the alert and turn their radars around, which takes a second. And then you have to think about launch angles for the missiles. If the battery was stationed a couple kilometers from the intended target, fine. But I’m willing to bet they were probably deployed further away, maybe much further away. I believe they are mostly there to protect the US base there. Quick googling estimate indicates maybe 50km, which is closer than I thought but still not close. All of this also assumes that the missile batteries were fully deployed and on ready alert too, which may not have been true.

I should clarify that it is ENTIRELY possible that you are correct. It is entirely possible the US made a choice to not intercept here. My point is that it is also entirely possible that the US didn’t make a choice. I just don’t see enough clear data to tell. I also think that, even if it was a choice, it was probably more of a split-second decision made by lower-level officers on the ground as it happened, rather than a carefully-considered decision made by national security leadership.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-25 21:21:42+00:00
So, despite all the testimonials and video evidence to the contrary, the findings of the world's leading association of genocide scholars, despite Jewish holocaust experts, despite my own conversations with doctors on the ground ... you seek to label accusations of genocide as "beyond ridiculous" from one sentence in a UN report?

Not just dishonest. But sickening, frankly.
by gambiting | 2025-09-25 21:22:07+00:00
Honest question - are you trying to downplay the absolute horror of our technofeudalistic society, where nurses(!!!) are paid in a gig economy betting on their hours, where (if you read the report) the hospitals are free to cancel their shifts with no or little penalty even during the shift, while nurses are heavily penalized on every side, and things like having a lot of debt means you will be offered less money for your shifts because the app determines you are desperate?

Yes sure, technically that's no different than Uber hiking up your price at 3am because really, what other choices do you have.

But I do hope you spend a minute to wonder what is it doing to our society as a whole, and how the relentless pursuit of profit means we treat people whose job is literally to look after others like disposable trash that can be priced the same way a taxi ride is.

Sure, it's "just a scary way to describe it" - and I hope it's really scary.
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-09-25 21:22:09+00:00
> I imagine they'd be able to figure out some form of Chat Control that passed legal muster. Perhaps a reduced version of Chat Control, say, demanding secret key escrow, but only demanding data access/scans of those suspected of a crime rather than everyone.

Isn't that pretty much excatly how it is done in Russia, which was ruled by ECHR to be illegal[0]?

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-230854%...