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by elktown | 2025-09-10 05:52:03+00:00
People should study charter schools here in Sweden where it’s common. It’s such a corrupt profit motivated segregation mess, it should be avoided at all costs. It’s taken a very well functioning public school system that had a high lowest standard across the board and segregated them by cherry picking cheap to maintain students.

Then we also have the pure frauds, no education to the students until the finally gets shut down 5-10 years later when all inspections are done. etc etc.

Why on earth willingly let in the profit motive into this? It was introduced right wingers in Sweden too ofc, boat loads of profit to their supporters.

Now it’s also very hard to get rid of when state capacity has been reduced over the years.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-10 05:52:04+00:00
Meanwhile Oracle has been doing it since 2015 with SPARC ADI on Solaris.

I do agree it is a pain not seeing this becoming widely adopted.

As for disabling JIT, it would have the same effect as early Androids, lagging behind Symbian devices, with applications that were wrappers around NDK code.
by TACD | 2025-09-10 05:52:48+00:00
My pet theory about why the Minis sold poorly is that the 12 Mini was released just a few months after the SE 2; I suspect a lot of the would-be Mini purchasers had just bought an SE 2 instead (not knowing the Mini was just around the corner), and are also not a demographic interested in upgrading their phone every year.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 05:52:51+00:00
> Like, I don't see how it's different than going to their website, copying their recommended command to install via a standard repo, then pasting that command into your shell.

Suppose the site got compromised. If you separately explicitly download the install script first, in principle you can review it before running it.

Same deal with installing Python source packages (sdists). Arbitrary code included in the package runs at installation time (with the legitimate purpose of orchestrating any needed build steps, especially for non-Python code, which could be arbitrarily complex). This is worse than importing the installed code and letting it run whatever top-level code, because the entire installation is normally automated and there's no point where you review the code before proceeding. We do generally accept this risk in the Python ecosystem, but demanding to install only from pre-built wheels is safer (it just isn't always possible).

(Pip has the problem that this still happens even if you use its "download" command — because it wants to verify that building the project would produce a package with a name and version that match what it says in the file name and/or other metadata, and because it wants to know what the dependencies are — and in the general case it's permitted to depend on the build process to tell you this, because the system for conditional-on-platform dependencies isn't powerful enough for everyone's use case. See also: https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/02/28/python-packaging-...)
by never_inline | 2025-09-10 05:53:59+00:00
I am the author of the posted flamebait. I agree.

I use IPython / JShell REPLs often when the code is not finished and I have to call a random function without entrypoint.

In fact its possible to jump to the graphical debugger from the Python REPL when running locally. PyCharm has this feature natively. In VSCode you can use a simple workaround like this: https://mahesh-hegde.github.io/posts/vscode-ipython-debuggin...
by asukachikaru | 2025-09-10 05:54:03+00:00
Never figured there was one for Lixil too, seemed quite nice. I recommend a similar one: Toto Museum[1], located at Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka. Been there a couple of times, although I don't recall there were activities such as workshops mentioned in the article, but a fun experience nonetheless for me.

[1]: https://jp.toto.com/en/knowledge/visit/museum/
by wtallis | 2025-09-10 05:54:13+00:00
From a compute perspective, GPUs are mostly about fast vector arithmetic, with which you can implement decently fast matrix multiplication. But starting with NVIDIA's Volta architecture at the end of 2017, GPUs have been gaining dedicated hardware units for matrix multiplication. The main purpose of augmenting GPU architectures with matrix multiplication hardware is for machine learning. They aren't directly useful for 3D graphics rendering, but their inclusion in consumer GPUs has been justified by adding ML-based post-processing and upscaling like NVIDIA's various iterations of DLSS.
by WA | 2025-09-10 05:55:11+00:00
I love YouTube, so many things to learn. But their recent push to just ignore people capable of speaking two or more languages with their auto-translated bullshit and no way to turn it off makes me use YouTube way less.

It’s a bummer that nobody there seems to realize this. They only see a very dumb metric. Probably something like "did this German dude watch at least one Spanish videos, because we auto-translate titles and voice". It feels disrespectful.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-09-10 05:55:19+00:00
Isn’t it obvious? Children of immigrants do way better. Children of Asian households do way better than other ethnicities, and children in impoverished areas do a lot worse.

All of this is cultural and anyone who thought I implied race — which looks like you did — is a moron and a racist.

IMHO this whole thing is environmental.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-10 05:55:54+00:00
Can absolutely vouch for the pain reduction aspect. It's not exactly a pointed anesthetic in the way some medications are, but alcohol certainly dulls a lot of aches and moderate pains of the body. Though I think this is also partly due to the distracting effect of relaxed and socializing while drunk. Love it either way, in moderation.

Also, i'm one of those people who rarely suffers anything resembling a hangover, even after those rare nights of heavier drinking, but then maybe drinking only hard spirits helps, because sugar-loaded alcoholic drinks like wine, beer and cocktails are famous for creating some of the most monstrous hangovers among those who get hangovers in general.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 05:56:16+00:00
> But never ever anyone was rooted because of malware that was snuck into an official .deb package.

Sure. The tradeoff is that when there's a zero-day, you have to wait for Debian to fix it, or to approve and integrate the dev's fix. Finding malware is one thing; finding unintentional vulns is another.
by m463 | 2025-09-10 05:57:39+00:00
debuggers are hard to use outside of userland.

For really hairy bugs in programs that can't be stopped (kernel/drivers/realtime, etc) logging works.

And when it doesn't, like when you can't do I/O or switching of any kind, log non-blocking to a buffer that is dumped elsewhere.

also, related. It is harder than it should be to debug the linux kernel. Just getting a symboled stack trace is ridiculously hard.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-10 05:57:56+00:00
I think there are a large number of competent but mostly checked-out engineers who will consistently work just enough to not get fired. If you want more productivity, you could raise the bar and fire a lot of people, but this also sucks and it creates a "hunger games" culture like at Amazon or Meta. I think a lot of those people actually will do more work if you make them sit in an office for 8 hours a day, since they have nothing better to do and there's immediate social pressure to work (unlike in their homes which presumably have many more pleasant activities available).

This isn't obvious to people who are highly disciplined and intrinsically motivated, since they actually get more done in the quiet environment of their home. But some people need the structure and social pressure of an office to get them to work. Your strategy could be "only hire highly disciplined and intrinsically motivated people", but you'll have to compete with everyone else for them, and they're expensive and less common than the other type. It's also hard to test for in an interview.

If you're really exceptional, they'll quietly let you WFH anyway.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-10 05:57:57+00:00
The unification, implemented in Unicode 1.1, is definitely a character count reduction mechanism. I'm very sure that if the decision to abandon 16-bit character set was done earlier then the unification wouldn't have happened.

And I'm saying this as a CJKV person and past gamedev: CJKV languages each require its own font no matter whether the Han unification is implemented or not. There are simply too many glyphs there; not just unified characters, but also common characters that are not considered unified are also often varying across countries. If you account for all those glyph variations in a single font, you just can't cope up because OpenType only supports at most 65,536 glyphs in a single typeface. In the alternative universe OpenType may have been extended to allow more glyphs in a single typeface, I don't know, but CJKV characters are simply complex enough to require multiple font files in general. Han unification is of less concern when you have too many glyphs.
by snerbles | 2025-09-10 05:58:05+00:00
Element X shines with large rooms - think joining rooms with 100+ active users and a lot of events to sync. Using multiple clients is not a problem either, I think I have at least 10 active sessions active with my current account. Element largely "just works" for my users with few grumbles, but that is definitely not the case for a lot of others here.

As for my stack, it hasn't changed much since this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34784816
by missedthecue | 2025-09-10 05:59:10+00:00
The incentives don't pencil out. They don't make an entire separate corporate structure and several extra layers of taxation result in more money for investors instead of just... giving it to investors.

Why the push for RTO? The most simple and boring answer. Most people work and especially learn from each other better in-person than over Zoom and Slack. Practically zero people will try to pretend that remote school was great for the average student during covid, even at the university level. But for some reason everything inverts when it comes to work. I get that there are superperformers that work better in a closed room with zero interruptions ever and require little collaboration to do their jobs, and some students were 3 grade levels ahead during covid. But in a company of 200,000 people you have more average people than lone wolf superperformers, and so going in person is better than 200,000 slack pfps. Simplest yet most hated answer.
by teekert | 2025-09-10 05:59:26+00:00
Well, it's put in a bit of a disrespectful tone, but I think you are right. Unrestricted access to a smartphone will lead to 6 hours + a day screen time. And it's all addictive junk. That can't be good.

One also sees the "educational" difference. Here a study was published concluding that poorer areas have twice the number of snackbars compared to areas with "higher educated" people. Bad food is also very cheap. It's also very easy to never read about the effects of screens on childeren and I see people with kids of ~1 sitting on the back of a bike with a smartphone blaring... Why not let the kid enjoy and learn from the surroundings? My kids loved riding a bike with me.
by curionymous | 2025-09-10 05:59:38+00:00
Seems more like you are against atheism and made up a scenario to fit your bias. State intelligence and surveillance? really? There were no phone service in the last trekking route, yaks and donkeys carried much of everything to remote places.

You also suspiciously don't mention India's bullying making life miserable to people in Nepal while pushing propaganda.

I've loved Nepal and its people ever since I visited in the 80s. People never actually consider their religion as something more than an evolving culture. It was there, but always in the background often mixing with eachother, unlike being very forced in India or against in China.

It's bullying from both its neighbors that brought upon the situation it is in. But, I hope there's a smooth transition.

I do very much recommend people to travel once all this boils over. The food is great too but less options once you leave the city.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-10 06:00:04+00:00
> What would have to change for you to consider it a country?

Almost as many things as what you'd have to change to consider the UN a country.

> It has a government

No it doesn't. The Commission isn't a government, it has no autonomy from the member states as it takes it's orientations directly from the European Council, which is the meeting of the heads of all member states.

> there has been talk of a European Army

There has been talk about fusion power for decades as well, we know it's not happening anytime soon (creating a European army would require all 27 member states to enact a new treaty replacing the current ones, this hasn't been done since they were 15 and the adoption of the previous one was very chaotic and left deep scares). Also, it's very unlikely to happen since there are too much diverging interests (the Baltic and former eastern states being too reliant on US security guarantees, France being too attached to its strategic independence and Hungary being straight up aligned on Moscow).

> It has a sovereign currency

No it doesn't… There is a common currency between some of the member states, but not all of them.

> If it is the squabbling between constituent states: hello from Canada!

Since you are from the other side of the Atlantic I don't blame you for not understanding this well (as I said, most European don't), but the EU really is as close to international organization like the UN as it is from Federal countries.

It has some federal components (like the fact that their is a legislative process to enact laws that are immediately applicable in member states without ratification) but it lacks a good part of it: no army as said above, but also no justice system, more importantly no autonomous budget (the budget is mostly decided by the European Council, the Parliament having pretty much no weight in the process) no ability to raise taxes (with the exception of tariffs, all of Europe's revenue is made of member states contributions, and even tariffs are raised by member states administration on behalf of the EU which doesn't have it's own capabilities). More strikingly it doesn't have a territory of its own: its territory is made of the territory of member states and they can unilaterally change it without the EU having a say on the matter. Two example:

- had Scotland gained its independence through referendum a decade ago, it would have automatically left the EU because it's not the territory or the people that belongs to the EU but the member states (Scotland could have re-joined later as a new member state, but there's no process for splitting a member state without one part leaving the EU, like the UN, see China).

- France has territories that aren't part of the EU, but it can unilaterally change their status to make them part of it (and did for Mayotte 15 years ago) or the other way around, and the EU has no say in the matter.

All that to say that EU isn't a country, it's a “unidentified political object” (this is a quote from former head of the European Commission Jacques Delors).
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-09-10 06:00:32+00:00
I don’t understand why this became about politics, but I will bite.

Republicans want to dismantle department of education, have cut funding for education, food stamps, free meals, etc. they are by definition against education for the outgroup and “the poors”. So I think that label is apt.

On the other hand, Dem leadership is quite racist and has a saviour complex. They identified the right issue — children from impoverished areas that don’t see a future for themselves through education are underperforming — but instead of treating the problem they push stuff like no child left behind. In their defence though, republicans simply don’t allow any legislation that would improve education to go forward, mainly because they benefit from it.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 06:00:52+00:00
The difference is that you can, quite successfully, keep "cheating" with an LLM while at a job. And people do, not just in lower-importance roles, but at law offices, etc.

I work in tech and I see this more and more every day. By "cheating", I mean deciding that you don't want to do the thinking or even spot-check the result; you just ask an LLM to vibe-write a design doc, send it out, and have others point out issues if they care.
by cyberax | 2025-09-10 06:01:36+00:00
There are _plenty_ of areas in physics where investment is paying off. Condensed matter physics, optics, material research and so on.

We mostly question the fundamental subatomic particle physics that is not producing any returns on the investment. E.g. the galvanic effect was discovered in 1780, and there were long-distance telegraph lines by 1845 - so 65 years.

The last major theoretical advance in particle physics was around 1965 (Higgs mechanism). That's already 60 years ago.
by Miraste | 2025-09-10 06:01:38+00:00
I don't think this is fair. Of the uses listed:

iPads are better for watching shows on a stationary bike, since they fit on the bike

iPads are better for reading manga, since you can hold them vertically

and iPads are clearly better for drawing--you can't draw on a laptop.

There are some hybrid laptops that do these things, but they're bad at them. Especially drawing, I've used enough HP convertibles with "stylus support" over the years to know that.
by visarga | 2025-09-10 06:02:24+00:00
> That’s the causal link.

But copyright was based on substantial similarity, not causal links. That is the subtle change. Copyright is expanding more and more.

In my view, unless there is substantially similarity to the infringed work, copyright should not be invoked.

Even the substantial similarity concept is already an expanded concept from original "protected expression".

It makes no sense to attack gen-AI for infringement, if we wanted the originals we would get the originals, you can copy anything you like on the web. Generating bootleg Harry Potter is slow, expensive and unfaithful to the original. We use gen-AI for creating things different from the training data.
by jabl | 2025-09-10 06:02:34+00:00
> Yes, and the bottoming steam turbine is 1/3 the size of a steam turbine rated for the full power output so… radical capital cost reduction.

It's a cost reduction, but likely not radical when talking about a nuclear power plant. For a cost breakdown of a nuclear plant see

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...

So the "conventional island", which would include the steam turbines, condensers, generators etc. is about 15% of the cost. Reduce that to a 1/3 the size, and cost drops to 5% of the total, a savings of 10%. Probably even not that much, since a steam turbine 1/3 the size probably costs more than 1/3 the cost of a "1/1" size turbine. And then the remaining 2/3 of the power output would have to be generated some other way, so would shift cost somewhere else. Of course, some part of the cost of the nuclear island can be attributed to steam production as well. In any case, all in all I don't see this as making or breaking the economics of a nuclear plant. The issues that cause nuclear plant costs to skyrocket lie elsewhere (and no, just blaming regulations is overly simplifying it as well, though a popular scapegoat).

(I'm not sure, but I suspect what's making coal non-competitive with gas isn't so much the steam turbines, but rather that there's more labor and machinery involved in burning coal than gas, from mining, transportation, pulverizers, and then all kinds of exhaust gas treatment used at least in the civilized world, ash handling etc.)

> It isn’t just the turbine but the heat exchangers, in a PWR the ‘steam generators’ are water-water heat exchangers that are usually larger in volume than the reactor vessel.

Yes, that's true. The BWRX300, which of the current crop of SMR's is probably the one with the most realistic prospects of actually being built somewhere, is a BWR, and the maker claims one reason for the supposedly good economics is that they have spent a lot of effort on minimizing construction cost and equipment needed. We'll see, I guess. I think historically the economics of BWR's vs PWR's is mostly a wash.

> Many LMFBRs had two stages of heat exchangers (sodium-sodium and sodium-water) even larger heat on the water though SuperPhenix has relatively affordable secondary heat exchangers and never had them catch on fire.

The follow-up ASTRID project, which never left the drawing board, used a sodium-air (or might have been nitrogen, to avoid issues with trace contaminants in air since it was all closed cycle anyway?) heat exchanger and Brayton cycle turbomachinery, to avoid any potential issues with sodium and water. I think it was supposed to have slightly lower thermal efficiency than an equivalent steam plant, but maybe somewhat lower capital cost.
by throejd84mrifmr | 2025-09-10 06:03:07+00:00
> And if they did, a team of neuroscientists from the local university was waiting to gently torture them.

> The researchers were on site to test how well alcohol can numb pain.

> “Ethically, we can’t ask people to drink alcohol to levels they do in their day-to-day lives,”

> the point beyond which they felt proper consent was hard to establish.

How is this study ethical? Researchers declared they do not need formal consent, because that would be too hard, and just went on, to torture impaired people!

Universities were going on and on, how drunk people can not consent, and even saying hi to someone in a bar is unethical! And now serious research institute pulls this stunt with torturing people without their consent!
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-10 06:03:46+00:00
>An immunotherapy treatment was discussed, and it could possibly have helped a lot, but it carried a somewhat high risk of causing a disastrous Crohn's flare

I'm really sorry to hear about it playing out that way man. What a horrible dilemma to have to be in. Also, want to ask because I have a few people close to me with Crohns: Obviously there's a lot of nuance and detail in this kind of combination of two illnesses and a specific, very complex medicine, but would you mind sharing a bit more detail of why the immunotherapy was so risky for such a deadly flare? I know immunotherapies are sometimes used to even treat autoimmune diseases, so I'm very curious for this reason too.
by squirrellous | 2025-09-10 06:03:52+00:00
Thinking back, the issue I had with multi-threaded code was two-fold:

- Things like "continue", "step" are no longer a faithful reproduction of what the program does in real time, so it's more difficult to understand the program's behavior. Some timing-related bugs simplify disappear under a debugger.

- There's usually some background thread that's logging things to console, which reduces to problem 2 in my comment.

I haven't used Go that much. I imagine since goroutines are such a cornerstone of the language, the go debugger must have some nifty features to support multi-(green)-threaded debugging?
by missedthecue | 2025-09-10 06:04:04+00:00
But still, lots of lenders go bust. Lots of loans end up non-performing. Interest isn't a free money loophole, it's profit in exchange for risk.

Presently, the safety of bank deposits are in most countries guaranteed by the government, but before this they weren't risk free either. That's why bank runs happened. People panicked to get their capital out before it was gone.
by creesch | 2025-09-10 06:04:04+00:00
To state the obvious, one ends with "help" on with "com". It effectively is phishing awareness 101 that domains need to match.

You still don't know then of course. When in doubt you shouldn't do the action that is asked through clicking on links in the mail. Instead go to the domain you know to be legit and execute the action there.

Having said all that, even the most aware people are only human. So it is always possible to overlook a detail like that.