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by panick21_ | 2025-09-11 08:35:12+00:00
I was just in Oslo and public transport was fantastic and the city was fantastic.

> Also,

Those sound like a bunch of far-right wing talking points. Do you have statistics to back any of this up?

And they don't match my own experience even a little bit. Because in most countries cars tend to cost more overall and are generally less safe.

> A city that was altered greatly to accommodate pedestrians has become a city that does not accommodate anyone.

t was an absolutely delight walking around the city, being able to walk on the roads or crossing roads because traffic has been reduced so much. That a fantastic policy that made the city more attractive.

The city was extremely welcoming and navigating on food or by bus or train was fantastic. There were tons of people around and lots of people in all the restaurants and museums. Plenty of people hanging out at the beautiful water-front.

The claim that it 'doesn't work' is just pure nonsense. It only doesn't work if you want to drive in from the subburbs on a daily basis.

> governments always fail eventually

So we should have cities without governments? If you want to privatize the operations of some public transit, that is potentially reasonable. But 'governemnt=bad does not mean therefore we need cars everywhere'.

> once it becomes impractical to use cars the country's economy will suffer greatly as a result

This has been stupid quite a bit, there is literally a field of urban studies, and it universally find the exact opposite.

> , because there will come a time when the government just decides they don't care about public transport anymore and it can be as horrible as possible because nobody has any choices anymore

Ah here it is. That's the '15 min city is a globalist conspiracy to make us prisoners in our own city' nonsense. You have dipped deep into it haven't you?

Please anybody that reads this, go to Oslo and enjoy the beautiful, vibrant, save city it actually is.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-11 08:35:57+00:00
I worked with a guy who railed against the conservatism of our company's releases. He said "new software has more bug fixes." Then again, he was maybe a kind of hardcore software quality guy -- not the sort to add "features" to a piece of infrastructure that had demonstrated its worth.

The only issue I have with software conservatism, like Debian, is that some new thing requires something newer. If you live in a world where you can do without the new thing, then it's really quite nice. Security patches are another matter, but are usually dealt with.

I like to be on the bleeding edge, but Debian was created for a reason. Only time can determine which configurations don't suck.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-11 08:36:16+00:00
More or less there was a shift in how Youtube allocated ad revenue, where instead of paying per view on any video over 10 minutes, they pay based on watch time alone (which makes sense with how they added mid-roll ads instead of just pre-roll ads). This incentivized longer videos, or at least didn't penalize them, but then more recently there was another shift in their recommendation algorithm to push these videos harder (I suspect because they found it increased watch time and thus ad impressions overall), and that really pushed the long-form videos into the mainstream.
by ranguna | 2025-09-11 08:36:16+00:00
Indeed there was some malice in my comment, because I was micro triggered by yours. I did my best to minimise it tho. In this case, it didn't feel wrong to include it, but I'll try to control myself better next time. As for what caused my micro trigger: it was not because I thought you intentionally omitted answering to the OP's question, but because I actually though you jumped into giving you own opinion after unconsciously not reading the whole question. This leads to very poor discussions sometimes, even if not intentional.

As for what you missed was a nuance (a subtle distinction or variation) or whether it was the main point of the OP's question, I'll leave that up for debate. Imo it was not a nuance at all.

And FYI, this can probably also be interpreted as having malice, which is not the case.
by ValentinPearce | 2025-09-11 08:37:09+00:00
I quite like the idea of a physical keyboard on the device but I agree it's not really the best for extended typing.

It does cover the use cases I wan't from a linux hand held up to a point. If I could dock it to have a real monitor when I'm not on the go it would be perfect. Maybe through a usb-c output ? Just so I don't have to fiddle with multiple usb/hdmi cables when I want to set up
by tomhow | 2025-09-11 08:37:15+00:00
Dang hadn't even begun working on HN in 2011, even as pg's co-moderator (that only happened the following year). HN, and the world, were vastly different places then. Dang has now been doing the job in some form for over a decade, and I've been around for plenty of those years too. We've learned much about what is needed to keep discussions as healthy as possible (relatively speaking). These days it's not unusual for us to post a sticky comment at the top of a thread for a major controversial topic, to remind the community of the guidelines and the expected standard of discourse. In today's world, we would post that kind of top comment for any death of a major public figure that were likely to stir up strong reactions in the comments.
by SideQuark | 2025-09-11 08:38:04+00:00
100%. The US took all that capability and could not win in 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan against such a force. Same in Vietnam.

The US populace is vastly larger and better armed and capable than Afghanistan.

The US military requires a massive economy to function. If it tries to attack itself, those little armed people could stop it, the economy would crash, and the US military would crumble without needed support and supplies.

A final issue is the US troops would lose a lot of soldiers if they were told to go attack fellow citizens. The soldiers would quit, would hesitate, would not want to kill people they view as their own people.

So armed citizenry absolutely have major power against the govt.

Finally, if you were in a country where the govt set out to kill its citizens, would you rather have arms or be completely unarmed?
by vkou | 2025-09-11 08:38:07+00:00
And they liked it so much that 1918 nearly resulted in revolution.

Anyone picking up the paper could tell that the war wasn't going to be won by them in 1944. It was two years after Stalingrad, a year after Kursk and Italy's surrender, France was being liberated, Finland was collapsing, and Germany was fighting a three-front war.

Compared to all that, 1918 at the time of the armistice looked down-right optimistic.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-11 08:41:32+00:00
This isn't really true. Lots of investment in public transit in the Nordic countries. Austria is doing quite well. Switzerland of course to. Italy is doing better then many would have expected 20 years ago. In Paris they are building some of the most massive expansion in a long time, and even many smaller cities are building tram lines, and the TGV is putting up record numbers.

In the Baltic a massive rail expansion is happening. Former eastern countries like Czechia still have a good rail system and starting to upgrade it. Poland is upgrading in many places as well.

Spain has globally the best construction cost for new infrastructure and they are expanding things like Madrid metro.

The UK is doing badly as usual as of recently but despite the price rises, their network is incredibly full and well used.

But I wouldn't take the UK as typical.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-11 08:41:33+00:00
I would not expect the effects to be in the same ballpark. Bleaching is very harsh, to the point where I wouldn't want to put my hand in a jug of bleach. I could imagine holding my hand up to a strong light. Sure, it might get too hot or too uncomfortable eventually, but at least in my mind, I would expect it to be lesser (so long as we don't talk about a literal deathray lamp).
by qcnguy | 2025-09-11 08:42:35+00:00
It's not a strawman argument because he's arguing with people who cite "wealth inequality" on its own as a justification for riots. There isn't any limit or objective quantity attached to the argument - it's phrased in such a way that it can only be interpreted to mean absolute equality. Otherwise it'd be expressed differently, something like "if the gini coefficient is >X then rioting is OK, if it's <=X then violence is not the answer".

Obviously, people don't make that argument, and the implication is that they don't really want to be tied down to any actual existing real world situation. By extension there's no level of wealth inequality they would accept. Then one must wonder why not? Perhaps they just enjoy watching the left riot. Alternative explanations welcome.
by jen729w | 2025-09-11 08:43:33+00:00
Well, if it helps anyone, I just don't think it's possible to set up a new Facebook account then use it to start a business page. My partner just tried it - her real email, nothing weird - and after 4 hours of configuring settings, blocked. Did the video thing on the iPhone, appeal rejected.

I guess you have to have actual history of being logged in to and using Facebook so, lol, no thanks.
by shahar2k | 2025-09-11 08:44:41+00:00
honestly humans are nowhere near as lossless as you think, look up any study on eye-witness acounts of crimes and you will see how fallible to hallucination the human mind is as well .... at least when it comes to one-shot learning.

I feel from my own experience teaching, that it's repetition and pruning of information that really makes human memory and learning much more effective and not the act of storing the information the first time.
by nis0s | 2025-09-11 08:44:50+00:00
Civil wars have often occurred with war crimes (like killing non-combatants) with the purpose of performing ideology annihilation. At least one example is here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre%C3%B3n_massacre

Creating distinct categories (ethnic cleansing or genocide etc.) of terrible things is an important exercise, but it can also dilute our overall understanding of human behaviors. The categories are useful for geological or historical analysis, but not for understanding baseline human behaviors.
by imtringued | 2025-09-11 08:45:16+00:00
Here is the solution:

https://www.dieter-suhr.info/files/luxe/Downloads/Suhr_Struc...

https://www.dieter-suhr.info/files/luxe/Downloads/Suhr-Godsc...

The transaction cost approach means that the profit motive isn't a barrier either. If anything, you can make money off of solving the problem. That in itself is probably the ultimate proof that communism is wrong, because it turns communism into a self-hating ideology. Imagine being a communist controlling 1/3 of the world and deciding that you would rather see your "empire" crumble rather than convert the last 2/3 through irresistible persuasion/temptation. Not just that, but you literally start a campaign against the idea of doing so. You'd rather doom yourself than admit being a little bit wrong for even more power.
by Jataman606 | 2025-09-11 08:45:19+00:00
>I’ve read about genocides, the millions of people dead in China, Russia, Germany, Poland, Africa and Gaza too, I’ve also seen rioting and violence firsthand in Los Angeles and Portland and I wonder how I can ensure that my girlfriend and I will be safe now and into the future. I have no solution except for responsible gun ownership.

No gun will save you during genocide if you are a target. Best case scenario you kill few attackers and die anyway.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-11 08:45:22+00:00
When the context is auto-generated and may include irrelevant data.

This is a common AI benchmark and has been for years before GPT-2 even existed. LLMs need to not get distracted by irrelevant facts and there are tests that measure this. It's the motivation for attention mechanisms, which are the breakthrough that enabled LLMs to scale up.
by juliangmp | 2025-09-11 08:45:27+00:00
I deploy my dotfiles somewhat regularly. At my day job I almost exclusively work on virtual machines, with sometimes different distros. Being able to install my usual setup (fish for the shell, helix as the editor, and a bunch of tools like eza and bat) in a few commands just saves me time.

Now to be fair, since I use rotz for this, I also install extra packages with it. So its not purely dotfiles.
by SideQuark | 2025-09-11 08:45:34+00:00
The bill of rights are about personal freedoms, as is made clear during the discussion leading up to them. All states copied these in some form into their own constitutions, and if you go look at those, most are quite explicit this is a personal right. The claim otherwise is a very recent claim.

Congress around 1982 had the Library of Congress issue a study about this in great depth, with millions of citations to historical documents, which give ample evidence and quotes. You may have to dig to find it, but it's a good read to gain more understanding.

Also the second militia act of 1792 actually required all able bodied men to own guns, and this was the law for well over the following century.

The founders had no qualms about everyone having arms.
by abcd_f | 2025-09-11 08:45:41+00:00
I would never go with my kids on a bike on any road that's shared with cars. The risk, as small as it is, is still unacceptable to me.

Don't know about Germany, but in Netherlands it's solved with having proper cycling infrastructure. It's the right approach, but it is still more of an exception. Where I am at they just painted cycle paths on existing roads and then tried to make it safer by cutting speed limit in half and eliminating lots of street parking. And now it's a mess that doesn't work well for anyone. Next elections are in a year, will be interesting to see how that will go.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-09-11 08:46:05+00:00
Because Chrome OS is offered on low-cost laptops that are unsuitable for office work.

What's more, it's Google, so we're not safe from a ‘Lol, we're discontinuing support for Chrome OS. Good luck, Byeeee.’.

Some offices still have bad memories of Google Cloud Print, for example. I'm not saying that being an early adopter of a distribution that's less than a year old is a good solution. Just that Google's business products don't have a very good reputation.
by 0xEF | 2025-09-11 08:46:35+00:00
When the punishment for the crime is a fine, it's just a subscription service that allows the wealthy to break rules, trust and expectations.

But, let's push that fine up to $40 billion US (with a b) and see what happens. If we need to go harder, let's add some enforceability, too. Maybe they have 1 year to pay it or lose the right to do business in the US (or whatever country) for 12 months? Get creative with the pain, but cause it none the less.

Walk softly, but carry a big stick.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-11 08:47:14+00:00
> The blue light reduced the yellow stain substantially more than hydrogen peroxide or UV exposure. In fact, UV exposure generated some new yellow-colored compounds.

Here's the key piece of information for me, it's not just light doing this or higher energy blue being close enough to UV to get things done, the blue light tested outperforms UV at destroying some of these yellowing compounds.

It would be nice in followup research to see Figure S8 [1] with an additional dimension for irradiation with various frequencies, not just 445 nm.

It looks like Amazon has some "therapy bulbs"[2] close to the correct frequency for $30, now I wish I hadn't thrown away some of those old yellowed pillows so I could do some science.

1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c03907

2. https://www.amazon.com/Aumtrly-Light-Therapy-Irradiance-Cove...
by internet_points | 2025-09-11 08:47:20+00:00
Yeah, there was a recording published quite soon after the incident, of the conversation between the seemingly older and experienced tanker captain (speaking in a typical western coastal dialect as if he was born on a boat), and the seemingly quite young naval officer (who sounds like he's from the middle of Oslo), which I'm sure shaped opinion quite strongly:

https://youtu.be/NYqGxbKF0AI?feature=shared&t=110
by palata | 2025-09-11 08:48:04+00:00
I have seen multiple posts about this "remembering EVERYTHING", and I think they miss the point. Also they don't quote the context:

> So, coming back to the initial starting point that “you don’t have to remember anything”. The opposite is true. You have to remember EVERYTHING.

I see it like this: it is absolutely wrong to think that you don't have to remember anything. In fact, ideally you would remember everything. The more you remember, the better you can think. Now in practice, it's impossible to remember absolutely everything, so we should strive to remember as much as we can. And of course we need to be clever in how we select what we remember (but that seems obvious).

The point is really that it is common to say "it's useless to remember it because you can ask your calculator or an LLM", and the article strongly disagrees with that.
by rollcat | 2025-09-11 08:51:31+00:00
> What appeals to me about linux is the hackability and configurability.

Innovation happens on stable foundations, not thru rug pulls.

Yes, you have the freedom to make your system unbootable. When Debian first tried to introduce systemd, I've replaced PID 1 with runit, wrote my own init scripts & service definitions, and it ran like this quite well, until... the next stable release smashed me in the face.

It's absurd how hackable the Linux distros are. It's also absurd to do this to your workhorse setup.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-11 08:51:34+00:00
Be very careful to consider the possibility of selection bias at work. More interactions with police than ever gain media attention, social media virality and this especially applies to the cases where the encounter is recorded on video (increasingly common due to body and phone cams too). It's become more easy than ever to do such a thing and Of these, guess which ones get the most media exposure. The dramatic ones, either with police aggression or aggression from the civilian in the encounter.

But even all of these that emerge in a given year taken together amount to only a minuscule fraction of the likely millions of times per year in which police talk to people or question them with nothing but boring civility all around. Even if we account for a certain percentage of police encounters with unwarranted police aggression not being reported or going viral, it would still be a tiny minority compared to the vast majority that go the other way.

I mention this because just the other day in a YT documentary I saw about a woman who disappeared under an air of mystery (link below for the curious) and it incidentally showed body cam footage of her own interaction under unusual circumstances with a police officer who could have easily been much more suspicious considering how he found her shortly before she disappeared, for reasons unrelated to that cop. It was the picture of politeness. Because the focus of the documentary wasn't highlighting police aggression, it gave a glimpse into how many recorded police encounters go in situations where they don't later become the focus of social media threads about bad cops.

None of the above is to excuse cops acting badly, or excuse how often they get used for shitty, pseudo-authoritarian social control, or to claim that they don't have too much authority to get away with it when it does happen, but it's useful for perspective on how often these things happen and how likely they really are for most normal contexts (you not being someone doing something notably obnoxious, not being in situations where you're likely to interact with especially suspicious cops, etc)

Also, i'm sort of excluding ICE from the above. At least lately, those guys seem to be pervasive dicks by wide mandate in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8txP3aqmQ&t=4346s
by akimbostrawman | 2025-09-11 08:55:51+00:00
>single shot application instances using 95% of system resources each power cycle

Source? There is no measurable energy or efficiency difference at least for flatpak on any semi recent hardware. I know that snaps do take couple seconds longer at first start.

I prefer flatpaks for proprietary and internet facing applications because of there easy sandboxing capabilities. There is also the advantage on archlinux not needing to do a full system update for a single application.
by pegasus | 2025-09-11 08:56:17+00:00
What you describe is called the grounding problem. But it's only a problem for those who vainly hope that these models will somehow miraculously evolve into autonomous, sentient beings. But that's not the only way this technology can be incredibly useful to humanity. Or detrimental for that matter. It has the potential to amplify our intelligence to a degree which is likely to radically transform our world.
by helloplanets | 2025-09-11 08:56:18+00:00
Not all LLM based applications are a user facing free form chat.

If you take an LLM that makes 10 tool calls in a row for an evaluation, any reduction in unpredictable drift is welcome. Same applies to running your prompt through DSPy Optimizer. [0] Countless other examples. Basically any situation where you are in control of the prompt, the token level input to the LLM, so there's no fuzziness.

In this case, if you would've eliminated token level fuzziness and can yourself guarantee that you're not introducing it from your own end, you can basically map out a much more reliable tree or graph structure of your system's behavior.

[0]: https://dspy.ai/#2-optimizers-tune-the-prompts-and-weights-o...
by maxglute | 2025-09-11 08:56:40+00:00
Of course they would, assuming typical dynamics. If Koreans (or anyone) WANTED something from someone else, especially technical investment they can't do themselves, they would move heaven and earth, including look the other way to "excuses" to facilitate.

The issue is US wants via coercion / pressure due to strategic leverages US that has elsewhere on host of "partners". It's not typical courting for investment. US want others who are already reluctant to invest in US on US terms, even if the terms are onerous/broken i.e. the VISA system. US not making it easy, and in fact, unnecessarily hard for political theatre. Countries are investing in US because US took away carrots and added a lot of sticks, which is already different dynamic. Most countries that really want something from someone else has to play nice, give carrots and remove sticks. US/Trump admin thinks otherwise, and maybe it's in position to get away with it. Or maybe investors will bail regardless of how big the stick gets.
by GJim | 2025-09-11 08:58:51+00:00
> I don't think that any other country would be so polite if they were humiliated like this

Everyone is exercising diplomatic niceties [1].

However, we have all come to realise the USA can no longer be trusted as a good faith partner. The USA has even managed to piss off Canada. And lets be honest, you have got to work really hard to piss off the Canadians.

[1] British subtlety at it's finest... official photos of His Majesty The King meeting Big Z, the latter appropriately dressed for meeting royalty. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/volodymyr-zelensky-...
by password54321 | 2025-09-11 08:59:38+00:00
You would probably get more out of debating with an LLM. Let's have an LLM with a mic on every campus for these "healthy" debates that are progressing humanity.

Or maybe we can fine-tune an LLM with all his dialogue that has been recorded.

I guarantee in the latter case no one would care, because the showmanship aspect would be gone, which is what it really was about. Entertainment.