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by shellsteady | 2025-09-06 20:50:41+00:00
Great comment, and it’s a nice on-ramp to add rsync properly.

Paste-ready reply for HN

Good call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)

If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too.
by lentil_soup | 2025-09-06 20:51:02+00:00
Hard disagree. What does privilege have to do with this? Why do you need to work in those conditions because you're poorer? I'm all up for making a huge effort to get out of a shitty situation, but giving it away to a company makes no sense.

I'm also from South America, I don't think promoting people to kill themselves working for someone else is the way out
by johnisgood | 2025-09-06 20:52:15+00:00
I do not disagree.

Ultimately, it is "pick your poison[1]".

[1] Or others will pick it for you (control, regulation, whatever). You said "some people", which is true. I do not experience euphoria from opiates and I am sure I am not alone with this. In my case it is a blessing because I do have an addictive personality. Some other people do not get psychologically addicted to opiates despite euphoria. There is a great study, I think if you search for "rat park study", you can find it. The whole topic is complicated anyways, so I will just say that yeah, you are right, generally speaking.
by vitus | 2025-09-06 20:53:21+00:00
> if an argument fits into the size of a register, it's better to pass by value to avoid the extra indirection.

Whether an argument is passed in a register or not is unfortunately much more nuanced than this: it depends on the ABI calling conventions (which vary depending on OS as well as CPU architecture). There are some examples where the argument will not be passed in a register despite being "small enough", and some examples where the argument may be split across two or more registers.

For instance, in the x86-64 ELF ABI spec [0], the type needs to be <= 16 bytes (despite registers only being 8 bytes), and it must not have any nontrivial copy / move constructors. And, of course, only some registers are used in this way, and if those are used up, your value params will be passed on the stack regardless.

[0] Section 3.2.3 of https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI
by rolph | 2025-09-06 20:53:22+00:00
actually it is very true, the "study" concerned 326 reactions of all reactions available. if reactant is undissolved it is unavailable to the reaction, thus uncontributary to molar ratio.

this will limit yield, as well as creating an impromptu addition of a secondary quantity of reactant

this paper is qwackery, mr lowe demonstrates in this submission, a paucity regarding chemical reaction kinetics, and fails to cultivate a critical interpretation due to this lack of knowledge.
by jleyank | 2025-09-06 20:54:07+00:00
Particularly amongst the civilians in Asia who had suffered over the last 10 years. Ending the war quickly stopped this killing, aside from the Japanese and American + allies lives.

And the early bombs were merely efficient ways to level a city. 1 B-29 rather than a few hundred. 16 sq miles of Tokyo got burned down in one night, for example.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-06 20:55:04+00:00
They're pretty rare. Ford was really big here at one point but it's a shadow of what it used to be. Tesla was an exception until Elon decided to go full-on Nazi-wannabe.

And it doesn't look like it will recover again:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...

Other than that there are some people that have legitimate needs hard to cover with EU made vehicles, for instance larger pickups. Those are often imports, Toyota's, some Dodges, some GMs. Rarely Fords though, I don't remember when I last saw an F150 or an F250 here in NL, in Germany or Poland. The Dodge's are popular with landscaping crews here.

In '24 Tesla did very well here (NL), with close to 8% of the market. For '25 they'll be happy to have half of that. And I expect BYD to achieve parity or even to exceed Tesla for EVs. Ford is at 3.5% and Jeep at 0.5%. So in total, for NL including Tesla the USA represents about 12% of the market and next year more than likely less than 10% and if Trump keeps up his tariff bs it might be far lower than that.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-06 20:55:54+00:00
Even the low level implementation of protobuffers is pretty uninspiring.

Adds a lot of space overhead, specially for structs only used one yet not self descriptive either.

Doesn’t solve a lot of problems related to changes either.

Quite frankly, too many are using up in it because it came from Google and is supposed to be some sort of divinely inspired thing.

JSON, ASN.1, and even rigid C structs start to look a lot better.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-06 20:56:29+00:00
That WW1 is special is mostly a myth.

The reason we have this view of WW1 is that after WW1 in the 20s many normal people in the 20s started writing about the horrors of war and that combined with the strong anti-war sentiment lead to the view we have now. Claiming that generals like Haig was an incompetent butcher. The whole 'lions led by donkeys' myth.

However non of that is actually true. Or not anymore true then in any other war. For example, there is stark contrast to right after the war, where Haig was considered a hero and most soldiers in their post-WW1 writing liked him.

In terms of causality rates, WW1 isn't that special, high intensity combat in modern war isn't that different, from Crimea to WW2. If you have warfare at that level, even if you are successful, you have massive causalities. The Somme for example wasn't that different from the Normandy campaign in WW2.

These generals had to deal with armies of literally million of people and they didn't even have wireless communications. How do you command 500 men in a coordinated attack without communication?

The Americans had to go threw the same learning curve as the others, but they started right away fighting against an enemy that was mostly veterans. Americans could have learned better, but it also has to be said that Pershing by command from the president was not allowed to fully integrate his troupes with that of the French army.

> I assume that this was because many generals were trained on Napoleonic-Era tactics

This is complete and utter nonsense. Please stop spreading these myths. This all just Post-WW1 anti-war politics propaganda.

> against machine guns and semiauto rifles

This is again a myth. Semiauto rifles practically didn't exist in the beginning of WW1. And machine guns had existed for a while and were not that effective.

The big killer on the battle field is the fast shooting artillery. Massive innovations in that had happened in the 30 years before WW1.
by djfobbz | 2025-09-06 20:57:15+00:00
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by codingdave | 2025-09-06 20:58:06+00:00
Marketing happens when you know what problem you solve, you know who has it, and you are communicating with the audience who could use your product. It doesn't matter if there are 10 other SaaS apps in the world or a hundred million because you aren't selling "SaaS"... you are selling a specific problem and solution.

Sure, If you are just blasting into the same channels as everyone else like the post is concerned about, then you aren't focused on your audience and are instead following a generic "SaaS" playbook. Don't do that. Be unique. Be creative. Talk to your own tailored audience. If you don't know who that is or where they listen, then you aren't ready to launch a marketing campaign, and you have some research to do. It is not "10x harder", because if you are doing it well, you aren't fighting noise -- you are stepping outside of the noise.
by pcrh | 2025-09-06 20:58:53+00:00
Nice article, thanks!

This is apparently a picture of the B-29 "Its Hawg's Wild" mentioned in the article before its restoration and flight to the UK: https://i.imgur.com/9e26SKj.jpeg

Taken from this blog which has some pictures of the restoration project: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/b-29-its-hawg-wild-...
by magackame | 2025-09-06 20:59:41+00:00
In practice yes. Lots of people developing and using third party clients. Of course it's not ideal with bans and API updates pulling the rug from under you with no warning, but actually not that many people get banned and ripcord (thirdparty client) was working for a long time even after being abandoned.

ripcord: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
by rogerdickey | 2025-09-06 21:00:09+00:00
My view on this is very different from most commenters. I love work, and early in my career really thrived in a "996" job. I wrote more about it here as a response to this post, "In defense of 996": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152608

The first comment on my post was "fuck off". I'm not trying to push my working style on anyone else, I simply like to work hard. What's wrong with that?
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-06 21:00:18+00:00
The U.S. Open is a sporting event, not a governmental organization, and anyone broadcasting the event is licensing it from the US Tennis Association.

If the USTA or this event in any way resembled a common carrier, there might still be a free speech argument to be made, but they obviously don’t.

They’re just producing a tennis event.
by bjourne | 2025-09-06 21:00:44+00:00
Well, Mojo hasn't been released so we can't precisely say what it can and can't do. If it can emit CUDA code then it does it by transpiling Mojo into CUDA. And there is no reason why Python can't also be transpiled to CUDA.

What I mean here is that DNN code is written on a much higher level than kernels. They are just building blocks you use to instantiate your dataflow.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-06 21:01:37+00:00
This is incorrect for ‘investors’ in general (in many countries practically everyone’s an investor because that’s how pensions mostly work now) and _may_ even be incorrect for large investors as a class, but specifically for the type of investor who invests, either directly or through a VC fund, in startups, well, I don’t have numbers, but I’d be willing to bet it is correct for _them_.
by jerojero | 2025-09-06 21:01:46+00:00
I'm not from the USA so I have never felt any kind of societal pressure to get an iPhone.

And so, instead, I've been using Google hardware for years. I think the happiest I was might have been with the Pixel 5a, it was cheap and had a headphone jack and just felt like really good value.

Now I'm on the pixel 8 pro and I'm genuinely thinking for my next upgrade to be an iPhone. The reason is that, if this is the direction that they're going for I'd rather just get a proper walled garden than one that's just not really going to be there.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-06 21:01:48+00:00
Microsoft's product security in 2025 is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, despite a much higher amount of code deployed more publicly.

For example, Azure offers Microsoft software with various proprietary protocols exposed to the Internet that would have been unthinkable for any competent administrator a decade ago. This includes the SMB file sharing protocol and the SQL Server TDS network protocol.

It's bizarre to me to see a file share and a SQL database just "on" the Internet, no firewall or anything.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-06 21:01:53+00:00
> Oh I know that you’re correct, your phrasing was just hilarious.

My bad. :P

But yeah, I agree. Eastern Europe is on the other spectrum with regarding to opiates. They do not even get prescribed codeine, regardless of severity of pain. You will get naproxen instead along with a possible stroke. :D

> context of society

I would hope so. According to my experiences here on HN, they (some people) just decided opiates are bad (because of "junkies") and that was it.

But yeah, people made opiates look terrible and it is a bummer, it is another case of "this is why we can't have nice things". Kratom is legal here (for now) and people with pain use it, but probably will be taken away from them sooner or later.

In any case, thanks for the reply, pleasantly surprising!
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-06 21:01:56+00:00
To be fair, being "just" a big Nvidia installation doesn't really mean that it's "so simple" (person you're replying to didn't claim it was simple), considering that every "Nvidia installation" has a slightly different set of factors like node count, per node memory, CPU choice, and networking configuration. All it says is, like many (most?) other modern supercomputers, it's a giant NVIDIA GPU cluster.
by themafia | 2025-09-06 21:02:45+00:00
The data you cannot possibly access would be "is our staff going to be capable of handling this challenge within the time frame alotted?" Or "will any new issues present themselves during this time frame and reduce the amount of available staff?" Or.. well.. any of dozens of known failure cases in business.

Good business is about hedging your bets. It's not about creating business processes that always make the right bets.

It's also not the case that good business is the only way to survive. Which is one of my favorite stories from FedEx's beginnings. They were short on cash and couldn't make fuel payments or payroll the next day. The CEO extract cash from the business, took it to Las Vegas, increased his holdings by gambling, then returned the money to the business the next day.

If it worked, then great, you "saved" the business. If it didn't, then bummer, you're now a felonious embezzler.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-06 21:04:24+00:00
See the story of Theranos. Pretty much everyone who did basic due diligence declined to invest in Theranos; they apparently didn’t even have faked audited accounts for the purpose. But there were enough dumb rich people willing either not to ask the person who knew, or to ignore them, that Theranos had no trouble getting funding.

Now the average VC fund isn’t _as_ incompetent as the average Theranos investor, but it’s still a field where decisions by ‘visionaries’ are often valued over expertise.
by chicagobuss | 2025-09-06 21:04:28+00:00
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by simne | 2025-09-06 21:05:52+00:00
Thank you!

For Closure, I just confused it with Elixir.

Unfortunately, I see very familiar things from Perl world - many people made really interest things alone, but for some reason, they don't organize to make one direction really on par with commercial platforms (even when with current technologies could make efficient distributed governance, and even could make significant sells for sustainable development). I mean, people disperse resources, making many good small things, but most Open Source software recessing or even in crisis without moving ahead.

I've seen JVM, BEAM, CLR at field with heavy load, they all have significant drawbacks, but from my opinion, CLR ecosystem developing faster than other mentioned.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-06 21:05:59+00:00
Autism appears to be hereditary, but the eugenicists haven't identified a genetic component (nor have any other researchers, who are admittedly less motivated to find one). We're pretty sure that autism is a developmental condition, but the correlations with other things are… weird. (Off-hand: fœtal androgen and œstrogen levels, some chromosomal disorders, some mitochondrial disorders, a handful of rare single-point mutations, maternal autoantibodies, gut flora, something something oxidative stress (doesn't replicate, but keeps coming up).) Maybe they all tie into a "single cause" somehow, but… well, there's no single cause for eye colour (developmentally a much simpler trait), so the whole idea that autism is a deviation from the baseline, explicably attributable to a single factor, is somewhat of an article of faith.
by jleyank | 2025-09-06 21:06:24+00:00
They also were trying to produce the most powerful non-jet engine going, which is a difficult technical problem. Parts were magnesium to save weight, which could get rather excited if some parts broke and the fire started. A small time to bail out before the wing root burned through.

The gun technology, pressured hull, ... all were novel. They didn't know it was possible when they committed to building it.
by MrDresden | 2025-09-06 21:06:43+00:00
Seems only about 9% of US manufactured car exports go to the EU[0], which is down from 12% in 2022.

So there are some who buy US made cars, but why they would...

[0]: https://www.acea.auto/fact/fact-sheet-eu-us-vehicle-trade-20...
by troupo | 2025-09-06 21:07:03+00:00
> I'd love to see some sort of % success before and after "think deep" was added. Should I be adding "think deep" to all my non-trivial queries to Claude

Any such % would be meaningless because both are non-deterministic blackboxes with literally undefined behavior. Any % you'd be seeing could be just differences in available compute as the US is waking up
by filenox | 2025-09-06 21:08:10+00:00
Most wells at Cape Station are between 8,000 and 9,000 feet deep, and the deepest one extends a mind-blowing 15,000 feet below the surface. That is about the depth you'd get to if you stacked 50 Statues of Liberty on top of each other!

For those who prefer a less American-centric metric: 8,000–9,000 feet is approximately 2.5 kilometers. 15,000 feet is about 4.5 kilometers — roughly the height of 14 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other!
by rainsford | 2025-09-06 21:09:28+00:00
The conclusion section of that very study says "...further research is needed to confirm these associations and determine causality and mechanisms" and "A causal relationship is plausible..." [emphasis added].

In other words there is an association, but the study is not able to prove (or even suggest) causation. For example, it does not exclude the possibility that other factors that actually cause autism and Tylenol use are themselves linked. So Tylenol use could be correlated with autism but not a cause of it. In that case, pregnant women who would otherwise use Tylenol not doing so are not reducing the chance of autism. And as the study points out, failing to treat conditions that warrant Tylenol usage can also have negative pregnancy outcomes.
by robocat | 2025-09-06 21:10:18+00:00
> building a company that inspires

There's a lot of grit-flavoured cool aid being sold by CEOs

Here's one that came up recently selling work as the answer to life:

https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engi...

And another saying that burnout only exists if the work is not inspiring:

https://substack.com/inbox/post/172406264
by jjulius | 2025-09-06 21:10:39+00:00
Opt out as much as possible.

If spaces like that irk you, stop going there. Limit your use of the Internet to when you're at home on your own network. Do we truly need to be browsing HN and other sites when we're out of the house?

Ditch the smartphone. Most things that people claim you need a smartphone for "in order to exist in modern society" can also be done via a laptop or a desktop, including banking. You don't need access to everything in the world tucked neatly away in your pocket when you're going grocery shopping, for instance.

Buy physical media so that your viewing habits aren't tracked relentlessly. Find hobbies that get you away from it all (I backpack!).

Fuck off from social media. Support hobby-based forums and small websites that put good faith into not participating in tracking and advertising, if possible.

Limit when you use the internet, and how.

It's hard to escape from it, but we can significantly limit our interactions with it.
by anakaine | 2025-09-06 21:10:48+00:00
My early software and skills life happened around some late stages of BBS and IRC, and yes, #warez.

I met some absolutely wonderful people from online, and even got to spend some quality time with some very high end hardware that couldn't be gifted, but was effectively almost unlimited, and people with appropriate skills and compassion to match. My early career and schooling made no use of those skills, but once I found my jam a little later on that knowledge still proved to be incredibly important and put me leaps and bounds ahead of my peers, and it's been an amazing ride ever since.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-06 21:11:39+00:00
I learned the hard way that religion is something best left aside in discussions.

I am an absolute atheist, and I believe that people who are educated in science and are religions have some kind of mental illness. This is just too set the context :) I also used to be very active on radio about science vs religion.

First, people who are hard core religious may get off their way to cure you. I had people yelling in front of my house. I never saw physicists doing the same.

But that's a perk of the "atheism job" :)

I had something much worse happening to me. A friend of mine was religions, from a very religions family. We had long discussions and she gradually realized that her while world is going to shit when she discovered the insanity of religion. She got into a deep depression and tried to commit suicide. I was with her 7 years until she somehow snapped back to a normal life.

I never attempted to turn an individual anymore. Sure, general information about rational hygiene (religion, homeopathy, ...) but not on z 1:1 basis.
by fsflover | 2025-09-06 21:11:58+00:00
This is not how personal targeting works. Here's how:

> Each Shiftkey nurse is offered a different pay-scale for each shift. Apps use commercially available financial data – purchased on the cheap from the chaotic, unregulated data broker sector – to predict how desperate each nurse is. The less money you have in your bank accounts and the more you owe on your credit cards, the lower the wage the app will offer you.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luig...