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by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-11 03:21:05+00:00
Even the Kardashev scale is based on the assumption that unfettered economic activity as humans conceived of it in the mid 20th century would be a common enough phenomenon to classify, including shoehorning in our wildest science fiction ideas. Only the most unscrupulous of our species probably want to maximize production of widgets beyond the limits of this planet to the point where a Dyson sphere must be built. Would a Buddhist monk have any interest in that for example, or are their metrics of “productivity” more metaphysical perhaps? Or someone considering preserving a system and not exceeding what it is capable of sustainably offering? How about a blue whale, do they have an increasing energy demand per capita as well?
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-11 03:21:07+00:00
ME is... not comparable? There's no security boundaries ME could implement- it was still DOS and fat32.

The list of changes Vista made were never going to go off without a hitch. When you put new boundaries in place in the kernel, and a driver violates them because it was recompiled not updated to handle a separation and handle errors from it: there's no choice but to Kernel Panic.

Compatibility Shims were introduced for userland changes.

Despite the hate, DWM handled the most frequent crashes: graphics.

Microsoft is STILL working on pulling graphics code out of the kernel and into userland.
by dankwizard | 2025-09-11 03:21:31+00:00
I don't know what to tell you - I don't want to brag about my eyesight, but it's pretty good - No matter what angle, no matter what phone, the crease is visible. What would I have to gain lying about this? I could say the same thing - Stop trying to copium your purchase?

The tech isn't there yet.
by Balgair | 2025-09-11 03:21:40+00:00
One thing I noticed here and elsewhere online today is that I've not seen any memories of Charlie.

It's all been about the politics and ramifications of the assassination. But nothing about the man himself and how he positively impacted the lives of others, no matter how small.

I'm certain this is my filter bubble, but it's still strange nonetheless.

If anyone has any positive things to say about the man, I'd love to know them. As I'm on his political opposite, I never really engaged with his content or knew much past any controversy that boiled over.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-11 03:21:53+00:00
Traditionally the to do work trips into the USA for Australia and other USA allies was the ESTA visa waiver that these Koreans were on.

From reading about what happened here it seems the South Koreans were on that visa waiver for their work trips. A lot of people claiming "it doesn't allow you to work" yet the visa waiver has a long long list of various types of work it does allow and it's pretty broad.

So it seems the ESTA isn't worth anything anymore. You can't go to the USA without a very very heavyweight working VISA. Ok. No more trade shows, conferences or general business trips.
by tomhow | 2025-09-11 03:21:53+00:00
It's fine to refute a claim with opposing facts or opinions. We agree it was a bad comment, and we would have had no problem with a response that kept within the guidelines.

But the guidelines are very clear about making swipes and posting in an inflammatory style. These are the guidelines are relevant here:

Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by otterley | 2025-09-11 03:23:33+00:00
> The is obviously nonsense.

Which part is the nonsense part of what I said?

> Biden actually apologized for deporting illegals

Where? I can find no such record. I do see him regretting using the word "illegals" instead of "undocumented". See e.g. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-regrets-using-illegal...

> Democrats (or, at least, democrat leadership) support illegal immigration because they want a demographically-guaranteed majority in the US

1. This makes no sense. Only citizens can vote, and so no number of undocumented immigrants in the country can affect an election outcome.

2. Democrats don't support illegal immigration as such. However, they do recognize the complexities of the labor force and the practical reality that undocumented immigrants do a lot of unskilled labor from agriculture to janitorial services, and thus tough enforcement of the laws and removing them all would have serious adverse consequences to our economy. They have tried to boost legal immigration but have been stonewalled.

> Anyone who says they don't understand this is a liar or a naif.

Personal attacks aren't permitted here. People are entitled to have reasonable disagreements.
by dmix | 2025-09-11 03:23:47+00:00
Nothing wrong with a bit of social control if you’re doing it in a controlled measurable way. As long as you’re not just treating it like a boogieman while ignoring how schools are simultaneously becoming less motivating places to learn. Bore a kid to death by not challenging them or holding them accountable then they will 100% default to their phone to escape the tedium.
by enricozb | 2025-09-11 03:23:48+00:00
I have such disdain for the e/acc crowd given that I believe that "we do not understand the consequences of what we are building".

But now I'm not sure if it's fair to ignore the consequences of building Twitter, or even the internet. Seeing people's behavior during this event has been incredibly disheartening.

The wikivoyage page for the United States explicitly advises that neither politics nor religion should be discussed when meeting people in this country.

How did we get to this point.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-11 03:24:00+00:00
So during my college days and a bit after that as well I used these tools because these tools were there to be used. I then learned it is not a problem for me, it never was. I used them for the sake of using them. So I stopped using those tools and tools like config backup etc.

I think such tools will be useful for people who use hundreds of apps and have to often migrate/reset or replicate those setups.

Kind of like you, my .dotfiles folder is a private github repo now which has barely 10 files and I don't even use symlinks anymore.

So I think it's also kind of a hobby, if I may say so.
by maest | 2025-09-11 03:24:42+00:00
> There's not too much to debate there;

There is plenty to debate here. I don't know what the prevalent interpretation is here, but I do know it's a fact that the meaning is debated.

I don't know why you're saying otherwise.

For example, after 2 minutes of googling: https://www.isba.org/sections/bench/newsletter/2017/04/whatd...
by refurb | 2025-09-11 03:25:01+00:00
It's been a slow tightening of financial transfers in Vietnam.

Not that long ago, it was all cash. Then bank transfers became more common, but it was the wild west compared to the US. You could transfer billions in VND (millions in USD) from whatever account to whatever account - nobody was keeping track. Whether a legitimate payment or a bribe, it was fine.

Then identifies were tightly linked to accounts, starting with national ID numbers and now including facial recognition. Everyone needed to get register or lose access to your bank account (you still owned it, but no online transactions allowed).

The government also put in a new law that requires transfers over a certain amount will now need to be reported as to their purpose or else they'll be considered income and taxed.

In no time Vietnam has gone from wild west to more restrictive than the West!
by colechristensen | 2025-09-11 03:25:01+00:00
Because we are talking about a nation and a political party covering half the population and not an individual victim of a crime the "don't blame the victim" morality does not apply.

When government is doing a terrible job it loses the consent of the people and gets overthrown, usually by monsters. This is the problem with Democrats, they think they should continue to win, that they deserve to continue to win regardless of how they perform. Because they're right it is morally correct for them to continue winning.

THAT'S NOT HOW THE WORLD WORKS.

It is historically objectively true that governments failing to address the concerns of their people are replaced, usually by authoritarian autocrats. It's a pretty straightforward mechanism.

Democratic leaders in the party corrupted the process to put Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden on the presidential ticket. Democratic leaders in Congress failed to show any leadership, failed to address any problems, failed to stand up or take any sort of action that addressed meaningful problems in this country.

They created the environment for the right to fall off a cliff into extremism.

Instead of defending democracy they sat back and watched.

You've got hundreds of millions of people in this country, extremists are always going to exist. You can't pretend that they don't exist or hope and moralize and blame them for existing when their ideas get popular.

The ideas of the extreme right got popular because the ideas of the center and the left failed to convince enough people.

When my castle falls I'm not blaming the invading army, there's always going to be a new one testing my defenses. I'm blaming the castle guards.

This isn't the case of a poor defenseless victim of a senseless crime. This is the experts who should know better falling asleep at the wheel and intentionally ignoring reality because of their selfishness and stupidity.
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 03:26:05+00:00
I don't disagree. I don't know anything about the political systems of other countries. I'm just talking about what I am familiar with, which is the American political system.

You're right, though. Americans actually agree on most things [1]. In that sense, there is really only one "side." Yet the media exploits the small differences that people don't agree upon to create a giant divide.

Anecdote: I firmly believe Trump is going to destroy our democracy, or at least put it to its absolute limits. Yet, I have many friends who voted for Trump. They're great people. We don't ever talk politics, but whenever we talk about economics, or society, we actually agree about most things. If we didn't, we probably wouldn't be friends.

Yet the talking heads on TV would have us believe that democrats and republicans are enemies. And that may very well be a self fulfilling prophecy.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/ap-poll-democracy-rights-freedoms...
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 03:26:14+00:00
Based on my memory, GP's second link did not show as being up when they shared it and seems to have only changed after the fact. I also find this (much older) archive which at least showed [flagged] when it was at 75 votes https://web.archive.org/web/20250614213042/https://news.ycom...

Another shameless note that this is the kind of thing I think a public moderation log would really help.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-11 03:26:22+00:00
Honest question: why would you even post a comment like that when searching online for the answer takes like 10 seconds?

The fact that you want to go with your feels and that you have the balls to degrade someone else who was actually correct is really what says everything we need to know:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...

FWIW your "reasonable definition" of mass shooter requiring the victims to be unknown by the shooter seems totally unreasonable to me, and it's not used by any organization that actually tracks these things (the Wikipedia article gives a list of definitions, none of them conforming to yours).
by sleepyguy | 2025-09-11 03:26:24+00:00
ICE has bravely rescued us from the menace of people building battery factories. Forget fentanyl, trafficking, or violent crime—our real existential threat was clearly a few Korean engineers with power tools. Obviously, they were biding their time before graduating to cartel kingpins. And thank heavens the plant won’t be finished—who actually wants it and the jobs, infrastructure, etc it would bring.

Sleep well, folks—America is saved, one deported factory worker at a time.
by Veserv | 2025-09-11 03:27:18+00:00
A modern debugger would have made that trivial. Just turn on time travel debugging mode and you would have been done after the first time it occurred.

Wait until the memory is corrupted and causes a crash. Set a hardware breakpoint on the corrupted memory location and run backward until the memory location was written in the signal handler. Problem solved.

Memory corruption bugs in single-threaded code are a solved problem.
by matthewtse | 2025-09-11 03:27:29+00:00
Hey everyone, I and the team have been hard at work improving ImprovMX since the acquisition at the start of this year. It was slow going at first, with lots of tech debt getting in the way of safely making changes. But after an initial slog, feature velocity got significantly faster, so it was quite worth it.

We've simultaneously launched a bunch of new features that you can checkout in our blog post: - email logs search by keyword/date - access logs to audit who did what when with your account - longer email log retention - rules routing for custom routing logic - AI support chat bot

Really curious to hear any feedback, or what we should be building next!
by danielheath | 2025-09-11 03:28:35+00:00
We already had to beat "I made a spreadsheet", which continues to be pretty damn hard even for large teams of experienced engineers - ask your finance team sometime how many custom spreadsheets they use regularly.

A) Lots of useful apps aren't a great fit for a spreadsheet. AI seems to be opening many of those up the same way.

B) Lots of spreadsheets have bugs which cause then to give wildly inaccurate results, which are relied on to make crucial decisions. AI is also repeating this part of the pattern.

If you need it to work correctly all the time, there's still no substitute for expertise - but looking at the state of computing, clearly many people are willing to use things that have obvious, serious bugs.
by thedailymail | 2025-09-11 03:28:39+00:00
Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata
by 7402 | 2025-09-11 03:28:55+00:00
I posted this article about political violence from Politico 3 months ago. It got 3 votes and sank. But it resurfaced on their website today because of this event (they revised the title of the front page link to make the subject more clear) so I'll bring it up again:

How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says. (Was: The Kindling Is a Lot Drier Than It Used to Be) https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/02/political-...

The author's point is that political violence does occur in cycles, and one thing that makes a cycle run down is when it gets gets so awful that universal revulsion overtakes the political advantages of increasing radicaloric and action.

He gives examples, which may be within the living memory of older HN readers (like me):

"I can remember back in the ’60s, early ’70s, it felt like the political violence was never going to end. I mean, if you were an Italian in the ’60s or the ’70s, major political and judicial figures, including prime ministers, were getting bumped off on a regular basis. And it seemed like it was never going to end, but it did. It seemed like the anarchist violence of the early 20th century — it lasted for a couple of decades, killed the U.S. president — it seemed that was never going to end either, but it does. These things burn themselves out."

and:

"You had the assassination of the U.S. president, of Martin Luther King, of Bobby Kennedy. And then it stopped. People shied away from political violence. Exactly why it stopped, I don’t know, but it did. It wasn’t just assassinations, it was also street violence. And then things calmed down."

This is not particularly optimistic, but it it's an interesting analysis.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-09-11 03:29:28+00:00
I get the articles point. I too feel as though things should be more actual hands on, less flash-game-y.

But one kinda-counterpoint was my experience in Amsterdam at Micropia [0]. Museum containing many small things including fungi, bacteria, ants etc etc.

Some stuff you didn't want to actually touch with hands really anyway...

Yes they had magnifying glasses but many exhibits were simply using the screen to show the image from a microscope. And they let you control the microscope to focus, zoom in and out, etc.

Left an impression on me as being a museum that did digital right.

[0]https://www.artis.nl/en/artis-micropia
by ETH_start | 2025-09-11 03:30:28+00:00
If you have a certain argument to a certain talking point, then you're always going to repeat that same argument whenever that talking point emerges. There's nothing bad faith about that. These kinds of arguments get repetitive so you're going to see people repeat the same points.

As for the value of debate, even bad debate is better than nothing. Sometimes it feels like there's nothing being gained from it, but if you question people who have engaged in a lot of debates, you find that they're much more informed after the debates — even very acrimonious debates, where both sides are just trying to defeat the other side — than they were before it. A society needs people to communicate, for it to progress in its ability to effectively coordinate on complex social issues, and that process of communication is not going to be without warts, given how complex these social issues are, and how high the stakes are for a great number of people.

Societies which embrace civil discourse and protect free speech are far better off for it. This killing strikes at the heart of a civil society.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-11 03:30:34+00:00
That is a bit hyperbolic to say they are being held hostage, the government has accused them of a crime and is holding them while they are given due process.

We can debate the validity of the government's claim, I have seen an article which says that the workers were on B1/B2 Visa which has strict requirements for what is allowed from what I have read but also says the government in it's internal report also stated no crime was committed.

Which countries just repatriate those they accuse of crimes rather than prosecute?
by strogonoff | 2025-09-11 03:30:42+00:00
I never quite understood why’d people call for “federated forking” when the truly decentralized model had existed since forever: simply clone the repository to your machine, change what you want, create a patch, and communicate it to maintainers (traditionally Linux kernel used a mailing list for that, but imaginably you could use something in Fediverse, Git doesn’t care). Everybody gets to use their favourite tooling and no one is locked to lowest common denominator GUI for things like reviewing proposed changes.
by second_brekkie | 2025-09-11 03:31:08+00:00
I happen to know someone well who works for a Korean Conglomerate building industrial/car batteries in the US.

When you do construction work, or operate the production line it has to be done by American Labour.

The visas they have only cover setup, repair and education of the production line.

At that LG/Hyundai factory they were using Korean contractors for construction. So there was some breaking of the terms of the visa for at least some of the people.

However, ICE didn't need to arrest everyone. All they needed to do was send a warning. These companies don't want the trouble, they would comply.

Now you have many Koreans very upset. And people in my friends company are now scared to go to America even though they are management.

It's not good for anyone, it's just so short sighted!
by theonething | 2025-09-11 03:32:06+00:00
> You know, when LGBT people were famously regular victims of violence from citizens and cops alike?

What point were you trying to make here?

Requoting your earlier claim:

> But Kirk was definitely not advocating for "healthy debate and disagreement."

This seems to be a general characterization of Kirk, that he generally did not advocate for healthy debate and disagreement. By watching his many videos where he frequently listened to opposing viewpoints and also by the fact that he always had an open mic during speaking events, it's pretty easy to disprove your claim.

Cherrypicking one or two incidents where you interpret his words as against healthy debate doesn't support your claim.
by torstenvl | 2025-09-11 03:32:49+00:00
Literally none of those are relevant to what I posted. I didn't swipe or sneer at anyone. I said:

- he never called for the death of anyone

- claiming otherwise (despite apparently being familiar with his work) is a deliberate lie

- falsely claiming that someone is a mortal threat is "grist for the mill" for people with violent tendencies

None of the three components of what I said come anywhere close to violating the guidelines.

Perhaps you're not familiar with the idiom? "Grist for the mill" just means that something is useful for a particular motive, it doesn't suggest being in cahoots or any intent whatsoever. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grist%20for%20one...
by triceratops | 2025-09-11 03:34:32+00:00
This is simplistic nonsense regularly blurted out by opponents of wealth taxes. It supposes that assets are converted by some alchemy into pallets of cash. The government then piles the pallets up into a big vault and feeds them into a furnace every year until it runs out. And then it's all gone forever.

That's not how things work.

Seriously think through what implementing this would look like. Go through the steps at a high level instead of just adding up 3 numbers and declaring it will never work.

I don't think any government should take over all private wealth. It would be a gross human rights violation and an economic disaster. But this argument against it severely lacks logic and rigor.
by tcbawo | 2025-09-11 03:34:41+00:00
There is an astute comment floating around here that describes the tendency for human psychology to absorb information first through the limbic/emotional center first before the logical part. It is unsurprising to see horrible reactions after tragedies through social media. Living too close to the edge of the present brings out the worst in people. My faith in humanity hopes that many of these people will reconsider and regret some of the things they say and post.
by gpm | 2025-09-11 03:34:53+00:00
No - there is no due process or criminal charges at play here. The government detained them per immigration law in order to deport them, for the sake of argument lawfully. The government arranged to repatriate them. Then in order to attempt to negotiate a business deal Donald Trump ordered them not repatriated, and instead to be continued to be held in US custody without trial, without criminal charges, and without even the suggestion that the purpose was to charge them criminally. Rather the explicit purpose was to attempt to negotiate a business deal where they would remain working in the US.

Holding people in custody in order to negotiate a business deal is the definition of hostage taking.