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by potato3732842 | 2025-09-08 22:04:02+00:00
>Yeah, better to be confused and drive in to a ditch at 20 mph than confident and t-bone a family at 50.

This shouldn't be subjective at all. It's very easy to calculate out minutes lost to traffic from minor accidents vs death causing accidents and compare the two and see where the crossover points are depending upon their relative rates and impacts.

To use an extreme hypothetical example, I don't even know how old you are but it's probably perfectly justifiable 10x over to just shoot you (or me or anyone short of the pope) and throw you in the Hudson if the alternative is "the George Washington is closed for 6hr" or something.

And on the other end of the spectrum roads get closed for months on whims for maintenance reasons in rural areas all the time and probably have less cumulative life lost than, idk, some mundane waste of time.

I'm not privy to the numbers for all the real world situations that exist in the middle ground but I'm sure they're out there and once you've got them it's simple math to decide what configuration results in less life lost. Obviously you can pro-rate the years, account for disability and injury, add money to the equation, etc. But that's all easy if you've got the numbers (which we generally do for auto accidents).
by Izkata | 2025-09-08 22:04:13+00:00
> 1. If a democrat is elected, they will take all their guns (their campaign rhetoric keeps saying this will happen, but it continues being no part of democratic presidential campaign messaging, and hasn’t happened the times they warned it definitely would—this one’s fake)

It was a part of a few Democrat presidential campaigns, like Beto O'Rourke.

> 2. Election security. But republicans keep getting into positions to investigate this and either not doing it (because they know it’s BS) or doing it and finding only a handful of mostly-accidental cases that don’t favor either party. Also fake.

Due to a consent decree from the 80s, Republicans weren't allowed to do anything in this area until a judge finally refused to renew it in the late 2010s.
by lhamil64 | 2025-09-08 22:04:39+00:00
I've been keeping my eye on Immich for a while and keep waiting for a stable release to try it out, but that hasn't happened yet. I'm also dreading having to setup proper backups if I were to switch to this over Google photos. My current solution is to backup critical homelab things to Google Drive automatically but I'd want a proper off-site backup if I were going to self host all my photos.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-09-08 22:04:51+00:00
Cable everything is dead. FOX is doing relatively well, but they reach maybe 1% or 2% of the population, and presumably that's almost all already unshifting right-wing people. I'm not saying it's impossible that it's a propaganda power center, but I don't personally know how that would work. It feels like a leftover enemy from the early 2000s that just doesn't make sense post-internet.
by iainmerrick | 2025-09-08 22:05:26+00:00
It can’t be just that, surely? Or the more traditional sloped fronts would be gone completely.

I don’t think people are buying these because they’re safer for pedestrians, they’re buying them because they like the way they look, and/or because they (the drivers) feel safer when they’re in a huge box sitting high up, looming over the surrounding cars.
by martin-t | 2025-09-08 22:05:33+00:00
I am not against specialization.

I am against some specializations getting paid per unit of work regardless of the market value of their product while other specializations get paid a cut of the market value.

I am against positions of power which allow people who don't produce anything to decide how much other people who do actually produce something get paid.

Etc.

I am fundamentally against inequality.
by knorker | 2025-09-08 22:05:59+00:00
I literally did, yes. That was not by accident. I spent two sentences on that. That's not a "gotcha".

Does this mean that you agree with me that when sending money within the developed world and its functioning banking system, cryptocurrency makes no sense?

I ask this because many times when people say "but what about sending money to the unbanked, or developing world without modern banking?", they don't actually mean it. They just want to drop that there, and then use that as a reason to try to convince you that cryptocurrency is awesome for sending money from New York to San Francisco.

> maybe you don't care about them.

Cryptocurrency people absolutely do not care about them. Not at all. I do. I don't want them poisoned with that terrible burden. It's incredibly condescending to say that modern banking is good enough for us in the west, but poor countries should just be given garbage instead.

So: Are you highlighting that part of what I said honestly? And we can then talk about the unbanked without implying that developed banking, where it exists, is anything but superior?

If yes, then the solution is clearly to bring modern banking to the unbanked, not to give them second class status with cryptocurrencies. At least in the long run.

If no, well then I don't see how you highlighting this use case is honest. And I see many cryptocurrency advocates being dishonest on this issue.

I'll assume that you're being honest, and replied yes.

So what do we do about sending money to Nigeria or North Korea? I'll admit to not knowing first hand the practicalities of that, not having actually done it. Have you? US sanctions still allow up to $5000 per year to family or friends in DPRK.

A quick Googling from other countries to DPRK quotes me ~0.7%, with no transaction fee. Western Union seems to charge 4% (actually I expected worse). If 0.7% is accurate and includes currency exchange, then that's actually not that bad. Credit cards here can have worse foreign transaction fees.

But OK, let's say the choice is WU or cryptocurrency, nothing else being available. If you're unbanked, do you have a computer, and the skill to manage a cryptocurrency wallet? If not, then I guess you'll need to find a middleman.

WU seems to charge 6% to Nigeria. I don't have data about what an agent / middleman would charge, but chatgpt says it'll be about 5-15%.

And even if it were 5%, would you trust one of these agents as much as you would trust Western Union? For this 1% discount? Can you trust them not to screw you, and trust them to not get hacked? For 1%?

I'd be happy to hear better data on this, if you have it.

So again, what is the solution for Nigeria? Is it to go cryptocurrency with its enormous complexities, costs, and trust issues, or is it to bring them modern banking?

Again:

> stablecoins have become a preferred means to hold and move money

lol.

What do you think the unbanked would like more: A cryptocurrency wallet to manage directly, a guy in the village with a computer he's "pretty good with", or modern banking with FDIC deposit insurance?
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-08 22:06:02+00:00
> "Stricter regulations" like what?

For communication platforms (messengers) - the same kind that telecom companies are bound to, for example. For social media platforms - similar to what older media platforms are bound on content, editorial / journalistic format and integrity etc. Both also require new, stricter privacy and data laws. I live in a democracy and I find the idea of BigTech "regulating" itself while also being a bastion of "free speech" to be an oxymoron, especially a foreign one.
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-08 22:06:07+00:00
Of all the arguments presented I'm surprised to see absent the one that seems most obvious to me: encryption is just math, there's no way to actually ban it. If criminals think their conversations are going to be detected they aren't going to just say "oh well let's not crime now". They are going to simply spin up their own e2e encrypted channels. The software is nearly trivial, the technical barriers are very low - it's hard to think why it won't happen.

So then what? They start outlawing encryption altogether? knowledge of math? How would you claw back all the public and freely available software that people can already use to encrypt messages to each other?
by jonaharagon | 2025-09-08 22:06:26+00:00
Totally. This is exactly the problem with things like Chat Control in the EU and KOSA in the US. They will just introduce the same bill over and over and over again until they get the desired result.

What we need is for legislatures to pass "NO Chat Control" and "NO KOSA" bills that specifically block this behavior, but unsurprisingly governments don't seem to be too keen about limiting their own rights, only those of their citizens.
by recursive | 2025-09-08 22:06:29+00:00
I treat inanimate objects with all due respect. In my opinion of course. In cases like musical instruments, that manifests in one way.

I think that LLM chatbots are fundamentally built on a deception or dark pattern, and respect them accordingly. They are built to communicate using and mimicking human language. They are built to act human, but they are not.

If someone tries to trick me into subscribing to offers from valued business partners, I will take that into account. If someone tries to take advantage of my human reactions to human language, I will also take that into account accordingly.
by yannyu | 2025-09-08 22:06:32+00:00
> Things like massively increased energy cost, strain on the grid

This is a peculiarly USA-localized problem. For a large number of reasons, datacenters are going up all over the world now, and proportionally more of them are outside the US than has been the case historically. And a lot of these places have easier access to cheaper, cleaner power with modernized grids capable of handling it.

> pollution from higher energy use

Somewhat coincidentally as well, energy costs in China and the EU are projected to go down significantly over the the next 10 years due to solar and renewables, where it's not so clear that's going to happen in the US.

As for the rest of the arguments around chip manufacturing and shipping and everything else, well, what do you expect? That we would just stop making chips? We only stopped using horses for transportation when we invented cars. I don't yet see what's going to replace our need for computing.
by lukev | 2025-09-08 22:06:32+00:00
This is just "no true scotsman" for AI.

Because something could very easily pop soon, but this article is just laying the groundwork for an argument that "it wasn't AI popping, that was the belief you could run a AI adoption program and fire half your staff popping."

At some point, what's the difference? Obviously LLMs are here to stay in some form or another.

What the stock market does with that is an entirely different animal and honestly I'm not optimistic.
by kypro | 2025-09-08 22:06:33+00:00
It's probably worth noting you can be charged with a driving offence if you're driving 60mph down a country road even if it's technically national speed limit.

Just because legally you can drive at 60 doesn't mean you're legally allowed to drive recklessly. National speed limit is basically, "you're permitted to drive as fast as you like so long as you do so in a safe manner".
by karmakaze | 2025-09-08 22:06:49+00:00
I was prepared to be underwhelmed. iPhone 17's, iWatches, AirPods, OS updates, AirTag 2, New Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2, New Apple Vision Pro (spec bumps).

The Apple Vision Air would have been interesting. Maybe macOS or iPadOS 26 has something?
by JohnFen | 2025-09-08 22:07:41+00:00
My recommendations have always been awful, so I avoid them and just use my subscriber list instead.

But they did make a UI change in the android app that I didn't notice until very recently that I'm sure made me miss quite a few videos I would have wanted to watch. The list now has options, and doesn't default to showing videos from your subscribed channels in chronological order. Instead, it's some weirdo order that Google has decided is what you really want to watch, and that omits things. You have to tap on the "videos" tab to get the chronological list now.

It took too long for me to notice this, and it certainly meant I didn't watch videos I would otherwise have watched.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-09-08 22:07:42+00:00
The EU Council is the highest body in the EU (not the Parliament, especially not the Commission - who are basically the civil service or secretariat for the EU).

The EU is founded on the pooled sovereignty of the member states (unlike in the US, where the reverse is the case). The Council represents those member states (each has a seat), and so holds this pooled sovereignty.
by maxglute | 2025-09-08 22:08:49+00:00
Respectfully, you should follow recent events in TW and realized they're slightly behind or slightly ahead of US in political shitshow schedule, and it's no small part due to Audrey Tang / DPP crafting a pro/anti PRC culture war political machine that exploded into great recall drama last month... which contained some not very democratic tactics by DPP (Tang's party). TLDR is DPP thought they could sustain domestic politics by hammering antiPRC narratives without delivering on the home/economy front... and eventually constituents saw through the bullshit when they realized mainstreet was not improving and political system likely not capable of delivering mainstreet improvement. It actually maps pretty aptly to US situation, except instead of rotating through villlians TW/DPP had the luxury of just focusing on PRC for a few years post HK crackdown. But now TWers realize villainizing PRC (however legitimate) hasn't actually improved their economic well being. Something I think US will learn eventually too, as in there's probably "legitimate" reasons for US to villainize PRC for geopolitical competition, but unless US policies deliver on the homefront, it's only going to distract for so long, i.e.make the underlying economic system is work for masses.
by jitl | 2025-09-08 22:09:08+00:00
i'll take a 100ms turbopuffer vector search plus a 50ms postgres-select-where-id-in over a 500ms all-in-one pgvector + join query.

When you only need to hydrate like 30 search result item IDs from Postgres or memcached i don't see the join being "too expensive" to do in memory.
by madeofpalk | 2025-09-08 22:09:22+00:00
> Ironically, just after posting that I came across this, which I think proves why my concern is warranted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

> Debian isn't immune to this, but it's much harder for such an attack to be successful when dependencies aren't constantly changing.

Immich is more immune to this issue because they wait 5 days before raising PRs to bump dependencies, which is a good practice https://github.com/immich-app/.github/blob/main/renovate-con...
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-08 22:09:47+00:00
I run OpenWRT on a 'big' device, this being a container on a Proxmox-managed DL380 G7. It works fine in this context, performance is good enough to be able to easily saturate the gigabit fibre link without breaking into a sweat.

Installing OpenWRT on such a device comes down to downloading openwrt-${version}-x86-64-rootfs.tar.gz and unpacking it in the target location. Boot the container or VM (or old PC or whatever) and follow the normal OpenWRT configuration procedure. Updating such an installation comes down to making a configuration backup in OpenWRT, unpacking the new distribution and restoring the configuration backup to the new install. Given the low resource requirements for such an installation it makes sense to first clone the working container or VM and performing the upgrade on one of the instances so you always have a working instance at hand.
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by justin66 | 2025-09-08 22:09:55+00:00
Regarding 1, yes, we think we can identify based on their atmosphere's composition and temperature habitable planets orbiting other stars, so the distance from Pluto to Earth is easy, and one could certainly identify Earth's radio broadcasts and so on from the distance of Pluto with the right antenna.

Regarding 2, depends entirely on the pings. Their doing it deliberately would certainly increase the odds. :)
by eigenspace | 2025-09-08 22:10:24+00:00
Hey, i have a related question about this:

I have an old iPhone that has all my old Signal messages still on it that I wasnt able to move with me when I switched to Android. Is there any way that I can use these new tools to move the old conversations on my iPhone over to my android phone without losing all the new messages that are on my android now?

That is, I want to merge the two histories.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-08 22:10:26+00:00
That's what a general IQ test is. Those aren't distinct concepts. The SAT is also a general IQ test.

Notice how your score on the ASVAB (and on the SAT!) is a percentile rank, not a count of items you got right.

Here's a sample question targeted at the Wonderlic, which is an IQ test that advertises itself as an IQ test:

> The words PERCEIVE and DISCERN have ___?___ meanings.

> A. similar

> B. contradictory

> C. unrelated

Here's one from the ASVAB:

> Quiver most nearly means

> [ ] shake.

> [ ] dance.

> [ ] rest.

> [ ] run.
by isaacremuant | 2025-09-08 22:10:50+00:00
"trusted government officials" is such a funny line. Clearly you haven't seen how government workers work. Hint, they're usually not paid all that well and are not to be trusted.

In any case, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about, dude. Isn't that the line?

Clearly you can't live up by the standards you want to impose on others.
by d0ublespeak | 2025-09-08 22:11:05+00:00
This article feels self defeating. It’s rewriting the meaning of the word bubble itself. There is a speculative asset bubble. Whilst I think there is some correctness in saying that drawing parallels with the Dotcom boom/bust is intellectually lazy I still think this acts as a notable precedent. Is there potential for AI usefulness long term? Yes, will it take exactly the same form as now or do the products and services exist now? No. So there is some utility in comparing the two. Either way this article reads like a bit of cope.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-08 22:11:09+00:00
I've seen a number of people complain about the change, and my first guess is that it is a change in methodology rather than an organic change.

But if that's the case, why isn't YouTube coming out and saying it? Granted, it's not a great look to say "we've determined that our view counts are inflated because of $REASONS, so moving on from $DATE, we've applied a different methodology that will probably result in %xx loss in views." But the alternative of silence means that it's interpreted as "YouTube is screwing over the people they depend on for revenue because <fill in the blank>," which is at least as bad.
by temp0826 | 2025-09-08 22:11:15+00:00
Can confirm. At one point in my career (after reflection on the situation) I realized I had been made a champion by a subsidiary of IBM for one of their products. I found myself in some really bizarre meetings with our execs and their executive sales people that left me feeling like a puppet that was made to tell our CEO that we needed this. They really took us apart, It was all very slimy.
by the_af | 2025-09-08 22:11:21+00:00
Am I the only one who didn't like Hollow Knight?

In theory, it's just the game for me: indie, charming graphics, technically well done. What's not to like?

In practice, it felt too difficult, too much work, too repetitive, and simply unfun to me.

edit: interesting, downvotes for expressing an opinion directly related to sentences in the article (how difficult games are enjoyable somehow to some people; the article is all about difficulty and enjoyment regardless!). Is this the famed respectful and intellectually stimulating discourse of HN? Guys (and gals) please realize I'm not saying you are wrong to like Hollow Knight or Silksong, just adding a data point to the fact some of us don't like punishingly difficult games.