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by tombert | 2025-09-21 15:01:51+00:00
I've lived in NYC without a car for the last decade, and I don't have kids, and even granting that, I still have grown to understand why Americans love cars.

Getting groceries is a particular pain in the ass; I either need to go to the (very limited) grocery selections in my neighborhood with a cart, or lug the cart up and down the stairs of the subway, or be ok with only taking as much as I'm able carry with my hands in a few bags. I could get delivery, and I do that fairly often, but there are things that I prefer to get in person, like fruits or vegetables.

There's also just large things you cannot realistically take on a train, like large sheets of plywood at Home Depot. Again, you can of course get this stuff delivered, but then you run the risk of them sending you the worst, most warped piece of wood available, which has happened to me multiple times.

I've grown to sympathize with most Americans as a result.
by amluto | 2025-09-21 15:03:06+00:00
Taking a piece of metal or a plate that has any oily or other non-water-soluble food on it, rinsing it, and chlorinating it results in a mess that might indeed be non-infectious but is otherwise disgusting. Also, leaving a piece of stainless steel covered in chloride (which that bleach will turn into) is one of the worst things you could credibly do to it in a kitchen context. (And, while the relevant regulators don’t seem to care about disinfection byproducts in a kitchen, all those residual organics that didn’t get removed plus hypochlorous acid seem like they would thoroughly fail most drinking water standards.)

Also, I don’t know what all the food safety and dishwasher vendors are telling their customers, but that nice residual chlorine has a tasty and odor that is not appetizing at all. But you can also legally disinfect your dishes and such with sufficiently hot water, and you can buy a commercial dishwasher that does that instead of using chlorine.

In a home context, what’s wrong with dish soap and a sponge or brush? In a commercial kitchen that really wants to be compliant could use dish soap followed by a (very) hot rinse. The average household instant hot water tap is plenty hot for this, too, although demonstrably hitting those HACCP targets might be tricky.
by wyldfire | 2025-09-21 15:03:25+00:00
Because HN says I should take you seriously, I will take you seriously. I think you are uninformed. Of course, we're all aware of the limitations of over-the-air broadcasts and why there are limitations there.

> Nobody is denying anyone's ability to communicate over privately owned channels.

There's several dimensions to this that I think you are lumping in to the simplest possible explanation, because you're uninformed.

* Trump himself said "When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech." [1]. This signals his abandonment of his oath of office, to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." The first amendment doesn't apply anymore when the president decides he will use the power of the presidency to retaliate against and prevent speech he does not like.

* Nexstar Media Group is attempting to acquire Tegna Inc, this merger is pending FCC approval. Look no further than the Paramount/Skydance merger - an ombudsman being installed to review content.

These actions chill free speech [2].

> You have to take Trump "seriously but not literally".

Trump means what he says. He repeatedly backs up his words with actions that reinforce them. You have to take Trump literally, if you fail to do so, you do it at your own peril.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-fre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-21 15:03:36+00:00
This writing mirrors my thoughts exactly.

Have seen too many cases where 10-20 lines of code avoided the need to pull in an external library with multiple dependencies.

Ironically, I also find for anything not extremely mainstream, external libraries tend to appear more complete/functional than they actually are. Often find I end up having to fork and/or rewrite them for my use case.

Sure, some say everything should be fixed with PRs. But my technical goals and timeline constrains don’t necessarily align with the maintainer’s. So fork/rewrite it is!!
by Hikikomori | 2025-09-21 15:03:53+00:00
1. There's barely any normal republicans left, its all MAGA now that would hang Pence like they wanted to in 2021.

2. Likely true, but they don't really need the military as ICE which now employs all the armed racists they need, like Jan 6 people.

3. He's floating the idea, even talking about not having elections if they're in a war like Ukraine, even though its not in the constitution. Either way they're going all in on rigging elections so Vance will take over.
by casenmgreen | 2025-09-21 15:04:29+00:00
I may be wrong, but it seems to me the basic rule is that everything must be voluntary and well-informed, except in self-defence.

It seems to me if I am an individual or business, with my own money, want to hire someone, it is wholly a private matter.

These are my possessions and I am choosing to do as I see fit, and I am not forcing others to do something, to tricking them into doing something.

It seems to me then the very existence of constraints upon whom can be employed is wrong from first principles.

If we argue in this case it is acceptable, then we must in fact be arguing in general there are cases where others or the State can impose itself, by force or by trickery, upon people, without the justification of self-defence (perhaps the State thinks that all American shipping must be staffed only by American sailors, or that there is a need for a national raisin reserve, or that we need reciprocal tariffs on every other country we trade with).

Indeed, to argue for this means that we ourselves are saying it is fine for others to impose themselves on ourselves by force or by trickery, which I think no one would actually agree with, since this includes being robbed.
by ajross | 2025-09-21 15:04:49+00:00
> First, there is the 3.5% rule [1]. Second, if 10%-20% of the general population would go on a general strike

FWIW, when the best case recommendations for a restoration of civil order and the rule of law involve very large scale society-wide civil disobedience...

...then maybe the comparison to Nazi Germany and authoritative dictatorships more generally are perhaps not as far afield as you're implying. Like, once your thinking goes beyond "just win the next election" things are kinda over as far as "democracy" goes.

(And FWIW I don't necessarily disagree: the existing regime's leadership, not just the White House, seem extremely unlikely to just walk out the door if they lose an election. It was tried four years ago and failed, the resulting loyalty tests have produced a very different cabinet this time.)
by JackFr | 2025-09-21 15:04:59+00:00
The problem is norms are being destroyed.

It’s not all new with Trump (governing by executive order, ignoring duly enacted laws, strong arming media companies, etc.). But while earlier administrations might have done those things on the margins, Trump takes them to 11 (in the spirit of the new Spinal Tap) and makes them the central and primary means of administration.

With the norms destroyed, we potentially lose our nation of laws, and become a plutocracy with different juntas every few years.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 15:05:01+00:00
Lately I have been so busy taking photographs [1] and developing photographs and posting them to socials that I haven’t had time to code anything in my own account. Arknights eats up the rest of time.

I have an RSS reader and an “image sorter” that I wrote that I use everyday, there are a lot of things I could do to improve them but they work great so I don’t need to.

Winter is coming and since I took so many photographs I expect to run them out of my file and stay indoor more. If I can’t be a baller [2] I wish could get paid to shoot basketball this winter though and maybe I will get brave enough to bundle up and shoot landscapes outdoors.

The basic project management practice is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Which for creative projects is what you are doing: “finish what you start”. Normally I have three projects at any given time that I’ll say I am committed to, two I make real progress on, one is aspirational. That system works for me.

In the case of my photography the start-finish gap is in the developing. Particularly in sports it is easy to shoot 3000 pictures of the game and not develop any. I get paid to do running events where I’m expected to turn around the results quickly and my goal is to get a good shot of everyone who ran so I have to be fast and that’s changed the way I think about other sports —- now I can get 100 shots out of one game that are good enough to put in my file (on one level one game is as good as the next) but I’m learning how to get just a few great shots very quickly the way a pro photog would. For the two games I went to yesterday I saw just half so I’d have fewer to develop.

[1] yesterday that meant going to an American football game, then hiking up a creek in water shoes, then going to an association football game. Today I want to get good pictures of Goldenrods for the file and find at least one first-class sports pic from yesterday to post to the LinkedIn alumni group for my Uni.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXZOI7cM0M
by samirillian | 2025-09-21 15:05:07+00:00
I don’t take a position on this because I don’t know it but I think you’re (willfully?) misunderstanding the point. I don’t think all ethical problems can be legally defined. Something may be legal and wrong or illegal and not wrong. If she was indeed forced out for reporting sexual harassment, then what ethical responsibility does she still bear towards that company, regardless of what they ask her to sign as she leaves? The point isn’t that she’s right or wrong for sure, it’s that the problem is complex and legalities cannot account for all situations.
by 0manrho | 2025-09-21 15:05:58+00:00
A fair point and important distinction, but so is the difference between "we CAN" and "we WILL/DO". That "myth" didn't come out of thin air. It's a result of of amazon not doing that unless they felt it financially prudent to do so/until enough people bitched about it.

The OP article is exhibit A for how common of an issue this was.
by perrygeo | 2025-09-21 15:06:20+00:00
Yep, and the productivity of LLMs means that experienced developers can go from idea to implementation way faster. But first someone has to understand and define a solid structure. And later someone needs to review, test, and integrate the code into this framework. This is hard stuff. Arguably harder than writing code in the first place!

It's no wonder inexperienced developers don't get as much out of it. They define a vague structure, full of problems, but the sycophantic AI will spew out conformant code anyways. Garbage in, garbage out. Bad ideas + fast code gen is just not very productive in the long term - LLMs have made the quality of ideas matter again!
by fspeech | 2025-09-21 15:06:30+00:00
Your arguments are not supported by what is actually happening. They just rolled out child payments and I support that. Pensions grew very fast for 体制内 people and there is scant evidence that stimulates spending other than burdening local finances. 大病保险 reimbursement rate is also up a lot while office visit costs are kept very low and while I think that is good there's little evidence that it stimulates consumption. Your attack on my analysis as annecdotes is ridiculous. For one to induce change one needs differential data to get the derivatives on proposed changes and your citation of national bulk statistics at a point does nothing of that sort. Secondly on the ground experience can provide directions that inform experimentations. Government finance is tight. You don't want to get another 100% GDP in debt with little to show (as in Japan). Thirdly this is not an academic forum and I am not an expert. If you feel like you are one you can write papers on your ideas. Attacking me isn't going to achieve anything.
by jagged-chisel | 2025-09-21 15:06:38+00:00
> … Most undergraduate students do not go to office hours, try to get to know their instructors, ask follow-up questions

This was actively discouraged by the instructors in the school I attended. Not by policy, but by behavior - passive-aggressively belittling students for not “getting” the subject matter, showing a complete lack of interest in reciprocating any amount of getting to know the instructor.

> … ask follow-up questions, pursue independent research, or do anything approaching "apprenticeship". Most American students matriculate into college/uni not even having ingrained behaviors that make any of these things obvious or approachable …

A failure of secondary education and students’ families.
by tombert | 2025-09-21 15:06:48+00:00
To me, the clunky and annoying UI of Sim City 2000 is part of the charm of it.

Is it dated? Yep, but it's intuitive enough for nine-year-old tombert to have figured it out ok, and to me part of the fun is trying to use the UI quickly enough to put out fires and the like.

It could just rose-tinted glasses on my end, very likely honestly, but I still find the entire experience to be pretty fun. I liked Sim City 3000 and Sim City 4, and they are arguably better games, but for me Sim City 2000 hit the right balance of "easy" and "complicated" that I find myself most drawn to. I will load up Sim City 2000 about once a year off of my GOG purchase, and still thoroughly enjoy it, and find myself wasting way more hours than I budgeted for it.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-21 15:07:04+00:00
1. I agree. This administration is concentrating power and whoever kisses ass the most gets more exceptions. This destabilizes business environment and eventually lead to a few companies/people owning everything. See 2nd/3rd world country economics where a few giant conglomerates own everything.

2. Yes, it sucks but the macro picture is that it isn't nearly as bad as everyone thought yesterday.
by martin-t | 2025-09-21 15:07:05+00:00
Crazy idea, how about making non-disparagement clauses illegal?

They serve no purpose, other than protecting abusive and exploitative companies.

If a disgruntled employee says something that is not true, there are already laws the company can use to defend itself and the company has way more resources than an individual. That's enough to deter even people who want to expose the truth but are not confident they can prove it. These clauses just make the power differential even larger.
by Nexxxeh | 2025-09-21 15:07:06+00:00
Perhaps it was a rushed tradeshow/employee perk gone awry. Something like:

Tradeshow coming up very quickly, previous merch supplier has let the sales team down.

Mid-level Haribo employee responsible for merch finds a supplier willing to rush through everything, because let's face it, Haribo are probably going to pay their bills.

MoQ is 100 units, which is 1 lot.

Sales person intends to order 2000 units, better to be safe than sorry and run out. Accidentally orders 2000 lots of units with 100 units per lot. This isn't noticed until they're already printed and then it's, as they say in the legal profession, no takesie backsies.

Haribo suddenly have a lot more power banks than they have booth visitors, and employees combined.

Rather than store them indefinitely, they sell them off at cost and shift them quickly though Amazon. This drastically cuts down on warehousing space of small lithium (explosive) packs that the candy people have to store.

And kids and grown-ups love it so, with 20,000mAh wherever they go.
by amluto | 2025-09-21 15:07:09+00:00
> It's hard to do irreparable damage to the steel of a knife.

It’s easy — just heat it above the tempering temperature of the steel in question. You can achieve this in an ordinary oven for most steels, and you can also achieve it (locally) with a motorized sharpener that isn’t cooled. Don’t take a knife you care about to be professionally sharpened by a person who uses a non-water-cooled power tool.
by nicoburns | 2025-09-21 15:07:27+00:00
> Can you elaborate as to why?

Because Rust crates are the "compilation unit" as well as the "publishing unit". So if you are a largish library then you'll likely want to split your library across several crates (to enable things like parallelism in the build process). Then you'll end up with several crates from the same git repo, same developers, that will show up individually in the raw crate count.

It's not a perfect analogy (because crates are generally multiple files), but imagine if in a C project you counted each header file as a separate dependency, it's kinda like that.

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There is a culture in the Rust ecosystem of preferring shared crates for functionality rather than writing custom versions of data structures or putting too much in the standard library (although it's not nearly so extreme as in the JavaScript ecosystem). And I do think the concern around supply-chain attacks is not entirely unwarranted. But at the same time, the quality standards for these crates are excellent, and in practice many of them are maintained by a relatively small group of people that as a Rust developer I know and trust.
by balls187 | 2025-09-21 15:07:41+00:00
That's an issue of skill and technique.

For trained chefs, the sharper blade means things stay in place as expected, because the weight and motion of the blade are cutting, and not force exerted.

Related: I watch chefs use a mandolin, no freaking way I'd use it the way they do. I just do not have the skills necessary to free hand it. I will use a safety glove and/or a guard.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-21 15:08:00+00:00
What is a proportionate way to respond considering the scale of what Hamas (de facto government of Gaza with popular support) did?

How did the US react to Pearl Harbour and 9/11? (Both of which were smaller attacks in relative terms than 7th October).

Should the response to such attacks even be proportionate?

I don't know what response Hamas expected but I suspect they did seek a very bloody one. They must have known and expected it considering the horror of what they did. So, again, I think this is all playing right into their hands, even if Israel has indeed been brutal.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-21 15:08:04+00:00
This question shouldn’t even need to be asked.

Look at a decade of StackOverflow use.

Did YouTube turn medical interns into world class doctors?

AI is just the next generation search engine that isn’t as stupid as a plain keyword match.

In some sense, it’s just PageRank on steroids — applied to words instead of URLs.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-21 15:08:19+00:00
Lots of projects break themselves up into multiple crates for various reasons, but they’re still maintained as a whole by the same people.

Take serde, for example: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde

This is four crates, so it shows up as 4/2000. But last week, it would have been 3/2000, because serde_core was extracted very recently: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2608

As a serde user, this reorganization doesn’t change the amount of code you’ve been depending on, or who authors that code, but it did add one more crate. But not more actual dependency.
by isolatedsystem | 2025-09-21 15:09:24+00:00
Highly recommended. What you will find is that the title does the book justice. The top executives at Facebook aren't so much cartoonishly evil but rather hopelessly inept for the job at hand. They have no idea what they are doing, and little concern by way of the consequences of their actions, or their outsized impacts on individuals and the world in general.

Careless people, indeed.
by darkbatman | 2025-09-21 15:09:35+00:00
Mostly agree with article, though what happens in few years when juniors will eventually become senior.

Personally seeing trend juniors are relying so much on AI that they can't even explain what they wrote even in interview or coding assignments or even PR. Its like blackbox to them.

I believe then we would see the higher impact or may be by then its solved problem already.
by lausey | 2025-09-21 15:09:35+00:00
I have used the approach where if it is more complex, then I write the code manually myself, make sure it does what I want etc. I then ask ChatGPT to have a look at it and see where the problems are. Rather than do a complete rewrite, it points out very specific problems which I can also evaluate myself. For example, identifying memory leaks and it shows me the actual changes. Where it can be done by parallel processing and what changes for that. You can look at it with experience and say, "Yes, that makes sense" and apply it as necessary. See it as a more iterative process, rather than expect AI to correctly do all the work. For trivial examples like what Terence has given, this will be very easy to code and you wouldn't expect AI. However, you could still say to AI, "Take a look at the code I have written. Can you identify how it can be done better?", and hopefully it comes back to you saying, "No, that looks pretty good to me." for such a trivial example. :-)
by parpfish | 2025-09-21 15:09:37+00:00
There’s a vast gulf between “reading about a job online” and “doing a job”. Of course college bound kids know that jobs exist, but they don’t know what it’s like to do them for any extended amount of time. And I’m guessing that one of the main reasons that they don’t know what it’s like is that their parents and every other adult guiding them has been telling them, implicitly or explicitly, “you’re a college bound kid, jobs like this are beneath you. Just focus on school”
by skeeter2020 | 2025-09-21 15:10:30+00:00
This is definitely part of it, but after working - and hiring - in the software industry for several decades I can say that a university grad has probably at least heard of relational algebra or taken a course that covered costing algorithms. Do they use this every day or ever? Definitely not, but when I interview non-uni grads the odds they can write (let alone explain) a modest SQL query are lower. There's very little causation between uni grad and good developer, but IME the best uni grads are better than the best non-uni grads. There's some signal in there.
by inejge | 2025-09-21 15:10:30+00:00
If anything, AI was supposed -- still is -- to thin out the ranks of ever-expensive human employees. That's why it attracted such a huge pile of investment and universal cheerleading from the C levels. What we're seeing right now that there's not so much "I" in AI, and it still needs a guiding hand to keep its results relevant. Hence, the senior advantage. How much it's going to undermine regular generational enployee replacement (because "we don't need juniors anymore", right?) remains to be seen. Maybe we're in for different training paths, maybe a kind of population collapse.
by danaris | 2025-09-21 15:10:47+00:00
And what is their recourse if Amazon just says "nope, deal with it"?

Sue them? Even assuming that kind of time, money, and energy expenditure is within their resources, Amazon's legal department is likely to be able to stonewall until they run out of money.

Then multiply that by however many thousands or tens of thousands of customers Amazon has done this to. No more than a fraction will ever complain, no more than a fraction of those will ever sue.

Amazon has been allowed to get too big, and the usual methods of dealing with fraud at this level simply don't work reliably.