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by meinersbur | 2025-09-22 00:02:50+00:00
Changing execution behaviour based on filename is common in Linux environments too. Some examples:

1. BusyBox is a single executable that executes different commands based on which symlink was used to call it

2. Bash puts itself into compatibility mode if invoked as "sh"

3. "ping" can be invoked as "ping4" or "ping6"

4. Some of git's subcommands are symlinks back to the main executable

5. Clang switches to C++ mode if invoked as "clang++"

6. AppArmor profiles activate on file paths
by gyomu | 2025-09-22 00:03:05+00:00
Welcome to promoting your product baby. No one cares if it's fake or not except the little voice in your head.

If you can post fake messages today that promote your product and will start getting you users, why wait for real users to provide real testimonials that align with what you want to communicate to do the same thing 3 months from now?

Of course you want to seek out real testimonials from satisfied customers and share those as much as you can; you don't want to lock yourself in a bubble where you post how amazing your app is while emails of dissatisfied users pile up in your inbox; but it's not an OR situation, it's an AND situation.

You might also be surprised to hear that the family laughing together while drinking Coca Cola in those video ads isn't a real family, they're not really having fun, and they're not really enjoying Coca Cola for the sake of it - they're on a filming set in front of a green screen paid by the hour.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-22 00:03:12+00:00
The tagline for the sleeping pad category is "Find the best backpacking and camping sleeping pads for comfort and support. NEMO sleeping pads are lightweight, packable, and built for your next adventure." Comfort is definitely a concern.

The pads do list their insulation value, but so do non-ultralight sleeping pads.

The reason is that the insulation value is incredibly important to comfort. From experience, a sleeping mat that is thick, but with bad insulation will lead to a way less comfortable night than a thin one with good insulation.

Sleeping bags don't provide much insulation on the bottom because they are compressed under your body (the insulation from a sleeping bag typically comes from air trapped in the fill). Any insulation between you and the cold ground has to come from the sleeping mat. That's why it is important to get one that is cushioned enough for your body as well as being insulated enough.

R values aren't an ultralight camper thing, they are an informed camper thing.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-22 00:04:00+00:00
Gemini thinks our nuclear power plants use "fuel derived from Russian oil" ?

The text is about Nuclear fuel

> The TPD also commits the UK to achieve full independence from Russian nuclear fuel by the end of 2028

This whole "deal" is largely waffle and nonsense, the two countries are going to somehow work together to achieve nuclear fusion with AI, and they're going to create a quantum supply chain, and this is going to unlock breakthroughs in health care...

Stop trying to figure out what would make sense. Donald Trump has no idea what sense would be and Starmer is mostly just glad to avoid Donald deciding Farage should be Prime Minister now or whatever other nonsense he might decide on a whim.
by Jensson | 2025-09-22 00:04:12+00:00
> Professors have been publishing papers advocating for legal bans of gender affirming care for ages

Tattoos are banned on anyone under 18 for good reasons. Protect the children, parents shouldn't have the freedom to ruin their kids lives, kids have a right to grow up with a healthy body and not get experimented on.

Kids can't even consent to sex, changing your sex has much bigger consequences than having sex, why should you be allowed to transition before the age of consent?

Parents has way too much influence over kids for kids to be said to be their own, its only when they become adults that they should be allowed to make these kind of life altering decisions.

I don't think there are many books written about banning gender affirming care for adults, just for children, and for children it makes sense, all other such body modifications are banned for kids.
by cout | 2025-09-22 00:04:44+00:00
I did not remember that from when I used to use colinux.

The colinux home page also says:

To cooperatively share hardware with the host operating system, coLinux does not access I/O devices directly. Instead, it interfaces with emulated devices provided by the coLinux drivers in the host OS. For example, a regular file in Windows can be used as a block device in coLinux. All real hardware interrupts are transparently forwarded to the host OS, so this way the host OS's control of the real hardware is not being disturbed and thus it continues to run smoothly.

So just like UML, colinux hooks int 80h (or sysenter) and forwards the request to windows. Thus while it may make use of direct access to the MMU, most devices iirc are virtualized.
by arcfour | 2025-09-22 00:05:27+00:00
Entering the stadium of an MLB game is maybe a 2-10 minute wait in line followed by scanning your ticket. It is in no way comparable to flying, let alone worse...that's absolutely crazy.

Heck even the NFL is just standing around in line, walking through the metal detectors, and scanning your ticket.

Source: have gone to 2-3 dozen MLB and NFL games.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-09-22 00:06:15+00:00
Preach !

The political quadrant is more important than ever compared to the mess of one-dimensional politics :

Right wing is economic (neo) liberals, while fascists are top wing center : these will (like a century ago) gladly use left-wing policies and rhetoric if they bring them the power they crave above all else. Or ally with corporations when convenient.

While societal liberals are on the bottom wing, and regularly clash with anti-liberal socialists/communists (left center, but also left top).

(Proto-Antifa used to ally with Nazis to beat up Social Democrats, until Stalin had decided to change direction, it's wild how both the name and flag are still reused today despite that dirty history...)
by dang | 2025-09-22 00:07:07+00:00
Edit: looking through your account history it's clear that you've been using the site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle, and stooping regularly to personal attacks as well. We can't have that here, so I've banned the account.

-- original comment --

Could you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you to stop. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by defrost | 2025-09-22 00:07:15+00:00
People across the board have expressed concerns about a Trump autocracy for years, this has accelerated in the past six months, well before the recent school shooting of Kirk.

Very few of the people concerned about Trump are aligned with the specific variations of terminally online viewpoint that drove the Kirk assassination.

Simplistic Us v Them takes fall well short of being insightful or useful.
by jordwest | 2025-09-22 00:07:28+00:00
Daniel Mackler has a whole YouTube channel about this

https://youtu.be/eBRNIvK3HqA

My experience matches very much with this thread. After years of therapy I hit a limit to what conventional psychology could explain or understand or “treat”, and the only thing that worked after that was going deeper into my own psyche with meditation.

The whole psyche is available for exploration when you stop believing that you are made of thoughts. It becomes extremely clear where all the anxiety and depression and addiction comes from, and that almost all conventional approaches merely treat the symptoms.

I also took some intro psych at university and remember that in general Freud’s was sort of accepted by mainstream psych as the de facto most “correct” and logical view of psychotherapy while Jung was considered a bit of a weirdo, and I accepted this at the time. However through my own experiences now I think Jung was much closer to the truth, particularly around what he calls the “shadow”.
by Olreich | 2025-09-22 00:07:38+00:00
If you need to grab a particular struct's version of the data, you can via `opts.BarService.URL` or `opts.FooService.URL`: https://go.dev/play/p/MUSYJhmoC2D

Still worth being careful, but it can be useful when you have a set of common fields that everything of a certain group will have (such as a response object with basic status, debug info, etc. and then additional data based on the particular struct). I don't know why they let you embed multiple layers and multiple objects though. I've never gotten value out of anything but a "here's a single set of common fields struct embedding".
by riku_iki | 2025-09-22 00:08:00+00:00
> you can still go to the authorities to report illegal acts

that authority could be birded by corp and report will go nowhere.

> You just can't monetize your past employment in the form of a 500k book deal.

sure, its reasonable to have non-monetization clause in contract, but it is unreasonable to have blanket statements to not ever talk about events during employments under any circumstances, which likely included into NDA.
by sumoboy | 2025-09-22 00:08:19+00:00
Why is that AI was supposed to help juniors shine, because plenty of so called "senior devs" have never really learned properly, bad habits, or lack technical breadth to be called that. This article is nothing more than what everyone else has been saying for two years, poorly at best. AI + coding has yet to hit it's stride and at some point highly specific LLM's will take into account of architecture, patterns, use-cases, compute environments, network, dev ops, testing, and coding to further equalize and close the gaps between the two roles. I've talked to seniors devs many are not interested in AI coding, just not the way they do things.

The only real advantage a senior dev has today is domain knowledge specific to a business in many cases. Even that is not much to hold on to because when layoffs come if nobody is hiring jr's then the seniors are getting axed.
by Jensson | 2025-09-22 00:08:35+00:00
> For starters, Germany does not give a single person the right to be king with decrees and military leadership.

Separation between civilian leaders and military leaders is a big one, yeah. When the same person controls both the military directly and the executive branch of the civilian government directly you don't have any way to punish him without his subordinates overthrowing him since he controls all the power.
by daemonologist | 2025-09-22 00:09:09+00:00
I assume they're using Ah at the cell level (3.7v nominal), and then maybe rounding up slightly.

(This is the absurdity of using Ah to measure the capacity of consumer-oriented power banks. They usually output 5v over USB A or a variable voltage over PD, but measure current at the cell level. Of course this fact or the precise voltage is rarely stated anywhere.)
by lossolo | 2025-09-22 00:09:22+00:00
The COI issued a 70+ page legal analysis and a formal OHCHR press release summarizing its conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. You can dislike the HRC, but the COI is a UN mandated investigative mechanism with its own methodology and evidentiary standards.

> "UN" is imprecise

Fair, but OHCHR hosting a press release doesn’t mean "just staff opinion". OHCHR is the Secretariat for HRC mechanisms, it publishes COI materials. The COI reports to the HRC but operates independently under UN rules for commissions of inquiry. These bodies are designed to feed into accountability processes (state action, sanctions and courts), which is why states and tribunals cite them.

> current HRC members include Qatar, Cuba, and DRC for example.

Yes, membership is political, members are elected by the UN General Assembly but that doesn’t erase the COI’s evidentiary record. And the genocide question isn’t hanging only on the HRC, the International Court of Justice (a separate UN organ) has issued multiple provisional measures orders in South Africa vs Israel, finding Palestinian rights under the Genocide Convention plausible and ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts, ensure aid and (on 24 May 2024) halt the Rafah offensive. Those are court orders, not HRC opinions.

> "the umpteenth massacre by Israeli forces".

That phrasing came from a joint statement by UN human rights experts (Special Procedures mandate holders) about the 8 June 2024 Nuseirat rescue operation, they were independent experts, not the High Commissioner personally or "the UN as a whole". They don’t bind the UN system, but their statements are part of the record governments consider.

> Who is currently sanctioned by the US for her antisemitism.

Judges from ICC are also sanctioned by US, almost anyone being critical about Israel is either condemned, called antisemitic or sanctioned by either US or Israel. I would like to remind you that US (alone) vetoed multiple UN security council resolutions. And US is isolated relative to most of the world (these below are only the ones I found from the last 3 years, there could be more):

UN General Assembly, Dec 12–13, 2023: "Immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza passed 153–10–23. US voted against, with a tiny minority of 9 other countries (Israel and some irrelevant little islands).

UN General Assembly, May 10, 2024: Resolution ES-10/23 upgraded Palestine’s participation rights and urged the Security Council to admit Palestine. It passed 143-9-25. US opposed and then vetoed the related Security Council membership bid on April 18, 2024.

Jun 12, 2025 Emergency Special Session (ES-10): A/RES/ES-10/27 149-12-19 in favor. Demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, unhindered aid access, respect for IHL and protection of UN/NGO workers. The UK and many EU states voted yes, US voted no.

Sep 12-13, 2025 Regular session: "New York Declaration" on a two state pathway 142-10-12 in favor. Endorsed a two state framework that condemns Hamas and envisages a PA led governance track (so "Hamas free"). US and Israel were among the 10 no votes.

There is an obvious pattern here.
by Scoundreller | 2025-09-22 00:09:44+00:00
UK has similar BS

> The "3pm blackout" rule prevents football matches from being shown on UK television between 14:45 and 17:15 on Saturdays.

> The policy was introduced in the 1960s to encourage fans to attend lower league games - and it remains in force.

> The blackout comes into effect when 50% of fixtures in the top two divisions are scheduled to kick off at 15:00.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c98l671604vo
by SamBam | 2025-09-22 00:09:56+00:00
Perhaps the future is compostable, but only if there's the political willpower to require it. It's hard to rely on the market if compostable means either more expensive or worse quality.

Unfortunately, I think we've regressed in the past couple years across the world, so it will be many years till we're back to being able to legislate things like that.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-22 00:10:59+00:00
Berlin is essentially a micro-/city-state within Germany. It doesn't have any rural area, but it is surrounded by Brandenburg which has large rural areas. "[M]uch more rural southern states" - Do you mean Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg? Those are some of the richest states in Germany due to their enormous manufacturing industry. AFAIK: The provincial capital cities of Munich and Stuttgart both have decent public transport.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-22 00:11:35+00:00
I have a hard rule that I don't provide citations to people who don't know the field and seem motivated primarily by politics. This cuts down on sealioning.

But if you're interested in the topic, most of what I've said is covered in a university intro to psych course. I think they may also be covered in AP psych courses. I recommend looking up some of the top psych programs and seeing what they use for their intro undergrad course. That will go over the rejection of Freud and psychoanalysis, the difference between things like anxiety and trauma, and most likely the repressed memory fiasco in the 80s and 90s.

Wikipedia has references for dissociative amnesia under the controversy section. Also check out the repressed memory article.

For the basics of science and pseudoscience you'd have to take a course in scientific methods.
by Incipient | 2025-09-22 00:11:47+00:00
Not sure if this is helpful here, but you're still looking at 32 bits of randomness, regardless of the time window. Use it for anything that you feel that's enough randomness to secure - a private home video of a cat braking a cup? Sure.

File sharing endpoints for a business? No. Use another uuid4 based 'sharing uuid' that you map internally to the PK uuid7.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-22 00:11:48+00:00
Yeah, too many things I have to give up with a phone. Perhaps it's because I grew up with a keyboard, mouse — my daughters have both a laptop and a phone and (well, one of them anyway) seems more comfortable on the phone.

Perhaps it depends on what you use them for. I'm in Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, ChatGPT and Safari most of the day (recently anyway). In short, I tend to create on my computing device. I need the screen real estate for graphics work, the keyboard for writing work.

iPads don't interest me either. I could add a keyboard … but then why not stick with my laptop.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 00:12:25+00:00
> Transit systems are usually sized for peak demand. Because you are paying for the vehicles and the infrastructure anyway, the marginal cost of offering better service outside peak hours is low. Especially if the drivers receive monthly wages and have semi-reasonable shifts

Right. Now remove drivers from the equation.

The ideal size for a bus goes down because you can effectively turn off parts of the bus outside peak hours. (By parking some of the fleet.) Moreover, you can induce new demand by adding (and moving) virtual stops wherever your customers are. Busses via rideshare doesn’t work with a driver; it does if you can spin up and down your fleet on a dime.
by coin | 2025-09-22 00:12:37+00:00
> Watthours is more important than amp hours

I'd go a step further and say that amp hours is meaning less since voltage is not specified. The only valid battery capacity unit of measure is watt hours. While most battery packs use a single 3.7 lithium ion battery, Apple's first gen MagSafe battery pack used two internal batteries in series, throwing off everyone's amp hours only comparison.
by Lu2025 | 2025-09-22 00:13:20+00:00
> old lifeless dork professor at "elite" university mumbling some nonsense and throwing walls of formulas with zero context

"Oh, you have a PhD in Chemistry? I hated orgo in college..." I heard it often enough to suspect some kind of a collusion. But no, there is no collusion, just old crummy dudes gatekeeping knowledge to preserve their status, and the departments allowing them to do so.
by tymscar | 2025-09-22 00:13:27+00:00
So I got curious and I looked at the compiler source code, and it does a depth-first search.

The fascinating bit to me is that there is a consolidateMultiples function in go/src/go/types/lookup.go (lines 286-304) that detects when multiple embedded types at the same depth provide the same field name. I wonder why they don’t do this for all levels. How deep could this even be in practice for it to matter? You could just have a hashmap with them all.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-22 00:13:30+00:00
The "American desert" can refer to an absolutely huge portion of the continent, and many, many different ecosystems. Its a big enough area of land that it is like saying I like hiking in Europe.

I'm partial to Utah's canyonlands, and a lot of the adjacent pinyon forest (still desert) in Northern New Mexico and Colorado, but that's just where I grew up. The Saguaro forests in southern Arizona are also amazing.

If you've never been to the desert in America, a good plan would be to fly to LA, and drive to the Grand Canyon. You will pass through a number of very different desert ecosystems.
by schiffern | 2025-09-22 00:13:36+00:00
"Something to sleep under, something to sleep on, and something to sleep in. Plus cordage."

Very different philosophy behind this kit (durability and flexibility), but here's a good intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kin_bjAYk0Q

EDIT: I forgot he also has a more "ultralight" full backpack kit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFj_ULMjcNQ
by OJFord | 2025-09-22 00:13:59+00:00
> British A Levels are far more difficult than the SAT/ACT/AP exams.

I think we just teach people to pass exams, really. Not to say it's necessarily wrong - you do need a grasp of the subject matter still - just that 'how the exam works' is an additional thing you learn.

I'm British, always lived here, took A levels naturally, and took SATs & ACTs too because I applied to MIT - I think I did extremely poorly. (vs. decently on A levels, meeting both my Cambridge & Imperial offers) I just had no familiarity with the test, the sort of questions, etc., maybe some of the subject matter is different too - from memory I think there was no calculus and an extraordinary emphasis on trigonometry? But I can readily understand then that vice versa you'd look at an A level exam and think Oh that's hard, because it's just not what you've been taught towards in the US.
by rendx | 2025-09-22 00:15:00+00:00
You add another ad hominem, great. You know nothing about me and my educational background. You are not required to engage in a discussion, but my point stands: You provide no supporting evidence whatsoever for your perspective.

"Prolonged trauma in childhood, however, can produce severe identity disturbances that may interfere with the encoding and later retrieval of personal semantic and autobiographical event information. […] In light of our accumulating empirical and theoretical understanding, genuine recovered memory experiences no longer appear as bizarre or counter-intuitive as they have been painted by those who are skeptical of their occurrence. The field has not been well-served by much of the existing literature, which has uncritically embraced a variety of myths, logical errors, and false assumptions, and adopted a simplistic approach to what are complex and fascinating memory phenomena […]"

Brewin, C.R. (2012). A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Recovered Memory Experiences. In: Belli, R. (eds) True and False Recovered Memories. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol 58. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1195-6_5

The Rise and Fall of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (2020)

https://news.isst-d.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-false-memor...

"Debates are frequently characterised by people hunkering down with theoretical rigidity and engaging in ad hominin attack, rather than using scientific debate to further knowledge"
by gazook89 | 2025-09-22 00:15:12+00:00
I have an Urban Arrow since the beginning of last February and live in Minneapolis. I’ve used it about 5 days a week for getting my pre-k kid and newborn to the places we need to be, since we bought it. Each day it’s between 6 and 26 miles. That upper end comes from busy days, probably once or twice a month I get above 20 miles in a single day. Definitely not doing that on the coldest days. Studded tires really help.

One unexpected benefit is that the muddy/wet boots don’t muss up the bike like they would if I was loading them into a car. Just drips out the bottom grate.

Lots of other small benefits but not so related to winter.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-22 00:15:19+00:00
I'm interested to see how this shakes out now that they are well past the proof of concept stage and have something that can replace CUDA on Nvidia hardware without nerfing performance in addition to other significant upsides.

Just the notion of replacing the parts of LLVM that force it to remain single threaded would be a major sea change for developer productivity.