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by righthand | 2025-09-04 17:55:54+00:00
The policy is intended to fail. There will be another wave of failed policy under the guise of “getting it right”. Because if you set the dates for 2050/2060 whenever the state is able to convert over, then businesses won’t do anything until 2050/2060. The most effective method forward is going to be continuously failed but enforceable policy to legally push industries and people into cleaner energy.

Agree that Cuomo decommissioning the plant was DUMB.
by crowcroft | 2025-09-04 17:56:39+00:00
You're assuming that Dia is what Atlassian wanted in this acquisition, and nothing else. We don't know what things would look like if they had continued developing Arc.

Almost every successful company has got there by grinding away on hard problems. No one launches a product and gets endless growth for free. Not to say that Arc would have definitely succeeded, but to date it's been a lot more successful than Dia.
by Kirby64 | 2025-09-04 17:56:45+00:00
Unless your vacation home is off grid, there is almost no way you would not be able to have enough electrical service to charge an EV. Maybe not enough to install a big chunky 50-60A 240V outlet, but a much smaller and reasonable 240V 20A outlet is more than sufficient for most cars. You won’t have a full charge overnight with a 3.8kW charger, but it’ll be plenty usable for putting around town.

Also, your anecdote is certainly not the plethora of people in America. The vast majority of folks take maybe one vacation a year, if that, and certainly don’t own a vacation home.
by andrewla | 2025-09-04 17:57:06+00:00
No, go ahead and leave your home. Why wouldn't you leave your home?

What if a police officer or a nosy neighbor is watching your house specifically and writes down your comings and goings? You surrender a certain amount of privacy by leaving a private space, and this is just how the world works.

The Flock is a private company does not entitle them to fewer powers than the state. The state has a lot of power and is severely constrained; many of those constraints simply do not apply to private entities and individuals. The only reason why this is an issue at all is that law enforcement uses data from Flock, and the various rights that you have prevent agents of the state from doing things that the state itself is not entitled to do.

For "harm" you need to be extremely specific. If the state uses this data to blackmail you or extort you, then they are committing the crimes of blackmail and extortion. Those are illegal already, regardless of the method used to obtain the data.

If they use the data to interfere with the rights of freedom of association in any way then that is also illegal and they should be prosecuted for it, or at the very least be unable to use that as evidence.
by ajross | 2025-09-04 17:57:15+00:00
This is absolutely true. The strategic goal of "dumping" is to drive competitors (the example here being the US solar panel industry) out of a market, with the implied goal of raising prices at the end of the process. But it almost never works that way in practice.

Pretty much by definition, products that can be dumped are ones that can be manufactured with easily scaled production equipment at low margin and high volume. If you can dump your competitors out of business, so can someone else, to you.

And that's the way it generally happens (c.f. DRAM in the 80's). The "dumping" phase of a technology curve is succeeded not by a cartel with a tight grip on the previously competitive market, but by an extremely competitive market of producers all undercutting each other. Almost everyone wins, except the original high-margin producers. But they (c.f. Intel in the 90's) tend to move on to other products anyway. No one wants to make junk for a living.
by timothy_saidely | 2025-09-04 17:57:25+00:00
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by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-04 17:57:26+00:00
When I was young there were two types of games I tended to enjoy: single-player games (e.g. Nethack, Half-life, Starcraft, & others with a good story and gameplay, or just deep gameplay) and LAN party games (e.g. Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, Total Annihilation, Quake II, and similar). LAN party games were more fun at LAN parties than online, and not just because server browsers all kind of sucked. Playing along with other people you can see in the same room is a very different experience from playing along with other people you've never met, can't see, and will never encounter again.

These days my friends are scattered across the country, with jobs & families, and so LAN parties are basically dead. And many new games don't even support LAN play, instead they tend to be optimized for online play with some sort of ranking system.

That leaves single-player games. And really good single-player games are rare, just like really good anything is rare. I find a lot of story-driven singleplayer games have good stories, but crap gameplay, so it's frustrating to try to complete the story. If the story is good enough & the gameplay bad enough I'll just cheat & treat the whole thing more like a book or movie instead of a game, but for a lot of games I just don't bother even with that.

But occasionally a game grabs me. The story is great, and the gameplay is at least good enough, or it's just really good gameplay that stays engaging for a long time (e.g. Slay the Spire). These are few & far between, because making really good games is very difficult.

As I age my tolerance for mediocrity decreases, partly because I already own a whole bunch of still-engaging games I can always play. So I agree with your points. The really great games are rare, far rarer than best-selling games.
by parpfish | 2025-09-04 17:57:49+00:00
i feel like it'd be great if players could get comped with equity in their franchises.

for an aging star that's on the downhill side of their prime, it'd help with salary caps and letting them build new stars around them. and the franchise doesn't have to worry about shipping off a beloved player once they get too expensive.

besides, lets player take ownership of the teams that they're building just feels right.
by nailer | 2025-09-04 17:57:52+00:00
The hoax about the boy being killed was on the HN front page a few weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714221

Dang: why is this marked a dupe? Where are the duplicate submissions of this story?

This is the second time the HN mods have marked a debunking story a duplicate of the hoax.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-04 17:58:45+00:00
It depends. This was an employment tribunal, and it will typically decide that both parties should pay their own costs, however the tribunal is entitled to conclude that one of the parties was sufficiently wrong that there shouldn't have been a tribunal, and so they should pay everybody's costs.

This creates an incentive to settle rather than waste the tribunal's time when you're fucked.

The nastiest thing I've seen is Putin, via a surrogate, files a case, court accepts despite the Russian origin, the case is bullshit and they'll lose, but when the court says "This case was a waste of our time, losers pay for everything" the surrogate's lawyers go oh, sorry, that Russian surrogate has vanished, conveniently just after paying our high fees.

I think reform to ensure that either the surrogate must pay for insurance or that the state of Russia is on the hook not an amazing vanishing surrogate is needed. Or we could just penalize the hired guns, bankrupt a few millionaire law partners ?
by NickC25 | 2025-09-04 17:58:54+00:00
This x1000000.

He's a generational talent who signed a $30 million rookie contract.

I know guys who played in the NFL and they got paid a sliver of that, at best. They are out of the league. 99% of guys who make it aren't Saquon Barkley. Shit, 99% of guys in his position aren't at his level. RBs do not last at the NFL level for very long. There's always some young new hotshot out of the college game who is faster, younger, and not beat up.

The big issue is that most of those guys spent their entire lives to that point to play in the NFL. They didn't challenge themselves in high school or college from an academic standpoint - they focused on football. They took home through that 3 year rookie deal MAYBE $200k-300k total after tax, outside training expenses, agent expenses, etc.
by Gormo | 2025-09-04 17:59:22+00:00
I'd suspect that a very large proportion of code has always been "private code" written for personal or intra-organizational purposes, and which never get released publicly.

But if we expect the ratio of this sort of private code to publicly-released code to remain relatively stable, which I think is a reasonable expectation, then we'd expect there to be a proportional increase in both private and public code as a result of any situation that increased coding productivity generally.

So the absence of a notable increase in the volume of public code either validates the premise that LLMs are not actually creating a general productivity boost for software development, or instead points to its productivity gains being concentrated entirely in projects that never do get released, which would raise the question of why that might be.
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-04 17:59:36+00:00
I guess ask a Chinese person? Like I'm sure many Chinese people aren't happy about the way their state functions, but the vast majority of them live their lives pretty much like we do. I don't know if I would take that as a total invalidation of whatever it is they have over there. Would I prefer a western style system? Definitely, but I'm not sure its so easy to point at China and say "this is an abject failure."

In fact, quite the opposite: most of the poverty reduction in the last 50 years has been in China, for example. Most of the cheap stuff we buy is manufactured there. Being the "factory of the world" doesn't seem like a definitive invalidation of that system.
by spankibalt | 2025-09-04 18:00:26+00:00
> Landscape mode would make sense, if scrolling on eInk wasn't completely awful.

I don't see how that can't be improved.

This smells more of a fundamental problem to me where vendors enshittify their devices to try wooing complete non-users, e. g. people who are too incompetent to work their head around using a penabled smartphone-sized machine and its notetaking/sketching applications exactly like they would use an analog pendant (the classic pocket notepad/pencil combo), or people who bore others with tedious litanies about how "the screen is too small". The latter crowd is well-cared for options-wise, so this is virtually a non-problem. I want to carry around and use a digital pocket notepad on steroids, and not a bloody whiteboard.

> I will say that my supernote really is just a digital notepad.

I only tested the Nomad's pen functionality (as well as ergonomics resulting from its size) and was very pleased. It's weaknesses lie elsewhere.
by transpute | 2025-09-04 18:00:36+00:00
"Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing" (2025), 50 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665982

"Inside a $1 radar motion sensor" (2024), 100 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834349

"mmWave radar, you won't see it coming" (2022), 180 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172647

"What Is mmWave Radar?: Everything You Need to Know About FMCW" (2022), 30 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312351
by TimBurman | 2025-09-04 18:00:39+00:00
Faster Than Light is another great roguelike, especially with the Multiverse mod [1]. You pilot and crew a ship, relentlessly pursued by your enemies and forced into ever more difficult battles. It teaches you how to think long term but also survive in the short run, so you can prosper in the long run. A bargain for $3 recently.

[1] https://subsetgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=35332&p=1...
by throwup238 | 2025-09-04 18:00:48+00:00
Second sentence of that Wikipedia page:

> Expenditures can be inflated to reduce or eliminate the reported profit of the project, thereby reducing the amount which the corporation must pay in _taxes_ and royalties or other profit-sharing agreements, as these are based on net profit.

First and foremost it’s a tax dodge because nobody falls for points net anymore unless they’re brand new to the industry and people dropping millions to finance a movie are rarely that uninformed. But that’s the why.

I’m describing the how: Hollywood accounting is GAAP accounting where the financiers direct a significant fraction of the capital towards businesses they have an ownership stake in. They have both control over the client and how much the vendor charges, driving profit in the topline organization to zero and sending it downstream.

The people/studios financing the films are okay with it because they own the downstream vendors. Neither the studios nor Spielberg are under any illusions about how this works - they structure it that way on purpose. They can’t just zero out their profit and say too bad to the taxman and all the contracts on net profit. No judge would let that slide if it came to a lawsuit (and it frequently does).

None of this is a mystery to anyone who has worked on the financial side of the industry but because of how that money moves around within a production, it creates economic incentives that favor expensive productions rather than smaller budget ones, at least within Hollywood.
by photochemsyn | 2025-09-04 18:01:00+00:00
Another very real reason is that GOOGL's top five major institutional shareholders are the same as Exxon's (XOM). Now, what happens to American fossil fuel corporate value if this AI data center boom is built on the back of solar/wind/storage upgrades to the US electrical grid? That would reduce natural gas demand, not increase it.

Another option for powering data centers is small modular nuclear - but again, China is far ahead on that with the helium-cooled pebble-bed model, although it really seems optimized for high-temp industrial process steam generation over electricity at present - so no, cheap safe nuclear power is not coming to the USA anytime soon.

Certainly, Trump's vitriol on wind power and solar power could mean a loss of government contract opportunities for AI-centric firms that promote such energy source - but still, the tariffs on China's monoocrystalline PV panels go back a decade and are just as supported by both political parties, because the major donors to both parties see renewable energy as a threat to their profit margins, be they on the executive or the shareholders side of the equation.

The kerosene lamp manufacturers don't want to be replaced with electric lightbulbs. This kind of monopolistic investor capitalism always stifles innovation and progress - all they see is the losses from collapsing demand for fossil fuels, and if the raw inputs are solar and wind instead of oil and gas, it's harder to collect rents.
by gogurt2000 | 2025-09-04 18:01:19+00:00
I'm not going to argue against engineers using AI coding tools to write boilerplate code faster. I certainly think it's a useful tool for that.

But outside of that context, it's problematic to argue that "you can't tell if something was created by AI just by looking at it. And if you can't tell the difference, then the difference doesn't matter."

It feels like we aren't too far away from AI being indistinguishably good at other things. Actors would obviously be upset if you started producing movies with their likeness without paying them (and without them shooting a single scene). Screen writers, voice actors, authors, and artists would be similarly upset. Fans have already rallied against video game studios that try to use AI to replace artists.

I certainly think the "if you can't tell the difference, then the difference doesn't matter" test is problematic when you look at video shared with news stories.

So what makes writing code different? Is it because consumers of movies, television, books, and art care if AI took a job away while consumers of code don't? Is it because people who write code don't really care about writing boilerplate and just want to get past that to bigger, better things? Is it because a lot of people writing code don't like it at all and only got into it for the money?

I don't think the knee-jerk reaction to reject all AI generated content is misplaced. AI raises real questions and creates real problems that we need to address instead of simply dismiss because writing CRUD is boring.
by NobodyNada | 2025-09-04 18:01:35+00:00
Of course. I usually don't 100% metroidvanias for this reason. But I also don't usually look up a guide (unless I really want to find a specific boss or secret or something). I just put the game down and come back to it later if I want to keep exploring it.

There's nothing wrong with using a guide if that's how you have the most fun. But I think most people would have more fun playing Hollow Knight without one, which is why I don't think "if you [play Hollow Knight], use a guide or something" is good advice as an unqualified statement. I enjoy the experience of playing a game far more than the accomplishment of having completed it, so I'd rather enjoy a game fully and leave it unfinished than halfheartedly rush through it with a guide.
by pembrook | 2025-09-04 18:02:18+00:00
Ahhh apparently Europe is more immoral than OP thought! Good job guys.

Kidding aside, if Europe is this hidden powerhouse as you claim, then its even more odd to be begging the Americans for defense support/leadership from across the Atlantic, and still be importing natural gas from the "evil" Russians while supposedly in a fight with them. Seems to undermine your point no?
by otterley | 2025-09-04 18:02:44+00:00
As an attorney (and this is not legal advice), I don't think it's quite that simple. The court held that the CFAA does not proscribe scraping of pages to which the user already has access and in a way that doesn't harm the service, and thus it's not a crime. But there are other mechanisms that might impact a scraper, such as civil liability, that have not been addressed uniformly by the courts yet. And if you scrape in such a way that does harm the operator (e.g. by denying service), it might still be unlawful, even criminal.

There's a relevant footnote in the cited HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn case:

"LinkedIn’s cease-and-desist letter also asserted a state common law claim of trespass to chattels. Although we do not decide the question, it may be that web scraping exceeding the scope of the website owner’s consent gives rise to a common law tort claim for trespass to chattels, at least when it causes demonstrable harm."

They also said: "Internet companies and the public do have a substantial interest in thwarting denial-of-service attacks and blocking abusive users, identity thieves, and other ill-intentioned actors."

It's a good idea to take legal conclusions from media sites with a grain of salt. Same goes for any legal discussion on social media, including HN. If you want a thorough analysis of legal risk--either for your business or for personal matters--hire a good lawyer.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-09-04 18:02:46+00:00
One issue with capitalism — and every alternative system would have its own variant of this problem — is rent seeking. Players become so powerful within the economic system that they no longer play by the rules, but rather write the rules to their benefit. This allows them to extract value instead of creating value.

This is a run-away positive feedback loop which is kept in check by regular revolt and redistribution of wealth (see eg. the labor movement).
by joshred | 2025-09-04 18:04:03+00:00
It sounds like they are describing a regex filter being applied to the model's beam search. LLMs generate the most probable words, but they are frequently tracking several candidate phrases at a time and revising their combined probability. It lets them self correct if a high probability word leads to a low probability phrase.

I think they are saying that if highest probability phrase fails the regex, the LLM is able to substitute the next most likely candidate.
by wetwater | 2025-09-04 18:04:05+00:00
Its a good effort but very pedestrian and a very low hanging fruit. Its just another academia paper that will be published.

https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014297 https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2018.8319181 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3286978.3287003 ..... many more.

I'd say this is far more interesting, does not use ML and credits the tech stacks that it leverages . https://people.csail.mit.edu/davidam/docs/WiMic_final.pdf
by dvt | 2025-09-04 18:04:14+00:00
> A diverse group of independent entities, including some of Tempo’s design partners, will run validator nodes initially before we transition to a permissionless model.

So not decentralized at all. The only reason to not open source validators and allow the public to run their own is to make insiders rich. Another crypto grift that will mint a few millionaires before either being forgotten or merely being used as a speculative instrument.
by localbuilder | 2025-09-04 18:05:06+00:00
This is fascinating work, amazing job to the team!

Does SwiftUI have properties that uniquely make this type of interpreted system possible, or could it also use UIKit under the hood? On the surface, it seems like UIKit might be more difficult since you’d probably need to parse all of the obj-c header files in addition to the .swiftinterface.

Very cool stuff, excited to follow along how you all develop the product!
by antirez | 2025-09-04 18:05:17+00:00
The problem with all that, is the fact it remains possible to create a protocol with N big institutions (governments and large tech companies, big non profit organizations and so forth) signing every block, to create a collaborative system that is perfectly suited for the same task. The system can make progresses as long a given fractions of the participants is available and so forth, there are a number of well known protocols to do so. This maintains many benefits of the blockchain and lacks many issues (fast, simple, near zero cost, controllable to a given extent -- no takeover possible, ...).
by Gormo | 2025-09-04 18:06:31+00:00
> It speeds up people who don't know how to program 100%.

I'm not sure how that challenges the point of the article, which is that metrics of the total volume of code being publicly released is not increasing. If LLMs are opening the door to software development for many people whose existing skills aren't yet sufficient to publish working code, then we'd expect to see a vast expansion in the code output by such people. If that's not happening, why not?