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by vlovich123 | 2025-10-30 04:16:30+00:00
Yeah it’s quite bold to suggest that Shockley would have done the same thing outside the environment of the Bay Area rather than that someone other than Shockley would have done what he did in California if he wasn’t there or that even if he did it outside California that people inside California still industrialize it. It’s a very individualistic view of progress which is uniquely American and unlikely to capture how stuff happens given that multiple discoveries often happen simultaneously by people working on the problem (eg calculus and Newton vs Leibniz).

The truth is the Bay Area has structural reasons why SV happened and why the same thing has failed to replicate to any significant degree outside the Bay Area.
by vishnugupta | 2025-10-30 04:16:31+00:00
I’m really curious to better understand what aspects of China’s government would hurt your day to day life.

From what I read online the people there are free to rant and get things fixed. Their local government representative is held accountable if the people in his/her province are unhappy. Not too different from a typical democratic setup I guess? But this could be off because I don’t know anyone personally there.
by hbosch | 2025-10-30 04:16:37+00:00
What do you mean "grit"? Does doing something more efficiently mean you lose it? What's the difference, say, between someone using an LLM to help them code and someone else using a drug to help them diet? Is the coder using an LLM losing their "grit"? Do you walk to work in 30 inches of snow, uphill both ways, in the rain? Are you concerned about your loss of "grit" by not doing so? This argument continues to baffle me.

I didn't take the GLP to help me with addictive behavior traits beyond my diet, but I observed tertiary benefits of the drug.

As I've titrated my dose down to zero, I've retained those habits and my weight. I'm in the best shape of my life and mentally healthier than I've been in over a decade.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-30 04:16:39+00:00
America's elevation of individuality and property rights above everything else, its inability to work together collectively to achieve a goal, and its citizen's infighting, distrust of and belligerence toward each other, are the main reasons it is incapable of doing big things anymore.

The minute we had a huge health emergency that should have united the population, it was immediately politicized such that half the country was trying to fix it, and the other half were trying to prolong it and grief the fixers.

We're done for if we can't stop pitting half the country against each other over literally every issue.
by gamblor956 | 2025-10-30 04:16:39+00:00
The scientific research says that drought resistance is due to the increased vegetation growth.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09819...

www.igb.illinois.edu/article/stronger-drought-resistance-urban-vegetation-due-higher-temperature-co2-and-reduced-o3
by schrodinger | 2025-10-30 04:17:13+00:00
I'm not following your logic. Having nearly triple the population density in Rheinland makes trains way _more_ feasible, not _less_. That means on average you have a train 1/3 the distance away from you. That's a big difference.

I live in NYC which has 29,000/sqkm in Manhattan and 11,300/sqkm overall. Public transportation is great here and you don't need a car.

but at 240/sqkm, that's really not much public trans per person!
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-30 04:17:36+00:00
This isn't right - the league can change the rules. NFL has done a wonderful job over the years on this.

Baseball has done a terrible job, but at least seems to have turned the corner with the pitch clock. Maybe they'll move the mound back a couple feet, make the ball 5.5oz, reduce the field by a player and then we'll get more entertainment and the players can still try their hardest to win.
by ian-g | 2025-10-30 04:18:53+00:00
You tell that to everybody with a glioblastoma.

Go ahead, tell them the aggressive mass in their brain, the thing that shortened whatever potential life expectancy they had to, at best, single digit years, isn’t a guaranteed death sentence.

They’ll be so comforted by the idea that maybe their already shortened life expectancy will be further reduced by a car accident or some idiot with a knife.
by fy20 | 2025-10-30 04:19:26+00:00
In many places it's also possibly just a left over feature from older times. I worked at a major UK supermarket in the mid-00s, and their checkout system had this feature. But it was like that because that's how it was originally built, it wasn't a 'feature' they added.

Credit card information would be recorded by the POS, synced to a mini-server in the back office (using store-and-forward to handle network issues) and then in a batch process overnight, sent to HQ where the payment was processed.

It wasn't until chip-and-PIN was rolled out that they started supporting "online" (i.e. processed then and there) card transactions, and even then the old method still worked if there was a network issues or power failure (all POSes has their own UPS).

The only real risk at the time was that someone tried to pay with a cancelled credit card - the bank would always honour the payment otherwise. But that was pretty uncommon back then, as you'd have to phone your bank to do it, not just press a button in an app.
by chaboud | 2025-10-30 04:19:28+00:00
It's possible to be exposed to, and understand, high end things. I've had $2000+ bottles of wine, listened to music on $100k+ speakers, driven $500k+ cars, seen Keith Jarrett Trio at Montreux, had cat-shit coffee, etc.

And I'm perfectly happy listening to Toxic by Britney Spears on phone speakers while drinking Miller High Life on a sunny day in the park, hopping in a banged up Miata to rip a donut in a parking lot.

Don't let fear of "spoiling" things keep you from ever growing your experiences. People tend to have a gravity for the things that matter to them.

And don't let knowledge of fancy things keep you from finding joy in the basics.
by dangus | 2025-10-30 04:19:50+00:00
Halo is a terrible example because it’s a game where the Mac version was never a very good way to play in the first place. I would guess that 99% of Halo players would be surprised to know it had a Mac version.

We should have a path to run legacy software when it’s practical but Halo is just not a good example to make that case.

I’d also personally be more interested in firing up the master chief collection or seeing if the upcoming campaign remake will be any good.
by Synaesthesia | 2025-10-30 04:20:12+00:00
Apple somehow managed to claw it's way to releavance from a weaker position in 1998 (with PoserPC!) So if they had their act together they could have done better in the early 90s.

hey squandered their early lead in the US among consumers and education and also ignored the international market.

Not gonna lie Wintel was a formidable force. Microsoft was ruthless in cornering the market.

But technically, OS/2 and MacOS gave Windows a run for it's money, arguably superior on some respects, and you could say the same for PowerPC and Intel.
by hbosch | 2025-10-30 04:21:01+00:00
I do the work I probably should be doing, or side projects, or spend time with my kids, or go on a walk, or follow up on that thing I've been putting off, or any of the other million things that are more productive and fulfilling than video games are. It's embarrassing to admit that I was a grown man who would put off basic, important tasks just to play games but I did. Now I don't.

It's not even really about choosing not to, either... it really does feel fundamentally like I cannot even derive a dopamine response to video games at all anymore, period. Same could probably be said about doom scrolling social media or whatever else. I just get no false positive feedback loop from the act.
by culi | 2025-10-30 04:21:33+00:00
Notch's problematic behavior and views are well-known in the community and both Mojang and Microsoft have had to distance themselves from him. To the point that they had to remove all instances of "notch" in the codebase

Here's some examples, particularly of his antisemitism to better illustrate the issues

https://xcancel.com/jacqui_Val/status/1111080126345826305
by marricks | 2025-10-30 04:22:07+00:00
I don't think any super power looks fantastic, and we definitely should not idolize China.

But also, we should let that be an excuse for western powers. We have corporations forcing most of the decisions in our country for extremely short term gains.

In the US we have... decrypt public transit, horrible healthcare, halting progress on renewable energies, we're probably going to make less than our parents while billionaires make more.

Like it sucks, and if anyone tells you well at least you don't live in China you should roll your eyes, why does where we live have to suck. Oh, and we even have awful imperialism too.
by Animats | 2025-10-30 04:23:24+00:00
The question is who can send commands as network owner. The basic idea of SDR is that when A wants to talk to B, a message is sent to some control point to determine the path. The path is then sent down to the routers along the path. Packets which ordinarily would go nowhere near eavesdropping point C can be redirected to go through C, on a per A/B pair basis.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-30 04:25:53+00:00
Yup, when the data breach happens the headlines aren't going to be "Random well meaning researchers caught in data breach exposing user data". They're going to be: "5 million Facebook logins hacked in massive data breach", and you'd be hard pressed to find actual information on how the leak happened, just like the gmail story from a few days ago.
by schrodinger | 2025-10-30 04:26:18+00:00
Having replied in good faith already, I also want to call out that your jab about trucks and rifles adds nothing to the conversation and is merely culture-war fuel.

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

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
by dangus | 2025-10-30 04:27:24+00:00
> I miss macOS polish, where basic things just work.

Funny, since iOS 26 my iPhone has been failing to bring up the screenshot UI half to time, completely broke guided access, and now I can’t figure out how to close all tabs in safari because all the buttons make no sense anymore.

Oh yeah and my battery life sucks now.

You should look into atomic Linux distros. They take getting used to but they’re awesome for being stable and easy to revert changes.
by echelon | 2025-10-30 04:27:28+00:00
This did veer very far from uv!

I'm so stoked for what uv is doing for the Python ecosystem. requirements.txt and the madness around it has been a hell for over a decade. It's been so pointlessly hard to replicate what the authors of Python projects want the state of your software to be in.

uv has been much needed. It's solving the single biggest pain point for Python.
by kragen | 2025-10-30 04:28:14+00:00
I think that Fil-C, unlike normal C allocators, could use a copying GC instead of a tracing GC, because it isn't exposing the machine pointers to user code. But I don't know if it does. Copying GCs often suffer from high memory overhead, but for example OCaml's GC is pretty frugal with memory, and RC by itself doesn't guarantee good worst-case latency—decrementing a reference to the root of an arbitrarily large tree can have arbitrarily bad latency in RC. You probably already know all of this, but someone else reading the thread may not.

So I'm not sure there isn't a single winner between ARC and GC, but you could be right.
by ntkhan | 2025-10-30 04:29:37+00:00
4-5 generations is a stretch, though it depends on what you mean by generation. Most New Testament Scholars including atheists agree that the New Testament was written while the some of the 12 apostles were still alive.

For example, agnostic atheist Dr. Bart Ehrman (Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary) states "Critical scholars are widely agreed that the earliest Gospel was Mark, written around 70 c.e.; that Matthew and Luke were written some years later, say, around 80–85 c.e.; and that John was the last Gospel, written around 90–95 c.e."

The historical record also has the disciples (St. Clement, St. Polycarp, St. Ignatius) of the apostles quoting the Gospels or referring to the letters of the apostles shortly after those dates ~90-108 AD depending on who you ask.

Regarding "faking history to suit their own ends", it is hard to imagine what gain the early Christians got by faking history. Some of these people were tortured, crucified, and fed to wild beasts by members of the Roman government because they were making these claims. Not exactly a racket.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-30 04:30:51+00:00
Ideally these engines should be deployed near the NIMBY’s houses so that they can appreciate the symphony and aroma they produce. If it’s a problem, offer them the possibility to bid a certain amount (either in terms of current money or future “property value”) to replace them with quieter, more efficient alternatives if the music/fragrance isn’t up to their taste.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-30 04:31:47+00:00
Have you not been paying attention to what's going on this country?

We're building concentration camps. We have the Gestapo rounding up brown people. We have people being deported to supermax prisons in countries they have no connection to for protesting America's material support for genocide on college campuses. We have a media that is increasingly owned by lackeys of this administration (just look into CBS and Bari Weis as the latest example). Every aspect of our government is for sale from pardons to merger approvals and ending SEC investigations. There is functionally no law and order where we may start simply ignoring inconvenient parts of the Constitution like the 22nd Amendment. We have the military in our streets to incite violence. We have the Navy blowing up random small boats off Venezuela, arguably to incite a hot war with Venezuela. We have people who are rapidly unable to afford a place to live, food or both (and that's a bout to get a whole lot worse when SNAP gets suspended in November as the administration refuses to use the $6 billion set aside to fund it). We have a Speaker who won't swear in a duly elected House representative because she'll be the 218th vote on a discharge petition that will force a vote on release of the Epstein files, which the president will be forced to veto and he doesn't want to be put in that position.

I think about all these things when people bring up so-called "authoritanism" in China. Do you not see how dire the situation is not only in the US but basically all of the developed world? France, Germany and the UK are poised to have actual Nazis win their next elections due to these economic crises that governments absolutely refuse to address.

And imperialism? What imperialism? Pretty much every conflict on Earth currently can be traced back to the US, either because a US ally is a proxy doing war crimes or simply because the US turns a blind eye because one or both sides are buying US arms to commit those same war crimes.

Just this month the Nobel committee handed the Peace Prize to an opposition leader in Venezuela who has promised to make Venezuela more Israel-friendly and to privatize all the resource extraction to Western companies. "Peace".

We are in 1930s Germany. Worrying about China seems crazy to me.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-30 04:32:04+00:00
> The German metro area "Rheinland" has a population of 8.7 million people across 12 thousand square kilometers. ~700/sqkm vs the 240/sqkm population density of Atlanta metro. Train and metro travel in this metrk area is extremely convenient and fast. It's not that Atlanta (or anywhere else in the United States for that matter) couldn't do it because of vastness

Did you forget to support yourself? You're saying Rheinland has three times the population density of Atlanta, with convenient passenger rail, and that demonstrates that low population density isn't an obstacle to passenger rail in Atlanta?
by yorwba | 2025-10-30 04:32:24+00:00
I wouldn't bet that every smart TV Crunchyroll wants to be available on has more processing power than your phone from 2015 (some of those TVs might be older than that), but yes, it's probably less about hardware capabilities than about platform limitations that make the usual solution of compiling libass into a blob and integrating it into the player not so easy to implement.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-30 04:32:56+00:00
The word reliably is doing a lot of work here. I was using one of the bigger llms (honestly I can't remember which one) after they started putting citations into their responses. I thought this is great now I can look up the actual source if I need more I depth understanding...

Well a couple of prompts later after I asked it some details about some signal processing algorithm, it tells me "for more in discussion of the algorithm look at citation a (a very general dsp book that likely did not cover the specific topic in depth) or the special issue on [topic of my question] in IEEE journal of X"

So I think "great there's a special issue on this topic" that's just what I need. A quick Google does not result in anything so I prompt the AI, "Can you provide a more specific reference to the special issue in...". The answer: "There is no special issue on [topic]...". So llm s make up citations just as they make up everything else.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-30 04:33:28+00:00
For me at least, traditional floss shreds and breaks. The finger-tips aspect is a deal breaker for me. Floss is such a minor expense at the end of the day, it doesn't make sense to worry about the price -- that said, the non-slippery-when-wet aspect means you can use less of Totalcare, evening out the price differential somewhat.
by mdeeks | 2025-10-30 04:35:18+00:00
I didn't say China isn't doing anything. They are rolling out a mind boggling amount of clean energy right now. More than any other country by far. It's honestly incredible scale. It unfortunately isn't keeping up with their emissions though. The data is from 2023. It's very possible that in the last two years China has been able to stabilize emission growth.

I actually disagree a bit on the first part. I think developing countries have a right to have higher per capita emissions as they raise their standard of living and economy where they can get to the point of widely adopting clean energy.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-30 04:35:24+00:00
Let me rephrase. The type of person who would submit "corrections" to grokopedia are the types of people who are typically interested in supporting its ideological outcomes. Because they have close enough to the same world-views. The same types of people who say female instead of women outside of a medical context or complain all the time about wokeness invading their favorite media. Someone who suggests that reporting errors to grokopedia would do any good are firmly in the camp that believes in the garbage it's trying to perpetuate. That's why they support it and why they think others should submit corrections.

They know that this is being built with an explicitly partisan bias, but also know liberal folk are super weak to certain types of attacks. Attacks like "be fair" and "you can submit feedback". They are explicitly playing on liberal weaknesses all while leaning into the blatantly false representation of history. They will say "you can't judge it since you haven't provided feedback to help correct it" but that was never their intention and they just say those things because it confuses liberals. And I know I've overused "liberals" here. That's absolutely my bias slipping in. But they are the most credulous folks who will constantly try to reach across the aisle to blatant bad faith actors. If there's a better term for this, I haven't learned it in my 20+ years of being politically active in the US.

Not that I think it does any good on a site like this, but I vouched for your original comment. I completely agree with you. I was also raised in the cult and have first hand experience with many people still in it. I know why they would support and lend effort to things like these. They support all sorts of awful shit.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-30 04:35:52+00:00
Not to be coy, but what do you mean by that? The reason I ask is because I think many of us use these terms, but without ever thinking about exactly which behaviors we're critiquing, or how they relate to what we truly value. For instance both the Roman and Greek Empires deserve immense respect, yet they were both often imperial empires ruled by dictators. The same is no less true of many societies that played key roles during The Renaissance, and patrons of the talents of the era.

I hold immense respect for China, because I think they're achieving great things. I also think there is a high probability that they will be the first society to start creating permanent off-planet colonizations, which is what will probably signal the birth of the next era of humanity, so that in the future a name like Wang Yie might lie right alongside Neil Armstrong.

On the other hand I certainly don't think the US should emulate them. It's important for the world to be multipolar, not only in alliances, but also in ideology, perspective, and behavior. What will happen to China once they inevitably find themselves with a leader who is not socially motivated, or who is incompetent? In such a centralized system outright collapse is not out of the question. Or perhaps they'll be just fine? Who knows? By maintaining a wide diversity of systems across the world, I think we maximize our chances of collective success and minimize our chances of collective failure.
by holden_nelson | 2025-10-30 04:36:13+00:00
Highly recommended the Bending Spoons episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. They address the layoffs head-on and talk about some of their other unconventional stuff like no on-call. https://pca.st/episode/11464df6-e1cc-4b8f-a64d-a4de9a9ec170
by SR2Z | 2025-10-30 04:36:23+00:00
> I’m really curious to better understand what aspects of China’s government would hurt your day to day life.

For tech workers in particular, the structure of the economy would prevent high equity-based compensation. I also distinctly recall China's heavy-handed enforcement of COVID lockdowns, and the sudden about-face when discontent reached a boiling point. Then there's the censorship too - disagreeing on low-stakes local issues is one thing, but if you disagree with national policy, you cannot exactly discuss it in the open the way that we do here.

I have known a few Chinese people, and they downplay this stuff. Some of them are even political refugees from the purges following Mao's death, and they downplay the level of authoritarianism in the country. As bad as the US has gotten recently, we're still not at that level.

It really does seem like both nations are slowly converging on similar systems of government, but hopefully this authoritarian swing in the US can be limited.