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by yobid20 | 2025-10-09 14:50:57+00:00
^^^^ this. I work for a big company (15k engineers). Trying to use anything that is not TCP or UDP simply doesnt work here. For years, even UDP was blocked and the answer we got was always "why are you using UDP, use TCP instead". Yep you read that right. Most of these folks are very short sighted or narrow minded. We tried to use SCTP for one project, major blunder. Zero support from network teams. Sctp is blocked everywhere. All their custom software and scripts for network deployments only work with tcp and udp. And they will not change that. And that comes from higher ups the ppl in charge. They are set in there ways and will not budge. As for as QUIC support? Never gonna happen here.
by apwell23 | 2025-10-09 14:51:02+00:00
> So CEOs of successful companies have a job to do, and that job is to ensure that nothing happens. But people's natural inclination is to do things, and if they aren't doing things inside your company they will probably be doing things outside your company that risk toppling it. So you put one section of the company to work digging holes, and put the other section to work filling them in, and now everybody is happy and productive and yet there's no net external change to your company's position.

i work at a large music streamer and this perfectly describes my workplace. when i was outside i never understood why that company needs thousands and thousands of ppl to run what looks like stagnant product that hasn't changed much in years.
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-09 14:51:05+00:00
I think another barrier is that end users don't trust IT to not pull the rug out from under us. It's quite a bit of effort to learn and figure out workflows for actually getting work done and IT doesn't tend to give a shit about that. Particularly enterprise IT's attitude about trials can kiss my ass. Enterprise IT has their timeline, and I have my deadlines. I'll get to it when I have time.

But particularly we're always dealing with IT security "experts" running dumb checklists taking things away and breaking everything and never bothering figure out how we're supposed to use computers to actually get any work done ("hmmm. we didn't think about that... we'll get back to you" is a common response from these certified goons). Apparently the security gods have decided we can't have department file servers anymore because backups are too difficult to protect against ransomware or something so we're all distracted with that pronouncement from the mountain trying to figure out how to get anything done at the moment.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-09 14:51:11+00:00
There's an old mechanics saying "if X was covered by insurance it'd cost what Y does" where X is some routine thing (tires/brakes/etc) and Y is autobody or glass services typically covered by insurance.

This proverb seems to also apply to health insurance and the things they do/don't cover.

Putting routine stuff under the purview of insurance is stupid regardless of context. There are other cheaper, faster, simpler and more transparent ways of doing that.
by znpy | 2025-10-09 14:51:34+00:00
probably torn between Lenovo, a state-owned chinese company that's empowering the Uyghur genocide, or maybe Apple, the american hyper-capitalist company that's siding with the US government and empowering/enabling ICE by removing ICE-tracking apps (besides exploiting slave labor in chinese foxconn factories for years).

So many options!
by dboon | 2025-10-09 14:51:45+00:00
C is really, really ripe for tooling and modern libraries. There are a lot of great ones already that don’t resemble what I’ll call university C in the slightest (i.e. the C most of us remember writing; awful, bug filled, segfaulting)

I’ve been building out my C standard library replacement in earnest for a little while. If you like this framework, check it out.

https://github.com/tspader/sp
by username332211 | 2025-10-09 14:52:11+00:00
> There's also a willingness to be less upset humans making a mistake than a machine.

There's willingness to be upset at anyone with deep pockets who can be found accountable. And the motivations for that aren't emotional, they are purely material.

There's a reason why people have spent decades trying to find pharmacological cause for autism, in spite of the enormous amount of evidence that the condition is mostly hereditary.

And a very good reason why vaccines in America are exempt from the legal system.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-09 14:52:26+00:00
my 401k is setup in pretty high risk ( according to Vanguard ) index funds. Now that i'm older and looking to retire in the next 10-12 years, the investments need to be re-balanced anyway. As for the brokerage account, it's just a vanguard sp500 index fund. I'm not super exposed to the mag7 but they're such a huge component of the overall sp500 that when the bubble pops it's going to affect the sp500 quite a bit. I was actually looking at some of the smallcap Vanguard funds available to me because they seemed to fair ok in the .com bubble burst while the sp500 and especially the nasdaq were hit hard.
by mamonster | 2025-10-09 14:52:31+00:00
Sure.

1)The writing is very bad (which is ironic because she got mad at Houellebecq for being a racist and said that he is translated a lot because he writes like shit so easy to translate). You take an average page of Ernaux (in French) and it's just not very... sophisticated at all, but then all the critics that like her say that this language "unmasks" the reality and is the perfect medium for "autofiction".

2)Her initial ascension has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of her writing(which is very bad), but rather with her "social" message. Her entire work is basically about how she is from a working class family background which is very horrible and sexist, and going to school and university is how she escaped this horrible environment(domineering dad, "rape" that's not really rape, abortions, etc.) . She is basically "anti-beauf" and that's all.

To summarize, I would say that she is like the left-wing analogue of Houellebecq, except that Houellebecq (rightfully) doesn't win the Nobel Prize for shitty writing. I'm certainly elitist a bit of a "reactionary", but for Ernaux its so flagrant that what got rewarded was the political message and not the quality of the writing.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-09 14:52:48+00:00
Loads of good responses, but I'll just add:

> Is the particle just failing to collide with the wall since objects are mostly empty space?

To be frank, essentially nothing macroscopic ever reacts to impact because (subatomic) particles physically hit particles. Electrons repel with significant force long before they can "collide". The volume of space represented by "close enough" to the outermost electron shell (since electrons aren't at one single volume at any one moment in time) is somewhat large, even if the volumes of the nucleus + the sum of all electrons in the atom are much less.
by jasonlotito | 2025-10-09 14:52:51+00:00
It does.

And having lived 10 years in Canada and 10 years in the US and used both their healthcare systems quite a bit, I have seen both sides. Let me just say I moved to the US for healthcare 10 years ago and we do not regret it one bit. The US is easy to point and laugh at, but that just comes from ignorance.
by jeremyjh | 2025-10-09 14:53:45+00:00
Tesla is shady as hell though; they intentionally market this technology as something that it is not. The idea that people will stay engaged in the driving task when they are not actually doing it is absurd. Either cars should be level 2 or level 4/5; level 3 is a completely broken idea and Tesla isn't even actively pursuing certifications beyond it. They want to pretend its a level 2 system and not their problem. We don't let people sell cars that are known to explode on contact, and we shouldn't allow people to sell cars that use a completely discredited automation model.

Just six more months though...
by dathinab | 2025-10-09 14:54:01+00:00
It's a pretty normal experience for lookin at standard libraries (I mean look at cpython, where you now need to know C++, cpython interpreter internal,C++ std in addition to all the complicated meta class magic you normally don't need to care about.)

Like in Vec we have following things most normal rust code wouldn't do:

- Unique<u8> instead of Unique<T>, to micro optimize code size

- RawVec, RawVecInner, due to the previous point, internal structure of libstd, relations to libcore/liballoc usage and more clean separation between unsafe and safe code etc. Which a "just my own vec" impl might not have

- internal `Unique` helper type to reuse code between various data structures in std

- the `NonNull` part is another micro optimization which might save 1-4 byte for `Option<Vec<T>>` (up to 4 due to alignment, but I think this optimization isn't guaranteed in this context)

Like it could be just a `Vec<T> { ptr: *const T, cap: usize, len: usize, _marker: PhantomData<T> }`, but that wouldn't have quite the maximized (and micro optimized) fine tuning which tends to be in std libraries but not in random other code. (I mean e.g. the code size micro-opt. is irrelevant for most rust code, but std goes into _all_ (std using) rust code, so it's needed.

But anyway, yes, unsafe rust can be hard. Especially if you go beyond "straight forward C bindings" and write clever micro optimized data structures. It's also normally not needed.

But also "straight forward C bindings" can be very okay from complexity _as long as you don't try to be clever_ (which in part isn't even rust specific, it tends to just become visible in rust).
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-09 14:54:02+00:00
Which food dyes are you referring to specifically that are banned in the EU but used in the US? The 5 major food dyes that are actually used in the US (red 40, blue 1, blue 2, yellow 5, yellow 6) are all allowed in the EU, some at higher concentrations. Red 3 was already banned (though with a phaseout period to 2027) in January by the Biden admin. There are lots of things thrown around on social media that there are all these common food dyes used in the US that are banned in the EU, and that's just not accurate.

Knurick's has a great blog post on the issue, https://drjessicaknurick.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-synt....

That said, definitely in agreement about the major point that it's a distraction, and Knurick says many times she's not advocating for food dyes, rather that the bigger issue is the overwhelming prevalence of ultra-processed (i.e. high calorie but devoid of other nutrients and fiber) foods in the US first.
by fgonzag | 2025-10-09 14:54:11+00:00
Intel has pushed open source but really only for their hardware.

Basically hackable source available hardware which in the Linux world is a huge advantage.

AMD has forced Nvidia out many proprietary technologies (gsync) just by countering with an open technology. There is no reason it couldn't execute the same plan against Intel.

Intel lost its competitive edge by trying to maximize captured value. It seems this person want to double down on the strategy, instead of going for absolute best product at the price possible.
by leephillips | 2025-10-09 14:54:14+00:00
Yes. Remember that the four languages that have been used for very high performance computing are Fortran, C, C++, and Julia:

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-cl...

For large-scale physics simulations, Fortran or Julia are the obvious choices.
by Blumplumi | 2025-10-09 14:54:18+00:00
Alone long and easy drivable roads like highways or german autobahns would have a huge benefit and simple to automate.

You woound only need local people to grab the truck at a parking spot close by to drive them to the target location.

That alone would help long road truckers to see their familys and not having to sleep in their trucks. It would save costs and would make it saver for everyone if all the trucks drive automatically.

BMW and other EV developers can already drive on a lot of german autobahn hands free.

What i also don't understand, if i really want the benefit of self driving car, I only need it when i'm driving long or when i'm intoxicated. Tbh. let me just record the road from bar to my home, let me drive it for a few times until my car knows that direction and done.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-09 14:54:33+00:00
> I cashed out and bought land/started building a multi generational house

interestingly, my wife and I have discussed this a lot too. We have 20 acres in SE Oklahoma that we got a really good deal on during the pandemic, the land is unplatted and the realtor didn't know there was water and power service already setup by the previous owner. We want to build a small cabin/house over the next couple years. It's like a retirement backup plan, "if everything goes to hell we can still go sit on our land in OK and watch the sunset..."
by khuey | 2025-10-09 14:54:35+00:00
> The claim that using reserve_exact "throws away the amortized growth promise" is wrong

Well, in some sense this depends on what exactly you think you're amortizing over. If you `Vec::reserve` with size N, fill to N, and then append a single element you get the usual amortized O(1) growth of an append (or at least you can, the docs for `Vec::reserve` say it may reserve additional space, not that it must). But if you `Vec::reserve_exact` with size N, fill to N, and then append a single element you are guaranteeing that that first append triggers a potentially O(N) resize.

From that point on in either case you would get the usual amortized growth of course.
by teekert | 2025-10-09 14:54:47+00:00
Yes but I mean, they are so inhuman. My wife was once refused migraine medication because the dokter made some mistake on receipt, they could see her in pain in the car. But computer says no.

Sure, they'll be in trouble perhaps when going against the computer, but then if no one can go against the computer, why bother with humans?

To be clear: I prefer the humans. But self-thinking ones.
Ask HN: How to find a non-technical co-founder/sales person?
by darkhorse13 | 2025-10-09 14:55:00+00:00
Hey HN, so I've got a product that I feel is a good product that can sell well. I've had some sales, and some customers in the pipeline, but I also work full-time in a programming role which I very much enjoy.

Where can I find someone who wants to do sales for a software? The software itself is useful and part of a very big product category, but it's marketed extremely poorly in my opinion (marketed by me I mean).

I don't really have friends who I think will be a good fit at all. Most of them don't work in software/tech.
by jasonlotito | 2025-10-09 14:55:15+00:00
> Find some doctors, nurses, researchers, manufacturers etc etc who will work for no money and we can remove money from the problem.

Not being for profit doesn't mean you don't pay people.

Further, I wonder how the Sixth Amendment works then? So many non-profit people working for... no money?

This "work for no money argument" is so incredibly weak, I had to make sure I quoted the argument so the person wouldn't change it.
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-09 14:55:35+00:00
Interesting choice of example: *Take the recent renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” This act changed exactly zero gallons of seawater, affected not one shipping route, and solved no actual problem facing Americans."

The article doesn't acknowledge this "renaming" sprung fully-formed from Trump's brow. I don't believe anyone was agitating for this change, unlike bringing back Confederate general's names for military bases. "Rokeness" has a top-down nature, illustrated by Trump and Elon demandin changes, that the author just ignores.
by illiac786 | 2025-10-09 14:55:48+00:00
>Deutsche Bahn, the fully state-owned railway company, is a well-liked (Trustpilot: 1.2/5) company running most major long-distance railways in Germany

Very confusing, the irony/sarcasm of the second part is not clear: yes it is 100% owned but 1.2 is a really bad score, Germans hate DB. That sentence if even more confusing for a German, because in Germany 1 is a good score and 5 is a fail (at school at least).
by outloudvi | 2025-10-09 14:55:52+00:00
I'm worried about the situation when Dark Patterns are not widely recognized enough as a malicious practice for users.

Half a month ago I see someone on Twitter defending its own product design as "transparent and nothing hidden" - the "$0 now, then $15/month in 14 days" description where all text after "$0" are small and in grey. I don't think it maintains trust between the product and users, and thus it doesn't seem like a good thing.
by sesm | 2025-10-09 14:56:21+00:00
Rust was created as a C++ replacement, borrows the 'zero cost abstractions' motto from C++, relies on RAII for resource management like C++ (not many languages do it), has the same approach to concurrency (in-place mutation guarded by locks), uses the codegen backend that was created for C++. It's mostly a C++ subset with more guardrails.

Edit: RAII
by cyxxon | 2025-10-09 14:56:28+00:00
That seems to me to be a direct result of too many actors involved in the creation of the Deutschlandticket actually ebing against this ticket, and so those in favor tried to appease them and created this absolut disaster of a booking process. There is no other reason for this otherwise, and it would be trivial to sort this out by e.g. having a validity period of 31 days, or always going until the end of the month and costing only a percentage. But that would be too easy.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-09 14:56:35+00:00
You mean like the Roomba robots enabled with cameras that have sent embarrassing images back to the mothership where employees have access to the footage and then share on their socials? No, not could be. They already are. I never did follow the home security system with a drone that would fly around your home with a camera. Not sure if that died a glorious death because it was just dumb or what happened to it. I was just waiting to hear about it leaking all sorts of things too.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcast/2023/01/a-private-...
by btreecat | 2025-10-09 14:56:39+00:00
> In my mind that is a problem with your lazy developer colleague, not AI as a whole. You can't expect it to be right on the first try (just like human code), you have to iterate with it and have the experience to know when it's off track and you have to take over.

The problem with this IMO is when a human writes the code, they know the code they wrote, and have a sense of ownership in terms of correctness and quality.

Current industry workflows attempt to improve quality and ownership with PR reviews.

Most folks I see using AI coding don't know all the corner cases they might encounter, but more importantly don't know the code or feel any real ownership over it.

The AI typed it, and the AI said it's correct. And whatever meager tests exist either passed or got a 1 line change to make them pass.

Quality is going down from those who rely on tools to produce code they don't know. This has a cost associated with it that's been deferred.

Sometimes this is fine, like POC where you are comfortable with tossing the code out.

This isn't fine for business who need to be able to plan out work in the future. That requires knowing the system more so than just reading the code base.
by tjansen | 2025-10-09 14:56:47+00:00
>>because that's how management decided we should work, there's no point

If you are personally invested, there would be a point. At least if you plan to maintain that code for a few more years.

Let's say you have a common CSS file, where you define .warning {color: red}. If you want the LLM to put out a warning and you just tell it to make it red, without pointing out that there is the .warning class, it will likely create a new CSS def for that element (or even inline it - the latest Claude Code has a tendency to do that). That's fine and will make management happy for now.

But if later management decides that it wants all warning messages to be pink, it may be quite a challenge to catch every place without missing one.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-09 14:57:26+00:00
That is a good question and I had the same thought while constructing it. Almost like stock market diversification. You can represent the entire market pretty well with just a handful of stocks.

However, this seems like an overwhelmingly NO:

>is one RSS feed with NYT headlines perhaps comprehensive enough that it is 90% functionally equivalent to a more voracious habit of reading diverse sources, subject matter expert blogs and so on?

The NYT, and pretty much all publications, reflect a singular editorial perspective. I think at minimum you would want 1 left, 1 right, and 1 center.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-09 14:57:35+00:00
Well way back in the day, I worked at Radio Shack in college. We were suppose to ask for a phone number and address as part of the payment flow. People complained, I said it was corporate policy. I really didn’t give a shit about their complaints. I got my little minimum wage, sold useless warranties and got a $5 spiff and went on with my day.

Whether it bothered you, it was useless for the customer to complain
by rchaud | 2025-10-09 14:57:38+00:00
McKinsey 2 years ago:

> The firm’s earlier research suggested that 2027 would be the first year when AI technology would be able to match the typical human’s performance in tasks that involve “natural-language understanding.” Now, McKinsey reckons it will happen this year."

> "Generative AI will give humans a new “superpower”, and the economy a much-needed productivity injection, said Lareina Yee, a senior partner at the firm and chair of McKinsey Technology, in the report.

- https://archive.is/mhYIn
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 14:57:53+00:00
I’m not an absolutist on this myself, if convincing evidence comes out then I’m happy to change my mind. I have no horse in this race besides wanting people to stay healthy. I’m just not currently convinced the UPF category adds much to our existing dietary guidelines.

Avoiding UPFs can serve as a reasonable heuristic as it can help you avoid HFSS foods, but you could also easily make some adverse switches following such advice.

I’m not sure that study really supports the inference you’re making re: calories and weight gain. The UPF diet had ~15g fibre/1000kcal less than the MP diet, so for an individual consuming 2500kcal/day there’s a 150kcal difference of energy per day that doesn’t seem to be accounted for by the studies methods (could be missing this in their calcs though?).

So yeah, if we don’t equate things like this, things look bad for UPFs. But what is the “UPF” category adding here. We don’t need it to know that if more calories are consumed as fibre in an otherwise calorie-equated diet, you’ll lose weight relative to the low fibre diet.
by nosianu | 2025-10-09 14:58:24+00:00
> You're reasoning would seem to imply

Let's stop right there.

First, this already shows You are responding to something in your mind, not mine. What I wrote is plain to see. Second, the rest of that sentence confirms that fear. You are not arguing with me and what I wrote, but with some ghost in your own head.

> seem to imply that because the initial investment cash always ends up circulating, no value is ever destroyed

I did not say that * at all*. And whatever you yourself interpret into plain statements is... yourself speaking.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-09 14:58:50+00:00
> I'd already understood pointers.

Ok I hear this all the time. Are pointers really that hard for so many people to understand? I'm not trying to brag it took me I think like 15 minutes to grok them from learning about them the first time. I'm sure it took me longer to be proficient but I don't get this legendary difficulty aura that seems to surround their existance.

Also yes nice project.

Job app complete projected archived and abandoned in 3...2..1... :). I hope not.