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by rasikjain | 2025-10-07 14:37:57+00:00
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by DFHippie | 2025-10-07 14:38:25+00:00
Journalists are always acting as though only liberals have agency. "If we just talk about things differently, everything will be great." But if someone is hitting you over the head, not every element of the relationship is in your control.

From its first day of operation there have been people wanting to tear NPR down precisely because they do not control its content. The choice they have offered is "be controlled by us or we will destroy you." These aren't listeners saying this, but people who do control other media the listeners listen to. People who control ever more media with each passing year, in fact. At this rate, they control more every week.

The people seeking to control NPR don't want to argue about particular articles. They want to argue about NPR itself, and no newsroom wants themselves to be the story. It's a hard beat to cover. No matter how hard you strive to be honest, thorough, disinterested, and engaging, you are in fact one of the parties, so anything you say is suspect and easily characterized as biased.

Both-sides'ing stuff is a way to resist control, but there has been a backlash against that, because it is a compromise with the truth. It's lying by implication while not lying by outright assertion. It's lying in the interest of the people shaking you down.
by righthand | 2025-10-07 14:38:57+00:00
Okay this is even more pie-in-the-sky. You can build productive greenhouses today, we don’t need AI to summarize the internet to figure out how to do it. There are no secrets hidden in the generative token tea-leaves that reveals better greenhouses. Urban farming will never be profitable or sustainable in a dense urban center. It’s been done.

“Standard observability software” whatever that is also does not require AI to build. We need 10GW to calculate rainfall for who? What benefit over how we currently calculate rainfall? This rainfall is hallucinated through summarization?
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 14:39:02+00:00
Yep. Same here but dramatically lower quantities. Was told basically we'd have to pay for a partner's support. Not that I'm expecting better from Arduino, but the community makes up for it. You Google "dragonwing stackoverflow" and there are 604 results, but even the first few aren't remotely relevant. "Atmega328p stackoverflow" is over 14k and relevant. Arduino is 52 million. It's a nonstarter
by bgwalter | 2025-10-07 14:39:32+00:00
Would have worked in 2022. Now all oligarchs swore loyalty to Trump, the Ellison family is buying CBS and TikTok, LLMs are audited for compliance. Even here Trump criticism is rare now, because everyone feels being watched.

If the Tesla Optimus will actually work (big if), you will be able to send that to beat down protests in Portland instead of the National Guard.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-07 14:39:52+00:00
Greetings fellow travelers [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

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In response to OP's link, my suggestion to primary schools would be to scrap the G/T programs, and instead focus on reducing class-sizes. You should also remove any students from classrooms whom routinely distract from others' learning. Give those timesinks a broom, instead.
by a_red_horse | 2025-10-07 14:40:02+00:00
At this point, I’d just be happy they’re switching off windows out of spite.

I’ve never been a Windows hater like some people in the industry, and have actually enjoyed and appreciated some of the weirdness and quirks from an OS perspective. I’ve also known

But man this Win11 stuff feels so fucking extreme it’s ridiculous. No I won’t use your MS account. I’d have switched over to Linux or BSD if it wasn’t for games/niche hardware (yes, I know of proton, but this is an HN thread so my personal anecdotes override your evidence)
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-07 14:40:03+00:00
I've never even seen a Waymo and I haven't left North America for half a decade. Popular in SF does not mean inevitable everyhwere.

It remains to be seen whether robotaxis can 1. scale outside of certain cities 2. make a profit given the apparent teams of actual human remote drivers that robotaxi companies employ to get their robots out of trouble. I would love to see it, but the lack of speed and momentum points to it having some serious growing pains.
by pyrale | 2025-10-07 14:40:15+00:00
> eg. turn on aluminium smelters when it's windy

I'd be curious to learn how you intend to amortize that aluminium smelter, while also being competitive on aluminium markets.

> The variable-to-firm transformation enablers include energy storage, the optimum blending of VREs and other renewable resources, geographic dispersion, and supply/demand flexibility.

Yeah... provided someone else does that for them, VREs are very cheap.
by tomhow | 2025-10-07 14:40:17+00:00
WTF? You can't comment like that here, no matter who are what you're referring to. Too many of your comments have been straying into inflammatory rhetoric and flamebait. This is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. Could you please take a moment to read the guidelines and make more of an effort to observe them in future? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Supermancho | 2025-10-07 14:40:20+00:00
> But that's a different meaning of "need" to what's normally used.

The novelty of applying the label differently, is refreshing to me.

> Gifted kids don't need special attention to get through school and life the same way the intellectually impaired do.

Need is being used subjectively here, but this is effectively a repeated sentiment.

As a gifted child, I was stunted by both public school and family (my father has literally apologized to me). It took me until my 20s to start my career, which was delayed by at least a half-decade. I am willing to consider that a different approach is worth trying, to achieve a different result. Maybe this will result in a better system and I think it's worth the benefit of the doubt.

It is certainly an alternative to other approaches that are popular in some areas, like banning books that mention trans individuals.
by Spivak | 2025-10-07 14:40:32+00:00
I think you would find a large political block that would be more than supportive of economic stimulus taking the form of a public jobs and training program to improve infrastructure, landscaping, and other public works.

I personally would implement it as a "civilian military" to make it a cool high-status line of work that people might choose for a few years out of civic duty. Uniforms, ranks, bases, parades, you get your food/housing provided, you get 'deployed' on projects. Get your college paid for if you stay on long enough.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-10-07 14:40:43+00:00
You might be surprised how little there is to know. There are basically three strategies: 1. set your light theme color variables in :root and your dark theme colors in `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { :root { ... } }` 2. use the newish `--var: light-dark(light-value, dark-value)` syntax with `:root { color-scheme: light dark; }` 3. use a class on the body to determine whether to apply light or dark variables (can be used in combination with the above to default to user’s current theme while letting javascript toggle the theme by toggling the class)
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 14:40:44+00:00
> Chess.com is a scam anyway

Is it? How so?

Just because you like an alternative better doesn't make it a scam.

Sure they are turning a profit. But when you pay, you get more features. You don't need to pay if you don't want those features or want them somewhere else.

And they use some money to sponsor events. Titled Tuesday is a staple in the worldwide chess community and most top players play there. Not really yo make money, but to stay relevant (it's great PR to play against Magnus Carlsen and last for more than 20 moves or even make a draw) or to have a constant supply of really good players which keeps you sharp. They provide streaming and top-class commentary for top events. They are also involved in tournament sponsorship.

So, please keep the hate to yourself and don't use "scam" lightly. You don't need to like them or ever use them. But once you come across an actual scam, it would be a pity if you burned that term.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-10-07 14:40:51+00:00
I was talking to a friend in Germany who said the German language interface doesn't give creators those options yet. And that's the thing that really gets me. I click on a video by a German, in the German language, expecting to hear German. But instead a high pitched synthetic English voice comes out. Don't get me wrong, I loved all the obviously dubbed B-movies from the 70s and 80s, but it's jarring to hear ARD commentators not speaking German.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-07 14:41:00+00:00
> I believe that the specific cause of a previous outbreak does not significantly change the probability distribution of future outbreaks

If humans didn't learn and adapt, that may be true. And in that scenario we would all be suffering from cholera, still drinking from the community well John Snow identified in 1854.

Thankfully, he performed a root cause analysis, made his famous map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology#/media/File:Snow-... identified the well as the source of the outbreak, and we all changed our behavior in accordance.

And the probability of another cholera outbreak is much lower. But further! The probability of other water born illness outbreaks is also reduced.

You're so knowledgeable, surely you know all this already.
Show HN: Strikethrough – a daily puzzle where you make words by deleting letters
by DJSnackySnack | 2025-10-07 14:41:05+00:00
Hi HN - I’m a copywriter by trade who loves word games. A while back I wondered: what if you flipped the idea of Scrabble on its head? Instead of building words, start with a long one and carve away letters to find the smaller words hidden inside. I made a quick prototype, then my brother helped turn it into a real game.

Play Strikethrough: https://puzzle-brothers.boondoggle.studio/puzzles/strikethro...

How it works

- You get a seed word (e.g., LONGBOARD). - Delete letters from it to make valid words: LONG, BOARD, LORD, BARD, etc. - Find 10 words to beat the day’s puzzle, or be a completionist and find them all. - New puzzle daily. No sign-up required.

I’d love to know what you all think!
by tombert | 2025-10-07 14:41:15+00:00
It is a little frustrating how we as a society have just decided that corporations don’t need to make money, and indeed can just ponzi their way indefinitely as long as they use some vague “tech” branding.

I think this “rapid growth at all costs” is going to bite us, and I think it is possible that it’s going to bite us even more than the .Com bubble or the 2008 crash.

I really hope I am wrong, but I don’t see we can expect companies to keep growing if we don’t require them to be profitable.
by browningstreet | 2025-10-07 14:41:15+00:00
I made a Gemini Gem with some of my preferences (vi not nano, Ubuntu LTS, my hardware) and it's been quite efficient and on-point. A few times it forgets to check ancillary contexts and I have to feather things back on course.

Enough things have changed in Linuxland in recent years that some of those diversions, as you pointed out, helped me work from old knowledge to new knowledge.
by mbrumlow | 2025-10-07 14:41:23+00:00
First off. Assuming somebody with autism has learning disabilities is incredibly tone death to those who have autism. My kid happens to be 2E special, and has not been diagnosed with any learning disabilities.

Second. I quoted the lyrics of a song that I have probably heard over 5000 times now.

Next you are going to tell me that SCP-294 is not a drink dispenser?
by kanbankaren | 2025-10-07 14:41:41+00:00
Not true.

I was programming in the 90s when these languages emerged. Developments environments were emacs, vi, Brief, Borland IDE, etc. There were a few other IDEs available, but about $200 per seat.

All the scripting languages mentioned didn't come as default in Unix or Windows. You had to download from their own websites.

It was mostly Visual Basic, C, COBOL that were popular.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-07 14:42:39+00:00
> You can make a low volume product by buying a bunch of Arduinos as your controller. You just stick them in the device. There's no license issue.

Note that the Arduino libraries are LGPL licensed. Unless you have a commercial agreement with Arduino, you have to distribute your firmware to your customers as object files so it can be linked to updated/modified versions of the Arduino libraries. This means that I wouldn't use Arduino for a shipping product unless you're fine with the firmware on the device being publicly available.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-07 14:43:29+00:00
The fact that LLMs are somewhat useful isn't really the subject here. The problem is that to be worth what they're evaluated at they'd need to be thousands of times more useful than they are. They can be useful, and extremely overvaluated at the same time, which still ends up in a crash. All the actors are bleeding money right now, would you spend $500 a month on an llm ? $1000 ? how many people would ?

You also don't account for the infinite flow of slop being generated 100x faster than any productive work: "Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500485

How much money, resource and time is spent on generating/hosting/discussing/cleaning up this slop ? How much of social distrust is created by LLM generated sociopolitcal discussions online ? &c.
by simonsarris | 2025-10-07 14:43:29+00:00
If we build out a bunch of data center infrastructure or (better yet) energy/power plant related infrastructure, and AI doesn't pan out, is it really so bad?

I think its a bit like trains in the 1800s. Plenty of overspending, plenty of speculation that went bust, but in a lot of ways the country was better for all the madness.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-07 14:43:46+00:00
There's a wealth of easy projects that a person can get started with using an Arduino.

Without any opportunities for getting bogged down in anything extra at all, they can follow a simple recipe and quickly begin to blink an LED at the rate of their choosing.

The Arduino was developed to be a teaching tool, and it allows for a person to take little baby steps.

(Whether this placement is good or bad for Arduino as a business entity isn't something that I find particularly important.)
by nradov | 2025-10-07 14:44:20+00:00
If we pull Medicare funding for residency programs then the system will collapse. Most teaching hospitals are run by local governments or non-profit foundations. They simply don't have the resources to subsidize graduate medical education. The money has to come from somewhere.

(And let's not have any stupid comments suggesting that residents should pay for it themselves. They're already tapped out in terms of student debt.)
by lumost | 2025-10-07 14:44:24+00:00
At the time of Adam Smith’s wealth of nations, there was a schism between eastern and Western Europe on the role of politics in the economy. Eastern Europe was influenced by much stronger aristocracies that exercised stronger control of the populace and thus lacked the small business competition that inspired smith.

While many “small” businesses offering similar products compete on a marketplace subject to the law of supply and demand, large centralized monopolies compete for money producing “slots” often allocated through a political process. The political figures in control of these systems are often free from material needs and thus less motivated by profit.

At the extreme of political economy, money ceases to matter in the internal sense. A state can simply order workers to work without pay or be punished, burn debt that they don’t want to pay, or lock traders into a room with orders to buy. There is still an economy, but it becomes one of political favor which is earned through multiple mechanisms.
by kbolino | 2025-10-07 14:44:26+00:00
How much of this is actually new to the streaming era? Radio stations may have paid better per play/listener, but they had finite airtime and so fewer songs got played and fewer artists got paid. Physical media may have paid better compared to streaming the same songs once, but the media could be copied and replayed infinitely.

There was a lot of unrealistic hype that software magic could make everything between the consumer and the producer practically free, and that just hasn't happened and probably never will. Engineers need to get paid and infrastructure needs to get maintained too.
by zzzeek | 2025-10-07 14:44:43+00:00
> That leaves us with only 2 possibilities - AI either replaces a significant part of the workforce or it does not. If it does not, the bubble bursts and the economy crashes. If it does, the economy still crashes because consumer spending is 70% of GDP and if the majority of the population becomes unemployed

close, but you see, part of the plan is also that immigration is basically shut off. so the majority of the population laid off from their office jobs will have plenty of work to do in the fields and food processing plants if they want to eat.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-07 14:44:49+00:00
If the business fails, the owners will have to use their assets to adequately compensate the employees according to what they are owed, and the employees are free to find another job.

Let's not mince words here - if the business fails it was because of the incompetence of those managing it, and it would fail whether or not it was treating employees unfairly. I won't accept this as an excuse to erode labor rights.

Moreover, what weak-ass crybaby rhetoric is that now? I always hear that business owners should earn more because they take risks. Failing is a very real possibility when you take risks. If you don't want to take risks just don't start a business.
by codazoda | 2025-10-07 14:45:43+00:00
I’ve been putting together a small “Field Guide” for ImageMagick. It’s meant to be a concise reference of commands that actually work in day-to-day use.

The first draft covers common tasks like resizing, optimizing GIFs, and stacking images, with short explanations for each flag.

I plan to expand it over time and create similar guides for other tools I use a lot, like Git and Docker. The idea is to build fast, reliable references for developers who just want to get things done. I also plan to release them in book form so you can read through, pick up a few “aha” insights, and keep it handy for the tasks you do often.

If that sounds useful, checkout the draft and signup to get updates as I finish it.

HTML: https://joeldare.com/imagemagick-field-guide.html PDF: https://joeldare.com/imagemagick-field-guide.pdf ePub: https://joeldare.com/imagemagick-field-guide.epub

I'd love to hear your feedback.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-07 14:45:49+00:00
Trouble is, this kind of trivial throwaway application is all that Arduino is really good for. Because the framework is designed to support thousands of chips, it supports none of them well. Any arduino code you write is easily 5x more terse than any of the native libraries, but it's also 10x slower. If you don't care, you don't care. But if you do care, Arduino is the least appropriate way to make a microcontroller go.

Besides that, IMO hiding hardware details from the developer is the worst thing about Arduino. The hardware details matter and it's far too easy to get footgunned by some implementation detail hidden from you.

But really, esp-IDF isn't that much more complex, nor are most of the other native frameworks. It's a bit more verbose, but esp-IDF provides helper libraries that replace almost everything Arduino provides, but in a way that is actually designed for the hardware and doesn't have to do things like lookup pin numbers in a giant table for each and every gpio call.
by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-10-07 14:46:50+00:00
I found it especially ingenious when they mentioned: "another candidate wrote more than 120 lines of code to influence A.I. and hid it inside the file data for a headshot photo." Next level steganography.

It chafes me that recruiters feel like it's OK to deploy AI to screen candidates, but feel that it's not OK for candidates to try to game the AI. (Full disclosure: have been job hunting for ~2 years, so somewhat jaded on the AI / ATS world).
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-07 14:46:56+00:00
Again, of the business with only 10 employees cannot survive, it was due to the incompetence of those managing it. Part of a healthy economy is allowing businesses to fail, so that others can take its place.

If demand for those services exist, other businesses will take it. If the demand is not there, the business should not exist.

How your reply is related to the previous point of "Europe being poor" is for anyone to guess.
by remedan | 2025-10-07 14:46:59+00:00
> It is the goal of every business to maximise profits. As a business, it is your responsibility to price your products in a way that will yield the most profit.

This is how the article starts, and it might be somewhat off-topic, but I disagree. Plenty of businesses (at least privately held ones) have the goal of simply making enough for the owners to get by. Not to optimize for the absolute maximum. And why should they be responsible to do so?
by encoderer | 2025-10-07 14:47:00+00:00
It’s equally crazy to me that we are spending time and money to eliminate opportunities for our kids. My school district in SFBA has done the same thing to their gifted program.

If this is really about equality then we would be strengthening these programs because gifted kids from wealthy families will continue to have access to accelerated education. It’s the poor and middle class who are losing out.
by duxup | 2025-10-07 14:47:31+00:00
I had to look up what a Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon is and how it works.

IMO it's confusing. This idea that you can drive while you have sideways flashing red lights and so on seems strange to me.

Maybe everyone learns it and it's all fine, but it seems odd to abandon a traditional lighting system for these type of intersections when it seems like they would work just fine.