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by resters | 2025-10-11 05:13:12+00:00
> Sadly, the whole culture around SV is based on libertarianism, so regulation isn't even considered.

Thiel actively supported one of the least libertarian candidates in US history. Whatever reputation he has for having libertarian views is nonsense.

No libertarian would try to control others based on his/her religious beliefs, and no libertarian would be remotely comfortable with any of the heavy handed stuff in Trump's platform.

In my view, what happened to Thiel and Musk is that they succeed in business and everyone starts respecting them and treating them like deities. They want to believe it is justified rather than simply people trying to manipulate them, which leads to a reinvention of self where they perceive themself to be a bit superhuman or important to the world. They act, they explore new areas, they act more. They usually do not experience as much reward from additional success in business, they are typically poorly socialized and fail to create a solid support network of people who know them and care about them. They realize money doesn't really help, fine food doesn't help, expensive possessions doesn't help. Even positions where they occupy a top hierarchical role end up feeling lacking.

What's left is the allure of tradition, religion, blood, war, progeny, and the trajectory of civilizations. They admire the brutality and decisiveness of medieval kings and the idea of theirs being destiny rather than luck. They then try to figure out how to believe they are deserving and suitable for the unique kind of destiny they realize can be theirs.

Most of us do not have to worry about hearing the voices they hear calling them to this destiny. One can see it on Elon's face. He's quick to sweat, quick to contemplate how his every decision will be more significant to the world than the entire lives of thousands.

Day after day of waiters, concierges, personal assistants, aides, advisors, trainers, masseuses, chefs, SVPs, etc. all at their absolute service. They must ask themselves again and again endlessly "what do I want? What do I really want?" Ultimately they realize that all they really want is to shape the world like so many kings or prime ministers or philosophers have. But theirs is a different skill-set. In spite of their desire they are not philosophers, not kings, not literati, not demagogues.

So they struggle to become that which they are not so they can do more than order a delicious lunch and pay for everyone else's and listen to everyone's flattery.

They want to shape the world with who they are, but part of them realizes it was luck and the are not as unique as they hoped. So they find ways to feel special like cultural supremacy, authoritarianism, buying favor with politicians or religious leaders, etc.
by jenadine | 2025-10-11 05:13:18+00:00
By your logic you need an infinite amount of fuel.

If you define X the amount of fuel you need after you land.

And you say that X needs to be enough to make an emergency landing.

And we define that the amount of fuel required for an emergency landing should cover the amount required for the landing operation while still having X in the tank when landed.

X > X + landing_cost

The plane already had made 3 failed attempt before and was redirected to two different airports.
by airstrike | 2025-10-11 05:13:22+00:00
Your argument is a fallacy in three immediate ways:

1. We're not all the same person, to be clear.

2. It's also not the same argument as before. It's not the same extrapolation.

3. And being right or wrong in the past has no bearing on current

NotebookLM doesn't need new AI. It's tool use and context. Tool use is awesome, I've been saying that for ages.

It's wrong to extrapolate we're seamlessly going to go from tool use to "AI replaces humans"
by 827a | 2025-10-11 05:13:31+00:00
ChatGPT was at 700M weekly actives when their head of product went on Lenny's Podcast on Aug 9th. This week Sam announced at dev day they'd hit 800M weekly actives. They gained 100M users in two months. Not monthly active; weekly active. Polymarket has the market for "1B monthly actives in 2025" at 78%, but to be frank; if they're at 800M WAUs, they've probably already blown past 1B MAUs. We probably won't hear them announce 1B WAUs in 2025; but I'd bet every dollar I own that we'll hear it before the end of 2026-Q1.

Here's something I implore readers think about, just to help ground your reality in the numbers we're talking: The super bowl gets ~120M viewers. During the four hour event, this year, they turned ~$800M in advertising revenue. What you're thinking is "I see where you're going with this, but that's higher value advertising, its not the same on..." and I'll stop you right there and ask: How much revenue do you think Meta makes every day? The answer: ~$450M. Not far off.

OpenAI will make so much money if they figure out advertising. Incomprehensible, eye-watering amounts of money. They will spend all of it and more building data centers. If your mental model on these companies is still based in some religious belief that they need to achieve AGI to be profitable, and AGI isn't possible/feasible: you need to update your model. AGI doesn't matter. People want to stop thinking and sext their chatgpt robot therapist. You can hate it, but get with the program and stop crystalizing that legitimate hate for what the future looks like as some weird fantasy that OpenAI is unsuccessful and going to implode.
by ksec | 2025-10-11 05:14:09+00:00
>Johny Srouji, who leads Apple’s chip division and recently launched the company’s first cellular modem, is also evaluating his future at the tech giant.

>The company is searching for a replacement for John Giannandrea, its artificial intelligence chief. And Lisa Jackson, head of environment and government affairs, is considering retirement.

>Federighi, well known to Apple fans for his splashy appearances in company presentations, will now oversee watchOS.

A lot of these seems like Tim Cook clearing the way for his successor.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 05:14:52+00:00
> It's not in the Bible.

John 2:18 — “Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.”

1 John 4:3 — “This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.”
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-11 05:15:47+00:00
Personally I like Liquid Glass. HOWEVER, I do think there are serious problems with stability and bugs across all Apple products. From iCloud not synchronizing correctly, to Apple apps not authenticating properly on Windows, to weird glitches on iOS where the keyboards don’t show up sometimes, to the autofill not working well, to text selection being awkward. The quality of what they’re trying to do is just down across the board. And once you’re there, it doesn’t make sense to pay luxury prices for a restrictive walled garden.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-10-11 05:16:59+00:00
> > 802.11(og), 1 & 2 Mbps > I’m a little vague on the details, but those are rather old

They're the original, phase shift keyed modulations.

> Do they actually work well?

They work great, if your problem is SNR, and if you value range more than data rate.

They are, of course, horribly spectrally inefficient which means they work better than OFDM near the guard bands. OFDM has a much flatter power level over frequency, so you have to limit TX power whenever the shoulder of the signal nears the guard band. IIRC, some standard supports individually adjusting the resource unit transmit power which would solve this as well. PSK modulation solves this somewhat accidentally. Guardbands especially suck since there's only 3 non overlapping 2.4GHz channels.

> I don’t think there is anything that low-rate in the current MCS table.

> Do they support modern advancements like LDPC?

Dunno! Generally though, each MCS index will specify both a modulation mechanism (BPSK, OFDM, ...) and a coding rate. All of the newer specs allow you to go almost as slow if you want to, usually 6-7mbps ish , and this is done with the same modulation scheme just a bit faster and with newer coding.

> do those ax resource units work, in practice, in a way that allows two APs that are moderately close to each other to coexist efficiently within the same 20MHz channel?

Yes and no. It doesn't improve RF coexistence directly. But in many cases allows much more efficient use of the available airtime. Before every outgoing packet to a different station consumed a guard interval and the entire channel bandwidth, but now for a single guard interval you can pack as many station's data as will fit.
by jama211 | 2025-10-11 05:17:06+00:00
See this is where I think I fundamentally disagree. It’s more like being a scientist who takes 10 rats and tries to train them to sniff out TB, and once they find one that can do it reliably, they go and do real work with it. Just because the rat is the one doing the sniffing doesn’t mean the scientists aren’t real scientists. And just because we work with a tool that isn’t perfectly reliable doesn’t make us any less engineers as long as we manage and take ownership of the output as we alter and massage it from the machine. Imagine back in the day calling devs that didn’t write in assembly “alchemists” because they didn’t fully understand how a compiler works and just trusted it instead. As long as they’re reading the code, testing the logic, and working towards an outcome they take ownership of, they’re engineers, and so are people who use LLM’s. It’s dangerously close to elitism gatekeeping to say otherwise.

Also I’ve been a software engineer for 15 years so I think I don’t “have no hope of becoming a software engineer”, no personal attacks please.
by Animats | 2025-10-11 05:17:09+00:00
> artificial intelligence, climate change, bioweapons, nuclear war, fertility collapse. The list is unintentionally revealing.

Those are big concerns for the next 20-30 years. At any one time, they rarely hit the headlines. But their effects accumulate.

We may be in the runup to WWIII in Europe. Read up on the runup to WWII, the "phony war". The Chancellor of Germany said recently "We are not at war, but we are not at peace either".
by tavavex | 2025-10-11 05:18:54+00:00
I'm also gen Z. For me the reaction to Windows Aero was similar, but I guess that's just how it is because it's what we grew up with. The blog post is talking about imitating materials in general though, and I can totally see how it can be taken too far. Think putting wood PNGs as backgrounds for app elements or adding brushed aluminium textures on sliders, things like those look pretty dated to me now. I'm guessing the Microsoft designers just had a far lower tolerance for that stuff, since IMO Windows 7 was very tame in terms of this - it felt just abstractly transparent and shiny more than skeuomorphic.

Metro was also just pretty bad on its own, irrespective of what came before or after. It was way too simplified, and despite that everything was HUGE so you could really see every bit of detail that was taken away. As usual, Microsoft was chasing the big new thing that never came by designing half the OS around tablet PCs. Windows 10 toned it down like how 7 toned down on Vista, and after that it was pretty alright for me. A much better example of a UI that came out then and aged well was Android 5 with Material Design.
by jopicornell | 2025-10-11 05:19:18+00:00
I have already seen a few of your responses to criticism coming up toxic like this. They don't need to fork it, but some of your potential customers could. They are explaining to you their opinions, and in HN, this is very valuable.

Most of us have some decision at companies, which are your real customers, and criticism like I've seen you respond boldly and badly, is the criticism I think you should review and take into account.

Personally, I like everything of the pro, except the features that you decided to exclude. Doesn't seem pro features, but features you ramdomly decided not to open source them, and that could be ok. But instead of doing it like this, maybe put a restrictive license so that companies with more than 5 people have to pay.

But I think you should focus on premium/pro features that are really a plus, like your debugger, the bundler, etc. And find features that aren't common and give a plus.

And it is an opinion which you may disagree with, but if you respond to me, don't do it like that, because to me, it is not professional and I'll tend to avoid doing business with people that respond like that
by k310 | 2025-10-11 05:21:36+00:00
There seems to be a certain paranoia among the wealthy and those in power, namely that peaceful cities are burning to the ground. Maybe they get this from their "news sources", presidential posts and speeches, but it's entirely untrue. Perhaps it's a kind of deliberate mass hysteria.

As an example, A group has set up a website to give the "ground truth" of Portland [0].

San Francisco has always had its problems, but under the control of local authorities with domain knowledge. And the same, no doubt, for every liberal city being occupied under the false pretense that it is in ruins. People go to work, schools and even zoos normally and peacefully.

You see, in this case, rampant crime, raging fires and anarchy are to be found in the mind of the beholder.

[0] https://isportlandburning.com/
Ask HN: Laptop for learning intermediate modern sysadmin
by shivajikobardan | 2025-10-11 05:23:07+00:00
Cloud services cost a lot, and the worst part is, you don’t even own the machine.

Initially, building a desktop PC appeared to be a cost-effective option. However, after accounting for additional expenses such as a UPS (due to frequent power outages), a monitor, and other peripherals, a laptop proves to be a better value in my situation.

Earlier I had i5 7th generation laptop with 16GB RAM. It would start to cry whenever I put more than three virtual machines. The host OS was windows 10 and guest OS was rocky linux minimal inside Hyper-V/Virtualbox. And I would like to keep it that way.

Thus I will require 32GB RAM.

And a solid processor should be non-negotiable. But I am not sure about which processor would be most value for money? i.e. give me highest ROI for the least amount of leap in budget? Budget is 500 dollars. (Which would amount to twice expensive in Nepal that is why. I mean 500$=70K NPR but when that product comes to Nepal with taxes, it will become more than 100K NPR)
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 05:23:30+00:00
> There is a million ways you could help others.

Thiel contributes to a wide range of organizations, primarily through his private foundation, the Thiel Foundation. His giving focuses on scientific research, technology, and projects that explore new political or social ideas.

Prominent recipients have included: SENS Research Foundation, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), The Seasteading Institute, The Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Foundation, etc.
by mungaihaha | 2025-10-11 05:23:42+00:00
"Here’s a real example: a user signs in with an email and password. That flow touches three services, each with a single responsibility:

EmailService::Normalizer strips and downcases the email UserService::Authenticator checks credentials SessionService::Creator creates a session"

Don't know how to say this without sounding arrogant. WTF?
by raphman | 2025-10-11 05:24:45+00:00
No, the article incorrectly cites/summarizes the original blog post [1] which indeed seems to pull some numbers out of thin air:

> "I’m going to use a bunch of numbers here that I believe to be directionally correct,"

> "Let’s start with total datacenter spend for 2025. Insiders think it’s going to clock in at around $400 billion."

(in the US? worldwide?)

> "I am sure I’m off by a few percent in these categories, but I’m relying on AI and we all know it’s still imperfect."

> "the AI datacenters to be built in 2025 will suffer $40 billion of annual depreciation, while generating somewhere between $15 and $20 billion of revenue."

In a follow-up article [2], the author says that he learned that the investments probably have much less than the 10 years of depreciation time he originally assumed. Again, no external sources are linked.

> "Personal self-doubts disappeared, and high-placed individuals reached out to share their epiphanies "

So, it seems the author estimated how much money will be invested in AI datacenters in 2025. The 20 billion of annual revenue mentioned in the article are just the share of all AI revenue for these new data centers. And these numbers have just been estimated by the author - apparently with the help of AI.

While the article and the blog posts may have some merit, it seems all based on some guy's assumptions and conversations he claims to have had.

[1] https://pracap.com/global-crossing-reborn/

[2] https://pracap.com/an-ai-addendum/
by jMyles | 2025-10-11 05:25:07+00:00
Man I love sunlight vibe coding. A good RLCD screen is one of the most significant investments I've made for my health in recent years.

I'm in my skoolie, off-grid at the moment in Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa.

My standing desk for the weekend: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPpZjy1Ej9t/
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 05:25:51+00:00
> I don't know how 2025 houses are built but I would be surprised if they didn't have an ethernet jack in every room to a wiring closet of some sort. Not sure about coax.

Aye.

Cat5/6/whatever-ish cabling has been both the present and the future for something on the order of 25 years now. It's as much of a no-brainer to build network wiring into a home today as it once was to build telephone and TV wiring into a home. Networking should be part of all new home builds.

And yet: Here in 2025, I'm presently working on a new custom home, wherein we're installing some vaguely-elaborate audio-visual stuff. The company in charge of the LAN/WAN end of things had intended to have the ISP bring fiber WAN into a utility area of the basement (yay fiber!), and put a singular Eeros router/mesh node there, and have that be that.

The rest of the house? More mesh nodes, just wirelessly-connected to eachother. No other installed network wires at all -- in a nicely-finished and fairly opulent house that is owned by a very successful local doctor.

They didn't even understand why we were planning to cable up the televisions and other AV gear that would otherwise be scooping up finite wireless bandwidth from their fixed, hard-mounted locations.

In terms of surprise: Nothing surprises me now.

(In terms of cost: We wound up volunteering to run wiring for the mesh nodes. It will cost us ~nothing on the scale that we're operating at, and we're already installing cabling... and not doing it this way just seems so profoundly dumb.)
by b112 | 2025-10-11 05:26:57+00:00
We need to return nuance to everything. And we don't need team politics any more.

San Fran has major problems. It's under much better control now, than it was a decade ago. Admitting and realising that truth, doesn't mean that there's anything wrong in Portland.

This whole "All (red|blue) cities are (bad|good) is insane. Yet I see both sides playing it. Playing it, because one (bad|good) somehow means all are?!

Madness.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-10-11 05:27:08+00:00
I’m not doubting the existence of such article. I’m asking you to engage some critical thinking and not accept whatever cute, PR or otherwise “fun” narrative you read anywhere.

It’s “fun” to think that Starbucks struggles in Italy is because they are dumb and didn’t realize that Italians have a long cultural tradition with coffee that’s very different than Americans. “Oh dumb Americans and dumb Starbucks. How stupid are they to try to sell espresso in the land of espresso lol”. You need to engage just a little bit of critical thinking and realize that Starbucks knew that well in advance and thought the would give it a shot anyway. Maybe they could occupy a different cultural niche just like they did in dozens of other countries with similarly rich cultural traditions around coffeeshops and coffee or tea like the Middle East and Asia.
by dpark | 2025-10-11 05:27:17+00:00
“No one wants an actual touch screen, but they definitely want a really narrow touchscreen directly above their keyboard. It’s contextual.”

I had a MacBook Pro with the touchbar for a little while. I found it to be useless. I do agree if they had left the function keys alone it would have been a much better, or at least less annoying, option.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-10-11 05:27:31+00:00
Trying to proof the impossible with science is does not work. These type of books may use sound logic to build on their premise but the big problem is that the premise is build on sand and has no footing so the whole proof false apart.

Bottom line, you either believe or you don't but a book that purports to prove, or disprove, the existence of God can't do it. It's impossible.
by jopicornell | 2025-10-11 05:27:34+00:00
Same as my other comment, it seems like you are involved in the project. Stop responding like this is facebook or reddit. Here we offer our expertise with all good intentions. They haven't said it is a simple task, you are assuming that they said that.

If you can't take constructive criticism or even respond to opinions you disagree, then it is better to not respond at all, because it is bad PR.

I understand that maintaining a project like this is hard, that you need to be compensated and that open source corporate usage tends to be disgraceful. But that's not what they are telling you. They are just shating their opinion, which is part of your potential customer opinions.

Share the rationale behind paywalling common features. Give us, if you have to respond, why you hide the pro features off the homepage, etc. Instead of this kind of childish reaction that adds nothing
by sampullman | 2025-10-11 05:28:04+00:00
I get pretty good results with Claude code, Codex, and to a lesser extend Jules. It can navigate a large codebase and get me started on a feature in a part of the code I'm not familiar with, and do a pretty good job of summarizing complex modules. With very specific prompts it can write simple features well.

The nice part is I can spend an hour or so writing specs, start 3 or 4 tasks, and come back later to review the result. It's hard to be totally objective about how much time it saves me, but generally feels worth the 200/month.

One thing I'm not impressed by is the ability to review code changes, that's been mostly a waste of time, regardless of how good the prompt is.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-11 05:29:18+00:00
Look at it (2.5 t/h) by volume (0.82 kg/L): 3 kL/h (790 gal/h) == 50 L/m (13 gal/m) == 830 mL/s (0.9 qt/s), and then divide the total flow rate by 2 for rate per engine.

Or divide the total by the number of passengers (~189) flying to consider effective fuel economy (per passenger) or 13 kg/pax/h or 3.6 g/pax/s.

They must plan to never land with less than 30 minutes of fuel, or about 1.25 t, and I'd say they should never, ever land with less than 15 minutes in their career during a pan/mayday bingo fuel emergency.
by varenc | 2025-10-11 05:29:19+00:00
An idle Wi-Fi client with no traffic should have a very minimal effect on your network's quality. The TV is only going to be slowing things down if it's actually using the network and downloading/uploading. Which regrettably, is a problem with smart TVs. But there's no reason to limit the number of idle clients on a Wi-Fi network assuming your gateway can handle it. The challenge is though in the real world many devices that should be idle aren't.

For my IoT network I just block most every device's access to the internet. That cuts down on a lot of their background chatter and gives me some minor protection.

Also honestly, I feel the majority of wifi problems could be fixed by having proper coverage (more access points), using hardwired access points (no meshing), and getting better equipment. I like Ubiquiti/Unifi stuff but other good options out there. Avoid TP-Link and anything provided by an ISP. If you do go meshing, insist on a 6ghz backhaul, though that hurts the range.