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by lynx97 | 2025-10-17 17:15:55+00:00
I once sat on a table nearby of the local investigative newsroom crew having a chat in a cafe. The vibe I got was so evil, I definitely wouldn't give them any of my money. In fact, I have given up on the concept of independent journalism, I just dont believe anymore it is happening. Knowing the onwership structure of the publishers in my country (and many others around me) also adds to the unwillingness to donate. They are all inconservative hands, and are being used to push agendas.
by ozeron | 2025-10-17 17:15:58+00:00
Looking at pricing for this and especially for E2B. I've decided to work on a lightweight alternative to Cloudflare’s Sandbox because I ran into the same pain points with current solutions: - limited parallelization - expensive

My focus is: - simple SDK primitives for code execution, file ops, and git checkout—no boilerplate stacks - transparent pricing (per-second compute with monthly caps, no surprise egress) - price sandboxes for 50-60% less then competitors

Would love to get your feedback in https://usesandbox.dev/ Just finalized main pieces today
by stego-tech | 2025-10-17 17:16:16+00:00
From the perspective of AI critics like myself, HN is awash in posts showing what folks have done with AI or boosting AI PR pieces, while critics often get flagged and our submissions shunted away from the front page. AI Boosters claim that all this CAPEX will create a Utopia where nobody has to work anymore, economies grow exponentially forever, and societal ills magically disappear through the power of AGI. On the other side, a lot of AI Doomers point out the perils of circular financing, CAPEX investments divorced from reality, underlying societal and civilizational issues that will hinder any potential positive revolution from/by AI, and corporate valuations with no basis other than hype.

Where commenters like yourself trip themselves up is a staunch refusal to be objective in your observations. Nobody is doubting the excitement of new technologies and their potential, including LLMs; we doubt the validity of the claims of their proponents that these magic boxes will somehow cure all diseases and accelerate human civilization into the galactic sphere through automated R&D and production. When Op-Eds, bloggers, and commenters raise these issues, they’re brow-beaten, insulted, flagged, and shunted away from the front page as fast as humanly possible lest others start asking similar questions. While FT’s Op-Eds aren’t exactly stellar to begin with, and this one is similarly milquetoast at first glance, the questions and concerns raised remain both valid and unaddressed by AI Boosters like yourselves. Specifics are constantly nitpicked in an effort to discredit entire arguments, rather than address the crux of the grievance in a respectable manner; boosters frequently come off like a sleazy Ambulance-Chasing Lawyer on TV discrediting witnesses through bad-faith tactics.

Rather than bloviate about the glory of machine gods or whine about haters, actually try listening to the points of your opponents and addressing them in a respectful and honest manner instead of trying to find the proverbial weak point in the block tower. You - and many others - continue to willfully miss the forest for the specific tree you dislike within it, and that’s why this particular era in tech continues to devolve into toxicity.

At the end of the day, there is no possible way short of actual lived outcome for either side to prove their point as objectively correct. Though when one side spends their time hiding and smearing critique from their opponents instead of discussing it in good faith, that does not bode well for their position.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-17 17:16:19+00:00
It is a combination of technology moving fast (aka nobody wants an old ev that does not have the latest advances in capacity and speed of charging) and also the real fear of battery replacement costs.

For the second one insurance companies could help alleviate the uncertainty, but I don’t see major vendors offering packages.

People don’t have 20k in a single shot to fix a battery failure. (Maybe cumulatively for a gas car one has to pay more, but it will be in small installments)
by Jzatopa | 2025-10-17 17:16:38+00:00
The Tao of Physics itself explains and clarifies why IIH fundamentally works along with many other things.

We could also go as far as this being racial, religious or political biggotry hard codes into claude. Look at the responses then dive into the realities of Yoga, Qi Gong and Kabbalah and what it takes to get results (ie. Personal property exercise).

This extrapolated across industries, children's minds and the future is very serious.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-17 17:17:02+00:00
> I'm not involved in this stuff anymore (now retired), but it's possible that the Starshield constellation supports transmitting on S-band (or L-Band) as a means to relay SGLS communications to satellites that are out-of-view. Having this capability would greatly benefit the workflow of transfer orbit operations and initial testing, by eliminating the constraint that the satellite must be in-view to communicate with it. It would also benefit anomaly resolution by allowing instant access to a malfunctioning spacecraft.

That's interesting, thank you for the great comment. Would that kind of usage then not be counter to the standards, as suggested in the article?
by dendrite9 | 2025-10-17 17:17:07+00:00
Depending on how far back you want to look at electric cars you can find them for pretty cheap. Sub $5k versions from 10 years ago were tempting recently when my partner needed a repair on the current (ICE) car. It looked like sub $15k there were many options. For use around the city it would be a good fit, but I ditched the ideas since we're in the process of dealing with partial house rewiring. That might be an update for later.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 17:17:24+00:00
Not just the Midwest, but most of the US outside the East Coast cities tend to have pretty large homes and apartments compared to most of the rest of the world in terms of home sizes. The US is pretty huge, with much of it livable and relatively less total density than other nations.

Of course, the US has also done a lot more than many places to preserve natural wilderness with national and ngo parks/reserves.

My house in Phoenix, AZ, USA is relatively typical 3br/3ba and just over 2K sqft (around 192 M^2), and I know a lot of people with larger homes than this.
by lorenzohess | 2025-10-17 17:17:58+00:00
Editor's summary:

> Synaptic connections mediate classical intercellular communication in the brain. However, recent data have demonstrated the existence of noncanonical routes of interneuronal communication mediating the transport of materials including calcium, mitochondria, and pathogenic proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ). Using super-resolution and electron microscopy, Chang et al. identified and characterized structures called nanotubular bridges that connect dendrites in the brain (see the Perspective by Budinger and Heneka). These bridges mediate the transport of calcium ions, small molecules, and Aβ peptides, and may contribute to the spreading and accumulation of pathological Aβ in Alzheimer’s disease. —Mattia Maroso
by munificent | 2025-10-17 17:18:07+00:00
> Since sorting sprites is O(N^2),

You probably know this already but sorting is `N log(N)` in the general case but `N` when the range of values is known and relative small using pigeonhole sort [1]. That's probably what you're doing on the GPU.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_sort
by TimBurman | 2025-10-17 17:18:07+00:00
Fast Acting Humalog 1000 unit (10 ml) vials cost CAD $40.34 = USD $28.73 in Alberta. Anyone can get Blue Cross from the government which is CAD $720 a year. Then each 3 month supply of a prescription like insulin has a co-pay of $28 a quarter, for however many vials you need. I last used Lantus 24 hour insulin in 2020, when it was around CAD $60, but the government has been switching to biosimilar brands and providing free insulin pumps and supplies including test strips, which only use fast acting insulins. Lantus is most similar to this California insulin.
by hinkley | 2025-10-17 17:18:12+00:00
I was part of a book club of tech books and there was a ton of grumbling when we went through the Scala book. The consensus was this language was designed by nerds instead of language designers. Which either sounds like not a big deal or an insult worth dueling over depending on how much you pay attention to language designers and DX.

Full of Least Surprise violations, and just far too goddamned big. Did 3 try to pare that back into something reasonable?
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 17:18:13+00:00
You don't need a perfect fix.

I'm sorry, but if you're threat model is your kid getting a fucking burner phone, I don't know what to tell you.

Even this law won't fix it! Why, couldnt your kid just save up and buy a plane ticket to the US?? Oh no .. we need a global law don't we?

Or, maybe, we throw away that thinking and acknowledge that the problem is not that big and solving 99% of it is MORE than good enough.

Your kid is way more likely to die in a car wreck. Focus on that or something.
by whism | 2025-10-17 17:18:21+00:00
Hi, we’ve never met but I dig the energy you put into your work that I’ve seen (books, dart etc). An idea I’ve had, but not brought to fruition, is that of using SmallTalk to produce a document of some kind — that is, the result of the work would be a portable executable image that could be read and interacted with and so on :)
by bhelkey | 2025-10-17 17:18:22+00:00
>> people like those in-laws probably aren’t buying EVs.

> A used 2 year old Ioniq 5 is selling for about $15-20K less than MSRP...It's not a "few thousand dollars".

The Ioniq 5 is an electric vehicle. The whole point of this article is that EVs depreciate significantly faster than Internal Combustion Engine vehicles. A brand new ICE vehicle depreciates quickly but not to the point of losing 50% in 2 years.

>6-8 year old cars are a good value

Agree.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-17 17:18:32+00:00
The cargo cult metaphor is weak. If an article written in the year of our FSM 2025 describes Melanesian cargo cults to make a point, they're probably just copying a trope from other articles. Cargo culting, if you will, much like Melanesian cargo cults that would wear bamboo earpieces and...

Is it a gold rush? Absolutely. There is a massive FOMO and everyone is rushing to claim some land, while the biggest profiteers of all are ones selling the shovels and pick axes. It's all going to wash out and in the end a very small number of players will be making money, while everyone else goes bust.

While many people think the broadly described AI is overhyped, I think people are grossly underestimating how much this changes almost everything. Very few industries will be untouched.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-17 17:18:46+00:00
How are ICEs quieter than EVs? Are you talking about the artificial noise EVs put out at low speeds so they don't sneak up on people?

ICEs have longer range, some of them are really fuel efficient, especially hybrids. But they drive relatively more poorly unless you opt for a sports car that is cramped and expensive. It isn't the worse thing in the world to drive an ICE, but it is noticeably less fun than driving an EV.
by bityard | 2025-10-17 17:18:47+00:00
I have a Kobo... I don't remember the model name. But the thing I like best about it, is that I never had to sign into anything to use it. (There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to edit an sqlite file.) Once I have an ebook in DRM-free ePub, I just plug it into my computer, copy it over in the file manager, and then just start reading. No Calibre or any other special software needed.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 17:20:07+00:00
>Anyone who is married fully understands you cannot argue with wife logic.

This is the job the 4dr Wrangler was built to solve.

"see honey, it's got a back seat for the kids".

"don't worry, we can get a hard top if it's too loud."

"there's a hybrid option available"

It's the world's worst 4dr SUV for kids and car seats and the like and it's still loud with a hard top and gets shit milage for a hybrid but you'll never figure it out until after you've bought the thing and the honeymoon period is over.

It's an absolutely brilliant exercise in checkbox engineering (and preventing couples from arguing in the dealership).
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-10-17 17:20:08+00:00
> None of these are problems taken separately, but put together they're pretty frustrating. Hooks being 5 years old and being the predominant tool for certain tasks shows that the community only figured out how to solve a particular problem 5 years ago.

Hooks are ~~7~~ 6 years+8months old, almost 7 years. This may not seem like a significant difference, but IMO it puts them 75% of the way back in time to when react took off versus 50% of the way. That is a significant difference. Please stop repeating the 5 year number. It's _provably_ wrong and not a matter of opinion: https://legacy.reactjs.org/blog/2019/02/06/react-v16.8.0.htm...

> does not seems like something a stable ecosystem would do.

I don't think being a 'stable ecosystem' means owning every part of the dev process, or even most of it; nor have they ever intended to do so (they didn't reimplement npm, webpack, etc). CRA existed to fill a particular need for a time (providing a simpler/more stable interface in front of webpack), and when that was no longer needed by the community, they abandoned it. I don't understand why this matters. Better tools emerged, the React docs/guidance reflect that.

> because I inherited a simple site that should have never used React

I'm sorry that you're in that situation. The React community is not really responsible for that IMO, and I don't think the things you've highlighted have meaningfully contributed to making that worse. I stand by the fact that deprecating CRA once great alternatives emerged was the right answer. Next is probably a good answer for many people too. The react team is and should be writing recommendations for the common case for their library, and the fact that your simple site falls outside of an ideal case for React doesn't mean they're not writing the correct recommendations.
by ewoodrich | 2025-10-17 17:20:39+00:00
Right, but typically making those kind of mistakes creates more work for yourself and with the benefit of experience you get better at recognizing the red flags to avoid getting in that situation again. but it

Which is why I think the parent post had a great observation about human problem solving having evolved in a universe inherently formed by the additive effect of every previous decision you've ever made made in your life.

There's a lot of variance in humans, sure, but inescapable stakes/skin in the game from an instinctual understanding that you can't just revert to a previous checkpoint any time you screw up. That world model of decisions and consequences helps ground abstract problem solving ability with a healthy amount of risk aversion and caution that LLMs lack.
by hinkley | 2025-10-17 17:20:52+00:00
I wonder sometimes how much Kotlin contributed.

It’s certainly a case that languages need to be championed by competent IDE writers otherwise they fail to scale. Because you can’t have 50 devs all using neovim - and only neovim - without making a huge gigantic mess. Large projects can sustain a few brilliant people working with one hand tied behind their back but not everyone.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-10-17 17:21:22+00:00
> Why would I proxy my own decisions based on any mindless slogan?

Exactly, why would you? But ignoring a hypothetical communal bridge jumping situation, do you have a problem with Matz having stewardship over RubyGems? Use your own thinking. If you're okay with it, then... is it because Matz is nice?
by davemp | 2025-10-17 17:21:24+00:00
> You won't get anywhere with people who just like to argue.

Yeah not really sure why I bother. I think I just get bothered that Rust gets touted everywhere as a silver bullet.

> Tony Hoare's "billion dollar mistake", which was making null a valid value of a pointer type

It’s funny how we got stuck with his biggest mistake for decades and his (probably not entirely his) algebraic types / tagged unions have just started to get first class support now.
by CivBase | 2025-10-17 17:21:29+00:00
I know I personally would not buy a used EV because I've heard so many horror stories about battery replacements. If EV batteries were commonly designed to be repairable (replace by cell or in smaller banks of cells), I'd be less hesitant.

I also suspect there simply aren't many used EVs I'd want right now. I generally "techie" cars with tons of software features, big ol' touch screens, and half-baked self-driving features. I'm still not even comfortable with keyless start on my current vehicle and I hate the adaptive cruise, which I am unable to turn off. For better or worse, EVs seem to always be at the bleeding edge of these kinds of technologies.
by dalyons | 2025-10-17 17:22:00+00:00
It’s not a random moment, they degrade predictably over time and at a very slow rate. They have less “random” big expensive failures than ice cars. How much is an ice whole engine replacement in a semi modern car? Not cheap and happens more often than an ev battery dropping dead.

So I mean I’m sorry your wife is irrational about it, but I don’t think that’s indicative of the market as a whole.
by xethos | 2025-10-17 17:22:04+00:00
> especially in models without a heat pump.

Oh for- who the fuck is putting resistive heating in an EV?! What brain-dead PM greenlit that pants-on-head jackassery? Was it GM? I can see an American OEM getting that close to the goal line only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Really though, that's just disappointing; I had earnestly assumed every EV that made it to market (in North America at least) would be using a heat pump.
by jacobr1 | 2025-10-17 17:22:43+00:00
> If so, why aren't used dealers just including a battery swap in the price?

I think that is the main thing that needs to be figured out. I suspect the problem is that you need to get OEM battery replacements for older model cars and those aren't yet readily available or cheap. We are going to need aftermarket batteries to drive price competition in the market. The current car manufacturers aren't incentivised to support a secondary market when they are still focused on primary sales. Also not in the ICE market there is much more ability to scale capacity. The supply chain constraints for EVs, and batteries are much tighter, though that keeps getting better.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 17:22:45+00:00
> This absolutely destroyed the resale value for people who paid near the high point

This is definitely true, but it's funny how much hand-wringing is being done about those people, who already bought EVs and really don't need to replace them like 3-4 years into ownership (they might want to for vanity, but if so they're either rich or love wasting money).

"Destroyed resale value" is just another word for "provided amazing prices to a great used market." These "destroyed value" cars are great almost-new cars available at prices competitive with gas cars. In California with horrific electric rates, if I charge my used EV at the "non-peak" time it's like buying gas for my old car at 2.50/gal. In places with much better rates it's more like $1 a gallon. And these are cars that are now available for the same price as a comparable gas car. I'd say this is a huge win for everyone.
by fabianlindfors | 2025-10-17 17:22:57+00:00
The note on how all those tools seem to mostly be spec-first and vague about spec maintenance was interesting to me. Me and my cofounder have been going all-in on spec-as-source, as we think it's really the most interesting use of specs, but it's also challenging to get of the ground. If anybody has any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.

Also in case somebody wants to try a spec-as-source tool, we'd love feedback: https://specific.dev
by qwertyuiop_ | 2025-10-17 17:23:00+00:00
The executives at <bigcorp> will not allow bare metal or other alternatives anytime soon because either most of them have drunk the AWS/Azure koolaid or AWS/Azure has already bought out the Rolodex of most of these companies by the 1) promise of hiring senior tech leadership if they drink the koolaid 2) influence of previous executives who accepted roles at Amazon.

You've gotta hand it to Amazon for their strategy.
by elif | 2025-10-17 17:23:16+00:00
Yo I've been a vegan for over 30 years and personally I wish that were true, but honestly I don't see groupthink on this topic ever shifting substantially.

Ideology which confirms ones desires are stronger than socially collective cerebralization about theoretical ideals.

I actually think AI will be granted empathy far sooner than animals simply due to its ability to speak and thus engage in the ideological layer.
by kube-system | 2025-10-17 17:23:18+00:00
It's the charging.

You have to remember that the market for new cars skews heavily toward wealthier households. These households are generally the ones that can afford a place to charge a car at home.

The market for a used EV is much smaller than for a used gas powered vehicle. People buying used vehicles are much more likely to have housing situations where they can't charge a vehicle.

This factor doesn't apply to gasoline vehicles because everyone, rich or poor, fills up at a gas station.
by jagged-chisel | 2025-10-17 17:23:45+00:00
I am not a 4chan user. How is this flag assigned? Automatically by 4chan based on some criteria? Or chosen at will by the user?

Presumably if the latter, one may express their support of the flag of their choice; or indicate their heritage; or any number of other reasons.

If the former, and considering the existence of a .uk TLD, they probably are considered to be “targeting” that market.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-17 17:23:50+00:00
Average lifespan of a car in the US is 16 years, warranty covers half of that.

Given the lowest acceptable threshold for capacity under some warranties (70%) and assuming linear degradation, a 16 year old EV would have 40% capacity (worst case). Given a typical range of 250 for EVs today, that would put you at ~110 miles on a charge.

Seems like it would be a fine car to me given the age. I'd also expect battery swaps to become more common as the industry ages, which will drive prices down.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-17 17:23:56+00:00
> Xerox' previous business was photocopiers that could only make copies of existing physical documents you'd already typed out or pasted together. The laser printer was connected directly to your mainframe and allowed customized mass printing at a speed and quality not seen before.

But I'm not saying laser printers weren't a great thing, I'm saying it doesn't take setting up a research playground like PARC to get that kind of result.

Laser printers are the kind of improvement typical R&D comes up with. Xerox's customers wanted more speed and quality out of their printers, laser printers got them that. It's not exactly clear that a typical R&D wouldn't/couldn't have come up with that. Apple for instance does this kind of R&D all the time, and they're very good at it.

Xerox PARC wasn't about getting the next incremental improvement in speed and quality for printers, it was about inventing the office of the future. But the office of the future doesn't require laser printers or printers of any kind. PARC's vision was that Xerox's core business would be eliminated, and that's precisely why Xerox couldn't be the one to actually capitalize on PARC research.

> were definitely a revolutionary change

I would say going from dot matrix printers to laser printers is an incremental change; whereas something more revolutionary would be going from dot matrix printers to no printers at all because you don't need them since you have e-mail and the Internet.