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by retSava | 2025-10-22 13:23:49+00:00
I get you are speaking broadly and with apparently quite an opinion already (eg, is that common, really? or just your caricature view of an allergic person?), but I can only offer you my/our perspective.

Daughter, highly allergic to peanuts since infant. Had a couple of anaphylactic reactions. This causes your whole system to want to f** you up, as violently and as quickly as possible. Rocket vomiting, throat swelling, asthma constricting your airways, intense feeling of heat and sweating and rashes. And anxiety deluxe, since you feel like you are gonna die, since that's literally what happens. It's a cascading system fault, which will lead to organ failure unless you stop it quickly. You do that with an Epipen, which is bug effin needle that hurts (I've taken one), and leaves you shaking from the adrenaline. And you'll be so full of anxiety and stress so you can't take one yourself, you need someone to give it to you. So you hope that adults around you know to recognize what's going on, and know where your shots are, and know how to administer one.

But you are still not safe, since that might not be enough, you may need another shot within perhaps ten minutes, or six hours from rebound effects. And you know, that due to all this you can't just "take a shot and chillax the rest of the day", you'll need an ambulance and stay under observation for those hours, then you'll be tired like after running a marathon, for several days.

Now consider what that does to you, when just a tiny tiny slip-up from someone is enough to send you down that funnel, and you constantly need to be sure you have your shots with you, anything you eat is safe. It's a constant state where you can't just relax and eat snacks with friends, or a million other things you take for granted.

We as parents do what we can do, and try our hardest to not let her get stuck in thinking about it. She should not have to be responsible for those things working, she should just be another kid to the fullest extent.

Then, as mentioned, a reminder comes in the form of school lunch messed up and the teacher that found her panicked on the thought of giving her that needle, so they gtfo out of there.

Final thoughts. I understand, there are those parents who think that their little angel is the most tender fragile thing in the world. I don't know how warranted that is, perhaps there is a real risk for their child, perhaps not. People take risks differently. I can only offer another perspective and hope for better understanding.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-22 13:24:07+00:00
> You couldn't kick your way through the 90s and 2000s without the endless parade of semi-transparent terminal windows running on various shades of windowmaker, enlightenment, kde, etc. all to show off how much more advanced the graphics pipeline and customisation was compared to Windows or Mac at the time. So this is hardly a new thing.

What does this even mean with respect to the article?
by jgraettinger1 | 2025-10-22 13:24:10+00:00
As someone with workloads that can benefit from these techniques, but limited resources to put them into practice, my working thesis has been:

* Use a multi-threaded tokio runtime that's allocated a thread-per-core * Focus on application development, so that tasks are well scoped / skewed and don't _need_ stealing in the typical case * Over time, the smart people working on Tokio will apply research to minimize the cost of work-stealing that's not actually needed. * At the limit, where long-lived tasks can be distributed across cores and all cores are busy, the performance will be near-optimal as compared with a true thread-per-core model.

What's your hot take? Are there fundamental optimizations to a modern thread-per-core architecture which seem _impossible_ to capture in a work-stealing architecture like Tokio's?
by hollywood_court | 2025-10-22 13:24:17+00:00
I wish you luck. I wouldn't buy the 2015 unless they've documented the timing service and give you a warranty. And don't park it outside. I'm not exaggerating when I say (I believe I've even shared this in a previous comments years ago) that every single Jaguar I've ever serviced has had wiring damage due to rodents.

I believe it's something to do with the coating they use on their wiring and harnesses. But I never had a Jaguar in my shop that didn't suffer from some type of wiring damage as a result of rodents chewing on the wiring.
by atonse | 2025-10-22 13:24:18+00:00
Exactly. For most people, even at $500/month, yes it might be painful but is still dwarfed by the cost of engineer time. And it's also one of those "let's kick the can down the road, everything's working right now, do we want the headache of potentially destabilizing things"

But this is also one of those things where, almost invariably after you do it, you think "Oh man, we should've done this 3 years ago!!! It just ended up taking a day and everything's working beautifully"
by pdimitar | 2025-10-22 13:24:36+00:00
I don't count crawling to a halt as a working machine. Plus it depends. Back in the day I had computers that got blocked for 30-ish seconds which was annoying but gave you the window of opportunity to go kill the offending program. But then you had some that we left, out of curiosity, to work throughout the entire workday and they never recovered.

So most of the time I'd prefer option 3: the OOM killer to reap a few offending programs and let me handle restarting them.
by frantathefranta | 2025-10-22 13:24:36+00:00
Our family has owned a '97 Defender 110 (originally bought for my parents' surveying business) for about 16 years now and I still don't understand how some people used to buy these for status. Not having owned a Land Cruiser (but am a happy owner of a Prius) or a Wrangler, I'd probably choose the Toyota over the Land Rover and leave the Jeep in the last place, though I do like the early generations.
by Madmallard | 2025-10-22 13:24:41+00:00
"- These systems can re-abstract and decompose things just fine. If you want to make it resilient or scalable it will follow whatever patterns you want to give it. These patterns are well known and are definitely in the training data for these models."

No? It absolutely does not do this correctly. It does what "looks" right. Not what IS right. And that ends up being wrong literally the majority of the time for anything even mildly complex.

" I'm sure we'll get some metrics soon on how functional these are for something like Windows, which, I believe is literally the world's single largest code base."

Now that's just not true at all. Windows doesn't even lay a finger to Google's code-base.

"and then make the results easy for a human to review."

This is in no way doable for anything not completely trivial from what an LLM produces. Software is genuinely hard and time-consuming if you want it to actually not be brittle and address the things it needs to and with trade-offs that are NOT detrimental to the future of your product.
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-22 13:24:44+00:00
My experience with ear training is that you really need to connect it to your instrument. If you're on the train where you can't play, obviously it can't hurt to train interval recognition and chord quality - but the ultimate point of training your ear is to build that connection between what you hear in your mind and what comes out of your fingers on the instrument.

If there's one "secret trick" exercise for guitar (and other instruments, I assume), it's singing as you play. Put on a loop and try to just sing the notes as you play them. Or scat a little lick and then try to replicate it on the guitar. It's really effective, it feels like it just "gets to the heart of the issue."

It works to boost interval training too - grab a root note somewhere, play, say, a minor third, get that sound into your head, and then sing it as you play it.

Transcription is also really helpful. Print out some blank tab, download Transcribe! so you can slow / loop sections, pick a song you like, grab your instrument, and just start trying to figure it out. It's grueling at first but it gets a lot easier with practice. As a side benefit, you get to steal licks from players you like.

For the most part, the great players are people who did a ton of this - whether it was rock guys listening to the same blues record over and over and learning the licks, or jazz guys doing obsessive transcriptions. Steve Vai famously found his way into Frank Zappa's band because he sent copies of his transcriptions to Zappa himself.
Show HN: Customer Support AI Agent with Memory
by boburumurzokov | 2025-10-22 13:24:47+00:00
Hi,

I am Bobur, a Software Engineer. We built an open-source customer support AI agent that can remember past conversations.

Most chatbots treat every message like it’s the first one. This one keeps context over time, remembering what the user said earlier, what issues they faced, and what pages they visited.

It can be added to any website with a small widget. The goal is to make support more personal and reduce repeated questions.

We’re still improving the memory layer and feedback loop, and would love feedback on how it behaves with real customer data. Thanks!
by imtringued | 2025-10-22 13:25:02+00:00
For me Wikipedia is only good for introductions and exploration. You don't have time to read a dense tome but also don't have enough experience in reading research papers in that area? Wikipedia it is then.

Wikipedia is the tabloid equivalent for scientific topics.

LLMs tend to be much more useful for niche topics, because they've most likely been trained directly on the source itself.
by corimaith | 2025-10-22 13:25:08+00:00
Personally I think we should be putting more focus on pedagogy. Beyond primary school, education is more zero-sum signaling and specialization.

Rapid growth has always been brought about by improvements in productivity, brought about by better machines in manufacturing in the past. But for white collar jobs we've barely been doing that, instead relying on squeezing successive generations for a static pool of talent.

Imagine a world in which the SAT is an afterthought where everyone can max easily. That would do way more to change your day to day life than the latest EV or HSR.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-22 13:25:11+00:00
> Why is this flagged?

Because there are a lot of DHH fanboys on this site.

It's a tad ironic that critiquing the OS of one a guy who thinks he's fighting for "free speech"* gets flagged. lol.

*He doesn't know what free speech actually is as evidenced by his support of Trump and Elon.
by the_af | 2025-10-22 13:25:34+00:00
> Here are responses that gemma 3 27b just came up with

I think nobody doubts an LLM can come up with responses. But can it understand when it should NOT respond? Can it reign in its baked-in impulse to be "helpful"?

Most of the responses Gemma gave you are not appropriate for many kinds of games. What if the tone of the game is, on purpose (authorial choice), to be "unhelpful"? Or what if it's meant to be helpful but ONLY if you previously unlocked something? [1]

And how can you keep consistency long term? LLMs have a tendency to go off the rails and forget context.

[1] There's an Interactive Fiction game, whose name escapes me now, where you're trying to communicate with a derelict spaceship, with one survivor. The parser is the survivor. For reasons I won't spoil, garbled communications and misunderstandings are part of the game. It's your mission to figure this out and what the survivor really wants. If the LLM becomes "helpful" in its replies, it will spoil the game!
by LunaSea | 2025-10-22 13:25:43+00:00
Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source.

Or they are not geostationary but it also means the datacenter will connect to a different earth base station which means the data access route would change and latency would increase which would be unacceptable for a lot of use cases.

You would then need to replicate and synchronise customer data across the different space data centres to make it possible to access said data in constant and low-latency time.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-22 13:25:45+00:00
Swing is still a thing, at least for all of those using JetBrains products, and still comes wiht the JDK, whereas JavaFX was placed into open source, and I think it only carries forward thanks to Gluon's work.

In what concerns layout managers in .NET, you could do it in Windows Forms via TableLayoutPanel and FlowLayoutPanel.

WPF has always used layout managers from the get go, which is why its drag and drop workflow feels strange to Windows Form devs.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-22 13:25:48+00:00
> Here's an even more radical idea: the browser doesn't even ask you this, and by default it just respects the user's privacy and blocks all third party tracking.

DNT is legally void in several US states because it was enabled by default.

If we do set up a browser-oriented solution, browsers like Firefox and Brave would default to the most privacy-friendly options practical, of course, but they already mostly do that anyway.
by atoav | 2025-10-22 13:26:15+00:00
No. The law does not allow it.

To quote Article 4(11) – Definition of Consent

> ‘Consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Meaning if you force users into pressing a button or let them scroll through 1000 no options, with one easy yes option, you have not collected their free consent. Congrats you broke the law.

Meaning if you just have them click yes, but not informed them about the harmful data collection you did not collect free consent.

The law is pretty clear on that.
by skrebbel | 2025-10-22 13:26:46+00:00
Yes and sometimes it's subtly different from the letter of the law. The point is, if I understand it correctly, that in the US, courts always literally interpret the law as written, whereas in the EU there's a culture of sometimes, when the letter of the law super clearly differs from the intent it was obviously written with, siding with the intent of the law rather than the precise wording.
by floundy | 2025-10-22 13:27:15+00:00
Time for Reddit, Inc to ban another wave of subs now that the mainstream media is reporting on them.

Same story with /r/n***ers (allowed to exist on Reddit until 2013), /r/CoonTown (banned in 2015, was literally just all the refugees from the previous sub), /r/FatPeopleHate (2015 ban wave), /r/ConsoomProduct (weird alt-right takeover of randomly named subs, banned in 2020).

Reddit, Inc does not care about this stuff until it attracts them negative attention. Any statements about "addressing hate speech on Reddit" always have and always will be performative reactions.
by taylodl | 2025-10-22 13:27:16+00:00
Interesting, but who cares? The whole point of buying Craftsman Tools, and not just Sears tools (branded as Sears, not Craftsman) was the lifetime warranty. If the tool broke, they replaced it. There were several times where I needed that. I was in the middle of fixing something on the car when a ratchet wrench would break. I only lived a couple of miles away from a Sears store and I knew which outside entrance to use to get me straight into the tool department - which was useful because I wasn't cleaning up or changing clothes to get a wrench replaced! I'd walk in, go to the counter, present the wrench, they'd see it was busted and they'd go grab me another wrench and I'd be on my way. Customers witnessing that were amazed. But with the Sears stores gone, why buy Craftsman?
by Zanfa | 2025-10-22 13:27:28+00:00
Like mentioned by sibling comments, GDPR explicitly does not allow this. It's just the fact that enforcement is spotty and complicated by the fact that the responsibility is shared across all EU member states with limitations what each country can do by itself, with some countries' data protection authorities intentionally dragging their feet to protect multinationals.

It's the same issue as with most EU-wide issues, where there's always countries competing with each other at the benefit of others.

Also GDPR is not exclusive to browsers or internet, it's applicable universally, for both online and offline businesses and processes, which is why it can't and doesn't prescribe exact technical implementation details.
by seszett | 2025-10-22 13:27:42+00:00
Well almost all websites in France do the legal thing now with an obvious "decline all" button, which was not the case at first.

It took just a pair of ruling that made it clear this illegal pattern was going to actually be cracked down upon, and now these popups are just a small annoyance rather than the absolutely enraging trap that they were at first.

Of course I still wish they were unnecessary, but they serve as a reminder that these websites are still trying to prey upon their visitors.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-22 13:27:46+00:00
> Since a few days, there is an abundance of cover and articles in most major newspaper here with propaganda and repeated lies supporting him.

How much of this is driven by contrarian and counter-cyclical reporting?

I’m not familiar with French media, but I see the same pattern in every country where I’ve kept up with the news: Media starts being favorable to a topic when it’s up and coming, switching to being highly critical when that topic becomes mainstream, then reverts again to exploring the positives when the topic falls out of favor.

You see it even with people like Elizabeth Holmes. News stories about her fraud were everywhere until she had to go to jail, but now the news has swung to humanizing her, claiming her sentencing was excessive, focusing on the angle of a mother separated from her children, and confusingly ignoring her fraud at all.

It’s all designed to be counter-narrative and rise waves of controversy. The more controversial, the more shares and views.
by dangus | 2025-10-22 13:27:50+00:00
This is what dying companies do, they quite literally cannot afford to deliver a shopping experience of any kind. They don’t actually have enough employees to populate a store page, so they’ve probably outsourced it to a sweat shop that did some AI work ans slapped it on there.

They also resort to weird sales tricks like these financial schemes because:

1. They’re so desperate for sales they’ll try anything

2. Their only remaining customer base is generally uninformed laggards. Nobody with half a brain would shop at Sears for tools anymore.
by ajross | 2025-10-22 13:27:58+00:00
You're arguing at the wrong side of the problem. Obviously yes, everyone can't be a perfect expert on everything and when doing anything complicated you should ask for help. Duh, as it were. I think I even said as much.

The point was at this level of expertise and size of market ("detection of iOS zero day rootkits"), there simply isn't a pool of "experts" you can draw on to do this a-la contract work. It's a tiny world and everyone is fumbling around and asking for help independently. And as a member of that tiny world, Gibson surely knew who he needed to call already.

But that's not the way the article framed the interaction, which implies to me that there's more context at work here.
by robocat | 2025-10-22 13:27:59+00:00
I'd love to meet for a morning or midday coffee. I've got a temp number here - which I've put in my HN profile. Personally I like coffee from Marzocco espresso machines - my local cafe here is Cherry Coffee Roasters in Gretna, but I'm happy to meet anywhere in the city with parking or within 2 hours drive of the city.

Happy to meet anyone else too.

Background: I'm a geeky type open to everybody; I don't like being judgemental. Travelling because I retired as soon as I had the minimum necessary to have a basic house plus a small retirement fund (as soon as the SaaS company I helped found could meet that goal). I picked LA to travel to because I liked the sarcasm and honesty I received here previously. To avoid disappointment: I have an awesome girlfriend so I'm not fishing for a date.

Cheers
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-22 13:28:45+00:00
Of course the politicians share a portion of the blame, but we cannot ignore the fact that websites are just playing the blame game as well.

We’re also seeing tracking despite the lack of user consent as well. This could be a fluke but when I make anonymous search on website and switch to another, I’m seeing the product I have just searched in the ads. With all the tracking disabled I mind you.
by GJim | 2025-10-22 13:29:04+00:00
Once again....

There is no requirement for 'cookie banners'. You are free to use whatever cookies you want to run your site. HOWEVER, if you are using those cookies to track me (advertisers take a bow) then you need my clear, opt-in informed consent to do so. And so you should!

I continue to be astounded at the ignorance some people have of the GDPR; such a vital privacy law and one that is fundamental to modern data use and respect for the customer.
by ptero | 2025-10-22 13:29:07+00:00
This is all good, and as an American citizen I cheer any attempt by Europe (China, Japan, anti-China SEA players or anyone else) to provide an alternative: of tech, of weapons procurement, of social model, of political setup or of anything else. The world needs more competition.

But this article has nothing to do with the above, or with views of Musk. As others said, this request was for centralized access and SpaceX responded with a B2C proposal. It would have been rejected just as quickly even if it came from another company unaffiliated with the US.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-22 13:29:14+00:00
> But that doesn't mean that ... the product of their activity is worth spending extra effort to preserve a century later, any more than the baked trout or the toilet clog would be.

Why not? What's a more likely question to an AI that might have been trained on these books: "Tell me some ideas for my kid's birthday party next January" or "Write out a huge book-length story about a magical school for wizards?" I surmise that the former is a lot more likely to happen than the latter. "Harry Potter" is just pure ephemera. Nobody will find it worthwhile in 200 years.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-10-22 13:30:02+00:00
I don't know PBTR, but in other raytracers the trick is to create a single surface between the two materials and set the ior of that surface's material to the quotient of the iors of the materials o both sides.

That way the light will refract on the internal boundary as if it moves from the one material to the other.

Prerequisite is that you ened to be able to create non-manifold objects...
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-22 13:30:06+00:00
An American company, that the American government tried very hard to exclude and kill, built by the very immigrants it's attacking, the one that has twice now been threatened with contract cancelations just because the leader doesn't kiss the president's behind on a handful of issues.

It's rich seeing all this unearned bluster about having the lead due to SpaceX, when SpaceX had to drag America kicking and screaming into that position.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-22 13:30:22+00:00
Well... most people who get degrees, get CS degrees, which is not the same as Software Engineering.

Think about chemistry and chemical engineering. Chemistry is "where do the outer shell electrons go, how strong are the bonds between the atoms". Chemical engineering is "how do we make the stuff in multi-ton quantities without blowing up downtown". Those are not the same discipline.

I mean, sure, a software engineer had better know some about big O, and about how to use locks without getting in trouble. But they also need to know how to find their way around a decade-old million-line codebase, and what things they do today that are likely to turn into maintenance headaches a decade from now, and how to figure out what the code is doing (and why) when there's no documentation. I'm not sure that a CS degree teaches you those things. (For that matter, designing a Software Engineering degree so that it actually teaches you those things isn't easy...)