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by xp84 | 2025-10-07 16:23:14+00:00
You're not wrong. I can't imagine not having a real computer personally, and the iPad + keyboard solutions are basically a construction kit for a terrible laptop which costs 1.2x what a good laptop costs.

I don't think I'd be annoyed making calls with a tablet though. I'd just use bluetooth. For me the challenge would be that having no phone would mean I'd have to carry something bulkier everywhere. So, in conclusion, I have no great ideas and I'd be forced to do phone + light laptop.
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by kilroy123 | 2025-10-07 16:23:22+00:00
I got tired of manually having to create a nice event in my calendar every week. From random text in an email to a flyer out in the wild.

So I made this and now use it weekly.

Was thinking about making a browser extension or phone app as well. Thoughts on that?

Who else lives and dies by their calendar?
by jiveturkey | 2025-10-07 16:23:23+00:00
> The dealership then pays mechanics an hourly wage ($20+, fairly high for well certified master mechanics)

Maybe in Ohio.

I'm not sure that your comment is even directionally correct. TFA is clickbait for blue collar pseudo-car-guys. The example given in the article paints the mechanic as the hero, losing money on every job. In reality book time is insanely exaggerated in the median, and the problem is likely more that mechanics don't like earning a dime for every dollar the boss makes.

Many mechanics (seems that is what the article example is) get paid on book time, not hourly. That is what the guy in the article is complaining about. That their book rate is both too aggressive, and far less than the "customer book time" / rate. The reason mechanics are often paid this way is so that they stay efficient. Warranty jobs are especially aggressive on the mechanic book rate, because cars under warranty are newer with few unexpected problems like rusty parts, stripped bolts, age related issues, etc.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-10-07 16:24:14+00:00
Fascinating, do the gained insights allow to directly compute the central flow in order to speed up convergence? Or is this preliminary exploration to understand how it had been working?

They explicitly ignore momentum and exponentially weighted moving average, but that should result in the time-averaged gradient descent (along the valley, not across it). But that requires multiple evaluations, do any of the expressions for the central flow admit fast / computationally efficient central flow calculation?
by efreak | 2025-10-07 16:24:15+00:00
I really wish mobile browsers had windows (true windows that could be switched easily, not the weird crap where you go into a submenu to find the list of windows and try to figure out which one has your tab, and Firefox doesn't even have that). I would love to split up my browsing into multiple workspaces on my large tablet, but instead I get to have four browsers installed.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-07 16:24:36+00:00
That's not really what Farley is saying if you read through the whole interview: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/784875/ford-ceo-jim-farley-...

e.g.

"We’re investing in trade schools and scholarships to recruit technicians for vehicle repair as well as our factories."

"But this is a society problem. The one that bothers me the most is cultural. We, as a culture, think that everyone has to go to an Ivy League school to be valuable in our society, yet we all know that our parents and grandparents made our country wonderful because of these kinds of jobs. There’s incredible dignity in emergency services, and people can have wonderful careers. But our society doesn’t celebrate those people like they do the latest AI engineer."
by esalman | 2025-10-07 16:24:46+00:00
Not familiar with Seattle U-distict, is it rental market? Because I hope foreign students are not impacting single family house prices.

When I was grad student rent was indeed 50% of my stipend. Tuition was covered as part of research grants. Only way to reduce expenses was to get roommates.

Having said that, mortgage is also 50% of our household income now. American dream is expensive...
by cperciva | 2025-10-07 16:24:54+00:00
This isn't used in practice because if you care about efficiency you're not calculating M^d mod N; instead you compute exponents mod p and mod q and use the CRT to combine (as mentioned in the author's link to "Garner's algorithm").

BTW the Carmichael function and Carmichael numbers have little in common aside from their author and the fact they concern whether x^b = 1 mod N for x relatively prime to N.
by estearum | 2025-10-07 16:24:57+00:00
Instead of continuing to muddy the conversation why don’t you just settle it by providing a clear answer to this question?:

What should we do differently depending on the outcome?

The miasma alternative for cholera is another excellent illustration of my point, not yours. The answer to whether miasma theory or contaminated wells was correct very obviously had bearing on how you’d mitigate the problem, and this characteristic was totally evident even before answering the question.

If someone could specifically state what we should do differently depending on the answer, I’m amenable to it. But you haven’t done that because the answer is: nothing!
by ak_111 | 2025-10-07 16:25:15+00:00
Actually things did happen in 2001 (9-11), 2008 (GFC), 2012-2015 (Eurozone crisis), 2020 (Covid) and 2022 (Russio-Nato war).

Each of these came very close for a major market depression (except 911).

The fact that none did only instilled in lots of people's brain to take an incremental bit more insurance in the form of gold (if you were to replay Covid or GFC today, what odds do you put that it won't lead to a great depression?)

Also you can argue that the gradual rise is tracking almost exactly the gradual geopolitical paradigm shift from unipolarity to multipolrity.
by codyb | 2025-10-07 16:25:34+00:00
At work we're deploying a chat bot to help users with our internal tools and it's just a forcing function to write and mark as deprecated the documentation we never maintained in the first place.

So...

The bot, to its credit, returns some decent results. But my guess is that it will be quite a while before we see it in prod since a lot of these projects go from 0 - 80% in a week and 80% - deployable in several years.
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-07 16:25:34+00:00
What I meant by "legally required prompt" was that others in the thread have tried to explain the "poor UX of the pop-up" by saying that it's probably required to display for legal reasons (whether directly, or to avoid liability). Regardless of that, checking an item off that you didn't perform is still logically incorrect whether it's illegal or not.
by jrussino | 2025-10-07 16:25:35+00:00
> I've been progressively exchanging

Is there a way for a small individual investor to "exchange" shares in stock without doing a "sell A + buy B" for which the sale of A is subject to capital gains tax?

Some cursory googling points me to "exchange funds", but those seem to be designed for accredited investors.

The advice I see for someone like me who wants to "re-balance" is just to change allocations for any new investments, but I'm wondering if there's an effective way to shift existing allocations without incurring a tax penalty...
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-07 16:25:58+00:00
> it’s just fascinating that net result of this huge spike is lots of jewelry and old coins being melted into bricks of gold that will sit quietly in secure warehouses and vaults around the world.

The next logical step in that process would then be for the price to further increase as the actual amount in circulation decreases, right? Doesn't this create a sort of vicious cycle?
by jansenderr | 2025-10-07 16:25:59+00:00
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by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-10-07 16:26:10+00:00
The shortsightedness of this comment makes me think that there are hundreds of comments, exactly like yours that talked about dedicated GPU’s or direct X or any other technology that was dismissed as Dan don’t worry it’s only the big guys using it.

Do you know how valve used to make games and now it makes money? What happens when EA comes up with an amazing amazingly effective and cheap anti-cheat solution? And they offer it effectively for free to all indie developers, and it just works?

I don’t care, because I switched over to console for effectively this and other reasons. But Colonel level anti-sheet absolutely must be rejected.
by maxglute | 2025-10-07 16:26:13+00:00
Borderline all or nothing bet. The distribution of AI capex investment and burnt/stranded assets is not like past bubbles.

Railroad boom. Most of spending moving heart to build out rail network that increase CONUS rail by +400%. US freight backbone. 50+ year infra. Upgrade signal etc and improve network capacity.

Dotcom Boom. Most of spending in moving earth to build out ~150m of fiber. Agnostic pipes for backbone of internet. Also 50+ year infra. Upgrade switches at nodes to increase network capacity.

AI boom. Most of investment going into chips with <5 year deprecation cycle. Datacenters <10 years, heavily specialized for AI use, i.e. power/cooling makes it inefficient/not economic for general compute.

Looking like ~20% goes to eletricfication capex (if it gets built at all). That's the stranded asset i.e. consolation prize, ~10% (generous) increase in US electrification, which isn't nothing, but also not substantial.

Also consider Tulip mania. Tulips die in a few weeks. All value gone.

TLDR potentially bulk of AI investment is closer to tulips in terms of deprecated / stranded assets past medium term i.e. <10 years, than rail or fiber.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-07 16:26:13+00:00
I can see the intent, but how often do people look through commit history to learn anything beside "when did this break and why"? If you want lessons learned put it in a wiki or a special branch.

Main should be a clear, concise log of changes. It's already hard enough to parse code and it's made even harder by then parsing versions throughout the code's history, we should try to minimize the cognitive load required to track the number of times something is added and then immediately removed because there's going to be enough of that already in the finished merges.
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-07 16:26:29+00:00
Story of the last 20 years. Linux desktop isn't made for day-to-day use precisely because it's been built by nerds, for nerds. Way too much "well if it makes sense to me, it should make sense to everybody" logic in its design decisions, and ultimately you need to be able to drop into the Bash terminal and screw around to even get to 80 percent of the functionality a Windows machine will give you dropped-in.

Linux is for servers and dev work, not day-to-day use.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-07 16:26:36+00:00
Sadly, there is a fundamental incompatibility between successful anti-cheat systems and Linux, mainly that the user is fully in charge of their computer. Anti-cheats work by ensuring certain modifications aren’t made to the system the game is running on, and this relies on the operating system being trusted by the anti-cheat software. With Linux, a user is in full control and can just tell the kernel to lie to the anti-cheat system, completely bypassing it. In windows, there are things the user is not in control of and the anti cheat can be sure are correct.

Until anti cheat design changes entirely (and it may not be fully possible), the freedom and control Linux provides simply doesn’t work with them.
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 16:26:45+00:00
Though I don't think that's the argument. Even those advocating for the end of the program for gifted kids don't believe that all children have the same natural ability. Maybe some of them do, but the main arguments are different and are not actually that "radical".

And even if that was the argument, the term was used in the context of "radical egalitarianism". So, the argument doesn't automatically transfer to such a radical variety of "egalitarianism" in society as a whole if it focuses on a single aspect.

There are two levels of quite extreme exaggeration here, calling the end of a particular school program "radical egalitarianism". Which words should we use if an actual radical proposal comes along?
by nlh | 2025-10-07 16:27:58+00:00
Oh for sure - APMEX is selling plenty of gold and they're doing great. But they buy gold too and ship it off to refiners just like any dealer. And yes there is plenty of demand for gold - but my only point is that demand right now is for Gold The Commodity (eg a hedge fund / government / etc.) who just want the financial instrument (that happens to be backed by physical bricks in a warehouse...they hope lol) as opposed to the retail buyer who wants gold the way they want Crypto or Pokemon cards.

For example, one dealer I know last month sold $5m in physical gold coins (to consumers who wants gold) but they bought $30m in physical gold coins to be shipped off and melted. They, like APMEX, make money on both sides so they're plenty happy. But a 6:1 buy:sell ratio is pretty wild.
by bluesummers5651 | 2025-10-07 16:28:02+00:00
The simplest version of this problem involves a "potential barrier." Another loose classical analogy here is considering a ball rolling towards a hill. Everyone knows from experience in classical systems that with sufficient speed i.e. kinetic energy, the ball can go over the hill i.e. there is more kinetic energy in the ball when it meets the bottom of the hill than there is potential energy the ball would have at the top of the hill. If it has less energy, it will not make it past the hill. The weird thing about the analogous situation in quantum mechanics is that even if the particle has less energy than the potential barrier (the hill), it has a non-zero probability of being on the other side due to the wave function exponentially decaying in the barrier.
by VTimofeenko | 2025-10-07 16:28:20+00:00
There's nut-server project to take care of the shutdowns. Compatible UPS can be read from using SNMP or USB and nut-server can distribute the status to the clients. Clients may elect to shut down.

Does your desktop actually drain 1kw during normal operation? If so, yeah, it would probably benefit from a separate UPS. You might not need to replace the whole thing though, just the batteries -- admittedly they are the bulk of the cost.

WRT cats -- I got myself a network cabinet for precisely that reason. Also minimizes the amount of fur getting trapped in vents.
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-07 16:28:33+00:00
> I found the article interesting less as a damning of the medical system and more of a spiritual situation. None of us know when a freak random event will end us. It is a sobering reality

Should we say the same about potentially life-threatening defects in our food supply? "Mistakes happen, so it's not about fixing or preventing them, it's about spiritually accepting that you might get a bad can of meat and die." Obviously not.

> that still means 1/1000 will die. People play the lottery on far worse odds.

I don't play the lottery, though. But I can't choose whether or not I might need emergency care one day. So comparing odds to the lottery isn't useful. Make the odds as good as possible.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 16:28:39+00:00
there are always people predicting the next crash. when in the bottom of a crash they are saying things will go lower.

you have to be careful about predictions in financial areas.

Remember if people are guarenteed right they would be investing money. In most cases talking about a truth will cause the market to change harming your ability to capitalize on it. Thus anyone talking is unlikely to have insight.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-07 16:29:05+00:00
The price will go up as the availability goes down. If you have a shortage of mechanics, each mechanic can raise his/her labor price. So, while you're saying "we can't get <profession> for cheap" this implies a lack of professionals or a structural problem increasing costs in a given industry, or both.

In the case of doctors and electricians, you have structural problems in both, but also a true shortage of individuals in electrician work (could be in the medical field too, but I can't speak to that).
by rachelradulo | 2025-10-07 16:29:18+00:00
Hey thanks! I'm Rachel from LlamaFarm; we actually use LlamaIndex as one of our components. It's great for RAG, and we didn't want to reinvent what they've already done. LlamaFarm is about bundling the best of open source into a complete, production-ready AI project framework. Think of us like the integration and orchestration layer that makes LlamaIndex, plus model management, plus prompt engineering, plus deployment tools all work together seamlessly.

Where LlamaIndex gives you powerful RAG primitives, we give you the full production system - the model failover when OpenAI is down, the strategy system that adapts from development to production, the deployment configs for Kubernetes. We handle all the boring stuff that turns a RAG prototype into a system that actually runs in production. One YAML config, one CLI command, and you have everything from local development to cloud deployment. :)
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-07 16:29:19+00:00
I feel like that requires a lot of coordination that I, in the midst of development, don't necessarily have. Taking my WIP and trying to build a story around it at each step requires a lot of additional effort, but I can see how that would be useful for the reviewer.

We can agree that we don't need those additional steps once the PR is merged, though, right?
by RA_Fisher | 2025-10-07 16:29:36+00:00
I'm a scientist and I'd never work that way. I'm methodical, because I've learned it's the fastest and highest-ROI approach.

Guessing without understanding is extremely unlikely to produce the best results in a repeatable manner. It's surprising to me when companies don't know that. For that reason, I generally want to work with experts that understand what they're doing (otherwise is probably a waste of time).
by sbenerofe | 2025-10-07 16:29:36+00:00
Not a dumb question at all.

The idea that a particle could pass through a wall by luckily avoiding collisions is a classical way of thinking. In that view, a particle is a tiny solid ball and a wall is just a collection of other tiny balls with space between them.

Quantum tunneling is based on a completely different concept. In quantum mechanics, the "wall" is not a physical object but a high energy barrier. Classically, a particle cannot be in a region if it doesn't have enough energy to overcome that barrier (this is why people often use the idea of a high wall and a ball that cannot make it over the wall). However, quantum mechanics treats particles as having wave-like properties. This wave is related to the probability of finding the particle at any given location. While the probability of finding the particle inside the high-energy barrier is very low, it is not zero. The wave's amplitude shrinks inside the barrier, but a small portion of it extends to the other side. This means there is a small but finite probability that if you measure the particle's position, you will find it on the other side. When that happens, we say the particle has "tunneled" through.

The surprising success of the experiments that led to the Nobel Prize today is that it wasn’t just a single particle (like an electron) that they measured tunneling through a barrier, it was a macroscopic group of particles. These particles were able to tunnel through the barrier because they were kept in a coherent state that allowed them to have a wave function that coherently extended through the barrier. This meant that they had a reasonable finite amplitude on the other side of the barrier so that a measurement could show that they tunneled through the barrier.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-07 16:29:50+00:00
I am not fan of crypto and dont hold any, not by reference (etfs etc) either, however, all the crypto fans that told me to buy and hodl did win the jackpot so far. But I agree, not the best example for not crashing: I was just, in the particular case of crypto, referring to that many believe(d) it would drop to 0 and dissappear: in case of bitcoin: did not come close in the past 10 years.
by nradov | 2025-10-07 16:29:56+00:00
Yes, all major inpatient EHRs do have the flexibility to adapt to those requirements. But that level of customization is itself a huge effort, and many hospitals lack the resources to do it well. The other problem is that hospital administrators and IT staff often give in to internal pressure from clinicians to customize every little thing even when it doesn't actually improve productivity or care quality. Sometimes it's better for humans to adapt to the software rather than vice versa. "Vanilla is the best flavor."
by rayiner | 2025-10-07 16:30:00+00:00
I know little about monetary policy, so this is a genuine question. What’s the non-kooky explanation for why there was a big economic divergence between income and productivity in the U.S. that appears to have started at the same time as the U.S. ended the convertibility of dollars to gold. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by senordevnyc | 2025-10-07 16:30:03+00:00
Hey, I didn’t pick the metric, I was just responding to someone who had.

I’ve lived in both Europe and America, and if my personal situation allowed for it right now, I’d prefer to be in Europe. But I also do think GDP can be a useful metric, especially in the long run. I think Europe has great QoL, but I think it’s naive to not look at the growth rates of the major countries in the world and not be concerned about the long-term future of the European economy.

Edit: you’re also wrong about the park. Someone paid to create it, and someone pays to maintain it. Both of those numbers show up in GDP.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-07 16:30:18+00:00
I do agree with your point but I also think that there is a lot of inertia in the sector (rightfully so!) and it is very difficult for languages to become established if they don't come with a "unique selling point" of sorts, which to me explains how new popular languages have become rarer.

That selling point, for Lua, is the super easy integration via C-API to me (=> making existing compiled applications scriptable), thanks to uncomplicated build (dependency free, simple), the straightforward C-API and the ease of exposing C "modules" to Lua.

On a sidenote:

Don't you think that Y10k-safe dates are somewhat inconsistent with referencing previous decades directly? Those dates are also obnoxious to parse for humans (myself, at least).
by xp84 | 2025-10-07 16:30:20+00:00
I said it wasn't okay to take advantage of the so-called 'dummies.' But I think you're going too far to say they don't also have responsibility. That basically says they have no agency and are just passive NPCs.

Also, I think you're underestimating the intelligence of the median person. If a doctor tells me that for $500, they can surgically implant a chip in me that will give me LeBron James-level basketball skills in 3 years, and I say "Cool, cut me open, Doc!" I am partly to blame because I should have known that isn't possible. Yes, the doctor should still be punished. But people should get multiple opinions for facts so obviously too good to be true and only commit to something when they understand the risks.