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by nine_zeros | 2025-10-12 00:42:59+00:00
While in understand where you are coming from, I don't think we should completely destroy coal mines. They should be kept around as a backup.

That said, I would be 100% onboard with a future administration applying a massive tax on the wealthy to fund solar plants, rooftops, and wind energy - 100% paid for by the wealthy who are profiting from this administration at the expense of our lives.
by MBCook | 2025-10-12 00:43:24+00:00
I always thought of it as a reaction to the “your program can throw anywhere for any reason due to an exception” nature of C++.

So they added checked exceptions. That way you can see that a function will only ever throw these two types of exceptions. Or maybe it never throws at all.

Of course a lot of people went really overboard early on creating a ton of different kinds of exceptions making everything a mess. Other people just got into the habit of using RuntimeExceptions for everything since they’re not checked, or the classic “throws Exception“ being added to the end of every method.

I tend to think it’s a good idea and useful. And I think a lot of people got a bad taste in their mouth early on. But if you’re going to have exceptions and you’re not going to give some better way of handling errors I think we’re probably better off than if there were no checked exceptions at all.
by tdeck | 2025-10-12 00:44:12+00:00
In the article, they did call the police:

> We called the police, who took the camera as evidence and encouraged us to leave the property immediately. We also contacted Airbnb and were put in touch with Liviana, a member of the company’s safety team...

Filing a police report might be helpful, but I agree this is likely to be frustrating in many places.

A friend once called the cops because a neighbor was having a psychotic break and trying to break into her apartment. This went on for hours - luckily the door was sturdy.

The cops never showed up. The next morning they called her to ask if she was still OK.
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-12 00:44:21+00:00
Don't other vendors still sell unlockable phones? I first encountered Motorola back when they were assholes (pre Google digestion) but I thought their new devices were easily unlockable (if you vs carriers own them). Has that changed? My wife had a Motorola previously (she's went Apple recently and hates it) but Motorola post-Google seemed pretty nice.
by coldpie | 2025-10-12 00:44:51+00:00
It's not revenge, it's just good policy. It will be vastly cheaper for the US if we pay these industries to shut down and replace them with renewables. We could pay every person working at a fossil fuel job their full wage to do absolutely nothing until they die and still come out ahead. Climate change isn't a joke, it's going to be really, really, really, really expensive.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-12 00:46:02+00:00
I'm very much a millennial and there's nothing wrong with trying that. Most cops will at least be able to open a case and make sure you get a case number to reference as well as take the camera into evidence. I'm sure there are several laws forbidding hidden cameras like these, some of them even federal. And calling AirBnB afterwards telling them that you just had the cops collect the camera into evidence and you now need them to figure out the situation is putting a LOT more legal pressure onto them.
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-12 00:47:20+00:00
It's pretty common for traditional organised volunteer services to have "on call" aspects.

Think of like volunteer firefighters, The Samaritans, St John Ambulance, the UK lifeguards and lifeboats (RNLI). Such organisations do usually have full time paid staff too, but the bulk of the front line work is part time volunteer.
by Schiendelman | 2025-10-12 00:47:50+00:00
The EV is by far the least polluting option. In a year or two of normal driving, even on a dirty grid, you generate less pollution than if you were burning fuel in the car.

Grids are getting lower carbon intensity every year, so it just gets better after that.

It's also not clear that rooftop solar is better than anything else, the carbon involved in getting it to you, installing it, the business that does the installation… It's not very efficient.
by myk9001 | 2025-10-12 00:47:50+00:00
I'd love a watch that lasts a month on a single charge and stays readable under bright sunlight.

So I checked out Garmin Instinct Crossover.

It ticks all the boxes and probably has many more great features I'm not even aware of. But honestly, I'm after a watch not a wrist-mounted blunt weapon.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-12 00:47:58+00:00
They could have avoided the negative press by changing the requirement to be that you can’t re-enable the feature after switching it off 3 times per year.

It’s not hard to guess the problem: Steady state operation will only incur scanning costs for newly uploaded photos, but toggling the feature off and then on would trigger a rescan of every photo in the library. That’s a potentially very expensive operation.

If you’ve ever studied user behavior you’ve discovered situations where users toggle things on and off in attempts to fix some issue. Normally this doesn’t matter much, but when a toggle could potentially cost large amounts of compute you have to be more careful.

For the privacy sensitive user who only wants to opt out this shouldn’t matter. Turn the switch off, leave it off, and it’s not a problem. This is meant to address the users who try to turn it off and then back on every time they think it will fix something. It only takes one bad SEO spam advice article about “How to fix _____ problem with your photos” that suggests toggling the option to fix some problem to trigger a wave of people doing it for no reason.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-12 00:48:12+00:00
Speaking about Germany here, I have a friend who had a neighbour in a similar situation and two cops showed up and convinced her to come with them into a psychiatric hospital. My friend was very happy with the results.

In america i'd tell the cops i have a gun loaded and am ready and willing to fire if the neighbour breaks through the wall. Cops tend to show up then
by miningape | 2025-10-12 00:49:09+00:00
I don't mean Java annotations, those would be too clunky - in OCaml a type annotation is really just adding `: <typename>` to variables, function return types, etc.

so fibonacci could look like this

```

let rec fib n =

match n with | 0 -> 1 | 1 -> 1 | _ -> fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2)

```

or with annotations it becomes this:

```

let rec fib (n: int): int =

// Same as above :)

```
by photonthug | 2025-10-12 00:49:12+00:00
Obviously platforms get advertiser dollars, but the question is what the business paying for that gets. The answer is.. almost nothing? Dedicated marketing/advertising resources at your business is probably just a fifth column, where shareholders and business owners are swindled into paying the salary and other maintenance for people who are actually working for google/facebook/amazon/whatever.

Source? Like 20+ years of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking and micro-targeting.. and yet non-pet owners still get ads for dog food, males get ads for feminine hygiene products, single people are offered deals on family vacations, and people who just bought a car get car advertisements for the next 3-5 years which only taper off when it might actually be time to buy another car.
by roenxi | 2025-10-12 00:49:26+00:00
And is the argument there that the Dutch no longer practice capitalism? They are one of the major names in the history of the limited-liability stock corporation, we've already had the VOC invoked in this thread. Pretty easy to see that representing the blood steeped face of capitalism. They still have stock exchanges in Amsterdam, so they haven't sworn off the shareholders.

Having a welfare state isn't capitalism but having one isn't the complete antithesis of capitalism. It is easy to see how a society could simultaneously support the VOC and a welfare state. Really easy, in fact - the VOC was mostly external and welfare is mostly internal, the systems don't need to interact at all.

It is impossible to hold the Dutch up as a group who have rid themselves of the blood-steeped history of capitalism when they are (1) a poster child of the blood-steeped history of capitalism (2) still supporting and encouraging capitalists. And (3) your comment could be interpreted as saying the social democrats don't actually hold power. At best that just establishes that capitalism isn't fundamentally steeped in blood since the Dutch have theoretically learned to behave responsibly over the centuries.

And to throw in a (4) have they apologised and made reparations for the VOC? It isn't obvious they've even repudiated the blood-soaked history of capitalism although maybe they have; I don't track Dutch politics.

I suppose the real question here is what exactly do you think "social democracy" is if not just standard democracy + welfare?
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2025-10-12 00:49:59+00:00
In support of what you saying, it's disconcerting to know that some people can bay for someone's blood with no concrete evidence. These people are completely willing to believe someone who play victim and are willing to consider that false allegations especially by women are even a thing.

( As a side note I think the daughter is someone who is susceptible to false memories. I think till date I have read of 2 other similar cases where innocent fathers were accused.)
by fireant | 2025-10-12 00:50:46+00:00
This is the real killer feature of Vulkan/DX12, it makes writing generalized renderer so much easier because you don't need to batch draw calls per vertex layout of individual meshes. Personally I use Buffer Device Address for connecting Multidraw Indirect calls to mesh definitions to materials as well.

I just wish there was more literature about this, especially about perf implications. Also synchronization is very painful, which may be why this is hard to do on a driver level inside OpenGL
by themafia | 2025-10-12 00:51:11+00:00
> It's not revenge

It's a kneejerk response designed to obviate a political problem. Historically these will be perceived as vengeful and undemocratic.

> it's just good policy.

It's good policy if you only consider _one_ outcome. Good policy is made from compromise. Yours explicitly denies that, to the point where I'm very sure there are _better_ policy choices available to us.

> We could pay every person working at a fossil fuel job their full wage to do absolutely nothing until they die and still come out ahead.

I'd like to see your math on this.

> Climate change isn't a joke

Then shipping manufactured items from China should be a huge concern. If you're not making the replacement equipment in the USA for the USA then you are just ignorantly displacing the problem. To the point where this all begins to look like a modern colonial strategy solving local problems at the expense of global outcomes.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-12 00:53:16+00:00
My guess is it was an arbitrary guess and the limit is due to creating a mass scan of photos. Depending on if they purge old data when turned off, it could mean toggling the switch tells microsoft's servers to re-scan every photo in your (possibly very large) library.

Odd choice and poor optics (just limit the number of times you can enable and add a warning screen) but I wouldn't assume this was intentionally evil bad faith.
by mkhalil | 2025-10-12 00:53:56+00:00
It *is* confusing but in actuality, it kind of works: It's a Windows Subsystem - as in the Hypervisor/VM platform - to boot a Linux VM. And, more importantly IMO, Linux distro is using this Windows Subsystem for: booting, drivers, and networking (.e.g. the "/sys/wsl" folder, and whether the Window Subsystem will generate fstab, etc..)
by andrepd | 2025-10-12 00:55:25+00:00
> And I heard that Google stopped pushing Pixel source?

> Yes, Google has pulled back here too. Pixel kernels are now only offered as history-stripped tarballs, available privately on request, with no device trees, HALs, or configs. Thanks to projects like CalyxOS, Pixels will likely remain well supported, but they’re no longer guaranteed “day one” devices for LineageOS. Pixel devices are now effectively no easier to support than any other OEM’s devices. In short, this just makes things harder, not impossible.

These fucking bastards. How far we have fallen in ~10 years of smartphone ubiquity. I have zero hopes that this monopolising trend will ever be reversed without top-down regulation from a big bloc like the EU.
by robomartin | 2025-10-12 00:55:27+00:00
I see many comments that express the same level of disgust I have for modern TV's, of nearly every brand, having mutated into intrusive digital signage with integrated behavioral tracking in my home.

The question is: Would you pay $1000 to $3000 more (depending on size, etc.) for a TV with none of that. Zero.

I would.
by godelski | 2025-10-12 00:55:34+00:00
It's kinda funny, Meta has long had some of the best in the field, but left them untapped. I really think if they just took a step back and stop being so metric focused and let their people freely explore then they'd be winning the AI race. But with this new team, I feel like meta mostly hired the people who are really good at gaming the system. The people that care more about the money than the research.

A bit of this is true at every major lab. There's tons of untapped potential. But these organizations are very risk adverse. I mean why not continue with the strategy that got us to the point we're at in the first place. Labs used to hire researchers and give them a lot of free reign. But those times ended and AI progress also slowed down. Maybe if you want to get ahead you gotta stop thinking like everyone else

Well meta... you can "hold me hostage" for a lot cheaper than those guys. I'm sure this is true for hundreds of passionate ML researchers. I'd take a huge pay cut to have autonomy and resources. I know for a fact there's many working at Mets right now that would do the same. Do maybe if you're going to throw money at the problem, diversify a bit and look back at what made SV what it is today and what made AI take leaps forward
by rcxdude | 2025-10-12 00:55:37+00:00
Also, quite frankly, whatever fancy contract you have and whatever legal system is backing it up, if the system you're using fails, it's your problem. You can't actually shuffle around all consequences freely.

I see this so often where people pay huge amounts of money (either buying a more expensive system or buying vs building) because 'we need the support!' and then still wind up with a bad system because the quality of the product modulated by the support offered still creates problems, and being able to blame someone else doesn't actually make the problems go away.

And even in cases where the problem is 'we might get sued', the fact that you have someone else to sue is to a large extent multiplying problems because you now have two lawsuits.
by perihelions | 2025-10-12 00:57:15+00:00
Generic NIMBYism,

> "Conservation advocates, local government leaders and nearby residents have expressed concerns about the cumulative environmental impacts of the proposed Esmeralda 7 project, which in addition to covering a huge swath of desert lands would have also included miles of roads and associated transmission lines."

> "They have argued for placing onshore utility-scale projects on previously disturbed sites and expanding the use of rooftop solar."

> "The Esmeralda 7 project “would have destroyed significant archaeology sites, rare plants, bighorn sheep habitat and wilderness quality lands,” said Kevin Emmerich, a co-founder of Nevada-based Basin and Range Watch."

> "The cancellation of the project “will give us a chance to protect the tremendous resources of the area, including beautiful and wild mountain ranges and valleys, rare plant populations, and bighorn sheep,” said Laura Cunningham, a biologist with Western Watersheds Project."

> "“Paleontological fossil beds [the Esmeralda Formation] here were formative to understanding the geological history of the Great Basin,” Cunningham added. “This is good news for recreationists and for conservation efforts of an amazing landscape.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-depa...
by themafia | 2025-10-12 00:58:14+00:00
> I don't think they're undemocratic.

Fair; however, you do share this country with people who do not explicitly agree with all your decisions. Which is why I flagged this as a /perception/. Those still have actual consequences whether you agree with them or not.

> For energy costs and political stability, there seems to be only one here.

You're ignoring national security and resistance to natural disasters. There's the part of the argument you want to have; unfortunately, it explicitly touches on several other complicated ones. Ignoring them introduces unnecessary peril to your own stated goals.

If climate change is that important then you should really be seeking to rationalize the common concerns surrounding this approach and working to address them through incorporation into your strategy. There's more than one thing to "get right" here.
by bsimpson | 2025-10-12 00:59:13+00:00
Isn't that just a Linux problem, where someone could be using GTK or Kirigami or Iced for widgets?

Most Mac developers use Cocoa/SwiftUI, so they get whatever widgets the UXEs at Apple have produced. Adobe famously did their post-2000 UIs in Java, so they have a nonstandard design system; you can tell they don't use Cocoa just by looking at their apps.

Since there's no Apple to make an official toolkit for Linux, each developer uses whatever he wants, which means this app might use the GTK Save button, whereas that one uses Kirigami.
by ipsum2 | 2025-10-12 01:00:25+00:00
This has nothing to do with superintelligence, it's just the people that were working on the paper prior to the re-org happened to publish after the name change.

Though it is notable that contrary to many (on HN and Twitter) that Meta would stop publishing papers and be like other AI labs (e.g. OpenAI). They're continued their rapid pace of releasing papers AND open source models.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-12 01:00:49+00:00
> you do share this country with people who do not explicitly agree with all your decisions

That doesn’t make a policy democratic. To the extent there is good criticism of my suggestion, it’s in it being disrespectful to the rule of law.

> If climate change is that important

I never mentioned climate change.

Coal is expensive to burn. It creates particulate emissions that are locally hazardous. And it funds political interests that do shit like shut down an 80% complete wind farm or under-construction solar panel.

I’m arguing for acting decisively to moderate energy costs, safeguard our health and remove an increasingly-toxic special interest from the board.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-12 01:00:59+00:00
>You're talking about cryonics as if it were an established, scientifically proven and effective technology

I don't believe that. I do believe it is a hair less futile than delaying the inevitable and then burying yourself 6 feet underground.

>it doesn't work and is widely considered to be pseudoscience.

The cryonicist claim is something like: "If we save your brain in a way that preserves its information content, it may be possible for future technology to reconstruct that information content, and effectively revive you." No cryonicist is claiming that cryonics "works" with existing technology.

Consider the state of medicine in the year 1925 vs the state of medicine in the year 2025. Now extrapolate that advancement trend forwards until 2525. Is extrapolating trends forward a form of pseudoscience? If so, what do you say about global warming?

>And mentioning the cost of end-of-life care is risible when your alternative is paying paying indefinite rent to a company for freezer space to keep a corpse frozen.

Keeping a closed canister filled with liquid nitrogen is not especially costly.

Alcor charges $80K out of pocket for neuropreservation: https://www.alcor.org/membership/pricing-and-dues/

The Lancet says a typical American accumulates $155K in healthcare costs during the last 3 years of their life: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...

Long-term care costs are rising fast: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/business/retirement-long-...

(BTW, I appreciate that you made a falsifiable claim here, since that helps readers evaluate the credibility of your other claims. A sort of within-comment Gell-Mann effect.)
by majewsky | 2025-10-12 01:01:10+00:00
If a US company hires you in Germany, either you get hired by their German branch or a personnel service provider based in Germany; and thus get paid "competitive" salaries typical of the country. Or you need to have some kind of setup where you are a freelancer or such and you figure out the taxation and statutory insurances and such on your own, which I'm not familiar with (my freelance IT consultancy side-business is rather simple because of small scale and only domestic customers). That will probably work, and if you manage to get a senior Silicon Valley salary, you would probably come out ahead by a bit after taxes and insurances. But you would probably need good tax advisors to avoid stepping in expensive loopholes, and if you work more than 80% for a single employer, the tax administration will be on your case because false self-employment is a possible method of tax evasion and has been outlawed.
by Nition | 2025-10-12 01:01:18+00:00
Do you think the PR person responding here feels, underneath it all, the inhumanity of their responses? The fact that they're merely wasting everyone's time with their prevaricated non-answers? Knowing what they need to say to keep their job but hurting internally at the stupidity of it all.

Or do they end up so enmeshed with the corporate machine that that they start to really believe it all makes sense?
by chasil | 2025-10-12 01:01:20+00:00
Every version of Lineage has rooted ADB accessible in the developer options. If you want root for apps, you must load Magisk. If root is important to you, this is your OS.

Lineage puts out all the patches that they can, every month, unlike OEMs. If current patches are important to you, this is your OS.

Lineage allows you to run it without any Google closed source code.

These are some serious advantages, depending upon what you are trying to do.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-12 01:01:33+00:00
Microsoft gets a lot less difficult to reason about when we start to think of it as a statistical mean of human nature rather than the mind of one arbitrary evil bastard. They have 228k employees. The CEO has virtually zero direct influence on the end work product of any team.

Any organization this large is going to have approximately the same level of dysfunction overall. But, there are almost always parts of these organizations where specific leaders have managed to carve out a fiefdom and provide some degree of actual value to the customer. In the case of Microsoft, examples of these would be things like .NET, C#, Visual Studio [Code], MSSQL, Xbox.

Windows, Azure & AI are where most of the rot exists at Microsoft. Office is a wash - I am not a huge fan of what has happened to my Outlook install over the years, but Teams has dramatically stabilized since the covid days. Throwing away the rest of the apple because of a few blemishes is a really wasteful strategy.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-10-12 01:01:56+00:00
If your phone is more than a few years old it likely doesn't get updates from the manufacturer anymore. LineageOS will get you to the latest Android with security patches. Same sort of deal as with OpenWRT for a router really, you get all the features and security patches but at the loss of the firmware that the device came with and its propriety enhancements.