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by elestor | 2025-10-11 18:28:25+00:00
I honestly disagree with the general opinion on the liquid glass, I really like it. It looks pretty, I like the refraction effect and text hasn't really been unreadable for me at all. Yes, there is 'text behind text' but foreground text is clear and readable, whilst the background text would've been invisible if the background were solid or blurred rather than glassy, so it doesn't matter if the background text is readable.

I was against it to begin with, but after using it for a while I think it looks much better than before.
by eth0up | 2025-10-11 18:28:32+00:00
I am eccentric. Perhaps consequently, I am unable to understand how a conversation on the subject of Firefox as a mobile browser can exclude the inexplicable removal of about:config.

Yes, Nightly.

But I fear an example of incrementalism here, where it is brightly illustrated how the aperture into which we have the dongle of creeping suckage repeatedly inserted, lubricated by the existence (deterrent) of Chrome, continues to widen.

At the rate which options are disappearing (I think of gnome/gtk), when we excoriate the final and last one, a consummate advertisement platform will have been coded into our DNA, where we not just watch and listen to the perpetual groping of avarice, but feel it existentially.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-11 18:28:52+00:00
I've never seen a working scrum/agile/sprint/whatever product/project management system and I'm convinced it's because I've just never seen an actual implementation of one.

"Splitting up major projects into tiny shippable features and calling that agile" feels like a much more accurate description of what I've experienced.

I wish I'd gotten to see the real thing(s) so I could at least have an informed opinion.
by nradov | 2025-10-11 18:29:09+00:00
There are in fact multiple data exchange formats published by standards development organizations including HL7 (V2 Messaging, CDA, FHIR), DirectTrust, NCPDP, DICOM, and X12. Some such as HL7 and DirectTrust are very open, others may require a paid licensing agreement. Usage of some of those standards is mandated by CMS interoperability regulations and/or ASTP (ONC) Health IT Certification requirements.

Beyond the wire formats, in order to eliminate the need for paperwork provider organizations also have to participate in data exchange networks. These include TEFCA, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and some smaller regional HIEs. It all works fairly well when used correctly but many provider organizations continue to waste administrative effort and abuse their patients by failing to take advantage of the available technology. Like in many cases the necessary functionality is already built in to their EHR/PMS software but they simply don't turn it on or train their users.
by YZF | 2025-10-11 18:29:29+00:00
1650-1750 Britain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

And I'm sure lots more?

Or maybe more generally Europe circa 18th century?

Probably a lot more creativity/discovery/"personal projects" vs. the US 50s or 60's would be my guess? So we need prosperity and a monarchy?
by dev1ycan | 2025-10-11 18:31:37+00:00
Winapps is really such a great addition to Linux, being able to run Adobe/Office apps is really great, it makes it so that basically the only reason you would need Windows at all is those terrible games with kernel level anticheat like League of Legends, it's so funny how League can put malware on your pc but it still doesn't have voice chat 15 years after release.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-11 18:32:53+00:00
> Not true. Using semantic HTML and relying on its implicit ARIA roles allows the browser to construct an accurate AOM tree (Accessibility Object Model) which makes it possible for screen readers and other human interface software to create TOCs and other landmark-based navigation.

Sure, it allows the browser to do that. GP is complaining that even though browsers are allowed to do all that, they typically don't.
by kgwgk | 2025-10-11 18:32:54+00:00
Ok, if Tesla is literally a walking cash cow so are Ford or GM to name just a couple of companies in the same sector. (Both together are valued at less than one tenth of Tesla and print five times as much cash.)

I agree that it's better that your customers do not go out of business. One should not forget though that they may have other reasons to buy less of the thing you sell or they may prefer to get it from someone else.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-11 18:32:57+00:00
FWIW, which may be not much - I had codex cli try to verify the results. On my M2 Macbook Air only the first example (False Sharing) did anything - a 23x speedup compared to the article's 6x speedup. All the others didn't produce any speedup at all.

Of course I didn't verify the results I got either - I'm not about to spend hours trying to figure out if this is just slop. But I think it is.
by roxolotl | 2025-10-11 18:33:07+00:00
The thing that sucks about the expectations is that it’s also what the market builds. I’ve been looking with what I think is a reasonable list; 1.5 bath, 3 bedrooms, ideally a living room and dining room but if they are combined or I have to eat in the kitchen I’ll survive, partly finished basement and enough yard space for a 10’x10’ garden. I’d be fine with it being a duplex. But they don’t exist! At least not in my state. Everything is either gigantic, well by my standards, or a condo.
by tombert | 2025-10-11 18:33:08+00:00
I think the person is being actively dishonest, as I think you might be too, because I think that anyone who frequents this forum knew what I meant.

Also who says I can’t determine if something is obvious? Hyperbolic example: If I say “my favorite color is green” and you say “well color doesn’t mean anything and is seriously just a spectrum of light and how it reflects off surfaces and really you should learn how light works before making such sweeping statements”, then I think it’s reasonable to say “I obviously meant that I liked how this particular spectrum of light looked on my optic nerve and deciphered by my brain when it reflected on things”, and I could say it’s obvious to everyone, even people who made the comment, because everyone knew what I meant.

I said something about tabs not being “backgrounded”, implying backgrounding, implying things running in the background. Any reasonable person would conclude that I meant about things running in the background.

And if I don’t get to decide if things are “obvious” then you don’t get to decide if you’re being reasonable.

> Yes, as guided by experiences with fighting various Android mechanisms to respect the will of the user and keep something running in the background, and using an OS that doesn't suspend background applications at all.

Even if I believed this, I do not think it should be the default behavior for something that will spend most of its life in someone’s pocket (by design).
by chrisweekly | 2025-10-11 18:33:11+00:00
> "You can see in chats 11 to 14 that we're entering the slop zone. The code the agent created has a critical bug, and it's absolutely failing to fix it. And I have no idea how to fix it, either.

I'll often make these few hail mary attempts to fix a bug. If the agent can figure it out, I can study it and learn myself. If it doesn't, it costs me very little. If the agent figures it out and I don't understand it, I back it out. I'm not shipping code I don't understand. While it's failing, I'm also tabbed out searching the issue and trying to figure it out myself."

Awesome characterization ("slop zone"), pragmatic strategy (let it try; research in parallel) and essential principle ("I'm not shipping code I don't understand.")

IMHO this post is gold, for real-world project details and commentary from an expert doing their thing.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-11 18:33:46+00:00
No… hospitals use EHR to maximize billing. That is the value.

Private practices are generally shrinking in number, so there IS NO EHR that is growing in the long term to serve them, so there CANNOT BE a trend where hospitals are exceptional, their IT buying trends are the NORM and their purpose is to code for billing. It is NOT about having or not having IT resources strictly speaking.
by tempestn | 2025-10-11 18:34:03+00:00
I don't know if I'd call it a façade. More of a lull. I was 20 in 2001, and growing up in the 90s it very much felt like we had entered "post-history". Yes, the world wasn't perfect, there was still conflict and social problems, but they were better than at any time in the past, and clearly getting better (along with technology) all the time.

I was slightly too young to really remember the cold war, and my only hazy related memory is positive: the fall of the Berlin wall. So, major geopolitical conflict was a thing of the past.

Of course in reality, 10-15 years of relative peace (and of course there was still regional conflict) and social stability (though of course there were many unaddressed problems) is just a blip, but especially growing up in that era, it didn't feel that way at the time. I think that might be why so many millennial and Gen-x folks feel particularly disillusioned with the state of the world now.
by creer | 2025-10-11 18:34:13+00:00
Someone followed up and then deleted - but good questions: We fear imposing on the others. We don't know what to message about. How often? What do we have in common? And I expect most of us have the same concerns.

Anyone has interesting recipes on this?

I feel that more or less we all have these concerns. One of the solutions is to recognize that both sides of the message will have the same concerns. The other person is then grateful that you did it - instead of bothered. They may well decline - but not angry at you - and accept the next time around 2 years later. What we have in common? We work in the same industry - that's what we have in common. It's enough. And you want to stay in touch with the ones who understand that this matters anyway, the others... less so.

Someone posted on HN ages ago about fishing for lunch dates. I have used this one. Having lunch once every few years with an ex-colleague works well. And applies to all kinds of other people that we didn't think of doing that with. Of course many people have no time for lunch with you. Especially if you want it "this week" - but if you are completely open ended as to when, that's will work easier.

One I have used is "I'm headed to XXX trade show. Any chance I'll see you there? What are you up to these days?" Same for local interest group meetings.

If you notice someone changed job or went to another company (from checking their Linkedin) - sure that's a message right there with an easy topic.

How often? 2 years too often? 5 years too little? Something like that.

Any other ideas?
by wrs | 2025-10-11 18:34:13+00:00
You can work with the LLM to write down a model for the code (aka a design document) that it can then repeatedly ingest into the context before writing new code. That what “plan mode” is for. The technique of maintaining a design document and a plan/progress document that get updated after each change seems to make a big difference in keeping the LLM on track. (Which makes sense…exactly the same thing works for human team mambers too.)
by musicale | 2025-10-11 18:35:29+00:00
I like big picture mode in Steam, but.... controller support is spotty across Steam games, and personally I think you need both a Steam controller and a DualSense or Xbox controller. Steam also updates itself by default every time you launch, and you have to deal with Windows updates and other irritations. Oh, here's another update for .net, wonderful. And a useless new AI agent. SteamOS and Linux/Proton may be better in some ways, but there are still compatibility and configuration headaches. And half my Steam library doesn't even work on macOS, even games that used to work (not to mention the issues with intel vs. Apple Silicon, etc.)

The "it just works" factor and not having to mess with drivers is a huge advantage of consoles.

Apple TV could almost be a decent game system if Apple ever decided to ship a controller in the box and stopped breaking App Store games every year (though live service games rot on the shelf anyway.)
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-11 18:35:47+00:00
This is not contempt for human life. It is a recognition that sometimes as the body deteriorates that the quality of life becomes negative.

I watched both of my parents deteriorate in the end. The morphine blotted out my father's ability to form long term memory, if it wasn't in front of him things were like they had been before so much morphine was needed. There can be no value in such "life".

As far as I'm concerned not allowing people to end the suffering is a form of sadism.

I suspect this thread will go like many have in the past: there are two camps. The first has never seen a bad death and has a lot of opposition to people choosing to end their life. The second has seen a bad death and a lot of people would choose suicide before reaching that point. If it is a contempt for human life that means people have contempt for their own life and that doesn't make much sense. I can look at myself: I have been dealt a presumably genetic killer, I saw what it did to my mother and I will not allow that to happen to me. Do I have contempt for my own life because I expect the end to be suicide?
by queenkjuul | 2025-10-11 18:36:17+00:00
Well when it says the video "doesn't even mention US Foods or Performance Food Group" when i know for absolute fact the video in fact mentioned both, it's hard to take it seriously.

I also find it ridiculous to counter "they abuse animals in factory farms" with "well they also sell free range eggs if you're willing to pay". Okay so you admit that they are abusing animals in factory farms, though. The latter doesn't in any way excuse or absolve the former.
by dxdm | 2025-10-11 18:37:02+00:00
I'm not arguing either side, but I'd like to note that human societies have been drawing various lines dealing with the legal and ethical issues surrounding the death of other people in various stages of age, competency and guilt, usually without descending into a free-for-all killing frenzy.

When things get bad, it was usually not the drawing of lines that did it, but the intention and underlying stance on the rights and indeed humanity of others. The line is not what makes the slope slippery, but a pervasive lack of empathy seems to do it. We also know that bad actors do not care about lines much.

So I think that slippery slope is not a powerful argument on its own.
by JohnBooty | 2025-10-11 18:37:04+00:00
This is kind of the gold standard and well worth aspiring to for any given situation.

I've often found it hard to achieve in practice.

A typical issue is that for non-trivial performance improvements (the kind that will take several days to several months to achieve) it's hard to estimate the speedup (and therefore, the the corresponding dollar amount) without actually doing a substantial portion of the work and estimating the corresponding speedup.

Another typical issue is where the performance speedup doesn't correspond directly to a dollar amount. At a recent employer we were working on a scientific product. The optimizations would have affected the size of the datasets able to be handled by our product. So there would have been a dollar impact, but it would have not been some kind of relatively simple AWS math. It would have been measured in potential sales dollars.

It's like making your game run at 60fps instead of 30fps. 60fps is clearly better (all other things being equal) and better games tend to sell better, and we'd like to make the best game possible and sell the most copies possible... but how do we quantify the expected return on this work? Many times, I don't think you can.
by christkv | 2025-10-11 18:37:21+00:00
I used to be for assisted suicide but I have changed to be against. The things that changed my mind is seeing how it has gone in countries that have implemented it like The Netherlands and Canada with what I consider to unethical assisted suicide of people with mental disorders and disabilities. It smacks of state sanctioned killings disguised as charity. The second one was what kind of psychopath assists in the killing and why is that person allowed to keep practicing. Finally if we can kill ill people what really is the difference in implementing the death penalty and justifying it by ending the criminal insane’s suffering?
by imtringued | 2025-10-11 18:37:49+00:00
The problem is on your end.

Consider the following scenarios:

There is a red button that orders your euthanasia. Pressing it instantly teleports you to a euthanasia facility and leads to your death unless you say no within 30 seconds. The button reads your fingerprint and can only be pressed by you. (Assume science fiction level technology to make this true)

1. The button is located 5000 km away from you in an unknown location.

2. The location is known.

3. You can order the delivery of the button to you for $50

4. The button is in your basement

5. The button is next to your bed

6. The button is on your keyboard and mouse

7. The button is on your keychain

Now consider there is a blue button with the same rules as above, which makes you feel compelled to press the first button for a day and it can be pressed by anyone.

You'd want the red button as far away from you as possible and the blue button secured in a location that is as inaccessible to others as possible.

In today's society there are too many people obsessed with pressing blue buttons. Also, pressing blue buttons is not a crime, because red buttons happen to be pretty far away from most people.

But now there are people obsessed with pressing red buttons. They want to ship the red button to your house on your behalf, while thinking they are doing you a favor.

This would be okay if the blue button pressing people were a minority and there was a punishment for pressing blue buttons, but it turns out both positions are popular and when averaged together, the buttons will be placed next to each other, thereby turning the blue button into a second red button.
by betaby | 2025-10-11 18:38:06+00:00
> House prices in Canada are dropping this year.

Where exactly?

For example, I live in Montreal, the stast for August:

Single-family home median price increased by 7.3% year-over-year to $633k.

Condo median price increased by 3.7% year-over-year to $422k.

Plex median price increased by 10.1% year-over-year to $840k.
by rolph | 2025-10-11 18:38:42+00:00
"The shafts are vast, each more than 5 metres deep and 10 metres in diameter. Approximately 20 have been found and there may have been more than 30. About 40% of the circle is no longer available for study as a consequence of modern development."

perhaps this is a typo, but it sounds more like a pit, than a shaft.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 18:39:02+00:00
Rippling can also serve as a “PEO”.

https://www.rippling.com/products/hr/peo

If you work at a small company, HR, benefits, tax reporting is handled by Rippling as if you are their employee even though for everything else is handled by your employer. You are “co-employed” by both companies. As our company grew, last year we all got “terminated” by Rippling (initiated by our company) and had to “re-apply” to our company as far as new tax forms.

Nothing changed day to day. It was merely an accounting, legal, tax thing.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-11 18:39:51+00:00
I’ve had a lot of people suffer in my life from health conditions, ranging from mental illness, heart disease, and cancer. And I’ve had to take care of them all at different times. Did I consider this a burden or a gift? Oh, it was hard, but does that mean it’s a burden?

If you think you’ll be a burden on your loved ones can we really say they’re your loved ones? This is a serious question. If you’re thinking that you’ll be a burden do you think that these people really love you?

At least I would want to let them use experimental drugs, or do anything to further the cause of curing Alzheimer’s.

But again, this is all far from the original article about an old man who decided to die because well, we don’t really know, he just didn’t see the point of living anymore.
by mauvehaus | 2025-10-11 18:40:44+00:00
The book Men Of Steel is about the company that erected the steel for the towers. It's highly worth reading and it talks at length about some of the challenges in not only the erection of the buildings, but the problems caused by the sheer scale of it.

The four cranes on each tower that you can see in the photos were a scaling up of a proven design and it didn't scale up well. They had tons of problems with them breaking down.

There were also some plans to do automated welding that came to naught. They had to fall back to manual welding after they couldn't get the automated process to work.
by archagon | 2025-10-11 18:41:31+00:00
Tesla has a fundamental leadership problem. Few CEOs spend so much time enthusiastically enraging and attacking their potential customer base. (Not to mention politicians, unions, etc.) I’ll be in the market for an electric vehicle soon but there is no fucking way I’m spending money on anything Musk-related ever again, and I’m hardly an abberation. It will be a massive albatross around the company’s neck until Musk is no longer associated with them.

On the other hand, nobody hates Waymo. In fact, people largely love Waymo. When it comes to consumer technology, this is a massive differentiator.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-11 18:41:34+00:00
That is a crappy source, here is a better overview, which specifically calls out your source as being ridiculous and failing basic a common sense check:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-vehicles-...

> One study hit the headlines when it claimed that tyres emit ‘more than 1,000 times as much pollution as exhausts’. There are a few reasons why we should be cautious about this result. The first comes from a small sense check on the numbers [see the footnote for details].3 The second is that most of the particles (by mass) that are emitted from tyres are large, and large particles are less problematic for air quality and human health. It’s the very small particles – less than 2.5 microns – that we’re worried about. A much smaller fraction of these particles will be in that size range.

> So, I think the ‘1,000 times as much’ headline is too high. But, tyre wear is still significant and we need more research on it.
by hyperhello | 2025-10-11 18:41:42+00:00
> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting?

From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy.

I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots groomed from high school to push conservative propaganda. One of his assignments was to minimize the cultural impact of school shootings. He died in front of thousands in a school shooting.

Maybe that irony is something and maybe it is nothing. But the essence of conservative propaganda, that will survive any individual propaganda and any individual regime, is the central idea that some of us have rights and freedoms and some of us don't. So any deviation from that idea must be punished very severely.
by nradov | 2025-10-11 18:42:38+00:00
VistA has some great functionality and end users generally like it, but unfortunately the underlying platform and developer tooling is hopelessly outdated. It's approaching a technical dead end and there's no practical way to keep it moving forward unless someone steps forward with the funding and resources for a major refactoring / rewrite engineering effort.

https://worldvista.org/