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by goatlover | 2025-10-28 21:55:50+00:00
Not when you take into account how Trump has behaved in his second term and that there's an authoritarian playbook he's following that has worked in other contemporary countries like Hungary. What other president has refused to acknowledged they lost an election, and refused to acknowledge that they're not permitted a third term by the Constitution? There are former Trump officials from his first term who warned about his reelection.

What's going to doom US democracy is all the people in denial that an authoritarian coup could and is happening in America.
by serf | 2025-10-28 21:55:55+00:00
>by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children)

I think that it's hilarious (in a grim way) that we got this thing : a 30kg robot with no proven reliability performing dynamic/active balancing at all times and everyone jumps to the fear of 'The Scary Foreigner' rather than the fact that this actively power-damp'd mass is actively trying to fall backwards or forwards, being held together by whatever control loop, onto your toddler or pet.

A single non-redundant power-failure is orders of a scarier proposition to me than a foreigner with a bad attitude : you can fix that with management and action auditing , more than a single person in the loop, etc. You can't fix the future awaiting technical failure.

We still haven't fixed bad technicals in any industry yet -- we occasional get bad planes delivered to customers. We have technical failures in pacemakers.
by mbrock | 2025-10-28 21:56:06+00:00
I'm working on packaging Fil-C for Nix, as well as integrating Fil-C as a toolchain in Nix so you can build any Nix package with Fil-C.

https://github.com/mbrock/filnix

It's working. It builds tmux, nethack, coreutils, Perl, Tcl, Lua, SQLite, and a bunch of other stuff.

Binary cache on https://filc.cachix.org so you don't have to wait 40 minutes for the Clang fork to build.

If you have Nix with flakes on a 64-bit Linux computer, you can run

nix run github:mbrock/filnix#nethack

right now!
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-28 21:56:19+00:00
Not in any civilised country. Criminals do have guns in my country but firearm use is incredibly rare and use is restricted to crim V cop and crim v crim because police response and enforcement are so harsh for gun crime it isnt worth it unless it quite literally becomes life or death.

So then non criminals, while not armed with guns, face no real gun violence because even getting access to guns requires critical thinking and intelligence at least sufficient to understand risk vs reward well enough to understand civilian pop isn't a reasonable use case for firearms. Any firearm related incident here is a multi week news item. Stuff thats everyday in the USA and doesnt even make local news.

So, our cops and our criminals are armed, and i can trust my kids wont get shot up in school, i wont get shot in a store robbery, or by a disgruntled coworker etc.

You dont quite understand how bad it is I think, USA americans who move here have an adjustment period and usually need mental health support coping with leaving a country where getting shot in a road rage incident, for example, is a real risk. I had a colleague driving break down after cutting someone off accidentally, the cut off swerved ahead of us aggressivly stopped traffic got out and started shouting. Eventually wore themsleves out, as they do, got vack in car and kept driving. Didnt stress me too bad but my coworker driving totally shut down. Why? A year earlier a coworker in the USA did something similar and the person with road rage got out and started shooting at their car.

That's not normal. Not even close.
by Yokolos | 2025-10-28 21:56:30+00:00
> won't have a hard time with the developer verification process

Unless any government powerful enough has reason to make Google reject developers. Hell, doesn't even have to be a government. Do anything that annoys Google, goodbye rights for your app to be installed on any Android. Why would you ignore the obvious and main caveat? It doesn't matter what store it "continues to work on". Google can revoke privileges overnight with little to no recourse for the developer, regardless of the merit of such action, the usefulness of the app, or how much people want/need that app. This is literally heading in the direction of Kafkaesque.
by pshirshov | 2025-10-28 21:57:00+00:00
No, according to the spec the order is not preserved but most parsers preserve the order (or maintain some order based on side effects) and engineers rely on that (and sometimes that backfires).

Essentially, SICK also maintains some strange order based on values of some homegrown trivial hash function but the only right approach to JSON objects is to treat their keys as an unordered set.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 21:57:16+00:00
Drop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee through a Qudelix 5K. Both are great pieces of kit, the Qudelix especially. The onboard parametric EQ combined with AutoEQ is fantastic. However, after running a hearing test and enabling Hearing Assist, the EQ on the Airpods is incredible and everything sounds very natural. I have no idea how they managed to get this much soundstage and bass out of these things. I also have a pair of Grado SR 80, and have a soft spot for Koss KSC 75.

FWIW I got mine at Costco and their return policy is top notch, and I believe they include AppleCare+ with the purchase. I had bought my APP2 fairly recently before the APP3 were released, experienced buyers remorse, but had kept them in like new condition with the box and accessories, and had no problem exchanging them.
by msla | 2025-10-28 21:57:31+00:00
The same way European people put up with the insane NHS and its refusal to care for the people who support it financially and supposedly support it politically.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/13/uk/england-nhs-puberty-bl...

The NHS and its bizarre political agenda is an example of what can happen when a government controls access to health care.
by atum47 | 2025-10-28 21:57:34+00:00
Galaxy S2 was the best phone I ever had. I think it was pure Android, if not, you had some minor apps from Samsung that you could've delete. I think I left the Samsung train right about S5 (which was supposed water proof, but it wasn't). It was just down fall from there. Samsung account, locked phone full with shitty apps that you couldn't remove (without rooting)... I don't think I'll ever have anything from Samsung in the near future
by kazinator | 2025-10-28 21:57:35+00:00
They wanted to call it freeloading, but showed a bit of self-restraint.

Whenever you side load anything, you are robbing someone's app store of income. You are not visiting their portal to be exposed to ads, you are not seeing ads in the middle of an application, you are not paying for anything.

Or at least, not paying to them. The only streaming service I pay for in my household is Japanese TV, which uses a side-loaded application. I'm freeloading on the Android TV platform because I only paid for the hardware, and for a streaming service not related any Google revenue funnels whatsoever.

That's what it's about.

It's either a derogatory term for "software loading" or an euphemism for "freeloading", or both.
by lorenstewart | 2025-10-28 21:57:53+00:00
Jeez! Y'all are quite harsh. I wrote this in sections and then tried to stitch it all together. I did my best to remove repetition, but overall it's my writing edited with the help of AI to moderate some of my personal biases. The value here is both checking out the code (written by me with the help of the maintainers of each framework) as well as tables for lighthouse scores and bundle sizes.

I personally think the most important parts of the post are these two related parts: (1) the technofeudalism section (2) developing lightweight apps so a business does not feel the need to have a separate native codebase along with a specialized native team ($$$). I was hoping this post was a gift to many people by doing all this work for y'all, or at least providing a foundation from which you can fork and modify for your own use.

It is an open question for everyone if start up time on cellular is something you need to worry about. All the other non-sense here misses the point.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-28 21:58:00+00:00
Similar situation with me and a procedure back in 2014. Practice took me on with my pre-ACA insurance. Post-procedure my insurer decided it was a pre-existing condition and didn't cover the procedure. For the practitioner, who went into the deal expecting the reimbursement rate from my insurer, it was a 10X windfall (and he refused to negotiate, citing that he was within his rights to demand the full fee).
by axiolite | 2025-10-28 21:58:06+00:00
Just an empty screen here... You're picking random positions on screen, and random colors, but then you don't display ANY text so the info is discarded and cells remain clear.

After the printf, perhaps you want: tput smso; echo -n " "

Then I find moving the second "clear" before the "while" makes it more interesting. Not sure if that's more like what you intended.
by jonjacky | 2025-10-28 21:58:07+00:00
I wasn't planning to use the front panel extensively because, as mentioned in the video, front-panel booting is not a practical way to start a computer.

The next step up is to use a hex keypad to enter 16 bits at a time. Some single board computers from the 1970's provided this. It was marginally practical - I used to enter programs of a couple of hundred bytes into a KIM-1 this way, it only took a few minutes.

Those computers did provide a simple monitor in ROM to support this, but that code was very small - Steve Wozniak's Wozmon monitor for the Apple I was 256 bytes. You could probably design some circuitry not much more complicated than in this article to replace its row of switches with a keypad.
by hackthemack | 2025-10-28 21:58:12+00:00
I do not use ai image generating much lately. It seemed like there was a burst of activity a year and half ago with self hosted models and using some localhost web guis. But now it seems like it is moving more and more to online hosted models.

Still, to my eye, ai generated images still feel a bit off when doing with real world photographs.

George's hair, for example, looks over the top, or brushed on.

The tree added to the sleeping person on the ground photo... the tree looks plastic or too homogenized.
by speff | 2025-10-28 21:58:18+00:00
I'm not sure I understand this viewpoint. Just because a company made a big profit doesn't mean it has to keep positions it decides is unneeded. This isn't the first time I've seen this type of attitude and I'm genuinely curious about the alternative. Once you make above $X in profit, you're obligated to keep employees who aren't necessarily doing the work you want done?
by al_borland | 2025-10-28 21:58:41+00:00
I always get a little bothered when I see negative reviews from a CPU update in Apple laptops. While a new CPU alone isn’t a thrilling update, it’s important that they do these regularly so consumers looking to buy aren’t forced to buy a 3 year old product with no idea when a refresh will come. I’ve been in this situation many times with Apple and it has been very frustrating. I’m glad they are back on a yearly refresh schedule.

I think the issue stems from too many people making their living off reviews that require something exciting to get views. When updates are more evolution than revolution, it makes for a more boring article/video. I always worry that these types of responses will lead Apple to do silly things, like leaving old chips out there too long, or adding pointless features just so there is something new to talk about.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-28 21:59:30+00:00
I loathe that creating a non-profit organization supposedly guided by a charter to "ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity." is actually about being a $500b company corporate capital ownership with million $ pay packages. I mean, it looks like you really can do whatever you want if you have the most $ for the best lawyers and the gumption to not give af.
by epistasis | 2025-10-28 21:59:43+00:00
Universal healthcare is a very different thing from controlling costs.

Obamacare attempted to make the US healthcare system into a universal system by mandating that people purchase coverage, heavily subsidized to become affordable to every income level, in addition to massive expansion of Medicaid to those with the lowest levels of income or no income at all. Automatic enrollment in health insurance exchanges, even if people did not make their own choices on the health insurance exchanges, is what would make the US system universal health care.

Universal means that everyone has coverage, that the question to the patient is "what insurance plan are you on," rather than "do you have insurance." And making coverage universal has no connection to lowering costs. We need larger structural changes in the logistics of how care is delivered and how the money flows.

Single payer is another choice to be made, but that doesn't necessarily mean that health insurance is cheap, that all the care gets delivered that people want delivered, etc. Medicare is often cited as one direction for this, but most don't realize that private health insurance costs are partially high because they help subsidize the care of those who are covered by Medicare, because Medicare reimbursement rates are far lower than any of the private insurers have been able to negotiate.

Other routes are full decoupling of insurance from employment, full price controls that normalize Medicare and private insurance rates, which either make health care more free market or less free market depending on how you define those terms.

However every year that passes makes any of these reforms more difficult because administration of the costs and billing is getting more complex each year. ICD codes, PLA codes, all that stuff grows in complexity.

HMOs, like Kaiser, may provide a route towards greater simplicity of administration of health and costs.

But implementing any large change will require political buy-in of people, and when we have our current low-trust, high-misinformation political system there's been no way to make any political traction for changing anything. Until we regain a functional democracy or turn to full dictatorship, it seems unlikely that we will see structural changes that improve anything. Hell, we had Republican states actively trying to prevent poor people from receiving coverage from federal dollars. How can we ever come to terms with a change unless that sort of attitude no longer has traction?
by shippage | 2025-10-28 21:59:45+00:00
This is why black swan events can be so devastating.

I saw another comment here about a month ago that said many people tend to round a very small risk down to zero risk. The comments were related to driving and the risk of serious injury or death that most people discount, but I think it also applies to other areas of risk in life, too, for many people.

Exceptional events are low probability by definition, and thus people tend to ignore the possibility, assuming instead that the status quo will continue to exist.
by glenstein | 2025-10-28 22:00:09+00:00
I do think intuitions are a necessary source of pushback against philosophical skepticism, and am in favor of a kind of spirit of incredulity in response to skepticism. People pretend they are Cartesian skeptics for 15 minutes in a conversation, or a classroom, but go right back on to being a person after the conversation is over.

But on the other hand, I think a lot of disasters in philosophy come from having a failure of imagination, mistaking it for an insight into necessity and calling that an "intuition."

So I don't know that one should have a transcendent attitude toward all intuitions, I think it depends. Lance Bush is interested in moral intuitions and generally (imo) a great philosopher with great instincts, but I think what intuitions we do or don't have about morality are important, and I wouldn't want to wave those away because anglosphere philosophers have a bad track record with intuitions leading them astray when it comes to Mary's Room or the Chinese Room (what is it with rooms).
by overfeed | 2025-10-28 22:00:12+00:00
As I understand it, the delivery mechanism won't matter: Play Store,ADB, F-Droid, Bluetooth, or website. If the APK isn't signed by a Google-approved developer, it's not going to install.

If there's some ADB command that one can issue to install unsigned APKs for now, it's a temporary reprieve at best. Two Android versions later, the update from Google will read "Only 0.02% of users installed apps using adb, but the corresponding malware incidence rate was 873% more than the Play Store. Due to the outsized risk, we're disabling adb installations going forward"
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 22:00:32+00:00
You're contradicting yourself. You took me to task earlier for factoring in the wage penalty for working in the UK market --- fair enough, though really I'm making the simple descriptive point that people in the US are accepting of a dysfunctional status quo in part because they would be worse off in Europe.

But taxing capital gains at the level of ordinary income would be an immense change our tax code. All sorts of things the broader economy would change as a result. If you accept Sanders plan, you're not holding to your original constraint of changing only the health financing system.

I want to be clear that I'm not stipulating that families would be better off under M4A if you didn't do this: I still think your argument has the fuzzy end of this lollipop. I think it's unlikely that you will come up with a set of numbers for any proposed single-payer health system that leaves the median family with private health insurance better off on a take-home basis. I'm making a strong claim, so you should be able to knock it down straightforwardly if I'm wrong, and I'm interested to see if you can.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-28 22:00:56+00:00
A cheapo 20ppm quartz watch crystal definitely doesn't drift by a second every few minutes, but it will over about about half a day at maximum error. A 5ppm one (still sub one Euro) will keep a second about every two days. A 0.5ppm TCXO can be had for about 15 Euros from Mouser and that gets you two weeks.

If you have shared line power you can just use that and everything will be locked in sync forever.

If you don't want to use that or radio, and you are outside, you could try to be really clever am sync your flash phases to a specific position of the sun. This is what the Long Now clock does. It'll be a different time each day, but it'll be the same for all units, within a small tolerance.
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-10-28 22:00:59+00:00
You’re off by a few orders of magnitude. I’ll grant you, what is the bootloader becomes a very complex question. Even if you scope it to just “what is the code physically etched into the chip as the mask ROM” (secureROM) you’re talking hundreds of thousands. If you’re talking about all the code that runs before the kernel starts executing you’re talking hundreds of millions.
by p-o | 2025-10-28 22:01:23+00:00
There might be a subset of people, such as yourself, that looks for CUDA as a hard requirements when buying a GPU. But I think it's fair to say that Vulkan/Spir-V has a _lot_ of investment and momentum currently outside of the US AI bubble.

Valve is spending a lot of resources and AFAIK so are all the AI companies in the asian market.

There are plenty of people who wants an open-source alternative that breaks the monopoly that Nvidia has over CUDA.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-28 22:01:31+00:00
So you want to double the infrastructure surface to provide a different route for access for developers which may be a tiny portion of users in an organization? That's privilege right there.

Edit: I'm not saying I like it this way... but that's what you get when working in a small org in a larger org in a govt office. When I worked in a security team for a bank, we actually were on a separate domain and network. I generally prefer to work untrusted, externally and rely on another team for production deployment workflows, data, etc.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-28 22:01:40+00:00
After being impressed with my Steam Deck, earlier this year I purchased an RX 9070XT (my first card from team red since the Radeon 9800 Pro) for my gaming PC and switched to linux full time.

Now hundreds of hours in, I have nothing interesting to write about it. For me and the games I play it's been a seamless transition.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-28 22:01:51+00:00
With guns being uncontrolled police have plausible deniability on demand to gun down anyone they like. No free unrestricted gun access means gunning down people as they please isnt justifiable anymore.

so if its about safety, in a country actively descended into facism, aren't you worried about freedom of political expression given you can just be gunned down at a moments notice and it gets brushed away?
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-28 22:02:14+00:00
And how much of this switch do you think will happen as long as Google is the default search engine for every major browser and every major smartphone outside of China?

Even if “agents” aren’t overhyped, why would someone switch to Amazon instead of just using Google’s offerings?

Google has reported record revenues even after the advent of LLMs and have integrated AI overviews and a separate chat tab.
by blueg3 | 2025-10-28 22:02:17+00:00
> Given that both of these things are obviously true, it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you install something outside of the official app store.

It is an obvious solution, and it's a good first solution. This popup already exists.

A problem in security engineering is that when people are motivated (which is easy to achieve), they will just click through warnings. That is why, for example, browsers are increasingly aggressive about SSL warnings and why modifying some of the Mac security controls make you jump through so many hoops.

The usual take on HN is take the attitude that the developer is absolved of responsibility since they provided a warning to the user. That's not helpful. Users are inundated with stupid warnings and aren't really equipped to deal with a technical message that's in between them and their current desire. They want to click the monkey or install the browser toolbar. The attitude that it's not my problem because I provided a warning they didn't understand doesn't restore the money that was stolen from them by malware.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-28 22:02:29+00:00
A good example that "public" campaigning can work, but not necessarily for the better - there's been a systematic campaign to delegitimize trans healthcare.

There's comparable examples from other places; Ireland has come a long way in getting the church out of reproductive health, but there are still problems. And of course it doesn't matter whether it's public or private, abortion care is at risk in many US states.

The UK does allow you to go private, remember.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 22:03:02+00:00
I've used the built-in apps at a friend's house, and they were awful compared to the Apple TV versions. Everything was sluggish, like it was running on something without enough RAM and swapping out to an SD card. If I hadn't used anything else but that, or maybe the Dish Network DVR we had years ago, I'd probably think it's just fine. However, I have used something else, and it made the TV's own apps feel unbearable.

Imagine you're using a brand new maxed-out MacBook Pro, and someone hands you a 2013 HP laptop. The HP is... fine. It displays web pages, lets you load a word processor, and otherwise looks and acts like a laptop. If you hadn't ever used another computer, you probably wouldn't think anything of it.

BTW, I bet a Fire TV or various other options would be fine, too. I just don't have the personal experience to vouch for those. I'm not using this anecdote to shill Apple TV specifically, just to say that there are much better options than the built-in apps.