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by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-01 21:00:48+00:00
Ya, I tend to agree. In fact, even if I _do_ have something, I think I'd rather not know. Whatever it is, it isn't too severe, so a diagnosis would mostly be helpful for getting medication. I have my own coping strategies and am able to navigate through life pretty much like everyone else, imperfectly but still making it. Having a diagnosis would not help me in this situation. I know some people feel that having a diagnosis can make a difference, and perhaps it is more important if you have something in an extreme form. But idk if I have something, and even if I do, I don't think the label would help me
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 21:00:51+00:00
What? You do know "sizing up the military" is exactly why the South Korean president was ousted, right? He tried to declare martial law and parliament completely shut that down. Not exactly the thing you want to announce when you've had hostile neighbors for 70 years.

Let them dig their own grave if true, but I'm confused what yirre getting at.
by vizzier | 2025-10-01 21:00:53+00:00
I think you're on the surface correct. But below the surface it can't be denied that in most of the western nations there is an increasing far right party on the knife edge of gaining power in each (Afd, RN, Reform UK, etc). We can hope that they remain out of power, but its hard to say that we won't see a bunch of Trumpist policy repeated in any one of those nations if they do take power.
by jhsdgh876425 | 2025-10-01 21:01:14+00:00
Why would any adult give so much power to a few people over their project for what would be a few $$ at most in GitHub if not free.

The idea that I would choose a company because is from Europe instead of America, is kinda insane to be honest, I'm from Spain, Europe and my only peeve with products from America is that sometimes the cost to send products here is a bit too much for products like kinesis, aeron, books from nostarch, etc.

Good for Codeberg for giving the hosting service for free to FOSS projects, but there is no way I'm giving so much power to a few volunteers over my projects.

I wish GitHub would implement a feature to hide/private the projects I follow/star, that's the only thing I miss in GitHub.
by miltonlost | 2025-10-01 21:01:14+00:00
> Powell said explicitly a year or two ago that it was his goal to bump unemployment numbers to tame inflation. Kinda sick to think about, but, here we are I guess.

This is basic monetary economics via the Phillips curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve). There's a strong relationship between unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Of course, that is based on historical data in normal times, and, since 2010s and the financial crisis with years of ZIRP, we are now in very unnormal times with Trump's tariffs and general fuckery of the economic system.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 21:01:16+00:00
Europe hit its peak oil some time ago and the peak wasn't that high. Anyway, electricity is inherently more efficient and less problematic than the chemical alternatives. I guess you can bet on chemical energy if you have plenty of it. Its just that electricity is superior in every way.

Also fossil reserves have other uses too, I also don't expect oil production going to 0 anytime soon.
by raydev | 2025-10-01 21:01:26+00:00
Same. My M1 Max only shows it age when building a few massive C++ projects, the M4 cuts down compile times to a quarter so I feel like I'm missing out there, but not enough to put down another$4k yet.

Compared to every Intel MBP I went through, where they would show their age after about 2-3 years, and every action/compile required more and more fans and throttling, the M1 is still a magical processor.
by simonw | 2025-10-01 21:01:29+00:00
The Unix philosophy here is less about it being a terminal app (it's a very rich terminal app, lots of redrawing the whole screen etc) and more about the fact that giving a modern LLM the ability to run shell commands unlocks an incredibly useful array of new capabilities.

An LLM can do effectively anything that a human can do by typing commands into a shell now.
by projectazorian | 2025-10-01 21:01:29+00:00
> My friends in the midwest say that there's actually exemptions on tariffs when it comes to buying the manufacturing equipment itself, to avoid the issues you're talking about.

This is a massive hand-wave and only applies to companies that have an in with the administration. If you're a small/medium-size business that doesn't have a budget for "government relations," or you're in a field like renewable energy or EVs where the admin doesn't like the vibes? Too bad for you.

> Those same friends expect purchase amounts to increase once America starts producing more on its own.

Yes they will, and aggregate output will decrease because producers are now spending more money on worse domestic substitutes for foreign products. Also, you're now shoveling corporate welfare to those new domestic producers, so they have no incentive to step up their game and innovate. (If you want an example of this look at the consistent failure of US automakers to compete globally, because tariffs incentivize them to optimize for building pickup trucks domestically.)

Import substitution has been tried many times before, it doesn't work.
by scythe | 2025-10-01 21:02:04+00:00
CRP and its subtypes have been known since 1930 as markers of acute inflammation such as following disease or injury. The measurement of chronic systemic inflammation is more difficult, because it involves lower levels of the biomarkers. So for example CRP levels increase by a factor of thousands when there is an infection, but in chronic systemic inflammation are elevated much more subtly. I don't know a great historical review but this "Nature Perspective" from 2019 seems pretty good:

https://zellavie.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Nature-Medici...
by MarsIronPI | 2025-10-01 21:02:33+00:00
I like the hints API, especially that it can hint on browser elements. However, power users may find it desirable to be able to use the hints system to select arbitrary kinds of elements. Perhaps you could extend the hint functionality to allow callers to pass a CSS selector that determines what elements get hinted? One use case is to write a command that lets the user choose an element and copy its text.
by peanutchutney | 2025-10-01 21:03:01+00:00
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by Etheryte | 2025-10-01 21:03:17+00:00
Call centers these days are staffed at the bare minimum as is, adding an AI bot in front of that doesn't really change that fact. At least for me, it's now a regular occurrence that I'll slot a quarter to half an hour of holding time when I need to call support. Local and small companies are better in this regard, there you can usually reach a human pretty quickly. Big international corporations however are a lost cause. Funny, given that they'd have the most funds available to keep their customers.
by efsavage | 2025-10-01 21:03:25+00:00
I think the concepts are inevitable, not so much the specific implementations. PCs were an inevitable stop on the fairly standard adoption path from many workers to one machine (Mainframes), 1:1 (PCs), many machines to one worker (I have at least 10 computers within arms reach right now). IBM/Windows/Apple weren't inevitable, they were just manifestations of that. ICs weren't inevitable, but commoditized computer parts were. TCP wasn't inevitable, but a lingua franca for networks was. LLMs weren't inevitable, but AI is.

To your overall point though, and to the contrary of the type of thinking you're critiquing, the timing of these things is not inevitable. Computers didn't have to happen in the 50s, they could easily have waited 50 or 100 years if we didn't have things like wars or other technological breakthroughs that enabled them. For AI we might be stuck on incremental improvements on LLMs for a generation, or they might be obsolete in 5 years. They will be replaced by something better at some point, but confusing (intentionally or not) inevitable with soon is where the hype proves itself hollow.
by dserban | 2025-10-01 21:03:25+00:00
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by inglor_cz | 2025-10-01 21:03:35+00:00
Yeah, I read it too, but let's not take the book as a holy one.

Dolphins are plenty smart, but their absence of a material culture also leaves them exposed to various forces beyond their control.

Are dolphin moms not grieving when their baby gets eaten by killer whales?

This sort of threats is ubiquitous in nature, but almost unknown in a civilization.

True nature is brutal.
by XorNot | 2025-10-01 21:03:57+00:00
I mean generally above a certain size of deployment DHCP is much more trouble then it's worth.

DHCP is really only worth it when your hosts are truly dynamic (i.e. not controlled by you). Otherwise it's a lot easier to handle IP allocation as part of the asset lifecycle process.

Heck even my house IoT network is all static IPs because at the small scale it's much more robust to not depend on my home router for address assignment - replacing a smart bulb is a big enough event, so DHCP is solely for bootstrapping in that case.

At the enterprise level unpacking a server and recording the asset IDs etc is the time to assign IP addresses.
by pranay01 | 2025-10-01 21:04:13+00:00
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by fogzen | 2025-10-01 21:04:21+00:00
When I worked at an ML hedge fund 6 years ago, t-SNE performed the best and momentum was the feature that best predicted stock movements.

The actual algorithms for predicting price movement were fairly simplistic, most work was around strategies for dealing with overfitting and how to execute the trades. Accuracy was around 51-55% (a bit better than coin toss) so it was a big challenge to actually execute the trades and still make a profit after fees and other nonsense. Finding alpha is what ML is used for but that’s just the first step.
by BroadacreRidge | 2025-10-01 21:04:32+00:00
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by knorker | 2025-10-01 21:04:36+00:00
Ah yes, unless that conditional returns, UB indeed has time travelling properties. (I mean, spec wise. Manifesting as the compiler "reasoning" that "well I could legally put that load before the check, and that means it's not null, which means I don't need the check")

But this brings us back to the article: Why does the author say that there's no way to check for NULL in the free function? Maybe they are hinting at something completely unrelated to what we're saying here?

If that's where we failed to communicate, then that makes sense. Thanks, stranger!
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 21:04:50+00:00
> Heart disease progresses over decades <...> You don't want to wait til you're 18 months out from a heart attack to do anything. I don't think this is good advice

Correct. The idea is commonly referred to as "LDL-C Burden"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

> no solid evidence it can be reversed

We do see good evidence of soft-plaque regression with very low levels of LDL-C, generally in patients undergoing high dose statin therapy or combo therapy.

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.10.035 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2584184 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7644491/

We don't have any real evidence of effective/widely-applicable treatments to reduce calcified plaque, though.
by rv888 | 2025-10-01 21:04:58+00:00
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by atombender | 2025-10-01 21:05:10+00:00
I don't know, but I recommend trying it, you might be surprised.

The X100IV is awesome, of course, and if I could afford it, I'd probably own one. But it's more than 2x what I paid for my X-E3.

A fixed-lens camera is built around the limitation of having just that lens. To me, if I only bring the 27mm with me when shooting, then that is exactly like a fixed-lens camera. But it also means I have the option to take it on a bird-watching trip using my Fujifilm 70-300mm lens — something you just wouldn't be able to do with an X100. That flexibility is worth something, which in my opinion makes the lower price of the X-E range even more of a bargain compared to the X100.
by bluGill | 2025-10-01 21:05:14+00:00
I don't think they can. What we need are boots on the ground in each community. That means money to pay a lot of reporters. Which isn't compatible with a "Free (gratis) news" world. Even with ad supported news it is hard to get enough money to pay the people needed. And then we have to ask about bias - I wouldn't support a lot of reporters because they misrepresent my views politically in various ways.

It is a hard problem.
by g413n | 2025-10-01 21:05:59+00:00
yeah that's why we started paying people near the second half- not super clearly stated in the blogpost, but the novelty definitely wore off with plenty of drives left to stack, so we switched strategies to get it done in time.

I think everyone who showed up for a couple hours as part of the party had a good time tho, and the engraved hard drives we were giving out weren't cheap :p
by satiated_grue | 2025-10-01 21:06:20+00:00
About 25-30 years ago we had an FDDI network, and the hosts had optical bypass switches on them.

The FDDI network comprised two fiber rings, one going clockwise and the other anticlockwise. If a host dropped off the network, the optical bypass switch would loop the two rings to each other, creating one big ring. Two non-adjacent hosts dropping off the network would break the ring.

The optical bypass was surprisingly simple. It was a couple of pieces of fiber segment glued to a swiveling magnet; an adjacent electromagnet pull the magnet/fiber assembly, connecting the network rings normally if energized. If power were removed from the electromagnet, a spring would pull it in the other direction, pointing the fibers into loop position, connecting the network rings in looped configuration.

In both cases, the air was the medium between the fibers entering the switch and the straight-through/loopback fiber segments.

Apologies in advance for my poor explanation.
by HALtheWise | 2025-10-01 21:06:23+00:00
There's a lengthy, and quite good, deep-dive into Alpha School by a current parent here, for anyone interested. Spoiler, "AI" isn't that big a portion of what they're doing, but some of their insights and systems around student motivation are actually interesting and very effective.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-01 21:06:35+00:00
Yeah, I wish there was a bit more clarity on the medication prompt.

IE, medication can be hit-or-miss. Did I (as the person in the game) go to a pill pusher and thus the medication causes more problems then it helps? Or, is the medication something where the benefits outweigh the consequences?

As many other people in this thread point out, there is no "medication for autism," so I assumed that it was a case of poorly prescribed medication from a pill pusher and didn't take it the first time I played.
by T-R | 2025-10-01 21:06:44+00:00
Abstract Algebra, looked at through the lens of Programming, is kind of "the study of good library interface design", because it describes different ways things can be "composable", like composing functions `A -> B` and `B -> C`, or operators like `A <> A -> A`, or nestable containers `C<C<T>> -> C<T>`, with laws clearly specifying how to ensure they don't break/break expectations for users, optimizers, etc. Ways where your output is in some sense the same as your input, so you can break down problems, and don't need to use different functions for each step.

Category Theory's approach of "don't do any introspection on the elements of the set" led it to focus on some structures that turned out to be particularly common and useful (functors, natural transformations, lenses, monads, etc.). Learning these is like learning about a new interface/protocol/API you can use/implement - it lets you write less code, use out-of-the-box tools, makes your code more general, and people can know how to use it without reading as much documentation.

Focusing on these also suggests a generally useful way to approach problems/structuring your code - rather than immediately introspecting your input and picking away at it, instead think about the structual patterns of the computation, and how you could model parts of it as transformations between different data structures/instances of well-known patterns.

As a down-to-earth example, if you need to schedule a bunch of work with some dependencies, rather than diving into hacking out a while-loop with a stack, instead model it as a DAG, decide on an order to traverse it (transform to a list), and define an `execute` function (fold/reduce). This means just importing a graph library (or just programming to an interface that the graph library implements) instead of spending your day debugging. People generally associate FP with recursion, but the preferred approach is to factor out the control flow entirely; CT suggests doing that by breaking it down into transformations between data structures/representations. It's hugely powerful, though you can also imagine that someone who's never seen a DAG might now be confused why you're importing a graph library in your code for running async jobs.
by tikhonj | 2025-10-01 21:07:15+00:00
Category theory gives us a nice, high-level set of conceptual tools to try to understand and generalize over things that are hard to connect otherwise. Some people find that useful directly, other people just enjoy it for its own sake, or even for aesthetic reasons. (I think all three are totally reasonable!)

At the same time, it's actually rather more accessible than most other areas of pure math—at least at the level that people talk about it online. Basic category theory can be hard to learn because it's so abstract but, unlike almost any other are of math from the 20th century onwards, it has almost no hard prerequisites. You can reasonably learn about categories, functors, natural transformations and so on without needing a graduate degree's worth of math courses first. You might not understand the most common examples mathematicians use to illustrate category theory ideas—but it's such a general framework that it isn't hard to find alternate examples from computer science or physics or whatever else you already know. In fact, I expect most of the articles that get talked about here do exactly that: illustrate category theory ideas with CS/programming examples that folks on HN find relevant and accessible.
by seguri | 2025-10-01 21:07:35+00:00
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by lexarflash8g | 2025-10-01 21:07:50+00:00
Most companies aren’t Apple, Nvidia, or Google chasing the top 0.1% of “elite” talent. Outside of a few AI-focused startups, the reality is that 90% of companies are sitting on legacy codebases, still running VMs, or duct-taping CRUD apps together with APIs.

If you happen to be a superstar with a rare niche skill (like building frontier AI models), you basically skip the interview loop and get fought over with million-dollar offers. But that’s a tiny fraction of the market.

For everyone else, hiring looks a lot like dating: both sides aim for a “10,” but usually settle for a “6 or 7.” And the whole process is signaling—candidates overstate their skills, companies oversell their culture and tech stack, and the match lands somewhere in the middle.

Probably the most important non-technical skill is dealing with the egos in the industry since you will come across a lot of them.