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by kulahan | 2025-10-07 18:59:34+00:00
Agreed, but change is very scary to many, many people. It's hard to convince them to try new things. It might be less frictional to simply explain how "actually new thing" is pretty much the same as "old broken thing".

With that being said, the major problem I have with pretty much all candidates is that they just campaign on an end goal, rather than a process. Yes, we all want to "tax the rich", but what does that look like in reality? Are we sending out wealth assessors? Are we requiring new reporting? Are we doing something else? (this is just an example that can be applied to just about any major political platform today)
by runarberg | 2025-10-07 19:00:08+00:00
I’ve seen you post about the “last mile” problem before on this thread, and I think you may be misunderstanding the problem and the solutions to it. The last mile is a problem in public transit where people who live in sparsely populated area and commute to higher density areas, where high quality or high capacity public transit opportunities exist for every leg of the journey except the last mile to their home (think Edgewood WA. to the Sounder train station in Puyallup). In case of transit the infrastructure exists for most of the way, but it is costly to provide transit options to connect with the infrastructure, the last mile in that case can be a rideshares, park-and-ride, ride hail, dockless scooters, etc.

In telecommunication the last mile is when a high capacity wire extends to a nearby (sub)urban center, but not to your house because you live 10 miles away from there (I know about the issue in the USA of having a wire across the street and have to pay ridiculous sums to connect it to your house; but that is a different issue). If you solve it by bypassing the wire altogether and opt for satellite instead, that is not really the last mile is it. A last mile would be to put up a 4G tower (or a few 5G towers).

An analogy in the transit space would be that because of the last mile issue, you opt instead to drive the whole way.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 19:00:46+00:00
> bring their own ill-fitting gear and jump out of U-hauls

ICE ran a 5AM motorcade through my mountain town, compete with helicopter escort. We’re in a red state, though, and border a red farm state, so I understand they were actually told to knock it off.

> "Wannabe paramilitary", final offer

The only part of a definition [1] that ICE might fail is in whether they’re professionally designated to act as a secret police. If by wannabe you’re saying ICE intends to be and act like a paramilitary, you’ve effectively conceded the point.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-07 19:01:03+00:00
Land is also spoiled and occupied for fossil fuel extraction, refinement, and distribution. And at least you can be within the near vicinity of solar panels without experiencing significant health issues, so we need to tabulate the very real public health costs too when comparing. I highly doubt there is a solar equivalent of “Cancer Alley” in the US. Another consideration is that we can slap solar panels on top of existing structures, which you cannot do with fossil fuel at any stage.

I don’t doubt that the costs are considerable but if we’re going to go down that path we need to make sure it’s applied across the board here and I imagine the gap is not as bad as you’re implying. I’m going off my gut though so I could be entirely wrong.
by wallaBBB | 2025-10-07 19:01:26+00:00
Qualcomm has bought plenty of companies that serviced small customers, and what happed is exactly what the person you’re replying to described. You can’t even get a quote many times.

What I expect short term is what happened to Eagle in the PCB space when Autodesk bought it (best thing that happened to kicad).

Longterm Arduino goes into the periphery of the maker market, similarly to beaglebone.
by labrador | 2025-10-07 19:01:40+00:00
That's a problem for people like me who came up on the Mac and switched to Windows. I like a mouse. I'm good at using a mouse. It feels like keyboard people are saying "we're going to take away your familiar mouse options because you'll learn to love the keyboard like us." I know how to use a keyboard obviously. However I'd rather not memorize key combinations to get my work done. There's a kind of arrogance in the Linux desktop community that in my opinion mirrors the arrogance of Microsoft who says "we're going to shove CoPilot on you whether you like it or not."
by bmedwar | 2025-10-07 19:01:47+00:00
A Substack post that includes four preview chapters from the first full English translation of Zhang Henshui’s The Story of a Noble Family, now out as an ebook on Kobo. The entire project was built and run locally on a Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 192 GB RAM) using Python scripts with Ollama-served Llama 3 70B to segment and translate the original 1920s Chinese text. The pipeline consists of regex chapter parsing, style-aware prompting, and offline batch translation.
by Athari | 2025-10-07 19:01:52+00:00
It's in the article. Microsoft has apparently added customization of the account name and is working on doing that in a more user-friendly way.

As soon as they do that, I frankly don't care whether my account is online or not. I'm using Windows Store, Edge and PIN login; I don't remove auto-updates. Sure, there's some crap to remove, but it's a matter of right-clicking on a few icons and choosing "Uninstall". And no, I don't mind clicking "no" about 5 extra times when Windows asks whether I want some garbage on my PC.

I'll spend more time tinkering with Windhawk and PowerToys than dealing with MS being greedy.

I've been using Windows since Win98. I know what for worse or better. I'm not switching now, because Windows is still the only viable option for what I need.
by ItsBob | 2025-10-07 19:01:57+00:00
Latency. It's everywhere. Open file Explorer and it lags. Change the volume and the slider lags with the example sound and just a general sluggishness compared to Windows 10.

Also updates have broken my printer 3 times (that I can remember). At least once my network connection failed due to updates.

With the resources they have, it's unforgivable.
by tehjoker | 2025-10-07 19:03:38+00:00
Looking forward to the day when solar dominates and we can transmit from the sunny side of the world to the dark side... I think there are already some plans for a pan-European grid, maybe even a European/Asian grid. The bigger the grid, the more resilient solar is.

It would also make the world more interdependent and thus hopefully more peaceful.

I remember reading about this in IEEE. If you google "hypergrid IEEE" you can find papers in IEEE explore, but there was also a perspective that was more readable that I read a few years ago...
by whytevuhuni | 2025-10-07 19:03:41+00:00
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

My intuition was wrong, my naive understanding was that:

* Non-human intermediate targets would either be namespaced and available only in that namespace, or could be marked as hidden, and not clutter auto-completion

* IDE integrations would benefit, since they only have to deal with Bazel and not Bazel + cargo/go/Makefile/CMake/etc

* I thought C/C++ rules would generate .o files, and only the final cc_shared_library would produce an .so file

* Similar for .jar files

I guess my ideal build system has yet to be built. :(
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-07 19:03:47+00:00
Because the land cost and amount needed is immaterial. Solar and wind actually contribute to the tax base where it is colocated, tax revenue that would otherwise not be provided (depending on jurisdiction). People overvalue land for some reason, most of the world is not Manhattan or Hong Kong. The US farms 60 million acres for corn and soybean for biofuels alone, for example, and of course that land is much more efficiently used if solar PV is installed for energy.

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-land-power-us...

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/10/solar-panels-half-th...

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-first-...
by dakiol | 2025-10-07 19:03:49+00:00
> Tooling isn't the problem: The complexity is inherent to modern web development

> Embrace the tools: Each tool on the list (Vite, Tailwind, etc.) exists for a reason, and they're all necessary for a modern web application. Saying there are "too many" is an amateur take on the reality of the ecosystem.

Depends. One can still write production-grade web applications with way less dependencies. You can write a Golang web server with minimal dependencies, keep writing CSS "like a peasant" and perhaps use jQuery in the client-side for some interaction. What's wrong with that? If you hire a strong team of engineers, they will be pleased with such a setup. Perhaps add Makefiles to glue some commands together, and you have a robust setup for years to come.

But some engineers feel that counterproductive. They don't want to learn new things, and stick to what they know (usually JS/TS); they think that a technology like CSS is "too old" and so they need things like Tailwind. Makefiles are not sexy enough, so you add some third-party alternatives.
by ericmcer | 2025-10-07 19:03:54+00:00
It is definitely changing it. We were already experiencing the move from a "celebrity" being an individual with huge talent to just a marketing tool that gets giant financial rewards for merely existing. These larger than life pop culture icons that 100s of millions or billions of people care about is a recent phenomenon and I welcome generative AI killing it off.

If media had one-shot generated actors we could just appreciate whatever we consumed and then forget about everyone involved. Who cares what that generated character likes to eat for breakfast or who they are dating they don't exist.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 19:03:58+00:00
Edit: your comment has changed a bit, so let me address the new sentence here:

> I don't understand. Why is it that in every single discussion about power- and in particular, solar power- is the cost of land omitted ?

You are incorrect that land costs are omitted; in fact I don't recall any sort of cost comparison that has ever omitted land costs, whether it's from Lazard or NREL or anywhere else. It's part of the CapEx, or as rent, or however it's modeled. NREL in particular looks at overall costs on completed and built systems. Further, the developers building these things know the land costs very well.

Can you point to a discussion or paper where land cost was not included? If it's still an open discussion I'd love to add the high quality solar-is-cheapest studies that all include land costs.

And as for this particular study:

First, doesn't omit the cost of land. Secondly land is only the most important resource in very very few markets. Razing skyscrapers in Manhattan would be a bad idea. Instead of farming crops or the sun in Manhattan, it's done elsewhere and shipped in.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-07 19:05:13+00:00
I wasn't out of words even though I said that.

I was so overwhelmed on where to start and where to end.

I didn't want to write a 100 line paragraph or a whole book in HN comments as I know that I suffer from an undiagnosed case of as what the internet slang calls "yapping" (I love to yap lol)

But still loved your comment and i am sure that there are so many things more but I love its concise-ness as I would've written 100 words for each of these and still can but I just didn't want to waste my energy and would've felt "ragebaited"

I've chalked the author as quite frankly not doing a debate in good faith and I can't help but think about the message that graham platner recently shared as that was another concise thing that I just want to share.

TLDR: Everyone is more similar than different. But we infight and sometimes self sabotage in the process as well if I might add.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Y99E2veyA

(Optional personal opinion but I love this guy and his philosophy a lot, US please don't mess up this time again and I know some of you might be feeling hopeless from both parties but please look more into this guy

He wants to make elections have less lobbying to finally make them fair once and for all, as it should be, and I genuinely want someone like him for my country as well)
by dgfl | 2025-10-07 19:05:37+00:00
This is pretty much what we do to apply small bias currents to our superconducting circuits. The signals are small (<1 uA), and the power is dissipated outside of the cryostat, so this method is very simple and effective. The voltage and resistors don’t even need to be that huge, ~10 MOhm or below, and correspondingly, <10 V.
Ask HN: How do you use AI in industrial environments?
by diavolodeejay | 2025-10-07 19:05:50+00:00
I was wondering if there are already usages for AI for the workers in the metalwork/chemistry/etc industry. For example, we as IT office we do use the usual mix of ChatGPT/Gemini for debugging questions, error codes, translations etc, but I was wondering if any of you found some applications that could benefit the factory workers.
by whalesalad | 2025-10-07 19:05:50+00:00
> Arc Core is designed with MinIO as the primary storage backend

Noticing that all the benchmarking is being done with MinIO which I presume is also running alongside/locally so there is no latency and it will be roughly as fast as whatever underlying disk its operating from.

Are there any benchmarks for using actual S3 as the storage layer?

How does Arc decide what to keep hot and local? TTL based? Frequency of access based?

We're going to be evaluating Clickhouse with this sort of hot (local), cold (S3) configuration soon (https://clickhouse.com/docs/guides/separation-storage-comput...) but would like to evaluate other platforms if they are relevant.
by hinkley | 2025-10-07 19:05:59+00:00
There’s a weird thing the contestants in the solar car challenge that Australia has been hosting since forever where they generate more power on haze or partly cloudy days than on sunny. I don’t know if they ever sorted out why. Speculation was reflected light off the clouds, but I suspect panel temperature also played a role. And road temperature affects panel temps.

What the UK cannot do is concentrating solar. The efficiency absolutely crashes in diffuse light.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-07 19:06:13+00:00
> The most these lawsuits could hope to do is generate publicity, which would likely just encourage more people to send her videos.

It's not fruitless and doesn't only generate publicity. Some states like California and Indiana recognize and protect the commercial value of a person's name, voice, image, and likeness after death for 70 years, which in this case would apply for Robin William's daughter.

Tupac's estate successfully sued Drake to take his AI generated voice of Tupac out of his Kendrick Lamar diss track.

There is going to be a deluge of copyright suits against OpenAI for their videos of branded and animated characters. Disney just sent a cease and desist to Character.ai last week for using copyrighted characters without authorization.
by tehjoker | 2025-10-07 19:06:26+00:00
I believe Starlink was used to guide Ukranian drones. I think this has nothing to do with poor people in rural areas and everything to do with ensuring deployed military devices work. Modulo of course the egotistical whims of an insane American billionaire hailing from aparteid south african descent.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-10-07 19:06:32+00:00
In good faith, rooftops are not the solar that is generally talked about, when we discuss solar as the cheapest form of energy.

The solar discussed is massive investments into solar farm production.

To your point, sure you can do "remote" - you still have to get a lot of power transmission lines to remote locations, and yes you still have to buy the land. Its not a 0 cost investment. But that's what the accounting looks like when discussing this topic.

Its sloppy
by estebarb | 2025-10-07 19:06:40+00:00
Not really. From what I understood of the interview is that her complain is not about money or compensation (which she may be entitled to), but about how people use the technology and how they interact with it and with her. Legal process or even the companies implementing policies won't change that problematic society behavior.

Since the raise of generative AI we have seen all sorts of pathetic usages, like "reviving" assesinated people and making them speak to the alleged killer in court, training LLMs to mimic deseased loved ones, generative nudification, people that is not using their brain anymore because they need to ask ChatGPT/Grok... some of them are crimes, others not. Regardless most of them should stop.
by mbirth | 2025-10-07 19:06:42+00:00
I had the iPhone 3G back in 2008 and only had Android phones after that. Until 2020. But when trying to log into my old Apple account, it was asking for answers to security questions I’ve never setup because they weren’t a thing in 2008. After calling Apple support, my problem went up the ladder until someone called me and told me the way to do it. Try that with Google.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-10-07 19:06:47+00:00
Glaciers provide a lot of fresh water, sustained over warm months, free of charge, to the places we can live in. We need them to support life in hotter, drier, or more temperate areas. Here in BC, Canada they provide cool, oxygenated water for countless species including several pacific salmon and other fish species, which constitutes (or constituted, now; I'm no longer sure of the status) one of the largest nutrient transfers on the planet.

Glaciers are a crucial component of many ecosystems and ways of life. We can't live on them, but they make it so we can live where we do live now.
by schiffern | 2025-10-07 19:06:51+00:00
>I suppose I own an emergency solar powered radio but if a hurricane happened. does that reallyt change anything?

The article gives several examples of doing just that.

"Essential" can mean essential like oxygen, or essential like having some candles for when the power goes out. I consider a good AM/FM/NOAA radio[0] "essential" in the second sense, but obviously it's no good if there's no stations.

[0] Eg under $50 on eBay, but check that the printed label on it says "Weather": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiW0p9TTbXg
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-07 19:07:04+00:00
Oh you're not wrong at all, but the police state can conceivably be much weaker, as I have seen it to be in various other countries, where the police mostly only affect people who're actually a harm to those in power, not bothering with enforcing stupid laws like anti-abortion laws. If I am not mistaken, the rich people with power don't really have that much to gain with anti-abortion laws, at least not in the short term. So yes, the police are not going away, nor should they, but even in the pessimistic case, they merit alignment with what actually preserves the rich and powerful. The US is a special case where anti-abortion laws are used as a means to get and maintain some votes, but I foresee it as slowly coming closer to the global median.
by photonthug | 2025-10-07 19:07:04+00:00
Meh. For a long time people have been saying stuff like "devops is dead, long live the platform engineer" exactly because the figuring-out-what-works phase of wild experimentation is over and there are unambiguous "winners" for technology in most every niche. You've listed lots of commercial vendors and alternate choices for backends/front-ends here as if to illustrate a lack of standardization in tools/frameworks, but is it really?

Whereas churn in web-dev seems self-inflected.. devops practitioners don't actually create vendor/platform fragmentation, they just deal with it after someone else wants the new trendy thing. Devops is remarkably standardized anyway even in the face of that, as evidenced by the fact that there's going to be a terraform'y way to work with almost all of the vendors/platforms you mentioned. And mentioning 20 ways to use kubernetes glosses over the fact that.. it's all just kubernetes! Another amazing example of standardization and a clear "winner" for tech stack in niche.
by vincentvanbush | 2025-10-07 19:07:37+00:00
In ElixirConf EU 2025, I spoke about the Permit library (https://permit.curiosum.com) as a comprehensive authorization and access control solution in projects relying on Ecto, Phoenix, LiveView, and even Absinthe - or none of these at all.

Now I’ve written my talk up into a blog post, for those who prefer consuming textual content. Enjoy the read.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-07 19:08:40+00:00
> I would not be surprised if the mass-sniffing comes in a few months when nobody is looking.

That's the problem with these proposed laws.

We (privacy advocates) have to constantly fight and win over and over again. The nations that want this mass spying only have to win once.

We need a way to permanently stop these proposals once defeated the first time so that they cannot just continue to try over and over again until it passes.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-07 19:09:08+00:00
If I could give you a single weapon, a magic spell, to make all problems intractable it is the word "rights".

https://www.amazon.com/Rights-Talk-Impoverishment-Political-...

I can tell you if we have involuntary degrowth and a population collapse [1] the next social organization will have a bill of responsibilities and not a bill of rights.

[1] there are four hundred horsemen of this apocalypse, if you want to focus on resource depletion, pollution and conflict be my guess, but the fact that people in the core are giving up on wanting to reproduce is deeply problematic
by phoehne | 2025-10-07 19:09:09+00:00
The one thing I don't miss about Rails is constantly feeling like I'm doing it wrong. I had a 'discussion' at RailsConf when I was told I should stop using C Ruby and switch to JRuby because it's so much better. And that's the right way to do it.

But I couldn't get JRuby to package reliably. I'd fix the issues, it would work for a while, and then something would change.

Oh... because I wasn't doing it right. I have to rework a bunch of dependencies. And after a while, it breaks again. Why? Oh... I wasn't doing it right, I should be using this middleware instead...

So I said I'm done mucking around with JRuby. When I said this, I was told at RailsConf that was doing it wrong, and by implication, irresponsible with my clients' applications. That was I setting everything up for failure. Yet the applications that were working just fine on C Ruby. (I don't really hear much about JRuby any more - but I haven't been part of that world since George "strategery" Bush was president.)

And this was the shtick for conference speakers and YouTubers. You're doing it wrong. Do it this way to do it right. You're using Controllers wrong. They should be fat. They should be thin. They should be big boned. You should never use models. You should only use models. You should sit on two chairs and pair program with yourself when you develop. Only drink water when writing tests.... etc. etc. etc.

This left a bad taste in my mouth in what otherwise was a great community. I felt like a lot of the community wanted to do build great applications, quickly, cost-effectively, and with high quality. But that same impetus could be manipulated by folks in a way that's unhelpful. THAT part of Ruby I don't miss. RailsConf in Portland, eating VooDoo doughnuts, talking shop with other folks? That I miss.
by tbrockman | 2025-10-07 19:09:16+00:00
Yeah, there's a pretty overwhelming amount of browser APIs and functionality which isn't always (well-)documented to learn about. If I recall correctly Proxies wouldn't be detectable (seems to be supported by https://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_proxies.html#sec_detect-proxi...) so long as your injected content script runs first (otherwise other code could presumably override the Proxy constructor). You should also be able to hook any embedded frames by setting `target: { ..., allFrames: true }`.