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by constantius | 2025-11-28 11:27:06+00:00
So what I meant is: this article is sophistry grounded in US team-style politics, so the bias (or, uncharitably, manipulation attempt) has to be made explicit.

I do frequently see articles/posts criticising the dreadful illusion of US democracy. They come from thinkers and activists who identify as being left (not liberal), mainly, but also anarchist, libertarian, independent, or simply anti-genocide.

Here, I see an article that panders to one side, behind a veneer of sophistication and democratic ideals, and gestures at the ideology that is corrupt to 95% without mentioning once the one corrupt to 90%.

> populism but that term has as many meanings as people talking about it

Agree completely, but think the author reduces it to "bad thing for the unwashed" by not defining it.
by trailbase | 2025-11-28 11:27:42+00:00
Can easily go either way.

If you're comparing in-process SQLite to talking to SQLite over HTTP you'll probably get a small penalty for any language. When co-located on the same machine, you can probably expect something like ~5ms for JS (just for the event-loop to do the IO and getting back to you).

However, if you have multiple processes reading and writing from the same DB it may actually aid latency due to congestion.

I ran some benchmarks (TrailBase author here and big fan of PocketBase): https://trailbase.io/reference/benchmarks#insertion-benchmar..., where you can see, e.g. the single-process drizzle (i.e. JS with in-process SQLite) performance vs over-HTTP for TrailBase. PocketBase should be similar when not fully loaded. There's also some concrete latency percentile numbers when at full-tilt: https://trailbase.io/reference/benchmarks#read-and-write-lat.... On my machine you can expect p50 to be around 15-20ms.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-28 11:27:58+00:00
> Diesel usage is in decline in China.

I'd assume diesel usage is in decline throughout the developed world, tbh. Diesel vans and buses are gradually getting replaced with BEVs (and sometimes hybrids), diesel trains are being electrified (sometimes with batteries, now!), and while heavy BEV trucks are in their infancy outside China, they're beginning to show up in significant numbers in Europe.

China's certainly leading the way here, but Europe's not doing nothing.
by dupedupedupe | 2025-11-28 11:28:11+00:00
Thank you ChrisArchitect. That story was mysteriously (downranked/downmodded/deranked/downweighted) from the front page.

Perhaps it met the criteria for a Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) or a MegaMOT, or the "flamewar detector" kicked in, or just that it wasn't convenient to discuss, but we'll never know since the precise moderation action applied to individual stories is opaque.

https://hnrankings.info/46062777/
by angelfangs | 2025-11-28 11:28:15+00:00
What's the actual factual accusation here? That monied interests converge on the ruling power? How is this different when the 'opposition' is in control? As conditions for the middle class continue to deteriorate, isn't it normal that companies that depend on middle class purchasing power try to adjust government buttons and levers to assure their continuation and position in the market? The 'holier than thou' is showing.
by dghf | 2025-11-28 11:28:23+00:00
> ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes of each country, and are intended for use by those countries, while gTLDs are arbitrary and reflect the fact that DNS was designed in the US. The ".gov" gTLD, for example, is for use by the US government, while the UK is stuck with ".gov.uk".

Fun fact, the UK's ISO country code is not actually "uk", but "gb". IIRC, ".uk" was grandfathered in (from JANET?) as an exception: ".gb" officially existed for a while in parallel, but no one ever used it and I think it's now defunct.
by jorvi | 2025-11-28 11:28:58+00:00
Well, in your article it already clearly states performance tanks as soon as you go on battery. By 20-40%..

On another very reputable Dutch site, you can see the Snapdragon consistently lead the Lunar Lake laptop, and that's with Lunar Lake set to maximum performance[0]

There is also a general logic to it: Apple M-series still handily beat anything Intel has, and Qualcomm's Snapdragons beat the M-series they follow up.

Maybe Intel can truly push x86 to unseen heights, who knows? There's nothing technically stopping them but so far it hasn't beared out. Similar with Nvidia, their RTX 3090 power limited at 340W got beat by an M1 maxed out at 120W. Why isn't the RTX 4090 or 5090 half the TDP?

[0]https://tweakers.net/reviews/12482/lichte-krachtpatser-met-l...
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-28 11:30:28+00:00
This achieves every goal the original proposal achieved, except the wording is sneakier.

Services are obligated to do risk analysis and take appropriate safety precautions against high risk actions. High risk actions include "anonymous accounts", "uploading media", and of course "encrypted messages".

The moment they catch the next random pedo, every messenger app on their phone will be tasked with explaining why they didn't do enough to stop the pedo. They'd better get their business together next time, because otherwise they might be held liable!

There's no law that says you have to hand over arbitrary data to the police without a warrant but when Telegrams shady owner landed in france, he was locked up until his company pledged to "work together with police better".

Don't be fooled by pretty words, none of this optional stuff is optional for any messenger the government doesn't already have the ability to read along with.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-28 11:30:50+00:00
> The sparky has an EV van.

This one I'm always a bit dubious of, because, well, they're likely to have a lot of emergency callouts after a blackout. How are they charging their van?

ESB Networks, the Irish state grid operator, increasingly uses electric vans. I suppose maybe they have a backup generator wherever they keep them? On the face of it, it seems like they'd be the _last_ thing you'd want to electrify.
by permo-w | 2025-11-28 11:31:15+00:00
I wonder how aware they are of the damage to the EU's reputation that they're continually creating by repeatedly bringing this back

I think this theme of the EU, this lack of taboo against continually bringing unwanted laws until they pass by fatigue, it may well be the death of the institution as a whole. every time they try, every time people hear about it, more and more think worse of the EU, and unlike most western governments, the existence and function of the EU is actually severely vulnerable to what people think of it. no other major government takes as much reputational damage from laws that don't even pass, and the existence of no other major government is as vulnerable to reputational damage as the EU is right now. all it takes is another 1 or 2 major exits and the whole thing will slowly collapse, which is insanely sad
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-11-28 11:31:34+00:00
Seeing this as an opportunity: this further solidifies the need for opensource and decentralisation.

Chat apps should be opensource, E2E encrypted, and decentralised. In 2025 we still don't have that in any meaningly manner - Signal perhaps comes the closest, but it's centralised and controlled by a US organisation. The moats are deep within the chat app space, and getting the "network effect" is going to be really tough.
by sensanaty | 2025-11-28 11:32:05+00:00
I think this is mostly historical baggage unfortunately. Every codebase I've ever worked in there was a huge push to only use native ES6 functionality, like Sets, Maps, all the Iterable methods etc., but there was still a large chunk of files that were written before these were standardized and widely used, so you get mixes of Lodash and a bunch of other cursed shit.

Refactoring these also isn't always trivial either, so it's a long journey to fully get rid of something like Lodash from an old project
by simonw | 2025-11-28 11:32:16+00:00
The Beads project uses Beads itself as an issue tracker, which means their issues data is available here as JSONL:

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/.beads/issues....

Here's that file opened in Datasette Lite which makes it easier to read and adds filters for things like issue type and status:

https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://github.com/steveyegg...
by Jeevantech | 2025-11-28 11:32:48+00:00
Project delays are a constant struggle in the construction world. With shifting schedules, miscommunication between teams, unexpected cost overruns, and endless manual paperwork, even the most well-planned projects can easily fall off track. But in 2025, the construction industry is evolving faster than ever—and one digital solution is reshaping the way companies work: Construction ERP Software.

Modern construction demands speed, accuracy, and complete coordination. Unfortunately, traditional methods like spreadsheets, phone calls, and disconnected tools simply can’t keep up. Teams often work in silos, site updates get delayed, and important decisions rely on outdated information. This is exactly where a powerful ERP system steps in, bringing every moving part of your project into one intelligent, centralized platform.

A Construction ERP works as the digital backbone of your business. It unifies project planning, procurement, finance, labour tracking, equipment monitoring, documentation, billing, and compliance into one seamless system. With real-time visibility, automated workflows, and instant reporting, teams gain complete clarity—whether they’re at the site or in the office.

Imagine knowing the exact material requirements before shortages happen, tracking labour attendance automatically, or receiving alerts the moment a task falls behind schedule. ERP makes all of this possible. Site engineers can update progress through mobile apps, supervisors can upload photos instantly, and management can view dashboards that show live project status, cash flow, budget utilisation, and risk indicators—all in one place.

One of the biggest advantages is automation. Approval workflows, purchase orders, billing cycles, equipment requests, and document versions are all handled digitally, removing delays caused by manual processes. With integrated scheduling tools, Gantt charts, and smart forecasting, ERP not only helps teams plan better but also predicts issues before they occur.

For construction companies facing tight deadlines and rising competition, the benefits are significant: reduced rework, fewer material shortages, improved team communication, faster decision-making, and stronger financial control. Over time, this leads to major savings and more successful project outcomes.

In 2025, embracing a Construction ERP is no longer optional—it’s essential for staying ahead. Companies that adopt ERP are able to build smarter, finish faster, and deliver results with greater accuracy and confidence. Whether you’re managing a small project or multiple large-scale sites, ERP gives you the transparency, efficiency, and control needed to eliminate delays and elevate your entire workflow.

If your projects constantly hit roadblocks or your team struggles with outdated systems, now is the perfect time to upgrade. A well-implemented Construction ERP can transform your operations and set your business on a path to long-term success.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-28 11:33:45+00:00
As always, I realise that on this here orange website it is highly inappropriate to read the article, but the article is about mass adoption of BEV heavy trucks.

Cargo ships and passenger jets are another matter, of course, and we won't be seeing battery ships (except for regional ferries) or battery planes of any sort anytime soon, but he was wrong about trucks.
by Lio | 2025-11-28 11:34:41+00:00
We have a similar law in the UK but it does depend on what you mean by public place.

In somewhere like a public toilet block, at least here in the UK, you have an expectation of privacy. If some creep in Meta glasses is filming you take a piss then they are breaking the law.

If you were on a public beach sun bathing then you probably don't have that expectation of privacy.
by hutattedonmyarm | 2025-11-28 11:34:55+00:00
> The losses are concentrated in tropical moist broadleaf forests in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and parts of West Africa, driven by deforestation and forest degradation

If I read this correctly: No, forests are not suddenly emitting carbon. People are just felling enough trees and treating them badly enough, that their forests are now dying faster than they are regrowing
by Macha | 2025-11-28 11:35:58+00:00
The UK government laundering unpopular regulations through the EU and then blaming the EU for them even when the UK had proposed and often championed then was definitely a factor in Brexit passing.

Somewhat relevantly, the UK already has their own version of this legislation in the Online Safety Act which lead to a bunch of small-medium UK community sites closing and the likes of Imgur, pixiv and 4chan blocking the UK.
by isotypic | 2025-11-28 11:36:43+00:00
> Why do you think that the 2024 Putnam programs that they used to test were in the training data?

Putnam solutions can be found multiple places online: https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/, https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3249_putnam. These could have appeared in the training of the base LLM DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp or as problems in the training set - they do not give further detail on what problems they selected from AOPS and as the second link gives they are there.
by trailbase | 2025-11-28 11:37:24+00:00
> I guess I just have to accept that the term has lost it's meaning at this point and can be used for whatever whoever wants to use it for

It's maybe more like you point out: realtime in the OS context vs realtime in an event processing context. The latter is certainly not defined as strictly and often just means push-based. It has been a popular moniker, e.g. in kafka-land, for a while. I'm not sure it intrinsically takes away from the OS context - it doesn't need to be a deep dish pizza situation.
by boutell | 2025-11-28 11:37:28+00:00
Google owns 14% of Anthropic and Anthropic is using Google TPUs, as well as AWS Trainium and of course GPUs. It isn't necessary for one company to create both the winning hardware and the winning software to be part of the solution. In fact with the close race in software hardware seems like the better bet.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-c...
by pradeepodela | 2025-11-28 11:38:00+00:00
Have you guys tried Stitch with Google? It’s amazing. I’m really curious to know how it works in the backend. Does anyone have any idea? I noticed that the designs are quite good even though it uses Gemini. When I tried the same thing by cloning blot.new locally and testing it, there was a huge difference. I know it’s a coding model, but still how is Google Stitch able to achieve this? Are they generating text or images behind the scenes? How are they so accurate and good?
by fodkodrasz | 2025-11-28 11:38:02+00:00
Hi. Now you know one person.

Also: Google One gives you 2 TB, MS 365 Family gives 6x1TB for roughly the same price (for a total of 6 seats). The packages differ in multiple ways, being different fit for different use cases.

Also note: I'm using Google docs at work, and while Word for one example has too many features, Google docs is lacking even on the basics like document styling (think custom paragraph styles), it is painfully inadequate for business use, lot of work is wasted on working its limitations around.
by sebstefan | 2025-11-28 11:38:36+00:00
>much in line with my reasoning, 0x11EC is the default key exchange algorithm used by Chrome, Firefox, and pretty much all other TLS clients that currently support PQC. So what’s the point of MLKEM1024? Well it turns out there is one customer who really really hates hybrids, and only wants to use ML-KEM1024 for all their systems. *And that customer happens to be the NSA.* And honestly, I do not see a problem with that.

...Really, you don't? I can hardly imagine anything more suspicious

>the US plans to use ML-KEM themselves, [a “Nobody but us backdoor”] would be the only backdoor they could reasonably insert into a standard.

Is that really convincing

And secondly, would we really know in advance? They can say that and then just use X25519MLKEM768 exclusively for stuff that matters.

I'm convinced they would love a broken algorithm in the IETF standard.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-28 11:38:37+00:00
> "This creates a dangerous scenario. If GitHub mass-deletes the malware's repositories or npm bulk-revokes compromised tokens, thousands of infected systems could simultaneously destroy user data."

Pop quiz, hot shot! A terrorist is holding user data hostage, got enough malware strapped to his chest to blow a data center in half. Now what do you do?

Shoot the hostage.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-28 11:38:48+00:00
Don't forget the lobbying. Behind every authoritarian move are a group of companies lobbying for these changes. When you work for law and order, there are only so many customers you can sign, so signing new services is the most reliable way to accomplish growth.

Whoever wins the bid for the (visually hashed) child porn database Whatsapp uses is bound to receive billions of API calls the month the contract goes live. They won't make whatsapp pay for that directly, of course, but I'm sure they'll be "covering operating costs" with government grants to "protect" the public. They get to be rich claiming everyone is a paedophile yet to be caught while pronouncing themselves the foremost fighters against child abuse.
by tpm | 2025-11-28 11:39:24+00:00
> When tradespeople are voting with their feet and buying EVs

And I'm glad they are using EVs, but also wondering if it's not mainly the tax writedown rules (in our country EVs are written down as investment to lower your taxes in 2 years vs. the standard 4 I think, and this can dramatically lower your tax base). But perhaps I'm overly cynical.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-11-28 11:41:05+00:00
I compare iPhones with Samsung flagships such as the S line.

Tge iPhones are simply better made: they don’t feel light or plasticky, the UI on Android is way worse compared to iOS and so on.

And the whole SMS thing is just ridiculous: iMessage and SMS are two differrent things, hence they are highlighted with different colors so you know you can’t send pictures via SMS and most likely you have to switch to other apps such as Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Telegram and others. It does not mean you have to buy an iPhone to talk to your friends that prefer Apple products.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-28 11:41:48+00:00
They've been beating the bird flu drum for years, and why? Suppose bird flu is a real threat, what is the public meant to do about it? Stop eating birds? There is no pragmatic course of action anybody but highly specialized scientists can take to counter this alleged threat, and yet they keep beating the war drum, trying to make everybody afraid. Fear is the point.
by Yoric | 2025-11-28 11:42:07+00:00
I don't think it's that easy.

A friend of mine was sexually abused by a family member. To this day, the family refuses to believe it. I've heard of other stories among people I know. None of the abusers were flagged out as creeps until the story came out.

Almost all the only cases I've heard of easy-to-spot creeps doing the abuse are among the rich & powerful, and it's possible they might be considered easy-to-scope solely because it was already known that they were abusers.

The one case of abuse by easy-to-spot creep I've heard of among my circle was that that of a rape in a high school, by a 15yo who had been flagged as dangerous in his previous high school, and nobody acted upon it in the new high school because the file had apparently been lost in transfer (possibly at the behest of the parents).

So, my anecdata suggests that profiling is hard.
by skydhash | 2025-11-28 11:43:54+00:00
> which is especially an issue when such a style is applied to comments so you can't see all the code in a single screen due to multiple lines of comments in that long formal grammatically correct style

It’s easier to hide comments than do code wrapping correctly. And comments are usually in a lighter color than code and easy to skip over.

> Break accessibility of logic, instead of linearly reading what's going on you have to jump around (though popups could help a bit)

Extracting function is for abstraction, instead of deciphering some block and tracking its entanglement, you have a nice name and a signature that document its input and output. And maybe a nice docstring that summarizes its purpose.

It does require taste and design skill.
by aiahs | 2025-11-28 11:45:00+00:00
Well if you wanna contribute (at least as a proxy) to OSS, you need to deal with people and make them want to deal with you. If you don't do that, no PR, regardless of how perfect it is, will ever be accepted. If you're so sure that your strategy for the future of development is correct, then prove it by building your own project, where you can fully decide which contributions are accepted, even those which are 100% ai generated. This should be easy, right? Once your project gains wide spread adoption, you can show everybody that you've been right all along. Until then, it's just empty talk.
by trailbase | 2025-11-28 11:45:15+00:00
Self-hosted Supabase is pretty good. I don't think anyone argues with that. It didn't used to be as smooth and it's certainly hungrier with many more moving parts.

Could you elaborate a bit more on your scaling concerns? You can certainly have lock-congestion with SQLite. That, said Postgres - while awesome - isn't the most horizontally scalable beast.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-28 11:45:39+00:00
This is of course a process, that does not lend itself to be democratic, because it is way longer than most people's attention span. People don't manage to remember things that happened in politics 4 years ago in their own country. Now they are required to follow up on dozens of shitty proposals, all probably illegal in their own country, and those don't even happen in their own country? That divides the number of people, who even start looking into this stuff by a factor of 1000 or so.
by georgehopkin | 2025-11-28 11:46:42+00:00
Aggressive dogs are becoming significantly less hostile after taking cannabis-derived supplements, according to the largest-ever study of CBD use in companion animals.

Researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee analysed data from 47,355 dogs and found that while animals prescribed these supplements often start as the most hostile, their temperament shifts distinctively after prolonged use.

The study, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science, used data from the Dog Ageing Project to track pets between 2019 and 2023, revealing that 7.3 per cent of US companion dogs are now being given CBD or hemp products.

“Behaviorally, dogs given CBD products for multiple years are initially more aggressive compared to dogs not receiving those products, but their aggression becomes less intense over time,” said senior author Dr Maxwell Leung, director of the Cannabis Analytics, Safety and Health Initiative at Arizona State University.

The research identified clear demographic trends among the canine users. Dogs receiving CBD were on average three years older than non-users and were significantly more likely to suffer from serious health conditions.
by asah | 2025-11-28 11:49:15+00:00
True serializability doesn't model the real world. IRL humans observe something then make decisions and take action, without holding "locks" on the thing they observed. Everything from the stock market to the sitcom industry depend on this behavior.

Other models exist and are more popular than serializability, e.g. for practicality, PostgreSQL uses MVCC and read consistency, not serializability.
by _sr6i | 2025-11-28 11:49:22+00:00
No, they're correct. I was downvoted for a reply to a comment further down. I appreciate it. I visit the site mostly for the comments as well.

Some of the things the post mentions are possible to do and good and some are not. There's much to be grateful for yet there are still many problems to solve if we could focus as a society...