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by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-24 10:23:13+00:00
The issue is, what happens if you have a work where e.g. the music and the script were written by different people? If one of them can terminate the license then you create a situation where nobody can distribute it because nobody has the rights to all of it anymore.

Of course, what they should do is have the copyright expire after 35 years. Then if the original creators want to make sequel at that point they're entitled to -- just like everybody else.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-24 10:23:25+00:00
That is an interesting and important video, and I think it helps make the point that "commercial" CAD is often viewed through rather rose-tinted spectacles because FreeCAD's GUI has been unfriendly and obstinate. Beginner friendliness simply hasn't been on their radar until this point, because it would have been pointless to focus on it until TNP was mitigated to the level it now is.

I don't think FreeCAD is perfect, but I do think it's remarkable we have it at all.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-24 10:23:32+00:00
If you're looking for return on investment, then cycle infrastructure is the way forwards. Each mile travelled by bike actually benefits society (less illness etc) whereas each mile travelled by car costs society.

> For every £1 invested, walking and cycling return an average of around £5-6

> A study of New York concluded that, in terms of health: “Investments in bike lanes are more cost-effective than the majority of preventive approaches used today.”

From https://www.cyclinguk.org/briefing/case-cycling-economy
by tromp | 2025-11-24 10:24:06+00:00
You can enter (λn.n(λc.λa.λb.cb(λf.λx.f(afx)))Fn0)7 to compute the function Col' from [1] to 7, resulting in (3*7+1)/2 = 11. Unfortunately, this visualization is much less insightful than showing the 7 successive succ&swap operations:

7 0 0 8 8 1 1 9 9 2 2 10 10 3 3 11

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022965
by boringg | 2025-11-24 10:24:27+00:00
What kind of line is "once china solves the taiwan problem"? You assume that they will take Taiwan. Have you not been privy to the utter embarrassment of a continental power trying to take Ukraine right now? China is very aware of the isolated situation Russia is now in. They have desire to be in that situation.

Noone is letting China "solve the taiwan problem" like you said.

Such inflammatory language.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-24 10:25:15+00:00
> ren require by default more transmission due to distributed deployment

Which has been calcualted by GenCost to add up to ~€10B for Australia. That is less than the subsidies a single reactor needs.

> France is open to subsidize epr2 project. The challenge is, edf must first show a bill by EOY and, EC must approve state funding, unlike ren subsidies. Epr2 is expected to cost about 60-80bn, half being offered by the state as 'nice loans'. 40bn is about what Germany pours into EEG alone in merely 2y.

This is very typical of nuclear bros. You can never look forward. The EEG is a backwards looking metric, a ton of extremely expensive solar was added 10-15 years ago which still get paid.

You can look at the historical cost of the EEG system to see it decreasing.

- 2019: €27B

- 2020: €30B

- 2021: €17B

Those payments support 153 GW of infrastructure. Again you do realize as soon as we compare with new built nuclear power, adjusting for capacity factors, it just becomes lunatic to suggest nuclear power?

The question is where we spend our money today. The subsidy needed for renewable deployment in 2025 is 0. As can be seen by the 16 GW built without subsidies.

> The installed capacity of renewable installations not eligible for payments under the EEG was 16.2 GW

That's just equivalent to a few nuclear reactors. Nothing big!

> Germany can reuse own konvoi designs or try to make a deal with khnp and Westinghouse

Or they can just let the French folly continue and see the state finances crash when loaning becomes even more expensive.

> French debt and electricity/edf are not connected. Most of the debt is from pension system because well, work hours, pension age and vacation days vs neighbors.

It becomes connected when the state subsidizes nuclear power to enormous amounts which could have gone to balance the budget.

> Edf debt is peanuts in comparison. In fact it's debt to ebitda ratio is in normal range.

I love this sleight of hand. Debt to ebitda is fine, when considering that Hinkley Point C gets a completely insane 17 cents/kWh. And that the state will subsidize the EPR2 program.

EDF is fine if the state takes all the costs. So funny.
by xethos | 2025-11-24 10:25:26+00:00
> Part of the surge of mass incarceration was that people who would have been hospitalized in an earlier time now get warehoused in a place that isn’t equipped to treat them.

Puts a different spin on the System of a Down lyrics, "The percentage of Americans in the prison system (prison system) has doubled since 1985" (Prison Song, Toxicity, 2001).

This further reinforces the other complaints (in the song) about drug offences landing people in jail, some of them from self-medicating a mental illness they can't or won't get treatment for
by lukan | 2025-11-24 10:26:03+00:00
Personally I would not have seen a swastika here, but when looking for it, here it would be more obvious, the python logo has only half of it.

Still, questionable if it was intentional .. and if it was, does not necesarrily mean they are Nazis (they did not invent, but just used the old symbol).

Also this project was funded in part by the german Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and they are not known to fund open Nazis in general.
by indigo945 | 2025-11-24 10:26:26+00:00
Tibet, too, was only part of the tributary system. Even during the Qing dynasty, the Chinese imperial state had no effective control over central Tibet - all local rulers and judges were Tibetan, and they employed Tibetan, not Chinese, law. Outside of diplomatic circles, Tibetans at the time weren't paying any attention to Chinese culture and politics.

Claims to the contrary are largely historical revisionism. (As are the various claims that Tibet was culturally influenced by China - the story of Princess Wencheng bringing agricultural technologies to uncultured Tibet, as it is often taught in Chinese schools and portrayed in period dramas, is a myth that only came to popularity during the Chinese Civil War.)

Remember also that until 1951, Tibet occupied Chinese territories more often than vice versa - although given the case of Manchuria, China might actually see this as an argument in favor of Tibet being Chinese.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-24 10:26:36+00:00
How can Congress make it any easier to access an audience? The Internet made it so there is zero friction between a media consumer and a media creator.

Having to compete with a billion other content creators (including hits from the past) is inherently hard. The most valuable service the big media sellers provide these days is curation.

Reducing copyright length would be the best thing to reduce the big companies’ power though. That way, they can’t sway buyers to their silos using content from the past, and therefore have to invest in the future.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-24 10:26:43+00:00
Even more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire.

At 1m diameter and 75cm deep, so ~0.59m^3, I calculate that to fill the Albert Hall, which a search suggests "has been estimated at" ~100,000m^3 (feels low to me, but it's quoted in many places), it takes around 170,000 of these Peruvian holes.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-24 10:26:59+00:00
As a Czech who absolutely hates the Protectorate era, I can still see a good case to use somewhat neutral expressions like "politically unstable" if you want to discuss technical topics like supply chains without delving into the underlying politics.

Declaring "I am a friend of democracies threatened by totalitarian countries" before every economic utterance looks as performative and ultimately counterproductive to me as all the "land acknowledgments" that infected the US academia. (Not coincidentally, those don't help actual Amerindians at all.)

Yeah, Central Europe in the 1930s was politically unstable, no way around it. And it wasn't just question of Czechoslovakia vs. Germany either. Most countries had irredentist movements and/or land demands on their neighbours.
by jmaker | 2025-11-24 10:27:28+00:00
Yeah, the blog post is a very confused write-up. I saw lots of similar posts on LinkedIn recently, with quite a lot of likes and echo chamber comments. It’s just hilarious how a narrative emerges that reinforces biases due to ignorance. There must be a name for that sort of fallacy.

I love to write in Rust precisely because I can express failures more explicitly, it’s the transparency that wins here.

I’d frame the issue Cloudflare had rather in the PR review and QA corner, maybe as some AI complacency. But it’s not a problem with Rust.
by jpfromlondon | 2025-11-24 10:28:38+00:00
> Duralex already went bankrupt several times and they are heading for it again. What's in the article is nice but it's charity not business so unfortunately I am not optimistic.

Everyone can rally round in their time of need but that doesn't change the fact that Duralex was struggling to begin with, and once this goodwill windfall dries up they'll be back here.
by mft_ | 2025-11-24 10:29:13+00:00
I agree with this. Per my comment just above, I've been one of the HNers recommending against FreeCAD for years, because that was my experience.

I've recently started to change that opinion; using the build I linked above, it's now pretty usable and competitive/usable for a hobbyist. I'm now considering it my first-line CAD package (until proven otherwise!)
by beberlei | 2025-11-24 10:29:24+00:00
Its odd at first, but springs from economic principles, mainly sunk cost fallacy.

If you invest 2 days of work and did not find the root cause of a bug, then you have the human desire to keep investing more work, because you already invested so much work. At that point however its best to re-evaluate and do something different instead, because it might have a bigger impact.

Likelihood that after 2 days of not finding the problem, you wont find it after another 2 days is higher than starting over with another bug that on average you find the problem earlier.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-24 10:29:36+00:00
There is a certain truth to this. The history of psychiatry isn't pretty.

It's called a "disorder" because it is maladaptive: it causes the individual to fail to adapt to the environment. Children and even adults with "attention deficit" often fail to adapt to school, leading to diagnosis. Plenty of teachers get fed up with impulsive children that are incapable of paying attention or even sitting still in class, and they send them to doctors in order to "fix" the kid so they can do their jobs.

It's somewhat self-contradictory though. When you look closer at these patients with "attention deficit", you find that a high number of them are capable of hyperfocus. There's almost always something that deeply engages them. For some it's computers, for others it's car engines, there's always something. You find that all these people with "attention deficit" can suddenly display the ability to pay attention to specific things for ten hours straight.

I make it a point to identify instances where the person is capable of deeply concentrating. I always try to disprove their notions that they are "dumb lazy kids". For me it's a matter of basic human dignity. Once that's out of the way, I may offer them drugs to help them cope with the environment they find themselves in. Not before.

Maybe the problem is just that these people are not compatible with the mass education system where you listen to lectures for hours on end. Maybe that's just the most efficient method for the school, not the best teaching method for these kids. Perhaps there is an environment where they are well adapted, where the disorder does not manifest. Until such an environment is found, drugs and therapy are available.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-24 10:30:04+00:00
> In other words, Glazier doesn't want these lawsuits to get rid of Midjourney and protect creative workers from the threat of AI – he just wants the AI companies to pay the media companies to make the products that his clients will use to destroy creators' livelihoods. He wants there to be a new copyright that allows creators to decide whether their work can be used to train AI models, and then he wants that right transferred to media companies who will sell it to AI companies in a bid to stop paying artists <…>

There’s a timeline where big media publishers at least accidentally defend the rights of small-time IP holders (individual creators)—they’d go to court with the likes of OpenAI and Midjourney and put an end to training commercial ML solutions on unlicensed material. Specifically, if they would owe a large media company for training on their original works, presumably they just as well owe an average Jane. (Granted, assuming that Jane has not signed away her rights to a large media company she works with, but that would not apply to a massive number of small-time creators.)
by roryirvine | 2025-11-24 10:30:29+00:00
If people think that not being hands-on for a year is unmanageable, then we as an industry are doing something horrifically wrong.

It would mean that no engineer could ever aspire to become a parent, take a sabbatical, further their education, or experiment with alternate career paths.

But I promise you that that is not actually the case. In fact, it is often the engineers who've stifled every other part of their life that are most likely to struggle in their mid-careers and beyond.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-24 10:31:24+00:00
Oh, that's because a bug in requirements or specification is usually a killer.

I have encountered areas where the basic design was wrong (often comes from rushing in, before taking the time to think things through, all the way).

In these cases, we can either kludge a patch, or go back and make sure the design is fixed.

The longer I've been working, the less often I need to go back and fix a busted design.
by ncruces | 2025-11-24 10:32:08+00:00
Basically free is not free.

The point of buses is to replace cars, not short walks.

If you make it so that everybody who could walk 5min takes a bus, the bus will have to stop more often - and for longer - which makes it worse for the people who can't just walk 5min.

The trick is to balance the system so that buses (and other forms of transit) are cheaper - and approximately as convenient - as cars, without making them cheaper and more convenient than walking (for those who can still walk).

Fares don't necessarily need to be about financing the system. They can be about setting the correct incentives, and ensuring people value the service they're getting.
by DREDREG | 2025-11-24 10:33:25+00:00
This optimizer is not just a script; it is the first practical implementation of a larger theoretical framework that I am developing.

The theory reimagines the modeling of complex systems by combining classical physics (such as gravitational attraction) with quantum-inspired potentials to avoid local minima. This optimizer is one practical result. Another prototype based on the same principles has already received positive feedback from experts in the field.

The statistical results confirm that the underlying theory is moving in a promising direction - potentially revolutionary for the way we approach non-convex optimization.

Code is the engineering execution. Vision, intuition, and theoretical foundation are human. So the results you see come from translating solid theoretical insight into fast and reliable code. This is where engineering intuition and experience come in - no tool can replace them.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-24 10:33:58+00:00
> he only way for the camera to connect to my phone is through some super complicated song and dance, involving my phone requesting a connection over Bluetooth, then the camera running a wifi access point that my phone connects to (during which time my phone disconnects from my home wifi)

Sounds like a Nikon mirrorless. I have a Z6iii, and I am constantly confused with the networking setup. There are something like three duplicated menus, all with very similar functionality.
by auggierose | 2025-11-24 10:35:06+00:00
I can explain it to you. A bug description at the beginning is some observed behaviour that seems to be wrong. Now the process starts of UNDERSTANDING the bug. Once that process has concluded, it will be possible to make a rough guess of how long fixing it will take. Very often, the answer then is a minute or two, unless major rewrites are necessary. So, the problem is you cannot put an upfront bound on how long you need to understand the bug. Understanding can be a long winded process that includes trying to fix the bug in the process.
by Tanoc | 2025-11-24 10:35:44+00:00
That's the biggest issue. The police aren't the correct solution, at least in their current form, but there are no other solutions. Is it worth it to unfairly limit one person's life in order to protect them and people around them from a short period of harmful behaviour? If that limitation was temporary, yes. But it isn't temporary. Being arrested and having a minor possession charge that will be erased after five years without the person re-offending wouldn't be as bad.
by lan321 | 2025-11-24 10:36:08+00:00
We all have relatives all over the place, many have multiple passports/citizenships, most are well educated and/or make good money, most speak 3+ languages.. It'll work out. Countries take in refugees with much different cultures and lower education in the hopes of adding to their workforce. Someone will gladly take us.

I'm guessing in the worst case South America/AU/NZ/JP/UAE/Canada would be the goals.

The only real risk I see is essentially waiting too long and getting detained right as they begin to close off the borders for people of fighting age.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-24 10:36:20+00:00
Overall: Another FTZ with yet another disposable travesty headline floating summary elimination of traditional civil liberties to make it impossible to defend against N fronts legally or media-wise.

The current environment is enabling and permitting this kind of chaos in various domains:

Trad and social media: Owned by partisan shills, skewing algorithms for maximum profits, and massive merger consolidations forming monopolies that were previously illegal.

Government - executive - leadership / law enforcement: "Feds want" when the Feds don't understand how 1a works is a problem beyond the obvious other ones. The problem here is when there is a lack of meaningfully-independent law enforcement and prosecution service at the highest level, causing paths of appeal to a reliable higher authority in legal and police matters seems far more closed than they've ever been.

Government - legislative: Weak, corrupt Congress not pushing back effectively or getting much of anything done. The House has very little legislative power in modern times apart from a few special powers because the Senate wields the filibuster and tiny states have disproportionate power. Tiny state Senate seats are also easier to flip by buying up TV and radio stations, tailored disinformation campaigns, and advertising.

Government - judiciary:

Recently, Judge Jerry E. Smith on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals launched into a tirade of antisemitic dog whistles ("George Soros" 17x) and personal attacks unbecoming of a professional, ethical jurist in the dissent of the Texas unscheduled racist gerrymandering reversal that's likely going up on appeal to SCOTUS for them put their 6 partisan hack thumbs on the scale. [0]

Anyhow, I guess Spam Blondi and co. need to see and hear a big print picture comic book adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 story hour on the steps of the Capitol or the JEH building given their apparent lack of understanding of 1a.

0. PDF https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts....
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-24 10:37:15+00:00
They cut production time to a given number of anti-atoms from 10 weeks to 7 hours by improving the electron cooling, just from this fact it is a bit rich to insist the anti-proton generation is the limiting factor.

Going to the paper itself we can observe that the CERN Antiproton Decelerator can deliver 10^7 antiprotons every 2 minutes. Remembering it previously took 10 weeks to capture 10^4 anti-atoms, I hope you forgive me for not agreeing that the antiproton generation is the source of important inefficiencies.
by cpluss | 2025-11-24 10:38:08+00:00
Author here. I benchmarked Mem0 and Zep on MemBench as memory layers for LLM agents, using gpt-5-nano on 4,000 conversational cases and comparing against a long-context baseline.

In this setup, the memory systems were 14–77× more expensive over a full conversation and 31–33% less accurate at recalling facts than just passing the full history. The post shows the results and argues that the shared “LLM-on-write” architecture (running background LLMs to extract/normalize facts on every message) is a bad fit for working memory / execution state, even though it’s useful for semantic long-term memory.

Scope is intentionally narrow: one model, one benchmark (MemBench, 2025), and non-exhaustive configs. The harness (`agentbench`, https://github.com/fastpaca/agentbench) is linked if you want to reproduce or propose a better setup!
by fragmede | 2025-11-24 10:38:31+00:00
that's a management/cultural problem. if no one knows why it's there, the right answer is to remove it and see what breaks. If you're too afraid to do anything, for nebulous cultural reasons, you're paralyzed by fear and no one's operating with any efficiency. It hits different when it's the senior expert that everyone revere's that invented everything the company depends on that does it, vs a summer intern vs Elon Musk bought your company (Twitter). Hate the man for doing it messily and ungraciously, but you can't argue with the fact that it gets results.
by timgl | 2025-11-24 10:39:31+00:00
co-founder of PostHog here. It looks like we were also a victim of this attack: https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24

We've rotated keys and passwords, unpublished all affected packages and have pushed new versions, so make sure you're on the latest version of our SDKs.

We're still figuring out how this key got compromised, and we'll follow up with a post-mortem. We'll update status.posthog.com with more updates as well.