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by fragmede | 2025-11-04 17:35:53+00:00
That's a question for a priest or philosophy professor, and won't be solved in the HN comments section. The underlying principle is that it's a disease that overrides your conscious brain, and you have to give in that fact before you can make progress curing the disease. Like, your brain can be absolutely screaming don't go in that bar, don't go in that bar, and where do you end up? Puking your guts out in that bar's bathroom.

That's hugely shameful when that's the third time that week, and it's only Wednesday. Processing that internally, without coming to grips that it really isn't you doing that seems impossible without "turning your will over" to the god of burritos or whatever else you want as your higher power. That doesn't absolve you of the harm you've caused yourself and others, but it does help you move on to the next step, one of which is up make amends (if it won't cause more harm).

Look, I'm not saying AA is the be-all-end-all of addiction treatment. It isn't. One of the AA things is they say there's no medication for when we're on a thread discussing medication for addiction! But the very first meeting I went to, there was a young woman who was militantly atheist but was years sober and had really turned her life around. If being in the same room as people reciting the Lords prayer will throw you into apoplectic fits, don't go. If you're suffering and need help, and are able to be in the same room though, I do honestly and fervently believe it's worth trying, if only because ozemoic isn't cheap while AA meetings are free to attend.
by hinkley | 2025-11-04 17:36:03+00:00
I’ve only used Splunk with one set of devs and maybe we were doing it wrong, but it didn’t feel fast to me.

Several of us were working hard to move everything into Prometheus that made any sense to be in Prometheus instead of Splunk.

Notably any time we had a production issue that it was unclear which team was responsible, Splunk became the bottleneck because we started exceeding quotas immediately.
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-04 17:36:37+00:00
You’ve completely ignored my arguments, you’re hung up on one technicality, and now you’re just being derisive. I literally have a degree in computer engineering. I’m well aware there’s more than just semiconductor size. I’m aware of 3D chip fabs. I’m well aware of clock speed as a dimension. I’m also well fucking aware that moore’s law is not a physical law.

My whole fucking point is that neither are the AI scaling laws.

Please stop talking to me.
by smsm42 | 2025-11-04 17:37:31+00:00
It's as much bottleneck for productivity as cars being made of metal are bottleneck for speed. Sure, you can make a paper car. It probably would be faster. Until you collide with something and then you discover why the metal frame was a good idea. If you generate code that you can not verify or test, sure, it's faster. Until something goes wrong.
by bccdee | 2025-11-04 17:38:11+00:00
> Let's take someone who once upon a time was responsible for grading papers. As far as that person is concerned, AGI has arrived for their profession

You're talking about TAs. I know TAs. Their jobs have not disappeared. They are not using AI to grade papers.

> Are you really going to hire that developer because you need extra manpower to stand up test coverage?

Yes. Unsupervised AI agents cannot currently replace developers. "Oh we'll get someone to supervise it"—yes, that person's job title is "developer" and they will be doing largely the same job they'd have done 5 years ago.

> The universe of people getting paid to make CRUD apps is over.

Tell that to all the people who get paid to make CRUD apps. Frankly, Airtable has done more to disrupt CRUD apps than AI ever did.

> Rome needed to recognize that the Barbarian hordes had arrived.

IDK what to tell you. All these jobs are still around. You're just fantasizing.
by maxjchung | 2025-11-04 17:38:27+00:00
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by agg23 | 2025-11-04 17:38:31+00:00
I wrote my first project in VHDL (https://github.com/agg23/openfpga-pong) due to the type safety, then learned that the US (and Analogue team) primarily use Verilog, so I switched. I don't use many System Verilog features, but I saw no need to use older versions unnecessarily.

I've talked to the Amaranth people. I'm not incredibly interested in using real programming languages to write HDL, but I think I like keeping programming and hardware separate in some ways.

The Analogue Pocket is fantastic for getting started with FPGAs because everything you need is built into the device and it's not "too" expensive. You do lack Pmods. There is the fully open source Game Bub (https://www.crowdsupply.com/second-bedroom/game-bub) as a cool new platform to target, but it will have orders of magnitude fewer users than the Pocket. NOTE: I am extremely biased about the Pocket; I have a working relationship with Analogue and own the main platform ports to the Pocket (for example NES, SNES, and many more).
by btown | 2025-11-04 17:38:44+00:00
Even if you believe that Musk and team don’t “touch the scales” of the algorithm, the inevitable consequence of the decision to prioritize comments of people willing to pay for blue checks, is to discourage users not in that segment from engagement at all levels.

The resulting shift in attention data naturally propagates to weight the input to the algorithm away from “what does an average user pay attention to” and more towards “what does a paying user pay attention to.”

Setting morality aside, this is a self-consistent, if IMO short-sighted, business goal. What it is not is a way to create a fair and impartial “mirror” as you have described.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-11-04 17:38:58+00:00
Well to be fair, Lightning IS bitcoin - and inevitably tied to it. It is just a different protocol, or a different mean of accounting and transferring ownership of bitcoin.

Just imagine Gold was used as money, but you quickly realize that weighing and dividing gold is cumbersome. So someone creates a layer 2, prints green paper bills in arbitrary denominations and that very someone guarantees you can exchange those green paper bills at a fixed rates for ounces of gold. You exchange green paper bills, the green paper bills have value, but the underlying asset still is gold. Until that someone decided no longer to do the exchange to gold for those green sheets of paper, and basically performed the first rug-pull in history. That is where bitcoin steps in, as its decentralization guarantees there is no such rug-pull. And lightning is the green bills that can be exchanged for the underlying bitcoin anytime, without relying on the promise of a third party.
by bookluvr416 | 2025-11-04 17:39:01+00:00
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by pmarreck | 2025-11-04 17:39:03+00:00
agreed.

also, sorry but you (fellow) nerds are terrible at naming.

while "thunking" possibly name-collides with "thunks" from CS, the key is that it is memorable, 2 syllables, a bit whimsical and just different enough to both indicate its source meaning as well as some possible unstated difference. Plus it reminds me of "clunky" which is exactly what it is - "clunky thinking" aka "thunking".

And frankly, the idea it's naming is far bigger than what a "thunk" is in CS
by smsm42 | 2025-11-04 17:40:02+00:00
If you don't ever need to know or maintain the code, sure, it's not your code, you don't own it, in fact the code is disposable. For something like POC, where I don't care how it's done, I just want to see if it can be done - I've done it myself. Then if real code is needed, you throw the disposable one out or rewrite it completely. That's fine. But if it's a long term project, somebody needs to own it.
by agg23 | 2025-11-04 17:40:30+00:00
As someone with no hardware experience, I find working with HDLs to be a very different environment and potentially hard to reason with. I did my best to document things from a software perspective (particularly for the Analogue Pocket) (https://github.com/agg23/analogue-pocket-utils/wiki). My code is also running in some capacity in most of the main core ports to the Pocket.
by almosthere | 2025-11-04 17:41:26+00:00
I think specifically these NGOs were run by board members that ran 10 other NGOs all called "Save the children Africa" etc... And the weird thing about it, is that no children were actually being saved. Instead the money went to ActBlue through a few actors.

Mr Beast has done more for Saving the Children in Africa with $5m than USAID has done with $500b per year.
by MostlyStable | 2025-11-04 17:41:33+00:00
It's not really that simple. There are already alternative video hosting and streaming sites. In the article it mentions that this creator is already using one in fact. The reason why youtube is such a big deal is because of it's market dominance. Everyone watches there, and therefore it is valuable. "breaking it up" just turns it into another one of the many many competitors that already exist.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Youtube's behavior here. It's bad and shouldn't just be shrugged off. I just don't think that shouting "monopoly!" actually fixes anything. If you want a video hosting and streaming site that has less market dominance and better moderation policies, that already exists. Everyone is free to use them.
by hunter2_ | 2025-11-04 17:41:33+00:00
> also with the browser

Browsers have been doing this forever: you make a request to a server (A) that you choose to interact with, and it could respond with various things (a redirect, a page with a meta refresh, a page with a frame / iframe, etc.) that result in your browser automatically making a request (and rendering the resulting page response) to some other server (B) that could get you in trouble.

However, in this classic scenario, when A starts sending you to B, you stop trusting A. This is simple when A's behavior is entirely determined by A's owner. What if it's determined by other users (not just A's owner)? Typically, A would be careful to not serve a redirect (etc.) based on user input, as that would be considered an "open redirect" vulnerability (with an exception for link shorteners, I guess). Interesting how the webview preloading that we're discussing now commits essentially this same offense.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-04 17:42:25+00:00
> In the right orbit, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth, and produce power nearly continuously, reducing the need for batteries.

Sure. Now do cooling. That this isn't in the "key challenges" section makes this pretty non-serious.

A surprising amount of the ISS is dedicated to this, and they aren't running a GPU farm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 17:42:25+00:00
Are we that special? We may be the only species left on Earth that's built civilization, but there are other species on Earth that we've deemed sentient, even if they don't have smartphones. (That may argue that they're smarter than us though.) If octopodes can dream, if elephants get depressed when their spouse dies, then I'd we're not so totally alone on our own planet, then it seems, despite no evidence, that we can't be totally alone in the universe. That is for philosophy professors to ponder Drakes equation until we have irrefutable evidence, however.
by agg23 | 2025-11-04 17:42:41+00:00
That ends up not actually being that fast. The real goal was to be able to wake the Pocket/Tamagotchi core and have it automatically fast forward time as if the device was running that whole time. But when the FPGA fabric (and my design) limits us to 1800x, that means we get a whopping 30 minutes of sim time per every 1 second of real time. So even if you slept the device for a day, it's unreasonable to wait for it to fast forward.

Nothing special happens when fast forwarding, other than you can kill your Tamagotchi very quickly :P
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-04 17:42:45+00:00
It ends with you paying for information. If I need some information and it is only available behind a paywall, then I'll pay for it or I didn't need it anyway.

Google is doing the correct thing in not discriminating against content which is paid or behind login walls. Some of the most important content are on social media, and most of them only serve logged in users.

If you want to decide yourself how search results are presented to you, you should try Kagi for a search engine.
by pinter69 | 2025-11-04 17:43:01+00:00
People in the community can be hardcore there sometimes, r/ffmpeg especially. But, there are communities online and information resources that help.

This is a nice resource: https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

And also I've written this cheatsheet, which is designed to be used alongside an LLM: https://github.com/rendi-api/ffmpeg-cheatsheet

Let me know if you're interested in more resources
by jandrese | 2025-11-04 17:43:20+00:00
First rule of Twitter is avoid the algorithm at all costs. The trolls have long since figured it out and now if the algorithm is involved you are going to see white supremacist talking points nonstop.

Second rule of Twitter is why are you on Twitter, it's a full on Nazi bar now.

The "following" feed that mostly shows you content from people you have explicitly followed is better, although the site really likes to swap back to the algorithmic "for you" feed whenever you aren't paying attention. However, even the following feed will still have the troll responses on most posts. You really can't avoid them on Twitter.
by mk_stjames | 2025-11-04 17:43:54+00:00
So, after seeing how cheap and available these Phomemo printers are and with this CUPS driver looking like a good option, my instinct as someone who also wants one of these sitting permanently on my home network as to appear all the time on all my machines' available printer options, is to get one and tether it permanently to a tiny linux SBC that has bluetooth and running the driver and print sharing. Like the OrangePi Zero 2w I have sitting unused in a drawer somewhere collecting dust.
Show HN: Curated Domain Name Marketplace
by nameknow_com | 2025-11-04 17:44:02+00:00
A couple things motivated me to build NameKnow.

I got tired of seeing people building projects with names that create distrust with their customers.

Now that llms can fart out features, I've been thinking about how you can build something that will last. A unique distribution channel or domain are what I came up with. I like names, so a domain name marketplace was a natural fit for me.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
by muconto107 | 2025-11-04 17:45:25+00:00
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by hinkley | 2025-11-04 17:45:44+00:00
I had a problem where we needed to compare large data sets between machines for keys that existed in both, and the bandwidth cost just wasn’t mathing for the median result set size. I was trying to figure out how to send a fingerprint from machine A to B, then have machine B send the hits back. Or how many round trips I could do based on set size to minimize bandwidth + latency. I ended up with a calculus problem nobody could help me solve because of an n^5 term.

My boss was generally pretty good with obscure data structures but neither of us had encountered Bloom filters. This was about three years after Google published their paper on how they were using Bloom filters, but that company would be bankrupt before I figured it out.
by ajkjk | 2025-11-04 17:45:52+00:00
There's some kind of basic theorem about situations like this: doing something about injustice happens at a rate proportional to both (a) the injustice and (b) the ease of doing something about it. The injustice is pervasive (low-level, but constant, and indicative of a situation in which people have unaccountable power over the public). But doing something about it requires a type of organizing that... nobody knows how to do. Or at least nobody remembers how to do. So the barrier to it happening is extremely high.
by afavour | 2025-11-04 17:45:59+00:00
As I said in my original comment, even if you disagree with the concept of USAID and want to shut it down you ramp it down over time to allow for replacements. Doing it immediately has an absolutely negligible effect on your tax dollars (putting aside the fact it’s a rounding error at best anyway) and is a deliberate choice to inflict suffering on innocent people.

The government decided to let food they’d already paid for rot while people starved. Twist yourself into a pretzel to defend that if you wish but I won’t be joining you.
by pr337h4m | 2025-11-04 17:46:07+00:00
Data centers in space are guaranteed to be a thing by 2035.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984868748378157312

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1985743650064908694

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984249048107508061
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-04 17:46:17+00:00
I googled it. It turns out there are ton of wacky conspiracy theories about USAID, and that's largely where Musk got his ideas. I had no idea.

It's a wild world we live-in when internet conspiracies can kill actual children.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.70011
by entropie | 2025-11-04 17:46:27+00:00
> My advice is to have "some fair number" of SD cards and when you are done with the card in the camera, put it aside and install another card that hasn't been used in aw

Yeah, a kind of rotating workflow seems necessary when you doing professional camera stuff.

Of course, something like this can always happen; however, it's just as likely that an SD card will fail at some point.

The camera should record redundantly, and many semi-pro cameras already do this if you want them to. Then you can leave the second card untouched and have a spare one and rotate only the spares.
by jandrese | 2025-11-04 17:46:35+00:00
Bluesky has lots of artists, authors, journalists, etc... who see AI as a direct threat to human creativity. Not that the AI will replace the creativity, but that it can generate slop that looks "good enough" and doesn't demand a living wage or healthcare benefits. Many of these creative types have little trust that corporate management won't try to replace them just to save a buck.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-04 17:46:40+00:00
Currently AI doesn't work very well on hardware separated by hundreds of milliseconds of latency and slow network links. Both the training and inference are slow.

However I think this is a solvable problem, and I started solving it a while ago with decent results:

https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor

When someone gets this working well, I could totally see a distributed AI being tasked with expanding it's own pool of compute nodes by worming into things and developing new exploits and sucking up more training data.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-04 17:47:04+00:00
Gerry didn't invent gerrymandering. The practice predates his example, and he wasn't even the one who made it happen in his famous example. He merely signed the bill enacted by the legislature. All he did was happen to be associated with a prominent example that got a name that stuck.

It's not really something that can even be invented. Once you have elections in districts with boundaries that can be altered, it follows straightforwardly that people will try to alter those boundaries in ways that benefit them electorally.
by lucb1e | 2025-11-04 17:47:07+00:00
Hard to untangle the different things going on in this article

> [their crimes] led to the "deaths of six Chinese nationals, one Chinese national's suicide and injuries to several others,"

So it's not just running a fraud center

> Five defendants were given life imprisonment, while sentences ranging from three to 20 years were given to nine others.

Who is this about now?

> Many people staffing the fraud factories say they were trafficked into the hubs [...] [employees say they] were regularly beaten and tortured by their bosses

Is this how deaths and injuries were "lead to", from the earlier quote appearing much earlier in the article?

This article is such a mess, I'd open the court case if I had any chance of knowing what I'm looking at or having any vague familiarity with the legal system. Not that the court documents are linked anywhere. Why give up sources if you can get clicks I guess. It's interesting to read about nevertheless, e.g. I didn't know the work was performed under duress
by kens | 2025-11-04 17:47:34+00:00
The description of forward current and the graph are completely wrong. The graph shows approximately linear current above 600 mV, and the text says "When the threshold is cleared, the diode admits current that’s roughly proportional to the “excess” applied voltage, an ohmic behavior that’s a consequence of the resistance of the material itself".

The current through a diode is exponential with voltage, not "proportional". The graph shows 1.6V applied to a diode yielding 250 mA. In reality, this isn't possible since you'd get a huge current and destroy the diode.

See the Shockley diode equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley_diode_equation

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that the article is messed up, so am I missing something here?
by ilc | 2025-11-04 17:47:39+00:00
The same way I would with a human:

If I thought the service should only be 1000 lines tops:

- Reject due to excess complexity.

If it is a proper solution:

- Use AI to review it, asking it to be VERY critical of the code, and look for spots where human review may be needed, architecture wise, design wise and implementation wise.

- Ask the AI again to do a security review etc.

- Tell the author to break the PR down into human size chunks using git.

Why those things? It's likely some manager is gonna tell me review it anyways. And if so, I want to have a head start, and if there's critical shoot down level issues I can find with an AI quickly. I'd just shut the PR down now.

As in any "security" situation, in this case the security of your codebase and sanity, defense in depth is the answer.
by barrrrald | 2025-11-04 17:48:15+00:00
One thing I admire about Snowflake is a real commitment to self-cannibalization. They were super out front with Iceberg even though it could disrupt them, because that's what customers were asking for and they're willing to bet they'll figure out how to make money in that new world

Video of their SVP of Product talking about it here: https://youtu.be/PERZMGLhnF8?si=DjS_OgbNeDpvLA04&t=1195