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by oofbey | 2025-11-29 19:58:37+00:00
This is in response to JetBlue flight 1230 from Cancun to Newark on October 30, 2025, where a cosmic ray of some kind flipped a bit and caused a dangerous situation. At the time there was a minor (G1) geomagnetic storm - meaning more cosmic rays than normal. The Planetary K-index was at 5. These are somewhat elevated numbers - enough to produce a visible Aurora in Canada, but probably not even the northernmost US. But also this level of space weather is also very common. We hit G1 or higher about once a week. That's the really damning part. If it had happened in a G4 or G5 storm, then the engineers might have responded "we can't fix everything", but this level of reliability is clearly unacceptable.
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-29 20:00:37+00:00
I somewhat agree with you. As my last comment suggests, I have a lot of experience running phones as AP’s including phones with dual cell configurations.

Where things go off the rails is situations where extreme heat can be present (shoving phone in direct sunlight in window with hot climate is a bad move) another thing they don’t tolerate well and people don’t talk enough about this is deep discharging the batteries frequently. This causes a breakdown of the SEI membrane and makes it so future recharging generates more heat and gas. This will cause expansion and might cause a short/failure if poorly designed (galaxy note 7).
by kgwxd | 2025-11-29 20:00:47+00:00
I can't play Minecraft, Bedrock or Java, on Windows 11 without signing into the MS Store. A game I've paid for several times, for several people. A game that ran perfectly fine without the store before I was forced to switch to Windows 11. A game that runs on other devices and OSes without the MS store. That was the last straw, and I don't even play it that much.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-11-29 20:01:01+00:00
Doesn't have to be convincing to you. It's a fact and inescapable conclusion. If you're not convinced, you're wrong.

If mutations can happen, then by logic many mutations can happen, if many mutations can happen then many many mutations can stack up and cause speciation. By believing in mutations, evolution follows via logical induction.

Your DNA can be edited with many many mutations until it becomes indistinguishable from penguin DNA. Take that DNA and insert it into an zygote embryo and you get a penguin, not a human.

This is not a conclusion formed by observation. This is basic logic, 1 + 1 = 2. If the axiom is mutation, evolution is the logical theorem that follows. It is undeniable.

You have to go through a lot of mental gymnastics to deny this logic, but it's worth it if such mental gymnastics formulates a conclusion that remains inline with your religious identity. People without this bias who don't have truth tied to their identity don't need to do this kind of thing.
by mentos | 2025-11-29 20:01:05+00:00
Careful with this I took vitamin d every day no problem for a year. Randomly started getting heart palpitations one week and was trying to figure out why. Got an Apple Watch to monitor for a fib. Was asking myself what changed in my life that it happened all of a sudden and realized I had started taking K2. ChatGPTs theory is that it really made the absorption of vit d effective and led to hypercalcemia.

Stopped taking vit d and k2 it resolved after a week no problems almost a year later.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-29 20:01:37+00:00
citation? There's many open to believing it and the reach maybe more if there are studies that confirm causation with a high probability.

fwiw - vit-d supplementation is one of the easiest supplements available. The recommended dosage 400IU is way lower than what can actually bring your levels up. You need about 4000IU of supplementation and regular testing if you're not exposed to sunlight and/or your dairy intake is poor.
by hammock | 2025-11-29 20:01:50+00:00
Your story and the article’s thesis that AI is for acceleration and automation (not other things like design/intelligence) remind me of one particular CEO’s five step product process:

1) design smart(er) requirements- I.e beat up the ask and rewrite the problem statement correctly. 1B is every requirement has a persons name attached who is traceable/responsible for its inclusion- not a department.

2) delete features you don’t need or which are hedges (if you aren’t adding back 10% of the time, then you aren’t deleting enough)

3) simplify or optimize. This step must come after 1 and 2 so you aren’t wasting effort optimizing the wrong thing

4) accelerate

5) automate

This way is very clear where AI plugs in- and more importantly, WHEN it plugs in.

Also, plenty of times people try to run this process backwards, with poor outcomes.
by OneMorePerson | 2025-11-29 20:02:21+00:00
Between the vitamin D error (this affected US and Europe and probably more places) and the sodium/blood pressure study that was misleading if not outright false, it's amazing how a few data points can become widespread advice without much verification and follow-up.

I'm sure there's tons more cases that we don't even know about, not in the conspiracy sense, but more in the sense that there's some issues with how carefully these claims are validated before they get put out there as a rule to be followed.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-11-29 20:02:42+00:00
This took me a good 4 hours uninterupted to setup as I had not a single item in the stack setup yet (PiHole, Traefik, etc.) but do have Docker running on my NAS, but the end result is satisfying.

To anyone that wants to follow this article, it's more general guidance than an actual tutorial, there's a lot of holes to figure out.

It also doesn't work when directly accessing imgur, even if you add rules for the domain and the other subdomains they use, which is annoying.
by billy99k | 2025-11-29 20:03:29+00:00
This is a result of over regulation in the auto industry. I always shake my head at the group of people that wants cheaper prices on goods and services, but propose regulating large companies to death.

China is winning because they don't have to work around pesky labor or IP laws. Then we have people pointing to how much better they are at business and also want all these protections.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-29 20:03:37+00:00
> Safety designs that kill people are indefensible.

Then it logically follows that either the only defensible approach is to not have any safety solutions, or that there simply isn’t a defensible approach.

The tradeoffs are unavoidable, a seatbelt or airbag might very well kill someone despite saving countless lives. Even tech like lane departure warnings will almost inevitably distract and kill someone.
by mtrovo | 2025-11-29 20:04:14+00:00
This is what makes the innovator's dilemma repeat itself so many times in so many industries. It's not that the incumbent companies don't see the new technology; it's that they're so entrenched in what they know how to do that pivoting to the new technology is basically a Hail Mary no matter how you do it. Do it too early and your shareholders are going to think you're crazy. Do it too late, and you're risking entering a new market as the chaser with a bad hand of company, employees, and board that don't have any idea of what they're doing.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-29 20:06:21+00:00
I'm personally a fan of Tony, but there's no denying that he was quite often an asshole. He was notoriously demanding of his crew, dumped his first wife after he got famous, dumped his second wife and child when he met an Italian actress half his age, nepo'd her to shittily direct some episodes and fired his cameraman when he dared complain, etc etc.
by scrubs | 2025-11-29 20:06:27+00:00
Agree. I get accountability for code I had no control over. That's a setup.

"You’re a senior engineer - why did fixing this take so long?” This is also maddening: it's not a question arising from technical indight or a management strategy ala Drucker, ishikawa, or any other serious approach. It's a guilt trip: it's like saying why did you dress so bad at this party? It's manipulative. And nobody likes these smeer tactics.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-29 20:06:59+00:00
Author here! :-)

> What is the actual catch with Fil-C?

Two things:

- Not ABI compatible with Yolo-C. So, you have to recompile the whole stack. This is both a major catch, and it is both a bug and a feature. It's a bug for obvious reasons. It's a feature because it means I'll probably be the first to have a totally usable, totally memory safe desktop environment.

- In my testing, it's between 1.2x and 4x slower than Yolo-C. It uses between 2x and 3x more memory. Others have observed higher overheads in certain tests (I've heard of some things being 8x slower). How much this matters depends on your perspective. Imagine running your desktop environment on a 4x slower computer with 3x less memory. You've probably done exactly this and you probably survived the experience. So the catch is: Fil-C is for folks who want the security benefits badly enough.

It's not obvious that either of these catches are fundamental. The Fil-C development philosophy is very much to get something working first, which means downscoping. That's why I didn't include Yolo-C ABI compat as a goal at all and it's also why I haven't done as many optimizations as I should have. If you look at my GitHub you'll see >20 open issues with performance optimization ideas.

> In some other memory-safety circles (Rust, Zig, etc) I'm going to expect that this is going to be heavily scrutinized over the claims made by the author of Fil-C.

Of course this has happened.

Zig is definitely not as safe as either Rust or Fil-C, since Zig doesn't have a great story for use after free.

Rust is less safe than Fil-C in practice, because Rust code uses `unsafe` a lot (>100 uses of `unsafe` in uutils and sudo-rs, for example), and Rust code ends up depending on an unsafe stack (like calling into libc, but also lots of other dependent libraries that are written in C). Fil-C doesn't have an `unsafe` statement and the dependencies are all recompiled with Fil-C.
by coldtea | 2025-11-29 20:07:28+00:00
>In fairness to researchers, it can be difficult to run a randomized clinical trial for vitamin D supplements. That’s because most of us get the bulk of our vitamin D from sunlight

And how hard is it to make such controlled studies on prison populations (where both sun and food intake is also a known value)? Make it voluntary and give some incentives for those wanting to participate. Can study supplement effects for one or even five years, it's not like they're going anywhere.

That's also a question I have when I hear about diet studies. What's easier than doing such in prison populations? Make it as voluntary as it's for people outside, and there's no ethical issue. We're talking like checking the effect of this or that food or diet style, which they can let different people chose their own. They already eat what they're given anyway, that would be an improvement.
by tymscar | 2025-11-29 20:07:40+00:00
Hey. I’m glad you got it working. I didn’t intend it to be a step-by-step tutorial, more like a “hey, this is how I solved it”, with some details like the configs in case you want to follow along. And yes, the website itself still does not work, no matter what URLs you try to fix; it’s just the images, which, for me, are good enough.
by iamgopal | 2025-11-29 20:07:56+00:00
The small part in me understands that, they are banking on three things 1) oil will be cheap because of EV boom and hence EV dominance will be slow and could take couple of decades 2) electric Energy cost will rise significantly because so much charging and energy infrastructure required. 3) Battery will reach at par with gasoline and matured standardised comodity, that will be the perfect time to enter.
by everydaydev | 2025-11-29 20:08:57+00:00
Hi HN! I’m launching Relae (https://relaehook.com), a webhook relay service that ensures you never lose critical webhook data from services like Stripe, Shopify, or any other provider. The Problem I’ve worked at several companies where debugging lost webhooks was a recurring nightmare. You’d discover hours or days later that critical events from Stripe, Shopify, or other providers never made it through. Someone’s deployment killed the server, a bug caused a 500, or the endpoint timed out. Every time, it meant manual data reconciliation, customer support tickets, and eventually building one-off retry logic. I saw different teams solve this problem from scratch over and over. Most webhook providers only retry a few times over a short window, then give up. You’re left manually reconciling data or building your own retry infrastructure. What Relae Does Relae sits between webhook providers and your app: 1. Automatic retries – Exponential backoff up to 5 attempts 2. Dead letter queue – Failed webhooks don’t disappear; review and manually retry them 3. HMAC signature verification – Security built-in 4. Real-time monitoring – See delivery status, failures, and retry attempts 5. Custom headers – Add authentication or routing metadata It’s basically the infrastructure you’d build yourself, but as a service. Why I Built This After seeing teams at multiple companies solve the same webhook reliability problem from scratch, I realized this is infrastructure that shouldn’t need to be rebuilt every time. I wanted something simple: point your webhooks at Relae, and we handle the reliability guarantees so you don’t have to. Tech Stack Backend written in Go, running on DigitalOcean droplets. Focused on low latency and reliability without the complexity of serverless. Free tier includes 10k events/month, which is plenty for most side projects. What I’m Looking For Feedback on the product, the pricing, and whether this solves a real problem for you. I’m also curious if there are specific features that would make this more useful (batching, filtering, transformations, etc.). Free tier available – no credit card required. Would love for you to try it and let me know what you think!
by Tanoc | 2025-11-29 20:11:12+00:00
Windows 10 was spooky enough that I held on to Windows 7 as my work operating system until 2020. The constant telemetry, settings that would switch themselves back on a reboot without any indication, forced updates with forced reboots that followed, and Cortana intermixing your file system with web results were all giant pier spanning red flags that told me Microsoft had turned fully hostile instead of just adversarial. The main thing to remember is that everything I just listed was there from the start in June of 2015. Then Microsoft stopped trying to be Wilson Fisk with Windows 11 and just came out as Kingpin.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-11-29 20:11:12+00:00
It was announced a few days ago some models of Tesla are coming to Colombia at cheaper prices than BYD and the like and people here seems to be crazy about Tesla now. Time will tell how reliable they are on our poor roads.

And that's one thing about EVs here in general - they are coming with no spare tire but a flat tire repair kit, which it's fine for small issues but may not be enough for the problems said tough roads can give to your tires.
by more_corn | 2025-11-29 20:11:25+00:00
It took me entirely too long to realize this was written by Neal himself.

The snippet appears to be constructed by a LLM. I don’t have any evidence of that, just some turns of phrase that a human wouldn’t use when discussing his works.

I love the theory that the LLM might think that his books are fragmented is due to the fragmentation of his corpus by spammers of a certain era.
by johng | 2025-11-29 20:11:53+00:00
It's guaranteed that ANY government program PERIOD will eventually be subject to fraud. Either from the end recipients or the people running the government themselves. As the government grows the chances for this only get worse, from both directions.

It's amazing to me that the same people that condemn capitalism because of 'human' greed can't recognize this same 'human' greed could possibly exist in politicians as well.
by coldtea | 2025-11-29 20:12:08+00:00
Unless you're non-native and have redhead-style very white skin or some history, the doctor sounds overly cautious to paranoid.

Hundreds of millions live in such climates (including people with fairer skin) and have no problems, even though they don't do anything extreme like "avoid the sun at all costs, always wear suncreen and a hat, don't go out in the daytime".

I'm white and I lived near the tropics for a few years, big white and asian population, everybody was out in the sun all the time, hardly covered too. Skin cancer stats as good as Europe or US.
by FractalParadigm | 2025-11-29 20:12:10+00:00
It's pretty easy to accomplish the same using virtually any 3D printer, even something as simple as an Ender 3 can be set to pause at a set layer in GCODE where the filament can manually be changed to the next desired colour. Realistically, this is only practical for things like signage, where you start with the base colour (such as yellow or green) then switch to the next for text and details, and if done properly with compatible materials, can look incredibly well-done.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-29 20:12:20+00:00
The chicken is indeed bland, although the non-canonical roasted version is more flavorful than the traditional poached one. The rice, which is cooked in chicken stock and spices, is anything but, but it's the fresh chili sauce that really makes it zing, in the same way that wasabi makes "bland" sushi work.

Tian Tian is overrated and not worth the lines though. Every Singaporean has their favorite but I like Loy Kee, partly thanks to their amazing slogan, "Chicken Lickin' Good".

https://order.loykee.com.sg/
by awongh | 2025-11-29 20:13:05+00:00
> Automatic creation of an initial billboard: Upon starting the program, a predefined list of movies currently showing must be automatically generated, including their details (title, genre, duration, and showtimes).

I would say that these results might be relevant for a university CS program setting, but I would make the distinction between this and actually learning to program.

The context of this task is definitely a very contrived "Let's learn OOP" assignment that, for example, just tires to cram in class inheritance without really justifying it's use in the software that's being built. It's a lazy kind of curriculum building that doesn't actually tell the students about OOP.

In that sense it's no wonder that AI is not that helpful in the context of the assignment and learning.

I wouldn't chalk this up to "AI doesn't help you learn". I would put this in the category of, in an overly academic assignment with contrived goals, AI doesn't help the student accomplish the goals of the course. That conclusion could be equally applied to French literature 102.

And that's very different from whether or not an AI coding assistant can help you learn to code or not. (I'm actually not sure if it can, but I think this study doesn't say anything new).
by ryanackley | 2025-11-29 20:13:17+00:00
This argument over the semantics of how to express an opinion feels like a proxy for people who strongly disagree with him on remote work seeking an outlet.

I say that because you (and everyone else who seems upset) clearly understand it's just his opinion. Therefore, why are you offended by his intent? Whatever his intent might be, I think it's irrelevant. It's simply a strongly held opinion.
by zahlman | 2025-11-29 20:13:19+00:00
That's a bit reductive. We're talking about something only relevant to retrocomputing (MacOS 9 is unsupported as of early 2002 per Wikipedia) where they could scarcely find evidence of anyone using it at all. And taking these things out of the standard library means that core devs can wash their hands of it. (It also means that a large majority of users can avoid downloading and storing things that will always be useless to them; but nobody seems to care about that sort of thing any more, much to my chagrin.)

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/83534
by keeda | 2025-11-29 20:13:24+00:00
> And just when was the last time you saw CEO of a company as big as Microsoft "caught lying to shareholders" about anything actually face any punishment?

Actually curious, when was the last time we saw a CEO of a company as big as Microsoft caught lying to shareholders?

The one instance I can recall offhand of big companies doing fraud were cases like Enron, which resulted in execs going to jail. More recent cases of CEOs were not large companies and they also ended up with them in prison, e.g. Nikola. (Sure the guy's out again, but that's been done, uh, outside the usual process of justice.)
by indubioprorubik | 2025-11-29 20:13:31+00:00
It was a new race- and they where so comfortable having won the IC-race and customer base! Now everyone and his dog got a new chance to compete- and they just didn't want to do that. And now every advance in battery and solar, will drive them faster out of those markets.

These are not detached technologies- one completes the other.
by gojomo | 2025-11-29 20:13:54+00:00
I look up old iMessages, emails, group chat comments, and so forth constantly, often finding valuable gems of wit, reference-material, recommendations, or media that I dimly remember from years or even decades ago.

Signal and other messaging apps offer a 'search' bar across all sessions & history, so I doubt I'm the only one.

It's hard for me to imagine being so present-focused such a history wouldn't be personally useful.

Or, so worried about "someone [using] it against [me] in court" that I'd need more than the occasional auto-expiration, and specifically my messenger "protecting" me with intermittently-enforced loss-of-histories (on just theft/loss/hard-failure of primary device).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-29 20:13:58+00:00
Tesla got far enough for Musk to have the power he wanted and then gave up innovating and expanding. China will win the race, they have a third of global manufacturing capacity and already sell as many NEVs (battery electric and plug in hybrids) domestically as are sold in the US every year, while continuing to scale.

https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3334300...

https://insidechinaauto.com/2025/11/01/live-blog-china-octob...

https://www.byd.com/us/news-list/First-BYD-Electric-Vehicle-...

https://rhomotion.com/news/byd-announces-further-global-expa...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-tesla-and-byd-...
by sofixa | 2025-11-29 20:15:33+00:00
> It was announced a few days ago some models of Tesla are coming to Colombia at cheaper prices than BYD

How could that be?

At least Renault's low cost models (like the Dacia Spring, sold as Kwid in Latin America) are sold for cheap in various markets, and are competitive to BYD pricing in the EU and Latin America (enough that they're seeing serious growth there). Tesla doesn't have anything close, price wise, so how could they be competing on price with BYD?
by o11c | 2025-11-29 20:15:44+00:00
I was reading the `fontconfig` source recently (to help me understand what, exactly, is the difference between the various `fc-*` tools and their options) and some of the code scared me.

I thought, "for sure this is a use-after-free" ... but it happened to be safe because some function performed an undocumented incref, and the return value of that function was kept alive.

So this is definitely a high priority thing to port!

... I suppose the interesting question is: if some of my dependencies are ported, and some are not, is there any way a normal compiler can call into a Fil-C-compiled library for just a few functions?