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by geodel | 2025-11-24 15:59:22+00:00
> and it's so absolutely terrible that everyone uses pflag, ../

This is just social media speak for inconvenient in some cases. I have used flag package in lot of applications. It gets job done and I have had no problem with it.

> since it's full of weird warts and things you simply shouldn't use.

The only software that does not have problem is thats not written yet. This is the standard one should follow then.
by rightbyte | 2025-11-24 15:59:38+00:00
> You can pick free, or scalable, or financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will kill it), but you cannot have all three at once.

You can't name three things, rule out any combination that includes more than two things, and call it a day.

The gas saved is less resources wasted, savings which to a large part are taxable. Etc.
by windup-bird | 2025-11-24 15:59:44+00:00
If you can manage your symptoms and don't suffer, you don't have ADHD. ADHD has a huge impact, not only mentally but also physically and on others. For example much higher risk for Alzheimer's and accidents. It's not as great as it might sound to you to take stimulants. I wish I didn't need to take them. Yes, there are surely people diagnosed with ADHD who could do without diagnosis, but having ADHD and not being diagnosed is horrible for most people. And there are groups who suffer, because their ADHD is less obvious, such as women and older people. ADHD is much more complex and devastating than you suggest. You can't fix it with strategies, many people feel ashamed all the time, because they can't function like a "normal" person
by neom | 2025-11-24 16:00:01+00:00
I was thinking about it a bit more this morning, in Costa Rica I used a local sim from a local carrier, but since then I've been traveling but using esims from Airalo, they still use a local carrier, but I wonder if it's kinda like how the 2 factor auth stuff often won't let you use a VOIP/twilio number it needs to be from a real carrier, I wonder if x has a matrix of signals they use to decide to switch it or not, and within the carrier metric, esim re-seller is deprioritized over a real telco or something? Who knows, but it's kinda fun to think about! :)
by m4tthumphrey | 2025-11-24 16:00:20+00:00
Jesus Christ, this hit a little too close to home. I had booked a similar price hotel for a period of time during the World Cup next in Vancouver in June; 11 nights in total. I had only reserved it (via Booking.com) until today when I paid the balance. I have been worried about this happening to me ever since I booked it. The price I got was VERY good (considering the event).
by mothballed | 2025-11-24 16:01:00+00:00
Ah yes, the libertarian paradise where the hotel industry curb-stomps competition through government sponsored regulatory capture by pretending to be "concerned long-term renters and locals" and lobbies for all sorts of licensing and regulation of airbnb and homeowner rentals. They don't want anyone stomping on their fiefdom and forcing them to offer competitive benefits like cancellation.
by Noaidi | 2025-11-24 16:01:10+00:00
I’m sorry if I offended anyone’s consciousness by bringing this up, but this can affect how we view the health effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields.

Since the magnetic fields of these EMF’s can pass deeper into the body than the electric field, that would mean that the magnetic field can affect many of the voltage gated ion channels in the body. That’s including the brain.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-11-24 16:01:26+00:00
I agree it's hard. But it's actually easier in professional settings. There are funds and you don't have an excuse to be lazy.

At minimum whatever you are working on should be built in docker. The package installation then would happen during the image build step. Yes it's easy to break out of the isolation environment but i am betting this malware does not.

NPM tokens should exist in some configuration/secret management solution not on your home directory. Devs have no business holding the NPM tokens. Same goes for sensitive environment variables they have no business existing on dev laptops or even the pipeline build steps (where package installation should happen).

AWS etc credentials / tokens are harder to secure since there are legit reasons for existing in dev laptops.
by strix_varius | 2025-11-24 16:02:05+00:00
> You can't just code the website, zip the code and mail it to the client.

The suggestion that the only alternative to paying $96 million AUD ($62 million USD) for a website is getting one that was "coded, zipped, and mailed" is absurd.

> That's why you have thousands of employees in tech companies with seemingly a simple product that you can fully code in a week(at least the user facing part of it).

I've worked at Salesforce, Facebook, and Adobe. I couldn't code even the thinnest sliver of a vertical slice of any of their products in a week.
by kllrnohj | 2025-11-24 16:02:26+00:00
> and generally its HDR support is much better than AVIF

Not anymore. JPEG had the best HDR support with ISO 21496-1 weirdly enough, but AVIF also just recently got that capability with 1.2 ( https://aomedia.org/blog%20posts/Libavif-Improves-Support-fo... ).

The last discussion in libjxl about this was seemingly taking the stance it wasn't necessary since JXL has "native HDR" which completely fails to understand the problem space entirely.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-24 16:02:32+00:00
Not sure what this is. The homepage shows making an API in Lua. So is a web framework?

In any case, a bad description term-wise. Being referred to as runtime made sense for Node & JS, since JS was until Node mostly confined to web browsers with Node setting it free giving native OS access, an event loop, and even a module system. Lua, Python, etc are already shipping as their own self-contained runtime. So calling a Lua, Python, etc wrapper in X as runtime written in X makes no sense.
by Retric | 2025-11-24 16:02:56+00:00
“It said the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million“

So 95% of that wasn’t from the cost of the website redesign. “$79.8 million for the website build” included the actual weather modeling and suddenly that number looks way more reasonable.

Classic case of project scope creep stretching what redesign means until you’re including a supercomputer as part of the bill of materials.
by zahllos | 2025-11-24 16:03:32+00:00
The commentor means Dual_EC, a random number generator. The backdoor was patented under the form of "escrow" here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8396213B2/en?oq=USOO83.9... - replace "escrow" with "backdoor" everywhere in the text and what was done will fall out.

ML-KEM/ML-DSA were adapted into standards by NIST, but I don't think a single American was involved in the actual initial design.

There might be some weakness the NSA knows about that the rest of us don't, but the fact they're going ahead and recommending these be used for US government systems suggests they're fine with it. Unless they want to risk this vulnerability also being discovered by China/Russia and used to read large portions of USG internet traffic. In their position I would not be confident that if I was aware of a vulnerability it would remain secret, although I am not a US Citizen or even resident, and never have been.
by HighGoldstein | 2025-11-24 16:03:32+00:00
Yes, but the 3rd party dependencies tend to be conveniences rather than foundational. Easier mapping, easier mocking, easier test assertions, so a more security minded company can very easily just disallow their use without major impact. If it's something foundational to your project then what you're doing is probably somewhat niche. Most of the time there's some dependency from Microsoft that's rarely worse enough to justify using the 3rd party one.
by echelon | 2025-11-24 16:04:02+00:00
You don't need to tie yourself to distributor control if you catch fire and maintain your rights. It's never been easier to build your audience and personal brand.

VivziePop with Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss was able to do this on YouTube and then ink deals with Amazon and merch retailers (where the real money is). Her shows alone rake in over $100m and the merch significantly more.

Glitch with Murder Drones and Amazing Digital Circus did the same. And they've stolen a lot of high profile folks from Disney for Knights of Guinevere and upcoming shows.

Psychic Pebbles did it and how has an Adult Swim show. Joel Haver, lots of others...

This is basically what George Lucas was able to engineer with his 20th Century Fox deal to maintain merch rights. But it's even better for creators today.
by Rochus | 2025-11-24 16:04:11+00:00
I assume it is generating Go as an "intermediate language". What's the percentual overhead of this, are measurements available? Even if Go's AST and IRs are "internal", the source is still available and one could in principle directly adapt to this IR from the Dingo frontend. I ask myself, whether this would bring a significant advantage (mostly in terms of latency and throughput, maybe in terms of source level debugging). Does anyone have an experience founded answer?
by powerclue | 2025-11-24 16:04:21+00:00
Answering genuinely, assuming the question is in good faith --

Socialist theory typically handles luxuries of limited quantity in a few ways.

One, if there's demand, try to increase the quantity. Could we have more racing fill the gap? Maybe not, as an F1 fan I understand this might not be possible.

Two, could we apportion it via lottery? There's lots of styles of lottery, from random chance to chances derived from some characteristic (e.g. maybe you can get some lottery tickets based on productivity).

Three, queues -- maybe you can't be one of the hundred thousands who go this year, but everyone who did go has to wait their turn before going again.

Four, don't offer it. Some luxuries maybe don't exist in a society built on the concept of wellbeing for all. I think there would still be racing, but maybe there wouldn't be superyachts or many private jets. This is definitely not the preferred outcome -- luxuries make life wonderful, but if they are really really hard to share, maybe we should put more time in to things that are easier to share.

Five, markets and trade. Markets can exist under socialism, though many socialists consider them unpalatable. Capitalism is a specific type of market economy. There are non capitalist ways to run markets.

Six, corruption. The powerful and their guests get to attend. I'd argue this is what we have today under capitalism today as well. We just derive power from money, not government positions.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-24 16:04:50+00:00
Just saw it up so it's not obviously one complete car. Nobody cares as long as their ass is covered. You can get away with more if you're a regular and they know you and know you not to be sketchy.

Even if they know you they'll never take a full car body in one piece without a title or any of the other "open and shut case" violations of law because they don't wanna risk getting Randy Weaver'd because a good customer had government problems and became an "informant".
by abstractbeliefs | 2025-11-24 16:05:27+00:00
No open source, then I'm not playing.

I use Zim wiki for everything just now and I don't like it. I'm in the market for a replacement, and would even pay like with how Immich does it.

Unless the source code is available or you put it into legal escrow for when you go bust/abandon the software†, I will not invest my time and data into a system where I am entirely dependent on another organisation or service.

† And you will go bust or abandon the software before I die!
by chuckadams | 2025-11-24 16:05:44+00:00
For all the other things I like about yarn, it still executes build scripts willy-nilly, so I am looking at switching to pnpm. I'm sure my $work is going to love me changing up the build toolchain again... PHP's composer on the other hand requires an allowlist in the project's composer.json. I never would have thought PHP would be the one to be getting stuff like this right.

Still, I think the "allow-scripts" section or whatever it's called should be named "allow-unrestricted-access-to-everything". Or maybe just stick "dangerously-" in front, I dunno, and drop it when the mechanism is capable of fine-grained privileges.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-24 16:05:50+00:00
How much human labor is needed to run a semiconductor fab? This isn't exactly a new shipyard being announced. It seems like the perfect investment for an aging society, and might pay dividends in helping to support the automation of other industries.

Japan also already supplies a lot of critical materials for semiconductor fabrication, and has a lot of experience in the sector. They also have a well-developed domestic mechatronics supply chain. It seems like a fairly straightforward thing.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-24 16:06:10+00:00
They would say the theorems are meaningless.

The classical mathematician would respond that the theorems are clearly meaningful and you can easily test them against any natural numbers you care about to see empirically they are meaningful.

The ultrafinitist would respond that they are only coincidentally correct, in the same way that pre-modern mathematical reasoning was often very sloppy, featured regular abuse of notation, and had no coherent foundations, but nonetheless still often arrived at correct conclusions by "coincidence."

The classical mathematician might then go over how strong the intuition of something like "there exists a number that..." is and how it is an easily empirically validated statement...

And so the debate would keep going.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a plug-and-play Trust Engine (TTLI)?
by gokulnair2001 | 2025-11-24 16:06:14+00:00
I’m building TTLI, a simple plug-in trust layer that any platform can add to detect fraud, score risk, and keep user trust intact without heavy inhouse systems.

Curious if others here see value in an external trust layer or have thoughts on the challenges. Happy to chat with anyone interested.
by amalcon | 2025-11-24 16:06:38+00:00
I have had several things over the course of my career that:

1) I was (temporarily) the only one still at the company who knew why it was there

2) I only knew myself because I had reverse engineered it, because the person who put it there had left the company

Now, some of those things had indeed become unnecessary over time (and thus were removed). Some of them, however, have been important (and thus were documented). In aggregate, it's been well worth the effort to do that reverse engineering to classify things properly.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-24 16:07:01+00:00
> Oh, and your plan is to just give them the chips they want directly?

"Give them"? I love sneaky propagandists. No, make them pay for it. It's what we do to our "allies" so that they are dependent on american tech.

> Of course investing into chip development is slowing China down.

From a myopic narrow point of view. But viewed more broadly, it has accelerated china's tech development.

> Its slower to build their own than for us to give them those chips.

In the short term, but not the long term. Just like banning china from participating in the international space station forced china to accelerate their development of their space program.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-24 16:07:34+00:00
That’s why I think verification has to be done with an external service provider using an anonymized token, to verify is/is not citizen. It would have to be very clear that the social site does not have your identity.

> the linkedin effect seems more due to the nature of corporate culture where everyone's profile is an extension of their persona optimized for monetary/career outcomes so you get this vapid superficial fakeness to it that turns people off.

The same would happen if people knew your IRL identity on a social site, see all the attempted “cancellations” on both sides of the aisle these last few years.
by Zettroke | 2025-11-24 16:07:45+00:00
I'm afraid it won't work. The point of std lib is to be universal connection for all the libraries. But with versioned std I just can't see how can you have DateTime in std1, DateTime in std2 and use them interchangeably, for example being able to pass std2::DateTime to library depending on std1 etc. Maybe conversion methods, but it get really complicated really quickly
by tristor | 2025-11-24 16:07:45+00:00
It might be the best outcome for society, but it's not the best outcome for the people. I experienced severe violence directed at my person for most of my life and it caused lifelong trauma. I was further punished for defending myself, expected to just allow people to harm me. During school I was beaten many times, had bones broken, was stabbed with a pocket knife, and had numerous other things happen. Unlike the kids from the bad homes who exacted that violence against me, I didn't get my trauma from home I got it from school.

I have a 176 IQ, I'm now a highly paid professional who has made significant contributions to both open source software and to the invention of technologies that power the cloud. Obviously things worked out for me regardless of my circumstances. Most of the kids I went to school with are dead, in jail, or homeless drug addicts, so my presence certainly didn't fix that. If forcing me to be with them in school saved just one of them from a life of crime and drugs, was it worth forcing me to experience torture for no reason of my own making for my formative years? I would say no. Society is not more important than the individual, you must balance individual and social values against one another without taking either into preference.

I have no problem with spiteful bullies ending up in jail or dead after school, ultimately. It seems just and karmic.
by janeerie | 2025-11-24 16:08:13+00:00
Two things that we use for my son's CI are a cable wrap, which gives the cable a bit of reinforcement, and what we call the "eagle claw" - a little plastic hook that goes on the bottom and hooks around the ear lobe to give it a bit more stability.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/870982894/cochlear-implant-cabl...
by shadymoney | 2025-11-24 16:08:34+00:00
This is why I am not a huge fan of separate package managers for libraries, such as in the case of rust, or node. The C style of sharing deps. couldn't really be simpler as just including the headers in your Makefile.

We really don't need more package managers other than the ones provided by your operating system, but I dunno maybe its just me.
by acdha | 2025-11-24 16:08:46+00:00
> This isn't such a great idea for personal SSH or GPG keys that should be locked away in physical hardware thing that need to be moved to other devices/machines

I would change this: it’s great for personal usage BUT you should always use n>1 keys to avoid being locked out. For example, using the Secure Enclave for your daily use is fine but you’d want to have, say, a FIDO2 hardware key setup so if your laptop fails or is reset you can get into anything where you use that key.
by oersted | 2025-11-24 16:08:48+00:00
I never played the first, but Settlers 2 was fantastic. I always preferred it to later installments because it had a strict grid of nodes, creating a complex graph of buildings and paths, rather than the more freeform pathing.

It was such a joy to grow the supply chains and deal with the all messy network logistics and bottlenecks. It sounds quite boring said out-loud, but we are in HN after all, I think you'll get it :)
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-24 16:08:57+00:00
That isn't what they cited as the reason for cancellation, so is completely irrelevant to the conversation.

I'll bite though: I don't see what the definition of a "fake booking" is in there, but I would argue that knowing that you need one of two weekends, and fully intending to use the booking when that determination is made, does not make it a fake booking. A cancelled booking is not the same as a "fake booking", cancellation is a service that they offer (presumably for cases just like this, where exact ravel dates are still being determined) and she paid for. You can't offer, and upcharge, for a cancellation service and then claim that cancellation is not within your terms of service.

Additionally, the remedy for making "fake bookings", as described in the document you are citing, is that they will cancel your booking. They did not cancel, they attempted to 4x the price. So that section doesn't apply doubly. 1. She did not make a fake booking 2. They did not invoke that section in their reasoning, and they did not use the remedies described by that section.

Edit: Finally, you have chosen a section of the terms and conditions for a different country (GB) on a different continent that is neither the home of the hotel or the person making the booking, or the travellers accompanying the person making the booking. It is not just completely irrelevant from a textual perspective, but also completely irrelevant because it has no legal relevance for any of the parties involved.
by rivellium | 2025-11-24 16:09:04+00:00
Rivellium is an AI-powered multi-asset investment platform connecting investors with real SMBs and income-producing companies.

Key points: • Multi-asset investing (SMBs, private deals, public assets in one place) • AI scoring, forecasting, and automated risk signals • 2–3 click investing experience • Marketplace model with transparent fee structure • Building toward secondary market, B2B scoring API, and US expansion

Looking for feedback from founders, fintech engineers, and investors familiar with SMB financing infrastructure.

Happy to answer any questions.
by pverheggen | 2025-11-24 16:09:58+00:00
While it's true that six others unequivocally opposed adoption, we don't know how many of those oppose the chairs claiming they have consensus. This may be a normal ratio to move forward with adoption, you'd have to look at past IETF proceeding to get a sense for that.

One other factor which comes in to play, some people can't stand his communication style. When disagreed with, he tends to dig in his heels and write lengthly responses that question people's motives, like in this blog post and others. Accusing the chairs of corruption may have influenced how seriously his complaint was taken.
by Silent6361 | 2025-11-24 16:10:05+00:00
In April 2020 I was 220 lbs / 100 kg , and I decided to take control of my health. Through diet, exercise, and persistence, I got down to 150 lbs / 68 kg by 2024. I'm a 5'10" / 178 cm 46 year old male. In May 2025 I stopped running as much and switched to more core and upper body work, and have gained some weight, so now I'm a little over 160 lbs / 72 kg and my body fat is 12-15%, and feel really good. This is the first time I've spoken about my weight publicly.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-11-24 16:10:07+00:00
On Nixpkgs master, you can cross compile to MinGW and Cygwin.

Native Cygwin builds are also currently in progress: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/447520. I would expect this to be done very soon, there year even (holidays permitting).

There is a MinGW build of Nix but it is missing some features. There has been MSVC build of a fork in the past and I would like to revive that also.

There some some open questions relating to Nixpkgs's heavy use of Bash, but longer term I would like to compete for Windows in all ways:

- Support all cross (MinGW, Cygwin/MSYS2, MSVC ABI with LLVM, MSVC with Wine) - Be Cygwin packages - Be https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages / https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages - Be VCPKG

All these things have slightly different trade-offs, and Nixpkgs is very good at portability, so we should simply do them all.
by saxenaabhi | 2025-11-24 16:10:11+00:00
A chinese has much less per capita emission than let's say someone from a western country.

I think there should be a equal global limit on how much per capita CO2 your can release and if you exceed you should pay a penalty and if you are lower that limit you should be able to sell those credits.

Harsh penalties are the only way we can fix this issue unfortunately.