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by andai | 2025-11-21 19:19:26+00:00
The substance / structure point is fascinating.

It gives us four quadrants.

Natural Substance, Natural Structure: Humans, dogs, ants, bacteria.

Natural Substance, Artificial Structure: enslaved living neurons (like the human brain cells that play pong 24/7), or perhaps a hypothetical GPT-5 made out of actual neurons instead of Nvidia chips.

Artificial Substance, Natural Structure: if you replace each of your neurons with a functional equivalent made out of titanium... would you cease to be conscious? At what point?

Artificial substance, Artificial structure: GPT etc., but also my refrigerator, which also has inputs (current temp), goals (maintain temp within range), and actions (turn cooling on/off).

The game SOMA by Frictional (of Amnesia fame!) goes into some depth on this subject.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-21 19:19:47+00:00
I don't think there is a simple explanation, that's why I used the word "morass".

"From when insulin is produced by the drug manufacturer to when it goes to a pharmacy, profit is extracted at every step of the way. The insulin market is dominated by three large drug manufacturers—Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk—that, with little competition, have raised their list prices in lockstep. But there are other players besides the Big Three that are contributing to the problem. Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, contract with insurance carriers and act on behalf of the insurer to negotiate the price of insulin with the drug manufacturers. In negotiating the price, PBMs place a drug higher or lower on their tier of preferred drugs and receive rebates based on a percentage of the list price. This kind of system incentivizes high list prices, which determine the amount of co-insurance patients pay. And if patients have a high deductible or are uninsured, they might pay the entire list price."

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-price-of-insulin-...

My position is simply that it is better to solve problems by taking regulations away than piling them on.
by bluecalm | 2025-11-21 19:20:07+00:00
If an average class has 20 students it's $560k per year. If an average student gets 1000 hours of schooling per year you can pay 200$/hour and you have spent only just above 1/3 of your budget.

It feels like there is more to the story that "$28k doesn't go as far in San Francisco".
by advisedwang | 2025-11-21 19:20:55+00:00
This article really takes umbridge with those that conflate phenomenological and access consciousness. However that is essentially dualism. It's a valid philosophical position to believe that there is no distinct phenomenological consciousness besides access consciousness.

Abandoning dualism feels intuitively wrong, but our intuition about our own minds is frequently wrong. Look at the studies that show we often believe we made a decision to do an action that was actually a pure reflex. Just the same, we might be misunderstanding our own sense of "the light being on".
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 19:20:55+00:00
The terms are from different industries with different visibility.

When this became a social moment, there was a sentiment that everybody should learn to code and lots of people were being exposed to things like git, and having casual discussions about those things on social media, at meetups, etc.

It went from being an professional engineer's tool to part of a pop culture zeitgeist, where everybody could share some opinion about it.

While many people know what a "master recording" is when the phrase comes up, the number of people actively thinking about and discussing audio/studio engineering remains way smaller and has way less intersection with communities compelled to make noise about language politics.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-11-21 19:20:58+00:00
I don't think everyone gets what is going on here. This is not just to save a few cents, as they could just add a $1.00 charge to every order if they wanted that.

AV1 exists and is both better than HEVC and royalty free. H.264/AVC patents are either expired or rapidly expiring. Their likely end goal is to phase HEVC out completely, avoid VVC, and not have to deal with this licensing system at all anymore. And that makes sense. There's a good chance that practically all manufacturers will start doing this.

For users, does it really matter? AV1 is being adopted faster than HEVC ever was. Beyond that, AVC has always been far more common than HEVC. It likely won't affect you, and if it does, it's easy to fix or will fix itself.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 19:21:26+00:00
> Kids (and teachers) generally don't deal with bullies well

Are there studies on whether bullying is higher in lightly supervised versus moderately supervised groups? Or mixed-age versus single-age groups?

Scouting is lightly-supervised mixed-age groups. If an older kid bullied a younger kid, that resulted in adults reading them the riot act. But if a younger kid bullied a younger kid, the two sort of wound up sorting it out until someone threw a punch or pissed off an older kid. (For being annoying.) That second dynamic was, to my memory, unique to mixed-age groups.
by tptacek | 2025-11-21 19:22:11+00:00
We build what is effectively a durable execution "engine" for our orchestrator (ours is backed by boltdb and not SQLite, which I objected to, correctly). The steps in our workflows build running virtual machines and include things like allocating addresses, loading BPF programs, preparing root filesystems, and registering services.

Short answer: we need to be able to redeploy and bounce the orchestrator without worrying about what stage each running VM on our platform is in.

JP, the dev that built this out for us, talks a bit about the design rationale (search for "Cadence") here:

https://fly.io/blog/the-exit-interview-jp/

The library itself is open:

https://github.com/superfly/fsm
by catigula | 2025-11-21 19:22:13+00:00
It’s not so much that there’s anything mysterious you can discover through intense introspection or meditation. There might be, but I haven’t found it.

It’s fundamentally that this capability exists at all.

Strip it all down to I think therefore I am. That is very bizarre because it doesn’t follow that such a thing would happen. It’s also not clear that this is even happening at all, and, as an outside observer, you would assess that it isn’t. However, from the inside, it is clear that it is.

I don’t have an explanation for anyone but I have basically given up and accepted that consciousness is epiphenomenal, like looking through a microscope.
by hinkley | 2025-11-21 19:22:17+00:00
There’s a sort of a chess clock that starts after the first injury. Every move adds a little more time to the clock but slowly runs down goodwill.

It does seem to be that the later the clock starts the better things go.

But analogies aside, it’s also that first incident of “did I make a mistake coming here?” And that can start with dumb logistical things like they knew you were showing up on Wednesday and they didn’t have a desk or maybe a composter ready for you.

The Gottman Institute thinks that the only emotion a relationship cannot endure is contempt. So far I haven’t encountered any meaningful counterexamples.
by ghm2199 | 2025-11-21 19:22:41+00:00
Lets say my strategy from now is: 15% on an ex-US mid cap, 15% US Largecap, 15% ACWI growth, 15% Emerging market growth, 40% in short treasury fixed income. If I already have some ETFs already, can this be used to bucket and calculate what is the current state of the ETFs I hold against the strategy?

Can it do that for Mutual funds in like retirement accounts?

Context: I want to implement my own portfolio using some weights on a basket of ETFs. The ETFs are selected by country/geography(e.g. ex-US or US or world) and then type(small, mid, large) and then finally by income strategy(growth, value, fixed, defined outcome etc) based on expected returns.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-21 19:23:02+00:00
This article is somewhat misleading. The changed ToS only covers Arduino's hosted cloud services, not the IDE or microcontroller library. This is spelled out in black and white in the first paragraph of the ToS:

> 1.1 The Site is part of the platform developed and managed by Arduino, which allows users to take part in the discussions on the Arduino forum, the Arduino blog, the Arduino User Group, the Arduino Discord channel, and the Arduino Project Hub, and to access the Arduino main website, subsites, Arduino Cloud, Arduino Courses, Arduino Certifications, Arduino Docs, the Arduino EDU kit sites to release works within the Contributor License Agreement program, and to further develop the Arduino open source ecosystem (collectively, the “Platform”). The use of the Site, the Platform, and the Services is governed by these Terms including the other documents and policies made available on the Platform by Arduino.Certifications, Arduino Docs, the Arduino EDU kit sites to release works within the Contributor License Agreement program, and to further develop the Arduino open source ecosystem (collectively, the “Platform”). The use of the Site, the Platform, and the Services is governed by these Terms including the other documents and policies made available on the Platform by Arduino.
by hopelite | 2025-11-21 19:23:09+00:00
This is not exactly an unbiased forum to discuss this matter since Flock is a YC backed program, but what do you think will happen in short order? Maybe that car thieves will simply slap on fake license plates to get out of the area?

What you’re left with then, is nothing but the tyrannical and even treasonous mass surveillance program to know where you go and when all your life, even when you leave your tracking device phone behind and use a tracking device free vehicle.
by whalesalad | 2025-11-21 19:23:30+00:00
I always wanted to mod mine, but was worried about Xbox Live ban (even on OG xbox)

This had me wondering what the name of the chip I intended to buy was ... which had me remembering then name Bennie Huang, which led me to realize the OG Xbox he modded is on display near me at the Henry Ford museum (!): https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...

> Not on exhibit to the public.

=(
Show HN: 3400 remote tech jobs from companies with a 3.5 rating on Greenhouse
by TonySyrup | 2025-11-21 19:23:40+00:00
Hello there HN,

I'm Tony, software developer for the past 16 years.

Since covid I've been working remotely (and loving it) but so many of my friends/family have been forced to go back to the office.

I've told them to go find another remote job but when I had a look at what's out there the visibility on who you're actually applying to is crap on all of the job boards.

So I built a job board that only has remote jobs from companies that have a high rating on Greenhouse (3.5+ stars). This way you never have to worry about the workplace you're applying to.

Hope it helps others find good jobs too.

Tony
by vannevar | 2025-11-21 19:23:59+00:00
Others have pointed out how PE has degraded the medical system. The debt crisis I referred to is the private credit crisis, though no doubt private equity has played a key lobbying role in creating our national debt crisis as well. Regarding private debt, Jeffrey Gundlach sums it up:

"'This is starting to show up to be the problem that I've been referencing… that private credit and private equity, frankly, is being borrowed from private equity. It's sold on a volatility argument, primarily," Gundlach added. "Maybe there's some excess return for your illiquidity that you can get, but it's largely a volatility argument.'

Illiquidity could turn paper losses into real ones, Gundlach cautioned, pointing to the kind of liquidity squeeze that worsened the 2008 financial crisis, when investors were unable to meet capital calls."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/jeffrey-gundlach-says-cr...
by lkramer | 2025-11-21 19:24:14+00:00
I think this guy paints a difference in thought that is not really there. Putin sees Ukraine neutrality and impotence as vital to Russia's security. No, he probably does not want to actually annex Ukraine, that would be a ball ache he doesn't need, but he would like it to behave like Belarus.

I think the real difference lies in whether one believes Ukraine deserves to decide its own path, or if it's forever doomed to be a chess piece on the board between spheres of influence, which seems to be the mindset both Putin and Trump are stuck in.
by lobsterthief | 2025-11-21 19:24:19+00:00
It’s really becoming desperate and counterproductive.

I’ve had an Alfred command since 2013 where I type `wiki something` which then opens Confluence and searches for `something`. I use this to quickly search our company wiki for terms without breaking my concentration and flow.

Atlassian decided to add an AI summary at the top and intentionally disable the rest of the results until the AI summary has finished rendering fully. It’s insane. How is this making me more productive? It’s just shearing off one other layer of familiarity and value I’ve enjoyed for 12 years and pushing me away from their product.

Forced adoption rarely works out unless people really want the feature and don’t know that they want it. At the very least, let us disable it.
by kerkeslager | 2025-11-21 19:24:25+00:00
> What makes you think that the program is going to exit anytime soon?

Because freeing memory in multiple exit paths of a short-running program is the definition of the problem he's trying to solve. Read what I posted before you waste everyone's time with another ego-based response where you don't admit you missed that important detail.

I'm well aware of what arenas are and they're an excellent tool for a lot of situations, maybe even most situations, but this isn't one of those situations.

Also be sure to let the authors of grep know their program used by millions of people is a toy program.
by missedthecue | 2025-11-21 19:24:31+00:00
Given they are sufficiently successful to be living on their own, married, and some with their own homes, whether they went to college is probably an inappropriate yardstick of success. I mean, be real. If a 25 year old is married and owns a home, but doesn't have a BSc are they a failure? What are we doing here.
by kakacik | 2025-11-21 19:24:40+00:00
Luckily for whole Europe russia is very incompetent at doing anything serious, and complex projects like war are as serious as it gets. They routinely fail at logistics even now, corruption and nepotism is how puttin' built his whole empire, you don't suddenly get competent people at key positions of power just because it would make sense.

So whatever happens (apart from nuclear holocaust everywhere around the world) will be so slow we will have time to react. Already biggest arming of whole european continent since WWII is happening, and any bad news is pushing more money and focus into building more and more.

I know it sounds gloomy, but only if you have your head too close to the screens daily. Worse had come and gone than incompetent russians.
by beloch | 2025-11-21 19:24:40+00:00
It's directly analogous to China issuing export bans. They tried this with critical minerals. Critical minerals aren't actually all that uncommon. They just weren't being actively extracted in most places. Now many extraction projects are starting to roll around the globe because it has become clear China was willing to use access to them as leverage.

My guess is that China will be highly reluctant to restrict exports of manufactured goods going forward. Doing so would directly threaten their own power base, just as the Trump administration's actions are currently taking a sledge hammer to the U.S.'s power base.

Ultimately, this kind of power is illusory. If you ever use it, you lose it.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 19:24:51+00:00
The problem is that people don't know how to cook. Something like pressure cookers (or crock pots where appropriate) are amazing for this sort of scenario. There are endless recipes you can find online that are toss a few ingredients in, wait, eat. Easy clean up, and delicious. I increasingly think cooking should be a part of basic education for everybody.

Stuff like rice, beans, and chicken breast are extremely cheap, and most of the way towards a balanced diet by themselves. And cookers are like magic - just toss a bunch of stuff in, some spices, and it will come out amazing. I like a bit of yogurt as my fat, but you can go way cheaper - just toss some lard in there, it'll taste great.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 19:25:13+00:00
I've also been a Kodi user since it was XBMC (I originally bought an X-box purely to run XBMC). In my view, its biggest UX drawbacks are 1. how it works with remote controls, 2. playback reliability, and 3. importing content.

1. Remotes: Most remotes now don't have dedicated stop/pause/play/forward/rewind buttons, so we have to map those functions to a single "do something" remote button, or at best a single "do something" button + cardinal direction controls. So if I push "left" on my remote, to this day, I am not really confident about what it's going to do. If I push the "do it" button, is it going to pause? Bring up a context menu? Bring up some other kind of overlay? Who knows? The whole input system needs simplification and an acceptance of today's terrible remote control hardware. Not just the "back" thing you mention which yes, is terrible.

2. Reliability: Unlike something like VLC, Kodi decidedly does NOT playback everything you throw at it, but it's been getting better. I've often seen it shudder, quit unexpectedly, freeze, and it doesn't seem to handle scrubbing forward and backward in the file very well. When I sit down with my family to watch a movie, I always have that voice in the back of my head that says "Am I going to have to take 10 minutes to try to get this movie to work, awkwardly, while my family sits on the sofa looking at me?"

3. Media content: Kodi's insistence on grafting its own "library" on top of my already-working filesystem is just terrible. I can't just add a file to a directory. Nooooooo that would be too simple. I have to add the file, and then go into Kodi and try to figure out how to get it to re-scan and import these files. To this day, I don't think I can tell you what menu to navigate to to import content. And fuck me if I do something wildly unusual like rename a file.

That said, it's nicer than everything else I've tried. It has an actual TV-centric interface that has all the nice things you'd expect (poster / album art, artist / actor info, genres, and so on). Kodi's flaws are not annoying enough for me to take the time to try something else like Jellyfin or Plex. But with your comment, I might be motivated to try out Jellyfin. It's hard to tell from their web site what they offer that differentiates them from Kodi, but it's probably worth an explore.
by visioninmyblood | 2025-11-21 19:25:27+00:00
I have been using different anonimization tools to blur out my face and license plate at as many locations as possible to keep my data as private as possible. This recent tool does it in a single shot in a chat. I was able to blur out LPR data very easily with high accuracy https://chat.vlm.run/c/7ca96025-1d6c-4c33-ab82-97e6f017883b
by tptacek | 2025-11-21 19:25:33+00:00
We started hoping that car thefts would be a pressure point for a lot of violent crime (which tends to be committed from stolen cars --- this is the Kia problem). But we caught more innocent drivers with stale entries on the Illinois LEADS hotlist than actual stolen cars. When we OK'd the system after its pilot, it was on the condition that we no longer curb cars based on stolen car reports at all --- we'd only curb them based on stolen license plates (which have no innocent explanation).

Maybe other states are different for this, but in Chicagoland, unless you don't care about disproportionately harming Black motorists, using Flock for stolen car enforcement was a flop.
by ghm2199 | 2025-11-21 19:25:53+00:00
My hero usecase with these tools is to auto pull investments from Fidelity 401K account + Schwab brokerage + BYOBrokerage.

Then combine them and break them down by country/geography(e.g. ex-US or US or world) and then type(small, mid, large) and then finally by income strategy(growth, value, fixed, defined outcome etc)
by geocar | 2025-11-21 19:25:56+00:00
That's not how copyright law works in the slightest.

You can absolutely download a file from Microsoft's website and run that file on Wine and Microsoft cannot get a judge to hold you to any "license terms" elsewhere on that website. I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice, you are just a moron if you think otherwise.

Furthermore, I also don't think Microsoft would claim otherwise! But you are still welcome to prove me wrong by providing just _one_ example on their website of a license that you think could force me to do anything at all, because of a DLL _you_ can give to me (aka "a redistributable")
by dkhenry | 2025-11-21 19:26:22+00:00
My kids are part of a co-op where they meet once a week and in this co-op they share some elements of their curriculum with everyone else, they spend one day going over the weeks assignments along with 8-10 classmates, and then during the week they are at home doing their work. As they have aged their school work now has a lot of collaborative elements, so my oldest is actually meeting with kids from his co-op almost daily to go over group projects and assignments.

Additionally they have a lot of extra curricular activities they participate in ( sports, music, church youth group), that also gives them a lot of socialization time with others.
by int_19h | 2025-11-21 19:26:35+00:00
Star Trek communism.

There are two separate issues here: whether tech itself is bad, and whether the way it is deployed is bad. Better AI is, in principle, the kind of tech that can massively change the world for the better. In practice it is being deployed to maximize profits because that's what we chose to incentivize in our society above everything else, but the problem is obviously the incentives (and the people that they enable), not the tech itself.
by concrete_head | 2025-11-21 19:26:39+00:00
I've wondered if LLMs are infact conscious as per some underwhelming definition as you mentioned. Just for the brief moment they operate on a prompt. They wake up, they perceive their world through tokens, do a few thinking loops then sleep until the next prompt.

So what? Should we feel bad for spawning them and effectively killing them? I think not.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-11-21 19:26:43+00:00
If you can be a little flexible on (2), then Beancount hits most of the Holy Grail points. The ledger format is literally text (it is plain-text accounting after all) but there is a query language the works really well.

I end up saving CSV's locally and importing the transactions from there (no hand entry, but I still need the intermediate download step.) I don't find it that too burdensome since I don't have a zillion different accounts.

[This](https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/the-five-min...) project (I am not affiliated in any way) claims to automate ledger update even further.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-11-21 19:26:48+00:00
I can't say my public school experience was great, I was bullied and didn't really click with the popular kids, but being around a cross section of actual American kids in my age group (my school district mixed middle class with lower class neighborhoods) helped me shape my worldview and learn to deal with people who didn't look or talk like me. I frequently saw fights, so I learned that you just stay away and watch your mouth around specific people. I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them.