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by evil-olive | 2025-11-13 21:28:46+00:00
> Where'd all this abolish the senate nonsense come from recently?

if you think it's recent, you haven't been paying particularly close attention

2021: The Senate Cannot Be Reformed — It Can Only Be Abolished [0]

2018: The Case for Abolishing the Senate [1]

2004: What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate [2]

and that's just from the first page of Kagi results for "abolish the senate". I have no doubt it goes back farther than that if I actually went digging for historical sources.

the imbalance of power is only going to get worse as time goes on, as well [3]

> By 2040, two-thirds of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate

> “David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states,” Seib wrote. “They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them.”

0: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abolish-us-senate...

1: https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-abolishing-the-senate

2: https://harpers.org/archive/2004/05/what-democracy-the-case-...

3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/28/b...
by fragmede | 2025-11-13 21:28:47+00:00
I only know one person currently at spaceX, but I'm willing to bet there's a large contingent of people working there who would sell their souls to die on Mars.

I'll be honest, I've never been the CEO of a successful 10,000+ employee company (or even an unsuccessful one, lol), but at that level, the amount of doing that a person can do themselves is limited.
by gspencley | 2025-11-13 21:28:51+00:00
> This works very well for the local wealth crowd

It works well for everyone. The problem with government that is for and by the people, is that wealthy people are people too.

You're effectively saying that because you're worried about the "local wealth crowd" "capturing" government, you would prefer to make change in government more difficult and representation farther removed for everyone.

It's not clear how that would make it easier for the "non local wealth crowd" to affect change while it makes it harder for the "wealth crowd" ? Although maybe "local" is the key word here? I mean, that would imply that you're OK with global mega-corps capturing the federal level as long as they are not local companies. But I think I'd be straw-manning you to assume that's your position, and I'm not trying to strawman you. I'm just illustrating the logical conclusion of your idea if I take it at face value.

For what it's worth, I'm not a fan of protectionist economic policies. But if I were, I might offer that "local wealth" at least provides value at the local level (jobs, economic growth etc.) whereas global mega-corps have interests outside of the country.

In any case, it's not at all clear how making it less difficult for the "local wealth crowd" makes it easier for the "non local wealth crowd." As I see it, you just make government farther removed for everyone. Disadvantaging both groups equally. But if you're ideologically driven by a hatred of wealth and of capitalism, then maybe that's well understood and we are all sacrificial lambs on offer.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 21:29:01+00:00
I remember Bill Gates (sometime around 2000-2005 maybe?) saying "Security is now the top priority for Microsoft", and in 2024 Satya Nadella said it again (https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-ceo-securit...) and just one month ago, a blog post titled "How Microsoft is creating a security-first culture that lasts" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/13/bui...)

I don't think it ever ended, nor that it ever started. But they've been saying this for a while not, for at least two CEOs.
by XorNot | 2025-11-13 21:29:07+00:00
Nix makes everything else so hard that I've seen problems with production configuration persist well beyond when they should because the cycle time on figuring out the fix due to evaluations was just too long.

In fact figuring out what any given Nix config is actually doing is just about impossible and then you've got to work out what the config it's deploying actually does.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-13 21:29:24+00:00
Nano Banana can be frustrating at times. Yesterday I tried to get it to do several edits to an image, and it would return back pretty much the same photo.

Things like: Convert the people to clay figures similar to what one would see in a claymation.

And it would think it did it, but I could not perceive any change.

After several attempts, I added "Make the person 10 years younger". Suddenly it made a clay figure of the person.
by upofadown | 2025-11-13 21:29:24+00:00
At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind. If there are any events the script:

* Makes a unique noise on the house announcement system.

* Sends me an email with the events.

* Sends me a SMS with the events.

My long term events archive is just the reminders file which I have never bothered to truncate. It's got easy to search stuff in there from decades ago.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 21:29:28+00:00
An LLM is mathematically incapable of telling you "I don't know"

It was never trained to "know" or not.

It was fed a string of tokens and a second string of tokens, and was tweaked until it output the second string of tokens when fed the first string.

Humans do not manage "I don't know" through next token prediction.

Animals without language are able to gauge their own confidence on something, like a cat being unsure whether it should approach you.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 21:30:05+00:00
> It's fundamentally undemocratic and the reasons for having it are long gone

Undemocratic is insufficient for removing a governing body per se. (Courts are technically undemocratic. That doesn't make them bad.)

Compared with the House, the Senate has behaved as designed--a far more mature body that actually deliberates from time to time.
by sorcercode | 2025-11-13 21:30:13+00:00
@simonw: slight tangent but super curious how you managed to generate the preview of that gemini-cli terminal session gist - https://gistpreview.github.io/?17290c1024b0ef7df06e9faa4cb37...

is this just a manual copy/paste into a gist with some html css styling; or do you have a custom tool à la amp-code that does this more easily?
by eddythompson80 | 2025-11-13 21:30:37+00:00
My understanding was always that this is a way to monetize a text editor. How else do you monetize dev tools? Developers are used to very high quality free tools. You’re either one of the few old guards (like JetBrains, Microsoft or maybe Oracle) that can sell IDEs and other dev tools because 25 years ago open source dev tools were far from beginner friendly.

But how do you monetize a programming language, a text editor, a build system, a terminal emulator, etc in 2025? The examples are deno, bun, mojo, nextjs, zed, earthly, warp, etc. all know they can’t monetize the actual tool. You monetize services that you build around the tool. Like a cloud/workers/deployment (basically compute), or a sharing service or an AI service, etc. once you have critical mass on your platform, you can find other easy services to offer. Like if Zed has a critical mass of users, maybe the offer “in editor chat”. A small startup with just 3 devs working together can replace slack with zed. Maybe they offer an uptime check service. Why not? Maybe a file sharing service. Maybe a small wiki service, etc. all things that have million other solutions. But if you have critical mass, someone will pay for those things.
by dwattttt | 2025-11-13 21:30:39+00:00
By first party support, would you be expecting a Rust toolchain shipped in the NDK, or maybe Rust bindings shipped in the NDK?

I could see the latter, although I'd still question whether they should be special cased in terms of a Rust dependency compared to bindings being hosted on crates.io.

Or maybe they should ship scripts that shell out to an existing Rust toolchain.
by bborud | 2025-11-13 21:30:40+00:00
And yet, this isn’t what what people in polar regions do. Nor is it how professionals are taught to dress in cold climates.

Reinhold Messner believes in yetis. Linus Pauling thought you could cure a cold with vitamin C and shot coffee up his ass. Clever people believe in dumb shit too sometimes.

Perhaps you should read the manual for how armies that operate polar regions dress? Or perhaps get some first hand experience before you insist?
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-13 21:31:22+00:00
One of those is a city state, and two of them have a population comparable to Sydney, one comparable to New York.

In other conversations it’s widely argued that those four probably don’t map very well to the larger, more diverse in every way, Western Democracies.

That leaves Germany, which has its problems.

If Germany hadn’t shut down their nuclear power plants they could have had 94% low emissions electricity by now, rather than 64% and much more costly.

The German economy is so well managed they’ve introduced rent-control in some cities.

Absolute paragon of a Western Democracy!
by pmdulaney | 2025-11-13 21:31:30+00:00
It is, I think, indicative of a broader trend. When you drive past the National Cemetery on Wilshire Blvd in Westwood, there is a large statue of a naked woman (personifying victory or the glory to be accorded the fallen?). I believe it was placed there shortly after World War I. I can't imagine a similar statue would be erected today.
by ThrowawayB7 | 2025-11-13 21:31:43+00:00
> "All of this insulates them from having to worry about the long-term sustainability of making money from game sales on Windows..."

The weak link in your theory is that Microsoft is in control of the future of the DirectX API, not Valve, and it is Microsoft who is working with nVidia and AMD and game studios to evolve DirectX to take advantage of the latest GPU features. SteamOS can at best follow closely behind but can never take the lead without Valve developing their own games API that games developers an GPU makers are willing to target.
by Imnimo | 2025-11-13 21:32:10+00:00
I think one could certainly make the case that model capabilities should be open. My observation is just about how little it took to flip the model from refusal to cooperation. Like at least a human in this situation who is actually fooled into believing they're doing legitimate security work has a lot of concrete evidence that they're working for a real company (or a lot of moral persuasion that their work is actually justified). Not just a line of text in an email or whatever saying "actually we're legit don't worry about it".
by blancotech | 2025-11-13 21:32:26+00:00
This is a super fun idea. As someone who just launched a chrome extension, I find it cool that with tweeks you are essentially create one but without having to go through the chrome web store. I wonder if there's any risk in you offer shared "tweaks" that goes against some web store policy.

Also I find the founder journey interesting. What made you decide to pivot from AI Recruiting to an extension generator? Saw this https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MvC-nextbyte-ai-recruit...
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-13 21:32:34+00:00
Broadly 'world' means 'the domain I'm interested in'. In current use in the DNN context 'world' tends to be physical space at a scale relevant to humans or robots (eg. autonomous vehicles). So when someone says 'world model' you have to ask 'what kind of world, and how is it represented?'.

We don't need to agree on one very specific meaning, which is good, because we would fail.
Show HN: YAML Validator –A simple Docker-based YAML checker
by pooyanazad | 2025-11-13 21:33:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I made a tiny tool called YAML Validator that checks your YAML files with one Docker command — no installs, no setup, no excuses.

It does:

- Syntax checks

- yamllint linting

- checkov security scanning

- All in one lightweight, zero-config container

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How to use:

docker run -v "$(pwd):/data" pooyanazad/yaml-checker <yaml-file>

Optional alias (for .bashrc / .zshrc):

alias ytest='docker run -v "$(pwd):/data" pooyanazad/yaml-checker'

Then simply call:

ytest sample.yaml

YAML powers CI/CD, configs, infra ,and breaking it is too easy. This aims to catch syntax, style, and security issues early with minimal friction.

I’d love feedback, ideas, or edge cases to test.

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GitHub: https://github.com/pooyanazad/YAML-validator

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Thanks for reading!

Pooyan
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 21:33:29+00:00
There's a lot of confusion here.

The hemp products in question are not, like, hemp rope. They're just pot that is classified as hemp because they are harvested and processed in such a way that keeps the D9 THC below .3% at the time of testing.

If you were to go look at a growing operation for someone making THCa flower and then go look at a growing operation for someone making regulated legal marijuana, they would be virtually indistinguishable.
by taylorhughes | 2025-11-13 21:33:30+00:00
We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards, which we then turn into full motion video with a combination of img2vid models. It sounds like we're doing similar things, trying to keep images/characters/setting/style consistent across ~dozens of images (~minutes of video). You might like the product depending on what you're doing with the outputs! https://hypernatural.ai
by dwattttt | 2025-11-13 21:34:18+00:00
Yes, that's an existing soundness hole in the compiler. You won't accidentally code it up yourself though.

If the bar is "deliberately malicious code results in a segfault", get back to me when they fix

memcpy(0x10000, 0x20000, 0x10);

EDIT: and even that's being charitable; the Rust issue is viewed as a compiler bug which should be fixed.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-13 21:34:32+00:00
I expect Rust being documented here,

https://developer.android.com/ndk

I expect the whole Rust build process being part of Android Studio, including mixed language debugging between Java, Kotlin and Rust.

I expect all NDK APIs to have Rust bidding crates.

I expect that Android developer forums also care to support devs using Rust.

And anything else that I forgot to mentioned, that is provided for Java, Kotlin, C and C++.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-11-13 21:35:36+00:00
I’m a little perplexed why every time something in rust compiles, there’s a blog post about it. I was under the impression Ada, especially when using provers, has been around much longer and is more robust. I just can’t decide if the massive Rust evangelism budget is a red flag or just a curious sociological case study, but I wish I knew the truth.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-13 21:36:27+00:00
> MongoDB Atlas is deployed to VMs on 2-3 AZs

I've not actually seen an AZ go down in isolation, so whilst I agree its technically a less "robust" deployment, in practice its not that much of a difference.

> these "we cut bare costs by moving away from the cloud" posts are catnip for HN. But they usually don't make sense.

We moved away from atlas because they couldn’t cope with the data growth that we had(4tb is the max per DB). Turns out that its a fuck load cheaper even hosting on amazon (as in 50%). We haven't moved to hertzner because that would be more effort than we really want to expend, but its totally doable, with not that much extra work.

> more maintenance tasks (installing, upgrading, patching, troubleshooting, getting on-call, etc) with lower reliability and fewer services, isn't an advantage.

Depends right, firstly its not that much of an overhead, and if it saves you significant cash, then it increases your run rate.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-11-13 21:36:35+00:00
I did more research. It does indeed support foveated rendering. Developers do need to implement this for their game, but it supports it.

discussed here: https://youtu.be/b7q2CS8HDHU?t=1074

"For foveated rendering, [the developers] have that option, but it's not compulsory"
by immibis | 2025-11-13 21:37:08+00:00
They'll either start refusing to cool down if you don't connect them to the internet, or they'll display a flashing warning screen that will be infinitely more annoying than the ads.

On the upside, some people will make a nice bit of money reflashing them to remove the ads. That will still be legal... right? Buy a fridge for $2000, then pay the guy $100 to make it actually work right. The guy could be you. Like Rick Sanchez's curse removal service.
by brightball | 2025-11-13 21:37:11+00:00
Party lines...

Senate: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2009/s396

House: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h165

There's always been a plan to replace it with the only economically viable plan that can reduce the cost of healthcare. The same plan Dr. Ben Carson has been talking about for years.

It's the only solution proposed by anyone from either party that would work.
by tabbott | 2025-11-13 21:37:47+00:00
Unfortunately, cyber attacks are an application that AI models should excel at. Mistakes that in normal software would be major problems will just have the impact of wasting resources, and it's often not that hard to directly verify whether it in fact succeeded.

Meanwhile, AI coding seems likely to have the impact of more security bugs being introduced in systems.

Maybe there's some story where everyone finds the security bugs with AI tools before the bad guys, but I'm not very optimistic about how this will work out...
by _sr6i | 2025-11-13 21:38:09+00:00
Longtime lurker, first time poster. I completely agree with you.

Human beings need additional context when interacting with one another that isn't just some text on a screen. You can't learn everything about a person that way and while you can somewhat connect with them, there's levels there you're missing out on not being face to face.

There's also the matter that some people don't come across well online either, can't get their full personhood through the screen...

I think we all owe each other some grace for our humanity and how we deal with our problems. When we can at least see them even when we don't know how resolve them.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-13 21:38:20+00:00
> Are we personally comfortable with such an approach?

I am not, because it's anti-human. I am a human and therefore I care about the human perspective on things. I don't care if a robot is 100x better than a human at any task; I don't want to read its output.

Same reason I'd rather watch a human grandmaster play chess than Stockfish.
by synapsomorphy | 2025-11-13 21:38:22+00:00
Chinese builders are not equal to Chinese hackers (even if the hackers are state sponsored). I doubt most companies would be interested in developing hacking tools. Hackers use the best tools available at their disposal, Claude is better than Deepseek. Hacking-tuned LLMs seems like a thing that might pop up in the future, but it takes a lot of resources. Why bother if you can just tell Claude it's doing legitimate work?
by aborsy | 2025-11-13 21:38:22+00:00
It has both public key and symmetric mode.

Even with public key, the file is encrypted in symmetric mode with a random key. The key is encrypted with pubkey.

The file format is built around asymmetric cryptography, so maybe going to 256 bits required some work that the authors does not want. Not sure.

Would have made sense to have standard ChaCha 20.
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-13 21:38:50+00:00
Its more about abolishing the premise of the Senate where every state gets 2 senators regardless of their population.

(Though the filibuster issue is also a valid debate lately)

The founders had decent intentions for this design, but I'm fairly sure the vast majority of them would have changed their mind if they knew just how concentrated the population of the US would end up and how the system would act to give the minority far too much power rather than protect them from having too little.
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 21:39:21+00:00
The humorous part though, is that the 'legal' growers screaming about the 'unregulated' competition and for this law, are actually the outlaws breaking federal law and totally non-scrutinized by federal regulation (other than the fact it's outright illegal).

It is the absolute worst case of gas lighting. The literal, federally unregulated criminals were screeching that the people obeying the law and following the regulations (even if in a way legislators didn't expect) were unregulated cowboys who were 'skirting the law.'

It's absolutely comical if you think about it. And somehow, this argument actually won.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-13 21:40:55+00:00
>> Still, part of the problem for the shortage of manufacturing jobs is the lack of education and training, according to Farley.

>> He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years.

>> The current system is not meeting the standard, he added.

I fully agree with your opinion .... but this guy's quote is bizarre.

What system is failing to meet the 5-years-to-learn-how-to-remove-one-particular-engine standard?

High school trades? Community college? Private $xx,000 high-debt mechanic school?

None of these are remotely capable of teaching Ford's hyper-narrow specialization. Trying to would be a disaster.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 21:41:04+00:00
> We just had the federal government shut down for six weeks because the Senate is broken

You could turn the Senate into a purely-representative body and you'd still have the same problem.

You could abolish the Senate and have a unicameral House. But then we'd never have survived 250 years as a democracy. (What do you think Mike Johnson and Trump with unilateral power would have done over the last 6 months?)

> I don't really care if it's doing what some people 250 years ago thought

The government didn't shut down 250 years ago. Shutdowns are a modern phenomenon, mostly dating to a Carter-era legal opinion that said "if any work continued in an agency where there wasn't money, the employees were behaving like illegal volunteers" [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2013/09/30/227292952/a-short-history-of-...
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 21:42:14+00:00
Joking aside, VCs want founders to build something people want. We built this because we knew that we wanted it ourselves. In fact, initially we only built it for ourselves (as a fun weekend project), but as we shared it with more people, they wanted it too. At the end of the day, if you build a great product that people love, the rest can often take care of itself
by danudey | 2025-11-13 21:42:42+00:00
As a relatively novice programmer who's worked in tech for decades but not as a software developer: I take issue with the idea that you need to write considerable amounts of Rust and C++ for these statistics to be expected. In fact, despite Rust's initial vertical learning curve I'd say that any junior developer trying to implement anything with any degree of complexity at all in Rust and C++ would see the benefits.

At the very least, the fact that IDE integration can tell you all kinds of stuff about what you're doing/doing wrong and why accelerates things greatly when you're starting out.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-13 21:43:00+00:00
It was a direct call for violent action. A long rambling one, but all the same.

I know the "fire in a crowded theatre" thing is misunderstood but "Those people in that corner over there are about to set fire to this theatre and kill you and your family if we don't fight, fight, fight to stop them" is a direct call for violence even if spread over an hour long ramble.