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by rolph | 2025-11-18 20:07:10+00:00
ive seen these show up often, and the usual result is not a foldup scooter, but some piece of apparel or baggege that was depicted in the ad.

its difficult trying to inform, an elderly person, with a heart of gold that, no benefit of the doubt, will make the rest of the shipment arrive; the scarf, or gloves or strap on carrier are just a shill, to evade detection of a scam; not a partial shipment.

put your BS detector on max if you are interested in this type of product.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-18 20:07:21+00:00
Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that.

I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"...

Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls?
by kragen | 2025-11-18 20:07:38+00:00
Ground-source heat pumps (with a few exceptions and borderline cases like those mentioned in the article) are not sources of heat, so you can only "get heat from" them in the short term; as with a battery or an interest-free checking account, though you may be able to temporarily run a debit balance, in the long run you can only get out what you put in.

This is a fundamental difference from energy sources.

Energy storage is an important complement to energy sources, especially renewables, and can substitute for energy sources to a limited extent, but confusing them is a fatal error.
by nine_k | 2025-11-18 20:07:42+00:00
But this is not one subnet. It is a large number of IPs distributed across a bunch of providers, and handled possibly by dozens if not hundreds of routers along the way. Each of these routers won't have trouble blocking a dozen or two IPs that would be currently involved in a DDoS attack.

But this would require a service like DNSBL / RBL which email providers use. Mutually trusting big players would exchange lists of IPs currently involved in DDoS attacks, and block them way downstream in their networks, a few hops from the originating machines. They could even notify the affected customers.

But this would require a lot of work to build, and a serious amount of care to operate correctly and efficiently. ISPs don't seem to have a monetary incentive to do that.
by kevstev | 2025-11-18 20:07:58+00:00
I feel this. Tbh I was excited about most of the previous tech fads I have come across. Sure, people got overzealous with them and also failed to realize that what F*NG needs is not what your three person startup needs, but there were always some good and interesting ideas there.

This just feels... a little too dystopian. Companies hoovered up the entirety more or less of all of our collective thoughts and writings and output and now want to sell it back to us- and I fear that cost is going to be extremely steep.

It's impressive, but at the same time, just feels like its going to somehow be a net detractor to society, and yet I feel I need to keep up with each new iteration or potentially get washed over and left behind by the wave.

I am somewhat fortunate to be towards the top of the pyramid and also in a position where I could theoretically ride off into the sunset, but I fear the societal implications and the pain that is going to come for vast numbers of people.
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 20:08:42+00:00
Most vehicles with dual-filament bulbs will turn off the low beams while the high beams are on, but looking around, I see it's mixed for vehicles with dual bulbs; US standards don't require it one way or the other --- you can meet the high beam requirement with separate bulbs or with both bulbs in concert.

I think complaints about headlights really started when different bulb types came out. HID, projector, and LED bulbs all cast qualitatively different light than the ubiquitous tungsten halogen bulbs that preceded them. A lot of these put out a lot of blue, especially in the fringes that I find very objectionable, and the lumen output seems to have increased quite a bit, as well as the spread.

Halogen bulbs were tightly constrained by power limits and output requirements; but the other types can hit the output requirements at well under the power limits, so they can cast a wider field of view (which is nice), but may need to be brighter in more of the the wider field of view to hit the output requirements in the central portion, and that additional brightness is more likely to cause glare. Of course, all of our eyes have aged as well which makes night vision more difficult, especially with light variance. I remember my parents sometimes complaining about other vehicle's lights when I was young and thought everything was fine, but everyone was using halogen lights back then.
by mparis | 2025-11-18 20:09:05+00:00
I've been playing with the Gemini CLI w/ the gemini-pro-3 preview. First impressions are that its still not really ready for prime time within existing complex code bases. It does not follow instructions.

The pattern I keep seeing is that I ask it to iterate on a design document. It will, but then it will immediately jump into changing source files despite explicit asks to only update the plan. It may be a gemini CLI problem more than a model problem.

Also, whoever at these labs is deciding to put ASCII boxes around their inputs needs to try using their own tool for a day.

People copy and paste text in terminals. Someone at Gemini clearly thought about this as they have an annoying `ctrl-s` hotkey that you need to use for some unnecessary reason.. But they then also provide the stellar experience of copying "a line of text where you then get | random pipes | in the middle of your content".

Codex figured this out. Claude took a while but eventually figured it out. Google, you should also figure it out.

Despite model supremacy, the products still matter.
by nradov | 2025-11-18 20:09:15+00:00
Buying index funds (either mutual funds or ETFs) has been an effective approach for retail investors. But the concern now is that some US stock index funds are so heavily weighted to the "Magnificent 7" stocks that much of the previous benefit of diversification has been lost. The Mag 7 are all highly correlated with each other so if one falls then usually the others do as well.

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/smart-money/magnifi...

There are other index funds which are equal weighted rather than market weighted. Those have underperformed lately but might be less volatile if the AI bubble pops.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-18 20:09:26+00:00
Trucks are the absolute worst vehicles on the road. Their giant ass lights blind anyone near their vehicles. A number of truck owners, especially the ones that lift their vehicles, will additionally add light bars to the exterior which are so incredibly dangerous.

We don't just need DOTs to set regulations on these things, we need cops to actually write tickets for this behavior and for judges to get confirmation that these after market modifications are removed.
by niccl | 2025-11-18 20:09:36+00:00
I understand many cars nowadays have some sort of auto-levelling feature that is supposed to adjust the where the beams point as the vehicle load changes or related to tire inflation. I know some cars used to have a manual control for this. I don't own a car, but often hire, and often it's seemed that the auto-levelling is just adjusted too high.

The first time I had a car with this I was getting flashed by about 1 in 20 other drivers because they thought I had the high-beams on. I eventually took that car back to the rental agent who said that yes, it looked like the beams were adjusted too high.

With a manual control it's easy to fix. With auto-smarts (tm), not so much
by green7ea | 2025-11-18 20:09:37+00:00
I have one as well and haven't had this problem. I've been using mostly the HP G4 dock and a Dell dock at the office with an occasional use of the charger. I'm running Linux 6.17.8-arch1-1, it could also be fixed in newer kernels. When I play demanding games, it pulls quite a few watts and all the chargers are keeping up.

It might be your device that is unlucky, maybe contacting support might help.
by fulafel | 2025-11-18 20:09:52+00:00
For a lot of use cases a major advantage of IPv6 is to get away from ambiguous rfc1918 addressing.

You can then just put an allow rule between arbitrary v6 addresses anywhere on the internet when you need connectivity without any other hacks like proxies, NAT, etc and the associated complexity and addressing ambiguity/context dependence of rfc1918 addresses.

So fex you can just curl or ssh to your mycontainer.mydomain.net or you can put an allow rule from mycontainer.mydomain.net to a vm or laptop on your home network.

Internetworking, they call it.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-18 20:09:58+00:00
No - the selfish vulture capitalists are the outsiders who purchase a private company which has been successful for many years, then butcher it. There is no IPO - it is "you own X, and we are offering you $Y million to sell it to us".

After that - X's best assets are sold off (the VC's get the money), X goes deeply into debt (again, the VC's get the money), many of the employees are laid off, and X generally goes bankrupt within 7 years - because what is left of it can't make the payments on the debt.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-18 20:10:04+00:00
The actual charitable model is that you expect close to zero attacks, but if you actually get hit your expected rate of future attacks goes up by an order of magnitude or two. And it's that change in expectations that gets you to buy protection.

You don't care about going down once, you do care about frequent outages. And you know this from the start, you don't realize it later.
by creddit | 2025-11-18 20:10:17+00:00
I have a few reasons for the preference:

(1) The ability to add context via a local apps integration into OS level resources is big. With Claude, eg, I hit Option-SPC which brings up a prompt bar. From there, taking a screenshot that will get sent my prompt is as simple as dragging a bounding box. This is great. Beyond that, I can add my own MCP connectors and give my desktop app direct access to relevant context in a way that doesn't work via web UI. It may also be inconvenient to give context to a web UI in some case where, eg, I may have a folder of PDFs I want it to be able to reference.

(2) Its own icon that I can CMD-TAB to is so much nicer. Maybe that works with a PWA? Not really sure.

(3) Even if I can't use an LLM when offline, having access to my chats for context has been repeatedly valuable to me.

I haven't looked at provider-agnostic apps and, TBH, would be wary of them.
by yrro | 2025-11-18 20:10:29+00:00
Of course it impedes observability. With IPv6, I can see the IP addresses of the containers that connect to a service. With IPv4, I get (at best) the IP address of the container host, thanks to NAT.

Are you also afraid of port forwarding? Have you considered that your ISP could choose to send your router packets destined for RFC1918 addresses?
by lunias | 2025-11-18 20:10:45+00:00
And you're assuming war is not coming? That there will never be another war? Don't get me wrong, I'm anti-war, but that sounds like an unwise assumption to make given history.

> If you walk around with a gun in your pocket drooling about self defence scenarios you might end up escalating a situation that could have been avoided altogether.

True, but this is another big assumption about the character of the person carrying the gun. The statistics on people with a permit to carry and the usage of their weapons tell a different story than you present. That is, they are much more likely to deescalate, most defensive gun usages require no shots fired, and license to carry owners are much less likely than the general population to commit or be convicted of a crime.
by brettgriffin | 2025-11-18 20:11:49+00:00
No moral hazard, but there is a hazard to not brushing your teeth: cavities, and more explicitly, the financial cost of having cavities repaired. Even the best dental insurance plans in America are capped at $1500 - $3000 of benefits a year, usually less than a single root canal or crown.

But that does open the door to a very interesting question (far outside of the scope of this discussion): would people change their habits of brushing their teeth if that hazard didn't exist, e.g. your dental repairs were free? D:
by dpark | 2025-11-18 20:13:18+00:00
I don’t actually think it’s any more adherent to that notion. This is exactly why I tried to point out the discrepancies in definitions. You have to define what an “object” is or the discussion is meaningless.

If the definition of object is something like “an instance of a class that has state, operations, and identity” then C++ primitives are fundamentally not objects. They have no identity and they are not defined by a class. If “participates in a class hierarchy” is part of the definition, then C++ is way less OO than Java.

I don’t quite understand what your definition is, but you seem to be arguing that user-defined entities are more like primitives in C++, so it’s more object-oriented. So maybe “consistency across types == object orientedness”? Except C++ isn’t really more consistent. Yes, you can create a user-defined type without a vtable, but this is really a statement that user defined types a far more flexible than primitives. But also if “consistency across types” is what makes a language OO then C seems to be more OO than C++.
by sudosysgen | 2025-11-18 20:13:19+00:00
I've talked to people from that very lab at the Université de Montréal many years ago, before the parent expired.

The IP was licensed by Hydro-Quebec first, and some of it was also held by UT. A123 was a US company manufacturing LFP batteries in 2005 in infringement of the patents.

A123, Hydro-Quebec, UT spent 15 years suing each other (and also suing BAK technology in China and other companies that used the technology), complete with secondary patents, etc...

Hydro-Quebec actually was producing LFP batteries commercially, along with an EV program. Those ventures were cancelled, in no small part because of the political issues when Canadian SoEs compete with American businesses (but also for other reasons). HQ is restarting the LFP manufacturing program now, though, through a new spinoff.

Anyways, this is not like Nortel at all - we had two decades of a headstart and we didn't give the license to Chinese companies until quite a few years later. A big part of the issue is because an American company violated the IP, then filed secondary pattents and tried to get the originals invalidated, which led to a huge legal battle strongly discouraging investment. There was really no mistake done in licensing it to Chinese companies.
by brabel | 2025-11-18 20:13:24+00:00
Yep, it's hard to believe it exists for free and with not a lot of ads when you have a good ad blocker... though the content creator's ads are inescapable, which I think is ok since they're making a little money in exchange for what, your little inconvenience for 1 minute or so - if you're not skipping the ad, which you aren't, right??) - after which you can watch some really good content. The history channels on YT are amazing, maybe world changing - they get people to learn history and actually enjoy it. Same with some match channels like 3brown1blue which are just outstanding, and many more.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-11-18 20:14:17+00:00
I was interested (and slightly disappointed) to read that the knowledge cutoff for Gemini 3 is the same as for Gemini 2.5: January 2025. I wonder why they didn't train it on more recent data.

Is it possible they use the same base pre-trained model and just fine-tuned and RL-ed it better (which, of course, is where all the secret sauce training magic is these days anyhow)? That would be odd, especially for a major version bump, but it's sort of what having the same training cutoff points to?
by hn_acc1 | 2025-11-18 20:14:39+00:00
Thank you for being part of the 0.01% of Tesla drivers who figured this out. I think by default they set them to "maximum height" or something. As someone in a sedan, they are infuriatingly blinding at night by default. I'm sure they're illegal, but obviously Tesla doesn't care.

Source: live within a few miles of the Tesla factory, so I get more than my fair share of them. MOST of the drivers seem completely oblivious to this.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-18 20:15:17+00:00
> What's the strategy here? If I am into your IDE and your LLM, how do I actually use it? I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use.

I wonder how much Google shareholders paid for that 20 minutes. And whether it's more or less than the corresponding extremely small stock price boost from this announcement.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-11-18 20:15:24+00:00
It's more complex than that, a summary of my highly subjective understanding:

1. AI companies manage to build AGI and achieve takeoff. I have no idea on how to hedge against that.

2. The market is not allowed to crash. There will likely be some lag between economic weakness and money printing. Safer option is probably to buy split 50% SPY and 50% bonds. A riskier option is trying to time the market.

3. The market is allowed to crash. Bonds, cash, etc.

Depending on what you believe will happen and risk appetite you can blend between the strategies or add a short component. I am holding #2 with no short positions in post-tax accounts and full SPY in tax advantaged accounts.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-18 20:15:27+00:00
Fascinating. I just looked up a bit of research on it, and it seems there are two contradicting phenomena at play. Flashing helps in seeing cyclists further away and helps with visibility generally -- but it also makes it harder to estimate speed and distance.

Apparently, the absolute safest solution is to have two rear lights side-by-side -- one that is always on and one that is always flashing.

It doesn't seem like there's clear data on which is safer if you have to pick only one. Different countries/states have chosen differently.
by simonw | 2025-11-18 20:15:49+00:00
> For your small blog with one hundred visitors per month, it's probably the same: "no one will burn their DDoS capabilities on you!"

Running behind something like Cloudflare doesn't just protect against DDoS, it protects against surprise traffic spikes.

If your site ends up on the Hacker News frontpage it's nice for it not to fall over right as people are trying to check it out.
by apetresc | 2025-11-18 20:16:00+00:00
In its defence, the code actually specifically calls that edge case out and justifies it:

// Calculate rotations // We use a cumulative calculation logic mentally, but here simple degrees work because of the transition reset trick or specific animation style. // To prevent the "spin back" glitch at 360->0, we can use a simple tick without transition for the wrap-around, // but for simplicity in this specific React rendering, we will stick to standard 0-360 degrees. // A robust way to handle the spin-back on the second hand is to accumulate degrees, but standard clock widgets often reset.
by brewtide | 2025-11-18 20:16:01+00:00
I have a bunch of racoons in my yard every night. A year ago, on some whim, they decided to rip open the less than secure but 8 ft in the air vent grating for the chicken coop.

Some chickens made it, most in fact. But playtime involved ripping the heads off 3 of them.

They can be quite sinister.
by alansammarone | 2025-11-18 20:16:15+00:00
I believe our definitions of "winning the IDE wars" are very, very different. For one thing, using "user count" as a metric for this like using "number of lines of code added" in a performance review. And even if that was part of the metric, people who use and don't absolutely fall in love with it, so much so that they become the ones advocating for its use, are only worth a tiny fraction of a "user".

neovim won the IDE wars before it even started. Zed has potential. I don't know what IntelliJ is.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-18 20:16:29+00:00
I think the whole conversation shows how ridiculous it is to be worried so much about who's "scraping" what. The open web is designed to be public and permissive. If you don't want someone accessing "your" content, then don't serve it to the public. And if you do decide to serve to the public, don't complain when someone accesses that data in a way you don't like. The Internet would be so much better without all these people obsessed about how their bits were being accessed and about whether X counts as "scraping" or Y counts as "scraping." Good grief, people! Find something else to worry about.
by strcat | 2025-11-18 20:16:33+00:00
The article misses the substantial privacy improvements made by GrapheneOS and heavily downplays the importance of security. There are widespread use of exploits, not only in targeted attacks. It also omits the fact that the other operating systems which are brought up have years of delays for important privacy and security patches while not providing all the standard Android Open Source Project privacy and security protections. Not having kernel and browser updates for months, not shipping current driver and firmware updates and not keeping up with the bare minimum partial backports of AOSP patches to older releases is quite problematic. Beyond that, providing full Android privacy and security patches requires being on the latest releases. It's also strange to talk about the hardware requirements listed at https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices as if those are unknown and not well documented. A device not receiving privacy/security patches for drivers and firmware is major a problem regardless of the OS choice. Not having secure disk encryption for the majority of users not setting a strong passphrase due to lack of a good secure element is another major issue. These requirements don't exist for no reason and GrapheneOS is working with a major OEM on making a device that's at least a sidegrade from a Pixel and then later a security upgrade over it. No devices other than Pixels are providing a reasonable level of security combined with allowing another OS. Lagging very far behind on patches and lacking working disk encryption for most users isn't doing the bare minimum.

GrapheneOS doesn't do anything which reduces USB-C functionality beyond having a setting which blocks new USB-C connections and then disables USB-C when locked by default which can be turned off.
by ramnique | 2025-11-18 20:16:36+00:00
Yes, because LM Studio is openai-compatible. When you run rowboatx the first time, it creates a ~/.rowboat/config/models.json. You can then configure LM Studio there. Here is an example: https://gist.github.com/ramnique/9e4b783f41cecf0fcc8d92b277d...
by skorp01 | 2025-11-18 20:17:19+00:00
That absolutely is not the point of the project and completely misses out on the many general privacy improvements that GrapheneOS makes, as well as the huge privacy improvement offered by running Play Services in the untrusted and unprivileged user-app sandbox.

https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers
by flashgordon | 2025-11-18 20:17:20+00:00
+1 Couple of things I really hate about proto - No generics/templates. No composition of services or mixins (you do have composition in messages but that feels very limited). Also the clunkiness around having to declare more things (try a repeated map field or a map of repeated fields).

My comment about protos was just the spec (and was seperating the binary formats as a different concern). But your concerns are pretty valid.