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by dang | 2025-11-11 21:59:46+00:00
It's obviously off topic and obviously nationalistic flamebait. Those are the high-order bits here. Adding provocations like "lebensraum" makes it even more of an obvious call.

> Have I truly, in your judgement, derailed this thread away from curious discussion?

For sure. A subthread like this usually has a lot of activation energy because the (off) topic is sensational and divisive, but that's not the same thing as curious conversation. Supplanting less sensational/divisive topics with more sensational/divisive ones is the essence of the "generic tangent", which HN's guidelines ask users to avoid for good reason.

If the OP isn't so interesting, the solution is to find other threads that are interesting, not turn this one into a flamewar (or potential flamewar) about something else.
by an0malous | 2025-11-11 22:01:31+00:00
That is folk logic, not rational thinking.

First, the US and Russian governments did spend decades researching these abilities and in the US they CIA, DIA, Army, and other agencies all used psychics. Perhaps they are still using them, or maybe they found satellites and drones easier to work with.

The other issue is that psi seems to have strong statistical significance but low effect size. It’s not a crystal ball, the inconsistent results make it inconvenient for things like stock markets and espionage.

Finally, maybe people do use psychic abilities but they lack the introspection abilities to recognize it. Where do your thoughts really come from? If you’re a stock trader and you have a hunch or insight about an opportunity, where did it come from? Sure you likely gathered data and evidence to support your investment, but didn’t you first have a hunch or a fuzzy idea that seemingly came from nowhere?

We have much to learn about consciousness. I’m not asking anyone to accept psi on faith, but this culture of skepticism boils down to “psi isn’t real because psi can’t be real” and I believe it’s holding back our understanding of reality to be so close minded.
by mastazi | 2025-11-11 22:01:38+00:00
Archive link for those who, like me, are unable to scroll on that page

https://web.archive.org/web/20251111210606/https://www.soke....

PS to add more - I am unable to scroll, all I see is the picture with the dark background. If I use arrow keys instead of the touchpad, I can scroll a bit then after a second or so the page snaps back to the top. I have Firefox on MacOS.

(I know the HN rules say that we should focus on the contents rather than criticising the technical aspects of a website, but in this case the contents are not accessible).
by bgwalter | 2025-11-11 22:01:44+00:00
This seems to be the latest open source magazine that quotes the developers in power and in the end rationalizes whatever those in power do. In this case it is telling everyone to learn Rust (as if that is enough for a successful port).

Other objections like requiring 130 packages for a cryptographic application and inflated binary sizes are not mentioned.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779860
by hinkley | 2025-11-11 22:01:45+00:00
> You're mixing up the feature and the moving parts.

No, you are, and this is why so many of us are shit at UX.

The ability to accomplish a task with software is an asset. Not every application takes the same number of interactions to finish a task, and each interaction is a feature.

Features in neither waterfall, scrum, nor Kanban directly correlate with the ability of the user to accomplish something meaningful. They are units of measure of the developer accomplishing something meaningful, but the meaning is assumed, not real.
by chilmers | 2025-11-11 22:02:41+00:00
"Ban all plastics" is a strawman that will not happen and no mainstream opinion is suggesting. But there is a wide spectrum of possibilities between "ban all plastics" and "do nothing".

A principal concern is ingestion of microplastics via food packaging, utensils, cookware, etc. There are non-plastic substitutions available for many of these items, and a precautionary approach would be to regulate to require them, where it is economically feasible, until such time as the effects of microplastic ingestion are better understood.
by 650 | 2025-11-11 22:03:03+00:00
Is this article a joke? The first linked person in the article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siddhantawasthi_i-recently-ma... - 8 years of post college experience as a PROGRAM MANAGER. For those not in tech this is akin to project manager, or someone that asks for status updates and communicates estimates and effort. Definitely not someone super technical or Director+ level.

"If we assume for a moment that Tesla’s recent sales declines are entirely due to faulty management, specifically caused by people with the job title “program manager,” then Tesla is well in its way to massive improvements. " - This style of writing is hard to parse and dumb.

"Awasthi notes in his post that his signature accomplishments at Tesla occurred “all before hitting 30.” Indeed, it appears that in 2017, when he was 23, he was a student at the University of Cincinnati working on a school project related to the Musk-led “Hyperloop” concept. "

I mean he's most likely late 20's early 30's at the moment so not sure what this is getting at.
by burakemir | 2025-11-11 22:03:34+00:00
Did you read what I wrote up there?

There is art and there is science. What both have in common is that their protagonists do not intend to become obstacles of progress.

I'm afraid GC'd languages have been around for a very long time and yet we continue to talk about memory safety as an urgent problem. Now what?

How does pretending that low-level memory safety is not its own complex domain deserving of its own technical definitions help with anything?
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-11 22:03:48+00:00
I don’t think it was ever that successful. I can say years back I decided not to renew my ACM subscription because of a lot of little things like a really clueless Vint Cerf article and their unrelenting promotion of H-1B visas. I switched to the IEEE Computer Society because they were agnostic on the H-1B which was a position I could accept.

I’ve worked side-by-side with H1Bs and I can say the I probably felt the worst I ever felt when I wanted to tell a guy who was being abused by management that “your skills are really in demand you can go across the street and get a better job” but I couldn’t because that wasn’t true. I can accept giving out more green cards or some other programs but there is so much wrong with H-1B that if you are sticking up for computing practitioners I think it’s a problem to be enthusiastic.
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-11 22:03:58+00:00
> Providing a real CVE is a contribution, not a burden. The ffmpeg folks can ignore it, since by all indications it's pretty minor.

Re-read the article. There's CVEs and then there's CVEs. This is the former, and they're shoving tons of those down the throats of unpaid volunteers while contributing nothing back.

What Google's effectively doing is like a food safety inspection company going to the local food bank to get the food that they operate their corporate cafeteria on just to save a buck, then calling the health department on a monthly basis to report any and all health violations they think they might have seen, while contributing nothing of help back to the food bank.
by sixtyj | 2025-11-11 22:04:12+00:00
In micro and nano scale things can behave differently so it is quite hard to decide what to ban.

Plastic straws and caps attached to bottles - reason was that there are too many of them and people don’t behave properly and don't throw things in the trash and throw them on the ground where they are eaten by animals. At some British beach they counted >100 caps per 100 m (or something similar, it was a surprising number).
by nsagent | 2025-11-11 22:04:32+00:00
I was previously using Wipr 2, but got tired of the fact that it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale (for example, I noticed it blocks any element with an id of 'privacy_policy' or 'privacypolicy,' which I ran into when actually trying to read the privacy policy for a service I use).

wBlock fixes that by allowing you to have custom rules. It also includes the ability to run userscripts, so I no longer need a separate extension for that.
by jynelson | 2025-11-11 22:04:39+00:00
yeah! so i somehow forgot to include this in the post, but one of the thing i would want as part of this is tab complete that integrates with the shell, essentially it would make an RPC call (in the step 3 sense). there’s things that work like this already today, they’re just extremely cursed ^^ but that’s never stopped me before. https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab?tab=readme-ov-file#differe...
by hinkley | 2025-11-11 22:04:48+00:00
It’s a perfectly fine analogy if you can get over your own ego enough to realize your customers don’t want to hear about how very clever you are, they just want to get shit done and move on to four other tasks.

They don’t care about us. They don’t. They just want to do what their boss asked them to do or kill the bad guy to get the treasure, and we are often enough as much in the way as we are facilitating that.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-11 22:05:02+00:00
I had a coworker who lost a lot of weight and showed up at work one day wearing new clothes and looking sharp. The pants were from Costco. I have since gone and bought a few pairs of pants from them. They feel fairly high quality, made of sturdy and comfortable materials, and are wife-approved. And of course they are very inexpensive.

I'm sure expensive pants have their benefits but no matter how much money I have, I will always baby expensive things, and it's very inconvenient to baby clothes (e.g. must be dry cleaned, can't use a washer or dryer, can't risk getting stains on it). There are good reasons why dads gets their clothes from Costco.
by cmehdy | 2025-11-11 22:05:22+00:00
I'm not sure if I've angered you or if you're agreeing with me that something no-bullshit like Dygma and their software is much more welcoming than the status quo (even though purists will say "but it isn't QMK or ZMK!!1! and it has too many keys!!1!").

I considered other keyboards and essentially preferred having a UI that makes sense, a keyboard that does more than I need, and a ton of helpful videos that explain things in clear terms.

While I don't have a PhD like you do, I value the attitude as much as you do. So I'm hoping my original message didn't come across as putting you down somehow.
by michaelt | 2025-11-11 22:05:25+00:00
It's a good quality bug report.

But it's also a bug report about the decoder for "SANM ANIM v0" - a format so obscure almost all the search results are the bug report itself. Possibly a format exclusive to mid-1990s LucasArts games [1]

Pretty crazy that ffmpeg supports the codec in the first place, IMHO.

I can understand volunteers not wanting to sink time into maintaining a codec to play a video format that hasn't been used since the Clinton administration. gstreamer divides their plugins into 'good', 'bad' and 'ugly' to give them somewhere to stash unmaintained codecs.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250419105551/https://wiki.mult...
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-11 22:06:16+00:00
I disagree, because I believe racists reasonably believe (as per their own framework) that racism is hard science. There is a nonzero amount of culture-shaping in the Civil Rights Act, and that was by design. It did draw a line in the sand and say "This category of behavior, regardless of its connection to or detachment from reality, is no longer acceptable, and we will use force of law to make it so."

Damore made the mistake of failing to realize that an American place of employment is not the agora. Given a couple opportunities to adjust his flight plan, he decided to stay the course. He was free to do so but he became a walking Title VII violation when he did and too much of a liability for Google to continue to employ.

On the plus side, I hear he landed on his feet so it all worked out in the end.
by marcusb | 2025-11-11 22:06:52+00:00
I once worked at a place where one of the partners consistently claimed the engineering team over-built and over-thought everything (reality: almost everything was under-engineered and hanging on by a thread.)

His catch phrase was "all you gotta do is [insert dumb idea here.]"

It was anxiety inducing for a while, then it turned into a big joke amongst the engineering staff, where we would compete to come up with the most ridiculous "all you gotta do is ..." idea.
by zazaulola | 2025-11-11 22:07:02+00:00
What do you mean by “terminal”? Perhaps you are referring to something like a VT100.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DEC_VT100_terminal.j...

I may disappoint you with the fact that IBM PC-compatible computers have replaced devices of that class. We can only observe certain terminal emulators in some operating systems. There have been many attempts to expand the functionality of these emulators. However, most features beyond the capabilities of VT100 have not caught on (except UTF-8 support). I do not believe that anything will change in the foreseeable future.
by theultdev | 2025-11-11 22:07:02+00:00
Just as I suspected, spin.

They were specifically talking about Haitians and the TPS status.

He's saying they had no right to do that under the law.

It's the same mess they got us into with DACA.

So you have illegal aliens, protected under these very fragile and most likely unconstitutional EOs, when it's really not their authority.

I partly agree with your original statement "changes to suit those in power". Yes, that is the problem, when Democrats are in power.

It is the authority of CONGRESS. Vance is respecting that authority and saying he's ignoring the blatant disregard of it during the Biden admin.

I'm all for adjusting our immigration laws. But things like TPS and DACA just cause more problems.

Until then, enforce the current laws on the books.

Those other programs are revoked just as easily as they were added, because that's not how you do it.
by jwr | 2025-11-11 22:07:16+00:00
A physical calculator is a tool, so is your python interpreter, but they are different tools for different purposes.

Mathematica does everything your python interpreter does and more — but that doesn't mean python becomes useless because of that. It's good for certain things, while Mathematica is good for other things.

Similarly with calculators (especially HP calculators), which have become a bit of a lost art (an elegant weapon for a more civilized age). I use them all the time when doing any kind of engineering or hobby work. Good luck using your computer with python one-handed in a workshop next to a CNC.

One thing I do agree with is that plotting functions or working with larger matrices on calculators makes little sense.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-11-11 22:07:23+00:00
Similar to my experience doing low-level systems work, being prodded by a "manager" with a fifth of my experience. No, I'm not going to implement something you heard about from a candidate in an interview, an individual whom we passed on within the first 30 minutes. No, you reading out the AI overview of a google search to me for a problem that I've thought about for days ain't gonna work, nor will it get us closer to a solution. Get the fuck out of the way.

"Can't we just..."
by khedoros1 | 2025-11-11 22:07:36+00:00
My first thought was "How is this different from Exult?" (which is a relatively vanilla reimplementation of the game).

Some of the video segments here make differences clearer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbJcOEwKJ4

While Exult basically matches the graphics of the original game, this is closer to "3D Ultima VII", with rotatable views and more interactivity in the game. It gives it what looks like a kind of voxel-ish look, mixing in original sprites with newly-modeled 3D objects.
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-11 22:07:43+00:00
I worked on a team that did something like that for important stuff. (We didn't bother for the relatively routine or uncontroversial changes.) Although in our case we did it in a team meeting rather than asynchronously.

It really was horrendously valuable. Many, many times someone would save a their teammate an ungodly amount of time by pointing out an easier way to do something. It was a big complex system so naturally none of us could be expected to know every nook and cranny.
by crote | 2025-11-11 22:07:49+00:00
> Yes the 2D dimensions are as large as a normal modern phone but it’s hardly there otherwise.

The 2D dimensions are literally the only thing I care about. I'm going to barely notice the weight difference. The actual thickness is a lie with the giant camera hump.

What I do care about is whether I can operate it single-handedly: I want my thumb to reach the top of the screen (so I can drag down the notification bar and click nav stuff) while the bottom of the phone is resting on my pinky. I could easily do that on my Galaxy S III Mini, it was comfortable with my Moto G 2, it was just about doable with my Nokia 6.1 - and it is impossible with my Pixel 7. At no point did I I actively look for a larger phone: going for a larger model has always been an unavoidable compromise.
by lucideer | 2025-11-11 22:07:53+00:00
GoreTex is highly functional but it doesn't last long & it isn't repairable. These are trade-offs that may be worthwhile for certain innovative, highly-functional use-cases (like water proofing) but are very rarely worthwhile for average use-cases.

With very few exceptions, the majority of synthetic materials commonly used in clothing come with these trade-offs. "Junk" being a slang term for things that get thrown away seems appropriate in this case (short-lived, non-repairable material).

> have some artistic merit within the fashion world

> It's also OK to not care about fashion-as-art, but fashion is oft ephemeral by nature and design

While I do feel strongly that art for its own sake is oft undervalued & has enormous merit, this is ultimately off-topic in a thread that kicked off on the topic of quality, function & the (undeniable) fact that we produce too many things. These are separate qualifiers to "artistic merit".

Fashion being ephemeral is in fact the point here (it should be less ephemeral, independent of what your views on art are).
by jlaternman | 2025-11-11 22:08:06+00:00
It does initially look like a stupid and Insanely Facile fashion statement, I agree, but I think the iPod sock v2 could be one of the most practical and cleverly designed products Apple has ever released.

It's clearly intended to be used as bait for phone snatchers. That iPhone dangling loose a foot below your arm in free air is just too tempting… no thief can resist. But, then! You start swinging that motherf*cker, and your iPhone becomes a deadly weapon before any potential thief has time to think.

Third parties are sure to fill the market with the most obvious additions, e.g. metal spikes, studs, mildly poison-laced hooks. I assume there will also be training courses scheduled in Apple Stores around the world to clarify this accessory's purpose — not to mention, to teach proper technique and the ethical considerations of when to stop striking with the iPhone Pocket to avoid manslaughter charges in your region.

This is a move by Apple to subtly promote armed, deceptive martial arts as self-defence. To promote the Bushido spirit as a practical coping mechanism in these stressful times, and to empower its users in everyday situations. I for one think it's Insanely Great, and right on that bold frontier of innovation and Thinking Different that Apple built its reputation on.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 22:08:14+00:00
I’m definitely not working particularly hard, but for what it’s worth my work has saved and will continue to save vast amounts of time for ordinary people. I’m not sure that how hard a person works is the right metric to use.

> it’s not like the wealthy have ever been in touch with the common man, for millennia

A few years ago I used to live in hostels, sometimes hoping that my (then few) websites would get one or two payments to cover my expenses for the next day so I wouldn’t have to go without food. I’d like to think that I’m not suddenly particularly out of touch.
by tovej | 2025-11-11 22:08:33+00:00
Re racism: Read the "As I remember London" post, it's full of language and selective facts painting brown people as criminal.

Re nation: a nation is the socially constructed identity I was talking about. It can be mono- or multicultural, and people from other cultures may be integrated, it's all vibes-based depending on the nation. But one thing is clear, if you're born into a culture you are part of the culture, and so through a civic nationalist logic you are automatically part of that nation. Also note that nation does not equal state or country.

RE stone henge: that was ~6-4000 years ago, many thousand years before the Anglo-Saxons, so all we have to go on there is material culture, because it's prehistoric. As far as I can tell from a quick wikipedia read, a first part was built by neolithic farmers from a material culture associated with Anatolia, modern day Turkey. A second part may have been constructed by the Bell Beaker people (referring to material culture again) who arrived later. There was also an existing hunter-gatherer substrate before these other groups arrived. That substrate was mostly replaced by the neolithic farmer culture, which was in turn mostly replaced by the Bell Beaker culture. This replacement was a fairly long process, and the gene pool was also largely replaced during both of these transitions.

Both of these transitions are long before the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, etc., the labels we currently associate with Britain.

And the last point is my mistake, I thought you were the same guy as before, but your statement's premise was contradictory. You can't replace yourself, can you.
by pinko | 2025-11-11 22:09:03+00:00
I've been having a good time chatting with Deep Research LLMs about this. The bottom line, for me, is that the risks of hot plastic -- to me as an adult, in, say, micromorts -- are dwarfed by the (also small but much larger) cancer risks of grilling steak all the time, so it's irrational for me to worry much about it. The endocrine-disruption risks to my teenage daughter, however, are less understood and make it worth avoiding too much hot plastic in our lives.
by imiric | 2025-11-11 22:09:53+00:00
> No, but by definition, Git's CLI doesn't scale for complex use cases.

How so? A CLI is where you run commands and things happen. Sometimes those things can be "complex", whatever your definition of that may be.

> No one would voluntarily use the CLI for doing a complex 3-way merge if they could avoid it.

And nobody does...? A manual merge is done in an editor or a standalone tool, not the CLI.

> Due to the complexity of Git's interface, it's too easy to make a mistake using the CLI.

Well, Git's UI can be intimidating for a newcomer, but once they're acquainted with the dozen or so commands they might need every day, they can define aliases for them, and mistakes are no more likely than with any TUI or GUI wrapper. Git by design gives full control to the user, so mistakes can happen, but this is no different than with most Linux tools. And if safety is a concern, then whatever hand holding a TUI or GUI does, the same can be implemented in a shell script.

> git commit alone has 40+ options

So? You would prefer less options? Less commands? Less flexibility?

Just look up what you need to do and how to do it, and stick it in an alias. Now you have a clean command purpose built for your use case, and you can ignore anything you don't use.

Or, you can use a fancy TUI/GUI wrapper that "simplifies" this interface for you, and then when you need to do something that the wrapper UI doesn't allow you to do, have to fall back to the original UI. I'd rather familiarize myself with the original UI, create the aliases and helpers that work best for my workflow, and not have to depend on someone else's idea of how I should use Git, or any other tool.