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by Fnoord | 2025-12-10 04:50:22+00:00
You supposedly speak for masses and claim I am having some exceptional, unique look but you don't cite anything to support your claim.

> That's a very narrow conception if the problem—it isn't solely about being "there" for them or trying to get control over (and maintain control over) one's own addictions. The main thing that people have an issue with when they talk about kids and phone use (and TV for that matter) is addiction observed in the kids themselves. It's absolutely about using one's own phone less while they're around as a means of quashing overexposure.

> You can show as much genuine interest in them as you want, and it doesn't change anything, because whether the kids feel like the parent is "there for them" not the problem that a parent is is already genuinely interested in them is concerned about and trying to address.

I grew up with my father who was really hip. He didn't use his smartphone much. Sometimes, he did this weird thing. Out of nowhere, he'd comment about something seemingly unrelated to the discussion. I didn't understand what he was yapping at. At first, I thought he was talking to mom. One time, I noticed he did it when mom was upstairs. At one point, I thought dad was having imaginary friends. Turns out, dad had this smart ring he'd use to record notes. One day, the ring was gone. Gone from his finger. I guess it broke, or something.

IOW, replacing one tool with another, you can't fool people. If social media distracts you, remove it from your smartphone, or limit the exposure to it. My wife when she is done with cooking, regularly uses her smartphone after that when we are eating. Usually to fill in about groceries. We're not overly strict on that, and we don't expect our kids to be strict on it when they got a smartphone later on. But it is about proportion. Using it for a short amount of time is perfectly possible. If you want to have a 'no tech' rule during dinner, fine, but then also smart rings. If you want to allow certain specific tasks, a technical barrier like a smart ring versus a smartphone can work, yes. But you can also decide to limit yourself whilst using your smartphone. IMO that starts with uninstalling all kind of BS apps you don't need, and removing notifications you don't require. Either way, the bottom line is this: the ring doesn't solve the issue of distractions on smartphones. It tries to mitigate the issue. So whenever you do use your smartphone, you are still suffering from the issue.

> "Not much" except that the fingers that are attached to the hand that's attached to the wrist where you're wearing your watch certainly aren't capable of reaching back to press a button on said watch.

This is true, it isn't hands-free, hands-free is superior. Although a device on the bike also works well. You can buy such a tool right now to attach your smartphone to your bike, and it'll last for more than two years. It is a matter of moving your hand once to the other one to enable the mic. A Pebble, too, you can replace the battery yourself and I absolutely despise all these smartwatches where you cannot.
by devmor | 2025-12-10 04:50:45+00:00
I was extremely excited for this until I got to the party about the battery. I have wanted something exactly like this for ages.

But I wont pay you $75 for a product I can’t use anymore when the battery dies. I’d pay twice as much if I could change the battery myself, but this consumer-hostile, anti-ownership design is not something I will support.
by ekr____ | 2025-12-10 04:51:59+00:00
A lot of this is covered in the Let's Encrypt retrospective paper from 2019: https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/letsencryptCCS2019....

From Section 3.1.

"Let’s Encrypt was created through the merging of two simultaneous efforts to build a fully automated certificate authority. In 2012, a group led by Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan and Peter Eckersley at EFF was developing a protocol for automatically issuing and renewing certificates. Simultaneously, a team at Mozilla led by Josh Aas and Eric Rescorla was working on creating a free and automated certificate authority. The groups learned of each other’s efforts and joined forces in May 2013.

...

Initially, ISRG had no full-time staff. Richard Barnes of Mozilla, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews of EFF, and Jeff Hodges (under contract with ISRG) began developing Let’s Encrypt’s CA software stack. Josh Aas and J.C. Jones, both with Mozilla at the time, led infrastructure development with assistance from Cisco and IdenTrust engineers. ISRG’s first full-time employee, Dan Jeffery, joined in April 2015 to help prepare the CA’s infrastructure for launch. Simultaneously, James Kasten, Peter Eckersley, and Seth Schoen worked on the initial ACME client (which would eventually become Certbot) while at the University of Michigan and EFF. Kevin Dick of Right Side Capital Management, John Hou of Hou & Villery, and Josh Aas constituted the team responsible for completing a trusted root partnership deal and signing initial sponsors."
by pezezin | 2025-12-10 04:52:15+00:00
I am also Spanish, living in Japan, and our bars is one the things I miss the most. Seriously, you don't realize how amazing Spanish bars are until you don't have them.

Here I just stop by a konbini, grab a can coffee and a plastic-wrapped sandwich, and off I go. There is no social nexus, and no neighbourhood for that matter. It's depressing.
by mcphage | 2025-12-10 04:52:35+00:00
This was a fantastic article. I loved this point near the top:

> Digital transformation is the manifestation through commercialization — which is to say financial means and industrial availability — of tools and processes whose introduction shines a light on issues and challenges which were always present but otherwise able to remain unseen.

And then revisited later:

> Wall labels, then, are not really the problem. They are the symptom of some broader challenges with the way that museums are organized and the ways in which they get things done. I do not think that machine-learning and AI technologies will actually solve any of these problems but the collective hope and belief that they will is, perhaps, the proverbial light I keep talking about making visible some larger issues we have avoided having to address.
by colechristensen | 2025-12-10 04:53:01+00:00
Yeah, most people won't read things. At the beginning of my career I wrote emails that nobody read and then they'd be upset about not knowing this or that which I had already explained. Such is life, I stopped writing emails.

An LLM will be just as verbose as you ask it to be. The default response can be very chatty, but you can figure out how to ask it to give results in various lengths.
by liampulles | 2025-12-10 04:54:52+00:00
I've been put off a lot of other engines and frameworks because I really miss programming in Go, so this is super cool.

Historically Go was viewed as not the best choice for game Dev because it's GC process was known to cause periodic blips of load, but I wonder now how smooth it is now. I believe one can also plug in arena managed memory and alternatives of that I'll.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 04:57:02+00:00
> What in particular about the MTA would you change?

Remove the diversity compliance requirement from bids, e.g. [1]. Open up bids to any firm in the nation and select winners based on cost and competence only. Subject the MTA to a forensic audit every ten or twenty years.

[1] https://www.mta.info/document/180556
by accelbred | 2025-12-10 04:57:03+00:00
I, this last week, had to spend hours dealing with a fake CVE that was opened 2 years ago on an open source dependency of our project for a bug that amounts to "if you have RCE, you can construct a malicious java datatype and call this function on it to trigger a stack overflow". The github thread on the lib is full of the maintainers having to deal with hundreds of people asking them for updates on an obviously fake CVE. Yet the CVE is still up and has not been deleted. And I now get a request from a customer about fixing this vuln in our code their CVE scanner found.

The CVE system is broken and its death would be a good riddance.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-10 04:57:11+00:00
Gemini can know everything in my Google account, which is basically synonymous with everything that's on my phone, except for text messages. And I use an iPhone. And then Gemini will work just as well on the web when I use my laptop.

So I don't see what unique advantage this gives Apple. These days people's data lives mostly in the cloud. What's on their phone is just a local cache.
by BobbyJo | 2025-12-10 04:57:40+00:00
Your point was that "they are being replaced by..." not "The market expects them to be replaced by...". The former would only be supported if their businesses were already actively being displaced (which may very well be the case), but the stock market only supports the latter.

All of that being said, I do think what you're describing is happening, or at least will happen. I just don't think people placing bets on it happening counts as evidence.
by mmooss | 2025-12-10 04:58:08+00:00
People can learn Rust at any age. The reality is that experienced people often are more hesitant to learn new things.

I can think of possible reasons: Early in life, in school and early career, much of what you work on is inevitably new to you, and also authorities (professor, boss) compel you to learn whatever they choose. You become accustomed to and skilled at adapting new things. Later, when you have power to make the choice, you are less likely to make yourself change (and more likely to make the junior people change, when there's a trade-off). Power corrupts, even on that small scale.

There's also a good argument for being stubborn and jaded: You have 30 years perfecting the skills, tools, efficiencies, etc. of C++. For the new project, even if C++ isn't as good a fit as Rust, are you going to be more efficient using Rust? How about in a year? Two years? ... It might not be worth learning Rust at all; ROI might be higher continuing to invest in additional elite C++ skills. Certainly that has more appeal to someone who knows C++ intimately - continue to refine this beautiful machine, or bang your head against the wall?

For someone without that investment, Rust might have higher ROI; that's fine, let them learn it. We still need C++ developers. Morbid but true, to a degree: 'Progress happens one funeral at a time.'
by stephenr | 2025-12-10 04:58:32+00:00
I would suggest that anyone who says modern social media isn't damaging to people in general, but particularly young people, either (a) has never used it; or (b) is being deliberately disingenuous.

From that point I would view social media essentially like alcohol.

As an adult you can choose to (ab)use it if you wish, but it's arguably the government's responsibility to protect children at large from social dangers like this.

It's absolutely a thing that people are asked to prove their age to buy alcohol, or even to enter a licensed venue that serves alcohol. I don't think I've ever heard anyone except underage teenagers complain about the invasion of privacy to hand over your ID for beer/etc.

Does the implementation around safe proof of age need work? Probably. Does that mean the whole thing is a not-so-subtle attempt to fire you for swearing?

I don't fucking think so mate.

People are already fired for saying stupid shit on social media, they're already debanked for being out-and-proud White Supremacists.

Given the current political situation in the USA and how it got there, if you have any illusions of a continuing democracy, you should be champing at the bit for anything which reduces social media use.
by DubiousPusher | 2025-12-10 04:58:43+00:00
LLMs have single handedly turned the hardest part of this job into entire job. The hardest part of this job is troubleshooting, maintaining and developing on top of an unfamiliar code base. That's not a new experience for anyone who has lived the production code life. One of the first production engineers I was tutored under used to love to say, "the code should tell you a story."

I love C. I came up on C. But C does not tell you a story. It tells you about the machine. It tells you how to keep the machine happy. It tells you how to translate problems into machine operations. It is hard to read. It takes serious effort to discern its intent.

I think any time you believe the codebase you're developing will have to be frequently modified by people unfamiliar with it, you should reach for a language which is both limiting and expressive. That is, the language states the code intent plainly in terms of the problem language and it allows a limited number of ways to do that. C#, Java (Kotlin) and maybe Python would be big votes from me.

And FYI, I came up on C. One of the first senior engineers I was tutored by in this biz loved to say, good code will tell you a story.

When you're living with a large, long lived codebase, essenti
by crapple8430 | 2025-12-10 04:59:19+00:00
You can add it to your user CA store, but no app will trust it since it's treated differently from the system CA store, which you can't modify without root or building your own ROM. In effect it is out of reach for most normal users, as well as people using security focused ROMs like Graphene, when ironically it can improve security in transit in many cases.
by zdc1 | 2025-12-10 04:59:23+00:00
Opportunity cost and perspective. We've probably played enough games to know how the cycle goes; there's a little voice in our heads now telling us that it's all just a big pixel hunt and the next few hours will be more of the same (my interest in a game fades once I learn the meta). And then there's so many games these days... so the other question is why not play something more interesting or exciting?
by merpkz | 2025-12-10 04:59:49+00:00
I have also heard a negative about it being somehow "cheap" and we can "afford" a proper wildcard for our website from managers back in the day, like, few years ago. Never mind the hours wasted every year changing that certificate in every system out there and always forgetting a few.

Also a valid point from security people is that you leak your internal hostnames to certificate transparency lists once you get a cert for your "internal-service.example.com" and every bot in existence will know about it and try to poke it.

I solved these problems by just not working with people like that anymore and also getting a wildcard Let's Encrypt it certificate for every little service hosted - *.example.com and not thinking about something being on the list anymore.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-10 04:59:50+00:00
At some point in a career, one begins to encourage people to try replacing you and your team. Mostly, senior people become aware they are not there as some sort of fungible office decoration. Just do it... call the Managers bluff... the worst outcome is the team finds a better firm with someone smarter.

It was Schadenfreude watching the CEO's son (LLM guys) implode a public-facing production server ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect .)

Slop content about slop code is slop recursive. Languages like C are simply very unforgiving to amateurs, and naive arbitrary code generators. Bad workmanship writes bad code in any language. Typically the "easier" the compiler is to use... the more complex the failure mode. =3

Vibe coders usually offer zero workmanship, and are enamored with statistically salient generated arbitrary content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
by credit_guy | 2025-12-10 05:00:15+00:00
> Open AI will someday be considered the Pets.com (or even Enron) of early AI.

Very unlikely.

Pets.com never produced anything of note. OpenAI was the leader in AI for 3 years. Maybe now Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 are slightly ahead, but that's a bit subjective. For all practical purposes OpenAI is in a 3-way tie with Google and Anthropic.

Google would love to sink them and Anthropic, and remain the monopoly in the AI space, like they are in the search space.

But Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and a few others, would be much less happy with a monopolistic Google, and they'll do their best to help OpenAI and Anthropic stay afloat (as long as it does not cost their business to much to do so).

As for Enron, I don't think another Enron is likely to happen, not at this level of visibility. People simply don't like going to prison. Could one person try to fudge some numbers? Maybe. Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind. But Theranos did not have 800 million active users, did not have every analyst in the world scrutinizing them. At the level of OpenAI, you would need many people to be in a conspiracy to fudge numbers, and when there's many people, there's many possibilities for someone to blow the whistle.
by frankest | 2025-12-10 05:00:29+00:00
Russia’s kleptocracy has impoverished the country so much that it now needs attrition in its male population to keep people from rising up against the current leadership. War is how you keep poor citizens from rebelling against you. When the war is over, historically the returning soldiers (especially in Russia) overturn the leadership. So there is never an incentive to stop a war. Especially a losing one.
by tartoran | 2025-12-10 05:01:02+00:00
You're wildly hallucinating, are you an LLM? Whatever you produce in Government/City IT is a service. Working for the Government is somewhat more stable, you don't have rank and file or any other needless churn and squeezing for profit. You do get fired from these positions if you don't perform but the workload is not as insane as on the private markets. You call that a handout? That's quite a strange notion but by all means go and compete as much as you want.
by akst | 2025-12-10 05:01:21+00:00
The success so far is really just political, which has largely been shutting down debate and dismissing calls for some kind of cost analysis of what we risk losing in enforcing this.

Whenever someone brings up this stuff, the politicians take the tone that "we won't let anyone get in the way of protecting children", and this is in response to people who in good faith think this can be done better. Media oligopolist love it because it regulates big tech, so they've been happy to platform supporters of the policy as well.

Third spaces won't reappear because the planning system in most cities shuts anything down the moment someone files a compliant. They get regulated out of existence the moment police express concern young people might gather there. The planning system (which in NSW/Sydney is the worse) has only gotten worse since the 80s after the green bans. It was largely put in place to allow for community say in how cities are shape, which sounds nice but it's mostly old people with free time participating who don't value 3rd spaces, even if they might end up liking them. They just want to keep things the same and avoid parking from getting overly complicated (and this is a stone throw away from train stations and the CBD).

Third places can be fixed by reforming planning which is slowly gaining momentum via YIMBY movements, but this social media ban is just not a serious contribution to changing that. If anything Social media phenomenon like Pokemon GO contributed more to these third places lighting up.

Governance in Australia is very paternalistic, it's a more high functioning version of the UK in that sense. I think it might be in part due to the voting system being a winner takes all single seat electorate preferential voting system which has a median voter bias for least controversial candidates.

As a kid I always felt being in Australia you missed out on a lot of things people got to do in America, that has slowly changed as media and technology has become less bound by borders but looks like that being undone.
by ack_complete | 2025-12-10 05:02:18+00:00
You're not wrong, the performance gain from proper FPU instruction scheduling on a Pentium was immense. But applications written prior to Quake and the Pentium gaining prominence or non-game oriented would have needed more blended code generation. Optimizing for the highest end CPU at the time at the cost of the lowest end CPU wouldn't necessarily have been a good idea, unless your lowest CPU was a Pentium. (Which it was for Quake, which was a slideshow on a 486.)

K6 did have the advantage of being OOO, which reduced the importance of instruction scheduling a lot, and having good integer performance. It also had some advantage with 3DNow! starting with K6-2, for the limited software that could use it.
by dsp_person | 2025-12-10 05:02:43+00:00
Can I use something like syncthing to easily backup the recordings and transcripts off my phone?

Google's Recorder app makes this a big PITA if I don't want to enable upload to cloud storage, there is a very tedious manual way to export recordings.

I really just want plain old data and to be able to copy or delete files via the filesystem. And not be required to use some cloud service.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-10 05:02:52+00:00
I am nearly in tears after reading this chain of posts. I have never read anything so funny here on HN.

Real question: How do LLMs "know" how to create good humor/satire? Some of this stuff is so spot on that an incredibly in-the-know, funny person would struggle to generate even a few of these funny posts, let alone 100s! Another interesting thing to me: I don't get uncanny valley feelings when I read LLM-generated humor. Hmm... However, I do get it when looking at generated images. (I guess different parts of the brain are activated.)
by some-guy | 2025-12-10 05:03:17+00:00
I work in UI in enterprise, where slight color shade differences between releases can cause uproar. I cannot imagine the thought process behind liquid glass in any sense.

OSX's Aqua was also an insanely bold UI with a lot of gimmicks, but was still usable for the most part. I'm so very curious about the internal discussions around this.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-12-10 05:04:53+00:00
O'Sassy or whatever is certainly Source available, and not Open Source. DHH can pound sand.

I used to think the pedantry was foolish, but I've grown to understand the distinction. It's one thing to criticize the OSI's claim to the term, and I do think they could do a better job at getting out ahead of new licenses and whatnot, but even if you ignore OSI entirely then the distinction is of substantial value.

I do think we need more Source Available licenses in the world. Certainly I would greatly appreciate being able to browse the source of the many proprietary software systems I've administered over the years.

At the same time it is not worth it if the spirit of Open Source is watered down.
by metaphor | 2025-12-10 05:05:22+00:00
> So, note for me: If I want NTP redundancy and I'm using NIST's servers, pick one NTP server from each of NTP's three sites.

System robustness hazard that won't tolerate just querying time.nist.gov at 4-sec or greater intervals?

From the cow's mouth[1]:

>> The global address time.nist.gov is resolved to all of the server addresses below in a round-robin sequence to equalize the load across all of the servers.

[1] https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
by ytoawwhra92 | 2025-12-10 05:05:27+00:00
I think it's easy to say this now, because calculator technology is ubiquitous, assessment methods have been adapted to account for calculator use, and we now have multiple generations of adults who used calculators in schools as students.

And yet the debate on calculator use in schools raged for a good 40 years or so before it quietened down - only to be replaced a short decade or two later by AI cheating.

> If we’re talking about grade school children who are learning multiplication, then yes, a calculator is unhelpful to their education.

FWIW, research doesn't support this:

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.46244543468...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42802150?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:176139