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by jtrn | 2025-12-19 17:43:08+00:00
Because no study can find any clinical improvement in sleep quality and duration, I tried with many patients with no effect (I'm a clinical psychologist). So, it's not proven to work practically or anecdotally, only theoretically. But people LOOOOVE to explain why blue wavelengths hit different receptors and glutamate-sensitive cells...

And a note: EMDR works MUCH better than blue-light-reducing therapy. It's just that the theory for WHY it works is insane (integration of memories/thoughts across brain hemispheres is facilitated by moving eyes back and forth). It's just exposure therapy, and the "follow the light" stuff is just structuring the exposure setting. You get the same effect while doing exposure therapy while driving a car.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-12-19 17:43:09+00:00
A friend of mine posed a question...

What happens if in a couple years from now, NVIDIA decides that the opportunity cost of manufacturing gaming GPUs instead of data center GPUs becomes so high that they decide to step out of the gaming hardware business altogether, what happens to PC gaming?

NVIDIA and AMD both use TSMC to manufacture the GPUs, so if NVIDIA made that decision, presumably, AMD would do so as well. That basically leaves Intel, but their GPUs are lackluster and the drivers are awful.

Gaming PCs have become ludicrously expensive. Even mid-grade builds are $2,000. You can't really build a decent gaming PC for under $1,500 if you want to play the latest AAA games.
by jswelker | 2025-12-19 17:43:17+00:00
I'll ignore your ad hominems there.

I am not saying I _know_ anything. Rather, I am disappointed in the incredible hubris and overconfidence shown by the Church fathers, not in terms of their faith but in terms of their certainty in the intellectual tools they had available and the extent to which those fumbling tools describe a God who in their own telling is infinite.

Yes I have read large portions of the Summa, Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, Origen, and others, and I am fairly confident in saying that if you strip away the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle and their followers, many of the arguments laid out by the patristics become tautologies at best and semantically meaningless at worst.

I am not saying I know what the answers are. Just that we need more humility than what was shown by a church council convened by--checks notes-- a power hungry and opportunistic Roman dictator.
by mistercheph | 2025-12-19 17:43:21+00:00
Aside from doubts about whether or not this is actually the case the pertinent question that comes from my point is:

If cryptography researchers were keeping their results secret to within their institution / research circle, instead of sharing with academic community / public, would that advantage or disadvantage the NSA relative to the researchers? I think the answer is obvious, and it's a pretty excellent analogy for the US-China situation.
by welferkj | 2025-12-19 17:43:23+00:00
>I feel like the author is catastrophizing a bit much here.

I feel like he's catastrophizing the ordinary amount for an anti-AI screed. Probably well below what the market expects at this point. At this point you basically have to sound like Ed Zitron or David Gerard to stand out from the crowd.

AI is boiling the oceans, and you're worried about a vending machine?
by wishfish | 2025-12-19 17:43:47+00:00
I've had both. Kobo is fine hardware-wise. And light years better on software than Kindle. One huge example: I have 1000+ books in Calibre. Took the time to tag them all into their respective categories. Kobo recognizes those tags and my book collection is sorted. With Kindle, I'd have to sort by hand on device. It ignores Calibre tags.

For this feature alone, I'd never go back to Kindle. Sure, I might be able to replicate it with jailbreaking + KOReader. But the Kobo worked this way out of the box.
by Bridged7756 | 2025-12-19 17:43:53+00:00
The claims are clearly exaggerated or as you say, we'd have AI companies pumping out new AI focused IDEs left and right, crazy features, yet they all are Vs code forks that roughly do the same shit

A VSCode fork with AI, like 10 other competitors doing the same, including Microsoft and Copilot, MCPs, Vs code limitations, IDEs catching up. What do these AI VsCode forks have going for them? Why would I use one?
by Noaidi | 2025-12-19 17:44:01+00:00
Honestly, I do not care about all of this anymore. We do not need social media. We just don't. If you want to use it for business then yes, you should need to present an ID.

"Age verification laws are as ineffective", yes. But this is even true for buying alcohol, but we still have the laws because they help. The more kids are off social media the better.

"as they are dangerous", this is laughable.

The example: "16-year-old in Texas, for example, could get pregnant and be denied abortion access—as well as information online about obtaining an abortion through other means, and even parenting the children they’re forced to have."

Hey, abortions for 16 years olds are illegal in Texas as are nearly all abortions. Yeah, it is a dumb law, but it is the law. So you are advocating for a child to break the law putting them at even more of a risk! You may disagree with the law, but if that is the case, work to change it.

I had many queer friends growing up in the 80's. They all talked to each other in real life. They had real solidarity in both the gay and straight community. I mean Stonewall happened in real life, not online. Maybe the whole online thing is meant to curtail real action. We do not need online.

I agree the implementation is faulty.

But you know how I know most people do not care about "the harm'? Because I am homeless with a serious mental illness and no one cares. Is there one person here who will rent me a room in their huge house for $600 a month so I do not have to stress living in my van anymore?
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-19 17:44:06+00:00
> "C makes you a bad programmer. Real men code in assembler."

So, who is it that supposedly said that? Not K&R (obviously). Not Niklaus Wirth. Not Stroustrup. Not even Dijkstra (Algol 60) and he loved writing acerbic remarks about how much the average developer sucked. I don't recall Ken Thompson, Fred Brooks (OS/360), Cutler, or any other OS architect having said anything like that either. Who in that era that has any kind of credibility said that?

The "Real Men Don't Use Pascal" essay was a humorous shitpost that didn't reflect any kind of prevailing opinion.
by everfrustrated | 2025-12-19 17:44:06+00:00
I was with you until the last.

Chinese will always be irrelevant to the US car market as both political parties will block chinese vehicle sales on (valid) national security grounds.

Uber and Lyft stocks crash as markets realise the game is up - nobody can compete with Tesla who can afford to burn excess spare factory capacity driving cars directly off the line to start picking up passengers. Waymo might have good AI but can't possibly compete with Teslas unit economics.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-19 17:44:26+00:00
I think we should not allow Amazon to control our digital life.

Same with Google etc... just look how bad youtube has gotten. I try to find a video xyz, using the search term xyz, and after like 5 results, random videos show up. That is not a "search", that is propaganda and an attempt to retain people on the platform - but I am already on the platform playing BACKGROUND MUSIC of some DJs. Why is Google wasting my time when I want to FIND something? And what is even worse - that leaked onto the search engine too. The search engine has been ruined by Google deliberately so in the last some years.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-12-19 17:44:42+00:00
Sharing some feedback and some broader context.

I think it's said in other words elsewhere but the "picked" state needs to be clearer that it's picked up. What may be helpful is to actually add a drop shadow/scale/border and ideally there should be a hole where it was that makes it clear that you are holding it.

Not trying to diminish, but this pattern has other uses already. Anyone who builds accessibly for folks who use keyboard and no mouse.

Tab/arrows to highlight, Enter to select, Arrows to move, Enter to drop.
by abound | 2025-12-19 17:44:45+00:00
At $DAYJOB, there's an internal version of this, which I think just uses Claude Code (or similar) under the hood on a checked out copy of the PR.

Then it can run `git diff` to get the diff, like you mentioned, but also query surrounding context, build stuff, run random stuff like `bazel query` to identify dependency chains, etc.

They've put a ton of work into tuning it and it shows, the signal-to-noise ratio is excellent. I can't think of a single time it's left a comment on a PR that wasn't a legitimate issue.
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 17:46:29+00:00
That solves the Token Tax. It fails the Bandwidth Tax. To get that JSON-LD, you still download 2MB of HTML. You execute JS. You parse the DOM. You are buying a haystack to find a needle, then cleaning the needle. We propose serving just the needle. Furthermore, JSON-LD is strictly for facts. It cannot express @SEMANTIC_LOGIC. It lacks the instructions on how to sell.
by krick | 2025-12-19 17:46:42+00:00
I'm not even so sure it's such a useless joke. I mean, it is, and I wouldn't want titles to be like "Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along" (unless ALL major publishers actually admit it, which so far they didn't). But I clicked on "Math nerd explains how to spend 3 days proving 1+1=2" and when it turned out to be a Lean tutorial I thought "Oh, that's exactly what I wanted!". I don't know why, but "From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4" I didn't even notice. It's such a boring and verbose title with lame attempt at wordplay that, that my brain somehow filters it out.
by afrazullal | 2025-12-19 17:46:50+00:00
We analyzed the P&L of a typical Growth Team vs. an Autonomous Agent Swarm. The cost leverage is ~560x ($280k vs $500/yr).

Most people fail with agents because they use "Open Loops" (e.g., "Go write 10 tweets"). We found that reliable production requires "Closed Loops" with a critique step:

Research Phase (Reasoning model) Drafting Phase (LLM) Critique Phase (Reviewer Agent that rejects output < 9/10 score) This post details the full system architecture, the 3-agent org chart, and the actual system prompts we use to run this autonomously.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 17:47:15+00:00
Amazing website, I have seen this earlier and I really enjoyed it

Honestly, I'd like to chime in the fact that I always used to think that web was so just aws,google,microsoft,cloudflare hosting it and there is some truth to it but if someone feels this way, I recommend people to look at some websites like https://serverdeals.cc https://https://vpspricetracker.com/ etc and going on places like lowendtalk and even talking to some people who are vps providers and talking to them etc, it was very fascinating

Another point I'd like to chime in, being more relevant perhaps is that as I have told in other comment, bluesky itself isnt centralizing/asking for id to just use it but they are asking it for the dm functionality which is still centralized/ even unencrypted. They are working on improving it/making it decentralized but although I feel like I dont enjoy bluesky that much because of its shannon index as you showed compared to say fediverse, this message today isnt the issue

Fediverse itself doesnt know how to handle direct messages / most likely they are unencrypted too (atleast of lemmy they are that I know of)

But I am interested how the shannon index of fediverse is so low when threads app has 10s of millions of people, how does that work/not centralized too?

Also I had heard that the creator of pixelfed is working on an encrypted fediverse messaging app but I have been interested in this for so long but I am interested if you know of any such applications right now
by georgemcbay | 2025-12-19 17:47:35+00:00
> I wonder how people would have responded if this were about Android.

As someone who uses both Android and iOS (the dual usage being in large part because I develop software for both) if this were about Android I wouldn't be surprised in the least, but I do find it surprising for Apple to increasingly allow for this sort of thing.

IMO the major positive differentiators Apple has over Google as a phone OS provider are the perception of protecting user privacy and also not plastering ads everywhere. This example weakens both of those perceptions at the same time.

So (for me) its not about Apple being worse than Google when it comes to this stuff, its just surprising they are willing to be as bad.

In any case, I don't have a horse in the race to cheer for. Google's major positive differentiator has been flexibility for advanced users to run what they want with minimal OS interference, and Google has been tamping down on that, so from my perspective both appear to be destroying their previous benefits to meet somewhere in the worst-case (for end users) middle.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-19 17:47:37+00:00
I wonder if that's generational.

A lot of the people in my age group (Millennials) decided that TikTok was where we were going to get off the "hot new social media platform" train.

The Zoomers and GenAlpha kids seemed to be the people really using it, but I'm just a crotchety old guy with a bald head and a gut and an office job at this point, so I don't know what the hip young people are up to with their Tok Clocks and their loud rock music.
by Y_Y | 2025-12-19 17:47:45+00:00
That's only true in classical electrodynamics, as it happens. If you're in a very strong B-field like you might find near a compact object you'll get nonlinear QED effects.

You can get a low order correction with Euler-Heisenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Heisenberg_Lagra...
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-19 17:48:52+00:00
This has been posted several times before. But I figured it was worth posting again. The video isn't clear about what the "big myth" is. My guess is that it's about the garage... maybe we all think everything Apple did in the early days was in the garage. Also, if you look closely, you can see Ron Wayne's signature on (what I assume to be) the original Apple partnership agreement. I met Ron Wayne at the Vintage Computer Festival a few years back. Seemed to be a decent human.
by xtracto | 2025-12-19 17:49:06+00:00
Meh, I am also old enough to have experienced what the GP post mentioned, and I remember also when Visual Basic 6 was released, a similar sentiment appeared:

Suddenly, every cousin 13 year old could implement apps for their Uncle's dental office, laboratory, parts shop billing, tourism office management, etc. Some people also believed that software developers would become irrelevant in couple of years.

For me as an old programmer, I am having A BLAST using these tools. I have used enough tools (TurboBasic, Rational Rose (model based development, ha!), NetBeans, Eclipse, VB6, BorlandC++ builder) to be able to identify their limits and work with them.
by wishfish | 2025-12-19 17:49:59+00:00
Kobo is the sort of device which would make HN happy. The software is much more open and permissive than Kindle. Integrates with Calibre more tightly. Has a fairly rich ecosystem of tweaks and addons which don't require a jailbreak. Wish it didn't have secure boot but am otherwise pretty happy with it.

Kobo feels like something I actually own. More so than Kindle or even my iDevices. That's a little unusual these days from a mainstream product and that will make its users enthusiastic.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-19 17:50:06+00:00
Did you not look at the evidence I posted? It’s not about you or I it’s about humanity. I have two on the ground people who are central to AI saying humanity doesn’t understand AI.

If you say you understand LLMs then my claim is then that you are lying. Nobody understands these things and people core to building these things are in absolute agreement with me.

I build LLMs for a living, btw. So it’s not just other experts saying these things.. I know what I’m talking about on a fundamental level.
by tpurves | 2025-12-19 17:50:26+00:00
So Zen 6/7 will have a core design and a CCD design. But like past gens, these will be packaged into different products with different sockets and packages (everything from monolithic APUs to sprawling multi-chiplet Server cpus).

So to say that Zen 6/7 supports AM5 on desktop, doesn't necessarily exclude that Zen 6/7 product family in general doesn't support other new/interesting sockets on desktop (or mobile) also. Maybe products for AM6 and AM5 from the same zen family.

Medusa Halo and the Zen7 based 'Grimlock Halo' version might be the interesting ones to watch (if you like efficient Apple-stlyle big APUs with all the memory bandwidth)
by advisedwang | 2025-12-19 17:50:49+00:00
> Is that just being ignored while a deal is orchestrated

Yes. There is a series of executive orders (eg [1]) that literally say "To permit the contemplated divestiture to be completed, the Attorney General shall not take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act ...". The "PROTECTING AMERICANS FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS ACT" only allows the US AG to sue for enforcement, so this essentially is completely waiving enforcement.

This is why congress often gives independent agencies or private actors the right to sue in an act - because the DOJ cannot be trusted to fairly enforce laws if there is even the slightest political or economic valence to them.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/savi...
by elzbardico | 2025-12-19 17:51:00+00:00
Completely stupid text, but it is successful slop for the mindless Russian-hating crowd. No matter that probably Ars Technica reports couldn't even name and enumerate the functionality of the existing ISS modules. Or try to figure out which kind of modules will be sent first by the Russians. What is important is generating funny slop "Elbonia mud-people jerry-rigging old trash to build space station".
by kvemkon | 2025-12-19 17:51:37+00:00
> This increases the maximum core count per chiplet from 8 to 12. Furthermore, it increases the L3 cache per CCX/CCD from 32 MB to 48 MB.

I'd say the amount of L3 is not increased but adapted/scaled to the increased core count, since per each core there is still the same amount of cache available as before.

We get faster cores, so we need to get from 5600 to e.g. 6000 DDR5. Since core count is increased by 50%, we'd need 9000... DDR5^W, well yes, we'd need actually as planed before AM6 and DDR6!
by wvenable | 2025-12-19 17:52:51+00:00
I think half the people who think AI is incredibly dumb and can't understand why anyone is using it is because they're using the free samples. This whole thing is so horribly expensive that they lose money even on people who pay therefore the free samples are necessarily as minimal as they can get away with.

The free samples worked famously initially to get people to try it initially, though.

But whenever that free Gemini text pops up in my search, I know why people think it's stupid. But that's not the experience I have with paid options.
by fragmede | 2025-12-19 17:53:08+00:00
TikTok has longer content, some of it quite academic, but it's all vertical. I don't know about any one else's TikTok, but mine has a dedicated STEM feed if I scroll all the way to the left at the top. The problem is their vaunted algorithm will prioritize whatever content you happen to come across and then linger on, which tends to end up not prioritizing eg math content until you reset your algorithm and search for content you want the fresh algorithm to prioritize.
by nyeah | 2025-12-19 17:53:17+00:00
It's not nitpicking. 1450 is not between 500 and 1300. You may stress "about" but I certainly didn't.

I put the cut-off at 1300 very intentionally. As soon as you go much past 1300, you start to see stuff like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev#/media/File:Rubl... That's some good shit. I see this in Wikipedia dated 1338: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lorenzetti_amb.effect2.jp... Not bad at all. They're already creeping up on or El Greco or Da Vinci or something.

And if we move the cut-off all the way to 1450, fuhgeddaboudit. You have freaking Albrecht D\:urer by that time. No fair. I'm sorry. The challenge concerned a particular 800-year period, which I chose carefully.

Yes I hear you about the range of quality. You're right. Many of the best pieces may have been "exhibited to death." There was presumably lots of student art and whatnot, probably not considered very good at the time, but it happened to survive. I accept that. But I'm only asking for a single counterexample in an 800-year block of time. I think that's fair.

If you like, though, I'm happy to amend my claim to this: "No, medieval European art did not suck. European art between 500 and 1300 sucked. But from 1300 until whenever the Renaissance starts, watch out. Those folks did some really nice work."
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-19 17:53:26+00:00
Obviously don't daisy chain, that wastes ports so badly. But if you connect 4 nodes into a loop, it goes fine. Relaying only adds 33% extra traffic. And what specifically are the latency numbers you have in mind?

If you have 3 links per box, then you can set up 8 nodes with a max distance of 2 hops and an average distance of 1.57 hops. That's not too bad. It's pretty close to having 2 links each to a big switch.
by everfrustrated | 2025-12-19 17:53:50+00:00
AI will cause the value of knowledge to plummet. This will be felt particularly by universities - graduates will be valued to near zero by business. Elite universities will continue to do well but the value there becomes elitism and social status (this has been apparent for a long while already).

Value of experience will grow - compounding this will be less opportunity for junior people to get that experience so they will be increasingly (and rightly) frustrated.

The opportunities to have a successful career as a salaried employee decline significantly - people are pushed to start small businesses out of necessity - and this barrier is lower due to AI.

A flurry of new dev tooling companies start up re-packaging software development processes and concepts into a more user friendly package that allows software development to go even more mainstream to accommodate this.
by ivanbakel | 2025-12-19 17:53:57+00:00
> it is not "Safe Rust" which is competing with C it is "Rust".

It is intended that Safe Rust be the main competitor to C. You are not meant to write your whole program in unsafe Rust using raw pointers - that would indicate a significant failure of Rust’s expressive power.

Its true that many Rust programs involve some element of unsafe Rust, but that unsafety is meant to be contained and abstracted, not pervasive throughout the program. That’s a significant difference from how C’s unsafety works.
by azemetre | 2025-12-19 17:54:20+00:00
I'd buy these arguments if America was a place that cared about its citizens and not a country that lets a small group of very elite, very rich, people ruin the lives of tens of millions of Americans subjecting them to poverty to make a buck.

The last war China was involved with was 1979 compared to America, today mind you, that is on the cusp of invading Venezuela because Rubio has a moronic axe to grind.

It's really hard to not see the facade for what it is: rich people are upset that their world order is collapsing.

Frankly who care? Give me universal medicare, universal childcare, and public higher education then maybe, just maybe, I might start to care about all this stuff that only seems to make people lives worse not better.