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by Epa095 | 2025-12-21 03:40:41+00:00
2-4% of the wealth you mean? That surely depends on the wealth... If you need 200k a year that's 2% of 10 million, but 1% of 20 million.

If you manage 1% then the real value doubles after 15 years. If you need 2% annually, the real value doubles after 18 years. The moral of the story is the same, with enough wealth you can live comfortably while your wealth grows.
by illusive4080 | 2025-12-21 03:41:32+00:00
If you have ATT fiber, it’s a pain in the butt. Their default router will only issue a single passthrough /64 on request. If you have multiple VLANs you have to setup some scripts to ask for more, and even then you only get 8 of them. The gateway reserves the other 8 from the /60 it gets for its own use.

The only way I got IPv6 working well with them was to bypass their gateway. Now all my VLANs have /64, which is the standard subnet size.
by smugma | 2025-12-21 03:41:55+00:00
App Store commission: iOS apps on the App Store will pay a reduced commission of either 10 percent for the vast majority of developers — including members of the Small Business Program, Video Partner Program, Mini Apps Partner Program, and for subscriptions following their first year — or 21 percent on transactions for digital goods and services. The App Store commission reflects the value of the tools, technology, and services that enable developers to create apps, in addition to App Store distribution, discovery, and ongoing services. Apple payment processing fee: In their iOS apps on the App Store, developers can process payments using Apple In-App Purchase for an additional 5 percent fee.

Store services commission: iOS apps on the App Store will pay a commission of 15 percent on transactions for digital goods and services made on a website linked to by the developer’s app. Developers in the programs mentioned above, and subscriptions following their first year, will pay a reduced rate of 10 percent.

Core Technology Commission: iOS apps distributed outside of the App Store will pay a 5 percent commission on the sale of digital goods and services, including paid apps. The Core Technology Commission compensates Apple for the tools, technologies, and services that enable developers to build and share their apps with iOS users.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-21 03:42:44+00:00
> We don't need to reduce federal power, we just need to reduce the overall power to do bad things

If you define the bad things they're not allowed to do narrowly then they'll trivially avoid the restrictions while still doing bad things. What works better is to define the good things they are allowed to do. But then the good things have to be defined narrowly, because a broad definition makes it easy to get bad things into the tent.

So a proposal can either be to prohibit some bad things on paper while not really doing it in practice, or it can be to permit them to do only the things that have to be done federally for some specific reason and define them narrowly enough that it doesn't just let them do whatever they want. Those are the only real options.
by Epa095 | 2025-12-21 03:44:31+00:00
Yeah, it's easier to analyse the past than predict the future. I agree that I made a statement about the luxury of wealth the last century.

I don't know if the S&P500 will grow at the same rate the next century, but I am willing to bet a beer that stocks in wide index founds will grow faster than both inflation and average salary for the next century.
by mothballed | 2025-12-21 03:45:20+00:00
The walmart experience is so wildly different depending on who they're catering to.

When I lived in poor areas, I've literally been shaken down by gigantic bouncers in the parking lot for "stealing" (but not) a bag of $5 cat litter. Why on earth this is even worth the liability of sending bouncers is beyond me. And everything even remotely valuable and easy to steal is behind locked showcases, but no one gives a fuck to get it out to help you buy it.

In rich areas, it's lobster sandwiches and no one even bothering you for your receipt on the way out, and maybe someone might even help you find something in the store. Nothing you want is behind glass, except maybe something unusually valuable by walmart standards and miniscule like an SD card.
by thasFqr12 | 2025-12-21 03:45:42+00:00
Michael Tracey, who influenced Hanania, has been on a wild crusade against all Epstein victims and has tried to discredit them.

He also avoids all intelligence connections. He never asks why Epstein got the job at Bear Stearns after leaving as a teacher at an expensive private school where William Barr's father was the headmaster.

He never publishes material like the officially released birthday book entry from Eliot Wolk, trader at Bear Stearns, who confirmed that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's father, had an account at Bear Stearns and who teased Epstein about knowing teenage Ghislaine.

So it is now officially confirmed that Epstein knew Robert and Ghislaine much earlier than previously known. And that he knew Robert in the Iran Contra years where Robert was dealing with Adnan Khashoggi.

Tracey and Hanania are doing extremely poor journalistic work here by just focusing on the subset of Epstein victims that were over 18 and took money for the services.

Not reporting at all on the intelligence connections seems suspect as well.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-21 03:47:00+00:00
> Solar with battery storage is about to be so inexpensive and rapid to deploy that perhaps 100% of new capacity should be added this way.

Exactly because solar is so inexpensive, it means the private sector does not need government help. Utilities do add a lot of solar power themselves, see for example [1]: 52% (32.5 GW) solar, 29% (18.2 GW) battery storage, 12% (7.5 GW) wind for 2025.

[1]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64586
by tamimio | 2025-12-21 03:47:09+00:00
The context is given, it’s all about users’ data. facebook, google, plantir, flock, you name it, the end goal is to harvest data as much as possible to sell it, profile the individuals, manipulate the public opinion (facebook did a mood-manipulation “experiment” back in 2012, you can only imagine now in the era of social media dependency and AI), invade people’s privacy, among many other things. Now add to that mix a mandatory digital ID, and let’s hear what these CEOs will call the public behind closed doors, I’m sure it’s worse than “dumb fucks”. Fun fact: Zuck early days business card printed with “I’M THE CEO, BITCH.”
by dawnerd | 2025-12-21 03:47:10+00:00
Problem is they have way more money to fight and that’s basically their whole playbook. I was caught up in a fraudulent libel claim that had to settle* back in the Twitter days. When those companies want to come after you, it’s really hard to fight back.

* no money was exchanged just some guarantees to not disclose their client and remove tweets.
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-21 03:48:19+00:00
>A web site logs traffic in a sort of defacto way, but no one actually reviews the traffic, and it's not sent to 3rd parties.

If data exists, it can be subpoenaed by the government.

Personally, I don't understand people's mindless anathema about being profiled by ad companies, as if the worst thing ever in the world is... being served more relevant ads? In fact I love targeted ads, I often get recommended useful things that genuinely improve my life and save me hours in shopping research.

It's the government getting that data that's the problem. Because one day you might do something that pisses off someone in the government, and someone goes on a power trip and decides to ruin your life by misusing the absolute power of the state.
by Mawr | 2025-12-21 03:49:41+00:00
Comparing "100% safe" vs the danger cars represent is so ridiculous I have to question if you're kidding? We're talking 40,000 people killed every year in the US alone on account of traffic accidents. And you're talking about grapes and crayons?

And swimming pools are pretty dangerous though? There are around 4,500 drowning deaths per year in the US, so on the order of 10x fewer than due to car accidents, but still quite a lot.
by eadwu | 2025-12-21 03:50:21+00:00
“Nothing to Hide” is more akin to a fundamental truth than a deviancy.

If you wish to hide something, why have you leaked it in the first place?

Why not ask the other question? Why are you trying to hide public information to begin with? Why are you introducing encryption on top of an underlying public interface.

This is intentionally different from are there things one would generally not be to be widely accessible or generally public.

There is nothing to hide if it is already public, because it is already public, you can't hide it even if you want to, you're only making it more difficult for a general member of the public to access that data. Even if you consider that "hiding", the source is still public.
by Redster | 2025-12-21 03:51:10+00:00
Hey, glad you posted this. I meant to earlier.

I love NightHawkinLight's approach to practical amateur chemistry. He's different from, say, NileRed or NileBlue in that he's not working with exotic materials just for the sake of messing with exotic materials. Each video seems to be trying to grow in his understanding of chemistry for the purpose of solving a real world problem.

And props to him for running experiments and reading old papers!
by inkyoto | 2025-12-21 03:51:53+00:00
> Idle threads do increase the amount of committed stack.

I am not clear on why the stack of an idlying thread would continue to grow. If a previously processed unit of work resulted in large amounts of memory pages backing the thread stack getting committed, then yes, it is not common to unmap the no longer required pages. It is a deliberate trade-off: automatic stack shrink is difficult to do safely and cheaply.

Idle does not actually make stacks grow, put simply.

> The nt kernel actually works similarly to Linux w.r.t. processes and threads.

Respectfully, this is slightly more that entirely incorrect.

Since Linux uses a single kernel abstraction («task_struct») for both processes and threads, it has one schedulable kernel object – «task_struct» – for both what user space calls a process and what user space calls a thread. «Process» is essentially a thread group leader plus a bundle of shared resources. Linux underwent the consolidation of abstractions in a quest to support POSIX threads at the kernel level decades ago.

Since fork(2) is, in fact, clone(2) with a bunch of flags, what you get depends on clone flags: sharing VM, files, FS context, signal handlers, and whether you are in the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD) and that creates a new thread group with its own memory management (but populated using copy-on-write), separate signal disposition context, etc.

Windows has two different kernel objects: a process (EPROCESS) and a thread (ETHREAD/KTHREAD). Threads are the schedulable entities; a process is the container for address space, handle table, security token, job membership, accounting, etc. They are tightly coupled, but not «the same thing».

On Windows, «CreateProcess» is heavier than Linux fork for structural reasons: it builds a new process object, maps an image section, creates the initial thread, sets up the PEB/TEB, initialises the loader path, environment, mitigations, etc. A chunk of that work is kernel-side and a chunk is user-mode (notably the loader and, for Win32, subsystem involvement). Blaming only «userspace» is wrong.

Defender (and third-party AV/EDR) can measurably slow process creation because it tends to inspect images, scripts, and memory patterns around process start, not because of deficiences of the kernel and system calls design.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-21 03:52:40+00:00
(Shrug) As you will note at the top of the thread, williamstein is policing. All I'm doing is pointing out that the policeman has no badge, no gun, and no uniform, and that their cruiser looks suspiciously like a '92 Crown Victoria with black and white spray paint and a spotlight from Cabela's.
by demurgos | 2025-12-21 03:52:45+00:00
I feel like there's a parallel with SQL where you want to discourage manual interpolation. Taking inspiration from it may help: you may not fully solve it but there are some API ideas and patterns.

A logging framework may have the equivalent of prepared statements. You may also nudge usage where the raw string API is `log.traceRaw(String rawMessage)` while the parametrized one has the nicer naming `log.trace(Template t, param1, param2)`.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-21 03:53:46+00:00
Not all of the skepticism is "does IPv6 work", some of it is "why should I want it as an end user who values privacy and minimal attack surface?"

From my perspective:

• CGNAT is a feature, not a bug. I'm already deliberately behind a commercial VPN exit node shared with thousands of others. Anonymity-by-crowd is the point. IPv6 giving me a globally unique, stable-ish address is a regression.

• NAT + default-deny inbound is simple, effective security. Yes, "NAT isn't a firewall", but a NAT gateway with no port forwards means unsolicited inbound packets don't reach my devices. That's a concrete property I get for free.

• IPv6 adds configuration surface I don't want. Privacy extensions, temporary addresses, RA flags, NDP, DHCPv6 vs SLAAC — these are problems I don't have with IPv4. More features means more things to audit, understand, and misconfigure.

• I already solved "reaching my own stuff" without global addressing. Tailscale/Headscale gives me authenticated, encrypted, NAT-traversing connectivity. It's better than being globally routable.

So yes, my parents are using IPv6 to watch Netflix. They're also not thinking about their threat model. I am, and IPv4-only behind CGNAT + overlay networking serves it well.

"It just works" isn't the bar for me to adopt IPv6. "It serves my goals better than IPv4" is the bar, and IPv6 doesn't meet it. Never has, never will.

IPv6 wasn't designed as "IPv4 with more bits." It was designed as a reimagining of how networks should work: global addressability as a first-class property, stateless autoconfiguration, the assumption that endpoints should be reachable. That philosophy is baked in. For someone like me, whose threat model treats obscurity, indirection, and minimal feature surface as assets, IPv6 isn't just unnecessary, it's ideologically opposed to what I want.

Want me to adopt a new addressing scheme? Give me a new addressing scheme, don't impose an opinionated routing philosophy on me.
by mothballed | 2025-12-21 03:55:13+00:00
Buffet is well known for "slumming it" at times. He drove a clapped out hail damaged ~decade old mass production model Cadillac like everyday through McDonalds. This is pretty inline with stuff I've seen from comfortably rich families.

>edit: oh fuck me its this goddamn bot poster who just lies to your face

Please take flamebait elsewhere.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-21 03:55:43+00:00
> intuitively understand IPV6 addresses because they look like MAC addresses with trisomy and are a pain in the ass to remember or type

I have north of 500 IPs I have some relation to. No way I would be bothered to remember them. Typing? Do you type IPv4s all day long? And it's still copy-paste 99% of times.

> for absolutely no benefit to the non-network engineer

Non-network engineer should work with names. And non-engineers don't 'work' with IPs at all. Look at your granpa - he's typing 'bbc' into the search form in the browser to get to bbc.com.

> nobody in their right mind can intuitively understand IPV6 addresses

And 99% of so called engineers can't understand even IPv4. So this is a moot point.
by __patchbit__ | 2025-12-21 03:55:51+00:00
The 256 bytes that encode C64's `A mind is born' demo

https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8

or the `quad core' demo

https://youtu.be/XlUcjzjVNlg

should those techniques pack AI model simulator images for hexapod robotics down at the supervisor binary interface layer, do the demoscene folks get to work catergories in AI and Robotics for `new' competition?
by Bad_Initialism | 2025-12-21 03:55:54+00:00
Because big-budget films and TV are increasingly fascist. They focus on the nuclear family as being qualitatively and quantitatively more important than anything else. Within that context, the plot inevitably seeks to establish the absolute uniqueness and superiority of the individual. Superhero stories are an extremely good fit for this narrative.

Deep down, we all know that having a family is exactly as great a biological accomplishment as taking a nice shit in the morning. Dad came; mom squeezed one out. Lampreys and slugs do basically the same thing just as successfully. It's not special. We are not special. Movies and TV push the lie that we are, and we recognize the lie and we have begun to resent it and to be unable to suspend our disbelief.

Youtube is enormously better because it discards the lie. It's just some dude earnestly trying to figure out why a plane crashed or how to run Doom on a smart toilet. It's refreshing because it's real. It's interesting because it's real and it doesn't alienate us by spending all its time trying to shove the big lie down our throats.
by ur-whale | 2025-12-21 03:57:19+00:00
OpenSCAD is kinda of neat, especially if you pair it with something like codex to build objects.

And then, you discover that those darn LLMs have absolutely no spatial intuition. None.

It is seriously frustrating: one the one hand you can just feel the raw potential of vibe coding complex geometries, and on the other, when you do, you keep seeing the agent making mistakes a 5 year old playing lego would never make.

Absolutely infuriating.
by unreal6 | 2025-12-21 03:57:44+00:00
Bannon for a while was deeply ingrained in Hollywood. He still earns residuals on episodes of Seinfeld [0], and owns the film rights to Michael Lewis' Liars Poker (even supposedly writing a screenplay for it himself) [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Media_and_investi...

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/steve-ba...
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-21 03:58:01+00:00
I’m going to have a sticky note warning myself to “Don’t write that on Hacker News.” I laughed but I hate me.

“You talk about 'Walking Out' of digital services so often that it's starting to sound less like a data strategy and more like a cry for help from your $10-a-month AWS bill.”

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/Brajeshwar
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-21 03:58:56+00:00
Colonies can only address this at the granularity of the nationalism with which they were presented. If every-day brits don't want to be blamed, they need to make their own rebellion to show they aren't party to the evil done in their name.

I think this is true of my own country (the US), and it's hopeless. I think most americans are ok with the evil done in their name. I wish I had better advice or insight.

But pretending like two imperial powers arguing over greenland is some great injustice just spits in the face of humanity. Have some fucking dignity. Greenland deserves better than to be treated like a piece of property
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-21 03:59:22+00:00
How much does food and electricity cost you (if the electricity is even on for you at all)? Also, uh, this isn't high school anymore, and the "nerds vs. jocks" framing says a lot more about your own internal state than it does about the state of the world, which is being run into the ground by wealthy oligarchs. If you have bad high school memories to process, that can be done elsewhere.
by ur-whale | 2025-12-21 04:00:08+00:00
SDFs are very neat up until the point where you need to build parts that have very precise specifications.

Something like two precisely interlocking gears with a tooth geometry with a profile that's the developed curve of the opposite tooth is a nightmare to build with SDFs

Or precise fillets.

Or hard intersections and differences.

Very useful for doing soft, squishy shapes, less so for hard CAD.

Also, a suggestion: in your project, please consider using Wavefront OBJ as an output format, it is a much, much better choice than STL (STL can't represent the actual topology of the object, it has to be reconstructed).
by mothballed | 2025-12-21 04:01:09+00:00
Yes I suspect the rich's strategy of owning nothing and controlling everything contributes as much to their wealth retention through the inevitable catastrophic events in life, as much as snowball interest accumulation does.

Middle class / poor people generally know how to build wealth through interest but make the fatal mistake of keeping their wealth largely tied up in on-paper assets in their name, this means they're ripe for the taking from every judge / wife / healthcare creditors / random guy with a lawsuit as soon as something in their life goes south. Of course once you get to a certain segment of underclass people who are basically unbanked you get back to horse-shoe theory and you'll never be getting their $50k gold chain they keep around their neck.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-21 04:02:06+00:00
Once again this is just playing into silly stereotypes. The sort of positions you're describing, at least in cases where it's remotely desirable, are stupidly competitive - substantially moreso than e.g. FAANG positions. And these positions, particularly in finance are absolutely brutal, and completely unfit for the overwhelming majority of people. It's not like you flash a degree and you're off to a life of luxury.
by vnchr | 2025-12-21 04:03:16+00:00
He ordered Israeli Defense Force pants off of Amazon apparently: https://www.jmail.world/thread/a767cba6e082256743a1069708a4a...

He also ordered like 9 pairs of Crocs. He really liked the fuzzy lined Crocs: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=Crocs
Show HN: I vibe-coded a working macOS driver for an obsolete laser engraver
by earsayapp | 2025-12-21 04:04:06+00:00
The Epilog Zing lasers were 50w desktop industrial lasers from circa 2010. They never had support outside of windows.

This was based off of LibLaserCut which is a Java project that reverse engineered these machine's protocols. This is a CUPS driver implemented in Swift and C.

Maybe this is a small example of AI doing something positive, like breathing new life into old machines :)
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-21 04:06:49+00:00
Welcome to the reality of the Black Lives Matters protests.

They got what they wanted--fewer Blacks shot by the police. But that's because the police weren't being as aggressive in doing their job. Crime rates went up, the number of Blacks killed went up--fewer by cops being offset by more from other criminals.

And we see the result of bail reform. The old system was not good--for lesser offenses they were typically sentenced to time served. This amounts to skipping over the determining guilt part of "justice". But when they took action on that they didn't notice that that was what was actually keeping them off the streets. The justice system simply does not have remotely the capacity to actually prosecute as many crimes as they catch.
by halperter | 2025-12-21 04:07:05+00:00
It would be interesting to find out how that has changed with the growth of the music industry over the years. I suspect that many of these <1000 streamed could be artificially generated for monetary purposes but I'm not entirely sure. That being said, there is a lot of good music with less than 1000 streams. I've been looking myslef and I've definitely found some hidden gems.