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by panick21_ | 2026-01-29 11:04:18+00:00
Can you show some actual evidence of that? Because evidence actually shows that commercial growth in the US outpaces Europe by a gigantic degree. The traditional European companies like Airbus has made lots of loses. European companies are not even competing in the LEO race to any serious degree.

Their 'compete with SpaceX' Ariane 6 rocket has been an unmitigated disaster. And in order to 'compete with SpaceX' they are giving billions in subsidies to Amazon instead, I guess that is better. And its exactly what they didn't want to do when they designed the Ariane 6 program in the first place.

> companies like ISAR Aerospace (SpaceX competitor)

If anything they are a far, far, far inferior competitor of RocketLab. SpaceX isn't even in the same universe as ISAR.

The simple fact is, small rocket companies are not viable, and pretty much all of them are not profitable and/or go bust. RocketLab itself basically never made money from rockets, the pivoted mostly to in-space stuff.

Maybe one of the small European rocket companies can survive if it gets enough support from ESA, but then moving on to anything beyond that is going to be hard.

> NASA, and is heavily investing there

If we look at ESA and EU space budget, we can see that it goes up a bit, but nowhere near close to anything in the US.

So yes, there is some energy in the European space sector, but its very easy to overestimate, and specially if you look at it compared to the US.
by johnfloyd2k9 | 2026-01-29 11:04:26+00:00
As a collection nears 20 pairs, traditional floor racks become inadequate and messy. Moving to a slim, black shoe cabinet with a 18-pair capacity allows for a more disciplined approach to storage. The adjustable panels mean that as your style changes, perhaps moving from trainers to more structured boots, the cabinet can be reconfigured to suit the new dimensions of your footwear.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-29 11:04:29+00:00
> When a human presents work under their own name, there is an unspoken but widely relied-upon assumption that the presenter has exercised judgment over the space of possible choices and can explain why these ones were taken.

> …

> If you attach your name to work, you are asserting that you can meaningfully answer “why this and not something else?” across the decisions that matter. Tools that produce answers faster than humans think require new language, because our old words still imply thought occurred.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2026-01-29 11:05:09+00:00
I agree with the parent comment, but I understand that someone who did not grow up with UIs that looked like that would think otherwise. I do feel that Windows 2000 was peak UI for desktop operating systems, but it's probably due to a combination of nostalgia and the fact that I deeply dislike modern Electron-based UIs with too few decorations and an overly minimalistic and non-customizable "we know best" attitude.
by podgorniy | 2026-01-29 11:05:14+00:00
TLDR: user reach and convenience (or avoidance of the inconvenience artificially created by the app store companies to ensure own monopoly).

App stores are another source of distribution of the platform. Apps create another engagement channel. Apps are another way to reach more people and keep them "hooked" longer (push notifications, tighter integration with the system). Poor performance of the website-only apps is often offputting showing lower retention and engagement metrics. People don't konow how to create a web app icon on the home screen, but know how to search for apps in the appstore.

Some platforms make website-based apps harder to create and manage (in the name of the resource optimisation or security). So no background players, no face-based logins, no airplay, battery drains way faster with web based apps, no proper file storage, hard to handle guestures, no restoration of the state of the pages, etc, etc.

When inside patreon company there is a question "do we do the native app or we keep the website" there is no good argument from project manager side why not to do the app as it increases all the metrics they care about and accept future possible risk that something will change from Apple side.
The Anti-Pomodoro Technique: Focus on Taking Breaks, Not Watching the Timer
by kentich | 2026-01-29 11:05:34+00:00
I’ve never been able to maintain enough focus on a timer. The temptation to get distracted is always strong—and since it’s easy to ignore the timer, I often did.

After failing to follow the Pomodoro method, I’d feel irritated, frustrated, and blame myself. Soon enough, the routine would fall apart, and I’d go back to working in my usual way—without boundaries or timers.

Then I had an epiphany: focusing on the timer forces you into a battle with yourself. And since it’s hard to fight your own subconscious micro-reactions and habits, you end up frustrated. Sticking rigidly to a timer is the wrong goal. The real goal should be taking regular breaks—focus will follow naturally.

To test this idea, I created "Black Screen for Windows" — an app that forcibly blacks out my screens for a few minutes at regular intervals. Usually, that’s 3–5 minutes every 20–30 minutes.

This practice of enforced, regular breaks has not only improved my well-being but also dramatically boosted my productivity—all without the frustration. My ability to focus improved, too, with a small hack: I start with a 30-minute interval, then gradually shorten it until I find a span of time in which I can maintain clean, distraction-free focus.

I find this works better for me than the classic tier-based Pomodoro.

What do you think?
by dgxyz | 2026-01-29 11:05:50+00:00
Yeah definitely affordable and quick. And can get all of those in London with zero effort. Most of the time I just search for food on Google Maps and pick something which doesn't look poisonous.

For example, going here tomorrow at lunch time https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/food-and-drink/southbank-c... - will work out what I'll eat when I get there.
by rubyfan | 2026-01-29 11:06:25+00:00
>there could also be cases where cutting back to $Z profits might be preferable in case not doing so were to prompt legislation causing someone to be forcibly cut to $Z-1 or even $0 profits from a particular profit source.

Not in an environment where regulatory capture costs so much less than any change legislation could bring. The remedy in almost every recent monopoly case has been remarkably nothing. Politicians don’t actually want change, they want the threat of legislation so that industries bring truckloads of money to line their pockets.
by tcumulus | 2026-01-29 11:06:28+00:00
Depends on which model. Only really the ECMWF weather model is not fully free. The German, French, Dutch, ... models are all free (regional and global models). Of course, these global models are generally less accurate than ECMWF, still ECMWF has a lot of free data available too. US models are also freely available, and quite easy to work with (as opposed to some European ones).
by LeonM | 2026-01-29 11:07:10+00:00
I'd take that claim by Mecha with a huge grain of salt.

How are they going to fund 7 years of support for a device that sells maybe a few thousand units? How are they going to guarantee they will still be around, and interested in maintaining the device drivers in 2033?

The Linux kernel project will remove the device drivers from the mainline kernel if they are no longer actively maintained and in use. So it is very likely that the support will be dropped from the mainline kernel way before 2033, as there probably won't be any users of this device remaining, and the original developers long gone.

Call me negative, but I expect that this company wil just vanish after some time. The team will just move on, maybe even start again under a different name, but there will be nobody to be held responsible for promises and claims they made in the past.
by b800h | 2026-01-29 11:08:08+00:00
Can I just add: In addition to this, if you struggle with anxiety or have some sort of ADHD, then try cutting out caffeine entirely. Not just switching to "decaf" (which isn't), but cutting out tea and coffee, and switching to an alternative like Barleycup.

Doing this has had a massive positive effect for me, and combined with decent nutrition and daily exercise, has been wonderful.
by daoboy | 2026-01-29 11:08:14+00:00
My physician prescribed Vitamins D and B12, so a quality Omega 3 is the only supplement I currently purchase.

After an absurd amount of trial and error with every over-the-counter, trendy supplement over the last couple of decades (and lord only knows how much money), these are the only ones that seem to make a subjective difference on my quality of life and an objective difference in my bloodwork.
by defrost | 2026-01-29 11:08:33+00:00
I can't say either way, having never met her.

I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later.

My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-29 11:08:39+00:00
The quote was not intended to frame your position in any particular manner. Simply to provide context so it was clear what I was responding to.

I take two issues with your response.

First and foremost, the point I raised was specifically about the size of an operation relative to the overall market. You haven't addressed that. You say you see no difference but don't explain why. It seems obvious to me that larger players will require different regulations than smaller players due to having different effects on the market.

Second, Apple doesn't operate a marketplace for games. They operate a general purpose market that includes apps for anything and everything. Compare a 1000 sq ft mom and pop game shop to a 400k sq ft big box retailer that sells groceries, liquor, clothing, home goods, yard tools, just about everything except for literal building materials. It wouldn't be reasonable to treat them the same way.
by podgorniy | 2026-01-29 11:09:10+00:00
> Why not take that away from the firms and let people have local first AI usage?

Capital strives for monopoly. Are there money in "local llms" for the capital? Docker had this issue: they gave local stuff, and failed to monetize. It's just how game is shaped. Capital will go there where user's will have to be dependent on what capital invested in. There are too much money which are searching for places to make more money. Increase in competition or locality does not help making more money.
by m_rpn | 2026-01-29 11:09:22+00:00
Usability, UI, that's not the point, my question is just how is it possible that an esteemed academic professional doesn't understand that touching anything that deals with "data" on a service like ChatGPT could possibly result in consequences? And how is it possible that we have started to justify every careless and sloppy behaviour ever? Better not justify sloppiness.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-29 11:09:26+00:00
The Elizabeth Line, formerly known as Crossrail, is a lot more similar to the hundred year plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail

My dad was a tunnels engineer and worked on Crossrail feasibility studies at several points in his career across decades.

London is is many ways one of the less impressive subway systems simply because much of it is so old, with small trains running in Victorian era tunnels. Not as bad as the Glasgow one, which feels like travelling on a 2/3 scale model of a subway with alarmingly narrow platforms.

It is however a point of contention within the UK that London public transport is better than public transport in almost every other city, due to being properly nationalized.
by seszett | 2026-01-29 11:09:32+00:00
> it's largely possible that the location of testes actually doesn't matter

It's not really that it doesn't matter, just that there are several different options to allow good enough fertility.

If sperm has to be stored/generated at a temperature lower than 36°C, then external testes are a solution to that, but a lower body temperature works as well. Developing enzymes that work good enough at a higher temperature also works (apparently what birds have done). And maybe just accepting a lower fitness of sperm cells works if the animal produces more of them.

Hippopotamuses have a low body temperature of about 35°C, so internal testes work for them.
by vascogaspar | 2026-01-29 11:09:34+00:00
cool concept! real-time video processing is tricky to get right.
few questions:
- whats the latency like? can it handle 30fps smoothly?
- are you doing processing on device or streaming to server?
- any plans for custom effect pipelines?
ive been playing with video processing for a side project and the performance optimization is always the hardest part. will check this out.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-29 11:10:10+00:00
Only recently again I read in the newspaper, that most products are overdosed. There is a typical number that the vitamin D products usually show, and in the article it said, that only up to 800 IU is safe, and everything above is an overdose. There are many products out there with 2000 UI or maybe even more. Beware.

EDIT: Wow, the HN-local doctors at it again. Imagine getting downvoted for sharing information from newspaper article (and honestly labeling that info as such), that probably was written by someone consulting medical professionals. But hey HN will know better!
by willtemperley | 2026-01-29 11:10:35+00:00
You're perfectly entitled to distribute a macOS app with your own paywall, the same as ever. Nothing has changed from that perspective.

Rent-seeking on SaaS platforms is far worse I think, e.g. $30 per month for 10GB of data in a recent offering I was looking at, and who knows where the data are. Some datacenter in a foreign land with a mad king probably.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2026-01-29 11:10:37+00:00
I am with you, and for this reason I really want them to fail. The PC is currently still a platform where the user has a relatively large amount of control and digital autonomy, and as long as a sizeable part of the population keeps using it, companies and government institutions cannot ignore it and must support it.

Once 90% of all internet clients are iOS or Android the open internet is dead, and the concept of a general purpose computer on which you can run any computation you want is also inaccessible to the average person. From that point on, everything is a service that you rent from either Apple or Google.
by panick21_ | 2026-01-29 11:10:50+00:00
There were once about 300 small rocket companies. About 250 of them are dead by by now.

The Europeans were late to the game, and their companies got some late investment.

Out of those 300 companies basically 0 of them have actually made money with rockets. Companies like RocketLab pivoted to in-space stuff and that's where they actually make money.

Pretty much every single small rocket company has lost money with small rockets and pivots to larger rockets where there is more demand because of constellations. But in Europe, that will be near impossible because of the Ariane monopoly.

And closing the case on reuse for small rockets is even more difficult.

I really think calling companies that have barley done a test-launch 'spacex competitors' is a silly. At best its a luxury competitor to SpaceX ride-share launches.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-29 11:11:00+00:00
Good point. That makes them a combined platform and payment processor. So it seems to me the logical question would be, shouldn't they just break the platform part out then? But isn't that exactly what their percentage fee amounts to? So Apple should be entitled to 30% of their (IIRC) 5%, right?

Really they ought to further split that out into "processing fee" and "platform services fee" and Apple would then be entitled to 30% of the latter.
by nashashmi | 2026-01-29 11:11:04+00:00
I grew up watching movies where it was common for the character to be living as adults in the town they were born in, and sometimes even in the very house they were born.

As an immigrant, I thought this was a missed opportunity. In my head this is what it means to be a local.

My wife on the other hand has been migrating for so long that she has no ties to any land. Not of her forefathers which she has never been to. Not of her grandfather which she also has never been to. Nor of her fathers given that he hates the place. still has longing for the land of her childhood but she is not allowed to go back to. And now she is here, too detached to continue to live in the same place as us.
by Liquix | 2026-01-29 11:11:15+00:00
can vouch for a diet high in fatty fish along with supplementation of D3 + cofactors (K2, A, magnesium, zinc, copper, boron). sample size of one but noticeably improves mood and energy levels.

recent evidence [0] suggests there's not much of a link between serotonin and depression, and therefore the effects of SSRIs are either placebo or an as of yet unexplained mechanism of action. IMHO it seems much more likely that modern lifestyles (excessive screen time, poor diet, lack of socialization, no connection to nature, no spirituality, etc) have more of an effect than serotonin levels.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35854107/
by lnsru | 2026-01-29 11:11:17+00:00
There are people like me who still buy teslas. Buddy picked up his new Model Y couple weeks ago. The price and the whole package is fine. Zero interest financing is absolutely nice. Elon showed his real face during children rescue drama in Asia. With this defamation story it was well known who he is for years. Political involvement was the visible tip of an iceberg for everyone.

Now if you ask me if the German car managers are better I doubt it. Gassing apes by Volkswagen in US is on the same level as Elon. Mercedes guy was complaining about lazy workers too much. Only BMW guy was able to keep acceptable silence. Overall German equivalent of model Y is at least 20000€ more expensive than Elon‘s car.

Personally I don’t buy anything from China if I can. I am not brave and as the Ayways story showed clearly, that great Chinese car can quickly be without any service. Maybe it’s ok to lease such car for couple years, but I don’t want to have car after small accident for what no replacement parts are available.
by newsclues | 2026-01-29 11:11:48+00:00
Remember when software was sold in a box with a paper manual in a store? Before App Store and steam, retailers and publishers of games and software also took their share of the revenue from the work software developers created.
Their cut wasn’t small.

If the government stepped in to regulate the sales of software (to protect developers and consumers?) do you think:
A) apps will cost less
B) the government won’t want their cut
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-29 11:12:09+00:00
All my nutrient numbers improved when I became vegan because nearly every one in the US/UK is deficient in VitD, Omegas and B12.

Fortunately today’s vegan communities are much more aware of this so I started taking these supplements right up front and all my blood markers improved dramatically since when I consumed meat/dairy.

It’s annoying to hear some push back against this when it’s as simple as taking relatively safe supplements (just make sure you talk to a doctor, and not a social media influencer, about how much you should take, and if you get a chance to regularly check your bloodwork don’t miss out).
by lazypenguin | 2026-01-29 11:12:21+00:00
A teammate evaluated this and the experience was night and day compared to cmake + vcpkg. However, there wasn’t a lot of motivation to cutover our existing large project over because of the unknown unknowns. I think projects like these looking to dethrone the status quo definitely need some case studies or examples of larger projects using it to increase confidence because I’d much rather use xmake over cmake if it can get the job done
by drdrek | 2026-01-29 11:13:03+00:00
Hub / City Area,Total Tech Startups,Total Funding (2025 Est.),Total Residents (Metro),Startups per 1k Residents,Money per 1k Residents

San Francisco (Bay Area),"18,052",$122.0 Billion,7.7 Million,2.34,$15.84 Million

New York City,"15,000+",$45.0 Billion,19.5 Million,0.77,$2.31 Million

London,"8,900",$26.0 Billion,9.0 Million,0.99,$2.89 Million

Tel Aviv (Area),"2,996",$12.0 Billion,4.2 Million,0.71,$2.86 Million

Beijing,"2,350",$18.0 Billion,21.9 Million,0.11,$0.82 Million

Paris,"3,200",$10.0 Billion,13.1 Million,0.24,$0.76 Million

Bangalore,"3,500",$12.0 Billion,14.0 Million,0.25,$0.86 Million
by imtringued | 2026-01-29 11:13:31+00:00
This is the primary use case for spinlocks, which is why the vast majority of developers shouldn't use them. When you use a spinlock, you're dedicating an entire CPU core to the thread or else it doesn't work in terms of correctness or performance.

If you want scheduling, then the scheduler needs to be aware of task dependencies and you must accept that your task will be interrupted.

When a lock is acquired on resource A by the first thread, the second thread that tries to acquire A will have a dependency on the release of A, meaning that it can only be scheduled after the first thread has left the critical section. With a spinlock, the scheduler is not informed of the dependency and thinks that the spinlock is performing real work, which is why it will reschedule waiting threads even if resource A has not been released yet.

If you do thread pinning and ensure there are less threads than CPU cores, but still have other threads be scheduled on those cores, it might still work, but the latency benefits are most likely gone.
by account42 | 2026-01-29 11:13:38+00:00
That's fair, but I would also read it as a sign of things to come for the rest. If you can't run full KDE on X11 there will not be many KDE developers caring about X11 support. KWin for example has already gained many bugs on X11 that I expect to never be fixed. And now KWin for X11 is split into a separate project which will hopefully mean fewer further regressions but probably also not much further development which means bitrot as things around it change.
by panick21_ | 2026-01-29 11:13:51+00:00
Except of course the Ariane chockhold never existed for small rockets. Because Vega exists. And for large rockets the "chokehold" very much continues to exist and shows absolutely zero evidence of going away in the next decade.

So far the support for these small launchers has been mostly for new missions and nowhere near in the volume to support even two of these small launch companies. Specially if Vega also survives as a rocket.

Europe simply does not produce enough launches for these companies. And all of them will suffer from very low launch rates and non will be able to seriously compete for international payloads.