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by quuxplusone | 2026-01-30 21:56:42+00:00
In my amateur opinion, it's almost the opposite. For Plato, the material world, while "real" enough, is less important and in some sense less True than the higher immaterial world of Forms or Ideas. The highest, truest, realest world is "above" this one, related to cognition, and (more or less) accessible by reason. We may be in a cave, but all we have to do is walk up into the sunlight — which, by the way, is nothing but a higher and truer form of light than our current firelight. (This idea that material objects partake of their corresponding higher-level Ideas leads to the Third Man paradox: if it is the Form of Man that compasses similar material instances such as Socrates and Achilles, is there then a third... thing... that compasses Socrates, Achilles, and Man itself?)

For Kant, and therefore for Schopenhauer, the visible world is composed merely of objects, which are by definition only mental representations: a world of objects "exists" only in the mind of a subject. If there is a Thing-in-Itself (which even Kant does not doubt, if I recall correctly), it certainly cannot be a mental representation: the nature of the Thing-in-Itself is unknowable (says Kant) but certainly in no way at all like the mere object that appears to our mental processes. (Schopenhauer says the Thing-in-Itself is composed of pure Will, whatever that means.) The realest world is "behind" or "below" the visible one, completely divorced from human reason, and by definition completely inaccessible to any form of cognition (which includes the sensory perception we share with the animals, as well as the reason that belongs to humans alone). The Third Man paradox makes no sense at all for Kant, first because whatever the ineffable Thing-in-Itself is, it certainly won't literally "partake" of any mental concept we might come up with, and secondly because it would be a category error to suppose that any property could be true of both a mental object and a thing-in-itself, which are nothing alike. (The Thing-in-Itself doesn't even exist in time or space, nor does it have a cause. Time, space, and causality are all purely human frameworks imposed by our cognitive processes: to suppose that space has any real existence simply because you perceive it is, again, a category error, akin to supposing that the world is really yellow-tinged just because you happen to be wearing yellow goggles.)
by piskov | 2026-01-30 21:56:49+00:00
Yes you do.

Private VPS for personal VPN in Netherlands (digital ocean), then Hungary (some small local DC) — both are blocked from day one.

> You've been blocked by network security. To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer token. If you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.
by ElectricalUnion | 2026-01-30 21:57:56+00:00
systemd should add and remove interfaces connected in the exact same hardware path with the same name they had before.

Default literally insane legacy behaviour is just vomiting eth${RAND} where RAND depends on racing conditions.

My educated guess is that people that insist on using the legacy eth${RAND} never had a surprise random firewall and routing rules suddenly apply to different interfaces at a inconvenient time, making production halt and catch on fire, yet.
by deceptionatd | 2026-01-30 21:58:10+00:00
I have mine set low on some records because I want to be able to change the IP associated with specific RTMP endpoints if a provider goes down. The client software doesn't use multiple A records even if I provide them, so I can't use that approach; and I don't always have remote admin access to the systems in question so I can't just use straight IPs or a hostfile.
by SOTGO | 2026-01-30 21:58:13+00:00
I haven't looked at any court documents, but the WSJ article from Wednesday reported that "Last year, Google sued the anonymous operators of a network of more than 10 million internet-connected televisions, tablets and projectors, saying they had secretly pre-installed residential proxy software on them... an Ipidea spokeswoman acknowledged in an email that the company and its partners had engaged in “relatively aggressive market expansion strategies” and “conducted promotional activities in inappropriate venues (e.g., hacker forums)...”"

There was also a botnet, Kimwolf, that apparently leveraged an exploit to use the residential proxy service, so it may be related to Ipidea not shutting them down.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-30 21:58:16+00:00
> Their ban of “non-consensual sexual imagery” made several acquaintances of mine – furry art illustrators – move to harmful communities on questionable Mastodon servers.

Furry art, including quite explicit furry art, is very common on bluesky and doesn’t seem be especially restricted by policy. I mean, unless they also happen to be depicting nonconsensual sexual interactions, an orthogonal concern to the furry aspect.

> I’m growing tired of those bans on legal content that isn’t inherently harmful (we are talking about fictional humanized animals here) but considered “icky” by platforms and payment processors.

Well, you are free to avail yourself of the forums that lack those policies. Now, I know you’ve complained that they are “harmful”, but... Maybe there is a reason that other forums choose to put bans in place.
by Root_Denied | 2026-01-30 21:58:28+00:00
The problem I have with this approach is that ultimately you're trading one owning company for another, rather than building to a standard that anyone could build around.

Because someday Valve may no longer be privately owned, and we're potentially back where we started. If we support having strong OSS ecosystems around computers we don't have to fight this battle over and over again.

Valve slow-rolling SteamOS and being coy about it ever being released as a "standalone, supported" OS is only because they're a private company and can build for open source ecosystems.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-30 21:58:34+00:00
The only secure data is secure data.

Cryptography provides a long menu of ways entities can exchange information and interact, without sharing information that is not functionally relevant.

Making those capabilities the basis for digital inter-entity trade is the only way we will get real privacy and avoid the massive predatory surveillance-manipulation-for-hire economy from continuing to metastasize. With AI driving the value and opportunity of its leverage against us ever upward.

Strict laws might have been a practical solution a couple decades ago when the digital technology began hyperscaling the surveillance-manipulation economy. It wouldn't be a bad thing now. But those laws seem unlikely, so the technical solution is the only path forward.

I don't think people really absorb how much of the value of the economy is skimmed off by the 2-way centralized S-M business model. From consumers and ad buyers. The colossal revenues of Google and Facebook to start. And how effectively that is incentivizing and funding continued growth that will make things much worse.
by crote | 2026-01-30 21:58:37+00:00
For the same reason Maya & friends offer heavily discounted (or even free) educational licenses: people tend to stick with what they initially learned.

That approach works great when someone's first experience is in a traditional education system, but these days any interested kid will start to explore the options way before that - and all those self-taught hobbyist Youtube teachers haven't been offered free licenses to make content either!

So now you've got a decent pool of enthusiastic kids flowing into education with pre-existing Blender knowledge. And Blender is good enough for educational purposes, so as long as it doesn't significantly hamper the students post-education it is very attractive for educators to adopt as well - why bother with all the hassle of getting educational licenses when you can just download it for free?

The second Blender started to get industry adoption it was basically over for Maya. They could've saved it by turning it into a freemium product which hobbyists can download and install as easy as Blender, but it's probably too late for that now.
by buran77 | 2026-01-30 21:58:45+00:00
> it's your employer's insurance that will be liable if you have an accident while driving a company vehicle

I think you misunderstand how the insurance works and mixing some concepts.

There's car insurance paid by the owner of the car, for the car. There's workplace accident insurance, paid by the employer for the employee. There's liability in front of the insurer, and there's liability in front of the law.

The driver is always legally liable for accidents caused by their negligence (like running a red light), even if they happen while working or driving a company car. The company insurance might pay for it but the law considers the driver responsible and accountable.

If you run a red light driving your employer's car while working and hit someone (entirely your fault), you are the one getting arrested, you are legally liable. The employer's car insurance will still pay for the accident, and they will probably recover that from you. Their work accident insurance will pay nothing.

Any car where you get arrested for sleeping at the wheel and crashing is not autonomous or self driving. It just has driver assistance.
by Gracana | 2026-01-30 21:58:52+00:00
That is a very good point and I would love to do it, but I built this machine in a desktop case and the motherboard has seven slots. I did a custom water cooling manifold just to make it work with all the cards.

I'm trying to figure out how to add another card on a riser hanging off a slimsas port, or maybe I could turn the bottom slot into two vertical slots.. the case (fractal meshify 2 xl) has room for a vertical mounted card that wouldn't interfere with the others, but I'd need to make a custom riser with two slots on it to make it work. I dunno, it's possible!

I also have an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and an RTX 5000 Ada.. I'd be better off pulling all the A7000s and throwing both of those cards in this machine, but then I wouldn't have anything for my desktop. Decisions, decisions!
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-30 21:59:02+00:00
I would generally use McMaster-Carr whenever possible. They will almost never go out of stock even during national crises. I don't generally trust Amazon for items that I can't validate myself due to counterfeiting, e.g. there's a lot of fake knockoff HEPA filters marketed as OEM.

3M 6000 full-face masks: https://www.mcmaster.com/5541T605/

The image shows just a particulate filter, but the listing actually includes 3M bayonet-style cartridges for chemical exposure.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-30 22:01:08+00:00
Eneloops were huge for use in DSLRs.

And they are overhyped.

Most of them are about 2000 mAh. Other NiMH batteries can have, say, 2700 mAh. So even though the latter have a higher discharge rate - after 6 months of storage the latter still has more juice.

The benefit with the 2700 mAh, of course, is if you're using when full, you can use it for much longer.

If they cost the same, I could see the hype. But most people are still better off with regular NiMH AA batteries.
Show HN: I treated my chronic rhomboid pain like a software bug (and fixed it)
by usrfours | 2026-01-30 22:01:55+00:00
I've been a developer for years, but I also have 14 years of experience in calisthenics/fitness. Recently, the "desk hunch" started killing my upper back (rhomboids), destroying my focus.

I realized most advice ("sit up straight") is like a hotfix that doesn't solve the root cause. The root cause is usually weak rhomboids and overactive chest muscles pulling you forward.

I built a specific protocol to "debug" this posture issue using bodyweight mechanics. It’s a simple routine I use daily to stay pain-free while coding.

I packaged the full routine into a guide. Happy to answer questions about the specific biomechanics here if anyone else is suffering from this.
by lurking_swe | 2026-01-30 22:02:05+00:00
that’s “boring” reactivity because it’s still just interacting with the text on a computer in a synchronous fashion. The idea is for the assistant to DO stuff and also have useful information about you. Think more along these lines:

- an email to check in for your flight arrives in your inbox. Assistant proactively asks “It’s time to check in for your flight. Shall i check you and your wife in? Also let me know if you’re checking any bags.” It then takes care of it ASYNC and texts you a boarding pass.

- Tomorrow is the last day of your vacation. Your assistant notices this, see’s where your hotel is (from emails), and suggests when to leave for the airport tomorrow based on historical google maps traffic trends and the weather forecast.

- Let’s say you’re married and your assistant knows this, and it see’s valentine’s day is coming up. It reminds you to start thinking about gifts or fun experiences. Doesn’t actually suggest specific things though because it’s not romantic if a machine does the thinking.

- After you print something, your assistant notices the ink level is low and proactively adds it to your Amazon / Target / whatever shopping cart, and it lets you know it did that and why.

- You’re anxiously awaiting an important package. You ask your assistant to keep tabs on a specific tracking number and to inform you when it’s “out for delivery”.

I could go on but I need to mae breakfast. :) IMO “help me draft this letter” is very low on the usefulness scale unless you’re doing work or a school assignment.
by troupo | 2026-01-30 22:02:09+00:00
Steve Yegge used to be a decent engineer with a clear head and an ability to precisely describe problems he was seeing. His "Gooogle Platform Rant" [1] is still required reading IMO.

Now his bloviated blogposts only speak of a man extremely high on his own supply. Long, pointless, meandering, self-aggrandising. It really is easier to dump this dump into an LLM to try to summarize it than spend time trying to understand what he means.

And he means very little.

The gist: I am great and amazing and predicted the inevitable orchestration of agents. I also call the hundreds of thousands of lines of extremely low quality AI slop "I spent the last year programming". Also here are some impressive sounding terms that I pretend I didn't pull out of my ass to sound like I am a great philosopher with a lot of untapped knowledge. Read my book. Participate in my meme coin pump and dump schemes. The future is futuring now and in the future.

[1] https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
by apparent | 2026-01-30 22:02:58+00:00
It is not hard for many students to get a pretty good score (1350). But a score like this will not help you get into a top school, and might actually hurt you. Even having a very good score (1530) does not necessarily help you much, especially if you are from what is perceived to be a high-resource (wealthy) area. If you have a perfect score (1600), that would help you get into any school.

Admittedly, it wouldn't help that much if you are Asian and from a wealthy area, but if you cheated then you could spend time that you would have spent studying for the SAT instead doing something else that you could put on your application.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-30 22:03:08+00:00
It's like a dream come true!

I've been thinking of something like this for decades, as I mentally compared the utopian displays at construction sites to the existing buildings next to them. Like "wow your fancy new building is going to be so perfectly white and clean, but what will it really look like after 10 years exposed to the elements and no cleaning, like the one next door?"

New construction is sold on a literal blue-sky promise. How does it really look like a decade down the road? All construction has a decades- if not centuries-long lifespan. It's worth thinking about them long-term.

I absolutely love the streak of rust coming off the saddle of arches on the bridge example. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
by hedgehog | 2026-01-30 22:03:08+00:00
High end consumer SSDs can do closer to 15 GB/s, though only with PCI-e gen 5. On a motherboard with two m.2 slots that's potentially around 30GB/s from disk.
Edit: How fast everything is depends on how much data needs to get loaded from disk which is not always everything on MoE models.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-30 22:03:49+00:00
> my facebook feed is nothing but clickbait engagement with local nazis

Can you explain what exactly you mean by "local nazis"? Are you getting ads for Nazi barber shops? Sieg Heil Heating & Cooling? Hitler Juice Bar and Bubble Tea?

If this was such a huge problem I'm sure we would have heard of it before.
by LunicLynx | 2026-01-30 22:03:57+00:00
I don’t see how this is connected to the point at hand here.

I think taking time to make sure the system works is the right call. Delaying it is the right call.
Not publishing something because you had a different impression previously, just because, is the right call.

I think it integrity to delay a product even when your investors might get angry.
Is it a winning strategy at wallstreet? No, probably not.

But what is the argument here „Musk bad“ because he delays a product because it’s not ready?

I think doing the due diligence is required here. Musk argument „it’s solved“ could even be argued by „look at Waymo“ they are doing it, aren’t they?

Tesla is aiming for more than that though.
And as it is in product development sometimes, sometimes your don’t know what you don‘t know.
Because why do you want to focus on chains guarding parkingspots, your cameras aren’t able to see, when your car can’t even drive through the city.

This is such a big thing to solve and 100% is impossible given some definitions.

Back to the article, I think delaying for safety is the right call, and that is also what the article says. It’s just that the article is in bad faith, as most of the arguments here are.

You probably would turn around and slam Musk for a System that obviously problematic as the alternative and until then it’s saying that he delays.

And if it were obviously problematic I think it would be much louder than just an article from a website that is know for having a biased view at things.
by Neywiny | 2026-01-30 22:03:59+00:00
Agreed. IMO anything that's objectively the wrong implementation for any lifespan of the regulated thing should not get grandfathered. If it's like, "this type of concrete only lasts 10 years" then the regulation should say that anything built < idk 8 years ago is fine so long as everybody is notified. But if regulators found that doubling hydrant frequency would help then it just should've been done.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-30 22:04:02+00:00
> I want exactly the same content visible no matter who you are or where you are connecting from

The reason those IP addresses get blocked is not because of "who" is connecting, but "what"

Traffic from datacenter address ranges to sites like Reddit is almost entirely bots and scrapers. They can put a tremendous load on your site because many will try to run their queries as fast as they can with as many IPs as they can get.

Blocking these IP addresses catches a few false positives, but it's an easy step to make botting and scraping a little more expensive. Residential proxies aren't all that expensive, but now there's a little line item bill that comes with their request volume that makes them think twice.

> We need more residential proxies, not less

Great, you can always volunteer your home IP address as a start. There are services that will pay you a nominal amount for it, even.
by taftster | 2026-01-30 22:04:21+00:00
OK, but who uses email anymore for personal communication?

At least for most people in my circle, family is using a social media platform or iMessages. And work is using Teams or Slack or whatever.

Work email is basically useless at this point. I'm completely drowning in various Teams chats created specifically for each "thread" of conversation, with just enough people to make it unique. Or inversely, created with too many people and all conversation is just lost to infinite scroll and walls of text.

I'd pine for a return to email. But no one uses it anymore. Only companies trying to get my attention and a few important forwards for tax receipts. I think email is dead.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-01-30 22:04:51+00:00
Most of the influencers aren't even in on the investment, they just get paid to pump, and a lot of them don't even get paid, they just do it for the eye balls.

People want to get rich quick.

There's going to be a never ending list of people that will tell them how - just so they can get useless karma points on Social Media, even if they don't make any money, and just convince you to lose your money.
by coldtea | 2026-01-30 22:05:45+00:00
>I debated with Claude endlessly about this selection model, and Claude made me discard a bunch of interesting but less defensible claims. But in the end, I was able to convince Claude it’s a good model

Convinced an LLM to agree with you? What a feat!

Yegge's latest posts are not exactly half AI slop - half marketing same (for Beads and co), but close enough.
by deceptionatd | 2026-01-30 22:05:45+00:00
It's not good as a first line of defense for failover, but with some client software and/or failure mechanisms there aren't any better approachs I'm aware of. Some of the software I administer doesn't understand multiple A/AAAA records.

And a BGP failure is a good example too. It doesn't matter how resilient the failover mechanisms for one IP are if the routing tables are wrong.

Agreed about some providers enforcing a larger one, though. DNS propagation is wildly inconsistent.
by crote | 2026-01-30 22:05:47+00:00
Same reason a browser uses a separate library for image decoding, or font rendering. A CAD kernel is a very complicated piece of heavily specialized math. The UI itself is there to let the user construct the input data for the CAD kernel and to display the resulting output. Doing that translation in a user-friendly way is already hard enough without having the kernel smeared out all over the rest of the application.
by jasona123 | 2026-01-30 22:06:06+00:00
The whole "everything I own just has a built in Li-ion battery" thing came to mind when I ordered my first set of Eneloops ahead of last week's snowstorm in North America - most things I own have their own batteries with a charger (right down to this decorative squishy whale lamp), and I can count on two hands the things that use AAAs and one hand the things that use AAs. It's wild.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-30 22:06:27+00:00
"The LADWP tells Eyewitness News they will cover the cost of installing a new fire hydrant at the price tag of $35,000."[1]

The median sale price in the Pacific Palisades is ~$2 Million.[2]

The homeowners said "Our insurance certainly wouldn't have covered [a new hydrant]." And according to them, the LAFD said "please contact LADWP to get a cost estimate for what you'll have to pay to build and install this new hydrant." Emphasis mine.

Even if the homeowners had to bear the entire cost, assuming they had a median home, a new hydrant would be 1.75% of the value of the house, equivalent to a $7,175 expense for a home valued at the US median price of $410,000.

I feel for these people. No matter who you are, losing your home is a terrible experience. But it's ridiculous to choose to rebuild in a clearly fire-prone area, and then complain that the city needs to you install fire protection as part of the building.

This should have been a matter between the homeowners and their insurance company.

1: https://abc7.com/post/palisades-fire-victims-told-had-pay-ne...
2: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/19810/pacific-palisades-l...
by ck2 | 2026-01-30 22:06:40+00:00
I distinctly remember the horrors of "go at throttle up"

was due to extreme cold making the O-Rings fail

so I hope they have learned to be paranoid despite Sean Duffy

They must have replayed this thousands of times in 1986, etched to many minds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...