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by 9rx | 2026-01-18 18:02:18+00:00
> Maybe that was true in the 90s

Beck still uses it that way, but I can appreciate that he is only the credited originator, not some kind of official authority. Just because he uses it one way does not mean you use it the same way. I only reach for his definition as it is the only one I am familiar with.

Language is certainly fluid. You are still fairly new to the industry by your own admission, so I can understand that the kids' lingo may have changed by the time you started learning about things. However, for better or worse, I cannot relive your life experience. Google, which models the user when picking results, doesn't help as it returns results that match my past experience. I fully expect your Google searches offer different results, but unless you're offering up your account for me to use... (don't do that)

> That is not how the term is used in modern parlance.

Right, as indicated in the original comment, along with those that followed, I don't know how you use it in modern parlance. What does it mean to you?

> Google "unit test definition". What do you get?

It says that it is a test that runs independently. Which is just another way to say the same as what Beck says.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-18 18:02:19+00:00
The charity question is easy to dispense with because it's been well-studied: the poor give more of their income to charitable causes than middle class or rich people.

"Charity" for the wealthy is really nothing to do with charity. It's a social-climbing game and part of a coordinated PR/media campaign. Charity will get you into rooms with people with true wealth and power far easier than anything else you can do.

Not all UBIs are created equal. Broadly speaking, there are left-wing and right-wing forms of UBI.

The left-wing UBI is a form of wealth redistribution to reduce extreme wealth inequality. It means giving people enough to meet their needs and have a basic quality of life. This probably won't work if the rest of society remains the same. For example, consider military personnel. If you don't live in barracks you get BAH. Landlords around a base know this so will always know what to charge. Increase the BAH and the rents go up. You would likely have similar problems with UBI unless you also solve the supply of these kinds of needs as well.

The right-wing form of UBI is simply an excuse to destroy the social welfare state and social safety net. Proponents will argue it's more efficient to simply replace everything like disability pensions, food stamps, Medicaid, etc with a UBI payment and letting people twist in the wind of private sector providers for everything.

That might make sense but, for example, living with a disability makes everything more expensive and you might have few or no options for work. We also allow disabled people to get paid sub-minimum wage as yet another form of exploitation.

As another example, we allow employers to pay below a living wage them SNAP benefits, which is twofold corporate welfare. It reduces Walmart's labor costs AND they end up spending SNAP at Walmart. And then we make political decisions about what they can spend SNAP on.

So it's a likely outcome that any right-wing UBI implementation will end up deciding what you can and can't spend money on.
by plagiarist | 2026-01-18 18:02:50+00:00
You can write arbitrary scripts into systemd... or like one step removed at most? That's not really a difference unless you have some nuance in mind that I don't.

I honestly do not like systemd, either. It is okay for managing processes but I wish it didn't spread into everything else in the machine.

Or if it must, could it actually work cohesively across their concepts? Would be nice to have an obvious and easy way to run Quadlet as its own user to isolate further, would be nice to have systemd-sysusers present in /etc/subuid so they can run containers.

I like what they are doing with atomic distros. It would be great to have a single file declarative setup for something like running a containerized reverse HTTP proxy with an isolated user. Instead of "atomic" but you manually edit files in /etc after install.
by veyh | 2026-01-18 18:02:51+00:00
I have 13 years of professional experience, and I work in a small company (15 people). Apart from one or two weekly meetings, I mostly just work on stuff independently. I'm the solo developer for a number of projects ranging from embedded microcontrollers to distributed backend systems. There's very little handholding; it's more like requirements come in, and results come out.

I have been part of some social circles before but they were always centered around a common activity like a game, and once that activity went away, so did those connections.

As I started working on side hustles, it occurred to me that not having any kind of social network (not even social media accounts) may have added an additional level of difficulty.

I am still working on the side hustles, though.
Show HN: HTTP:COLON – A quick HTTP header/directive inspector and reference
by ultimoo | 2026-01-18 18:03:03+00:00
Hi HN -- I built HTTP:COLON, a small, open-source web tool for quickly checking a site’s HTTP response headers and learning what they mean as you go.

Link: https://httpcolon.dev/

What it does

- Enter a URL and fetch its response headers

- Groups common headers into handy buckets (cache, content, security)

- Includes short docs/tooltips for headers and directives so you can look things up while debugging. I find hovering on highlighted headers quite useful!

Supports different HTTP methods (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE)

Deep links

- You can link directly to a host, e.g. https://httpcolon.dev/www.google.com

(or any domain) to jump straight into inspecting it.

Why I made it

- I kept bouncing between DevTools, MDN, and random blog posts while debugging caching + security headers. I wanted one place that’s quick for “what am I getting back?” and “what does this header/directive do?”

It’s in beta, and I’d love feedback on:

- Missing features you’d want for day-to-day debugging (export/share formats, comparisons, presets, etc.)

Thanks!
by nephihaha | 2026-01-18 18:03:10+00:00
"Isn't the eventual aim of all of us on this planet that we all trade free, live peacefully and have our own prosperous lives?"

It's not about all of us. It's about a select few who think they are better than the rest of us and form our political and business classes.

Those people don't want most of the world's population living untroubled lives. When work is almost completely automated the rest of us will be surplus to requirements.
by r_lee | 2026-01-18 18:04:06+00:00
I get it, but the world doesn't run on hard power, it runs on soft power.

The US could simply invade Greenland if it actually refuses to let them stay there, or if an adversary tries to take it over.

That's why I'm so appalled. There is no such imminent threat which would force such a transaction to take place.

Subtle deals like the one I was talking about won't fly as justifications to take action against the US by Russia/China, nor will it up tensions unlike this drama.
by jrowen | 2026-01-18 18:04:24+00:00
The author links to another article of theirs called "Open Source is Bigger Than You Can Imagine," which hinges on the size of the npm registry. npm says "open source" on their landing page, and has an "npm Open Source" section of their policies, which places no restrictions on how you license your npm package (save for a special license to them).

This does seem very bazaar to me, but this would all be deemed Not Open Source by the [cathedral/megachurch?] community, correct? Do people take issue with npm using the term open source?
by 0xy | 2026-01-18 18:05:27+00:00
Are you claiming he did not shoot her in the chest through the windscreen? Patently ridiculous claim, there's clear evidence showing that this was the case. Unambiguously, the first shot was fired through the windscreen. Later, in a medical release, we learned that 3 bullets hit her. Meaning, the first shot through the windscreen hit her in the chest. Pretty blatantly obvious.

>him and his pals barred a doctor from trying to help the victim

Do you think police should allow a random guy claiming to be a doctor into an active crime scene to tamper with evidence? Or wait for an actual paramedic to show up? Not that it means absolutely anything at all, because given she was shot three times, twice in the chest, she was absolutely dead and there was no saving her, especially not by a random physician.

>There's so many videos from all angles it's really undisputable

You'll dispute the fact she hit him, though. Despite the evidence.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/experts-analyze-new-v...

"Johnson said his biggest takeaway from the video was a crunching sound he heard immediately before the gunshots, which he believes is the sound of the SUV hitting the ICE agent."

"That data point for me shows that there was contact made with the agent, who is now in reasonable fear, who could clearly articulate being hit with an SUV as reasonable fear of great bodily harm or death. And then the shots were fired," said Johnson.
by ripe | 2026-01-18 18:05:41+00:00
No, Kissinger was far, far worse than any other recipient of the peace prize.

Quote from Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and author of "The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide:"

"In at least one crucial part of the world, Kissinger’s legacy is fixed: In South Asia, Indians and Bangladeshis widely remember Kissinger as an unusually cruel and cold-hearted person. As they bitterly recall, he and Richard Nixon firmly supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship throughout its bloody crackdown in 1971 on what today is Bangladesh, sending some 10 million Bengali refugees fleeing into India. In one of the worst atrocities of the Cold War, Pakistan’s junta brushed aside the results of a democratic election, killed awful numbers of Bengalis and targeted the Hindu minority among the Bengalis. (Bangladesh is now the eight-largest country in the world, with a population larger than Russia or Japan, as well as a major Muslim country with considerable strategic importance in South Asia.) On the White House tapes, Kissinger sneered at Americans who “bleed” for “the dying Bengalis.”

"Kissinger’s actions in 1971 were clouded by his own ignorance about South Asia, his emotional misjudgments and his stoking of Nixon’s racism toward Indians. Kissinger’s policies were not only morally flawed but also disastrous as Cold War strategy. As U.S. government officials presciently warned him, a Pakistani crackdown would result in a futile civil war with India sponsoring the Bengali guerrillas, creating the conditions for Soviet-backed India to rip Pakistan in two—a strategic defeat for the United States and a strategic victory for the Soviet Union. And don’t forget that Kissinger knowingly violated U.S. law in allowing secret arms transfers to Pakistan during the India-Pakistan war in December 1971. Despite warnings from White House staffers and State Department and Pentagon lawyers that such arms transfers were illegal, Nixon and Kissinger went ahead, with Kissinger saying that doing so was “against our law”—a scandal of a piece with an overall pattern of lawlessness that culminated with Watergate."
by bicx | 2026-01-18 18:06:25+00:00
As a U.S. citizen, I’m beginning to ask myself how to take more meaningful measures to help bring an end to this behavior. I’m not a political activist and generally try to mind my own business, but that mindset only worked when I felt I could trust the system to self-correct. It seems our judicial system can barely keep up, and Congress is doing next to nothing.
by gruez | 2026-01-18 18:06:51+00:00
>If everyone pays higher wages, there's a greater supply of money for buying stuff / solving problems (assuming the higher wages aren't eaten by rents). No individual form recoups all of the higher wages they pay their workers, obviously, but there's a larger market for the goods of everyone has more money.

Does this actually work? Suppose you're on an island where the economy only produces coconuts. How does giving workers more coconuts make the economy grow, such that there's more coconuts to go around overall? Unless the workers were absolutely famished, giving them more coconuts isn't going to increase productivity. You might argue this model isn't representative of the real world, but that's approximately how the economy works. It can produce a certain amount of "stuff" (ie. coconuts), of which some portion can be given to workers, and the remainder can be given to the kings/elites/capitalists/whatever. Unless you improve productivity, there isn't going to be magically more stuff to go around.

Giving each worker a car can plausibly increase their productivity (less time spent commuting?) but the effect is small, and unlikely to be recouped by car companies. The situation looks even worse in the current economy. If everyone's paychecks were 10% bigger, what marginal item do you think it'll be spent on? A bigger car? A new iPhone or big screen TV? How would any of those increase productivity?
by habinero | 2026-01-18 18:07:07+00:00
> If there is “a lot of evidence of the opposite,” the minimum requirement is to name one metric, one study, or one observable trend. You didn’t. You just asserted it and moved on, which is not how serious disagreement works.

I treated it with the amount of seriousness it deserves, and provided exactly as much evidence as you did lol. It's on you to prove your statement, not on me to disprove you.

Also, you still haven't provided the kind of evidence you say is necessary. None of the "evidence" you listed is actually evidence of mass change in engineering.

> AI-assisted coding is directly eliminating discrete units of programmer labor: boilerplate, CRUD endpoints, test scaffolding, migrations, refactors, first drafts, glue code.

You are not a professional engineer lol, because most of those things are already automated and have been for decades. What on earth do you think we do every day?
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-18 18:07:37+00:00
Canadian Prime Minister recently said that he stands by Canada’s NATO Article 2 and 5 obligations with our Eureopean allies.

A subtle signal that war with United States is a possibility.

Trump will use this as a pretext to not only take Greenland but to invade Canada as well.

He has gone utterly mad. Congress needs to act. Yesterday.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-18 18:07:49+00:00
I recently had to parse 500MB to 2GB daily log files into analytical information for sales. Quick and dirty, the application would of needed 64GB RAM and work laptop only has 48GB RAM. After taking time cleaning it up, it was using under 1GB of RAM and worked faster by only retaining records in RAM if need be between each day.

It is not about what you are doing, it is always about how you do it.

This was the same with doing OCR analysis of assembly and production manuals. Quick and dirty, it would of took over 24 hours of processing time, after moving to semaphores with parallelization it took less than two hours to process all the information.
by camel-cdr | 2026-01-18 18:08:13+00:00
The single core performance is roughly in the middle between Pi4 Cortex-A72 and Pi5 Cortex-A76.

It's slightly faster than a 3GHz Core 2 Dua in scalar single threaded performance, but it has 8 cores instead of two and more SIMD performance. There are also 8 additional SpacemiT-A100 cores with 1024-bit wide vectors, which are more like an additional accelerator.

The geekbench score is a bit lower than it should be, because at least three benchmarks are still missing SIMD acceleration on RISC-V (File Compression, Asset Compression, Ray Tracer), and the HTML5 browser test is also missing optimizations.

I'd estimate it should be able to get to the 500 range with comparable optimization to other architectures.

The Milk-V Titan mention in the original post is actually slightly faster in scalar performance, but has no RISC-V Vector support at all, which causes it's geekbench score to be way lower.
by r_lee | 2026-01-18 18:08:29+00:00
That I can agree with. Especially now that he's aging and is displaying clear signs of cognitive decline.

I can see he's also being increasingly influenced by his circle like Miller, also for the fact that unlike in 2017, there was no huge line of people coming to the administration, but after his first term now we have all these guys orbiting him trying to use him as a vehicle to push their policy.

And it seems to be fairly easy, just stoke him a bit saying "they don't want you to do this because they think you're weak!!"

And you can see it with the whole excessive gifting by foreign leaders. It works. Myself I'd be insulted because it feels so fake, but he seems to be unaware.

The guy's ego has blown up like crazy this past decade.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-01-18 18:08:33+00:00
A now-deleted reply challenged this claim, so I went to search, and it seems to be a melange of three different facts?

Narendra Modi is said to hold a BA awarded by Delhi University in 1978 (or possibly 1979?). The veracity of that has been disputed.

He is also said to hold an MA awarded by Gujarat University in 1983, where the provided exam transcript[1] marks him “external” (i.e. remote) and includes the curious phrase “entire political science”. The veracity of that has been disputed as well.

Finally, he was offered[2] a honorary doctorate (of what, I haven’t been able to ascertain) by Southern University in Louisiana in 2014, but declined.

(I haven’t been able to find any references to him claiming to hold a PhD in English-language sources.)

[1] http://www.gujaratuniversity.org.in/web/NWD/NewsEvents/2000_...

[2] https://wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana.gov/boardsAndCommissions/Meet...
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-18 18:08:44+00:00
I try to talk to Trump voters to understand. I suggest you try as well if you're curious about this stuff. N = a dozen or so, but ones I've talked to care more about his actual political stances, like his white nationalist policies above all else. They see this stuff as entertainment and laugh with Trump as he makes these long established institutions bend to his will.
by neilv | 2026-01-18 18:09:03+00:00
I'm using my ThinkPad T520 daily driver right now.

With its non-chiclet keyboard, I type 12+ hours every day, never any discomfort.

Last year, I bought a late-model ThinkPad, to experimentally try replacing the T520. So I could have some local GPU compute, and not have to stockpile dwindling rare high-spec replacement units, in my minimalism lifestyle. But I haven't yet felt motivated to try out the new one, and see whether I can move to a worse keyboard layout and a suspicious key action.
by chrisXOXO | 2026-01-18 18:09:12+00:00
I have never really looked at ad revenues, but honestly those numbers seem reasonable and crazy at the same time (or their calculation at least).
My main issue is, that I hate oligopolies. For many industries I think a country can protect itself against oligopolies from outside. But everything digital comes out of little valley on the west coast. This really bothers me.
by k1m | 2026-01-18 18:09:29+00:00
The world's oldest peace organisation, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, distanced itself from the Nobel Peace Prize, writing in October:

"...it is becoming increasingly clear that she is a political actor who also gives her support to Trump and Israel, and with an agenda that stands far from peace, disarmament and reconciliation between peoples. Not least, her uncritical positions in favor of Israel, the USA's violations of international law in attacks against ships in the Caribbean and for a military intervention in Venezuela raise a multitude of questions about how the Nobel Committee made its choice."

https://www.facebook.com/svenskafreds/posts/pfbid02aoK2T5BdW...

In Norway, the Norwegian Peace council also distanced itself:

'The Norwegian Peace Council announced that it will not organize this year's traditional torchlight procession through downtown Oslo on the day the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded due to its disagreement with the choice of Venezuelan far-right politician María Corina Machado as the winner.

'The organization, which brings together 17 Norwegian pacifist organizations and some 15,000 activists, declared on Friday, October 24, that it made this decision because its members "do not feel that this year’s winner is in line with the fundamental values of the Norwegian Peace Council."'

https://orinocotribune.com/norwegian-peace-council-will-not-...
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-18 18:09:49+00:00
> ... principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity

What about the US itself? Is it allowed sovereignty and territorial integrity or should the borders be wide open to tens of millions of illegals?

And what about the UK? And France?

Where are the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity for these countries vs the mass illegal migrations?

Or do these concept only exist in the mind of europeans when the US want to seize Groenland but do not exist when we're talking about the middle-east and africa massively moving into the EU (and US to some extent)?
by esseph | 2026-01-18 18:10:08+00:00
Thinkpad T or X series had always been the best Linux laptops I've ever had. All of the hardware has always Just Worked, they have a nice selection of bios-level security features, and the build quality has always been just fine. Cases / keyboards / track point / touchpads never failed after 6-8y of owning each.

Very happy with them.
by kzrdude | 2026-01-18 18:10:14+00:00
It also has a different committee awarding it - I guess every prize has - but this one is specifically, as designed, decided by a group of parliamentarians selected out of the Norwegian parliament, generally selecting some older ones and trying to represent every party. It's not academics or specialists in the area of peace and diplomacy.

I would say this is the peace prize's fundamental flaw.
by ptero | 2026-01-18 18:10:18+00:00
It really depends on the person. This may be an unpopular opinion today, but I strongly believe that someone doing what he loves will statistically be both happier and better off financially than someone in only for the money. So whatever makes their ears perk up: EE, chemistry, mechanical, math, physics, biology, etc.

And, as a complement, pick up a "computer-ish" minor to learn how to make a machine do your bidding. My 2c.
by bawolff | 2026-01-18 18:10:24+00:00
The problem with the peace prize is it seems like its given out to people who they hope will bring peace instead of people who actually have brought peace.

We don't award the chemistry one to people with a promising research program, we award it to people who actually have discovered things that we actually know changed the field. If we awarded the peace prize based on actual accomishments judged with the benefit of hindsight instead of expected accomplishments, it would work a lot better.
by IanCal | 2026-01-18 18:10:26+00:00
Do you think Walmart should be handing your credit card numbers out? Genetic profiles of you? Is there any limit or do you think if you walk into a space whoever owns that space can get and do whatever they want with any information you might happen to have on you?

> I disagree with this idea that businesses should have to keep their customers secret

They don’t. They just have to ask the person whose personal data it is if they can.
by jama211 | 2026-01-18 18:10:33+00:00
These questions have pretty straightforward answers. No, the first one isn’t a reasonable assumption because people react VERY differently to passive vs direct action. This isn’t controversial. As for your second one, easy, because one takes less “courage” than the other.

I also disagree with the entire premise that it’s about courage in the first place. You can have the courage but decide the other method simply has less downsides. No need to pretend otherwise.