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by 7777777phil | 2026-01-05 19:16:24+00:00
I appreciate this perspective.. but I think there might be a false dichotomy here. Some of the biggest gaming success stories didn't rely on exploitative mechanics - Minecraft, Among Us, even Fortnite's initial success was based on solid gameplay before the monetization kicked in. The question is whether you can build sustainable platforms that create genuine value rather than just extracting it. Steam takes 30% but provides real distribution value. Maybe the trick is focusing on companies that help other developers succeed rather than trying to create the next Genshin Impact
by Fyid | 2026-01-05 19:16:27+00:00
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by reducesuffering | 2026-01-05 19:17:13+00:00
One caveat not yet discussed is that both Nike and Adidas left open the "maximalist cushioning" market that Hoka pounced on for everyone enjoying plush running shoes for walking. And Nike has responded to that faster than Adidas, the Vomero 18 has been out for 7 months.

All in all, the Hoka / ON competition is a matter of marketing, trendiness, and poor options for wide feet. Nike has superior materials science tech and product across the running line (Hoka durability is bad and neither are competitive in the top running performance that's Nike/Adidas/Asics)

I'd bet on long term technical fundamentals than a market trend they temporarily missed.
by TheCoreh | 2026-01-05 19:17:29+00:00
There have been many, many, desktop improvements since 1995, some of which came from the Mac, some came from Windows and some came from UNIX/Linux & friends.

- Arguably the dock, though it's probably contentious
- Ubiquitous instant search (e.g. Spotlight)
- Gesture-based automatic tiling of windows to left/right side of the screen, tiling presets
- Smooth scrolling, either via scroll wheel or trackpad
- Gesture-based multi tasking, etc
- Virtual desktops/multiple workspaces
- Autosave
- Folder stacks, grouping of items in file lists
- Tabbed windows
- Full-screen mode
- Separate system-wide light and dark modes
- Enhanced IME input for non-latin languages
- App stores, automatic updating
- Automatic backup, file versioning
- Compositing Window Managers (Quartz, Compiz, DWM, modern Wayland compositors...)
- The "sources bar" UI pattern
- Centralized notification centers
- Stack view controlelr style navigation for settings (back/forward buttons)
- Multi device clipboard synchronization
- Other handoff features
- Many accessibility features
- The many iteration of Widgets
- Installable web apps
- Virtual printers ("print to PDF")
- Autocomplete/autocorrect
- PIP video playback
- Tags/Labels
- File proxies/"representations"
- Built-in clipboard management
- Wiggle the mouse to find the pointer

None of these can be said to be at their final/"perfect" form today, and there are hundreds if not thousand of papercuts and refinements that can be made.

The real issue is probably due to management misunderstanding designer's jobs, and allocating them incorrectly. The focus should be more on the interactions and behaviors than necessarily on the visuals.
by mrdataesq | 2026-01-05 19:18:27+00:00
I suspect games are like movies: for every 100 movies, around 20 of them make enough money to cover the losses of the other 80. But predicting which movies those will be is extremely difficult (Goldman's Law: Nobody knows nothin'). Any studio / label / distributor which can do better than the average is probably headed for greatness.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-05 19:18:28+00:00
From what I've heard from doctors online, a large chunk of their time is basically spent just coaxing insurance. They waste time figuring out what they can and cannot bill, tailoring that to every patient, and constantly keeping records of everything. I think, for many doctors especially in small practices, treatment is a minority of their time.

Obviously, paying someone 300K a year to sit on a 1 hour peer to peer explaining why they think they should do a surgery is just bad business. But, we do it, and I think a lot.
by kpcyrd | 2026-01-05 19:18:31+00:00
The rootkit runs in ring0, at that point all kernel-enforced security controls are potentially compromised. Instead, you need to prevent the kernel module from being loaded in the first place. There are multiple ways to ensure no further kernel modules can be loaded without rebooting the computer, e.g. by having pid=1 drop CAP_SYS_MODULE out of it's bounding set before starting any child processes. After it has been loaded it's too late to do anything about the integrity of your system.
by filleduchaos | 2026-01-05 19:18:57+00:00
Clothes are nowhere near as heavily automatable as people like to believe they are, is the problem. Unlike many other goods, nearly every article of clothing produced today is still produced with human hands. This does not mesh well with the fact that the modern public has been trained not to value apparel; people expect to casually buy items of clothing for less than they'd spend on a single meal.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2026-01-05 19:19:08+00:00
Once bacteria set up house deep inside a tooth, they are sheltered from the immune system while dispatching bacteria into the blood system. I've had infected tooth removed and found myself feeling a whole bunch better after.

Infection can spread to adjacent teeth or sneak in alongside a loose filling or underneath a crown.

A wobbly tooth is likely infected and you might want to get it out to protect adjacent teeth.

I had a root canal in my 20s that failed 10 years later and was replaced by a bridge that had to be replaced every decade or so until a tooth supporting the bridge failed; so I ended up with two implants.

Implant technology is really good today. You will ultimately save money and misery by going straight to an implant if a root canal or bridge is suggested. You will still need to floss to prevent gum loss.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-05 19:19:17+00:00
> meaning it hits rich people more, and it hits them when they spend not when they earn.

The parent of your comment made a pretty good case precisely against this. And it didn't talk about all spending, only about luxury one as exemplified by the following, rather misleading, quote from the OP:

>> Any tax reform that fails to reduce luxury consumption by the rich will completely fail to reduce economic inequality.

This is wrong and pointing it out is good.
by metalcrow | 2026-01-05 19:19:40+00:00
> If I met a paranoid schizophrenic and decided to spend the next few months building up a relationship with him and confirming all his delusions (yes, you're special with divine powers, yes your family and friends are all spying on you and trying to spiritually weaken you, here's how they're doing it, by the way you have to do whatever it takes to stop them, etc) I would expect to be charged with something if he then went and killed someone.

Assuming you don't attempt to tell them to do something I'm not actually sure you would. The first amendment is pretty strong, but ianal.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-05 19:19:41+00:00
According to the Bueno de Mesquita and Smith model, we should expect the inner circles of authoritarians to be chosen for loyalty, not competence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook#:~:t...

(how closely does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory#/media/File... map to the model Goldstein presents in "Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"? Or to Rao's Office politics model: sociopaths, clueless, and losers?)
by vohk | 2026-01-05 19:19:58+00:00
Put a different way, would you say Fiverr enables people to be more creative?

Using AI to create an artistic work has more in common with commissioning art than creating it. Just instead of a person, you're paying the owners of a machine built on theft because it's cheaper and more compliant. It isn't really your creativity on display, and it certainly isn't that of the model or the hosting company.

The smallest part of any creative work is the prompt. The blood and the soul of it live in overcoming the constraints and imperfections. Needing to learn how to sing or play an instrument isn't an impediment to making music, it's a fundamental aspect of the entire exercise.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-05 19:20:03+00:00
> does not mean the software is fundamentally different from the rest of the industry.

I bet you wish that was the case. XServe existed though, and for all of Apple's confidence in the product it was (and is) treated like a second-class citizen that doesn't compete with free alternatives.

There is literally nothing that stops macOS from falling into the same pit of irrelevance besides first-party hubris. How much do you trust Apple to make smart, responsive decisions?
by snyy | 2026-01-05 19:20:08+00:00
Which language are you thinking of? Ideally, how would you identify split points in this language?

I suppose we've only tested this with languages that do have delimiters - Hindi, English, Spanish, and French

There are two ways to control the splitting point. First is through delimiters, and the second is by setting chunk size. If you're parsing a language where chunks can't be described by either of those params, then I suppose memchunk wouldn't work. I'd be curious to see what does work though!
by cthalupa | 2026-01-05 19:20:09+00:00
> 1. It wasn't about someone who's very good at writing quality programs, but someone who perceives themselves as someone who "is not the man who can build working programs". Do you comprehend the difference?

For someone who has taken heavy enjoyment in likening people to analphabets you seem to have entirely misunderstood (or if you understood, heavily misconstrued) the initial point of the person you are responding to.

The entire point is that their identity WAS someone who is the man who can build those programs, and now AI was threatening to do the same thing.

Unless you a presupposing that anyone who can be happy with the output of LLMs for writing code simply is impossible of having the ability to write quality code themselves. Which would be silly.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-05 19:20:17+00:00
I don't like the risk factor. I was a serious cyclist for a decade or so, and went tens of thousands of kilometers over all kinds of terrain at all hours of the day. My take away eventually was that I'd get hit by a car eventually (again), and I don't know how severe it would be. I only cycle with friends leisurely now rather than as a frequent form of exercise.

I live in a city where it's challenging to reach safe riding territory in a reasonable time frame. If I was rural and had access to trail riding (gravel, mountain), I think I'd be all over that.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-05 19:20:18+00:00
To some extent, the pay rate for a lot of jobs comes down the available candidate pool for those jobs. The easier/simpler a job is for anyone to step into, the more likely it is to have a lower pay associated with it. As an addition, regarding service jobs, a lot of the times, you get what you put in... at this point, most customer service interactions I've generally seen have been poor at best.

Craftsmanship, pride in work, and just caring about doing a good job just aren't concerns a lot of the workforce has at this point. That's not to excuse efforts to offset employee pay into a forced tipping culture. Neither does it excuse efforts to use foreign labor as a lower paid under-class either... I think jobs for foreign workers should have pay floors that force them to be more expensive than domestic labor. If there really isn't a supply, or they really are that skilled, then pay up.

Part of the problem is the idea of fiscal duty has been tunnel visioned into what the next quarter looks like over anything resembling longer term health of a company and the communities they operate in. Not to mention VC corporations swallowing industry sectors and "extractive value" to the point those sectors collapse altogether.

Govt has largely sold out to corporate interests over the people's best interests and they are emphatically NOT the same... govt policy should be to encourage or even require competition in practice. Shared essential infrastructure should require dual/multi-sourcing with a healthy portion required to be domestically supplied as well.

I truly believe that it's in everyone's best interests to refocus beyond the next quarter, and I don't mean woke lip service... just actually considering organizational and community concerns. If we/they don't do it, communism will only grow and take over.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-05 19:20:28+00:00
> Arguably the dock

The Dock came from NeXtSTEP circa 1989. It had square edges and no Happy Mac. (So did Mail.app, TextEdit, some of the OS X Finder, and a whole bunch of other things.)

To the untrained eye it looks like an Apple innovation because most people couldn't afford NeXt computers unless you worked in a university or research lab.
by hyperbovine | 2026-01-05 19:20:28+00:00
The word "stable" literally does not appear in the comment to which I was responding.

Maybe I'm just scarred from laboring much too hard in the 90s and aughts to get desktop and laptop Linux working, but here is my current take:

- Yes there is fragmentation. Perhaps there are not hundreds of Linux distros but, off the top of my head: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma, Arch, Manjaro, openSUSE, Kali, PopOS, elementary OS, Zorin, Gentoo, Alpine, NixOS are all viable options. Next, pick a desktop: GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie, Pantheon, Deepin, Enlightenment. Each has different UX conventions, configuration systems, and integration quality. There is no single Linux desktop and its bewildering.
- Power management now "works" in the sense that, when you close your laptop lid and re-open it, yay! the machine (mostly) comes back to life instead of just crashing. It took us at least 15 years to get to that point. However, PM does not work in the sense that battery like on my M4 Macbook Air is literally 2x what I would get from a comparably priced Linux laptop. Part of that is better hardware, but _a lot_ of that is better power management.
- Audio now mostly works without glitching, just like it did in OS X circa 2002. But God help you if you're not using a well-supported setup and find yourself manually having to dick around with kernel drivers, ALSA, Pulseaudio. (Just typing these words gives me PTSD.) Here is a typical "solution" from *within the past year* for audio troubles in Linux: https://www.linux.org/threads/troubleshooting-audio-problems.... There are thousands more threads like this to be found online. For typical, 99%-of-the-time use cases, experiences of this sort are rarely if ever encountered on Mac.
- Printing is arguably the closest because, as previously noted, they are both using the same underlying system. But printing, thanks to AirPrint, is still smoother and more pain-free on Mac than on Linux.
- Don't even get me started on Bluetooth.

It's not that I'm anti-Linux, I wanted sooo bad for Linux on the desktop and laptop to succeed, for a variety of reasons. But Steve J came along 25-30 years and completely pulled that rug out from under us.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-05 19:20:55+00:00
Someone will always have to pay for it, because we don't generally just let people die. And even if we do, someone still have to scrape their rotting corpses off the street, no?

Radical individuality is an illusion. Yes, it would be nice if everyone could be solely responsible for paying for their healthcare or retirement. But is it possible? If you can't answer if it's possible or not before you do something, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-05 19:21:06+00:00
Paywalled, but does this article take into account college being used as a mechanism to immigrate?

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics

>U.S. Nonresident Enrollment

>Since 2010, attendance is up 36.8%.

Also, US births peaked around 18 years ago, and:

>The only jurisdictions to see an increase in the number of students enrolled since 2010 are New Hampshire, Utah, Idaho, Delaware, and Texas, as well as the District of Columbia.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-05 19:21:30+00:00
> You stand at a machine doing the same fucking thing over and over.

Grew up in a machine shop ran by my father and my grandfather ran a one-man tool and die shop and ran the OBI presses himself. I ran the press, milling machines, lathes and saws. No one in that shop was missing body parts. Sure, its monotonous at times but that can be said about many jobs. A well ran shop should not put you in harms way.

> I don't know why on earth you would want to bring back people getting burned alive in steel mills or their fingers chopped up when a stamping machine has all its safeties break because maintenance didn't maintain them right.

I don't know why on earth you seem to be content with other people being subject to the same conditions.
by theptip | 2026-01-05 19:21:36+00:00
Is this true? Nobody has a counter to ICBMs as far as I know.

Defending against strategic bombers is a different game from submarine-launched cruise missiles / hypersonics too. If you don’t spot the submarine 50 miles off your coast you can’t defend against the hypersonic. Whereas you apply a completely different set of detection and response systems for long-range bombers.

Sure the net intention of these capabilities may the same, but we are talking about whether there are counters to these weapon systems.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-05 19:21:49+00:00
Discussions about "DJs" are difficult because there's a WIDE range of skills behind what we call a DJ.

Yes, some have zero skill and will basically just show up with a pre-determined Spotify playlist. They won't even have mixing/transitions between songs.

Some are in the middle and will be able to do basic transitions between songs (ie, just simple beat matching) and know how to carry a vibe.

At the far end of the spectrum are actual composers that are effectively making new mixes of songs on the fly.

And so you have the problem where someone says "Being a DJ takes a lot of skill" because they're thinking of the last category, while the person hearing that message replies with "How does it take skill to just press Play?" because they're thinking of the first.
by zahlman | 2026-01-05 19:22:04+00:00
Top-level view:

from the perspective of people who aren't explicitly trying to teach on their own initiative, overall the site has outlived its purpose. In that time it drew way too many total questions to surface what's actually valuable; between that and no functional search (the internal search was always bad; Google et. al. got worse over time, partly intentionally) you're lucky to find anything valuable.

I'm not generally worried about out-of-date answers; the truly outdated answers are mostly on outdated questions, describing situations that don't come up any more or premises that are no longer valid for ordinary programmers (e.g., fixing problems with obsolete tools).

Combing through to curate properly is too little, too late now. Much stronger (but polite, of course) gatekeeping was required earlier on, which in turn required (among other things) proper means for communication between "core" users and the public. At this point, it's best to start over (hence the part where I'm now a moderator at Codidact).

There's a lot more I want to say, but I don't have it organized in my head and this is way downthread already. Perhaps I could interest you in a hypothetical future blog post?
by jacquesm | 2026-01-05 19:22:43+00:00
I've had OpenAI do the weirdest things in conversations about aerodynamics and very low level device drivers, I don't think you will be able to reach a solution by just limiting the subjects. It is incredible how strongly it tries to position itself as a thinking entity that is above its users in the sense that it is handing out compliments all the time. Some people are more susceptible to others.
by phantasmish | 2026-01-05 19:22:45+00:00
Any troll or shitposter who can't operate extremely effectively on HN isn't very good at it.

The site basically has a house style for those activities, and you can go crazy insulting and stirring people up all day long and not get moderated for it, as long as you stick to the approved style. Bonus: if you're not just half-competent, but actually good, you can probably get people calling you out on your behavior moderated, if they don't beat around the bush about it in just the right ways! That's why the majority of posts on here are trolling and shitposting, or fallout thereof.

If you stay under the moderation radar, trolling this place is like shooting fish in a barrel, even easier than most sites (no, I've not done it, but it's very obviously most of what goes on here). If the site cared about this, it'd have ignore-lists.
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-05 19:23:15+00:00
Really, the only time I use "http" is for running web services on my localhost for debugging, to connect to my router, and to connect to my NAS.

I'm not sure the best way to secure that situation. Unencrypted traffic that only stays on my own computer is a valid use case, and unencrypted traffic on my home network is about as risky as skinny dipping in your own back yard.
by ctoth | 2026-01-05 19:23:24+00:00
> There is no economic rule that says that riveting should pay more than taking care of the elderly or food delivery.

There is, in fact. Baumol's Cost Disease, and it's a real bitch.

Manufacturing has compounding productivity gains - one worker today produces vastly more than one worker in 1950. Elderly care doesn't. You can't make a caregiver 10x more productive through better tooling. The productivity ceiling is fixed by the nature of the work.

Wages across sectors compete for workers. So service-sector wages only rise when they have to bid workers away from high-productivity sectors. This predicts: service wages are borrowed from productivity gains elsewhere in the economy.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't want caregivers paid well. It means wanting isn't a mechanism. The mechanism is productivity growth in tradeable sectors pulling wages up economy-wide.
by watchthedemo | 2026-01-05 19:23:43+00:00
For the sake of rigor it appears he found it interesting that someone else found them helpful in the past rather than "Terry Tao[himself] has found them helpful in the past."

> This was one further addition to a recent sequence of examples where an Erdős problem had been automatically solved in one fashion or another by an AI tool.[Aristotle] Like the previous cases, the proof turned out to not be particularly novel

He concludes:

> One striking feature of this story for me is how important it was to have a diverse set of people, literature, and tools to attack this problem. To be able to state and prove the precise formula for {c(n)} required multiple observations

Which looks like he wants to focus the praise for the solution on the "diverse set of people" relegating any "praise" for LLMs to the obfuscated and ambiguous category of "tools" behind literature.
by oaiey | 2026-01-05 19:24:01+00:00
I think it misses a .net in the end. Oh wait, this naming mistake they already made like 25 years ago. Funny how their learnt nothing out of their own mistakes.

Today their CEO released a statement that people should focus not on AI but on the uses of AI. So put the AI in the back and focus on the benefits. This is the exact opposite.