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Well, if they are going against the legitimating power of the people, isn't it bloodless and unworkable to insist on "rules" against people who can break them at will (and have the loyalty of the army and police)?

You have to insist on a more fundamental source of legitimacy, economic power, and wield a threat that cannot be easily defeated.

Remember: these presidents are elected by about a quarter of the country if that, and the most recent election had a fall in turnout. Even if you base your entire theory of legitimacy in election results, the legitimacy of U.S. elections is looking worse and worse every season. The opposition didn't even have a primary lol
Oh man, I’m really sorry to see Jake passed. I read their updates every few months when they’d land on HN; it made me sad to see the past tense of “dying” this time. Rest in peace
Exactly. When an AI can solve the coding challenging nearly instantly, what are you measuring by having a human do it as well?

That's like measuring a human against a hydraulic crane for lifting ability.

No, what you want is to measure if the human can safely and deftly operate the crane.
Google and Apple just updated the name of an international body of water based on the demand of a single person throwing his weight around. No one asked for this change. It has no backing by locals. It wasn’t even a thing. This wasn’t a culture war issue, it’s a flexing of power by an old delusional man. AP has been the only corporate organization to stand up to this nonsense that I’ve seen.

Not to mention the cdc scrubbing and such that judges are now overturning and demanding information returned to the public.
https://archive.is/KMzER
WASM solves a very different problem to Kubernetes, and you can happily run, scale and orchestrate WASM binaries on Kube.
More information on the author, Timothy Snyder:

> Timothy David Snyder (born 1969)[2] is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.[3][4]

> He has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2018), and Our Malady (2020). Several of them have been described as best-sellers.[5][6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder

"Do Not Obey In Advance" is the first chapter to his book On Tyranny:

* https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny/
You say that, and yet for your cited Android apps, they are built using gradle, which is written for the JVM, or using Maven, which is written for the JVM, and likely even typed inside IntelliJ (aka Android Studio) which is written for the JVM. Also, this may be splitting hairs, but Android is actually dalvik, not the JVM
> The problem is that in WASM-land we're heading towards WASI and WAT components, which is similar to the .NET, COM & IDL ecosystems. While this is actually really cool in terms of component and interface discovery, the downside is that it means you have to re-invent the world to work with this flavor of runtime.

At the application level, you're generally going to write to the standards + your embedding. Companies that write embeddings are encouraced/incentivized to write good abstractions that work with standards to reduce user friction.

For example, for making HTTP requests and responding to HTTP requests, there is WASI HTTP:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http

It's written in a way that is robust enough to handle most use cases without much loss of efficiency. There are a few inefficiencies in the WIT contracts (that will go away soon, as async lands in p3), but it represents a near-ideal representation of a HTTP request and is easy for many vendors to build on/against.

As far as rewriting the world, this happens to luckily not be quite true, thanks to projects like wasi-libc:

https://github.com/webassembly/wasi-libc

Networking is actually much more solved in WASI now than it was roughly a year ago -- threads is taking a little longer to cook (for good reasons), but async (without function coloring) is coming this year (likely in the next 3-4 months).

The sandboxing abilities of WASM are near unmatched, along with it's startup time and execution speed compared to native.
If it is a standard type of wooden stud home the engineering skill is basically nonexist just by following general framing patterns which haven't changed much at all in around 150 years except for not balloon framing studs across multiple floors and instead stacking floors on top of walls. Framing and layout design is probably the easiest part of building a wood stud home. Once you know how basic floors, walls, and openings like doors and windows are built they will all fit together in any combination you like and be more than structurally sound because the basic design is seriously overbuilt.

I think most people would run into the most trouble trying to follow code with electrical, plumbing, and HVAC. You can frame 95% of a house the same way as a 120 year old house, but if you go beyond 15 years then all those utilities have had constantly evolving regulations and design constraints and just because you saw it in a dozen other houses doesn't mean it will pass this years code.
> I highly recommend Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, if you have the stomach for it.

Ditto:

> In this book, Snyder examines the political, cultural, and ideological context tied to a specific region of Central and Eastern Europe, where Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany committed mass murders of an estimated 14 million noncombatants between 1933 and 1945, the majority outside the death camps of the Holocaust. Snyder's thesis delineates the "bloodlands" as a region that now comprises Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), northeastern Romania, and the westernmost fringes of Russia; in this region, Stalin and Hitler's regimes, despite their conflicting goals, interacted to increase suffering and bloodshed beyond what each regime would have inflicted independently.[1]

[…]

> The book was awarded numerous prizes, including the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, and stirred up a great deal of debate among historians. Reviews ranged from highly critical to "rapturous".[4][5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands
Lots of people use wasm in production right now, and toolchain support is in a good place across several languages. In that sense we are already there.

You likely visited a website using wasm today without realizing it, and major apps like Photoshop have been ported to wasm, which was the original dream behind it all. That has all succeeded.

But if you want to replace containers specifically, as this article wants, then you need more than wasm 1.0 or even 2.0. I don't know when that future will arrive.
It was on the day he died, too.
Impressive that this made it to number 1 on hacker news. The politics of the readers here is pretty interesting
A great example of the many system abuses over the past several weeks.

People did not vote for the Dark Enlightenment nor the Butterfly Revolution. Want to gut USAID? Work with Congress and pass a law. Want to strip Social Security? Samesies.

That is the rule of law. If you are a representative of the people, you follow the law.
Kind of amazed this was let on the front page of HN. I've seen so many political posts sunk to the abyss the past few weeks.
~23A had been measured going going through one of 6 wires/pins in this test: https://youtu.be/Ndmoi1s0ZaY?t=927

Standard requires these connectors to handle 9.5A per pin (9.5 A × 12 V × 6 pin = 684 W).

A detailed explanation of this mess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5YzMoVQyw
Why should we set our slaves free after 10 years, when we can work them until they collapse in the fields and die there?
Yup, I've tested and seen WASM SQlite's slowness myself. But I don't think it's a SQLite problem per se.

I heard WebSQL, which used SQLite, was at least 10x faster than WASM SQLite. Probably even more.
Thanks for the kind word!

Unfortunately the arrows are kind of confusing regardless of which way they go. You're suggesting they point forward in time, from the old commit to the new commit. The way they're drawn is the direction of the reference: a commit points at its parent. The argument in favor of each way the arrows could go feel about equally strong to me, and my understanding is that the convention in repo diagrams is for arrows to go in the direction of the reference, so that's what I went with.
I would be concerned if US Space Force could not detect rogue low orbit satellites from adversaries that provide uplink to imported consumer vehicles
Exercising rights is obnoxious?
What are the alternatives?

Really, stay with the conversation here - what are the options that people will have if they lose their job because a "DOGE lead" deems their position no longer covered by statute? If they are ready to retire, then fine. But what about that 30 year old who just bought a house and had a kid?

If the private sector can't absorb them, even at the same level of income as they have now, what will they do?

How will they pay their mortgages or their rent? How will they put food on their table? How will they afford for any kind of healthcare?

Implicit in the "why does the private section have to absorb them?" is the belief that government workers are not deserving of their jobs and, in fact, are not deserving of any job as they are lazy or incompetent.

Perhaps that's not the particular thought that prompted the comment, but let's be honest - it's a common belief. We see it at the heart of the "return to work" cries that Musk and other MAGA supporters have been calling for -- people can't be trusted to do their work at home, they must be in a factory-like setting where their managers can oversee them. You know, crack the whip and all that.

So what's the plan for the displaced workers? Beyond their hardship, what's the expected impact on our overall economy? By what criteria shall we judge these actions as successful?

There is no plan, and the only expectation is chaos. Success will be judged by those who gain the most after the dust settles, and we should not fool ourselves to think that will include the typical person in the United States.

But I'm willing to be convinced. If there's an argument to be made for this "shove the nation off the cliff" approach, then let's hear it.
Sure, but they could report it as such, if their oligarch let them.
>builds enough wealth and strength to defend their claim and way of life against subsequent civilizations to come along.

I don't agree with "might makes right", if that's what you're trying to argue.

>What framework exists at the supra-civilizational scale?

International law? E.g. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is sometimes said to be "illegal".

I suppose one could argue that conquest only become illegal with the 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact. So one could argue that attempts to relitigate pre-1928 conquests essentially amount to applying international law retroactively, which might violate Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Of course, just because conquest was "legal" doesn't make it acceptable morally. However, I do think one could use the international law point to argue that Russia needs to pay reparations to Ukraine, but pursuing reparations for pre-1928 conquest isn't valid.
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> Milton Friedman:

> > If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited.

The USA didn’t have free immigration before 1914. The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed in 1882 and renewed in 1892 and 1902. Immigration from China continued to be banned until the Magnuson act of 1943 and Chinese-Americans were not permitted to own property in all jurisdictions until the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed in 1965.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson_Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...
Exactly. It's like the JVM circa 2004. Without all the observability and features we have today and half the performance/reliability/security.
Long as you censor it appropriately then it won't get flagged. It's 2025 y'all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/usaid-funding...

https://archive.is/LxDse
Let the whataboutism begin in 3..2..1…
Thirded, it fundamentally changed the way I understand government. Would also recommended The Road to Unfreedom for some context around current geopolitics.
>Nvidia would be willing to cut into its margin to provide

Why would that be optional on a top of the line GPU that requires it? NVIDIA has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about defining an extended ATX standard, that covers PSUs, and it would be optional in the product lines of PSU manufacturers. The 12VHPWR connector support in PSUs is already a premium thing, they just didn't go far enough.
Is there a short description of how jj works specifically from the perspective of a seasoned git user? I more or less understand git -- how to use it as well as its building blocks -- so the caveats and generalizations and glossing-over that are appropriate for a more general audience seem to get in the way of my understanding what's going on underneath.
Or even the other direction, upward toward full vms, or hybrid: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/v1.4.0/docs/archit...
Money doesn't consume physical resources the way people do.

Uncontrolled immigration will overconsume whatever resources the country has, and infrastructure can't increase as quickly as unabated immigration. Things like rent will skyrocket and resources like water, sewage, hospitals, schools, etc. will get overconsumed without the ability to increase it quick enough. It will make the country worse very quickly.
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I'm the opposite, vs code feels so clunky to me and full of crappy bolted on low and mid quality plugins. Yes it's lower barrier to entry on making things and for editing configs but the configs are opaque, hard to find. Odd for microsoft that it's more of a linux mindset than windows. It feels so janky setting up run configurations or test runs.
Yes, but note the difficulty of building a specialized I/O or drivers for controlling access in a virtual machine versus the WASI model.

Also, startup times are generally better w/ availability of general metering (fuel/epochs) for example. The features of Wasm versus a virtual machine are similar but there are definitely unique benefits to Wasm.

The closer comparison is probably the JVM -- but with support for many more languages (the list is growing, with upstream support commonplace).
FTA

> I discovered thermal comfort depends on four environmental factors: air temperature, heat radiation, airflow, and humidity.

He's managing more variables than those handled by your three knobs, and also deals with seat temperature in his setting.

You might not want any of the finer control, some don't even want climate control and will run with open windows in dead winter. But I see a lot of benefit of his approach for anyone who cares as much as him about climate control.
I used to work in a rather well-known building running the electronics operation and we had long PVC conduits that contained communication cables that ran large distances throughout the building and both the conduits and cables were attacked by rats.

The main conduits were about 15cm (~6") in diameter and the total CSA of the comms cables therein occupied about 40% of the total diameter.

40% of the total CSA was the nominal/regulated maximum cable-carrying capacity for the conduits as (a) drawing cables through long conduits in excess of this limit could damage them, and (b) there was still some small margin/extra capacity should there be need to add a few extra circuits.

Now rats quickly discovered that the remaining 60% of space in these conduits provided them with excellent 'highways' from one end of the building to another.

As one would expect, cables would also enter and exit these conduits at various points throughout the building at 'T' junctions. The adjoing conduits at the 'T' junctions were often of much smaller diameter than the main trunk ones and rats had difficulty getting though their small orifices so they simply enlarged them by gnawing through both the conduit walls and the comms cables.

Many of the cables were PVC covered and EMR shielded such as RG-59 coaxial cable and Belden Beldfoil-type balanced comms cables and there were many cases where both the copper braiding/outer shielding and inner conductor of the coaxes and the aluminum shielding of the Belden cables were completely chewed through. It seems that PVC, mylar, copper and aluminum are not objects that act as impediments to determined rats—anything in their way they'll chew right through.

Trouble was these points of ingress and egress were in very awkward places and repairing the cables was a tedious and difficult job.

Somewhere in my archives I've photos of the havoc and destruction they caused, if HN would also post images then I'd dig them out.

Incidentally, I've seen photos of lead-sheathed (completely covered and shielded) telephone cables consisting of hundreds of phone circuits where rats have gnawed right through the lead to get at the paper insulation on the cables. Some of these photos are quite amazing, it's hard to believe how destructive these rodents can be until one actually sees the evidence.
Fully-electric vehicles (BEVs) were 8.1% of all U.S. light vehicle sales in 2024. EV sales were up 15% year-over-year.

The CEO is worried about how hostile the U.S. market might be for Chinese companies, not about low demand.
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Plenty of people are working hard to tackle the performance-per-watt problem while others simultaneously tackle the absolute performance problem. There's no one single metric you can focus exclusively on that's going to satisfy everyone's use cases. Obviously not everyone needs a high-end enthusiast product like the 5090 and plenty of people are going to be seeking out a middle-of-the-road product that focuses on performance-per-watt instead, which will be accommodated by the lower-tier products in the lineup as well as their competitors' products.

> Given how parallel graphics problems are, maybe it’s time to give up on 100 cores that go uber fast as behave like a space heater and move to 250 cores that go quite fast but use 1/4 of the power each.

It wasn't too long ago that people were saying the same things about single-core and dual-core NetBurst CPUs and how we need to start considering dual-core and quad-core for consumer CPUs. And now we have consumer CPUs with 64 cores and more, so aren't we moving in the direction you want already? Performance-per-watt is improving, parallelism is improving, and also absolute performance is improving too in addition to those other metrics.
All 12V-2x6 GPU power cables are aftermarket third-party cables. Nvidia doesn't make or supply one because PSUs have different pinouts (or may not be modular in design at all). This isn't any different to the previous situation of PCIe 8-pin power connectors on GPUs that don't come with 8-pin cables.

They do ship an adapter for older PSUs.

All of those cables and the adapter are all using the same 12VHPWR connector as standardised by PCI-SIG, with the same gauge wire. I find it highly unlikely that any of them are more safe than any other.

We really need to get out of the mindset of blaming non-first-party stuff unless one can actually demonstrate an issue with a specific product, such as CableMod's (rightly) recalled right-angle adapter (which wasn't a cable, by the way).

At the end of the day this connector has a 10% margin of safety, while a PCIe 8-pin connector had a 92% margin of safety. It is incredibly delicate, much more prone to failure, and will result in a much more spectacular failure when it does fail.

It boggles my mind that it hasn't been written off and replaced yet.
This sounds good an all but you're incredibly unlikely to be asked to murder someone.

Instead, suppose you're the government bureaucrat who must decide whether this vaccine hesitant individual gets medical care or keeps their job which is their family's sole income. Are you really going to oppose the state or is this an acceptable level of authoritarianism for the greater good?

What if the state requires you to report any known illegal immigrant or face jail time and steep fines. You know some illegal immigrants, are you going to refuse to obey in advance?

What if the state requires you to put pronouns in your linkedin and HN profile, are you going to refuse in advance?

Where do you draw the line on rule of law vs. authoritarianism?
Yes. It doesn't provide the roughly 20 years of advancements in JVM technology either. Modern observability and JVM scale is at a different level. The trend was to get the maximum use of hardware. Specifically get away from virtualization to containers. This bucks the trend for absolutely no tangible benefit.
I think US does it in a very small scale, compared to China, and their ideological missions.
They might be able to, but, if they are effectively saying "our product is broken and you can't use it until you do X" they could be responsible for massive contractual liabilities.
> Like preventing illegal entry and crossing of borders and deporting illegal aliens? Or is that not rule of law?

And in the process of enforcing this law ripping children from their parents and losing track of them so that reconnecting them with families was not possible?

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi...

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-trump-era-policy-tha...

Besides enforcing the law, is cruelty one of Trump's stated policy goals?

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/...
> "The ban was lifted when Roger Sharpe went in and did a Babe Ruth number where he called his shot, and then he launched his ball. This was after several attempts to prove to them that he could actually beat the machine,” Schiess explains. “But they weren’t buying it until he made that shot. As soon as he made it, they took a vote and the ban was lifted. It was a big deal.”
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As I am not left wing, simply not Republican, I've never understood why Fox News and political provocatours needed to lie about the magnitude of the problems on the border during Biden's presidency, except and unless they wanted to create fear via propaganda. The economy was a much better angle. I value intellectual honesty.

Edit: and to add, one thing that Fascists in Germany did was to turn their political rivals into boogeyman. Simultaneously weak and strong. Lacking morality.

I guarantee you folks on the left have strong morals and standards. As do folks on the right. Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized. I use 'you' here in the royal sense, I don't know you from Peter or Paul. I only know what you said in your comment.

Having lived in places where I was a stranger, I've found people generally want similar things, usually found on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
There are procedural issues that make that difficult currently. For example, undocumented immigrants can claim asylum and then legally can’t be deported until their claim has been processed and rejected. And this takes a very long time due to a shortage of immigration judges. There actually was a bill introduced under biden that would have limited the circumstances in which asylum can be claimed, and added funding for more immigration judges. But Trump called republican congresspeople to encourage them to vote against the bill because he didn’t want anyone else to get the credit for improving border security.