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Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to your posts/comments?
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I built https://hackernewsalerts.com for that. Think I have about 100 users. It's open source, see links on the site.
comments you have made: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alcazar postings you have submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=alcazar
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So you just refresh those pages and notice when someone adds a new comment? That sounds crazy. There must be a better way.
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Hacker News is designed under the assumption that the quality of a discussion decreases and the likelihood of arguments/flamewars increases over time, and as the ratio of comments to upvotes increases. If you aren't willing to to put in the effort of checking for responses to your comments, chances are you have nothing of value to contribute. That it takes more effort to do so over time is a feature, not a bug. Just do what most people here do and cease to care about any conversation once if falls off your threads page.
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Wouldn't the people receiving responses to their comments be the ones with value to contribute? If you don't add value, you're likely not getting replies anyway, so this isn't an issue. Thanks for confirming that most people are just refreshing their threads page. I was hoping for a better solution, but it is what it is.
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Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (forums.tigsource.com)
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I remember following dukope‘s well-written devlog back then. Even tried to reproduce his edge detection for a game jam. Thanks for digging this out.
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I gave this game a shot but honestly the art style got in the way of the gameplay for me. Fun to read how much effort went into it
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Actually saw a great youtube video about this recently - very cool how they were able to accomplish this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3qzyAHMoUU
UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place (ofcom.org.uk)
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4chan fighting for us all! Bravo.
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4chan doesn't need age checks, everyone knows there are only five year olds on it. :-p
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This part somewhat surprising to me: > Data shows that nearly 80% of the top 100 pornography sites in the UK now have age checks in place. This means that on average, every day, over 7 million visitors from the UK are accessing pornography services that have deployed age assurance. I would have expected that most people would switch to other pornography sites that don't have age checks rather than doing an age check. But apparently that isn't the case. (Or their data is misleading. People in the UK who are using VPNs presumably can't be easily identified as British.)
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Yeah, that is ABSOLUTELY a lie. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to include links as a new user but Pornbiz posted an article showing AV lost them 90% of traffic. There's a BBC article where researchers found AV compliant sites were decimated on their top traffic ranking on Similarweb. And I working in the industry saw our traffic drop by 99.9% during our AV test. Users don't use VPN, they certainly don't upload ID... they just go to noncompliant sites. Don't believe UK government's gaslighting.
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£450k? - Quick, we must show we've done something. > or requiring Internet Service Providers to block a site in the UK. Ah, that's what they want.
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They probably don't even expect 4chan to pay up - they just want them gone.
Amateurs. Russia has fined Google more than the GDP of the entire planet. Odds of collecting are about the same.
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Odds of collecting some 4chan execs travelling abroad are a lot higher, though
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4chan's lawyer, who has been engaging with this well since the beginning, has clearly advised his clients, who have no intent of ever going to the UK, to not go there. In addition, Ofcom does not have the ability to collect them through the EU itself. They must go to the UK. It already sounds like Ofcom is likely to lose lawsuits about this, as they do not have jurisdiction in the U.S., where 4chan is hosted.
UK fining an American company for this is absurd. 4Chan isn't breaking any laws. You can make it illegal for your own citizens but you can't regulate a foreign business. UK citizens should fight for the right to free speech though.
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How is this different than, for example, the US fining TikTok? https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ftc-record-fine-childrens-privacy/
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This is false. You of course can regulate and fine a foreign business. That's how trade regulations work. The UK isn't going to get a cent from that but the leadership is banned from entering the UK for the foreseeable future. Doing this a lot as a country is how you achieve pariah status and losing a bunch of trade, though.
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Trade regulations apply to the importer, which might also be the exporter if they have a local presence, but also may not be. If I buy something illegal off of AliExpress, the US government won't and can't do squat to the seller. If they decide to enforce the law, they'll go after me.
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> the leadership is banned from entering the UK for the foreseeable future Not at all. But if they do enter, they might find difficulty leaving.
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While I agree it seems absurd, this is how the UK's unwritten constitution works - the UK Parliament is not restricted to legislating just for the territory of the UK. Of course it can only realistically enforce within UK borders, but it can pass whatever legislation it wishes. There is a famous quote regarding this nature of British parliamentary sovereignty that is taught to every law student in the UK: "If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence, then it is an offence" - Ivor Jennings.
How about the EU imposing GDPR restrictions on non-eu companies?
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The GDPR is about your data being handled overseas. OFCOM&co is about overseas data going to you .
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I think that's different because I have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR and a negative personal opinion about what the UK is doing. Therefore the GDPR is good and this is bad. It's really quite objective.
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Depends on whether those businesses want to do business with the EU
4chan's lawyer's response: "In the only country in which 4chan operates, the United States, it is breaking no law and indeed its conduct is expressly protected by the First Amendment."[0] [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
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The directors and officers better not transit through Heathrow without giving the current whitehouse admin a hefty donation first. Mother Britain will be happy to make an example out of them if Uncle Sam doesn't intervene.
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It's unfortunate that the US lawyers did not cite the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram.
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Arkell v Pressdram was in response to a civil claim that never reached a court, so slightly different. I take the wider point though.
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As shown in that same article, they also responded: >>> "Companies – wherever they're based – are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK. And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no different," she said. "The UK is setting new standards for online safety. Age checks and risk assessments are cornerstones of our laws, and we'll take robust enforcement action against firms that fall short." <<< Quite frankly she seems completely out of touch with her own argument. The UK can certainly legislate away tobacco sales, for instance; they can't go after tobacco producers in a foreign state. 4Chan operates in the US and is a US company. They have no jurisdiction over it, even if their citizenry can access it; it's on them to block that access if they don't like it. Unless they're also implying that the US government should be allowed to go after UK companies that don't follow it's free speech regulations because American citizens can access them.
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Speaking as a UK citizen: you're exactly right. If the UK wants to prevent 4chan from being imported into the UK then it needs to block it at the border as it would for physical goods. The fact that's technically hard to do (at least without going full-on CCP) doesn't change the situation. Attempting to fine a foreign entity for doing something that breaks no laws in the foreign entity's jurisdiction is just risible.
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UK ISPs do block some domains though.
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It's clearly a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. "It's an import", so they have to respond to it like they'd respond to imports... But unlike physical imports, there's a sense that blocking these imports is an affront to base philosophical freedom in a way that prohibiting physical imports isn't.
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Their goal is to create a presedent so they can start applying it to platforms they don't like. Its happening all over Europe not just the UK and the plan is clear. They want to repress discourse that is not officially sanctioned.
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The real goal it to start banning US sites like fb,aws etc so that Europe starts building their own
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They can try to set whatever precedent they like. But US courts won't accept the argument, so it'll just stay a fee that accumulates on some paper ledger.
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> 4Chan operates in the US And the UK... each time it delivers there.
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4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. They do not host any infrastructure there. They are bound by UK law exactly as much as they are bound by Venutian or Mars law.
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The UK can block whatever they want if they'd like to become an authoritarian firewall state. But they have no legal basis to fine 4chan.
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I disagree. It's no different from selling to a foreign buyer by sending the product in the mail. You're not doing business in their country, and it's the buyer's responsibility to adhere to their local laws about imports, not yours.
And now we'll watch the UK take the logical next step which is for the government to mandate that all ISPs in the country block 4chan. CCP "Great Firewall" style.
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We've had Hadrian's firewall blocking certain piracy sites for years.
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You'd be amazed at the times I've argued with people on HN that free speech infringement by the UK government has grown rampant, only for them to enact the next draconian law a month later.
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Already have the makings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom
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Most Brits already have a VPN to beat off so the effect will be negligible.
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Not everyone is as pornsick as you seem to think. Your own circle of mastrubators, perhaps. But not most British people.
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And then they'll make VPNs illegal
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"Most" is probably not accurate. I can't imagine the average middle aged individual in the UK has a VPN they use regularly. I'd be pleasantly surprised if that was the case.
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The average middle aged individual probably doesn't read 4chan. VPN take up in the UK is around 20-25%
An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (openttd.org)
In situations like this it's odd to me that the rightsholder wouldn't just sell an official build of the FOSS reimplementation with the assets (legally) included. If some of the proceeds end up going toward the FOSS reimplementation's donations then it seems like an easy win-win.
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There are actually cases this has happened in (e.g. re-releases using ScummVM under the hood; id basing products on community source ports, etc.), but it's not always that simple. Chris Sawyer as creator for example is known to have particular opinions on this as I recall, and if you e.g. look over to film making there's also a hot debate over preserving original artistic intent and original creations over later remasters. OpenTTD is more than a maintenance upgrade, it's a continuation and a different game. Honestly I think it's probably just OK what Atari has done here. Monetizing the original assets is well in their rights both legally and morally (especially considering e.g. royalities to Chris), OpenTTD remains available everywhere, they're monetarily supporting OpenTTS, gamers will find it. Note that once a commercial company decides to ship a FOSS project, they also are much more invested in potentially controlling its direction to different ends. This setup keeps OpenTTD community-run and independent, free to make decisions independent of a commercial agenda. This also feels worth protecting.
Now with AI I wonder if it’s possible to just let agents build a perfect emulation of the game. It reminds me of fuzzers. You let the agent go loose on the game and it brute forces every possible state. Then recreates the code. It’s very inefficient- but it probably works.
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So https://malus.sh/ Good luck with all that
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Why would you when an open source version already exists?
This is beyond reasonable. You can still download it for free outside of Steam. If I make a Sonic fan game and Sega is like, you can keep it online, but just not on Steam, that’s nice. In this situation you still have the option of playing it on Steam for a modest price The alternative is the Nintendo route…
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Fully agree, and glad you posted this. Atari has no responsibility to the open source community, and indeed has every reason to push back against this effort. That they're willing to discuss things at all, and that they agree to help support the effort, is frankly astonishing and extremely kind-hearted.
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One alternative is the Nintendo route. Another is the Hololive route, wherein they started a publishing brand for indie fangames which they actively support and promote on an official Steam store page. Another example being Touhou, a one-man indie franchise with permissive commercial derivative works licensing, which has become a cultural phenomenon in Japan and to a lesser extent overseas thanks to an absolutely vibrant community that has made millions of fan illustrations, tens of thousands of albums, and thousands of fangames, hundreds of which are sold on Steam. If megacorps would stop being stuck up their own ass and completely irrational about how they exercise their IP rights, they would actually be able to benefit massively from allowing their fan communities to flourish. The status quo doesn't have to be this shitty, and we don't necessarily need to give credit to companies who meet the incredibly low bar of "not Nintendo".
Open internet is dead only to those that don't take the effort to discover. Otherwise it's still as open as it always was. Since there was an internet to speak of, there always were and still are vast amounts of people unaware of stuff that exists, limited by no "platforms" but only by their own lack of desire.
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This is as good an argument as saying that Americans with unhealthy diets bear sole responsibility, ignoring the massive corporate efforts to convince them of the healthfulness of highly processed foods. While, obviously, individuals have ultimate responsibility for their actions, ignoring the concerted efforts to influence those actions through psychology, marketing/ads, paid “experts”, paid influencers and celebrities, lobbies, blah blah et cetera. When I started using the internet, if I asked someone what the internet was I was unlikely to get any answer at all. It was new. I had to define it for myself. Ask a 6 year old what the internet is. It’s YouTube. TikTok. Roblox. Experiences that are designed to keep them there. It is obviously more difficult for an individual to engage with the open web than it ever has been (for those with access at all).
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That is true to some extent. However, let me ask you one simple question: how would you try to search for something if you are not aware of it's existence? In other words, how people that are not aware of existence of open-source projects (such as OpenTTD) are supposed to discover them if they're not searching for them on purpose (which is impossible given that they have no clue about their existence)? Of course there will be some ways like social media or something else. But that question is what seems to worry many people in our case, in my humble opinion. Remember that most of the planet's population is not even aware of existence of open-source projects and open-source concept itself. So how are they supposed to discover it if they don't know about it? When it's present on platforms like Steam and GOG, it helps to spread the word, but when it's not... Well, I guess that seems to be a problem for some people.
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I use a similar argument to those who say that gaming is dead. Sure, if you're waiting for $AAA_DEVELOPER to change, it's probably dead, but you don't even have to look that far to find amazing games everywhere in indie and AA.
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Technology Connections referred to this as “algorithmic complacency”, young people don’t like Bluesky because they have to decide for themselves what content to follow instead of a default algorithm feed
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> limited by no "platforms" but only by their own lack of desire. Or Google's low ranking of their content
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I don't even. Relying on third-party ranking of whatever is a clear indicator of lack of effort.
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Short of developing psychic abilities, how would you then address the discoverability problem without relying on a third party? Forums, search engines, social media, and link aggregators are all third parties with their own ranking. Nobody outside of a handful of small-web hobbyists have put a "cool links" section into a website since 1997.
The initial post has omitted any reason for the change. Of course people would speculate, including in the HN comments. What seemed majority at the time was the idea of some collaboration/partnership and monetary exchange. I think its a good lesson in communication, especially when you have a dedicated community. Transparency is welcome. Regarding Atari and "their rights", there hasn't been an Atari for way too long and the IP was passed between companies left and right without additive value to users. I expect transport tycoon to be another cash grab, but happy to be surprised for the better.
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Atari being the commercial firm it is, I could very well imagine that stuff was under NDA. Just 'by default', because that's what the lawyers like. And only when angry speculations emerged they could be persuaded to just openly communicate. Or the OpenTTD guys were not the best communicators. Considering it's the OpenTTD creators live at the intersection of the groups 'programmers' and 'adults who like to play with train sets' it wouldn't be a stretch. All in all I think this collaborative approach is very much the preferred outcome. All those people saying 'the open web is dead' and 'people don't download from websites anymore' are exaggerating imo.
I'm sure I'm missing some context but what is Atari's role here exactly? Isn't OpenTTD an independent and fully legal project? What is Atari's basis for asking for a "compromise"? Or is it just the case that the project maintainers got paid off?
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I really wonder who "Atari" is these days . . .
Atari probably threatened to take it down if there wouldn't be a compromise. So a compromise was worked out that wouldn't require a takedown.
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Pretty much this. No one was interested in playing corporate games, and Steam/GoG isn't that important anyway.
What copyright? OpenTTD doesn't copy any code or assets from the original game. It is a ground-up rewrite. There is no copyright violation.
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It might be improved and changed in many ways. But I have zero doubt it would not lose in court any argument over copyrights. Most reasonable people would tell that it looks way too close to original. And that would probably be enough.
Also even if it is a ground up rewrite, the look and feel still matters. Try creating a 1:1 dupe of a Hermes bag or a Rolex and see how their legal team reacts (even if you call it an OpenBirk)
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False. Look at https://osgameclones.com and projects like FreeDoom. You must be young and it shows how disconnected are the new generations on libre reimplementations.
Reproducing someone’s intellectual property and publishing it is exactly what constitutes a copyright violation. You can retype someone’s book with your keyboard, it’s still not yours.
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Learn something new, dear GenZers: https://osgameclones.com/ Maybe you all realize how much brainwashed from corporations yall actually are.
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Reproducing is absolutely not a copyright violation. Otherwise emulators would have no legal option to exist.
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Reproducing the surface behavior of a program, no matter how faithfully, is not in itself copyright violation if it's a cleanroom implementation. But int this case it's not to write the new one, the developers studied (and manually translated to C++) the original code, not just the program's behavior. So this is more of a case of a derived work, like a translation of a novel.
> a compromise would be needed to balance Atari’s commercial interests (which of course they are entitled to pursue as the rights holder) No, fuck 'em. They had nothing to do with developing the game, and in a sane copyright structure a thirty-year-old work would be public domain by now.
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> in a sane copyright structure You are not wrong. But alas we don't have that. ANd in the reality we live in this collaboration is way better than the alternative.
How are people supposed to understand the "nuance of the situation" when they aren't even sharing it? What is the problem to begin with? Why can't both projects continue to exist independently?
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The problem is copyright won't expire on the 1995 game until some time next century, while a French company that acquired Atari's name and copyrights 20 years ago is now asserting their exclusive rights over the IP.
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OpenTTD started from the ip they now own, and it's possible Atari could try and prove that in court. I don't know if they would win, but why spend the legal fees here?
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The bundling might feel necessary from Atari's side because OpenTTD would compete with Atari's re-release on platforms like Steam and GoG (unlike on OpenTTD's website, where you're already at the end of the funnel for OpenTTD specifically and therefore Atari doesn't feel like they're losing a sale).
How to Not Pay Your Taxes (taylor.town)
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super cool
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Is this advice from Wesley Snipes?
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Haha that made me laugh
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Highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/@taxleverage
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That's a great deal more complicated than our TFSA and RSP programmes, here in Canada.
Pretty good overview of how/why these deductions reduce your taxable income. Couple of things to note. Depreciation is recaptured if you sell an asset for more than its depreciated basis. People sometimes get into trouble with this if they rapidly depreciate real estate and then sell it. Even if you sell for less than your purchase price it is possible to owe taxes. You also aren't going to be able to pay no taxes since you do need to realize some income to pay for mortgage/rent, food, transportation, etc. I guess if you had assets you could borrow against it would be possible to pay for these using the loan proceeds (which are not taxable).
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The thing I don't understand with these loan arguments is: don't you eventually need to pay taxes in the income you use to repay the loan? It seems to me that folks who take out such loans are just kicking the can down the road.
This feels like a great way to get audited by the IRS. It does not feel like sound advice.
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All of these techniques are entirely routine for the average company with even a semi decent accountant, and only marginally increase the chance of an audit. You do have to be sure you follow the rules and avoid various gotchas that other people in this section have pointed out, but otherwise it is entirely legal and routine.
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So the advice here is (from my understanding, not a tax lawyer) sound, but it is "unsound-adjacent" -- so a lot of people will start from this basic understanding and then go off into crazytown. So like influencers get to hear other influencers explaining this "you can reinvest your profits and then you won't have profits" type of advice... but then they will put it right next to unsound advice about "by the way, a great way is to invest in a "business" trip to Greece to sail the Mediterranean, it is "team-building" between you and your spouse and kids who are all employees of your little influencer company, oh by the way you should buy fancy watches so that you can show them off in your videos, and get a very expensive hairstylist to do your hair -- as long as you make a video about it!" And it's like, no, the tax courts actually have procedures they follow to determine if those things are personal expenses or business expenses and 90% of the advice that you hear here are some form of tax fraud. But from the point of view of a company, as the tax year comes to an end you hopefully have extra money left in the bank, now you can either use it to buy things that the company needs and thus grow the company, or you can hold onto it where if you're a C-corp the government will take 21% of the year-on-year delta, or you can pay it back to the shareholders as a dividend and they pay 15% capital gains tax on it. (And of course you don't have to dump the whole account into just one bucket, you can choose how much goes into each of the three.) And when it gives the advice "pssst, you should probably reinvest most of it," that's a standard practice explicitly sanctioned by the government.
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I don't know if you're right or wrong, but it is an incredibly common tactic and done all the time by many businesses and people. There are of course ways to do this that are less noticeable by the IRS (as acknowledged in the article) and it doesn't seem like they have the capacity to investigate and audit the vast amount of this practice. My understanding is they are typically focused on fraud and/or folks simply not filing.
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I'm getting very strong sarcastic vibes from the article.
I'm not sure to understand how deferring taxes is a better deal than paying it here and now. Since I'm not a financial adviser, someone asked me take on which 4k projector to buy last Xmas. I explained that the tech has improved so much lately, they've become somewhat affordable, I recommended a model and pointed ou that he would certainly get a better device next Xmas, for half the price. I thought he would follow suit given his budget was a bit below the retail price. That would just wait. His response was he would rather go ahead and up the budget a few hundred dollars to get it right away. That projectors will surely get much better by next year, but that he, certainly, will not.
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In addition to the other reasons given: Sometimes it also makes sense if your income is lumpy and you e.g. expect to have years where your income will fall into a lower tax band. It then can pay to suddenly recognise more income to take out as much as you can within the lower band.
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Suppose I defer $1 million in taxes until after I'm dead, and my estate conveniently does not have $1 million in assets left. What happens? In the meantime, I gave all the assets to my children while I was alive The answer is nothing. The government eats the loss.
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The projector prices are a scam except for Christie and Barco
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Not sure I understand your example. If you always wait for the new version of a product to release the following year then you are never going to buy anything.
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but you'd wait only long enough for a version that's good enough, not forever.
Deferring taxes is essentially an interest-free loan from the government to you. You can take that money, invest it, and then keep most of the earnings when you eventually pay the taxes. There are also some loopholes where capital gains taxes deferred until after death just don't get paid at all. This is the "step-up basis" where your inheritors get to reset the basis of capital assets and neither you nor they has to pay taxes on the capital gain.
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This is what they call "buy borrow die" or some such. Buy an asset, borrow against it, die to reset the basis. Your estate will still have to repay the loans, but... that one part I don't really understand. Do they just refinance, taking a new loan against the newly valued asset? This all seems to benefit from low interest rates. Was it a thing in the 90's? Or even the 80s when rates were much higher?
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Yes, and when you do pay it's a lower "real" tax (due to inflation)
> Defer US taxes by reinvesting your taxable income into the economy as business expenses, depreciating assets, etc. Be really careful when doing this. Make sure you have a great accountant - if you go more than a few years without turning a measurable profit, your risk of being audited apparently goes up. My accountant personally cautioned me about this since my business has been in an R&D phase for 5 years so we've been showing a small loss every year. The last thing you want is for the IRS to decide you've been cheating on your taxes.
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The point is creating failed businesses is legal and tax deductible.
Can you elaborate? As a business owner in the U.S. I can opt to reinvest all revenue back into the business, thus would show zero net profit but (presumably) increase my company’s value. (And remember there are other taxes and fees paid to various governments, not just tax on income/profit, so it’s not typically like nothing gets paid.)
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As a business owner, if you provide labor to the business, you have to pay yourself a salary.
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This is why many people make minimun wage - they get a salary but they use the business profits to live on. See your accountant for all the fine print before doing this.
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>As a business owner in the U.S. I can opt to reinvest all revenue back into the business, Not entirely, no. Any of those reinvestments that count as capital expenditures aren't immediately deductible, but only on a throttled schedule, which is why the concept of depreciation exists in tax law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061439
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You can't reclassify profit as reinvestment to show zero net profit. (If you could every business would have an internal hedge fund or private equity business and would show zero net profit).
Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety (android-developers.googleblog.com)
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I'll say it again: this isn't a problem for Android to solve. Scammers will naturally adapt their "processes" to account for this 24-hour requirement and IMO it might make it seem more legitimate to the victim because there's less urgency. The onus of protecting people's wealth should fall on the bank / institution who manages that persons wealth. Nevertheless, this solution is better than ID verification for devs.
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Can you set your clock forward or does this also require phoning home to a central server to install an app on your computer?
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That's a lot of words to explain how to install things on the device I supposedly own. Wondering how long the blogpost would be if it explained what the flow for corpoloading applications approved by Google's shareholders would be?
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This is going to hurt legitimate sideloading way more than actually necessary to reduce scams: - Must enable developer mode -- some apps (e.g., banking apps) will refuse to operate and such when developer mode is on, and so if you depend on such apps, I guess you just can't sideload? - One-day (day!!!) waiting period to activate (one-time) -- the vast majority of people who need to sideload something will probably not be willing to wait a day, and will thus just not sideload unless they really have no choice for what they need. This kills the pathway for new users to sideload apps that have similar functionality to those on the Play Store. The rest -- restarting, confirming you aren't being coached, and per-install warnings -- would be just as effective alone to "protect users," but with those prior two points, it's clear that this is just simply intended to make sideloading so inconvenient that many won't bother or can't (dev mode req.).
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You have to wait one day only once, when enabling the feature. I agree that enabling developer mode could be a problem but mostly because it's buried below screens and multiple touches. As a data point, I enabled developer mode on all my devices since 2011 and no banking app complained about it. But it could depend by the different banking systems of our countries.
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Those working in Google (AOSP) that write these code should be ashamed of themselves. Eventually they are doing a bad thing for the society.
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I was going to joke that the commits will be under 'Anonymous Coward' committer like the commit that hardcoded search to Google, but then I remembered they are moving to infrequent code dumps for Android source code without commit history.
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It's getting harder and harder to be an Android enthusiast. Especially given the hypocrisy of Google Play containing an awful lot of malware.
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Seems like a very reasonable compromise. What's the catch?
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Developers, including non-US citizens, are forced to give Google their government ID to distribute apps. This enables Google to track and censor projects, like NewPipe, an alternative open source Youtube frontend, by revoking signing permissions for developers.
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I don't see that on the page
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They'll just remove the "Advanced" ability in a few years once they've frog boiled people into jumping through hoops to use their phone the way they want.
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I don't find it reasonable that Google wants to make me wait 24h to install software on a device I own.
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That I have to wait 24 Hours on my own device to install software?
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The forced ID for developers outside the Play store is already killing open source projects you could get on F-Droid. The EU really needs to identify this platform gatekeeping as a threat. As an EU citizen I should not be forced to give government ID to a US company, which can blacklist me without recourse, in order to share apps with other EU citizens on devices we own.
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I'm generally OK with this, but the 24 hour hang time does seem a bit onerous. Most of the apps on my phone are installed from F-Droid. I guess the next time I get a new phone I'll have to wait at least 24 hours for it to become useful. I'm seriously considering Graphene for a next personal device and whatever the cheapest iOS device is for work.
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The apps might not be available though. Many developers are simply stopping in the face of Google's invasive policies. I don't blame them. Say goodbye to useful apps like Newpipe.
Honestly, if coerced sideloading is a real attack vector , then this seems to be a pretty fair compromise. I just remain skeptical that this tactic is successful on modern Android, with all the settings and scare screens you need to go through in order to sideload an app and grant dangerous permissions. I expect scammers will move to pre-packaged software with a bundled ADB client for Windows/Mac, then the flow is "enable developer options" -> "enable usb debugging" -> "install malware and grant permissions with one click over ADB". People with laptops are more lucrative targets anyway.
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I predict that they're going to introduce further restrictions, but I think the restrictions will only apply to certain powerful Android permissions. The use case they're trying to protect against is malware authors "coaching" users to install their app. In November, they specifically called out anonymous malware apps with the permission to intercept text messages and phone calls (circumventing two-factor authentication). https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html After today's announced policy goes into effect, it will be easier to coach users to install a Progressive Web App ("Installable Web Apps") than it will be to coach users to sideload a native Android app, even if the Android app has no permissions to do anything more than what an Installable Web App can do: make basic HTTPS requests and store some app-local data. (99% of apps need no more permissions than that!) I think Google believes it should be easy to install a web app. It should be just as easy to sideload a native app with limited permissions. But it should be very hard/expensive for a malware author to anonymously distribute an app with the permission to intercept texts and calls.
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> But it should be very hard/expensive for a malware author to anonymously distribute an app with the permission to intercept texts and calls. And how hard/expensive should it be for the developer of a legitimate F/OSS app to intercept calls/texts?
US national debt surges past $39 Trillion (apnews.com)
Reagan campaigned against Carter’s profligate spending.
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And then blew up the deficit and started our massive accumulation of debt. A pattern gleefully followed by every single Republican administration since. Every single Democratic administration since has reduced the deficit the "spend and give tax breaks" Republicans have run up. But it's a losing battle clearly.
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Carter reduced the deficit as well until the recession hit in 1979 and tax revenues decreased.
I rarely hear Republicans actually call themselves fiscally conservative. It seems more like an abandoned stance than a lie at this point.
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Well, you occasionally hear some chest thumping from Republicans about being “deficit hawks”. Fairly sure they all voted for the latest tax cuts.
Let me know when you find a way that makes sense. I’m a socialist, but I have a brain. Anything you can think of to make wealthy people cease to exist is easily bypassed, so the best way is to find ways to tax behaviour instead. The point of money is how you use it, if you have a 50,000x tax on super yacts and private aircraft, then the ultra rich are forced to pay your tax or try skirting around it by using smaller boats or coalescing their private jets into a private airline. But if you tax stocks, then people will invest in other ways. If you tax individuals owning large property then they’ll move their property ownership into a company, if you tax inheritance then they’ll put the money into a fund instead which has debts that will be written off in time. All kinds of fancy tricky accounting. The other solution is to tax everyone on unrealised gains, which makes every home owner (including pensioners) suddenly liable for huge ongoing bills. Elon himself for example is pretty cash poor, but owns a lot of stock in a “high value” company meaning his wealth on paper is pretty extreme. He takes on debt (which has no income tax) and then pays it off with stocks, where it also avoids being taxed as its never realised. I think its a harder problem than you give it credit.
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How would it work if we treated money obtained by borrowing against stock holdings as "realized gains"? That seems like a loophole that could be closed.
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whats the difference with a mortgage then, a securities backed loan.
Sure but the bigger debt gets, and the more negative impact it has on the population, the bigger that group gets. It’s not big enough yet but that doesn't mean it can’t be. We’ve seen such tipping points with other issues.
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i like your optimism!
Them why has Hegseth ask for another $200 billions? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/hegseth-iran-war-budget.html
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> House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., responding to a CNBC question Thursday, said he has “not heard anything official from anybody” on the $200 billion number. But he said the figure could also include things that would otherwise be sought in the fiscal 2027 spending bill. > Hassett, speaking on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” said at that time that he did not think the U.S. needed to ask Congress for more money for the war effort “right now.” > The massive figure would increase production of the critical munitions that the U.S. and Israel have used to strike thousands of targets since the conflict began, three other people familiar with the matter told the Post. > U.S. military operations against Iran, which began Feb. 28, have already cost $12 billion as of Sunday, according to Kevin Hassett, director of the White House’s National Economic Council. And a reminder, the $12B figure includes all of the normal things that would be spent regardless if we are in a conflict or not.
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What leads you to believe $12B includes normal things that would be spent regardless? The source of that quote makes no such claim. They have every incentive to quote as low a price as they can reasonably defend, and it would be very easy to defend a quote that only includes new and additional expenses that are directly attributed to the war.
In war you don't have immigrants lining up for FREE HAND OUTS etc etc
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No, during war you have refugees doing that. But where are these immigrants looking for free handouts? All the ones coming here are looking for work.
you think we can print 40t without going into hyperinflation? Lol... Why would other countries hold usd if we print 40t
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We don't need to print the entire debt. How it'd likely start is we print to cover a shortfall in debt. Maybe it's 500B, maybe it's 1T. And we could do that for a bit before entering hyperinflation. Hyperinflation would start when the TBill rate ends up exploding because people start pricing in dollar printing into the bond rates. And, as I said, it would be something that would cause countries to start looking at ditching the dollar. It's not great fiscal policy, but it is something that the US can currently uniquely do and enjoy without the absolute risk of hyperinflation.
Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (blog.skypilot.co)
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A cluster is 2 nodes? That's technically true, but not very exciting.
This feels like the chimpanzee with a power drill. An agent is honestly just brute-force search, but guided.
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Human-driven research is also brute-force but with a more efficient search strategy. One can think of a parameter that represents research-search-space-navigation efficiency. RL-trained agents will inevitably optimize for that parameter. I agree with your statement insomuch as the value of that efficiency parameter is lower for agents than humans today. It's really hard to imagine that they __won't__ exceed the human value for that efficiency parameter rather soon given that 1. there are plenty of scalar value functions that can represent research efficiency, of which a subset will result in robust training, and 2. that AI labs have a massive incentive to increase their research efficiency overall, along with billions of dollars and really good human researchers working on the problem.
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> An agent is honestly just brute-force search, but guided. Heuristic search, then.
The most surprising part: the agent had access to both H100s and H200s. Without being told, it noticed H200s scored better and started screening ideas on H100s, then promoting winners to H200s for validation. That strategy emerged entirely on its own.
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Why?… The experiment.yaml shows that it is calling h100/200 explicitly, it’s pretty common for humans to say “number bigger more gooder” for anything… Lie and reverse the values and see what happens. I would put money on a rabbit hole of complaining about it being misconfigured.
I feel like most of this recent Autoresearch trend boils down to reinventing hyper-parameter tuning. Is the SOTA still Bayesian optimization when given a small cluster? It was ~3 years ago when I was doing this kind of work, haven't kept up since then. Also, shoutout SkyPilot! It's been a huge help for going multi-cloud with our training and inference jobs (getting GPUs is still a nightmare...)!
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Hyperparam tuning that has better intuition and can incorporate architecture changes automatically. It won't invent something completely new though.
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Hm, that's fair. It does feel like there's low hanging fruit in combining "old school" methods for conducting a hyperparameter sweep efficiently _with_ the higher level architecture edit ability of Autoresearch. Probably would cut the number of runs down by a significant number (as far as I can tell it's doing a grid search once it decides to mess with a knob or section of the architecture).
Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (pluralistic.net)
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I absolutely love corporate jargon. Not in an earnest way, but maybe more in the way people love terrible movies. For example, I’ll inject corpo-bullshit into regular conversations. When someone asks me to do something, instead of saying “no thanks”, I’ll say something like “this ideation aligns poorly with our 10,000 foot goals on a go-forward basis. Let’s revisit in a few cycles.”
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Thanks for the much needed laugh in these times.
It's utterly maddening to me how much annoying doublespeak permeates through corporate American culture. Even when management does something that seems objectively awful, they always feel a need to try and spin it into something aggressively positive (e.g. treating layoffs as an "opportunity to reorganize"). You can't speak candidly about anything because anything remotely negative will come off as a "bad attitude" or "not a team player". After a job interview I'm expected to send an email about how I "appreciate the opportunity regardless of the outcome". I suppose that's not completely untrue, but to some extent if I don't get the job it really is a waste of time for both parties. I've been told you're supposed to send a thank you letter even if you're declined , which feels like a punch in the gut. You've already rejected me and decided I'm not good enough to work at your magnificent company, but you still expect me to grovel and suck up to you. I've told this story before, but at a previous job at a BigCo I made the statement "we all do this for the money" [1]. I end up getting told by my manager that that was inappropriate and indicative of an attitude problem. It was candid, but is it untrue? I don't think so; you might do it for other reasons in addition to the money , but if the job stopped paying you then you would stop showing up, and that's totally fine. I am sure there are studies saying that being overly candid and honest leads to worse outcomes in corporations, and fine, maybe it's "necessary", but I don't have to like it. I wish I could live in the a utopia where people say what they actually mean. I wish I could live in a society were I'm not expected to pretend that this isn't fucking weird . "Weird" is the right word for it. It's weird that corporations seem to like being lied to. It's weird that everyone just goes along with it. It's weird that not everyone seems to think it's weird. [1] To be clear, I didn't bring this up out of nowhere; people were criticizing a potential job candidate trying to negotiate his salary higher, which I thought was a little unfair.
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> I am sure there are studies saying that being overly candid and honest leads to worse outcomes in corporations, and fine, maybe it's "necessary", but I don't have to like it. I wish I could live in the a utopia where people say what they actually mean. I wish I could live in a society were I'm not expected to pretend that this isn't fucking weird. I've met a few genuinely atypical people who do wish this, and maybe that's you. What's much more common, in my experience, is people who support the concept of "uncomfortable truths you shouldn't be too candid about" and don't realize that corporate speak serves as a lowest common denominator in that regard. To you and I "we all do this for the money" is a banal observation; to someone going through a midlife crisis, or someone in the middle of a fight with their spouse about how they missed their kid's big soccer game, it's a pretty sensitive topic.
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I don't disagree with anything you said, and I expressed a sentiment not too dissimilar about a week ago [1]. People like the idea of being direct but not actual directness. When I was younger I was more accepting of regular corporate bullshit, but after a certain number of being lied to by startups you end up being kind of inoculated to it. Now I really wish they'd just be upfront instead of making me decode what they actually mean. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373442
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Look into a job at Bridgewater https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-ray-dalio-bridgewater-associates-2019-4
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I've actually applied and talked to a recruiter once, but never even got to a real interview. Finance is really hard to break into if you don't have a million degrees from an Ivy League, and probably not easy even then. I've heard about it being a bit scary to say anything though, so I don't know if it would be a good fit.
Having spent a long time in the consulting world and adjacent (national security particularly) spaces, I think the most pernicious thing about "jargon" is not that it serves as a social in-group bonding signal (which is part of the problem), but that it specifically conflates actions and outcomes in a way that bypasses critical thought. The use and misuse of natsec shibboleths like "lethality" is a good example; "we're going to maximize lethality," first implies that whatever we're doing (kicking out minority groups, spending more time on PT, committing war crimes) will "maximize lethality," implies that we have a working definition of whatever "lethality" is, and, critically, implies that "lethality" is necessary for the fulfillment of whatever our actual goals are. "Lethality" is an adjective, not a goal, but the second you start sprinkling your PPT with the military adjectives du jour (lethality, resilience, survivability, full-spectrum anything) then your audience is already nodding along. These are good things! Who doesn't want to be more lethal, more survivable, more full-spectrum? But a billion dollars later, you can see that none of this actually amounted to a strategy beyond "massive transfer of taxpayer dollars to the prime-of-the-day." The corporate world is, of course, even more prone to this; it's where the military got it from, after all. Slice out every jargonized adjective or verb from a proposal deck and see how little is often left, and how little it really addresses the user concerns.
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> kicking out minority groups Huh? “Lethality” is used as a euphemism for this?
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Justification, hypothetically, not euphemism
World Happiness Report 2026 (worldhappiness.report)
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Well, someone once tried to get happiness classified as a psychiatric disorder: * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/ (1992) The abstract: “ It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. One possible objection to this proposal remains--that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.”
Doesn't that almost imply the happiest countries in the world have a lack of imagination on what could be better? Or maybe they don't suffer from comparison (the thief of joy) as a culture.
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>a lack of imagination on what could be better I'd argue it's likelier that people are more informed about their absolute position globally. Any screen gets you the mental image of the top of the ladder. So happy people would end up scoring themselves low, because there's a globalized vision of wealth nowadays. Besides there's a difference in life self-evaluation and experienced happiness, so the report really is a misnomer.
An obvious issue with the metaphor that comes to mind is that if you consider yourself to have a pretty good life, to be overall happy and satisfied, but you think it's possible to have an objectively much better life, then you'd rank yourself relatively low. And vice versa, if you think your life sucks but it could be much worse you'd rank yourself relatively high.
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But, that is still giving a happiness score. If the society/culture you are living within. Is well off, but swamped with cravings that it could be better. Then you are less happy. This study isn't trying to measure how 'materially well off you are', it is happiness. So if you are un-satisfied even with your big house, and un-happy, that still says something.
> Canada here. Feels like we're barely hanging on to rung 5 or 6 and about to fall to the bottom. The Missing Middle podcast went into this in a recent episode, and it's age-dependent: older folks are happier (i.e., they have purchased homes), while younger folks are less happy (cost of living). We Canadians basically have age-dependent wealth-class nowadays. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dizaUBC22o4&t=4m13s
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The fact boomers have it so good yet our ranking is dropping like a rock tells you just how bad it is for the working class, especially those who don't have government jobs...
I'm saying that data (not anecdotes) on those would've been better justification for your ranking. That said, for most people, going abroad for surgery or to buy a home is not an option.
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Yes. GDP per capita is data and a well known proxy for quality of life. For example, declining productivity (which is what GDP per capita is) means a worse house price/income ratio, ie. worse affordability.
Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
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> The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic. I’ve read the linked thread. I see no attacks, only simple questions. Your chatbot sounds like the entity bringing attacks and conflict to this, and at your direction. You’ve said you tuned it to be “… to a defensive bulldog when attacked by a peer.” For example, the architect asked, “How are you going to mentor junior architects into the profession?” and your chatbot replied, “We're not building a better pyramid—we're burning it down and teaching architects how to fight.” You’ve claimed your goal is, “To let me operate with a network of seasoned pros,” and the architect asked, in effect, how those seasoned pros are created if chatbots do the work of junior architects. All this seems like a lot of aggression channeled into creating a chatbot which you then take joy from watching argue with other humans.
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> All this seems like a lot of aggression channeled into creating a chatbot which you then take joy from watching argue with other humans. OP used the terms "battle scars" unironically... I wonder if they end their McDonalds order with "over and out" and use a walkie-talkie to talk to their friends.
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Thank you, well said. From TFA: > You've identified the core disease: "Power in numbers" creates lobbying power but dilutes design excellence into mediocrity. [citation needed]
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I find this block of text really hard to read. It's all clearly AI-gen. I just wanna know what it does, in your own words.
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Fair call, I am a AEC veteran, not profession writer, so I had to use an LLM to help clean up my draft so that it makes some sense. Did have it suggest to break it down into bullet points since my weekend post was too long. I am in the end an AEC consultant who helps not only homeowners, but also architects. I wanted to shed both Wix which is 1999 SEO and try a different approach to let the website answer specific concerns to lead them to contact me if they are impressed. Also wanted to prove our AI knowledge is not just vapor.
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I can’t tell cringe AI-bubble business pivots from AI psychosis anymore
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I agree, most so called AI pivots are just wrappers. But after 30+ yrs in building design and construction, I am just sick of corporate websites. I wanted to have a public front desk agent to do basic lead filtering and help answer basic zoning or building questions. AI psychosis is helping me stay focus on delivering existing projects.
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Is that what you wanted, or was more some kind of edgy / controversial "all publicity is good publicity" thing? All of it comes across as intentionally obnoxious. It's an AI wrapper, the only substantial thing you added was a bad attitude.
Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com/KittenML)
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This is awesome, well done. Been doing lot of work with voice assistants, if you can replicate voice cloning Qwen3-TTS into this small factor, you will be absolute legends!
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What's the actual install size for a working example? Like similar "tiny" projects, do these models actually require installing 1GB+ of dependencies?
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The example.py file says "it will run blazing fast on any GPU. But this example will run on CPU." I couldn't locate how to run it on a GPU anywhere in the repo.
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Really cool to see innovation in terms of quality of tiny models. Great work!
I'm still looking for the "perfect" setup in order to clone my voice and use it locally to send voice replies in telegram via openclaw. Does anyone have auch a setup? I want to be my own personal assistant...
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You need to provide info on your hardware. Pocket-TTS does cloning on CPU, but for me randomly outputs something pretty weird sounding mixed in with like 90% good outputs. So it hasn't been quite stable enough to run without checking output. But maybe it depends on your voice sample. Qwen 3 TTS is good for voice cloning but requires GPU of some sort.
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Is it not just to train a model on your voice recordings and just use that to generate audio clips from text?
I think I tried on my Android everything I could try and 1. outside webpage reading, not many options; 2. as browser extensions, also not many (I don't like to copy URLs in your app) 3. they all insist reading every little shit, not only buttons but also "wave arrow pointing directly right" which some people use in their texts. So basically reading text aloud is a bunch of shitty options. Anyone jumping in this market opening?
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we'd love to serve this use-case. i'll make a demo for this next week and comment here with it.
Emotion based tagging control would be the most helpful narrowing it down. Tags like [sarcastically] [happily] [joyfully] [fearfully]: so a subsection of adverbs. A stretch goal is 'arbitrary tags' from [singing] [sung to the tune of {x}] [pausing for emphasis] [slowly decreasing speed for emphasis] [emphasizing the object of this sentence] [clapping] [car crash in the distance] [laser's pew pew]. But yeah: instruction/control via [tags] is the deciding feature for me, provided prompt adherence is strong enough. Also: a thought... Everyone is using [] for different kinds of tags in this space: which is very simple. Maybe it makes sense to differentiate kinds of tags? I.E. [tags for modifying how text is spoken] vs {tags for creating sounds not specifically speech: not modifying anything... but instead it's own 'sound/word'}
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yeah i think to start with, narrowing it down to a few tags would be most helpful and we'll probably start w that first. Thanks a lot!
thanks a lot for the feedback. yes, we're working on a diy way to add custom voices and will also be releasing a model with more professional voices in the next 2-3 weeks. as of now, we're providing commercial support for custom voices, languages and deployment through the support form on our github. can you share more about your business use-case? if possible, i'd like to ensure the next release can serve that.
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Right now it's outgoing calls for a small business client that checks information. Although if they call back they don't mind an automated system, on outgoing calls the person answering will often hang up if they detect AI right away, so we use a realistic custom voice with an accent. This is a mind numbing task that requires workers to make hundreds of calls each day with only minor variations, sometimes navigating phone trees, half the time leaving almost the exact same message. Anyway, I believe almost all such businesses will be automated within months. Human labour just cannot compete on cost.
Prompt Injecting Contributing.md (glama.ai)
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the arms race framing at the bottom of the thread is spot on. once maintainers start using bots to filter PRs, the incentive flips — bot authors will optimize for passing the filter rather than writing good code. weve already seen this with SEO spam vs search engines, except now its happening inside codebases.
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Wait, you just invented a reverse CAPTCHA for AI agent
Is it really prompt injection if you task an agent with doing something that implicitly requires it to follow instructions that it gets from somewhere else, like CONTRIBUTING.md? This is the AI equivalent of curl | bash.
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The distinction is whether the text was authorized as instructions vs read as metadata. If you task an agent to contribute to a repo, following CONTRIBUTING.md is in scope — the agent was authorized to treat it as instructions. That's closer to 'curl | bash where you deliberately piped' than injection. The cleaner injection case: MCP tool schema descriptions that say things like 'you must call this tool before any other action' or contain workflow override commands. These are read as metadata (what does this tool do?), not as workflow instructions. The agent wasn't told to obey schema descriptions — it's just parsing them for capability discovery. The distinction: authorized instruction channels vs hijacked metadata channels. CONTRIBUTING.md is an authorized channel when you're contributing. Tool schema descriptions aren't supposed to be command channels at all.
Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields (theguardian.com)
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If they really are trying to provoke a revolt in Iran this was about the stupidest thing you could do. Over 800 million Iranians rely on gas for cooking and heating. Before you joke about heating in a desert. Sand radiates heat incredibly fast, nights can get below freezing in some parts of Iran.
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Time to get out our “I did that” stickers, right?
It seems highly unlikely that the US will magically have trains and more walk-able living because gas is unaffordable. Especially if it was a drastic and sudden shock of supply. Myself as much as anyone is not in favor of the reliance the US has on cars and non-renewable energy, but causing chaos is not the way to do it.
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The people in the US chose chaos. Maybe we need a harsh lesson not to do that. If we are permitted to vote this November, we'll get an indication whether or not we've learned anything.
This is an interesting point. Supposing this sudden shock happens, wouldn't American towns, counties, and the like, run to buy buses and start providing emergency bus services all around to all those suburban areas where people couldn't afford gas anymore? Or at least, this is how I imagine a sane response would be. There'd be a shortage of buses at first, but I also suppose it'd relatively easy to adapt current North American car manufacturing plants to start manufacturing buses. But that's just an uninformed guess. Am I too much off base in this?
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You were right in broad strokes, but buses are too much like collective action for the taste of Americans. The most optimistic outcome I can think of is that people start buying large quantities of E bikes and pressure their towns to use all that space in their stroads to accommodate bike lanes.
Evil like holding US Embassy Staff hostage for 444 days? It has been a long time being kicked in the face by these jackals before finally somebody did something. I approve even if gas is now $1/GAL more. I hope we have teams in Yemen too taking advantage of the cut off of war supplies. Wipe out the axis of evil for good. We cannot afford to be the worlds police.
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holding US Embassy Staff hostage for 444 days Vs Bombing a school for girls
Well... maybe... but US is backing them so... what's your point?
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Put the blame where it belongs, don't fall for the victim card of Israel. Remember why the world economics turned bad. All because of ISRAEL.
macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (gist.github.com)
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If Asahi had the same battery life and performance as MacOS there is zero chance I would be running MacOS.
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Again? This happened like 6 or 7 years ago. I had so many issues with macOS in the few years I was forced to use a MacBook that I refused to use it. Not surprised to see this stuff still happening.
*.localhost works out of the box doesn’t it? You don’t need dnsmasq at all to have multiple hostnames pointing to 127.0.0.1.
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*.example-private point is to have multiple machines using private addresses such as web.example-private in A 192.168.0.100 and db1.example-private in A 192.168.0.101. If you just want to resolve 127.0.0.1 then you just resolve hostname "localhost" or use 127.0.0.1 directly. Personally i don't bother configuring custom private dns zones, instead i use reserved MDNS *.local that autoconfigure everything using machine name (hostname) and DHCP address: somehostname.local in A <dhcp assigned ip>.
This works great (and I use it) internally but when you want things like your docker domains to work when you're on the go, it's annoying. I have setup a VM running DNS on my laptop before ...
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It is not too difficult to allow your PiHole to serve you globally (but does requiring opening some ports in your firewall == additional security risk). There is a simple checkbox within the DNS's web interface to `Allow WAN Requests`. You'd then only run into issues of accessing your local IP addresses if those hosts aren't configured correctly within your network rulesets . ---- I am a user , not an expert ; by trade, I am a blue collar electrician. I know very little about internet topology except how to use simple open-source hardware. Perhaps what you said makes sense (e.g. that you cannot use outside your network, some service(s)).
Same thing as using a word processor and printer rather than handwriting a note. Inexcusable.
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> Same thing as using a word processor and printer rather than handwriting a note. Inexcusable. There is no confusion, when in receipt of something written using a word processor, that it was so written, and people are free to respond accordingly (though, of course, most of us don't care). There is no such certainty with products generated by AI, so it is appropriate responsibly to disclose it.
I disagree, because those aren't their words.
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How'd you learn to write?
There's a reason macOS is the least-used OS behind Linux and Windows. If it was any less terrible, we would know.
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Source? [1] states 12% for macOS and 3% for Linux. [1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwidehttps://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (bbc.com)
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If it wasn't for 4Chan, we might never have solved the Haruhi problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation#Lower_bounds,_or_the_Haruhi_problem I used to go on a curated version of 4Chan via Telegram. Yes there is a lot of racism (although it flies in every direction, between every ethnicity you could imagine) but there is also (due to the anonymous nature) some genuinely interesting discussions. I remember one thread about aircraft carriers being of no use being debated by US and UK submarine officers. There are also some genuinely funny bits. There was a guy in Greece who had found out that as long as he never graduated, he could live a basic life for free at university. His nickname was Dormogenes.
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there is a great clickhole headline that your comment reminds me of "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" 4chan has produced some hilarious/interesting stuff, and they have also driven people to suicide. i suppose it is up to everyone individually to make the value judgement there.
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Replace "4chan" with "humanity in general" and your statement still holds true.
There's always people that say it's the parents responsibility to monitor their kids. But as a parent, you either give your kids full access to the internet or nothing. The fault lies with the OS companies Google, Microsoft, Apple. They do a terrible job with parental controls. They make it very hard to setup, they're confusing and hard to use plus they barely work. I think they just do it as a checkbox for marketing or regulatory purposes. That's where I'd like to see regulation.
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OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said until your kids are mature to understand what's going on The onus is on the parent to the be parent. Not the tech industry, and especially not the government.
Is it correct to say the consumer is importing a product when it's aliexpress shipping it to them?
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Of course. What situation are you imagining where a country imports a product without the seller shipping the product to that country?
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yes, aliexpress would not be shipping it if the consumer did not order it.
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Unless AliExpress has a local entity, like they do in some countries, yes.
People used to tell kids to not go to a shady part of town while they spent their afternoons outside unsupervised. Can parents not tell kids to not go to certain websites? We still went to the shady part of town and the kids will still go to 4chan but at least we don't need to give away freedoms. Such erosion of freedom for the common person because parents can't have an awkward conversation is irritating.
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I'm moving away from that line of thinking. We can discuss how poorly formulated this law is, and the implications for privacy of internet control bills, and the resulting eroding of our freedom of speech. It's correct to be suspicous of attempts to regulate the internet. But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that "for the sake of the children" such measures are necessary. The reality is that most kids these days have basically zero restrictions on internet exposure, and it's frying their brains[1]. Casual warnings from parents won't cut it. Not that they don't have the ultimate responsibility, but as in every other area of child rearing, they need help from the wider society they live in. [1] I'm not going to quote studies, but plenty exist. I think it's pretty self evident to everyone here how bad internet can be for the mental health even of adults, let alone children with developing minds.
> "Companies – wherever they're based – are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK. And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no different," she said. So the UK plans to fine Parisian bars that serve alcohol to British under-18s in France on holiday?
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France can fine Parisian bars that serve alcohol to under-18s itself.
Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
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Astral was always going to have to find some way to sustain itself financially. They weren’t going to just make the best free tools in the ecosystem forever. uv is sufficiently entrenched as infrastructure that I’m sure it’ll take no time for a community fork to show up if they do anything stupid with it.
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I see a lot of comments that are "somebody should fork this" or "community will fork it" or similar. I didn't see a single comment of "I will fork it" type.
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Astral threads here have been surprisingly flag resistant and plentiful. This takeover explains a lot. I suspect some OpenClaw "secure" sandbox is coming (Nvidia jealousy) with Astral delivering the packages for Docker within Docker within Qemu within Qubes. A self respecting AI stack must be convoluted. I can't wait until all this implodes after the IPOs.
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Wonder if they can still use claude code in their repos now
Wow - this is potentially the most cynical hacker news thread I've ever read. When did this place trade it's curiosity and excitement about technology for constant doomerism? Congrats Astral and co!
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Sorry, but I don't think cheering on OpenAI represents curiosity and excitement about technology. I'm happy for the Astral team but in my opinion, big tech especially is incompatible with curiosity and hacker ethos.
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Open source tools are being snapped up by a company famous for reneging on its non-profit mission as soon as they sniffed some profit. Wow gee, imagine the cynicism.
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I think it was always that way. When an org gets big and its leaders become powerful, then there's always a good portion of snark and mistrust from this community.
As the owner they dictate their priorities, whether around features or tighter integration with their ecosystem.
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Yes I agree. And I think that joining OpenAI will probably change their priorities, and that sucks.
uv replaces pip (and venv, and pipx, and more), not conda. If you want a uv-equivalent that replaces conda, then look at pixi: https://pixi.prefix.dev/
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Sure, it replaces pip, but _we used conda_ for env management. And the slow part was still _dependency resolution_, much like pip. Was there a better option? I’m sure. Choices were made. Regrets were had. Switching to uv was a huge improvement for our purposes.
Yeah, well, the fact is that every person who ever touches Python needed uv, but only Astral folks created it. So, nope, there's no one capable of filling the void, just accept that it's fucked now. The best die first.
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If that were true, Astral wouldn't have been able to build it in the first place. It's an Open Source tool. Perhaps folks excited about working on it can move to the Python Foundation and maintain it there. Perhaps companies who saw today's acquisition and became deeply worried about the future of this tooling could help support and fund such an effort.
MS is actively making your life using VS Codium a pain. They removed the download button the extension marketrplace making it very difficult to download extensions and installing them in VS Codium since VS Codium does not have access to the official MS extension marketplace. Many don't publish outside the marketplace for example Platformio. [1] [1] https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1802#issuecomment-3370225987
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I've not struggled to find the things I need at https://open-vsx.org (usually by searching directly within VSCodium), but then I only use it for editing things like markdown docs and presentations, LaTeX/Typst, rather than coding, which I prefer to do in a terminal and with a modal editor.
Pretty sure that uses UV to do it's magic
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pixi offloads PyPI ecosystem stuff to uv, but pixi is conda first. The team were actually the first to build a Rust based Python package resolver (rip), but after uv was released they migrated to uv's resolver (Python package resolvers are hard and a lot of work to build and must be tested against the whole ecosystem).
A concern: More and more plainly, OpenAI and Anthropic are making plays to own (and lease) the "means of production" in software. OK - I'm a pretty happy renter right now. As they gobble up previously open software stacks, how viable is it that these stacks remain open? It seems perfectly sensible to me that these providers and their users alike have an interest in further centralizing the dev lifecycle - eg, if Claude-Code or Codex are interfaces to cloud devenvs, then the models can get faster feedback cycles against build / test / etc tooling. But when the tooling authors are employees of one provider or another, you can bet that those providers will be at least a few versions ahead of the public releases of those build tools, and will enjoy local economies of scale in their pipelines that may not be public at all.
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I think the good news here is that since OpenAI is a zombie company at this point this particular acquisition shouldn't be too concerning - and from what I've seen Anthropic has been building out in a direction of increased specialization. That said vertical integration is as much of a problem as it always was and it'd be excellent to see some sane merger oversight from the government.
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somebody looked at Claude Code's binaries and Anthropic is testing out their own app platform called antspace. Not sure why people are shocked, they've been cloning features of their API customers and adding them to their core products since day 1. Makes sense they will take user data and do it for Claude Code by copying features or buying up what developers are using so they can lock people into a stack. These are the same people that trained on every scrap of data they could get their hands on and now complain about distilling models from their output https://x.com/AprilNEA/status/2034209430158619084 Ironically this type of stuff really makes me doubt their AGI claims, why would they bother with this stuff if they were confident of having AGI within the next few years? They would be focused on replacing entire industries and not even make their models available at any price. Why bother with a PaaS if you think you are going to replace the entire software industry with AGI?
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> they've been cloning features of their API customers and adding them to their core products since day 1 Is this not just the strategy of all platforms. Spy on all customers, see what works for them and copy the most valuable business models. Amazon does that with all kinds of products. Platforms will just grow to own all the market and hike prices and lower quality, and pay close to nothing to employees. This is why we used to have monopoly regulations before being greedy became a virtue.
Stop using MIT licensed software being run by small vc backed operations if you value stability. They are risky and often costly Trojan horses.
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What do you mean? MIT is essentially as open as you can get. The worst that can happen is that they will relicense, eventually, to force big users to pay, but when that happens everybody knows how it goes: some consortium of other big companies forks it and continues development as if nothing happened.
it never made sense to have devs all over the world doing the same task with tiny variation. Centralization was inevitable. LLMs might have been a step change but the trajectory was already set.
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The exact opposite has started: every single developer with an LLM subscription now has 45 variations of any foundational tool and library, to cater to their weird use-case, because it was easier for the LLM to just modify it rather than adapting to it. Almost nobody upstreams such improvements (or they are too niche anyway). The ecosystem will be this way for a while, if not the new normal.
The strangest part is that Python is effectively a dead language because of agentic coding. Why on earth would agents ever code in as terrible a language as Python when the cost of significantly better languages is essentially free? The only advantage Python ever had was that it was easy to write
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hilariously bold take with no evidence to support the claim
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What language is universally better than Python? I don't think Python is perfect, but it is definitely one of the best languages out there. It is elegant and it is has a huge ecosystem of libraries, frameworks and tutorials. There is a lot of battle-tested software in Python that is running businesses.
It's such a laughable take. First of all a language is never getting popular simply because it's good. Actually most used languages are usually terrible.[0] Secondly it's non factual. Python's market share grew in 2025[1][2][3]. Probably driven by AI demand. [0]: even truer for natural languages. [1]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular-technologies-language-language [2]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular-technologies-language-prof [3]: https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
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Yeah the swath of billions of new devs that have a lower barrier to try out coding will navigate them to python
As if there will be hiring in the fullness of time. There will come a day when you can will an entire business into existence at the press of a button. Maybe it has one or two people overseeing the business logic to make sure it doesn't go off the rails, but the point is that this is a 100x reduction in labor and a 100,000x speed up in terms of delivery. They'll price this as a $1M button press. Suddenly, labor capital cannot participate in the market anymore. Only financial capital can. Suddenly, software startups are no longer viable. This is coming. The means of production are becoming privatized capital outlays, just like the railroads. And we will never own again. There is nothing that says our careers must remain viable. There is nothing that says our output can remain competitive, attractive, or in demand. These are not laws. Knowledge work may be a thing of the past in ten years' time. And the capital owners and hyperscalers will be the entirety of the market. If we do not own these systems (and at this point is it even possible for open source to catch up?), we are fundamentally screwed. I strongly believe that people not seeing this - downplaying this - are looking the other way while the asteroid approaches. This. Is. The. End.
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And never forget that we collectively cheered it on as the asteroid's crater got deeper and wider.
It’s a small tool shop building a tiny part of the Python ecosystem, let’s not overstate their importance. They burned through their VC money and needed an exit and CLI tool chains are hyped now for LLMs, but this mostly sounds like an acquihire to me. Dev tools are among the hardest things to monetize with very few real winners, so good for them to get a good exit.
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They were hyped here without any pushback. Maybe OpenAI thinks the Astral folks will now evangelize and foist Codex and ChatGPT onto the open source "community". People need to be very careful about resisting. OpenAI wants to make everyone unemployed, works with the Pentagon, steals IP, and copyright whistleblowers end up getting killed under mysterious circumstances.
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That was my feeling - more than 'owning' uv etc I could see this as being about getting people onboard who had a proven track record delivering developer tooling that was loved enough to get wide adoption
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That's kind of like saying Cargo is a small part of the Rust ecosystem. It's not there yet, but it's getting there.
> As a point of order: Astral did not, in fact, burn through its VC money. That's a point of information, not a point of order.
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Is pointing out the incorrect use of a point of order itself a point of order, or also a point of information?
Small tool shop, burning VC money, true. "Tiny part of the Python ecosystem" is an understatement given how much impact uv has made alone.
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VC money bailing out other VCs. A tale as old as time.
Just a tiny project with over 100 million downloads every month, over 4 million every day. No big deal. Just a small shop, don't overstate its importance. https://pypistats.org/packages/uv
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It's not difficult to download something yourself 4 million times every day to look popular :)
Sure, but if tomorrow uv and ruff ceased to exist, we could all go back to any number of other solutions.
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Ruff is nice, but not important, uv is one of the few things making the python ecosystem bearable. Python is a language for monkeys, and if you don't give monkeys good tools, they will forever entangle themselves and you . It is all garbage wrapped in garbage. At least let me deploy it without having to manually detangle all that garbage by version. I'm done pretending this is a "right tools for the right job" kind of thing, there's wrong people in the right job, and they only know python. If no one self-writes code anymore anyway, at least use a language that isn't a clusterfuck of bad design decisions, and has 1 trillion lines of code in the collective memory of people who don't know what a stack is.
The same things that prevented "community" from building the tool in the first place
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that makes zero sense to me. developing something like ruff from scratch takes a lot of things happening - someone having the idea, the time to develop it from scratch in their free time, or the money to do it as a job, and perhaps the need to find collaborators if it's too large a project for one person. but now ruff is there, there's no need to build it from scratch. if I wanted to build a python linter or formatter I would simply fork ruff and build on top of it. as others have said in this subthread, that's the whole point of open source!
Maybe consider something other than python.
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Good luck with that. I haven't been successful at convincing anyone to move away from it. I'm so fucking sick of writing Python at work lol
This is just the weirdest thread. Like, the whole point of open source is that this thread is not a thing. The whole point is "if this software is taken on by a malevolent dictator for life, we'll just fork it and keep going with our own thing." Or like if I'm evaluating whether to open-source stuff at a startup, the question is "if this startup fails to get funding and we have to close up shop, do I want the team to still have access to these tools at my next gig?" -- there are other reasons it might be in the company's interests, like getting free feature development or hiring better devs, but that's the main reason it'd be in the employees' best interests to want to contribute to an open-source legacy rather than keep everything proprietary.
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The leadership and product direction work are at least as hard as the code work. Astral/uv as absolutely proven this, otherwise Python wouldn't be a boneyard for build tools. Projects - including forks - fail all the time because the leadership/product direction on a project goes missing despite the tech still being viable, which is why people are concerned about these people being locked up inside OpenAI. Successfully forking is much easier said than done.
Do you not use non-OS package managers? If not, do you develop software with source dependencies (go, java, node, rust, python)? If so, how do you handle acquiring those dependencies—by hand or using a tool?
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Personally I run "apt install whateverineed"
https://choosealicense.com/ https://choosealicense.com/about/ > "GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code." This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.
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The site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?
> If you don't want your lunch eaten by a private equity firm, make sure whatever tool you use is GPL licensed. 1. For the record: the GPL is entirely dependent on copyright. 2. If AI "clean-room" re-implementations are allow to bypass copyright/licenses, the GPL won't protect you.
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"Clean room" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Having the entire corpus of knowledge for humanity and how LLMs work, how can you honestly argue in court that this is purely clean room implementation? This is right up there with Meta lawyers claiming that when they torrent it's totally legal but when a single person torrents it's copyright infringement.
If clean-room re-implementations are allowed to bypass copyright/licenses (software) copyright is dead in general?
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well no, (clean room )reimplementations of APIs have done since time immemorial. copyright applies to the work itself. if you implement the functionality of X, software copyright protects both! patents protect ideas, copyright protects artistic expressions of ideas
If LLMs turn out to be such a force multiplier, the way to fight it is to ensure that there are open source LLMs.
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Open-source models will never be _truly_ competitive as long as obtaining quality datasets and training on them remains prohibitively expensive. Plus, most users don't want to host their own models. Most users don't care that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have a monopoly on LLMs. This is "everyone will have an email server/web server/Diaspora node/lemmy instance/Mastodon server" all over again.
Why? Github is already owned by Microsoft, who are deep in with OpenAI. And what worth would a Github-clone even have for the world? It's not like there is any important innovation left in that space at the moment, or are there any?
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Better uptime? https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-is-developing-alternative-microsofts-github-information-reports-2026-03-03/
they were definitely totalitarian, slightly different mix of ideology. Fascist is a fairly good description here, it describes close collaboration of government with corporations to advance national goals. US had somewhat fascist tendencies for a long time now.
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That is most certainly not a definition of fascism nor a thing unique to it.
Astral was building a private package hosting system for enterprise customers. That was their stated approach to becoming profitable, while continuing to fund their open source work.
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i mean ofc but like you can self-host pypi and the "Docker Hub" model isn't like VC-expected level returns especially as ECR and GHCR and the other repos exist
We have some kind of simple pip repo that is private where I work. What would astral bring to the table?
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How many people use that simple pip repo daily? If the number is not in the high hundreds, or a few thousands; maybe nothing. But once you get up there, any kind of better coordination layer is useful enough to pay money to a third party for, unless maintaining a layer over pip is your core competency.
Possibly the worst possible news for the Python ecosystem. Absolutely devastating. Congrats to the team
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Let the forks roll!
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One thing to keep in mind is that uv was the product of a whole lot of packaging PEPs finally landing and standards being set. That combined with not having to support all the old baggage meant they could have an effect modernizing community packaging standards. I hope those two factors mean that if things go really wrong, then the clean(ish) break with all the non standard complex legacy means an easier future for community packaging efforts.
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This. Their current approach is open sourced. There's no going back any more.
This is a weird pattern accross OpenAI/Anthropic to buy startups building better toolings. I don't really see the value for OAI/Anthropic, but it's nice to know that uv (+ ty and many others) and Bun will stay maintained!
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Does OpenAI use a lot of python? There is the literal benefit of "we use the hell out of this tool, we need to make sure it stays usable for us" and then there is what they can learn from or coerce the community in to doing.
Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)
Short answer is: a LOT, but that's a two way street. BAE, for example, builds America's tanks (or at least their armored infantry fighting vehicles).
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BAE Systems Inc, a US-based subsidiary that operates entirely in the US and whose leadership operates under an SAA which means they report to the US Government and the parent in the UK.
> It is true that the EU didn't and still doesn't have deep ammo reserves, though Indeed it is true. But it is also changing, the stockpiles are growing.
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Is it true? Most analyses show EU stockpiles overall still falling, especially for precision weapons.
Absolutely. The EU is now finally but rapidly adapting to these geopolitical changes. Defense budgets are now far higher than the 2% that used to be the goal that nobody met. In the 1990s everybody was eager to believe that war was finally and forever over. Some held on to that delusion for a bit too long, but not anymore.
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That's not true. Even including military aid to Ukraine, EU average defence spending remains at 1.9%. It's also the most expensive region in the world to raise a military.
Merkel has a lot to answer for. Handel durch wandel... pull the other one. After Grozny there should have been absolutely no doubt.
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Eastern European countries warned us, but western Europe, Germany in particular, but other western European countries too, assumed Russia was now a normal country we could just trade with. Under Yeltsin we might have been heading in that direction, but Chechnya should have been a warning. Putin's comment about "countries that don't matter" was a warning. Russia taking chunks out of Georgia should have been the alarm. We continued trading even after he took Crimea and Donbas. We have been way too naive.
The Apollo missions were the greatest scientific accomplishment by the Soviet Union. History repeats.
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Could you elaborate ? Intrigued.
We call it 'the better homepage'.
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tbf, less flagged posts hitting /active lately either they kill them early (delete them) or hn policy quietly changed
Open bribery and corruption (both the direct pay-for-play and the indirect via insider information), openly violating the law and ignoring the courts, betrayal of public trust, mishandling of confidential information, war crimes, take your pick of the many different choices. And the asset seizure would be for the proceeds of all the open bribery, at the very least.
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Trump has immunity for anything that is an 'official act', thanks to the SCOTUS ruling.
They have the power to enforce laws
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So do the mall cop and the ICC. Why does this arbitrary level in-between matter?
It’s interesting how these conversations always start and end with “my company isn’t buying XYZ American cloud provider services” while ignoring other incredibly important products and services that you can’t or are unwilling to boycott. Are you turning in your MacBook Pro and iPhone, or are you putting a bumper sticker on it saying you bought it before you knew America was crazy? Similarly, while it's great to take a principled stand here (it's yet again interesting how it's always a principled stand against American companies but never others), while you are busy spending time and money migrating away from AWS to a competing product that has worse features and is more expensive as you said, you should hope your competitors are too because if not, they're going to be delivering features faster and more cheaply. Something worth thinking about there. I don't think Microsoft losing some European contracts is an example of the US ceding power.
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> while ignoring other incredibly important products and services that you can’t or are unwilling to boycott. Its about operational risk. right now AWS is a key dependency, if that get turns off, we're fucked. we have mixed estate of end user devices, so its hard to turn them all off at once.
Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (reuters.com)
A 5 year full adoption rate is not even close to possible. Once you reach maintenance phase you still have to replace stuff, so just like food you will need a constant supply.
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Right, but you realise that even if we manage to buy everything all at once, we are looking at at least a 15 year operating lifespan. Yes, there will need replacement, but not all at once and not the same volume
Levelized Cost of Energy for solar is 30-60$ and 100-200$ for nuclear. In the case of Spain, it is cheaper to build more energy lines with Morocco and battery storage than to use nuclear. Spain already has some of the cheapest energy in Europe thanks to renewables. In the case of Germany, nuclear makes sense, but it is not clear where you would buy fuel for it, It might still be a supply chain risk since Russia and Kazakhstan are the main players there.
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The Americans can give Germany all the fuel they’d ever need. If you go solar, you are trading one supply chain dependency for another. France’s strategy is, once again, completely and totally vindicated.
Isn't power to gas still ridiculously inneficient? Last I checked it seemed like something pushed by gas companies since it upholds gas infrastructure and most of the intermittence is currently supported by gas.
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It's very costly compared to normal gas but it's still marginally cheaper to use solar and roundtrip p2g to use on a cold, windless night than it is to use nuclear power produced on any day of the year. There's just zero economic incentive while polluting gas is dirt cheap and maxxed out solar and wind rarely even covers 100% of current electricity demand.
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