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    > Not maintained or developed by a billion dollar company.

Directly? No. Indirectly? Yes. They are mostly funded by billion dollar companies.

Do you remember the 1990s everlasting arguments about RISC vs CISC? There were so many arguments (online and magazines) saying that "soon" RISC would eat CISC. And yet, it never happened. I'll be dead before the demise of x86. More likely: The computing landscape will get more complex. Probably ARM will become a legitimate competitor to x86 outside of handheld computing, and RISC V will become a legitimate competitor to ARM for single board and handheld computing.

How will this be better than RISC V?

Exactly. About my previous comment, even if you are a privileged young women living in a safe area, you still want your phone to talk/chat with your girlfriends. On average, young men spent much less time talking/chatting with friends on their phone.

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Gender specific question about your post: What is it that appeals so much to young men about minimalism? I have never been able to explain it. Look at their first apartment. It is skin and bones. Look at a young woman's first apartment. There are all of these nice (but cheap) homely touches. Same for fashion.

    > They have had phones since 6th grade and social media but their day-to-day use is more in group iMessage chats and meeting up with friends to play games.

I am curious about the outcome if you had daughters.

    > And now their kids are unmanageable

Can you give some specific examples about what makes them "unmanageable"? I'm not disagreeing, but I want to learn more about your experiences.

This stuff feels like the industrialisation of women's neurosis. I read the first 1/4 of the article, then stopped to check the gender of the author: A woman ("Sarah"). I am not surprised. Many of the people interviewed are also women. The primary consumer of these tools and services are women.

I asked a few good fathers that I know about this trend: Universally, they agreed that it mostly appealed to their wives. And yes, they thought a lot of it was "too much". One gets daily reports (handwritten!) from the daycare about their kid with specific details about what they ate, toilet visits, nap time, play time, etc.

I'll never forget a tense phone call I had with my mother. She was upset that I wasn't responding faster to her WhatsApp text messages. I was flabbergasted. I asked her: What did you do 10 years ago when you didn't have a mobile phone? There was a long pause, then a sigh from her. Plus, I lived many timezones away from her, and I worked a very demanding job, where it is not uncommon to be away from my mobile phone for hours at a time.

Everybody needs to chill the fuck out about raising children. When did it become socially acceptable to get a text message about the cookie your kid just ate at daycare? It is ridiculous.

    > In 2024, the U.S. surgeon general issued a public-health advisory about the mental health of parents, echoing a similar advisory about youth mental health three years earlier. In a national survey in which 18 percent of teens reported anxiety, so did 18 percent of parents. For all the recent concern about a crisis in teen mental health, parents are clearly struggling too.

The cause is very likely multi-factor. Yes, one factor is excessive monitoring and loss of childhood independence. However, a much more important factor is social media. It is a curse on childhood. I remember listening to a radio show where a reporter was interviewing American middle school kids about how they used social media. At the end, she reflected upon her own middle school experiences and said (paraphrase): "It is sad that modern social media lets you know with precision how much you are liked. When I grew up, you had an idea of your popularity, but it wasn't measured so precisely. It feels cruel."

You can buy them from China. Example: https://cqchizhong.en.made-in-china.com/product/BGiRwHhYZekD...

There are a bunch of YouTube videos reviewing them.

    > If Slate can make a $25,000 EV truck I don’t see why Ford can’t do the same.

I assume the answer is simple: Economics. The profit margin on a Slate truck is probably tiny. Ford can make much more in profits by selling bigger, more expensive trucks.

With inflation running so hot in the US, I will be very surprised if they can keep their promise for a 25K USD base model truck, and maintain it for any significant period of time. I found the preorder agreement here: https://www.slate.auto/en/terms/preorder

    > 1. Preorder
    > By submitting your Preorder and paying the non-refundable deposit (the “Preorder Deposit”), you are securing a firm time slot for the production of a Truck. If you choose to place a Preorder prior to being assigned a delivery window, you will be assigned one when available. This Agreement does not constitute a purchase agreement for a Truck and you are not obligated to purchase a Truck. You will be required to enter into a separate Vehicle Purchase Agreement closer to the time of delivery in order to purchase a Truck and you will be able to select any accessories and configure your Truck at that time. The Vehicle Purchase Agreement will include the final price sheet for your configured Truck and may be with a separate Slate entity. Your Preorder becomes effective upon your acceptance of these Terms and your payment of the Preorder Deposit.

Man, what a word salad! In short, there is no guarantee about the final base price.

I created a poll for this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50448128

I assume they are imports from Japan? If so, have they done any work on the body to make them safer in an accident?

    > Kei cars are designed for cities.

Really? Says who? In Japan, in rich cities, most private drivers are driving regular-sized cards, not kei cars. Some small businesses use kei trucks for deliveries. When you go to the suburbs and countryside, it is mostly kei cars and trucks because the annual registration tax is much lower than a regular car. In short: They are cheaper to own. For normie drivers in Japan, a kei car is practical. If they could afford a regular-sized car, they would probably upgrade.

I cannot find the exact bond that you mention. However, I found this one: https://www.bondsupermart.com/bsm/bond-factsheet/US02079KAF4...

GOOGL 2.050% 15Aug2050 Corp

Current Bid/Ask yield: 6.134/6.045

That bond has 24 years to maturity. If you look at US Treasury bond yields with about 25 years to maturity, the current yield is about 5.29%. That means the spread is less than 100bps. That is pretty small. Google (Alphabet) still has an excellent credit rating: AA+.

Yeah, that coupon rate is wild! It is more than 450bps more than a similar Oracle bond. The simplest explanation: When this bond was issued, CoreWeave had a speculative/junk grade corporate credit rating: BB-. Surprisingly, Oracle also barely has investment grade credit rating: BBB-.

You can see precise details about the CoreWeave bond issue here: https://bondblox.com/bond-market/Coreweave-Inc-USU2069EAE06

I think Bezos/Blue Origin/Amazon can get there. Bezos has essentially infinite money to fund the development of a reusable rocket. The Amazon can use it to launch a Starlink competitor (Leo). Of course, it will take Bezos longer than Musk, but I think he will get there. I just did a quick Google search: Amazon Leo claims they will introduce commercial service in the US by the end of 2026. Personally, I am very excited to see how Starlink and Leo will compete against each other.

    > Eventually, anti-trust law ... might break that monopoly.

This seems like a weak argument. If you look back to the 1990s, Intel was unbelievably dominant in desktop computing. There was never any discussion that anti-trust law should be used to somehow "break that monopoly". They were just damn good -- way, way better than all of the other competitors. Eventually, Intel's intellectual property pipeline slowed considerably (for a multitude of reasons) and AMD was able to catch-up. And it looks like ARM is biting at the heels of both Intel and AMD.

Tangential: I am surprised that the US gov't isn't paying SpaceX to continue the Falcon 9 programme. That rocket is used a lot to launch US military & spy satellites. Plus, Musk is very patriotic. I suppose there were some private conversations between Musk/Shotwell and senior US gov't officials (military and/or spy).

Regarding your second paragraph about SpaceX: I did some research. What you say is very, very close to the truth that I can verify. The only change I would make is "third launch" to "fourth launch". You can read about it here on Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#2003%E2%80%932010:_Falc...

    > The financial situation started to turn around with the first successful launch achieved on the fourth attempt on September 28, 2008. Musk split his remaining $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla, and NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract in December (2008), thus financially saving the company.

I agree 100%. I also like the last line:

    > My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is also surprisingly candid in interviews about how much he regrets his affair and how it ruined his marriage.

I never understand why Goldman Sachs gets so much attention for their technology. Their tech stack for front office (sales, trading, quants) is utter shit -- Slang is like a closed-source poor man's Python, and SecDB (their database) has no SQL interface -- only key-value pair (like a NoSQL database). The tech stack at JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley is light years ahead. My only explanation: The Goldman PR team is unbeatable. I assume that they are sometimes paying/bribing media to run stories. To be fair, Goldman's risk taking is excellent, but their tech stack in 2026 is so mediocre.

Uhh... colonial empire? See also: HSBC and Standard Chartered. For those unaware, one of France's largest banks, BNP Paribas is also an old colonial bank from... wait for it... Netherlands! Paribas stands for "Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas". For those unaware, the old French term for the Netherlands (Holland) is the low countries, which is literally "Pays-Bas" in French.

To be fair, UK's #1 talent and economic advantage for global commerce in 2026 is their contract law and the courts that judicate it. It is unmatched globally. Sure, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hongkong, and Singapore are pretty big, but nothing competes with London for international contract law. The ecosystem is just so massive and concentrated in London -- courts, highly experienced judges/barristers (lawyers)/academics.

    > Electron's value prop has always been about having one team producing one app that is supported on multiple platforms with minimal additional effort.

I have only ever worked as a software engineer in mega corps, so my perspective is understandably limited. The value prop that I have observed with Electron is that average JavaScript/TypeScript programmers are cheaper than average Java and C++ programmers. As a result, it can be cheaper to build and maintain JavaScript/TypeScript apps on Electron. To be clear, for years before Electron arrived, it had already been possible to write internal, cross-platform corporate apps using Java (Swing) and C++ (Qt). Also, senior technical management was happy to add RAM to desktop PCs to deal with higher memory requirements for Electron apps. Since the RAM apocalypse, maybe this cost savings has been offset. Still, most corporate desktops are way overpowered (RAM/CPU/GPU) for what normie users need.

I suggest that you read this article from the CFA Institute: "Investing vs gambling: how to tell the difference"[1]

[1] https://www.cfainstitute.org/insights/articles/investing-vs-...

Did anyone else notice the badge at the top of the GitHub README.md?

    > HackerNews: #1 Repo of the Day - 214 points

Here is the link from the README.md:

    <img src="https://hackergit.org/badge/hedgerow-dev/coldframe.svg?style=rank&rank=day" alt="Hacker News" width="250" height="55">

Something about it is cringe to me. It is giving LinkedIn self-promotion vibes.

    > Second, I'm in Australia and Australians use very colorful expressions in everday speech that seem to trigger the sensibilities of many delicate American ears.

Can you share some examples? And, can you share how you know so much about the "many delicate American ears"? Finally, are there any expressions that Americans use in daily life that would offend Aussies?

100% agree. Well said. They also rarely/never provide any concrete evidence to support their claim.

    > Iranian schoolgirls were killed by assumably an AI-directed decision.

This is a pretty wild claim. Do you have any evidence?

I never understood this thinking of "I don't need a source repo". As soon as I learned about RCS, I started to used it for all of my code. Why? So I can easily diff my changes and review history.

I Googled this exact phrase: "Macdonnell history with FAA". Woah, that is quite a complex history. It is a good read for those unaware.

Sony Mavica?

You had personal PCs but no network in a dorm?

Do you know the reason why?