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New comment by dataflow in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

dataflow — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:43:40 +0000

> Seems that we can’t both get what we want.

Why can't you? They don't want to provide info for a credit check, you want human accountability. All that requires is for them to use a debit card for whatever service (prepaid or postpaid). Law enforcement can trace that if needed. No need for credit checks or really any other information directly in the hands of the telco.

New comment by dataflow in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

dataflow — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:38:24 +0000

What is "intellectual curiosity" that doesn't include curiosity about whether, when, and how often the world superpower commits a war crime? For reference just the other day we had [1] on the front page. Was knowing the consumer price index for the month really all that much more satisfying of "intellectual curiosity" than this?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

New comment by dataflow in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

dataflow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:38:55 +0000

This being evidence of an interesting new phenomenon is literally the entire premise of the blog post though. And it sure as hell didn't look like it was covered on the main news headlines; I know I only heard about it because of HN. The author is pretty clearly claiming this is a new phenomenon literally in the title itself!

New comment by dataflow in "The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]"

dataflow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:03:41 +0000

Are you including capex when you say "cost"? Or are you just looking at inference costs?

New comment by dataflow in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

dataflow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:52:02 +0000

Why in the world is this flagged?

New comment by dataflow in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dataflow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:22:18 +0000

> data center companies could genuinely at least open up for tours to try to appeal to the public, if public approval is apparently such a concern.

Do you actually find anything appealing about a datacenter? I've been to one and while it was mildly cool from the standpoint of "wow how do they manage this many machines" I didn't find anything appealing about it that would make me want it in my neighborhood.

New comment by dataflow in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dataflow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:14:32 +0000

What do you see as wrong with that? What was supposed to happen to the land instead?

New comment by dataflow in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

dataflow — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:36:50 +0000

Might be a mess linguistically, but it's sure nice to have only 26 letters with no accents on a keyboard.

New comment by dataflow in "The better the autopilot the worse the pilot"

dataflow — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:25:01 +0000

Whether you witness something or not is a function of a ton of other things too, so much that it makes your anecdotes useless if not actively harmful.

For example, if you live somewhere where you use the highway more often, that sure as heck can skew the result.

Or if you live(d) somewhere where people tend to hit and run instead of waiting... you're obviously not going to witness them as often.

Also, note that accidents and injuries are not the same thing. You can totally have fewer accidents but more injuries or fatalities.

Without knowing the neighborhoods you've lived in (so people can compare the data for themselves) you're really not going to make a compelling case.

New comment by dataflow in "A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm"

dataflow — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:57:11 +0000

Try again? You don't really need context here.

Blog said: "As with all shocking discoveries, this one will ~~shock~~ disappoint you."

You complained: "'Shocking', 'striking', 'disappointing', 'will shock you' -- the article is padded with hyperbole."

New comment by dataflow in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dataflow — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:50:02 +0000

What about women's soccer?

New comment by dataflow in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

dataflow — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:44:31 +0000

"It"? What are you talking about? You didn't answer my question at all. I said if you have a second JIT to swap to in the future, you should be able to switch to that without breaking apps and not be forced to keep this implementation forever -- because JITs don't tend to expose APIs or leaky abstractions to the code, and it's not hard to ensure this one doesn't either. I asked you if you've ever seen another language that actually had another JIT to switch to but wasn't able to. Instead of addressing my point, you replied that it should be easy to write something else (a second JIT, "general infrastructure" for JITs, or whatever suits your fancy) and get it approved? What? No that is not, and I never claimed that would be easy. And if it has to be approved by someone who responds like this, it clearly wouldn't be fun either.

Algorithmic Probability

dataflow — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:02:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_probability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432562

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dataflow in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

dataflow — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:17:32 +0000

> We’ve seen bad implementations of things land before and now live forever.

Er, doesn't that depend on how leaky the abstraction is? How often have you seen a JITted language be unable to swap in a new JITter due to some sort of unintended coupling?

New comment by dataflow in "The desperation of NYTimes"

dataflow — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:14:19 +0000

It's also possible to exercise some strategic discretion in acting on instances of the things you care about, no? There are so many similar hills to die on. It's not like there's a shortage of scummy companies you can retaliate against, if you that's the crusade you enjoy.

New comment by dataflow in "The desperation of NYTimes"

dataflow — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:32:27 +0000

What a fascinating hill to (with some assumptions about your political leanings) choose to die on. Does the logic go something like "the country may be dying while owing over $100,000 of debt on my behalf, but I'm not gonna let scummy newspapers get in the way with O($100) from my wallet?

New York's 3D printer law is NOT gun control; it's manufacturing control [video]

dataflow — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma12AyQHzYs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dataflow in "Coreutils for Windows"

dataflow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:16:35 +0000

Sorry, I'm not following the logic. Isn't the same true for dir?

New comment by dataflow in "Coreutils for Windows"

dataflow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:21:54 +0000

I think you want a .gitattributes file where you set the EOL of the file types you care about. And you might want to try autocrlf=input.

New comment by dataflow in "Coreutils for Windows"

dataflow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:14:47 +0000

Isn't echo different even without options?