<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fch42</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fch42</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:10:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fch42" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fch42 in "Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/</a> comes to mind.<p>I'm not aware of eBPF-based dynamic instrumentation for either tokio or other async runtimes, but I'm also not (in need to be) debugging this on a daily basis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:53:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653211</link><dc:creator>fch42</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fch42 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "... handwavy crap ..."<p>handwavy argument. Yes, in the (sub)tropics the argument is even stronger pro-PV, not the least because it'll give you the opposite of heating - aircon - for free right when you need it. And considering summer heatwaves as have been seen the last few years "way north", that benefit will extend that way even if you wouldn't bother considering letting it "assist", if not fully replace, your heating. That said though, for 50° polewards and above, if you wanted to use PV in winter orient the panels vertically. If you can clad your too floor with shiplap larch so you can with PV panels. Given the price of timber ... there's a plan.<p>(only saying handwaving goes both ways)</p>
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<p>Definitely not a usecase for Starlink.<p>For the microseconds-chasers, there's microwave relay links, say between Chicago and New York (ref e.g. <a href="https://bullseye.ac/blog/economics/inside-the-world-of-high-frequency-trading-infrastructure/" rel="nofollow">https://bullseye.ac/blog/economics/inside-the-world-of-high-...</a>). Sending a signal up a few hundred km and down again a few hundred km adds way too much latency, and signal-hopping between fast-moving satellites adds way too much jitter for "such applications".</p>
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<p>Air pollution (from smog) in India is already at a "seasonally deadly" level. If you haven't been to India during late autumn, it's hard to imagine how bad it is. Your eyes burn and every breath stings, you literally taste the acrid smog all the time.<p>India is working hard to get that down. It's a much more tangible and immediate problem there than the thought some parts of the country may become so hot as to be unliveable. Addressing thst, in India, is a side effect / a benefit of cleaning up the air, as much as energy autarky via Solar PV has the benefit of becoming independent of oil imports.
India has coal. Lots of it. It's cheap to them. It doesn't particularly want to use more of it because of the associated air pollution and also because cooling water for thermal power plants competes with drinking water for people in some places.<p>Personally I think India is rather pragmatic here. Battery banks for scooters in the cities? tick. Buildout of PV? tick. Electric car charging stations? tick. Replacing wood, coal and other dirty cooking fuel by gas? Also tick. India just doesn't bother fighting some internal culture wars about how great fossil fuels or renewables are. They just move ahead more or less silently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:59:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285523</link><dc:creator>fch42</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fch42 in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sometimes, not to do something can be the right (morally, technically, economically, ...) thing to do.<p>You don't always need to present the other cheek to do right. Neither do you always need to retaliate.<p>Nord Stream finally made it clear to Germany that "convenience" isn't a
durable energy market strategy.<p>It's not correct though that Germany has done "nothing". The suspects are pursued by Germany, <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-poland-blocks-extradition-of-suspect-to-germany/a-74395861" rel="nofollow">https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-poland-blocks-extradition-...</a> so there's that.<p>If you mean though whether there's a will in Germany (nevermind a commitment or funding) to rebuild Nordstream ... you're right, nothing has happened</p>
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<p>Except funding is not everything that's needed for long term projects. There are other resources - workforce, supply chain integrity, legal entitlements and approvals, etc, that are all contributing to "plannable delivery" of long-term projects. And quite a few of these are very much subject to the vagaries of democracy.<p>Unless, of course, you assume (the ideal to be) an entirely anarchist business environment where whoever-with-resources can do whatever. Democracy, though, is not that.</p>
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<p>Impossible to raid ?<p>It's definitely much easier and much much cheaper to send a single rocket there blowing the assembled rather large target into still sizeable chucks of orbital debris than it is to deploy and assemble the thing there in the first place. And there are a few terrestrial actors rather capable of this. More than there are who could make it happen under whatever optimistic assumptions anyway.<p>In itself, a structure of this size in orbit is an efficient catcher of micrometeorites and orbital debris. Over "non-eternal" timeframes you don't even need a bad actor with good rockets.<p>Nevermind that in such a case, the eventual fate of these sizeable chunks of orbital debris is to become rods of god ... just without particular steerability.<p>It'd be a sight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286327</link><dc:creator>fch42</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fch42 in "America Has Become a Digital Narco-State"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fighting wars (more than one, in fact) to force a country into permitting unrestricted sale of opioids has historical precedent of course. The victim then was China, which tried to enforce their laws on drugs ... to the dislike of English Businessmen with enough pocket money to buy the army.<p>I for one would prefer to buy wine in a Utah grocery store. Or maybe even just a NYC supermarket. Even if it's wine from Texas, though I know that really stretches the meaning of "wine". And I'd also like to carry the bottle publicly as least as proudly as someone can carry their gun.<p>(oh how easy it is to trigger libertarian impulses. I'm with Voltaire in that one, say what you want. I'll fight - alongside you for your right to do so, and against you when I disagree ...)</p>
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<p>A "do not connect to the cloud" physical flip switch on the IoT device is what I want. Where can I sign the petition for that?</p>
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<p>Include it and it's still cheaper than, say, nuclear.<p>Also ... even when storage is included, you still gain freedom from opex spending for fuel (that is, lining oily pockets). Once there, renewables are "pure payoff".</p>
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<p>on the m68k, the "cisc-y-ness" is in the many many addressing modes, whereas x86 in that particular aspect of the architecture has always been rather "risc-y" (read: rather limited compared to other CISC architectures, including m68k).<p>The core instruction set of the m68k, as far as ALU/FPU is concerned, is simple enough. But converting the addressing modes to "risc building blocks" (μops or whatever term you like to use) is harder.</p>
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<p>you really believe that were such a "gag order" to exist the current US government never mind its health secretary would have done an "Epstein" about that and upheld it?<p>Truly alien. Completely beyond understanding.</p>
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<p>A mandate for government orgs including the military to exclusively use "all domestic" suppliers is laudable but also subject to graft and corruption - companies need to compete to get into the "in" club and admittance will be "gated" by favouritism, political alliance, and whatever grease needed to get you into that club. And once in, you're always tempted to collude ... partition the pie amongst the "competition" while petitioning the government to grow the pie ...<p>Yes, you _can_ try to regulate your way out of that. It'll result in a giant thicket of rulebooks, laws, procedures and processes. Exactly what a "slim" state would not want to see ...<p>(I am not sure there is a perfect way out; "extremely strong" gating criteria though tend to always favour the incumbents, and a prescription of "100% domestic all the way through" is a strong gating criterion if I've ever seen one)</p>
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<p>Only in the sense of (helping to) "move on". 
When you find yourself at the receiving end of monopoly extortion (at least as it appears to you), then best do what you can to get away. 
It seems they are on that path now.</p>
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<p>why would you not be sad about something great you lost ? Even if it was "just a freebie" ?</p>
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<p>They weren't "starting a job" in the US. Their (foreign) employer sent them onto an assignment abroad (to the US) to do their job. That's the difference here.<p>Even under ESTA, you can do some such activities - call'em "job" - in the US. On behalf of your non-US employer.<p>The devil may be in the details, but the assertion these workers were "likely" (or even just "potentially) doing a _US job_ (subject to a Visum qualifying for _US employment_) is definitely misplaced.</p>
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<p>Not every non-citizen doing a job in a foreign country does so illegally. Like in this case. 
What's wrong with foreigners, legally, with visums issued, building factories that then employ locals?</p>
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<p>Berlin also invested billions into rebuilding much of its metro system in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, 25y later, with investment having dropped off, it's occasionally creaking.<p>That said, to "beat BART" isn't a milestone for any public transport system anywhere. Except ... in the US, where even BART stands out as great. Hmm. Relatively.<p>(one part of me is kinda curious how the 101 would look like if you didn't do any work on it for 20 years. Mostly because it'd probably be a rather cool setting for some dystopian movie. Anyway ... transport infrastructure, whether public transport or roads, costs a f*ckton of money)</p>
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<p>fair enough to notice though that while the Soviet Union may have had agreed to enter the war with Japan (at the Potsdam conference ?), it had not done so by the time the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was dropped. It did declare war on Japan the day before the Nagasaki bombing. In a way ... Stalin chose the "let's go to war with Japan" date opportunistically. When it was clear there could be much gain without too much pain.<p>Which is not a dissimilar thing to the US "wavering" over the commitment to an invasion of Japan. The nuclear bombs "resolved" that. We'll never know what would have happened otherwise.</p>
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<p>But there are 500 linters to help you with idio(to)matic python coding. Honi soit qui mal y pense ...</p>
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