Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474216

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Once it no longer is being drafted—and agreed upon by all parties to meet the needed regulatory standards—it will become final and be publicly published.

Just because you can do more and more things at home (thanks Moore and Dennard), doesn't preclude needing things also done remotely. The number of at-home systems seems to have fed a growing number of remote systems (especially once always-on connectivity became ubiquitous).

It's basically the angle Apple is going for: do as much locally (for the sake of privacy), and then offload when it becomes "too much".

Digging into this:

> In conclusion, there is evidence that Ken Olsen did doubt the need for computers in the home, but the evidence is based primarily on the testimony of David Ahl who was perturbed when the personal computer project he championed at DEC was not supported by Olsen in 1974.

> Olsen’s resistance may have been similar to that expressed by another DEC executive, Gordon Bell. In 1980 Bell thought home terminals would act as gateways to remote computers which would provide appropriate services.

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/14/home-computer/

It was supposedly said in 1977: most computers at that time were not small, and so it would not be surprising that people would not expect the general public to desire a large, power-hungry, noise-y apparatus in their house.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424052

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It does not necessarily follow that it being a technological revolution also means that it is a good investment—at least, perhaps, at this point in time. Railroads were a tech revolution, but a lot of them—and their investors—went bankrupt once the hype subsided and the overbuilding stopped. Once consolidation happened after their crash then railroads became a stable investment.

There are numerous examples of this in history, starting with (at least) canals; see Perez:

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

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GNSS_signal

* https://insidegnss.com/something-old-something-new/

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

If you're jamming on L1 I don't think it's that much more difficult to jam a little bit over as well.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings

90 in 2022 to about 1100 now:

* https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/RR./rolls-royce-ho...

Interesting interview with the CEO, Tufan Erginbilgiç:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkBpzq5Sqw

Mini-splits have a maximum operating temperature in the 47-50˚C range.

The headline in this article seems to indicate some places have hit that limit, and so the external units (compressors) may not be able push the heat out of the refrigerant any longer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414314

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No, it means "there is no infrastructure on this link segment". No router (to send out IPv6 RAs), and (as you say) no (working) DHCP server.

Still being able to have network connectivity automatically in this scenario can still be handy. If mDNS is running on things, then the user doesn't even have to bother manually setting an address: the link light comes on and you have connectivity to the local segment.

Forget "state actors", truck drivers have taken out entire airports with GPS jammers:

* https://www.cnet.com/culture/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-acc...

People like the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation have been trying for years to get some kind of GNSS backup accepted:

* https://rntfnd.org

China has certainly put their money into resiliency (both navigation and timing):

* https://www.gpsworld.com/china-completes-national-eloran-net...

* https://rntfnd.org//2026/03/19/china-has-built-a-triad-of-sa...

* https://rntfnd.org/2023/11/28/china-eloran-used-for-critical...

Some folks are certainly cluing in: South Korea has (e)Loran and the UK and France are joining up with them:

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/04/30/the-uks-system-of-systems-appr...

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/11/12/s-korea-leads-meeting-with-u-k...

And a reminder: not just "good" now, but good over time.

Good companies turn bad (Apple almost went bankrupt), and bad companies can become good (see again Apple; in the UK, recently Rolls-Royce).

* https://etfdb.com/compare/market-cap/

Yes, which is why the news that S&P isn't changing their rules is kind of notable. Vanguard's S&P 500, $VOO, just hit US$ 1 trillion AUM; the next biggest, $IVV, is just over $800B; $SPY is just under $800B.

* https://etfdb.com/compare/market-cap/

* https://www.tradingview.com/markets/etfs/funds-largest/

That's about USD 2.5T.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410791

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Worth considering:

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

And the rules for the NASDAQ 100 were changed, as were MSCI and CRSP:

* https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/some-indexes-accelerate-e...

* https://archive.is/15pOn

* https://press.spglobal.com/2026-06-04-S-P-Dow-Jones-Indices-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404979

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