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hshdhdhj4444··on Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
Not really. Because no one in Europe wants to bomb Iran into oblivion, if for no other reason but the fact that the Europeans (and Turkey) would face another massive refugee crisis.

The only people wanting to continue this war are the U.S. and Israel (and maybe Saudi Arabia?) and even Trump is clearly looking for an off ramp.

This is most likely a way for Iran to tell Europe to do what they can to end this otherwise they will drag Europe into this mess as well.

hshdhdhj4444··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
This article has such a weird framing.

It keeps repeating how the cleaner air is so good for tourists.

But tourists visiting Paris for a week don’t get the majority of the benefit from cleaner air.

The Parisian residents living there throughout the year do.

Maybe because it’s CNN, an American outlet, they’re focused on the “tourist”, but these benefits have mostly accrued to Parisians.

Also, the 4% increase in traffic jams is minuscule when compared to other large cities across the world (outside of maybe NYC, since it implemented congestion pricing over that period). Paris has not escaped the wrath of the SUV, and a large part of the congestion cities across the world are seeing is solely down to cars becoming bigger.

hshdhdhj4444··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
Biden’s banning them was not a good decision IMO.

At the same time, he was encouraging domestics manufacturers to start building their own EVs out, which opened up the possibility of unbanning, with reasonable import duties, once the American companies were competitive.

However, right now we are pushing American companies to go in the opposite direction and dismantle their EV efforts.

hshdhdhj4444··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
America has a genuinely crazy side.

No other country in the world has anything like the Republicans in the US, who are the only major political party in the world to oppose the existence of man made climate change.

There may be political parties in the rest of the world that say that the cost of tackling climate change is too high, but they don’t dispute the factual reality of it.

The Republicans were in this position between about 2008 and 2014 when their leaders were McCain and Romney, but Romney’s lack of insanity inspired a massive backlash within the crazy part of American society that then made Donald Trump their primary winner in 2016 as a repudiation to the not completely insane Republican leadership.

I know HN loves to pretend that the Republicans and the Democrats are just two sides of the same coin, but this can be shown to be objectively false by comparing to political parties abroad. Democrats are a normal European center left to center right party with all the flaws that brings with them.

The Republicans are now a party of insanity.

hshdhdhj4444··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
The Chinese are selling their EVs all over the world.

There are credible American auto enthusiasts that have got these cars and have been using them in the. US.

The superiority of Chinese EVs isn’t propaganda.

The gas pumps maybe are just a ruse but we know they are operating in China since unlike the US auto industry the Chinese one is incredibly competitive so if BYD was lying about their gas pumps the nearly 100 other competitors would have called them out

hshdhdhj4444··on Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
3D printing hasn’t taken power away from anybody.

The percentage of goods manufactured in the world that come from the set of the top 5 or top 10 or top 100 or top 1000 sources have all increased today relative to before.

I agree on electricity though. Cheap solar panels have made distributed energy possible in a way that was unimaginable even 20 years ago.

hshdhdhj4444··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
This is the difference between personal trust and a high/low trust society. Personal trust is about how much you trust an individual in the absence of enforcement mechanisms. But when looking at a society level those enforcement mechanisms matter. A high trust society could theoretically have extremely low personal trust and still be a high trust society because the enforcement mechanisms are strong enough.

Although in reality high trust softies tend to have higher personal trust (both as a cause and effect). The presence of functional enforcement mechanisms is not evidence of a lack of personal trust.

hshdhdhj4444··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Except we didn’t even refill it last year when oil prices did fall to rock bottom.

Because the U.S. government (even generally…there’s obviously no hope for this administration) is structurally incapable of making decisions that have a benefit horizon of more than a couple of years.

hshdhdhj4444··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
A lot of people buy vinyls for the albums art.
hshdhdhj4444··on Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
Except driving in the U.S. following the pandemic was significantly higher than driving before the pandemic even though WFH was much higher.

This claim might be true but it’s simply not showing up in the data which suggests that even if true, the effect is probably minor.

hshdhdhj4444··on Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
If someone attributed something to Europe but the only a handful of nations, which didn’t even include the largest ones, were engaging in the behavior, it would also be incorrect.

“Parts of Europe” or “Europe increasingly” etc would be ok (the latter if there was an expected progression of these policies to other European nations).

This headline is similarly misleading.

hshdhdhj4444··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
If parasites was the concern then countries like Bangladesh would have incredibly higher rates given that people there tend to have orders of magnitudes more parasites than anywhere in the developed world.

And I’m not sure what toxins is supposed to mean and how Americans are more exposed to toxins than developing world children scouring through our electronic garbage on a daily basis

hshdhdhj4444··on Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?
I’m honestly at a loss for words at this question.

We’re software engineers. Like half of the work we do is try and automate jobs.

Are we really confused about why “they” might want to automate our jobs?

hshdhdhj4444··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
You’re right.

Gotta be really incredibly efficient while planning your time on Epstein Island doing Epstein Class things to Epstein girls.

These world changing guys clearly have no spare time on their hands at all.

hshdhdhj4444··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
The website explains why this exists.

> Real guitarists use real tuners.

hshdhdhj4444··on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates
What’s the humane way you would like to be culled?
hshdhdhj4444··on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates
What are the failed cultivated meats that people have tried?
hshdhdhj4444··on White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising homeland terror threat
As a bonus you were already promoting the extremists who supported bombing those kids.

So you not only have more extremism you have extremist groups opposing each other, so there are no good sides. Just extremists on both sides.

hshdhdhj4444··on Most of the US economy is in a recession
The Biden administration missed this completely.

They looked at headline numbers and saw that everything was improving and couldn’t understand why people were behaving as if we were in a recession.

The current situation is a lot worse. Everything isn’t improving. It’s improving but more slowly, flat or getting worse. So the administration is reduced to pointing to the only things that are improving (albeit more slowly). Hence the Attorneh General’s infamous response in her congressional hearing on the Epstein files, that the Dow was over 50k.

Ultimately it comes down to the K shaped economy. The upper arm of the K is doing better than the lower arm is doing worse, so the average is a rise, but in reality the number of people in the lower arm is significantly greater than the number of people in the upper, hence the “vibecession”.

hshdhdhj4444··on Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
This seems a pretty fundamental idea within Microsoft.

The original, much more ambitious version of Vista, Longhorn, was shifting more responsibility for metadata from files to a DB.

hshdhdhj4444··on Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat
I strongly believe AI will drive efficiency. I’m less certain about whether that’s already happening or will happen in the future and when in the future.

However, I’ve already seen a CTO of a F100 company explicitly state that whether AI is driving efficiency or not, the capital investment, and more importantly, the promises of efficiency to investors will mean some people will be let go.

Efficiency is output/input. The input is easy to measure. It’s cost and in this particular case salaries.

Output is a lot harder to measure, which means it can be fudged easily.

So you cut the easily measurable inputs and inflate the easily manipulable output.

One could imagine the reverse would also be possible, where you maintain inputs but inflate the output, but there is an asymmetry where investors will reward you for cutting costs even if there are no efficiency advantages that makes cutting inputs more sellable than inflating outputs.

hshdhdhj4444··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Ultimately the arguments between whether one should pick daylight or standard times are a red herring.

The benefits of one over the other usually balance out and in either case are insignificant compared to the problems caused by changing time zones twice a year.

Changing time zones is directly linked with all sorts of health issues, deaths, car crashes, etc.

hshdhdhj4444··on Pentagon head to military officers: You cannot study in these 22 universities
No MIT but Liberty University and Hillsdale College hell yeah!

What a clown show.

Also, given that both of Hegseth’s masters and undergrad degrees come from the banned list shouldn’t he set an example and recuse himself first?

Or does his alcoholism wipe out the stain of his Alma maters?

hshdhdhj4444··on Pentagon head to military officers: You cannot study in these 22 universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/pentagon-univ...

Most other news sources don’t have a complete table at all.

hshdhdhj4444··on We Will Not Be Divided
You’re right.

The people who actually know stuff about the world are reality TV stars, Fox News hosts, and podcasters just asking questions.

Those are the people with actual knowledge.

hshdhdhj4444··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
This pretty much makes notepad pointless.

The whole point of notepad was a plain text editor.

Wordpad was the lightweight document creation software.

hshdhdhj4444··on The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones
Maybe different people like different things?

Dance isn’t just an art form. It’s also about the commune. It’s also about letting yourself go and sometimes with a DJ or artist to guide the experience.

Sounds like concerts are not a good space for the enjoyment you get out of dance. But it’s a great space for the dance experience many others want.

hshdhdhj4444··on The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones
That may be true but it has nothing to do with their news media grow out which has been happening for decades.
hshdhdhj4444··on The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones
Bloomberg News is at least 2 organizations (and maybe 3+ now).

The original Bloomberg News was purely financial. They then bought Businessweek and published Bloomberg Businessweek but also leveraged the acquisition to build out their general news under the Bloomberg News banner. They’ve had other acquisitions as well to expand their scope. The one I’m particularly interested in is Citylab which means they have probably some of the best urbanism and housing policy related news coverage.

hshdhdhj4444··on People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
We can debate whether conventional weapons are better than nuclear weapons or not. But none of that matters. We’re better off just agreeing to it and working to improve it…

The problem with your analogies are that there is no path where a constant improvement to cars leads to anything but better outcomes for human.

There is no realistic or likely path where improvements to cellphones leads to anything but better outcomes for humans.

However, if AI keeps getting better to the extent we can imagine, ie Super Intelligence, the outcomes are more likely to be extinction level negative than positive.

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