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by conductr | 2025-04-04 12:51:31+00:00
I’m a CFO that used to work in healthcare. Have had many cases where a doctor tries to explain to me how accounting “should work” and I have to tell them we have this little thing call revenue recognition or GAAP or how accruals work, etc. basically the stuff covered in accounting 101.

I’m used to fielding questions about numbers from all types but only doctors will immediately jump to telling you it’s wrong without asking questions and adamantly insisting they know the right way to do things is what I’ve noticed as a personality quirk generalization.
by weeb | 2025-04-04 12:51:38+00:00
I maintain an open-source interface that lets kids with physical disabilities play Minecraft using eye control[1]. When I started working on it, I was already familiar with what Minecraft offers as 'virtual lego' in creative mode, and the challenges of survival mode, but the biggest surprise for me was how much value kids get from just having a world that they are free to do whatever they want in. Just wandering round and punching some sheep or digging a hole, completely free of any adult-directed 'goals', is such a freedom for them. Try explaining that to the parents, though!

[1] https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/how-we-can-help/eyemine
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-04 12:52:10+00:00
Honestly if they got some high tier talent in, did a deep audit of existing talent and cut where there were any doubt then worked on their drivers in the open and shipped cards with 48GB+ VRAM then Nvidia would be in a difficult situation in 2 years.

Gotta open the drivers fully though because if you make the hardware totally outspec'd where it matters (VRAM) and the drivers are open then talent within the biggest orgs will go out of their way to help make your tech work in their farms, it's the only way to not be forever playing catchup.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-04 12:52:13+00:00
Did you miss the "other side of the country" part?

Even if not, there's only so much time kids can spend at playgrounds. And sometimes it's cold outside. Just in general, it's good when kids have more options for social play.

It is not actually helpful to have a knee jerk reaction to "screens". Just like in real life, the specific activity a screen is being used for can be bad, or it can be good.
by nsagent | 2025-04-04 12:52:31+00:00
I'll bite.

I received my PhD in Computer Science focused on NLP and creative text generation last year and I think the hype around LLMs is ridiculous (academics are no better than industry on chasing hype). They're trained to predict the next token given a context, and that's exactly what they're good at.

How old do you think I am?
by alephnerd | 2025-04-04 12:52:31+00:00
Manufacturing isn't returning to the US due to these tariffs.

Just like before the tariffs, the US is still too expensive.

On the other hand, it has killed cost-competitiveness for Chinese exports directly from China or via transshipment from Vietnam.

The tariff regime has now made Latin America (Brazil, Colombia), Turkiye, Philippines, parts of the EU (Poland, Czechia, Romania), and India cost competitive. And NAFTA/USMCA exemptions still remain and this was something Congress pushed back HARD on to ensure.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-04 12:52:42+00:00
> I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”.

It's the other way around. It's not just, or primarily, about run of the mill software devs. It's also about the would-be top mathematicians and physicists and psychologists and others - best minds in various domains, that in a better world would be busy solving real problems, but due to quirk of the economy end up working on ruining lives of other people, at scale, because adtech pays well while almost all useful work pays a pittance.

I remember this quote not as judging or categorizing people by smartness, but as lamenting a world which mismanages humanity's potential so badly, by literally directing our best problem solvers to work on creating problems for everyone.
by adithyassekhar | 2025-04-04 12:52:45+00:00
Did you check your browser for google drive site settings?

Google drive has a zip size limit of around 2GB while downloading folders. Usually when you try to download a folder larger than 2GB, it will split these into multiple zip files which all start downloading parallely.

Most browsers block these behind this permission prompt near the address bar "Allow site to download multiple files". If you blink you'll miss it.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-04 12:53:00+00:00
I always enjoyed building things with lego.

I also enjoyed watching people show off their advanced lego creations on youtube. However, despite my rather robust lego collection, the chance of me being able to replicate what I was seeing on the screen was near zero - there'd always be at least one crucial part I was missing, or I just didn't have the required quantity.

My first introduction to minecraft was via a youtube video - this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs (the specific video isn't terribly relevant, but very nostalgic)

For the first time, I was playing with the same set of blocks as everyone else. Anything I could see someone else doing, I could do too.

Children live in a world filled with restrictions. In minecraft they are free.
by shaokind | 2025-04-04 12:53:53+00:00
This is a really old idea. It was implemented in CS:GO in ~2015 [0], although community anti-cheats like SMAC have implemented it for years before then [1]. Riot have an article about their implementation of the same idea in VALORANT's that a good read from a technical perspective [2].

Sadly, CS2, from what I've gathered, broke this.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/35zwwy/opt...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkhQgYB4lAA

[2]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-04 12:54:09+00:00
Is this a rant against investment capitalism and high-speed financial trading networks?

Or perhaps a screed decrying the shiny bouncing ball of blockchain-based cryptocurrency?

Possibly a takedown of the online pornography sector, which consumes a largish percentage of bandwith and data center power?

Maybe it's about LLMs, although they might end up going the way of compilers - mostly open source, only a few niche for-profit compilers still exist?

Oh wait - it's about the cell phones and tablets that everyone stares at all day instead of engaging in human social interaction and reading books?

Could it be that the problem isn't with the technology itself, but with how it's being used to manipulate and control people by the interests who currently control most people's access to the technology?

There might be something fundamentally wrong with a socioeconomic system based on investment capitalism and contolled by a few uber-wealthy oligarchs - something about it that inevitably leads to dystopian outcomes.
by netbsdusers | 2025-04-04 12:54:24+00:00
The idea of using a third party init system has always been quite alien to BSDs, the sames goes for almost all other Unix-like systems, which are almost all developed with a greater deal of integration within the core system. Linux is exceptional in this respect, that it has ever had a diversity of init systems.

This war of words between the BSD community and systemd, as far as I've been able to tell, dates back to when Poettering went to the GNOME mailing list to propose making GNOME depend on systemd. He made this request with the proviso that it shouldn't necessarily be a hard dependency, so that needn't have been a problem in itself, but then he made a remark in an interview with linuxfr.org:

> I don't think BSD is really too relevant anymore, and I think that this implied requirement for compatibility with those systems when somebody hacks software for the free desktop or ecosystem is a burden, and holds us back for little benefit.

and as you can imagine this was ill-received by the BSD community.

Could systemd, or at least a useful subset of it, have been made cross-platform from the get-go? It would've taken more work. I don't think the amount of work necessary would have been particularly onerous, which I hope InitWare shows. It would have required making certain compromises like systemd being happy optionally running as an auxiliary service manager rather than as the init system.

In the end, though, Poettering has his preference to target GNU/Linux only, and he is entitled to that.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-04 12:54:46+00:00
Half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, so no - the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra few thousand to stay where they are today.

Those that can will be cutting spending, which will ripple across the rest of the economy.

There's no sign that negotiation is even possible, never mind likely.

One tell is that tariffs have been applied to the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are inhabited by penguins and produce no imports or exports.

These are not the actions of a rational administration.
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-04 12:54:47+00:00
>> Trump's Trade War

That might be how it is understood locally, but on an international scale this is quickly moving from "Trump's" to "America's" trade war. Various levels of US government have had opportunity to weigh in, but have generally acquiesced to the recent tariff policies. Calling this a "trump problem" wont fly much longer. This is now American trade policy.
by kelsey978126 | 2025-04-04 12:54:48+00:00
bingo. many don't realize superintelligence exists today already, in the form of human super intelligence. artificial super intelligence is already here too, but just as hybrid human machine workloads. Fully automated super intelligence is no different from a corporation, a nation state, a religion. When does it count as ASI? when the chief executive is an AI? Or when they use AI to make decisions? Does it need to be at the board level? We are already here, all this changes is what labor humans will do and how they do it, not the amount.
by jodacola | 2025-04-04 12:55:05+00:00
I don't live in a terribly "insane" state, but moving back to a state like California (where I was born and raised) doesn't alleviate my biggest concerns around the economy and the country's leadership and what it's doing to things like healthcare, education, and economic opportunity, and certainly not my concerns about my children being able to ever get onto a solid economic ladder.

California is so prohibitively expensive that they'll be forever renters, unable to save, unless they get an extremely high-paying job that allows that serious privilege and opportunity. That's not guaranteed, at all.

The state I'm in now is comparatively far less inexpensive than my home state, but it's getting more and more expensive and, even here, I worry about my kids being able to truly get on their feet and being able to make a life of their own. It's scary to see what the generations currently coming up are facing, no matter the location in the country - and to see the economy being hit hard with a sledgehammer right now makes it even scarier.
by TeeMassive | 2025-04-04 12:55:08+00:00
Your whole argument is based on "it's causal because we saw a peak just after a bank collapse", as if a fire started bt a spark couldn't have fuel and generate other sparks in a positive feedback loop. The rest is basically "there is evidence that" without nothing to back it up.

See Rustici (2005),Irwin (1998), Bond (1993) and Crucini (1996)
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-04 12:55:31+00:00
Some personal highlights:

"They’re excellent schools, and they have excellent scientists, and if one of Vice-President Vance’s kids is sick, he’s going to want the doctor to have gone to one of these schools; he’s not going to want them to have gone to Viktor Orbán’s university."

"People have said to me, “Well, you take all that money from the government, why don’t you listen to them?” The answer is, because the money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath."

"I don’t have to agree with the mayor to get the fire department to come put out a fire. And that’s what they’re saying to these international students: “Well, you came to this country. What makes you think you can write an op-ed in the newspaper?” Well, what makes you think that is, this is a free country. "
by wtcactus | 2025-04-04 12:55:34+00:00
Well, Chinese don’t have proper elections so there, I don't know.

But you can be sure that in the USA, this will all stop in 2 years with the midterms, and be reversed in 4 with the presidential elections. No one other than Trump’s fan base likes this even now, imagine in a few months when people start feeling the terrible repercussions.
by TexanFeller | 2025-04-04 12:55:38+00:00
I live in TX and have gas heating my air, water, and food. Gas is CHEAP compared to electricity, my bills are like 1/3 in the winter. A big bonus is that the water heater and stove heat like 3x as fast than electric, saving me time. No more cold showers after my wife uses all the hot water.

And that’s compared to my electricity that’s much cheaper than in most states. My all time high electric bill was ~$220 for a 2500sqft house and that’s when it was 110+ outside for most of the month and I was WFH and keeping the downstairs around 70. I wanted to get solar panels, but couldn’t justify it because I would barely break even before they failed or I needed a new roof.

I do eventually want to switch to electric because I don’t like explosive gasses and their byproducts in my house, but in economic terms electric is a fail.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-04 12:55:54+00:00
I did my fair share of hacking when I was 20. Most of it was out of curiosity and stupidity and I tried to never produce any damage. Have I compromised a big website or government server I never leaked credentials or defaced anything. In fact I never bragged publicly and I tried to be quiet, unseen and tried to erase my traces.
by resource_waste | 2025-04-04 12:56:01+00:00
I know you are trying to be helpful, but this is a bandaid at best.

I also wouldn't feel comfortable installing this on a computer that is security critical.

The other thing is that Windows is annoying. Where Fedora 'just works', Windows needs a third party debloater tool?

I'm certain its not going to fix all the items I listed as well..
by alyandon | 2025-04-04 12:56:05+00:00
What benefit is there to me to do so?

Why would I want to be locked out of my own PC if I have an extended internet outage and the cached credential expires? What if Microsoft bans my Microsoft account? Note that I also refuse to set up a login "pin" which reduces security to bypass my proper password.

Also, and picking at nits at this point, I hate how it takes the username@outlook.com account name and creates a profile directory with a truncated version of that. It's just always rubbed me the wrong way as well.

I guess I should say - I'm just picky about things on my PC so I tend not to automatically embrace every change Microsoft makes unless there is a clear benefit to me to do so.
by CodeHorizon | 2025-04-04 12:56:18+00:00
I just finished reading the new shareholder letter from Intel’s freshly appointed CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, and I genuinely had to pause and ask myself: wait, didn’t Pat already say all of this?

The letter talks about accelerating the turnaround, focusing on customers, driving execution, cutting costs, and leaning hard into Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy — the exact same themes we’ve heard from Pat Gelsinger for the last four years. There’s mention of 18A, Panther Lake, Nova Lake, Clearwater Forest, the foundry + product integration staying intact, and the importance of AI workloads and rack-scale systems.

It’s all there. The language might be a bit more “operational,” a little less inspirational, but it’s clearly the same blueprint.

Lip-Bu even references the 15% workforce reduction — which, to be clear, happened last year under Pat. He frames it as a necessary step, one that they’ll keep building on with ongoing cost-cutting and “portfolio simplification.” So far, though, no radical changes have been announced. It’s more like a continuation with maybe a slightly sharper knife.

The thing is: both Pat and Lip-Bu are engineers. They’re close in age. Neither one is exactly Steve Jobs in the charisma department. Both believe in Intel’s potential and have made it clear they want to keep the foundry and product businesses under one roof. Both are committed to heavy capital investment while streamlining operations. The core philosophy hasn’t changed.

And look — I get it. You can’t pivot a ship like Intel overnight. After four years and billions poured into foundry strategy, fabs, and long-term bets, no new CEO is going to walk in and say, “Let’s cancel everything.” That’d be insane. So of course Lip-Bu is going to continue most of it, at least for now.

But that’s what makes this feel strange. If the board was going to go as far as firing Pat — a public, major move — you’d expect something more than a change in tone or pacing. You’d expect a new direction. A clear shift in strategy. Something bold. But that’s not what we got.

So the only conclusion I can draw is that this wasn’t about the what, it was about the who. Maybe the board got impatient. Maybe they lost confidence in Pat’s ability to execute. Maybe there was a personal or operational disagreement behind closed doors. Could’ve been politics, or Wall Street pressure, or just frustration with the stock performance. Who knows.

But from the outside, it feels like they replaced the pilot without changing the flight plan.

Personally, I think Pat should’ve been given the full five years — maybe even more — to see his turnaround through. Four years just doesn’t feel like enough for the kind of deep transformation Intel is attempting.

Curious what others here think: - Was this about execution speed or internal politics? - Can a leadership change like this actually make a difference if the strategy is the same? - And does it make you feel better or worse about Intel’s direction going forward?
by djha-skin | 2025-04-04 12:56:42+00:00
I'm kinda happy about this.

Our farmers in Utah lobby so hard for water, then use it to grow alfalfa which they sell to China because they can sell it there for more money than it can be sold locally. It boils my circuits that they ask for our precious water -- to which they have historically had an obvious right, growing our food -- and then basically ship it overseas. Keep the crops at least sold in the US, and hopefully to other Utahns who have a hard time buying alfalfa because China inflates the price. 80% of our water goes to farmers here. I'm glad of it when they grow wheat and sell it to us, but not when it gets exported. These tariffs will hopefully help with that.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-04-04 12:56:48+00:00
I was thinking about this, outside of services the only thing I do buy is Park Tool bike tools (which are excellent).

I suppose I could include Apple products on the basis that the majority of the profits go to the US rather than the country of manufacture. Apple sells £1.5b of goods and services in the UK although that won't appear in the UK-US trade figures.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-04 12:56:57+00:00
> and guess who is winning

Again that is your perspective on "winning", which remains subjective (and normally faulty). Others call psychopathic achievers simply "contemptible".

> Whats the benefit of a "society"?

That would be the whole work of Thomas Hobbes, for example: avoiding the nightmare of perpetual conflict. It is very linear to see the benefit of being able to trust your neighbour.
by Y-bar | 2025-04-04 12:56:59+00:00
On the flip side, there are loads of names/trademarks which would sound very strange when you hear them for the first time when translated from non-English to English. Consider "Volkswagen" as "People's cart".

For example I have some sort of "anchoring" effect on some names such as Mac Pro, I still cannot accept it as a good name compared to the previous name: PowerMac. The older name is much more natural and better in my mind. Are you perhaps experiencing a similar effect with an the English trademark which has been a natural part of your vocabulary for a long time.

As for "Windows" in my native tongue, we have the same name for the digital rectangular representation on screen, so it would work. But then again, trademarks and marketing names are seldom localised.
by isfttr | 2025-04-04 12:57:04+00:00
Anthropic recently published a fascinating paper with an unusual title: “On the Biology of a Large Language Model.” But what does biology have to do with AI? As it turns out, quite a lot. The researchers are essentially performing a digital dissection of Claude’s “brain” to understand how it thinks—and finding surprising parallels to biological systems along the way.

In this post, I’ll break down this complex research into digestible parts, explaining how scientists are starting to understand what’s happening inside these AI systems when they answer our questions or write poetry.
by kcplate | 2025-04-04 12:57:33+00:00
New cars - They are not purchased very often by the middle class and they will lean domestic if they desire new or buy foreign cars on the used market if they really desire them.

Foreign Alcohol as a treat - If it’s a “treat” it’s already likely a more expensive choice than a domestic equivalent and any cost increase becomes part of the luxury of it being a treat. If your $60 bottle of Italian wine that you occasionally treat yourself with is now $80, you won’t really notice that $20. If you do, maybe you opt for a better domestic instead. If the $20 california wine you daily drink becomes $30, you notice that. But I assert that there is quite a bit of exceptional alcohol produced in the US and the middle class electorate is not going to starve for decent alcohol.

Furniture - Like cars, this is not a regular purchase and frankly not one where a price comparison with a prior purchase of a similar item will really notice any price increase due to tariffs. How often do you replace a dinner table? 10 years? Of course it’s more expensive than the last time you needed one.

Coffee is the one example where you have daily consumption and like I said on my original comment, food is one area that if affected, people will notice.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-04 12:58:09+00:00
With his friends on the other side of the country?

What the GP explained even expands to adults. I have three friends geographically dispersed who play a few on-line games together on Friday nights, mostly just messing around, while they sit on a Discord chat. I dont really get into on-line stuff anymore but I've sat in on their discord chats and its everything from silly jokes that might as well come from children all the way to serious politics and life stuff.

Metaverse spaces so have their place and use, but I agree, make sure they go outside and play IRL getting exercise as well as social and environmental exposure.
by jodacola | 2025-04-04 12:58:39+00:00
Thank you for this. Very fair point, and something I've preached to folks when changing jobs in the past: don't leave your job for another company because your current job is awful... make sure you're joining a new company you actually feel good about, otherwise you'll end up in another potentially bad situation. Thank you for the reminder.

How has Sweden treated you and your family, and how do you feel about the general economic outlook for yourself and your children?

Are expats accepted there? What kind of challenges could I expect if Sweden were a consideration?

edit: small tweak