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by SilverBirch | 2025-05-02 14:13:34+00:00
Absolutely agree with this, I use ChatGPT to ask about how best to do something, if I say "I'm not sure about that" in response to some proposal the tool will basically always back down and change something even if it was totally right the first time. It's a real problem because it makes it very difficult to interrogate the tool when you're unsure if it's answer is correct.
by kasekopf99 | 2025-05-02 14:14:00+00:00
As someone who has to make hiring decisions based on 100s of resumes, I look at degrees as allowing me to "fast forward" a step. If I'm looking for coding expertise, I can look for degrees where a university has effectively "checked the box" for me. It doesn't mean that someone without a degree is any less skilled. It just means that a third party is giving me more confidence in the skills I'm looking for.
by iknowstuff | 2025-05-02 14:14:02+00:00
Mercedes system is dumber in every way, they merely set the criteria narrow enough to get dibs on L3 for gullible people to repeat on the internet. It’s OBVIOUSLY more dangerous than FSD under the same circumstances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1cpwir3/te...

So which company of the two is the one endangering people
by ElevenLathe | 2025-05-02 14:14:10+00:00
> I'll never understand why we can't all agree to just make the price the price.

Not sure if you're being rhetorical or not, but the reason is very simple: Sellers want it this way because it makes their job (selling you stuff) easier. The sellers are the ones in charge of the laws about selling (there are a few scattered consumer lobbying organizations but they are nothing compared to industry lobbyists in basically every industry). As a result, the preferences of consumers do not matter, at least on the margin.
by plufz | 2025-05-02 14:14:50+00:00
Steve Jobs was quite famously against upgradability since the start. That is not something new for Apple.

Honestly I love the current macs, but of course I would like to be able to upgrade them as well. But yeah I also have the feeling that Apple is getting less innovative, more sloppy and more greedy, but I'm not sure I think its become a whole other company.
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-02 14:15:00+00:00
Here's what I don't get. Wikimedia claims to be a nonprofit for spreading knowledge. They sit on nearly half a billion of assets.

Every customer would prefer a firehose content delta over having to scrape for diffs.

They obviously have the capital to provide this, and still grow their funds for eternity without ever needing a single dollar in external revenue.

Why don't they?
by whoknew1122 | 2025-05-02 14:15:15+00:00
I'm not sure how important that is to remember. The president is issuing the orders. The president is chief executive of the country.

The president can't pawn off responsibility to some White House staffer or think tank. An executive order is the president's order.

Is it useful to look at the people who wrote or lobbied for the order? Perhaps if you want to want to understand the context of an order. But none of that context mitigates the president's responsibility for any order. At the end of the day, it is a single person exercising their sole authority to issue executive orders.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-02 14:15:31+00:00
The "original sin" of the founders was accepting the slave states. That embedded the hypocrisy that freedom was only for some people. The constitution proofed against an individual trying to seize power pretty well. It's difficult for a random Army officer or religious leader to catapult himself into a dictator position. But what it does not and cannot prevent against is determined tyranny of the majority.
by graemep | 2025-05-02 14:15:32+00:00
No, saying a particular thing is rational is very different from claiming everything is rational.

People will make the wildest claims about Trumps' polices, even people who should know better. A good example is Jeffrey Sachs saying Trump's policies should would fail an economics class - but one of the people devising Trump's economic polices got a PhD from Harvard while Sachs was a professor there!
by simonw | 2025-05-02 14:15:33+00:00
It's different because when you outsource work to a human being, including in another country, that human being can be expected to take responsibility for their work.

If they do bad work their reputation is harmed and they may lose opportunities in the future. They have stakes. They can take responsibility for what they produce.

I believe in AI-assisted development with a skilled human directing the work. That's a huge productivity boost for the humans who learn how to use the tools.

(Twenty years ago people studying computer science in the UK and USA were often told that it was a dead-end career because all of that work was going to be outsourced. That advice aged like stale milk.)
by xienze | 2025-05-02 14:15:38+00:00
> I think this is to avoid using more charged political terms that are actaully more accurate like fascist, authoritarian, dictator

Because those words have been overused to the point of no one caring anymore. For those too young to remember, George W. Bush was _also_ called “literally Hitler”, a fascist, dumbest man alive, you name it. The left’s go-to of labeling every single Republican “Nazi” for decades is partially to blame here.
by WD-42 | 2025-05-02 14:15:55+00:00
I’ve been dabbling in OS development. I started with rust and it was… ok. Lots of what you’d expect: unsafe all over the place, weird borrow checker work arounds. It felt like I was bending the languages arm.

I recently started to re implement the (admittedly very basic) kernel in Zig and it’s been a breath of fresh air. The language seems much better suited for the level of abstraction that Osdev lives at. Major bonus is that all the existing C code is directly useable in a zig project without any wrapper nonsense or it can be easily translated.

I think I’ll stick with dig for a bit.
by jeffwask | 2025-05-02 14:16:30+00:00
It's a jrpg made by a team of 30 that adds timing based quick time events (block, Parry, Empower) to standard jrpg combat with souls like one shot mechanics. It's a new IP based on a world where a entity has taken over and every year a countdown decreased by 1 and anyone over that age disappears. You are on an expedition to solve the mystery and stop it.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-02 14:16:38+00:00
The issue in Canada is that the CBC, despite having excellent journalists, investigative, local, and otherwise, and being an invaluable resource to many small communities, is overwhelmingly (but not entirely) biased in favour of one political party and whatever identity politics are currently the mainstay of their image. And it’s the party that nearly always campaigns on increasing their funding.

I love(d) the CBC. I grew up watching it every day, and listening to it on the radio in the car. Some of the programming is still fantastic, but tuning into a national broadcast funded by the taxpayer, one would expect by chance alone to go more than 5 consecutive minutes without hearing someone bring up “black”, “queer”, “indigenous”, “climate change” or having every caller or interview be some sort of spokesperson or research chair with one of those words in their title. Combined with things like job listings explicitly but professionally saying “white men need not apply”, most reasonable individuals would say they turned certain dials a little too far left for anyone listening that’s not a young progressive or outside of an urban core.

They also tend to leave out facts or context from certain topics and news stories where including it may reflect poorly on certain groups or a person of a certain identity. Lying by omission for the greater good is an editorial decision they’re comfortable with, leaving those who use it as their sole news source with stances that align broadly with progressive beliefs of systemic XYZ or discrimination in events where it’s a spurious assertion when considering details they leave out.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-02 14:16:43+00:00
Also, I mean... They were right actually?

That, or the Boston Tea Party should be reframed as an illegitimate form of protest against His Majesty and His Majesty's Representatives In the New World.

When, oh when, will American classrooms stop teaching that those looters were just honest young men fighting for their freedoms? I'm tired of this propaganda in our public schools. /s
by zackmorris | 2025-05-02 14:16:51+00:00
Ya I mean I can't really comment on such a broad topic in a few sentences without generalizing and projecting from my own experience.

I agree with you, that the best engineers weigh the business needs when working towards a solution.

But I've also seen how the top problem solvers rarely get promoted beyond a certain level. A lot of us got into this to change the world, but ended up settling at middle management.

It's kind of a learned helplessness. It's strange to see the best and brightest commanded by people who aren't necessarily dumb, they just view the work as almost a sunk cost rather than something that pays dividends if done right. So there's this constant constraining of ideas that rubs off on us and gradually diminishes our light. Until eventually we're just another cog in the machine, showing up day after day only to keep things running and not rock the boat. And making up stories about how critical we are to the process without seeing our own expendability.

It's sad to say, but we're about to get tossed out and replaced by AI. I don't think that rising above being code monkeys is going to save us.

So on that note, we're also about to get radicalized. Imagine spending one's entire life in discipline learning the most esoteric knowledge, hoping to get ahead someday, only to find out that there wasn't enough time. Having to watch the most vacuous blowhards become millionaires at the highest levels of power and casually destroy everything we worked towards.
by mjevans | 2025-05-02 14:17:01+00:00
Under oath, with only offhand recollection of maybe facts, many people would prefer to say as little as possible. That seems only natural given the potential for accidentally lying if something remembered offhand turns out to be untrue or taken incorrectly.

Contrast with a lower stakes interview, likely prepared for at least in general if not with vetted and researched questions?
by IshKebab | 2025-05-02 14:17:01+00:00
Not really. I've tried that with Gitlab, but it's kind of awkward. My PR isn't to merge branch B into branch A. For instance if the project owners see the PR for B and say "yeah great! I'll merge this" and press merge, it will just merge it into branch A and then close your PR!

It's a hacky workaround at best. I want proper support. I want Github to disable the merge button until the dependencies are merged. I want it to actually list the dependencies and link to them. I want the target branch to be `main`.

I think if they did those 3 things it would go 90% of the way. Too much to ask though clearly.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-05-02 14:17:39+00:00
Racist against billionaires? C'mon.

Also, you're wrong. The FSF's position is basically that software that is non-free is immoral, so any license which forces additional software to be released with a free license is inherently moral. A very copyleft license like the SSPL should be the peak of the FSF's goals.
by Ukv | 2025-05-02 14:17:54+00:00
I agree that the US needs to invest far more in public transport.

I don't think that's mutually exclusive with Waymo working on their electric autonomous vehicles, nor that halting Waymo's testing would lead to greater access to public transport. Safer cleaner roads should hopefully even benefit busses, coaches, trams (and bikes) that have to share the road with cars - and the same self-driving technology can likely be adapted for use on public transport vehicles.

China, for instance, has extensive public transport in addition to a fast-growing autonomous vehicle sector. As useful and underutilized as trains are, there will likely still always be a non-negligible portion of transportation that road vehicles are just better suited for, which should be made as safe as possible.

There is also that it seems unfortunately difficult to get financial/political momentum behind building public transport in the US, whereas Waymo's services are something that's already happening and GP is implying should be stopped - which I feel flips the "Why not just" in terms of which is the course of least resistance (but, to be clear, we should definitely still be pushing for public transport).
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 14:17:55+00:00
> the Fox News of the left

When I watch Fox News it's usually pretty easy to spot several things that are simply made-up per day. Including entire stories.

You hear much of that on NPR?

[EDIT] FWIW I think NPR news is god-awful, because they focus way too much on horse-race politics crap and Monday-morning quarterbacking campaigns, I suppose because they're so scared shitless by accusations of bias that they prefer to fill time with topics that are neutral and don't deal with actual issues at all, because we've been in a place for decades now where dealing with real issues in a serious way makes appearing "biased" against Republicans totally unavoidable.
by oliwarner | 2025-05-02 14:18:04+00:00
I think that's what I was saying. Vehicle control software is the only place I think where certified code makes sense. When others' safety can be put at risk by your crappy coding. That's not a copyright/licencing issue, or even something solved by making chips harder to flash, it's a vehicle law.

TFA makes it sound like there are many others. What else is there?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-02 14:18:22+00:00
Maybe, but you're basically describing the entire US consumer culture. I'm originally from the UK, but moved to the US decades ago at age 25. The difference between the two cultures in terms of consumer behavior is huge. Companies like Black and Decker (tools) or Kitchen appliance manufactures make different products for these two markets to account for the different tastes - US consumers prefer semi-disposable quality products that are cheap vs UK preferring higher quality at a price. e.g. using metal vs plastic parts, etc.

Teenage fashion (e.g. Shein) is probably a poor example to focus on though since, even disregarding fast fashion, teenage clothes don't have a long usage period - they get outgrown or fashion changes, etc. The price/quality point of Shein is well suited for this.
by vel0city | 2025-05-02 14:18:39+00:00
The courts have so far been exceptionally weak.

Hey, you're not allowed to send those people on the plane! The plane already left even though I told you not to send it? Well, you gotta get them back! You're not sending them back? I'll just keep telling you that you have to do it, that'll really show you!

Oh, pretty please, would you return that man you illegally sent to that torture prison? No? Oh, ok, well would you at least just talk to me about it in daily reports? No? Oh, ok. I guess he'll just die there. Oh well.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-02 14:18:41+00:00
> Philosophy is just one of the liberal arts. This idea has declined in popularity in recent years but I still think there's a lot to be said for possessing a liberal arts education. If you have a good one your understanding of the world around you gets broader and deeper.

Look no further than all the AI debates on HN: from the perspective of someone with a couple of college classes on philosophy (not even a minor), it’s looks like a bunch of five years olds debating particle physics. Complete ignorance of what the academic precedent is, retreading ideas that philosophers have moved on from hundreds of years ago.
by zahlman | 2025-05-02 14:18:42+00:00
> I fully expected this blog post to touch on `.git-blame-ignore-revs` as a way to not "pollute" the git history but I'm not sure when that "came out".

Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869828, it appeared August 2019 - so, indeed too late for OP.

e: Also, FTA:

> Blame is not, in fact, permanently ruined. git blame -w ignores whitespace-only changes.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-02 14:18:43+00:00
I can’t be sure but I assume they’re talking about this: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

This is an interview with an author that NPR acknowledges as controversial, not NPR presenting the author’s opinions as fact. But I doubt the distinction matters in the current rhetorical environment.
by noitpmeder | 2025-05-02 14:19:33+00:00
My view (maybe shared by GP) is that while Trump deserves a lot of the blame, he's just a figure head over the rest of the republican party.

It's not like Trump is sitting on the toilet writing executive orders or tweets. These are initiatives championed by the elite conservative leadership, they just have a convenient "bad guy" that the rest of the country can focus their hatred on.

Don't think for a second that Vance wouldn't continue digging the same holes if Trump dropped dead.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-02 14:19:33+00:00
The next best alternative to a basic session cookie isn't doing shitty things, it's either using your IP and praying that doesn't break, or putting the session token into each link.

There's no real way to hide that you're visiting the site and clicking multiple pages during that visit, so I don't see what's so bad about accepting a first party cookie for an hour.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-02 14:19:43+00:00
The long and the short of it is that FDR did (mostly) well-intentioned things with (mostly) good outcomes that were (mostly) widely distributed. That and winning WW2 secured his place in the historical record. But it was definitely a "move fast and break things" approach. The one that conservatives are still very mad about is gold confiscation, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn is a wild over-interpretation of the law to consolidate Federal power.

A lot of very important American freedoms were secured against the public opinion by court cases. That makes them brittle.
by FeloniousHam | 2025-05-02 14:19:52+00:00
Enterprise frontend and backend development, all Typescript. TS is easily the most productive language I've ever used (professionally worked in Java, then Javascript, with some Ruby and PHP). It scales from no-types JS to architecture astronaut seamlessly. You only have to use what's useful to you. My only hangups were esoteric type errors, but AI made this go away (mostly with more specific explanations of the issue).

We ported our webapps from JS to Typescript a while back, and I hate having to read untyped code, even (maybe especially) the stuff written by our best coders, even my own code. You have to run the code in your head just to understand the shape of "order".

I would never go back, I cannot fathom the resistance in the JS community.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-05-02 14:19:59+00:00
The entire thing they got contempt of court for was trying to find a way to continue to squeeze customers as long as they can.

This is the Big Tech playbook. Apple and Google know what they're doing isn't legal. But they make so much doing it, that it's worth the lawyer fees to delay and delay and appeal and appeal as long as possible to keep the money train flowing. Historically the fine has never been as big as the profit, so even if they eventually get in trouble for it, it makes sense for them to profit in the short term.
by redwall_hp | 2025-05-02 14:20:04+00:00
Music royalties are also set by a panel of judges (Copyright Royalty Board). Spotify is not legally able to "screw" anyone. Their pro rata model pays as much or more than the legal requirement. The economics of radio and internet streaming, especially in a world with a democratic explosion of access to recording technology, simply aren't conducive to recording being lucrative.

Record labels are in the business of screwing musicians, though.
by smjburton | 2025-05-02 14:20:12+00:00
> When an article is requested multiple times, we memorize – or cache – its content in the datacenter closest to the user. If an article hasn’t been requested in a while, its content needs to be served from the core data center.

Maybe a similar system needs to be set up so that bot requests need to present their latest cache or hash ID of the requested content before a full request can be granted. This way, if the local cache is recent, it doesn't burden the server with requests for content they've already seen, and they can otherwise serve their users information based on the version they have stored locally.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-02 14:20:19+00:00
> Trump is acting in opposition to the legislation that directs the executive to have its finger in more pies.

is that so true? i don't doubt that in probably 10-20% of the cases this is so, but i would bet that in the vast majority of cases the legislation as written is flexible enough that picking an amount of action that is zero is within the bounds of the law.

i am watching trump carefully for the moment when he turns some dark corners (the abrego garcia case being one) but i am unswayed by the argument that the government reducing its own power is somehow more authoritarian in contrast to an administration that convinced congress to create authority for itself out of whole cloth, which quite clearly goes against the 10th amendment.
by wafflemancer | 2025-05-02 14:20:20+00:00
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by DonHopkins | 2025-05-02 14:20:52+00:00
They're fully aware of Project 2025 because they have been paying 100% full attention to people like Trump who have been claiming they never heard of it and that it was Democratic propaganda. So they know exactly what it is because we told them so, we told them so, we told them so, we told them so, and we told them so again and again, and every time they just denied it harder and harder. Now they're pretending they are surprised and never heard of it either.
by yubblegum | 2025-05-02 14:21:02+00:00
> The US is so weird right now.

The weirdness started in 90s. First it was cultural (TV in 90s, Jerry Springer et al). Then it was electoral (hanging Chads anyone?). Then it was constitutional (Patriot Act). Then it was psychological (all those spooks running various "alt" Q etc.). And now it is lobotomy time. Took almost 3 decades but here we are.
by nilstycho | 2025-05-02 14:21:02+00:00
Was it this? On August 27, 2020, Natalie Escobar for Code Switch interviewed Vicky Osterweil about her book In Defense Of Looting. The segment was titled "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'", and was subsequently retitled "One Author's Controversial View: 'In Defense Of Looting'".

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-...