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by justrudd | 2025-06-23 02:30:47+00:00
I agree with you to an extent. I was recently laid off (start up out of money) along with the rest of the engineering team. So I’m going through loops. The hardest part of the process for me is getting past the initial recruiter. Once I get past whatever “wall” they’ve put in place, I do pretty well. So I wonder how many recruiters now are using AI to screen applicants? Given the hundreds (thousands?) of applications, probably some of them.

Anecdotally - I’ve been through 2 technical screens where they asked me to use an AI prompt to solve a problem. For one, it was a pretty trivial problem (running an hmac over some values) so I just solved it directly. They asked why I didn’t use AI, and I told them honestly that I’ve done something like this hundreds of times, why would I use a prompt for it? Didn’t make it to the next round. Now it’s totally possible that I didn’t make it because of something else. And maybe those were outliers, but it seems like I’ll need to brush up on prompting…
by acdha | 2025-06-23 02:31:16+00:00
> With Bitcoin, a SWAT team can’t take anything away from you without your consent no matter what.

This is pure tautology. They can toss you into jail or beat you until you “consent”, and they can penalize any legitimate businesses who do business with you – Bitcoin is designed to make it easy for governments to do that because the public ledger gives them an unprecedented degree of visibility compared to cash.
by glimshe | 2025-06-23 02:34:51+00:00
I know that these are military planes that were built for the purpose of hurting and killing other human beings. This said, from a technology standpoint, they are amazing. In fact, I miss geeking out on the nonstop military innovations during the Cold war. Sort of a guilty pleasure. I'd love if they built them for no other reason than producing engineering marvels.
by mindslight | 2025-06-23 02:35:44+00:00
I didn't miss that. I'm just not going to get stuck focusing on mild criticism as a justification for causing another new problem, especially one that is seemingly worse. As I acknowledged in my original comment, our government has massive problems that have festered - like cost overruns and incompetent/incestuous management of private contractors. But despite whatever premium they extracted, they actually did deliver real vehicles which are in use right now. If the unit cost is ridiculous going forward, the USPS should put out a new bidding process for new vehicles compatible with the already built infrastructure. If the additional cost of EV vs gasoline is too high (which I doubt given all of the stop-starts), then they should hold off buying more and prioritize which areas they really make sense for. Whatever the case, they certainly should not be scrapping the current vehicles and the supporting infrastructure that was built!

Scrapping them does nothing to right that wrong (that money is gone), while setting up up the government for the next con job - the USPS still needs vehicles. The graft has not "happened" - it is happening, repeatedly. The only reason there are cost cutting measures in this bill is that it can avoid larger congressional processes by being plausibly "revenue neutral". This is one of the reasons why Trump's championed TCJA included tax increases in subsequent years - to be able to call the whole thing revenue neutral. In this context, whenever "savings" are being championed it is really just making a justification for giving it away somewhere else, and such "savings" are likely going to leave the government in a poorer position and having to spend even more later - akin to a high interest loan, but it's not even in terms of simple finances but rather diminished capabilities putting them even further at the mercy of the next set of contractors.
by andrewrn | 2025-06-23 02:36:46+00:00
A few points.

- how do you think assessment would change? As someone who didn't prioritize standardized tests bc my parents thought they were dumb, I was almost optimistic that very advanced AI systems could make assessment obsolete. If the AI is constantly watching out you pick up things and how often you need help, then the assessment is embedded.

- I am older Gen Z, and I definitely struggle with social media use. But I also would say I had a ton of skin in the education game. To this point, I think even with great AI, we'll just see further stratification. If someone wants to learn something, genuinely, then they will learn that thing. I don't think AI changes that.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-23 02:37:05+00:00
You really should be ashamed to lie like this. Iran is the country that has said it is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Israel just wants to live in peace with Iran. But the current religious nutjobs in charge of Iran absolutely will not allow that to happen.

The bombing of Iran by Israel and the US is the result of Iran picking a fight with them since 1979.
by bell-cot | 2025-06-23 02:37:18+00:00
> Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 where it was estimated she was five weeks into an ectopic pregnancy, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk. Doctors determined she needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her pregnancy but since Florida’s six week abortion ban had just taken effect medical staff were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they did.

Note the "ESTIMATED that she was five weeks into", vs. "six week abortion ban". There ain't no "Pregnancy +WW:D:HH:YY:MM" digital display on a woman's belly, and finding expert witnesses who'll estimate different numbers is seldom a challenge.

(Yeah, it'd be nice if the article could have added a paragraph or few about actual prosecutions under Florida's law, and what those looked like. But Guardian editorial policy seems to be "short & shallow".)
by wavesquid | 2025-06-23 02:37:24+00:00
> splice() is the fastest and most efficient way to transfer data through pipes (on Linux), especially for large volumes. It bypasses memory allocations in userspace (as opposed to read(v)/write(v)), there is no extra buffer management logic, there is no memcpy() or iovec traversal.

Proper use of io_uring should finally have it beat or at least matched.
by patio11 | 2025-06-23 02:39:21+00:00
As I note frequently, I have a small pile of thank you letters as a result of the negotiation piece. Very few are written by people with an outsized public profile.

How many people do you think would hit that bar in the industry? Hundreds? I have hundreds of letters with numbers attached to them to say nothing of how many people simply negotiate, get the comp bump, and do not feel the need to email me about it.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-23 02:39:36+00:00
Yeah, I figured it out. I think I am supposed to do this: run a hidden service and a SimpleX server that uses the hidden service's port, and then use the hidden service's hostname as my SMP server that I set within the app.

On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have Tor bundled and run the hidden service by themselves with a hardened-enough torrc. Ricochet does this on desktop, which I think is the right way to go about this. SimpleX's server (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq) should do this.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 02:41:19+00:00
AMZN is my last choice for buying anything. An attempt to buy this stuff

https://www.amazon.com/stores/RIVALZ/page/5690A202-6DDB-42BA...

because my wife found one flavor, slightly expired, at the Amish market and liked it fell through when I tried to buy it straight from the vendor because they charged my credit card with a scammy-looking name neither I nor American Express had ever heard of. Can't get it at Walmart.com, so... (For that matter, Walmart had the first five books of Bocchi the Rock and #7 but not #6)

Ever since the time I saw a product listing though which made no sense at all and reported it and got a reply that they don't care if I didn't buy it I started losing trust. Didn't help that 2 day delivery became 5 days suddenly and the fact that I live in a rural area is no excuse because I used to see an AMZN delivery truck driving around in my neighborhood every Sunday. After I quit Prime they started giving me free trials or a week for $2 whenever I bought something and... now I get the 2 day delivery everyone else gets.
by steviedotboston | 2025-06-23 02:42:38+00:00
Check out the recalls from https://www.cpsc.gov/

Amazon lists thousands of junk products from China that violate US laws around product safety. Toys containing lead paint, crib bumpers that can suffocate babies, etc. The process seems to be that Amazon just needs to remove the product in violation but it really appears that this is a wholesale attempt on Amazon's part to circumvent legislation. It should not be this trivial for consumers to find products that are potentially dangerous.
by mattnewton | 2025-06-23 02:44:23+00:00
I don’t think it’s because anyone has resigned themselves to thinking all rich people are cheaters who will win. I think we use tax incentives in the US primarily because of two beliefs - the first that the private market is often more efficient than public purchasing (which has a pretty poor showing from this article, as you point out!), and the other is that people can choose how to contribute some of their obligations back to society from the set of taxable deductions. We want to softly encourage some behaviors and discourage others, and adjusting taxes work well as a lower risk lower force way to do that.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-06-23 02:45:43+00:00
Perhaps, but generally we hope the cure to be better than the affliction. Type 1 is fairly easily managed with insulin pumps and CGM for a closed loop system that almost approximates a functional pancreas.

Taking immuno-suppressants, which often have painful or nauseous side-effects, as well as the elevated health risks of reducing your immune system doesn’t sound like it’s an actual improvement - at least IMHO.
by jmathai | 2025-06-23 02:45:44+00:00
Most companies can expedite the interview process if you let them know you have another offer. If you can get interest from 2 or more companies than it's not too difficult to get offers from each within the decision window of the first offer.

I've been upfront and honest with recruiters and they accommodate. Having 2 offers has 2 clear benefits:

1) It will definitely help you in negotiations

2) Gives you multiple data points on what the market is willing to pay you
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-23 02:45:50+00:00
> FUTURE GENERATION WILL HAVE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY INGRAINED AS A EVOLUTIONARY TRAIT IN THEM

If we're lucky, future generations will not have to think about productivity at all. For so long we've been in this mode where more is better: Make the economy go brrr and good things happen by proxy.

If AI can handle the brrr, then maybe we can start being a bit more thoughtful about which direction our efforts are steering it in, about whose dreams we're making come true and whether they're any good.

If so, then the valuable skill is going to be the ability to chart a course to where people want to be, and to be believed when you say you can get us there from here. Letting AI handle most of the middle steps does not strike me as the path to that credibility--that's not a leader, that's just the hype guy.
by solomonb | 2025-06-23 02:45:51+00:00
I'm having trouble reading zig code, so I'm not sure how much overlap there is but I have done some work with mealy and moore encoded as co-algebras in haskell:

https://blog.cofree.coffee/2025-03-05-chat-bots-revisited/ https://github.com/cofree-coffee/cofree-bot

Also using the lens library to encode moore machines as polynomial functors: https://blog.cofree.coffee/2024-07-02-lensy-moore/
by dunham | 2025-06-23 02:46:14+00:00
I think that was the book that I read on my Palm Pilot. But it's been a while.

I had the klein stein at one point, but got rid of it when downsizing. It was hard to clean, so not practical for drinking, and not as pretty on the shelf as a classic klein bottle. I'd recommend one of those if you're thinking of getting one.
by ludicity | 2025-06-23 02:47:43+00:00
McKenzie's advice has worked for me every single time. I've managed 10% to 20% at every job since graduating (sometimes with leadership bending a lot of rules for it).

This was before I started writing my blog.

There are jobs where I suspect I couldn't get a raise, but they're all roles where I would be unable to differentiate myself from a commodified ultra-scrub engineer (think the cheap labour you get from generic Azure consultancies).
by ckemere | 2025-06-23 02:47:51+00:00
During the period when Israel was rapidly achieving air superiority I was reflecting on the hypothetical- “What if Iran already had a small number - 1 or 2 - poorly tested weapons. When would they decide to use them? Would the Ayatollah order them to destroy Tel Aviv in revenge for killing him?”

And now, assuming this sets their program back 10-20 years, what will the answer to that question be?

Has anyone seen any analysis on this? It feels like maybe the nuke might be less of a deterrent than threatening to acquire one because using it would put you in a MAD situation where your ballistic missle might malfunction???
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-23 02:48:40+00:00
Here is a gradated set of exercises to determine one's phone addiction, if any, in increasing levels of potential difficulty.

1 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use, put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and do not use or look at it. 2 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use, put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and leave your residence for at least one hour. 3 - leave your phone at home when either meeting friends, getting lunch, or going to the grocery store. 4 - leave your phone at home when going into the office for one day. 5 - leave your phone in a dresser drawer for an entire weekend. 6 - leave your phone at home when traveling for more than a day (vacation, visiting family, etc.).
by mindslight | 2025-06-23 02:48:48+00:00
No, many Americans think they do not prefer the deep state, because they do not realize how good they actually have it. A successful marketing campaign by the corporate government has played off their over inflated sense of self-independence and entitlement, to convince them that the problem with bureaucratic authoritarianism was the bureaucracy and not the authoritarianism. Now that bureaucracy, meaning the last little shred of nominally democratic government, is on the chopping block in favor of full blown corporate authoritarianism. And if you think the deep state was entrenched...
by spauldo | 2025-06-23 02:49:19+00:00
Perhaps it's just the ones people keep sending me links to, but I've seen nothing to indicate that short-form videos are not worthy of scorn. At best you get a moderately funny joke, but most I've seen either breeze through a topic that deserves a longer format or they present extremely one-sided views of complex topics. The fact they're often used to further drive the political divide that's destroying my country just makes it worse.

Want me to instantly lower my opinion of you? Send me a link to a Tik-Tok.
by the-wumpus | 2025-06-23 02:49:32+00:00
They have some incentive to drive users to subscribe, but they have other forms of income, and I think if they ever implemented even a single feature of actual rendering that was closed source their community would riot and we'd get a community managed fork (probably by the guy who does the language server...).

The only way they can continue to gain traction is if they never ever in any way lock people to the web app. Documents must be portable, it's part of why someone would want typst anyways.

I do not see a future where this happens, and if it does it will be because the typst org has changed hands and is also no longer particularly relevant to the future of typst the language.
by retype | 2025-06-23 02:49:57+00:00
All of This! And shout outs to the Ghost in the Graveyard! We also had "Survival Masters." A whole neighborhood (or multiple adjacent, if you can organize that many youths) affair with everyone in two teams, a single safe area, but it is still, at its core, "Tag After Dark." Strats, tactics and patterns emerged, soft skills, team building, athleticism, they were all on show here. As was the neighbor 's tolerances for youth running through and hiding in their properties.
by blululu | 2025-06-23 02:50:22+00:00
The title is a bit misleading: the Interview is mostly just boomer rambling with very little talk of San Francisco. There is a brief digression about Hitchcock's Vertigo - which is a great movie and I enjoyed that section. The movie is all about nostalgia, memory and the imagination, and I suppose San Francisco is a good setting for that since there has always been a sentiment that it used to be better (1849 is universally acknowledge as being the city's prime - rampant syphilis and cholera notwithstanding). From the movie: https://youtu.be/udMms5FKyok?si=ruLJNWTDDgFQeH1W&t=47 Or this slightly punchier clip: https://clip.cafe/vertigo-1958/you-mean-gay-old-bohemian-day...
by inetknght | 2025-06-23 02:51:10+00:00
> I worked at a company where HR would request a copy of the competing offer

"I'm sorry, but the offer is from a stealth startup who does not wish their name to be known."

> it was kind of shocking to learn how often candidates lied about everything from where they worked in the past to having competing offers.

That's the real gut punch. Honest hard-working people are getting shafted while liars and thieves get ahead.
by komali2 | 2025-06-23 02:53:10+00:00
Maybe in certain domains, but I'm not sure.

Check out all the new religions that popped up, and new forms of communal living and societal organization that were being experimented with in the early 1800s in the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district

I feel like these kinds of conversations and experiments don't really happen anymore, despite our incredible interconnectedness. Where's the global Oneida movement?

Or think about the world during early to mid 20th century, when socialist revolutions were occuring everywhere. I believe the Overton window of this era was wide enough to cause sweeping change in capitalist nations as well, such as improvements to worker's conditions. George Lucas somewhat addresses the shrinking of the Overton window in this era in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvaMEFIdI "They never would have let me make [Star Wars] if they knew what I was doing..."

These days, organization of society as a capitalist liberal democracy is a given. It's such a given that anyone even aesthetically organized differently is automatically the world's bad guy - e.g. market-organized but still "Communist" China. Or perhaps evil Iran, with its restrictions on what women can wear (outside of Tehran) (no capitalist liberal democracy restricts women's rights at a fundamental level!!!). I haven't seen a serious conversation about alternative modes of organization outside of little bubbles of fascists or leftists.

In what ways are you seeing a wider Overton window than before? For me I think the obvious ways are surrounding mental health, minority rights, and queer lifestyles. Definitely people talk more openly in the western world about that now, and it seems much less scary now to be queer than even a few decades ago.
by mindslight | 2025-06-23 02:55:13+00:00
Aren't there some R&D difficulties there? Like that whole fogbank thing the US forgot how to make? I hear trying to obtain deuterium and I figure it's for development and small-scale experiments, rather than an ingredient for a straightforward bomb recipe.

Maybe I'm just putting too much weight on the trials and tribulations of developing the first fusion bombs, and the details of solving or working around those problems is widely known in the right circles these days? Plus advancements in simulation accuracy?
by khalilravanna | 2025-06-23 02:56:15+00:00
I have to disagree. Evidence for this being wrong is right on many games websites a la Backloggd with plenty of people rating older games very highly, more than many new releases. More evidence: numerous games being re-released with mainly surface-level changes (older Final Fantasy’s, arguably Oblivion Remastered).

While I absolutely agree some games age like milk (IMO Persona 3 FES/Portable mechanically play like garbage and P4 ain’t much better) there are many games that were either the pinnacle of their of their craft in pretty fundamental ways or were just doing very odd, interesting things that no one tries to do anymore (outside indies). JRPGs are honestly the big genre I see for aging well, but there’s a bunch of PS1/PS2 era games having a big second life with the younger generation.
by vkazanov | 2025-06-23 02:57:20+00:00
I don't know about now but in 2000s anything even remotely math-related was PURE PAIN in Word-likes.

In my master's there were like 30 pages of formulas, all interdependent. Typing/retyping these would take forever.

Also, something as simple as having per-chapter files or working with an acceptable editor also helps.
by scythe | 2025-06-23 02:59:01+00:00
>Economic opportunities for professional writers have declined dramatically. The two crucial pathways were mentioned for novel writers to support themselves economically: (1) magazine writing and (2) academia. In the first case, magazine circulation has suffered because advertisers left for the internet, and in the second case, academic job oportunities have declined because of governmental cutbacks to universities, especially in the humanities.

>The second half of the article argues that authors have made a tradeoff, deciding to maximize critical praise instead of book sales, thereby turning off general audiences who don't share the obscure and trendy tastes of the critics.

I think that the second half of the article seems weak because the first half contains a critical flaw. Academia hasn't declined nearly as much as magazines. Government funding is down, but departments are open and there are still thousands of English professors out there. Meanwhile, enrollment is up and university budgets are broadly still quite healthy. The situation is much worse for traditional long-form entertainment media, which has been squeezed by the blogosphere and the algorithmic feed.

This is not to diminish the argument that the arts have suffered as a whole, but in order to look at changes within the field, we need to consider changes in the relative importance of various factors.

The expected consequence of this is that authors become more dependent on academic jobs, which often react more favorably to critical appraisal than book sales. The second argument in the article then follows.

There is a little more to say here: the old magazine audience was not quite the broad popular audience of the bestseller lists. Rather we have to hypothesize some particular "literary" interest among the magazine audience that creates a market for the writers of literary fiction in a way that today's media does not. But since I have only a passing familiarity with that world and I am not a big reader of literary fiction I do not have any useful insight here.