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by disambiguation | 2025-06-23 00:34:50+00:00
I'm neither endorsing nor advocating for any sides or actions taken, I'm offering what I think is the correct lens to explain this behavior.

Most people look at Israel's actions in a Gaza and say wow how could Israel do that.

They look at the bombing and say wow how could the US do that.

Yet none of these things are happening in a vacuum, they're related to everything else going on in the world.

There's nothing forgivable about mass murder and violence, but in the course of international relationships this is the kind of calculus that defines these decisions.

Diplomacy is nice when its an option, I don't know why it didn't prevail here but legitimate attempts were made by the US to mediate. Unless you think it was all bad faith from the start, which is a different argument entirely.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-23 00:34:54+00:00
This, for me, is the most interesting part of your comment:

> our toddler would unlock and open the front door, go outside (at night!), take pictures of the house, go back in, close and lock the door, and go back into his bed.

Did you ever ask your toddler why they did this? The thought process, for a toddler, to do that, to want a photo of the outside of the house at night enough to do that. That's some high level curiosity, worth fostering.

One of mine at that age would have had that level of quirkiness, but probably would have been too scared of "the dark" (also, our house already had a security system installed when we bought it, which we still set off accidentally every now and then, so the kids would probably have known that as well).
by Amarok | 2025-06-23 00:34:56+00:00
As a counter-point, South Africa is unique as the only country to develop and subsequently dismantle a nuclear weapons program. It built 6 nuclear weapons during the apartheid era, but then voluntarily dismantled them and joined the NPT. This decision was influenced by international pressure, political changes, and a desire for greater global integration. Despite that, it suffered no negative consequences to its sovereignty or regional power projection abilities.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-23 00:35:16+00:00
Actual paper link for those who are interested:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.040

For some broader context missing from the article, there's been a long-running "controversy" with certain people in the Chinese Academy of Sciences making an argument called the multiregional hypothesis that modern Chinese evolved in China out of archaic hominins. Every few years they'd dig up another set of bones with weird morphology, slap a new name on it, and claim it represents a new missing link. The Harbin skull was one of these.

These results firmly resolve that discussion on the side of the western consensus. They also support heretofore speculative ideas on how widespread Denisovans were, probably give us a couple other bones that are known to be similar (but lack genetics), and open a lot of research avenues going forward. Outstanding paper.
by gwynforthewyn | 2025-06-23 00:36:37+00:00
For sure.

Fwiw, I use Claude Pro in my own side project. When it’s great, I think it’s a miracle. But when it hits a problem it’s a moron.

Recently I was fascinated to see it (a) integrate swagger into a golang project in two minutes with full docs added for my api endpoints, and then (b) spend 90 minutes unable to figure out that it couldn’t align a circle to the edge of a canvas because it was moving the circle in increments of 20px and the canvas was 150px wide.

Where it’s good it’s a very good tool, where it’s bad it’s very bad indeed.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-23 00:37:55+00:00
Oblivion is nearly 20 years old now and looked terrible at the time. (compared to other games that shipped at the time) Oblivion is a _big_ game not a polished game.

update: I found this screenshot and I think I was remembering Morrowinds characters.

https://slayweb.blogspot.com/2011/08/elder-scrolls-evolution...
by atmavatar | 2025-06-23 00:37:56+00:00
Fear and hatred are powerful emotions that cause most humans' higher reasoning to shut off. Right wing media has been peddling both for over a half century. So yes, a significant fraction of the Republican voting base are ignorant (maybe not stupid so much as generally misinformed) and racist (at least to the point that openly racist rhetoric is not disqualifying in primaries/elections). Additionally, a large part of the base has proven itself quite gullible with regards to conspiracy theories and other (generally quite obvious) disinformation, especially when they play on existing fears/biases (e.g., schools turning their kids trans).

That isn't to say that Democrat voters are perfect, either. There's certainly a significant undercurrent of left-wing media that is built on fear and hatred - one only need to see how well conditioned women are nowadays to believe that every man they see wants to harm/rape them or how men spending time around children are presumed pedophiles - but it's not quite as prevalent and certainly not as targeted at political affiliation.

It's completely fair to point out that Democrats often fail to address issues facing average people, or when they do, it's done poorly. That's sad, and it needs to change. However, where I get confused is how Republican policy almost universally harms the average person, and yet they get a free pass, even to the degree that I've seen a large cohort of people blame the Democrats for failing to save them from a bad Republican policy/action without passing any of the blame to the Republicans that passed it (e.g., tariffs, DOGE cuts, etc.).

It pains me to see the anemic Democrat response to some of the batshit insane stuff the Republicans do (especially now), but I fear it's largely because the Democratic party is just as much owned and operated by moneyed interests. While the Republicans are stabbing us to death, the best we can hope from the Democrats is to put down the knife without providing any bandages.
by bobxmax | 2025-06-23 00:38:35+00:00
The public school system is absurd and the biggest culprit in the vast majority of our modern problems. The idea that we would take children and put them in an environment that is essentially the same as a prison for 18 years, is ABSURD.

When in human history would teenagers spend most of their time surrounded by other teenagers?

Yet another thing we can credit to Christian expansionism. We have never put our kids in school- no bullying, just balanced happy healthy kiddos.
by throw_lfnsooemd | 2025-06-23 00:38:59+00:00
There is a big gap in outdoor activities for children between the ages of 12 and 18.

That's when kids start to do things without their parents, but don't have the means to engage in most activities. There are plenty of parks and public spaces in the UK, but there is only so much football one can do before getting bored. Most of them can't afford activities, and they are unable to partake in the British national sport (going to the pub). The only thing left is to roam around and be up to no good. In the end, staying indoors and exploring the digital world is the only way for them to experience the world on an equal footing.

It's a tough world for teens.
by gudzpoz | 2025-06-23 00:40:11+00:00
I was writing from the aspect of an Lisp implementer, so that means it is not how I can just use vectors but about how existing code represents a sequence, and it is part of the job of the runtime to make it as fast as possible.

From what I see from existing ELisp code (at least in the Emacs codebase), the idiomatic representation of sequences (fixed-size or not) is using cons lists. And it is not surprising: Emacs vectors are fixed-size and that makes it very inflexible and only suitable for a few things. This matters because, for example, if you want Emacs to compete with VSCode in performance, you eventually compares how idiomatic code performs. Note that how cons lists affect performance in real-world ELisp code remains unknown because it is yet to be benchmarked, but exposing the internals of idiomatic lists as conses does pose some challenges for an implementer aiming for further optimizations.
by ednite | 2025-06-23 00:40:32+00:00
What’s even wilder is that I used to work from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. ,not every single day, but often enough, especially when chasing tight deadlines. For years I had no hobbies, just work.

Recently, I changed mindset and spend evenings writing or doing something creative, and surprisingly, it gives me energy instead of draining it.

I’m not claiming this is healthy, it’s just what works for me. I’ve been fortunate to have strong support at home, especially from my wife.

My main point is unless you have real ownership or upside, adopting this kind of work ethic can be a trap. Passion is great, but burnout is real.

I plan to start turning some of these reflections into a personal YouTube project. Simply to share honest stories in case they help someone else who's caught in the grind.

Thanks for the comment.
by romaaeterna | 2025-06-23 00:41:14+00:00
Younger people don't read books as frequently as they did when I was young (pre-internet). Bookstores are flooded with junk, with the SEO-equivalent of publishing spam having won out on the bookshelves. Libraries are as bad or worse. Students do not pursue Greek and Latin and classical literature, and have no reference point of high culture apart from the distracting now.

And the English language has declined. English has always been a scraped-together, something-of-everything tongue. But jargon and abstractisms have killed expression. Meanwhile, French and German have eaten so many Americanisms that they're in terminal indigestion, and now the whole planet thinks and talks like a slightly below-average bumpkin American with a college journalism degree.
by cubefox | 2025-06-23 00:41:15+00:00
> The reality is that most "literary" fiction is terrible and navel-gazing, seemingly written to land tenure somewhere or push some stupid literary trend that is just as vapid as any other publishing trend, only less fun.

I think that's just prejudice. Literary fiction simply has artistic or intellectual value beyond entertainment, and beyond using familiar tropes.

It's possible that King has some of these qualities somewhere. I have only read ten to fifteen of his novels. But that was enough that I could e.g. predict the ending of The Shining after about 50 pages.
by refurb | 2025-06-23 00:42:24+00:00
Let’s be honest - like most international law, it’s just a coat of paint over the stronger demand the weaker do what they say.

If it wasn’t the US as the world’s leading power, but rather China, the list of countries forced to give up nuclear programs would be entirely different.

I’m not against trying to limit nuclear proliferation, but trying to paint it as some democratic legal process is naive.

The US loves to use the UN as cover for their own strategic goals, but happy to ignore the UN if it benefits them. Same with those talking nuclear non-proliferation.
by greentec | 2025-06-23 00:42:34+00:00
I hit an interesting problem with my puzzle game Logic Islands - 3 out of 6 rulesets would hang forever trying to generate maps larger than 7x7.

The trick that worked? Using Wave Function Collapse, but choosing what to generate based on each ruleset - islands for some, walls for others. This flexibility made complex constraints (like "no 2x2 blocks") trivial to express as tile connection rules.

My favorite result: the "Minimal" ruleset enforces "all wall regions must be exactly 3 cells" using just 11 tiles and local WFC constraints. No post-processing needed.

Now generates 12x12 maps instantly instead of hanging forever.

Anyone else using WFC for logic puzzles beyond typical texture synthesis?
by refurb | 2025-06-23 00:44:40+00:00
I get the point but that’s not true at all.

There are plenty of guns in LA, and any ICE agent or cop would be dumb to assume those they are arresting are unarmed because “it’s against the law”.

The red cities don’t have sanctuary city rules in place, so local law enforcement helps ICE and the arrests don’t make the news.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-06-23 00:44:56+00:00
>Honestly, I’m questioning why I’d need a designer in a year.

Idk my guy maybe you should sit down with them and ask them how they're using AI and if they aren't, maybe be cooperative and introduce them to it instead of getting a stiff one fantasizing about firing them.

This whole hype cycle has some serious arrogance and sociopathic undertones about unemploying a lot of technical people suddenly (like they had it coming or something).
by georgemcbay | 2025-06-23 00:45:07+00:00
> Yeah maybe. Talk is cheap, show me the code.

Or even just link the app (which the poster is presumably eager to market, right?) as a bare minimum.

If LLMs for coding were half as productive at cranking out production quality software unassisted as the astroturfed hype around them suggests we should have seen a large unmistakable wave of better, faster-released software by now just in the output of software companies, startups, etc, but beyond the hype blogs (or reddit posts) I'm not seeing anything other than the status quo.

I'm not saying LLMs are worthless, they are pretty useful as advanced autocomplete and documentation that you can also happen to ask things in natural languages and get reasonable results (so long as you already have a solid enough base of knowledge to recognize when they are going off the rails). They can be very useful productivity speed-up tools, especially when you start working in a new realm.

But there's a long way from that to the "replaces 90% of all developers in writing 100% of their code" that is being sold in the hype.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-23 00:45:14+00:00
> As a counter-point, South Africa is unique as the only country to develop and subsequently dismantle a nuclear weapons program.

Several countries have voluntarily dismantled nuclear weapons programs (the participants in the South American nuclear arms race of the 1980s being examples), and several countries have voluntary disarmed of actual nuclear weapons. South Africa is not unique in doing either.

It is arguably unique among the latter group in not having inherited the weapons as a successor state from a distinct preceding regime, but even if we were going to draw broad conclusions from n=1 examples, its quite arguably that that is less relevant to the difference in experience versus that of (say) Ukraine than other geopolitical factors.

> It built 6 nuclear weapons during the apartheid era, but then voluntarily dismantled them and joined the NPT. This decision was influenced by international pressure, political changes, and a desire for greater global integration. Despite that, it suffered no negative consequences to its sovereignty or regional power projection abilities.

Kind of hard to specifically isolate the loss of regional power South Africa experienced from nuclear disarmament from the loss of regional power it experienced from other causes concurrently, but it certainly had less after than before.
by selcuka | 2025-06-23 00:45:41+00:00
> that’s quite lucky

The second offer does not have to be real. If it's real, what's the point of negotiating with the first company?

If you are not willing to work for $X, simply saying that you want $1.25X won't work, but mentioning a hypothetical competitive offer might. If it doesn't, well, you weren't going to take the job (for $X) in either case anyway.
by skissane | 2025-06-23 00:47:18+00:00
> Yet another thing we can credit to Christian expansionism.

Yeshivahs and madrassas are nothing new; in Bhutan, there monasteries brimming with young boys spending their days studying voluminous Tibetan Buddhist scriptures.

The biggest factor in the growth of schooling in modern period hasn't been any religion – it is the idea that education is a universal right for every child, as opposed to a privilege for the children of the elite.
by martinald | 2025-06-23 00:48:42+00:00
I find it odd that this is has became such a pandamoniom now.

As an elder millennial I can remember everyone being absolutely glued to MSN Messenger in secondary school. This was back in the dialup days so it was stopping your parents making phone calls!

Regardless, I feel that it the debate needs to be about what children are doing. Probably like many here I spent a lot of my childhood devouring technical content on the internet, which I would say has given me the chance to work on incredibly interesting projects (and make friends with people across the world). If I had been time restricted on my computer (and a lot of my friends were) it would have significantly altered my career trajectory.

If you are scrolling endless garbage tiktok or YouTube videos for hours a day, yes the utility is pretty low (though again, watching hours of trashy cable TV back in the day doesn't feel that different to me).

That doesn't mean that many won't learn and find out about their passions in a way that was unthinkable a few decades ago.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-06-23 00:48:42+00:00
Unsurprising. I sort of feel this is just the natural cycle of the company structure, and that we have to hope any enshittifying service eventually gets bad enough to drive a large group to another platform earlier in its lifecycle. I’d support creators on any other platform if they offered to take money on it, but there’s only so much I can do as the person giving the money.
by spike021 | 2025-06-23 00:49:09+00:00
I've used it to add test coverage. Granted it wasn't for new major features but small features that still necessitated having tests.

IME so far that's what it's best at. As long as there exists tests in the codebase that provide enough of the basic skeleton (i.e. if they already test part of a controller or code that interacts with a DB) to guess what's needed then it can do a decent job. It's still not perfect though and when it comes to inventing bespoke tests that are uniquely different from other tests it needs much more of a helping hand.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-06-23 00:49:57+00:00
Or https://shonanbeachfm.out.airtime.pro:8000/shonanbeachfm_a if you want to use a web radio app like https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/ etc.

One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.

I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-23 00:51:05+00:00
> We’ve hit the point where asking “Which programming language should I learn?” is almost irrelevant. The real skill now is system design, architecture, DevOps, cloud — the stuff that separated juniors from seniors. That’s what’ll matter.

I’ve never worked in a shop where knowing how to write code is enough. While I’m sure these places exist, from my first software engineering job ~13 years ago to today, distributed systems design and architecture has always been a table stakes skill and specialization in a particular language has been secondary.

I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe. Where all the code only jobs anyway?
by Nition | 2025-06-23 00:52:02+00:00
I have to say it made the later "Runtime Fee" announcement seem even more in poor taste as well, given that it might have had a big effect on the users paying it, but ultimately mean almost nothing to Unity against the billions paid for IronSource and WetaFX.

At 2¢ per install, with a million Unity games installed every year, they'd make a profit in 300,000 years.
by martinald | 2025-06-23 00:52:14+00:00
I think we are romanticising what teens used to do (much more at least) to pass their boredom. Articles like this make it sound like pre smartphone everyone was doing endless sport, drama and other artistic and social endeavours. At least what I remember was a lot of underage drinking and antisocial behaviour.

I can remember in the early 2000s children being made out as feral animals roaming the streets in the UK. Now they're being demonized for scrolling their phones.
by aisenik | 2025-06-23 00:53:13+00:00
Hatred is the appropriate response to evil and there is nothing that clarifies Good and Evil like the richest, deadliest, most powerful entity in the entire history of known life aligning itself and its resources towards eradicating you and your peers.

If you are driven to hate this administration, that is a good thing. They are evil, the rebirth of the exact evil identified in the Nazis: a total lack of empathy. Indeed, they claim empathy -- the most essential human emotion -- is a sin.

When you find burning hatred clouding your judgment, sit in it and know that your anger will protect you from injustice (that is the purpose of the emotion). Remind yourself that hate and anger cannot yield creation, and creation is the light of god that suffuses all things. Destruction is a terrible yet inevitable end that should only be induced to protect the weak and ameliorate suffering, so be just and resolute when you seek it.

It is ok to hate Neonazis, to say the least.
by AndresFer | 2025-06-23 00:54:10+00:00
No one is losing their job. Artificial Intelligence is an abstraction of intelligence, not a thinking or living entity. It operates under the same principle as the halting problem. In simple terms: how would AI know when to start or finish a task unless it’s explicitly triggered?

If this is the basis of how computers work, and AI is just an extension of that, then its role today is to handle tasks that start and stop with a trigger. Humans will focus on continuous, non-triggered activities like urban development, discovery, and creation.

While it’s true that many jobs will be replaced by AI, it’s because those jobs were repetitive and arguably not meant for humans in the first place. At a higher level, GPT is just an automation that spans multiple categories. Ask yourself: what are you able to do now with GPT that you couldn’t before, if time wasn’t a factor?

If GPT actually acted on its own, OpenAI would be working on true AGI, not just an advanced tool for handling language and information. In the end, they followed the standard entrepreneurship playbook: build a product and make sure it generates revenue.