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by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 15:24:51+00:00
A better example would be one ice cream vendor uses ethically sourced milk and pays all it's workers a solid living wage with benefits, effectively functioning as an extra $350/day expense. The other vendor uses minimum wage labor and factory farm milk.

>has the "market" decided that the [unethical] business is superior

Yes, because anyone half paying attention on the ground instead of scrolling self-righteous internet content all day knows that price is actually king above all else.

$18 ethical ice cream cones taste great, but not as great as $4 ice cream cones.

To ground this in reality, look at the insane rise of Shein for clothes.
by maeln | 2025-07-02 15:24:58+00:00
> I started voting for Republicans because I watched Democrats become anti-science, e.g., gender-affirming care.

No, you decided to vote republicans when you stop agreeing with some of the science.

> (conservatives actually talk with me, while liberals shun me if I ask for evidence)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tran...
by hakunin | 2025-07-02 15:25:23+00:00
Wasn't Rails the first major OSS to move to Github when Github first appeared? IIRC it's the other way around: everyone started using MIT because Rails did.

Edit: Here's the initial commit in 2004, with MIT License already in there, way before Github launched in 2008 — https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/db045dbbf60b53dbe013ef...
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 15:25:27+00:00
A single guy?

I'd count that as a sorites problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

But the distribution for wealth under capitalism isn't "one" person, and capitalism wouldn't work if it was, because nobody else could buy anything with the money, and therefore everyone else would invent a new currency or barter, and then all the money which that one person has would be worthless.
by totalperspectiv | 2025-07-02 15:25:50+00:00
I think you hit the nail on the head with the mental model part. I really like this method of thinking about programming "Programming as Theory Building" https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...

I don't mind when other programmers use AI, and use it myself. What I mind is the abdication of responsibility for the code or result. I don't think that we should be issuing a disclaimer when we use AI any more than when I used grep to do the log search. If we use it, we own the result of it as a tool and need to treat it as such. Extra important for generated code.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-02 15:25:56+00:00
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-r...

> The government recently disbanded two outside advisory committees that used to consult on the numbers, offering suggestions on ways to improve the reliability of the government data.

> At the same time, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has suggested changing the way the broadest measure of the economy — gross domestic product — is calculated.

> Those moves are raising concerns about whether economic data could be manipulated for political or other purposes.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-02 15:26:18+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I'm not even disputing your main point-- I do agree that things have gotten better for the average American over the last decades.

Though I still think that longer-term inflation adjustment (CPI based comparisons even more so) always warrant a critical look.

> Yes, housing supply should be much more abundant. The constraint on supply has not been the 1%, but government regulation through zoning and environmental restrictions.

I'm not buying the whole "regulation is to blame for rising housing costs" at all. If it was, I would expect countless "housing havens": states/nations in the US/Europe with "correct regulation" and housing costs at least staying stable over the last decades: But I don't see those.

My take on this is that this is mainly a consequence of the Baumol effect; local-labor intensive products like houses, childcare, education suffer from strongly rising costs because wages increased generally; regulation cant/wont magically solve this.

But if you just compare wage development itself, things look much better over time than they actually are for the average person, because you omit this effect from your consideration by design.

So things actually improved much less for the average American than a first glance at your numbers suggests.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 15:26:47+00:00
If it's about supply chains and the like, Eve Online might be a better fit, it's got the factor of time, deal-making, social interaction, theft, war, blockades, undercutting, etc in there as well.

like, I can see a high school class set up their corporation, get mining set up, maybe own a station, get production running... but then a nullsec alliance is like haha fuck you and completely undercuts them, or the recurring player event where they block / destroy anything coming into or out of the main trade hub starts.

Factorio is pretty predictable... or maybe I've played it too often so I know what to consider for the long term. I should get some mods or change some settings to create calamities like in the old Sim City.
by mstubna | 2025-07-02 15:26:50+00:00
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by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-02 15:27:01+00:00
Some people care about how reasonable a price seems even if they can easily afford something, because it's important to them to feel like they're getting a good deal or at least not getting taken advantage of. They're happy to accept some level of inconvenience or discomfort if the savings are big enough, even if they don't particularly need the money

Some people care more about getting exactly the right thing, even if the value proposition is weaker. They'll pay significantly more for apparently trivial differences, because they don't want to buy something they're not happy with; they're spending money anyway and why put up with something they don't want if they can afford something they do want?

Neither of these people are strictly unreasonable.
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by lsroot | 2025-07-02 15:27:16+00:00
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by zargath | 2025-07-02 15:27:23+00:00
Sounds very basic, sadly.

Anybody know why these web crawling/bot standards are not evolving ? I believe robots.txt was invented in 1994(thx chatgpt). People have tried with sitemaps, RSS and IndexNow, but its like huge$$ organizations are depending on HelloWorld.bas tech to control their entire platform.

I want to spin up endpoints/mcp/etc. and let intelligent bots communicate with my services. Let them ask for access, ask for content, pay for content, etc. I want to offer solutions for bots to consume my content, instead of having to choose between full or no access.

I am all for AI, but please try to do better. Right now the internet is about to be eaten up by stupid bot farms and served into chat screens. They dont want to refer back to their source and when they do its with insane error rates.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-02 15:27:59+00:00
Not unexpected that people would react strongly against any mention of physical labour on this forum – and immediately take a hostile attitude.

I've done my fair share of these kind of jobs in my life and my body is great. You can do it for some years while you are young. Yes – if you do the same job your entire life you will destroy your body. Especially if you do not take care to listen to it and adapt how you work and how you exercise.

Young people should work hard and be paid well, that's how a healthy economy functions. Not by having manufacturing based on foreign slave labour.

Anecdotally, I know many people who started on the ground floor and then moved on to management or sales with experience. Or switched jobs and careers. People switch jobs all the time, staying at the same post for life is mostly a thing of the past.
by jodrellblank | 2025-07-02 15:28:18+00:00
If you serve your UI as out-of-order HTML content abusing tables for browser layout, if you merge broken fragments of mismatched XHTML from a content management system to cobble a page together on the fly, if you hide items behind burger menus, if you make interactivity from CSS and minified Javascript to visually look like input boxes and buttons instead of using standard buttons, if you add overlays and blocks to stop people selecting or copying text, if you care nothing about tab order and keyboard shortcuts and image alt text, if you reflow text around images, if you name CSS identifiers with no semantic meaning, if you mix in arbitrary advertising and tracking and framework session state, why is a screenreader "a piece of crap" for not being able to magically infer a human interpretation of the page?

Why is it embarrassing to need to code against standardised accessibility interfaces so that other tools using those interfaces can function? Is it embarrassing to have to code against a database or filesystem interface to persist data, or a graphics interface to show pictures?
by ajmurmann | 2025-07-02 15:28:52+00:00
Not to come off as too cynical but I've increasingly come to the conclusion that the public discourse stays generally at a very shallow level that basic research for 30 minutes quickly moves you beyond. On one hand I find that appalling and poisonous for a democracy. On the other hand, imagine everyone having to spend 30+ minutes on every important topic. It quickly gets out of hand. One could argue that the media should do that research but if they incorporate that in their communication they lose most of their audience who needs to be picked up where they are.

It's why I recently have been convinced that we need something like election my jury
by jjice | 2025-07-02 15:29:01+00:00
My favorite use case for LLMs in long term software production (they're pretty great at one off stuff since I don't need to maintain) is as an advanced boiler plate generator.

Stuff that can't just be abstracted to a function or class but also require no real thought. Tests are often (depending on what they're testing) in this realm.

I was resistant at first, but I love it. It's reduced the parts of my job that I dislike doing because of how monotonous they are and replaced them with a new fun thing to do - optimizing prompts that get it done for me much faster.

Writing the prompt and reviewing the code is _so_ much faster on tedious simple stuff and it leaves the interesting, though provoking parts of my work for me to do.
by patrickmay | 2025-07-02 15:29:09+00:00
> [LLMs] save me a ton of time doing either boilerplate work

I hear this frequently from LLM aficionados. I have a couple of questions about it:

1) If there is so much boilerplate that it takes a significant amount of coding time, why haven't you invested in abstracting it away?

2) The time spent actually writing code is not typically the bottleneck in implementing a system. How much do you really save over the development lifecycle when you have to review the LLM output in any case?
by adrian_b | 2025-07-02 15:29:13+00:00
With most available software packages floating point arithmetic remains much faster than integer arithmetic, but because those software packages do not use the more recent CPU features, since thanks to Intel's stupidity there still are many CPUs which do not support those features.

Already in 2018, with Cannon Lake, Intel has introduced instructions (IFMA) which can reuse for integer computations the same vector multipliers and adders that are provided for floating-point computations. However, later Intel has removed AVX-512 from its consumer CPUs. The latest models of Intel CPUs have introduced a slower AVX-encoded variant of IFMA, but this is too little and too late, in comparison with what AMD offers.

Using IFMA and the other AVX-512 integer vector instructions, where supported, it is possible to obtain very similar throughputs, regardless if the computation is done with integer or floating-point numbers.

Hopefully, with the growing installed base of Zen 4 and Zen 5 based computers there will be the incentive to update many software packages to take advantage of their capabilities.
by gavinray | 2025-07-02 15:29:47+00:00
You have to find some sort of exercise/movement that you both enjoy (or at least, don't hate), and doesn't cause you physical discomfort.

Otherwise, you'll never stick with it.

I hate jogging, I have forced myself to do daily jogging for several month periods, but I never stick with it.

For me, incline treadmill at maximum incline and a moderate pace gets my heart-rate up and doesn't feel nearly as awful.
by ramses0 | 2025-07-02 15:30:50+00:00
I'm adding this tidbit of knowledge to my context as well... :-P

Only recently have I started interacting with LLM's more (I tried out a previous "use it as a book club partner" suggestion, and it's pretty great!).

When coding with them (via cursor), there was an interaction where I nudged it: "hey, you forgot xyz when you wrote that code the first time" (ie: updating an associated data structure or cache or whatever), and I find myself INTENTIONALLY giving the machine at least the shadow of a benefit of the doubt that: "Yeah, I might have made that mistake too if I were writing that code" or "Yeah, I might have written the base case first and _then_ gotten around to updating the cache, or decrementing the overall number of found items or whatever".

In the "book club" and "movie club" case, I asked it to discuss two movies and there were a few flubs: was the main character "justly imprisoned", or "unjustly imprisoned" ... a human might have made that same typo? Correct it, don't dwell on it, go with the flow... even in a 100% human discussion on books and movies, people (and hallucinating AI/LLM's) can not remember with 100% pinpoint accuracy every little detail, and I find giving a bit of benefit of the doubt to the conversation partner lowers my stress level quite a bit.

I guess: even when it's an AI, try to keep your interactions positive.
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by noisy_boy | 2025-07-02 15:31:26+00:00
I think they are making me more productive in achieving my targets and worse in my ability to program.

They are exactly like steroids - bigger muscles fast but tons of side effects and everything collapses the moment you stop. Companies don't care because they are more concerned about getting to their targets fast instead of your health.

Another harmful drug for our brain if consumed without moderation. I won't entirely stop using them but I have already started to actively control/focus my usage.
by taeric | 2025-07-02 15:31:45+00:00
It is frustratingly hard for me to trust most any nootropic discussion nowadays. Without many large random trials, there are as many questions as answers afterwards.

It doesn't help that I'm on Adderall, but if left to my own devices, would absolutely skip it. I'm assuming I benefit in the able to think way from it. Largely the only reason I know I missed a dose is if I find I lose my patience quickly with others.
by zeta0134 | 2025-07-02 15:32:31+00:00
Even putting aside the ethical issues, it's rare that I want to copy/paste code that I find into my own project without doing a thorough review of it. Typically if I'm working off some example I've found, I will hand-type it in my project's established coding style and add comments to clarify things that are not obvious to me in that moment. With an LLM's output, I think I would have to adopt a similar workflow, and right now that feels slower than just solving the problem myself. I already have the project's domain in my mental map, and explaining it to the agent is tedious and a time waste.

I think this is often overlooked, because on the one hand it's really impressive what the predictive model can sometimes do. Maybe it's super handy as an autocomplete, or an exploration, or for rapidly building a prototype? But for real codebases, the code itself isn't the important part. What matters is documenting the business logic and setting it up for efficient maintenance by all stakeholders in the project. That's the actual task, right there. I spend more time writing documentation and unit tests to validate that business logic than I do actually writing the code that will pass those tests, and a lot of that time is specifically spent coordinating with my peers to make sure I understand those requirements, that they were specified correctly, that the customer will be satisfied with the solution... all stuff an LLM isn't really able to replace.
by jimbokun | 2025-07-02 15:33:17+00:00
I think LLMs have made a lot of developers forget the lessons in "Simple Made Easy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

LLMs seem to be really good at reproducing the classic Ball of Mud, that can't really be refactored or understood.

There's a lot of power in creating simple components that interact with other simple components to produce complex functionality. While each component is easy to understand and debug and predict its performance. The trick is to figure out how to decompose your complex problem into these simple components and their interactions.

I suppose once LLMs get really good at that skill, will be when we really won't need developers any more.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-07-02 15:33:26+00:00
I find that these days the browsers are all about the same performance-wise and it ends up not mattering much. PCs are so fast that it's very rarely the browser that is the bottleneck. Cool that they're still working to keep it snappy though.

I will say mobile is a bit different. I prefer mobile browser to apps when possible so I can have ad-blocking, but some websites run like complete garbage on mobile browser. They're so slow it's almost unusable. I'm almost 100% certain that's not on the browser itself though.
by dfxm12 | 2025-07-02 15:34:06+00:00
This is not evidence for what you are saying. Handing down stuff, including clothes doesn't equate to poverty, sometimes the opposite. Better clothes also last longer. Check out the Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness. To take this a little literally, for much of my young adulthood, I wore my dad's old snow boots, not because I was poor, but because they were too well made, even at an old age, not to use.

Choosing to buy more, cheaper, clothes is as much an example of consumerism, as anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
by taeric | 2025-07-02 15:34:29+00:00
My trick was to find a way to obligate myself to finish. Biking to work was a huge win for my fitness. Even on days I didn't really want to bike a few more miles at the end of the day, I still had to get home.

For my kids, I'm trying to convince them that a lot of the things they find uncomfortable are things they just aren't used to. Ergonomics have fooled a lot people into thinking "feels right" is the initial state of something, I think? You still have to train yourself to get used to a lot of things.