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by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-02 23:47:01+00:00
The intent behind HB 20, which has a size exemption and has not AFAIK driven anyone out of the market.

The ID law, sure, I doubt the proponents of it care which alternative comes to pass (ID checks or market exit) since I expect they're opposed to the service to begin with. But that law has no size carveout, I didn't use it as an example, and I don't think it's a good law. So we're likely in agreement regarding it.

> Would the former be any different?

I expect so, yes. You've constructed a dichotomy where heavy handed moderation and failure to moderate effectively are the only possible outcomes. That seems like ideologically motivated helplessness to me.

I'm also not entirely clear what we're talking about anymore. The proposed law has to do with ID checks, the sentiment expressed was "if you don't moderate for yourselves the government will impose on you", and somehow we've arrived at you confidently claiming that decent moderation is unattainable. Yet you haven't specified the price range nor the criteria being adhered to.

The point you raise about federated networks is an interesting one, however it remains to be seen if such networks exhibit the same dynamics that centralized ones do. In the absence of a profit driven incentive for an algorithm that farms engagement we don't yet know if the same social ills will be present.
by gandalfian | 2025-07-02 23:47:47+00:00
If you are young and give the silence a decent go it's OK to fall back on a book after a bit, or if you are too young to read yet, quietly working on some lego under your seat will not bother anyone. Adults are a little trickier but comtemplating a bible or Faith and Practice works. And, you know, it is meant to be voluntary.
by kmeisthax | 2025-07-02 23:48:13+00:00
The problem is that they bought into the iPad hype.

The correct way to build a tablet OS is to start with a desktop environment and optimize it - including third-party software - for fingers. We see this with iPadOS, which keeps getting hand-me-down features from macOS, implemented almost exactly the same as they are on macOS but with bigger tap targets.

In contrast, Windows 8 saw Microsoft taking the contemporary state of the iPad - single window, everything full screen, etc - and treating this as the future. Hell, I'm surprised they even shipped split-screen on it. They even locked down the app runtime to signed Store apps only[0]. My guess is that management saw dollar signs from how much Apple made from the iOS App Store and thought turning Windows into an "iPad Killer"[1] would replicate the same success.

Ironically, Windows 7 was already built to be a touch-friendly desktop, they just didn't actually finish making it touch-friendly.

[0] Which created a fun bifurcation between widget toolkits in the Microsoft ecosystem that persists to this day.

[1] Any time a company describes a product as a "killer" product, i.e. something intended to outcompete another product, they've already lost.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-02 23:48:41+00:00
> Many of the most valuable scientific organizations in the world, including NOAA, NASA, the NSF, the CDC, the EPA, and the FDA,

I don’t dismiss the premise of the article and I think it is a shame how these organizations are being impacted, but I don’t know that these are the best exemplars of cutting edge science being shut down that will lead to America’s downfall from its scientific perch.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-02 23:48:46+00:00
That code is an example of f(a) being equivalent to a.f(). You can do it the f(a) way if you prefer.

`map` is an operation on a data structure that replaces one element with another, in this case `a` gets replaces with `idup(a)`. The `idup` makes a copy of its argument in memory, and marks the data is immutable.
by padjo | 2025-07-02 23:48:54+00:00
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Nobody is jumping to conclusions, lots of climate related information is being scrubbed. This website has been down for at least 12 hours. The fact that the domain is still registered proves precisely nothing.

Could it be a misconfiguration? Sure, but available evidence points to an ongoing attempt to erase everything related to climate change.
by EasyMark | 2025-07-02 23:49:17+00:00
He really had some of the worst ideas for longevity of a company. Valuing short term profits over long term plans and goals for the company is the biggest one. The other is probably his adversarial relationship with his employees. He didn't see them as anything other than "the help" and was constantly talking down to them, assumed they were lazy and looking for the easy path in life, in everything I ever read from him.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-07-02 23:49:26+00:00
> The machine took 18 months of adjusting before it worked reliably

That doesn’t tell the story of the overall ROI. After 18 months of shakiness were those folks able to go do other work? Did the work pay for itself on a 5 year timeline? 10 years? Achieving reliability is huge - did the company spin that for PR?
by gargoyle9123 | 2025-07-02 23:50:40+00:00
We hired Soham.

I can tell you it's because he's actually a very skilled engineer. He will blow the interviews completely out of the water. Easily top 1% or top 0.1% of candidates -- other startups will tell you this as well.

The problem is when the job (or work-trial in our case) actually starts, it's just excuses upon excuses as to why he's missing a meeting, or why the PR was pushed late. The excuses become more ridiculous and unbelievable, up until it's obvious he's just lying.

Other people in this thread are incorrect, it's not a dev. shop. I worked with Soham in-person for 2 days during the work-trial process, he's good. He left half of each day with some excuse about meeting a lawyer.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-02 23:52:28+00:00
Diversity of what (identity or thought), who, and/or where?

Silicon Valley, the population of ordinary people residing there, 10 years ago (2015), heaved diversity. In corporate employment, it took decades to break through gender and race ceilings in industry to various degrees, but it largely happened, mostly, for better or worse.

Bringing together people, capital, opportunity, and academia creates a vibrant ecosystem that mutually reinforces further gains in a "virtuous" cycle. What doesn't create much is having only a few people spread out without a support system. It takes encouraging a mix of many open minded people within a smaller physical or digital proximity in order to get the w00w00 effect. That can't really happen when people are told they're not welcome.
by skybrian | 2025-07-02 23:52:58+00:00
That’s because flatMap() is a good name for a particular list operation, but it’s not generic enough to be a good name for the corresponding monad operation.

I’m not sure there is a good name for the monad operation. Sometimes it’s called ‘bind’ but what does it bind?

I suppose you could call it ‘then’ like when working with Promises.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-02 23:53:10+00:00
Bummer. :( I wouldn't beat myself up over it, but you should take the lesson for everything it's worth: it's always risky to put a PC or any other cheap complex device in a critical real-time control role. Even when "real time" implies a lag time of an hour or more.

A good cautionary tale in fail-safe design. You're now a better aquarist and a better engineer. Go forth and sin no more. :-P
by chaoskitty | 2025-07-02 23:53:11+00:00
Serious question: You put Cloudflare between all your domains and all your visitors without looking in to how this would affect your site's reachability? If so, that's interesting, considering that many people in this community are negatively affected by Cloudflare because they're using Linux and/or some less than mainstream browser.

You might want to read some threads on here about Cloudflare.
by timr | 2025-07-02 23:53:17+00:00
I'm not being hopelessly naive. It's certainly possible that they took it down with the explicit intention of hiding information on the internet, but that would also be pretty stupid, since various articles have found the reports on other government servers. So I assume incompetence before malice.

What's already known is that they fired the staff who prepared the report, and are presumably shutting down the agency. Is it really surprising that someone might have turned off the webserver before transferring the domain?
by krapp | 2025-07-02 23:54:16+00:00
>The interesting (to me) part about such a philosophy is that it seems like it can only really survive and prosper within a society where someone else is willing to pick up the burden of doing the killing for you.

This seems to assume the "the burden of killing" is not only necessary but unavoidable, as if violence were a constant which should be equitably distributed amongst everyone. If so, I would presume the Quakers would disagree, and would be perfectly satisfied if no one bothered killing at all.

And historically speaking not a lot of people have been willing to kill to protect pacifists like the Quakers who have little capital, social clout or political power. So it isn't much of a burden to begin with.
by johns01 | 2025-07-02 23:54:57+00:00
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by dh2022 | 2025-07-02 23:55:42+00:00
This article extends the faulty yet widely-accepted premise that only the US President can approve a nuclear strike. As the book "The Doomsday Machine - confessions of a nuclear war planner" by Daniel Ellsberg makes it plain, highly ranked officers (for example, the commander of Pacific Fleet) can issue a nuclear strike without approval from the President (or anyone else for that matter). This has been the case since Eisenhower's days.
by jriggs | 2025-07-02 23:56:09+00:00
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by xg15 | 2025-07-02 23:56:15+00:00
I've grown really tired of the term "self defense" in the context of the wars recently.

Not because the concept would be wrong or there would be no need for it - of course a state has to be able to defend its population against attacks - but because as soon as there is a situation where it applies in war, both sides seem to stretch it to absolutely unrecognizable lengths and use it to justify essentially everything in warfare.

That's why I'm wary if someone makes a theoretical argument about personal self-defense that's tailor-made to justify killing. It feels too much like the same tactics in war propaganda.

There are nonlethal ways of defending oneself or others, too, btw. Learn martial arts, knock them out, use a taser if you have too, then grab your kid and run. None of that requires shooting them.
by timr | 2025-07-02 23:57:10+00:00
> “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Except they did, as I found an NPR article with official comment, and there's a link downthread to this much better article about the same thing, again with authoritative reply:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...
by ordu | 2025-07-02 23:57:43+00:00
Two quotes about shattering plates:

“It’s like if you had a porcelain plate with a picture of an Italian city,” said Hendrik Schatz (opens a new tab), a nuclear astrophysicist at FRIB. If you wanted a piece with just one house on it, you’d have to break a lot of plates before you got the right picture. “We’re shattering a trillion plates per second.”

Its isotopes are even tricker to isolate; if fragmentation during the i-process is like capturing a picture of a house from a shattered plate, then the r-process means picking out only the window.

I'm thinking if it is a right analogy? Wouldn't it be easier to get a specific smaller piece? I mean there are more details on a bigger piece that should be preserved all, while a smaller piece will have fewer details, so the probability of this should be higher, shouldn't it?
by beanjammin | 2025-07-02 23:59:10+00:00
They certainly want us to feel like its unfixable, but it's not. Were govt to put the effort into the energy transition that we saw in the early days of covid we could zero our emissions, and relatively quickly. The technology is largely available, it needs to be implemented.

The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the far right are clear. Apathy, indifference, inertia, they are all products of propaganda and updated Cambridge Analytica methods.

Fossil fuel interests will stop at nothing to further their greed.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-02 23:59:37+00:00
Checked errors are not categorically better than runtime exceptions. There are lots of things that should never be checked exceptions: division by zero, illegal array access, OOM, and everything that can't be (at least not locally) recovered from.

That's why Kotlin's philosophy is and has for a long time been "use values for expected and recoverable errors, runtime exceptions for unexpected and unrecoverable conditions", see: https://elizarov.medium.com/kotlin-and-exceptions-8062f589d0...

> Except for the whole Kotlin standard library.

I'm not sure what you mean. Most kotlin stdlib functions that can fail have some sort of "...orNull" variant to be used when you're not sure you're going to get something back, and there's "runCatching" which will wrap any exceptions in a Result type.

Result is part of the stdlib, so you don't have to use any library, although some people (me included) prefer Either. If/when they introduce Rich Errors, it's going to be semantically almost equivalent to Either, except you get somewhat improved ergonomics, so it's not really a paradigm shift.

> Ultimately, there is no difference because Result<T, Error> and T func() throws Exception. One is not superior to the other. What it comes down to for me is whether a language has support for checked errors or not, and Kotlin does not.

I don't understand how those two sentences don't contradict each other. Kotlin has support for Result<T> (stdlib) or Either<E, T> (from libraries like Arrow). Since you're agreeing that this is equivalent to checked exceptions I don't understand how you can claim that Kotlin doesn't support checked errors. It supports them just as well as Java does, it just has a different philosophy around it. (I guess the one point that I'll concede is that it can cause issues when interfacing with Java code and it would be nice if Kotlin had some better ergonomics around automatically inferring errors from Java library code the way it does for nullability checks; but in practice this hasn't been a big issue for me).

FWIW, I disagree that there isn't a big distinction. If the exception is part of the regular type, it is a value and it can be manipulated like any other value, making it very easy to write all sorts of code that manipulates exceptions. Of course, you could eventually write enough machinery so that you get the same power also with checked exceptions, but that just makes the language more complicated for questionable gain. And in any case, Java doesn't do that.

The Scala discussion you're linking is certainly interesting, but it's cutting-edge PL research (effect systems). I'm not sure how this matters in a discussion of tradeoffs between Java and Kotlin today.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-07-03 00:01:16+00:00
I learnt Quaker silent worship about 30 years ago and the practice of centering down which I still practice despite turning atheist many years ago.

More recently did a mindfulness session, and was quietly surprised that I already knew the forms, just without emphasis on the self (breathing, body position and all the muscle aches, itches, etc).
by mglikesbikes | 2025-07-03 00:01:27+00:00
How many have used the new iOS daily since it was announced?

Gentle reminder that the average Mac user is nontechnical, especially the younger generation. IMO this is Apple slapping a formalized paint on the simplification of iOS 7, and doubling down on iconography (not app icons).

Now all of that said — there are major usability concerns in iOS 26 and the liquid glass design language. The file picker’s previous “Done” has been replaced with a single checkmark. Significant meaning is lost in a few places, and there are super-odd double-X icons (in mobile safari while entering a URL, for example). Safari’s new tab button is now out of reach, while the previous new tab gesture is now new tab group. Context menus expand now, instead of swipe, meaning what used to feel more natural now takes extra taps/muscle memory updates.

That all said, as iOS 7 improved over time and was nailed down, so will this.

To me it’s given the iPhone - an incredibly boring platform/device 18 years in - new life. The new Lock Screen Photo Shuffle is incredibly personable and downright beautiful. From my understanding, a lot of work went into pre-composing app icons, many of which are objectively beautiful.

I’ve found users can’t find buttons “under the thumb” so I’m curious how the dedicated tab bar search will work in practice.

Overall I think for the goals of liquid glass as a design system, it’s something only Apple could do - in a good way.
by andrewl | 2025-07-03 00:02:11+00:00
laurent_du: What if they are going to kill your child? I have zero respect for this kind of conviction.

specproc: I have to say I'm fortunate enough never to have found myself in that situation. Is this something that happens regularly in America?

We all know it's not common in any industrialized society for a parent to have to kill to protect their child's life. And asking laurent_du about the American experience may not be productive as he or she may never have been to America.

Regardless, the frequency of a situation is not relevant to a discussion of what a person would or should do in that situation.
by langur | 2025-07-03 00:02:21+00:00
Some of what’s now supported in Bijira for MCP:

- Exposing APIs or backend services as MCP servers

- Auto-generating MCP tool metadata from OpenAPI definitions

- Applying access control, rate limits, and observability policies

- Preparing for agent-driven discovery via the upcoming MCP Hub

The idea is to make APIs more usable as tools in agent workflows with governance and control for teams.

You can try it out here: https://bijira.dev Docs: https://wso2.com/bijira/docs/
by SchemaLoad | 2025-07-03 00:02:55+00:00
Don't know how long ago you went to school, but at least in Australia, every student is provided a personal laptop for school work which is capable of connecting to social media. Maybe you could block it on your home wifi, but that't a step beyond what most people are capable of. And you'd be an extremely unpopular parent if you were the only one blocking social media while every other kid continues to arrange event invites on Facebook

Blocking it at the service level would be significantly more effective and mean all kids would have to socialise and send using IM platforms instead.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-07-03 00:03:13+00:00
I think this is a very good question to ask, along with why the Trump admin is threatening the developer rather than Apple. Forcing Apple to take it down is the only way to get rid of it now that it’s been published. Combine that with the fact that most people had never heard of this app before Trump made it go viral. I think we’ve all had enough conspiracy theories to last a lifetime, but it would be wise to exercise caution here.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114783982297156136
by wslh | 2025-07-03 00:04:36+00:00
I don't clearly see how a massive exodus of American scientists moving abroad could happen. While I understand that young scientists might find it easier to relocate, the decision becomes significantly far more complicated for couples, even when both partners are scientists. For other countries or regions to become truly competitive, they would also need to increase their investment in science significantly [1].

[1] https://www.wipo.int/web/global-innovation-index/w/blogs/202...
by GeekyBear | 2025-07-03 00:04:50+00:00
Arsenic was used as an early insecticide against boll weevels in cotton fields and for various pests in other crops.

Rice plants pull that arsenic out of the soil when grown on land where arsenic was used in the past.

https://www.wired.com/2012/06/arsenic-pesticides-in-our-food...
by Aloisius | 2025-07-03 00:04:55+00:00
It was the best selling car. It no longer is[1].

And of course, Tesla isn't even in the top 10 for top selling brands of cars. Only about 1 in 50 new cars being sold is a Tesla.

Their valuation is largely based on hype.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-worlds-best-selling-car-is...
by pstuart | 2025-07-03 00:05:24+00:00
The administration is so devoid of any value it staggers the mind. The only thing that I can agree with is that our dependence on China is not a good thing (Oh yes, and minimizing governmental fraud and waste) -- the concepts, not any of the actions done to address these concerns.

What makes this mess even more disheartening is that about of third of the population loves it.
by corimaith | 2025-07-03 00:05:28+00:00
"Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory. We must join with him, Gandalf. We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend."

I've seen this argument before with some pro-China voices and it's the same circular reasoning in arguments like Roko's Basilisk. It is is futile and unwise to oppose China's ascent at the risk of incurring their future wrath when said rise is inveitable, better that we pledge loyalty now for future favours". It's nothing more than intimidation.

The difference is that future of China's hegemony is far from inevitable. They are strong, but they're not stronger just yet. Their innovation hasn't really broken through in red oceans when paired against competive incumbents, and they are just as prone to hype bubbles as we are. And their massive investment is coming at the cost of a resulting maligned consumption balance and destructive price wars. So there still moves to be made that can radically alter the trajectory of events.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-03 00:05:58+00:00
THAT is exactly why this whole thing is best solved by law, rather than consumer action, because that is a coordination problem. To be compliant with the law, you would have to not use software that you can't redistribute to make games that will be available to citizens of the EU (or, at the very least, that consumers can't reasonably get their own license to). Which in turn means that third party library developers would have to figure out a licensing model that works under the new legal framework.