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by lucyjojo | 2025-07-25 22:56:14+00:00
i see things like that written almost on the daily but i've never seen it come to pass.

this is anecdotal but i've worked professionally in ruby and clojure and it was a pretty good experience. java/kotlin/scala made me wish i could go back to dynamic land...

these days i'm in a rust shop but i keep clojure for all my scripts/small programs needs, one day i intend to go back to some kind of lisp full time though.
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-25 22:56:15+00:00
The cynical take is that two public company CEOs have run out of ideas for further stock growth and are looking for anything else that will juice the share price in the short term.

Neither company is so inefficient that you can save much of anything by combining the two, and there is only so far you can raise prices before customers switch to trucks or send container ships to different ports of call. With no overlapping territory, you aren't going to cut the number of trains you run and you can't get rid of half your maintenance staff (can you?).

Investment banks will do well running the merger and surely they'll issue debt to finance it. But what kind of growth can we really expect?
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-25 22:56:24+00:00
> It must be nice to have enough space at home to dedicate some to a server room (servers are noisy btw). But many people live in small apartments in a city and so don't have that luxury.

Absolute bullocks.

For most people running a home server, a Raspberry Pi is plenty and is about the size of a deck of cards, maybe two decks if you want extra storage and use an external storage device.

If you need something beefier, you can probably just use an old laptop, or maybe a full second PC under your desk if you need more. You could easily fit a Threadripper or Xeon system with 128 GB of RAM, multiple drives, and a GPU or even two in a single ATX PC case.

If you need a full server rack, you're an extreme outlier beyond even 99% of homelab creators.
by nikkwong | 2025-07-25 22:56:31+00:00
How has shipping high quality products using AI generated tailwind components actually been working for you? I think the problem that I and many others have/had, is that it can certainly build a few components that look good in isolation, but it doesn’t do a good job at maintaining a cohesive theme/idea across many different page sections/components etc. I built blendful [0] to solve this, and sort of lost interest when LLMs became increasingly capable. However, seeing them not making any gains, really, on visual cohesion between sections and components provoked enough excitement to continue working on it this year.

We will see how long it takes for LLMs to make headway in this area specifically.

[0]: https://www.blendful.com
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-25 22:56:33+00:00
I actually tried to get PMOS support upstreamed: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/issues/429 But unfortunately they didn't think it was different enough from Alpine and I didn't have the cycles to argue the point at the time. It would be really nice to get all of this packaged up to the point of being like 3 commands to go from just termux to a full PMOS on your Android phone, but it's a lot of different bits to get working together.
by int_19h | 2025-07-25 22:57:09+00:00
> There will always be some sort of JS glue code, it might be generated and you don't need to directly deal with it, but it will still be there, and that's simply because web APIs are first and foremost designed for usage from Javascript.

Historically, at least, web APIs were designed for usage from all kinds of languages, which is precisely why e.g. the DOM API is defined using IDL. There's no reason why we can't get back to that situation. WinRT shows how you can have a high-level object-oriented API that can be projected into different languages in ways that reflect idiomatic use in those languages (e.g. projecting promises differently to allow for async/await to work everywhere).
by shermantanktop | 2025-07-25 22:57:12+00:00
I think you're proving my point. If the people I am talking to and the language I am using both demand precision in word choice, then I would be foolish to use the wrong term and then say "well, you should have known what I meant."

But that is a communication context, and there are other contexts where implications and assumed meanings are expected, and spelling everything out would be considered pompous, self-important, and ridiculous.

Perhaps not in Germany? But certainly elsewhere (but i believe that in German the pronoun "sie" can require assumed context to understand).
by gowld | 2025-07-25 22:57:12+00:00
Python was invented as a language for newbies. It's come a long way!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1

> During Van Rossum's stay at CNRI, he launched the Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) initiative, intending to make programming more accessible to more people, with a basic "literacy" in programming languages, similar to the basic English literacy and mathematics skills required by most employers. Python served a central role in this: because of its focus on clean syntax, it was already suitable, and CP4E's goals bore similarities to its predecessor, ABC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)

> It is intended for teaching or prototyping
by rustystump | 2025-07-25 22:57:45+00:00
That is not true. Very often i find porn games not filtered out so does my partner. Which is once again, why having distinct store fronts would have solved this. No system is perfect in tag this tag that so it is better to be explicit with it so things do not leak. This is what happens when you mix it. The xyz groups get ammunition.

Can you imagine if youtube launched an onlyfans like filter to allow nsfw content?
by throw0101d | 2025-07-25 22:58:23+00:00
Recommend the book Data driven: truckers, technology, and the new workplace surveillance by Karen Levy:

> Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control.

> Karen Levy takes readers inside a world few ever see, painting a bracing portrait of one of the last great American frontiers. Federal regulations now require truckers to buy and install digital monitors that capture data about their locations and behaviors. Intended to address the pervasive problem of trucker fatigue by regulating the number of hours driven each day, these devices support additional surveillance by trucking firms and other companies. Traveling from industry trade shows to law offices and truck-stop bars, Levy reveals how these invasive technologies are reconfiguring industry relationships and providing new tools for managerial and legal control—and how truckers are challenging and resisting them.

* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691175300/da...

Interview on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast:

> Thanks to work from home, and other trends, workers are being electronically monitored by their bosses like never before. But some industries have had experience with this for awhile. Truck drivers, in particular, have been under legally-required electronic monitoring for several years now. Not only are their hours and miles electronically logged, increasingly they're subject to facial cameras and other types of body monitoring. On this episode, we speak with Karen Levy, a professor at Cornell and the author of "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" to discuss how surveillance works within the trucking industry, and what it means for everyone else.

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-truckers-already-...

* Also: http://archive.is/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-o...
by Lerc | 2025-07-25 22:58:55+00:00
You then have to ask, "In what way is it damaging?" Some porn is exploitative, but also so are other things. Why is the attack being made upon porn and not exploitation?

If the things being criticised appear in many areas, it is hard not to draw the conclusion that they chose their target because it involves sex, and that is what they have a problem with.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-25 22:59:05+00:00
I've been doing it for a while. I never really liked stack overflow though it always seemed like a waste of time versus learning how to look up the real answers in the documentation. I never really liked agents because they go off for 20 minutes and come back with complete crap But if I can ask a question get an answer in 20 seconds and iterate again I find that's pretty efficient.

I’ve usually been skeptical about people who get unreasonably good results and not surprised when they wake up a few weeks later and are disappointed. One area where I am consistently disappointed is when there are significant changes across versions: I had one argue over where I could write a switch in Java that catches null (you can in JDK 21) and lots of trouble with SQLAlchemy in Python which changed a lot between versions. I shudder to think what would happen if you asked questions about react-router but actually I shudder to think about react-router at all.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-25 22:59:19+00:00
"... someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. ... it’ll be an SPA."

Why not spell out CMO and SPA and a civilian such as myself will not have to toddle off and dig out a search engine?

If you are going to get all assertive and pissed off, please be inclusive too.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-25 22:59:35+00:00
That they really want is to eliminate any sort of ground truth so that whoever holds the power can resolve related issues by fiat. Less policy, more kissing the ring and such.

This way, abusers can disagree about what constitutes abuse in private, but can form a bloc in public, unifying around the common ground that the boss's whims should be respected in matters where the bandying about of facts is taboo. Might makes right, etc.
by siliconc0w | 2025-07-25 22:59:50+00:00
These stories really kill the golden goose because it means a lot of talent just won't work at a startup.

YC isn't particularly great here either, they are pro founder but not pro startup employee. Most YC companies offer pretty paltry equity to even the first few hires - and that is even assuming you aren't going to get screwed down the line.
by rustystump | 2025-07-25 23:00:18+00:00
Because filters do not work well at all and because these platforms want to make parents feel like it is ok for kids to be on them. Imagine if youtube had an “onlyfans” creator filter. That would never work.

The reality is you are not the only customer or market. While you may find it to work well enough for you, myself along with many others do not.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-25 23:00:18+00:00
> But 240v between your hand and ground is twice as likely to stop your heart.

No.

It's the amperage that kills. Yes, in reality, 240V circuits are likely to have higher-amperage devices attached. One milliamp at 240V will not kill you.

That's why our defibrillators (I am/was a critical care paramedic) have a set voltage, and if we need to deliver a bigger shock, we turn up the joules for delivery.
by int_19h | 2025-07-25 23:00:57+00:00
> Java, C#, or C++ and is how the world is supposed to work. The DOM doesn’t work like that. It’s a graph of nodes in the form of a tree model

This makes no sense. A graph of nodes is a very common data structure in all these languages. Not only that, but DOM was originally designed with those languages in mind (hence why it's defined via IDL). Indeed, Java actually used to have the complete DOM API in its standard library: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.xml/...
by elseless | 2025-07-25 23:02:37+00:00
Agree that code size is a significant potential issue, and that going out to memory to reprogram the fabric will be costly.

Re: pointers, I should clarify that it’s not the indirection per se that causes problems — it’s the fact that, with (traditional) dynamic memory allocation, the data’s physical location isn’t known ahead of time. It could be cached nearby, or way off in main memory. That makes dataflow operator latencies unpredictable, so you either have to 1. leave a lot more slack in your schedule to tolerate misses, or 2. build some more-complicated logic into each CGRA core to handle the asynchronicity. And with 2., you run the risk that the small, lightweight CGRA slices will effectively just turn into CPU cores.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-25 23:03:51+00:00
By collecting data where you can and further generalizing models so they can perform surgeries that it wasn't specifically trained on.

Until then, the overseeing physician identifies when an edge case is happening and steps in for a manual surgery.

This isn't a mandate that every surgery must be done with an AI-powered robot, but that they are becoming more effective and cheaper than real doctors at the surgeries they can perform. So, naturally, they will become more frequently used.
by autoexec | 2025-07-25 23:04:57+00:00
> Knowledge is proliferating faster than ever, becoming more accessible than ever, and it’s easier than ever before to get the info that you’re searching for

Information is proliferating and is more accessible, but a huge amount of that information is lies and manipulation I'm not sure that really counts as knowledge.

> The idea that I’m going to lose knowledge from a book I read 5 years ago if it disappears from my library just doesn’t track.

You might not forget what you learned from a book you read 5 years ago after it gets stolen from you, but it does mean that others are cut off from that same information. Worse is that what you saw 5 years ago might still be made avilable, but only in censored/altered forms which could easily have you questioning your memory of something you read or saw just 5 years ago.

It's not just an abstract philosophical debate that books and other forms of media are being changed, censored, or removed entirely. Or that gatekeepers want to decide what we're allowed to see and extract rent from us every time that we do. The dangers are real and understood and very much present in today's world.
by dmoy | 2025-07-25 23:05:03+00:00
Lean fire on $600k-$800k is taking an extreme gamble on the cost of health insurance continuing to be subsidized way beyond Medicaid levels. Which you might be fine with, but it's a pretty big risk.

Unsubsidized healthcare in a lot of places in the US costs $10k-$20k per person per year. For early retirement that eats up like $400k-$500k per person.
by lloydatkinson | 2025-07-25 23:05:12+00:00
I have a work assigned HP Elitebook. Worst laptop I've ever had to use.

Here are some highlights, though I know probably some are from the insane bloatware/crapware/"security" software and Windows group policies IT setup:

- If I leave it with the lid open, and come back to it several hours later, it's fairly cool, but:

- If I leave it with the lid closed, and come back to it several hours later, it's blowing it's fans at maximum speed and the entire thing is uncomfortably hot

There are multiple causes/symptoms:

- Poor thermal design, causing the heat to build up faster than it can vent it even at maximum fan speed (several of the vents blow directly at the bottom of the screen, so when the lid is closed that air has no where to go)

- Occasionally simply closing the lid even when its been cool has caused the fans to hit maximum speed immediately even if its still cool

- Poor firmware controlling the whole cooling system

- Poor IT mandated software running amuck in the background

That last point is one of the worst parts when combined with the "air vents are blocked when the lid is closed" design.

At seemingly random times during the night, with the closed laptop, and even if the laptop was in standby or hibernate OR shut down fully, it's managed to turn itself back on, start up the IT bloatware, causing very high CPU usage and thus once again maximum speed fans.

I'll say that again to emphasise it. Even when fully turned off, it can turn back on. This is actually pretty scary and dangerous, because it's totally unpredictable. I cannot leave it in my laptop bag overnight, for example, in case it decides to turn on and start cooking itself.

I have on several occasions purposely let the battery drain just to stop it being able to turn on by itself.

It has on multiple occasions woken me up in the middle of the night from the fan noise too.

/rant
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-25 23:05:42+00:00
>it's working as intended?

Quite likely. Either that or it's not.

On a positive note, people could be advocating for overall prosperity, and let the "market" sort it out. If they really wanted to and were capable.

OTOH if you don't have the stomach for overall prosperity, not even the type of acumen, you can have an equally impactful outcome of picking winners & losers by doing more direct damage to some Americans than others.

Downturns in foreign commerce can be highly significant and easy to follow the money on, but the way this is developing, that international decline only occurs as a result of collateral damage compared to that of the overall US economy. Which is very diffuse and capable of suffering huge dollar value being sucked out without being able to pinpoint any one loser while at the same time you can point to occasional winners that prevail under these conditions, like GM right now.

But that could change on a whim.
by hervature | 2025-07-25 23:06:15+00:00
You are supposed to invest and keep the money working for you. Adjusted for inflation, S&P 500 returns 6.5% a year. That alone gets you above the poverty line. Recall, this is inflation adjusted so your $600,000 is growing with inflation and the poverty line income also grows over time. This does not account for any swings.
by bitpush | 2025-07-25 23:06:19+00:00
> The reason I believe the web experience is inferior is because companies put more resources into apps at the expense of the web.

The main reason is just a single company - Apple. They have been hell bent on nerfing Safari so that they can continue their rent seeking behavior on App Store.

If Spotify has a functional mobile website, they cant take 30% cut from their app. The way Apple does is 2 fold. 1) deliberating not investing $$ into Safari 2) claiming that you'll get malware from internet.

Both are hypocritical.
by ivape | 2025-07-25 23:07:05+00:00
One can make a very strong argument that the manosphere stuff is rooted in poor sexual attitudes of men that only got worse with tons of porn.

You only need to type any random sexual thing and find any explicit subreddit you want, that’s how pervasive the porn is on even an allegedly non-porn platform. Every other game has basically stripper-level female characters now days. We’ve literally gone crazy.

Holistically, you’re talking about a hyper sexualized society where the content and ideology are available at high density and velocity from a pretty early age until the day you die.

It’s a problem. The truth is one side is not wrong forever. The Christian right is wrong about so much, but the progression of our society has finally made them mostly correct on this issue.

People need to take a deep hard look at what hip hop did to a generation of youth (both the violence and sexuality permeated deep into the culture). None of this shit is a joke, the kids end up fucked up.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-25 23:08:19+00:00
My take on this is that in desperation to become a real library despite Kahle's radical hatred of content creators, Kahle will end up dragging the legislative narrative in a direction that takes down real libraries with him. He will almost certainly broadcast his status as a federal depository library as part of his defenses in his numerous lawsuits.

One selfish man unwilling to recognize he is doing more harm than good.
by martinald | 2025-07-25 23:08:36+00:00
But Intel don't manufacture any ARM mobile SoCs that would be suitable for iPhones and iPads? It's not just a case of "upload A18 design, press print". It is at least a year or two of getting the processes up and running and validated.

So if TSMC went down tomorrow, you can't exactly phone Intel up and say "hi we need 1billion m-series chips a year, starting in a few weeks?"

If they owned it they could start doing that in the background.
by ryao | 2025-07-25 23:08:47+00:00
I have done this to videos on my iPhone using extensions called baking soda and vinegar. I then put the video into Picture in Picture mode, turn off the phone, turn it on, press the play button and turn it off again, with the audio still playing. It is not as convenient as the YouTube application, but I cannot copy and paste text from paused videos in the YouTube application or in YouTube comments either.
by gregw2 | 2025-07-25 23:09:09+00:00
This was very thoughtful essay; I've had similar lines of thinking myself. How will we debug auto-generated AI code?

That said, on that topic, the essay overlooks one key point and line of reasoning about debugging, one derived from Kernighan's Law. (Kernighan as in the K in AWK + K&R C...)

The law states: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

If Kernighan's law is "true" in some rough sense (as I have long agreed with), then we have a potential solution to the "AI debugging" problem... ask the LLM to make the code four times simpler than it needs to or write code with a 4x dumber model. Then a smarter model (or us) can debug it. Right?
by nosignono | 2025-07-25 23:09:10+00:00
In a videogame, I can think of some examples.

In Kotor 2, there's a character called "The Handmaiden", who will join your party if the player character is a male. She talks at great length about her situation and the decisions the player should make. She's depicted as a chaste, virginal religious character. But one of the very first things you can do with her when she joins your party is spar with her. And she strips into black lingerie to do so. Then she stays in black lingerie on your ship while you go and do other stuff.

She's clearly there as an object for the audience to drool over. It's given a very surface level justification ("we always spar with only our bodies"), but that justification is provided the instant before the player sees her in her undies. (Which, it's important to note, aren't like modest undergarments one might expect from a religious figure like this, but are specifically sexy underwear.)

Compare this to another Star Wars game, Jedi: Fallen Order, where the Night Sister Mirrin can becomes romantically involved with the player character. She has a well developed culture, and is given space to articulate her personality, choices, and opinions in a cogent way. She can be a romantic interest without being an object. She is as complex as all the other characters, and we don't see her positioned in sexy lingerie suddenly out of the blue.

I can come up with other examples if those aren't illustrative.