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by knallfrosch | 2025-07-20 18:31:08+00:00
Furniture really is the prime example. I've heard endless complaints about IKEA, along the lines of "I move two times and it's broken."

You ask people whether they have a sturdy childhood wardrobe that they could use. The idea seems disgusting. You ask them what other options they considered. The comment appears to be offensive. How many people have researched and considered a company's service hotline quality before deciding to buy? Noone.

People love to hate "evil" companies and expect laudations for knowing the concept of "planned obsolence" (they heard it once.) It's easy, it's someone else's fault.

But mention their own responsibility as capitalist consumers and they'll quickly leave the discussion.
by staplung | 2025-07-20 18:31:23+00:00
Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play.

Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window.

I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible terminal.

[Update: it was quickly pointed out that "Quake terminal" is a term of art for one line terminal that can easily expand. I am a heavy terminal user but genuinely did not know that term was commonplace. Grumpiness retracted.]
by andriamanitra | 2025-07-20 18:31:54+00:00
> Language evolves, words change, and AI means what it means now. It turns out it’s actually really useful to have an abstraction above the concept of LLMs to talk about the broader set of these types of technologies

I agree that "AI" can be useful as an umbrella term, but using it when referring specifically to the "LLM" subset of AI technologies is not useful. A ton of information about the capabilities and limitations of the system is lost when making that substitution. I understand why marketing departments are pushing everything as "AI" to sell a product but as consumers we should be fighting against that.
by swed420 | 2025-07-20 18:32:29+00:00
> he most relevant piece is probably Theses on Feuerbach. Feuerbach advocated a materialist (e.g. essentially naturalistic) point of view to which Marx objected.

One must have a very warped understanding of Marx to claim he didn't advocate for materialism. Are you unfamiliar with his dialectical/historical materialism?
by willseth | 2025-07-20 18:32:51+00:00
Not sure what you mean by licensing failure or “one liner”. Browsers are natively limited to XSLT 1.0 not because of licensing, but because they simply didn’t want to implement the newer versions. However Saxon offers free XSLT 3.0 processors for JS, C, Java, and .NET, so there’s not really a limitation to doing modern XSLT development.
by freedomben | 2025-07-20 18:33:07+00:00
Cool idea, and I'm definitely not in the target market (I'm a Linux user and also very hesitant to adopt proprietary tools to my important workflows), but something like this could be useful. Right now though it's pretty easy to run each in a different tmux window and check on it, but once I have about 3 or more running at a time it's very easy to forget about one and have it paused waiting for confirmation. A tool like this to add a dashboard of sorts would be nice. Definitely interesting to think about!
by slg | 2025-07-20 18:33:19+00:00
>Women choose less lucrative careers, leave the workforce more often to care for children, and care more about work-life balance.

Although the "choose" here needs to put into societal context. Do women naturally prefer less lucrative careers or has society reinforced that some less lucrative careers are in some way feminine while some more lucrative careers are masculine? Do women naturally want to leave the workforce and prioritize work-life balance or is that a response to society putting a majority of the parenting responsibility on their shoulders?
by joseda-hg | 2025-07-20 18:33:37+00:00
It's a bit like adding extra lanes, to some degree, demand expands to meet capacity (But I mantain that in this case the net effect is possitive)

There would be less space to be congested by fewer vehicles, but in this context, less congestion also means fewer people experience the congestion directly (because it also works to disincentivize car usage), but those affected have it the same or worse.

I wouldn't take my car to a large city center if I can at all avoid it, which seems to be the common reaction. These people are "transparent" to the congestion—they don't add to it and (mostly) aren't affected by it.
by coolsunglasses | 2025-07-20 18:33:57+00:00
"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then.

https://github.com/Guake/guake

https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/

Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.
by cvoss | 2025-07-20 18:34:28+00:00
I'm all for adblockers, but I'm not sure I follow your complaint.

From the article:

> The study discovered that the majority of users did not choose to block ads, with ad-blocking technology often activated by a third-party like their employer at a network level, their educational institution, security software they installed, or public Wi-Fi networks.

So, it's mostly not done by user opt-in. I'm further puzzled to find that you self-identified as a user with an adblocker not by your own choosing:

> My employer requires that we use adblockers.
by const_cast | 2025-07-20 18:34:50+00:00
> and most crucially, unsafe

This is more or less a completely imagined issue. The most dangerous form of transportation is personal vehicles, and its not even close.

For example, on the NY subway you have a 100x greater chance of dying by driving instead of taking the subway. 100x.

If you look at the risk of injury it's not any better.

The thing is that feeling unsafe and actually being unsafe are two different things. Cars feel safe because you're isolated, you have walls between you and everyone else. Public transit feels unsafe because you can directly see other people and there's nothing stopping them from just walking up to you.

Like, for your point on drugs, on a subway you can literally see the people on drugs, which makes you feel unsafe. In a car, you don't know who is on drugs, so you feel more safe. But, you're not. People are still on drugs, but now, they're also operating a deadly weapon.
by maxlin | 2025-07-20 18:34:57+00:00
I do have the data necessary[0] to substantiate this claim. And no, I'm not going down listening in the rabbit hole of people trying to poke pin prick holes in to a safety margin bigger than a Gigafactory.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/720730/tesla-autopilot-crash-data...
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-20 18:35:35+00:00
"Not only is generative AI unreliable, but it can’t reason, as a recent demonstration showed: OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT4o model was beaten by an 8-bit Atari home games console made in 1977. “Reality is the ultimate benchmark for AI,” explained Chomba Bupe, a Zambian AI developer, last week. “You not going to declare that you have built intelligence by beating toy benchmarks …"

If this is the level of reasoning that AI has to be, we've set a low bar.

Being able to play chess (what an Atari game is good at) is not the same as reasoning, and it is also toy benchmark.

Everything around the Atari mention is innuendo--but it is hard to tell if the author could reason well enough to realize that.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-20 18:35:44+00:00
econ 101 actually explains collusion as you are describing, but you need evidence to show perfect collusion of all participants to make the point you are trying to make. the average person in LA probably knows friends who rent out spaces and would tell you that their friends are not part of a cartel

but the real estate shortage and natural monopoly you allege (it's not true as I already pointed out) would explain the post fire short term situation, so you don't need to grasp for conspiracy theories.

as i said already, airbnb's potential to manipulate RE prices is a problem to be concerned about in normal times. When a fire burns down much of the city, prices go up because there is an actual shortage, not price manipulation.

time for you to hit the books again.
by Arathorn | 2025-07-20 18:35:49+00:00
I'm not sure where the "devs will claim it's my fault if i ask for help" trope is coming from - we really do want Matrix to work :( Do you have a bug report of where this is happening, on what set of clients? A bunch of people have been reporting images not loading, but I haven't seen anything actionable. Is it possible that this is anti-image-spam protection kicking in?
by lettergram | 2025-07-20 18:35:49+00:00
Contrary to this post, I think the AI agents, particularly the online interface of OpenAI's Codex to be a massive help.

One example, I had a PR up that was being reviewed by a colleague. I was driving home from vacation when I saw the 3-4 comments come in. I read them when we stopped for gas, went to OpenAI / codex on my phone, dictated what I needed and made it PR to my branch. Then got back on the road & PR'd it. My colleague saw the PR, agreed and merged it in.

I think of it as having a ton of interns, the AI is about the same quality. It can help to have them, but they often get stuck, need guidance, etc. If you treat the AI like an intern and explain what you need it can often produce good results; just be prepared to fallback to coding quickly.
by gruez | 2025-07-20 18:35:55+00:00
>No, Elon wants to cancel public transportation. Just like in the 1930's when car companies bought public transportation to shut them down.

Except that's not what happened. Streetcars were already on the decline when car companies bought them. Claiming "car companies bought public transportation to shut them down" makes as much sense as "hospice doctors gave cancer patients painkillers to kill them".

From wikipedia:

>Quinby and Snell held that the destruction of streetcar systems was integral to a larger strategy to push the United States into automobile dependency. Most transit scholars disagree, suggesting that transit system changes were brought about by other factors; economic, social, and political factors such as unrealistic capitalization, fixed fares during inflation, changes in paving and automotive technology, the Great Depression, antitrust action, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, labor unrest, market forces including declining industries' difficulty in attracting capital, rapidly increasing traffic congestion, the Good Roads Movement, urban sprawl, tax policies favoring private vehicle ownership, taxation of fixed infrastructure, consumerism, franchise repair costs for co-located property, wide diffusion of driving skills, automatic transmission buses, and general enthusiasm for the automobile.[
by tptacek | 2025-07-20 18:36:08+00:00
It's ironic that you managed to pick a surgery that the US is actually capable of delivering at lower cost than Europe (generally, our procedure costs are integer multiples higher than Europe, because of the doctor cartel). Most Americans getting a knee replacement will "pay" more than Europeans pay (nominally, through their employer-provided health insurance), but price-shopping Americans can significantly outdo Europe by getting that procedure done at a surgical center.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-07-20 18:36:12+00:00
In my opinion the useful part of "the bitter lesson" has nothing to do with throwing more compute and more data at stuff, it has to do with actually using ML instead of trying to manually and cleverly tweak stuff, and with actually leveraging the data you have effectively as a part of that (again using more ML) rather than trying to manually label everything.
by intended | 2025-07-20 18:37:18+00:00
There was a gang operation in India that targeted drivers stuck in traffic.

They tapped on the side of the car, making it seem like there had been an impact.

When the driver opened their window and leaned out to find out what would happen, they grabbed whatever was on the windshield and ran.

Automated cars have been stopped by … consecutive stop signs.

Look - Safety is - at some point - a societal issue. Yes, being in your own taxi is cool, and the threat you are concerned about is reduced.

But this is assuming things remain the same.
by lstamour | 2025-07-20 18:37:40+00:00
Isn’t it possible though, that if a role is gender stereotyped or if senior managers are a particular gender, that those of the other gender might need to prove themselves more to get the same job? That managers tend to hire people who appear to fit in, which usually means they are more like themselves, or those who already have the job? Also, it seems weird to suggest that only women have the failings you’ve noted, as men can also have the same shortcomings. In a way, this entire discussion is really highlighting that while some get hired, some do not, and somehow blames those who do not get hired as failures who should not get hired rather than as disadvantaged individuals due to circumstances partly or fully beyond their control.

An interesting point about choosing to leave the workforce to care for children is that re-entry into the workforce or even the ability to work and care for children is something a social net could be established to support. If we have networks that allow army recruits to enter the workforce after their service, we could do the same for parents, but instead social nets seem to devalue the act of raising children, maybe because they are driven too much by short term profit. Taxpayers accept that too, preferring tax breaks for families with children over support networks and job opportunities to re-enter the workforce full-time. One imagines it again is about hiring those like you - managers hiring individuals who worked from home are unlikely to have worked from home - they needed the time in industry to become experienced managers.

Edit: upon rereading my last comment, it is possible that work from home norms established under covid might be the best thing to happen to stay at home parents and their continued full time employment. This could then boost the number of relatively younger parents who could continue in the workforce after mat leave while also providing child care. But it’s not a replacement for better social nets and better social norms.
by im3w1l | 2025-07-20 18:37:52+00:00
This doesn't match what I experienced growing up in the 90's. What I saw saw was girls not wanting to involve themselves with computing because it was seen as nerdy and boring and for weird people. Only when people started realizing how much FAANG's paid and how nice the benefits were did they start feeling they wanted to get in on that. Those are just my personal observations though.
by shagie | 2025-07-20 18:38:03+00:00
The H-1B visa is not a solution to the shortage of teachers in the US. Rather, it is a tool that some school districts are using to try to fill in the gaps where they have a shortage.

My point is one of "if fixing of H-1B abuse is solved by changing it to be an auction based on compensation, it will negatively impact all of the companies that use the H-1B for roles other than those that can compete with Big Tech software developers for compensation."

There are a lot of people out there on a H-1B visa working for companies that have gone through the process of trying to hire a US citizen first and failed to find anyone for that role (that isn't a software developer).

There are classifications for companies that employ a lot of H-1B visa holders. It is known as a H-1B-dependent employer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B-dependent_employer

If the goal is to limit the fraud and abuses ( here's how to report https://www.uscis.gov/scams-fraud-and-misconduct/report-frau... ) then further regulating and auditing companies in that classification would be the first place to start rather than trying to change the visa itself.

Yes, this is playing whack-a-mole with "shut down one fraudulent consultancy and another one pops up."

However, a significant component of this is that companies have difficulty managing projects and staff outside of their core competencies. We need to migrate from one ERP system to another - you get the professional services for the ERP company which in turn brings in a consultancy to do the project. It isn't entirely reasonable for the original company to try to staff up FTEs to do it (and them lay 3/4ths of them off when the project is complete and it goes to a maintenance level of work).

Low salaries - by themselves - are not the problem. There are fields that don't pay as well as Big Tech software developer. There are also companies that have much lower revenue per employee than Big Tech companies ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=revenue+per+employee+%2... ) and trying to match Big Tech compensation would bankrupt them.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-20 18:38:24+00:00
1. Autopilot is not FSD

2. Autopilot, being a typical ASAD, is used exclusively on highways and in conditions where typical ASADs work reliably

Weird to brag about being unwilling to apply even first order criticality to a press release but you do you.

Thank you for reaffirming that in fact you do not have the data required to substantiate your claim.
by gpderetta | 2025-07-20 18:38:25+00:00
Forget about consumer FD, unless you are explicitly doing O_DIRECT, why would you expect that a notification that your IO has completed would mean that it has reached the disk at all? The data might still be just in the kernel page buffer and not gotten close to the disk at all.

You mention you need to wait for the compilation record to be written. But how do you do that without fsync or O_DIRECT? A notification that the write is completed is not that.

Edit: maybe you are using RWF_SYNC in your write call. That could work.
by _1tem | 2025-07-20 18:38:27+00:00
I was really excited to try this but this does NOT work the way I expected. I wanted a simple git worktree manager for my existing, already-checked-out repository. Instead, it requests Github permissions and clones the repo from Github. This is bad, because you need to run all the dependency installs, etc. for every workspace before being able to test anything. In other words it's like Codex or Cursor Background Agents, except worse, because it's on your machine. The reason I don't use Codex or Background Agents is because my project has way too many dependencies and would take way too long (and too complicated) to install everything required to have an isolated running instance, plus there would be DNS conflicts, external API conflicts, among other issues.

What I do want is simple git worktree management for an already-checked-out repo on my machine, no Github permissions or dependency re-installation (copying node_modules, etc.).
by Veedrac | 2025-07-20 18:38:41+00:00
FWIW another way to handle this is a local function with early returns. In this example you can also just use a single regex and most likely win performance too.

:= is so common in other languages, or even other Python statements, that it doesn't bother me at all, but Python is such an imperative-first language that its presence is rarely felt.
by staplung | 2025-07-20 18:38:59+00:00
Oh, interesting. Surprised that I didn't already know that. Perhaps every time I encountered the term "quake terminal" I just assumed it literally meant the the Quake terminal proper.

I'll let my original comment stand since it seems likely that at least some others will have the same impedance mismatch as I did.

In any case, thanks for pointing it out.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-20 18:39:14+00:00
> Catholics are the only world religious group that rejected the pill.

Or rather, the Church has steadfastly refused to sacrifice moral principle to drift downstream along with everyone else. Sure. And it never will go along. But a good fraction of the Catholic laity has.

> actual Catholics (who believe and practice the defining doctrine) are the only group above replacement

With all those qualifiers, the point becomes comical. Obviously, Catholics who actually live in accord with sexual ethics will have above replacement fertility. But a good fraction of those still in the pews are not procreating at above replacement, at least in the developed world. Many use contraception.
by chowells | 2025-07-20 18:39:19+00:00
Eh, that's an easy typo to make on a phone when you're used to autocorrect getting things right. Sometimes you miss when it doesn't.

That's not the incoherent part of GP, which is the part where they somehow seem to believe women are favored (?!) by current power structures and that favor will increase as those structures turn towards might-makes-right policies.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-20 18:39:30+00:00
too lazy... no longer care about your problems

https://www.medlink.com/articles/neurologic-presentations-of...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1336442/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221175391...
by fisherjeff | 2025-07-20 18:40:13+00:00
Right. I still don’t think your original contention that for-profit systems are, in general, orders of magnitude better than socialized ones is accurate, but I do concede that your particular situation seems pretty bad.

EDIT: Just checked NHS too, most recent month had ~3% of MRIs waitlisted more than 13 weeks, so pretty similar in that European country as well.
by jimbob45 | 2025-07-20 18:40:23+00:00
The H-1B program is meant to fill jobs that otherwise would not be filled because qualified American candidates don’t exist. It’s a win-win situation and I’ve never seen anyone on either side of the aisle dispute the value or desirability of that.

You can argue that it’s been perverted and that’s fine but several intelligent people in this thread have already suggested foolproof methods for ensuring we only fill unfillable positions. That is to say, it’s a noble program that everyone supports and is fully capable of fulfilling its intended goal.
by BrenBarn | 2025-07-20 18:40:51+00:00
I think it was a big missed opportunity. The frustrating thing about web UIs is that they don't obey my system-level display preferences (for stuff like fonts and colors). XUL was an approach that did that. Whether it's XML or something else is not the big issue, it's more a question of how to use a declarative style to specify a UI in a way that blends with the user's display preferences.
by trod1234 | 2025-07-20 18:40:58+00:00
Uhh, you are aware that planned obsolescence is only incentivized in fiat markets based in money-printing which aren't real markets.

Absent boom-bust, and the related fraud/true-up that happens cyclically, you have sustained growth mirroring population growth, without the chaotic whipsaw, as well as other factors of general wear and tear that make sustain demand.

Less cost, and cost that follows real stable value without distortion, leads to more production over time, not less. Boom bust dynamics cause a slight move forward, followed my two steps back; repeatedly, until your out of steps.

In such older economies, you don't lose out such monumental opportunity cost and related resources to fraud or people who sit on their hands. Opportunity cost is immeasurable without a reference, so you don't know what you lose, or what could have been.

> Think of the LED bulb. It would make more sense for the government to manage the few resources needed...

Honestly, seeing this rhetoric makes you sound like a shill peddling propaganda towards centralization as a solution, which includes both fascism and communism (statism for both), while ignoring the established failures of such systems.

I don't mean to be critical of what you have to say, but you come off as really ignorant, or deliberately misleading.

If you can only run on the same path on a circle, do you really think you'll eventually get to where you want to go when that point is not on the circle?