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by Sniffnoy | 2025-08-06 19:55:58+00:00
> It is strange that showing ID to vote is controversial in the US and that providing basic ID to citizens for free to allow them to vote is a problem that seems difficult to solve (or want to solve).

One of the blockers to a national ID system in the US, that would result in voter ID no longer posing any substantive obstacle to voting, has been anti-government paranoia; but another, if you're not aware, has been fundamentalist Christianity and its eschatology -- fundamentalist Christians may associate the idea of a national ID with the "mark of the beast".

The amusing thing here of course is that while Trump's attempt to unilaterally impose ID rules is illegal, if it were successful, it would likely be an own goal. Formerly, the sort of person who is likely to not have any sort of ID -- someone disconnected from any systems that would require it -- was more likely to vote Democratic than Republican, but in recent years, this has reversed. While I can't cheer for breaking election laws (or for a court ruling that this is in fact legal, because it shouldn't be considered so), it would at least be amusing if this backfired.
by antonymoose | 2025-08-06 19:56:01+00:00
In my state I bring two forms of ID and a couple of bills to the DMV and I’m issued a same-day license?

How does that compare to a notoriously unfriendly nation like Germany?

In any case, my understanding is virtually any nation in Central and South America requires identification to vote. If the third-world poverty stricken nations make it work there is no reason the rich United States cannot.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-06 19:56:02+00:00
Yep the article shows a photo of a neatly kept room, the reality would be a bare mattress on the floor, piles of dirty clothes, trash, and hoarded posessions.

Drug-addicted and mentally ill people do not know how to keep even a moderately organized living space. Our city has tried "housing first" and it's been a disaster. The units are filthy, damaged, and the buildings don't pass minimal standards when the housing department inspects them because the "tenants" and their associates have destroyed them.

I do believe most SROs had a "no visitors" policy so that might help somewhat but there would have to be strictly enforced requirements about not trashing or abusing the property.
by antonvs | 2025-08-06 19:56:18+00:00
> you are upsetting an existing power system

That has nothing to do with communism specifically, so isn't a very strong starting point for your argument. You're essentially saying that no significantly different system can stably replace the current system, which is of course an ahistorical claim.

> each time the outcome was the same.

What about modern China? It supports over 4x the population of the US. The US is currently falling apart politically and economically as it is, so whether its current system can scale to the level of China's is an open question, to which the answer is "almost certainly not." Is American-style capitalism only suited for smaller countries, then?

You're cherry-picking of facts to focus on and facts to ignore. You have a conclusion that you believe in as a fact, which forces you to carefully choose what you allow to enter your thinking on the subject.

I'm not actually saying that communism is the solution. But I am saying that your argument is not a good one against it.
by 8ytecoder | 2025-08-06 19:56:35+00:00
I think it’s more like the “crash” that never happened with Uber/gig and crypto. I can’t tell if it’s just luck with one craze seamlessly enabling another in some cosmic coincidence or smart people being able to absorb the excess capital and capacity to pivot gracefully.

It’s basically similar to biking on rolling hills with each subsequent hill being a lot taller than the previous one. You come down the hill hard, but just before you crash to the ground, another hill comes up, and you let the momentum carry you through, and you also get a gush of wind in your back.

That’s what’s been happening since 2012 - it’s a great 13-year run now. I’ve stopped betting against it.
by weberer | 2025-08-06 19:56:53+00:00
I wish these articles would bring up the Fair Access To Banking Act, which could solve many of these problems if it can get passed. It seems to have widespread Republican support, which is enough to get it passed in the House. But it could still be killed in the Senate if the Democrats decide to filibuster. If the bill becomes popular in the media, there's less of a chance they'll shoot it down.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401
by nixosbestos | 2025-08-06 19:56:54+00:00
Oh the rich irony of using Maven. Maven, apparently has the same basic fundamental issues it had 15 years ago when [redacted] paid me to write a Maven plugin that would detect these version skews. I thought I'd just done it wrong because of the massive, sweeping number of places that it did things that were not just unfortunate, but were serious (you can imagine).
by beart | 2025-08-06 19:57:09+00:00
I don't think you can republish to npm.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/commands/npm-publish

> The publish will fail if the package name and version combination already exists in the specified registry.

> Once a package is published with a given name and version, that specific name and version combination can never be used again, even if it is removed with npm unpublish.
by AnEro | 2025-08-06 19:57:11+00:00
I used to think it was kinda pander-y, but then after participating in some of these communities it was just obnoxious when it wasn't stated, the cultural wedge between people. Where randomly there was drama from someone posting an unrelated yet offensive meme/joke, then it was a huge discussion on if it was ban worthy, if it was okay to joke about, or xyz. When really I just wanted to be nerdy with others.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-06 19:57:33+00:00
In my 20s I did a year long internship in Japan and lived in a dorm owned by the company I worked for.

Single room with bed and desk, bathroom down the hall, shared cafeteria on the first floor with breakfast and dinner served every day (lunch expected to be eaten at the office).

Not a bad set up for a young single person. Especially considering a lot of the dorm residents left early in the morning and didn’t return until the last train home.
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by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-06 19:58:21+00:00
My comment is shallow because it is not attempting to prove that active investing is better. It's saying, "I've heard people blurt out a list of reasons not to actively manage their portfolio and it's always been from a position of laziness or fear". There is a way to advocate for SPX or VOO or Fidelity 2045 and it's not by saying that these are the optimal strategies.
by ivape | 2025-08-06 19:58:57+00:00
We'd obviously want to model it around something like Arkansas. Remember, prison provides reasonable security, food, and clothing. Security will generally be better since regular people are not self-selected for criminality, and those savings can be moved over to improved food. Re-using the prison model for extreme low income and homelessness is not intuitive - but so be it (sometimes you have to use an anti-pattern).

Edit:

$100k/prisoner/year

That's crazy. Regular people don't live on that yearly.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-08-06 19:59:09+00:00
Not the original poster, but I imagine one of the things that undocumented people have more trouble doing is getting a mortgage or signing a lease so having a landlord who will take cash definite benefit for that group of people.

There are also citizens who are undocumented because they are incapable of the legal work to reacquire valid ID for various reasons.

That line of logic you have to ask why California has such a low rate though!
by observationist | 2025-08-06 19:59:35+00:00
The point isn't to resolve user problems, it's to reduce the number of people taking up the time of support agents. Letting people vent in a pseudo-official channel accomplishes that. Whenever something gets resolved that was being fixed anyway, because the "industry partners", enterprise and high level customers wanted it, they can mark an issue as resolved, and generate the appearance of responsive service.

It's like standing up complex automated phone menus, you're going to frustrate a certain number of callers into giving up, and reduce the overall number of customers you have to interact with.

We need a scale reform for modern businesses - platforms and companies like Microsoft are logistically incapable of providing good service to their customers, or moderating hundreds of millions or even billions of users, effectively separating these companies from all the harm they cause.

If you can't responsibly operate a business past a certain scale, you shouldn't be allowed to continue growth. I don't know what that looks like, legally speaking, but it's necessary, for what should be reasons obvious to everyone.
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by throwforfeds | 2025-08-06 20:00:09+00:00
Honestly, these all start to happen naturally when you start dedicating yourself to doing something first thing in the morning. I spent my 20s smoking cigarettes, drinking as much as I wanted, eating whatever. Then after a pretty intense LSD trip I decided to re-dedicate myself to a daily meditation practice. No excuses, just every morning wake up and sit for 20 minutes.

The first thing you realize is that your sessions are a lot more fruitful when you don't show up to your morning practice hung over, or on 5 hours of sleep, or after a night of chain smoking. After that practice was established for a year, I started working out. And then you realize your training is better when you're feeding your body correctly, so your diet changes. Etc. They all flow into and out of each other, as they're all essentially the same practice.

The important thing I've found is when you want to begin a new habit, put it first thing in the morning. No excuses. Actually, this reminds me of something I read in an interview with David Bowie years ago -- when asked what he learned to appreciate as he got older his answer was just "mornings".
by hk1337 | 2025-08-06 20:00:45+00:00
And from the link on the page: https://www.ocregister.com/2025/07/16/where-in-california-do...

> Most of California’s single-family house investors are “mom and pop” types, according to BatchData.

> Small-fry owners, with up to five properties nationwide, control 91% of California investment houses.

> The rest is divvied up this way: Owners of six to 10 houses control 4% of California investment houses. Investors with 11 to 50 houses own 3% of this Golden State housing group. And 51 or more? Only 2% of investment houses.
by QuercusMax | 2025-08-06 20:00:57+00:00
I've used (and customized) Bugzilla, used Google Buganizer extensively, used Jira for a year and a half, and also built an internal system consisting of a bugtracker + requirements manager + sprint planner + customer management system + manual test tracking tool + knowledge base.

Bugzilla was fine to hack a few extra fields into, but I wouldn't want to build anything around it. Buganizer was actually pretty nice, but suffered from too many competing tools built around it, most of which were just somebody's 20% project, so they kept getting abandoned. Jira wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so slow and annoying to use; only our TPM can keep track of how everything is set up.

The internal system I built was very specialized to our use-cases; it started out as a simple task list and eventually grew into a huge beast. By far the worst part of the system was the manual-test-management system, but that was just a mess due to its very nature. We were able to be very efficient with some of the custom functionality we made.
by skywhopper | 2025-08-06 20:00:59+00:00
This article is based on the false assumption that use of a site by an LLM directs any user traffic to it whatsoever.

Why would anyone choose to anonymously and freely provide content to LLMs? Actually the only use case for that is deliberately seeding misinformation. Which is likely already happening and will soon be the majority of the content accessible to LLMs regardless of what blocking legitimate content providers choose to use.
by crat3r | 2025-08-06 20:01:02+00:00
I feel like I still have yet to see any decent answers to this question; Are professional SDE paying for Claude on their own dime, and then logging into their personal account and somehow integrating Claude Code (or other LLMs) into their work repos that way?

The startup I work for has chosen their flavor of AI subscription and its frankly not developer focused. Instead they chose Google because of the productivity tools in the Google App suite.

I want to try Claude Code but the reality is that I don't want to be the martyr that tells my team lead that I want to see if AI can do (parts of) my job for me. It feels pretty sketchy or maybe even completely wrong to use something like this on a company repo I don't own without permissions, so I haven't done it. I suppose I will just have to continue to wonder if the agentic coding services are smoke and mirrors because I somehow don't know anyone who has used them extensively either and I have no clue when I will be able to use one with the strings attached of it being on a free-tier...
by deredede | 2025-08-06 20:01:02+00:00
I can think of plenty situations where you really want to use the dependency's types though. For instance the dependency provides some sort of data structure and you have one library that produces said data structure and a separate library that consumes it.

What you're describing with SML functors is essentially dependency injection I think; it's a good thing to have in the toolbox but not a universal solution either. (I do like functors for dependency injection, much more than the inscrutable goo it tends to be in OOP languages anyways)
by lrvick | 2025-08-06 20:01:13+00:00
Here are just a few old well known examples in popular package managers:

* Gentoo: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-announce/message/dc23d48d...

* Debian: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/07/msg00...

* NPM: https://eslint.org/blog/2018/07/postmortem-for-malicious-pac...

* PyPi: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8hvzja/backdoor_in_...

* Ubuntu Snap: https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft.io/issues/65...

* Arch Linux AUR: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-July/...

* Homebrew: https://medium.com/@vesirin/how-i-gained-commit-access-to-ho...

No one has fixed the fundamental problems that allow any of these to happen after years and years.

Now put "supply chain attack" into any news search engine today.

Attacks of this nature are up by 400-1500%+ in recent years depending on whose estimates you trust. They are easy, they are common, they are everywhere... and most security engineers and sysadmins are entirely asleep on the wheel on this one.

Most of our consulting work these days is mitigating these risks in the most critical deployment and code paths of our clients.
by AndyKelley | 2025-08-06 20:01:21+00:00
I'd like to note that std.json, as it currently stands, is not a good example of proper error handling. Unless you use that awkward lower level Scanner API, if you get a schema mismatch it reports some failure code and does not populate a diagnostics struct, which is painful and useless.

On the other hand the std.zon author did not make this mistake, i.e. `std.zon.parse.fromSlice` takes an optional Diagnostics struct which gives you all the information you need (including a handy format method for printing human readable messages).
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-06 20:01:30+00:00
High property tax rates means low ROI. You can be easily paying 2%+ market value in property tax in those northeastern states.

California incentivizes holding onto real estate with prop 13, which caps property tax increases to 2% per year for the entire time you or your beneficiaries own it. There are people paying less than $10k per year property tax on $3M+ properties, and they can rent for $7k+ per month.
by arcticbull | 2025-08-06 20:01:58+00:00
I mean someone has to rent, to renters right? Not everyone plans to live in the same place forever, and not everyone wants to put up the capital to buy a place. Some percentage of housing needs to be owned by investors to make that capacity available for short-term living. What's the delta between 19% and neutral?

California has a massive housing problem, which is just not building enough houses. Doesn't matter much to me who owns them.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-06 20:02:22+00:00
The fact is that hosting is a cost and businesses are always cutting costs

They don’t get to become one of the biggest and most successful companies by providing free services to legacy customers.

Personally, I keep a folder for product manuals. Anything I buy will have a PDF that I archive myself.

Need to change the oily on that generator I bought from Costco five years ago? Not going to find the docs on the web anymore but I have the PDF dated 2020 right here

Obviously that doesn’t work with a searchable software doc site with questions and answers but the fact that webpages could come and go at any time, and digital archival is far worse than clay tablets of antiquity is a lesson we all have to take to heart
by GauntletWizard | 2025-08-06 20:02:24+00:00
Uber actively works against police trying to investigate these incidents, in ways that are almost actively malicious. They require warrants - not simply police inquiries, nor customer consent, but warrants issued by a judge, to turn over any data, even the identity of the driver. They purposely delete this data on an accelerated basis so that they can say "We don't know" - doing dirty tricks like making receipts that don't include enough information to identify drivers (and intentionally obfuscate). They have ordered and made it both official and unofficial policy for their agents to stall police inquiries until they hit those data deletion dates.

At some level, they are attempting to avoid bad press, but their methods go far beyond "Washing our hands of it, not my problem" and into "Trying to obfuscate and cover up crimes so that we can't be tied to them".

Source: Worked at Uber for about six months and quit in disgust.

None of this is to exonerate the NYT for their biased reporting, because the crime rates in conventional taxes are almost as bad, and closure rates are worse. It's an ugly industry that Uber could have cleaned up but decided the pragmatic approach was to spin doctor.
by Animats | 2025-08-06 20:02:30+00:00
> it's only gotten worse since then.

It's worse all the way up. Modern GPUs support a huge amount of asynchronous operations. Applications put commands on queues, and completions come back later. The driver and Vulkan mostly pass those completions upward, until they reach the renderer, which has to figure out what it's allowed to do next. How well that's done has a huge impact on performance.

(See my previous grumbling about the Rust renderer performance situation. All the great things Vulkan can do for performance are thrown away, because the easy way to do this doesn't scale.)
by praxulus | 2025-08-06 20:03:06+00:00
I know a lot of Gen Z and even Millennial adults who are still living at home well after finishing school. I'm sure plenty of them would love to get out of their parents' homes but can't afford current rents, but might be able to afford an SRO.

In general I don't think many homeless people are going straight from the street to their own market rate unit. However some of them might be able to move into a sibling's spare bedroom after their adult nephew moves out.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-06 20:03:14+00:00
> You think the population of Japan will be ok with banning iPhones

Why wouldn't they? Japan has no codified Apple-specific lock-in. Their citizens won't miss a criminally illegal iPhone any more than they demand to import the gold Escobar phone, Huawei handsets or the FBI's ANOM. It would be effortless from a legislation perspective and harm Apple far more than it harms Japanese people.

Japan isn't part of FIVE-EYES, their government doesn't rely on Apple for surveillance purposes. There's no real potential for political blowback unless America's politicians take it personally. Japanese citizens would just buy different phones, no different from what China has already done (without any pushback). If America demands that they give Apple market access, they can embargo the iPhone under security pretenses instead.