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by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-29 15:23:00+00:00
> The article isn't claiming there is a "one true modern subset" of C++ that they use.

They’re arguing that they’ve found a sufficiently safe subset, which if true would be the first.

It would be a waste of time to relitigate the many programmer-hostile, unsafe decisions the committee has made over the years. I think your programmers who are supposed to “understand and have control over” C++’s arsenal of footguns are more or less fictional and a language designer shouldn’t take them as intended audience.

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/confession-of-cc-progra... (2017)

> Also, I believe the C++ standards committee does care about this, which is why Profiles [1] are being considered.

It was discussed at length why this proposal is insufficient: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234460
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-29 15:23:08+00:00
Mother Nature has made this particular rule, and you can only fool her for so long. 80+ year old people do not belong in positions of power, any more than 8-year-olds do. They should step aside and let the next generation take responsibility for their own future.

(Or rather make them take responsibility, in the case of voters who insist on electing Trumps, Reagans, Bidens, and Feinsteins simply because those are the candidates they've heard about, due to their having been around the longest.)
by Zambyte | 2025-09-29 15:23:16+00:00
Thanks. I still feel like the social forces around it make it particularly untrustworthy though. I feel very incentivised against using it, and given the wide availability of high quality alternatives, I haven't bumped into any situation where I felt like Grok would be the right choice.

My fallback powerhouse models are Claude 4.1 and GPT5 (and sometimes Gemini 2.5). If those can't do the task I want, trying Grok just seems like a waste of time.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-29 15:23:31+00:00
To me, Computer Science is about the theory of computation, and the analysis of algorithms, and to some degree about the design of computer programming languages.

Software Engineering is about the efficient[1] production[2] of larger-scale programs that adequately meet the need[3].

Software Development as a separate topic... maybe, for some things like games and UI. I don't really see it as a separate field, though.

[1] "Efficient" is actually a lie, but the sentence was already long enough as it is. I really should have said "somewhat less inefficient". You can never make it efficient. (The fundamental problem is that brain-to-brain transfer of technical information is slow, inefficient, and lossy.) But if you don't control the inefficiency, it's going to destroy your project.

[2] Production and maintenance. Larger-scale software also tends to be longer lasting; if you don't build something maintainable, you fail.

[3] This does not mean bug-free! But it means that the amount and severity of the bugs do not destroy the usefulness of the software.
by david_alen | 2025-09-29 15:23:39+00:00
Yeah, it's an interesting idea, but let's be real, this doesn't work for most people. This whole "curate your day" philosophy is great if you have the freedom and the money to not worry about rent.

But what about someone working two jobs just to make ends meet? Or a student drowning in debt? Their day is run by necessity, not by choice.

So isn't this approach just a luxury for people who already have their basic needs covered?
by jerf | 2025-09-29 15:23:42+00:00
I am old enough to remember a time when I had positive associations with being an "EA game".

The games in question were on my Commodore 64. But still, there was such a time.

EA has a reputation for buying companies and draining all of their reputation for money. The first company that the EA of today did that to was EA itself. There was a time it was just a gaming company.

Actually it was about up to the Origin acquisition that I still had at least some positive feelings for them, before the pattern really settled in. After that, though, I got nothin'.
by boilerupnc | 2025-09-29 15:23:44+00:00
Related: Wolff's Law

"bone in a healthy animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed.If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading. [...] The inverse is true as well: if the loading on a bone decreases, the bone will become less dense and weaker due to the lack of the stimulus required for continued remodeling."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff%27s_law
by Avamander | 2025-09-29 15:23:57+00:00
You're basically correct. But it's also a weird thing to refute in the first place? How do you hack a "passport" or your "social security card"? Artisanal elliptic curves from Russia and extremely deep corruption in most branches of the government?

Most human-related problems around bootstrapping one's identity still remain the same and have to be solved. Electronic identity or not. (Also see the XKCD about the "wrench attack")

But a proper ID system gives a nation the opportunity to rely on elliptic curve cryptography and an EAL4+ SmartCard or SIM. Not on a pinky promise about identity based on knowing some number, some face pics or having a gas bill.

Verizon could still leak your hypothetical future e-SSN. But then it wouldn't be sufficient for identity theft or impersonating you in some places. That's not what would be an "identity" any more.
by amluto | 2025-09-29 15:24:11+00:00
They’re showcasing their open-source stack, built on existing tools, for their own FPGA.

Imagine if, 25 years ago, a company had designed a new CPU ISA and core and, as part of the development process, ported GCC and done a nice job tuning the existing optimization passes, with the intention of the GCC port being the primary toolchain that commercial users would use. They could write a blog post about it, and it would have been great. Maybe they even would have acknowledged in the blog post that the stack included binutils :)
by pixl97 | 2025-09-29 15:24:12+00:00
Why is it considered acceptable to shed millions of tons of tire dust in to cities where people live and breath.

In the order of environmental issues, these plastic pellets are insignificant.

If you want to get up in arms about something, look at how many container loads of plastic feedstock falls off of ships per year and you'll see a problem a million times bigger.
by notatoad | 2025-09-29 15:24:50+00:00
I think the context of the original article is important: at an airsoft range, you’re on private property. You’ve signed a waiver to be there, there’s already rules to follow. Having formal rules for filming would be a totally reasonable and practical thing to do.

Just like some gyms are accommodating to people filming TikTok’s and some aren’t, an airsoft range could have camera or no camera days, if that was something their players wanted.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-29 15:25:03+00:00
When I think about ads, I think about Google's paper [0], which allows multiple self-interested LLMs bid for possible ad-spots in the prompt, which is just a different flavor of what we have today.

As noted on the thread, a good ML model can do better, with less. I can use that kind of recommendation system for discovering my alternatives for a given item/tech/whatever, on demand.

But current crop of LLMs, with a strong leaning for embedding seamless ads into prompt responses, a double no. No, because I don't agree on how training data is stol ^H^H^H^H collected from wider internet and everything, another no for unsolicited ads.

I'll continue using Kagi and being a luddite, thanks.

[0]: https://research.google/blog/mechanism-design-for-large-lang...
by dchow1 | 2025-09-29 15:25:13+00:00
I think people made similar comments re: the advent of mobile and the internet. New technology always introduces new pitfalls. I agree that using AI as a substitute for deep thinking is an insidious problem (especially for young kids who are still learning how to think), but for those of us who use it as a thought partner - it can accelerate the tedious parts of gathering and sourcing inputs to focus on synthesizing.

One anecdote of this: in consulting, half of my brain power used to be spent on taking copious notes and organizing action items. Now tools like Granola have trivialized that process so i can focus on understanding
by Topfi | 2025-09-29 15:25:19+00:00
For what it is worth, xAI models have historically always underperformed my personal, amateurish benchmarks when compared to what I’d expect to see due to their performance in more publicly known evals. Claude has historically always been the exact opposite, underperforming public evals while outperforming my testing and OAI with 4.1 and 5 output I found to most closely be within what one would expect from those same benchmarks vs my own.

Training to the test, especially in flashy, easy to grasp things like bouncing ball and subsequent failure of similar tasks after small prompts changes made me doubtful of any claims that XAI models are good, with Grok 4 Fast not being an exception. Take the benchmark performance, even when they let external partners like Artificial Analysis do the evaluation, of any LLM lab with massive skepticism, but with XAI I have the most reason to doubt their claims due to prior performance discrepancies.

Just to add some context to what I perceive is their honesty. Also, lest we forget their commitment to publishing system prompts and changes to that for the X deployment of Grok and how these somehow did not reflect any changes during the South Africa and Mechahitler incidents…
by ryandrake | 2025-09-29 15:26:07+00:00
I think there is an age range where all this "posting" has been normalized, but outside of that generation it's not appreciated. I'm old enough that this kind of shit is still taboo to me, and I know my young kid and her friends are all deeply aware of who's being photographed, and what to share online and what not to. All the kids seem to deliberately distinguish between photo/video of objects and of people around them, when they go to post things. They're definitely aware and careful. It's this middle age range of maybe 25-45 year olds (?) where a sizable number of people are just careless or even accept casual posting of other people's photos and video.
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-09-29 15:26:34+00:00
Weddings held in churches have been public with nobody turned away at the door. Perhaps you are thinking of receptions, where invitations are checked, and accountants are eyeing the attendees accordingly.

An impending wedding is usually one of the most publicized events in any city. The banns must be published, typically in a special section of the newspaper. In order to give notice for anyone who may object or know about a prior bond. Also any hint of duress or urgency that may impede free consent. The banns are the actual execution of the ceremonial “callout” you see in films.

The witnesses of a wedding are not optional. The witnesses serve as representatives of the general public. Typically a clandestine wedding would be invalid without witnesses to verify and vouch for the identity, presence, and consent of bride and groom.

Taking photos for verification is sort of after-the-fact, and it would be most unfortunate for the banns to miss the mark until after the ceremony, or the consummation.

But only crazy people would consider a wedding ceremony “private” or “closed to the public” other than “renting an officiant” and flying off to a Caribbean elopement that only your billionaire girlboss bridesmaids can afford.
by pengaru | 2025-09-29 15:26:47+00:00
> A liability for having tea with elderly citizens?

In their homes? It's a mountain of liability. The elderly tend to be a combination of paranoid and senile.

The first time they misplace a checkbook or forget some valuable was already given to some grandchild they'll accuse the most recent new guest in memory of stealing.

And that's just one of an infinite number of possibilities having spent zero time dwelling on it.
by hedora | 2025-09-29 15:26:52+00:00
Nonsense. Just hire people to automate away 100% of tasks at your company. Later, lay them off and reduce your costs to a $100/month LLM subscription.

Your prompts will be your moat and your margins will go to infinity. It will be glorious and sustainable for years to come.

- A large fraction of soon-to-be-redundant upper management, 2025.
by Redster | 2025-09-29 15:27:08+00:00
a haiku once writ needs validation surely validator's broke Line 1 - 5 / 5 a(1) haiku(2) once(1) writ(1) Line 2 - 8 / 7 needs(1) validation(4) surely(3) Line 3 - 6 / 5 validator's(4) broke(2)
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-29 15:27:23+00:00
PIF also has a controlling stake in SNK (who just released a new fatal fury videogame), and has a close relationship with TKO, especially including Saudi Arabia getting a WrestleMania. MBS is known to love "attitude era" WWE wrestling and this move tells me he was probably also a big fan of FIFA growing up.

Of course this is entertainment-washing at the end of the day, but I just find it funny the that MBS is going about it: buying EA the same way I would buy a used copy of NHL 97.
by foxyv | 2025-09-29 15:27:54+00:00
If you are selling advertising, then I agree. However, if you are selling a product to consumers then no. Ask an LLM "What is the best refrigerator on the market." You will get various answers like:

> The best refrigerator on the market varies based on individual needs, but top brands like LG and Samsung are highly recommended for their innovative features, reliability, and energy efficiency. For specific models, consider LG's Smart Standard-Depth MAX™ French Door Refrigerator or Samsung's smart refrigerators with internal cameras.

Optimizing your site for LLM means that you can direct their gestalt thinking towards your brand.
by kiitos | 2025-09-29 15:28:26+00:00
what do I find objectionable?

> The first step to resist or undo Woke Invasion in your organization (or your psyche) is to thoroughly understand its creed Critical Race Theory, so as to uncover the fact that generally speaking woke disciples care less about the problems in the world than assuaging their self-centered ideological feelings. 1 The next step, obviously, is then to effectuate an elimination of the wannabe woke invaders from your organization by instituting a culture based on common sense values stripped of identity politics.

this wildly pejorative definition of the central concept at play in the discussion, probably, is a good start to what i find objectionable, yeah?

or maybe the author's own definition of "wokeism"

> Wokeism is a secular religion that originated in the United States of America, based on the pseudoscienfic field Critical Race Theory. It presumably took roots around 2016 (see Woke Invasion) and has been withering away since around 2024. Bigoted ideologies like neoracism fall under wokeism.

which is about on the same level as vaccines cause autism

i'm sure there are lots of people who think otherwise and maybe you're one of them but frankly there is nothing useful to be gained by arguing the merits of this kind of stupidity
by jerf | 2025-09-29 15:28:29+00:00
Between the fact that I'm on the "no time" part of the "time to play but no money, money to buy but no time, pick one" saying, indies, some still-functioning Japanese studios, and the burgeoning "AA" segment of the market, where people in the 2020s use 2020s technology with a team of maybe a dozen or two to put out what would have been AAA games produced by hundreds of people in the 2010s, I've had no use for the AAA space for a while. Or the gacha space; you don't need to create an open wound in your wallet just to play some decent games.

I've noticed this attitude is not yet "mainstream" but the first and the second derivative of its prevalence ought to worry the AAA industry. If their moat essentially collapses to "we can afford to spend a bazillion dollars on marketing" their death won't be too many years behind.
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-29 15:28:45+00:00
My biggest issues with these type keyboards are the non-standard layouts. Kinesis gives you a standard layout. These other ones do not. I will NOT always be using the same keyboard everywhere I go, and muscle memory is something I have and want to benefit from. I see no benefit to me in learning a unique, one-off, non-standard layout that is effectively vendor lockin. Even ZSA can't keep a consistent layout.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-29 15:28:48+00:00
This is one of the reasons I use the free county gym — there are no influencers here (it's bare bones dudes slamming weights, only). I used to pay for a membership at a higher-end local establishment (and could still afford to), but got tired of all the glimglam of social gyms. The only thing I miss is the yoga class.
by zenmac | 2025-09-29 15:28:52+00:00
>There is never enough context. We learned quickly that the more context we provided and the smaller the issues, the better the results. However, no matter how much context we provided, the AI would still mess things up because it didn’t ask us for feedback. AI would just not understand if it didn’t have enough information to finish a task, it would assume, a lot, and fail.

Is it me or does it feels like the genie in the bottle thing. Remember a TV show where the guy and his friend sat down with the Genie like a lawyer to make sure every angle is covered (going to spare you the details here). That is what it feels like interacting to a LLM sometimes.
by rockercoaster | 2025-09-29 15:29:43+00:00
NBA Jam; NFL 2K (and 2K1, 2K2) on the Dreamcast; the first three Tony Hawk games, the THQ "pro wrestling" games on the N64; Ice Hockey, Punch Out!, World Cup, Dodgeball (really, any of those Kunio Kun sports games) and Bases Loaded (first one only) on the NES; the Mutant League games on the Sega (especially Hockey). What the Golf?, Golf Story, the Mario Golf games. Mario Tennis (any of them, they're pretty much all good, the latest one on the Switch is great). Super Baseball 2020 on the Neo Geo.

There are two big audiences for sports games, I think, and I'm in the one that doesn't give a shit about realism or real team names or real-world rosters. I have no interest whatsoever in modern EA-type sports games, and most (not quite all) of my favorites for any give sport are from the '90s or '00s. I would characterize myself as a pretty big fan of sports games, actually (look at that list! I have put lots of time into pretty much all of those! I didn't even list all of them, like snowboarding games) but don't have any interest whatsoever in the latest EA NFL games and such.
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by tentacleuno | 2025-09-29 15:29:53+00:00
Obligatory mention: ImagePipe[0]. It lets you compress pictures and edit them. You can share images to ImagePipe and it automatically shows a dialog to share compressed versions with another app (hence the "Pipe" -- it's a pipeline!)

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepip...
by pixl97 | 2025-09-29 15:31:03+00:00
>So said stalker would have to run facial recognition software on every image on the internet

This argument is so poorly formed I almost believe it's in bad faith.

Both you and I know that a stalker wouldn't do that. People tend to congregate their online behaviors in a very small circle of sites based upon their physical locations, I'm not going to index files in Japan to find someone in Iowa. Digital footprints are both large and small at the same time.

> when it’s much easier to just stake out wealthy neighborhoods and definitively see who’s not home and who has unsecured valuables

Because it's risky and time consuming to be there in person. In fact it's even easier to setup a camera in said neighborhoods and have software track users behavior then to sit around there yourself.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-29 15:31:16+00:00
> If you are doing it because you're a creator on YouTube and you are getting paid through views on YouTube, aren't you then required to get release info?

The model release laws are usually tied to commercial use where some endorsement is implied.

That’s why your company must secure a model release when filming in your office: The material is being used in a manner related to the company and as an employee in the video you are implicitly part of that.

If the AirSoft facility was filming customers and using that footage in an ad, they would probably require model release forms.

There are freedom of speech protections covering the capture of likeness for artistic display, editorial use, and so on.

If the YouTuber made some video in this case as an ad for some AirSoft product and included other people in it without model release forms in a way that implied they were part of the endorsement, they could be in trouble. If they’re just making videos reporting on their games then I doubt there’s an argument that you could make requiring a model release, even if the channel was monetized.

This is also why news channels don't need to secure model release forms when reporting on public events. If we required everyone to do the model release form thing to show any video of them, you would never see any negative videos of politicians or criminals agin.