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by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 12:26:40+00:00
> Or if someone takes an action knowing that it could crash an airliner with hundreds of people aboard, they should not be imprisoned?

The above was poorly worded. My apologies. Instead: if someone takes an action knowing that it could crash an airliner with hundreds of people aboard, and that airliner crashes, killing hundreds, they should not be imprisoned?

As for the rest, you are ignoring the modifiers "knowingly" and "making the cost/benefit analysis that paying fines/settlements will cost less than operating safely" and "knowingly and/or negligently putting others at risk of harm" and "willful, knowing negligence"

Why are you ignoring those qualifiers? Did you just miss them? Were they not placed prominently enough in my prose?

I'm not (and I explicitly said so) talking about accidents that are the result of bad luck or a relatively unforeseeable chain of events.

As I repeatedly said, I'm talking about willful, knowledgeable negligence and/or cutting corners knowing safety could be compromised and making conscious decisions to accept known risks of harm to people, property and/or the environment in pursuit of increased profit.

But you knew that, because I repeatedly said so. As such, why are you arguing with a strawman you set up rather than engaging with my actual statements?

A great example of what I'm talking about is the continued sale of HIV contaminated blood products by multiple pharmaceutical companies who knew their products were contaminated with HIV[0], were already selling products that were uncontaminated, but knowingly sold the contaminated products and thousands of hemophiliacs died slow, painful deaths from AIDS (including my brother in-law).

And (for the eighth or ninth time) that's the sort of thing I'm talking about.

Those pharmaceutical companies intentionally murdered thousands by knowingly selling contaminated blood products to people who needed those products to live -- even though they had uncontaminated products in inventory. They just wanted to make more money by infecting ~80% of US hemophiliacs and many more around the world.

Perhaps you'll claim it was just "poor process" or "deficient training" or something else equally ridiculous. But it wasn't any of those things. The pharma companies admitted doing so.

How many executives went to prison, or the companies had their charters revoked? Zero. That's the problem. That's the kind of behavior that literally screams for prison time and the corporate death penalty.

Do I need to provide eight or nine more examples before you'll stop being deliberately obtuse? You're being an apologist for sociopathic, murderous scum. For shame!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-10 12:26:42+00:00
Taking car transport to the extreme is bad, but the narrative that life in a small flat and commute by public transport is the future is dystopian, too.

The "air pollution" argument is disappearing fast as well with the ongoing transition to EVs.

What we need is a good balance. Pedestrians, bicycles, public transport, and cars.
by chha | 2025-09-10 12:26:43+00:00
There could, this would essentially be in the form of a standard library. That would work until someone decides they don't like the form/naming conventions/architecture/ideology/lack of ideology/whatever else and then reinvent everything to do the same, but in a slightly different way.

And before you know it, you have a multitude of distributions to choose from, each with their own issues...
by hylaride | 2025-09-10 12:26:56+00:00
> If I compare a typical Rust project, with a same JavaScript one, JavaScript project itself often has magnitudes more direct dependencies (wide supply chain?).

This has more to do with the popularity of a language than anything else, I think. Though the fact that Python and JS are used as "entry level" languages probably encourages some of these "lazy" libraries cough cough left-pad cough cough.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-10 12:27:39+00:00
Most of the time aspect comes from excessive regulations and approvals and always, always giving jobs to the lowest bidding contractor. The lowest bidder is always the most expensive, and they always waste time far beyond schedule to burn more money, yet North America as a whole just won't learn from the past 70 years and keeps doing the same thing.

I visit China sometimes and it's seriously just wild seeing a town suddenly have a metro system go from not existing to being fully functional and world-class compared to anything in the west within the span of a few years. And that's not even starting on their high speed rail system, which went from not existing to connecting basically every major city across the country within 20 years, and connecting the biggest cities within 10.

Every construction site in America is endless thumb twiddling, guys holding signs, senseless traffic for sham work, and zero results after decades. One highway near me was under constant construction for one segment for 5 years and still didn't get finished. Every single day, it was the same construction vehicles parked in the same spots and some dudes holding signs while absolutely no progress was made. In Asia, it's a job that'd be done in a few days.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-10 12:28:34+00:00
One of those inconvenient facts: kids who will be successful in life learn to read at home before starting formal schooling, and they have an adult who reads with them three or more times a week; kids who don't get that at home are much more likely to remain illiterate or to read at well below their grade level. It's inconvenient because there isn't anything anyone except the parent(s) can do about it, and the parent has already made that choice by the time the kid gets to school.
by mettamage | 2025-09-10 12:28:58+00:00
> Growing up in suburban California I was basically in an outdoor prison until I could drive.

Having grown up in the Netherlands and having a decision to make where we want our kids to grow up (US spouse), this feels painful to read. I suppose the SWE salaries aren't worth it.

Also this is one of the best towns to cycle in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TuGAHR78w&ab_channel=NotJu...
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-09-10 12:29:30+00:00
You can cycle in the rain. Just plan and get the needed equipment for it.

Also allow me to point you to Mexico City - you can’t imagine the hell it is for car drivers when all the things you mention happen (rain, protests choking half the city, and the subway shut down due to either failure or a strike). I’m talking literally 4-5 hours to get to your in-the-city destination; I once spent 2 hours driving half a kilometer and it was only raining. Just in case your actual point is “it’s better to drive as you’re less vulnerable to an eventuality with public transport or alternative mobility”.
by warpspin | 2025-09-10 12:29:38+00:00
I totally do not get why AI coding proponents constantly seem to feel the need to argue that "one day" coding through AI will work. As if you truly must be prepared for this day or "adapted" to AI as the article argues.

That day will either happen or not in my lifetime. If it happens, no amount of interacting with shitty 2025 tools will prepare me for that because as soon as any such tool would actually understand what it's doing, no amount of weird coping strategies people develop for the current generation of tools will be necessary or work anymore.

So I can just sit back, program as I always did and just wait for the day till this stuff is actually more efficient than me in coding. Then I switch to that tool and no amount of prompt massaging knowledge from yesteryears will help me with that.

And then I need to wait for the tool solving what's usually really holding me up in my work, namely guessing the best future design based on incomplete current information from the present.

When that day comes, I will start to worry about my job. Not earlier.
by snowwrestler | 2025-09-10 12:30:29+00:00
It’s a shame you’re getting downvoted because I think you’re correct, and this is a perfectly valid opinion to hold.

I would respond by saying that sometimes I actually want a locked-down bank terminal (when I’m banking for example), and I appreciate the opportunity to buy one.

Computing hardware in general is way less expensive and more abundant than it used to be, so there are still many options in the marketplace for people to peek and poke into.
by CaptWillard | 2025-09-10 12:30:41+00:00
Except the BLS numbers have been significantly revised on an ongoing basis for the last five years.

That's been so widely known that I have a really hard time believing that you guys don't know this, which makes me wonder why you're out here propagandizing like this.

You need to understand it's a net loss in persuasion, this gaslighting.
by agentcoops | 2025-09-10 12:30:46+00:00
There are more divisions than just “data” vs “vibes.” After all, even in the natural sciences, the best data is useless without an explanation/hypothesis that can never just be reduced to the data. Precisely what is thrown out in the decline of reading is familiarity with the centuries of hard-won Enlightenment knowledge, especially concerning the stakes of education, which isn’t just vibes and that ought precisely drive our further data-driven insight into these questions.

Second best, however, I’d take the “vibes” of a random teacher over the religion-based decision making that seems to be on the rise in the US. “Data-driven” religiously motivated educational policy is the worst of all possible worlds.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-10 12:31:21+00:00
>is this lack of secops understanding, lack of genuine concern, or something else?

Even if they were to path the provided list, it sounds like the problem runs deeper. In that case there's not much you can do unless you're at a higher up position within the actual org.

There's probably nothing you can realistically do (except spread the word, of course). Most pen testing just isn't that sexy. The likely result that will draw in public interest is that eventually they will have a major public security issue. It's that simple, and sometimes it's just a matter of time.

There is a chance that the biggest problems are localized at the interface between the company and public, and in that case getting the higher ups to be aware of the severity of the deficiency (both culturally and technically) could change things, but it's likely you're going to find the same thing when you climb the ladder...
by lm28469 | 2025-09-10 12:31:33+00:00
> You either transport your body fast, or you are missing out. And the greatest thing to miss out is an opportunity.

This is such a modern take on life, we have to run everywhere to consume as much as possible as fast as possible. The irony is that you're probably missing out more of what makes life "life" by being entirely driven by FOMO and checking boxes of the infinite TODO list.

What's funny is that the faster the means of transportation the more time we spend time in them, commute times are getting longer, you're most likely literally missing opportunities due to cars more than anything else.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-10 12:32:27+00:00
They usually grow :( . Anyway, this is only a phase 1 trial, that is designed to test if the new proposed drug is safe and check the safe dose range. In later trials there is a control group that is important to check how often there are weird cases where the tumors mysteriously shrink. (For example, bad measurement methods, diet change, leftover cure from a previous treatment, a lucky mutation, divine intervention, whatever, a double blind randomized controlled group include all those cases.)
by PaulRobinson | 2025-09-10 12:33:01+00:00
Apple literally mentioned local LLMs in the event video where they announced this phone and others.

Apple's privacy stance is to do as much as possible on the user's device and as little as possible in cloud. They have iCloud for storage to make inter-device synch easy, but even that is painful for them. They hate cloud. This is the direction they've had for some years now. It always makes me smile that so many commentators just can't understand it and insist that they're "so far behind" on AI.

All the recent academic literature suggests that LLM capability is beginning to plateau, and we don't have ideas on what to do next (and no, we can't ask the LLMs).

As you get more capable SLMs or LLMs, and the hardware gets better and better (who _really_ wants to be long on nVIDIA or Intel right now? Hmm?), people are going to find that they're "good enough" for a range of tasks, and Apple's customer demographic are going to be happy that's all happening on the device in their hand and not on a server [waves hands] "somewhere", in the cloud.
by Theodores | 2025-09-10 12:33:14+00:00
I would get this for my laptop screen and plug in my existing colour monitor.

In this parallel universe, I can afford the flagship laptop with the latest and greatest CPU and ample RAM because I have saved big on getting the 4x3 1600x1200 screen instead of the 4K AMOLED colour screen. I also get to eek out extra battery life big-time since the laptop goes into suspend e-reader style so I don't even know.

On the train the laptop works fine with nobody wanting to steal my PC. If I really need colour, I just pull out my mobile phone.

But there will never be the market for that. Monochrome LCDs went at the start of the century since everyone just wants colour. It is the same on desktop where, like yourself, I would really want one and be prepared to buy one even though I would have never tried f.lux.
by sofiadelgado | 2025-09-10 12:33:35+00:00
I’ve come across this website before on Pinterest, and I believe it ranks within the top five positions because of the value it provides. They have covered almost every possible aspect of the world where height comparisons can be made.

A big plus is that they use real pictures instead of simple black-and-white SVGs, which makes the content more engaging and visually appealing.
by sabellito | 2025-09-10 12:35:22+00:00
I disagree completely with that, at least for software engineers.

The work queue is infinite, measuring output with any sort of precision is almost impossible for a lot of the work (maintenance, actually necessary refactors, security, mentoring juniors, managing stakeholders, etc etc etc). There's no "I've finished my work for today".

I'm not saying that I like it, or that it's a good thing, but in my understanding engineers are paid to be available doing work roughly 40h/week.
by gambiting | 2025-09-10 12:35:32+00:00
Yes, but the point is that currently in the UK you can't do a contactless transaction over £100, pin or no pin. The same transactions are allowed in the rest of Europe no problem.

The difference is only in having to insert the card into the terminal, which maybe doesn't sound like a big deal but a lot of stores put themselves in a stupid position where they have a small contactless terminal(with a pin pad!) attached in a way where it's easy to access next to the till, but if you spend more than £100 the cashier then has to dig out another terminal from under their station that has a slot. It's like trying to pay with a magnetic slot-only card all over again - maybe it's not a big deal but it adds friction where it doesn't need to exist, in France, Germany, Poland, Spain(I assume in all of EU at this point) you just tap your card no matter the transaction value, type in your pin if needed and that's it.
by kiwicopple | 2025-09-10 12:35:35+00:00
(Supabase ceo)

I’ll revisit this with legal to try make it clearer.

Our intentions here are clear - if people have examples that we can follow we will do what we can to make this irrevocable (even to the extent of donating the patent if/when the community are ready to bear the cost of the maintainance)
by dkhenry | 2025-09-10 12:36:23+00:00
I am super bullish on OrioleDB. It really seems like the next logical progression for scaling Postgres for 99% of all databases out there. I have been following their development for a while and running benchmarks to see if their performance claims are legitimate, and so far it has been amazing

https://airtable.com/app7jp5t0dEHyDpa8/shr00etqywoDW2N6N
by dijit | 2025-09-10 12:36:39+00:00
I completely agree. You've hit on the central, infuriating paradox of car-centric cities. We're told that building more roads will bust congestion, but the exact opposite happens. It's a self-destructive cycle and a betrayal of drivers. We're sold a promise of freedom and speed, but what we get is a constant, grinding battle. We spend our lives in traffic and our wallets on fuel/tax, and the very infrastructure meant to liberate us ends up imprisoning us.

The starkest example of this for me is comparing Orlando, Florida with Malmö, Sweden. Orlando is the end game of car-centric planning. The city feels bigger than its population suggests because you spend half an hour in a car just to get anywhere. The eight-lane highways and endless parking lots are supposed to make driving easier, but they create the very congestion that makes driving miserable. This architecture of disconnection means fewer spontaneous encounters and more social isolation. The city is designed for a machine, not for people.

In contrast, Malmö's population is actually larger than Orlando's, yet a 30-minute bike ride can get you literally anywhere. The largest road through the city center is a quiet, two-lane street that prioritises people over cars; as there are large crossings and lights. This isn't an accident, it's a choice. The city's excellent public transportation and extensive bike lanes make the car a choice, not a necessity and because it's penalised: the only drivers are the ones who need to be driving, for which now there are open roads (as long as you're patient).

The truth is, every person on a bus, a train, or a bike is one less car in front of you. Giving people real alternatives is the only thing that can truly reduce traffic. This isn't an attack on cars. It's a demand for sanity, a call to build cities that work for everyone, including those who choose to drive.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-10 12:36:44+00:00
I spent the entirety of yesterday, from around 8:30 until almost exactly 5pm, doing a relatively straightforward refactor to change the types of every identifier in our system, from the protobuf the database, from a generic UUID type to a distinct typesafe wrapper around UUID for each one. This is so that passing ID’s to functions expecting identifiers for one particular type vs another, is less error prone.

It was a nonstop game of my IDE’s refactoring features, a bunch of `xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/;', and repeatedly running `cargo check` and `cargo clippy --fix` until it all compiled. It was a 4000+ line change in the end (net 700 lines removed), and it took me all of that 8.5 hours to finish.

Could an AI have done it faster? Who knows. I’ve tried using Cursor with Claude on stuff like this and it tends to take a very long time, makes mistakes, and ends up digging itself further into holes until I clean up after it. With the size of the code base and the long compile times I’m not sure it would have been able to do it.

So yeah, a typical day is basically 70% coding, 20% meetings, and 10% slack communication. I use AI only to bounce ideas off of, as it seems to do a pisspoor job of maintenance work on a codebase. (I rarely get to write the sort of greenfield code that AI is normally better at.)
by bythreads | 2025-09-10 12:36:48+00:00
In any city the shortest distance in total time spent is by bike.

Even if it is widely dangerous to do so (most american cities i've ever visited)

You can hem and haw - but its pretty bang on

When you then add finding parking at the ends of your trip to it it is crazyly more efficient timewise.

Now even copenhagen denmark has rain causing many more to take a car or public transport (that works).

But it is very clear that the time argument is simply not true.

Now you can argue convenience at the start of the trip vs agony in the end (finding that parking space)

Or for "need to lug an ikea sofa across time"

Or even for "my kids and familiy needs to go as well"

That's super fine, and all true - but 70-80% of ALL trips in cars are by 1 person sitting in 1 car. So moving just 10% of car users to alternate means free up a tremendous amount of space in the city.

I love my car, my bikes and my public transports and each does something nice for me - but seriously do you think cities like l.a. are even livable on a human scale - people don't even walk if the distance is over 1000meters.

I certainly agree with the idea of "uhm lets try to plan for otherthings than cars going forward"
by xela79 | 2025-09-10 12:37:14+00:00
they just casually mentioned they have always been on the forefront of AI.... however that might have been a poor choice of words. If they would have just swapped it with "Machine Learning" and then referring to the ML chip and on device learning & analysis. A Win.

just using "AI" as term... they are so on the forefront that they sent your data to ChatGPT, otherwise you would be too ahead of the pack...
by IvanAchlaqullah | 2025-09-10 12:37:20+00:00
> But something crucial is missing from modern PKM apps: they do a poor job of helping me re-engage with information that I’ve already captured but forgotten about.

> If I’m not careful, my PKM apps become black holes where information goes to die.

Well, that's because just writing notes != learning. Obviously the information get forgotten.

I can't believe the author were so obsessed with PKM, but there zero mention of spaced repetition to help them learn and remember information. (Anki, Supermemo, or at least some Obsidian plugin with same function)
by abraxas | 2025-09-10 12:37:35+00:00
North Americans visiting Europe often grapple with why they enjoy European cities more than North American ones. It's often perceived as an architecture issue ("Europe has historical buildings that we don't have") but very few notice that the main difference is the urban scale and the resulting walkability. The Netherlands has plenty of modernist and even brutalist architecture yet every city there is a pretty nice place to be. This is because they know how to scale cities to human centric proportions. The layout of buildings together with the connective tissue of tram lines, bike lanes and sidewalks is what makes their cities alive and safe, not elaborate building facades (although they have some of that as well).
by dml2135 | 2025-09-10 12:37:47+00:00
Wow I’m surprised at the heavy downvoted here.

I don’t think mandating cameras on and insisting on 100% is the right move, but I definitely think you want to aim for a team culture where camera-on is a default and most people have them on 80-90% of the time.

Otherwise, yea participation and engagement seems to take a major hit.
by tuananh | 2025-09-10 12:37:47+00:00
> What are your thoughts on the other hand in using criu with docker and then deploying it on aws spot instances, is it possible

I don't see why not really

but the last few years, spot has been reclaimed way too often and the price discount is not as good as it used to be (era 2016-2017) so I prefer to use saving plan now. although quite a big portion of our fleet still use spot.
by silvestrov | 2025-09-10 12:38:00+00:00
Car oriented people seriously underestimate how many people that can be transported in a subway train and how much highway space it would take to transport the same number of people in cars.

One subway line can transport more people than even the widest existing highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Passenger_Capacity_of_dif...

(edit: spelling)