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by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-14 23:58:56+00:00
I use a Samsung Fold because I read a lot of books/manga, and I also love its multitasking features over stock Android/Pixel. Finally I also prefer it's form-factor (roughly 3:4 unfolded screen, and a narrow front screen) over other similar devices.

But it's obviously not for everyone so I can't really recommend it to everyone. And to be honest I can't in good faith recommend any Android phone these days, I hate what Google and other OEMs have done to the ecosystem.

I'm quite bullish on Linux phones though, like the FuriPhone FLX1, the Volla Phone Quintus, and the Jolla C2 - obviously again they're not for everyone, so for normies I would recommend an iPhone, and for techies I'd suggest giving the Linux phones a try (or maybe get a OnePlus/Nothing phone and load LineageOS+Magisk if you don't mind playing the cat-and-mouse game with Play Integrity).
by benzible | 2025-10-14 23:59:29+00:00
You're doing the thing where you ignore all the substance to concern-troll about the source. The Oliver piece walks through extensively documented failures in Weiss's work - from Times colleagues contradicting her "civil war" claims in real-time, to Washington University finding her trans clinic allegations unsubstantiated, to families she featured publicly stating she misrepresented their stories. NBC, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Missouri Independent all did independent follow-up reporting that contradicted her work.

You're not engaging with any of the actual substance - you're just doing meta-commentary about whether people should trust sources. If you've got a substantive defense of her work that addresses the specifics of Oliver's piece, let's hear it. Otherwise this is just ad hominem.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-15 00:01:31+00:00
A problem in a handful of cities does not justify the federal government micromanaging stormwater nation wide to the detriment of everyone who needs to have a roof over their head.

The clean water act literally outlaws cheap density via stormwater rules. Even if zoning permitted you can't just build an apartment building right up to your setback minimums like you could in the old days (without spending hundreds of thousands to possibly to comply).
by oconnor663 | 2025-10-15 00:02:28+00:00
> questioning the correctness of this auto-generated code

I wouldn't put it that way. Usually when we say the compiler is "incorrect", we mean that it's generating code that breaks the observable behavior of some program. In that sense, adding extra checks that can't actually fail isn't a correctness issue; it's just an efficiency issue. I'd usually say the compiler is being "conservative" or "defensive". However, the "100% branch testing" strategy that we're talking about makes this more complicated, because this branch-that's-never-taken actually is observable, not to the program itself but to its test suite.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-15 00:02:55+00:00
You aren't wrong, but you are missing a couple of critical facts. One is that it is vanishingly rare for a baby to get hep b unless it is during birth (from the mother). And we test pregnant women for hep b, so we already know which babies are at risk.

Combining the pool of babies born to mothers with and without hep b for determining risk factors is pretty dishonest. It is done to pad the revenues of large pharma companies. There is a non-zero increase in risk from getting any medicine. We weigh those risks against what the medicine is for. For babies born to mothers without hep b, the best choice is to not vax, for less lucky babies its in the vax category. Ignoring this doesn't improve outcomes. Risk is just complex.
by SR2Z | 2025-10-15 00:03:18+00:00
I think the fundamental reason it's laid out like this is because it results in elements with the same major index being close to each other for caching. The assumption is that users will change their minor index much more often than the major one while accessing data, which means that cache prefetching will just work.

Obviously there are situations where this breaks down, but if you have to pick one way to do it I think this makes more sense.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-15 00:03:22+00:00
(2) A few I did, to learn more. Fun facts: The show has won multiple Peabody Awards which explicitly cite its work as "rigorous journalism disguised as comedy". Its large research/fact-checking team is largely staffed with people with journalism and policy background. Every word spoken is vetted for accuracy and potential liability by HBO's legal department.

(1) Did you find anything factually incorrect with the episode?
by anon291 | 2025-10-15 00:03:56+00:00
Solar may be intermittent but tons of electrical usage can be made intermittent thus freeing capacity for non intermittent uses. I'm so tired of these arguments.

Trump claims to want to bring back manufacturing. Manufacturing is material inputs plus labor or automation. American labor is expensive. The only way to compete is automation.

Time and time again studies show that energy cost is the main determinant of factory output and manufacturing capacity. Cheap energy equals more stuff. That's basically it. Anyone who is canceling energy projects is not brining back manufacturing.
by saalweachter | 2025-10-15 00:05:21+00:00
I think beyond the historical reasons why C was the best choice when SQLite was being developed, or the advantages it has today, there's also just no reason to rewrite SQLite in another language.

We don't have to have one implementation of a lightweight SQL database. You can go out right now and start your own implementation in Rust or C++ or Go or Lisp or whatever you like! You can even make compatible APIs for it so that it can be a drop-in replacement for SQLite! No one can stop you! You don't need permission!

But why would we want to throw away the perfectly good C implementation, and why would we expect the C experts who have been carefully maintaining SQLite for a quarter century to be the ones to learn a new language and start over?
by kristianp | 2025-10-15 00:05:28+00:00
The Samsung Z Fold 7 fares better. He's able to bend it back, but unable to cause it to crack by bending it backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hgg4YEdPak

Not sure if I see the point of using a craft knife to scratch the case though. Nor the point of using a lighter to kill pixels on the screen. More for the sheer horror of it than anything.

The Iphone air couldn't be broken by hand either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ56ve39l2I
by nxor | 2025-10-15 00:05:33+00:00
Longish reply:

Thanks for the nice reply. I think it's harder to skim a video and say you understood than it is to skim a long book and say you understood, and I know countless people who do this. So if I watch a video on a topic and someone else reads a paper on a topic, but they may have skimmed, I see merit in watching videos because of this. I would think blind people feel similarly. Can you even skim videos at all?

And yes, I do agree, Youtube can have false info. On the other hand, it can also have info that hasn't been written about yet, and I think there's a lot to say about the fact it covers stuff that otherwise might not get written about, but of course that's a separate topic.

To be honest, there are lots of bad books. I guess we'd have to measure what types a book a person reads, not just how often or how much they read. A local bookstore to me has a ton of westerns. Even if I read them all I'd be worse off. In fact I have read some, lol.

And now for an example!

https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/Deterritorializin...

Sorry to throw raygun under the bus, but I think her paper is a fantastic example.

And you're right, many classical works are by modern standards bad. I have read some of the norse sagas. And I do agree with you, it is important to read the originals!

Harder to do right? Again, uff. I don't know. Books certainly are more informative and more thought out, and more detailed. I think I agree there, and I too hate that people don't read for entertainment.

But reading generally, outside a certain type of books / texts, I think there is still risk. But I do agree, there's lots of bad video / podcast content.

Sorry for the disorganized answer.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-15 00:06:24+00:00
Going into the specifics of what motivated Mike Mansfield requires going beyond the conversation we're having about R&D into the domain of politics and ideology. I want to stick to relevant realities related to people in technology:

1) This killed research in the United States. This killed the program that paid for Alan Kay and Douglas Engelbart's PhDs. This has led to or is at least heavily correlated with the decline in technology and science innovation that has occurred since the beginning of the neoliberal assault. In 1961 we get SketchPad at the University of Utah. In 1968 we get the Mother Of All Demos. What's been developed since with the same kind of impact? I'd argue, "not a whole lot."

2) This has inevitably led to a decline in the public's enthusiasm for technical innovation. I remember the early 1990's World Wide Web. I remember the feeling that a non-marginally better future was, "months away." Now the government and Google collude to spy on me and my family. Now I have a short-form video feed that is paid to deliver content meant to extremize me as a young adult.

The Mansfield Amendment is the technical glitch that may have cancelled a better future for technologists and especially technology literate young adults. It's difficult to say and we may never know. My feeling is that some day some country might achieve a level of social democracy where-in, "we get back to that." Time will tell. The irony is that it's the Adam Smith Societies pushing the hyper, "privatize everything agenda" that reifies the problem. Adam Smith actually advocated for strong public institutions- especially educational institutions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

https://knowledge.essec.edu/en/innovation/the-worrisome-decl...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/03/survey-shows-...

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56eddde762cd9413e151a...
by marxism | 2025-10-15 00:07:23+00:00
I watched a youtube video showing off Orlog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rW3jtbsxZk.

Challenge accepted. If you get back to me I'll livestream this on Saturday.

I want to be crystal clear about what I'm claiming

My Claim: AI assistance has effectively eliminated specialized job skills as a barrier. Anyone can now accomplish what previously required domain expertise, in comparable time to what a pre-AI professional would take.

Specifically:

- I've never written a game. I've never used a browser rigid body physics library. Never written a WebGL scene with Three.js before. Zero experience. So I should fail write.

- I think I could recreate the full 3D scene, hand meshes, rigging, materials, lighting - everything you see in that screenshot - using AI assistance

- I'm not going to do ALL of that in a couple hours, because even a professional game developer couldn't do it all from scratch in a couple hours. They would have assets, physics engine, rendering engine, textures, etc all because they were creating Orlog inside a larger game that provides all these affordances.

- But I could do it in the same timeframe a professional would have taken pre-AI

My interpretation of your challenge:

You're claiming that writing the multiplayer networking and state management for a turn-based dice game is beyond what AI can help a -- what you called me "run of the mill coder camp wanna be programmer" -- accomplish in a reasonable timeframe. That even with a simple 2D UI, I lack the fundamental programming skills to write the multiplayer networking code and manage state transitions properly.

So here's what I'll build:

A multiplayer Orlog game with:

- Full game logic implementing all Orlog rules and mechanics

- two players can connect and play together

- observers can join and watch

- game state properly synced managed across clients.

- Real dice physics simulation (because otherwise the game feels boring and unsatisfying - I'll grant you that point). But I'll have a server pick the dice roll values to avoid cheating. (Easiest trick in the book, just run the physics offscreen first, find the face that lands up, remap the textures, replay on screen this time), but use a library for simple rigid body physics engine because you couldn't write one from scratch in 3 hours either.

- Visual approach: Simple 2D/indie game cartoon style UI, with dice rolling in a separate physics area (just compositing dice roll app at bottom of screen, results animate onto 2D board, reality is they are totally separate systems)

What I need from you:

1. Is this the right interpretation? You're claiming the networking/state management is beyond what AI can help me accomplish?

2. Time predictions:

- How long would a competent game developer take to build what I've described? - How long will it take me?

3. At what point do I prove my point? What's the minimum deliverable you'd accept as having completed the challenge?

Are you willing to make concrete, falsifiable predictions about this specific challenge?
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-15 00:07:35+00:00
I don't know much about Tesla's history, but with SpaceX, that definitely plays a role. While their success can be attributed to their engineering practices, their existence can be attributed to managing to get Falcon 1 to orbit on the last launch that the company could afford at the time, while many other companies, both before and after, have failed due to missing that "keyhole".
by ziml77 | 2025-10-15 00:08:13+00:00
I think the problem I had with the left-half controller layout is that it still used A and B but they were hard to press. Same problem with holding 2 controllers in the center. The N64 controller definitely was not the greatest design for shooters. (And now that I've tried to use one more recently, not a great design in general for larger hands... mine don't really fit the center grip)
by sorcercode | 2025-10-15 00:08:41+00:00
i'm genuinely curious - what do your prompts look like? do you have agent instructions for your repo that you've spent a little time pruning or maintaining? when you execute tasks are you planning these out or one-shotting them?

i ask because your comment is sounding like more often than not, you're actually getting *worse* results? (if i'm reading that right). and i want to understand is it a perception problem (like do you just have a higher bar for what you expect from a coding agent); or is it actually producing bad results, in which case i want to understand what's different in the ways we're using these agents.

(also can you provide a concrete example of how it got something wrong? like what were you asking in that moment and what did it do, and how did it double down.)
by standardUser | 2025-10-15 00:10:03+00:00
As a thought experiment this is great, but I don't think mortality is the best example. Sure, reporting on gun deaths can be written off as sensationalism, but gun deaths in the US are a stark contrast to most other wealthy societies, which makes it newsworthy. And though I do want to be informed about leading causes of death for the elderly (since I hope to be one someday), I'm much more interested in things that are killing people prematurely, suddenly or unexpectedly.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-15 00:10:08+00:00
Yes, I understand many banking apps do work and from reports I have read online it even seems like a couple of the banking apps I use are among the good ones. What gives me pause is how fragile the situation is. Banking apps get "upgraded" all the time to include new security "features". Already I have had my main banking app refuse to work because I had accessibility features enabled for a different app, and subsequently refuse to work again because I had developer mode enabled. If my banking app works on GrapheneOS I am convinced it is because the bank has not gotten round to blocking it yet and it's only a matter of time, unfortunately.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-15 00:10:13+00:00
The issue is that law enforcement personnel are going to do combinations of both. Corruption is real and companies are just made of people. Things can be done in relative secret without arousing controversy. This is the same logic libertarian shitheads use for why we shouldn't provide kids a school lunch.

Human nature doesn't follow your shitfuck ideal driven rules friend. I guarantee some day you'll find that out the hard way.
by rednafi | 2025-10-15 00:10:46+00:00
Also, Rust needs a better stdlib. A crate for every little thing is kinda nuts.

One reason I enjoy Go is because of the pragmatic stdlib. On most cases, I can get away without pulling in any 3p deps.

Now of course Go doesn’t work where you can’t tolerate GC pauses and need some sort of FFI. But because of the stdlib and faster compilation, Go somehow feels lighter than Rust.
by simonw | 2025-10-15 00:11:08+00:00
Training (or fine-tuning) a custom model to answer domain-specific questions is almost never the right solution. It's complicated, expensive, time-consuming and the results are rarely any good. I have yet to see a demo of someone doing this that I find convincing, at least for adding new knowledge to a model.

If you want to teach an LLM to answer questions about private documents you should look into RAG or agentic search - techniques where the LLM can take a user's question and then look for additional information by searching some documents before answering.

The good news is that these tricks work reasonably with small models that you can run on your own hardware - even a 4B or 8B model (a few GBs to download) can often handle these cases.

But... even then, it's still usually cheaper to pay for the APIs from OpenAI and suchlike. Their API costs are so low that it's hard to save money by running your own model somewhere, since you have to pay to keep it in RAM the whole time while OpenAI share that cost between thousands of users.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-15 00:11:29+00:00
This seems pretty relevant on the heels of yesterday's popular discussion on how "Free software Hasn't Won" [0] in terms of tools available to the average consumer.

Just because pieces are open-source (or "free software") doesn't mean the autonomy and capabilities we want are necessarily present in the overall system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562286
by alwillis | 2025-10-15 00:12:00+00:00
Using CSS Grid, which we just got in 2017, is so much easier than using floats and tables. These layouts were also very fragile.

Part of the problem is once people get used to doing something a particular way, they don’t want to change.

I looked at a friend’s website the other day and it’s using a table-based layout and it wasn’t even that old!

Nothing can be removed from CSS because sites from the 90’s and the early 2000’s still have to work in today’s browsers.

The good news is most greenfield projects can use floats and tables in the way they were intended, which wasn’t ever layout.
by lc9er | 2025-10-15 00:12:09+00:00
> Trump claims

It’s safe at this point to always assume the opposite of what he claims. Seems pretty clear he and his cohorts are going to cancel everything, funnel money into their pockets, then buy up everything for pennies on the dollar. Everyone in the US, and perhaps globally, will suffer while they create an ultra-corrupt New Gilded Age that makes the first one look like amateur hour.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 00:12:14+00:00
I guess I don’t find that argument very compelling. If you’re convinced the code branch can’t ever be taken, you also should be confident that it doesn’t need to be tested.

This feels like chasing arbitrary 100% test coverage at the expense of safety. The code quality isn’t actually improved by omitting the checks even though it makes testing coverage go up.
by martin-t | 2025-10-15 00:12:32+00:00
Because when you call them leaders and when they see themselves as leaders, they see themselves as a separate class. A permanent difference from the " mere citizen" class.

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on." -- Larry Ellison (who should not be anthropomorphized)

And Ellison is not even a politician, he doesn't even has any kind of immunity. Meanwhile, EU politicians want to impose Chat Control on everyone except them.

The core issue is that they see themselves as different from us.

Politics should not be a career. It should be something a person does for 5, at most 10 years max and after that they are back to being like everyone else, with 0 benefits (and with potentially more surveillance, I think politicians' finances should be under extra scrutiny for the rest of their lives).
by adriand | 2025-10-15 00:12:44+00:00
The US is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs under Trump. Major manufacturers are booking huge tariff-related losses. What is propping up the US economy right now is the AI infrastructure buildout, but the energy needs for this sector are huge. It’s complete insanity to try and kill solar, which is the cheapest and by far the fastest way to bring new capacity onto the grid. Regular Americans who aren’t part of the AI boom are facing manufacturing job losses, more expensive goods and skyrocketing electricity prices.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-15 00:12:48+00:00
> but I’m finding it harder as more devices share my WiFi credentials with each other

Sorry, what? That's not a documented thing.

There are limited ways in which you can share credentials (like between iPhones), and there have been some weird things in the past related to sharing with friends' accounts (the controversial Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense in 2015), but your consumer devices aren't just sharing Wi-Fi credentials with each other. There isn't even a protocol for that kind of automatic discovery.

As for the microphone on the remote, you need to enable Wi-Fi on the TV so it can perform voice recognition on remote servers. The TV doesn't have the chips/software to do voice recognition. So that makes complete sense.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-15 00:13:26+00:00
Yeah this. We had to build plenty of stuff that had already been sold. I think one of the salespeople got in trouble for it, once.

One salesperson, once.

Do I hate them? No way, I don't hate them, I kind of wish I had some of the social skills they had during that period.

But still not working the weekend to build what you already sold, sorry not sorry. I'll look at it on Monday.
by chris_wot | 2025-10-15 00:14:30+00:00
I’ve seen a lot of protestors in silly suits and dancing. The pastor who was shot from a rooftop the other day wasn’t being violent. The delivery guy on his push bike who they started chasing wasn’t being violent. One of the people in an inflatable suit was so incredibly dangerous that they sprayed tear gas into the suit vent. I'm guessing your news feeds are all Fox News?

I have seen footage of ICE agents shooting up cars and smashing windows.

Maybe you should show what you are seeing, because the subway sandwich guy in a chicken suit that Kristi Noem was looking at from a rooftop the other day didn’t look very dangerous or violent.
by andrewrn | 2025-10-15 00:14:52+00:00
I find that I don’t mindlessly scroll on my desktop, so it’s not a panacea, but the newsfeed eradicator is useful for removing recommendation feeds from a desktop browser: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato....

Also, here’s a (mostly just for fun) project I did related to this: https://github.com/andrew-noble/doomscroll-detector