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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:55:05+00:00
> Trump doesn't care about public opinion

Of course he does. But he's currently most sensitive to Republican voters' opinions, and they're still at 64% net sympathy for Israel and 9% for Palestine. (55% of Trump voters say "Israel should continue its military campaign until Hamas is fully eliminated, even if it means the civilian casualties in Gaza might continue," while only 29% say "Israel should stop its military campaign in order to protect against civilian casualties, even if Hamas has not been fully eliminated" [1].)

As the midterms come closer, that 26% independent net support for Israel becomes more pertinent, as do the 67% of independents who want Israel to stop its campaign.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/02/polls/times-s...
by bigiain | 2025-10-03 00:55:07+00:00
> I was once even part of a vendor assessment that was rejected and it turned out that the CEO had already given the green light and signed paperwork weeks before

I worked at a place where without any of the tech staff knowing about it, the CEO literally signed a $600k/yr Adobe Experience Manager contract on a golf course with the Adobe Salesweasel, and it didn't get used at all. As far as anyone knows that bill got paid for two more years before that same CEO flew the whole company into the ground leaving ~100 people not only out of work, but unpaid for their last month and without their last 3 months worth of entitlements paid.
by osigurdson | 2025-10-03 00:55:19+00:00
>> When Platform marks "Multi-mount volumes" as P1 and Product marks "HA DBs" as P1

Hilarious how closely aligned product and engineering are here. There must be essentially no delta in backgrounds at all. Might as well just merge the functions and have engineers talk to customers (who would be developers as well presumably) from time to time.
by jph00 | 2025-10-03 00:56:19+00:00
I apologise folks that we did a bad job of explaining exactly what we're launching! My bad. :( I've added this to the top of the article now -- I hope this does a better job of explaining things:

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*tldr from Jeremy:* You can now sign up for Solveit, which a course in how to solve problems (including coding, writing, sysadmin, and research) using fast short iterations, and also provides a platform that makes this approach easier and more effective. The course shows how to use AI in small doses to help learn as you build, but doesn't rely on AI at all -- you can totally avoid AI if you prefer. The approach we teach is based on decades of research and practice from Eric Ries and I, the founders of Answer.AI. It's basically the opposite of "vibe coding"; it's all about small steps, deep understanding, and deep reflection. We wrote the platform because we didn't find anything else sufficient for doing work the "solveit way", so we made something for ourselves, and then decided to make it available more widely. You can follow the approach without using our platform, although it won't be as smooth an experience.

The platform combines elements of all these: ChatGPT; Jupyter Notebook + nbdev; Bits of vscode/cursor (we embed the same Monaco editor and add similar optional AI and non-AI autocompletion); a VPS (you get your own persistent full VPS running Linux with a URL you can share for public running applications); Claude Code (all the same tools are available); a persistent terminal. Then there's some bits added that don't exist elsewhere AFAIK: something like MCP, but way simpler, where any Python function can be instantly used as an AI tool; the ability to refer directly to any live Python variable in AI context (but optional, so it doesn't eat up your context window); full metaprogramming of the environment (you can through code or AI tools modify the environment itself or the dialog); context editing (you can -- and should -- directly edit AI responses instead of tell the AI it's wrong); collaborative notebook coding (multiple people can edit the dialog, run code, etc, and all see live updates).
by kstenerud | 2025-10-03 00:57:15+00:00
It depends a lot on where you end up. There are niches where you can live by market forces alone, and breeze through life being almost unaware of politics - but that's the exception.

For most people, politics will be a dominant force - if not THE dominant force - that they live or die by. Once more than 2 people are involved, you by definition have politics (albeit weak politics). It then grows slightly until it suddenly becomes much more important at about 150 people or so. By the time you're at 1000 it's a major force, and at 5000 it's the only force that matters anymore.

And even if it's not your organization that's this big, a small company selling to Amazon will only succeed if they know how to play Amazon politics.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-03 00:57:16+00:00
Sorry, I wasn't trying to attack you either. I meant the royal "you"

In both Germany and the USSR, a lot of people died making zero progress (and maybe even negative progress in some ways) liberating their country.

I just think, as long as Trump's rhetoric and claimed policy is popular, there's no "resistance" possible. Americans want this crap. They'll keep voting that way until they get it as hard as possible.

So many people are insisting that people like me have to rise up and take back our country, ignoring that our country wants this and chose this, multiple times.

McCarthyism worked. It suppressed speech and activity, and basically eliminated socialism in the US for a century. History is rhyming.

I don't have a solution.
by saurik | 2025-10-03 00:57:24+00:00
FWIW, everyone who claims that Apple fundamentally needs the centralized ability to control apps on their platforms "for everyone's safety" -- despite how that obviously and repeatedly makes them become patsies for governments all over the world to enforce their censorship regimes -- are complicit in this stuff (in addition, of course, to the people who build it at Apple...).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:57:45+00:00
> Israel lost the information/media war so damn badly that it may genuinely not recover from this

Israel probably came out ahead if all they lost is prestige.

They've neutered Iran and become the de facto regional security power. Their weapons and military have been validated, which makes than a desirable trading partner in an increasingly-militarising world. And they're turning into a gas exporter.

Worst case, a generational shift occurs and Israel loses its military support from America. (I don't see us sanctioning Israel any time soon, so its economic primacy will remain intact. And we only pay for like 15% of their military budget, so not a disaster.) Do you really think China and India would even hesitate to partner with Tel Aviv on defense?
by ezst | 2025-10-03 00:57:47+00:00
Signal don't want you to build 3rd party clients and integrations, they are another fully centralised product meant to capture and lock users into what signal believes is better for them. That's the whole "we love opensource but we won't merge your PRs and might lock your account out of the network for using forked clients that got rid of features like crypto that you might not like". I'm still sour for all the bad faith placating "the ecosystem is moving" post by Moxie and the lame excuse for not supporting federation. And no, I'm not finding it hard to onboard family and friends onto secure XMPP clients and accounts.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 00:59:51+00:00
Yeah, I think this is why it's more important to shift the question to "is the team/business more productive". If a 0.5xer manager is pushing 0.1x work and a 1xer teammate needs to become a 1.5xer to fix the slop, then we have this phenomenon where the manager can feel way more productive, while the team under him is spending more time just to fix or throw out his slop.

Both their perspectives are technically right. But we'll either have burned out workers or a lagging schedule as a result in the long term. I miss when we thought more long term about projects.
by ashton314 | 2025-10-03 01:00:19+00:00
I used Hugo's native `.org` file support for a while. It was… fine. There are some serious issues (for me) that I had with it though. The most salient one is that it didn't convert straight quotes in the source ("") to proper curly-quotes. (“”) I don't remember what else but I'm sure there was more than just that. I've spent a lot of time on the typography of my site and I wanted everything to be as perfect as I could make it.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-10-03 01:00:56+00:00
What will that achieve? Next generation with no doubt will have their own POSs, their offspring think pretty much like them already, there is no way out of this vicious cycle.

I don't really blame humans in particular, a bear can eat it's prey alive and feel nothing at all about it, and many other similar examples of cruelty exist in nature, many even eat their own species in special circumstances, despite that I don't consider any of them evil.

Nothing short of a highly contagious virus that affects the brain and makes us more emphatic (with no other side effect) would break the cycle, but that's just sci-fi talk.
by autumnstwilight | 2025-10-03 01:02:12+00:00
Japan too, convenience stores are everywhere, packages go to lockers in the convenience store, unlock with phone app.

(Of course you can still choose to have them delivered to your door, but I find the delivery people don't ring the doorbell and then mark the delivery as missed, even with instructions to leave the package in front of the door. But that's a separate issue.)
by sandworm101 | 2025-10-03 01:03:11+00:00
This is the problem with the modern "app" way of doing things. This sort of thing would be best handled as a website so that users need not run specific software on thier phones. Reports can come in as basic emails parsed for a lat/long or grid. Then a kml file can be pushed as needed to a basic web-facing map. The bandwidth would be minimal and very resistant to shutdown. Heck, share the kml files via torrents or put the map server in tor if necessary. No apps required.
by foobarbecue | 2025-10-03 01:03:38+00:00
Absolutely. I don't mind a recording, as long as it's presented as a recording and anything misleading is disclosed. If you say you're going to demo something, demo it. We have enough erosion of truth in this world already -- don't contribute to it!

I do live demos at work all the time and the best part is that when someone asks "can it frobulate with encapulation?" I can actually press the frobulate button with encapulation enabled and show them. Can't do that with a recording.
by ashton314 | 2025-10-03 01:04:31+00:00
Equations: very yes. You have to create some custom short codes. Example of it in action here: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-08-06_zkp/

Here's the source for that entire post: https://gist.github.com/ashton314/e63c9ed31c38c421f11d84df1f...

The shortcodes are a little messy, I will admit, but I have a temp.el snippet that expands to the right thing so authoring isn't too bad.

org-babel: I'm not sure. Here's the docs for code block handling in ox-hugo: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/doc/source-blocks/
by em-bee | 2025-10-03 01:04:35+00:00
well, if you commute by bike you are already doing exercise, so you are already ahead (compared to someone who doesn't exercise at all), but also your commute time won't fluctuate as much, so there is less flexibility. it would be unlikely that you arrive at work early for example.

if i am exhausted after work (which is a problem in itself, but that's a different topic), i'd look for a more relaxing route to bike. sideroads with less traffic, detours through public parks, etc. after an exhausting day i want to relax, and so i would try to start relaxing the moment i get out of the office, not just after i get home. one of the reasons why i like public transport. someone else is driving.

i am not trying to suggest that you should do the same, but maybe something resonates with you.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:04:52+00:00
> you can’t mean this in any kind of robust way.

Why not?

>I can’t get my job done without a computer; am I an “addict” who has “lost the ability to work on my own?”

It's very possible. I know people love bescmirching the "you won't always have a calculator" mentality. But if you're using a calculator for 2nd grade mental math, you may have degregaded too far. It varies on the task, of course.

>Every tool tends to engender dependence, roughly in proportion to how much easier it makes the life of the user. That’s not a bad thing.

Depends on how it's making it easier. Phones are an excellent example. They make communication much easier and long distance communication possible. But if it gets to the point where you're texting someone in the next room instead of opening your door, you might be losing a piece of you somewhere.
by eru | 2025-10-03 01:04:53+00:00
Yes.

I meant 'Jump to Definition' as one clear example, not as a definitive enumeration of everything that compiler integration can help you with.

Eg compiler integration is also really useful to show you the inferred types. Even dinosaurs like old-school Java and C have (limited) type inference: inside of expressions. But of course in a language like Haskell or Rust (or even Python) this becomes much more important.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:06:08+00:00
Not a real argument, but I don't think I can come up with a real argument for your case, so fair enough.

Show me a single case where previously-warring nations peacefully unified (i.e. not through conquest or subjugation)? Poland-Lithuania and England-Scotland are the only two I can think of.

Because the counterexample--multiethnic nations that split along national-identity lines--is far more frequent since the age of conquest. Former Yugoslavia. Pre-Partition India. Sudan. Ethiopia. Algeria.

Multiethnicisim is hard. Where it works, it happened through immigration. Combining previously-warring nations under one roof is basically just assisted civil war.
by wpm | 2025-10-03 01:06:14+00:00
"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-03 01:06:16+00:00
I also wonder if this means that even paid tiers will get ads. Google's ad revenue is only ~$30 per user per year, yet there is no paid, ad-free Google Premium, even though lots of users would gladly pay way more than $30/year have an ad-free experience. There's no Google Premium because Google's ad revenue isn't uniformly distributed across users; it's heavily skewed towards the wealthiest users, exactly the users most likely to purchase an ad-free experience. In order to recoup the lost ad revenue from those wealthy users, Google would have to charge something exorbitant, which nobody would be willing to pay.

I fear the same will happen with chatbots. The users paying $20 or $200/month for premium tiers of ChatGPT are precisely the ones you don't want to exclude from generating ad revenue.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-03 01:06:43+00:00
> Authorities said the suspect, Joshua Jahn, searched his phone for tracking apps, including ICEBlock, before opening fire on the facility from a rooftop.

Thats weird because you dont need iceblock to know that ICE is at an ICE facility

Its for when they’re spotted in neighborhoods

dumb rationale, dumb response
by freedomben | 2025-10-03 01:06:48+00:00
I think that's mostly accurate, but to be fair he did recently sign an executive order guaranteeing military defense of Qatar, which was clearly a message to Israel that they better not mess with them. It's far from a backpedal on his support for Israel, but it does show he won't let them do anything they want (at least if he is speaking honestly)
by fdye | 2025-10-03 01:07:16+00:00
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by yalogin | 2025-10-03 01:07:28+00:00
I don’t think they care, worst case scenario they will just go public and dump it on the market.

However the revenue generation aspect for llms is still in its infancy. The most obvious path for OpenAI is to become a search competitor to google, which is what perplexity states it is. So they will try to out do perplexity. All these companies will go vertical and become all encompassing.
by listenallyall | 2025-10-03 01:09:21+00:00
I disagree that competition among fellow high-achievers is the primary obstacle. Maybe, very early on, when you're in a class of investment banking recruits or first-year law associates, etc. But that gets sorted out in the first few years.

The next 25+ years of your career are often dealt navigating corporate politics, financiers' M & A, industry developments, etc. And it's here that lots of smart, academically excellent people struggle. You can be the world's greatest data scientist, but if you are revealing truths that your boss (or boss's boss) doesnt like, you're probably going to get bounced. You could be doing a great job managing a large group of employees and operating your division efficiently, but some private equity fund buys your owners out and strip-mines the company. Many, many more scenarios. But these aren't "hopeless" situations, there is opportunity to succeed, but that opportunity is based upon people skills as opposed to the academic ideal of right answers vs wrong.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:09:28+00:00
I have my criticisms of LLM's, but anyone in 2025 trying to sell you AGI is selling you a bridge made of snake oil. The aspect of the job market won't even be the biggest question the day we truly achieve AGI.

>At the same time, don't know if it's worth trillions of dollars, at least right now.

The revenue numbers sure don't think so. And I don't think this economy can support "trillions" of spending even if it wanted to. That's why the bubble will pop, IMO.
by komali2 | 2025-10-03 01:09:54+00:00
Which is why people going back and forth about incentives has always driven me nuts. Attempting to make assurances based on this handle we crank called "human incentive" that may map to human behavior in the expected direction, the opposite direction, or no direction at all, is madness! We don't know. Humans are unsolved.

Give me guarantees, or the closest approximation. Federation, distribution, dispersion of authority, interoperability.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-03 01:09:56+00:00
The article says on a low period they found people were eating 1400 calories a day at one point. If there was more than that they would have listed it. Israel targets a higher number but that is what it got to in the worst situation the article could find to list.

The United States Red Cross sets as a floor 1500 calories a day for people in distress. Is the Red Cross trying to starve Americans in distress?

https://emergency.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1791/files/202...

The UN just cut food aid in Kenya for 800,000 refugees from the war in Sudan in half to 588 calories per day, yet the UN says it is willing and able to provide significantly higher amounts of food (and to not do so would be criminal) to the 2 million people of Gaza. Is the UN criminal/genocidal against Kenyan/Sudanese for offering starvation level assistance to one group but significantly more to another? The UN says they are ready and able to provide assistance to one group at the very same time the cut in half/say they can't provide aid that meets the level they say Gaza must receive when it is people in Kenya that need aid. Kenyan war refugees are receiving significantly less per person than that 1400 calorie at 588.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202505230270.html
by scrubs | 2025-10-03 01:10:39+00:00
You know if the damn prices were not so hidden behind paperwork electronic or otherwise between the provider and insurance company, together with well disseminated facts about cost, and outcomes we could let market forces sort this out so poor service + high cost is mediated somewhat ...

Ideally the provider would bill the patient only without recourse to any insurer. The patient if satisfied could ask the insurance to pay. This way the bill "is out " in the sunlight, and providers have no way to get paid unless customers are happy. At bare bones it aligns provider with patient through a bill like anything else. Adversarial patients ... are another thing for later ... but i want people to start seeing US medicine up front rather that stuff that goes on behind the scenes.

I realize ppl get all kinds of paperwork now including sometimes bills ... but c'mon it's one thing if it's FYI after the fact" because it was all submitted to insurance yesterday anyway ... or ... this is it; the bill is due ... approve it ... or else ...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:11:15+00:00
> If Hamas attacked a military target on Oct 7th, killed 1000+ IDF personnel and took a few hundred more hostage, you don't think Israel will be bombing Gaza today?

Oh, they'd absolutely be at war. But I don't think they'd have the freedom to collectively punish as they do now. There would also be a credible argument for Hamas remaining in power, possibly armed, after the peace.
by superb_dev | 2025-10-03 01:12:50+00:00
> …and yet they make significant efforts to prevent civilian casualties there.

This is just obviously false. All you have to do is look at how many children they’ve killed. Those aren’t the number of someone going out of their way to prevent civilian casualties.

It’s 50,000 children by the way. https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/more-50000-children-killed...
by astrange | 2025-10-03 01:13:10+00:00
> But according to the repo, this project also uses both slice and frame multi-threading (as does ffmpeg, with all the tradeoffs).

Oh, I missed that since it doesn't have a separate file. In that case they're likely very similar performance-wise. H.264 wasn't well-designed for CPUs because the arithmetic coding could've been done better, but it's not that challenging these days.

> And SIMD usage is basically table-stakes, and libavcodec uses SIMD all over the place?

SIMD _intrinsics_. libavcodec doesn't write DSP functions in assembly for historical reasons - it's because it's just better! It's faster, just as maintainable, at least as easy to read and write, and not any less portable (since it already isn't portable…). They're basically a poor way to generate the code you want, interfere with other optimizations like autovectorization, and you might as well write your own code generator instead.

The downsides are it's harder to debug and analyzers like ASan don't work.