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by hakfoo | 2025-10-14 03:21:18+00:00
AI is appealing to the investors not because it solves human problems, but because it solves some of the problems of previous bubbles.

When we wired the world for the Internet in the 1990s, or built railways across the continent in the 1800s, we eventually reached a point where even the starriest-eyed investors could see they've covered effectively the entire addressable market. Eventually AOL ran out of new customers no matter how many CDs they mailed out, or we had connected every city of more than 50 people with steel rail, and you could hear the music was slowing down.

By dangling the AGI brass ring out there, they can keep justifying the expenditure past many points of diminishing returns, because the first thing we'll ask the Omnipotent AGI is how to earn the quadrillions spent back, with interest.

It also has the benefit of being a high-churn business. The rails laid in 1880, or the fiber pulled in 2000, were usable for decades, but in the AI bubble, the models are obsolete in months and the GPUs in years. It generates huge looking commercial numbers just to tread water.
by protocolture | 2025-10-14 03:22:11+00:00
Had a vendor offer a customer of mine a huge discount if they purchased radios without the encryption license in the year of our lord 2024.

Not even WPA or WEP. Just clear across the sky. And this is terrestrial.

My bet is that in space there would be a noticable increase in heat/energy if they did encryption by default. But its still incredible to see them pretend like space is impossible to get to, ultimate obscurity.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-14 03:22:17+00:00
Somewhere along the way we got lost into thinking config files were remote procedure calls, and that YAML was the only RPC interface available to us. The caller generates YAML, the receiver parses it, but more often than not the two are on the same host and use the same language*:

def say(message): o = dict(f=say, v=message)) call(yaml.dumps(o))

…meanwhile elsewhere…

def eval(request): o = yaml.loads(request.body) match o[“f”]: case “say”: print(o[“v”])

Yes, referring to this as “madness” skips over the fact that you can now scale up your hello world printer across the internet, have auth, rate limit, etc etc. but for so many things the RPC just isn’t needed at all.

As this article gets at, config files are one of those things, and they benefit hugely from the rampant abstraction violation of skipping an intermediary text format between the program doing the configuration and the program doing the work.

*or have internal versions of their APIs available in matching languages.
by yibg | 2025-10-14 03:23:00+00:00
I'm not sure I agree. Tariffs adds cost, unless domestic manufacturing can be done in a more or less cost effective way. Manufacturing works benefit of course but that's a overall small proportion of the population and ought to be (we probably don't want most people to be doing manufacturing work). But the added costs end up be a tax on everyone and a regressive one at that.

I also don't see offshoring manufacturing as inherently problematic or being out of sight, out of mind (of course exploitation can happen, but that's not inherently a part of offshoring manufacturing).

Workers in China, Vietnam etc are paid significantly less, but their cost of living is less as well. Plus unlike in the west, where manufacturing jobs are not desirable, in places where those manufacturing jobs land they typically provide an economic opportunity that isn't otherwise there.

Basically, why not have high cost of living places produce higher cost goods that pay more, and low cost of living places produce lower cost goods that pays less?
by SllX | 2025-10-14 03:23:25+00:00
Yep! The dickbar in Apple's iPhone Safari app to install an app for the website I'm currently viewing is one of the reasons I no longer use Safari on my iPhone. The fact that there's not even a setting to turn that off is grating, because I have increasingly found that for a lot of websites, given a choice between the website and the app, I vastly prefer the website. Not always, sometimes I prefer the app, but there are some really shitty apps trying to pass themselves off as website replacements.

Also Wikipedia. I don't remember if I particularly disliked the first-party app, but I vastly prefer Wikipedia in a web browser.
by decimalenough | 2025-10-14 03:23:41+00:00
I presume you're referring to Autopilot/FSD. I don't trust it at all, don't use it on my Tesla, and will not get into a "robotaxi" using it, but it's an optional feature.

Autopilot aside, though, the regular boring car software bits are rock-solid, and I've never had an issue with using it or after an update.
by quamserena | 2025-10-14 03:25:07+00:00
> A tax hike won't destroy the economy, the current levels of corporate profits and market valuations allow for a lot higher taxes on profits above certain level.

If we decided to raise taxes today, sure. But if the OBBB is anything to go by, we’ll keep cutting taxes and growing the debt until it’s too late.

> Inflation is still a tax

Never argued it wasn’t. I was referring to income taxes and duties in the OP.

> Suggesting inflation as a cure for debt

My opinion: The cure for the debt (and the economy writ large) is tax hikes on high income earners and increased social spending on services with net positive return (e.g. IRS, healthcare). (A healthy society is able to work more and therefore generate more tax revenue. Universal healthcare would also be net cheaper than the current system). This will, of course, never happen because people keep voting in Chuck Schumers and Donald Trumps.

> social contract

Trump doesn’t give a shit. I doubt he knows what “social contract” even is. He has usurped the power of the purse for himself, conducted illegal kidnappings and deportations, and erected concentration camps. He doesn’t care about the law or social norms and it seems like everyone else is just OK with that. This is the same Trump who is vying for control over the Fed and will get to pick 2 board governors this year. Suffice it to say there is a huge danger that he gets his way and we go back to rock-bottom interest rates. If he gets his way, Trump will absolutely abuse the Fed to pump the stock market and then mail a graph of SPY to his supporters like he did in his first term.
by didibus | 2025-10-14 03:25:22+00:00
Well, I don't mean it's not talented people that join, I'd assume it's all top grade students. But the initial best-in-class experts in the field I mean.

I agree with a small handful, I think that's also necessary. A select few best in class experts is ideal, because too many and they don't have room to lead and start stepping on each other and entering debates and so on.

You take best in class experts in the field, give them a team of top tier workers under them that can follow and deliver. In turn they learn from the best.

I think for Starship and Starlink he followed the same playbook though. He brought in best in class specialists to bootstrap them.
by ack_complete | 2025-10-14 03:25:52+00:00
The difference between interpreters and simple JITs has narrowed partly due to two factors: better indirect branch predictors with global history, and wider execution bandwidth to absorb the additional dispatch instructions. Intel CPUs starting with Haswell, for instance, show less branch misprediction impact due to better ability to predict jump path patterns through the interpreter. A basic jump table no longer suffers as much compared to tail-calling/dispatch or a simple splicing JIT.
by autoexec | 2025-10-14 03:26:16+00:00
They've had the education system they depend on attacked and weakened for generations, they've had fear and distrust of science, experts, and scholars drilled into them, and they've been told countless lies including very comforting lies about what tariffs would mean for them by the very people they were told were the only ones who could be trusted.

I can see the appeal of blaming farmers for getting exactly what they voted for, but honestly they were suckers who were victimized. My hope is that many of them will feel betrayed enough to break free from their indoctrination and start looking for truths and answers outside of the circles which have played them for fools, but that's not going to be an easy process since it'll mean challenging their closest held prejudices and the tearing down and rebuilding of core parts of their identity. That sort of thing is hard enough to do when your world isn't falling apart around you and the last thing the ones who are willing to try need is everyone telling them they deserved what was done to them and that they'll get no sympathy from anyone.
by nradov | 2025-10-14 03:27:31+00:00
The F-35 can self escort to an extent, but the concept of operations is generally to avoid direct air combat. Instead they would try to attack at night, relying on low observability, jamming, and careful route planning to avoid detection or interception and then destroying adversary aircraft on the ground using stand-off weapons. That's basically how the predecessor F-117 operated.
by cxr | 2025-10-14 03:27:43+00:00
How strange:

- by one's own admission, doesn't know much about the matter (EDIT: correction, "didn’t know anything"), and yet

- still feels confident enough to voice one's approval for a given information source positioning itself as informative

Suppose it's a bad source—filled with sleights of hand and intellectual dishonesty for cheap laughs, for example. How would you know?
by yibg | 2025-10-14 03:29:30+00:00
I hear people (media, politicians) talk about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America, but I haven't heard too much well articulated reasons for why.

There are issues with national security, reliance on less than friendly nations etc. For instance, we'd want to grow our own food, even if importing would be cheaper. But those surely aren't the majority of manufacturing jobs.

Given the choice of increasing the number of high paying, high skills jobs or the number of relatively low skill, dangerous manufacturing jobs, why wouldn't we choose the former?
by fringol__ | 2025-10-14 03:29:39+00:00
That textbook chapter you linked is quite revealing, thanks. I see that diagram in particular as a good demonstration of how the "sex is a spectrum" concept can't possibly work in practice. The number of arrows criss-crossing back and forth shows how impossible it would be to order disorders of sex development (DSDs) into a spectrum in any logically consistent manner.

More importantly, there's not really any reason to do so, as every one of those DSDs can be explained with the binary sex model and a mechanistic understanding of human sex development. Take 5-alpha reductase deficiency for example, it's caused by mutations in the SRD5A2 gene, which adversely affects conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, causing internal testes and an underdeveloped penis, but otherwise normal male sex development including testosterone-driven male puberty. It would be pointless to try to place this somewhere on a spectrum, as it offers no additional explanatory power and just obfuscates the detail.

In your spectrum model, you seem to be using the word "sex" to describe some sort of undefined (and apparently undefinable) composite statistical scoring of a set of dissociated sex-linked characteristics, that is focused almost entirely on those present in humans. However, this is not how biologists would typically think of sex. Fundamentally it is about evolutionary questions, like: why does sex exist, why is it a stable reproductive strategy across almost all complex life? And it is about developmental questions: what makes sexed bodies, what are the underlying mechanisms? I don't understand how adopting a "sex is a spectrum" belief would help answer these.

You mention hermaphrodites but again I don't see how the spectrum model does anything but fail here? It offers no useful insights - the binary sex model is perfectly adequate to explain that an individual embodies both female and male halves of the reproductive system.

I hope this helps clarify my points, interested to read your response.
by lmm | 2025-10-14 03:31:34+00:00
Many developers have strong opinions that certain parts of a process are valuable and others aren't, and will try quite hard to align your process with their opinions as quickly as possible. For an organisation that doesn't know which developers' strongly held views are right and which are not, requiring everyone to try something for 5-7 weeks is probably more productive than any other approach they could take.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-14 03:31:54+00:00
Likely no consequences to the decision-makers for data exfiltration or other shenanigans happening, so there's nothing motivating a behavior change.

The reason security is so bad everywhere is that nobody gets fired when there's a breach. It's just blamed on the hackers and everyone just goes on with life singing "We take security very seriously--this happened because of someone else!"
by emeraldd | 2025-10-14 03:32:52+00:00
> by letting you just make another environment

This is actually what I'm talking about .. Why do I need a whole new python environment rather than just scoping the dependencies of an application to that application? That model makes it significantly harder to manage multiple applications/utilities on a machine, particularly if they have conflicting package versions etc. Being able to scope the dependencies to a specific code base without having to duplicate the rest of the python environment would be much better than a new virtualenv.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-14 03:32:57+00:00
uv is weird. It's like 5 entirely different tools mashed and entangled into one program.

Last I tried it, it insisted on downloading a dynamically linked Python and installing that. This obviously doesn't work, you can't distribute dynamically linked binaries for Linux and expect them to work on any distribution (I keep seeing this pattern and I guess it's because this typically works on macOS?).

Moreover my distribution already has a package manager which can install Python. I get that some absolute niche cases might need this functionality, but that should most definitely be a separate tool. The problem isn't just that the functionality is in the same binary, but also that it can get triggered when you're using another of its functionalities.

I wish this had been made into actual separate tools, where the useful ones can be adopted and the others ignored. And, most important, where the ecosystem can iterate on a single tool. Having "one tool that does 5 things" makes it really hard to iterate on a new tools that does only one of those things in a better way.

It's pretty disappointing to see the Python ecosystem move in this direction.
by chongli | 2025-10-14 03:34:49+00:00
You used to be able to buy a nice house in the suburbs with car in the garage and a white picket fence, support a stay-at-home wife with three kids, put them all through college, and take annual vacations to Disneyland or the Caribbean, and cover the healthcare needs of the whole family, all on the salary of a high school educated factory worker. Now all that sounds impossible. You’d have to pay factory workers well into six figures for a lifestyle like that.

What happened? Cost disease [1]. All of the big ticket things in that lifestyle (except for the car) skyrocketed in price relative to inflation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
by fennec-posix | 2025-10-14 03:34:56+00:00
Yeah that's correct. The study was conducted in San Diego which falls under the satellite beam footprint required for services in Mexico.

If you were in say, Alice Springs in Australia (wink wink) for example, you'd be able to see traffic for Indonesia, Philippines, most of South East Asia, and perhaps parts of China, South Korea and Japan if the beams are right.
by osn9363739 | 2025-10-14 03:35:09+00:00
Can you expand on this? Why are they bad? I don't understand how RPGs would be bad. It's basically group story telling. Stories and imagination are so important for kids. It's how we learn to interpret other peoples perspectives, or about feelings that we haven't encountered IRL yet. What about books with big expansive worlds and stories. Are they also bad? Secondly is this a common concern for other parents? I'm interested to learn more.
by coppsilgold | 2025-10-14 03:35:42+00:00
This attack seems to be explicitly exploiting the Android rendering pipeline through a side-channel.

Wayland, once hardened with security-context doesn't directly expose anything worrying (clipboard stealing is possible but would require window focus or the generation of a window which grabs focus). It remains to be seen if there are side-channels hiding somewhere in it or in the various GPU stacks.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-14 03:35:50+00:00
Sorry, I meant my comment was sarcasm. I was being sarcastic. The original comment was sincere, I'm quite certain. And, they are right - there are some companies that really are getting a lot of value out of LLMs already. I'd guess that the more folks who actually understand how LLMs work, the more a company can do. There just isn't a neat abstraction layer to be had, so folks who don't have a detailed mental model get caught up applying them poorly or to the wrong things.
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-10-14 03:36:04+00:00
So you can have the technology that allows you to comment here (Starlink), or drive home from work (GPS), or cure cancer (various ISS research), or survive as a species, or mine space rocks so we don't fight nor pollute land for some scarce resource, or inspire children to dream big, materials science, water purification/generation, satellite communication, faster travel, physics, and a few more.
by the_af | 2025-10-14 03:37:35+00:00
I'd say YT recommendations are more than 90% right for me. It almost always recommends me stuff I'm interested in, related to things I've watched. It seems to have the best recommendation engine of all the social media I use, hands down.

I just have to be careful, when I watch something I don't want YT to think I liked, to remove it from my watch history.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-14 03:38:15+00:00
> Wasting hours wearing down platforms to maintain crew proficiency is SUBSTANTIAL over lifetime of highend platforms.

That's a good point of course. But I guess that also means we have to figure out how to operate these vehicles with 0 crew - not even remote crew, because they would need training too. I guess that's something we can't do yet - if we could, the humans wouldn't be there already.

> XXLUUVs aren't cheap or lowend, they are highend but PRC shipbuilding advantage over US simply monumental, i.e. they can match capabilities and win attrition game on budget.

I don't doubt China's supermacy in either low or high end manufacturing. But how limited are they here by the ability to build lots of hills Vs to fill them with expensive sensors etc? It seems like a stretch to say that because they can make lots and lots of ships they can make lots and lots of sophisticated unmanned subs too. Either way, if China's industrial prowess is so much better than the US's, it sounds like they would beat NATO with or without drones - they are maybe an efficiency improvement, but if they put their heart into building normal subs, they would still out build the US.

I agree industrial capability appears to be key. NATO, vis a vis Russia, apparently knows they can't destroy all their tanks and kill every last soldier, and instead you need to target supply lines and command structures. AFAICT, this has basically informed th last few decades of NATO strategy. I guess the question is, what is the strategy "against" China. Because, you're right, if it's an attritional war then we're screwed.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 03:38:36+00:00
I have no idea what criminal wrongdoing you're referring to, and as for the other point, it's just so overdone at this point. Every time SpaceX is mentioned, you guys feel the need to shit up the discussion with your cynicism and repeating of things everyone has heard a million times as if it's novel insight.

We all know Musk is at best an absolute idiot when it comes to politics who's being manipulated by sycophants, and at worst, he's an evil fascist that is completely fine with wrecking everything that lets his companies actually be successful. But a lot of you guys think that's an excuse to pretend that he doesn't deserve any credit for anything. Even just acknowledging that he has done useful things in the past is apparently fawning over him.
by shtzvhdx | 2025-10-14 03:39:35+00:00
The article is about Dutch, that is European, piracy under the pretense of sovereignty.

My example is about European piracy under the pretense of that foreign ownership supersedes sovereignty.

That is to say, hypocrisy.

The US' role was, of course, hypocritical. I mention it only to illustrate that even the US found the european actions blatantly imperialist.
by handoflixue | 2025-10-14 03:40:22+00:00
I'd imagine most English-speaking internet users have gotten used to doing local-to-USD conversions. As someone in the US, I usually know about where CAD, AUD, and GBP are relative to me.

Even if you don't know the conversion, something in the range of 50-200% is a lot easier to adjust to, whereas Rubles are on a very different scale (1 GBP = 108 Rubles)

Obviously the ideal would be local listings, but USD is probably the most-familiar reference point if you have to choose exactly one
by antonvs | 2025-10-14 03:41:33+00:00
> Kubernetes is seen as this complicated and impressive piece of software, but it's only impressive given the complexity of the APIs it is built on.

There are other reasons it's impressive. Its API and core design is incredibly well-designed and general, something many other projects could and should learn from.

But the fact that it's impressive because of the complexity of the APIs it's built on is certainly a big part of its value. It means you can use a common declarative definition to define and deploy entire distributed systems, across large clusters, handling everything from ingress via load balancers to scaling and dynamic provisioning at the node level. It's essentially a high-level abstraction for entire data centers.

seL4 overlaps with that in a pretty minimal way. Would it be better as underlying infrastructure than the Linux kernel? Perhaps, but "providing K8s functionality on top of SEL4" would require reimplementing much of what Linux and various systems on top of it currently provide. Hardly "trivial in comparison".
by jampa | 2025-10-14 03:41:57+00:00
The headline and article try to bias and frame the story to make people question: "Is OpenAI snitching on me?"

In reality, Uber records and conflicting statements incriminated him. He seems to be the one who provided the ChatGPT record to try to prove that the fire was unintentional.[1]

> He was visibly anxious during that interview, according to the complaint. His efforts to call 911 and his question to ChatGPT about a cigarette lighting a fire indicated that he wanted to create a more innocent explanation for the fire's start and to show he tried to assist with suppression, the complaint said.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-palisades-lo...
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-14 03:43:27+00:00
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