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by abe94 | 2025-11-06 23:07:50+00:00
Maybe the subsidized transit is normal in europe, and universal childcare in some parts of europe (definetly not all of western europe), but this article is stretching when claiming state run grocery stores are normal.

Its also conveniently leaving out the policy ideas on reducing policing, and introducing mental health crisis workers which have been tried in the US (SF) and worked disastrously.
by xmodem | 2025-11-06 23:08:47+00:00
No-one's forcing you to use crates published on the crates.io registry - cargo is perfectly happy to pull dependencies from a different public or private registry, elsewhere in the same repo, somewhere else on the filesystem, pinned to a git hash, or I think some other ways.

"We shouldn't use the thing that has memory safety built in because it also has a thriving ecosystem of open source dependencies available" is a very weird argument.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-06 23:09:52+00:00
> But the site does not give me any way to take action.

It gives you as much information as you should be given. Any more information would just be spreading around the hacked dataset.

It does give you an awful lot of information about the specific hacks that exposed your information, and what was the content of that exposure. You may have been owned, but the way you were owned doesn't really matter e.g. I don't care that my firstname.lastname@gmail.com was exposed as being me. I may not care that my username@yahoo.com account was exposed as being username at archive.org. If that's it, I can keep using them. But a lot of hacks are a lot worse, and you might have to rearrange things or close them down. haveibeenpwned gives you enough information to make all those decisions.

Also, your second paragraph seems to imply that the site doesn't tell you if passwords were compromised for an email address. It definitely does by identifying the hack and describing its extent. You don't need the actual password to know that you need to change it. Likely, the hacked site forced you to change it anyway.
by all2 | 2025-11-06 23:10:32+00:00
Housing prices won't ever stabilize as long as land is a tradeable commodity that 'stores' value. If people can make money with man-in-the-middle techniques and cheap money (low interest rates), then they will, and this will drive the real-estate boom-bust cycle we have that runs on ~18 year cycle (last bust was late 2008, early 2009, prior bust was around 1990)

Become communist (or communist lite) and reserve land ownership to the state, lock land price to its productive capacity (as assessed by the state), mediate sales and usage taxes based on the same. Prevent resale/sublet between individuals. Allow transfer of control only from individual -> state -> individual.

Or use a regulatory approach where only the state can set the price of land, and the price is based on well-defined factory (productivity, proximity to population centers, population density, etc).

All value in an economy arises from real estate. Real estate (and the related businesses, including banking and lending) drive all economic activity in the world.
by hitekker | 2025-11-06 23:11:00+00:00
Apparently, the two resignees refused to talk to the CEO of Framework despite the CEO offering his time https://pan.rent/@jcape@hachyderm.io/115486043718543717

Too bad. I think the offer to talk is a respectful move. The CEO doesn't seem to be trying to fob them off, unlike Mozilla's recent translator mess.
by tomp | 2025-11-06 23:11:22+00:00
Absolutely.

Also shows you they had to search far and wide to find examples.

Free transport? Tallin, Estonia (presumably the only capital city), population: 450k

Government-run grocery stores? Turkey (barely even Europe), only accessible to the poor

Free childcare? Portugal, introduced in 2022, and hardly universal: while the program is open to all, places are limited and can be tough to access

Rent freeze? Established in Berlin in 2020, ruled unconstitutional in 2021.

In other words, garbage article and extremely clickbaity (and lying) title.
by godelski | 2025-11-06 23:11:50+00:00
In that sense most things are simple. Though it's also simple to over simplify. Since often simplicity arises out of the accumulation of expert analysis rather than being obvious from the get go. Which I think is just as important as what you say:

Simple != easy Simple != obvious Simple != intuitive Simple != easy to understand

I think if people remembered these things then things would be more simple. I'll add one more relationship

Elegant == Simple Simple != elegant
by diffie | 2025-11-06 23:12:17+00:00
I had one of these pop up in Android Auto earlier while I was driving. I'd used the Google voice assistant to change the destination I was navigating to, and a few seconds it threw a feedback popup over the top of the map, obscuring the name and distance to the next junction. Very annoying and distracting, potentially unsafe since I was going around 70 mph while surprised by this.

It should at least wait until I've finished my journey and parked up. Not that I'm going to bother giving ad hoc feedback then either.
by Retric | 2025-11-06 23:12:55+00:00
The walls of a house are already cheap to build with a low skill barrier etc. Land, foundation, windows, doors, roof, plumbing, appliances, yadda yadda add up, but everyone seems to focus on walls.

If you really want to drive down the cost of housing figure out cheap windows or start convincing people they don’t need nearly as many of them.

Don’t believe me? Compare the cost of a large 2 story prefab shed ~10-20$/sf without amenities like plumbing vs a house of similar size.
by defrost | 2025-11-06 23:13:41+00:00
All his policies being in practice everywhere in Europe is a stretch, sure.

The point is that most of his policies are part of the normal churn of debate in a great many countries and are not seen as extreme, even if not implemented.

eg: "Free" public transport is a thing in Queensland, Australia.

( Okay, it's actually 50 cent flat rate fares: https://translink.com.au/tickets-and-fares/50-cent-fares .. so lets call that 'nominal' )
by EMM_386 | 2025-11-06 23:13:47+00:00
I think one of the issues is that LLMs can't have a "Go" model and an "HTML model". I mean, they can but what would that contain? It's not the language-specific features that make models large.

When models work on your code base, they do not "see" things like this, which is why they can go through an entire code base with variable names they have never seen before, function signatures they have never seen before, and directory structures that have never seen before and not have a problem.

You need that "this is a variable, which is being passed to a function which recursively does ..." part. This is not something language specific, it's the high level understanding of how languages and systems operate. A variable is a variable whether in JavaScript or C++ and LLMs can "see" it as such. The details are different but it's that layer of "this is a software interface", "this is a function pointer" is outside of the "Go" or "Python" or "C#" model.

I don't know how large the main model would have to be vs. the specialized models in order to pick this dynamic up.
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-06 23:14:06+00:00
Exactly. And LCSC is Digikey, but far younger (2012 vs 1972), more agile, more vertically integrated, benefiting from state subsidies, heavy automation, most components physically produced nearby, etc etc. Chinese businesses are so impressive because of the whole enchilada, not just a few relatively small factors like labor cost or environmental regulations that people like to bring up in discussions like these.
by gibbitz | 2025-11-06 23:14:24+00:00
Americans have control over what they're taxed as long as they make 8 figures or more per year. The rich and corporations here are paying a share, but not as big of a share of their pie as those who make less. What people were looking to elect is someone who will treat those who can afford it the same way those who can't. Just like elections that went the other way the deciding factor is perception. If politicians would set a transparent flat tax, the elections could be about facts and not feels. Right now it feels like politicians are leveraging the pain of the many to get votes without making any change, because they're not generally affected financially y their policies.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-06 23:14:51+00:00
Hm... I think I get what Mr. Joshi is saying, but the headline clashes with the notion that the essence of what we do is automation, and that includes automating the automation.

This at first blush smells like "Don't write code that writes code," which... Some of the most useful tools I've ever written are macros to automate patterns in code, and I know that's not what he means.

Perhaps a better way to say it is "Automating writing software doesn't remove the need to understand it?"
by nawgz | 2025-11-06 23:15:09+00:00
I often hear this, and to an extent I don't disagree. There is an absurd amount of complexity that goes behind CSS/JS/HTML to make it function how it does. Browsers are true monstrosities.

But what alternatives are really left behind here that you view as superior?

To me, it is obvious the entire world sees a very high value in how much power can be delivered in a tiny payload via networked JS powering an HTML/CSS app. Are there really other things that can be viewed as equally powerful to HTML which are also able to pack such an information dense punch?
by iamnothere | 2025-11-06 23:15:13+00:00
I can see how you might have misunderstood. Yes, I was looking at it from the perspective of policy. Any policy designed to reduce crime is going to create some hardship for the innocent, and the question is how much enforcement-driven hardship is the public willing to tolerate in order to reduce crime-driven hardship. In a business context (as in the first article) your customers are not obliged to do business with you; in a democracy they are not obliged to vote for you.

In the West we are typically less tolerant of enforcement-driven hardship. This goes back to our Enlightenment ideals about freedom and justice, which are less strong than they once were but are still present.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-06 23:15:19+00:00
1. The European model is either Democratic Socialism, or Social Democracy, depending who you ask.

2. The US government is essentially bankrupt, and has been spending far beyond its means for decades.

But countries are not households. Sovereign countries cannot run of money. But they can run out of confidence.

For a nation state, bankruptcy happens when its currency is no longer respected and essential imports become so expensive they cause hyperinflation.

By any objective measure, the US today is closer to that today than Europe. (It's mostly the fault of tariffs, but the cause doesn't matter.)

It's true the influence of neoliberal lobbying and opportunism by US corporates has reduced the effectiveness of welfare in the EU. But health and benefits are still higher, and the only country where insured health costs bankrupt 500,000 people a year is the US.
by celticninja | 2025-11-06 23:15:21+00:00
If you make bolts in a factory and some of those bolts are used for an aeroplane, some of which may be bombers it's probably negligible. If you, like the OP, are creating a drone with the specific effect of being a weapon, then I think I'm on safe ground saying there is no separation. You are actively making the world worse.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-06 23:15:35+00:00
While the old saying that a good DA/prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich[0][1][2][3] may still be true, conviction is another matter. Which is, in all of this, probably the coldest cut of all.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indict_a_ham_sandwich

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Wachtler

[2] https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/sol-wachtler/

[3] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-grand-jury-would-indict-...
by yongjik | 2025-11-06 23:15:37+00:00
Well, let me see, America's sitting president recently demolished one third of the historic presidential residence to build a ballroom, government workers are not being paid for a month, and government-employed thugs are snatching people off the street based on skin color.

I find it almost quaint that we are still concerned about whether buses should be free. (No, for the record I don't think buses should be free, but honestly, who cares? In today's America, any elected representative willing to give a middle finger to Trump is a step in the right direction. We can fix buses later.)
by JennyWeston | 2025-11-06 23:16:23+00:00
I am sticking with Socrates: "The only thing I know is that I know nothing"

Happiness? That's an experiment. I need to keep learning, keep trying stuff, keep failing.

Intelligence? Intelligence is great for many things, but not everything. I wouldn't use a GPS system to perform a heart transplant. Recognizing the limitations of thinking allows us to appreciate the value of perseverance, creativity, and expertise. Some things are a matter of doing the work. Some things are a matter of experience and time. I cannot think my way through the unknown unknown.
by dpark | 2025-11-06 23:16:33+00:00
> There is no negative trade off by maintaining XSLT other than not being lazy developers.

Only because it’s not your money or time being traded. Yes, if we pretend that engineering effort is free then there’s no reason Google couldn’t just rewrite this entire library in Rust or whatever. But if that were true you would just rewrite the library yourself and send the pull request to Chromium.

In the real world where engineering costs time and money, every decision is a trade off. Someone rewriting libxslt to be secure is someone who’s not implementing other features and who’s not fixing other bugs on the backlog.

Resources allocated to Chromium are finite and while sure, Google could hire 2 more engineers to do this, in reality those 2 new engineers could and would be assigned to higher priority work.

> this is a Google engineer doing things because it’s easier, not “right” or “the difficult choice”.

You keep blaming Google specifically. All of the major browsers are planning to drop this though. They all agree this is the right trade off.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-06 23:16:45+00:00
Ah, "Europeans." This is the Guardian pretending an editorial is a news story. I can find plenty of Europeans who recognize the world as flat and think that Mamdani is a Soviet agent.

That being said, I like all the named policies in this story, and of course we could have them if we have a moral country. Mamdani says a lot of random, stupid (other than these policies), trendy stuff though: the proof will be in what is done. Free public transportation would have a positive ripple effect across the entire country, along with city run groceries for food deserts.
by onion2k | 2025-11-06 23:16:46+00:00
Learning what though? When I wrote software I learn the domain, the problem space, the architecture, the requirements, etc, as well as how to turn those things into code. I don't actually care about the code though - as soon as something changes I'll throw the code out or change it. It's an artefact of the process of solving a problem, which isn't the important bit. The abstract solution is what I care about.

LLMs only really help to automate the production of the least important bit. That's fine.
by nowittyusername | 2025-11-06 23:17:20+00:00
My man, we now have llms that are anywhere between 130 million to 1 trillion parameters available for us to run locally, I can guarantee there is a model for you there that even your toaster can run. I have a RTX 4090 but for most of my fiddling i use small models like Qwen 3 4b and they work amazing so there's no excuse :P.
by mrkurt | 2025-11-06 23:18:30+00:00
Claude Code is an obfuscated javascript app. You can point Claude Code at it's own package and it will pretty reliably tell you how it works.

I think Claude Code's magic is that Anthropic is happy to burn tokens. The loop itself is not all that interesting.

What is interesting is how they manage the context window over a long chat. And I think a fair amount of that is serverside.
by tim333 | 2025-11-06 23:19:13+00:00
Altman tweeted that the stuff in that article isn't right. Expcerts:

>we do not have or want government guarantees for OpenAI datacenters

>What we do think might make sense is governments building (and owning) their own AI infrastructure

>The one area where we have discussed loan guarantees is as part of supporting the buildout of semiconductor fabs in the US, where we and other companies have responded to the government’s call and where we would be happy to help (though we did not formally apply)

and some other stuff https://x.com/sama/status/1986514377470845007
by godelski | 2025-11-06 23:19:17+00:00
> It's hard to get someone to give up $50 (a real cost) for something nebulous like "very slightly less of your life is known by marketing companies".

I'd gladly pay that price. I'm pretty sure there's a large number of us that would.

It's easy to make claims like yours without the real world data. To believe that things are the way they are because that's the most efficient way. Back justification is not logical. Idk about you, but I frequently make mistakes and need to redo things. I'm pretty confident it's just because I'm human and not an omniscient god.

Also, I'd suspect it might be more than $50. We didn't create a surveillance capitalist economy with trillion dollar businesses that resulted in everything including your vacuum spying on you because your data isn't valuable. Clearly it is...

The problem more is that people don't understand how that data is used and can be used. Which I don't blame anyone for that. It's abstract and honestly sounds like the stuff of tin foil hat conspiracy theorists. But at the same time, here we are. The point of ads is to manipulate you to buy things. Which isn't always bought with money. We have several multi trillion dollar companies and I'm pretty sure they don't exist for nothing
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-06 23:19:29+00:00
In itself, I'm not sure this is a great argument. Putting shoes on a horse is an act of learning. Butchering your own pig is an act of learning. Sewing your own clothes is an act of learning. Writing your own operating system is an act of learning... but if you don't do any of that, you're not necessarily worse off. Maybe you just have more time to learn other things.

Maybe there's a broader critique of LLMs in here: if you outsource most of your intellectual activity to an LLM, what else is left? But I don't think this is the argument the author is making.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-11-06 23:19:40+00:00
There are parts of software development, which requires understanding purpose and code and making good decisions or having in depth understanding to ootikize. And there are parts where it's just boring ceremony for using a library or doing some refactorings.

The first one is mostly requiring experienced humans, the alter one is boring and good to automate.

The problem is with all the in between. And in getting people to be able to do the first. There AI can be a tool and a distraction.
by jychang | 2025-11-06 23:20:08+00:00
That entirely depends on the number of users.

Inference is usually less gpu-compute heavy, but much more gpu-vram heavy pound-for-pound compared to training. General rule of thumb is that you need 20x more vram for training a model with X params, than for inference for that same size model. So assuming batch size b, then serving more than 20*b users would tilt vram use on the side of inference.

This isn't really accurate; it's an extremely rough rule of thumb and ignores a lot of stuff. But it's important to point out that inference is quickly adding to costs for all AI companies. Deepseek claims that they used $5.6mil to train Deepseek R1; that's about 10-20 trillion tokens at their current pricing- or 1 million users sending just 100 requests at full context size.
by shirro | 2025-11-06 23:20:32+00:00
Meanwhile also in part of Australia where the states public electricity utility was sold in a fire sale to foreign investors. The owners gold plate the network so they can get away with charging some of the highest electricity prices in the world despite generation prices often going negative thanks to renewables.

I would bet over time the supply charge and non-free hours will increase in price to compensate and overall bills will be the same. It will shift some load to the middle of the day with people setting timers on appliance and it will take pressure off generation which will be politically convenient when another poorly maintained coal plant falls over but I will be shocked if it will be a win for consumers.

Poorer home owners and rentals that don't have solar pv and can't afford to buy new appliances that might be able to take advantage of being set to run during the cheap hours are going to be left further behind.

The country is full of monopolies, duopolies and price gouging and the regulators are useless.
by mmooss | 2025-11-06 23:22:04+00:00
Per the NY Times, the jury deliberated for 7 hours. That seems like quite a long time for a simple case. I wonder what the hold-up was. They add,

"The jury determined that the launching of the 12-inch deli sandwich ... was not an attempt to cause bodily injury, preventing a conviction."

It seems like that couldn't have taken seven hours by itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/trump-sandwic...
by wat10000 | 2025-11-06 23:22:19+00:00
It’s not that they don’t realize, they just don’t care. The people making the decision to throw up a feedback request have nothing to gain from not doing it. I’m sure they get bombarded too and they don’t like it either, but the fact that it’s pervasive is all the more reason to keep doing it, since it effectively gives them cover.
by tptacek | 2025-11-06 23:22:30+00:00
This is the good outcome; one note I had about this though is, per CNN:

In one video taken from a police officer’s body-worn camera, Dunn told the officer, “I was trying to draw them away from where they were. I succeeded.”

Don't say things like this! He was acquitted of assault, but he admitted on camera to a violation of 18 USC 111. (How I know this is, a friend of mine who's a trustee for our suburb was just indicted for the same thing, not over a sandwich, but for slowing down an ICE employee's car).
by astrange | 2025-11-06 23:22:59+00:00
Have you seen GDPR penalties? It's like they fine you 300% of your revenue and then have all your children executed by firing squad.

Anthropic in particular is a PBC founded by weenies who thought the other labs weren't being safe enough. I believe up until a few months ago they never used any user data for training, even if you opted in.
by dannyobrien | 2025-11-06 23:23:10+00:00
https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq for those following along at home

https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd is what i use as the "actually good ffmpeg etc front end"

and just to toot my own horn, I hand Simon's `llm` command lone tool access to its own todo list and read/write access to the cwd with my own tools, https://github.com/dannyob/llm-tools-todo and https://github.com/dannyob/llm-tools-patch

Even with just these and no shell access it can get a lot done, because these tools encode the fundamental tricks of Claude Code ( I have `llmw` aliased to `llm --tool Patch --tool Todo --cl 0` so it will have access to these tools and can act in a loop, as Simon defines an agent. )
by mmooss | 2025-11-06 23:23:16+00:00
Was it nullification? Maybe it didn't meet the standard of guilt.

The jury determined that the launching of the 12-inch deli sandwich from what the government described as “point-blank range” was not an attempt to cause bodily injury, preventing a conviction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/trump-sandwic...