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by ewoodrich | 2025-11-02 00:41:52+00:00
Also there is a fixed price Claude Code plan for GLM 4.6 from z.ai, I pay for the cheapest ($6/mo) as an alternate/fallback for Claude Code and Codex. I've been surprised by how similar in capabilities all three of them are, definitely not seeing a big CLI agent moat...

GLM is maybe slightly weaker on average but on the other hand it's also solved problems where both CC and Codex got stuck in endless failure loops so for the price it's nice to have in my back pocket. I also see some tool use failures sometimes that it always works around which I'm guessing are due to slight differences with Claude.

https://z.ai/subscribe
by zahlman | 2025-11-02 00:43:11+00:00
> I think any projects that are run by people that see themselves as "X-people" (like Python-people, Perl-people) always have a bit "ick" reaction to new languages being added to projects they might see as part of a language's community.

I would say that Pythonistas are quite accustomed to "(other) languages being added" to the Python ecosystem. After all, NumPy relies on Fortran, as well as C.

Asserting that kind of "ownership" over code seems rather distasteful to me. Maybe there would be less acrimony if developers got paid for it somehow.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-02 00:44:47+00:00
Exactly. And it's not just ICE. It's every administrative bureaucracy playing favorites. It's flagrant when it's ICE, they're snatching people off the street, that creates a lot of argument. But this workflow was honed, the messaging to the public was figured out, etc, etc, when it was "just" evil bureaucrats catering to mustache twirling evil lobbyists when making rules. Pretty easy to bury something that amounts to driving business in dense technical discussion the public is uninterested in.
by chatmasta | 2025-11-02 00:45:04+00:00
I believe you that Claude Code is a better harness, but I'm skeptical it's worth learning because I'm certain that VSCode (Microsoft) will catch up to it eventually. There's nothing differentiated about it, and VSC has already closed the gap. As much as I dislike encouraging BigTech hegemony, it seems obvious which horse to bet will win this race...
by majormajor | 2025-11-02 00:45:08+00:00
Companies want determinism. And for most things, people want predictability. We've spent a century turning people into robots for customer support, assembly lines, etc. Very few parts of everyday life that still boil down to "make a deal with the person you're talking to."

So even if it would be better to have more flexibility, most business won't want it.
by raron | 2025-11-02 00:46:11+00:00
Not just the lack of transparency, they went bankrupt after the tablet fiasco (never refunded most of the people) and bought by some investment firm connections to the Russian state (not the thing you want from a privacy-friendly product / system) what they tried to keep secret.

AFAIK they have bought by some other company (again) since then, but they have basically nothing. Most of their Sailfish OS is actually closed source (like AOSP vs all the apps from Google), they don't have any hardware, they just re-flash some phone from Sony.

I had high hopes for them, but now wouldn't even touch them with a stick. Pixel with GrapheneOS seems to be a much better choice and maybe even closer to their original ideologies.
by cyberax | 2025-11-02 00:46:34+00:00
> Living in a city takes inherently less resources than living in the countryside.

Nope. Cities are incredibly wasteful. For example, if we look at New York City, then a whole 1% of its population works directly as transit workers. And around 3% of the city in total are people just working on running the city.

This does not count the expense of capital projects. One mile of Manhattan subway now costs more than 1500 miles of a modern 6-lane freeway.

> You get effects of scale for basically everything (from school and healthcare, through policing, administration, transportation, mail, deliveries, junk disposal).

Even if you look at the most direct expenses, cities are not that advantaged. And the bigger the city, the more disadvantaged it becomes. The main reason is the complexity, capital projects for things like sewer replacements in cities cost literally hundreds if not thousands _times_ more than in rural areas.

It's actually much cheaper to dig extra ten miles of trenches than to pay to dozens of architects, inspectors, and planners to come up with a plan to open up a street in a city to replace a hundred meters of pipes.
by culi | 2025-11-02 00:46:44+00:00
Yes ofc. The RSF is just the rebranded Janjaweed which were legally classified as having committed genocide. But they never faced any international consequences and here they are committing genocide once again. It's also a major conflict though as the SAF is the major oppositional force fighting against the RSF. SAF was the military that took control after a democratic revolution pushed out the dictator Omar al-Bashir
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-02 00:47:20+00:00
Ah yes, the magic job fairy. Because there were jobs in the past, there will be jobs in the future.

There were also skid rows after industrialization in the US. Lots of people didn't make it out of them to the post ww2 jobs everyone thinks about when they say 'industrialization brought good jobs'.

There were also flop houses post industrialization, where you could rent yourself your own section of rope to lean on for the night.

But yep, after WW2 there were lots of jobs in the US. When did industrialization happen though? Why do we ignore all those that didn't make it out of skid row/flop houses and jump to an implied 1940s+ jobs market?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-02 00:49:02+00:00
Ask ChatGPT to find the specific statues for federal and state, and check your local code. Most areas allow a homeowner to do electrical and building construction themselves, as long as they pull permits and get inspections. The homeowner basically acts as their own contractor. Solar is no exception; it's just building + electrical work, after all.

I will be getting 30% off from Federal for my solar+battery storage. From NY State, I get a personal income tax credit of 25% on solar (up to $5K), and I pay no state sales tax on solar or batteries. And NY has a 15-year property tax exemption for the whole solar generation setup of property tax.

There are additional credits in my state from NYSERDA that apply only to qualifying contractors, and I'm not a qualifying contractor, so I don't get those extra savings. But I don't need them, because I'm not paying anybody to do the work!

All this applies to renters as well, btw, you just need written permission from the landlord/homeowner.
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-02 00:49:26+00:00
A general strike is general, not just trade unions. Not everyone will join in, nor will it be national in scale, at least at first. But it can disruptive enough as it spreads to slow down the economy, be the top headline every day, and push the administration into increasing untenable positions. A general strike isn't a formal legal state of affairs, but a combination of ongoing protest and economic stoppage that succeeds by the fact of mass participation, without any violent focus.

make it clear to elite decisionmakers that they will be held personally responsible for the misery Trump's administration inflicts on people

How?
by gojomo | 2025-11-02 00:51:24+00:00
Not sure you can judge whether these modern models do well on the 'arithmetic analogization' task based on absolute similarity values – & especially L2 distances.

That it ever worked was simply that, among the universe of candidate answers, the right answer was closer to the arithmetic-result-point than other candidates – not necessarily close on any absolute scale. Especially in higher dimensions, everything gets very angularly far from everything else - the "curse of dimensionality".

But the relative differences may still be just as useful/effective. So the real evaluation of effectiveness can't be done with the raw value diff(king-man+woman, queen) alone. It needs to check if that value is less than that for every other alternative to 'queen'.

(Also: canonically these exercises were done as cosine-similarities, not Euclidean/L2 distance. Rank orders will be roughly the same if all vectors normalized to the unit sphere before arithmetic & comparisons, but if you didn't do that, it would also make these raw 'distance' values less meaningful for evaluating this particular effect. The L2 distance could be arbitrarily high for two vectors with 0.0 cosine-difference!)
by kortilla | 2025-11-02 00:51:24+00:00
This is incorrect. Internet connections and 3rd party integrations have changed this view of “the software doesn’t need to change once it leaves the factory”.

John Deere, Caterpillar, etc are leaning heavily into the “connected industrial equipment” world. GE engines on airplanes have updatable software and relay telemetry back to GE from flights.

The embedded world changed. You just might have missed it if your view is what shipped out before 2010.
by reactordev | 2025-11-02 00:51:32+00:00
New Trek is so awful. There’s no depth to anything. Interweaving stories to make them seem important. It’s just bad TV.

The previous, it gets better the closer to TNG it is. Granted DS9 was a different beast than TNG or Voyager. Those shows had episodes, individual stories, as well as seasonal arcs. Back when shows were written for TV. New Trek feels like a bad movie script broken into episodes with side character filler.
by aquariusDue | 2025-11-02 00:52:33+00:00
Great list!

For modal editing but more similar to the kakoune/helix model there's the meow package which I prefer compared to evil, for some people it might be worth looking into as its more customizable and allows you to have as much or as little modal editing as you want. I use meow and regular Emacs key chords at the same time without issue for example.
by jrmg | 2025-11-02 00:52:48+00:00
Can you actually install Debian on an Amiga - or other 68k system - now? I’ve been searching around the web and I haven’t found much evidence that you can.

This is not intended to bash you or anyone else who’s working on it - I think it’s a cool project (I have in the recent past got an 86duino ZERO to run Gentoo, just to see if an obscure old-ish piece of hardware can be useful with modern Linux on it - and it can). I do understand the reason a project like Debian might not want to have to spend resources even just to make it easier to do though.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-02 00:53:42+00:00
The average mechanic won’t do something completely different to your car because you added some extra filler words to your request though.

The average user may not care exactly what the mechanic does to fix your car, but they do expect things to be repeatable. If car repair LLMs function anything like coding LLMs, one request could result in an oil change, while a similar request could end up with an engine replacement.
by basilikum | 2025-11-02 00:54:40+00:00
> I've personally witnessed this happen to at least 3-4 production apps in the past year alone.

There is something seriously wrong in your organization when that's a repeating pattern. Secrets don't just accidentally make their way into the frontend unless the way you manage secrets is fatally flawed. Offensive security tools are great for finding issues by playing the role of an adversary, but they are not the solution to such an already known grave, fundamental, organizational problem.
by 3oil3 | 2025-11-02 00:54:59+00:00
It's interesting how we can all have such opposit judgments while sharing roughly the same education/experiences, and that it usually falls into a 50/50 share. I think an automated system to identify criminals in the most likely 'points of exit' is quite remarkable. I know that throughout history government have not really been so gentle, but that's an anoher topic -we get the governments we deserve. On the other hand, it would be nice to have something in return, like no more check-ins or something, and for the love of all that is love, maybe lessen this silly security check - take off my shoes? check my bag with a $50000 mass spectrometer to see if if there is powder? have any of these machine ever detected something anywhere in the world? How about less hypocrisy and tell us about that super elastic relation between 'time spent' and '$ spent" is? I disgressed, but that's what annoys me, that a place where people are arbitrarly prohibited from bringing water, has criminally-inflated prices for a bottle of water -even if I'v been blessed so that I have them for free in the lounge. That's what I think is a problem. Not cameras.
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-02 00:55:10+00:00
The existence of the app is horrifying but the real problem is if an ICE agent violates your rights, you can't really sue them (I mean, you can sue them but it will just get thrown out of court because of their sovereign immunity and the fact that the current Supreme Court would never grant you a Bivens action for anything Trump's ICE did to you).

As long as they can claim that whatever they did to you is part of their official duties (which, again, good luck expecting the current federal government to take your side on this even if the ICE officer clearly oversteps their duties) only the federal government/DOJ can prosecute them for misconduct, which also obviously won't happen under the current administration.
by culi | 2025-11-02 00:55:55+00:00
Yes, to clarify the primary international players:

Russia: initially supported the RSF, then at one point was trading with both sides, and in 2024/2025 fully switched sides to back the SAF

Iran: stayed out of it until 2024 when it finally backed the SAF which caused a major turning point in the conflict

UAE/the US: the main player responsible for RSF's rise. It hired out RSF mercenaries to fight the Houthis in Yemen. At one point there were more than 40,000 RSF mercenaries (mostly between the ages of 14-17) in Yemen. It continues to be the primary funder of the RSF

Israel: the RSF buys surveillance tech and weapons from Israel

Saudi Arabia: the largest smuggler of (illegally acquired) gold from RSF. A major source of funding for the RSF

China: doesn't directly deal with either side but Chinese-made weapons were found in the hands of the RSF mostly through the UAE reselling them. The SAF also has some Chinese made weapons through Russia and Turkey

tl;dr: it's a very complex disaster but international players simply don't have an interest in ending it. The SAF is the main opposition to the genocidal RSF, but they are also uninterested in maintaining the democracy that the people fought for and the sides backing the SAF (mostly Iran, and now Russia) are likely hoping to continue their exploitation of gold if they defeat the RSF
by ethmarks | 2025-11-02 00:56:05+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly. It irks me when people critique automation because it uses large amounts of resources. Running a machine or a computer almost always uses far less resources than a human would to do the same task, so long as you consider the entire resource consumptions.

Growing the food that a human eats, running the air conditioning for their home, powering their lights, fueling their car, charging their phone, and all the many many things necessary to keep a human alive and productive in the 21st century are a larger resource cost than almost any machine/system that performs the same work. From an efficiency perspective, automation is almost always the answer. The actual debate comes from the ethical perspective (the innate value of human life).
by Telaneo | 2025-11-02 00:56:18+00:00
I can't help but be reminded about the time that an MS employee put in a ticket on FFmpeg's bug tracker and said it was 'High priority'.[1][2]

On the one hand, this one Microsoft employee was probably in a bind and actually blocked by this bug. On some level, it's hard to blame them as an individual.

On the other hand, Microsoft has no leverage here and pays somewhere between a pittance and nothing for FFmpeg, while getting enormous use out of it. If they regularly donated with either money or patches, then there'd be no beef, but it's the expectation of getting something more for free while already getting so damn much for for zero cents that really grinds both mine and FFmpeg's gears.

That reminds me that I should probably throw some money at FFmpeg, if only to clear my conscience.

[1] https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178805704888726

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912916
by dagmx | 2025-11-02 00:57:03+00:00
I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s not just that people “cheat” during interviews with an LLM…it’s that they have atrophied a lot of their basic skills because they’ve become dependent on it.

Honestly, the only ways around it for me are

1. Have in person interviews on a whiteboard. Pseudocode is okay.

2. Find questions that trip up LLMs. I’m lucky because my specific domain is one where LLMs are really bad at because we deal with hierarchical and temporal data. They’re easy for a human but the multi dimensional complexity trips up every LLM I’ve tried.

3. Prepare edge cases that require the candidate to reconsider their initial approach. LLMs are pretty obvious when they throw out things wholesale
by taotau | 2025-11-02 00:57:19+00:00
Because high level languages are where the libraries that do all of the heavy lifting exist. Libraries provide a suite of tools for absstracting away all of the complexities of creating a 'simple' web app. I think a lot of newer devs dont realise how many shoulders of giants they are standing on, and all the complexities involved in performing a simpl fetch requeust.

Sure an LLM could write it's own libraries and abstractions in a low level language, and im sure there are some assembler or c level web api wrappers, but they would be nowhere near as comprehensive or battle tested as the ones available for high level languages.

This could definitely change in the future. I think we need a coding platform that is designed for optimised LLM use, but that still allows humans to understand and write it. Kind of a markdown for code. Sort of like what OP is trying to do, but with the built in benefit of having a common shared suite of tools for interoperability.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-11-02 00:57:53+00:00
Id argue that python, elixir, ruby and all manner of languages are easy to understand and maintain. I dont' have to think about memory management or buffer overuns. its much easier to avoid race conditions since I'm not stressing about low level details.

by that same definition, rust is pretty easy to maintain. I won't say its easy to write though.
by arghwhat | 2025-11-02 00:58:09+00:00
While indeed you shouldn't fix noise by shouting louder, your justification isn't quite right.

1. It's the AP that has to decide to change channel, and if you live somewhere with channel contention, from its perspective all channels will be busy. At that point, if your channel appears the quietest (either by being the least noisy or by your clients not being active), then the AP will decide to clobber your channel. Their WiFi devices may also not hear you and won't back off to give your airtime, even though you hear theirs and give them airtime.

2. Having your AP change channel (note: channel hopping is something else entirely, which isn't used for WiFi) wouldn't help when all channels are busy. As long as your usage appears quiet, other APs will keep moving on top of you during their channel optimization.

For residential, the only solution is to use technology that cannot propagate to neighbors. 5/6GHz and many APs, and good thick walls (mmm, reinforced concrete). WiFi channels is a solution to make a few bits of equipment coexist in the same space, but is of limited use when it comes to segregating your space from that of your neighbors. Especially if you want good performance, as there's very few wide channels available.
by aquariusDue | 2025-11-02 00:58:56+00:00
Rebind Capslock to act as Ctrl when held and Esc when pressed, use a modal editing package like evil or meow. There's also devil-mode which does some smart heuristics on your semicolon so you can press it instead of holding Ctrl or Meta (Alt).

That's pretty much it without delving too much into specifics, it's important to note that most of Emacs' functionality can be called via M-x (the original command palette) and selected or searched for easily. No need to play piano with hard to remember key chords for rarely used stuff.
by themafia | 2025-11-02 00:59:01+00:00
> that you can't design a language without an official standard?

No, just that it's not 1968 anymore, and if you want to claim your language has learned lessons from the past, then this is one that clearly got missed.

> The phrase "design by committee" isn't typically used as a compliment...

While the phrase "emergent incompatibilities" is only known as a detriment.

> It's "only" the single most important class of bugs for system safety.

Again, I ask for a reference, "according to what?" I understand this is the zeitgeist. Is it actually true? It seems to me this great experiment is actually proving it probably isn't.

> This kind of deflection and denialism isn't helping.

Once again, I asked for proof that the claim was true, you've brought nothing, and instead have projected your shortcomings onto my argument.

> And I'm saying this as someone who really likes C++.

Have you ever pushed for C++ to replace C programs because you assume they would be "better" according to some ill defined and never measured metrics?
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-02 00:59:38+00:00
>Does that relate to removing illegal immigrants? My understanding is that illegals have limited rights. Also, all the things you go on about mostly come later on, during arraignment and during trial. Arguing with cops on the sidewalk is mostly just going to get you jammed up even harder. Probable cause is something for your lawyer to argue about later.

Okay, I'm officially confused.

IIUC, the ICE announcement says that their facial "recognition" results trump actual documents.

And given that for some groups, state-of-the-art facial recognition algorithms have a 35% false positive rate, that means that for every 100 people snatched up by ICE (with your understanding that "illegals have limited rights.") 30 of them are not who they think they are and being generous, that 10-15% of those are also undocumented despite not being properly identified by the facial "recognition," 25 out of every 100 people in that group arrested will be legal residents or citizens.

And since ICE says that they can ignore actual documents in favor of their "app," those citizens and legal residents may well be deported (to god knows where if they're actually born here) without due process. As such, the whole "Probable cause is something for your lawyer to argue about later." bit may well be irrelevant given your statement about illegals having limited rights.

If ICE assumes incorrectly that you're undocumented, even if you and multiple generations of your ancestors are all born in the US and you can prove it. They explicitly said they will ignore that proof.

As such, based on what ICE claims, you're contradicting yourself. Either folks scooped up by ICE have -- because ICE says so -- "limited rights," and don't require traditional due process for detention and deportation, how does one then get access to a lawyer or court?

I expect you can see why I'm confused about your seemingly contradictory arguments.

I may very well be missing some important detail(s) here. If you could help me to understand what I'm not getting, I'd really appreciate it.