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by goku12 | 2025-11-05 11:10:30+00:00
This is a misleading characterization of the issue here. Let me pull up another very relevant analogy here. Let's say that you visit a government office for a driving license. Should you pay a bribe to the official? You are a responsible adult, after all. Bribes are needed for everything from housing permits to your kids' food assistance. How is it bad when it gets good things done?

Is this how you reason about corruption in government service? Unlike your argument about about lobbying, the problem is very conspicuous here - you're supposed to get those services without paying anything beyond the nominal service charges. They're your rights in an society where you already pay taxes to fund them. The government officials are already being paid with your tax money to do this job. What's even worse? If such loose and open-ended bargaining is permitted for basic essential services, then the only ones who will get those services will be the ones with money, not the ones who need it. Your housing permits and your kids' food assistance will become increasingly costlier and harder goals to achieve. That's why bribes are illegal.

If you look at this scenario carefully, it isn't much of an analogy. It's exactly the same situation, but with different players! When politicians debate public policy, the only criterion should be the public interests - because the public are the primary stakeholders in a democracy, and it's the utilization of their tax payments that these politicians are debating. Those politicians are supposed to be the people's 'representatives' who are elected and paid to listen to their constituents and lobby on their behalf. The public shouldn't have to 'lobby' with them too, especially for basic essentials like nutrition, national parks or tax filing!

What you call 'lobbying' in the US is known as 'political corruption' in most of the rest of the world. It's just a weasel word used to underplay the seriousness of such corruption. And as I pointed out earlier in my analogy, the rich ones outcompete the majority public here too. It's abundantly clear that even town councils favor big corpos even in the face of loud vocal opposition from the majority of their constituents. It's clear how much special treatment these professional grifters called 'lobbyists' get when they walk into the town hall just minutes before the discussion of a topic, while the town's people have to wait there for one and a half days without proper food, water or sleep in order to speak a few words in opposition. This is what happens when you legitimize corruption with cute terms like 'lobbying'.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-11-05 11:11:09+00:00
Manifold: Any m dimensional hyperplane embedded in an n dimensional Euclidean space, where m is less than or equal to n. More simply put, a manifold is any set that can be continuously parameterized, with the number of parameters being the dimension of the manifold.

A continuous manifold will have a line element that allows you to compute distances between its points using its parameters. The simplest line element was first written down by Pythagorus I think, it allows you to compute the distance between two points in a flat manifold. In physics we do away with gravitational forces by realizing that masses move along geodesics (shortest paths) of a manifold, hence the saying,"matter tells spacetime how to curve and spacetime tells matter how to move". We stich together large curvy manifolds like a patch quilt from the locally Euclidean tangent spaces that we erect at any point.
by puzzlingcaptcha | 2025-11-05 11:11:20+00:00
It sort of depends on what you perceive as 'high'. Many TVs have a special low-latency "game" display mode. My LG OLED does, and it's a 2021 model. But OLED in general (in a PC monitor as well) is going to have higher latency than IPS for example, regardless of input delay.
by tim333 | 2025-11-05 11:11:21+00:00
A worldcoin gizmo which is basically a digital camera and I think has some face scanner stuff like an iphone. Once they've scanned and checked you are someone who hasn't been done already they give you basically a crypto wallet with some 'worldcoin' shitcoin in. And there's an app.

You only get a scan at the start, after that it's basically a usual crypto wallet + private key. They don't ask for your name or id or anything at the start. Although they are now offering me like $25 if I'll scan my passport and do kyc stuff. I think they are trying to make it into a payment/investment network.
by sublinear | 2025-11-05 11:12:28+00:00
> It could be improved a lot just by automatically calculating more fields, and adding more of the "worksheets" that are in the instructions into the forms so it can calculate those for you.

It already does this. The form validation checks that you have filled in the required fields and on most forms about half of the field values are not user-editable and instead auto-calculated from the other half.

It also looks for the required related forms you should have attached. The worksheets are another matter and aren't required to be attached, so they aren't part of the validation. It's assumed that you have read the instructions and done the worksheets elsewhere, although you certainly can attach them anyway.
by sph | 2025-11-05 11:12:52+00:00
Ha! Your vision is positive, and idealistic. (Plan 9 is never make a come back, sorry to say)

My comment was sarcastic, and wishing that we at least tried to move away from UNIX, VT100 and mainframe-style computing; trying something new instead of continuously retreading old ground.

Gary Bernhardt said it best: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
by Firehawke | 2025-11-05 11:13:34+00:00
That seems very likely. One of the first things I'd noticed back in the early 90s when I got my shell account and used Pico for the first time was that the UI was similar (not exact copy, mind you) of how Wordstar was, with some basic guidance at the bottom to get you started.

Also kind of reminds me of the old Telix terminal software for MS-DOS, with the bottom status bar. Not exactly the same, but again quite similar in the approach to have you just quick glance at the bottom of your screen for a HUD.
by __d | 2025-11-05 11:14:04+00:00
FWIW, semaglutide is available in Australia via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (part of the socialized healthcare system), when prescribed for treatment of type 2 diabetes. Which means it is cheap, because the government bulk-buys it at a negotiated price.

There are plenty of treatments that aren’t subsidized, but it’s not as restricted as it might be perceived. There’s very little whining about things not being covered, because most things are.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-05 11:15:39+00:00
For development use cases, it's best to use multiple models anyway. E.g. my favorite model is the Gemini 2.5 Pro, but there are certain cases where Qwen3 Coder gives much better results. (Gemini likes to overthink.) It's like having a team of competent developers provide their opinions. For important parts (security, efficiency, APIs), it's always good to get opinions from different sources.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-05 11:16:44+00:00
Maybe I am too dismissive/cynical, but my impression is that people who write stuff like this really want to think they are the main character in a movie.

The way it is written is a bit like the the Navy Seal, GNU-Linux copy-pastas.

If you go back and read these after knowing what happened over the last 30 years. It is difficult to take seriously. I feel similarly when reading "A declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace".
by ccanassa | 2025-11-05 11:17:26+00:00
Sounds like a hammer-and-nail problem to me.

Django works perfectly with green threads. It’s a superior model to async and avoids the whole function-coloring mess. I’ve seen Django setups outperform Go-based services running under similar conditions.

JavaScript is a terrible language and should only be used when there’s absolutely no alternative, such as in browsers.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-05 11:17:38+00:00
> Not OP, but a surprising number of senior(+) engineers at my company use default vim or neovim (no plugins or customizations)

That's fine. They could very well be using the tool they always used. Support for vi bindings is not the best everywhere, and vim works also through terminal connections, which is great if you need to ssh somewhere to edit a few files.

If you have to work with anything related to TypeScript or even JavaScript, you need to think long and hard to figure out what you're doing if your first option isn't vscode.
by mnw21cam | 2025-11-05 11:17:39+00:00
I have a fantastic Asus laptop that is 8 years old now and (after an easy battery replacement) easily does everything I want from it and feels nice and solid. I was so impressed that I recommended Asus to someone else, and what they got was pretty awful.

So basically, YMMV. They make good stuff, and they make awful stuff.
by lisdexan | 2025-11-05 11:17:45+00:00
>proudly display her Bluesky account

You have to be kidding me. A division director of FDA was extorting people mafia style, with links to a lawsuit with evidence and your first thoughts were: "she hurt me feefees with a article about inane culture war bullshit" and "how dare she display her twiter-clone account".

As always, https://www.jwz.org/ is right.
by tasn | 2025-11-05 11:18:58+00:00
I (re)watched Hackers on the big screen a month or so ago (it was the 30th anniversary), and it was an absolute pleasure. You should definitely rewatch it!

As for the hacker's manifesto: we are now old. Teenage rebellion content doesn't resonate as much. I reread it after watching Hackers and agree it's not as great as I remembered. Though I also reread it multiple times as a teenager. It really resonated back then, and I'm forever grateful for it.
by jxdxbx | 2025-11-05 11:20:44+00:00
Hi bluetui author. I just discovered your app last week, just wanted to say it is great.

I truly like this new generation of command line utils (I have bat, eza, etc aliased to things like cat and ls) and TUIs like yours. TUIs in particular: having grown up with DOS apps, then graduating to using Pine for email on a shell account, they are nostalgic, but also just super fast and practical. And I like having an option in between the command line and config files and a full-blown GUI app (which, on Linux, might look like any old random thing anyway).
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-05 11:21:27+00:00
> Me and a friend were just chatting how annoying it is monitors stalled out at 4K. I think I got my first set of 4k monitors ~15 years ago (!) and there's been no improvements since then apart from high end pro monitors resolution wise.

It's mostly because the improvement over 4k is marginal. In fact, even from 1920x1080 it's not so big of a deal, which is why people keep buying such monitors in 2025.

A the worse is that the higher spending consumer segment of PC parts, the gamers, can't really use high resolution display at their full potential because it puts such a burden on the GPU (DLSS helps, but the results is even smaller of an improvement over 1920x1080 than regular 4k is)
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-11-05 11:21:31+00:00
True. I should probably have qualified that to something like "independently self-replicating". Floppy-disk based viruses obviously still required humans in the transmission path, whereas the Morris Worm and its successors were novel in that they used the internet and worked without human intervention.

Memories of adding an illicit McAffee to autoexec.bat on my boot floppies...
by ben_w | 2025-11-05 11:21:37+00:00
> The more compute you do, the more heat you generate.

Yes, and yet I still fail to see the point you're making here.

Max power in space is either "we have x kWt of RTG, therefore our radiators are y m^2" or "we have x m^2 of nearly-black PV, therefore our radiators are y m^2".

Even for cases where the thermal equilibrium has to be human-liveable like the ISS, this isn't hard to achieve. Computer systems can run hotter, and therefore have smaller radiators for the same power draw, making them easier.

> And, thus, we wind up at the "how do we cool and maintain a giant space station?" again. With the added bonus of needing to do a spacewalk if you need to work on more than one rack.

What you're doing here is like saying "cars don't work for a city because a city needs to move a million people each day, and a million-seat car will break the roads": i.e. scaling up the wrong thing.

The (potential, if it even works) scale-up here is "we went from n=1 cluster containing m=81 satellites, to n=10,000 clusters each containing m=[perhaps still 81] satellites".

I am still somewhat skeptical that this moon-shot will be cost-effective, but thermal management isn't why, Musk (or anyone else) actually getting launch costs down to a few hundred USD per kg in that timescale is the main limitation.
by csmp | 2025-11-05 11:23:02+00:00
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by thrance | 2025-11-05 11:24:14+00:00
> Right, and it’s a good thing that the people producing housing, legislating housing production, and in control of housing supply aren’t the same.

They very often are, heck, the president himself is a real estate mogul. And most politicians own several homes each.

> I do not think that home ownership is what most people want.

It is, though.
by gloosx | 2025-11-05 11:24:33+00:00
Children are not shown pairs like

"dog": [object of class Canine]

They infer meaning from noisy, ambiguous sensory streams. The labels are not explicit, they are discovered through correlation, context, and feedback.

So although caregivers sometimes point and name things, that is a tiny fraction of linguistic input, and it is inconsistent. Children generalize far beyond that.

Real linguistic input to a child is incomplete, fragmented, error-filled, and dependens on context. It is full of interruptions, mispronunciations, and slang. The brain extracts structure from that chaos. Calling that "structured input" confuses the output - inherent structure of language - with the raw input, noisy speech and gestures.

The brain has drives: social bonding, curiosity, pattern-seeking. But it doesn't have a single optimisation target like "expand." Objectives are not hardcoded loss functions, they are emergent and changing.

You're right that lack of linguistic input prevents full language development, but that is not evidence of supervised learning. It just shows that exposure to any language stream is needed to trigger the innate capacity.

Both complexity and efficiency of the human learning is just on another level. Transformers are child's play compared to that level. They are not going to gain consciousness, and no AGI will happen in the foreseeable future, it is all just marketing crap, and it's becoming more and more obvious as the dust settles.
by fhennig | 2025-11-05 11:25:29+00:00
I think it's a category error. The optimism isn't about tech, but rather about society changing in ways that make life better:

> More peace, no apartheid, no Soviet union, removing borders between countries in Europe, tech felt like a way to connect us.

If I read your comment charitably, one could maybe argue that we're actually making decent progress in the electrification of things, and that we're also improving health globally, but I'm not sure if that's the case. It doesn't quite feel like it at least.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-05 11:26:51+00:00
It's not Google's fault alone.

SEO manipulation for example, that could be tackled by our legal system similar to existing slander, unfair competition and advertising regulations. But unfortunately, most representatives are not digital natives but old digital buffoons, and the post-2000/Gen Z kids never gained an understanding of what actually makes the web tick.

As for the TLD explosion, we definitely need a completely new setup for ICANN. The trouble all of that has caused, just for a measly 250k in fees for each new gTLD, is insane.
by pndy | 2025-11-05 11:26:56+00:00
I'm curious about practical application in everyday life of these avatars - but in the real life, not examples provided by marketing department. With that price Vision Pro still feels like a toy for wealthy people, or perhaps for CEOs of companies who can afford conferences in virtual environment. But then exactly, why? Majority of world tested during pandemic video calls, conferences and all sorts of other activities like virtual crowds for tv programs (pretty sure British panel shows shown grids of people as a substitute for studio audience). News services were inviting their guests by video calls when Skype was still around.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-05 11:29:14+00:00
> How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

This is partly a joke, but it works: Rewrite your project in an obscure, unpopular, uncool programming language, that LLMs cannot use to meaningfully write code. You will get zero vibe-coded PRs and you will remain in a full control over your source code.
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by simonw | 2025-11-05 11:30:01+00:00
Those little 4B and 8B models will run on almost anything. They're really fun to try out but severely limited in comparison to the larger ones - classifying headlines to categories should work well but I wouldn't trust them to refactor code!

If you have 8GB of RAM you can even try running them directly in Chrome via WebAssembly. Here's a demo running a model that's less than 1GB to load, entirely in your browser (and it worked for me in mobile safari just now): https://huggingface.co/spaces/cfahlgren1/Qwen-2.5-WebLLM
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-05 11:30:06+00:00
Because the vast majority of Monitor Sales-Volume are (public) tenders from companies buying huge volume, and those companies still mostly look for monitors <4K (without fancy specs and without i.e. USB-C).

If 4K reaches mass-market for those, the specs will shift down and there will be room in the (much smaller) Premium-Tier monitor segment

Heck, even if you just want USB-C and an integrated webcam on an average display, the price-hike compared to one without it is crazy, because everything except those basic office-monitors is still niche-production...
by codingbot3000 | 2025-11-05 11:30:21+00:00
Good points.

All variants of rent control etc. have been tried in Europe and have miserably failed. Quite the opposite, rents have been rising even more, and new construction has been reduced due to new politically induced risks.

Examples: Berlin, Barcelona

But as Barcelona shows, there is a feedback loop benefiting leftist populist politicians:

Higher rents, lower housing supply -> people frustrated -> leftist populists get more votes -> more stupid regulation -> even higher rents, even lower housing supply -> people more frustrated -> ...

This can go on for at least two electoral cycles.
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by kakacik | 2025-11-05 11:31:08+00:00
Its not destroying it, just making it less efficient, not driving people and companies to deliver their best (but often at a big personal mental & physical cost).

In ideal world you have it all, thats what Star Trek and similar utopias were based on. In reality, the more you push to the left, the worse system gets since it always fails on the same premise - it expects ideal human beings, rather than greedy selfish real people(TM) with their own priorities that may diverge from common good.

I've seen the mix of socialism and communism dictatorship in my home country (so a vastly different concept than you describe even if spiritually in same direction), it destroyed the spirit and work ethics of entire nation so deeply that even 2 generations after it all collapsed its not back in any way, and maybe never will be (to detriment of entire nation).

While capitalism doesn't care, it pushes everybody to their max, for better or worse, weak or unlucky are allowed to fail all the way to the bottom and all the glory to the best and only the best.
by ben_w | 2025-11-05 11:31:13+00:00
> Instead being able to rely on the cold out there, as long as it stays in the shadow, or is otherwise isolated from sources of heat?

All the sources of power to run anything are also sources of heat. Doesn't matter if they're the sun or RTGs, they're unavoidably all sources of heat.

> Since it's fucking cold up there already?

Better to describe it as an insulator, rather than hot or cold.

> If I had those resorces at hand, I'd try.

FWIW, my "if I had the resources" thing would be making a global power grid. Divert 5% of current Chinese aluminium production for the next 20 years. 1 Ω the long way around when finished, and then nobody would need to care about the duty cycle of PV.

China might even do it, there was some news a while back about a trans-Pacific connection, but I didn't think to check if it was some random Chinese company doing a fund-raising round with big plans, or something more serious.