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by Nevermark | 2025-11-06 21:43:14+00:00
I agree.

I wasn’t making a hard argument.

Words are not everything. Still, they matter.

To the degree that pushback against anti-minority mistreatment can be framed as pro-universal (reciprocal) respect, I think it helps. Given the latter is in fact the real, most general, and most relevant principle.

That avoids the framing created and imposed by biases. I.e. that somehow, race or other category is the question, instead of (logically and morally) irrelevant to the value of reciprocal respect. Not forgetting the point of it all, avoids actual or perceived reverse biasing. Minority rights and equality being interpreted by either side as anti-majority, or being at the expense of anyone.

Some shrill minority defenders do manage to imply that, as well the people having trouble respecting some group.

This are just thoughts based on what I find works better in personal encounters with people I know or ran into, who had/have difficulty seeing the world without in-group, out-group filters of various kinds.

Keep the simple, general, most important thing clear and center.

Avoid letting the conversation be artificially narrowed by exactly the destructive framing we want to push back on. The narrower the framing the more people forget, ignore, and successfully distract from the main principle. The more people get bogged down in narrower and narrower arguments, the less people understand each other.
by lazide | 2025-11-06 21:43:16+00:00
Yes. I said ‘did anyone ask’, aka did anyone doing them care.

And the answer is no. There was a bigger fuss in the power structure about the time he wore a tan suit, than about drone strikes.

That someone complains doesn’t mean if it matters. Plenty of people are complaining about what is going on now, also to zero effect.

And for those saying the AUMF justified Obama - it clearly didn’t justify it in Libya (not affiliated), and Congress expressly did not authorize it against ISIS - but drones were still widely used.

The biggest difference in these scenarios is if they were sold as ‘the right thing’, or as ragebait. There is plenty of precedent for presidents just droning/air striking countries with zero congressional approval - including Trump in his first term, Obama before that, etc.

Hell, Trump himself bombed Iran just a few months ago, and folks barely blinked an eye. Zero congressional involvement.
by garbthetill | 2025-11-06 21:43:24+00:00
Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the pain points for mobile devs, the need to have intimate knowledge of both pl to build & maintain a good "backend/functionality" of the app over time and that the UI portion of the app is quite simple to learn, build and maintain.

So is it necessary for the swift team to try get swift ui onto android, versus a developer building their app "backend/functionality" in swift, compiling it down for both ios and android, then bridging the android bindings with a UI made in kmp etc

I recently learnt that amo and protonmail use this solution but instead of swift android, they were using uniffi-rs and seemed to have great results, I think proton ditched react native for this solution, which to me sounds like a more streamlined way of getting native performance without needing the overhead of managing multiple language. I guess we will have to see how mature swift android gets and if it can replace uniffi-rs etc which would save even more time
by NickM | 2025-11-06 21:43:33+00:00
I think this is a dangerously half-true way of thinking.

Yes, there are times when hard work feels great, and it's absolutely worth seeking out this kind of work.

But any serious endeavor is going to have times that are a slog, and your ability to stick with it through the bad times will very directly dictate your ability to get back to the good times.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-06 21:43:36+00:00
Too bad Rust compiles with LLVM (C++) and the stdlib links to glibc (C) then.

I sincerely hope it isn't the reason though, I'm a huge rust fan myself (10years of coding with it already) and I think rust is definitely the future, but that doesn't mean all previous open source foundations should be thrown away.
by machomaster | 2025-11-06 21:43:43+00:00
The 3 paragraphs under "WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?". This is akin to discussing veganism and saying "Veganism has a history of being supported by Hitler". Irrelevant dirtying by proxy.

In some other case that could be explained by the author unnecessarily wanting to give a historical context that nobody asked for and brushed aside. But in this case the low quality of the article is a common theme and such DEI remarks are only strengthening the overall negative impression. At this point it is not an one-off, but a part of an established pattern. DEI is not at all the biggest problem with the article.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-06 21:43:43+00:00
There is no threat of any particular service being overrun with any particular ideology. That isn't how this works. If the same host is hosting the websites of both Israeli and Muslim groups, neither of them would even be aware of the other being on the same servers unless somebody told them.

Moreover, Cloudflare is the CDN being blocked by foreign ISPs because their laws require ISPs to do blocking on the basis of IP address even though Cloudflare's IP addresses are shared by huge numbers of other customers. It's effectively an attempt to punish international companies for having customers who do something which is illegal in one country even if it's legal in their own country, e.g. some content is in the public domain in one country but not another. It's an attempt to apply one country's laws to another country.

Which is a trade barrier because it prevents a company from serving the customers in both jurisdictions, creating a preference for domestic companies that don't operate in the jurisdictions with less restrictive laws.
by benjiro | 2025-11-06 21:43:51+00:00
What i do not understand is why we are not seeing specialized models that go down to single experts.

I do not need models that know how to program in Python, Rust, ... when i only use Go and Html. So we are we not seeing models that have very specialized experts, where for instance:

* General interpreter model, that holds context/memory * Go Model * Html model if there is space in memory. * SQL model if there is space in memory.

If there is no space, the GIM swamp out the Go model, for the HTML model, depending on where it is in Agent tasks or Edit/Ask code its overviewing.

Because the models are going to be very small, switching in and out of memory will be ultra fast But most of the time we get very big Expert models, that still are very generalized over a entire field.

This can then be extended that if you have the memory, models combine their output with tasks... Maybe i am just too much of a noob in the field of understanding how LLMs work, but it feels like people are too often running after large models that companies like Anthropic/OpenAI etc deploy. I understand why those big companies use insane big models. They have the money to load them up over a cluster, have the fast interconnect, and for them its more efficient.

But from the bits and pieces that i see, people are more and more going to tons of small 1 a 2B models to produce better results. See my argument above. Like i said, never really gone beyond paying for my CoPilot subscription and running a bit of Ollama at home (don't have the time for the big stuff).
by jampekka | 2025-11-06 21:44:00+00:00
At least The Guardian has a comment from an independent expert:

"Prof Carlos Frenk, a cosmologist at the University of Durham, who was not involved in the latest work, said the findings were worthy of attention. “It’s definitely interesting. It’s very provocative. It may well be wrong,” he said. “It’s not something that you can dismiss. They’ve put out a paper with tantalising results with very profound conclusions.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/06/universe-exp...
by righthand | 2025-11-06 21:44:29+00:00
> Sometimes features are removed because they are costly to maintain or security problems or both.

But the features and tech doesn’t have security problems. The library implementation does. This is exactly the kind of bad faith argument I’m talking about. Please just for one second try making an argument pro-XSLT and then try to compare the two mind sets about technology here.

There is no negative trade off by maintaining XSLT other than not being lazy developers. I have no empathy for people who hide behind billion dollar corporations and do their bidding. This is not some sort of critical situation, this is a Google engineer doing things because it’s easier, not “right” or “the difficult choice”.
by asdff | 2025-11-06 21:45:01+00:00
It is kind of stupid when you think about what this stuff fundamentally is: digital files on someone's computer that you connected to. The analog, well, analog would be if the FBI had cctv into everyone's bookshelf and desk drawer. Some real Orwellian thought policing we hand wave away because the nature of the technology makes such surveillance logistically trivial in comparison.
by righthand | 2025-11-06 21:45:35+00:00
Open web means popular browsers supporting a wide range of technologies that institutions, businesses, and people use.

Not: popular browsers needle through technologies and tell everyone they know best

Does that make sense? Openess on the web isn’t a new term or concept so I’m not sure what’s confusing. It’s certainly not killing off technologies people are using.

What is open web to you? “Overpaid Mba at Google says this is best so you better fall in line.”
by snozolli | 2025-11-06 21:46:06+00:00
The article seems to boil down to, "I found a way to do the part I like." Obviously, the really unpleasant work on a product is usually down the line. Bugs, technical debt, keeping documentation relevant, and integrating new features.

This site used to talk all the time about Minimum Viable Products. The focus of startups was to get the MVP out the door so that you could see if there's even a market for it before you invest in further development, scaling, etc. I'm surprised that I haven't seen more posts here specifically about using AI to get an MVP out the door, with the awareness that there will be a lot of human labor down the line.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-06 21:46:56+00:00
Indeed. Several languages have debated dropping or already dropped an easy to access "Length" count on strings and making it much more explicit if you want "UTF-8 Encoded Length" or "Codepoint count" or "Grapheme count" or "Grapheme cluster count" or "Laid out font width".

Why endorse a bad winner when you can make more of the trade-offs more obvious and give programmers a better chance of asking for the right information instead of using the wrong information because it is the default and assuming it is correct?
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-06 21:47:20+00:00
> Way to deflect any possible criticism

There is no blame to defect. What’s supposed to be so weird about Ocaml syntax?

> How do you print a list in OCaml? There's your answer as to why it's not the same thing.

Don’t get your point.

You can ppx_derive on a list type. There is a feature specifically designed for this common use case. That gives you a pretty printer for a list. Alternatively you can tier the type pretty printer.

Is there supposed to be something special with lists?
by kalaksi | 2025-11-06 21:47:21+00:00
Years ago, I specifically went with zigbee because it's low-power and a simpler protocol stack (and open). No need to even think if the device will run offline or what kind of API it will use. I'm running HA and all the hardware I needed was a USB zigbee dongle and that's it. You pair your sensors, outlets etc. to it using a GUI and by pressing a physical button. No need to coordinate anything yourself, the mesh network can take care of itself.
by costco | 2025-11-06 21:47:30+00:00
I didn't want an agent to get stuck on an infinite loop invoking endpoints that cost GPU resources. Those fears are probably unfounded, so if people really cared I could remove those. /similar is blocked by default because I don't want 500000 "similar books for" pages to pollute the search results for my website but I do not mind if people scrape those pages.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-06 21:47:35+00:00
As an academic, that is exactly what the kind of noncommittal, don’t burn your bridges with colleagues and funding bodies thing that I would say about even clearly flawed research if I were put on the spot by a popular-press publication. In fact, if you know you can rebut flawed research in time, you might want to assist in hyping it first so that your rebuttal will then make a bigger splash and benefit your personal brand.
by xkbarkar | 2025-11-06 21:47:42+00:00
Have nothing to add that hasn’t already been commented. Like the entries in the add list stay. Other than that, my recommendation list keeps coming up with books I have already read and loved and I am hitting the limit :(.

So filtering would be great,

I have seen a few versions of the same books listed more than once.

Loved this. Hope you get to tune it a little.

Also, thank you for not ruining the site with a single popup, email subscription list offer, chatbot, wheelspin from hell anywhere.

Blessings from the popup hating part of the interwebs.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-06 21:47:54+00:00
The shortcut I always used was to take my effective tax rate from last year's return (i.e. total tax owed / gross income), multiply my self-employment income for the past quarter by that rate, maybe round it up somewhat, and pay that. It usually worked out to be close enough that I didn't owe any penalty for underpayment of estimated tax and it was much easier than using the IRS suggested calculation.
by gostsamo | 2025-11-06 21:48:09+00:00
I checked a few of my passwords and a few random ideas. It turns out that I'm not the only one who finds the Star wars drone names a good inspiration for a password, but the rest were okay. Proud that I found a password which leaked in only one breech. Whoever has used "feromancer" as a pass, congrats, you might be unique among a big part of humanity.
by lukan | 2025-11-06 21:48:49+00:00
"Many countries thinks Russia should be removed from Ukraine but no one has stepped up to provide the military to do so, ergo, in violation of international law they remain."

I would argue, or rather I know many people from poorer countries argue, that why should they care that russia violates international law etc. if the US blatantly ignored it when they invaded Iraq? In other words, it is the same international like it is in the EU, just with less trust. Also the EU might fail (and there are challenges) if too many members act against the common interest. Then the enforcement will fail and so will all of EU.

(also, with international support and china not backing russia ... it would have worked without military involvement. Then the sanctioned would have worked. So ... some countries are just happy for the cheap bargain for russian oil)
by UnserMannInK | 2025-11-06 21:49:42+00:00
I can understand your reservations, „running a coffee making cycle“ makes it sound as if it is some kind of machine - which it isn’t. It’s one of these percolators, made of stainless steel, that you put on your stove to make coffee. Look up „Bialetti Moka“ and you get the idea, it’s really quite simple.

The reason why the dishwasher takes so long is that it takes time to break down the grime. Same in the coffee maker. There is a deep crevice in the coffee compartment that cannot be cleaned mechanically because you can’t really reach it (clearly a design flaw if you ask me). But remaining coffee tends to build up there and over time it affects the taste. Using detergent and letting it sit overnight breaks down this oily residue and leaves it shiny as new. Then you take the whole thing apart, gaskets and all and thoroughly rinse it. If I put the coffee maker into the dishwasher it would be the exact same chemicals (ok, at 70 instead of 100 degrees Celsius) plus less thorough rinsing. But no one would object.
by oooyay | 2025-11-06 21:49:50+00:00
I'm not going to link my blog again but I have a reply on this post where I link to my blog post where I talk about how I built mine. Most agents fit nicely into a finite state machine or a directed acyclic graph that responds to an event loop. I do use provider SDKs to interact with models but mostly because it saves me a lot of boilerplate. MCP clients and servers are also widely available as SDKs. The biggest thing to remember, imo, is to keep the relationship between prompts, resources, and tools in mind. They make up a sort of dynamic workflow engine.
by CupricTea | 2025-11-06 21:49:54+00:00
Not only is there an extremely small amount of rinse aid that is dispensed in the final rinse, but even less of it would be present once the dishes are dry. The paranoia over it theoretically affecting your gut lining in the amounts used as directed is hogwash.

Without rinse aid your dishes will never be even remotely dry unless you manually wipe them dry yourself.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-06 21:49:58+00:00
> I think match statements should have an explicit `end` terminator or something so that you can nest them naturally.

It’s unneeded.

You can explicitly delimit any expression in Ocaml by using begin … end or parentheses. It works for everything including match statements which are expressions. So you are already free to use an explicit end statement if you are so inclined.
by viega | 2025-11-06 21:50:07+00:00
It is-- if you click in to their full list, you should see it near the top in their "above the water" section, under `#pragma once`. I suspect it was added after the meme image was produced.

But, if it weren't on the iceberg page, it'd make sense. The semantics of `do { ... } while(0)` are in the standard, and the preprocessor has nothing to do with those semantics.

You are, of course, right, that the construct is used all over the place in macros for good reason, though these days every compiler I care about has the same (I believe not in the standard) syntax for statement expressions, which will work in even more contexts.
by takinola | 2025-11-06 21:50:21+00:00
Lots of billionaires live in Palo Alto. You pretty much can't walk down University Avenue or grab a coffee at Town and Country without bumping into one. Plus most of Zuckerberg's neighbors are not "regular people", at least not from a wealth standpoint. This brings to mind the famous quote from a Palo Alto city meeting where one of the residents complained about "billionaires running roughshod over us regular millionaires!"
by titanomachy | 2025-11-06 21:50:38+00:00
Why do you think it’s such a grind? Do you think there’s somewhere else that wouldn’t be?

I’ve been interested in doing more school as well, but I took a class in-person at a top school and it seems like CS students at least are so career-focused that there’s very little room for curiosity or joy. I guess it’s a big luxury to be a mid-career person doing it mostly out of interest.
by pyuser583 | 2025-11-06 21:51:04+00:00
The hypothetical pardon was promised by then candidate-Trump in a speech at the Libertarian Party convention.

The specific political agenda was to get support from libertarians, who lean conservative, but don't like Trump much - because he rejects libertarianism.

That's as political as you can possibly get. It wasn't a behind the scenes thing. It was literally announced at a political convention.
by bmadduma | 2025-11-06 21:51:42+00:00
LayerNext automates your bookkeeping tasks. It automatically categorizes transactions and posts them to QuickBooks when you upload your receipts, bills, or invoices.

At the end of the month, you can upload your bank and credit card statements (PDF) and ask the LayerNext agent to reconcile them.

Once your books are clean, you can also ask financial questions and get insights about your business.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-06 21:52:21+00:00
A network card with its own firmware and compute generally uses a network processor[1], right? A widget that is optimized at the silicon level to put fairly specific pegs into fairly a specific holes?

The RP PIO is not a network processor, and doesn't have that kind of optimization. It is a blank slate that is devoid of intended purpose. It can be used to accomplish lots of different and very arbitrary things.

They seem like very different things to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_processor
by bokohut | 2025-11-06 21:52:21+00:00
The operation efforts of distraction are very very real however what has never ceased to amaze me about the U.S. governments lack of "intelligence" is why they do not take the same approach in hiding the gas stations in the sky. Some here may have seen this distraction as it occurred and given enough exposure to said data, aka experience, when an event occurs it certainly stands out as an obvious data pattern anomaly against what is normal. The old magicians trick of distraction however some here are old and wise enough to know the elephant did not disappear. ADSB data is an amazing thing and the fact the the U.S. government pays to keep in suppressed should be an indicator towards its revealing power. What you cannot see matters most and the world is coming to learn this with each passing day.
by observationist | 2025-11-06 21:52:43+00:00
The more we learn, the less we end up knowing about how "everything" works - some things are mathematical in nature and demonstrate absolutes, but frameworks shift, and complexify, and exceptions to things we thought absolutes have occurred throughout history.

For claims about how the universe works at scales and timeframes so utterly beyond anything testable, it's a little difficult to say this is credible at all - not dunking on the researchers, but in order to validate their conclusions, there's a whole chain of dependencies and assumptions you'd have to follow along with, and each of those things will be its own complex birds nest tangle of assertions, and I don't see how you can really say one way or another until you have a lot more information and a lot better Theory of Everything than we've got right now.

For what it's worth, for all the impact it'll have on anyone's life outside of academia, I'd say they're 100% correct and people should buy them free beers at their local pubs for at least the next year in return for explaining their ideas at length.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-06 21:52:47+00:00
> have not just been subject to disinformation ,but actively spread it.

Just to be clear because this comment is ambiguous. Both of my statements come from internationally reputable sources including Israeli one. There is an interview with IDF snipers where they openly state what I wrote - video is available on sky news - and multiple accounts in Haaretz. The hostages killing by the IDF was a scandal inside Israel and completely true.

Both statements are beyond doubts. Could you be so kind as to point the disinformation I’m allegedly spreading?
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-11-06 21:52:52+00:00
It's not confusing, no one is really confused except the people upset that the meaning is different in a different context.

On top of that, in many cases a company/group/whoever can't even reproduce the model themselves. There are lots of sources of non-determinism even if folks are doing things in a very buttoned up manner. And, when you are training on trillions of tokens, you are likely training on some awful sounding stuff - "Facebook is trained llama 4 on nazi propaganda!" is not what they want to see published.

How about just being thankful?