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by jfengel | 2025-12-08 16:53:59+00:00
Why would they? They elected this administration by a fairly wide margin, and everything it has done is in keeping with its campaign promises. It's been more effective at that than any administration I can think of.

Sure, it's horrifying to the people who voted against it. But I see nothing here to change the minds of people who voted for it.

There will probably be some midterm losses, because the same persistent economic problems are still troubling us, but I don't expect to hear much of "I didn't realize that they were bloodthirsty monsters". I expect more of "Yeah, they're bloodthirsty monsters, which I like, but I won't vote for them anyway because the economy is bad."
by seec | 2025-12-08 16:54:01+00:00
Yes, the problem is the boomers who keep getting richer for no good reason, under the premise that they are entitled to massive pensions because they have been promised that much by politicians.

Of course, logically it makes no sense, since the whole point of a socialized system is to adjust the wealth of everybody depending on current situation (economic output).

But it was obviously a lie and our social democracy are deeply flawed because they allow anyone to vote regardless of stakes.

Sending young people to military service/war make for a nice distraction because meanwhile they don't get to think about taking the stuff of the elders by force.
by prmoustache | 2025-12-08 16:54:03+00:00
Are you saying windows and macos do not have any bugs? I have news for you.

Also wevare talking here about archlinux + hyperland compositor, not the typical Fedora, Mint or Ubunti/Zorin distro. Tinkerer's gonna tinker while the other users just use their computer regardless of the OS.
by mindslight | 2025-12-08 16:54:04+00:00
Sure, but the point of those laws is to diminish the ability for merchants to obscure prices, as a deliberate public policy goal.

Such places are likely to have more proactive regulations against price discrepancies well, rather than common law "freedom".

Still I can imagine a few ways for a store to post prices without being in the territory of forming binding offers - keep stock only accessible to employees, post obnoxious signs everywhere stating that the prices are for informational purposes and that no offer is implied, require membership for entry with appropriate terms, etc.

Or rather than continuing to run the complexity treadmill trying to escape regulation, stores can just accept that they're bound by laws that were settled quite some time ago, and that their business includes making offers to sell items.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-08 16:54:16+00:00
Soon-to-be recipients stand to lose out on tens of thousands of dollars from SS cuts. I think this would skew the normal distribution of ideological views you are imagining far more than you think.

Don’t think this is “filter bubble” as I don’t interact with many Gen Xers and the ones I do likely skew skeptical of SS.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-08 16:54:22+00:00
Protection against bots seeing the e-mail on your website has been around for at least a decade.

And if any of your customers or business partners know of the company e-mail, then you're already known to all spammers in the world, since their contact lists are getting hacked all the time.

Ie: If you're a business your e-mail adress is already out there, so give it also to those who need it the most, which are your customers.
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-08 16:54:24+00:00
The article bullet point referencing WB Discovery could mislead some into thinking that this takeover is only for the Discovery portion, but that's not the case. $30 would not be for Discovery only (as Netflix's bid is $27.75), it's for the whole kit and caboodle. Yes there are two entities, but/and Paramount wants it all, and the takeover intent is for both.
by Ancapistani | 2025-12-08 16:54:35+00:00
I'm not sure I understand - what are you willing to achieve exactly?

I switched to Protonmail years ago after learning that the US courts had ruled that third-party email hosts like Gmail do not receive Fourth Amendment protections. I had originally intended to fully self-host, but between the effort required to maintain my own email server and keep it off blacklists, I was looking specifically for something hosted outside direct US jurisdiction and that wasn't "responsive" to informal requests from the US.

Protonmail isn't exactly that, as I expect they would answer a subpeona, but that's OK. I'm not doing anything that I need to truly hide from the state; I only wanted my normal correspondence to not be vacuumed up with everyone else's by the NSA. At least the information that they have access to (and is therefore discoverable) is limited by design.

Their security posture also means that some of their other products - calendar, in particular - are virtually useless to me. Email not being available via IMAP is a bummer, but manageable since they have decent native apps for the platforms I care about. The only exception to that is visionOS; their iOS and iPadOS apps aren't installable on the Vision Pro, so I'm left using the web client there.
by keehee2 | 2025-12-08 16:54:41+00:00
Lol I do live in Nyc in Brooklyn (between Bedford Ave and Rogers Ave on Martense St, I’ve also lived in Carroll Gardens, East Village, Crown Heights, Upper West Side) and there are plenty of blogs and people with a vocal enough opinion in Nyc to not need to hand off my restaurant searches to Uber of all companies.

If you have problems with restaurant rankings in Nyc you’re not living right.
by alphazard | 2025-12-08 16:54:53+00:00
No one is going to run a database for you unless you pay them. If you want to write data to an existing public ledger, then you are going to have to get some of the token that allows you to write to that ledger. Paying for a token to use the ledger is not speculative, it's pragmatic. Holding the token and not using it to write to the ledger is speculative, and encouraging people to do that in order to make money yourself is a scam.

If you pay AWS to host Postgres for you, are you being scammed? You might be if someone convinces you to invest in Postgres credits that you never use. But if you actually use Postgres, and it's cheap, and you are glad to pay for it, then it's not really a scam.

I think more of the promise of these technologies is in private ledgers, where the traffic is confined and the system could even be run altruistically. For example, a university club or a town could coordinate elections using this technology. They don't have to pay to use a public ledger if enough people in the group can run nodes themselves. Everyone who cares about the result of the election is incentivized to participate in the network just to know the result and ensure its authenticity. They aren't processing transactions for random users, they are coordinating using the latest technology with people who they want to coordinate with.
by AlexB138 | 2025-12-08 16:54:59+00:00
I just checked, and I've had an O'Reilly account since March of 2014 without major interruption, back when it was called Safari. It is by far the best source for high quality tech content out there. There is so much filler content in tech blogs, that I'm happy to pay to get access to high quality.

I must be on some grandfathered plan though, as I'm not paying near $500/year. That is a very steep price.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-08 16:55:11+00:00
There's direct evidence that GitHub Actions was the rewrite of Azure Pipelines that was originally planned to finish 5 years ago and got "stuck" (because all their resources moved to GitHub). For a while you could find 2020 roadmap repositories (on GitHub) for AzDO talking up a Pipelines rewrite bringing a lot more features (including better Docker alignment versus Pipelines' much more complex "runner skills") that instead showed up in the first version of GitHub Actions.

Microsoft claims Azure DevOps still has a roadmap, but it's hard to imagine that the real roadmap isn't simply "Wait for more VPs in North Carolina to retire before finally killing the brand".
by buellerbueller | 2025-12-08 16:55:17+00:00
The "value" you get is recommendations generated by some combination of:

-opaque optimization function over which you have no control and is not tailored to you (but yay you can sort by a few predetermined fields)

-willingness of the recommended to outbid one another for your attention

-companies who have paid some baseline pay-to-play vig

If you want real recommendations, talk to someone who isn't profiting off of you.
by yannyu | 2025-12-08 16:56:22+00:00
There's no definition of thinking that isn't a purely internal phenomenon, which means that there's no way to point a diagnostic device at someone and determine whether they're thinking. The only way to determine whether something is conscious/thinking is through some sort of inference, which is why Turing landed on the Turing Test that he did. Problem is, technology over the past 5 years pretty easily passes variations of the Turing Test, and exposed a lot of its limits as well.

So the next definition of detecting "thinking" will have to be externally observable and inferrable like a Turing Test, but get into the other things that we consider part of consciousness/thinking.

Often this is some combination of introspection (understanding internal states), perception (understanding external objects), and synthesis of the two into testable hypotheses in some sort of feedback loop between the internal representation of the world and the external feedback from the world.

Right now, a chatbot can say all sorts of things about itself and about the world, but none of that is based on real-time, factual information. Whereas an animal can't speak, but they clearly process information and consider it when determining their future and current actions.
by geocar | 2025-12-08 16:56:26+00:00
I think you probably misunderstood me.

You can use a better tool than someone who is using a worse tool, and take their customers, because it will be easier to solve the problems better and faster than that someone-else. Lisp is a great tool, but it doesn't help you if you're the tool: You still need someone with a problem who can pay for a solution, and they need to like you enough to pay you for that solution. If you need to hire 30 people to figure that out, Lisp isn't going to help with that problem.

And it's not fast: Lisp is not a get-rich-quick scheme, it's a tool that you can learn how to use to make other tools, it's a tool that is difficult enough to use that you will need perhaps years of experiences in order to use effectively, it's a tool so advanced it might seem like actual wizarding magic just watching someone screencast if you don't know what you're looking at, but it's still just a tool.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-08 16:56:36+00:00
>so people who would use their trauma to prevent themselves from thinking logically

You're using your trauma here. You keep yearning for the kindergarten lessons to be true, that we're all the same people and we should all share and all the other nonsense that was only taught to you so that the elemntary school teachers didn't have a city-burning-down-riot on their hands every day.

Even if you insist that I'm the one being illogical here, it's wired pretty deeply into my brain, and I'm not going to change. Not only am I not going to change, I'm raising children to be like me, and one of the early and fundamental lessons is that fertility rates are top priority. Be fruitful and multiply. There will always be more like me than more like you, and it's only going to get worse (for you and those like you).
by PKop | 2025-12-08 16:56:39+00:00
Both supporters and critics approach it too religiously. Yes 99% is scams and rugpulls. The rest of the higher profile coins are, at the very least, tools to make money. Why emotionally sell all your crypto vs holding some higher quality as insurance with potential upside? Or even, ride the periodic bulls and take profits, rinse and repeat? If it's full of scammers, why not take some of their money? Does this require "believing" in it? One can not believe in it at all, and thus actually insulate themselves from getting caught up in the hype.
by DalekBaldwin | 2025-12-08 16:56:52+00:00
I'm assuming the lockfile should be checked into the repo itself, which presents a bootstrapping problem if you have to run an action to create the lockfile in the first place. They may need to build proper support for running actions locally -- there is the third-party https://github.com/nektos/act tool which might be a starting point, but that's mostly designed so you can debug actions without having to repeatedly push and rerun. Probably they'll need a separate mechanism to statically analyze actions without running them.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-08 16:56:59+00:00
Yeah, you do. It's still pretty unfriendly imo - you're forcing a user to express disapproval to get something useful, without telling them what useful thing they're going to get by clicking it.

It's par for the course with Virgin Media. I've been with them for years as the cheapest way to get genuinely fast broadband (though that seems to be changing) but the service is dire. Some of the patterns:

* When your package contract ends, you always get a much better renewal deal by ringing them up and threatening to leave. The deals you can get online are up to 50% more expensive. This tactic is straight out of the noughties and I can't believe it's still working for them.

* However, you often have to keep calling back until someone offers you a good deal. I'm guessing that there is some sort of incentive structure behind the scenes that basically makes it random whether each individual call will pay off.

* About 8 years ago they messed up my direct debit so badly for three consecutive months despite multiple lunchtimes wasted on hold to their support line, that I eventually sent a strong email to my best guess of the CEO's email. The next day I was contacted by a very capable technician who immediately sorted it out.

* Not so related to their support, but they've recently instituted a price-rise of £4 every year.
by tech_ken | 2025-12-08 16:57:26+00:00
Basic rule of MLE is to have guardrails on your model output; you don't want some high-leverage training data point to trigger problems in prob. These guardrails should be deterministic and separate from the inference system, and basically a stack of user-defined policies. LLMs are ultimately just interpolated surfaces and the rules are the same as if it were LOESS.
by jtbayly | 2025-12-08 16:57:43+00:00
I recently took the time, despite having committed to never bother again, to write some feedback to Apple. I can’t even remember what it was about, but it was a big deal for me to break my commitment. I spent 15 minutes writing it up, getting screenshots marked up…

And the form refused to submit. I was on my iPhone. I clicked the button. Nothing happened. I clicked it again. Nothing.

I reminded myself of the reason I had my commitment: Apple does not want my feedback.
by SPICLK2 | 2025-12-08 16:57:52+00:00
That's easy to work out from the parent comment. They conclude that 16,000 tons of batteries are needed for propulsion, with a total capacity of 3GWh.

For a typical 40kton cargo ship, that leaves 24,000 tons for more batteries, for a energy cargo capacity of 4.5GWh. The average US citizen uses ~770,000 BTUs of energy per day, or 0.23MWh. This "energy cargo" of this ship would provide the entire energy needs of a city of 20k people for one day. (I am being a little unfair, by assuming that everyone uses electricity for all of their energy needs in this scenario).
by monerozcash | 2025-12-08 16:58:18+00:00
Well, we know at the very least that he obviously had no control over when his passport was going to be added to the SLTD database.

Also, it's not clear why he would have wanted to stay in Moscow if he had a choice. If he had prior contact with Russian authorities, they presumably wouldn't have made him stay at Sheremetyevo for over a month.

Also it's worth noting that in 2013 Russia had much friendlier relations with the US. This was pre-Crimea. It’s not surprising that it took Russia so long to decide what to do with Snowden. Eventually, they concluded that letting him stay wouldn’t significantly harm their relationship with the US while also gaining goodwill elsewhere.
by rixed | 2025-12-08 16:58:20+00:00
Funny how the choice of an analogy can set bounds to the set of accepted solutions.

Instead of trudging through the desert, or escaping a sinking ship, or surviving in a dog eat dog jungle, I prefer to compare modern society with a large boarding house, where every one has to cooperate a bit to make it work reasonably well.

A poltical philosopher from the XXth century once wrote: "At the end of the day, all we are trying to achieve is a basic level of decency, for which all that's required from citizens is the simple politeness commonly found in any boarding house."

Maybe it's not an optimization problem?
by buellerbueller | 2025-12-08 16:58:23+00:00
Rationality requires an actual estimate of the incrementality of your visit. As someone who has worked in the incrementality estimation function of adtech, for a measurment vendor to the likes of YoutTube, TikTok, Meta, etc., I promise you: the advertisers and the publishers have no fucking clue because the masurement companies, in their competition with one another for the business of these internet titans, juice their estimates to make them more attractive.
by FabHK | 2025-12-08 16:58:26+00:00
Agree. Blockchain is good for nothing but crypto (by virtue of the oracle problem, among others), and crypto is good for nothing but crime.

It's funny, people speak as if decentralisation was a good thing, but very few bother to explain why. Typically, if you dig into it, they cite advantages that you can already get from good old permissioned distributed tech. The only thing that decentralisation gets you (at enormous cost) is that it's harder to regulate.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-08 16:58:59+00:00
That’s not a technical problem - this kind of system can scale out just fine and has in other jurisdictions. SEPA is far from perfect, but is better than Bitcoin for everything but evading governments (justified or otherwise). We’ll see what Fednow looks like in a few years - the banks are definitely dragging their feet and it’s hard to tell what the UX will look like in the end.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-08 16:59:22+00:00
> "My theory is that Buffett is hoping for one last large crash before he retires so he can go shopping for distressed companies."

There was a video of a QA session with him recently where he was asked something like that and he answered (paraphrased) "we are keeping cash so that we can buy cheap things when they come up. Some people think I'm waiting so Greg Abel(?) can have a nice opportunity when he takes over, but I'm not that nice, if I see something I will buy it". And reiterated the commonly stated idea that Charlie Munger thought they'd have done better if they only ever made ~5 carefully chosen investments in the lifetime of the company, and that investing too freely, quickly, often, was a bad idea.

I think that leaves a difficult situation for the next CEO, people are going to expect them to do something and probably the best thing they can do is as much nothing as possible, reading, watching and waiting. Without Buffet and Munger's history of that it might be hard to defend.
by neilv | 2025-12-08 16:59:44+00:00
I used to use this on a CD-ROM, for SSH-ing into my personal server to check email (from work or SO's place), when I didn't have a laptop or handheld with me. USB flash drives often didn't boot by default on PC hardware, but CD-ROMs did.

Later, I made an immutable "Swiss Army knife" USB stick distro called LilDeb, based on Debian Live. And literally carried it on a Swiss Army pocketknife on my keychain. LilDeb was implemented in two big shell scripts, which you can still see at: https://www.neilvandyke.org/lildeb/
by Avalaxy | 2025-12-08 16:59:44+00:00
I spent 2014 to 2016 working on crypto. I built crypto apps for a lot of companies, including some that are very very big now. Back then, I really believed in crypto. But after the Xth crypto bubble popping, I gave up. So much time had passed, and nothing was changing (for the better). Banks were NEVER going to adopt this (at least not any blockchain that the general public can profit from) and it would NOT dramatically transform the financial system the way I thought.

I had a ton of bitcoins and ethereum. I even bought ethereum in the presale. Present day value would have been around 5 million euros. But I sold it all back then, because I saw that crypto was never going to make a significant impact.

It turned out, I was right. Most of the bitcoin ATMs disappeared, most webshops stopped accepting it, it plays almost no role at all in the financial world. But I overlooked one major factor: the value of these cryptos isn't based on anything else than thin air. People are willing to pump anything as long as they can personally profit from it. And yes, the famous saying applies here: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. I saw the fundamentals correctly, but the sentiment wrong.
by yannyu | 2025-12-08 17:00:15+00:00
I agree 100%. Most people haven't actually interacted directly with an LLM before. Most people's experience with LLMs is ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or any of the other tools that automatically handle context, memory, personality, temperature, and are deliberately engineered to have the tool communicate like a human. There is a ton of very deterministic programming that happens between you and the LLM itself to create this experience, and much of the time when people are talking about the ineffable intelligence of chatbots, it's because of the illusion created by this scaffolding.
by S_Bear | 2025-12-08 17:00:33+00:00
When I was starting in retail, I had several notebooks I made of conversational flowcharts. They helped a lot back when I was in my late teens, and, along with some improv training, I can put on a pretty convincing performance now (my customer service skills are top notch). The only problem I have is when people veer too far off of my training.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-08 17:00:35+00:00
The point is that there is nothing magical or inherently virtuous about democracy. It's always been the best of a bad lot of alternatives, but that was before social media made it possible for bad-faith actors to exploit it so effectively.

Giving stupid people the same political power as everyone else has always been a bad idea, and now it amounts to a suicide pact.