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by moribvndvs | 2025-12-10 17:04:45+00:00
> That you'd give up so easily when your voice, presence, and vote, matters most.

There have been concerted efforts over the last couple decades (arguably much longer) to erode these things; gerrymandering, voter roll purges, eliminating/restricting polling locations and absentee voting, corporations and wealthy individuals have basically unlimited spend on electioneering and lobbying giving them a disproportionate voice, a worsening state of effectively dysfunctional/maligned politicians, corporate censorship, so on and so forth. In my state, a majority passed two state constitutional amendments and the establishment (gerrymandered) politicians didn't like that, spending the past couple of years rules lawyering, delaying, etc. to try to subvert the will of the people. Hell, they ignored multiple state supreme court orders on top of voter’s wishes.

Anyways, my point being that wanting to leave a country with increasing social, economic, and political troubles isn’t entitlement, anymore than you were entitled for immigrating to the US.

Personally, I agree that I’d rather stay and fight, not that I really can afford to do otherwise, yet I understand people frustrated about the notable decline we have seen in our lifetimes and worried about the knife’s edge we find ourselves upon regarding tyranny and authoritarianism.
by kevstev | 2025-12-10 17:05:33+00:00
What do you mean by a worse time? The advantages are substantial- No oil changes ever again, performance that is on par with high end sports cars, less moving parts which should lead to higher reliability, in my state you don't even need to do an annual inspection. Those types of unexpected appointments are what really aggravate me when they are unexpectedly needed and eat up weekend time.

Depending on your commute length, you may be able to just use your regular plug to top up over night. Infra upgrades to support the future are unfortunate, but it should be a one and done kind of thing. It was probably time to update the panel and get 200 Amp service- you will recoup a portion of that if you ever sell the house.

The best part is batteries get signficantly (for some values of signficant) cheaper and better each year. Gen 1 Nissan Leaf owners can now actually replace their batteries for about 1/5th the initial pack cost and increase their range.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-10 17:05:33+00:00
The weird mini rabbit hole of Cheat Engine's "source (somewhat) available" status is pretty interesting one. The issue linked in this article has been deleted, but thankfully was picked up by the wayback machine, where it appears the owner of the project doesn't really know what they want with regards to how other people can actually use their code (not to mention the fact that the project is definitely violating their dependencies' GPLs.
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-10 17:05:49+00:00
The only class I've ever failed was a c++ class where the instructor was so terrible at explaining the tasks that I literally could not figure out what he wanted.

I had to retake it with the same instructor but by some luck I was able to take it online, where I would spend the majority of the time trying to decipher what he was asking me to do.

Ultimately I found that the actual ask was being given as a 3 second aside in a 50 minute lecture. Once I figured out his quirk I was able to isolate the ask and code it up, ended with an A+ in the class on the second take.

I would like to say that I learned a lot about programming from that teacher, but what I actually learned is what you're saying.

Smart, educated, capable people are broken when it comes to clearly communicating their needs to other people just slightly outside of their domain. If you can learn the skill of figuring out what the hell they're asking for and delivering that, that one skill will be more valuable to you in your career than competency itself.
by graemep | 2025-12-10 17:05:52+00:00
> Why do you feel the need to "debunk" my comment

Because its wrong. Look at the graph. it shows some years of decline (Covid and the 2008 financial crisis) but overall there has been growth over the long term.

If you are now claiming "growth has been too low" I agree that the UK's economy, like other western European economies, has been stagnant with only 7% growth over the last decade.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-12-10 17:06:17+00:00
> but I do feel that most jobs aren't particularly meaningful, and so they act as a pacifier that fills in our time

For like 99% of people, work exists so they can buy a food and a roof over their head.

> the question of: what do we do with our time?

I've got a growing Steam library of games that I've bought but haven't gotten around to playing.

It always surprises me when people complain about being bored after retirement. If you've got disabilities or fading health so don't have the energy or ability to do the things you want, that's understandable. But I'll never understand the people that are able-bodied yet get bored only months into retirement. I just think...what did you do during your free time before you retired? Just stare at the TV?
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-10 17:06:36+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing_in_New_York...

> In June 2025, revenue from the congestion toll was used to increase service on more than a dozen bus lines citywide… In October 2025, the MTA sold $230 million worth of bonds to help fund the first projects that were being partially financed using congestion-toll revenue.
by antonymoose | 2025-12-10 17:06:37+00:00
As others have suggested, you have a narrowly scoped view of the world and the use of McDonalds in it. While my city slicking McDonalds trips are usually not great, for many it’s actually very good.

Photographer and author Chris Arnade has written fairly extensively of his travels around the “forgotten” parts of America, which frequently lands him in McDonald’s stores that do serve as a community third-space, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-c...
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-10 17:06:48+00:00
In the house I lived it was not debunked. It was fact. The caltrain blasted it's horn hourly (or more) 24/7 within earshot of my house. I could not sleep with my window open and often slept with ear plugs even with the window closed. I get you might be tempted to spout generic statistics, but I can tell you without a doubt it was ear blistering loud up close, and sleep disturbing even 2 blocks away.

Also for what it's worth you have no idea if it's good or bad faith.
by Festro | 2025-12-10 17:07:04+00:00
Copilot is basically just whitelabelled ChatGPT. It's a big ask for people to use it over the source system.

ChatGPT gets the headlines, is seen as an innovator, and costs less.

Copilot offers what? A physical button on a Windows keyboard, OS integration when we're in our browsers 24/7 and Atlas exists?

My main gripe is that if Copilot has any value MS do a piss-poor job of promoting it. I can see AI functions in MS365 being useful, I can see MS-related headaches being solvable quicker with an AI buddy nudging me along to a resolution. But their press releases and and demos, if they exist, do not compete with OpenAI's, Google's, hell Deepseek gets more coverage.

MS might as well give up and pursue integration and compatibility with the rest of the ecosystem. I know they won't though, they'll cut costs and still shove Copilot down our throats with feature creep and useless opt-out bulk.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-10 17:07:28+00:00
Not trying to make a value judgement on Rust either, just brainstorming why Rust changeover might go slow per the question.

FWIW I work in firmware with the heap turned off. I’ve worked on projects in both C and Rust, and agree Rust still adds useful checks (at the cost of compile times and binary sizes). It seems worth the trade off for most projects.
by graemep | 2025-12-10 17:07:41+00:00
> the reality is not so simple if that means taking a massive hit on 41% of our exports

Is it actually 41%? Is it a massive hit? What is the economic impact of small trade frictions on a declining proportion of exports. The main reason for the decline is not Brexit, it is that the EU is a declining proportion of the world economy because Europe is the slowest growing region of the world.

> This is the whole Brexit story.

No, it really is not. Similar economies in the EU are doing about as badly as the UK so you cannot blame Brexit

> So at best economic growth barely exceeds population growth but overall it's flat to down.

One of the replies to my comment links to a graph at constant currency and is shows low growth so you might stretch to flat/stagnant, but definitely not down.
by SolomonLijo | 2025-12-10 17:07:49+00:00
Got something pretty cool to share w/ y'all today - we're launching Bublr, yet again! (~12:00AM PT, December 11th)

Check it out @ https://dub.sh/blaunch

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedbacks and would appreciate a ton, for any support, on today's launch <3
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-10 17:07:53+00:00
This was famously the view of Social Darwinists. Herbert Spencer, for example, argued that nature should eliminate the weak. He said: "If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die."

The most notorious case was probably Dr. Harry Haiselden, who refused surgery for some newborns with severe defects because letting them die was good for the species.

But, again, this is a philosophical/ethical argument. I believe that, in general, if people don't want to die, we should help them not die. I get that utilitarians are uncomfortable with that, but that's why I'm not a utilitarian.
by menaerus | 2025-12-10 17:07:57+00:00
What am I exactly doing again? I am providing my reasoning, sorry if that itches you the wrong way. I guess you don't have to agree but let me express my view, ok? My view is not extremist or polarized as you see. I see the benefit of Rust but I say the benefit is not what Internet cargo-cult programming suggests. There's always a price to be paid, and in case of kernel development I think it outweighs the positive sides.

If I spend 90% of time debugging freaking difficult to debug issues, and Rust solves the other 10% for me, then I don't see it as a good bargain. I need to learn a completely new language, surround myself with a team which is also not hesitant to learn it, and all that under assumption that it won't make some other aspects of development worse. And for surely it will.
by bluGill | 2025-12-10 17:08:25+00:00
Rail transit in the north east is the best in the US. But it is terrible in many ways. As someone who lives in an area that would be marginal for rail even in the great rail countries of Europe of Asia I really need the north east to develop great rail - only by bringing great rail to places where it is easy can we possibly get it good enough that it would be worth bringing to me. Instead I just get examples of why we shouldn't bother with transit at all here: when all we can see is the stupid things New York is constantly doing to transit (where the density is so high they can get by with it) there isn't an example I can point to of that would be worth doing here.
by prewett | 2025-12-10 17:08:55+00:00
Blaming academia is misguided, and "drive change" has never been in their job description until Progressivism took hold. The problem is each one of us: we want to numb out more than we want to do something hard. The problem is also philosophical/religious: we have collectively decided that virtue is following our animal desires (what makes you happy), which is the opposite of historical virtue. I think this can be traced back to the prevailing nominalist utilitarian view: matter is just what we make of it, and since there is nothing higher than matter, the only ethic is greatest happiness. So now, as a society, we do not really have any way to articulate the problem we intuitively feel, because the problem is that our underlying philosophy does not work, but we have even forgotten (societally) the other philosophy that has historically worked, so we cannot easily get back. I think this accounts for the interest in Stocism and traditional Christianity (especially Eastern Orthodoxy), since both unequivocally say that being enslaved to your passions (animal desires) is not the good life.
by baxtr | 2025-12-10 17:09:02+00:00
If you’re interested to read something on that topic I highly recommend the essay "That's About the Size of It" by Isaac Asimov (in his book "View from a Height").

He argues that human perception of animal size is skewed because humans use themselves as a benchmark.

He takes a logarithmic approach to illustrate where humans actually fit within the overall scale of the animal kingdom. We are way larger than we think we are!
by transpute | 2025-12-10 17:09:13+00:00
Cobalt + Liquid-Rust + iSH enables offline writing with iPad portability, lockdown mode security and battery life, retaining interoperability with Linux static publishing toolchains. No jailbreaks or sideloading required.

Due to lack of JIT on iOS, Jekyll is too slow to run on iSH. Liquid-Rust (https://github.com/cobalt-org/liquid-rust) templates, even with partial compatibility for the Ruby-based Liquid template engine, reduce the cost of migrating from the Jekyll Ruby static site generator used by Github Pages.

On Debian x86, build a cobalt static binary for use on iSH (Alpine Linux /w musl libc) on iPadOS:

sudo apt install rustup build-essential rustup target add i586-unknown-linux-musl git clone https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs cd cobalt.rs cargo build --release --target i586-unknown-linux-musl cp target/i586-unknown-linux-musl/release/cobalt /mnt/usb

Copy cobalt static binary to iSH filesystem via iOS Files app, execute and view http://localhost:NNNN with a web browser:

./cobalt --no-watch --host 0.0.0.0 --port NNNN
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 17:09:38+00:00
> when you decommission historical arteries

There are no highway arteries running through the congestion zone. Building one would require hundreds of billions of dollars of eminent domain.

Manhattan has a $1tn GDP [1], on par with Switzerlad [2]. Its economy is larger than all but 6 states (between Pennsylvaia and Ohio) [3]. More than all of New Jersey. If it crossed the pond it would be the fifth-largest member of the EU, between the Netherlands and Poland [4].

It's a tremendously productive jewel that towers–literally–over the economies of its neighbors. Sacrificing Manhattan to save a few bucks on a trucker who doesn't want to take a highway through the Bronx is absolutely mental from a social, economic and environmental perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City $939bn in 2023

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
by lkbm | 2025-12-10 17:09:44+00:00
You likely don't need to install a special charger or breaker panel. A regular 120V wall outlet will give probably give you 30+ miles of range just charging overnight. If your commute is longer, you might want a better charger, but don't let someone upsell you on a high-speed charger if your average daily travel is under 30mi and 90%ile under 100mi.
by eamonnsullivan | 2025-12-10 17:09:55+00:00
This was my second attempt to get email working on Emacs and I gave up the first time, too. I persisted this time and I _think_ it will pay off. There is the obvious danger of this becoming another "project", but I'll make a note to check-in again in six months. It's an experiment!

I've not seen the other things you mentioned. I only check for email every 10 minutes, but opening and (especially) searching for emails seem much faster than doing it in Gmail. Plus, I can do searches across email accounts, like all unreads across all three accounts. That was definitely slower in the online clients.

Finally, there's a quick ('a' then 'v') way to just open a message in a browser if the HTML is too thick.
by ixtli | 2025-12-10 17:10:20+00:00
I understand what you're saying but after 100 years of uninhibited car-centric design i think its reasonable for those of us who live here to want to prioritize the experience of people who live and work in manhattan, south bronx, and west queens and brooklyn. if people want to commute from places surrounding the city in a more efficient fashion i think its reasonable for them to redress that with the local or state governments instead of using nyc infrastructure for free in a way that inhibits community growth here.
by codedokode | 2025-12-10 17:10:41+00:00
Sanctions just slightly increase the cost of obtaining an item, but don't make it impossible. Electronic components can be bought, oil can be sold, ChatGPT can be used via OpenRouter, sanctioned banks publish their apps under guise into App Store, etc. When there are 200 countries in the world, and money involved, you can get anything.

Sanctioned goods could be used to spread propaganda though, imagine, for example, if installing a NVIDIA GPU driver required answering questions about Tiananmen square incident.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-12-10 17:10:43+00:00
IMHO it's not lifeless. It's just not overly emotional. I definitely prefer it that way. I do not want the AI to be excited. It feels so contrived.

On the video itself: Interesting, but "ideal" was pronounced wrong in German. For a promotional video, they should have checked that with native speakers. On the other hand its at least honest.
by strbean | 2025-12-10 17:11:16+00:00
Strong disagree. I play a lot of casual CS, and the number of extremely poor / new / young players using rudimentary cheats and performing far below average is huge. Most players don't watchfully spectate the bottom fraggers in the lobby, but if you do, the number of them brazenly using wallhacks is quite high.

These players aren't using aimbot / triggerbot (or if they are, they don't understand the gunplay and try to shoot while running), and may not even understand wall penetration, so their reaction times wouldn't look abnormal at all. From the data, they would likely have below average reaction times still.

Even though they are not performing well, their presence still massively alters the gameplay for legitimate players. For one, lurking becomes a pointless endeavor. You're better off rushing wildly than attempting any sort of stealth.
by olegkozlov | 2025-12-10 17:11:43+00:00
LLM agents stop being “just chatbots” the moment they start using MCP tools. But once you wire in multiple MCP servers into your workflow - MCP tools are quietly burning tokens and margin.

Here is a deep dive on the latest techniques from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI that help to get back a significant portion of LLM input context when working with MCP tools
by cratermoon | 2025-12-10 17:12:00+00:00
Is it too off-topic or controversial to note that in January 1941 in an edict signed by Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler, the Nazis called for a ban on the future use of Judenlettern (Jewish fonts) like Fraktur?

<https://web.archive.org/web/20151207071605/http://historywei...>
by anima-core | 2025-12-10 17:12:19+00:00
That's not how the method works... The full transformer is only needed once to extract the activation fields. That step can even be done offline. Then the teacher can be discarded entirely. The compression result refers to the size of the learned field representation and the small student head that operates directly on it. Simple. No fake claim there. Inference with the student does not involve the transformer at all.

If you look at the student-only scripts in the repo, those runs never load the teacher. That's the novel part.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-10 17:13:32+00:00
People constantly amazed that a machine can outperform a 24 year old charging $250/hour. Especially when the 24 year old seems incapable of calculating compound interest on their student loan deferrals. Surely this 24 year old who cannot use a formula 14 year old can will have wisdom to share. Iona Potapov talks to horse, modern man talks to machine, man with more money than sense talks to young graduate with no life experience about his struggles. All do equally well: 4 on LLM benchmark for mental health.
by davydm | 2025-12-10 17:13:53+00:00
"get ready for a wave of anti-AI populism"

buddy.

buddy.

it's long been here, and not just for the power-draw, but also for the absolute grifter garbage that it is - promises from the creators because they desperately need to recoup several countries' worth of gdp, and it doesn't really improve - we still have to reject the shit code, recovering meth addicts are still instructed to "treat themselves to a little meth", people are encouraged to kill themselves, fake news and bullshit aigen video and images made not for fun but to deceive - all of these issues and more are why current ai is really just an over-expensive toy that can't be trusted to be reliable in any way, but is sold as cognition to the silly sheep that keep believing the hype.

I personally can't wait for the bubble to pop. There are uses for "ai" as it is now, but most of those uses are not what it's being sold as being good at (no, sorry, your aigen code is still a greasy butt snickers), and the few arenas where it actually is kinda useful (eg in entertainment) it's either used for nefarious means ("entertainment by deception to get the numbers") or it's rejected by the users anyway (see recent "ai in games" stories).
by didibus | 2025-12-10 17:13:58+00:00
> Why would you think its more complex?

Binary code takes more space, and both training and inference is highly capped by memory and context sizes.

Models tokenize to a limited set of tokens, and then learn relations between those. I can't say for sure, but I feel it be more challenging to find tokenization schemes for binary code and learn their relationships.

The model needs to first learn human language really well, because it has to understand the prompt and map it accurately to the binary code. That means the corpus will need to include a lot of human languages that it learns and also binary code, I wonder if the fact they differ so much would conflict the learning.

I think coming up with a corpus of mapped human language to binary code will be really challenging. Unless we can include the original code's comments at appropriate places around the binary code and so on.

Binary code is machine dependent, so it would result in programs that aren't portable between architecture and operating system and so on. The model would need to learn more than one binary code and be able to accurately generate the same program for different target platforms and OS.

> Who said that creating bits efficiently from English to be computed by CPUs or GPUs must be done with transformer architecture?

We've never had any other method ever do as well and by a magnitude. We may invent a whole new way in the future, but as of now, it's the absolute best method we've ever figured out.

> The AI model architecture is not the focus of the discussion. It is the possibilities of how it can look like if we ask for some computation, and that computation appears without all the middle-men layers we have right now, English->Model->Computation, not English->Model->DSL->Compiler->Linker->Computation.

Each layer simplifies the task of the layer above. These aren't like business layer that take a cut of the value out at each level, software layers remove complexity from the layers above.

I don't know why we wouldn't be talking about AI models? Isn't the topic that it may be more optimal for an AI model to be trained on binary code directly and to generate binary code directly? At least it's what I was talking about.

So if I stick to AI models. With LLMs and image/video diffusion and such, we've already observed that inference through smaller steps and chains of inference work way better. Based on that, I feel it's likely going from human language to binary code in a single hop to also work worse.