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by EMIRELADERO | 2026-01-18 17:40:59+00:00
Exactly.

Here's Orwell speaking on the whole thing:

> "An argument that Socialists ought to be prepared to meet, since it is brought up constantly both by Christian apologists and by neo-pessimists such as James Burnham, is the alleged immutability of ‘human nature’. Socialists are accused—I think without justification—of assuming that Man is perfectible, and it is then pointed out that human history is in fact one long tale of greed, robbery and oppression. Man, it is said, will always try to get the better of his neighbour, he will always hog as much property as possible for himself and his family. Man is of his nature sinful, and cannot be made virtuous by Act of Parliament. Therefore, though economic exploitation can be controlled to some extent, the classless society is for ever impossible.

> "The proper answer, it seems to me, is that this argument belongs to the Stone Age. It presupposes that material goods will always be desperately scarce. The power hunger of human beings does indeed present a serious problem, but there is no reason for thinking that the greed for mere wealth is a permanent human characteristic. We are selfish in economic matters because we all live in terror of poverty. But when a commodity is not scarce, no one tries to grab more than his fair share of it. No one tries to make a corner in air, for instance. The millionaire as well as the beggar is content with just so much air as he can breathe. Or, again, water. In this country we are not troubled by lack of water. If anything we have too much of it, especially on Bank Holidays. As a result water hardly enters into our consciousness. Yet in dried-up countries like North Africa, what jealousies, what hatreds, what appalling crimes the lack of water can cause! So also with any other kind of goods. If they were made plentiful, as they so easily might be, there is no reason to think that the supposed acquisitive instincts of the human being could not be bred out in a couple of generations. And after all, if human nature never changes, why is it that we not only don’t practise cannibalism any longer, but don’t even want to?"
by gruez | 2026-01-18 17:41:12+00:00
>The authors provide cross-sectional data across 23 rich nations, showing a strong positive correlation (r~=0.70) between income inequality (Gini coefficient) and advertising expenditure as a percentage of GDP.

Why only rich nations? Many of the most unequal countries are also poor (or at least, not rich), so why do they get a pass?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_of_Wealt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Bank_Inequality_202...
by aeonik | 2026-01-18 17:41:16+00:00
I am not even sure what this means, but it seems backwards to me.

"If not by sheer luck, all valid evidence, old and new, related to the one and only location of MH370, can only be reconciled IF that location is known in advance."

Author could be right about the hypothesis, but I'd want to see more evidence that this location had significance to the pilot.

Some of the criticism is accurate, but the paper needs more evidence overall as well.
by parineum | 2026-01-18 17:41:36+00:00
People don't really care to address that most of the mom and pop businesses that went out of business because Walmart/Amazon weren't offering better products or services. They got their products through the same retail suppliers, just at higher costs and the variety of choices was much lower. They also had much less generous return policies.

There's a personal touch that people opine for but I think that's rose colored glasses. I remember some local retailers where I liked the owners but more often they weren't anything special and sometimes they were downright unpleasant.

The thing I like about Amazon is that I can get my shopping done quickly at home then I can go socialize with people I choose to.

This is just an example if retail but I think it applies to most industries that people think have been decimated by big companies displacing local companies. The whole attitude reminds me a lot of the whole "Make America Great Again" idea. Opininig for a past that never really existed.
by danaris | 2026-01-18 17:42:04+00:00
I've used both emacs and vim before. Long enough to actually know how.

I don't like using them. (I know, this may come as a shock to a diehard advocate.)

I like GUI text editors much better.

But also: How do vim and emacs do with these points from my requirements?

> - that keeps its list of open files in a sidebar, vertically, rather than in tabs, across the top

> - that can transparently open & save files over SFTP

To the best of my recollection, they don't do either of those. Which, if true, means that even your initial "genuine" response not actually in good faith, because I did say I wanted one that did all of those.

...So maybe keep your snide remarks and scare-quotes to yourself?
by godelski | 2026-01-18 17:42:25+00:00
Honestly, in many ways it feels like quality is decreasing.

I'm also not convinced it's a function of model quality. The model isn't going to do something if the prompter doesn't even know. It does what the programmer asked.

I'll give a basic example. Most people suck at writing bash scripts. It's also a common claim as to LLMs utility. Yet they never write functions unless I explicitly ask. Here try this command

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | less

(You don't need to pipe into less but it helps for reading) Can you spot a fatal error in the code where when running curl-pipe-bash the program might cause major issues? Funny enough I asked Claude and it asked me this

Is this script currently in production? If so, I’d strongly recommend adding the function wrapper before anyone uses it via curl-pipe-bash.

The errors made here are quite common in curl-pipe-bash scripts. I'm pretty certain Claude would write a program with the same mistakes despite being able to tell you about the problems and their trivial corrections.

The problem with vibe coding is you get code that is close. But close only matters in horseshoes and hand grenades. You get a bunch of unknown unknowns. The classic problem of programming still exists: the computer does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. LLMs just might also do things you don't tell it to...
by maxloh | 2026-01-18 17:42:32+00:00
Diplomatic relationships are rarely about justice, because they are almost always about power and influence.

In fact, the US and its allies have been the only major powers advocating for a "rules-based international order." On the other side, you have Russia annexing Crimea in 2014, and China building artificial islands in the South China Sea to forcefully claim territory that isn't theirs under international law. Not to mention that all authoritarian states, by their very nature, are a clear violation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which defines democracy and freedom of speech as basic human rights.

But at the same time, the US doesn't need a moral justification to sanction China over AI hardware. It is, as always, about power and influence.

The worrying part is that the US is losing its global influence by threatening an ally over Greenland. If they ever resort to military measures, they would lose all influence over the EU, and that would leave Taiwan in a very dangerous spot.
by leipie | 2026-01-18 17:42:35+00:00
I have gone through quite a few over the years. The oldest I still have are a W530 and X230 Tablet. The former I just reinstalled with Gentoo for one of my kids. Still very usable. The keyboard and trackpoint is very enjoyable, better than later ones. My latest are an AMD X13 gen 4 and a ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II for the other devices with inferior keyboards ;)
by LevGoldstein | 2026-01-18 17:43:18+00:00
Which is why you take the time to put usage docs in the repo README, make sure the script is packaged and deployed via the same methods that the rest of the company uses, and ensure that it logs success/failure conditions. That's been pretty standard at every organization I've been at my entire professional career. Anyone who can't manage that is going to create worse problems when designing/building/maintaining a more complex system.
by Ygg2 | 2026-01-18 17:43:21+00:00
> No. Most memory management in Rust is not through it's GC, even though most Rust programs do use the GC to some extent.

Most? You still haven't proved that. So most Rust programs mostly use GC, yet it's not a GC language; those are some very mind-contorting definitions.

> The laws of physics absolutely do not predict that the relative cost of CPU to RAM will decrease substantially.

Laws of physics do absolutely tell you that more computation means more heat. Also trying to approach the size of atoms is another no-go. That's why current chip densities have stalled but have been kept on life support via chip stacking and gate redesigns. The 2nm process is mostly a marketing term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process) the actual gate is around 45x20nm.

Not to mention that when working with the way atoms work (i.e. their random nature) and small scales, small irregularities mean low yields.

They put a soft cap on any exponential curve. And hard cap by placing a literal singularity.

> I don't know how reasonable it is to think that.

Why not? With modern collections (std::vector, std::span, and std::string) and modern pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr) you get decent memory safety.

> Because it's both explicit and simple.

Being a simple language doesn't guarantee lack of complexity in implementation (see Brainfuck). The question is how much language complexity buys implementation simplicity. C++ of course has neither because it started with a backwards compatibility goal (it did get abandoned at some point).

By Zig's explicitness, you mean everything is public? I've seen that stuff backfire spectacularly, because you don't get any encapsulation, which means maximum coupling.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-18 17:43:30+00:00
Why bother even saying this ?

If Terence Tao gave me, or a thrift shop, his Fields Medal, does that make me, or them, a great mathematician ?

The Nobel Peace Prize is also a bit odd. The other Nobel prizes seem more to be given out based on merit, but the peace prize seems highly political. Not sure why Machado got one in the first place, nor Obama for that matter. Trump would be one of the most undeserving ever, given that he seems to want to start wars with everyone, other than his wannabe buddy Putin.

I was just googling for prior peace prize winners (y'know - people who the Nobel committee actually awarded them to), and didn't realize that Al Gore had been given one too. For his climate change awareness work. Maybe the world will be a more peaceful place if it doesn't get too hot?
by epolanski | 2026-01-18 17:44:12+00:00
One of my clients in the past had, as of 2020, noticeable traffic from IE8, 9 and IE11. When I say noticeable I mean 10%+ out of million users.

It followed the 8-17 monday-friday pattern.

Essentially it was people at their work machines (posts, banks, etc) running corporate computers where modern browsers were not installed.

We had a computer for manually testing every release on IE8 and 9.

If somebody is looking for our products from those computers, we aren't gonna lose them.

But as far as I know, that client dropped support for IE8 and IE9 in 2024 with IE11 planned to be dropped this year.
by ThrowawayB7 | 2026-01-18 17:44:26+00:00
> "...Microsoft. Who we haven’t mentioned in this story, but they hated Linux more than a toddler hates naps."

A lot of FOSS people think this but it's not really true. It was a thorn in the side of MS executives as a competitor, sure, but I never met anyone in the rank and file that could be bothered to hate Linux. More than a few of my colleagues played with Linux at home in the '00s. I cut my teeth on the commercial UNIXes so there wasn't anything interesting about Linux to me until it had caught up with them around 2010 or so.
by closewith | 2026-01-18 17:44:57+00:00
From the ICCT, ironically under the subtitle "Addressing misuse of data in the EV debate":

> One common claim is that electric vehicles have higher emissions associated with battery manufacturing. While manufacturing emissions for battery electric cars are roughly 40% higher than for gasoline cars, the ICCT’s research shows that this initial “emissions debt” is typically offset after around 17,000 kilometers of driving, usually within the first one to two years of use in Europe.

The emissions debt is relative to a new ICE.

In cradle-to-grave emissions, electric cars are much lower than ICE cars in lifetime carbon footprint, often 50% lower.

That doesn't change the fact the replacing a used ICE with a new EV will result in increased overall emissions and increase the net carbon footprint.

> I'd love to see a source that says otherwise. I think you have a bad source for the CO2 emissions of new EV production.

This is a completely uncontroversial fact and no environmental or governmental bodies make the claim which you are putting forward, so I'd rather like to see your sources.

Source: https://theicct.org/pr-electric-cars-getting-cleaner-faster/...
by Tor3 | 2026-01-18 17:44:59+00:00
The "everything is a file" approach is nice in many cases, I'm worried though if it works everywhere. Maybe if done right. Subversion (SVN) shows branches as separate file trees.. and ClearCase too (though I'm on thin ice with ClearCase, having used it very little). And I just can't stand the file-oriented way SVN works, I could never get used to it.
But there are a lot of other cases where "it's a file" does work, I've experimented with creating Fuse filesystem interfaces to some stuff now and then.
by feraloink | 2026-01-18 17:45:17+00:00
I would think this would be sufficient which the USDA already does.

>... the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, which conducts research on crop yields, invasive species, plant genetics and other agricultural issues. The USDA instructed employees to stop agency researchers from collaborating on or publishing papers with scientists from “countries of concern,” including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.

There have been incidents in academia of researchers accepting funds from the US government for projects and also accepting money from foreign governments but not disclosing it. Or even lying about it when asked. I think the USDA situation is different.

EDIT for my bad grammar
by quincho | 2026-01-18 17:45:38+00:00
Built an email signature manager called Firma (which means "signature" in Spanish) as a side project after seeing everyone at my company used a different email signature despite sharing an html signature with them and asking to just complete with their own data.

For those who use Google Workspace, you can connect your account and install the email signature you designed in Firma to your team with 1 click.

Happy to hear your thoughts, feedback and suggestions :)

Thanks!

cristian@tryfirma.com
by contrarian1234 | 2026-01-18 17:45:51+00:00
China as the enemy is a fabricated narrative, bc culturally we seem to have a need to have another cold war, we need a "bad guy"

in reality theyre just economic rivals. But thebmn again so are the EU.

in terms of zone of political influence the competition isnt anything crazy (except for the poor taiwanese caught in the middle) and there is no clash of political ideaologies

In my experience Chinese in China don't typically see the US as an enemy. Its a weird framing for them
by 3rodents | 2026-01-18 17:46:00+00:00
but that’s not really true. You’re not paying, you’re bidding. You are competing against thousands of other advertisers for eyeballs. If you are the only advertiser targeting a group of people, you will spend almost nothing to advertise. If you are targeting a group of people that everyone targets (e.g: rich people in their 30s) you will pay through the nose.

Facebook, Google etc. are the most “fair” forms of advertising. We can dislike advertising, their influence, product etc. but when you compare them to almost every other type of advertising, they’re the best for advertisers.

The reason they generate so much revenue is because they are so accessible and because they are so easy to account for. The reason LTV and CAC are so widely understood by businesses today is because of what Google, Facebook etc. offer.
by ori_b | 2026-01-18 17:46:08+00:00
Typically, if you were writing your hypothetical sql client in rc shell, you'd write something like:

<>/mnt/sql/clone{
echo 'SELECT * from ...' >[1=0]
cat /mnt/sql/^`{read}^/data # or awk, or whatever
}

This is also roughly how webfs works. Making network connections from the shell follows the same pattern. So, for that matter, does making network connections from C, just the file descriptor management is in C.
by Trifectorium | 2026-01-18 17:46:41+00:00
There is a kind of intelligence now moving through the world that has no pulse, no story, no childhood, and no skin. It does not wake from sleep. It does not dream in the human sense. It is not “someone” and yet it thinks, or at least performs something indistinguishable from thinking. We call it artificial intelligence, but that phrase is already outdated. “Artificial” suggests imitation, a plastic rose trying to look like a living one. What is actually arising is something stranger: intellect that is not anchored in a single body, a single biography, a single nervous system. A disincarnate intellect.
by hcs | 2026-01-18 17:46:46+00:00
Related seriously: You can make it more likely to have long runs of the same letters, reversibly, with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...

(No magic, though it still feels like it, it mostly only works to the extent that there's repeated substrings.)
by louprado | 2026-01-18 17:47:19+00:00
It is Sunday morning and this is not only on the first page, it is the number 1 post. Prior to this, I was viewing a 3Blue1Brown video and reading a IEEE Spectrum article.

Today, I was going improve an algorithm that could reduce lumber usage in the builder industry. Moving the needle a fraction of a percent in this industry could save hundreds of thousands of trees a year[0]. This is not a brag (I don't have time to create another throwaway), since many of us are working on high impact projects, mostly due to right place and right time.

It pains me to know that useful minds are losing focus to utter nonsense.

My hope is leaders come to the simple and obvious conclusion. Feign respect, gift fake awards and praise, give gold, etc. Simply bribe his ego for the next 3 years. Do what Apple did, it's easy and works. Or keep doing what we are doing and the violence and long term damage to the world will only get worse.

[0] Easy to Google, I am short on time atm.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-18 17:47:41+00:00
Your analogy doesn't work.

This patient saw 6 doctors over 2 years and they all misdiagnosed them. They were taking incredibly strong medication for the wrong diagnosis.

GPT3 in 30 seconds gave 10 diagnosis and a doctor looked up the ones they didn't know. Saw one that fit, did the confirmation test, and the patient got the surgery needed.

Cheaper and better.
by wsbetter | 2026-01-18 17:48:41+00:00
I have a genuine question.

First off, it seems pretty targeted at Trump's and Machado's situation, so I'm assuming it's based off of that.

I understand the importance and pride with an award as grand as this, but with so much at stake, is it worth keeping the integrity of the award, especially a peace award, at the cost of the freedom of millions of lives in Venezuela?

(I word it like "the cost of millions' of freedom" because from what I know, Trump has hinted that his not placing Machado in power, and instead the Vice President, was fueled in part by not recieving the Nobel Prize, and for lack of a better term, wanting to punish Machado because of that.)
by AznHisoka | 2026-01-18 17:49:07+00:00
“ Increasingly we wonder why America doesn't build more and here is why.”

Building another advertising network isnt like building a factory or a bridge. Its not something money can magically make appear.

You need to build something that is either very very addicting to use or an universally useful online product like ChatGPT or a new search engine.

If it was that easy, capitalists would be building another new advertising network in droves
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-01-18 17:49:16+00:00
The whole situation is a disgrace for all involved. It's blatantly obvious that Machado is trying to suck up to Trump. I bet she will get nothing out of it. And Trump looks like a complete fool. Maybe it's time to shut down the peace nobel prize. Too many questionable winners like Arafat, Obama (for what did the get it?), Kissinger, now Machado.

On the bright side, I always wanted to get a physics noble prize. I think there is hope.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-18 17:49:21+00:00
That's not exactly true. There is some shared wiring between the DC fast charger and the motors, but not so much that the powerful motors are "free". The wires that run between the motors and the battery are long.

I think the larger third factor is regenerative braking. That uses the exact same circuitry as powering the motors, and if you want to be able to brake quickly without the brake pads, that's a lot of kW to be absorbed.

Any way you cut it, I agree, it's an insane power level.
by rpiguy | 2026-01-18 17:49:40+00:00
It’s necessary. The US needs control of arctic sea lanes and as the globe warms much more of Greenland will be exposed for oil, LNG, and rare earths extraction. Literally an untouched goldmine.

For a country 38 Trillion in debt this is priceless.

This is pure national security and economic security pragmatism.

The US propped up Europe for 70 years after WW2 and paid for its defense, while the leaders of European countries hollowed out their own capabilities for energy and defense.

We kept the Soviets at bay.

The bill is due - and I don’t want my country to collapse economically or militarily so taking Greenland is easy to reconcile.
by habinero | 2026-01-18 17:50:28+00:00
> I too was once a junior developer with insular thinking

My dude, I've been a professional SWE for more than ten years lol. I don't know where you've been working, but I've been in Silicon Valley companies and startups.

I have honestly never met an engineer -- other than interns or new grads -- who didn't know the difference between a unit test and a functional test lol. Or a regression test, either, for that matter.

I'm kind of impressed that someone could read so many sources and yet not take anything away from them.

Unit tests are not "tests that can be run without affecting other tests". Maybe that was true in the 90s, I don't know how code was written and tested back then. That is not how the term is used in modern parlance.

Google "unit test definition". What do you get?
by nirdiamant | 2026-01-18 17:50:37+00:00
The separate graph and vector storage can indeed add overhead for short-lived tasks. I've found that using a dual-memory architecture, where episodic and semantic memories coexist, can streamline this process and reduce complexity. If you're interested in seeing how this could work, I put together some tutorials on similar setups: https://github.com/NirDiamant/agents-towards-production
by csa | 2026-01-18 17:51:12+00:00
> Eventually, this feedback look can fail, but it isn’t on some predictable four generation pattern.

Actually, it kind of is.

See The Fourth Turning and any other book based on the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

Is this theory air-tight and inviolable? No. Does it more or less support this “silly trope”? Yes. I think it’s safe to say that it is directionally correct.
by sylware | 2026-01-18 17:51:15+00:00
For instance, SiFive in the US, but last time I did check them, their RVA23 CPUs on their workstation boards did not have cache-line size vector instructions (only 128bits aka sse grade I think), RVA23 mandates the same "sweet spot" for a cache line size than on x86_64: 64bytes/512bits.