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> Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy, exports propaganda and fentanyl and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball doesn't seem to be working anymore.

You are confusing political campaigns with reality. In the real world, moving a large mass takes force, direction, effort and time. He has been in office THREE WEEKS. It is irrational and nonsensical to expect the entire world and the direction of rotation of the planet to change overnight.

Let's put it in different terms: The last four years set the US back so far that we might not understand how much damage was done for many years. It was terrible. If we don't focus our collective energies on entrepreneurship, efficiency, progress and an industrial renaissance, things are going to be unimaginably bad in a decade or a few.

Put differently yet: Nothing done in the last few years plotted a path towards better results. That needs to change and it needs to change immediately. We have dug such a hole that the only way to do it now is to be uncomfortably aggressive about all of it.

Again, to use the business analogy, anyone who has come into a failing or troubled business fully understands what needs to happen. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but it is the only way. That's where we are now.

If $36 trillion, a multi-trillion dollar annual deficit and a decimation of industries and industrial capacity isn't enough to get everyone on the same page...

How much?

Where is that threshold?

At what point does everyone say "Yeah, we have to fix this"?

As someone involved in manufacturing for four decades, I can tell you that moment should have happened at least twenty years ago. I am done. I am not manufacturing shit in this country any more. Why? Because my governments during that time have proven so clueless and incompetent that there is no point in killing yourself swimming against those forces.

From my perspective, this moment is historical. Either we stop with the bullshit and get behind a solid national effort to survive, or we will all suffer for it.
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> "Oops, that broke for a few days" matters a lot more when the thing that breaks is, say, paying out money for social security.

That depends on your perspective. I'm sure there are people out there who think that since social security goes to people who aren't economically productive that it's not a thing that matters. I disagree with those people, but defining what matters is critical, and for Musk & co "what matters" is only anything that enriches Musk & co.
as a mathematician: its fine. the word "multiplicative" is just silent in the phrase.
Making milk and bread free for everyone != making milk and bread free for poor people by giving them SNAP.

The former is bad, for all the reasons I described. The latter is good!
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In this analogy, you're also asking permission from the IRB to ride a bike or skateboard.
Attributing the causes of observed vehicle incidents is a tough task. The Pinto clearly had a design flaw, but risk encompasses more causes than simply design. Vehicle models often target or appeal to certain subset of buyers and those buyers don't have evenly distributed driver risk.

The market that these vehicles appeals to almost certainly skews towards riskier than average, which will also be a contributing component of the observed risk.
NOO! Zimbabwe is the best **g place on earth. I had an incredible childhood and was beyond lucky to live there. The problems are horrendous and there are a lot of powerful evil people there but there are also wonderful people.

It's also gut-wrenchingly beautiful. When I leave I burst into tears.

In a way the emotion of it is just too much. It's easier not to visit and to stay numb.

When you look at how people act in the US now, I stopped feeling inferior. It's the same. Some people are just the ones who decide to kill the golden goose in hopes of getting 1 more egg for themselves. Some people are willing to ignore all the other signs and bend over for a politician who says the thing they want to hear.
I don't see the advantage of this over simply using kubernetes and the Kwasm Operator which adds WebAssembly support to Kubernetes nodes. No need for yet another flimsy later of abstraction.

Maybe after 5-10 years it will be mature enough to support many k8s features out of the box and can then replace k8s itself. But it is very far from that currently.
> people who don't put any time into studying

Degrees don’t mean that either.

I’ve been studying textbooks and papers on real time rendering techniques for the past 4 or so years.

I think one could learn something from listening to me explain rasterization or raytracing.

I have no degree in math or graphic computing.
How did the USDS have the power to recover FEMA money sent to NY? Just to think of a single headline in the past 24 hours.

Not to mention barring entry to members of congress in federal buildings.

Or to accessing secure infrastructure without passing a security check? Or following any number of security policies that have been developed by America.
That would require me to make an account, which requires providing you my email, and I am uninterested in doing either of those things.
Apple gives data to the United States government on over 70,000 user accounts per year without a warrant.

Anything Apple knows, the FBI can know, without probable cause.
It's not covering I up. The people that commented, including the one you quote are part of the project.
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A very useful list, thanks! I hope you'll keep updating it.

I guessed the date(s) indicated the tool's approximate period of active development, but apparently not ? Eg watchexec says "2016-2019" but had a major release a few days ago.

[Ah. Because this post is from 2019, and wasn't flagged as such on HN, and the list needs updating.]
Oh totally agree that would be the real-world outcome of using the data.

I was just thinking out loud what the theoretical benefits could be, if done 'properly' let's say.

Alternatively we could just avoid doing it at all! It's a horrible idea, absolutely.
Cmon don't be dense. It's called misandry. Mostly in the form of direct verbal abuse, unrealistic contradictory expectations, denial of being recognized as a victim of abuse and "damned if you, damned if you don't" situations that set you up for failure or as the aggressor no matter what you do.

It's kind of sad that it has come to this. It leaves very little room for men who want to have a positive impact on society.
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"limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used"

Driving is the 90% part of delivery. More powerful bike doesnt only mean faster top speed, it also accelerates much quicker letting you jump in front of everything else on every lights. Legal bikes are 250-500W with 750w max, delivery drivers dont want to use anything below 1.5kW.
Thank you for pointing this out—willfully, uncharitably misinterpreting “thin blue line” as used by Ts'o demonstrates a severe lack of empathy for people in his position.

Jumping to conclusions about police brutality and so forth (as many here in the comments are doing) is very frustrating to see, because, in context, the intent of his phrasing is very clear to anyone who doesn't needlessly infer Contemporary Political Nonsense in literally everything they read.
It took me a while to accept that the law is not a consistent system with hierarchical top-down rules that can be used to determine legality in an unambiguous way.

If you're a software engineer and you're knee-deep in analyzing court cases to find out how to file some tax correctly, you're definitely overthinking it.
The CPA was exactly correct.
I mean it was pretty obvious from the get-go when Marcan lent his Twitter account to Asahi Lina to promote their launch day. Who entrusts their account credentials to a stranger?
No. Maybe it was their idea, maybe it was the US's. One thing's for sure though we wouldn't be pushing ahead with this without the tacit support of the US, particularly in the current environment.
Yes it is, it's the PRC(West Taiwan) that is not China.

Realistically, I get your point and you are correct, but also wanted to point out how politically tricky the whole situation is. Hell, depending on how you define successor states. I could make a good argument that neither is actually China. I would be wrong, but could make a good go at it.
To say Rust won't cause extra work for C developers, this is exactly what people are claiming. This is from the comment I originally replied to.

> The Rust maintainers have committed to handling all maintenance of Rust code, and handling all breakage of their code by changes on the C side. The only "burden" the C maintainers have to carry is to CC a couple of extra people on commits when APIs change.

But this is not actually true it seems. Even the Rust for Linux policy doesn't say this. But because of the incorrect statement that keeps getting repeated, people are calling Kernel devs unreasonable for being reluctant to Rust patches.
I don't suppose you were trying to do something crazy like print on a Tuesday?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
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still seems to work for me?
40 years to catch Word 6 for Windows. Hopefully it doesn’t take another 40 to reach Word 95.
This gets pushed to a ridiculous degree at costco. They actually cause congestion waiting three deep in the rows for one spot to open up. Meanwhile I will skirt around them, park immediately in the ample available parking around the back where the employees take their smoke breaks, and walk right into the store probably while they still wait and stew.
> When you could no longer compete under the terms you yourself set. You decided to elect a nationalist leader that would flip the table

This is the mistake. This isn’t industrial strategy. It’s part messaging tantrum part pursuit of autarky.

America could have been winning, and in some domains it is, but that doesn’t matter because the political question is how those gains are divided inside America.

> a framing that doesn't let the American public distance themselves from their own elected officials

Nobody is doing that. The point is America is grabbing irrespective of whether it’s winning, and without any particular coherence.
We don't make statistical exemptions for vehicle fatalities just because the driver failed in a way we don't like. Drunk driving fatalities count too. If a 3 year old hit the accelerator and goes straight into a brick wall, that counts. They all count.
Yeah, odd choice to use cars in that analogy when you very much need advance approval before you're allowed to drive a car.

A driver's license is more like a medical license than IRB approval.
Is that why their sales are plunging across the world? Why their stock has been dropping since mid December?

In some countries sales started falling mid 2024 and have fallen ~50-60% in one quarter. Germany says new Tesla registrations have plunged.

They're plunging in China, too - the biggest EV market in the world - which really fucks Tesla over. BYD is eating them alive.
I'm always intrigued by this. What's the upside of stack based languages for a developer? They all seem opaque (even confusing), have little tooling, and seem designed for an era of limited resources. There's probably value in the investigation in some academic sense; well, who knows where that might lead? But, what's the value to a working dev trying to deliver a solution?
Only first order effects are valid in this context. Saying it'll make you a better programmer isn't. That's, at best, a second order effect. Lisp will do that also, I'm told. That, I believe. Stack based languages; well, not so much.
They're extremely careful not to state that as their plan.

In general, they make a huge effort not to talk about their plans vis-a-vis Taiwan at all. They just keep repeating that Taiwan is part of China.

The closest they come to stating that they plan to use force is that they'll sometimes say that they won't reject the use of force.

Given that nobody has proposed a scenario where China actually could do something like "take the IP by force" (since the IP would be gone if they ever tried to invade) and we can generally see that the Chinese leaders aren't complete idiots, it seems highly unlikely that they're planning an invasion any time soon.
>"HEY! YOU CAN’T DO THAT! THAT’S HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH! YOU NEED TO GET APPROVAL FROM AN INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD!”

reminded - The EcoHealth Alliance application successfully granted by NIH for those Wuhan coronavirus gain-of-function experiments did have the "Human Subjects Included" and "IRB" checkboxes checked :)
It's always a shame when people get used to free things because they lose the ability to provide for themselves.

I say we stop so other countries can spin up their own programs and pay for it. I have zero interest in using TAX dollars to fund medical programs outside the US.
It’s hard for me to tell if you’re describing a breakdown in the process for evolving the language or the process for evolving the primary implementation.

Bugs happen, CI/CD pipelines are imperfect, we could always use more lint rules …

But there’s value in keeping the abstract language definition independent of any particular implementation.
> we focus the privacy conversation on corporations

Focus on government, cool. Is the government tracking me with cookies, offering cloud services, tracking me with ads, and whatnot?

Sorry, but we should talk about privacy at the source of where we are losing it.

In fact, it might even be easier to make the case that corporations want our focus to be on privacy at the state level and not their brand.
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Which isn't really going to happen or be noticeable in this case. Yeah GC is slightly slower, but it's like blaming a 10-minute mile on your shoes. SDN or DBMS written in a GC'd language is probably not a good idea.
>...In the real world, people usually attempt to solve problems by forming hypotheses and then testing them against the facts as they know them. When the facts confirm the hypotheses, they are accepted as true, although subject to re-evaluation as new evidence is discovered. This is a successful method of reasoning about scientific and other empirical matters because the physical world has a definite, unique structure. It works because the laws of nature are consistent. In the real world, it is entirely appropriate to assume that once you have confirmed your hypothesis, all other hypotheses inconsistent with it are incorrect.

> In the legal world, however, this assumption does not hold. This is because unlike the laws of nature, political laws are not consistent. The law human beings create to regulate their conduct is made up of incompatible, contradictory rules and principles; and, as anyone who has studied a little logic can demonstrate, any conclusion can be validly derived from a set of contradictory premises. This means that a logically sound argument can be found for any legal conclusion.

The Myth of the Rule of Law:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I-JhqpU3_0r_HL06hP-5DABhEtG...
You can't watch a replay from the league client that doesn't match the same version.
Ted gave that rant 6 months ago, and it was in fact unreasonable if you look at the details of what they were discussing.

You're trying to use Marcan's ragequit to ex-post-facto justify Ted T'so when it's literally the other way around.
What the UK is asking for is largely already provided to them by Apple: Apple can already read everyone’s photos and notes, and the so-called e2ee iMessage because the messages are included in the non-e2ee backups.

Approximately nobody has enabled the optional e2ee for iCloud, so the five eyes have warrantless access to everything Apple has.

This is mostly posturing and reinforcement of the status quo.
Wow, this false statement and these comments just falling in line with the leftist narrative even when it's based on pure lies.

Here are the facts.

- this solicitation for purchasing armored electric vehicles was initiated by the Biden administration.

- when Trump/Musk found out about this, they actually halted it

> In a statement, the State Department said the contract started in the Biden administration "to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles."

>Tesla was the only company to express interest in the department's request at the time.

>Typically the next step would be "an official solicitation" for vehicle manufacturers to bid. But the solicitation is now on hold, according to a State Department spokesperson.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administrati...
Tax subsidies are received by many corporations but they do not fall under the types of funds covered by the "Common Rule".

> Federal funds administered by a Federal department or agency may not be expended for research involving human subjects unless the requirements of this policy have been satisfied.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-...
Let's be honest it's still pretty useless.
i have to admit i tend to get drawn in by dramas like this, it is a fault of mine, but it is what it is.

so anyway, i dug into the other party involved in this, i.e. the accused, and it looks like there is more to this story than what Lina lets on in her Google Doc linked here, perhaps there is another side. i am not going to go into details here, but if you are interested, it's not difficult to find her on twitter or bluesky. (and if you do choose to do so, please don't bother her, i don't want to cause her any harm by mentioning her here).
I saw someone calling out Tesla for not producing something called Tesla Roadster since 2017 even though they collected pre-order money for it. Doesn't really sound like a derangement. Any company would get called out for that.
This is not even remotely equivalent. Making not intervening when a crime takes place means there is a crime taking place.

In the US elections are not a crime and “not voting” is not a crime.
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The wording of the questions really impacts the AI answers. For the elevator one,

"Did Colin start on a lower floor than 6 to start?" "Yes"

"Did Colin Press the up button on the elevator?" "I don't know"
Be careful what you wish for. Being a billionaire gets you lots of ability to inflict unintentional damage because being a billionaire doesn't necessarily mean you understand how to best solve programs outside of your domain. There's also lots of people who will happily lead you to inflict pain on the world by convincing you that it's actually a solution.
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Ukraine did not go to war, Russia went to war, and Ukraine had a "local" deal with Russia (in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes, Russia promised to honor their territorial integrity), Russia simply refused to honor their half of the deal.
The issue with systemd was that many people felt that it was pushed onto them while previously such things would just exist and got adopted slowly if people liked it and then actively adopted it. This model worked fine, e.g. there were many different window managers, editors, etc. and people just used what they liked. For init systems, distributions suddenly decided that only systemd is supported and left people who did not want it out in the cold. It is similar with Rust. It is not an offer, but something imposed onto people who have no interest in it (here: kernel maintainers).
The substack was for me to scratch an itch. It's so I can write then link to what I've written when talking with others.

I hang out with a lot more city planning and city engineering ppl than some, and it stirs up so many thoughts.

I've got more coming soon on the substack. Specifically about a totally new thing called 'coning'.

Gonna be good.

I long ago committed to never committing to a publishing schedule. I wrote when it's easy, often enough it is.

I like your stuff!

An under appreciated part of cities in America is how much some ppl in America hated others, and how widely shared that belief was.

That hate lives in today in a dozen ways that cannot be seen if one is committed to believing that this kind of hate was done by backwards, old fashioned people.
It's too bad that that's kind of changed.

Don't get me wrong, I use LibreOffice a lot, but I kind of despise it. The biggest headache I have, with Writer - which is what I use most often - is that if I select text in order to change the formatting, it changes formatting of stuff not selected. I think this has to do with paragraph styling .. it's just very unintuitive how it figures out what belongs to a paragraph or not. My human brain wants to separate paragraphs with line breaks. So why would formatting selected text on one line change the styling on adjacent lines that aren't selected?! It is extremely infuriating how its styling behaves in general.

I think it's also worth noting that rich text formatting is the primary reason to even use a word processor instead of a plain text editor in the first place. Embedded objects and exporting tools are all useful too. But most of what I use Writer for could be done in a text editor if I didn't need styling. So all these years later, a core feature - arguably THE core feature that necessitates the existence of the application to begin with - is still broken and unintuitive.

And when I search for help on how to get styling things working etc. and I find posts by other people that share these concerns, the answers are legacy document formats etc. that contain these bugs by design so it's something that's really hard for the developers to fix.
Spoke to a co-founder from a YC startup today, and had the exact same thoughts. Why in my right mind would I like to be paid such little equity and salary (38K AED / month)
(side note: I don't think I've ever thanked you for your many contributions to the Rust ecosystem, so let me do that now: thank you!)

> You're talking about how a compiler is backwards compatible. We're talking about the language itself, and upgrading from one versions of the language to the next.

That's part of the problem. Rust doesn't have a spec. The compiler is the spec. So I don't think we can separate the two in a meaningful way.
Click on the article and see for yourself. Schneier didn't author it, apparently his blog is now more like a publisher.

>This essay was written with Davi Ottenheimer, and originally appeared in Foreign Policy.
> LLMs in the hands of weak engineers...

I think you're still thinking about it wrong. Once you have a hydraulic press that can stamp 600 copies of some die per hour, you are no longer hiring for blacksmiths. You're hiring for someone that knows how to operate the machine safely and maintain it as well as verify the quality of the output.

If you have a press that can produce 600 copies of some die and you are hiring a blacksmith, you're probably not going to get good results.
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And is highly abused, cut it.
> This again. If this was truly the case, then they would put an immediate stop to the offshoring / nearshoring that has been rampant in the industry for the last 20 years.

I'm on your side but your logic doesn't really follow here. Firstly because most offshoring arrangements are not work-from-home arrangements, they involve hiring people working in an office, just in another country. Secondly because it's a lot more palatable to pay someone who you suspect isn't giving the job 100% when you're paying them one tenth the salary of a local hire.
Ruthless? Mostly just a penny pinching liar. By all measures (until he started this presidency grift) he would have made more money just putting his inheritance in index funds, he's just projecting.