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>brand/ux is not a moat, it's table stakes.

Except for the technical advantage of M-series macs that's like all of the Apple moat. Apple brand and UX is what is selling the hardware.

They make the UX depend on the number of Apple devices you have, so a little bit of network effect. But that's mostly still UX.
If you actually watched the linked video you would see that random matrix servers were co-opted to spread CSAM on a massive scale due to what is essentially a design flaw and there was until very very recently not much done to make it possible for server admins to fight that. It's not as black and white as your comment makes it seem.
I wish AI didn't exist so I could be glad.
guess that explains the weird unicode middots. wonder if it’s random or targeted; anti-matrix/element spam seems to be a thing since certain govts started relying on it.
Really if I ever knew it existed, I've forgotten. But https://oratronik.de/atariage/TI_FORTH_Manual-2ndEd(LES).pdf says yes on page 14. General discussion at https://99er.net/tifaq2.html#TIFAQ011

(I used Wycove Forth in 40-column mode, though I have a dim memory of trying something like your 3x7 font...)
Yeah exactly.

The article is hyperbola and ultimately trying to push the
"Auditing and finding corruption is bad"
Less charitable or More cynical? How is Amazon supposed to track a 3rd party pulling their SDK and then reverse-engineering their own service side to work with the SDK? Assuming we're all okay with that premise to begin with, all sorts of other questions start popping up.

Do these 3rd parties get veto power over a feature they can't support?

Can they delay a launch if they need more time to make their reverse-engineered effort compatible again?

It seems a hard to defend position that this is at all Amazon's problem. The OP even links to the blog post announcing this change months ago. If users pay you for your service to remain S3-compatible that seems like its on you to make sure you live up to that promise, not Amazon.

Clicking through to the actual git issues, it definitely seems like the maintainers of Iceberg have the right mental model here too. This is their problem to fix. After re-reading this post this mostly feels like a click-baity way to advertise OpenDAL, which the author appears to be heavily involved in.
Given that Musk has deliberately blocked links to whole other domains before for extremely petty reasons, I don't see why we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
The federal government actually operates in the opposite way. They cosign a credit card under your name, you have to pay it off at the end of every month, and they reimburse you after the fact.
The fidelity is amazing !
You're choosing to avoid Amazon on moral principles.

It's kinda relevant that these principles only apply to services that have the Amazon logo, and not where more than half of Amazon's profit is coming from.

Hypothetically you might be bringing more business to Amazon through any of their AWS customers than by buying your USB cables on the storefront.

PS: I don't have a good answer to this, but boycott and "vote with your wallet" kind of actions have became a very complex thing IMHO.
Should have made it clear that I'm not American and I'm just finding it wild from afar.

I guess it's a testament to American democratic cultural history that no coup has occurred in American history when the president has such an absolute authority over the executive branch, as informed to me by the other comments. Let's hope for the sake of the whole world it remains like this.
If anything, such an extensive system should have better controls than a small business. Given that, there are trillions of dollars flowing around of other people's money.
Because then they would have found the fraud, and some very powerful people would be out of money....
> But I’ve noticed the way people respond to ambiguous statements reveals a lot about their internal state

There are well-documented cognitive biases associated with different forms of ambiguous stimulus interpretation.

It's a target of cognitive-behavioral therapy, for instance, as individuals who are depressed or anxious tend to interpret ambiguous stimuli in certain ways (in general; every person is different; for example, interpreting an ambiguous social situation as reflecting disapproval).

Aggressive individuals are more likely to exhibit a hostile attribution bias as well. Specifically, they're more likely to interpret ambiguous social situations as reflecting hostile intent.

Even some projective tests demonstrate validity. The arguments in those cases tend to be about norms and how to score them and interpret them (to your point, I think there's some evidence that a Sentence Completion Test has a bit more validity than some others).

This was kind of an interesting paper but a poor test of the projective/ambiguous stimulus interpretation hypothesis in general. On the other hand, I guess people are positing this stuff so it's important to have empirical boundaries around it.

A lot of the work in this area has kind of died down due to controversies in the past and a stigma around psychodynamic theories. I've always thought it would be interesting to use modern LLM/DL models with ambiguous stimuli to test these hypotheses (and if they work out, develop prediction and scoring methods) in a more rigorous and thorough way. I think there's always been a kind of problem with past research of how to handle the responses, which are basically natural language responses, which are harder to code etc than T/F, rating scale etc. But if you have LLMs, seems like you can make it more tractable.

There is this theory that structured stimuli (e.g., an item on a typical questionnaire or test) allows you to more precisely target a process and act as primes for recognition. That is, if you want to know about X, you're better off asking or probing specifically for X, and that will prime a respondent through recognition, which is more direct than asking indirectly about something which might initiate an off-target process involving more of a recall process, which is less reliable.

That is definitely true, but it seems like sometimes you don't know what you're looking for, or there might be a kind of impression management problem where people are motivated to respond in certain ways. I don't think you can ever get around that completely, but getting at something in multiple ways often seems better than getting at it in just one way.
OMG! Really! Everybody Run!
If it ain’t broke.. move fast and break things?
Isn't this something the compiler is going to enforce anyway? Why does it matter? If that's the only difference it's kind of inconsequential isn't it?
See my other reply, watch the linked video it's not as black and white as you make it sound like and public non-encrypted rooms hosting tons of CSAM being replicated to any matrix server where any user joined them is a problem.
No one's buying into that, it's too risky - supposedly. And it's not my field, but I have to think that writers coming up in this media environment have the formulas beaten into them from the start.

I'm struggling to think of truly original movie/TV created in the last 10 years that has stuck around . Maybe in TV there's a few, Severance comes to mind, but everything else is warmed over spy/supe/soap/horror/reality.

Even prestige dramas feel like they were designed to look and feel "important" without actually being important.

They are producing according to a small number of formulas because it's cheap, predictable, easy to make, easy to watch. Above all, we keep watching. Why would they take the risk of making something different?
Yes, good.
> I asked my parents about getting a modem, and they were like... "no".

I asked my parents for a modem the same year Matthew Broderick's "Wargames" came out. My mom forbid me from ever using one because she had seen a movie about what happens when you have one of those things...
What makes you think anything would have come of it? They wouldn't have known the dangers of leaded gasoline for another 70 years, for example.

When you say hold back economic growth, what you're really talking about is people dying from starvation.
I was introduced to Arcade Fire back in the day through a similar Chrome experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReIwYj7BACM
The printer will soon be able to answer your question about ink levels.

In version 2 it will be able to nag^W persuade you to buy genuine HP ink, by reminding you repeatedly the benefits of genuine HP ink.
Which libraries have solved this problem? I recently tried several of the most recommended standalone JS libraries for implementing a <select> with icons and a custom layout, but each single one of them was seriously lacking in some way.
Nah, that is like saying a child could make a Jackson Pollock or Basquait painting. It looks like random chaos but it is most definitely intentional.
And first names, which causes some government agencies to put FNU in that field for "first name unknown".

My mom told me about a time they had someone with that situation at work, and people would call the person FNU until they were corrected.
Please forgive my tangential rant on the DOM. You have an input field where type=number and when you read it with .value() you get a string. Cmon man.
> But my main complaint about Julia is its general approach to memory management.

I'm not a full-blown hater, but I have problems with that as well. Specifically, you have no control about it whatsoever, you're just promised that "if you do things right, it'll be amazing". And it is! The problem is that any tiny minuscule mistake causes catastrophic failure of performance due to allocations. Since the good performance depends on type stability, and type stability propagates, any mistake anywhere will propagate everywhere. Think: if a variable becomes type unstable due to a programmer mistake, any function that consumes it generally might become type unstable as well, and any function that consumes the output of that function as well, etc. The upshot is that this forces you to think more carefully about your types and data structures. Programming in Julia extensively has made me a better programmer. I'm not a C++ expert, but I believe that in C++ these kind of mistakes always end up being localized.
Nothing better to do since the grant was canceled. Not that the grant had anything to do with it
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I've yet to see an LLM response or an LLM generated diff that suggests removing or refactoring code. Every AI solution is additive; new functions, new abstractions added in every step. Increased complexity is all but baked into the system.

Software engineering jobs involve working in a much wider solution space - writing new code is but one intervention among many. I hope the people blindly following LLM advice realize their lack of attention to detail and "throw new code at it" attitude comes across as ignorant and foolish, not hyper-productive.
You have to stop being your information from CNN and Reddit.
It destroys your critical thinking skills and ultimately drives some people insane
The congress in 2021 seemed very interested in doing their job but the minority in the Senate did a really good job of obstructing anything and everything using the pocket filibuster.
We adopted a principle early on: don't load stuff until it's needed. This makes our initial page loads fast, it is less taxing on end users' machines, it uses less bandwidth. It also helps our performance scores, which in turn help our SEO.

So yeah, a lot of lazy loading. :-) There are probably some pages where we could ease up on that.
But neither support Thunderbolt :v
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN threads.

I'm not saying it's never accurate*, it's just that, if you evaluate them through the site guidelines, the cost/benefit is negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* (not a comment on this or any person)
I spent days building this little perfect dropdown select thing, that is a hundreds lines of code and even more docs explaining what the hell is going on. Someone wasted the same amount of time before me. Someone else spent a lot of time before them. And so on.

I wish we have had more browser native implementations including some notion of virtual lists so the browser would not choke when rendering a lot of content.

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Eventually, this would be same as border-radius. It will get implemented and we'll forget about that forever.
No, they would have had to wait till stop signs were introduced at smaller sections and stop lights at all major, except those for whom traffic circles could be created.

Roads would have to be striped properly and there would have been an international Consortium to determine whether people should drive on the left or the right hand side of the road. That would still be ongoing of course
Trump winning the election wasn't necessarily because he was "objectively wanted". It could be because he was less disliked than Biden at the time. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people voted Trump but then his first couple of weeks made them go "hang on a sec...".
Certainly not all humans at the same time, but yes the classical scourge diseases that have killed millions throughout history have zoonotic origins due to living closely with animals.
That's pretty much the mechanism of acheiving the effect that I was describing on State governments I’ve seen, too. I was just trying to generalize on the level of responsibility, rather than detailed payment flow.
Saw posts of national park rangers with 10+ years of experience who were fired for being "probationary" employees because they were recently promoted.

It's really, really hard to believe I have anything in common with people cheering on this cruel incompetence.
because if your friends start roaming around the public Matrix network and find public chatrooms full of abusive content, then they will indeed be affected. see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/ for more.
Private equity is successful because there's a lot of money to be made in strategies most people would find unconscionable (even if not illegal), not because it makes better decisions than the worst 5% of business owners.
Thanks for sharing, enjoyed reading it!

I have a slightly tangential question: Do you have any insights into what exactly DeepSeek did by bypassing CUDA that made their run more efficient?

I always found it surprising that a core library like Cuda, developed over such a long time, still had room for improvement—especially to the extent that a seemingly new team of developers could bridge the gap on their own.
Honestly, it was also a red flag for me that they don’t actually know what they want and have bad communication between leadership and engineering. Prior to this interview I was already on the fence about them.

They don’t work mostly in Go. Even the interviewer said that he’s vaguely familiar with this area of the code, but he doesn’t work and Go. They work mostly in Kotlin and they explicitly are advertising for solid generalists.
I'm glad I became a programmer before anyone became a coder.
Can we see the images it was made with
Couldn't have said it better. Unfortunately people who should know better like Zuckerberg are perpetuating the idea that coding is the whole job.
What blows me away is that R/C drones can operate that close to those antennas. Frequency differences don't tend to matter much once you go past 100,000 watts.
There are also options like Carbonyl[1] and Browsh[2] which do images and js in the terminal.

1: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

2: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
I mentor a high school robotics team and they use copilot for Java coding and on occasion I’ve seen them write code that just kinda breaks the robot and then they’re totally lost for a while.

But I can assure you, the alternative is there being no coding team and maybe no robotics team at all.

I think that maybe I’d say: it’s good that AI isn’t good enough to never break the robot. That’s when they’re learning a lot about coding and debugging.
They are designed to penetrate Holtzman shields, surely.
Has hiring ever really worked, anywhere? Especially as roles and need evolve? I guess you could argue that it sort of did, apropos of a play I saw last night on the astronaut program--and maybe the military in many cases more broadly.

But, in many cases, I'm not sure how I, as a candidate for a tech job, would feel about a company offering me $200K--no strings attached--with the proviso that I statistically only had a 25% chance of making it through the next 6 months. (And is that really long enough anyway?)

There are tournament-style professions. But I'm not convinced most professional jobs are or should be among them in general.
If your bank wanted to downsize, how would you feel about them doing it by allowing a rogue team of 20-something software developers access to all its most sensitive IT systems?
Less than 10% went to the needy.
Most of the rest was either wasteful, political or a chain of NGOs performing kickbacks.

They were funding censorship campaigns on American citizens etc
I disagree--it doesn't feel resolved. I've been trying to use Matrix for so long now, and just recently gave another shot at helping my partner get up and running with Element X on her M4 iPad.

It's still so clunky and so difficult to get off the ground. To start, E2E key verification just wouldn't work on Element X; she had to install Element, verify my key there, and go back to Element X.

That would be easy to overlook if the UI felt responsive and snappy, but it doesn't. It feels far from native. I don't know if it's Electron under the hood--I haven't checked--but it sure feels like it. It feels unresponsive in the same way as a stereotypical bank app, like walking through Jello. Maybe it's a protocol issue; I'm not sure.

I've got a nice, powerful homeserver running, waiting for love, but it will continue waiting until such time as there's a responsive client. Every month or two, I upgrade it and give it another shot, but I always end up back on a mix of Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord. None of my work or social circles are willing to make the switch when it feels so slow.
So gorgeous.
Even then you don't get that sort of quality outside certain economic situations. The proverbial "old house" in california is a stick frame dwelling on a post and pier foundation over a crawlspace.

This is because it seldom rains. So when it does rain the soil is very hard and doesn't absorb much of it. So it comes down the hills and causes landslides and shifting soils in the alluvial valleys that much of californian civilization is built into (since channelized due to said wandering waters destroying early californian civilization multiple times until this was learned and tamed by the u.s. army). And then, of course the earth quakes, which destroyed an early brick structured version of san fransisco almost in its entirety in 1906.

Not to mention available american and canadian lumber connected by railhead to the entire continent. most of such reserves in europe were claimed for sunken ships over the previous centuries. So now you live in a 300 year old stone house probably with a basement instead of a timber building on post and piers because you have no cheap timber to this degree here and you have no earthquake risks or much shifting soil. Could you build a house like yours in the U.S.? Of course, if you pay a premium for it.
> If you can't be bothered to deal with the easiest part of your job, writing some code, how do you expect to be trusted with the hard stuff?

If writing code is the easiest and least impactful thing you do as a software engineer, why does it matter if you use AI to assist with that part? Or to come at it from another angle, why is using Stack Overflow/Google in the hunt for answers and examples good, but using AI models is not good?
This is just adding to the bureaucracy, instead of approving all purchases on the card at once now they have to get approval for each and every purchase.
I found it streaming for free on VUDU.com / Fandango
This is hilarious:

Even those without the last name Null are finding themselves caught in the void. Joseph Tartaro got a license plate with the word “NULL” on it nearly 10 years ago. The 36-year-old security auditor thought it would be funny to drive around with the symbol for an empty value. Maybe a police officer who tried to give him a ticket would end up writing null into the system and not be able to process it, he joked to himself.

In 2018 he paid a $35 parking ticket. Soon afterward, he said, his mailbox was flooded with hundreds of traffic tickets for incidents he hadn’t been involved in. Tickets were from other counties and cities for vehicles of different colors, makes and models. A database had associated the word “null” with his personal information and citations were sent to Tartaro, who lives in Los Angeles.
I mean, I've tried to use Matrix many times overy many years. I do care about more than JUST the UX but it has been SO consistently bad that I just can't. Something has gotta change, preferably before Discord completely implodes.
I don't know how long it will take, but you'll eventually catch up on the grift, too.
To two different IRC servers. There used to be a third, but Libera asked them to shut it down.
Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models
I meant apps using the Hypervisor APIs on iPadOS
Working remote from Europe in the US is like that, with similar hours
They're calling Zelensky a dictator because his term was originally scheduled to end in 2024 unless re-elected, and there were no elections since the beginning of the war.

The problem with this assertion is that Ukraine has "no elections under martial law" written into the law. Zelensky himself actually wanted to do some kind of election to reinforce his mandate while his support was still very high, but there was serious concern from the liberals about those plans on the basis that any election held under martial law, with large numbers of people mobilized to fight, 20% of the country occupied, and many millions of refugees unable to vote, would hardly be free and fair. Their pushback scuttled any plans for the parliament to amend said law.
I have a company credit card. Guess what I do for every transaction?
Seriously? Not even your own linked conversation supports this assertion, even though you tried to lead it there.
Yarvin's writing as Moldbug is very clear on the subject. Both Thiel and Vance are public admirers and have reflected Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) in public. Thiel acolytes and admirers are staffing DOGE, drawn from tech communities and web forums.

They do not believe in functioning democracy but instead in a Randian "utopia" where the lords of capital run regions of the country as kings and the poor are turned into "biofuel."
Beautiful, the visuals combined with the music gave me quite a nostalgic feeling for the city where I once worked daily but haven't visited in years.
Government funding education != Government managing education
VP of DMERx Pleads Guilty to $1B Health Care Fraud Conspiracy
I'm comparing an LLM to a compiler to the degree that they automate much of the writing of the tedious parts of code, rather than finding ways to reduce the amount of such code written (and therefore to the degree warranted by the argument in your previous post).

I will admit that compilers don't hallucinate much.
Similar vein - I can't even type "2 + 2 = 5" on my iPhone anymore because the keyboard keeps suggesting "2 + 2 = 4" as soon as I finish the first part and autofills it when I hit the space. It's extremely frustrating, and I feel like a keyboard is a prime example of a system that should do what I say. If I make a mistake, I'll correct it.