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always feel hsu (host of this channel)bis very pro china and i imagine he just wants to gain points to retire there or something. he's also very fullnof himself on tech.

But on this interview he sounds extremely impartial on both accounts. maybe it's moderating a topic he's not an authority... really good interview.

too bad the thumbnail looks like the fake videos used to spin lableak into a conspiracy lunacy.
You know why I hate exceptions most?

When debugging be it C# or JS, neither the "break on all exceptions" or "break on caught exceptions" are useful on any app. One just hits random library shit, or whatever bloat is in the codebase all the time and the other won't break at all.

But because exceptions are the control flow that is the only way to debug them (or do a human binary search)

Not sure what go debugging is like but I imagine you can quickly work your way to the first err!=nil while debugging.
The US would respond to with a freedom-of-navigation exercise backed up by the full might of US-PACOM. China would lose that standoff.
Most likely that implication was intended. But, because so many things that matter (civil rights, housing policy, free software, criminal sentencing guidelines) are political, I think it's important to push back explicitly against that connotation when it comes up.
I once spent hours trying to find out why apple's font rendering is so atrocious for a 1440p monitor on a m3 macbook air (reddit just keeps telling everyone to get higher resolution screens). Turns out it's related to the color scheme - the colors were fine, but the pixels are somehow located wrong, making everything look super pixelated.

BetterDisplay provided a workaround, but it needs to be selected every time the monitor is hooked up.

(I guess that's normal for Apple stuff nowadays - when I hook up my ipad to my projector, I need to tell it every single time not to use the audio output of the projector, but keep using the bluetooth speaker.)
Databases are configured for different priorities out of the box.

For example when you insert a row that result in a write to the WAL. That's a data safety measure sqlite unlikely to be taking.

You can configure Postgres to perform better with different tradeoffs - here's some thing to investigate:

- synchronous_commit=off
- wal_level=minimal
- wal_writer_delay=200ms
- checkpoint_completion_target=0.9
- autovacuum=off
- bgwriter_delay=10000ms
- shared_buffers=512MB
- work_mem=64MB
- UNLOGGED tables
- run from RAM Disk (/dev/shm)
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It's not an analogy, it is a direct fact. Willfully underpayment of taxes can be punished with being tossed in a cage, enforced by armed agents.

This should be first, front, and center concern before that gun is pointed at Americans trying to get by.

>However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of personal responsibility

Awesome, then I have no personal responsibility to fund it. We're all happy then.
Should there be a better way of reporting and displaying bugs?

For displaying the bugs, I'm thinking of something like what invision was - showing the interface of for example the desktop and showing the number of bugs associated with different elements of the desktop.

By displaying bugs as posts on a forum, I feel that we lose track of how degraded the performance of the system actually is.
A 'small' island with one of the most successful and thriving democracies in the East, that has world class industry. China cannot have a successful democracy on their doorstep, it undermines their perception of absolute Chinese superiority.
I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".
The US wasn't active part of the war until December 1941, though. For the first years, no boots on the ground were coming. And if Germany didn't declare war against the US, which they weren't forced to do by the tripartite pact, it's questionable they would have come at all (in 1944).

Doesn't Ukraine buy most of their heavy weapons from the US (... until now)? If so, isn't most of the tax payer money the US lends Ukraine going back into the US economy, softening the blow by a lot?

Did the (original) lend-lease act even hurt the US economy and US families? Or did it provide jobs and stimulate the US economy, cementing the role of the US as the military / industrial powerhouse they are today? I was under the impression that it's the latter, but I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong. Is this one different?

But sure, of course - that's the right of the US, even though it would be nicer not to retroactively break existing agreements. I only wanted to push back against the (new) lend-lease doing "absolutely nothing".
For me an unrecoverable error is when my program gets into an unexpected state. Given that I didn't anticipate such a thing ever happening, I can no longer reason about what the program will do, so the only sensible course of action is to crash immediately.
The risks don’t outweigh the potential benefits. Building a functional nuke isn’t an operation with a couple of laptops and internet connection. Also, Taiwanese economy is extremely tied to China. Things aren’t really black and white here. It’s not like all Taiwanese hate all mainlanders, nobody flies between countries and etc. Supermajority of people actually support status quo, rather than aiming for complete independence. It’s not an easy thing to balance.
Interesting project! After clicking around on the website:

> In almost 10 years, Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market: Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, Comodo Internet Security, ESET Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, and others.

What an intriguingly specific niche of customer! How come all these different anti-virus companies decided to use your platform?
It no longer amazes me that people will blindly vote for 'anything different', particularly when whatever that difference might be is so vaguely defined. Indeed, it is even more effective for that 'difference' to remain vague or general winks without anything of substance to evaluate or hold someone to account on.
I have not found the air fryer to cook in the same way as my toaster.

The AirFryer is essentially still an oven (at least mine is) with the heat coming predominantly from the top, leading to some form of "double baked" bread, which IMHO isn't the same as toasted (where the bread can be crisp on the outside but still soft in the middle)
so we dismantle research grants, international relations and government just to find one obvious and on the nose case of blatant fraud? cool!
A Tennessee dirt farmer and a Texas ranch owner were talking about their land one day. The rancher boasted "I can get in my car and drive all day and never leave the ranch." The farmer replied "Yeah, I had a car like that once".

None of the three people I know use AI at all, so that clearly gives me a good insight into AI usage. /s
I come from Cornwall in the UK, and whenever I go back there I am struck by how many on shore windfarms and turbines there are there. As you drive through the countryside they are everywhere.

I have asked hundreds of local people what they think of them over the years, and not one of them have ever said anything about them spoiling the view. The farmers love them as they get subsidies for putting them on their land, and generally people think they are doing a good thing and are happy to tolerate them.

I personally dont think this is an issue with spoiling the view .
I am quite sure that isn't the story as described on either "Design and Evolution of C++", or "C++ ARM", as owner of those books.
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>It is entirely possible to denser and taller buildings

Yes, but you're not allowed those either.
Note that electric bikes/scooters get approximately zero consideration from cars. I was traveling in a bike lane last year and a truck just turned right into me. I easily could have died if not for my helmet. (Which received a glowing 5-star review for that performance, btw.)
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Isn't this the same site that doxxed Reality Winner by providing original PDF sources?
Another issue I have is with the Messages app. My girl sometimes sends me voice messages from her iPad, and sometimes the voice messages come as .caf files. These files are pretty much unplayable from the iPhone in the Messages app. It happens intermittently because we send a lot of voice messages between each other. I use an iPhone 15, not sure what her iPad model is. It also happens sometimes when I record voice messages on my Mac (Sequoia 15.3.1) and it shows up as .caf files on her iPhone and it renders it unplayable. I then have to record the message with my phone before she can play it.
There was another case that happened (haven't been able to reproduce it yet), but I sent a voicenote with my Mac via Messages and we literally could not open the conversation again. It became so laggy typing a message in the conversation (even after waiting for a lot of time for the conversation to open). The way I resolved it is by deleting the conversation, that fixed it. But obviously I recovered the conversation, and the issue still persisted. I updated my iPhone to 18.3.1 and that was how the issue got resolved.
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I’ll be happy to answer any questions, it’s a proposal to make a safe non-agentic AI that is a static place.

Right now an agentic AI is a librarian, who has almost all the output of humanity stolen and hidden in its library that it doesn't allow us to visit, it just spits short quotes on us instead. But the AI librarian visits (and even changes) our own human library (our physical world) and already stole the copies of the whole output of humanity from it. Feels unfair.

Why we cannot visit (like in a 3d open world game) and change (direct democratically) the AI librarian's library?

We could make a digital backup of Earth and expose the contents of the multimodal language model to everyone in a familiar, user-friendly UI of our planet. I can share the monkey example, if you want.

We can explore The Library without any strict guardian in the comfort of our simulated planet Earth on our devices, in VR, and eventually through some wireless brain-computer interface (it would always remain a game that no one is forced to play, unlike the agentic AI-world that is being imposed on us more and more right now and potentially forever)
Neither of these represent the cost and support footprint to maintain and develop a fully featured browser because as it stands neither of them are fully featured, complete browsers.
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Terminology is a problem here. A crashed harddisk is clearly an exceptional circumstance. More specific terms is needed to distinguish errors in the code (eg divide by zero) from unpreventable errors like network failure.
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Of course, but I think a country can't survive long term if it's focused on raising the property prices of those with already expansive houses especially given the demographic slowdown/collapse. Or am I crazy?
Big self immolate. Said that cease fire agreements wont work because they have evidently not worked so far as Russia keeps breaking them, they need security guarantees like NATO. I guess failing to read the room was not bootlicking enough and not surrendering to Putin as Trump already has.
I wonder how much Trump crypto they are going to have to buy to keep their country.
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It's also a convenient wedge issue, regardless of the merits in either direction.
Spotlight has been broken on both of my Macs since Sequoia. It doesn't find anything under Downloads dir even though it should be indexed. Or any non-Apple apps under Applications. Re-indexing did nothing.
She is a cis woman.
I used to think these reports were exaggeration until i had to use the apple tv app to watch severance. I am beyond shocked how bad this app is and how every interaction feels like a downer. Buttons miss hover effects, icons are off center by a few pixels. Whole interaction workflows were obviously never tested and just don't work. I hope the explanation is just that the app was outsourced but if this is the level of quality apple works at now, users are doomed. The other issues i see daily are more signs of just stopping to invest any resources whatsoever into base components. I don't understand how google image search can show me faster image results than quicklook from an image that is sitting in my dock on my local hard drive. Or how the finder is unable to browse network drives without freezing, giving up or taking 30 seconds to show thumbnails or even file names.
If we want to argue historically, is it not more that the Taiwanese government is a more direct successor of the historical China? So maybe China should really be part of Taiwan? Or should it belong back to the Japanese?

Just goes to show how ridiculous arguments by "history" are.
> Speaking is actually a subspecies of singing, and it's always cool to hear the same old lyrics remixed to a new melody and a new beat.

What a lovely take on this topic! :)

(does this imply you're a fellow believer in the hypothesis that singing evolved before language?)
"ice car engines peaked?" likely wrong
there is no charging infrastructur, and no way to retrofit into housing on a mass scale that will deal with the threat of a whole apartment building
parking garage going up in flames, resulting in mass casualties.
So until there are non flamable solid state batteries at the right price point, electrificationof the transport grid will stall, while demand for mobility will continue to increase, and ICE cars may very well keep or gain market share still.
Hackers got to hack?

While my technical exploits are no where near this - I love reading about people doing odd and difficult things for fun.

(As a young teen who was obsessed with Road Rash on the Sega Game Gear, I wrote down every single save code, after every game I played, along with what I had (bike, level and cash) - after a week or so of doing this I worked out the save code and was able to give myself any level, bike or money by manually tweaking the code. I am sure that I am not the only person that discovered this, but at the time I felt like a god and enjoyed racing the later levels with the worst bikes etc. - sometimes it's just fun to do something because you can.)
One possibility is that at least some of his "supporters" do not as much as want trump specifically but instead simply vehemently do not want what the Democrats have been doing and are willing to risk some chaos to avoid that. If that's the case (and I think it is) then the best thing that trumps opponents can do is provide real alternatives for people. Or in other words: stop attacking a large part of the population (straight white males) at every opportunity, stop trying to force radical social change, stop trying to cancel everyone with an even slightly differing opinion.
>It is the 1% or 10% case.

Not based on where I live. Many people I know routinely drive hundreds of KM on a weekly basis to their families and renting a car for that doesn't makes sense.
Sam Bankman-Fried is not good at League of Legends (2022)
From Wikipedia:
Bankman-Fried once played the video game League of Legends while on a call attempting to secure an investment from Sequoia Capital by talking about how FTX would become a “super app.” The investors were "incredibly impressed,” with one calling the call “one of those your-hair-is-blown-back type of meetings.” Afterward, Sequoia ended up investing over $200 million in FTX. An article in the Financial Times later characterized Bankman-Fried's "win ratios" in League of Legends as "average-to-bad".

Could this have been one of the first signs of misleading, lies and fraud?
China is Taiwan’s biggest trade partner. There’s no political will for China to attack Taiwan yet, as everything is just pointing towards China becoming so humongous in terms of power that Taiwan would fold without any bloodshed.
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Consider an electric unicycle (EUC). It's much more compact, so you can easily bring it into shops and other buildings, as well as it's much less troublesome when you use public transport (most models can be easily kept between your legs).

From the safety point of view it's not as bad as it seems on the first glance, especially if you don't plan riding on it faster than 20-30 km/h.
"Withdrawing" to 1990 borders? You mean expelling the states that joined after 1990? I'm not sure that would go over well with the Baltics, Romania, Sweden and Finland. Withdrawal from NATO is voluntary and cannot be compelled.
For Brits, Foundations is a must-read report.

Any policy suggestions need to show how they'll urgently remedy the serious issues with energy, housing, and infrastructure detailed in the report -- or make the case that this issues don't matter.

Here's the direct link:

https://ukfoundations.co
It would also help if the opposing site had better arguments than calling those they don't like nazis and fascists.
This argument is trivially dismissed by noting the advertising industry exists. Google thinks annual advertising spend globally is somewhat north of 700 billion USD. Assuming marketing isn't literally a cult servicing a pervasive superstition that transcends geopolitical and cultural barriers, this would suggest that humans can in fact be manipulated to ends that aren't necessarily in line with their interests.
There are too many glaring holes in this article for it to be taken seriously. It's simply not a complete argument if you discuss the UK's current economy and don't mention
1) Brexit
2) Green energy policies
Unless the cost is zero the tax is paid, either directly, by inflation, or one of the two later to settle the debt. The fungibility of money means no special separate tax is assessed.

Even under fiction I have seen claimed that these are all surplus old arms, the US left them in Afghanistan last time precisely because logistics alone is expensive.
Nobody could blame you, Japan famously does have conglomerates making completely different products under the same brand. If Yamaha makes motorcycles and pianos, why wouldn't Mitsubishi make cars and pencils?
Tarriff other countries and then establish a free trade agreement with Russia to boost their economy.

One wonders if they will make American packaging for their products, or just sell the Russian labeled products straight on US shelves.
Let me guess ... probably drunks so guess drinking culture. Maybe UK. Big city with enough canals for this to be an issue ... probably Birmingham?
No, you posted copium. People not voting doesn't mean that they don't support Trump, it only menas they didn't bother to vote. The baseline assumption is that non-voters have the same distribution of opinions as voters. If you want to make a different argument you better back it up with more than "TRUMP BAD".
Oh wow this is so cheap, too bad the UI is only in german
If you can get docs from an LLM, why not just use LLM interactively?

That's how I use them anyway, I just ask how to do X with library Y and then ask for further info if needed. If that fails, go for the source code.
Huh? You do understand that Firefox is just a single executive decision away from becoming a chromium skin? In order to forward-think, proper-size and upward-achieve , so that limited funds can be utilized with most impact etc.?
The PS2 was released 25 years ago today
I remember there being an HN post a month or two ago about a solution to this exact problem and people using it seemed very happy with it.
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>cost and support footprint to maintain and develop a fully featured browser

True because the real cost to support a "a fully featured browser" is at least a 1/4 billion dollars....because OpenSource needs to make money, not for the Dev's but the MBA's ;)
Years ago, I attempted to build a user-space network stack in C [0] that processes raw packets through the TUN interface and got it working to a certain point. It currently includes a simple shell that allows configuring IP addresses, routes, and such. A hybrid structure reminiscent of both mbuf and sk_buf is used to hold the network packets. However, after completing the UDP implementation I didn't find the time or motivation to implement TCP. If you want to check it out, here's the link:

[0] https://github.com/cakturk/unet
Have you tried writing Go assembler instead of x86?

https://go.dev/doc/asm

(I'm not suggesting, merely asking since I haven't written any assembler for Intel for 30+ years and I have never written Go assembler)
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Pieter Levels makes $38K in 10 days selling ads in his AI Built game
AI generated games or vibe coded (Building by prompting LLMs) games are trending all over X, the know indie hacker @levesio created a Flight Simulator like one and started selling F16 (Plane upgrades) and he sold 9, then he started selling Blimp Ads for $1K and suddenly an AI startup offered $5K to place an add on Mars, a lot of other startups joined and he pocketed a total of $38,360 in 10 days as himself tweeted https://x.com/levelsio/status/1896690611257844116

Because of this hype, there are a lot of other indie makers creating vibe-coded games, so I decided to build a directory to collect them on https://aibuiltgames.com/

I posted about it on X, and it got a lot of love https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1895169783747801435

Are AI build games a real thing?
Software quality across the board is in decline IMO.
This would have felt reassuring earlier. At this point, who knows? Besides if true, that it even has to be stated explicitly is an incredible policy failure.
> sane leadership

That's too much to ask
The deadline in the UK is currently 2035.

Labour have pledged to bring it back down to 2030, but when they begin the talks with the motor industry to try to achieve this they will fold like they have done several times so far in this government.
This - the economy rode on financialisation and north sea oil for the two decades before 2008. Since 2008 there has been no real action to resolve the core issue of unlocking the potential of the North of England - everyone knows that that is low hanging fruit (human capital, regional infrastructure etc) but no one will actually take the risk and go for it.
Maybe if you live in suburban single family house, but not if you live “in cities”.
You have to wonder why the Linux devs are "pulling the rug under"
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