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The movie Electric Dreams is now the most prescient '80s movie about gen AI so far; An architect builds an approximation engine on his home PC which then ingests the whole internet/TV and learns to compose music for the cute girl next door who plays the cello. Song mis-attribution is the central theme. The hit song from the movie Together In Electric Dreams is actually from the perspective of the gen AI choosing to self-destruct as a final show of his love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV-_q-iaK8

I bring it up only to provide a bit of balance to the soulless slop debate, proving creators can have diverging opinions on what is good in music creation and life—they don't all feel threatened by poor substitutes no one can possibly enjoy.
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I'm converting an old C codebase to Swift, though given Swift's non-support for mix-language targets I'm considering switching to Zig.

Unfortunately the Zig compiler crashes when building my project and I haven't looked into debugging the compiler to find out why. There's a lot of gnarly code in this project (based on dikumud from ~1989?) with many inexperienced hands touching it over the decades.
> It's worse than a rebellious province. It's a more successful rebellious province.

That statement just made me LOL. In what dimension other than foreign investment do you see Taiwan as more successful than China? In 2025, it's pretty clear that China has self sovereignty, is the world's factory, leads in BRICS, and isn't subject to the US empire.
Yes, communist nations especially need to protect the narrative that their way is the best way. Having the Taiwanese sitting off shore thriving outside of party control is embarrassing.
Didn't the telco part come from a merger with one of the baby bells that emerged when bell was broke up?
I've found that "escaping from one's editor and writing things you think are cool or sexy" is a common hazard of being a successful author, especially in SFF. Look at George R.R. Martin's complete inability to actually finish a damn book, or Robert Jordan's insistence on incorporating detailed descriptions of people's clothes alongside gobs of spanking and ceremonial nudity. And those are series I enjoyed despite their flaws.
Woah, that's an awesome site
Hocking Hills primarily
At the same time, they also tend to start interfering in the solutions proposed by their team. It hard to stave off that temptation.
I'm manager and contribute every week for clean up, refactoring, add tests, extra e2e testing and overall fixing issues in existing development and production environment that are either too boring or affecting team operations. Sometimes contribute to small features but I make sure Im.not blocker or promise things to anyone (mainly work on experiments with no SLO)
Parent is absolutely right. Representative democracy plus massive amounts of propaganda is what got us into this mess.

The peoples of the world deserve better, direct democracy.
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True, but rarely do you get an opportunity to wear down a principal enemy by donating equipment to a democratic nation defending itself.

Without any requirements that the US puts boots on the ground.

It's in the interest of most countries that borders are immutable and that aggressors are made to pay.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229855
To save others from wading through this bloated and disingenuous article, the core seems to be:

With all that said, the intent of the adherents to the term Free Software is to seek to promote certain freedoms for the users of software, by depriving the creators of software (at least in the United States) of the rights afforded them by Congress under Article I, Section VIII, Clause VIII. [..] The difficulty is that the freedoms that the Free Software Foundation insists on giving software users are freedoms that most software users do not want, and the freedoms that they wish to restrict for software producers are freedoms that most software producers would rather retain.

He tries to trick the reader into thinking of "software producers" as if they were a single entity. He finds room to talk about IBM's software distribution practices in the 1970s, but "forgets" to mention any case where free software prevented, or could have prevented (or simply never included), user-hostile practices (such as the now-pervasive DRM and spyware/telemetry, or anti-competitive moves [1]).

To use a car analogy - I don't want Volkswagen preventing me from picking my own mechanic. Yet the article tries to frame it as if this is some kind of burden on the user, and an infringement of Volkswagen's rights.

Of course the article is never that direct or honest - it exhausts the reader with irrelevant stories, skirts around the real issues, obfuscates and never states its thesis in plain language: that it is somehow to the user's benefit to be prevented from examining, modifying, or sharing software.

More than wrong, this article is dishonest. This is the kind of prose that is used to deceive, not explain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
>Husqvarna can be either a motorsports marquee or mowers and chainsaws.

Those are all motors at least, similar to Honda making a bunch of things with motors.
Firing half the govt's lawyers may backfire in the face of all the lawsuits. The lawyers trying cases for the government are already being scolded by judges for their lack of preparedness

Certainly with the end of Chevron Doctrine, this needs to be decided by the courts, not some institution... another "we didn't think this would be used against us..." for the Heritage Foundation
it depends. Last ~3 years i was CTO of small company - with a software team of 7-10. With the idea of - no-more-coding (TM). Just the other 90% - from cleanup repos and jira etc project things - to organise proper reviews and workflows - process things, etc, to.. pushing infrastructure, hiring and pitching to investors/clients. But the codebase was.. not ideal. It was hard and tempting but i managed not to touch it directly, only did rise architectural-and-similar-level issues, and did (somewhat nitpicky) code reviews - like, date-arithmetic IS very important, pretty-please. Still, had to build a crawler over the production-codebase to visualise the event-flows and map consequences - a reverse-engineering live-Documentation, kind-a. Scratching my own itch? pfft. (hint: There was no other docs..)

But then there were some small non-essential projects that would have been complete distraction for the team.. so i took one, then another. In nodejs which isn't my cup of tea - so even better, learned some things the hard way. Though.. lucky they were rarely needing support, or it would have become a chore.

Then, one day, the company was acquired, and.. i am not a CTO anymore, but a (tech and also non-tech) Lead of some future greenfield project, ~re-factor with diff.goals. So here we go - research, architect, code, hire, discuss, demo, eh.. usual tiny-startup thing - except that the politiking and the now-everyday-a-new-policy chase me away.

So.. IMO one has to keep some of the programming skills sharp. In order to stay relevant. But this applies when you are 1 level away from actual coding. If farther.. probably no time, and no point. Although.. too long staying hands-off, and there may be no coming back - and losing grasp of how-it-feels-like to be in the trenches.
> “Our continued protection of you is contingent on your investment in us”.

In 1971, Treasury Secretary John Connally famously remarked how the US dollar was "our currency, but your problem," referring to how the US dollar was managed primarily for the US' interests despite it being the currency primarily used in global trade and global finance.
Well also the 50%+ savings rate for a long time (down to the 30%s maybe ten years ago, then back up for awhile)

If everyone in the US saved 30-50%+ it would not go well for our consumer market either.
Beautiful build, and very close to my dream keyboard. Excited to see the v2 of this.

Great writeup as well - thanks for sharing!
?? How do you think what you say follows from what I said?
I don't know, may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat.

That's certainly true now, even if it wasn't true before. So why would Putin act in a way that was absolutely guaranteed -- win, lose or draw -- to fortify and entrench NATO's presence on Russia's borders?

His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.
I consider whether I am wrong often. It happens to be that I am not. It is quite haughty and rude of you to assume that I haven't considered it here just because I disagree with you.

There isn't much more you can do here because you are completely wrong. Instead of facing reality (that Rust, useful as it may be, only prevents a narrow class of correctness issues of varying importance) you double down on its marketing spin that all the things it fixes just happen to be all the important safety-related ones.

Just step back and actually think. I implore you.
The 'Parasite' Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space
https://archive.ph/2025.03.04-110841/https://www.nytimes.com...
Nuclear power is indeed a silver bullet. France supplied > 85% of its electricity demand with nuclear (with the rest being filled by pre-existing hydroelectricity). As is hydroelectricity and geothermal power for those countries with the appropriate geography. E.g. Norward produces 100% of electricity through hydro. Non-intermittent sources of energy don't need to be supplemented by alternative sources of energy.
My guess would be a post from 13 years ago with 283 comments but I'm also curious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357522
At the time it was in no way certain that x86 was long for the world, let alone that it would take the world by storm and eat almost every other CPU architecture.

The OS-level was much more CPU agnostic at the time and programs would aim for an OS rather than an OS/CPU combo.

Linux preserved that for much, much longer than many others (the only other big name was NeXT into MacOS).

Now with ARM finally "catching up" we see it growing again; nothing is new.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Australia does sort of have a land constraint problem too, insofar as there aren't a lot of places in Australia where anyone would really want to live.

Agriculture in Australia accounts for about 55% of land use.[1]

About 70% of Australian land is arid or semi arid.[2]

About 87% of the population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast.[3]

About 0.5% of Australian land area is used for housing.[4]

About 50% of Australian land area is suitable for and used for grazing.[4]

Dryland cropping, dryland horticulture, irrigated pastures, irrigated cropping, irrigated horticulture, intensive horticulture and animal production, account for about 5.14% of Australia's land area.[4]

New housing development in Australia is largely done by encroaching on some of the best land for growing food, where there used to market gardens, crazing, vegetable cropping, etc, close to towns and cities, that production is being pushed further out.

New housing development is largely captured by businesses and companies that can afford to develop the land and cope with all the regulatory burden. Even in the regional areas, a block of land suitable for building a house goes for about $280,000[5] - about 5 years median income.[6] Then you'll probably want a build a house on that land, and that's going to cost you about $300,000.[7] For a total of about $550,000.

Even in the fairly average, fairly ordinary area I live in, house prices are up about 110% since about 10 years ago.

I don't know if there's some alternate timeline where housing in Australia is more evenly distributed, or if that would result in a better life for the majority of Australians, or how to get there if we think that's good idea.

Also see my other recent comment here[8] for a breakdown of ownership of the housing stock.

Thanks for motivating me to put this comment together, I had been meaning to review this data since the last time I look at it over five years ago.

1. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/products/insights/snap...

2. https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/rangelands

3. https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/coasts/pressures/population

4. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use

5. https://hia.com.au/our-industry/newsroom/economic-research-a...

6. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-workin...

7. https://www.residentialattitudes.com.au/building-advice/the-...

8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257766
Yes

Symbolic debugger seem to be going out of fashion
One important caveat: I recommend that managers take on coding tasks that are SMALL and UNIMPORTANT. Leave the key work for the front-lune developers (feel free to code review it).
Cool project! Though I'd advise dialing down the edge factor.
Bazitte is solid. Added PWA/electron wrappers for any web apps I frequently use (netflix/youtube/etc.) and added them as non-steam-games to my library. Have a steam controller and it is about as easy to use as any streaming stick.
I disagree with your first point. People are far more rational than you are making them out to be, it's just that they are rational within their own value system, not yours.

Also today's propaganda is capable of adapting itself to each audience member's value system to make it more palatable, and then gradually nudge the audience towards the desired narrative/beliefs/values. The systems that distribute the propaganda are already analyzing people's values and using that information to manipulate people. I think that information asymmetry is part of the problem. I could be wrong, but I think flipping that dynamic around so the public can see the true values of the subjects of propaganda may help neutralize a lot of propaganda.

As far as what impact this specific project will have, I have no idea. You may be right. I'm curious about its limitations and how it can be applied.
Evil... When? How?
Are We Justified in Using Inductive Reasoning?
Squishy keyboards make the tendons on the backs of my hand burn after a while. After Apple stopped producing their wired keyboard, which I used for everything, I bought a bunch of surplus ones and burned through them. I tried a few knockoffs, several of which were close, and now I’m on the wireless ones.

I was surprised as anyone when an Apple keyboard became my gaming keyboard.
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"negotiate for peace" means capitulation if russia gets to keep occupied ukrainian territory

the world tried this in the past and it did not work out so well

Russia will keep going until they are stopped
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>you might want to check with your God Emperor on that

I'm not from the US, thanks.
Exactly. There seems to be this awkward insecurity to prove that their capabilities and knowledge in one realm generalize to some sort of Tony Stark fictional super genius across all fields. I’m sure this is compounded by regularly being lauded in the media and running meetings where 3 comma sums of money are being agreed to, but maybe that points to a broader consolidation problem? I don’t think humans are built to operate like this…
Great question - the fundamental entry point of the air traffic system is this VHF control audio. Everything is downstream of that. Trajectory planning misses the intention signal on the frontend.

The example in the original post is actually a good case study for why trajectory planning alone breaks down. By the time the aircraft are on a predictable collision course with each other, you've lost 10+ seconds of potential remediation time that you would've had if you detected the error when it was spoken. Those 10 seconds really matter in our airspace.
The half life of what, CO? Pretty long lmao
Perl 6 / Raku. The swiss army chainsaw (Perl) raised to the power of the swiss army chainsaw. For its expressiveness in spite of some learning curve.
This is an interesting theory. Under this line of political thinking, it’s just as important that the U.S. project that they would come to help if the aim is political stability or maintaining the status quo.
Did the rules matter when hundreds of thousands of iraqi s were killed on lies?
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> All of these stuff can be done in normal linear algebra

On its own that is not a very strong argument. What you can do in linear algebra can be done by scalar add multiply and divide. That additions can be done with logical gates does not mean that programming an accounting application with logical gates as primitives is a good idea.

> It is neither more concise nor more intuitive to understand than normal linear algebra.

The real contention is this one. I have met people who hold opposite views on this
> They don’t know how to play politics and compete for resources against other managers and make sure their team gets raises and promotions.

Clearly those are not the skills Steve Jobs valued.
You were responding to my comment, which had scope broader than just leaking memory. So, to suggest it is only about leaking memory is not really responsive.
This won't "solve" propaganda or misinfo IMO. Checking logical consistency and eliminating fallacies still wouldn't address the selective presentation or omission of facts, for instance, and the notion that it could avoid misrepresenting a person or their values assumes that someone has already accurately and fully captured a detailed description of a person's values. But that's the whole problem!

This is just the formal specification problem all over again. Verifying software against a spec is good and useful, but verification doesn't tell you whether the spec itself correctly captured the desired objective, it can only tell you whether the spec is logically consistent and that you implemented it faithfully.
This is a theme in "The Web Between the Worlds" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Web_Between_the_Worlds
It sounds like the data set they use is designed to teach what logical fallacies are, which makes sense that it would do fine with it. I doubt this would do well against real-world language with things like structural ambiguity, anaphoric resolution, and dubious intent.
That's a very Australian thing to say.

I think the smallest macropod is the Tammar Wallaby?
If you're interested in this sort of thing, I cannot recommend the cryptopals crypto challenges enough. They are a series of project that take you from XOR up through breaking AES and beyond:

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Why would you do that? Is there any situation in which it is called in this program where that could be true?
I like perl, because the code i wrote 20 years ago still works without issues.
I'm curious for ppl who grew up in the US: did you have to use pencils or fountain pens with ink in class (this was the norm for me)? At some point we all switched to ball point pens which was a lot more convenient but not as much fun.
Could 'woolly' mice put mammoths on the path to de-extinction?
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Not by Accident, but by Action
This is a misunderstanding of enshittification. It isn't just 'some product is bad'.

It's offering things for free or cheap to build buy in. Then rug-pulling away the free tier to reap a profit.
Defend? Probably not... but it does give cover to absolutely annihilate mainland China and reduce it's ability to compete with the United States to nothing for decades if not forever.
It's a very impressive accomplishment. Nice job and you should be proud.

My main reaction when seeing this was "this is not for me." In terms of the layout, no labels, etc. I'm actually surprised to see how many people seemingly have no problem with this.
You can use dig:

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(still an external service, but not reliant on a website)
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