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>Don't accept anything Simeon Brown says without a healthy dose of skepticism, he's talking shit up for political reasons, like some people in the USA are doing right now.

Like you are doing now?

>neoliberal playbook

Hardly. They've made almost no changes to the policies of the previous government, which increased the size of the public service by around 25%. They haven't even dropped it back by 20%!

The rest of your comment is very conspiratorial and repeats the sort of trite anti-capitalist sentiments that you see on places like /r/NewZealand. Hardly fitting for a tech forum like this one.

>Sir Fay and Sir Richwhite

You reveal yourself. No native New Zealand/Commonwealth/British English speaker would refer to someone as 'Sir [last name]'. There is no such person as 'Sir Fay' (he's 'Sir Michael Fay' or 'Sir Michael') and there's certainly no such person as 'Sir Richwhite' because David Richwhite didn't receive a knighthood.

As far as I can tell from their wikipedia pages, Sir Michael Fay lives in New Zealand and David Richwhite lives in London. Hardly tax havens. They own an island near Whitianga which they're doing conservation work on.

>(As you can tell, I have some strong feelings on this. Because I lived through it. Was it all bad? No. It gave us one of the most efficient agricultural sectors in the world. Was it mostly bad? Well, inequality surged upwards in conjunction with neoliberal policies. So, yes.)

Yes let's please go back to carless days once a week and having to apply to the government to be able to import foreign magazines. Let's go back to assembling Japanese cars in New Zealand because of stupid tariffs. Let's go back to making things here again, inefficiently, so there is no consumer choice, unless you like choosing between one or two domestic assemblers of goods really made overseas anyway.

Let's go back to not having state-owned enterprises but having them all be run as government departments within the civil service. What a great system that was, very efficient.

New Zealand is far better off because of those reforms. It has made everyone much richer. We are less equal than we were, but so what? Would you rather we were all equally poor or that we were all richer but some were richer than others?

>Oh, and the NZ government had to pay for the release of one of their children when they were detained driving through Iran for their Instagram account about how everyone is kind. Ah, neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism is when embassies help their citizens... or something?
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so who is imposing biggest tarrifs? and who imposed biggest tarrifs 2 years ago?
Are you suggesting end-to-end encryption? Telecom providers have to implement "lawful intercept" interfaces to comply with the law in many jurisdictions.
What os are you using?

And about adversity to subscriptions, note that you can also obtain lifetime licenses further down the pricing page.
Perhaps you missed this, but emperor says that we will be so rich soon that we won't know what to spend all our money on. Just hold on. /s
> Christianity for example has this at its absolute core,

Some Christian groups have it at the core. There's lots of those that will be happy to see others suffer.
If you stopped using agent mode, why use Cursor at all and not a simple plugin for VSCode? Or is there something else that Cursor can do, but a VSCode plugin can't?
Tasks, Workers and Machines
Yes; it can be used in agentic mode and along with the joys it also has a few of the frustrations that would be familiar if have managed human devs.
^^ Redefines meaning of life to be dollars, accuses opponent of redefining zero-sum.

Silicon Valley is built on the attention economy. That term is a euphemism for making people spend their waking hours on addictive crap, taking away from the useful sum total. That's my definition.
I've never seen the word used in the plural (for computer programming code) until today, having been in computer science for 35 years. The uncountable form definitely dates from way before the web.
Back up your $20 a month subscription with a $2000 Mac Studio for those days your internet is down.

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Health economics is a fairly large field, and there are tradeoffs everywhere. Generally, you try to maximise quality-adjusted life years gained, which for rare diseases doesn't tend to win.

If you can give one person ten good years for a million in a rare disease, you can give ten people twenty good years in a less rare disease, so those tend to get more funding.
You've ever done support calls?

You waste hours because the customer couldn't be bothered to read the manual. They'll ask you to be their IT staff if you let them.
That's not how open source works / should work though. If the Go maintainers (that happen to work at Go) ignore problems that the MS teams flag up, they can fork the language.

The opposite would be true as well, teams at Google using Typescript or C# would rely on Microsoft to fix any issues.
Honestly reads more like a "Handbook for the CEO of a startup that had hit its planned growth targets and now needs to stabilise", the suggestion about 3 types of CTOs and implying therefore that you effectively need 3 CTO-level managers to cover different requirements( Architecture, hiring, etc) is something that you only see at that stage. I was willing to give it a go and read through everything, but mentioning "Agile", with capital "A" as a development methodology finally convinced me that the author has no significant real-world experience in building technical startups. Hard pass.
Actually a human and horses on long distances aren't that different. I don't know about wolves, but seems like they would overheat.
I just tested your service but much prefer this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530011

What you provide is way too basic.
> The reality is they will find some way to cull the unwanted poor.

I fear this is going to be achieved with a World War in the not-too-distant future.

Get rid of a lot of dissatisfied poor people and seize some more resources for the wealthy at the same time.
>The proposed target products include industrial and agricultural products, such as steel and aluminium, textiles, home appliances, plastics, poultry, beef, eggs, dairy, sugar and vegetables.

Why tariff such low margin US goods and not high margin US services like software? US doesn't export much goods, as most of the bulk of their economy is tech, finance and services not exporting cheap merch in shipping crates like Asia. How about a 100% tariff on Office 365, Windows, AWS, Azure, etc?

How is a tarif on US textiles or eggs supposed to be a deterrent? When was the last time you saw US eggs or clothes in the EU shelves? Even in the US, less than 10% of the textiles are domestically made.
That a country whose currency is world's reserve currency somehow concluded that they're cheated on, wow. By the time the FED balance sheet will reach pre March 2020 levels, we will be living in Back to the Future II.
I have been a religious Cursor + Sonnet user for like past half a year, and maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't like this agentic workflow at all.

What worked for me is having it generate functions, classes, ranging from tens of lines of code to low hundreds. That way I could quickly interate on its output and check if its actually what I wanted.

It created a prompt-check-prompt iterative workflow where I could make progress quite fast and be reasonably certain of getting what I wanted. Sometimes it required fiddling with manually including files in the context, but that was a sacrifice I was willing to make and if I messed up, I could quickly try again.

With these agentic workflows, and thinking models I'm at a loss.

To take advantage of them, you need very long and detailed prompts, they take a long time to generate and drop huge chunks of code on your head. What it generates is usually wrong due to the combination of sloppy or ambiguous requirements by me, model weaknesses, and agent issues. So I need to take a good chunk of time to actually understand what it made, and fix it.

The iteration time is longer, I have less control over what it's doing, which means I spend many minutes of crafting elaborate prompts, reading the convoluted and large output, figuring out what's wrong with it, either fixing it by hand, or modifying my prompt, rinse and repeat.

TLDR: Agents and reasoning models generate 10x as much code, that you have to spend 10x time reviewing and 10x as much time crafting a good prompt.

In theory it would come out as a wash, in practice, it's worse since the super-productive tight AI iteration cycle is gone.

Overall I haven't found these thinking models to be that good for coding, other than the initial project setup and scaffolding.
Which local model would you recommend that comes close to cursor in response quality? I have tried deepseek, mistral, and few others. None comes close to quality of cursor. I keep coming back to it.
> In this case, chain of custody needs to extend to the capture device itself, and to any software that exists in the supply chain for the video content.

There are two major problems with this.

First, is all footage from existing surveillance systems going to be thrown out because it doesn't use this technology? Answer: No, because it would be impractical. But then nobody cares to adopt the technology because using it isn't required. How's that IPv6 transition going?

Second, that sort of thing doesn't actually work anyway. Surveillance cameras are made by the lowest bidder. Their security record is appalling. They're going to publish their private keys on github and expose buffer overflows to the public internet and leave a telnet server running on the camera that gives you a root shell with no password. Does it sound like hyperbole? Those are all things that have actually happened.

There is only one known way to prevent this from happening: Do not allow the hardware vendor to write the software. Any of the software. Instead, demand hardware documentation so that the firmware can be written by open source software people instead of lowest bidder hardware companies. This is incompatible with using the hardware vendor as the root of trust, which is a natural consequence because the hardware vendors are completely untrustworthy.

But let's suppose we find some way to do it. We'll pass a law imposing a $100 fine on any company that has a security vulnerability. Then there will never be a security vulnerability again because security vulnerabilities will be illegal; I'm assured this is how laws work. At that point the forger takes the camera and points it a a high resolution playback of the forgery, and the camera records and signs the forgery.

I kind of wish people would stop suggesting this. It's completely useless but it creates the false impression that it can be solved this way and then people stop trying to find a real solution.
>the candidate did not speak any Polish, but was based there and graduated from Warsaw University of Technology. He spoke in broken English, and with a very strong accent that sounded Asian, but these weren’t warning big red flags, and the candidate sounded motivated.

This is ridiculous. According to their resume they lived, studied, and worked in Poland for over 10 years and don't speak Polish? This isn't considered a red flag? This was a screening call and the head of operations categorically failed.

>Communication was a bit choppy, and the candidate did not speak Serbian, despite graduating from the University of Kragujevac, in Serbia. Once again, they sounded motivated, so proceeded to the next round.

So no actual lessons learned from the last time.
highly meritocratic system all the way from bottom to top. incredible indeed. in china you start as a low level official managing a village, if you succeed - you're promoted to town etc.
they keep detailed records of your performance in school from kindergarten and a comprehensive dossier is compiled to evaluated by party officials.
that means you will never have a nincompoop in charge at any level.

maybe chinese nationals / or ccp members can correct or add some things.
How do you tariff a software service ? Tariffs are applied at import ? Are you paying US software if its hosted in EU datacenter by EU subsidiary ? Or if software licence is sold by EU subsidiary ? The concept makes no sense to me.
Gemma 2 27B at 4 bits would be a drooling idiot anyway, even going down to 8 bits seems to significantly lobotomize it. Qwens are surprisingly resistant to quantization compared to most so it'll pull ahead just in that already in terms of coherence for the same VRAM amount.

We'll see if the quantization aware versions are any better this time around, but I doubt any inference framework will even support them. Gemma.cpp never got a a standard compatible server API so people could actually use it, and as a result got absolutely zero adoption.
This is only surface-level deep. Cursor already has Quotas for their paid plans and Usage-based Pricing for their larger models, which I run into and fall over to their usage based model every month.

Imo most of their incentive on context-pruning comes not just from reducing the token amount, but from the perception that you only have to find "the right way"tm to build that context window automatically, to get to coding panacea. They just aren't there yet.
There is nothing left down here to be vacuumed up, as we probably agreed by now that trickling down doesn't happen.
"depending on your needs" indeed - does the TSC compiler need a stronger type system?

Advanced type systems are guard rails to spot and avoid issues early on, but that role can be fulfilled by tests as well, and Typescript has a LOT of tests and use cases that will be flagged up. Does it need a strong type system for the internal tooling on top of that?

I'm not an authority on the matter and know nothing about the compiler's internals, but I'm confident in saying that the type system is good enough for this use case.
Toll-wires
You read raw Slashdot!? You must be a connoisseur of copypasta and frosty piss.

To me that's like 'I love doughnuts, I buy one every day, but the paper bag bits do get stuck in my teeth'.
> of complicated APIs

of which the matplotlib is the embodiment. Terrible API with terrible terrible performance.
I found an explanation of the "v-groove" radiator geometry, if anyone else was curious about it:

(.pdf) https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/71aee1e9-3...
They found exactly $26B worth of goods.

Also afaik the only way to implement tariffs on packets is through lawyers attacking an arbitrary set of big enough players that aren't sufficiently globalized that they would be taxing the EU's own productivity, and any attempt to levy that inherently appears selective and thus resembles cronyism.
Kind of like Vat is applied now - you’re from a given country, you pay more per month for a subscription
I closed that thread, the maturity level in there is... highly variable. There's a lot of kneejerk statements in there.

Meanwhile, this decision was made or led by one of the few people that developed multiple popular programming languages. I trust his opinion / decision more than internet commenters, including my own.
Maybe it's an instance of Parkinson's law [1]: if it all fits in GPU memory, just put it all in and plot it. This is much simpler to implement than any out-of-memory technique. It's also easier for the user—`scatter(x, y)` would work effortlessly with, say, 10 million points.

But with 10 billion points, you need to consider more sophisticated approaches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
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Exactly what I was thinking. We need a great firewall of EU that is charging for packets crossing the Atlantic
I don't doubt that this cruft is insecure. It's just a bit of a stretch to get to that conclusion from finding a potential buffer overflow in Freeswitch. Maybe it's not a stretch but just a conclusion by analogy but then you might just say "all software is insecure".
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Exactly - not having empathy towards customer is something our entshittified big-tech platforms can afford, at least for a while. For a nimble startup, that is the path to death. I agree that engineers absolutely should not be shielded away from their design decisions. Not that they should sit on support calls all day long, but spending half a day per quarter in such calls can be very revealing. Some of the best understanding of my customer pains, and sometimes even issues I would have not even aware of, came out of talking to customers, or just listening in to the calls.
please don’t make my aws bill even higher than it already is :/

/s
I too liked windsurf better than cursor until ...

I asked it to refactor an authenticatedfetch block of code. It went on a loop exhausting 15 credits (https://bsky.app/profile/jjude.com/post/3ljuhrxs3442k).
I do like seeing there's threads (on here and in the github page) advocating for or asking about C#, it's healthy to bring up different languages.

But, advocates for language X need to make sure they read and understand the requirements and tradeoffs, which could probably have been communicated better.
But software/services are sold by EU companies (subsidiary)
We're just referencing off of other apps for the design since we were new to this. We have the onboarding, paywall, and the main content which I think is the norm for most consumer apps.

Hope you got to see some of the stuff we made! If you got any tips on what helped you on your journey, I'd like to hear that too! Appreciate ya :-)
Other countries stashing dollars is basically pure seignorage profits for the US. And these countries using the dollar as a long term storage of value is geopolitical insurance. This makes no sense unless you read it as the Trump administration sabotaging US interests.
something I learned recently: payments to foreign bank accounts in Brazil have an automatic 25% tax imposed regardless of the purpose of the transfer. This seems to applied to companies of a certain size, or moving certain volume of transfer, but still.
Yeah, I'm not sure why anyone likes matplotlib, but then I guess I liked base-R which is even more niche, so :shrug:.
"anything meaningful"? Does this mean that those technologies aren't used for anything meaningful, or that you're simply not aware of them?

(I'm simply not aware of them but that also means I won't make any statements about these)
>How do you tariff a software service ? Tariffs are applied at import ? Are you paying US software if its hosted in EU datacenter by EU subsidiary?

If there's a political will and your position is strong enough, a scheme / legal formula is trivial to find.

Even something like "5% of what you make off showing ads to European users" would be enough.

Can add any arbitrary qualifier like "if your main base of operations is outside the EU" - which could hold whether you're a EU subsidiary or not.
That said, now that I've explained how irrational it is, I could totally see trump doing that as he will seemingly take any form of pretext to enact cronyism.
Is this going to break youtube on a lot of Android TVs?
This is why UBI isn't a good solution to the massive glut of problems we're facing.

Which is why universal basic services[1] provide a much better solution, because they make it the government's problem to handle the logistics of creating or procuring the resources people will need.

But after decades of red scare, I don't have much faith the U.S. government will move in this direction, and even the working class may protest it due to how conditioned they are to reject anything they might associate with communism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services
Software companies just open subsidiaries in the target country and sell services through the subsidiaries. The only thing this does is make it harder to move profit to the home country (and there are ways sound this) and add a lot of accounting work
The list isn't given, but I've heard in both the Canada and China cases the tariffs are targeted at "red state" products.

Original press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

This seems to be the list: https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/e9d50ad8-e41f-4379-839a-f...

Edit: a skim of the list suggests it's pretty broad. Agricultural products, wood, clothing, wine, polythene. There's an insane number of very slightly different product categories, no wonder compliance is so expensive.
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It's a nice accounting trick, but that's all it is.
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especially when confronted with a soup of C flags and declarations, and still not being entirely sure what the C compiler is going to emit
I would love to know how and why you made that decision and how it's going for you (good I bet), can you please elaborate?
I'm wondering if it may be more impactful (and mutually beneficial) if everyone outside the US lowers the tariffs they have with each other?

If the US doesn't want to buy Chinese or EU or Canadian etc., make it cheaper for China, the EU, Canada, etc. to replace the US with each other.
> Nvidia is rich because they have insane margins on their GPUs. They cost a fraction of what they sell them for. That means that price will crash over time. So, I'm optimistic that a lot of this stuff will improve rapidly.

OTOH currently the LLM companies are probably taking a financial loss with each token. Wouldn't be surprised if the price doesn't even cover the electricity used in some cases.

Also e.g. Gemini already runs on Google's custom hardware, skipping the Nvidia tax.
It's very early days (perhaps too early?); running into issues caused by what very well may be an automated conversion is to be expected, and not down to the language choice.

Why not find out what's going wrong and submit a bug report / merge request instead of immediately dismissing a choice made by one of the leading authorities in programming languages in the world?
You can probably use an external power supply when you are not moving
I felt a lump in my throat as it came to mind while I drove around today with my 4yo son in the back, thinking about how to give him a “good life”.