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> I am really amazed there are still almost half of the people able to twist reality to defend what is a direct attack against their own personal interests

Sounds like another reality distortion field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
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I wish the EU agreed with you. That would surely mean they would not want to go on a 800 billion Euro spend of my taxpayer money to deter an "irrelevant country".
It's odd to me that you start your post with "No, that's not it", because I think that both your post and the one you are responding to are exactly correct.

You state "the big cities and the coasts might be better off, but the middle of the country wants to go back to when they had opportunities and jobs for working class Americans. ...globalization has not helped them as much as it's hurt them. Cheaper goods don't make up for dying towns."

I 100% agree with that. But I think that many folks are so enthralled with Trump because he was the first politician to really acknowledge this simmering rage, give it legitimacy, and say that it's all those woke, city-dwelling liberals fault. The GP comment says "The best explanation I've heard is that this (almost) half of the US population doesn't care if it hurts a bit, as long as it hurts the other half of the US population more", but that fits perfectly in with your explanation as well. A lot of Trump supporters are pissed as hell about the hollowing out of their communities, and they're looking to bring retribution for those they blame for their downfall (or the ones Trump has convinced them are responsible for their downfall). Heck, Trump even said it loudly and proudly, "I am your retribution."
Reading data sheets is a dark art. What helped me most was watching YouTube tutorials where someone implements a driver, and along the way they refer to the datasheet and translate the information from the datasheet into code right there on-the-spot.
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More accessible on desktop.
Twitter itself feels like a “before”
The European country best suited to support the F-35 is France. Which also isn't a member of the program due to that reason.
> In my view, the optimal scenarios for using LLM coding assistants are:

> - Architectural discussions, effectively replacing traditional searches on Google.

> - Clearly defined, small tasks within a single file.

I think you're on point here, and it has been my experience too. Also, not limited to coding but general use of LLMs.
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Thanks -- I really don't know much about the latter
It's only been 2 months. America in free fall.
Instead of replacing one finicky and temperamental approach (auto-vectorizers) with another (LLM codegen) I'd much rather see more exploration of explicit SIMD abstractions like Intel's ISPC language. Shader languages for GPUs had this figured out forever ago, there is a sensible middle-ground to be had between brittle compiler magic and no compiler at all.
The president embarrassed himself by mistaking “transgenic” for “transgender”, and a good segment of the population further embarrassed themselves by embracing confirmation bias rather than stopping to think “wait, what can’t be right”.
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And for sure dismantling social security and all the safety nets including medicaid will help them feel welcomed again...
Outside engineering is not ever an oracle, and it has its own interior motives and bureaucracy, firing people is generally a one way street.

Twitter has literally issued authoritarian threats to advertisers to come on its platform or else because of how much its valuation has dropped and how much money has been lost - this is the worst example of "engineering oracle fixing things" I could possibly imagine.
No, it isn’t. DNS converts domain names to IP addresses. All you are doing here is saying you don’t want to talk to certain domain names.

That’s not hacking; that’s literally how DNS works and what it is for. You are using it for its intended purpose, which is to map domain names to IP addresses. What those IP addresses are often changes and is dependent on the network, which is why organizations have internal DNS servers.
After reading a few paragraphs about theanine and dopamine and all the other amino acids, anyone else get to

> Examine is an independent website that’s respected for summarizing the scientific literature on health and supplements

and read that website name as "exa-meen"?
JSON is less sketchy than CSV because of many security risks (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/279321/preventi...). I can foresee this be added in the future alongside CSV because it's more solid
There are always some fraction of nutjobs in any coalition, but in my part of the Midwest that is a tiny fraction of the voters. Most are just tired of change and tired of feeling left behind. To the extent that they're riled up by that rhetoric it's because it gives them a place to put their economic frustrations.
Do you think they'll be able to observe that prices are higher and their lives are even harder? My greatest concern is that the disaffected voters will be persuaded to go on a "long march," for some sort of "five year plan," that prevents them from reacting to the extreme negative effects.
Zelensky said ahead of time he wound sign it. The entire point of him visiting was to sign it. He insisted on coming in person to do it even though the White House said it wasn’t necessary.

What actually likely happened is that Democrats who met with Zelensky right before the meeting with Trump and Vance, like Chris Murphy, pressured or convinced Zelensky to reject the deal. This is disputed by the Democrats. So maybe it was something else - like simply a last minute impulsive choice by Zelensky. Either way it was unexpected that he would change his mind and would lead the event in a different direction.

As for “no agreed benefit” - the benefit was continued US support in the short term until a peace is negotiated. After all this conflict has costed America something like 200 billion. European countries are not only providing less useful help to Ukraine, but also are extending loans rather than grants. But for American taxpayers this is a huge expense adding to the dangers of a debt spiral.
>Is it possible your entire account got shadow banned, due to unrelated reasons? Afaik it's not even possible to shadow ban a single post, but they do that to entire accounts.

AFAIK you can do subreddit "shadowbans" by setting automod to send all posts to modqueue, and then using another rule to approve every post except the ones you want banned.
Seriously.

That isn't even some kind of annoying brain teaser estimation problem.

It's literally a question for doctors.

It would make me think you're so bad at your interview process you lazily copied and pasted questions from another source without even looking at them.

Either that, or a crazy person wrote the questions.

In either case, gigantic red warning flags about this company.
> Right now every buyer of American kit is feverishly evaluating non-US alternatives.

I don't know anything about fighter jets but for a lot of other things, Trump could not have done a nicer thing for China. Whatever issues many countries had with China, they are not actively beating most of them in the face. Probably the best years for Xi these are going to be.
This belief is flat out wrong and is completely oblivious to the current geopolitical landscape. US is likely to get sanctioned by its prior allies in the near future and you need to wake up.
> have nothing to lose and nowhere to go but down

Which is it? I mean, I know it's "nothing left to lose" but how can "nowhere to go but down" fit in to that?
You press Play Online to play. Swipe Right is just a (confusing) image on the page.
No, it isn’t. It’s proof that it requires some work.

Those are not the same thing. When you change the tires on your car, that isn’t hacking. But it does require work.
A homemade telephone exchange for rotary dial phones
Well, I'd say it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

If you don't agree with his political stance and and want to loosen his outsized influence on US democracy (e.g. by pouring hundreds of millions in political campaigns, silencing intra-GOP opposition by threatening to primary them with his money, using Twitter to push the fringe talking points of the day), then I would argue your goal should be reducing his net worth by refusing to buy from companies he's invested in.

If on the other hand, you're mostly criticizing that the quality of Tesla's cars suffers because the company doesn't get his full attention, it's a different story and your stance makes sense.
Let’s ignore GLP-1, and assume an individual slowly dieted to that exact same weight. What’s going to happen over the following year(s) is their lifestyle causes identical muscle loss.

In that context is this a long term downside of GLP-1 or their lifestyle?

Treating lean muscle mass as an inherent good makes sense when it’s adapted to a person’s current lifestyle. It doesn’t make sense when it’s a temporary situation.
As I said, they're wrong about the medicine, but Trump wins by being the first to acknowledge that there's a serious problem.
Yeah, but EU countries donated weapons like the F-16, which were bought from the US in the first place. So now we have to use another source for those weapon systems and the revenue/jobs won't end up in the US.

Is this really what the US wants?
You generally only get targetted like that (anywhere in life) if you both have wrong opinions and you have a sophisticated and persuasive holistic argument that wins people over. If they can prove you wrong they'll be happy to leave it displayed for all so everyone can see what an idiot you are and mission accomplished. And they already have prepared rebuttals for anything in the books or talks by prominent proponents/opponents, so you have to have innate and original thoughts to get to the point they can't use those attacks and you start persuading others. If you're just espousing what the 'greatest' thinkers of your persuasion argue, even if it's Hitler, you are generally safe because they already know how to defeat that using whatever their own greatest thinkers told them.

This is actually a very rare trait in the general populace so it makes targeting such persons fairly narrow pursuit while simultaneously if you explain it happened most people will think you are crazy.
Still. None of the desired 800B of investment in defense equipment and technology can have US suppliers after the last couple of weeks. Even if the US eventually gets rid of this cancerous development.
I would say: SQL is a DSL for interacting with DBs. If it's not doing what you want, consider a different DSL, like Gel, SurrealDB, or PRQL.

These also have the advantage of being programming language-agnostic.
South America. Was peaceful in WW1 and WW2. In US sphere, but far enough away not to be messed about with much.

I will be going to UA, to fight with them.
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What specifically are you referring to during the WW2? I'm sure it wasn't always black and white, but I think in general the US and western Europe were fairly good allies.

Personally I think the reason the US got strong, especially economically, is because of stability, rule of law, global trade and economy of scale due to large enough population. Not because of specific incidents of screwing someone.
Let’s switch suppliers a second time?
>Pretty much all comments here seem to be anecdotal.

The entire blog post was anecdotal.
I don't work full-time for startups, because of this. I was contracting for a startup last summer for about 6 months. They paid really well, but after researching the company, they were on their 3rd round of funding. The estimated yearly profits were a sliver of this, meaning they were burning through VC money hoping for an acquisition or somehow massively increasing profits. The product was also in a very crowded space with lots of competitors.

They had 3 other contractors working on the same functionality and they were all let go within a couple of weeks, because I could get it done 2X faster and without many integration issues.

I would have gladly kept working as a contractor, but when I refused a full-time work offer, they cut all contact off with me.

I would talk to the FTE frequently and they were always overworked and on multiple teams.
Again: I usually would not have a problem with this at all. All I'm asking for is honest communication. It's not difficult. In this case, just write: "If you subscribe to Kagi Professional now, we'll give you the first month for free!". I probably would have taken that offer.
Hey, you already have a camp in Guantanamo Bay. According to reports, migrant detainees have been sent there: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0p1ykxyzjo
Germany must be wondering why it is keeping enemy bases on its soil.
The culture war stuff FOLLOWS from economic depression. Once someone is in the financial dumps, they're already angry, and it's easy to redirect that anger to meaningless culture war stuff.
Oh right, I didn't see it in a couple of passes (and searching for cast); for anyone else looking it's in the 3rd footnote. Thanks.
> this is like Brexit but 1000x

This sums up what I've been thinking too - it looks like the USA is sick of being the center of the world and is stepping down from the position right now.

I guess this means it's China's moment. :/
Well, just use the new generation of "microservice frameworks" in Java.

I personally believe that it is a much better language and ecosystem, and wouldn't bother using Go which has way more boilerplate, has pretty bad expressivity (so that libraries/frameworks will suffer from a usability perspective, e.g. look at JOOQs, a completely type-safe SQL query builder) for negligible benefits.
Could I be missing something, but are you seriously promoting layoffs? You must be trolling by using twitter as functional example of why they work? I think sometimes I miss sarcastic tones and I really hope i did with this one
I haven’t found llm code gen to be very good except in cases like you mention here. When you need to do large boilerplatey code with a lot of hardcoded values or parameters. The kind of thing you could probably write a code generator yourself for if you cared enough to do it. Thankfully Llms can save us from some of that.
How do you see some sort of benefit for the working class? Has Trump, Musk, or literally anyone associated with this administration ever made any move towards that? Trump in particular is famous for not paying people.
> "There's this strange myth that white collar workers try and find meaning or reward in their work."

White collar workers might not; "white collar" encompasses a broad range of employment including repetitive clerical work.

Members of a profession¹ can and often do because they are talented enough to have some level of choice in what career path they go down, giving them the opportunity to seek meaning in their work. Software development used to be a profession but today most coding jobs are merely a complicated form of clerical work that doesn't really require that much skill or education (people on HN say this all the time). So while it's not surprising to hear some people say that it's a myth, I will say that it's not a myth everywhere in the tech industry.

¹ In the specific sense of "a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification."
Damn... I think you're being hit by some bug in the fancy fade-in animation. It's supposed to trigger on scroll.

I don't really like it, but apparently it's what cool kids do these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and it came with the template. But if it randomly breaks, too, off it goes!
It needs only a few to launch successfully to engulf Europe in flames.
So, even with subpar equipment, out of all of the 1700+ launch vehicles a few will still launch.
> Garnet, like Redis, is explicitly designed to be remotely accessed over the network

I know, but it is written in a sane language so my suggestion was that you can literally reference a project and make it into an embedded database. But then again, I would've tried Tsavorite/FASTER KV first.
Russia wouldn't know what to do with them, given that they effectively do not develop weapon systems after the collapse of the Soviet Union. China probably has decent enough espionage they don't really need them, although it might make a nice political overture.
As Elixir is getting its own type system, should one still pick Gleam over Elixir?
I think we all realize this is true since a current cult leader is president. With three letters scripting his act.

Fraud.
Shareholders are expecting layoffs now, it’s kind of sickening.
The combined population of China and Russia is less than a fifth of the world (15-16 bn vs 80+ bn). Edit: should be 1.5-1.6 bn vs 8 bn.

I'm only discussing Trump's behaviour and its effect on totalitarian governments, I don't have enough knowledge to discuss the rest of what you wrote.

I think the recent series of Trump's actions against Ukraine have failed to send a message to totalitarian governments that matches his own words. This has nothing to do with how much of the population Trump rules.
It has completely fallen apart to any outside observer. It will take decades, possibly a generational timescale to repair.

The damage is already irreversible on any near to medium term timescale - how bad it gets on an absolute scale is the only thing left to speculate.
I wasn’t suggesting anything. All I was saying is that Brendan Eich wasn't pilloried for simply holding a heterodox opinion, but for his actions to enshrine it in the state constitution. Agree with it or not, that is categorically different from "thoughtcrime".

Anyway, complaining about “wokists” here is pretty rich. People will really be like “you can’t do anything anymore without offending someone!” and then it turns out that “anything” actually means “stripping civil rights from millions of people”.
I think this is where "flyover" talk is so useless.

Look at Minneapolis, and Minnesota in general. Wealthy, hugely diverse, amazingly Red rural areas and unbelievably Blue urban areas. It's a lot like California, honestly.
If you look at the raw specs maybe. Grippen has a specific role which is starting and landing anywhere and being easy to support, both in manpower and materials. You can land a Grippen on any short stretch of paved ground, get it rearmed and ready to fly again in half an hour with 5 people. Whereas higher spec american jets like the F16 need very long, clean and straight runways, lots of support infrastructure, lots of personnel and have a long turnaround time. With the likes of F35 and F22 this is even worse.
> Time and time again we’ve seen examples of trams that are critical to supporting various revenue generating parts of the company while not directly making money themselves get cut as an “obvious” way to save money when only looking at the books.

Love how your typo turned into a beautiful metaphor for infrastructure being cut.

Save the trams!
A couple of counterpoints:

1) Trump might be alienating his traditional allies and cosying up to Russia, but he still apparently sees China as a problem or adversary.

2) Thinking purely transactionally, the US is very dependent on Tiawan due to TSMC. Most of the US' largest tech companies are investing heavily in AI hardware (TSMC chips) and/or rely directly on TSMC for their own supply chain. I have no idea whether Trump et al see it this way, or this would be enough to trigger the US to protect Tiawan, but transactionally, it's immeasurably more valuable to the US than Ukraine.
Watch mode is definitely coming! Right now I was just testing locally and the performance of the model is just not there to get feedback that fast, but the idea of automated tests is of course that they should be as fast as possible.
I spend a lot of time in the “flyover” areas, and this is simply not true at all. Maybe it was long ago, but we are no longer living in that age. It seems like the media want to portray middle America as some kind of medieval redneck nightmare thunderdome, for reasons I cannot fathom.
It depends on what you are trying to do.

Hexagonal tessellations are optimized for display and visualization because they approximate equal surface areas on a sphere. They have poor properties for scalable and efficient analytical data processing because they are not congruent.

Indexing for scalable analytical processing on a sphere requires congruent equal volume decomposition, even if you only care about the surface. You can trivially project it to the surface later if needed. Binary space decomposition, of which space-filling curves are a subset, are strongly preferable for this type of indexing.

In practice, a lot of data processing systems will render data as an H3 tiles only for visualization as a final step. That conversion is fast and trivial and it makes pretty pictures. It is not as commonly used to index the underlying data model because scalability and performance is prohibitive unless the data is small.
Polen corrected course slightly in resent time.
That is not what is happening. Listen to Ursula. She’s telling you what is happening. Eu countries are being “allowed” to go into debt without triggering eu debt procedures. It won’t be reinvestment. It will be dilution of currency though debt. Something all too familiar to Americans.
insightful -- you should know that California Senator Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard Blum, personally made a billion dollars from creating the China -> USA cheap goods conveyor belt. Blum also owned oil transportation business. This occurred over the decades between the Oil Shock 70's and dot-com 90s. The trade changes are still playing out.
> Also, from learning human languages, it's a well-known lesson that phrasebook-type "this means this" translations (like some here are asking, from Zig to C/Rust) are useful for quick and dirty learning good enough for one trip, but long term learning needs this kind of a direct explanation.

This is also good when the user already knows the concept. Like, I'm a reasonably competent Rust user, and when I started playing around with Zig I already understood the majority of concepts at play and just needed to know how Zig spelled them. But I still needed that more in-depth explanation for concepts I was less familiar with (comptime being the main one).
It might exist, but if you can’t find it on Google via keywords, it might as well not exist.

Does that make sense?
> Visa is also strengthening its account-to-account payment capabilities. While regulators blocked Visa from acquiring Plaid, the company went on to acquire Plaid’s European competitor, Tink, and brought it to the U.S.

One way in which their runway is not infinite is if regulators lose patience for the duopoly between Visa and MasterCard, and do more than just blocking acquisitions. It is possible as well that the US administration’s pro crypto stance leads to some development that greatly disturbs that duopoly.
These jets are being used to shoot down the drones that Russia uses to destroy residential homes and civilian infrastructure.

Their loss will be felt both in lives, and in the cold of winter when homes are unheated.
> Biden's approach assumed a unipolar world

Incorrect, Biden treated China as a rival power and pursued an industrial policy based on this view.
See 1930s Germany. Even Hitler didn't arise in a vacuum, he gave people an outlet to express their anger at a very real economic disaster.