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> The way I see it

i think ive detected the root cause of your problem.

and, funnily enough, it goes a long way to explaining the experiences of some other commentators in this thread on “vibe coding competitive SaaS products”.
By low-skilled workers do you mean the working class in general? If so it is my understanding that the overall goal is to help them at the same time as the privileged by shifting taxes at the same time as tariffs start to come down to create a re-balance of sorts in theory. Here [1] is a quick interview of Treasury Secretary Bessent by CNN Kaitlan Collins that I think covers this idea at least a little bit. I am curious to see how this plays out in practice. It's explained a little more in depth here [2] including how this was done in the past. I know videos are an unpopular medium on HN but I believe they are both worth the time to watch.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8WWvBEiFvE [video][10 mins][cnn interview]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA [video][24 mins]
I found Labyrinths to be almost unreadably boring. The stories were jusy kinda like.... okay whats the point? Maybe its better in spanish?
So 3/4 will rearrange accordingly. It will take time and will be painful but for 96% of global population a step in right direction, there is only so many attacks and bullying one can stand.

I wish it didnt have to come to this, but here we are, direction is clear. No point waiting that next election cycle will be much different, it won't be.
> A 40 MPG car, with gas at $3.29 / gallon is still $0.83 / mile.

That math doesn't work out.

(And I say that as an ardent EV enthusiast for the past decade.)
I mean, I'm personally a kind of Marxian. I won't defend liberalism, though I'd prefer not to live in an illberal society.

To me the present-day "left" liberal is not just profound hypocrisy but also a refusal to confront the reality of class conflict in capitalist society. The kind of liberal you're talking about will do "everything" to rectify injustice against every identifiable group except the largest group in society, the working class whose labour feeds the whole machine.

There was a slogan in the 20s and 30s when the socialist movement was confronted by (and lost to) the rise of the authoritarian right. "Socialism or barbarism" [and no, peanut gallery, the "left" in North America is not "socialism"]. Guess which part you're getting now.
Seriousness Matters
I don't understand the psychology of doomerism. Are people truly so scared of these futures they are incapable of imagining an alternate path where anything less than total human extinction occurs?

Like if you're truly afraid of this, what are you doing here on HN? Go organize and try to do something about this.
Impressive.
Few problems, after sign-in could not get a monkey until hard refresh, big monkey is flickering like crazy on chrome M3 14", https://monkeys.zip/profile is not working when accessed directly.
Are you talking about the composition or this particular performance of that composition. This performance may be too slow for any human to actually observe, but the composition is just a piece of sheet music you can read and judge like any other composition. This is far from the first performance of this piece, it's just that most other performances have been in the 20 minute to 20 hour range.
A lot of things are neat because of this. Refactoring becomes trivial and safe. If you do not change the type of the refactored function, you can safely do a batch replace and everywhere the old function was used, the new one will be used after that. If you do change the type, the compiler interface will guide you through an interactive flow where you have to handle the change everywhere the function was being used. You can stop in the middle and continue later... and once you're done you just commit and push... all the while the code continues to work. Even cooler, perhaps: no unit test is re-run if not affected. And given the compiler knows the full AST of everything , it knows exactly when a test must run again.
Unfortunately, in terms of antifungals both the EU and US are still using tons of them in the context of agriculture [1] which is contributing to drug resistance of human pathogenic fungi [2].

The references below focus on Aspergillus, but there are many such example in other fungal pathogens.

[1] Impact of the use of azole fungicides, other than as human medicines, on the development of azole‐resistant Aspergillus spp. https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/9200

[2] Celia-Sanchez BN, Mangum B, Gómez Londoño LF, Wang C, Shuman B, Brewer MT, Momany M. Pan-azole- and multi-fungicide-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is widespread in the United States. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2024 Apr 17;90(4):e0178223. doi: 10.1128/aem.01782-23. Epub 2024 Apr 1. PMID: 38557086; PMCID: PMC11022549.
I have been using RCP 8.5 for all of my long-term decision making (where to move and buy a house, how sustainably I plan to live).

Based off the downvotes I receive on here I think I'm too much of a collapsenik for the average HN poster, but one benefit of being neurotic is that by the time people finally start reckoning with the current state of collapse, I have already made peace with it. The downside is that I become miserable to talk to.
IMO everyone should automatically have rights over their own likeness, especially when it comes to commercial ventures.
I don't understand what you are saying here at all.
The real problem is that American consumers are demanding these gigantic monstrosity SUVs and trucks which literally cannot fit on European streets. When Ford et al were making hot hatchbacks, they were incredibly popular overseas. The inefficiency is at the consumer level.
Every one of the laid off workers need to file a lawsuit.
I have a 10-year-old EV and the battery is just fine. It hasn't really degraded much, either, and is still our family choice on trips under 600 miles.
>A country cannot go bankrupt. After the war the debt to gdp ratio was 250%, and from that position the government nationalised 20% of industry, built houses, create the NHS and welfare state and developed a nuclear programme.

Correct that there isn't a bankruptcy legislation, but there's a factor of cant pay the creditors and you just stop. Which mostly implies that retirees go back to work.

If you'd like to invent a new word for it, fine but bankrupt is what many western countries are right now.

>but I don't think overall tax burden is the issue here.

This is without talking about property, tv, etc taxes. The total tax burden is probably over 100% and you're feeding people into specific tax free things like food. Definitely total tax burden problem.

The problem comes up against thermodynamics. The longer you run taxes at these high levels, the worse things get. That includes roads and everything. Even though in theory taxation should at least maintain those things. So your country becomes poorer and poorer. Not sustainable.
The reason is government bad.

The next reason is a war on science/intellect.

That's it. Stop trying to rationalize what they're doing as anything other than "smart people and science bad".
We waited once for German Telekom‘s technician 4 months to get a stupid confirmation, that wiring is ok. So we got dvd player and lots of dvds from flea market.
Sure. Most engineers will probably poke around on the UI to look at graphs, and write any special monitoring configs in GMon (a DSL in Python, which is then transpiled to mash). Directly interacting with monarch_tool should be rare, as monitoring integration with rollout automation is also provided by default.

Further, the entire point of automon is to automatically generate common monitoring dashboards, which you should expect to be sufficient if you're creating a bog-standard setup.

> It didn't matter if the backend was Monarch or not.

It totally does. Borgmon has a totally different data model, a custom query language, its own UI, and various quirks along the way. To add insult to injury, it was a very real thing where if you wanted to set up new monitoring, you needed to get someone with Borgmon readability to approve your change (that requirement has since been lifted). Meanwhile, today, you don't need anyone with Python readability to ever look at your GMon code.

You can have Automon graphs that fetch from Borgmon under the hood, but everything else that you've described is 100% Monarch-specific.
So is this the case of final exams being too easy and unis having to adjust around that?

Or is it that way because of some other factors? I was thinking how much of this is because of historical factors; I assume in times before standarised exams it would be a very convinient way of finding new students.
But then, I don't know how it was historically in Europe/Asia.
The real fun as you get more experience isn’t the immediate horror show itself but witnessing the process and internal politics that made such a thing happen in the first place.

How did somebody so clearly incompetent get so much political capital that such a system could not only be created but perpetuated and even praised as a good idea.

And then you start to wonder… do the people who praise it secretly know it’s hot garbage or do they genuinely believe their praise? And the answer to that invites even more questions.

And then you get to watch everything else because such a monstrosity doesn’t get built in a vacuum. It’s probably the tip of the iceberg in terms of organizational dysfunction. Who are they hiring (and what does that say about you?). What process enables such things? Why do people tolerate it? Do they know any better? Is it fixable (probably not!) and if so, is it worth it (also no!)

…and of course how the fuck do I get out before I start drinking the koolaid too?
It's a defence mechanism, I think. Most of your life people tell you your lazy, weird, etc. These things become part of your identity and they hurt and hold you back. ADHD is a problem with solutions so replacing those internalized labels helps. Even if it's not the most healthy solution.
You would do something like:

open universe.mega_corp.finance_dept.team_alpha

Then when you use `foo`, the compiler would know you mean `universe.mega_corp.finance_dept.team_alpha.foo`.

There will probably need to be some kind of lock-file or hash stored with the source-code so that we know precisely which version of `universe.mega_corp.finance_dept.team_alpha.foo` was resolved.
This is a problem that an administration could easily solve given enough motivation, so it is fundamentally a problem with US administrations. Provide high incentives to provide easy access to charging infrastructure from federal funding. This is simply not an issue in many other countries that actually place value on modern infrastructure, or an issue that is quickly rectifying itself, except in the US.

But that doesn't put money into oil profits and hurts their bottom line.
> But... it's not. 160 years of straight uninterrupted time without total war out of 250 makes no-total-war the norm,

Your choose to mention arbitrarily 250 years. I see no reason for that, as there were things happening on the same soil before those 250 years.

> That's totally different than Europe

Europe is not a country, as mentioned not all Europe had the same conditions.

> that aren't relevant to the question of how often the US will continue to be the largest Western country with no threat of total war on domestic soil.

This started about "excepted from being blown to smithereens during WW2, which is the kind of opportunity that doesn't usually come around twice.". Nowadays, some countries in Europe do have nuclear weapons which reduces somehow the possibility to be the only ones blown up. If a nuclear power is hit by nukes, it will retaliate automatically hitting the complete list of enemies.

I think we both exposed our arguments and as we don't seem to be inclined to take into account each other analysis (the 250 years, Europe as a country, risks of current conflicts, etc.) will not add others comments - we can agree to disagree. I still learned various things I did not know before so it was a useful conversation.
Whatever people's reasons and motivations are for not voting, the actual effect is implicit endorsement of whoever everyone else picks.
Civil war may be a necessary war, eventually.
thank God, Pytorch gained so much momentum before this came out, Now we have a true platform independent semi standard For parallel computations. We are not stuck with NVIDIA specifics.

It's great that parts of pie torch which concern the NVIDIA backend can now be implemented in Python directly, The important part that it doesn't really matter or shouldn't matter for end users / Developers

that being said, maybe this new platform will extend the whole concept of on GPU computation via Python to even more domains like maybe games.

Imagine running rust the Game performantly mainly on the GPU via Python
I just paid $3.45 at a chargepoint charger for enough electricity for 22 miles. My plugin hybrid car gets 27 mi/ gallon. Gas is a cheaper source of energy for me
I think he understands that but when you have a situation where the real economy is growing only around 1% per year but rich people grow their wealth somewhere around 4-10% that can only come at someone else's expense.

In other words while the real economy might be growing as a "non-zero sum game" the growth of the elite and the rich far exceeds that and outpaces it. Net effect is that their wealth is wealth away from everyone else.
That's what I do. And I still don't even bother to charge most nights. If you live in a relatively urban area and don't do a lot of driving that is more than adequate.
"To demonstrate how efficient our product, CoPilot is, we've decided to use it to uncover vulnerabilities in competing products."

Gee, how clever and thoughtful.
Ask HN: Should you launch your stupid ideas too?
What did you do with the money from the stocks instead? Gold?
The best invention against climate change is the bicycle. Few resources to produce (often 10% of the weight of the user, a car easily weighs 2000% of it's 1.3 average passengers), low requirements for infrastructure and with a folding bike you can take it with you anywhere. Personal transport is the segment that fails to do its bit against climate change and electric cars are still cars that need wide road, parking, electric infrastructure etc.
Given the chaos, how does any industry make long term investments any more? All financial plans could be flipped upside down for any reason at any time.
The market for $25K cars is served by used cars. Most people I know would rather buy a used SUV than a new hatchback.
Literally their stated intention since before the election. Stated intention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43582451
EVs are not the solution, they just shift the emissions elsewhere and perpetuate a car-based society which is a much larger issue. Policies like NYCs congestion pricing and light rail are infinitely more impactful.
Even without the recent MAGA wave, Americans on both sides of the party line have always thought that. Even in the corporate world the domestic market is always the primary target and international is an afterthought
It's good business, just bad product.
It is absolutely a legitimate choice: It's a choice for "whoever wins."
That's not what the moderator's message about the ban says though, is it?

> The moderation team brought this thread to our attention as the latest example in an ongoing controversy in the community and they escalated the decision to us so that we can provide them clearer guidance for how to proceed going forward. Our moderation team has done an admirable job, but this controversy has escalated beyond the point where moderation actions alone can resolve this.

> To that end, the Steering Committee is banning Anduril from recruiting on Discourse.

Isn't this saying that the ban is because Anduril's job posts causes the community to respond in inappropriate or off-topic ways - an exemplified by the linked thread's comments on Greenland - and that the forum moderators can't clean it all up?
Using Agent-2 to monitor Agent-3 sounds unnervingly similar to the plot of Philip K. Dick's Vulcan's Hammer [1]. An old super AI is used to fight a new version, named Vulcan 2 and Vulcan 3 respectively!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan's_Hammer
It’s worth noting that

- UK poverty has been falling continually for decades
- UK real disposable household income (median) after housing costs is higher than ever

Part of the reason the UK “feels” poor tbh is because people keep saying it is without justification.
And the trailer to Rob Roy. (Why do I even remember this??) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8YJGwn9Y8
Same for me; I can get songs stuck in my head too easily.
I would love an EV but the charging infrastructure is absolutely abysmal if you live in an apartment in NYC like I do.
I'll bite - I'm an early adopter, and paying user, I paid for the year, but won't renew. For what it's worth, the app UI is dead simple and it makes it easier to track macros. I'll adjust the inputs to what I know I'm eating, and I rarely depend on the "AI camera" I usually just use the UPC barcode scanner. I'm mainly focused on protein intake and making sure I hit those goals. It does a decent job with simple foods, which is healthier for me to eat. I'll break each ingredient down, combine them into meals, then save them. Rinse and repeat for tracking. It's better than a spreadsheet, and I get to see the photos of what I'm eating.

That being said, I'm not going to renew next year. But there is something to this product that is not the "AI" but the simplicity vs. MyFitnessPal which has a ton of features I don't really need.

The critiques are good, but for me, the simplicity of the app is the most attractive part for me.
I think it's pretty cool
>A 40 MPG car, with gas at $3.29 / gallon is still $0.83 / mile.

$0.083 / mile
>Antibiotic resistance implies "killing most of people faster"

We will always discover new drugs. Because we are smart due to animal fats we eat and our brains thrives with.

Also, why propose quiting raising cattle instead of a more careful using of the antibiotics when treating animals?
Been keeping a food diary for several months now. I did have to spend a bit of time at the beginning working out the calorie content of the food I eat. But after that it's mostly just copy + paste - turned out I was far more of a creature of habit than I thought.

If you want to derive any benefit from doing this you should really be trying to get your numbers correct from the start. I wouldn't leave that to a LLM.
Replication is important. Statistically, effects can be enormously correlated in one study, yet have no correlation in many other studies.
Unlike what some people think you really don't need a 7kW charger at home. A dryer outlet will charge a car fully overnight.
> A 40 MPG car, with gas at $3.29 / gallon is still $0.83 / mile.

That would be $0.08 / mile.
Rich folks don’t keep their money in savings accounts. Rather real estate and securities, which scale with inflation.
You might be remembering the 90s-era MDI user interface where you could have multiple documents open as sub-windows within the parent Excel application window.
> They shouldn't be surprised. Stuff like this is exactly what they said they were going to do and ~70 million voted for it and ~90 million weren't compelled enough to vote for the other viable choice or choices

But the problem is this was one of a million facets to the choice, and people were only able to vote on the whole package.

Personally, I blame the Democrats, because they knew what the Republicans "said they were going to do" and pretty much only used it for uninspired attack ad fodder. They should have been focusing on fixing the shit that causes voters to disapprove of them:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/5224072-de...

> The Democratic Party’s approval rating remains at a low point, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released to The Hill on Monday.

> ...

> “Democrats continue to be seen as out of the mainstream. Their ratings are at record lows and, they will have real problems in the midterms if they can’t lift themselves up from this nadir,” said Mark Penn, the co-director of the poll.

> The latest polling matches similarly dismal numbers for Democrats found in other surveys.

It takes a special level of awfulness to lose to Trump worse than the first time.
For the greater good of Apple, not the people. Donating to authoritarians doesn’t benefit customers it benefits Apple.
"The AI safety community has grown unsure of itself; they are now the butt of jokes, having predicted disaster after disaster that has manifestly failed to occur. Some of them admit they were wrong."

Too real.
Maybe it is outdated practice but I still use == operator for null or undefined check.

if (value == null)
I can foresee a lot of places using battery “reservoirs” as batteries become cheaper. Gas stations don’t have pipelines straight to the pump.

It only makes more sense if you want to make the grid greener & have price arbitrage based on the time of day.

I’m sure there are problems with this (feel free to point them out).
There is only so much you can do - you kick them out for everything and thus further cutoff the country and that in turn means you have less influence in the future.
I've heard the most prosperous times for the US are when the president's party is different from the congressional majority. Few laws get passed, so things stay stable for businesses.
I'm relieved to know from reading this thread I'm not completely crazy. I have the same thing, a very, very short snippet just repeatedly "playing". I become very conscious of it at various moments and try to "change the track" to some other repeated snippet. I've yet to find a pattern to which track is next.
> Some pieces for example require the player to not alternate their picking, but pluck only in one direction, as the difference is audible.

I still remember the moment in my bedroom 30 years ago trying to play Master of Puppets when I accidentally discovered down-picking.
> Gas isn't expensive enough

Even if it was, charging an EV just takes too long. I love my Tesla, but I can't drive it outside of town because there's nowhere to charge it. I can drive my gas-guzzling SUV anywhere in the US because when it runs out of gas, I pull into a gas station, spend two minutes gassing it up, and then keep going. The Tesla? Well, if I _can_ find a charging station that's actually working before I actually completely run out of charge, I'm going to be waiting a minimum two hours before I can keep going. AFAIK, there's no proposed solution for this; I can plug it in and home and keep it charged and it works great as long as I never drive it too far away to be plugged in and sit at home.
Tesla is the most heavily subsidized, what are you talking about?
> distinguish between "this is a member access on an object" and "this is referencing something in a module".

zig: what's the difference?
This really illustrates how unfair copyright enforcement is.

The rules for Disney are not the same as the rules for most creators.
An open source, AI simulation engine 100,000,000x faster than quantum physics
> abolished slavery

Yeah and why didn't people praise me when I released all the puppies from my puppy kicking factory?
What you said has been valid for as long as there has been a government.
Don't forget the suicide nets at Foxconn instead of improving working conditions
Tesla is subsidized too. Honest question, do you think the care companies producing EVs in China are subsidized by the government?
> nobody is required to help you, even the government

Seems very convenient, what am I paying taxes for then?
I feel bored of AI as well.

LLMs and Generative AI are exciting, and I want research and development on such to continue.

I use Copilot at work, and sometimes it is scary on point (other times not). But at home, I like to do things by hand. I code unassisted, I draw with pencil and paper.

The conversation and secondary effects of AI, feel so dreary and banal. It is amazing technology, wielded so lazily