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yo, if you work for those who do evil, your career is doing evil. you are a professional evil-doer.
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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed
Should be able to achieve this without selectors with HTML to Markdownish (something like Firefox's Reader mode).
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Unless they follow this up with some major excise tax, this is the obvious outcome of this, IMO.
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
It can be a cheaper source of human resources without direct outsourcing. This will just offshore jobs, not foster recruiting of citizens.

The intent is obvious, but the foresight into potential outcomes is shortsighted.

Labor is expensive, more competition will rise overseas, as it will become more expensive to operate.

It also crushes the opportunities of a gigantic number of individuals who are here today who had a plan in place to exist in this ecosystem. Additionally the institutions that supported them will also be hurt. Although, they might have been aware of the writing on the wall over the past year.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
> Smaller companies may -- may

Really? 100k on top of a salary per year? Why would anyone do that?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
https://learnyourway.withgoogle.com/

Link to an example:

https://learnyourway.withgoogle.com/scopes/AOcKkhsL/slides-n...

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
its content to make the creator money based off interests they have, the subscriber audience they've cultivated, and the sponsorship deal they were offered, then turning 8 paragraphs of text into 30 minutes of confused interest for millions of viewers who aren't sure why they are watching what they are watching. in summary, youtube
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
> These attacks may just be the final push I needed to take server rendering (without js) more seriously

Have fun, seems like a misguided reason to do that though.

A. A package hosted somewhere using a language was compromised!

B. I am not going to program in the language anymore!

I don't see how B follows A.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Spotify users ask for a setting to hide AI generated contents but they refuse
> But I quit paying for companies to abuse me.

Seems like a stretch, no? How are streaming music companies abusing users?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
> Why hasn't there been a minimal-boilerplate language and framework and programming environment?

There are? For example, rails has had boilerplate generation commands for a couple of decades.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
We have members on my team that definitely feel empowered to wade into new territory, but they make so much misdirected code with LLMs, even when we make everyone use Claude 4 thinking agents.

It seems to me that if you have been pattern matching the majority of your coding career, then you have a LLM agent pattern match on top of that, it results in a lot of headaches for people who haven't been doing that on a team.

I think LLM agents are supremely faster at pattern matching than humans, but are not as good at it in general.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
Are there studies showing indoor air pollution from cooking in a residential setting is linked to dementia?
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)
All it takes is a certain level of cavalier attitude. I would say the world is barrelling toward that again today.
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping
I wonder how much this correlates with fewer one on one relationships versus more "broadcast" and parasocial relationships
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
> Nobody programs assembly language

They certainly do, and I can't really follow the analogy you are building.

> We're at a higher level of abstraction now.

To me, an abstraction higher than a programming language would be natural language or some DSL that approximates it.

At the moment, I don't think most people using LLMs are reading paragraphs to maintain code. And LLMs aren't producing code in natural language.

That isn't abstraction over language, it is an abstraction over your computer use to make the code in language. If anything, you are abstracting yourself away.

Furthermore, if I am following you, you are basically saying, you have to make a call to a (free or paid) model to explain your code every time you want to alter it.

I don't know how insane that sounds to most people, but to me, it sounds bat-shit.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on In Search of AI Psychosis
> NYT wanted to doxx him

NYT wanted to report on who he was. He doxxed himself years before that (as mentioned in that article). They eventually also reported on that (after Alexander revealed his name, seeing that it was going to come out anyway, I guess), which is an asshole thing to do, but not doxxing, IMO.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on RSS is awesome
> The parent comment raises a valid distinction.

Not really, as described in the quote you shared, it is common to refer to "recommendation systems" as "algorithms", even if its not actually such a thing.

There are plenty of examples of well-known aliases to concepts that obfuscate actual meaning in the English language, but they aren't wrong, as language is usage.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
> GUIs are successful when they follow visual and behaviorial standards.

Wouldn't that be a design or HCI issue, not something innate to a language? What is a behavioral standard?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
Do you really think so? Have you ever explored the source of something like:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
> I know like 10-15 different languages, and CSS is by far the hardest to read and understand.

CSS is hard to know, even if you know 15 languages.

I can understand many programming languages and write in a subset of many of their features, but I wouldn't claim to know them. That would require a monumental amount of day to day effort, in my opinion (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_explanatory_depth).

To me, the best way to understand CSS is to evaluate it after rendering, and I have been writing it for decades.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on RSS is awesome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
Can you elaborate on what all that stuff is?
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
That is just showing nesting with some older features

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting...

- https://caniuse.com/css-media-range-syntax

- https://caniuse.com/css-nesting

- https://caniuse.com/flexbox

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
There are a number of sites that aggregate some things, here is one

https://moderncss.dev/topics/

Recent survey of what people use to learn CSS:

https://2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/resources/

CSS Tricks article on this:

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-keep-up-with-new-css-features/

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mespilus_germanica#In_culture
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Ask HN: How to teach a 4 year old to code?
This article covers some things, I guess

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11109739/

It highlights https://www.scratchjr.org/

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
I hope that you get that opportunity one day.
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance
> Roughly speaking, the bottom 70% of the population receives net payments (and services) from the government over their lifetime, while the 70%-90% percentile receives approximately zero net payments, the top 10% pays it all.

Well, maybe if there was more equal income distribution, less overall penalization to those who do not have as many assets, and so on, then it would be more distributed?

I mean, that is basically what is happening anyway, but you have a nation distributing that wealth through social programs, instead of capitalists sharing their take willingly with those who helped them earn it.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance
> This seems to weaken the entire paper.

It is relative, no? If a nation's population decline isn't as high as another, maybe because of immigration, then they have more human resources? Also, humans tend to migrate?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
> The more you read about Nixon, the more it seems like the popular narrative is likely less right than the CIA ousted a sitting president to install their guy.

Such as?

IMO, the more you allude to spooky things without adding substantive information, the more you sound like a loon.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7··on Bash Strict Mode (2014)
i don't think nushell is better than bash for day to day things. it is nice when you need it though, and then you can just run it, like with any shell.
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