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I wonder how much of a factor is that nuclear plants are effectively "unbombable". Ukraine's thermal plants have taken a beating, but their nuclear plants are still generating.

On the plus side, if it can change that fast, it can grow again too.

I've heard explanations for South Korea's low birth rate but they seemed country specific. What is it about Argentina?

They also have really poor judgement. A 4yo will find out how high you can get the car airborne.

Trump and Xi are meeting. Not the countries, just two corrupt and malevolent individuals.

Stop the conspiracy talk. This was Jake's chaotic personal life coming home to roost. It's not more complicated than it seems.

Same business it has in Ukraine today, or Czechoslovakia in 1938, or Poland in 1939.

Wow, you're serious. So FYI, postgres has had FTS for decades. TIN is possibly an improvement on existing PG behavior, but proprietary to planetscale.

Mongo's older search system was strictly worse than ancient standard FTS on postgres. About five years ago Mongo added more sophisticated search options. Standard PG search has been pretty stagnant, but there are PG extensions (like TIN, some proprietary some not) that add more sophistication.

In the mean time, Mongo doesn't let you use SQL unless you're directly a customer of MongoDB. The native primitives for aggregation in Mongo are ghastly and feel like the era of RDBMSes before query planners were a thing. Plus transactions... are relatively new.

I've used Mongo, there are things I like about Mongo, but the main benefit is horizontal scaling and the main penalty is any query more complex than get/put is hard. Whether that is worth it (especially compared to alternatives like CRDB, TiDB, or Spanner) is really very specific to you.

Poe's Law strikes again.

Are any of these tamper-proof chips in my phone or laptop?

China is actively broadcasting its plans to start the next Russia/Ukraine conflict. There is no moral high ground there.

That is peanuts for a nation-state actor.

> Russia can destroy every power plant in their respective opposing countries with I(C/R)BMs

I don't think this is true. Sure if you count nuclear weapons, but that's not on the table.

Russia has already used IRBMs. Even Putin tacitly admitted they failed to hit their targets. It's entirely likely that Russian ICBMs simply do not have the accuracy required to strike something as small as a power plant with a conventional payload.

Even China is building stealth jets and aircraft carriers. The people making these decisions know more about their capabilities than you or me.

Shipping through Hormuz is already up to about half prewar levels. I don't think Iran's strategy is working very well for them.

B2s can absolutely reach the northeastern half of the country. So can cruise missiles. The current standoff is a choice, not lack of capability.

Yes, I imagine deterrence is part of that equation.

Nevertheless, it's too early to declare the end of the jet. We will probably get there someday, but that day is not today.

Because of stealth jets, the US is capable of destroying every single power plant in the country, with all the horrible human cost you would expect. Exactly like Putin has been trying to do in Ukraine. Except, they could actually do it.

Trump and Hegseth may be bumbling idiots but so far they have been showing restraint. The jets seem to be pretty effective at making big holes in the ground, I wouldn't call their demise just yet.

It's the Putin playbook. "It's NATO's fault we need to kill Ukranians!"

All of the people responsible for that are dead now. Every single one. Maybe there are still 100k people alive that were ~5yo at the time, but I don't think we can hold them culpable.

> buying 150 F35's

Your immediate neighbor is going on an imperialist streak right now, and Xi says he wants the fireworks to start in his lifetime. I don't know if F35s are the right answer for Japan, but Xi isn't that young. Get ready however you can.

Machines doing repeated next-word prediction, trained on human text, cosplays a forum full of l33t hackerz.

You can't talk like these things have motive. They're just predicting the next word in the context. Stop anthopomorphizing them.

> Working with AI tools [...] You're not doing the work, you're commissioning and checking someone else's work.

You can work that way, or you can get involved. I am extremely hands-on with the LLMs and it feels like I'm pairing with someone who is doing the typing. My partner is brilliant in some ways but incredibly stupid in other ways. It can't replace me; for the most part I could replace it, but the work would take 10X longer.

Definitely feels like "my" code at the end. I find it very satisfying, it takes away much of the tedium of programming (ie the typing).

20ft containers cost almost the same as 40ft containers due to supply/demand.

A couple months ago I paid $3500 delivered for a 1-trip 20ft container just outside the Bay Area. It was the best of four bids.

I don't think the woman in question has participated in this thread. On the other hand, all the pleas to "stop making me read about sex" reminds me of:

"Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?"

https://theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucki...

There are many other... let's call them "orgy circles"... in the Bay Area attended by people who have no idea who Eliezer Yudkowsky is. The majority of AI doomers do not attend orgies. You're reading too much into a single correlation.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.

Sure, but you can say the same about alcohol, drugs, sweets, red meat, sex, motorcycles, base jumping... pretty quickly we're going to end up in a pretty milktoast world.

I met someone recently who filed bankruptcy over tens of thousands of dollars of debt incurred obsessing over baseball cards (!) There is always going to be someone.

With modern AI tools, the amount you have to care is slight. Not much of a firewall. And the bad actors causing these scraping problems care a lot.

I'd never heard of baseten before; now I know who they are. "There is no such thing as bad publicity".

The main payment is all the viral advertising that this AI hacking tool is getting right now. Hard to put a price on that.

From a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500040

Basically, the cost of an optimized solution is orders of magnitude lower than the cost of an in-browser solution. Anyone dedicated can easily afford to solve workloads higher than your users will tolerate.

You might stop casual scrapers, but you're not going to stop someone who cares. AI scraping companies care.

Plenty of threads on HN about this, Anubis does not work.

Often? It's a relatively modern language with enough functional programming features to keep mid-high blub programmers happy. Yeah there's cruft; all mature languages have cruft.

Kotlin is the obvious replacement, but the tooling isn't as good and the community isn't as large. Java keeps getting better, and in ways that diverge from Kotlin - eg, virtual threads vs async/await/coloring. From the perspective of language design, I prefer Kotlin. But I keep picking Java anyway, and I don't see that changing soon.

Go is openly hostile to functional programming. Dynamic languages aren't even in the running. Rust is too low-level for line-of-business software. C# is too Microsoft. The remaining alternatives are too obscure.