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Zero sympathy for very poor people who were duped and coerced? None at all?

Ah I didnt realize there were 2 different licenses at play, yeah that's a little sus.

Isn't that standard protective boilerplate so that they cant get rugpulled themselves on a contribution, 2 years later? I thought the ASF had something similar.

Re: US military quality, it's both. Massively corrupt jobs program on the weapons acquisition side, combined with an incredibly effective devolved leadership structure on the logistics and combat side. Tested frequently over the last few decades. The bet in favor of them is that the weapons corruption gets sorted out once it really needs to be.

FYI, about 10% of the population in China are party members and you have to be invited, its seen as a good way of getting ahead and building your network. So most board members of most companies are probably party members.

Might be the numbered list of short points that keyed OP. And it's actually a great communication style! So much so that they overtrained LLMs to produce them. I wonder if we're all going to have to get idiosyncratically slightly worse to avoid the suspicion in the future.

Thanks, I'm now shaking my head at my naivete :)

I just realized, why don't they have some "definitely human" third party cookie that caches your humanness for 24h or so? I'm sure there's a reason, I've heard third party cookies were less respected now, but can someone chime in on why this doesn't work and save a ton of compute?

There's an incentive to blame "Chinese/Russian state sponsored actors" because it makes them less culpable than "we got owned by a rando".

It's like the inverse of "nobody got fired for using IBM" -- "nobody can blame you for getting hacked by superspies". So, in the absence of any evidence, it's entirely possible they have no idea who did it and are reaching for the most convenient label.

An operating system is a lot stickier than a website URL.

Google has stayed on top for 25 years because they're better and free. LLM providers will have to compete on price doing expensive inference.

Because we dont fund or assist what's going on in Sudan? We have sanctions in place against the RSF rather than applauding their leaders in congress every year.

There's no significant evidence of fraud, but the states run elections. Feds just tally the electors. Biden admin wasn't closely involved either way.

I'd call it a necessary phase rather than sad. People needed scalability fast, key-value stores are natural to shard, so they did that first and then we got better distributed DBs later. Even Prime Google was on bigtable for over a decade before spanner.

SQL as a query description language absolutely brings its own value.

We had a whole period of NoSQL because its difficult to shard SQL out across distributed databases, followed by people figuring out how to make SQL work on distributed databases, because SQL is really useful and people like it.

Medicaid is administered at the state level but funded federally, as a number of people might discover next month.

I think "hoarding" is the wrong connotation. They were happy to have it be a fun research project alongside alphago while they continued making money from ads.

I hear you and I once cringed at a "believe in science" sign at a liberal protest.

But science is about questions demanding proof and rigor, verification, reproducible results. It's not about blindly saying "Yeah my questioning makes a bunch of unsupported claims equally valid".

Is it a long time for the vaccine thing? I thought anti-vax was a California vaguely hippie-ish thing in the 90s. It's actually weird that conservatives picked it up. I guess the throughline is being anti-flouride in the 60s?

Especially if you're saving watts in the process. And not utilizing a capital-intensive asset.

It's not as conscious as that, its an emergent outcome of the snake pit.

Engineers have to spend an inordinate amount of time on "managing up", which means they have very little time and attention to do what would otherwise be a reasonable workload. Additionally, good engineers hate and despise this so it contributes a lot to the burnout.

That could be China's real motivation as well, they have BYD and Xiaomi with a good shot at outcompeting the US globally in EVs.

I did a bunch of perl in the early-00s, then never touched it again until a random engagement in 2014. It came back IMMEDIATELY. Felt like having conversations with an old friend.

I don't know what it is, its definitely not mathematical purity or consistency, but there's something there witb Larry Wall's linguistics background and general attitude that just stays with you.

Do fundamentalist Muslims have a realistic chance of imposing those views on your nation? Because, if not, you Fell For It Again.

(Aside, every western Muslim I've personally met has been chill)

Leetcode was always a skill mostly practiced for interviews though, right? Arguably its a better signal now in the era of vibecoding that someone can do it themselves if they have to. It used to be "yeah of course I'm responsible in my job, I use a library for this stuff". But in this era, maybe performative leetcode has more value as a signal that you can really guide the AI.

Being extremely hasty with setting red lines and enforcing them is what got Israel into this situation. The "mow the lawn" strategy means perpetual conflict and they have to win every single time.

What right does Israel have to govern Iran's self defense capabilities? Iran's been attacked unprovoked by USA/Israel several times in the last 6-7 years, they're not the ones starting shooting wars.

Iran's supply chain is already fully domestic thanks to sanctions. Repeated strikes on that supply chain will only serve to harden it.

They do already. Heard of SNAP?

Buying food for your family is a quintessential market transaction that works great with the government at arm's length. Healthcare.. less so. I'd rather deal with the DMV than a private insurer.

Don't know why you're getting downvoted for a thoughtful comment.

I think you're overindexing on a prepared sneak attack with maximum ops velocity from Israel. They threw the best punch they had and it.. disrupted Iran. Didn't knock them out.

Longer term, Israel has 260 fighter-bombers and Iran is huge. Allied analysts after WW2 generally concluded that strategic bombing didn't really move the needle on German war production, and that was with 10s of thousands of bombers, although admittedly a lot less precision. Any long, flat building in Iran's gigantic, mountainous country could be building missiles. And new launcher locations won't be plotted out ahead of time for a high-tempo 72 hour operation, they'll be coming up continuously over the long haul. They don't need to be hypersonic once interceptors are exhausted.

How's Israel going to sustain that long term, especially if they take any amount of ongoing civilian losses at all? It stops being an abstract conversation about collateral damage to civilians pretty quickly once it's happening to them. 10/1 ratio is nowhere near good enough for the polity there.

There was a ceasefire earlier this year, hostages were being released.

Netanyahu won't stop the killing until Israelis, or maybe a future American President, make him.

Bro, I get that you care about Israel, but posting sophistry to Hacker News is not going to change the fundamentals.

Israel is going to be "the country that committed genocide" unless Israelis find a way to stop it. There's no "but you need to understand the complexities of the situation" when it comes to killing hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians.

That's all well argued, but I can't get over the asymmetries of country size and the asymmetry of missile defense vs shooting the missile.

Russia wasn't supposed to be economically capable of a war this long and yet here we are. And that's a war of choice. If Iran is being attacked, they have no choices. People will find a way to make missiles underground if they have to.

And that's all before we get into political and psychological factors. How long does Netanyahu stay in power if Tel Aviv is hit every day?

(I have to note, USA vs Iran and Israel vs Iran are very different economic comparisons. It would be impossible for Israel to sustain 24/7 suppression over a country Iran's size but maybe with enough American funding its more feasible.)