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Funny, I posted the same link yesterday.
Deindustrialization, triggered by depletion. The thing about mines is they don't last forever, and if you build your industry near the mines that supply it it becomes uneconomic once the mine is depleted.
Also, the world got a lot bigger, to the extent that a tiny canal was no longer meaningful.
The population of Scotland as a whole has grown slowly and continuously - nothing comparable to the mass depopulation of Ireland, even when you consider the Highland Clearances. It has however mostly concentrated in the economic centers of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It was only legendary because DropBox hit it out of the park. In hindsight it is easy to see this. And it's the default HN response to anything.
Moreau is apparently a Russian citizen living in Russia since 2013. I have some concerns about process, but not for these guys. People working for enemy intelligence services tend to get treated harshly.
The reason being it is a plain text edit component, with a window around it, hence the limitation.
Port 23 has been filtered by most providers for decades.
This is why everything converges on using TLS over 443 or a high port number. I don't see this as a huge deal, and especially not one deserving all caps rants about censorship. Save those for things like FOSTA/SESTA.
> if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?
The answer is, in case anyone wonders: because OpenAI is providing a general purpose tool that has potential to subsume most of the software industry; "We" are merely setting up toll gates around what will ultimately become a bunch of tools for LLM, and trying to pass it off as a "product".
Thing with factories, is that only like 25% of the original employees are left to take care of the belt, and remaining actions not covered by the robots.
Everyone is hoping to be part of those 25%.
Do you really need a 0-60mph time of 3.0 seconds in a mommymobile?
Beware of similarities with similarly named commercial products for networks.
https://www.javad.com/product/netview/
> this review reports bioavailability of up to 70% for some agents
To save us some skimming, could you specify which ones? (The review covers cyclic peptides that are absorbed by all mammals.)
> In California with PG&E which most people have,
Most people in California don’t have PG&E. Most of the land area in the northern 2/3 of the State or so is covered by PG&E, but people and land area aren't the same thing. Southern California Edison alone serves almost as many people as PG&E, and other smaller utilities, including public utilities like LADWP, SMUD, Silicon Valley Power, etc., serve another big chunk of the population.
I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.
Yeah, I was on the outside looking in when it came to sketch comedy until I developed a new character that can make people laugh just with hand gestures. It's really funny how you go nowhere telling other people's jokes and you really need to write your own material.
A varnish cache won't help you if you're running something like a code forge where every commit has its own page - often more than one page, there's the page for the commit and then the page for "history from this commit" and a page for every one of the files that existed in the repo at the time of that commit...
Then a poorly written crawler shows up and requests 10,000s of pages that haven't been requested recently enough to be in your cache.
I had to add a Cloudflare Captcha to the /search/ page of my blog because of my faceted search engine - which produces may thousands of unique URLs when you consider tags and dates and pagination and sort-by settings.
And that's despite me serving ever page on my site through a 15 minute Cloudflare cache!
Static only works fine for sites that have a limited number of pages. It doesn't work for sites that truly take advantage of the dynamic nature of the web.
Gotta echo other commenters here. Many people do not want revolving credit, or want to just use it to smooth out balance spikes and for emergencies. The American tropes of carrying a large debt balance or maxing out cards (eg to launch a business) as financial strategies are viewed as somewhere between gambling and fraud by a lot of people.
Average price of a new vehicle in the US is $50,000. This is priced appropriately considering total cost of ownership delta against a combustion vehicle. Rivian needs more volume for prices to decline from manufacturing efficiency at scale.
> copy FSD instead
They are. It’s also subscription based, however.
(For what it’s worth, my friends with Rivian are fine with its phone interface. As are most people who own Tesla’s fine without CarPlay.)
Man, these "hot takes" on the impact of AI are all becoming so tiring. I'm especially sick of all these "code was always the easy part" missives I see everywhere now, mostly because I think they're flat out wrong.
As another comment said, "easy can still be time consuming". I've seen plenty of projects that were well defined take months in implementation time (and then still sometimes fail for technical reasons). But most importantly, if "code were the easy part", why were top programmers receiving kingly wages for over 20 years? Because business people knew the difference between a successful tech company and an also-ran usually was, in huge part, due to the quality of their software engineers. If "code was the easy part", then you go write Google Maps in 2005, or Netflix streaming in 2007, or self driving cars in 2010, or, heck, ChatGPT in 2022.
Sure, good code for a bad product still fails, but this revisionist history trying to pretend coding was so easy, so LLM-assisted coding tools won't have a big impact, is nauseating.
And the fact that the UIs are less responsive and have worse UX now.
> surprised that Canada doesn't seem to be talking about doing this
Canada could get the best of all worlds. Let Visa and Mastercard compete with Alipay and whatever the EU comes up with in the 2030s.
This is Twitter science, not reality.
Nothing about the Philippines in that.
Any time you get mad about a streaming service who seems to have changed music or a credits clip for a TV show or movie, this is basically why.
To get the rights to use things in technologies that didn't exist when the media was created, you often have to go back to everyone involved and get their permission. Sometimes they don't say yes, or they aren't findable, or just aren't alive, and it's not clear who owns the rights anymore.
This isn't as much of a problem with newer media, because contracts now specify what happens with new technologies, but old contracts were often limited to specific technologies.
> They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country
So tech companies should be barred from hiring anyone outside the Bay Area? Because hiring someone in Texas or Arizona is necessarily exploitation?
What's interesting is how many things can be made to lase, and how many ways there are to do it. The list appears to be never ending and new entries are made all the time.
International drivers are allowed to drive on US roads as long as they have a valid license in their own country. In particular, Filipino drivers are allowed to drive on US roads without any extra paperwork.
But also, even in the USA, we have 51+ different licensing schemes in the US. We already accept that if you have a license in one place, it's good in all the places.
So eleven years ago someone put a backdoor in the Telnet daemon.
Who?
Where's the commit?
Waymo seems to be unnecessarily secretive about this. Why not let reporters visit the control centers? Zoox had the New York Times visit one a few years ago. It came out that there are about 1.5 support people per car. Nobody has a steering wheel. They hint to the cars by dropping "breadcrumbs" on screen.
It's well known that Bill Gates's favorite band is Weezer, so this feels unsurprising.
> Furthermore, once a structure is in place, there doesn't seem to be a trigger point that causes the LLM to step back and think about reorganising the code, or how the code it wants to write could be better integrated into what's already there.
Older models did do this, and it sucked. You'd ask for a change to your codebase and they would refactor a chunk of it and make a bunch of other unrelated "improvements" at the same time.
This was frustrating and made for code that was harder to review.
The latest generation of models appear to have been trained not to do that. You ask for a feature, they'll build that feature with the least changes possible to the code.
I much prefer this. If I want the code refactored I'll say to the model "look for opportunities to refactor this" and then it will start suggesting larger changes.
Not sure if this is an "oh, no" event.
So this goes into Vulkan. Then it has to ship with the OS. Then it has to go into intermediate layers such as WGPU. Which will probably have to support both old and new mode. Then it has to go into renderers. Which will probably have to support both old and new mode. Maybe at the top of the renderer you can't tell if you're in old or new mode, but it will probably leak through. In that case game engines have to know about this. Which will cause churn in game code.
And Apple will do something different, in Metal.
Unreal Engine and Unity have the staffs to handle this, but few others do. The Vulkan-based renderers which use Vulkan concurrency to get performance OpenGL can't deliver are few. Probably only Unreal Engine and Unity really exploit Vulkan properly.
Here's the top level of the Vulkan changes.[1] It doesn't look simple.
(I'm mostly grumbling because the difficulty and churn in Vulkan/WGPU has resulted in three abandoned renderers in Rust land through developer burnout. I'm a user of renderers, and would like them to Just Work.)
[1] https://docs.vulkan.org/refpages/latest/refpages/source/VK_E...
Robots may fill the gap. Really. It seems silly now, but give it twenty years. The developed world may end up with a modest human population and a large robotic population. Asimov explored that idea in SF decades ago.
The humans may still think they're in charge. They won't be.
You are selection biasing towards the most extreme cases of AI absurdity.
> GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The improvements are incremental at best.
I have not seen any claims of this other than Opus 4.6 being weirdly token-hungry.
In this climate make sure you have a new job lined up before you quit your current one. Don't let on the slightest that you care what title you have because personally I would blackball anybody who talks like that.
> Don't use products from large US tech companies?
What does large have to do with it? Why do you think smaller companies are any more likely to resist? If anything, they have even less resources to go to court.
And why do you think other countries are any better? If you use a French provider, and they get a French judicial requisition or letters rogatory, then do you think the outcome is going to be any different?
I mean sure if you're avoiding ICE specifically, then using anything non-American is a start. But similarly, in you're in France and want to protect yourself, then using products from American companies without a presence in France is similarly a good strategy.
I don't know if this will help, but I believe that all of mathematics arises from an underlying fundamental structure to the universe and that this results in it both being "discoverable" (rather than invented) and "useful" (as in helpful for describing, expressing and calculating things).
The few people that I've known with private nannies (usually au pairs) have had only one and also each had 3 or more (up to 6) kids.
As always, the only two positive things about WebGL and WebGPU, are being available on browsers, and having been designed for managed languages.
They lag behind modern hardware, and after almost 15 years, there are zero developer tools to debug from browser vendors, other than the oldie SpectorJS that hardly counts.
Markdown has the widest tool compatibility - GitHub renders it, so does VS Code and many other editors and file hosts.
I didn't know about sh-session, is that documented anywhere?
Or like Vitamin C. There aren’t side effects to fixing a vitamin deficiency. This increasingly, to me, looks like that. (There are absolutely bad effects from overdoing it.)
I've found it! The 'clue' was that the name contains 'lion' but I still couldn't find it and then suddenly it popped up. Pedalion.
They are fairly big compared to your typical harmonium.
https://www.reedsoc.org/index.php/rosdb/vieworgan?ascnd=1&ID...
They're a funny half breed, they have a blower motor, use reeds instead of pipes, and were popular with churches as practice instruments.
Oh, and this might interest you if you haven't found it yet:
https://www.reedsoc.org/index.php/information/reed-organ-rep...
Nope, it has nothing to do with credit cards, although it also accepts them.
It is majorly used for debit cards, and similar in use to the famous Minitel in France.
You can use it to load pre-pay phones, or other kinds of rechargeable services, buy tickets for public transport and various kinds of shows, pay water, electricity, taxes, among other services.
There is now an app used to pay on shops via QR codes.
You can also pay online with one time cards, that are generated for a single transaction.
Outside Portugal it is a regular debit card.
When you access Multibanco with foreign cards, you can only withdraw money usually.
The simple model of an "intelligence explosion" is the obscure equation
dx 2
-- = x
dt
1
x = -----
C-t
dx
-- = x
dt
Like the exponential growth equation it is unphysical as well as unecological because it doesn't describe the limits of the Petri dish, and if you start adding realistic terms to slow the growth it qualitatively isn't that different from the logistic growth equation
dx
-- = (1-x) x
dt
For me, it really is a wonder drug. My blood test results were stellar when the drug worked for me. Unfortunately, with me, it either works and I get side effects, or it doesn't work at all. I feel minimal effects (and almost no weight loss) even on a 10mg dose.
You won't be on the beach when you get turned into paperclips. The machines will come and harvest your ass.
Don't click here:
Phew, so we won't have to deal with the Year 2038 Unix timestamp roll over after all.
You can setup ACH for a number of Google services; Cloud, Workspace, the Play Store.
Don't forget collapsing testosterone rates: https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...
I don't know what the explanation is, but I find your's implausible: "Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them." I think that might be true in certain bubbles, but I don't think that explains why the fertility rate has collapsed just as much in Scandinavian countries that have the highest reported happiness ratings in the world.
See the discussion of alignment in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great
which can be summarized as "You have alignment because your business makes sense, you can't paint alignment on to your business as an afterthought" Go read the book though because Collins says it very well.
Another "xyz" domain that doesn't resolve on my network.
I was amazed to see that David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca.
It started as Testing on the Toilet, which was an effort to get people to actually care about unit-testing their code and software quality and writing maintainable code that doesn't break in 6 months. Later was expanded to Learning on the Loo, general tips and tricks, and then Testing on the Toilet became Tech on the Toilet. It's been going on for a good 20 years now, so that's about 1000 articles (they change them out weekly) and there aren't really 1000 articles you can write about unit testing.
The insight is actually pretty similar to Google's core business model: when you're going to the bathroom, there isn't a whole lot else you're doing, so it's the perfect time to put up a 2-3 minute read to reinforce a message that you want people to hear but might not get attention for otherwise.
Not entirely. Sperm counts in young men have been falling for decades. No one is sure why.
Anecdotally my experience is dramatically different.
Last week I arrived by car right near the beginning of dropoff time. Pulling in right in front of me was the mom of one of my kid's classmates, carpooling with another kid who lives in the same apartment complex. The three of them met up as soon as they got out of the car, and then another one of their friends (who lives across the street from the school and usually walks) joined them from his driveway. They met up with a 5th friend before they crossed the street.
Then I walked - well, more like ran - with the 5 of them down the 111 steps that take us from the street level to the schoolyard. When they reached the bottom, they met up with 3 more friends who had just been let out of the drop-off zone in front of the school itself. Said a quick goodbye to my kid, but he wasn't really paying attention, he was already ensconced in his pack of 8.
I've gotten there with my kid before drop-off time, walked down the stairs with him, and there's been a pack of about 20-30 kids and 2-3 parents usually milling around before the school gates open.
I realize that this is somewhat atypical in 21st-century America, and we specifically chose this community because, well, it actually has a sense of community, but it's not unique. In preschool I'd take my son over to his preschool bestie's house (she lived about 2 cities away), and there'd be a whole pack of kids roaming the neighborhood going over unannounced to each other's houses.
This is a great article, but people often trip over the title and draw unusual conclusions.
The point of the article is about locality of validation logic in a system. Parsing in this context can be thought as consolidating the logic that makes all structure and validity determination about incoming data into one place in the program.
This lets you then rely on the fact that you have valid data in a known structure in all other parts of the program, which don't have to be crufted up with validation logic when used.
Related, it's worth looking at tools that further improve structure/validity locality like protovalidate for protobuf, or Schematron for XML, which allow you to outsource the entire validity checking to library code for existing serialization formats.
Other prior art: https://github.com/bouk/monkey with accompanying blog post https://bou.ke/blog/monkey-patching-in-go/
Animals have "r/k selection": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory ; some have huge numbers of offspring (e.g. spiders, most fish), some carefully nurture a single egg per year. Humans are already at the smaller number of offspring compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, but what I think is happening is that social pressure has simply pushed the tradeoff hard into "quality".
That is, the message is "unless you can give your children a perfect life, you shouldn't bother".
Certainly the main victory against birthrate worldwide has been the long process of eradicating teen pregnancy.
> Easy access to contraceptives probably makes a significant difference too
This is so basic as to be an axiom of the whole thing. The politics of going back to forced childrearing through suppression of healthcare are horrific, but some of the US is pushing for that.
>But sure. AI is the moment they lost track of what’s happening. The abstraction ship sailed decades ago.
Bullshit. While abstraction has increased over time, AI is no mere incremental change. And the almost natural language interaction with an agent is not the same as Typescript over assembly (not to mention you could very well right C or Rust and the like, and know most of the details of the machine by heart, and no, microcode and low level abstractions are not a real counter-argument to that). Even less so if agents turn autonomous and you just herd them onto completion.
that, but also men in their 20s and 30s refusing to settle down, and wasting with gaming, entertainment, and porn (and caling women that are objectively their equal, or even much superior "mid").
Yes, because governments are so restrained in their use of propaganda.
What it is is the consequence of the power existing. 200 years ago nobody was arguing about how to hook people in the first 0.2 seconds of video, but it's not because nobody would have refused the power it represents if offered. They just couldn't have it. It's humans. People want this power over you. All of them.
Write about something else!
To me the combination of "I don't have much public codebases to show for it; I wrote code like an artist doodles in their spare time" and "things that I strove to learn and build slowly can be accomplished with ease" is telling.
From the viewpoint of somebody who makes a living at it and is only proud when I can put something in front of customers I don't think there is anything "easy" about it today. I mean, it is so irritating that HN is flooded with posts by people who are somewhere between delighted that they can make stuff that almost works with A.I. (e.g. no insight into the gap between "works" and "almost works") and who are crying that they don't know the secret sauce that influencers are using to launch 15 new perfectly polished products a day (e.g. no insight into anything.)
A.I. is the coding buddy I never had. It doesn't always give the right answers but neither does the programmer in the seat next to you or the crowd on Stack Overflow.
See also
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2322:_ISO_Paper_S...
European paper sizes are based on a sqrt(2) spiral so cutting in half works well.
My take is that the "new/" page is spammed with slop articles about AI ("I vibe code something that almost worked? or "Ask HN: How come I can't get as good results with AI as Karpathy says he gets?") but that on most days the voting tends to restore the ratio on the front page. Today looks bad though. I think Open Clawed or whatever it is to blame for the latest wave.
My advice: upvote stories that are not slop about AI, submit stories that are not slop about AI.
I think it's highly unlikely to be 100% innocent.
The C-suite has learned not to put so much incriminating stuff into writing (after Apple/Google etc. got caught making blatantly illegal anti-poaching agreements in personal emails from folks like Jobs), so proving that is probably gonna be tough.
For me this was telling -
> Coding agents are designed to be accommodating, it doesn’t push back against prompts since it neither has the authority nor the context to do so. It may ask for clarifications upon what was specified, but it won’t say “wait, have you considered doing X instead?” A human developer would, or at least, they’d raise a flag. An LLM produces plausible output and moves on.
> This trait may be desirable as a virtual assistant, but it makes for a bad engineering teammate. The willingness to engage in productive conflict is part and parcel to good engineering: it helps broaden the search in the design space of ideas.
Whenever non-technical people ask me about LLMs, I tell them this - The goal of an LLM is not to give you correct answers. The goal of an LLM is to continue the conversation.
> Right now every app feels like a walled garden, with broken UX, constant redesigns, enormous amounts of telemetry and user manipulation
OK, but: that's an economic situation.
> so much less scope for engagement-hacking, dark patterns, useless upselling, and so on.
Right, so there's less profit in it.
To me it seems this will make the market more adversarial, not less. Increasing amounts of effort will be expended to prevent LLMs interacting with your software or web pages. Or in some cases exploit the user's agentic LLM to make a bad decision on their behalf.
It is just part of the culture of “extreme gatekeeping” that U.S. culture industry.
Every culture has “certain norms” that “are not to be crossed.” It’s precisely because Anglos have so few thag they stand out. For most non-Anglos, the concept of such speech policing isn’t even thought of as objectionable. I was discussing the Charlie Hebdo shooting with my dad, who is staunchly anti-religious but from a Muslim country. He was like “well why do you need to draw pictures of the Prophet Mohammad?” To him, it’s entirely a cost (social conflict) with no benefit.
The Indian subcontinent also mostly farms rice but doesn’t display effective large scale cooperation or rule following. I wonder why?
They have control of the ship, but the ship doesn't own the cargo! It's not legally theirs to sell.
As staff who are presumably looking to eventually get another job in shipping, they have to follow the rules even if it's not clear what they are or the owner isn't following them.
The fact that the cargo is sanctioned makes it even more likely that a port will say "we're not touching that".
The "flag of convenience" situation .. well, it's a great way of evading legal responsibility, but it's also a very old one. That's going to persist for some time to come.
If you select Search > Advanced from the menu, you get a window where you can enter the content to search for. This is available in the normal as well as the alpha version.
FRAM is extremely neat on paper, combining SRAM ish speeds with non-volatility, but adoption seems to be low. Possibly due to scaling issues. I've had a FRAM-based TI MSP430 in my random parts drawer for about a decade.
> Not to mention collecting them at all means those servers are a primo location for state actors to stage themselves to make copies of data before being deleted.
Not to nitpick, but in this case they'd be collecting data they already own.
Euro NCAP actually mandates that a following distance should be part of adaptive cruise control. A lot of manufacturers have turned this into a distance meter on the dash, in addition to the automatic braking. When I test-drove a Renault 5. I could see a little bar graph measuring how close I was to what the car thought was safe. Which turned out to be a lot closer than I would be comfortable driving! That is, the car would have allowed me to get much closer before it would have activated any automatic braking.
(the irony of looking at a meter on the dash to duplicate a piece of information I should be very clearly seeing out of the windscreen was not lost on me, though)
BYD has physical controls, which I really like.
At some point EVs will be cheaper on the sticker price and cheaper to run. The US car industry is desperately trying to prevent this, but it looks like China is crossing that point.
(I would be very interested in sticker price / fuel price / subsidy / tax accounting EV vs ICE breakdowns from inside China)
Civil recovery, yes. It's not like you don't know where the customer lives.
Doesn't seem to be a problem for the water companies, which are weird regulated monopolies that really ought to be taken back under taxpayer control. Scottish Water is nationalized and paid through the council tax bill.
The problem is that the main military enemy of South America is Other Bits Of South America, especially internal enemies. That's why Costa Rica has no military: can't have a military coup without a military.
(also the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War was so devastating that nobody wants to get back to that point)
I only wish I was there when that cocky "skilled dev" is laid off.
The human propensity to call out as "anthropomorphizing" the attributing of human-like behavior to programs built on a simplified version of brain neural networks, that train on a corpus of nearly everything humans expressed in writing, and that can pass the Turing test with flying colors, scares me.
That's exaxtly the kind of thing that makes absolute sense to anthropomorphize. We're not talking about Excel here.
Really? Simulating a transmission has been tried a few times over the last decade, but it's flopped repeatedly as just silly. It's not likely to impress Ferrari buyers.
The only successful vehicle which has that is a driver-training car built in China. It's electric, but has a clutch pedal and shifter which are inputs to the software. You can even "stall the engine".[1]
[1] https://www.jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-...
Ferrari is actually using words instead of icons! Hooray!
(I knew they would eventually listen to me!)
Building an AArch64 code generator.
Singapore has also somehow maintained a supermajority Chinese population consistently since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore (77% in 1970, 74.3% in 2020). That is even though the predominantly Muslim Malay population has had much higher total fertility than the Chinese population since 1980: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-Fertility-Rate-Per....
It seems like Singapore uses its immigration system in a deliberate way to maintain the political power of the dominant cultural group.
Up until the IBM PC, I knew how everything worked, down to the transistors. That's long gone!
Counterpoint: Tungsten is about $1100/ton, so if demand averages 10k tons/year the annual US spend is about $10-12 million. That's peanuts in economic terms. If relations with China deteriorate the US could just set up a front company in some third country, buy tungsten, and re-export it.
I literally can't tell what the author is arguing against or for.
All the example table images seem fine, and have no captions saying whether they're supposed to be examples of good usage or bad usage.
So either I have no idea what "bad" examples of icon usage are because the author doesn't show any, or the author thinks some or all of them are bad when, to me, the icon+text+color examples seem great (and one figure caption indicates icons+labels are best)?
Yet the author continues to argue against icons and to use text instead? But never says whether icons+labels are actually better than just text, so we should use them in combination?
I'm baffled. For an article arguing for greater clarity, the article itself couldn't be less clear.
I don't think you're understanding. The point is that 20 people in a row will take advantage of your buffer to slow you down again and again and again, which makes you get to your destination later... because they're being selfish to get somewhere faster, and you're not so you get to where you're going slower.
We're not talking about where they're changing lanes to take the next exit. We're talking about where your lane happens to be moving faster, so they merge in front of you in an unsafe way to take advantage of that and just stay there. Why should you be expected to give them space, as you suggest? How is that fair, that they should get to their destination faster instead of you? Do you not see how that's going to rightfully make someone angry? When they should be waiting for a safe space to open up, rather than forcing you to slow down to create one?
Full pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18919
Continually pandering to "humane" bullshit is why the country has become the way it is.
Huh, I have the opposite experience, I love Zulip's UX. The fact that everything is a thread in a channel means I can quickly skip the threads I don't want, and I don't have to mark things as read in an all-or-nothing fashion. Slack doesn't let you do this, if you read a channel, it's now read, and you can't say "actually, keep this thread unread for later".
> you have to accept there will eventually be (hopefully simple) coincidences between certain fundamental values, no?
No. It’s almost certainly not a coïncidence that these charges are symmetric like that (in stable particles that like to hang out together).
> ICE should never have been created (more of the fallout of the Americans surrendering so much of their civil liberties while panicked about 9/11)
ICE was created by stripping some non-enforcement functions out of INS (those became functions of Citizenship and Immigration Services), all of the lack of civil liberties that was found in ICE when it got that name and was put under DHS were already present when it was INS.
The idea that the name change was the point of origin of the problem is a story created in the last couple years by peopel who never paid attention to immigration policy before Trump's first term looking for a convenient excuse that is both systemic (rather than tied to a particular recent administration) and old enough to provide an excuse to make it unnecessary to discuss why certain problems persisted during the Biden Administration between the two Trump terms, but also recent enough to support a narrative that despite being systemic, it is a fairly new systemic change and reverting returns to a known good state that is recent enough that it is not out of touch with modern needs.
The problem is that, if you've paid any attention to immigration policy prior to Trump's first term (especially if it was both before and after the creation of ICE), its pretty hard to either consider the creation of ICE a significant sea change or the prior state a known good state.
The real sea change in the style of enforcement was Trump 1, and it was only partially unwound under Biden as a political decision that preserving a tough border image would avoid an electoral cost by appealing to swing voters with whom Trump's demagoguery on immigration had resonance but who were skeptical of some of his other policies, not because of some inherent structural change created when INS was reorganized into ICE that made ICE inherently and uniquely and incurably bad. But though the sea change was later than the "ICE is only 23 years old, and we can just go back" narrative suggests, the state before the sea change, much further back than the creation of ICE, also wasn't great.
Note that I support disbanding ICE and radically restructuring immigration enforcement alongside restructuring the immigration laws; but not because ICE was only created in 2003 and we had something workable before that, but because the system was broken well before 2003, and only avoided becoming a total shitshow up until Trump 1 because of how prior Administrations used (and in some cases exceeded) the broad discretion given them within the system to prevent that, not because the system was well-designed, well-structured, or resilient. And even then, it worked pretty badly, but in ways that the people not intended to be subject to it could (and did!) mostly ignore.
If it wasn't the case then matter wouldn't be stable.
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Wavelength for electromagnetic waves = c/frequency.
So to 'catch' a certain frequency with a receiver the size of the receiver gets proportionally larger as the frequency drops. Focusing light can be done with relatively small gear. Focusing radio waves, especially when the source is distant requires a massive structure and to keep that structure sufficiently cool and structurally rigid is a major challenge. It is already a challenge for the JWST at the current wavelengths, increasing the wavelength while maintaining the sensitivity would create some fairly massive complications.
In the end this is a matter of funding, and JWST already nearly got axed multiple times due to its expense.