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You are trying to pick a fight with a post that isn't making the point you assume it is. All that guy is saying is that there is a rush to build them, which is objectively true.

Whether or not the datacenters return on the investment is a different question.

Why? Isn't Amtrak that, but just geographically-scoped? Isn't Caltrain workable? Subways also function fine in NYC, DC, Boston, and even LA

(to be clear, I don't think the other poster is correct that having trains would satisfy the desire of the guy who wants a self-driving Rivian. I consider his want/need there to be fundamentally different)

The ignorance of Western people to think "Abrahamic bad", "Eastern good" is very aggravating. Modern times have given us plenty of violent Bhuddist and Hindu extremism right before our eyes, for example. And it isn't the first time in history for either of those either. No religion ends up being special, because, unfortunately, humans are fundamentally misbegotten.

Not to mention the ignorance in this thread of the basic fact that Muslim empires kept attacking and supplanting each other in South Asia, culminating in the Mughal defeat of another Muslim empire, which is exactly what this article describes. But instead of actually reading it, you'd rather bring naked biases and caricatures to the table.

So this is functionally just a replacement for Django Ninja, correct?

Like, it doesn't make the ORM itself typed

The US can share blame, but why should it bear the whole blame, esp since a large chunk of the American population doesn't want this war, whereas it appears that Israeli society largely does back it?

It’s not based on power, but rather the moral duties incumbent on citizens.

People largely tend not to believe in this kind of jingoistic bullshit nowadays.

I have seen a lot of your posts on here about political topics, and they are always disingenuous, misleading, and geared towards providing a thin veneer of reasonability over any form of morality.

If Congress doesn’t want AI-powered killing machines, they’re the ones who have the right to make that call.

You have it backwards, and you know it. If Congress wants to invoke natsec concerns to force companies to sell to the federal government, then they have to explicitly say so, and any such legislation and exercise of execute power pursuant thereto would be heavily litigated.

The government can make you go over to southeast Asia and kill people personally. It’s totally incompatible with that to say companies should be allowed to veto the use of their technologies in war.

Yes, it's legal to have drafts, but that's not relevant, and also includes certain exceptions for conscientious objectors. It doesn't matter if its paradoxical or ironic that an individual could be pressed into military service whereas a private company doesn't have to sell stuff to the federal government.

I hate React, but Vue never seemed much better. What is better about it, in your opinion?

dude needs to chill

also:

We’ll miss the sleepless wrangling of some odd bug that eventually relents to the debugger at 2 AM.

no we won't lol wtf

but also: we will probably still have to do that anyways, but the LLM will help us and hopefully make it take less time

Taxis are not a replacement for having a car for commuting for like 99% of people

It's ok, but it too frequently edits WAY more than it needs to in order to accomplish the task at hand.

GPT-5.2 sometimes does this too. Opus-4.5 is the best at understanding what you actually want, though it is ofc not perfect.

such a wretched character, you could actually hardly find a moment to root for him.

Hmm really?

In the first couple episodes, he definitely is, but I think they level him out a bit later on so that the viewer actually ends up liking him.

In the books, he is much more consistently unlikable.

(Don't bother with the books, IMO--show is better while still hewing quite close to them).

But that's different from reading, so it doesn't solve the issue

I’d appreciate honest answers, not platitudes.

Well, if you say so.

If you're a parent of a recent college grad who is on Hacker News, haven't you been in tech for some time? I would expect your perspective to include experience seeing at least a couple cycles of economic ups and downs.

It’s Christmas and we aren’t celebrating. No decorations. No pretending things are okay. I’m completely shattered as a parent, mostly because I don’t have answers. I told her for years that merit would protect her. It didn’t.

This is pretty bonkers on multiple levels. IDK what your family's overall situation is, but based on what we can infer, your family is not in economic jeopardy. If I'm mistaken, then I apologize, but it seems you are just one of the many, many families with an unemployed recent college grad, and if you're positing on HN, I assume you and your wife are doing at least adequately.

I don't understand how you, as a grown man, could be under the illusion that "merit would protect her" or that somehow graduating from a good school guarantees someone anything, or how you could lack the perspective that this is temporary and less important than health, family, etc.

Nobody is above broader, universal developments and forces, whether economic vicissitudes or worse (war, societal collapse, etc.) Your arrogance in thinking that "merit" could protect an individual from these things is justly punished.

I also went to a top school, and there is also something to be said about your daughter's lack of resilience and naiveté here, but she's a ~22 year old girl, so that's acceptable. From you, this is not, IMO.

Your entire view of the world was mistaken and brittle, and reveals a stunning lack of value placed on things other than career and such, but the good news is that it's much better than you seem to be stuck thinking right now. Economies get good again, and your daughter is in a better position than many because she at least had one job and has a good CV.

No empire lasts forever. Your sentence could apply to a lot of times and places in the pre-modern era

The fuck? Who do you think built the houses?

army, fight to defend their country (at least not as soldiers), and many other things.

In most places and times, didn't all men just get conscripted into war frequently?

Running the house was hardly "brutal", neither did it consume "all waking hours until the day she died".

Why do you think it didn't consume all waking hours?

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally

Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

You can probably close-source and sell for cheap, pick and choose who you sell it to.

Yes, it's easy to build entire cities from scratch in a centrally managed society, such as a dictatorship or communist nations.

This is generally true, but Indonesia is neither

At best, that's subjective, but it's fact that JetBrains is comically far behind when it comes to AI tooling.

They have a chance to compete fresh with Fleet, but they are not making progress on even the basic IDE there, let alone getting anywhere near Cursor when it comes to LLM integration.

I lament what could have been with heroku. I did some back of the envelope calculations for what it would have cost for my own startup to run on it and it came out to significantly more than what it costs us on aws INCLUDING our dedicated devops guy.

That's...nuts. o_O

Are you doing something special, do you guys already have a lot of traffic?

I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

There's that, but there's also the developer experience and functionality for people to run it on Mac and Linux.

We have a small C# service that we run locally via Docker (which I think is usually the optimal setup anyways) and develop with VSCode. Since it's small, it has worked well. Would it work well if that was our main backend? Not sure.

Wish I had the option of full Visual Studio on Mac for it regardless.

Reporting on sexual exploitation is a challenge in any context, but the situation in Gaza made it even more difficult,

You mean the situation where Israel didn't let journalists in and deliberately killed many that were there? Yeah, I bet that made it difficult.

It really isn't, because there are plenty of jews (or people with jewish background) that oppose israel's actions, but nobody points that out as some sort of massive contradiction.

Pro-Israel voices try to cite that as a massive contradiction, label such Jews as "self-hating", etc.

(I am not endorsing the initial comment in this thread)

I would love to be able to buy new cars without this level of software in them.

The West Bank continues to be under Israeli military occupation and constant annexation, and Gaza is still a giant dystopia controlled partially by Israel and partly by Hamas

You are both an imbecile and a liar

You can admit Gaza was a mess

It's not merely a "mess", it was a mass slaughter full of war crimes and the deliberate killing and maiming of scores of civilians.

And it's a lot more than Gaza (whose very existence is a fundamental issue). The military occupation and slow annexation of the West Bank by government sponsored terrorists is also a problem.

The people of the Abrahamic faiths have more in common than not.

What is the point of this platitude in light of the fact that Israel's government and society are largely irreligious anyways? Also, maybe tell it to the Israelis who bomb Churches, threaten to demolish the al-Aqsa mosque, etc. And which segments its citizens by race and prevents intermarriage.

I guess it does have a lot in common with Saudi Arabia, which is involved in killing a lot of civilians in Yemen.

A lot of us have learned a lot more about the country and its origins over the past 2 years and this kind of tack you're taking trying to pretend it's a normal country that has just made one or two errors is rather obviously hollow and silly.

Me and a friend tried to do a legal tech startup that was similar, but larger in scope (I wanted to do IDE + GitHub, basically). You doing VSCode fork here?

If you watch Peter Beinart's channel, he has had Ehud Olmert and Avraham Berg on. IDK if they touched upon starvation specifically, but it seemed like they were not in denial about Israel's actions, especially the latter (I think Beinart lightly pressed Olmert on whether Israel's actions constitute genocide, and Olmert disagreed, and I don't know that I begrudge him that, given his position).

Neither of these former politicians are current leaders, of course.

Interesting article, thanks for posting

But I do get the idea that there is something soulless about it, and the way conservatives interact with one another is closer to how our species evolved to live – that is, either hiding women from public view, or allowing their sexuality to be central to their public identity, without much room in between.

I wonder what makes him say that (not that I'd be persuaded there is anything to it, for a few reasons, but just curious)