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I am not the person you are asking, but (to me personally) it just says that Saudi Arabia had made massive strides to become a modern 21st century society, as opposed to some of their regional neighbors who still practice FGM on a notable scale.

That assumes that Saudis did use to do FGM.. and that's not true either.

Let's call a cat: of these 230 mutilated women, a vast majority are muslims. There are 900 million muslim women on earth and nearly 1/4th of them have been mutilated by their community.

If the point here is that this is an Islamic/Muslim issue, then you'd find this in other Muslim populations. It's an Africa issue. Ethiopia is 60% Christian, yet had a 65 percent rate of FGM. Look at Pakistan, and the levant in general. Very Muslim populations yet very low levels of FGM.

I am not a journalist and even I would question the "good journalism would include" assertion given the source provided.

You've misunderstood. I was saying good journalism would include both sides, and hopefully primary sources alongside the reporting, so readers can evaluate both.

If the above is "overblown", then the SVP has done so. I have no evidence to believe this is the case however.

It says "at least one of those disruptions were tied to Amazon's AI coding assistant Q, while others exposed deeper issues." You initially cited this article as evidence that coding agents don't produce working code. But the SVP is describing a broader trend of deployment and control plane failures, most of which are classic infrastructure problems that predate AI tooling entirely. You're attributing a systemic operational failure to AI code generation when even your own source doesn't support that.

More fundamentally, your original argument was that the premise "software can write working code" is flawed. One company having incidents, where some of those incidents involved AI tooling doesn't prove that. Humans cause production incidents every single day. By your logic, the existence of any bug would prove humans can't write working code either.

Good journalism would include : https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-...

I find it somewhat overblown.

Also, I think there's a difference between working code and exceptionally bug-free code. Humans produce bugs all the time. I know I do at least.

Shows how although AI is great, good ol' issues that we had in human-coding times are still persistent and problematic even during the AI-age.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-...

About All Hands :

Much of the coverage of the service incidents has focused on a weekly Amazon Stores operations meeting and a planned discussion of recent outages. Reviewing operational incidents is a routine part of these meetings, during which teams discuss root causes with the goal of continuing to improve reliability for customers.

This is something that's a part of every FAANG afaik. I know for a fact that there's no prohibition on pushing AI-assisted code. How would that even technically work? It'd basically mean banning Kiro/CC from the company.

Only one of the incidents involved AI-assisted tooling, which related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki, and none involved AI-written code.

and this doesn't seem as "AI caused outage" as it was portrayed.

and include the fact that vast majority of other commenters are brand new accounts/never commented before -- doesn't make it look rather genuine

Unable to display PDF directly.

So :shrug:

Edit: Downloaded the pdf, started reading it. So much slop. I think something of value could be surfaced much earlier.

the US military has made contingency plans for a decapitation strike and seizure or destruction of nuclear weapons in Pakistan in case the situation turns really bad there. Real deterrence requires a credible second-strike capability on survivable platforms such as submarines.

The existence of a plan does not equate to the feasibility of its execution. A submarine-based deterrent is indeed the "gold standard" for survivability, but it is not the only standard. There is enough pain for the US that they wouldn't actually attack Pakistan.

I think it makes sense specifically in this case.

Mainly because Islam has jurisprudence around hygiene in a sense. Ritual purification is an actual religious principle.

Islam requires Muslims to pray 5 times a day, and for those prayers, one has to be ritually clean. That involves washing the hands, rinsing the mouth and nose, washing the face, forearms, head, ears, and then the feet. That's effectively all the major parts of the body that are generally not covered by clothes. Your "cleanliness" is invalided if you use the toilet, pass flatulence, vomit, sleep and so on.

More so, for using the toilet, there are rules. You have to find a place that is away from standing water, people's pathways, shade etc ; granted, this generally doesn't apply in today's age. You have to be quiet on the toilet, and not look at anyone. Not allowed to eat any food while defecating. Lastly and most relevant in this case, you have to use water to wash yourself using the left hand, and then afterwards, you need to do the same for washing the front if you've urinated.

The reason why the "bidet spray" thing exists, is largely because of the rules in the religion around that practice. Calling them Arabic wouldn't make any sense because Indonesia, with the largest Muslim population, has similar tools in their facilities. Again, because they're mostly Muslims.

Printing isn't a catholic thing because the religious doctrine didn't emphasis "printing" itself.

Arabic numbers aren't "islamic numbers" because the religious doctrine didn't emphasise the numbers in some way.

Raising the birth rate is extremely difficult

the UK (who has embraced it and is on the way to becoming Muslim-majority)

.. Seems like we've found a fix for ;) I wonder what's the difference between Muslims in the UK vs Japanese folks.

Not sure if this is just me, but the second section with the dark background, seems to have very dark text.. It's effectively unreadable.

1. A new UX/UI paradigm. Writing prompts is dumb, re-writing prompts is even dumber. Chat interfaces suck.

2. "Magic" in the same way that Google felt like magic 25 years ago: a widget/app/thing that knows what you want to do before even you know what you want to do.

and not to "dunk" on you or anything of the sort but that's literally what Descartes seems to be? Another wrapper where I am writing prompts telling the AI what to do.

It's a 14 year old kid. He wasn't demonstrating anything.

He took apart a clock, stuck in back in a different case, wanted to show his teacher that in a, I am guessing : "Hey look, I took all this apart, and managed not to destroy it"..

Honestly, this entire event shows me two things:

1. The jumps people make to crazy assumptions when faced with someone they don't like because of ideological reasons.

2. The low level of technological acumen/knowledge to assume that this is even similar to a dangerous device.

Usually via a Pager app these days, not a physical device.

The account creation process is free and takes just a few seconds. If you use Google to log in, you can access Raven immediately. For email sign-ups, you’ll receive a login link right away and it's just an extra click.

The average user leave web pages in 10-20 seconds unless you provide a clear value proposition to hold their attention.

I can make a account, and I can give you my email ... But why should I? What exactly even is Raven? The webpage tells me nothing, yet you think I am going to give over my email information (and name etc that's pulled from Google OAuth) ... for what again?

We agree that having the option to try the app without creating an account would be ideal, and it's in our roadmap.

Not even that. Make a landing page. Stick a few screenshots on it, make a loom video. Anything that shows me what I am even signing up to.

More so, you're targeting developers, on HN. That's a more privacy focused crowd. No Privacy Policy. No contact information. No proof that my data won't be sold to some random company is not a great way to gain trust.

gathering feedback from our first users. If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://ravenapp.ai

doesn't seem like I can try it. There's a screen that pops up saying I need to make an account.

blunt instrument like this is likely to kill off sponsorships as a whole

That's the dream. Ads are a poison and a blight.

Removing them is something many users, including me welcome. If one wants money for their videos, they're welcome to actually allow getting payments i.e. patreon, the "Youtube sponsorship"-thing.

Far more men like women with good-looking fit bodies. It's a statistically insignificant minority that likes "fat women", so "men" overall aren't policing women's bodies to the point of influencing women to not go to the gym. It's largely women who do it to each other.

It helps reinforce my overall belief, that people smart in some aspects of life, might be very un-smart/crazy/bigoted/ignorant etc in other parts of life.

I mean, look at the website, 7/10 of the "Recently Updated" are about religion, while most are about Islam. A religion that he categorically denies and thinks is false, yet is seemingly obsessed with? Strange stuff to me.

Anyone who defended that isn't even close to a free-speech absolutist.

No True Scotsman.

You just don't want to acknowledge such a stance is possible because the people you agree with are in power, allow the speech you agree with, and censor the speech you don't disagree with, so you stand with nothing to gain by supporting free speech. That's a personal choice to have no integrity.

... I am not American, neither do I have anyone in power who supports the speech I agree with. There's no need to attack me specifically. I am talking about the wider pattern. Free Speech Absolutists exist as long as the speech they support is being oppressed. Do you support Free Speech of the person screaming obscenities at your young child? False claims about you? Whipping up entire communities to attack you physically? Do you support speech that incites genocide?

Yes, some of those are crimes but I am not sure you'd care if you'd been attacked already. The damage is done.

The issue is when "free speech absolutists" often aren't actually that. They'll stand up to defend folks like the ones from the case you cited because "Free Speech". Yet, they'll also defend laws like the ones passed earlier in the year by the US House about codifying the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism.

spectrum

The spectrum is far too often simply colored by the politics one's interested in, i.e. Free Speech is simply a tool to attack another and provide justification for their own opinions. Not an actual Free Speech position.

I don't believe anyone truly has a Free Speech Absolutist position. It's always just a tool. When the speech is against you, everyone conveniently turns against it.

We're already looking at pictures and videos of our kids on the phone a lot of the time anyway. Which required us to be holding our phones in hand while playing with our kids.

A phone in the hand is objectively far less intrusive than a full on mask on your eyes that prevents half of your face being seen by your kids.

doesn't exercising mean you have to consume more calories

You can't exercise off calories. The difference in burning rate vs consumption is far too high for most cases.. I always thought the exercise that helped age better, was largely that the diet remains constant..

.... Let's not talk about that ;) But yes.

Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user

I currently have over 250 tabs open, all actually open actively running things in the background, and I haven't closed my two Firefox windows in the last 6-7 months. I constantly run fairly heavy CPU-usage web apps and FF's not crashed in the last 6 months at least..

Let's not generalise your experience to the rest.. Like "It runs on my machine" isn't a valid statement usually, "It doesn't run on my machine" also mostly isn't.

I use Firefox daily as my default, have roughly about 250 tabs open at this stage. I've not closed my browser in the last 6 or 7 months.. It's not crashed yet.

Is it possible that it's some specific website your visiting?

Does every little soundbite tweet posted by people who have zero knowledge of the underlying tech ... or any tech at all in this matter ... really need to be treated as some sort of incredibly genius take?

This means nothing, and it's from a guy who has some insane takes in the past... The same guy saying that Date rape is "belated regret", and that blame shouldn't be placed on the guy, same guy that wrote passionate defenses of statutory rapists. Why is this being given any value at all?

Having joined a startup at the right time, and then using your IPO-money to invest in a bunch of companies doesn't turn you into some intellectual. Especially when it's about something you have no idea about.

No firefox version? This is defintely one of the projects that I have on my list to do at some point..

It's controversial today, due to the artist but Power by Kanye West.