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How many days' fuel does Taiwan keep in reserve outside of this type of situation?

Leaving aside the sloppiness of the article, I think a lot of the behaviour in recent memory around crypto and meme stocks, and to an extent the whole rotating bubbles mode that markets seem to be in, can be attributed to this general trend.

It's harder and harder to see the traditional path from school to work to some acceptable level of family wealth as being effective/worthwhile, and so we see different flavours of roulette-with-more-steps capturing more of the population's attention.

Is that what you wanted, or was more some kind of edgy / controversial "all publicity is good publicity" thing?

All of it comes across as intentionally obnoxious. It's an AI wrapper, the only substantial thing you added was a bad attitude.

The dead internet arrived slowly, then all at once

And despite all of that this is an LLM comment, right?

The venn diagram for "bad things an LLM could decide are a good idea" and "things you'll think to check that it tests for" has very little overlap. The first circle includes, roughly, every possible action. And the second is tiny.

Just read the code.

(It'd be for selling to them, not for hiring them)

> Don’t spec the process, spec the outcome.

For this, which summarises vibe coding and hence the rest of the article, the models aren't good enough yet for novel applications.

With current models and assuming your engineers are of a reasonable level of experience, for now it seems to result in either greatly reduced velocity and higher costs, or worse outcomes.

One course correction in terms of planned process, because the model missed an obvious implication or statement, can save days of churning.

The math only really has a chance to work if you reduce your spend on in-house talent to compensate, and your product sits on a well-trodden path.

In terms of capability we're still at "could you easily outsource this particular project, low touch, to your typical software farm?"

I agree with you, I think. In the non-digital world people are regularly held at least partly responsible for the things they let happen through negligence.

I could leave my car unlocked and running in my drive with nobody in it and if someone gets injured I'll have some explaining to do. Likewise for unsecured firearms, even unfenced swimming pools in some parts of the world, and many other things.

But we tend to ignore it in the digital. Likewise for compromised devices. Your compromised toaster can just keep joining those DDOS campaigns, as long as it doesn't torrent anything it's never going to reflect on you.

The conversation at the time was commonly along these lines. Powerful type systems won, for the most part, and most of the discussion fell away.

There has either been a marked uptick here on HN in the last week in generated comments, or they've gotten easier to spot.

Yeah.

You're exactly right.

No -- you're exactly right!

No

The inertia (or actively maintained status quo) in Europe towards the US platforms is massive.

Anecdotally, I recently found myself in the local government building of a small European town. They run several free digitalisation classes for small businesses.

The options? Introductory classes to:

- LinkedIn

- WhatsApp business

- Facebook and Instagram ads

- Gsuite

You won't beat a good self-managed VPS with some docker containers unless you start adding criteria like SLAs and whatnot.

Then you'll still not beat a good self-managed VPS but you'll have someone else to blame

> capitalism doesn't give a f8ck anyways

It doesn't until suddenly it does. A glut of junk can eventually trigger a flight to quality.

Sadly, possibly not on a timeline which works for a given individual.

Maybe it's unfair, unhelpful or overdone to call out llmisms, but if OP is reading this I stopped reading pretty quickly as a result of things like:

> [CUE] does not just hold the text; it validates that the pieces actually fit. It ensures that the code in your explanation is the exact same code in your final build. It is like having a Lego set where the bricks refuse to click if you are building something structurally unsound.

And that's despite having a passing interest in both cue and LP

There are a few like this. You can bet on Jesus not coming back in the calendar year for a little pocket money.

Funny, because a bit like the yes side of the civil war scenario, if JC comes back and someone is the sort of person to bet that he will, then do they really need the payout in those circumstances; and will the gambling website be in a position to pay out?

I'd be surprised to learn that backpacking is no longer singles-friendly

In Europe the per kg price of cocaine has apparently halved.

If that's the case in the US as well, it could be that as a result there's more cocaine in the cocaine and fewer adulterants.

Fascinating. How many MRIs have you had?

I get a break from constant availability from air travel, but that's slowly eroding as it becomes more connected.

> Watch Ubuntu boot from ZeroFS

Love it

Awesome.

Couple of unsolicited comments: first is that on mobile, the featured badge sits on top of the right facing arrow. Second is that the bubble level seems to be upside down? The bubble sinks rather than floats at least on my pixel

Just get a sim card from home with roaming and use that data to access govt things?

Pets.com buys 8M sq feet of datacenter realestate in a deal with Oracle's liquidators, which is reported to include fitting the racks with hamster wheels and feeders. Sets sights on 400B IPO

200+? What was the quality of the data like for the Western Sahara?

We use pocketbase for a lot of our internal LoB apps and it's been bulletproof. Saved us a lot of time and money.

I'm a control freak and I like well defined endpoints with well defined performance characteristics, so the expressiveness of the API is in my mind a drawback for anything public facing, but it's undeniably a great experience on the front end, and if you design your tables with the API and filters in mind you can get to a good place.

Overposting is another thing to be aware of when the db is so ergonomically shaped to the front end

I can speak to this.

It works, though if you need auth/authz you'll probably want to add some middleware to get a cookie flow working instead of the jwt approach PB uses by default.

If I remember right, essentially you set the cookie on login and on auth refresh and pull it out and into the auth header on all incoming requests.

A trillion in a money market fund @ 5% is 50B/year.

Over the course of a few years (so as to not drive up the price of politicians too quickly) one could buy the top N politicians from most countries. From there on out your options are many.

After a decade or so you can probably have your trillion back.

> Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...