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Many of us are forced to spend time reviewing automatically generated code for work, so there is an understandable reluctance to be asked to do the same here as well.

HN is for technical discussions. Even if the parent were only judging by his own personal preferences that would be relevant here.

Note: I've written a lot of C by profession and passion, yet I find parent's criticisms mostly valid. At least he did not mention rust ;)

I've spent enough time wondering where a given short name was pulled from that i came to see lack of namespace as a quasi feature.

Actually, I remembered having read that in an old interview in the early 2000s, but I can't retrieve it now so it's safe to assume that it's a false memory.

Lua was designed to be an extension language though (checked on wikipedia this time :-D)

  the companies will have to pay, because you can't force creativity and quality

Most companies do not care about quality. _users_ who have to interact with that software will pay the price.

Exemple from one of the wealthiest company in existance, for one of its most strategic product: I was trying gemini-cli on some mcp servers just yesterday, with gemini-chat helping me configuring everything. In less than 10 minutes, I stumbled upon 3 or 4 different bugs. Eventually, even gemini-chat recommended that I throw gemini-cli in the bin and move on to another agent... That's the new norm.

That was the initial intended use case for Python to be a configuration language.

What kind of race condition do you have in mind?

Looks quite interesting, hope to find some time to give this extension a try one of these days!

I'm surprised that people consider this a victory. It just shows how much open source became irrelevant to users' freedom.

and it's up to us if those ugly old seals murder those pups or not :)

We make those idyllic paintings, we dream of justice and peace and cooperation, yet we are 100% part of nature.

  I think the idea is simple, and clear.

Simple and clear yet everything that follow is controversial. :)

First, humans are animals. You mean "each species value itself more than others"? I don't know, but I certainly do not value any human life above any other species life; Humans are amazing, but when they are malfunctioning they can do a lot of damage ;)

Of course I was not thinking about preventing predation, or life would be limited to some bacterias, plants and algaes that can power their metabolism from some minerals and/or sunlight.

Some violence in nature is gratuitous (like a cat killing a mouse for fun) and this looks like an example of that. If we let this happen, why stop human hunters from killing seals too?

By that logic, then we "disrupting" that equilibrium is also part of the equilibrium. Is it consistent to let a few adult male seals murder hundreds of pups while at the same time forbid hunters to hunt a few seals for fur, or fishermen in Faroe islands to catch dolphins once a year?

To me, it sounds that the fear of unintended consequences that you mentioned is what I called "distrust of human society". Yes, I am aware of the risk, and that's an argument that I accept in general. But it applies only at large scale, so not in the case at hand. Or we can picture an even smaller scale: picture a single old male attacking a single defenseless pup. Interfering?

They are easy to recognize, they call themselves "physicalists" :)

I find the final question about human intervention fascinating.

  The scientists aren’t recommending intervention, even if the perpetrators tend to be the same few individuals. “We don’t know how natural it is,” says Ursula Siebert, a veterinary pathologist specializing in wildlife population health at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover who was not involved with the work. “It can definitely be hard to watch,” Langley adds. “But the life of a seal—and indeed any wild animal—is tough.”

This idea that human influence over nature should not reach beyond species boundaries, that there is no universal value common to several species, seems prevalent in natural sciences. Is it coming from an understandable but misleading distrust of human society and idealisation of "nature", or from a deeper understanding that "nature always knows better", I can't decide.

Or pay for parking in many european cities. So I guess you are not forced into a hermit life as long as... you are already happy with your hermit life.

  humans are the only known lifeform that can look at the stars ... sentience and free will.

Ants look at the canopy and try to understand. Feeling good about themselves while farming a herd of aphids, they marvel: "evolution optimized for intelligence to the point of creating fangs and antennas."

;)

Rather by Graeber (with way too many words still) as "bullshit jobs".

At least there is this:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

Only "generally"? I'm curious what API has moved away from this protocol that seems mode adapted to conversaions with humans than agentic loops.

Rust "denialism" is as annoying as rust evangelism.

Of course any seemingly idiomatic rust is going to run circles around TS transpiled into JIT-compiled JS.

If you also want federation, end to end encryption, offline mode and collaborative edition, have a look at https://nextgraph.org

If all they wanted was to know more about your profile, they could already buy this information form the bank I presume.

How is this different from usual sensor stabilisation techniques? Is it because it can adjust for a wider range of motion?

There is another thread elsewhere on the first page about low-trust USA.

Sadly, behaviors and expectations converge toward one another.

A full email? We need a "you've been fired" emoji.

If one is honorable only for the reward, is one really honorable though?

Either it is a principle or it is a strategy, can't be both.

This is HN not some doxing subreddit.

  Real basic and, fairly universal. You may prefer a quieter car, but there is also a sound level that is below your preference.

I do not believe this to be true. My feeling is: some people (or rather: some people in some occasions) enjoy to be noticed, and some others enjoy not to be noticed.

Meanwhile, all european companies, tech or not, big and small, are preparing to make all their business depends on Anthropic or OpenAI...