I think there are a couple of bugs in the pseudo-code:

traverse_node(page, version, key): retry: # Read the page pageCopy = copy(page)

    # BUG1: version is an argument so it likely won't be correct on retry
    if version != atomic_load(page.version):
        goto retry;
    
    # Go to the next page
    childPtr = binary_search(pageCopy, key)
    nextPage = load(childPtr)
    nextVersion = atomic_load(nextPage.version)

    # BUG2: seems like we should be using nextVersion instead of version
    # Validate that no writer overtook the reader
    if version != atomic_load(page.version):
        goto retry;
    
    # Safely traverse to the next node
    page = nextPage

Or am I misunderstanding something here?

Then after that, they passed Hawley Smoot Tariff Act to make up for the budget short fall. That caused an already bad situation to get much, much worse.

Given how companies operate internationally, is it fair to compare the stock market valuation against GDP? If Apple moved to a New Zealand based stock exchange, would that mean that the stock market in New Zealand wasn't healthy?

Also, could an increase in internationalization explain the relative difference between the Buffet Indicator today vs 25 years ago during the DotCom boom?

Interesting point -- I wonder if there are variations on this calculation available with global GDP, or ideally, company market cap adjusted by percentage of US revenue/profit to US GDP.

Trump is pretty old at this point. Even if he decided to go full dictator, how long does he have? Maybe 5 to 10 years? I don't think it would be quite as "stable" as Putin's Russia.

The things Trump has put in place may long outlive him. Roe v Wade lasted a long time.

No doubt his administration will cast a long shadow. I was only responding to the allusion that he could become a long term dictator.

Most of HN is probably too young to remember him, but Trump seems closer to Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin from 30 years ago. They have flamboyant and unpredictable public personas in common. Yeltsin also loved public performances, media attention, and direct engagement with large crowds. He often made chaotic decisions based on gut feeling and instincts rather than any clear strategy. Over time, alcoholism made Yeltsin increasingly dysfunctional. His health deteriorated and he was frequently absent. His inner circle, which included powerful billionaires, selected a reliable young successor to maintain their grip and negotiated Yeltsin's resignation in exchange for legal immunity for himself and his family. That successor was Vladimir Putin, a relatively unknown and bureaucratic head of Russia's version of the CIA/FBI. Once in power, Putin systematically outmaneuvered those billionaires who had expected him to be loyal, and played them against each other to gain absolute personal control over the country.

Trump is a known quantity. His destructiveness is limited by his inability to maintain focus. I'd be much more worried about who follows him. Will they represent a return to decency, or will it be someone just as destructive but far more disciplined - like Putin?

TBH, I am one of those people that's a little too young to remember Yeltsin. I know him generally, but wasn't aware of the direct through line to Putin. Overall, that's a pretty sobering analysis.

> But it's weird to me to see these articles that are so excited about being able to install Python easily when that's been doable with conda for ages. (And conda has additional features not present in uv or other tools.)

I used conda for awhile around 2018. My environment became borked multiple times and I eventually gave up on it. After that, I never had issues with my environment becoming corrupted. I knew several other people who had the same issues and it stopped after they switched away from conda.

I've heard it's better now, but that experience burned me so I haven't kept up with it.

Hilarious because I watched this while my code was compiling.

If you have been using git for 30+ years, you need to take me to your time machine. It turns 20 this year.

If it happens, I call dibs on the name "AI Nuclear Winter".

AI China Syndrome?

Musk did backtrack on the $2 trillion goal.

'Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.'

'That figure was quickly dismissed as implausible by budget experts, who said the entire discretionary budget was only $1.7 trillion. Musk hadn’t waved people off the number until Wednesday, and it has been widely cited in reports about DOGE’s plans. '

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-say...

"Half that" is still a massive problem. He's digging himself deeper.

> Even in the HN thread on the essay, it felt like hardly anyone actually read and understood it, just brought their own assumptions and intellectual allergies and let them run wild. It would be great if people could discuss these issues rationally, but the vast majority can't. Everyone is on a hair trigger.

I think the essay was a rorschach test for readers. On its face, it has a very reasonable and measured tone. It also has some nods to the other side like the disclaimer you mentioned. However, it starts from some uncharitable premises (e.g., its definition of wokeness) and contains unnecessary gibes (e.g., against social sciences). More importantly, it takes the tone of a social sciences essay, a discipline that he mocks, without any of the rigor. There are not sources for his claims about the origins of wokeness or how universities operated from the 80's until today, you just have to take him at face value. It gives the illusion of being erudite without doing any of the actual work.

pg writing about non-tech topics has always rubbed up against Gell-Mann Amnesia.