It went rather badly for the revolutionaries: the vast majority of the nobility escaped, most of those executed were commoners, Robespierre himself was guillotined (nice own goal there) as a result of political infighting, and the First Republic gave way in only 10 years to the reign of Napoleon as emperor.

Those who invoke the French Revolution of 1789 are self-identifying as future failures. For pity's sake, at least use a historical example that lasted longer.

They are going to want to profit from their resources expended eventually and when they do, that will end.

The archive link for the article is https://archive.is/vqUf7 and the report itself is available at https://www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/state-of-scholarship-r...

I'm still waiting for a large folding phone with no/minimal outer display and with all other features cost reduced for half the price of the flagship folding phones.

Clickbait title since it's an interview with one of their VPs and getting anything other than marketing pabulum out of a VP during an interview is as likely as finding a diamond in a dung heap.

Liang got prison time because he _did understand_ that the engine wasn't compliant with regulations and chose to build the system to falsify the emissions output during tests anyway. He was not a scapegoat.

"On 9 September 2016, James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer working at Volkswagen's testing facility in Oxnard, California, admitted as part of a plea deal with the US Department of Justice that the defeat device had been purposely installed in US vehicles with the knowledge of his engineering team: 'Liang admitted that beginning in about 2006, he and his co-conspirators started to design a new "EA 189" diesel engine for sale in the United States. ... When he and his co-conspirators realized that they could not design a diesel engine that would meet the stricter US emissions standards, they designed and implemented [the defeat device] software.'" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

- WWIII_Historian - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=WWIII_Historian

- hilliardfarmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hilliardfarmer

- Hilliard_Ohiooo - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Hilliard_Ohiooo

- benzleee - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=benzleee

@dang, @tomhow, may I draw your attention to this user? They've been posting links to their novel for a few years now: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

That's an extremely niche specialty though. 99% of software development jobs are web frontend/backend or mobile/desktop apps and they are more at risk from LLMs.

The problem is not turnout. What the Democrats seem unable or unwilling to accept is that the American public doesn't agree with their platform and are also unable or unwilling to change their platform to something that voters will elect them for.

If someone wants unfettered speech, it has to be someplace for which they are willing to pay the hosting and moderation bills. "Private businesses don't owe you a platform for your speech" as the American left liked to say.

(Whether any one reading this, myself included, survives in the industry long enough to reach the other side of that transition is a different question.)

[EDIT] The reason I use books as an example is that 4.2 million books were published in 2025 (https://ideas.bkconnection.com/10-awful-truths-about-publish...); 3.5m self published (with most likely LLM assisted or wholly generated) and the remainder traditionally published. (That's ~9,600 new self-published books a day.) Who actually still sells enough copies to make money in this paradigm and why offers hints as to where the software industry is likely headed.

Either 2025 or 2026 is the first year that LLMs got really decent so...

Those who analogize today's AI frenzy to the internet adoption frenzy of the '90s in a positive light abjectly fail to understand what an incredibly bad look that is.