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by Too | 2025-06-29 07:42:31+00:00
Did the same many years ago and felt equally liberated.

The thing i found about most of my notes was that they quickly got irrelevant, "PHP and MySQL best practices, on Windows..."? First, the notes that were referred to often, they quickly got upgraded to a script or stuck to my first brain so that note wasn't needed any more. Second, finding it through Google was easier than searching through my personal notes, and would often yield some new insight I wasn't aware of. Learning how to read official documentation rather than blog posts was a large part of this journey as well, now I trust that no voodoo tricks are needed to get things flying if you just follow the standard process. Being savvy enough to debug and lookup anything helps. Third, the tools, or their best practices, got superseded by others.

Articles that might be interesting to read (or re-read) one rainy day. Forget about it. Stop the wishful thinking. Every week there are new ones, more up-to-date and equally insightful. Your future self will also have other interests. This was by far the most liberating.

Nowadays, the few things I keep are topics that don't change, that I know will be difficult to remember between the rare occasion I need it (annual domain renewal, spare part number for oil filter). One final thing i still like to hoard is material from experts about recurring religious topics. So that next time someone at work starts arguing about monolith vs microservices again, I can just link to authoritative source instead of having to reiterate the same old arguments and prove my expertise in the area again.
by 0xbadc0de5 | 2025-06-29 07:44:16+00:00
Buried the lede - they have not yet actually paid for it and are still raising money.

As I said in the previous post about this, I support their efforts and applaud their enthusiasm. But they are making some very risky moves with their premature messaging. This could easily fall through and is just begging other parties with less sincere interest in the brand's legacy to take notice.
by eru | 2025-06-29 07:44:37+00:00
Good point!

Though in practice it's fairly easy to put in a token effort so your welfare won't be cut, but avoid actually getting hired.

But you are very right that the token effort is still effort.

> [...] and of course you have to use up all money or wealth you have and state, in written, that you have no other sources of wealth.

That is similar to taxing that money and wealth. But you are right.
by ajuc | 2025-06-29 07:45:25+00:00
> Isn't that a thing everyone does?

It's much more common when you're multilingual, because you think in combination of all the languages you know and you only realize you're missing the specific word when you get to them trying to express the thoughts on the fly.

Sometimes it's not because you're not fluent - it's simply because the concept isn't expressible in the target language with that particular sentence structure you started with.

Typical example is English "I like him" vs Russian "on mne nravitsya" (+- he for me is desirable). If you start saying "I" you're already wrong.

It even happens within one language in highly inflected languages - because you wanted to say one thing, then changed the word to a better - but the sentence structure doesn't work with that new word, so you have to go back mid-sentence or make a grammatical mistake).
by lordkrandel | 2025-06-29 07:45:43+00:00
Thats what I said. It's been 10% of what it's been in the US. I'm not saying the economy goes well. The difference between what the US had before (the hiring spree) and now, we never actually felt in EU. If you look up Italy, it's been laying people off (not only tech) for 50 years.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-29 07:45:48+00:00
Yeah King Gizzard have basically done the complete opposite of what is considered good advice on making it in the music business and made it work.

Rapid release schedule (except the last year or so), inconsistent genre choices, questionable aesthetic choices, not much marketing, and just some generally goofy stuff and it just works. I think part of it is folks just tired of the packaged crap and see it for what it is. Pure authentic stuff.
by throwpoaster | 2025-06-29 07:46:29+00:00
Globally, since the advent of widespread computer use, human life has improved by orders of magnitude along every metric we have: poverty, hunger, disease, literacy, child mortality, life expectancy, homicide rates, etc., etc., etc.: https://ourworldindata.org

Respectfully, you are the one making an extraordinary claim in need of evidentiary support.
by whitehexagon | 2025-06-29 07:46:33+00:00
I went through the UK online passport renewal system last year, and it is the best website I have used in a very very long time. A real breath of fresh air. It worked perfectly on my old computer and 'ancient' browser. Everything very simple / accessible / clear, colours, text, buttons, fields, requirements. A simple step-by-step navigation and actually friendly.

It is a shame that more businesses dont care about their customers enough to invest in such a well designed website. Well done HMPO.
by seanhunter | 2025-06-29 07:46:46+00:00
“LLMs lack an underlying model” is very obviously incorrect. LLMs have an underlying model of semantics as tokens embedded into a high-dimensional vector space.

The question is not whether or not they have any model at all, the question is whether the model they indisputably have (which is a model of language in terms of linear algebra) maps onto a model of the external universe (a “world model”) that emerges during training.

This is pretty much an unfalsifiable question as far as I can see. There has been research that aims to show this one way or another and it doesn’t settle the question of what a “world model” even means if you permit a “world model” to mean anything other than “thinks like we do”.

For example, LLMs have been shown to produce code that can make graphics somewhat in the style of famous modern artists (eg Kandinsky and Mondrian) but fail at object-stacking problems (“take a book, four wine glasses, a tennis ball, a laptop and a bottle and stack them in a stable arrangement”). Depending on the objects you choose the LLM either succeeds or fails (generally in a baffling way). So what does this mean? Clearly the model doesn’t “know” the shape of various 3-D objects (unless the problem is in their training set which it sometimes seems to be) but on the other hand seems to have shown some ability to pastiche certain visual styles. How is any of this conclusive? A baby doesn’t understand the 3-D world either. A toddler will try and fail to stack things in various ways. Are they showing the presence or lack of a world model? How do you tell?
by eru | 2025-06-29 07:47:17+00:00
If you have an inflation targeting central bank, velocity of money doesn't really matter.

If velocity speeds up and inflation goes up, the central bank will remove money from circulation to hit their target. If velocity goes down, the central bank will inject money into circulation.

The fiscal multiplier is zero.

(Or rather, any deviation of the fiscal multiplier from zero is evidence of an incompetent central bank.)
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-06-29 07:48:41+00:00
> Kids are probably not an option

I’m assuming this is due to life complexity? If it’s generic fear, you could consider adopting (although that also has the potential to be difficult in it’s own way).

Also wanted to +1 to the other comment, you seem like a wonderful person, thankyou for making the world a better place. I hope I “grow up” to be like you :)
by eru | 2025-06-29 07:49:43+00:00
> We did this during Covid as furlough payments, and the result was high inflation.

No. The high inflation was a result of Fed policy, not fiscal tricks like furlough payments.

> Anywhere that implemented UBI would also have to implement rent controls, otherwise Landlords would just see it as money on the table. But you couldn’t have controls for all prices, so inflation would still result.

You are right that UBI can lead to higher relative prices for rent.

And that's why you would want to pair UBI with land value taxes, not rent control.

(UBI would not lead to inflation, and would not necessarily lead to higher absolute rents. The overall level of inflation is something an inflation targeting central bank, like the Fed or ECB, controls.)
by tgv | 2025-06-29 07:49:45+00:00
I'm not sure those people are hyperpolyglot (whatever that exactly means). They usually have extreme skills in two languages, one being their native language.

However, a task like simultaneous translation is tough. It requires a different way of focusing, and has other demands on working memory. There is some evidence that it leads to "functional" changes in the brain. That could be a factor. OTOH, since the effect is bound to a small group living in a few places, it could just as well be a life-style effect.
by Den_VR | 2025-06-29 07:50:22+00:00
People can be so go-go-go they don’t have time to think and reflect. Music is similar, it’s a source of constant distraction for the mind. It’s even more prominent in contemporary music. When listening to pieces more than a thousand years old and you’ll sometimes find works that build meaning into the silence as masterfully as artists compose paintings with negative space. But now it seems any gap must be filled with a beat. Y’all can stay wrapped up in your noise-noise-noise. But do excuse me for being comfortable in the silence of my own thoughts.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-29 07:51:40+00:00
In general I think it's very hard to justify learning a foreign language when subjected to a normal adult person's cost-benefit analysis.

This is true for most people. I'd say the exception is if you're learning a language that's native to the place where you live. This reduces the effort required to get conversation practice AND makes it more fun. So rather than choosing between Netflix and language study, you're choosing between Netflix and chatting with people in a bar.
by adventured | 2025-06-29 07:54:31+00:00
AI will radically leap forward in specialized function gain over the next decade. That's what everybody should be focusing on. It'll rapidly splinter and acquire dominance over the vast minutia. The intricacy of the endeavor will be led by the AI itself, as it'll fly-wheel itself on becoming an expert at every little thing far faster than we can. We're just seeding that possibility now. Not only will it not slide backwards, it'll leap a great distance forward from where it's at now.

Mainframes -> desktop computers -> a computer in every hand

Obese LLMs you visit -> agents riding with you whereever you are, integrated into your life and things -> everything everywhere, max specialization and distribution into every crevice, dominance over most tasks whether you're there or active or not

They haven't even really started working together yet. They're still largely living in sandboxes. We're barely out of the first inning. Pick a field and it's likely hardly even at the first pitch for most of them you can name, eg aircraft/flight.

In hindsight people will (jokingly?) wonder whether AI self-selected software development as one of its first conquests, as the ultimate foot in the door so it could pursue dominion over everything else (of course it had to happen in that progression; it'll prompt some chicken or the egg debates 30-50 years out).
by Arainach | 2025-06-29 07:55:27+00:00
It's a computer technology.

Computers, and the scale they enable, are dystopian enablers of late-stage capitalism, fascism, and other exploitation.

Computers are the difference. While you could in theory pay a bunch of people to watch a bunch of cameras and listen to a bunch of microphones it was so expensive that no one outside of East Germany or Moscow ever had to seriously worry about the threat. Computers changed that. While in theory someone could look up a ton of information about you and precisely target ads to influence your behavior precisely, that wasn't a serious threat until computers. Neither were metrics and social dopamine triggers designed to keep you literally addicted to screens, voting campaign manipulation by hypertargeted disinformation campaigns, your job being replaced by a machine that illegally grabbed a bunch of art and can now spit out exact copies, or any of a thousand things computers are doing today.
by thiht | 2025-06-29 07:55:48+00:00
Can someone help me find an actual explanation of what MCP does? The official MCP documentation completely fails at explaining how it works and what it does. For example the quick start for server developers[1] doesn’t actually explain anything. Sure in the Python examples they add @mcp annotations but WHAT DOES IT DO? I feel like I’m going crazy reading their docs because there’s nothing of substance in there.

Let’s assume I want to write an MCP HTTP server without a library, just an HTTP handler, how do I do it? What’s its schema? If I want to call an MCP server from curl what endpoint do I call? Can someone help me find where this is documented?

[1]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server
by eru | 2025-06-29 07:56:02+00:00
I don't live in the US. We have a very different helthcare system where I live, and it's working well.

But again: providing universal healthcare is all about giving (poor) people more prosperity. It has nothing to do with inequality by itself.

If tomorrow Mr Zuckerberg got 100x better healthcare, but everyone else only got 10x better healthcare, that would fix the problem you mentioned, but would technically make inequality worse.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-29 07:57:36+00:00
> Oh, duh, just run it on your server for SaaS.

Better hope you never have a single vulnerability or someone's going to post it on the internet.

And then you'd have to put it on your servers, not AWS or some other third party with no obligation not to release it or start using it themselves. Meanwhile the open source people have no secrets and can use a commodity CDN or let the users run it locally.

> The ones that build the software. Apple. Oracle.

For DRM that would attempt to prevent you from running it, that doesn't help. People would install iOS on Samsung phones and Oracle's database on third party commodity hardware.

For DRM that would attempt to prevent anyone from making a single copy of the software, when has that worked even today when breaking it is illegal? Meanwhile if it's not illegal you would have to contend with multinational corporations with full on clean rooms and state of the art equipment and if any of them can extract a single key from a single device that's it.
by datastack | 2025-06-29 07:57:37+00:00
Exciting!

Yes, the deduplicated approach is superior, if you can accept requiring dedicated software to read the data or can rely on a file system that supports it (like Unix with hard links).

I'm looking for a cross-platform solution that is simple and can restore files without any app (in case I didn't maintain my app for the next twenty years).

I'm curious if the software you were working on used proprietary format, was relying on Linux, or used some other method of duplication.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-29 07:58:36+00:00
Microsoft’s “core DNA” is still there firmly, though.

They successfully weaponized open source by giving something for free and clawing back step by step (i.e. closing open source VSCode plugins), and leaving parts which does drowns competitors most effectively open.

Also they act like their open source code is “Free”. They firmly control it, yet act like they don’t.

Microsoft’s image didn’t improve a bit in my eyes.
by csb6 | 2025-06-29 07:59:02+00:00
I think many of these bugs are major enough that employers would want them fixed (e.g. not respecting ABI on Windows). A lot of effort has been put into LLVM’s optimizer and code generators so presumably this is something they value.

They track regressions in compile time and other metrics like instruction count for a bunch of benchmark programs on https://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com
by grimpy | 2025-06-29 07:59:58+00:00
this is a useless semantic position.

could you frame innovation problems as "design" problems? sure.

was the cotton gin framed as a "design" problem in the sense that it had some sort of epistemological lineage to the "design" discipline when it was invented? I suspect not.

the worst thing design ever did for itself was frame itself as "the" human-centered problem solving discpline. everyone is a human-centered problem-solver in the most general sense, in the same way that everything is a "design" problem in the most general sense.
by luckylion | 2025-06-29 08:00:05+00:00
> Nobody blames the resistance during the Nazi occupation for what they did.

Because the Nazis lost. Had the Nazis won, alternative history and all that, the argument would probably be the other way around, how, faced with overwhelmingly strong enemies, they "had to" create death camps to "get back" at their aggressors.

Not a great argument, I think.
Save Your Future: A Realist's Guide to Cyberpunk Survival
by ricecat | 2025-06-29 08:00:13+00:00
We were promised flying cars.

Instead, we got targeted ads, infinite scroll, and a browser that knows your mood before you do.

But don’t worry — the real future isn’t fully built yet.

And if you’re reading this, you’re one of the few who might still help shape it.

Here’s how.

Privacy That Sells: Hide Identity, Not Value Let’s be honest: total anonymity isn’t commercially viable. But unlinkability is.

In the future, the systems that win will be those that can target relevance without revealing real identity. You can track preferences without knowing who. You can personalize without compromising.

That’s the lesson from cypherpunk thinking: the best privacy tech doesn't stop communication — it severs the link between activity and true identity.

Use pseudonymous identity layers. Tokenize behavior, not the person. Sell ad placement, not user dossiers. This isn’t anti-commercial — it’s the design of sustainable, trust-based commerce. Systems that honor the line between context and coercion.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/realist-guide-to-cyberpunk-survival
by cryptonector | 2025-06-29 08:01:38+00:00
It's an indescribably wonderful smell. I love the smell of my beekeeping outfit, which also includes smoke from my smoker (the beehives themselves don't smell of smoke though). You can buy propolis products and get a very slight idea.

You might want to take a class in beekeeping, one where they take you to do some actual hive inspections. You'll need a beekeeper's suit.
by buhuipao | 2025-06-29 08:01:39+00:00
AnyProxy v1.0.13 - Web Management & Clash Support

## New Features

### Web Management Interface

* Gateway Dashboard *: Real-time monitoring at http://localhost:8090

- Active connections and traffic statistics

- Client status management with online/offline detection

- Session-based authentication (admin/admin123)

- Bilingual support (English/Chinese)

* Client Monitor *: Local monitoring at http://localhost:8091

- Runtime status and connection tracking

- Multi-client instance support

- Optional authentication

### Clash Configuration Download

- One-click download Clash proxy configuration from Client web interface

- Auto-generated config with HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy settings

- Ready for desktop and mobile Clash clients

- Complete proxy groups and routing rules

### Improved Authentication

- Proxy authentication now uses group_id and group_password

- More user-friendly than traditional username/password

- Better security with group-based client isolation

- Compatible with third-party clients like Clash

### Simplified Demo

- One-command Docker startup

- Pre-configured demo gateway at 47.107.181.88:8443

- Built-in security reminders

- Complete usage guide

Here is the demo: https://github.com/buhuipao/anyproxy/tree/main/demo
by bgnn | 2025-06-29 08:02:20+00:00
We make fun of the state run businesses of old communist regimes, how wasteful they were, how mismanaged they were, how they produced stuff nobody wanted and so on. I'm increasingly getting a similar feeling for VC fueled tech. It's all smoke and mirrors of hype (was blockchain or web3.0 yesterday, AI and quantum today). There is so much wasted money, especially after quantitative easing and negative interest rates of the past decade.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-29 08:02:24+00:00
No, but it's also not the opposite - spending most time doing physical labor, hitting a gym, doing sports, running or hiking, while eating only the healthy, natural food - i.e. most bland and worst tasting food available, sleeping 8+ hours a day, and staying away from most technology.

(Oh, and walking covered in sunscreen all the time - except not, because that's technology and chemicals; though surely there's some perfectly natural, organic, non-GMO ointment known from ancient times that works even better...)

That's how the other extreme looks like - but unlike the "bad habits" extreme, this one is actually what's needed to make a noticeable improvement your QALY lifespan. It's also a kind of life I wouldn't personally find rewarding - hence the question, what's the point of living longer if you have to live like this[0]?

Between this and the fact that approximately no one can afford living like that today, I say the whole idea of living longer by "just" living healthier is a lie.

--

[0] - This lifestyle is basically the Edo people[1] from the infamous Star Trek: TNG episode "Justice"[2]. Chilling out in a paradise, keeping fit bodies, and basically running around all day in between of making art and having sex with others, sure sounds like an alluring lifestyle to us (and to the protagonists on the show). Still, this episode lets the viewer ask themselves - would they rather be with the Edo, or on the Enterprise? I'd take the latter, thank you - pretty sure I'd go bored shitless after a year in that place. And while United Federation of Planets isn't an available option, even the regular life in the real world seems much more interesting and rewarding to me, if you look past the immediate appeal[3].

[1] - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Edo

[2] - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Justice_(episode)

[3] - See also: heaven in Christianity, which if you think more about it, is basically a place of infinite boredom - but it does look alluring to sustenance farmers of the middle ages, as it offered reprieve from the endless toil and oppressive lords.
by datastack | 2025-06-29 08:02:24+00:00
I agree it seems more common. However back-up time and data movement should be equivalent if you follow the algo steps.

According to chat GPT the forward delta approach is common because it can be implemented purely append only, whereas reverse deltas require the last snapshot to be mutable. This doesn't work well for backup tapes.

Do you also think that the forward delta approach is a mere historical artifact?

Although perhaps backup tapes are still widely used, I have no idea, I am not in this field. If so the reverse delta approach would not work in industrial settings.