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by darepublic | 2025-06-17 20:07:20+00:00
I recently had to work with the robot framework DSL. Not a fan. I hardly think it's any more readable to a business user than imperative code either. Every DSL is another API to learn and usually full of gotchas. Intuitiveness is in the eye of the beholder . The approach I would take is transpiling from imperative code to a natural language explanation of what is being tested, with configuration around aliases and the like.
by hermanzegerman | 2025-06-17 20:07:24+00:00
>It's quite clear what they want is fine-revenue, not actual developer protections.

I don't know how much out of touch with reality must be someone to make such a delusional statement. For everyone else out there, it's just clear that Apple failed again with their malicious compliance.

If they were interested in fine revenue they would have fined Apple far more in the first place. 500 Million is a slap on the wrist. They could have fined them up to 6% of Global Turnover.

And the EU isn't dependent on that Pocket Change either.

Maybe you should try travelling outside of the US once, and broaden your horizons
by keybored | 2025-06-17 20:07:54+00:00
> I know everyone wants to gobble down the campaign about complete air superiority and toppling of leaders, and that WhatsApp may be separating the regime from 52 virgins, but realize this is a propaganda campaign. This initial propaganda only serves to manufacture consent long enough to buy citizens in to blood so they can't back out. We're in the process of being tricked.

Everyone wants to gobble down... I.e. here’s another invasion war but it’s our ally this time so it’s good actually. They’re gonna dezanify^W de-islamism Iran.
by s3krit | 2025-06-17 20:08:38+00:00
Not quite the specific chemicals anymore. As I understood it, when they outlawed 1v, the legislation was changed to also consider the weight of the molecule. Ok fine, still whack-a-mole, it just took the clandestine chemists slightly longer to figure out what mostly inert structures they could add to the LSD (though not actually add, since that would mean they were at some point making LSD, which is illegal) that would be cleaved off metabolically so you end up with LSD in your system
by cess11 | 2025-06-17 20:08:49+00:00
With 5-HT2a psychedelic substances you get an immediate, extreme tolerance so unlike ethanol or other common GABA:ergics you won't get that kind of every day abuse and related self harm.

Single dose use is more likely to be harmful with ethanol at a comparable degree of intoxication, it is strongly disinhibitory in comparison, but a particular person might be more sensitive one way or the other.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 20:09:01+00:00
> Of course I understand

Ok, so why bring up French nuclear power then?

> after the blackout started to say basically nothing

Yeah, I mean typical governments, "basically nothing" is their forte.

I've also been listening to what they're saying (or not) since the blackout happened too, and the only concrete thing they're saying is "wait for the full report", I'm not sure how anyone could understand it any differently.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-17 20:09:06+00:00
How is that better than running your AI interaction in a dedicated toolpane/subwindow directly inside your IDE?

The Chat panel in VS Code has seen a lot of polish, can display full HTML including formatting Markdown nicely, has some fancy displays for AI context such as file links, supports hyperlinks everywhere, and has fancy auto-complete popups for things like @ and # and / mentioned "tools"/"agents"/whatever. Other VS Code widgets can show up in the Chat panel, too. The Chat Panel you can dock in either sidebar and/or float as its own window.

A terminal can do most of those things too, with effort and with nothing quite like the native experience of your IDE and its widgets. It seems like a lesser experience than what VS Code already offers, other than you only have one real choice for AI assistant that supports VS Code's Chat panel (though you still have model choice).
by bilekas | 2025-06-17 20:09:30+00:00
You’re right, for a lot of scenario which is exactly what a standard is there to do, encapsulating the broad strokes.

> Alternatives like WebP might be good for browsers but are nigh-unworkable on desktops, support is very spotty.

Right again, and WebP is the enrichment that goes with the backend when dealing with web. I wouldn’t knock it for not being local compatible, it was designed for the web first and foremost, I think it’s in the name.
by yongjik | 2025-06-17 20:09:42+00:00
Well, it's my understanding that Xorg still cannot do per-monitor fractional scaling these days, have they fixed it? That was the major selling point of Wayland for me, as an occasional linux desktop user.

Retina MacBook Pro was released in 2012, about 13 years ago. Personally, I don't think Xorg is in a position to sneer at its competitor for being "beta in quality" after "15 years into making."
by lukastyrychtr | 2025-06-17 20:09:54+00:00
You would need the accuracy of these models to be way, way, better than today (so you do not lie to the user which has no idea about the fact that the output is a lie, because he can't compare the model output with the input, because he can't see that), their hardware requirements way, way, lower (so you don't need a game rig for useful computing in these groups), so, no, I can't agree, this A.I. approach will not save you from correct semantic markup.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-17 20:10:05+00:00
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116690/documents/...

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-winter-storms-2021...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/texas-blackouts-d... | https://archive.today/FOUK8

https://www.ucs.org/resources/gas-malfunction

Edit:

On base load generation:

https://www.google.com/search?q=base+load+myth
by be7a | 2025-06-17 20:10:34+00:00
The rate limits apply only to the Gemini API. There is also Vertex from GCP, which offers the same models (and even more, such as Claude) at the same pricing, but with much higher rate limits (basically none, as long as they don't need to cut anyone off with provisioned throughput iiuc) and with a process to get guaranteed throughput.
by cmsparks | 2025-06-17 20:11:01+00:00
Frankly, it's pretty difficult. Though, I've found that the actor model maps really well onto building agents. An instance of an actor = an instance of an agent. Agent to agent communication is just tool calling (via MCP or some other RPC)

I use Cloudflare's Durable Objects (disclaimer: I'm biased, I work on MCP + Agent things @ Cloudflare). However, I figure building agents probably maps similarly well onto any actor style framework.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-17 20:11:04+00:00
This is Taiki site, so either within the circular pad at (42.500394123580, 143.43589082745), or maybe from the end of 08R to neighboring Interstellar Tech pad area?

1: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BhfWBSBWgPQaa64g7
by Lordarminius | 2025-06-17 20:12:35+00:00
Baghdad and Kabul had nowhere near the military capabilities of the Iranians who can close shipping lanes, sink US warships and attack military bases and oil installations in the region, in addition to devastating all the major Israeli cities. In the chaos that ensues, the Chinese and Russians would move in and take advantage. The global economy would grind to a halt and America would spiral into a depression that would take at least a decade to recover from.
by reisse | 2025-06-17 20:13:09+00:00
I have a harsh opinion - the real problem with Wayland is that its authors and/or maintainers are *nix geeks, who never used anything more complex than X11 on an IBM Thinkpad with a maybe second 4:3 monitor attached. And they daily drive a few dozen terminal windows, Firefox and maybe Thunderbird.

I really have no other plausible explanation how they could miss so many potential usecases while rebuilding the display management ground-up: screen sharing, fractional scaling, different scaling factor for different screens, color profiles, HDR, toolbars and docking, window positions, and whatever else.

In the Wayland GitLab, there are comments in the spirit of "who would ever want to use this?" for a feature requests of something present in literally any sane WM...
by rekabis | 2025-06-17 20:13:12+00:00
Throw climate change into the model, especially with the recent massive acceleration of temperature rise that now strongly suggests +3℃ shortly after 2035 and +6℃ by 2100, and human populations trend to zero by some time between 2080 and 2200.

And everyone with the money and power to do something materially to avoid this future is doubling down on BaU (business as usual) because it’s just so profitable in the near term.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-17 20:13:29+00:00
The point is you just need to finish the request and you're done, the page is working.

If there's 15 different components sending 25 different requests to different endpoints, some of which are triggered by activities like scrolling etc, then the user needs a consistent connection to have a good experience.

Packet loss in TCP doesn't fail the whole request. It just means some packets need to be resent which takes more time.
by KomoD | 2025-06-17 20:13:46+00:00
(IANAL) It can be both legal and illegal

If you don't respond to takedowns, that's probably leaning towards being illegal*

If you respond to takedowns and blacklist the hashes, you're most likely fine*

*obviously depends on the jurisdiction and on whether matching hashes to IP:PORT is considered distribution/facilitation/whatever (take TPB's case as an example)

I know someone who ran a pretty large tracker for years, when he received a takedown he just blacklisted the hashes and he's been fine so far.
by cess11 | 2025-06-17 20:14:08+00:00
It is quite irresponsible to take a psychedelic drug and then drive a car.

So called microdosing of psychedelics is generally rubbish, the way they're distributed means you have no idea whatsoever what dose you're actually taking and if you want to live with a 5-HT2a tolerance, just go on a trip dose and you're good for a few months.

Edit: And with some of these substances one should expect cardiac toxicity if dosing every day, due to serotonin receptors in the heart.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-17 20:14:13+00:00
> Private companies are requesting the records of CECOEL conversation to be published, some have leaked their logs. In one of those, REE technicians readily admit that oscilations are caused by not enough nuclear in the mix.

And where are those leaks, if one may ask?

French-side the only generation station that actually was ejected from the network that day was, precisely, a nuclear power plant. [1] A non-specific "moar nuclear!" cry seems therefore a bit hard to believe.

[1] https://www.edf.fr/la-centrale-nucleaire-de-golfech/les-actu...
by Arch-TK | 2025-06-17 20:14:32+00:00
The only wayland compositor that I know of that handles XWayland correctly is hyprland.

And when I say correctly, I mean that if I am on a non 96 DPI display, e.g. a 168 DPI display (1.75x) and want things scaling properly, Xwayland gets told to pretend that the display size is some resolution in the vicinity of ~1097 by ~686 (not sure how this part works, and honestly I don't think it's relevant) and a DPI of 96. Then xwayland does the most idiotic thing imaginable, it takes the output of applications running under it and stretches it.

And now I have vaseline on my screen.

No thanks.

I may try hyprland at some point to see if there's actual value to using Wayland over X but so far every time I've tried to switch it has been random obstacle after random obstacle.

One of the most baffling has been arbitrary restrictions on the scaling factor.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-06-17 20:14:54+00:00
It's understandable that people who aren't having problems aren't vocal; people don't usually go out of their way to say "everything's working fine, no issues".

Wayland works for the vast majority of people, and it's improving steadily. One of the main differences that leads people to complain is that in X, there wasn't any security between applications, and anyone could write a quick hack that makes things work for them (e.g. watch the keyboard for a key globally, or mirror the display remotely). In Wayland, there's no escape hatch: either the desktop environment needs to handle something, or you need to add a protocol for it. People experiment with new protocols all the time, but the Wayland project itself is (by design) slow and careful about adopting extensions.

It is understandable to wish for simpler times. But retrocomputing isn't a path forward here.
by abalashov | 2025-06-17 20:14:56+00:00
Only if you're a web economy weenie and think HTTP[S] is the measure of utility of most TCP interactions. ;)

I can't remember the last time I used telnet to test whether a web server was live. I don't think web servers figure very prominently in the work I do, though not zero, for sure. However, I doubt I'm the only one in that boat.
by dsr_ | 2025-06-17 20:15:44+00:00
I would guess that you started to be aware of politics about 10 years ago. You're off by at least 30 years or so...

For example, the removal of Jerry Pournelle's free account at MIT because he kept mentioning ARPANET in his column in Byte magazine. Then he accused MIT's sysadmins of being communists who wanted to destroy America's military...

That was 1985. The X project started the year before that.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-17 20:15:50+00:00
I've always liked the band Kraftwerk's [past] strategy for dealing with interruptions, from their Wiki page[1]:

"... anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring."

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-17 20:16:20+00:00
but you don't blame gravity when someone pushes you off your bike. The point isn't that it's not real, it is that you decided the rules of the game when you built a protocol. It's like publishing something under a permissive license and then complaining if someone clones your code and does something with it you don't like. if you didn't want it, you should have built a proprietary platform.

If you create something under conditions that by definition must be robust enough to repel adversial use and it doesn't, what's the point in blaming the bad actor
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-17 20:16:37+00:00
It's hard to get too specific without running afoul of NDAs and such, since most of my work is for one customer or another, but the case that really blew me away was when I needed to find a way to correct an oscillator that had inherent stability problems due to a combination of a very good crystal and very poor thermal engineering on the OEM's part. The customer uses a lot of these oscillators, and they are a massive pain point in production test because they often perform so much worse than they should.

I started out brainstorming with o1-pro, trying to come up with ways to anticipate drift on multiple timescales, from multiple influences with differing lag times, and correct it using temperature trends measured a couple of inches away on a different component. It basically said, "Here, train this LSTM model to predict your drift observations from your observed temperature," and spewed out a bunch of cryptic-looking PyTorch code. It would have been familiar enough to an ML engineer, I'm sure, but it was pretty much Perl to me.

I was like, Okaaaaayyy....? but I tried it anyway, suggested hyperparameters and all, and it was a real road-to-Damascus moment. Again, I can't share the plots and they wouldn't make sense anyway without a lot of explanation, but the outcome of my initial tests was freakishly good.

Another model proved to be able to translate the Python to straight C for use by the onboard controller, which was no mean feat in itself (and also allowed me to review it myself), and now that problem is just gone. Basically for free. It was a ridiculous, silly thing to try, and it worked.

When this tech gets another 10x better, the customer won't need me anymore... and that is fucking awesome.
by devilbunny | 2025-06-17 20:16:40+00:00
This particular item has struck me as mindlessly obnoxious on the part of the states. I live in Mississippi, which is neither wealthy nor a particularly well-run state (though some departments are efficient and effective, many are penny-wise and pound-foolish and covered in red tape as a result of the corruption that allows). I got a RealID without paying extra, and AFAICT without bringing anything special for a DL renewal. However, I moved between renewals, and very well may have brought some supporting documents for that that hit the criteria for RealID (my usual proof of ID for government stuff is my passport, because it proves citizenship and identity in one, plus a water bill to prove residence if that's needed).

But several years ago when the first really big push for RealID ("hey, we really mean it now") happened, I looked at my license and had the star. Tell your state legislators that even Mississippi can roll this out to the population without special fees or obnoxious requirements, so what's their problem?
by jrochkind1 | 2025-06-17 20:16:48+00:00
Googling, there's been at least one tracker shut down by US law enforcement, EliteTorrents [2005] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-26-fi-torre...

I think there have probably been more. There are definitely more that had civil suits with MPAA etc suing for damages.

It may be somewhat harder to make the case in the US, but a tracker where a great majority of what's listed is copyrighted, I'm pretty sure it can be shut down in the US.
by 0x20cowboy | 2025-06-17 20:17:40+00:00
I hate webp. Not for any legitimate technical reason like, but I often just want to download an image from the web for an image board or drop it in a diagram or ppt or for a joke and nothing works with that format. Nothing. Google image search is useless because of it.

Cmd+shift+4 is now the only way to grab an image out of a browser. Which is annoying.

It has made my life needlessly more complicated. I wish it would go away.

Maybe if browsers auto converted when you dragged ann image out of the browser window I wouldn’t care, but when I see webp… I hate.
by MallocVoidstar | 2025-06-17 20:19:06+00:00
I don't care about VMAF or PSNR, I care about looking with my eyes. With x265 on veryslow and AV1 on preset 0/1, and the source being a UHD BD I was downscaling to 1080p, AV1 looked worse even while using a higher bitrate than x265. Current AV1 encoders have issues with small details and have issues with dark scenes. People are trying to fix them (see svt-av1-psy, being merged into SVT-AV1 itself) but the problems aren't fixed yet.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-06-17 20:19:28+00:00
Just a little PSA for anybody getting curious about psychedellics from this post. If you have a family history of psychosis/scizophrenia etc., don't fuck around with it.

Especially if you've tried before and you've felt paranoid (or same with weed) then really, it's just not for you.

On the other hand, if you have some psychosis in the family tree, or felt paranoid from LSD/MDMA/THC, then try out meditation, cause you might find the divine is already close to your sober mind.
by drob518 | 2025-06-17 20:20:11+00:00
Even if you ignore grid failures, the fact is that power output from renewables drops during the winter. That’s just a fact. That drop must be made up by other things (natural gas, nuclear, or coal, in Texas, very little hydro). I’m all for more renewables, but we need a lot more nuclear that can be dialed up to compensate for renewables going offline during certain weather conditions.
by 63 | 2025-06-17 20:20:18+00:00
I'll throw my hat in the anti-Wayland ring. I have a 5-year-old graphics card from the most popular graphics card company in the world. And yet, in 2025, I cannot run Sway/Wayland on my Nvidia 3070 for more than 20 minutes without a crash. i3/Xorg works fine.

Wayland just straight doesn't work and the push to move everyone to it looks ridiculous from my perspective.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-17 20:20:33+00:00
Usually it would be aperture priority (f/2.8) in a situation where I know what the light is so I can set the ISO and leave it there. I develop with DxO so I am not worried about noise or the shutter speed too long but I do worry about hitting 1/8000 sec -- so usually it would be a situation where the lighting is predictable.

The autofocus can be set in a mode where it will reliably lock on the subject's eye. I would demo how you have to be a certain distance to get a headshot, since it is a prime lens, if they are too far away I don't worry too much because modern cameras have a lot of pixels.
by gpm | 2025-06-17 20:20:34+00:00
I'm not saying it's illegal to "run a torrent tracker". When Blizzard use to (pre 2015) update Starcraft via torrent I assume they ran their own tracker for that, and that was totally legal. Even if there was some way for a pirate to take advantage of the Blizzard tracker.

Here it's not the "mere fact that somebody could use your tracker for piracy". It's that you're literally observing that a bunch of old mostly-piracy torrents are pointing at this domain, and then deciding to turn this domain back into a service which assists in that piracy.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-06-17 20:20:36+00:00
DSLs are not all created equal.

Consider MiniZinc. This DSL is super cool and useful for writing constraint-solving problems once and running them through any number of different backend solvers.

A lot of intermediate languages and bytecode (including LLVM itself) are very useful DSLs for representing low-level operations using a well-defined set of primitives.

Codegen DSLs are also amazing for some applications, especially for creating custom boilerplate -- write what's unique to the scenario at hand in the DSL and have the template-based codegen use the provided data to generate code in the target language. This can be a highly flexible approach, and is just one of several types of language-oriented programming (LOP).
by worik | 2025-06-17 20:20:48+00:00
That code of conduct is a huge red flag that this is going nowhere

I have been around long enough (enduring the big swinging dicks) to understand why they are required.

The statements of inclusion in the README when the principal author campaigns against it indicates a dire lack of social skills. What hope is there for this?

I mostly agree with the critisisms of Wayland, I too have had to uninstall it to get what I need, but this all seems worse

Good luck to them, but I have no confidence
by tux3 | 2025-06-17 20:21:10+00:00
The Youtube algorithm unfortunately had the same effect on Sabine as it has on every Youtuber who depend on the platform for income

Sabine has always been a little bit on the fringe of physics (e.g. Superdeterminism has had a, let's call it, less than mainstream appeal)

But now every other video is some complete crackpot nonsense being given consideration for 5 minutes and, hastily debunked in the last minute, and with a title like Could This New Theory of Everything Solve Consciousness and Dark Energy?

Sabine's Youtube is a very different type of content than the old BackReaction days.
by npteljes | 2025-06-17 20:21:32+00:00
Why not gate it, if it means business?

Not to mention, Microsoft is rotten from the very beginning. But to be fair, it's not like the other tech giants are much more philanthropic.

For my hurt feelings, I found refuge in the open source community. Like you, I feel betrayed by technology - computers were really supposed to be different - and these guys are actually doing it. It just has a kind of warmth, and respect, that I don't get from Windows since like.... Win 95.