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by c0nsumer | 2025-07-31 23:29:31+00:00
Funny, I did the same... Never looked back at Unifi. That was a constant fight with problems.

OPNsense, a cheap fanless Brocade switch, and two Ruckus enterprise-grade APs from eBay and boom. Stuff Just Works, and when I want to do anything fancy (I did a /lot/ of weird network setup to troubleshoot users' WFH scenarios during COVID times) I just could.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-07-31 23:30:00+00:00
> But in any case you missed the substantial point of my comment: whether or not FLT is true

but that is you missing my point, a person finding a succinct machine verifiable proof demonstrates better knowledge of the basic relationships than a convoluted putative proof

integers, integer powers, primes,... none of that has any bearing on cryptography?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-31 23:30:30+00:00
The problem isn't home ownership, it's zoning regulations being done locally so that areas full of owner-occupied single-family homes are the only ones eligible to vote on whether higher density housing can be built there, in combination with the "got mine" attitude that causes them to vote in the way that constrains supply.

It's good for people to be able to own their homes. They should be able to own their homes instead of paying a large fraction of their paycheck to landlords as rent or banks as mortgage payments. But that requires housing costs to get lower rather than higher, which in turn requires some kind of state- or national-level policy to prevent local homeowners from sustaining the opposite.
by chubot | 2025-07-31 23:30:32+00:00
I think there's journalistic value to showing a raw conversation on a podcast. It's closer to the primary source than calling them on the phone and writing down parts of the conversation.

If the interviewer is a bit credulous, then we can take that into account.

I don't need other opinions to be inserted in the same show, because it's not the only show I watch. I get different viewpoints from others. (And Klein's show happens to be a primary example of that)
by lgleason | 2025-07-31 23:30:48+00:00
Have we made some significant advancements similar to what happened with the Internet back in the 90's with HTML? Yes. But, this is a bubble we are currently in just like the .com bubble with lots of irrational exuberance.

That said, that job market is not as crazy as it was during .com, in fact right now most technologists are finding it more difficult to find work at the moment. Most of this AI hype started when the employment market started to slow down. Usually these bubbles pop after the employment market goes crazy. The employment starts to go nuts when crazy money enters the picture. So if, for example the fed really starts to cut rates and/or investment starts to really pick up and we have another boom period, the tail end of that seems to historically be when the bubbles pop.

Put another way, there is a good chance that the bubble will continue to inflate for a few years before it pops.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-31 23:31:43+00:00
Not a bad position to take, and very similar to my personal one (that gets immediately conflated as "LOL AI DOOMER" by the AI Booster Club): yes, this is a bubble, and yes, it will eventually pop, but the tools won't go away. What's been democratized isn't the entirety of human skills, but the narrow field of custom ML-based tooling, and that's going to change quite a lot in the decades ahead as people utilize them in unexpectedly novel ways.

It'll never be AGI or superintelligence, it won't create or cause the singularity, and it'll never be a substitute for learning, practicing, and honing skills into mastery. For the fields LLMs do displace in part or in whole, I still expect it'll largely displace the mediocre or the barely-passable, not the competent or experts. Those experts will, once the bubble pops and the hype train derails, find the novel and transformative uses for LLMs outside of building moats for big enterprises or vamping for investor capital.

I especially enjoy the on-prem/locally-run angle, as I think that is where much of the transformation will occur - in places like homes, small offices, or private datacenters where a GPU or two can accelerate novel tasks for the entity using it, without divulging data to corporate entities or outright competitors. Inference is cheap, and a modest gaming GPU or AI accelerator can easily support 99.9% of individual use cases offline, with the right supporting infrastructure (which is improving daily!).

All in all, an excellent post.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-07-31 23:32:36+00:00
Absolutely. I only pointed to the last 5 years, because there was an insane appreciation and a lot of people went the route of “becoming house-poor, but owning their homes”. Those people, who are on the younger side, won’t ever support depreciation of their assets.

Honestly, I have no idea how a government can resolve it without a large scale intervention or centralized action a la China.
by LocalH | 2025-07-31 23:32:55+00:00
To be fair, the chances of a breaking server change being unintentional or a natural evolution versus being a hostile move from the provider are about 50/50. AOL was known back in the day for making actively hostile changes to AIM for the sole purpose of breaking third party clients.

Today I'd say the chances of it being a hostile move are more like 75/25.
by dalingrin | 2025-07-31 23:33:00+00:00
I couldn't agree more. The model of trying to support 3rd party extensions but not having full compatibility puts Orion in an awkward position. I would consider creating a Vimium replacement for Orion but where would you publish it? Firefox store? Chrome web store? Seems like you'd just have to distribute it as a zip that the user would need to manually import and manually update.

Besides Vimium, I generally experience enough bugs with other extensions or the browser itself that I just wind up not using Orion, despite following development for many years now.

What they're trying to achieve with Orion is very admirable but they simply don't have enough resources to pull it off. Making a browser is hard, making a cross platform webkit browser is even harder, making a cross platform webkit based browser that supports Firefox, Chrome, and in some cases Safari extensions is yet even harder.
by DrewADesign | 2025-07-31 23:34:23+00:00
I saw someone earnestly say that a business model with potential to generate actual revenue was no longer relevant, and companies need only generate enough excitement to draw investors to be successful because “the rules have changed.” At that moment, I saw that telltale soapy iridescent sheen. I’ve heard that before.

I’m worried that the US knowledge industries jumped the shark in the teens and have been living off hopeful investors assuming the next equivalent of the SaaS revolution is right around the corner, and AI for whatever reason just won’t change things that much, or if it does, the US tech industry will fumble it, assuming their resources and reputations will insulate them from the competition, just like the tech giants of the 90s vs Internet startups. If that’s true, some industries like biotech will still do fine, but the trajectory of the tech sector, generally, will start looking like that of the manufacturing sector in the 90s.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-31 23:34:40+00:00
This is a good article, but it has a flaw that I keep seeing in these. Articles like this say "I built this app, and that app, and another app, and another one". Ok, let's see them. Are they any good? Please post the github link, or link to the webpage.

I'm reminded of the motto of the Royal Society: Nullius in verba.
by exasperaited | 2025-07-31 23:34:52+00:00
An agenda? I just give a shit about the creative people (indie filmmakers, photographers, artists, actors, models) I know, and I fail to see what AI brings them that their creativity does not already; special effects are such a tiny part of filmmaking, for example.

I don’t mean to say I don’t think there are any uses but I think the main misunderstanding here is that what holds indie filmmakers back isn’t access to technology, generally.
by wagwang | 2025-07-31 23:35:41+00:00
This is only half the truth. The reality is that demand is propped up by fannie/freddie and mortgages in general. The fact that the government will buy investment property mortgages is bonkers. In reality, you should only be allowed to mortgage the raw materials and labor of a primary home, everything else is just leveraged speculation. There's also a immigration question, but should be purely solved using new supply. Finally there's a question of, should you even be allowed to own investment properties in cities. A real land reform would be huge for the country; ie. forcing landlords to sell investment properties in any area where rent exceeds $x.
by aristofun | 2025-07-31 23:36:55+00:00
There is a real war going on between israel and hamas.

On all levels, including information war. Information war is the only one where hamas is currently winning.

That is why you are already heavily biased based on the tone of your questions. About 90%+ of what you see on mainstream media is either a straightforward lie or carefully designed, massaged and distorted truth (for example hamas counts as casualties everyone, including fully armed terrorists killed in action). Another example is fake news about “starvation” where they post standalone photos of children with generic disorders as a proof. Im just scratching the surface.

This information war is mainly sponsored by quatar and iran with 2 longterm goals in mind 1) destabilizing and undermining USA influence in middle east and worldwide 2) destroying israel and killing as many jews as possible (literally, they don’t hide it if you check anything besides bbc and english al-jazeera)

That is what really going on. That is the brutal truth. Unfortunately it’s not an exaggeration.
by hubertzhang | 2025-07-31 23:37:36+00:00
I’m the co-founder of EloqData. I recently gave a talk on EloqDoc and Pulsar integration at Data Streaming Summit 2025. It was a great event, and Ursa was definitely one of the hottest topics discussed.

I believe object storage is shaping the future architecture of cloud databases. The first big shift happened in the data warehouse space, where we saw the move from Teradata and Greenplum to Snowflake accelerate around 2016. Snowflake’s adoption of object storage as its primary storage layer not only reduced costs but also unlocked true elasticity.

Now, we’re seeing a similar trend in the streaming world. If I recall correctly, Ursa was the first to GA an object-storage–based streaming service, with Kafka(WarpStream) and AutoMQ following afterward.

I also believe the next generation of OLTP databases will use object storage as their main storage layer. This blog post shares some insights into this trend and the unique challenges of implementing object storage correctly for OLTP workloads, which are much more latency-sensitive.

https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/07/16/data-substrate-bene...
by DoctorOetker | 2025-07-31 23:38:00+00:00
To different star systems obviously.

Short of discovering portals or wormholes (natural or artificial), we should only assume demonstrated space propulsion technology to make the trip. With current technology its a long trip, and its cold and dark inbetween 2 stars. We should definitely conserve fissile materials until we demonstrate fusible materials for reliable power generation.
by skmurphy | 2025-07-31 23:38:47+00:00
Thanks for pointing this out. I think this is an insightful analogy. We will likely manage generated code in the same way we manage large cloud computing complexes.

This probably does not apply to legacy code that has been in use for several years where the production deployment gives you a higher level of confidence (and a higher risk of regression errors with changes).

Have you blogged about your insights, the https://stillpointlab.com site is very sparse as is @stillpointlab
by caseyohara | 2025-07-31 23:38:49+00:00
Honestly, it’s a genius marketing tactic. Despite the artificial scarcity, the company increases sales while not diluting the brand’s prestige.

If everyone was able to afford a Rolex or a 911, they wouldn’t be cool anymore because their unattainability is what makes them desirable.

That said, even if I could afford a GT3 RS or a Daytona, I would never play their stupid game to get one.
by AngryData | 2025-07-31 23:38:50+00:00
I don't see why there should be any damages paid out if something isn't available to stream. How can you claim a loss of sales for a product you aren't even selling? Why why should anyone be rewarded for not providing a product and just sitting on it so nobody else can use it? There certainly isn't any excuse for not being able to bring a product to market fast enough when it previously was already on the market and there are plenty of services to license it for streaming or sale.
by teamonkey | 2025-07-31 23:38:53+00:00
Adaptive optics and cheap don’t usually go together and I don’t know of any successful amateur attempts. In any case, Hadley’s appeal is that it’s cheap and 3d printed, it’s not a precision instrument that is limited by the atmosphere.

That said, assuming you’re doing planetary photography, you can do speckle imaging by using an astronomy camera to take lots of short-exposure frames and running them through software such as AutoStakkert!4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_imaging
by theandrewbailey | 2025-07-31 23:39:31+00:00
> DISCLAIMER: Some of the photos in this article are oddly small. I don’t know why, and I’m not sure what happened in the exporting process, but I didn’t realize this until after I had permanently deleted the originals from my iPhone camera roll. Apologies if some of the images are not as clear as they usually are.

Am I the only one that keeps the originals for images on a blog? Is deleting the originals and only keeping web quality images best blogging practice?
by hangonhn | 2025-07-31 23:39:49+00:00
But part of the provider cost is driven by the availability of money to pay, which is part of the reason why drug costs are so much higher than in the US. For example, the doctor has no strong incentive to prescribe less costly drugs since they don't pay. The patient don't know any better and aren't the payers either. The insurance has some control over what they will pay for and how much but except for some cutting edge treatments, it is very hard for them to say no. This is part of the reason why insulin in the US is so expensive and why drug companies advertise to doctors and patients, etc.

I think in countries where the health care costs aren't as astronomically high as the US there is some form of government intervention to distort the market. And the original post is more or less arguing for a market distortion that doesn't rely on simple price signals to bring costs under control. But that is very different than what has happened in Denver's housing market.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-31 23:40:09+00:00
Seven states do not have a separate, lower minimum wage for tipped employees. Instead, they require employers to pay tipped employees the full state minimum wage, regardless of tips received. These states are Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

Sixteen states use the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13: Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.

https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/
by gaws | 2025-07-31 23:41:18+00:00
> If you are doing "find all instances of ComponentFoo, change to ComponentBar, refactor each screen for correct usage of ComponentBar" kinda things, it's going to grep through your code, find multiple files, read all of them into context and start making changes one by one and/or spin up a subagent to do it. You'll be rate limited pretty quick doing things that way.

Huh?? grep and sed do this for free; you don't need A.I. for that.
by Lerc | 2025-07-31 23:42:04+00:00
In a sense I agree. I don't necessarily think that it has to be the case, but I got that same feeling of that it was wearing a white lab coat to be a scientist. I think their honest attempt was to express the relationship of how they perceive things.

I think this could still be used as a valuable form of communication if you can clearly express the idea that this is representing a hypothesis rather than a measurement. The simplest would be to label the graphs as "hypothesis". but a subtle but easily identifiable visual change might be better.

Wavy lines for the axis spring to mind as an idea to express that. I would worry about the ability to express hypotheses about definitive events that happen when a value crosses an axis though, You'd probably want a straight line for that. Perhaps it would be sufficient to just have wavy lines at the ends of the axes beyond the point at which the plot appears.

Beyond that. I think the article presumes the flattening of the curve as mastery is achieved. I'm not sure that's a given, perhaps it seems that way because we evaluate proportional improvement, implicitly placing skill on a logarithmic scale.

I'd still consider the post from the author as being done in better faith than the economist links.

Id like to know what people think, and for them to say that honestly. If they have hard data, they show it and how it confirms their hypothesis. At the other end of the scale is gathering data and only exposing the measurements that imply a hypothesis that you are not brave enough to state explicitly.
by cuddlybacon | 2025-07-31 23:43:22+00:00
I had lots of experience writing Perl5 before the company switched to Python3.

> The inability of the Perl community to push forward collectively in a timely way should be taken by every other language community as a cautionary tale.

I think this is a good point that I hadn't considered before.

I think Perl stopped being able to attract new users. There is always going to be users leaving. If they aren't replaced, you will slowly shrink.

I think the point you raised is part of why they couldn't attract new users. I also think people asked themselves "why chose perl now, if I know I need to re-write when Perl6 comes?" and decided Perl5 was bad choice. I also think the fact Perl had this reputation for being ugly, difficult, and "write only line noise" kept people from even considering it, even if that reputation didn't match production codebases.
by baby_souffle | 2025-07-31 23:43:36+00:00
If - hypothetically - I had a ton of money and buying another house or two or fifteen wasn't a big deal, wouldn't there be a clear-ish signal that I should stop my demand for more housing lest too much supply screw with my income? I would also have an incentive to deploy some of my resources/capital to making sure that the supply of housing is juuuuuuust right for my extractive needs.
by ivape | 2025-07-31 23:44:42+00:00
Perhaps the person that wrote it is also confused. I guess Geminis embedding model offers multilingual support, but we can use anything. The assumption is the developer uses these embeddings on their end with their implementation of storage/querying (their own vector db). The confusing thing is the article is suggesting that whole process is now done automatically soon as you send the embeddings to Gemini (which doesn’t even make sense, shouldn’t it only take text?).
by denimnerd42 | 2025-07-31 23:45:07+00:00
i hope the next part of his article covers the zoning issues. because I'm certainly not seeing the zoning issues making the homes be on bigger lots or requiring things like 3 car garages? If anything the lots in new tract developments in dallas fort worth are smaller and have less land using features like they don't have alleys. and then in Dallas city limits any small slice of land that can possibly be used for new houses have way smaller lots than any neighboring decades old homes.

the only instance I can think of that I know of is there as a historical black neighborhood near love field airport where Dallas changed the zoning to make redevelopment less profitable by requiring the houses take up less of the lot. This way developers can't build huge houses to offset the fact that the land is expensive or they can't build duplexes big enough to make them worth selling either. In fact there were a few duplexes going in to replace detached SFH and the developers were left in the lurch. I think even had to tear them down? I never followed up on the story. This was basically a policy to prevent gentrification by making the land less valuable by policy. Unfortunately gentrification and yimbyism seem like they go hand in hand because if you can develop bigger or more dense the property value goes up and people scream.

Where I can see regulation getting in the way is in the new codes. You can't build a house like you could in the 50s-70s anymore The code today is insanely expensive. Now those 70s houses weren't great. But they aren't didn't cost $200-300+/sqft at the low end.

in my view new single family housing can never be affordable because the cost is just so high. in fact. generic home ownership is as unaffordable as ever due to inflation. call a plumber to fix a leaky faucet? That will be $300. A new fence? $10k. A new HVAC system? $20k. A roof? $12k. These are all real costs for "small" homes. At least in the rental scenario the costs are controlled because not every single thing is a one-off. There are efficiencies at scale. If it's a housing rental company your maintenance guy is on a route, if it's an apartment you have building maintenance, etc.. The roof repair is a contract worth a million bucks where every roof is only $8000 instead of $12000.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-31 23:45:13+00:00
> I think of Denver as somewhere you go if you're sick of the cost of living on the coast.

Denver hasn't been that place for more than a few decades. Heck, the whole rocky mountain region has never ever been a place for cheap housing. Western housing prices are high historically for reasons related to desirability. They never were as cheap as the midwest or deep south.
by dgl | 2025-07-31 23:45:30+00:00
Clients supporting QUIC usually also support HTTPS DNS records, so you can use a lower priority record as a failover, letting the client potentially take care of it. (See for example: host -t https dgl.cx.)

That's the theory anyway. You can't always rely on clients to do that (see how much of the HTTPS record Chromium actually supports[1]), but in general if QUIC fails for any reason clients will transparently fallback, as well as respecting the Alt-Svc[2] header. If this is a planned failover you could stop sending a Alt-Svc record and wait for the alternative to timeout, although it isn't strictly necessary.

If you do really want to route QUIC however, one nice property is the SNI is always in the first packet, so you can route flows by inspecting the first packet. See cloudflare's udpgrm[3] (this on its own isn't enough to proxy to another machine, but the building block is there).

Without Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) the client hello (including SNI) is encrypted with a known key (this is to stop middleboxes which don't know about the version of QUIC breaking it), so it is possible to decrypt it, see the code in udpgrm[4]. With ECH the "router" would need to have a key to decrypt the ECH, which it can then decrypt inline and make a decision on (this is different to the TLS key and can also use fallback HTTPS records to use a different key than the non-fallback route, although whether browsers currently support that is a different issue, but it is possible in the protocol). This is similar to how fallback with ECH could be supported with HTTP/2 and a TCP connection.

[1]: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40257146

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

[3]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-restarts-slow-problems-udpg...

[4]: https://github.com/cloudflare/udpgrm/blob/main/ebpf/ebpf_qui...