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by neuronic | 2025-08-05 07:24:35+00:00
Because humans are nearly incapable of projecting in a non-linear way. As in, it takes active educated effort. Most predictions you will see are linear extrapolations of what we already know. That's why flying cars were a popular "futuristic" scenario. They can drive now, why shouldn't they be able to fly in 50 years from now? That thought was prevalent in the 60s.

How should they even know that cars will become globally connected smartphones on wheels first? Smartphones didn't exist. The microchip didn't exist yet. The Internet didnt exist yet. It is impossible to make this combination from the 1960s perspective.

Complex non-linear systems don't work in intuitive ways and minor changes in fundamental variables can chaotically change the system in entirely unexpected ways. Non-linear developments will always be surprising, it doesn't matter how many Youtube videos certain pop scientists are creating.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-05 07:25:41+00:00
> For daemonizing a single service, I agree it's silly. I think the argument becomes more complex when you have a whole group of service

I dont agree that a bunch of services makes things harder if it’s already easier as one service. The set up here is linear in effort. Plus, if anything, being able to restart the host and have all services automatically come up makes systemd much more convenient.

> and then if you want the dashboard experience you still have to launch all the panes and get each one tailing the respective unit journals.

logs are a literal one liner with systemd. Though if you care about dashboards then you should be exporting your logs to a proper observability platform instead of SSHing into your service.

> such as being able to ctrl-c a pane and trivially re-launch it.

systemd restart …

Is less effort than

tmux attach … [prefix]+w (select window) ctrl+c [up] [return]

> And once you're launching services in a container, that's another world again, since systemd in that case is quite a bit worse and probably wants CAP_ADMIN.

If you’re launching a service in a container then you don’t need either systemd nor tmux in that container because the container itself provides all that scaffolding for you.

Whether it’s Docker/podman, LXC, FreeBSD jails, Solaris Zones, etc, you just set your service to be the entry point of that container.

Docker makes this even easier still with a literal directive called “entrypoint”.

Trying to start services using tmux inside of a container is massively more effort than calling it directly from the entrypoint.

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I do get the appeal of using tmux for these usages. I honestly do. And if your services are constant in flux, for example inference where you’re constantly tweaking parameters then tmux does make sense (a proper ML pipeline makes more sense, but that requires knowledgable MLOps to build). However for anything consistent, the effort in doing things “properly” is usually less than you think it is.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-05 07:26:17+00:00
Elon Musk didn't provide anything of value. He's a grifter. He almost destroyed PayPal with inappropriate Windows-based shit. He didn't come up with Tesla, that was founded by others. Being CEO of SpaceX, a celebrity figurehead, might be his claim to fame.

I think it's fairly safe to assert that one can be a total asshole and become a billionaire as long as you're able to get others to do with work, buy your wares, and/or give you money. Maybe that has "value", but only indirectly and it's rarely or never your "special" effort alone.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-05 07:27:29+00:00
> Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean we won't see it everywhere because the cost is still zero.

I meant the opposite when I said "collapse" - because we will be inundated with it (i.e. it will be everywhere), new entrants will be inured to it and simply not enter.

In the past, these networks had a health influx of new blood on a regular basis. It's hard to maintain this pipeline if every member is producing a 1000 books a week.
by account42 | 2025-08-05 07:28:01+00:00
No the point of a standard library is to provide vocabulary types (so that third-party libraries can interoperate) as well as basic operations that are essentially set in stone. Anything beyond that needs to have its usefulness weighted against its maintenance burden, which for a standard library that is serious about backwards compatibility is enormous. C++ is already also heavily criticized for being complex with many problems having multiple outdated solutions that you're not supposed to use.

"Onboarding" a third party library isn't this herculean task that you make it out to be but is in fact a very basic part of software development that almost any project will have to deal with anyway unless you are into reinventing the wheel - even excessively bloated standard libraries don't manage to cover everything.
by piva00 | 2025-08-05 07:28:06+00:00
I don't understand this resentment you Americans have with Europe, there's plenty of technologies you depend on that have been developed by European countries and companies. Semi-conductors, advanced optics for military and scientific use, high-precision machinery for manufacturing of advanced materials (physically and chemically), pharmaceuticals, the list goes on and on.

European countries have been your allies for over 70 years, they've been molded by your policies on trade, to consume and to provide what you consumed.

And now you (and quite many others) come back to complain that you're being mocked? Yes, you are being mocked because your country behaves like a spoiled brat, a fickle-minded nation which only manages to measure "progress" through "how much money you make", a nation who decided to spread the motto "greed is good" without caring about your own citizens for the past 40+ years.

You do not survive alone, you cannot sustain your level of development without allies, and even adversaries, participating in the game you created to become a supremacy, and you are choosing to destroy this out of a sense of entitlement?

Your kind of comment is exactly why Americans are losing respect outside of your own borders, you are behaving as if the world was the same as in the 1980s.

The more I see this kind of comment the more I wish for the USA to meet its reckoning, to lose its status and meet reality. You're not what you once were, the greed game has eroded your society, your businesses, your infrastructure. Yes you are wealthy with some of the highest market cap companies in the world while having a sick, divided society, you fight amongst each other because unlimited greed will cause that: fractures, anger, and immense wealth for a lucky few.

You could be better yet you choose not to, repeatedly, and for what? More money? At some point that ends, it always ends...
by benterix | 2025-08-05 07:28:33+00:00
> somewhen the next 10-20 years, the AGI milestone will be hit

You seem quite confident for a person who doesn't offer any arguments on why it would happen at all, and why within two decades specifically, especially if you claim it won't be LLM-based.

Second, if AGI means that ChatGPT doesn't hallucinate and has a practically infinite context window, that's good for humanity but I fail to see any of the usual terrible things happening like the "fallout" you mention. We'll adapt just like we adapted to using LLMs.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-05 07:30:30+00:00
I think you're leaving out other expenses. You'll be paying HOA fees (one friend in SF pays ~$1000 a month and I've heard of worse). You'll also be paying property tax at around $650 a month. You'll probably be paying some maintenance that your landlord would have had to cover (though maybe HOA fees cover some of that?)
by komali2 | 2025-08-05 07:30:38+00:00
I don't want to play no true Scotsman, but I do disagree that Europe is for the most part nowhere near the modern safety standards you find in countries like the PRC, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. The USA rail infrastructure is a joke that writes itself, surely we can agree that their safety "standards" are practically useless, if ever actually enforced? I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to NYC but my god those platforms are death traps.

> Talk about colossal $$$$$ for tracks running outside of urban centers.

Well, that's the opposite of what I mean, I'm talking about urban centers. Which, really the actual solution is just stop letting cars into cities where they can drunk drive crash into people and streetcars, which they do so often you'd think it's their hobby. Anyway, plane infrastructure is still more expensive, still a worse experience, and still has a higher environmental cost. There's just no sensible justification for maintaining all this plane infrastructure. It's an accident of capitalism that it's gotten this far.
by solatic | 2025-08-05 07:31:03+00:00
By and large, I agree with you. Especially if you are single, owning real estate represents a massive commitment, both financial and to the local place, that nobody forced you to take. People need to remember that the default for real estate is to fall into disrepair and turn back into the dust of the earth; as someone who owns real estate, you are responsible for fighting that entropy, as is everyone else in your neighborhood, as living in the only well-maintained house on a block full of abandoned blight isn't going to rescue your property value.

With that said, sometimes you want to make that commitment, because it's a socially good choice, rather than a financially good choice. Children need stability. Moving houses, neighborhoods, schools is not good for them. Good parents make sacrifices for their children, including staying in jobs where they might make a little less compared to Yet Another Move.

For most families who want to provide stability for their children, the choice is between purchasing a house, or a long-term rental of an apartment owned by a public housing authority that is bound by law or regulation to keep rent increases down and renters in-place, so long as they continue to pay their rent. In the US, most people do not have access to the latter, or the latter are only found in bad neighborhoods where the public housing authority was underfunded and mismanaged. That leaves purchasing real estate as the only option.
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-05 07:31:58+00:00
Because lawyers are expensive and big tech companies have lots of them. Because it takes a ton of time and effort to sue someone. Because you need to show standing, which means you need to be able to demonstrate you lost something of value by their actions. Because the power imbalance is heavily weighted towards a corporation. Because the way to deal with such things should be legislation and not court decisions. And lots more reasons...
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by opo | 2025-08-05 07:32:44+00:00
I find it is important to be skeptical of people's descriptions of what they were supposedly thinking years earlier. Much better is to find contemporaneous accounts. For example:

>...my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary,

The last major battle before the dropping of the atomic bombs was the battle for Okinawa and it was the bloodiest and fiercest battle fought against the Japanese. Absolutely no one who knew about that battle would have claimed that Japan was already defeated.

>...When the guns fell silent, more than 240,000 people had lost their lives in the campaign for Okinawa. The American loss rate was 35 percent of the force, totaling 49,151 casualties.

>...So close to the home islands, most Japanese soldiers refused to surrender and fought to the death. Their fanaticism contributed to a dreadful toll. Some 110,000 Japanese and conscripted Okinawan defenders were killed in action.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/okinawa-costs...
by afo3 | 2025-08-05 07:33:47+00:00
Given that AWS US can still easily 'control' any data it wants to get from its Euro subsidiary (just by pushing a new code version that has a small change to make that data accessible), I don't understand how AWS US would avoid being compelled to turn over the data in a high profile case. I.e. they could always implement a backdoor or make a targeted modification to the AWS code base that would allow them access if they wanted. Unless AWS EU does a full code review on every line of code being changed in the underlying AWS codebase, they'd never be able to stop it.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-05 07:34:06+00:00
> Why would I use a TPM to store a shared secret?

I don't understand your incredulity at this; a disk encryption key is a shared secret and commonly stored in a TPM. It kinda still makes sense because the TPM 'enforces' platform security.

But a TPM isn't the same as a hardware token, and storing a shared secret on a hardware token does make less sense. But that doesn't prevent people from doing it...
by marius-ciclistu | 2025-08-05 07:34:19+00:00
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by __loam | 2025-08-05 07:34:52+00:00
Regarding your first point, I feel it's important to understand Liskov's substitution principle, which is basically, the code might look the same now, but it could diverge in the future if the contextual semantics around that code are different. Effectively that heuristic has made me a little more hesitant to do a bunch of consolidation that could end up increasing complexity by a lot if you need a bunch of special cases.
by germandiago | 2025-08-05 07:37:05+00:00
I know Javascript is fast but...

I cannot go with such a messy ecosystem. I find Python highly preferrable for my backend code for more or less low and middle traffic stuff.

I know Python is not that good deployment-wise, but the language is really understandable, I have tools for every use case, I can easily provide bindings from C++ code and it is a joy to work with.

If on top of that, they keep increasing its performance, I think I will stick to it for lots of backend tasks (except for high performance, where I have lately been doing with C++ and Capnproto RPC for distributed stuff).
by snickerbockers | 2025-08-05 07:38:13+00:00
It definitely is a warcrime, but just about every major battle in WWII is a war-crime by modern standards. The concept of warcrimes exists largely because we don't ever want WWII to happen again. Before that there were geneva conventions which defined war crimes but they were far more limited to the extent that even the Nazis were able to come up with supposed justifications for much of what they did based around [according to them, at least] their having not violated the geneva conventions which existed at the time.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined weren't even the biggest war crimes committed by America against the Japanese. I'm avoiding mentioning war-crimes committed by the other side because I don't want to inadvertently make the fallacious argument that they would somehow justify the war crimes we committed, but the argument I do want to make is that these sorts of arguments should be based around who was killed.

Torture is an exception to this because it implies the deliberate infliction of more pain than is necessary to kill the victim, but these sorts of discussions should never be based around the choice of weapon. When I see people constantly criticize the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki at a far greater rate than similar-scale events such as the repeated firebombings of tokyo or even "normal" battles with massive collateral damage such as Okinawa or Berlin it seems to me that the implication is that you would've been fine with America killing 250k people as long as we had done so with conventional weapons.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-05 07:38:16+00:00
> Sure Amazon or any cloud provider could build a back door, but that will eventually be discovered whether by hacker or whistleblower and their reputation will be forever ruined and they'll lose all corporate and government business forever. It's not in Amazon's corporate self-interest to allow a back door like that.

In which alternate reality is that? This already happened with Snowden's leaks when we learned about Microsoft's, Apple's, and Google's participation in the PRISM program and their market dominance has only grown since then. There were no consequences, the market didn't care, the shareholders didn't care, their customers largely didn't care, and they didn't lose any sleep over it.
by hostyle | 2025-08-05 07:38:45+00:00
I picked up a bunch of 4k POE "simicam" cameras from AliExpress for 25 euros each. These serve up RTSP streams to frigate. I made some minor frigate config changes - I set it to keep 7 days of full recordings (just because i am paranoid), so this uses approx 1Tb of storage (5 cameras currently, more to go online soon). Frigate is running on an old laptop with a Coral AI USB and 2Tb NVME for storage. I enabled detection of cars and animals as well as the default of just humans. It works pretty well, but has some annoying quirks, e.g. if a dog runs past where a car is parked it will trigger an alert for both a dog and a car. It also detects weird conglomerate shapes as human sometimes, e.g. a bucket left at the end of some rolled up bird netting with some pieces of timber sticking out underneath can be vaguely human shaped when viewed from a height. I run the free open source version, and I'm sure I could get better results if I played with the configuration more.
by qwertox | 2025-08-05 07:38:58+00:00
It's true that pipes are more readable, and for many cases they will be the better option, but the example of nested functions just doesn't hold.

That's like saying someone would use this:

$result = $arr |> fn($x) => array_column($x, 'tags') |> fn($x) => array_merge(...$x) |> array_unique(...) |> array_values(...)

which is harder to reason about than the nested functions.

array_values( array_unique( array_merge( ...array_column($arr, 'tags') ) ) );

or

array_values( array_unique( array_merge( ...array_column($arr, 'tags') ) ) );
by nergal | 2025-08-05 07:39:07+00:00
I've been running Frigate for many years, using a PN50 NUC and a Coral USB dongle, the Coral is a must, at least in my case. I had a full blown Ubiquiti/Unifi setup with cameras + their software. Way to many false alarms compared to Frigate. Now I run 10+ cameras with 24/7 recording and alarms with images pushed to Telegram. The identification is instant as well as the telegram message.

Running a mix of Ubiquti/TP-Link VIGI+TAPO/Reolink. I'm running everything in containers and everything works perfect!
by radu_floricica | 2025-08-05 07:39:36+00:00
Oh, thanks for educating me! But seriously, that link on HN is a bit... you kinda expect people here to have basic education.

My comment had nothing to do with the theory of commons, only with the implementation. Yes, the better we coordonate the better the overall outcomes, but simply creating rules for the sake of creating rules will just create additional problems. You can't say "a better/new UN will fix Gaza" without understanding why the current one is failing: votes are based on population, there are very large Muslim populations, their political leaders have to play a certain tune or they'll have problems back home etc. It's all a bit more complicated than "let's all get along".

Same with space. Ok, basic rules are nice. At the very least, a norm of not having things go explody in stable orbits would definitely be welcome. Now, problem: how do you create an institution to enforce only the good rules, without scope creep and bureaucracy over 30 years?