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by kruffalon | 2025-09-19 07:18:38+00:00
What a great article!

> Absolutely right. There is a certain cowardice in how we deal with death in the contemporary west.

This is one of my favourite topics.

I had forgotten to bring "cowardice" to the table when thinking about death (etc) I've mostly thought of it as some kind if vague unspecified fear, thank you for injecting this word and concept into my jumble of thoughts.

I've been using "dignity" to try and make my thoughts more clear, but cowardice clearly has a place at the table too.

When thinking about suicide I have thought of that way to die as potentially needing bravery (as in being able to do something you fear).

The topic of death is dear to me me not only for personal reasons but I also think this relates to quite a few aspects of our societies and not only the obvious ones like how (if we can afford it) seem to overtreat people medically rather than give them proper palliative care and their close ones time and space to be there at this grand moment in life, that death ultimately is :)

It feels weird to use words like: bravery, cowardice, dignity and fear, they feel like from another era, possibly only a fictional era of knights, damsels and dragons.

And somehow I sense that that feeling of weirdness somehow is connected to the medicalisation of "everything" and also our longer work hours and expected increased efficiency. As if we hide and disallow the big important things in life only then will we agree to work the way we do.

But then in the other hand we can cure a lot of disease and I can type this on a tiny screen keyboard and post this to the internet, so...

I don't know, I only know that there is something wrong with death.
by bambax | 2025-09-19 07:18:44+00:00
> Assouvissez votre créativité sans changer de page

> Have a question about what you're reading? Ask Gemini. It uses the context of your open tabs to provide relevant answers and explanations, keeping you focused.

In France some bits of the page are localized, some are still in English -- doesn't project professionalism or inspire confidence.
by Wurdan | 2025-09-19 07:18:57+00:00
It sounds like they don't want you taking and sharing photos of them now, which is very fair. But it's not clear from your description if they judge you or your partner for any baby pics you took of them which ended up in the cloud. That seemed to be the statement of the person I replied to - "One day your children will be your judge when they are grown up, when they realise what you did to them."
by franga2000 | 2025-09-19 07:19:00+00:00
No shit, I don't know why everyone is trying to explain Docker basics to me. All I'm saying is that socket access is required to spin up containers and it's nothing out of the ordinary for this use case.

Of course it's an issue if you're using Docker to isolate OneDev from the rest of the apps running on your systems. But that's not everyone's use-case. Anything that intentionally spins up user-controlled containers should be isolated in a VM. That's how every sane person runs GitLab runners, for example.
by 6c696e7578 | 2025-09-19 07:19:14+00:00
> What an unnecessarily hostile take.

I like to defend as much as the next person, but the defence from Slack ignores the approach.

"It was a mistake" isn't enough to gloss over the trouble, as a service provider, they caused. What a rug pull, and to then perhaps blame it on a sales person isn't right. They saw a lot of users and tried to extort, no negotiation.

Honestly though, what can slack do that can't be accomplished by a good old-fashioned mail list or IRC?
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-19 07:20:37+00:00
Someone here mentioned the David Audley series by Anthony Price. I enjoyed it and will recommend it again. Although the starting premise is espionage, the stories are all detective mysteries. The plot is always intertwined with historical periods of Britain.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/59006-dr-david-audley-colon...
by lelanthran | 2025-09-19 07:21:56+00:00
> Saying that only the 50 workers need to pay $100 a year, and not all the program participants, is a perfectly reasonable amount of money to pay for a chat server.

Then they should have chosen a chat server that has that as the business model.

The decision maker didn't. They chose a product that did not offer that option, then negotiated the $200k down to $5k.

Slack was obviously unsuitable for them because Slack does not offer what they wanted (free for non-employees), but the decision maker blundered on. And now they want sympathy.
by grayhatter | 2025-09-19 07:23:10+00:00
> It should be possible to describe something as “the best thing since sliced bread” without [...]

Possible for you, yes. But I think it's perfectly fine to have a different set of rules for different people based on incentives.

You could bring in a whole team of UX researchers, or a promo copy writer with slightly more originality than sliced white bread. Then they could make a claim or comparison that's trivial to verify. Instead of meaningless obvious (to most people) hyperbole.

You can't lie to people, and must have some evidence to back up any promotional claim made seems like a reasonable rule for people with a financial incentive to lie or be misleading to the possible detriment of others.

But if you're really so offended by such a rule, perhaps the solution is "these claims have not been evaluated by [trade industry group] and this product is not intended to treat or cure any disease, missing feature, required business need or other software bug!" Then you can lie as much as any snake oil salesman.
by mixedbit | 2025-09-19 07:23:31+00:00
I love "The Design Of Everyday Things", the book doesn't talk much about computer UI, yet the 7 design principles it introduces allow to make much more informed design decisions, where design is not just the matter of taste and aesthetic, but of achieving well-specified goals. For example, if the user has no way to figure out what a button in the UI does, and needs to click the button to check it, and even then can't figure out what has happened, it is a more prominent design failure than misalignment of the button.
by yallpendantools | 2025-09-19 07:24:26+00:00
Haha. I honestly don't know. Which makes him...a great entertainer at least? The show was a real good time though.

Take this with lots of salt but I read somewhere that circus shows "fail" at least one jump to help sell to the audience the risk the performers are taking. My friend did flub his opening trick with a cheeky see-I-told-you and we just laughed it off.

He incorporated the audience a lot that night so I thought the stand-up comedy claim was his insurance policy. In his hour-long set he flubbed maybe two or three tricks.
by stareatgoats | 2025-09-19 07:24:42+00:00
Well, it's not "wrong" to balk at seeing the world from a different point of view than the convention dictates. What is "wrong" is any insistence that the conventional view is the correct (or "right") one. Moralizing is never a good thing, but it is quite in order to criticize attitudes that equates an upside map to an upside cup, or to evil mindsets, such attitudes are widespread. It's an invitation to accept that our conventions are - conventions, not truths. How "something can look so wrong and yet not be wrong at all" doesn't come naturally, it has to be learned through examples like this.
by wcagscans | 2025-09-19 07:24:44+00:00
I built ContentRepurpose.pro to reduce the copy-paste grind of turning one article or newsletter into platform-specific drafts (LinkedIn, X, Email, IG).

What it does (20s):

Paste a paragraph or link

Click Generate

Get: a LinkedIn post, an X thread, an email subject+body, and an IG caption (with suggested hashtags)

Edit → export → schedule elsewhere

Why I built it: As a solo builder, I was spending hours repurposing one post into 4–5 formats. I wanted something opinionated but editable that keeps my voice.

How it works (tech):

Frontend: lightweight HTML/JS

Backend: Cloudflare Workers; endpoints for /api/generate, plans/quotas, BYOK

Models: OpenRouter (bring-your-own key supported) + a rotating free model for trying it

Privacy: no training on user data; short-lived processing; simple logs for abuse/rate-limit

What’s shipped:

LinkedIn / X / Email / IG draft generation

Presets to keep tone/format consistent

BYOK + free rotating model

Simple exports (copy/download)

What I’d love feedback on:

Where do drafts feel “almost there” vs “needs work”?

What templates/presets would you want out of the box?

Any concerns about guardrails/ethics/anti-spam?

Roadmap (prioritized by early users): Notion & Trello export → Buffer push → Team presets

Links:

Live app: https://contentrepurpose.pro/

(If you’re curious) PH review page: https://www.producthunt.com/products/contentrepurpose-pro/re...

Happy to answer anything, including failure modes and costs. Thanks!
Testing a new rate-limiting service – feedback welcome
by 0megion | 2025-09-19 07:24:48+00:00
Hey all,

I’m building a project called Rately. It’s a rate-limiting service that runs on Cloudflare Workers (so at the edge, close to your clients).

The idea is simple: instead of only limiting by IP, you can set rules based on your own data — things like:

- URL params (/users/:id/posts → limit per user ID)

- Query params (?api_key=123 → limit per API key)

- Headers (X-Org-ID, Authorization, etc.)

Example:

Say your API has an endpoint /user/42/posts. With Rately you can tell it: “apply a limit of 100 requests/min per userId”.

So user 42 and user 99 each get their own bucket automatically. No custom nginx or middleware needed.

It has two working modes:

- Proxy mode – you point your API domain (CNAME) to Rately. Requests come in, Rately enforces your limits, then forwards to your origin. Easiest drop-in.

``` Client ---> Rately (enforce limits) ---> Origin API ```

- Control plane mode – you keep running your own API as usual, but your code or middleware can call Rately’s API to ask “is this request allowed?” before handling it. Gives you more flexibility without routing all traffic through Rately.

``` Client ---> Your API ---> Rately /check (allow/deny) ---> Your API logic ```

I’m looking for a few developers with APIs who want to test it out. I’ll help with setup .
by fragmede | 2025-09-19 07:24:52+00:00
I was there for three years and you're totally right that everything's been automated, but also there are a large number of product level decisions that just don't make sense. They make financial sense, sure, but then that means the engineer has drank the MBA cool aid (or not enough of it), things get killed off, and they are no longer to be trusted around things that need proper love and care put into them. Promo packets though, sure.

https://therussofirm.com/man-dies-after-following-google-map...

It's hard to read that as a human, though, and not want to build a system that lets people update bad map data? Which there used to be, but then yeah.

So yeah, the inmmates (engineers) used to run the asylum (Google), but then a group of fucking psychopaths (DoubleClick) got added to the asylum, got given meth (ad money) and shits fucking unhinged.
by jagermo | 2025-09-19 07:25:49+00:00
Geizhals is powering heise compilate, the affiliate/revenue generating platform for the heise publishing house. Basically, it allows you to add prices for products or categories to websites, competing with the "shop this on amazon" affiliate links if websites want to give customers different options than amazon.

Link in German: https://compaliate.heise.de/
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-19 07:25:55+00:00
Yes he absolutely did. Tyler Robinson was radicalized left. He is not MAGA. You are spreading misinformation. STOP.

Dylann Roof is right wing and a racist and evil. I can say that, why can't you say the truth about Tyler.

If you tell the truth and tell your side to stop, then things will calm down.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-19 07:26:05+00:00
What nobody seems to be chasing (I assume because screens are flashier) is smart headphones. Imagine you could navigate a webpage with hand gestures and have it read to you while you walk or do chores. In some ways, this is way easier than head-mounted graphical displays; portable audio is already a solved problem. The problem that still needs to be solved is good quality TTS on a portable device, but honestly that seems way more tractable than portable HUDs.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-19 07:26:31+00:00
Watch Zuckerberg proudly showing how his hand gestures are hardly noticeable. So, so creepy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if people wearing these would get confronted, denied entry or beaten up regularly. I can even totally see them ray-banned legally. At least in the EU. Much less with external video processing.

Although I love the idea of AR and the cyberpunk flair, I don’t think these will be a thing because of privacy implications. Nothing has fundamentally changed since Google Glass failure.
by phatskat | 2025-09-19 07:27:03+00:00
The “neutral” is part of his act. He platforms people with dangerous ideas under the guise of “just hearing what they have to say”, but he doesn’t really push back _ever_. I’ve heard people say downright factually incorrect or defamatory things on his show and his response is, largely, “oh really” or “that’s interesting”, etc.
by junlianglee | 2025-09-19 07:27:27+00:00
When working with APIs, I noticed that getting from “API docs” to a working app often takes hours or even days. You need to read through documentation, figure out authentication, and piece together example code before you can even test if the API fits your use case.

I wanted to make this faster, so I built SampleApp.ai. It lets you type in a use case (e.g. “build a price tracker with this API”) and automatically generates a runnable sample app in under 60 seconds. The playground comes pre-wired with authentication, API calls, and example UI (depending on the API/SDK) so you can start experimenting right away.

The idea is to help API providers give developers a “time-to-first-app” experience instead of just “time-to-first-call.” It can be embedded directly in API docs or used standalone for onboarding, sales demos, or internal integrations.

You can try it here: https://statsig.sampleapp.ai, https://groq.sampleapp.ai

Our main website is here: https://sampleapp.ai

I’d love feedback from API developers and providers — what’s missing, what’s confusing, and what would make this genuinely useful for your workflow?

- Jun Liang, Founder
by ralfd | 2025-09-19 07:28:11+00:00
For me it was the lighting of the colored reflections which change troughout the day and through the seasons.

https://blog.sagradafamilia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/c...

Our guide showed us on his phone pictures how the colors change in different months.

I never thought about how I would build a church to exemplify Gods creation, but after that I wondered about cathedrals out of glass or crystal. I must have raved like a mad man about the Sagrada to my friends who had chosen to stay in the hostel!

It made me appreciate cathedrals more. Like now they are are old and ancient, but imagine living in a medieval village and making a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to a big city and being dumb struck about the tallest building you have ever seen and architecture which is familiar but you could have never dreamed up.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-19 07:28:30+00:00
None of those things actually have anything to do with being less distracted. If you have a screen in your face throwing all the notifications and bullshit at you that your phone normally does, it is going to be far more distracting. And humans are hilariously bad at multitasking. Taking your hands out of the equation doesn't magically make you better at it. Jesus we think people using their phones while walking or driving is bad, these things are gonna be a disaster.

If people are so addicted to their phone or smart watch that it's giving them back/neck problems, the solution isn't glasses. The solution is to be less addicted to your god damn devices.

Outside of a few niche use case I don't think tech like this will be anything but a net negative.
by camillomiller | 2025-09-19 07:29:56+00:00
I find open protocols the most naive endeavour in tech nowadays. The reason why social media protocols work is because the incentive is to have them siloed, controlled, and artificially convincing people through algorithmic suggestions that posting what they had for lunch is somewhat interesting.

These protocols seem to think that people actually want an alternative to what Instagram, Facebook, X etc. give them. They don't, we all just want the comfort of our own little bubble and a constant feeling of perceived fame. The rest, and all the talk about the protocol that underlines this is just fluff for nerds that will have zero impact in a society dominated by tech capital.

Do you wanna change social media? Try and find and effective way to bring them down.
by rjh29 | 2025-09-19 07:30:02+00:00
Don't spend energy on clever prompting and reviewing. Spend your energy on knowing when to use the LLM at all.

If you know what to write but it's tedious, LLMs are great, they'll just fill all that in for you. Anything more complex or open that needs checking could be quicker to just think through and write yourself. You can still use LLMs at the edges, e.g. what API methods should I use for this?
by phatskat | 2025-09-19 07:31:09+00:00
Makes sense - Rogan is friends with Alex Jones, who is pretty much as far up Trump’s rump as Jones himself once said Trump was “up ISIS’s dirty **hole” - we almost had a world where jones was so mad at trump that he was going to bail, but I’m pretty sure Roger Stone and their other trump-linked associate (name escapes me, “psyops” guy) reigned him in - maybe with some push from the kremlin too.

I guess my point is: these people are all interconnected and it’s almost like when you hear about how actors all know each other and hang out, or congresspeople play golf together, but for fascism.
by godelski | 2025-09-19 07:31:19+00:00
> there are not any long residual connections in Vision Transformers

That's incorrect. If you look at the architecture a little closer you'll see you have very long residuals. The transformer arch is res(norm + attn) + res(norm + FFN). That allows you to just skip a whole layer. Going backwards we take the first shortcut, skipping the Norm + FFN, then can take the second shortcut, skipping the norm + attn. So you skip the whole transformer! It's pretty unlikely that this will happen in practice so you can strengthen that by doing dense transformers but as far as I've seen it isn't really much help and it does look like the gradient propagates the whole way

I'd recommend looking at the famous 3 Things paper [0]. You'll see what I said in their diagram. It's got some other good gems.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09795
by onepixelsoft | 2025-09-19 07:32:34+00:00
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by yorwba | 2025-09-19 07:32:51+00:00
Right, but they didn't use rented GPUs, so it's a purely notional figure. It's an appropriate value for comparison to other single training runs (e.g. it tells you that turning DeepSeek-V3 into DeepSeek-R1 cost much less than training DeepSeek-V3 from scratch) but not for the entire budget of a company training LLMs.

DeepSeek spent a large amount upfront to build a cluster that they can run lots of small experiments on over the course of several years. If you only focus on the successful ones, it looks like their costs are much lower than they were end-to-end.
by dxdm | 2025-09-19 07:33:21+00:00
I don't perceive this as virtue signalling, this is your own slightly uncharitable interpretation. People are responding to what they perceive as bullying in line with what looks like extremely heavy-handee sales tactics that do not seem uncommon.

It also looks like it only got addressed because it hit a someone with enough traction to go viral. That they had to resort to this channel at all raises questions in itself that go beyond the initial mistake and this particular customer.

So while I agree that we do not know yet what actually happened, the response from Salesforce so far does not really address these all concerns, and is not inconsistent with less charitable views on what's going on.

I think this is rightfully getting called out. With big power comes big responsibility.
by taktoa | 2025-09-19 07:33:27+00:00
Rust and C++ implement generics with monomorphization rather than boxing, so there is a potential performance hit associated with a type like this in Java that is guaranteed not to exist in Rust.

In practice, the JVM may still monomorphize it, but it is not guaranteed to, and this would be a good reason to avoid unnecessary uses of generics in a high performance codebase like a kernel, if you chose to write one in Java.
by musicale | 2025-09-19 07:33:40+00:00
As you indicate, in clean-room design the implementation is done by a different team from those who examined the original system and wrote the spec (which is vetted):

> Typically, a clean-room design is done by having someone examine the system to be reimplemented and having this person write a specification. This specification is then reviewed by a lawyer to ensure that no copyrighted material is included. The specification is then implemented by a team with no connection to the original examiners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

The article above makes some interesting points about whether clean-room design is actually necessary.
by adambsilver | 2025-09-19 07:35:08+00:00
> it was obviously not written by someone who has spent a long time in a support

I have been in call centres and watched users many times.

> The way that I would word it and would mentor people to say is "go to 'my cases' at the top"

Haivng to mentor people to speak in a certain way is a cost that should be avoided. Good design propagates out to all parts of the service, including support.

Also, the speech marks around "my cases" don’t get heard over the phone, only seen when written down.

But even if it's about how it's written, I agree it’s clearer, but it's also verbose and tiring for both the reader and the support agent.

But most importantly, it can be avoided altogether by saying “Your” instead of “My” so why wouldn’t you just do that?
by TheGrkIntrprtr | 2025-09-19 07:35:36+00:00
Not saying this is a good approach for OP, but I like this comment. Good for you, justinyee17. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and you’re finding the ways that work for you. I think if I were to pursue something more physical, I’d try to go for something with a higher barrier to entry personally, I.e. I’d pick the car mechanic role over deckhand.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-09-19 07:35:38+00:00
Last time I tried navigating the Nostr ecosystem I found their Twitter-equivalent platform and it was full of people posting about cryptocurrencies and other topics that weren't of particular interest to me.

Are there any major figures of interest primarily participating on any Nostr platform? Or is there any kind of uniquely interesting content that is being primarily produced and shared on Nostr?
by benrutter | 2025-09-19 07:35:43+00:00
I think there's a good argument that a "fall" happened. Only a decade after the "golden age" of detective novels, you hace a situation where a lot of once best-selling author's are no longer being published.

But like you point out, there's been a zillion other "rises" too. Maybe a more acurate but much longer article would be "the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise [...] of the British detective novel"