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by WorldMaker | 2025-09-02 18:40:16+00:00
In gaming, my solution to "I'm tired of always rebinding keys and/or finding games that don't support easy key rebinding" became "I'll just play with an Xbox controller by default". My home is full of Xbox controllers anyway and PC game support for them has been really good for a while (and even better now post-Steam Deck).

I know it is not everyone's favorite solution, but it is fun for me.
by card_zero | 2025-09-02 18:40:21+00:00
The clear delineation is the police and prisons, and courts. If the government is a corporation that happens to control the police, despite having that power it still isn't supposed to have everything all sewn up, because laws and courts and institutional resistance prevent it from doing anything it likes. This system is theoretical and supported mostly by wishing, but used to work for quite a long time. Meanwhile the actual corporations don't even have proper police forces and would struggle to get you put in actual prison for violating their rules.
by Summershard | 2025-09-02 18:40:22+00:00
> .NET

I think you haven't used .NET in a while. Nowadays, logging is absurdly easy to configure. Heck, you usually don't even need to configure it, because the basics are already included in most templates. You just use the Logger class and it works.

The only time you have to spend more than 30 minutes on it is when you use some external logging libraries. And most of them are quite sane and simple to use, because it's so easy to create a custom logging provider.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-02 18:40:30+00:00
Unacceptable. This type of behavior can be used for an increasing expansive regime of censorship or worse. Imagine being turned into authorities for, say, discussing ways to help asylum applicants or under a different administration, the lab leak theory, or under a different administration, how to grow cannabis. This is why the ACLU of the past had it right, when they were defending even offensive uses of the right to free speech. And to be able to speak freely, you need anonymity and privacy.
by devjab | 2025-09-02 18:40:54+00:00
We use Azure and sometimes Hetzner. I don't think Azure is a bad product, but it sometimes amazes me just how many different ways they can let you buy something as simple as a "load balancer". Azure obviously has some services that Hetzner does not, a lot, but as far as 95% of what we need in our cloud infra Hetzner does just fine and it's soooooooo much simpler.

I don't mind letting AI's help with infra, but it's with the configs and infra as code files and it will never have any form of access to anything outside it's little box. It's significantly faster at writing out the port ranges for an FTP (don't ask) ingress than I can by hand.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-02 18:41:03+00:00
This is kind of a big problem.

Because on the one hand, sycophancy is not really what you want to do for people in mental and emotional crisis. On the other hand, not being sycophantic is not really what you want to do for people in mental and emotional crisis.

There are professionals who speak to people in crisis for a reason. That's because it's fraught with pitfalls and trapdoors that take the situation from "mental and emotional crisis" to "tactical emergency" in a heartbeat.

I know that no one wants to hear this, but ChatGPT should probably be listening for people in crisis and, well, maybe not calling the cops, but maybe if there is a crisis line in their jurisdiction? A suicide hotline or something?

I don't know? But having an LLM out trying to handle that on its own just seems like a very bad idea.
by gruez | 2025-09-02 18:41:07+00:00
Not really, because such sites really only use upvotes/downvotes as a ranking mechanism. There's theoretically a lifetime upvote/downvote counter (ie. your karma), but other than a number that shows up on your profile, it doesn't have any real impact. You don't really develop a "reputation", for instance your comments get more or less visibility based on your previous commenting history.
by electricant | 2025-09-02 18:41:33+00:00
Consider storing all your passwords in a password manager. I can recommend pass synchronized with git on PC and smartphone but many other services are available. Then, write your master password (or encryption key password) somewhere your family knows where to find in case of need. This way you do not have to store the full password database in plaintext but only the main password. If you add/delete a password you do not have to print anything again.
by tptacek | 2025-09-02 18:41:36+00:00
We're not at odds! I think all I'm saying is that when manually working out integrals gets frustrating, there's a learning-mode escape hatch to just figuring out how to solve them in something like Sage; when the frustration subsides you go just get back to doing the manual stuff. When I'm in Sage I'm still learning stuff. I'm never abandoning analytical work.

I would feel real weird if there were things (in Calc II problem sets) I could solve in Sage that I simply couldn't do by hand.

I don't feel weird that there are things I can do, but will get wrong a bunch of times if I try to do them, and can quickly bang out in Sage. That seems fine to me. For a lot of these subjects, I don't care about automaticity, just intuition.

It's like a lot of linear algebra: being able to quickly do things by hand is kind of silly, because for real world problems (at least in data science) hand solves aren't even really feasible. But learning to do it by hand is important for building intuition.
by johnea | 2025-09-02 18:41:50+00:00
I also found quite a few of these in Tokyo. Many-block-long ped tunnels that connected nearby subway stations together, but also served as a way to cross town without being out in the blazing heat and humidity.

The skyway in Minneapolis was maybe my first experience with this type of infrastructure, and it was a merciful respite from the winter cold at the time.

In the modern world, I have to believe these pedestrian thoroughfares will increasingly serve in avoiding the summer heat.
by bakugo | 2025-09-02 18:41:55+00:00
> but uses a community funding model instead

Sadly, that model is often not sustainable for various reasons. The site recently lost a significant income stream when Patreon rugpulled their account.

It was originally started to fill a pretty specific niche for a specific type of community, but has since grown way past that, to the point that it's quite a lot slower than it used to be due to the increased bandwidth usage. If you want it to survive, I would honestly advise against advertising it.
by KyleBerezin | 2025-09-02 18:41:56+00:00
I'm tired of buying premium machines and having the hinges blow out. I had a sager where the metal frame itself next to the hinge fatigued and broke. They refused to honor their warranty and claimed it was user induced damage. Shit like that sticks with you, and that machine was $2,400. I can deal with buying cheap junk and having it break, I can also deal with spending and arm and a leg and getting a premium machine that holds together. The issue is today if you are foolish enough to spend and arm and a leg on a laptop, it will fail you just as readily as the junk. I just lost my MBP because the shift key went out (MBP has 0 liquid protection, liquid got in a hole that goes directly into the membrane layers). An entire 1.5k laptop is e-waste because the keyboard is riveted to the chassis with a hardware locked fingerprint reader. I'm done buying junk, I got a fw-13 and had the mainboard replaced under rma. It took me 10 mins to swap out the entire mainboard and send it off.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-02 18:42:21+00:00
> Maybe more difficult to model (not sure tbh, but granted for the moment),

Two reasons. One, strong players are performing tree search, so you need to model their tree search process rather than a simple depth zero prediction. And two, there are far fewer high rated players so there is far less high quality training data. A lot of high rated games are also bullet, which aren’t as useful.

> but it's _far_ easier to generate training data for strong players via reinforcement learning approaches.

Can you say more about this?
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-02 18:42:33+00:00
This is a very old argument, rooted in differences in how one believes OSS cooperation is best fostered; through social norms and practices, and/or through legal fiat.

BSD/MIT authors see most proprietary use as a feature — it can drive adoption and contributions that wouldn’t exist otherwise, while generally not directly competing with the original project in the open source commons.

It is considered an opportunity to leverage social mechanisms to garner support and contribution that would otherwise not be available.

GPL relicensing is different, in that it creates a direct rival open source commons with inescapable one-way asymmetry.

The license permits it, but since BSD/MIT authors tend to prefer social norms over legal fiat to sustain cooperation, they don’t see hypocrisy in objecting (even if GPL advocates do).

(I’ve tried to be as measured as possible, but obviously, I fall on one side of the debate, and I’m sure that my point of view leaks through.)
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by TZubiri | 2025-09-02 18:43:34+00:00
It's one of those topics, that's so modern and based around ecosystem specifics, that you are better off learning from manufacturer manuals and source code, rather than academic theory books.

Like, uni books won't give you an x86 manual because that wouldn't be neutral, but that's precisely the foundation of virtualization, from both a host and guest perspective.

You can read books on x86, but why not use some official intel manual?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-02 18:43:54+00:00
So we've got a temporal-spatial sense, a general predictive function, the capacity for abstraction, independent volition, and a sense of relational context.

Creativity shows up when an agent uses that predictive machinery not only to forecast immediate sensory consequences, but to (a) simulate many alternative internal models or actions (counterfactuals), usually in a self-directed way with an end or goal in mind, (b) predict how those alternatives will be interpreted by other agents or by itself in the future, and (c) select from those alternatives according to an intrinsic/extrinsic valuation that rewards novelty, surprise, utility, or aesthetic pleasure. In other words it's a form of guided meta-prediction.

From a very different perspective, the TRIZ guys have tried to figure out creativity, with results that are at least interesting. Ultimately, what they have to teach is that non-artistic creativity also takes certain characteristic forms.
by mritchie712 | 2025-09-02 18:43:57+00:00
CC being better than Cursor didn't make sense to me until I realized Anthropic trains[0] it's models to use it's own built-in tools[1].

0 - https://x.com/thisritchie/status/1944038132665454841

1- https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/tool-use...
by dapper_bison17 | 2025-09-02 18:44:49+00:00
> This "little book" seems to take a fairly standard approach, defining all the boring stuff and leading to Gaussian elimination. The other approach I've seen is to try to lead into it by talking about multi-linear functions and then deriving the notion of bases and matrices at the end. Or trying to start from an application like rotation or Markov chains.

Which books or “non-standard” resources would you recommend then, that do a better job?
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-02 18:45:14+00:00
Some American restaurants have real food displays, too. With a chilled display case and limited airflow (and choosing only meals that keep well - avoiding exhibition of garnishes or salads that wilt in hours), you can put the same dessert on display for days.

At the end, of course, you have to throw it away - it might not be safe for staff to eat by the point it's visibly decomposing from 3 feet away. I find that just knowing the food in the case is destined for the garbage to rankle, especially when I'm simultaneously looking at menu prices and wondering why the meal costs so much; it's interesting to learn that the Japanese make those meal displays out of plastic/wax for the same reason.
by johnfn | 2025-09-02 18:45:19+00:00
Didn't we have a conversation a few days ago where a kid committed suicide while documenting it on ChatGPT and the clear consensus was that if OpenAI had been scanning user's conversations and reporting them to the police, this could have been averted, and this was a huge issue? But now when they go and do it, everyone says this is completely unacceptable? What exactly is OpenAI supposed to do, then?
by andrewla | 2025-09-02 18:45:33+00:00
Yeah, we teach it. It ends up showing up again in measure theory, assuming that anyone still bothers to teach the mostly useless Lebesgue integral instead of the gauge integral. Measure theory shows up again in probability theory if you're not using Kolmogorov for some sadistic reason and you have to deal with countability.

Otherwise it's pretty much a dead end unless you're in the weeds. You just mutter "almost everywhere" as a caveat once in a while and move on with your life. Nobody really cares about the immensely large group of numbers that by definition we cannot calculate or define or name except to kowtow to what is in retrospect a pretty bad theoretical underpinning for formal analysis.
by simianwords | 2025-09-02 18:46:02+00:00
This is very pessimistic take. Where else do you think the innovation would come from? Take cloud for example - where did the innovation come from? It was from the top. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that this implies monetization is going to be awful.

How do you know models are expensive to run? They have gone down in price repeatedly in the last 2 years. Why do you assume it has to run in the cloud when open source models can perform well?

> The hype is insane, and so usage is being pushed by C-suite folks who have no idea whether it's actually benefiting someone "on the ground" and decisions around which AI to use are often being made on the basis of existing vendor relationships

There are hundreds of millions of chatgpt users weekly. They didn't need a C suite to push the usage.
by vel0city | 2025-09-02 18:46:09+00:00
If I have a cable that sucks, I don't bother tagging it. It just goes in the bin. If it doesn't list what its ratings are, I don't buy it. Why bother keeping cables that don't do what you need it to do? Why bother buying cables that don't fit your needs?

I'm far happier that I only have one charger in my backpack that works for practically all my portable electronics. I'm far happier I've got an extra power bank in my bag that works with one cable to charge practically all my portable electronics and can be charged by that one wall adapter. I'm far happier I have one dock cable on my desk that provides power/kvm/network to my work laptop, my personal laptop, my spouse's tablet, etc. Far better than having a dozen different cables for a dozen different devices.
by serf | 2025-09-02 18:46:31+00:00
>Labs can just step up the way they track signs of prompts meant for model distillation. Distillation requires a fairly large number of prompt/response tuples, and I am quite certain that all of the main labs have the capability to detect and impede that type of use if they put their backs into it.

....while degrading their service for paying customers.

This is the same problem as law-enforcement-agency forwarding threats and training LLMs to avoid user-harm -- it's great if it works as intended, but more often than not it throws a lot more prompt cancellations at actual users by mistake, refuses queries erroneously -- and just ruins user experience.

i'm not convinced any of the groups can avoid distillation without ruining customer experience.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-02 18:46:57+00:00
The other problem is that big companies can take a loss and starve out any competition. They already make a ton of money from various monopolies. And they do not have the distraction of needing to find funding continuously. They can just keep selling these services at a loss until they’re the only ones left. That’s leaving aside the advantages they have elsewhere - like all the data only they can access for training. For example, it is unfair that Google can use YouTube data, but no one else can. How can that be fair competition? And they can also survive copyright lawsuits with their money. And so on.
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by acdha | 2025-09-02 18:47:37+00:00
How do you define “missed”? I ask because AI is a bit different than those earlier trends: yes, investors wasted money during the dotcom bubble but there were thousands and thousands of places which spent a modest amount of money and saw almost immediate benefits. AI has had some modest wins but there hasn’t been that “customers love this and are switching to OtherCorp for it” moment - it seems like there’s probably a majority of cases where the executives hyped an AI feature and people yawned and ignored it because it was for the product owner’s CV rather than the users. (Repeat a generation later for the me-too mobile apps which started from an executive’s mandate to “be in the App Store”)

In all of these cases, the problem was losing track of what actually benefits users. AI has that problem really bad now because the infrastructure is expensive and the executive class has been sold on the idea that mass layoffs are just around the corner, and they’re pushing hard to ship before the benefits are there.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-02 18:48:09+00:00
> Translation: The AWS interface is so horrendously complicated that we now need an AI to navigate it.

that's because infrastructure is complicated. the AWS console isn't that bad (it's not great, and you should just use terraform whenever possible because clickops is dull, error-prone work); there's just a lot to know in order to deploy infrastructure cost-effectively.

this is more like "we don't want to hire infra engineers who know what they're doing so here's a tool to make suggestions that a knowledgeable engineer would make, vet and apply. just Trust Us."
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by DmitryDolgopolo | 2025-09-02 18:48:26+00:00
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by electricant | 2025-09-02 18:48:30+00:00
Author here. Having read the comments let me clarify that I'm not advocating for a world devoid of cars. I'd like that cars could be an option not a must. I totally see that cars are here to stay especially where really needed. But who decides when they are really needed? The owner of course! However, I think that we could perhaps shape our lives for walking/cycling and incentivize public transport whenever possible.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-02 18:48:33+00:00
> Barely 50 years ago computers used to cost a million dollars and were less powerful than your phone's SIM card.

Fifty years ago, we were starting to see the very beginning of workstations (not quite the personal computer of modern days), something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto, which cost ~$100k in inflation-adjusted money.
by nromiun | 2025-09-02 18:48:52+00:00
It was supposed to bring massive concurrency to Python. But as with any async implantation in any language it is too easy to deadlock the entire system. Did you forgot to sprinkle enough `await`? Your code is blocked somewhere, good luck hunting for it.

In contrast preemptive green threads are too easy. Be it IO or CPU load all threads will get their slice of CPU time. Nothing is blocked so you can debug your logic errors instead of deadlocks everywhere.

Async works in JS so well because the entire language is designed for it, instead of async being just bolted on. You can't even run plain `sleep` to block, you need setTimeout.
by bitsage | 2025-09-02 18:49:03+00:00
The highest marginal tax rate in the US was 94% in the mid 1940s, and that doesn’t even mean people were paying 94% of their income to taxes. If you look at federal revenue as a percentage of GDP in decade intervals, starting from 1944, you’ll find that the ratio hasn’t changed much since then [1]. Funny enough, it has actually crept slightly upward.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
by mlinhares | 2025-09-02 18:49:37+00:00
Nah, there's no increase in disorder, crime in most developed countries is trending down, but we do have a bunch of people that have collected unimaginable wealth and are definitely afraid something will happen to them like the last couple times this has happened. They definitely don't want to repeat history and will use the coercion tools they have to clamp down on the peasants.