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by seclorum_wien | 2025-10-17 13:36:35+00:00
In my opinion this is one of the most productive uses of the Internet.

It can really help to have this running on some spare screen while trapped in the deep, deep depths of cubicle hell.

Even the wind is soothing.

Another great Namibian destination is the "Ocean Conservation Namibia" channel, where one can witness the rescue of ocean life (mostly mammals, i.e. seals) from the plastic trash of humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/@OceanConservationNamibia

This has been a constantly soothing device in my life for a few years. There is something so cathartic about seeing the little pups being chased down to have their bindings removed.
by NemoNobody | 2025-10-17 13:37:20+00:00
I completely agree - which I must also concede definitely appears to be capitalism and is even functionally capitalist (about as capitalist as can be even) tho the external factors that helped to force the internal innovation and extremely driven and dedicated investments to staying ahead weren't solely economic or profit - they were all about competition tho ;)

It's a good example of capitalism that kinda works right now - but, it could easily be the opposite... if China did takeover Taiwan, that company could easily (would likely very aggressively) do exactly all the late stage capitalism, death to innovation, money machine stuff that I've been describing - as almost/all other companies have done so with similar market positions.

tl;Dr: The only reason they are still making such good stuff is bc they needed/still need to be the silicon shield.
by shlant | 2025-10-17 13:37:27+00:00
> As factory farms already feed those herds, clearly there's enough grain to feed them.

1. Feed Conversion Ratio is worse for pasture-raised vs. factory farmed so that's not a given - animals being able to move more, waste more calories that aren't being converted to meat

2. You still haven't provided a source for your claim about land usage
by whalesalad | 2025-10-17 13:37:35+00:00
The struggle is real. A lot of people think cloud lock-in is due to using cloud-specific services like SQS... but its the data. Try and exfil 300TB out of S3 without paying an enormous transfer cost =(

I want to move our infra out of AWS but at the end of the day we have too much data there and it is a non starter.
by Macha | 2025-10-17 13:37:42+00:00
If you’re deploying something like 100 m5.4xlarge in us-east-1, sure, AWS’s capacity seems infinite. Once you get into high memory instances, GPU instances, less popular regions etc, it drops off.

Now maybe after the AI demand and waves of purchases of systems appropriate for that things have improved, but it definitely wasn’t the case at the large scale employer I worked at in 2023 (my current employer is much smaller, so doesn’t have those needs, so I can’t comment)
by b112 | 2025-10-17 13:38:13+00:00
Would you ask an amoeba the same thing? A plant? What about an insect? A mouse? Humans are capable of thought that cows are not. Chickens are not.

For example, cows cannot conceive of object persistence. Human infants do not until 2+ years, some parrots do, etc. So what you have to ask yourself, is would the animals even be aware they are captured? And do they have the intellect to care? Or do they entirely live "in the moment", and thus, are happy if healthy, fed, and not being hunted or fearful of a wolf nearby?

Or maybe you might want to ask yourself, would you prefer to be eaten alive? For an animal like a bison, death seldom comes instantly. Death comes while pieces of your body are ripped off of you, as you mewl and scream and cry and bleed to death slowly. Passing out, waking up again only to see you're still being eaten.

Trying to make a choice based upon your mind, your body, your reality is frankly unfair. An example being, there are pack animals and animals that live solo.

By your metric, that is by measuring happiness for an animal by how you would want to live, you'd take those animals that hate living together, and try to force them to? Because that's what you're asking...

What would I want?

So I ask you instead, if we shouldn't interfere, should we then ensure we don't succor or help wild animals in any way? Let's say we stop eating all meat. We do so because "it's wrong to keep an animal captive, even if they are happier and healthier". OK.

So, then by what metric do we have to help animals in the wild? If they have a plague, should we not care or try to help? We have helped wild animals in the past with such things.

Would the animals understand the question asked? Would a cow understand vaccination? Eradication of bot flies?
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-17 13:38:33+00:00
> This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do […] Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

Did she intend to make that veiled dig suggesting the “feminization” of MAGA with the recent highly emotional calls for cancellation lead by the (feminine??) Trump, Vance, Carr?

For the rest of it, randomly spouting off things she heard random others tell her were true -- makes it true I guess?
GitHub code review is nigh unusable
by herpdyderp | 2025-10-17 13:38:40+00:00
I'm trying to view comments that I just submitted on a GitHub pull request's "Files changed" tab and GitHub is now telling me:

> Only the first 40 comments are currently being shown. To see more, switch back to the classic page.

But if I go back to the classic page, I instead see this warning:

> Some comments aren't visible on the classic Files Changed page. Switch to the new experience.

There is simply no way to see my comments alongside the code that they are referring to.

Then of course the whole GitHub web experience is a laggy disaster now as well (as is frequently mentioned in discussions on here).
by wltr | 2025-10-17 13:38:51+00:00
I’d like to point that exaggerations like $430 an hr (isn’t some average salary) or three Starbucks a day being something everyone casually does, they weaken your point.

As the rest of your comment, personally, I see it more like a pitch to use AWS, rather than some conversion whether everyone really needs that enterprise tier. Me, I’d prefer to control as much of my infra as possible, rather than offloading it to others for an insane price tag.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-17 13:39:09+00:00
> Ozymandias

Even though people invoke him as symbolic literary figure representing the transience of power and human ambition, the actual person, Ramses II, accomplished many positive things.

For instance:

- strengthened Egypt's borders and secured trade routes, maintaining stability and prosperity

- the world's first recorded peace treaty with the Hittites

- prompted Egyptian religion, art, and culture on a grand scale

- lasting historical influence

Ramses II's reign marked the pinnacle of ancient Egyptian civilization.
by tinyspacewizard | 2025-10-17 13:39:11+00:00
> Why two cloud providers? Initially we used only DigitalOcean, but a data intensive SaaS like tap needs a lot of cloud resources and AWS have a generous $1,000 credit package for self-funded startups.

So some Kubernetes experts migrated to AWS for $1k in credits. This is madness. That's weeks of migration work to save the equivalent of a day of contracting.
by runjake | 2025-10-17 13:39:22+00:00
Addressing the very first sentence in this post:

> I had a mind-blown-moment when I learnt that Obsidian was built without any frontend JS framework.

The comment you’ve linked to is wrong. Obsidian uses the Electron framework for its “front-end” framework.

In fact, it was even affected by the recent “Tahoe” Electron bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_(software)#Availabili...
by bayindirh | 2025-10-17 13:39:54+00:00
As you know, grid and grid-like layouts work with cells. The height and width of these cells are integers. So, when you have something like this:

+-----+-------+ | | Lorem | | |-------| | | Ipsum | | |-------| | foo | Dolor | | |-------| | | Sit | | |-------| | | Amet | +-----+-------+

You have basically six cells. Five of them (lorem, ipsum, dolor, sit, amet) are 1x1, and the other one (foo) is 1x5.

What I do is, I draw the UI I imagine on a paper, add a grid where the smallest UI elements (labels, buttons, fields) their own, suitable $WIDTHx1 cells.

Some cells like "foo" needs to span mutliple cells (like this 1x5) to look and place correctly. At the end, you have a "spreadsheet like view" with some cells "merged and centered" in spreadsheet software parlance.

As the last step, I note the dimensions of the cells I need to realize the UI on the paper, and write the code reflecting that.
by cdfsdsadsa | 2025-10-17 13:40:23+00:00
Have you read the paper you linked? It indicates at best a slightly positive outcome on average, with many caveats (video is worse, the younger the kid the worse the effect, removing educational content results in a negative correlation, etc). It also links to another metastudy that covers a larger age range, and indicates a negative correlation.

>theyre a poor metric when regarding vocabulary size.

I'm talking about school reports, among other things.

>"most" people I assume doesnt include you? Youre too smart to fall for it, obviously.

It's something I struggle with daily, and have put a lot of thought into what I want from my use of online technology. Eg, I don't have a smartphone. How can a kid be expected to make good choices if I can't?
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-17 13:40:45+00:00
It is like with all laws. There isn't an agent following your every step telling you what to do and what not to do. You are supposed to know the law and abide by it, and they will occasionally have people make sure of it, be it by police or tax auditors.

For taxes, how is the government supposed to know about the work you did in exchange for cash? Or make a difference between a vacation and a tax destructible business trip. They will sometimes look into it if they suspect fraud, but they have no way of knowing exactly what you owe beforehand, and that's a good thing, surveillance is as bad as it is right now, not mentioning the costs.

The best they can do, and that's how it is done in most countries, is to tell you "according to what we know, you owe us XXX", but it only works in the simple cases, like for those whose only income is their salary. If they missed something and their estimation is wrong, you must declare it or you can be in trouble. It is just a convenience, you still need to do your taxes correctly and you are responsible for it.

One may argue the rules could be simpler, but they are complex because the world is complex, and even small changes can make or break industries.
by Weeenion | 2025-10-17 13:41:07+00:00
I would love to understand were this notion of LLM becoming AGI ever came from?

ChatGPT broke upen the dam to massive budget on AI/LM and LLM will probably be a puzzle peace to AGI. But otherwise?

I mean it should be clear that we have so much work to do like RL (which now happens btw. on massive scale because you thumb up or down every day), thinking, Model of Experts, toolcalling and super super critical: Architecture.

Compute is a hard upper limit too.

And the math isn't done either. The performance of Context length has advanced, we also saw other approcheas like a diffusion based models.

Whenever you hear the leading experts talking, they mention world models.

We are still in a phase were we have plenty of very obivous ideas people need to try out.

But alone the quality of whispher, llm as an interface and tool calling can solve problems with robotics and stuff, no one was able to solve that easy ever before.
by 9rx | 2025-10-17 13:41:17+00:00
Functional specs and design documents are just programming in a natural language. In the olden days it took a human to "code" that into a programming language, but now that compilers (i.e. LLMs) are getting better at compiling natural language, it might look like you're able to skip a step (to varying degrees of success).

Whereas agile doesn't care what language you build your software in. It's about taking managers out of the picture; encouraging developers to get involved with what are normally considered "managerial" tasks. The 12 Principles goes into more detail about the things developers might need to do if there are no managers.
by seclorum_wien | 2025-10-17 13:42:07+00:00
Can confirm, have ventured all over the deserts of my homeland, and every time I do, I am filled with awe at the temerity of life on the brink of hardship.

It is a spiritually rewarding activity to look out over a landscape, be still for a while, and notice the absolute abundance of life, as robust as ever.

Even in the dustiest Earth voids, there are colours and growth. It pays to look for it.
by lazide | 2025-10-17 13:42:17+00:00
They didn’t care about success. They cared about flash and notoriety.

Which notably aren’t very often correlated with long term success, but aren’t completely divorced from it either.

The thing to realize is that the news is about notable things, and things are notable when they’re not normal/standard/boring.

In your personal life, it’s often (actually) ideal to live a life that no newspaper reporter would give a second thought about writing up.
by fun444555 | 2025-10-17 13:43:00+00:00
I have done many postgres deploys on bare metal. The IOPS and storage space saved (zfs compression because psql is meh) is huge. I regularly used hosted dbs but largely for toy DBs in GBs not TBs.

Anyway, it is not hard and controlling upgrades saves so much time. Having a clients db force upgraded when there is no budget for it sucks.

Anyway, I encourage you to learn/try it when you have opportunity
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 13:43:15+00:00
Diacritics are not just tone markers, and half of the tone marker diacritics don't correspond to the Pinyin tone markers, so I doubt Chinese language speakers would get much from seeing these diacritics either. The Thai script tone markers are even more distinct, and it seems that the Latin transcription of Thai script used in Thailand tends to not include any tone markers at all - so again, I doubt that Thai speakers would recognize the Vietnamese diacritics and be better able to distinguish Hỏa Lò from Hòa Lỏ.
by K0balt | 2025-10-17 13:44:29+00:00
If we are just going to be serious here, the morphology of females differs significantly from males, and there are well documented behavioral biases that have been shown to predate or even defy socialization time and time again.

Just because some people -want- men and women to be interchangeable in all respects does not mean that they are, or can be.

Women bring a critical set of biases and skills to the human condition, as do men. There is technologically no escape from sex determined role differentiation at a statistically significant scale without dooming humanity to population decline and rapid extinction.

Even if it were possible, is it wise to ignore the wisdom of millions of years of evolution, hard won by countless suffering and deaths? Should we blindly lunge toward an ill tested notion of “equality”, ignoring the sociopolitical and cultural risks we now are bearing witness to, undercutting the very ideals of self determination and individual freedom and allowing an easy entry point for totalitarian aspirations?

The simple, inescapable truth is that statistically, men hold the monopoly of coercive force on the planet, and all rights that women enjoy are therefore in effect granted by men. We don’t have to look far to see what happens in societies where this kind of affordance is considered unwise.

Whether one wishes it were so or not, the overstepping of women towards the erosion of reason in deference to compassion, while admirable in some measures, is propelling us towards a reaction by men and women alike that erodes the plausibility of the hypothesis that women should be trusted with power in hierarchical society.

I’d like to add that I am not making a personal value judgment here. I am a man, but life has shown me the great value that women can bring to nearly every endeavor both directly and indirectly.

I do not suppose that the role of men is somehow more important or significant in creating a just and prosperous society, but that rather the roles of women and men are of equal importance and value, specifically because those roles tend to be distinct and irreplaceable.
by ogurechny | 2025-10-17 13:44:50+00:00
I think that you misunderstood me. Sadly, philosophy is completely absent from “required” education in our “enlightened” world (or presented as narrow-minded bean counting), so capturing “evident things” as results of the thought process is hard.

By one side of equation I meant all those arguments about “men” and “women” altogether. You are absolutely free to state that men are X, and women are Y, and attribute it to Nature as a whole, or scientific data sliced off of it. There is nothing wrong with that by itself. However, the whole other “stable” side which you try to “fix” by this process is no less of an invention.

Say, we're having an argument whether cucumbers are fruits or vegetables. In that case, we can even reach an “official” answer. But it's more important to realise that the whole stage on which we're playing is constructed. “Fruits” and “vegetables” are convenient man-made classifications. Cucumber does not come with a label “I'm a cucumber, as stated in encyclopaedias, etc.” Nor its atoms come with a label “We're parts of that cucumber thing”, nor anything else (note for our young vulgar materialists).

In my opinion, feminist thought taking that step (which — for multiple possible reasons — was not taken even by greatest thinkers) is the most important achievement. Which “wave” is right, or how to “correctly” display your alignment with “correct” movement according to latest fashions are ancillary questions.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-17 13:45:30+00:00
> I'm not convinced that being a cop is such a tough job. Most of it is sitting in your car waiting for speeders, or to warn traffic about road construction, or driving around looking for something unusual happening.

The tough parts of a job aren’t defined by the routine work. It’s the risks and edge cases. That’s like saying most of a construction worker’s job is measuring things and reading plans so it can’t be that tough.

It’s pretty obvious that a lot of commenters here have never known an actual police officer. They’re just choosing between two extreme archetypes that aren’t accurate: Either the heroic person risking their life on the daily to protect to the public, or the bumbling donut-eating cop who has been relegated to traffic duty only. Neither are true and comparing it that way is a false dichotomy.

The irony of us sitting at desks in our warm and comfortable offices while calling the job of someone who gets called to deal with troubling public situations “not tough” is ironic. I wouldn’t want to do that job and I bet you wouldn’t either.
by b112 | 2025-10-17 13:45:31+00:00
We already throw away 30% of our food, and everywhere I look there's fallow land ripe for crops where I live. Rural Canada.

That said, cattle don't need cropland to graze. They just need land that can grow some grass, and space to move around.

Yes there is a higher calorie count for moving around compared to sitting in a box every day. So? It's fairly widely known that we throw away massive amounts of grain due to lack of market.

No, I won't be providing sources or references. I'm the source and reference. You of course can disagree.

If you don't like this path to end factory farming, you may choose another. However I will fight anyone taking my food away. I will at the same time, help those working towards traditional humane farming methods.

Choose which battle you prefer. One with allies, one with enemies. Decide which will get closer to your current goal, even if it doesn't fully align with mine, and others like me.

Change comes in steps, not leaps.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-17 13:45:34+00:00
Another day, another important international agreement violated. I appreciate what SpaceX has done for global communications, but do not under any circumstances flagrantly violate ITU guidelines. This undermines critical agreements that allow us to (for instance) use the ISM and amateur bands without pervasive jamming. The ITU is not a political football like the rest of the UN, it’s a highly technical, competent organization that’s well-regarded among spectrum users.
by cess11 | 2025-10-17 13:45:38+00:00
I've left a job because it was impossible to explain this to an ex-Googler on the board who just couldn't stop himself from trying to be a CTO and clownmaker at the company.

The rough part was that we had made hardware investments and spent almost a year setting up the system for HA and immediate (i.e. 'low-hanging fruit') performance tuning and should have turned to architectural and more subtle improvements. This was a huge achievement for a very small team that had neither the use nor the wish to go full clown.
by gcr | 2025-10-17 13:45:53+00:00
See this thread for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299170#45300774

See especially Mike McQuaid's summaries. He did a bunch of mediation and comms work to make the situation digestible to outsiders. Check his recent posts (at time of writing) on https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcquaid.com
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-17 13:47:22+00:00
> Not sure how you avoid reinventing any of the component frameworks.

You don't do framework nonsense. That is all there is to it.

For most people writing JavaScript for employment it is absolutely impossible to imagine any universe where a couple of lines of code could be written without something that looks like a framework. That is not a limitation of the language, but rather a limitation of the given developer's imagination. The problem is thus a person problem and not a technology problem.

I do not use innerHTML because that is string parsing, and one of my critical performance steps is to avoid parsing from strings, except JSON.parse when needed.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-10-17 13:47:29+00:00
My recollection is that some people in the community knew his identity. His sudden disappearance invited a lot of people to dig into it, many of which were not even Ruby people to begin with. There was even a newspaper article written about him years after. I would not attribute all that digging to the Ruby community. If anything I remember people being very respectful at the time.
by DisabledVeteran | 2025-10-17 13:48:10+00:00
That used to be the case until recently. As much as neither I nor you want to admit it -- the truth is ChatGPT can handle 99% of what you would pay for "a team to maintain network and continually secure and monitor the server and update/patch." Infact, ChatGPT surpasses them as it is all encompassing. Any company now can simply pay for OpenAI's services and save the majority of the money they would have spent on the, "salaries of those professionals." BTW, ChatGPT Pro is only $200 a month ... who do you think they would rather pay?
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-17 13:48:23+00:00
I think if you just look at the titles, they sound exactly like the cheesy nonsense these things like to generate when you ask them to structure something.

A lot of the writing also has this feeling to a lesser extent.

My advice is always to write something first and then (if you insist) get AI to proofread and make editorial suggestions. This seems like it was written by AI from some prompt and notes, and then modified in a few places.

It just adds a bunch of weird fluff.