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by syntaxing | 2025-10-20 21:29:50+00:00
Ehh, is it cool and time savings that it figured it out? Yes. But the solution was to get a “better” version prebuilt wheel package of PyTorch. This is a relatively “easy” problem to solve (figuring out this was the problem does take time). But it’s (probably, I can’t afford one) going to be painful when you want to upgrade the cuda version or specify a specific version. Unlike a typical PC, you’re going to need to build a new image and flash it. I would be more impressed when a LLM can do this end to end for you.
by bgirard | 2025-10-20 21:30:08+00:00
The big issue I have with this experience is that you don't get a clear charge price before you leave. So you have to check a page either some minutes or hours later and hope that the total is correct. Like the article said, I don't love the idea of being charged for 3 overpriced bottles of water when I only took two. I'd rather just settle my transactions in the moment than try to remember what my total was and dispute things later from memory on the occasional times it's wrong.
by grvdrm | 2025-10-20 21:30:23+00:00
With you.

I spent my 20s and most of 30s career focused. Now 43 with two kids and in a spot where I can pick what I want to some degree. I can’t imagine the life I have now during my 20s. Maybe it would have been great.

But I’m glad life wasn’t “boring” when I had time freedom.
by jsnell | 2025-10-20 21:31:05+00:00
Sure. First, what is tracking? The definition of tracking in this case would be something along the lines of being able to correlate two un-authenticated requests to different domains as coming from the user.

It was going to remove or restrict features in the web platform that can be used for both tracking and for important non-tracking tasks, and replace them with features that can't be used for tracking but can be used for achieving those tasks. In some cases it meant making sure that data that could be used for tracking was never received ambiently, but had to be requested explicitly. That's why we have the new mess with User-Agent.

You could not just remove the tracking vectors entirely with no replacement, because then you'd be breaking critical workflows that are actually needed for practical operation of websites. That is why Apple for example included a remote attestement mechanism in Safari when adding features to mask IP addresss. (Though they only permit a few of their favored partners to use that attestment mechanism, and these days are being very quiet about it hoping that nobody remembers they did this.)

So, you want to remove the possiblity of using the web API to do tracking? How do you prevent that? The Privacy Sandbox solution was to give each domain a budget of how much entropy they could extract (this is why e.g. moving from the User-Agent header including data by default to the site having to request it was supposed to make sense). In some cases they were going to remove the feature entirely, but instead have the browser achieve the same effect, and provide a verdict or attestation with so little entropy or so little consistency that it could not be used as an effective tracking vector.

It was a doomed program, but they did have good intents, and never deserved the abuse that was heaped upon them. And I will be dancing a little happy jig on the grave of their "IP protection" feature.
by John23832 | 2025-10-20 21:31:06+00:00
> So, the compiler, stdlib and runtime, core libraries, build system ... not enough? What else would you want?

First class IDE support (Xcode is not that). Better documentation. The build system only half works. Better packaging. I can keep going.

The swift ecosystem often feels like just enough was done to lock in iOS devs (but not enough to actually provide a good developer experience) and then they stopped because Apple has no incentive to do more than that.

> I feel the problem is not what's in open source, but that the open-source community cannot really form, since no outsider can significantly change what the Apple contributors decide. Some of the peripheral projects have relatively free rein, but they can't compete e.g., with server libraries elsewhere.

So you agree. This is exactly the point I was making.
by VanHoy | 2025-10-20 21:31:36+00:00
HOW Bitcoin's OG (Rich elites ) sold out PRiVACY for Profit

We all know the legend. The cypherpunk dream. A peer-to-peer electronic cash system, designed to be sound money, free from the grasp of centralized banks and coercive governments. It was meant to be decentralized, permissionless, and 【 ｐｒｉｖａｔｅ 】.

But somewhere along the line, the dream was corrupted. Not by outsiders, but from within. The very OGs who built their fortunes on Bitcoin’s early promise have become its most reactionary gatekeepers. And their campaign against true privacy coins reveals their true motive !

Continues on nostr...

https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvu5xv9r3f9nvsdtns38hps5yq3flnlsus...
by devilbunny | 2025-10-20 21:31:38+00:00
The game itself is fairly simple; it’s just that it’s existed in codified form for like 140 years and they have had to make rule adjustments in every era to account for the next game-breaking strategy, so the corpus of rules is huge.

Each team gets up to nine turns on offense. If the home team (which would be on offense in the second half of the ninth inning) is ahead when their final turn on offense would occur, the game ends.

Each batter gets pitched to until they hit the ball in-bounds, they get three strikes, or they get four “balls”. A strike occurs when a hittable ball (over home plate, between the batter’s knees and shoulders, as a rough approximation) goes past the batter with no attempt to hit, or when any ball is swung at by the batter without a successful hit in-bounds (so, foul balls are counted as strikes, except that you can’t strike out on a foul - however, if you do hit a foul ball and a defender catches it before it hits the ground, you are out). Almost all other pitches [0] are “balls”, and after four balls the player automatically advances to first base.

Getting all the way back around to home plate scores a point.

After the defending team gets three outs against the batting team, they switch roles.

There are a lot more details and nuance, but that’s baseball in a nutshell.

[0] A very famous example of a pitch that was neither a ball nor a strike against the batter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_ovjbwQGk
by notahacker | 2025-10-20 21:31:57+00:00
Broadly speaking I agree with you.

That said, when it comes to peacefully sharing the country with people with different beliefs I'd probably be more worried about the President-bankrolling military-industrial complex billionaire looking for a literal antichrist to be the Girardian scapegoat to renew the social order than the tech journalist wondering if that's a bit weird...
by TSUTiger | 2025-10-20 21:32:27+00:00
You should've read further.

In reality, when getting out first to market, it might be difficult for "AI" to decipher if a user added 1 of 5 available sauces to their chicken wings, so to reduce the likelihood of this error, you remove it until the technology is more mature. Speculative sure, but a strong assumption, and I doubt Mashgin would confirm this.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-20 21:32:52+00:00
The CH32V003 has been around for a few years, and there are also now a 002, 004, 006 with more RAM and Flash (up to 8k + 62k), a better 12 bit (vs 10) ADC, and an updated CPU core with multiply (but not divide) erasing the last advantage of Cortex-M0. Also an expanded 2-5V power supply range (up from 3.3-5V) plus of course a bit of margin on both ends.

And pretty much the same low low price, though the 006 for example doesn't come in an 8 pin package option.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005008347109826.html

There is now also at the same price the CH570D at also the same price, with 16k RAM, 256k flash, USB, and a 2.4 GHz packet radio similar to things like the nRF24L01. I don't think it's available in bulk yet, but a dev board with a couple of extra chips has been available since early this year:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005008743123631.html

There is also the 572 which is the same hardware with most of the flash taken up by a BLE stack.

Muse Lab have their usual min-dev boards (that you can use on a breadboard or solder to a larger PCB) for those:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005009123215735.html

Muse Lab CH32V002/3/4 board (I use these):

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005221751705.html

As well as WCH, they also have FPGA and ESP32 boards. Definitely recommend this manufacturer!

https://miusecntech-muselab.aliexpress.us/store/5940159
by jibal | 2025-10-20 21:32:57+00:00
I appreciate the apology ... but the problem isn't a lack of effort on my part. Many people here make little effort to understand what others are trying to convey and take a hostile uncharitable attitude at a drop of the hat, especially at the mere suggestion that anyone might conceivably derive any benefit from an LLM. I myself am a close follower of Gary Marcus and have extreme reservations about the technology, but the fact is that for now they are useful tools.

BTW, you might want to look at a recent comment of mine,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636185

It's because of my familiarity with RFCs and Steve Crocker, who originated the idea, that I had a recollection that he had discussed why they were called that, and prompted the LLM for details.
by sabareesh | 2025-10-20 21:33:34+00:00
Similar feeling. Seems it is good at certain things and if something doesnt work it want to do things simply and in turn becomes something that you didnt ask for and certain times opposite of what you wanted. On the other hand with codex certain time you feel the AGI but that is like 2 out of 10 sessions. This is primarily may be due to how complete the prompt and how well you define the problems.
by clscott | 2025-10-20 21:33:48+00:00
The issue does not lie with Unicode.

It's just a custom string encoder/decoder whose encoded character set is restricted to non-printables.

Many editors and IDEs have features (or plugins) to detect these characters.

VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=YusufDan...

VIM: https://superuser.com/questions/249289/display-invisible-cha...
by Arathorn | 2025-10-20 21:34:10+00:00
upstreamed into Synapse as of Sept 2024, and the proxy was sunset in Nov 2024: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/11/14/moving-to-native-sliding-...

Not that many clients have actually adopted it though, because the MSC is still not 100% finalised - it's currently entering the final review stages at last now over at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/418.... Right now Element X uses it (exclusively), and Element Web has experimental support for it; I'm not sure if any others actually use it yet.
by manquer | 2025-10-20 21:34:44+00:00
> Production ready

Don’t know what you think should mean but for me that means

1. Declarative IaaC in either in CF/terraform

2. Fully Automated discovery which can achieve RTO/RPO objectives

3. Be able to Blue/Green and % or other rollouts

Sure I can write ansible scripts, have custom EC2 images run HA proxy and multiple nginx load balancers in HA as you suggest, or host all that to EKS or a dozen other “easier” solutions

At the point why bother with Lambda ? What is the point of being cloud native and serverless if you have to literally put few VMs/pod in front and handle all traffic ? Might as well host the app runtime too .

> doesn’t even sound complicated .

Because you need a full time resource who is AWS architect and keeps up with release notes and documentation or training and constantly works to scale your application - because every single component has a dozen quotas /limits and you will hit them - it is complicated.

If you spend few million a year on AWS then spending 300k on an engineer to do just do AWS is perhaps feasible .

If you spend few hundred thousands on AWS as part of mix of workloads it is not easy or simple.

The engineering of AWS impressive as it maybe has nothing to the products being offered . There is a reason why Pulumi, SST or AWS SAM itself exist .

Sadly SAM is so limited I had to rewrite everything to CDK in couple of months . CDK is better but I am finding that I have to monkey patching limits on CDK with the SDK code now, while possible , the SDK code will not generate Cloudformation templates .
by luckydonkey | 2025-10-20 21:34:47+00:00
> Now they have money and power and use both in pretty obscene ways, like starving children in Africa to death by yanking the aid that was keeping them alive away.

It’s because there’s lot of corruption in places receiving aid, look it up. Fixing problems is not as simple as giving someone money, there needs to be lots of accountability, which is often missing. There are fake NGOs and non-profits which essentially treat these foreign aid monies as slush funds. It makes sense to tighten the purse strings for now while the national debt crisis is looming large. It would also be great if other high GDP nations would contribute to this kind of development.
by hinkley | 2025-10-20 21:34:48+00:00
Mombasa is the shortest path to the ocean from the top of the mountain, that’s true. However that is not a good angle for an equatorial orbit.

What’s the downrange safety cone look like for space launch sites around the world? A little S curve in your insertion orbit would certainly waste a bit of delta V. But not all orbits are equatorial anyway.
by legitster | 2025-10-20 21:35:06+00:00
> Again, could this be because there is such abundant access to life saving medication, that you are arguing against?

I'm not at all arguing that Epipens don't save lives or that doctors shouldn't prescribe them or that you shouldn't carry one.

Let me reframe my argument: Crime is a real risk no matter where you live in this country. But we should not be surprised that people that sell you security are incentivized to scare you about the risk of crime or its randomness.

I would not say people shouldn't take whatever precautions they need against crime, but don't think it's controversial to say the risk is overstated.

It's easy enough to say that never stepping outside of your house because crime exists is a silly conclusion to make. But people for some reason thought it was completely normal to deprive children of exposure to large swaths of the food pyramid despite no underlying history or diagnosis because a risk was overstated to them.

Still, I am admitting that my targeting of Epipens in particular something of a crackpot argument. But also we live in a world still reeling from the effects of the Sackler family and the marketing they used on the medical industry - would it be that far fetched if we learned in 20-30 years that the life saving ability of emergency epinephrine was overstated for profit?
by rorads | 2025-10-20 21:35:11+00:00
I think it’s a lot less exhausting now that the IDE part is mostly decoupled. I can’t imagine cursor continuing to compete when really all they’re doing is selling tokens either a markup, and hence crushing your context on every call. Sorry if that sounds negative but it’s true.

I use CC and codex somewhat interchangeably, but I have to agree with the comments. Codex is a compete monster, and there really isn’t any competition right now.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-10-20 21:35:15+00:00
An SLA is a commitment, and an RFP is a business document, not a technical one. As an MSP, you don’t think in terms of “what’s our performance”, you think of “what’s the business value”.

If you as a customer ask for 5 9s per month, with service credit of 10% of at-risk fees for missing on a deal where my GM is 30%, I can just amortise that cost and bake it into my fee.
by grafmax | 2025-10-20 21:35:23+00:00
Sorry to disappoint you stranger. What I said applies to both mortgages and rent. And housing can be decommodified to our common benefit - for example, Vienna - it’s not some impossible goal. And on a wider level if you ever wonder why China is outcompeting us in many sectors it’s in large part because they have invested in their economy instead of letting rentier capitalists run rampant. It makes the workforce cheaper to employ. We on the hand are suffering a deepening housing crisis..
by politelemon | 2025-10-20 21:35:45+00:00
This is needs consumer staying power in order to secure the funding. I recommend selling the blends in DRM locked plastic pods and have the device only be operable from a mobile app. The mobile app's purpose would be to gamify the aerosol dispensation by grading it on timeliness, targeted direction and force of the spray, as well as streaks that get posted to social media for a sense of foamo.
by netsharc | 2025-10-20 21:36:48+00:00
Geez, I skimmed the image with the "steps" and the devtools next to it and assumed it was steps to get the user to open the DevTools, but later when he said it would download a file I thought "You can tell the DevTools to download a file and execute it as a shell script?!".

Then I read the steps again, step 2 is "Type in 'Terminal'"... oh come on, will many people fall for that?
by nradov | 2025-10-20 21:36:54+00:00
Most gluten sensitivities aren't allergies. There is no histamine reaction.

In a lot of cases patients who think they have a gluten intolerance are actually having a bad reaction to one of the many other chemicals that typically come along with gluten. They can test this by consuming pure food-grade gluten with nothing else (not medical advice, check with your doctor).
by rstuart4133 | 2025-10-20 21:37:01+00:00
A lot of things about Stallman are unusual. Creating a C compiler, library, editor, and from that a software movement is unusual. He is clearly neurodivergent; doesn't / can't anticipate how people will react to his opinions on socially fraught topics. History shows he is usually right, but doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. I think the world is a better place for that, but it's come at his expense.

The author of that report, Drew DeVault, is also neurodivergent. Like Stallman he becomes fixated on topics, to the point of obsession. As a case in point, he obviously spends an inordinate amount of time stalking Stallman. It must of taken he years to gather all those references in the report you linked to.

Sadly DeVault's neurodivergence hasn't driven him to create a movement that binds people together, to create something bigger than of those people any could do alone that benefits everyone in the way Stallman has. Instead it drives he to attack others, and tear down what they have created.

Neurodivergent's make fairly easy targets, so I guess it's easy to understand why DeVault targets someone like Stallman and the movement he created instead of someone like Trump. Still, watching one neurodivergent tear into another in the way DeVault is fond of doing makes me very uncomfortable.
by m463 | 2025-10-20 21:37:19+00:00
I think of a friend who worked at a bank, and a colleage decided to show him "how the world really worked"

He got out a big printout and started showing the different demographics and their habits.

"<ethnic> woman, with a little bit of college" - she will get a credit card, charge it up to the limit, then make the minimum payment... forever.

"<ethnic> man, no college" - he will get a credit card, charge it up to the limit, might make one payment, never make another payment ever.

Then he went on to say, corporations will slant their advertising to target demographic #1 with credit card advertisements. They will make their advertisements disappear from view from demographic #2.

I kind of wonder if the whole vending system is slanted around these kinds of things. Sports fan, uses phone indiscriminately for everything, sell him an impulse snickers bar with an app, then load him down with ads for payday loans.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-20 21:37:25+00:00
One day we’ll get past as a civilisation assuming rich people are smart or worth listening to solely because they are rich.

You can’t ignore the Thiel’s of the world (because they won’t let us) but you don’t have to put any credence into every utterance that falls from their mouths either.

In a different age he’d be peeing in bottles and pulling a Hughes, the ultra wealthy divorced from reality schtick isn’t even new.
by lordnacho | 2025-10-20 21:37:25+00:00
I still can't decide which mechanism is at work:

Person is a nutter -> nutters more likely to be at the extremes of achievement (success and failure) -> you see the successes -> there's a bunch of insane people who became billionaires

versus:

Some people win at the success game -> they start to think they are special -> environment encourages them towards extremes of thought -> bunch of crazy billionaires

One way the negative traits are merely uncovered by getting rich. Other way the negative traits are actually developed along with getting rich.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-20 21:37:48+00:00
I think a better mental framework of how those model work is that they keep an history of the state of their "memory" across time.

Where humans have a single evolving state of our memory LLMs have access to all the states of their "memories" across time, and while past state can't be changed, the new state can: This is the current token's hidden state, and to form this new state they look both at the history of previous states as well as the new information (last token having been sample, or external token from RAG or whatnot appended to the context).

This is how progress is stored.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-20 21:38:24+00:00
Hit ball within 90 degrees of home plate position and try to make it to as many bases as possible before being tagged out (by a player holding the ball) or forced out by a player holding the ball tagging a base that you are forced to travel to (due to a runner behind you having to advance or it being first base if you're the batter).

When ball is in air and caught without touching the ground by opposing team, the batter is automatically out and any already onbase runners must return to the tag the base they were on before the hit.

If batter swings and misses its a strike. If a batter doesnt swing but its a fair pitch (over the plate and above knees and at or below chest) its a strike. If the batter hits the ball outside of 90 degree range, its a foul ball and counts as a strike (but cant count for third strike or "strikeout" condition).

If pitcher throws ball outside of fair zone, and batter doesnt swing at it, its a "ball".

If batter gets 3 strikes he's out. If pitcher throws 4 "balls", its a "walk" and batter advances to 1st base for free and any runners on base in front of batter get to advance 1 base as well.

Game is 9 innings, each team gets one turn at offense and one turn at defense per inning. Each team's turn lasts until there are 3 outs.

If teams are still tied at end of 9th inning, they simply continue playing more innings until they are no longer tied. There are no game clocks in baseball.
by dysoco | 2025-10-20 21:38:49+00:00
So from what I can understand this is only meant to be used with Claude-hosted sandbox environments?

Wouldn't work for my case since I need a lot of HDD space, GPUs etc. to run the thing I'm working on, but it would be great if I could run a Claude Code server in my server, expose the port and then connect via web or iOS interface.

Sure I can use tmux/ssh but it's very impractical specially in mobile.