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by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-16 22:16:05+00:00
Let me post a longer reply later. But for your last point, we do have automated machine generated alarms in form of smoke detectors. We're legally required to have them in our homes. Firefighters might do the breaking in though, instead of cops, but still agents of the government. Is it more accurate to treat internet access, same as public road access? it's a regulated privileged, instead of a right. You can't taint your windows too much so cops can look in for example when driving on public roads.
by carsoon | 2025-11-16 22:16:56+00:00
We need a library of Alexandria for primary sources. If we had source transparency then referencing back to original sources would be more clear. We could do cool things like these vintage models to reduce bias from current events. Also books in every language and books for teaching each language would help with multimodality. Copyright makes it difficult to achieve the best results for LLM creation and usage though.
by potatototoo99 | 2025-11-16 22:17:03+00:00
Always this sad argument that X is a private company and they can do what they like.

Companies are not acts of God or nature. They are a private company operating on a society that allows it to exist because it is believed to be the for the public good. The public has very much the right to question it's practices, and if they are anti consumer, monopolistic, or a list of other things, to correct them. Shareholders be damned.
by ericd | 2025-11-16 22:17:14+00:00
Eh my understanding was more that they had to cover fiscal deficits with printing, because they had heavy WW1 war reps (only payable in gold, so they couldn’t inflate it away).

There are times when it’s politically infeasible to defend the currency, even if they technically could. See the response in France to trying to raise the retirement age a bit, because their budget is in trouble.
by Levitating | 2025-11-16 22:17:22+00:00
I am sure I am not the only one who thinks these micro-dependencies are worthless anyway. You'd be better off just listing the functions in a markdown file for people to copy over than ship an entire package for it.

This isn't "small" open source, "small" would be something you put together in a week or weekend. These are like "micro" projects, where more work goes into actually publishing and maintaining the repository than actually writing the library.

I like the approach C sometimes takes, with the "tiny header file" type of libraries. Though I guess that also stems from the lack of a central build system.
by amluto | 2025-11-16 22:17:23+00:00
> Then go into Cloudflare DNS settings and map the domain homeassistant.mydomain.com to the tunnel:

> CNAME homeassistant.mydomain.com a2f17e27-cd4d-4fcd-b02a-63839f57a96f.cfargotunnel.com

> Now all traffic going to this domain will go through the cloudflared tunnel, which is configured to route homeassistant.mydomain.com to 192.168.1.3. No Warp client needed, Argo tunnel does everything for us.

It boggles my mind that Cloudflare ever considered this acceptable for production, let alone that this is still how tunnels work. The whole configuration scheme feels like something that someone might have kludged up as a technology demo and launched in a staging environment. But the fact that a very security sensitive production system where a “DNS” record that looks like a CNAME to a magic hostname causes traffic to get proxied and sent to a “Zero Trust” private network is just … unreal. It’s almost impossible to tell WTF is going on or what policies apply to what. Does Cloudflare’s proxy really try to fetch an upstream resource, notice that the configured domain name ends with “cfargotunnel.com” and invoke some special handling? What happens if, say, someone else adds that same CNAME to their own network? What if some route goes to foo.bar.com and foo.bar.com’s nameserver reports a CNAME to cfargotunnel.com?

I’ve been using this product for several years, and the documentation and configuration pages have slowly evolved from abysmal to very slightly better. At least now it’s sort of clear how tunnels interact with strict TLS.
by kazinator | 2025-11-16 22:17:53+00:00
That can be identified as a finalization-driven sweep. The object whose refcount hits zero is finalized, and the routine for that drops its references to other objects.

Garbage collection also traces dead objects. Or at least some kinds of GC implementations that are not copying. when the marking is done, the heaps are traversed again to identify dead objects, which are put onto a free list. That's a trace of dead objects. (Under copying collection, that is implicit; live objects are moved to a new heap and the vacated space is entirely made available for bump allocation.)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-16 22:18:02+00:00
No you don’t have to do anything in particular and this isn’t about “optimization” but rather about getting a result you actually want. So if we’re talking about having a legitimate discussion or “the general good,” I believe what I wrote is the better way to operate. If your response to that is simply “I feel like being shitty to people in response to things I find shitty,” then that’s your prerogative. You’re more than allowed to choose that course for yourself, I just don’t think that’s a healthy way to operate.

It all boils down to what you want out of the situation ultimately.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-16 22:18:07+00:00
I’m having trouble squaring this with something like DUI laws. Some people still drive drunk despite having them, but I think we all largely agree that the existence of these laws and their enforcement leads to fewer instances of drunk driving and is overall good for society.

That being said maybe I’m still not quite grasping the thrust of your point, but it sounds to me like you’re saying “corrupt/bad people ignore laws so laws meant to stop them are pointless.” Is that an accurate summary?
by jamesblonde | 2025-11-16 22:18:41+00:00
He's scarily sane. I am not joking when I say he invented the anti-christ thing as a way to entrench the billionaire class. He's basically saying the anti-christ will be somebody who want to solve the world's problems through collective action. So collective action is bad. We are in such an unbalanced world, that that is the best argument he can come up with for why we should allow such wealth inequality in society.
by EarlKing | 2025-11-16 22:19:15+00:00
Then how about SoftBank[1]... are they irrational? Or Michael Burry[2] who shorted Nvidia and Palantir before concluding the market is once against being irrational and selling his positions and closing his hedge fund... is he irrational?

The people in a position to know are telling you something: This is a Bubble, and they're getting the hell out while they're ahead. You should do the same.

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[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-st...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-shot-michael-burrys-ai-14...
by dzhiurgis | 2025-11-16 22:19:27+00:00
This. Current generation has failing ICCU's at staggering numbers. They replace them but haven't confirmed they fixed design issues. At least $2-3k.

Older ones (Kona) has reduction gear with some design flaw and Hyundai recommend changing its oil. Aaaaand it fails right at around 100k when most warranties lapse (cleverly their 8yr warranty is only for battery - likely most reliable component).

Bonus: just seen today Mercedes EQS has a motor seal design issue that at around 120kkm causes coolant intrusion. Tesla had same issue, but at least it was permanently fixable (aka coolant delete).
by shayway | 2025-11-16 22:19:52+00:00
The issue is that the article is excessively verbose; the time you saved in writing end editing comes at the cost of wasting readers' time. There is nothing wrong with using AI to improve writing, but using it to insert fluff that came at no cost to you and no benefit to me feels like a violation of social contract.

Please, at least put a disclaimer on top so I can ask an AI to summarize the article and complete the cycle of entropy.
by maxbond | 2025-11-16 22:20:36+00:00
I'm also concerned whether it is useful! That's why I'm not gunnuh read it after receiving a strong contrary indicator (which was less the use of AI than the dishonesty around it). That's also why I try to avoid sounding off on topics I'm not educated in (which is too say, why I'm not writing a book about Zig).

Remember - I am using AI and publishing the results. I just linked you to them!
by byhemechi | 2025-11-16 22:20:43+00:00
Does this really need yet another blog post? 72 characters is more than enough to be resistant to brute-force attacks, as demonstrated by thousands of data breaches containing bcrypt hashes that remain uncracked (excluding the obvious top 1k passwords/ credential stuffing). In my personal opinion calling it "unsafe" is just fear mongering, especially in conjunction with a recommendation of using Argon2 which is comparatively very new and is probably safe - but once again, does not have the proven record that bcrypt does.
by andy99 | 2025-11-16 22:20:49+00:00
Do you ever see later stage episodes of good shows where they’ve either changed writers or run out of ideas and formerly nuanced characters become stupid caricatures of themselves. Homer Simpson and Michael Scott are obvious examples. I think emulated writing is a bit like that, it’s very hard to copy a style without emphasizing the superficial stuff over the nuance that makes it actually good. I’m not convinced it would be easy here.

The nice thing about the current “Deloitte consultant” voice that all AI has is that it’s completely superficial and un-nuanced anyway so very easy for a computer to emulate.
by halJordan | 2025-11-16 22:21:08+00:00
It always goes back to Orwell doesn't it? When you lose words, you lose the ability to express concepts and you lose the ability to think about that concept beyond vague intuition.

For instance, it's a well established right to make parody. Parody and humor are recognized as sometimes the only way to offer commentary on a subject. It's so important itself a well known litmus test, where if a comedian cant do standup about it, it's gone too far.

So how does that tie in? Try and use any of these tools to make a parody about Trump blowing Bubba . It wont let you do it out of concern for libel and for because gay sex is distasteful. Try and make content about Epstein's island. It wont do it because it thinks you're making csam. We're living in exactly the time these tools are most needed.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-16 22:21:43+00:00
You ask if it's either intrusive spyware or if it's a locked down system and then describe dual-booting intrusive spyware.

A TPM is entirely under your control. It's designed in such a way that you can't do certain things with data within it, but that's not because (at least in theory) someone else can and is controlling your TPM to prevent you from doing those things. The TPM, unlike an installation of Windows, doesn't only listen to Microsoft.
by jameslk | 2025-11-16 22:22:06+00:00
Cash is just another asset class, and since becoming a pure fiat it’s never been a good one: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

Given the fiscal dominance we’re in now that pretty much guarantees higher rates of inflation in the future, I think there’s much better places to place your money if you want to diversify. At least cash equivalents would be better
by tavavex | 2025-11-16 22:22:55+00:00
> What I posit is absolutely symmetric, so you are just making this up.

What I said was followed by three paragraphs of me discussing why exactly I posited what I did.

> I don't understand why the way the government body is elected

Who talked about elections? I certainly never brought elections up. What I did bring up, though, is that the Saudi Arabian government dictates directly what is allowed to be a media outlet and who is allowed to be a journalist. They have ways of influencing national discourse that the UK just never had. It's not about how they're ruled (though it is also a side factor), it's that they're a far more overbearing and authoritarian state. This is what the "structure of the government" referred to - now that I read it back, I realize it could've been confused for something else.

Running international services of course has a national interest for the government (in addition to a business interest for the company). I never said that the BBC's existence wasn't good for the UK or that it was completely unbiased and independent, in fact I made sure to not paint them as unequivocally good anywhere - merely far better than what they do in Saudi Arabia. Ultimately I never was arguing about the start of the conversation (choosing preferred media vs. preferred story), but the framing of different national media outlets as completely equivalent things, just with different flavors of which party line they follow.
by toast0 | 2025-11-16 22:23:50+00:00
Many issues probably don't need the lengthy deliberative processes that stall or delay change. But the problems with the penny have been apparent for years, maybe even decades. There was plenty of time to study the issue, observe how other economies have made similar transitions and figure out how to make it work in an orderly fashion. Instead, we have a change by executive decree, with no apparent planning. Will the mint start making pennies again in the next administration or the next year? It's certainly possible.

In some states, there's legal uncertainty for retailers that operate without pennies. Planning and forwarning likely would have encouraged states to amend laws to provide for penniless retailers. Uniform nationwide rounding could have been an option, interstate commerce and all that.

Some sort of plan for the pennies themselves might be nice, although maybe some sort of plan could have helped pennies circulate more, reducing the need to mint several billion pennies every year.
by bitwize | 2025-11-16 22:24:39+00:00
Lenovo ThinkPad Yogas are also an excellent choice. Be sure to get one with the "ThinkPad Yoga" branding (not just Yoga). You get the high Linux compatibility of ThinkPads, tablet/hybrid modes, and a stylus. I found a used one for $300 and it's my new art machine.
by halJordan | 2025-11-16 22:25:06+00:00
The technical argument is that anti-csam and suicide are the strongest refusals, so since all refusals are mediated in a single direction these prompts are the rising tide that lifts all boats instead of one person having to divine the verboten topic you want.

The real argument would require us to both have read Orwell so I'll just resign myself to the former
by kibwen | 2025-11-16 22:25:38+00:00
> But Bitcoin is hard capped at 21 million coins

Bitcoin is not an immutable law of nature. If the coin minting cap is reached, all that needs to happen is for miners to start running a fork with a higher cap. Tada, more coins conjured out of the ether, just like all the previous ones. If you want enforced scarcity, you need to be tied to something physically scarce.
by lou1306 | 2025-11-16 22:25:46+00:00
> Didn't CERN do this in a lab like 40 years ago?

No. CERN (aka, Tim Berners-Lee) came up with HTTP and HTML, but he built on top of TCP/IP and DNS.

> using different protocols besides TCP

QUIC is going in that direction, by running on top of UDP.

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In any case, without replacing the protocol stack we already have different webs, thanks to the walled-garden nature of modern social networking platforms. Linking to an Instagram reel or a Tiktok video is a pain in the neck; if you do not have an account there's a good chance you won't be able to see the content anyway. X is going in a similar direction. This (as well as their non-textual nature, of course) makes them hard to crawl and index for search engines. Fragmentation and niches inevitably ensue.
by maxbond | 2025-11-16 22:26:04+00:00
I don't think there was very much abuse of "not just A, but B" before ChatGPT. I think that's more of a product of RLHF than the initial training. Very few people wrote with the incredibly overwrought and flowery style of AI, and the English speaking Internet where most of the (English language) training data was sourced from is largely casual, everyday language. I imagine other language communities on the Internet are similar but I wouldn't know.

Don't we all remember 5 years ago? Did you regularly encounter people who write like every followup question was absolutely brilliant and every document was life changing?

I think about why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby [1], a book explicitly about how learning to program is a beautiful experience. And the language is still pedestrian compared to the language in this book. Because most people find writing like that saccharin, and so don't write that way. Even when they're writing poetically.

Regardless, some people born in England can speak French with a French accent. If someone speaks French to you with a French accent, where are you going to guess they were born?

[1] https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-1.html
by int_19h | 2025-11-16 22:26:22+00:00
I'm Russian myself, and I think Russia is a Western (white European) colonial empire, and the largest one in terms of the sheer number of peoples and amount of territory it still occupies. Just look at the map of its administrative regions.

And yes, it is indeed opposed to other Western powers. That isn't new - at the height of colonialism, European colonial powers were constantly fighting each other. That didn't make any of them any less Western.
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by altairprime | 2025-11-16 22:27:21+00:00
Technically, it would have been better for the government to hand a tax on gross business revenue less labor costs, in order to give the Fed a lever to lower price levels inflation and raise household spending power so that the loss of pennies was of as little significance to households as it was to the Mint. Obviously, that would have required years of unpalatable and unsexy planning work that can’t be converted into political capital, but the outcome would have been that pennies become more relevant by lower prices and/or that pennies become less relevant by higher spending power. Oh well.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-16 22:27:54+00:00
As someone that likes GCs, I understand it.

GCs have a lot of tradeoffs involved. It's impossible to check all boxes and that means that there's going to be something to gripe about.

If you want your GC to be memory efficient you are likely trading off throughput.

If you want your GC to allocate fast and avoid memory fragmentation, you are likely over-provisioning the heap.

If you want to minimize CPU time in GC, you'll likely increase pause time.

If you want to minimize pause time, you'll likely increase CPU time doing a GC.

All these things can make someone ultimately hate a GC.

However, if you want a programming language which deals with complicated memory lifetime (think concurrent datastructures) then a GC is practically paramount. It's a lot harder to correctly implement something like Java's "ConcurrentHashMap" in C++ or Rust.
by smusamashah | 2025-11-16 22:28:01+00:00
It does not look like all patterns described here are meant to be taken as a rule. If your game don't have any of the patterns this website suggests, it won't automatically become a good game.

Grind or collecting items is suggested as a dark pattern. Dead cells is an amazing game and it has both of these. Most rogue lites use these both patterns heavily.

I don't see grinding as a hard no. I don't mind repeating if game makes feel I am making progress and getting something in return which dead cells do amazingly well. Grind needs some better definition on the website probably. Same for collecting items (what about coins in Mario).
by Deegy | 2025-11-16 22:28:31+00:00
Not required of course. This move to finally move some of his cash horde into equities could be a result of the US governments recent announcement that they're ending their quantitative tightening policy. This likely signals a move back to a period of quantitative easing which could cause assets to continue to inflate while the value of the dollar continues to erode.

Basically he could just be trying to protect the value of his dollars by putting them into a very stable company that also has exposure to the upside of AI.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-16 22:29:08+00:00
Lack of access to guns definitely does make a significant difference though. Even though the psychos still go psycho, they use knives instead of guns which are far less effective.

For example the most recent psycho attack in the UK was only a few weeks ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm2zvjx1z14t

He stabbed 11 people and none of them have died (though one is - or at least was - in critical condition). Ok that's comically incompetent even for stabbing, but even so he would have done far more damage with a gun.

And don't give me that "but other people would have had guns and stopped him" crap. It rarely works out like that.
by stackghost | 2025-11-16 22:29:09+00:00
Yes, not everything here is a dark pattern. The one that stood out to me was "Wait To Play"[0].

In the before times, there was a browser-only MMO called Urban Dead[1] which had a cap on the number of actions any player could take in a single 24-hour period. This was to avoid giving undue influence/advantage to players who could play more during the day and disadvantaging people who e.g. had to work during the day and could only play in the evenings. I played a lot of UD in its heyday and thought it worked really well.

That said,

>A "true dark pattern" would be sneaking things like push notification permissions, tracking permissions, recurring subscription agreements, etc. under an interface that looks similar to something the user doesn't read carefully and tries to get past out of habit, such as an interstitial ad with a "skip" button — but with a below-the-fold toggle button defaulted to "agree" and a "Confirm" button styled to look like the "skip" button at first glance.

There are lots of "true dark patterns" that are not deceptive UI elements. Loot boxes that require expensive keys comes to mind. Same with brutal grinds that can only be bypassed by pay-to-win booster items.

[0] https://www.darkpattern.games/pattern/30/wait-to-play.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Dead
by toast0 | 2025-11-16 22:30:16+00:00
Zinc is the cheap material though. It replaced copper (except for the foil outer), when copper was too expensive.

If there was a suitable and even less expensive metal, I think it might be reasonable to switch again. But if we have to rebuild coin handling to use a plastic penny, I think it's necessary to consider the costs and benefits of a vastly different material versus the costs and benefits of abandoning pennies.
by halJordan | 2025-11-16 22:30:17+00:00
Thats not true at all. All refusals mediate in the same direction. If you abliterate small "acceptable to you" refusals then you will not overcome all the refusals in the model. By targeting the strongest refusals you break those and the weaker ones like politics. By only targeting the weak ones, you're essentially just fine tuning on that specific behavior. Which is not the point of abliteration.