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by kentonv | 2025-11-21 23:01:15+00:00
Job scheduling and tenant sandboxing are generally the responsibility of the hosting provider, not the JS runtime. If you are going to run workerd on, say, Lambda, then you rely on Lambda for these things, not workerd. No other server JS runtime offers hardened sandboxing either -- they all defer to the hosting provider.

(Though if we assume no zero-days in V8, then workerd as-is actually does provide strong sandboxing, at least as strong as (arguably stronger than) any other JS runtime. Unfortunately, V8 does in fact have zero-days, quite often.)

What mariopt said above was: "being tied to only 1 vendor is problematic." My point here is that when you build on Workers, you are not tied to one provider, because you can run workerd anywhere. And we do, in fact, have former customers who have migrated off Cloudflare by running workerd on other providers.

> frankly you should add a disclaimer when you comment about CF or Capnp

I usually do. Sometimes I forget. But my name and affiliation is easily discovered by clicking my profile. I note that yours is not.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-21 23:01:31+00:00
> I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.

Same for me, but I live in America.

The specific location matters a lot. The LA area is more population dense and bigger than might be obvious.

To put it in perspective, the GDP of the LA area is about 1/4 as much as the GDP of your entire country.
by asdff | 2025-11-21 23:01:40+00:00
This was circulating recently and is sort of funny:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1oolm68/lapd_he...

LAPD flies quite recklessly especially downtown, where they aren't even clearing the buildings. News choppers fly much higher, well over the skyscrapers, and have no problems getting very tight shots on whatever subject there is down there.

If you follow them on ADS-B you see they really aren't used that frequently at all for calls and end up in holding patterns with nothing to do really before flying somewhere else for a new holding pattern, until their shift is up presumably.
by metalcrow | 2025-11-21 23:02:05+00:00
If it's eugenics to choose, without coercion, certain traits for your child, then eugenics as a term is meaningless. Am i participating in eugenics when i don't have children with my sister? Am i doing eugenics when i take a test for cystic fibrosis and use that to decide to have children or not? The entire debate you are referring to centers around the use of force and coercion to control what others can do, and if they can reproduce or not. This is not that.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-21 23:02:10+00:00
Thanks, that's useful info and something I've wondered about.

Your comment also serves as an excellent illustration of what's "wrong" with FreeCAD, though.

"One thing to note is that creating sketches from Sketcher and PD is different. Sketcher offers attachment options to faces, edges, etc., while PD only offers to attach the sketch to base plane (XY, XZ, or YZ)."

OK, but I would argue that sketching functionality should still be centralized. So if you have a body or some appropriate object selected and invoke the sketcher (or vice versa), attachment to faces, edges, etc. will be enabled. Otherwise it's disabled.

That's standard GUI, and it's well-understood that greying something out tells the user that some condition isn't met. But he still learns that the option exists and where it resides.

"In FC, I use VarSets for this. I used to use the Spreadsheet workbench, but found it clumsy."

Thanks for the tip. I've been meaning to tackle spreadsheets as a means to resize stuff (another pain point with seemingly many "solutions" in FreeCAD).
by ianstormtaylor | 2025-11-21 23:02:44+00:00
Basing it around the act of selling data seems like a much better approach to me than what OP suggested, I agree. I imagine there are edge cases to consider around how acquisitions of company assets would work, although it’s not a use case I particularly care to defend.

“Intent to track” could be an approach, but the toll bridges near me use license plate scanners for payment, so I could see it not being that clear cut. There are likely other valid use cases, like statistical surveys, congestion pricing laws, etc.
by calmbell | 2025-11-21 23:02:45+00:00
The public school experience in the U.S. depends so much on your ZIP Code. I attended the best public schools in my state while my wife attended the worst in the same state. I am genuinely pro-public school, but there is a point where the benefit of being around different people is overshadowed by distractions and low standards. My wife had to be diagnosed with a learning disability in college to receive test accommodations when she discovered that you cannot stay after class indefinitely to finish an exam. Her teachers never raised any concerns about her taking 50% as long with exams compared to the other students, and she was the valedictorian of her huge urban high school. The lack of concern is bizarre until you consider that her teachers were preoccupied with students graduating and showing up to class. Many of her classmates ended up getting pregnant, and the school had a large daycare for the children of high school students.

My wife didn't end up taking the SAT or ACT because she attended a relatively strong local university with a full-ride scholarship and a test-optional policy. The MCAT exam initially denied her request for accommodations because she was only diagnosed with a learning disability in college. We successfully appealed by writing an essay arguing that my wife wasn't diagnosed with a learning disability in K-12 because her schools sucked (we submitted documentation that proved that her schools tested among the worst in the state, her elementary school was literally the worst in the entire state, when she was a student), and her teachers had much bigger concerns than why the smart, studious kid takes a long time to complete exams.

If the wife had gone to the K-12 school system that I attended, her learning disability would have been addressed in elementary school, and she would have been spared much angst. I was a very poor reader in early elementary school, and received almost daily one-on-one attention at my school from instructional aides and volunteers (mostly highly educated parents and grandparents) for years. I received a perfect score on the ACT reading section in high school.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-21 23:02:48+00:00
> It wasn't that uncommon for public schools to make nods toward Christian ideals/lifestyles before like the 90s, but now that stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

Schools should absolutely teach Christian mythology and history, and Greek mythology and history, and Egyptian mythology and history, alongside many other subjects. But to the extent that they used to make "nods" towards "this is the cultural default we defer to", nope.
by Fricken | 2025-11-21 23:02:52+00:00
It's been a long time coming, but Waymo is doing it. Waymo is scaleable and on the march! They've been announcing plans to roll out in new cities every month or 2 all year, and by the end of 2026 they'll be testing or offering the public rides over 30 metropolitan areas.

I'm most curious to see how they do in the winter city of Minneapolis over the next several months.
by saghm | 2025-11-21 23:03:18+00:00
For a few years before I eventually got a Steam Deck, I played a lot of games that I bought outside of Steam, and over the past decade, the experience of doing this on Linux has massively improved. Plenty of their improvements get upstreamed to Wine, and there's nothing stopping you from obtain proton (or even one of the various unofficial tweaks of it) to run games that you don't buy through Steam to get the benefits that aren't upstreamed (or haven't been yet). The article itself mentions that they've implemented a driver for Mesa that has equal or better performance on ARM than the proprietary one from Qualcomm.

It's not clear to me what you're attempting to convey by saying the Steam Deck being the only product they have that supports the open source vision. The Steam Deck is the only new hardware product they've had since 2019, when they released their original first party VR headset that presumably is being replaced by the new one. Other than that, the only other hardware products they've ever worked on were earlier headsets made by other manufacturers or the previous iterations of the other two products announced alongside the new headset. From that standpoint, you could make a credible argument that the only product they even have right now that benefits from the open source work they've done in the past six years they did is the exact one you say supports this vision.
by ckw | 2025-11-21 23:03:46+00:00
Death is a long term effect. And I am not exaggerating. I did not feel the need to list any of the myriad other potential long term effects because death seemed sufficiently serious.

Edit: in case the OP is reading, I should say also that the package insert won’t mention many other potential long term effects addressed in the literature, like extra pyramidal symptoms (akathisia, Parkinsonism, dystonia, tardive dyskinesia).

Another edit: ask GPT-5 ‘What are the long term side effects of Prozac use which aren’t addressed in the package insert?’ for a list.
by helterskelter | 2025-11-21 23:05:06+00:00
During covid you probably wanted a 70/30 split so you didn't get eaten by inflation, but I think 60/40 is probably a safer bet for the average person right now. I'd consider pulling back to 50/50 over the next 6 months to a year so you can loss harvest and skip the capital gains. I'd also consider moving money you don't expect to need anytime in the next decade into real estate.

I'm not really an investor btw, this is just my intuition. I'm curious what others here are doing.
by nutjob2 | 2025-11-21 23:05:12+00:00
I calculated how much I spend on food, shopping at Lidl in the EU in a mid range expensive country, and I pay about 3 euros per day.

That's about the same as $3.40, but for 4 full meals (one of those is smaller than the others)

Admittedly I've optimized my menu.
by DFHippie | 2025-11-21 23:05:51+00:00
In general your kids' friends are much more important to them in the long run than you are. You are always there, but their friends represent the society they will be sinking or swimming in. They turn away from you and your tastes and opinions for a reason: their survival depends on understanding the tastes and opinions of their peers. You will stick with them (usually). Their peers are free to abandon them. Peer relationships are fragile but important. Parent-child relationships, however important, are much more durable, so they require less attention from the child.
by asdff | 2025-11-21 23:06:48+00:00
Unfortunately standard practice for LAPD is to engage in a dangerous police chase along with the helicopter, not to simply follow with a helicopter.

They don't really use them for hit and run. How could they? Think about how fast that crime occurs and how much time will pass between that incident and vectoring a helicopter, which might be tied up on other work.

Less than 20% of hit and run cases are even solved in California (1). I'm sure the rate is even lower in a city like LA.

1. https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/legal/opinion/dragged-and-...
by avidiax | 2025-11-21 23:06:50+00:00
Yeah, not sure how valuable lots of real estate is if there aren't any high-paying jobs nearby, in part due to AI.

And this isn't even about the total number of high-paying jobs. Even having too much income concentration (fewer, but higher paying jobs) will mean that there's less demand at the margin. To put it another way, if the job growth in say, silicon valley, starts to reverse because of AI, there will still be newcomers, but not enough to buy out the available housing at an ever increasing price.

If the price trend ever reverses and holds that way long enough to seem like a new normal, I suspect the price will suddenly correct downwards. Everyone holding on to real estate as an investment will have a great reason to sell once it becomes a depreciating asset. If it goes on long enough, people will be underwater on housing and start walking away.

The price trend is already somewhat flattened, which reduces FOMO. Why buy now when AI is uncertain and the price seems pretty flat?
by estearum | 2025-11-21 23:07:19+00:00
> but rather purely probabilistic.

In other words, indicative of a coherence - some type of structure – in the "world" of inputs into an LLM, which was the only point I was making.

No, I did not intend to suggest that LLMs are conscious with my "all other conscious entities". I intended to suggest that we don't know if they're conscious, and the provided reason to "prove" that they're not is nonsense.

Well, if you have a theory that cleanly proves your intuition that it's "preposterous" that an LLM could be conscious, you should go submit it and win a Nobel!

Otherwise you're just sharing your unfounded and unduly confident assumptions which isn't terribly interesting.
by shoddydoordesk | 2025-11-21 23:07:51+00:00
So your proposal is to just let the criminals run away? And that somehow won't embolden them further?

"Once this baby hits 88mph, we're home free!"

Air support is used to coordinate with law enforcement up ahead to deploy spikes to end the chase.

You are just repeating empty political talking points that simply don't work in the real world.
by adamwong246 | 2025-11-21 23:08:00+00:00
Except we will probably go the other direction, taking rights away from humans. Not just your American rights, but rights we don't even have words to describe yet. Like, the right not to have your personal data trained upon, or the right to log off, or to install and uninstall software on a computer you own.

RMS was right all along.
by gh0stcat | 2025-11-21 23:08:12+00:00
Only for the most basic of requests. I have interacted with a fair share of AI front loaded customer service chat portals and they are often misleading, sending outright incorrect info (telling us that the dev team would work on it even when they weren't going to) and I almost always just want to talk to an agent. Yes, it's a good first layer to prevent people who haven't even bothered to read any FAQ or informational pages, but it's not doing real customer service work.
by asdff | 2025-11-21 23:08:47+00:00
People know what to do to get away from the helicopter and they have been successful at it. Two chases in one week this past august the suspect shook off the helicopter and got away. It is as easy as driving under an overpass or into protected airspace. In one case this past month, they followed a suspect all the way into san diego and allowed them to cross the border into Mexico where they were lost.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-11-21 23:08:52+00:00
A lot of people are offering opinions on homeschooling. I'll throw in one anecdote from my past. I played tennis with a kid who was homeschooled through middle school but was sent to high school so he could graduate with a diploma instead of a GED, because this seems to be something that colleges care about. He was awkward for a couple weeks but basically adapted to high school and we quickly forgot he was homeschooled. The only thing that occasionally reminded us he was homeschooled was that he was better prepared for high school academics than we were and got good grades.

So for everyone saying that homeschooled kids aren't well adjusted or have bad social skills, I'll offer the counterpoint that they might appear unadjusted at first, but humans can usually adapt to new environments, so homeschooled kids have a pretty good chance at acting "normal" a short time after leaving homeschool. Don't judge someone's awkwardness the first time you meet them, let them adjust a bit and see if they can assimilate.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-21 23:09:02+00:00
From what I can tell, it's a variable font, where the font developer can declare an axis (in this case "curve," or more likely "CURV") and the font user can control the value of that axis (e.g. via CSS) which controls how the font renders itself.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Font...

This site demonstrates many highly stylized and artistic variable font axes:

https://www.axis-praxis.org/specimens/__DEFAULT__
by duped | 2025-11-21 23:10:51+00:00
> C++ mostly still echoes the diversify of hardware architectures and runtime environments out there

It doesn't though, or at least none of those echoes are why C++ is complex. Here are some examples of unnecessary complexity.

The rules of 3/5 exist solely due to copy/move/assign semantics. These rules do not need to exist if the semantics were simpler.

Programmers need to be aware of expression value categories (lvalue, rvalue, etc). These concepts that most languages keep as internal details of their IRs are leaked to error messages, because of the complex semantics of expression evaluation.

SFINAE is a subtle rule of template expansion that is exploited for compile time introspection due to the fact the latter is just missing, despite the clear desire for it.

The C++ memory model for atomics is a particular source of confusion and incorrectness in concurrent programs because it decouples a fairly simple problem domain and rules into (arguably too small) a set of semantics that are easy to misuse, and also create surprisingly complex emergent behaviors when misused that become hard to debug.

These are problems with the language's design and have nothing to do with the hardware and systems it targets.

The thing that bugs me about this topic is that C++ developers have a kind of Stockholm syndrome for their terrible tools and devex. I see people routinely struggle with things that other languages simply don't have (including C and Rust!) because C++ seems committed to playing on hard mode. It's so bad that every C++ code base I've worked on professionally is essentially its own dialect and ecosystem with zero cross pollination (except one of abseil/boost/folly).

There is so much complexity in there that creates no value. Good features and libraries die in the womb because of it.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-21 23:12:01+00:00
you appear to want a school system that spends money on exactly what your child needs and nothing else.

Providing for my child's educational needs is my job as a parent, not the job of the government 'school system'.

But if the government is going to operate schools and demand that we all pay for those schools, I'd prefer it if those schools were run for the benefit of students (and specifically to maximize academic achievement) and not for the benefit of government employees.
by metalcrow | 2025-11-21 23:12:22+00:00
> the idea of an entire "experiencer" is an extrapolation and fabrication

Ok, makes sense.

> look closely at what's actually going on, there is "consciousness" of the components of the aggregate

Interesting. I'll try, but i would have to wonder what it means for some sort of element of the mind that cannot experience to nevertheless have consciousness. It's very confusing, especially without a good idea as to what to look for in regard to consciousness. I'll attempt this though, thank you.
by jdietrich | 2025-11-21 23:12:26+00:00
>Like lobotomies. What do people think of them now?

Lobotomy was in fact an effective treatment (albeit with extremely severe side-effects), but we now have much better and safer treatments available. The abandonment of lobotomy was fundamentally driven by the invention of effective antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilisers. Neurosurgery is still offered to an extremely small proportion of patients suffering from very severe and treatment-resistant depression and OCD.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/art...
by j-conn | 2025-11-21 23:12:28+00:00
“It’s not rocket science — you’ve either got to pay more, or you’ve got to let in way more people. … There are wonderful, caring people all over the world who would like to come care for our seniors at the wages we’re willing to pay, and we just have to let them in,” Gruber said.

This is the crux of it. The government should also subsidize and directly administer more senior care, especially given the economic drag from having family members step into these roles
by forgetfulness | 2025-11-21 23:12:38+00:00
100 billion a year, with math that’s downright delusional.

So, back of the envelope math, the US GDP is 27.72T USD, 80% (22.18) corresponds to the tertiary sector.

Let’s say that this is a 15% increase over a 10 years period, because YoY a boom like the computer revolution itself looks like 2% increases a year.[1]. This amounts to about 1.5% increases each year.

Let’s just make the huge leap that you can just scale the productivity up of all this just by making typing out reports and emails a faster activity, and summarizing information for which you’re not facing liability if the bot gets it wrong.

Yes, including the nurses, cleaners, truckers, teamsters, all of it.

1.5% of it is a cool 330 billion.

How much of a cut of that productivity increase could AI companies take? 30%? That’s 100 billion in one year there.

So with pie-in-the-sky math, they could break even if their obligations throughout the decade don’t amount to 1 trillion (since those 1.5T in bonds issued this year mature in longer periods)

1. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/the-us-productivit...
by tshaddox | 2025-11-21 23:12:49+00:00
This is a common sentiment, but how much do you really know about the counterfactual?

It's not obvious to me that you would have been unable to deal with people who didn't look like you if you had been homeschooled.

It also seems to me that a lot of public school environments surely contain kids who look different from each other, form cliques based on physical appearance, and learn to base how they treat people largely on physical appearance.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-21 23:12:53+00:00
Conscious or not, there's a much more pressing problem of capability. It's not like human society operates on the principle that conscious beings are valuable, despite that being a commonly advertised virtue. We still kill animals en masse because they can't retaliate. But AGIs with comparable if not greater intelligence will soon walk among us, so we should be ready to welcome them.
by maxbendick | 2025-11-21 23:13:02+00:00
Living in LA, the LAPD helicopter noise really is incessant.

It's hilarious to hear flying cops try to be intimidating through when dispersing illegal concerts or singling individuals out in non-violent crowds. It's impotent posturing and an obvious waste of money. They really don't need to send 5 squad cars and a helicopter for noise complaints.

I will say though that the loudspeaker on those things are surprisingly clear, even through the buzzing of a helicopter.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-21 23:13:26+00:00
Come to think of it, for them it is basically customer support.

Most will want to outsource it as cheap as possible and/or push it to the community. They won't care if it takes an eternity for the customer to get their issues solved as long as new customers keep buying.

And a few companies will see an opportunity to bring better customer care as an advantage and/or integrate it in their philosophy.
by noosphr | 2025-11-21 23:13:51+00:00
I disagree.

We have been living on the investment of previous centuries and decades in the West for close to 40 years now. Everything is broken but that didn't matter because everything that needed a functioning physical economy had moved to the East.

AI is the first industrial breakthrough in a century that needs the sort of infrastructure that previous industrial revolutions needed: namely a ton of raw power.

The bubble is laying bare just how terrible infrastructure is and how we've ignored trillions of maintenance to give a few thousand people tax breaks they don't really need.