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by jonahrd | 2025-12-15 22:43:56+00:00
I found an interesting bug: https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com/play/fvT2WvzCT1SybhNp...

If I'm playing a quick pattern like this and holding down some bass note, depending on where the pattern starts, the middle two notes will become "synchronized" and play/get recorded at the same time. In my example, the top 4 notes work fine, but shifting down by one note causes the bug. I also switched between holding the bass not and not for demonstration. I assure you my fingers aren't doing anything different, I messed around with this for a while.

edit: got a better recording: https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com/play/b4qautCGQpQjA6wq...

2nd edit: I thought this had to do with the "groupings" of keys but even the middle 4 that are grouped together show this behavior: https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com/play/5XuIskeJNQQaiC7h...
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-15 22:44:19+00:00
I get that a hybrid is attractive because of the flexibility, but still the change is a strange decision. EVs are simpler to maintain than ICEs, but a hybrid is more complex, it adds the possible EV problems atop possible ICE problems.

Maybe keep the trucks as much they are now, just the essential changes to replace the engine? There's plenty of space on those huge trucks.
by xoa | 2025-12-15 22:44:45+00:00
I live in rural northern New England, and as well on-road I have plenty of either off road or unmaintained road usage year round, and a number of loads in those conditions that exceed the width of the vehicle (so wouldn't be public road legal). Also equipment and loads that exceed the height of the vehicle (which is road legal if properly secured). In principle a van with sufficient towing capacity and off road capability could use a trailer of some kind for those roles, I have nothing against vans per se, but since I don't need extra "interior space" the bonuses of vans don't help much vs the reduced flexibility and extra complications. I do keep my eye on them too because the line between "truck" and "van" can be fuzzy and if something sorta convertible or with some innovative ways to straddle the sufficient for my purposes came along I'd certainly consider it, but it hasn't been the case yet and the truck form factor is just really handy for making do with a surprise need on the spot far from anything with sufficient straps and bungie cords, without needing any other equipment.

It'd be nice if it could be a reasonable price too and not include a lot of the bling, though I'm perfectly aware a huge percentage of the truck buying audience cares about that a great deal vs having their truck all beat up and just wanting it to go forwards/backwards/left/right on demand reliably with a bunch of random stuff every day. But it'd be good to see anything at all that tried to work with the advantages of electric vs the limitations and both give a good truck experience and improve the experience for others that share the land, like with greatly enhanced visibility and better shapes that enhance safety for pedestrians. Don't need a ginormous engine to have very good torque with electric. I'm hopeful somebody will get there eventually but I guess the path has proven more winding then I'd once thought it'd be, I'd expected the iteration to be going pretty hard and fast by now (in America/EU I mean, it does seem to be moving real quick now in China).

Anyway, hope that gives some answer to your question. Just one solitary data point, I don't mean to do any extrapolation from this to the wider market, but I do actually use my truck pretty hard for truck things. We have compact efficient cars as well though for long distance travel and the like, my truck at least will spend 99% of its time within a 150 mile radius for work or any other use.
by horsawlarway | 2025-12-15 22:45:08+00:00
Literally everything is "chemicals".

And when we're talking about things in this realm, the general saying is "The dose makes the poison"... Water will kill you if you drink enough of it.

And we do have all sorts of studies showing that harm from these substances isn't immediately apparent (they all have safety sheets, and maximum safe exposure levels) . What we're missing, mainly because it's just incredibly hard to ethically source, is long term studies.

So the question you're really asking is "what's your tolerance to risk?". I think it's fine to have different governing bodies take different stances on that scale. What's less fine is failure to act on information because of profit motives.

Long story short - this isn't so simple. You bathe in chemicals all day every day.
by Glyptodon | 2025-12-15 22:45:32+00:00
I guess I'd assume that the premise driving this would be that there will eventually be enough business in space that it's necessary for space-centric use, and that terrestrial use is just a fringe benefit or loss leader or something.

But oddly this doesn't seem to be how the concept is typically framed.

My second level curiosity is how much cheaper/competitive it'd be if we had space elevators.
by hughlomas | 2025-12-15 22:45:37+00:00
People seem to forget that China is a fully authoritarian state. The fact is that China is an adversary and blocks virtually every western social network, including YouTube, Instagram, and Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

The CCP has absolute authority over internal companies to bend them to their will, and regularly disappears political dissidents including tech leaders like Jack Ma.

TikTok has over 150 million users in the United States, skewing young. We have seen the massive misinformation campaigns from other adversaries like Russia, with the goal of sowing dissent and malcontent.

All it takes is leaning on the algorithmic levers. Today the controversy may be over the issue you are passionate about, tomorrow it will a different issue, the only thing that matters is that TikTok is an open door to unduly influence public opinion in America.

The immense scale of data collection, from personal information to location tracking data, is also a clear concern.

Anyone that thinks it is reasonable for a geopolitical rival to control this company, especially a country known to reach its hand deep into company policy, is incredibly naive and self-sabotaging.

TikTok must be banned or fully controlled by a US based company.
by osn9363739 | 2025-12-15 22:45:58+00:00
I was looking for this comment (I was going to say the same) - I'm mostly on the backend services and infra side, and I have the option to host a lot of open-source tooling as opposed to paying for a service. I have to weigh up my options when deciding what to do, but a lot comes down to how much time I have and how much I'm willing to waste in time & hosting costs to keep the thing running. Also, do I need support, and ensure uptime and SLAs etc. Or what if I'm on holidays. I'm sure there are other things I'm not thinking of right now.
by hnburnsy | 2025-12-15 22:46:22+00:00
How much of the aluminum supplier issue played into this?

>As Ford Authority recently reported, an aluminum plant in New York, owned and operated by Ford supplier Novelis, recently suffered its third fire since September, making many wonder if the facility was still on track to reach full-scale production by December. Turns out, that is indeed the case, but in the meantime, there's no denying that Ford F-150 production has been impacted - which is also true of several other Blue Oval models.
by muzani | 2025-12-15 22:46:27+00:00
There's an amazing, gamified app out there that uses standard learning optimization patterns. It's called Duolingo. Unfortunately, you can have a multi-year streak on it and still not speak the language. It is effectively a language-themed quiz game, and not a language-learning game.

What you're doing is fundamentally at odds with the market, but perhaps there are people who want to use an app where they learn language.
by standardUser | 2025-12-15 22:47:16+00:00
What does it mean to "leave" the US? I know several people with advanced degrees in the sciences who had children in Europe and raised their kids there for years, but eventually came back. One family returned to Europe a second time. When you have a company or university sponsoring you it's not too difficult to move freely, so "leaving" feels like a moving target for this particular socioeconomic group.
by komali2 | 2025-12-15 22:47:20+00:00
> The dialect our cops use is perhaps even worse, but at least most of us don’t have to read or hear it as much as the business variety.

Ugh, and journalists often slip into cop dialect in their articles. It's disgustingly propagandic.

Notice that cops never kill or shoot someone, even in situations where they're blatantly in the wrong. It's always, "service weapon was discharged" or "subject was fired upon." Make sure to throw a couple "proceeded to's" in there for good measure.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-15 22:47:21+00:00
> This alone gave me 90% of the finished product

The Claude the industry needs is one that responds to that prompt with questions about scope and intent, and challenges its only-suitable-for-tutorials design ideas rather than obediently delivering a "90% finished product".

10 years ago, this basically marks the difference between hiring some dude on Fiverr for $400 and an actual engineer or agency who might help you figure out what the heck you're trying to do and point you in some sane direction towards it.

I appreciate this article for sharing what kind of experience people can expect from Claude right now, but it mostly demonstrates that code assistants remain most useful in the hands of experts who are careful what to ask for, and largely misleading and slop-amplifying for people who don't.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-12-15 22:47:30+00:00
I am a nobody who had a mental health breakdown following an ugly divorce and even though I settled my case - 380 days in solitary, Plea Bargain for Class A Misdemeanor - last month I was cuffed and interrogated in one county simply because I visited downtown and my plates were picked up in a different county when I was trying to navigate family law related obligations.

To put it another way, I'm on a legal-to-harass-list probably for the rest of my life and likely can't do a damn thing about it...beyond the obvious, which I've chosen, which is to enjoy a low-key, crime free, introspective creative sabbatical as much as possible on the fringes of society. Last thing I'm interested in is...whatever they accused me of this time...
by ImJamal | 2025-12-15 22:47:55+00:00
I agree that it is just dragging on and that is what I meant by describing the alternative as easy. Sending money and weapons is just leading to more death and destruction and no victory for Ukraine.

I don't think Ukraine can win with the way things are going unless the West joins the fighting or Russia collapses. Waiting until Russia collapses will quite possibly be a long time which will result in a Pyrrhic victory for Ukraine. They will have an entire generation of dead men at the rate things are going.
by rolph | 2025-12-15 22:48:02+00:00
dark web reports in general, seem to be a funnel for paid "security" and monitoring services, VPNs AV suites, typically you review your passwords for strength and redundancy, then you are redirected to buy some service, that ultimately looks like a data hoover, and put everything in a cloud scheme. now we have AI and FOMO to hook and reel in, seemingly more effective than darkweb boogeymen for adoption and revenue.
by saaaaaam | 2025-12-15 22:48:24+00:00
It’s funny because as a European when you wrote “Anyone that thinks it is reasonable for a geopolitical rival to control this company, especially a country known to reach its hand deep into company policy, is incredibly naive and self-sabotaging.” I thought “yeah, when you put it like that it would be AWFUL for the Trump administration to own it.

And then I read the next line and realised you meant China.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-15 22:48:37+00:00
I share your take on the Soviets, but,

> The west could conceivably have liberated the Soviet block after WW2

This is dubious, for several reasons: Public sentiment, starting another major war immediately after they thought they'd catch a break from war for a while. The premise of America building enough nukes to actually get the Soviets on their knees instead of provoking them to steamroll the rest of Europe instead. The ability of American forces, in the late 40s and early 50s, to get nuclear armed bombers over the appropriate targets in Russia.

Japan was already defeated, and two bombs proved enough to make them admit it. That context doesn't hold true for the Soviets; they may well have tanked several bombs to major cities then proceeded to fight a conventional war instead of surrender.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-12-15 22:48:48+00:00
I suspect that this orbital data centers isn't entirely about dollars (No doubt dollars are important).

I suspect it is about the regulatory environment. The regulatory environment on data centers is moving quickly. Data centers used to be considered a small portion of the economy and thus benign and not worth extorting/controlling. This seems to be changing, rapidly.

Given that data centers only exchange information with their consumers they are a natural candidate for using orbit as a way to escape regulators.

Further, people are likely betting that regulators will take considerable time to adjust since space is multinational.
by waynesonfire | 2025-12-15 22:49:10+00:00
There is another component to the protocol,

> Only messages matching your Secret Key will ring.

I assume that's the "Secret Key" is placed in this prefix tag, '[SECRET::]' ?

Since plain-text over UDP is not very secret, I'm now motivated to look into how Wireguard is able to use PKI to only accept packets from a trusted clients. And, how that protocol could be used to generate the Secrey Key.
by jotux | 2025-12-15 22:49:30+00:00
#1: I am extremely skeptical they are paying that. I suspect this was put together by someone who has no understanding of federal pay systems. "$150,000 to $200,000" is already an erroneous number, federal salary is limited by federal law and cannot exceed $195200.

#2: Overwhelmingly I agree. Federal pay is very, very broken. They should reform it to align more with the private sector, and there are laws in place that do that, and every year the sitting president literally writes a letter stating it would be an economic emergency to pay federal employees equivalent wages and instead sets them low. You are still limited by federal law to that current $195k, so it means it's impossible for the federal government to hire technical experts and pay them a fair wage.

#3: I'm sure the federal government is paying those people some ridiculous amount of money to put this together, and they'll probably do a decent job because of it. It still doesn't change the fact that federal hiring is really broken, and has become significantly worse in this admin.
by creata | 2025-12-15 22:49:47+00:00
> you'd use a proof-of-work scheme

I thought the general belief (e.g., '“Proof-of-Work” Proves Not to Work') was that proof-of-work isn't very good anti-spam.

> or a Captcha

Aren't bots better at those than humans by now?

And making people do captchas in an instant messenger is a great way to make people not use that instant messenger.

> or an invite-code system like lobste.rs or early Gmail.

That's not a long-term option if you want to make something mainstream.
by infogulch | 2025-12-15 22:50:05+00:00
Automatic version detection, revalidation, prewarming... caching seems so complicated these days. Forgive me for starting a sentence with "why don't we just"... but why don't we just use the hash of the object as the cache key and be done with it? You get integrity validation as a bonus to boot.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css?hash=sha384-5rcfZgbOPW7..." integrity="sha384-5rcfZgbOPW7..."/> Etag: "sha384-5rcfZgbOPW7..." Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, immutable
by ozim | 2025-12-15 22:50:44+00:00
Free providers have limits and this new time limitation will also play into that as there will be many more certificates to renew.

Large companies will keep on using paid providers also for business continuity in case free provider will fail. Also I don’t know what kind of SLA you have on let’s encrypt.

It is more complicated than „oh it is free let’s move on”.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-15 22:50:59+00:00
Signal blasted my whole contacts list the day I signed up so that I was surprised to see lots of people saying "finally you got signal". That was also the moment I uninstalled the app. Leaking contact info appears to be part of the design.

Should have deleted my account instead of just removing the app, because it turns out the difference between using signal and using SMS is obscured for most phones, and when people thought they were texting me they weren't. I was just out of contact for a long time as people kept sending me the wrong kind of messages. I suppose one could argue protecting contact/identity is not a real goal for e2e encryption, but what I see is a "privacy oriented" service that's clearly way too interested in bootstrapping a user base with network effects and shouldn't be trusted.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-15 22:51:03+00:00
Would you be comfortable giving that answer to someone who’s homeless or financially stuck today? I wouldn’t — and that’s the whole point.

We talk about tomorrow far more than we talk about what’s happening right in front of us. Quantum computing was ‘just around the corner.’ It wasn’t. Fusion was ‘imminent.’ Still isn’t.

I never argued we shouldn’t discuss the future.

I said it’s a matter of balance — something I already stated explicitly.
by exceptione | 2025-12-15 22:51:10+00:00
I don't know the book, but I hope it isn't yet another complaint about bureaucracy in need of "business thinking". I.e., how deep are they digging to find the real players? Because you can bet your home this "AI" initiative is just another instance of Elite Capture¹ here. The last thing any government needs right now is letting its policies and implementations being steered by (and made dependent on) hallucinating "AI", whose ownership ultimately is in the hands of the democracy destroying tech oligarchs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture
by komali2 | 2025-12-15 22:51:13+00:00
Not universally. I disagree, they read differently to me, and I'd say them differently.

Parentheses to me always feel like the speaker switching to camera #3 while holding a hand up to their mouth conspiratorially.

Em dashes are same-camera with maybe some kind of gesticulation such as pointing or hands up, palms down, then palms up when terminating the emdash clause.
by jsheard | 2025-12-15 22:51:24+00:00
My bad, I misremembered the order. You're right that ZeroSSL requires credentials to get free certificates, but Caddy has special-case support for generating those credentials automatically provided you specify an email address in the config, so it's almost transparent to the user.

https://caddy.community/t/using-zerossls-acme-endpoint/9406

Correction: the default behavior is to use Let's Encrypt alone, but if you provide an email then it's Let's Encrypt with fallback to ZeroSSL.
by cheeze | 2025-12-15 22:51:26+00:00
AWS Certificate Manager manages this all for you via DNS validation.

Granted, you're locked into their ecosystem, can't export PK, etc. so it's FAR from a perfect solution here but I've actually been pretty impressed with the product from a "I need to run my personal website and don't want to have to care about certificates" perspective. Granted, you're paying for the cert, just not directly.

I agree with your statement completely though.
by gcanyon | 2025-12-15 22:51:42+00:00
> You didn’t just ‘walk’; you ‘strode purposefully’, ‘trudged wearily’, or ‘ambled nonchalantly’.

‘Striding’ is ‘purposeful’; ‘trudging’ expresses ‘weariness’; ‘ambling’ implies ‘nonchalance’.

Good verb choice reduces adverb dependence.
by no_wizard | 2025-12-15 22:52:05+00:00
>I do believe this is a growing market, giving people who are fed up with BigTech

Most people I interact with don't even think about "Big Tech" in this way. They don't question iCloud storage, Google Drive or Google Workspace, Microsoft OneDrive etc.

They do sometimes get upset about right to repair, AI, and sometimes I hear about net neutrality or how Google search sucks, or how Facebook is privacy invasive.

To reiterate though, the core services like a product like this would replace - Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive etc. - that is not on the radar. Let alone having functional seamless replacements for email or calendar or contacts etc.

These are people adept at using technology too, there simply is no reason to invest in these types of products to them.

The reason these companies struggle is because mass market doesn't care about this enough first and foremost. They aren't seamless drop in replacements.

They don't handle my phone backups, for example, wirelessly and seamlessly. They don't offer seamless contact sharing, photo sharing and sometimes even file sharing is so clunky compared to a Google Drive link, or an iCloud download link.

How do they handle expiry on a link address for said share?

At best, what you have here is an on premise redundant storage drive and little else. It doesn't have the seamless features to do what the other services do. Even if its on the spec sheet, the experience isn't seamless enough. This is the same problem Nextcloud has been trying to solve for some time.

I think among technologists, the market for this is growing, but thats been the case for some time, its simply reaching more and more of us. This being a knock out commercial success where every 3rd person you know is buying something like this? That isn't happening in the foreseeable future.
by alexose | 2025-12-15 22:52:06+00:00
The Hawaiian language has a concept called Kaona, which is essentially embedding deeper meanings in contextual word choices. It can go way beyond the literal meaning of the words, and tie into bigger concepts of culture, lineage, and places. It's super cool hearing about it from native speakers.

We don't really do it intentionally in English, at least to the same degree. But there's still a lot of information coded in our word and grammar choices.
by tpoacher | 2025-12-15 22:52:22+00:00
One small piece of feedback for the dev, since I see you've been replying to comments here.

I had to jump like 3 links and 4 pages down to figure out what runmat actually "is" / "does".

As someone who's done their whole thesis using Octave this looks interesting.

I love Octave, it's one of my favourite languages. And, for reasons I don't understand even myself, I don't like matlab that much (though I admit their documentation is excellent).

How would you "sell" runmat to someone like me?