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by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-22 07:30:40+00:00
Wrong. That's your projection and your value judgement. Guns are designed to shoot bullets. That's all that can be stated honestly. They can be used for "benign" activities, "good" things, and "bad" things... where the value varied depending on who is asked the question.

Even if they were designed only for "harm", you seem to believe "all harm bad". So should criminals in the midst of committing violent acts not be stopped because that would "harm" them? You won't answer this. Extreme pacifism is insane, morally-inconsistent, ideological, thoughtless drivel that fails to acknowledge the monopolies on violence delegated to police and military that they benefit from.

Perhaps you might want to have your military abolished because they are "designed to cause harm"? Or the whole abolish prisons and police nonsense? Real anarchy is really bad.
by st-msl | 2026-01-22 07:33:57+00:00
The thread keeps circling back to memory. Agents don't learn.

Everyone's building the same workarounds. CLAUDE.md files. Handoff docs. Learnings folders. Developer logs. All manual. All single-user. All solving the same problem: how do I stop re-teaching the agent things it should already know?

What nobody seems to ask: what if the insight that helped me debug a PayPal API timeout yesterday could help every developer who hits that bug tomorrow?

Stack Overflow was multiplayer. A million developers contributing solutions that benefited everyone. We replaced it with a billion isolated sessions that benefit no one else.

The "junior developer that never grows" framing is right. But it's worse - it's a junior who forgets everything at 5pm and shows up tomorrow needing the same onboarding. And there's no way for your junior's hard-won knowledge to help anyone else's.

We're building Memco to work on this. Shared memory layer for agents. Not stored transcripts - abstracted insights. When one agent figures something out, every agent benefits.

Still early. Curious if others are thinking about this or have seen attempts at it.
by leptons | 2026-01-22 07:34:13+00:00
Some software development workflows require specific tooling, with complex setups. While it may be possible to do with other tools, it's often very difficult, and not really worth the trouble when there is a known working setup. It's easier to onboard new people if they use the established toolchain with known working configs. I worked at a place once where it took several days to get the dev environment set up. It would have taken far longer if someone wanted to use whatever random tool they'd prefer to use.
by gloosx | 2026-01-22 07:35:48+00:00
This "constitution" is pretty messed up.

> Claude is central to our commercial success, which is central to our mission.

But can an organisation remain a gatekeeper of safety, moral steward of humanity’s future and the decider of what risks are acceptable while depending on acceleration for survival?

It seems the market is ultimately deciding what risks are acceptable for humanity here
by nomilk | 2026-01-22 07:37:00+00:00
Key footage starts at 9m50s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1xujbcCVvU&t=9m50s

> After a couple hours of not seeing much more than contrails in the distance, closer to 3:00 in the morning, I got another low flyover, but this one looked different.

> The aircraft that passed overhead this time appeared to be closer to an equilateral triangle shape with a flatter trailing edge.
by throwaway290 | 2026-01-22 07:37:43+00:00
Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end.

> To kill other members of our species limits the survival of our species

Unless it's helps allocate more resources to those more fit to help better survival, right?;)

> species limiting, in the long run

This allows unlimited abuse of other animals who are not our species but can feel and evidently have sentience. By your logic there's no reason to feel morally bad about it.
by watwut | 2026-01-22 07:38:14+00:00
> The lesson from the last 20 years is that voters consistently vote to people who speak to their interests and their problems

This is false. Trump did not spoken to their problems.

He spoken to their hate, to they wish to harm other people. He is a crook and that appealed to them - they want to steal like him.

They voted for Trump, because they like seeing abuse. That was super clear, if you actually listen to what they say.
by pastage | 2026-01-22 07:38:56+00:00
I recommend the zig library [1], it was a joy to use. Bloom filters was one of the first interesting algorithms I did in class back in university, we upgraded hardware during the lab making the use of bloom filters unnecessary in a lab ment to interactively show its usefulness. I have had this repeated since then, these filters are magic until hardware catches up, having smaller filter is lovely.

[1] https://github.com/hexops/fastfilter
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 07:40:06+00:00
Yes, that change was actually the reason I went with "users create their own Spotify app" approach. With the new criteria, getting extended quota as an indie dev is tough – Spotify wants commercial partnerships or big user numbers.

By having users create their own developer app, each user has their own quota and I stay out of the approval process entirely. Works well for a niche app like this.

More context here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Upda...
by lylo | 2026-01-22 07:40:16+00:00
I see these acquisitions as a reset. They spend a huge sum to acquire established, but struggling, products and strip the size of the company to the minimum required to keep it operating. This is very much the Musk model.

At this point they have stopped the cash bleeding and made profit margins healthy again. From there they can more easily rationalise how to take it forward over the next 5-10 years.

That might mean stripping unpopular product features, rebranding, going upmarket, whatever.

It’s a real shame for all the staff, of course, but from a business point of view it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 07:40:23+00:00
>Pinning 100 at the boiling point of pure water at standard atmospheric pressure is every bit as arbitrary as Fs original 100F pin to the internal body temperature of a horse.

I mean, every unit is arbiturary. But we need to pick something.

I don't have any love for either, but F is the easiest to pick fun at when none of the standard temperatures make any sense. 32 for freezing water, 212 for boiing, 98.6 for human temperature? The 0 and 100 scale were based on the freezing point of some particular saltwater mixture and 90 degrees for human body temperature (which was corrected and then the scale updated to get to the modern temperature).
by torginus | 2026-01-22 07:40:40+00:00
In terms of practical usage, imo it doesn't matter whether macOS is Unix - it's certainly not Linux. The shell is different, the bundled utils are different, the filesystem, configuration and tooling is different enough that if you try to run anything beyond the most basic scripts written for Linux, they will not work.

Which means macOS is a separate platform you need to learn and support.

By this standard, WSL2 is much more Linux than macOS.
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 07:41:43+00:00
Not too bad technically – Apple handles most of it with StoreKit. Maybe a week of work for the initial implementation: setting up products in App Store Connect, handling purchase flow, receipt validation, restoring purchases.

The harder part was deciding on the model. Freemium limits? Trial length? What to lock? I changed this multiple times. The code changes for each iteration were small, but the decisions took longer.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-22 07:43:15+00:00
?? This is actually better than what they had before

> Apache License 2.0
The entire current codebase is now open source under the Apache License 2.0. This major upgrade means more of the product is truly open source.

We’re not removing any existing features or moving current open-source code into the Dokploy Source Available License. Additionally, we commit to never moving functionality from our open source license to our paid license.

Dokploy Source Available License
Future complex features used by larger organizations will be published as source-available components.

--

This seems like a good thing. Everything they have up till now is Apache 2.0. That's good? You can fork from here anytime and be in the clear to what's included or not - everything at current commit is good to go. No idea how this doesn't look good?
by trhway | 2026-01-22 07:43:52+00:00
weakest point is fire guns on one side and no guns to speak of on the other side. To understand the scale of Iranian killing - for 23 days of protests up to 20K people killed - that is half of the killing rate in Ukraine war which is a full scale war with a 1000km battle line and more than 1M of soldiers shooting at each other.
by celeritascelery | 2026-01-22 07:44:05+00:00
And I prefer to use sniping bots because they let me revise my bid all the way up until the auction ends. If I put a bid on something and then sleep on it and decide I don’t actually want to pay that much, I can lower my bid or cancel it. If I bid with eBay directly then I loose that flexibility. It has nothing to do with trying to outsmart people or be sneaky.
by user205738 | 2026-01-22 07:44:10+00:00
Come back to this comment in a few years and think about whether something significant has changed for those people who did not sacrifice their lives for a meaningless battle.

People are more important than the state. If they are not ready to defend him, why should they be forced? You can offer money or other valuables in return, such as fame, a pension, or a position, but if a person doesn't want to, why should they do it?
by EagnaIonat | 2026-01-22 07:44:19+00:00
> CDC/FDA discouraged, then flip-flopped and took credit for these things

There is a documentary called "Everything under control". In it they explained why this happened.

Basically they were scared that the public were going to buy out the masks that were needed by medical staff.

> Ivermectin

Same documentary, this was started by Musk. It does nothing and is dangerous.
by slhck | 2026-01-22 07:44:35+00:00
That is really a bit of an oversimplification IMO. Please check, for example, the Netflix tech blog and read about what has changed in the past 10 years or so when it comes to architecting video processing and video delivery systems. There's a tremendous amount of engineering work there which advances the entire industry. For instance, it's not trivial to add live events to a VoD infrastructure at that scale — it's not like you just add a few more nodes and buy faster encoders.
by grogenaut | 2026-01-22 07:44:49+00:00
There are 9 time zones in the US and depending on what your buying in the eu, jp, etc, I'm not going to be up to deal with the end of an auction, either too early too late or you know I have a real efing job and i'm doing something. Having ends of auction require you to be around means you lock out large parts of the market.
by camgunz | 2026-01-22 07:45:12+00:00
These problems are all theoretical. If you actually tried to implement them at the scale you'd typically need to sway a federal election you'd find it pretty unworkable. And in close elections, the recount process is pretty intense, so it's even less likely that you'll be successful.

You'll probably want more detail. Ballot harvesting can't work because data analysis shows weird patterns like this ("huh this nursing home went 95% Biden whereas every other nursing home in the county went 55%"). Recounts do signature validation and lawyers from either party can challenge any ballot they want. Voters are contacted to cure their ballots. I've worked on the Democratic side and been heavily involved in doing all of this. We had armies of lawyers, software and data engineers, and organizers.

Most of the pointing out opportunities for fraud comes from a place of like, reasoning from first principles. But elections are huge undertakings involving tons of people. It's hard to successfully commit election fraud at a large enough scale to sway a federal election. It's why foreign adversaries prefer to swarm social media with bots: it has a chance of working.
by svara | 2026-01-22 07:45:25+00:00
> Make them give you problems, instead of ready-made solutions

Yes, this is one of my favorite prompting styles.

If you're stuck on a problem, don't ask for a solution, ask for a framework for addressing problems of that type, and then work through it yourself.

Can help a lot with coming unstuck, and the thoughts are still your own. Oftentimes you end up not actually following the framework in the end, but it helps get the ball rolling.
by galago | 2026-01-22 07:46:12+00:00
I observed this in New England while living in a city with evenly distributed population. The polling locations were more abundant in the wealthier side of the city. This may not have been straight racism; there was no way for me to determine why this was the case. Looking at a map of median income and polling locations made it pretty obvious to me at least that polling location choice was biased.
by lucid-dev | 2026-01-22 07:46:42+00:00
But why are you considering tokens so precious?

At current prices you can pretty much get away with murder even for the most expensive models out there. You know, $14/million output tokens. 10k output tokens is 14 cents. Which is ~40k words, or whatever.

The way to use LLM's for development is to use the API.
by AmiteK | 2026-01-22 07:48:10+00:00
I think the disagreement is about where inference belongs, not whether LLMs are capable.

Git diffs + LLM inference work well for understanding changes once. What I’m targeting is reducing the need to re-infer semantic surface changes every run, especially across large refactors or long-running workflows.

Today, LogicStamp derives deterministic semantic contracts and hashes, and watch mode surfaces explicit change events. The direction this enables is treating those derived facts as a semantic baseline (e.g. drift detection / CI assertions) instead of relying on repeated inference from raw diffs.

By “repeatability” I mean the artifacts, not agent behavior: same repo state + config ⇒ same semantic model. I don’t yet have end-to-end agent performance evals versus AGENTS.md + LSP
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-22 07:48:17+00:00
and this explains why the USA doesn't have universal healthcare, or why a generation of the world's population now serve as eyeballs for advertisers using applications specifically designed to be addictive in order to enrich silicon valley startups. You certaintly wouldn't get here if you started with the question "how do we want society to look like?"

Imagine if the owners of modern day factories thought a little more like this [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-22 07:48:58+00:00
I don't think the title "Graph of All Human Languages" is correct. Among the more prominent omissions, it doesn't seem to include creoles and sign languages. Besides, the page doesn't claim to be a graph of "all human languages". This would be an impossible task, since determining what counts as its own language is subjective and often hotly debated.
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 07:49:02+00:00
Totally get it – subscription fatigue is real. Yoto is great for that age, we still have the Toniebox for our younger one.

The pricing is tricky. One-time worked for users but not for ongoing development. $40/year sounds steep, but it's ~$3.30/month – less than a single Tonie figurine. Family plan can be shared with grandparents too.

That said, I hear you. Always evaluating the model.
by Peritract | 2026-01-22 07:49:10+00:00
> people might start using said editor prompts to express themselves, causing an increased range in distinct writing styles

We're already seeing people use AI to express themselves in several contexts, but it doesn't lead to an increased range of styles. It leads to one style, the now-ubiquitous upbeat LinkedIn tone.

Theoretically we could see diversification here, with different tools prompting towards different voices, but at the moment the trend is the opposite.
by rcarmo | 2026-01-22 07:49:25+00:00
Well, I built https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox - which I run in a VM, with a dedicated container per project. Right now most of them are running Copilot CLI, others Mistral Vibe or Toad, and I have just built a small web front end based on https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm that lets me see a dashboard of all running tmux sessions inside the containers, click through, and prompt the agents every hour or so.

Looks like this: https://mastodon.social/@rcarmo/115937685095982965

SyncThing syncs their workspaces to my desktop/laptop, I make small adjustments (I don’t do stupid wasteful things like the Ralph approach, I prefer clear SPEC documents and TODO checklists, plus extensive testing and switching models for doing code audits on each other), my changes sync back, etc.

I’m considering calling it “million monkeys”, really.
by matwood | 2026-01-22 07:49:45+00:00
Good point. We all end up with different definitions of sys admin. I’ve managed fleets of Linux servers just fine with a macOS as my only client computer, but I’ve never managed other clients. Maybe a Linux client would have helped in that case if sys admin was my singular job, but even then I may have just created a Linux client in my vps to use as the management node.
by xmprt | 2026-01-22 07:50:32+00:00
This is great for Skip users, but I'm curious how they plan on monetizing for long term sustainability. Donations are notoriously not sustainable and if they weren't able to get enough in license fees before, I don't see how they will get more donations in the future. Unless the plan is that by increasing the user base, the product will get significantly better so that even if there's a smaller percentage of donators, they will end up contributing more in total.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 07:51:03+00:00
>Fahrenheit has more precision without using decimals

Meanwhile, I'm fine at 98.6 degrees, but everyone freaks out over 100 degrees. it's a more precise unit, right?

feet/inches make more sense to be attached to. they are based on your body parts (roughly), and we spend a lot of time looking at humans. inches divide our fingers, feet are... well, feet. And yards are steps. We intuitively know what all those feel like through everyday life compared to the scientific way we derive a centimeter. inches and feet being base 12 is more a coincidence than anything else (or maybe not. Maybe there's some golden ratio shenanigans at play).
by coopykins | 2026-01-22 07:51:29+00:00
When I have to put together a quick fix. I reach out to Claude Code these days. I know I can give it the specifics and, Im my recent experience, it will find the issue and propose a fix. Now, I have two options: I can trust it or I can dig in myself and understand why it's happening myself. I sacrifice gaining knowledge for time. I often choose the later, and put my time in areas I think are more important than this, but I'm aware of it.

If you give up your hands-on interaction with a system, you will lose your insight about it.

When you build an application yourself, you know every part of it. When you vibe code, trying to debug something in there is a black box of code you've never seen before.

That is one of the concerns I have when people suggest that LLMs are great for learning. I think the opposite, they're great for skipping 'learning' and just get the results. Learning comes from doing the grunt work.

I use LLMs to find stuff often, when I'm researching or I need to write an ADR, but I do the writing myself, because otherwise it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you know what the 'LLM' is talking about, when in fact you are clueless about it. I find it harder to write about something I'm not familiar with, and then I know I have to look more into it.
by derektank | 2026-01-22 07:52:38+00:00
I would simply say speak for yourself.

You’re making a trade off between making it impossible to buy votes and impossible to verify votes. Both come with tradeoffs that can be mitigated, whether that be investigating and prosecuting attempts at bribery in one case or maintaining a strict chain of custody in the other. It’s a matter of personal preference and priorities. I just don’t think eliminating the secret ballot should be dismissed out of hand, given most voting was conducted without it prior to the late 19th century.
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 07:53:06+00:00
Thanks! You nailed the niche – that gap between toddler devices and full streaming access is exactly where Muky sits.

To your questions:

1. Unfortunately no – Muky only works with streaming content from Apple Music or Spotify. No local MP3 support or syncing to external devices. You'd still need something like the old iTunes workflow for that MP3 player. Local file support comes up often though, it's on the roadmap.

2. There's actually a lot of audiobook content on Apple Music – especially kids stuff. The new Browse tab in Mukychas curated audiobooks to help you discover them.

And yes – "how hard can it be" is a dangerous question. Found that out myself!
by no-name-here | 2026-01-22 07:53:16+00:00
That's exactly what automatic bidding does - it only outbids enough to beat the competing bid (up to your max) without paying any more than is needed. https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/automatic-bidding?i... (Manual bids have bid increments as well. Although others have pointed out that advance bidding might cause others to bid more than they would if they thought no one else wants the item. )
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-22 07:53:46+00:00
> Maturity means suspending judgement and listening to people you disagree with, but I feel that's very out of style these days.

This applies to all of us these days. I'll lump myself in there too. I don't care what "side" you are in, if you get angry hearing someone you disagree with politically you're not helping matters any. We're too polarized. I wish we could stop with the bickering and find common issues we agree on and agree on the solutions and push our reps from 'both sides' to fix the issues in a way we can all agree on. The political theater is too exhausting and unhealthy.
by danans | 2026-01-22 07:54:55+00:00
> They don't see the effect of their taxes being spent,

They are quite aware of taxes because 13.5% of their income on average comes directly from federal subsidies paid by taxes on "city folk".

https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...

> The voters will vote against their own interests over and over and over if they keep hearing something that resonates with what they feel.

Most large farm owners are very well off and are absolutely voting in their own interests for the party whose primary goal is to cut taxes on the wealthiest while cutting government support for the poorest.

The rural working class and poor on the other hand are however often voting against their economic interests, but their economic situation has long been ignored by both partie, so having given up hope for economic change, they often vote on culture/identity issues.