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by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-02-06 22:24:41+00:00
That an edge case. Linage works on a subset of devices. Find me an amd64 computer that doesn’t support Linux.

I think you’d agree that it would be far easier to technically and socially lock mobile devices to signed deployments only, with jailbreaks becoming rarer and more valuable over time, than to do the same with desktop and laptop computers, due to their requirement to support many different functional requirements (PcIe, thunderbolt peripherals, distributed compute, etc).

I’m not saying I like this, but I think phones will become a single viable OS and locked down ecosystem in the next 5 years. Desktops will follow, but not at the same rate.
by skybrian | 2026-02-06 22:25:06+00:00
This explanation doesn't contain any practical examples either. I mean, I do know that Promises are a monad, but that's not obviously helpful. You can write plenty of async code using Promises without knowing that, and it will probably be clearer to the reader. Similarly, options are a monad, but that's unhelpful for writing code that deals with optional values.

Why is most writing about functional programming like this?
by kbaker | 2026-02-06 22:25:21+00:00
The GSD tool (get-shit-done) automates a very similar process to this, and has been mind-blowing for larger projects and refactors.

https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done

You still need to know the hard parts: precisely what you want to build, all domain/business knowledge questions solved, but this tool automates the rest of the coding and documentation and testing.

It's going to be a wild future for software development...
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-06 22:25:27+00:00
I actually really liked the live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and was disappointed at it's cancellation.

Unpopular opinion amongst those who grew up on the anime, but I was late to the anime so my childhood-integrity isn't dependent upon requiring a faithful one to one retelling (or whatever would satisfy those folks - possibly nothing).

I enjoyed the "Hollywood" Ghost in the Shell as a stand-alone 'thing', unrelated to the manga / anime. The ending is quite on the nose; ultra-formulaic where formulaic has no place.
by tptacek | 2026-02-06 22:27:17+00:00
I mean, I wouldn't have led off that way either, but I know what Patrick is talking about and I read the article. I genuinely believe the current administration is the worst in the history of the country, and I also believe that to oppose it effectively we need every government body we run to be completely on the ball, so it's really dispiriting to see people reflexively defend misconduct and incompetence. That shouldn't be a habit we share with the party we oppose.

(I can't speak for Patrick's politics, only for mine.)
by toast0 | 2026-02-06 22:27:48+00:00
> In 2015, the Maryland-based Black Bear Sports entered the scene. The company, owned by the private equity firm Blackstreet Capital, began buying up struggling ice rinks, some of which were on the verge of closing.

This is the basic strategy of private equity. Find a sector of businesses that is doing poorly, buy them up (they're motivated to sell), run them poorly for several years while collecting money, file for bankruptcy and find a new sector to take on.

If running an ice rink was good business, PE would have a hard time finding rinks to buy for prices they're willing to pay.
by IMTDb | 2026-02-06 22:28:14+00:00
The idea is that, over time, the quality and accuracy of world-model outputs will improve. That, in turn, lets autonomous driving systems train on a large amount of “realistic enough” synthetic data.

For example, we know from experience that Waymo is currently good enough to drive in San Francisco. We don’t yet trust it in more complex environments like dense European cities or Southeast Asian “hell roads.” Running the stack against world models can give a big head start in understanding what works, and which situations are harder, without putting any humans in harm’s way.

We don’t need perfect accuracy from the world model to get real value. And, as usual, the more we use and validate these models, the more we can improve them; creating a virtuous cycle.
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-06 22:28:41+00:00
Nope. NHTSA's criteria for reporting is active-within-30-seconds.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...

If there's gamesmanship going on, I'd expect the antifan site linked below to have different numbers, but it agrees with the 2 deaths figure for FSD.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-06 22:28:56+00:00
I love that the community is doing this, though I'm curious why Civ 3 in particular. My understanding was that "classic" (for lack of a better term) Civ fans tend to prefer either 2 or 4, and that 3 was considered to be not as good. But perhaps I was mistaken as to the community's opinions on the games.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 22:29:01+00:00
In 1987 when I first started coding, I would either write my first attempt in BASIC and see it was too slow and rewrite parts in assembly or I would know that I had to write what I wanted from the get go in assembly because the functionality wasn’t exposed at all in BASIC (using the second 64K of memory or using double hires graphics).

This past week, I spent a a days modifying a web solution written by someone else + converting it from a Terraform based deployment to CloudFormation using Codex - without looking at the code as someone who hasn’t done front in development in a decade - I verified the functionality.

More relevantly but related, I spent a couple of hours thinking through an architecture - cloud + an Amazon managed service + infrastructure as code + actual coding, diagramming it, labeling it , and thinking about the breakdown and phases to get it done. I put all of the requirements - that I would have done anyway - into a markdown file and told Claude and Codex to mark off items as I tested each item and summarize what it did.

Looking at the amount of work, between modifying the web front end and the new work, it would have taken two weeks with another developer helping me before AI based coding. It took me three or four days by myself.

The real kicker though is while it worked as expected for a couple of hundred documents, it fell completely to its knees when I threw 20x documents into the system. Before LLMs, this would have made me look completely incompetent telling the customer I now wasted two weeks worth of time and 2 other resources.

Now, I just went back to the literal drawing board, rearchitected it, did all of the things with code that the managed services abstracted away with a few tweaks, created a new mark down file and was done in a day. That rework would have taken me a week by itself. I knew the theory behind what the managed service was doing. But in practice I had never done it.

It’s been over a decade where I was responsable for a delivery that I could do by myself without delegating to other people or that was simple enough that I wouldn’t start with a design document for my own benefit. Now within the past year, I can take on larger projects by myself without the coordination/“mythical man Month” overhead.

I can also in a moment of exasperation say to Codex “what you did was an over complicated stupid mess, rethink your implementation from first principles” without getting reported to HR.

There is also a lot of nice to have gold plating that I will do now knowing that it will be a lot faster
by orangecat | 2026-02-06 22:29:10+00:00
This is amusing, because the usual NIMBY argument I hear is about "gentrification", i.e. it makes the neighborhood better and that's bad.

terminally online young adults who are bitter that they can't afford to live precisely where they like

More accurately: they would like to live in a particular location, the owner of that location would like to sell or rent it to them, but a third party wants to forcibly prevent that transaction.
by dgxyz | 2026-02-06 22:29:21+00:00
I've watched it happen at two orgs now. Lay off 500 people because you fucked the company for 2 years then congratulate each other for making the decision to write off all the accumulated debt by getting rid of all operating costs. Then come up with some new bullshit vision. Rinse, repeat while extracting wealth from gullible investors and treating staff as expendable.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-06 22:29:23+00:00
I love it, but I know it's bad, but I also think it was intentionally what it is, which makes it good or even great.

If you can unlock that teenage feeling of wonder at the potential size and scope of the world and, at the right age at the right time, feeling like that world is your oyster, that's the feeling in which to watch this movie.

I refuse, however, to get into that feeling-zone for other 'high school' movies; they're stupid...
by itay-maman | 2026-02-06 22:29:28+00:00
It took me several reads to distill their post to this one sentence: "Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers"

I'd be glad to stand corrected but AFAICT this is the only sentence that describes the change. All other say "nothing is changing in [some area]".

Trying to downplay something to that extent immediately raises suspicious that this something (the change) is much more profound that what is stated.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-06 22:29:42+00:00
I completely disagree with you.

Anyone could solve every problem in the world, if only they had the resources. However, it's also an extremely convenient and versatile excuse. I think removing this excuse is more important than any downside you mention.

At my company I see people hiding behind the "I don't have the resources" excuse literally several times a day.
by wqtz | 2026-02-06 22:30:05+00:00
It would be impossible to buy a company as a steward. We worked with them. In the early 2020s, their teams were as lazy as IBM boomers. Happy to hop on a call, but let's do an rain check or whatever and come back to you after 17 weeks to say no in an email CCed with 42 people playing hot potato between commercial people who try their best to sound technical. You need a mind map to know which person you were talking to and who introduced you to them.

My money is on holding companies like IAC buying the brand first through financial engineering and restructuring finances initially. They would load it up with debt like they did with the sporting goods store in Sopranos.

Afterward, they would sell it to a Euro-based caretaking company like Bending Spoons, with a focus on maintenance engineering rather than innovation engineering.
by rayiner | 2026-02-06 22:30:28+00:00
> People would rather stay marooned in the middle of an endless desert of houses with essentials being a 30-45m drive away

I live far enough out of DC where there’s soybean farms five minutes down the road from me. On the way to my parent’s house, there’s a bison farm. But I’m also a 5 minute drive to the closest strip mall (which has a CVS and several restaurants, both sit down and fast food). The ALDI is 10 minutes, and almost everything else, including the Apple Store, is within 15.

There are some suburbs where it’s 30 minutes to get to essentials, but most aren’t like that. Heck, the average one-way commute to work in Dallas Texas is under 30 minutes.
by salysson | 2026-02-06 22:30:36+00:00
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by martythemaniak | 2026-02-06 22:30:43+00:00
Now go on X.com and see whether this blog post is being shared and discussed amongst the MAGA Silicon Valley executive class. Taken at face value, this topic is completely irrelevant to them and you should see no mention of it whatsoever and therefore I am hallucinating things. But if you do see it discussed, then you'll also see a subtext of "See, Trump was right to send ICE to MN!", and thus patio has done his job well in the way I described.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-02-06 22:31:55+00:00
The speech is great and all but cmon, don't tell me that Microsoft is "delivering outsized success".

Have you seen the recent windows update bugs, the enshitification of office, recall, bing, etc..

I don't know who else to blame but Nadella for all of that.

Seems more like the guy would be a great politician, great speech to inspire fresh employee, but delivers nothing in reality.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-06 22:31:57+00:00
My tricks:

Define data structures manually, ask AI to implement specific state changes. So JSON, C .h or other source files of func sigs and put prompts in there. Never tried the Agents.md monolithic definition file approach

Also I demand it stick to a limited set of processing patterns. Usually dynamic, recursive programming techniques and functions. They just make the most sense to my head and using one style I can spot check faster.

I also demand it avoid making up abstractions and stick to mathematical semantics. Unique namespaces are not relevant to software in the AI era. It's all
about using unique vectors as keys to values.

Stick to one behavior or type/object definition per file.

Only allow dependencies that are designed as libraries to begin with. There is a ton of documentation to implement a Vulkan pipeline so just do that. Don't import an entire engine like libgodot.

And for my own agent framework I added observation of my local system telemetry via common Linux files and commands. This data feeds back in to be used to generate right-sized sched_ext schedules and leverage bpf for event driven responses.

Am currently experimenting with generation of small models of my own data. A single path of images for example not the entire Pictures directory. Each small model is spun akin to a Docker container.

LLMs are monolithic (massive) zip files of the entire web. No one really asking for that. And anyone who needs it already has access to the web itself
by p_ing | 2026-02-06 22:32:22+00:00
NTFS on Linux should be near-par with ext4 on Linux.

Remember, I said the _file system_ was just fine. It's that extensible architecture above all file systems on NT that causes grief.

The only method to 'turn off' Defender is to use DevDrive, which enforces ReFS, and even then you only get async Defender, it's not possible to completely disable.
by inkysigma | 2026-02-06 22:32:52+00:00
I think because here there's no single correct answer that the model is allowed to be fuzzier. You still mix in real training data and maybe more physics based simulation of course but it does seem acceptable that you synthesize extremely tail evaluations since there isn't really a "better" way by definition and you can evaluate the end driving behavior after training.

You can also probably still use it for some kinds of evaluation as well since you can detect if two point clouds intersect presumably.

In much a similar way that LLMs are not perfect at translation but are widely used anyway for NMT.
by tjr | 2026-02-06 22:33:03+00:00
Right. I work in aerospace software, and I do not know if this option would ever be on the table. It certainly isn't now.

So I think this question needs to be asked in the context of particular projects, not as an industry-wide yes or no answer. Does your particular project still need humans involved at the code level? Even just for review? If so, then you probably ought to retain human-oriented software design and coding techniques. If not, then, whatever. Doesn't matter. Aim for whatever efficiency metric you like.
by ls612 | 2026-02-06 22:33:27+00:00
It’s driven by a fundamental shift in political economy. Technology centralizing power and making computation and communication (and thus control) cheap means that politics becomes a winner take all industry, in the parlance of the valley. Those who have read more than a little history understand what being the loser in such a contest means and thus the rush to the extremes and the escalation spiral (and of course the associated democratic backsliding) you see not just in the US but in most western countries.
by tptacek | 2026-02-06 22:33:58+00:00
If there was one thing we would all decide differently here at Fly.io, like if you gave us a time machine, is how we did databases. Someday Kurt and I will write the post about how those decisions came to pass and how they played out.

We're doing Managed Postgres now (MPG), which is what we should have done to begin with, but it took us for-ev-er to get here.
by the_fall | 2026-02-06 22:34:15+00:00
It's common for compilers to generate mildly unusual code because they translate high-level code into an abstract intermediate notation, run a variety optimization steps on that notation, and then emit machine-specific code to perform whatever the optimizations yielded. There's no constraint along the lines of "but select the most logical opcode for this task".

The claim that the code is inefficient is really not substantiated well in this blog post. Sometimes, long-winded assembly actually runs faster because of pipelining, register aliasing, and other quirks. Other times, a "weird" way of zeroing a register may actually take up less space in memory, etc.
by lurking_swe | 2026-02-06 22:34:21+00:00
you’re measuring the wrong thing. Spending more on education if a child’s home life is garbage is a waste of time. That’s controversial because it doesn’t sound nice, but it’s a fact. The real problem is not at school and school can only help so much.

At a broad policy level, government should focus its effort in other areas of basic NEEDS first. Stable jobs for parents, housing and food needs met, etc. Being a successful student when your families basic needs are not met is an uphill battle.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-06 22:34:23+00:00
I think our world models are just completely different here: I would say that "legitimate" companies are usually trying to completely trick their customers. e.g. price discrimination, shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, subscription or financing models to obscure costs, surreptitiously collecting and selling their customers' information, abusing psychology to create demand for things that no thinking person should want (e.g. junk food ads, or cigarette ads before they were banned), the list goes on.

Even with the most straightforward to compare products like bank accounts, the biggest household names absolutely screw their customers. e.g. Chase gives like 0.01% APY on their savings accounts, or 0.02% on their "premier savings accounts". Capital One just settled a lawsuit for having two almost completely identical "high yield" accounts where the only difference was the less informed set of customers got like 0.3% in their "high yield" account while everyone else including Capital One's other, otherwise identical account was giving over 4%. It's not quite fraud, but I'd call that a scam from a major company. Part of the lawsuit alleged that they excluded existing customers with the worse account from ad campaigns about the better one. You can't do that without profiles on everyone, and that's exactly the sort of thing where even for products from the same company, they will absolutely use information about you to advertise to you the worst deal they think you'll take.
by martinald | 2026-02-06 22:34:25+00:00
You're definitely right on (2) and (3). I've used many transit systems across the world (including TransMilenio in Bogota and other latam countries "renowned" for crime) and I have never felt as unsafe as I have using transit in the SFBA. Even standing at bus stops draws a lot of attention from people suffering with serious addiction/mental health problems.

1) is a bit simplistic though. I don't know of any European system that would cover even operating costs out of fare/commercial revenue. Potentially the London Underground - but not London buses. UK National Rail had higher success rates

The better way to look at it imo is looking at the economic loss as well of congestion/abandoned commutes. To do a ridiculous hypothetical, London would collapse entirely if it didn't have transit. Perhaps 30-40% of inner london could commute by car (or walk/bike), so the economic benefit of that variable transit cost is in the hundreds of billions a year (compared to a small subsidy).

It's not the same in SFBA so I guess it's far easier to just "write off" transit like that, it is theoretically possible (though you'd probably get some quite extreme additional congestion on the freeways as even that small % moving to cars would have an outsized impact on additional congestion).
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-06 22:34:26+00:00
What's the point if human-made art isn't interesting or artistically worthwhile?

(Most of it isn't.)

Art is on a sliding scale from "Fun study and experiment for the sake of it" to "Expresses something personal" to "Expresses something collective" to "A cultural landmark that invents a completely new expressive language, emotionally and technically."

All of those options are creatively worthwhile. Or maybe none of them are.

Take your pick.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-06 22:34:58+00:00
> Maybe/Either get talked about because they're the simplest Monads you can make, but it makes Monads sound like a spicy container type.

Actually "spicy container type" is maybe a better definition of Monad than you may think. There's a weird sort of learning curve for Monads where the initial reaction is "it's just a spicy container type", you learn a bit and get to "it is not just a spicy container type", then eventually you learn a lot more and get to "sure fine, it's just a spicy container type, but I was wrong about what 'container' even means" and then settle back down to "it's a spicy container type, lol".

"It's a spicy container type" and "it's anything that is flatmappable" are two very related simplifications, if "container" is a good word for "a thing that is flatmappable". It's a terrible tautological definition, but it's actually not as bad of a definition as it sounds. (Naming things is hard, especially when you get way out into mathematical abstractions land.)

There are flatmappable things that don't have anything to do with ordering or sequencing. Maybe is a decent example: you only have a current state, you have no idea what the past states were or what order they were in.

Flatmappable things are generally (but not always) non-commutative: if you flatmap A into B you get a different thing than if you flatmap B into A. That can represent sequencing. With a Promise `A.then(() => B)` is different sequence than `B.then(() => A)`. But that's as much "domain specific" to the Promise Monad and what its flatmap operation is (which we commonly call `then` to make it a bit more obvious what its flatmap operation does, it sequences; A then B) than anything fundamental to a Monad. The fundamental part is that it has a flatmap operator (or bind or then or SelectMany or many other language or domain-specific names), not anything to do with what that flatmap operator does (how it is implemented).