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by mbreese | 2026-02-05 07:21:55+00:00
Low is good if you are also adding more humidity back in. If you want to maintain 45-50% (guessing), then you would want <45% environmental humidity so that you can raise it to the level you want. You're right about avoiding static, but you'd still want to try to keep it somewhat consistent.

It is much cheaper to use external air for cooling if you can.
by YZF | 2026-02-05 07:22:09+00:00
It's more than just supply and demand. It's the price discovery. So I guess you can say supply and demand curves. The curves change with the market psychology and with future expectations.

Most institutional investors are not going to outperform your diversified portfolio. It's not like professionally managed funds are killing it while individual investors are losing. There are some specific examples of funds/people who do well but on average most do ... average.
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 07:22:28+00:00
For both data migrations and renames, there isn't really a one-size-fits-all solution. That's actually true when doing data changes or renames in imperative (incremental) migrations tools too; they just don't acknowledge it, but at scale these operations aren't really viable. They inherently involve careful coordination alongside application deploys, which cannot be timed to occur at the exact same moment as the migration completion, and you need to prevent risk of user-facing errors or data corruption from intermediate/inconsistent state.

With row data migrations on large tables, there's also risk of long/slow transactions destroying prod DB performance due to MVCC impact (pile-up of old row versions). So at minimum you need to break up a large data change into smaller chunked transactions, and have application logic to account for these migrations being ongoing in the background in a non-atomic fashion.

That all said, to answer from a mechanical standpoint of "how do companies using declarative schema management also handle data migrations or renames":

At large scale, companies tend to implement custom/in-house data migration frameworks. Or for renames, they're often just outright banned, at least for any table with user-facing impact.

At smaller scale, yeah you can just pair a declarative tool for schema changes with an imperative migration tool for non-schema changes. They aren't really mutually exclusive. Some larger schema management systems handle both / multiple paradigms.

For MySQL/MariaDB with Skeema in particular, a few smaller-scale data migration approaches are discussed in a separate post, https://www.skeema.io/blog/2024/07/23/data-migrations-impera...
by simianwords | 2026-02-05 07:22:38+00:00
I liked the article not because I think older people work better but it’s good for society to normalise working when you are old.

Giving a safe, inclusive place where old people can still be productive and feel like they matter is important.

I think the article is correct in that older people can still be productive even at 60+ and it’s a pity that we let them retire. Retiring is not the most healthy option for people!
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by testfrequency | 2026-02-05 07:23:10+00:00
If you’re not awake already, you support what’s happening.

Blind, which I realize is a bit of the wild west, is full of racist anti-immigration/pro ICE hatred. Obviously, you can see where users work/worked, and it’s every company you could imagine.

The sad reality is that a lot of people will do what they can to support racist agendas, possibly even motivate them to work at certain companies as it feels moralizing to their hateful beliefs.
by orangethief | 2026-02-05 07:23:30+00:00
> Maybe they just didn’t see it.

They sell it as a concept with every single one of their showcases. They saw it.

> Or maybe they saw it and decided the risk wasn’t worth it.

They sell it as a concept with every single one of their showcases. They wanted to actually be selling it.

The reason is simple.

They failed, like all others. They couldn't sandbox it. They could have done a ghetto form of internal MCP where the AI can ONLY access emails. Or ONLY access pages in a browser when a user presses a button. And so on. But every time they tried, they never managed to sandbox it, and the agent would come out of the gates. Like everyone else did.

Including OpenClaw.

But Apple has a reputation. OpenClaw is an hyped up shitposter. OpenClaw will trailblaze and make the cool thing until it stops causing horrible failures. They will have the molts escape the buckets and ruin the computer of the tech savvy early adopters, until that fateful day when the bucket is sealed.

Then Apple will steal that bucket.

They always do.

I'm not a 40 year old whippersnapper anymore. My options were never those two.
by uecker | 2026-02-05 07:25:02+00:00
Putting Chomsky aside, LLM do not seem to teach us much. Obviously, they are good at language processing and for just being trained on language they seem to appear surprisingly "smart". LLMs after training also have language built-in similar to what the human brain has after evolution, and this seems to confirm rather to contradict the idea of language being an important and fundamental part of the the human brain does. On the other hand, there is also a lot missing. But we already know that there are many other cognitive processes in the human brain which are not related to language, so it is not something we learned recently by analyzing deficiencies of LLMs.

If you believe in esoteric stuff such as "qualia", then LLMs also tell you nothing. You can continue to believe that true experience requires a human brain and all that a computer does is imitation. But this has no observable consequences that can be used to falsify these ideas, so is not a scientific concept in the first place.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-05 07:25:04+00:00
> AI plateauing

Ummm is that plateauing with us in the room?

The advantage of renting vs. owning is that you can always get the latest gen, and that brings you newer capabilities (i.e. fp8, fp4, etc) and cheaper prices for current_gen-1. But betting on something plateauing when all the signs point towards the exact opposite is not one of the bets i'd make.
by danaris | 2026-02-05 07:25:34+00:00
> you have to convince them it's good for people working in ad tech to oppose ICE.

Yes—and one of the tools we have for that is shunning.

If enough of us who are appalled and disgusted by the state of things, and the people who willingly lend themselves to creating said state, make our disgust with those people known, it can lead to some of them choosing to act differently, because they care about being thought well of by their fellow techies.
by WCSTombs | 2026-02-05 07:27:31+00:00
I do kind of like the idea of automatically reformatting the code based on the media size, but the devil seems to be in the details. In my experience, code formatters can sometimes backfire and make the code harder to read. There's usually an escape hatch via special comments in the code, but those would appear in the final rendering and add noise to the presentation, which is unacceptable. Thus, I didn't pursue that idea, and instead I ended up manually breaking my code samples at 64 columns or so. There can still be some horizontal scrolling on very small screens, but hopefully it's tolerable. I also made sure each individual code block gets its own scroll bar and not the whole page, so you wouldn't need to constantly scroll the whole page back and forth to check for overflowed content.

I have other thoughts on this, but I don't want to go too far afield. Anyway, I think it's an interesting problem and one that's worth solving.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-05 07:27:53+00:00
You are right, I meant paranoid.

>Btw, in this case it can’t be paranoia since the belief was not irrational - the author was being watched.

Yes, but I mean being overly cautious in the threat model. For example, birds may be watching through my window, it's true and I might catch a bird watching my house, but it's paranoid in the sense that it's too tight of a threat model.
by rhubarbtree | 2026-02-05 07:28:00+00:00
What evidence do you have for that? Your point about Saudi is literally mentioned by the parent as one of the few negative points.

I’m not saying this is how it will play out, but this reads as lazy cynicism - which is a self-realising attitude and something I really don’t admire about our nerd culture. We should be aiming higher.
by YZF | 2026-02-05 07:28:11+00:00
We don't know what the other options look like. A broader collapse of the economy, runs on banks? If the government stayed out then the outcome could have been worse for the average taxpayer.

I do agree it looks bad if bankers can take huge risks and benefit (personally) from the upside without a downside risk. But it's not necessarily the bailout that's the problem here and the taxpayers do have the theoretical power to vote for people who can change this.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-05 07:28:14+00:00
> Cloud companies generally make onboarding very easy, and offboarding very difficult.

I reckon most on-prem deployments have significantly worse offboarding than the cloud providers. As a cloud provider you can win business by having something for offboarding, but internally you'd never get buy-in to spend on a backup plan if you decide to move to the cloud.
by bonesss | 2026-02-05 07:28:41+00:00
I feel the market forces kinda point the other way, though, since the customization of the SaaS is also cheapening, but faster and more targeted than these internal teams. Over time I believe that’ll lead to more, not less, SaaS consolidation.

Let’s put the cost of code production at 0: regulatory compliance with payment processing laws or industry oversight is a recurring job that’s common for the whole industry when it changes. SaaS companies have hundreds of customers to attend, these become first class business functions. New demands won’t be in training data for LLMs, so someone needs to be doing this. SaaS has the funds and customer base to have dedicated experts at these functions, but it’s dead capital and nigh-impossible hiring in a tiny talent pool for the rest of the market… the delta to get Salesforce or SharePoint not to be total ass and fully customized is orders of magnitude smaller than detailing those foundations, and as people who sharecrop on platforms like those know, the devil is always in the details. Those internal teams just aren’t positioned to juggle both sides of that coin, they can’t be experts, mistakes can be existential, and the liability picture is so very ugly… coding is the least of it.

Into this, MBAs are not static. It’s not gonna take more than a few “vibe coding ate our CRM data” high profile snafus, or industry think pieces to map out why customization is faster/better/smarter, to get clear business dogma around this. A witty turn of phrase about focusing on your actual business.

I think ‘no one ever got fired for hiring IBM’ x 5 is on the horizon, and the evil marketers at Salesforce, MS, and the rest are gonna work hard to grow their piece of the pie. They have LLMs too, only with better models and unlimited tokens. And our executives will be checking directly with their LLMs about how to invest (the consultants, journalists, fanboys, and social media bots too…).
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by p0w3n3d | 2026-02-05 07:30:07+00:00
Elton went in second, and suddenly shuddered. The strangulating gag reflex made his body shake. The deceased was lying on the floor with a weird grimace on his face. Pills were lying around, spilling out of open boxes. There was something in his hand. Unlocked phone. He put on his gloves, and bent down to check it. He suspected the subject might have been calling for help. The phone was unlocked but there were no contact selected. The only visible text was:

"Bot please tell which medication should I take in the morning"

And the following

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by watersb | 2026-02-05 07:30:11+00:00
> The RP2040 can only do USB FS (full-speed), which is capable of 11 Mbps. At the 320x240x16 bpp we were originally targeting, every frame is 153.6 kB. At our maximum USB FS speed, that's less than 10 FPS! Embarrasingly, I had originally done the math with a bandwidth of 11 MBps, not 11 Mbps, so I was off by a factor of 8.

I wrote a book about Windows NT Server system administration, and sustained this error through chapters discussing hard disk and network bandwidth.

God bless my technical editor, who caught this before publication.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 07:30:15+00:00
Yup. Though rather than say "fruit and fruit" are two words, or focusing on "definitions" (which tend to morph over time anyway), I think the more straightforward and typical approach is to just recognize that the same word can have different meanings in different contexts.

This is such a basic and universal part of language, it is a mystery to me why something so transparently clueless as "actually, tomato is a fruit" persists.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-05 07:30:19+00:00
>This too is not ideal. It gets saved in the browser history, and if the url is sent by message (email or IM), the provider may visit it.

Sure. POST for extra security.

> Not the subdomain leak part, that's just how Rachel noticed, but the non advertised tracking from an appliance chosen to be connected privately.

If this were a completely local product, like say a USB stick. Sure. but this is a Network Attached Storage product, and the user explicitly chose to use network functions (domains, http), it's not the same category of issue.
by LutumVeritas | 2026-02-05 07:31:05+00:00
Do you know what it feels like to build something that works and delivers on its promises, but nobody cares? I've been told Hacker News is tough - but fair.
I'm not asking for special treatment. And I'm not asking for a bonus. All I'm saying is: I believe I built something cool. It's open source. It's meant to give people the ability to do real, truthful deep research. Nothing more, nothing less.
So check it out. Test it. Challenge me.
And if it delivers on its promises, at least be fair enough to drop a star ;)
by kinow | 2026-02-05 07:31:37+00:00
I think it is the first time I hear about a merge of two workflow tools.

I work with workflows and HPC, and the most common is multiple workflow managers in an hpc center, or even within a department. Which is not always necessary (sometimes it feels like just because there is budget and someone skilled they prefer to reinvent than reuse).

I hope this means that trend is stopping.

Another thing I hope I will start seeing more are workflow managers sharing libraries. Most workflow managers need to handle similar tasks like submitting tasks to cloud, slurm, containers. Or even performing graph operations, visualizing graphs.
by ManuelKiessling | 2026-02-05 07:33:19+00:00
Just a single data point, and I‘m not pretending it’s a conclusive one (yet), but I think there is a middle ground between buying a SaaS and vibe coding a replacement: replacing a SaaS with your own solution, using AI coding agents — while actually knowing what you do because creating robust software in-house is already a core competency. No vibe coding needed.

At my company, we build software every day because our business is running a job board.

We always had kind of an impedance mismatch when it comes to creating content pages (think landing pages for marketing).

Yes, we can do this ourselves, but then software engineering resources are in conflict between shipping the next feature and creating landing pages.

So we introduced Webflow. Now marketing could create their content themselves. Did it match our corporate identity? Hopefully. Was it technically sound? Sometimes. Was it fun for software engineers to fix things in Webflow. No.

It kind of worked, but wasn’t exactly ideal.

Meanwhile, software engineering became more and more productive with the advent of AI coding agents, Cursor in our case.

So we tried another approach: giving our content creators Cursor.

But that was brittle, too: Cursor presents an overwhelming complex UI for someone who never used an IDE before, it could do a thousand things while only three are actually needed in this use case, you have to explain git on top of Cursor. It kind of worked, but only kind of.

So we sat down and built https://dx-tooling.org/sitebuilder/

It’s like a hyper-focused „Cursor light“ in the browser, so our content creators can just „chat away“ and create their content pages, with all the guardrails baked into the product. Getting tracking pixel integration etc. right just works. Matching our style guide perfectly just works.

And as a bonus, there is a whole git based storage and versioning workflow underneath, so software engineering can support and test and deploy the results with their preferred tools and methods, but none of this complexity leaks through to the content creators.

We built this ourselves in days, not months, thanks to Cursor, but it’s not vibe-coded — it’s a rock solid application that we will support and improve long-term without headaches: https://github.com/dx-tooling/sitebuilder-webapp
by Sunscratch | 2026-02-05 07:34:55+00:00
>Here’s the thing: I don’t read code anymore. I used to write code and read code. Now when something isn’t working, I don’t go look at the code. I don’t question the code. I either ask one of my coding agents, or - more often - I ask myself: what happened with my system? What can I improve about the inputs that led to that code being generated?

Good luck debugging any non trivial problem in such codebase
by msejas | 2026-02-05 07:35:02+00:00
Fully agree market psychology has a big influence in prices, TESLA is a great example of this.

My main point is that most people, including the media, whenever there is a big crash in prices, like silver going down double digits, they act like the money evaporated and everyone that invested lost money.

My point is that it's not the case, it dropped because there was a huge volume of people selling, making it cheaper. The people selling converted it all for liquidity, they just 'got' a lot of money in cash to spend, and they needed it or will use it for one reason to another.

Retail investors don't have the time (unless you work in finance) to read all the news and information to be aware of situations that will trigger liquidity crunches like these past few months, while institutional investors will.

My point here is you could have performed all of the value investing in the world and you are still eating losses, standard diversification theory is to put in gold when the markets are unstable, as it appreciates in time of high volatility, we are in times of extreme volatility and gold crashed, it makes no sense unless you have visibility in the institutional investing trends.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-05 07:35:39+00:00
>We were founded by deeply religious Christians who were exactly the opposite of that mindset.

Doesn't matter who founded which thing in the distant past, what matters is who is currently running the system and making the rules. If you check the Epstein files, the self anointed people pulling the strings are not very Christian at all, but contempt to them.
by csomar | 2026-02-05 07:35:44+00:00
My experience matches that of cj. In fact, if you do mention anything outside the walled garden, you'll get weird looks and someone will ask "Why?" like you are going down a dangerous path.

Come to think of it, they are right. Why take all this ownership when it's the company that is going to pay for all of this and you can push these responsibilities to some third-party overseas.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-05 07:36:33+00:00
And for Europeans or those in other countries: every dollar spent on these companies is supporting their support of Trump; that's against Greenland, NATO etc. For example, Microsoft donated $1M (IIRC) to Trump for Davos.

At work we have stopped buying new American services, but there's been very little reduction of existing use.

(Yet we did manage a policy stating we won't buy anything from Russia.)
by verdverm | 2026-02-05 07:36:54+00:00
No body really wants even more files for AI. It's gotten bad enough with all the vendors requiring their name in the file or dir name. It's out of hand and they need to all agree on one

So asking users to put yet another file in their repo of dubious value is going to be a major hurdle

Fwiw, my agentic framework turns OpenAPI into a toolset automatically for me, so you are def making something I already have
by abalone | 2026-02-05 07:37:52+00:00
You are again misquoting the article. She did not say soiling was "significantly less of a problem" in the desert. She in fact said it "requires you to clean them off every day or every other day or so" to prevent cement formation.

You claimed it was already a solved problem thanks to wind, which is false. You are unable to provide any source at all, not even a controversial one.

And that's just generation. Desert solar, energy storage and data center cooling at scale all remain massive engineering challenges that have not yet been generally solved. This is crucial to understand properly when comparing it to the engineering challenges of orbital computing.
by Guidage | 2026-02-05 07:38:17+00:00
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