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> Then Amazon comes in and sets up their own even easier hosting while providing none of the profits or development effort back to the original project

There's nothing particularly "modern" about this "problem". Redhat caused this problem with GPL and BSD-licensed code in 1993.

It's a feature, not a bug. Some people probably didn't like it then either.

If you resent companies and people making money from your work, you're not really embracing the ideals of open source. So just keep it closed source. Like I said earlier you can always reveal the source to licensees when they pay you, and you can prevent them from distributing the source.
Certificate transparency demands the same from all authorities. This is not limited to LetsEncrypt.
I think blame is a too strong word, but there's some merit in this.

PMs should be aware of what they bring in when they allow some dev to (re)write the next project to in [this weeks' framework or tech]. PMs can push towards boring, proven and simple tech. Sure, much less fun for devs, might even push away the "magpie-devs" (the ones always chasing the next shiny thing), but in many projects this is probably the best for the business. Not always, but PMs more than devs, should know that any tech has trade-offs and downsides, what they are and how they will affect the business over years and decades.
Where do you think the savings come from?

If you aren't willing to accept some kind of reduction from hotel accommodations, you aren't willing to save money.
But that is exactly how copyright law works. If you copy the first 10000 bytes of a steven king book and compress it with zip and distribute it, there is a good chance you would lose the lawsuit if sued.

If on the other hand you copy the first, middle, and last byte of a Steven King book and share those three bytes with someone you would win a copyright lawsuit, because those three bytes are not unique enough to be copyrighted.
If you are confused by how a casino would be so dumb: The headline story is a rehash of a 20yr old story linked from the article:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17523525-500-coming-u...
"it has already caught the regulator’s attention so even the law could be rewritten around these models"

The law moves slow. Even were that to happen eventually, the laws will very likely be challenged in courts, and those will take a while to be resolved.

Finally, even if the US outlaws this, there'll be plenty of other countries where it'll be legal. There's plenty of infringement of US copyright in China, for instance. The same is likely to happen in regards to AI that's illegal in the US but legal elsewhere.

By the time the law catches up, model creation may become so easy to create by individuals instead of just by deep-pocketed corporations, it may be practically impossible to stop.
He doesn’t care about making a point to the world at large. He’s subtweeting some group of people and is hoping they read his long thread.
Yep: the article seems to say "there is no collapse" (in the title) but then it turns out to say "collapse as explained by these models may not be". Two very different things. I was caught as you by the title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield
Also, Asa Spades Turner's father Richard, the blind card mechanic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Turner_(magician)
I agree, if you are that virulent about what is wrong, maybe you want to give a clue as to what you think is right. Or do you just think everything is wrong?
> It’s not perfect. I think we’ll find a better approach eventually, which is why I’m fine with the churn. The churn is part of the search for something better.

People have been building UIs for quite a while now; from before a large percentage of people reading this were born. It's not exactly a new thing. I have generally found building UIs a bit painful in any language, so sure, let's go find a better solution, I'm all for that.

But ... 2 weeks ago I took over a half-finished Go project that's been left to "bitrot" for almost 3 years after the previous developer took a different job. Updating the Go dependencies was pretty easy; updating from 1.4.3 to 1.8.9 and such; maybe 1 or 2 with major version bumps, which were minor incompatibilities. Even the usage of the now-deprecated github.com/golang/protobuf wasn't a big deal, and updating to use the new conventions was boring and unexciting, but fairly painless.

The frontend part ... yikes... Things need to be updated from 3.0.2 to 6.8.4 and nothing works if I update it. There are what seem like to be 500 releases in the meanwhile and a lot of changes to go through. It seems in those 3 years the entire world changed. I spent a day on this, and eventually resigned to just accepting the 100+ security vulnerabilities that npm install throws at me. Most, if not all, probably aren't a huge deal in a browser context, but still...

Certainly from my perspective, there seem to be some problems here. I just want to solve real-world problems and write code, not babysit my 1000+ dependencies for what is actually not a very complex project at all. Of course, you don't deal with any of this for new projects, but a 3 year jump really isn't that long of a period. Some churn is expected, but "yeah, maybe just throw a lot of it away and start from scratch"-kind of churn? Meh.
No sane code in the world should do a DNS lookup on every packet sent. That is absurd.
For a crash course would the code examples have been better in something like Python rather than Rust?
No, the mistake is in the natural interpretation of the title. The title seems to imply "collapse is not a thing", whereas the article is about "these explanations of collapse do not hold".
Hotels are great.

They create jobs, they don't distort property markets in the same way as AirBnB, and you get breakfast!
That's a fair comparison, although I don't know if the numbers work out to a 1976 Ford Coupe or more like a 2005 Honda Civic. But the other thing is, fingerprint analysis is also usually expressed as more like "a 70% chance of being a 2005 Honda Civic with worn tires and a broken side window", the match is always partial (another thing that science doesn't support, those %'s given).

But would a jury think someone having a 2005 Honda Civic with worn tires and a broken side window is alone reason to convict someone? Probably not? Would they think "A 75% match with [fingerprint equivalent]" is alone enough reason to convict someone? Usually. Because they are very misinformed about what fingerprint "science" can and does do.
Why would that force collapse? I would almost expect that the lack of communication over those distances forces _more_ uncertainty (i.e. a wider probability distribution) rather than less uncertainty.
Yeah, some of my family members were sounding the alarm late December already...
Perhaps your love of JS/TS/whatever is based more on the path you took and your starting point than the tech you use.

Having been through half a dozen programming languages and most phases of the evolution of web development, I have a very different perspective. The complexity and fragility of modern JS-centric web development would have been unimaginable to us 15 years ago.

What started (as far as most people experienced) as Jquery, where you could sprinkle a little JS and make some big UX improvements ballooned into this monster where you need thousands of libraries, package management, bundling/minifying/babeling/etc., and fallback plans (you do have graceful degredation built into your JS frontend, yes?).

As the phrase goes, we can't see the forest for the trees. If we did carefully review the path we took from then to now, the promises or beliefs we bought which led us down certain trails, and then considered the outcome... I expect we wouldn't be even close to this situation we find ourselves in now.
Poor quality floaters, the mechanism gets stuck. Quick fix. But a common problem? Nah.
This stuff is incredibly common in short term rental market. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel on landlord scruples.

There was a recent fire in a summer vacation town popular with NYers.
The town requires summer short term rental landlords to get a permit & inspection.
The landlord did not get one.
The landlord also had sketchy kitchen wiring that was probably some sort of DIY and not up to code.
The landlord had removed batteries and hardwiring from 3 smoke detectors.
These are the kind of things the inspector would have found immediately.

A family visiting from out of state lost 2 of their 3 children in this fire.

Apps like AirBnB create the facade of officialness on what are instead very sketchy markets. Family probably thought they were doing the right thing going through an app and the landlord must be verified and more "legit". Being from out of state they wouldn't know the intricacies of local town permit&inspection requirements and how to check if the landlord has one, etc.

Likewise in my condo in NYC, we had one particular owner who was trying to use their unit as an Airbnb. Regardless of the local laws which were tightening up at the time, our condo expressly forbid short term rentals, and had language around minimum length of stay and lease approval requirements. It only stopped when we started fining them $1000 per incident.

Stuff like this matters because you buy a condo to live in it and don't expect the unit on the other side of your bedroom wall to essentially be a hotel room with new neighbors every 3 days, staying up all hours (vacation, yay), dragging suitcases in&out at odd hours multiple times per week.. forever.

The building itself takes on a lot more wear & tear, and they put a burden on staff as they think the building porter&doorman are there for them like a hotel concierge and front desk.
It changed when it turned into a big VC thing. All of the “Uber for X” models are fundamentally evil at scale. The founders vision is irrelevant to the investors need for return.

The business model is to grow until the market is saturated, and then become one of the 3-4 entities that dominate their niche. VRBO chalked out the “vacation home” scope, hotels do their thing, so AirBnb dabbles in everything, but owns the “shared” accommodation part of the market. While they advertise a treehouse in the rainforest or whatever, the socially problematic conversions of apartments to flop houses in locations without hotels ultimately drives the business.
No, none of the other explanations predicts anything like this. The theories that fell here predicted physical effects that went beyond standard quantum mechanics. The others are playing it safe and staying unfalsifiable.
> It's the whole "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING OF AWESOMENESS SINCE THE INVENTION OF AWESOMENESS!!!!" that kills me

I joined a project using node, npm and angular. Everybody said things like that; "this is so awesome", "JS is great", "never had so much fun".

I tried installing it and needed help at every step, "Oh right! We need to do this in our env because X and Y", "Oh, you missed a step, trust me, it's easier to nuke everything and start again now." I ended up with a 30+ step guide that nobody had documented before. We had a little less than 100 security vulnerabilities.

Almost every standup was an exercise in figuring out some strange problem with node or angular, sometimes several.

This team was definitely doing things poorly, but the unrelenting toxic positivity mixed with the "Rails and Django and Symfony all suck so bad" was hard to take, especially as we struggled to ship a really basic MVP.
A Dinner with Elon Musk and the Power of Power Laws
Oban Starts Where Elixir’s Tasks End
Yep. Had an Airbnb setup this week in Atlanta, looked good, responsive host.

We arrived, looked clean and decorated well enough, but had 4 glade plugins for a 500sqft place… seemed excessive like their might be a bad smell hidden.

Sat down on a chaise which collapsed because of a leg attached by gum. Found a cockroach under said chaise. Reported it and the owner said it was treated the other day, so it should be fine.

Sat down on the couch, which also collapsed, one leg was missing and was held up by a coffee mug. The bed frame had cinder blocks and children’s notebooks supporting it, (stubbed my toe on the cinder block). Bathroom fixtures were loose, sink basins were not properly seated to their countertops, inviting mold.

In the morning I found 3 more cockroaches roaming around the otherwise clean looking kitchen.

I named one of them Gregor.
Airbnb gave us a refund for the nights unspent and we’ve spent the rest of the time at a brand name hotel. More expensive, but more options for recourse if things go south.

If not for the cockroaches it would have been bearable, but the combination of issues left too many doubts as to the safety of the place. My wife and I could not find rest there.

Airbnbs can be nice and give you a real sense of being a resident of a place, but the quality control truly is a gamble. These days, I increasingly prefer the consistency of a hotel bed.

I will say this, the thermostat was better at the Airbnb than the hotel. No auto feature in the hotel.
> They consent to gradually raising the stakes in this poker game, and eventually calling each other's bluff.

This is absurd. NATO is a defensive pact voluntarily entered into. Russia's neighbors want in not because of Western provocations but because of Putin.

> If - following your metaphor — you live next door to a neighbor who has hired a bodyguard, and in the moment of intrusion...

Framed this way I would be the intruder, the one deciding to escalate an already dangerous situation. And therefore I would be the foolish one, putting everyone's lives at risk for my own selfish goals.

> would you particularly care in those last terrifying moments whether it was the intruder's fault, ...

It's kind of irrelevant once the moment is reached. The world isn't there yet. And it's Putin with his foot on the gas accelerating toward destruction.

> It doesn't give him the right to do so, but it sure gives him the means.

Then every nation around Russia must have nukes or an alliance with a nuclear power. Putin is the one pushing them into doing so, and he's proven that any treaty with Russia is worthless. So there's no point trying to ally with them.
and what is "current history" ?
> My long answer is that the job is - despite the money - quite "blue collar". I guess an effect of it becoming mainstream among other things. A vast majority of programmers' jobs are connecting various types of tubes together and endlesly discussing minor variations of the same basic themes. You will find yourself (re-)implementing CRUD interfaces, auth flows, database models.

The "blue collar" description does not fit well though, as most other high-skill, white-collar jobs (lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers) are similarly repetetive and mundane. Typically, the company hires experts to do the same thing over and over again. You can escape that by going into research position (but even they can get quite mundane and boring, in current publish-or-perish culture) or by changing career fields every couple of years (not really realistic for most people).
An alternative approach would be to call "await util.promisify(socket.connect)(8125, host)" so that subsequent calls to send don't need to name the destination (and the underlying runtime could call send instead of sendto). Perhaps the author needs the messages to be sent to a new host quickly when DNS records change, but the trade-off might be different depending on the use case, and perhaps some applications might prefer to periodically re-connect the socket to re-resolve DNS.
If you visit LinkedIn and then press Back to escape, it redirects you to a feed page to try to trap you.

Don't use LinkedIn. People who use LinkedIn are negatively signaled in hiring.
Apple is an anti-consumer company. They make choices designed to force users to stay within the ecosystem.
Gradually? They did it a decade ago.
I love Nicky Case's work. I particularly like their explanation of how voting could be better and a little bit of theory on it

https://ncase.me/ballot/
No interpretation of quantum physics proposed by scientists ever required a conscious observer, that's more of a misinterpretation of what an observer is. It's an interaction, not a person or animal.

As for the theory of consciousness, of course we are not special, it's information-processing, and it looks like thermodynamics is responsible for the emergence of information-processing structures.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3271
One of the biggest problems is that every 150km or so you have to convert light into electrons and back into light. Latency over long distances isn't limited by the speed of light, but rather this inefficient decision making via election.

The actual story of the article really is just: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuit

The ability to just keep everything as light and be able to process the 'headers' and make routing decisions is really the magic we need.

Alas, this is bleeding edge stuff by scientists and we're far from commercialization.
Isn't that the vast majority of the European hosters?
As such, getting the best RV traveling experience might be a challenge for some first-timers. But don’t worry...
Not true. GPLv3 provides one exception, and that is that in conjunction the the provision in AGPLv3, you may combine code licensed under each, and the combination is subject to the terms of AGPLv3.

(Whether this has any significance to context that the other commenter's question was in response to is a different matter.)
If you cannot trust your client (who pays you) to give you your real name, show a real profile picture, show a recent, accurate picture of the place (every room), or promise a discount based on irregularities then the customer gets screwed. They pay for a place, they depend on you once they arrived.
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
> It's not just the gung ho "everything is awesome". There's also pushback against critique.

And the required "buy in", not only can't you critique, you must ALSO actively assert everything is great or you're not "part of the team".

Any team without a few, "I disagree but support the group" engineers on it, is probably in a bad way.
Where can we get Stable Diffusion downloaded?
There is a point. I understand your friends point though. In the USA, not giving them permission allows your lawyer to fight the case on the ground that it was an illegal detention. Case law has set precedent that without reasonable suspicion officers cannot extend your detention in a traffic stop just to bring a dog in(Rodriguez v united states 2015). Never ever give permission to search.
What about the tried and trusted "have some backend generate HTML and push that to the client"?

It still works for me, has many benefits, and many downsides. But so do the "react-alike" frontend frameworks. There's no silver bullet.

It cracks me up (and makes me sad) to see all the effort going into "hydrating, SSR and whatnots" in JS frameworks, where we move our ball of react-js-spagetti onto some deno-based-edge-function-container thing, in order to serve clients plain HTML... I mean, this problem was solved in 1998 already!
I think these domestic fans are heavily subsidized and will go forward anyhow. It takes years to bring an advanced fab online so the state of the market in the next 2-3 years is immaterial.
Thanks for posting these.

Forced arbitration is an evil practice that must end. This is an example of why. There are behaviors companies allow and even encourage that affect their population of customers as a whole (e.g., with increased risk to personal safety), and not just specific victims.
The RF side of WiFi is hell. The modem side is work, yes, but getting the air interface to work, and then dealing with all the interference management side is a nightmare.

I am not certain, but I think part of the 'blob' thing on WiFi internal implementations is to prevent someone breaking certification, particularly for the interference mitigation for things like DFS.
It's kind of a joke, which is what I meant by -of-the-gaps. If two particles are outside of each others event horizons, they can't communicate so you can't tell whether they are entangled (AA or BB) or whether the system has collapsed into say AA.
You mention gmail which is a "mail" service, and whatsapp, which is a "messaging" service.

In all of (Western) history, those services have been considered one of the most private, like it or not. So changing that status (in the West) should require very public and very clear discussion, not just hand-waving about "child molesters".

Facebook: that is something totally different.

The fact that mail is handled by a private entity does not make it less mail than the official post. At all, and this has been understood (in the West) since, probably, the Roman times.
> what do you mean by "irrevocable"?

Very good point, who knows! I guess whatever the universe can't pretend didn't happen, like a photon being absorbed and re-emited by an electron.

Which, what does that even mean? I don't know! Does anyone? I don't know!
It's not really about the time it takes for me, it's the division of work into tiny boring pieces, such that they often feel like they're taking as long to discuss & 'estimate complexity' (don't get me started - we don't have 'capacity' for a certain 'amount of complexity' within a.. two week period, so stop pretending it's not a time estimate - anyway..) as they would to do.

I'm reminded slightly of an article submitted here recently - https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03... (though they're not really discussing motivation as such) - it's the detachment of engineering from product, I suppose. Little 'ownership' of or time to spend on thinking about the product experience, just 'do this', 'add that'. If I compare to people I know in other professions - accounting, doctors, tax - they all work more directly with a client or case, manage their own work. Of course they have managers too, but that relationship is more like 'I need some help with this problem that has arisen, let me now brief you on what I've been doing because otherwise you have no context' or longer-term performance etc. - not 'what tiny thing(s) did you do yesterday and which tiny thing(s) will you do today' every bloody morning.
Nope, that’s the author’s favourite language. A regular reader would expect rust to be used like in previous articles
Reprimand means an 'official rebuke'. Police are not reprimanded except for the most egregious cases. People complain, but they aren't held accountable.
I’ve never seen an AirBnB listing say you have to cook, because it’s assumed.
they should be free. You can find paying toilets in some train stations, but in those, there are people taking care of them
Concerta, but it took a bit of tuning to dial in a dose that both lasted the whole day and wasn’t uncomfortably strong.
My whole thing is that I'm teaching Rust /while/ solving interesting, real-world problems (instead of looking at artificial code samples), so, if someone wants to write the equivalent article with Python, they should! I won't.
Cool to see this on the front page. I stumbled across this a few months ago when looking to make something similar (I have done relatively little embedded programming and was interested in a hobby experiment). I would really like to understand how to design circuits and send them off to be manufactured (especially for something like a soil moisture sensor, which presumably needs the circuit bit to be water proofed).
Curious what “other closed systems” means. I’ve used OpenHAB but is home assistant not open source? I haven’t used it yet.
FYI your www link has a cert mismatch. Removing that fixes it.
In order for their actions to be justifiable, you have to be able to derive a chain of cause and effect from their action to the saving of the planet from climate change.

I’m not sure that gluing yourself to a road for a few hours establishes the start of that chain in any kind of convincing way, and therefore think that they’d probably be better off doing something else.