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I have worked with both Laravel and Rails. I would still pick Ruby on Rails for my projects because I feel the Ruby's ecosystem is more mature than Laravel's.

Don't get me wrong –– Laravel (the framework) has some polished first party packages however, as soon as you step out to third party packages the quality drops significantly.
As I understand it, the phone is just the thing you plonk down on the table that says "I'm megarich". The true functionality is in the service, imagine having a voice assistant that can do anything - we're closer to that than ever before with AI but Vertu users have had it for years using real humans.

I met a guy once who got sent to Dubai for a week and his only job was to visit all the places a wealthy person might want to go to, while carrying a Vertu phone in his bag. They wanted to check signal strength.
Bard who? s/

Flagging because it's not open to use, there's still the geo limitation. i.e. the title doesn't reflect the reality.
Big Tech Is Taking Cues from Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Guess I'm dumb, because I've been subscribed to YouTube premium for quite a while now. I watch it on many devices that don't have any way of installing ad-blockers (like streaming devices to TVs). Not to mention, that an "ad" on YouTube has no time limit. I remember back when I didn't subscribe of seeing an ad for marble countertops that lasted over 45 minutes. Seriously. So if I just put on a bunch of videos to watch that may be like 10 minutes each, in between may be a 45 minute commercial that I have to go and physically hit the skip button. Sometimes I like to fall asleep listening to soothing videos, only to be hit with a fricken 45 minute commercial that's LOUD in between.

Sure, guess I'm dumb. But I don't care. Subscribing gets me what I need.
There are a lot of people not on Reddit or HN or Medium

(Also a lot of people whose terse and incoherent interactions and tendency to simply repost on Facebook and Twitter suggest that writing is a regrettably necessary means rather an end)
Economic mobility != fortune 500 companies being swapped out with one another. Even more so as people increasingly opt out of individual stocks and just end up buying VTSAX or similar.

It almost seems like a metric designed to mislead about economic mobility in fact. Where did you read about it?
> almost invariably floating-point calculations end up in some kind of comparison

I'm pretty sure OP meant comparison for equality, not comparison in general (which would be absurd, indeed).

> even equality comparison of floats is useful

That's exactly what I tried to point out. However, these are really special cases and you need to be careful and know what you are doing.
There is so much stuff happening that to come to the tiny selection you can stack the filters to the roof. The first one would be: What would the people paying our bills like to see? What does our network like? What is our political affiliation? Who and which companies do we like or not like? How much drama or feel good stories does our current audience need?

It's so refined there is pretty much no meat left in the sausage. It is an engineering project and you are the raw materials.
It's not just writing.

The big problem with the chat interface is it pretends to be acting and reasoning like a human - but it's more like a person with a half brain chopped off (cf> McGilchrist The Divided Brain), and even then, it has no embodied awareness.

And so I wonder how it will affect people and their relationships. If you already have eg. anxiety and often times a little bit of frustration in trying to get answers or simply get help from REAL people... imagine how it will change you when you get used to an AI that seems to always be on point.

In other words people who spend lots of time interface with AI via a chat interface ; and who have even minor mental health issues such as depression, OCD, etc ; I suspect will have even less social skills. They will expect REAL people to be on point, be even more disappointed or frustrated, and isolate even more.

Put simply I think spending a lot of time with this kind of AI may turn us into Spocks... now for some this is good news. To each their own...
Here's my comprehensive version (123 LLMs to PaLM 2 @ 10/May/2023), without the 'ranking' part:
https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
What's up with this trend of unnecessary padding being added? At least make it configurable.
What do you put as the distinguishing feature between "core language standard library" and "comes with the language at installation"?

Some example: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Reading-... (no installation of anything third party required)
Good detective work.

...But it could be interpreted a different way, I think.

In that archived post, she writes "last year on August 31st, 2021, I attempted suicide" and "imagine experiencing suicidal ideation all day every day for the rest of your time on Earth. That's me."

Clearly the death-impulse long predates any bullying she might have received on account of that post.

And the post strikes a combative tone, doesn't it? It almost seems as though she were looking to generate controversy, intentionally. (Not that I disagree with her, but it should be obvious how the Reddit hivemind would react.) Sometimes picking a good fight can make you feel _alive._
> btrfs still doesn't have reliable RAID5

Synology offers btrfs + RAID5 without warning the user. I wonder why they’re so confident with it.
I feel like this is the bias of a very smart, highly educated, highly capable person. If you are already an excellent writer and coder, can take vast fields of knowledge and blossoming ideas and spit them out onto paper in skilled form with minimal anxiety, GPT probably does very little for you. Maybe you could see if you were missing something very obvious and average.

I read for probably 8-12 hours a day. I write every day. I think every day. I’ve been doing this for decades. GPT has been like a talking dog. It’s an insane achievement, but he’s not the worlds best conversationalist.

But to be 17 again and struggling all night to write a three page paper filled with unoriginal ideas, it would have been a game changer back then.
I understand many people are familiar with what "open standard" means. There are lots of other people that are somewhat new to the phrase.

Consider these related terms:

- Open Source

- Open Data

- Open Standard

For people who encounter these terms in the listed order, "Open Standard" may or may not be understood by analogy. Some people will assume that it also includes the concepts of Open Source and Open Data. It does not.
There are a few different things:

You can get a part of what you would receive as unemployment benefits as capital to invest when creating/taking over a company: https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F15252

And you can also just continue receiving unemployment benefits while creating a company, as long as revenues are below a certain threshold: https://www.legalstart.fr/fiches-pratiques/autoentrepreneur/...
It's a shit deal. Microsoft's compensation is already well below competitors unless you're at the partner level or higher. They absolutely haemorrhage talent at lower levels, but hang on to low performances who just can't get a job elsewhere.

Last year's increases were explicitly intended to bring Microsoft's pay closer to industry standards. By now saying, "Whoops, we accidentally gave you too much," it's clear that Microsoft has no interest in paying at industry-standard levels.

And to be clear: Microsoft is already laying people off. This isn't an either-or. In fact, their layoffs are probably the worst-handled in the industry, as they've been smeared across months, meaning Microsoft engineers have spent months in a state of anxiety, worried they might be included in the next batch, as each batch is only a few weeks apart. The best reason to work at Microsoft was the stability, but now they pay less and offer less stability than many competitors -- at least at Google or Amazon, you knew immediately if you were in the group being laid off.

(Sources for all of this: Former Microsoft SRE. I have friends and former colleagues at Microsoft who span from junior engineers to upper-level principal, i.e. 67. Personally, I nearly doubled my income two years after leaving Microsoft for another tech company.)
There were the same warnings about the printing press, both books and newspapers; "kids don't play anymore, they read books all day", or "people don't share news anymore, they all read their own newspapers".

I'm not going to deny it's a change, but it's too early to decide if it's a bad change. Every generation has its own big shift in the past 100-200 years, and every generation complains about the change.
That's fun and I like the idea, until the ICANN decides you need to verify your domain or it'll be terminated within two weeks. Who knows what email sending service or domain they'll decide to use. (OVH, for instance, sent me this not only from a different domain, but from a different country TLD altogether than previous emails from them.)

Do you also have a dedicated phone number for your registrar to call? And home address? The whole thing is a bit iffy, I'd much rather that my personal information remains with the party that can relay any relevant queries.

Another problem with using an inbox @ your domain is that, when there's a problem with your domain... good luck receiving that email. I have two accounts with the registrar for different domains and they point to each other. Not great, perhaps I should open a hotmail for this that relays copies of any emails so I still get the notifications during normal times, but it's something.
Ask HN: What do you want to ask a Nobel price laureate?
I have a chance to talk to one and I look for inspirations on what to ask
Maybe the fear-mongerers have won instead?

There are lots of public places/events that don't require any searches/background checks and where a bomb would yield a significant number of casualties and terror to blowing up a regional jet, yet we don't seem to be having explosions every other day.

Maybe the terrorist threat is overblown and is merely kept around as a convenient excuse for more surveillance/repression?
Same. Working in almost hours of the day can burn us out, especially with the intellectual jobs in IT industry.

Mental health should be more concerned and the "work-life balance" term needs to be brought to the discussion. Also, do not let the "overthinking" in.

By the way, I'm doing my 9-to-5 job for several years as a software engineer and still learning new stuff everyday. It's not the best but I'm enjoying my life. Just relax. =))
I use one (fold 4) its actually a game changer, and i could see me not going back.

I think google has correctly called the direction of travel here
I mean, sure, I guess that's neat, but Kofax OmniPage Ultimate has been a thing for years at this point and does the whole OCR from a crappy scan thing, including reformatting it into whatever format you want. Can even take data from forms and digitize it into editable text or stick it into a database. Goes back to the '80s. Sure, different methodology, but it's not something we haven't already been doing for yonks. Users have even been able to train OmniPage Ultimate to recognize someone's bizarre and unique handwriting styles in seconds.

OmniPage Ultimate is an entire workflow that's turn-key and ready-to-go.
You can throw it into lambda or vercel for that matter too. Yes you can use sketchy hosts but still can use legit ones too to host for free or very little money.
For certain parts, https://github.com/yaqwsx/jlcparts can be useful to find what you need quicker.
As the article demonstrates, there's nothing preventing socialists from voluntarily choosing to live in socialist communities, inside of the context of a market oriented economy. The conclusion is that most people simply prefer not to.
I mean economic mobility like making it easy for people to switch jobs, move city, work for startups, etc.

So separating healthcare coverage from your employment is one important step, as is providing modern, in-depth STEM + Medicine education so people are able to work in highly skilled jobs where we really need them.

That's a big part of driving disruption and progress.
Firefox for Android + Ublock? Throw in Background Video fixer too.
Depends on how socialist you want your socialism to be.

Most countries aren’t purely socialist in the same way the US isn’t purely capitalist.

Who would want to live in a purely socialist society? Probably very few people.

Who would want to live in a social democratic society? Most of the developed world.
The compilation step, and the resulting binary, is also very useful if you need to distribute your software. As opposed to creating a ZIP file.

There are tools for creating stand-alone executables from PHP source code, but they're not as nice to use, compared to languages that were designed for this. By distributing software I also mean making your latest code live in prod.

I suppose the benefit of using PHP (or other interpreted languages) is that it's easier to create "plugins", just copy the new source files to the server.
The "tiny hands" joke isn´t funny because Donald Trump has tiny hands, no one cares about that or if it is true.

The part that makes the joke funny, is its origins. In the 80s journalist was writing a story about Donald and mentioned his small hands in it. But Donald Trump is so insecure that even 10 years later he kept sending cut off pictures of himself from magazines to the author, with his hands circled with a marker, to prove that his hands werent small. The fact that the marker was gold coloured was a cherry on top.

The sheer stupidity of this entire thing is what makes the (though overplayed) joke funny.

Some random source with not that many details. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-h...
There's writing and writing though. Short throwaway comments and bickering on social media aren't really the same as writing long-form prose.
> The company's leadership knows that now, with labor supply up, they don't need to pay people the compensation they're currently paying.

This isn't accurate and hasn't been for some time. Microsoft's engineers are lower-quality than their peers, because Microsoft has been offering lower compensation than their peers -- by a substantial amount -- for over a decade now.

Maybe lower-level engineers don't really matter. I don't know. But unless you're at the partner level, you're getting paid a lot less at Microsoft than you would be elsewhere, and in light in recent events, you're not even benefiting from the stability you'd get elsewhere. I suspect this will have long-term impacts on Microsoft as they continue to lose talented engineers at the lower levels, but no longer have talented old-timers around at the higher levels. Once people at the 67+ level start retiring en masse, I'm not sure Microsoft actually has the talent to replace them.
They are running brtrfs on top of DM. https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID...
But what is a "socialist community" in that respect?

The only thing I can think of that's achievable is worker co-ops, and a lot of start-ups are like that for early employees and founders.
Yes, I know, I was comparing warranty on consumer SSDs and consumer HDDs.
If you rely on ad revenue and people do not enjoy using your product more than enduring your ads, maybe your business model is wrong to begin with?
Synology doesn't use the btrfs raid - AIUI they layer non-raid btrfs over raid LVM
Fun fact about the biological machine is that we could maybe make it "replace written information with a pointer". In planarian worms we can use a voltage-sensitive dye to see a "memory" the cells will fallback to in case of injury and they regenerate based on that "memory", however we can alter that "memory" to say "build a worm with 2 heads" instead of the regular worm with head and tail [1].

[1] "Michael Levin - Plasticity without genetic change: bioelectric embryos & synthetic proto-organisms", https://youtu.be/5ChRM4CEWyg?t=1169
Weird. Here in Sweden we get, generally, a higher wage increase than normally. IT included, as far as I know. Honestly I think people would try jumping ship qiuckly if they did not get a yearly increase. On other hand, maybe thats the intended result.

I guess the difference is that the compensation levels in IT here are not, and were never, close to the stratospheric levels as in the US.
The fact that you can build a whole app inside just one index.php file is highly underrated and I understand how newbies finding this out are getting excited.

I remember when Rails first launched and I wanted to try it but it was so complicated to get started.
Weird. Here in Sweden we get, generally, a higher wage increase than normally. IT included, as far as I know. Honestly I think people would try jumping ship qiuckly if they did not get a yearly increase. On other hand, maybe thats the intended result.
I guess the difference is that the compensation levels in IT here are not, and were never, close to the stratospheric levels as in the US.
They’re probably just stalling for time, and they can blame the patent office
they are tools, you have to learn how to use them.

I use chatgpt everyday and am getting better and better at asking questions to get the answers I want.

I used copilot when it was free, and it was best at boilerplate, and sometimes not bad at auto completing the next few lines, I didn't think it was worth paying for at the time. I use Codeium now, that works in a similar way, probably not quite as good as copilot in that it doesn't understand as many languages, but still does a reasonable job with boilerplate type code.
> * zfs — zfs is technically great, but binary distribution of the zfs code is tricky, because the CDDL is GPL incompatible

Building your own ZFS module is easy enough, for example on Arch with zfs-dkms.

But there's also the issue of compatibility. Sometimes kernel updates will break ZFS. Even minor ones, 6.2.13 IIRC broke it, whereas 6.2.12 was fine.

Right now, 6.3 seems to introduce major compatibility problems.

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edit: looking through the openzfs issues, I was likely thinking of 6.2.8 breaking it, where 6.2.7 was fine. Point stands, though. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14658

Regarding 6.3 support, it apparently is merged in the master branch, but no release as of yet. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14622
On mobile YouTube right now I see two unskippable ads before every video. How long before some genius needs to juice his numbers this quarter and come up with the bright idea of three unskippable ads? Google made over $250 billion in 2021, $30 billion of that is thought to come from YouTube, can someone explain to me what is wrong with this status quo? If blocking a subset of users is such a good idea, why isn't Google rolling it out to everyone today?

To the bean counters who seem to have overwhelmed Google, losing a few users might seem like a dog losing some fleas. They are out of ideas for growth. Once blitz scaling has reached the limits of user acquisition the only play left to juice the numbers seems to be “boil the frog”, going to war with their Oort cloud of free users, pay up or else. Are the c-suite types at Google aware that this is exactly the mindset that will make their decline into irrelevance inevitable?

Elon Musk inadvertently turned Twitter into a howling wasteland in a few short months, which shows what happens when you boil the user frog too quickly. Imagine how Twitter would look today if Elon instead doubled down on making Twitter the best user experience, offering users tools to make Twitter more relevant, making it an unmissable service for users, and in turn unmissable for advertisers? But instead he pulled the lever all the way from utopia to hellscape, attempting to shake down users to restore some functionality to a clearly degraded product. Enshitifying (thanks Cory Doctorow) the user experience is not a compelling reason to subscribe.

Here's a radical idea: customer acquisition and retention by offering the most compelling product.

I'm not against advertising per se, I’m against being shaken down to regain a user experience that should be the default. Here are two examples of successful advertising models:

1. Lex Friedman does an ad read at the beginning of his podcast. It’s intentionally skippable, I skip it 90% of the time. But when I'm busy with bread dough on my hands or whatever, I'm still hearing the ads, which are mostly repeat offerings anyway. Advertising is not always appropriate, eg at a kids birthday party or showing a video in a lecture. The lesson: MAKE IT SKIPPABLE!

2. Inserts into shows / product placement, like on VFX Artists React. These seem harder for a behemoth to monetise but I like these because I know that the actual creators are getting paid. Youtube doesn't want to deal with creators with anything closer than a dashboard. This is not the end users fault, it’s not the content creators fault, it’s a symptom of absentee capitalism. Youtube should invest in creators and form true partnerships. The lesson: INVEST IN DEALING FAIRLY WITH HUMANS!

I’m not going to pay, I will continue to avoid ads but watch them occasionally. I’m going to keep playing the game of whack-a-mole finding software / hardware solutions. And when a competitor comes along with their slider set more towards user friendliness I’m going to jump ship.
Beware of simple answers. Don't thoughtlessly follow your desires. Don't ignore others, but learn from them.
That hasn't been my experience at all. Although, I do spend more time interacting with the Laravel community (a subset of the PHP community) than the PHP community itself.

I found the (Laravel) community to be more about object-level discussions ("how to do x feature the best way possible") rather than meta-level discussions.
I'd love to move, but getting a green card is a nightmare.

I don't want to work for 5 years trapped with one employer and facing deportation with a matter of weeks if I lose my job, on an L-1 visa (and to do that I'd still have to find a position to move to in my company).
https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/1208618
But that’s kinda their point… you spend time configuring the framework instead of reimplementing from scratch and doing the plumbing yourself.
This is also the point which is the most likely to cause problems for this patch series (which is only fixes and utils added to the kernel) and the bcachefs in general.

Like when you have an entry like "bring back function which could make developing viruses easier (through not a vulnerability by themself) related to memory management and code execution" the default answer is nop .. nooop .. never. (Which doesn't mean that it won't come back).

It seems while it's not necessary to have this it's a non-neglible performance difference.
I'll be eagerly waiting for the upcoming optimization writeup mentioned here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZFyAr%2F9L3neIWpF8@moria.home.l...
I pay for the premium. I have a 2nd gen Chromecast. For some time there is a modified interface and it is akin to Youtube TV. So you see thumbnails for the proposed videos there. They also advertised having a remote control for the interface from the Youtube app on the phone. They display often a huge banner to sign in for the best experience. But when you try it gives an unhelpful message: "Can't sign in. You can still watch YouTube as ... bla bla". It is intentional: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1537338169108140033

If you select a video from this interface you will be served with ads. Sometimes with an additional banner to sign in and enjoy Premium.

I would gladly ignore this interface, but my daughter likes to select things out of it. I would just prefer to have it like it was before (just a static image until you play something) instead of this thing screaming at me.

That sometimes makes me want to cancel the Premium.