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For building CRUD web apps Django and Rails are truly in a league of their own[^1].

Many frameworks try to be good at this but finish development at a level of abstraction below these frameworks, leaving the last level to a plugin ecosystem that requires so much more work to wrangle into a fully working web app (see: Flask and its modern successors in Python).

Other systems come at this from the opposite end, trying to be low-code or less-code, like headless CMSs or static site generators. The problem at that end always seems to be a lack of flexibility and over-reliance on proprietary systems or SaaS products.

Django is just Python. Rails is just Ruby. There's nothing special to them and extending when necessary is often trivial, particularly because they have such mature extension points.

There's a lot of criticism that can be levelled at these ecosystems for not keeping up with whatever the hype of the year is, or failing to "scale" in various ways, but damn do they get you a very long way with very little work.

[^1]: Phoenix may be just about in this category, I don't have personal experience with it though, just going on the fact it seems to be very Rails inspired.
There is evidence of logic gate analogues in biological neural networks, so this might be an analogy or even a straight statement of a fact!
Still the only US President to resign, and it has come out since, that he was to be indicted if he didn't resign.
Database corruption, unexpected bugs, inability to account for new desired behaviors… have you worked on software before?
So, maybe google should tell them that and turn away their business?
Yeah it was unforgettable. Also the Williams FW08B, but that was banned before racing.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/six-wheeled-formula-one-w...
For `$CLIENT` everything is redundant so there are two instances (on two VMs) running the app. During most deployments, one goes offline to update; when it's done it comes back online and the other goes offline.

For deployments that include a database migration, both go offline to maintain data integrity, but one stays online until the actual deployment is ready to run, to reduce the window where both are offline.

Due to the majority of deployments being the former type (ie zero downtime), and those that have deployments being optimised to reduce the downtime, we don't bother with "scheduled" maintenance like you're talking about.

If it's something especially complex, `$CLIENT` has sometimes announced the outage to customers ahead of time on social media, but this isn't very common.
I wonder if the old versions of the editor will still run without the DRM additions in November.
> And then the order table will need to set user ids as a foreign key and you will have two sources of truth lol

Why should your order manager service be tightly-coupled to your IAM service when the only responsibility it has is to store a single ID?
Aztec C was out of date by about 1990. SAS/C and DICE C were much better, GNU C was available (if not really Amiga-oriented) and then VBCC came along.

If you still want Aztec C, it's available here: http://www.clipshop.ca/Aztec/compilers.htm#amiga
Pretty sure the post-modern thinkers still care about authorship credit though, which is what we're discussing.
For comparison, same query in Kagi Search:

https://kagi.com/search?q=python+endswith&r=us&sh=XzO6gCg6CO...

Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=python+endswith

Bing:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=python+endswith

In general, in search you get what you pay for.
What is what this article is about, the author enjoyed having a VOIP-based house phone. Everyone just assumed it was about POTS because they don't read past the headlines.
I don't think the cannon ball example quite works because 18th century fluid dynamics wasn't up to the job. (People weren't firing cannon balls in a vacuum.)

Apart from that, I take your point, but I don't find Asimov's attempt to argue that Einstein's theory is just a minor correction to Newton's very convincing. If this were really the case it would make it a bit of a mystery why Einstein was a big deal. The two theories make very similar predictions in a wide range of circumstances, but they're very different conceptually. Asimov is similarly breezy about quantum mechanics, but physicists at the time didn't seem to see quantum mechanics as just a very minor adjustment to classical physics.
Don't you remember what machines were like back then? The PDP-10 was about a 400 MIPS timesharing computer with an 18-bit address space.

People like Rumelhart kept at it, and eventually the hardware caught up with the requirements.
It is objectively inconsistent, the postulates contradict each other. But for almost a century we did not make any substantial progress, neither resolving the issue theoretically or philosophically, nor experimentally demonstrating any problems. Or at least nothing reached broad consensus.
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Well, one reason is that you can store CO2 in a tank for a long time, in lots of conditions, easily and with basically no cost. So, if either A) no stores convenient to you sell it or you need it at more flexible times etc, or for some other reason you want to it on demand at a price premium, it could be worthwhile.

But, based on the write-up here, it sounds like he was doing this out of curiosity, at which point yes buying the CO2 would sort of defeat the point.

Of course, one could also ask the same questions about buying the baking soda and acid. There is no clear delineation at which point before which it's "made from scratch" vs. "store bought".

Sounds like the answer in this case was: the person in question thought that starting from purchased baking soda and acid was an interesting problem to solve, and starting from bottled CO2 was a boring problem to solve and starting from some precursor to baking soda and acid was too much of a pain to solve.
I don't think it's really that interesting that LLMs can lie. People have been lying with the written word since the written word existed. Hoaxes and scams are not new.

I think what is new is that there are certain signals in text and creative work in general that would ordinarily demonstrate that some care and effort and resources have been used in the process of creating it, which makes it seem more likely that it's legitimate, and that now those signals are no longer valid. I think that people will rather quickly adjust from default credibility to default skepticism for text online, and will rely more on "provenance" for determining what to trust.
rating: 2 stars

I substituted brown sugar for primordial quarks, and I used an air fryer instead of a big bang. apple pie came out mushy and bland.
> use /Outlook/ to host your custom domain and use their offerings with your custom domain

Well, unless you’re willing to pay for a business Office 365 license, it won’t happen on Outlook anymore. Outlook only supported Godaddy, of all registrars, anyway, but now next in November they will remove custom domain support altogether.

I’ve now migrated to iCloud, which supports any registrar (certainly not what I expected from Apple), and supports some registrars like Cloudflare automatically.
It's definitely not the case, as the word list and algorithm are not secret (notwithstanding that they're proprietary) and have been re-implemented and ported into at least a couple of languages that allow for offline use. I have a Rust implementation that started life as a transliteration from Javascript. I wouldn't recommend using it, still -- I wrote it in the hope of finding more problems with collisions, not because I like it.
> Why is this news

You are in a way right: not strictly "«news»", but information (a piece of information) for awareness in a phase in which the general population (and even a greater set) does not have yet a full picture of relatively new technologies.

> ten years old

The term 'radioactivity' was coined by Marie Curie in 1898; use of uranium in dentistry was banned in the USA in 1984. Ten years are not much.
To this point, if you're releasing minor-version changelogs, expect them to be posted on sites like HN, and make sure you link at the top of the post to the announcement of the latest major release, for those who might have missed it! It's an easy marketing win!
> Perhaps missed in the discussion so far is that the Unity Personal license (the one that's free up to a certain sales volume) will now require an always-on Internet connection to use.

Is that really such a problem? It looks like it'll work offline for up to 3 days.

Will there many people doing game dev that can't go online once every 3 days in 2024?
People still talk about ghost stories, some incorporeal spector is no more plausible than an actual corps walking around.

Though what some people say doesn’t necessarily represent what most people actually believe. We still have people talking as if the earth was flat etc. Passing along such ideas don’t require actual belief, the desire to mess with others works just as well.
That's true. More of a grey swan if it has to be a bird.
Pardon me for being a currently pissed off PhD student dealing with a rejected paper but: who gives a fuck? Like honestly what is the harm of someone reinventing something, especially when the previous instance is long dead and buried/forgotten (like in this case). Oh it's a waste of resources you say? As if the constant demand for novelty isn't also.

My paper got rejected because a reviewer dug up some vaguely similar thing from 3 years ago and claimed it is "well used and well supported" even though the repo has had 3 commits in 3 years. Oh that's an extreme case you say? The presumptive necessity of "novelty" is what enables such extremes.

Like the schizophrenia of modern society is hilarious: 15 brands of potato chips is good (competition in the market is healthy) but one molecule in common (in science) and you're a failure.
I imagine that will pick up somewhat in about 20 minutes, or rather new articles will start to hit over then next 2 hours (Apple event starts at 1pm ET)
> text-generating AI and image-generating AI atleast help expand the creative sphere

I don't think these are as distinct as you think. Especially image-generating AI uses seem driven by the same impulse as voice cloning, virtually always "I want a picture like this picture I already have of X, but drawn like artist Y" (or "I want a picture of X for purely prurient reasons"), very rarely is it people struggling to put their own ideas into the world.
Agreed, it's quite a crazy and fascinating article. Had me laughing
cynically in a way that doesn't feel good.

> no one is really sure what’s real, what’s fake, whether they’re
being scammed, or who or what made the songs that they’re listening
to.

This is close to the definition of technologically induced societal
madness Jaron Lanier sketched in an article about a year ago.

Pop will eat itself. We always knew that. Pop is the spirit of
whimsical, ephemeral, self-devouring, involuted art. It's to be
expected.

But so much else has become like Pop; news media, food, medicine,
clothing, even the cars we drive... At some point AI combined with
appalling cyber-security and our over-reliance on tech will start to
tear all of these things apart. This kinda started in the pandemic,
even before AI. Is it really government advice to drink bleach? Or a
terrorist plot?

Philip K. Dick would not know how to write this stuff.
Hopefully slightly less thorny when the voice cloned is of someone who died 40 years before the song they have it cover; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jh7Jk3aSlo
Technological progress can be used for good and evil. It’s very plausible that a society with advanced technology could still act unethically. We have examples of that right here on Earth.
We’re Thinking About Climate Risk All Wrong
That's a real shame. It's very useful stuff!
I'm still a bit overwhelmed that I don't really own any of my games anymore. I can't lend them to a friend or relative. It makes me so sad that when I die, so much of what I bought will just stop being useful; I can give my account to someone yes, but the odds of having someone who likes all the games I liked seems slim. The technological unwinding of first-sale doctrine is a huge blow to me, one that I feel so regularly, and which makes every purchase more than just a little bit sad.

So far the upside of Steam has been incredible. Installing, removing, & keeping games updated is incredibly easy. Saves go to what has so far been a reliable cloud. Matchmaking & lobbies don't die after a couple years, when games use the Steam SDK. The fancy controller mapping built-in is great. Steam Remote Play is a (mostly: please, better support killing unresponsive games Steam) just-works delight.

There's so much I'm thankful for. But it still is so shocking to me how much less flexibility & capability I have. I resisted buying Steam for many many years, but it has over time become my primary gaming experience & I've accrued many hundreds of games. And that has always made me a bit sad. Now it seems like a huge number of games require either Steam or something like it; we no longer seem to even have a choice about Steam or it's ilk. It's a sad fate for such an open ended freeing thing, gaming, that we've all been ensnared in.
Why?

I agree many didn't but in what way was there any impediment for people to do this? We both know eTrade existed back then...

It's like saying "who would buy Apple in 2005 and hold to today?"

The answer is "only a handful of now billionaires," but that doesn't mean it's an invalid strategy (again, it's one of the greatest strategies in the history of time).

If you're making the separate point that investing in Coca-Cola, Corning, or Intel in 2000 was a bad idea that many people did do, then I agree with you, but again that was a broad market bubble that sent people looking for explanations.
So you're trying to convince me that more centralization of power is good, so that a federal judge that screwed up one county can be replaced by a cabal that can screw up the whole country?
My fav from years ago, was ye ol' Blitz3D:

https://github.com/blitz-research/blitz3d

I've always wanted to try Haxe, because of my Flash background: https://haxe.org/use-cases/games/
https://archive.ph/daYRs
Common Crawl Down?
Is common crawl down?
In school it was my literal case study in software ethics.
Not really. Yours is just "bunch of people without the skill or concern to responsibly perform the task they promised.

Not only do I enjoy bein gthe victim of such people I wouldn't want to be their customer either, if that's their level of care.
> Prolog is often used in things that are kept very secret.

As in national security secrecy?
A drink, larger and cider.

One can have a 'snakebite and black' adding a dash of black currant, also a 'black nasty' being a 'snakebite, pernod and black currant'.
Ultimately requires you to login (with your Google Oauth or something), so just another way to collect "leads".
Reencoding images doesn’t mean they’re not exploitable anymore.
Traction has always been the limiting factor in automotive performance.

There is a reason why a Civic Type R set a faster time than exotic cars of early 2010s, and thats because modern street tire compounds are as grippy as slick racing tires from those years. And now, race tires have a static friction coefficient greater than 1, because when warmed up they actually glue themselves to the road.
Okay, hear me out .. sure, you could do all this with another system too, if you had them available, but this is a pretty decent implementation, in hardware.

You can boot it into a 'proper' A1200 and use it just like that, as a pretty decent little Amiga system - one doesn't have to only run the built-in OS/provided games, you know.. you can boot it like an Amiga would, albeit with USB.

With the distinctly relevant advantage that a) it is a small and compact, unassuming device .. and therefore can be duct-taped to the back of the LCD monitor[1] that has, inevitably, a 'spare' video input, and b) one doesn't have to install anything on your other .. potentially work-provided .. computer .. which you occasionally switch back to, when the cubicle alarm goes off ..

I mean, I use my raspberry-Pi for productive things. Having an Amiga handy here and there, has been great. Even the conference room monitor has extra inputs and some spots for duct-taping ..

[1] or underneath the desk, in the cabinet, whatever ..
It seems like to me you're the one with little to no game development experience given your repeated comments about mobile games.

As an example where their new pricing scheme especially breaks down: You actively lose money (beyond just lost sales) for including your game in things like charity bundles because Unity will still ship you a bill for every install. This means if you had a modest success the incentive is to never give away your game even temporarily.

They also removed pricing levels that hobbyist developers used, which means they also have to pay more in subscription fees (up to $1k+ more) in addition to the fees above.
I would argue that's not the case. The entire concept of "reality" is left to the individual in post-modern thought. I think eliminating the notion of authorship would be a solidly post-modern position to take.
> So a handful of songwriters will be out of work, and nothing much will change.

It would be more than that, though, if AI truly becomes as good at writing pop songs as that handful of songsmiths.

Currently, those songsmiths are the limiting factor for pop stars. As you said, there aren't many, and they can only write so many songs per year. Because of this, choosing which pop stars get to sing the songs they write is a big factor in determining who becomes successful. If suddenly AI can pump out as many pop hits as we like, that limiting factor goes away and the whole market changes.
iPhone 7, but I don't care about it.

Just ordered an iPhone 13 because my iPhone 7 is already 6 years old. I just want my phone to work when I need to take a picture or send a message in a hurry.
"...why we were so against the lab leak hypothesis?"

Well, a former executive with Ecoheath Alliance claims they are a CIA front company that funded the lab work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
No mention of WebGL installs

* Do WebGL plays count?

* This could bankrupt indies if too many people click the WebGL games

* What Unity Version is this effective from?

* Will games made on prior versions of the editor be affected?
Yeah, interesting to see how it plays out but my gut feeling is that it’ll get from bad to worse. Hope I couldn’t be more wrong and this will shake up the industry but with generated music and cloned voices I’m almost inclined to not even compare them. It’s a new thing altogether.
Great post. We (Koor) have been going through something similar to create a demo environment for Rook-Ceph. In our case, we want to show different types of data storage (block, object, file) in a production-like system, albeit at the smaller end of scale.

Our system is hosted at Hetzner on Ubuntu. KubeOne does the provisioning, backed by Terraform. We are using Calico for networking, and we have our own Rook operator.

What would have made the Rook-Ceph experience better for you?
Did you know the path for decoding JPEGs on Apple hardware goes through the kernel?
Lua is hanging in there, and those Lua skills can be transferred to Roblox! (although I'm not really a fan of the Roblox api...)
I've had trouble finding it in NYC; my initial idea for doing SodaStream refills was to simply buy the appropriate weight of dry ice and fill the canister by unscrewing the top, but I wasn't able to find any dry ice available for purchase.

For those curious, I ended up finding a welding supply store that just sold pure CO2 in a tank.
What's frustrating about this “sitting is the new smoking” thing is that there are no clear guidelines on what will partially or completely counteract it. With smoking it is simple. You don't smoke. But what do you do instead of sit? I skimmed the article for mentions of standing but it is unclear that standing (like at my standing desk) does not count as this dementia-risk (non-)activity. Because standing in front of a screen is pretty sedentary as well.

But everyone bought standing desks anyway. So are we now supposed to wait twenty years for the longtidunal studies that find out that, actually, standing might not make much of a difference? (And it gives you some heel-related tendonitis?)

I could bring my treadmill (for desks) to work if it were not for the whirring.

I guess I have no excuses though since I just have to be in front of a screen for ~eight hours a weekday (less than ten). So I just have to not-sit—and perhaps fidget a little for good measure—in my free time.

I guess it should be more socially acceptable to squat instead of sitting on chairs at social gatherings. Good thing that I'm not invited to those things a lot though, what with the long-term senility risks.
Divers Repair SF’s Aging Piers–and, Occasionally, Haul Wrecks from the Seafloor
> This is a really solid article, and has a lot more meat to it than I expected

These guys have come out of the gate strong. I think they only launched in the last couple of weeks.

Remains to be seen if they can sustain it.
The only part of the Earthly pitch that resonated with me was the ability to run the CI locally. When debugging your CI, it is just faster to find problems when you can run on your own box.

I have a gnarly GitHub Actions script that took forever to get right because the debug cycle was 10 minutes long.
dang this should probably be dead.

1.4.12 (a bugfix release) was released today: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/

No clue why this post is here.
Safeguard your custom chatbot with discriminators
I can understand why government scientists wouldn't want their name attached if it was discovered that they funded research on the escaped virus. It's less obvious to me why the CIA would care though. Just trying to avoid general blame attributed to the USA?
HN collapses lists, you might want to add some newlines between the steps for better readability.
I've been developing in Unity since it was a two man company. Deep down when EA ex CEO took it over I knew it was all downhill from there... I'd subscribed yearly to the Unity licence for 14 years! Certified Unity Expert. Flew to EU for conferences. I remember saying to the founders in the day they should raise money and grow the company (I was the random guy using Unity for window displays and other business applications, running the water shader for 24 hours and seeing it degrade etc.). I made a great living out of Unity, particularly in the Wind Energy industry. It speaks volumes to me about big-capitalism that it's gone this way... but to be fair - the product was so fragmented towards the end - multiple versions to choose from for a new project - LTS builds. It honestly became a nightmare to develop in for me. I lost the joy of making stuff work... Unity 2015 was probably the peak for me...

These days I'm doing WebGL and ThreeJS is not fun either with upgrades, depreciated functions.

The whole ecosystem is a mess these days. I need to shave my beard.