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Ask HN: Would the Internet change if Bandwidth was Infinite?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the internet is changing. It feels like everything online is being put into boxes owned by big companies. And that is made possible by increasing speed access to the internet. I realized I’m keeping way less stuff on my computer nowadays. It’s like our computers are turning into just screens where we access stuff owned by others.

This change is even more noticeable with AI. It’s starting to worry me—I’m scared we might lose the Cool, open side of the Internet, and end up back with stuff like pay-per-view and expensive cable TV.
That's all of FreeBSD including userspace, not just the kernel. In Linux land you see more than that level of activity in just the kernel:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

I didn't say FreeBSD was abandonware, its kernel development has just been relatively stagnant for decades vs. Linux. Which shouldn't come as particularly surprising considering how much more adoption and investment there's been surrounding Linux over that time period.
That’s an odd list. Eritrea? Nicaragua? Pakistan and the other stans? Are they concerned that chips or tech sold to those countries could get re-sold to China or Russia?
That’s the useful work which represents ~1/3 of the energy in gasoline. ICE cars needs to deal with ~2x that energy in waste heat.
> I can’t see any valid reason not to use Postgres at the back end

From TFA:

> if you don’t need the Postgres features, they’re a liability. For example, even if you don’t use multiple user accounts, you’ll still need to configure and debug host-based authentication. You have to firewall off your Postgres server. And more features mean more documentation, which makes it difficult to understand the software you’re running. The documentation for Postgres 14 is nearly 3,000 pages.
Any self respecting e-commerce site would want fault tolerance and strong consistency even with potential network partitions, so definitely not SQLite as described in article
It's nice and has a lot of quite advanced features.

If you want a simple app to track lent and borrows among friends and circle then try Debitum. But it's for Android only..

https://github.com/marmo/debitum
I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, there's some problematic etiology of perfectionism that can be healed, like needing to avoid criticism and shame for supposedly doing a bad job and wanting to please people excessively to your own detriment. But striving for excellence because you get social recognition and praise for your work is maybe healthy? If you enjoy what you do and want to make the client happy because it makes you feel good to know you did something great for someone, idk, that would motivate me to be perfect.
And then manually applying them. If the game was old enough you might need to apply multiple patches, something you'd have to figure out. I definitely had mixed feelings about Steam at first, and my internet connection at the time was such I'd hoard some larger patches and didn't like the idea of re-downloading them on reinstall but there is no doubt now that where Valve was going with this was the future.
I understand and even expect the lack of empathy from RTO executives, but the lack of empathy on the part of the 'remote work for everyone, always' camp saddens me.

I've worked primarily remote since 2016; but I have the option of going to an office a few miles away when I want to. My wife, forced to work from home, finds the entire experience to be socially isolating and misery inducing.

> work from our own comfy homes instead of rolling into a crowded, stuffy office everyday?

This one-sidedness is a strawman. Not everyone's home is comfy or has space for working; some people made housing decisions based on one person leaving the home for most of every day (e.g. choosing a smaller apartment closer to city). Not every office is crowded and stuffy; some are quite pleasant. Not every worker gets their social needs met outside of work, and forcing them home ends up isolating them from the primary source of social interaction in their world, with all of the mental health and well-being issues that entails.

Personally, think that "more remote work" is the way to go, but the issue is more nuanced than "why are people resisting this obviously beneficial change?"
This is basically everything policy wise they needed to do to quell the storm. This is honestly what should have just been announced originally. So much reputational damage just to arrive at a reasonable model weeks later.

I'm happy for all the Unity developers out there that are breathing a sigh of relief. Hopefully they can ship their ongoing projects but I'd be hesitant about a continued long term relationship with Unity after this.

This isn't the first Unity backlash and I'd be surprised if it's the last.
WTF? No, those things never worked! (Not even when you ignore the costs in bias/ unconstitutionality.)

Major crime stats were already dropping beforehand, and that trend continued with no correlation to the policy... not even a blip when stop-and-frisk was abruptly stopped for legal reasons.

Just because a politician says something when bragging about their job-record doesn't make it true.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/22/donal...

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/stop-and-fris...
Thank you for your, and your team's, work on Proton! It's one of the biggest software leaps I've experienced. I'd been using Wine to launch games on Linux for more than ten years and across all those years, it remained inconvenient and success rates remained fairly low despite some definite improvement. Then with the first Proton release, most of the games I wanted to play... just worked. These days my default expectation has changed to games working well on Linux unless they have stuff like kernel-mode DRM (such as Denuvo) and I refuse to buy games using that anyway.
That is in fact not reusing. That’s recycling.

And what they could do instead is yes sell those parts, or extend their certified refurbished program. It currently only goes back to the iPhone 12, even though their newest OS supports much older phones. To say nothing of how far back security updates are still (selectively) being released.
Time to re-pimp my idea of doing this using a single type parameterised to reflect different states:

https://github.com/tim-group/higher-kinded-lifecycle/blob/ma...
Also, there are still hints of them trying to play this off as a misunderstanding rather than what it really was: a predatory pricing scheme and an attempt to retroactively change ToS.

"When we first introduced the Runtime Fee policy, we used the term “installs” which the community found to be unclear so we’re using the term "initial engagement" as the unit of measure."

The community did not find this unclear. The original pricing scheme was very straightforward about developers being charged multiple times for a user that reinstalls a game, or install it across multiple devices.

This is Unity trying to rewrite history so they don't seem like the bad guys.
I tried Kagi and ended up hitting limits. Unlimited sounds nice, especially since I don't need to worry about how I'm "running out of searchers" so to say, but only once I know how much it actually is instead of just assuming "well, most people don't search much".
I experienced this one first hand, in a smaller city - New Haven, CT. When I spoke to the officer that found the car, he reported that most of the cities nearby (relatively small cities in Connecticut like Milford, Bridgeport, etc) have seen a sharp rise in car thefts and virtually all of that has been Kias/Hyundais.
A turing complete system doesn't necessarily mean it's useful, it just means that it's equivalent with a turing machine. The ability to describe any possible algorithm is not that powerful in itself.

As an example, algebraic type systems are often TC simply because general recursion is allowed.

Feed forward networks are effectively DAGs and while you may be able to express any algorithms using them they are also pairwise linear in respect to inputs.

Statistical learning is powerful in finding and matching patterns, but graph rewriting, which is what your doing with initial random weights and training is not trivial.

More importantly it doesn't make issues like the halting problem decidable.

I don't see why the same limits in graph rewriting languages which were explored in the 90s won't hit using feed forward networks as computation systems outside of the application of nation-state scale computing power.

But I am open to understanding where I am wrong.
I didn’t follow this very much but did they basically tried to enforce this on people out of the blue? If so, that must sting like crazy to have to walk it back with the addition of losing trust and goodwill of your users, not to mention those that went on to different engines.

How high up does this rank in “the dumbest decisions you can make” chart?
What is the difference? If you build something 10 years longer than another option, you need to have another source for the said 10 years. In Poland's case this is coal. People act as if burning coal continuously for 10 years is not a problem, but having it used sporadically as backup is bad for emissions. That's backwards, the CO2 emitted continuously for the next 10 years is a lot worse.

The construction of the nuclear plant is effectively backed up with 100% coal. Thus you could have a 75/25% renewables/coal split for the next 40 years and do less damage.
and to be honest its getting hard to see the difference between "transhumanist" and "antihumanist", it gets more subtle every time

probably because getting hyper-humans means getting rid of some humanity
> The candy bar format is probably as good as it can reasonably be expected to get given our current technology.

Technology and of course human eyes, hands, and heads. There's a lower limit to the length of a phone and still have the capability of a phone which is the mean distance between peoples' ears and mouths. You also can't make a phone too small or else the screen won't be readable.

Even if you could get the iPhone 15's electronics to fit a chip the size of a grain of rice the body of the phone needs to fit a head and needs a screen for an interface. The antenna would still need to be sized such to be tuned for the right cellular frequencies.

That's not to say candy bar phones are the perfect form factor. It's just ergonomics and physics will play a part in devices no matter how compact the technology.
It's a straw man argument that the implementation of a punishment will eliminate the crime. The goal is to act as a deterrent. Safe countries like the Gulf States have the death penalty, have strong security, and it works quite well there.

The US has many issues that are independent of the penalties.
The article reads that way until you get half way through it and realize that it’s a few sellouts shilling for dollars. The second half outlines that democrats are the ones who are actually proposing wealth taxes to begin with.

It’s a classic outrage based clickbait article format.
Technically "reuse" means wholesale reuse of components, shredding them would be recycling.

But you're right. The whole right-to-repair is just lobbying from independent iPhone repair companies who want to make a quick buck at Apple's expense.
It's part penny-pinching, part fake environmentalism and lots of hate for everything Apple. Even if Apple would bring out the most repairable phone ever it wouldn't be enough since it's all about the control they don't want Apple to have (even if that control is advantageous to the customer)
> I meant by real scientists in a lab, not a YouTuber. Like a consumer testing lab maybe, or a university.

Maybe look more into who he actually is before dismissing him? He's a National Barista Championship winner and has decades of professional coffee experience and knowledge beyond just brewing a daily cup. He also co-founded a roasting company that became the largest wholesale specialty coffee supplier in London. It's not like he just popped onto Youtube one day in 2016 and decided to start making coffee videos.
I almost added that footnote. Thanks for the specific reference though!
The first step might be to move beyond calling them "big oil" to "big energy"

These companies are trying to evolve and not go out of business with the oil market. They have immense cash and connections to accelerate green projects too
Who? Do you have any links?
hey tony, what's next?
>Problem is that the vendors who are largely private don't have the same mandate

They get to decide how much that sweet federal $$$$ is worth to them. For most vendors, it's hopefully worth too much to ignore.
I'm really, really curious about this data, because I can only extrapolate from personal anecdata.

I've personally measured this for myself and WFH is overwhelmingly more productive for me, measured via sheer output. I think part of this is because I'm naturally just working... longer? It's a mind shift, but this was generally my stance when I was in office too, which is:

1. When I'm in office, those are my working hours. Unless there was a very critical crunch period, I did not work at home at all. It was a very strong boundary.

2. I was very diligent about keeping my office hours - partially because of traffic. So I'd put in my 8 hours, often skipping lunch, and go straight home. 7am-3pm every day.

3. When you're in the office, people really love impromptu meetings. So a good chunk of the day is used talking to people. Sometimes this is productive, but often it just means the project you are working on gets 1-2 less hours that day than it would otherwise.

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Contrast this with WFH:

1. My commute was 1 hour both ways (Bay Area), which is now gone. I usually work in the range of 7am - 5pm now. I take a break for lunch and to go for a run. Ultimately, I end up working 8.5-9 hours now (a .5-1 hour increase in duration), but I'm actively healthier because I can take a break + exercise.

2. Because my desk is always setup, I end up doing more sporadic tasks - especially when it comes to long, async build processes, I'm more inclined to quickly debug something and run a pipeline again. Before I just left my laptop in my bag, and couldn't (wouldn't) be bothered to pick it up.

3. Sporadic meetings are non-existent. Slack is async, so I just check it a few times a day. I can control my time much better meaning actual focus on a task is possible - which is nearly impossible in an office environment.

Not to mention just the overall quality of life improvements from being able to eat lunch with my wife and daughter, be able to take appointments and slightly shift my calendar, be flexible in where I am (we can actually visit family not on weekends now!). Also I save about $5k/year by not driving all the damn time. Also, my company could save money by just not leasing their office anymore...

I'm happier, healthier, more energetic, and thus ultimately more productive remote. In office work sets stronger barriers, sure, but returning to the office will mean that's where I leave my work too. To satiate someone's requirement for social interaction through coworkers is bizarre to me.

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Anyway - that's my personal view. I'm curious what actual macro data shows. Perhaps I'm one in a million - but I doubt it.
There have been a lot of container escape exploits
SQLite supports the best version of "stored procedures", IMO:

https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
this looks great. my startup is elixir based and I've been looking for something like this.
Microsoft's new Call of Duty deal with Activision set for UK approval
What is inevitable is that copyright is dead. Do you think China will respect western copyrights? They already don't. People would just use LLMs hosted elsewhere.

This is a good thing. We're going to see an explosion of indie games, movies, and more that never could've been made before by a single, dedicated person.
The funny double standard is that SF has signs everywhere telling you to keep stuff outside of your car if you don't wanna get your car broken into. But it's completely wrong to tell a woman to dress more modestly if she doesn't want to be sexually harassed.
It already contains ads. They appear to be limited to prime content currently.
New CDC data shows record 40% of adults are obese in these three states
I think the bottom line damage is that no one is going to develop new games on Unity if they have any other choice. Even if Unity walks this back 100%, why would a dev trust them not to pull this again in the future? Maybe some large projects will stop looking at migration in the short-term, but any new work is going to start happening elsewhere for sure.
Does anyone have the text of this? For me the page appears momentarily, then is replaced with a blank white screen reading "An unexpected error has occurred." The archive.org copy is also broken. (Most likely some kind of analytics or ad erroring because of a browser privacy setting.)
> I used to be stuck in a rut of "there's no point starting to build / learn a thing because there will almost certainly never be a result of substance".

In my view, that's what people in power want to encourage, using crowed influencing dynamics [0].

There is an a loosely orchestrated effort to make people feel less powerful because that makes it easier for people in power (people with money or resources) to increase their self-interest endeavors.

This is why I don't watch the news, and take peoples opinions about the world with a grain of salt. Ideas are like viruses, the spread rapidly. The people with the most resources gets to set the tone about what the population thinks by using modern media to mold the narrative. If you don't understand your individual value, you will be swept into this mind set, whether you are aware of it or not.

[0]: Example https://cxl.com/blog/17-lesser-known-ways-to-persuade-people...
did u give up adderall fully? or taking anything else? asking for a friend ;)
> Perhaps that is a surer way to restore them to dignity than any other: to see them not as falling prey to our ancestors but as our ancestors.

I did notice that the popular transition to recast Neanderthals from primitive troglodytes to advanced peers seemed to coincide closely with the revelation that all Europeans have some Neanderthal DNA.
Best Buy Health shows first signs of success with Geek Squad helping at home
Gradle/groovy is a liability for any jdk upgrades (similarly like lombok, but it usually supports new JDK at release, not before).

We ditched spock because of groovy, and never looked back. Now at jdk 21, previously at 20.
This is only slightly comical to me because the article actually mentions ventilators and how evil they were that they could only be serviced by the OEM due to the “VIN” on the parts.

I would not want to be the person strapped to a medical device where “it looks fine, it works great” guy was the one that fixed it on the cheap so he could make an extra few dollars.
Interesting and informative take on it, thank you for sharing.
If you want to successfully sell to Americans, catering to American sensibilities sounds like a no brainer.
Do you have to baseline on Java 21 if you want to add support for virtual threads? Couldn't you continue using heavyweight threads on older versions of Java? My understanding is that both use the same Thread abstraction.
Generally you don't want to be on your back underneath the thing you're angle grinding. It's a good way to get sparks and metal dust in your eyes. Meth heads won't be wearing eye protection.
As the deal was revamped to not include streaming of games like CoD I dunno what this confusing headline is about
Does the American dream still make sense?
How to escape a container
> As you do, I find the discourse around tech to be a pit of dismissiveness, avoidance, denial, resignation, and learned-helplessness

I have a whole tirade on this, but I completely agree. It seemed while going through college that the whole prescriptivism and general attitudes in tech are built in such a way so as to discourage certain mindsets which the industry DESPERATELY needs, and my hypothesis is that not having representation of those mindsets across the board has contributed to a much of the degradation of UX over time (along with collective laziness of course; low level languages being more work to use, much as I enjoy high level conveniences myself).
I think the key to it is that Gabe is a simple guy, not a wannabe like half of the investment firms buying stocks.
This is sarcasm right? The ads will function as an additional revenue stream at the current price. Rich company gets richer by shoving ads in your face.
Nothing is getting cheaper. The existing thing is getting worse and you have the option to pay more if you like.
My poor attempt ...

The poet is a deceiver

One who pretends so completely

The pain he affects in stanzas

Is torment he know entirely
For $10 their cost for someone constantly typing new searches is significantly negative. It's surprisingly expensive for them to do a search and doing 1 search every 30 seconds for 8 hours is ~3x more than the cap of their $5 tier. I'm not saying that's a reasonable usage case for me I'm just saying the limit on profitability occurs SIGNFICANTLY sooner than "as fast as you can type for a month".
A related line of work is "Thinking Like Transformers" [1]. They introduce a primitive programming language, RASP, which is composed of operations capable of being modeled with transformer components, and demonstrate how different programs can be written with it, e.g. histograms, sorting. Sasha Rush and Gail Weiss have an excellent blog post on it as well [2]. Follow on work actually demonstrated how RASP-like programs could actually be compiled into model weights without training [3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06981

[2] https://srush.github.io/raspy/

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05062
I was using a system at work, and so eventually I needed to ssh into it, and I was confronted with the usual TOFU prompt. So I contacted Support, to ask how I could ascertain the Host Keys in use and check their fingerprints. And they replied, "Mmm, we don't do that."
Should the employer also pay for the costs of clothes and water to bathe oneself since they mandate being presentable?

Should the employer pay for someone to commute 4 hours? How about a 2 hour flight everyday? This is all arbitrary, but it is much simpler to just let the market sort it out.

Employer offers $x for employee to be in y place at time z. Employee figures out if $x is enough to incentivize them to be there at the time, and otherwise asks for more money or seeks other employment.

If employer does not find sufficient employees at $x, then they have to increase.
That is not what feature flags are typically used for.

They're typically used as a way of enabling a change for a subset of your services to allow for monitoring of the update and easier "rollback" if it becomes necessary.

They can be used for A/B testing, but this is not what they're typically used for.
Rust enums always have a discriminant: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.discriminant.html

Their representation in memory may not use it, but it's still defined.
I replaced my Pixel 2 XL only after I cracked the display twice and CalyxOS ended support. That, and a too good to refuse offer for Pixel 7 from my carrier. Still have the old one around as back up, as it works perfectly fine, as it did before.
Tragic and entirely misleading. Medical devices are regulated beyond belief. You don’t want some random repair tech cobbling together pirate boxes for them. How would anyone know if they’re compromised?
But man the maintenance and debug nightmare never seems worth it for that tradeoff. Not to mention vendor lockin