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The problem with many front and backend web frameworks is they love the medium of the web too much. This might sound absurd, but they leak all sorts of web gunk through and then pile their own concepts on top.

A simple example of this is most backend frameworks let you signal an error by throwing an exception. Good choice! Except when you go to throw one, you often have to choose from a bunch of HTTP status codes to bundle with your exception. I want to tell the user that validation failed, that's all. I should throw a ValidationError, not a HttpResponseError. They're not really abstracting anything, just adding a layer of structure, usually via libraries that are glued together.

Similarly, I've started to be of the opinion that the ideal HTTP request handler has very few HTTP-specific details in it, as the framework can introspect the types and annotations to determine how to pass data in and out. This is very different from typical frameworks which are happy to hand you raw requests and responses and tell you to do it all. Nothing wrong with that for special cases, BTW, except for people's tendency to mix HTTP, infrastructure (DB/messaging/APIs), and business logic in the same handler.

There will always be cases where you need direct control, but I've been moving towards stacks that automate most of this to cut down on the gunky makework feeling I get when doing webdev, and it has been integral to me actually enjoying the tooling rather than feeling like I'm filling out TPS reports. Currently that's Spring Boot + Kotlin, despite the enterprise stigma the JVM and Spring have.
Um yeah there is?

Even the most ruthless cartoon capitalist knows that it’s bad to lose workers and then have to pay $ to train new ones. You at least have to stop the line for the day while the 1 guy who got hurt gets a replacement scheduled. It’s better if your factory operates smoothly. Not to mention hits to morale across the board.
Developed a Voice Activity Detection (VAD) system in C programming, which will segment speech into clear portions. This was for chunked real-time transcription via Whisper and interactive responses using GPT-4 + Text-to-Speech (TTS).
In a lot of places 2.4ghz is unusable because of the density of networks transmitting in the space. I live in a SFH in a lower-tier metro and only 5ghz is performant
> I would like to see the same enthusiasm in the prosecution of financial crimes committed by Wall Street & Co.

What about corrupt politicians?
I feel like it has more to do with those VC's having simultaneous investments in Google. Also, the "google pitch" for Go was generally that it was easier for junior devs to get started with, meaning your start up won't have to pay employees as much. Not at all true, of course but investors rely heavily on signaling.
We had ChatGTP convert this from brainfuck to forth for readability.
Aliens Are Out There – But They Probably Don't Care About Us
One normal human with 24 hours in a day losing 45ish hours a week to pull median income and another 8ish per day to sleep versus multibillion dollar companies hiring behavioral psychologists and marketing experts with collectively many thousands of hours per day spent finding ways to trick people—and their efforts demonstrably work.

The advertising industry’s a rabid dog the size of Godzilla and should be put down, whether it’s targeting kids or adults.
> there is no benefit of using the internet for anything else but e-commerce or porn.

For me, this is already about 80% true. The web is largely a vast wasteland at this point.
CubeBackup is a nice alternative for me as it runs on a VPS. I’m often away from home for long periods due to business travel, and I like being able to remotely keep the backups working even if the NAS goes down or is turned off.
> So, if you can't be bothered to do something correctly, and you can't pay to get it done correctly, maybe you are not fit to be operating.

The amount spent on Microsoft suggests a willingness to blow money on the problem.

But with Google having no real support, always shutting down projects, and now losing a lot of people's Drive data and refusing to acknowledge it makes me reluctant to use them.

Teams is janky in other ways, such as Microsoft forcing Sharepoint everywhere, and now we have a chat program that attempts to silo data as much as possible so we a lot of project documentation that isn't always accessible or discoverable.

If you have alternative suggestions, I am open to them.
As former admin of both, HyperV is nowhere near as good as VMware ESXi offering. Also, switching Hypervisors at F1000 is such a massive project that no risk adverse manager is going to sign off on it.

I've been at F1000 with ESXi clusters, they had 20 racks full of blades/switches/SANs that made up 4000 core cluster. They will ride or die ESXi no matter how hard VMware screws them over.
Lol all the people with adblockers saying "leave him alone there are no ads!"

For extra evil Discus should really pop up an ad blocker blocker.
You can hire a Guinness World Records consultant to help set or break a record
I'm incredibly curious to hear more on how you think WASIX helps on the company pockets (since is open-source, and even it's governance model is open).

I'd love to hear your thoughts, maybe we are missing on some nice business opportunities here!
This is great. On my « one day » build list.

In a similar vein, my 5yr old son has a flight log book - I started it for him as a baby. Every flight he gives asks one of the crew if the captain wouldn’t mind completing it. It logs route, aircraft and any events that happened. The crew _love_ this kind of thing - we’ve toured cockpits and crew rests and the messages are always gracious. He’s always beaming to get it back. Highly recommend it for little plane geeks.
> This is backed up by the lack of inclusion in the DSMV updates and ICD10 updates or 11 just released. People have certainly tried to have these things included: their income depended upon it. But the science rejected it.

It's not in the Bible either. So clearly this isn't a real problem.

Why are we trusting acceptance by a community of gatekeeping charlatans as the final say on whether or not a problem exists? Meta hires psychologists to engineer these very exploitative patterns they deny the existence of. They can't put that in the DSM-V. People would take notice that they're a rehab clinic in the business of selling heroin.
So do I understand correctly that the corgi was purely made up from GPT-4's interpretation of the picture?
We have something similar in Hungary:

http://vonatinfo.mav-start.hu/

Pretty cool, it's a shame that the actual (state-owned) trainlines are in shambles.
Synology is indeed great, but CubeBackup is a nice alternative for me as it runs on a VPS. I’m often away from home for long periods due to business travel, and I like being able to remotely keep the backups working even if the NAS goes down or is turned off.
I came here to say that $200/hour is only "extremely conservative" in very few and small geographic parts of the world. Where I'm from (in a large city in the US) this number would be described as extravagant. I've charged $200 or more on only one occasion myself, and it was a very short-term arrangement.
https://dalle.party/?party=RqpIijhH
I use Jellyfin on Roku and Apple TV and the Jellyfin apps work just fine. Sometimes the Roku app loses its credentials, but they’re working on these issues and the apps keep getting better. Although I only use Jellyfin on a local network.
Or buildings to humans!
In Swedish, there's a commonly used word "lärdomar" which is a direct match for "learnings".

But where the Swedish word sounds natural in that language, "learnings" just sounds wrong in English, even though it apparently is technically correct.
That is all I need. I hope they don't AI-ify it or anything.
I agree, a lot of things that look really easy often are really hard to make, as a lot of thought has to go into designing things to be easy to use
That's exactly where the "Insurance" part comes in.

Any act of "god" where pure bad luck is involved, some central entity should absolutely take care of them.

However, Government should also not be in the business of prepping bad choices -- diet, family formation, bad lifestyle. Any society that is given unconditional support will degenerate
That's me. I would have watched Wish already if it was a simultaneous stream + theatrical release. I don't think it's worth taking the family to the theatre to see it but (despite lukewarm reviews) I'm still looking forward to watching it on Disney+ nonetheless.
I installed an app recently that had a 7 day free trial. Cool, I'll do that, I'm excited for the app. I immediately cancelled the autopayment on the trial after signing up because I wanted to explicitly evaluate at the end of the trial instead of have it assumed i want to continue. The app then immediately cut off my trial access. It's frustrating that Apple even tells the app developer that it was cancelled.
Pretty neat. Unicode has the exact same feature in its block elements block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

Sadly it seems HN does not accept these things.
There's also lots of track included that hasn't seen passenger trains in 30-50 years. The only passenger rail in Idaho is in the panhandle. I'm not sure if Helena has any passenger traffic either.
That's not true at all. An ar15 was specifically made for war against people (lots of them), and then refined for war against people. A pencil was made for writing things down.
Yes, probably once every 2-3 months. There’s a great interface for restoring specific files.

I keep the version history to infinite, so even if files are corrupted or lost on newer backups I can always reference the old ones, back to day 0. Backblaze is great for this as the storage price is negligible.

I think it works in a similar way to Tarsnap or something like Duplicati, but it’s a lot easier to manage and plugs in nicely to all of the Workspace account (not just Drive).
Nowhere else on the internet will you find so many people defending such obviously bad practices. With such blatantly obvious biases, too.
Every time an SI article finds me its happens to be by a confirmed human, however its tends to be the biggest fluff piece as if almost dictated by the persons agent.

Oh well, we were always a Sport Magazine household anyways, better writing.
If we need to use AI in order to make the web even moderately useful, then the web is truly dead.

> even with massive amounts of noise it's still better than nothing

Nothing isn't the alternative. If the web literally vanished tomorrow, we still have other existing ways of communicating, researching, and recreating.
Yep also completely true.
Heh, if you believe your most ruthless cartoon capitalist would stop the line for a whole day just because a worker bee died, you haven't met actual ruthless capitalists.
I'm not Jacob Stark...
Is this reporting that Broadcom is implementing the layoffs that were announced through the offer letter process? Or are they laying off people who they already gave an offer letter?
I'm pretty sure mine came with some OCR PDF-generating software. It has Fax functions I never use, Copy functions that come in handy several times a year, and Scan I've used a few times. The web admin interface seems to have a lot of options.

But all that stuff doesn't get in the way of the core feature, network laser printing.
The main issue IMO comes from the clients moreso than the server. The Jellyfin App on Nvidia Shield sometimes fails or crashes when trying to change audio source. Subtitles always fail to load, and there was a period of time that local shows & movies looked like they were playing in 480p quality.

The issues were to the point that locally I use Emby, and keep Jellyfin remote for web client usage since syncplay is great.
Gravity is continuous, and to disprove that you would need to disprove Lorentz invariance and Einstein's relativity.

It's actually amusing that, just few weeks ago, people here on HN were arguing on why are we trying to quantize gravity and that it makes more sense for it to be non-quantum.
I really dislike the word "hallucination"

It's not a "hallucination" it's a "miss-prediction".

And the more-classical methods of CV are still very capable of miss-predicting.

No matter what method you choose, you must test how accurate it is, NN have the benefit of being fine-tuned for specific applications as well. If you want to be extra sure then you likely want to use both.
There are tons of startups that were built on Python that became enormously valuable companies: Instagram, Dropbox, Reddit, Spotify, YouTube, Pinterest, Quora, SurveyMonkey, Twitch, Zenefits.

I don’t think the data supports your VC’s thesis.
It takes a while to figure out technology
In the interests of appeal to modesty, I can tell you about my long history of unreleased apps, failed startups, and false starts :)
I could address each of these "issues" but I'd rather focus on the following:

> The language itself is extremely poor

> I think this is not something most Python users are aware of

These two statements are contradictory. If it was indeed so "poor", people would notice :) If they instead increasingly adopt it (out of appreciation, not because they are lobbied into doing it) it becomes really difficult to logically demonstrate that it's a poor choice. Software development is a very efficient market. Everyone is (or can be) aware of (almost) everything. So if most people (including experienced devs) gravitate towards a certain technology, the only acceptable explanation is that the technology, as a whole, is good.

Deconstructing and pointing out the flaws of the individual components is a common flawed thought process IMHO. Python is great despite all the issues you point out. To me this is equivalent to comparing individual components when shopping for a product, missing the fact that it's the ensemble of all those (flawed) components that make the product (or the language, in this case) work. The easy syntax, the packages, the community, those are all things that make "weird scoping rules" pretty much irrelevant.
That sort of thing seems solvable with batteries used as a a capacitor, rather than trying to reprogram the dishwasher logic
While I definitely won't have insterest in these fridges, some of them (I'm thinking the Samsung) scan your fridges contents and let you know what's about to run out (milk, eggs, etc) for the next time you do a run.

Still not worth 1000usd to me, but more practical than "just seeing what's inside".
This is the best explanation I've ever read!
It's not about keyboard vs mouse. The most important thing is that you use both hands. Imagine how crap and limited you would be playing the piano with one hand. All keyboard use is assumed to be using two hands. The slow mouse usage is when you just use the mouse and leave the other hand quite literally on the table. But combined keyboard and mouse usage is by far the fastest way to do certain things. I'm not sure text editing is one of them, though.
Targets have a Starbucks selling 10x as much dissolved sugar 25 feet away from checkout aisles. Are those unethical? How about in a separate Starbucks building, but on a pad site in front of the store with a drive thru?

Seems like an arbitrary place to draw the unethical/ethical line.
Interesting! I can assure you none of the text was auto-generated. I've written before about how I don't like having text generated for me.

I do use Grammarly for editing assistance when I'm writing something for work.
In the product page they mention it's 25dBa, but if that's measured using a reference microphone for the human spectrum it's not going to reflect if the ultrasonic frequencies its running at are audible to say, a dog.

The reason I asked is because this is sick, unless it makes my dog cry.
My friends will quickly understand who’s behind those paw patrol binges
You can absolutely follow a discipline like this which recreates this separation in a framework that lacks it
56K, such luxury. I know what digital scarcity is, and a 1Gbps fiber line to my house isn’t it. Sure, I have my secret stash over in the corner of that NAS in the garage, just in case. But I otherwise can now download what I want in seconds, minutes at worst. Ergo, I don’t hoard nearly like I used to (never was a true hoarder in the first place, so I can probably be ignored).

Not to say that your point isn’t well taken. One does tend to keep stuff after a long overnight download, and old habits die hard. And I do have a local copy of Wikipedia…just in case.
I agree. The very notion seems unacceptably dystopian and likely to make a lot of the bad things about the web even worse.
How exactly is anyone "incompetent" for refusing to use Plex and spend some time to use, e.g, Kodi?
He claims it was an accident but it happened in multiple years in multiple conferences?
Goodwill (or similar) is your friend here. Physical media players are likely to get purged when someone's de-cluttering their home.
Seems like Googlers are in a bad trouble. Drive also failed last week. And the day before yesterday, indexing had some issues.
>then there's no reason to be proactive about safety.

As the parent poster said, Amazon is still subject to civil/criminal lawsuits. The $7000 fine is the penalty that OSHA can impose, but isn't all the penalties that Amazon can face.

Also, the standard that was being violated was "22.8(1)(1)(sec2)" which apparently is

"Employer did not provide a workplace free from a recognized, correctable and serious hazard
where a specific standard did not exist."

Given how vague this is, it seems reasonable to let the employer fix the issue before enforcing a penalty.
I have a more cynical take; the recommendations declined when Netflix started producing their own content. Prior to this, what constituted a "good recommendation" was aligned between Netflix and the customer, but afterwards not so much.

Today Netflix is in the "how do we get our customers to use our service as little as possible but still pay us every month" phase of their mediacom hypocracy. From a business standpoint, that is their best optimization. They are AOL/TW from 20 years ago.
We can. But doing so frames math research as the same sort of activity as math problem solving.. it's not. Many imo champions struggle to do any successful math research. And many successful math researchers (e.g., all of the most recent batch of Fields medallists) never did the Oympiad at all.
haha as a Python and Go dev, Go Python!
Yes I host on a very cheap Hetzner VPS (which I use for other self-hosted Docker images as well) so it’s always up. The storage location is not on the VPS itself, it’s S3 and B2 compatible, so you can use AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, whatever.

I use Backblaze which is quite cheap and reliable: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037814594-B2....
One wonders if people who think it's wasteful to use a car to transport a single person think using a car and a person to transport a sandwich is not.
That is very awesome, TIL

If I were commercially-minded (I'm not), I'd go full hog on the Mattel approach and carve out the niche as a toy vs an informational product
Could you bring a couple of examples of such slogans?
It's fine to be forthcoming about the financial interests of your projects – this is Hacker News, after all. We live on VC. The tone of your previous comment suggests there is none.

I find it hard to believe that anything you would spend your company's time on would not push the mission of the company forward. This creates a financial incentive.
GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks
"It seems like there's a best way to design software. & nobody does it." (2007)
> C++ is not a runaway nuclear fire which contaminates and melts everything around it when it comes to sanity and security.

Not sanity, maybe. But security? How much more would it take to declare a nuclear meltdown: https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
I had not heard of this term but it sounds like the same thing!
Unless I'm misremembering a lot of the benefits of CLA did not prove out with subsequent studies and it always came with general health caveats alongside the potential benefits (primarily to visceral abdominal fat, IIRC).
> Hanes Beefy-T

My current company has been using bella+canvas of late, and I wear them all_the_time, they are so comfortable that I worry about their durability.

I'm also super, super big into the collars not stretching out. I can't stand that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know a surprising number of people who hope that Broadcom will be better managed than VMware and that it’ll be easier to get good work done there. Mostly folks who came into VMware through acquisitions and then had layers and layers of VMware management piled on top of them.
Question: how are you protecting those API keys? I'm reluctant to enter mine into what could easily be an API Key scraper.
Go doesn't have some of the most library functions, so large codebases shared between teams end up with a dozen different implementations of functions like "minimum" or "filter".

Does https://pkg.go.dev/slices#DeleteFunc not work for you or do you need it to be called filter? It's there for maps too https://pkg.go.dev/maps#DeleteFunc
If you're "not really looking at" LLM output, you are abusing it.
> Not sure how "freedom" would protect you in any other sense?

There is nothing being said about being "protected".

I'm still not sure what your point here is. Maybe we are just talking past each other.
I’m getting the sense that there was an FPGA “ground floor” at some point in the last 5-7 years, and trying to buy one now is pretty much a ripoff.
> I’m a little impressed that this is the first device you found this incompatibility with.

Don't be. A comprehensive list of our WiFi-capable devices are two smartphone models, the printer, and two laptops that are plugged in to wired connections.

Edit: Forgot about the two wireless work laptops.

For our purposes the 10 foot USB cable solves the problem fine.
I can't believe Levine runs through a series of arguments for OpenAI being worth more than $86B, or less than $86B, and then hits:

> More than $86 billion, for technological reasons. One precipitating event of the boardroom coup might have been a breakthrough in OpenAI’s research. Reuters reported that “several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity,”

...and couldn't come up with a counter-argument for why a humanity-threatening discovery could lower the value of the company.
And this is one of the many things I love about living in Indiana. (not sarcastic).

We aren't a swing state, but for sure we go blue once in a while. At the city level things are fairly blue. And my state is not broke, we were running a surplus last I checked.
The YouTuber Eddy Burback has a video called "The Deceptive World of Ghost Kitchens" that I'd highly recommend watching.

https://youtu.be/KkIkymh5Ayg
I know it sounds funny, but I have used the built in "net/http" in probably fifty projects now, and not a single one of them needed a min/max function.
The NJ Transit website/app looks ramshackle compared to the MTA.
Strong agree here - I am still keeping an open mind about TypeScript - using it for frontend / Vercel web apps and while maintaining open-source examples.

I will say it was very nice getting the type hints for infrastructure while developing as well as hints about something being unused, etc.

It overall worked better than I was probably expecting.

Also agree with your points on the pain of IaC - it's terrific when it works but there's always those special "except this resource doesn't follow any of those rules" cases to make things painful and extra complex.

I've also found that IaC can have a chilling effect for folks who haven't ever tried it before - it's a powerful abstraction tool - but at the end of the day you also need some level of understanding around what is happening under the hood - where to debug an error (which level), etc.