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Whart's this based on? If anything, this is among the more concise set of interface guidelines I've come across. Design guidelines typically run into hundreds of pages long when PDF'ed -- this page is just about thirty on default "Save as PDF" settings...
> Apple isn’t serious about supporting web browser or engine choice on iOS

I don't think this is some big gotcha - this has always been clear.

Seems like there's just one rule they don't like, that it's EU only. Which is fair enough.

Personally, I don't see why this is the hill Apple's dying on. They seem to have put in a fair amount of effort into creating a problem and APIs to allow for other browser engines to exist as peers to Safari (allowing JIT, multi-process, hooks into Lockdown Mode etc), but then restricted that all to the EU. This one seems more ideological than financial (like the other DMA-forced additions Apple is doing).

But really - its not really clear to me what benefits users get from this. Safari (on iOS or Mac) hasn't stagnated and is a highly performing browser, better than Chrome and Firefox in some regards. It supports some APIs first that others lag on, while it lags on others. I am a web developer, and I really do not agree with any claims that Safari is somehow worse than other browsers.

Meanwhile, people are shipping 'new web browsers', that users seem to like, by using the webkit engine under the hood. UI, features, sync, etc are what actually matters to users.
Encyclopaedia Automatica
Collaborative prompt engineering with a higher purpose.

A collaborative encyclopedia, built with GPT doing the hard work.

More here: https://stevecoast.substack.com/p/encyclopaedia-automatica
IANAP, but possibly because you're measuring different attributes of the same thing - i.e., mass - but we as a species don't really understand the fundamentals of what mass actually is.

Before ANGRY KEYBOARD SOUNDS commence, I'm not saying we don't know what mass is, I'm saying fundamentals. I.e., why is mass. What causes it to come into being? Bulk entanglement, i.e., a function of probability or "mass as destiny"? Tiny signals? Lots of rubber sheeting? Etc.
I highly recommend doing this. I also highly recommend not doing it digitally.

I recently came across an email I'd sent to myself a decade ago. It was a serendipitous find and could've easily been lost for all time among the 100K emails floating around. But the process of writing it is worth it, and the reading of it some time later can be deeply rewarding.
Hi Evan! That sounds really interesting! Would you have a short code example for me, demonstrating what your typical Vue component looks like? Is it similar to the examples at the end of https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html ?

I'd also be interested in how you write (S)CSS for your components – do you use some form of CSS-in-JS?
of course I think you can enjoy music as just "pure sound". I have no doubt that generative music models will make perfectly adequate music, and will almost certainly have the capacity to make songs that are great and moving. But just like visual mediums, music is more than just a file. Music is cultural. Electronic music is absolutely human expression, even if it isn't making some grand statement on society or the human condition it exists in context of other electronic music tracks. By simply having someone feel the drive to create a song and making creative decisions about how that song should sound and feels it makes a comment on the genre of electronic music, and contributes to the cultural project of music.

thanks for the thoughtful comment and I hope you have a nice day.
You can use the TimescaleDB PostgreSQL extension. It works really well and has a high compression rate for time series data, such as metrics. It can also downsample data. I have also tried InfluxDB, but you have to rewire your mental model to fit InfluxDB (it has its own query syntax and internal mechanism). They have versions v1, v2, and v3, and it's not clear which one to use, probably v2 at this point in time. It's kind of confusing and the state of development is very much in flux.

I think TimescaleDB works well up to the single-digit terabyte range (according to various sources). If you need a solution in the multi-digit terabyte or petabyte range, then you probably need something like a distributed VictoriaMetrics setup.

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Is anyone aware of a streams implementation for Postgresql? I see we can do simple queues, but how about a stream with multiple consumers / consumer groups (much like the Redis streams implementation)?
Practically, because sqlite is good enough for one machine and compatible-enough with postgresql that you can use either pretty easily. One thing I wrote was an exactly-once stream processor that fetched events from a lot of remote systems for processing. Transaction-based queue in the DB to achieve exactly-once with recovery (remote systems accepted time-stamp resyncing of the stream of events). It works fine at small scale on a single machine for design and testing (local integration tests with short startup time are very valuable) but trivially scales to hundreds of workers if pointed at a postgres instance. The work to allow sqlite vs postgres was a single factory that returned a DB connection in Go based on runtime configuration.

It's also good practice for designing reasonably cross-database compatible schemas.
$1M would change your life less than you think. It would help provide some cushion but I don’t think there are many actual lifestyle changes that alone would enable.

Invest that, at safe withdrawal of 4%, that’s only 40k/year. I live in SF, and making less than $105k/year is considered low income (according to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development). So yeah it’s a nice boost to savings, but you can’t stop working.
>Bob buys paintings A, B, C, and D as a lot for $10MM.

>later lo and behold “everyone” agrees those paintings are worth $200MM of course.

Didn't Bob just get $190MM increase that is going to be capital gains?
Do you know if any of the popular static analysis tools detect mistakes like this?
The browser business is clearly worth billions annually given how much they pay each other for things like default search pole position.

Completely unsurprising that Apple is not going to throw in the towel when a single region mandates necessary changes.
I live ON the beach, and the beach hasn't changed one iota in the past 40 years, other than a loss of the scarp during / after large hurricanes. The TV "science" is becoming so ridiculous that it's hard to fathom that there are people who actually believe it.

Am I to believe that there is one large, interconnected ocean, and that fluid naturally levels itself out, but that also, somehow, certain places experience sea level rise while others don't? Is it some huge coincidence that the places experiencing extreme sea level rise (e.g., Solomon Islands) are ephemeral and ever-changing volcanic islands and other volcanically active regions that sit upon a soft foundation of molten mantle?

Use your brain, my friend.
Take a look at famines due to ecosystems breakdown in the 20th century.
The Deadlock Empire (2016) – Multithreading quiz
Does anyone know, why does C++ forbid implicit casts from void*?
Why would EU care? EU is about protecting EU residents. They don't have jurisdiction for what non-EU companies do outside of the EU.
Tax fraud isn't really accurate either.
Yes, it is similar to C and C++ commercial compilers with different prices levels, written as modular compilers where the set of available optimization passes, among other features isn't available.

For example, it used to be so that stuff like OpenMP was only available in professional licenses for C, C++ and Fortran compilers.
China close to shipping 5 nm chips, despite Western curbs
> Those who whine about how putting them to work amounts to slavery seems to do so out of pure reflex, and it's just tiresome.

The problem with specifically stating in the Constitution that slavery is abolished EXCEPT as punishment for a crime is that in today's day and age, it incentivizes punishment.

Can you or I say with any certainty that fish suppliers will be able to survive if they don't utilize legalized slave labor to farm their fish? We've just created an incentive for "Slave Fish Co." to lobby their local government to not fund rehabilitation services, or community outreach programs, and reduce investment in social programs. Create a local community that doesn't offer affordable rehab facilities and now the only option is going to prison.

Work as a form of rehabilitation makes sense when utilized correctly. But this is work as a form of punishment and we tied it in with economic factors. As I said, this just incentivizes local governments and lobbyists to ensure a growing supply of dirt-cheap labor.
When using Django, one of the things I am missing from rails is the `db/schema.rb` file containing the whole db structure as ruby code. It is great for getting an overview of what tables there are and also allows you to quickly recreate the db in any adapter (e.g. sqlite for test, postgres for dev, …) without going through all the migrations as Django does.
They pay for Twilio.
Ah, I see.

Some small luxury brands have local, very long-term supply chain relationships that effectively offer the same benefits. As in, maybe the hypothetical Finnish maker of bespoke sailboats buys all their wood from the same sawmill (ever since 1935 when the founders of the two companies went hunting in the forest where the wood still comes from).

But of course only some materials can be sourced like this. A watchmaker and a mine are not in the same industrial league.
Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms warn
> The average prison wage is less than $1 per hour.

We could make up an infographic about how convicts in most states can't even afford a 3 bedroom, 1 car garage apartment on their prison wages just to show everyone how evil it is.

There are abuses in prison that decent people should be offended by and work to prevent, but the idea that they are offered work for wages and the dollar amount's not up to the standards of the "let's unionize Starbucks" crowd just isn't one of them.
imo nhs and uk's rail network are not failing because pure lack of money, they are failing because uk's govt decided to fail them. Uk does have a lot of money, and a lot of money are spent either unoptimally or entirely wrong. Spending money on a collider is not wrong, deliberately underfunding pub transport and promoting car use for any usecas is wrong because the final costs for maintaining this infra & developing it are much higher.
My saying has always been: be nice to the DB

Don't use it anymore than you have to for your application. Other than network IO it's the slowest part of your stack.
In fact, touching anything plastic it generates pollutants. Breathing anywhere near a road pollutes our lungs, eating anything with preservatives and sweeteners harms our health, listening to constant noise contributes to our deafness, constant sun rays cause terrible skin cancers,... and so on, and so on, and so on.

Our lives and decisions affect the universe, conservationism does not work because it goes against our existence and yet we strive to convince ourselves that we can exist as a species in a world that ignores us.

Meanwhile, the constant emergency enriches the usual ones. Very nice, how much mental awakening our generation has, we are going to change the world so much. Wow, we're cool.
There are numerous ID-proofing services out there.
Hal Finney was the designer of Bitcoin
I don't remember the details but I think there was a legend at some point of two different search queries hashing to the same 64-bit integer once and causing problems.
Some people have had the same email address longer than that.
This kind of thing is like insurance. Maybe IT failed to state the consequences of not having redundancy, maybe people in control of the money failed to understand.. or maybe the risks were understood and accepted.

Either way, by not paying for the insurance (redundant systems) up front the organization is explicitly taking on the risk.

Whether the cost now is higher is impossible to say as an outsider, but there's a lot of expenses: paying a premium for emergency repairs/replacement; paying salaries to a bunch of staff who are unable to work at full capacity (or maybe at all); a bunch of IT projects delayed because staff is dealing with an outage; and maybe downstream ripple effects, like classes cancelled or research projects in jeopardy.

I've never worked in academics, but I know people that do and understand the budget nonsense they go through. It doesn't change the reality, though, which is systems fail and if you don't plan for that you'll pay dearly.
This.

Not to make a low effort comment, but this.

But that'll depend on things going smoothly and non-evil, non-dictators winning in the end. It'd be horrific if evil and malicious entities won and decided they just wanted to fuck with everyone.
I have certain experience with some technologies, e.g., SQS and Postgres.

Say I'm on your team, and you're an application developer, and you need a queue. If you're taking the "we're small, this queue is small, just do it in PG for now and see if we ever grow out of that" — that's fine. "Let's use SQS, it's a well-established thing for this and we're already in AWS" — that's fine, I know SQS too. I've seen both of these decisions get made. (And both worked: the PG queue was never grown out of, and generally SQS was easy to work with & reliable.)

But what I've also seen is "Let's introduce bespoke tech that nobody on the team, including the person introducing it, has experience in, for a queue that isn't even the main focus of what we're building" — this I'm less fine with. There needs to be a solid reason why we're doing that, and that we're going to get some real benefit, vs. something that the team does have experience in, like SQS or PG. Instead, this … thing … crashes on the regular, uses its own bespoke terminology, and you find out the documentation is … very empty. This does not make for a happy SRE.
There is now https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_analytics (disclaimer: I am one of the makers of pg_analytics)
How so? Where's North Korea's influence? If anything, Taiwan has more ability to enforce its territorial claims.
As it sits, do the prisoners have the right to refuse this work = sit in a cell or yard doing nothing? I might well choose the activity of the work.
The world's prison systems are, as we all know, systems that promote the wide dissemination of DIY crime instruction from 'old boys' as well as 'tech boys' and it works very well at that!!
With the rise of AI, and the application of AI to detailed instruction (AKA teaching) where each prisoner would have 3-4 hours of instruction, followed by 3-4 hours of AI supervised homework/surfing make a valuable day where they learn various new skills and are taught STEM matter as well as history/arts - as their intellect and interest allows. Prisoners could gain from this, as would we all.
I don't know that I'd go so far as to say reversed course. Things didn't go well for Cromwell and the people who executed Charles I but also stuff didn't revert. Charles II is not a modern monarch but when Parliament does stuff he doesn't like he feels obliged to try to dodge that rather than defy them as his father did.
One Arm or Two? How You Get Vaccinated May Make a Difference
"Probably" - yet the real calculations of probability say it is not going to happen at all, ever. And then when we observe the natural world...lets take things that are alive and then die. Well, are they not essentially a soup of everything one would possibly need for life to arise, even with external energy source from the sun (think road kill as an example)...and yet we know of no instance in which life, by chance formed out of it; all the dead bodies seem to degrade into dirt. Of course if it did happen even once - how would we know as we can't possibly observe all occasions of such things. Anyway - just some thoughts I had on the matter.
Might be referring to these bills: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-re..., https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-res...
> One of the realities of the iPad is that, for most customers, it is a personal video player; for that particular use case the Apple Vision is superior in nearly every way.

Pretty hard for me to imagine parents handing their young kids AVP instead of an ipad to watch videos, or an adult putting on AVP as they go to sleep instead of the pad on the side of the bed. Some people will prefer AVP on a plane over an ipad perhaps, but not all. Maybe teens will prefer it for casual watching, but many people will prefer something where it is less awkward to get up and pee or get a snack or interact with someone else in your house.
"Avoiding taxes, huh? Well it just so happens that you can contribute up to 25% of comp to my 401k tax free..."
Honestly, that's one of the reasons I never want to monetize my work and stay miles away from the software industry.
Modern world is all web apps that require you to subscribe to 20 different 3rd party services to even build your app. So you rack up bills before your product is even remotely lucrative...

Building an app with no third party dependencies seems impossible nowadays. At least if you plan to compete.
OKRs are subjective goals that have objective measures of success. Naming is a problem here, but the idea that a company shouldn’t have goals that are measurable is flatly wrong. In practice, OKRs seem to break down due to two problems: 1) choosing goals that have subjective or unobtainable measures of success, 2) failing to implement hierarchical and cross-department goals that build synergy rather than siloing.
Collect calls carry an additional operator fee, unless rejected.
I agree... but it's important to recognize that the smaller the difference between one's pay and one's expenses, the more impact any kind of disruption has. 'don't go bankrupt' isn't a requirement with a lot of leeway - the leeway to take risks comes when losing a job wouldn't lead to immediate bankruptcy.
AI is the Real Wolf
On macOS, iTerm asks if you try to paste a string with a newline. You can disable it if you find it annoying.
> someone who has bribed (or hacked) someone who works there can

There is literally no encryption that could handle this. By that logic if I bribe or hack yubikey company, then they could ship malicious batch of yubikeys. Or I can bribe or hack microsoft/apple to get root access of someone.
I'd meant to note: Ron Chernow's book Titan discusses this fairly extensively, though I'd need to look up the specific page / chapter references.
The south was truly demobilized, and Lincoln, not with his own faults, was trying to make some amends. Unfortunately, he was assassinated. And due to how the rules were written then the VP, his successor, was his political opponent. Who rolled back almost every law he passed. In hindsight the US election system saw the bug in their system, but it was still too late.

> Otherwise you would have seen an insurgency worse than the Klansman.

Klansmen didn't gain much influence until 50 years later when they had captured the imagination of a certain US President.

> crimes of few at the top of the pyramid.

Okay, we're going to have to debunk this again. Slavery was bad and a lot of southern white people were involved to keep that system in place. A majority owned, controlled, or rented the enslaved. So it was not a few who benefitted slavery, there weren't a few Germans in the Nazi party, and there weren't a couple of French who supported the Vichy regime while everyone else was in the resistance.
It was a shock to me to learn that refusing to work in prison is grounds for being put into solitary confinement. You act as if they are given a choice but it is made under duress.
While I certainly would not support the abuses in the article, being required to work 5 days a week whether you want to or not is rehabilitative for many people who cannot hold down a job because they lack discipline and patience to appreciate that this is how productive citizens afford the basics of life. Along with drug addiction treatment, education, and psychological services, participation in labor is part of making them productive members of society again.

It should also not be for the profit of private companies. They are maintained by our tax dollars, and the public should reap that benefit.
Even Spotify offers scrollable short-form content
This seems to be old news but they probably did staged rollouts as I only noticed it today. It's nothing surprising to see everyone copy the Tiktok format, but it takes some audacity to bring it on a music streaming platform too.
Linking to docs since I could not tell what this was from the linked page https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/
The semiconductors in satellites do have some toxic elements that would be released from otherwise inert conditions on burning up on reentry. but that's orders of magnitude less than what's put into the atmosphere from burning coal and gas. Coal contains lots of stuff other than carbon.
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Classic "Move fast and break stuff" lol
I just happen to be reading Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation universe (1996–2000) trilogy and in it earth has been dealing with the "Armada storms" for a couple hundred years due to climate change. From the descriptions there are multiple of these storms occurring at any given time. Humans now live in "arcologies" which are giant multi-kilometer domes over population centers. There was no way to reverse the damage done. We can't fly anymore so everything is in a very fast underground train system called "vac-trains". I suppose this may be where we are headed (although I'd rather love to see the vac-train system)
The title does sound very much like clickbait, but the "paper" is certainly bad enough that I wouldn't even consider it a scientific paper at all. It's about twice the size of the abstract of a typical paper, and has essentially no content at all.
If Apple maintains that it will only support new web engines in the EU, the EU will step in and force Apple to allow it worldwide. So it's a losing battle for them.
A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before!

Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week.

I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses markdown and supports tags. It has a lot of neat plugins that people have developed, too.

I like it so far!

https://github.com/hexojs/hexo
> its not really clear to me what benefits users get from this

I really want to use a browser with uBlock Origin and NoScript, because the web is a fucking nightmare without them. To my knowledge, Firefox is the only browser that supports those on mobile, but it's Android-only, and I'm currently on iOS. Being able to use "real" Firefox on iOS would let me use the extensions I want.
Commission presents recommendation for 2040 emissions reduction target
https://github.com/reorx/hugo-PaperModX