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I did not come in here expecting to read such effusive praise for testcontainers. If you’re coming from a place where docker wasn’t really a thing I can see how it looks beautiful. And in a fair amount of use cases it can be really nice. But if you want it to play well with any other containerized workflow, good freaking luck.

Testcontainers is the library that convinced me that shelling out to docker as an abstraction via bash calls embedded in a library is a bad idea. Not because containerization as an abstraction is a bad idea. Rather it’s that having a library that custom shell calls to the docker CLI as part of its core functionality creates problems and complexity as soon as one introduces other containerized workflows. The library has the nasty habit of assuming it’s running on a host machine and nothing else docker related is running, and footguns itself with limitations accordingly. This makes it not much better than some non dockerized library in most cases and oftentimes much much worse.
Sometimes you can edit someone else’s live PHP files right on their server.
I love integration tests. You know why? Because I can safely refactor all I want!

Unit tests are great, but if you significantly refactor how several classes talk to each other, and each of those classes had their own, isolated unit tests that mocked out all of the others, you're suddenly refactoring with no tests. But a black box integration tests? Refactor all your code, replace your databases, do whatever you want, integration test still passes.

Unit test speed is a huge win, and they're incredibly useful for quickly testing weird little edge cases that are annoying to write integration tests for, but if I can write an integration test for it, I prefer the integration test.
Heat is particularly bad, so is drying in the sun. I handwash in cold with baby shampoo. I have a "drying closet" I've built. I must confess... figuring out stuff that will last 100 years is a bit(coughhugecough) of a hobby of mine. I get very into who designed something, why they did it, what materials they selected, what factory they used. It's a bit weird I guess as I'm obsessive about it, but I really enjoy it. Nice to see someone else taking care of their clothes!
Dracula vs. Christian Modernity, maybe, but you can't really argue that religious items weren't crucial and powerful weapons in the the story.
Not in the nefarious way implied in this context, but otherwise yes, making the app bend to your will against how the devs want it to behave is part of a broad "hacking" category
That one is a classic example of normalization of deviance. They knew there were temperature limits, but they'd pushed the boundary a bit in the past with no ill results, and so began to feel complacent about the risks of pushing them even further.
> Do you really think people are going to pay an extra $30,000 for a car because it works with the iPhone?

Yes. People happily pay an extra 1-200% for something because it's Apple, all the time. I'll probably never understand why, but I've come to accept that they do.
> It is then absorbed and confined to an alkyl amine solution ready for disposal.

I suspect that creating the alkyl amine solution release more CO2 than the abserved one. And I'm triying to imagine how to dispose the solution to prevent the releasement of the CO2.
If anyone could have created a new category for cars. And NOT gone head on against others. It would of course be Apple.

What is possible is that after spending enough effort on the project, they couldn't see what that new category could be. And that just making one more (like one more monitor perhaps) had not enough margin to bother.
Reliable, viable Starship means the military can rapid deploy a force anywhere in the world in an hour or two.

That would mean huge savings to the military in naval fleet investment, overseas bases. The military would likely pay SpaceX ongoing contracts of tens of billion dollars per year for that exclusive nation-state capability.

The growing Starlink constellation will sustain huge business.

NASA would fund additional missions with the reduced launch costs.

Space tourism and fast global travel is worth another 10 billion dollars annually.

Then there's space telescopes and instrumentation.

Space industry is completely TBD. Here's a kooky idea: how much is antimatter harvested from the solar wind worth? Near earth asteroid capture and mining may be feasible. Moon mining may be on the table.

Militarization of space is an inevitability, and starship provides the payload to get equipment into space.

Starship might provide the launch ability to deal with space junk.

Anyway, you drop the cost of launch by 10x-100x, THINGS WILL BECOME POSSIBLE.
Agreed about Tesla's software being modern and most other automakers' being garbage, but I'll take physical controls for things like climate, turn signals, windshield wipers, and lighting with a side of crappy infotainment software, over slick software with everything being crammed onto the touchscreen and few (capacitive) steering wheel buttons. I don't understand how it's legal for Tesla to delete the turn-signal stalk and replace it with a pair of buttons on the steering wheel...
Well vscode is vscode, vim is vim. Don't get me wrong, I use vim a lot and I tend to use macros as a rudimentary text automation language. And I use it all the time on servers, because its universally installed. Mixing these things is pointless because you are fighting both and getting nowhere.

Learning vim definitely has its use.

But both vim and emacs have lost the code tooling wars long back. You can configure emacs and vim to to anything. And that is not a win vim/emacs users think it is. Nearly all the programmers out there don't want to spend time on sub projects, just to bring their tools to bare minimal working standards modern tooling provides out of the box. vscode just works, it works out of the box, for 99% of the use cases out there and it works phenomenally well.

Plus the whole idea of being able to write out code faster, or navigate faster made sense in UI paradigms of the old, where there were no windows, and a overall better UI experience. These days coding and navigation speed aren't even in the ballpark of factors that slow me down as a programmer.

And yeah, Org mode. Unfortunately Google docs do way more, and you don't have to remember dozens of commands to just make simple tables, add dates and bullet points.

In many ways Richard Stallman had an idea that emacs should have really had a WYSIWYG facilities. But Google Docs go even one step further as everything is saved on a cloud and you don't really have to worry about losing anything at all.

Emacs on the other hand is a great time pass hacking tool, if you are bored or just want to work on something cool.
I dislike this article.

1 hour of intense exercise does account for approximately 500-700 active calories, which increases your daily caloric budget by 36% at the higher end.

All that matters for weight loss is that you burn more calories than you consume, and expanding your daily budget will certainly help that.

What most people need to start doing is actually counting their calories. Staring 600 calories in the face of your Starbucks coffee might get some people to think twice.
Boeing max (if you mean the crashes caused by MCAS) wasn't due to a "mistake" not being reported, it was deliberate and intentional on the part of company management. The system was designed badly and without redundancy, and without any information available to the pilots about its very existence, specifically because management wanted it that way. It wasn't caused by some kind of accident.
The claim that intelligence might not be the primary determinant of a fitness function doesn't seem so extraordinary. What if the neanderthals were a bunch of Einsteins, but they died out because they spent too much time thinking instead of hunting? All we really know is that "we" (that is to say, we homo sapiens) out-competed the neanderthals during some local maxima of the fitness function when the maximum selection pressure was in our favor. It says nothing about our relative intelligence.
It was DOS then. Not eunuchs. How disappointing.
Awful for the emulation team? Yes.

Awful for the gaming community at large? Eh, Nintendo products are not as dominating as you think. It is only available in select countries and has a hundred million users at best. Compare that to PC and mobile gaming, it is almost negligible.

Though it would indeed be problematic if American courts manage to establish a precedent criminalizing emulators. That is indeed a real threat; American courts are not known for robustness or integrity.
Hey! This is awesome! How hard would it be to plug it into something like Raindrop.io (bookmark manager) to train on all bookmarks collected?
We use wide events at work (or really “structured logging” or really “your log system has fields”) and they are great.

But they aren’t a replacement for metrics because metrics are so god damn cheap.

And while I’ve never used a log system with traces, every logging setup I’ve ever used has had request/correlation IDs to generate a trace because sometimes you just wanna lookup a flow and see it without spending a time digging through wide events/your log system. If you aren’t looking up logs very often, then yeah it seems browsing through structured logs isn’t that bad but then do it often and it’s just annoying…
Not quite an answer to your question, but I think what you’re getting at is, “I want a better way to visualize the file structure.”

I agree, the table of contents style is not well-suited. As part of my coding workflow, I recently started opening a terminal and running ranger inside it, and just tabbing over to that terminal to navigate the left-to-right directory structure. So have VSCode open, and open a split terminal window with the regular terminal at top, and Ranger running in the bottom pane. Midnight Commander would work as well - any TUI file explorer really.

I also have started including a “code map” in the architecture.md files of my projects. You can get a nice output by running `tree -L <levels>`, to load a markdown-embeddable tree diagram of the file structure, however many <levels> deep. I add the output to my markdown, and add a comment after each file/folder explaining what it’s for (in less than 10 words each)

Ranger - https://github.com/ranger/ranger

Midnight Commander - https://midnight-commander.org/
This site confused me. It seemed like over half the navigation items weren't working which lead me to think the site isn't finished. That's not the case - it's just largely behind a paywall and doesn't make that obvious.
I once failed a take home assignment because of this. It was writing a couple of api endpoints and for testing, I focused on integration over unit. I even explained my reasoning in the writeup. There was no indication that the company preferred unit tests, but the feedback was "didn't have enough unit tests". What a dumb company.
To be fair, as an adult, if I like something or need it, I don't mind paying at all.

It is as a kid that I was a bit more... parcimonious?

I think people need to be ok with being compensated. That's more cultural perhaps.
After having gone through decades of adopting the "latest and greatest" tech, I've gotten to the point where what I really want is the least-complex thing I can find that does the essential job I want done.

For a computer, I want something with SeaBIOS, a stripped-down kernel, and a handful of packages from the Debian Stable repository. I want it hackable and repairable -- something like a Framework. Nothing like a MacBook. For a phone, I want something that can run Signal, Fastmail, a music/audiobook player, Syncthing, and Organic Maps, more or less. Minimal connectivity to Cloud services, and nothing about it vying for my attention. Nothing like an iPhone.

For a car I want hackable and repairable. Again with minimal complexity. I don't want it spying on me. I don't want computer glitches rendering the car unusable. I want the parking brake attached to a cable that I engage with a lever. I want to be able to shift it into neutral by pressing down on a clutch pedal and pushing a stick. If my 12v battery dies I want the car to be fully functional after a jump. I want a spare tire in the rear hatch with a jack I can use on the roadside. I want to be able to easily fix most things that can go wrong with the car with parts I can find at a common automotive shop or junkyard. Nothing like what an Apple car would have been.

Given the number of people on HN with iPhones and Teslas I guess I might be running counter to hacker culture. I don't know. But I'm thinking I might not be the only person around thinking this way about technology these days.
Your parent wasn’t disagreeing. "These are not 4 separate devices" is a reference to the iPhone launch announcement.
Agreed. I've had to do outdoor winter work the last few years in Alaska, and I can attest that will burn those calories off.
"Railway timetables, telegraphs, phonographs, typewriters, invoices, bills of lading, double-entry bookkeeping: these are the instruments by which Dracula’s pursuers draw their net around him."

None of those were particularly modern?
There are plenty of ways to annoy opposition without looking like an idiot, while these kinds of assumptions are convenient, they are usually wrong in my experience (or just a small piece of the picture). Especially in this case where a lot of those bans appear to be in blue counties...
A bus achieves what with some morality the profit other manufacturers seek via in-car purchases. GM, Rivian, and Tesla don’t want CarPlay for that reason.

A bus network would provide recurring revenue for the actual thing a vehicle is for, instead of DLC headlight patterns.
Meta forced Oculus users to migrate to a Meta account and accept the new terms permitting data collection
Partly. Let's also talk about the ugly world of Certificates of Need and diagnostic imaging and how they collide.

CoNs are something lobbied for by hospitals. If you want to open a new hospital or healthcare facility in an area, you need to apply for a certificate of need, which allows/asks existing hospitals if they think there is a need for your facility, to avoid "overservice" (lol, okay) of an area.

Diagnostic imaging companies - each of the big ones (Siemens, GE, Philips) offer in house financing for MRI, CT, etc., that they advertise to physicians. They also all offer specialist consulting help to facilitate you getting a CoN for your facility. Hell, they all also well help you find other physicians in your area who'd like to go in on setting up a DI facility (and will assist with spinning up the practice).

And then we find that physicians who own a DI practice (or a share in one) refer their patients to diagnostic imaging at rates several standard deviations above other physicians, and at rates that are "statistically improbable" when correlated to underlying ICD-10 diagnostic codes.

Upton Sinclair comes to mind ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it").
> Are there any cases of emulators being sued successfully?

Sony lost all their cases in the past. They claimed they infringed copyright when copying PS1 BIOS for reverse engineering purposes, court ruled that was fair use as it was necessary to gain access to the unprotected elements of the console. The other case was some bullshit about advertising, they had the audacity to claim screenshots violated their copyrights. They lost in court but won in the market by bankrupting their competitors.

Who knows what's gonna happen in 2024 though? Felony contempt of business model seems quite well entrenched at this point. Company puts "IP" into their product and suddenly they get to control what you do with it and it's illegal for you to resist in any way.

Common sense says emulators are alternative compatible implementations of the original hardware which increases consumer choice. People should have every right to make an emulator, doesn't matter if it's an old console or one that's just been released. Emulators are competitors to Nintendo. If they don't like it then they should drop their "exclusives" nonsense and start releasing games on PC where they belong with better graphics and performance and all the bells and whistles that emulators provide.

Who knows what these courts are gonna decide though. The copyright industry basically buys these laws anyway, there's no reason to believe they will rule favorably to the consumer.
Composition should actually be very similar if not identical. All were formed from the same accretion disk around the sun. Distribution of heavy elements within asteroids will be much different from the planets, however, due to the planets having had or still having molten cores.
In most locations around the globe, the air temperature is well below body temp. What's the difference?
The insurer is playing games here.

Emergency care (ER care) is required to be covered even if it is out of network.
So the CT scan should have been covered.

Also if this was post 2021 there is the no surprises act that applies as well. This is when you go to an in network facility and out of network providers are staffing it.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...
Show HN: Dockerized Gemini OpenAI API Proxy
Some other cool dudes made a serverless OpenAI API compatible proxy for Gemini here: https://github.com/PublicAffairs/openai-gemini

I like that idea, but I don't like always relying on external vendors for my stuff. (Yes, ironic that I am using this to access an external vendor...).

So I dockerized it so I can run it in my homelab. Now, maybe you can use it to do the same.
Develop locally, git push, ssh into VM, git pull.

Works fine for small scale FastAPI RAG setup with proprietary, mostly static data. Gateway handles the retrieval and routes to one of a handful of LLM servers. Nimble and kind of fun, honestly.
Do the simplest thing that works for you. You know the tradeoffs that apply to your situation and if you're happy with it then great.

I've much less often seen companies do it the right way than I've seen them cargo cult the "right" way.
I would guess that this speaks to an unattended (developer) user story related to other workflows, or perhaps the container-adjacent ecosystem overall. Testing with any workflow is always tricky to get just right, and tools that make it easy (like, "install a package and go" easy) are underrated.
I don’t have a citation for it, but supposedly returns are a significantly worse environmental problem, not just with these transcontinental shipments. At least with Amazon or Shein or whatever, the packages are shipped as a semi-efficient unit, even for the last mile of delivery. However returns are driven by individual vehicles to the return site, not necessarily in the original packaging, but perhaps, hopefully, bundled up to some degree back to the seller.
My father in law opined that life is a toilet paper roll. It spins faster towards the end
At this point, I think it is worth refreshing what the issue here is, which is whether LLMs understand that the language they receive is about an external world, which operates through causes which have nothing to do with token-combination statistics of the language itself.

> It matters because of humans...

I'm still a bit puzzled here, because it seems to me that the paragraph continuing from here is making the argument that LLM performance on these tests doesn't matter, as far as the question is concerned: in this paragraph you seem to be saying (paraphrased) that despite LLMs' impressive performance on these quantitative tests, they could still fail Turing tests, so their performance on these quantitative tests is not decisive.

> yes my position is that exactly…

The impression I get from what you have written in this post is that you are not claiming that a test conforming to your requirements has actually been successfully performed, you are just assuming it could be?

Regardless, let’s assume (at least for the sake of argument) that the series of tests you propose have been performed, and the results are in: in the test environment, humans can’t distinguish current LLMs from humans any better than by chance. How do you get from that to answering the question we are actually interested in? The experiment does not explicitly address it. You might want to say something like “The Turing test has shown that the machines are as intelligent as humans so, like humans, these machines must realize that the language they receive is about an external world” but even the antecedent of that sentence is an interpretation that goes beyond what would have objectively been demonstrated by the Turing test, and the consequent is a subjective opinion that would not be entailed by the antecedent even if it were unassailable. Do you have a way to go from a successful Turing test to answering the question here, which meets your own quantitative and objective standards?
Yeah it’s much closer to if Jony Ive worked at Suzuki or something.
Oh thanks! didn't know there are quite a few ChatGPT local alternatives. I was wondering what users they are targeting. Engineers or average users? I guess average users will likely choose ChatGPT and Perplexity over local apps for more recent knowledge of the world.
What "civil war" are you talking about? Was Hitler's invasion of Poland also a civil war and if so, what is a civil war in your mind?
I can't make this up:

"Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258.

During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland, the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald reported.

Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.

Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.

She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer."

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-re...
Take away the iPad? Tell them no Youtube on the iPad?

Not everything is an engineering problem.
Honesty at this point I'm planning to move to a country with sane healthcare sooner rather than later.
I do indeed have some projects where my dev environment and my prod environment are the same environment.

I also have things that run from a systemd unit that just points at a (clean) checkout.

And I have something running under a local k3s from a local container registry. Which I haven't gotten around to setting up a proper automatic pipeline for yet, although `make publish` is pretty close.
"Politically correct" in 2024 is neither - it's telling people their body is healthy and beautiful no matter what shape it is actually in.
Think of this market:

The NFL wants to expand to Europe, Asia, South America badly. Problem is the logistics of Mach-1 air travel won't allow that. Same for the NBA, NHL, and MLB. A true world super league of futbol.

We're talking 10s of billions of dollars in new annual revenue for these sports leagues ... if they could transport a whole team anywhere in the world in 4-5 hours.

It costs a couple hundred thousand per flight for a team? Um, the Super Bowl brought in 600 million in ad revenue and probably another 50-200 million in ticket costs.
Unencrypted FTP in our case, over a shared ISDN connection. Copy index.cfm to index.cfm.bak and take a swing. No dev, no staging, just production. We did have regular full backups though. And we took plain text credit cards and put 'em in the database so we could batch them up and send them over a modem to the clearinghouse overnight. Never really got bit bad though as far as we knew and we took hundreds of orders per day.
#RDPro
Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards