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We just turned back from Nextjs after a 4 month trial for a new application.

Some issues we ran into:

- The dev environment is too finicky. Full page reloads instead of HMR and random errors after x reloads.

- Cache is a black hole and works differently between dev and production. They’re changing things up now with v15, but this lack of stability is not fun to rely on.

- The file based router has its limitations. For instance: having the language in the URL means your entire tree remounts when the language is changed.

- No clear way to bootstrap specific stuff outside of React

- Portals don’t seem to work on the server.

- very easy to mess up auth stuff. At some point Supabase even put out a YT video [0] where their implementation caused auth to be accidentally cached. There are 3 levels of checks you need to do just to be safe, but this is all very opaque.

For me it also wasn’t clear how to combine client and server state. These patterns haven’t been defined yet and I kept running into hydration issues with no clear solution.

A year after the app router the eco system still feels very much in limbo and brittle.

I also worked with Next as a replacement for Gatsby’s SSR, but quickly discovered that there’s no easy way for Next to just pre generate all responsive image sizes it needs for a static output like Gatsby has. You need to implement a custom loader and rely on something like cloudinary. This is ridiculous for a completely static site.

[0] https://youtu.be/v6UvgfSIjQ0
In my view, it sounds like they're trying to tackle way too much at the same time.

Just the core system that converts input chemicals and heat to a fuel is a major undertaking. Focus on that.

Adding their own mirror system might be doable, but only if they use a well known and simple solution.

Trying to add an "AI drone mirror autocalibration" is a major undertaking, enough to keep a medium sized company busy for a number of years.

Likewise with the "solar energy storage system". Just run when the sun is shining, and produce as much fuel you can from that.

If you have more incoming power from the sun than what you can produce fuel from, concentrate on solving that instead. Or just build something that is economical even if the mirror system is way oversized in order to always keep the fuel conversion busy.
> What was wrong with Express.js?

Setting it up was a hassle and so was hosting it. It's a great tool, don't get me wrong but after using Next.js, I never needed it.

There's also Hono (https://hono.dev) now, which is like Express.js but better.
I don't even disagree that these tools aren't useful - I use them myself and agree that they allow for creating things for cheap that used to cost a lot.

The reason everyone is irritated at the tech companies is not so much because they made it cheaper to do these things, but because they seem to have such a smarmy, slimy attitude about the whole thing - these comments by the Microsoft CEO of AI as a prime example. They could have just trained their models on old public domain content, Wikipedia, or a million other things, but instead they want to justify raiding content that was shared for free under different expectations. This is only going to result in a locked-down, paywalled web that is pretty much the opposite of 90s net values.
Their lack of progress in producing power from their system suggests otherwise. Meanwhile the standard quantum mechanical model of matter goes on making correct, testable predictions. Including in fusion experiments.
CUDA doesn't help directly, but Nvidia will provide you with libraries to do what you want efficiently on their hardware so you don't have to.
I was hoping it was about the minerals.
Then the problems are further down the talent development chain - where corporations have limited remit.

A well-intentioned corporation might make sure it was not creating nor subsidizing the problem (say, dumping toxic waste in disadvantaged areas while donating generously to universities priced for the 0.01%), not tolerating stupid racism/sexism in its white male staff, and not motivating its staff to be racist sexists by exposing them to lower-bar "peers" who were selected for their non-white-male status.
I'll never get over how convoluted it felt to make a modal appear on the screen, using the "blessed" Next.js way. You need parallel routes, slots, intercepting routes, file names that look like the blast radius of a shell script gone wrong with names containing (..)s, [slugs], and @slots, and special-purpose file names like page.ts, index.ts, default.ts, some stuff auto-magically passed in as props.

It's like they're trying to take ideas from something like Rails without having ever even used Rails, and then pervert those ideas.

I know I sound overly critical perhaps, and maybe I'm being too harsh, but it just feels like there's this bizarre appreciation or worship of arcane complexity by Next devs. And any simplicity and straightforward-ness is shunned and frowned upon. Like simplicity is somehow beneath them, and simplicity is only for stupid plebs like myself.

I haven't used Remix, but their docs suggest it's simpler.
If you were running the business, what would you do? Would you intentionally damage your odds of producing the best outcome for your company to support someone because of their race or gender?
Idk im french and it seems a good decisio
And the idea that fair use includes training set fodder is a non-starter. This use was not only unaddressed in fair use standards were created it involves a set of capabilities that was inconceivable at the time, so it can’t have been intended — even the most generous reading of “transformative” can’t allow for automated reproduction however fractal in nature.
I really don’t like how remix stuffs their philosophy down your throat. Old next at least was more free form.
> fly a scanning pattern around the focus point and look for mirrors that blind the drone instead of frying the tower.

Or just put up a big black board with reference points on it, and point a camera at that?
phew! perfect
> I thought early Earth had no free oxygen [XXX] until life started producing it as a waste product?

It's correct, but metal did get oxidized abyway before that. Don't expect to time travel and see bunchs of metalic Sodium.

I'm only 99% sure thre was neither metalic Iron. Anyway, I googled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation The idea is that the water alewady had oxidized iron(2+) and some bacterias oxidized it to iron(3+) that is no so soluble and then you got deposits of mixed iron(3+), iron(2+) and oxygen (2-).
> Did it work well longterm? Unfortunately, no. He stayed relatively short (<2y). His framework deteriorated under the new ownership.

I think the issue is that integ tests are not really a place that sees "development". You write the integ tests, and move on, you are not actively introducing more integ tests.

I think that's a shame that this is the common view of the people that need to fund this. Bad integ tests mean bad dev exp, which then results in increased attrition and dissatisfaction.
I guess I own and can do whatever I want with this Windows ISO then.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11/
> It just means those people got out-competed in the market. That's what the free market is for - to serve the consumers, not the producers.

For one, if you serve only the consumers at the detriment of the producers, soon you’ll have no producers left (or, more likely, a handful of extremely powerful ones which will stay stale as they have no reason to innovate).

For another, you appear to be arguing as if the “free market” is an unambiguous positive, when it very much is not. It doesn’t even adequately serve consumers, it serves businesses. The free market is what makes companies knowingly produce and sell harmful substances, like cigarettes or lead paint.
This is definitely one of those citation needed comments.

Firstly, professional armies are recruited from the general population and are on average no better or worse than conscripts.

Secondly, the above comment completely sidesteps the moral aspects. Why should the burden of military service fall predominantly on the poor and the desperate? Why should decision makers be able to only send other people’s children to war?
Ah yes, the invisible hand of free market. Known for being all knowing and never hitting local maxima.
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That is what economics is about in no small part: preferences, their pricing and expression.

The pure movement of money isn't particularly interesting.
It's nifty for music production too, when using "musical typing"
Could it be because conventionally beautiful people are photographed more often and so there’s just more training data?
> the absence of a copyright

Ain't no such thing.

Copyright exists, immediately upon creation (not publication) of a work.

It's different from trademark, in that practical applications, enforcement, registration, etc., does not invalidate the copyright.

Copyright can expire, which then becomes, effectively, "public domain."

Registering a copyright doesn't create the copyright. It simply makes it easier to go after those that disrespect it.

I'm pretty sure that the only way to truly transfer the ownership of copyright of a work, is to have agreements in place, before it is created (like "work for hire" contracts).
Where does that idea come from? Models can generalise well - if you request photorealistic animals dressed in something specific, you'll get it even though there's likely no training image with that example. People wear enough close fitting clothes that the general form is easy to find.

I first heard the "we need naked images to generate good clothed images" when SD3 came out and suddenly it's everywhere. But it just doesn't make any sense to me and as far as I know it wasn't explicitly practiced in previous popular models.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Fell Good culture, is in fact, toxic positivity/Feel Good culture, or as I've recently taken to calling it, toxic positivity plus Feel Good culture.
"Don't Look Up"... tut.. yet another SciFi movie that looks to be turning into real life sigh
I agree but you could still argue that any economic incentive to develop better carbon capture is another win. If captured fuel gets lots of use, maybe it will become cheap enough to manufacture that we will do so purely for environmental reasons.
I know. As well these model outputs are so messed up, it's too much. Penis fingers, vacant cross-eyed stares. This has got to be fine. "Trained on explicit images". It kills me every time. TFA is so emphatic, I think the author is hallucinating as badly as the models are.
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Very interesting reading that. The part about how ranking affect social interactions was particularly relatable for me.

In my case, I experienced this with cryptocurrency. I was a contributor/developer to a major crypto project (was once ranked top 10 in the world). At one point when the token price climbed from $1 to $7 (for no apparent reason), people came out of of the woodwork to talk to me and even offered to work for me for free... Then when the price dropped back down a few weeks later (also for no apparent reason), most people disappeared completely except one guy who kept in touch and I collaborated with later (he happened to know me from a different project I built).

It's weird how that works.
But I guess tennis must feel lonely because it's closer to a meritocracy; if you fail, you can't dispute the score, it's your fault. There are enough matches that you can't really claim that you had unlucky pairings... Maybe a few times but what about the other 50 times? If you fail at tennis, it's close to truth to suggest that you're just not good enough. In speculative crypto investments and tech startups, there are no rules and you typically only get one meaningful make-or-break opportunity in your entire career and also there is an almost infinite number of variables. Most of these variables have nothing to do with you... So if you fail, it's probably some random investor's fault for dumping the token at a bad time or Elon started hyping up DogeCoin and so all the focus shifted towards memecoins away from your project... It's completely out of your control so there is nothing to beat yourself up about.
Well, solar concentrators can in (traditional physics-based) theory increase solar cell efficiency substantially: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0022-3727/13/5/01... . Whether that's cost-effective is a different matter.

But that's not got anything to do with Brilliant Light's claims, which so far do not stand up to scrutiny.
next js is one of those projects that unintentionally makes things complicated on purpose. Everything is going very well up to a certain point. but at some point you find yourself in a server <-> props hell.
The preview pane is also powered by the QuickLook service and has had the same corner-rounding behaviour added.
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The first 4 no. The last one..
It is the kind of attitude that will bring regulations; in the USA it will probably take a decade (as it usually does) for legislators catch up to it after some company skirting copyright laws has became big enough to be another economical powerhouse for the US's economy.

The EU is probably already acting on it behind closed doors, the usual vitriol against "innovation" peddled by the American-way of doing business went pretty high against the AI Act (which is definitely far from perfect but a step into some direction to regulate it), in the near future I can see more rulings or even new regulation to address the absurdity of AI companies consuming all this data for their own profits with no compensation to the creators of it.

My personal opinion is that leaving "innovation" be the only guidance to what is "good" without any morality imbued is stupid. A lot of us has seen the cycle by now, what was innovative before becomes entrenched, the entrenched companies become behemoths, and obviously start abusing their position of power when consumers have very little options to not be in the system they created. The downfall of tech from what I experienced in the early 2000s to what it has come to be in the 2020s is just sad, it's the new 80s finance yuppie bullshit, instead of coke-addicted greedy as fuck bros we have nerdy-blabbing-about-changing-the-world greedy fucks reaping the profits.

This will get ugly, and companies doing it will deserve the retribution if they get fucked.
Well this new level doesn't seem to be here yet, so I'll believe it when I see it. Crypto also "will change the world", except it didn't, for all the confidence of its supporters. Claims about great things in the future are a dime a million.
Sadly, i am pretty close with a population geneticist (Dr Mallard, worked for the CNRS and INRAE before retiring ~20 years ago, we had regular, very informative dinners for years), and while i cannot judge "A farewell to Alms (which seems great), i can tell you that we talked "A Troublesome Inheritance". It was not good.

The context was about the lack of science popularization, and he took the example of this book and his author, which he copiously insulted, and said it was exactly the reason why scientists do not trust journalists and avoid them, because while being ignorantly misquoted and misunderstood isn't a good feeling, being approached with bad intentions and being misread and misquoted on purpose in order to push political agenda is worse. I would have to research more on why this book in particular was on his mind, but i would bet that most geneticists think this book is hogwash.
Hmm the post now links to this doc where I got my figures from: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHd9riWh-hQJnNOzEI_Z...

This sheet only lists the response latency, but it does look more recent than the one you listed.

In any event, the sheet you link to shows generation speed and throughput (generation speed is cell E18 which shows 527 t/s). G18 is perhaps prefill + gen but even that doesn't add up.
If multivitamins are really improving things like sleep and strength why is that not showing up in mortality? Isn't there evidence that sleep quality and strength in later life are negatively correlated with mortality?

Feelings of well-being have also been shown to be negatively correlated with morality.
That Dropbox thing is just a meme which I don't understand. I'm not "in" on the joke, if you will. I don't see how the Dropbox meme is relevant here.
There could just be a difference in hardware. I'm a Firefox user but there is a noticeable difference, just not one that matters much on a top tier soc
How so? The models are educating and entertaining.

Those things aren't what makes a copy fair use, though.
I really like this area of computer culture. RE, writing kernel modules, figuring out how stuff works and making stuff do what it was not designed to do aspects. However, legal avenues to do so are far in between and it requires a huge amount of time and help from peers.
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Good when they do, but depending on what we are discussing, linking to all their sources might be completely impractical.
My experience with Firefox Nightly for ~1 year below. Ironically, the nightly sounds more consistently stable than the current release build then!:

* Never had this tabs problem

* I can see about:config

* Bookmarks are fine and there's no mention of Pocket. Bookmarks show up ON the homepage, but yeah not being able to set a bookmark / any URL AS a homepage is a bit of an annoying feature lack

* URL completion works as I expect it to, although it does bug me how it strips the protocol from the URL so I have to manually type in `http://` for plaintext sites even when I've visited them before; depending on who you ask that is considered a "security feature" but kinda annoying. Other than that, I start typing in a URL and it shows me suggestions from my history followed by option to use my preferred search engine to search it.

All in all, I've not really felt FF (even nightly) be particularly different or unstable to using chrome.

Second comment I've made in this thread where I'm replying (ever so helpfully) "Huh, but it works for me" so I'll stop now :-). I promise the Mozilla Foundation aren't bribing nor blackmailing me.
is introducing diversity in corporations guided solely by profit and not the general good? who would have thought!
Orthogonal implies independence, not inverse correlation (which is what I'm guessing you meant).
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I see diversity (appearance) as a signaling tactic, and it's not always bad.

For example, I'm looking for a friendly kickboxing gym. I scroll through photos of various gyms and if I see a wall of tough looking men, I, a fellow man, am intimidated. If I see some women sprinkled in there, I think hey maybe this place is open and friendly and they won't punch my face off.

Same could apply to jobs. Of course we do want diversity of thought and experience but that's harder to measure upfront.
It’s funny that everything is fair use when it comes to these big corporations using it. When it comes to someone with limited resources and attorney power and it touches their content, then it’s over.
This misunderstanding is getting out of hand. That's not what he was saying at all! He was talking about sites that say things like "you're not allowed to even scrape our content unless it's for search engine indexing". Without any such restriction, they are giving implied permission to download/scrape their content. That doesn't mean you have the right to redistribute it though, or that it's free, and that's not what he said.

"anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it" are his words. Those "with"s are important!
You know what, I thought Next.js was a backend framework. I must be thinking of something else. I mistakenly have confused one thing with another. So never mind lol
I started a project with next about 2.5 years ago. That version is pretty good, easy to reason about.

A year or so back I spun up a new next project only to be greeted with very unintuitive errors regarding trying to use client libraries in server pages? Something like that. I wondered if I was going crazy or if this was actually going in a terrible direction.
What's especially stupid is doing that in the era which we are now entering where countries will be competing for how many immigrants - almost without regard for quality - they can attract - in a world of rapidly shrinking birthrates.
> there are other metrics that can measure quality of life that are better

Yes but are there other metrics that can better measure quality of life that are uncorrelated with mortality?
I’m fine with personal freedoms "American style" but you’re a fucking dangerous redneck if you ignore red lights. I see morons like that all the time and, thanks to them (not you I hope), I’m almost killed once a year.
Next.js jumped the shark with the app router. The page router, though it wasn't perfect, was a nice fit and was an extension of the React way (at the time) by handling the client-side well. You got routing and some ability to execute certain things on the server-side plus basic api support. For everything else you could use a full express backend or even other backend languages/stacks. But like with many things, simplicity could not be appreciated and now you have this mess. It's time for a better alternative.
Is the 13in model suffering the same issues? How about under Linux? Would love a solid machine to replace the Apple MBP but I'm very skeptical.
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When I started working in financial services in 2000, what shocked me was just how diverse the traders were. There were some people from rich families, some working class (I particularly remember one who had previously been running a market stall).

Turns out that capital markets have a great metric for ranking people without discrimination: how much profit they can make by managing their risk.

Ironically, the worst places I've seen for discrimination is in the public sector. They seem to see it as a virtue to promote people of their favoured race or sex/gender.
> and AI will help them to be even more productive

I admire your optimism. But from the datapoints we have, it is not the direction we're heading.
If you read to the end (or indeed just scroll down to the last few paragraphs) the answer is "almost certainly yes, but only if we have the will (and budget) to do so".

What puts fusion development in peril is the rapid improvement of known renewable technologies, and the likelihood that 100% renewables is possible in the near future using only those technologies at lower cost.
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Kazimierz Funk does not roll off the tongue ;) Casimir it is then.
> These findings make a case for obtaining vitamins from food sources, rather than supplements, to the extent possible.

I wish they would say exactly what it is I can eat today to get 100% of my nutritional needs met and not blow my calorie budget.
I already know this, it doesn't change anything. Who is able to blockade the UK's access to oil, gas or uranium, all of which are much easier to stockpile than electricity? The only one with that capability is the USA. Who is able to attack a HVDC line? Anyone with a fifth rate navy.