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I think there is a difference from people upset around over hyped LLMs and arguing about intelligence in "A.I.". Most of the "intelligence" arguments I've seen are fighting against putting too much stock in chatgpt and Sam's fever dreams.
RFC 4890 is a long read but the end result for home networks does have you block a handful of them.
Surely one can imagine a middle ground between one giant monolith and a huge mess of microservices?
My personal #1 tip on this: don't have enemies. It's worked for me.
...or a $5 wrench
It's stable and mature.

Maybe you don't hear the constant clickity-clack of endless change as a result. Also true that Ruby's most popular in writing web apps and services, where it and Rails continue to shine.

webdev FWIW is a ginormous part of this little internet thing. You know, those Web-based applications and services that run the entire global economy and human society, such as it is.
Citizens United was the correct decision. The alternative is our government deciding who gets to engage in politics. Without Citizens United politics would be even more restricted to a much smaller set of even wealthier people and established politicians who have access to the governemnt approved outlets of political speech.
This is very interesting. I don't know if it was the intent, but Jon Blow doesn't plan to self-host the Jai compiler anytime soon, and I wonder if the rationale is at least in part due to things like this. It's interesting how he doesn't see self-hosting as any sort of immediate goal, quite unlike Rust and Zig.
>They won't insure high climate risk areas? You don't live there. They won't insure high risk vehicles? You don't buy them

Yes, but there are already people who own cybertrucks or live in these places.
Most cases an initial estimate of change cost is utterly overstated because emotional and reluctant to change.

(And, well, this fact is also abused by wreckers who explain any reasonable objection with this factor;))
I wonder if Switch games could be run in a WINE-like environment.
I would argue - its not a comeback, it was always the "king" of web dev.

Seriously, other projects can use its success as a reference for implementation.

And I say this as a front end dev.
"Strong environmental regulations" would make it impossible to just ship to someone without.
> We're going to have piles of cars and homes that no one can use because the risk profile is too high for insurers.

That is entirely the point. If you build a house or vehicle that is horrible from a risk perspective, don't expect someone else to take in that risk.
Sorry for the juvenile joke, but I cannot help imagining an assembly worker picking up the bag, shouting "ur mom's FAT!" and stamping "roasted on Oct 7 2024" :D
No, the identically made mirror that kodak made in parallel was perfectly fine. the first mirror's manufacturer made a mistake
Thanks, I just found out about .pythonstartup and setup writing history to a file and pretty printing with pprint / rich.

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/happiness-is-a-good-pythonstartup or search for a gist
Guess what happens in Ukraine.
This paper was written in 01991. Garbage collection is from 01959. Message-passing (aka object-orientation) is from 01972. C is from 01973. If by "generics" you mean parametric polymorphism, those were added to Ada and C++ in the mid-80s, after having been invented in ML in 01973; in a sense they're an attempt to bring the virtues of dynamically-typed languages like Lisp to statically-typed languages. Even today, I don't think there's a Common Lisp implementation with any kind of parametrically-polymorphic static type system, not even as an optimization. First-class functions are also from 01959, or, arguably from 01936, in the untyped λ-calculus, or 01920, in combinatory logic.

Some of these things were brand spanking new in 01973, but none were in 01991.

There were Lisp systems for minicomputers like the PDP-11; BSD included one (which I think was ancestral to Franz Lisp) and XLISP ran on CP/M. And of course Smalltalk was developed almost entirely on PDP-11-sized minicomputers. But to my recollection virtually all "serious" software for microcomputers and minicomputers was written in low-level languages like assembly or C into the late 80s, not even PL/M—though Pascal did start to win in the late 80s, in significant part by adopting C's low-level features. Nowadays, microcomputers are big enough and fast enough that Lisp, Haskell, or even Rust is viable.

I don't think "the right thing" is mostly about what features your system has. I think it has more to do with designing those features to work predictably and compose effectively.
visual basic has the `with` statement for that https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/langua...
Jist – find JSON value simply
jist is designed to help you fetch a value for a key just like you do in Javascript, but now for the command line! It's faster than jq in my non-empirical testing and definitely not as feature rich - it aims to solve a simple problem with a ubiquitous interface.
> people just went back by being productive building modular "monolithic" architectures, and using "microservices" only when absolutely necessary.

The number of hi-tech companies that are in the middle-to-large scale have increased significantly from the first wave of Rails era.

Majority of hi-tech companies with listed stock have complexity more than "monolithic" architecture.

Sadly, if a company doesn't grow, they will get eaten by their competitors.
As a stylish thriller mostly
We know how much new Hubble would cost. The Roman telescope is based on donated donated spy satellite of similar size and design. It will cost estimated $3.2 billion and that doesn't include the mirror and structure.

New Hubble telescope wouldn't solve the Starlink problem. There are lots of smaller ground telescopes that have view blocked. We would need to launch a bunch of smaller, like 1m ones, to compensate. Also, there are a lot of larger telescopes that are only feasible on Earth. Good example is the 8.4m Rubin survey telescope which is only going to cost $700 million but would be lots of billions in space. That might fit in Starship but the Extremely Large Telescope won't.
Benchmarking the Performance of CSS Property
I'm aware of single/custom car special procedures, but last I checked the Cybertruck can't get a type approval in any EU country. Individual registering them vs. not being able to register them doesn't really make a difference for the argument, does it?

Honestly I might even have bought a nice electric truck, but that weird box on wheels just ain't it :(
It set my pyloric valve off.
> * Find deer after they're shot. Right now you need to hire a blood hound and it takes hours

They tried this exact thing with the kentucky freeway shooter using both helicopter based FLIR system and IR camera equipped drones and failed. Eventually the dudes body was found by a group of ... as far as i can tell, wilderness youtubers working with a police search party.

Even the dogs didn't find him.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain"
I don't know about Rails but Kamal 2 is pretty great.

It's their own E2E solution for deploying and running Docker apps in production. Solves SSL, proxy, zero downtime deploys, etc.

https://kamal-deploy.org/
Look into duckdb. It's not server side, but It's pretty phenomenal for this use case.
That is unfortunate. Life isn't fair. Not a judgement call, just an observation of the reality we live in. Can't find a Cybertruck insurer and can't self insure? Sell it. If Tesla wants to sell them, they can provide insurance as part of Tesla Insurance [1], if Tesla believes they can effectively manage the risk of their insured cohort and the modeled vehicle losses. If Tesla won't insure their own Cybertrucks, also sends valuable signal.

I thought I sufficiently covered my position on places people live in my top comment, but to reiterate: we should absolutely and unequivocally help folks move who need help moving away from climate risk, and very aggressively, through policy and financial signals, inhibit folks from moving to where the climate risk is beyond an agreed upon collective risk appetite (which sets policy, financial signal, etc). This will make folks sad, but to not will make them more sad when the risk exposure is realized.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/insurance
Strange.

AFAIK in Europe car insurance is obligatory and insurance companies can't refuse to sell it to you (if they did it would be mind blowing, catch 22)
"We don't break userspace"
> The right to repair is important, but from an environmental point of view it is not that relevant.

The quote was "completely irrelevant". How is that not contrarianism?

> The best lever we have right now is to reduce consumption.

Ah, consumerism. And what magical lever do we have to reduce that?
Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don't believe
It's never too late! The Rails community is very welcoming.
I am a GA pilot. I also do sim-based training rather than going out and doing risky in-airplane training in order to be safer. (There are some things that we do in airplane because it’s the most effective way available, but most of the really risky items we also do only in the sim.)

I confined my upthread answer to airline pilots because that’s what’s familiar and relevant to most readers and seems most directly relevant to risk-reduction for passengers/non-participants. (We don’t do risky training exercises with pax on board either.)
+1 on Worm. I’ve read it twice and was captivated both times
Ooh I love this take.
Maybe due to "to generate infinite energy?" To the extent that you might mean "capture solar or other energy sources into more usable forms" I don't think you are necessarily wrong, but the phrasing does sound like "perpetual motion machine."
In the AWS world, Athena does more or less what you are describing: but is is targeted (AFAIU) for large datasets. I'm not sure how it would perform on a single (small) CSV to shave off a few bytes in transit.
Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230k Comcast customers
> "The best book I've ever read was Atlas Shrugged in 8th grade. Changed my life."

"huh, ok"

> Really, I'm just looking for people who won't jump down my throat on a faux pas.

I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you.

Edit: tests and trick questions with people you just met is an ineffective way to navigate the world. My 2c
> LOOK, MY SETUP WORKS FOR ME.
JUST ADD AN OPTION TO REENABLE
SPACEBAR HEATING.

Best part is the condescending and ignorant use of “just” and the generally demanding, rather than requesting, tone in the incredulous follow up.
Ask HN: What is the misunderstood difference between X-Windows and Wayland?
From what I understand Wayland has been slow to gain adoption because it doesn't provide some necessary capabilities that X11 provides to application developers out of the box.

My understanding is that application developers are required to write these themselves and that not all developers have the inclination or the resources to do them.

The analogy I can make is with the Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer which provided standardized interfaces to device drivers so developers wouldn't have to deal directly with the quirks of the devices themselves. Microsoft set a standard or some requirements they had to fulfill and device manufactures had to meet those standards for them to be to Windows "certified".

In this case instead of Wayland providing a standard application interface developers can write for, the application developers have to deal with window elements at a lower level.

Can anyone explain to me what the fundamental differences between X11 and Wayland in this respect?

What newer better features is it meant to provide, or what problems is it meant to solve or address in relation to X11 and why should it take so long?

Wayland has been in development for 17 years now. I and I suspect a lot of others too don't understand how something so fundamental to desktop usage is still not ready to be used "out of the box", so to speak after so many years. If it was a part-time project mostly being done by volunteers in their spare time that would be understood, but it has received corporate backing over the years, apparently being something corporations are ready to bank on.

There is no doubt that if it was a fully corporate project it would have been canned years ago, but somehow some corporate backers have been willing to keep it going because of the large component of volunteers involved and it gives them an presence in the free software environment.

Is the "delay" (if that is a good way to describe the situation) due to technical challenges, wrong turns, inadequate resources, complexity or any of the other issues that affect software projects?

I've read a few blog posts over the years about problems developing for Wayland eg https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2022-06-10-wayland-xorg/wayland-xorg.html, though I acknowledge that things may have improved since then.

Right now I just want to go back in time to 2007 understand what it is [sic] at its core at its inception and how meaningful its goals however distant make it an alternative to X11 - what makes it a candidate for its corporate support.

I'm getting the HTML5 vs Flash vibes, when instead of opening up Flash and cleaning it up or creating a more secure open source alternative, corporate agendas preferred to go for HTML5 which in my view was never a proper substitute for what Flash accomplished. Guys please don't let this comment be a major digression.

I just want to understand it technically from nuts and bolts upwards. Some comprehensive diagrams comparing with X11, Windows and macOS would help.
> Fiction: Neuromancer

I've tried twice to read this, but it looses me about 10% in for some reason. Is it worth continuing past that? Does it get "better"? Or does that just signal that the whole book isn't for me?
> But there are countries that have systems similar to ours that are far more efficient as well

Typically, those countries have BOTH a public system and a private sector. This means the private sector actually has to be really competitive, because they're competing with "free" (or close to it). This isn't the case in the US, there's no competition.
Please hire a real artist those graphics on the home page are disturbing.
Just got a reply from them regarding the bucket amount and permission amount limits and both are in fact beta limits.
No idea about the bandwidth though.
A distributed monolith! Worst of both worlds! I’m just kidding of course.
Probably The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew or Titan by Ron Chernow. To me great biographies are more addicting than great TV.
>A main disadvantage of central vacuums is the higher initial cost. In the United States, the average central vacuum system has an installed cost of around $1,000.

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

Considering the price of a house it isn't "spectacularly expensive". On the other hand vs the price of a hoover yeah a bit. Since it sits in a closet or garage and doesn't move, weight becomes a non issue so it can be a real behemoth of a vacuum.
What really gets me, is very young software engineers (not managers or marketers), that emulate the values and behaviors of tech bro billionaires.

It’s not surprising, but it is kind of disappointing.

When
I was young, I was convinced that all the bad in the world, was the fault of evil, greedy old men. If young folks ran things, we’d be empathetic, kind, ethical, and positive.

As SV is basically completely run by young folks, of various races, genders, and backgrounds , I have to admit that it is actually worse, than the evil old men.
So, I'll be honest, I don't understand this market. I get that one can be profitable selling shovels during the gold rush, sure. But I have trouble understanding who is knowledgeable/dedicated enough to try to get their AI app going, but would pay to abstract/outsource this part of the chain.

(I suppose, relately, I have trouble understanding why anyone would just sort of presume OpenAI would be forever the best backend here as well?)
It’s crazy to me that people would rather believe that we can create intelligence by feeding the text of the internet into a statistics machine, than believe that the people making that text are intelligent.
Or maybe we would be enjoying VMS or something like that, not written in a language that 60 years later after its inception still doesn't do bounds checking and decays arrays into pointers to save typing four characters.
Yeah, I think you're right. Thanks :)
No reason you can’t start now!
I just read "When We Cease to Understand the World," and it lives up to the hype.
> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Probably one of the few books (the series that is) I could read on repeat and still laugh out loud from.

I agree it's one of the best books out there.
But they've worked very hard at shielding most users from that complexity. And the end result - making multithreading a truly viable alternative to multiprocessing for typical use cases - will open up many opportunities for Python users to simplify their software designs.

I suppose only time will tell if that effort succeeds. But the intent is promising.
Show HN: Chatbot Arena – compare custom chatbot platforms
hi

like most directories come to life

i had enough bookmarked urls to do something about it

so here's chatbot arena: 48 reviewed "custom chatgpt with your data" SaaS products

with DR, traffic, features, comparisons etc

i have more than 100 bookmarked products so more coming soon!

hope someone finds this helpful :)
I bounced off of it expecting to enjoy it because I read lots of Pynchon.
In my state, you can get out of the insurance requirement by holding $30k in escrow (or at least that's what it was about ten years ago; maybe they've increased it). I guess maybe it's meant to be indicative that you could get your hands on more cash if needed, but that's basically only enough to cover a fender bender. If there's injuries or a totalled vehicle, it's likely not sufficient.
Unfortunately, no. Our internships are fully onsite.
>However, I suspect if someone did a hack that juicy, carrier SOCs would've noticed immediately.

We're talking real deal nation-state actors targeting an industry where for the last few decades the only downside of being breached is having to say "oh oops, sorry" and maybe providing a year of credit monitoring. Security is something taken just seriously enough to avoid a ruling of negligence, but no more.

It is very optimistic to assume that carriers would immediately notice a breach by threat actors this sophisticated.
I'm curious what the state of Sorbet + Rails is these days. I've been out of the ruby game for a little while now.

Last I recall: sorbet itself is quite good once it is well established in a project, but adding type checking to a project (especially a Rails project) is a lot of work.
> but the reality (for better or worse) seems to be that AI is not going away.

AI is in a hype cycle at the moment. Once tech companies realise that they're not going to be able to recoup the billions of dollars they've dumped into the money hole, they'll either raise prices or withdraw products (or a mixture of both).

Consumers, by and large, don't like generative AI. Or at least they don't like it enough to make it pay for itself.
Starlink operational orbits are generally >500KM high (original license "at 525, 530, and 535 km", -Wikipedia).

I think it is not unreasonable to expect any debris clouds from Starlink to impact orbits from 300km to 700km for many months, if not years. Even if the debris with highest eccentricity will quickly burn up in the upper atmosphere, there will likely remain a significant portion in orbits that are eccentric enough to be problematic for higher orbits for years, (slowly?) cascading the debris orbits upward. It doesn't have to happen immediately after impact, but kessler syndrome doesn't have to imply 100% guaranteed loss in a day either.
I recently read the unabridged version, and really enjoyed it. The pacing is a bit patchy, but has (what we would think) surprisingly modern things mentioned - cannabis, lesbianism.

If anyone wants a recommendation for another good book from around the same date, I recommend Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. It has it's adventure aspects, but is also just a great tale of male friendship between two different characters.
12 years ago I wasn’t nearly as successful, but I did have Bluetooth in my car. Even in my old Hyundai and my wife’s Honda we never used the tuners.
Tangentially related: I like to leave my phone at home when I go exercise, and just listen to books via my watch (21st century problems...)

But to this date I cannot use Apple's Books app on the watch to listen to audiobooks I have on mp3/mp4a/... It only works with audiobooks you have purchased in their walled garden.
This is overall a good guide, especially emphasizing the 'condition {action}' pattern; it is a very elegant and clear construct. However, some of the suggestions lean on the "too clever" and can make the code incomprehensible for the newcomer. For instance, if you will use snippets like `awk '!a[$0]++'`, do make sure to comment their use for your sake and others'.
The ones that do are so huge that the number of companies doesn't matter. Facebook market cap is 1.5 Trillion and has $150bn of revenue every year. That's more than many countries around the world. (and I am comparing revenues to GDP).
This also worked in the USA. By the 1990s most arcades operated on proprietary tokens rather than coin currency. Many had skill-gambling machines that had sliding rows covered in tokens, that you would try to dislodge with your own tokens and keep what was displaced.

The "Jungle Jive" version of this would dispense tokens out the opposite side of the machine if the electric ignition of a cigarette lighter was used to lightly shock the metal intake slot. If you clicked it too much too quickly it would go into an alert mode. While this could be accomplished solo, the ideal MVP setup was a team of three: one scout to watch for employees, one to click, and one to collect.