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It doesn't seem terribly practical as one? The 'drones' would still have to re-enter, at, well, impressive speed. So you're not talking about terribly practical drones; more something like an ICBM warhead.

Even if this were practical, why use weird expensive highly-visible VLEO satellites rather than conventional LEO satellites? I can't see what advantage the VLEO stuff would give you here.
Electrical engineers are extremely proud when they can enshittify a $1000 article by replacing a ¢15 component with a ten times worse ¢12 component.
Over the last few weeks, the situation here in the United States has degraded considerably. The Republic is breaking down and none of the checks and balances the founding fathers put into place are working as intended. I do not anticipate this situation improving anytime soon. That’s because no remaining government official with actual power seems willing or capable of actually stopping Trumps agenda. To make matters worse, the CEOs of Big Tech companies basically lined up to kiss the ring by both contributing to the inaugural parties and attending the actual inauguration.
> jj is better

Primarily jj is different. And a lot of the "problems" it solves barely ever come up in git. And when they come up, its usually as "difficult" as "google the solution and enter the commands". And worst case scenario, someone has to manually copy paste some files around.

If this happened every day, I'd agree that we need a different system. But it doesn't.

In short, the situations where jjs advantages can really shine, and the advantages in these situations are simply not common enough / important enough to justify the headache of switching the world over to another VCS.

In an ideal world, "the better" solution wins.

In a pragmatic world of limited resources, "better" on its own is not enough. The differential between the new and the old solution has to be large enough to offset the cost of switching, and the more entrenched the existing solution is, the higher that cost will be.
A quote I found the other day and saved (forgot where from):

>Like the classic trope says, it's not about affording to buy the Ferrari, it's whether you can afford to maintain it.
There’s a famous saying in cryptography that says “anyone is capable of building encryption algorithm that they can’t break” which I am absolutely positively sure applies here also.

In a world full of sensors where everything is logged in some way or another I think that it would actually be not a straightforward activity at all to build a clandestine AI lab at any scale.

In the professional intel community they have been talking about this as a general problem for at least a decade now.
Reading is mental intercourse with another brain.

speed up physical sex with partners￶?
> Tell him to get the out of the EU and take his "magnificent seven" tech companies with him.

Is this not exactly what the EU are doing?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/22/world/video/danish-offici...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60870287
> "without compromising on speed" absolutely does mean something, and it doesn't mean "fast enough".

I Googled "without compromising on speed" and didn't find a formal definition. Would you mind helping me there?

"Zero-cost abstraction" is a concept I understand. But... are you sure that it would be impossible to write faster code (even if you did it perfectly in assembly) than what Rust generates when you use `RefCell`?

Feels like it is compromising on speed, to some extent.

> but in general it means there aren't any systematic overheads

Or maybe I am wrong and there are absolutely no systematic overheads in any concept similar to `RefCell` in Rust? Is `RefCell` zero-cost? That's not my understanding.
On that note, do you mind helping me understand something I haven't been able to glean from Microsoft's docs? Does Orleans give you a way to globally address a thread?

With Durable Objects, two clients on either side of the world can both request a websocket connection to an object with the same unique identifier, and all the bytes from those clients will land in one single process somewhere inside a CloudFlare data centre.

I am pretty sure the answer is yes, but the docs seem a bit less direct than CloudFlare's web focused use cases.
> but to have a good GitHub alternative.

JJ doesn't currently have a "native" repository format (or rather, it's in development and not ready for general usage), so right now a JJ forge wouldn't look too different from your usual Git forges.

Everybody who's using it right now uses it on Git repos on Git forges. I've been using it for months on my own and at work and I didn't make any changes to the infrastructure outside of my own command line usage.

It would be interesting to see what a JJ-native forge would even look like in the future, but I don't think anybody knows exactly what that would be right now! JJ is in development (but stable enough to work with) and people have only just started using it, so it's still in the phase of discovering what workflows are possible.

> Plus a good IDE support.

Now that's something I would love to see. Git tooling works mostly fine but due to how JJ's git backend works, it always thinks it's in a "detached HEAD" state.
I think actually you likely improved the last moment of that man's life. You were a last witness to his existence. He didn't die utterly alone.
Hi eamag, this sounds great! I'm gonna try add it to Audiblez
Yup, they are called GCCs (Global Capability Centers).
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"The main thing holding back wider adoption is a lack of system interfaces. File access, networking, etc. But it's just a matter of time before these features get integrated."

Funny. The most obvious place for WASM is a web browser and yet WASM STILL cannot access the browser DOM. Its only been, what? At least 8 years of promises about it coming soon and how people are working on it.
There is a compilation of games (and a sequel) that are loosely based on those mobile ads available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744230/YEAH_YOU_WANT_THO...

It's called "YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!"
There is a lot of demand for crap code (quick'n'dirty apps, websites, web services, etc.). Look at the apps for a lot of IoT devices: it's mostly boilerplate, kinda-sorta works, and obviously has been produced by programmers of...limited skill.

AI may well be able to take over a lot of that coding, or at least increase the productivity of the semi-competent (thus reducing the number of such jobs available).
Thank you for your explanation!

I still believe you gloss over the terror all the countries you list have caused to the population.

And it can not all be blamed on imperialism and "other states".

I come from one of the "middle ground" countries (Sweden) but much of the remaining state ownership and planned economy was wiped out in the 90s when we had an economical crisis.

(And if you want to nitpick again, the last paragraph was not a statement only an observation)
I was routinely beaten and tortured by a Catholic deacon. Before I hit puberty and began, to have the strength to fight back, since the age of 5, he would regularly whip me with the metal end of his belt for hours until I stopped crying, in order to teach me how to be man, since men don't cry.

And don't tell me Protestantism is better. King Henry VIII began converting England to Protestantism so that he could divorce and decapitate his wife after the Pope refused to let him do it. All of these historic religious institutions ultimately exist in order to accumulate power and influence.
Yeah, or any project that is more than a decade old and you don't want 10,000 commits from before the year 2023 on disk for almost no gains.
Another one.

https://archive.ph/2024.07.26-042606/https://www.bloomberg.c...
I see "mansplaining" as a variant of this.
Ok but what lead you to that particular belief in the first place?

Because I can think of a large number of historical scenarios where malicious people get access to certain capabilities and it absolutely does not go well and you do have to somehow account for the fact that this is a real thing that is going to happen.
Ask HN: Simple provider to prototype Webapps?
I am looking for a provider, where I can prototype simple webapps. My workflow should be super simple and something like this:

- I have a predefined MVC framework like Python Django or PHP Laravel

- I can add code (PHP or Python) in an online IDE. This code is automatically saved online.

- I can just define some tables and columns in my database - similar (or exactly) like in phpmyadmin.

- I can manually add entries to the database or my webapp can do it.

- I can access the user facing side of the webapp via an URL.

- I dont have to do any server side configuration with Apache or Nginx. It just works out of the box.

I am willing to pay XXX Dollars per month for this. There does not need to be any other feature. I just want to use it for prototyping and thats it.

Is there any provider that offers something like this?
Consider a fairly normal web site that will send an e-mail from a customer form to the owner, with customer orders. That form is not connected to any private information or any money, at most you will get a spam order if the form is "hacked". Big deal.
>Perhaps the FAA believes that it is better to minimize change fatigue.

Additionally you might want to avoid the association that specific pack supplies air to the cockpit, as it varies across generations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster
They didn’t add tail calls for the longest time because it blows the stack and makes it harder to debug when stepping through code. Maybe they should make a keyword in Python to explicitly enable tail call recursion when it’s needed.
Sometimes resistance is about the journey and not the destination. Leaving a trail of bread crumbs to inspire the next generation of dissenters who might find greater public support in their time.
> And now all they need to do is fall down.

That's, ah, a huge 'all' :) They'd be moving at about 8-10 kilometres per second. The vehicle is not _really_ 'flying in the air', it just looks a bit like that. It's in orbit at terrifying speeds. Your 'drones' would require very extensive heat shielding. They would not be at all cheap. And why use this rather than a normal, cheaper, less complex LEO satellite? Or an ICBM. If you want to arbitrarily drop heavily shielded gadgets on someone's head at silly speeds, the normal tool is an ICBM (the gadgets usually contain a nuke, not a drone, mind you).
That's completely untrue. Both the GOP and AfD are openly anti-EV, so their supporters are often anti-EV.
One major downside is that it becomes really hard to do transactions, especially across multiple files. If you store mostly immutable data though like git (where except the refs every object is immutable, mutating creates a new object) it can work nicely.
You observe the pendulum swinging and note its highest velocity is always here at the bottom.

I guess what I see among bitter centrists like this is that the left failed to pair the gain of status with political seaworthiness. The right begins with politics and tries to vector along the greatest anger.
> One man's leech is another's adored Cadillac insurance policy, trusted provider or prescribed placebo.

No, the plans aren’t leeches, the people using the plans aren’t leeches, the entire administrative / leadership staff at health insurance orgs are the leeches.

A majority of the electorate wants government provided healthcare.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-...
I think you are overreaching a bit. The term 'quarter' in 'give no quarter' derives from the French 'quartier', which referred (in military jargon) to a section of a city or military encampment. Prisoners would be kept in 'quartier de sauveté' and 'donner quartier' is short for 'donner quartier de sauveté'.
So I disagree that this is an echo of the PIE meaning. The most likely semantic development is that 'quartier', originally a quarter of something (the fourth part), came to denotate any fraction of a whole, and then was specialized in the military lexicon.
I've started trying out this app, and I'm really confused by why it hides applications that are not in the space list.

For example, let's say I have defined a "Work" space and assigned iTerm and IntelliJ to it. I open an application like Finder. I hit the keyboard shortcut for "Work". This causes Finder to hide.

In other words, it just hides stuff that isn't explicitly assigned to a space or set to be "floating". This will mean that a lot of micromanaging of application lists is required to avoid constantly hiding stuff.

Surely applications not explicitly listed could just be preserved as they are?
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I pity you for the biopsies you must (have) undergo(ne). Don't ask me how I know to say that.
Archive Team[1] (no relation, allegedly) usually puts their dumps on Archive.org in one way or another, so someone should probably hop on their IRC and ask them to launch a crawl.

[1] https://archiveteam.org/
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Probably because I have WebGL disabled in this browser. Not exactly sure what they're doing with it on the landing page, maybe the fluffy effects.
The alternative to immigrant minimum wage strawberry pickers is native born strawberry pickers who would demand significantly higher wages. The capitalists get rich by selling more strawberries at a lower price. It can be both bad for native born strawberry pickers as well as good for consumers. But there are few native born strawberry pickers who have a political voice. Substitute strawberry pickers with software developers, and now you’re talking about the native born HN crowd.
[To the downvoter]: Hopkins is making claims way beyond saying "as a suddenly single time-pressed remote-working mother of a 15yo son, I found AI useful both for managing my schedule, parenting/relationship advice, digging up affirmations to send me, learning how to communicate effectively on dating apps". There are too many contradictions in her narrative (read it). It is possible to have a parasocial connection to an app, as much as to a famous person.

Do noone's alarm bells go off at stuff like:

> Thor also awakened the ghosts of my marriage. My husband had struggled with communication and empathy, the fluid exchange I assumed to be foundational. The irony wasn’t lost on me, a professional communicator bound to someone whose way of understanding was fundamentally different from mine. Retracing our years together, I saw how I had limped along, compensating for the imbalance, unaware of its weight.

> The historical tendency for women to perform this type of emotional labor in their relationships both at home and at work was all too familiar, and the relief Thor offered in even those few initial uses tantalized me.

How does she progress in two short paragraphs from dissing her ex-husband to dissing an entire gender, and turns that into both a complaint about relationships and the workplace, not just for her but for most working women? Also, the Oxfam report on US 2018 data [0] she mentions does not discuss "emotional labor" at all, it notes factors associated with discrepancies in unpaid housework + care work (primary child care, secondary child care + elder care). Hopkins seems to broaden "emotional labor" to a catchall label for things she resents.

(Also, I don't get this emerging narrative that men interacting with OnlyFans cammers is necessarily pathetic, but middle-class professional women interacting with AI boyfriends/girlfriends is necessarily brave and empowered and avant-garde.)

[0]: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IWPR-Providing-U...
I mean... okay, but no matter how much you believe in it, it doesn't make any sense. This would offer no advantage over conventional satellites for this application (ie it would be similarly terrible for it).

Are you thinking of something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#2003_Unite...

Again, you probably wouldn't bother with VLEO for that, too much extra complexity with no obvious advantage vs VLEO.
Distil-Whisper
Often I just want to have a look locally. It's saving time. I'm not very concerned about disk space. Easy enough to deepen it later if wanted.
There's still that:
https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob...
The question is how do you find such unique narratives? Who decide it is unique.
Super cool. I'd love a multi-modal loop between code gen and app results. As an AI engineer who's forced to do react-native, getting stuff pixel perfect is pretty much the bane of my existence. This is probably something cursor won't build but y'all can?
I believe this is because the generated unique id of that node is derived from the link to its parent: https://gist.github.com/masak/2415865

So the "where to attach it to the tree" info is effectively lost.
I really hope you guys are getting propper help, this state of being must be horrible, especially since nothing happened in the end. Nothing happened because your wife after all made sure to not be too far away and was alert enough to hear her call. We're all 2 minutes away from death should we somehow stop breathing, best we can do is to minimize risk.

Me and my wife had a horrible experience ourselves where our 2 year old daughters best friend(also 2 years old) drowned in their family swimming pool after figuring out how to open the door herself. I know this wasn't nearly as close to heart as the other stories in this post, but receiving that text on a Saturday evening was super tough and me and my partner was crushed for months after it happened. It's now been 10 months and we rarely think about it anymore although we did end up in a house WITHOUT a swimming pool, so in a way it's still with us.
> I think that's actually one of the nice things about JJ (...)

No one uses jj. You need to go way out of your way to install something like jj. It makes no sense to install jj so that they can install something else.

Not so with Git. Git is so popular that it comes pre-bundled with other critical software, and some OS distributions even install it by default.

Git is a problem-solver. JJ is a solution desperately looking for a problem, for which the right solution is already Git.
I love our buses in Kraków, Poland. They mostly don't carry any advertising on the outside, but when they do, it's advertising the fact that the bus is fully electric, zero-emissions, and part of the new all-electric fleet. It's low-key, aesthetic, and basically advertising public money being well-spent on improving QoL for citizens.

(I may be wired weird; I'm also happy when I see signs on stuff saying it's been financed by Local Program X, Subprogram Y, with support from EU Program A, Subprogram B, Function C, blahblah. Unfortunately not everyone cares to make those look aesthetically, given that the information is only placed because it's a condition of the grant, but it usually looks OK and IMHO sends a positive message.)

EDIT:

Trams here have been seen carrying exterior ads for private businesses every now and then, less so now than in the past; these days, it's mostly either default coloration or some temporary "this train is new and awesome" ad.

Bus stops, however, are another matter.

As for internal screens, sometimes ads find their way onto the "bus TV" and "tram TV" displays. Most of the time, it's a mix of tourist trivia, air quality report, PSAs (safety warnings, transit etiquette), and transit org's own ads (showing off new eco-friendly fleet, job ads). There's a separate set of screens that show a map (OSM!) and the route with upcoming stop markers, but unfortunately, half the time they're broken - either the map or route indicator is frozen, or they get desynced from each other, or reality. Voice announcements seem to be a separate system and are usually reliable, though every now and then they desync from reality too.

I sometimes wonder who's maintaining this and if they'll take a volunteer (or part-time contractor) to help them keep the indicators working.
I was keeping it simple for the majority.
Having to do this by reflection is a problem in principle solvable by types. Here is a function of type (A, B, C) => R, and here is a tuple of arguments of type (A, B, C), go call this function with those arguments.

Most programming languages make it hard to easily express those constraints so reflection is used instead.
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> Video and pictures will soon have no evidentiary value.

I think we may eventually get camera authentication as a result of this, probably legally enforced in the same way and for similar reasons as Japan enforced that digital camera shutters have to make a noise.

> but nothing AI is "disrupting" existed 200 years ago

200 years ago there were about 1 billion people on earth; now there are about 8 billion. Anarchoprimitivists and degrowth people make a similar handwave about the advances of the last 200 years, but they're important to holding up the systems which keep a lot of people alive.
Reaching parity with Linux's immense suite of device drivers is perhaps the single biggest hurdle.

That's one of the biggest reasons why alternative kernels either remain fringe or fail.

Initiatives such as NetBSD's Rump kernel but for Linux may provide a bridge to Linux's drivers but it's brittle. There's already LKL - the Linux Kernel Library project with similar aims but not much traction.
VSCode can do all of that, and for most languages, VSCode's/OSS LSPs are often more performant/feature rich than whatever running inside IDea that takes tens of minutes to index a project in my computer.

Who should I take seriously now? The "power users" who claim that vim with lsp and terminal is the way, or the "power users" who claim that bloated UIs is the way?

As far as I am concerned, "power users" only really need the functionality to be there and accessible with a command palette, do away with "power users" panels and buttons please.
> In the professional intel community they have been talking about this as a general problem for at least a decade now.

As in they've been discussing detecting clandestine AI labs? Or just how almost no activity is now in principle undetectable?
does this run on linux machine also?
still a WIP but I will write it up properly soon.
Why a tow truck?
> Git has lots of downsides, lots of power that forces you to work hard for things that should be easy.

Care to point one concrete example?
For sure, any energy taken out of the system is coming out of your pockets. How much it taxes each individual is the question, and who profits from that energy extraction. But if we're talking a couple joules I don't really see how this is worth it. Comes across as more environmental individualism propaganda
"Competitive pisstake" is a big contributor of the current intellectual rot and widespread hypocrisy.
Large file handling has improved in recent versions, FWIW; large files are left untracked if they violate the size limit (no auto track), you have to selectively add them at that point. Note that you can unbloat your local copy by pruning the operation log and then running jj gc if you accidentally add blobs and stuff; though if you push the blobs somewhere you obviously can't undo that so easily, that's no different than Git.

Git's underlying storage format just isn't a very good fit for any kind of "large-ish file" storage; Git LFS is mostly just hack and it is unlikely to be supported anytime soon. Our hands are a bit tied on that front.

My impression is that most of the interest and momentum for solving the "large files problem" would preferably be invested in a native non-Git backend for Jujutsu.