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A vulnerability was observed on Incognet VPS (and potentially other providers such as kyun.host and buyvm), where photorec can recover files belonging to other customers. Thousands of unrelated images, databases, and executables were discovered. Incognet downplayed the issue. As a result, anyone could potentially extract other users’ sensitive data, indicating that VPS virtualization does not protect against this method of file recovery.
> Go has an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a decent type system.

It's not lost on me that this is a widely used aphorism. The problem is that it's not true in any way shape or form.
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Yes, I agree that the rise of gAI has had a major impact on this, but the fact that the meaning of AI in CS and AI in sci-fi are different was also very apparent before all this happened. Marketing and finance people have been trying to associate the hard-math, grounded-in-reality AI with "it's magical, it's smart like a human!" many times before, this time they just were very successful at it.
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India did a fork in its flavor of politics in the 1980s. The goals went from making a industrial state, with a big middle class, with health care, housing, decent working hours and retirement -to- making politics whose goals were restoring cultural-religious pride and history revisionism.

There was total chaos through 1980s and 1990s, governments would come and go without outright majority without much progress on the economic front. Only exception was being at the right time and place for the outsourcing boom. But its effects were limited to a few cities and groups of people.

There was some correction in 2000s, but it does look like making a affluent industrial economy is neither the goal of the political class or the electoral section.
Nice speech, but the argument about VPN costs is just as spurious as it was a few comments ago. Why has this passionate concern drifted into nodding along to such ridiculous arguments?

I too am I Firefox user, I too am invested and concerned with, say, adtech. Somehow I've managed to avoid saying crazy things about VPNs.

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Edit: replying here because it won't let me add a new comment. I'm not making the positive claim in the VPN argument. It's puzzling why "based on no information" would cut in favor of an argument asserting VPN has unprecedented costs without substantiation but not against it.

Also, as I've already pointed out and the other commenter has (as well as commenters in previous threads whenever this comes up), what we know of ordinary costs to run VPNs would not imply any expense on the order of magnitude necessary to make the argument work. Which is a legitimate challenge to speculation that would presume otherwise without substantiation.

And once again I have to emphasize that this is completely detached from any cause and effect argument about what missing browser feature would have otherwise been developed but for the resources spent on a VPN. The idea that there's a legitimate open question about whether a re-wrapped VPN is costing millions or tens of millions in losses is not the reasonable argument you seem to think it is. And it's not because reasons, like the ones mentioned here.

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Edit 2: This was originally about whether the VPNs were a cost sink on the order of millions or tens of millions of dollars. But now it seems to have changed to whether the VPN generates enough revenue that it's a positive way to contribute. Not sure when that happened.
Seeing that Hejlsberg started out with Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and that Go also has a lot of Pascal-family heritage, he might hold some sympathy for Go as well...
yes, and TypeScript is not JavaScript. Objectively, every element of _TypeScript_, strictly speaking, is well known to be separate.
I think we should ignore people in universities since they're the ones who brought us here, advising us to embrace global trade and admit China into the WTO under the obviously wrong thinking that trade would somehow magically transform them into a liberalized ally.

What ended up happening was the complete deindustrialization of the US and decimation of the working class, massive trade imbalance and essentially handing over untold wealth to the despotic Chinese regime.

Only an academic could come up with such a disastrous plan under such sophisticated and intelligent pretense.
Not when compiled by NativeAOT. It also produces smaller binaries than Go and has better per-dependency scalability (due to metadata compression, pointer-rich section dehydration and stronger reachability analysis). This also means you can use F# too for this instead, which is excellent for langdev (provided you don't use printf "%A" which is incompatible which is a small sacrifice).
Uff, this brings back memories of Maven 1 and Apache Jelly.

Jelly was a scripting language using XML. It was an aberration, and Maven 2 removed it. This feels like Jelly, but in YAML instead of XML.

I don't intend to offend the author, but I don't see the use case for writing the recipes in YAML instead of using a shell function (or Python, which is multiplatform). The YAML metadata will work if you have a sort of low-code UI or want to show the steps in a UI (which is the main reason CI/CD platforms use it). I guess the author got used to the CI/CD YAML pipeline configuration files and wanted a similar experience.

However, it will quickly end up being a pseudo-programming language without the benefits of a better composition syntax.
They haven't owned any part of Chipotle since 2006 [0].

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-once-owned-90-chipo...
Native AOT exists, and C# has many C++ like capabilities, so not at all.
I think this is a fundamental issue with naive RAG implementations: they aren't accurate enough for pretty much anything
There were a series of performance art type challenges to citizens united in Washington state, including one guy who wanted to marry a company (application denied - company was under 18 years old. Really.) And given Seattle’s economic history and trajectory, “permanent” trusts that can revive your frozen head in a couple of hundred years are not uncommonly sought after but difficult to achieve in the US. As you say, trust law is complex, not least because there are basically three overlapping trust systems. I think UK law is likely the one you’d want for these. Scottish based trust law includes the concept of reverting a trust for the common good, (based on an amazing amazing sequence of events where the sole surviving relative of a rich Scottish dude challenged his trust formed for the purpose of putting statues of himself up everywhere in Scotland — she won, trust dissolved, then when she died with no heirs or relatives, she tried to make the same bequest — the state itself dissolved the trust and took the money.) And, my very basic understanding of Civil law trusts is that they are less interested in the beneficial owner part of the trust and more interested in following civic/statutory rules. Well, maybe a civil law country would be a good place to start here actually.

Obviously, IANAL.
Sorry I was working from memory yesterday... It's 1800 rpm / 30 Hz, not 60.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range
You are correct: https://www.finder.com/uk/stats-facts/tv-statistics its 4.25 h, so i get its even more with countries with older populations (germany, japan)
She used to be a Democrat.
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> sounds like cross platform AOT compiled C# not being mature and performant was a big reason

I don't think it was the performance. C# is usually on par or faster than Go.

Could be the lack of maturity but also that I believe Go produces smaller binaries which makes a lot of sense for a CLI.
I think the evidence says you can have both. When I say 'the evidence' I mean just looking at nature. In nature you clearly see animals and plants that are massively more efficient at tasks than their ancestors all while living in more diverse environments and in larger numbers so clearly you can get both efficiency and flexibility gains. I think though your point has merit but I am finding it hard to write a super clear example of it. Maybe this is because there is a confusion between efficiency and temporary advantage? I think of efficiency more like an attempt to get the maximum infinite gain while a temporary advantage attempts to maximize the immediate gain only. It isn't an efficiency gain if you go out of business in 5 years just so you get a windfall now. With that in mind it is clear that you can create temporary advantages very easily but they may not be long term efficiency gains. Figuring out what is just a temporary gain and what is a long term efficiency gain is hard though. There are no crystal balls to tell you the truth of the future. Diversity in a system means that you will have a lot of different approaches to the problem to try which gives you more of a chance to find the long term efficiency instead of just a temporary advantage.
Yeah - no problem with that section, nor with the rest of the video.

As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England.

Added: Apparently some folks had difficulty comprehending "Derry Girls".
In my country even a big mac is 5 euro. I think if you're struggling cooking pasta would be a more efficient meal.
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I will never use EOM, as a matter of principle. Niche jargon removes friction for a minority, and adds friction for a majority who are forced to google it.

I do send one liner emails, but with a blank subject. For most email apps they show up as "George (no subject) - What's your middle name?" or similar.
Fair point. I would say no. Even getting paid extra for extra work.. I would still be at an energy deficit because our tethering of energy to the amount of money we make is somewhat artificial.. There are limits on how much control we have of ourselves no matter how much money someone gives us. To make things extreme for the sake of clarity.. Whether I am paid a billion dollars a day or one dollar a day, I know I will need at least eight hours of sleep either way (to operate at full capacity)...
> Why _not_ use Go?

Because of its truly primitive type system, and because Microsoft already has a much better language — C#, which is both faster and can be more high level and more low-level at the same time, depending on your needs.

I am a complete nobody to argue with the likes of Hejlsberg, but it feels like AOT performance problems could be solved if tsc needed it, and tsc adoption of C# would also help push C#/.NET adoption. Once again, Microsoft proves that it's a bunch of unrelated companies at odds with each other.
well, thanks for explaining. we might just simply disagree here. when I hear "TypeScript" I think of TypeScript, and when I hear "JavaScript" I think of JavaScript. I know what you mean re: casually speaking, but this is a blogpost from the TypeScript team. That context is there, too. I think if the same title were from an AWS release note, I'd totally see what you mean.
Yeah, similarly I've heard people say that the Maine accent, particularly "down east" islanders, is similar to an English accent in some ways - I think specifically some region of England, like Yorkshire maybe??
https://archive.is/ypiZr
Yes there is that irony, however when these kind of decisions are made, by folks with historical roots on how .NET and C# came to be, then .NET team cannot wonder why .NET keeps lagging adoption versus other ecosystems, on companies that aren't traditional Microsoft shops.
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You could treat it as an nullable Option<SomeType>.

In practice, as it relates to enums, I don't usually see 'no value provided' as a frequently used case - it's more likely that 'no value provided' maps to a more informative 'enum' value
This is shockingly out-of-date statement by Anders.

I'm not sure what's going on, I guess he's just not involved with the runtime side of .NET at all to actually know where the capability sits circa 2024/2025. But really, it's a terrible situation to be in. Especially just how worse langdev UX in Go is compared to C#, F# or Rust. No one would've batted an eye if either of those was used.
Immaturity of native AOT sounds like a likely culprit here. If they're after very fast startup times running classic C# is out. And native AOT is still pretty new.

You can write pure functions operating on data structures in C#, it's maybe not as idiomatic as in Go, but it should not cause problems.
Every time this happens, I have to wonder if this is just a test of courage for automakers. There was no reason practically all of them had to have a go at removing all the buttons and replacing them with poor substitutes before realizing that physical buttons are neat, and we should keep them around, right?
Even mid range GPUs are proportionally much more expensive. I built a decent gaming PC with a GTX 760 10 years ago for about $900. These days you'd have to pay double for the same relative performance.
This is great if you are fine managing npm packages, seems the only smooth way to install mermaid-cli. I'd say this is a mermaid limitation not a presenterm limitation.
Yes, in fact that's one of the main reasons given in the two linked interviews: Go can generate "real" native executables for all the platforms they want to support. One of the other reasons is (paraphrasing) that it's easier to port the existing mostly functional JS code to Go than to C#, which has a much more OOP style.
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It kinda is already; strip type information and you've got valid JS. NodeJS supports running Typescript nowadays with the exception of some uneraseable syntax that is being discouraged, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before that bubbles up to V8 and other browser JS engines.
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>Another is that humans will find other ways of exploring and spending time that doesn't necessitate productivity.

Take just about any British musician from the past 50 years - the ones who weren't middle or upper class almost all say that being on welfare (the dole) was what gave them the time and freedom to be creatives.

UB40, for example, are literally named for the application form.
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That's a new acronym to me, what is it?
The reason why I said it sounded that way to me is that the 'intelligence' part in AI was never meant to imply some kind of superhuman ability. I highlighted the age of the field to point out precisely that judging any AI systems as humans would've been seen as outlandish and laughable for most of the field's existence. If computer vision is AI, then surely text generators can also be. It doesn't have to be a glamorous term, it's just the technical field.

Besides, if LLMs only recycled training data with no changes, they'd just be really bad search engines. Generative AI was created initially to improve training, not for human consumption - the fact that it did improve training shows that the result is greater than the sum of its parts. And since nowadays they're good enough to pass for conversation, you can even observe that on your own by asking a question that doesn't appear anywhere on the training dataset - if there's enough coverage on that topic otherwise, I've seen them give very reasonable answers.
Not sure if you are been to the EU. There is not table where they talk, they just compromis and ignore along the way and then the commission decides everything behind closed doors, which might be your table
I was raised in Texas by yankees. Now I'm living in Israel with a British-born wife. I had no problem understanding that. It sounded to me like how some of my older friends in Texas talk plus a bit of slang. Maybe the exposure to British accent at home and a multitude of English accents at work and on the street helps.
Nextdoor is a hotbed of homicidal motorists, among other categories of terrible people. Often the murder-drivers are also the "community moderator". Overall the site is terrible.
Quite some years back I worked with JetBrains MPS which used a "projectional editor" instead of a text editor. It was pretty neat to be able to enter "code" as mathematical expressions, or even state machine tables or flow diagrams with actual nodes instead of a text representation.

Sadly not much has happened in that space since then, but it was cool to think about what our tools of the future might look like. (of course ignoring all the practical reasons why we're probably still using regular text files in 100 years)
Patat looks great, is there a means to export to pdf? Thats one thing I think I need, to be able to share a doc of the slides I present.
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Anders answers that question here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qowKUW82U&t=1154s

Transcript: "But I will say that I think Go definitely is much more low-level. I'd say it's the lowest level language we can get to and still have automatic garbage collection. It's the most native-first language we can get to and still have automatic GC. In contrast, C# is sort of bytecode-first, if you will. There are some ahead-of-time compilation options available, but they're not on all platforms and don't really have a decade or more of hardening. They weren't engineered that way to begin with. I think Go also has a little more expressiveness when it comes to data structure layout, inline structs, and so forth."
Musk has adapted Trump's and Russia's policy: never tell the truth. Being honest is a weakness.

This is of course wrong. Obviously ethically but also practically. By now we already know that everything peoole like this say is probably not true.
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> All that being said I believe the Cybertruck is still the best selling EV pick up on the market

According to the first story I found [0], Rivian R1T outsold Cybertruck in in 3Q24 and F150 lightning had outsold it YTD at the same point last year.

[0] https://fordauthority.com/2024/11/ford-f-150-lightning-sales...
DIY systems have come a long way :)

How long will this keep a fridge powered?
I'm a bit confused:

- It's not ambiguous because they mean $X.

- It is ambiguous because it has many possible meanings.

- It is not ambiguous because it has many possible meanings
Modern LRMs do have some tiny degrees of intelligence
> So, "maybe".

Ye I guess it is plausible but dunno if there would be enough crocodiles.

War stories like these are often just made up for propaganda or jingoist gossip purposes.

Like, Wikipedia references a source saying the "crocodile massacre" didn't happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramree_Island
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> Especially just how worse langdev UX in Go is compared to C#, F# or Rust.

Can you explain why the DX in Go is "worse"? I've seen the exact opposite during my professional work.
Pure speculation, but C# is not nearly the first class citizen that go binaries are when you look at all possible deployment targets. The “new” Microsoft likely has some built-in bias against “embrace and extend” architectural and business decisions for developers. Overall this doesn’t seem like a hard choice to me.

Cue rust devotees in 3, 2, ..
Perhaps, but what surprised the DOGE folks is that “in role” included some people who were recently promoted or had changed teams.. so many of the laid off employees were actually long-time employees with a ton of institutional knowledge. Perhaps they would have learned as much if they had done literally any due diligence to understand the departments they were tasked with organizing, but I guess we’ll never know.
It'd be one thing if they just didn't help more, but they actively exacerbated it. There was food in Ireland, it just wasn't for the Irish. From the article:

> The problem was not that the land was barren.... But almost none of this food was available for consumption by the people who produced it. It was intended primarily for export to the burgeoning industrial cities of England. ... In the mid-nineteenth century, Scanlan notes, fewer than four thousand people owned nearly eighty per cent of Irish land. Most of them were Protestant descendants of the English and Scottish settlers who benefitted from the wholesale expropriation of land from Catholic owners in the seventeenth century. Many lived part or all of the year in England. They rented their lands to farmers, a large majority of whom were Catholics. Scanlan points out that, whereas in England a tenant farmer might pay between a sixth and a quarter of the value of his crops in rent, in Ireland “rent often equalled the entire value of a farm’s saleable produce.”
Sort of like the pipeline sabotage. There’s no way Ukraine could be behind that.
I came away from 2016 wondering if any of the electoral outcome stuff is worth doing given how much it gets misunderstood.

“They said Hillary had a 90% but Trump won! They’re idiots!”

No! They said Trump had a 10% chance and he won. It was a predicted outcome!
But does anyone use them? Everyone org I've worked for and with - large government departments, publicly traded entities, small PE owned entities use excel.

As others say in this thread, the world runs on Excel.
I recommend this video by Computerphile - He talks about how NIST may have been pressured into enforcing compromised (backdoored?) cryptography methods as a standard - Dual_EC_DRBG to be exact. He also gives a super cool/intuitive breakdown on how this came to be. It will definitely grow some food for thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww
As someone of Indian descent, realistically speaking, Indian nutrition is going to be bad so long as the upper classes continue to moralize over it. Recently, there was a kerfuffle in Maharasthra because the state government wanted to remove eggs from the state lunch program and go lacto-vegan only. This is due to some people considering eggs unclean (like many other animal products). This sort of moralizing is extremely common in India, despite being a poor country. To put it bluntly, moralizing over diet is a past-time of the wealthy, not a way to run a country.
If we simply implemented my benevolent dictatorship for life, we'd have a system under which installing Microsoft Excel became a capital crime.
>> Its not going to replace human coder anytime soon.

Not sure if this arrogant POV is very sustainable. This technology is replacing human coders as we speak, right now. Just not all of them yet, of course.
Such research could have hundreds of billions of dollars in downstream GDP implications when applied to real industrial settings.