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I don’t see Sean Carroll’s musings mentioned yet, so repeating my previous comment:

Entropy got a lot more exciting to me after hearing Sean Carroll talk about it. He has a foundational/philosophical bent and likes to point out that there are competing definitions of entropy set on different philosophical foundations, one of them seemingly observer dependent:
- https://youtu.be/x9COqqqsFtc?si=cQkfV5IpLC039Cl5
- https://youtu.be/XJ14ZO-e9NY?si=xi8idD5JmQbT5zxN

Leonard Susskind has lots of great talks and books about quantum information and calculating the entropy of black holes which led to a lot of wild new hypotheses.

Stephen Wolfram gave a long talk about the history of the concept of entropy which was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/live/ocOHxPs1LQ0?si=zvQNsj_FEGbTX2R3
It so happens that this was the topic of one of the posts in this series: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_purity/#purity-is-...

I'm assuming from your post you haven't come from there, and we just coincidentally picked a similar example...
For a second there, I read it as static web server [1], which is actually pretty cool itself

1: https://static-web-server.net/
This woman has an issue with her bank, and not her government.

I expect what has happened is that she had solicited funds for her campaign and received unusual flows of money, considering she resides in Mexico, to her account which then triggered an issue with her bank.
unfreedom is an orewellian sounding word
The crazy thing about this attempt to annex sovereign foreign territory is it's totally unnecessary.

If the US wanted more bases on the island, it can already do that. There are existing treaties. The US unilaterally closed many of its bases there, it could simply reopen then at any time.

If it wanted to extract natural resources it could just pay for permission to do that. Any of the other things it's claiming top lan there could also be done without annexing foreign territory.

This is about normalizing territorial expansionism to launder Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Could he get a bonus if he fires 50 more?
You might want to take a look at SillyTavern. Supports multiple backends, accepts voice input, and has a plugin system.
Well, a US court ruled that this was exclusion of Jews, not me, but what do you think about this?

https://www.courthousenews.com/jewish-students-harassed-duri...
It is hard to take people at their word when it clashes with our understanding of reality or would create a call to action or make inaction unexcusable.

We should take this administration at their word.

Trump said: "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-... https://www.npr.org/2024/10/23/nx-s1-5161598/i-need-the-kind...

Here is Timothy Snyder's breakdown of exactly what that means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-ObXslUo4&t=760s
Simple answer is no vibe coding isn't real.

Slightly longer answer, if you can't code you can't debug. If you can't debug nothing you get out of an AI prompt will work correctly.

The people that can use AI coding tools well can already write whatever thing they are tasked with the tool is just helping them write/debug/test faster.
async mutexes?

> Contrary to popular belief, it is ok and often preferred to use the ordinary Mutex from the standard library in asynchronous code.

> The feature that the async mutex offers over the blocking mutex is the ability to keep it locked across an .await point.

https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/struct.Mutex.html
The government just kinda forgot that competition law existed for a few decades.

They were busy doing things like bringing freedom and democracy to Afghanistan, having a financial crisis, stuff like that. Very important stuff. Social media? Oh yes I think my grandson told me about that.
We don't always need to know everything that happened all the time, whether it's online or meatspace happenings. If my IRC connection dropped back in the day, and there was something that happened in that timeframe that was truly worth hearing about, I'd find out eventually.

There's something to be said, at least in my opinion, about keeping a healthy dose of ephemerality in our lives.
> There really isn't such a thing if you want to do business in America

There are to varying extents. You want a country that isn't aligned with or dependent on America, but also isn't its adversary. (And which has a good banking system.) That list was classically Turkey, the UAE and Switzerland. Today I'd add India, Qatar, Canada and Brazil and remove Switzerland.
This doesn't seem like nothing new? I remember a talk about this being done some 12+ years ago. Just without the AI label to generate hype.
One thing to _always_ dig into is how your hybrid search solution filters the vector search index. This is not at all standardized, often overlooked, but when you want "top X most similar to query by embedding, but also in Y category/match Z search terms" its the core operation your hybrid search is doing

Here's a rollup of algorithms...
https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredoug.bsky.social/post/3lmrm...
I do not understand what leg the FTC has to stand on in this case at all.

I know the company is quite unpopular, but from an objective legal standpoint I don't see how you can make an antitrust/anticompetitive argument here.
> It's not a crackpot book, but there are an uncomfortable number of crackpot red flags.

How do you know it's not a crackpot book? All evidence you mentioned here seems to support that conclusion.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is quite good at code.

Has become my go to for use in Cursor. Claude 3.7 needs to be restrained too much.
This article has an asterisk on the title.

> (* not actually why l10n support is important)

I'm honestly not sure why it's included in the title there at all. There really is no talk about localization in the document.

This article is about custom bash and vim configurations when SSHing into a machine. The roadblocks the author runs into aren't too surprising to anyone that has a fairly deep understanding of SSH, bash, and Linux processes, but a worthwhile read for more novice users.

For the more advanced, I think the tone can get a little weird, with the author expecting behaviors that don't make sense. But, they do quickly realize why their expectations were not met.

There is one point where they didn't explain what was going on. When they attempted

echo 'alias puppet_="sudo puppet agent --test"' > custom-bashrc
ssh -t secret-abc123.1d6.org "bash --rcfile <( echo '"$(cat custom-bashrc)"' )"

The issue here was the shell's invocation of echo losing the quotes in their file. One option, assuming both ends have `base64`, is to reencode the file.

ssh -t secret-abc123.1d6.org "bash --rcfile <( echo '"$(base64 bashrc)"' | base64 -d )"

There might also be some sed invocation that can properly escape everything, but I think I'm good on spending any more time on this.

Also, there is a commenter trying out a few other successful "file smuggles" that are worth a gander. (My favorite is their usage of environment variables locally to bypassing the shell's "removal" of quotes.)
> Most professors in non stem departments are Marxist

So, as I alluded to before, the issue here isn't the education - you are delusional. I don't know how to help you because what you're saying is just not aligned with reality and that's not something I can fix.

For the record, you can analyze the text of various scholars even if you don't agree with them, and that's a huge part of critical thinking and higher education. Understand the historical, social, and economic context that lead someone like Marx to his ideology is important. We do this for Hitler and Mussolini all the time, but I don't see anyone claiming that educators are fascists.

Meaning, you, and others, have a severe bias here. You're missing, looking past, the instances that disagree with your perception. So then all that's left is the stuff that aligns with your perception, and such you've constructed a perfect delusion.

This idea that conservative socioeconomics and the "invisible hand" is the One True theory of everything and nothing else should even so much as uttered, lest you be a communist, is, in it of itself, as you say, "fashionable nonsense". In fact, you cannot truly understand the context for 20th century fiscal policy without understanding the impact of Marx and other ideologues that came after him.
You can do non-root systemd units, including Quadlets. See <https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...> under "Podman rootless unit search path."
When I use it in an IT (or honestly, any non-physics or non-physics) context, I typically mean "how many different ways can we do it with the same effective outcome?".

To whit, "contract entropy": how many different ways can a contractor technically fulfill the terms of the contract, and thus get paid? If your contract has high entropy, then there's a high probability that you'll pay your contractor to not actually achieve what you wanted.
Maybe it actually can be alright for a niche as relatively large as hiking, but I think it has done some real damage to smaller niches, which seem to struggle to maintain active forums.
The top 1% of people make 20.7% of the country's income. Given progressive tax rates, they should be paying a lot more than 40% of Federal income tax revenue, but rates don't scale enough, and aren't lax enough on other classes.
The author addresses this nicely in an earlier part of the blog book: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_purity/
> since the money ultimately needs to be spent in the U.S. it doesn't seem that important whether the funds are frozen in the U.S.

Of course it does. The hypothetical we're considering is the administration illegally freezing bank accounts. You don't need something legally impenetrable. Just complicated enough that it slows down the goons while you fight them in court.
Ask HN: What books continue to be relevant with vibe coding and beyond?
I'll start with two: The Pragmatic Programmer, A. Hunt & D. Thomas, and Test-Driven Development by Example, K. Beck.

They don't have to be applicable in every situation, but the principles last well over the years, and some even seem prescient.
I don't know that my personal opinion is all that important but I fully admit to driving in excess of the speed limit in very specific places where I deem it safe and others do not. I don't know anything about shooting guns, unfortunately.
Don't forget Cuba.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1...
Alternatively, who would you trust with your data, an Ad company run by a McKinsey executive, or an NPO with a direct revenue stream partnered with Apple?
> That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much better than NK).

So what? So were most European countries before they became democracies. Name a successful democracy that didn’t go through such a phase to consolidate the state?
Any law or policy that has a "disproportionate impact" on a protected class is subject to challenge, and will often lose in other public policy matters. I've not seen it happen in school demographics, though most, if not all, schools had some form of affirmative action policy until recently.
When other companies are curing skin cancer, discovering new proteins, creating photorealistic images/videos, Apple is .. creating Genmojis. lol
> In both cases, those that believe in them try to force them on everyone in law, policy, etc. They've been doing that, too, so it isn't speculative.

I think it is speculative. I haven't seen this happen beyond a small number of isolated cases, that generally are met poorly within the organization where it happens.

To my observation the association between "believing that intersectionality accurately describes the world today" and "attempting to force others to believe similarly", is about as strong as the association between "frequently voting Republican in the US since 2016", and "attempting to carry out a mass shooting".

Could you describe what you believe "intersectionality" to mean, as a philosophy?
I've had 3 serious failures.

1. Santa Cruz aluminum frame, snapped a few inches above the bottom bracket, at a weld line for a reinforcement. I was sprinting and heard it, frame didn't fail/fold but felt weird, didn't realize till I looked close. SC had me a new frame in a few days after I sent pics.

2. Light weight road racing seat, I think they were aluminum rails, snapped when I leaned back on the seat, my hands weren't on the handlebars. I landed on the road on my back. No warnings at all.

3. Cannondale aluminum crit frame. Back before replaceable derailleur hangers. It snapped clean off, got a new frame for free, even asked which one and which color I wanted.

I've bent various bike parts out of steel, but never had one snap. Does seem like aluminum has a reputation for just snapping. Heard similar stories from friends, riding buddies, and fellow racers.
They don't need to be a literal monopoly to be guilty of anti-competitive practices.
I just assumed he was talking about the actual database and LLM setup as the bit of fun :D
Take a look at the Alcoa case from 1945 [0]. The courts ruled that Alcoa was an illegal monopoly even though it acquired that status legally.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa
The Granada TV adaptation apparently was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and they simply read out loud parts of the book where they hadn't filled in the script - "a book on film." I loved it.
> it's eating your seed corn

Paraphrasing J. P. Morgan, the man, in the midst of the Panic of 1907 reassuring a banker concerned about dipping into reserves to pay out depositors: "what are reserves for if not times like these."

Eat the seed corn. Fight. Then raise unencumbered donations from the billionaires whose balls haven't fallen off. If Harvard plays this correctly, they could become one of the flag bearers of the legal and financial resistance to Trump.
It was a silly acquisition in the first place, and their justification clearly came from a coke-addled fever dream.

Intel soon discovered the obvious, which is that customers with applications well-suited to FPGAs already use FPGAs.
BitTorrent is already a streamable P2P protocol. You just need a client that can prioritize downloading the file parts in order.

It is a thing.
> I mean, the fact we have so many metaphors for the act of being the person giving a group bad news, should tell you how poorly humans look on it.

Who told you this? Because science shows again and again that humans respond stronger to negative stimuli than positive. This is also why media is mostly filled with bad news, and "good news only channels" always fail.

BTW we have so many words for people who bring bad news unnecessarily exactly because people overreact to bad news, and quite often it reaches comical proportions, and needs to be called out. Like the guy who shows up at a party just to tell everyone that every beer shortens the lifespan for one minute.

And even if what you say is true, think about it: this is a mechanism that has somehow evolved across all cultures independently. Either this, or it is a biological atittude, predating the idea of "culture". Therefore, it's not a stretch to assume that it has its purpose, and "people doing whatever they have been doing for thousands of years" is NOT a reason to panic.
Malicious NPM Package Disguised as Advcash Integration Triggers Reverse Shell
Probably not though because he was clearly referring to that.
Sorta! It didn’t start out that way but I’ve been building more from HTML overtime but keeping it fast and lightweight. I’ve cherry picked a subset of HTML like CSS grids which add a lot of layout power without tons of normal HTML hacks.

I want to try adding a JavaScript runtime with simple DOM built on Figuro nodes instead. But there’s some issues with Nim’s memory management and QuickJs.
Mind sharing your system prompt?
When I was active on the Politics Stack Exchange site years ago I was "reported to the ADL" for merging the [jews] and [judaism] tags. Right out of the gate after I casually mentioned it in another discussion: not even a big fight about it. But the same person outright ignored the Trump-supporting holocaust denying user who harrassed a Jewish user with antisemitic slurs such (e.g. [1]).

Sadly antisemitism obviously exists, and sadly some pro-Palestinian activists have veered off into antisemitism. But the selective outrage is hard to take serious.

Remember, Caesar subjugated Gaul and killed or enslaved about a quarter of all Gauls in the process, to "protect" them from invading Germanic tribes. "Top kek", as I believe the old Latin saying goes.

[1]: https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3596 – I am the author of that, I deleted my account since in large party due to all of this
Ooh wow, dolphins.

Dolphins are cool animals. Google AI decodes dolphins. Google AI is cool.
Exactly this isn't an either/or--allow both password and magic link login.
I don't want AI to be part of anything I do unless it's opt-in. When I want to use AI I'll go use AI I don't need or want it integrated into my other tools.

I especially dont want it nativly on my phone or macbook unless it's opt-in. the opt-out stuff is soooo frustrating.
I have been trying GPT-4.1 for a few hours by now through Cursor on a fairly complicated code base. For reference, my gold standard for a coding agent is Claude Sonnet 3.7 despite its tendency to diverge and lose focus.

My take aways:

- This is the first model from OpenAI that feels relatively agentic to me (o3-mini sucks at tool use, 4o just sucks). It seems to be able to piece together several tools to reach the desired goal and follows a roughly coherent plan.

- There is still more work to do here. Despite OpenAI's cookbook[0] and some prompt engineering on my side, GPT-4.1 stops quickly to ask questions, getting into a quite useless "convo mode". Its tool calls fails way too often as well in my opinion.

- It's also able to handle significantly less complexity than Claude, resulting in some comical failures. Where Claude would create server endpoints, frontend components and routes and connect the two, GPT-4.1 creates simplistic UI that calls a mock API despite explicit instructions. When prompted to fix it, it went haywire and couldn't handle the multiple scopes involved in that test app.

- With that said, within all these parameters, it's much less unnerving than Claude and it sticks to the request, as long as the request is not too complex.

My conclusion: I like it, and totally see where it shines, narrow targeted work, adding to Claude 3.7 - for creative work, and Gemini 2.5 Pro for deep complex tasks. GPT-4.1 does feel like a smaller model compared to these last two, but maybe I just need to use it for longer.

0: https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt4-1_prompting_guide
Try talking about race as a white man during a DEI seminar. Unless you very carefully follow the approved messaging, you will be in trouble.
Fantastic work, team!
I can't wait for everyone to be shocked, shocked, in five years when the biggest genAI companies get caught engaging in a bunch of sleazy behavior.
I traveled there in 2008, and had that precise experience! I always wondered whether I'd just been there on a particularly excellent night, or if it was a normal happening. I'm so glad to hear it's the latter!
I (and the provided link) are not referring to http://example.com:80 to https://example.com:443 type redirects, though those are certainly nice too. They are, indeed, solely about http://example.com:443 to https://example.com:443 type redirects and what those can provide.

The "why/value" is usually in clearly handling accidents in hardcoding connection info, particularly for local API/webdev environments where you might pass connection information as an object/list of parameters rather than normal user focused browser URL bar entry. The upside is a connection error can be a bit more opaque than an explicit 400 or 302 saying what happened or where to go instead. That's the entire reason webservers tend to respond with an HTTP 400 in such scenarios in the first place.

Like I said though, once I remembered this was more a "hacky" type solution to give an error than built-in protocol upgrade functionality I'm not so sure the small amount of juice would actually be worth the relatively complicated squeeze for such a tool anymore.
Good marketing if you're selling a discount all purpose cleaner, not so much for an API.
There you go, expecting people to be rational again...
A US court hasn’t ruled anything on that case yet. It hasn’t been heard yet.

I don’t want to be mean or anything but you aren’t succeeding in convincing me that leftist groups are plotting to attack Jews.
Companies like these are hard to find in the US because of the twin curses (or joys, depending on your views) of "maximizing shareholder value" and "SEC regulation".

If you list on a big exchange, your investors will expect revenue and profit to go brrr quarter after quarter forever. It's a treadmill you can never get off. Amazon is uniquely special in that Bezos persuaded investors to keep faith for the best part of a decade. Or perhaps "lucky": one wonders what their stock price would have done without the incredible luck of the former side hustle of AWS becoming the engine of their business. (Not to denigrate the incredible feat that it is, or the work that went into it.)

Regulation provides some practical limits on how small you can be, too. All those 10-Ks and audits and SOX compliance don't come cheap. You need to be big enough to employ specialists to do it or rich enough to partner up with Deloitte.

The alternative is to list on a pink sheet exchange, but then you are keeping company with a long long tail of companoes that give off sketchy vibes. A one man Nevada corporation selling healing oils, or an interest in a hitherto-undiscovered source of limitless energy. I cant think of any company that graduated from this part of the market into full DJI/Nasdaq respectability. Maybe someone knows of one?