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Gemini 2.5 has enormous context and has one-shotted 1500loc programs for me.
Are there any other elements that change their styling based on position in the document? I've been doing web development for over a decade and I've never even known about this behavior. Seems like a bad default, and I'm not bothered seeing it go away.
This is why I pirate movies and shows. The user experience is infinitely better than Netflix and Disney.
My complaint isn't about having to pay, it's about not knowing upfront whether I will.
As others have said, a pure program is a useless program. The only place stuff like that has in this world is as a proof assistant.

What I will add is look up how the GHC runtime works, and the STGM. You may find it extremely interesting. I didn't "get" functional programming until I found out about how exotic efficient execution of functional programs ends up being.
I'm not sure if I am or not. If it's not too much of a write-up, how might I be able to check? Is this something that can be changed in phone settings?

Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of this otherwise.
Why are you making such an argument? This is a rhetorical question I don’t actually care what the answer is. It’s fascinating you feel the need to chime in about this when all I did is like someone’s way of stating things. No one cares about the pedantic nitpicking you are engaged with. Well, no one should care.
Hydrogen engines that have been modified to use hydrogen, based on 149-year-old technology simply aren’t viable today, hence the lack of implementation, globally.

VC's have been hesitant to invest in hydrogen for this reason…Axis Power has designed (and is now building), a new clean sheet design, hydrogen engine, that’s different in every way - for the commercialization of hydrogen combustion to power everything that fossil fuel internal combustion engines, did.

Zero emission, clean energy, Made in USA.
You can test on special testing versions. Browser instances behaving inconsistently with the same version only add more problems to developers.
Are you ignoring the benefits of network effects? Network effects should ideally improve recommendations for all subgenres of people.
Doesn’t even have to involve project managers. Just someone who isn’t an enthusiast and/or doesn’t care at the helm.
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Though these are minor complaints, there is a couple things I'd like to change about a Lisp language.

One is its the implicit function calls. For example, you'll usually see calls like this: `(+ 1 2)` which translates to 1 + 2, but I would find it more clear if it was `(+(1,2))` where you have a certain explicitness to it.

It doesn't stop me from using Lisp languages (Racket is fun, and I been investigating Clojure) but it took way too long for the implicit function stuff to grok in my brain.

My other complain is how the character `'` can have overloaded meaning, though I'm not entirely sure if this is implementation dependent or not
Yes and I notice you still did not provide an interesting example. Surely parsing packets is not an interesting example of functional programming's powers?

What interesting things do you do as a programmer, really?
Can you explain these statement? I'm probably out of the loop.
Given that code is mostly written by LLMs now (or will be soon) isn't it better to just use the best language that fits these requirements:

- LLM well trained on it.
- Easy for human team to review.
- Meets performance requirements.

Prob not lisp?
I think they go after these high profile cases because it sends the message they’re tough on immigration, even if they’re not. I’m not a betting man, but I would be surprised if a post-hoc analysis of the Trump administration didn’t show an in test in illegal immigration’s during his tenure.
That is not defence in depth, that is causing annoyance to web developers.
I'm not really sure the metaphor holds up, Netflix was a jetliner compared to a minivan. We still had movie rental stores in the late 00s.
Nope, based on fact: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
... that seems to be, a really small number. I always thought it's going to be way more.
Is this true though? Salaries are generally fully deductible from income at time of payment. This article ia about amortizing it, which delays deductibility. Would be more magic loss of money, no?

personally, i think amortization is generally stupid and all expenses should come off income at time of accrual with the exception of a matching amount to net debt change over the year, but i am a dreamer.
It's encouraging to me that as AI becomes more lifelike, people are becoming more and more resistant to humanlike AI 'avatars' and the like - echoing Kevin Kelly's sentiments that widespread societal adoption of new technologies is usually slow, or even nonexistent in some cases. It seems like we're heading towards a crypto bubble scenario in many cases - and we'll find where AI is genuinely useful and where it's just bullshit.
Introduction to seccomp: BPF Linux syscall filter (2014)
I'm starting to see a pattern here. This describes a technology that rapidly deploys "VM" instances in the cloud which support things like Lambda and single-process containers. At what point do we scale this all back to a more rudimentary OS that provides security and process management across multiple physical machines? Or is there already a Linux distro that does this?

I ask because watching cloud providers like AWS slowly reinvent mainframes just seems like the painful way around.
A surprising downside to Nix containers is that a majority of packages are not optimized for containers. For example, trying adding a dependency to `git` and see how big the container grows. Granted, the good packages (like git) allow customization, but it requires really digging into the code. Some packages just straight up ship with a ton of bloat and the only thing you can do is basically fork and maintain it yourself.
That would be sane, but it makes no sense then why Trump is threatening tarrifs on Canada or the EU - both places that also need to do the same. (move manufacturing out of China)
And the last question is, can the parts with stuff like that be extracted from the rest and run separately?
It's not that simple. People do get mad on the Internet and it's not just that "Hey, why don't you just go outside and touch grass then?" because they can slander your SaaS, they can take malicious actions like hacking the site or exploiting it.
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Spot on. There's something instinctual about this. My kids (13,10,8) all love making art. When I show them AI tools that they could use to generate art or riff on existing art, they are actively opposed. They tell me that AI art is not real art, that AI tools for doing this sort of thing are gross, and they want nothing to do with it.

As a technologist I think "omg this is so cool" and it has been genuinely surprising to see how they actively rebuff it.
>On Feb. 16, customs officials detained her at Logan International Airport in Boston for failing to declare samples of frog embryos she had carried from France at the request of her boss at Harvard.

Big fuck up on her boss here. You don't send your immigrant workers on a visa (especially from countries currently involved in a war) to be mules for you, since their visas can always be cancelled for any reason, so why are you putting them in situations where they can give authorities a reason?

How do they not know this? What were they thinking? Either go yourself or send someone else who's a citizen. The lack of thought in this just boggles my mind.

Also, where's the self preservation on her part, especially given her via situation and the situation in her country? When I as an immigrant traveled for work with hardware prototypes , I always made sure my boss had them in his luggage since he's a citizen with a more powerful passport and I don't want to be flagged by border controls on what's a foreigner doing with strange hardware in his luggage.

You don't just accept to be a mule for your employer when you're an immigrant on a visa since then you're just playing Russian roulette(pun not intended). If I were a Russian citizen on a visa abroad right now, I'd do everything in my power to lay low, fly under the radar and avoid all unnecessary travel, or travel with only pajamas and a toothbrush, not with animal embryos. I guess biology scientists are so used to travelling with weird shit all the time, they just forget to declare it.

Edit: @downvoters, do you have any arguments to add?
This is a ridiculous bad faith talking point. That's not how endowments work, nor would it be possible for universities to spend them down for very long. Scientific research is an engine of innovation in the US, and it's penny wise pound foolish to attempt to save money by cutting of NIH and NSF dollars.
I wonder how long before someone figures out how to use this for tech interviews
Yes. Except you also need a building around it to isolate outside noise and wind.
> It has 4 GB of memory, and reviewers say that its specs are pretty outdated.

In my imaginary world, I wish someone stood up to this type of insanity. This would be a good time to force Apple / Google to revive old devices and allow the supply chains to adjust manufacturing things outside of China while the rest of the world pauses and lives with some outdated hardware technology. I know this is probably not feasible because Apple and Google probably survive on selling of new phones, but hey I can at least dream!
I want to interact with a computer like it's a computer. Clicking, dragging and cursing.

Who wants to interact with a computer as if it were a human?
Back then, when we also believed the access to every imaginable information through the internet and allowing communication across the globe would lead to universal wisdom, world-peace and an unimaginable utopia where common sense, based on science and knowledge prevails.

Oh boy, how foolish we've been!
> A clever marketing guy who relied on others for technical heavy lifting

We can call product design "marketing" but that's a bit like calling Linus Torvalds a "code monkey"...
> if I have it on in the background, which then in turn feeds the algorithm that it made the "correct choice"

I have a very horrible case of this. One day at night, I slept listening to lofi playlist. The next week all my recommendations were screwed. Horrible assumption on the part of algorithm.
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Or, in other words, our entire society is focused on creating fake business that can only survive in a monopolized market (or can't even then).

That's because the money is concentrated into a few dumb people with limited capacity to invest it. So they'll push it into a handful of companies that will destroy whatever sustainable companies that exist on the same market.
How would you know it is actual waste? This government has a track record of cutting things regardless of their importance, so you can't rely on the fact they did it alone, so what is your source?
“Tyranny of the the marginal user”

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]
DeepMind's David Silver and Richard Sutton's position paper on the possible upcoming future of AI heavily based on reinforcement learning.
The article left me with a couple questions - is cancelling a visa for not declaring something like frog embryos normal protocol? Does ICE have evidence that not declaring them was intentional? In any case, I really hope she doesn't get deported. If it was just a mistake, this seems like an abuse of power.
Browser extensions would be so much better with transparent, fine grained capabilities.
Porsche is easy to replace only if you bought it as just another fast car. If you bought it for the design, the legacy, or what the brand means to you, it’s not so easy.

Netflix has their content as their moat. Even if someone today builds a better version of what Netflix used to be, it wouldn't matter. They won’t have the rights and licenses to the shows and movies. That’s what keeps people from switching.

Porsche has to keep earning you as a customer with every new model. Netflix just needs to keep you watching.
Ferrari and Lamborghini predate Koenigsegg by a generation so my guess is it's about the history.
> On the other hand these tools do allow individuals to connect and share.

Ok, Mark. That's enough.

Any coder can build a tool that allows individuals to connect and share. It's not a unique feature of Meta tools.

The unique property of Meta is that they have a hegemony. Which is ok.

They went further than that, though, and built the infrastructure for influencing the decisions of individuals. That's no longer ok.
I predict artists will struggle until the novelty of AI wears off. AI requires existing art to imitate, so I don't think it will last longer than a few years after churning out the same old stuff. Fashion is fleeting. It may last longer if biz execs are slow to react to reduced efficacy of advertising due to boring AI content.
A general "web app"'s germane parts are:

- The part that receives the connection

- The part that sends back a response

- Interacting with other unspecified systems through IPC, RPC or whatever (databases mainly)

The shit in between, calculating a derivative or setting up a fancy data structure of some kind or something, is interesting but how much of that do we actually do as programmers? I'm not being obtuse - intentionally anyway - I'm actually curious what interesting things functional programmers do because I'm not seeing much of it.

Edit: my point is, you say "Anything else is logic." to which I respond "What's left?"
> it feels like the lack of humanity is not because of technology, but because the world of the show is populated by monsters.

But...that's always been the case. Technology is a tool, and a tool is neither good nor evil; it's how you choose to use it. That gets repeated here all the time. Tech grants powers to people that we didn't have before, so people with a propensity to perpetrate evil can do it at efficiently at scale. The same goes for people who want to do good but aren't aware of the consequences of their actions. We can learn a lot more from the failure cases than the happy path, and it makes for more entertaining stories.
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https://xkcd.com/1053/ seems relevant here. :)
I also produce almost exclusively IP, and I agree with your take.

Modern copyright is abusive and evil - we are already at the spot where large corporations entirely control the content, and pretending that copyright is somehow helping indie publishers is a pure fantasy.

Copyright can exist in a way that I would not find so egregious (and historically - it was much closer to that form when originally proposed). But the modern IP rules are explicitly designed so that large corporations reap all the profit while they pay artists as little as possible.

If AI cracks that apart.... eh - I don't see it as much of a loss.

At least for now - plenty of AI models are open weight and publicly available for general use. As long as that trend continues, I don't see the problem.
how is that anywhere close to a given?
> "Shoving content into the faces of an indiscriminating userbase" maximizes eyeball time which maximizes ad dollars

I mean that's not really the case for paid services without ads like Netflix. They lose money the more you watch. Ideally you'd continue to pay for the subscription but never watch anything.
EDIT: leaving the answer, but I simply misinterpreted what they meant. This isn't the same thing

BSD has had jails for a long time, which let you achieve isolation on a system in this manner, or at least close to it.
I think the numbers pretty clearly show that individual consumers and companies are hungrily and eagerly gargling on LLMs. No jamming or shoving required.
Honestly it's very weird to have data/AI be outside of the scientific context! They both used to be a subset of scientific Python.

The code will be updated over five years, but there's no need to be on continual version churn on the underlying language. And frankly I'm surprised that it's tolerated so widely in the community. Trying to run a Node project from 5 years ago is often an exercise in futility, and it will be a big shame when/if that happens to Python.
You don't even need a watch. Smartphones can tell you time (you can configure to show times for many timezones) yet there is a market for watches (luxury or normal)
Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape-scale blooming dynamics
> Is this what idiomatic Python has become?

What do you mean? Python has always been that way. "Explicit is better than implicit. [..] Readability counts." from the Zen of python.

> By contrast, here's the equivalent Ruby:

Which is awful to read. And of course you could write it similar short in python. But it is not the purpose of a documentation to write short, cryptic code.
If the idea was to merge different layers - why not do something like this instead?

FROM your_image as initial

FROM scratch

COPY --from=initial / /
> I'm curious when it crossed the line into "fraud" here.

Fraud is often defined as gaining something (or depriving someone else from something, or both) via false pretences. Here the something is money (this is most commonly the case) and the gaining/depriving is gaining money and depriving investors of it. It is more complicated than that, with many things that fit this simple description not legally being considered fraud (though perhaps being considered another crime), and can vary a fair bit between legal jurisdictions.

A cynical thought is that the key line being crossed here is that the victims are well-off investors, if you or I were conned similarly the law might give less of a stuff because we can't afford the legal team that these investors have. This is why cases like this one are successful, but companies feel safe conning their customers (i.e. selling an “unlimited” service that has, or developers five minutes after signing up, significant limits). Most investors wouldn't agree to the forced arbitration clauses and other crap that we routinely agree to by not reading and subsequently not accepting the Ts & Cs, etc, and anyway can afford large, capable, legal resources where our only hope would be a class-action from which only the lawyers really benefit.

Another cynical thought is that the line crosses was the act of not being successful. I'm sure the investors wouldn't have cared about the fraud if the returns had been very good.
Llm content is trained in popularity. If we use that as a metric there will never be any improvements or changes again.
I do not play games. I quietly celebrate each time my Linux-certified Fedora laptop successfully wakes up from sleep.
EU, China will look into setting minimum prices on electric vehicles, EU says
I think Netflix faces the problem that measuring the causality between a user watching specific content and choosing to stay subscribed is super hard. Therefore, they focus on a metric that is easy to measure, namely time spent in the app. This is likely not the metric they should be optimizing for, but since they _can_ measure it, it becomes the target anyway.
Spotify doesn’t seem like a good example. I use Spotify to search for artists and listen to songs from their albums. I make my own playlists. If you basically want a better iTunes, it seems like it still works for that.

(You do have to ignore the other features, but that doesn’t seem very hard.)
I guess the term would be "conspicuous consumption".

As to why Koenigsegg doesn't get the rep, I'll take the outside opinion that it's because their name is too inaccessible whereas "Bugatti" slips easily into rap lyrics.
Chinese project aims to run RISC-V code on AMD Zen processors
> And to what end, aren't many of these people already extremely wealthy?

I don't know, I really don't know. To this day I can't imagine the day I become a president of a big country I tell my citizens "BUY MY COINS AND THOSE OF MY WIFE!". It's difficult to imagine on so many levels. But yet this guy is doing it. So no conspiracy theory is too weird to at this point.
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> Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok

You have given every product team a set of parameters and asked them to optimize the product around those parameters. Namely, how much time and attention the user spends staring at your app. Is anyone surprised that convergence has taken place, when everyone is after the same thing, with the same tools, in the same environment?

The only question is: who is "you" in this scenario? Instinctively, it's the leadership team. But in one of my least popular takes, I tend to think the responsibility is ultimately "you", the user who refuses to stop scrolling. Tech leadership doesn't have vision or a moral compass, they take their direction from the metrics which ultimately measure your choices.
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By "create new markets" they've always meant "Become useless middlemen by displacing the existing bridge between makers and consumers"

Usually their new bridge is modestly more convenient in some way, but opens the door to the worst kind of enshittification.
A key thing may be overlooked right at the beginning: you're supposed to enter a conversion factor of paces per 100 meters. Easy to miss and will leave you feeling like everything is too close together. Also the way the counter works when you're walking around is baffling.
I wonder why won't they do this then. There's still no comparable GNU/Linux phone on the market to this day, so this would be a huge opportunity if true. The only exception may be PinePhone Pro, but it isn't much cheaper than Librem 5 and its software maturity is still lacking.
Not sure if it will help me saying this, but that's a disappointingly dismissive and avoidant response well below HN standards. I'm very willing to engage with any counter-arguments in good faith. I don't use Twitter (or Mastodon, or BlueSky, or TikTok, or Facebook, or Threads etc...), but I do enjoy discussing sci fi of different periods on Goodreads groups.
> Spotify faced a similar crossroads and decided to broaden beyond music once they started losing bidding wars for licensing.

I wasn't aware that Spotify lacked much in the way of mainstream western music.

Are they having licensing issues?
Manifest v3 has this by allowing you to grant access on clicking the extension's toolbar button, rather than all sites all the time.
When can we escape a16z ramming worse than useless concepts down our throats and telling us how great they are in a sanctimonious fashion?

That will be the greatest advancement of the millennium for humankind.
So we've basically reverse-engineered theater.
That's something I also wish existed: A credit card insurance comparison tool.

Essentially all "travel cards" offer some kind of trip cancellation or interruption insurance, but covered events vary wildly.

In some, thinks like illness of anybody on the trip is enough (not just the cardholder or immediate family members); in others, the cardholder basically needs to die in a very specific way to be eligible for any type of compensation.

Proper travel insurance is worth way more than half a percent more in points on domestic rental cars in shades of red to yellow (but not orange!) and grocery stores in states starting with "O" to me.