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Neztebon OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

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

Immoral boot-licking human engineers are indistinguishable from LLMs.

Neztebon Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey

> it's also accelerating digital UBI

Do you have sources for this claim?

Neztebon A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times

> So Wikipedia is corrupt as per usual. Grokipedia's article is significantly less biased and more accurate.

I hope this was sarcasm.

Neztebon My first impressions of Gleam

I thought so too, although treating everything as data and functions is really nice [1].

Regarding the BEAM and why Gleam has a separate library for actors: [2]

> "One notable difference between Elixir and Gleam is that Elixir gets to just re-use the OTP code as-is (with some Elixir wrappers on top for convenience). Gleam concluded that the OTP is built expecting dynamic types, and that for best results in Gleam they'd need to re-implement the key primitives. That's why the example shown is an "Actor" not a GenServer - it serves the same purpose, and might even fit in a Supervision tree, but isn't actually a GenServer."

There's a brief snippet mentioning this in the Gleam OTP readme as well: [3]

> "Actors do not yet support all OTP system messages, so some of the OTP debugging APIs may not be fully functional."

[1] https://mckayla.blog/posts/all-you-need-is-data-and-function...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645489

[3] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp#limitations-and-known-issu...

Neztebon Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license

Snippet from Wikipedia: "In August 2023, Unity China announced that it would soon launch a Chinese edition called Tuanjie Engine based on Unity 2022 LTS, which includes support for Chinese platforms like Weixin Mini Game, OpenHarmony and AliOS."

Neztebon Try and

I spent 20 minutes looking for an Esperanto reference to this but could only find pages related to "in" words [1] and profane neologisms [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_vocabulary#Cultural_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_profanity#Neologisms

Neztebon MacBook Pro Insomnia

From `man pmset`:

    SAFE SLEEP ARGUMENTS
        hibernatemode supports values of 0, 3, or 25. Whether or not a hibernation image gets
        written is also dependent on the values of standby and autopoweroff
    
        For example, on desktops that support standby a hibernation image will be written after the
        specified standbydelay time. To disable hibernation images completely, ensure hibernatemode
        standby and autopoweroff are all set to 0.
    
        hibernatemode = 0 by default on desktops. The system will not back memory up to persistent
        storage. The system must wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on
        power loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.
    
        hibernatemode = 3 by default on portables. The system will store a copy of memory to
        persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from
        memory, unless a power loss forces it to restore from hibernate image.
    
        hibernatemode = 25 is only settable via pmset. The system will store a copy of memory to
        persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to memory. The system will restore from
        disk image. If you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery
        life, you should use this setting.
    
        Please note that hibernatefile may only point to a file located on the root volume.

Neztebon Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

Depending on the definition of "nicely", FWIW I currently run Ollama sever [1] + Qwen Coder models [2] with decent success compared to the big hosted models. Granted, I don't utilize most "agentic" features and still mostly use chat-based interactions.

The server is basically just my Windows gaming PC, and the client is my editor on a macOS laptop.

Most of this effort is so that I can prepare for the arrival of that mythical second half of 2026!

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-d...

[2] https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22...

Neztebon My First Impressions of Gleam

On a related note, Gleam's OTP implementation recently hit version 1.0! https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Neztebon My First Impressions of Gleam

From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44348442

Neztebon The Zed Debugger Is Here

Relevant GH issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756

Neztebon The Zed Debugger Is Here

Recently the Zed team added some tools to help with merge conflicts: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4964#issuecomme...

Neztebon The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

Agreed!

If you usually aren't able/allowed to use a debugger in production and must rely on observability tools, it's helpful to know how to utilize those tools locally as effectively as possible when debugging.

Neztebon Timescale Is Now TigerData

I'd like to see more references to biological taxonomies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera

Neztebon Ditching Obsidian and building my own

For anyone who would prefer to get the Syncthing-Fork build from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

Neztebon Reservoir Sampling

I loved the "Sometimes the hand of fate must be forced" comment!

Neztebon I'd rather read the prompt

Yeah this was the part I found a little silly, mostly because I just couldn't visualize what that mesh looked like or how I would describe how to operate it.

Neztebon The complicated business of electing a Doge

TIL what a "Doge" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)

Neztebon I'd rather read the prompt

Out of curiosity, I used your prompt but added "Do not make it a very formulaic physics-based puzzle."

The output is pretty non-sensical: https://pastebin.com/raw/hetAvjSG

Neztebon Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

A few options:

- https://www.bts.gov/freight-indicators

- https://www.marinetraffic.com/

- https://www.vesselfinder.com/

Neztebon Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

Another good name would have been "Barify".

I use a combo of xbar [1] and Menubarx [2]. I used to have several widgets just for system stats but eventually moved to mac-stats [3] for that.

[1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar

[2] https://menubarx.app/

[3] https://github.com/exelban/stats

Neztebon Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one

Non-shortened URL for anyone suspicious: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/preferred-...

Neztebon Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?

Commercial Driver's License. Other countries might have their own terms for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_driver%27s_license

Neztebon IO Devices and Latency

Your diagrams are fantastic; I'd enjoy a short blog post or snippet just on how you used D3 for this!

As someone who has also use GSAP a decent amount, these days I usually have a better experience with SVG.js [1].

[1] https://github.com/svgdotjs/svg.js

Neztebon Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

Which features specifically? I can't find a conclusive list anywhere. Other than searching GH issues for bugs like: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/655#issu...

RE debugging spam, the only thing I can think you're referring to can be turned off by setting `export PODMAN_COMPOSE_WARNING_LOGS=false`.

I'm also curious how it doesn't adhere to the spec. I don't doubt you, but it'd be cool if there was a test suite or audit tool that could document that.

Neztebon Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

Interesting; I have yet to run into any issues with it. Teams I work with mostly use it for local development/testing and do actual deploys using Kubernetes, so we don't use Docker Compose for deployments that utilize features unavailable in Podman Compose.

I'll try to do some more testing between the two and edit my original comment with my findings!

Neztebon Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

Protip: if you want to use Podman (or Podman Desktop) with Docker Compose compatibility, you'll have a better time installing podman-compose [1] and setting up your env like so:

  alias docker=podman
  
  # If you want to still use Docker Compose
  # export PODMAN_COMPOSE_PROVIDER=docker-compose
  
  # On macOS: `brew install podman-compose`
  export PODMAN_COMPOSE_PROVIDER=podman-compose
  export PODMAN_COMPOSE_WARNING_LOGS=false

Most of my initial issues transitioning to Podman were actually just Docker (and Docker Desktop) issues.

Quadlets are great and Podman has a tool called podlet [2] for converting Docker Compose files to Quadlets.

I prefer using a tool like kompose [3] to turn my Docker Compose files into Kubernetes manifests. Then I can use Podman's Kubernetes integration (with some tweaks for port forwarding [4]) to replace Docker Compose altogether!

[1] https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

[2] https://github.com/containers/podlet

[3] https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose

[4] https://kompose.io/user-guide/#komposecontrollerportexpose

Neztebon Extensible WASM Applications with Go

I came here to say this. Here are their SDK docs: https://github.com/extism/extism#run-webassembly-in-your-app

Neztebon Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

I've asked a similar question in the past [1], perhaps we're both asking about similar things? :D

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603022

Neztebon Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

The only suggestion I've seen that would make some sense is Section 174: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75