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s_devon What Sun got wrong

>Want some html on my personal page? Use vi.

Same guy who invented Vi invented Sun Microsystems. Bill Joy.

s_devon Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

Dublin, Ireland lists Duluth Canal Cam as a live cam which is wrong.

s_devon EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

French Guiana is a fully integrated member of the European Union and is in South America.

s_devon Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

You might have missed this bit:

>Even if Canada and Australia don't join the EU as full members which is unlikely anyway

And like I point out, deeper ties are definitely on the table which is more like what will happen. The world is reorganising around US tariffs as a natural economic reaction here.

s_devon Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

You might have missed this bit:

>deeper ties are definitely on the table though

s_devon Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

For me the most striking thing about this was before the Brexit referendum there was rhetoric about how the UK would form a CANZUK alliance with free movement of people and goods between these countries, forming a sort of English speaking EU.

Even if Canada and Australia don't join the EU as full members which is unlikely anyway (deeper ties are definitely on the table though), these sort of announcements should put to bed these complete and utter fantasies the UK has about leading some alternative world order where it's in charge and can go toe to toe with the EU.

https://boris-johnson.com/2013/08/25/the-aussies-are-just-li...

https://www.ippr.org/articles/could-the-idea-of-the-anglosph...

Even many British would agree that Brexit was full of absolute lies, and even to this day you still see them being repeated in certain circles. These weren't even possibilities.

s_devon Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

pg would argue Starbucks the Umbrella group is startup as it's an franchise operation focussed on growth. A single instance of Starbucks is a business focussed on turning a profit.

In fact even the name YC is YCombinator, which in programming is a "function that produces functions" and YC is supposed to be a startup that produces startups. Here Starbucks (Umbrella) is a startup that produces coffee shops (Starbucks).

You can define startup or business however you like it's not a legally protected term. Just around these parts that's what it means and I personally find the distinction useful when reasoning about what does and doesn't have high growth potential.

s_devon Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

A startup and a business aren't the same thing in the eyes of YC.

https://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

A business is web store selling coffee cups where the bottom line governs it's continuation. A startup is ambitious project where a growth rate governs it's continuation.

The end result of a business is a lemonade stand or a barber or donut shop, the end result of a startup is OpenAI or Google.

s_devon OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

Because it's treated as a strategic asset now. AI capital spendign 1/3 of US GDP growth last quarter take it out and the economy is stalled. Nobody in DC is going to prosecute the only thing making the number go up.

s_devon Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE

It's amazing, people act as if there wasn't shit code before LLMs.

LLMs are just another multiplier. A liability in the hands of incompetence and an asset in the hands competence.

Another tool, knowledge will always empower those further than those without knowledge.

s_devon Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE

I have a script that changes the background colour of my terminal based on whatever directory or server I'm in. That's enough beauty for me, I do believe there is such a thing as over configuring and defaults are very powerful.

This seems like all those UI designers who have a crack at redoing Wikipedia and then fail miserably because they just plaster whatever trend on top of something that is universally good.

s_devon I have a theory that software drives people insane

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608023

Not arguing one way or the other just brining up the last Hacker News conversation where it was established that dirty hands are good for you.

s_devon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

I agree YC funding Flock is bad but I don't think you're helping. You're making it seem like there is an orchestrated effort to discredit YC rather than articulating this is poor form on their part.

s_devon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

They are a YCombinator company! TIL.

I'm genuinely taken aback by that.

I can clearly see a bunch of brand new accounts brigading the thread, YCisComplict, YCisBad etc. Presumably bots or something but this is still bad even discounting those accounts.

We need more Aaron Schwartz’s in the world. Shame he's gone. Lads like that seemed kind of dorky and a bit pretentious in their pursuit of righteousness back in the day but my god their absence is noted in this day and age.

s_devon Jellyfin 12.0

It's still in beta unfortunately but this is Hacker News and it's okay to share software before it hits prod. People want to be ahead of the curve and it looks promising.

s_devon Mistral raises €3B

Power generates healthy scepticism and contempt. Since Mistral has very little relative to other AI companies it doesn't draw the same ire.

Like Lovable they seem to settling in to a niche but in this case supplying AI to large EU firms rather than acting as a standin for Wordpress/Squarespace etc.

From a consumer point of view I'm still angry with them for having supplied me with 1 month of premium despite having paid for 11 months. That kind of poor customer service just won't fly in the US.

s_devon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

MVP would be widely understood on this forum to mean "Minimum Viable Product", I don't think that's what you meant. Options are always good to have.

s_devon Jellyfin 12.0

You should try this: https://neptuneplayer.com/

s_devon Jellyfin 12.0

Scaleway Object Storage + rclone. Airbus is switching from AWS to Scaleway and has begun their migration. So they are enterprise grade but seem to have the ease of use of Digital Ocean which I migrated from last year. I get a bit overwhelmed by AWS sometimes in work so it's nice to use a simpler product for my personal setup.

s_devon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

https://eualternative.eu/categories/cdn/

s_devon Jellyfin 12.0

Went from 10.11 to 12.0 and had zero issues. Scaleway/Ubuntu/Docker env with 8GB RAM.

Well one small niggle, I had a custom script setup on Caddy that overrides how certain buckets are sorted because my users are too lazy to follow my instructions. They changed the BucketID string in some way but this more to do with me having a custom script dependant on something they don't guarantee.

Hopefully they allow admins to change a users preferences in the future but currently it has to be done at the user level. I'm sure that will be in a future update.

s_devon Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

It's how all hyperscalers and kickstarter work so small and big companies. You raise based on an idea and a sample. Who invests? Those who want to see the product made i.e. instead of buying an album. You invest in a band who promises to make an album if they raise a certain amount otherwise refunds. Then you don't have to care about distribution as that's a solved problem. The band can still make more money doing festivals etc.

The issue is as others have pointed out the vested interests in the status quo.

s_devon Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

A lot of scores on the doors are often faked defeating their purpose. Helpful but not bullet proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SO8KcfhJmc

Old school methods like what McDonald's use, literally allow the customer to see in to the kitchen are very effective.

Not always ideal for every type establishment but I've seen high end Indian restaurants even do it by having the POS at the back where you can see the kitchen when paying which keeps the noise separate for the desired quiet atmosphere of a fine dining restaurant

I'm not sure how to translate this to the smartphone market though. Fairphone and LaJolla seem to do well in this regard though so back to brand reputation for a lot of this.

s_devon 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

You mean marketing and engineering.

s_devon Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

I'd rather Germany had been first on the Moon, instead of the US.

Disclosing a preference isn't necessarily insightful commentary on achievements.

s_devon Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Great suggestion, there is real value in these lists. Options are always good. I like the freshness transparency and that helps impart confidence going forward as it's easy to see when it was last updated but the suggested alternatives don't seem as deeply researched and subsequently there is less categories.