Jerry2

FTA:

Individual economies such as India, Viet Nam, and Saudi Arabia exhibit adoption curves that differ markedly from the global average. As the APNIC Labs data shows, this global trend does not necessarily reflect the experience of individual economies.

APNIC’s own measurement records a 42% worldwide IPv6 capability (Figure 2). That’s a substantial difference, which also needs clarifying."

The nuance is that IPv6 is growing faster in developing countries with poorer economies. I'm guessing this is because building modern IPv6 network from scratch is cheaper & more efficient than acquiring scarce and expensive IPv4 addresses. This is a major advantage for newer providers in growing economies.

So while the Google is showing it at 50%, APNIC's weighted global measurement shows it at 42%.

Emigrate where? And why do you assume that the country you're gonna emigrate to will have the funds necessay to fund the research? US grants are the biggest and most generous in the world. I think the USG spends over $900 Billion every year. Europe spends about 1/10th of that. Other option is China but as a foreigner, you will never get a grant there unless you work for someone else.

The EU is only good at imposing massive fines and they like to regulate technologies they have not created and don't even host them.

TEMO will more than likely just pass the cost of this onto EU consumers.

Thank you so much!

Thanks!

Awesome piece of software! Quick side question... does anyone have a recommendation for a DNA genotyping service that prioritizes privacy? I'm looking for a company that provides private results and doesn't add them to any sort of database (dystopian or otherwise). I'd love to get my DNA profile, but I'm concerned about privacy issues. :\

From their front page:

*Full legal indemnification: *Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright*

Heh, ok. So, the thinking is:

1. You contract them.

2. The actual Copyright infringement is done by an __offshore__ company.

3. If you get sued by the original software devs, you seek indemnification from the offshore subsidiary.

4. That offshore subsidiary is in a country without copyright laws or with weak laws so "you're good!"

...

5. Profit.

This is a ridiculous legal defense since this "one-way-street" legal process will almost certainly result in you being sued first... the company actually using the infringing code.

The indemnification is likely worthless since the offshore company won't have any assets anyway and will dissolve once there's a lawsuit and legal process is established.

The "guarantee" is absurd: Their "MalusCorp Guarantee" promises a refund and moving headquarters to international waters if infringement is found. This is not a real legal remedy and is written to sound like a joke, which is telling about their seriousness...

This whole "clean room as a service" concept is a legal gray area at best. In practice, it's extremely difficult to prove tha ta "clean room" process was truly clean, especially with AI models that have been trained on vast amounts of existing code (including the very projects they are "recreating").

The indemnification is a marketing gimmick to make a legally dangerous service seem safe. It creates a facade of protection while ensuring that any financial liability stays with you, the customer who wants to avoid infringement .

Which LLM did they use? I'd really like to learn some details behind how they setup the whole pipeline. Anyone know? Thanks!

This is just a summary of the the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torment_of_Saint_Anthony

Same story from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI.

After I read this article, I thought this whole incident is fabricated and created as a way to go viral on tech sites. One immediate red flag was: why would someone go to these lengths to hack a freelancer who's clearly not rich and doesn't have millions in his cryptowallet. And how did they know he used Windows? Many devs don't.

Ah, you might say, maybe he is just one of the 100 victims. Maybe but we'd hear from them by now. There's no one else on X claiming to have been contacted by them.

Anyway, I'm highly skeptical of this whole incident. I could be wrong though :)

Thank you.

I'm convinced that Tim Cook's biggest mistake was not creating an EV. Just look at how Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi and BYD have moved into the EV space and have created amazing experiences for their customers. CarPlay paired with American cars is simply few generations behind from what the Chinese companies have done. Yet Apple was early enough and had an EV team but Cook killed it. Even if the 1st gen was crap and didn't live up to the Apple's standards, they should have kept iterating. Now they have nothing new and are just iterating current product lines. Which is fine but it doesn't create new growth. You need new markets to do that.

What's a fair price for a TB of HDD? SSD? Which high-capacity SSDs are worth buying?

I'm not sure if there are any sites tracking this. Anyway, I need to buy 30TB of storage this year so I can upgrade my NAS and make it last few years. Thanks for any replies from anyone who has an opinion!

I'm convinvinced that CEO-employee wage gap is due to this not-so-well known legal case from 1919: Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. [1]

Basically, in 1919, Henry Ford sought to reinvest the Ford Motor Company’s profits into raising employee wages and expanding hiring, arguing that sharing success with workers would strengthen the economy and the company’s long-term prospects. However, minority shareholders John and Horace Dodge (who also ran their own competing auto company) sued Ford, claiming that his actions violated the fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Dodges, declaring that a corporation’s primary obligation was to serve the financial interests of its shareholders and not broader social goals or even the well-being of its employees. This decision established a legal precedent that continues to shape corporate law even today and reinforcing the doctrine of "shareholder primacy" and limiting the ability of companies to prioritize stakeholders (like workers or communities) over investor returns.

It's been downhill for employees since.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Yep. You can also automatically save them if you use mpv to watch YT: https://github.com/nick-s-b/mpv-transcript discovered this script yesterday.

I switched to Prezto [0] because I found OMZ too slow. Prezto is much faster out of the box and doesn’t have a lot of things enabled by default. Definitely give it a try if you find OMZ too slow on your machine.

[0] https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

Are there any WMs that are implemented in JS and CSS? Or at least allow you to use JS/CSS? I’d love to be able to use web technologies to manage and decorate windows.

Author didn't disclose if got a reward for his work. Hope he did!

I typically access the backend UIs provided by each LLM service, which serve as a light wrapper over the API functionality

Hey Max, do you use a custom wrapper to interface with the API or is there some already established client you like to use?

If anyone else has a suggestion please let me know too.

I use Aider. It's awesome.

What do you use for the model? Claude? Gemini? o3?

I'm kinda relieved that it doesn't work on an iPhone. I often scan codes posted around to save the time typing URLs and running arbitrary code by just scanning a QR code freaks me out.

I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it.

Another piece of 2D vector software that I use and recommend is Graphite [1]. It too is open source. Graphite has nodes and can be procedural in nature. Have them both in your graphics toolbox.

[1] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite

The (consumer) company I used to work for also allowed their customers to "delete" their data. Deletion was implemented as a boolean filed in the database "deleted - true/false'. We called it "soft deletion". And why was it implemented like this? It's because actually deleting data is hard. There is no single database and the data is distributed across many servers. It's also backed up in different places. Running the delete operation can be extremely costly and can also create service interruptions and data integrity issues. I think there was a script that was supposed to actually delete the entries but it was not run very often and was there for legal and compliance issues.

Just remember that when you request to delete some data on the internet, it doesn't actually get deleted (right away anyway). The best way to deal with this is not to give random sites your real information in the first place. However, that can be difficult or impossible when dealing with government, financial institutions or shopping sites.

Edit: And just to address questions below, the actual delete script was not run daily. I don't know how often it was run (I was not an SRE) but I presume it was run at least once a month. I have no idea how other companies do this.

Do you have a magnet for it?

I wish someone would share their programming workflow when using LLMs... I feel like I'm falling behind in this area.

They need to do exact same thing with .xyz TLD. It's gotten so bad that I had to block .xyz on our router.

I hope it can be disabled.

Why are the tying laws not enforced in the US, or Canada

Regulatory capture and legalized corruption aka "lobbying".