Readit Newsthemgt commented on Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/garbawarb
They’re one of the two big names in legal data - Thomson Reuters Westlaw and RELX LexisNexis. They’re not just search engines for law, but also hubs for information about how laws are being applied with articles from their in house lawyers (PSLs, professional support lawyers - most big law firms have them as well to perform much the same function) that summarise current case law so that lawyers don’t have to read through all the judgements themselves.
If AI tooling starts to seriously chip away at those foundations then it puts a large chunk of their business at risk.
The commodification of expertise writ large is a bit mind boggling to contemplate.
themgt commented on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/wubin
And is Vance or Trump watching Flightradar24 in their free time? And if they did, would they even get mad at this and not find it funny? And if they did get mad at it, would they do anything at all? If they did something, would it be anything desirable or just trying to retaliate at whoever drew this?
Much like the Biden team wisely embraced the Dark Brandon meme. To quote the ancient stoic wisdom imparted to Punxsutawney Phil, "don't drive angry."
> "Private remote communications" like sending a letter have been around forever.
Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the contents during an investigations. In this sense, the only private communication that ever existed was from mouth to ear.
Today's technology enables actual privacy any anonimity online, and any good and bad deeds can be hidden behind the screen, and nobody should be offended, nor surprised, that civilised societies may want to have a say in the matter.
Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the contents during an investigations
This is more like a judge ordering phone book providers not to list a phone number for a public organization known to engage in criminal activity. It would be prima facie unconstitutional in America, while the police opening a suspect's envelope can be an authorized legal search.
The USA cannot do it, because there is actually a law against cutting off communications systems dating back to 1944. Of course there have been attempts to make it possible.
> The USA cannot do it, because there is actually a law against cutting off communications systems dating back to 1944. Of course there have been attempts to make it possible.
The link you provided says:
In 1942, during World War II, Congress created a law to grant President Franklin D. Roosevelt or his successors the power to temporarily shut down any potentially vulnerable technological communications technologies.
The Unplug the Internet Kill Switch Act would reverse the 1942 law and prevent the president from shutting down any communications technology during wartime, including the internet.
The House version was introduced on September 22 as bill number H.R. 8336, by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI2). The Senate version was introduced the same day as bill number S. 4646, by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
The bill did not pass and did not become law. So what are you referring to?
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themgt commented on How I think about Kubernetes garnaudov.com/writings/ho... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Yah, also there is a huge difference between a minimal demo and actual, recommended, canonical deployments.
I’ve seen teams waste many months refining k8s deployments only to find that local development isn’t even possible anymore.
This massive investment often happens before any business value has been uncovered.
My assertion, having spent 3 decades building startups, is that these big co infra tools are functionally a psyop to squash potential competitors before they can find PMF.
When you're comparing Kubernetes "recommended, canonical deployments" to "just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner" the latter is obviously going to seem simpler. The point is the k8s analogue of that isn't actually complicated. If you've seen teams waste months making it complicated, that was their choice.
themgt commented on How I think about Kubernetes garnaudov.com/writings/ho... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The allure of declarative approaches to complex problem solving has finally been worn down to nothing for me and Kubernetes was the last straw, nearly 10 years ago.
The mental gymnastics required to express oneself in yaml, rather than, say, literally anything else, invariably generates a horror show of extremely verbose boilerplate, duplication, bloat, delays and pain.
If you're not Google, please for the love of god, please consider just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner and see how beautifully simple life can be.
They'll hum along quietly serving many thousands of actual customers and likely cost less to purchase than a single month (or at worst, quarter) of today's cloud-based muggings.
When you pay, you'll pay for bandwidth and that's real value that also happens to make your work environment more efficient.
If you're not Google, please for the love of god, please consider just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner and see how beautifully simple life can be.
You can literally get a Linux box (or two) in the corner and run:
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
...(json/yaml here)
EOF
The mental gymnastics required to express oneself in yaml, rather than, say, literally anything else
Like, brainfuck? Like bash? Like Terraform HCL puppet chef ansible pile-o-scripts? The effort required to output your desired infrastructure's definition as JSON shouldn't really be that gargantuan. You express yourself in anything else but it can't be dumped to JSON?
themgt commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez
Can you explain/link to why you can't really use this without their cloud product? I'm not seeing anything at a glance, and this looks useful for a project of mine, but I don't want to be trapped by limitations that I only find out about after putting in weeks of work
Overall I like Dagger conceptually, but I wish they'd start focusing more on API stability and documentation (tbf it's not v1.0). v0.19 broke our Dockerfile builds and I don't feel like figuring out the new syntax atm. Having to commit dev time to the upgrade treadmill to keep CI/CD working was not the dream.
re: the cloud specifically see these GitHub issues:
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/6486
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/8004
Basically if you want consistently fast cached builds it's a PITA and/or not possible without the cloud product, depending on how you set things up. We do run it self-hosted though, YMMV.
chef's kiss