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tempay··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
I'm not convinced you need React/Next.js even in those cases. Web components work and LLMs are so capable of using them that I find there is increasingly little utility in big frameworks.
tempay··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
If you play the game correctly it can be a good deal. The ~1 USD per TB per month of glacier deep archive is hard to compete with if you (probably) don’t need to read the data back.
tempay··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Even without that particularly special case, high-energy physics collaborations have long since broken the idea of authors. There are now many collaborations with hundreds of authors publishing regularly and quite a few that are into the thousands.
tempay··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
That needs a citation. I’m not aware of anyone doing anything more than containers. For older experiments VMs have been used but that’s a legacy thing that predates containerisation and isn’t driven by reproducibility.
tempay··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
I think the premise of this article is wrong. Scientific Linux was important once upon a time but these days with userspace containers there is no need for the same level of homogeneity. In practice everyone is using Apptainer on machines that don’t have a singular purpose.
tempay··on Grok 4.7
We don’t have access to the real reasoning text for most closed models these days, mostly due to distillation threats
tempay··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
You still need to be able to realise something is fraudulent and pursuing prosecution has a significant cost to the insurer that is likely to be a net-loss financially. Not to mention the reputational risk of the public believing you prosecuted someone wrongly.
tempay··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
At least in the UK this seems to be a growing problem and jail isn't a scalable solution. See for example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rr9pg4jzo
tempay··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Are they still? I thought this project was no longer really active.
tempay··on Beware Management Consultants
You also want them to be the person with the most ideal weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxswain_(rowing)
tempay··on Beware Management Consultants
The "our story" menu bar item has it in the drop down.
tempay··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
I assume OP interpreted it as encryption that hides the prompts from OpenAI rather than OpenAI hiding information from users.
tempay··on CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
Maybe not that bad, stopping the accelerator means the storage requirements drop now that data is no longer being taken. Storage is instead just used for simulation and reprocessing which is small in comparision.

So long as the market recovers before HL-LHC starts and the data volume increases it'll be okay. If it doesn't...

tempay··on CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
No they're not. At CERN physics data is on:

* CTA for tape storage: https://cta.docs.cern.ch/v5/

* EOS for disk storage: https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/eos-web/

There is a large CEPH cluster as well but that isn't really used for physics data.

tempay··on Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
This is very real, but such CVEs are such a tiny fraction in relation to denial-of-service-due-to-regex that it’s hard to take the system seriously.

So far as I’m concerned the solution is to isolate everything as much as possible. I’d love to see something on the CVE classification side to also address the signal to noise problem but I don’t see it happening.

tempay··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
The key point here is the “pay less” part. I know people that have turned down offers from meta that would 5x their salary and their personal situation would notably improve from at least some of that extra cash.

The OP is a bit preachy and maybe some employees really don’t have any other options even with accepting lower salaries, but the majority should at least realise the golden handcuffs their bound by even if they choose not to act on them.

tempay··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
For anyone who thinks this might matter for security:

* curl is mature enough that the chance of an impactful bug is basically zero * if there is such a bug, I'm sure someone will figure out how to get in touch with Daniel and co * if there is such a bug, it's more important that it gets patched in package managers and rolled out. Upstream releases can wait.

tempay··on Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
To be fair, the entire problem space sucks and I’m not sure it’s possible not to.
tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
> consuner spending is increasingly debt

Geneva has the highest minimum wage in the world precisely to try and avoid the "working poor".

Also the "consuner spending is increasingly debt" is very US centric view. The situation in Europe is less extreme and totally absent in many countries.

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
> in very center, almost every small park or green spot is now 6 story concrete building

I struggle to see this. Central Geneva is full of beautiful, well-maintained green spaces and children's play areas with plenty of larger parks scattered around.

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
I can't comment outside of Geneva but it's hardly "slave wages":

* https://www.mission-geneve.dfae.admin.ch/en/manual-labour-mi...

* (scroll to the cost breakdown) https://batmaid.ch/en/about-us

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
In 1910 the foreign-born population was 14.7% and the drop around WWII was caused by other factors.

Much of the industrialisation and banking industry was driven by immigrants. Arguably the wealth of today is the product of managing to avoid the worst of WWII and profiting from Switzerland's "neutrality" but that's an entire conversation by itself.

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
As with everything it's complicated but it's more true than not:

https://nccr-onthemove.ch/indicators/how-qualified-are-migra...

More importantly, education isn't everything. Half the economy runs on work that doesn't need higher education and that locals largely won't do: cleaning, care, hospitality, construction. The Spanish and Portuguese speaking workers doing those jobs are propping up a standard of living for everyone.

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
It's not impossible, but Switzerland's geography means tunneling is involved in adding capacity which makes it very expensive. Also the beautiful synchronisation of a country-wide integrated timetable where you can reliably get between any two places in the country with connections that always make sense is a point of national pride.

Japan, Taiwan and China all added dedicated infrastructure which took a long time and cost a fortune (vs the shared tracks currently used for intercity/regional/European freight). Tokyo accepts famously absurd levels of overcrowding during peak hours. Deutsche Bahn in Germany is widely thought of a joke due to chronic underinvestment meaning on-time trains are surprising.

That said, these technical concerns have nothing to do with the 10 million proposal. It's worth asking why a camp that spent decades opposing sustainability legislation has suddenly discovered the word now that it can be pointed at immigration.

tempay··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
It's not simple with the "clock-face scheduling" system which is used which times the trains to all meet at the big nodes (Zürich, Bern, Basel) so connections work. To achieve this trains are supposed to fit into 30/60/120 minute beats which synchronise the entire system. See [1,2] for how this works.

Also many of the most important parts of the system are at capacity. Bigger trains can help but a lot of these gains have already been realised in the crowded areas. The current hope is digitalising signaling to allow density to be increased but that's not simple/cheap even if it's cheaper than working on the lines themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock-face_scheduling

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMbV1rIPhCg

tempay··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
In early 2023, I was debugging an issue in a long abandoned package that used OpenSSL and needed to be fixed for OpenSSL 3. The entire thing was a mess and the parts of OpenSSL it was using are almost entirely undocumented.

Copying a pasting into a ChatGPT window gave me the lines of code to print the error message rather than failing silently. Copying the error message then gave me a detailed explanation of problem and the diff to fix it. I still have no idea where this knowledge came from as I spent a decent amount of time searching and found nothing about this corner of OpenSSL.

I’m very confident it would have taken me a week to make sense of what the package was trying to do and with LLMs it was done in a couple of hours.

tempay··on Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
Though 5PB of data is freely available via https://opendata.cern.ch/

With another 4PB available which can be processed on request to extract samples of interest: https://opendata.cern.ch/docs/lhcb-releases-service-to-acces...

tempay··on Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
As far as I know nobody has ever tried to read one ;)
tempay··on Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
The abstraction isn’t really a thing any more. It was a nice idea but in practice it’s an operational nightmare not knowing if data is available and for how long it will be. For reference staging can take days during intense activity and you don’t want to loose performance randomly seeking around and switching between tapes.
tempay··on Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
Latin and Greek aren’t one of the working languages at CERN (French and English are)
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