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by asciimov | 2025-05-24 01:31:51+00:00
I include a bag of assorted dice in my Catan set

My two house rules are:

1. 2 dice are pulled from the bag at random. If dice are too similar for the Cities and Knights expansion, pull another die.

2. First 7 is re-rolled until not a 7. I have found this can speed up the early phase of the game.
by arkadiyt | 2025-05-24 01:33:15+00:00
> Make an RSA key of 4096 bits. Call it your personal key.

This is bad advice - making a 4096 bit key slows down visitors of your website and only gives you 2048 bits of security (if someone can break a 2048 bit RSA key they'll break the LetsEncrypt intermediate cert and can MITM your site). You should use a 2048 bit leaf certificate here
by AaronAPU | 2025-05-24 01:37:12+00:00
I’m enjoying the ride so far.

I’m not working on AI, but working with AI.

The leverage feels dramatic for a solo founder in my shoes. I think it’s all the cross-domain context switching. Gemini 2.5 Pro for academic type research, ChatGPT 4o for rapid fire creative exploration, o1-pro for one-shot snippets. Copilot for auto-complete.

It’s exciting honestly. I don’t know where we’re going but I do feel free and in a solid strategic position having my own company and not still being a cog in the machine.
by Jotalea | 2025-05-24 01:37:27+00:00
I believe this is so useful it should be implemented in macOS itself. Maybe not the same way as here, but having a keybind to "save stuff for later" is really useful.

But I'm not gonna lie, I was a little bit disappointed when I saw it was exclusive to Apple systems. I guess I'll have to build it myself for using on Arch Linux (and Android). Well, at the end of the day Arch is a DIY OS ;)
by sgarland | 2025-05-24 01:38:28+00:00
Re: lag, that’s a fair point, but IME devs don’t care if it’s 10 msec or 1000 msec, they don’t trust it either way. “I have to read after write.” I know MySQL doesn’t have RETURNING, maddeningly, but I’ve tried explaining how they could use LAST_INSERT_ID() to no avail.
by jtwoodhouse | 2025-05-24 01:39:21+00:00
What should you know? You might have a lot of fun tinkering with your own personal text editor. It’s like building your own permacomputing environment.

I started using Emacs org mode to help me make sense of a manuscript after struggling with Obsidian for some time. Emacs + writeroom mode has the feeling of a console typewriter. I hit a keybinding and poof, distractions are gone.

I used Emacs Writing Studio as a starting point and vibe-coded some of the Lisp with Claude.

You don’t have to go full-on one or the other. I still use both. Use .md files if you want Obsidian compatibility.
by Retric | 2025-05-24 01:39:54+00:00
Cost of living is always a somewhat distorted metric because it ignores tradeoffs. If I was living on ~500$/month in that area I’d spend way more on technology and far less on food.

Starlink and a local grocery store means the vast majority of the US is able to support a lifestyle most of humanity could only dream of until fairly recently without actually being that expensive. Year round bananas for dollars per pound is a fucking miracle of logistics.

Not that long ago one of my coworkers was effectively living in minimum wage in a major US city and tossing everything else into savings. Excessive number of roommates, no car, cooking simple vegetarian meals at home etc. At the other end if he had a major medical condition, drug addiction, etc he’d have been “fucked,” except for the fact modern medicine simply wasn’t available at any price again until recently so should we assume it’s normal.
by LifeIsBio | 2025-05-24 01:42:26+00:00
One of my favorite applications of multimodal LLMs thus far is the ability to:

1. Draw a DAG of whatever pipeline I’m working on with pen and paper.

2. Take a photo of the graph, mistakes and all.

3. Ask ChatGPT to translate the image into mermaid.js

Given how complicated the pipelines are that I’m working with and the sloppiness of the hand drawn image, it’s truly amazing how well this workflow works.
by monster_truck | 2025-05-24 01:44:27+00:00
I've had a lot of fun playing with BBC Microbot (https://bbcmic.ro/). If you add &experimental=true to the URL it will add a rocket ship button underneath the display. Clicking it sends the code off to beebjit and runs it for 10,000 seconds instantly, allowing you to do unreasonable things such as this: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=bC9Go (not mine)
by mlsu | 2025-05-24 01:46:44+00:00
You learn quite a lot by working a regular job and getting a paycheck as a kid. It is utterly baffling that there are some kids graduating college that never worked a regular job. It's a problem that young kids in our modern world don't seem to even want to get jobs.

As far as I'm concerned, you are basically mentally stunted if you didn't work for pay in your teenage years.
by vicentesteve | 2025-05-24 01:47:22+00:00
Hello everyone, I wrote this preprint article in an attempt to create a protocol that secures communications between classical clients and quantum servers in the cloud.

I am posting here on Hacker News not to advertise the article, but to get feedback from the community on the idea and the formal development I have done.

Please refrain from commenting if you have not read the article and if you only want to make destructive opinions. All constructive reviews or opinions will be considered. If you have questions about concepts or things that are not well defined, you can comment and I will try to answer them and improve the writing of the article.

I am letting you know now that the writing and formality are probably not perfect, you can tell me what I need to improve if you want.
by rowanG077 | 2025-05-24 01:48:05+00:00
No human can, or would, flush their entire brain to use every single neuron as working memory for chess. By doing that you would even forget the rules of chess. At best a tiny subset of neurons could be used for that.

I wouldn't have expected for anyone to even attempt to argue a human can beat, or even approach, a computer on working memory. Wikipedia is just 24.05gb. You are somehow claiming here that a human can hold that in working memory. That is they read it once and have perfect recall. Not even the most extreme savants have shown such feats.
by tenpies | 2025-05-24 01:49:31+00:00
Polls were also showing the Liberals would be wiped out - possibly not even the opposition party - and Conservatives would form a super majority.

Which is why it's important to remember that polls are a moment in time and the circumstances of that moment.

One divisive comment from Carney or his cabinet. One Trump truth. One more set of tariffs. That's all it takes for a 20% swing in polling that already shows that shows that 36% of Albertans are for leaving[1].

Also worth adding that everyone is sleeping on Saskatchewan which is crucially important to Canada, even more ignored by the Liberals than Alberta, and just as likely to leave.

Saskatchewan is also suffering China's tariffs on Canada, which Carney has not ever responded to and ignores almost as much as he ignores Saskatchewan itself[2].

[1] https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-...

[2] https://www.rbc.com/en/thought-leadership/the-trade-hub/food...
by no_wizard | 2025-05-24 01:50:08+00:00
About the bit regarding funding:

It’s because rural voters are both active and reliable regardless of their party affiliation, they get out the vote. This in turn for the fact that many rural counties account for a great many house seats and can swing senate elections, they have more power than numbers suggest.

If urban voters were as persistent and consistent as rural ones they could easily flip the narrative, but in my experience (and by looking at a lot of election statistics) a huge chunk of apathetic eligible to vote voters live in urban areas, so you don’t have the same en masse consistency and persistence
by kimfc | 2025-05-24 01:50:43+00:00
I mean as a trans woman who lived pretty close to how the article author described their life (rural town, no car, shitty housing, very low income), it's definitely possible to live without too much trouble. In the northeast there is definitely bigotry, but it is very uncommon for anyone to say anything. People keep to themselves, and your biggest issue is social isolation. Though when I lived like that in the south I got called slurs and threatened physically by complete strangers pretty often, so your point stands. I'd imagine its pretty similar for most other minority groups.
by infamia | 2025-05-24 01:52:29+00:00
VSCode's marketing was that it is an open source editor you could rely upon, complete with open source extensions for popular languages like Python. Then when once it became popular and vscodium was growing in popularity (a vscode fork), MS locked things down. Now the Python extensions are closed source, and MS has artificially prevented vscode forks from using those extensions. A bait and switch if I've ever seen one.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-24 01:52:49+00:00
I don't know if this helps you but the Mermaid plugin in JetBrains has an export feature which can save you a step. But I find Mermaid diagrams so limiting and the syntax more immature than PlantUML so it's very rare that I bother

The "in readmes" is a special case because the markdown rendering in both GitHub and GitLab support it without drama
by devmor | 2025-05-24 01:54:42+00:00
It’s a statistical database of corpuses, not a logic engine.

Stop treating LLMs like they are capable of logic, reasoning or judgement. They are not, they never will be.

The extent to which they can recall and remix human words to replicate the intent behind those words is an incredible facsimile to thought. It’s nothing short of a mathematical masterpiece. But it’s not intelligence.

If it were communicating it’s results in any less human of an interface than conversational, I truly feel that most people would not be so easily fooled into believing it was capable of logic.

This doesn’t mean that a facsimile of logic like this has no use. Of course it does, we have seen many uses - some incredible, some dangerous and some pointless - but it is important to always know that there is no thought happening behind the facade. Only a replication of statistically similar communication of thought that may or may not actually apply to your prompt.
by raywu | 2025-05-24 01:55:07+00:00
Jessica - if you are reading the comments, I have to say - Founders at Work changed my career trajectory. I read it fresh out of college in 2008. I told a buddy to read it and it also changed his trajectory.

Guess what, after years of meandering (YC, Series A, big tech) I still come back to the moment I first discovered your book.

Also, please tell PG, I knew about your book before I knew what YC was :-)
by shipscode | 2025-05-24 01:57:47+00:00
It's actually possible to live pretty cheaply in America if you can save up enough to buy a house or condo in cash. This article harps on ultra rural America, but there are plenty of closer knit communities that are quite affordable as well.

Lots of HOA communities exist with condos or townhouses. Example prices would be $175k for 3 bed, 2 bath condos. These can be found all over the country. Add a little more on top of it, say $250k-$300k and you've bumped up to a 3 bed 2 bath townhouse with a garage. For the price of a downpayment for a dump in a major metropolitan area, you can own a 20-30 year old construction fully paid off. And that's a mid-case scenario.

In a low tax area a place that's paid off like that might cost you $400-500/mo between taxes, homeowners insurance, and HOA fees. The big "GOTCHA" everybody comes up with is health insurance. Well between medicaid and Obamacare you can get sizeable tax credits up to fairly high incomes. If you're making around $50k/yr in my state PA, you can get around $1500/mo in credits with a family of 3, and end up paying ~$1200 in premiums per year.

There's literally nothing blackpill about this lifestyle. It's as walkable as any suburb, with the same CHATGPT-style standard of care healthcare that exists across the country, and it's actually more convenient to get from point A to point B in a car than in most major cities or in high density suburban areas. Fiber internet is likely more accessible and reliable too, unlike how it would be in decrepit city buildings.

A lot of pros, and not many cons - sure it isn't $432/month, but you can make situations like this work for $2-3k, which opens up an endless number of careers, projects, and opportunities to live off of.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-05-24 01:58:08+00:00
They used to sell racks. Incidentally a lot of people buy mac minis for a homeserver utilizing the thunderbolt for a DAS. I believe this is still the only “first party” way to use a remote server for time machine backups. People seem to complain about headaches trying to get it to work over samba with linux servers but apple lets you specify another mac end point for time machine cleanly in their gui.
by Robotbeat | 2025-05-24 01:58:11+00:00
Seems plausible to me that beads could’ve reached the Americas before Columbus, although the dates seem AWFULLY close to Columbus. Error bars on measurements like this seem like they almost certainly overlap 1492. +/- 30 years (or more) seems pretty typical for that age of sample. https://radiocarbon.pl/en/uncertainty-of-radiocarbon-date/
by gjm11 | 2025-05-24 02:00:49+00:00
The value of one person's anecdata is in fact not zero. I agree it's small. That's why I festooned what I said with caveats about how my own experience need not be representative, etc., etc. But it's not zero, which is why I thought it worth saying anything.

(Zero plus zero plus zero plus ... plus zero equals zero. But if you ask 1000 people and they all say "I've heard of X but not of Y" or "I've heard of them both but heard more about X than about Y" then you have, in fact, got pretty good evidence that X is more famous than Y. Even if they're in the comments on an article about X, which of course I agree will give you a biased sample.)

Anyway, I think this argument is taking up something like 10x more space than it actually deserves and don't propose to continue it further.
by brudgers | 2025-05-24 02:01:06+00:00
The uninsured pay the highest rates.

And because poor paying jobs tend to lack health insurance (and all gig economy work does), healthcare is a primary cause of personal bankruptcy.

I mean $867 is more than three weeks full time gross at the Federal minimum wage…but most minimum wage jobs don’t offer full time and the working poor have payroll taxes.

Concierge models? Subscription care?

These are premium products for people who can afford premium service.

Could this be a startup opportunity

No. Venture capital seeks above market rate returns. What you describe is below market rate. Or to put it another way, capitalism can’t fix capitalism because capitalism assumes capitalism is not broken.

whether there's a scalable path forward

Don’t get sick is one option.

Work for an employer offering good health coverage is another.

Be wealthy is the third.

Change your phone number to avoid collections is a fourth.

Or pay the bill if you are lucky enough to have that kind of money…and be glad its not your child and the condition is not serious. Good luck.
by kevinventullo | 2025-05-24 02:01:07+00:00
What sense-relays inform us about infinity…

A waterfall that never seems to run dry. The ocean. Outer space. Time.

I think infinitude, i.e. a property of something which never ends, is a simplifying abstraction for the many things we come across in reality for which we can’t know where it ends or, in a specific context, we don’t care.
by agarren | 2025-05-24 02:01:36+00:00
How is it winner-take-all? Training models is expensive, yeah, but big companies are willing to do it, and if deepseek is any lesson, it’s not as expensive as we used to think. You might be building a castle in someone else’s kingdom, but you’ve got a few kingdom’s to choose from. None have a moat and none seem to be going away any time soon.

It’s cheaper to move from one model to another than it is to train a general purpose model yourself (to say nothing of domain-specific smaller models or anything open source.)

I’m not sure about problems turning into black boxes, LLMs are pretty explicit in my experience when producing a solution (good or bad.) _How_ they came about that solution _is_ a black box, but that’s not a new problem.
by kimfc | 2025-05-24 02:03:13+00:00
Yeah as a trans woman who lived in Vermont for awhile this lines up with my experience. The worst bigotry I encountered was teenagers calling me the f-slur, which is like fine, whatever. I think people dont have a sense of just how massive America is and how different states are culturally.

Honestly it still sucked to be trans in Vermont, it's extremely isolating especially if you dont have a car or live in Burlington/Brattleboro. The reason why so many queer people move to cities is that cities are really the only place queer people can have a semi-normal social life, and not because they're fleeing Westboro Baptist Church style bigotry
by gjm11 | 2025-05-24 02:03:50+00:00
Oops, one thing in the above is completely wrong (I wrote it before thinking things through carefully, and then forgot to delete it).

It is not at all true that "it's not even well defined", and indeed the following couple of paragraphs determine exactly what the thing in question is. It's not an actual cdf, but the problem isn't that it's ill-defined but that it's well-defined but has the wrong shape to be a cdf.
by CharlesW | 2025-05-24 02:09:17+00:00
> Have the courage to put your work forward under its own name dont try to coat-tail on other great works.

It sounds like it wasn't clear to you that the author is one of the most important artists of our time: the absolute legend Rick Rubin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin

Anyone with a creative bone in their body should read The Creative Act: A Way of Being. The Way of Code is a project he did with Anthropic.
by jongjong | 2025-05-24 02:11:02+00:00
The whole DNS and TLS system is overcomplicated and was designed to allow a small number of orgs to dominate the internet.

I've been thinking of using a Blockchain to register domain name-to-IP-address mappings in a cryptographically secure way and then writing a Chrome extension which connects to the Blockchain (to any known peer IP; it would start from a few hardcoded seed node IPs and discover more peers as is standard for most Blockchains and P2P protocols; or you could host your own blockchain node locally and use it as your personal DNS service) and then the extension can do DNS lookups on-chain. The Chrome extension could act as an alternative address bar; type the address in there and it would read the Blockchain to figure out the IP address, completely bypassing the whole mess of a DNS system and the current centralized mess of an internet... We could then store all the certs on-chain in a similar way, just make it support the bare minimum necessary to get the browser to shut up and accept the cert whilst maintaining the essential cryptographic security guarantees.

It's kind of ridiculous how easy it would be, technically, to create an alternative internet and DNS system. I think there are already similar solutions like Brave browser supporting a parallel internet with .eth domains but they don't seem to get much attention. There needs to be search engines for these alternative internets to get things going.

Surely once the current internet gets spammed into oblivion and becomes devoid of opportunities, there should be an incentive use create an alternative system from scratch. Surely there is a point when a network of scarce data is better than one of abundant spam data.
by rasz | 2025-05-24 02:11:55+00:00
It stopped due to politics, specifically LOL arguments about "inelegant developer aesthetics" coming from Mozilla https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis.... Somehow everyone and their dog using same Chrome codebase is fine, but oh no not the SLQ backend!

Instead we are saddled with garbage IndexedDB so bad nobody uses it natively and thousands of developer hours are spend building shims and wrappers to shield us from the brain rot.
by calt | 2025-05-24 02:12:17+00:00
I spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out if this was _actually_ THE Rick Ruben, and then another 5 wondering why the f he was writing about vibe coding.

For those who don't know, Rick Ruben is one of the most influential record producers of all time. His specialty is prompting people to help them make their art. So I suppose it follows that he's taken an interest in doodling with vibe coding.

I find that this lives right on the lines of inside joke and satire and insightful and serious. I can't stop chuckling to myself as I read them.
by awesome_dude | 2025-05-24 02:15:13+00:00
> Graduate school is a mixed bag when it comes to prestige. It's fairly well known that grad student lifestyle is a grind, highly competitive, and a financial sacrifice. You go into it for a love of academics, not as a default next step.

Sorry to be contrary, but almost every graduate student I have met was doing it for the prestige. The fact that they were doing a research degree, the chance of having their name on papers, the fact that they were "smarter" than people who couldn't get into graduate school.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-24 02:15:14+00:00
Here in Argentina we unofficially deprecate the coins/bills when they are worth approximately US$0.03 [1]. Now US$1=AR$1100 and you can find in the wild AR$100 and some AR$50, but AR$20 are very rare, AR$10 almost imposible to find, and lower denomination are just museum pieces.

Theoretically you can go to the supermarket with a big bag with a thousand of AR$1 coins, and they must accept them but it would be very weird.

[1] It's a personal opinion, there are no official threshold, don't ask how I made an statistic.
by andrewl | 2025-05-24 02:15:21+00:00
I like Mermaid fine, but nothing is perfect. I will look at your list. The tool I always wanted would let me paste in the SQL of my database schema and output a diagram of the tables and relationships. That's SQL and not Markdown or JSON or any other format.

Note that DrawDB (www.drawdb.app) does this, although it does not yet handle views. But I have been happy with what it offers so far. Still, I would welcome suggestions of other tools.