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by potatolicious | 2025-06-16 19:34:31+00:00
That's kinda my main beef with Ed's writing - it's pretty unfocused. Both pieces you linked demonstrate this - he careens from point to point.

The lack of focus I feel like comes from the fact that his audience is an amalgamation of multiple groups, much of which is the "tech is over, it's all grifters now" cadre, so a lot of this isn't really meant to be a persuasive argument of anything but rather just a dumping ground of grievances.

I alluded to finding him an unreliable narrator of this topic, and this is why. So much of this audience is so fully committed to "this is spicy autocomplete, a totally non-functional grift on par with NFTs" as a position that it compromises any of the other points he's trying to make.

FWIW I do find some things of his sympathetic - particularly around how much structural risk we're taking on every time the VCs decide to line up the hype cannon behind something. That said, I think it's also fair to say that this is my projection of his argument, because his actual arguments are often too muddied to even draw that level of specificity.

[edit] I continue to follow Ed's writing because a) I think there are glimmers or something in there and b) I treat it as a temperature read of a substantial minority of public opinion. The level of disillusionment and rising anger against our industry is concerning.
by serf | 2025-06-16 19:35:40+00:00
> Other comments note how it creates fatigue within an hour of writing

I don't care about pens, but if this argument was made elsewhere it'd be argued that the ergonomics and fatigue support the concept of seeking rest rather than finding a pen that allows for longer work hours.

Example : if I said I was getting fatigued at the keyboard in some HN thread I would get 30 replies that told me to time my exposure and seek RSI breaks..
by rs186 | 2025-06-16 19:35:40+00:00
About a decade ago I started watching Star Wars movies for the first time, when there were "only" 6 movies to finish. But by then there were already 12+ Star Trek movies plus TV series. I decided that I'd "choose" Star Wars, and that was enough for me. I am sure Star Trek is a fascinating universe, and I see it mentioned all the time, but I don't think I care about it enough to ever go into that world.
by immibis | 2025-06-16 19:35:44+00:00
That's the question of why time only goes forwards. It seems to be that the universe started in an extremely low-entropy state. It will go towards high entropy. In a high entropy state (e.g. heat death, or a static black hole), there's no meaningful difference between going forwards or backwards in time - if you reverse all the velocities of the particles, they still just whizz around randomly (in the heat death case) or the black hole stays a black hole.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-06-16 19:36:19+00:00
>the lived experience of a chemist is fundamentally different from the education they receive. Most chemists will begin to develop an intuition.

Is this a documentation problem? The LLMs are only trained on what is written down. Seems to track with another comment further down quoting:

"Models are limited in ability to answer knowledge-intensive questions, probably because the required knowledge cannot easily be accessed via papers but rather by lookup in specialized databases, which the humans used to answer such questions"
by thorin | 2025-06-16 19:36:47+00:00
In the statoil petrol stations in Norway you can buy a mug and get free drinks thereafter at all petrol stations for the season. This is very popular with dirtbag kayakers, climbers etc. It was there that I discovered the weinermelange option on the machine which is apparently a cleaning mode that selects every option for your drink so you get a mix of coffee, hot choc, sugar and whatever else. Unforgettable.
by nickff | 2025-06-16 19:36:54+00:00
Many dealers and addicts who are involved in extremely violent crimes are plead down to drug crimes after having been charged with both drug and violent crimes.

https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/docu...

>"On December 24, 2016, three Manchester police officers responded to an apartment following a report of a domestic dispute. The report was made by the mother of Ashley Arbogast, who advised that her daughter had called her Stating that her boyfriend had broken her arm during an argument."
by jostmey | 2025-06-16 19:38:23+00:00
This only addresses a small part of the problem with peer-review. The real problem is that peer reviewers can’t possibly replicate the study, and so are forced to look for inconsistencies in the papers. If the paper doesn’t fit what is expected, it will often be rejected. This can also lead to self-reinforcing views that ignore contrarian data. Also, the data can be made up, and if it makes sense to the reviewers, it is generally not questioned
by const_cast | 2025-06-16 19:38:27+00:00
People ham-fisting free market economics is incredibly frustrating. Nobody actually bothers to do step 1: explain how a particular market is a free market.

If they did that, they would be realize that all their conclusions they draw have zero foundation. The labor market is NOT a free market, and that's good. Everyone wants it to not be a free market. But that complicates things, and we can't make 1 million assumptions and draw basic conclusions. We actually have to, you know, analyze things.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-16 19:38:31+00:00
> https://www.science.org/content/article/china-rises-first-pl...

Per capita?

> If you say that humans can only create things with copyright (even if to support copyleft), then the proletariat are the tool that the bourgeois use to create things.

The wealth gap and the divide is unlikely to be helped if more people are going to be using (and paying for, in whatever way) ML-based tech from a handful of large corporations.

> Same reason you commission a work, or even just buy it from a shop: because then you have the thing.

Simple posession is more about physical necessities. Commissioning or buying artwork from someone is not just about posessing it, it comes with supporting someone financially. I could make icons or basic illustrations for some small project myself, but I would still commission them if I can afford it because that supports an artist who may want some work (as well as building up for more collaborations in future). Here, I would be supporting the opposite of those artists, a thing that was built on those artists’ work without their consent. Some middleman megacorp of the worst kind.

> the cost of getting o3 to

Don’t they operate at a loss for the time being? They will have to make money sooner or later.

> While I would seriously consider the possibility it may be unethical to force such an AI to work if it didn't want to, I think giving it the capability, the education, to be capable of making that choice rather than just saying "it doesn't matter if I wanted to or not, I can't", is just education, as per our own.

This goes way beyond my thought. I assume if we are talking about education it would be a given that running it generating images 24/7 non stop, shutting it down/killing it, etc., is already out of the question.
by reactordev | 2025-06-16 19:38:59+00:00
Mmmmmmm, the last 8 months of my life wrapped into a blog post but with an ad on the end. Excellent. Basically the same findings as me, my team, and everyone else in the space.

Not being sarcastic at all, it’s tricky. I like that the article called out eBPF and why you would want to disable it for speed but recommends caution. I kept hearing from executives a “single pane of glass” marketing speak and I kept my mouth shut about how that isn’t feasible across the entire organization. Needless to say, they didn’t like that non-answer and so I was canned. What an engineer cared about is different from organization/business metrics and often the two were confused.

I wrote a lot of great otel receivers though. VMware, Veracode, Hashicorp Vault, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, and the platforms itself.
by antisthenes | 2025-06-16 19:39:03+00:00
> protect yourself from the roving looters and/or warlords that will immediately spring up in the absence of law and order.

This is a hollywood meme.

The reality is that aggressive looters/warlords will be very quickly disposed of and the remaining ones will fall in line and become semi-official protective militia forces, who will labor alongside farmers in small communities if they don't want to starve.

Food scarcity will be a much bigger issue that some nutcase trying to loot my solar panels.
by tayo42 | 2025-06-16 19:39:33+00:00
If you want to think about it as art as just a thing that's made

Canvas or paper will be a few dollars to maybe 10

Paints maybe another 10 per painting by the end.

Then maybe a professionals time for like 100/hr. Idk if you can even hire a plumber that cheap.

A 2 hour painting should cost maybe 400 by an unknown but professional.
by notarobot123 | 2025-06-16 19:39:48+00:00
> We're now building Darklang to run locally as a CLI

Dark's structure editor looked promising. I'm really disappointed that the project moved away from this because a hosted visual programming environment felt like the whole value proposition in the first place.

Was it the pivot to AI that killed this, was it issues with the design of the language or was the structure editor just not as useful as it seemed?
by mbreese | 2025-06-16 19:40:18+00:00
Got it. That’s incredibly helpful. Thank you!

The way that’s handled in the bgzip/gzip world is with an external index file (.gzi) with compressed/uncompressed offsets. The index could be auto-computed, but would still require reading the header for each frame.

I vastly prefer the idea of having the index as part of the file. Sadly, gzip doesn’t have the concept of a skippable frame, so that would break naive decompressors. I’m still not sure the file size savings would be big enough to switch over to zstd, but I like the approach.
by hawflakes | 2025-06-16 19:40:41+00:00
It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit:

Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.

https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX
by pqtyw | 2025-06-16 19:41:02+00:00
> If Amazon (or some other company) thought they were going

This presumes that the company is fully capable of measuring and comparing the utility between RTO and working from home. That might be the case or it might be mainly due to management culture and other indirect factors but neither is self evident.

Major corporations are almost by definition have massive amounts of bloat and inefficiency to one degree or another and are carried (especially tech companies) by certain products/teams/departments the rest are often there only for the ride (short to medium term at least and who has time for any "long-term" development these days?). To be clear, I don't think this has that much to do with people who are "lazy" or hard workers (you can put in extreme amounts of effort into something that leads nowhere).

Anyway, not particularly pro or anti-RTO but I just find it bizarre that we usually assume that decisions making in large companies are always logical, rational and quantifiable and are not made to benefit specific subgroups or individuals in one way or another.
by ecshafer | 2025-06-16 19:42:18+00:00
The Dull Men's Club group of facebook is actually oddly interesting. I would classify it more as a group who point out the very small oddities of every day life that are not very interesting. There is a post where someone saw two geese with 42 bay geese, another where the rental company fixed a door with a piece of pool noodle. Its more like a "huh that's kind of weird I guess" group.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-16 19:42:49+00:00
It also doesn't account for time dilation in a gravity well however i still think the general idea has some merit if you think of it as being bombarded by massless ‘action potentials’ on all sides with mass absorbing that field to some to enable translation in space time.

I get this is vague spitballing but essentially an ‘action potential’ would allow mass to move. Higher temperature mass interacts more, lower temperature interacts less. Mass with momentum would be biased to absorb more from one side so it travels in a specific direction in space more than others (the idea i’m getting at is that all movement in space only occurs with interaction with this field), this also would counteract issues with moving mass interacting more on a specific side - the very bias of mass with momentum to absorb more on one side means that from that masses point of view it has the same action potentials interacting from all sides. Mass shielded behind mass receives fewer action potentials so experiences exactly the effect that you can call time dilation. Mass shielding other mass from action potentials also means that mass accelerates towards other mass.

Essentially its the above but instead of a massive particle hitting other mass from all sides it’s a field that allows mass to experience a unit of time.
by oblio | 2025-06-16 19:42:57+00:00
It might have been Sandboxie. I don't remember where I got the dog reference (not god, typo in the original post), but it seems to have been a classic Windows MFC app, and it does date back to 2004, so it would fit the timeframe. I don't remember using it much, I guess configuration was cumbersome, as it generally is for these kinds of per-app/per-permission manual configuration tools.
by cmclaughlin | 2025-06-16 19:43:35+00:00
Hello,

Here's more info on the side effects to memory.

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6089371/ * https://curesearch.org/Learning-Problems-During-or-After-Tre...

I think this sums it up (from the NIH study):

"methotrexate exposure has also been associated with persistent cognitive deficits among survivors, including impairments of memory, attention, and executive functions"

My daughter recovered from Leukemia (ALL). She's healthy now, but it was a nightmare. She was in the "high risk" category until the doctors realized the chemo triggered a rare kidney disorder. Once that was treated, the chemo started to work.

I've observed some issues with her memory and cognition, but I'm happy she's alive and optimistic that she'll learn to work around the challenges.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-16 19:43:42+00:00
It's even worse with the privatised prison system that the US has.

This is a state by state thing. FWIW in this case, ME doesn't have private prisons. I don't bring this up to imply everything related to their cut is on the up and up, however, I believe Maine is very much incentivized to make this a useful program in terms of keeping people from returning to jail (as opposed to squeezing every dollar from the prisoners).
by serf | 2025-06-16 19:43:44+00:00
>Except that you forgot to check their website. Jetpens is a reseller.

if you're dead set on making sure brand sites match the actual brand offerings then I hope you have the luck to avoid most obscure engineering brands in your life.

it's absolutely the norm in say, hydraulic pumps, that when an offering isn't available on the website you call the company and they say 'Oh yeah, we have those -- theyre not on the site because no one wants one.."
by filoleg | 2025-06-16 19:43:47+00:00
You are totally fine, the grandparent comment is just either needlessly nitpicking (“great is the enemy of the perfect”) or misunderstanding what the tool is supposed to be used for.

P.S. Your idea of having two distinct quick start guides (one that goes into the meaty details and another one that is just “run this command and you are good to go”) is great. But imo it is not necessary/crucial, and not having it doesn’t detract from the value proposition of your tool at all either.
by amendegree | 2025-06-16 19:44:20+00:00
I haven’t personally attacked anyone. I pointed out some egregious behavior you engaged in and suggested that you refrain from doing that in the future. But it seems even in this comment you again engaged in that same bigoted behavior. It’s very disappointing. I’m really sorry that it’s so difficult for you to discuss a topic without showing extreme prejudice and in some cases outright hostility. Again this is not a personal attack, but rather me calling out inappropriate and offensive language.

I will engage one last time but I caution you to please reconsider your approach. If you continue to make such racist comments I will simply leave the conversation as I don’t like interacting with hateful people.

The article you shared is from a publication that ain’t known for fair and balanced coverage, but even there they admit that Iran pursuing nuclear power has pushed SA to do the same. Once again showing that it’s not about how many countries maintain nuclear capability but rather how stable their governments are. Belaying the fact that treaties are basically meaningless unless everyone else believes you will keep to them. And guess what, the majority of humanity believes Iran will not keep its word on anything. Even today they were shouting “Death To America, Death to Israel”. A people screaming for blood should be believed not coddled, especially when they openly act out those calls for mass murder. So far they’ve attacked multiple large apartment buildings and a school for mentally impaired children none of which were anywhere near any military targets.
by Fnoord | 2025-06-16 19:44:48+00:00
With my neighbors? For sure. Friends? Don't live near me anymore. How am I going to chat with my friends if they're hundreds of kilometers away? By way of a (smart)phone, which requires power.

We actually saw the effect of downtime during covid. In the beginning, a massive appreciation for health services. We all know how long that lasted. In the beginning, it was us against the virus. Eventually, we were fighting with each other, even over details. Rest assured, offensive propaganda services from secret agencies learned a lot from that (one may guess which one primarily).

If it was so awesome that wine drinking and chit-chat, why aren't we doing it? A pretty simple explanation is: because it ain't awesome. Yes, a change of pace can be regarded as a fun challenge or change of pace. Heck, it may even open up people to changing their life. But look how much we remote work post covid. Policies were reverted.
by keybored | 2025-06-16 19:45:22+00:00
> My former (brilliant) student developed schizophrenia and tried to rob a bank with a gun because the voices told him to do it. He got 10 years in jail. I think every EU country would treat him for his condition until he was safe to rejoin society. In the US, he was thrown in the slammer.

Is the story supposed to be more sympathetic because he was (brilliant)?
by const_cast | 2025-06-16 19:45:32+00:00
The side-effects on fertility are fairly obvious and not that interesting, IMO. Naturally side-stepping your body and giving it stuff it should be making for free makes your body go "well, I'm gonna stop making that".

What is interesting to me is that other effects high testosterone has. High testosterone is not just magically better, otherwise we'd all have much higher levels out the gate. There's down sides. It's hard on your heart and blood vessels.

Men, just off the rip, are at much higher risk of heart disease. It's not "free" to have testosterone, it harms your health in many ways. If you increase your testosterone even higher to super-human levels then you're really playing with fire.

In addition, we have to consider psychoactive effects. Men are also, off the rip, much more violent and aggressive. So we really run the risk of some unpleasant human effects if we raise testosterone too much.

When we amplify testosterone, we amplify all the good parts of male physiology: higher muscle mass, lower body fat, higher performance. But we also amplify the bad: heart disease, strokes, lower longevity, and emotional issues.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-06-16 19:45:32+00:00
Replace your flaky UI tests with flaky LLM-based tests, at least when it inevitably fails you can spend 45 minutes attempting to find just the right prompt with which the LLM doesn't attempt to also click something unrelated!

Most of the tools currently existing are (plain awful|work only on browsers|do magic behind the scenes making them non repeatable|force best effort, hiding any validation). These tests are barely better than doing them by hand, at least there's not someone burning their mind on a 250 test-case list for half a day.

Your primary UI testing tool should be accessibility. If your accessibility elements/descriptions aren't enough to test things, _then you aren't accessible enough_.

(Although I do agree, pure code-based tests mooost likely should go away. Whether that's Playwright, Espresso or any other tool. Maestro finds a right balance between expressive yaml, and openness to scripting if needed)
by phillipcarter | 2025-06-16 19:45:39+00:00
> I kept hearing from executives a “single pane of glass” marketing speak

It's really unfortunate that Observability vendors lean into this to reinforce it too. What the execs usually care about is engineering workflows consolidating and allowing teams to all "speak the same language" in terms of data, analysis workflows, visualizations, runbooks, etc.

This goal is admirable, but nearly impossible to achieve because it's the exact same problem as solving "we are aligned organizationally", which no organization ever is.

That doesn't mean progress can't be made, but it's always far more complicated than they would like.
by conqrr | 2025-06-16 19:46:59+00:00
Very cool. I've looked into doing something similar for self hosting and have wanted something in between docker and Kubernetes. Nomad seemed like a good fit, but still a tad more work that dead simple docker and lack of ecosystem. I finally gave in to just using docker and living with deployment downtime on upgrades which is fine for a personal home server. But for production services, I wonder how much of K8s does Canine really abstract? Do I ever need to peek underneath the hood? I'm no k8s expert, but I wonder if there is simply no happy medium between these two.
Show HN: I made a HTML parser with it's own matching language in C
by hexderm | 2025-06-16 19:47:07+00:00
Realistically speaking it's mostly useful for scraping, since parser works only in immutable state - it creates dom elements referencing original string, so changes to it are not cost effective. This approach has the benefit of increadibly small memory usage.

Here's python api if you want to test it https://github.com/TUVIMEN/reliq-python , pypi packages are compiled for windows, x86 aarch64 armv7 linux, and macos.
by eesmith | 2025-06-16 19:48:02+00:00
I did not find that quote in the linked-to interview.

The closest is at https://youtu.be/bM9bYOBuKF4?t=148 "That's the statement of the hypothesis, but it's a model, it's not completely true, no models are completely true. They're approximations to the world. The question is, for what purposes are they a good approximation. As far as I'm concerned, they're a good approximation for almost every purpose."

I think you've combined that with the aphorism commonly associated with George Box - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong .

If the interview on YouTube contains your quote, then please link to or give the timestamp. I only skimmed the closed-captions.