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by kbrkbr | 2025-06-10 07:07:35+00:00
While I enjoyed the essay, I have my quarrels with it.

First of all the over-generalization: why would all successful people do the same thing? Why would there be only one road to succees? People are different.

Second: the lack of definitions. Is "leave everyone better than you found them" a goal? It would appear so. What about "leave no one worse-or-equal than you found them"? Looks like a constraint. And yet they are the same rule.

Lastly: the lack of backup. Except for some interpreted anecdotes, there's not much evidence there.

Points for creativity and engaging style. But could do more on evidence and clarity.
by esskay | 2025-06-10 07:08:52+00:00
Nothings forcing you to replace them, they'll still work on Tahoe.

Also 2020 is the last Intel models. Late 2025 is the Tahoe release, and then you get 3 years of updates, meaning a total of 8 years of software updates for that 2020 machine.

Thats all pretty standard levels of software support, and again, it won't suddenly stop working in 2028.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-10 07:11:04+00:00
> My hot take is that if GitHub copilot is your window into llms, you’re getting the motel experience.

I’ve long suspected this; I lean heavily on tab completion from copilot to speed up my coding. Unsurprisingly, it fails to read my mind a large portion of the time.

Thing is, mind reading tab completion is what I actually want in my tooling. It is easier for me to communicate via code rather than prose, and I find the experience of pausing and using natural language to be jarring and distracting.

Writing the code feels like a much more direct form of communicating my intent (in this case to the compiler/interpreter). Maybe I’m just weird; and to be honest I’m afraid to give up my “code first” communication style for programming.

Edit: I think the reason why I find the conversational approach so difficult is that I tend to think as I code. I have fairly strong ADHD and coding gives me appropriate amount of stimulation to do design work.
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 07:11:22+00:00
I firmly believe now that if someone has the privilege of feeling so strongly about something that has no real or observable effect on them, but they still chose to act according to that feeling, its because their life is so good that they don't actually have anything real to worry about, and instead, they must create fictional problems in their head to make it seem like they are doing something good.
by intended | 2025-06-10 07:12:06+00:00
Nope.

They is doing lots and lots of heavy lifting here. At the same time things are very confusing, because it seems like your fellow American is out for blood in a manner that shows no humanity.

Your fellow American on the right is plugged into a Matrix that traffics in its own narratives and can now freely manufacture or amplify its own fringe facts and narratives.

They are actually fighting very hard for the soul of america - as they see it. Virtuous efforts to stop the villainy and stupidity of the venomous yet weak liberals, leftists and democrats.

There’s a system in place to manufacture narratives, the closest analogy would be wrestling - except the President doesn’t treat it as fiction, he acts as if it’s real.

And since you can make and sell narratives incredibly quickly, while facts and analysis are days of effort - well, you have a structural change to the market place of ideas.

It happens everywhere in democracies now. See Brexit - entirely predictable. Yet completely unable to “sell” the known and clear problems to a majority of the citizenry.

Same with tariffs.

There’s a floor to people’s capability in navigating our current information environments - and partisan groups of experts are happy to use it to their advantage.

The problem began empirically with conservative positions, but the efficacy of the technique has now created its own political force.
by rwyinuse | 2025-06-10 07:12:20+00:00
It's funny how so many Americans claim having loose gunrights is necessary to guarantee a free state, and protection against a federal army. Now same people have elected a government that really tries its best to turn that free state into an authoritarian dictatorship, using American military as its tool.

We'll see how far Project 2025 will go within Trump's term. I'm not optimistic.
by bdavbdav | 2025-06-10 07:12:32+00:00
I remember patching a bug in Android about 13 years ago which caused USB to not enumerate past the 1st device on a bus in certain circumstances for some reason.

It was a hard coded hack to get something to work, that presumably someone had thought “eh who is going to plug more than one USB device into a phone”. Evidently lots of manufacturers had patched it but not upstreamed it.
by mordae | 2025-06-10 07:12:38+00:00
Holding company shares does nothing. Those shares are used as a medium of exchange with people actually doing some productive investment elsewhere.

The investment happens when somebody sells you the shares in exchange for fiat used to pay off the workers. Who do you buy your shares from? That's where you invest.

As for the first part, holding fiat or assets convertible to fiat when fiat has been issued with interest and must be eventually repaid under threat of confiscation of assets. :shrug: It's basically a game of chicken.
by petermcc0807 | 2025-06-10 07:13:14+00:00
Location: Cumbria, UK

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CV: https://petermcc0807.github.io/docs/peter-mccarthy-cv.pdf

Email: peter.mccarthy.0807@googlemail.com

I'm a Principal Engineer who's now looking for a new career challenge.

I have many years experience in designing and developing software and integrated systems. I've built a diverse range of full-stack solutions for Cloud, Desktop, Mobile, Wearable, and IoT, using a wide variety of runtimes, languages, frameworks, models and tools. Presently, I'm researching and developing with technologies such as agentic AI and AR.

What am I looking for? Ideally, a Senior or Principal role in an AI-focused company where I can help build solutions that make a difference to people's lives.
by sanswork | 2025-06-10 07:13:47+00:00
I have an m1 mbp and I have a 2015 sitting around somewhere and I can't really tell the different between to two. I skipped over the butterfly generation though.

The performance improvement on the m1+ just make it a no brainer for me though even if I hated the keyboard I'd carry around an external one just for the extra power.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-10 07:13:49+00:00
>What do you mean?

Exactly what I wrote.

>I am in Eastern Europe and[...]

Eastern Europe is not a country. Every EU country has completely different legal and tax regimes. And I specifically said that some CEE countries are the exception and do exactly what you said, but that high-tax/high-welfare EU countries usually do not, since their welfare deficit is so high they don't hand out special tax incentives for SW industry as they need to tax everything that moves in order to not go bust, and due to their tiny SW industry, tax breaks for SW work would be politically unpopular with the majority voters working in other industries which see SW devs as overpaid and spoiled already. It's a tragedy of the commons coupled with crabs in a bucket mentality.

So how does your comment contradict mine? Read it again, maybe you missed it.

>you can fully deduct R&D in general

Depends what each country defines as R&D in their legal framework and how much creative accounting you're legally allowed to do. Some countries don't count web app development as R&D though, so of course have a lot less successful unicorns, and a less developed SW industry. R&D tends to be more like pharma, aerospace, lasers, bio engineering, that kind of stuff, not building another food delivery app.
by defrost | 2025-06-10 07:14:07+00:00
A combined 42 arrests were made by the Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the LAPD said early Monday. Alleged crimes included attempted murder, looting, arson, failure to disperse, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and other offenses.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-protests-arrests...

is one source, others may have more or less detail. It supports arrests being made wrt looting, not the assertion that most of the looters were arrested.
by lordnacho | 2025-06-10 07:14:15+00:00
Well I hate to disparage a large group of people, but how often have you spoken to an American who understands this type of social-legal history of the country, and values it?

Although I know quite a lot of (what I consider) well-educated Americans, it is also the only country from which I regularly meet the type of person who doesn't care at all about how society works (also, technology, history, art, etc).

You'll probably find that HN-person is the kind of person who values this kind of argument, but HN-world is quite small.

On multiple occasions, I've met Americans who simply care about might-makes-right. It's skin-deep, as soon as you ask them why they support this or that policy, it's because they are powerful and the rest of the world is not. I've literally met Americans who thought their tax money allowed them to summon troops, more than once. (This ended up backfiring as it turns out, they did not know how to get US Marines to arrive, big shocker.)

The same kind of thinking seems to be prevalent internally. You can trample the law, because you can. You see it even in ordinary US-made popular media. What happens what a character gets in trouble with the law? Well, then of course it depends on who has the most money to hire the best lawyers.

In the current case, I suspect the government will just do whatever it wants and there will be no legal reckoning.
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 07:16:00+00:00
Its probably somewhat having to do with being a narcissist and getting "payback" for 2020, but ironically, being a conservative means you simply don't have the mental capacity for any real coordination. Because to be a good planner you have to have a good grip on reality, which conservatives certainly do not.

If you are a conservative who is reading this, give me any conservative viewpoint and Ill show you that it either doesn't make sense in reality, or is already supported by Democrats.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-10 07:16:03+00:00
> If it's an actual machine, payroll for building it is fully deductible, like most other payroll.

Not if the machine is used as an integral part of manufacturing, production, or extraction, or an integral part of furnishing transportation, communications, electrical energy, gas, water, or sewage disposal services by a person engaged in a trade or business of furnishing any such service, or is a research or storage facility used in connection with any of the foregoing activities.
by RangerScience | 2025-06-10 07:16:22+00:00
AFAIK, I would not read much into the possession and use of gas masks - the bake-sale anarchist medics are pretty well organized and equipped.

There's a lot of people in LA with the skills and equipment to rapidly organize like this; got to see it in person during the Occupy protests, when a tiny village popped up around City Hall - complete with power and internet infrastructure; medical, porta-potties, meals, workshops and seminars... it was pretty impressive!

It's also worth noting the insanity that is July 4th in Los Angeles, so there being a lot of fireworks is uhhh... really, really not weird for LA? We usually get increasing amounts (in size and frequency) of illegal firework "shows" all throughout June.

Lastly - there's also a big difference between "out of our [LADP's] control" and "out of control" - that's (AFAIK) actually the norm for effective protests. A large protest that's under the LAPD's control is generally a "demonstration" instead (see the women's marches).
by Bob_LaBLahh | 2025-06-10 07:16:33+00:00
In my experience, LLMs are idiot savant coders--but currently more idiot than savant. Claude 3.7 (via cursor and roo) can comment code well, create a starter project 10x faster than I could, and they spit out common crud apps pretty well.

However I've come to the conclusion that LLMs are terrible at decision making. I would much rather have an intern architect my code than let AI do it. It's just too unreliable. It seems like 3 out of 4 decisions that it makes are fine. But that 4th decision is usually asinine.

That said, I now consider LLMs a mandatory addition to my toolkit because they have improved my developer efficiency so much. I really am a fan. But without a seasoned dev to write detailed instructions, break down the project into manageable chunks, make all of the key design decisions, and review every line of code that it writes, today's AI will only add a mountain of technical debt to your project.

I guess I'm trying to say: don't worry because the robots cannot replace use yet. We're still in the middle of the hype cycle.

But what do I know? I'm just an average meat coder.
by supermatt | 2025-06-10 07:17:17+00:00
> If you've ever had a user say “something’s broken” and then ghost you forever, you probably get where I’m coming from.

As a consumer who reports bugs, I’d actually say the opposite problem is just as common — when the company ghosts you after you’ve taken the time to report an issue.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve used the official channels — bug trackers, support forums, contact forms — only to hear nothing back. No acknowledgement, no follow-up, no notification when it’s fixed. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever had a company let me know that a bug I reported was resolved.

Reporting a bug to most companies feels like sending a wishlist to Santa. That’s why many people don’t bother. They assume it’s a waste of time — and most of the time, they’re right.

Personally, if a company fails to engage over a bug report, I don’t waste my time reporting anything else. In many cases, I just move to the competition. I’m sure I’m not alone.

If a user goes to the time of helping you fix your software, the least you can do is spend some time on them.
by thinkingemote | 2025-06-10 07:17:41+00:00
The protests usually are very well attended organised and peaceful. The organisers of the protests want people to go home afterwards and most do.

But some people hang around after it's ended and then the sun goes down and the protest is actually over and the police try to get people to leave. Then it's a people Vs police confrontation that may escalate. Then it's a riot. Usually these deescalate and the police have training in how to do that.

It's not the protests that is violent it's what happens after the protest finishes. Riots by definition are out of control!

Some protestors would claim that the violence is orchestrated by the police. There has been some evidence of that in some places of the world. Mostly it's a riot of violent people, criminals, kids usually, who are thrilled by the violence and chaos and hatred. Mob mentality creates a mob.
by lm28469 | 2025-06-10 07:18:06+00:00
If it was made in the US with a $7.25/hour wage sure, now do it in cambodia for $200 a month, at 48 hours a week that's barely a dollar an hour, all of a sudden it's a $500 shirt already.

Anyways I don't think you can use inflation over 700 years to come up with a tshirt price based on modern min wages, even peasants had clothes and they sure did not spend 6 months of labor to get a single item of clothing

After spending some times looking about more info on this topic you very quickly find people who debunk the original claim, and the inflation adjusted price the list is about I came up on my side using cambodia: https://www.bookandsword.com/2017/12/09/how-much-did-a-shirt...
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 07:18:21+00:00
There was major backlash against mandates everywhere they were imposed, even including in places like China which has an extremely social culture paired with a government with authoritarian level power and relatively low tolerance for public dissent.

Asking people to inject themselves with something that was rushed out the door, most using novel technology, and whose results did not come remotely close to the early rhetoric (which included claims that you would not get infected or spread COVID if vaccinated) is not something that people would ever organically rush to adopt.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-10 07:18:28+00:00
I agree that calorie counting in the strict meaning is not necessary.

What is necessary is to measure your food, either by mass or by volume, before starting to eat it. For any food that you eat, you should decide some standard portion size that you find by experiment to be suitable for you and you must always eat the standard portion, not random quantities at your whim.

Then, after seeing that you have gained weight after eating 5 spoons of food X, you should decrease the amount to 4 spoons, and so on until you reach amounts of food that keep your weight constant.

What is also important is that for this adjustment you should not decrease or increase the amounts for food items that provide proteins, essential fatty substances, vitamins and minerals, but only the amounts for food items that provide mostly energy, i.e. carbohydrates or non-essential fats.

This is much easier to do when you cook the food yourself, so you control the amounts for each ingredient, than when you buy industrially-produced food, where they have the incentive of mixing every beneficial food ingredient with other ingredients that provide only energy (e.g. starch, sugar, cheap vegetable oils), because the latter are much cheaper than the ingredients that provide essential nutrients, while being tasty or even addictive.
by ensocode | 2025-06-10 07:18:30+00:00
I think both goals and constraints are powerful tools for achieving success. Goals give you direction, while constraints shape your mindset and drive consistent progress. For example, “write every day” is a constraint — and it reliably leads to improvement. I enjoyed the essay. It’s not a complete system, but I appreciate its focus on consistent action over goal-setting. Thanks for sharing!
by lasiotus | 2025-06-10 07:18:30+00:00
> If anything does present a concrete issue we are eager to address it.

That's great to hear! I think it is a bit too early to spend extra effort on porting Wasmtime to Motor OS at the moment, as there are a couple of more pressing issues to sort out (e.g. FS performance is not yet where it should be), but in a couple of months I may reach out!
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 07:21:02+00:00
> Eventually I got practical and fed up with ways of Linux Desktop.

I was in the same boat and used macOS for a decade since it was practical for my needs.

These days I find it easier to do my work on Linux, ironically cross-platform development & audio. At least in my experience, desktop Linux is stable, works with my commercial apps, and things like collaboration over Zoom/Meet/etc with screen sharing actually work out of the box, so it ticks all of my boxes. This certainly wasn't the case several years ago, where Linux incompatibility and instability could be an issue when it comes to collaboration and just getting work done.
by winrid | 2025-06-10 07:21:06+00:00
Really? Maybe it's a modern laptop thing but I also don't like the newer ones. There is almost no travel, it's so weird, and I broke TWO keyboards in a year after having the previous one for 5 years. I have to be super sensitive with them, whereas I could type with a brick with my pre-2020 thinkpads (which also weigh less than 3lbs...)
by oasisbob | 2025-06-10 07:22:19+00:00
> This is all just a long-winded way of saying: you don’t just stumble across insecure critical infrastructure every day, and when you do, it’s usually just a one-off host with a misconfiguration, and not an issue that affects a large number of hosts. But if you do find yourself in a situation where there seems to be some widespread security issue in actual critical infrastructure, you should be encouraged to reevaluate and reassess because in all probability, it’s not what you think it is.

... or in this case, it is what you think it is.

This article could have benefited from some stern and constructive editing. In the age of AI, I find myself with very little patience for verbose and vapid writing.
by kortilla | 2025-06-10 07:23:22+00:00
I don’t know what bubble you’re living in but the “narrative” here is easily defensible. “The software engineering profession has been gutted by layoffs that explicitly make them 5x more expensive to startups than lawyers, electrical engineers, and doctors. This hurts both workers and employers while benefiting nobody other than foreign firms.”

Nobody of relevance is mad people in tech get paid well. The only slice who are is a small percentage of people in housing constrained areas who attribute the housing failures of California to 5% of the SF workforce.

> I'm telling you how things are.

Claiming something is “how things are” is just assuming the conclusion and is one of the dumbest ways to engage in discussion. It’s literally, “I’m just telling you how I’m right.”
by BrenBarn | 2025-06-10 07:23:29+00:00
And they're still nearly evenly matched and Trump is still doing what he's doing. The Democrats could have done all the same stuff Trump is doing, but for good instead of evil. The problem is that the Democrats are not willing to accept that the system is entirely broken, so they keep clinging to a belief in "institutions" that they think will somehow magically protect us, when in fact those institutions are destroying us.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-10 07:23:40+00:00
About OP: I swear, there is a HN "rule": When there is any opportunity to discuss health scare conspiracy theories, someone will pop into the convo (wearing a tin foil hat, naturally) to add their two cents. It is the perfect embodiment of Brandolini's law.

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

As a counterpoint to "avoiding rubber tyred metro lines like the plague": Does this person also avoid all road tunnels or expressways underground? Since there are frequently multiple lanes in each direction, that would mean much more fine rubber particulates from car & truck tyres compared to a metro with much less frequent trains and only one track in each direction.
by Teever | 2025-06-10 07:23:47+00:00
Think about it this way.

Whatever it costs to collect and store this data is some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value.

Imagine if you personally could do the same to someone for an equivalent fraction of your net worth. Would you not try and maximize the number of people you collect data on? Just out of pure curiosity -- even if you couldn't sell the data?