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by strbean | 2025-07-02 21:14:59+00:00
> And for functional programming techniques, we disagree in how we think about the operation. You see it as data processing, I see it as I/O. I very specifically pointed out that I/O is a side-effect. This is a mainstream viewpoint in functional programming. But you ignored what we actually disagree about and assumed it’s just because I don’t know anything about functional programming.

I think you're wrong here. The point at which the rendered template is actually stuffed into the DOM (and hence the screen) is I/O, sure. But the creating / rendering of the template is a pure function, which is what we are dealing with here.
by dang | 2025-07-02 21:15:00+00:00
Could you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? This is not a valid use of HN, and you're well on the wrong side of the line. I had to go back a good two months before seeing anything else in your posts.

(This is not a comment on your politics. The moderation call here would be the same if you had the opposite politics, or any others.)

Edit: This has been a problem for a long time. I don't believe it's your intention to abuse HN, so I don't want to ban you, but if you don't fix this, we'll end up doing so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121542 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436733 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19972399 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715736 (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16758558 (April 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16749749 (April 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457684 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16234007 (Jan 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849007 (Dec 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773271 (Nov 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484503 (Oct 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672661 (June 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233383 (April 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517054 (Jan 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13515750 (Jan 2017)
by marcusverus | 2025-07-02 21:15:14+00:00
As the parent said, Tesla's PE ratio indicates that investors are betting on massive future growth, obviously because of Elon's track record of delivering on his promises of new tech (....eventually). If getting rid of Elon caused Tesla to be priced like other car companies, the price would go down by 90+%.

No sane board member would consider that a serious option.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-02 21:16:46+00:00
A dynamic that I don't entirely understand but think is interesting:

When group A (in this case, Democrats) gets in power they promote philosophy A (Climate Change) and it probably gets more general acceptance, but the on the fringe, it promotes a growing movement that goes against A (Climate Change Deniers), movement B.

And this benefits group B (in this case, Republicans) and over time that growing movement gets bigger and bigger.

And so, what's interesting, is group B when it gets in power could decide to not combat institutional control of A, because then the movement against A would keep growing, but they don't, they attack institutional Control of A, then institutionalize belief B, thus reversing the process, creating a movement against B / for A.

Would it be strategically more advantageous for group B to let idea A stay in the institutions, to keep the movement against A growing?
by nicholasjbs | 2025-07-02 21:16:50+00:00
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by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-02 21:16:50+00:00
> Why does wealth inequality matter? If my real wealth doubles and Elon's real wealth doubles, inequality went up,

Not in terms of the ratio between you, which is the way we normally talk about wealth inequality : "he has X times more wealth than I do", or "she makes X times more than I do".

Anyway, this is not how wealth inequality has grown at all. It has happened by most people's real income barely rising at all over 40-50 years, while the rich have seen theirs rise by huge factors (hundreds to many thousands in some cases).
by jeppebemad | 2025-07-02 21:16:53+00:00
Happy to share!

We have (in Denmark) a lot of shows on our public broadcasting network DR, and similar for NRK (the Norwegian counterpart) that are meant for toddlers, many of which share these traits:

- Slow, meaning long scenes without cuts. - Calm speaker narrating something happening in simple words and with repetition. - Babies like to watch other babies, and toddlers other toddlers.

Go for older shows (90s, 2000s). Once they watch newer stuff which has a faster pace, it’s hard to get them to watch the oldies.

Once they get older (5+), I would recommend Stillwater on Apple TV.
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-07-02 21:17:00+00:00
Location: Linz/Austria/EU Remote: OK (Any timezone OK) Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: AI (LLM, RAG, Agents, Voice, AI-SDK), Typescript, React, Next.js, Supabase, Firebase, Postgres, GCP Résumé: https://brandstetter.io/Resume_Brandstetter_Jurgen.pdf Email: j@brandstetter.io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-brandstetter Salary: USD 150k / year

I'm an AI engineer and senior full-stack developer with an aspiration for a team/product lead or CTO-like position. For ~7 years, I was co-founder and CTO of an ed-tech company called amy.app. My co-founder and I scaled the company to about 25 employees. Before that, I earned a PhD in Human-Robot Interaction in NZ and Oxford. I've used the past year contracting, after winding down my company, to learn and apply as much as possible about AI solutions. I'm talking; LLM based email automation, AI call agent, RAG, Agentic-Search.

Currently, I'm designing and working on an agentic enterprise search engine for the AEC industry.

I'm very product/customer-focused and pragmatic. I like to move super fast (not only because of Cursor :D).

My dream environment is an early-stage, fully remote startup.

PS: I have a family, which means the main compensation via shares isn't an option for me.
by smeeth | 2025-07-02 21:17:34+00:00
You don't need the analogy. If you have a tool that does a job for you your capacity to do the job degrades alongside other associated skills.

Tools that do many things and tools that do a small number of things are still tools.

> "do we really even need a body at all anymore?"

It's a legitimate question. What's so special about the body and why do we need to have one? Would life be better or worse without bodies?

Deep down I think everyone's answer has more to do with spirituality than anything else. There isn't a single objectively correct response.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-02 21:18:15+00:00
They are in a tough spot re:Elon. While long term, distancing Tesla from Elon and focusing on developing better EVs that out compete BYD, Xiaomi and other Chinese competitors would be the healthy move, they also realize that the company’s unreal valuation is completely tied to Elon and his made up storylines that never get delivered (FSD, Semi, Roadster 2, 4680 battery etc.). Dumping Elon would wipe out hundreds of Billions in shareholder value and the lawsuits would be brutal.
by mindslight | 2025-07-02 21:18:55+00:00
It's a half-baked narrative meant to make you tune out caring how abruptly stopping aid hurt actual human beings, and to support the denial that these actions aimed destroying America's stature in the world have anything to do with fiscal responsibility or taking care of our own. Trillions of dollars in new inflation have since shown the latter to be an abject lie, but the fascist movement relies on constant isolated "questioning" to feel superior and justified while never actually following through with a full analysis.
by const_cast | 2025-07-02 21:18:59+00:00
> I started voting for Republicans because I watched Democrats become anti-science, e.g., gender-affirming care.

Gender-affirming care is not "anti-science", you just don't understand the science.

Gender-affirming care is not saying that people can change their biological sex. It was never that. That was, and will remain, a conservative hallucination.

Gender-affirming care is about curtailing the effects of gender dysphoria and improving the quality of life of transgender individuals, and some cisgender individuals. Which is science-backed. It works. Gender-affirming care leads to better outcomes for transgender individuals, period.

The problem here with you, and other's, is that you're just arguing the wrong points. You might not think gender dysphoria is real or that it matters, but that's not the conversation. The conversation is "does gender-affirming care help people and improve outcomes". Which yes, it does.

Whether those people deserve to be helped is not a scientific question. It's a political one. Please, know and understand the difference.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-07-02 21:19:27+00:00
The pay may be above average for that location, but it might still be too low. Back when I had just finished college, my cohort was also judging locations where they would apply to work based on things like the social scene or the climate, in addition to the usual considerations of the kind of work and pay they would be doing. There were plenty that turned down well-paying jobs that were in undesirable locations because they were also seeking to not only establish a career, but a life too.

One of the guys I worked with at my first job was a few years older than me, and he had given up a much better paying job in one of the flyover states for a lower paying one in a higher COL area; His reasoning was that no amount of money could buy him the things he wanted out there, but he did admit that had the pay been significantly higher, he probably would have stuck it out for longer than he did, though again only to save up a bigger nest egg before he moved away from the area.
by fragmede | 2025-07-02 21:19:29+00:00
There's an attitude shift, too. US manufacturing is stuck in the past. If you want to build a widget, you want it finished, welded assembled and painted. you've got to do a bunch of work and take it to four different places before you're done. China's got a one stop shop attitude to get your widget made. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjEVB5p2/
by benreesman | 2025-07-02 21:19:57+00:00
In most programming languages the compiler authors go to great lengths to gives intuitive semantics to having one statement follow another, followed by another. This is an organizing principle for thinking about code and for having a program exist with well-defined semantics.

But its not a very robust one: its never true of fast programs on realistic hardware for example (not for a long time now). And all the rule bending (-fstrict-alias, bunch of stuff) exists in this tension between the grade school natural language paradigm and the reality of computers. I say grade school not to be pejorative, but rather because it is roughly the boundary where written natural languages begin to have interesting tensions around past and future and simultaneous, changing and not changing.

Functors and applicatives and monads and other type classes like these are the source of endless analogies because there isn't an accepted, broadly-understood terminology for this "well its roughly what would happen if you had a piece of paper and wrote things on it at every statement boundary and scratched off the old ones" (though Turing and von Neumann did formalize this in useful ways, they just don't generalize well to realistic computers anymore).

Monads are the mathematical object that is forced on you if you want a rigorous way to describe the semantics of program execution in the vicinity of this "common sense" notion. That's really what everyone is dancing around: your program is only well defined with either:

- a big rulebook full of exceptions and edge cases

- a compositional rule strict enough to give some useful predictability but lax enough to admit most useful programs.

It is this rigor/laxity tension as concerns text on a page and gates on a semiconductor that gives monads a privileged place in the towers of categories. When I worked on Sigma we were among the earlier adoptors of ApplicativeDo, for example, because we wanted a slightly different rigor/laxity tradeoff for performance reasons.

Monads are what happens when you do shift the giant pile of "back of the book" compiler details that describe program execution semantics into a much simpler set of rules, but at the cost of increasing the barrier to entry because you need to know the rules before you can print "hello world".
by ryao | 2025-07-02 21:20:16+00:00
This is the result of an industry wide problem where technology just is not moving forward as quickly as it used to move. Dennard scaling is dead. Moore’s law is also dead for SRAM and IO logic. It is barely clinging to life for compute logic, but the costs are skyrocketing as each die shrink happens. The result is that we are getting anemic improvements. This issue is visible in Nvidia’s graphics offerings too. They are not improving from generation to generation like they did in the past, despite Nvidia turning as many knobs as they could to higher values to keep the party going (e.g. power, die area, price, etcetera).
by jlarocco | 2025-07-02 21:20:32+00:00
I don't understand the Python hate. What would they use instead?

Python is installed on most systems and easy to install when it's not. Only Azure is dumb enough to bundle it, and that was a complaint in the bug - there's no good reason to do so in this day and age.

The performance bottle neck in all three is usually the network communication - have you seen cases where the Python CLI app itself was using 100% of a CPU and slowing things down? I personally haven't.

Looking at the crazy way Azure packaged their CLI, it's hard to believe they weren't making it bloated on purpose.
by asmodeuslucifer | 2025-07-02 21:20:58+00:00
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by dkersten | 2025-07-02 21:21:08+00:00
I lived in a house where one of my housemates was also into couchsurfing and for a few month in summer and early autumn 2008, we were very active hosts. One weekend while there was a CS event on in my city, we hosted 12 people at once.

In 2009, I was living somewhere I couldn’t host, but my primary social group for that year was other local couchsurfers — we used to meet up twice a week. One of them got married to one of my friends. Others I kept in touch with for many years.

I haven’t been part of it in a long time, but I haven’t many fond memories of the couchsurfing community. Like you, I didn’t have any bad experiences.
by reducesuffering | 2025-07-02 21:22:04+00:00
Many people find the data and record-breaking in running a good reward system. There's all kinds of goals to try to achieve, from your best time at 10 different distances, to weekly miles, to a longer and longer distance like a marathon.

Team sports are harder to work into a schedule, which is why running is easier to start for many people because it just requires a pair of shoes and leaving the house yourself. For others, there's a parallel social angle where you can also make many friends you see regularly at clubs and enjoy the same activity together.
by seadan83 | 2025-07-02 21:22:23+00:00
I believe it's the main topic because VCs have been trying to solve the problem of "expensive software developers" for a long time. The AI start-up hype train is real simply because that is how you get VC money these days. VC money contracted with the economy and post-Covid severely, and seemingly what is available is going to AI something-or-other. Somehow, the VC-orientated startup hype-train seems to have become the dominant voice in the zeitgeist of software development.
by robswc | 2025-07-02 21:22:24+00:00
This is my question too.

I'm no longer job searching but every interview involved multiple steps and "background checks."

I'm seeing the dude's resume has him working half a dozen jobs in a year which even to me is a huge red flag. Then he has a github with automated commits... I don't want to be disparaging to start ups because its brutal out there but how does someone like that have such a high success rate? Is he taking a super low salary or something?
by tomasgaquino | 2025-07-02 21:22:42+00:00
We developed a method called Brain2Model Transfer (B2M) that uses human brain activity, recorded via EEG or invasive intracranial electrodes, as a teacher signal for AI models. When we align model representations to neural data, models train faster and generalize better, consuming less data to achieve equivalent performance to brain-less learning. We tested B2M on two proof-of-concept tasks, and, in both tested cases B2M-trained models required less data and learned faster.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-07-02 21:23:13+00:00
I've only had to call the cops a few times, but they usually put me on hold. 50/50 if they actually do anything or just give me the law enforcement equivalent of this meme- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-aint-reading-all-that (aka "please don't file a report because it makes our metrics look bad)
by devjab | 2025-07-02 21:23:19+00:00
I'm not going to defend Microsoft, but you don't budget based on current achievements. You budget on future prospects, and right now Microsoft is facing some tough times in Europe. The biggest IT expense in my country is the public sector buying various Microsoft licenses, and everyone from the top down are looking into replacing Microsoft with Open Source alternatives due to digital sovereignty.

I doubt that has a big impact on Microsoft's gaming divisions, but it would help explain why they might not think the previous decades of growth will continue.
by jdyer9 | 2025-07-02 21:23:20+00:00
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by nickff | 2025-07-02 21:24:07+00:00
It's a very difficult negotiation on either side, and I am not sure that a sustainable long-term deal is possible:

From the US/Israeli perspective, it's hard to trust Iran, which is positioning itself as a threshold nuclear state, and may attempt to secretly cross that threshold at any time (as North Korea did).

From the Iranian perspective, the government is fearful of infiltration and overthrow, as well as outright invasion, remembering that non-nuclear states have been undermined by the USA and allies (as happened in Libya).
by SlowTao | 2025-07-02 21:24:26+00:00
It is not just GPU performance, it is that visually things are already very refined. A ten times leap in performance doesn't really show as ten times the visual spectical like it used to.

Like all this path tracing/ray tracing stuff, yes it is very cool and can add to a scene but most people can barely tell it is there unless you show it side by side. And that takes a lot of compute to do.

We are polishing an already very polished rock.
by zahlman | 2025-07-02 21:24:47+00:00
> is every post/comment section [related to AI/LLMs] filled with this same narrative? ... The other side of it is ...

I don't see why any of this should be surprising. I think it just reflects a lot of developers using this technology and having experiences that fall neatly into one of these two camps. I can imagine a lot of factors that might pull an individual developer in one direction or the other; most of them probably correlate, and people in the middle might not feel like they have anything interesting to say.
by frou_dh | 2025-07-02 21:24:59+00:00
The dodgy hardware doesn't reflect well on the Google/Pixel brand, that's for sure.

That said, I'm fairly happy with this because my 6a just sits around as an Android test device. Probably only has tens of battery cycles on it and might not ever reach the 400 cycle count where they've deemed this upcoming software nerf needs to kick in. So a free $100 and still keeping the phone is fine by me.

https://i.imgur.com/4wpSMAW.png
by motorest | 2025-07-02 21:25:10+00:00
> You're really trying, aren't you :-)

I'm trying to educate you on the topic, but you seem to offer resistance.

I mean, I haven't even mentioned the fact that in order to be able to provision an azure function you are also forced to provision a storage account. As if the absurdity of the whole plan concept wasn't enough.

> All of this can easily be automated/cloned if it is something you do often.

Irrelevant. It's completely besides the point how you can automate deploying all those resources.

The whole point is that Azure follows an absurdly convoluted model that leaks forces users to manage many layers of low-level infrastructure details even when using services that supposedly follow serverless computing models. I mean, why on earth would anyone have to provision a storage account to be able to deploy an Azure Function? Absurd.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-02 21:26:40+00:00
I agree with the sentiment, however the board has fiduciary responsibilities towards the shareholders. If they make decisions that materially affect the company, in this case by destroying the valuation, then the shareholders can sue.

It will be extremely difficult for the board to justify that having Elon and letting him do whatever he wants is more damaging for the stock than kicking him out.