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by sshine | 2025-08-17 18:57:58+00:00
I’m reminded of a checkbox titled “Don’t ask me next time” when logging into Microsoft Online that I am given the option to check every single time I log in.

My lack of trust in Microsoft (or Google) to keep my interest in mind is rooted in experience.

The problem is: once your organisation is so corrupt that they think of this shit, turning off bad ideas becomes a game of whack-a-mole.

Just say no to this kind of behaviour.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-17 18:57:58+00:00
Surely you can see the point though - that there are numerous of trades that previously involved mastery of tools, a process of designing custom products for customers, and were made to last for decades, centuries even.

But many of those have long since been automated away, because customers are more than happy to purchase cheaper products, made almost entirely by machines.

"AI-free" development will be a tiny niche in the coming years and decades. And those developers will not get paid any extra for doing it the old way. Just like artisanal workers today.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-17 18:58:06+00:00
Right, but the nature of veterinary practice don’t lend themselves to monopoly, nor is the excess cash even close to artificially achieving that. This is just what you see in an irrational market as well. All this stops when PE won’t overbid on practices, or when the vet pay is low enough that it makes sense to open your own practice. Many forms of software do favor monopoly. Rolling up all of the gov tech startups has network effects in addition to being an industry that operates on large fixed costs and low variable costs.

Vets aren’t like that, one vet has a limit to the number of dogs they can see in a day. I think it is mostly PE trying to mimic their success with doctors offices (which have massive network effects via insurance), and assuming that it will work the same.

It is very hard to have any monopoly power in an industry where there is no barrier to entry for your most valuable employees, and where, as you pointed out, customers are sensitive to price.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-17 18:58:51+00:00
The Innovators Dilemma, as many here are aware, is when a new entrant starts out at the very low end of a market with a new less capable system/technology. They get little resistance selling into the very low end of a market.

But their new system/technology follows a new learning curve that ends up surpassing the legacy technology and vendors.

It is hard to defend against, because it would require companies to abandon their focus on mid-to-high market range and start competing early at their own very low end - undercutting all their offerings profitability. Even while their current system still has some legs left in its learning cycle.

But if incumbents don't find a way to let go of quarter to quarter growth pressures, and disrupt themselves, the new companies/systems eventually obsolete them.

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The Chinese manufacturing sector handed the Innovator's Dilemma to the whole US manufacturing sector. Famously starting at the very low end - with products that were considered very low quality.

But then intensely integrating all the dimensions of manufacturing - in a way never done in the US. Into a highly flexible, efficient and modular system, across companies, technologies, markets etc, until they didn't just kill it on price at the low end. But now on price and quality at even the highest end.

Throw in the historical US car giants' painfully predictable lack of speed on EVs, a disruptor on its own, and it's hard to see those companies regaining their footing.

The Chinese now excel at whole system design, which until recently was viewed as the US technological moat.

Q: Seems US companies have no more natural advantages? Anyone have a better prognosis?
by bobnarizes | 2025-08-17 18:59:04+00:00
> Finances and Contracts are for me the same folders.

> Also, spaces in folders will absolutely break my legacy scripts on `~` at a future time when I re-run them.

Folder names and spaces: full customization is coming — you’ll be able to name and organize them however you like.

> Demo is not that convincing.

Demo: what felt missing or unconvincing? Any feedback helps improve it.

> Also, I need multilanguage support

Multi-language: on the roadmap — which languages matter most to you?

> and am not clear if OCR for PDFs before running is done by this.

currently not automatic for scanned PDFs. I’m also validating whether sorting images, videos, and audio based on their content/meaning would provide real value. What do you think?

Thank you so much for testing it and giving all this feedback!
by numpad0 | 2025-08-17 18:59:13+00:00
Yes in technical sense that only wrong countries try to control wrongthink, and no in the sense that if there are chances such opinions prevail.

It'll be like insisting YOLO[1] renamed and presentation video changed up. We all kind of deserve a right to say so, and insisting anime is unprofessional and must be removed don't look that way yet, but IMO it very well could be considered insane talks in 5-10 years.

1: https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
by hellisothers | 2025-08-17 18:59:15+00:00
Counterpoint: I forget where I originally read this thought but consider compilers. At one point coding was writing assembly and now it’s generally not, sometimes some people still do it but it is far from the norm. Now, usually, you “write code” in an abstraction (possibly of an abstraction) and magic takes care of the rest.

While I imagine “make an app that does X” won’t be as useful as “if … else” there is a middle ground where you’re relinquishing much of the control you currently are trying to retain.
by mrDmrTmrJ | 2025-08-17 18:59:35+00:00
"It does feel like a squeeze just functioning in the current - housing, and grocery market though"

If housing were far cheaper and traded just at the cost of new construction. ($250/sq-ft for new build 6 story, $400/sq-ft for 30 story mass timber, $600/sq-ft steel and concrete). We'd see that people can easily live in the current job market!

The fundamental problem in our economy is the artificial scarcity of housing (through local regulation) in the cities and towns where the economy is booming.
by pas | 2025-08-17 18:59:58+00:00
you can open the XR/LR capsules too, there's just a bunch of small "grains" inside, with different coatings, and thus they get digested at different rates, and basically it's like eating one instant release and one ~4 hour release capsule. (though there are fancy ones that have ~3 peaks, etc.)

you can simply measure the grains with a scale and separate some fraction.
by firefax | 2025-08-17 19:00:18+00:00
>There's also lots of possibilities outside of software. High end rates for online English lessons are around $40/hour though that's if you go independent, self promotion, etc - which is kind of tedious. But if you can tap into that huge booming middle class in e.g. China, you'll have basically endless students around those rates. Working for a company you can hit around $20/hour

Hypothetically if someone was burnt out and willing to operate in the gray a bit, how much can you make (approximately) doing English lessons under the table?

Eg: I go to Thailand. I enter as a tourist. Ocassionally, I meet someone in a café and have a conversation with them. They value that enough to pay me.

One of my big pre-covid regrets is I didn't travel more... I had intended to, having been laid off just before it started but everything got locked down and I had a bit of a mental health episode, feeling trapped in interactions I didn't consent to as I spent money on rent I could have spent on hotels etc.

Right as COVID fell, I'd been researching doing the Moscow to Beijing train then exploring SE Asia... it's funny how much of the planned route is possibly bust... for example, I was going to skip mainland China and only visit HK since less visa issues, not sure if that's still possible...
by egypturnash | 2025-08-17 19:01:19+00:00
> The worst part about the rollout is that the upgrade to GPT-5 was automatic and didn't include any way to roll back to the old model.

[...]

> If we don't have sovereignty and control over the tools that we rely on the most, we are fundamentally reliant on the mercy of our corporate overlords simply choosing to not break our workflows.

This is why I refuse to use any app that lives on the web. Your new tool may look great and might solve all my problems but if it's not a binary sitting there on my machine then you can break it at any time and for any reason, intentionally or not. And no a copy of your web app sitting in an Electron frame does not count, that's the worst of both worlds.

This week I started hearing that the latest release of Illustrator broke saving files. It's a real app on my computer so I was able to continue my policy of never running the latest release unless I'm explicitly testing the beta release to offer feedback. If it was just a URL I visited then everything I needed to do would be broken.
by everdrive | 2025-08-17 19:01:32+00:00
>I know several people who rave about ChatGPT as a pseudo-therapist, but from the outside the results aren’t encouraging.

Therapy is not a hard science; it's somewhat subjective and isn't guaranteed to actually help anyone. I do wonder about these people who believe LLM can be a useful therapist. Do they actually get worthwhile therapy from _real_ therapists? Or, are they just paying for someone to listen to them and empathize with them.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-08-17 19:01:38+00:00
Financial aid programs began so that deserving students could get to college and afford to do so without requiring extended family support.

Not too surprisingly, the perverse incentive of government aid to school administration and loan brokers has made college nearly unaffordable for all.

And of course, boomers cut the tax subsidies to schools once they are out so that even without the administrative bloat, tuition would be more expensive for those who came after
by hn-user-42 | 2025-08-17 19:02:05+00:00
I learned that in a hard way. It was midnight, I had to make some urgent changes to the user table in the production database. We had about 4 million users and needed to make changes to 70k users (due a change in 3rd party).

I figured out after 40 minutes that we are not making any progress. For each user we are probably searching 4 million users. After I added the index to a specific field, it was done quickly.
by dingdingdang | 2025-08-17 19:02:25+00:00
I mean, yes. And also; it's the age old problem that arises every time a new technology arrives in full: it requires a steadier-than-priorly hand in order to not have ballistic effects on society. This goes for books over what-my-betters-told-me, swords over flint-blades, automotive cars over horse-carts and indeed; ALL technology. New tech of any real substance invariably carry the need for cultural shift towards a more advanced stance that allows for the gainful use of said technology at scale.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-17 19:02:25+00:00
Been wondering that myself. The kernel level anti-cheat has gone so far, it's all an attempt to turn an untrusted platform (someone's computer) into a trusted execution platform (a console).

I don't like it, the idea of software mandating a very specific computing environment or else it refuses to run. It takes agency away, and will bleed into other types of software beyond just games (which we already see on mobile).

I like gaming on PC, but I will continue to refuse to install/play any game that requires this level of anti-cheat. There has to be a better way than forcing users to install what is effectively a rootkit to play.
by commandar | 2025-08-17 19:03:55+00:00
That's kind of what I mean though.

Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific side, it has every feature this app highlights on its homepage and more. It works with just about any API provider and model you could ask for.

I could probably translate my existing workflow over to Claudia pretty easily, but what does that get me? A slightly different interface seems to be about it.

That's the question I keep hitting with these new tool announcements.
by drankl | 2025-08-17 19:04:43+00:00
I thought the author's point about how the rhetoric in favour of assisted suicide is being put forward was interesting.

Instead of being debated in an honest, thoughtful and measured way, it's being marketed with propaganda-like emotional appeals, which makes it harder for people to see the ethical implications clearly. All of this being done with the aim of affecting public opinion and changing policy.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-08-17 19:05:08+00:00
Anyone have a way to read this without a log in? I can't seem to get past the paywall with archive tools.

Aside from that, a friend of mine had a good solution for this - she just moved to Europe, got citizenship, and plans to never return to the states. Granted, she also had a terrible connection with her family, so she didn't stand to lose much anyway.

Edit: WarOnPrivacy has us covered with a link. Thanks!
by dfabulich | 2025-08-17 19:05:12+00:00
Author here. That's exactly what I said in the article.

> Surprising proofs reach conclusions that the mathematical community assumed were wrong, or prove theorems in ways that we thought wouldn’t work, or prove conjectures that we thought might be impossible to prove.

Many smart people have tried for more than 150 years to prove the Reimann Hypothesis; it might be impossible to prove.

If it's proved tomorrow, I'll be very surprised, and so will you. I'll be surprised if it's proved this year, or this decade.

If you set to work trying to prove RH, you're gonna try some interesting approaches, looking for underexplored areas of math that you're optimistic will tie back to RH. (This is how Fermat's Last Theorem finally fell.)

If you hook an LLM up to Lean and set it to work, you'll find that it actively avoids novel techniques. It feels like it's actively trying not to write a publishable paper. It's trying to minimize surprises, which means avoiding proving anything publishable.
by reactordev | 2025-08-17 19:05:38+00:00
The reasoning behind yes, it would help is in building data tools for people. So you load up your parque files with data, ingest it into your platform, it uses clickhouse (or some OLAP) for tabulation of data, the platform presents a UI that allows the data engineer to select which fields, etc.

This can only be achieved by utilizing some sort of type system. Whether it's reflecting on the tables, codegen on the fly, or having to write custom adapters for each structure. All of which can be greatly simplified with an ORM.

It's not going to help much with bespoke report asks from the business though.
by commenter8 | 2025-08-17 19:06:03+00:00
The nice thing about LinkedIn posts is that it’s clear that everything is an ad. Reddit, Facebook, etc started with people just posting to communicate and socialize, then were (mostly) taken over by ads / influencers pretending. With LinkedIn there’s no pretense and no wheat to sift from the chaff.

It’s just marketers marketing to each other. If that’s useful you can join a mutual promotion group and auto-comment on each others’ posts without damaging anything of value. If not you can stay away and completely ignore any posts when you come back for an occasional job search.
by jakebasile | 2025-08-17 19:06:21+00:00
The solution existed starting in the late 90s through the early 2010s. You have a server browser with community run servers who are administered by people who play on the server. Admins notice cheating, the cheater gets banned. You find a server that you like and it turns into an ad hoc community.

Of course that doesn't maximize shareholder value the way skill based matchmaking or revenue based matchmaking does. So the incentives are again misaligned between devs and players, so nothing will get solved.
by YZF | 2025-08-17 19:06:53+00:00
The dosage for longevity is supposed to be low enough that this risk is minimized. Lots of things you do modulate your immune system (including e.g. exercise). It's a risk/reward thing, every time you get into your car you're also taking a longevity risk.

I think there are some proper human trials happening but the jury is still out.
by abullinan | 2025-08-17 19:07:24+00:00
Mensa really needs to be left out of these discussions. It’s not scientific, it is just a money grab for people who need intellectual validation. You can be admitted with a top 10% SAT score and no in-person testing at all. The in-person testing is in three parts, one part is a memory test, the second part is a Mensa test, the third part is the Weschler test. Source: I joined in 1995 because I needed intellectual validation. :)
by sfn42 | 2025-08-17 19:08:19+00:00
At the very least you need to read the DB-generated ID, otherwise how do you provide stuff like editing?

Simply reading after a write is a perfectly adequate solution for I'd say most systems.

If you have performance issues and a change like this may solve them, sure. Switch to app-generated IDs and add workarounds for whatever other issues arise, and skip the read. But if you don't need to I don't see why you'd go through this trouble.
by cjfd | 2025-08-17 19:08:55+00:00
One cannot just look at the end result. It is also of relevance what risk was run. Nobody else was willing to lend those bank some more money. Guess why. If can play russian roulette and win 100000 dollars if you survive and it turns out that you survive and get 100000 dollars can we conclude from this that it was a wise decision?
by commandar | 2025-08-17 19:09:05+00:00
If you're opposed to using VSCode for whatever reason, that's reasonable. Though, for me personally, the fact that it only lets you use Claude Code strikes me as a much larger negative on net. It's not at all agnostic in terms of AI provider.

That said, VSCode is a popular platform for this for exactly the reason I think consolidation is eventually inevitable: it's got a huge preexisting ecosystem. There are extensions for practically anything you could ask for.

There's likely room for some standalone, focused apps in this space. I just don't see the current wave of "we put a wrapper around Claude Code and gave it some basic MCP and custom prompt management tools like a dozen other applications this week" being sustainable.

They're all going to end up on their own tiny islands unless there's a reason for an ecosystem to develop around them.
by diggan | 2025-08-17 19:09:59+00:00
> I have to wonder if its missing forest for the trees: do you perceive GPT-OSS-120b as an emotionally warm model?

I haven't needed it to be "emotionally warm" for the use cases I use it for, but I'm guessing you could steer it via the developer/system messages to be sufficiently warm, depending on exactly what use case you had in mind.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-17 19:10:06+00:00
Honestly, we can all still correct it if we really want to. Nothing is too late in my opinion, but the question that I wish to ask is, is it worth it?

I mean, compared to zig which is starting to have a lot of hype and libraries / help, lets say that we now wish for nim to have this, then are the feature differences b/w zig and nim worth the revival of nim in that sense? (Pardon me if this doesn't make sense)
by eddieroger | 2025-08-17 19:10:06+00:00
I was thinking the same. I like that being in my terminal makes it feel closer to a build tool than not, because that's the space it fills for me. I like that, because it's a terminal, if I connect to my main machine through SSH, it's right there waiting for me. I'm not saying there isn't room in the world for both, but so far I haven't felt the need for a GUI tool in this space.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-08-17 19:10:17+00:00
Well I mean yes, you can use io_uring to read the 128KB blocks as 8 4KB blocks, but that's a very roundabout way of doing it that doesn't significantly improve your performance since with either method, the operation time is more or less the same. If a 128 KB read takes roughly the same time as a 4K read, 8 parallel 4K reads isn't going to be faster with io_uring.

Also, an index with larger block sizes is not equivalent to a structure with smaller block sizes with readahead. The index structure is not the same since having larger coherent blocks gives you better precision in your indexing structure for the same number of total forward pointers, as there's no need to index within each 128 KB block, the forward pointer resolution that would have gone to distinguishing between 4K blocks can instead help you rapidly find the next relevant 128 KB block.
by michaelfm1211 | 2025-08-17 19:10:43+00:00
Congrats on not having to take out a loan. Most people aren't that lucky.

Most people taking out student loans are still teenagers. Does anyone really expect a teenager to make good financial decisions? Also, most people can't get a solid job without going to college, so they're forced to take out loans.

That "negligence subsidy" is really helping people who were put in an unfair situation by colleges and banks.
by kelnos | 2025-08-17 19:11:33+00:00
I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured.

At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sure I really want or need.

But for people who arm themselves to the teeth with GUIs and IDEs, I guess I can see the appeal.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-17 19:11:50+00:00
Sometimes the government can help someone who isn’t you, without it being a problem for you. And society is large and complex, so you’ve certainly benefited from lots of government spending on things that don’t benefit you.

As a taxpayer who paid off all the debts they’ve incurred, I have no ill feelings towards those who can’t.

As a taxpayer who has always been able to pay for food, I have no ill feelings towards those on food stamps.

As a taxpayer who has been able to pay rent/mortgage, I have no ill feelings towards those in shelters.

Some people need help, it’s the responsibility of everyone else in society to aid those in need.