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by biimugan | 2025-08-22 13:00:56+00:00
> The only difference was leadership.

That's quite the leap though, and is just confusing correlation and causation. Maybe the previous leadership was simply getting in the way of the engineers and managers that had the good ideas. And the new leadership was more hands-off, or focused in other areas like marketing. Or those cases are just flukes. For every case like the ones you cite, I could find two where the exact opposite happened.

If you're downing a shot of vodka every morning, and suddenly stop, then yeah, your health is going to improve.

In my opinion, many (if not most) of these CEOs are business-focused people with no technical (or even non-technical) knowledge of anything they purport to manage. And on the whole, they really don't affect the value of the company one way or the other.
by NegativeK | 2025-08-22 13:01:08+00:00
Every HOA I've lived in had an elected board.

And everyone I've ever heard complain about HOAs has never tried to serve on the board. They're not universally volunteer orgs, but a _lot_ of them are -- which means that if you run, you'll probably be elected, because nobody else wants to deal with that.

HOAs are small governments, with plenty of the problems of larger governments via unhappy but nonparticipatory voters.
by bluGill | 2025-08-22 13:01:08+00:00
There are a lot of RR cars around the country that are not movable for various reasons. Many of them because while the car could be moved, the tracks don't exist. Others because the running gear is worn out.

There is still hope for those cars. If you want to pay for it a ridding company can transport anything from anywhere to anywhere - they will get the correct permits and then load it on a trailer - this is easiest and most common, but not cheap. In some cases you can get an override from the RR to tow it - they can put new wheels under it quick enough, and then put it at the end of the train on a slow month (which is to say they will avoid their busy routes were something breaking would cause problems), again not cheap, but possible and sometimes the RR will subsides the cost if the car has historic value. If there are tracks you can restore it where it is and then the RRs will take it again.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-22 13:01:30+00:00
I’ve lived in two. They were fine. They collected reasonable dues, provided some services, and that’s about the extent of it.

I still wouldn’t want to live in another one. Even if they behave well, they’re just annoying. It’s another set of de facto laws I have to keep track of, elections to vote in, proceedings to follow. The HOA’s finances are my finances so if they screw up it’s my wallet on the line. (I see so many people asking, the HOA fucked up, can they make us pay for it? You are the HOA, there’s nobody else to pay for anything.)

And they’re just not necessary in most places. Maintain common areas? We have something for that already, it’s called local government. Prevent eyesores? Fuck off, if you want to control what happens on a property then buy it. It’s unavoidable for a condo, but completely unnecessary for detached houses, and even townhouses don’t really need one.
by blixt | 2025-08-22 13:01:48+00:00
Yeah maybe they're overrated, but they seem like the agreed-upon set of types to avoid null and to standardize error handling (with some support for nice sugars like Rust's ? operator).

I quite often see devs introducing them in other languages like TypeScript, but it just doesn't work as well when it's introduced in userland (usually you just end up with a small island of the codebase following this standard).
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-22 13:01:55+00:00
Being able to recall all the data from the internet doesn't make you "intelligent".

It makes you a walking database --- an example of savant syndrome.

Combine this with failure on simple logical and cognitive tests and the diagnosis would be --- idiot savant.

This is the best available diagnosis of an LLM. It excels at recall and text generation but fails in many (if not most) other cognitive areas.

But that's ok, let's use it to replace our human workers and see what happens. Only an idiot would expect this to go well.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/17/business/mcdonalds-to-end-ai-d...
by xlii | 2025-08-22 13:02:05+00:00
I don't agree with most of the article but I believe I know where it comes from.

Golang's biggest shortcoming is the fact that it touches bare metal isn't visible clearly enough. It provides many high level features which makes this ambience of "we got you" but fails on delivering proper education to its users that they are going to have a dirt on their hands.

Take a slice for example: even in naming it means "part of" but in reality it's closer to "box full of pointers" what happens when you modify pointer+1? Or "two types of nil"; there is a difference between having two bytes (simplification), one of struct type and the other of address to that struct and having just a NULL - same as knowing that house doesn't exist and being confident that house exists and saying it's in the middle of the volcano beneath the ocean.

The Foo99 critique is another example. If you'd want to have not 99 loop but 10 billion loops each with mere 10 bytes you'd need 100GiB of memory just to exit it. If you'd reuse the address block you'd only use... 10 bytes.

I also recommend trying to implement lexical scope defer in C and putting them in threads. That's a big bottle of fun.

I think that it ultimately boils down to what kind of engineer one wants to be. I don't like hand holding and rather be left on my own with a rain of unit tests following my code so Go, Zig, C (from low level Languages) just works for me. Some prefer Rust or high level abstractions. That's also fine.

But IMO poking at Go that it doesn't hide abstractions is like making fun of football of being child's play because not only it doesn't have horses but also has players using legs instead of mallets.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-22 13:02:11+00:00
I lived in an HOA community for eight years and I have mixed feelings. So many things can go wrong without one - old cars in the front yard, political signs (I don’t care what your political persuasion is they are tacky), yard not being kept.

HOAs suck. But so do people. As another poster said, there are shared responsibility parts in some neighborhoods like pools, gyms, tennis courts etc
by DanielHB | 2025-08-22 13:02:15+00:00
It is well known that all the suburbs in the US are just an economic time-bomb waiting to happen due to the maintenance cost of the public amenities (especially when water/sewage/electricity infra).

Seems fair that the people who actually live in them are the ones paying for the costs instead of spreading it over to all residents of the city. Maybe we will see some suburbs converted to more dense housing once the public infrastructure needs to be replaced.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-08-22 13:02:29+00:00
There are over 1 million condos in Florida, and many of them are in buildings that need repairs the HOA can’t pay for. Remember the Surfside collapse?

Sure, it’d be interesting to see how people work out the concept of shared benefits that need being paid for from scratch, but I know and like some people in Florida so I’d still be sorry to see them do it.
by JCM9 | 2025-08-22 13:02:34+00:00
Add to being confidently wrong is the super annoying way it corrects itself after disastrously screwing something up.

AI: “I’ve deployed the API data into your app, following best practices and efficient code.”

Me: “Nope thats totally wrong and in fact you just wrote the API credential into my code, in plaintext, into the JavaScript which basically guarantees that we’re gonna get hacked.”

AI: “You’re absolutely right. Putting API credentials into the source code for the page is not a best practice, let me fix that for you.”
by Hizonner | 2025-08-22 13:03:16+00:00
You may of course be right. The reason I think you're probably (possibly?) not right is that it's nice to participate in this or that boom, but there's no point if you don't get to keep the profits.

I don't think "the market" has internalized how risky the US is becoming, and I think it'll take somewhere between a few more months and a few years for that to happen.

It's not just about chaotic dumbassness like tariffs. It's not just about disrupting the labor force for stupid reasons. It's not just about attempts to undermine the independent management of the monetary system. Those are bad, but worse is that the whole underlying system of institutions is being trashed. Random shakedowns are being normalized. Government (including courts!) is being deliberately packed with partisans and cronies.

For a really, really long time, the US has been a place where you could expect your counterparty to perform on a contract, and if they didn't you could expect the government to come to your aid, no matter who they were and even if you were a foreigner. You definitely didn't expect a "personal tax" on your company if you didn't suck up to the right people (or just because you happened to be handy). Oh, and you also didn't expect to be dealing with the kind of people a system like that selects for.

People just assume the US isn't run by gangsters, like they assume there'll be air the next time they breathe in. They're so used to that high trust that they don't even consciously factor the question into their decisions. It takes a long time for that kind of mental habit to change. It doesn't happen in a few weeks or a few months. But if US trustworthiness goes away (which it seems to be doing), and people figure it out (which they eventually will if it keeps up), then they're going to start assessing risk accordingly.

Admittedly some of the random stupidity and even more of the outright gangsterism seem to come from Trump personally. He's 79 and in theory he only gets 4 years regardless. But that doesn't mean that it all comes from him, and he and those around him are trashing institutions and norms really fast, in ways that are really hard to repair. It's a big gamble to assume that can or will be reversed by a successor, especially since the systems that are supposed to choose that successor seem to be being rigged to favor candidates with similar approaches. And it won't help you if you're out of business before then.
by fred_is_fred | 2025-08-22 13:03:38+00:00
You hear the bad stories. It all depends on who was elected and who votes. Most HOAs are not the horror stories you hear, just a quiet entity that maintains common property and is a backup solution for problems (when talking to neighbor does not work). Mine is cheap, like $300/year and we have a shared park, community space, and where I live lots of irrigation. They only send out letters for egregious violations and don't police or nit-pick.
by nijave | 2025-08-22 13:03:43+00:00
I don't know much about it but apparently we've been having success at work with Figma MCP hooked up to Claude in Cursor. Apparently it can pull from our component library and generate useable code (although still needs engineering to productionalize)

I don't know about replacing anyone but our UI/UX designers are claiming it's significantly faster than traditional mock ups
by CloseChoice | 2025-08-22 13:03:49+00:00
LLMs are largely used by developers, who (in some sense or the other) supervise what the LLM does constantly (even if that means for sum committing to main and running in production). We do already have a lot of tools: tests, compilation, a programming language with its harsh restrictions compared to natural language, and of course the eye test, this is not the case for a lot of jobs where GenAI is used for hyperautomation, so I am really curious in which way it will or won't get adopted in other areas.
by segmondy | 2025-08-22 13:04:24+00:00
if you are running a 2bit quant, you are not giving up performance but gaining 100% performance since the alternative is usually 0%. Smaller quants are for folks who won't be able to run anything at all, so you run the largest you can run relative to your hardware. I for instance often ran Q3_K_L, I don't think of how much performance I'm giving up, but rather how without Q3, I won't be able to run it at all. With that said, for R1, I did some tests against 2 public interfaces and my local Q3 crushed them. The problem with a lot of model providers is we can never be sure what they are serving up and could take shortcuts to maximize profit.
by traceroute66 | 2025-08-22 13:04:40+00:00
TL;DR: Its impossible to know if anyone on campus has downloaded Oracle Java....

Quote from this article:[1]

*He told The Register that Oracle is "putting specific Java sales teams in country, and then identifying those companies that appear to be downloading and... then going in and requesting to [do] audits. That recipe appears to be playing out truly globally at this point."*

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/jisc_java_oracle/
by trbleclef | 2025-08-22 13:05:13+00:00
In Florida, condominium associations (COA) and homeowners associations (HOA) are not legally the same thing, but in discussions like this people often refer to them interchangeably. There is a big difference between an HOA requiring mowed lawns and paint colors and a COA that maintains roofs, pools, playgrounds, common elements, etc. People will refer to Surfside as a reason HOAs are important but the Champlain Towers was a condo.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-22 13:05:14+00:00
> An advertisement is the exact opposite of private

The ad itself doesn't tell you anything. The ad copy can look legitimate. Even for many real websites, the link will commonly go through a third party redirect for tracking purposes, but then the ad network has no way to know if the third party server changes where the link redirects after they reviewed it. They also have no way to know if the site the link points to is affiliated with the entity it claims to be or not.

> Google absolutely can review every single ad that runs on their system.

You can't spend $1000 investigating an ad someone is paying you $10 to run, and spending a small fraction of $10 to review an ad is not going to be thorough enough catch most of the offenders.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-22 13:05:15+00:00
1-turn instruction following and multi-turn instruction following are not the same exact capability, and some AIs only "get good" at the former. 1-turn gets more training attention - because it's more noticeable, in casual use and benchmarks both, and also easier to train for.

With weak multi-turn instruction following, context data will often dominate over user instructions. Resulting in very "loopy" AI - and more sessions that are easier to restart from scratch than to "fix".

Gemini is notorious for underperforming at this, while Claude has relatively good performance. I expect that many models from lesser known providers would also have a multi-turn instruction following gap.
by cagarwal299 | 2025-08-22 13:05:16+00:00
We’re Chaitanya and Rithik, the co-founders of SitSense (https://sitsense.app/) - a website that turns your webcam into a real-time posture coach. It measures your posture, scores it, and nudges you with gentle feedback when you start slouching. Everything runs locally on your device and no video is ever recorded or stored.

We both grew up as gamers, spending countless late nights hunched over keyboards. By college, the hours of poor posture had caught up to us: neck pain and rounded shoulders. We started experimenting with ways to keep ourselves upright without having to constantly think about it. What began as a scrappy prototype to help us sit better slowly evolved into SitSense.

Here’s how it works: SitSense uses your webcam to detect posture points (head, shoulders, spine alignment, etc.) and calculates key ergonomic angles in real-time. At setup, it calibrates what “good posture” should look like for you. From there, SitSense continuously compares your live posture against that baseline. If you start drifting into a slouch, SitSense gives you immediate feedback, from subtle avatar color changes to notifications or audio cues.

On screen, you’ll see a simple avatar that mirrors your movements in real-time, so you can literally “see” your posture. Over time, SitSense tracks your sessions and progress, helping you build sustainable habits instead of quick fixes.

Most users leave SitSense running in the background during the workday, but we’ve also seen great results from short “posture sessions.”

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We’d love feedback from this community on the user experience, pricing, and product in general.

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by gwbas1c | 2025-08-22 13:05:21+00:00
> What do we do with the $500k we have the operating funds and reserves collected over the past 40 years?

Uhm, return it to the property owners?

The real pattern is that HOAs have been abusing their power; or in other cases are required because municipalities don't want to do their job. As a result the lawmakers will, unfortunately, overcorrect.
by bluGill | 2025-08-22 13:05:48+00:00
That is a factor in India's favor, but there are a lot of other factors. Overall India just doesn't move that much freight when you examine everything so I still give the point the the US despite things not being perfect.

Of course how you weigh the various factors in subjective. The more important take away is there are lots of different things in the world and you should be working on where your weaknesses are not trying to claim you are great despite them. (I'm only claiming US good here in reaction to the passenger focus - I'm aware of plenty of problems with US rail that are not on topic so I'm not giving indication of being aware. I don't know you, hopefully you are honest about the shortcomings of whatever your system is and working on fixing them where it it appropriate)
by ada1981 | 2025-08-22 13:06:09+00:00
Have you read The Comfort Crisis? You might enjoy it. Essentially says our ancestors were all pro athlete level fitness, moving 25-50 miles a day, essentially fasting all the time. And that is what our mind is optimized for.

Personally, I put myself into the wilderness every quarter for 3+ days of no phone, fasting and sleeping on a tarp to reset dopamine. Everything is better whenI return.
by gavinray | 2025-08-22 13:06:19+00:00
> Yeah I think our jobs are safe.

I give myself 6-18 months before I think top-performing LLM's can do 80% of the day-to-day issues I'm assigned.

> Why doesn’t anyone acknowledge loops like this?

Thisis something you run into early-on using LLM's and learn to sidestep. This looping is a sort of "context-rot" -- the agent has the problem statement as part of it's input, and then a series of incorrect solutions.

Now what you've got is a junk-soup where the original problem is buried somewhere in the pile.

Best approach I've found is to start a fresh conversation with the original problem statement and any improvements/negative reinforcements you've gotten out of the LLM tacked on.

I typically have ChatGPT 5 Thinking, Claude 4.1 Opus, Grok 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro all churning on the same question at once and then copy-pasting relevant improvements across each.
by johndoe0815 | 2025-08-22 13:07:02+00:00
Yes, it's exactly this.

"Due to new customs regulations, DHL is significantly restricting parcel shipping from Germany to the USA. Effective August 22, Deutsche Post and DHL Paket will no longer be able to accept and transport parcels and so-called International Goods Mail from business customers to the USA, the company announced." [translated from German]

Here's the complete article in German:

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/dhl-post-pa...
by tmtvl | 2025-08-22 13:07:03+00:00
CL is pretty multi-paradigm. To give the boring 'double all numbers in a list' example:

(defun double-numbers (numbers) "Doubles a list of NUMBERS. Docstring and type declarations are optional." (declare (type List numbers)) (mapcar (lambda (x) (declare (type Number x)) (* x 2)) numbers)) (defun double-numbers (numbers) (labels ((accumulate-loop (nums acc) (if (null nums) (funcall acc nums) (destructuring-bind (first-number &rest other-numbers) nums (accumulate-loop other-numbers (lambda (result) (funcall acc (cons (* first-number 2) result)))))))) (accumulate-loop numbers (lambda (result) result)))) (defun double-numbers (numbers) (if (null numbers) numbers (cons (* (first numbers) 2) (double-numbers (rest numbers)))) (defun double-numbers (numbers) (loop :for number :in numbers :collect (* number 2))) (defun double-numbers (numbers) (if (null numbers) numbers (prog ((remaining-numbers (rest numbers)) (first-pair (list (* (first numbers) 2))) last-pair) (setf last-pair first-pair) :start-loop (when (null remaining-numbers) (return first-pair)) (setf (rest last-pair) (list (* (pop remaining-numbers) 2))) (setf last-pair (rest last-pair)) (go :start-loop))))

And that's before going into libraries like SERIES or iterate. There are, of course, benefits and disadvantages (readability, performance, some CL implementations don't do TCO,...) to every option, but generally CL lets you code in any way you want (you could even write some macros to let you write it using more infix or postfix style syntax, but I don't see the appeal of doing so).
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-22 13:07:06+00:00
No. The experts in the field are past this argument. People have moved on. It is clear to everyone who builds LLMs that the AI is intelligent. The algorithm was autocomplete, but we are finding as an autocomplete bot is basically autocompleting things with humanity changing intelligent content. Your opinion is a minority now and not shared by people on the forefront of building these things. Your holding onto the initial fever pitched alarmist reaction people had to LLMs when it first came out.

Like you realize humans hallucinate too right? And that there are humans that have a disease that makes them hallucinate constantly.

Hallucinations don’t preclude humans from being “intelligent”. It also doesn’t preclude the LLM from being intelligent.
by fruchty | 2025-08-22 13:07:34+00:00
This led me to quite an interesting discovery. Try this in some LLM:

""" I want you to act like a Fibonacci calculator, but instead of numbers, use words. I will give you two starting words, and you will treat them as the “seed values” of a Fibonacci sequence.

Instead of adding numbers, you will add meanings: each new word in the sequence should emerge by combining, evolving, or deepening the sense of the two words before it. The sequence should feel like it flows conceptually, not randomly.

Continue this process until you have produced exactly 50 words in total. Present the sequence as a numbered list, with one word per line.

Here are my starting words: laughter abyss """
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-22 13:07:37+00:00
I recall seeing a clip of an interviewee who is a cave diver. He was giving a description of the time he came closest to death while cave diving, and it came down to someone in his group losing it, and him attempting to prevent that person's death, and then being stuck without a guide line and functionally blind in a muddy cave underwater after the person freaking out sped out of the cave. He said he was able to get out by slowly crawling back and forth upside down on the surface of the cave with his face pressed against it trying to find a thin crack he remembered led back to the surface.

What struck me the most was him saying "calm the f down cowboy, calm the f down or you're going to die", and his face when he said it. I can't imagine the sangfroid required. I also can't imagine the conversation when they both reached the surface.