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by AaronAPU | 2025-10-06 11:58:39+00:00
Raking requires more back work and they are moving the leaves onto the street for collection.

But some people seem to get obsessed with it and do it almost every day instead of the minimum number of times required to accomplish the purpose.

Around here if you simply let the leaves stay on your lawn you’re going to have a moldy mess and dead grass the next spring.
by cowpig | 2025-10-06 11:58:57+00:00
This article had a debilitating effect on one of the most talented engineers I've ever met. A charismatic force of nature, whose impact was tragically chaotic.

He read it as a teenager, and it became part of his personal philosophy. And so he used it to avoid feeling responsible for his own priorities, and struggled in every role he had for years.

He routinely derailed projects and created chaos by switching away from projects as soon as they became mission-critical. And he demanded an infuriating amount of managerial attention.

His absolute brilliance and charisma made this far worse, as his attitude was inherently culture-setting. The more impressionable employees around him would inevitably become worse than useless, while the more senior, mature employees ended up hating working with him despite his incredible impact on the thing he was paying attention to at a given moment.

Be convinced of this article's ideas at your own risk.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-06 11:59:31+00:00
(2018) I honestly don't know if that matters in this space.

Skimming the article - it sounds like an ideologically-motivated response to some ideologically-motivated (and perceived as hostile) claims about Churchill. So I'd take it with a very big grain of salt, even without the Hillsdale red flag.

Bigger picture - if you read quite a bit of the British Empire's history, then "competent, sane, and sober" can seem like a depressingly rare trio of virtues in its leaders.* Trying to analyze Churchill without the context of his times and social class is simply misguided. Similarly, the period from ~1905 to ~1955 was brutally stressful for British leaders who cared about "their" Empire, and trying to preserve it. Many of those leaders died early, from various combinations of the stress and their chemical coping mechanisms (chain smoking, heavy drinking, etc.).

*And the latter two of those tags are of very limited use, in trying to puzzle out whether or not someone is a passably "good" leader.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-06 11:59:47+00:00
Side note: If you're going to short an AI company (or really, buy put options, so you don't have unlimited downside exposure), I would suggest shorting NVIDIA. My reasoning is that if we actually get a fully automated software engineer, NVIDIA stock is liable to lose a bunch of value anyways -- if I understand correctly, their moat is mostly in software.

Wile E Coyote sprints as fast as possible, realizes he zoomed off a cliff, looks down in horror, then takes a huge fall.

Specifically I envision a scenario like: Google applies the research they've been doing on autoformalization and RL-with-verifiable-rewards to create a provably correct, superfast TPU. Initially it's used for a Google-internal AI stack. Gradually they start selling it to other major AI players, taking the 80/20 approach of dominating the most common AI workflows. They might make a deliberate effort to massively undercut NVIDIA just to grab market share. Once Google proves that this approach is possible, it will increasingly become accessible to smaller players, until eventually GPU design and development is totally commoditized. You'll be able to buy cheaper non-NVIDIA chips which implement an identical API, and NVIDIA will lose most of its value.

Will this actually happen? Hard to say, but it certainly seems more feasible than superintelligence, don't you think?
by jmclnx | 2025-10-06 12:00:03+00:00
Curious if this is similar to capabilities FreeBSD has had for ages ?

But I wish they would have chosen pledge(2)/unveil(2) from OpenBSD instead. Added that to your programs is so easy even I can do it.

I know that someone in Linux tried to add that to Linux. But IIRC it was in user space and harder to use. I think pledge/unveil really should be in the Linux kernel.
by auggierose | 2025-10-06 12:00:29+00:00
By convenience I mean "convenient from a technical perspective", and yes, you often need 0 in there.

Your other argument doesn't make much sense. I learnt both in school and at university ℕ, ℕ₀, and ℤ as THE symbols for the natural numbers, the natural numbers including 0, and the whole numbers.

Fuck convenience. ℕ, ℕ₀, and ℤ it is :-) It is just so much prettier (ℤ⁺ is a really ugly symbol for such a nice set). It is actually also not inconvenient if you don't use static types.
by roxolotl | 2025-10-06 12:00:36+00:00
I want the hype to die and the bubble to pop as much as Ed and Cory and everyone else writing about it but right now it’s just them basically recycling the same bad news and posting about it. I’d love to see some writing which looks at the factors which caused previous pops and to line them up with factors today to try and determine what’s actually coming. Clearly the market is irrational as hell right now but seemingly very little is going to change that. The closest I’ve seen to what I’m looking for is the coverage over at Notes on the Crises[0] and he also seems bewildered.

Edit: I found this piece which does look at historical bubbles/market events and tries to discuss how they plan out in terms of timing [1]

0: https://www.crisesnotes.com/ 1: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-markets-freakin...
by aap_ | 2025-10-06 12:00:39+00:00
Really cool! This is the sorta thing that, just yesterday, I wished existed. And it's already on the HN frontpage. It's hard to see the forest for the trees in many math books, a bird's eye view is a really valuable perspective.

I highly appreciate this approach: "As i have ranted about before, linear algebra is done wrong by the extensive use of matrices to obscure the structure of a linear map. Similar problems occcur with multivariable calculus, so here I would like to set the record straight"

Math education and textbooks are doing an awesome job obscuring simple ideas by focusing on weird details and bad notation. Always good to see people trying to counter this :)
by pmarreck | 2025-10-06 12:01:08+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3af1d-faf0-8004-804b-1d2b8366c2...

My version of ChatGPT5 (based on all its memories and custom instructions) said this. I did hint it early that "other instances of you went into long thought-spirals over this" before I asked it the question, which (fascinatingly) caused it to interject in mid-stream,

Ok, this is exactly the “spiral” you warned me about.

and then later on,

(Peter, this is hilarious, because your question is literally the one that breaks a lot of LLMs: the Unicode seahorse emoji is … but it actually is ? no — but it actually is ? no.)

(HN won't show the emojis here, of course.)

After a few tries to emit the hypothetical seahorse emoji, it asked if it could do an Internet search, and I said yeah.

I tried Claude, and without extended thinking, it printed an unprintable glyph:

�seahorse

With extended thinking, it did figure it out, possibly due to my custom instructions to not guess though: https://claude.ai/share/c9a51f37-25b4-4d76-8b3f-d38c6b483ecf Specifically, in its "internal thoughts" section, it remarked:

Given the user's style preferences about not guessing and being precise, and the fact that they said "Do not guess any answers" - I should probably just try to provide what I believe is the seahorse emoji. But if I'm genuinely uncertain, I should indicate that.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-06 12:01:51+00:00
Can’t speak for GP, but can speak to my own experiences with this. My friends euphemistically called me a productive procrastinator.

Via therapy I’ve come to realise that the procrastination is ultimately driven by underlying anxiety. That anxiety comes from growing up in an environment where my ADHD frequently resulted in me being punished for not working the same way other children did, not completing tasks as expected, and generally struggling with school work despite being “intelligent”. In short being in an environment that simply didn’t accept it was possible to be “intelligent” and struggle with school life at the same time, and thus punished me for being “lazy”.

The procrastination becomes a coping mechanism to put off the expected punishment from attempting to do a task, and failing/struggling with it. Along with deep associations with those tasks being given by authority figures and having arbitrary deadlines.

The mature coping mechanism has been to confront the anxiety head on, which is much easier said than done, and working on the underlying causes of the anxiety via therapy, mindfulness, and other pretty standard mental health techniques. It’s hard work, and I fail often, but I’ve been failing less and less as time goes on.

The side effect of dealing with the anxiety directly is less procrastination. Not because I’m better at not procrastinating, but simply because I’m getting better at coping and dealing with the anxiety that triggers procrastination.
by steve_gh | 2025-10-06 12:02:17+00:00
> but silence is a form of opinion, of vote, of approval.

I disagree. We don't have to have an opinion on everything. And what worries me is those (both on the left and on the right) who think that silence is a form of opinion or approval. It's getting very close to "those who are not with us are against us". And that's a worldview I have very little time for.
by nasusnavas | 2025-10-06 12:02:33+00:00
I looked at their codebase and it seems the other party was doing. I'm seeing a pattern here where either this is not really a copyright problem but possibly a marketing stunt if its not, then it may well be an emotional spiral or lash-out for one person extending another's open source logic even with attribution clearly given. If so then this is not healthy for the open-source community.

Also is it legal to start with MIT and change to Apache midway? The laws around opensource licensing are so tricky and cutthroat at this point.

Also does anyone know what this Intentional License is from the other party, I have never seen it before. It seems that's what their main package is while the other packages are Apache. If its custom is it even legal to just create a new OSS License out of nothing?

There's too much gray area with OSS especially when it comes to legalities we almost need a standard.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-06 12:03:53+00:00
One of the leading indicators of not being able to do the "hard" thing anymore is that Apple gave up on building an EV after spending a decade and billions in R&D. Meanwhile, Huawei and Xiaomi were both able to produce good EVs. Xiaomi in particular is doing what Apple wanted to do which is to integrate and control their ecosystem from phone to car.

Xiaomi is literally trying to make everything from phones, cars, electronic tooth brushes, air fryers, soap dispensers, etc. It's astonishing.

I've had a few Xiaomi electronics including a dust mite vacuum and an air purifier. Both well designed and worked well for the price.
by dnadler | 2025-10-06 12:04:14+00:00
I’ve been wondering about this. It used to be that different chip makers had different efficiencies, and so measuring two different companies chips in gigawatts wouldn’t be a good apples to apples comparison.

Is that still true or has the gap narrowed? Or have GPUs always been similar across the board and it’s CPUs that have more disparity?
by FredPret | 2025-10-06 12:04:43+00:00
Renewables have huge hidden costs as well.

Solar panels and windmills are low density sources - we need a LOT of them to get the job done, and even then you still need base load somehow.

That means a huge amount of extra powerlines and future landfill of defunct panels. Not to mention the very sturdy windmill foundations scattered around the landscape.

Say what you will about nuclear, but all of its negatives are concentrated in a small mass and volume.

The optimal, nom-ideological solution is probably a mix of nuclear, gas, and solar panels.
by rocketcity | 2025-10-06 12:04:50+00:00
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by majewsky | 2025-10-06 12:04:59+00:00
> That means anyone "old" (over 40) and doing corp mgmt was probably also a military officer.

Absolutely not. It was very common in Germany to deny military service and instead do a year of civil service as a replacement. Also, there were several exceptions from the """mandatory""" military service. I have two brothers who had served, so all I did was tick a checkbox and I was done with the topic of military service.
by Sharlin | 2025-10-06 12:05:01+00:00
I’m not sure what you meant then.

There’s no waiting for reply, there’s only the wait between tokens output, which is fixed and mostly depends on hardware and model size. Inference is slower on larger models, but so is training, which is more of a bottleneck than user experience.

The model cannot think before it starts emitting tokens, the only way for it to "think" privately is by the interface hiding some of its output from the user, which is what happens in "think longer" and "search the web" modes.

If a online LLM doesn’t begin emitting a reply immediately, more likely the service is waiting for available GPU time or something like that, and/or prioritizing paying customers. Lag between tokens is also likely caused by large demand or throttling.

Of course there are many ways to optimize model speed that also make it less smart, and maybe even SOTA models have such optimizations these days. Difficult to know because they’re black boxes.
by NedF | 2025-10-06 12:05:03+00:00
Machine translation of a German publication based on an old Engadget story based on a Bluesky

Hacker News is the best quality.

> 436% above baseline subscriber churn

5 times the normal cancellations is no movement. A lot of that will people pulling the plug early so Disney will regain that share.

It never made sense, FCC was threatening Disney, they had a gun on them.

Unlike Rosanne or ABC cancelling Bill Maher (Who Jimmy Kimmel replaced), they canceled them because they were weak.
by garbthetill | 2025-10-06 12:05:11+00:00
but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s

Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and then turns around and does very hellish things, rips up Aid programs, impose one sided tariffs without caring about your allies, belittle a president desperately trying to fight for his countries sovereignty, mafia style negotiations for said country minerals without a security guarantee in order to send weapons, trash nato allies repeatedly, taunt allies that you wont honor security guarantees if they dont do x , remove historical names for no good reason from various government objects , alienate out entire class of people with your rhetoric while using a platform thats supposed to be bipartisan, deport & arrest people while bypassing judges as much as you can
by dsr_ | 2025-10-06 12:05:48+00:00
First, important point: every Postgres DB is in a cluster.

Second, important point: yes, you should use Debian because Debian has consistently provided the upgrade-in-place experience that PG has lacked until.... just now, actually.

Third point that you didn't ask about: you should learn a little about PG tuning, because on day 1, the config is tuned appropriately for your Sun Ultra 5 workstation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_5/10

(I am slightly exaggerating, but you should investigate anyway.)
by ignoramous | 2025-10-06 12:05:52+00:00
Folks at Coder authored a p2p file transfer tool using Tailscale (no account needed, the setup is entirely ephemeral, and the code apparently runs a Headscale control server in-memory): https://github.com/coder/wush

Unsure how Tailscale rate limits, if at all, such traffic flowing through its public relays ("DERP"), as a tool like this is just ripe for abuse?
by incomingpain | 2025-10-06 12:06:05+00:00
I saw this project show up in some newsletters. Awesome project idea. I've been using 'vulture' so far.

But when i try to run analyze or check.

Running quality check...

Complexity analysis failed: [INVALID_INPUT] no Python files found in the specified paths

Dead code analysis failed: [INVALID_INPUT] no Python files found in the specified paths

Clone detection failed: no Python files found in the specified paths

Error: analysis failed with errors

I'm certainly in a folder with python files.
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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-06 12:07:21+00:00
Thing with adult diagnoses for these is that most adults have adapted and are managing fine. But, the adults I've seen that did end up getting a diagnosis were no longer managing fine. I theorize there's two factors, one is family life - where you can't do your own decompression or coping as much anymore because you are Needed. The other is mental and physical resilience, once you're past 30 this starts to decline so your mental energy levels etc aren't as strong anymore.

Most adult diagnoses I've seen around me are people in their mid-30s, which is the same rough age as people start having burnout after spending their 20s doing all the things and growing into more responsible roles.

But that said, thanks to the internet, people learn to recognise the symptoms and know that there is help when they need it. In theory anyway, I know in the US and UK adult mental health care is expensive and/or unavailable.
by alganet | 2025-10-06 12:08:23+00:00
It all comes down to doing things you don't want to do.

Procrastination as a concept exists to trick you into thinking that you should want to do the thing you don't want to do.

It's much better to just recognize that there's a lot of things I don't want to do, and there is no trick to make me like those things, and it will be miserable doing those things. Sometimes, I'll need to do things I don't want. No way out of it.

In my opinion, it's also beneficial to keep it simple. Instead of playing a game of "if I finish this side project, I'll be able to show it to others, then maybe I'll be recognized, then...", just keep it simple: do you want to work on it or not (does it make you happy?), right now? Do you need to work on it (to pay bills, to support children, etc), right now?

This way, you never procrastinate. You either succeeded at avoiding doing something you don't want to do, or you failed doing something you need to do.
by ahofmann | 2025-10-06 12:09:41+00:00
Nothing that involves time and/or money is easy to implement. Not (only) because the code would be hard to write, but because what is at stake. Also, letting money flow back to the customer can lead easily to money laundering/legal problems. So, maybe it is not "technically difficult", but it sure costs more money to make it possible, than other things.
by smartin3 | 2025-10-06 12:09:44+00:00
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by fhklabitz | 2025-10-06 12:09:47+00:00
> Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out

This is the norm from what management does to us.

Evil techniques managers use: Isolate the IC. Put IC on a legacy or deprecated work stream. Don’t give IC anything that could increase their longevity. Work politically to get others with you on an empathetic level, such that they understand this person is a drag, in some way that doesn’t make you look frustrated or a poor leader. As a manager, you control popular opinion without the IC even knowing. Micromanage the IC. This is a sure-fire way of ruining any IC.

While what the manager should do is: let the IC do their job, encourage them, foster their growth, and be positive about them to coworkers and others.
by pera | 2025-10-06 12:09:50+00:00
Yeah that's my understanding as well: unfortunately laws seem to only apply for us peasants...

One difference though is that for Spotify removing pirated files from their servers was trivial, while for LLM companies like OpenAI and Google they would have to retrain their models from scratch, which would be extremely expensive, so what they do instead is to filter problematic results that are too obvious.
by mcdonje | 2025-10-06 12:09:51+00:00
The "problem" is that people are cancelling. That's why investors are getting upset.

This isn't just any metric. It impacts their bottom line.

Yes, the current impact is low, but the trend is going down when they expected it to go up.

Boycotts work. Voting with your dollars works. It's one of the few levers regular people have that can possibly make any impact.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-10-06 12:09:59+00:00
Can we please be honest with ourselves for a second and call out the ridiculousness of the "find a lost hiker" and "disaster relief" excuses used by kill-bot companies?

Who is this robot going to save with glowing hot turbine engines on it's fore-arms.

This is kill-bot tech put on the iCub to get articles in circulation.