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by teunlao | 2025-10-21 02:44:35+00:00
The variable naming problem never went away. We just moved it from "temp2" to "make this better."

Same skillset. Different enforcement. Compiler used to force clarity through syntax errors. AI forces it through three debugging cycles when you realize the output doesn't match what you thought you said.

Natural language was never designed for precision. We spent decades building tools that forced precision. Now we're back to ambiguity at scale, and the engineers who couldn't name variables are writing paragraph-long specifications.

Logic is abundant. Clarity is the new bottleneck.
by o1o1o1 | 2025-10-21 02:44:46+00:00
Off-Topic: I read about yaak app as an alternative to Postman - can anyone recommend an alternative to Stoplight Studio for covering "the other side" by any means?

I loved to use their free desktop app for building API documentations which can be used for scaffolding / generating APIs but for some reason I don't remember right now I had to stop using it.
by donavanm | 2025-10-21 02:46:04+00:00
FX is magic beans? I guess if youre of the mind that “fiat is theft”. But in that case Im not sure why youd care if you can always go back to farming (digital) gold.

Although, to be fair, I can see the perspective that argentine _debt_ is magic beans funded by hopes, wishes, and the IMFs argentine refinancing.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-21 02:46:22+00:00
We do a lot of business with them and we have workshops with them sometimes, and the one thing I notice is how they're all so evangelical. They wouldn't say a bad thing about their company. I couldn't be like that, when I work something I sell my knowledge but not my soul. I'd always speak freely (not always appreciated but usually it's not a problem if it's true).

But that company culture leaves me with a very low opinion of them and very little trust. Even Microsoft engineers are less brainwashed. I've had several that just told me the truth about services.

Maybe it depends on the country but it feels like this is just their culture.
by sgentle | 2025-10-21 02:47:40+00:00
To quote DHH: "when much of the media reports a story like this, it's often without citing the specific words in question"

I think you lose a lot when you abstract away someone's words as "positions that alienate". Pineapple on pizza is a position that alienates, as is forced sterilisation of criminals. So here's some specific words:

> London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits [ie white, as specified by the Wikipedia article the words "native Brits" link to]

> There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.

He doesn't think brown people belong in the UK. His "positions" are racism. He's racist. That's the problem.

Where have all the enlightenment-values rationalist monks gone now that we so desperately need people to combine P and P -> Q?
by jaggederest | 2025-10-21 02:47:54+00:00
This has been my impetus to do Home Assistant things and I already can tell you that I'm going to spend far more time setting it up and tweaking it than I actually save, but false economy is a tinkerer's best friend. It's pretty impressive what a local LLM setup can do though, and I'm learning that all my existing smart devices are trivially available if anyone gets physical access to my network I guess!
by jicea | 2025-10-21 02:48:27+00:00
If you're willing to use a CLI, you can try Hurl [1]. It's is an Open Source cli using libcurl to run and test HTTP requests with plain text. We use libcurl for the reliability, quickness and top features (HTTP/3 IPv6 for instance) and there are features like:

- requests chaining,

- capturing and passing data from a response to another request,

- response tests (JSONPath, XPath, SSL certs, redirects etc...)

There is nice syntax sugar for requesting REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs but, at the core, it's just libcurl! You can export you files to curl commands for instance. (I'm one of the maintainers)

[1]: https://hurl.dev
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 02:48:57+00:00
> stems from the relatively low capital requirements of tech companies relative to other industries (pre-LLM)

Not really. Tech, including low fixed-cost software, has been tremendously capital intensive for decades. Early-stage start-ups lack the cash flows to fund debt. But post-Series B companies raising equity are generally doing so for idiosyncratic reasons, e.g. capital sponsors being concentrated in equity for historical reasons, valuation escalators and capital denial to competitors.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-21 02:49:19+00:00
>I've always scoffed at the Wikimedia Foundation's warchest and continuously increasing annual spending.

what are they increasing spending on? Are they still trying to branch out to other initiatives?

I understand, even with static pages, that hosting one of the largest websites in the world won't be cheap, but it can't be rising that much, right?
by crazygringo | 2025-10-21 02:49:21+00:00
LLM's have definitely replaced 90% of what I used to look up on a Wikipedia, simply because they integrate from so many more additional sources.

But at the same time I continue to contribute edits to Wikipedia. Because it's the source of so much data. To me, it doesn't matter if the information I contribute gets consumed on Wikipedia or consumed via LLM. Either way, it's helping people.

Wikipedia isn't going away, even if its website stops being the primary way most people get information from it.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-21 02:51:18+00:00
I've had so many AI-created movie trailers on youtube lately it is so annoying. Just yesterday I searched for an upcoming movie "The Chronology of Water" trailer and get this fake ai trailer which I watched unknowingly thinking "wow this trailer sucks" just to later find the disclaimer "Please note that this video is a concept trailer created solely for artistic and entertainment purposes. I have meticulously incorporated various effects, sound design, AI technologies, film analytics, and other elements to bring my vision to life."
by synack | 2025-10-21 02:51:25+00:00
I have a cron that writes daily backups to S3 buckets in both us-east-1 and eu-west-1. I was a bit surprised that both buckets were inaccessible during the outage.

Now I have it writing to Backblaze B2 instead of eu-west-1. Hopefully that’s completely independent.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-21 02:51:32+00:00
Yeah this. And warehouse work is all appified and can be configured in any language.

Any American working in an Amazon warehouse will be jumping at the chance to get out of there. So turnover would be really high. Same with delivery stuff, I don't think most Americans would enjoy a job where they don't even get a pee break.

As for legal stuff, I'm sure they'd use intermediaries to cover their ass.
by neya | 2025-10-21 02:51:41+00:00
For what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with Open AI (you can verify by my comment history [1] and account age) and I agree with the top comment. I do Elixir consulting primarily and nothing beats OpenAI's model at the moment for Elixir. Previously, their O3 models were quite decent. But, GPT-5 is really damn good. Claude code will unnecessarily try to complicate a problem solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491842
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 02:51:54+00:00
I never implied that, let alone said it.

The only thing I implied is that workers with fewer rights that a U.S. citizen are easier to exploit and abuse.

If I refuse to take a work-related call at 3am, the worst that can happen is that I get fired, and spend months looking for a new job.

If you refuse to take a work-related call at 3am, you get fired and lose your ability to stay in a place you have lived for 5+ years and made your home.

That's BS, and I hate it almost as much as you do. You can be blackmailed with deportation, and I can be replaced with someone who can be blackmailed with deportation. We're both getting screwed in this current arrangement.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-21 02:52:00+00:00
scraping Wikipedia feels like the stupidest possible move. You can in fact download the entire encyclopedia at any time and take all the time in the world parsing offline.

For such purposes, I'd naively just setup some weekly job to download Wikipedia and then run a "scrape" on that. Even weekly may be overkill; a monthly snapshot may do more than enough.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-21 02:52:00+00:00
Honestly, it's this squeezing every last drop from the hype train that really bothers me. A. The setup makes the eventual implosion that much more painful for the whole economy than if they let it go the natural course. B. Haven't you gotten enough already? You really really need to suck the whole economy dry before the thing lands?
by jayrot | 2025-10-21 02:53:19+00:00
Also, really the holy grail of YouTubers — he’s not concerned with clicks or retention. He has a day job, he’s not trying to do this full time or make a career out of it. I’ve been following him for years. Legitimately just an insanely smart person doing projects on his own time he thinks are interesting and that he thinks other people might be interested in too. It’s kinda crazy when it’s as simple as that with no ulterior motives or incentives.
by more_corn | 2025-10-21 02:53:39+00:00
Seems like Argentina was wealthy till the 1940s the Panama Canal was completed in 1914. I visited buenos Aries twenty years ago and it reminded me of Paris. Grand old architecture, big buildings wide avenues. Something happened in the latter half of the 20th century that caused it to decline and stagnate. I always thought it was dictatorships, civil unrest and hyperinflation, but maybe those are symptoms and not causes.
by estearum | 2025-10-21 02:54:40+00:00
The US is not the global or continental lender of last resort. The IMF traditionally holds that role and it appears to be at its limit with regard to Argentina due to serial defaulting, political instability, corruption, and overall lack of credibility.

Not compelling at all to say the US just generally has an imperative to buy debt or lend to countries whenever they're least creditable just because China might do it anyway.
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-21 02:55:58+00:00
Jan 6 was a brazen attempt at a coup. It was Mike Pence who refused to break the country for the narcissist's demands - which was the only reason Biden could be sweared in.

We were very close to a third world level coup thanks to Trump back in 2021.

This time around, the call could be in JD Vance's hands - the same person supporting Republicans blocking the swearing in of a house representative.

For all the dirty partisan things you point out about democrats, they have never attempted a coup. If you think our country and constitution is worth fighting for, you too will not support coup candidates, pedophiles, unitary executives, and separation of church and state.

As it stands, if you support republicans, you are against the above principles, regardless of your whataboutism.
by saghm | 2025-10-21 02:56:21+00:00
I still occasionally get them even though I literally was one of the people who left after they tried to make us go in office (I don't like to use "RTO" because no one on my team had actually worked out of an office for Amazon before since the project we were on was fairly new). My wife (at the time fiancee) has an autoimmune issue that makes it much safer for me not to commute, and although my manager suggested I could get an exemption, he didn't actually know what the process was because it all happened so quickly that no one seemed to have actually defined what that process was up front. I had a little less than a month to figure what to do and get that exemption before they expected me to either have that exemption, be in an office in another city three days a week, or transfer to a local team and be in the office in my current city three days a week. I ended to deciding that it wasn't worth the effort to try to figure out how to convince them to let me stay.
by easygenes | 2025-10-21 02:56:27+00:00
Good explanation. One detail though: it is one pixel at a time, not one line at a time. Basically does the whole sequence for one pixel, adjusts mirror to next one, and does it again. The explanation is around the 8 minutes mark.

Just want to make it clear that in any one instant, only one pixel is being recorded. The mirror moves continuously across a horizontal sweep and a certain arc of the mirror's sweep is localized to a pixel in the video encoding sequence. A new laser pulse is triggered when one pixel of arc has been swept, recording a whole new complete mirror bounce sequence for each pixel sequentially. He has an additional video explaining the timing / triggering / synchronization circuit in more depth: https://youtu.be/WLJuC0q84IQ
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-21 02:56:48+00:00
There is no benefit for the US as a country. You're forgetting that Trump's first impeachment showed us he runs foreign policy for his own benefit. Trump is almost certainly getting some of that money as a kickback.

Speculation is that some of Bessent's buddies are financially exposed to an Argentinian default, and that this keeps them safe from losing money on a sovereign default.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-21 02:58:42+00:00
The connection is very clear. Amazing Krugman piece. There's still a little bit of a why question to me? What will Citrone or anyone else ever be able to provide back, since they all know this is going to fail, & are using this loan to jack up prices & exit their positions?

Maybe there's some more elaborate way this will enrich certain American cronies. Maybe.

But I tend to think the answer comes if we look back 80 years. A lot of bad evil people needed a friendly state to run to after WWII ended. Today, beyond just being friends-of-an-(evil-doing)-feather together with some other exploitative public-services-destroying extremists, part of me thinks, maybe perhaps: Argentina is being set up as a new exit, a new place to flee too, when justice comes a calling.
by csb6 | 2025-10-21 02:58:47+00:00
I found this to be a pretty vapid article.

Spending multiple paragraphs talking about Argentina’s invulnerability to invasion from Africa and Australia (and Antarctica? Come on now) makes me think the author has spent too much time playing Risk. No serious reader would consider these to be possibilities. Also, the major border with Brazil really undermines the whole “largely geographically invulnerable” and “weak neighbors” theses. Writing “Argentina has natural barriers (the Atlantic, Pacific, and Andes) that protect it from invasion on several borders. It shares a difficult to defend border with Brazil.” could have replaced maybe a quarter of this article.

Some of the geographical similarities with the U.S. are interesting but seem oversimplified - farmland and rain are treated like RPG stats where every unit is fungible. Again this supports my theory that the writer is a fan of grand strategy games.

The “Political Harmony” section is also odd considering Argentina’s history - I guess it is just considering wars with other states and not internal turmoil/unrest? Why hasn’t the supposedly unifying Río de la Plata trade system prevented internal violence and instability?

Overall, I think this article could have been condensed into the opening few paragraphs of the author’s teased follow-up article that apparently actually gets into the question raised in the title. It suffers from what geopolitics writing seems to invariably suffer from: treating history like a wargame where nations are the discrete actors instead of treating it as the result of a single international commerce system that transcends borders and which most national governments have little power to contradict given their reliance on global trade.
by Daishiman | 2025-10-21 02:59:02+00:00
> But its hard to argue with arresting the inflation, gdp, and budget surplus numbers. Im not sure how the economy is “going south.” Generously the policies have arrested the slide?

Sure it is. Public education and science funding is at a historic minimum that is destroying tons of long term scientific and educational initiatives. Roads are falling apart in a gigantic country and what’s left of rail is being scrapped for parts and sold to private entities that will let rails decay just like everywhere else where it was privatized.

Consumer spending continues to go down, industry is not competitive with this fake exchange rate causing a loss of high quality jobs and forcing everyone to take a second job as an Uber driver.

We’ve seen this play out again and again. The government will default, then hyperinflation and social crises until the low prices of everything make the economy competitive again.

This has played out again and again with far more competent governments and we keep being right about it.
by adventured | 2025-10-21 02:59:26+00:00
For 2023-2024, their budget was ~$177 million. Travel & events was 7.4% of their expenses. Processing fees on donations was 6.4%.

Grants & movement support was 25%.

Hosting was 3.4%. Facilities was 1.4%.

The Wikimedia Foundation is another Komen Foundation.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-10-21 03:00:16+00:00
> I'm guessing there was not any actual evidence to support even a prosection?

You don't have to guess, there was.

So much so that the special counsel that was shut down when Trump won re-election took the extraordinary step of declaring publicly that he had more than enough evidence to secure conviction of Donald Trump for Jan 6th.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/g-s1-42358/trump-jack-smith-e...
by zeroq | 2025-10-21 03:00:21+00:00
ELI5 why we need more engines?

I shipped my first commercial website in 2001. I have PTSD from times when you had to basically do at least twice the work to ensure that your page worked - not just looked, but worked - on multiple browsers over multiple systems.

I recall a postmortem from a project of a major telecom website which took its pride in being accessible "everywhere". They had a matrix of systems and browsers, like 10x10, and they described how painful it was to check all the boxes.

I remember a tiny JS library I wrote at Wikia in 2006 for deep linking. It started with ~10 lines implementing documentation. But by the time I had all major browsers covered it grew to 500 lines.

I also have very fond memories of Flash. Apart from resolution - when I had my project working on my machine I had 100% certainty that it would work exactly the same on every client. Including mobile, kiosks, and desktop deployments.

Times were different, BigCos lived in siloes, ES4 went to shit and we needed another 15 years to reinvent the wheel with TS, but today everyone seems to be on the same team and browsers are shockingly compatible.
by crmd | 2025-10-21 03:02:35+00:00
I wish to understand the virtue of Amazon culture.

It seems that at L6 and below workers are a Taylorism-style fungible widget driven to convert salary into work product, guided to create the most output for the longest time before mentally breaking down, then being swiftly replaced, with L7 and above being so incredibly political that keeping the snakes and vultures from eating your team is a full time job at every level of senior management.

It never made sense to me how such a ruthless and inhumane culture is sustainable in the long run.

I would love to hear positive counter perspectives from Amazonians because the anecdotes from my L6-L10 friends describe what sounds like an inhumane hell on earth.
by estearum | 2025-10-21 03:03:00+00:00
If the US had any desire to maintain influence in the Americas (or anywhere else), it wouldn't be calling their leaders drug lords, cutting off foreign aid, engaging in extrajudicial killings off their shores, threatening them with carrier groups, violating previously agreed-upon trade deals, etc.

Argentina also would not be getting some special treatment. There are far more strategically important and similarly struggling economies in the Americas and elsewhere that the US could choose to assist and is not.

There's just no coherence to this theory.

This is rich guys helping out their rich guy buddies using taxpayer dollars.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-21 03:03:24+00:00
> has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company,

which tech giant has tied their fate to OpenAI? as far as I can tell, they have a selection of AI companies to choose from, and some of the tech giants are very strong in AI themselves.

if you believe this thesis, then you are asserting that if OpenAI fails, the tech giants fail as well ("whether their fates"). I don't buy it.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-10-21 03:03:30+00:00
Arguing that it was a poor insurrection attempt does not negate what it was. Arguing that it could have been worse doesn't change the fact that five people died. The unarmed lady was shot climbing through a window you didn't say what window it was the window dividing a violent mob from congress people sheltering in place.

And making excuses for political violence guarantees that there will be more in the future. It should never be tolerated.
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-21 03:04:08+00:00
Look, not to defend anything Amazon is doing, but this causal chain seems rather pareidolic and under-evidenced. You could spin some kind of crazy narrative about any major outage based on changes in policy that happened just before. But this isn't nearly the first AWS outage, and most of them happened before the recent RTO changes. It needs more evidence at best.
by android521 | 2025-10-21 03:04:42+00:00
Well, by this logic , no companies on earth is a serious company. eg Google is not a "serious company". on mobile broswer, if you search for videos and click on the link, it always shows this stupid "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot", (i already signed in) i need to click "visit" everytime. You can find many small stupid issues for every company such as apple , google or facebook.
by danans | 2025-10-21 03:05:13+00:00
> saying bad things about our lord and savior lean manufacturing.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is, and car companies don't exist to make affordable new products for everyone. "Obese" manufacturing won't result in more affordable cars either, not while housing, education and healthcare continue to eat away at Americans' stagnant income growth.

If affordable transportation is the goal, we probably need to get past personal car ownership.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-10-21 03:06:46+00:00
That whole "tyranny of the rocket equation" thing is why I am surprised the actual first stage for launching a rocket is NOT a ground based reusable "up-chucker".

Basically, I would have thought that any momentum that can be imparted to the rocket before it has to rely on its self propulsion would be a huge help. Not talking about eliminating self propulsion, just an assist so the rocket could carry a larger payload or be smaller or whatever.

IE like a variation on Jules Verne's big gun for throwing the payload up there but engineered to be plausible and having the rocket still be self propelled. And safe.

But we don't seem to do this. So why?

Edit: First part of video [0]. Apparently it's not completely dumb. Just stupid-hard/impossible to do practically at the size required for big rockets and payloads. But small ones might work. Maybe.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWYn5hl4QWg
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-21 03:06:47+00:00
Again the concept of sport imposes human concepts on a hypothetical alien culture.

There's no reason to assume their society would have developed along similar lines. I'm sure there's alien civilisations that are more aggressive than us, but also ones that are less so.

I don't think we'll ever meet any though as our lifespan is just so short on a universal scale. And FTL travel seems to be impossible otherwise we'd have seen signs of it.

Of course according to our current physics understanding it is also impossible but I don't think humanity is very smart yet. But this thing might be right.