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by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 18:49:49+00:00
To be honest I already reached that identity crisis even before LLMs.

Nowadays many enterprise projects have become placing SaaS products together, via low code/no code integrations.

A SaaS product for the CMS, another one for assets, another for ecommerce and payments, another for sending emails, another for marketing, some edge product for hosting the frontend, finally some no code tools to integrate everything, or some serverless code hosted somewhere.

Welcome to MACH architecture.

Agents now made this even less about programming, as the integrations can be orchestrated via agents, instead of low code/no code/serverless.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 18:50:19+00:00
Yeah, but I didn't have to work at Amazon to do it. No micromanagement, no verbal abuse, no work calls at 3am, no PIPs, no door desks, no cult indoctrination.

More importantly, the time I spent managing my portfolio taught me how to better manage my portfolio. If Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is richer than Warren Buffett or Peter Lynch, it does not change the fact that Warren Buffett and Peter Lynchs' path to success is much more reproducible and reliable with a much lower barrier to entry.

If you made that kind of money working for Amazon, then good for you. I wish more members of the middle class would make FU money and save their money so they can hold greater leverage and take home a much larger portion of the value they add to society.

"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."

-Henry George

P.S. FWIW, I don't need that much to be happy. Last March, I visited my wife (then fiancee) in Hiroshima and spent 3 weeks in a 250sqft weekly-rental apartment in sharing a twin bed, living off of Ogura toast and miso soup for breakfast, < $5 meals at Ramen and Udon shops, making Katsu curry together, and going on walks, and it was the best time in my entire life.

Pardon me if you thought I was trying to convince you I'm rich or humblebrag about it. Far from it, I'm just finally financially independent and happy about it. I never wanted to be rich, just rich enough to say "fuck you" to growing someone else's grapes and pressing someone else's wine so that someone else can wear fine silk.

I achieved my goal of no longer needing to be a software engineer to maintain a lower middle class life. That's all.
by forbiddenlake | 2025-10-21 18:50:31+00:00
Tailscale doesn't support mDNS / multicast at all, making working with KDE Connect more nebulous. I attempted to add a static peer via the Tailscale hostname, but both ends report not reachable, and the Tailscale daemon is constantly dropping multicast packets. So I'm not sure how this helps, but I also don't have a use case - if I'm on my laptop, my phone is on the same Wifi network 99% of the time.
by iammrpayments | 2025-10-21 18:50:43+00:00
I actually think people on 4chan and even reddit don’t get angry that quickly because it’s an anonymous posting board so there’s nothing to be defensive about, unless you’re really invested on an opinion, which makes me suspect this even more, why would he start cursing when he was just bragging about spending 70k?

It I posted on reddit about how I just spent 70k on a watch and someone replied that they didn’t trust me, maybe I would laugh or reply with “whatever”, but never would I reply in anger.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-21 18:50:55+00:00
Right, but most browsers aren't owned by money-losing startups desperate for any bit of training data they can get their hands on as scaling taps out.

I really doubt OpenAI consciously wants my passwords, but I could absolutely see a poorly-coded (or vibe-coded, lol) OpenAI process somehow getting my keychain into their training set anyway, and then somebody being able to ask Chat-GPT 6, "hey, what's Analemma_'s gmail password?" and it happily supplying it. The dismal state of LLM scraper behavior and its support (or lack thereof) of adherence to best practices lends credibility to this.
by hex4def6 | 2025-10-21 18:51:00+00:00
Yeah, agree. My concern would be a chicken sticking it's head through the gap to take a peek as its closing, and getting stuck.

I think the OP may have mitigation (or at least the possibility to mitigate).

This looks like an open-loop system (eg, the MCU doesn't know where in the swing the motor is), which makes it a bit more difficult. But it looks like they have limit switches.

Not quite sure how it determines the point to go to 100% power, but I assume it's a timing thing. I can't think of a good way to determine the difference between "chicken neck stuck in door" vs "snow / ice preventing door from closing" without some sort of position feedback.

I suppose you could have a timeout -- it gets 3 seconds at high power, and if it hasn't triggered the door close limit switch, it opens completely, then tries again. This would probably be ok, as long as 100% power doesn't decapitate the chicken...
by kawfey | 2025-10-21 18:51:19+00:00
Some do. Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) is group of citizen high altitude scientists, and their large balloon flights include certified ADS-B transponders [0] and radar corner reflectors. They also file their flights with the FAA to publish NOTAMS. They have significantly larger payloads than this, but are designed to quickly ascend to ~100kft and pop reducing the loiter time in congested airspace.

Project Loon balloons also show up on Flightaware, so they either have ADS-B or TIS-B.

A situation like this will almost certainly cause some congresspeople to fret and write bills that would require ADS-B on all balloons, which would be a death knell for amateur ballooning unless ADS-B (or "legacy" Mode A/C/S) transponders become significantly smaller and more affordable. Mode C/S transponders are already available in miniaturized form factors thanks to the UAS industry, and are designed to be interrogated by aircraft equipped with TCAS (i.e. all 10+ passenger aircraft) that provides pilots deconfliction commands automatically and with no ATC support. But they're still priced for industry, not amateurs.

[0] https://www.eoss.org/ Look for N991SS, N992SS, N461SG.
by espadrine | 2025-10-21 18:51:31+00:00
That makes sense.

Why RVQ though, rather than using the raw VAE embedding?

If I compare rvq-without-quantization-v4.png with rvq-2-level-v4.png, the quality seems oddly similar, but the former takes a 32-sized vector, while the latter takes two 32-sized (one-hot) vectors, (2 = number of levels, 32 = number of quantization cluster centers). Isn't that more?
by alganet | 2025-10-21 18:52:04+00:00
Choosing a text that puts money and human lives in the same perspective is an interesting and thought provoking way to highlight the current economic trends. Thanks for that.

---

Side note:

For some reason, the Hammurabi laws always reminded me of the old Sumerian city laments:

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.2*

There's something about the structure that looks, to me, very similar.
by notahacker | 2025-10-21 18:52:07+00:00
Elon spends more money highlighting his own flaws than all his opponents put together, and orchestrated his own spat with the Trump administration in public on his own website; no third party PR conspiracy is necessary here.

Lockheed will of course be angling for this contract for reasons which have nothing to do with "undermining Elon" and everything to do with being keen on securing themselves more multibillion dollar prestige projects, as will Blue Origin, as they would under any other government and frankly NASA is quite entitled to reopen the contract if SpaceX doesn't hit performance milestones. Whether the alternatives are any more likely to deliver adequate solutions on time, and whether the current US administration can be trusted not to make decisions one way or another for arbitrary political reasons or straight up corruption is another question entirely.

(The arbitrary political reason in this case may be more a desire to do things on unrealistic deadlines to credit it as a Trump admin achievement than to punish or favour any particular individual, but it's not like they're reluctant to do that either)
by commandlinefan | 2025-10-21 18:52:46+00:00
This comes up whenever _anything_ is automated: "this is the end of programming as a career!" I heard this about Rational Rose in the 90's, and Visual Basic in the 80's.

I don't think I'm sticking my head in the sand - an advanced enough intelligence could absolutely take over programming tasks - but I also think that such an intelligence would be able to take over _every_ thought-related task. And that may not be a bad thing! Although the nature of our economy would have to change quite a bit to accommodate it.

I might be wrong: Doug Hofstadter, who is way, way smarter than me, once predicted that no machine would ever beat a human at chess unless it was the type of machine that said "I'm bored of chess now, I would prefer to talk about poetry". Maybe coding can be distilled to a set of heuristics the way chess programs have (I don't think so, but maybe).

Whether we're right or wrong, there's not much we can do about it except continue to learn.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-21 18:53:04+00:00
I think you're grossly underestimating the number of people here who fell into software development because it's one of the best outlets for "the knack" in existence. Sure, this site is split between the "tech-bro entrepreneur"-types and developers, and there are plenty of developers who got into this for the cash, but in my experience about a quarter of developers (so maybe 10-15% of users on this site) got into this profession due to getting into programming because it fed an innate need to tinker, and then after they spent a ton of time on it discovered that it was the best way to pay the bills available to them.
by B-Con | 2025-10-21 18:53:25+00:00
I want to see the postmortem, although I'm sure we never will.

> Eight Sleep's system, which relies on backend servers for everything from real-time adjustments to data syncing, had no fallback. "It's unacceptable," fumed one early complainant on X, echoing the frustration of many who shelled out for "seamless" smart sleep only to face analog purgatory.

I'm guessing that this is a typical "smart" device setup where the cloud is essentially a tunnel between the app and the device that also saves a copy of all transmitted state for backup and data mining. The simplest design from the company's POV, but the worst design for resilience.

The real question: Was this an explicit or implicit product decision? ie, was it an explicit PM decision that local comms didn't match product requirements, or did they outsource it to the lowest bidder and have no idea this was a ticking time bomb, or did eng have to cut features to make some deadline, etc? If Eight Sleep doesn't have an at least an internal postmortem then someone should lose their job.

As a user, I would prefer the devices communicate locally and use a cloud tunnel only as backup. But this means engineering has to support two communication stacks, which is obviously more expensive than one. And the local network option is probably harder to build since cloud-based has so much tooling available.

My baseline expectation - that I can't believe I'm actually typing out - is that an appliance should operate as expected without Internet access. My only smart device is a door lock because a PIN is easier than a house key for our lifestyle, but even that isn't connected to Wi-Fi.
by syhol | 2025-10-21 18:53:41+00:00
I've been fighting the git CLI for over a decade and I've recently picked up lazygit so I can relate to this post. A good TUI has made git a joy to use and when I did try to pick up jj last year it seems like too much learning for too little gain.

I think git will be "good enough" version control for many years to come.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-21 18:53:45+00:00
I really really want a magit version of jujutsu. Apply the same philosophy but use jj commands to achieve it. Under the hood magit still runs git commands so there are still annoyances such as (1) the need to create branches and name them, or (2) having to resolve conflicts as they happen rather then deferring to a more convenient time in the future (first-class conflicts), or (3) the equivalent of `jj evolve` for automatic rebasing.

Also I'll have to say magit simply chose much better names than git. I never understood the `--onto` argument of `git rebase` because it's such a bad name. On the other hand magit calls it rebase subset and it's immediately clear; I now use this kind of rebase almost every day.
by fainpul | 2025-10-21 18:54:11+00:00
Some people seem to be under the impression that they (the employees) and their employers are a team, working towards the same goal (a better life with more spare time for everyone).

I just wrote this comment in another thread, but it fits here too:

The development, production and use of machines to replace labour is driven by employers to produce more efficiently, to gain an edge and make more money.

You, as an employee, are just means to an end. "The company" doesn't care about you and you will not reap the benefits of whatever efficiency improvements the future brings.
by anon291 | 2025-10-21 18:54:33+00:00
Inequality is a real problem, but America is not that unequal today compared both to its own history as well as the world at large. I mean this is like saying famine is an issue. Yeah it can be and it is in many parts of the world, but not here.

> Also, American liberals have done little if nothing to reduce the gross inequality in this country.

Well yeah but they also support chaos agents who do. I mean you are correct. Liberals do nothing to help the common man and then, when the common man riots, they do nothing to protect the well to do men either.

So it's pretty obvious to see why everyone dislikes them

I need not enumerate the reasons people dislike Republicans
by vunderba | 2025-10-21 18:55:18+00:00
From the article

> Text adventures typically take a simulationist approach to narration. This means the author has not specified what happens in any given situation. Instead, what happens next is determined mechanistically by the player’s actions given the current world state.

Well... not really. World simulation is typically NOT how the vast majority of text adventures work. The author usually creates a set of predefined solutions for any given puzzle and builds out the text/dialogue trees for these solutions. Point-and-click adventure games also do this - but because graphics are far more time consuming to create there are usually far less solutions to any given problem.

Author might be thinking of D&D.
by sloankev | 2025-10-21 18:55:24+00:00
Im still weary of OpenAI being legally required to retain all of your data even if you delete it [0] . This means everything you expose to this tool will be permanently stored somewhere. Why isn’t this a bigger problem for people?

Even privacy concerns aside… this would be the world’s most catastrophic data leak.

[0]: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/
by moritzwarhier | 2025-10-21 18:55:27+00:00
Upvoted for the headline. Why do we even need standards like Zigbee (which AFAIK is already the best there is) when we have IP, Bluetooth, WLAN and Wake-on-LAN.

I've really gotten to hate the "internet-access-by-default" rule we have now for "smart home" devices.

And at the same time, I'm not even surprised. I'm not a 20-something anymore who is excited about being able to log into my computer from my Android phone via DynDNS+WakeOnLAN+OpenVPN+OpenVNC/RDP (with a Raspberry Pi 2 as the always-on server).

I'd want things to work like this, however, using the same basic architecture, just with an interface that is as simple as what modern cloud stuff offers.

It seems that some manufacturers are dabbling in this, most notably, it seems that my AVM router would already offer pretty much this, but I'm too lazy to make much use of it.

Today, OpenWRT could probably replace the Raspi easily.
by muldvarp | 2025-10-21 18:55:30+00:00
I think in a few years, we will realize that LLMs have impacted our lives in a deeply negative way. The relatively small improvements LLMs bring to my life will be vastly outweighted by the negatives.

If LLM abilities stagnate around the current level it's not even out of the question that LLMs will negatively impact productivity simply because of all of the AI slop we'll have to deal with.
by mmooss | 2025-10-21 18:56:08+00:00
It's an essential and interesting question.

I suspect part of it is that society still sees 'cyberspace' as unreal, outside its purview, an intangible place, a sort-of wild west where anything goes (I'm struggling to find one or two words ...). Look at how society deals with the massive fraud that takes place on the Internet - is there a huge public reaction, a massive FBI task force, new laws, etc. The government is sending troops into cities for mythical dangers but it's still mostly hands-off the Internet. Therefore, attacks via cyberspace may seem equally unreal, etc.

Also, there is no physical presence on the enemy territory. But there is that concept again - it's not physical, it's not real.

Another issue may be that, more than almost anything but annihilation, international relations professionals fear cycles of escalation. They have many times easily and quickly spiraled out of control - out of leaders' control - and led to the worst possible outcome, warfare (and even worse, warfare in places and times and by means you don't choose). People still don't understand how to conceive of cyberspace (consider Trump's and Putin's personal grasps of IT - they are not on HN), and there are few norms or rules to follow.

There's also spying, which has long been accepted. Spying via cyberspace may be completely valid on that basis. Sabotage is just a step past it, but most actions such as the OP are preparing for sabotage, perhaps in case of warfare.

Finally, a major concept in modern international relations is 'grey zone' conflict: Conflict and actions short of warfare, which can acheive some ends, undermine the international rules-based order (if that's what you seek), and prepare the ground in case of actual warfare. Examples include China's 'fishing boats' and 'coast guard' physically assaulting civilian boats in the South China Sea by ramming, using water cannon (notice: no shots fired), in order to control territory; Russia's actions before invading Ukraine outright; and I'm sure we can find plenty more.
by belorn | 2025-10-21 18:56:21+00:00
The lifecycle do get interrupted with early voting and postal voting, and as past elections where I live have shown (Sweden), some number of boxes of votes will generally be discovered after elections. The postal system are not designed to be 100% reliable and some portion of mail do get lost, fail in the sorting process, or get sent to the wrong location and put into the "fix it later" process which will miss the election deadline.

Software and hardware is still magnitude more vulnerable to intentional misbehavior, and even accidental mishaps has a higher risk of massive negative consequences, and its harder to discover failure compared to boxes of votes that has a physical presence.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-21 18:57:19+00:00
Nobody said anything about Microsoft here, so I don't understand the comparison. Just like Apple is better than Microsoft in that they don't actively prevent people from running the software of their choice on the hardware they bought, there's other companies that are better than either of them. There's hardware component vendors like AMD, Intel, and Realtek that employ people to maintain and upstream Linux kernel drivers for their hardware rather than leaving it up to the community to reverse engineer everything and develop new drivers like Apple does. Then there's PC companies like Lenovo, Dell, and System76 that will build a computer with these components and sell it to you with Linux preloaded. No dealing with Microsoft is required.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-21 18:57:34+00:00
> The loans-against-portfolio system was designed to help middle class individuals buy homes, not to help centibillionaires buy $500mm yachts. If you are the sole founder of a multi-trillion dollar organization, your business expenses should cover quite literally anything you could ever need.

This is nonsense. It wasn't "designed" to help the middle class. Portfolios are clear collateral assets and a natural backstop that doesnt need a "designer". It will arise in any financial system that allows free contracting and doesnt explicitly prohibit it.

> In fact, as a founder myself, I'd take it as a badge of honor if the government came in and said "hey bro you are now worth a hundred billion dollars, you've won capitalism, go enjoy time with your friends and family...".

This is such a contrived example it isnt worth discussing. The realistic outcome is the government taking it and giving you nothing. We aren't discussing the government "buying" anything.
by debo_ | 2025-10-21 18:57:48+00:00
As an aside, I've been using copilot code review before handing off any of my code to colleagues. It's a bit pedantic, but it generally catches all the most stupid things I've done so that the final code review tends to be pretty smooth.

I hate to suggest that the fix to LLM slop is more LLMs, but in this case it's working for me. My coworkers also seem to appreciate the gesture.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-10-21 18:57:52+00:00
When I was early in my career, I always thought that Git is hard and nerdy, and it is a good thing. I kinda liked it in a way, like there is some gratification in knowing all the commands and helping clueless coworkers, or knowing how to do a rebase -i and shuffle commits around and show off etc.

These days, I find myself just using the smallest subset of commands possible to do my job, and it is enough. Just add, commit, push/pull and occasional stash or merge is like 99.9% of my daily usage. I don't even remember how to revert (was it checkout -- <filename> or reset <filename> or restore <filename>?) and I'm just fine with it.

I think that git is easy. Just learn the happy path, and maybe a way or two for restoring to a known good state without deleting the whole repo, it's enough.
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