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by qsort | 2025-11-18 19:14:58+00:00
I'm not explaining myself right.

Stockfish is a superhuman chess program. It's routinely used in chess analysis as "ground truth": if Stockfish says you've made a mistake, it's almost certain you did in fact make a mistake[0]. Also, because it's incomparably stronger than even the very best humans, sometimes the moves it suggests are extremely counterintuitive and it would be unrealistic to expect a human to find them in tournament conditions.

Obviously software development in general is way more open-ended, but if we restrict ourselves to puzzles and competitions, which are closed game-like environments, it seems plausible to me that a similar skill level could be achieved with an agent system that's RL'd to death on that task. If you have base models that can get there, even inconsistently so, and an environment where making a lot of attempts is cheap, that's the kind of setup that RL can optimize to the moon and beyond.

I don't predict the future and I'm very skeptical of anybody who claims to do so, correctly predicting the present is already hard enough, I'm just saying that given the progress we've already made I would find plausible that a system like that could be made in a few years. The details of what it would look like are beyond my pay grade.

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[0] With caveats in endgames, closed positions and whatnot, I'm using it as an example.
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-11-18 19:16:16+00:00
I sort of agree. I am using gadget bridge with my old watch and while it works fine in general...the step tracker,and calories burned seem really inconsistent.

The heart rate and oxygen saturation seem accurate compared to other devices measuring it.

I wouldn't mind a new watch that was more expensive than my current one if it was more accurate and had better setup compared to how I had to pair my current device. I'm not talking google watch or apple watch, but sub $300 device.
by cube2222 | 2025-11-18 19:16:25+00:00
Sure. Honestly I think you can get the same with git work trees, though I haven't tried.

After a couple iterations on this, I've ended up having claude code vibe-code a helper CLI in Go for me which I can invoke with `ontheside <new-workspace-name> <base-change>` and will

- create a new jj workspace based on the given change

- create a docker container configured with everything my unit tests need to run, my claude code config mounted, and jj configured

- it also sets up a claude code hook to run `jj` (no arguments) every time it changes a file, so that jj does a snapshot

- finishes by starting an interactive claude code session with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`

- it also cleans it all up once I exit the claude code session and fish shell that's running it

With this I can have Claude Code working asynchronously on something, while I can review (or peek) the changes in batch from my main editor by running `jj show <change-id>` / `jj diff -r "..."` (which in my case opens it up in the Goland multi-file diff viewer). I can also easily switch to the change it's working on in my main editor, to make some manual modifications if necessary.

This is, in general, primarily for "in the background async stuff" I want to have it work on. Most of the time I just have a dead-normal claude code session running in my main workspace.

Minor self-plug - if you want, I posted a jj intro article a while ago[0], though it doesn't include my current workspace usage.

[0]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...
by mhl47 | 2025-11-18 19:16:27+00:00
Most people are missing the point here. Testing the GUI/feature more reliable is something that Gemini 3 could unlock (looking at the ScreenSpot-Pro benchmark and its general improvement on visual understanding). At least for the (hobby-)projects I attempted this was really a bottleneck having to always test the GUI after each change as its quite often breaking something.
by kryogen1c | 2025-11-18 19:17:12+00:00
> They've poisoned the internet

And what of the people that ravenously support ads and ad-supported content, instead of paying?

What of the consumptive public? Are they not responsible for their choices?

I do not consume algorithmic content, I do not have any social media (unless you count HN for either).

You can't have it both ways. Lead by example, stop using the poison and find friends that aren't addicted. Build an offline community.
by creddit | 2025-11-18 19:17:12+00:00
Gemini 3 is crushing my personal evals for research purposes.

I would cancel my ChatGPT sub immediately if Gemini had a desktop app and may still do so if it continues to impress my as much as it has so far and I will live without the desktop app.

It's really, really, really good so far. Wow.

Note that I haven't tried it for coding yet!
by emyrk | 2025-11-18 19:17:31+00:00
I totally agree a proto first approach to your types can pay back in dividends if you need to serialize over different wires.

This project admittedly was developed to solve a specific need in an existing codebase with a lot existing types.

The codebase is also mostly maintain by the backend Golang engineers. Letting them use their native type system increases adoption and buy in.
by sershe | 2025-11-18 19:18:07+00:00
Social welfare spending only goes up as percentage of GDP. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long.... What data do you use to distinguish the "current economic system"? Notably of course, assuming the variations of the US system even mattered, the USSR collapsed after the 80ies (deregulation and liberalization having started even earlier under Carter, not after post war US economy stagnated in the 60ies-70ies.
by codepoet80 | 2025-11-18 19:18:19+00:00
On my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...
by gordonhart | 2025-11-18 19:18:24+00:00
Matches my experience exactly. It's not the best at writing code but Gemini 2.5 Pro is (was) the hands-down winner in every other use case I have.

This was hard for me to accept initially as I've learned to be anti-Google over the years, but the better accuracy was too good to pass up on. Still expecting a rugpull eventually — price hike, killing features without warning, changing internal details that break everything — but it hasn't happened yet.
by Zaskoda | 2025-11-18 19:19:24+00:00
Sort of? My thoughts are that there's something of an AI arms race and the US doesn't want to lose that race to another country... so if the AI bubble pops too fiercely, there may likely be some form of intervention. And any time the government intervenes, all bets are off the table. Who knows what they will do and what the impact will be.
by gruez | 2025-11-18 19:20:31+00:00
>Idk man, I'm a skeptic that they're not listening in some weird way. Not to mention both of my wife restrict which apps get camera and microphone access. It's uncanny that things we talk about but never google / look up wind up as ads within a day if not hours.

Surely this is easy to test? Come up with a list of 100 topics. Of those, randomly choose 50. Work them into your conversations, and collect all the ads you've seen. Note down how ads you get for the 50 topics you've chosen compared to the topics you haven't chosen. Better yet, give your phone to your friend and have him say the ads, so you don't get confirmation bias.

This is all very easy to do, and the conspiracy that facebook/google/whatever is secretly listening to you isn't exactly fringe either. Yet, I'm not of any rigorous testing that proves it's real. While absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, it's a good reason to be skeptical.
by Fulgen | 2025-11-18 19:20:40+00:00
In Rust or in general? Because an arbitrary "too old" moniker is not something I've seen happening, and the only target that was removed instead of demoted in recent times was i586-pc-windows-msvc, aka Windows 10 without SSE, which was...utterly pointless since Windows 10 requires SSE.

If anything, I quite like the way Rust handles it with target tiers and easy switching between targets, because it's an honest approach about how well a target is supported. Having a win7 target that is tier 3 is a reflection of the support it has, and much better than stringing it along in the main Windows target that promises tested support when there isn't even a Windows 7 CI to test on.
by dyauspitr | 2025-11-18 19:20:59+00:00
Well yeah that’s the only downside, running out of money. Everything else is paradise. I took a year and a half off now and it was probably the best time of my life. I travelled extensively, hiked a lot, built a lot of high end furniture, spent quality time with my wife and kid, took on construction projects (barn, chicken coop, running path etc.) around my property, ate delicious home cooked meals leisurely, lifted weights, went to interesting conferences, concert and shows. Life was amazing and it wasn’t all that expensive. I can’t wait to FIRE which should be possible over the next 5 years.
by nu11ptr | 2025-11-18 19:21:14+00:00
What a blast from the past. I recall my own experimenting with DJGPP and DPMI in my own software. It felt futuristic at the time. I was blown away.

Another fond memory: I was playing Star Wars: Dark Forces (I think that was the one) and was frustrated with the speed of level loading. I think it used DOS/4GW and I recall renaming it, copying in a new dos extender (was it CWSDPMI? not sure), and renaming it to the one Star Wars used. I was shocked when it not only worked, but the level loading was MUCH faster (like 3-5x faster I recall). My guess is whatever one I had swapped in wasn't calling the interrupt in DOS (by swapping back to real mode), but perhaps was calling the IDE disk hw directly from protected mode. Not sure, but it was a ton faster, and I was a very happy kid. The rest of the game had the same performance (which makes sense I think) with the new extender.
by pwg | 2025-11-18 19:21:55+00:00
> Out in the country, you still don't really need brighter headlights. Other cars' headlights will always be visible and they have reflectors, so it's not as if you'll struggle to spot other cars. The road lines are actually reflective, so it's not as if you'll struggle to see the road lines. And generally speaking out in the country, there won't be pedestrian foot traffic, so it's not as if you need the bright lights for them.

Not correct on all counts. Depending upon "where" out in the country, you can very well be the only car on the road for as far as you can see to the horizon.

A very many country roads do not have any reflectors (those are often only installed on highway roads, not the roads you use to get to/from your destination to the highway.

Some country roads will have reflective paint lines, but a good many will have non-reflective paint lines, and/or no lines at all or the paint is so worn down that they may as well have no lines at all.

And while the rate of encountering pedestrians will be way less than in a city, it is very much not the case that there "won't be pedestrians". There very much will be pedestrians, sometimes. And for those rare sometimes you very much want to be able to recognize them from as far away as possible.

The purpose of high beams in the country is not "brighter" (calling them "high beams", while correct, causes many to believe that "high" refers to "brighter"). The purpose of "high" beams is longer throw (the light goes further down the road, so you can see obstacles from a greater distance). The "high" in "high beams" refers to the fact that the angle of throw is set "higher" to cause the lamps to illuminate a greater distance down the road.
by standardly | 2025-11-18 19:22:09+00:00
Eh, for me the comment rings mostly true. It fixed my ADHD - I was incredibly more productive, present, and "on track" so to speak. I set goals for myself and achieved them (some for the first time) once I was treated.

That said, it completely destroyed my appetite. I picked up ciggies, too. It made me crave nicotine and caffeine. I started pulling all-nighters because I was so productive (or, so into whatever game I was playing.) I got cold sweats often and had some weird uh sexual health side effects. Develeoped a tolerance to 5-10mg very quickly, so went up to 15-20mg, which also felt weakened after a month or so.

So, wasn't lolng before I could tell this was not healthy. Felt like I was in overdrive mode - super mentally active, and productive, but running my body into the ground. I would never do it long-term.
by am3101 | 2025-11-18 19:22:17+00:00
It’s a much simpler answer. There is a shortage of skilled blue collar workers. When demand outstrips supply for talent, talent becomes more expensive and low-quality talent survives longer. It’s the exact same in construction which is why construction costs are so high (and quality of work worse).

For example, there’s a forecasted 550K plumber gap in the US— https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2024/03/15/plumber-short...

It’s “easy” (from a barriers to entry perspective) to become an uber driver. It’s also hard to advertise to one-off riders. Uber exists to match a super liquid pool of drivers with a large rider base.

There is no incentive for a plumber to sign up for a platform like this that (1) takes a cut and (2) will say if you are bad. You as a plumber have plenty of work.

Solving this is not a tech problem, it’s a labor supply problem.

(I run a company that at one point took a ton of tier 1 venture money to use tech/automation to solve a blue collar skilled talent problem. It was extremely unsuccessful.)
by dieggsy | 2025-11-18 19:22:18+00:00
It seems okay to me to be upset with the system and also point out the specific wrongs of companies in the right context. I actually think that's probably most effective. The person above specifically singled out Google as a reply to a comment praising the company, which seems reasonable enough. I guess you could get into whether it's a proportional response; the praise wasn't that high and also exists within the context of the system as you point out. Still, their reply doesn't necessarily indicate that they're not upset with all companies or the system.
by pksebben | 2025-11-18 19:22:25+00:00
I think they already have that confirmation. When we bailed the banks out in 08 we basically said "If you're big enough that we'd be screwed without you then take whatever risks you like with impunity".

That's a reduction of complexity, of course, but the core of the lesson is there. We have actually kept on with all the practices that led to the housing crash (MBS, predatory lending, Mixing investment and traditional banking).
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-18 19:22:45+00:00
I don't think it's appropriate to conflate having an antisocial personality disorder with just generally being "weird." Especially in the current context, where authoritarians are especially adverse to non-conformity.

However, while it's absolutely not a new thing that people with these personality traits rise to positions of power, e.g. see "The Prince" by Machiavelli, it ignores the uniqueness of the current moment.

We have a widespread far-right movement right now that has a particular ideal of strength and masculinity, which is exactly the symptoms of narcissism, and has formed a cult of personality around a particular malignant narcissist. This is something new that has formed over the past 10-15 years, starting out of certain internet communities including 4chan, 8chan, and "the manosphere" and is a marked cultural departure from how things were ~20 years ago.
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by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-18 19:22:55+00:00
What I find annoying, is people making fun of folks that choose to “roll their own.”

The typical argument that I see, is homemade encryption, which is quite valid.

However, encryption is just a tiny corner of the surface.

Most folks don’t want to haul in 1MB of junk, just so they can animate a transition.

Well, I guess I should qualify that: Most normal folks wouldn't want to do that, but, apparently, it's de rigueur for today's coders.
by ATMLOTTOBEER | 2025-11-18 19:23:40+00:00
It’s not really abuse though. These markets aggregate information; when an insider takes one side of a trade, they are selling their information about the true price (probability of the thing happening) to the market (and the price will move accordingly).

You’re spot on that people should think of who is on the other side of the trades they’re taking, and be extremely paranoid of being adversely selected.

Disallowing people from making terrible trades seems…paternalistic? Idk
by JohnBooty | 2025-11-18 19:23:49+00:00
people, on average don't return the shopping cart

Perhaps I'm reading this too literally, but "on average?" This is a very flawed society, but I don't think I've ever seen the rando stranded carts equalling or outnumbering the returned ones.

I'm nearly 50 and have been to many, many parking lots including some truly forsaken ones. The parking lot at the Walmart near me is a travesty. People dump trash on the ground there, and I don't mean simple littering. It's so gross. It makes you feel like society is crumbling and that civilization was perhaps a mistake in the first place.

And yet...

I just returned from a quick trip there several minutes ago. I naturally thought of this thread (because I'm insane) while traversing the parking lot. I counted four unreturned carts, and several dozen properly corralled carts. The ratio was at least 10:1, possibly more.

This isn't "my" Walmart, but here's one near me that's notorious for being a bit of a Mad Max situation. If you switch to satellite view, you can see that even here the coralled carts seem to greatly outnumber the stranded ones.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uWE4wfydda7KtT2W8

bypassing a long queue of cars only to merge into the lane at the last possible second

While again not doubting that US is worse than many other countries, I wonder if some amount of this is due to our uh, organically sprawling road system. Because I have definitely been one of the people doing this at times, but it was always due to quite honestly misunderstanding what lane I needed to be in.

Anecdotally I've heard that our drivers are nowhere near the worst, but I don't have firsthand experience.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 19:24:04+00:00
I wish people would comment about transactions, optimistic synchronization, CSP, actors, priority inversion, Fraser's astounding code (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive...) etc., but I guess we each do what we can, and you have to meet people where they are. I probably couldn't have posted a comment any better than yours when I was 12, and maybe you're 12, so maybe you can't do any better. Hopefully, eventually, you will.

Remember! Brawndo: It's What Plants Crave.
by standardly | 2025-11-18 19:24:40+00:00
Is this confirmed? Source? I've always heard this, anecdotally, but I'm skeptical of the claim. I have every ADHD symptom, and have received 3 seperate diagnoses for it.. But Aderrall straight up felt like a drug - I could literally feel the dopamine release from just doing mundane things. Is the implication that I just didn't have ADHD?
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-11-18 19:24:48+00:00
A minivan with tinted front windows is not OK, because pedestrians and other drivers at intersections can't see where the driver is looking. You don't need to be able to see the rear seats, which is why those can be opaque on a panel van.

I have no issues with rear windows being tinted or not. Sure, express yourself however you see fit. It's the front windows that should not be (but often are) tinted, and yet police will watch them drive by and not lift a finger.
by hypeatei | 2025-11-18 19:24:55+00:00
What way do you envision it popping? Nvidia has tons of investments on their books in smaller companies. If a couple of them start showing poor earnings, it could cause a death spiral for NVDA because 1) their investment just tanked, and 2) those companies are no longer buying chips from them therefore reducing revenue.

Nvidia also makes up ~7% of the S&P 500 so if their stock price falls substantially, that's a big chunk of capital just... gone for a lot of people.
by vacuity | 2025-11-18 19:25:03+00:00
I think writing concurent programs will always be a hard problem, relative to the difficulty of writing non-concurrent programs, and the only "solution" is to isolate, minimize, and regulate contention. The implementation details of TM, locks, monitors, semaphores, actors, message queues, transactions, etc., are at best "distractions", at worst hindrances. I think a good model of a concurrent program, one that lends itself to writing the program simply, will be applicable across many different implementations. Anything that obscures the development of such a model is harmful. Worst of all is the sheer prevalence of shared resources (especially shared memory). Sharing brings contention, so control sharing.
by acuozzo | 2025-11-18 19:25:24+00:00
> When you do that it is perceived by most people as you trying to one-up them in the conversation

This depends entirely on the content of your reply and how well-trained you are in social cues as well as other unspoken parts of conversation.

It's also not comprehensive advice. Of course you should first help the person on the other side of the conversation reach where they're intending to go in what they're saying.

My advice is more applicable to the "sequence points" of a conversation.

> Just walking into a conversation while trying to pivot it

Doing this would be foolish. You have to read the cues for when the time is right. You also need to develop the right conversational demeanor to pull it off. This necessitates practice.
by bulbar | 2025-11-18 19:25:28+00:00
What do you mean with "telling"? That they are in tech because that's the demographic of tech folks? Or that men in most parts of the world are responsible to make enough money for the whole family?

It's more rethorical but I seriously don't know how that's telling.

> Europe is facing this right now.

What exactly? War in Syria was ten years ago.

> What are you suggesting? All of India moves to the US?

I find it clear that the suggestion is: Provide a clear and feasible path for people who wish to migrate and will benefit the society. We lack that in Europe/Germany as well and ironically are missing the laws to deal with criminal immigration effectively.

It's sad many people don't even know or think about the difference of regular migration and coming as a refugee. Migration of skilled workers must become much easier in Europe, while refugees are a very different topic.