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by throw1235435 | 2025-12-29 23:30:29+00:00
> Expertise and craft and specialized knowledge can become irrelevant in a heartbeat, so your meaning and joy and purpose should be in higher principles.

My meaning could be in higher purposes; however I still need a job to be enable/pursue those things. If AI takes the meaning out of your craft it takes out the ability to use it to pursue higher order principles as well for most people, especially if you aren't in the US/big tech scene with significant equity to "make hay while the sun is still shining".
by kmoser | 2025-12-29 23:30:43+00:00
> Reality: It’s not fear; it’s math. If 30% of the workforce is displaced, and the remaining 70% have to pay for the social safety net (or UBI) required to keep the displaced alive, the math breaks.

What evidence does the author have that 30% of the workforce will be displaced (not to mention unable to find another job)? The author also doesn't seem to take into account that AI is also making new jobs: https://www.economist.com/business/2025/12/14/job-apocalypse...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-29 23:31:03+00:00
This goes in the right direction. It could go further though. Types are indeed nice. So, why use a language why using those is optional? There are many reasons but many of those have to do with people and their needs/wants rather than tool requirements. AI agents benefit from good tool feedback, so maybe switch to languages and frameworks that provide plenty of that and quickly. Switching used to be expensive. Because you had to do a lot of the work manually. That's no longer true. We can make LLMs do all of the tedious stuff.

Including using more rigidly typed languages, making sure things are covered with tests, using code analysis tools to spot anti patterns and addressing all the warnings, etc. That was always a good idea but we now have even less excuses to skip all that.
by roywiggins | 2025-12-29 23:31:33+00:00
You may be thinking of the "broader autistic phenotype" which does encompass people who are subclinical, and isn't a diagnosis.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/broad-autism-phenotype-117279...

The autism in this study is ASD. This study doesn't have that much to say about people who don't qualify for a diagnosis, since they would not have qualified to take part in it.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-29 23:31:37+00:00
He was "AI" director at Tesla from 2017:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-ai-director-hiring-autopilot...

He gave a glowing recommendation for camera-only FSD in 2021:

https://thenextweb.com/news/tesla-ai-chief-explains-self-dri...

Then he left Tesla in 2022. So yes, you could argue that it was all Elon's fault and he just followed for 5 years. We won't know with 100% certainty, I'd find it odd to stay 5 years if you think it doesn't work.
by HNisCIS | 2025-12-29 23:31:53+00:00
We are once again wildly overstating the capabilities of LLMs. They'll cause some minor economic rearrangement in the next ten years but slightly better search isn't going to cause mass unemployment any time soon. This is just propaganda from the "AI" industry to further the perception that they've created a machine god. Wake me up when ClosedAI goes bankrupt.
by mercurialsolo | 2025-12-29 23:32:08+00:00
I had tried manus and never could find a use-case for them that worked for me

1. Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products
2. Deep research has increasingly become a feature in most other products
3. They shot themselves in the foot by sharing very limited usage credits, in the initial wave of DR products pretty much everything was free - ChatGPT, Claude, Pplx, Deepseek. they rolled this back later and added a free credit tier but by then the hype had moved off.

TBF
1. Their post synthesis, formatting abilities were better than others
2. Their initial launch was "hypey" - lots of waitlist based access.

But I had seen somewhere they mention they had hit $100mn in revenue - M&A also signals that DR is increasingly a feature of the labs. And labs missing an assistant will probably buy a well distributed one
by Aloisius | 2025-12-29 23:32:16+00:00
Of course daemons weren't limited to a single process, but the old 1 process per connection forking model wasn't remotely scalable, not only because of kernel deficiencies (which certainly didn't help), but also because of the extreme cost of context switches on the commodity servers back then.

Now perhaps my memory is a bit fuzzy after all these years, but I'm pretty sure when I asking about scaling above 15,000 simultaneous connections back in 1999 (I think the discussion on linux-kernel is referenced in this article), it was for a server listening on a single port that required communication between users and the only feasible way at the time to do that was multiplexing the connections in a single process.

Without that restriction, hitting 10,000 connections on a single Linux machine was much easier by running multiple daemons each listening on their own port and just use select(). It still wasn't great, but it wasn't eating 40% of the time in poll() either.

Most of the things the article covers: multiplexing, non-blocking IO and event handling were strategies for handling more connections in a process. The various multiplexing methods discussed were because syscalls like poll() scaled extremely poorly as the number of fds increased. None of that is particularly relevant for 1 connection per process forking daemons where in many cases, you don't even need polling at all.
by vidarh | 2025-12-29 23:32:45+00:00
I like the Norwegian model: The train company is obliged to put up alternative transport to your destination. If they don't provide an alternative within reasonable time, you can demand refunds for documented costs for alternative transport up to fairly reasonable limits.

I've been bundled into taxis by the train operator in Norway because it was expected, but also likely cheaper for them to ensure full taxis than have people arrange it themselves and end up with everyone able to demand the maximum refund.

The costs are low enough that it's not a problem if it happens occasionally, but does create some real pressure to actually fix issues if it happens often enough.
by tsunamifury | 2025-12-29 23:32:56+00:00
SMBs broadly spend 200-400 dollars a month on ads and see marginal to negative returns against 10 million in spend for large clients. Even 1000-5000 see marginal returns at best unless the target small demo high return (local premium services). They lack the budgets for learning and optimization let alone optimal price per placement.

This combined with SMBs targeting everyday joes with increasing less demand availability for anything it leaves them crushed on both sides.
by noosphr | 2025-12-29 23:33:02+00:00
All embeddings of hyperbolic space into eucleadean space suck. You can't preserve distances and areas between them. Trees live in a hyperbolic space so every visualization of trees on a screen will suck in some way.

This simple math fact is the reason why all grand hyperlink projects from 1960 to 2010 couldn't work, e.g. Xanadu.

Worse, in small examples with fewer than a hundred nodes it looks like it is a real improvement over linear text with jumps - we are after all now using _all_ the possible screen real estate.
by Saline9515 | 2025-12-29 23:33:50+00:00
Payroll taxes are inefficient as they discourage work and increase its cost for employers, leading to lower hiring. If payroll taxes vanishes because of AI, it doesn't mean that we should stop using it to increase productivity, but rather reorient taxes.

For instance, land value tax or consumption taxes are often seen as more efficient and fair, depending on their implementation. They also are AI-proof.
by computerex | 2025-12-29 23:33:51+00:00
Consumers will pay for convenience and value. You simply cannot price a game at $80 and hope to sell it in India. You can't expect consumers to have half a dozen monthly streaming subs to enjoy their favorite content.

When a product is providing value, and it's easier and more convenient to buy than pirating it, then people will buy it.

Netflix killed piracy until the platform fragmented and now you need half a dozen subs to watch everything. Expectedly, free streaming sites are now better than ever.
by reactordev | 2025-12-29 23:34:30+00:00
You're right that sqlite doesn't support array's or uuid's natively. SQLite was only a suggestion on how one might go about separating your database engine concerns with your data layer concerns.

If you fail to understand why this separation is important, you'll fail to reason with why you'd do it in the first place so continue building apps like it's 1999, tightly coupled and you need the whole stack to run your thing. God forbid you expand beyond just 1 team.
by yencabulator | 2025-12-29 23:34:43+00:00
Not really. Erlang's VM is actually surprisingly slow, and in the era of c10k it was still using select/poll, which were getting to be bottlenecks.

What Erlang excels at is "no programming mistake ever should the whole system permanently down". As in components will reboot to recover. It's not a magic fix for anything outside of that.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-29 23:35:09+00:00
And the cut can't be lower?

The rush to defend Valve's monopoly is so weird since HN usually hates fat cat billionaires. Valve is raking in so much money as a middleman that Gabe Newell has ~$1 billion worth of yachts alone, in addition to the rest of his wealth, yet gamers want Valve to keep on bleeding them and game studios?
by saulpw | 2025-12-29 23:35:38+00:00
I keep hearing "it's the slowest and worst it'll ever be" as though software ability and performance only ever increase and yet mass produced software is slower and enshittier than it was 10-15 years ago and we're all complaining about it. And you can't say "but it does so much more" because I never asked for 90% of the "more" and just want to turn most of it off.
by danparsonson | 2025-12-29 23:35:54+00:00
> I don’t think it’s worth doing that

OK; it's your choice to do what you think is right.

> and comparing it to scientific experiments doesn’t really apply.

Why not? I think it's a fairly apt comparison; you have a theory ("this piece of code does the following things"), and write tests to prove it.

> You can do all that without mocks as well.

OK, but mocks make it easier and cleaner - so why wouldn't I do that?

> Making the tests run faster at the expense of better tests seems counterproductive.

Smaller, more focused, cleaner tests are better in my opinion; speed is a beneficial side effect.

> Now you should think of reasons why you should not isolate.

Why? That's your argument - it's not on me to prove it for you. If you can give me some good reason why mocking out the interfaces you are not testing is a bad idea, and some better alternative, then we can have a discussion about it.
by JoshGlazebrook | 2025-12-29 23:36:02+00:00
Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc.

We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming, yet I continue to try and figure out the best way to use it for my personal projects.
by wtallis | 2025-12-29 23:36:43+00:00
I still don't see how your suggestions amount to anything other than telling people to spend a lot more money on completely different hardware and use it in a completely different manner.

FT-8 doesn't seem usefully relevant here. The fact that the bandwidth is so low that it can be sampled with a sound card isn't at all helpful when Meshtastic doesn't require a PC. And FT-8 carries minimal payload (typically amounting to no more than the automated status updates you dislike Meshtastic wasting airtime on), and I've never heard of anyone doing routing over FT-8. You're just making noise about a completely unrelated niche radio hobby.

If the constraints of LoRa and Meshtastic don't make it possible to implement the kind of radio system you want to play with, that doesn't prove that Meshtastic has made any wrong decisions. It just says you would get a more fulfilling experience from getting into a different radio hobby, and stop getting in the way of potentially productive discussions about how Meshtastic could be improved within the constraints of the currently-existing commodity hardware.
by krupan | 2025-12-29 23:36:47+00:00
"There are lots of examples of joint ventures, partnerships, alliances, investment and mergers and acquisitions..."

And the deals Nvidia are making are different from all of those. Buying OpenAI stock so that OpenAI can buy Nvidia's products is very risky. Buying the management team and IP of Groq is a very weirdly structured deal. What was the benefit to Groq? What is the purpose of this Intel deal?
by akoboldfrying | 2025-12-29 23:36:47+00:00
You don't think putting ads in Gemini output has crossed Google's mind?

I've never understood the "AI is eating search! Google is dead!" theory. The specific mechanism (whether that be keyword search, LLM conversation or something else) by which users describe their needs to a company doesn't matter, all that matters is that (a) the company makes that mechanism available for free, (b) it does a good job of satisfying the user's need and (c) ads can be smuggled into it.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-29 23:36:53+00:00
> the basics of demand

If you've been around longer than internet advertising you realize the basics of demand have changed pretty considerably.

Let's go back to 1980 and say that you have widget X that person A would absolutely buy if they saw/heard it advertised. They live in Podunk Minnesota that had coverage by 3 radio stations, 3 TV stations, and 2 newspapers. But you have no idea what media they actually consumed to target the right one.

Right now you're at the point you would have to contact at least 8 different media companies for ad spend if you wanted coverage. Most likely you'd cut it down to one of each, and maybe a billboard. This said, the cost for just this little area is going to be wildly expensive! Ads were huge money, and this is just for one little town.

These costs were slightly lower for large corporate buyers, but not that much because as you go back farther and farther you were typically dealing with more companies before consolidation. Being an SMB was great in this market in a local area because you weren't competing with the world.

Fast forward to now and you compete with the entire world at any given moment. In the West we've forgotten about competition and allowed a huge portion of our economic product to consolidate to a small number of companies. This is very apparent in advertising as the old media entities are dead or far more expensive than you'll ever recoup with the competition out there. Instead you're looking at Google/Reddit/Facebook style ads, but with that kind of ad you again, complete with the entire world. If your ad actually does good and drive business, then Google metrics will feedback to players watching the market and they will advertise products in the same space driving up competition and the base costs for ads. The supply from your competitors is practically unlimited which will drive your profits to almost zero unless you happen to have something very special.

Welcome to the K shaped economy, where the big get bigger and the small die.
by underlipton | 2025-12-29 23:36:59+00:00
>Look where everyone is looking and you'll find your answer there. It may not be in the same form as Google adwords, but the game is the same. Leveraging attention.

The chill that ran down my spine when I realized that you and TFA think that the part people care about is Google as an ad platform, and not as a way to access websites.

Jesus fucking Christ, things are bleak.
by lazystar | 2025-12-29 23:37:01+00:00
I'm not stating the code is shoddy - I agree the quality's fine. I'm referring to the IC engineer's role in pushing back against unrealistic demands/design decisions that are passed down by the PM's and c-suite teams. Doing this can increase internal tension, but it makes the product and customer experience better in the long run. In my career, I've felt safe pushing back because I don't have to worry about moving if my pushback is poorly received.
by to11mtm | 2025-12-29 23:37:07+00:00
I don't think you are off base FWIW. Unity has long both kinda lagged too hard but also just makes things weird at times.

I think the biggest hurdle a unity contender has to overcome, is how to provide both 'similar enough' primitives as well, as a way to easily consistently handle the graphics/sound pipeline (i.e. simple way to handle different platform bindings) while also making sure all of that infrastructure is AOT friendly.
by LoganDark | 2025-12-29 23:37:19+00:00
It's difficult to explain, but it's similar to the Scratch blocks idea that I mentioned up above. To me, a "tokenized writing style" is one that looks composed of nested layers of structure, not exactly grammatical structure but more logical structure. It certainly appears that a lot of the specific patterns could have come from training, but regardless of what, if you don't have Asperger's, you certainly do a good job imitating it :)
by echelon | 2025-12-29 23:37:25+00:00
Currently, companies employ humans.

Companies pay payroll taxes and employees pay income taxes. The state makes money to pay for social services.

When companies begin replacing humans with cold, dead infrastructure, that infrastructure doesn't pay taxes. Payroll and income taxes revenues are gone.

Furthermore, those humans aren't making an income with which to further stimulate the economy. They can't pay for the goods and services of other companies. No sales taxes. Consumer businesses lose revenue. Then no servicing businesses. B2B then sees second order pullback. Then those employees... The whole economy's interconnectedness and ecological food web begin to disappear if this happens.

I have no idea what the future holds for post-AI society. I tend to be much more positive in my outlook of this technology than most, but it truly could diverge from our predictions in unexpected ways.

Elon saying (paraphrasing) "everyone gets super wealthy because of AI" seems unlikely. You see how we treat homeless people. I do think we'll wind up on median/average wealthier and with less work, but that's not a given.

The really dark view is that we'll have massive concentration camps and human genocide for poor people (read: us) or all humans (if ASI happens), but that seems even more fantastically fictional.

We should start thinking about taxes and employment now, though.
by alamando | 2025-12-29 23:37:40+00:00
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by hansmayer | 2025-12-29 23:38:04+00:00
I was actually comparing aviation HW+SW vs. consumer software...and making the point that an old C++ invoices processing application, while being way less reliable than aviation HW or SW, is still orders of magnitude more reliable than LLMs. The LLMs don't always miss, true...but they miss far too often for the "hit" part to be relevant at all.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-29 23:38:23+00:00
I don't have a lot of patience for this sort of take because my north star is project management and in my normal moving forward model I work in milestones where I stack up my tools and get something specific done and screwing around with tools is heavily timeboxed. If A.I. tools help me make progress great, if they don't, I will fall back to manual methods, get that phase of work done or (rarely) give up on the subproject. After I get some distance from it I can consolidate my learnings, try a different approach.

It's death though to be excessively reading tweets and blogs about this stuff, this will have you exhausted before you even try a real project and comparing yourself to other people's claims which are sometimes lies, often delusional, ungrounded and almost always self-serving. In sofar someone is getting things done with any consistency they are practicing basic PM, treating feelings of exhaustion, ungroundedness and especially going in circles as a sign to regroup, slow down and focus on the end you have in mind.

If the point really is to research tools than what you do is break down that work into attainable chunks, the way you break down any other kind of work.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-29 23:38:27+00:00
The biggest boneheaded decision from my perspective was their taking over the + prefix in Google search (to filter for results that have this term verbatim). That just positioned G+ as my enemy and I had a strong desire for it to die. Unfortunately, they didn't bring back the prefix even after it died. Quotes around a term do something similar, but I am still angry.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-29 23:38:45+00:00
Yeah, I was on Amtrak in North Dakota somewhere and we got stopped for a couple hours waiting for a plow train. So like half the train got off in the middle of this field to play in the snow while we waited.

The Amtrak people I've met over the years pretty clearly want to do a good job in a system that is stacked against them.
by wyldfire | 2025-12-29 23:39:05+00:00
Taxation is a response to the economy. So if the economy changes, so should taxation.

Also - if corporations succeed in becoming completely independent of labor, it will happen regardless of taxation. We shouldn't say to corporations "you must hire people or else we won't have a tax base". We should say to corporations "since you no longer require humans, we will change the way taxes are applied."

A century or more ago, they could see how rapidly productivity was increasing. It's only increasing yet faster now. Economists then predicted people would have enormous leisure time. While they have significantly more, it's not like we have abandoned work. Instead those productivity benefits go increasingly to shareholders and not labor.

So we will soon face a precipice that will disrupt the status quo. And the people will eventually triumph because collectively we are the governed.