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by hansvm | 2025-12-04 22:14:37+00:00
It's too late to edit, but I do have one more thought on the topic.

From the perspective of an individual, ROI has to be large to justify a $5k/yr investment. HOWEVER, the general principle of "if something is your livelihood, then you should be willing to invest in it as appropriate" is an excellent thing to keep in mind. Moreover, at the scale of a company and typical company decisions the advice makes a ton of sense -- if a $1k monitor and $2k laptop allow your employees to context-switch better or something then you should almost certainly invest in that hardware (contrasted with the employee's view of ROI, the investments are tax-deductible and just have to pay off in absolute value, plus they don't have the delay/interaction with wages/promotions/etc introducing uncertainty and loss into the calculation) (the difference between a few hundred dollars and a few thousand dollars in total capital investment probably does have a huge difference in outcomes for a lot of computer-based employee roles).
by mixermachine | 2025-12-04 22:15:16+00:00
Sadly everything in the general direction of RAM or SSD chips is getting more expensive because a lot of production capacity is redistributed to serve AI chips and everything around.

Even lower end GPUs are getting more expensive even if they are not really useful for AI. But they still contain <some> chips and ram which is in high demand.

So yes, Apple will likely also have to pay higher priceses when they renew their contracts.
by andai | 2025-12-04 22:15:52+00:00
A small difference in quantity can become a radical difference in quality. (Look at what happens if you cool or heat water! Or the effect that small amounts of lag have on UX, it goes from interactive to not.)

i.e. #3 here can be approximated as #2, and this can be helpful.

But the really interesting thing is, with neuroplasticity and skill training, you can make tiny adjustments to #3 which produce a change in the set of #2, i.e. real differences in quality and enjoyment of life.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-12-04 22:16:19+00:00
I was recently wondering that since in the US the race is declarative and such a big thing, why don't people self declare being <of the currently most interesting race>?

If this brings you points at entey exams or similar bonuses - why not (mis)using that mechanism?

Or maybe I have as a European the wrong impression about positive discrimination based on race in universities? (I do not nit jave recent data, just remember that people mentioned that they did not play the "race card" to be admitted)
by ralferoo | 2025-12-04 22:16:23+00:00
I'm not surprised this is happening in a massive group of companies. I once worked for a smallish company with 400 staff, with basically one product, but different teams - backend, frontend, database, QA, sales, etc... If you were ever speaking to someone from a different team for more than 15 minutes, it had to be put into your weekly timesheet so your time could be cross-billed to the other department.

Obviously the net effect was to silo all the different departments so that nobody really knew how the entire product worked, except the few smokers who'd regularly go outside and smoke for 15+ minutes and chat to whoever else was around.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-04 22:16:26+00:00
> Rust is not hard. Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

> If you're trying to shoehorn some novel type of yours into a particular trait interface so you can pass trait objects around, sure. Maybe you are going to have to memorize a lot more. But I'd ask why you write code like that unless you're writing a library.

I think that you are missing the point - they're not saying (at least in my head) "Rust is hard because of all the abstractions" but, more "Rust is hard because you are having to explain to the COMPILER [more explicitly] what you mean (via all these abstractions)

And I think that that's a valid assessment (hell, most Rustaceans will point to this as a feature, not a bug)
by kace91 | 2025-12-04 22:16:41+00:00
One question about your functional point: where can I learn functional programming in terms of organization of large codebases?

Perhaps it is because DDD books and the like usually have strong object oriented biases, but whenever I read about functional programming patterns I’m never clear on how to go from exercise stuff to something that can work in a real world monolith for example.

And to be clear I’m not saying functional programming is worse at that, simply that I have not been able to find information on the subject as easily.
by marcinzm | 2025-12-04 22:17:01+00:00
It’s got nothing to do with values but value. Are you doing things that provide value. Once you realize the only measure of that is how other people perceive what you’ve done it’s a lot less frustrating. It makes thing more cooperative as you now need to work with others and communicate with others and you know that versus clinging to a siloed invalid notion of value.
by netsharc | 2025-12-04 22:17:14+00:00
The term is "cognitive offloading". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cognitive+offloading

Sheesh, I notice I also just ask an assistant quite a bit rather than putting effort to think about things. Imagine people who drive everywhere with GPS (even for routine drives) and are lost without it, and imagine that for everything needing a little thought...
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 22:17:39+00:00
> 1 in 4 is 25%

N in M fractions are used in casual copy to convey an approximate value. Finding a "1 in 4" number on a dated website does not mean that the current number is literally 25%.

It's an approximation and not meant to be taken as a precise value. They're not going to update the website to "26 out of 100" if the number changes.

Citing an old, approximate number in some non-specific website copy does not invalidate anything.
by eliotbrown | 2025-12-04 22:17:58+00:00
Research is messy. Every week, thousands of new papers appear, and most researchers have no system to track what matters. Tools solve small tasks, but nothing gives a unified workspace that connects your notes, papers, citations, and discoveries in one place.

I built StayAcademic because I kept watching labs lose weeks chasing literature, missing relevant papers, and repeating work that was already solved in other fields. The goal was simple. Give researchers a single workspace that surfaces the right papers, links related work, shows gaps, and keeps all insights connected.

If you want to try it or give feedback, here is the link: https://stayacademic.com

Would love critique from the HN community on what is missing and what should change to serve researchers better.

Built for academic researchers. If you need free access feel free to let me know!
by TristanBall | 2025-12-04 22:18:14+00:00
So at first glance this looks pretty amazing, and you deserve kudos for your documentation quality alone!

2 comments. First, if you're going to lead with statements like "faster than x" - link to your benchmarks. They're not hard to find but I did have to go looking. Second, the skipped "random read" test is a glaring red flag to me, and honestly raises far more concerns than a weak result would have (a weak microbenchmark result may or may not be important, and at worst is something to be considered in engineering, while but trust issues with a vendor are poison ).

I don't know why you skipped the test, maybe it was time, maybe you didn't think it important, maybe you got unusual results and want to retest. But right now it looks like a footgun in what seems to be a very high quality release.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-04 22:18:29+00:00
Assuming that opening a new fab is the only way to match the demand is simply asinine.

You can ramp up production in limited capacity, make long term contracts, or pass the manufacturing rust to the buyer. When we needed a vertical stabilizer for a legacy aircraft we paid for an entire production like to be built just to manufacture two tails, so there are tons of ways to do this if you want to be competitive. But instead this is a cartel like market where manufacturers colluded before, so they’re more likely to collude than spend billions doing anything.

Just open their books and schedules with a competent auditors and see if they’re artificially manipulating things or not.
by Ccecil | 2025-12-04 22:18:35+00:00
Not to be a 3d print snob but....

Aside from the failure it looks like it wasn't the best print to start with. Lots of rashing from support and curling at the edges. You can see on the flats where the support was and the outer curve of the elbow looks like it likely wasn't airtight. Appears to me to be printed with the inlet facing upwards.

Better support planning, settings and possibly orientation may have helped.

Other commenters are saying it was likely PLA-CF, which I totally agree with based on the testing, but I can't help but think there is no possible way the person printing this item did not know that. I doubt the print would have come off as good as it did when using ABS-CF settings on PLA-CF.

Big chain of poor choices.
by derefr | 2025-12-04 22:18:57+00:00
Have you considered dropping by in person to your nearest computer recycler/refurbisher? As a teen I worked at one, and the boxes and boxes of RAM sticks pulled from scrapped machines (usually scrapped due to bad main boards) made a strong impression. They tend to not even put the highest-spec stuff they pull into anything, as refurbished machines are mostly sold/donated in quantity (to schools and the like) and big customers want standardized SKUs with interchangeable specs for repairability more than they want performance. Workers at these places are often invited to build personal machines to take home out of these “too good” parts — and yet there’s so much that they can’t possibly use it all up that way. If someone showed up asking if they could have some DDR3, they might literally just let you dig through the box and then sell it to you by weight!
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-04 22:18:58+00:00
It is funny that you are comparing the scope of covid misinformation bans to Russia's broad censorship of international media. Ultimately, though, you should evaluate the system rather than the efforts of a single individual. Because the social media bans were litigated.

Wouldn't TikTok being sold to a company that the government trusts be an indication that the concern over access to Americans' data (rather than the message) is a genuine one?
by elzbardico | 2025-12-04 22:19:27+00:00
But the paradox is, all of them will die and not all preventions are Pareto efficient.

I can keep an old decrepit rich guy living a miserable life for some more 6 months at the same cost that would take to me to improve the life expectancy of some 100 poor babies a few decades.

I can try save a bunch of fat very-sick boomers from a respiratory infection at the cost of causing an economic crisis that will completely fuck a lot of young people too for decades ahead. Was it fucking worth?
by DontForgetMe | 2025-12-04 22:19:40+00:00
People keep comparing LLMs (and AI, I suppose) to specialised machines like the printing press or the harvester or something, and often throwing in a luddite comparison.

The glaring difference is that specialised machines, usually invented to do an existing task better, faster or more safely, do indeed revolutionise the world. As you pointed out, they perform necessary functions better, faster, and / or more safely.

Note that segues, that weird juice machine etc, we not built to fill a gap or to perform a task better, faster or more safely. Neither were pet rocks or see-through phones. Nobody was sitting around before the Metaverse going 'man, I wish Minecraft could be pre-made and corporate with my work colleagues", and when these things launched the sales pitches were all about "look at the awesome things this tech can do, isn't it great?!", rather than "look at the awesome things this tech will allow you / help you to do, aren't they great?!".

LLMs are really impressive tech. So are segues and those colour-changing t-shirts we had in the 80s. They looked awesome, the tech was awesome, and there were genuine practical applications for doomerist, somewhere.

But they do not allow the average poison to do anything awesome. They don't make arduous tasks faster, better or safer without heavily sacrificing quality, privacy, and sanity. They do not fill a gap in anybody's life.

That's the difference. Most AI is currently a really cool technology that can do a bunch of things and it's very exciting to look at, just like the Segway and the Metaverse. And, really, an ant, or a furby. They are not going to revolutionise anything, because they were more built to. They weren't built to summarise your emails or to improve your coding (there are many princes of software that were built to assist with coding, and they are pretty good) or to perform any arduous or dangerous tasks. They were built to experiment, to push boundaries, to impress, and to sell.

So yes, I 100% agree with you and take your point a little further it's not even that LLM's are too high tech and fancy for most periods. I don't even think that they're products. They are components, or add-ons, being sold as products like extension power cables 50 years before the invention of the plug socket, or flexible silicone phone cases being sold in the era of landlines and phone boxes.

And I'm legit still baffled that so many people seem to have jobs that revolve around reading and writing emails or producing boilerplate code, who are not able to confidently do those things, but aren't just looking for a new job.

Like, it's a tough market, but if you haven't learned to skim-read an email by now, do yourself a favour and find a job that doesn't involve so much skim reading of emails. I don't get it.
by LargeWu | 2025-12-04 22:19:49+00:00
My middle school aged child was recently diagnosed with learning disorders around processing, specifically with written language and math, which means even though he might know the material well it will take him a long time to do things we take for granted like reading and writing. But, he does much much better with recall and speed when transmitting and testing his knowledge orally. He's awful with spelling and phonemes, but his vocabulary is above grade level. For kids like him, the time aspect is not necessarily correlated to subject mastery.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-12-04 22:20:04+00:00
You can have a the pain points with Linux or you can have the pain points of Windows and have tiktok and facebook added to your start memu, AI force added to your taskbar, your searches in the start menu sent off to microsoft, AI forced into your browser and notepad, have file explorer take multiple seconds to start up, Edge block downloads of .exe files with DANGEROUS FILE warnings, and I can go on and on.
by Centigonal | 2025-12-04 22:20:14+00:00
It's important to note the plane is a Cozy Mk IV, which is an experimental light aircraft that is built at home out of foam and fiberglass by following instructions you get online. The design is very good, and hundreds have been flown over the last ~35 years, but Cozy pilots are the aviation equivalent of people who run Arch Linux as their daily driver; many of them are tweaking their aircraft with some frequency.

This isn't a case of an established aircraft manufacturer cutting corners on a part; it's probably some small maker who made this part out of the wrong materials. It's a little shocking that neither the maker nor the buyer of this part thought to either stick it in an oven or run it with the engine on the ground to guarantee it could hold up to the expected intake air temps. I'm glad the pilot made it out with only mild injuries.

edit: here's a fun video from a Cozy pilot in case you're curious about the plane and the people who fly them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipqmb09wbSQ
by treetalker | 2025-12-04 22:20:23+00:00
Neat idea.

But even when it's set to start the day at the default time (9:00), the produced list starts at 4:00.

Perhaps your code starts the day hard-coded to your time (looks like you're in Germany) so the list of a user on the east coast of the United States sees a 5-hour difference?
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-04 22:20:28+00:00
Pretty much all consumer RAM vendors offer a lifetime warranty. Not exactly a marketing gimmick.

G.Skill, lifetime warranty: https://www.gskill.com/warranty

Corsair, lifetime warranty: https://help.corsair.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033067832-Warr...

Kingston, lifetime warranty: https://www.kingston.com/en/company/warranty

Teamgroup, lifetime warranty: https://support.teamgroupinc.com/en/support/warranty.php
by anematode | 2025-12-04 22:20:51+00:00
The parents you talk about just seem like assholes.

> Those advocates with low support needs are the ones that are actually making an attempt to give those high support needs a voice.

Having low-support-needs autism is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a good voice for others. In fact, it can be a very bad thing, if they imply that the problems they face are similar to problems faced by high-support-needs folks. The focus in the media on low-support-needs individuals gives people the wrong impression of the autism spectrum's individual experience and broader societal impact.

I think a better form of advocacy is the YouTube channel "Special Books by Special Kids," which doesn't make a point of the channel's author having a disability (no clue whether he does), but rather just introduces viewers to a broad variety of people.
by windows2020 | 2025-12-04 22:21:00+00:00
Yes, it's harder and takes longer to read code. Hopefully this reality will propagate to leadership.

But there's something more. It's the benefits of a first-look perspective. With these tools that's lost.

Also, it seems like we've entered phase two of sorts in the sense of we solve LLMish #1 issues by running it by #2. So writing and reviewing. I wonder what #3 will be. Maybe confirming.
by xkcd-sucks | 2025-12-04 22:21:25+00:00
No - Performance reviews are important legally, it's the only company IP you're entitled to take with you when you leave etc, so this is where you can have evidence of specific projects etc.

Also - If you write the PR you want to get and give to your manager, the burden of effort falls on the manager to correct it where they disagree. If your manager writes it, the burden of effort falls on the manager to comprehensively justify your value as a matter of record. It is better the former be halfassed than the latter
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-12-04 22:22:00+00:00
I'm disappointed that you call my motivations into question instead of engaging me in good faith. It's not possible to solve a problem without being honest about the pertinent facts, and I think you (and the person I responded to) are engaging in denialism.

My experiences are all in the UK but everything I've read and everyone I've spoken to (outside of tech circles) reinforces my belief that this is popular. If you disagree then fine but I don't think you can find any polling to support that.

If you can then be my guest - I genuinely would like to see it. I'm not happy with my conclusions.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-04 22:22:02+00:00
Every single discussion I have with folks on this seemingly goes like this:

“Does the child pay for internet access?”

“No, but they have a device that can access the internet!”

“Oh, so the child bought the device and paid the bill?”

“No, the parents do!”

“Ah, so would you say it’s the parent’s responsibility to monitor their children’s internet usage since they gave them a network-connected device?”

“You obviously don’t want to protect kids!”

Look, I do want to protect kids. I really do, but I also am sick and tired of bad actors using “BuT tHe ChIlDrEn” to recruit idiots and -phobes in a quest to make the entire planet and all of its spaces magically safe for children of all ages - at the expense of the superior number of adults who need our own spaces devoid of kids for community, for socialization, for being our full, human selves.

The internet already has an age gate, and it’s called “the adults paying the damn bills”. Those adults are responsible for making internet access safe for kids, not the entire digital planet dropping what it’s doing to make every single private space safe for kids to access without parental supervision. Bring back curated services like Prodigy and Compuserve, or just don’t give kids internet access until they’re ready for it.

Most of humanity grew up just fine without regular internet access as children, and there’s no reason whatsoever we have to foist net-connected terminals onto kids of any age. That’s parental choice, and I refuse to be punished because of someone else’s bad parenting.
by poemxo | 2025-12-04 22:22:07+00:00
I'm not in web anymore but, to me, it seemed easier to visualize richly linked data in Angular than having a Django template render it. Once you have the mindset of making your website into an app, you are tempted to move navigation to the app too. That way your app can keep delivering its core user function without the interruption of a page load.

In retrospect it was slightly hubristic, as in reality you sometimes have to force reload SPA's, and if you're integrating on top of legacy systems that you just link to, you're not really avoiding the bad UX of a jarring page load. But I do find it elegant to separate presentation from data.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-04 22:22:25+00:00
They're simply making a bet that they can put the DRAM dies to more valuable use than any of the existing alternatives, including e.g. average folks playing the latest videogames on their gaming rig. At this kind of scale, they had better be right or they are toast: they have essentially gone all-in on their bet that this whole AI thing is not going to 'pop' anytime soon.
by phkahler | 2025-12-04 22:22:26+00:00
>> This part could have likely been fine if it used a different material such as Ultem.

Maybe, but FDM printed parts are still much weaker than molded parts. We tried printing some coolant pump housings once during development. They worked fine until the pressure went up and then layers separated and someone got to clean the lab. At least an air intake is gonna have negative pressure which might help hold the layers together.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-04 22:22:51+00:00
It’s just another example of Baumol’s cost disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Very few efficiency improvements have been made in bridge building over the past 150 years aside from prefabricating sections offsite and using hydraulic cranes. Inflation pushes wages higher, making it seem more expensive since there’s no efficiency gain, just higher wages for the workers. It’s good that the people that build bridges and roads and buildings can afford to live.

Preserving a 150 year old bridge gets complicated as it’s virtually bespoke work, problems are uncovered as the project continues, ballooning costs.
by dotancohen | 2025-12-04 22:23:01+00:00
My main desktop is temporarily a Dell server from around 2012 or so. Two were thrown out, each with two 2 GiB sticks of RAM, so I poached the other machine's RAM for a grand total of 8 GiB. I also threw in a small SSD for the / partition (/home is on the old HDD). The thing is dirt slow but I never notice, even YouTube video playback works fine. Even on hardware well over a decade old, Debian runs fine.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-12-04 22:23:09+00:00
Children were passed up for elementary school admissions. Whereas the schmoozers and their kids got in.

I can’t provide proper education and practice. There is no grit or grind. They’re just falling further and further behind the ones who actually got access to good schools and teachers.

One who tested highly gifted (145 IQ) after years of educational neglect now tests at 120. It’s pathetic. And even if I spend all my time and money I cannot reverse the decline.