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by pwg | 2026-01-07 20:03:45+00:00
Spoken like someone who does not have a "second person" around while they are working from home.

Unless the "other people" (spouses/partners/parents/etc.) also work a from home job, they simply do not internalize that the work from home individual is "at work" in the same manner as if that individual were away in an office. And for some of them, no amount of explanation ever sinks in to fully internalize the fact that "when I'm working from home, I am not available to also solve all the problems you create for yourself throughout the day".

Most all of them, however, do actually pay attention to and understand the meaning of a "do not disturb" sign on the door.
by Aerbil313 | 2026-01-07 20:04:05+00:00
Yeah, same. Lately almost every time I think "Oh no way, this is not the correct way/not the optimal way/it's a hallucination" it later turns out that it's actually the correct way/the optimal way/it's not a hallucination. I now think twice before doing anything differently than what the LLM tells me unless I'm an expert on the subject and can already spot mistakes easily.

It seems like they really figured out grounding and the like in the last couple of months.
by flyinghamster | 2026-01-07 20:04:46+00:00
See also, Crucial exiting the marketplace. That one hit me out of left field, since they've been my go-to for RAM for decades. Though I also see that as a little bit of what has been the story of American businesses: "It's too much trouble to make consumer products. Let's just make components or sell raw materials, or be middlemen instead. No one will notice."
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 20:04:48+00:00
I'm waiting for Unicode to support something really fun or insane, like arbitrary 64x64 inline bitmaps, or entirely arbitrary flag support!

Really, it should have a full implementation of heraldry.

Unicode can only be complete when it is a full renderer. If I can't render my video game using one complete "glyph", what are we even doing in this world?
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 20:05:03+00:00
Which side is TDS and why? I've heard both of these opinions expressed quite freely over the past few years, without any association with Trump. However, most instances of TDS seem to not "derangement" but "normal human emotion to me."

> It seems obvious to most people that institutional investors should not be allowed near single family homes

What is obvious about this? They have always invested in single family homes. Can you provide a priniciple or rationale? If it's something other than renters or "corporations bad but I won't explain further" then I'd love to hear it!
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by potato3732842 | 2026-01-07 20:05:22+00:00
Your take is questionable and increasingly becomes asinine every time a boomer croaks and a young person makes it to voting age. No amount of seductive "institutions who's inner workings we will figure out late as though they don't make or break it all will provide for us" rhetoric are going to change the fact that the electorate is increasingly made up of people who have only seen institutions, both public and private, engage in accumulation of power self enrichment at the expense of literally everyone else.

I don't know what the future holds but I assure you it does not involve the people vesting yet more power in institutions that have only led them astray in their lifetimes (governments, unions and other industry groups, academia, etc). As the evil among us like to say "demographics are destiny" [1].

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by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-07 20:05:32+00:00
> either choke off the young trying to buy or crack the nest egg of the old

The simple fact is, housing can either be affordable xor an investment[0].

Affordable means the prices are flat relative to inflation, which makes it a terrible investment. If it's a good investment, that means the price is going up faster than inflation, which quickly makes it unaffordable.

[0] I want to be clear that I'm referring to housing as an investment to mean buying a house purely for profit purposes, ie, to flip or to rent out. Buying a house to live in, rather than renting the house you live in, can be considered an "investment", but I mean to explicitly exclude that usage of "investment" in this comment.
by program_whiz | 2026-01-07 20:05:52+00:00
It seems like in some areas (the good ones) its much higher (12%):
https://econofact.org/factbrief/do-private-equity-firms-own-...

It also seems like it might be important to determine what share of _new_ development is being created for investment. The share of existing homes being owned isn't as important.

There's also the 2nd order effect. The price of property might go down if there weren't investors with tons of money to spend on a property.
by uniqueuid | 2026-01-07 20:05:59+00:00
That's pretty easy.

If you have a randomized controlled trial, the sugar dose is varied and other confounding variables are controlled by randomization. So you measure the causal impact of sugar only. There are studies showing that.

With observational studies, if you have a dose-dependent effect, then that's good evidence (although not completely conclusive) of a causal relationship. This is what many studies do.

If you have a meta analysis covering many primary studies, and if those vary a lot of context (i.e. countries, year, composition of the population), and you still get a consistent effect, then that's another piece of support for a causal relationship.

The few studies that I've looked at seem to show a pretty robust picture of sugar being a cause, but there might be selection bias - i.e. we'd need an umbrella / meta meta study (which ideally accounts for publication bias) to get the best estimate possible.
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by 5eva | 2026-01-07 20:06:05+00:00
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by buran77 | 2026-01-07 20:06:17+00:00
> a reasonable justification

Sure Eli, and I'm sure you're not biased at all, but when you find so many "reasonable" reasons to kill thousands and thousands of civilians, women and children included, and you never ask yourself any questions, there's nothing more anybody else needs to know about you.

The comparison writes itself and when it doesn't, you make it obvious. You wouldn't be the first person who finds justification for something like this.
by yalogin | 2026-01-07 20:07:04+00:00
Right! Also I don’t think Siri is that important to the overall user experience on the ecosystem. Sure it’s one of the most visible use cases but how many people really care about that? I don’t want to talk out loud to do tasks usually, it’s helpful in some specific scenarios but not the primary use case. The text counterpart of understanding user context on the phone is more important even in the context of llms, and that what plays into the success of their stack going forward
by ksec | 2026-01-07 20:07:15+00:00
I wouldn't say directly, but it is certainly part of it.

The problem is context. I think Tab Groups partly helped. But the implementation of tab group is still not good enough as it is. A lot of tabs aren't bookmark but unfinished work or research. I currently have Groups for Housing Market because of Rent increase, Jobs Search, Product Research, Marketing Courses, Surgery Research for Lasik, Youtube and a few others personal stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if it add up to 500 tabs.

Again, I will take this opportunity to say again, Multi / Lots of Tabs on Safari sucks.
by stocksinsmocks | 2026-01-07 20:07:30+00:00
That’s the opposite of my experience. Weird. But I’m also not the kind of person who gets hung up on whether someone used a loop or recursion or if their methods are five times as long as what I would’ve done myself unless there is a performance impact that matters to me as a user. But I’m also the kind of person who doesn’t get paid by the hour to write programs. I use programs in the service of other paid work.
by tptacek | 2026-01-07 20:07:44+00:00
I don't care about insiders cashing on on adventurism. Or, rather, I care about the adventurism, but I do not care even a little bit about the impact of it on gambling platforms like Polymarket. I think I'm on reasonably firm footing when I say that (a) the inventors and popularizers of modern prediction markets and (b) US law doesn't care either.

The irony here is that the one bank-shot argument I'd see in the medium term for "insider trading" enforcement at places like Polymarket is Nevada Gaming Commission-style gambling regulation.
by breckinloggins | 2026-01-07 20:07:44+00:00
I am a former student and graduate of this department at Texas A&M. I just called The Association and informed them that I consider this completely unacceptable and will not consider donations to the university unless this policy is reversed.

I would encourage fellow like-minded Aggies to do the same.

Drs Austin and McDermott are surely spinning in their graves right now.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-07 20:07:47+00:00
Their bad reputation is fully deserved, it's just also out of date. Reputations are almost always about first impressions, and the first impression with E-cores was bad. They've done a lot to fix the situation though, and they do indeed run pretty well nowadays if you have a more modern Intel CPU.

That said, manually disabling AVX-512 on P-cores just so I can have E-cores is still a *bad* tradeoff as far as I'm concerned, but I get that my use-cases aren't everyone's use-cases.
by agentifysh | 2026-01-07 20:07:50+00:00
this whole "ai is theft" argument is just pure cope. tailwind was always just a thin abstraction over css standards and they only became the industry standard by playing the seo game and dumping docs on the open web for everyone to see. you dont get to claim theft when a model actually learns the patterns you basically forced onto the world for free to build your brand. tailwinds business model was essentially rent seeking on the fact that css is tedious to write manually and now that the marginal cost of production has dropped to near zero they are suprised they cant sell 300 dollar templates anymore.

the car comparison is honestly embarassing for this community to even bring up lol. its not theft to recognize a pattern and its definately not illegal for a company to do what every junior dev has been doing for years which is reading the docs and then not buying the paid stuff. adam built a business that relied on human inefficiency and now that inefficiency is gone. its not a tragedy its just a market correction. if your moat is so shallow that a llm can drain it in one pass then you didnt really have a product you just had a temporary advantage. honestly tailwind should of seen this coming a mile away but i guess its easier to blame "scrapers" than admit the ui kit gravy train is over. move on and build something that actually provides value.
by cyberax | 2026-01-07 20:08:39+00:00
> This sounds backwards?

Nope. The ONLY way to get cheaper housing is by reducing the city population.

> Supply and demand.

Sigh. No. You assume that the demand is fixed. It's not. By building new housing, you _increase_ the demand. And always faster than you can satisfy it.

I just love this example:

Forbes 2016 - "Tokyo's Affordable Housing Strategy: Build, Build, Build", "The Great Urban Myth: 'Cities Can't Build Their Way To Affordable Housing'"

Reuters 2023 - "Surging Tokyo property prices squeeze out young professionals",

Japandaily 2025: "Housing Crisis: Families Struggle to Buy Homes in Tokyo" ( https://japandaily.jp/housing-crisis-families-struggle-to-bu... )

> Rentals in a dense complex are cheaper than standalone rentals or duplexes, townhomes are cheaper than SFH, etc.

Try to find a city where dense housing made it cheaper.
by twosdai | 2026-01-07 20:09:18+00:00
Yc founder, there's not really any pressure like this that exists. Basically i think it's a proximity thing and consistent exposure to a specific section of the startup world that makes this happen.

Basically all those people would go all the same networking events sponsored by yc. There's not pressure so much as these people all have frequent and paid for, opportunities to "hang out" and talk about tech stuff together. Its possible you could define this as "pressure" but I think it's more of who you hangout with rather than some top down implicit force.
by silisili | 2026-01-07 20:09:18+00:00
In raw numbers of ownership, sure.

But make no mistake, during the housing boom post 2019, in a lot of 'hot' metro areas, "wall street" was buying way more homes than individuals. Especially in the south. In the area I lived in, Invitation Homes, some weird shell company of Blackstone, was buying up every piece of tract housing they could get their hands on. At one point, they were making agreements with builders building out new neighborhoods to not sell to individuals since they wanted them all.

So no, I care far less about what my neighbor is doing because he or she isn't attempting to price out an entire city.
by nemo | 2026-01-07 20:09:35+00:00
I did some tests with heavily math oriented programming using ChatGPT and Gemini to rubber-duck (not agentic), going over C performance tuning, checking C code for possible optimizations, going over math oriented code and number theory, and working on optimizing threading, memory throughput, etc. to make the thing go faster, then benchmarking runs of the updated code. Gemini was by far better than ChatGPT in this domain. I was able to test changes by benchmarking. For my use case it was night and day, Gemini's advice generally quite strong and was useful to significantly improve benchmarked performance, ChatGPT was far less useful for this use case. What will work for you will depend on your use case, how well your prompting is tuned to the system you're using, and who knows what other factors, but I have a lot of benchmarks that are clear evidence of the opposite of your experience.
by xp84 | 2026-01-07 20:09:45+00:00
Regarding hemisphere - Sorry, I just meant that countries that aren't the US have limited long-distance power projection abilities and limited sustained logistics capabilities. That's because the US has been policing every ocean for 50 years while the other navies have been mainly sailing around to keep an eye on their territorial waters.

Anyway, does Reykjavik have a big military logistics depot?
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-07 20:10:12+00:00
What was that animation? It looked like 3 stock images coming together briefly, then flying off again, then the page scrolling.

Regardless, there's nothing here (aside from the odd scrolling layout of the page itself) I can disagree with. I'm already following this "diet" in the most part anyway, and that's without consciously thinking that much about it.
by estearum | 2026-01-07 20:10:15+00:00
This comment is literally just numbers about how the US has ceded low value add jobs and dominated high value add jobs.

I am asking why this is intrinsically a problem.

Or if it's not intrinsically a problem, then what are the downstream consequences we should care about, and can we talk about them explicitly instead of just assuming the best way to mitigate them is to put our economy into reverse advancement.
by sublinear | 2026-01-07 20:10:26+00:00
> Then we see ARIA start to really come into its own... except that's a whole new shitshow!

I am not blind, but my experience trying to write accessible web pages is that the screen readers are inconsistent with how they announce the various tags and attributes. I'm curious what you think about the screen readers out there such as NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, TalkBack, etc. and how devs should be testing their web pages.

Many of the larger corporate clients tend to standardize on the exact behavior of JAWS and I am not sure that is helpful. It's like the Internet Explorer of screen readers.

If you want to know why a page ends up riddled with ARIA overriding everything, that's why. In even the best cases, the people paying for this dev work are looking for consistency and then not finishing the job. It's never made the highest priority work either since testing eats up a ton of time.

To reinforce my original point, I just don't think LLMs can write anything but the most naive code and everyone has opinions and biases completely incompatible with standardization. It's never "done" and fundamentally fickle and political just like the rest of the web.
by Izkata | 2026-01-07 20:10:42+00:00
Work laptop on Ubuntu 20.04 with pipewire, I've used several bluetooth headsets over the years from all different brands and haven't had any issues across Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams.

Coworkers with wired headphones (also on Ubuntu, but I don't know if they switched to pipewire) tend to have problems regularly.
by chasd00 | 2026-01-07 20:11:01+00:00
idk how this would work effectively. There's lots of affordable homes they're just located where no one wants to live. You'd have to focus on HCOL locations and make them not so high cost which seems something that should be done at the local level.

You can increase supply but investors would just snatch them up. Maybe the feds could put a cap on the value of a single-family home that an institution can own and then make ownership very tedious. For example, no institution can own a home valued at more than $500k and for each home owned a quarterly filing must be made in person at the county the home is located. I'm sure these organizations would rather own very high value homes than lots of low value ones out in BFE.
by sleepyguy | 2026-01-07 20:11:11+00:00
Russia is the only one obstructing the peace process, they could go home or agree to a cease fire and work things out politically. If your not a Russian troll, then you've obviously fallen under the spell of some perverted Russian propaganda.

The only way Ukraine loses is with the USA's help. Only America can win this war for Russia. I've spent 6 months there, no one will surrender to Russia.

Your Russian world is dying and there is nothing you can do about it. It is an Empire of Evil, Murder and great incompetence devouring itself. By the time this is over, there will be nothing of Russia left. Even if the war stops, they will never recover.
by smanuel | 2026-01-07 20:11:34+00:00
You can check out this VR app, it's pretty good: https://sidequestvr.com/app/2054/visitations

As for binaural beats and isochronic tones, it's all about using the right frequencies, how you transition between them, how you combine tones or beats with other music or sounds, the carrier frequency, how you synchronize lights with the tones or beats, and so on.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-07 20:11:40+00:00
you do a couple of things to distract them on the way, like lead them around to a harder to reach room, ask them unrelated questions e.g. "did you see that goofy guy at the counter this morning", and give the impression that you want to hear their side of the story.

most people will comply esp. if slightly distracted or thrown off a little; the serious hoodrats would be picking a fight or pushing back and the pros would already be walking out the back door ASAP
by brightball | 2026-01-07 20:12:34+00:00
I'm 45 years old and I treat every bit of news I read on the internet or otherwise with a large glass of skepticism, whether it came from an AI or anywhere else. My default assumption is that whoever is reporting is pushing an agenda; seldom misreporting facts but often leaving out context that affects framing.

I appreciate Community Notes and Grok for the closest thing to a real-time ability to call it out that exists.

My default AI query on any topic or story is, "Please validate the details of this story and compare to other sources to identify any critical information from other publications that was missing from this source. Highlight those differences."

It gives me a validation, a comparison and helps me to identify the bias/context framing that's going on pretty quickly. I haven't seen many AI sources that can fact check things in real time like Grok can, like Maduro news the other day.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-07 20:12:35+00:00
God forbid someone not sell out of their home. /s Home ownership isn't exactly a crappy life milestone to be stuck at. Yeah it would suck for a select few people who need to get out of one and into another RFN due to life reasons and surely some municipalities would leverage that to really screw people but I think the upside is orders of magnitude higher than the downside.

Come to think of it, I bet making homes less liquid would knock the divorce rate down more than anyone wants to believe it would, lol
by conrs | 2026-01-07 20:13:24+00:00
As an engineer, I want to believe this, but really - does it?

Most folks use frameworks because it's easier than learning how to build it all yourself - things are done for you instead. This niche is now getting eroded by AI and low-code substantially.

Couple that with my experience maintaining frontends that are far too complex for their use cases - e.g. do we really need SPA's, state sync, and reusable components for our admin tool that doesn't reuse components?

This leads me to think there's been bloat here for at least a decade. So, while vibe coding will also lead to bloat, it's easier to work with, and arguably higher value than paying for a specific framework.

It's a tragedy in life that things that are useful don't always get valued, instead being used as a stepping stone for progress, but I'm not sure that has a solution.
by throw1235435 | 2026-01-07 20:13:46+00:00
Not entirely disagreeing with your point but I think they've mostly been forced to pivot recently for their own sakes; they will never say it though. As much as they may seem eager the most public people tend to also be better at outside communication and knowing what they should say in public to enjoy more opportunities, remain employed or for the top engineers to still seem relevant in the face of the communities they are a part of. Its less about money and more about respect there I think.

The "sudden switch" since Opus 4.5 when many were saying just a few months ago "I enjoy actual coding" but now are praising LLM's isn't a one off occurrence. I do think underneath it is somewhat motivated by fear; not for the job however but for relevance. i.e. its in being relevant to discussions, tech talks, new opportunities, etc.