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Yeah but I'm not going to tell them throwing a disc is greatness, and I'm not going to tell them to make up the gap between what they think an activity is worth and what society thinks it's worth by becoming a whiner. That'd be abuse.

Support is a two way street, and I'd rather kids grow up to be strong and able to be those supporters of others than end up a depressed lonely loser, when they could've been happy instead, because they pissed their efforts on some trivia.

I found your capitalism quip particularly amusing. I know it's just a parroting of programming from your university days, but I'm sure there's someone in a labour camp in North Korea who'd crack at least a brief smile at the idea of a poor downtrodden Olympian proletarian spending all day practicing throwing a stick because it's their passion.
If you don't want engagement bait or politics on Twitter.. why are you on Twitter? RSS is better to keep up to date on news, and if none of your friends are on Mastodon, get new friends.
There's more.

Case 3: got his commission and left his company without telling me and before the deal was 100% completed.

Case 4: sent me a threatening SMS (watch out, I know where you live, etc) because I didn't want to take his calls to listen to new deals I wasn't interested in.
>Also, Apple’s processors were always the best, until they switched to Intel, then those were the best.

That can be true…
For some reason, this is a controversial idea but: it's hard to argue that multiple layers of management can become anything other than bureaucracy.

Corporations reward an individuals tenure and experience with increased decision making (often, this means manager title). That increase in decision making means that less senior IC's become less autonomous, even when they inevitably exceed their superior's experience on the topic.

The level of autonomy is at odds with the number of managers. Some people argue this is a good thing. I argue that those people are just managers justifying their jobs.
Your driver issues are the minority. Most people won't have them.
Ask HN: What is Elon Musk's world view?
I’ve been following Elon Musk for a while, initially because of his ties to figures like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan from the so-called “intellectual dark web.” Recently, with his acquisition of Twitter and increasing influence, his public statements have become more controversial and polarizing.

While some of what he says seems nonsensical at first, I think it reflects a worldview that’s very different from the mainstream—ideas like the liberal left holding too much power or universities pushing “woke culture.” This worldview clearly shapes his decisions and the agenda he’s pushing.

I’m curious if there are any interviews, podcasts, or other sources where Musk clearly lays out his beliefs himself. It would be helpful to better understand his recent statements and potential long-term plans. Any recommendations?
What about event listeners that are supposed to listen to elements inside the islands? Like clicks, key ups, etc. Who handles that?
can i email you at your substack? Otherwise, i can reply to one of your threads with my email and then delete it. Let me know so we can set this up to time well.
Y'all know I'm a fast, if error prone, writer. I still enjoy using AI writing assistants to help me with the occasional phrase that's awkward, grammar detail ("it's lower g in 'god' if I am talking about Thor or Huxian right?") and choice of words ("I need a word for agriculture that starts with C...")

LLMs make different mistakes than I do so I've thought about using one as a copy editor but I've had terrible experiences with copy editors: I've hired more than one when I was writing marketing copy who injected more errors than they fixed. (A friend of mine wrote an article for The New York Times that got terribly mangled and barely made sense after the editors made it read like an NYT article.)
Well I guess I'm one, if you expand the consideration between a single arbitrary paper. The operative word in my previous comment is “quality”. Since we operate in the real world with constraints on resources like time and labor, making the haystack needlessly big can become a problem with replication. I want to focus my time on the highest quality papers because they are the most likely to be replicated in a useful manner. There is no sorting mechanism in open publishing so I may waste unseemly amounts of time trying to read and replicate crap. Publishing is far from perfect, but it does help separate the wheat from the chaff. (This point has already been discussed in this thread so I won't belabor the conversation further).
What a depressing comment.

> I'd love to see that energy and drive [...]

I'm a former professional athlete in a marginalized sports. Sadly never made it to Olympia. I learned that energy and drive by doing my sport, and I wasn't "born" with it (well, maybe with the genes, but it's something one has to learn IMHO). I think I am now what I am thanks to doing sports for more than 5 year as my main activity (in terms of invested time) and maybe 10 years as secondary activity.

Money was always tight, and I was happy to leave my sport with a "black zero" on my bank account. I never did it for the money, but I'm happy to not ran into bankrupcty just for my dream. And that's what I hope is the minimum for every athlete.
I don't know I want to spam my personal details with impunity. It's not the freeby it might seem.
Because you get to do promiscuous arithmetic with strangers.
> who could save more money

Sounds good, but how did the "metrics" expose which individual decision-makers were responsible for any improvement or deterioration?
It occurs to me that this “exactly balanced proportion” argument doesn’t explain how animals turn vegetables into the meat you crave. The argument would dictate that cows should be fed meat, which regresses into absurdity.

Most people should probably cook their own food, avoid most ultra-processed foods (twinkies, not flour) and eat a healthy balance of food types.
Intel's Reign of Terror
Same and got stuck in the eternal loop of SE.
Show HN: AI or Real?
Can you recognize the AI-generated images from real images?
> too much work was put on Apple Vision and this was a tragically bad strategic decision from Executives at Apple.

I think it is more complicated than that. I think the Apple Vision is a kind of albatross. No one wanted this thing. I happen to think the executives didn't want it either. For all the years and effort put into it (and, well, there was project "Titan" before that) killing it might have hurt worse than their lackluster shipping of it.

Flush with cash (and I can't think of a phrase that really carries the weight of just how flush with cash they are — embarrassingly wealthy?) it was a rounding error for Apple to hire everyone they could in The Valley and keep them busy (and filing patent applications as they worked). It kept them from the competitors.

And I don't believe you could have instead put the engineering hires to "fixing Maps" or whatever pet peeve you and I have about the current Apple ecosystem. You're 1) likely not hiring the type of engineers for those tasks and 2) just throwing more people on the thing is not necessarily going to be the right answer (The Mythical Man-Month, too many cooks (ha ha) and all that).

On the whole I think Tim has steered the Apple ship to align with the times we have been living in.
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Yes, I know it's a bit late for a 2024 wrap-up, I still wanted to put it out there as something fun for the community.

Future plans: Analyze complete user history to spot behavior/topic changes over the years.

Would love your feedback!
There’s a breadth of possibilities between coincidence and the phone actively listening to everything via a microphone.
I can guarantee that you have an instant >$10K line of credit from every major bank in the country. Where are all your successful businesses then?
IIRC, suck.com did this really well.
Perhaps it was tokenising commands to save memory. Did your calculator have keystroke programming/some form of programming?
I'd argue neither political party is helping people with disabilities, and both are pretty strongly neglecting them. I don't think any of the current slate of politicians care at all. Bush I was a generation ago.
Are you sure? I'm pretty certain wages were being paid long before electricity was invented and will be paid long after WW3 when there are no power stations left.
For some reason, on mobile, the demo and pricing links in the navbar get me a 404. Works fine on desktop.
The vendors hate that guy and won't sell off the stuff at the stalls out of general principal.
"Apple Intelligence failed"

"Apple Intelligence" is less than a year old. Give it some time, for chripe's sakes.
As the videos show, there are still a few usability issues. Full-screen switching somewhere else just to enter a name for example doesn't get you very far.

But there is not much missing and I like the POC!
Having made my own forays into making a structural editor, I'd like to sing the praises of plain text: storing something that has been created by pressing buttons at a keyboard as something very close to the sequence of buttons that have been pressed is a great idea.

The magical ability of plain text is to go back in time and ask "what if I pressed a different button a minute ago/yesterday/last year?". This lets you see and fix mistaken keypresses, and even shapes the kind of mistakes you can make in a moment of confusion into ones that are quickly fixable.

The direct representation of buttons pressed also really helps with teaching/learning: With plain text, for mechanical questions on the level of "What buttons do I press to make a program that looks like that?", the answer is obvious for anyone who knows how to type. Try the editor discussed in the article to appreciate how different answering that question can be in a structural editor. Seeing and explaining how someone got where they did is also straightforward ("you missed a semicolon", "you misspelt a variable name"). Ideally, those are problems that don't happen in a structural editor, but people who press a slightly wrong sequence of buttons will probably still exist.

These arguments get much weaker when you aren't using a physical keyboard; I think this is the reason the article starts by talking about writing programs on a phone and a TV. In those environments structural editing has much more to offer.
Location: East Coast US (relocating to Eastern Europe in H1 2025)

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Technologies: Go, Python, Node, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Svelte, Tailwind, AWS (certified if that helps), Postgres, MongoDB, LLMs

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I'm a product-minded full-stack engineer with ~2 YoE, currently working on payments infrastructure at an F100. I've worked at startups and enjoy being involved in the business beyond coding. I've spent lots of time working with LLMs over the last couple years, and I'm lately interested in how we can improve existing infrastructure for LLM-integrated apps (e.g. sandboxing code that LLMs generate).

Open to full-time roles and contract work, and since I'm planning to relocate to Eastern Europe I have flexiblity on pay. Mainly just looking to work on interesting and challenging problems.
I don't know of anything quite like what you're describing, but there are "half" or "twin" ropes, which are meant to be used as a pair. They're each thinner and lighter than ropes rated as "single" ropes, but together are considered as strong.
It would be awesome if you could play as The Joker and "improve" all the paintings.
> I use cash because it contributes to the local neighborhood economy more than not using cash.

The merchant gets all except for a 2% fee when you don’t use cash. Cash handling also has cost - theft both from employees and outside actors - too.

> I use cash because I do not want to risk a banking app being broken by a non-banking app.

When has Apple Pay or Google pay ever been “broken”? Do you not use a bank at all or not use any banking apps or websites?

> I use cash because not using cash charges extra (often-hidden) fees while using cash often comes with extra discounts.

There are very few places in the US that up charge for credit card transactions. Mostly gas stations and then mostly only for gas.

> I use cash because the modern economy is a give-business-money-for-nothing-because-fuck-you economy and I don't want to contribute to that.

You don’t think the merchant network does anything? Even if you are opposed to credit card transaction fees are you also opposed to debit transaction fees which are much lower and where there is a legsl cap?
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> Glad to see more exploration in this space.

I mean.... ParEdit [1] and ParInfer [2] have been around for a long time now. Structural editing is basically ancient. Lispers have been doing this for a long while, `slurp`ing and `barf`ing their parens.

[1]: https://paredit.org/

[2]: https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Due diligence is so fucking dumb though. Here's my understanding of how getting a GC works:

1) Company applies on behalf of employee.

2) Company advertises for employees job.

3) Company interviews local suitors

3a) If local suitor aces it do they get the would be immigrants job? No and also no GC for immigrant.

3b) No local suitor found then immigrant gets GC.

Finding a local suitor is bad for everyone involved!

H1B should die. Exceptional immigrants can come here and be an American after some determinant amount of time (not in a hundred plus year backlog or some nonsense). My problem is that I can't work with an underclass, their is no joining the cultures because we are pitted against each other.
Scary. Reads rather like you're well on your way to replace basic life skills with reliance on LLMs.
OKRs, KPIs, etc are often challenging for orgs, teams, and individuals that are poorly trained. It's the same problem with Scrum: if the people are poorly trained, they will find it challenging, even counter-productive, to use them.

Every company I have worked for has not trained their workers for OKRs, KPIs, Scrum, etc. (Well that's not true: Cisco paid for us to have two weeks of Scrum training because our stand-ups were 1.5 hrs long. That's the only reason I know how it's supposed to work) They hire you expecting you know all of that (though never verifying), and then they dump you in the deep end and don't give you the training you need to use it correctly. The end result is nobody uses it right, and the company suffers. And it's complex enough that a pithy clickbait blog post on HN isn't going to teach you how to do it right.

Managers, execs: train your staff. You're only hurting yourself and the company by not doing so.
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This is pure bs considering the massive amount of large commercial projects written in C# that depends on a lot of community-made packages.
Every year when I participate in advent of code, I have this thought: "wouldn't it be great to solve these problems directly from my phone?" (The puzzles unlock quite early morning in my timezone and opening my laptop at that time somehow annoys me.)

I have wondered many times if some structural editor with a bunch of high-level library methods (Dijkstra's, for instance) would actually give a good/fast experience for most days. I haven't had the time or interest yet to try and build something yet. But perhaps I should.
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In this post I walk you through how to host your own, private and secure LLM from anywhere. Here I use Synology and Raspberry Pi, but the principles are largely universal.
After the first person gets hurt, and calls an injury lawyer with a story of "they told me to take the stairs" you may reconsider whether this is a bad argument.
I resigned myself to the fact that IoT crappy devices will always exist and I isolated these to their own VLAN with IPv4-only (maybe I'll go dual-stack at some point).

Yes, VLANs add complexity -- even the obligatory IoT VLAN -- but I generally want to keep these IoT devices isolated anyway.
If that is simple, start a company to build it and become a billionaire.

I don’t think any company has a smart assistant that’s reliable enough to act on your behalf except for some very constrained tasks (examples: dish washers, auto-parking cars)
My blog hit #1 on HN. Here's what 10k+ views reveal about how HN thinks about AI
Would love to enable NAT64 on my OpenWRT router, sadly setting up Jool on OpenWRT feels to hacky to me. Based on option 2 described here: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/nat64
Forced AI garbage seems to be Notes team's SOP at this point. They destroyed the handwriting experience on iPads, in iOS 18, with an incompetent spellchecker that can't be turned off. At least this math thing is somewhat unobtrusive, the spellchecker straight-up destroys notes. No acknowledgement of radars and no fix in sight, as expected of Apple I suppose.
I'll let you know once I degrade to making dick sites and calling them "successful businesses":)

But if we stop with trolling yeah I have some ideas that could benefit from instant $10k and I don't have a rich dad or credit and I gotta live with it as one does!
Big picture mode is gone. It might be in there somewhere, but the 10' UI has been replaced by the Steam Deck UI. Not a bad replacement, honestly.

The Steam Deck UI has also solved a problem that Microsoft appears entirely unable to address: mixed input modes. The entire UI can be accessed through the touch screen or the physical controls. Microsoft has been failing horribly at this since Win8, and apparently operate under the impression that every user has a 40" touch screen on their desktop computer and doesn't know what a mouse is.

Good UI is achievable if your goal is to make useful software. That simply isn't what Microsoft's goal is anymore. They're just broadcom now: completely abandoned the product to focus on squeezing the users for everything they're worth.
I've reached the other opinion. I learned flexbox better than most, but it never felt "intuitive" and it was hard to reason about complex flexbox layouts, especially responsive ones with multiple variations. Flexbox in general seems so hard to reason about that there are a million "helper" libraries for it, each with their own mini-DSLs on top of the flexbox DSL. Every junior developer's usage of flexbox starts to look like Tailwind, covered in these DSLs for DSLs, increasingly spread out across the elements of the DOM.

Whereas the "ASCII diagrams" of grid-template-areas, especially, I think is one of the most intuitive things in recent CSS. The majority of Grid CSS styles are generally centralized to your top-most containers outside `grid-area: some-area-name;` container classes (which may also have an align or justify) and the rare `display: contents;` (if you count that as Grid CSS) or `display: subgrid;`. Responsive layouts in CSS Grid is just changing the templates in your central containers based on your breakpoints.

I've gotten about to the point that even for 1D layouts I'm about to "forbid" junior developers from using flexbox to avoid its seemingly inevitable decline (in so many large apps I've seen) to inline-style soup via (usually ad hoc) Tailwind-like DSLs, because CSS Grid is easy enough and clean enough to use everywhere.
Greatly prefer users installing these functions and apps themselves. Instead Apple me has double checking settings on every update so I can toggle off stuff that should have been opt-in. At least I can continue to refuse to opt into the MacOS AI implementation for now.

Now they've gone and doubled[0] the recommended space AI needs on base model phones shipping with under spec'd storage in the first place. If it goes up any more you'll be looking at giving up nearly 10% of a base model 128gb phone's storage to AI.

[0]https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/03/apple-intelligence-now-requir...
expandmacmini.com - it's just NAND chip in ours, no "pellets" or "particles" from whatever translation service :p
I'm experiencing large company culture for the first time after being in small startups. What I object to the most, is the competition between engineers created from the goal setting and performance reviews. At startups, I had a domain that I could own. Now, at largco, everyone tries to take over my area in an effort to build their resumes. I used to view fellow engineers as teammates, now I see them as my competition.
It's telling that I have no idea what your politics are from this statement. It could equally be a criticism of the left or the right in America.
I've looked extensively, I don't think it exists. I can't remember exactly how I misspelled it, though, so there's this little glimmer of hope in my mind still.
> LLMs are infinitely patient, don't think I am dumb for asking certain things

We don't know that. They could be laughing their ass off at you without telling you.
It'd be nice if x would let you do what bluesky does, let you write your own algorithms and create your own feeds.
I think that the post that you're responding to is a massive troll, and you generally make good points in refuting them, but I have one nitpick:

>> India exports it's poverty to the world

> This is just misguided and racist.

This is misguided, but not racist. It's a common fallacy to assume that "Country x does y" means that you're making a statement about the dominant ethnic group in country x. It's just not true - a country is not the same as any of the races in it.

("No birthright citizenship for Indian H1B's" on the other hand - yeah I agree, that's just racist)

Separately, reading your points in the rest of your comment, it seems like your point is "it's ok if people from another country come in and depress the standard of living if it makes the US better" (e.g. "Second, even if it were exporting its poverty, so what - it has benefit to us by making American companies stronger.") I don't think that the majority of Americans would be happy with that trade, nor is it appropriate for a government ostensibly run in the interests of the people to make that trade.

(if the government was run in the interests of the companies, then that'd be a different story, and it'd be entirely within their charter to do so)

I can pretty confidently project that the majority of Americans would rather America be slightly weaker in the global economy in exchange for a significant improvement in quality of life than the other way around.
Power consumption is the defining characteristic of AI. The power consumption by the US had recently plateaued at 4,000 billion kilowatt hours 2000 through 2023. That will likely accelerate by 20% or more with 2024/2025 data. It's probably one of the few guardrails. Electricity is about five times more expensive in the UK than the US. So the US is the natural home for the models and other regions are not.
How is timescapes measurably worse? It's not a new theory, so perhaps it's been tested, and if it's failed why is it back in the news? (Sometimes failures get back in the news. It's a fair question.)
Burned DVDs rot after a while (and quite inconsistently between brands), but pressed CDs and DVDs – such as retail movie DVDs – barely rot at all.
You can look at the structure in TFA to see this. The only discussion of the volume mounting is in the pod template, not the Stateful Set itself.