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I will be the first to acknowledge that humans are a bad judge of performance and that some of the allegations are likely just hallucinations... But... Are you really going to comp…

IMO, this isn't entirely a "new world" either, it is just a new domain where the conversation amplifies the opinions even more (weird how that is happening in a lot of places) What…

I genuinely think systems like Unison are "the future of computing"... But the question is when that future will be. Part of the beauty of these sorts of systems is just that the c…

not disagreeing with your point here, or in the follow-ups of the pain of https for "local network" apps... but I really wish that we could get to a place where we could get away f…

My point is not that value extraction wouldn't happen, my point is simply that in addition to the value extraction we also made other huge shifts in economic policy that taken toge…

I will repeat my comment from 70 days ago: > I was discussing with a friend that my biggest concern with AI right now is not that it isn't capable of doing things... but that we sw…

I think the answer to that right now is highly workload dependent. From what I have seen, it is improving rapidly, but still very early days for the software stack compared to Nvid…

Really impressive... but wow this is light on details. While I don't fully align with the sentiment of other commenters that this is meaningless unless you can go hands on... it is…

I had an ex90 on pre-order for a long time, placed it within the first ~30 days of it being open. It looked to be (and is!) an absolutely beautiful vehicle and also seemed to be ma…

I am experiencing a strong sense of "why didn't I think of that" while also really hoping it isn't another strong, family friendly concept that gets quickly enshittified for profit…

seconded, I have never wanted a HN "follow" feature before, but this project sounds great

I absolutely sympathize with this and was/still is my opinion... but the only "evolution" of that is the hope that, while I don't think you can prevent the scams and short-term pai…

Oh my, these comments will be fun... What I find most interesting here is the explicit mention of using Socratic method and how, paired with it not being a human, seems to be what …

I hope this is more common knowledge these days... but this is good framing and makes really clear the costs. What this article doesn't cover... and where a good chunk of my career…

I had the awesome, yet terrible experience to work on an obscure Nintendo feature. By networking, I am assuming you mean console stack... which I had experience with myself, and ye…

Yeah, engineering high scale distributed data systems on top the cloud providers a very weird thing at times. But the reality is that as large enterprise move to the cloud, but sti…

S3 scale is quite massive with each object spread across a large number of nodes via erasure encoding. So while you could get unlucky and routed to same bad node / bad rack, the re…

But... isn't that a core ethos of open-source? That you won't ever come even close to capturing the full value provided by a piece of software... but the nature of the problem is s…

That does not match my experience. Engineers learn a new tool, that tool is successful in solving a problem. Whether it is recency bias, incorrect pattern matching, or simply lazin…

Man... this stuff sucks. If I were panic, I would do the same... but I also wouldn't want to be the one at google to navigate this. With Google Drive now being at the center of so …

I want to make clear that I agree with the author that the current way in which AI is being used to make a 10x improvement in efficiency is NOT going to work, and it is for exactly…

Like others, I empathize with this, but it got me wondering more what that difference is, because I have "achieved" a lot more in helping a group than I have as an individual. Over…

Do I think that we are likely to suddenly see a massive massive leap to AGI/ super AGI? Not really... But does it still seem like enough of a long tail risk in my/my kids lifetime …

I mean... It seems really logical to me that one of the worst "staples of management" is simply that so many practices are applied without much thought in general. I don't disagree…