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It's not as much "lol" as what's implied, you have to read between the lines a bit. Their example is Qatar, a tiny elite supported by slaves. And in the brave new world we'll have a tiny elite supported by AI slaves. Left unsaid is what will happen to those for whom there is no place within the tiny elite.

There are two possibilities: mass extinction, or the new elite isn't tiny. Everyone hopes for the latter and fears the former.

Apple UX: "intuitive" features you have to discover via some random video reel. Of course you have to drag your messages sideways to see when they were sent, that's Good UX!

Sprinkle with crashes and bugs that are never fixed and charge a premium.

TLAs are not basic knowledge, or expert knowledge. They are expertise theater.

They dont seem to actually last 10 years though. Sure, in an old Prius you only care about the battery not being completely shorted out, and the price of battery degradation is slightly worse fuel economy.

However, every time I look at renting a Tesla on Turo, each and every example has reviews with stories about not making 100 miles to the next stop on their trip. These are cars that are only 3-4 years old, not 10.

So in other words, they can make their LLM disagree with the preferred narrative of the current US administration? Inconceivable!

Note that the value of $current_administration changes over time. For some reason though it is currently fashionable in tech circles to disagree with it about ICE and H1B visas. Maybe it's the CCP's doing?

The whole parasocial aspect of it is what feels fake, distasteful, and icky.

The very idea of gaining power in the modern world is through parasocial relationships. Think Taylor Swift: her fans follow every single one of her updates even though they are highly scripted to engage exactly their "user persona", and present a Taylor who has nothing to do with the real one, another persona. Whoever can be at the top of this pyramid (i.e. make enough people believe that an Instagram-mediated relationship with a fake media persona is real) - wins the game.

I don't claim to have an answer, however, consider this. A few years ago it was considered impossible to win the battle against Big Food. They would continue to shove increasingly fake food simulacra down our throats and we'd be doomed. There was a backlash. With parasocial relationships, I feel that AI has tipped the scales into "enough is enough" category and people will demand real connection over personas.

And maybe we are just talking past each other. Maybe.

Yes, by all means, build and promote your product.

Planning out interactions according to 3 fake personas is still fake though. Not that I have any better ideas, we all have to engage with this nonsense and waste our lives producing it. It would be nice to somehow not have to.

I don't hear any apologies out of Israel.

Also, you may want to look up the definition of genocide. The parts of Ukraine that Russia took are almost 90% Russian ethnically.

Somehow you don't hear any calls for Ukraine to return the parts of Poland that were attached to it by Comrade Stalin either. They've been a part of Ukraine for barely longer than the parts of Russia where the fighting is happening.

So yeah, whataboutism.

Not getting thousand line AI slop PRs from resume builders who are looking for a "LLVM contributor" bullet point before moving on is a net positive. Lack of such contributors is a feature, not a bug.

And you can't go and turn this around into "but the gate keeping!" You just said that expecting someone to learn and be an asset to a project is entitlement, so by definition someone with this attitude won't stick around.

Lastly, the reason that the resume builder wants the "LLVM contributor" bullet point in the first place is precisely because that normally takes effort. If it becomes known in the industry that getting it simply requires throwing some AI PR over the wall - the value of this signal will quickly diminish.

Yup. Certain people get their panties in a tizzy every time an R president gets elected. Dubya was the antichrist, remember? It's just the same old tune all over again.

But these US wages aren't actually all that great anymore. The vast majority of people will have nothing to show for their decade of working in tech other than a bad back, carpal tunnel, and a neurosis.

The cost of living in the Bay Area creeps ever upward and absorbs just enough salary to keep the worker bees coming back to the office the next day. It's really not that different of a life than elsewhere in materialistic terms. Except there is also nothing to do other than work or go hiking. More and more people are cluing in.

And also sold out an American whistleblower to the FBI... A WikiLeaks it is not.

It seems this cat is self-belling.

A used granola bar cannot be resold. I hope. A used house, on the other hand, is perfectly fine.

So, apologies, but that argument is a previously used granola bar :)

It doesn't matter to these people. They are so drunk on their feelings of superiority that they'll dismiss anyone with first-hand experience as an "apologist", a "foreigner" or whatever. They need to perform these mental gymnastics because they've been told all their life that "liberal democracy" is perfect, and anyone who challenges this notion is somehow deficient. To even consider a different point of view would bring their entire worldview crashing down, and so they will twist and turn your every word against you.

Does the fact that Spotify's CEO finances AI weapons change the calculus?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-...

I think you hit downvote before really considering my point. There is simply no way that a change of 0.5% is significant - no matter your politics. Fluctuations of this magnitude happen with or without Trump every few years.

The point about housing is quite clearly false. There are around 147 million residential housing units in the US. And there are around 1.4 million built each year (this number fluctuates a lot: it was a third of this during the mortgage crisis, for example). But even if new residential construction is cut in half - that's a change of 0.5%.

It's all right to have an opinion, but it's important to realize when it's based on data and when on emotion.

Yes, do this. No unit tests, integration only. Your competitors will thank you for this blunder.

Why is it a blunder? Well, you just slowed down your edit-compile-run cycle by about 10x, and debugging when things go wrong (and it's when, not if) by 100-1000 times depending on the complexity of your environment.

Perhaps the answer is "AI will fix it", but we aren't there yet.

OP: look into VLESS (and similar). And read up on ntc.party (through Google translate). There are certain VPN providers that offer the protocol.

When politicians of certain stripes wanted to spend money on renaming SF schools to atone for "past trauma" and canceling math because it's "not equitable" - that somehow wasn't a travesty. Spending some money on design is apparently the most evil thing imaginable though.

Thankfully the tiger moms of SF stood up for their kids and got the grifters kicked out. Let's stand up to lowbrow idiotic articles like this one too.

Teslas also tend to attract people who hate driving and are bad at it. Yes, this is anecdotal, but - several friends and acquaintances said something along the lines of "my Tesla is the best, self-driving helps so much, I hate driving and I can't wait for them to fully automate it".

I wonder if segregating bad drivers into a separate population affects those fatality statistics.

With HTTP/2 multiplexing all of those requests can be made in a batch without round trips. And complexity of caching? An Etag done right is content-based. There's no logic to worry about.

It's really unfortunate that this style of architecture lost the battle. It's elegant. Data cleanly separated from presentation, small digestible entities, and it all kind of makes sense. But what killed it was the verbosity of XML, as well as its extreme pedantry that results in lack of robustness where a single error would kill the entire transform. Also transformation-based systems notoriously lack proper tools for debugging early on. Lastly, typically buggy implementations of pipelining in HTTP/1.1 made it so that you actually had to make those round trips. But conceptually we had all the pieces to make it work well back in the early 2000s.

There are cache times other than 0 and infinity. Ideally the XSLT would change rarely, as would things like nav menus. So "relatively short" could mean several minutes to an hour. And with ETags the resource could be revalidated before expiry and never have to be re-downloaded.

It did make all those requests, but only because the author set up caching incorrectly. If the cache headers were to be corrected, site.xsl, pages.xml, and posts.xml would only need to be downloaded once.

Walmart? You mean Temu and Etsy. Walmart doesn't ship their inventory piecemeal through the post.

The paranoid thinking can go on for infinitely many levels. Consider the possibility that all the fearmongering about Russian bots is just that - fearmongering, and it's created by the actual adversary. But what if this is something a Russian bot would say? Oh, but that's exactly how the mysterious adversary would frame things. Or is it Russian bots?

I guess the kind of hubris that the author calls out applies to writing just as well as code.

However, you may be right that this post is not likely to have a lot of engagement, and the problem is lack of shared context. The average HN visitor dreams of working for a FAANG, even if it's Amazon. They are unlikely to relate. For someone who's experienced the cesspool firsthand though, this post felt visceral and very lucid.

One can't dilute all writing for the average bear in the name of engagement - that would mean loss of substance.

My version of "why Amazon is like this" is simpler. Think of their Supreme Leader. Good guy or a-hole? That one is easy to answer.

Now, what kind of right-hand man he's going to click with? What will their lieutenants be like? And what kind of people they will promote? And what kind of company will their company be?

Amazon is the kind of fish that rots starting from the head.

Or that this particular noble was a "health nut" and stuck to a commoner diet. Or was simply allergic to corn.

Gender equality does not imply nor require gender indistinguishability

Careful, in a few years talking like this will get you canceled.

being a gender-neutral cylindrical appendage

Now that's better! This is what we must all strive to be.