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evantbyrne

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evantbyrne··on A new artificial intelligence tool for cancer
I think people may not be aware of how much medical research is happening right now based around ML. It is a key component of our liquid cancer biopsy. If anything, there might be a bit too much hype-driven development at the moment. I would be cautious of any ML-based diagnostic that isn't leveraging the technology to better understand the biological aspects of cancer itself.
evantbyrne··on Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format
Sure that's fine for things that truly don't matter, but if you're using a password manager then you might as well generate more characters. Bear in mind there is no guarantee that services storing your passwords are using something like bcrypt with slow settings. I've definitely seen things like PBKDF2 set to comically low iterations or even raw sha/md5.
evantbyrne··on Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
I've worked for quite a few recognizable organizations and let me say this: Basing hiring decisions on past employers is just plain dumb unless you are looking for someone with extremely niche skills. Earlier in my career, some local jerk told me I hadn't worked with "prestigious" enough institutions to join his startup, despite having the exact skills he needed in a candidate. His startup failed while I, coincidentally, went to work for those "prestigious" organizations he was chasing. It's all very silly.
evantbyrne··on My WordPress Slack Ban
The checkbox is so outrageous I thought it was just a meme the first time I saw a screenshot of it. This will result in WordPress being forked.
evantbyrne··on Do U.S. ports need more automation?
Oh I thought you were talking about US when you went on to say "I'd like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I've thought along those lines, I've been mistaken. It's just happens at a different scale."

It is pretty unusual here for wageys to be targets of hits.

evantbyrne··on Do U.S. ports need more automation?
Salacious claims like this should always be backed up with verifiable info. In the absence of such, it is reasonable to assume inaccuracies from chains of communication or even deception–especially when coming from an anonymous source. Did you even know the guy?
evantbyrne··on Building a single-page app with Htmx
Having an opinion on best framework and libraries does not make what I'm saying straw man. React is by far the most popular framework for building SPAs and from what I've seen everyone uses a similar-enough state pattern to what has been described. I would love to hear your recommendations though.
evantbyrne··on Building a single-page app with Htmx
My idea of a complicated UI challenge is not updating DOM in two trees. I have found React to be inadequate for the hardest UI challenges that I've been presented with. Things like DOM manipulation for interactive animations should not be handled by React state updates.
evantbyrne··on Building a single-page app with Htmx
Everything from MPAs, to SPAs, to animation heavy websites that could only dream on being tailwind. Progressive enhancement doesn't mean giving up on frontend validation, dynamic functionality, and juice. I'm curious what problems you haven't been able to solve without converting whole applications to JSX.
evantbyrne··on Building a single-page app with Htmx
In my decades of experience building web applications, I have found it exceedingly rare for components to benefit from SPA-style state management. These frameworks build layers of abstractions to replace functionality that exists in the browser. For example, web forms should never require the level of complexity that frameworks like React steer developers towards: downloading JS components, listening to events to build a local state, crafting an AJAX request, rendering the return JSON as HTML. It almost seems as though there is an entire generation of frontend developers who never learned that there are way simpler alternatives that perform just as well in the real world. htmx might not end up being a SPA-killer, but progressive enhancement has always been a worthy contender.
evantbyrne··on Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay
The design decisions make a difference when it comes to fps in real world tests, but you're right they don't theoretically have to be separate categories.
evantbyrne··on Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay
It's not really the cost that's noteworthy so much as a general lack of gaming-optimized CPUs with that many physical cores, and also that it just doesn't make sense in terms of playable resolution. With that core count you're looking at future hardware (for best general gaming performance) or workstation processors (for lower general gaming performance, but maybe best for sims). It's just kind of an odd recommendation, not saying that it is right or wrong.
evantbyrne··on Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay
Hopefully that is what they mean. I guess we'll find out what the actual performance needs are when it makes it to reviewers.
evantbyrne··on Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay
Steam hardware survey indicates that <10% of the market has 16 or more cores. Consumer gaming-optimized CPUs also don't typically have that high of a physical core count. Not saying it is unfair for ultra settings, just not typical even for higher-end game rigs.
evantbyrne··on Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay
Not being playable at 4k/60fps on a 7800x3d with the best consumer graphics card on the market is a pretty interesting choice. Hopefully it means they've improved the AI.
evantbyrne··on Bots, so many bots
I'm curious what kind of engagement people who aren't prolific posters are seeing on Twitter these days. Before I left I noticed that engagement went off a cliff to near zero immediately following the aggressive algorithm changes with blue check spam being promoted, but remained normal on my other social channels. It didn't seem like there were any normal people talking with each other on Twitter.
evantbyrne··on WordPress.org bans WP Engine
Part of it is that there are more choices these days in terms of highly customizable CMSs. I stopped building new WordPress sites when I discovered Wagtail. There's also Payload which I've heard good things about. The other part is that agencies are being squeezed out of the side of the custom website market where WordPress offers appropriate trade-offs. Most agencies that build on WordPress anymore are theme chop shops.
evantbyrne··on WordPress.org bans WP Engine
I don't think it is at all reasonable to claim that the name of a GPL 2.0 project is off-limits. This license goes back to 2003 and the name is the first word in the license. It is displayed all over the software. The community is full of commercial and open-source tools that include variations of the name. Automattic is betraying the spirit of the license at best, and I would _hope_ flat-out wrong legally to weaponize the name.
evantbyrne··on Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?
I thought about expanding on the thought, but honestly the original post seems to be in bad faith. It should be immediately obvious to anyone researching social issues that there are tons of people working on them. Also the problems listed are important and require capital, but not even close to what I would consider the hardest problems humans are up against.
evantbyrne··on Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?
People do work on hard problems.
evantbyrne··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Desire to digitally block out the scenery feels like a good litmus test for whether one is living in a dystopian hellscape.
evantbyrne··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
Yeah buyer's agent comp will be the norm for the interim on listings. However, people are already listing without buyer's comp or like in my instance lower than usual comp, and as time goes on I would expect to see more buyers going the attorney route and factoring that they are saving sellers a few percent into the offer.

At the end of the day, it's not your agent's job to decide which agents he will work with, it is to sell your home and leave as much money in your pocket without exposing you to unnecessary risk. You'll still have the title insurance, the inspections, and the buy/sell agreement, so what is his problem with someone coming to the table without an agent if their paperwork is in order? To me, him insisting to only "work within his network" sounds like a huge red flag.

evantbyrne··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
The mandatory "Buyer Broker Commission Rule" was in the NAR Handbook, which was binding for MLSs. Moehrl vs NAR went after twenty offending MLSs and the four largest national real estate broker franchisors in America. They got caught red handed price fixing they had no choice but to settle.

Realtor services are valuable, but they aren't worth 6% of a person's largest investment. On the median home that's $24k, which is considerably more than other professional services related to buying a home.

evantbyrne··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
Prior to the changes which only went into place in August, agents were colluding to keep fees artificially high. Buyers' agents would actually hide listings that promised less than what they wanted and all of that information was hidden from buyers until the buy/sell agreement. It is way too early to say exactly what the impact will be, but as an anecdote my agent accepted 2% on the home I just closed on. My prediction is fees will decrease significantly, because it just doesn't make financial sense to pay agents as much as people have been. Also, agents wouldn't have been colluding to the extent they had been if they believed a free market was good for their bottom lines.
evantbyrne··on Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
Swarm ships with Docker only requiring initialization and disabling access to the management ports. It is the appropriate alternative to more complex orchestration tools as it gives you things like zero downtime deployments, rollbacks, volume management, secrets, networking, logging, and can scale services across multiple machines if needed later. Check out what I did with Rove for setup as that is basically a wrapper around Swarm.
evantbyrne··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Not sure where you're getting that idea. Maybe there is some niche case law out there that I'm unaware of, but I can't even think of an example of state law voiding federal law.
evantbyrne··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Who do you know that's making $9/hour avg today? That's what I was earning at a student job back in 2010.
evantbyrne··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
The prices on some of the hand pumps are wild to me. I feel like if I'm going to go the hand pump route, then I shouldn't be paying the same price as a Gaggia Classic Pro.
evantbyrne··on New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike
Maybe they want to stay in news media. When I worked at The Atlantic, a lot of my coworkers were highly motivated by the subject matter of their work and perceived quality of their newsroom.
evantbyrne··on Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python
Looks like an interesting abstraction. I can see the usefulness because I had to create a poor man's version of this when I built a CD. Sorry, because I don't have time to watch the 50 minute video, but how are you guaranteeing durability? Are you basically opening Postgres transactions for each step, or is there something else going on to persist state?
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