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hcks··on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
Highly doubt that
hcks··on The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
I find it funny that a blogpost claiming to be about the “scientific method” spends 4000 words to try to convince its readers of a wordplay, using analogies and metaphors.

(Yes “consciousness is an illusion” is a wordplay. If you claim it’s a scientific theory, then what does it predict?)

hcks··on Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts
Europeans cannot afford it
hcks··on I love programming but I hate the programming industry
The only example given being Alan Turing cracking Enigma is that right?

Also yes being a worker sucks.

hcks··on Why you should not apply to YC
Pretty sure 7 figures would be a massive failure in that case
hcks··on AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store
Can’t wait to have to download 20 different marketplaces with UX all uglier than the last
hcks··on Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model
> only a third of the economy

Yeah and I’m sure the rest is advanced industry and not at all goods and services consumed by the tourism-industry workers and their families

hcks··on Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed [video]
Im not curious to try Devin. LLM agents suck and have sucked since the first faked demo 2 years ago. I’ll leave it to the real labs (OA, Anthropic, DeepMind, FAIR) to make real advances.
hcks··on Is the frequency domain a real place?
To answer your question they aren’t
hcks··on Algebra problems selected from the Romanian Olympiad (Part 2)
There’s basically 0 application of Olympiad maths (what job do you think requires solving these problems?)
hcks··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
https://x.com/bl4sty/status/1773780531143925959?s=20

So nobody reads releases notes either.

But I’m sure this was a one off and were safe now

hcks··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
It was caught out of luck due to performance degradation. So nobody reads the code - not even once- prior to merging into upstream supply chain?
hcks··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
No one will do it seriously
hcks··on Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?
You don’t understand, we really need to be locked in a new walled garden
hcks··on Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension
No, not everything should be written in the style of a NYT best-seller non-fiction, actually
hcks··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Why would someone sell the share for less than this "inherent" value then? Or conversely why would some buy for more than that?
hcks··on Peter principle
1/ it’s not rational to promote someone competent at their tasks

2/ there are either ways to reward than promote to a higher level in the management pyramid

hcks··on Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
« It’s never possible to innovate » This is currently the top comment on news.ycombinator.com
hcks··on Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
I mean the purpose of the agency WAS to buy its owner Ferraris and not servers for IT
hcks··on Getting started as an alternative app marketplace in the European Union
I can’t wait to have to install 30 different app stores to keep installed the apps I currently have
hcks··on Getting started as an alternative app marketplace in the European Union
Honestly it would have been better if they never launched it
hcks··on French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
The legal precedent: « IF you’re sued and IF you’re found guilty, then you MAY have to pay LESS than the inflation adjusted cost of paying a commercial license, 20 years in the future »
hcks··on The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
The FAANG dream truly is dead
hcks··on You almost never see a clock at the mall
Has the author tried the trick called free will
hcks··on So long, and thanks for all the bytes
I though Google paid decent salaries, but it turns out even after 15 years there you’re still concerned about making ends meet it seems
hcks··on Sora: Creating video from text
Why would you give free money to YouTube if you control the content
hcks··on YC: Requests for Startups
“YC request for things they would like someone to spend their life on while they get rich making enterprise SaaS”
hcks··on Getting into robotics as a software engineer
“You should base your life decisions on the koolaid flavour you prefer”
hcks··on Top workers more likely to want to quit when companies have strict RTO mandates
“16% less likely to want”

So a tiny effect, not even measured on what they do, but on how they feel.

Again, being a “top—performer” gives you very little negotiating power in itself.

hcks··on Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
Except a single dvd back then was inflation adjusted more expensive than one month of these subscription? So how does your reasoning hold?
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