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lucianbr··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
As long as we don't underestimate the power of motivated reasoning for other certain people as well, who like AI coding for various ideological or financial reasons.
lucianbr··on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
I think microservices are supposed to be easier to deploy independently, that's the whole point. And if they are not, it means you're just doing it wrong.

But in truth, all the projects with microservices I have seen in real life had deployment coordination problems, and looked to me like distributed monoliths. So maybe it's a 'no true scotsman' thing. Maybe they are always, or at least most of the time, harder.

Makes it harder to justify using them.

lucianbr··on The Amazon tax
Maybe say what you think they were saying? What is it with these maximally ambiguous comments?

To me "Are you aware of the world you live in?" suggests "If you don't even know this, you don't know anything. This is the first thing anyone should know". I'm willing to learng if they meant something else, but I guess that's asking a lot.

lucianbr··on The Amazon tax
> Are you aware of the world you live in?

Certainly this world comprises many other things than the Holocaust and IBM's support of it. Perhaps your awareness is lacking if you think that is the main thing to be aware of in this world.

lucianbr··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
May be so, still your quote doesn't make any sense as a reply to my comment.

"This article is about nothing". "Well of course it is, they say right on the page they talked to some people".

lucianbr··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
The issue is "the matter" completely lacks any substance.

"An insider told me NVidia spent 10 billions on hamburgers yesterday."

"An insider told me NVidia is thinking about maybe spending up to 10 billions on hamburgers or some foodstuffs by 2050".

Can you spot any differences?

lucianbr··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
My thought exactly. "May guarantee" is meaningless nonsense.

> Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion

There is no actual information in this article. "Plan", "proposed", "expected", "initially", "less than". It's just a report on the thoughts of some people.

lucianbr··on On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
There is hardware attestation that prevents a perfect sandbox from being possible.

Unless you know how to build a sandbox that can simulate a TPM with a key inside that only Google knows. Or something like that. I'm not an expert but there's plenty of information on the internet about this. It's definitely more than "the sandbox is buggy".

lucianbr··on PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's
For me it's the rythm. It's a list of chapters, each with a list of subchapters, plenty of bulleted lists, and paragraphs of close to equal size with sentences of close to equal size. Everything is trying to be an element with an impact. Each sentence, each paragraph, each entry in a list, each list, each subchapter... feels like I'm being hit with an impact drill. This! Then this! Now this! Conclusion! But there's more!

It's not a human way to think, talk or write.

lucianbr··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Gee I wonder if anyone on HN might have some ulterior reason to write such a statement, without it being true.
lucianbr··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
> The "interesting new phenomenon", obviously, is the potential of the generalization of what expressed in the title.

Why is this thing so difficult to name and you need to describe it in such a roundabout way? "Drones might be shot down a lot"? It's neither new nor an intellectual curiosity. "Drones are used for war" also not. It's been happening for years now. What is so interesting? Can you name it without references to generalizations of expressions of other references?

lucianbr··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Seems ths qualifies in spades.

lucianbr··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
What's the difference between using GPT to write the prompt to GPT, and "thinking"? The LLM uses the first tokens to predict more tokens, and then uses those tokens to predict even more tokens.
lucianbr··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
My entire point was that some people are able to change their position.
lucianbr··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
> Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence

I'm sure some atheists could be convinced. The rule "all atheists will reject evidence of God" seems false. The rule "all atheists will accept evidence of God" also seems false. Life is more complicated than that. It depends on the atheist and on the evidence.

lucianbr··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
I do review, if only whatever I do was the norm for everyone :)

Do you see lots of posts about new compilers and languages and language features on HN in the last year? Maybe I just missed them. I'd love to read more posts like that and fewer about agent frameworks.

lucianbr··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
> better compilers, more ergonomic languages

If anything it seems wide deployment of LLMs would go against this. When nobody writes code by hand anymore, who will care about the ergonomics of programming languages? And even if a few do care, how would you get adoption? I expect everyone will just use whatever is already used most.

lucianbr··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
I wonder if a probabilistic compiler would be fine for the people arguing this. One that sometimes produces machine code that does something else, and sometimes produces machine code that is just broken and does nothing useful. From the same source code.

What if your compiler could be fooled by some other developers into spending thousands of dollars, and still not produce the desired machine code in the end?

lucianbr··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
Lots of people seem to think that you don't need to learn how to [scan a network], all you need to learn in this brave new world is how to prompt the agent to [scan a network].

Replace the content in brackets with anything.

lucianbr··on Codex-maxxing
If the other people in the org are using LLMs to a similar degree, any question to which an LLM can provide a good answer to will never get sent. How useful are the draft replies then?
lucianbr··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#O...

> After news broke out of Volkswagen cheating on diesel emissions, multiple other vehicle manufacturers got caught falsifying emissions data, as well as exceeding legal emission limits. This uncovered a greater industry-wide issue that goes far beyond only Volkswagen Group.

lucianbr··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
It starts with some things that minimize the lawsuit area, but over time it transforms into a habit of lying. It's company policy, you know? Don't question, just execute.
lucianbr··on OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership
Obviously most CEOs think it's going somewhere where AI is the most important thing, and you must use a lot of it, for everything.

If you just insist on putting AI in everything, you are doing as good a job as most CEOs right now.

Was that so hard? Doesn't seem hard at all.

lucianbr··on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
What was I avoiding with those?
lucianbr··on Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
> you don't have a culture where

Yeah, and? Not everyone is in control of the culture of the organization they work in. I suspect most people are not. Is everyone on HN CEOs and CTOs?

lucianbr··on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
> "Selling is legal, and fucking is legal; but selling fucking is not legal."

I don't get it. The literal interpretation is a clear joke, as you say. So what's the point that it is making?

To be clear, I think the law discussed is stupid. I also think the argument that if both parts are legal they should also be legal together is wrong. What am I avoiding?

lucianbr··on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
How do you figure? I don't have a problem with Carlin, but with people who quote him as a source of wisdom.

The commenter who quoted him here in the thread meant to make a joke and I didn't get it? I thought he quoted him as a point against the law we are discussing.

lucianbr··on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
People forget Carlin was a comedian.

"It's a big club and you ain't in it". Obviously the problem is the club is too small, that's why for most of the people it is true that they are not part of it.

"Half the population is stupider than how stupid the average person is". As if somehow there's not a single person exactly on the median. In fact there is probably a huge number of people there, and within a margin of error of it.

lucianbr··on Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
To me it looks like this:

If you are not an insider with special info and special access, no matter what you do in the market, you eventually lose to the insiders. So, if you blur the details a bit, you're just giving your money to these people.

The rational move would be to just not participate in a market where insider trading happens. I don't really understand why people aren't avoiding these markets like the plague.

lucianbr··on Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
I find it very hard to understand why so many people and institutions are still participating in markets that are obviously full of insider trading. It's basically just giving money away to the insiders. Why do people do this?
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