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> entire concept of time

“Entire” concept is stretching it, causality and entropy are not man made.

If you want to look at ideas people made up that have way too much influence on our lives, you need look no further than your wallet.

Not just disappeared. In fact someone literally died…

Here is my comment from earlier regarding this very thing, and it seems like one of these is incorrect? Who can tell me the truth?!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972523

At least in 2025 they could slap it into Claude and produce a better review without engaging in…shudders *thought*.

The first snippet of code makes me nauseous and the second makes me murderous, so the former is obviously better.

That being said, these people should all be miles away from mission critical code.

> I wouldn't call json a schema.

What you see there is a protobuf, serialized as JSON. If a protobuf definition isn’t a schema, I don’t know what is.

Reminds me that the recently discovered “leak emails using YouTube” exploit kicked off from reading what is essentially, a schema.

https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails

Recently I was reading about blind people’s experience of Netflix having been poor (no audio descriptions) for years and years and the media never picking it up despite organized groups begging them to do so…until Daredevil was released and outrageous headlines like “blind people can’t enjoy a show about a blind superhero” became possible.

And of course, Netflix released audio descriptions post haste once the headlines hit…turns out it was trivial all along.

The moral of the story is, if you want it in the press, make it outrageous first.

Yes, but it’s the same level of garbage as “Facebook was built in a week”, where the hidden part is “after The Harvard Connection spent two years iterating on the product and got everything stolen”.

Society and people in general don’t want to hear these “sour grape” gripes. Unless they are the ones affected adversely.

> Except that 99% of engineers aren't being hired by Google nor being paid on comparable levels.

Sucks for you, then. Why are you on a thread about Google-style interviews?

That’s a skill you do need at Google if you’re going to survive. At least nowadays.

Look their product up, look at their story, and consider this joke:

"Do you want to be a millionaire? If so send me $10 and I'll send you the instructions."

Let me put it this way: if someone came to you and their story was that they could never figure out how to make money from investing and decided to make money from telling others how to invest instead, what would you think?

The glimmer of hope here is that they have customers, who will with any luck guide them to a real value.

Good for you, personally I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night building snake oil.

You're assuming that a 2%er is a real thing as opposed to something blogs publish on a slow news day.

The full model also gets into these infinite cycles. I just tried asking the old river crossing boat problem but with two goats and a cabbage and it goes on and on forever.

That's a very baud joke.

There were alert messages on the app directly referencing Trump as a savior pre-ban, during the one day they dropped service, and post-ban.

I’ve never met an artist who would prefer to make money by making a mockery of their art. Only people who are already dead inside do this (which, admittedly, some in poverty are).

Haha, that reminded me of https://thehaplesshap.com/docs/case_8/

Or rather, because Steve took great care not to hire the bozos most companies are staffed with. This is an extremely difficult and underappreciated thing to do, and Steve himself failed spectacularly at it on at least one occasion (which probably made him even more cautious).

People who look forward to retiring are like people who look forward to heaven: missing out on life due to the belief their “real” life hasn’t begun yet.

It’s going to take Ilya there for sure.

Which aspect of how a human leg works is a truck tire similar to?

> Spotify's music library was also pirated in the early days.

I want to know more, please enlighten me (anyone who knows). I read the book "The Spotify Play" and it made it seem like the pirated music was an internal-only thing and not something available to customers. Is that true?

Now, I could look at this relatively popular post about Google and revise my opinion of HN as an echo chamber, but I’m afraid it’s just that the downvote loving HNers weren’t able to make the cognitive leap from Gemini to Google.

Nice to know HNers don’t read past the first word. Can’t say I am surprised.

Not high level, you need to know exactly how it’s done. If you don’t at the start, then you will by the time you arrive at the working commit.

The exception (in that you must learn something) is in design, though. If you ask AI to add something to your API, and do it repeatedly, you will end up with a very poorly designed API, with separate endpoints for updating separate fields in the same record, etc, which will happily work fine.

Unless you knew what to do from the start, you’re going to make a lot of tech debt.

> Your question doesn’t quite make sense.

Agreed, yet it is the standard question most people throw out for any unfamiliar idea. God forbid they have to form a single thought to grok something…although more charitably it is a form of “why should I care?”.

Your rephrasing is a bit different, it discards the selfish aspect of the question which I think is not correct.

Funnily though, anyone asking why they should care probably shouldn’t care yet.

> I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year.

> I don't want my career and life to evolve by happenstance.

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

> Why can't people accept that their role in this new process simply isn't the one we've always called artist?

I think what has happened here is that you are talking about something very specific. Putting text into midjourney, maybe. That's not the only way people use AI in their art. Are "prompt engineers" artists? Maybe, maybe not, maybe not yet. Maybe they are only as much of an artist as I was back in 2005 while clicking "generate clouds" in Adobe.

We all have to start somewhere.