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sethherr

593 karma · joined February 11, 2013

I do Bike Index and fried chicken and fantasy novels

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sethherr··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
You clarified it wasn’t “never change NIMBYism” - was it a case of just changes I don’t like NIMBYism?
sethherr··on iPhone Duo
I highly recommend Incorruptible by Eric Reis - it makes it clear that shareholder primacy is a relatively recent phenomena, but capital and markets have been corrupting businesses for a long, long time.

He did an AMA here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477135

sethherr··on iPhone Duo
Yup. They released the air - but that’s not what I want. I want a smaller phone, not thinner.
sethherr··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
That’s fine, except for places in the US (particularly poor urban areas) where you have to wait in line for hours and hours to vote - it would need to accommodate for that
sethherr··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Then it’s necessary to make voting a federal holiday. Like it is in other countries.
sethherr··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
Why are you on the version from homebrew?
sethherr··on Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
But why?

Someone has to be collecting the data. I believe that should be something our tax dollars pay for.

After the data is present, someone should make the data accessible and useable. That also seems like a good use of tax dollars.

Hiqh quality data on climate is relevant to many, many organizations and polities. That's the sort of coordination problem that I want my government to solve.

sethherr··on In praise of memcached
Generally you can use the back of a screwdriver like a hammer.

It works pretty well when you need to hit something with a solid object a couple times.

sethherr··on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
But they probably don’t have M5 MacBook pros idling
sethherr··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
I’m also terrified of this.

When this happens I will have to look at other providers and downgrade my subscription. Conductor is just too powerful to give up. It’s the whole reason why I’m on a max plan.

sethherr··on Why are we still using Markdown?
This website, at least in dark mode, doesn't have any visible indication when text is selected.

... Which is additionally frustrating, since the links at the bottom aren't actually links (so you have to select them to copy and paste into your address bar)

sethherr··on Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
I’ve wanted this produce for years. Signed up. Thank you.
sethherr··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Not true. NYTimes had reported on it
sethherr··on Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo
I love that he got in because the trunk was left open, and then couldn’t get out.

Failure mode they hadn’t thought of yet

sethherr··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
Trying to figure out how to align this with my experiences (which match the parents’ comment), and I have an idea:

Coding contests are not like my job at all.

My job is taking fuzzy human things and making code that solves it. Frankly AI isn’t good at closing open issues on open source projects either.

sethherr··on Time to start de-Appling
I think the fact that Apple is having to fight this fight is evidence of why they were right to make a secure walled garden. I don’t know of any other service I would recommend my mother use for securely backing up her phone.

I think the UK is ultimately going to roll back this law. I don’t think this means that iCloud E2E is hostile to Apple or its users. I think Apple is going to win.

The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

sethherr··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
Checks out - you aren’t in a city.

I was surprised that the original comment said they were in a city

sethherr··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
Wild! I’ve lived in Chicago and San Francisco and have never lost power for more than an hour. And can’t remember the last time it went out at all, maybe 2 years ago?

What city do you live in?

sethherr··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
I got to stay on my parents health care for additional years because of Obamacare - as have millions of others. That gave me flexibility to experiment and during that time I learned to program.
sethherr··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
You have an incorrect definition of Class 3.

Class 3 allows pedal assist up to 28 and throttle to 20

https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/electric-bike-classes...

sethherr··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know - what are “pages” here?
sethherr··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
My understanding is it’s more akin to stage hypnosis, where you say bananas and they tell you all their passwords

… the articles example of a potential exploit is exfiltration of data.

sethherr··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
All roles are networking roles
sethherr··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
The article address this very criticism
sethherr··on Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache
Any clear reason to use this over chartkick?
sethherr··on Death by AI
Biking is great tho
sethherr··on LLM Inference Handbook
This seems useful and well put together, but splitting it into many small pages instead of a single page that can be scrolled through is frustrating - particularly on mobile where the table of contents isn't shown by default. I stopped reading after a few pages because it annoyed me.

At the very least, the sections should be a single page each.

sethherr··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Sorry, "don't pay taxes" was hyperbole - what I meant was have a lower tax rate than the rest of us.

Isn't that the whole point of all sorts of tax strategies, for instance Buy, Borrow, Die?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrae/2022/07/14/how-the-ric...

sethherr··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
While I understand the drawbacks, the current situation - where the ultra-wealthy don’t pay taxes because all their wealth is in unrealized gain - is even worse
sethherr··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I think tptacek is generally worth reading. He is one of the users with the highest karma on this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek)

I’m happy to have read this, which is reason enough to publish it - but also it’s clearly generating debate so it seems like a very good thing to have published.

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