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Comment · 2 months ago
An example of deterioration:
Jeff Goldblum's 30 second "Presenting three easy steps to the internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjY0xsoozs8
And now when you want to set up a fresh Mac it's a parade of dialogue boxes:
Do you want to turn on Siri? No. (the dialogue-choice is probably "maybe later" ugh)
Do you want to share app analytics with developers? Yes.
Do you want to add Touch ID? No, because I'm setting this up for someone else.
There are more!
I gave those examples -- each of which having a different answer or reason -- to show that the problem of onboarding is nontrivial, but Apple has spent no(?) effort toward fixing it. It's the same for new iPhones and iPads.
NB I don't know if you sign into your Apple account it pre-answers these questions. That'd be nice.
Comment · 2 months ago
Patrick McKenzie rebuts this here: (podcast) https://open.spotify.com/episode/2E2KRPcDvh1LcRw5bIsBms
or here (article): https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-car...
The intuition being: people who carry balances and pay interest don't actually spend very much; they are not wealthy.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm open to correction on which rule to cite, or whether to cite a rule:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Picking:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I understand the partisan juxtaposition of "X" and Moxie Marlinspike, and the partisan appeal of commenting on it, but to me it is a tangential annoyance.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm interested in the social-proof mechanisms we'll need to have for AI-assisted "serious projects" (where a database is a "serious project").
Third-party audits like https://jepsen.io/ are an example.
Comment · 2 months ago
Indeed. You can remedy your uncertainty by looking for evidence. Some is provided on the website. Some on Mastodon, on the community's reception of this: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/117018254826752338
Comment · 2 months ago
I agree with the logic of your comment, and to the extent that you're writing advice to Shirt Pocket and to other developers, I have no dispute.
> In this case, all I have to go off [...]
Well if you're looking for evidence that SuperDuper is good (and if you accept appeals to authority from internet strangers), SuperDuper is part of John Siracusa's backup strategy: https://atp.fm/703 John Siracusa reviewed macOS for ten years for Ars Technica (these _reviews_ are magisterial), and is an authority on the Mac.
Comment · 5 months ago
The critic I see most frequently on the unprofitability of AI is Ed Zitron. I am sincerely curious if he shorted Facebook's, Amazon's, or Google's stocks. Or if he's in index funds which have tech stocks like those.
For example: I have index funds which have some of these stocks. So I, by process of revealed-preference, don't think it's a bubble, or I think I will keep my money in through the bubble's pop. I don't have that much else to say!
For the record: I would respect the creator of this site equally or more if he/she said, "I'm shorting these stocks and this is why."
Comment · 5 months ago
The difference between say a think tank and an advocacy organization like "reclaimthenet.org" is a think tank hopefully feels obligated to think about, and pitch, a solution to the identified problem (spam calls).
Obviously reclaimthenet.org can post whatever they want on their site.
I'm curious about requiring all phone calls except to emergency services to cost a tenth of a cent. Or some amount that permits desired robocalling (prescription drug reminders for those not on the 'net) and excises spam calls.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'd be curious why user NaOH chose to submit this. I'll offer a justification: it is notable that a car company lists all (I assume?) its past products, giving equal visual weight to the F50 (lauded today) and Mondial 8 (not lauded). By contrast, it's hard to find Ford talking about the Pinto: https://www.google.com/search?q=pinto+site%3Aford.com
Comment · 7 months ago
I point to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Comment · 7 months ago
Those are all situationally-valid criticisms, but I've long thought the ability to have smartphones' cameras cryptographically sign photos is good when available. The use case is demonstrating a photo wasn't doctored, and that it came from a device associated with e.g. a journalist, who maintains a public key. Of course, it should be optional.
Comment · 8 months ago
The cynical take is: the AI doesn't know you-the-blog-post-author made TimescaleDB unless you tell it!
Comment · 8 months ago
In terms of that example: they should link to how they got those numbers, and it should state the benchmark used, the machines used, what they controlled for etc.
Comment · 8 months ago
Apart from the style of the prose, which is my subjective evaluation: This blog post is "a view from nowhere." Tiger Data is a company that sells postgres in some way (don't know, but it doesn't matter for the following): they could speak as themselves, and compare themselves to companies that sell other open source databases. Or they could showcase benchmarks _they ran_.
Them saying: "What you get: pgvectorscale uses the DiskANN algorithm (from Microsoft Research), achieving 28x lower p95 latency and 16x higher throughput than Pinecone at 99% recall" is marketing unless they give how you'd replicate those numbers.
Point being: this could have been written by an LLM, because it doesn't represent any work-done by Tiger Data.
Question for hiring managers and HR teams: do you all rely on manually-input work and education histories? When I've hired (albeit only at small companies) I just read resumes.