How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
Consider joining the Internet Society. An entire group of people who care!
Readit Newsronald_petty commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
John describes exactly what I'd like someone to build:
"To make something really different, and not get drawn into the gravity well of existing solutions, you practically need an isolated monastic order of computer engineers."
As a thought experiment:
* Pick a place where cost-of-living is $200/month
* Set up a village which is very livable. Fresh air. Healthy food. Good schools. More-or-less for the cost that someone rich can sponsor without too much sweat.
* Drop a load of computers with little to no software, and little to no internet
* Try reinventing the computing universe from scratch.
Patience is the key. It'd take decades.
Not saying these are perfect, but consider reviewing the work of groups like the Internet Society or even IEEE sectors. Boots on the ground to some extent such as providing gear and training. Other efforts like One Laptop Per Child also leaned into this kind of thinking.
What could it could mean for a "tech" town to be born, especially with what we have today regarding techniques and tools. While the dream has not really bore out yet (especially at a village level), I would argue we could do even better in middle America with this thinking; small college towns. While its a bit of existing gravity well, you could do a focused effort to get a flywheel going (redo mini Bell labs around the USA solving regional problems could be a start).
Yes it takes decades. My only thought on that is, many (dare say most) people don't even have short term plans much less long term plans. It takes visionaries with nerves and will of steel to stay on paths to make things happen.
Love the experiment idea.
ronald_petty commented on Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition t3x.org/lfn/index.html... · Posted by u/nils-m-holm
Thank you so much for reading my books and describing my work in such
beautiful words! You basically answered your own question! My motivation
is just the creation of something I find beautiful. The vision, to pass
knowledge to those who seek it in the simplest possible way, where
"simple" does not necessarily mean in the tersest form, but in a form
that invites being digested.
I do not usually talk much about "myself". I tried, but with no-one asking, I find it difficult to say anything.
I just ordered this book. Looking forward to learning! Thank you for your effort.
ronald_petty commented on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948... · Posted by u/gradus_ad
Can someone share a youtube showing DeepSeek vs others? I glanced through comments and seeing lots of opinions, but no (easy) evidence. I would like to see a level of thoroughness that I could not do myself. Not naysaying one model over another, just good ole fashion elbow grease and scientific method for the layperson. I appreciate the help.
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ronald_petty commented on Ask HN: How do you maintain personal annotations for code you don't control? · Posted by u/weinzierl
I would like to see (better) solutions not only for source code, but general web-pages and applications. For example, bookmarks in a browser are ok, but it would be a lot better if you could easily annotate and later reference / rank / prioritize. A browser is a pretty good proxy to the world's knowledge including source code. It be nice if they would level up in these regards.
There are tools for aspects of all these areas, but still feel unsolved (easy, feature-full).
Are we talking about Chrome incognito mode? What is Google’s Incognito “private browsing” per the website. Details matter.
ronald_petty commented on Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes · Posted by u/wilson090
I think this kind of tooling is one positive aspect of integrating LLM tech in certain workflows/pipelines. Tools like k8sgpt are similar in purpose and show a strong potential to be useful. Look forward to seeing how this progresses.
I hear vague suggestions like "get better at the business domain" and other things like that. I'm not discounting any of that, but what does this actually mean or look like in your day-to-day life? I'm working at a mid-sized company right now. I use Cursor and some other tools, but I can't help but wonder if I'm still falling behind or doing something wrong.
Does anybody have any thoughts or suggestions on this? The landscape and horizon just seems so foggy to me right now.
My .02$. Show you can tackle harder problems. That includes knowing which problems matter. That happens with learning a "domain", versus just learning a tool (e.g. web development) in a domain.
Change is scary, but thats because most aren't willing to change. Part of the "scare" is the fear of lost investment (e.g. pick wrong major or career). I can appreciate that, but with a little flexibility, that investment can be repurposed quicker today that in pre-2022 thanks to AI.
AI is just another tool, treat it like a partner not a replacement. That can also include learning a domain. Ask AI how a given process works, its history, regulations, etc. Go confirm what it says. Have it break it down. We now can learn faster than ever before. Trust but verify.
You are using Cursor, that shows a willingness to try new things. Now try to move faster than before, go deeper into the challenges. That is always going to be valued.