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y1426i commented on Why we migrated from Python to Node.js   blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
y1426i · a month ago
We did the same for our app as well. I wrote a little library to make it as simple as FastAPI to generate swagger specs - you can try it out - https://github.com/sleeksky-dev/alt-swagger .
y1426i commented on Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/fortran77
Workaccount2 · 3 months ago
Betting on solely camera vision for self-driving is not objectively a very good bet. It's not even a good bet. There still are zero self-driving Tesla's on the road. Zero.

It's even likely there will be legislation forcing LIDAR for self driving cars. Elon cannot flip the switch on self driving until they have millions of intervention free miles under their belt. Right now Tesla gets ~500 miles without intervention. One kid gets decked and the law will shutter his plan.

There is another layer too, where because of his polarizing personality, a lot of critical talent is inaccessible to him. Keep in mind Elon is doing -none- of the engineering besides the social engineering. He relies on talented people who want to work for him. I know many talented people who could make a difference for Tesla, but none who would ever give Elon a single minute of time.

y1426i · 3 months ago
Over last 6 months, since their latest upgrade, I have been driving my Tesla mostly on FSD. And it is nothing short of amazing, out of this world. The car drives like a pro and exceptions have become very rare. You have to drive this to believe it. Unlike Waymo which is full of gizmos, this is just a regular car that drives itself. The bet on camera and simplified architecture shows here.

If you just extrapolate what has already been possible and bet on the pace of growth of AI algorithms and techniques, robotaxi is almost a certainity and humanoid robots a possibility.

y1426i commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
giantg2 · 5 months ago
Its a little bit of a stretch to call YouTube social media. There are tons of great instructional videos.

The real kicker to me is that the government has passed a law restricting access yet they haven't determined how they're going to enforce an age check. It's wild that they passed a law without consideration to it's mechanics or feasibility.

y1426i · 5 months ago
It should at least be possible to ban YouTube shorts. I wish those were served from a separate domain to make it easier to block just those.
y1426i commented on Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down   news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
hayst4ck · 7 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

It was the end of the bretton woods system/the gold backed US dollar.

The major consequences are inflation, which devalues savings and transfers the buying power lost from devalued savings to those who own assets, and removing the consequences of poor policy, letting the market remain more irrational and letting corruption fester longer before reality asserts itself.

Because the relationship between money and value are severed, it allows for wage stagnation and real economic production to stagnate while paper power and paper growth are allowed to metastasize because the supply of money can always be expanded rather than having to deal with the reality of potentially not being able to import things that fuel the engine of your economy.

So 1971 is when we started to hang ourselves with our exorbitent privilege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege

y1426i · 7 months ago
If I sell an apple for one gold coin, that gold coin will probably fetch me two apples in the future. Which happens for a resource whose need is growing while supply is limited. This also means my gold appreciated without me generating any value over time. It creates an incentive to save and not spend.

Therein lies the problem with gold, which is why a decoupled currency was required. A natural resource such as gold or bitcoin, appreciates as the economy grows, which in turn slows the economy down. With a printable currency, a country can control inflation or depreciate past value to create agony for people who have to continuously work to create more value. That is what forces nation-building and what capitalism helps with.

Dollar worked. And it won't be replaced with a fixed resource such as gold or bitcoins. But as the article mentions, it may not remain unique. That will be very interesting though, since the world has never experienced those dynamics before.

y1426i commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions
y1426i · 10 months ago
I worked for years helping procure government grants and saw how it was used. People who have lived in just one place (aka. California) and have nothing to compare don't realize the amount of waste happening here. The cities that collect the highest taxes have the infrastructure and facilities of a poor town. The prop monies go down the drain or are grossly misspent all the time. DOGE is necessary and needs this level of access and authority to make this scale of change in such a short time.
y1426i commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions
y1426i · 10 months ago
The comments here seem mostly against DOGE, but I have seen the waste in these organizations firsthand, and we all pay for it. Musk hopes to cut spending by 10%, but that is only because he is limited in what he can do. A Twitter-style cleanup would at least reduce it by 50%, but it is not feasible. Know that those 10% or 50% directly map to a percentage of your income and lifestyle directly (higher taxes) or indirectly (higher inflation).
y1426i commented on Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16   reuters.com/technology/cy... · Posted by u/robbiet480
gU9x3u8XmQNG · a year ago
Given the lack of interest in the industry “self” regulating, and/or taking responsibility of, the content; what other option is there. It seems there’s little interest globally.

With my direct and indirect experiences of social media; I strongly support this.

That said; how does a young individual get updates to public transport outages that are only available via twitter/x, or read the menu of the local cafe that is only posted on Facebook?

I do worry about the implementation, especially if government owned. The government has, in the past, said one thing and executed another. (DNS metadata collection for ISP’s, for example) Whilst I have nothing to hide, and am happy to be entirely transparent with them; I can appreciate, respect, and understand the hesitation.

And, if government owned; how long until it’s “privatised”.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

y1426i · a year ago
I don't think this is a practical solution. And it does not solve the underlying issue, which is the attention economy.

Here's a better solution option that is easier to implement; even adults can benefit, and I think it solves some of the problems:

1. Have an easy option to turn off feeds and enforce for non-adults. This would apply not just to meta, twitter, but also to Youtube, LinkedIn, etc.

2. Disable like display. The like counts are what hooks people and gives the dopamine kick. Add the ability to hide it and not show for under 18 easily.

3. Social and news sites should not be allowed to send notifications, period. Not on phones or browsers, at least not for those under 18.

Something along these lines would improve social media for everyone, not just kids. Parents' mental health affects kids the same. So blocking it just for kids only goes so far.

y1426i commented on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?    · Posted by u/45HCPW
y1426i · a year ago
Building a single tenant system is 10x simpler than building a multi-tenant SaaS. App development is so much faster these days and you can build a significant system with just couple of remote devs. Even easier when there is an app from which they can copy from.

u/y1426i

KarmaCake day37February 22, 2012View Original