Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | jpalawaga's commentslogin

to be fair, git is one of the most easily replaced pieces of tech.

just add a new git remote and push. less so for issues and and pulls, but at least your dev team/ci doesn't end up blocked.


You're right! Let's just quickly promote your only read replica to the new primar---oops!


Good news: I optimized your infrastructure costs to zero. Bad news: I did it by deleting everything. You're welcome.


I was laughing really hard until I remembered it happened to me a few months ago and I wasn't having fun at that time.


Is there something about LLMs that suddenly make grammar and style irrelevant? Is your take, no human is going to read this ever again, so why bother making it pretty and consistent/readable?


It was never relevant, LLM or not. When reviewing junior SWEs' code pre LLMs, I didn't care about 75% of the style guide. I cared if they were using the DB wrong or had race conditions or wrote code I couldn't read.

In other comment, meant that other reviewers who used to nitpick have stopped for whatever reason, maybe because overall people are busier now.


This podcast episode might be of interest. https://www.searchengine.show/a-perfectly-average-anomaly/


providing healthcare and education are costs easily overlooked by most americans. But the reality is, these are costs borne by americans as well. and likely at a higher rate: americans pay more per capitia on both of those versus most other nations.


Hang-dry your tees. It's a slight annoyance vs just bombing everything into the dryer, but it's very worth it to not have sleeves that are too short. I usually hang mine on the shower's curtain rod to dry.

And frankly, this seems like less effort than trying to apply some hack to unshrink them after the damage is done.


anti-cheat far precedes the casinoification of modern games.

nobody wants to play games that are full of bots. cheaters will destroy your game and value proposition.

anti-cheat is essentially existential for studios/publishers that rely on multiplayer gaming.

So yes, the second half of your statement is true. The first half--not so much.


> anti-cheat far precedes the casinoification of modern games.

> nobody wants to play games that are full of bots. cheaters will destroy your game and value proposition.

You are correct, but I think I did a bad job of communicating what I meant. It's true that anti-cheat has been around since forever. However, what's changed relatively recently is anti-cheat integrated into the kernel alongside requirements for signed kernels and secure boot. This dates back to 2012, right as games like Battlefield started introducing gambling mechanics into their games.

There were certainly other games that had some gambly aspects to them, but 2010s is pretty close to where esports along with in game gambling was starting to bud.


absolutely ridiculous. $10 for a single pass. I'd pay 99c for this app, and no more. Oh well, $0 it is.


except your argument as to why "build moar" isn't an option is basically "we acknowledge the population is booming, however, the vibes are more important than providing housing."

Sure, everyone wants their particular city to be frozen in time for cuteness and nostalgia reasons. However, it sort of assumes that the sociopolitical environment is also frozen (it isn't).

so instead you end up with voters voting against densification because, essentially, "I got mine."

p.s. i'm not sure that places that banned/heavily restricted airbnb experienced a meaningful decline in rental prices (e.g. new york, san francisco, vancouver, etc). it's basically a distraction from failed policy.

p.p.s. new york is one of the most popular tourist destinations and incredibly built up, and doesn't seem to have issues with tourists wanting to visit. tokyo too. and these also still have their quintessential historic/preserved areas, too.


Nobody knows what Doublespeed is, everyone knows what a16z is. Doesn't putting the part that's pertinent to people in the headline oblige readers-to-be?

I'd say that the change is editorializing more than the original was "linkbait".


A16z invests in _a great many_ companies. Without the company name in the title, you have to click to find out who the company is. That’s the point. The title gets readers riled up and activates them to click.

The title we’ve set is intended to give enough information to pique curiosity for those who will be curious about the topic - the company name, what the company does (AI-generated promotional content), what’s happened (hacked).

I don’t love the title but it’s the best I could come up with to fit within the 80 character limit.

Anyone is welcome to suggest a better one that is compliant with the guidelines.

(Edit: s/ countless / a great many /)


s/ countless / a great many /

Best to drop the contrafactual hyperbole .. unless A16z's accountants really have dropped the ball and can no longer enumerate their investments.


Heh, fair enough. My first thought was “thousands” - which is true for YC. Then I thought “hundreds?” I have no idea and I don’t really want to spend time trying to find out, partly as it wouldn’t be a precise figure anyway (they wouldn’t disclose that publicly). So it’s “countless” for me.


No great drama, thanks for taking the worst kind of nitpick with grace.

For some of us these exaggerated claims of greater than aleph-null investments send our eyebrows literally to the stratosphere (/s).


a16z is incredibly important to this ecosystem, far more so than any individual company. And them investing in many companies does not exempt them from people identifying when they invest in vile companies.

I am very sorry, but that's a critical part of the story.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: