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◈ Bluesky 1w ▲ 0 negative thinkIn hindsight, I have no clue how I even survived childhood. I still think my mom wanted something horrible to happen to me so my dad would be devastated & she could more convincingly play the part of the poor, put-upon, martyr parent. She cared more about her image than she did her own children. In hindsight, I have no clue how I even survived childhood. I still think my mom wanted something horrible to happen to me so my dad would be devastated & she could more convincingly play the part of the poor, put-upon, martyr parent. She cared more about her image than she did her own children.view source ↗
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◈ Bluesky 1w ▲ 1 negativeYeah All That Criticism Starting To Look Like Jealousy In Hindsight 😭😭😭 Yeah All That Criticism Starting To Look Like Jealousy In Hindsight 😭😭😭view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative peopleGoogle’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in spaceThat's usually in hindsight? And I said it wasn't obviously insane to them , not that it would pencil out in the end. Can also just be an asymmetric bet - relatively small outlay with low chance of working, but massive upside if it does, such that it's still positive expected value. But mostly, I think all these armcha… That's usually in hindsight? And I said it wasn't obviously insane to them , not that it would pencil out in the end. Can also just be an asymmetric bet - relatively small outlay with low chance of working, but massive upside if it does, such that it's still positive expected value. But mostly, I think all these armchair quarterbacks should not have very strong opinions about something that they almost certainly don't know much about compared to the people who build these. The person I responded to cited a random blog that ran some numbers, and includes such gems as "In space, a broken fan or a fried motherboard is a crisis." Just... lolview source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative peopleItalian parliament votes for return to nuclear energyTo be fair, people will say many of those deaths are due to the evacuation rather than the meltdown, and they’ll say the evacuation was overblown — too _much_ regulation. However, I think you’re right that these can still be attributed to the meltdown, since the evacuations were undertaken to avoid the difficult-to-pre… To be fair, people will say many of those deaths are due to the evacuation rather than the meltdown, and they’ll say the evacuation was overblown — too _much_ regulation. However, I think you’re right that these can still be attributed to the meltdown, since the evacuations were undertaken to avoid the difficult-to-predict impact of the meltdown. In hindsight, we can see the evacuation wasn’t needed. But the reactor meltdown made an already-bad situation even more brittle, and in a disaster scenario i think we naturally prefer the evacuation, as opposed to the (low) chance of total destruction. The deaths are due to the evacuation, and the evacuation is due to some combination of [poor judgement] and [reactor meltdown]. If we attribute all the deaths to poor judgement, then we’re asserting we could confidently predict a reactor meltdown would pose no danger. Some people might claim that, but it seems implausible to me.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative peopleUnknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS errorThe federalist papers make it pretty clear the intention was not that everyone should vote. The idea of active citizens being the ones who vote is everywhere in Republicanism, whether you look at the early French Republic and their restrictions on the national guard, to constitutionalism in England, or the early Americ… The federalist papers make it pretty clear the intention was not that everyone should vote. The idea of active citizens being the ones who vote is everywhere in Republicanism, whether you look at the early French Republic and their restrictions on the national guard, to constitutionalism in England, or the early American Republic. In Athens, not everyone got a vote. In Rome not everyone got a vote. In cities across Europe following the Magdeburg charter, not everyone got a vote. The original limitation of propertied people in the constitution was the correct move in hindsight. The issue with suffrage for those that are not active and giving a positive impact to the country is exactly what you see happening today, politicians pandering to certain voter groups with hand outs instead of sticking to principles.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negativeWhat Sun got wrongDell’s innovation to the computer industry was build to order, selling computers direct, and later online in short streamlining the buying process. IBM, Sun, Digital, and SGI we’re at a whole different level, and they were at that level because of their capabilities. They could’ve have potentially changed the game (lik… Dell’s innovation to the computer industry was build to order, selling computers direct, and later online in short streamlining the buying process. IBM, Sun, Digital, and SGI we’re at a whole different level, and they were at that level because of their capabilities. They could’ve have potentially changed the game (like Apple) and competed against Microsoft and Intel, but they were fixated on selling basically to the corporate level which was in hindsight not a good decision long-term, and eventually it cost them all, their loss was immeasurable because of the hardware and more importantly operating system capabilities they had in house.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative donMicrosoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revivedGreat job with this project, I bet there are VFP apps still running or even DOS FP apps. This takes me back to the first commercial software i ever worked on around 19 years ago, it was an accounting software written in Visual FoxPro. It's a super easy language to get started with programming and the fact that you can … Great job with this project, I bet there are VFP apps still running or even DOS FP apps. This takes me back to the first commercial software i ever worked on around 19 years ago, it was an accounting software written in Visual FoxPro. It's a super easy language to get started with programming and the fact that you can drag your widgets on the screen helps a lot. I remember using hungarian notations too. In hindsight that's both good and bad, because the moment you move to another language that doesn't offer an IDE where you can drag widgets with your mouse on the screen to position them and you have to work with containers, programmatically, you quickly realize how little you really know about creating UIs with forms. I don't think i had an opinion back then if VFP was good or bad but I remember the IDE would crash when you tried to build your project sometimes with a pop-up that would say "Catastrophic failure!". I always thought that was super funny and to this day i still have the screenshot. I think about a year or so before they killed it, they releases SP2 which was a bit more stable.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeDid OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?Not really. All of the Navier-Stokes options in the Clay Institute formulation of the prize are real problems of significant interest. The history of this particular problem is of finding specific conditions under which we can get something to work that turn out not to generalize in ways that people don’t expect eg iir… Not really. All of the Navier-Stokes options in the Clay Institute formulation of the prize are real problems of significant interest. The history of this particular problem is of finding specific conditions under which we can get something to work that turn out not to generalize in ways that people don’t expect eg iirc (It’s been a while since I read about it) there was a solution found early-ish in the 20th century for the 2-D case that turned out not to generalize to N-d, N>2 case, there are special conditions under which the turbulent terms cancel out and you can get smooth flow, vortices etc. It seems to me that formulating problems at the boundary of human knowledge precisely is always going to be challenging and situations are bound to occur where you look back with the benefit of hindsight and wish that you had posed the question slightly differently based on some knowledge you didn’t have at the time.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain> Well you can also just stop using these products True. But there is a social cost, for now In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to recon… > Well you can also just stop using these products True. But there is a social cost, for now In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to reconstitute it, and now I pay the price But the price gets less as time goes by as Meta killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Their greed and carelessness is making the service less valuable or useful This (ban Virgina Wolf FFS) is another example. If you cannot advertise what you are doing as part of your community, then what is the point? Why be part of a service that no longer links people without fear or favour (Facebook of fifteen years ago) but solely exists to market at you?view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negativeWhat Sun got wrongIt's easier to see in hindsight but servers have eaten a lot of macro economic headwinds. 1999 and 2002 correspond roughly to telecom and dotcom bubbles popping. So open source operating systems were also pulled up into these positions through a lot of work and by the early 2000s it was kind of obvious this was the way… It's easier to see in hindsight but servers have eaten a lot of macro economic headwinds. 1999 and 2002 correspond roughly to telecom and dotcom bubbles popping. So open source operating systems were also pulled up into these positions through a lot of work and by the early 2000s it was kind of obvious this was the way forward. 2008 financial crisis really knocked the high end (RISC/UNIX/Itanium) and started the long migration to renting vs owning. In hindsight it's remarkable how much money used to just be there in the economy of all this. But I guess it still is, considering how expensive public cloud is.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative peopleSamsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMNo, a remarkably farsighted policy that prevented PRC from having to deal with additional 200m-400m subsistent farmers. If anything it wasn't done sooner/aggressive enough. Like you can literally wipe away 200-400m from PRC button quantile and PRC would be net better off due to increase per capita resources and wealth.… No, a remarkably farsighted policy that prevented PRC from having to deal with additional 200m-400m subsistent farmers. If anything it wasn't done sooner/aggressive enough. Like you can literally wipe away 200-400m from PRC button quantile and PRC would be net better off due to increase per capita resources and wealth. This hindsight will be historically obvious in 20-30 years when you see the outcome of India with 1.6B people with 1.2B poor, vs PRC with 1.4B people with 400m poor. The drag of having disproportionate, bluntly, worthless bodies is not linear for governance, and it's not because India hasn't tried aggressive family planning of their own, they simply failed unlike PRC. Who very much regards family planning as largely successful demographic management system that enabled proper allocation of resources away from generating peasants to building industry and the largest pool of high end human talent in recorded history, where frankly any tertiary dividend is worth 50 farmers in terms of productivity.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative yearsThe Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)I used to have a ViewSonic PC CRT that went up to 2048x1536. Sadly my family didn't realize the worth and tossed it out along with a bunch of other CRTs many years ago. In hindsight we should've tested them all and kept the nicest ones. I used to have a ViewSonic PC CRT that went up to 2048x1536. Sadly my family didn't realize the worth and tossed it out along with a bunch of other CRTs many years ago. In hindsight we should've tested them all and kept the nicest ones.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeYou can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflowAnd in more recent games where there is Nuclear Gandhi it's because of that legend. If you write a game in a decent language where such a thing won't happen by mistake you can still have it be present on purpose and in some cases that even fits the game's lore. Random glitches are confusing and bad. Falling off the wor… And in more recent games where there is Nuclear Gandhi it's because of that legend. If you write a game in a decent language where such a thing won't happen by mistake you can still have it be present on purpose and in some cases that even fits the game's lore. Random glitches are confusing and bad. Falling off the world in Blue Prince due to collision bugs is annoying for example. However "glitches" which are intended behaviour are fun. I've enjoyed every time I saw somebody get that note and gift from Mrs Babbage because they drafted that particular room in that particular place and it had an effect which in hindsight they now realise was both foreseeable and regrettable...view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative thinkLawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdownSurely there are enough experts that think there's a risk that at least considering corrective action will not retrospectively look silly? (Except perhaps with hindsight bias.) They may well be wrong, but I'm not sure you can dismiss them so easily. And the fact it is a prisoner dilemma problem doesn't mean it's unsolv… Surely there are enough experts that think there's a risk that at least considering corrective action will not retrospectively look silly? (Except perhaps with hindsight bias.) They may well be wrong, but I'm not sure you can dismiss them so easily. And the fact it is a prisoner dilemma problem doesn't mean it's unsolvable, sure it makes it hard, but we have made _some_ progress on climate change and that's a prisoner dilemma problem.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative donAI-generated posters don’t have to be horribleexactly. Hindsight is 20/20. exactly. Hindsight is 20/20.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeHow OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip> I remember the paper proving that hallucinations could never be fully solved back in 2024 The papers that use the halting problem or the Gödel's incompleteness theorem to prove something about LLMs are dime a dozen. The problem is they prove their results for any computable system. You need to also believe that the h… > I remember the paper proving that hallucinations could never be fully solved back in 2024 The papers that use the halting problem or the Gödel's incompleteness theorem to prove something about LLMs are dime a dozen. The problem is they prove their results for any computable system. You need to also believe that the human brain contains "magic" to think that humans are exempt. I believe I've said the same at the time this paper was published. There is no need for hindsight to notice the problem. The required amount of compute and training data and whether the existing training methods were up to the task had the real potential to be show stoppers though.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negativeCloudflare Quick TunnelsIn hindsight, that was probably a confusing sentence. I was more pointing out how much traffic flows trough their systems which ends up making it an attractive honeypot, especially as a U.S. company. In hindsight, that was probably a confusing sentence. I was more pointing out how much traffic flows trough their systems which ends up making it an attractive honeypot, especially as a U.S. company.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negativeAWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by IranI feel like this is hindsight bias, and in a different scenario you'd be saying "not hosting your infrastructure in a DC without AWS level diesel backup contracts is even better". Which I already said, and you ignored. Anyway, it's all moot, because the military will now also spread out. You can go with "Joe's pizza an… I feel like this is hindsight bias, and in a different scenario you'd be saying "not hosting your infrastructure in a DC without AWS level diesel backup contracts is even better". Which I already said, and you ignored. Anyway, it's all moot, because the military will now also spread out. You can go with "Joe's pizza and cloud services", hoping there aren't enough military workloads there, but where are you more likely to have an outage?view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negative timeEverybody's Lost Their MindsAt the time: 1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts! 2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories and crackpots and experts and armchair-experts spouting all kinds of shit. It was… At the time: 1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts! 2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories and crackpots and experts and armchair-experts spouting all kinds of shit. It was tiring to open a web browser. 3. No vaccine. No vaccine for at least a year. You just have to wait for this tidal wave of sickness to hit you and everyone around you. 4. I recall seeing on the news what was happening in Italy. March 2020, something like 600 people a day dying of covid. Italy's hospitals were being overrun with covid patients. It wasn't obvious who needed treatment and help to survive the night and who could just go home and be (quite) miserable for a bit. There were so many unknowns! Hospital overrun resulted in not just covid patients dying but also anyone else who needed to go to the emergency department was affected to some degree. Partly because the system didn't have the capacity and partly because you'd catch covid on top of the reason you were there. The systems were choking. I was in Melbourne the whole time, through every lockdown. Everyone has an opinion on whether it was the right thing to do, but for me, it was the society agreed upon (via authority and literal epidemiologist expert guidance) way to avoid killing a single digit % of the population. Don't get me wrong, I was so fucking sick of being couped up... but I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I had've put some of my neighbours through that first wave harsh covid. I couldn't say as to whether it would have killed some of them. Yes, many people had it rough in so many different ways. Bureaucratic shit was being made up almost day to day and people were also trying to scam it day to day. So it isn't surprising shit happened. Everyone has a story. However, to say "We should have.." belies the fact that hindsight is easy and recollection is rose tinted.view source ↗