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rvrs··on Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
Amazon's customer-facing software has always been quite terrible across the board IME, even before LLM coding. The Alexa app, for example, is awful
rvrs··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
what? the richest person on earth was so addicted to twitter that he bought it
rvrs··on Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?
I've just been using this for years https://github.com/rupa/z

It is simple and does the job

rvrs··on Midjourney Medical
>A) proactively keeping me healthy,

This will never happen and arguably should not be the *medical* system's problem. It is just not feasible

rvrs··on Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
Work is performance art
rvrs··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
what? I started school in the early 2000s, after no child left behind started, and definitely learned multiplication tables lol
rvrs··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
>If I'm not experiencing any particular emotion in a given moment, am I concious?

Genuine question: How are you so sure whether you are experiencing an emotion or not? Are you a master of everything inside your own head?

rvrs··on Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)
And I am exactly the opposite - aside from my first job out of university 10 years ago I have gotten every job since through connections
rvrs··on Willingness to look stupid
Whether you like it or not you will look stupid to native speakers. It's a subconscious bias
rvrs··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
The Neo is supposed to be the budget version. I think MacOS is a decent computing platform for some engineering and creative endeavors -- if one more college kid gets access to it for cheaper I say it's a positive
rvrs··on Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
I work in east Asia for a western startup. My work schedule is shifted a few hours earlier, so I end up waking up at 5 and have meetings starting at 6. I work in silence the rest of the day and we have no-meetings days once a week.

I love it.

rvrs··on Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian
Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons
rvrs··on Where do the children play?
I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?
rvrs··on Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
Enforce stacked PRs, reject PRs over 500-1k LoC (I'd argue even lower, but it's a hard sell)
rvrs··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Did a coal miner write this comment?
rvrs··on YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option
I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?
rvrs··on Humane founder Imran Chaudhri likely paid for highly charitable Wikipedia entry
There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias
rvrs··on Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni...

EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on

rvrs··on I want my AI to get mad
Is there anything out there that's even close to that OG GPT-3? It was the closest experience I've ever had to magic, and I miss it dearly
rvrs··on Ask HN: What are the most complicated machines humans have built?
Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn't taken seriously

Don't get me wrong, what we have is working (so far? Political happenings around the world don't inspire confidence)

rvrs··on Social Trust Score
>I would never create a system that placed a negative on someone's entire life.

>There is always room for and chances to improve ones self.

Great, then here's an opportunity for you to improve: I need you to understand that any social system designed by humans will be flawed and miss a bunch of edge cases. Your intentions do not matter. Doing this will fuck up somebody's life.

rvrs··on Social Trust Score
I believe people (who are not deemed guilty of murder or something and imprisoned for life) have the right to start over, and so people have the right to lie. Having a lifelong number assigned to you is evil. This isn't solving any problems. I'm sorry you had bad roommates, but stop.
rvrs··on Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2025
I'm a born and raised American: I'd give anything to relocate to Europe or Asia permanently (for healthcare access reasons). Currently working a remote job from the US and exploring my options internally and externally.
rvrs··on Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?
1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, personal for personal things, etc).

- Bookmarks to tools I access really frequently (like AWS dashboard) are top-level, and I remove the "Name" of the bookmark so it appears as just an icon in the bookmarks bar. There's a few of these quick-access icons for any given Chrome Profile setup that I have. For work I have Okta, AWS, and a work Wiki via Notion. For personal I have Youtube, email, my seedbox, and Plex.

- Everything else is split into folders for interests, projects, teams at work, etc.

- For things like recipes and articles I will back them up via Waybackmachine and archive.ph and bookmark that instead of the original site

2) For a form of digital scrapbooking for my various interests, of things that are not quite websites (images, videos, quotes, scraps) I use are.na heavily. I want to stress that this is scrapbooking and not a "notes system" a la Obsidian or Notion.

rvrs··on Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
This is not news -- Reddit has been very clearly astroturfed for years now
rvrs··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?
rvrs··on Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
>I've been dipping my toes into the JS ecosystem, and I keep bumping into the fact that using mentally cheap signals of quality (such as stars or DL counts) almost never indicates the quality of the thing itself. Winners seem to be randomly chosen, almost! The only way to assess is to read the code and try integrating it in.

I wish morep people understood the "Kardashian effect" as I like to call it -- the most popular thing is only most popular because it was already popular. I think in almost everything in my life and in every domain, #2 or #3 is better-suited (for my preferences and needs).

A year or two ago on HN I read a short blog post about omitting the word "best" from internet searches and being more specific in your criteria (e.g. "car with best resale value" instead of "best car"), and it has made my life and way of thinking a lot better

rvrs··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
Anything you would have done differently in the past? You're describing me but two decades younger hahaha
rvrs··on Swimmable Cities
What's the app called? I'd like to reference it to see if I can swim when I visit :D
rvrs··on Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
The holder of the credential would have to present it log(N) times. If someone asks to scan your id a bunch of times, wouldn't you find it suspicious?
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