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> You may need to push for comprehensive genetic testing. > This caused a multi-month delay to getting genetic results, since the first results were done on the surgery tumor, not the biopsy tumor.

I am confused. What does "comprehensive genetic testing" mean here?

Note: I understand perfectly fine the idea of testing. I fail to see why this is required here.

For instance, the blog author differs between surgery tumor and biopsy tumor. However had, a tumor is a clone, by definition; see Henrietta Lacks cells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks).

I do not understand his distinction here. I don't think the distinction makes any logical sense either.

> Use AI to help you figure out what to pick based on your case.

I fail to see the point here either.

> The rest of the HN comments are worth reading too.

I am not sure about that either.

I understand the issue of cancer being different, and some can kill people quickly (Henrietta did not reach an old age), but I had small benign tumors removed surgically (fibroma of the fatty underskin). No extra treatment was necessary after that (this happened about 15 years ago or so). I understand that benign tumors are very different from metastasizing cancers; my point is more that I don't really agree with the statements made there in general. I think that surgery is a perfectly fine way for many cancers/tumors. It also is potentially very risky and can come in with huge problems. In my case, though, chopping off the small fibromas was the right choice. Unfortunately cancer will hat many people, also differently, so one may never be secure: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/understanding-...

Risk of getting any type of cancer may be up to 40%; dying may be in between 13-17%, higher for older people. So I am not at all suggesting cancer is harmless at all, but at the same time I would not use that recipe listed on the author's blog entry either. I think the best qualitative assessment I could do is to say "it depends"; and to not rely on AI either. IMO most people should read up on things for a while, does not have to take long, say a week or two of slow, concentrated reading in a non-emotional but objective manner. Then you may understand a lot more. Cancer biology is, for the most part, actually cytology/cell biology. (The cancer chapter in the book molecular biology of the cell is also good; I think even non-scientists will understand most of that via slow reading too. Why does everyone want to succumb to AI here? I don't understand it.)

Greedy and Evil.

I stopped using Amazon some time ago though, so no more money from me goes into that monster. There were several reasons for this. The number one reason was actually ... prime. I feel that ever since amazon prime came about, things decayed quality-wise. But my habits also changed; I used to buy hardcopy books. I still love them, but I rarely use them anymore. I used to purchase hardware on amazon, but I no longer want to support companies that are part of the evil Trump clique, so no more money into US corporations from my side - the canadians led the way here (though Canada also has troublemakers such as Shopify; look at how much damage they caused in the ruby ecosystem in the last three years. Unsurprisingly DHH is on board of Shopify, so you can see how greed inter-connects these people in their agenda.)

The bigger problem is that Amazon and other US companies actively eliminate competition in other countries. It is a form of colonialism. Sadly, the other countries so attacked often don't really have a good means to retaliate. Just look how obedient the EU is to Trump - it is disgusting behaviour from EU officials here, in particular Leyen. These work for the USA (and probably for personal benefits too) rather than Europeans.

> being the instigator for most social occasions but the pros outweigh the cons

It depends on the personality. Some people are very open. Some are not. I find social open-ness much harder than closed-ness. The open-ness approach, though, is most likely the better strategy indeed. It just helps little when people are naturally closed off mentally already.

Well - they also voted for Trump. Twice.

So the social cohesion in the USA is absolutely broken.

What is more tragic, though, is how they try to export their insanity onto other countries, be it Canada or the EU. Trump also supporting war criminal and genocidal man Putin, is such a clear fact for the agent Krasnov theory.

Evil in joint operation here.

The population in the USA really need to begin to think about their political system. That two-party system does not really work; and the transition to a de-facto one-party system led by an authoritarian clique is even worse. The system is totally broken here.

I am not sure if the success per se is the issue, but today things are definitely harder for many people compared to, say, 50 years ago for people of the same age. The available options for you, at age 55, are less with regards to success in general. And then it depends a lot on one's life too; for instance, are they single or not, do they have kids or not, and so forth.

> It's a psychologically very difficult time.

That's true, though it depends on how one handles that. But I think it is also clear that there are fewer options available when you are somewhat old already. People at age, say 20 to 25, may not feel a problem when they are gamers. At age 55, it is much harder to reason as to why you may wish to invest many hours per day into games; it just is not that productive, for most people (excluding e. g. playing to have fun, but that still does not answer the question of producitivity; I exclude professional gamers here, as they can often make a living just from donations, twitch etc.. but most people are not like that. Some of these gamers soon hit the age range 50+ by the way, I do watch a few of them every now and then.)

Alternatively the question is why the author of that opinion piece has nothing more to say.

I'd wish LibreOffice would have collab-editing by default for everything, as an option.

> No other big-tech company goes to such great lengths to deanonymize users and make its services difficult to use, especially during account creation

Dunno. Facebook is pretty ruthless and evil here as well.

Daily Evil by Google.

Anyone still having doubts about this company? To be fair: the US corporations all do that. I remember how Facebook linked off-connection data together. They are all operating in the same manner here, sustaining US spy interests.

Outside? What if you can directly manipulate the inside?

It is to me shocking how few have listened to Yuri:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

Of course he did not 1:1 predict Trump, but things such as "flood the zone with shit" is exactly what Yuri spoke about, just using different words e. g. informational overload or the corresponding russian words. And what he also didn't expand on enough, IMO, is corruption. Putin bets a LOT on corruption. Imagine if Trump were not corrupt - Yuri's prediction would not come to fruition. You need a rotting egg for leverage, and who knows what kompromat exists on the orange, clueless man.

If they disturb the election then the USA is de-facto a military junta. Which in a way they are since Big Tech is calling the shots. Pretty interesting to see how easy it was to overthrow the US system. It's a lesson for other democracies too - build a resilient system. Many years ago people said "nah, Putin does not destabilize democracies". Well, guess you know see how deep corruption is. It's a bit like in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatcher (both the first two movies are great; the first one was more with commie-vibes, and more disturbing in that way, whereas the second was a bit more with horror-vibes and an epic end scene with Donald Sutherland).

AI skynet slop won. Your pre-LLM days shall be honoured in memory.

The current slop-code though ... I don't think many would miss it.

Others "heroin", as analogy, isn't one convincing to get into the slop addict scene really, in my opinion.

> And, naturally, I also happen to think Rust is a really good fit for agentic development

To me this is a sad development. AI skynet slop is winning. Does any real human, aside from the fanboi faction, really love "agentic programming"? That is to use prompts to autogenerate text that is source code? I find that both sad and horribly uninteresting. I also stopped reading AI slop generated descriptions - they are just spam, babelfish 2.0 if you will. When I know that the human behind that text, was too lazy to write it himself or herself, why would I want to read that text? That's just a waste of my time.

> But I think Rust is popular for another reason: because Rust happens to be a really good fit for agentic coding.

Ok, so Rust is the perfect language for bots. Wasn't the original idea to be a great language for humans? What is the point here if AI slop auto-generates everything? Why would you need a human here?

> Rust is designed to give “good performance by default”, making the idiomatic thing typically also be the fastest thing. But another key part of Rust is that you have the knobs to eke out better performance when you need it.

Ok but why does this then not apply to C, C++, Java, C#, D? These can not be used rather than Rust? And you also should not run into memory issues with C like pointers - after all, AI skynet slop should generate bug-free code in C or C++ too. So I don't get why Rust would be THE ultimate slop language here. To me, if AI works, then any language can be slopped down.

This reminds me of the incredibly sad presentation DHH gave on a rails-conf, aka now slop-conf, where he spoke about how AI will win and how Rust beats Ruby hands down and he only AI-slop-spams now (busy on Omarchyslop). These people don't have a "vision" that is decoupled from AI - they are businesspeople and promo-people, convincing you that AI slop is the future. To me this is very sad rather than ... "exciting".

> The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.

Yeah. I think Google underestimated how many people they pissed off here. There is a reason I and many other think that Google has to be disbanded.

Either way welcome to the resistance!

We need alternatives, but I fail to see why we should replace one company with another here.

Instead, we should treat browsers like water in that everyone needs access to it at all times without any top-down control or restrictions.

Not necessary. A cell (with a nucleus) has all the DNA required. You just need to have a viable system to build up a human from it. I think right now this is not possible, but this will be solved eventually. The question is, though: do future humans really want to do that?

Let's assume such worlds exist.

How long will it take to reach them?

I mean, it would be a finite problem set, but who is going to pay attention when life span is at 120 years, give or take?

How about ... fixing this planet first?

The interesting thing is how easily a democracy can be abused. In some ways, though in a more limited manner, it reminds us of Germany in 1933 or 1930s. Now the orange mafia in charge is, of course, not 1:1 comparable; ICE kills citizens willy-nilly style but they are not as systematic in their overthrow of the US democracy as the N people were in the 1930s. But many elements are very much comparable, such as the orange mafia trying to stifle critical journalism. That's a transition to a more authoritarian system.

Total corruption by the orange clown-thief and those around him benefitting from their heist here.

The only partially redeeming thing we will soon witness is that he will lose the upcoming elections, no matter how much he plans to cheat. The TechBros pissed off too many people and stole too much money in addition to that. All that money should be given back, directly to the people. The superrich should not be allowed to control and manipulate democracies in general, even though they are currently prepping up the eyeliner-boy as successor to the orange insanity clown.

Well, you read one of their goals and visions here. That part is ok.

The question is: how is that goal turning out once it meets reality?

Tons of great ideas failed for various reasons. Alan Kay keeps on pointing out how sad he is that Xerox PARC failed in many ways. Reality is a strong selector - and the evil Google empire will make competition really, really hard here.

They are trying. But it won't work.

I think if you really want to build something like that, you need real momentum. Perhaps the ladybird folks can succeed here, the future will tell. I don't think Mozilla has enough momentum left.

https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/browser-market-share-202...

Firefox is between 2% and 3% now.

That's just AI promo though.

DHH is like a script that runs permanently in a loop, promoting AI now.

Before that it was rails, though the old rails promo made a lot more sense than the AI promo. But as long as you feed these people money, they do whatever you want them to say. An even more hilarious example is Sebastian Kurz - dude got insta-rich after politics. Like +100 million euros in a year. Tell me this is not corruption to the max ...

The AI companies and security companies buy legislation. Everywhere. And their financial kickbacks are AMAZING - otherwise you could not so easily change a few top-influencers into tools to influence other people.

> if you follow the money, it is pretty clear he is "just doing his (grok salesman) job"

Agreed. DHH is a promo-businessman now - may have always been that way, but it is very obvious to everyone now.

I think DHH needs to leave the ruby community. And the rails community as well.

(Still continuing ...)

> I know how that era ended, and no - that is not the part of the analogy I am after.

So he acknowledges how his own analogy is tainted. If Weimar worked so well, why would the Nazis have had success? Yes, people are stupid, you see it with Trump voters or ultra-right voters in Europe; many vote because of having lost in other areas, in particular the economy right now (very similar to 1933 in many ways), but the main point is that Weimar nowhere near as much was a success model as the author of the article tries to show. And I don't see why any of that has to do with DHH and his Kool Aid preaching style. I find it a lame style but that may be just me.

> Why, of all the things we now can do in Ruby, do we choose to do Rust vibe- > rewrites?

I don't. Then again I am not a DHH fanboi so ...

> It would be a pain to generate a PDF with layout - there were no libraries

Prawn was ok. hexapdf is even better. I regular try to get the hexapdf to improve the pdf-autogeneration part. Hexapdf is very good, so ... there were no libraries? Well, when exactly? Prawn is old: at the least 2008

https://rubygems.org/gems/prawn/versions/0.1.0

> You could no longer build native GUI applications - there were no libraries

Well, ruby-gtk worked, even on windows by the way. Since then it has decayed. My modifications of GTK core classes no longer worked. I tried to get kou to think about this problem some years ago. Nothing changed, all my old code is dead. So I decided to call it quits and no longer use ruby-gtk. Also because of GTK5 going to abandon xorg-server. I fail to see why I want to support their wayland-only crap future. Let's see whether this will succeed though:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver

and:

https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

Granted, there may be a lack of developers for both, but do we really want to be locked down by corporate hackers that try to control the downstream situation? Both QT and GTK have this problem, for different reasons. I am absolutely tired of corporate shenanigans leaking into ecosystems and ruining them.

> And a lot of people would just throw up their hands in desperation and > utter The Spell Of Dread:

> Nobody does this sort of thing with Ruby anyway.

Thankfully I could not care what others say. Unfortunately, Ruby is also declining, and has been in the last years. There is no way to deny it. The numbers are strong here. If you google for "ruby is dead", you will find things such as "no, it is aging like fine wine". People simply try to deny the reality - that's interesting. But it is not an analysis.

> a Rubyist willing to produce PDF files from their Rails app would be facing a choice of a number of options, all equally unappealing

Interesting how he does not mention hexapdf. Now, I am not claiming hexapdf may be able to solve all rails issues here, but what is interesting is how he does not even know all possibilities in ruby. Is he a rails guy or something?

He mentions:

Gotenberg, Ferrum, Prawn and wkhtmltopdf.

I stopped reading there. IMO if you critisize DHH, and this is well-deserved after the damage he caused in the ruby ecosystem, followed up by him hating on wolves and then casually ... mentioning how immigrants are like wolves (I have no idea what DHH is thinking; I think he is roleplaying the promo-role and in reallife probably acts totally orthogonal to the crap he writes in general), then you really really need to be super-sound in all arguments. Be it the comparison to Weimar (and then kind of wanting to omit how Weimar in some ways, not all, but some, helped build up the Nazi idiots) or not knowing hexapdf ... I am sorry, but that means you failed at doing your prior research.

Personally I already find hexapdf to be better than prawn. And you can also try to convince the hexapdf author to improve hexapdf; he was willing to do so when he has time and the suggestion made sense.

Edit: Hackernews has text restriction in place, so I have to continue via the reply here.

> It is abundantly clear that the LLMs are here to stay, that typing every single line by hand is no longer sustainable, and that the scales have shifted profoundly.

I disagree.

Ultimately via LLMs you become dependent on those who control LLMs. Not everyone wants that dependency.

And there is value for knowledge to be had regardless of LLMs as well. I agree that LLMs shifted the situation a lot in their favour, but I don't think AI skynet has won yet. You can find many people who really dislike LLM and are motivated to not get assimilated by the AI slop.

> What made me depressed was just how little care there was about the Ruby ecosystem and community, and the disdain with which David flushed the entire Rails and Ruby culture down the drain for the sake of “running it on a single Raspberry Pi”, as he put it.

That is true. It was clear when Hiroshi Shibata nuked all prior developers from rubygems.org. They built https://gem.coop/ in response - I am not sure how much momentum the latter has (remember that ruby right now is in-fighting more than gaining grounds, you can also see that on TIOBE, as bad as TIOBE is), but time will show.

This is not all DHH's fault only, though; neither only of Shopify. There are clearly people who never thought about the issue of money tainting an ecosystem, but it became more apparant the moment money became scarce suddenly. Why does a community need money, anyway? I am not paid by any of these companies. I don't want to, either. I want them to stop tainting the ecosystem via money and blackmail. Sadly shopify already tried so, and I think it is time to expel shopify from the ruby ecosystem as counter move. Unfortunately this alone won't really fix things; a lot of damage resulted from this. It'll take quite a while to recover from this.

> The “Roaring Twenties” of Weimar Germany also produced an incredible number of great, whimsical, fascinating artistic movements.

Ok he omits a lot here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic

Weimar lasted from 1918 to 1933. 1933 was when the Nazis already took over effectively in power. See Trump's ICE idiots trying something similar but failing hard (other than, of course, shooting down US citizens willy-nilly style - no civilized democracy would tolerate Sturmtruppen kill citizens like that, remember the ICE guy who stepped before the car, to have a casus belli to shoot; the other ICE guys stood next to the car. This is a 100% dead give-away of intention to kill someone).

So what did he omit? Well, the Nazis operate via psychology too, and people could feel a financial backlash and depression, in part due to reparation and other financial contributions they had to do, in part due to poor planning and execution of the government. The Nazis made everything worse, but they lied to the people about it, e. g. "we built roads like nobody did before", and many more propaganda shows. You can all read it up how they operated systematically via lies. I mean, the "Brausebad" disguise as gas chamber alone is a dead-give away. But people are easy to fool. So, no, the Weimar republic was not all that great. If it would have worked better than the Nazis would not have had a real chance. (They organised their coup well though: Night of Broken Glass in 1938 required those ~5 years or more. The time before 1938 is actually MUCH more interesting if you think about it. Hitler in 1938 already committed to war and eventual failure, but the main turning point came a few months before Stalingrad was cut off by the russian army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad - the loss came in 1943, but IMO the battle there on the whole front was already lost in late 1942. Stalingrad was just more the obvious defeat, but the defeat came mostly due to logistics issues.)

> Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld.

First, it has to be said that Ruby on Rails is not Ruby, in that the two communities at best are overlapping, but in reality, they are separate communities. I never managed to get into rails; I bought two books and did not complete either one. Despite all the promo, I always found rails horribly boring. I also did not see the need for it. At that point ruby itself already handled all my web needs (I wrote quite a lot of stuff in PHP; my latest project called "web", originally "cyberweb" when I was still using rubygems.org, came from the things I used and learned back then in PHP), so I never really fully understood the hype train. It took me a while to realise that this is how DHH operates - he is a business man first and foremost, not a programmer. He tries to build up hype. That's largely how rails got successful in the first place, in 2006 or so, give or take. So when he now promotes AI and Rust, I have a deja vu - he is on the promo tour again. (Note: I am not saying there is zero value in rails. Evidently there is, but I am focusing here on the promo, and DHH is a business man, not a programmer.)

> To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one.

DHH is annoying, but I don't think he is in any existential crisis. Now I think he lost the plot after his hate-entry against wolves, and casually linking shooting down animals to hunting down immigrants here:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

And no, I am not interested in any right-wing nuts trying to sugar-coat this. Before I used ruby I studied countless books about strategies (strategems, in particular chinese one, from Senger in particular), many psychology books too (various influence-centric books, both with a positive connotation and a negative one, e. g. "how to win friends and influence people", as well as the six core aspects of manipulation and so forth) - so I am not interested in white-washing campaigns about DHH anymore. His dislike of wolves showed it too clearly: he switched sides and is now on the Big Tech Bros side. This was already made clear when shopify rampaged through the ruby ecosystem - see how numerous devs were expelled by the ruby core team (Hiroshi Shibata, who acted under command by someone else, we all know that; and the reason for that move, was due to financial influx into the ruby ecosystem, which brings us back to shopify and its evil influence on the ruby ecosystem. byroot will soon say "no, we need more shopify companies!!!" - and while that has some logic in it, no, we really don't need MORE financial addictions and kick backs in the ruby ecosystem. Ruby needs more independent developers, and unfortunately it is now stuck in a death spiral. I don't see how it can escape it, even though ruby, as a language is really well designed - people need to separate the criticism, including criticism of DHH. DHH is a nut; ruby as a language is well-designed)

> “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied for.

The thing is: DHH's promo tour is logical if you connect the fact that DHH is now an AI promo agent. That's why he has no problem promoting Rust. It just sustains the AI agenda now. DHH is like a tool for AI promo. I pity the man - he is just a shell of his former himself now. He talked about things other than rails. You know all know that rails is dead. DHH did a post-portem here on rails. It's one of the more surprising things to witness. AI is the new rage - rails is dead.

> The message from the supreme leader was clear: we vibe-rewrote HEY in a more performant way, it worked great, we neither need nor care about Rails anymore.

That was not the main message though. The main message was that DHH joined the AI hype train. Rails is not relevant anymore. Even Omarchy is just a promo tool for AI. And, interestingly, the promo by DHH actually works. I am fascinated by that. Some of the clowns promoting it are paid shills clearly, but many people genuinely like Omarchy, for whatever the reasons. I don't fully understand it, but again, it reminds me of the rails hype. People LOVE hype. I don't know why; for me it never worked since I could not care less about what others are interested in (for the most part; I do "follow" some clever people. Follow is also such a strange word coined by antisocial media).

> he could have just left the toy he no longer loves - including its community - in peace.

But he is now an AI agent. So he promotes AI. He no longer cares about rails, that is true, but to him rails is a platform to promote AI. Same with Omarchy.

Big Tech Bros already pumped in millions here. It is a promo tool, similar to Anthropic claiming all problems in biology have been solved by claude (or will be, soon). They infect EVERYTHING now. It is the ultimate skynet slop. Just look at the ruby core team: claude is the main designer now. Does anyone feel like contributing to this AI slop? And, surprisingly: some people do. It's really interesting how AI changes people's mind. It's like in the old (two) movies Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But shit.

> But here is the thing: the rich and famous losing interest in the good stuff does not oblige the rest of us to. If anything, it frees up the room.

That is partially true, but ... can you generate as much hype and interest?

Many projects by solo devs fail here. Not everyone has the patience to do what, e. g. DHH does. You can dislike his methods but at the end of the day you will rate success somehow. One is by money. The other (or an additional one) is by interest by people.

I think DHH, as much as I think he is an AI tool, succeed in both. I am not interested in what this ultra-right nut has to say, but you have a bubble here of influencers and people listen to them a lot. Or, at the least, some do. Even matz said "I see no issue with blog entries of shooting down wolves and then randomly talking about migrants". Well, I have an issue with that, but it kind of means that politics and money infiltrated a lot of the discussion - on both sides, by the way. I am not so naive to assume that all criticism against DHH is genuine or honest either.

> Let’s give it up for Google - the biggest ad company on Earth

I think Google needs to be forbidden from causing more damage to the EU market. And there need to be replacements too, once we forbid this Evil entity from sabotaging EU citizens any further.

We also need real open browsers not controlled by greedy Ad companies.

I am also aware of the irony of using thorium here right now (based on the adChrome code base). If I use Firefox, I can not listen to audio since mozilla claims only systemd-pulseaudio using people can listen to audio. Well, chrome plays audio on youtube (which is also owned by Google, do people begin to see how big of a problem Google has become) just fine, so I have no idea what Mozilla devs are smoking. I could recompile firefox, to just use ALSA, but who in his right mind wants to compile a 1% usage base legacy browser that uses ancient technology to compile its outdated code base please?

See: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/firefox...

Mozilla gave up decades ago on fighting adGoogle. And it can be seen via small things too.

Ladybird may be a competitor at one point in time but they ban people from their github repository, which also sends the message "do not contribute to us because we don't care about you if you have dissenting opinions". Well, so much for real competition, when projects get all emo early on. You can't beat the evil adGoogle empire with wishful projections about "conduct of people". That's not going to work. I don't subscribe to any random ruleset made by random people I don't know and don't want to know when they resort to censorship. But hopefully more and more people realise that something has to be done about Google one way or another.

It would have to be somewhat more global than only in China though. After all Google's spyphones also operates globally, more or less, even if Google is a ruthless US tool for abuse of other markets. IMO we need to get rid of all companies though. That's not realistic, but it really should happen. I just do not trust any of these private entities anymore; verifiable open source and open hardware at all times should become the new standard. Is anyone really using Win11? Ever since the recall-spy feature I knew I could not commit to it; whether I can disable it or not is not a useful distinction since there is no more trust in that private blob, now supported via AI slop.

I am not sure but the less power Google has, the better. I am getting tired of those Trump milking machinery leeching off of others - we already see how Trump treats Ukrainians. The ultimate agent Krasnov, just as Yuri predicted in the 1980s already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0