<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: 9rx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=9rx</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:33:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=9rx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 9rx in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If customers were willing to pay more then a higher price wouldn't solve anything. The price is said to be too low exactly because people are trying to buy more than there is available to sell. The whole point of higher prices is to try and scare people away. Not enough supply and a price too low are the same thing.</p>
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<p>Its not a significant concern because we've learned the hacks to work around it, but it is pretty freeing to not have to put hacks into your app.</p>
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<p>Exactly. From my point of view the strongest plausible interpretation of "in this day of age of high-priced beef" is that it recognizes that the current situation is a historical anomaly.<p>But that isn't how it was interpreted. We saw the weakest plausible interpretation + silly criticism transpire instead. However, I trust in good faith that it wasn't intentionally interpreted in the weakest way, but rather that it simply failed to communicate its intent.<p>Which is where I seek an understanding of where it broke down so that I can be clearer in the future.</p>
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<p><i>> Summer starting when the days grow short makes no sense.</i><p>Well, that's why there isn't just one summer. We have meteorological summer, astronomical summer, solar summer, etc. Solar summer already covers your intent.<p>I'm reminded of the comments every time unemployment rates are mentioned. Someone invariably chimes in with something like "the unemployment rate isn't valid because it fails to account for <i>x</i>", somehow not realizing that there isn't just one unemployment rate and that <i>x</i> is accounted for in the applicable rates.</p>
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<p><i>> I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire.</i><p>How about Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)? Attacking the tech elite was his deal.</p>
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<p><i>> in the previous 10 years</i> [...] [1] [2]<p>For the sake of understanding our communication breakdown, what suggests <i>"in this day of age of high-priced beef"</i> is talking about 5-10 years ago?</p>
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<p><i>> Most people consider it to have genuinely transformed commerce sometime around 1999–2001.</i><p>Because that is when tax and "munition" laws finally caught up. Internet commerce was already well understood before that time. The major online commerce players we think of today had already been in business for years. But an outdated legal system made scaling a challenge.<p>What's getting in the way of AI? It seems lawmakers have actually been afraid of holding innovation back here like they did with the internet and are allowing AI to do just about anything, even things that would normally be under intense scrutiny (e.g. copyright violations).</p>
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<p><i>> The non-desired sexed are not so valuable.</i><p>Huh? A holstein bull calf is selling for around $3,000 right now. That's... insane.<p>I remember from what doesn't seem all that long ago when <i>fats</i> didn't even fetch half that much. Beef has gone wild. If that's not valuable, what do you consider valuable?</p>
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<p>By using the type system. You define your type constraints at the module interface point and when you try to link the third-party module into that interface the compiler ensures that the constraints are satisfied. Same thing the compiler is already doing in simpler cases. If you specify that a third-party library function must return an integer, the compiler will ensure that function won't unexpectedly return a string. Just like that, except the type system is expanded to enable describing more complex behaviours.</p>
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<p><i>> I really like the idea of implementing the std lib separate from the language. I think that would be a huge blessing for [...] Go</i><p>Go's stdlib <i>is</i> separate from the language. The language spec doesn't specify a standard library at all. It also doesn't have just one stdlib. tinygo's stdlib isn't the same as gc's, for example.<p>I will note that gc's standard library also isn't written in Go. It is written in a superset with a 'private' language on top that is tied to the gc compiler to support low-level functions that Go doesn't have constructs for. So separating the standard library from the compiler wouldn't really work. No other Go compiler would be able to make sense of it. go1 promise aside, the higher-level packages that are pure Go could be hoisted completely out of the stdlib, granted.</p>
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<p><i>> Along with the "Bees are disappearing" scare, which was just measurement error</i><p>Or fixed? The suspected cause at the time was pneumatic planter dust-off and addressing that was as simple as adding a baffle to direct the dust to the ground, so it was quickly adopted once identified.</p>
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<p>of words</p>
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<p><i>> Yet I can make 200k as a software engineer on salary.</i><p>Then I dare say you've found your market fit. Tomorrow, your task is to start looking for a contractor position doing the exact same thing you are doing now. There's your business.<p><i>> but every idea/attempt (and I have made several attempts) I have never even makes revenue let alone profit.</i><p>Not even a single penny? What did these attempts look like? Were you out there knocking on doors offering to weed every flowerbed in the city? Or were you sticking to fun tasks, like programming, that made it feel like you were busy building a business but in actuality were hiding from it?</p>
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<p>I'm not sure I'd call them cheap. They're in the same price range as all the other brands with used machines of similar spec, plus some premium for being barely used. I am not sure there is any real price advantage. Agricultural markets are pretty efficient.<p>That might on the surface sound contradictory with high depreciation as that means someone has to pay for an expensive new machine. But they are not really at odds with each other when you think about it.</p>
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<p><i>> e.g. "[They might assume] cows simply produce milk like chickens lay eggs."</i><p>You may have a point that many have no idea how chickens work. Egg laying being like giving birth isn't an unreasonable explanation if you had to come up with one on the spot while completely in the dark. But most understand how milk is produced because even if they've never seen a cattlebeast, they deal with milk-producing humans daily.</p>
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<p><i>> After many months of thinking I found a plausible reason.</i><p>Carnivorous potatoes aren't as tasty?</p>
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<p>Heifer. Possibly freemartin under the right circumstances. Cattlebeast if you are looking for something more generic.</p>
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<p><i>> they don't have to make calves.</i><p>Where else are you going to get them from? A calf factory?<p><i>> And the calves are an unwanted byproduct</i><p>Am I misinterpreting you again? Heifer calves are the prized possession that ensures that your dairy continues into the future. Cows don't last forever (or even all that long).<p>You maybe had a stronger case for bull calves, but now that modern breeding can select for heifers with ~90% confidence, that's hardly an issue anymore. And, I mean, in this day of age of high-priced beef, even if you get the occasional bull you're not exactly complaining either.</p>
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<p><i>> A cow couldn't have a calf if it hadn't become pregnant.</i><p>Not just that. A cow couldn't <i>be a cow</i> if she hadn't become pregnant.</p>
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<p><i>> Most people think that cows are simply bred to produce milk without pregnancy</i><p>Am I misinterpreting you here? You're saying most people think cows are bred (you know, what causes pregnancy), and presumably think that that calves are born — I've never met anyone who didn't know what a calf is, but somehow don't realize that pregnancy happens inbetween?</p>
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