<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: arjie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arjie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:22:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arjie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arjie in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Capitalism does not depend upon self-sufficiency. This sounds like total nonsense. In fact, the obviousness of comparative advantage and the benefits of trade that are common among market economies clearly illustrate that interdependence is a crucial aspect of capitalist societies. In fact, self-sufficiency is a characteristic of socialist groups - all of whom want to run <i>their own farm</i> with <i>their own</i> this and that. Similarly the socialist and communist nations wanted to wall themselves off so that they only produce for themselves inside their borders what they want and so on.<p>Also what's all this about the body that never breaks. We have insurance schemes <i>because</i> there is uncertainty about the human body. What are annuities? Contract law allows for exemptions for acts of god like if a hurricane hits you.<p>Listen, this person's life sucks. And it's important that society not abandon them. But that doesn't mean they can talk nonsense. This kind of suffering theology where we believe someone whose life is hard has access to some deep truth has no basis in reality. In fact, I'd argue that their thought is far more likely to be disordered.</p>
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<p>Sure, if one ignores constraints then we can do everything. It's like saying that you could find an element in an unsorted array in O(1) if you just pick the right index. Obviously. The part that makes it hard is that you can't pick the right index. Coordination and resource allocation is everything. It's not free. It costs effort just like searching an unsorted array is O(n) worst case. There's no way to not pay the price. Energy has to be expended.<p>You'll see this if you're ever at sea. You have an infinite amount of fresh water around you. All you have to do is avoid the salt in it.</p>
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<p>Certainly, and notably the 'capital class' that's 'hoarding' the housing he's talking about are what look like normal people. You'd make more money taxing half of the value of those who own SFHs in Santa Clara alone than you would Elon Musk - and hurt productive capacity and jobs far less. The disconnect between the desire to extract what people describe as a fair share from the 'capital class' comes up rapidly against the wall of realizing they themselves are the 'capital class' in question. Everything else then becomes a war of definition as they try to narrowly constrain the scope of this such that they can send their kids to Monta Vista while simultaneously having everyone else pay much higher taxes.</p>
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<p>Everybody gives more power to the larger players. You won't work for me for $10/hr but you'll work for a guy who has more money for more. There's nothing wrong with that. Money is just a fungible unit representing value offered.</p>
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<p>This sounds like an incredible deal, doesn't it? Transforming a capital cost to an operational cost is fantastic. The total cost to use over 2 years is also much lower on this kind of thing. I suppose the reason not to use it is that you can use an old device for much longer. My wife and parents are on an iPhone 13 and I'm on an iPhone 16. The cost over that period is consequently much lower.<p>In any case, doesn't this sound like an insane contract for Klarna to have signed? It's freaking Apple. Mind blowing deal for a buy-now-pay-later company to sign. Imagine being in the chain for an Apple product. What a coup.</p>
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<p>The OP has a thing that solves it for many: update to a beta version.</p>
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<p>The proposal does not involve reducing existing taxes. It is a technique to pay for increased spending. So the latter sentence seems unlikely.</p>
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<p>This is very cool. I think I’ll get it instead of using my home built device (a respeaker attached to a low power machine). Looks like it supports custom wake words too. Thank you!<p>It’s funny how we converged on a similar system. My agent is also written in Rust.</p>
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<p>Like the others I just wrote a simple agentic loop that listens to telegram and acts with a timeout to check other things, and with a timer to run scheduled jobs on a cron.<p>EDIT: Oh, home assistant. I use Home Assistant <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io/</a></p>
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<p>Haha! Love to hear it. That's exactly what I have too: a claw-like[0] system which I originally used Sonnet for and now use my DeepSeek v4 Flash with.<p>In my case, I was foolish enough to run it all on my hardware which is pretty damned fast but has a duty cycle of 5% and runs idle most of the time. It's definitely better done via API.<p>Tell me more about the Alexa-like system! I have mine at home on a custom OpenWakeWord model trained on the word 'Aurora'. And I, too, have it hooked up to Home Assistant. I have a bunch of Eufy E21 baby cameras mounted on the walls[1] so it has vision through the house. The vision model uses GPT-5.5 on the subscription because I haven't yet set up a Qwen or Gemma multimodal that can see.<p>With Frigate on my home server I can even watch for events like my daughter waking up! And at night the agent sends out the vacuum if we've cleared the floor of baby toys. I feel <i>this</i> close to the dream of sci-fi AI. Because I auto-forward a bunch of my email to it etc. it knows about what's going on with me.<p>My wife will sometimes ask the agent information about me etc. and it's way easier to get a fast response rather than waiting for me to see the message etc.[2]<p>0: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538158">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538158</a><p>1: <a href="https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-12-01/Grounding_Your_Agent" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-12-01/Grounding_Yo...</a><p>2: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/tP12lfj" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/tP12lfj</a></p>
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<p>To be honest, I am surprised by how good DeepSeek V4 Flash is. I use Claude Code and Codex on Claude 5 Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol most of the time, but when I use DS V4 Flash I don't feel like it's really that bad. And with oh-my-pi and just plain pi it's pretty good. To be honest the frontier models are much better at tool calling so in an assistant flow they're better but I did the dumb thing and optimized the harness for the model instead, rewriting the tools so they match what it guesses at, and DS V4 Flash does just fine.<p>The TTFT and tok/s are much higher on the small model so that makes it competitive for a bunch of things. It feels like what old Sonnet used to by the end of last year which is honestly damned good.</p>
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<p>Until this present universe I didn’t really care about that because retaining the job wasn’t a top priority. If you got fired over something like this you took it as a good way to go do something somewhere else.<p>Now of course it’s hard to say if the original employment shape is still valid.</p>
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<p>> <i>It goes on to say that at the same retreat Baillie drank a Guinness standing on his head, after sharing that he had learned the trick from his former father in law during a conversation inspired by the trust session.</i><p>From another article: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/netflix-exec-goes-ballistic-being-010350264.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/netflix-exec...</a><p>Honestly, the whole thing seems sort of innocuous. He had some particular medical treatment and then drank a Guinness upside down. Maybe there was something else to it but if you're a big corp then you probably should just give a safe answer.</p>
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<p>Infinite scroll is not a good tool for his use-case. Users will filter and then try to Cmd-F. They will get annoyed if you can’t search. It’s just bad UX. You can use infinite scroll for things like Twitter feed. Product search is just a different kind of UI.</p>
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<p>Good grief, this website is utter garbage. Keeps popping up the Support Us popup and crashed the iOS web view.<p>But one thing that’s interesting with the administration’s approach to so many things is the removal of tools to get information. In the article (which works in brave which suppresses the pop up) they talk about this tool to collect information on how a crash occurred. I get wanting to change priorities. As a bicyclist I can understand if road space is optimized for other uses due to the predominant form of use.<p>But I think one of the reasons the US is so prosperous is that we have here a reliable and high-quality data collection machine. The less you know about yourselves the worse you can achieve your objectives.<p>Massive tragedy that data collection fell to ideology. Though the ideology is very funny. It sounds like an angry redditor!<p>“This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda”</p>
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<p>Seems like the maximal position he could take compatible with his expressed principles. There’s no way to allow for bioweapon and cyberweapon grade models being open weight if one doesn’t want widespread human damage.<p>So I cannot disagree with him on the idea. It’s only a matter of degree and whether we’re already there or not. I have $50k in GPUs that incentivizes me to believe we are not.</p>
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<p>I think the chain of reasoning is not hard to follow:<p>1. Assume the Rust rewrite of Bun went badly<p>2. Then something must be grievously wrong with a released bun runtime based on that code<p>3. Claude Code uses the released bun runtime based on that code<p>4. From #2 and #3, something must be grievously wrong with Claude Code<p>5. If something were grievously wrong with Claude Code, users would reduce use of Claude Code and use alternative tools<p>6. From #4 and #5, users are reducing use of Claude Code and using alternative tools<p>7. Claude Code has wide use and use is growing across all software engineering verticals<p>8. #6 and #7 contradict<p>9. From the contradiction, the assumption in #1 is false<p>The parts that are not explicitly spelled out here are an exercise for the reader. It doesn't really matter if the guy who wrote Bun said this or my uncle said this.</p>
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<p>Oh, very neat! I'd noticed the Burberry abandonment of that style and looking far downmarket the Cracker Barrel rebrand to less baroque style failed as well. I hadn't noticed it was so widespread. It's funny. I still like the minimal style but I'm old now so maybe that's how it goes.</p>
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<p>Oh that's a fun fact. It reminds me of the comments on HN recently that pointed out that almost all photos of bicycles have them facing towards the right so that you can see all the parts. Same reason as on these locomotives. Indeed it seems advice online does concur for the bikes: <a href="https://www.purecycles.com/blogs/bicycle-news/136740359-how-to-photograph-your-bike" rel="nofollow">https://www.purecycles.com/blogs/bicycle-news/136740359-how-...</a></p>
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<p>Haha, I agree. I always thought Corporate Memphis people looked extraordinarily fat. The colours chosen to accompany were always rather jarring too. But then again, I won't claim to be much of an artist. My wife was at Figma's conference "Config" and their visual design also looks awfully jarring to me. Scroll to the bottom here: <a href="https://config.figma.com/" rel="nofollow">https://config.figma.com/</a><p>It seems that others like that though.</p>
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