<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: brightball</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brightball</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:23:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brightball" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brightball in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean...I have a Tesla Model 3 with FSD enabled. I turn it on by default now when I'm in the car and I can't remember the last time I felt like I needed to takeover. It's been at least a month.<p>FSD unsupervised seems pretty close to me.</p>
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<p>Yet</p>
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<p>Violations of the US Bill of Rights.<p>Yes they occur. Yes the US does it. Every violation of it should have lost in court already but courts have a way of interpreting things based on their beliefs rather than original intent.</p>
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<p>Beautiful facility. They renovated the old Pepsi bottling plant.<p><a href="https://www.flywheelgreenvillesc.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flywheelgreenvillesc.com/</a></p>
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<p>I use a Substack site for the conference that I run. The popup and subscribe buttons everywhere used to annoy me...but they work. Went from 0 to almost 1,000 subscribers on an otherwise low traffic site and it's by far the best way to reach people.<p><a href="https://carolina.codes" rel="nofollow">https://carolina.codes</a></p>
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<p>Using services that will let you generate single use credit card numbers for subscriptions are great for this type of thing. You just disable the card number.</p>
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<p>It’s not so much language magic as it is “clustering preparedness” IMO.<p>Since any node in a cluster can be updated at any time and Elixir/Erlang code on the BEAM is designed make it easy to pass function calls to other nodes you don’t have any way of guaranteeing the Type contract between nodes. Types create a sort of false confidence in those situations where pattern matching handles everything very cleanly.<p>Example: You may not need to match on a full type, just a specific element name in a hash.<p>When people say Elixir doesn’t need types it’s not claiming that types are without value. It’s a claim that the mechanisms that already exist are enough without the added complexity.<p>I appreciate the gradual approach so that we can lean on both.</p>
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<p>Felt more like an upsell. Maybe predatory was the wrong word.</p>
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<p>It's interesting to read about.<p>I visited one of those Bosley places in the US. The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc. They did talk about how few surgeons there were that do this stuff well though. Also talked about scalp injections I think?<p>It's been several years. I just decided to let it go naturally and deal with it.</p>
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<p>I keep intending to find time to try them. What are you seeing the best results with?</p>
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<p>Google <i>really</i> needs to work on the user experience. The Google Cloud based approach to Gemini for coding is so clunky.</p>
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<p>> Being a U.S. ally no longer guarantees that you will be protected by the U.S. as Ukraine is seeing.<p>How much more is the US supposed to do in Ukraine beyond the $60-70 billion in weapons and supplies? Do we need to actually go to war with Russia?</p>
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<p>Best advice I ever got on home ownership:<p>Don’t get a loan til you can save 20% for a down payment and then, never get more than at 15 year mortgage.<p>Good advice on both counts.<p>Once you have 20% down you get out of paying PMI (private mortgage insurance) and you can open a an equity line (HELOC) for about 80% of the equity in the house. It’s typically like a super low interest credit card that you can tap for emergencies. I didn’t have an income for 6 months once and had to live on it.<p>The 15 year is critical. Do the math on a 30 year mortgage and you pay almost nothing toward the principle for a slightly lower payment for the first 10 years.</p>
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<p>Describes the US since founding. It’s the Constitution.</p>
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<p>Might be a different experience in a smaller town.</p>
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<p>We did that too, but the mall was also a good time.<p>Since we couldn't drive, parents had to drop us off and then eventually come pick us up again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 13:58:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279978</link><dc:creator>brightball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brightball in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I spent so much time hanging out at the mall in middle school. My friends and I would play in the arcade, wander around exploring book stores, game stores, walk around and bump into other people. Then we would make a collect call to one of our parents and give the name “come pick us up” before hanging up real quick to avoid charges.<p>It was a good time. The arcade especially because if you were good at a game you could keep playing without putting in more money, so we got really good. You can’t do that with arcade games now.</p>
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<p>Getting a book is my goto to learn anything new. I taught myself PHP and ended up finding a book 4 years later when I was looking for an answer to something. On the next page was something that would have saved me tons of time so I read the whole book.<p>Since then I’ve read books on Ruby, Go, Elixir, Docker, K8s and a lot more. By far the best way to get a semi complete understanding of anything without scraping together data from the internet yourself, because you won’t easily know the gaps.</p>
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<p>The polyglot and cybersecurity conference for all who code in Greenville, SC!</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.carolina.codes/p/announcing-our-2026-speakers">https://blog.carolina.codes/p/announcing-our-2026-speakers</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266843">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266843</a></p>
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