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New comment by cakeface in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

cakeface — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:22:20 +0000

The “all human access” is doing work also. Most access will likely be from AI agents.

Community Letter from Tim [Cook]

cakeface — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840303

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by cakeface in "Claude Opus 4.7"

cakeface — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:56:05 +0000

You used a secret backup test! Truly honored to see the flamingos. We obviously need them all now ;-)

New comment by cakeface in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

cakeface — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:40:25 +0000

dot-com bubble companies were not good companies. They either built something that was not novel so it could be copied, or had insufficient value to monetize. We'll see the same with current AI.

Similar to the invention of the web, AI is not a bubble. Real value has been created.

New comment by cakeface in "Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)"

cakeface — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:41:20 +0000

I think of certain types of knowledge as one way functions. In order to acquire the knowledge you have to search a huge key space or experience costly elimination of options. Once you know the answer it feels obvious and intuitive. We have accumulated so much of this knowledge now that we have a hard time intuitively understanding the gap between people without it and us.

New comment by cakeface in "Building a highly-available web service without a database"

cakeface — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:29:05 +0000

You built a database.

New comment by cakeface in "FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes"

cakeface — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:41:09 +0000

Like air travel and hotel rooms. Even market based approaches like eBay have different prices for the same things. I'm not for dynamic pricing but it's pretty common.

New comment by cakeface in "Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard"

cakeface — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:17:39 +0000

Aren't there wiretapping laws that make recording conversations in certain situations illegal? I love the idea of this type of technology but it seems tricky to deploy from a moral and legal perspective.

The story of Signature Plastics

cakeface — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://kbd.news/The-story-of-Signature-Plastics-2271.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344292

Points: 73

# Comments: 14

New comment by cakeface in "Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations"

cakeface — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:38:18 +0000

Tax the billionaires. Tax the vacant real estate holdings at the high end. Tax short term rentals.

New comment by cakeface in "Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request"

cakeface — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:26:12 +0000

I'm generally a proponent of soft limits on almost everything. It's better to hit some artificial cap than to end up chewing away on a transaction forever or crashing some service that can't allocate the memory to deal with it. In this case a limit on gems in an account, packs in a transaction, packs in an account, etc.

New comment by cakeface in "EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct all cleanup actions related to derailment"

cakeface — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:49:31 +0000

I suspect your question is rhetorical but I, and quite a few other Marxists, would say yes. Dividends, stock buybacks and other types of profit should be banned.

New comment by cakeface in "Twilio’s toll fraud problem"

cakeface — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 02:42:48 +0000

How is this a workable system!? Why would anyone pay them. This seems like fraud on the part of the phone networks for billing for service that was never provided or should have been provided cheaper.

New comment by cakeface in "Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended"

cakeface — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:25:14 +0000

I am more and more worried that shutting down Twitter is and has been the plan. This is about controlling speech a different way.

New comment by cakeface in "Database Review 2021"

cakeface — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:35:30 +0000

Dynamodb is very scalable and effective at keeping operational cost down. It succeeds at it's goals by trading off on lots of things though. As a developer it can feel almost hostile. Adhoc queries are limited almost forcing you to have a complete second copy of the data. Access patterns must be designed up front and hope you don't need to change much when you hit scale. The tooling is meh. It's easier to make a scalable database when you push all those problems on your devs. Constraints are tricky. Transactions must be carefully designed. It's nice to know that almost definitely read and write throughput will scale and you can reduce the DBA/DevOps staff because AWS handles it.

New comment by cakeface in "New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use software everyone can see"

cakeface — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:20:51 +0000

You can see the source code on github https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite

Looks to be TypeScript running on node. They have an embedded kiosk browser.

New comment by cakeface in "Skipping the boring parts of building a database using FoundationDB"

cakeface — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:31:47 +0000

postgres has a version of this preempts idea with default values on columns. postgres will fill in the value at query time without needing to backfill the data. postgres is not a horizontally scalable database like FDB so not a direct comparison. In practice this means the migration lock is much shorter and it becomes possible to actually have a default in large tables.

New comment by cakeface in "Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion"

cakeface — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:38:55 +0000

In which I run `order by punsafe desc` and immediately regret it.

New comment by cakeface in "A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease"

cakeface — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:05:19 +0000

Tick bites are not mostly avoidable. It is mostly avoidable to have one on you for > 24 hours by checking constantly. Numbers of ticks have increased the past 2 years in my area of NH. I have gotten them walking from my car to the house. Also if you have animals that are treated with tick medicine they bring the ticks inside and then the tick drops off so you can get them in your house.

New comment by cakeface in "Italy’s main University in Milan just banned teaching Dostoevsky"

cakeface — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:22:42 +0000

I think holding the citizens of a country responsible for the actions of the government of their country is not completely unreasonable.