Hacker News: elforce002

New comment by elforce002 in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

elforce002 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:41:01 +0000

Hi Tim. I liked your work with dart/flutter. Are you guys working on overhauling Xcode? The DX is atrocious.

New comment by elforce002 in "The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter"

elforce002 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:55:48 +0000

That's a bummer.

New comment by elforce002 in "Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads"

elforce002 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:35:47 +0000

I made it he mistake of using the yt app and I wanted to throw the phone away. Never again.

New comment by elforce002 in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

elforce002 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:31:02 +0000

I have a kid (5~8 range) and what we did was to limit PC consumption, avoid getting our kid a tablet and cellphone. It has been really good and my kid still has his/her innocence intact. Hopefully this will continue until adolescence. We're also trying to put the kid in different outdoor activities as well as playing with him/her (chess, uno, etc...). It's not easy, but is doable.

New comment by elforce002 in "How to delete your Facebook account"

elforce002 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:05:58 +0000

I deleted my FB account six years ago, and I don't miss it. I use Twitter, Reddit, and occasionally IG (I don't post anything there).

New comment by elforce002 in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

elforce002 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:46:52 +0000

You can go further: Which business will bet its entire existence, let alone finances, to an "AI" (Companies are literally writing "don't rely on X LLM outputs as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice"?

New comment by elforce002 in "Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite""

elforce002 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:43:25 +0000

He explained that on Lex Fridman's podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk

New comment by elforce002 in "1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day"

elforce002 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:14:47 +0000

This is interesting. We know twitter was left-wing all the way to the top and after Elon took and put both sides on equal footing, it suddenly became right-wing? C'mon man. Media is run by the left.

The EU is increasingly trying to suppress dissenting voices on one side of the aisle. We'll see how long people will put off with that before things get out of control.

South America is starting to divide itself between socialism (Venezuela, Bolivia, etc...) and center-right ideas (Argentina, El salvador). Time will tell.

New comment by elforce002 in "1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day"

elforce002 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:31:34 +0000

What I'm seeing here is lots of echo chambers getting created as we speak. Threads, bluesky, etc... I don't use Threads because I don't use Instagram that much. Everyone will have their safe space and the world will continue without any issues whatsoever. Heck, there are countries where Facebook is the "internet". Other than the left (US, UK, Canada?) posting on any of those platforms, nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform.

New comment by elforce002 in "1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day"

elforce002 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:25:48 +0000

Who did he ban?

New comment by elforce002 in "AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive"

elforce002 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:32:15 +0000

According to Ilya Sutskever: "results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued". https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

They're trying other techniques to improve what we already have atm, but we're almost at the limit of its capabilities.

New comment by elforce002 in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

elforce002 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:29:05 +0000

According to Ilya Sutskever: "results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued".

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

They're trying other techniques to improve what we already have atm.

New comment by elforce002 in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

elforce002 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:47:20 +0000

I beg to differ. It's important because I can equally see both left and right posts. If you consume more left-leaning posts, you'll get more of that content. My feed is Web Dev, Machine Learning, Mobile Dev, etc... you have to be hardcore right to get anything related to that (same goes if you consume left-leaning posts).

In the end, people will choose their echo chamber no matter if they know it's an echo chamber. I try to be as impartial as possible. I use Twitter, Reddit (specific subs), and occasionally, IG. I have a tiktok acct but I rarely use it.

New comment by elforce002 in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

elforce002 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:26:03 +0000

Musk was left-leaning not so long ago. I follow left-leaning media (WYT, Pod Save America, etc...) and right-leaning media (Ben Shapiro, etc...) equally and see both posts without any issues. If the left-leaning people leave Twitter, the new platform will become an echo chamber the same way Reddit, gab, parler, and Truth Social are.

New comment by elforce002 in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

elforce002 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:09:30 +0000

To be honest, bluesky will become the left version of "Truth social". That's good for them in the long run (ad money) but it'll be another echo chamber. I follow both left-leaning and right-leaning people on Twitter and I don't see the "balance" going one way or another.

The other thing is reach. Twitter, Fb, Instagram are global brands. It'll be really, and I mean difficult to move the rest of the world to other platforms (TikTok is the exception because they went ahead with video from the get-go).

New comment by elforce002 in "Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others"

elforce002 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:57:20 +0000

In defense of firebase, their tenant solution is the best I've ever seen (at least so far).

New comment by elforce002 in "Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious"

elforce002 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:36:59 +0000

I think... I think the op was being sarcastic.

New comment by elforce002 in "Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious"

elforce002 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:35:32 +0000

While we're at it, we need to break Microsoft and Amazon asap. I don't know how Microsoft is not up for discussion when it's a behemoth (GitHub, LinkedIn, Azure, Windows, Office, etc.). The same applies for Amazon.

New comment by elforce002 in "DOJ may want to break up Google"

elforce002 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:46:28 +0000

Good initiative but only Google? Here is but a concise list of companies that are in desperate need to be broken apart to foster innovation and entrepreneurship:

Amazon: E-commerce, AWS, Twitch.

Microsoft: Azure, Office, Windows, Linkedin.

Facebook: Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook.

New comment by elforce002 in "Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand"

elforce002 — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:31:15 +0000

Interesting. We're not taking into account the intangibles, aka people's perception. People are angrier than usual since they feel (and rightly so) they're being displaced from their places. Look at Portugal and Spain.