<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: gettodachoppa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gettodachoppa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:48:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gettodachoppa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "1/3 of women < 44 have no children and the trend is rising. What is causing it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it was done as a desired choice rather than it being driven by economic fears, you're right, we shouldn't care. But for most people, they aren't having kids because they don't have a house, they don't have a stable partner (tangentially tied to economic needs), they just don't have money to raise kids.<p>With supply and demand, you'd expect a decline in workers would mean higher wages down the line. But the ruling class will always make sure there is endless immigration and free trade agreements to keep the average citizen broke and miserable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 02:55:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902234</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Do not factory reset your Pixel until at least 15 minutes after a system update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really get people's obsession with security updates for a smartphone. It's not a public webserver, bro. It's a phone. You're the one who decided it was etrash.<p>Not only is it not reachable by anyone except your mobile provider, but every app is sandboxed anyway. Unless you're downloading random apps every day, why would you care? What do you think is going to happen? Just stick to reputable apps.<p>You know what I do on my still-supported phone? Set it up, then disable automatic updates, for both Android and the Play store. I update the browser weekly, but that's it. I update the whole manually after a few months or year if I feel I have a good reason to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892465</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Structured logs are the way to start"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's trivial in C/C++ due to GCC being a first-class citizen in Linux, but idk how it's done for interpreted languages, Java, etc. If anyone can chime in I'm curious.<p>In C or C++, you just run 'ulimit -c unlimited' in your shell before running your program. When it crashes, a GDB-friendly core dump is generated. Then you can load it in gdb ('gdb myexecutable mycoredump'), and it takes you to the exact line where it crashed, including showing you the stack trace, letting you view local variables at every frame of the stack, etc. Every C++ IDE supports loading a core file, so it's literally an interactive debugger at the time you most need it. It's a life-saver.<p>Keep in mind you have to compile with debug symbols enabled to be able to make sense of the coredump. However, you can then strip your binary, as long as you keep an unstripped copy around to help you with debugging.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807022</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Why? How? Wuh?<p>Uh oh, someone's trying to think! You know why. We all know why. But stating it out loud makes you a bad man.<p>Better to just nod along and pretend it's all OK, especially at work, especially if you're not posting anonymously. And remember to be extra furious at Russia in your comments when someone reminds us that Russia spent 100k in "both sides" Facebook ads in 2015 (an act of foreign interference so ignominous, MSM ink will never stop spilling ink about it). It's what's expected of all of us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796736</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "ChatGPT Is Bullshit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a long time now I've been seeing this ugly trend in the titles of linked articles.<p>I wish every HN user would flag any article with these clickbait titles, instead they're always popular. You're encouraging this shameless virality tactic by engaging with content with titles like that. "$popularthing is just the worst" is crafted to engage you. By clicking, you reward the author's behavior.<p>Please just flag them without clicking the link, until blog authors take the hint and write sensible titles. That's what I'm going to do from now on. Flag on sight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634323</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Least scammy racebait NGO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:34:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605388</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks, that link made me much more confident in using Docker.<p>I mean come on: <i>"Attackers could try to exploit this issue by causing the user to build two malicious images at the same time, which can be done by poisoning the registry, typosquatting or other methods"</i><p>So basically ridiculous CVEs that will never affect people not in the habit of building random Dockerfiles off Github with 2 stars. Good to know. Only the 1st one isn't dismissable out of hand, I can't tell if it's bogus like the rest./</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360295</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone reading this, don't expect a smooth experience for desktop Linux under Hyper-V.<p>Hyper-V's team only cares about supporting servers. You're not gonna run a full-screen Ubuntu VM without a lot of banging your head against the wall, unless you spend days trawling random Github comments and reddit posts and fixing it whenever it breaks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 21:04:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360151</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm the opposite, I need these desktop hypervisors because Hyper-V is trash for anything but a WSL shell or server VM.<p>I upgraded to Windows 11 for WSLg (figuring it would replace my Linux desktop), and it was buggy trash. You can't even get a high-resolution Ubuntu desktop (from Microsoft themselves, their own quickbox!) without jumping through hoops, searching all over reddit for knowledge obsoleted by the next update, tweaking arcane settings and running misc Powershell scripts. To say nothing of the occasional freezes.<p>By enabling WSL2/WSLg, your Windows host is now a privileged guest running under Hyper-V as a hypervisor. Which means lightweight desktop hypervisors like Virtualbox run like trash.<p>I ended up removing WSLg/turning Hyper-V off, using Virtualbox for desktop Linux, and using WSL1 (not 2) to have a quick Linux shell without enabling Hyper-V.<p>I'm now considering Workstation due to the superior graphics in the guest over Virtualbox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 21:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360121</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a casual Docker user, ran maybe 30 images my whole life. I've never used any of these flags and didn't know most of them even existed.<p>Are these serious threats? I mean it seems like common sense that if you give a malicious container elevated privileges, it can do bad stuff.<p>Is a VM any different? If you create a VM and add your host's / directory as a share with write permissions (allowing the VM to modify your host filesystem/binaries) does that mean VMs are bad at isolation and shouldn't be used? Because that's what these "7 ways to escaper a container" ways look like to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 20:54:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360040</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more AI talent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try reading the author list of AI papers. Even those from western universities and labs. If you can't spot a pattern, then there's Sum Tin Wong with you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 23:34:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230929</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prepare for the talking points, folks.<p>Within a day, you'll start seeing the same words used across "journalism" organizations, about how "Iran is a destabilizing force for the Middle East", "sudden, unprovoked attack". Some articles about how wonderful life is for LGBT people in Israel.<p>If we're lucky, maybe this time around no one will say that Iranians behead babies or stab them in their hospital beds in the maternity wards. It was laid on a bit too thick last time, I felt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:32:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029121</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Daily Driving Ubuntu on M1 Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep. I do this for Windows. I have a Surface laptop which requires tinkering to get Linux working on it (keyboard doesn't even work out of the box, you gotta use a USB keyboard until you install a custom kernel off Github).<p>I couldn't be bothered. I just keep Windows running and run Ubuntu in Virtualbox. With an SSD there's no noticeable performance penalty except in accelerated graphics (in which case you should be using VMware).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:19:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39791570</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39791570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39791570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Redis adopts dual source-available licensing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>We're all upset about this. Not because Redis deserves to get paid, it's that they acted like they were being good stewards of the open-source community and then they changed their mind.<p>I'm an open-source zealot and I have no beef with the SSPL.<p>Redis is still an open-source project for 99.99999999999% of entities on Earth. The only people crying foul about this are tech giants and the corporate drones at the OSI. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but normal people don't care about either of you.<p>I'm not going to shed a tear for your trillion $ market cap company being asked to contribute a little more in exchange for all the wealth they siphon from the rest of the world.<p>If the tech giant you're cheerleading for is such a fan of open-source, why don't they open-source the management layer like the SSPL asks? This would resolve this beef overnight, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775914</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: How will LLMs work on an entire codebase?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like many of you I use ChatGPT for specific questions, completing a function from comments, etc. But I'm reading that LLMs will soon become actual developers.<p>How can that be? Let's forget about quality, hallucinations, etc. The largest context window from an accessible/affordable LLM is 32k (Mixtral or GPT4). That's barely enough for a TODO app, let alone a real project. The smallest project I work on, a desktop app, has 60k LOC/6M characters/1.5M tokens.<p>So what changes are coming that would allow an LLM modify an existing codebase, e.g. to modify a feature and write its tests? (without having to spoonfeed it the perfect context the way we do now in ChatGPT)</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:23:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535415</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/local-llm-guide/how-to-use-a-self-hosted-model/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/local-llm-guide/how-to-us...</a><p>Follow the guide all the way until you get to "Loading our model in Oobabooga". Then ignore the rest. You can do inference in Ooba under the Notebook tab.<p>(You can also ignore the "enabling HTTP API" parts, but it's quite handy, it's an OpenAI-compatible API which means you can use any OpenAI-compatible web UI)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524184</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Alexei Navalny has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This isn't Twitter or your polycule's Wednesday night political discussion, my friend. Being proud of rejecting historical facts doesn't give you as many virtue signalling points as you think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401892</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Alexei Navalny has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>even an unhinged TV personality can not single-handedly destroy a country and what it has stood for for the last 70+ years.<p>A war-mongering, propaganda-spewing, dystopian corporate empire beheld entirely to the military-industrial complex and megacorps?<p>You're right, I don't think he can turn the ship around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401728</link><dc:creator>gettodachoppa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gettodachoppa in "Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIRC, the AI "girl" becomes able to communicate with other people, and she instantly cheats on him like 2000 times in 1 day and then breaks up with him and leaves?<p>I think the movie tried to frame it as the right ending but to me it felt like the worst of MRA talking points about women's nature, validated on the screen.</p>
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<p>Nah, it's 100% true. solardev's wife is a real battleaxe. She once said "for our anniversary, I want to go somewhere I've never been!". solardev replied "Well how about the kitchen?"</p>
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