Hacker News: nickspag

New comment by nickspag in "Claude Opus 4.7"

nickspag — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:36:20 +0000

I find grep and common cli command spam to be the primary issue. I enjoy Rust Token Killer https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk, and agents know how to get around it when it truncates too hard.

New comment by nickspag in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

nickspag — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:20:19 +0000

You would be wrong. The IRA is projected to remove a California-sized block of US emissions by 2030. The IRA is the single strongest climate action tried by any country since the Paris Accords.

KH was also pro nuclear.

New comment by nickspag in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

nickspag — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:59:15 +0000

It should also come with a reckoning on their role in the recent history that led to this change and it should be clearly communicated.

And the standard to/not publish should be clearly laid out and justified in their own words.

New comment by nickspag in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

nickspag — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:38:52 +0000

In an effort to lower the deficit effects of the Trump tax cuts (i.e. increase revenue so they could cut further in other areas), they reclassified software developers salary so that their salaries have to be amortized over multiple years, instead of just a business expense in that year. This is usually done for assets as those things have an intrinsic value that could be sold.

In this case, business have to pay taxes on "profit" that they don't have as it immediately went to salaries. There were a lot of small business that were hit extremely hard.

They tried to fix it in the recent tax bill but it was killed in the Senate last I checked. You can see more here: https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/fact-sheet-on-....

Also, software developers in Oil and Gas industries are exempt from this :)

New comment by nickspag in "Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform"

nickspag — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:30:19 +0000

I don't know if I'd go that far. It's pretty easy to go from ARM to Bicep. And Bicep is genuinely better at everything ARM does and has a wider breadth of features as a DSL- and that is genuinely valuable. It was always going to have to be back compatible/compile to ARM: moving off it has to start somewhere.

re: nix, it does infra?

New comment by nickspag in "Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform"

nickspag — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:49:48 +0000

Bicep is fantastic. But it compiles to ARM, so it's still limited by ARM's weaknesses and gaps, in addition to the underlying general instability of Azure and the inconsistencies from the Resource Providers. As well, Bicep is declarative- which is elegant in theory, but the stateful design of Terraform can cover up some of those underlying ARM/Azure gaps in practice. The deployment stacks approach on Azure should help further, but there's still a long way to go.

New comment by nickspag in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

nickspag — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:48:54 +0000

I've always liked the idea of this monetization model. But have you thought about how to disincentivize content stealing? Feels like these models end up needing a very thorough verification system.

New comment by nickspag in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

nickspag — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:39:15 +0000

That's not all of it, either. Older buyers have gotten the lionshare of their wealth from housing appreciation by preventing new housing and pay a lower tax burden than new buyers due to Prop 13. There's a reason that when it made it to the supreme court Justice Stevens called it medeival and referred to entrenched owners as Squires. "During the two past decades, California property owners have enjoyed extraordinary prosperity. As the State's population has mushroomed, so has the value of its real estate. Between 1976 and 1986 alone, the total assessed value of California property subject to property taxation increased tenfold. Simply put, those who invested in California real estate in the 1970s are among the most fortunate capitalists in the world.Proposition 13 has provided these successful investors with a tremendous windfall and, in doing so, has created severe inequities in California's property tax scheme. These property owners (hereinafter "the Squires) are guaranteed that, so long as they retain their property and do not improve it, their taxes will not increase more than 2% in any given year. As a direct result of this windfall for the Squires, later purchasers must pay far more than their fair share of property taxes." https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1912.ZD.html

New comment by nickspag in "Lichess on Scala3 – Help needed"

nickspag — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:51:22 +0000

there were no deployments near 11/10, according to that graph - they also say in the blog that scala2 could go for two weeks without restart, so theyre presumably aware of some sort of memory management issues they're just okay with it.

gRPC Transcoding for .NET

nickspag — Thu, 12 May 2022 16:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-grpc-json-transcoding-for-dotnet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356394

Points: 3

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New comment by nickspag in "Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]"

nickspag — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:28:33 +0000

Probably not? The crux of the opinion seems to grant fair use because it enabled a "new and transformative use," which is a box that a different line of encyclopedias doesn't seem to check.

New comment by nickspag in "Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming"

nickspag — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:48:05 +0000

The original fix’s author updated the post about this: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

Rockstar awarded them 10k for it.

New comment by nickspag in "I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months"

nickspag — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:06:42 +0000

It's an ISO 8601 vs Gregorian calendar peculiarity, not inaccuracy. See the date section here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601, another example of a week 53.

New comment by nickspag in "Can't you just right click?"

nickspag — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:22:18 +0000

I believe one of the main security benefits of these requirements are ensuring a binary hasn't been altered maliciously, or otherwise I guess. Not preventing outright malicious applications.

Also so the os doesn't have to repeatedly rescan apps, etc.

New comment by nickspag in "GitHub Codespaces"

nickspag — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:41:43 +0000

I also use Azure DevOps for work and am a recently-former MSFT person. From what I've heard from those still there, most of the new development is going towards Github Actions, which is also reflected in their staffing movements. However with GHA running on top of ADO pipeline infrastructure (public info), Microsoft's success with the strategic slow burn as OP called it, and their super-long-term-support reputation, it's probably not in their interest to rush the move. I'd be willing to bet that in a year+ or so the writing on the public wall becomes much clearer. To that extent, we've started planning a migration at my company.

New comment by nickspag in "Microsoft Application Inspector"

nickspag — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:11:57 +0000

In regards to the first line of your comment, check out https://www.fuget.org. It does exactly that.

New comment by nickspag in "Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms"

nickspag — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 01:07:42 +0000

I think you're giving the author too much credit. They recently chimed in on Twitter in a similar context- which I'm guessing is where the motivation for this blog post originates. And despite having a WebKit engineer publicly discuss design decisions and reasoning, they ignore them during that discussion and go on to write this article while making note of literally none of the context that was provided? https://twitter.com/johnwilander/status/1191185213012865025.

It's bad faith commentary, to say the least. Look at the level of accusation they're making "Apple Is Trying to Kill Web Technology" ... "It wants its Mac App Store to be filled with apps that you can’t find anywhere else." Leaving aside the fact that there's no way Apple makes enough from some imaginary exclusivity to justify trying to "kill web technology," none of their moves can even rise to that level. So they were slow to implement WebRTC? Service Workers? Both have massive privacy issues- and partitioning service workers out of process is the crux of how WebKit enforce's privacy- which they're pushing even harder these days. And according to said engineer they even added a compile flag so Google didn't have to use partitioning (I wonder why they wanted that...)- how very anti competitive of Apple. And suddenly mandatory WebKit on iOS is a "monopoly?" It's their platform- they define the security and privacy baselines. Apple has had a walled garden since before the "Web Technology" the author is referring to existed and this is a piece of that. It's another valid consumer selling point- their stores aren't cluttered with trash and I know what those apps can access. But, according to this person, every single point here is fake marketing speak because... checks notes... they want to force people to develop apps only for the Mac Store? Really?

We can be critical of Apple for a lot of web stuff, but it takes a delusional level of self-absorbance to think that Apple is bringing about the end of cross platform web tech because they put up a completely fair and valid barrier, that will probably be resolved shortly, as you said, on one's tech stack of choice.

New comment by nickspag in "GitHub Package Registry"

nickspag — Fri, 10 May 2019 22:35:50 +0000

All asp.net/core as well

New comment by nickspag in "Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer into Its New Chromium Edge"

nickspag — Mon, 06 May 2019 18:21:08 +0000

This is basically just a compatibility mode where you switch the IE renderer in the tab within the same Edge application "shell."

Seems like a no-brainer.

New comment by nickspag in "Machine Learning for .NET"

nickspag — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:54:19 +0000

I started ML work in python coming from a .NET background. To echo one of the other comments here- I believe one main reason is due to the iterative nature of data science. You have to sort of re-build completely every time you make a change in .NET. There isn't much of a notebook concept in .NET- a running engine you can query with additional commands/cells/etc, which is beneficial. As well, real-world data feels easier to work with in a more forgiving environment (non-static typing, etc) like Python. However ML.NET is a cool endeavor and as the .NET data prep libraries get more mature we may find some more production benefits from the very typing/compiling system that, while making it difficult to iterate in, provide more stability in the wild.