Hacker News: paulsutter

New comment by paulsutter in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

paulsutter — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:52:10 +0000

Yes I'm going to generate random numbers until the number I generate is fd77::

New comment by paulsutter in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

paulsutter — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:47:02 +0000

ipv6 is for faceless hordes of cellphones, which could just as easily be NAT

despite being an ipv6 skeptic, i’ve been thinking to try using ipv6 for our new company network, but make the addresses purely readable

New comment by paulsutter in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

paulsutter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:05:23 +0000

How did HN become this kind of website?

New comment by paulsutter in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

paulsutter — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:07:55 +0000

I'm definitely curious to see what happens

My guess is that most report quarterly, my question is what they report. But we will see.

New comment by paulsutter in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

paulsutter — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:57:20 +0000

Thank you, I really appreciate it. Found a nonpaywalled link:

https://optimization-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/7...

It is exciting to see research, but this algorithm has never been used by any commission anywhere (unless it's been adopted since publication! I would love to hear)

Can you find any algortithms actually used by these "nonpartisan" commissions you mention? Or even could you explain how nonpartisan participants are selected? (even if their commissions dont use any objective methodology)

I would truly love to see a way out of this mess, but I've been hoping for more than “I know it when I see it”

New comment by paulsutter in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

paulsutter — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:48:56 +0000

Don't invest in companies that disclose enough information.

They aren't banning quarterly reporting, they'd just no longer require it.

New comment by paulsutter in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

paulsutter — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:33:14 +0000

You should be able to make a killing placing commodity bets right now, because you have such crystal clear vision for the causal chain currently underway

What are your top positions? You will never need to work again!

New comment by paulsutter in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

paulsutter — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:27:02 +0000

Great! So please explain what algorithms are used by these "nonpartisan" commissions?

New comment by paulsutter in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

paulsutter — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:17:13 +0000

Helium output from the Persian Gulf is about 5 million cubic meters a month. Which (liquefied) is about 40 truckloads a week

This article is just hysteria

New comment by paulsutter in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

paulsutter — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:26:05 +0000

Blame Java - their use of utf-16 is the sole reason that Microsoft chose it.

Sun sued Microsoft in 1996 for making nonportable extensions to Java (a license violation). Microsoft lost, and created C# in 2000.

At the time, “Starting Java” was the most feared message on the internet. People really thought that in-browser Java would take over over the world (yes Java, not Javascript)

Sun chose UTF16 in 1995 believing that Unicode would never need more than 64k characters. In 1996 that changed. UTF16 got variable length encoding and became a white elephant

So Microsoft chose UTF16 know full well that it had no advantages. But at least they can say code pages were far worse :)

New comment by paulsutter in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

paulsutter — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:13:35 +0000

> I've seen too many "we'll just rack a few servers" projects turn into full-time infrastructure jobs

Really? How many?

New comment by paulsutter in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

paulsutter — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:05:43 +0000

Utf8 solved this completely. It works with any length unicode and on average takes up almost as little storage as ascii.

Utf16 is brain dead and an embarrassment

New comment by paulsutter in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

paulsutter — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:21:29 +0000

The model companies are the new OS, you bet they are thinking about projects like this

New comment by paulsutter in "AI is making junior devs useless"

paulsutter — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:38:53 +0000

This is ridiculous. New developers will learn a completely different skill path from what we learned, and they will get where we are faster than we did.

New comment by paulsutter in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

paulsutter — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:41:25 +0000

No they’re saying that the schools should repay the loans, not the government

New comment by paulsutter in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

paulsutter — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:38:42 +0000

Student loan forgiveness yes, paid for by the schools that let people rack up debt for low value degrees.

In the olden days student loans qualification depended on the students degree program and grades, and there wasn’t any repayment problem

New comment by paulsutter in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

paulsutter — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:21:54 +0000

“People asking if Al is going to take their jobs is like an Apache in 1840 asking if white settlers are going to take his buffalo” (Noah Smith on Twitter, I mean X)

New comment by paulsutter in "If you tax them, will they leave?"

paulsutter — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:59:28 +0000

Just make borrowings above the basis taxable as gains, its not hard

New comment by paulsutter in "The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says"

paulsutter — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:24:25 +0000

I think what?

New comment by paulsutter in "The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says"

paulsutter — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:08:05 +0000

Nonsense

There will however be a gigantic gulf between kids who use AI to learn vs those who use AI to aid learning

Objective review of Alpha school in Austin:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school