Hacker News: throwfaraway4

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role"

throwfaraway4 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:07:40 +0000

Unfortunately, the odds of your start-up succeeding are very slim. Not to say that it's impossible but I wouldn't bank on it. I worked at as a founding engineering with two sr directors that left a prior employer. it was fun for a couple years but then I moved to the bay for big tech. it's been close to 14 years now and I'll retire by the end of the year. all this to say, if I was you I would maximize my income and saving at this young phase of your career. big tech is still an excellent place to build your network. at some point as you climb the ladder the corp culture may leave you dissatisfied and a start-up may be more attractive but hopefully at that point you'll be financially independent

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Remote work is bad for you"

throwfaraway4 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:27:10 +0000

>This was a good part of life. The office gave us access to this. It served as the ambient social substrate where tolerance, community, and begrudging, low-grade, constant connection took place.

I'll chalk it up to personal preference, but this is exactly the type of interaction I'm happy to miss while working remote.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Are Americans Too Old?"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:46:25 +0000

"It's fair to say that 80 percent of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go,"

- Obama telling the truth

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

throwfaraway4 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:21:35 +0000

Things like siphoning your data and using it to train while nerfing the model for everyone else is just the beginning of shady, rug-pulling, enshitification behavior we should expect. The dev community more than ever now needs to focus on being self-reliant and supporting open source models. They're counting on our skills atrophying over time to where you need their models to get work done. Ask yourself, do you actually need a frontier model to do this work? I think in many cases the answer is no. Don't support hostile behavior like this. Also, you can bet they're going to front government surveillance if not by choice, by regulation and political pressure.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Claude Fable 5"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:45:35 +0000

"for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design"

Oh man all of those runaway infrastructure buildouts by our agents trying to achieve singularity...

Just say you don't want to lower the bar for others to compete

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:57:09 +0000

https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Siri AI"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:08:25 +0000

You can. Install the beta

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Apple WWDC 2026"

throwfaraway4 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:39:05 +0000

I gotta say, as I read these comments HN's bubble is showing with astounding clarity. The top comment is about presenter authenticity? Idle Mac used for cloud models? No features are useful?

I can't help but think for most folks out there these features make using Apple products considerably more powerful and easy. They may be "boomer" features and you won't be able to roll them into your MCP server, but IMO it doesn't take a huge perspective leap to understand how they're game changers.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

throwfaraway4 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:31:37 +0000

AVP

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Direct Indexing with Exclusions"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:50 +0000

> Wealthfront offers direct indexing at a fair price of 0.09% of AUM. But as far as I can tell, they don't offer exclusions

You can exclude tickers under your profile

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:28:57 +0000

This is why direct indexing is important. I can simply exclude these tickers. Will it skew it slightly from the index? Sure but I’m ok with that

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:24:18 +0000

The extent to which you’re exposed to long term principles is directly related to the time you’re in the market. Ie trader vs investor

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”

- benjamin graham

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:50:20 +0000

Sweet summer child. Two things can be true at once

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:46:33 +0000

Not entirely but looking forward to having the time to make one. Die with Zero helped a bit with perspective. At my NW and spend it will likely be much larger when I go.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:45:32 +0000

Happy journey friend. Enjoy those kiddos

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:23:09 +0000

TBH I think most people's lives are on autopilot and I can't blame them. This is what late stage capitalism has endoctrinated into our culture. I was one of them until some events made me look critically at retirement. After crunching the numbers I could have retired years ago. Sticking it out a bit longer to squash the rest of the concerns my spouse has.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:18:46 +0000

As you can imagine, it's a planning heavy decision. I came off parental leave earlier this year and prior to that my wife and I talked about me not going back. However, we decided to delay until my next vesting later this year and to see how the midterms play out with this clown car of an administration and the potential impacts on healthcare. Barring anything catastrophic, it's happening this year. Parental leave already gave me a taste of the life I'd rather have.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:13:03 +0000

Agreed this is one way to go. But tbh, I'm not sure if I've lost the passion for tech as much as rather spend my time doing other things like be with my kids, travel, ect. Also, take better care of my health and be more active. We'll see if there's a desire to keep the sword sharp but I don't expect that for some time after I retire.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

throwfaraway4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:22:06 +0000

I've worked in food service, landscaping and factory jobs. You're right, the tech job does feel super cushy after gigs like that. But I'm about 25 years in on the tech industry now and I feel the same GP. At some point, you can't avoid the politics and corp BS and it wears you down. Everything is relative. Now that I have the means to say "I don't have to or want to do this anymore" I'll be checking out after this year. It's been a good run.

New comment by throwfaraway4 in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

throwfaraway4 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:23:51 +0000

>They're not going to lose on price. No consumer software ever has

Lists examples of software that are free to the users