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It’s not her fault that she lucked out
pensions are defined benefits. if they truly worked for that pension, it'd be defined contribution.
Don't downplay it as just a few mistaken reports or one wrong line item. The majority of the dollar value they claimed to have saved was wrong.

Now they _allege_ to have found 3 trillion in mystery payments, but we can't take them seriously because of their lack of proper audit techniques. They have no idea what they are doing.

I believe the entire country is watching in real time as a teenager tries to navigate his first legacy system and he just hasn't found the rest of the business logic. Just like how they implied that millions of dead 150 year olds were still receiving social security payments. It was a known issue that dead people are still in the database, but they are not in fact receiving payments. A real auditor would have known what to ask and where to look.
I wish EU programmer wages could be higher via lower taxes instead of funding things like this
It's been going downhill for a while, even before AI. The VC-funded React SaaS craze took the "put something barely functional on the web, make some subscription cash" model and scaled it to what is essentially a scam/spam industry.

So if the UX feels increasingly framed in terms of what the "developers" see/want/believe to be profitable, and less from the actual user's perspective, that's because the UX was sketched by hustlers who see software development explicitly as a "React grind to increase MRR/ARR."
Why Did QR Codes Appear on About 1k Graves in Munich?
So far, that is science fiction, and there is no reason to expect a change there.
Hard agree. If AWS were offering “S3 compatibility certification” or similar I could see framing this as an AWS/S3 problem. This seems like the definition of “S3 compatible” changed, and now everyone claiming it needs to catch up again.
If you want to try out multiplayer in Obsidian today, there are a few plugins like Relay (disclaimer: I'm a dev), Peerdraft, and Screengarden. I'm not sure exactly what the Obsidian team has planned but hopefully we can make them interoperable.

Our plugin stores yjs CRDTs in indexeddb today, but I'd love to create some kind of file-over-app CRDT persistence standard that could go alongside markdown files to make markdown collaboration and edit history vendor agnostic.

If anyone would be interested in that type of thing, let me know! (email in bio)
Yep, and even if they weren't planning on just ignoring the deficit (as republicans always do when they're the ones doing the spending), any money "saved" by these assholes was going to go straight into the pockets of Musk, Trump, and their assorted superrich cronies.
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This feels like an insane proposition to me, I'll explain:

1. Soaring egg prices are due to culling + deaths related to the proliferation of H5N1 (Avian Flu).

2. The reason we have been proactively culling is to minimize spread AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, to minimize the number of exposures H5N1 could have to Humans.

3. The reason we want to minimize exposure between chickens and humans is because each exposure of an infected chicken to a human is an opportunity for the virus to jump host, and adapt to better transmit amongst humans. The mutation (mammalian adaptation of the virus) can happen in the chicken before it jumps to a passing by human, or in the human once infected with the virus.

We are only a few minor adaptations away from this thing being BOTH extremely deadly AND extremely transmissible between humans. Worst case scenario. The latest strands found in Canada and now Nevada are extremely deadly, and just need the Human to Human adaptation. With enough at bats, it will have it.

The idea of dramatically increasing the number of humans exposed to sick flocks by having people start their own backyard chicken coops feels suicidal, for humanity.

The latest hospitalized patient in Georgia was exposed through a backyard flock, by the way.
Why not? If it's done with all the chores, I can have it make some silly woodworking / art project for Etsy to earn its keep, or just loan it out to neighbors.
Were the "white house plumbers" operating in the clear? On a defined task that was campaigned on? Working with legal as well as existing employees within each organization (yes I get they were simply stealing info)?

This was campaigned on, The election was won. In this instance the outcome is what the majority elected. You don't have to like it, some may change their mind, but this was made clear as a goal from day 1.

I've also not been cagey in my support. I fully support what is going on. If you see overreach follow the processes in place and litigate. That's how the country works. There's two distinct issues people have here, the "WHO" and the "WHAT" no one questions the "WHY", because no one can stand here and say we don't need to have cuts across the board. Ignoring the "WHO", the "WHAT" so far has been pretty clear. It's things that socially are supported by one party and not the other. This is the outcome of an election and it's going to keep going until someone proves they are outside of their authorities and the courts agree.

It sucks to have a narrative perspective for years and then see everything supported under that narrative cut back. I get the emotions, but ultimately none of that matters if we can't afford to keep the proverbial lights on.
I remember everything. Eidetic memory. Things before vision developed are obviously blurry or fully dark from before birth. What do you want to know?
My city, Chicago, is one of the ones mentioned in TFA. We had about 15 years of pension holidays, where contributions were not paid and the the catch up payments were scheduled far into the future. It is now the future and the people who had their taxes artificially lowered have long ago retired to Florida. The workers are owed a pension but it's being paid by current workers not those who got the tax breaks.
Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
Simple systems layered on top of each other is how we got to human intelligence (presumably).
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>Who out there is paying more than a total of $3-$5/month more in eggs?

Seriously? I pay $12/dozen for organic pasture-raised (cheapest industrial eggs are ~$8) and eat 3-4 dozen a month.
I'd really like to know the parameters are. I hear claims like, "it saves me an hour a day," or, "I'm 30% more productive with AI." What do these figures mean? They seem like proxies for fuzzy feelings.

When I see boring, repetitive code that I don't want to look at my instinct isn't to ignore it and keep adding more boring, repetitive code. It's like seeing that the dog left a mess on your carpet and pretending you didn't see it. It's easier than training the dog and someone else will clean it... right?

My instinct is to fix the problem causing there to be boring, repetitive code. Too much of that stuff and you end up with a great surface area for security errors, performance problems, etc. And the fewer programmers that read that code and try to understand it the more likely it becomes that nobody will understand it and why it's there.

The idea that we should just generate more code on top of the code until the problem goes away is alien to me.

Although it makes a lot more sense when I probe into why developers feel like they need to adopt AI -- they're afraid they won't be competitive in the job market in X years.

So really, is AI a tool to make us more productive or a tool to remove our bargaining power?
The clearances have already been granted [1].

There is no "damned if you do, damned if you don't." The President and agency directory have authorized and ordered it. Career bureaucrats are not legally required to resist their bosses because they disagree with them.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memo...
This entire article reads like hopium. And it seems predicated on the false belief that companies are going to try to replace their entire workforce with AI overnight:

> "Imagine a company that fires its software engineers, replaces them with AI-generated code, and then sits back"

It should go without saying this is not even possible at the moment. Will it be possible one day? Yes, probably. And when that day comes, the fantasies this author has dreamed up will be irrelevant.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: It shocks me that a forum filled with tech professionals, is so blindly biased against AI that they refuse to acknowledge what changes are coming.

All of these conversations boil down to: "The LLM's of today couldn't replace me." That's probably true for most folks.

What's also true is that ChatGPT was released less than 3 years ago. And we've seen it go from a novelty with no real use, to something that can write actually decent research papers and gets better at coding by the month.

"B-b-but there's no guarantee it will continue to improve!" is one of the silliest trains of thought a computer scientist could hold.
He demos his code on both console and emulator, so there shouldn't be an issue in that regard.
While I agree with you on the opinion that capital gains taxes are low (I should not be paying less on my winnings from bets on the stock market than I am on the income from my work). I think you need to justify the opinion that income taxes are high.

Personal income taxes are the larges revenue source for the U.S. Government, so it is the main way we have decided to tax ourselves. Arguably it is one of the most steerable, and we have long health that progressive taxation is for the common good (as much of a mockery as some high-income individuals have made of that).

So with that as the background, the U.S. ranks towards the bottom of the OCED countries in taxes vs. GDP. Yes we get less than the citizens of the countries paying the most, but not that much less.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-co...
Ask HN: Any website / web app which became better during last 12 months?
I'm thinking about the enshittification of everything and it made me wonder. Is there a website which became better?

Looking at you Crisp, you invented some small WYSIWYG editor which is noticeably slow. I just want to write replies to customers and not wait for the editor
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> Companies learned this the hard way during the outsourcing booms

Sure. Then we learned how to do it and in which contexts. Since WFH trained executives state-side how to communicate asynchronously and over Zoom, I've seen engineering offshoring done quite productively, possibly for the first time in my career.
> Tech interviews are one of the worst parts of the process and are pretty much universally hated by the people taking them.

True.

> One of the things we can do, however, is change the nature of the interviews themselves. Coding interviews today are quite basic, anywhere from FizzBuzz, to building a calculator. With AI assistants, we could expand this 10x and have people build complete applications. I think a single, longer interview (2 hours) that mixes architecture and coding will probably be the way to go.

Oh.... yeah, that sounds just... great.
It’s par for the course for this union. It’s just comical given the very recent political events.
Our eggs last year varied between $1-2 dozen. Before that, they frequently dipped below $1/doz. With the price of literally all other groceries skyrocketing, our family made a conscious choice to switch away from higher proteins like beef to eating a lot of eggs because they were the cheapest source of protein readily available.

Now you can't buy a dozen of eggs in the stores around here for less than $6.

We go through a lot of eggs. That is a very big increase when you add it up throughout the year.
>And there it is. The people who ended up voting for Trump have been feeling increasing alienation and hatred from the rest of the country, and they finally found their political power. No amount of insulting them is going to stop it.

The people who voted for him deserve to feel alienated and hatred, because it's not like he didn't have a track record. He's already been president. He has been a grandstanding loudmouth for the better part of the last 50 years if not longer.

It's one thing to vote for an outsider. It's another thing to say "Gosh, times are tough, and Biden's not making them better. Let me vote again for Donald Trump, a guy who sucks at business and politics, who made things awful in his first term."

Donald Trump's handlers at the Heritage Foundation put out a memorandum of what they'd do if he was re-elected. Most of these things were dangerously stupid, and a majority of them would make the country's average citizen worse off economically. Surprisingly, people believed Donald Trump's words when he claimed he'd never heard of Project 2025. Unsurprisingly, his entire campaign staff was filled with people who quite literally were the ones that wrote the memorandum and plan....and then got themselves installed as agency heads or cabinet members.

Donald Trump has always stood for Donald Trump making money by any means possible, and screwing over everyone else in the process. It's quite transparent. Yet somehow even after he was already president, people somehow overlook all his traits and say "that guy stands for the average man, he's for Main Street not Wall Street, he's going to lower my bills". Folks, he's a NYC real estate dude that wears makeup. He shits in a gold toilet and has never worked a day in his life. He lied and lied and lied about COVID. He's not for Main Street or the average American citizen, not at all. Why do people not see that?
Just for your information: every single American knows Modi regulates news distribution and has tried several times to revoke civil rights entirely.

Associated Press doesn't have to demonize Modi, they simply report the truth and the world judges him accordingly.
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> Where was your outrage since the Snowden leaks?

Did you also miss the global protests against the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
I expect pretty much the opposite to happen: it makes sense for languages, stacks and interfaces to become more amenable to interfacing with AI. If a machine can act more reliably by simplifying its inputs at a fraction of the cost of the equivalent human labour, the system has always adjusted to accommodate the machine.

The most obvious example of this already happening is in how function calling interfaces are defined for existing models. It's not hard to imagine that principle applied more generally, until human intervention to get a desired result is the exception rather than the rule as it is today.

I spent most of the past 2 years in "AI cope" mode and wouldn't consider myself a maximalist, but it's impossible not to see already from the nascent tooling we have that workflow automation is going to improve at a rapid and steady rate for the foreseeable future.
Replace AI with "compute" to see why it makes sense.
Lots of things here with links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/10/elon-mus...
Patrick Boyle did a segment recently on pensions that I cannot locate. He pointed out that the private industry in the US that granted generous pensions in the mid-20th century all went bankrupt, and that is why there are not private-sector US pensions anymore. It coincided with globalization, but is more a symptom of the countercyclical nature of pension expenses. They cost most when a business can bear the costs least.

This is one of many ways that folks aged 70+ had it much better than folks in the workforce now, and represents generational inequality that you should not minimize or attribute to "capitalists."

You may, if you like, attribute it to "generosity" by individuals indifferent to "math."
Allow me to explain this absurd thing on my head
HedgeDoc might be an option for you. It's not quite a blog, but instead, a platform for writing and publishing markdown pages on the internet. MathJax is supported: https://demo.hedgedoc.org/features#MathJax
[project.scripts] is the PEP621 equivalent, supported by multiple backends including vanilla Setuptools. (When you use [tool.poetry.scripts], it's really the build backend, Masonry, that cares.) So that's the uv way, too. Or the "bear skins and stone knives" way.

I don't know what you mean by "without being a package". I guess you mean that Poetry will also run your code without installing it anywhere, and use the marked entry points directly. Per the other replies, apparently uv will get an equivalent soon. But really, the point of having `pyproject.toml` in the first place is to explain how to build an installable wheel and/or sdist for your project, and you basically get it for free. (Even if you don't include a [build-system] table, the standards say to use Setuptools by default anyway.)

(Of course, uv can already `run` your entry point, but this involves installing the code in a temporary venv.)

> without some pretty major refactoring of my internal structure and import declarations. Maybe I've accidentally cornered myself in a terrible and ill-advised structure?

Possibly. Is the code up on GitHub? I could take a look.
What if we could reason about the design space of data structures?
At a former gig we had a newly hired ex-facebook employee give notice within a month because she didn't like that dev setup had bugs that devs themselves had to fix. At fb they obviously can spend millions of dollars for a whole team that ensures that working dev env is always a button click away, a startup (even a scaleup) usually can't afford to. This is just one example out of many I can tell...
That definitely massively accelerated it but you’re looking way too short term that’s only been in the last 10 to 15 years.

I agree that other industries are not YET at the point where software is , but you’re not looking hard enough if you don’t see the short tenures compared to the 25-30 years they used to have.

And yeah, it might be in an equilibrium now, but how long can it stay in an equilibrium? I’d guess at max 10 to 15 years.
The idea that government isn’t filled with tons of smart, hard working people is infuriating. Not every smart and ambitious person wants to spend their life in a rent-seeking job, building the next subscription-based app. There’s thousands upon thousands of dedicated government workers that could earn more in private industry, but view the work as a higher calling.
Where is the training data and the recipee?
But that's normal - emotionally boding with a farm animal you intend to slaughter and eat is indeed counterproductive.

The trope is about something different - it's about intentionally making a subject bond with an animal over long time, as with a close friend, and then finally making them kill the animal as a final test of loyalty.

Doing that in real life, and for no good reason, is just sick.
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It could from the first release of Evo (3 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330020, related: Evo 2 (6 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105442
The biggest and more recent phenomena is the (at least in Sydney, Australia), the popularity of ambroxan(?) laced perfume. You can't walk into a lunchroom or walk down the street without being literally assaulted by the stuff.

I don't know what perfume makers are thinking, but this stuff makes my day unbearable at times.

I guess a chemical with super strength sillage works in the market...
Does AWS S3 SDK have a list of "compatible services" ?
But I'm talking about the idea of pair programming for an hour or two. Why can't the standardized test still involve that? What doesn't "scale" about it?
Europe is moving at the speed of bureaucracy. It's slow, but inexorable.

And honestly, people don't _want_ the European bureaucracy to move fast. Case in point: the USA.
Let’s go to mars. Smh. No. Fix earth. No wait …

Let’s spend the trillion or so to send Elon and Elon only to Mars. Tax me to pay for it. I’ll gladly oblige.
It should be fairly easy to upgrade compatible APIs server side from reading the AWS docs. All that needs doing is to accept and ignore the new checksum header. I also expect that taking advantage of the checksum would be reasonable, a CRC32 isn't that hard.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-default-data-in...
The point is, that the way it's formatted doesn't matter. It just matters that it's consistent. Consistency is better than being right.
I'm sorry for being unkind, but lazy comments like this really frustrate me. I can't imagine you've done any real research or thinking on this, but still think others have to "face facts" which are coincidentally just exactly whatever you've already decided they are.

Now, I don't know if San Francisco has a bloated, runaway budget or not – it might! But I do at least know that it's both a city and a county; I expect that San Francisco's budget includes operating the ports and public hospitals – that could be $5bn in spending right there!

Endless time is wasted by not even doing the most basic thinking before spouting off.
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Yes. Consider the concept of negligence. It is malicious to take action without exercising reasonable care, and part of reasonable care is ensuring that you are the slightest bit qualified to perform the action.
There's plenty of people in the cabinet and other positions with many political views and proposals, including ex-democrats.

That doesn't mean all of their views will be implemented. Just a subset that Trump agrees with, or even some they disagree with that Trump tells them to.
Of course not, but that doesn't make it a sustainable practice long term.
Somebody needs to train those PhDs that Mistral will eventually hire.
GDP is just more people spending more money for more expensive things. It's kind of a failed metric for economic productivity unless you think an $8 Big Mac is twice as productive to the economy than a $4 Big Mac.
That's not what "and" means
The biosecurity protocols are nonexistent with most backyard coops.
Seattle is a city, San Francisco is a combined city and county; it literally has a lot of functions that Seattle doesn't. Add a population based pro-rata share of King County’s budget to Seattle’s budget and you get something not all that much less than the budget of the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, California has realigned a number of what were previously (and are still in other states) state functions to counties, including some felony incarceration that would otherwise be in state prisons, so, even compared to out-of-state city and county combined functions, SF has more it is required to do.
Was also looking at Langfuse.ai or braintrust.dev

Anybody with experience can give me a tip of the best way to
- evaluate
- manage prompts
- trace calls
I agree they cannot handle a complex codebase at all at this moment in time.

But I think I would rather just end my career instead of transitioning into fixing enormous codebases written by LLMs.
An enterprise using RAG, fine tuning etc. to leverage their data and rethinking how RL and vector DBs etc. can improve existing ops ... is likely going to make some existing moats much better moats

If your visibility on current state of AI is limited to hallucinogenic LLM prompts -- it's worth digging a bit deeper, there is a lot going on right now
I think they're mad at a society that promised generous pensions in exchange for lower wages, and then (for various reasons) didn't deliver them.
>6 months from now they're going to cast it off and you'll have to find new shade to throw

According to the article, it's the opposite. It cites several recent examples wherein AI company leaders have had to walk back claims and admit limits.