skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Just think of all the random tech debt that could be resolved if devs had 2 hours a day to code anything, including new projects that benefit everyone.

regardless of the potential benefits of this plan, zero tech debt would get erased.

imho net tech debt would increase by the 80 20 rule, meaning that you're not going to get more than 80% of the side projects fully wrapped in the 20% of the time that you've allotted to them.
I mean, they’re jeans and I live in New England. I will beat them to hell living in them and I am married. Sending them to a tailor feels funny!
It's unnerving that it's basically played out in the way everyone said it would and yet it feels like we're powerless to stop it.
wait what? Is .io going away?

I have a .app domain for my email, and have had it since like 2018. Now I'm wondering if that was a mistake.
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> Brighter days ahead once again for the descendants of those that settled, built, and fought for this country.

A very 1920s vibe in the 2020s, which makes me sad that we've slid this far back, that so many Americans no longer believe that the melting pot is a good idea even in theory.
All people want is a brief email saying you're not moving forward. This takes very little effort on your part and builds goodwill. It's super-important to treat all the people you don't hire with empathy and respect; they'll tell everyone about a poor experience.
What happens if and when ICE starts rounding visa holders up to deport? No snark intended, this is a genuine question based on all available evidence. I don’t endorse such action at all, but we are existing in exceptional times and the discussion is important. “If you stay, what are you getting yourself into?” is a serious question to ask and to manage the risk around.
Yes, it's a race to the bottom. But politicians aren't demanding that we should accept slave labor to make our Nike shoes - Nike does that. Tariffs won't change that either, they simply put a price on dealing with "undesirable" labor that Americans wouldn't tolerate anyways. That's how free market economics work on the global stage, I don't think anything has changed in that regard in the past 50 years.

I guess I'm disenfranchised with the entire process, having grown up near Detroit. You won't bring these jobs back from Mexico, you won't onshore EV production from the grasp of China. GM said it, Tesla said it, Apple said it, and now you're listening to me repeat it. Americans can get mad at Europe or Denmark or Canada if it makes them feel better, but it's sure as shit not putting them on any short-lists for importing ASML or ARM IP. And we're fucked either way if we sit around waiting for Intel to "innovate" their way ahead. America can't lead the free world with a bum leg, it doesn't matter how icky China's politics are.
With Canada, there's a deficit because they are willing to do things like send oil in exchange for promises, and then they use the promises to do things like buy capital that is located in America.

I guess you can decide that's unfair.
> You can't protect American businesses if they can't compete on their own merits.

The problem is that “free trade” math defines lowered standards as “comparative advantage.” So any first world country that maintains first world standards is automatically unable to “compete in their own merits.” Globalism creates a race to the bottom.
Because it's not a barter economy and you would not naturally have equal dollar quantities of goods to buy from and sell to each trading partner individually.

One country may be on the other side of the world, far poorer and mostly exporting say minerals or basic textile goods where their cheap labor gives them an advantage. What goods/services are they going to buy from the US that they cannot get from more local trading partners cheaper? They can import grains more cheaply from nearby neighbors. Southeast Asia is not going to start buying Teslas & Fods, they are driving around in Suzukis and whatever China makes.

You spend $5/week at your baker, does your baker buy $5/week of software from you?
At two different US companies I had to attend training led by a lawyer on how to file H1b and L1 applications, how to write recruitment ads and coaching visa applicants for their interviews.

Both training programmes were surprisingly similar, even two years apart.

No notes were allowed. No slides.

Even the call for attendance was verbal and in person.

This is a US corporation problem, not the US government’s.
and as much as hiring is "broken" the part of the process that works well is letting people out of it without ghosting them. Even dinosaurs like ADP software get that part right.
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That happened to me, but fortunately it didn't end up being a huge deal.

I had forgotten to renew my domain from Gandi, it expired, and I stopped getting emails. I also could not find my password for Gandi, and I couldn't get the password reset to work, so I panicked, but fortunately Gandi will let you renew someone else's domain. Not a transfer, just if account A wants to pay to renew account B's domain without any change of ownership, they allowed that, so I made a quick throwaway account, and renewed everything for eight years.
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Is there? Or is that just his Youtube channel on a loop?
“It’s tech” is not in itself a golden ticket to HN ontopicness. Both of your links are effective dupes (by HN’s long established dupery rules) - they have had multiple recent discussions. Both are also repeat flamewar topics. This is about as basic, bog-standard and righteous user flagging as it gets.
Do you have showdead enabled to see how many good comments are being unfairly censored? Otherwise this is just survivorship bias talking.
if this was true, then leetcode wouldn't be the cost of admission?
super cool. these guys are legit
Web based email is a disease.
It takes a truly wild level of being so mad at Trump that it makes you go full Reagan and extol the virtues of free trade and perpetual war to maintain the reserve currency.
So this seems to be a membership to access a remote Unix system and share it with others?
Funny thing is that getting a visa for China is now more seemless than it has ever been and they love my euros.
Ah yes, 100x worse for US users is amazing.
Why should I use vapi vs eleven labs?
Isn't that the value proposition of crypto?
> One country may be on the other side of the world, far poorer and mostly exporting say minerals or basic textile goods where their cheap labor gives them an advantage.

But it’s insane that “cheap labor” is considered a “comparative advantage.” Free trade punishes Americans for their high standards of living, forcing American labor to compete with cheap foreign labor. The whole point of these tariffs is to take that out of the equation.
The most ironic part about the entire USAID debacle was the complete failure of the new right to understand why American soft power was engineered that way, and what it was doing.

It was like an even more hamfisted change management process than the neocons upsetting their apple carts, before they understood how things were balanced on them.

Not to say anything shouldn't be changed, but jesus... folks need to have a little humility and curiosity -- try to understand what the folks before them were attempting to do and how.
> not putting them on any short-lists for importing ASML machinery

That ASML machinery in EUV and DUV is entirely manufactured in SoCal - ASML was the the commercialization partner in LLNL's Cymer Inc.

> or ARM IP

Designed in Austin Texas - right by Barton Creek - or in Bangalore next door to Samsung and Nvidia, and across the street from Google.
We're actually fully open source and all development occurs in the open! Here's the repo https://github.com/picosh/pico and you can find us on Libera IRC
Why would free trade eliminate trade deficits? The United States is incredibly wealthy and its citizens and companies can buy more than poorer countries. Not to mention all the other factors that exist in global trade. The belief that trade deficits are bad baffles me.
I want a search engine that only returns results containing words I specify. Is that asking too much? Google is not that search engine.
Re-export trade？
The premise of the formula is flawed. There is nothing inherently unfair about a trade deficit between two countries. There's not necessarily anything nefarious going on if the United States doesn't buy the same amount of goods from Botswana as they might purchase from the United States within any particular year.
Is Japan's trade deficit with Australia a good or bad thing? Is Australia ripping off Japan?

The trade deficit is a good thing for Japan because Japan lacks the natural resources it needs as inputs into its industry. It happens to buy those resources from Australia due to comparative advantage.

If Japanese policymakers tried to create a trade surplus with Australia via tariffs, they would make Japan significantly poorer and weaker.
Thank you for the reply!

I don't want to make any strong claims here, but my gut reaction to your first comment is that what one manager calls “allowance for illegibility”, another might call “trust in my reports”.
Guess what: This has all changed with LLMs. The impact of the average developer is proportional to the amount of code they ship in a world of copilots (key word is "ship", not write) and that's why some of the staff engineers I work with have 3 concurrent Cursor projects for the same codebase in flight at the same time. These are some of the best engineers I've ever worked with and they have drank the cool-aid of volume over quality.

I'm keen to this because I maintain our CI systems and have become acutely aware of the overhead of hallucinations breaking our CI tooling in pathological ways that draw me in to diagnose. A year ago I would have to log into our CI Kubernetes cluster to diagnose a busted build that doesn't self-report failure maybe... once a month. These days it's a couple times a week. LLM based dev is both amazing in the legit force multiplier it adds to writing code as well as the way it introduces some of the most incoherent and silly ways it breaks existing conventions.

I guess the headline is correct in that we are not hired to write code anymore, instead we are hired to shepherd code now, and a lot of it. And a lot of this code we shepherd is good enough but some amount of it is bad enough to break existing processes, but that is secondary to the volume and velocity we perceive from LLM code gen.
I'm assuming that America isn't a kleptocracy, which I will admit is an unfair benefit of the doubt.
upvoted.. not because I agree, but because dissent has to be tolerated in a civil society.

I would like to see more discussion on HN around topics that seem unpopular here, and are perhaps politically divisive .. such as : economic inequality, climate change, demographic crunch

Somewhere between the prevailing economic malaise, cynicism and despair ... and tech-bro fan-boi greedy optimism : there might be a middle way where we can use the new technologies of AI to actually improve our lives and create wide wealth generation, and more prosperity for the middle class.
Good point. It took a while to get going, but the growth rate is starting to look really incredible now.
Sturgeons's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
This makes me think of The Sort, coined by the venerable patio11.

The types soft skills it takes to to be effective in the kinda crappy jobs described by the author can command much better remuneration in any number of other roles, and society has gotten much better at efficiently allocating that human capital.
Because America has the "exorbitant privilege" of being a global reserve currency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege (it's a Wikipedia page about monetary policy).
"Why I don't discuss politics with friends" implies that you don't discuss politics with friends. What you're saying here sounds quite different. It sounds like "I do discuss politics with friends, except when I encounter a signal that [etc.]".

On HN, your title should match what the article actually says ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" -https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I think if we change the title to "When I don't discuss politics with friends", that would be more accurate given what you've written here.

Edit: I looked at the article and didn't see anything that particularly mitigated the title, so I've put it back to "Why" above.
>Out of curiosity, do you have a specific goal or outcome in mind in this exchange? I have tried to determine what your and your sparring partner's objectives are, and I admit it is difficult to discern.

Thank you for asking!

I'm most curious in figuring out ways to bridge the communication gap that is manifesting in this discussion.

The gap is as follows: multiple people have objected to the remark of /user/ninetyninenine, in which they stated that, in their view, willfully mis-grading a paper is a fireable offense for a teacher.

I don't find this opinion problematic or exceptional; and I believe that, if stated in this form, it would not cause a stir.

The way it was written is, in my view, very empathetic. Most people don't consider the livelihood of someone's family when they say "they should get fired for that".

Yet the objections to that comment seem to perceive the opposite — lack of empathy, and went to great length attacking both the opinion and the person who made it.

This reaction to the form of the comment over substance is something that I'm interested in combating.

The conversation with my "sparring partner" in this thread started with a point where me and the person I'm responding to see things differently: they perceived condescension in what I say, and don't appear to see any issue with the "few sentences" of the comment I wrote an "essay" in response to.

Notably, they said they agree with much of the substance of my comment, but find the tone objectionable.

I believe that their perception of my tone can be attributed to the Double Empathy problem¹, and that the same issue underlies the objections to the point user/ninetyninenine made.

I pose the following questions:

1. Is it possible to demonstrate the line between emotional reaction to the form of the comment and its substance — and persuade people to stick to the substance?

2. Can the Double Empathy problem be overcome by explaining how we think and express opinions (and, by that, helping others avoid misinterpreting or misattributing emotions)?

I believe that this conversation helps us all explore these two questions, even if it doesn't yield a conclusive answer to either.

Additionally, I hope this discussion brings attention to neurodivergence in general, and autistic traits in communication in particular, hoping to make people who disagree with our tone hear it differently.

Which is why I'm curious to hear the thoughts of my "sparring partner", as you called them.

I don't see the conversation as a sparring match, or a debate to be won; it's an exchange of ideas where, hopefully, everyone involved leaves with more than they came in with.

Ultimately, that is the goal — in this conversation, as well as all the others I take part in.

Thank you again for asking, glad to answer any other questions!

____

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
I don't think it's pedantic at all. Your NASCAR driver is hired to win races, not to drive. If they drive on the highway, or down to the shops, or at the track when there isn't a race (or qualifying, or testing, etc.) on, or they drive a different team's car, or their own personal car, then they might be driving but they're not doing their job. Their job is to drive that particular team's car in such a way as to (directly or indirectly) win races.

In exactly the same way, a software developer isn't just hired to write code. We're hired to solve problems. We usually do that by writing code but that's not always the right approach. If your employer told you they wanted to be able to control a Windows computer from a different computer in the next room, I hope you wouldn't start writing code, you'd just show them Remote Desktop (or VNC etc.) If your employer wanted a web dashboard for your product, you might write a bit of code, but you'd try and find some existing dashboard project with an appropriate license, and hook your product's metrics up to that. Writing code is a tool, of course, and if there's no better way to do a thing (like if you're developing a new product) then writing code is going to be necessary, but a lot of times it's a tool of last resort.
The problem is that you're assuming the entire world agrees with your definition of "first world standards". As we have seen, not even American businesses give much of a shit about slave labor if it means we get higher margins on wholesale goods.

If America cut ties entirely with China, then we could take a moral stand. But we haven't done that, because we are utterly dependent on China even when they execute foreign nationals and steal American IP wholecloth.
If only someone invented a monetary system where the supply of money was determined by an algorithm that didn't constantly pump new money into existence all the time.

Oh wait, they did. But for some reason, most people on HN say Bitcoin is for scammers and grifters, and has no fundamental value proposition...
There are tons of rotary options these days, what is your criteria?
There are some conspicuous erasures of countries on the data used to make this map.
> Frankly, explaining communism in your response is just rude

Because you clearly don't understand communism and you need it explained to you.

If you understood communism, then you'd never ask to "compare the results of capitalism against the results of communism", because then you'd have to admit that the death toll from communism is over 100 million and the quality of life significantly lower, while for capitalism the death tool is multiple orders of magnitude lower and the quality of life higher.
remember when "Human speech" -robots -alien worked? those were the days. I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.
If you are on H1b, buy a burner phone before you leave and enter the country. Should he fine.
I'm not sure. The media is pointing out specific cases but the question is what % of travelers on visa made it in/out without trouble. There is heightened focus on enforcement. They may have trained their software to have a lower threshold of social media posts for entry. So, I do believe that you're at risk if you've made controversial statements not in line with what US considers as friendly behavior.
Why limit it to national security or anti-dumping? Tariffs should be expansive enough to take things like cheap labor in foreign countries or lax environmental laws out of the equation.
It's also the "lawyer/MBA's fantasy" that you can move the physical "making of things" to place B while the "good innovation jobs" stay in place A. It might work for a _short while_ but eventually the real innovation will happen with iteration in the factory floor in Shenzhen. All the Chinese leaders of the last 30 years were engineers and all of ours were lawyers and MBAs. Go figure.
This tariff was a change that was inevitable irrespective of party. I have qualms with it's messaging and rollout, but it's something that both parties were increasingly aligning towards.

Anyhow, what's done is done, and now it's cheaper to purchase intermediate parts like PLCs from Germany (20% overall tariff) or Japan (24% overall tariff) than it is from China (54% overall tariff) or an iPhone assembled in Mexico (NAFTA has been exempted from these tariffs thanks to Congress) or a Nike shoe assembled in Philippines (17% overall tariff) than in Vietnam (49% overall tariff).

Those jobs weren't coming back to the US, and if they were they would be anyhow be automated, but at least we can reduce some dependency on China, and give breathing room to either us or our allies to build some capacity.

> Kleptocracy

Not yet using the formal definition, but absolutely autarkic now like before the 1990s
Eh... Discord's enshittified client is still a hundred times more usable than Element — for all its faults, at least Discord is able to deliver and display messages reliably ("unable to decrypt message", anyone?). And for the more technologically oriented, client mods do a lot to improve the Discord UX.

Element X is supposed to improve things, but it's stuck on Android and iOS for the foreseeable future.