skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The google angle here isn't even so much on the LLM side but on Google Cloud

See all those shiny badges for consulting firms? If you are a truely thought leadershiping executive, you should get one of them in ASAP to build you an A2A Registry [1] for your "Enterprise Agents" [2] to communicate via an A2A NotificationService [3] (brought to you by GCP!)

Indicative that the blog post example isn't help book a holiday but help hire a software engineer

1: https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/agent_discovery

2: https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/enterprise_ready

3: https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/push_notifications

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> Updates to Agentspace make it easier for customers to discover, create and adopt AI agents. We're also growing the AI Agent Marketplace https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/browse?filter=c... , a dedicated section within Google Cloud Marketplace where customers can easily browse and purchase AI agents from partners.

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/next-2025/
This is a pretty old idea that goes back to debates over David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage in the early 1800s.

> “Free trade is God’s diplomacy. There is no other certain way of uniting people in the bonds of peace than by the bonds of interest.”
- Richard Cobden
In almost every organization I've been in, the reward for good work is more work.
If it's not illegal then why are you using words like "fraud" and "steal"?
Such a brilliant idea all the same.

A shame that the economics never seemed to work.
>He's incapable of admitting fault,

But he's not incapable of reversing course, while claiming he was right before, and also right now. He can totally do a "deal" that achieves nothing, while claiming to be the smartest negotiator. Just look at the deals with North Korea last time around.
So - we are at an impasse. Both suspect the other of motivated reasoning and an internal bias that distorts their ability for rational thinking.

It's entirely possible we're both irrational to some degree. But that's irrelevant to answering the question at hand.

Do you claim you are using it regularly and in good faith - enough to honestly form a reliable view on its utility?

I would claim that I am using it in such a way. It would take more effort than I'm prepared to put in to provide evidence of this but please - ask away.

(for the record - I have no financial or professional involvement directly with AI. I simply find the technology fascinating and I use it daily - both playfully and for it's practical utility)
A friend of mine - against my loud objections - hired some Pakistani offshore group to build an app for him around 2015 or so. $15k "estimate" but it was all time & materials not flat rate. They had an "office" with a "CEO" in NYC but no staff, just a PO Box. The whole thing was super fishy and I said as much but he didn't care because they were cheap.

Fast forward nearly 18 months into the 6 month contract, and about $40k later, there is no working app and the "CEO" says "well I would love to give you some of your money back but the contract has expired so I am no longer able to do that, we could sign another one for $20k to finish if you'd like."

I've worked with probably a dozen offshoring companies in my life in one way or another and every single one of them has been deceitful to the point of being fraudulent, and puts out some of the worst code you have ever seen.

I tell everyone considering it that if you can afford it, you're getting scammed in one way or another. You're better off going with a US-based firm that guarantees you'll get American workers who are physically in the US working on your product.

I'd rather hire Deloitte or Accenture for 10x the price - I know they offshore a ton but you'll at least have avenues to get your money back if they don't deliver.
Disclaimer: not American, not living in the USA.

All the analysis I've read about it say that the one-sided implementation of broad tariffs is not legal according to current US laws.

It doesn't matter though until it's litigated, goes through courts, appeals, Supreme Court, while all that process is ongoing the tariffs are there. And who the fuck knows how the Supreme Court will decide on this in the end?
I've never considered ownership in an IaC repo down to the individual resource and I'm struggling to see the usecase.

We also use tags/labels to link the generated "thing" back to the repository that created it with:

- The repo URL

- The pipeline URL

- The commit hash (also retrievable from the pipeline details)

These are all discovered via GitLab CI variables [1].

From this we would use the Git repository to identify ownership.
We have the benefit of our Infosec team having wide access to our GitLab instance, which might hamper other companies.

How would you handle a situation where someone creates a resource but then leaves?

The good thing about looking at an entire repository is that it gives you the entire history and who else might have worked on it. In hierarchical Git providers (eg. GitLab), it can also indicate where the project sits relative to others. If you just have a single person, you may struggle to find out who now owns a resource.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/variables/predefined_variables/
> As someone with a disability, I expect my application will go right in the trash if I answer yes or blank on the disability question

That's an interesting hypothesis.

I've seen many people suggest just the opposite- pretending to have a mild disability when filling in the form so that they get the boost from companies which use recruiting software that prioritizes diversity and inclusiveness in candidate pool.

Federal contractors are explicitly required to "take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote and retain" people with disabilities, with a target of at least 7% of their employees be from that group. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/program-areas/employers/fe...
This was borderline incoherent.
"EU member states agree to cutting off their nose to spite their face"
Looks like the breach happened back in 2023 and it was only recently discovered
This is related to _last_ month's tariffs on aluminium and steel. The EU tends to be measured on this sort of thing.

The EU did offer Trump zero-for-zero as a result of the _current_ tariffs; he wasn't interested (which isn't particularly surprising, given that he seems to want trade deficits to magically go away).
The EU has absolutely no reason to cave in. Its just not striking back like China is, rather being content and surprised watching the US commit economic suicide.
Oh, they will. This is for show.
So what is it with MCP? It’s just the latest hype-infused hysteria of the architecture astronauts. And please, “don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.” https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
a tax evading soft spot that is.
Trump invoked a "state of emergency"
> The timetable has also been extended to give negotiations with the US a chance: EU tariffs will come into force between 15 April and 1 December.
I think this article was written by AI. Seems like conspiracy nonsense.
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Do you know real use cases of agents? Actually used and that have been using for a while. Not just for curiosity.

I read about them only for hypothetical scenarios. Is it a real thing?
the protocol wars now available for agents
Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers
Your understanding about OIL is very out of date. The US is the worlds largest oil producer and a net exporter of oil and oil based products.

The US does import some low quality cheaper crudes (heavy, sour) to be processed by US refineries that have much higher complexity and capital investment than other regions. Effectively people send their OIL to the US to be refined and that is where most of our imports come from.
Do you really think that a tailscale VPN is necessary to deal with link failures? It is not BGP and SD-WAN or MPLS l2 VPN can do that.
I wonder if anyone tried to integrate Odigos with Coroot - looks like it could be really powerful!
“Threatens American national security” is just the administration’s double speak to justify cynical foreign policy decisions. Since 1945 America has struggled with the prospect of its decline. The US would come to exchange a trade deficit for being the world’s reserve currency. However the reserve currency boat has growing leaks. Trump’s administration has circled the wagons, withdrawn support from Ukraine, antagonized allies, raised tariffs. Essentially American international hegemony is collapsing and we are seeing the latest desperate moves made to retain power.
> presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers"

He was identifying the best programmers he knows (as is obvious from the title). I don't think it is unreasonable at all for even a semi-technical person to be able to do that.

Also, it is highly likely that the author never expected their article to receive a high volume of web traffic, and allocated resources to it with that assumption. That doesn't say a thing about their technical abilities. You could be the best programmer in the world and make an incorrect assumption like that.
Coffee will be more expensive in the US. So Americans are expected to drink less, leaving more in the global market. So the commodities markets (which are effectively "futures" trading by nature of the industry) are dropping.
>parts of remote Eastern Europe have produced excellent techs for decades..

Like wich exactly? Jetbrains is one, but it is from Czechia IIRC. I was asking what tech products has Ukrainian tech sector produced.
Partially unrelated, but codeweavers is owned by a trust and those who benefits from it are the employees of codeweavers. A guy working for them had a small conference in our university and it seems like a cool company to work at
Ah, Tetris. I remember stripping out the copy protection from the MSDOS version with a debugger. Not because I wanted to resell it, which would have been difficult back then, just because I found it irritating.

I also added mouse support, once again using a debugger, for Hercules Graphics to a wargame - it was the ever popular Battle of the Bulge, by a famous designer who's name I can't remember. Guy that did Eastern Front on the Atari.

Edit: Chris Crawford
Common Lisp and Scheme are typically compiled ahead of time right down to machine code. And isn't Haskell also?

There is a Common Lisp implementation that compiles to bytecode, CLISP. And there are Common Lisp implementations that compile (transpile?) to C.
it's written in here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-...

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First, other countries can accept tariffs on their exports to the United States without retaliation, providing revenue to the U.S. Treasury to finance public goods provision. Critically, retaliation will exacerbate rather than improve the distribution of burdens and make it even more difficult for us to finance global public goods.

Second, they can stop unfair and harmful trading practices by opening their markets and buying more from America;

Third, they can boost defense spending and procurement from the U.S., buying more U.S.-made goods, and taking strain off our servicemembers and creating jobs here;

Fourth, they can invest in and install factories in America. They won’t face tariffs if they make their stuff in this country;

Fifth, they could simply write checks to Treasury that help us finance global public goods.
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There's a lot of misunderstanding in the West about Iranians, or as we call ourselves "Persians." (I suppose to avoid the negative "Islamic" connotation..) Despite how the country is portrayed, the people themselves tend to be pro Western, educated, and fairly liberal.

So the unfortunate reality is that the government is highly repressive. It tightly controls communication and enforces a strict theocratic system that doesn’t reflect the will of much of the population.

If you're curious about what Iranian society is all about, look at the photos before the 1979 revolution. That change wasn't long ago, it was just a generation back. My parents lived through it. Many from that time believed they were rising up for democracy, not realizing what would replace the Shah was something even more authoritarian. My own father admits they were misled and now actively curses the regime and himself.. the peak being burning the US embassy because they were told it's a foreign spy command center..

What's especially tragic is that Iran today has a very young population, many of whom strongly oppose the current regime. But peaceful change feels unlikely, look up what happened anytime people took to the streets. And if the government were to collapse without a clear path forward, there's a real risk of something even worse filling the vacuum.

That said, there are reasons for hope. During the most recent uprising, the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, women led the charge, and the government was forced to back down somewhat after international outcry. Since then, many women have continued to defy mandatory hijab laws, walking around without head coverings despite the real risks of arrest or violence. It’s incredibly brave, and it speaks to a deep, ongoing resistance that’s hard to suppress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman,_Life,_Freedom_movement
Rare win for Germany, the the land of bureaucracy, made it easy to install *small* residential solar.

You can buy small solar panels in the supermarket, and plug them into the wall socket, which normally is a no no. Per household a maximum of 800 watt though.[1] For more you need something proper that does not just connect via a normal wall socket.

[1] Maybe also 2000 watt but only 800 feed into the grid?
I think my preferred LLM usage style these days is to try something on my own, and then get the LLM to critique what I did. I think it's both better for learning (just like learning natural languages, it's better for learning to make a mistake and be corrected than it is to look up the right answer each time), and also I think the stakes are lower since you're not relying on the LLM to not hallucinate. You can also learn some new threads to pull on that you can investigate on your own etc
What Trump's doing may be illegal, either on the basis that the law under which it is being done is itself unconstitutional (in that it delegates the power to set taxes from Congress, which isn't supposed to happen) or in that he is misusing that law (in that it is supposed to be for emergencies). Lawsuits are being taken against the state on both bases.
>The Chinese seem happy with their government.

Given how much effort Beijing exerts in suppressing dissent and managing the public conversation about China, how would you or I find out if most Chinese were unhappy with their government?
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Pulling the white flag up and sending a request for Country-2-Country special agreement.
Is there some issue with pandoc-ing man files to the HTML format? (It's not what I do, I use man from the terminal, but I understand after teaching thousands that terminal mastery is not common.)
Ever thus. The first programming job I had after high school, I got in part by pointing out that I hadn't previously seen Windows XP Pro machines with publicly routable IPv4 addresses, and suggesting one reason for their persistent slowness might be the effect of putting unfirewalled XP machines on the public Internet - a very bad idea, even in 2004.
It can very easily be illegal because most employment contracts I've seen include language that heads off this type of action.
Readability is putting it mildly; do you write your shell scripts using that && style? No? Why not, is it for readability?

I also have a hard time reasoning about && with anything other than the most braindead sequence of commands because: $(thing && if other_thing; then inner_thing1 && thing2; fi && ohgawd)

And I just realized while typing that out that if its parser doesn't support ; then I guess one needs to

RUN if conditional_thing \
then good_luck && \
fi && \
echo "whew"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_WE6cZeDG8 - I work at an industrial software company. You can kind of think of us as an API layer to factory data, that is generally a mess. This video shows you what MCP can do for us in terms of connecting factory data to LLMS. Maybe it will help. A2A is new to me, and I need to dig in.

Basically if we expose our API over MCP, agents can "figure it out". But MCP isn't secure enough today, so hoping that gets enhanced.
Exactly. The problem isn’t the man pages, it’s that folks stopped reading them with a highlighter and a cup of day-old coffee. That’s how you retain flags.
Then they can also decide you can't have a license to drive a car, that you can't fly, that you can't own a home, that you can't pass a background check, that you can't have a social security number, that you owe an exorbitant amount of tax, that you should be in jail, that your immigration status is revoked because you wrote a news article they don't let, etc etc etc

Your government already has a monopoly on violence and owns your whole life.
I wonder if American's know how much goodwill was destroyed by this president.

I hear a lot from my friends how we need to boycot USA, don't buy iphones etc...

Now, most people would probably still buy iphones, but people changed their favourable view of USA pretty quickly.

And I am talking about Poland, which was probably one of the most pro USA country in EU
Note that those tariffs are related to earlier US tariffs from March, not the recent universal tariffs.

The European MO in that respect is very consistent : take time to deliberate, reach consensus and apply pressure in kind. It's at odds with the news cycle but I prefer that over instant gratification.
The stock market was going gangbusters. Inflation and job market have been not so great the past few years.
Netbeans is not for real development. Sorry, I love Netbeans. I grew up using it. It just doesn't have good support for real world Java development. As for Eclipse, I'll use notepad over that any day. I've been programming in Java since highschool, 20+ years ago.

IntelliJ is the best there is for Java, warts and all.
Yes you should.

You'll need a glob function, cd/getcwd/setcwd, pretty-printer. That's about it.

Lua stdlib replaces sed, awk, grep, cut, tr, tail, etc.

Startup time is the best. In my testing, a lua script that functions like `echo` runs faster than echo.
I remember looking at a friend's bookshelves and noticing a travel guide to the Soviet Union. It had a short chapter on what to expect when crossing the border and the fact you might be followed by the security services.

And what do we have in 2025?

I don't think it was a Lonely Planet https://www.bbc.com/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/AP5ln7N8TRGkf...
The big reason the Democrats lost is that they tried to appeal to the right and only alienated their own base which was already disillusioned by Biden. They keep running as the status quo party when neither side wants the status quo.

These people put up a gallows and noose on the Capitol, but ours is the side which has to remain civil? You don't defeat fascism by capitulating to it.
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> distribution of burdens and make it even more difficult for us to finance global public goods

I'm gonna need a translation
All around the "developed world", the shop/retailer/supermarket/distribution part of the price of a product is around 50%. Whatever the product or its price.

I'm wondering if part of our issue with crazy inflated prices despite low margin for industry and manufacturing actors is not because of this abused margin for retailers. That have also a huge power as it is difficult to negotiate when you depend on your product to be buyable in the market.

To me, that explain a big difference with asian world, where you notice, even for asian shops in western countries that prices are still quite cheap.

Something parallel to that that I have noticed is that decades ago we were used to buy from small individual shops, but now a few retailers and chains have almost a monopoly on the market.

I see the same pattern for movie theaters. They used to be independent mostly with affordable prices. Now 2 or 3 big chains bought them all, and it is very rare to still encounter independent movie theater. And once they got a good monopoly, ticket prices skyrocketed to insane levels.
I know of precisely one company that does this: 10X Management. It's similar to the top Hollywood agencies like CAA in that it's extremely hard to get them to represent you.

I'm not sure why there aren't any "free agents" running around Silicon Valley like they do in Hollywood. If I had to guess, it's probably because the same skills you need to do that job in Silicon Valley pay more in other sectors, like Hollywood.
> But often the coefficient will be tran[s]cendental for these sorts of problems.

What makes you believe that the coefficient will be transcendental? I'd rather expect some non-trivial algebraic number (i.e. root of some polynomial with rational coefficients).
Instead of hinting, can you spell out what you think is wrong with the parent hypothesis?

I'm reading it as:
US prices go up. US consumption goes down. Less global demand for same global supply. Result: global price goes down.

Where are we disagreeing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
Apple is free to contribute but short of that I don't see why it would be worth anyone's time to fight such an uphill battle.

Their disposition re Vulkan and Metal tells me all I need to know. Until that tune changes, I don't have any hope.
I truly appreciate when tools come with everything one needs to know about how to use them. I think it helps foster a real sense of sustainability.
There was no gain for them for advanced coordination. Unless they start to hunt, farm, or build technology, complex grammar has little evolutionary benefit.

Birds do learn from observation. Even from other birds and animals.
I never said I had a desire to be more centralised. I just said that static IPs and open ports remove the necessity for hole punching/STUN. You can have multiple sites without a central and all use static IPs and open ports.
The example is bad because nobody thinks of $100k as "concentrated wealth" and your argument has some purchase at those numbers.

At $100 million, $1 billion, $10 billion, or $100 billion, the argument you put forth does not make sense.

There is no motivational quantum for attaining the second, or third, or fourth billion, much less the 200th.

Incidentally, most of the people who might be considered to be concentrating wealth do not and have not done so primarily on the basis of their labor and creativity like in the example. There is no credible argument that Jim Walton ($119 billion net worth) ever built or created anything of value anywhere near commensurate with his wealth. His path from $30 billion to nearly $120 billion had nothing to do with rewarding him for value creation.