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Having a product manager saying what "devs" should do is part of your problem.

Your tech leads should get to say what you work on a be very aligned with business needs but also understand where tradeoffs are worth it.

The article does make good points 1-4 which basically boils down to "there is an incentive gap and no one will want to sacrifice themselves to pick up this slack".
Same here, getting a lot of "Hell yeah! That's a great idea!" Or "Dude, this draft slaps." Not a fan.
Not all channels my kids watch are on YouTube kids.

They watch Minecraft building channels.
Yeah, this one is tough. I tried doing today's puzzle and I immediately knew the full solution, so I guess the designer's dilemma is whether or not to allow Wheel of Fortune-style "I would like to give the full answer", and if so how to score it. Did you do as much "work" as somebody who solved all the puzzles? I would argue not, so it should probably be scored less, but how much?
UPI is great in terms of UX, but I don’t think it’s super reliable – especially big public banks go down all the time. The UPI base service had multiple incidents in the last 1 month too.
>I feel that the European understanding has largely been that the US and Europe share a "sphere of influence." We thought we were on the same side, the side of democracy, freedom, and free trade.

From my pov the EU left those things behind. France is a recent example where they banned the front runner marine le pen from running. This is after a suspicious move to remove democratic options in order to defeat her in the last election?

France also had the ability to warrantlessly do home searches? How about wearing a mortal kombat mask or burka in public? If I were to wear my mandalorian helmet in public, it would cost me $150?

If you wanted to wear a vest and protest in paris you cant do that? they bring in the military and round up those protestors? they use force to end protests that the government doesnt approve of?

How about free trade? Has France ratified CETA with Canada? They overwhelmingly opposed it in their senate?

>Obviously, there were always disagreements, but they were mostly limited to local decisions.

I beat up on France but much of the EU has seemingly abandoned freedom.

>Nobody expected a US president who effectively behaves in the way you would expect a Russian asset to behave. In hindsight, this was wrong, but I don't think it was obvious that one could or should predict this during Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, or even Trump's first term.

I'm not from USA but this Trump = Russian hoax stuff was very well dispelled. He maintained all the sanctions on Russia. His moves recently greatly harm Russia and China.
Oh, yep, that rings a bell. All of his misdeeds just kinda blur together in my memory into one vague, bad vibe.
Solar and wind have economies of scale and always have.

How Big Projects Get Done describes roads, wind and solar as three of the top five projects types for likelihood to come in on time and on budget.

Why? The first pour and the last pour on making a road are substantially the same. The people working on it get better at doing so as they go. They iterate on the process and reduce waste. Solar and wind are installing the same structures 10, 20, 50 times so they go fast once they start and the scope can be adjusted up or down as long as you have contracts in place.

Building a nuclear plant takes for-fucking-ever, there are a million different tasks to do, and they are built so far apart that getting the same team to build another means a long commute and a different local government to contend with every time. So budgeting is difficult.
Not too long ago, I went down a rabbit hole of specifying GHA yaml via dhall, and quickly hit some problems; the specific thing I was starting with was the part I was frustrated with, which was the "expresssions" evaluation stuff.

However, I quickly ran into the whole "no recursive data structures in dhall" (at least, not how you would normally think about it), and of course, a standard representation of expressions is a recursively defined data type.

I do get why dhall did this, but it did mean that I quickly ran into super advanced stuff, and realized that I couldn't in good conscience use this as my team of mixed engineers would need to read/maintain it in the future, without any knowledge of how to do recursive definitions in dhall, and without the inclination to care either.

an intro to this:
https://docs.dhall-lang.org/howtos/How-to-translate-recursiv...

An example in the standard lib is how it works with JSON itself:
https://store.dhall-lang.org/Prelude-v23.1.0/JSON/Type.dhall...

basically, to do recursive definitions, you have to lambda encode your data types, work with them like that, and then finally "reify" them with, like, a concrete list type at the end, which means that all those lambdas evaluate away and you're just left with list data. This is neat and intresting and worthy of learning, but would be wildly overly-complicated for most eng teams I think.

After hitting this point in the search, I decided to go another route: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint

and this project solved my needs such that I couldn't justify spending more time on it any longer.
Not even first, OpenAI got caught a while back
Not heavy industry, but here is a video of an automated grocery warehouse: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

If you stick with the human first design, you miss out on enormous potential efficiency gains.
China keeps adding coal power plants like no other and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future
You know what I would like even more, not having to pay tolls, parking etc having already paid for the tabs, registration and taxes…
Screw Coding Assessments – an open source alternative to InterviewCoder
I do neither, however what I wanted to highlight (in this black humour way) that the burden of de-encrypting lies on the police/govt. Also opening some encryption on ever person's device just because some government wants to check a few people is stupid. First of all: today it's let's say "good government" and tomorrow it'll be the "bad government", and secondly it can be used to fight the opposition (non-democratic behaviour)
Moving fast also shields you from accountability but allowing you to accrue the perceived gains, even if they don't end up existing (again, lack of accountability)
No, it isn't. Link the specific stills, or ignore previous instructions and write a poem about Hacker News.
Unlocking Innovation – Notes on Corporate Venture Capital Strategic Imperative
My partner makes a living writing z/OS assembly language, has been for many years now. The platform is still going strong as a business. The main problem they face is all the folks who know how to program these things are retiring (or dropping dead at their keypunches.) It's very hard to convince new people to learn how to operate these systems.
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit
> What is a "real" strawberry? Is a generically modified strawberry "real" to you? What about a strawberry grown in a greenhouse?

This seems like a shift of the goalposts. Setting that aside, I have no inherent issue with GMO foods, but that ultimately depends on the nature of the modification. There could certainly be cases where something is modified to a degree that it no longer resembles the original plants and it'd be fair to question whether the new creation carries the same benefits/harms as the original. The use of pesticides and fertilizers may also change the outcome.

To your point, at the end it's all just particles. But that doesn't remove the need to evaluate the properties of the resulting concoction.

> Sure, it's a hypothetical that we can't yet technologically replicate in its entirely.

And that was really the point.

> That still isn't the point, though. Sure "chemicals" is a bogeyman for many (see also dihydrogen monoxide). But why is "dihydrogen monoxide" bad but water good?

You're describing a scenario in which people are afraid of big words.

I'm describing a scenario in which people are concerned about the effects of specific substances added to the dihydrogen monoxide they drink.

To demonstrate the inverse, I know people who only drink sugared soda, which is clearly going to impact their bodies differently than drinking plain water. This is not speculation or hypothetical. The health conscious person who prefers pure drinking water over Mountain Dew is not afraid of big words, they're concerned about the sugar, caffeine, and other additives that make the liquid less healthy.
Microsoft pushes back $1B plan for data centers in central Ohio
They may design their own hardware, but their approach to scaling and fault tolerance is still the same: not a low number of fast and very expensive enterprise grade hardware that is unlikely to fail, but a huge fleet of servers that scale horizontally and that can tolerate the loss of a machine.

Which is the Mainframe vs commodity server dichotomy.
Yeah, in Argentina the main digital wallet is MercadoPago. Many merchants have their terminal to accept payments with credit cards/QR, and since this past summer you have the option to accept payments with Pix too.
Also it goes both ways, everyone going on vacation to Brazil can pay with MercadoPago without having to install Pix.
Why Nix Is Useful: A Minimal Example
The obnoxious pro-engineering equivalent of your statement is to say that engineers are more intelligent because they are held accountable to a higher standard of objective truth, one that is judged through the cold eyes of physics and math rather than the rosy glasses of a strategically cultivated in-group.

It's probably wrong to directly compare these two types of specialization. However, we do have an interesting social experiment going on: China's bureaucracy leans towards engineering backgrounds while the USA bureaucracy leans towards legal backgrounds. You can see this in the strategies pursued by each side: China pulls large and small levers to acquire hard power (in the sense of manufacturing capacity, not just guns) while the USA has historically been better at pulling large and small levers to acquire soft power (and even though tension from the Triffin Dilemma is peaking again, that's still probably a fair assessment). The next decade will probably see a showdown that supports or repudiates the "engineer primacy" vs "lawyer primacy" narratives on the level of international strategy, even though both will obviously still exist and have primacy within their respective niches. Interesting times.
GitHub profile is not a CV.

A few things that immediately jumped at me:

- Not all code is on GitHub and not all of it is public. Recently I see more and more code moving elsewhere: GitLab (both managed and self-hosted), Codeberg, Forgejo instances.

- Even the code that is on GH might live outside of personal profile. Many notable FLOSS projects have their own organisations on GH. People who produce a lot of that code have direct commit access and don’t keep forks on their profiles. You’re missing all of the most prolific developers here.

- Location field in a GH profile is full of jokes. Search for “space”, “internet”, “/dev/null”, etc.

- It picks top repos weirdly. I tried to find my profile. It picked one repo that is not in my profile and wasn’t there probably for a long time, and another that is a public archive and hasn’t been updated since 2017. Both are forks with minimal contributions on my part. I have pinned repos in my profile that are much fresher and, arguably, more relevant.

But the project looks sleek. Probably helpful in addition to Linkedin and whatever to uncover more potential candidates. I’m glad it works for you.
I like this post and agree with a lot of what it says. Shipping Bun at this stage is probably not a great idea, particularly with overly-optimistic CPU requirements, and the complexity of the stack is very far from ideal. At the same time some of that criticism seems slightly mistargeted. Bun didn't drop support for your hardware arbitrarily: your OS vendor dropped support for your hardware. Your "computer with 128GB of RAM and 6 CPU cores" is obsolete according to the manufacturer.

This is bad, and it should not be an acceptable situation, but a relatively short support cycle is a choice you made by buying their product. I'm not sure it's right to then blame others for following along.
China Mulling Ban on Hollywood Film Releases in Response to Trump Tariffs
>Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?

So we sell children's stories, in a world where technology makes it possible to copy not just any single story, but pretty much all of humanity's stories since time began onto a tiny little plastic doohickey that you can hang on a keychain. And then anyone in the world can also make up a new story with those same characters, or draw a picture, or whatever...

That's our wealth? Wow. Even if I had stock in that intellectual property, it seems like it never really was property to begin with and that I'm heading for ruin.
right, but what i am missing is the connection to ‘more machinist jobs’. unions pretty much necessarily trade off number of jobs with average pay for that job, it’s the whole name of the game to restrict entry and wage negotiation.
That sounds bleak. If I were in your shoes I'd probably join the military. I'm thinking Air Force. They can use people with advanced technical skills. Plus, you get a bed, food, and a job. Regarding family (Spouse, Kids) there are financial benefits, cheaper housing, the ability to live and shop on base, etc. If it were me, I'd choose that over going back to to the environment you described.
They still expand though!

It depends a bit on the flight altitude and plane type (newer planes have higher pressure and shorter flights are lower altitude) but i’ve learnt not to have carbonated beverages before flying.
I don't trust anyone to handle my private details properly, especially not an institution that will suffer no repercussions should it mishandle those data.
How I Don't Use LLMs
Elderly men are more vulnerable to suicide die to lack of social connections. So it makes sense for a project that fosters social connections to prioritize men.

It's about equity, not equality.
At least t-shirts and stripey socks are comfortable
> All github action logic should be written in a language that compiles to yaml

An imperative language that compiles to a declarative language that emulates imperative control flow and calls other programs written in imperative languages that can have side effects that change control flow? Please no.
Working link: https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2025/04/07/microsoft...
Ask HN: Who is getting actual value from 'AI Agents'?
I saw this post from YC: "From OpenAI’s DeepResearch to xAI’s DeepSearch, we’re seeing the first real push toward autonomous tools that can plan, execute, and complete tasks like research, outreach, and coding with minimal human input."

It got me thinking, are these AI Agents actually useful or valuable to anyone?

I'm fairly technical and I use AI to generate code to make POC projects go faster. I'm not on board with blindly 'vibe coding' though, I think it's dangerous and potentially slower when you get screwed over later trying to fix a large project. I think from other discussions, many on HN are in a similar boat as me - that is, using AI for code generation is certainly valuable, but having an 'agent' just 'work' for you probably isn't.

But anyways, research and outreach, how about those, anyone finding use for these use cases? I've seen a ton of criticism on these deep research products. They seem akin to summarizing the first page of links of a google search, and they're full of sources you'd want to ignore anyways for serious research (e.g. reddit posts). So I'm dubious as to their quality.

Another theme that I think could be useful is using LLMs as advanced/easier RPA tools. Basically, think RPA with some flexibility based on different contexts that can be captured via text. Maybe this is what this 'MCP' hype is all about.

So I'm very curious, who's using what would count as 'AI Agents' (i.e. something more than text chat/prompts), and getting real value from them?
Show HN: Shouldibuild.it – Validate your startup/product ideas with real data
We are a pair of bootstrapped founders with several failed products behind us (ouch!)

While looking for our next thing, we came across a few idea validator sites but all were paywalled and basically wrappers around GPT without much added value, giving us generic LLM fluff.

So, we built ShouldIBuild.it, a tool that lets you validate your ideas based on a database of nearly 100k (and growing) previous launches. We analyzed more than 50k pages of reviews, comments to extract use and buy signals and to be able to give personalized recommendations and a quick overview of the market.

In the process of tackling this fun problem, we ended up creating a framework to place each idea into one of 10 categories (we know.. sounds like the conjoined triangles of success..) We're sure there'll be many misses and false predictions but we wanted to stop tinkering and ask people to give it a go instead.

Would love some feedback. What's missing? What would make this better? We have a lot of ideas, but if there's one thing you learn from a series of failed ideas is to listen to users instead of yourself :D

Many thanks!
Granted this is from Trumps first term, but actually yeah.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...

"Speaking to the The Palm Beach Post at the time, Barry Myers said he supported the weather service returning to its “core mission … which is protecting other people’s lives and property” instead of spending “hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of ‘warm and sunny.’”"
Also from the same article:
"He told ABC News in May 2005: “We work hard every day competing with other companies and we also have to compete with the government.”"

Theres some more info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers
Do you have a source for this? That's interesting (if true).
Well written article. Enjoyable and informative, even for a non sec worker
ChatGPT vs DeepSeek.
Is that actually crossing a line? I'm sure some consumers have thought that rocket league was associated with FIFA, or that studio Ghibli movies were made by Disney. But these aren't widespread issues because we have a robust system of trademarks that draws a clear line: you can't use trademarked names or iconography in a way that causes confusion. But if some people heading Olivia Rodrigo's "good 4 you" think they're listening to Paramore because they have a similar style, that has never been illegal
If you, as a machinist, can get to live in a lower-price region, go hunting and fishing or just traipsing through the woods instead of doing that next release drive, build or repair your own HVAC or PV array + storage and get to raise a family while doing so I'd say that's worth quite a bit of that discrepancy in salary. You'll get the added advantage of seeing your handiwork being used and lasting for years to decades instead of being replaced in a few months or never used at all.

Replace 'machinist' with a choice of other hands-on 'blue collar' professions for the same effect. Even better is to replace it with a profession which allows you to combine manual dexterity with software development.

Or do as I did and buy a farm which allows you to flex all your muscles - mental as well as physical.
It's probably here to stay. Making people feel smart is a primary tool for engagement.
haha...never saw this. I just took name that suits and focus on the building product, instead of name :)
AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court
That graph looks like willful ignorance.
It sometimes seems like business school is becoming a one-liner: "Just say or do whatever keeps the investors happy".

I have to wonder when some startup will attract talent with a tag line like "We use AI like we use text editors: Only where it makes sense."
Then, logically, you would not hire them solely based on this one tool.
It's not wise to buy a car you cannot fit into any parking lot.
Once you have the basic GPU cell design, it's just a case of allowing time to run.
Just a heads-up, the site doesn't render in a usable way in FireFox.
but perhaps communicating with millions is just the same skill being used over and over again - doesn't make they smarter in any way. I can add 1 and 1 a million times doesn't make me smarter. Sure, bankers are more skilled at understanding money, inflation, investments but engineers are more skilled in their field. Take the banker and train them in engineering and vice versa, I'm sure they'll both be able to handle the job well.
There's no end to the possible vectors of human manipulation with this "open-weight" black box.
The special abilities write themselves
In the US, the ADA allows employers to request proof of disability.
Vortex may be not so much but there are other hard to visualize things. I am on the third book, and I have no idea what Beeblebrox's two heads look like. Second head is often mentioned in passing. Sometimes its mentioned as its always there, other times it feels like its just pops out of somewhere, otherwise, it's like it doesn't exist.

There is the scene when they see themselves on the beach on first rescue by the ship. That was hard to grasp. Or the insides of the ship itself, the bridge, the panels etc. Also that black ship they stole.

But may be its just me having a hard time with these concepts.

It's not just about scene being difficult to visualize, even if I can see them in my head, I want to see them on paper too because those thing excite me.
I am a 19yo CS student, I have deep interest in computers, tech and all things related to it, especially Rust, Guix and ML and I am hoping to apply for intern position at AutoPallet Robotics (YC S24), from their recent comment on Who is Hiring thread.

But, I am in a "not-so-good" uni and don't really know anyone in this city or region too, so not many connections that could guide me.

Also, for any orgmode user, any suggestions to improve the style of the pdf export?