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This is not true and is nonsensical. The Iranian regime is explicitly anti-American, and it was American inaction that allowed them to rise to power. If America had intervened during the revolution, they could have eliminated the regime in its infancy and saved half a century of headaches and many lives lost due to Iranian wars and terror proxies.

The US also did not create political Islam, which predates the US by over 1000 years. Blaming the US for the problems of this region which has always had these problems is counter-factual. The problems of this part of the world - poverty, violence, religious oppression and dictatorships - predate western civilization as a whole, and in fact the oppressive empires from the Middle East / North Africa spread earlier and wider than western empires.

H1Bs are much less of a problem than the offshoring and outsourcing. I’d rather lure top talent to live in the US than ship jobs off to exploited contractors who work for nothing.

A discord server with 150k people whose identity or nation of origin are not verified, where only 8000 people voted. This is as illegitimate an election as they come. Come literally just have been elected by Russian (or any other) bots.

You can use password manager autofill and hardware 2fa and still get phished. All it takes is you rushing, not paying attention, clicking on a link, and logging in (been caught by my own security team doing this). Yes, in an ideal world you're going to be 100% perfect. The world is not ideal, unfortunately. I don't have a solution, but demanding humans behave perfectly in order to remain secure is not a reasonable ask.

A laborer in Asia can't install plumbing in America, install electrical systems in America, etc...

We also should end the exploitative nature of globalization. Outsourced work should be held to the same standards as laborers in modern countries (preferably EU, rather than American, standards).

Maybe they figure it’s just going to be hot swappable models and they’d rather save the 10s of billions on training for a commodified service.

What I'm seeing is that we need a true open source phone and os. Looks like there's been some work on those fronts, but we need to do more.

It does if you have an org account: https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/

It wouldn't surprise me if the BGP routes in the DCI PNI were manually configured, since this is probably one of the most direct and important connections. I would be surprised if Cloudflare didn't have firsthand knowledge of what happened with AWS during this incident.

I think the withdrawal approach by AWS would normally work, as this action should desaturate the connections. Just really unfortunate that this caused routing through a link that was at half capacity.

Cursor's agent is better, but the in-editor suggestions by Copilot when you're actually the one coding are very useful. Claude's agent is better than Cursor, so I'm not sure where Cursor fits in with this ecosystem.

I'm surprised, mostly because Google seems to have basically no salespeople, account reps, or customer management.

I think it's fundamentally easy to use once you get it set up, it's just absolutely madness in terms of configuration. But you can easily manage a backlog, sprints, update tickets, etc, plus they have a query language (JQL) that you can use to make widgets that are useful (although many of those should just be defaults). It's got a lot of flexibility in terms of required fields, forms, workflows, etc.

The restrictions on supply are generally economical. Every day, building gets more expensive; labor and parts both cost more. That is going to cause the average home to cost more, even older ones, as you always have the option to get a new build at current rates or an older one for slightly cheaper.

Very loose definition of "prove". I would guess that there are many on HN who are overqualified for any H1B job and would take it for the right money. The talent is here, they just want to pay less.

I’m mostly a MySQL user. Two things stand out:

1) the Postgres documentation does not mention that Notify causes a global lock or lock of any sort (I checked). That’s crazy to me; if something causes a lock, the documentation should tell you it does and what kind. Performance notes also belong in documentation for dbs.

2) why the hell does notify require a lock in the first place? Reading the comment this design seems insane; there’s no good reason to queue up notifications for transactions that aren’t committed. Just add the notifications in commit order with no lock, you’re building a db with concurrency, get used to it.

This tax issue (not a break - normally you can count employees as a businesss expense for the current year, this made software unusual) meant that startups or other tech companies were extremely disadvantaged in the short term, and had to pay way more in taxes than they should have. For startups, having to pay far more in taxes during the first few years of existence is crippling.

This fixes that problem. That encourages both investment in software and encourages software companies to hire.

Cursor, Copilot agent mode, and Windsurf. The agent modes can search repos, modify code, and run code on their own. I thought Cursor's agent was the best. I did like Windsurf's agent plans, but the actual results weren't good. Copilot's agent has been slow and not good. But basically all of them were like a pretty bad junior engineer - sometimes it would hit the right result, but usually not. The code often looked good but rarely even ran, let alone met requirements. They would frequently break things, I'd fix them, they'd break them again. Most of the time this cycle was slower and more frustrating than just writing the code myself. I tried one or two one-shots on lovable - the design was impressive, but functionality and attention to specs were poor.

I've had the most success with extremely small questions rather than asking the agents to write a lot of code. In those cases, the code is still usually wrong, but it's close or small enough that I can quickly fix it.

Don't get me wrong: I find all of these tools to be really impressive and good enough to be useful. But the improvements and huge productivity gains friends claim they or their workers are getting just aren't materializing for me.

After a recent conversation here, I spent a few weeks using agents.

These agents are just as disappointing as what we had before. Except now I waste more time getting bad results, though I’m really impressed by how these agents manage to fuck things up.

My new way of using them is to just go back to writing all the code myself. It’s less of a headache.

Iran believes in martyrdom, which absolutely changes the reasoning. They would destroy Israel in a heartbeat even if it meant losing 90% of their population.

The math does imply infinite universes. There are many physicists who believe that all these worlds do exist.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

And a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKWfw68M5U&list=PLsPUh22kYm...

I've spent the past month or so immersed in Penrose diagrams. Some of the implications of the math and diagrams include white holes (opposite of black holes - spew matter outwards), infinite universes contained within one another other, anti-gravity universes, and things like this. You can also fall into a black hole and make it out into another universe instead of meeting the singularity (at least, an idealized, rotating black hole). Anyway, cool stuff.

Where are the results? I keep hearing about how great these coding agents are. What have you built beyond the complexity of a disposable toy app? Where are the swarms of new apps built by these agents that are solving new problems and taking over markets? I’m just not seeing results. I guess I need to spend some time using cursor as an agent to see it for myself.

I am a believer that these tools will be (if they aren’t already) extremely useful. Game changing in many ways, and I worry about the future of knowledge fields. Definitely not a skeptic in the trajectory. I do wonder if that makes those of us who are on the cutting edge more valuable as AI can quickly reproduce things that are well understood.

With Google controlling most devices and browsers, you aren’t getting that control.

If your mission is to promote diversity and your job is to hire people, you are either increasing diversity hiring or you aren’t completing your mission or job.

You can find reports of hr employees and lawsuits involving major companies and universities to the contrary, where there were quotas and discrimination, implicit or explicit.

I have never used any of these features, I just see the names on the group chat - same as groups texts 15 years ago. I don’t want to hide that with a group name that might make me forget who I’m messaging.

I think the below poster got it right. Cutting out Facebook certainly improved my life; cutting out instagram later was an additive improvement. Now I’m left with HN (which generally avoids the bad parts of social media) and Reddit (which has plenty of brain rot).

It also took a lot more than 6 weeks to get acclimated to it. You get psychological withdrawal. It took months for it to feel normal. My income went up a lot in the years after as well (in part due to more time to focus on finding a new job), so that also contributed to my happiness.

Group chats existed before any of this social media did. Pretty funny that we’ve come full circle on that.

Give them a year, they’ll feel even better.

Google "diversity quotas" or "hiring targets". If you are explicitly demanding a disproportionate number of minority candidates, you are disadvantaging other candidates.

This is surprising to me. My company (top 20 by revenue) has forbidden us from using non-approved AI tools (basically anything other than our own ChatGPT / LLM tool). Obviously it can't truly be enforced, but they do not want us using this stuff for security reasons.