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Just follow the money or whatever is the top incentive.

Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:37PM (#49265962)
Ok so they ingested the world's content, sold it back to us and now they're protecting themselves against the copyright claims under the guise of safety and user privacy whilst creating the regulatory moat that decreases competition?

What am I missing?

Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:24PM (#49162650)
The bottleneck in software used to be writing the code. Now the bottleneck shifted to whether (and how) to build the feature/product/thing (upstream validation) and whether to ship it (downstream quality/review).

Why aren't we seeing these type of articles talking about the first bottleneck? Even the ones talking about code review don't mention the upstream work.

Writing software is still one of the most expensive things you can do to a business even with LLms.

Re:The Prompt API on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @07:44PM (#47956171)
I get the filtering use case here and I'd say the other one is personalisation of generic marketing copy.
Re:So where are all the AI apps? on Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:26PM (#47559916)
There's another angle which I have no data to support, vibe coding could just be a gateway drug to software development.
Re:The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball on Saturday December 21, 2024 @07:44PM (#42483556)
+1 the basketball products outside of the NBA, I find more enjoyable and fun to watch but I'm also outside of USA. I often find that players from outside the US and Canada in the NBA more enjoyable to watch also. More casual observers of basketball in my family prefer the NBA.

The article would of benefitted from comparing the FIBA products, Euroleague and NBA. A lot of comments in this post are different under FIBA rules like longer 3pt lines, no defensive 3 seconds, less timeouts etc. However none make more money or have a viewership more than the NBA.

The flow of the game is crucial but has economic tradeoffs. If the NBA wants a slice of the global pie then i think it may need to adjust some of the rules that benefit the economics in the short term.

Re:Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why? on Saturday October 12, 2024 @07:33PM (#41823710)
Does anyone know the legal and liability risk position for a global scale company in relation to where work is done?
Re:fouls.

At my pickups courts we call our own fouls by saying Foul. Perhaps the mic can pickup key words matched the play stopping.

This is very interesting and well executed for the initial release. Good luck!

One thing I found odd was that the default/main screen in the app is a feed. That feed is just short videos without any of the game data the app captures. Perhaps an overlay would showoff the app as well as the skills. The videos by themselves don't add much differentiated value.

Well there's a tonne of great books and articles posted here.

There's some simple stuff that seems worth pointing out:

1. You need to do it more often. Education 10%, Exposure 20% and Experience 70% as a rule of thumb for learning.

If you want to be better at managing, then practice managing more. You're not losing time for solo dev work, you are gaining a new skill.

2. Get a close mentor you can shadow for that 20% exposure time.

3. For delegation, practice using CPORT.C – Context. P – Purpose. O – Outcome in terms of quality and quantity. R – Resources. Then get fast at it by creating systems that do it for you. Queues are your friend.

Have fun.

Re:Teaching with AI on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:42PM (#37357308)
Chatgpt and writing are a match made in heaven though. Think of it like a faster lower latency more insightful spell checker.
As a consultant paid hourly rates now, meeting invites had a significant drop when I moved from daily to hourly.

I noted that customers were paying me to hang around for 8 hours being on demand for messages or meetings to pop up like a reserved instance.

I guess that long repetitive meeting culture will exist until the systems change to a flipped office.

Re:Experiences Won’t Make You Happier Than Possessions on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:26PM (#36099889)
The sky doesn't complain about the clouds.

To my experience, the trouble seems to be in the external sourcing of feelings like happiness.

If only...I would exercises work for me when considering my intentions. If only I had a fast red car then I'd be happy. If only I went to Paris I would be happy.

I don't mind the article as I take the points as the location of work should match the stages and culture of the team/business. In a weird parallel to "the difference between a house and a home".

If I was being general I'd say that leaders need to focus on creating an environment where people feel secure, engaged and connected to each other. And people are empowered to create this environment for others.

What location this is done in shouldn't be the focus.

Offices, factories, beaches, houses don't have the above because buildings don't create it, people do.

Re:Meetings *Are* the Work on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:24PM (#34941868)
A flipped classroom model for meetings has been useful for me. However the design of time management tools requires some inspection.

The barrier to entry or cost of booking a meeting is significantly lower than the cost of actually having one. Whenever I see this pattern in a system, poor outcomes are found.

The higher up in the organisation the lower the cost to book it, most of the time you can ignore everyone else's schedule.

The design of time management tools like calendars needs updating.

The default calendar setting is Available is another example. As is, free text area for the request body.

Re:Australia Goes All-In on Green Hydrogen on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:20PM (#34133073)
It's more profitable for companies in Oz to export some raw materials currently. It really does depend on the material though, Aluminium as an example Oz exports a fair bit of that as well as bauxite. Hydrogen somewhat is processed at least before export.
When we calculate inflation do we calculate this factor? That a product has become more expensive to buy, more expensive to maintain, more expensive to run and you have to pay for features you used to get as part of the product purchase.
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me? on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:21PM (#33737328)
The trough of disillusionment. I suggest you get a coach, if you've never made a way through it before.

Additionally and anecdotally as you've said, around that time is when promotion is offered often without the difficulty level/growth opportunity changing in role responsibility.

Lastly, it's a team sport.

Agreed and maybe expand on this angle. For example, I struggle(time intensive) with the centralisation of resourcing and project/task assignment workflow. Find an available capable person, invite to org, assign to team/project, get working.

I scale through subcontractors so the ability to decentralize that workflow would be nice. E.g. suggestions of who would be best for this project in an internal or public marketplace of other solos.

Re:Don't Waste the Good Days on Sunday January 02, 2022 @07:50PM (#29775981)
Though I like your balanced view I don't agree that life is short or long. In my experience the length seems less meaningful as opposed to the life long friend you made surfing Bali.

I took the message as set your own direction and then sieze the day. Whatever you choose to do surf or work or both.

I'm not sure on the USA but I know that to clear such a logjam will require a lot of workers who might be casual workers. What's the expected impact on these workers?
Re:I just don’t want to be busy anymore on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:22PM (#28805771)
Don't be "pro-active" be "re-active"

Balance being proactive with being responsive.

I feel you would of received a better response if you used the word Responsive not Reactive in this context and replaced "Don't" with Balance.

Being responsive to things that happen on a daily basis acknowledges that the company we are employed in is messy and stuff happens that you may need to urgently attend to. Yet it doesn't mean that you still can't achieve things that make your place of employment a better place for others.

I see enterprises commonly mess up the planning stage.

They take the waterfall approach, what do we need to get done by X to achieve goal Y. Then apply tasks/actions to get it done to people who are at a meeting. Following this step they shift over to scrum sprints, routines and measures to give management comfort on whether its track or not.

The alternate might be, what is the highest value items that we can achieve with this group of people.

Generally speaking, if the thing that is meant to help you get to value becomes more of a focus then you're in a spot of bother

From what I've seen the biggest problem is that the estimates are done as part of a sales cycle or to get approval to spend money of some sort.

Which is a different motivator to actually getting it done.

Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:13PM (#25911213)
Most companies I've worked for don't see WFH as a cost saving initiative but as an operating productivity initiative.
Re:Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:21PM (#24611516)
Don't ask us, ask the team.

Then maybe take a holiday for a few weeks and see what happens.

Re:Why Are Enterprises So Slow? on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:14PM (#18170898)
Perhaps I missed it but where is the point that a large percentage of all enterprise systems are designed for the internal purposes of running that enterprise and not directly involved in delivering the product/s that the company is paid for?
Re:Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @07:58PM (#8235298)
Hey can I pay you to not listen to incredibly loud music through your terrible headphones as well? Or snore? Or any other minor discrepancy you perform against another human.

Idiot

Re:Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews on Friday June 13, 2014 @09:07PM (#7891694)
Outstanding execution could be smoother in terms of getting to the booking.

have you considered an I'm feeling lucky function?

Do you have an API that other developers or designers can extend?

Have you considered other verticals such as cruises and tours?

Hope it goes well guys love to hear from you what the conversion rate from users.

hutch

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:07AM (#7658929)
Scan a QR Code/NFC to donate to a charity collector outside a train station.

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