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That's exactly it. That's why I don't see why putting up with time zone and cultural differences in work style not to mention communication complexities from these, are worth putting up with versus using Claude code.

Unless... God, what if they decided to use agents to manage their offshore "resources". That sounds like the utopia some are salivating over.

God. Do they want people who did those things but also were the Class President, played a sport and has someone important write a letter?

As someone who thumbed their nose at academia being a proud self-taught techie from Old Schoolia, stuff like that makes me feel echoes of aristocracy (I do have a degree howeve). I recently interviewed a bunch of grads and picked the one who wasn't from an Ivy League - specifically because he showed tons of self-directed learning and curiosity and humility, while the others had grand plans that had absolutely nothing to do with our group function and mission. As someone who's been around a while, some of my worst work experiences were with autistic geniuses who acted proud and mean, and ended up making the environment toxic.

Right. Are you the offshore worker in question?

And even if delegating thinking to the offshore worker to delegate thinking to Claude ... why would you even bother delegating to them in the first place?

I don't know how old you are, but if you were around in the early 2000's there was a BIG offshore fear. More and more they were hiring in India and the Philippines and other places. Initially it was the NOC / L1, maybe L2, and in certain areas.

Not only did it not spread to engineering, but even the L1 and L2 were terrible. I worked in some large environments where working with those offshore folks was universally viewed as a nightmare.

Now, what has changed? Don't tell me Claude. As far as I can tell, these folks make a lot less, and the good ones can easily immigrate to Europe or somewhere else - maybe that has changed. Culturally, you have to often tell them very explicitly what to do and it is not normal to think outside of the box. I doubt that has changed.

So why would we be more afraid than we were in the early 2000's?

I got a 2025 Bravia because after some research it may not have the best panels, but it's the least likely to pull shannigans around snapshotting your viewing and forcibly connecting to a open wifi and that sort of thing. I connected it, updated the bios, immediately killed the wifi and I've been happy with an Apple TV ever since.

Unless the Apple TV decides to be evil, I feel safe.

It's not objectively bad, but so unpopular that it would require tyranny to implement. Living fully cleanly and like a monk makes a few people very happy with a sense of purpose, but it gets in the way of everyone else's priorities, which is to survive day-to-day.

Living without AC in a warm summer is one example. It feels like a first world inconvenience to the Green types, that we should all learn to accept. Good luck with democratically convincing everyone else - you'd need authoritarian for a true success in keeping everyone "living with less."

Amazing! If only it would appear on my AppleTV...

Shorting is more dangerous than buying long dated puts. At least with puts, if it's volatile there'll be opportunities to sell out of it if the direction isn't down in the long term.

It's so hard to time these things that short term bets are insanely risky. Yeah, thinks should go down, but they might or might not do it soon, and it might happen overnight because somethingsomething Yen Carry Trade or a surprise in the Middle East or some LatAm crash or an election result or God knows what.

How will OpenAI become a channel ? Has it become more clear how ads will be served from inference?

Free healthcare, I think you mean single payer healthcare or a public option for healthcare, exists in most countries in the world. How is it different? How about how is it the same?

I, for one am very thankful for what Microsoft did with Windows 11. It has exactly the feature set, and AI value-add ... to inspire me to take the plunge to Fedora Workstation and I've never been happier. Even Steam games (kind of) work. More importantly dnf update -y becomes exciting.

Windows (and increasingly Apple) updates are more of a sigh and lip biting experience than an exciting one.

I'm really happy not to have touched Windows recently at all.

At work Microsoft's updates are buggy - Outlook and Teams are pretty awful on corporate Macs. Teams especially, it has a bunch of papercut type annoyances. And updates torture Corp IT.

Define letting? The political system has de-criminalized vote buying by re-branding the bribers as 'lobbyists' and protecting it as a 1st Amendment right. Even Guilfoyle's controversy was asking for 100k to her Amex account from a "lobbyist". In most countries it's a jailable offense.

This lobbying means that the politicians might be elected by "us" but they work for "them" - the "lobbyists."

Does this answer your question sufficiently?

There's just one small problem. The AI costs money, and the premise is AI is cheaper than people. If you augment your 100 engineers with AI, they'll cost what, 10% more? That's +10 percent to your cost center, and would be considered very bad. There are tons of tools that make us more productive - think about it, how many of them did we have to beg demand or leave for? You assume they care to maximize productivity, which is your first mistake.

That it exists? Sure.

That it's a degradation in some environments? There's not a lot being said about this. The laments are usually developers sad that they're prompting instead of coding. My lament isn't about the art of it, it's the human reasoning that seems to have gone away in my workplace when it comes to engineers.

People at work are cutting and pasting Claude output for use in routine messages on Teams, troubleshooting suggestions, and proposed architecture designs, and honestly it's some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen. I have to tell people to reword it in their own words, and I believe they often can't.

I've seen developers use Claude to make suggestions for infrastructure design that made absolutely no sense and did not consider our environment. I've seen people write English that grammatically made sense but logically did not.

I don't see enough complaints about this and it can't be just my company.

Is anyone else seeing really severe Dunning-Kruger?

I always check what AI says to me, and I use my own words. I think the average engineer is not.

Any tips to get started with just one rig? A 4070 ti on a two year old Fedora workstation desktop?

What are the tools to look at first for usable models at that thin compute capacity and how do you go about exploring training for hobby and learning purposes?

>Back in the 1800’s when the more dense haussmanian architecture was put in. I’m sure their equivalent of pretty jazz clubs then were mowed down too. But over a 100 years the more housing made space for more people and better culturally richer city.

Absolutely wrong. Haussmann's restructuring of the city was intended to REDUCE overcrowding and darkness due to the narrow alleyways, not to mention illness from the overcrowding. He lowered density, built parks, and then Paris expanded a lot when they absorbed the suburbs in the 1860's. Today Paris is extremely high density, and they're again expanding into the suburbs - look up Grand Paris projects. But the 6 story buildings aren't being demolished to make 30 story buildings like you seem to be suggesting is the thing to t do.

As much as I rail against a soulless place like Houston (with no housing restrictions like in NYC or Cali), I also don't want to turn our cities into Shanghai or New Delhi.

And by the way, what makes you think building more makes housing cheaper? It's not like making widgets in a factory. Gentrification makes things more, not less expensive - have you seen the history of Williamsburg, Brooklyn? Rezoning it turned it into a lux neighborhood with an Apple store, and attracted people from around the world.

What are you talking about? Where do you see Paris being demolished?

How would Greenwich Village look if you turned it all into towers of rental apartments?

France uses expansion of the suburbs to make housing more available, and that includes trams, buses and yes, Metro expansion. You don't need to demolish the fucking bistros and parks to replace them with towers.

In NYC it could be done with NJ Transit being replaced, and better transportation. Then the border areas would become more dense because the investment returns would support it. People would want to move there to work in Manhattan.

Please don't turn world class cities into your LA or Houston Hellscapes of cars and highways. I'd rather pay a million dollars for a tiny one bedroom apartment in a real city than half the price in those soulless, cultureless places where you spend all day behind the wheel of a vehicle.

California bias.

Go to Manhattan and tell me that housing isn't built because of NIMBYism. It's: RTO (very important!), cost of land (land isn't increasing in volume), end of tax subsidies (programs that gave developers tax breaks), zoning (hey let's demolish all the jazz clubs in Greenwich Village and replace it with affordable housing - is that what you consider the correct line?), jobs (the economics of people moving to a place) and many many many more factors.

About once a week someone with a singular conception of the world of housing comes and you need to open their minds up a bit.

You want to lower housing costs? Maybe increase public transportation, give workers rights to work from home, and invest in expanding the suburbs by making them more dense. But don't do that until AFTER you've established the infrastructure piece. Not everyone wants to live in LA or Austin and spend hours in cars.

If you don't do these things then people all want to live in the same place, which is far more impactful than this "NIMBYism" thing, not everything is your local HOA or little town's regulations.

They're in the process of training the models for those professions, too. They're offering people hundreds of dollars an hour to run recordings of workload they create and questions they ask. It's only a matter of time that companies sell access to those models and sell it as that profession.

That makes a lot of sense.

It's just weird that a bot or political campaigners would think they would sway opinions with one sentence "Reddit-like" comments, since HN isn't like that normally. Also who actually gets swayed? This green guy who's mic-dropping his comments are surely not swaying anybody.

I just hope the mods start upping the bar somehow. The one line mic drops are what make Reddit fairly high noise and low quality unless you really know what you're searching for.

Why are burner accounts writing all these anti Israel things? or tying wink wink Jews to big tech or defense or other things in a wink wink fashion? Is it Russian bots on HN? Progressive political groups thinking they are helping Palestinians? Is it humans from Reddit that came in through the HN Sub?

What's "ties to Israel" to you?

Can you expand on that? What were the problems and how had you prepared?

I avoided any interview with LeetCode and unfortunately it kept me out of Big Tech. Or fortunately, I'm not sure.

Only on HN are people allowed to make these types of tongue-in-cheek anti-Semitic comments of the type you're responding to - while simultaneously attacking any other perceived form of racism/sexism. Somehow attaching random Jews to Israel is considered entirely okay in the hive mind here. I see it a lot in the more controversial popular posts that get posted.

We're not paralyzed, we just delay and delay until it breaks and costs a lot more to fix.

For the cynical but factually curious look up the history of the ARC project, and NJ governor Chris Christie who canned it - this was to upgrade the tunnel that hosts the biggest train lines in the country (Northeast Corridor). Guess what - it has to happen, just at a much higher costs.

The United States fails at infrastructure because it's too decentralized. You don't build with anything four year terms and corrupt politicians. It's too short-term.

Airbnb was an amazing experience the first few years of its existence. As someone sensitive to noise, hotels are never quiet - I'll either get woken up at 1a by slamming doors or at 7a by slamming doors or the room being made up in the adjacent room. Or I'll hear people in the adjacent room or above and I'll go crazy. Also there's that tiny little fridge where you ask them to empty it so you can fit a water bottle or two.

Airbnb offered more space and also a kitchen so I can save money cooking, and in big cities it was amazing. It still is in vacation spots when renting a whole house. But it's very very risky. Fact - hosts can get negative reviews censored by Airbnb support, as in sentences deleted or the whole review removed. If you don't believe me: first go to all your old reviews and see what remains. Second look at the bizarre grammatical structure of sentences on reviews. Little essays turn into fragments.

Also check the Airbnb subreddit. First notice how hosts tell each other how to get reviews removed. Second look how they view guests - as entitled garbage.

That to me is the bigger scam, the reviews thing. I'll happily take out the trash, just don't lie to me by removing half of the opinion spectrum. Oh and also I'm sick of having construction next door in almost every Airbnb I've stayed at the last two or three years. What gives?

A century is a pretty amazing amount of time considering the alternative, no?

It just feels like climate change activism is about telling us we're all going to suffer anyway, so turn off your AC and start to pay more in building costs and taxes. Don't we want practical solutions?

Could someone explain this to me because it nags at me in these discussions. Nuclear - what happened in the West, and why isn't it discussed both to solve high energy costs and climate change. Take three countries.

Germany. Germany seems extremely dependent on natural gas which has connected it to Russia in ways that clearly cause political problems and geopolitical issues.

United States seems to be able to afford it but also dismantled its nuclear power plants. In New York State they got rid of a plant that fed NYC and provided jobs, Indian Point, and energy costs have gone up from what I understand.

France has nuclear but behaves culturally like everyone else, with high energy costs and curious behaviors like keeping AC away from people culturally and legally.

I'm all for progressive change, but what do you tell non-climate scientists? If I live in a northern climate in a wooded area, I can't get solar on my house. I can have an electric vehicle and try to keep usage low in the house, but honestly the rest feels like events completely beyond my control, making conversations like these pretty abstract. Okay, we're screwed in a few decades. What exactly do you want me to do? Vote for Greens who attack nuclear and AC like in Europe?