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It seems that lawyers are sending advice to panic foreign visa holders.

But tech-bro in chief Mr. Musk said he's gonna face smash anyone who opposed h1bs or something liek that:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-did-elon-musk-t...

Which is ironic, as I read in a bio-piece on Musk that when he founded zip2 he actually was over-staying on a Canadian student visa.

So really, Musk is here because of illegal immigration not h1b.

But tech workers don't have to worry, cuz Trump is bending to Musk's intoxicating scent, at least for the few months while his bro-mance lasts.

Next year, who knows what Trump's children will advise him to do?

Nissan, Ghosn, and I can't answer the third easily without delving back into it, but if I think of an answer, I'll edit this reply.

Homeschooling is fashionable because public schools are terrible, and private schools are expensive.

No tech bro theories of exceptionalism and "anti-mediocrity" necessary.

Occam would be proud.

I'm pretty new to HN but "show HN: I made a system..." means *you are going to show me a system where you made me an MVP in 30 days*, not ask for me to provide you with sales leads for an outsourcing project.

Am I missing something here?

Not at all.

The CEO in question publicly declared his own job would be forfeit within a year if he didn't meet goals that were in the recent past history of the company, absolutely impossible.

He met and exceeded those goals.

The IC isn't powerless with good management.

“[Zuckerberg's] descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” -Lemley

This sounds like The Trang calling for a special termination on Col. Kurtz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBF3kXHoZM&t=6s

"insane sir, obviously insane..."

I am not talking about the tool per se. I am talking about the skill of persistence and creativity in the face of a problem.

Learning a tool is useful, even invaluable, but if you don't have the persistence to use it, it's useless.

And many tools are just partially useful under some conditions. So creativity in using them is also useful.

So it's not about the tools, its about not giving up and trying different things, which makes all tools more effective, and problem-solving more likely.

Ironically, we may look with fond memories of the days when an actual human being handled our DMV paperwork.

An AI chatbot with an unblinking stare and frozen smile is likely to be your new DMV virtual assistant!

A well known CEO noted that in a failing organization he was trying to devise a turn around plan for that everyone in the organization invariably blamed... the other teams! Not a one said "our team is responsible for our failure".

The engineers blamed product, the product people blamed sales, etc.

He said he provided this suggestion, "You are of course right (it's the other groups fault, and it might have been so), but what can you do, in your group, as part of a solution we all work towards to help fix this?"

So yeah, it is the other guys fault. But what you can you do to help fix it?

The readme is lacking in examples. Can we have a more verbose readme?

(^_^) [o_o] (^.^) (".") ($.$)

They got some rockin' tunes there. +1

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Seawolf/Seawolf__Sex_Demo...

This seems to be a pretty generic topic, can you find another source for it?

Here's an article that sounds nearly identical:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-01-0...

I can't imagine there aren't dozens like it.

<HUMOR> <!-----THIS IS THE FUNNY PART---->

I think you need an MVP demo of how your product works, I can't figure it out from your website.

Maybe you could do it in under 30 days.

<!-----END FUNNY PART --------> </HUMOR>

I was suggesting optimizing for answer quality, but optimizing for cost might be useful too I suppose for "business innovation" purposes.

link doesn't work for me. :~(

"On a recent podcast with Joe Rogan, Mr Zuckerberg said he thought companies needed more "masculine energy" and discussed taking up martial arts, which he said he enjoyed because he felt he could more fully express himself, than in his corporate role."

<HUMOR> <!---HUMOR START ---> Note to self: take up Tai Kwan Do to advance/defend career at Meta.

Nothing impresses the bosses like groin flexibility and high kicks. <!---HUMOR END ---> </HUMOR>

Virulent anti-nationalists are generally marxist leninist communists.

The rhetoric of the anti-nationalists is generally implicitly or explicitly "internationalist". In early Communist organization names they often used the word "international" and I think they even have a toe tappin' song by that name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDbatoAvuB4

And if you doubt the second part "are often pro-war" this is the doctrine of divide and conquer, civil war (called "class war") in which the target of their anti-nationalist colonialism is provoked into disorder before the "forces of liberation" can swoop in and expand the mother country.

This has been endlessly documented in many places. Probably one of the better ones is George Orwell's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia

I believe that some corporations and their PR firms have been caught updating their wikipedia pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_o...

That we know about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfXgu37iyI

The virulent anti-nationalists are, themselves, often a very pro-war faction.

Stop the regex insanity!

"it's not your fault" - Robert Elder

Some deadpan humour from RE for your infotainment.

I'll just leave this here

"The Insanity Of Linux's Regular Expressions " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7yUyyQA-Y

But possibly the most rewarding. The struggle is its own reward that pays off later many times over.

I mentioned it, true. I declined to participate.

Shall we have a meta discussion?

Nice! I am a HNN newb.

I finally found that six point font "favorite" that appears only once and at the top of the comment section for a topic.

You guys don't make it easy.

You have a fair point. Some LLMs are better at some tasks, and prompts can make a difference no doubt.

Perhaps at some point there will be a triage LLM to slurp up the problem and then decide which secondary LLM is most optimal for that query, and some tertiary LLMs that execute and evaluate it in a virtual machine, etc.

Maybe someday

My feelings exactly, but I think that's OK!

It's another tool and one that might actually improve with time. I don't see GNU's man pages getting any better spontaneously.

Whoa, what if they started to use AI to auto-generate man pages...

I think you're onto something. I've had hit or miss experiences with code from LLMs but it definitely makes the searching part different.

I had a problem I'd been thinking about for some time and I thought "Ill have some LLM give me an answer" and it did - it was wrong and didn't work but it got me to thinking about the problem in a slightly different way and my quacks after that got me an exact solution to this problem.

So I'm willing to give the AI more than partial credit.

Ya know, it's websites like this that make me want to see a "best of HNN" list, so it can be easily found when I'm using ffmpeg and saying "geez, there was some cool ffmpeg site, but where the heck is it?...."

Can we have a best of HNN and put it on there, or vote on it, or whatever?

From what I've read it jacks up your bloods ability to store oxygen. So, kinda yes and yes.