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I know a guy who has this theory, in essence at least. Businesses use software and other high-tech to make efficiency gains (fewer people getting more done). The opportunities for developing and selling software were historically in digitizing industries that were totally analog. Those opportunities are all but dried up and we're now several generations into giving all those industries new, improved, but ultimately incremental efficiency gains with improved technology. What makes AI and robotics interesting, from this perspective, is the renewed potential for large-scale workforce reduction.

Almost nobody who works in software development is a licensed professional engineer. Many are even self-taught, and that includes both ICs and managers. I'm not saying this is direct causation but I do think it odd that we are so utterly dependent on software for so many critical things and yet we basically YOLO its development compared to what we expect of the people who design our bridges, our chemicals, our airplanes, etc.

100%.

After reading the first couple paragraphs I realized it was structured like marketing content. Then I saw the first emdash and nope'd out. Control-W, get that slop out of my life.

If you look at the article, you can see that games have been getting progressively slower since records started being kept back in the 1920s. The recent rule changes have managed to cut the duration back to what they were in the early 80s.

By your logic, the games my mom grew up watching weren't slow enough, and the games my grandma watched were true blasphemy at around 2 hours flat.

Meanwhile, from my wife's perspective, I spend all afternoon watching even these sped-up games.

While I also dislike the ghost runner, I can't deny that it's been a net positive for the game. By mostly eliminating marathon extra-inning slogs, not only does it speed up the game, but it also makes it much harder for teams to run out of pitchers they can safely use, which reduces injuries and ensures that we are not subjected to watching two backup catchers throw 48mph Eephus pitches in the 17th inning, long after they stopped selling beer.

The pitch clock is undoubtedly the most impactful of the changes made recently to speed up the game. However, other changes were implemented alongside it that have contributed in meaningful ways:

- Limit on the number of times per plate appearance a pitcher can "disengage" by stepping off/calling time or making a pickoff move.

- Limit on the number of times per plate appearance a batter can "disengage" by stepping out/calling time.

- Minimum of 3 batters must be faced by an incoming relief pitcher (or must finish the half-inning)

- Limit on the number of mound visits per game

- Larger bases

- Elimination (mostly) of the defensive "shift"

- Team at bat starts with an automatic "ghost" runner on 2nd base in extra innings

I don't support what the Trump administration is doing. But saying it's "categorically, scientifically, absurd" to lay people off is some next-level stuff. I can guarantee to anyone reading this, that this person has never owned a business with any kind of significant overhead.

The article also misspelled her last name.

I am reminded of an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry gives his dad an expensive, multifunction PDA called "The Wizard" but his Dad doesn't immediately see the use. Jerry explains it can do all kinds of things, for example, it has a calculator he can use to calculate tips at restaurants, leading Dad to conclude it's a $200 tip calculator. Jerry keeps protesting "it does other things!" and the old folks act like they can't even hear him.

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

> The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans

This is a hugely underappreciated aspect of why the cost of health care, including insurance premiums, is so high in the US. Well-meaning folks have called for decades for the US to transition to single-payer, citing the overall lower cost experienced in other countries as a primary motivator. Meanwhile, US companies remain the global leaders in the development of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. That development is often subsidized by US taxpayers and the remainder is largely recovered from US patients because the single-payer systems in other countries often impose price controls that largely don't exist in the US.

(This is not meant to argue against single-payer in the US. All things being equal, a single-payer system would likely solve many more problems than it would cause. I'm just pointing out what many before me already have about how Americans disproportionately subsidize the development of the healthcare the rest of the world benefits from).

I just turn off all the news, ads, crypto wallet, etc. stuff in Brave and it honestly feels just like Chrome but with really good ad-blocking. I'm just a little disappointed to see that it isn't as good at blocking fingerprinting as they claim to be.

As a Jewish American my experience has lately been that about 25% of the Jews in my circle have always been Republicans and are all-in on this administration, believing that Jewish people and the State of Israel have no better friend than Donald Trump, and that all previous (Democratic) administrations have been anti-Israel. The other 75% are moderate Democrats who roll their eyes at the idea that Trump, his admin, or the vast majority of his voters care one iota about Jews or Israel, that they've found a convenient pretext for clamping down on private institutions and free speech, and see only minor differences in their actual foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East and Israel.

I consider myself a moderate's moderate and I do see where everyone's coming from, but if you held a gun to my head I'd probably agree with you: it's not actually about Israel.

Read what I wrote again please. You didn't understand it the first time.

I see where the author is coming from. The author's main gripe is that non-factual right-wing stories are being presented as left-wing blindspots. The author would seemingly prefer that those stories be flagged as being untrustworthy due to low factuality scores among its sources. Understandable but I think it defeats the purpose of Ground News.

I think the idea is that if you are seeking the truth, and Ground News shows you a story that's being covered exclusively by right or left wing sources, that's their signal that the story could be either a) bullshit, or b) something one side is conveniently ignoring because it runs counter to their agenda. Ultimately it's up to you to you to decide. But, this way, if you hear this story being talked about elsewhere, you've now encountered it and know that it's being almost exclusively covered by one side.

You'll have to forgive me because I know literally nothing about competitive poker. Are there players whose experience is primarily online, who show up at in-person tournaments and lack the "soft skills" necessary to excel in that setting? Preventing themselves from exhibiting tells, etc.

I'm not trying to relate this back to the AI/junior/senior developer question, I'm just curious about the dynamic in poker since you seem to know what you're talking about.

I can't get past the fact that you created that account just to write that comment.

> uncapped yolo billing

This made me laugh out loud, thank you for this!

See above

Settings > Extensions > Git Blame: Status Bar Item Enabled (check this) Blame: Status Bar Item Template (use this value) ${authorName} (${authorDate}) ${subject}

There's no secret sauce, all these variables are shown right above the input.

Interesting. I've been using Gitlens for years without issue. Today I tried the built-in blame decorations and I found they were so responsive and fast that they were distracting. With Gitlens there's a delay before the decoration appears on a line, so if you're moving your cursor quickly around between lines you don't actually get a blame decoration until you've rested there for a few seconds; with the built-in functionality it pops right up as soon as the line focuses so if you go from line to line, there's a lot of activity in your field of view which makes it harder for me to concentrate on the code.

As an adjustment, for now, I'm sticking with the built-in functionality but enabling only the status bar display, whose template I modified to include the commit message and date.

Thanks for calling out Rippling. Pretty poor experience for me as well.

Meanwhile, as I read this, the very next link on HN after this one is: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1

in which Windsurf is forging ahead with an agentic LLM product that endeavors to not only replace software engineers but actually take over the entire software engineering PROCESS.

We're at a very interesting point, where investors and corporate interests are crystal clear in their intent to use LLMs to replace as many expensive humans as possible, while the technology available to do so is not there yet. And depending on your own perspective, it's not clear it ever will be, or perhaps it'll eventually be "good enough" for them to downsize us anyway.

I keep thinking about compilers. The old timers had been writing assembly by hand for years. The early C compilers were producing defective garbage output that was so incredibly poor that it was faster to keep coding by hand. Then the compilers got better. And better, and better, and now pretty much nobody inspects the output, let alone questions it.

It's because the experience of so many parents these days is exhaustion. There just aren't enough hours in the day. In my experience it often turns out that if a fellow parent has significantly more personal time than me (for side projects, exercise, whatever) it turns out there is an unequal distribution of labor in the household. For example, a spouse who doesn't work who handles all the domestic stuff could allow the other spouse more free time. That same stay-at-home-spouse could find themselves with a lot of free time as the kids get older and require less hands-on parenting. That sort of thing.

> refer to buying pre-owned goods as "buying someone else's problem."

I suppose this is true enough, in terms of risk, when you're talking about yard sales etc. But I'm perfectly comfortable buying from places that screen, test, and possibly even refurbish the incoming inventory before reselling it. I've bought many cell phones from resellers like this online, and I find that pawn and thift shops generally do a good job at this.

I am 99% sure the NY Times Games app on Android is blocking input until fully rendered on its 'home' screen where all the games are listed, and it drives me nuts. I tap on the element I want and nothing happens, I have to tap again. Maybe some kind of overlay or spinner would help signal that it's not accepting input would help? Arg.

Very timely for this to come up. Just this morning I was wiring up a personal blog with Obsidian -> Hugo -> Github Pages. I might swap Github Pages out for Pico.sh, it's definitely my kinda service. Well, either that or self-host it.

Yup. Sacramento has lots of this. LA county. Boise, Salt Lake City. List goes on.