Let me be clear -- nobody finds planning poker or story estimation fun. The same way nobody finds writing tests or documentation fun. So of course it'll be a breath of fresh air if it's not part of your job.
But the fact remains that in most environments, it's extremely useful for medium-term planning and especially in surfacing high-risk features that can send people down the wrong path for a long time. It's meant to benefit stakeholders, not individual developers.
And if you really have the kind of team you seem to describe where everybody only works on their specific type of task and can't even estimate anybody else's work, then that's a danger situation when they leave or get sick or whatever and nobody else can step in and everyone's blocked because the only person who can write SQL is gone.
> Tell me what legal rationale ICE had to detain and kidnap a 5 year old US citizen.
They did not "kidnap" the child. Detaining someone is not the same as arrest. I saw sensationalists talking about the kid being "in cuffs" which is objectively false. An officer stayed with the child because he was abandoned by his father, the target of the operation who fled the scene. The alternative would have been to abandon the child, and face the "separating immigrant families" rhetoric that we've seen in previous news cycles.
> Tell me the legal rationale for ICE abducting an employee from a Target beating him up and dropping him off bruised and covered in blood at Walmart at miles away.
I genuinely have no idea what story you're talking about, but I assume it involves resisting arrest and/or obstruction of justice. I am quite confident that I would find the use of the word "abducting" entirely inappropriate; note that you don't get immunity from arrest simply by being in one particular building or other.
Exactly. This is why it makes absolutely zero sense to join Amazon right now as they are the worst ones to join [0] (Unless you specialize in robotics or actual AI and not controlling 'Agents')
They are aiming to layoff 30k employees this year. They are one bad earnings away from a surprise mass layoff unfortunately.
> all the low hanging fruit has been picked, they need a fundamentally different employee base
As anyone in software development can tell you, this does not compute. You cannot do things this way, and anyone L5 or higher would refuse to even try.
That’s what I used to think, before chatting with the OAI team.
The docs are a bit misleading/opaque, but essentially reasoning persists for multiple sequential assistant turns, but is discarded upon the next user turn[0].
The diagram on that page makes it pretty clear, as does the section on caching.
Isn’t that the job? I’m not even sure what “understand AI” even means, from where I sit, it maybe means “add AI to everything” and that doesn’t seem that complicated.
I’m not here to defend the people in Amazon corporate, I’m just not convinced it’s okay for a big rich corporation to hire all these people and then fire them on a whim. It’s not like Amazon can’t afford it.
Of course, if you move the goalposts far enough you can say any result is a success. Mastodon looks to have around 800k active users. For comparison IRC has (according to netsplit.de) around 280k users. Is that successful?
I understand why HN doesn't want to devolve into a political forum—but at it's spirit, HN is supposed to cover topics that "...are of interest to those working in the tech community". The upvotes on a thread like this demonstrates that these are topics that are indeed of interest—so I wish that there was more of an appetite to allow these discussions to play out. Maybe having a limit on the number of posts per day or per week that could make it to the frontpage could give everyone a bit more of what they want.
Personally, the political threads on HN are the ones in which I learn the most by and large. There simply isn't another community on the web that elicits such thought provoking discussion around these types of issues—reddit doesn't even come close. I hope the policy will change in the future; especially during these tumultuous times, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I disagree. I think ATProtocol found a pretty good balance for de/centralization. Yes most people are on Bluesky PDSs but the data is easy to backup and move and Mastodon does not improve on that afaik.
That’s because your government aligns itself with businesses, not consumers.
> If a company is legally obligated to offer a feature to people in other parts of the world, they should be forced to offer it at back home in the US as well
This is a pretty typical self -entitled attitude that Americans have. You chose your government, not the rest of the world.
That is not official, unmaintained since November 2024, and only applicable for the business API. It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform.
The term "player" tends to imply something more than just someone employed in a field. I don't support all this insane inequality, but the other commenter is not wrong on the relative value assessment.
Humans decide what to remember based on their emotions. The LLM’s don’t have emotions. Our definition of good and bad comes from our morals and emotions.
In the context of software development; requirements are based on what we wanna do (which is based on emotion), the methods we choose to implement it are also based mostly on our predictions about what will work and not work well.
Most of our affinity for good software development hygiene comes from emotional experiences of the negative feelings felt from the extra work of bad development hygiene.
I think this explains a lot of varied success with coding agents. You don’t talk to them like you talk to an engineer because with an engineer, you know that they have a sense of what is good and bad. Coding agents won’t tell you what is good and bad. They have some limited heuristics, but they don’t understand nuance at all unless you prompt them on it.
Even if they could have unlimited context, window and memory, they would still need to be able to which part of that memories is important. I.e. if the human gave them conflicting instructions, how do they resolve that?.
I eventually think we’ll get to a state where a lot of the mechanics of coding and development can be incorporated into coding agents, but the what and why we build will still come from a human. I.e. will be able to do from 0 to 100% by itself a full stack web application, including deployment with all the security compliance and logins and whatever else, but it still won’t know what is important to emphasize in that website. Should the images be bigger here or the text? Questions like that.
Sure some relationships might be worth it, but whose? Trump already got the votes, which is what let him avoid prosecution for insurrection, mishandling of classified documents, etc. etc.
What friend or relationship would he lose for pardoning SBF? It has to be a billionaire, because he respects billionaires, or it has to be somebody paying home more than SBF to keep SBF in jail. What billionaire would risk their relationship with Trump in order to express displeasure about pardoning SBF? Wha person would pay more than SBF to keep SBF imprisoned?
Again and again Trump burns people that supported him. There is zero loyalty, everything is purely transactional.
> There are other services that could be used for this purpose instead. Notably, I could embed replies from the social media formerly known as Twitter.
Twitter split into x, bluesky, and truthsocial. By picking one, you now allow comments from only 1/3 of your readers. Maybe that's intentional, a sort of ad hoc political filter or gate. But I think it's noteworthy.
None of that should really matter here. He didn't have his gun when he was shot the first time. He wasn't moving after the first shot and the 5 shots later were completely unnecessary and dangerous to the general public.
This sort of hair splitting is gross. Even if he illegally possessed the gun, the execution wasn't justified. He was not brandishing and nobody was in danger because of his possession of the gun.
First you have the advocates that want technology to make things "safer", then you have the people who want to use the technologies as luxuries thus being able to charge more. Now you have the people who want to use the technologies to monitor you and use that to sell your driving data to whomever is willing to pay. Everyone wants this except drivers.
It’s still nonsense. Everyone doing FTTH is using passive optical networking (PON, or NGPON or XGPON or XGSPON or …) which actually has a line rate of 10Gbps. It then uses TDMA to give each subscriber enough time slots to send and receive at a particular speed. My ISP, Ziply Fiber, just gives every subscriber enough time slots to send at the advertised speed _after_ protocol overhead, even at gigabit and higher speeds. If you buy the 500 Mbps service it really will speed test at 500 Mbps. If you buy gigabit it really will test at 1000Mbps provided you have faster than gigabit Ethernet between you and the router. The router that they rent connects to the ONT at 10Gbps, so speed tests done on the router itself always test at the speed you’re subscribed to.
At 10Gbps and above they start using direct–attached fiber (DIA) instead, so the speed you subscribe to is the line rate and it will test lower due to protocol overhead. But if you can max out a 50Gbps link then I think the overhead will not bother you much.
They also allow residential customers to run BGP and use their own addresses. They’re a great ISP.
But the fact remains that in most environments, it's extremely useful for medium-term planning and especially in surfacing high-risk features that can send people down the wrong path for a long time. It's meant to benefit stakeholders, not individual developers.
And if you really have the kind of team you seem to describe where everybody only works on their specific type of task and can't even estimate anybody else's work, then that's a danger situation when they leave or get sick or whatever and nobody else can step in and everyone's blocked because the only person who can write SQL is gone.