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New comment by yibg in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

yibg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:58:51 +0000

Probably difference in the boundary of what programming entails too. Eg is coming up with the algo itself part of programming or only the writing the implementation part after the algo is clear.

The first is hard, the second much less so.

New comment by yibg in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

yibg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:28:13 +0000

Scary but also entirely predictable and expected.

- High wealth inequality

- Perceived inability (or reduced ability) to get ahead and have your voice heard

- Government seen as more corrupt and benefiting the elite. Different set of rules for them vs for everyone else

- Highly polarized population at odds with each other

New comment by yibg in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

yibg — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:51:45 +0000

We can still decide if a thing is just even if no justice will be enforced.

New comment by yibg in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

yibg — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:18:50 +0000

Group A also include starting a war for bad reasons and then "accidentally" killing school children as a result.

New comment by yibg in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

yibg — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:31:16 +0000

Netflix is more resilient to economic downturns than you'd think. For many people it's a higher ROI for entertainment when compared to a lot of other alternatives. e.g going to bars / restaurants / movie theaters.

New comment by yibg in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

yibg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:56:51 +0000

Not familiar with the subject so genuine question. HOW would antimatter be used as fuel? There is energy released in matter antimatter annihilation, but where would the force to move a spacecraft come from?

New comment by yibg in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

yibg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:33:46 +0000

Not directly related to the article itself, but aren't all debt by definition tomorrow's debt? i.e. debt is money to be paid off in the future.

New comment by yibg in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

yibg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:01:45 +0000

There are 2 separate topics that seem to get bundled together a lot.

1. Should we deport illegal immigrants? While there are some debate here (sanctuary cities, immigration reform etc), it's not the primary cause of the current ICE repulsion.

2. How deportations are done currently. Mass round ups, targeting everyone, including those with no criminal record, the violence involved. This is what most people are against.

New comment by yibg in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

yibg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:51:39 +0000

Ironically in my experience anyways, this is true more so in parts that are more strongly "Canada should be the 51st state" politically. e.g. the south, where I find day to day interactions with people there are much more friendly than say California.

New comment by yibg in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

yibg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:59:38 +0000

The right response is to not use the said product and use something else. If i want your widget to do something I want and you refuse, I don't get to smash your shop.

New comment by yibg in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

yibg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:58:25 +0000

If the president can come to your house and burn it down, do we just throw up our hands and say, well he holds all the cards, oh well. Or do we call that out as being a bad thing?

President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets

yibg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/g-s1-112605/tiktok-deal-lawsuit-trump-bondi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265770

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New comment by yibg in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

yibg — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:51:22 +0000

Israel just (quite proudly) said they had been planning the targets for months.

New comment by yibg in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

yibg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:57:38 +0000

Both can be true. Just because you've created a revolutionary product doesn't mean it's a viable business, let alone one worth $700+ billion. There is a lot of history of the first movers that created revolutionary products that eventually faded away into nothing, while others capitalized on the innovation.

New comment by yibg in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

yibg — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:47:09 +0000

Trusting your own eyes over what someone else says is brainwashed? What kind of ass backwards assessment is this?

New comment by yibg in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

yibg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:58:08 +0000

Taxes aren't just there to provide an income stream to the government. It's also a mechanism to guide behavior via incentives (or punishment). Right or wrong there we're providing an incentive to hold assets longer, or use less fuel or buy from domestic producers etc.

New comment by yibg in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

yibg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:55:57 +0000

In both cases though, mostly rich people.

New comment by yibg in "DOGE Track"

yibg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:29:21 +0000

Even that isn't what's happened here. If we continue the analogy it's more like stop paying for wifi, then later discover you need it for work so sign up again at and pay an extra fee.

There is so much conflation (maybe intentional, I dunno) between the goal of cutting spending and the method that DOGE employed. If DOGE went in methodically and actually cut waste and fraud I'd cheer them. What actually happened was a mixture of:

- Cutting things without knowing the details and then later having bring them back at extra cost (e.g. employees)

- Cutting things regardless of consequence based on ideological views (or just randomly?)

- Not actually saving anything and just lying about it

New comment by yibg in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

yibg — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:57:58 +0000

dunning-kruger effect at the corporate level?

New comment by yibg in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

yibg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:58:59 +0000

How about just general privacy? I mean do you really want someone / the government to be able to track everywhere you go?

- Going to your girlfriends place while the wife is at work

- Visiting a naughty shop

- Going into various companies for interviews while employed

With mass surveillance there is the risk of mass data leak. Would you be comfortable with a camera following you around at all times when you're in public? I wouldn't be.