It's funny that you mention moving outside the city when Zohran's tax plan is centered on bringing the corporate tax rate in-line with our neighboring state.
I'll also caveat that any parallels you might see in Seattle don't really apply to NYC. Besides the low car ownership rates, wealthy individuals choose to in NYC for it's convenience and culture, which really are unique in the US.
There's undoubtedly a cohort of tourists that come to Japan with the "Disneyland" mindset, and I agree that some sort of government-level change is needed to curb abuse. But I would like to believe these folks are in the minority.
I think a greater proportion of the tourist population are individuals that visit Japan and maybe haven't done enough research, or are just unaware of norms here. Not understanding where to queue, how to order, navigate public transport, what to do at a temple, onsen, etc. This group isn't the 15% of "Best in Class tourists" Craig writes about, but rather the 75% that want to be respectful and don't know any better.
Many locals/expats will see this group and look down in disdain (or lament about them in a blog post...), but why don't more people just ask if they need help? It takes little effort to point someone in the right direction, and if it helps them better understand the country it's a win-win for both tourists and residents alike.
I feel like people love to talk about how considerate Japanese culture is, but don't care to practice it themselves when given the chance.
I'm increasingly certain that companies leaning too far into the AI hype are opening themselves up to disruption.
The author of this post is right, code is a liability, but AI leaders have somehow convinced the market that code generation on demand is a massive win. They're selling the industry on a future where companies can maintain "productivity" with a fraction of the headcount.
Surprisingly, no one seems to ask (or care) about how product quality fares in the vibe code era. Last month Satya Nadella famously claimed that 30% of Microsoft's code was written by AI. Is it a coincidence that Github has been averaging 20 incidents a month this year?[1] That's basically once a work day...
Nothing comes for free. My prediction is that companies over-prioritizing efficiency through LLMs will pay for it with quality. I'm not going to bet that this will bring down any giants, but not every company buying this snake oil is Microsoft. There are plenty of hungry entrepreneurs out there that will swarm if businesses fumble their core value prop.
Haha, I tried to couch this by adding "too far", but I agree. Companies should let their teams try out relevant tools in their workflows.
My point was more of a response to the inflated expectations that people have about AI. The current generation of AI tech is rife with gotchas and pitfalls. Many companies seem to be making decisions with the hope that they will out-innovate any consequences.
How so? Not enough art slop logos so they don't have to pay an artist? Other than in maximizing shareholder return I fail to see how foregoing AI is putting them "behind".
AI, especially for programming, is essentially no better than your typical foriegn offshore programming firm, with nonsensical comments and sprawling conflicting code styles.
If it eventually becomes everything the proponents say it will, they could always just start using it more.
I thought this was an interesting post with some outlandish statements, but I was willing to grapple with them because I thought the author was cooking up something new...
Then I realized this was a post from geohot and felt very foolish the 15 minutes I spent thinking through his argument. Why is this so upvoted!
+1 to this! If it doesn't exist already, what would it look like?
The simple solution could be another search index that hasn't been commoditized like Google has, but I wonder if a manual curation approach might lead to higher quality? Something along the lines of a weekly digest of personal sites that are interesting/unique/fun. Process could look like:
1. Users submit their personal sites for review, accompanied by some blurb/tags. Essentially something to make the cost of submission > 0.
2. Site admin reviews submissions once a week and either select their top X favorite, or just remove any low quality/slop submissions and shares the rest.
I suppose this approach depends on the judgement of whoever does the curating, but I feel like that's not necessarily a worse alternative to the opaque algorithms we deal with today.
I like it because the submissions are easy and I think curated / QC’d. I thought Kagi was going to do more with https://kagi.com/smallweb but it’s kind of like going to https://wiby.me/ and hitting “surprise me”, which everyone should do at least once a day.
Definitely some level of human curation... that's what made del.icio.us so good IMHO. You knew the links posted had a level of (probably nerdy) oversight.
While it's bad to get triggered by something like this and then move on, I think your take is incorrect as well. We shouldn't take every corporate decision - whether it's how they choose to compensate, govern, or otherwise - face down and just call it "doing business".
Your view promotes passive participation. Make the optimal decision for yourself in the short-term and ignore any broader implicaition. No disrespect, but this exact behavior is how individuals cede agency and enables corporations to exert more and more influence on society.
If rewarding executives after gross mismanagement of hiring makes someone angry, let them be angry! Then, look into how you can direct that anger somewhere besides the HN comment section. Chances are that others are angry about it as well, and with enough vocal support maybe we can get some semblance of worker protections and corporate oversight in this country [1].
I'll also caveat that any parallels you might see in Seattle don't really apply to NYC. Besides the low car ownership rates, wealthy individuals choose to in NYC for it's convenience and culture, which really are unique in the US.