Nuclear threat is incredibly real. Please call your congressmen.

They are literally on vacation and will do absolutely nothing.

I am under no illusion that they would do something if they were not on vacation.

Who cares about US vs. China. We're talking about jobs here and economy.

The death merchants need a new enemy to justify their existence otherwise we might start cooperating with China where both countries could prosper with massive clean energy infrastructure.

US tech jobs are paid x2 to x3 more than most chinese or european equivalents.

If you can get one. I'd even take 1x at this point.

I've been in this industry for >30 years and it's dead.

dang, you should consider this an existential threat to hn.

I hate myself for saying this, but HN should consider closing new registrations for a while until we figure out what to do with this.

We had an enterprise account on Heroku. We invested a little in Dokku and moved to self host it as of a few months ago.

We now have a kubernetes (k3s) backed Dokku self hosted on Hetzner. Significantly cheaper but pretty robust.

Just saying that it's not literally, but you are right, most people wouldn't be interested in self hosting.

It's not really a simple CLI tool though it's really interactive.

They are not. It's the eastern imperialists that are causing this. And if it's a choice between eastern imperialists (China and Russia) and western ones, it seems that Iranian people by far prefer the western ones.

For three main reasons.

1. Culturally Iranians are way more aligned with west.

2. Western imperialism results in more democracy. Not 100%, but not this bad.

3. Economically countries under west's influence do much better. Iran is extremely poor right now.

Interesting perspective!

Why do you think China and Russia are causing the economic instability? I thought it was because of US sanctions and currency manipulation.

Do you also think that the Iranian people supported the 1953 coup?

If it was about GDP it'd have "some" moral defense: That this leads to overall wealth growth of the population.

But it's not about GDP. It's about shareholder value which is absolutely not representative of the whole population.

Extreme greed is now part of US social contract, top to bottom, and has driven the whole society to madness sadly.

GDP does not measure “the overall wealth of the population” in any semantically meaningful way

But otherwise your point is correct

It's funny how it went from "everything needs to be strongly typed" and "even C++ isn't enough we need Rust for everything" to this...

A good chunk of our profession is just hype-followers at this point.

Also, not just followers. There’s a kinda “merchant” behaviour too I think … signalling and trading in hype perspectives.

But to be fair, I’m not sure what the average dev/eng is supposed to do against a climate of regular change, many disparate opinionated groups with disparate tech stacks, and, IMO a pretty ~~pure~~ poor engineering culture of actually weighing the value of tech/methods against relevant constraints and trade offs.

Yeah I described trends in software development is like the length of skirts. They both have the same logic behind the changes. But I don't consider type systems to be hype. I think they're frequently poorly implemented with a mathematically illiterate notation but they're so damn useful went done reasonably right

Most of my understanding on type systems comes from taking a course on the calculation of programs from the author of this book.

To be blunt, this course and the understanding this book gave me crystallized why I was unhappy with the current state of software development and it was one more nudge pushing me out of the field. I caution others that reading and understanding this book may change your understanding of the software development world enough that you don't want to be part of it either.

Programming in the 1990s: An Introduction to the Calculation of Programs | Springer Nature Link (formerly SpringerLink) https://share.google/K81ZlVTbfoR2oeYLh

Type systems are orthogonal topic. I’d argue that the biggest hypers of AI are in the static types camp, because it allows them to iterate quickly and more safely than using dynamic types.

It was even taught in all schools in Iran!

I dont think people realize how important this is.

If one of the vendors manages to get their protocol to become the target platform (eg oai and app sdk), that is essentially their vendor lock in to become the next iOS/Android.

Private API’s or EEE strategies are gonna be something to keep an eye for and i wish regulators would step in to prevent them before its too late.

How is it any better if instead of _one_ vendor, _two_ vendors push an immature version of a standards extension that mainly caters to their needs and give it the official stamp of approval under the MCP umbrella?

This is so backwards it's scary.

Having a chatbot that drives websites inside of it is such an attempted monopolist play. Having a system agent that can interact with apps via API without being connected to the app is the pattern that's both elegant and preserves freedom.

I don't see how this is a step down from existing web applications. Should companies building web applications not be opinionated about their user interfaces? When I look at Notion, I should just get any view of the data inside it, regardless of whether it's the same view as my coworker gets? How is this preferable?

> Having a system agent that can interact with apps via API without being connected to the app is the pattern that's both elegant and preserves freedom

Does this prevent anyone from doing that?