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by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-04-09 13:59:53+00:00
> But now that they're here, I just sort of poke at it for a minute and carry on with my day.

Well, that's because they suck, despite all the hype.

They have a use in a professional context, i.e., as replacement for older models and algorithms like BERT or TF/IDF.

But as assistants they're only good as a novelty gag.
by qsort | 2025-04-09 14:00:11+00:00
I think it depends on what you want to make a clone for.

TGM rules are more elegant and much more challenging for single-player tetris, but on the other hand multiplayer and especially 1v1 has far greater variety and dynamism with a looser rotation system. The stricter the rules, the more it becomes spamming tetrises against each other until someone misdrops. You have to construct a ruleset where a player who is 0.1pps faster doesn't just autowin.
by iteratethis | 2025-04-09 14:00:17+00:00
Your housing analogy is incomplete and inaccurate.

Imagine that I overhear you wanting that home but I front run you. Not because I also love that house, I just buy it because I heard you like it and so that you can't have it. I don't do anything with the house. I don't live in it. I don't consider the house to have any value other than you wanting it.

That's not the same thing as 2 home buyers appreciating hot property.
by Rohansi | 2025-04-09 14:00:18+00:00
I'm not sure that would work in the long run. Fallout 3 came out in 2008 and is no longer actively maintained. Even if Apple could convince developers to port to macOS/Apple Silicon the games will, at some point in the future, stop working because most games are not being maintained long after release and Apple is fine with breaking compatibility.
by amalcon | 2025-04-09 14:00:27+00:00
As with so many things here, the remedy for the executive just pulling some nonsense must be sought through the courts. That remedy is being sought, notably by affected businesses. Trump will simply argue that there is a security concern here, or something like that.

The courts, as usual, will first decide which outcome they prefer. They will then try to find some reasoning that will give them that outcome without looking too foolish. The latter step is easy in this case, but it's at least plausible that the courts don't want to crash the global economy. So it could go either way.

Regardless, this is likely to take a while. Courts are slow, especially on contentious issues.

It's also possible that the executive just tries to ignore an unfavorable ruling, as they have already done in other instances; nobody really knows what will happen in that eventuality...
by filoleg | 2025-04-09 14:00:37+00:00
i am wondering, how would that even work for any subsequent jobs, past the first set of multiple jobs done at once?

A pre-employment background check (which you typically do after accepting an offer and right before starting the job) would clearly show all your previous places of employment (for up to 7 years at the very least), along with the timelines. How would one explain that to the employer?
by bearjaws | 2025-04-09 14:00:57+00:00
I'm always torn on this, on one hand there are companies that are so inept that they really only need people 4-10 hours per week, and they are happy with that.

On the other hand, I am the hiring manager at a healthcare company and I have to layoff 1-2 people per year who do this. I know all the tell tale signs, random blocks on calendar, missing meetings, sudden health issues when there are production incidents, getting stuck on simple problems for days at a time. Of course you can always back it up by looking at their stats (staring at Microsoft teams 4-5 hours a day).
by watwut | 2025-04-09 14:01:09+00:00
The person I responded to did not cared about China situation or self-harm - they analyzed it only in terms of how America responds. Note that the risk of "and America will attack us more and more" was not present at all. The risks were expressed only in terms of "China will not succeed in fixing America". Which, I really do not think is China goal at all anyway.

> Even The Economist said the most 'rational' response from Europe was not to impose counter-tariffs, but simply continue on as best they could without them and let the majority of the pain fall on the US.

Isn't it always the pattern with Trump and conservatives in general? The most rational person is supposed to let them bully you without response. Again and again and it never works. Their aggression and harm they cause is just going up with each cycle. And it is because what is conventionally called "rational" in this context amounts to "be nice submissive enabler else their actions are your fault".

American tariffs are made in fairly dumb way. They still harm Europe, China and everyone else great deal. Surely it is possible to create reciprocal tariffs that will actually harm America more. Even America could have done tariffs in smarter way. And the sooner Trump supporters are actually harmed, the sooner harm to Europe stops.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-09 14:01:31+00:00
Nobody else is engaging in the punitive tariff rates the US is imposing, so the rest of the world is economically more attractive than the US on the score. I don't see how China will be more hurt by this than the US.

Everyone will be hurt, of course, which is one of the reasons why the US starting this trade war is insanity.

> that doesn't mean other countries weren't engaging in unfair or protectionist trade policies either

True, although Trump massively overstates how much of this is actually happening. However, there are numerous ways to address this that don't involve self-harm. We're just choosing not to do them.

Also, the US engages in these practices as much as everyone else. There's more than a whiff of the pot calling the kettle black here.
by vel0city | 2025-04-09 14:01:50+00:00
Venezuela definitely has an absolutely massive amount of oil in the ground still. I'm not sure about trusted proven reserve numbers and relative rankings, but its definitely up there.

However, Venezuela's oil is a good bit harder to refine than Saudi oil which is just about the simplest oil to refine. The US controls most of the good refineries (and related technologies) to effectively refine Venezuela's oil, but the US doesn't tend to trade much with Venezuela (lots of history to read there).

So yes, Venezuela has a lot of oil, but it is oil most of the world's refineries don't want to/can't deal with.

As a note, this is also a part of the reason why even though the US is a net exporter of oil we still import a ton of oil. We've got good refineries for processing the cheap difficult to handle stuff most of the world doesn't want to touch (largely because we built it designed to handle Venezuela's oil) and we export stuff that's the "fancy" stuff easy to refine pretty much everywhere.

There's a lot of nuance I'm glazing over there. Read up more about the history of US-Venezuela oil trade, it is quite a history.
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-09 14:01:58+00:00
Wine's WoW64 build can run 32 bit Windows binaries. Apple's support for running 32 bit macOS binaries isn't relevant for running 32 bit Windows binaries, as long as Wine itself is 64 bit and calls 64 bit system libraries.

The more pressing concern is the eventual removal of Rosetta 2. It hasn't been announced so far, but it's unlikely that Apple will keep maintaining it forever.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-09 14:02:12+00:00
Maybe if the price difference does indeed lead to more oil used.

Lower prices might be good for countries like Germany to stockpile for Winter (so oil & gas they'd already use anyways) while hurting producers that rely on it being a high price to be profitable.

Less profitable may lead to less investment in oil development while wind, solar, and other means become more prevalent.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-09 14:02:31+00:00
> The reductive, absurd, extreme of this is why don't individual people go out and build all their own stuff like cars and houses.

This is not absurd: 3D printing is a possible (next) stepping stone towards enabling this long-time dream.

The problem rather is (as very, very often) the huge amount of red tape and regulations that prevents individuals from experimenting with such ideas and bringing them forth.

So, if you look for the root of an evil in the world, it can often be found in the laws and regulations, and the politicians who passed them.
by oblio | 2025-04-09 14:02:33+00:00
Guess what happens with any promising European startup (including Eastern European ones). It's acquired by American companies.

Europe doesn't have a ton of large and high paying software companies, but it does have a ton of good developers.

Romania probably has produced half a million software developers over the past 30 years (in a population of about 20 million), yet it basically doesn't have any large software companies. Probably the biggest you might have heard of are Bitdefender or in the past Softpedia.

Or the alternative, foreign companies set up shop there to scoop up the local developers. Using Romania as an example, Bucharest has R&D centers with at least hundreds of developers each (some with thousands), for: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, SAP, UIPath, Huawei, Honeywell, IBM, Cognizant, Ericsson, Ubisoft, HP, etc.
by crote | 2025-04-09 14:02:40+00:00
The market shifted. Solar used to be a luxury product, with only some environment-conscious rich people putting them on their roof. In that market the solar shingles made a lot of sense.

But solar has become a commodity product. Panel-wise the big bucks is in massive industrial greenfield installations, but Tesla's private-label brand can't compete on that market. In the residential market they are competing with every single local contractor who's willing to make a few bucks throwing bargain-bin panels on your roof, and their own system of proprietary panels and subcontractors can't compete with that either - especially when they force you to buy a power wall as well.
by wpietri | 2025-04-09 14:02:40+00:00
So one, I don't think you know what the word "impostor" means. If somebody faked your wife's identity, I think you could be reasonably upset even if she could "do the job" adequately, and it would be weird indeed to say she wasn't an impostor.

But two, are you serious with "If they couldn't do the job they would've been fired"? I think the most charitable assumption I could make is that you must not have been in the working world long. There are plenty of places that are bad noticing and getting rid of underperformers, even when everybody involved is well meaning. If somebody is actively running it as a scam, it could be hard indeed to detect. And really, they don't have to evade detection forever. Even a few months of paycheck may be more than enough for them to cover the costs of getting the jobs.
by dagw | 2025-04-09 14:02:58+00:00
explain the legal basis...

tl:dr Congress has for various historical reasons decided to cede more and more power over trade regulation to the executive branch over the years, starting all the way back in the 30s. This has resulted in the president having almost unilateral leeway to decide what constitutes "security concerns or unfair practices" when it comes to trade. And until congress passes a bill to reign in that power, it is probably legal for the president to decide that almost anything is 'unfair' and that basically any response is reasonable.
by burningion | 2025-04-09 14:03:55+00:00
MCP was originated at Anthropic, and has been adopted by OpenAI, Github, Cloudflare, and more.

It's completely open, with active engagement and direction from the community:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

I don't think it would have such wide adoption so rapidly if it were an "over-engineered implementation".
by znpy | 2025-04-09 14:03:59+00:00
Having been using Linux for a couple of decades as well, i'd never give away manpages in the terminal.

Any time i need a quick refresher ("was it -f or -F?") i can just pause the current editor (ctrl-z) look up the manpage (man <whatever>), exit (q) and then go back (fg) to whatever i was doing.

Having a web browser is just useless annoyance in the workflow.
by 9rx | 2025-04-09 14:04:11+00:00
> Like "I don't know anything, so I'm just going to try "stuff" I find online without really understanding.

A reasonable place to start. But fair that you can't stop there if it isn't working. Next step, in my opinion, is to look at the interface more closely to see if it provides any hints. It will most of the time if it is well designed.

> But even with the best designed interfaces, not everything is discoverable

Sure. That's what the test suite is for, though: To document for users full intent and usage. You're still not going to go to a reference for that. As an added bonus, it is self-validating, so none of the "is it me or is the reference incorrect?" rigamarole.
Show HN: Fermi – A Wordle-style game for order-of-magnitude thinking
by andrewrn | 2025-04-09 14:04:17+00:00
I always thought it was cool when someone could make a plausible estimate from reasonable guesses. I recently learned that these are sometimes named after Enrico Fermi, the famous physicist, and its the same technique used to create his famous Fermi paradox.

You build a rough logic chain using a few sliders and fixed quantities (e.g. weeks per year), and the goal is to get within an order of magnitude of the true answer. The math is simple; the thinking is the game.

Would love feedback.
by krick | 2025-04-09 14:04:25+00:00
Honestly, no. They are not great, and it's getting silly to pretend they are. If they were, we wouldn't have stuff like tldr, cheat, bropages, and a good half of StackOverflow wouldn't exist as well, let alone LLM tools to translate your verbal request to half-broken ffmpeg command.

Man readers suck, man pages suck too, man markup language sucks, the contents of a typical manpage suck.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-09 14:05:17+00:00
Definitely not. Foremost, there's no positive example shown - ok, great, so if I happen to be in the audience who is able to spot that "mc^2" is actually "e" what happens next with that letter? Is it in the position it's going to be played? Just "somewhere" like Wordle? Repeated?

Are there even 26 well known physics forumlae that resolve to letters?

And then the first example turns that up to 11 by offering "6.67 x 10e-11" and "r x p" and I can't represent the rest of them without MathML

I am definitely not the target audience for this
by arkh | 2025-04-09 14:05:20+00:00
> Many of these agencies are from collectivist cultures, so in the mind of the agency, they all work in our project. This may not be true, but the agency sees the position as theirs, not the recruit's. So they typically don't the issue with putting recruit A in front of the interviewer and then slotting recruit B in after the position is secured.

Guess France is a collectivist culture. That's 101 of many consultancies: get the contract by presenting the A-Team then switch with junior employees a couple weeks in.
by youngtaff | 2025-04-09 14:05:41+00:00
UK electricity prices are set by the highest priced generator which is normally gas

Eventually more green energy will overcome this issue

Many of the commercial solar and wind farms run on a contracts for difference price - they're guaranteed a price for the energy they produce and when the market price goes over that a rebate get's paid to a Quango and should eventually feed into bills payers prices
Show HN: AI-Driven Index Tuning With Postgres MCP Server
by jssmith | 2025-04-09 14:06:24+00:00
Hey HN,

Postgres Pro is an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built to support every stage of the development process.

It does a lot more than help generate and run SQL—it helps you make sure your application and database actually run well.

Features:

- Industrial-strength tuning algorithms similar to those in MS SQL Server

- “What if?” tool to evaluate LLM-generated index suggestions

- Works with Cursor, etc., to make changes in ORM code

- Ensures safe SQL execution with restricted mode

- Includes health checks to stay ahead of production problems
by maxglute | 2025-04-09 14:06:51+00:00
US has ~300B trade deficit with PRC.

Flip side is US MNCs pulls about ~300B in revenue in PRC that's not counted in trade balance accounting (because western products made in PRC factories sold to PRC consumers isn't cross borders transaction unless profit timely repatrioted, which is rarely) - most of the KFCs and Nikes and Apples can be replaced with domestic.

Whereas there aren't much PRC MNCs in US, and what few there are getting lawfared/stomped out of US, i.e. TikTok divestment and de minimis going to kill Shein/Temu.

Dependin on how / where things escalate, lots of US MNCs may lose their 10-40% revenue from PRC. There's also next rung of stupid, i.e. TikTok US getting nationalized, CFIUS forcing PRC divestments in agri, media, blah blah. Or US seize PRC assets, fucking with SWIFT, in which case trillions of US capex in PRC and not repatriated MNC profits goes up in smoke. Then we're stepping stones away from Tesla / Apple getting nationalized. Then who knows.
by jebarker | 2025-04-09 14:06:52+00:00
Powerwalls have been a huge disappointment for me so far. It gets pretty cold where we live but the Powerwalls are installed in a somewhat insulated garage. However in winter it gets cold enough in there that they need to use their own power to keep themselves warm, so they drain themselves that way in just a few days if there's no solar charging. Similarly, when the solar generation is high they need to cool themselves and that uses power. Our utility doesn't allow grid charging of storage. So all together I have relatively hope we'd actually have much backup power in an outage.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-09 14:06:59+00:00
> retailer part of the price of a product is around 50%

Not according to the article. The retail price is $100 for a shoe they buy from the manufacturer for $50, but $24 of that $100 is "discounts". Therefore the average price sold at is $76, making the retail part of the price 1/3.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-09 14:07:00+00:00
> How much do you trust your government with your money? A system like Pix don't stand a chance to get a worldwide adoption

You mischaracterized that.

> You have bizarre logic here. For example, in a topic discussed about GPUs, someone would say that it's not possible to run databases on GPUs, so GPUs don't have any chance of succeeding.

He's saying it wont get adopted worldwide. Not that it wont succeed (which is a very ambiguous metric).
by wpietri | 2025-04-09 14:07:03+00:00
And I think it has to be both. I think the organization has to develop a culture where boundary-setting is normalized and encouraged. There are plenty of people who will burn themselves out without thinking twice about it. (I used to be one of them.) An organization that wants to be sustainable needs to a) keep them from doing that, and b) help them learn not to.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-04-09 14:07:13+00:00
These protocols are to put handlers between you and your own data so they can sell it back to you via “search.”

Companies who are betting their future on LLMs realized a few years ago that the data they can legally use is the only long term difference between them, aka “moat.”

Now that everyone has more or less the same public data access, and a thin compute moat is still there, the goal is to transfer your private textual data to them forever so they have an ever updating and tuned set of models for your data
by piva00 | 2025-04-09 14:07:13+00:00
Tit-for-tat is a pretty well known winning strategy in game theory for conflict resolution, it's very predictable: if you cooperate, I will cooperate, if you want to compete, I will compete.

It gives a quite transparent off-ramp: if you start to cooperate, I will cooperate.

There's no point in not playing tit-for-tat in this situation, not retaliating is a losing strategy.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-09 14:07:19+00:00
>Would it be fair to say that interview processes don't differentiate good hires from bullshit artists?

Anyone involved in interviewing really needs to ask themselves "what are we testing for?" In my world, we require anyone who makes it to the full in-person interview to give a technical talk on any topic they want, followed by Q&A from an audience that has a broad collective knowledge base. This has the benefits of:

- Letting the candidate start the interview on strong ground of their choosing

- Giving both the candidate and the team a chance to talk shop in a way that simulates the day-to-day work context

- Offering an opportunity for the candidate to gauge how curious and cordial their potential future colleagues are

- Making it very obvious if the candidate is BSing if they can't answer live questions about something they chose to present
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-09 14:07:21+00:00
> I would have thought Japan and China hated each other more than they hated Trump but it seems otherwise.

I believe they still hate each other much more than Trump, but under the given circumstances even archenemies can reach temporary (likely unstable) pragmatic agreements as long as these agreements are clearly advantageous to all of the involved archenemies involved.
by knowaveragejoe | 2025-04-09 14:07:50+00:00
> MCP itself is also an over-engineered implementation of AI plugins by OpenAI

I'm confused by this comment and a reply that both seem to be under this assumption... first, it's from Anthropic, and second, it's hardly over-engineered. If you actually go and try and implement a specific MCP server's functionality from first principles into, say, some chat client of your choosing, you will quickly run into the problems that MCP addresses.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-09 14:08:16+00:00
> JetBrainz

Its Jetbrains, and they don't deny having workers there at all (the company itself If I recall correctly is located in the Czech Republic). In fact, they went through great expense to exfiltrate their Ukrainian employees and cut Russia off before everyone else got on the bandwagon (IE, before it was 'cool').
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-04-09 14:08:38+00:00
Well, all of us are full of crap thinking that we can resolve our screen time problem by talking to people through this screen thing.

But hey, since I’m here, I’m gonna give it my shot at hypocrisy as well: something worth looking into is how to feel OK with yourself not reaching for the screen compulsively. On your own, with your thoughts
by eszed | 2025-04-09 14:08:50+00:00
Spark / Readdle. Not a unicorn, but I've been a happy user for years.

(Their response to a customer-service request a year or so ago was sobering. Along the lines of "yes, that's a bug we know about, but the developer who owns that feature lost his home in a missile strike last week. Once he's got housing and a new laptop he'll fix it." A week later he fixed it.)
by re-thc | 2025-04-09 14:08:52+00:00
> But I think China's response is a huge gamble

It isn't. Trump got the math wrong. China and the rest of the world has a trade deficit with the US not the other around (if we count properly).

Does Trump not understand that US' position is the fragile 1? A lot of people can't live without necessities e.g. from China. Most people can live without US goods e.g. Netflix.

China has proposed banning US films. China licenses huge amounts of American drama too. Watch Hollywood crash.

Sports like NBA and Major League (baseball / soccer) are all exports with advertising, TV rights, etc. These were big in China.

The US education industry relies on foreign students as a major part of their funding. A lot of them are Asian.

China has a real monopoly on things like fireworks. There is no alternative.

Let's crash billions in the gaming industry too. Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, etc.

The list goes on.