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by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-30 17:33:27+00:00
Not sure how this comforts anyone. We need labor, there aren't enough spa management and pet groomer positions to build an economy upon. What good does it do for anyone that we manufacture more, if there aren't enough good-paying jobs to go around to support a broad consumer base for those same products you say are being manufactured without (much) labor?

Why would any foreign nation even want to manufacture goods to ship here, if there's nothing much to buy with our currency? If our currency does devalue, we run the risk of not being able to import what we need, and not being able to afford to tool up to manufacture it domestically. And yet trends are clear that in many industrial sectors US manufacturing has already fallen to what might as well be zero.
by GenshoTikamura | 2025-04-30 17:33:37+00:00
Gosh, I just recently talked our management out of taking the Teams turn after Skype sunset was scheduled, in favor of another solution. I thought maybe I'm too biased against M$ due to all those coworkers' accounts being blocked for no reason without any way to reinstate - but reading through this thread is a sure confirmation I was right
by aaravchen | 2025-04-30 17:33:39+00:00
The stream of consciousness posts is my pet peeve.

A lot of open source projects insist on using Telegram or Matrix instead of an issue tracker or forum and have the same problem. If you want to spend 90% of your time answering the same questions again and again, be my guest, but as a user I won't do more than a cursory search of chat history, and won't try to follow intermingled replies anymore. I will simply ask again and explicitly say "the chat history on this can't be followed and there's no forum, so...".

Professionally I also won't try to keep up with most chats. Someone mentions me on something and if I can't read their one message to get the context needed, I just reply with "I'm not readinf everything said in the last X days. What's the context?" and make them re-explain it.

My company even recently added AI assist tools for our chats, and I occasionally will use it to summarize everything I haven't read just to see if there's any topics I should know about. But I won't use it to try and get context for a question I've been asked.

The chat systems are basically like being in a physical room with everyone coming and going and having their own verbal conversations around you. I'll pay equally as much attention and effort ignoring it to get work done, and ask people to repeat things if they suddenly pull me into a conversation. I'll also drift out of conversations the same, but now they can't see me going back to work to take the hint its time to wrap it up.
by aaroninsf | 2025-04-30 17:34:05+00:00
We can dispense with polite formulations under current circumstances.

One would have to be a moron or literally mentally ill to "believe in these policies,"

either having no understanding, or, having invested in some delusional confabulated make believe universe where the fundamental order of our civilization is collectively reworked (including by enemies and competitors at every scale) in a context of rapidly degrading climate, to suit your ideology.
by corimaith | 2025-04-30 17:34:25+00:00
While there are more peaceful ways of rebalancing trade, unilateral tariffs would be able to rebalance things on the long term. The problem is that alot of people in HN think in terms in export-driven economy, when in reality the majority of USA's economy is consumption, it's the largest consumer in the world. Loosing access to foreign markets dosen't mean as much to USA as it does to the rest of the world loosing access to USA.

Long term, manufacturers will come back or be created to grab all those customers. But for the rest of the world, it's much harder for suppliers who lost a massive chunk of their customers to suddenly find new customers beyond what's already existing. Creating demand is notoriously harder than increasing supply. And it dosen't help that the majority of other major economies are also export-based, so unless if some are willing to run deficits (and they won't), there's literally nowhere else to go other than a global recession. Developing countries are far too poor and would essentially be turned into captive markets bereft of industrialization.

I don't agree with the implementation of Trump's policies, but this is going right back to Keynes' concerns about limitations of global trade balancing, it's a long time coming, and much of the blame does come back to the surplus economies that doubled down on manufacturing rather than transitioning to consumer based economies.
by kbelder | 2025-04-30 17:34:28+00:00
But the randomness doesn't directly translate to a random outcome in results. It may randomly choose from a thousand possible choices, where 90% of the choices are some variant of 'the coin comes up heads'.

I think a more useful approach is to give the LLM access to an api that returns a random number, and let it ask for one during response formulation, when needed.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-04-30 17:34:29+00:00
I currently rent with roommates at 28 and commute 40 minutes, it does feel a bit embarrassing but I get to save a bit.

But that is not enough to build any meaningful wealth, 12k over a year is peanuts, it takes over a decade to save 100k good luck buying a house…

I am genuinely baffled as to how I could potentially escape this…

My only exit is over employment or launching some successful business.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 17:34:38+00:00
We most definitely teach number 2. That's what English class is - you read books, plays, maybe documents, and then you write essays on them. You need to be concise, persuasive, have a unique voice.

Just because you, and other's, did not pay attention or were not good writers, does not mean we don't teach that. We do, for years.
by didgetmaster | 2025-04-30 17:35:22+00:00
It is part of the political reality that we live in. Whichever party is currently in power, will inevitably use that power to promote ideas that are favorable to them and to dissuade ideas that they are opposed to.

The same people who are whining about the Trump administration abusing their power by doing these things; were cheering on the Biden administration for doing similar things from the opposite angle.

This is why we have to be very careful when crafting laws. Before passing it because we want our party to use it to help us, we have to imagine what would happen when the opposing party tries to use this law against us.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-30 17:36:04+00:00
Yeah cinnamon is basically a remake of Gnome 2, from before the devs went batshit crazy and went more opinionated than Apple. It's not bad but I really prefer KDE, also because I think Qt is a much better desktop framework than GTK is.

But what things in KDE do you consider 'bloat'?
by Sammi | 2025-04-30 17:36:22+00:00
Is your thought process really this empty? I worry for you guys. This is how cult members think - they defer to the great power who has promised to deliver for them even if they keep screwing them over.

Trump is screwing you over and he's doing it publicly. He's selling meme coins and selling your government. He dismantling the US for his personal profit and you are cheering.
by kiney | 2025-04-30 17:36:33+00:00
I use both, grok and chatgpt on a daily basis. They have different strenghts. Most of the time I prefer chatgpt, bit grok is FAR better answering questions about recent events or collecting data. In the second usecase I combine both: collect data about stuff with grok, copy-paste CSV to chatgpt to analyzr and plot.
by anyfactor | 2025-04-30 17:37:11+00:00
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by somat | 2025-04-30 17:37:25+00:00
With regards to training for high tolerance situations. Places and times where a small error can have large consequences.

Yes you ease into it, the first level of training is done in a safe environment, however as the person gains competence the training moves into the domain in question, the person gains experience at doing the thing in question while being supervised. Or to put it another way.

What? You expect that their first flight through that tight corridor at night should be done alone?

In conclusion, I think it is fine in general that they were doing training on that flight path. However the fact that the both pilot and the trainer erred so badly indicates the need for better low level training and a reevaluation of the need for such a tight flight path in a civilian zone.

Update: unrelated thought, I could not decide if low or high tolerance was the term i wanted, after waffling a bit I went with high tolerance. as that is the correct engineering meaning, but really the term is ambiguous and means the different things in different domains, he has a high tolerance for alcohol means the opposite of he made a high tolerance part.
by aaravchen | 2025-04-30 17:37:39+00:00
I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams.

Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.
by overfeed | 2025-04-30 17:37:42+00:00
> If you can act brilliant, you are

Reminds me of a story told by someone who was an intern or assistant for a politician (or consultant?) way back in the day before social media. They recount their first experience watching the politician at a town hall - they were late and apologetic, and gave a speech that was funny, compelling and authentic and the crowd ate it up.

They attended the next town hall, and the principal was late again, and proceeded to give the same speech, beat for beat. The same routine was repeated dozens more times at dozens of locations with different audiences, save for the politicians staff. In truth, the politician was not as funny or as sincere as the practiced speech and routine made them seem.

All this to say; acting funny or brilliant behind closed doors without cameras rolling doesn't mean you actually are those things. It's easy to recycle the same schtick after years of honing it and figuring out what works and what doesn't, Trump has impeccable showman instincts.
by ruszki | 2025-04-30 17:38:16+00:00
The interesting thing is that there are objective measurements about code (like unnecessary commands in answers, or code which flat out never worked), in which generally people are not great. The amount of bad answers on Stackoverflow and on most of the blogspam is staggering. Even reference documentations are bad or wrong many times. LLMs work with that. They won’t be better than that.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-30 17:38:21+00:00
This product reminds me a bit of 'You need a wiki', which allows you to maintain your wiki in Google Drive, but still browse it easily:

https://youneedawiki.com/

As the files are all stored in Google Drive, so there's no vendor lock-in.

The documentation site is also made with their product: https://docs.youneedawiki.com/
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-30 17:38:34+00:00
Globalization was fantastic actually. America is only a few weeks away now from discovering how wrongheaded complaints about it were.

The actual problem is inequality, but inequality in right/libertarian thought is supposed to be good. So they * reached for a more comfortable explanation involving 'the other': globalists!

* 'they' is a discourse smell, so I will cite some examples: Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Viktor Orban, etc.

It has been annoying, for almost two decades, to witness the success of anti-globalization propaganda.

Economic inequality surely is contributing to depression in young people. Exposure to wonderful people, products, opportunities and ideas from all around the globe is not.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-30 17:38:35+00:00
Well, All I am asking for is a literal alternative to google sign in, maybe even github would work (though microsoft monopoly but IDK)

Dude, I don't have my own hardware otherwise I would've run it myself. Currently using lightning AI which also requires google sign up but it was created by the creators of pytorch and it gives me 30 hours free gpu per month to try something and gives me full flexibility which your product just simply doesn't provide.

I am not sure,but please,Privacy is not an afterthought, it is quintessential.
by swatcoder | 2025-04-30 17:38:35+00:00
To be happy, most people need a map to where happiness lies and a sense that they're in the right place on that map.

Insomuch as the only map most people now have points towards upper middle class consumerism, with a big house of their own, a well-stamped passport, and an enjoyable career that isn't too pressured, of course most people are going to be unhappy.

If we ever might pave a wide highway to that as a society, we're centuries away from doing so, not years. It's not a good map for current generations.

Without sacrificing the positives of secularism and liberal ideals of mutual respect and equal opportunity, we urgently need to figure out a new way to give people more reasonable maps about where they can find happiness without the consumer luxuries they'll probably not be able to have.
by hylaride | 2025-04-30 17:38:39+00:00
It seems most things in tech (OS's, databases, languages, etc) eventually become a race to zero unless you can provide some long-term service-level support for it the way most cloud computing vendors have.

Sun should have probably bought Joyent and gotten their rather huge corporate client base (financial institutions, etc) onto it, but even then it was probably too little too late.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-30 17:38:45+00:00
The author opens with a story of building ramps and repeating endless combinations until they excel at ramp-building, expanding their possibilities through experimentation until they can say they’ve acquired quite some skill at ramp building.

Consider though, how many ramps would be built if each time they had to first design and injection-mould the ramps? This would slow iteration. Fortunately there are already ramps to play with. The ramps are a tool used to build ramp courses.

AI is also a tool, but it’s a tool for thinking at a certain level of abstraction. The author misses that infinite levels of abstraction exist in thought; in this way having tools of thought to lift you to higher levels lets you play in even more abstract thought-space.

Having AI for the basic bits of thought is like already having ramps ready to go.
by Agingcoder | 2025-04-30 17:39:23+00:00
First of all , I agree with all your points. I used to not use YouTube because it was unusable ( try to watch an educational video when you get interrupted every 5 minutes …). Most of my problems got fixed by paying for YouTube premium, and disabling search history, much to my surprise. It’s expensive though, and it won’t solve everything, but it makes YouTube significantly better.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-04-30 17:39:39+00:00
No? You can call in as a pilot and issue a NOTAM if you want to. You can phone up the relevant air traffic control center and issue a NOTAM as well. You might do this if you saw something unusual like a plane in controlled air space that was flying in a dangerous manner. Or if you were doing something in uncontrolled airspace that could still be a hazard, so you report it so other's can adjust for it.
by nemothekid | 2025-04-30 17:39:49+00:00
This is circular reasoning. You are pretty much saying democracies should be aggressors first. If you swap `authoritarian` and `democracy` in your statement, it will also ring true.

However, the parent poster paints a different picture. If people in Moscow were economically threatened by reduced trade caused by an invasion, the elite appetite for such a move would be reduced.
by Detrytus | 2025-04-30 17:40:02+00:00
Well, it's not that simple. Yes, Congress passes the bill saying that X billions of dollars have to be spent on universities, but that bill does not name every single university in US as beneficiary. That's what executive branch is for: to work out the details of how to implement the law passed by Congress.

So, Trump taking money from Harvard and giving it to say, a community college in Tampa is technically still correct implementation of the law. I mean, it all depends if he can defend his decision in court, because of course he cannot discriminate based on race, ethnicity, political affiliation etc.
by hintymad | 2025-04-30 17:40:45+00:00
I have a more charitable view on the "AI-first" movement. When you're a CEO, the last thing you want is for your company to miss a major tech shift. We've seen this story play out repeatedly - companies that didn't adapt to Windows, to internet, or to mobile, ended up struggling or dying.

The tricky part is that you can't just think or talk your way into a new paradigm - the entire company has to act. After all, good ideas and breakthroughs often come from individuals in the trenches instead of from executives. This means exploring new possibilities, running experiments, and constantly iterating based on what you learn. But the reality is that most people naturally resist change. They get comfortable with how things work today. In many companies, you're lucky if employees don't actively fight against new approaches.

This is why CEOs sometimes need to declare company-wide mandate. Microsoft did this in the mid-90s with their famous "Internet Tidal Wave" pivot when Bill Gates sent that memo redirecting the entire company. Intel forced its "right-hand turn" when CPU business was still nascent.

Without these top-down pushes, organizations tend to keep doing what they've always done. Or to say the least, such top-down mandate at least sends a clear message to the entire company, potentially triggering a cultural shift. The "AI-first" thing may well be overhyped, but it's probably just leaders trying to make sure their companies don't get left behind in what looks like a significant shift. Even if the mandate fails, at least the company can learn something valuable. Note I'm talking about directions. The mandate can fail badly due to poor execution, but that's a different topic.
by axelMI | 2025-04-30 17:40:58+00:00
I don't know if I have to thank you or just hate you! Spent best part of the day figuring out the whole srgb-linear thing.

Well the workflow should now be srgb correct! Had to fix some of the shaders and they now work, except for the vignette one that unexpectedly sucks in linear space but will replace it with another one soon.

Turns out adding gl.SRGB8_ALPHA8 for loading textures (excluding LUTs) and closing the pipeline with a linear-to-sRGB transform did the trick. Plus making sure the filters where working in the correct space.

No significant banding issues with 8bit depth images (except for the above-mentioned vignette filter). I did test with various gradients and sample images where I compared pixel by pixel. Apparently it holds quite well. Of course the 8bit limitation sucks and I'll keep looking for workarounds.

If you have the possibility to stress test it a little bit I would be forever grateful.

By the way, I'll add image blending soon which should help spotting colorspace errors.
by boramalper | 2025-04-30 17:40:59+00:00
I wish PeerTube had a "flagship" instance like mastodon.social [0] for Mastodon or lemmy.world [1] for Lemmy. The lack of a generalist instance with open sign-ups hinders the adoption.

[0] https://mastodon.social/

[1] https://lemmy.world/
by trhway | 2025-04-30 17:41:05+00:00
The retailers need to start showing tariff charge as separate line. People have the right to to see what they voted for. Yesterday Trump frantically called Bezos when Bezos threatened to do it, and Bezos seems to have backed up (probably got some concession for that).

Edit: it is also can be treated as a consumer right to know, by analogy with food labeling), what are the major components of the price they are paying, and thus allowing for informed choice.
by strangeloops85 | 2025-04-30 17:41:48+00:00
Public schools in the US get a relatively small fraction of their budget from state funding. The distinction between public and private is not as large or substantial as one might imagine.

For example the 10-campus UC system's total budget is $54 billion of which $4.6 billion comes directly from the state's general fund. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998 - the federal funding here is the same as for private universities, to do research or other work in the form of contracts/ grants.
Show HN: Dyad – free, local, open-source AI app builder (v0/lovable alternative)
by willchen | 2025-04-30 17:41:54+00:00
Hi HN -

I'm excited to share a free, local, open-source AI app builder that I created. You can see what it looks like and download it here: https://dyad.sh/

It's open-source and on GitHub: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad

If you've used one of the popular AI app builders like v0, lovable and bolt, but want something more flexible and without the lock-in, I think you'll like dyad.

note: dyad isn't an IDE (and not another VS code fork :) and instead is focused on people, esp. non-coders, who want an all-in-one tool to build+preview web apps in a simple intuitive desktop UI.

Here's a few things that makes it different:

- Runs locally - Dyad runs entirely on your computer, making it fast and frictionless. Because your code lives locally, you can easily switch back and forth between Dyad and your IDE like Cursor, etc.

- Run local models - I've just added Ollama integration (https://www.dyad.sh/docs/guides/ai-models/local-models), which lets you build with your favorite local LLMs.

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I’d love any feedback. Thanks!
by fatnoah | 2025-04-30 17:41:59+00:00
> Who's going to buy it, though? AWS, Google and Microsoft do have European datacenters and many users here use these regions but the whole point is to be politically, financially, and "privacy-ally" completely independent from the USA.

This is the real issue, IMHO. I work for a European SaaS and we've had a small number of customers ask about our plans to host our services in datacenters not owned by US companies.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-30 17:42:03+00:00
I suspect it's more... routing around the manipulation. If you have people basically obviously doing deliberate dump&pump&dump&pump loops... that only happens a few times before -- on the aggregate -- it gets averaged out by people figuring out that's what is happening.

There's plenty of people who are like myself... moved into cash just before Stupid Day, and then have been buying red, selling green every time He has a Nocturnal Idiot Emission / Repent cycle. I made a little bit of money, which is better than losing it... and now I'm just... waiting. There's likely millions of people like this.