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by Animats | 2025-07-14 08:31:56+00:00
That is a very good question.

China has formal Five Year Plans. Currently, the fourteenth Five Year Plan is finishing up, and the fifteenth, to start in 2026, is being worked on. They're published openly, but few in the West read them. They're general in the sense that they don't specify who does what, but specific in that they specify what should be emphasized and funded.

Historically, the Five Year Plans were aspirational and political through at least the 1980s. There were some major disasters. Search "Great Leap Forward". Some time in the 1990s, the planning system seemed to gain focus and started to become effective in guiding industrialization.

The Five Year Plans drive capital allocation. If a company wants to do something that's in the plan, it's easier to get money, loans, land, and such than for business areas not in the plan.

This is different from Soviet central planning, which was more like a very sluggish manufacturing scheduling system that told specific plants what to do. Updating was annual, which is far too slow for that level of control. Search "Gosplan".
by typewithrhythm | 2025-07-14 08:31:57+00:00
There is a disgusting degree of callousness with this comment.

It's not a "colonial nation" that is being harmed by migration, it's working class people. Meanwhile the same classes that benefited from colonialism now benifit from the wholesale destruction of communities.

Every empirical study I have seen shows that high migration lowers happiness and trust. Does that align with your pseudoscience?
by dkrvchnk | 2025-07-14 08:32:38+00:00
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by the-mitr | 2025-07-14 08:32:57+00:00
Nature is probabilistic. And we know how to calculate those probabilities, that is one of the core ideas of quantum mechanics. Why is it "not allowed"? By whom? Since you are commenting on HN, you are already are using the very mature applications of QM out of laboratory. The proverbial cat (is it Schröedinger's?) is out of the bag!
by stavros | 2025-07-14 08:33:25+00:00
I'm on 2.5mg and I just got sulfur burps, which, to me, is the worst side-effect of the lot. I've also gotten terrible diarrhea previously, even on the lowest dose, I've started and stopped it around five times. Hopefully fifth time's the charm, but yes, side-effects very much depend on the person. I have friends on 10mg and 15mg and they're fine.
by thyristan | 2025-07-14 08:33:28+00:00
In physics, there is never confirmation. At best there is "measurement agrees with the model as exactly as it is currently possible to measure". The standard model is confirmed in that sense.

Dark matter is a problem from cosmology and astronomy, that maybe has a solution in an extension to the standard model. Maybe it hasn't and that solution will come from elsewhere, maybe there is a totally cosmological explanation after all. In all cases, the dark matter problem is not a contradiction to the standard model in our current experiments. If there were a particle-physics explanation to dark matter, it would be a sufficiently small alteration to the standard model that our current experiments couldn't tell the difference, to within experimental error. That's how confirmation and new models in physics work.
by gbuk2013 | 2025-07-14 08:35:08+00:00
An important dimension that is not really touched upon in the article is development speed over time. This will decrease with time, project and team size. Minimising the reduction rate may require doing things things that slow down immediate development for the sake of longer term velocity. Some examples would be test, documentation, decision logs, Agile ceremonies etc.

Some omissions during initial development may have a very long tail of negative impact - obvious examples are not wiring in observability into the code from the outset, or not structuring code with easy testing being an explicit goal.
by imtringued | 2025-07-14 08:35:17+00:00
It's not different time preferences. According to time preference theory the insurers have perfect information about the future so they would have taken the change in lifespan induced by GLP-1 into account before it was even invented. The assumption that mistakes are impossible is one of the core foundations of neoclassical economics. In time preference theory the bias towards the present or future is a moral issue that you get beaten over with to enact a just world fallacy.

In liquidity preference theory insurers do not have perfect information so they must make a tradeoff between collecting information and acting on the information they already have. There will be a bias towards the present and the past, because more information is available about the past and present than the future. What's being "discounted" is uncertainty, not time. Hence there is also a general bias towards stability and conservatism (sticking with existing decisions, even if they are bound to become obsolete).

Now let's apply this to the article:

The insurers don't know if you can stick with your weight loss, so they will conservatively deny coverage until they are certain that they know your health/risk profile. According to time preference theory this would never happen since the insurer already knows whether you will succeed at weightloss or not.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-14 08:35:25+00:00
Pharmaceuticals generally do not drop in price while they are under patent. They will lobby like crazy to get on the approved 3rd party payment schemes though as that makes it "affordable" to more as then everybody pays regardless of wether you use or not. And a treatement that you have to continue forever or fall back? Pure gold!

Insurers certaily don't mind you living longer. More payments, less payouts. They just need to update their predictive models or coverage policies to safeguard their margins. The 'problem' is transitory.
Tell HN: Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser
by prmph | 2025-07-14 08:36:45+00:00
This is the message I got:

> Lobsters has blocked the Brave browser since a scam in 2019. We still block it because they lie about following standards to they scrape and sell copies of websites. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but they have previously targeted Lobsters by name and have a years-long pattern of bad behavior.
by darajava | 2025-07-14 08:38:10+00:00
Most people in this thread seem to be talking about how it's a fake project with fake stars but there is actually a live version linked in this comment[0]. It's pretty good too! I wish the authors would put more time into polishing the README and pointing to the online version but it's missing so many basic features now that it probably only makes sense for developers to currently use.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554541
by lou1306 | 2025-07-14 08:38:17+00:00
This is why I have grown to appreciate gradual typing, at least for solo projects. In Python-land I can just riff over a few functions/scripts until I get a rough idea of the APIs/workflows I want, then bring mypy into the mix and shape things into their "final" form (this takes maybe a few hours away). Rinse repeat for each new feature, but at every iteration you build up from a "nicely-typed" foundation.

Sometimes a redesign of the types you relied on becomes necessary to accommodate new stuff, but that would be true under any language; otoh, the "exploratory" part of coding feels faster and easier.
by boulevard | 2025-07-14 08:39:11+00:00
Hi HN,

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We're bootstrapped and running Meta ads now. Would love feedback on: 1. How to reach Tier 2/3 city users effectively? 2. Monetization models that work for price-sensitive markets? 3. Similar problems in other countries we could expand to?

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by Incipient | 2025-07-14 08:39:54+00:00
Absolutely every layer of abstraction reduces boilerplate, but it's not as if it's entirely gone. I should say, I use boilerplate as a euphemism for 'trivial code'. For example recreating backed request models in the frontend, a simple "create db record" service function, etc.

I mostly use vuejs at the front and fastapi for the backed, and unless I'm missing something big, there is still plenty of 'trivial code' that I find is done a bit faster.

bug creation rates of AI trival code vs my own trivial code has not been evaluated
by seventhtiger | 2025-07-14 08:40:09+00:00
Then more along those lines is the walking simulator genre. It's called walking simulator generally because combat is not emphasized, with focus on immersion, exploration, and narrative. How puzzly it is varies from not at all to all about the puzzles.

Steam has awesome genre pages so you can search by tag then go to the tag's page and you can see what's hot right now in the genre, what's top selling of all time, what has demos etc. that's why I'm mentioning all the genres.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-14 08:40:30+00:00
Work with bad companies, be surprised by poor managers? Who is the "we" in this context, I assume an agency?

So that's not a problem with this process itself. You're describing problems with managers, and problems with developers being unable to handle bad managers.

Even putting aside the manager's incompetence, as a developer you can mitigate this easily in many different ways, here's a few:

- Just don't show it to management

- Deliberately make it obviously broken at certain steps

- Take screen shots of it working and tell people "this is a mockup, I still have to do the hard work of wiring it up"

It's all a balancing act of needing to get feedback from shareholders and managing expectation. If your management is bad, you need to put extra work into managing expectations.

It's like the famous duck story, from Jeff Atwood (see jargon number 4), sometimes you have to manage your managers:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
by perching_aix | 2025-07-14 08:41:01+00:00
I disagree. Being covert and having access to user input are necessary criteria for a keylogger, but not sufficient. They also have to, well, log. And since keyloggers are a kind of malware, using these logs for malicious purposes is also implied, and so is that the data would be tied to your identity. They also tend to operate all the time, rather than just in specific contexts.

But the criterion of "having access to user input" is also necessary for goofy unneeded features like showing web search results in the Start Menu though, which they shove down people's throat like they do with every other feature their product team thinks is a great idea (explaining the "being covert" bit), at which point you have a complete, non-malicious explanation for the entire thing.

The reasonable thing to do then is to apply Hanlon's razor, at which point no, it's no longer reasonable to believe or portray it to be a keylogger anymore. Not essentially, not otherwise. Not only that, but the YouTuber in question made this portrayal knowing full well that it's impossible for them to actually properly demonstrate this feature doubling as a keylogger, as they have no access to the server side. They relied on people being gullible enough to simply not grasp this, and leveraged people's preexisting privacy concerns to farm views.

Having the capability to engage in crime doesn't make a criminal. Imagine if I portrayed 107M (!) of the 340M residents of the U.S. as a criminal because they own a gun, despite knowing full well that gun ownership sensibilities are just fundamentally different over there.
by cjs_ac | 2025-07-14 08:43:40+00:00
> English is a bastard of a language and getting messier every day as new nations adopt it is their standard language.

I disagree strenuously with this idea, because it suggests that there is one 'big' English in which anything goes. A better idea is the one of the register[0]: there are many Englishes, many sets of rules. Different rules are used in different regions, by different groups of people, and have different connotations (e.g., the King James Bible was intentionally written in a form of English that was considered archaic at the time because that would make it sound more grandiose).

If I were to use this tool, I'd be using it to ensure that whatever I'm writing is well-received by my intended audience. Because English usage is so varied, I would need to be able to control the register that it uses to ensure that the output is suitable. The fact that the product website doesn't even mention a list of supported languages, let alone supported dialects and registers within those languages, has a very everyone can see what a horse is kind of feeling[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowe_Ateny
by queenkjuul | 2025-07-14 08:44:06+00:00
I mean yeah we are forced to recite the pledge daily, and our elementary school history classes are full of stuff like "the US has invented every great thing you love! The Internet, cars, planes, TV, etc etc"

I mean the comment i replied to basically comes across as a 11 year old who just aced their last history exam for the year.

It's just tragic that most Americans grow into adults without ever learning anything more about the rest of the world, or realizing how narrow and biased their baseline education was
by close04 | 2025-07-14 08:44:11+00:00
> "social checking" via pre internet local newspapers and gossip circles

People back then could guess how some information about them "leaked" through gossip, and must have known about what's written in the paper about them. If someone found out that a restaurant has info about them that they thought is 100% private then they would find it creepy too.

Today information about people is stolen from people. Information people assume is 100% private, everything they do on the internet (and even many offline things) even without explicitly "posting" or talking about it ends up corelated by some data broker and sold to the least likeable parties. Having this kind of information even when obtained more legitimately just feels like spying to people and is creepy or repulsive by association.

For any restaurant most of this info is passed on by family to make the experience of the event (birthday, anniversary, etc.) more enjoyable. A regular customer celebrating something probably expects and enjoys some level of familiarity and won't ask too many questions or feel betrayed.

From the article, having a CRM, checking public social media, and getting info from the guests themselves is probably fine and even expected for all but a few exceptions.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-14 08:44:11+00:00
Oof, I was to imprecise in my wording, which contextualized my comment badly.

You're completely right, ICE car production can not be fully sourced to China.

I was thinking solely about EVs. It made sense to me, because that's the market China is targeting. Battery production, chip production, electric motors, smelting etc keeps getting outsourced to China. And these are the building blocks for electric cars, hence my comment. But the precise machining and assembly for ICE cars has not been moved to China at this point in time.

My point isn't really a personal insight into the industry though. ultimately, I'm merely parroting what has been covered before like with

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-rare-earth-restriction...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/auto-c...

https://www.businessinsider.com/3-ways-chinese-evs-are-diffe...
by lmm | 2025-07-14 08:44:18+00:00
> All the systems mentioned in this discussion are HA-capable (even Redis, for some usecases, is perfectly HA-capable

It really isn't, outside of some stretched definition. Nor is Postgres without third-party extensions (that come with significant issues in my experience).

> The more interesting question is not whether a system is HA-capable, it's whether the system is appropriate for the job that's required of it (given said system weaknesses & strengths, plus the specific job needs).

I used to believe this kind of thing, but I've come around to the opposite; actually rather than carefully considering the strengths and weaknesses of any given system in the context of a given job, it's a lot more efficient to have some simple heuristics that are easy to evaluate for which systems are good or bad, and avoid even considering bad systems. Of course occasionally you do need to dive into a full evaluation and pick your poison, but if a task doesn't have very specific requirements you avoid a lot of headache by just dismissing most of the possibilities out of hand.

> And my argument was that both Redis and Postgres were fine, for the job that was described.

But they're not contributing anything to the job that's described! Adding an extra moving part to the system that doesn't actually achieve anything is a much worse error than choosing the wrong system IMO.
by LoFtr1 | 2025-07-14 08:45:57+00:00
Let's take Germany as a case study for someone making roughly 3000/month NET salary. Health-insurance premiums are generally higher in Germany than in the United States. U.S. Social Security benefits tend to be more generous, backed by roughly USD 2.7 trillion in trust-fund assets, while Germany’s state pension scheme runs a deficit that consumes about 25 percent of federal tax revenue.

The United States provides universal coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA); none of these programs expose citizens to unlimited liability. Under the ACA, annual out-of-pocket costs are capped at about USD 9,200 even when bills exceed USD 1 million. Even in Germany, there is a co-insurance payment; liability is at 1300/year, I think. Given that US coverage is cheaper, this can go either way. It is widely accepted that it is much easier to see a specialist in the US and get appointments than in Germany, so there is a good argument to be made that US health care is better.

Living on EUR 1,500 per month in Germany is feasible only in remote rural areas, and even a net income of EUR 3,000 in provincial cities leaves little discretionary spending. Higher average earnings in the United States, together with easier property acquisition, generally offer superior opportunities for wealth building. Claims to the contrary overlook relevant data on median incomes, benefits, and costs and are pure cope about the declining standard of living in Western and Central Europe for the middle class.
by jasim | 2025-07-14 08:45:58+00:00
Accounting, specifically book-keeping, really plays to the strengths of LLMs - pattern matching within a bounded context.

The primary task in book-keeping is to classify transactions (from expense vouchers, bank transactions, sales and purchase invoices and so on) and slot them into the Chart of Accounts of the business.

LLMs can already do this well without any domain/business specific context. For example - a fuel entry is so obvious that they can match it into a similar sounding account in the CoA.

And for others where human discretion is required, we can add a line of instruction in the prompt, and that classification is permanently encoded. A large chunk of these kind of entries are repetitive in nature, and so each such custom instruction is a long-term automation.

You might have not been speaking about simple book-keeping. If so, I'm curious to learn.
by muzani | 2025-07-14 08:46:31+00:00
It ticks the boxes for bad science. I was hoping someone would call out Garry's statement as an anecdote as well rather than debating whether he said it.

But I doubt there will be proper data either way. Whatever model is used in research will be deprecated by the time something is peer reviewed. If a model hallucinates, can't do X, is boring, has so and so security holes, the report is out of date by the time it's released.

But the next best we have is that people who make these claims are throwing money at it. I would be highly suspicious if people made these claims and then didn't double down on their investments. Sundar says AI is bigger than fire which is highly sus, but the way he's been reorganizing one of the world's most stable companies to focus totally on AI suggests that he believes it.
by epolanski | 2025-07-14 08:47:45+00:00
I keep track of my calories every day, every meal, every snack from a very long time. It's very rare to not have the phone or another device close when I'm eating or after the meal, even if offline I'll send a WhatsApp message to myself and it will be sent when im back online.

In the very rare occasions I don't have a phone I vividly remember what I've eaten and will record it later.
by aa-jv | 2025-07-14 08:51:30+00:00
Yay! I'm in the middle of building something like this myself, I guess I'll give it a try ..

Oh, wait:

>Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions)

.. never mind. :(

No trial period? Using Node.js to touch all my files? Electron: doesn't scale - I have 500,000 photo's to process - think the DOM can handle that? Javascript for such an app? Bummer.

Well, if there's ever a way to try it out, I'll give it a chance, but .. out of the gate .. there's a lot swinging against it. I'll go back to my own Photo organizer app, meanwhile, written in cross-platform C++ and designed to be multithreaded and high-performance, alas .. but I wish you all the best, anyway.
by l0gicpath | 2025-07-14 08:52:00+00:00
What’s Cluely? While I can google and find out I just wanted to reflect how irrelevant that name actually is for a large portion of the internet.

Flamewars, internet jerks and online bullying has been around since irc. If not longer.

imo looking at the thread, I see a bunch of people throwing a few strongly worded comments at each other in a typical heated discussion online.

We used to call this flamewars.