skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are generally in agreement against lower wages and higher property prices, but when it comes time to sell the store, they're gonna sell to the highest bidder. If that bidder wants to put in something that has the effect of putting more locals out of business and lowering regional wages, it has the effect of extracting wealth from the local community. But that's the next generation's problem. I want my cheap stuff now. I want the highest price for the assets I'm turning over to the 1%, which only wants to extract wealth from the community long term.

I believe there's no way to resolve this except to use the tax system to put society back in balance. Regular workers need to be able to afford to live a normal life again. The Dollar Generals of the world have become too good at wealth extraction. They look good in the short term, but over time through extremely low wages they drain local communities dry until they become a husk of what they were. Then people can't afford to fight against Dollar General and Walmart any more. They need the lower prices to survive, but in making these bad deals they further impoverish their own communities.

The people who say they want to "keep the coffee shop character" are focusing on the wrong thing. That's a bad strategy. They need to be looking at the long-term economics of their communities and bringing that danger to the forefront. It's not about character. Character doesn't pay the bills. It's about wealth extraction. About lowering regional wages to the point your community becomes dependent on government assistance and can no longer afford to shop anywhere else but Dollar General.
Is there anything in DG that's healthy? The garbage these stores are feeding people is an externality that is contributing to negative health outcomes. To allow it is to condemn the rural underclass to eating toxic waste, it's equivalent to allowing them to live in lean to slums and shouldn't be allowed.
You do understand that Chinese Companies can easily just hire people from abroad?

You also do know how many companies moved their knowledge to China on purpose right?

The knowledge on how to build things, is learnable even if you don't just 'hack' everything.

And there is a lot of signaling happening, that china has surpassed American and European companies in R&D. CATL for example.

Whatever China did or still does, its a land with 1.4 Billion people vs. 340 Million.

Also we achieved, around the globe, a level of expertise around so many topics, that we do not talk about huge differences. If an engine from china is a few % less efficient than the high techv ersion from germany, but the labor cost is fundamental different, than you just loos.

And the prices are significant different. So significant, that if USA doesn't change, it will not be able to compete.

Even a 104% tarif does not change the competitivness of China in a lot of areas.

All of this is only a problem in capitalism btw. and with the upcoming robot revolution, the 'richness' of manufacturing will never again go to the workers ever. This time is over. We need to figure this out
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> They pay their workers less and the profits go out of state.

Almost every local retail business I know of pays less than larger businesses, simply due to not meeting the 50 employee minimum that subjects businesses to a host of other labor laws such as ACA and FMLA.
The global 10% tariff was mentioned repeatedly. As was the constant focus on trade deficits.

But he's been saying crazy stuff for a decade now, and didn't implement stuff like this before so I can see how people were surprised.
chroot was (is?) the recommended way of installing gentoo which is pedagogical.

There are various handy (chroot) techniques that are probably considered "old school" now. For example, having a "rescue partition" which can be booted into remotely, and from there reinstall or repair the "main os". This is necessary when repartitioning remotely, for example.
Is this similar to the way HeroEngine works? IIR, that was basically a big database server (that wasn't compatible with anything else).
If in order to avoid a healthcare treatment, you have to avoid drinking or bathing or cooking with the public water supply, and also avoid most restaurant food, do you still have the right of informed consent to that treatment?
Right, and those people really need to learn not to do that.
But here's what I don't understand about this: wouldn't that be the company revoking the offer, not the employee? If the company revokes the offer or has "exploding offers" or whatever, that's a corporate thing, not an employee issue.
Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo "disgusting"
>Have some common sense.

The common sense would be don't go to countries where you risk being immediately sent home or to a slave colony in El Salvador for writing something mean about its president.
I'm glad you had a relatively good experience but for many mid "average" software engineers, this is absolutely the case.

And by "average" I mean:

- did not go to prestigious college

- do not have 8 years of specialized experience

- have not worked at faang level company

- struggle to do multiple leetcode hards in an interview

- are not cheating with ai tools and/or straight up lying about experience

i can, with full confidence, tell you that the reports of these developers sending out hundreds (if not thousands) of applications without any progress is absolutely the norm at this moment.

You don't need to believe me, just look at the data. There's been hundreds of thousands of software developers laid off in the past years and not enough job openings to make up for it.
Gambling^H^H^H^H Making markets more "efficient".
'declining' on which level?

China will surpass USA from a GDP Point of view in 2035.

China surpassed Germany as industry machines export in 2018.
I am surprised that business students are relatively low adopters: LLMs seem perfect for helping with presentations, etc, and business students are stereotypically practical-minded rather than motivated by love of the subject.

Perhaps Claude is disproportionately marketed to the STEM crowd, and the business students are doing the same stuff using ChatGPT.
Now that’s incredible
Yeah, the concept of "productive struggle" is important to the education process and having a way to short circuit it seems like it leads to worse learning outcomes.
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Why would they not pay as much taxes as local businesses? I have never seen a tax rate that differentiates between local and non local businesses.
Google Introduces Cloud WAN
They are pitching this as complementary to the MCP [0], but I don't see it. What is the value in agents communicating in agents as opposed to just treating other agents as tools?

[0]: https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/a2a_and_mcp
Planning to support complex lag masking netcode as a TODO is not a good sign.
I might be misremembering here, but Google's own AI models (Gemini) don't use NVIDIA hardware in any way, training or inference. Google bought a large number of NVIDIA hardware only for Google Cloud customers, not themselves.
Why briliant ??
https://github.com/block/goose tutorials page finally made it click for me. Concrete examples. Anthropic should link directly out to that from their docs.
dborehamsays "Btw the one thing that will be left to show is a wider realization that it's a bad idea to elect a crazy person."

Regret to inform that all of them are crazy.
It will be interesting to see how the issue will be resolved. Given the feedback they get on Github and Mastodon... well, at least we will see if the community is really a priority, and if it makes sense to donate and support the project relatively early on. (Before they get to remove "promises" from the Terms of Use, that is.)
Tell the Penguins to call Marco: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PGnx_ij8XOE
let's not forget about arguing against due process, prison without trials, weird interpretations of ancient laws, mercurial application of the law. or the free speech threats. the AP, threaten licenses from news orgs, threaten law firms, sue news orgs.
0. TSMC, you're not allowed to sell to certain clients like Huawei because we said so.
Warren Buffett sold a bunch of his US stocks recently so I guess he counts.
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it has no regex? eeek
Yeah, I haven't figured it out yet, but when I do /bin/ls, then indeed the problem does not show. Probably a case of Bash trying to be smarter than it needs to be.
The “market” for almost any definition of that you can choose is demonstrably happy with “shit things made fast” provided that the “shit” thing still mostly works. Within rounding error, no one is paying for any artisan hand crafted products. Today it’s AI, last decade it was Chinese products, before that it was Japanese products. If you can get an 80% solution for 50% of the price, most people are doing that. How often do you “sort by price” when shopping? When was the last time you bought the more expensive higher quality version of something you don’t have a passion for?

Or if you want to keep it in the realm of computers, “worse is better” clearly won out. The world uses Linux, not Unix much to the chagrin of the people who wrote the Linux Haters Handbook (regardless of how tongue in cheek that might have been).

And the take away from history should be that AI might be “shit” now, but it will improve. If you don’t remember the days when “Made in Japan” was a marker of “shit”, that’s because things that are “shit” can improve faster than things that are “not shit” can maintain their lead.
It’s not that simple. As Shor noted, most of the weak Democratic voters were motivated by economic concerns (Gaza was also a big factor for roughly a third, too). The fact that they stayed home in 2024 doesn’t mean that they will next time, but it absolutely means that Democrats need to give them a convincing reason to show up. His analysis of social media trends is similarly incomplete: he identifies the degree to which it’s influential but misses the billions of dollars plowed into promoting right wing content, just as the age gap analysis sees a real phenomenon (younger voters aren’t as likely to vote for Democrats) but misses whether the explanation is that they’re ideologically conservative or economically more precarious and swimming in a sea of propaganda blaming Biden for the pandemic fallout, which has affected every incumbent party around the world. Again, that doesn’t mean that the Democrats don’t need to do a lot of hard work but I think it’s a mistake to see it as “they’re all movement Republicans” rather than “we need to focus on economic inequality”.
> US will find itself in the same position the UK is in now

The thing is .. there's a point here, but it's not at all tied in with physical products. People are obsessed with one side of the ledger while refusing to see the other. Most of the stuff the UK is struggling with (transport, healthcare, energy) are "state capacity" issues. Things where the state is unavoidably involved and having better, more decisive leadership and not getting bogged down in consultations, would make a big difference.

The UK stepped on its own rake because it was obsessed with tiny, already vanished industries like fishing. Fishing is less profitable for the whole UK than Warhammer. It's not actually where we want to be. While real UK manufacture successes (cars, aircraft, satellites, generators, all sorts of high-tech stuff) get completely ignored. Or bogged down in extra export red tape thanks to Brexit.

To improve reality, we have to start from reality, not whatever vision of the past propaganda "news" channels are blathering about.
Yes, that's exactly what I think: it's hard to measure police effectiveness when it's just a piece of the puzzle.
You always depend on someones good graces. What difference does it make if they are an american you are dependent on or a chinese person? Still a human at the end of the day. Its the political leaders that want you to say that an apple and an apple are different species. It doesn’t reflect the reality that we are all equivocal humans on earth. The sooner we get out of our nation state well of stability as a species, the sooner we advance technologically to the next level as a species.
Fair enough, I'm mostly talking about governments not people.
"When AI is able to deliver coding tasks based on a prompt, there won’t be enough copies of the Mythical Man Month to dissuade business folks from trying to accelerate road maps and product strategies by provisioning fleets of AI coding agents."

Submitted yesterday, but no luck :D

https://varoa.net/2025/04/07/ai-generated-code.html
It says STEM undergrad students are the primary beneficiaries of LLMs but Wolfram Alpha was already able to do the lion's share of most undergrad STEM homework 15 years ago.
See also his replacement of NAFTA last term with something very similar but a different name.
I think a lot of confusion and frustration about this is the assumption that all programming is the same thing.

I have seen areas with just tons of boilerplate, straight forward UI stuff, basic test skeletons, etc that I guess could work with AI.

But personally, in 30 years I’ve just never done much of that kind of work. Probably because I find it boring. I go look for hard or novel problems, or data structures and APIs that are causing problems (overgrown and hard to use, buggy, etc). A lot of the time is just figuring out what the authors expected the code to do, and anticipating what we will need for the next few years. I don’t see AI helping much with that.
I miss Meebo.
Human Identity Protocol (Hip)
The piece to add there is that all this money is getting paid by the consumer. The overseas piece doesn't change, same number of US dollars going to the other country. The $24 increase in cost is paid by the US consumer.
Oh yes, this is one of the possible solutions with common sense. This is what I decided to do BTW.
> You could argue tariffs are a little better because in theory they result in more jobs at home.

No serious person would argue this because it's ridiculous. Tariffs on components of finished items don't do anything to help manufacture those items. The only way to increase manufacturing with tariffs is to target them to very specific industries or segments of industries and use the proceeds to subsidize the industries you want to create.

Manufacturing just about anything at scale to make it affordable/desirable requires leveraging a deep efficient supply chain. Everything from raw material harvesting to manufacturing to warehousing to transport. It takes decades and a lot of investment and real estate.

Asinine tariffs won't do any of that. They're effectively just a regressive national sales tax.
Your statement appears to be composed almost entirely of vague and ambiguous statements.

"AI bubble seems close to collapsing" in response to an article about AI being used as a study aid. Does not seem relevant to the actual content of the post at all, and you do not provide any proof or explanation for this statement.

"God knows how many billions have been invested", I am pretty sure it's actually not that difficult to figure out how much investor money has been poured into AI, and this still seems totally irrelevant to a blog post about AI being used as a study aid. Humans 'pour' billions of dollars into all sorts of things, some of which don't work out. What's the suggestion here, that all the money was wasted? Do you have evidence of that?

"We still don't have an actual use case for AI which is good for humanity"... What? We have a lot of use cases for AI, some of which are good for humanity. Like, perhaps, as a study aid.

Are you just typing random sentences into the HN comment box every time you are triggered by the mention of AI? Your post is nonsense.
> On September 20, 2024, Microsoft announced that Windows Server Update Service would no longer be developed starting with Windows Server 2025.[4] Microsoft encourages business to adopt cloud-based solution for client and server updates, such as Windows Autopatch, Microsoft Intune, and Azure Update Manager. [5]

WSUS Offline installer is also deprecated now.

And then to keep userspace updated too, a package manager like
Chocolatey NuGet and this power shell script: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
That doesn’t really make sense to me.

The market cares about dollar returned vs dollar invested. If some piece in the middle of the chain goes up and end customer prices go up as well, that doesn’t directly affect investors at all.

The way it could and likely will affect investors is if people start buying fewer shoes, but that is a different process than what you are describing.

If I’m off base can you help me understand what you are saying?
indeed it feels like magic :)
Agents are already usually deployed as an API service. You can have "agent-to-agent" communication by having agents call each others APIs. I don't understand what this protocol is for.

MCP actually fills a gap since people don't normally expose things like writing to their local filesystem as a callable API.
This is a great point. This mocked test, easy to literally click a button, look like you did something good, but potentially add massive negative value when the code fails but the tests all pass. It can be a very helpful tool, but you need to understand the code it produces, and it seems like people are missing that point.
I simply don't waste my time reading an AD as an article.

I take this as seriously as I would if McDonald's published articles about how much weight people lose eating at McDonald's.
My take: While AI tools can help with learning, the vast majority of students use it to avoid learning
So do you avoid going outside to reduce exposure to environmental pollutants?

Water fluoridation is a net-benefit to society.
Cool!

(I looked, but couldn't find that in the documentation)

Will keep working with and experimenting with it.
Banning books or attacking their authors livelihood makes it harder for people to be exposed to their ideas.

Criticism does not.
It's not up for debate. Ask any programmer if LLMs improve productivity and the answer is 100% yes.
> Yeah, it's real easy when you employ an army of nation-state hackers

No it's not, even if it were true. Is it really that hard to admit that the Chinese people are industrious, smart, ambitious and have extremely high education level? And that the state has directed the development of the country wisely in the past 40 years?
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Hey HN - It’s Finn and Jack from Aqua Voice (https://withaqua.com). Aqua is fast AI dictation for your desktop and our attempt to make voice a first-class input method.

Video: https://withaqua.com/watch

Try it here: https://withaqua.com/sandbox

Finn is uber dyslexic and has been using dictation software since sixth grade. For over a decade, he’s been chasing a dream that never quite worked — using your voice instead of a keyboard.

Our last post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686) about this seemed to resonate with the community - though it turned out that version of Aqua was a better demo than product. But it gave us (and others) a lot of good ideas about what should come next.

Since then, we’ve remade Aqua from scratch for speed and usability. It now lives on your desktop, and it lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal.

It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text in about a second (sometimes as fast as 450ms), and has state-of-the-art accuracy. It does a lot more, but that’s the core. We’d love your feedback — and if you’ve got ideas for what voice should do next, let’s hear them!
> I think the issue is that it's so tempting to lean on AI. I remember long nights struggling to implement complex data structures in CS classes. I'd work on something for an hour before I'd have an epiphany and figure out what was wrong. But that struggling was ultimately necessary to really learn the concepts. With AI, I can simply copy/paste my code and say "hey, what's wrong with this code?" and it'll often spot it (nevermind the fact that I can just ask ChatGPT "create a b-tree in C" and it'll do it). That's amazing in a sense, but also hurts the learning process.

In the end the willingness to struggle will set apart the truly great Software Engineer from the AI-crutched. Now of course this will most of the time not be rewarded, when a company looks at two people and sees “passable” code from both but one is way more “productive” with it (the AI-crutched engineer) they’ll inititally appreciate this one more.

But in the long run they won’t be able to explain the choices made when creating the software, we will see the retraction from this type of coding when the first few companies’ security falls apart like a house of cards due to AI reliance.

It’s basically the “instant gratification vs delayed gratification” argument but wrapped in the software dev box.
This is exactly how I use LLMs currently. It's like a kickstart into any subject imaginable, and at this level of use they seem largely free of errors.
who hurt you?

like, i know this is a bit of an inherent trope. but who hurt you pal?

because you seem to be so heavily invested in the success of these tools that even the possibility of there being any sort of criticism about these tools has you posting an intolerant, dismissive and hyperbolic comment yourself.

so… what gives? why the intense attachment to some technological thing? why so defensive? why the reaction? do you feel threatened by the negative criticism? why?
Kinda mad I didn't show up when I searched my skills and location. Seems like people with those skills in their bio showed up first even though others may have more commits and their profile/repos have more recognition.
> Yeah, it's real easy when you employ an army of nation-state hackers to break into and steal R&D and tech from US Fortune 500 and aerospace companies to then use it internally and give to private industry in China.

All of this is old, tired news. They're leading in many areas now, so at least in the fields where they lead and innovate, they couldn’t have "stolen" anything.

If you would like to get more up to date:

1. "China has become a scientific superpower"

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/...

2. "China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries"

https://itif.org/publications/2024/09/16/china-is-rapidly-be...

3. "How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power?"

https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-c...
Honestly, I have lost any real trust or faith in the US economy at this point. I'm not even sure about basics like FDIC insurance anymore.

I'm actively looking for a safer place to store my money that is less directly exposed. I'm not at all comfortable with US banks or investment vehicles at this point.
A lot of that retailer margin goes into (a) wages, i.e. the jobs that everyone is supposedly trying to create, and (b) rent.