skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you a counter example. "Retirement."

Nominally retirement is "forever" in that once you are retired your pension/savings/whatever is funding your existence needs. Having lived most of my life in the SF Bay area I've watched as my cohort came here as college grads, went through the various tech life cycles, and then aged out into "retirement." I put it in quotes because some retired voluntarily, others did not. Involuntary retirement or "funemployement" as the euphemism goes, was typically below the level of flexibility that they had imagined they would have being retired.

Various life events, health issues, marital issues, Etc. spread the spectrum even further. As a result the 'basic income' for this cohort ranges from just below 'covering groceries, utilities, and rent in a low cost of living area' to an annual travel budget, replacement budget for cars/boats/etc, and possibly a second property with some 'feature' (like a ski cabin, a beach bungalow, etc).

What is consistent across the spectrum is a desire to "do something productive with their time." That skews towards volunteer work if their basic life needs are met, piecework if having extra money would meet some currently unmet needs. I don't think I know anyone who could sit in the rocking chair on the patio every day and watch the sun come up and go down, or spend every day at the golf course or some other leisure activity, choose to take that path.

That said, pretty much everyone I know who has retired took an extended amount of time (typically months) to 'unwind.' Once unwound, life seems to assert itself.

Now I don't think this is scientific, its a very specific group of people. Generally professionals who worked in office jobs vs trades. And a number of them 'fail' at retirement which has them going back to work because they didn't have sufficient tools for creating their own direction or something. But laziness isn't a trait I've seen. A completely different direction perhaps, but a direction rather than standing still.
That's helpful. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
There are opposing trends in this. First, that like many tools the capable individual can be made much more effective (eg 2x->10x), which simply replaces some workers, and last occurred during the great depression. Second, that the tools become commoditized to the point where they are readily available from many suppliers at reasonable costs, which happened with calculators, word processors, and office automation. This along with a growing population, global trade, and rising demand led to the 80s-2k boom.

If the product is not commoditized, then capital will absorb all the increased labor efficiency, while labor (and consumption) are sacrificed on the altar of profits.

I suspect your assumption is more likely. Voltaire's critique of 'the best of all possible worlds' and man's place in creating meaning and happiness, provides more than one option.
It feels like the US is going to step on its own rake however. Instead of Fishing, it’s manufacturing. Largely a dead industry that has proven to struggle to stay profitable without extremely cheap back breaking laborers or huge regulatory cuts that we’re just not going to be able to sustain, putting both employees and customers at risk.
What will be considered stupidity next? Talking about voting for Democrats? Engaging in the politics in any form? Memeing? Voting for a left wing party in EU and talking about it?

Talking about computer security as part of your job?

There is no end to it. Ultimately McCarthy will get what he wants if he wants it. The only way to make it hard for him is to overload him and protest it. (Which is instantly suspicious.)

I noticed you posted this from a non-throwaway account. Enjoy being flagged suspicious.
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you mean wrap mcp server in itself?
> But then something flipped.

All those long 8 weeks that people spent complaining about soft power, and the US government spent trying to gaslight people saying that they don't even use the power... The people complaining were talking about something real.
Why did you just make up a legal proceeding? There are no proceedings (yet) - that is the entire point of this.
If we take the known harmful level of fluoride as being >1.5mg/L then the NTP monograph itself has some information ():

> areas including central Australia, eastern Brazil, sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, south and east Asia, and western North America (Podgorski and Berg 2022). Regions of the United States where CWS and private wells contain natural fluoride concentrations of more than 1.5 mg/L serve over 2.9 million U.S. residents (Hefferon et al. 2024). The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 172,000 U.S. residents are served by domestic wells that
exceed EPA’s enforceable standard of 4.0 mg/L fluoride in drinking water, and 522,000 are served by domestic wells that exceed EPA’s non-enforceable standard of 2.0 mg/L fluoride in drinking water (USGS 2020).
[https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/fluori... Page 2 or Page 22 of the PDF]

Note in the US this is almost all people drinking well water. So if we take the known harmful level at 1.5mg/L, then there are lots of people known to be drinking water above these concentrations. I'm not sure I would say we're necessarily ignoring them, but could argue regulations aren't up to date: the current EPA MCL is 4.0mg/L and secondary MCL is 2.0mg/L.

For more in depth data, we can take the EPA's Review of Fluoride Occurrence for the Fourth Six-Year Review (2024) [https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-04/syr4_fluo...]. Page 15 of the PDF shows artificially fluoridated water nowadays has fluoride concentrations between 0.6mg/L and 1.2mg/L. Page 18 shows that ~4.7 million are being served with concentrations of fluoride >1.5mg/L. This is higher than the Hefferon et al figure but it seems this figure is based on data from 2006-2011 (where the population was lower, but also the recommended fluoride concentration was higher, with the max at 1.2mg/L pre-2015). I also am not convinced Hefferon et al has any figures on private wells (although maybe I misread the paper).
They said they were going to war with China over the Panama Canal too, yesterday. Using the "most lethal fighting force", apparently.
what areas you see A2A can potentially be useful for you?

I'm curious to see answers, from indie builder perspective.
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> Decoupling from China will lead to China annex Taiwan sooner. China will have the USA and the world by the balls then, so not sure we want that to happen quicker.

That seems to be over-rating the importance of Taiwan. If Taiwan sank into the sea tomorrow that'd be a catastrophe and the world would be worse off. But not that badly worse off. Life would continue. China's main global lever comes from the power of their unparalleled-in-history industrial strength and the aura of leadership they are building up internationally because they are substantially more peaceful than the US.

The peacefulness is probably not going to last, unfortunately, but until they change tack it is what it is.
> We were pretty "soft" (dislike the term) on the land borders and on immigration

That's absolutely not the impression US gives to the people outside. The visa system is soft only on one specific demographic it deems worthy (educated, wealthy, commonwealth citizen), and treats everyone else with contempt at best.

Getting a visa requires extensive background checks, and an in-person interview in a part of a consulate built like a prison. The green card lottery keeps people on uncertain ground for decades, during which they are second-class citizens and can have their entire life uprooted at any moment.

Claiming asylum via safe modes of transport has been made technically impossible (anyone suspected of seeking asylum won't be sold any tickets, won't be let through any security), and deadly dangerous and intentionally cruel towards everyone desperate enough to try anyway.

Unfortunately, many countries are like that, and the USA is not better than average even on the good side.
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students already don't pay attention in lecture:

* due to either learning/concentration issues
* the fact that most lecturers are boring, dull, and unengaging
* and oftentimes you can learn better from other sources

making lecture longer doesn't fix a single one of these issues. it just makes students learn even less.
This study used the national rollout of the vaccine in Wales so they had closer to randomized trials without doing randomized trials if that makes sense. In the USA (where a lot of prior data came from) people who got the vaccine may not represent that sort of data due to insurance and vaccine hesitancy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
Maybe my google-fu is not that great today, but I could no reference to exporting currency online that was about the concept that paying for imports was exporting currency.

I'd be happy to see a link that does.
Trump admin backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner
Oof, “low-code”. That’s some pre-2025 buzzword lingo, clearly the model training corpus is out of date!
The oil dividend (likely what they are talking about though I didn’t look) is something like $1,300/year. That’s not universal basic income in the pie-in-the-sky way the phrase is usually used. No one is interested in whether the Alaska dividend makes people not work.

If UBI is limited to a low amount that you couldn’t possibly live on then sure, it’s perfectly possible.
Many “western” governments have formed genuine ideological movements. I understand this may be difficult, but what are you actually talking about?
Not answering your question, but my understanding is that it's well known that this is one of those paradoxical correlations.

Granted I have no source for this other than I feel like I've read it somewhere, but you're definitely not the only one to have this idea.
The counter argument is that now you can skip boilerplate code and focus on the overall design and the few points that brainpower is really needed.

The amount of visualizations that i have made after chat gpt was released has increased exponentially. I loath looking the documentation again and again to make a slightly non standard graph. Now all of the friction is gone! Graphs and visuals are everywhere in my code!
PEGs don't have this problem only because they place restrictions on the grammar.

In practice, this isn't a problem, but it does require you write grammar rules in a specific way (e.g. no left-recursion)
And, to point out, these are people coming to the end of their effective working careers, with things like medical problems and disability to inhibit their productivity. The idea that, given some paltry basic income ala current social security payment levels, young adults would just bail out is pretty strange to me. People already more or less have that option through disability and not very many people utilize it. I would expect to see something in that range, certainly below 10%, if we had a minimal basic income.
I should say, disable you- the tone did not reflect that it can happen to anyone, and that it can not only be a wedge between people but also (and only by virtue of being) between personal trajectories, conditional on the way one uses it
I think the biggest issue with LLMs is basically just the fact that we're finally coming to the end of the long tail of human intellectual capability.

With previous technological advancements, humans had places to intellectually "flee", and in fact, previous advancements were often made for the express purpose of freeing up time for higher level pursuits. The invention of computers, for example, let mathematicians focus on much higher level skills (although even there an argument can be made that something has been lost with the general decrease in arithmetic abilities amoung modern mathematicians).

Large language models don't move humans further up the value chain, though. They kick us off of it.

I hear lots of people prosletizing wonderful futures where humans get to focus on "the problems that really matters", like social structures, or business objectives; but there's no fundamental reason that large language models can't replace those functionalities aswell. Unlike, say, a Casio, which would never be able to replace a social worker no matter how hard you tried.
Was that gamble wrong? I thought all LLM training workloads do collectives that involve all nodes (all-gather, reduce-scatter).
You're forcing the proud dad function: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36995257/
There's an OpenAPI specification in a repository [1] from the Central Bank of Brazil, which might give some insights and contains links to a lot of manuals. Information seems to be complete about the protocol, but implementations are often proprietary.

[1] https://github.com/bacen/pix-api
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What about the insider trading that this facilitated? A few parties made HUGE profits with last-minute option trades today.
They’re available OTC basically everywhere.
> I learned that it was his way of trying to understand how world works. That if he dropped something, will it remain there or disappear.

I don’t understand how you learned this. Who told you that’s what was going on in his head?
The noise when you hit a letter is so loud and grating :(
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Was at the Google Next 2025 conference, and they've unveiled a zonal bucket version of GCS and what seems to be a gPRC interface over Google Colossus for Rapid Storage.
I voted for Trump and I would again in a heartbeat if faced with the same options but this has been dumb. Whole of the Right is running around screaming the "Art of the deal" when literally nothing has been accomplished. Market is still down, bond rates are still high. We trashed relationships with other countries and not a single trade deal has been signed. And he clearly backed down. We still have no idea what the end goal is. Its just dumb. We are objectively worse off than we were a week ago.

He is still delivering for me on the reasons I voted for him but this chapter has been a debacle. Fun part is with Trump as president every week is a chapter, for most presidents a chapter is 2 years. So excited to see what's next.

If he delivers on China and effectively resets the world financial and trade picture in our favor then well done but so far not impressed.

Whole world celebrating the guy who started the fire putting it out.

"Lisan Al Gaib" JFC
> The explanation is absolutely ridiculous.

You'll need to provide more constructive feedback. Or are you suggesting that it's not "destroyed" and that the origin country can freely transfer money without discounting its books?
At first I thought they were going to implement it in MIT Scratch.
I'm surprised there aren't any commercialized products considering its efficacy and simple origin.

I also wonder if there is any way it could be modified to protect more of the body besides just saliva.
"My AI slop is still worth your time...especially if you use AI to summarize it". Wishful thinking Mr Rao.
"The goal here is to decouple US from China. In the meantime, tariffs are raised on every country to gauge which side they are on. Once US knows who the allies are, they will negotiate to have those allies put up massive tariffs on China as well to prevent transshipping." You literally made this up. There has been no announcement about this from the admin. Its all just speculation.
How about facilitating a monster load of insider trading?
For some reason, text highlight didn't work, so here's the text-highlighted link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-wit...
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It is pure fantasy.

Pray tell, if they aren’t slaves, are they free to leave, and where to? What an asshole.
It's okay, the Fed has been insolvent at least two years now https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3955889-the-fed-is-bankr...
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What a rollercoaster, not having heard of the GPD Pocket 4 before now, I went through:

- cool!

- oh but there's no way this isn't hard and somewhat manual, something to tune

- wait what, end of blog, that's it, just install a package?

- oh no this is the Asahi announcement, so it's Mac only? [follows link to GitHub]

- no! This is separate, it really is just install a package!

- oh, hang on, GPD Pocket 4 is the laptop shown in image, it's for that only

No slight against the author, nothing wrong with that, just a rollercoaster to follow!

Is there any technical reason it couldn't be generic though? Surely environment has almost as much impact as the hardware anyway, wouldn't you ideally have it sample and adjust every so often on a systemd timer or whatever?
A lot of that "economic growth" is stuff like flooding the US with opioids, burning mountains of gas and coal to produce crypto scams, and chaining people to the office 60+ hours a week to produce reports justifying their "impact".

The nominal gdp is my father's time was lower and yet he could buy a house and support a family of four on a single salary as an immigrant in his early 20s.
Oh, you own the generator for you GPU as well?
Because their economies would suffer heavily? That's why they are upset about the tariffs in the first place.
I think we've diverged from the game context, towards discussion "universal brain reorganizing technologies", nodejs being considered one, and what real-time means in the context of node.

That said, real-time communication _is_ a soft real-time system.
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That assumes that China’s population doesn’t collapse, which mathematically seems quite likely (and it’s already declining).
What I've heard is that the extrapolation of compute needed so many additional CPU servers to keep running the existing workload types that it obviously justified dedicated hardware. Same for video encoding accelerators[1].

[1]: https://research.google/pubs/warehouse-scale-video-accelerat...
Sounds like the same cope with MAGA claiming 2020 election was stolen
Wow it's amazing.

How hard is it to change it for a different language? Looks fun for practicing words
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Every time I read Douglass I feel so humbled.
Dude the US is insanely corrupt, it's just that a lot of the corruption is called "lobbying" and "consulting." Sometimes also certain forms of "legal counsel." It's whitewashed and normalized.
Now that contradicts the narrative that the stock market thing is a ploy to make money.
They're not OTC medicines. They are prescription-only medicines.
> pre-planned plans

Isn't that cheating? Shouldn't a properly self-reliant human be able to come up with the plans too?
What's quite impressive, is that people are so relieved now. The base scenario must have been really bad.

As it is, we get:

- 10% of tarrifs on everybody, 25% on several big sectors, 125% on China. Which is absolutely massive

- any confidence in the sanity of the government absolutely destroyed - 90 days ? He can change his mind tomorrow, or in 90 days. Entirely possible that he forgets this whole thing during the 90 days. How is the tough negotiation with Russia going btw ?

- China that showed it's not afraid of Trump. Trump fired all the bullets he had on China, he can increase the tarrifs to 1000%, it doesn't change a thing. Other than convincing other countries to openly joint US trade war on China, or use of military force, he cannot do anything more I believe.

China on the other hand can wreck havock in many, many different ways. Just look at the bond markets yesterday - nobody knows if it was China or not. But everybody knows China could make it much worse.
Same goes for US businesses. Safety inspection in Tesla or Apple suppliers factory ? Why not.
Sounds like bullshit made to hide or obfuscate a similar concept or word, a decoy. It has all the cult-like features of an autonomous self propelling cultural manifestation (with purpose unknown).

These being: dubious reliance on eastern or mystical religious connection, fan-based growth mechanisms, blurry definition, 'mind' and 'brain' interest hooks for people worried about their intelligence to latch on. They are the ugly cousins of ARGs.

It is unlikely to have been made by accident, so it must have a purpose and a creator with intent behind it.
What stack is he using for all of it? I’m curious which tools or languages AI tends to be the most effective with?