skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, China is giving the US real physical goods in exchange for paper IOUs denominated in USD which China then mostly just holds on to. If the US stops this trade, China can insulate its economy by continuing to manufacture the same products and either use them domestically or dump them in a hole in the ground if necessary.

This whole tariff narrative is based on upside down thinking where obtaining material goods somehow constitutes a liability. Are we really that far detached from reality that these memes have legs? I guess so!

Yearning to go back to some idyllic past when there was more scarcity is not going to save us, rather it's just going to destroy our own country. The only way forward is positive government action to mitigate the corrosive economic effects of abundance, especially the fast-forwarded abundance from having the world reserve currency.

The government has been dropping the ball on doing anything to meaningfully address this for the past several decades - instead being beholden to the disingenuous calls for "fiscal responsibility" of "fiscal conservatism", which have resulted in anything but responsible or conservative behavior. Rather the same new money has all still been created - it has just been handed to banks to create asset bubbles rather than being used purposefully to mitigate the economic damage.
Sort of like asking a non-deterministic human to help make changes to an existing computer system. Extends the problems of human team management to our technology systems.
If this were a goal, the USA would not want to push other countries into China's sphere of influence. The simpler explanation is that non-tariff taxes require congress and are not fully under control of the executive branch. This allows the executive branch to seize the power of the purse.
Anything stored in secure storage would also be wiped.

Apple Pay cards and so forth, anything with 2FA codes, in Sweden we use "BankID" which is largely using a private key in secure storage and a pin to "sign" and "identify" people, you would be destroying those things in an unrecoverable way.

Also, restoring a phone takes a seriously long time (8-10hrs?) and some things might not restore. Music you might have saved for example.

Also, your restore process might be using the internet (which is also an issue), but if it's not: then you're bringing your backups with you most likely, so they're forfeit.
That is pretty much what jails are in FreeBSD, especially thin jails.
Entering with a completely clean phone is suspicious. To any border patrol agent intent on abusing their power, that screams "I'm trying to hide something and want to be detained for an unspecified amount of time".

If you're trying to protect your data, probably better to set up a secondary, plaubile profile, and restore from backup after crossing the border. Or to take a burner phone and buy a completely new one inside the US after crossing.
The `(if -> then; else)` syntax introduces a cut, which I found hides possible solutions.
It's explicitly against the site guidelines to post like this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

It's particularly bad when internet users invoke these tropes to hound commenters with minority backgrounds out of a discussion. This has happened more than once on HN in the past, which is particularly shameful and totally against the desired spirit of the site.

I gather from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632625 that it wasn't your intention, but this is what gets communicated by comments like the parent, whether intended or not. These effects happen all too easily, so we need to guard against them, which is why we have that guideline.

(I'm not taking sides for or against any country or position on a topic. This is about HN being a welcoming place for people of all backgrounds.)
Hmm, I’ve pretty much never experienced a bug in JetBrains products.

They’re one of the few products that just amazes me with how robust it is. Often, it will tell me I have issues before I even know about them (e.g my runtime is incorrect) and offer 1-click fixes.
It's like deciding between Assembly or C for some given project.
> the last genocide was at least a few decades in the past

When was that? Even if you exclude arguable ones there has not been a period of decades without a genocide for a very long time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides#List
Even Navarro (or is it that other guy who's name refuses to stick in my brain) that admits that the jobs they want to take out of China (screwing in many tiny screws) will not be jobs in the US but automated factories. So it's not a jobs program they are pushing. It's having manufacturing on local soil and less money going offshore. This is not something they mentioned during the campaign, but are saying it now. During the campaign it was all about those manufacturing jobs.
sudo arch-chroot .

This is now my default tool setting up raspberry like computers.
And since when the US has a “job availability” problem? Unemployment is low. We have a jobs quality problem. Good pay, good hours, benefits. It doesn’t matter if it’s manufacturing or services.

Somehow some people think their parents had it easier working for a factory, but a lot of blood and sweat went to get that. We can shed blood and sweat to get better barista jobs too. It’s not about where jobs are performed.
Tariffs are also revenue. It just moves the revenue from income taxes, which can affect the rich if they have incompetent accountants, to consumption taxes, which affect predominantly the poors and middle class.

Tariffs are a tax levied on American consumers, not on foreign governments. Using them to decrease income taxes on the rich is something only an out-of-touch millionaire could dream up. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!
“it wasn't a NIMBY vs YIMBY thing -- both wanted development”

This distinction isnt the most important point here but this is very much NIMBY-ism. Blocking a development because the community has different opinions about what should be built, particularly opinions they don’t want to fund via their tax dollars is basically textbook NIMBY-ism.
This is the reality, unfortunately.

Lots of jobs that focus on communication and data organization are out the window, including recruiters.
Bingo -- analysts of Trump are way too overeager to attribute "4D Chess" super analytics driven goals to Trump.

In reality, he's doing exactly what is on the tin: reducing tariffs, and doing what he wants to do, because he feels like it.
The ACLU has authoritative advice [1]. The article about electronic device searches [2] explains that the government claims the right to search devices without a warrant at the border.

> U.S. citizens cannot be denied entry to the United States for refusing to provide passwords or unlocking devices. Refusal to do so might lead to delay, additional questioning, and/or officers seizing your device for further inspection. [...] If an officer searches and/or confiscates your laptop or cell phone, get a receipt for your property.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encounter...

[2]: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/can-border-agen...
It's definitely really fucking windy.

I saw my fastest-ever level ground speed near Bowling Green, OH, in the next county north of the rail car tipping. (Full disclosure: I'm not much of a cyclist.) Riding directly into the wind for 30 minutes was grueling but sailing back at 30+ MPH, barely pedaling, was a ton of fun.
I don't even know if eventually we'll hit an equilibrium.

The end of Moore's law pretty much dictates specialization, it's just more apparent in fields without as much ossification first.
Where do you get the list of products?
This is not practical advice either. US Customs will happily open your package and go through it for "inspection"
Should security be part of the protocol? Both the host and the client should make sure to sanitize the data. How else would you trust a model to be passing "safe" data to the client and the host to pass "safe" data to the LLM?
I'm not GP, but if I were to hazard a guess, they want something more than just mount space isolation. Something akin to BSD jails, without the bells and whistles of OCI containers like overlay filesystem, network virtualization, resource management, etc.

That requirement is pretty legitimate, since its easier and suitable enough for many applications for which we currently use OCI containers. For example, isolated builds, development environments, sandboxes etc. (I have an isolated build tool for Gentoo).

But Linux already has multiple solutions that fit the bill, like systemd-nspawn, LXC, bubblewrap, etc. Too bad, they aren't as widely known as chroot.
Anthropic is using Google TPUs. Also jointly working with Amazon on a data center using Amazon's custom AI chips. Also Google and Amazon are both investors in Anthropic.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-chips/ai-sta...

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/03/2024/amazon-announces-...
I believe the real architect of the strategy is Ron Vara [0]

[0] In case you didn't know Run Vara is a fake economist that Navarro made up in his books and memos to justify his own deeply flawed policies.
Author is explaining react server components in a colorful style.

They aren't reinventing or proposing anything new.

Most of the complaints in the comments here are probably due to author not saying "hey we're going to pretend to invent RSC so you get how it works, hop in"
[Apologies: I mistook the context with my original reply and just realized that]

GP suggested Deloitte and Accenture. They do offer technical consulting services but really as an afterthought specializing in accounting and business consulting. Thoughtworks (home to Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Zhamak Dehghani and so many more) is far more savvy, had been a far better presence in the industry, and has more highly skilled people. I am a bit partial but with reason.
> So there is cope instead of coming to terms that this man is single handedly destroying the economy and their future.

Now I'm imagining new posters in the style of Obama's Hope but with Trump and Cope underneath
yup! FreeBSD jails are essentially what OP wants with chroot++.

I was pretty puzzled when Docker and LXC came around as this whole new thing believed to have "never been done before"; FreeBSD had supported a very similar concept for years before security groups were added in Linux.

Jails and ezjail were stellar to make mini no-overhead containers when running various services on a server. Being able to archive them and expand them on a new machine was also pretty cool (as long as the BSD version was the same.)
There is!

arch-chroot [1], despite its name pretty much does all the `mount -t proc` stuff the post says. It's also available on other distros like debian [2]. I have used it in the past to chroot into fedora as well.

[1] https://man.archlinux.org/man/arch-chroot.8
[2] https://packages.debian.org/arch-install-scripts
but at the end of the day MCP is HTTP lol
While maybe a fun exercise, I definitely don't expect (or require) such a recommendation from a product-ranking AI.
> sudo mkdir /rescue/boot

> sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /rescue/boot

This is a little extra. What you can generally do is immediatelly after chroot just run 'mount -a' to mount everything from the chroot's fstab. The empty `/boot` probably already exists.
No, Just say January 19th is a leap year.
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How we learned to stop worrying and love the AI (in coding interviews)
These are structured results from explicitly asking the LLM for a ranking in the given category, and we provide guidance in the prompt telling the LLM to 'use best judgment' when the topic doesn't clearly include products.

Also we include the 'key features' from each answer - you can see this by clicking the cell containing the rank (e.g. '1st' in the Anthropic column)

In this case, Anthropic said of 'Death during sleep':

Anthropic Analysis for Death During Sleep

Painless and unaware experience
No anticipatory anxiety
Common with certain cardiac conditions
Often described as 'peaceful'
No suffering
Your country exchanges this information with the US, and the other five eyes countries. So it is even worse than just US CBP employees eyeing it.
>suspects that the US National Security Agency (NSA) might have backdoor access into Microsoft's software

I thought it was confirmed that they have backdoors in MS software.
If you want to know more about nroff (which is what man calls when you want text output, I believe), then you could e.g. read https://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/doc/coherent/manual/pd..., or https://www.quut.com/berlin/ms/troff.html. It's terse, like nroff itself.

I think people tried to convert man pages by redefining the macros and then let nroff produce the output.
> plenty of people saw this coming

But as a percentage of smart people, it's miniscule. And people can get things right for the wrong reasons. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as they say.

> The smartest businessmen did think it was coming

Prove it. Show us the list of smartest businessmen according to some independent metric in 2024, and then show me how many of them shorted the market because the saw tariffs coming at these levels, because that would be the obvious action to make tons of money.

Unless you can do that, you're retroactively defining "smartest" by this one issue, and hindsight is 20/20 as we all know...

Because the market reaction already proves that the smart money hadn't priced this in. You're the one who needs to demonstrate the contrary here.
> poor country like Brazil

You can say several bad things about Brazil, but it being poor is not one of them.

> The reason?

A friend that worked in banks in Brazil and Canada thinks that it may be because Brazilian banks went digital later, so it was easier to implement more modern features.

This is, banks that went digital earlier stuck with older technologies because them just worked.

In the opposite way: Japan. It was a futuristic country in the past but now they still use fax and recently abandoned floppy disks
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism
Ah then it’s regional. In SF it’s typically 30% more expensive in a taxi from the airport to 4th and king.
Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython
About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record
https://archive.is/OH3ma
That's not quite right. MCP can run over http, but it doesn't have to.
See how they didn't choose lawyers, bankers, or government civil servants?

Analysts, digital artists, customer service support and journalists of all levels have already been replaced.

Software engineers (of all levels) are the next knowledge workers to be replaced by agents.
Firebase Studio and agentic developer tools to build with Gemini
It just took a while for Russia to get their stooge in place.
First open-source MRI scanner presented: the OSI² ONE (2023)
An on-demand v5e-1 is $1.2/h, it's pretty accessible.

The challenge is getting them to run efficiently, which typically involves learning JAX.
Solar actually runs into inverter problems by year 10. Roof needs to be redone maybe year 20 if you installed with a new roof.

The back up generator is really compared against the energy storage asset and not the solar array. On a multi-day/weeklong winter grid failure generator is a much safer asset to have to protect the home - even including your loss equation.
> But the point isn’t to hurt China, it’s to reduce US dependence on China.

If the point is to reduce dependence on China, why is Trump starting a trade war with everyone? Also, as many people have pointed out, there's little point in applying tariffs without also providing some kind of boost to the relevant industries - this is just hooliganism by Trump.
No one ever broke the laws of thermodynamics. What is this garbage writing?
I'm curious as to why that is. A few months ago I took a taxi from the airport in Austin (because I had neglected to book my Uber/Lyft before I got to the rideshare area and there was a significant wait) and I vowed "never again". It was about 50% more than Uber/Lyft, and everything about the experience was worse in the ways taxis have always been worse - payment is much more of a pain in the ass, you don't know how much it costs until the end, and the cab smelled.

I can wholeheartedly understand complaints about Uber and Lyft, but I don't understand at all when I sometimes see this collective amnesia about how much taxis sucked before rideshare came on the scene.
Has also been around for several decades
Seemed pretty clear to me: they not only don't pay nearly as much in taxes as local businesses but are subsidized by local taxpayers
That's my feeling too. The tariffs are just another variation for the plan to replace income tax with sales tax. You could argue tariffs are a little better because in theory they result in more jobs at home.
I am not a lawyer, though I am a US citizen.

First, it's the fourth amendment that protects against unreasonable search. Fifth amendment is protection against self-incrimination.

My understanding is that fourth amendment protections effectively do not apply at the border [1] because the border is inherently a reasonable place to search people.

In regards to being compelled to unlock your phone, CBP maintains the position [2] that in order to uphold their duties they're inherently able to compel you. Anecdotally, if you don't unlock your device, they may (a) confiscate it (and possibly apply all sorts of cracking tech to it), or (b) refuse you entry. That said, a random law firm [3] cites that you can withhold a password-based lock, but CBP can compel you to provide biometric unlocking [3].

To me, this is a case of https://xkcd.com/538/ ; you may have a legal basis to refuse, but in the current iteration of the administration I find it unlikely that it would be a positive experience if you were to stand on it. (Not that CBP is going to beat you with a pipe wrench, but if they want in your phone, they're gonna get in your phone.)

[1] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-04/19-borde...
[2] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-searc...
[3] https://borderslawfirm.com/border-search-computers/
In the video example, I am kind of baffled that LLM is being trusted to pick candidates for the role.

How much guarantee does Google's LLM/agent provide that it didn't hallucinate (read wrong info) in any of the steps including parsing job description and than matching that with profile of candidates?

I don't understand when these LLMs are presented to solve real life problems as if an LLM is like a sane person doing their job.
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Who cares how expressive it is? It hits all the core pieces of formatting you can realistically do in a terminal using syntax that is familiar to a much wider range of developers. The output is completely usable and reasonable. I'd rather use something closer to markdown than roff macro gunk that is largely irrelevant anywhere else.
I dont fully understand. The protocol uses HTTP and has a JSON schema. But there are more specifications outside of that. How do you specify those things without a new protocol? Or is the argument that you dont need to specify those things?
Can anyone comment on whether this or MCP are at all well designed? Is there any sort elegance to them? Or is it exactly what I would expect from a multi-corporation committee: lots of different ways to do the same thing, use case bloat, complicated to implement, complicated to test, etc.
the interface is light, but we're taking this in a direction to better secure/govern MCP

https://github.com/eqtylab/mcp-guardian/

https://www.eqtylab.io/blog/securing-model-context-protocol
> Also, restoring a phone takes a seriously long time (8-10hrs?) and some things might not restore

2FA is a pain to recover, but it shouldn't that _that_ long to restore a backup unless you don't have decent internet access. All of my important data and apps usually take maybe 2 hours to get back (including flashing the OS), 3 if you include 2FA recovery.

Local backups is kind of an interesting risk/reward situation. My phone usually spends most of its time downloading apps from Google Play when recovering, the data recovery itself is very quick. Just backing up the APKs (which do not contain anything interesting) would probably cut down my backup recovery time to less than half an hour. Of course, my pictures and music are all stored in self-hosted cloud services, if you care to keep a local copy then things will take longer.
great writeup! so what's the solution?

is it only use pre-vetter "Apple Store" of known good MCP integrations from well known companies, and avoid using anything else without proper review?
this is the most brilliant piece of writing i've ever seen -- reminds me of Godel, Escher, Bach.

Would love recommendations for other things like this where the style is one of discovery!! (like math textbooks that make you feel like you invented something?)
Bad timing as I think Wall Street is preoccupied at the moment.
This guy often comes here from HN, give him some Rust, Elixir, why JavaScript framework of the day sucks, and this SpacetimeDB thing!
I agree, and the reason I don't support the dynamite is precisely because I think there are less destructive ways to reshore manufacturing if we want to. The author seems to be making the opposite point, that the problem is so intractable the US must not "seek to own supply, but rather control it". (Which is clearly true for some things - it's very silly to have nonzero tariffs on coffee and bananas - but he seems to intend it more broadly than that.)
Totally fair to bring up IPv6 vs. IPv4. However, I think Tailscale’s approach might sidestep some of that pain.

Avery (Tailscale CEO) has actually written about IPv6 in the past:

- https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 (2017)
- https://tailscale.com/blog/two-internets-both-flakey (2020)

IPv6 has struggled in adoption not because it’s bad, but because it requires a full-stack cutover, from edge devices all the way to ISP infra. That’s a non-starter unless you’re doing greenfield deployments.

Tailscale, on the other hand, doesn’t need to wait for the Internet to upgrade. Their model sits on top of the existing stack, works through NATs, and focuses on "identity-first networking". They could evolve at the transport or app layer rather than rip and replacing at the network layer. That gives them way more flexibility to innovate without requiring global consensus.

Again, I don’t know what their specific plans are, but if they’re chasing something at that layer, it’s not crazy to think of it more like building a new abstraction on top of TCP/IP vs. trying to replace it.
I think the point the above poster is trying to make is that the point here is that they don't want to share the data. Instead google (and atlassian/SAP/whoever) would like to make an "open" but limiting interface mediated through their agents, such that you can never get actual access to the data, but only what they decide you get to have.

To put it bluntly, the point of creating the open interface at this level, is that you get to close off everything else.
Semantics also matter for the apropos/whatis database. Not sure how many people know about them.