skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate your perspective. To be clear, I'm using it to become a better small game developer and not relying on it to answer anything I would classify as an "important question". Moreover, I don't take everything AI tells me to be 100% accurate (and I never copy/paste the response). Rather, I use it as an assistant with which I can have a back and forth "conversation" to acquire other perspectives.

Despite a lot of effort, I'm just not a highly skilled developer and I don't have any friends / colleagues I can turn to for assistance (I don't know a single software developer or even another person who enjoys video games). While resources like StackOverflow are certainly useful, having answers tailored to my specific situation really accelerates progress.

I'm not trying to cure cancer here and much of what would be considered the "best approach" for a small game architecture is unique to the developer. As such, AI is an incredible resource to lean on and get information tailored to my unique use case (here is my code...how does {topic} apply to my situation?")

And yes, I find errors from time to time, but that is good. It keeps me on my toes and forces me to really understand the response / perspective.
I think the point being made is that under Trump's plan (repatriate production) China is MORE likely to invade Taiwan than before. Under the current situation China is LESS likely to invade Taiwan BECAUSE they rely on selling stuff to the USA. Once that reliance is gone, there are less negative consequences for China if they choose to invade Taiwan.
Yes, maybe, but there is a lot of noise and conflicts of interest.
It is the "we copied this snippet from stack overflow without understanding it" problem, except turned up to incredibly high volumes
The market cares about dollar returned vs dollar-x-time invested. A shoe sits on a shelf until it is sold. If it costs 1.5 times as much to stock a store with shoes, then you need to earn 1.5 times as much money after the same time-delay.

Think in the extreme. $1 billion can probably earn more in a saving account than as a shoe that generates $50 profit after 2 weeks.
Unsure why you're getting downvoted, perhaps because you used the fear-inducing d-word. While I'm not at the point of calling him that, I do think we're certainly living with the illusion of a democracy at the moment.

Ultimately, whoever has the guns makes the rules. This is why coups often happen via military takeover. If Congress were to decide they finally wanted to act as a check against the administration, what's to happen?

Playing through a thought-experiment on this:

- Congress decides to limit Executive

- Executive refuses

- Courts intervene

- Executive appeals

- Supreme Court issues opinion targeting narrow aspect of intervention and kicks it back to lower court to reconsider based on opinion

- Courts... reject Executive again? (one can hope)

- Executive appeals

- Supreme Court forced to issue ruling against Executive (one can hope)

Meanwhile, weeks/months have passed and Executive would've already established this use of power as the "norm". Realistically, what happens at this point? Does the Executive just accept the loss? _This_ Executive in _this_ environment?

I dare not hope that much lest I lose sight of the difference between fantasy and reality.
professor here. i set up a website to host openwebui to use in my b-school courses (UG and grad). the only way i've found to get students to stop using it to cheat is to push them to use it until they learn for themselves that it doesn't answer everything correctly. this requires careful thoughtful assignment redesign. everytime i grade a submission with the hallmarks of ai-generation, i always find that it fails to cite content from the course and shows a lack of depth. so, i give them the grade they earn. so much hand wringing about using ai to cheat... just uphold the standards. if they are so low that ai can easily game them, that's on the instructor.
It's just a sales tax. I don't know why people opposing tariffs never talk about them in this manner because sales taxes are something people innately understand if they have spent any time in the US and "tariffs" clearly aren't as well understood.
MCP is a capabilities protocol which uses multiple transport protocols, including HTTP.
Bank of England says AI software could create market crisis for profit
I picked that as a random example, but yeah. We all have brands that we think of as "the" canonical version of that thing. There are certain chili powders I prefer. Certain spaghetti sauces. Certain grape jellies. Certain barbeque sauces. The others aren't bad. They're also generally high quality items. It's just that they're different from what my mouth expects.
CS/CE undergrad here who entered university right when ChatGPT hit. Things are bad at my large state school.

People who spent the past two years offloading their entry-level work onto LLMs are now taking 400-level systems programming courses and running face-first into a capability wall. I try my best to help, but there's only so much I can do when basic concepts like structs and pointer manipulation get blank stares.

> "Oh, the foo field in that struct should be signed instead of unsigned."

< "Struct?"

> "Yeah, the type definition of Bar? It's right there."

< "Man, I had ChatGPT write this code."

> "..."
Common sense is suspending US travel. I did that last month.
Open Source: A capitalistic value engine
Yes that's right. The manufacturing cost in the US would have to be $46 or less to undercut the import. So ignoring tax changes, something like...

A Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)
Can you show us a log from when you gave an LLM a scheduling problem or something and it decided to solve it with Prolog or Z3 or something?
Almost everyone reading this doesn't need to worry about this. And if you are one of the few that do need to worry - just don't travel to the US for now.
AI Is Evolving – and Changing Our Understanding of Intelligence
Paging Charles Stross :)
Agreed. I'd go so far as to say that the compensation/job quality balance has been out-of-wack for years. It has never been about skill, either, but leverage. And even "unskilled" workers can conjure leverage by creating chokepoints that they can toll, if they're able to organize and hold out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604145
Absolutely! I work in Elixir and I feel very good about its tradeoffs - and a lot of being good with the tool is knowing when to not use it. This tech is very much out of my wheelhouse but it seems very cool and I hope y'all find a nice fit!
It feels far more efficient for Chinese exporters to set up intermediary companies / warehouses in the US (which many already have, for the most part), call the value of their physical products something like 10% of the retail value (leaving out the cost of consumer sales, marketing, customer service, warranty replacements, imaginary property, etc), pay the tariffs on that 10%, and call it a day. The US is pathologically friendly to foreign investment and I doubt Trump is going to be taking aim at that (lol).
> I have played a lot of (moderately high level) 1v1 tetris and I would have to disagree. In fact I often felt that the reverse is true - if I felt I died to garbage hole RNG, really that meant I was getting out pressured and would have lost eventually anyways.

To be honest, I was never good enough for it to be a big issue, but it does seem apparent to me that it is an issue for the highest level players. I could be wrong, of course, but assuming I'm not, I think this brings up an interesting question: if it's something that you have to be so good at the game to have impact you meaningfully, does it really matter for 99.9% of players including myself who will certainly never get there? I guess the answer is probably not, but it does have a psychological impact of sorts. It definitely can make tournament outcomes feel less interesting.

So really random garbage just irks me because it seems like an unnecessary addition of RNG into an otherwise skilled game. I don't think random garbage is more fun than deterministic garbage schemes. I would suppose some people disagree.

The lack of serious interaction and a deep meta game, though... That's a bigger problem, yeah. I am not sure you can fix that while still producing something that you can really call "Tetris".

(And even when Nintendo called "Panel de Pon" "Tetris Attack" outside of Japan, I don't think it wound up having a terribly interesting interaction between players, either, despite being an entirely different game from the ground up! Still pretty fun though.)
prediction: Prompt engineering will get so complicated. There will be a movement towards somehow telling the computer exactly what to do using a logical language of some sort.
Suburbia is absolutely part of the problem
Wow, that would be really brutal. Disney in particular (which dominates the box office) relies enormously on the Chinese market. They already make a lot of artistic concessions in the hopes of appeasing Chinese censors.

That's billions of dollars lost. Many films would go from profit to loss.

Maybe we'd see an artistic upside, if they were to stop letting the Chinese box office have so much influence on their art. But it would devastate the industry, and they'd make a lot fewer movies.
Excellent example how media twists words.
> I have seen areas with just tons of boilerplate, straight forward UI stuff, basic test skeletons, etc that I guess could work with AI

The problem is that even this basic straightforward boilerplate CRUD stuff, AI is only "kind of ok" at doing
Are comfortable and repairable shoes possible and sensible from an economic point of view? Any recommendations?
Snake eats itself too as doing so closed the pipeline to get more of their necessary seniors. Never mind that the people who made that call will be retired when the talent issue rears its head in 10-15 years.
Yeah I see a lot of stuff in America where decades of single-minded optimization towards cheap & convenient has had knock-on effects that ultimately don't serve people very well, or wind up creating second order costs—like hollowing out downtowns for cheap stuff at Walmart being a big part of making car ownership a prerequisite for daily living, or the cheap and convenient food options that have precipitated a nationwide public health crisis, or the way we've constructed our built environment in a way that has seemingly left people unhappy and isolated.
I don't really understand how you would write a game server using this tech. Lets say you need to simulate physics, pathfinding, animation etc on server. How one would integrate all of this? In regular world you just use unreal/unity headless mode that includes all of this but using spacetimedb requires ditching the game engine and reimplementing everything from scratch?
> because the border is inherently a reasonable place to search people.

IIRC there is a radius around every international airport where such warrantless searches are legal.
I built https://github.com/jrz/container-shell as a simple chroot on docker. I use it for both development and sandboxing.

Besides that I have a simple script that starts an ephemeral docker with debian-full + tools.

I also have some scripts that leverage macOS's 'sandbox-exec'
>It's like if you saw a headline that some grocery stores were price fixing, so you decide it's only fair if you steal from your local grocery store.

That's a false equivalence on your part. Real equivalence would be to find out that the store decided to keep zero tills manned and forced you to do the work yourself and go the self checkout. You go do the self checkout and keep a few items extra as a form of payment for the work you did. This would be the real equivalence
This sounds like a fundamental disagreement with using ORM. Are you advocating for always writing queries (not excluding the possibility of a query builder) over treating database rows as application-side entities that can have CRUD operations performed on them / persisted?
He's trolling.
This is some weird American version of Juche, not reducing dependency on China. Can you explain the dependency reduction mechanism to me?

Just as an analogy: If you were to detonate all nuclear weapons in the US inside the US you would also reduce dependency on China. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. The path matters.
They can both store contents of your device and refuse retry.
Surely you can see that putting in $75 to make $150 for a $75 profit is significantly different than putting in $10075 to make $10150 for the same $75 profit, yes?
LLMs and Typed Configuration
Indeed. I called out the second-top category, but you could look at the top category as well:

> We found that students primarily use Claude to create and improve educational content across disciplines (39.3% of conversations). This often entailed designing practice questions, editing essays, or summarizing academic material.

Sure, throwing a paragraph of an essay at Claude and asking it to turn it into a 3-page essay could have been categorized as "editing" the essay.

And it seems pretty naked the way they lump "editing an essay" in with "designing practice questions," which are clearly very different uses, even in the most generous interpretation.

I'm not saying that the vast majority of students do use AI to cheat, but I do want to say that, if they did, you could probably write this exact same article and tell no lies, and simply sweep all the cheating under titles like "create and improve educational content."
> “Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?”

I dunno, this sounds about as tone-deaf as I was expecting. I was never taught that Nazi Germany showed signs of helping and liking the inhabitants of their concentration camps.
If your business is selling server side compute to render front end web apps on the back end, you try to convince an entire generation that it's needed.

And a few companies have been very successful in this effort.
https://archive.ph/EBlEg
Thanks for the detailed feedback — really appreciate it!

You're right that the demo relies on Google Search specifically (not DuckDuckGo), and that should probably be made even clearer in the instructions. I do mention “search Google” in step 3, but I’ll look into making that more explicit up front.

As for airplane mode: the idea is to go offline after Google has had time to prefetch the page. That’s why the instructions say to start with a stable internet connection — and the page does show a warning if you go offline too early. But I totally get how that could still be confusing, especially if it didn’t work the first time.

A tip: once you're on the "You're offline" page, wait at least 3 seconds and observe the dinosaur. Something may happen.

And good point about wanting to know what’s going on. I tried to keep the experience surprising for some users, but I see how having the technical context up front can enhance it for others. I’ll consider adding an “explain first” option in the future.

Thanks again for giving it a go!
That’s still how most Linux OS installers install. They just do that for you.

It’s still used for recovery but recovery partitions have kinda gone out of fashion as the ability to consistently boot has gotten better. Additionally, thumb drives and net boot make the partition a little less necessary.
Encouraging news. The most amusing thing is it spells the end of Fox television next time there's a Democratic president.
Well you could, with some distributed locking mechanism, but doing that right has its challenges.
Short answer is return on investment. If I get $50 on a $75 investment when I used to get it on a $50 investment, my ROI goes down. My investors are now mad. They sell their stakes and buy into a company with a better ROI. My stock price goes down and now I'm mad.
Likely because I'm asking specific Python development questions, I'm getting specific answers (and typically 2-3 variations) that I can drill down into. That response is likely different than for a more general question with a wider array of possible answers.
If it’s built in they can request you to unlock both profiles.
Oh okay. I thought you had something negative to say about thoughtworks. I’ve known a few people who worked there and thought there was some messy business i didn’t know about.
Selling shoes that you purchase wholesale for $75 has costs that go beyond selling shoes that you purchase wholesale for $50. There's the cost of money to buy the inventory, the cost of holding the inventory (and insuring it), the cost of shrinkage, the risk of being unable to sell some of that inventory. Most of those costs scale with the wholesale cost of the product being sold, although not necessarily fully linearly. As a result, a top line $50 margin on a $75 product gains you less than a $50 margin on a $50 product -- in a world with cheap capital. If you're restricted to holding $N of inventory due to cost of capital, this becomes even worse -- not only are your bottom line margins going down as much as 15%, but you're able to do it on only two thirds as much inventory, which (depending on turnover rates, etc) can drive you even lower.
Fluor is an electron stealer. Enough for me not to touch it with a ten foot pole. Besides, tooth regrowing/regeneration will be available in the next few years.
Oh, I’m in a pretty sizable town right now, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

I live in a 2001 Dodge grand Caravan and only have portable solar panels, and you’re right, I don’t know if I should call myself homeless most of the time but I’m homeless in the conventional sense where I don’t have a fixed address where I can get mail.

Thanks for the thoughts about my future, but I just don’t think about it and that’s the best thing to do for everyone I feel.
Spell check isn't really adequate. You get a page full of correctly spelled words, but they're the wrong words.
Well, if you're comparing LLMs to Google, you may be right. I find Google to be borderline worthless. But compared to other search engines, I find LLM responses to be very lacking and restrictive.
These are people who are stock market shook. I'd be looking at reducing your impact from index funds or if you were stupid enough to invest in tech stocks directly cash out now.
> Node

What's your reasoning behind this? Just being able to run the same code on frontend and backend?
That's just not how a society should work. Children should get a fair chance at life no matter how ignorant or negligent their parents are. Fluoridated water keeps teeth in mouths and students behind desks instead of missing school.
"More or less" is doing a lot of work there. School, at least where I am, still spends the first year getting children to memorize the order of the numbers from 1-20 and if there's an even or odd number of a thing on a picture.

Do you google if 5 is less than 6 or do you just memorize that?

If you believe that creativity is not based on a foundation of memorization and experience (which is just memorization) you need to reflect on the connection between those.
This is obviously false. Even 4o and o3-mini can do this.
Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" deals with the hypothetical digitization of human minds. It has some interesting ideas like some of the synthetic minds deciding to wilfully become a hivemind
Of course they are de-dollarizing, so is everyone else.
I’m probably just old, but IMO the main problem I see with Jr devs is a lack of “taste”

I don’t see AI helping
> The primary architect of trumps tariff strategy in his first and second term is Peter Navarro.

He's also a complete and utter liar. I happened to come across him speaking on Fox News when he stated that "Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels". [1] As a Canadian and as someone who isn't living in some bizarre alternate reality, I can assure you that Canada has not been taken over by cartels. The claim is insane. The fact that his interviewer did not challenge him on this insanity is unsurprising yet also insane.

I bring this up first because it made me angry, but secondly because I think it's relevant to this discussion: of course things are going to turn out badly when the architects of policy are either liars, are living in an alternate reality, or both.

1: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-adviser-insists-canada-has...
On Gentoo, it is also simple to install a completely new system in a chroot environment, even if it is intended for a computer with a different, but compatible architecture.

This is frequently very convenient if you want to install Gentoo by compiling everything from sources on a cheap and small computer, e.g. one with some Intel Atom CPU.

Instead of compiling anything on the resource-constrained computer, you install a fresh Gentoo system for it, in a chroot environment on a fast desktop computer, which supports a superset of the ISA of the small computer, so you can still execute the programs intended for the target computer.

Then you just copy the installation result over the SSD/HDD of the destination computer. If you have many identical computers, you can copy the installed Gentoo over all of them without any problems, removing the need for multiple installations.

If desired, you can keep the chroot environment with the installation result and perform any later updates on it. Then you synchronize the updated Gentoo from the chroot with the one or more target computers.
> US is still sanctioning Russia, meaning there's zero trade between US and Russia. It's illegal for US people and companies to buy from Russia.

Quoting the Trump administration:

U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. [0]

If the same formula were applied to Russia as every other country in the world, the Russian tariff would be above 40% since it's half of (3500-500)/3000 = 85.7%

[0]: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...
Thanks, people always tell me about this, but I can never find a way to do it. Do you have any links or ways to find these pieces of land? Every time I look, there’s always a catch.
Somewhat agree.

I agree in principal - the process of problem solving is the important part.

However I think LLMs make you do more of this because of what you can offload to the LLM. You can offload the simpler things. But for the complex questions that cut across multiple domains and have a lot of ambiguity? You're still going to have to sit down and think about it. Maybe once you've broken it into sufficiently smaller problems you can use the LLM.

If we're worried about abstract problem solving skills that doesnt really go away with better tools. It goes away when we arent the ones using the tools.
The article title was changed:

Would You Pay $2,000 for an iPhone? How About $3,000?

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You Should Think About Replacing Your iPhone — Now

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