skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads less like a criticism of MCP, the internal technical details of which I don't know that much about, and they make the subject of but a part of the srticle, but a general criticism of the general aspect of "protocol to allow LLM to run actions on services"

A large problem in this article stems from the fact that the LLM may take actions I do not want it to take. But there are clearly 2 types of actions the LLM can take: those I want it to take on it's own, and those I want it to take only after prompting me.

There may come a time when I want the LLM to run a business for me, but that time is not yet upon us. For now I do not even want to send an e-mail generated by AI without vetting it first.

But the author rejects the solution of simply prompting the user because "it’s easy to see why a user might fall into a pattern of auto-confirmation (or ‘YOLO-mode’) when most of their tools are harmless".

Sure, and people spend more on cards than they do with cash and more on credit cards than they do on debit cards.

But this is a psychological problem, not a technological one!
Many cases where someone is in practice functioning as a full-time employee are legally employment relationships according to both US and EU law even if the contract and payroll procedures say otherwise, and even if the contractual relationship is directly between a US entity and a worker in the EU. This includes whatever employment rights are supposed to exist, for the number of employees (whether or not misclassified as independent contractors) the company has in that country under its national employment laws.

Lots of US tech companies like to pretend otherwise, but a complaint or two from the misclassified employee can create plenty of pain for the employer for lying to both the US and foreign governments about the genuine nature of the relationship. And these penalties generally go not to the employee but to the employer, since the noncompliance is generally around employer tax, payroll, and reporting obligations as well as laws which are meant to protect employee rights.
The history of Chrome and Google is interesting but not very relevant for assessing their status quo. If anything you'd have to factor in the trajectory (which I did: "by now") and given its direction it certainly wouldn't improve a valuation.
Regarding your "reductive" opinion of Firefox and Mozilla, all I can say is I use Firefox and I'm quite satisfied with it. Ironically, the worst part about Mozilla and its business decisions can be traced back to it being funded by ... Google.
A statement on the value of vocabulary, perhaps.
What a waste of a comment. Low salaries typically imply finding a job is easier, because more potential employers can afford to pay you. Can you add any kind of evidence, argument, anything? Saying "fact" after an armchair guess does not make it one.
I also have a family. I’ve managed to support my family across those 10 jobs. I need a job to support my family. But my duty is stay *employable”.
Good post in general - a question though.

"But we can go even further. How about household appliances? The fact that nearly every US home has a dishwasher and washing machine and dryer means far more Americans are able to work further increasing productive US output than without this “consumption”."

So what is the US currently producing? Software yes... and then?*

I know you produce other things as well, but from a growth perspective.. Whats driving your GDP?
This feels like a net negative result. It removes some of the complexity of using generics, but it couples between the data type and the collections it can be indexed by.

What are the benefits of this approach? Is it limited to data alignment, or is it out of a greater desire to remove generics?
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You have to pass the field name too ("node").
All the training data contains 'e's.
For some reason Google's early large acquisitions were amazing, but its later large acquisitions have not been. YouTube and DoubleClick were absolutely key to Google. And Nest seems pretty critical until you notice that Google is slowly letting its lead in home automation slip the last 5 years or so - I guess a strategy shift occurred?

But HTC, Motorola, Waze, Fitbit were definitely not amazing. All sort of died within Google. I guess Waze might have been an acquisition to just keep it from competing, so it was destined to die a slow death.

I'd say the jury is out on Mandiant.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/google-biggest-acquisiti...
I think the more important question here is: What operations would you possibly want to do with a linked list that are generic and at the same time do something with the concrete data in it?

To me these complaints sound like hypotheticals with no sound grounding in the real world. If there indeed is data that is common to the various types you would want to operate upon in such linked lists, you would nest. E.g. you would have some common Entity struct containing the common data and the LinkedList.Node; this Entity would then be inside your more concrete structs. The generic function would then take a pointer to Entity.
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Very hard to tell which way causality goes on that though.
Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in fake news assessment?
There is an equal unit of trouble per each unit of "progress"
It suck shit up
Wouldn't that then make those people developers? The total pool of developers would grow, the percentage couldn't go above 100%.
Vienna? I remember when it was considered suicidal to even go on the road with your bicycle there, atleast from what the locals told me haha.

As a Dutch person though, I see no safety issues in this picture :P
On my morning commute people would be side by side on that lane, with two more people on the outside trying to overtake each other, relying on the cars to avoid them haha
The article's headline is misleading, in that it suggests the price hike is directly caused by the tariffs rather than by their secondary effects.

The PS5 is made in Japan and China, and so why would the UK retail price increase as a result of import tariffs in the US?

The real reason for the price hike is further down.

> The company cited “a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates” behind its decision to increase the retail price of the PS5 in some markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania.
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Yes and no, as it is a difficult process because employer needs to prove it is not their fault that employee is not performing. To begin with you need to collect data over time, so pip is kind of a choice you’d go through to start collecting detailed info, then it might be that a simple course could help solve this if it is a knowledge based issue, then maybe there is another job in the company the employee could switch to, etc. Without any doubt employers do not like the process, it is easier to eliminate positions instead because it is not technically firing.
It doesn't make sense for a middleman like booking.com to let you completely bypass everything they offer.

However it certainly might make sense for an individual hotel to let you bypass the booking.com middleman (a middleman that the hotel dislikes already).

Scenario 1: You logon to booking.com, deal with a beg to join a subscription service (?), block hundreds of ads and trackers, just to search searching through page after page of slop trying to find a matching hotel. You find it, go to the hotels actual webpage and book there, saving a little bit of money.

Scenario 2: You ask your favorite Deep Research AI (maybe they've come up with Diligent Assistant mode) to scan for Thai hotels meeting your specific criteria (similar to the search filters you entered on booking.com) and your AI reaches out to Hotel Discovery MCP servers run by hotels, picks a few matches, and returns them to you with a suggestion. You review the results and select one. The AI agent points out some helpful deals and rewards programs that might apply. Your AI completes the booking.

The value that AI gave you is you no longer did the searching, dealt with the middleman, viewed the ads, got begged to join a subscription service, etc.

However to the hotel, they already don't really like booking.com middleman. They already strongly prefer you book directly with them and give you extra benefits for doing so. From the hotel's perspective, the AI middleman is cheaper to them than booking.com and still preserves the direct business relationship.
Where do you draw the line ? The top causes of death can be summed up by "eating shit and not exercising enough", do you want to enforce these too ? Bicycle accidents caused by mechanical failure are less than a drop in the ocean
> The main reason I think Asia/Australia/NZ etc are an important missing link for the global startup ecosystem is that there's a big gap from 5pm to 2am SF time where no one is working. That's a 9 hour gap where bugs can be fixed, support can be given, and features can be shipped.

This requires a very mature org that has a really strong culture of clear, written communication. Not very common, IME.
I wonder if the adult kids of some Docker execs own Macs, and they make it. Why on Earth make this not for the larger installed OSes, you know, the ones running Docker in production?
I think a pretty good example would be: how do you write a map function? Or filter, find, etc.

(You would do it with more comptime, but the question is legitimate!)
For sure. For me, searching is learning. I think, there is not only one exact answer to my question. Also because I am not asking my question absolutely correctly, as such precision would take a lot of time.
So while reading through the list of possible answers I often develop ideas and/or paths that lead to a possible solution. This is good for my fantasy and for future structuring of my search processes or research considerations. I also occasionally have the opportunity to discover information that is important for my other projects e.g. some days ago I searched for a group of software-filters that find borders in groups of pixels where the pixels build more a soft cloud than a separation between rock and water. I found a company - Tempus AI - that developed a successful working medical AI...so I bought this share...
Well you clearly do not know what you are talking about.

That's grade A hash your smoking, not the cheap stuff but the premium 5th Generation Warfare propaganda. Its vile, and without any rational basis.

You misunderstand critical things, and are quite wrong if you actually believe this trite garbage.

A narrative doesn't put people into a trance (i.e they're hypnotized).

Torture through its elements, structuring, and clustering puts people into an involuntary hypnotic state, the same now as it did back during Mao. Evil people have made the science to do this simple, to do to any one anywhere without them largely knowing.

The goal is to break people mentally where they are no longer capable of rational thought, which prevents them from holding their leaders to account among other things.

Cognitive capacity is reduced as a simple matter of exposure to the psychological stresses induced by torture, prior to psychological break.

When you get more than 2/3 of the population broken, bad things happen.

If I were to put it in real terms for you, at that point you have made an existential threat with a nuclear power, and even worse... there is a very real possibility that the person deciding whether to push that button or not and end everything has a mental break, with a great chance at it falling into the second group of psychosis seeking annihilation; in other words you have induced that powerful person to become an insane person, with their hand on the button, who will then press it because they aren't in their right mind because you've made it so.

It doesn't matter if the threat China poses is real, people near psychotic breaks jump at shadows, and it doesn't matter if this was done indirectly either.
It is also becoming pretty clear that setting up the dynamics where you fail to seize power under communism causes failures to Fascism, creating these problems as well.

This is what blind delusional evil people fail to see.
They don't think through the sequence of actions they put into motion with any kind of objectivity just because something is unthinkable.

The people pushing narratives like what you suggest, are the same people torturing everyone. The outcomes show they want only one thing, all life on the planet to be dead, yourself included.

If you look carefully at who did what historically to push this forward, the trends are clear, and the delusional court disaster until they no longer can. Its a fundamental disadvantage they have, that willful self-induced blindness to reality.

You really need to develop your skills in breaking down false narratives and discard them rather than accept it as truth. Lest you want to join them in their endeavor to destroy everyone and everything anyone cares about.
This is a vulnerability in the same sense as someone committing a secret key in the front end.

And for enterprise, they have many tools to scan vulnerability and malicious code before going to production.
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> Despite employing a stronger reflection manipulation in contrast to past research, we failed to replicate the mitigating effect of the reflection on the acceptance of fake news. We observed that reflection reduced Democrats’ willingness to spread fake news, yet it did not affect Republicans.
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It might be to prevent bot usage. I wouldn’t feel comfortable giving my personal identification information to an AI company that is fed with data.
Yes we agree.

The Playstation is already more expensive in the EU than the US (including VAT)

It is deeply unfair for the citizen of Greece, Cyprus or Portugal who are quite "poor" relative to the US.

So now Greek people have to subsidize even more the Playstation for Americans?

It is absurd and it is even more disturbing because we can't even blame politicians for this, it is solely a decision of Sony.
It's not so straightforward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305476
I dont understand. Common people buy into credit card debt because its easy. Interest rates be damned.

Supreme court of India stayed earlier decision of another authority to impose cap of interest rate at 36% saying free market.

This might be true for institutions and governments but many people dont decide to save if interest goes from 8 to 8.5%
Now, my toy programming languages all share the same "ensureCharLegal" function in their lexers that's called on every single character in the input (including those inside the literal strings) that filters out all those characters, plus all control characters (except the LF), and also something else that I can't remember right now... some weird space-like characters, I think?

Nothing really stops the non-toy programming and configuration languages from adopting the same approach except from the fact that someone has to think about it and then implement it.
8 of them on the cover!
Must admit I don’t quite understand how people connect to these things like that.

To me it just feels super hollow since the companion has no independent life. Simple human interactions like “how was your day” has no meaning in that context. It just echos back what you’re bringing up with little to no autonomous agency
This seems to be in a similar vein to constructor theory / assembly theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory
> It's always bothered me that Apple has so little backwards compatibility.

So little? macOS Sequoia is compatible with Macs that are over seven years old [1], macOS Sonoma goes back to 2017 [2].

At that point, it doesn't make much sense for anyone to still be operating these things in a production setting because of power efficiency and lack of RAM - and all Intel macOS machines can be used with even the most cutting-edge Linux distributions anyway if you wish to further extend their service life. If you need a modern Windows though, you'll most likely want to go via a hypervisor because of TPM concerns.

The old PPC clankers, it's a miracle the hardware is still running and they haven't died from bad capacitors, Soldergate or whatever in the time.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/120282

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/105113
> 16:9 is a stupid aspect ratio for a computer monitor if you work mostly with text.

Why? I also usually use it with three columns of text, and it works well at that aspect ratio.
That's very cool...I don't get the "maths"'s Commonwealth style, do you have any links to enlighten me?
> Steel failed the most, especially after many years (+30) of service.

Congratulations on reaching your 90th birthday!
> The bigger problem came from apps that threw null point exceptions on startup when probing for google play crap.
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> The following failed for at least one week over a two month period: parkmobile, multiple ev charging networks, uber, lyft, yelp.
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> Is this still an issue, or are things more reliable these days? (Ignoring the Google integrity stuff.)

These apps have worked reliability since our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer added support for them in 2021. There wasn't a time period where these apps weren't compatible with GrapheneOS after they initially became supported. That was a problem with your setup, but there's no way to figure out what was wrong at this point. Updating sandboxed Google Play without keeping the OS updated is not supported. If you fell significantly behind on updates but were still getting sandboxed Google Play updates, that would explain why things broke. We sometimes gate those updates. We do keep things working for legacy extended support devices, but whether people are on a fully supported device or a legacy one they're expected to keep the OS updated. We don't keep compatibility with old OS versions indefinitely. Disabling the Network permission for sandboxed Google Play services or sandboxed Google Play Store is another possible cause. Regardless of the cause, that's not at all normal and doesn't reflect a typical experience.

> I noticed that GrapheneOS got more than 2x Google’s advertised battery life until I installed Google Play Services in a sandbox.

GrapheneOS will still tend to get better battery life with the same apps installed by the user unless you install a bunch of other Google apps to match the stock Pixel OS out-of-the-box experience. It's easy to make battery life worse by having multiple push messaging systems running at the same time though. Installing sandboxed Google Play in 2 separate profiles you always keep active could easily have worse battery life than the stock Pixel OS since it's 2 whole separate isolated instances of it vs. the stock Pixel OS having them built into the OS as highly privileged cross-profile system services.
Congratulations. I tried it and "Resume Score" makes sense.
"Zoogler". But it's used more in writing, you'd probably use "ex-Googler" when speaking instead.
Sounds like a simple code change would have solved this: if a post has ever been stickied, it shouldn't be able to hit /r/all.
Ouch, I wouldn’t want to bike down that on a busy afternoon.

My US city has been buying abandoned rail lines and creating biking/walking path instead. I like being away from the streets. Some streets have a barrier that protects the bike lanes and I prefer those with my kids in tow.

Abandoned industrial rail line:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PiLfp1DkE3By4gkL7
“Kiss and make out” is a fantastic malaphor
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Katy Perry, Gayle King and 4 other women are headed for the 'edge of space.'
Can you explain more? The tariffs hit other country's stock markets harder than the USA's, as the trade represents a significant portion of a country's GDP.

I guess the answer is to diversify away from the USA trade? But then to what?
Zig has no desire to remove comptime AFAIK (comptime being the larger Zig feature by which people implement generics in the language) — comptime is pretty much the reason to use Zig.

The benefits of intrusive linked lists are higher performance; you can use comptime to still have decoupled code.
That's called reckless driving.

Selfish and entitled behavior like that makes my blood boil.
> This highlights an opportunity for organizations to better support their developers’ interest in AI tools, considering local regulations.

This is a funny one to see included in GitHub's report. If I'm not mistaken, github is now using the same approach as Shoplify with regards to requiring LLM use and including it as part of a self report survey for annual review.

I guess they took their 2024 survey to heart and are ready to 100x productivity.
Very good way to intercept YC Startup ideas :D
I have no idea what is their playbook by reading this. I have no idea what they even do, reading this.

Maybe it's not written for me.
It's not at all unusual for intrusive linked lists though?

On AmigaOS (which is entirely built out of intrusive doubly linked list) the list node is placed at the start of a struct, so the pointer to the node is also the pointer to the linked item. There's also no 'coupling' because the list manipulation functions take pointers to the list node structs, but they don't need to know the 'outer' item struct.

Zig's @fieldParentPtr is more flexible since the node struct can be anywhere in the parent struct and you still can get from the node pointer to the item base pointer (and more importantly, it makes it trivial to link the same item into multiple linked lists).
Others have explained it already, but just to make this clear: The mass is not expressed in volts but in "electron volts" that is a different unit in the same sense as "watt hours" is a measure of energy and not time.
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Sry, what I meant to say was "No one spoke about the complete heating being broken. Heating is a basic requirement in a car imo. Remote-controllable, engine-off heating is not."
The main argument against consumption inequality is that it's suboptimal in terms of average happiness / utility / well-being. If I spend $1M per month and transfer $1k of that spending to someone who spends $1k per month, average well-being would increase.

In the US, the top 10% are responsible for 50% of consumption. This means that higher redistribution can increase the spending of the bottom 90% by X% at the cost of decreasing the spending of the top 10% by X% (assuming no decrease in total production).

Of course, redistribution has negative effects too, I don't know what level of redistribution is optimal.