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by acdha 6mo ago
There's a lot of fear in that for sure. Cars cost the average American household something like 20% of their income (for low income this can be over 30%) so a ton of people would benefit from alternatives, but most people are thinking
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by acdha 6mo ago
Yes, but that isn’t the question as long as those wealthy people control most of the system: companies aren’t going to lose executives, they’ll shed the jobs which they don’t respect. Someone wealthy does not need to accept a bad deal to av
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by acdha 6mo ago
If you read the period news, pretty much everything except lead poisoning and climate change was well known by the 1920s. Rich people wanted cars but a ton of places had resistance from everyone else to what they correctly recognized as rem
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by acdha 6mo ago
You have provided no evidence supporting that belief and brushing aside the obvious challenges makes it hard to believe you have done the math. I’d also note that if this was actually true, it would be more surprising that they didn’t have
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by acdha 6mo ago
Reagan halted antitrust enforcement and nobody fixed it, so they were allowed to own controlling stakes in several industries and freeze out competitors. They get exclusives with bands, agencies, venues, and promotions so at each point anyo
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by acdha 6mo ago
This only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.
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by acdha 6mo ago
Contracting IT services at that level overpays by a whole number multiple for worse results because the government doesn’t have the in-house expertise to tell when the contractor is doing something wrong. (This is one reason why many constr
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by acdha 6mo ago
If it’s “100% false”, I’d think you could have addressed the point. Do you think that H1-Bs have had the same negotiating power as permanent residents and citizens? Do you think that companies-especially the huge contractors and enterprise
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by acdha 6mo ago
How many “best in the world” people are we talking about, though? Based on what I’ve seen that’s a very small percentage (maybe 5%) while the rest were being hired by companies who valued having workers with limited negotiating power. (I’m
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by acdha 6mo ago
This was a weird piece because it starts with a focus on averages, cherry-picks the numbers to leave out cheaper options, and misses the main story: those cheaper options are less common now because Americans started spending more to buy bi
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by acdha 6mo ago
Different URL, same domain, and exactly the kind of thing I’d expect a fair number of HN readers to have in a feed reader where they’d see it shortly after publication and decide to share it. Also, if you think this is just “LLM is bad”, I
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by acdha 6mo ago
Yes, I’m aware. I have no love for the Iranian regime and would cheer their collapse if it lead to something better. However, bombing civilians will not make friends in general and in this case doing so on behalf of Israel is a gift to the
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by acdha 6mo ago
That’s unsurprising given the author’s long history in the tech community. A ton of people see that domain and upvote.
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by acdha 6mo ago
> It's true not every single IRGC member or leader can be bombed out of existence. But many can. In the last half century, we tried that in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran. When is it going to start working? The problem is
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by acdha 6mo ago
> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right. That’s like saying we don’t need minimum wage or unions because companies choosing to treat workers with respect is also a possible outcome. It’s tech
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by acdha 6mo ago
I’m expecting a lot of things like that similar to the 2000s blog boom, only to see it whither even more quickly as the AI companies switch to value extraction mode. You’re really exposed if one company you don’t even have a contract with c
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by acdha 6mo ago
Isn’t that their defense against responsibility for their customers’ content? Having some broad filtering for legal requirements or scams is one thing but if they’re doing this it seems like support for cases alleging that they have editori
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by acdha 6mo ago
Not having an official account doesn’t mean that people are blocked from talking about EFF, only that it’ll happen by directing attention towards their website. URLs still work great for letting people talk, but there is a real question abo
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by acdha 7mo ago
> But China can offer even less protection than the US can. I think a lot of those states are wondering how much protection they’d need if we weren’t based there and drawing fire. China can offer economic stability and sales of modern mi
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by acdha 7mo ago
Hegseth didn’t help matters at all but the problem started at the top. In past administrations, the various people leading the military & State would’ve pushed back against Netanyahu/Graham’s sales pitch that it’d be an easy war, i
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by acdha 7mo ago
The Iranian government is terrible, but that doesn’t mean that the U.S. relationship with the gulf states isn’t worse off than in February. The United States made our alignment with Israel hard to ignore and was significantly unable to prot
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by acdha 7mo ago
What they didn’t have until last month. If this ends with Iran being able to tax shipping, it’s a major change.
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by acdha 7mo ago
Carlini talked about that a fair amount in the context of pairing the two: e.g. many protocols are challenging for fuzzers because they have something like a checksum or signature but LLMs are good at coming up with harnesses for things lik
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by acdha 7mo ago
One of the things I’ve been wanting to see is basically an estimate of their minimum revenue to meet investor expectations, too. I’ve heard people talking about using even cheaper local models aggressively to save on tokens and it increasin
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by acdha 7mo ago
This is a weird response to the argument that things should be in appropriate ranges.
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by acdha 7mo ago
This isn’t unexpected for anyone in the actual military: they’ve planned for this for decades. A couple of friends served in the previous war and they mentioned that this is what their training exercises were like: same enemy, same difficul
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by acdha 7mo ago
To the extent that this is true, it’s irrelevant: your body has many things which need to be within certain ranges for health. Salt, water, oxygen, etc. are all vital but too much or too little will make you dangerously ill.
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by acdha 7mo ago
You definitely got wiser—we all do—but I think there’s also a big shift in both what they think they can say safely in public and the sycophantic reinforcement they get on social media. Rich guys have always had that problem to some extent
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by acdha 7mo ago
I thought that about GCP until I used it more seriously and kept running into issues where they didn’t have some feature AWS had had for ages, and our Google engineers kept saying the answer was to run your own service in Kubernetes rather
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by acdha 7mo ago
I strongly believe in paying journalists but I started blocking ads after nytimes.com served me a Windows malware download from a Doubleclick domain. It couldn’t have harmed my Mac but it was clear that the adtech industry had no interest i

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