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by bloppe 6mo ago
Yes, both the article and GP are making that exact point about it mattering from a customer's perspective.
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by bloppe 6mo ago
I mostly agree with this. Part of the confusion with the discourse around AI is the fact that "software engineering" can refer to tons of different things. A Next.js app is pretty different from a Kubernetes operator, which is pre
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by bloppe 7mo ago
It's much more effective and economically efficient to deal with externalized pollution costs with deposits to incentivize proper disposal. A ton of normal users will simply never bother to repair their own laptops no matter how easy i
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by bloppe 7mo ago
That's not how bonds work
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by bloppe 7mo ago
The graph should really use a log scale. At this point, a 50% drop in value would look tiny on that graph with the linear scale.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Not if the tax system is well designed
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Car safety is a bad counterexample because the risk is otherwise often externalized i.e. your car can easily hurt a total stranger whereas the consequences of your choice in laptop are strictly personal. And as GP stated, regulating this so
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I read the headline and first thought was seriously, that's it? Surely this is one of the least concerning things about the administration
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Nope, Northeast. And my French teachers spoke with a Parisian accent.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Generating big chunks of code is rarely what I want from an agent. They really shine for stuff like combing through logs or scanning dozens of source files to explain a test failure. Which benchmark covers that? I want the debugging benchma
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I've been speaking French since pre-school (albeit in North America mostly) and to me é always sounds more like the English short i (as in "tip"). I'm becoming increasingly convinced that everybody on Earth but me is wro
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by bloppe 7mo ago
It makes a lot of sense. I would also try to get my customers to do work for me if I were confident they would never churn.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Indeed, by definition, someone trying to charge for "open source" is not an open source developer. They're a for-profit developer.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
It's not about some American cultural attachment to credit cards. It's another classic Apple frustration move where they make the experience worse for their users in the hopes they'll blame someone else like the UK govt. They
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by bloppe 7mo ago
What did Sora do?
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I sure hope not, otherwise they're screwed
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by bloppe 7mo ago
A functioning economy is full of these tensions between people with divergent "desired end goals". Everybody wants high home prices when they want to sell but low home prices when their kids want to buy. Everybody wants low prices
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by bloppe 7mo ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0102M (47% increase since 2021) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0103M (26%) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU9
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I agree with all of that, but it's not representative of everybody that grew up in the VHCOL area. A slight majority of residents in the Bay Area (used as an example) own their own home. If you grew up there, and your parents owned the
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Actually, median is exactly what you want. It strips out outliers. It's the "middle of the pack" person. Mean is the one that would be skewed by outliers. And "the poor are getting poorer" is simply untrue for the l
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Trump rather likes handing out cash, as long as he can put his name on it. Maybe as long as congress agrees to call it TrumpCare.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I guess it's hard to tell until we see more long-term AI-generated project, but many of the ones we have so far (OpenClaw and OpenCode for instance) are well-known for their stability issues, and it seems "even more AI" is no
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by bloppe 7mo ago
That sucks and I hope congress gets their shit together soon, but there are a lot of non-FAANG companies that offer insurance.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
For a lot of people on HN, "making a living" means owning property in a VHCOL area.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
housing prices and health care are captured by the "real" part of "median real income". Inequality is not, but as long as everybody is getting richer, I'm less concerned about inequality.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
If you actually look at the rest of the graph, you'd quickly notice that 2 year dips are entirely normal. The overall trend is consistent. And it's risen over 5% in the last 4 years. Those are the 4 years since ChatGPT.
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Your assertion that it's "flat" is rather unconvincing after looking at that graph. It's clearly been rising relatively consistently. The dip for covid I think is especially understandable, and it's currently higher
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by bloppe 7mo ago
That's what the "real" in "median real income" means. It measures how much stuff you can buy, not how much currency you have. And it's been going up relatively reliably: https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Until I see median real income start to actually go down, I just don't buy it. AI is currently a commodity. Maybe one of the labs will be able to differentiate sufficiently to be able to charge the kinds of premiums they need just to
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by bloppe 7mo ago
I can assure you that I asked this question explicitly to the Medicaid case worker I spoke to on the phone. "Are you sure my bank account does not matter?". They said no. I don't like it either.

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