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by hintymad 2y ago
> You can simply nationalize manufacturing in critical industries I'm not sure if this works. If anything, I'm strongly against it. Below are my data points: - Chinese dynasties never managed to breed those amazing horses as Eu
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Another worry is losing talent. Industry know-how is a living being. It is symbolic with the people who actively work in an industry. On the other hand, real demand produces real talent in mass. Again and again in history, a small town or a
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Not to challenge the notion of tax but to seek an answer: what would be a better solution to the deindustrialization of the US then? China has 350X of the shipping building capacity than the US. We couldn't even produce masks fast enou
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We were lucky enough to experience explosive growth of tech industry in the past 20 years. A perk of this golden age is that one did not have to work on legacy code at all, if so we chose. Better, we got to build 0-to-1 systems[1] that coul
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Why would we trust Europe in the first place, given that they are so full of regulations and they love to suffocate innovation by introducing ever more regulations? I thought most people wanted to deregulate anyway.
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Would technical depth change the fundamental supply and demand, though? If we view AI as a powerful automation tool, it's possible that the overall demand will be lowered so much that the demand of the deep technical expertise will go
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> It's incredibly far away from doing any significant change in a mature codebase A lot of the use cases are on building something that has already been built before, like a web app, a popular algorithm, and etc. I think the real th
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Thanks! I knew that Obama created the USDS, but I thought he still needed the support from Congress. Well then, in that case I'm not sure why Trump would rather repurpose the USDS. Maybe it's easier to set up a temporary entity fo
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And a curious question: I was seeking the truth on the qualifier "obvious" and the legality of the EO in general, and I presented my case with references to the actual EO. My reasoning could be very wrong but at least I tried to s
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> DOGE is obviously a completely illegal operation Could you share you reasons. From what I gather, the EO[1] does a few things to avoid potential law suits: - It revised the purpose of an existing agency, USDS. The general purpose is no
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> On top of that, I would not automatically assume Musk's staff have the skills and talent of the people you mention Me neither. I was arguing the opposite: we should not assume that one does not have experience to the point that it
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Good point. I didn't mean that the founding fathers solely led the revolution, but that being "founding fathers" meant that they led significant part of the revolution. For instance, Hamilton was a chief staff aide to Washing
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Why is it a lie? Isn’t it obvious that some people were older and where the kids' superiors? And at least the younger ones were still our founding fathers, while the 19-year olds in doge are employees. Isn’t the entire cabinet of Trump
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"Bringing in young talent with new skills is literally 'what can be unburdened by what has been' if that's a thing anyone on the left still wants" -- Lulu Cheng Meservey
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> I'll grant you idealism but might that be a consequence of naivete and inexperience? Very possible too. I'll add that young people have less to lose, or so in their mind. In contrast, a grown-up will have family, kids, and th
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This reminds me of Joel Spolsky's test and true article on rewrite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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I won't be surprised given that a CIA agent stationed in Cambodia can leak Israel's military intelligence.
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This goes back to my previous criticism of OAI: Stratechery said that Altman's greatest crime is to seek regulatory capture. I think it's spot on. Altman portrays himself as a visionary leader, a messiah of the AI age. Yet when th
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Just to play devil's advocate, OAI can argue that they spent great effort creating and procuring annotated data. Such datasets are indeed their secret, and now DS gets them for free by distilling OAI's output. Besides, OAI's
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> DeepSeek trained on our outputs, and so their claims of replicating o1-level performance from scratch are not really true" This is at least plausibly a valid claim. Some may view this as partially true, given that o-1 does not out
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Not really. Our English education was so bad that I could barely understand spoken English and I knew fewer than 5000 words when graduating high school. Ironically, I did fabulously well in English exams, which said a lot about our English
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Was it Benjamin Franklin who established the public library system in the US? I think it was one of the greatest achievements in civilization. Every town in the US has a nice library for people to relax and to immerse themselves in knowledg
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When I grew up, the media in my country kept telling us how great the geek culture in the US was, how deep down the stack the geeks were willing to go, and both adults and us kids were left in awe. The entire nation, for what I could tell,
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Is the title true, though? I thought OMB paused funding to NGOs, foreign governments and large discretionary contracts, but the pause explicitly excluded all aids and benefit programs. And how many NGOs have become too powerful and too mean
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Stratechery said that Altman's greatest crime is to seek regulatory capture. I think it's spot on. Altman portrays himself as a visionary leader, a messiah of the AI age. Yet when the company was so small and that the progress in
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I'd go with transactions too. Either way, a company is not a family. No hard feelings if I leave my company or my company lets me go.
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> I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc. Totally agreed. A big downside of taking contracting job is that one does not get equity. There can be exceptions b
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I'm increasingly believing that the West has turned their dream of free trade for comparative advantage into a massive deindustrialization. The end result is unfolding in front of everyone and the sentiment I see, even on HN, is we can
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Is it possible that the key here is all about where top talent goes? America's best minds from Math and Informatics Olympiads gravitate to Wall Street for financial gains. Similarly, DeepSeek's top talent are mostly IMO and IOI me
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I'm guessing the sentiment is not about training, but about the R&D capability of China. If Chinese can figure out how to build a good enough model faster and cheaper, they may be able to come up with an ASML competitor as well.

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