runako

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by runako 2y ago
> say currently it costs $15 to make thing 1m units of X in China and $50 to make 10k of them in the USA. USA could be scaled to make 50k of them for $40 and 100k for $30. 1m could cost like $25. So here we are assuming that we could get
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by runako 2y ago
> Maybe local production will get cheaper once more people start keeping their money in local communities. Is the thinking here that increased scale would allow production to get cheaper? How would this account for the fact that producti
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by runako 2y ago
ChatGPT currently recommends I use o3-mini-high ("great at coding and logic") when I start a code conversation with 4o. I don't understand why the comparison in the announcement talks so much about comparing with 4o's co
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by runako 2y ago
> We need to anticipate a future where China is equal to America on a per capita basis, but four times bigger. Is that a world where “Designed by Apple in California, Made in China” still makes sense? What will be America’s competitive e
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by runako 2y ago
The example is bad because nobody thinks of $100k as "concentrated wealth" and your argument has some purchase at those numbers. At $100 million, $1 billion, $10 billion, or $100 billion, the argument you put forth does not make s
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by runako 2y ago
This was not true in the immediate postwar period. The turning point was roughly the 1980s. Wealth concentration has been a deliberate US domestic policy for decades. This is, to a large degree, separate from the stability of our currency o
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by runako 2y ago
$1B annual revenue is ~4m business users. This is considerably smaller than e.g. Zscaler or Okta. It's a big goal, but achieving it does not require them to sign a majority of businesses or build a monopoly.
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by runako 2y ago
I’m not talking about making an exception. I’m suggesting that a trade deficit can arise for reasons that have nothing to do with manipulation. Also, the administration created the loophole about which you worry by creating a 24% tariff gap
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by runako 2y ago
A thought experiment. Imagine a small poor country far from the US, of 1 million people, where the average income is $3000 annually ($3 billion total household income). Imagine a factory in that country that produces shoes beloved in Americ
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by runako 2y ago
Let's leave aside for a moment the notion that there are any significant number of US manufacturers making stuff for 0% margins. So you suggest that increasing the tariff allows the US maker to increase their margin. We're not tal
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by runako 2y ago
This is such an important point. Lumping all "manufacturing" together obscures that some production is low-cost goods like matches and socks. Other production is 787s and F-150s. What the administration is suggesting is that we re
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by runako 2y ago
The point of raising a tariff on a $100 imported good to make it cost $125 is because the US provider cannot profitably sell for less than $125. The tariff doesn't magically fix the domestic provider's cost basis. If the US provid
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by runako 2y ago
The triumph of conservative ideology has broken the unions. No individual factory worker has the leverage to negotiate a better compensation package against the professional management team at Gap or Deere. The 80s was a period of explicitl
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by runako 2y ago
> If they fold and remove tariffs on the US The issue with this is the "reciprocal" tariffs that were announced are not related in any way to tariffs imposed by other nations. According to the administration, they set the tarif
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by runako 2y ago
This is a G move, without a doubt the best way I've heard of this being done.
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by runako 2y ago
There's a spate of articles like this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-remove-copilot-from-you... https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/software/how-disable-cop... https://
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by runako 2y ago
> MCP is getting trendy, but a lot of people being drawn in can't find the actual meat of what it is outside of self-referential definitions. My comment was against the shallow dismissal. Do you think that the negative comments help
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by runako 2y ago
Is this really “big news” or is it a GitHub link titled “Show HN”? Is there a glitzy corporate PR page trying to sell something, or is this just code for people to read? Did Ars Technica breathlessly cover it, or did a random hacker post an
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by runako 2y ago
Then please write up and share here some example usage documentation for someone who has never used MCP. (That was my suggestion upthread.) As a side note, do people here not realize that less complicated examples are often better for learn
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by runako 2y ago
I think people who have been building with LLMs have a different view on what is complicated vs not :-) It may be easy for you to configure, but you dropped some acronyms in there that I would have to look up. I have definitely not personal
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by runako 2y ago
From HN guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. We are hackers here. Building is good. Sharing is good. All this is true even if you p
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by runako 2y ago
Folks are being deported now without going in front of a judge. Let's stipulate without reservation that the US has the right to deport them expeditiously. Let's buy everything the administration says about how bad these folks are
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by runako 2y ago
I'm still trying to grok MCP, would be awesome if you could include usage examples in the doc. Good luck!
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by runako 2y ago
Clearly our sympathies are calibrated differently around international travel. :-) I am wondering how you think about stories like this. This is not to attack you, I legitimately am curious as to the thought process. You say she has no cred
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by runako 2y ago
> why you think they need new laws to detain you and deport a non-citizen I did not suggest that they did. That's not what they did, though, is it? She is from Canada; there are flights to Canada all the time. There is no indication
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by runako 2y ago
Let's say I buy that #1, #2, or #3 of your scenarios are what really happened. Let's say I buy it without any reservations or modifications. Let's make the position even stronger by stipulating that she has been charged with
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by runako 2y ago
It appears that she was at the border crossing to have her work visa processed. The resolution was that due to prior visa issues, she needed to apply for her visa at a consulate. Then they imprisoned her. As the story goes, she did nothing
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by runako 2y ago
ICE is arresting/detaining people in chaotic and unpredictable ways right now. It is a very real risk for any non-citizen to cross a US border at this time. For Canada specifically, I would imagine the story of the Canadian woman[1] wh
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by runako 2y ago
Worth noting that those features were indeed added after the creation of e.g. React, but both have been widely available for ~10 years now.
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by runako 2y ago
TIL the "new user" status stays with the post, even after it disappears from new posts by the user.

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