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Because of social media, there are less teenagers hanging out at the malls. Shops close down. It forms a feedback loop

Seems like better value than ScaleAI then

putting unfinished “side projects” on their GitHub that have all the right things in the README.md (just hope nobody actually looks at the code) and memorizing S.T.A.R. format responses for the common behavioral interview questions.

This perfectly describes my experience when reviewing resumes of grads from certain bootcamps. The program held their hand as evidenced by every student have a similar setup: claiming the cookie cutter 3 month CRUD white labeled webapp as work experience. Everyone on the team is a “co-founder”. Apparently all 4 people "managed a remote team of 4 developers". When you dig into the code, it’s a toy project not intended for any real users. The bulk of their "webapp" is a "case study" page with sections including "the problem", "the solutions", "What is a build a process". It seems these sections were assigned as homework. Their resume includes what things they clicked on in the AWS UI.

In fact, it seems the whole group were instructed to post on HackerNews "who is hiring" with the exact same template. That is the extent of handholding occuring in these bootcamps.

Airweave is a large and established mattress brand that’s sold in department stores in Japan. You should look into that

Wasn't the original mission of OpenAI being open and non-profit and all of that to avoid this corruption?

So UI designers prioritize form over function as always

If putting fries in the bag at McDonald’s payed half as much as being a FANG engineer, I would pick McDonald’s

COVID stimulus proved that the nation would not collapse if the most vulnerable were subsidized

The resulting inflation has lowered the purchasing power of the vulnerable and increased the wealth gap.

And (almost) everyone has a house.

How come the Netherlands has the most pronounced housing shortage for university students compared to other countries ? Is it because everyone is AirBnb'ing their first and second homes out to tourists?

It's so bad that international students are forced to decline university and graduate school offers. I know because I am in that boat.

https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/22/housing-shortage-netherlands-r...

https://www.goinconnect.com/success-stories/the-student-hous...

The same can be said of boardroom politics and board of directors. Or investment circles such as tech venture capital

That’s not how foreign policy and international politics work. Every country would be enemies with every other country in that case.

All the pro-Palestinian anti-Israel country would be enemies of the US then, including Japan. You’d be supporting Trump’s tariffs and anti-China us or them stance then towards every country that has friendly business relations with China, which is everybody at this point. Heck, even Taiwan and China are friends more than Westerners would like to think. Meanwhile, America is friends with countries like Saudi Arabia and countries that keeps a blind eye to the funding of terrorism in America

There’s a reason the famous saying is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” rather than “the friend of my enemy is my enemy”

Sure, I agree with you completely.

It’s just there are people (Americans) who offended by this and riled up about progressive issues such as feminism, for which Japan is behind even China, but then shut that part of their brain off when they decide they want to idolize Japan.

The context is that it was a museum of retro items. The imagery is very similar to the backlash that the Pokémon Jynx received such that it has to be redesigned for the American market [1]. I don’t think the Japanese have any malicious intent, but perhaps unaware (and I don’t blame them) that the visual motifs offend some people.

Another example is social justice warriors recently being offended by the “Manji” symbol present in Japan from Buddhism and other religious for thousands of years, but were later appropriated by the nazis into the swastika. Japan had to change their digital maps recently because of this. [2]

[1] https://lavacutcontent.com/3-pokemon-redesigned-due-to-racia...

[2] https://japantoday.com/category/poll/should-japan-stop-ident...

I dislike the CCP and their recent wave of propaganda as much as the next person

But I find it inconsistent to call China out for this instead of Japan. HackerNews has a tendency to jump through mental gymnastics to justify that Japan is perfect and can do no wrong. I say this after just leaving a Japanese museum 30 minutes ago that had blackface figures on exhibit

Either don’t call any country out for whaling or start by calling the countries typically deemed as more developed, advanced and progressive first. In other words, be moral relativist or if you should to be a moral absolutist then don’t pick and choose countries to exempt

Vietnamese people have been drinking iced coffee for half a century.

The more ridiculous proposition here is that people, other than Americans, only drink hot coffee.

I was not saying that you were.

I was adding to your comment about OP.

You suspect OP to be based in American and influenced by some American line of reasoning towards Israel. I'm saying that someone from the CCP is more likely to change the target by attacking American hypocrisy towards Israel

I bet you're located in the USA? Because nowhere else in the world

CCP and internet police are much more likely to use this logic than anti-Israel Americans. If they were, in fact, an American that was anti-Israel, they wouldn't be so riled up about defending the CCP first and foremost. I'm reminded of the island of Truth Teller and Liar problem: https://sites.millersville.edu/bikenaga/math-proof/truth-tel...

Other than some nationalistic pride to recapture teritority, they are not much alike.

To add, Taiwan uses traditional Chinese and is more conservative to traditional Chinese culture. China abandoned all of that during the cultural revolution. There's been a recent nationalist push to embrace "traditional" Chinese identity, involving mainand Chinese people going to sites in Japan and elsewhere wearing "traditional" Chinese clothing. Imagine the nationalistic outrage if someone wore a kimono in China. In practice, these traditional Chinese clothing are cheaply made cosplay from Taobao

You sound word for word like you are regurgitating CCP rhetoric of Victor Gao

You're Chinese police aren't you? This seems to be the whataboutism script Chinese bots have been using on other social media platforms in recent months.

I don't support Israel. I just find it too obvious the way you try to shortcircuit and distract away from accusations towards the CCP by moving the point of contention elsewhere. Yes, America can be hypocrital but it doesn't change what people have said here about the CCP.

With that line of reasoning, you'll justify the CCP when they invade Vietnam after it's done with Taiwan.

Free Tibet first.

From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves.

There are more reasons than chips.

First is Chinese nationalism. The Island of Taiwan has been under the control of various Chinese regimes over the centuries. Taking Taiwan is a rejection of the West and can be tied by to the "century of humiliation".

America has military posts in Korea, Japan, Phillipines blockading China's entrance to the larger Pacific Ocean. Having Taiwan would allow them to break this up.

On Taiwan is also a trove of Chinese art and antiques.

The difference now is globalism and that the rich have private jets to take them to safe havens.

People's wealth were more geographically locked and tied to land back then.

We need something like Amazon Fake Reviews but for Google reviews.

Amazon Fake Reviews also stopped being reliable because people figured out how to game it.

Wanderlog seems to be scraping Google Maps and TripAdvisor for all their restaurant data, then rerank them.

https://wanderlog.com/list/geoCategory/1/where-to-eat-best-r...

If there is even a 1% chance irreparable damage is being done to 350 million Americans, chances should not be taken

OpenAI is not publicly traded

HN has a general tech audience including SWEs who are paid so much that they exhibit the Nobel Disease and fauxtrepeneurs who use AI as a buzzword. They exist on X too but the conversations are diffused. You’ll have a section of crypto bros on there who know nothing technical they are talking then. Other user’s algorithms will fit their level of deep technical familiarity with AI.

But TikTok is an entertainment, not utility, company

Why not just the tint the windows?

There was speculation whether a baseball player was actually behind his interpreters’ gambling scandal.