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I found it gets easier as you get older. Somehow I care much less what others think

If it takes longer to read, it's not an AI problem, but the author failing to catch that the comment is too drawn out. I don't see how it is a problem to have AI write a comment if you agree with the content. If it is bad content, it will eventually reflect badly on the author anyway.

And Amazon also discontinuing Amazon One palm authentication services in whole foods. I wonder if these are related events. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790734

The site is down.

Actually, it falls under OF-1 visa category.

Grammar seems to have improved on Instagram posts :)

I read what you say, but I can hardly imagine how people can be twice as productive. I use Claude daily for writing various scripts. It produces a lot of code, so yes, if I measured it by generated code, then it's productive. However, it works best for short, clearly defined tasks/scripts. If you want anything longer, you have to watch it like a hawk so it doesn't go off track. And I'm not sure if I would give this code to someone else to use without a thorough review. I would say it may be even less productive (I think there was a paper on that).

I also use LLMs for writing; it's good, but again, you need to carefully read everything and rewrite passages that are completely made up. So I'm not really sure how this can replace people, to the point that Amazon is firing 30,000 people. I have a hard time squaring it that it's because of AI.

Some 72% of responses by Gemini, Google's AI assistant, had significant sourcing issues, compared to below 25% for all other assistants, it said.

Issues of accuracy were found in 20% of responses from all AI assistants studied

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661775

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

What i have seen is that those who resigned had 20+ years experience and younger folks stayed. So it was a bit of a brain drain, at least from my limited interaction with the three letter agencies.

"And there's something really freeing about taking back some of your attention and time and just walking around unmonetized."

Can you give some examples? I order massive amounts from Amazon and I don't think I have received any counterfeit items. Most of it is made in China.

I’m more irritated by the comingling of small, fragile products with large, heavy ones in the same box, like a box of crackers shipped together with detergent. Because of this, I had to stop my Subscribe & Save orders. Every month they would do this nonsense.

I have a cell phone with an area code where I no longer have any connections or ties. Almost all the spam calls I receive come from that area code. By simply ignoring or blocking calls from that area code, I can avoid nearly all of the spam.

Did they blow it? From a shareholder’s perspective, if you don't have ideas on how to increase shareholder profits through innovation, then buying back shares is the right thing to do.

Structured lifestyle intervention. Participants attended 38 facilitated peer team meetings over two years and were provided with a prescribed activity program with measurable goals for:

- aerobic, resistance and stretching exercise

- adherence to the MIND diet, a combination of the Mediterranean diet with the salt restrictions of the DASH diet

- cognitive challenge through BrainHQ training and other intellectual and social activities

- regular review of health metrics and goal-setting with a study clinician

I thought electric cars are simpler and should be cheaper. You can tariff out competition only for so long...

Musk will alienate both dems and reps, who is going buy teslas:)

I have done this using the OpenAI 4o model. I had to pass in a prompt with business-specific instructions, industry jargon, and descriptions of tables, including foreign keys. Then it would generate even complex join queries and return data. In my case, I was more interested in providing results to users not knowledgeable about SQL, but the SQL was displayed for information.

I found useful asking it to write with minimal lines. Let it write a functional code and ask to remove all unnecessary lines, minimalistic, efficient code.

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk — the first published from TED2025: Humanity Reimagined — she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. She shares a guide on how to digitally disobey in this age of runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance — and reminds you that you have more power than you think.

Google now includes a brief AI-generated summary at the top of the page. For most general searches, it's sufficient.

For more in-depth queries, I use OpenAI or Claude.

Google remains superior for shopping and finding deals.

Fair point. Although it seems more excessive this time arround.

The article does not explicitly criticize Elon Musk for taking government money but highlights a clear contradiction between his businesses’ heavy reliance on at least $38 billion in public funds and his political stance promoting spending cuts through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It presents Musk’s dependence on government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits factually, while subtly pointing out the irony and perceived hypocrisy in his calls to eliminate subsidies after his companies had already benefited massively. The tone remains analytical, focusing on documenting the support rather than issuing a direct moral judgment.

I'm using Adblock Browser on Android. Works pretty well also with youtube.

I think the retrospection should be why the massive influx was allowed to happen between 2020 to 2024. Because it did happened before, so it's not like we didn't know this will/can happen. There should be massive increase in processing of claims. Not extrajudciary deporting people. Why would somebody predict extrajudicial deporting if that hasn't happened before?

Good question. I still think it's unfair for these people to stay here, when legal refugees spent waiting years or decades for permission to enter often in bad conditions in refugee camps. The issue here is officials keep rounding up students on legal visas and parents who’ve lived here for years—exactly the people the article labels “families who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities.” Where are the fresh arrivals?

Where are these alleged twelve million newcomers? If they really poured in to tilt elections, we’d see a sudden demographic spike, yet officials keep rounding up students on legal visas and parents who’ve lived here for years—exactly the people the article labels “families who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities.” So where are the fresh arrivals this narrative depends on?

Six months ago I would have endorsed wide-scale deportations, but after seeing the consequences—families swept into jails, plain-clothes officers ambushing people on their way to work or school, and communities living in constant fear—it’s clear that indiscriminate removals are neither practical nor just. This approach diverts resources from pursuing violent offenders, erodes faith in the rule of law, and forces the whole country toward a “papers-please” surveillance culture, where everyone must carry ever-stricter IDs. Watching longtime neighbors dragged off for minor infractions, the policy feels capricious, and that perception of unfairness only accelerates the broader corrosion of civil liberties. A sound path must still secure the border, yet focus enforcement on genuine threats and offer law-abiding residents a transparent route to legal status, so safety is preserved without sacrificing the freedoms.