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> The first shot was through the windshield and the. she turned the wheel and the second two shots were fired through the side window as she was turning away.
Video clearly shows the wheels were cut before forward motion started.
> The officer suffered bruised ribs from the impact of the vehicle.
This seems to be an attempt to rewrite the laughably false “internal bleeding” anonymous propaganda leak CBS news laundered into something remotely credible; there is literally no reason to believe this true, and clear reasons to dismiss it, including video showing thet except for maybe his hand reaching toward the vehicle as it passed, no part of his body was impacted.
You realize there can be more than one thing happening on the planet at a given time?
> you may be worried about which box you belong in. ;)
There’s also the risk someone very loud decides to put you in a box you don’t belong in. Eventually you are able to demonstrate it, but, in the meantime, you need to deal with the consequences.
I hate the concept. But this is not the right case to test the tool against.
> if you're very good at what you do, soft skills are a lot less important
Empathy is more than butter. It also lets you uncover why the requirements should be what they are.
There are roles where buried brilliance works. But it’s usually in academia or the military. Not commercial work.
Law of war training for new troops was eliminated back in April.[1] The core concept that members of the US military have a duty to resist illegal orders is no longer taught to troops.
Recall Trump's comments after several US members of Congress made a video along the lines of "you must refuse illegal orders." Trump called this "seditious behavior, punishable by DEATH!"[2]
[1] https://www.veterannews.org/veteran-news/army-eliminates-sev...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5615190/trump-democrats...
It's more noise than signal because it's disorganized, and hard to glean value from it (speaking from experience).
This is a great tool to learn ARM Assembly, and also to play around on downtime at work.
Congratulations on the work.
For me it felt more like higher detail version of Teardown, the voxel-based 3d demolition game. Sure it's splats and not voxels, but the camera and the lighting give this strong voxel game vibe.
It won't help. LLMs are good at soft skills, too. There's a whole "AI girlfriend" industry, and it's quite successful.
It is absolutely not illegal in the US to use IQ tests to hire. This is a persistent Internet myth.
As long as the business is cash flowing, service the debt until you can expat and retire outside the country with your personal investments outside the country (avoiding any judgements or garnishments). The debt is already written off in everything but name only based on forecasted trajectories.
The US spent $4T-$6T on wars in the Middle East, and continues to spend $1T/year on the military. Tax cuts for the wealthy from the one big beautiful bill will increase the the deficit by $1T-$4T. This debt is immaterial. The US chooses who should suffer and who should prosper with debt policy, respond accordingly as you would to an adversary.
> There is evidence of systemic stress. Government data show more than 1.3 million Economic Injury Disaster Loan loans are in default, liquidation or charge-off status. Over $70 billion has already been written off, making this one of the costliest disaster-relief efforts in U.S. history. The Small Business Administration tacitly acknowledged the strain by extending deferments several times and introducing hardship tiers that reduced payments to 10 percent, then 50 percent, then 75 percent before requiring full repayment.
> Venn between 'sees footage of ICE and still wants to recruit' and 'gun owner' overlaps a lot more than the former and non-gun owners
I’d encourage you to be rigorous with this assumption.
The line between even folks who will cheer on a Gestapo on TV and those who would materially aid it in their own communities is bright and wide.
This has never been the case for those of us doing consulting, soft skills are a must have requirement when dealing with customers on regular basis.
It was a bad essay at the time and I don't think you can make a good essay by trying to build off it. Adding "megachurch" to the already strained metaphor didn't improve it.
Same with the Emmy. It says it right on the bottom (along with a warning that only actual winners can be photographed holding it).
A better society.
Imagine living somewhere that people who work service or retail jobs (or nursing or teaching or all manner of underpaid but essential professions) can also afford to live!
Not to help you with your sleeping patterns but: a toddler that could overnight decide to instruct US hosting providers and other infrastructure companies that they can no longer serve EU customers, that the .COM registry domains can only be registered by US entities, that any country owes the US any part of its territory 'or else'. The Nobel Prize is a footnote, it should have never happened, but there are much worse threats on the horizon.
I thought this post from Kyla Scanlon[0] did a good job of explaining that eventually the algorithms replace knowledge. Which is not a good thing.
0: https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-four-phases-of-institutional
> It’s also lose-lose for the US.
Yes. Ian Bremmer keeps pointing out that if the "law of the jungle" becomes the norm for relations between countries, the USA will not benefit as much as autocracies like China and Russia.
See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TLhz6ZbrMuI for a more full-throated explanation from Ian.
I didn't see that, but it's obviously doomed to flamewar.
(As is this, but a daily reminder to trump supporters of what everyone thinks of them doesn't hurt)
>2. The vibe is compounding, but we’re not capturing it. Every organization generates thousands of vibe signals per day: The pause before someone unmutes on a Zoom call, The choice to reply-all vs. reply, The vs vs decision tree, Calendar invite response times (Accepted in 4 minutes = engaged; Accepted in 4 days = resentful), The presence or absence of exclamation points in executive communications, Whether someone’s Slack status includes an emoji
These signals are real. They carry information. Humans process them instinctively. And right now, 100% of this vibe exhaust dissipates, unstructured and uncaptured, into the void
Time to get out of software and corporate work and into carpentry, OnlyFans, or farming. Even suicide would also be a better option than the world that this implies...
> I'm confident the military would not consider an impeached and convicted president as its commander in chief.
The same ones currently blowing up shipwrecked survivors in the water in the Caribbean? A literal textbook example of a war crime? I’m not.
That explains why they gave me the package and then sent me a bill for import duties a month later.
Russia can barely hold its own in a war against a neighboring country 30x smaller than them. Do people really still think they are a threat on the global stage anymore? China, yes, but their tactic is economic rather than military. And they are already winning in that front considering how dependent the rest of the world is on their manpower and manufacturing.
It's pretty clear that going forward the only real military threat the rest of the world has to concern itself with is the USA.
Apparently the right to port arms doesn't apply to take down dictorships.
We all know they fall down by showing painted signs at street demos. /s
On the one hand, I visually read a book significantly faster than 2x listening speed, so the speed in itself doesn't seem problematic.
On the other hand, if I'm listening while doing other things, then my attention is split. Which is why 1x works best for me. I can pay attention and still fold my laundry or make a meal or whatever.
Listening at 2x while cycling sounds positively dangerous to me. Unless you're somewhere with virtually no traffic, or you really just aren't paying attention to what you're listening to. Our brains only have so much bandwidth.
The transition step between UNIX and Inferno, and between C and Limbo as main userspace language, by its authors.
Which tends to be forgotten when praising Plan 9.
There are a good number of places in the world where people of varied incomes live relatively close.
That's happening all over Europe but very quietly. The thing to watch is earnings reports of Q1 2027, that's when these chickens will come home to roost. Lots of contracts renew at the end of the year, or not...
I will love to see the article. If you want reviewers, let me know.
>I think this spectrum shows the issues with that though. Take the last one, the pen pot. You truly have to _learn_ what that means.
Not an issue. You learn it once, and then you instantly recognize Pages every time, due to its distinctiveness from all other app icons (and the same holds for each of the others).
You will be looking to click the Pages app among other apps (in a launcher, Applictions/ folder view, alt-tab app row), etc, for many years. You'll only need to make the discovery/association once.
One where processes, drivers and libraries come and go during the whole OS uptime.
Quite a few people are willing to ruin their own lives and prosperity to make others worse off. Once you realize that, a lot of things become more explicable.
And yet contrary to Microsoft and Apple, they outsource most of their main development tools.
Go and Dart hardly get the love across their SDKs as Objective-C, Swift, C#, VB get on their owners.
Same with IDE tooling, fully dependant on JetBrains and Microsoft.
I sure hope accounting knows what an integer is.
Most of the damage comes after the arson, yes.
A) wrong Roosevelt
B) there's no way for the US to not get involved in WW2 other than pre emptive handover of the Philippines to Japan.
Imagine trying to live your life where other people’s desires by default overrode you own.
Unfortunately that happens a lot; it's called the government.
Several times I have rewritten overly-multithreaded (and intermittently buggy) processes with a single-threaded version, and both reduced LoC to roughly 1/20th and binary size to 1/10th, while also obtaining a few times speedup and reduced memory usage, and entirely eliminating many bugs.
And then I keep using it after in bed and then wake them up with my tapping.
"Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes" (2020), 300 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947820
This is the new system for emergency communications? TfL just finished up an upgrade on that in 2021. That upgrade was built by Thales.[1] That system is purely for operational use, and is not cell phone compatible. It's compatible with the gear cops and fire brigades use. Is it being replaced?
As late as 2018, the classic century-old system, with two bare wires on insulators on the tunnel walls, was still maintained.[2] Clipping a telephone handset to the two wires would connect to a dispatcher, and the wires were placed so that reaching out of the driver's cab to do this was possible. In addition, squeezing the wires together by hand would trip a relay and cut traction power. Is that still operational? The 2011 replacement was ISDN.
[1] https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-centre/press-releases/th...
[2] https://www.railengineer.co.uk/communications-on-the-central...
That's a neat little system.
Two surprising design decisions:
- One-way messages. You send, then, in a separate operation, you wait for a reply. This happens at each end. That means two extra trips through the scheduler and more time jitter. QNX has a blocking "MsgSend" which sends and waits for a reply. The scheduler transfers control to the receiving thread in the common case where the receiver is waiting, which behaves like a coroutine with bounded latency. It's a subtle point, but one of the reasons QNX is so well behaved about jitter.
- Interprocess communication by memory remapping instead of copying. This is high overhead for small messages, and at some fairly large size, becomes a win. Remapping pages means a lot of MMU and cache churn. Cost varies with the CPU and memory architecture. Mach worked that way, and the overhead was high. Not sure how expensive it is with modern MMUs. Do you have to stop other threads that might have access to the page about to be unmapped?
"This company predicts software development is a dead occupation"
Citation needed?
Closest I've seen to that was Dario saying AI would write 90% of the code, but that's very different from declaring the death of software development as an occupation.
> everyone should abandon their US free trade agreements
Do you have a link to Doctorow's argument? On its face, this is incredibly stupid--for most economies, the cost of losing a FTA is well above any of the tariff levels being discussed.
> Every single one of these icons should be available to choose by the user.
They are. You can replace the icon of any app straight in Finder, in the Get Info window. Copy the icon from somewhere else, click the icon in Get Into to select it, and Cmd+V to paste.
I mean, you'll need to get the original icon, but that's not too much work. I don't think Apple themselves should be shipping every high-resolution icon they've ever used for every app. OS's are already large enough.
> Pen pots aren't a thing that most people are familiar with
Personally, no. Cognitively? We've been seeing quills and ink in children's stories for centuries. One doesn't have to have used a bubble level to get the analogy in the iOS Level app.
> pen and paper, but now a) everyone knows what a pen and paper look like
A quill and ink are conventionally portrayed in relation to writing. A pen and paper could refer to e.g. sketching.
I'm obviously nitpicking. But I reject the notion that we have to oversimplify to the degree you're suggesting.
> it literally says the name of the app
The OS does this almost everywhere apps exist. Putting the name in the logo is superfluous.
Gray Mode, obviously. /s
Seriously, the best UIs let users adjust things to their preferences instead of forcing one or two-polar-opposite choices.
HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.
File a complaint with your state Attorney General and provide receipts. Google doesn’t care, but regulators do.
Counterpoint: perhaps it's not about escaping all the details, just the irrelevant ones, and the need to have them figured out up front. Making the process more iterative, an exploration of medium under supervision or assistance of domain expert, turns it more into a journey of creation and discovery, in which you learn what you need (and learn what you need to learn) just-in-time.
I see no reason why this wouldn't be achievable. Having lived most of my life in the land of details, country of software development, I'm acutely aware 90% of effort goes into giving precise answers to irrelevant questions. In almost all problems I've worked on, whether at tactical or strategic scale, there's either a single family of answers, or a broad class of different ones. However, no programming language supports the notion of "just do the usual" or "I don't care, pick whatever, we can revisit the topic once the choice matters". Either way, I'm forced to pick and spell out a concrete answer myself, by hand. Fortunately, LLMs are slowly starting to help with that.
It failed because for management and HR, DevOps means ops, for them it is the new buzzword for systems integration, integration engineers, sysadmin,..
I have been foolish enough to accept a few project proposals with DevOps role, which in the end meant ops work dealing with VMs, networking and the like.
I really enjoyed the full piece by Dave Kiss that this piece quoted: https://davekiss.com/blog/agentic-coding/
Personally I am attracted to the simplicity of the I Ching in that I can do a reading for someone very quickly in the field without a lot of explaining (off brand as-a-fox) so I pack an assortment of coins in my tail (ahem… backpack) though I am still looking for a second pocket I Ching so I have something other than Wilhelm.
It's a fun class; worth keeping in mind that several topics with 1-2 units here are whole specializations in the field, including:
* memory safety and exploitation (the "buffer overflow" section is about 20 years out of date, though super appropriate for a first course)
* the WebPKI/certificates thing
* messaging security and messaging cryptosystems,
* microarchitectural security and hardware side channels.
Multiple full courses on each of these subjects would bring you up to "practitioner" levels of expertise.
My experiments with AI generated code is you have to specify it like a programmer would, i.e. you have to be a programmer.
Strongly agree, but this gets expensive fast when you account for all of the network, logging, and security trimmings.
In all seriousness, I assumed that was part of why the US models itself on Rome rather than Greece. Not that there was no homosexuality in the days of the Roman empire, but there was a lot more performative masculinity to make up for it.
The US will only learn by feeling pain, both the administration and the electorate. So, make them feel it politically and economically.
no paywall: no paywall: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-deepmind-documentary-yout...
I thought that there were some that were visible without an account:
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The Mandalorian leading a birdwatching group:
This is the jay.
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The Mandalorian after winning a preliminary injunction:
This is the stay.
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The Mandalorian making cheese:
This is the whey
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"Boyd" (2004) is a bio of John Boyd. Boyd was a USAF fighter jock and a very good one, and his OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) cycle is a Marine icon. The USAF never really liked him, because he was loudly critical of some high level USAF aircraft decisions.
Boyd had a lot of influence on the design of the F-16, the fighter jock's dream airplane. He also pushed for, of all things, the A-10 Warthog, hated by fighter jocks, loved by ground troops who really needed close air support.
Reading up on the OODA loop is useful. Boyd himself barely wrote anything about it. Others have written volumes.
He means other humans.
The stupid point it makes is "since we have AI now, why even accept human contributions to a FOSS project?"
The post itself is AI (or co-AI) slop, which means it can be just ignored.
>If an idiot like me can clone a product that costs $30k per month — in two hours — what even is software development? (...) The new software developer is no longer a craftsman. It’s the average operator, empowered
If entire industries employee counts are decimated and/or commodified, this means the "new software developer" wont find people to pay for what they create (whether software or a software driven service). For the majority, it also means further degradation of the kind of jobs one will be able to find.
Without trying to be glib about it, this post sounds like a description of second-system syndrome, applied to entrepreneurship. It happens to all of us.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...
Are we sure the planets are real?
More like, why have it regurgitate something likely to have been in its training data?
Because they are who create wealth from their labor. All the very wealthy do is capture it via paperwork and legal frameworks. The pendulum is simply swinging back towards fairly compensating labor for its work.
There was a "Never Trump" movement of Republican leaders. It's dead.[1] By now, most of the Never Trumpers are either out of power or have groveled to Trump. The National Review, a conservative publication, wrote: "At no point did Never Trump possess the basic traits of a political movement: a small number of leaders and large number of followers." It was all leaders, or former leaders, or people who thought they should be leaders. The article says Never Trump was composed of "1) experts in foreign policy, economics, and law ... 2) campaign professionals ... and 3) public intellectuals ..." Not Republican governors and members of Congress. Not big donors. Those people only matter when they're in power. There are small conservative journals in which they still write. Few read them. They're not on Fox News.
It's not at all clear what the GOP looks like after Trump. The most likely Republican successors are said to be Vance, Rubio, and DeSantis. The last two have failed badly at presidential bids before.
[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-end-of-never-trump...
There are still many companies with cubicles, although they do seem to be getting rarer.
When in the 1990s-00s people posted Dilbert strips, it wasn't, IME, because they identified with the character Dilbert.
They did it because they saw in their work environment echoes of the environment portrayed in the comic, of which Dilbert was as much a part as the PHB.
Well, PHB is not about simply being a manager, but about being a certain type of manager, so he might very well be justified in his wall decoration.
I used to say seeing Dilbert strips in the office is a warning sign. People shouldn’t identify with Dilbert.
I liked this post. I may have some minor qualms (e.g. while I think execs should be proxies for the customer, they have many other competing motivations that can push customer needs way down), but I especially liked the closing section:
> Understanding before criticizing
> Large software companies have real problems. Some are structural. Some are cultural. Many are self-inflicted. But many of the behaviors people complain about are not pathologies – they are consequences.
> If you want to criticize how large organizations operate, it helps to first understand why they operate that way. Without that understanding, the criticism may feel sharp, but it will not be useful.
I see that kind of "criticizing before understanding" all the time on HN, and while that's probably just inherent to an open forum, commenters who do that should realize it makes them come across as "less than insightful", to put it generously. Like I see tons of comments often about how managers only get to their position through obsequious political plots. And sure, that may exist in some orgs. But you can always tell when folks have never even considered the competing forces that act on managers (i.e not just the folks they directly manage, but requirements coming from higher ups, and peer teams, and somehow being responsible for a ton when you actually have few direct levers to push) and solely view things through the lens of someone being managed.
Pretty much everyone believes they can do the boss' job better than the boss. Until they get promoted and become like every other boss.
When you start your own business, though, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
What were you trying to “revert back”? You should have been able to just stop using jj, there’s nothing to revert back to. It’s also possible that I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
Many of your examples came from people who were funded by Universities in the 80s, which was basically the VC of the time. And in the 90s, a lot of the core committers of those projects were already working at VC funded companies.
Back then it was very normal to get VC funding and then hire the core committers of your most important open source software and pay them to keep working on it. I worked at Sendmail in the 90s and we had Sendmail committers (obviously) but also BSD core devs and linux core devs on staff. We also had IETF members on staff.
And we weren't unique, this happened a lot.
One requires more electricity than the other, and custodians of somewhat different skills. A sysadmin is a librarian and custodian with technology skills. If you can vault and custodian physical archives at scale, you can do the same for digital data (imho, based on experience with both). You’re simply building resilient systems on durable primitives.
I’m hopeful for a future where you can potentially carry all recorded knowledge on a device and media you can fit in something somewhat human portable [1]. But until then, humans interested will maintain and continually improve archival and information retrieval systems to preserve and make accessible knowledge.
[1] SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268911 - December 2025 (27 comments)
Title does not match link, flagged for mod attention.
> Good luck taking it away
You just need an unpopular President battling an opposition Congress.
> If institutional investors don't raise housing prices, then how can they profit?
FTA: “large investors may well have economies of scale. They might hire maintenance people who work for them, and thus have an adequately suited number of tasks, rather than having to contract out to workers who charge a premium for not being guaranteed work, or be better at managing properties with software, or perhaps be a more trustworthy borrower and pay less for capital.”
TL; DR they make money on rents. Not appreciation. Obviously appreciation doesn’t hurt, which is why “them owning lots of properties may increase their market power, and thus they price the homes above what is optima” is also tested.
> Everyone I know who has built a house has thought very much about sun, season and temperature.
I've lived in houses that certainly did not take into account sun, season and temperature. I learned a lot from that experience. My current house is optimized for it. I've learned a few more things about it, and could do better.
> the idea that it has something to teach modern architects and builders is pure fantasy
Not my experience with architects and builders.
For example, how many houses have a cupola? They're common on older homes, but non-existent on modern ones. What the roof does is accelerate the wind moving over the roof, then the air vents in the cupola let the wind through, which sucks the heat out of the attic.
Another design element is eaves. Eaves shade the house in summer and don't shade it in winter (for more heat gain). Eaves also keep the sides of the house dry, which means your siding and paint and window frames last a lot longer. Mine are 1.5 feet. Most houses around here have tiny or even non-existent eaves.
The advent of air-conditioning is when architects stopped paying attention to the sun.
You can be a super productive Python coder without any clue how assembly works. Vibe coding is just one more level of abstraction.
Just like how we still need assembly and C programmers for the most critical use cases, we'll still need Python and Golang programmers for things that need to be more efficient than what was vibe coded.
But do you really need your $whatever to be super efficient, or is it good enough if it just works?
If you don't have anything meaningful to say, you can just not comment.
How does this work on laptop screens? E.g. running Chrome on my MBA with a notch, the Chrome menus take up 3/4 of the screen width, and then the remaining ~6 icons there is space for are utilities I need. There are even a couple more icons I regularly use and have to switch to Finder to access them, just because it has less menus. The idea is interesting, but it's not clear at all from the homepage how/if this works on laptops as opposed to large monitors, when you're using an application with lots of menus.
I'm also curious how this compares to other similar solutions -- QuickCMD, Raycast, Keyboard Maestro, Command Keeper, etc. It seems clear that its featureset is different, but it's hard to figure out which ones do which things. If you included a comparison features chart it might be helpful so potential customers can see what makes this one unique -- i.e. it's the only one that does X and Y and Z, because every other app only does 2 but not all 3.
I’ve been an HN participant for ~14 years, the vibe ebbs and flows. You can hide and ignore the folks you mention, what’s important imho is that the mods continue to aggressively cultivate a specific community vibe. Nothings perfect, but this is as close as it’s going to get to perfect imho as it relates to intellectual curiosity and understanding how the systems we exist in work.
It's an interesting article on this one particular mansion, but the idea that "the same tricks for more efficient heating can be used in modern designs" seems pretty silly.
We don't use fireplaces anymore (a major "trick" being to put them in the middle of the house rather than in the exterior walls), and while using large windows to capture sunlight and heat works great in the winter, it also leads to overheating in the summer and thus more energy for air conditioning.
> These are modest changes, imperceptible to most, and they won't enable us to forgo active heating and cooling entirely. But they do echo a way of thinking which, today, is oft ignored. Hardwick Hall was designed with Sun, season and temperature in mind.
Everyone I know who has built a house has thought very much about sun, season and temperature. This is very much a factor in determining the sizes and quantity of windows on south-facing vs. north-facing walls, for example.
Again, it's a very interesting article on this one particular castle, but the idea that it has something to teach modern architects and builders is pure fantasy. We're already well aware of all these factors and how they interact with materials and design.
An em-dash (in this use, there are others where the normal style differs) set with regular spaces around it isn’t a grammar problem; it is a less common style preference (usually they are set closed—without spaces—or surrounded by thin spaces, or an en-dash surrounded by regular spaces is used instead.)
I was investigating a fun webcam-to-ASCII project so now I am tempted to take an approach at porting the logic from the blog post into something reusable.
It appears to be a combination of racism, “crabs in the pot” mentality, tribalism and in group motivations, and people looking for another group to look down on because they have no opportunity ahead of them between now and death. Happiness is reality minus expectations.
His supporters still say “It’s not great but I’d vote for him again.” Well, the unfortunate news is he’s near end of life and they footgunned their own economic opportunity light cone. The global economy is going to route around the US accordingly, because it cannot be trusted to trade as an adult vs a bully. They will continue to have their vote and mental model regardless of rationality and logical reasoning. All you can do as a nation state counterparty is defend against military action and disconnect economically.
Same vibes as "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." —- LBJ
(derived from first principles)
It stops drafts from the window before they reach occupants. Yes, it is less efficient in terms of total heat inside the structure, but its more effective at avoiding uncomfortably cold spots, which is (in most places at most times of year) more important, plus, the utility lost to the occupied under-window space is less than the utility that would be lost for the same space elsewhere; the window already limiting alternate uses.
See the recent news about Canada strengthening economic ties with China and welcoming them into their auto market. This wouldn’t have happened in a million years had it not been for US tariffs and hostilities towards Canada. America is truly uniting the world (against them).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659677
> I believe that explicitly teaching students how to use AI in their learning process
I'm a bit nervous about that one.
I very firmly believe that learning well from AI is a skill that can and should be learned, and can be taught.
What's an open question for me is whether kids can learn that skill early in their education.
It seems likely to me that you need a strong baseline of understanding in a whole array of areas - what "truth" means, what primary sources are, extremely strong communication and text interpretation skills - before you can usefully dig into the subtleties of effectively using LLMs to help yourself learn.
Can kids be leveled up to that point? I honestly don't know.
What's hilarious about language like:
Is that the stance that's been programmed into ChatGPT 5.2 is infectious, the more you talk with it the more you wind up talking that way. I love the conversations it has about bodily sensations and breathwork and about having a "stance" coming from something that never one felt anything or drew a breath!