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It's troubling to see people from assumably technical backgrounds on HN seem to struggle with the very basic math you put forward.

Watch what happens with countries new alliegances to China over the next few years.

Hell even in Canada were now exploring direct trade deals with China to avoid the US.

That is a very big deal for an economy like the US that is so global.

Fair! I would say people would be surprised to learn pretty much every large AI project is mostly c++ because of its interop with python.

Some FAANGs focus on AI more than others.

The height of money in NYC is almost unlike anything in the world, including London.

The mediums of places like Pittsburgh is still much higher than most cities on earth.

Americans struggle with wealth inequality not raw wealth. One of the mechanisms to redistribute wealth is the government itself.

Can also confirm c++ is alive and well at FAANG. Might still be the most popular language for most new projects.

I'm not sure that distinction is completely fair.

Can't say I have nearly as much time under my belt but I've still seen the full continuum of straight well tested, documented code down to hacked together nonsense all within the same commerical code base.

I think to OP's point different code has different purposes commercial or not.

Does that really align with occupying Gaza, invading Panama and occupying Greenland?

Let alone the loose threats to Canada.

High levels of government debt aren't exactly unique to America, however, America has the unique ability to issue it's own reserve currency that other countries will absolutely buy.

Also isn't by far the number one government spending item the military? Why aren't they starting there?

Honest question for Americans.

What do you think the federal government is doing to make you "poorer" that deserves dismantling the government.

US income tax is generally lower than other advanced economies. Housing and medical insurance is mainly a state issue.

Have you genuinely tried to compare the salaries vs cost of living in the US vs other countries?

You would genuinely be surprised. Financially the thing that leads most Americans to bankruptcy is medical debt.

Another factor primarily lead by private industry taking advantage of people.

Americans have the some of the cheapest housing and highest salaries in the world and look around and cry foul.

The biggest thing holding poorer Americans back is lack of education opportunities and wage theft by their employers.

What does this department do to address those issues?

Forgive my ignorance but with just so many people and so much money and so little area, isn't high rents inevitable?

I contrast that to places like the USA and Canada that have huge amounts of area but policies that encourage inefficient land usage.

You're right I apologize felt overly emotional about that comment.

You would have a better point is Trump was only messing with Canada. But they are threatening so many countries at the same time that it's enivitable to start forming free trade agreements outside of America.

That would be seriously destabilising to America for the future.

How do you spin up factories for crude oil and potash?

America is just an unserious country right now.

Why is the American government so hell bent on destroying its own economy?

The biggest things they import for Canada aren't even manufactured goods but raw materials.

The only way to avoid the T tarrif at that point is to import from a different country but there are tarrifs there as well.

What is even the end game here? Make China the new biggest game in town?

Americans...... Whyyyy

This is going to cost both countries 10s of Billions

America is officially a risky trading partner for every country in the world now.

Canada and the EU are looking to strength trading partnerships with China now.

Was something I thought about haha

I always felt like part of the magic of HN was it's signal to noise ratio compared to sites.

Just feels a lot closer to my Reddit feed these days and I'm trying to stop reading that too.

Thank you! Maybe there is just a divide between engineers working on deep complex topics and those trying to setup their 17th Django app.

LLMs are a totally useful tool! They definitely help me write all the bash scripts I consistently forget.

But the deep stuff where the value lies? It starts to fall apart quickly.

Honestly it's the opposite. WEVE BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE.

I like many people find LLMs a useful tool. I also have not seen a transformative impact on actually quality /cutting edge products being created.

Every new technology creates new millionaires every day.

Crypto is still creating new billionaires every week and nobody cares.

You literally have no proof for either of your statements.

This is the kind of current rhetoric that has me not coming to HN as often.

Any neurobiologist would laugh at the notion that the brain is a big dry statistical machinery.

Classic case of engineers talking outside of their expertise.

I've been looking for a new space to lurk on for a bit now (hard to replace HN). Hadn't heard of Lobsters might check it out.

Appreciate the post.

It's true it did get pretty rediculous and somewhat collapsed (at least in public interest).

I just don't see why every time we need to go through the incredible hype / death cycle.

LLMs are a useful tool if used properly, I hope I start seeing them used to create distinct value.

I very much agree, just that if you were talking about idk something like compilers people wouldn't barge in about crypto.

Any HN topic now just feels like a small jump to LLMs.

I recognize my above is a bit of a strawman, hard to recall exact posts / comments over the years.

Appreciate the perspective.

I'm on year 9ish of HN, maybe I'm just hitting my first introspective point on the whole space.

I work on ML at FAANG I use LLMs a couple of times a week (daily if you count line auto complete)

It's not that LLMs are bad, but they are just one topic in the vast world of different things.

There have been so many amazing insights on HN from users with such interesting backgrounds (nuclear engineering, bakers, musicians, etc). And it just feels like that's all collapsed into

"have you tested model-version-quant-subversion-domain? If you haven't you can't say anything"

I appreciate your positive experience with the tech / content.

It's helpful for me to understand the other side of the coin.

Shouldn't these be related?

If the posts are on LLMs the comments are going to be on LLMs.

But I agree with the notion the comments are the valuable part of HN, the topic is just a jumping off point.

I wrote my own front end for HN using Flutter (just a pet project) specifically so I could have dark mode and a topic filter.

But I just got tired of adding new AI topics to the filter.