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New comment by linuxftw in "GLM-Legal"

linuxftw — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:57:33 +0000

What are you talking about? 90% of litigation is convincing the judge that existing case law that clearly applies to your case does apply to your case.

New comment by linuxftw in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

linuxftw — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:39:18 +0000

This is why hosted agents (muse, dots, grok bot) will succeed. Organizations won't relax their PC security policies, so they'll need a platform where the agent actually has permissions to develop and install software.

New comment by linuxftw in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

linuxftw — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:28:16 +0000

Under the American theory of government, Cops tracking people without warrant is the same amount of lawful as people tracking cops without warrant, in fact, the former is more restricted.

New comment by linuxftw in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

linuxftw — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:31:20 +0000

The US multination corporations have benefited massively. The common American shares a lower portion of the wealth than ever before. Wealthy foreigners are taking an outsized portion of higher learning seats, and driving up prices. Then they take the white collar jobs. This clearly is keeping downward pressure on the average American economically, more so for the disenfranchised.

With 0 immigration, even sending most of the white collar immigrants back, the US would still be the greatest nation on the planet, except the common American would enjoy more of the spoils. If these immigrants were so valuable, other the countries would be competing hand over fist to bring in as many as possible as quickly as possible, but they're not.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:24:45 +0000

Companies are going to spend as little money on everything as possible, labor included. If importing labor wasn't cheaper, they wouldn't do it. It's cheaper than the alternative of training Americans to do the role.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:22:25 +0000

What you mean is the pay wasn't high enough to convince people to do a particular job, not that you couldn't find qualified people. Alternatively, you could have made 1 role into multiple, so things like 'work life' balance weren't impacted. This would cost the employer more money, so obviously can't be considered.

American policy should help average Americans, not corporations. There's a larger wealth disparity now than ever. Importing millions of white collar jobs to suppress wages only exacerbates that.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:19:28 +0000

What do you mean why should employers lower barriers and train people? Because they're abusing visa programs meant for 'highly skilled' labor and bring in low skill, wage suppressing labor.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:12:28 +0000

We can solve this problem with tariffs. Digital goods and services can be taxed like any other.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:35:21 +0000

So hire Americans and train them. Pay them above market wages so they don't leave. Problem solved. I know at least a dozen people smart enough to write software that aren't in the tech field because the barrier to entry is high. It might not appear high to people in HCOL areas, but in the rest of the country, the barrier is quite high.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:52:08 +0000

They train a fraction of the actual labor force. Why should the social cost of job training be put onto taxpayers and individuals, and why should employers be allowed to import labor? Employers should foot the bill for any and all education and work training expenses, and should be allowed to import 0 labor for any reason. Employers would have to compete for the best employees, driving wages up. It's not rocket science.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:50:03 +0000

It doesn't matter if someone can build a career out of seasonal jobs, which is entirely false btw. The market will dictate how much seasonal goods and services are worth, thus setting wages and property values.

Just like farm labor: without importing foreigners, legal or otherwise, wages would go up, food prices would go up, prices, wages, and property values would normalize to market rates.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:39:49 +0000

If there were a billion Englishmen trying to immigrate here and drive down wages, we'd be against that too.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:31:12 +0000

Wages are always too low if you replace Americans with cheaper foreigners.

New comment by linuxftw in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

linuxftw — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:20:24 +0000

But it is always the pay. Corporations could easily hire American interns and train them, for money. There's millions of people that would love to leave their retain jobs for an internship at a tech company, but there's no economic incentive for the mega corps to train these people.

New comment by linuxftw in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

linuxftw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:34:43 +0000

Cursor has support for work trees, parallel chats, will walk you through diffs line by line. This is what I primarily use for the walking through diffs feature. If I need something to just throw over the wall, I fire up claude.

New comment by linuxftw in "AI Makes Me Sad"

linuxftw — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:46:10 +0000

The critiquing is the training data that you're supplying.

New comment by linuxftw in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

linuxftw — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:26:43 +0000

5.6 Sol, Astra, Opus/Sonnet 5.5 can build and deploy entire applications end to end.

New comment by linuxftw in "Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028"

linuxftw — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:00:42 +0000

If training and inference is hardware constrained, and you can train and server better and bigger models on the same hardware with memory optimizations, that's exactly what I would expect companies to do.

New comment by linuxftw in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

linuxftw — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:38:26 +0000

We're talking about client request headers, right? Why even bother with such a thing? Malicious users will just spoof those, you're only going to annoy legitimate users.

New comment by linuxftw in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

linuxftw — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:34:41 +0000

Yeah, imagine if pharmaceutical companies did it! Wait...