At least with the cheaper models, you get deals at Best Buy and Amazon.

I wonder whether this will also inflate the used market. I could have gotten more for my trade-in.

For context, Israel gets 38 Billion over 10 years to buy US Arms.

And Iran's GDP is 475.2 billion as of 2024.

It is only when human labor was needed at a large scale when we started caring about people living long healthy lives.

You are paying rent. Alphabet and Meta own all the real estate of the web, and you have to pay them rent to survive.

Summary of the old regime: Mergers that lead to 5+% market share were blocked.

Then the "consumer harm in terms of prices" was adopted. Which swung the pendulum the other way. That is the fundamental economic policy now. Which has lead to abhorrent results.

I wrote a comment on previous post that was about how consumer harm standards have warped the discussion on tariffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096236

Nobody has that kinda cash lying around, banks can't justify such high liabilities, and VCs are not interested in "stable", businesses.

The "consumer harm" standard is idiotic.

Google had already transformed the open web to the point of uselessness anyway.

It is partly because of polarization, but mostly because the US economic and policy discourse is centered around nebulous "Consume Harm", as measured in price.

The "for" camp claims:

1. Tariffs will bring manufacturing home overnight, 2. Everything import should be taxed, 3. And tariffs are being paid by the foreign exporter, so American consumers will be shielded from price increases.

All of these claims are lies. American business' biggest input cost is labor. By a long margin. Tariffs need to be much higher for manufacturing to be a feasible investment in most industries. Which means more pain for the consumer.

The 'against' camps argument all hinge on the fact these are filthy jobs for filthy foreigners and poors. There is no need for them in the US. Even if they are not focusing on that issue, they are talking about how taxing imports cause "Consumer harm" and therefore it is bad.

That is the crux of this post as well. The tariffs did cause price increases for consumer.

But if the goal is to increase manufacturing base in the US, then this harm would be irrelevant in the long term.

This obsession with "Consumer Harm" has poisoned all trade and economic policy in the US. It is the reason Anti-trust is toothless in the US, why every industry is an oligopoly, and why the rust belt exists.

Of course, protectionism is not the only ingredient needed to promote any given industry. China, Vietnam, Korea and India did it via robust industrial policy. Some might say US did so as well, during World War 2. But that is cOmMuNiSm now.

I can show you my git tree where GLM4.5 deleted my whole test suite and my session docs where it invented new github cli commands. Are you willing to show us where you saw me taking money from any US tech company?

The problem isn't that there are alternatives. The problem is that this sort of vapid human zoo has flourished and spread globally.

The only major culture that seems to have avoided it is China. And that's because they got addicted to even more vapid mobile livestreams.

I have been using Claude code for the past 6 months. In that time, multiple revisions of each model have come out. I have seen some improvement, especially in regards to sycophancy, with recent iterations.

However, I can't differentiate the outputs of either. To me, sonnet seems just as capable as opus.

Have any of y'all run real life tests? Mine seem to be too random to say either way.

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Somehow, Congress beating the market simply on savvy is huge ask to believe.

What the hell are you on about?