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Just for my curiosity, why do you think "what NPCI is offering will end up negatively impacting the general population in the long run."
Yeah globemaster99's point seems very naive.
I have not read much about this issue, but I wonder if it is as serious as you are saying why are populations across Europe not voting against it, or they are voting but getting ignored by the rulers?
Pulling a Trump requires a polarized electorate where you are mostly going to have both parties in 48-52% range, with only real fights in few battleground states, and no absurd change in total vote %. Even Trump won't pull a Trump if other party was nearing 2/3rd majority. I am not even sure of what would happen to American politics if a party reaches 2/3rd majority in both houses, a list of long pending reforms might finally become possible.
Even if people assume the worst impacts of LLMs on white collar work, there is simply not enough demand for electricians and plumbers for that to work, right now these professions work only because the number of people going into them is limited.
Domain knowledge as in non public aspects of the work you/ your workplace does. The AI tools are very good at whatever is public but very clueless about proprietary domains .Let's say you make CRUD apps about some confidential domain. Now the CRUD skills might be commodity but the confidential domain is even more important.
Yes and the world should be utopia and everyone should be happy and we all wish for world peace and yada yada yada. What you are saying is a vision of ideal world as it should be, but doesn't help anyone understand the real world problems.
HN is full of people saying ABCD should know better and honestly I thought the same, but when I look at almost all of my friends working in critical domains like as a judge or engineer or lawyer or even doctor, they seem to trust ChatGPT more or less blindly. People get defensive when I point out out to them that ChatGPT will make things up and it is widely know, and some even tell me it is the fault of "tech people" for not fixing it and they can't be expected to double check every chatgpt conversation. So I am very sure this problem is more prevalent than what we see and also that it is going to continue increasing.
Pichai has been a very poor CEO but Google's position was so strong that it is still doing fine. I am sure he is in the founder's good graces so as long as the company's stock takes a big dive he is gonna stay at the helm and keep raking in the big bucks.
Unless you are buying life insurance and filing taxes daily this seems like a good thing.
I view Claude code same as how I used to use Jetbrains IDEs. I mean yes they are not same but even when I first learned of Pycharm pro and it's features I had this urge to make a lot of random idea apps. The landscape has changed but the solution is same. Prefer spending your time on things that give you long term happiness in any way.
If it gains enough adoption in India for the average Indian to ask it political questions, it will have zero chance of not being heavily regulated. Sadly misinformation is a problem which has no good solutions.
Sadly in India talking about the problems facing the country has become a taboo, and can easily get one labeled as anti national. See "Kompact AI" and its online discourse. While China practiced "Hide your strength, bide your time". India seems to practice the opposite.
This is like asking why are people buying so much stuff from a company that was founded as compiler/language tool seller. How much compiler do they need.
The above would be Microsoft for context. For some reason your comment assumes that what a company was "founded as" should dictate what they do decades later.
I don't understand such comments. Obviously the people having trouble serving HN traffic have no clue what inetd is. Most of them might not even know about using varnish/nginx and that too is fine. It is good that internet is so accessible that you don't need to write shell script from inetd to express your opinions on your own domain and website. A random php running blog will be able to serve far less than 5M hits/day and that too is fine. Most people can't run curlftpfs too and it turned out to be fine
What part is bollocks? Please enlighten me on what radical transformation has happened in the last 10 years to make India less authoritarian, I can only see it increasing in the last 10 years. And yes I am very aware of what is happening, having seen the ground reality in tons of different places both urban and rural.
I mean authoritarianism in India is far worse than what Trump can do at his worst, so their displeasure is not unwarranted.
You are assuming that "Microsoft" makes this decision. In all likelihood Satya might not even have any idea of these (nor should most of the EVPs), and all this is done at the lower level by some leader eager to show activity.
If it was just Marc Benioff preaching then it would indeed not deserve much attention. However, most big companies at this point have internal roadmap to reduce workforce by large amounts.
AI will definitely have an impact of non physical jobs, and it is hard to see it slowing down. Anyone in any big enough company can easily see right now that there is a top level initiative to reduce employee count by never before imagined margins. And the AI is already good enough to achieve some large reductions. It is hard to see how this will all unfold.
Is this opinion on claude code or claude the model?
I doubt these North Koreans are getting hired due to wage disparities (these are roles supposed to be in the US where they have a contact person in the US), more like they have perfected the interview process as the most important thing in their life.
Why do you think it is shallow click bait. It lists out several good arguments for its main point.
Most people do dream of gaining power and the sweet corruption money, whether they can or not is a different matter. Your comment is the perfect example of what I was alluding to, trying to have a discussion on India's problems gets you labelled for "racist undertones".
> and has taken great strides in eliminating corruption through technology.
Please enlighten me with one example. What great strides have been taken in eliminating corruption. Go to any small town and most prime real estate is owned by government servants. Go to a big city and most prime real esate is owned by politicians or their adjacent entities.
> Read about their mammoth push to get everyone a bank account and direct benefit transfers.
This just removes a very very small slice of the corruption pie. If this is the best example from a long time then things don't look good.
> The people you allude to be dreaming of a cushy govt job that allows them to be corrupt is a tiny tiny % of their 1.3B population.
Just look at the numbers of people studying for years for the various Government exams. It is not tiny by any means. And 1.3 B is not the right yardstick, but the number of youths in that age group.
> Regarding your xkcd link, they cannot detain and torture you if you immediately get a court judge to grant bail or to toss the case.
The naiveté. You are letting your US centric vision cloud your judgement.
The ones who do actually have black money also have power and hence have nothing to worry here. Most of black money is with Government servant and politicians, so this is all irrelevant.
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crop_rotation on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:38PM
from the economist.com dept.
One golden piece of wisdom from the above article
> The state of Uttarakhand, to pick one, requires couples in live-in relationships to register (and pay a fee) within 30 days of shacking up. Failure to comply attracts a fine and up to three months in prison. What of love lost? The unhappy couple must de-register (and pay another fee).
Honest question, have you really lived in India and seen how the local government society functions?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Comments like this make me wish HN had a comment pinning or star feature.