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by scottfalconer | 2025-04-27 21:18:08+00:00
Happy to clarify. The parent comment tackles a macro-economic utopia I never proposed. My post was about individual level gains: using AI to automate routine work, offload mental load, and free time to think, create, or just live.

I’m not claiming to fix the global economy, nor denying real risks like job loss or scarcity. Labeling me a "summer child" assumes I am naive about those challenges...another projection.

In short, I described a practical benefit available today, not a perfect future. A thoughtful reply would engage with those points instead of refuting a position I never took.
by oblio | 2025-04-27 21:19:34+00:00
No, I'm saying that the US government should be able to change the constitution, if its citizens want it. Apparently about 50% of the US population is rabidly anti-immigration.

All this status quo is doing is creating all sort of gray area cruelty. Just be open about it, become anti-immigration, but make it fair. The US is basically the only developed Western country that I know of where you don't even have fixed time frame to become a citizen. In the EU + CANZUK if you live lawfully in a country you become a citizen in N years. The N is well known ahead of time.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-04-27 21:19:42+00:00
One of the things that drives me absolutely bonkers is websites popping up an ad or some modal to enter my email or subscribe to something… While I am in the middle of scrolling or entering text / interacting with a form. It’s so jarring and frustrating and usually results in me moving on.

UX largely sucks and takes a backseat to the ad experience now.
by thethimble | 2025-04-27 21:19:48+00:00
Seems like it’s actually really convenient as independent customer data ends up being nicely isolated. Deleting churned customer data is as trivial as deleting their database.

> I think lack of gems/libraries/patterns is proof of this

This would effectively disqualify any new pattern from emerging. There have been many new patterns that have challenged the consensus that ended up becoming dominant.
by junto | 2025-04-27 21:19:51+00:00
There have been various studies on the potential connection between autism and the prevalence of a parent (most often the father) of working in STEM. Heightened incidences in areas of Silicon Valley for example where both parents work in STEM as well have been observed as hotspots.

This had also been observed by clinical psychologists working with autistic children as a curious anomaly (a friend has a PhD in this topic and has worked for 30 years with families who have an autistic child) that when first meeting the parents it was often observed that one of the parents (often the father) displayed ASD tendencies and was often undiagnosed.

One could therefore argue that the “resurgence of the nerd” has been partially a trigger for an increase in autism cases, but more than likely the higher incidence of diagnosis is the stronger factor.

Of course men are more likely to work in STEM.

As with all complex psychological divergences, it is highly likely that autism has a number of factors that can trigger it, and as we see in all highly specialized science topics, that in which you specialize is where you seek the answer. When all you have is a hammer…

Dickerson, A. S., Rahbar, M. H., Han, I., Bakian, A. V., Bilder, D. A., Harrington, R. A., … & Kirby, R. S. (2014). Autism spectrum disorder prevalence and association with parental occupation in the Texas Autism Surveillance Project. ScienceDaily.

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Stott, C., Bolton, P., & Goodyer, I. (1997). Is there a link between engineering and autism? Autism, 1(2), 153-163.

Baron-Cohen, S., Scott, F. J., Allison, C., Williams, J., Bolton, P., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2012). Diagnosed autism is more common in an IT-rich region. Cambridge University Research News.

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Skinner, R., Martin, J., & Clubley, E. (2001). The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31(1), 5-17.

Dickerson, A. S., Rahbar, M. H., & Pearson, D. A. (2014). Parental occupation and risk of autism spectrum disorder in offspring: A population-based study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(8), 974-985.

Feldman, M., & Belsky, J. (2023). Parental STEM skills and risk of autism spectrum disorders in children. Journal of Political Economy, 131(4).

Lazic, S. E., & McLean, R. J. (2023). STEM-skilled parents and autism spectrum disorder in offspring: A case-control study. ResearchGate preprint.
by oblio | 2025-04-27 21:21:04+00:00
> But if we include wildly controversial constitutional amendments that one of our parties would be completely opposed in the list of possibilities, the conversation will quickly get silly.

You're this <> close from becoming a dictatorship, things could become very silly regardless.

If anything, I'd say Trump is just a silly Sulla. Sulla was somewhat benevolent, he retired. But he paved the way for Caesar and Augustus (people who really meant business, especially Augustus).
by greatgib | 2025-04-27 21:21:17+00:00
There was a legal fight a decade ago in France to have the right to buy any laptop without Windows.

Because Windows is like "force sold" in combination with buying the hardware, where the hardware is a general purpose computer and that there is no reason you can't buy the hardware without and not pay their unnecessary tax to Microsoft.

Now, even if it is not very public, it is well known, and even if you can't buy most computers alone, you can still, in all case, ask the manufacturer to reimburse you for the windows licence that don't want to use.

This will work even if you just don't want the new "licence" because you want to reuse an old one, that is perfectly legal.

Something like 8/10 years ago I did the procedure and was given back something like 120/130€ I think, that will give the approximate price for windows that you pay with your laptop purchase....

Normally, a few years ago law should force retailer to display in sticker that part of the price that you will pay for windows for laptop sold with it. But I'm not sure that retailer are really doing it nowadays.
by medhir | 2025-04-27 21:21:41+00:00
looking at the way copilot was rolled out at Microsoft, none of this is particularly surprising.

early on, they shoehorned LLMs into most of their products in the least thoughtful way possible — I guess leadership thought it best to move quietly for first-mover advantage.

I remember looking at copilot enterprise pricing at that time and thinking “this is delusional.”

and it still is! $31.50 per user, per month… that is more than most other LLM “pro” subscriptions. the value prop just never made sense when the outputs tend to be worse than what you get using ChatGPT.
by Lio | 2025-04-27 21:22:05+00:00
I'd love it if that's now true, has there been some change in this?

Last time I looked into it InterCharge (OICP) was still just 1 of 4 competing protocols along with OCPI, OCHP and eMIP.

Has OICP displaced the others now or are they still fighting it out?
by dust42 | 2025-04-27 21:22:21+00:00
Having seen plenty of businesses throughout my life, both successful ones and less successful ones I'd say the most important traits are:

- the ability to execute - having drive, focus and flexibility to adapt - being able to manage a team and keep it focused, motivated and on track

this is valid for both the technical founder and the business founder alike.

In a perfect team the business founder has a very good understanding of the tech side and the technical founder a good understanding of the business and marketing side. Product is nothing without sales and sales nothing without product. Despite this being obvious I have seen several companies fail on this.

Last not least it depends on the product. The more complex the tech is the higher the share of the technical partner should be and vice versa the more specialist business domain knowledge is needed, the higher the business partner's shares are.
by kazinator | 2025-04-27 21:22:26+00:00
If you're not writing something which compiles its own tools which are then used for the rest of the build, or is not a compiled programming language, all you have to do is respect the CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LDLIBS variables coming from the distro. Then you will use the correct cross toolchain and libs.

If you need to compile programs that run on the build machine, you should have a ./configure script which allows a host CC and target CC to be specified, and use them accordingly. Even if you deviate a bit from what others are doing, if it is clearly documented and working, the downstream package maintainer can handle it.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-27 21:22:30+00:00
Doing 100 different matches updated frequently is an entirely different problem than matching a single wake word that isn’t changing.

Regardless, this would require so much coordination, network traffic, and on-device code that could be reverse engineered that you’re implying that nobody has every found a hint of it existing and no employees of these companies have ever leaked any hints of it existing.

It’s very much in the domain of conspiracy theories.
by tzs | 2025-04-27 21:23:00+00:00
My guess is that this will be less of a problem for Walmart than it is for other EV charging networks because with the other networks all their app is good for is EV charging at their network.

With Walmart the EV charging is just going to be another thing managed from the Walmart app. I'd guess that a significant majority of people who will be wanting to charge there already use Walmart for other things and have the app.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-27 21:23:54+00:00
Then why do they need to give the technical co-founder 20%, or even make him a co-founder at all? They either have enough privilege and connection that they can bring in serious funding from investors, future clients, or friends/family/fools, - or they don't and their privilege and connections aren't really worth that much. If they did, they'd much rather give them a few percentage points and pay them a salary, capturing all the upside.

It's a broad over-generalization but it's a good rule of thumb. They must have access to demonstrable money and/or power before they're worth an 80/20 split, well above what most random business guys can bring in from even elite universities.

Edit: A decent somewhat recent example is Theranos. No biotech VC would touch them because they do due diligence on the basic scientific viability of their investments, but Holmes and her cofounder were able to bring in huge tech investors from family connection and even get people like Henry Kissinger on their board, who also helped them get more investors. That's the kind of connections that might be worth an uneven split.
by musicale | 2025-04-27 21:25:54+00:00
> we fought so hard against pop-ups throughout the 90's and 2000's only to re-implement pop-ups in javascript as soon as we could

A group of people who thought that web users should not be abused may have won the first pop-up battle, but the businesses that made money from intrusive advertisements clearly won the war.

In hindsight maybe it wasn't a such a great idea for web users to switch en masse to a browser made by an advertising company.

The endgame is a probably a war between web sites that are endless mazes of advertising and user agents that try to navigate the maze and extract the non-advertising content.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-04-27 21:26:09+00:00
If you are the technical co-founder who is writing code you should ensure you have legal protections before anyone else has access to what you have written.

This can be a legal agreement or built in protections via copyright law.

Same as any author who produces work that others can profit off of in perpetuity, don't sign your built in protections away.
by nativeit | 2025-04-27 21:26:50+00:00
I read a comment under the story about the recent YouTube vulnerability where one could unmask the related Google account and its owner using the standard YouTube API (something similar to that anyway), and they explained a lot of lesser-known nuances in establishing values for bounties like these, and it helped explain a lot (not all) of the reasons for what might seem like low-ball/high-ball valuations on the surface. If I can find their comment I’ll post back, it was really insightful. That said, there are also plenty of examples of people just getting shafted.
by healsdata | 2025-04-27 21:26:55+00:00
The headline and intro to the article cite the DMCA but the bulk of the examples reference UK and EU law. Additionally, most of the examples aren't related to copyright at all. Generally seems like a misleading article intended to conflate spurious takedown requests with DMCA requests (which can also be spurious, no doubt).

Additionally, the premise that actual copyright takedown notices shouldn't be available to the public is nuts. Whether you agree with the DMCA's implementation or not, any takedown mechanism must be available to all copyright holders and not just corporations with legal teams. The DMCA process is already more onerous for individuals given that they have to provide a legal street address in an era of doxxing (or pay for a P.O. Box).
by giantrobot | 2025-04-27 21:26:56+00:00
There's some differences between junior developers and LLMs that are important. For one a human developer can likely learn from a mistake and internalize a correction. They might make the mistake once or twice but the occurrences will decrease as they get experience and feedback.

LLMs as currently deployed don't do the same. They'll happily make the same mistake consistently if a mistake is popular in the training corpus. You need to waste context space telling them to avoid the error until/unless the model is updated.

It's entirely possible for good mentors to make junior developers (or any junior position) feel comfortable being realistic in their confidence levels for an answer. It's ok for a junior person to admit they don't know an answer. A mentor requiring a mentee to know everything and never admit fault or ignorance is a bad mentor. That's encouraging thought terminating behavior and helps neither person.

It's much more difficult to alter system prompts or get LLMs to even admit when they're stumped. They don't have meaningful ways to even gauge their own confidence in their output. Their weights are based on occurrences in training data rather than correctness of the training data. Even with RL the weight adjustments are only as good as the determinism of the output for the input which is not great for several reasons.
by randysalami | 2025-04-27 21:27:31+00:00
What is needed in your opinion?

EDIT: I say this as an engineer who is putting his notice in tomorrow to found a startup

EDIT EDIT: Thanks guy, this is along the lines I'm thinking. I'll be competing with companies like Asana, Monday.com, and ClickUp. I worked in a consulting environment for two years and these tools could never be adopted despite the org size growing to 1000+ people in my larger team. It was a big pain point and I think I've built a solution that will help big time.
by pavlov | 2025-04-27 21:27:31+00:00
This joke has its origins in the days when Soviet leadership was a series of men in their seventies who kept dying on the job.

It has acquired a certain acuity in today’s America where the leaders are a series of unpopular men approaching their eighties.

There is a widespread “Is He Dead Yet?” meme that’s the contemporary direct equivalent of the Soviet joke.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-27 21:28:01+00:00
Did I do that? Not knowingly; my main intent was to reflect on what "landslide" may mean in various perspectives.

Personally, I am more to the right than to the left, but I don't enjoy the clusterfuck of the current administration at all, doubly so because our local security (a small NATO member which used to be subjugated to Moscow) has been thrown into total uncertainty.
by spamizbad | 2025-04-27 21:29:10+00:00
Yeah never take anything less than a 50/50 split. During the initial fundraising rounds (seed, Series A and maybe even into B) you're also going to be doing just as much lifting trying to get a deal done while also doing your regular day-to-day engineering responsibilities. Maybe in a world where it's 3 founders you can side-step this responsibility but at point you're not just the CTO you're also the de facto COO while your partners are trying to get a deal done.
by malux85 | 2025-04-27 21:29:15+00:00
This is such a cool idea.

When I was about 7-8 years old I used to get the "Tell me why" books, which were books that had 5-ish pages on all sorts of different topics.

https://archive.org/details/heresmoretellmew0000leok/page/n3...

These books sparked a lifelong curiosity in learning, I would sit for hours and hours and read them in my room. I hope that internet in a box inspires another generation of me's out there, who, like me, wouldn't otherwise have had access to this info.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 21:30:33+00:00
It can, to be sure, and it's not ideal. But the perception that technical co-founders typically get gypped hard is very warranted. This is a thing where you can often still get a reasonably good result with a technical co-founder, not as good as were he solely focused on product/tech stuff, but enough that his individual outcome may be higher than letting the biz guys run it.

Obviously good biz guys somewhat mitigate this but finding those is easier said than done.
by thechao | 2025-04-27 21:31:21+00:00
I see these sorts of statements from coders who, you know, aren't good programmers in the first place. Here's the secret that I that I think LLM's are uncovering: I think there's a lot of really shoddy coders out there; coders who could could/would never become good programmers and they are absolutely going to be replaced with LLMs.

I don't know how I feel about that. I suspect it's not going to be great for society. Replacing blue collar workers for robots hasn't been super duper great.
by jerf | 2025-04-27 21:32:06+00:00
I don't think anyone is asking for a double-blind study conducted by accredited scientists from multiple leading institutions on a sample of a quarter-million people across decades getting published on the front page of Science here.

We, since I will gladly agree with the criticism and add myself to that side, are asking for one example of the supposedly creativity-inducing action to have even perhaps tangentially produced some sort of creative insight.

As an example I would submit that the simple advice of "take a walk/shower" has much better attestation for prompting creativity than "read the obituaries". It hardly seems like a stretch to ask the author to provide even a single example of this achieving something.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 21:33:02+00:00
Yes, language like this is against the guidelines, whether or not it’s about people in this community. Also, in this comment you've broken at least one more guideline, and I can see other comments in your recent history that also break the guidelines, notably these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447800

These are just a sample from the past few weeks but there are plenty more that cross the line and have been correctly flagged by the community for breaking the guidelines.

Some particular guidelines for you to pay attention to are:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

But all the guidelines are important to follow and they apply equally to everyone, no matter their ideological position.

We need you take care to follow them in future if you want to keep commenting on Hacker News.
by archagon | 2025-04-27 21:33:32+00:00
Well, for one, they saw the Slaughterbots[1] video and thought it was a great idea instead of a cautionary tale: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hexwjc/slaughterbo...

Alex Karp also tends to publish some extremely disturbing polemics about how 'The West' needs to remain dominant at all costs. For example: https://www.palantir.com/q4-2024-letter/en/

> We are still in the earliest stages, the beginning of the first act, of a revolution that will play out over years and decades... The unfortunate thing, either in business or politics, is that many of one’s adversaries and antagonists will never respond to anything but strength—that crude form of power that does not ask for but which requires compliance and deference... As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible “by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion . . . but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.”

And that's an official letter to the shareholders. Like, what the fuck is that? You could tell people that these quotes came from a military dictator and they would not bat an eye.

Karp has a palpable savior complex and seems to relish the idea of applying violence against enemies of his desired world order.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-27 21:33:44+00:00
>PNPM and bun are fast enough that the increase in development velocity is worth the occasional rough edge IMO.

If the speed of your package manager is causing issues for developer velocity you have much bigger issues to contend with. And I categorically reject the statement that either of those are meaningully faster in any way. Maybe you can point to some specific obscure benchmarks that have slightly smaller numbers. But all of that goes out the window the second a dev is stuck with one of those "rough edges" even once. Not even to mention the lockin you've achieved on the tooling front now that your entire stack is nonstandard and reliant on a single highly specific list of dependencies to work, which may or may not even be kept in line with their node/npm counterparts.
by h2zizzle | 2025-04-27 21:34:40+00:00
No, you're wrong. Someone with a work visa can leave if they want, they just can't stay if they don't meet certain conditions. However, they can travel to wherever they're authorized to. Difficult as it might be, they can also find another employer to sponsor them. They can also leave to visit home.

Someone who has their passport taken cannot leave. They may be deported, like someone with a lapsed visa, but unlike the aforementioned, they don't have the option to go somewhere other than the destination the deporting country decides is their home. Without documenation, they may be detained for an extended time, and cannot avail themselves of the resources available to people who can prove themselves citizens of another country.

I can leave my job - both permanently and for the evening. I can leave this country and come back (same for many foreign countries). Work life in America sucks, but it's not the same as modern day slavery.

Also, I explained why cleaning (specifically, employing a live-in maids) can be an issue, socially. It's not icky and it's not lesser; however, it can create in the society that encourages it class divisions and abuses, especially since it can only ever become ubiquitous and accessible to anyone but the wealthy if pay is not good. We have concrete examples of this in the regions GP mentions.
by gljiva | 2025-04-27 21:35:50+00:00
Am I missing or misinterpreting something?

This study's whole analysis, including comparison of toxicity in misandrist and misogynist subreddits, is based on an output of a model fine-tuned on hate speech, annotated in the following manner:

> Some identities were considered out-of-scope for Hate, including men, white people, and heterosexuals