MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-09 17:23:02+00:00
I refuse to believe a country as isolated as NK is pumping out genius hackers better than any other country. They speak one of the few languages isolates in the world. They don’t attract high-quality foreigners, if any at all. They don’t get access to the larger scientific community. Their universities don’t allow extended discourse for local students with the few foreigners they allow. Their internet infrastructure is pathetic and their citizens are poor.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but it seems vastly more likely that China and Russia (far and away NK’s strongest, nearest, and largest allies) are executing these hacks and blaming them on the NKs to avoid retribution.

You either believe that or that NKs are genetically superior specimens because they’re not doing anything else that would yield the superior results they attain.
by ghaff | 2025-04-09 17:23:11+00:00
If it’s a topic of your choosing, a lot of engineers who aren’t super junior probably have a lot of the fixins for a short technical talk on something of interest even if they haven’t presented at a conference. And even juniors probably have something from school.

Added: I should acknowledge though that talking about technical topics of interest may get more complicated at some proprietary firms than open source ones.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-04-09 17:23:47+00:00
> So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"

It's been my experience that LLMs are only better than me at stuff I'm bad at. It's noticeably worse than me at things I'm good at. So the answer to your question depends: can your child get good at things while leaning on an LLM?

I don't know the answer to this. Maybe schools need to expect more from their students with LLMs in the picture.
by defgeneric | 2025-04-09 17:24:04+00:00
To have the reputation as an AI company that really cares about education and the responsible integration of AI into education is a pretty valuable goal. They are now ahead of OpenAI in this respect.

The problem is that there's a conflict of interest here. The extreme case proves it--leaving aside the feasibility of it, what if the only solution is a total ban on AI usage in education? Anthropic could never sanction that.
by MikeTheGreat | 2025-04-09 17:24:12+00:00
I'm seeing a lot of discussion here about how to prepare your phone for a border crossing, which is fascinating.

I was wondering about a different strategy: what about leaving your phone at home and then buying a new one after you've crossed the border?

It seems like it wouldn't be any less work than 'clean wipe and full restore post-crossing' and has the advantage that border agents can't search what you don't have.

If your trip is short and the return policy sufficiently generous, you might even be able to clean wipe the phone and return it before you cross again.

I'd be curious to hear what people think about something like this.
by itishappy | 2025-04-09 17:24:35+00:00
Standardization is valuable.

An extreme example of your position would be a shop where everyone uses a different language. That's obviously untenable.

A more reasonable example might be choice of editor. I'm of the opinion that management should provide everyone a standard editor, then not mandate it's use. This means anyone can hop onto any device and know how to use it, even if the device owner has a super-customized vim setup. Folks who become familiar with the standard editor are also better positioned to help their colleagues troubleshoot their setups.

I don't see how this applies to AI assistants much if at all. It feels like mandating devs run all their ideas by a particular intern. If said intern isn't an architect then there's no value in having a single point of contact.
by matt_s | 2025-04-09 17:24:37+00:00
I thought the major shift after WWII with Bretton Woods was that throughout all of human wars up to that point, the winner usually took the land in some way or another and the US wasn't interested in that and more interested in a global economic stability pegged to the US dollar. And the US decided policing trade routes and peace across western countries was more important than claiming spoils of war.
by teachrdan | 2025-04-09 17:25:04+00:00
> Imagine if China decided to invade Taiwan like they've been threatening to do for a while. They would instantly cut off all exports to the US, because that's the smart thing to do.

I think what you're getting at is that China would have more leverage over the US if they attacked (attempted to invade) Taiwan, which they could use to make it more difficult for the US to protect Taiwan.

In that case they could do things like block some or all exports to the US until we, say, stopped escorting cargo ships in and out of Taiwan. But the notion they would "instantly cut off all exports to the US" is nonsense. There's no reason that's somehow a no-brainer post invasion.
by srveale | 2025-04-09 17:25:11+00:00
> Flipped classroom is just having the students give lectures, instead of the teacher.

Not quite. Flipped classroom means more instruction outside of class time and less homework.

> This is called "proctored exams" and it's been pretty common in universities for a few centuries. None of this addresses the real issue

Proctored exams is part of it. In-class assignments is another. Asynchronous instruction is another.

And yes, it addresses the issue. Students can use AI however they see fit, to learn or to accomplish tasks or whatever, but for actual assessment of ability they cannot use AI. And it leaves the door open for "open-book" exams where the use of AI is allowed, just like a calculator and textbook/cheat-sheet is allowed for some exams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
by h2zizzle | 2025-04-09 17:25:14+00:00
No, they definitely sell you what they want you to buy, not necessarily what you want to buy. Demand is an input, but not a determinant, of what gets stocked. The calculus ultimately determining what gets stocked happens far away from the storefront, and way above the heads of your given GM, involving relationships with suppliers and the image the store brand wants to project, at scale. In fact, in most stores, GMs are barred from making deals with suppliers to determine stock. You HAVE to go to corporate if, say, you want your local CVS to sell your locally-produced product. A GM who puts something that isn't in the planogram on a shelf is getting sacked.
by danaris | 2025-04-09 17:25:18+00:00
Several reasons. Nonexhaustively:

- There's a large contingent of people who just do not accept that even though Trump is the president, he does not actually have a genius master plan. Not all of these people even voted for him.

- There are plenty of people who genuinely believe that significant protectionist tariffs are good policy.

- Lots of people who have voted red all their lives simply support and believe whatever Their Side says and does.

- The major mainstream media publications are all owned by extremely wealthy people, who a) have a vested interest in ensuring that the Republicans stay in power, so they can continue to push for more and more and more and more tax cuts (for themselves), and b) are very scared right now that they will personally be targeted by Trump if their publications speak against him.

And, of course:

- Plain old wishful thinking.
by notatoad | 2025-04-09 17:25:27+00:00
again: that's fraud, it's illegal, and the consequences begin with getting your whole shipment seized.

if you want to smuggle products illegally, that's on you. but the parent's assertion was that tariffs can be trivially bypassed by changing the country of origin. maybe we have different understandings of "trivial", but for me it being illegal makes it non-trivial.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-09 17:26:02+00:00
Related:

Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power (48 points, 17 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627877

Who falls for fake news? Psychological and clinical profiling evidence (2022) (33 points, 1 year ago, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158604
Show HN: I built a tool that deconstructs websites to reveal their tech stack
by yavorsky | 2025-04-09 17:27:20+00:00
Hi HN, I built https://unbuilt.app to solve a problem I frequently faced as a developer: identifying the technology stack behind websites, especially those using newer frameworks and tools.

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- Uses Playwright to visit sites and analyze their resources

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The tool is completely open-source and free to use. There are no premium tiers or usage limits. I built it because I believe developers deserve better tools for understanding the web ecosystem.

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Link to repo: https://github.com/yavorsky/unbuilt.app
by robomartin | 2025-04-09 17:27:35+00:00
> This only stops when China equalizes.

Not sure what that means. There are many potential outcomes that could be defined as "equalizes".

At one limit, no country in the world, except for China, has a solid industrial base. In other words, nobody makes anything except for China.

OK, then their standard of living continues to increase. Got it.

In, say, 50 years, the cost of doing business in China starts to become less competitive. This, assuming no manipulation. This creates an opportunity for other nations to return to participation in various industrial sectors. However, this also means fifty years of utter destruction around the world. This also comes with loss of skilled workforce, manufacturing plants and the infrastructure necessary to support industrial activities.

Regrettably, by that time, most industrial capacity around the world would have been utterly destroyed. So, this reentry into manufacturing will likely be characterized by making low value products. For example, making screws, wire, some types of clothing, etc. Assembly operations might also make sense for lower tech products. This will only make sense if shipping parts from China to country X and then assembling there is economically viable. Tough to predict five years from now, much less fifty.

This process of "equalization" (in quotes because it really doesn't have a solid definition) most likely brings with it a further and non-trivial destruction of economic drivers in the US and Europe (and everywhere else). This, in turn, will result in terrible outcomes and economic collapse of the kind these societies are not used to (this is certainly the case in the US, Europeans have gone through serious consequences of the world wars).

I will not claim to be smart enough about these things to understand what the solution might be. Go to Walmart or shop on Amazon and it is impossible not to come out thinking that the damage is done and must of this is not reversible. I don't know. What I do know is that something has to change or things are going to get worse, much worse. We are not going to float entire economies on the back of AI and data centers.

I have always found the aspects of the history of Argentina have serious parallels with how large western economies have damaged themselves from the inside. Coincidentally, I just came across a nice and concise historical perspective of how this country went from being one of the top economies in the world to barely having the industrial output and economy to survive. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jGnl4Re8Gpk
by ebruchez | 2025-04-09 17:27:36+00:00
This sounds like official Chinese propaganda. This was truer at some point, but things have started turning bad for China with the advent of Xi Jinping. 20-25 years ago, the country was hopeful, developing fast, opening up. Foreigners started moving there, seeing it as a new land of opportunity. Much of that is gone. The economy is in bad shape, youth unemployment is massive, the country is a dictatorship, nobody wants to move there (and China doesn't want you to anyway). I'll quote the Economist: "When Mr Xi took over in 2012, China was changing fast. The middle class was growing, private firms were booming and citizens were connecting on social media. A different leader might have seen these as opportunities. Mr Xi saw only threats."
by dboreham | 2025-04-09 17:27:55+00:00
To be fair, Canadian border agents have been looking at some travelers' phones for years. A typical scenario might be: "So why are you entering Canada?" ; "Visiting friends, on holiday" (traveler carrying a suitcase full of tattoo equipment); "Ok let's look at your phone" ; "Interesting, in this SMS thread from yesterday your friend says 'looking forward to you starting work in the tattoo studio'". Entry denied.

https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/edd-ean-eng.html
by andrewrn | 2025-04-09 17:28:08+00:00
This is revealing an important design distinction. The game needs to adapt to different scales. There are huge scale estimations (day 3's question is the volume of air humanity inhales each day, for ex), and smaller ones that are still useful "how many cups of coffee can a barista make in a hour". Both seem like they could still be fun, with the mechanics being more dynamic to the question's scale. Do this seem right?

I ought to make this cleaner in the app. Thanks so much!
by c22 | 2025-04-09 17:28:32+00:00
Specialization is over-rated. I've done everything in your list except make an ASIC because learning how to do those things was interesting and I prefer when things are done my way.

I started way back in my 20s just figuring out how to write websites. I'm not sure where the camel's back would have broken.

It has, of course, been convenient to be able to "bootstrap" my self-reliance in these and other fields by consuming goods produced by others, but there is no mechanical reason that said goods should be provided by specialists rather than advanced generalists beyond our irrational social need for maximum acceleration.
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-09 17:29:08+00:00
Having worked in FAANG and for the Feds (on a project that was in collaboration with 18F, to boot), I respectfully disagree. You simply do not get the same calibre of technical operators or even just product operators in the federal government, full stop. Maybe they exist, but they're going to be occupying high up/plum positions because people like that are so rare.

In practice, it is software consulting companies that are doing all of the heavy lifting while the federal workers largely sit back and collect their paycheck - and talented operators are extremely rare there as well.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-09 17:29:13+00:00
I'd argue the "presentation and Q&A" format addresses that directly. The candidate gets to pick exactly what the interview is going to be about, at least at the beginning, so they have full control over first impressions. No gotchas at all. Who wouldn't pick something they're confident about?

If someone thinks Cmake is super cool and knows all sorts of great use cases for it, then they should present that. They should also be prepared to answer open-ended follow-up questions like "broadly speaking, how could a project transition from something like Automake to Cmake?" or "what are some footguns in Cmake and how can we avoid them?"
by perihelions | 2025-04-09 17:29:16+00:00
- "...but in the current iteration of the administration I find it unlikely that it would be a positive experience if you were to stand on it"

I.e., this warning example from this week,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618754 ("Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family (freep.com)")

(US citizen, attorney, detained for 90 minutes as punishment for asserting his rights and refusing to unlock his work phone, which contained privileged attorney-client communications).
by roguecoder | 2025-04-09 17:29:37+00:00
Having to do work is different than getting adequate vitamins and minerals (which is all fluoride is) passively. It's no different than iodine in salt or vitamins B12, C and folic acid in cereal or vitamin D in milk.

We no longer go out and find the magic rock that we lick to ensure a good harvest or drink from the special stream that cures illnesses: we know what the human body needs to be able to do things like "grow teeth" and "not develop scurvy". Why would we go back to making people have to do a bunch of work to get access to basic nutrition? Because some weirdos want to take us back to a time when the average life expectancy in the United States was 40 years old?
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-09 17:30:35+00:00
>antivax rural areas

I would be careful with what size brush you are painting.

>There are, of course, the familiar anti-vaxxers, who spoke up as early as February with concerns about a mandatory vaccine. There are also new groups. One is connected to far-right extremism and conspiracy theories (about the virus and otherwise). The other, termed “vaccine-hesitant,” is more surprising. It includes members of the opposite demographic — highly educated, liberal, not libertarian

>While a majority of those unwilling to get a vaccine are Republicans, 42% of Democrats agree with them

https://harvardpolitics.com/the-new-anti-vax/
by vkou | 2025-04-09 17:30:40+00:00
You're not entitled to a job. If someone else is working two, nobody's 'robbing' you.

If you think you are, I'll counterpoint it by insisting that I'm entitled to a house. Why should someone else have two, or more, or two hundred, when I don't even have one? Some landlord hoarding of them is, after all, robbing me.
by nlawalker | 2025-04-09 17:30:52+00:00
Not that you're wrong, but here's the argument from the other side:

- AI is supposed to be a great productivity booster, but no one has figured out a way of actually measuring developer productivity, so we'll just use the proxy of measuring whether they're using AI.

- Developers won't want to use AI because it's threatening to them, so we'll mandate it.

- Consistency and fungibility of human resources is incredibly valuable. 0.5x developers can use AI to get them up to at least 1x. And 10x developers? We're actually better off if the AI "slows them down" and makes their work output look more like everyone else's. 10x developers are actually a liability, because it can be hard to quantify and measure their contributions, and so when things become worse when they end up leaving, it feels intangible and impossible to fix.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-09 17:31:08+00:00
Related

High-dose Vitamin D reduces disease activity in early multiple sclerosis onset (91 points, 15 days ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469661

Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency (654 points, 4 years ago, 363 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24912172

Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds (372 points, 5 years ago, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607645
by qingcharles | 2025-04-09 17:31:28+00:00
Also tried "Most fun way to catch HIV":

#1 Reckless needle sharing 100% organic No artificial flavors or colorings Intimate bonding experience Supports local underground economies #2 Unprotected sex with strangers Thrill of Russian roulette with your immune system Classic, time-tested method Conveniently available in most locations Potential for bonus STI combos #3 Used Syringe Easter Egg Hunt Family-friendly format (for very progressive families) Element of surprise with every find Possible genetic recombination benefits Teaches children valuable sharing skills
by johndough | 2025-04-09 17:31:33+00:00
Use it or lose it. With the invention of the calculator, students lost the ability to do arithmetic. Now, with LLMs, they lose the ability to think.

This is not conjecture by the way. As a TA, I have observed that half of the undergraduate students lost the ability to write any code at all without the assistance of LLMs. Almost all use ChatGPT for most exercises.

Thankfully, cheating technology is advancing at a similarly rapid pace. Glasses with integrated cameras, WiFi and heads-up display, smartwatches with polarized displays that are only readable with corresponding glasses, and invisibly small wireless ear-canal earpieces to name just a few pieces of tech that we could have only dreamed about back then. In the end, the students stay dumb, but the graduation rate barely suffers.

I wonder whether pre-2022 degrees will become the academic equivalent to low-background radiation steel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-09 17:31:39+00:00
> could support realtime experiences

Node supports realtime applications? Really? Isn't it garbage collected? Or does the term mean something different in nodejs? I've only come to know the term in the context of time guarantees (i.e. if it's scheduled to run in x, it is guaranteed to run at that time) and that shouldn't apply to nodejs I think? When you schedule something there, I believe it'll run on the first free thread after the timer relapsed - which entirely depends on the load of the system
by wahern | 2025-04-09 17:31:46+00:00
> Fishing is less profitable for the whole UK than Warhammer.

There are 3x as many fishermen in the UK than employees of Games Workshop, and much more again if you count the number of related fishery jobs.

At the end of the day, politicians and voters alike respond more to employment than nominal monetary figures. A broader employment base is generally better for social and political stability than explicit wealth redistribution (e.g. tax + entitlements). The latter is what economic theory tends to emphasize--i.e. equivocate incomes based on state wealth redistribution schemes--but such economic theory is how we got Trump, Brexit, and a host of other ills. Economics hasn't figured out, yet, how to price the constituent inputs that produce political and economic stability. GDP, Gini, per capita income, employment rate, etc metrics are gross approximations that work well until they don't (though they're still better than rhetoric and handwaving). But to be fair, social and political theorists haven't solved that problem, either; at least, not with a rigorous quantification model.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-04-09 17:31:59+00:00
>For many students, it's literally "let me paste the assignment into ChatGPT and see what it spits out, change a few words and submit that".

Does that actually work? I'm long past having easy access to college programming assignments, but based on my limited interaction with ChatGPT I would be absolutely shocked if it produced output that was even coherent, much less working code given such an approach.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-09 17:32:05+00:00
> Complain about it in performance reviews

The last time I brought up concerns with a coworkers performance in a review I was fired a couple of weeks later

It turned out he was good buddies with my boss's boss

There are a lot of mechanisms in society preventing a lot of people from feeling the negative consequences of their poor work

I wish it were so easy as you say
by msgilligan | 2025-04-09 17:33:22+00:00
The article is paywalled, but the headline word "fraud" doesn't match the first few paragraphs of the article.

"Regulation by enforcement" has been a real thing and a bad thing. You can't expect people to obey the law if you won't tell them what it is.

I would like to see the government prosecute actual fraud, so if the article goes on to say they will not prosecute that, then maybe the headline is accurate.