MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2025-04-29 12:16:10+00:00
> GWB didn't strike me as someone who could come up with the idea of prolonged Mideast conflict on his own.

This was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C... , the "Project 2025" of its time. They're the ones really responsible for the Iraq war, but they never got the Iran War they really wanted.
by lvl155 | 2025-04-29 12:16:12+00:00
When are we going to realize this is a form of dumping by the Chinese? People love cheap goods but as QoL in China improves, they won’t be able to churn out cheap goods for long. That’s why CCP is hellbent on trying to monopolize global supply chain. In fact, I believe we are first slowly and then drastically headed toward global equilibrium in labor cost. We might be looking at significantly cheaper labor in the US and double or triple labor costs in China and India.
by nirui | 2025-04-29 12:17:22+00:00
There are few problems in this research, first:

> AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation

But Generative AI is not just AI chatbots. There are ones that generate sounds/music, ones that generates imagines etc.

Another thing is, the research only looked Denmark, a nation with fairly healthy altitude towards work-life-balance, not a nation that gives proud to people who work their own ass off.

And the research also don't cover the effect of AI generated product: if music or painting can be created by an AI within just 1 minute based on prompt typed in by a 5 year old, then your expected value for "art work" will decrease, and you'll not pay the same price when you're buying from a human artist.
by ringeryless | 2025-04-29 12:17:38+00:00
navel gazing will be shown to be a reactionary empty step, as all current global issues require more global cooperation to solve, not less.

the individual phenomena you describe are indeed detritus of this failed reaction to an increasing awareness of all humans of our common conditions under disparate nation states.

nationalism is broken by the realization that everyone everywhere is paying roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of their income in taxes, however what you receive for that taxation varies. your nation state should have to compete with other nation states to retain you.

the nativist movement is wrongful in the usa for the reason that none of the folks crying about foreigners is actually native american,

but it's globally in error for not presenting the truth: humans are all your relatives, and they are assets, not liabilities: attracting immigration is a good thing, but hey feel free to recycle tired murdoch media talking points that have made us nothing but trouble for 40 years.
by glimshe | 2025-04-29 12:18:09+00:00
I don't think our middle class can survive if all we make is software. Europe and others maintained its industrial base through heavy protectionism and tax manipulation. We can do that too.

Feel free to use the tariff information differently or not at all. I also want to buy more American products and this information may help with that too. Even if they are more expensive and their quality is inferior.

You can choose to do otherwise and I don't have a problem with that.
by nusl | 2025-04-29 12:18:22+00:00
Salesforce is one company I'm aware of that announced this sort of thing.

I'm personally only more productive with the help of AI if one the following conditions are met;

1. It's something I was going to type anyway, but I can just press Tab and/or make a minor edit

2. The code produced doesn't require many changes or time in understanding, as the times where it has required many changes or deeper understanding probably would have been faster to just code myself

Where it has been helpful, though, is debugging errors or replacing search engines for helping out with docs or syntax. But, sometimes it produces bullsh*t that doesn't exist and this can lead you down a rabbithole to nowhere.

More than once it's suggested something to me that solved all of the things I needed, only to realise none of it existed.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-29 12:18:37+00:00
First off, is there any? That's making an assumption, one which can just as easily be attributed to human-written code. Nobody writes debt-free code, that's why you have many checks and reviews before things go to production - ideally.

Second, in theory, future generations of AI tools will be able to review previous generations and improve upon the code. If it needs to, anyway.

But yeah, tech debt isn't unique to AIs, and I haven't seen anything conclusive that AIs generate more tech debt than regular people - but please share if you've got sources of the opposite.

(disclaimer, I'm very skeptical about AI to generate code myself, but I will admit to use it for boring tasks like unit test outlines)
by graylien | 2025-04-29 12:18:42+00:00
Do these forks keep updating with the new versions of VS Code? I wonder if once they're forked, they are stuck with that version they forked from?

On the other hand, I think MS are pretty much cloning the good stuff from Cursor, like agent mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutyOc_cAEU

Leaves me thinking VS Code might be the best in the long long run, but for now they're all kinda similar?
by gthompson512 | 2025-04-29 12:18:43+00:00
> So in D, is it now natural to mix borrow checking and garbage collection?

I think "natural" is a bit loaded, there is native support in the frontend for doing both. You have to go out of your way to annotate functions with @live and it is still experimental(https://dlang.org/spec/ob.html). The garbage collection is natural and happens if you do nothing, but you can turn it off with proper annotations like @nogc(https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#nogc-functions) or using betterC(https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html). There is also @safe, @system and @trusted(https://dlang.org/spec/memory-safe-d.html).

So natural is a stretch at the moment, but you can use all kinds of different techniques, what is needed is more community and library standardization around some solutions.
by diego_moita | 2025-04-29 12:18:56+00:00
> workers from knowledge economies like the coastal blue states to move there

In the 1980's a British researcher living in the U.S. became angry with the election of Ronald Reagan and his desire of using A.I. research for military purposes. He then moved to Toronto.[1] Last year that scientist, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, received the Nobel Prize for his research in A.I. that helped turn Toronto into a world hub in technology.

In the early 2000's it was the turn of an American scientist, angry with the policies of George W. Bush, moving to Edmonton, Alberta. This year that scientist Dr. Richard S. Sutton won the Turing prize for his research on Reinforcement Learning.

I have hopes that Donald Trump might become the best president that Canada never had.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/canada/the-man-who-...
by jcelerier | 2025-04-29 12:19:02+00:00
Yeah no, I'm seeing more and more shitty ai generated ads, shop logos, interior design & graphics for instance in barber shops, fast food places etc.

The sandwich shop next to my work has a music playlist which is 100% ai generated repetitive slop.

Do you think they'll be paying graphic designers, musicians etc. for now on when something certainly shittier than what a good artist does, but also much better than what a poor one is able to achieve, can be used in five minutes for free?
by profmonocle | 2025-04-29 12:19:20+00:00
I'm fine with this as long as they include the tariff in the listed price.

I'm worried businesses are going to use tariffs as an excuse to have a fake list price, then hit you with massive hidden fees at the point of sale. Some sectors have been doing this for years - "service fees" at restaurants, "regulatory response fees" in the telecom industry, all sorts of nonsense in event ticketing.

Physical goods have mostly been spared this type of fake pricing - aside from sales tax not being included, but that's been universally true in the US forever so everyone is used to it.

Tariffs could be the end of that if businesses see sales plummet. Especially because these scams actually work - the reason restaurants give for not just increasing their menu prices is because higher listed prices drive people away.
by Havoc | 2025-04-29 12:20:17+00:00
OAI in general seems to be treading water at best.

Still topping a lot of leaderboards but severely reduced rep. Chaotic naming, „ClosedAI“ image, undercut on pricing, competitors with much better licensing/open weights, stargate talk about Europe, Claude being seen as superior for coding etc. nothing end of the world but a lot of lukewarm misses

If I was an investor with financials that basically require magical returns from them to justify Vals I’d be worried.
by ellisv | 2025-04-29 12:20:59+00:00
My speed issue was in getting the data (although I think it is fixed now).

The other big performance problem I've had is the simulator hanging when I try to use Swift Charts.

My primary interest was in monitoring my total zone 2 time for cardio workouts where I spend at least 30 consecutive minutes in zone 2. However I've reduced the scope for now while I get the minimum viable app up and running.
by walth | 2025-04-29 12:21:41+00:00
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

We had the same thing happen with any email with 2f<domain> anywhere in the message body on Google workspace

The "2F" URL decodes to slash / and a third party registered our 2f<company>.com (probably for nefarious purposes)

That kicked on the automatic filtering on messages that had URL encoded links and started blocking them.

Eventually, we had to register 2fgoogle.com ourselves to escalate the issue.
by sofixa | 2025-04-29 12:22:10+00:00
> Do we not agree that the reality is that renewables are the only sustainable option for energy production?

No, we do not, unless you use a very narrow definition of sustainable. Nuclear will play a big part, especially in Western Europe, thanks to France which exports to all its neighbours and is a good stabilising provider.

And other than that, who knows. Green hydrogen could be a solution for energy storage.
by ZeroTalent | 2025-04-29 12:22:13+00:00
There is no more "as QoL in China improves."

The majority of parts of "Swiss Made" watches are made in China, utilizing a loophole that requires 60% of the watch's cost to be manufactured and assembled in Switzerland. So they make a rotor made out of gold in Switzerland, which accounts for 60% of the COGS of the watch, pop the rotor on the movement, and the sapphire glass on the watch, and it's "Swiss Made."

Best source, a rabbit hole: https://monochrome-watches.com/h-moser-cie-launches-swiss-ma...

Replicas are also manufactured in the same factories as "authentic" watches, but are fully assembled in China. (my personal insider anecdote)

"Investigators who work for Rolex and others say high-end fakes are “made in the same industrial parks and on cloned CNC machines”": https://www.businessinsider.com/how-counterfeit-rolexes-work...

"2025 “superfake” TAG Heuer Aquaracers used real Swiss Sellita movements inside Chinese-made cases—proof of parts leakage, if not identical factory floors": https://www.heddels.com/2025/03/spotting-a-superfake-4-real-...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-29 12:22:20+00:00
> We are a couple of years away from the death of the level 1 support engineer.

And this trend isn't new; a lot of investments into e.g. customer support is to need less support staff, for example through better self-service websites, chatbots / conversational interfaces / phone menus (these go back decades), or to reduce expenses by outsourcing call center work to low-wage countries. AI is another iteration, but gut feeling says they will need a lot of training/priming/coaching to not end up doing something other than their intended task (like Meta's AIs ending up having erotic chats with minors).

One of my projects was to replace the "contact" page of a power company with a wizard - basically, get the customers to check for known outages first, then check their own fuse boxes etc, before calling customer support.
by xtiansimon | 2025-04-29 12:22:27+00:00
Interesting.

AliExpress added this last week as a line item cost during checkout.

I took up a new hobby in 2021 and was buying materials from Amazon and eBay. There’s more transparency on eBay for products shipped directly from China. As a result I stated to realize when shopping on Amazon (and not buying a known Branded Manufacturer, but choosing same category product at lower price) I was buying the exact same low quality Chinese products on Amazon as I was buying on eBay and paying more. Of course, Amazon has better customer service and more consistent return policies compared to eBay stores. There’s benefits for the price, but the products are the same.

Then I discovered AliExpress, and found the same products I was buying on eBay, and Amazon, but my costs were even less. Downside was longer shipping times, and (effectively) no returns.

Last week I looked to buy more materials at AliExpress, and found the line item tariff cost had doubled the price.

I think you see the differences I’m highlighting here are cost and customer service—ALL for the SAME products.

I’m bummed my hobby costs are going up for the same quality products. I’m bummed the sub-800$ exemption is going away.

I believe AliExpress is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. Everybody is buying from the wholesale marketplace, Alibaba. If an Amazon seller is adding tariffs, then I think they’re an AliExpress seller on the Amazon platform.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-04-29 12:22:51+00:00
It's curious how many athletic people fit this stereotype: they can't fathom that someone might not be like them.

For a great many of us climbing is utterly terrifying. Yeah, tried it. Yeah, aware that the belay rope is there. No, it still sucks and no extra happiness is anywhere to be found except happiness that it's over.

But more importantly the athletic people underestimate just how bad unathletic people are at exercise and just how much effort even something basic is for them.

Most people could not do the basic bouldering you are about to suggest to counter my point above: they don't have the arm strength. Building that strength would take at least 6 months of a dedicated workout program and a cure for whatever psychological issues are affecting their diet. Most will never get there and suggesting to them that they can sound like "just perform a magic ritual". Oh, and after 6 months of doing the impossible their achievement is "you can do the noob bouldering". Underwhelming to say the least.

But to you exercise is easy and fun and the opposite is inconceivable. And if we dare speak up - we'll be told we are our perspective, attitude, and indeed our very life experience are invalid and wrong. Go on, hit that downvote.
by pc86 | 2025-04-29 12:22:56+00:00
We can either accept that there are incentives, but ultimately people are responsible for their [in]actions and should be lauded or punished accordingly, or what? We are but powerless automatons thrust into this System that requires us to... falsify scientific data in order to get tenure?

No, sorry. We have free will. We have agency. Using an example from the article, there are approximately 0 examples of professors who eschew open source journals because of the low impact factor until they get tenure then exclusively publish in open source journals once they get it. There's always some other faculty position, some other grant, some citation, some conference. They just don't want to publish in open source journals because closed source journals are "better." That's fine, but don't be so dishonest as to pretend it's the incentives that pushed you there. It's you.
by ringeryless | 2025-04-29 12:23:11+00:00
the earth is not the property of humans, nor is any of it empty until you show zero ecosystem or wildlife or plants there.

for sure, we are doing our best to eradicate the conditions that make earth habitable, however i suggest that the first needed change is for computer screen humans to realize that other life forms exist. this requires stepping outside and questioning human hubris, so it might be a big leap, but i am fairly confident that you will discover that absolutely none of our planet is empty.
by YannZ | 2025-04-29 12:23:32+00:00
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by aeonik | 2025-04-29 12:23:38+00:00
Why solid gold? It would be way too ductile, heavy, and conduct far too much heat.

Diamond might actually be better: low surface energy means a low coefficient of friction, so it would be much easier to clean. It would still suck the heat right out of your cheeks, though.

Realistically, porcelain or other ceramics are probably the ideal material.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-29 12:23:42+00:00
The official `go` command does dep management, (cross) compilation, testing (including benchmarks and coverage reports), race detection, profiling reports, code generation (metaprogramming alternative), doc generation etc. Build times are insanely fast too.

The only tooling I use personally outside of the main CLI is building iOS/Android static libraries (gomobile). It’s still first party, but not in the go command.
by danaris | 2025-04-29 12:23:42+00:00
> It doesn't; however, you would immediately have a civil case against the person and/or their representative for their false claim.

Great. So a motivated bad actor can send out 10,000,000 bogus takedowns for images promoting political positions and people they disagree with, and they have to be taken down immediately, and then all 10 million people affected have to individually figure out who the hell actually submitted the takedowns, and have enough money for lawyers, and enough time to engage in a civil suit, and in the end they might get money, if they can somehow prove that taking down those specific images damaged them personally, rather than just a cause they believe in, but will they get the images restored?

This just smacks of obliviousness and being woefully out of touch, even before we get to

> That's not spelled out in the bill but it should be obvious.

...which almost makes it sound like this whole thing is just an elaborate troll.
by canucker2016 | 2025-04-29 12:23:43+00:00
Jagmeet Singh, NDP leader (left-wing, typically blue collar worker-centric), also didn't win a seat (he came in 3rd place in his riding).

Singh announced he would be stepping down as NDP leader (many noted that he had qualified for his pension recently). NDP lost many seats (> 2/3 pre-election seats) and official party status (12 MPs min).

Looks like many typical NDP voters jumped to the Liberal bandwagon to fight off the threat from down south. I hope that's what POTUS was expecting when he started the 51st state trolling.

And people were worried about political/election interference from China...

see https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/takeaways-election-results-... and https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-canadian-election-analys...
by tnel77 | 2025-04-29 12:24:18+00:00
While I agree with you, I think it would be extremely rare (maybe impossible) to have a truly tariff-free product.

Yes, all of the parts and assembly for a product can occur in the United States, but what about the tools they use? What about the semi and the fuel it uses to bring you those tools? While there will certainly be companies that don’t directly pay tariffs, it will be hard for just about every domestic manufacturer to be completely shielded from their effects.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-29 12:24:39+00:00
Its unfortunately even worse than that, in my opinion. Security is making computers not do things. Software engineers spend much of their day trying to make computers do new things. It is almost necessary that security work adds friction to other work.

So not only is it often difficult to measure the actual impact of a security mitigation, it is often possible (or even easy) to measure the friction caused by a security mitigation. You really need everybody to believe in the necessity of a mitigation or else it becomes incredibly easy to cut.
by stetrain | 2025-04-29 12:24:41+00:00
Company A imports steel and pays a tariff, uses the steels to make screws in the US.

Company B imports lumber and pays a tariff, manufacturers it into furniture rails in the US.

Company C buys furniture rails from Company B and screws from Company A and assembles them into an end table.

Company D buys the end tables wholesale from Company C and distributes them on Amazon.

How does Amazon display the tariffs paid by Company A and B and correctly show the price difference in the final product?
by anonzzzies | 2025-04-29 12:24:43+00:00
For frontend, we don't need people anymore: backend, especially complex stuff, LLMs really waste our time by not getting it/going in circles so we just don't really do that anymore as plowing through 100s of lines of code or prs that are wrong, not conform to standards, has libs included we don't need etc. It is pretty useless as agents will just go in circles until it's so messy that it would've been many times easier just writing it with code. And often it's hard to get out besides just rollback.
by axelMI | 2025-04-29 12:24:55+00:00
thanks Just to better understand your request.

a) the Ø at the right of a section resets the section's settings back to default zeros (it becomes white when available) b) closing a section doesn't lose it's settings, unless of course it has been reset

As for a button that allows to "temporarily" disable a section (but keeping it's modified settings underneath), yes it's a very good idea
by decimalenough | 2025-04-29 12:25:21+00:00
I'm generally an AI skeptic, but it seems awfully early to make this call. Aside from the obvious frontline support, artist, junior coder etc, a whole bunch of white collar "pay me for advice on X" jobs (dietician, financial advice, tax agent, etc), where the advice follows set patterns only mildly tailored for the recipient, seem to be severely at risk.

Example: I recently used Gemini for some tax advice that would have cost hundreds of dollars to get from a licensed tax agent. And yes, the answer was supported by actual sources pointing to the tax office website, including a link to the office's well-hidden official calculator of precisely the thing I thought I would have to pay someone to figure out.
by jonplackett | 2025-04-29 12:25:41+00:00
Is 'replacing' the right way to think of it though?

I don't see any AI yet anywhere near good enough to literally do a person's job.

But I can easily see it making someone, say 20%-50% more effective, based on my own experience using it for coding, data processing, lots of other things.

So now you need 8 people instead of 10 people to do a job.

That's still 2 people who won't be employed, but they haven't been 'replaced' by AI in the way people seem to think they will be.
by amos-burton | 2025-04-29 12:26:03+00:00
> I disagree with the partition of people into winners and losers.

I honestly had not the courage to say those out loud... i suppressed those thoughts. you cant really mean such things unless you abandoned your individuality. few people really does that.

My opinion on this paper is too strong that i prefer not to share it. Let s put it this way, she is not entirely wrong.