MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelsshaw | 2025-04-04 13:40:52+00:00
Anti-white racism is an issue in America? Since when, exactly? Can I expect you to start talking about the great replacement theory next? Are you sure you're an engineer, not an Uber driver?

How would you go about these "consequences" as you put them? Do you actually think anyone will take you seriously when you complain about not enough white people being hired? Surrounded by too many women? Sounds like a personal issue to me.

It's natural for you to feel attacked, as you're used to living under a white-supremacist system. I guarantee you would have been one of the MLK haters back in the 60s.

Also, on the prejudice thing. You actively make the decision every day to have shitty, racist opinions. Black people do not have the choice to become white, but you can become a better person. You simply choose not to. There is a huge difference, and your lack of ability to see that is telling.
by coldpie | 2025-04-04 13:40:59+00:00
> I wouldn't call Republican policies pro-big-tech considering they are behind the Tiktok ban.

The government stepping in and eliminating one of (American) big tech's biggest competitors is an extremely pro-(American)-big-tech move.

> The policies are more anti-regulation, which big-tech wants right now.

Well, yeah. Exactly. They're all on the same team. They want fewer barriers in the way of their quest for more personal power.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-04 13:41:03+00:00
The US is, infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works projects at any cost, and when they eventually do get done they cost double or more what they would have in other developed countries.

It's, among other things, part of the body of evidence that Civil Law may be notably more efficient than Common Law. Britain's also unusually bad in this department, though not as much as the US (the Civil vs Common thing probably isn't the whole story anyway—it's rarely that simple)
by Danieru | 2025-04-04 13:41:08+00:00
Everyone appears to agree that Britain is broken. The author recognizes that the issue is not a lack of taxes, but lack of care at where the money goes.

Sadly the author I think is getting distracted by specific issues. Focusing on school or social costs. Or specific large project over runs.

While I do not agree with him on many things, I think Dominic Cummings's treatment of the subject digs deeper: https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/q-and-a

You need to read through a ton, but it paints a picture of a government chasing newspaper headlines. And an overall ineffective method of running a country from the top down.

How could it be that an act of parliament is being held up by local councils? Parliament's orders used to be the law of the land. Now it is but one of many.

Often treatments of British decline read as if the authors wished Britain had been fire bombed to smithereens, and benefited from the Marshel Plan. Yet this undersells the British people. They know how to build new houses. They know how to build trains. Yet Britain as a whole is still searching for that win-win. The path to fixing problems without compromises.

Meanwhile Britain's managerial and governing class is so incompetent, it is hard to imagine replacements who would perform worse.
by eimrine | 2025-04-04 13:41:22+00:00
> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> AI automating tasks that used to be someone’s job—tools for code generation, debugging, or even design seem to dominate the front page

From exactly this wording this is good, isn't it?

> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> feeling pressured or concerned about the future of our line of work

My way is consuming less.

> What keeps you from losing sight of the good while navigating the gloom and ambiguity around AI's place in the workforce and, more broadly, in the world?

Not navigating it, taking information from good old books, archiving really worthy books like tomorrow there will be no Libgen.

> workforce

What a nasty word to define oneself.
by JohnCClarke | 2025-04-04 13:41:28+00:00
It's worth keeping in mind that the same week the government cut £5B from supporting the sick and disabled they also started selling bonds bought during QE for £100B less than they paid for them.

Swings and roundabouts: life expectancy for the poor will fall, but we will have another handful of billionaires.

TL;DR: It's not by accident that Britain feels poor.
by varispeed | 2025-04-04 13:41:53+00:00
> "In a single year, residential care costs for children have increased by £2,000 per child… per week"

and child is being looked after by barely qualified minimum wage worker (often actually paid below minimum wage if you add unpaid overtime and foreign workers not knowing the laws), meanwhile owners of care services live opulent lifestyles in places like Dubai. UK services market is not free, which is part of the problem.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-04 13:42:19+00:00
American here, relatively well-read. My sense is that post-1945 Britain took a sharp turn - from "let's all work together for the common good" to "let's pretend that our country has a decent future...while quietly looting its not-dead-yet body for our own individual benefit".

Well, not quite that simplistic. And WWI was also pretty brutal for both Britain's situation and outlook.

IIR, Adam Smith was very clear about the differences between healthy, virtuous capitalism, and the evils of maximize-how-much-the-self-serving-rich-can-squeeze-out-of-the-little-people feudalism.
by kbolino | 2025-04-04 13:42:20+00:00
One of the most successful indie games (Factorio) has had a strict policy of no sales ever. Of course, this is not the norm, but it is not necessary to sell for pennies unless your game is explicitly limited in scope or playtime. Factorio and a number of other indies have also loudly raised their prices and this too hasn't hurt them. At the least, there isn't a one-size-fits-all rule here.
by samiv | 2025-04-04 13:42:23+00:00
If it already hasn't been said I'd really recommend anyone interested in this topic to checkout "Gary's Economics" on YouTube.

Even if you don't agree with him (and I know many don't for various reasons..) You have to admit that he does bring a new perspective to the table and (as a layman economist) it just makes logical sense.

Regardless, the main stream economists have not been able to either predict the economy or improve it (for the general majority of people) and it seems that every western economy is following the same trajectory where

- governments are broke and pulling back on their services to the public (health care, education etc.) - working class is broke, living pay check to paycheck barely scraping by - middle class is shrinking and financing their lives with ever increasing amounts of debt (mortgages)

All the above then begs the question, who has all the money? Who has all the wealth?
by dboreham | 2025-04-04 13:42:23+00:00
Since the headline is positively wrong, and the article paywalled here's what this actually is about:

NOAA uses cloud providers including AWS and GCP to host a bunch of services and sites under its "research division". The contracts under which these hosting arrangements are provided are to be terminated shortly. At that point those services and web sites will go offline.

afaics it's nothing to do with the actual weather service data feeds.
by nflatrea | 2025-04-04 13:42:30+00:00
Class-struggle comrade, having a materialist pov explains a little for me. AI may not be the issue itself but more a tool used by productivism and capitalism to dominate workers. We have the capacity to restrain its use when not necessary, or use it to soothe proletarians, we just don't for economic and technocratic reasons.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-04 13:42:32+00:00
> everywhere in Britain that's outside of London is now poorer than any given state in the US.

This is true of Europe in general vs the US because economic growth in Europe has been low compared to the US since at least the financial crisis. At the time GDP of the Eurozone was comparable to the US' now the US is almost twice as big. As a consequence every European country ranks low compared to US states on GDP per capita:

"Italy is just ahead of Mississippi, the poorest of the 50 states, while France is between Idaho and Arkansas, respectively 48th and 49th. Germany doesn't save face: It lies between Oklahoma and Maine (38th and 39th)." (2023) [1]

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/09/04/the-gdp...
by netsharc | 2025-04-04 13:43:15+00:00
And admitting it would mean bursting the bubble of "I'm an intelligent person." (and even "a good person"). It's easier to construct a virtual reality where you're still the one with the clue and everyone else are just utter morons.

Also, with everything being written down nowadays (on your social media), changing your opinion means inviting mockery of past comments being dug up to be flung at you. Then again, the idiots in power seem to have developed a thick skin for this.

A little over a month ago: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/g-s1-50605/conspiracy-theorie... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194910
by ChrisKnott | 2025-04-04 13:43:53+00:00
His examples of “feeling poor” are nothing to do with being poor and are in fact mostly signs of largesse or affluence.

Councils expanded the number of SEND pupils eligible for free school transport, increasing spending from £9m to £20m - how is that being poor? It’s an improvement in quality of life…? Ok, it might be a waste of money (or might not be) but it’s not a cut is it.

Being poor is like your country sends 10 athletes to the Olympics and they all get eliminated in the heats. No Western nation is actually poor. All Western nations are roughly the same, there’s nothing notable about the UK other than it is towards the richer end and is a cultural superpower.
by squigz | 2025-04-04 13:44:12+00:00
This is a conversation about American politics, so I don't think how other countries acted is relevant.

The political landscape also changes regularly - I don't think the Republicans of a few decades ago were attacking schools so vigorously, so I'm not sure going further back than that for examples is relevant either.

> efforts of left-wing people in the 60's-90's to reduce their influence on society.

Can you elaborate on this?

> Universities today, though, have a status that religious organizations have never reached. Not only being tax free but also heavily taxpayer-funded, and with a university credential being virtually required for most jobs.

I suspect that if you go back not even that long ago, you'd find religious institutions having nearly as much importance, particularly in how faiths would prevent others from joining the workforce or society itself. In any case, I wonder what % of jobs actually do require a university education these days. I would not expect a majority of them to, but maybe I'm wrong.
by lynndotpy | 2025-04-04 13:44:17+00:00
I would like to add context for others that this was explicitly laid out in the "Project 2025" agenda. Accuweather was cited as an example, and Accuweather responded saying they do not agree with the agenda: https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/accuweather-does-not-su...
by tremon | 2025-04-04 13:44:20+00:00
From what I've seen, it's because the last 20 years (at least -- I wasn't politically conscious before then) of policy have only focused on London. The rest of the country has mostly been left to fend for itself, but have the additional burden of dealing with nation-wide policies that really only apply to single metropolis. And because Parliament over-allocates funds to London, that leaves most other municipalities to fight over funding scraps left on the table.
by jaxtracks | 2025-04-04 13:44:30+00:00
I'm confused, are you saying the TikTok ban is detrimental to US-based big tech? Seems like a forced sale is beneficial to them.

I was also under the impression we're also entering a regulatory climate where amount of regulation isn't so much decreasing (TikTok ban for example is heavy handed), but that big tech has much more involvement in forming that regulation, which is useful for moat-building.

I'm not too knowledgeable on these, it's just the general gist I've been picking up so far this year, looking for correction if I got the wrong idea.
by willidiots | 2025-04-04 13:44:43+00:00
I literally had a 90 year old woman approach me at the dentist yesterday, complementing my Model 3 and telling me "I just love Elon. I had a dream about him last night!" For these types, it's a cult of personality, not logic or policy.

I was also at the gun range last week and overheard a conversation between two Trump supporters. They were outraged by his behavior since taking office, and said outright "if we had to vote again right now, half of us wouldn't vote for him".
by jatingarg230 | 2025-04-04 13:44:47+00:00
AI coding tools are everywhere, but most still function as glorified autocompletes, great for snippets and boilerplate, but when it comes to building a fully functional app, they fall short.

You still have to manually stitch together frontend, backend, database, and deployment, often fixing AI-generated code along the way.

So we asked: What if AI could do more than just generate code? What if it could handle the entire dev workflow, end to end?

For the past 1.5 years, we’ve been testing this idea with 20,000+ developers, working through the real challenges of AI-powered development:

> Understanding an entire project instead of just the last few lines of code.

> Handling real-world app logic, not just generic "hello world" templates.

> Connecting everything seamlessly, from database models to APIs to the frontend.

> Deploying instantly, without the usual debugging loop that makes AI-generated code frustrating.

That’s what led us to create GoCodeo.

If you’re curious, feel free to try it out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GoCodeo....

What do you think is still missing for AI to be a real game-changer in full-stack development?
by spaceribs | 2025-04-04 13:44:51+00:00
I'm a big believer that the reason for the level of government bureaucracy and busywork described in this article is not a bug, it's a feature.

Government's job within a capitalist country in a lot of ways is to ensure stability, a stable populace and stable society leads to stable markets theoretically. But what do you do if there is not enough jobs to go around to ensure that stability?

Simple: you just make jobs up, you make busywork up, you increase the bureaucracy to subsidize people who would otherwise be destitute and rioting on the streets. Technical innovation has driven out so many people from jobs at this point that we're reaching a true crisis against the cultural expectation that everyone that's "useful" works a job.
by sigseg1v | 2025-04-04 13:44:51+00:00
> the greatest tool in human history

So would the greatest tool in human history in your mind be something that is used to plagiarise most content in the world and then output correct-30%-of-the-time slop? Or is there another definition you would use?

I'm struggling to think how this could even be in the top 10 tools in human history.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-04-04 13:45:22+00:00
New wealth "creation" is a lie. It only looks that way because of devaluing currency and population growth.

No conspiracy theory beliefs required to see this one. At the end of the day, what we are buying and selling is compute time on our brain CPU cluster. We can reshuffle what gets our attention, and the relative cost of things can change, but ultimately the only way to increase "wealth" is to get more underlying resource: human brainpower.

I see the counter argument coming from a mile away: yeah, but your poor is not your grandfathers poor. You have an iPhone, gramps did not. My counter is again simple: relative value. Electronics were a frontier at the time, and are a commodity now. They are now cheap, and this is compensated by a huge increase in the cost of basics like housing.
by tirant | 2025-04-04 13:45:33+00:00
The wealthy are likely paying more taxes than anyone else in absolute terms.

But more taxes alone won’t fix the problems outlined in the article—namely, the misaligned incentives across different branches of the State and the shockingly low return on each pound spent. That inefficiency is probably also a symptom of poor alignment among the individuals involved in procurement, as well as broader societal incentives.

Over the past few decades, States have grown so large that the original incentive structures they were built on are now being challenged by competing incentives emerging from individuals and various sub-organizations within the State itself.

These kinds of conflicts are far less common in the private sector. There, the company’s goal—profit—is usually well aligned with the customer’s goal—getting the best product at the lowest price. And that alignment tends to cascade through every level of management, all the way down to the last employee.
by fragmede | 2025-04-04 13:45:57+00:00
> Since then they've added massive, sophisticated systems for user monitoring and prediction, ad distribution, abuse and fraud detection, and so on. Use that code generation platform to build a product off any combination of two of the larger subsystems at Spotify

I'm listening. I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget so I'd love to hear more about this side of things. What is user prediction?
by crazygringo | 2025-04-04 13:45:57+00:00
I'm not talking about learning practical skills like research and teaching, or laboratory skills. I'm talking about the factual knowledge. Academia is built on open publishing. Do you disagree?

And the things I'm looking up just can't be found in Google or a dictionary. It's something defined in some random paper from 1987, further developed by someone else in 1998, that the author didn't cite.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-04 13:46:06+00:00
"I was wrong" is really hard to say at the best of times. I sometimes struggle with it when I make a little mistake at work.

Trying to say "I was wrong" after years of making your whole life, social circle, etc. about whatever thing you were wrong about is incredibly hard. It takes a very strong mental to do that. And, I wager for some/most people who fall deep into any cult-like movement (whatever it may be: conspiracies, etc.), they didn't start with a super strong mental fortitude in the first place, making it even more difficult.
by hibikir | 2025-04-04 13:46:12+00:00
Most forma of investing is putting the money back into circulation: After all, you are handing the money out to someone ao they use it. Just like giving out a business loan.

There is "investment" that doesn't cause more activity, like having a second home for speculation purposes that you keep empty. But in general, investment leads to more production, and ends up creating employment.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-04 13:46:27+00:00
This isn't short-term pain for long-term gain; it's short-term pain for long-term catastrophe.

The tariffs aren't some carefully-devised scheme to work out how to reshore manufacturing to the US; they're a slapdash scheme based on such idiotic economics that people had to do a double-take because the President of the United States and his cabinet couldn't possibly be that stupid. And once that sinks in, it becomes extremely counterproductive to the ostensible aims.

Why should anyone bother reshoring anything to the US? You might escape 30% tariffs on your product, but only for 30% tariffs on the inputs to your product. And living in the US means your long-term plans are always at risk of the toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum because, as we've already seen, a deal he makes yesterday can become the worst deal in the world that is proof of how much the US is getting cheated tomorrow.
by varispeed | 2025-04-04 13:46:27+00:00
> general upkeep on public spaces and services like libraries

This is also a cultural issue. In large cities, people often don't feel as being part of the community and they don't take pride in their surroundings. They put rubbish everywhere, vandalise. There is little done to change that. They see neighbour has nice flowers in the garden? Instead of admiring, they will cut them off.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-04 13:46:40+00:00
Google Sheets does have this feature. But it was fairly recent. Numbers had it for a long time and in any case I still prefer the implementation in Numbers. In Numbers, data is referenced through these tables exclusively while getting rid of sheet-level references; tables in Google Sheets do not go that far. My mental model for tables in Numbers is just sheets but relocatable and multiple can be viewed at the same time. My mental model for tables in Sheets is just it helps me with formatting and with referencing the entirety of the data like an upgraded named range.

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14239833?hl=en
by danaris | 2025-04-04 13:47:01+00:00
I mean, genuinely, the problem here is not that Trump is a convicted criminal. There are many people who are "convicted felons" who are far more ethical, intelligent, and possessed of better leadership qualities than he is. In particular, a) anyone convicted of nonviolent drug offenses should not be considered suspect in anything like the same way, and b) more generally, if you base your determinations of people on what's legal, you put yourself at the mercy of whatever the current government decides is acceptable. This government should make very clear why that is not the best idea in the world.

No; the problem with Trump is the specific types of laws he broke. He broke laws around honesty, fair dealing, obstruction of justice, and, of course, the integrity of elections and our democratic process. He is, very plainly, opposed to democracy and the rule of law, preferring to replace it with cronyism and nepotism.

That's why he's bad for the country, not simply "because he's a convicted criminal."
by M95D | 2025-04-04 13:47:01+00:00
That's almost entirely correct, with one exception:

> It fits the personality profile of not wanting to learn new things.

'systemd haters' learn a lot. They learn how to write manual boot scripts, set up mdev instead of udev, compile their own kernel, install their own u-boot or coreboot, strip binary blobs, etc. etc. They know MORE than the average systemd guy. They just don't want to learn systemd.

Isn't the whole purpose of systemd to ease and automate administration and configuration, so the user need not care? Doesn't that imply that systemd admins/users know LESS?

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Now let me make my own characterization of 'systemd enthusiasts'.

These people are overworked sysadmins that hate manual configuration. They want it easy, everything automated, they want to not care about it, they want the distro to auto-do everything and not even ask, they want less admin work. Systemd does all these things for them and they are in heaven. They're so enthusiastic that they feel we should all be one big happy family under the systemd umbrella.

But they fail too see that no company or manager will tolerate people that are _not_ overworked.

When something becomes automated, people previously doing the manual job are fired. A 10 people non-systemd team that works day-and-night to set manually up boot, mounts, network, services, cron, backups, logs, etc., as soon as systemd automates the work, will be cut down to just one guy (or less) and he will still work day-and-night, same as before, doing the work of the entire team. And he won't be able to take break because there's nobody left to replace him.

They also fail to see that resilience comes from diversity. Uniformity, systems where software is identical, updates are identical, configuration is identical, permissions are identical, etc., will also fail identically and probably at the same time, and will be hacked identically and at the same time (by automated bots/tools).