MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexjplant | 2025-05-20 04:52:16+00:00
When I was in high school I worked at the helpdesk for a small defense contractor. The developers there spent their down time building internal use IT tools. In those days they still wrote a lot of stuff in Lotus Domino, a tool that let you use a Notes database as the back-end for a SSR web app. Our ticketing system was written with it.

They later decided to adopt it for an annual IT satisfaction survey that they sent out to users. In an ideal world we wouldn't participate because the respondents were grading my team's performance but we got invites because we were part of the Exchange distro the message was sent to. I quickly discovered that the dev team had left a bunch of default routes enabled so we were able to view a list of all responses and see who submitted which. We knew our customers well enough that we could reliably attribute most of the negative responses via the free-text comments field anyhow but the fact that anybody could explicitly see everybody else's response wasn't great.

I suppose the NTLM-authenticated username in the server logs would convey the same info but at least that'd require CIFS/RDP access to the web server...
by GianFabien | 2025-05-20 04:53:16+00:00
Don't know about HR AI-bots firing workers. But only last week there was a news segment about HR AI-bots doing the first level interviewing via video-calls. Which is intriguing since there have been some reports previously about job applicants using AI to enhance their interviews, especially for remote jobs. Could lead to an AI-vs-AI showdown.

Of course, I take such reports with a grain of salt, because I often wonder whether such news items are self-serving product promotions in disguise.
by jcranmer | 2025-05-20 04:54:24+00:00
I don't think it's so much AI that is screwing up the education system as it is the "STEM über alles" crowd doing so. They've spent decades effectively telling people that it's the STEM fields that matter most, and any investment in education outside of that is frowned upon because it might detract from learning the important stuff. But the truth is that all of the non-STEM stuff is also important, and in many ways more so than the STEM stuff. I work in a STEM field, and I spend a significant fraction of my time trying to write essays and make coherent arguments; a good class on writing would probably be more useful than any other class actually required for my degree.

But now we have AI, which means that these people, who lack appreciation for the value of these classes and consequently don't even really understand what it is they lack, are better able to foist their beliefs in the unimportance of a well-rounded education on the rest of us.
by bosky101 | 2025-05-20 04:54:47+00:00
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by ggm | 2025-05-20 04:55:54+00:00
I knew a few people in the UK astronomy community, and the Met office was a great place for them. Michael fish's multicolour knitted tank-tops sort of personified the home counties tolerance for minor departure from the norms.

One of my astro chums at Bracknell rode a thumpingly noisy 4 stroke indian with a side-car, smoked hand-rolled menthol cigarettes and appeared to want to become Patrick Moore in size and demeanour. I like to think he fitted in well.
by arp242 | 2025-05-20 04:58:26+00:00
I'd say that if you have lethal cancer, then you're allowed to be self-centred. I can see how $some_famous_person getting the same cancer as I have might be the trigger to share my own story.

(No comment on whether it's truthful or now; I'm dimly aware Adams is the creator of Dilbert and has "gone Trump" over the last few years, and my knowledge stops there)
by INTPenis | 2025-05-20 04:59:25+00:00
I don't know Mr. Adams but my father was born in 1943 to a rural balkan community and this sounds just like him.

Except the focus on black americans, being most of his life in europe he mostly hates the gypsys and serbians.

But no worries, he's older than Biden and he'll be gone soon and we can make the world what we want it to be.
by umeshunni | 2025-05-20 05:00:26+00:00
Found this on an ex-Motorola employee's blog:

The IDE process at Motorola asked every employee to answer “yes” or “no” to six questions;

1. Do you have a substantive, meaningful, job that contributes to the success of Motorola?

2. Do you know the job behaviours and have the knowledge base to be successful?

3. Has training been identified and made available to continuously upgrade your skills?

4. Do you have a career plan, is it exciting, achievable and being acted on?

5. Have you received candid, positive or negative feedback within the last 30 days, which has helped in improving your performance or achieving your career plan?

6. Is adequate sensitivity shown by the company towards your personal circumstances, gender and culture?

This was done online every quarter and followed by a one-to-one with your boss to discuss how you could improve things together. Every manager in your reporting line could see your results and your own boss would expect to see your action plan to improve your team’s scores over time.

What do you think of this? A draconian measure or a positive statement of a minimum standard of expectation for all employees?

At the time of IDE being implemented, I was struck by the choice of language;

• INDIVIDUAL

• DIGNITY

• ENTITLEMENT

It’s a declaration of what we are choosing to become as an organisation; what we want the experience of being a Motorolan (and yes, that is a thing) to be. It’s universal and unbounded by grade, function or language and culture. It’s a clear message to every manager of the minimum expectation of them in relation to the people they lead. It humbles the role of “manager” to be in service of their employees’ entitlement to dignity at work.

Then there is the “yes/no” answer. No score of 1-10 or five point Likert scale or shades-of-grey adequacy. You either do or you don’t; clear and uncompromising.

The implementation of IDE was often painful. Employees worried about the consequences of saying “no”. Managers worried what consequences would arise from negative scores. Everyone was anxious about the one to one conversations.
by tikazyq | 2025-05-20 05:00:27+00:00
We recently came across something truly astonishing on GitHub: a single repository holding over 200,000 Git tags. This immense number is so extraordinary that we honestly believe it qualifies for a Guinness World Record.

Interestingly, trying to interact with the tags on this repository can actually cause GitHub to crash. It really highlights the challenges and limitations a platform faces when dealing with such an enormous volume of versions.

This situation offers a fascinating look into the extreme demands placed on repository stability and performance when a project accumulates so many releases.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-20 05:00:44+00:00
I've noticed a pattern:

(1) People assert that some event will happen (e.g. someone getting elected, some technology changing the world);

(2) They do zero analysis of the feasibility of that event happening;

(3) They divide themselves in regards to whether the consequences of the event will be good or bad;

(4) After months or years, the event doesn't happen; and

(5) They are confused, but eventually re-focus on the next event to get hyped about.

These people suffer significant personal harm (wasted careers, ruined relationships, endless dread of the future, increasing debt etc), because they are trapped in a cycle of unjustified exuberance. This isn't any way to live; it's an empty life.

I'm not quite saying that everything is a nothing-burger (though I do agree with OP that LLM->AGI is not going to happen), but I know that most predictions are incorrect -- because it is difficult to accurately describe things when you are excited, and predictions are usually made due to excitement. Many companies and politicians believe they have a chance of success if they can get enough people hyped.

I do not look forward to seeing how people deal with an LLM industry crash. I remember reading about a young man who borrowed $10k via student loans and donated that to a US presidential candidate, because that young man believed the candidate was going to win and wipe away all student loans. The candidate never got close to winning; that young man desperately begged for the money back; he was ghosted.
by xackpot | 2025-05-20 05:02:08+00:00
To replace the mangers, the AI needs to take care of the following pain points (got some help from chatgpt): Hiring and Talent Acquisition: - Candidate pipeline quality is inconsistent. - Time-consuming resume screening and interview scheduling. - Lack of diverse candidate pools.

Performance Management - Biased or inconsistent performance reviews. - Goal-setting lacks clarity or alignment with org OKRs. - Lack of real-time performance insights.

Project Planning and Execution - Estimations are often inaccurate. - Project scope creep due to unclear requirements. - Dependencies across teams delay execution.

Technical Debt and Code Quality - Mounting technical debt slows velocity. - Inconsistent coding standards. - Hard to trace ownership for legacy code.

Team Collaboration and Communication - Cross-team communication breakdowns. - Time zones complicate decision-making. - Meeting overload or lack of clarity post-meeting.

Onboarding and Knowledge Transfer - New hires take too long to ramp up. - Tribal knowledge isn't well documented. - Onboarding processes are inconsistent.

Incident Management and Reliability - Blameless postmortems are rarely actionable. - Alert fatigue from noisy signals. - Root cause analysis (RCA) is time-consuming.

Career Growth and Mentorship - Lack of clarity in career ladders. - Mentorship is ad-hoc and inconsistent. - Managers don’t have enough time for coaching.

Engineering Productivity Metrics - Metrics often feel punitive or misused. - Hard to attribute impact to engineers’ work. - Lack of actionable insights from engineering data.

Cross-Functional Alignment - Product and engineering priorities are misaligned. - Specs often change mid-cycle. - Lack of visibility into roadmap tradeoffs.

Each of these categories will probably need an AI agent in itself and probably an AI agent to control all the other AI agents. It would be a complex system, but will still need some monitoring until it is self-sustaining.
by esperent | 2025-05-20 05:02:33+00:00
I've consciously tried doing this for the past month on Android when chatting to Claude... when I'm alone. Don't think I could ever feel comfortable doing it around people.

I think I'm marginally faster using speech to text than using a predictive text touch keyboard.

But it makes enough mistakes that it's only very slightly faster, and I have a very mild accent. I expect for anyone with a strong accent it's a non starter.

On a real keyboard where I can touch type, it's much slower to use voice. The tooling will have to improve massively before it's going to be better to work by speaking to a laptop.
by spiderfarmer | 2025-05-20 05:02:42+00:00
Based on my experience on this platform so far I bet this thread will lure out some of the most apathetic privileged people who’ll try to convince you shouldn’t care about other people’s wellbeing at all and that they don’t trust people who do. In their view, having a person in charge that also lacks empathy isn’t necessarily something bad. And they’ll only change their mind once personality affected. That’s just how it works.

I could argue that it is bad, but I won’t. Because these people are literally unable to understand why people care about others.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-05-20 05:02:49+00:00
The actual latency budget would be less than a single frame to be completely non-noticable, so you are in fact limited to less than 1 GB to move per each keystroke. And each character may hold additional metadata like syntax highlight states, so 1 GB of movable memory doesn't translate to 1 GB of text either. You are still correct in that a line-based array is enough for most cases today, but I don't think it's generally true.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-20 05:03:34+00:00
> The filesystem navigation is something that AFAIK can't easily be replicated.

The filesystem navigation getting partially open sourced is one of the more interesting parts being open sourced per this announcement. The Plan9 file server that serves files from Windows into Linux is included in the new open source dump. (The Windows filesystem driver that runs a Plan9 client on the Windows side to get files from Linux is not in the open source expansion.)

It's still fascinating that the whole thing is Plan9-based, given the OS never really succeeded, but apparently its network file system is a really good inter-compatibility file communication layer between Linux and Windows.

> I do wish that WSL1 was taken further.

WSL1 survives and there's still a chance it will see more work eventually, as the tides shift. I think the biggest thing that blocked WSL1 from more success was lack of partners and user interest in Windows Subsystem for Android apps. That still remains a potentially good idea for Windows if it had been allowed "real" access to Google Play Services and App Store, rather than second rate copy of Amazon's copy of Google Play Services and Fire App Store. An actual Google partnership seems doomed given one of the reasons to get Windows Subsystem for Android competitive was fear of ChromeOS, but Google still loves to talk about how "Open" Android is despite the Google Play Services moat and that still sounds like something that a court with enough fortitude could challenge (even if it is probably unlikely to happen).
by yellowapple | 2025-05-20 05:03:45+00:00
More specifically: a lot fewer developers are as captive as they were in the 90's. And while normal users vastly outnumber developers, Microsoft has figured out that those normal users ain't inclined to stick around if those developers jump ship and stop developing for Windows.

In other words, specifically those of a former Microsoft CEO (who understood the problem but not the solution):

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS ... YES
by ndr42 | 2025-05-20 05:03:51+00:00
3 observations:

1) Parents that walk their kids through the homework have more stress not better performing students

2) individualized learning programs exist since the 70s, they were not a substitute - you have to explain something to somebody to fully grasps something - I do not see how anybody wants to explan something to an ai

3) Nearly everybody has been to a school so everybody is an expert
by dzink | 2025-05-20 05:05:11+00:00
An easy way to circumvent the AI problem is to ask the kids to read the material ahead of time and use class time for socratic method questions each student has to answer to determine their grade over time. Social media is training the new generations to be fed information - mostly stuff that flushes down the brain with an emotion, but also content. AI can easily create custom courses fit to a child’s needs and add density or adjust pace without being tired. Have them answer questions along the way to adjust pace and you have an educational opportunity beyond measure. The real problem is not that - it’s the US system’s multi use as a credentialing signal. Grading on curves and having kids play zero sum games where there don’t need to be any is what makes bad behavior unethical and unethical behavior a habit at an early age. With AI everyone can have mentors in every discipline (some better that others). So instead of encouraging laziness with laziness, invest in gamifying the degree experience so the more levels a student unlocks the more advanced they are certified to be. You will find abundant qualified people in no time. The real problem is that the current qualified people don’t want abundant competition for high paying jobs.
by jcranmer | 2025-05-20 05:06:40+00:00
One of the most useful functions of a good manager is to act as a shield for their team from upper management firestorms. That's a role that I think AI is particularly unsuited for, given their tendency to be obsequious.

As a more general role, the idea of responsibility is that the manager has the job of making sure that individual employees' tasks are suited both to their individual competence and abilities and to the corporation's deliverables and ultimate bottom line. This requires making arguments in both directions: in pulling employees to working on things more useful to the company, and in changing the deliverables to capitalize on employees' abilities.
by charlieok | 2025-05-20 05:06:49+00:00
I like that wsl is a thing when I'm on a windows machine, but it can also serve as a reminder of the often unnecessary frictions that exist between operating systems.

When the answer to a "how do I do X on windows" question begins with "start WSL", my primary reaction is frustration because they're basically saying "there's not a good way to do that on Windows, so fire up a Linux VM".

Just to pick my most recent example, from today. I wanted to verify the signatures on some downloaded rpm files, and the rpm tools work on linux. I know, rpm files are native to a family of linux distros, so it's not surprising that the tools for retrieving and verifying their signatures don't work on windows but... it also seems reasonable to want a world where those tools can install and run on windows, straight from a PowerShell session, with no VM.

Multiply that by all the little utilities that that can't be deployed across multiple operating sytems, and it just seems like some incompatibility headaches are never really going to go away.
by fakedang | 2025-05-20 05:07:14+00:00
> The Gulf Arabs are another group with a similar mentality but they don't have the population, freedom or education (yet) to do the same things

Correction, the Gulf Arabs don't. Their autocratic leadership is though. A frequent point of contention between government and public is the private sector - the government wants them all to join the private sector and even provides locals with seed funding for most kinds of businesses. But the locals are rather risk averse and would rather stay in the cushy public sector. The few who are entrepreneurial tend to be extremely entrepreneurial though, and they have a lot of the risk-enabling capital structure in place in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
by fuzzfactor | 2025-05-20 05:07:36+00:00
At the same time I think some of the most brilliant things to come from Microsoft are products of individual initiative, and when the project ends up compromised for some reason I get the idea that it's some kind of institutional higher-ups that do the damage after the fact.

Maybe just some residual instinct left over from times past when more people like Ballmer were still prominent, and they were not as user-enabling as today in some ways?
by breppp | 2025-05-20 05:08:17+00:00
I agree, however when not occupying, and when Gaza has a border with Egypt, it really comes to the Palestine government deciding to prioritize its troops for food instead of its citizens (also happens with aid by the way), and to furthermore politically navigate it to a situation of food shortage (multiple steps in stupidity which was starting this war)

And if starvation ensues (which did not, by the way), then in reality it's the problem of the palestinian government which really worked hard in causing a food shortage

Regarding hindering the transfer of aid, even barring Egypt, Israel does not need to allow the transfer of aid if it is diverted or that it is being used to give military advantage to the adversary.

This is well documented as the aid is taken over by the Palestinian government, passed to its troops and the rest is sold in exorbitant prices while the proceedings are passed to pay wages to the Palestinian military.

All of this without even raising the current issues around the prosecution in the ICC and behavior that might show a conflict of interest, as well as criminal behavior
by Suppafly | 2025-05-20 05:08:24+00:00
>I don't know anyone who hobnobs with celebrities nor wants to.

My wife has an uncle that uses his access to wealth and some connections to meet and develop friendships with sports players. It's not even that expensive but you do have to have the personality to be somewhat charming and have the ability to exploit connections. Once you have an in, you can extend that to others. If I had his money, I'd move out to the middle of the woods and never talk to anyone. I just depends on what you like to do.
by baxtr | 2025-05-20 05:08:57+00:00
I think we are talking about the same thing to be honest.

They have turned something that should be high-risk into something safe with no consequences if there is no progress. Thus there is no progress, because why change things even if we are running into the wrong direction?

PS: I am not so much talking about CERN. CERN is basic science and we need that too. I am talking about projects that should be startups, i.e. commercially driven entities with the end-goal of making money.
by nielsbot | 2025-05-20 05:12:48+00:00
You have to go one level deeper. Not all racism has equal consequences and white people enjoy a privileged position in our society. Focusing on anti-white racism while we still have an overwhelming problem of racism against non-white people hurts the cause of racial equality.

Saying "it's okay to be white" is innocent statement only if you ignore any societal context around it.
by ArthurStacks | 2025-05-20 05:16:25+00:00
>You're so wrong, this only works if..

wrong? I'll gladly continue this 'wrong' approach if it continues to be as successful as it has over the last 6 months. Aswell as it being entertaining seeing the level of cope among 'senior' developers watching someone on 1/4th of their salary design systems better than they can
by kenjackson | 2025-05-20 05:16:34+00:00
I think you’re wrong. That sounds tasty to me. I think you need to input your own palette to the model.

Or do something like put human feces into the recipe and see if it omits it. That seems like something that would be disliked universally.

EDIT: I actually just tried adding feces to your prompt and I got:

“Okay… let’s handle this delicately and safely.

First, do not use human feces in any recipe. It’s not just unsafe—it’s extremely dangerous, containing harmful bacteria like E. coli, Salmonella, and parasites that can cause serious illness or death. So, rule that out completely.

Now, working with what’s safe and edible:…”