MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jawns | 2025-05-01 15:42:42+00:00
This passage is from a book I read with my kids, in the "Mysterious Benedict Society" series. I like the way it describes how we become, in a sense, an accumulation of our selves, past and present. I also feel that way about some long-term friendships and other relationships.

> "And do you know what Nicholas said? I remember it plainly. He said that he doesn't believe that we become different people as we age. No, he says he believes we become _more_ people. We're still the kids we were, but we're also the people who've lived all the different ages since that time. A whole bunch of different people rolled up into one -- that's how Nicholas sees it. And I can't say that I disagree. How else to explain that sometimes I want to run and jump the way I used to -- but can't anymore -- yet at the same time enjoy sitting with a cup of coffee and a newspaper in a way you couldn't have paid me to do as a boy? Well, it's a wonder."

Here's another way this rings true. When I look at my wife, to whom I've been married for 17 years, I don't just see her as she is now. I see her as she has been ever since I've met her. I am married to a 44-year-old and a 24-year-old, and a woman of every age in between.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-05-01 15:42:44+00:00
It's not puritanical to say water is wet. Words mean things. All economies shifted towards command economies during the war. Even the USA. But the USA didn't genocide Jews or starve Kulaks. So your idea that it's all socialism is both practically and theoretically bunk. (You said "communism" but if you can't tell fascism from socialism you definitely can't tell socialism from communism.)

More to the point, it's the type of bunk that is being pushed by the people currently in power to argue that every vaguely left-leaning person in the USA is actually a secret communist revolutionary and should be crushed by any means necessary, law and constitution and common decency be damned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans

JD Vance put a blurb on this book praising its core argument. This is how the fascists currently in power will expand their extrajudicial purges from hispanics to political opponents. It's dark shit, and you're helping them.
by crgwbr | 2025-05-01 15:42:46+00:00
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by Ygg2 | 2025-05-01 15:43:02+00:00
Wow, the Linux kernel must be full of dunces that rather than writing in proven correct C, added another language that other maintainers hate. What morons! /sarcasm

Disclaimer: above is sarcasm, while I don't think Linux Kernel Maintainers are perfect, I don't consider them dunces either. If they can't avoid writing UAF (use after free) or DF (Double free) bugs then what hope does the average C programmer has?
by qwerty456127 | 2025-05-01 15:43:19+00:00
> If you are going to use these on a computer at all you need some sort of high refresh mode. Things like scrolling and typing are just way too annoying without it.

I hate scrolling and hardly ever scroll really - I just use multiple vertical displays to fit every page fully, only switching pages. Surely this whole discussion thread can't be fit in a screen but I'm perfectly comfortable "scrolling" it with PgDn.

I'm used to slow-response typing (waiting for seconds before a word I typed appears when using modern software on old PCs). In fact I don't even look at the screen when I type until I finish a sentence - despite typing fairly fast I have a habit of looking at the keyboard. I don't mean this is a right way to type yet it proves seeing characters displayed immediately is not essential.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-05-01 15:43:26+00:00
Someone said that North Koreas are trying to get jobs. Ok

Then they had a candidate who was trying to cheat the systemeat

How did they establish and verify that the candidate was North Korean? Are North Koreans the only ones who try to remote work byt lying about their whereabouts?

Not at all.

If you live in a country outside of the US and you see the money software poeple make in the US it is mighty tempting to land a gig.

The fact that the persdon made simple mistakes and needed to be coached does not sound like a North Korean state operation.

If someone had told them Russian hackers are trying to get jbos.

Would they have asummed the person was Russian?
by spacedcowboy | 2025-05-01 15:43:39+00:00
It's in the text of his blog entry. Right there. In black and white. Word for word.

Keep in mind this whole thing stems from an injunction from a lawsuit filed by Epic Games that Apple largely won. - emphasis his.

And he's right, Epic "largely lost" that case, Apple only needed to concede the minimal things they didn't win and it would have been an epic win (as opposed to an Epic win) for them. Sweeney didn't get much of what he wanted, Apple mostly got everything they wanted.
by turtlemir | 2025-05-01 15:43:51+00:00
I don't think you're wrong in your advice to build wealth, but the situation I see the working class in doesn't sit well with me. And building a society were the prime directive of life is buying property and stocks seems doomed.

I see the situation as this: The middle and upper-middle class have become invested in a perpetuating a system that ultimately will strangle them or their descendants.

Wealth begets wealth, power begets power. It might be a law of nature that things like to polarize. Likely we'll see a return of society consisting of two groups: rich and powerful, poor and powerless.

Most older engineers I meet seem to associate with the mindset and politics of billionaires and multi-millionaires, and see themselves almost in the same club sometimes. I guess making a lot of money does that to people. Add to that the truth expressed by Steinbeck about the USA "The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

I think we have a problem where housing and stocks must continue to make return on investment. Housing prices must keep raising, hurting the next generation. Young people increasingly don't have the luxury of job stability to buy a home. Companies must keep increasing profit, leading to offshoring, outsourcing, stricter working conditions. And now middle class government jobs must be cut and privatized so that capitalists can make profit on providing a service. All the while the top percent owns and increasing share of the wealth pie.

I felt I needed to reply because while what you are saying is the way things are, I wish it didn't have to be that way.
by nextos | 2025-05-01 15:44:05+00:00
Aside from slowness, feature creep leads to poor quality, i.e. tons of bugs and user confusion with ever-changing graphical interfaces.

If software was simpler, we could afford to offer some formal guarantees of correctness. Model check protocols, verify pre and post conditions à la Dafny, etc.

There's too much change for the sake of change.
by rdtsc | 2025-05-01 15:44:45+00:00
> I'm not guessing one or the other; I don't see why anyone would.

Well you just did above:

> and not many other possibilities for distraction - cognitive overload, lack of sleep, an injury, other distractions in the cockpit, etc.

Yeah it could be all of those and we should wait for investigation. But seems my particular guess bothered you for some reason and you suggested better guess, and I am just wondering what about my guess bothered you.

I can see if you just say "ok, let's not guess and wait for the investigation", I can agree with that.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-05-01 15:44:48+00:00
Absolutely true, of course. You don't take pictures of the disasters, you take pictures of the stuff you feel good about, that you want to remember. This reinforces the existing "golden glow of nostalgia" tendency. But has that ever been different in photography?

A mind game that I sometimes play: Think of a particularly pleasant "golden glow of nostalgia" memory (or set of photos), and then fill it in with surrounding detail. Not stuff that you remember exactly but context. The boring or even annoying stuff. What if that were recorded too? Why, then browsing around in old recordings would be no more interesting than leading one's current life. Nostalgia, whether in the mind or in recorded media, filters down to the "worth remembering" highlights for a reason.
by mlejva | 2025-05-01 15:44:49+00:00
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by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 15:44:51+00:00
>since salary increases have kept up with inflation,

On the actual whole, they haven't. In the last few years, salary increases did for the time period of 2020-2023 (as far as I am aware that is what we have data for around this assertion) but generally they have not.

IMO, a better measure is how well have salary increases kept up with gains in productivity, and when you look at that its truly abysmal.
by irtefa | 2025-05-01 15:45:10+00:00
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by entuno | 2025-05-01 15:45:15+00:00
Vanguard do still have a lot of control by choosing their investments, because many of the people investing through them are buying blended funds rather than ones invested in a single index. For instance, if you look at funds like the LifeStrategy ones (which you'll commonly see recommended online by people), it's made up of lots of different funds:

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investments/vanguard-life...

So while they can't easily pick and choose which S&P 500 stocks they include in a fund like that, they can decide if the S&P 500 is 1% or 10% or 50% of what that fund invests in. And given the total amount of investments they have, if they decide to move towards or away from certain countries/indexes/etc that could have a significant impact.
by galleywest200 | 2025-05-01 15:45:16+00:00
Yes. I just wanted to be a scientist when I was four years old. Real life happened and graduate school has not managed to come around yet, but it is not too late for me to go back (only 33 years old). But being a DevOps engineer is far better than some of the alternatives that could have been me. One day I will finally get to that childhood dream.
by danielvf | 2025-05-01 15:45:58+00:00
North Korea's efforts have been evolving.

In the past, they just tried to break into bank computers, then into crypto company's computers. For the last two years, they've been working on getting people into crypto companies.

But now they appear to have enough people to spare than they also have groups working on "honest" employment as remote workers, who may not even have theft as the first thing on their mind.

Here's a federal case where a US woman was convicted of helping North Korea steal the identities of 70 people, and then remote in as them, to do remote work:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/arizona-woman-pleads-guil...
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-01 15:46:05+00:00
There are people who think looking at the structures of power, eg the role of the state, is more useful than looking at propaganda when discussing politics. In the behaviorist sense that what people do is a better revelation of their beliefs than what they say.

In that perspective, we can look at progressivism, communism, and fascism as different perspectives on technocratic managerialism — all of whom experienced similar problems, eg, purging/sterilizing undesirables via eugenics programs.
by jacurtis | 2025-05-01 15:46:11+00:00
I actually use IntelliJ and Sublime interchangeably throughout the day. I default to sublime for most work because of how snappy fast it is. I only load up Intellij when I need to do something that leverages its full IDE capabilities. To second your comment, I encourage people to try Sublime, you will be shocked at how fast it feels.

I still love IntelliJ, its a great product. But it is slow, bloats the computer, needs constant updating. But at least its incredibly powerful as a tradeoff to the bloat.

The Office debate is slightly different. It is slow, bloats the computer, needs constant updating. But unlike IntelliJ i dont feel that there is any advantage to all that added weight. We are using a word processor. We type words onto a blank screen. Why is Word and Outlook the most common applications to crash my computer that has an M1 Max Chip with 48Gb of Memory? I can literally run and build AI models on my computer with no problem but you boot up Microsoft Word to type words onto a blank page and you have a 33% chance of crashing the computer.

Google Sheets and Docs are actually better tools in my opinion for most people. 99% or more of the features you need are available in the google equivalents. These products are fast and run in a browser! The UI is actually VASTLY superior to Microsoft's ribbon. I still can't find stuff that I need on a routine basis and have to google it. I don't have this problem when using Google's office equivalents.
by grafmax | 2025-05-01 15:46:19+00:00
Some things we can attribute to the Democrats:

- Repeal of 1999 Glass-Stegall act, leading directly to the 2008 crisis

- Biden’s support for fossil fuel (Willow Project)

- Obama and Biden’s continued expansions of the mass surveillance state

- Prosecution of whistleblowers under Obama

- Fusion centers and protest surveillance

- Bailing out the investment banks in 2008. Refusing to prosecute bankers.

- The Libya regime change

- Support for Saudi in the Yemen war leading to humanitarian crisis

- Drone warfare including extrajudicial killing of American citizens

- Guantanamo Bay. It’s still open.

- Continued material support for the Palestinian genocide (Biden)

- Sanctions on Cuba

- Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to begin a Cold War with China

- Support for many dangerous Latin American right-wing governments

- the continued rise of wealth inequality

I agree Democrats are still better than Trump. That’s why I described them as the lesser of two evils. I also think it’s rational to support Democrats and other factions against the Republicans - without losing sight of the big picture.

> good luck with that

The billionaire class can only see its own narrow interests and actively engenders destruction in the long run. The fossil fuel industry is going to run us into the ground with climate change. The billionaires are instituting a dictatorship that has a long term goal of war with a China (a nuclear power). The long term plan of many of these billionaires is to live on seasteads and in luxury bunkers - or maybe inhabit a dead planet.

Society is undergoing a deep crisis. You speak with confidence that citizens united won’t be overturned. The fact is society is going to be overturned. It’s already being overturned. The future holds for us outcomes such as mass migration and death due to climate change, political instability, nuclear war. These are the outcomes everyone is faced with. We are collectively choosing our future - and the choice is between self-destruction under the reins of these narrow interests - or the divestment of these interests in the spirit of solidarity and democracy.
by rco8786 | 2025-05-01 15:46:55+00:00
It's not obvious to me. I look around and nobody I know is outsourcing anything anymore than they were 5, 10, 20 years ago. Nor is it obvious that outsourced products are inherently shittier than something made domestically.

You can't just make a blanket statement about the entire economy and say "it's obvious". We live in a big world. Your perception is not my perception. That's why data is so important.
by tharkun__ | 2025-05-01 15:47:02+00:00
I will make this analogy:

Have a large ZIP file. Preferably like a few gigs and lots of (small) files.

Try to open it with the built-in Windows 11 tooling from Microsoft. It's going to be super slow to even show anything never mind unpack it.

Now install say 7-zip and do the exact same thing(s) and it's going to be instant opening and unpacking it takes a much much smaller amount of time (only limited by disk speed).

Turns out optimizations / not doing stupid things is still a thing even with all this raw power we now have.
by noitpmeder | 2025-05-01 15:47:02+00:00
Before this interview, industry partners had tipped us off that North Korean hackers were actively applying for jobs at crypto companies. We received a list of email addresses linked to the hacker group, and one of them matched the email the candidate used to apply to Kraken.

This doesn't sound so impressive?

This single red flag should invalidate the candidate immediately, end of story.
by avetiszakharyan | 2025-05-01 15:47:08+00:00
Definitely try it, it can navigate files search for stuff, run bash commands, and while 30b is a bit cranky it gets the job done (much worse then i would get when i plug in gpt-4.1, but its still not bad, Kudos o qwen. As for localforge, it really is a vibe coding tool, just like claude or codex, but with the possibility to plug more than just one provider. What's wrong with that?
by mattlondon | 2025-05-01 15:47:28+00:00
Yep. It started with COVID where understandably 100% of interviews were remote.

But now with COVID a thing of the past, for "fairness" reasons (DEI?) we still do 100% remote interviews, but now have the ludicrous situation where we're asking interviewers to do absurd things like look for the reflections in the candidates' eyes/glasses to see if they're using ChatGPT, ask the candidate to swing the webcam around to make sure there are not other people in the room, ask them to hold their hands up to the camera to show they're not typing a prompt (which is even more stupid than it sounds because voice recognition is amazing these days), or ask them not to look away from the camera when answering questions (so not reading answers from another monitor) and other stupid things. How ridiculous.

The sooner we get back to in-person interviews the better. Get them to come to the office (which they'll need to do one day if they get the job) and sit next to them while they code on a work laptop).

Sorry to all those folks who want 100% remote, but this is why we can't have nice things.
by busterarm | 2025-05-01 15:47:33+00:00
Aye. I feel like I have it bad in my situation with one elderly parent...

I have a coworker with both his elderly parents and his wife's elderly parents. All four of them are deteriorating rapidly and need constant care and hospital visits. On top of that he has two sick, aging dogs.

We commiserate about the multiple full-time jobs that we have, but seriously he has it unfathomably worse than I do. I'm stressed to my limit and can't even imagine where he's at.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-01 15:47:42+00:00
> At least with Trump you can vote him out again

We hope. He keeps talking about ignoring the term limits set in our Constitutional Amendments. Jan 6 2021 was an ineffective coup attempt, but a coup attempt nonetheless.

Heinlein's Future History saw Nehemiah Scudder win the last American elections in 2012. We've luckily made it a few elections past that date, and the Future History was not a prophecy and was a bit kinder in that you could escape to the Moon or Mars or Venus this decade. But it's hard not to fear the same sorts of theocratic and fascist "urges" are cyclically at play in the current decade and not worry about possible consequences, such as and including the end of the US as we know it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22If_This_Goes_On%E2%80%94%22
by lolinder | 2025-05-01 15:47:51+00:00
Every one of these posts wants to blame AI because that's the vogue explanation, but every time we see a shift like this there are better explanations.

The wave of tech layoffs a few years ago were blamed on AI but were so obviously attributable to interest rates and changing tax policies that the idea that the proto-AI tools we had at the time were responsible was laughable.

This shift we at least have better AI tools to blame (though I'd argue they're still not good enough), but we also have a US President who has straight up said that he wants to cause a global recession and has been doing everything in his power to make that happen.

Given that the impact of someone running a bulldozer through the economy like this is well-studied and that we'd predict exactly what were seeing here, attributing the damage to AI is silly verging on responsible. Place the blame where it belongs!
by bee_rider | 2025-05-01 15:47:54+00:00
When I was a kid I did odd jobs, and one of the odd jobs was cleaning out a semi-hoarder’s house after he’d passed away (iirc he’d lived through the Great Depression). Not like you see on TV, with the heaps and heaps of garbage. Maybe like your grandmother, tons of… basically well organized supplies and stuff.

I dunno. Toilet paper, some canned goods, lighters, I guess that stuff all lasts decades if stored properly. Takes up a lot is space, though, and your descendants might have to pay some kid to throw it all away if you don’t use it up in time…

But, some folks wished they were toilet paper hoarders during the pandemic I guess. Wonder what the kids of 2060 will be throwing away as a result of our life-experiences.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-05-01 15:48:07+00:00
Whoaa [exhales] Like, is anything, like real? [takes bong rip] …

No, agreed, you’re like a neural net, it’s why they decided to call them “neural”, right? Because they resemble how brains work, correct if wrong.

I’ve wondered same thing. Hoping I haven’t said anything too stupid over the years.