MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jayemar | 2025-05-01 15:48:17+00:00
Interesting read. The main paragraph regarding mission success is probably this:

> So far, there's no effect on the Psyche spacecraft's trajectory. Psyche's plasma thrusters can remain unpowered until at least mid-June before the spacecraft would begin to drift off course, according to NASA. Mission managers decided to keep Psyche's engines turned off until they better understand the pressure decrease. If engineers trace the problem to the fuel line itself, NASA has the option of switching to a backup fuel line to resume thrusting.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-01 15:48:27+00:00
They're getting interviews left and right

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_in...

According to Crowdstrike (the company that wiped out most of global technology last year) at least

> My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly
by klodolph | 2025-05-01 15:48:35+00:00
I’m a little skeptical that generative AI is an effective way to land a job.

It doesn’t really seem like it helps that much in résumé generation. Are people applying to enough hundreds of jobs that generative AI helps you keep up with the sheer volume of text you need to send? Some people are… but these aren’t people who know what good résumés look like, because those people write their own résumés, and these people aren’t people who are good with LLMs, because that skill is in-demand.

I think it’s just a tight, tough market. What I’ve seen is job searches that take longer and have higher standards. You’re competing with a larger pool of experienced candidates. And various companies are worsening the work conditions because the market favors it (and they want “unregretted attrition”).

It’s hard not to be cynical. But I think it’s just a shitty market to be looking for a job, it’s not a paradigm shift that favors dishonesty.
by solatic | 2025-05-01 15:48:47+00:00
> entrepreneurs in particular can often see a better return by investing in themselves and in ventures in their own community, where things are not so passive.

You don't understand the power of diversification in portfolios. Yes, there are plenty of individual ventures that will return more than an index fund. But individual ventures are fundamentally volatile. They are volatile because human beings are not machines. People burn brightly and then burn out. People push hard and then fall sick. Cultures and institutions and trust are painstakingly built, and then wiped away in an instant by ideologues.

As an individual investor, you have your labor and your savings. You cannot productively diversify your labor, but you can diversify your savings.
by firefoxd | 2025-05-01 15:49:31+00:00
When I first heard vibe coding, it sounded like a meme, a joke. But people took it seriously. Andrej Karpathy was still in the process of defining it when the phrase took a life of its own. I'm surprised it's making it into a book barely two months after it was coined.

If vibe coding somehow becomes the method of programming, then code will become obsolete. Hear me out:

Why code when you can just ask the computer to do what you want and get the results. The coding part is abstracted deep in the background where no human needs venture.

When vibe coding dominates, It's not that people won’t know how to code anymore, it's that coding becomes irrelevant. The same way that there are people who still know how to ride horses, but it's irrelevant to transportation. When vibe coding reaches its peak, programming languages will evolve into something unrecognizable. Why do we need a human readable programming language when no human needs to read it? I picture a protocol agreed upon by two computers, never released to us humans.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-01 15:49:36+00:00
> Investing is betting on the competence of an executive team to run a business. One of these, you have no control over.

But again, you're asking people to have a lot of trust in this executive team. Unless we have the legal and regulatory framework that can enforce that trust it all becomes very sketchy. And right now it seems like the legal and regulatory frameworks are under attack. It's becoming more a game of "who you know" and favor currying. That kind of erosion of trust is really dangerous for the markets.
by cyral | 2025-05-01 15:49:43+00:00
Great summary. I will add to this:

> Apple’s response: charge a 27 percent commission (again tied to nothing) on off-app purchases, where it had previously charged nothing, and extend the commission for a period of seven days after the consumer linked-out of the app.

Not only have they been asking for this, but the link to your external checkout could only be in once place in your app, and could not be part of the payment flow (where else would you put it??)

They also want rights to audit your financials to determine compliance

And this scary popup before going to the external payment page: https://d7ych6cwyfyiba.archive.is/AZrEz/0c8d40ed4a6886240370...

Not sure if such a large font is used anywhere else in iOS

The whole thing was so obviously designed to prevent any developer from seriously considering it, maintaining their anti-competitive advantage. Glad the judge finally had enough.
by area51org | 2025-05-01 15:49:52+00:00
"Journalism" is now often just a euphemism for shock porn and clickbait.

At the end of this Atlantic article, the author admits:

> Luckily for humans, though, skepticism of the strong interpretation is warranted. For one thing, supercharged productivity growth, which an intelligence explosion would likely produce, is hard to find in the data. For another, a New York Fed survey of firms released last year found that AI was having a negligible effect on hiring.

In other words: did we scare ya? Good, because it got you to read this far. Nothing to actually see here.
by HaZeust | 2025-05-01 15:50:01+00:00
There are high-stakes now, there are more volumes of people on these digital public squares, that are letting the jokes and the absurdism they encounter seep through their individual reality as beliefs and behaviors. At scale, this makes online trends and mannerism seep into our collective reality.

If only those who otherwise fell trap into these absurdist talking points had some perspective, something to lose, some dream to be held hostage - you could actually prevent this.

I wish there was a refund on wasted time on propaganda.
by vidarh | 2025-05-01 15:50:03+00:00
I'd be willing to consider them "socialist" in the way that Marx used socialism. There's after all a whole chapter in the Communist Manifesto dedicated to forms of socialism that were all wildly different ideologies, ranging from the utopian to the outright feudalist.

In that Marxist sense, that "socialism" has a very limited implication about a very limited set of concepts around putative public ownership of the means of production, one could call the Stalinists socialist. But by that use, then one should be aware that it's a trait of a set of ideologies that otherwise have pretty much nothing to do with each other.

And indeed, he called out the "return of many of the forms of Tsarist autocracy, but with a paint job" explicitly in describing "feudal socialism".

A later preface (by Engels, I think? I think it was one of the prefaces from after Marx death) points out that they used the word "communist" because the word socialist at the time had become largely associated with some of those ideologies that they did not want to be confused with. And of course "communism" has since become equally overloaded by ideologies so different their adherents have pretty much nothing in common.

Already before Lenin died, there was already the notion of "left" and "right" communism, as two incompatible camps that were not even single ideologies, but sets of ideologies. Hence Lenin's "'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder" that covered a range of "left" communist ideologies (because the Bolsheviks were considered "right" communists)
by jacurtis | 2025-05-01 15:50:27+00:00
I have an M1 Max with 48 Gb of memory. It is 11am right now, and so far today, Outlook has crashed twice and Excel has crashed once. Word crashes about 50% of the time, but I do everything in my power to avoid launching Word since it is for some reason the worst contender.

Granted, the corporate malware on my computer doesn't help the situation. I can literally build AI Models from scratch on my computer. But if I boot up a Microsoft Office product I have a 33% chance that it crashes.

How can I build an AI model with no issue, find and replace instantly in an IDE for a projects that is tens of gigabytes and thousands of files with no issue. But I want to write a sentance onto a blank page in Microsoft Word, or Reply "thanks" to an email in Microsoft Outlook and the application crashes or takes 3 minutes to load?

I truly do not understand how Microsoft Office is still the dominant enterprise platform. These applications have horrible UIs, they are bloated, slow, and expensive. Yet every IT department foams at the mouth and gets a hard-on to sign their Microsoft 365 contract for $200 per user.
by mmmlinux | 2025-05-01 15:50:58+00:00
Does any one have these and actually use them for anything? I was gifted a pair from someone who probably used it for an hour or two and got bored of them. But beyond using them like headphones, or asking what kind of plant I'm looking at I don't understand the use case. The other day an ad for them came up, and I actually watched it thinking oh maybe ill see what they think you should use it for. It might as well have been an ad for normal sunglasses.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-05-01 15:51:06+00:00
If your tax dollars are funding research, you should be entitled to reading the results.

I don't think I've met any other researchers who prefer paywalls. The problem is the most prestigious journals (Cell, Nature, Science, etc) have extremely parasitic business models - you pay a bunch of money to publish in them, and then other people pay them to read. But in return you get a CV boost.

They charge out the nose for open access (the researcher pays). With funding as tight as it is these days, maybe we'll see a shift to more a ethical publishing model as researchers start questioning whether it's worth it.
by gtf21 | 2025-05-01 15:51:23+00:00
I think I share the same opinion: I think this is going to be a very painful break with the previous paradigm, but a much needed one, and that actually this version of the current paradigm is quite bad: browsers only survive when Google pays them money.

Instead this will put all browsers on a much more even playing field, and perhaps it will force governments and citizens to realise that free software takes someone to write it.
by lwo32k | 2025-05-01 15:51:27+00:00
It's a very very messy process and most of the time doesn't end well because of the power imbalance. Larger the worker group more the disagreements amongst them too. My Dad was a factory manager and I grew up running around the factory, playing with workers, they would help me on my school projects etc. The same guys beat my Dad up during one particular strike. Many of them got arrested and we had a cop outside our house for months.
by mtalantikite | 2025-05-01 15:51:30+00:00
These are actually some of the preliminary contemplations on emptiness (sunyata) and non-self (anatman) that are done in Buddhist lineages. Each school does it slightly differently -- maybe ngondro in vajrayana, study of the heart sutra in zen schools, etc. -- but generally you meditate looking for a permanent thing you can call self until you realize there isn't one.

When I was first starting my practice I found Thich Nhat Hanh's translation of the heart sutra [1], Thanissaro Bhikkhu's book on anatman [2], and the four thoughts from ngondro [3] to be the most insightful.

[1] https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-... [2] https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/selve... [3] https://www.shambhala.com/videos/mingyur-rinpoche-on-the-fou...
by tomatocracy | 2025-05-01 15:51:32+00:00
The problem with the column limit is not so much about huge datasets as limiting flexibility in how you can lay things out - 65k rows and 16.7m cells are plenty and I’d be wanting to use a database well before I got there. But 255 columns does feel quite constraining.

And whilst you can work around lack of XLOOKUP or SUMIFS using the older functions, again it constrains how you lay things out (eg VLOOKUP needs you to presort your table by the lookup column if you don’t want an exact match) and this can often result in sheets which are much more unwieldy and slow to calculate.
by jjj123 | 2025-05-01 15:51:33+00:00
You make it sound like organizing you and your peers is just virtue signaling toward the plight of the working class.

It’s not virtue signaling. There are material gains that could be made by organizing. Layoff protection and the power to set company direction are two big ones that come to mind.

It’s okay to want to unionize for selfish reasons. In fact, I think it’s borderline propaganda to suggest the only reason a wealthy person would organize is because of their own class guilt.
by lambertsimnel | 2025-05-01 15:51:34+00:00
> I don't really see how Vanguard gets "power" here. They have no choices.

They do have voting rights in companies that are part of the index. In my judgement, that's the more reasonable interpretation of the GP's point.

On the other hand, the more of the market held in index funds, the less is available to active investors to perform their valuation service, as described elsewhere in this discussion.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859024
by kdolsonUNC | 2025-05-01 15:51:41+00:00
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by rdtsc | 2025-05-01 15:51:46+00:00
> It seems like both the pilot and instructor misidentified the plane they were supposed to be separated from, otherwise the instructor would have taken the controls and performed the maneuver himself if he knew a collision was imminent.

I think eventually they figured out and instructed the pilot to avoid but the pilot didn't listen. But that was the second mishap of the flight. The pilot was failing to maintain a proper altitude before that.

> Maybe visual flight separation is a bad idea when there are a bunch of lights from the ground and a busy airspace. A plane on a collision course with you will just look like a static light, like many many other lights in the area.

To me, at least in this case, it seems the pilot was not adequately prepared. They were either distracted or rusty. The instructor should have taken controls and flown back at the first sign of not being able to maintain a proper altitude. However, the pilot outranked the instructor; taking controls away and failing the qualification / training flight could have resulted in some retribution or more hassles. Also, I think they should instead let pilots do this kind of qualification in similar but more remote or less busy area, longer, until they get more hours under their belt and not allow rank reversals to train like that. They should have found someone outranking her who wouldn't have though twice about grabbing the control.
by dcchambers | 2025-05-01 15:52:09+00:00
There's a difference between useful 30 second tutorials/how-tos and 99.99% of short form content which is brain rot designed to hook into you and keep you mindlessly scrolling - whether it's out of rage or joy. All they care about is eyeballs on screen no matter how it happens.

When I say I don't like short-form video content, I typically mean the tiktok-influenced infinite scrolling algorithm-driven video wall of videos. Where you might click on one thing that looks useful or interesting on your home page and without even thinking about it you start swiping through the videos and suddenly you emerge an hour later form a brain rot video fueled fever dream, with no idea how you just lost an hour of your life to useless shit online.

At least losing an hour to video games or reading online might leave you with a sense of accomplishment or satisfaction. I have never felt anything positive after binging on social media videos.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 15:52:36+00:00
This conundrum of generations having much of their wealth stored in their home is part of the real problem around housing in general. This is why we decided to rent out our properties after evaluating our situation and understanding that it made more sense to generate consistent profits off real estate in the form of rental income than incur all the liabilities of simply buying and living in one.

I personally think it should be one or the other - you either are buying real estate as an investment vehicle (to flip, rent, speculatively build etc) or buying it to live in, but in which point you don't treat it as a primary store of wealth - but unfortunately home ownership in the US is structured that if you buy and live in a home, you inevitably end up with it being treated as both a store of wealth and a home in which you live, and you're constantly tugging between the two things which have very different considerations.

I think a land value tax and liberal zoning laws would go a long way to fixing some of this, but is another discussion entirely
by incomingpain | 2025-05-01 15:52:40+00:00
There has been a longterm negative trend for recent grad employment.

Even those who do get employed, they tend to be underemployed with low wages.

The old excuse was 'automation' was killing jobs.

The lesser old excuse was offshoring.

Now it's AI?

How about we stop inventing excuses and perhaps look at root cause of the 'recent grad' factor. That perhaps requiring university degrees that arent worth anything for jobs that dont need them is the problem?
by noitpmeder | 2025-05-01 15:52:47+00:00
This isn't necessarily the issue here -- this attempt seemed to be fairly motivated and had access to resources (AI, coaches, ...) to help them get through the process.

IF they can get such a 'candidate' hired... whats to say they couldn't continue the sham. One could imagine a team of hackers could easily pass of work that a single IC could reasonably have produced.

If their goal is exfiltration (or some other hack) of a {bitcoin exchange, govt, ...} actually putting in {weeks/months/year[s]} of actual work to insert someone into the right position at the right company is insanely worth it.
by junon | 2025-05-01 15:53:04+00:00
The interview a friend conducted a few weeks ago had a rich GitHub account of shoddy code across what was no less than 15 different languages, and a lot of it, all with names related to interview questions (many having the company name in them).

The interview call over zoom was clearly an AI avatar, and the answers were verbally spoken but constructed in a "bulleted" way that an LLM might produce.

All of the timestamps in the commits were made with the KST timezone.
by fao_ | 2025-05-01 15:53:12+00:00
> I'd rather just buy a pre-made bike from a store.

Right, but if you were going to do that... you would have done it already, if you catch my drift. Like I said, there's no shortage of blog posts, youtube videos, literal documentation on the Anki website, pre-made decks, etc. available. It's a bit like trying to optimize before you've even started writing code — you don't know what the hot paths are yet, and nobody can tell you without a profiler. You don't know what your preferences are in learning are yet, and nobody can tell you until you try. When you have a solid idea of what you prefer, then people can start giving you recommendations :)

Inputting words is part of using Anki, and a big part of solidifying your knowledge. Why should you listen? Well, even though I haven't reviewed mandarin in literally a decade now, and I've had essentially no IRL use for it, there's still words and phrases I can recall at a moment's notice. The software is unbelievably powerful.

As others have mentioned, there are premade decks but most of the practice of using Anki comes down to preference, so the premade decks may not fit your style of learning at all.
by klodolph | 2025-05-01 15:53:20+00:00
“These people (crypto industry) are bad people so it is justified to ignore the rule of law when hurting them” is a classic bad take. What you can do is regulate crypto into oblivion and make people feel bad about working in crypto.

If you assist NK, then you’re hurting crypto but you’re funding NK operations (e.g. NK soldiers assisting Russia against Ukraine).
by meganvs | 2025-05-01 15:53:23+00:00
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by area51org | 2025-05-01 15:53:24+00:00
> Why code when you can just ask the computer to do what you want and get the results.

Because then you won't know the design of the code or how it even works.

The hard part of coding isn't writing the code itself. It's the design of the code that takes skill, and if you leave that part completely up to AI, you are taking your life in your hands. Bad idea.