MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ArthurStacks | 2025-05-20 03:43:15+00:00
Its actually the opposite of how people think.

We hire junior devs, but not senior, and dont replace our senior devs. So our developer base is moving towards being junior weighted with less senior. The reason being a junior dev is cheaper, complains less, is more capable now through utilising generative AI, works harder to impress knowing they arent in a safe position, and we can let them go more easily with less process and less reasons needed to be given.
by gpm | 2025-05-20 03:44:24+00:00
I've worked in an office with a very nice (clean, private, towels and soap dispensers provided) shower. Actually two (in separate rooms). And taken showers in them. It definitely was not gross, nor do I think anyone thought it weird, nor was I the only person who used them.

After a bicycle commute to work though, not randomly during the day.
by singron | 2025-05-20 03:44:27+00:00
I think you might not get serious responses, but I think this is an interesting question since I think AI is a better fit for management than many other jobs.

Nobody would have believed it 10 years ago, but today AI is more likely to replace a concept artist than an accountant, so it's not beyond imagination to replace a manager even if the ICs are still human.

AI excels at summarization, which is a big part of the job for a lot of managers. They gather information, go to meetings, write reports, and generally re-share information appropriate for whatever audience.

At a lot of companies, the lowest level managers don't make a lot of decisions either. Tech leads make technical decisions, PMs make product decisions, and the skip-levels (e.g. Directors, VPs) make staffing decisions.

In practice, I don't think humans will report to AIs, but hierarchies might flatten (e.g. ICs report to Directors) and responsibilities might get shuffled around (e.g. some duties get assigned to HR).

If the workers are AI-bots, then I don't really see any skill overlap with management. If you manage only AIs, you are an IC, not management.
by dataflow | 2025-05-20 03:45:51+00:00
> AFAIK it's already possible but still experimental on Virtualbox, also it's hard issue to solve, and have tiny ROI I suppose. And why would they spent time fixing this slowness that only impact some small userbase like you?

It seems like you're just making guesses and don't actually know the answer? The reason I asked wasn't that I couldn't make the same guesses; it was that I had read online that there are technical obstacles here that (for reasons I don't understand, hence the question) they've had a hard time overcoming. i.e. "tiny RoI" or "small userbase" don't fully explain what I've read.

I was hoping someone would actually know the answer, not just make guesses I could have made myself.
by BrenBarn | 2025-05-20 03:46:46+00:00
I have wondered this for years. Several times I looked for a dataset of historical forecasts. It seems wild that with all the data available out there, there's no go-to source that has past forecasts together with the actual recorded data for each day. That said, these posts do mention some sources:

https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/2009/historical...

https://www.reddit.com/r/meteorology/comments/1crs6lu/seekin...

(These aren't "sites" that display the past data, just datasets you can download.)
by your_challenger | 2025-05-20 03:47:29+00:00
WSL is a landmine of bad design. I lost all my data once, and that incident made me switch to a Mac.

Here's how you can lose all your data - and Microsoft engineers won’t care: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8992 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9830 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9049#issuecomment-26...
by tanelpoder | 2025-05-20 03:47:31+00:00
Large corporations are full of middle-managers who do not lead anything nor produce anything (customer facing) and whose only job is to "facilitate information flow" and "pull teams together" etc. I think these roles will be replaced with AI chatbots quickly. The upside (for the company) ought to be that now the facilitation should happen very quickly and is measurable/manageable more directly. The downside (for the line employees) is that now your boss is a chatbot.
by fumeux_fume | 2025-05-20 03:47:42+00:00
This is a really dangerous line of thinking. It's the line of thought that slides forwards to "I love America so much, but to save America I have lie and cover up the truth of the <horrible violence> being done to them so they'll never see how bad things have gotten."

Lying to people in order to make them never see how they are being hurt is almost never the right call.
by kepano | 2025-05-20 03:48:08+00:00
I had a similar though a while ago[1]:

> the most salient quality of language models is their ability to be infinitely patient > humans have low tolerance when dealing with someone who changes their mind often, or needs something explained twenty different ways

Something I enjoy when working with language models is the ability to completely abandon days of work because I realize I am on the wrong track. This is difficult to do with humans because of the social element of sunk cost fallacy — it can be hard to let go of the work we invested our own time into.

[1] https://x.com/kepano/status/1842274557559816194
by tecoholic | 2025-05-20 03:48:42+00:00
> ever wondered why Indians are not able to google? Because google costs money, facebook groups doesn't

This is absolutely wrong. FB did that in SE Asia. But in India, this led to the creation of IIRC Internet Freedom Foundation which fights for Internet freedom to this day and established a strong foundation for net neutrality . FB tried to destroy net neutrality in India and failed.

But the broader point stands. Whatsapp, Youtube, Sharechat …etc., is internet for a huge percentage of the population.
by fallingknife | 2025-05-20 03:49:33+00:00
> "It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is an alt-right slogan which originated as part of an organized trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017. A /pol/ user described it as a proof of concept that an otherwise innocuous message could be used maliciously to spark media backlash.

And boy were they right about that. Nobody on earth is easier to bait than journalists.
by azhenley | 2025-05-20 03:49:56+00:00
You should try Mirror. The LLM-powered programming-by-example programming language I made:

signature is_even(x: number) -> bool

example is_even(0) -> true

example is_even(1) -> false

example is_even(222) -> true

example is_even(-99) -> false

It will take your examples and "compile" to a callable function. You can read more or try it out: https://austinhenley.com/blog/mirrorlang.html
by strogonoff | 2025-05-20 03:50:02+00:00
Even though I pointed out that hammer is not a suitable metaphor (I think “disingenuous” and “fallacious” is fitting) and explained in detail why you are incorrect, you keep using that metaphor, do not address any of my points specifically, and then you call my response not “good faith”.

I am the one trying to maintain a constructive argument here. It is not coincidental that people upholding the other side very rarely do.
by parpfish | 2025-05-20 03:50:56+00:00
I think before you would deploy this to prod, you should wrap it with a few guardrails to make sure it’s not hallucinating. Pretty simple — just take the output from the llm and see if it agrees with a simple mod2 operation.

Of it agrees, return model output to the user. Otherwise do a couple of retries with different prompts.
by gpm | 2025-05-20 03:51:05+00:00
Still going to disagree... these are effectively equivalent to the bathrooms you would see in the average house. Designed for purpose of course (e.g. no tub, and a rack of rolled towels instead of a place to hang them).

If they were communal ones like you'd see in many gyms I'd see your point. Or if they weren't very well cleaned. But this was just... convenient and nice. Apart from enabling more active transport to work, I don't think anyone thought twice about them.

The office was technically multifloor, 2. Probably a few hundred people in the office on an average day (no clients, just employees). Solely in use by the company I was working for.
by xyst | 2025-05-20 03:54:09+00:00
I have my own mail server and setup a catch all alias to a single account. So I can generate -- on the fly -- e-mails for services.

- Apple: me.apple@example.com - Google: me.google@example.com - Uber: me.uber@example.com - Tinder: me.tinder@example.com - random business: me.randombusinessname@example.com

This helps me with the following:

- unique usernames and passwords for each service

- easily able to tell when a service sells my information or gets hacked/breached

- "haveibeenpwned" also allows mail server owners to get access to reports for all addresses on a domain and receive notifications on breaches

- much easier to remember and communicate with others as compared to iCloud hide my e-mail addresses

- on the outgoing/sending, re-writing the "from" address field in e-mails is very easy to do
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-20 03:55:37+00:00
ChromeOS, where sleep presumably worked, is also Linux. You just exchanged a working Linux for a distro with more bugs. The fact that you're able to do that is pretty cool.

That's not to detract from the larger point here though. It's pretty funny that all of the replies in this thread identify different causes and suggest different fixes for the same symptom. Matches my experience learning Linux very well.
by twodave | 2025-05-20 03:56:02+00:00
IME most managers became managers because they preferred working with and helping organize people to creative contributions. I don’t see the need for any of these functions going away. I see productivity differences. Maybe the roles evolve.

I think the real question is how do we best harness the increased productivity? Logically speaking, if each person is 5x as productive because of AI there should be an equally greater capacity to get things done. Businesses aren’t just running out of work to do, right?
by opo | 2025-05-20 03:56:12+00:00
You bring up some interesting ideas, though I wonder about this:

>Europe has 3X the population density (and subsequent urbanization) as the US.

Are you sure about that?

>...The population density in Europe is 34 per Km² (87 people per mi²).

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula...

>...The population density in the United States is 38 per Km² (98 people per mi²).

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...
by Nursie | 2025-05-20 03:56:17+00:00
> The more interesting question is: what do we do with the art of people who were revealed to be terrible?

It's an interesting conundrum isn't it?

H.P. Lovecraft is a case in point - Lovecraftian horror is a special sort of literary genius, in my opinion, and massively influential on other writers to this day (I'm a big fan of The Laundry Files, for instance, which draw on it). But it's clear that he was massively racist, and significantly more so than just "well those were the times". Some people (some people here in this thread) say that we should "separate the art from the artist", but there's quite a bit of veiled and not-so-veiled racism in the art as well. Not to forget the misogyny.

So we decide to disavow him? No Cthulu for anyone! Well, that doesn't seem like a good option either. There's no easy, feel-good answer here other than to understand that flawed people sometimes create great art, to understand we don't have to (probably shouldn't) make idols of artists, and to be nuanced in our appreciation of their output.

In this vein I did enjoy reading "Lovecraft Country" a while ago, which both explored the horror of racism and embraced mythos-style themes.

Scott Adams gave us Dilbert. In the 90s I found it amazing. By the 00s I'd stopped paying attention, and then he started saying some somewhat less wonderful things which, if you squint, you could see foreshadowed in how uncharitable he was to people in his earlier writings. Another imperfect human, who gave us some good fun and insight, and in the end didn't live up to everyone's expectations. We shouldn't gloss over it, but perhaps we shouldn't pile those expectations on them anyway.

I had a decent lunch at Stacy's that time though...
by MPSimmons | 2025-05-20 03:58:11+00:00
Fritz Haber has entered the chat. His first paragraph sounds pretty solid:

>Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ⓘ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives.[4] It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this food supports nearly half the world's population.[5][6] For this work, Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history.[7][8][9] Haber also, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid.

The second paragraph gives the context:

>Haber, a known German nationalist, is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. He first proposed the use of the heavier-than-air chlorine gas as a weapon to break the trench deadlock during the Second Battle of Ypres. His work was later used, without his direct involvement,[10] to develop the Zyklon B pesticide used for the killing of more than 1 million Jews in gas chambers in the greater context of the Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
by akmarinov | 2025-05-20 03:58:49+00:00
> I noticed that LLMs need a very heavy hand in guiding the architecture, otherwise they'll add architectural tech debt. One easy example is that I noticed them breaking abstractions

That doesn’t matter anymore when you’re vibe coding it. No human is going to look at it anyway.

It can all be if/else on one line in one file. If it works and if the LLMs can work at, iterate and implement new business requirements, while keeping performance and security - code structure, quality and readability don’t matter one bit.

Customers don’t care about code quality and the only reason businesses used to care is to make it less money consuming to build and ship new things, so they can make more money.
by karaterobot | 2025-05-20 03:59:30+00:00
I think this is true. There was an article on HN the other day about how Moderna has already re-organized its leadership structure around AI.

It makes sense to me that AI could conceivably already be as good at making the hard, data-based decisions that CEOs make, and that, therefore, they could one day be replaced by AI. Meanwhile, you've got the soft skills part of being an executive, which humans are better at (as long as the people they deal with are also humans). So, you could split that CEO role into two parts, each specializing in half of what a CEO today does. Both roles would probably do a better job than the median CEO today, and get paid less overall.

But that "not anytime soon" part is the only thing I disagree with. Because I just don't know how long the timeline is for stuff like that. It can change pretty fast.
by MikeTheGreat | 2025-05-20 04:00:29+00:00
I'm new to RAG and have a question: how do you get all the numbers into the context window?

Does the RAG part look up just the needed number?

I think that Gemini has a million token window (yes?) - do you have access to a model with a larger window?

Regardless, I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your Substack.
by airstrike | 2025-05-20 04:02:02+00:00
First, I think the fact that grok basically refused to comply with those hamfisted instructions is a positive signal in the whole mess. How do you know other models are just as heavily skewed but just less open about them? The real alignment issue today is not about AGI, but about hidden biases.

Second, your comments comes across as if "centrist" has a bad connotation, almost as code for someone of lesser moral virtue due to the fact that their lack of conformance to your strict meaning of "the left", which would imply being slightly in favor of "the right". A "desire", as you called it, perhaps arising from uncivilized impulse rather than purposeful choice.

In reality, politics is more of a field than a single dimension, and people may very well have their reasons to reject both "the left" and "the right" without being morally bankrupt.

Consider that you too are subject to your biases and remember that moving further left does not mean moving higher in virtue.
by idkwhattocallme | 2025-05-20 04:05:45+00:00
CEO's typically make decisions when there isn't enough data to support the obvious direction. In this way, they are anti-pattern finders that rely on gut or some anecdotal experience. They are most often wrong, but when they are right and it's a success they are considered genius. I'm not sure an AI can make a non-obvious decision based on feeling.
by CoolCold | 2025-05-20 04:08:14+00:00
may be you missed the point - in WSL, you are with Linux/unix based env. So your Vim or other editors and tools just work like in regular Linux, Windows part until needed can be invisible and uninvolved.

Other tools like VSCode IDE, has special handling (extension) to work _inside_ WSL and only keep GUI frontend on the Windows side (very close to how it works over SSH).

On the other hand, I quite often use "explorer.exe ." inside WSL to open File Explorer and jiggle around with files downloaded/created/modified (say with sed) in WSL and it works fine too.

Or use MarkText markdown editor on folder inside WSL being some git repo and I'm adding docs/instructions there.
by tanelpoder | 2025-05-20 04:09:10+00:00
Perhaps some companies do deeper analysis first - with AI summarizing & clustering signals from various internal systems and corporate email history. I'm not saying that this is better for everyone compared to current human-driven approaches, but the human driven approaches seem to be just about stack-ranking employees by their recent performance review ratings and drawing a red line in a spreadsheet. Amazon's recent "flattening the organization" initiative might well be using AI as one of the signals. I have no idea whether that's actually true - but then again it's 2025 and they have been a data-driven company for a long time.
by int_19h | 2025-05-20 04:09:12+00:00
This sounds very weird to me. Any sane build toolchain should produce a runnable executable that already has +x. What did you use to compile it?

Removing double-click to run an executable binary certainly sounds like something either Gnome or Ubuntu would do, but thankfully that's not the only option in town. In KDE I believe the same exact Windows workflow would just work.
by jbmsf | 2025-05-20 04:10:11+00:00
That's mostly true.

- You may need something to connect the dots between code changes and containers. It's not always possible to build everything on every change, especially in a multi/mono-repo setup.

- You probably need some way to connect container outcomes back to branch protection rules. Again, if you are building everything, every time, it's pretty simple, but less so otherwise.

- You likely want to have some control over the compute capacity on which the actions run, both for speed and cost control. And since caching matters, some compute solutions are better than others.

I don't think GitHub Actions solves any of these problems well, but neither do containers on their own.
by cookiengineer | 2025-05-20 04:11:18+00:00
> FB tried to destroy net neutrality in India and failed.

FB to this date still owns the internet.org domain, which was literally their marketing at the time. Free plans from mobile carriers had/have access to a few selected websites and not the rest of the real internet.

While I agree that the courts decided against this at some point, it was around 13+ years too late, because a generation of mobile users got hooked already.

Meta even went as far as deleting their internet.org website from the web archive, all years result in a 404 now. Interesting.
by shmerl | 2025-05-20 04:11:22+00:00
You can run multiple OSes simultaneously on Linux itself - Linux can run VMs just fine. I.e. Linux guests on Linux host and so on. Take a look for example at virt-manager (libvirt / qemu + kvm).

And WSL is a limited VM using HyperV anyway. If you want to run a VM, you can as a well run a proper one which isn't limited and runs a full blown distro with sane configuration.

So WSL is definitely not more powerful than normal Linux.
by mrtksn | 2025-05-20 04:12:17+00:00
Understand and it and celebrate the art when acknowledge the shortcomings of it creator. A lot of great creations, inventions and discoveries are made by otherwise insufferable assholes. Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR is known to be a prime one. You can’t stop using PCR in biology just because the character of the person who discovered it.

Many painters, singers, composers and CEO’s are known to be horrible people. Unless they are actively harming humanity with the power they acquired, this is nothing more than a curiosity that is only relevant for people around him.
by alexkkoo93 | 2025-05-20 04:12:18+00:00
I think we need to frame this question in terms of systems, not just roles. Even in this thread, people have different definitions of manager: someone responsible for people, someone who makes decisions, someone who routes info.

So the type of management will be a big factor

Buy before Al replaces "managers," companies will (or should) rethink how their systems and workflows operate, then realign roles to match.

Instead of starting with a question of replacing roles (and some certainly will), it'll start with redefining how work gets done, and updating job descriptions accordingly.

What won't change is that employers will hire for value. So maybe while some companies would rather substitute managers with AI, I imagine many would prefer the outsized value an ai-literate manager might have
by ggm | 2025-05-20 04:13:53+00:00
I'm surprised at the surface difference between birth and death rate because we're told the aggregate rate of increase is declining. The difference between the two suggests birth outruns death by 2:1 which feels steep for something which will max out in 2050.

I realise sub-saharan Africa continues to be high birthrate and is a huge component of world population, but the trend of increased economic activity to lower birth rate is really high worldwide, and most western economies in the OECD would be in decline, were it not for migration.
by alex_smart | 2025-05-20 04:14:02+00:00
>many results, including https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/

Many results, including a US-specific page of the Lenovo website.

>If buying with Linux is not an option at your place, you can always buy one of the many models found with this search without OS and install it yourself.

>Finding out which laptops are sold with Linux somewhere should not be rocket science.

It should not. Given the amount of time I have already spent on trying to find one, it is fair to say that there are none easily available in India, at least in the consumer laptop market.

> I understand that it can be a dealbreaker for some, but that's a minor issue for me on laptops

Stockholm syndrome.
by pca006132 | 2025-05-20 04:14:41+00:00
Will they really get paid less? The feeling I have now is that people are paid a lot not because of what they do, but because of the potential damage they can do in case they fucked up. E.g. CEOs, lawyers, etc. Moving some of the work to AI doesn't reduce the risk, so they should have the same pay in my mental model.

Plus C-level executives typically don't lower their pay, and IMO investors apparently don't care that much about their pay, I can't see a reason why their pay will be reduced (significantly).