MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-05-31 03:57:20+00:00
Theoretically a lot of stuff can happen. As a practical matter, this has to be regulatory. Eggs and chicken meat is a very well understood product and by nature a completely normal market. I've literally been offered chicken meat by roadside sellers who butcher them on the spot and cook up a meal; it is a bit gruesome but not outside the complexity of operation that one family can manage.

The part of the supply chain acting as a "monopoly" is too simple to replace. Someone can literally set up a new local butchery, buy directly from the farmers and the exclusive dealership network is broken. Probably need some know-how and a refrigerated truck. It is barely possible that the sort of monopoly structure being described could have been built over the entirety of the US without regulatory support. It'd require something approaching a mind control ray to keep the competition under control.

I believe the other comment saying that chickens are a bad business, competition would tear through the margins like a rooster eating a mouse. But a country wide monopsony on chicken purchases is absurd (unless the regulators are pushing it). If nothing else there are a bunch of low-income people who'd be happy to buy and butcher their own chickens if it cut out a middle man. It isn't feasible to build a natural monopoly.
by whalesalad | 2025-05-31 03:57:30+00:00
I used to live a mile or so from the location in Michigan. Previously I lived a few miles from the one in Tustin, CA. Growing up I was a few miles from Fry’s in Burbank and went there all the time. Now I live out in the boonies and it’s certainly made me realize how fortunate I was all these years
by sottol | 2025-05-31 03:59:08+00:00
It's easy to forget that half the world's population lives in a few dollars a day [1] and sparing $20 month is unrealistic.

Also, access to market leading AI is not going to cost $20/mo when everything is said and done.

[1] https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-p...
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-05-31 03:59:53+00:00
Eventually, it may not matter what the courts think as their power is also effectively limited by the reduction of consequences for ignoring court orders.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

SEC. 70302. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT.

No court of the United States may enforce a contempt citation for

failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
by quantadev | 2025-05-31 04:00:28+00:00
That 30x math simply comes from spending 5min typing a prompt, and getting code generated that would take a human 2.5hrs to write. This means in the future most of a developer's time will be spent reviewing code, rather than typing it. Because AI will also be able to write the test cases too, so that effort [mostly] vanishes as well.
by MangoToupe | 2025-05-31 04:00:44+00:00
Yea, I mostly agree with this. Consumers tend to have some sort of understanding of the car market. If you can't cater to them, you've failed.

Correspondingly, it's very easy to imagine someone disgruntled for having to deal with code (i imagine hotwiring a car in the context you provided). People know their lane; you can't force them to change it.
by fixprix | 2025-05-31 04:03:08+00:00
Did you miss the comment where they said, "We’re still planning to address this within the next few months."?

Just because your niche issue isn't resolved, it is kind of a jerk move to blast them on HN especially when they've recently replied saying the issue is on their radar.

In less popular open source projects this is what drives devs to abandon them.
by bradlys | 2025-05-31 04:03:34+00:00
I'd be good at it but I won't get hired cause I didn't go to the right boarding school.

Tech has its barriers too. Most people I've met in tech come from relatively rich families. (Families where spending $70k+/yr on college is not a major concern for multiple kids - that's not normal middle class at all even for the US)
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-31 04:04:57+00:00
The problem is that cutting IT and similar functions to the bone is really good for CEOs. It juices the profits in the short/mid term, the stock price goes up because investors just see line go up, money goes in, and the CEO gets plaudits. There's only one figure of merit: stock price. What you measure is what you get.

It's only much later that the wheels fall off and it all goes to hell. The hack isn't a result of the CEOs actions this quarter, it's years and years of cumulative stock price optimisation for which the CEO was rewarded.

And you can't even blame all the investors because many will be diluted and mixed though funds and pensions. Is Muriel to blame because her private pension, which everyone told her is good and responsible financial planning, invested in Co-Operative Group on the back of strong growth and "business optimisation intiatives"? Is she supposed to call up Legal and General and say "look I know 2% of my pension is invested in Co-Op Group Ltd and it's doing well, and yes I'm with you guys because you have good returns, but I'm concerned their supermarket division is outsourcing their IT too much, could you please reduce my returns for the next few years and invest in companies that make less money by doing the IT more correctly?"

The incentives are fucked from end to end.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-05-31 04:05:34+00:00
I’d like to hear more discussion of AI being applied in a ways that are “good enough”. So much focus on it having to be 100% or it sucks. There are use cases where it provides a lot of value and doesn’t have to be perfect to replace tasks done by an imperfect employee who sometimes misses details too. Audit the output with a human like Taco Bell (Yum) is doing in AI drive through orders. Are most the day to day questions the a person asks so critical in nature that hallucinations cause any more issues than bad advice from a person or an inaccurate Wikipedia or news article or mishearing? Tolerance of correctness proportional to the importance of the task i guess. I wouldn’t publish government health policy citing hallucinated research or devise tariff algorithms but I’m cool with my generative pumpkin bars recipe accidentally having a tbsp tsp error I’d notice in making them.
by sibeliuss | 2025-05-31 04:05:59+00:00
It's worth reminding folks that one doesn't _need_ a formal education to get by. I did terrible in school and never went to college and years later have reached a certain expertise (which included many fortunate moments along the way).

What I had growing up though were interests in things, and that has carried me quite far. I worry much more about the addictive infinite immersive quality of video games and other kinds of scrolling, and by extension the elimination of free time through wasted time.
by nine_k | 2025-05-31 04:06:14+00:00
Vercel must be good at marketing. They are also good at offering Next.js hosting. They sustain that notion of Next.js being a natural choice.

Next.js offers some nice things as SSR and bundle slicing so that the initial load is (theoretically) way faster. There are other tools which do that, too. I personally find TanStack a more compelling "batteries included" proposition, despite its terrifying function signatures sometimes.
by stmw | 2025-05-31 04:06:38+00:00
Yes, I have used a linked list in a company setting, both in writing code and in technically leading things where understanding the behavior of linked lists vs arrays was important. But again, it's not the only criteria in these kinds of interviews IF CONDUCTED WELL - the specific experience you cite, of "developers eager to squeeze every last drop... makes code review a nightmare. For a feature that doesn't need it" is also part of what you're looking for. And you can ask a candidate who does that "hey, that seems unnecessary here and hard to undrstand, why are you doing that?"
by nytesky | 2025-05-31 04:09:15+00:00
I don’t know why Apple and Google haven’t published a geofencing protocol where locations can publish DND or limit internet access at these locations.

Basically the phone communicates with the venues via an AirTag like network and enters DND or becomes a school mode device.

It can be on by default, and some users like on call doctors or firefighter etc can override and take responsibility for managing themselves.

I would love my phone to know I’m in Church for a wedding or at a play and not have to remember to switch.
by lolinder | 2025-05-31 04:11:05+00:00
This was your contribution to that thread last month [0]. Now a month after that insightful contribution you're on HN posting editorialized titles trying to get sympathy? Given your behavior in that thread I'm just impressed at how well the Vercel folks handled your aggression.

Maybe it's time to take your own advice and try a different framework instead of wasting time trashing on one you don't like.

[0] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/64660#discussi...
by nytesky | 2025-05-31 04:13:12+00:00
I never went to office hours because I felt I had not worked hard enough to bother the professor yet. Just fell further and further behind. Big mistake that haunts me to today, learn from this point!

I’m more skeptical of write “everything” down — depends on how feasible that is (is slides vs chalk board - you can probably copy everything if they are writing on a board which is slower than pen and paper. )
by tomhow | 2025-05-31 04:15:28+00:00
It's fine to feel whatever you feel about technical interviews, but the guidelines ask us to be more measured when we post comments here. Several guidelines cover this in different ways:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bdcravens | 2025-05-31 04:16:22+00:00
While I've built machines using parts from Microcenter, it's been several years, as I eventually went all-in on Macbooks (though you can often get one cheaper there than at the Apple Store). However, as I've gotten into 3d printing and other maker tech in the last year, I'm now there at least once a month, and have spent more than I ever did.
by godelski | 2025-05-31 04:17:03+00:00
Let's make the laptops thinner. This way we can clean the oil off of the keyboard, putting it on the screen.

At this point I'm not sure it's lack of independent thought so much as lack of thought. I'm even beginning to question if people even use the products they work on. Shouldn't there be more pressure from engineers at this point? Is it yes men from top to bottom? Even CEOs seem to be yes men in response to share holders but that's like being a yes man to the wind.

When I bring this stuff up I'm called negative, a perfectionist, or told I'm out of touch with customers and or understand "value". Idk, maybe they're right. But I'm an engineer. My job is to find problems and fix them. I'm not negative, I'm trying to make the product better. And they're right, I don't understand value. I'm an engineer, it's not my job to make up a number about how valuable some bug fix is or isn't. What is this, "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" If you want made up dollar values go ask the business monkeys, I'm a code monkey
by californical | 2025-05-31 04:17:18+00:00
I feel like one of us must be in a bit of our own bubble.

The company that I work for is currently innovating very fast (not LLM related), creating so much value for other companies that they have never gotten from any other business.. I know this because when they switch to our company, they tell us how much better our software product is compared to anything they've ever used. It has tons of features that no other company has. That's all I can say without doxxing too much.

I feel like it's unimaginative to say:

> What more tech is there to sell besides LLM integrations?

I have like 7 startup ideas written down in my notes app for software products that I wish I had in my life, but don't have time to work on, and can't find anything that exists for it. There is so much left to create
by tudorconstantin | 2025-05-31 04:17:20+00:00
Am I the only one thinking that going back full circle to server side rendering, but to a way more convoluted way of having it, is actually a regression rather than evolution technologically? We had SSR since the times of Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and even express. But in a way more straight forward way of doing it: here’s some HTML, with some db queries that takes data, puts it in said HTML and sends it to the browser. Today we have react components that can be executed both on the server and on the client, we need at least 2 servers - one for the frontend and one for the backend, we have to hydrate the components when we render them server side, but not when rendering them in the browser, etc. I feel like we’re inventing stuff just because we can and there’s a huge cohort of engineers who complicate their development experience just because.
by spankibalt | 2025-05-31 04:17:36+00:00
> Im curious who would buy software that lack of features?

I will only use software that lacks AI for the profoundly simple reason that I don't need such "features". Non-artists on the other hand need AI for they're not competent (enough). At what stage of the process is irrelevant.

And competency in matters of sentient cultural expression manifest, the only one possible (as opposed to a mere simulacrum), is what defines an artist, after all; non-competency obviously doesn't.
by mappu | 2025-05-31 04:18:28+00:00
If you're using AI to write all those em-dashes, please add a disclaimer.

For humans i would say a shorter summary is Linear.app syncs a client IndexedDB with the server using naive last-write-wins, no conflict detection, no OT, no CRDT. There's a global sync ID that the server is in control of. Most of the article describes minutae of the json schema.
by satisfice | 2025-05-31 04:18:35+00:00
If you are using AI to do things that you can immediately verify, that’s cool. A great many things AI can supposedly do are not easily verifiable.

A client of mine used it to “summarize” a series of lectures I did. It got a lot right and crucial things wrong that required me to warn them against trusting any of the summaries. They were fatally contaminated in a way that required damage control.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-31 04:18:37+00:00
It’s fair to point out the big difference in parsing philosophy between HTML 2–4 and HTML 5, but what I’m talking about happened before HTML5 as well. Some people can’t handle the fact that HTML intentionally has implied elements.

> <!DOCTYPE html><title>Hello</title>" is fully standards compliant now

Sure, but switch the doctype and put a <p> on the end, and it’s fully standards compliant HTML 4.01 Strict too. And yet so many people are adamant that it can’t be. That it’s invalid (even though a validator says it’s valid). That it’s relying on error handling (even though the spec. says otherwise). That some browsers parse it wrong (but they can never name one). That the DOM ends up broken (when browser dev tools show a normal DOM). That you need <html> and <body> elements (even though it already has both). That there’s something wrong with it at a technical level (even though they cannot describe what).

The concept “This is correct HTML that works everywhere with no error handling” is very difficult for some people to grasp, to a genuinely surprising degree.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-05-31 04:18:45+00:00
If a business, after unionizing, ultimately delivers more value per dollar to the end customer… then why would anyone even need to write essays arguing for it?

Customers will vote with their wallets, assuming there are any durable net advantage to the customer base, so the cumulative effect would be far more penetrating and enduring than millions of written arguments.
by motorest | 2025-05-31 04:19:03+00:00
> People don’t get promoted for the objective value of their work products. They get promoted for appearances, charisma and vibes.

I don't know about that. It sounds too much like cope from people that feel entitled to a promotion in spite of underperforming or not meeting the production bar. It reeks of "the fox and the grapes".

There are also some specializations of these dismissals when women are the ones being promoted.
by tomhow | 2025-05-31 04:19:26+00:00
That comment and yours both broke the guidelines [1], particularly the one that asks us not to "fulminate".

It's fine and welcome here to critique anything, we're just trying to make HN something other than a ragefest, particularly about topics that people have been saying the same enraged things about for a long time.

When the same things have been said about an issue for a long time, it's time to think about new ideas and new solutions to that issue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by nytesky | 2025-05-31 04:21:16+00:00
So many “tech” companies aren’t really tech, they just apply fairly standard software principals to new industries.

Companies like salesforce, Uber, Airbnb are more marketing or market making apps. Eventually they do apply some more sophisticated software to scale their products, but their core business is not technical in nature. Even Facebook started out as an electronic blend of the school facebook (paperback) and hotornot.

I’m not in SV tech so perhaps my perception is wrong? But googles core competency was search algorithms, though their business is ads of course. So more of a tech company.
by motorest | 2025-05-31 04:23:47+00:00
> If you're in a "real-world" job - framing houses, stocking shelves, flying airplanes - then actually producing is just about the only way.

I don't agree. There are plenty of behavioral aspects that turn an otherwise excellent employee into a clear no-hire. For example, being a toxic employee who is egregious or even outright aggressive towards clients and staff is reason enough to in the very least pass them on a promotion, no matter how many units of work they deliver within a timeframe.

The "actually produce" excuse is actually an attempt to ignore important or even critical aspects of an employee's performance in an attempt to game performance assessments to cherry-pick traits the complainer feels they fare better on.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-31 04:25:20+00:00
Haha yes. Appendix C gave compatibility guidelines, but you are right that doesn’t actually result in documents that could be parsed by a parser that implemented SHORTTAG NET.

Elsewhere in the thread, I posted an example of SHORTTAG NET being removed from a browser to enable parsing of XHTML documents:

https://github.com/emacsmirror/w3/commit/68af7c107dcbe194e30...

Nevertheless, the text/html RFC explicitly condones Appendix C, so despite it not being fully reflective of reality, it’s still permissible to use text/html to label XHTML 1.0 documents that follow Appendix C :D
by mceachen | 2025-05-31 04:26:10+00:00
Their new MAX 5x plan is flat rate $3/day but IME it's enough to drive all-day multi-concurrent-sessions if you stay on sonnet.

Their MAX 20x is double the cost $~6/day for quadruple the quota.

Keep in mind that Opus chows quota at 5x+ the rate of sonnet.
by refactor_master | 2025-05-31 04:26:44+00:00
I looked up the Jubilee Church. Supposedly it has a roof that breaks down NOx. So I asked ChatGPT to do some napkin math and…

Assuming ~1,200 m² of TiO₂-coated surface removing ~16 g NOₓ/m²/year → 1,200 × 16 = 19,200 g = 19.2 kg/year; with an average car emitting ~5 kg NOₓ/year (based on 15,000 km/year at ~0.33 g/km), the roof offsets ~3.8 cars annually.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-31 04:27:17+00:00
> I learn so much more when a professor has a whiteboard and writes out an equation is derived one step at a time.

100%, and when I say I wrote everything that went on the board I particularly mean on math/CS/science classes. I feel like I truly learned how to do proper math from this habit, because I was learning to work problems exactly like the professors did. Before this I was kind of fumbling around when it came to showing my work.
by purpleidea | 2025-05-31 04:31:03+00:00
> there is ambiguity about what the next move is

It's common to have situations where you need to guess between two possibilities, and then you'll find out that one is wrong and you need to backtrack.

So I hope the algo you implement only excludes puzzles with more than one solution. As long as there is exactly one solution, it's completely logical and fair game.
by apgwoz | 2025-05-31 04:32:42+00:00
Probably because Terraform’s value was always the community of providers and modules, and that was in danger.

Where as, Redis/Valkey’s ecosystem exists mainly as advocacy and happy users. It might be central to an architecture, sure, but using a previously open sourced version was unlikely to cause considerable problems.

Contrast to potential huge changes to the BUSL’d terraform that create incompatibility with existing providers would lock you in to HashiCorp’s new, unfavorable, terms.
by 0x5f3759df-i | 2025-05-31 04:33:48+00:00
I asked ChatGPT to be a CEO and decide if everyone should work in office 5 days a week:

“ Final Thought (as a CEO):

I wouldn’t force a full return unless data showed a clear business case. Culture, performance, and employee sentiment would all guide the decision. I’d rather lead with transparency, flexibility, and trust than mandates that could backfire.

Would you like a sample policy memo I’d send to employees in this scenario?”

A better, more reasonable CEO than the one I have. So I’m looking forward to AI taking that white collar job especially.
by neepi | 2025-05-31 04:33:55+00:00
The point is if you're outsourcing to India you want low cost and are not concerned with quality. That's exactly why you go there. And India has plenty of that to give. No one there wants to work for those outsourcing chop shops, but it's an easy way into the industry so staff turnover is high as people move up the chain. So if you're outsourcing for cost cutting reasons, which they are, it's a constant cycle of low quality staff. That is the risk. Nothing to do with race or xenophobia. You put low costs above risk provision.

We can all pick and choose good stories. What about Tata Steel's total mismanagement of Tata Steel Europe? And JLR isn't exactly in good shape as you say it is. You just picked some numbers that sound good. And wrapped it in a xenophobia straw man.
by gostsamo | 2025-05-31 04:42:59+00:00
Theoretically, it is possible to do anything of that, but what is missing from your business plan is selling a commodity product at scale on a competitive price. And if you somehow manage to do something like that, nothing stops the big player of your region from going to any of your clients and offer them dumping prices for ditching you or going to the local vendors of animal antibiotics and offering them premium price if they supply only chosen farmers thus squeezing you and your suppliers from both ends.

If you have a market with low margin and no differentiation between the offered stock, the gains are in size and it logically leads to a few players in the market so I doubt that the independent butchery has to be butchered and won't die of natural causes due to high costs or because a few of its partners are having a bad year.