MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gokhan | 2025-05-18 22:45:48+00:00
I find it quite naive that senior devs think this will stop with juniors. TFA says "No juniors today means no seniors tomorrow ... juniors must focus on higher-level skills like debugging, system design, and effective collaboration" and yet he believes AI won’t be doing all of that by the time those juniors somehow upskill on their own.

I was just testing the newly released Copilot Agent Mode in VS, and it already looks quite capable of debugging things independently (actually, it's not much different from VS Code Agent Mode, which came out a couple of weeks earlier).

System design? Not all seniors need Google-scale design skills. Most systems designed by seniors are either overdesigned, badly designed, or copied from an article or a case study anyway. There are plenty of seniors whose only real qualification is the number of years they've been working.

The author is from Google. I’m not sure if effective collaboration is something given there, but in many companies, especially outside of tech, it's not something you see often. And it's usually inversely proportional to the company’s age.

What seniors learned by doing is now written down and available to LLMs, often in multiple sources, explained by some of the best minds in the field. Any given senior likely knows only a fraction of a domain, and even less when you start combining domains. LLMs probably already there for some of the seniors, only they never checked.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-05-18 22:46:11+00:00
It seems to really be an ad for Directus (https://directus.io/) (?) That he used to replace Obsidian.

One of the first image to hit me when I got there is a button "Start For Free".

And if I want to run it on my own server in "production" it costs money? or at least you have to fill out a form and "Lets chat".

When I go to a page, I click on pricing, and what I get is a form to fill out and "Lets Chat", I am out of there. If they cant show how pricing is structured, No thanks.

""" Chat with our team about your project. We're here as a resource for you. Get clarity on your project, licensing, or enterprise needs. """

It is open sourced they say https://github.com/directus/directus

The first line of the introduction:

"""Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content."""

Yeah... that is not what I need for my personal notes system.

"""Manage Pure SQL. Works with new or existing SQL databases, no migration required."""

No

"""Choose your Database. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, OracleDB, CockroachDB, MariaDB, and MS-SQL."""

Still going on about that?

I dont see this a good fit for the use case he presents.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-05-18 22:46:29+00:00
Google actually offered something along those lines for a few years, called Google Contributor, though I don’t think it applied to video ads like YouTube’s.

I have no inside info on why it didn’t survive even though I worked for Google when it initially launched (not on Contributor), but the fact remains it didn’t survive.

As pure personal speculation, I suspect it didn’t receive enough user uptake for Google to decide that it was worthwhile.

To avoid any confusion: I don’t work for Google now and am certainly not speaking for them in this comment.
by siliconc0w | 2025-05-18 22:47:52+00:00
Only non-engineers listening to VC-hype on podcasts think that AI can replace fully junior engineers. Here is a problem I recently asked a junior dev to solve:

Our service occasionally gets especially expensive requests that amplify to our dependencies, one of those dependencies have started complaining that our bursts of traffic are impacting other users, talk to them and propose a solution that aligns with our different requirements. Possible directions are X, Y, Z.

AI is pretty far from able to do this. A cracked out vibe coder maybe could have just added a one-off naive rate limit algorithm pulled from stack overflow or maybe pulled in an unmaintained 3rd party 'rate-limit' package and called it a day. And that would be fine for a MVP but in large organizations figuring out what to build, how to build it, and getting agreement with stakeholders is way, way more work that doing than actual implementation (which still rarely can be one-shotted and needs a lot of hand-holding and iteration to get decent solutions).
by codekansas | 2025-05-18 22:48:09+00:00
Well, the point of being open-source is that I don't think there is much of a moat in the hardware, in the limit, and it's better to accelerate the ecosystem and start building standards. It's very similar to Tesla - electric cars are easier to build than gas cars, so the moat has to come from branding / integration / software (for reference, before K-Scale I worked on the FSD ML team at Tesla, which informed a lot of my thinking about what the right business model for this would look like).

I think humanoids are in their infancy. Eventually most of the margin will come from software capabilities, which we do plan to charge a lot of money for (like, download a software package and your robot can clean your house, that's probably worth something). But in order for that business model to work we need to have commodity, standardized hardware.
by gitremote | 2025-05-18 22:48:42+00:00
> Working remotely means there's some higher bar for quickly bugging a colleague, since you have no idea if they're casually reading their emails or if they're in deep focus.

You've outed yourself as a young person here, because young people have this social fear of messaging senior engineers. Messaging at work doesn't need to be synchronous like in personal communication. Messaging at work matures into optional asynchronous communication for efficiency. See the No Hello (https://nohello.net) protocol.

There is actually a lower bar for quickly bugging a colleague over messaging than walking over to their desk. It's actually impolite to shoulder surf and skim your colleague's email inbox to determine if what they're doing is important. For senior and above levels, reading emails can be more urgent than having an IDE open. There can be production issues, environment issues, vendor tickets, and emails from senior management that are communicated over email. Or they can be submitting an HR form that has their personal details.

Before 2020, software developers in open office environments naturally gravitated to messaging over talking in person, because having no office or cubicle walls means if you're talking out loud at someone's desk, you're bothering others sitting nearby. Sometimes this happens anyway, and it can be hard for some people to read code or emails while listening to colleagues talking right next to them.

> There are other, tangential, reasons to prefer remote work over in-person, but I don't think there's any reason why remote work would be better at educating novices.

There is minor degradation in educating novices, like maybe it's 2% to 5% worse, but in open office work environments, the majority of communication is messaging and emails anyway due to lack of privacy and sound-proofing. Screensharing is easier to see than huddling at someone's desk, and quieter for your colleagues next to you who wouldn't hear all sides of the conversation when you're using headphones.
by robocat | 2025-05-18 22:48:47+00:00
Pick a subset aimed directly at accessibility.

The least-needed features are often accessibility nightmares (e.g. animation - although usually not semantic).

The accessible subset could then be government standardized and used as a legal hammer against over-complex HTML sites.

For a while search engines helped because they encouraged sites to focus on being more informative (html DOCUMENTS).

I think web applications are a huge improvement over Windows applications, however dynamic HTML is a nightmare. Old school forms were usable.

(edited to improve) Disclosure: wrote a js framework and SPA mid 00's (so I've been more on the problem side than the solution side).
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-18 22:49:07+00:00
Attacks on the ICC are part of US declaring war on it's own softpower influence.

What the ICC knows about the US, other nations are paying attention to.

Cooperation is difficult-to-impossible with a nation that transforms overnight into what can be fairly described as a fully corrupt, rage-driven autocratic thug - complete with enemy lists.

A nation like this isn't a nation you work with. It's a nation you protect yourself from.
by jltsiren | 2025-05-18 22:49:07+00:00
Attorneys have a special status before the law. In particular, an attorney is legally required to act in the client's legitimate interests. If there is another person in the organization above the attorney and that person is also an attorney, the same requirement extends to them. But if that person is a random MBA or shareholder, they have no such obligation, which creates a conflict of interest.

Other true professions have similar but lesser requirements. Some leadership positions in a hospital require an MD. Not because the MD makes you a better leader, but because the position involves making medical decisions. In an engineering company, some decisions must be made by a civil engineer. And so on.

The requirements for attorneys are stricter, because the law is a special case before the law. While other fields exist within the system, the law is the system itself.
by ramesh31 | 2025-05-18 22:49:36+00:00
>We know they are smart, reliable, and motivated. It's a no brainer to spend time on training because, combined with the skills from other roles, they are likely to have a lot of leverage.

This is the problem, early career devs are extremely bimodal in skill distribution.

You can luck out and land the 1 in 10 who just gets it and has the knack and has been coding since they were 12. But 9/10 times you end up with someone who has trouble even making a commit or with writing basic syntax, who just "picked" software as a career at some point in college for the salary. This has been my experience anywhere that doesnt have FAANG level cash to be hiring the top graduates at 150k+.
by shusaku | 2025-05-18 22:49:36+00:00
> Without knowing the type, nobody can tell the I.R.S. later on what taxes to collect, if any, or tell the participant what he or she may owe. And guess what. With paper checks, you can just put words on them that help explain or signal what kind of account the money came from and where it’s supposed to end up.

Oh the irony.
by hagbard_c | 2025-05-18 22:49:37+00:00
No, it just moved eastwards and gained a few extra stars. Compare the Chinese iteration of TT (Douyin) with the international version. Chinese children are time limited to 40 minutes per day and get presented 'science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos' according to a 'tech expert' interviewed on the subject [1] while western girls get told they may be boys and vice-versa if they happen to feel some unease with their growing bodies during puberty. They get inundated in 'influencer' content trying to peddle them the latest make-up trends, the latest fashion fads and more such consumerist drivel. From the interview with the 'expert': “There’s a survey of pre-teens in the U.S. and China asking, ‘what is the most aspirational career that you want to have?’ and in the U.S., the No. 1 was a social media influencer, and in China, the No. 1 was astronaut,” Harris said. “You allow those two societies to play out for a few generations and I can tell you what your world is going to look like.”

Of course I did not only mention the CCP as a nefarious actor in the 'social' landscape, did you miss that? I pointed out the (decidedly home-grown) tech moguls as being just as guilty and while they may have tried to virtue signal with the 'progressives' when they were in power they're certainly not part of the 'red scare´ unless they're like Lenin's 'capitalists who will sell the Soviets the rope they will use to hang them'. I don't think they are, they're just fixated on growing their power and influence in pursuit of the almighty ${currency_unit}.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY
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by coryvirok | 2025-05-18 22:50:07+00:00
This has led me to wonder if this is the last generation of "senior" devs. The thinking goes, if it takes a couple of years to educate and train a junior dev on average and LLMs can increasingly replace junior devs... There is no need for a company to hire junior devs, starving the ecosystem of talent that would have otherwise gone onto becoming senior.

In a world where the average work is the first to be displaced (due to training data availability), the last to be replaced are the ones furthest from distribution mean...
by maxgashkov | 2025-05-18 22:51:00+00:00
> almost all employers will pay for employees to commute by public transport but not by car, because the government heavily incentivises them to do so

Could you clarify this? To my knowledge only 2 things that could qualify as incentive exist:

- commuting allowances are not considered taxable income for employee

- commuting allowance could be used to reduce tax base for the business

But this is not something I'd call 'heavily'.

My understanding is that commute is universally covered as this is an expected job benefit in Japan, and commuting by car is disencouraged in cities due to the increased insurance liability (as commuting time could be considered work time and injuries incurred to 3rd party will expose the company to liability as well).
by roskelld | 2025-05-18 22:51:59+00:00
I've noticed on iPhone Youtube Premium I've had overlay ad widgets appear. I think they're for a creator's own merchandise, but I'm guessing that there's some sort of revenue mechanism for Youtube being happy to include these. To me it's still an ad and it's what I pay for to avoid seeing it.

I wonder how long we'll go for before we start to see ad-lite Premium, and something like Premium+ to view ad free.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-05-18 22:53:13+00:00
> My guess for the reason behind this is that LLMs have more facts memorized,

From https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/ :

When playing 40 games against human players, CICERO achieved more than double the average score of the human players and ranked in the top 10% of participants who played more than one game

There are not a lot of facts to know when playing diplomacy. It's all about manipulating the other guy with words.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-18 22:53:34+00:00
TFA is a great read, although the PS/1 being a turnkey system, the author didn't need to piece together a lot of compatible accessories to make a great system.

"LEGO for Adults" is a very apt analogy I began to hear recently, about PCs in those days. It was an exhilirating feeling of self-determination and control for aficionados, that you could walk into a huge Fry's Electronics and there may be an entire wide aisle dedicated to sound cards, and most all of them would be compatible with your system -- the same situation with video cards, disk controllers, anything on PCI, not to mention the RAM and other accessories.

A desktop tower PC in those days was like a blank slate. I purchased my 386 "barebones" and upgraded piecemeal, because what better way to spec out the perfect system, and spread out the costs, than waiting a few months in-between expansion cards or accessory purchases? It was sort of a miracle that I upgraded the 386 so extensively, that by the time it was time to purchase a 486 system, all I needed was a motherboard and a disk, because the rest of the spare parts were all duplicated from past upgrades!

However this sort of self-assembly of PCs has long passed us by. Another interesting inflection point for me was reached in 2018. I decided I had no need for a desktop machine, and during the purchase of my ThinkPad, I was able to go direct to Lenovo.com, and spec out every detail of the machine to my heart's desire, building a truly custom system just through their website's storefront interface. It was custom-built and shipped direct from China, built to last like a battleship. Perhaps those days are bygone as well, at this point.
by marcusb | 2025-05-18 22:54:09+00:00
just go and look at any of the vendors selling “zero trust” solutions. They all have white papers available about how a) perimeter security is “dead” and b) how their specific flavor of zero trust is the One True zero trust and the only thing you can trust to protect your data.

You will without exception need to provide an email address to access these white papers, so their inside sales team can ensure you fully understand the importance of trusting their zero trust, and not trusting anyone else’s.

I’m not kidding - even a little.
by sthuck | 2025-05-18 22:54:15+00:00
The part about buying a misleading CPU really hit home with me. Man all those small retailers in the 90s were living the dream with their unaware customers.

My parents bought an AMD 486 100mhz at the end of 1995, it was still a viable low end machine for that time but they paid as if it was a Pentuim. Had to somehow make it work up until 2001 with that machine. Don't know if I had a career in tech if I wasn't forced to tinker with it.
by tbrownaw | 2025-05-18 22:54:15+00:00
As obviously silly as this is, could it actually be useful for getting the observed phenomena acknowledged by people who might just tune out is presented with the underlying math that makes it individually?

How much overlap is there between people who think llms are magic and people who don't approve of applying math to groups of people? And how many in the overlap have positions where their opinions have outsized effects?
by allenu | 2025-05-18 22:54:51+00:00
I agree. For most people, having a zero-friction way of recording a short thought or idea and being able to search for it later is more important than creating a vast network of connections. Tagging is "good enough" for most needs.

I ended up building my own app for my notes and it turned into a chronological feed of short notes, like a social media feed. I just recently added linking between notes, but honestly, I've found that it's not essential. Just having a way to search by text and tag covers most of my needs. The chronological order also makes it easy to find stuff that I wrote recently or to filter by date.

Since there are no files or folders, there's also zero friction when it comes to recording something. I don't need to think "Where should this go?" or "Is there already a folder or a larger note this should be a part of?" I think that has honestly led me to just down more thoughts and ideas than if I was trying to maintain a strict structure to everything. (There are downsides to that, though, as it may mean I have more noise in my system, making it harder to find actual notes of value long term.)
by mjr00 | 2025-05-18 22:55:19+00:00
> What seniors learned by doing is now written down and available to LLMs, often in multiple sources, explained by some of the best minds in the field.

It may shock you to learn that this was true before LLMs. There was a website called "Google" which acted as a front-end for almost all recorded knowledge in human history, and putting a phrase like "best design patterns for web APIs" as a search query (the primitive name for prompts) would give you hundreds, if not thousands of real-life examples and explanations of how to accomplish your goal.

Somehow senior developers kept their jobs despite the existence of this almighty oracle. LLMs do a better job of filtering and customizing the information, but seniors will still keep their jobs.
by IanD914 | 2025-05-18 22:55:21+00:00
Bayonet mount (micro 4/3's camera style) is built on the hands right now -- you can see the stubby ends in the simulated model, you'll be able to print or machine the other end pretty easily with the female receiver u43 piece and the drafted profile.

You can see even with peers like Unitree that there really isn't a 'one size fits all' for manipulation, and with that comes a real need for rapid prototyping and versatility. Good to point out, and its definitely been a focus for us.

And it's been great just as a jumping-off point -- now that the dexterity for the robot is open for interpretation, everyone that has come in to see the robot has come up own ideas on what they could fit on the robot for their application. Everything from spatulas to pallet forks. Really encouraging to have so much interest around it.

As far as feet are concerned, also definitely a focus for us, and we've been looking at different profiles and different materials to improve the stability and the grip on different terrains. Also 3D printed for now, rapid iteration is key.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-05-18 22:56:54+00:00
If I weren't already busy enough using Anki to accomplish my own goals, I would almost certainly look into deeply integrating LLM calls into it so that we could e.g. practice writing and speaking with it in a way that is much closer to the kind of immediate feedback loop you get with a tutor.

For now, I make do by having Gemini Flash 2.5 open in a separate window and checking my short answer writing responses with that.
by gosub100 | 2025-05-18 22:58:06+00:00
we're both right|wrong

- no, I was wrong that the person passing thru security was in any possible way "arab"

- yes it's from Airplane 2

- No it's not from the metal detector scene

- Yes it's from Iranians

- No Iranians are not "arabs"

- Yes They are engaged in a stereotypical crime

- No it doesn't involve an RPG

- yes it involves a battle rifle / something that doesn't belong at an airport

https://postimg.cc/0rTzkhyR
by mmooss | 2025-05-18 23:00:37+00:00
It matches marketing hype, but they seem to have a timeline of this summer. Does anyone know the drawbacks of this material?

> The result is a material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better ...

Maybe torsional, compression, flex, etc. strength isn't so good?

Otherwise, why focus on the construction industry? How about airplanes? Cars and trucks?
by miki123211 | 2025-05-18 23:00:40+00:00
Even better, set up Tailscale.

It's far easier to set up, is much more reliable (e.g. when devices are behind firewalls), and uses direct (encrypted) connections when possible.

You can get it to do what you want with just a few clicks. Things like exposing a IoT VLAN on your Tailnet or setting up an exit node to tunnel all internet traffic through your home are super easy. You can even share specific devices with friends, which is super useful. If you have anything particularly sensitive (e.g. a notes app that you wouldn't want your children / partner to have access to), you can limit access to specific users / devices on the TS side, without bothering with implementing auth.

I think there's even a way to look up the user and device based on their IP, which is one way to add painless authentication to your apps. There are reverse proxies that do it and inject the info as HTTP headers.

If you aren't comfortable with trusting them with control over your network, you can always host your own Headscale server.