MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by niemandhier | 2025-06-03 05:22:01+00:00
Currently in many countries the social contract stipulates that the majority of the population refrains from voting for a system that confiscates the wealth of the top 5% and in exchange their lives are bearable.

Trump promised to address the problems of low wage workers, and in many places jihadists style themselves as social reformers.

Since NZ does not have the luxury to blame it on refugees or neighbours, I don’t think it is sustainable.
by smartties | 2025-06-03 05:22:04+00:00
This still doesn't work for me. I have to actively think about the problem, find a solution, and write the code myself. Outsourcing these efforts makes my learning ineffective.

I will keep using LLMs for 1 week greenfield hobby projects that I don't plan to revisit. But no matter how good LLMs get, I will never use them in my dailyjob, otherwise, I risk losing touch with the codebase.
by CitizenOfEarth | 2025-06-03 05:23:10+00:00
I built a web-based quiz that uses humor and psychological profiling to introduce a serious idea:

Should everyone have equal access to powerful AI models?

The app assigns users to one of several AI Trust Tiers based on how they respond to quirky but ethically-themed scenarios. While the tone is lighthearted, the underlying goal is to encourage reflection on digital responsibility, misuse potential, and access control — especially as we move toward increasingly capable models.

Think of it as part personality test, part educational experience about AI privilege, governance, and risk stratification.

I'm looking for thoughtful feedback on the concept, the UX, and whether this kind of playful-yet-serious tool could help spark broader discussions around AI alignment and safety.

[https://mindbomber.github.io/ai-trust-tier-access-control/ai...]

Thanks for checking it out.
by cookiengineer | 2025-06-03 05:23:23+00:00
Multiple reasons:

- Germany, so I have crappy and unreliable internet (read as: 300kB/s or less pretty often due to overbooked cable internet connections).

- Can't share my code with the US (as a European) because I work in cyber defense.

- I want a reproducible work setup, and something that will survive 2 years and/or the startup exit of the proposed tools.
by bunnyman | 2025-06-03 05:24:30+00:00
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by whatnow37373 | 2025-06-03 05:25:29+00:00
Yes, that’s true and very cool but you’re an expert. Where do the next generation you’s come from? The ones that did not do weeks of dead-end research which built resilience, skill and the experience to tell Claude now saves them time? You cannot skip that admittedly tedious part of life for free.

I think pro-AI people sometimes forget/ignore the second order effects on society. I worry about that.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-03 05:25:44+00:00
'Why, oh why, does Hobbit's cry?!'

A question that is begged. Thank you Kate Connolly:

//Germany, for decades Europe’s economic powerhouse, also has a reputation for being a land of skilful engineers and efficiency. What has gone wrong?//

//the problems lie not in a lack of public financing, but elsewhere: “The burden of bureaucracy, highly complex planning procedures and the lack of skilled people to carry out the work.”//

//“Holtemöller urged the government not to rush into fixing Germany...they should focus on long-term strategic planning.”//

Holtemöller has been promoted... to strategic planning.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-03 05:26:37+00:00
If it's out of range of a shotgun you are almost certainly breaking federal law by shooting at it. Conversely if it's within range of a shotgun you might get dragged through court by the FAA but I think you could likely win if you have the resources to burn.

But anyway if you aren't rich enough to laugh off half a decade of court costs then you probably shouldn't shoot at them at all.
by wdroz | 2025-06-03 05:27:34+00:00
I agree, the latest models are not bad at Rust. Most issues I have when writing LLM-assisted Rust code are related to dependencies.

There are a lot of v0.x.x crates in Rust with frequent updates and breaking changes. As LLMs "learn" from code in the wild, they are exposed to different way to use the same crate and thus fail to produce working code "from memory".

But as soon as you explain how to use it with the latest syntax, they are able to fix the code.
by kergonath | 2025-06-03 05:27:46+00:00
> Maybe we should have done less war and less talking about war, don't you think?

Who is “we”?

> Talked more with Russia (let alone not provoke it into a confrontation for an entire decade- ask Victoria "fuck the EU" Nuland), built up clear and safe and agreed boundaries, etc.

You realise that there were talks with Russia, including on “clear and safe and agreed boundaries”, right? Russia was a guarantor in the Minsk and Budapest memoranda. As for your point in the middle, it really is strange that smaller countries want to escape Russia’s sphere of influence, considering what they do to their neighbours in Moldova and Georgia, to name but two examples. Never mind Chechnya and now, of course, Ukraine. Russia’s behaviour is the main driving force towards NATO and the EU in Eastern Europe.

You are repeating bullshit propaganda.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-03 05:28:33+00:00
Thats exactly my mindset too. We're planning to give free basic tools (skilsaw, drills, sanders) that we're getting from people that dont use it anymore to ppl that will use it for real.

I don't think we need all the tools that we owns, all the time, and if our neighbors can lend it, its a pleasure to do so. Damage can happens but at the end of the day, we're neighbors lending to each others so we can figure it out most of the time at least!
by markdown | 2025-06-03 05:28:52+00:00
> There's no god given right to affordable housing.

Sure, but if you take everything and leave nothing for the masses, sooner or later they'll make your life miserable too. Whether that happens with regular ole crime, or revolution, one way or another the scales will be balanced.

If you want a comfortable life in your mansion, you'd better make sure that your butler and doorman can afford comfortable homes of their own and a decent standard of living.
by lechatonnoir | 2025-06-03 05:29:24+00:00
Well said about the fact that they can't introspect, and I agree with your tip about starting with fresh context, and about when to give up.

I feel like this thread is full of strawmen from people who want to come up with reasons they shouldn't try to use this tool for what it's good at, and figure out ways to deal with the failure cases.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-06-03 05:30:30+00:00
He forgot "but the 15 year old behemoth codebase that doesn't fit in any context window and isn't well documented and changing of which requires changing tons of ancillary files not easily connected to each other logically".

That's what a lot of the highest paid programmers work on. I work in such a firm and the agent they have for us is incapable. And it's the latest and greatest from whoever coders love to rave about online.

I love that AI written tests and other generally greenfield things work well and can be vetted quicker than writing and getting the code oneself. But for most more complex tasks it's not there. I'm ready when it is though
by r0b05 | 2025-06-03 05:30:30+00:00
Interesting, so you're doing more fundamental quantitative analysis and prediction. Yes, the issue with using an LLM is that they are too often incorrect, however, a human in the loop could solve this at the expense of automation.

Your project sounds ready cool though. If you ever feel like collaborating, give me a shout at drknyt05@gmail.com.
by JusticeJuice | 2025-06-03 05:30:45+00:00
I worked in the nz tech startup market for 8 years before moving overseas. To say nz tech is a tiny market is an understatement, when the population of the country is the size of most cities, there’s just that not that many opportunities.

It does mean for many people the only way for career growth is to go elsewhere. When I left nz my salary 3x’d.

The opportunity here is that there is many talented tech workers who choose to stay in NZ for lifestyle reasons. Foreign companies can compete so easily on salaries, it’s easy to just buy the top of the market for half the price. You will need local recruitment help though to find them.

The time zones are rough, you need to be a company that’s embraced async working, and are able to give a team a clear brief and just let them do it. But the hiring opportunities are there.
by anonym29 | 2025-06-03 05:31:08+00:00
Pharmaceuticals and YouTube videos are not the same thing.

Why must they be treated identically when it comes to intellectual "property" law?

Doesn't it make much more sense to offer more protection and incentives to lifesaving medications than to trite clickbait and video game livestreams?

Why are we conflating the value of those two?

Since we're not starting from a principled approach that acknowledges that nobody can "own" an idea, and instead going with a consequentialist approach - what are the horrific, severe consequences of not giving a few pennies in ad revenue to someone uploading a compilation video of other people's work that justify treating that the EXACT same way we treat lifesaving drugs?

To be clear, I'm not proposing graduated IP protection (I am the abolitionist camp when it comes to IP), I'm pointing out that if you're really primarily concerned about the harms of second order effects from lack of innovation incentives, then easily 90%+ of all copyright-protected content (memes, reaction videos, TikTok dances) should get zero protection under your own logic, as there is questionable social value (if not outright negative), and essentially zero negative ramifications of not incentivizing that kind of slop.

Consequentialism may not be the tool you want to rest your argument on if your argument is that every single video on YouTube deserves just as much copyright protection as pharmaceuticals.
by simoncion | 2025-06-03 05:31:15+00:00
I'm not the OP but:

* Not even counting cellular data carriers, I have a choice of at least five ISPs in my area. And if things get really bad, I can go down to my local library to politely encamp myself and use their WiFi.

* I've personally no need for a cloud provider, but I've spent a lot of time working on cloud-agnostic stuff. All the major cloud providers (and many of the minors) provide compute, storage (whether block, object, or relational), and network ingress and egress. As long as you don't deliberately tie yourself to the vendor-specific stuff, you're free to choose among all available providers.

* I run Linux. Enough said.
by hollerith | 2025-06-03 05:31:50+00:00
Exploding on impact is a mature tech for things like shells, but it requires building a mechanism into the shell so that it won't explode before it is fired.

If the drone will be controlled by a human operator till the end, then it might win for the drone design to avoid the complexity of a sensor to detect impacts and of the aforementioned mechanism.

Also, landing on an airplane wing is easier to train for and to test than a mission plan that involves a drone that explodes on impact.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-03 05:31:56+00:00
agree - it is written like clickbait or worse like a sponsored piece.

> But “hallucination” is the first thing developers bring up when someone suggests using LLMs, despite it being (more or less) a solved problem.

really ? what is the author smoking to consider it a solved problem ? This statement alone invalidates the entire article in its casual irreverence for the truth.

I use copilot everyday, and I know where it shines. Please dont try to sell it to me with false advertising.
by gtsop | 2025-06-03 05:32:27+00:00
> Unfortunately Capitalism unhindered by regulation is what we wanted

No "we" don't want it. And those who do want it, let them go live in the early industrial England whete the lack of regulation degenerated masses.

Also, for some reason people still portray capitalism as being something completelky different with or without regulation, it's like saying a man is completelly different in a swimming swit and a costume.

> We, in the western world, were in the privileged position of having a choice, and we chose individual profit over the communal good

Again, "we" did not have a gathering a choose anything. Unless you have records of that zoom session.

> given the fact we're essentially animals.

This is a reductionist statement that doesn't get anywhere. Yes we are animals but we are more than that, similar to being quarks but also more than quarks.
by Rupal_S | 2025-06-03 05:32:56+00:00
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by throw8393949 | 2025-06-03 05:32:59+00:00
> My idea is that students will read Darwin’s writings first, then demonstrate what they learned via the choices they make in game. To progress, you must embody the real epistemologies and knowledge of a 19th century naturalist.

It is kind of funny, since modern sociology and humanities are in a deep denial of theory of evolution, Darwinism and any of its implications.

> producing a generation of students who have simply never experienced the feeling of focused intellectual work.

This was already blamed on phones. Some study said like 30% of university graduates are functionally illiterate; they are unable to read book, and hold its content in memory long enough to understand it!
by Fade_Dance | 2025-06-03 05:33:06+00:00
Sure I might miss out on NVDA

This isn't a small point... If you are involved in the equity market and miss out on names like this, you're almost certainly going to massively underperform. The vast majority of returns comes from a small slice of names. And again, if you want to properly do value investing, you have to precisely understand the growth component of value, as well as the weird debt and cap stack situations that usually come with value names (the market is efficient and they trade at discounts for a reason).

I trade full time, and my personal long term account has no stock picking. Value or otherwise. The medium term acct does, but not the decade+ timeframe one does not. So ultimately I don't really know what to tell you. Picking the next NVDA is practically impossible, yet missing out on such a name destroys your relative returns against an impossibly simply approach (index investing). Therefore don't try. Simple conclusion.

If you are strictly focused on a very limited view of "value" such as free cashflow, asset value, and PE (which ignores important aspects like debt maturities, industry cyclicality, quality of internal compounding, etc), then you're frankly directly competing with private equity. The names that stand out on these terms get bought by private equity, and the scraps of "value" are left on public markets. PE has 500,000,000,000 in dry powder currently, and much more efficient access to Capital markets than you do, with the ability to lever up those easy "value" tilted cash flows many times and immediately sell the debt on to pension funds and such. Trust me, if the value opportunity was truly there, they would take it. What you're seeing on markets is fairly priced on a risk adjusted basis.

Just use an up to date factor overlay on top of efficient equity beta exposure if you want diversified value that won't pigeon hole you in weird value traps. Frankly. Figuring that out is going to be much easier than cracking the value investing code and somehow beating the index. I remember an interview from one of the smarter firm owners that I've heard and he uses "short junk" (which generates extra cash to deploy efficiently) to slightly lever up his equity portfolio while giving him a broad based value tilt (it's long short portfolios all the way down). Over a long time frame something like that is going to crush any form of stock picking for the vast majority of participants.
by barrell | 2025-06-03 05:33:24+00:00
This blog post makes me actively want to use something besides fly. Putting aside the massive condescension in the article…

… most of the code you write is tedious boilerplate? What do you do all day? I can honestly say the most tedious code I write is migrations, because I have to edit three files. I do this like once a week. It would take way longer to explain to an ai what to do than just do it myself.

… you run the ai on your procrastination and as a result do heads down work? Seriously? 1, programming with AI is like playing a slot machine. It keeps you hooked just on the verge of winning the jackpot for far longer than the tedious task would have distracted you. And let’s say a good agentic case - it runs for 30 minutes before it’s done. That’s not even enough time to “boot up” a serious problem, and your already having to put it aside to go check the work you yourself are saying is mediocre? And you’re advocating to run multiple of these? Even the most ardent vibe covers I know talk about babysitting the agents. How is this unlocking deep work time in any way shape or form?

… craft is relagated to hobbies? I guarantee you, this person loves Linear. It was probably written on a MacBook. This whole “we solve real problems” BS is just a cop out because being great is hard.

… mediocre code is good code? All code is a liability. If you generate 10 times the code, and are admitting it’s the lowest bar of quality possible, it is at a minimum 10x the liability on your shoulders.

… letting LLMs refactor your tests? Serious question, who actually does this? Because I would LOVE to have LLMs write tests for me. I have tried every. single. time. I need to write something that needs a lot of tests to ask LLMs for tests for TWO YEARS, and not once have I ever used a single test it generates. It generates worse tests than it does code, and the last thing I want is 42 asserts in 8 tests across 600 LoC that nobody understands that poorly tests what should have been 2 asserts in 2 tests in 12 lines of code.
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by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-03 05:33:40+00:00
Thank you

So tired of people talking about the housing crisis as if megacorp is the one buying all the houses to drive up prices. Yes, commenter, they do buy homes, but by far the single biggest player is regular people. They both are getting rich of the system and voting to keep it in place.

Even worse though...houses are still being sold at these insane prices. There are still fresh dual income high earning non immigrant non billionairs childs non megacorp investor regular people still coming up with the money.

I don't know whats worse, never being able to afford a house or seeing people you know (or thought you knew) somehow getting into one. And then voting down any build out initiative that would weaken their investment.
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by honestthrow1 | 2025-06-03 05:34:09+00:00
I'm not blindly blaming the bottom developer. I've played my role in past waves as well as many other developers. I'm not a CEO, so I don't know how to communicate this same message to a CEO. But as a developer, I know I've been an ignorant participant in the past. Willfully or not. And I can change my role in the next coming wave.

We developers are not blameless. If we accept that we are playing a role; then we can be proactive in preventing this and influencing the direction things go. CEOs need developers to achieve what they want.

I'm not saying it's easy. I won't even hold it against folks that decide to go in a separate direction than mine. But I at least hope we can be open about the impact we each have; and that we are not powerless here.
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