MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2025-06-04 19:11:20+00:00
>Plaintiff Carrie Greene's termination notice said she had received a 3 in a recent performance evaluation, even though "she had never received a score lower than 5" and in fact "had received incentive awards based on her outstanding performance every year," the lawsuit said.

Did they do this using an LLM or just big DB and they ran some queries?
by ednite | 2025-06-04 19:11:22+00:00
That’s sound advice, really appreciate the link. Regarding your point about continuous monitoring, that’s actually the first thing I mentioned to the client.

It’s still highly experimental and needs to be observed, corrected, and tweaked constantly, kind of like teaching a child, where feedback and reinforcement are key.

I may share my experience with the HN community down the line. Thanks again!
by iforgotpassword | 2025-06-04 19:11:26+00:00
I guess it depends on wether the devs are able and willing to even still try to look at the old code, when they have a nice and easy to understand description in front of them what they're supposed to implement. And sure, at the end of the day management just cares about what costs less, including any accidents caused by AI giving the wrong description. Might also depend on who'll use that tech. If it's a bank, this could cost millions, if not billions. If it's a medical device (yeah I really don't think it is. I mean I really hope it isn't), it could cost lives. But at least then we can blame the AI, so nobody is at fault.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-04 19:12:04+00:00
> A rank & file VC is essentially a salesman.

When I was young I worked at a startup where the CEO was out of the office most of the time.

One of my coworkers was irate about how he had to work hard, while the CEO was out there doing who knows what. Being young and impressionable it started to rub me the wrong way, too.

Eventually one of the older guys informed me that the CEO was going out on sales trips to potential customers, meeting with investors, and doing a number of other in-person things that the company needed. That's why he wasn't in the office.

I felt foolish for thinking that his job and my job should look the same and occur in the office.

The disgruntled coworker didn't care, though. He wanted the CEO to be butts-in-seats and staring at a monitor because that's the only type of work he understood. I get the same vibes when people sneer at VCs for stuff like "meeting people all day". That's their job.
by tonyarkles | 2025-06-04 19:12:40+00:00
> I think I prefer the coffee from an Aeropress more, but the convenience of the Keurig is hard to beat.

I do dirty field work a fair bit. Large drone test flight campaigns in the middle of nowhere for a week at a time. I've got an Aeropress Go with the stainless filter, a hand grinder, and a small electric kettle that I keep in my suitcase. I'll usually grab a bag of locally-sourced beans. Man oh man has that little kit ever brought a lot of joy into the world. When someone seems like they're starting to burn out I'll make them a fresh ground cup of coffee and you can just see their eyes light up when they take that first sip. Such a wonderful piece of plastic made by a frisbee company :D
by credit_guy | 2025-06-04 19:12:57+00:00
This is awesome.

I just modeled the plot of the "Nuclear War: A Scenario" [1]. The idea of the book is that North Korea launches an ICBM at Washington, DC. Here's the trajectory [2]. Supposedly the US launches lots of its own ICBMs because of a "use them or lose them" fear. Here's their trajectory [3]. If you compare these 2 trajectories, you will find that the first one doesn't come within a thousand miles to the US ICBMs, so that part of the plot is flawed. The second part of the plot is that the returning US ICBMs fly over parts of Russia, and this triggers an all out Russian response. But again, if you look at those 2 maps you will find that the original NK missile travels for many thousands of miles over Russian territory, while the US missiles travel over much less.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario

[2] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/?&s=41.202%2C126.69100...

[3] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/?&s=48.416%2C-101.339&...
by gowld | 2025-06-04 19:13:26+00:00
1 minute and 2 1-sentence prompts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c

Gemini self-improved version (added the "Hint" and "What could it mean?" features): https://g.co/gemini/share/05c8cce3b2ff
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-06-04 19:13:59+00:00
I like this on the first glance. The idea of a random website probing arbitrary local IPs (or any IPs for that matter) with HTTP requests is insane. I wouldn't care if it breaks some enterprise apps or integrations - enterprises could reenable this "feature" via management tools, normal users could configure it themselves, just show a popup "this website wants to control local devices - allow/deny".
by bee_rider | 2025-06-04 19:14:33+00:00
I mean… in some sense, it might be nice is the company doing your tax preparation is not too lean and mean, their whole point is to eat the hit if they screw it up, right? The math is not actually hard.

But, realistically, I guess if a self-service tax prep company messed up your taxes, they’d make sure you end up in arbitration.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-04 19:15:29+00:00
If everything is "surveillance tech" then nothing is.

Certain functions like remote employee clock-in with geolocation (literally the first example company in the article) are perfectly reasonable to record the employee's GPS coordinates, in my opinion. If you're clocking in at the job site, having some record that you were actually at the job site isn't an invasion of privacy.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-04 19:15:39+00:00
The carriers are their biggest sales channels and eat all of the t&c and concessions that large customers demand.

I oversaw a big org that had like 50k iPhones. We would never come to agreement with Apple’s terms, and they’d never give us the price concessions.

Those 50k phones never cost more than $15,000 annually. I paid more for charging cables than iPhones. Apple can’t do that, as the feds have most favored nation status for procurement. Carrier also accept liability for the App Store, which Apple will flip the bird about.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-04 19:15:48+00:00
That's only true of there aren't market implications to this newly-introduced rent-seeking model.

If your position is that market competition is what will overcome the negative implications of anticompetitive behavior, your position is logically incoherent.

The reality is that the only way to be competitive on price (and thereby survive as a business) is to do your own rent-seeking. We can all plainly see that this is how it has played out in reality. No business can actually rely on the promise of right-to-repair obsessed consumers to keep them afloat.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-04 19:16:02+00:00
"I guess I'm just not the "overwhelming majority of programmers"."

The "overwhelming" majority of programmers may be underwhelming

Some readers may be unimpressed by programmers who complain about and criticise assembly language, e.g., claiming it offers "no benefit" to others, especially when no one is forcing these programmers to use it
by colechristensen | 2025-06-04 19:16:33+00:00
>Mistral Code Enterprise is a fork of Continue. All due credit to the original creators of Continue.

Here's the problem with AI company revenue, I want this to be local, Continue is open source, my company laptop is powerful enough to run a usefully sized LLM locally more or less just as fast, and there are plenty of open models available publicly (including by Mistral, latest dev related called devstral).

As hardware progresses and LLM efficiency increases, I really don't think LLM programming has any future doing remote execution unless maybe as a chatbot kind of experience, but definitely not in an IDE.

Putting together a good developer experience with the open-ish and free-ish things available is still an exercise in cobbling a bunch of things together, but it's going to be streamlined soon and finding a way to compete with "zero cost and local" is going to be very hard for AI businesses.
by goosejuice | 2025-06-04 19:16:35+00:00
The thing is that FSD and autopilot are human controlled just as cruise control is. Under current laws and disclaimers FSD very clearly puts the responsibility in the hands of the driver, just as one would expect with cruise control. See: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2020_2024_modely/en_us/GU.... Until it's truly autonomous the FSD driver is just as liable in that AZ scenario.

There's several safety issues in my opinion.

1. Tesla's are foreign to drive. Driving mine off the lot was terrifying. You've got a super sensitive rocket with unusual controls. The UX is actual pretty nice for most things but it takes getting used to.. and getting used to that with no instruction is dangerous. They just give you the keys and that's it. They hold free classes but beyond that you're on your own.

2. Related to 1, engaging and disengaging FSD/autopilot is not obvious. On my '23 with stalks you press down past drive to enable FSD or autopilot (which can only be changed when parked). It's not super obvious which one you have on, which can be dangerous. To disengage you either grab the wheel hard, press the brake, or tap up on the stalk. Grabbing the wheel makes you swerve in some situations / older versions. I never do that now but I had to learn the hard way. Pressing the brake at high speeds causes significant slow down due to regen braking so it's not ideal on highways. So that leaves the stalk going up which can easily put you in reverse at low speed. Something I've done accidentally in traffic on the highway as a new owner.

3. FSD and autopilot are so good that it's much easier to trust it than traditional level 2 systems like my Subaru's. That leads to complacency and that's pretty dangerous.

That said, while all these deaths are horrible, we don't see the positives in data. I believe that these systems have absolutely saved more lives than the associated fatalities. Humans are reckless on the road. Every person driving while looking at their phone is worse than FSD which prevents you from looking away. So it's not enough just to look at crashes, you have to consider preventive measures too. Remember the lady who killed a kid on a bike in Colorado while looking at her phone? FSD would have been a godsend there and we would have never known the wiser. https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1l02x27/fsd_saves...
by quesera | 2025-06-04 19:16:47+00:00
My secular answer is to live in a jurisdiction which allows assisted suicide, and to have a clear plan registered with my doctors, lawyers, and family.

My fear is that I will lose the decision-making agency quickly and unexpectedly and have my clear wishes disregarded for some stupid technical reason which would require someone to take professional or legal risk to fulfill them.

I've built a room in my house which is designed to be easily disconnected from the building HVAC such that I can safely discharge, and then automatically vent to outdoors, bottles of compressed gaseous nitrogen or helium.

For safety, the prep for discharge requires a few minutes of work, with hands and brain that are at least marginally nimble. I worry very much about the risk of waiting too long, or having a debilitating issue crop up unexpectedly (I am presently of sound mind and body, and not old).
by palmotea | 2025-06-04 19:17:02+00:00
I never said it was, but I'm not the only person I know in this situation, and the people in India I work have worked for other major Western companies. I also don't work at someplace like bank, where technology is seen as pure cost, but someplace where the main products are mostly software so its a strategic investment.

It just think it's pretty unbelievable that offshoring is a "a fairly minor portion" of the "US Software Engineering industry." It didn't totally kill it, like some overly pessimistic (or enthusiastic, depending on their perspective) people may have predicted, but it would take a lot of evidence to convince me it's not a major part of it.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-04 19:17:05+00:00
I don't post publicly about this very often, because when a startup fails emotions run high and it's very difficult to be objective.

In general: My co-founder and I couldn't get each other out of our comfort zones. He kept letting his imagination run away, which made it nearly impossible to plan anything. I spent a bit too much time coding, but when I'd go hit the pavement to find customers, my partner wouldn't follow up with them.

There was a point about 10 weeks into the process where I knew it wasn't going to work out. I tried to fire my co-founder and go alone, but my co-founder talked me into continuing to work together.

In hindsight, I should started with my co-founder as an advisor, and worked alone until I found someone who was better at rounding out my skills and pulling me out of my comfort zone. It took me too long to recognize that he couldn't stop his imagination from running away. (He's had great success as an advisor to other peoples' startups, BTW.)
by reddit_clone | 2025-06-04 19:17:28+00:00
There is no hard and fast rule (for me).

It is easy to start creating objects in the repl (say if you are testing an API) and work with those created objects in the repl, one step at a time. You are able to observe the behaviour of the objects every step of the way. This gives you a much better idea when you are writing the functions (usually copy-pasting from repl) in the editor.

I am sure it can be done from the editor itself. (say using the 'comment' block in clojure). It is just matter of preference.
by sponaugle | 2025-06-04 19:17:32+00:00
Agree 100%. Watch a few videos on youtube from Mentour Pilot. The cognitive load is such a huge factor in so many accidents and close calls. There are also equally many accidents that could have been prevented with just a bit more automation and fault detection. Perhaps the most amazing thing is that after an accident, it can take years to get a real corrective action across the industry. It would be like level 10 CVEs taking 5 years to get patched!
by sershe | 2025-06-04 19:17:36+00:00
Citation needed

The number of pages in the federal regulations only grows over time (admin to admin). Construction of any kind, including housing, education and childcare come to mind as things you missed.

I.e. - everything that people complain is really expensive.

Most industries in the US are heavy regulated. The ones that are not so heavily regulated - like software, and/or evade a lot of regulation abroad - like many consumer goods from shirts to cars - are the ones not getting more expensive.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-04 19:17:51+00:00
Because privatized carriers are low-margin, high-cost, and with an uncertain future. Let’s take two different paths as an example of why it’s a bad idea.

PATH 1: Privatized Carriers are the Forever Norm

In this scenario, private carriers (cellular, wireline, satellite, fiber, etc) don’t get nationalized or regulated (so now, but forever). The market forces there are all about consolidation since these are low-margin businesses, and fewer competitors means higher prices, more revenues, and more customers. If Apple entered this arena, they’d be exposing themselves to the predatory maneuvers of companies like BT or AT&T, who generally enjoy screwing their competitors over and locking customers in. Now these telecoms would have justification for blocking Apple devices or functionality (like some did to FaceTime), and deliberately choosing radios the iPhone doesn’t support so as to force Apple to spend more money on expansion of their network or adopting new radios for said networks. It generally exposes Apple to a world of pain and misery for nothing in terms of growth, and hinders their technological progress by forcing them to invest exponentially more money to support new standards or products across their network.

PATH 2: Carriers are Nationalized, with Telecom treated as a Utility

This is a more likely outcome given the importance of the internet to the functioning of a society. As a general rule, if your country NEEDS something in order to succeed, that thing is cheaper and more scalable if you own it yourself - provided you have a functioning government apparatus that invests in its modernization and maintenance (so, not America). In this case, Apple would’ve started their own carrier only to see control taken from them for the public good, wasting money they could’ve invested in other R&D or product lines. That’s likely the long game they foresaw back in the 2000s, and is likely why they never started their own MVNO or carrier.

Ultimately, Apple benefits more from building products on internationally standardized communications systems than building said systems themselves. It keeps their costs low, lets others absorb R&D and upkeep costs, while also driving the market and infrastructure adoption through new products themselves.

Infrastructure is rarely directly profitable to private enterprise, and when it is, it’s often taken away once it becomes necessary for the survival of a country.
by mmmBacon | 2025-06-04 19:18:05+00:00
This is fundamentally incorrect and even a basic Google search returns:

EV and gas-powered vehicle fires pose different challenges to firefighters. EV fires are harder to extinguish due to deep-seated heat in batteries, potential for reignition, and release of flammable and toxic gases. Traditional firefighting techniques might not be sufficient, and specialized equipment like submersion tanks or specific types of foam are often needed. Here's a more detailed breakdown: EV Fires: Higher Temperatures: EV fires can burn hotter than gas-powered vehicle fires, reaching temperatures of 1,200°F or more. Reignition: EV batteries can reignite hours or even days after a fire, even after the flames have been extinguished. Toxic Gases: Burning EV batteries release flammable gases (like hydrogen and methane) and other hazardous chemicals, posing a threat to firefighters and the environment. Difficult to Extinguish: Traditional firefighting methods, like using water or foam, may not be effective in cooling the battery cells to the point where the fire is extinguished. Special techniques like submersion tanks or specialized foam are often required. Prolonged Fire Suppression: EV fires can take longer to fully suppress compared to traditional car fires. Gas-Powered Vehicle Fires:
by mystraline | 2025-06-04 19:18:34+00:00
To the first, yes, I do believe that we humans SHOULD have a right to commit suicide. It should be a right to end your own life.

We have a 'right' drink a handle of whiskey a day, up to the point we get liver disease. Same with smoking 3 packs a day of cigarettes. Same with horrendous diet. But those ways of killing yourself are "acceptable" and also legal. But they're slower.

The second, you're harming other people. That example is blatantly ridiculous, and appears just to gain an emotional response by invoking terrorism.
by senkora | 2025-06-04 19:18:39+00:00
Scott Alexander also recently had a take on Curtis Yarvin’s recent actions: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moldbug-sold-out

The gist of it is that he had interesting ideas on political systems in the past, but that his current ideas are nonsense, and in fact his old work explains exactly why his new work is nonsense.
by lucasoshiro | 2025-06-04 19:19:31+00:00
Hi, thanks for answering!

Only the generated .scad would be great! I mean, I see to use cases for that that would be helpful for me:

1. Asking for a base model, download it as .scad and them improve it through OpenSCAD accordingly to my needs

2. Starting modeling in OpenSCAD, them ask the AI for some boring task (e.g. generate honeycomb patterns, hooks, hinges, and so on)

> also would love to know what your use case is and why you are more interested in parametric

Most of my use cases of 3D printing is for tools, household utilities, spare parts, etc. Because of that, my favorite tool is OpenSCAD, and I use it a lot.

But I reckon that it is sometimes really boring. Sometimes I need to spend a lot of time with trigonometry and other math tricks and less with modeling itself. For example, the aforementioned honeycomb patterns, I've spent some hours of my life playing with sines, cosines, apothems, etc while I think that it would be a job that an AI could do for me.
by coderintherye | 2025-06-04 19:19:57+00:00
Most large ships have large water storage vessels as well as make fresh water using pumps (while operating). They also usually have separate pumps to pump salt water for firefighting. But in the event the pumps are not running that's a problem such as what happened with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
by lsy | 2025-06-04 19:20:52+00:00
I think people hear "next token prediction" and think someone is saying the prediction is simple or linear, and then argue there is a possibility of "intelligence" because the prediction is complex and has some level of indirection or multiple-token-ahead planning baked into the next token.

But the thrust of the critique of next-token prediction or stochastic output is that there isn't "intelligence" because the output is based purely on syntactic relations between words, not on conceptualizing via a world model built through experience, and then using language as an abstraction to describe the world. To the computer there is nothing outside tokens and their interrelations, but for people language is just a tool with which to describe the world with which we expect "intelligences" to cope. Which is what this article is examining.
by alnwlsn | 2025-06-04 19:20:55+00:00
Normal on anything that has to work outside. Also, hardly an impediment to repair. I've done it myself on a car ECU: open case, scrape off conformal coating, desolder blown IGBT, replace with IGBT salvaged from junkyard unit, spray on new conformal coating, done - been working like that now for 5 years.

Parts pairing is also a/the reason you can't just swap in the junkyard unit even though it came from a car with the same engine. We tried it - did not work.

Potting within a brick of epoxy is the real dick move, but also not impossible to repair either.
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-04 19:21:25+00:00
It should be expected that the relationship of the uktra-rich tech elites and the labor class that works for them would be adversarial. If anything I think it is positive that people are more conscious of their own class.

You vaguely gesture at this being somehow negative. We can strongly dislike something while recognizing the forces behind that something as well. Employee surveillance does not exist in a vacuum, it exists in the same continuum of RTO, of mass layoffs while corporations make record profits, etc and so forth.
by taco_emoji | 2025-06-04 19:22:30+00:00
> You don't teach a kid to cut wood with a table saw. You give them a hand saw!

Okay but that's not for pedagogical reasons, it's because power saws are MUCH more dangerous than hand saw.

Contrariwise, you don't teach a kid to drill wood with a brace & bit, because a power drill is easier to use.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-06-04 19:22:52+00:00
Also not only just establishing human relationships, sometimes software might not be available at all for plug and play and require client level tuning to be effective. Even in cursor, setting up a good .cursorrules seems to have quite a big effect.

I don't think "call us" is an effective inbound sales tactic though, but Mistral does have folks in sales who can do outbound sales.