MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-20 18:31:39+00:00
> The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs

Things are cyclic, nothing new; the previous big scare was (is?) outsourcing, where for the same price as one developer in western / northern Europe or SF you can hire five from eastern Europe or India. But that hasn't affected employability of the one developer, as far as I'm aware.

I'm not even thinking of skill level, I'm sure that's comparable (but honestly I don't know / care enough), but both outsourcing and AI require the same things - requirements. I've grown up in this country (the Netherlands) and automatically have intrinsic knowledge of e.g. government, taxes, the energy sector, transportation, etc, so much that I'm not even consciously aware of a lot of things I know. If you spend a LOT of time and effort, you could - eventually - break that down into requirements and work orders or whatever that someone else could process. But it's much more efficient to do it yourself or just hire someone from around here.
by itronitron | 2025-06-20 18:32:19+00:00
>> A year earlier, she paneled a garbage truck with mirrors so that people could see themselves in the waste they created.

Genius.

If I recall correctly, there is a photograph of the mirrored truck in Suzi Gablik's book The Re-enchantment of Art. And here is some additional information and images:

https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/mierle-laderman-ukeless-ode-t...
by glompers | 2025-06-20 18:32:21+00:00
> There are coal seam fires that have been going on for centuries and the pollution of these is just as bad as the pollution generated by human created coal mine fires (and that's truly awful, a significant source of carbon pollution).

Has CO2 fire suppression been unsuccessfully attempted in these seams? Since nobody is underground and we know how to inject CO2 into underground deposits at various pressures, it seems like it would be a good candidate. Plus, with rotary steerable drilling, we could come in laterally (from a safe location above ground) to as many depths of injection as necessary.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-20 18:32:58+00:00
> In fact I wager that coding is...20%, maybe 25%? of the work that goes into providing value

Ehh... I've heard this sort of reasoning before and I get where it comes from, but I'm not sure I agree. It feels like "Idea Guy" propaganda to overvalue their contribution.

Figuring out what to build doesn't provide real value at all imo. It provides theoretical value. Coding is closer to 100% of the work that actually provides the value

Edit: This is why people who actually have skills to build things are made to sign NDAs and Non-competes when hired or before being pitched projects.

The ideas people want to keep the value of their idea and undervalue the skill of actually building things
by RandallBrown | 2025-06-20 18:33:10+00:00
I don't really see this happening just because of how closely sports ties in with the identity of the schools. I don't see them ever giving that up. As a graduate of a school with a massive football program, I don't want them to.

It would also mean the death of most college sports in general and sports like rowing or field hockey might just cease to exist (at the level they're currently played) since they won't have sports like football and basketball paying for them.

I'm not sure it's important that all of the athletes have a "normal" college experience. Just that they leave school prepared to be productive members of society.
by upghost | 2025-06-20 18:33:11+00:00
Was the plot completely butchered...? Yes.

Were there gaping narrative discontinuities...? Certainly.

But that 80s voice acting in the English dub... chef's kiss. The guy who voiced Milo("Asbel" in the movie) was the voice of Leonardo from Ninja Turtles and Kaneda from original dub of Akira!! (Cam Clark)

If I watch any version, I watch Warriors of the Wind. It really is the "Hollywood version" of Nausicaa.

Yeah, the newer one is better, but it doesn't hold a candle to the manga so give me that 80s synth and big hair voice acting any day.

Also I was like 5 when I saw it so nostalgia goggles.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-20 18:33:20+00:00
Oldboy is fiction.

The two children in Grave of the Fireflies are fictional, but they're standing in for a tremendous number of real Japanese civilians killed by these events - in some cases literally starved to death. The Americans really did drop incendiary devices on those cities to burn homes to the ground, in our real world. You can certainly make an argument that it was somehow "justified" but it's a terrible thing to have done even if you're quite sure that it wasn't a war crime (which I am not).
by gallerdude | 2025-06-20 18:33:53+00:00
I can see both sides of it. There’s a fancy bread bakery by where I live. I go infrequently, the bread is great. But it’s expensive, most of the I just want a cheap loaf from Target, as do most people.

Instead of broad employment of artisan breadsmiths, we have people doing email work, because it’s more economically valuable. If the government mandated a higher quality of bread, we’d be slightly richer and bread and slightly poorer in everything else.
by sillyfluke | 2025-06-20 18:34:05+00:00
When you have moderate Democrats (who say they want to solve the housing crisis for the poor and lower middle class) and fiscal conservative Republicans both championing "deregulation" and "abundance"(?) in the abstract while being cheerled by the same group of billionaires and private equity firms, you know one of them is the sucker.

hint: its not the fiscal conservatives, billionaires or private equity firms.

Those guys will say, "Hey, thanks for getting these poor folk to vote against their interest. We'll take it from here and proceed to build the luxury buildings that were too annoying to build before instead of those unseemly affordable housing projects."
by timr | 2025-06-20 18:34:13+00:00
> 15% faster between stops seems highly likely to save that driver an hour or so in their day. Probably some gas, engine wear and tear, etc. too.

Great. Prove it! When you use words like "probably", it indicates that you're speculating.

(I'll just save you some time here: you can't prove it, because no such proof exists. It's fine to just admit that you have a theory.)

> "Perhaps the most dramatic transformation has occurred outside the toll zone. In Queens, traffic crashes in Astoria and Long Island City have fallen by 27%, with injuries down 31.4%. The reason, Schwartz says, is geographical."

Non responsive. I didn't ask you for proof that other things you like might be happening. I asked you to prove that your preferred tax is actually lowering prices.
by echelon | 2025-06-20 18:34:15+00:00
It's certainly his biggest world, and the themes of climate change and environmentalism are directly relevant.

I still am not sure which between Nausicaa the manga, Nausicaa the film, Princess Mononoke, or Spirited Away are his magnum opus. They are all spectacular.

I posted below about his manga, "Shuna's Journey". It's also exceedingly relevant.
by HillRat | 2025-06-20 18:35:09+00:00
Genuinely curious what legal waivers they’ve been afforded, since generally speaking “holding a decision-making position in the part of the uniformed services you also sell to” is very much adjacent to profiteering and disturbingly in the vicinity to honest services fraud. How do you disentangle private interests from the public good, even if these guys are operating in good faith?

Also, give a brief thought to those troops who signed on for their full hitch to defend their country and get to watch a handful of politically-connected billionaires leapfrog their way into custom-built field grade slots without having to attend basic or OCS, or even pass APFT.
by edwardbernays | 2025-06-20 18:35:26+00:00
If you're in America, there probably will not be a chill-out. Look into the philosophy of Curtis Yarvin, whom has been cited favorably by J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel. We are heading towards techno-fascism. The working population which would have been furloughed is probably going to be redirected to the manual labor jobs currently being vacated by the aggressive deportation of "the worst of the worst" immigrant workers within our borders. The loss of these displaced people will necessitated a new underclass to work the fields, clean the chickens, etc. This underclass will be composed of prisoners-cum-indentured servants and slaves, which are legally provided for by the 13th amendment.
by 9rx | 2025-06-20 18:35:57+00:00
To be fair, we really have no idea how many people are on Earth today. Eight billion is our best estimate, but we also recognize that many of the sources used are undercounted to some degree. What's hard to determine to what degree that might be. A somewhat recent article in Popular Mechanics [https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a642223...] suggests that recent data may indicate that the estimates are way off... But who knows?

Granted, any discrepancy is probably not on the order of reaching 16 billion. An additional billion uncounted would be incredibly surprising. But also, the accounts don't necessarily equate to people still on this earth and maybe don't equate to people at all. Robots have been known to create accounts too.
by toast0 | 2025-06-20 18:36:10+00:00
I don't remember if there's a way to see how many slots an ets table has, but if you're ok with imperfect distribution, you could maybe pick a slot at random and use ets:slot/2 to get all the items in that slot, then select from those.

You might be able to get the slot count from eta:table_info(Table, stats), although that's not intended for production use, so the format may change without notice.
by zahlman | 2025-06-20 18:36:53+00:00
>how many people will assert there must be something bad

Some of my friends seem to be convinced that Pigouvian taxes don't work, that hoi polloi just suck up the extra cost and complain more. Also they'll say that it's regressive (i.e. the thing being taxed already represented a higher proportion of income for the lower classes).

What I'm getting at is, I agree with you, but I don't think the objections are all that nebulous, nor based in "too good to be true" intuition.
by monetus | 2025-06-20 18:37:35+00:00
Almost entirely.

On 20 September 2022, Luhansk Oblast governor Serhiy Haidai reported that Russian troops had "razed [Bilohorivka] to the ground" during their failed attempts to recapture it, stating that Ukrainian forces had full control of the town.[78]

On 18 October, Russia attempted an assault with artillery support on Bilohorivka, but the attack was repulsed. Russian troops continued to shell liberated settlements.

The armored vehicle assaults and drones destroy trenches and buildings, make craters too, but the sheer extent and size of those craters is from artillery. The tank battles weren't too destructive relatively IIRC
by scoofy | 2025-06-20 18:38:23+00:00
I mean vacancy taxes will help, but the only reason why “investment properties” even exist is because of the intentional, artificial housing shortage.

Houses are deteriorating assets that only gain their wealth because of the land value appreciation. If you can just build new housing, there is no reason to hoard the existing housing, because your neighbors might try and capture that value before you can.
by rafram | 2025-06-20 18:38:37+00:00
Grayzone is an extremely unreliable source which frequently publishes false stories with an anti-US bent [1][2]. The past discussion [3] has a WSJ link which should be preferred over this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-20 18:39:09+00:00
Even unions are up against it though. in the Netherlands, there have been multiple strikes from e.g. the train operators; they demand a 10% wage increase, after the train company downsized a lot during the pandemic, but who were then unable to upsize again as traffic resumed and who even now don't have the same amount of travelers as they did in 2020.

But they're not profitable. They've made a loss for five years in a row, requiring government subsidies to stay operating (because them going bankrupt would make big parts of the country grind to a halt). Ticket prices are so high that it's barely cheaper than driving, and as soon as you travel with two or more people it's cheaper to just own a car. (Or even rent one; I traveled to the other side of the country once for a concert, my own car was in the garage. Did the math, it was cheaper and more convenient (door-to-door) to rent a car, pay the surcharge for long distance, pay the €35 in fuel, etc than it was to buy return tickets for three people)

The answer (I think, I'm no economist / politician / etc) isn't unionising and demanding better treatment, because the limits of the capitalist system they operate in have been reached. The answer is to stop trying to make it profitable. Re-privatize it: trains and public transit are a huge and hugely important nationwide economic driver, an essential service that capitalism can't be trusted with because the owners will try and get as much money out of it as possible, the employees get overworked and exploited and will shut the system down (as is their right) out of protest, and the people will have to deal with the consequences.

Just in my small bubble, the train strikes led to people not going to the office, missing events, lunch orders that either had too much stock that had to be discarded or that were cancelled entirely, costing that company thousands in income, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-union. I'm anti-capitalist though.
by ativzzz | 2025-06-20 18:39:47+00:00
This is very cool. I think the primary innovation here is twofold:

1. Remote agent - it's a containerized environment where the agent can run loose and do whatever - it doesn't need approval for user tasks because it's in an isolated environment (though it could still accidentally do destructive actions like edit git history). I think this alone is a separate service that needs to be productionized. When I run claude code in my terminal, automatically spin up the agent in an isolated environment (locally or remotely) and have it go wild. Easy to run things in parallel

2. Deep integration with fly. Everyone will be trying to embed AI deep into their product. Instead of having to talk to chatgpt and copy paste output, I should be able to directly interact with whatever product I'm using and interact with my data in the product using tools. In this case, it's deploying my web app
by bee_rider | 2025-06-20 18:40:32+00:00
But people still do buy some laptops.

It is hard to say when the peak of laptops in circulation was, right? Because simultaneously the tech has been maturing (longer product lifetimes) and smartphones have taken some laptop niches.

I’m not even clear on what we’re measuring when we say “replace.” Every non-technical person I know has a laptop, but uses it on maybe a weekly basis (instead of daily, for smartphones).
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:41:12+00:00
I lived through the gas shortages. I remember the day the gas lines ended. They never returned in the 45 years since, despite all sorts of wars and global crises and exploding oil refineries and Hooties shooting at tankers. All gone literally overnight with the stroke of Reagan's pen.

The gas shortages never existed before Nixon imposed price and allocation controls on gas, either.

(Except during WW2, where gas shortages were caused by gas rationing.)
by nils-m-holm | 2025-06-20 18:41:12+00:00
No idea why emorning3's comment is marked [dead]. It's a good question and in fact Klong arrays are very much like S-expressions. In fact their implementation is pretty much the same, down to using CAR and CDR to manipulate them. Klong could easily be implemented as a bunch of LISP functions and macros.
by proc0 | 2025-06-20 18:41:36+00:00
I see. I think that level of analysis is still on the level of IIT with some if its limitations. It's analyzing qualia from its aggregated effects and features, rather than a concrete explanation of how it arises and what it is exactly.

As far as meditation, it has a function but it's indirect, since it aims to suppress thought. The point here is that there is a way to get rid of all functions but still have qualia, which means qualia must be orthogonal or separate to any function of the brain. And that's just one example. I think there would also need to be an explanation why it is that NOT all brain function produces qualia. There are a lot of subconscious states that are also functional and useful for survival but we have no awareness of. This leads directly to philosophical zombies that don't have any qualia but see plausible if we approach consciousness with functionalism.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-20 18:41:47+00:00
I assume with the same amount of magic as they do at all the other streaming platforms, but they still manage to serve up original content. Hence, as a consumer, this seems like a shoddy deal. You're basically paying for ad-free slop, which by the way like Amazon these days you have to crawl through an entire mountain of because the site barely has any content management features either
by mike_d | 2025-06-20 18:41:56+00:00
> I've seen most auditors mandate 30 days for Critical, but you clearly want to move a lot quicker than that.

You seem to fundamentally not understand security. A proper security program should never be driven by an auditors expectations or even used as a reasonable guideline.

Don't track CVEs and SLAs in days. You need to have patches out before active exploitation in the wild begins, that is the only metric that matters. Go talk to Greynoise about how to get that data.
by kbelder | 2025-06-20 18:42:08+00:00
>Since 2001 incomes have increased 4%, while rents have increased 19%.

Horrible, but despite those increases, there are not rental units going unoccupied in any large number. Cutting prices will not house more people, if all the rentals are already full.

What is supposed to happen is that as rental prices go up, supply is increased to capitalize on it. But that's not happening, in most areas, for various reasons.

The core problem is the curve of population growth versus the curve of housing units. Prices are an consequence of that, not the cause.
by felarof | 2025-06-20 18:42:55+00:00
Yes, eventually we think there is more value of owning the entire stack than just be a MCP connector.

Few ideas we were thinking of: integrating a small LLM, building MCP store into browser, building a more AI friendly DOM, etc.

Even today, we use chrome's accessibility tree (a better representation of DOM for LLMs) which is not exposed via chrome extension APIs.
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-20 18:43:12+00:00
The replicator in Star Trek doesn't seem plausible to me any more. Flawlessly outputting a cup of Earl Grey?

The computer-based drinks machine onboard the Heart of Gold on the other hand… Trying to order tea there now sounds suspiciously like a bout of futile prompt-engineering; trying to goad an LLM into giving you tea, but ending up with something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
by max_ | 2025-06-20 18:43:22+00:00
- [Palantir] A surveillance company used by by spy agencies

- [Meta] A social media company that has all your personal conversations & pictures, video, audio

- [Open AI] Something many people at work & school are uploading sensitive data to

- All run by acolytes of Peter Thiel

- Current president & vp are bankrolled Peter Thiel

- Top executives formally recruited into US Army.

USA is sleep walking into something very nasty. I still don't know what it is.

But please when it unravels. Let us not pretend we never saw it coming.

I am very worried about this. Something is being set up.
by trustinmenowpls | 2025-06-20 18:43:42+00:00
Politifact is hardly an impartial source. If I have to explain why, there's no reason to even continue this conversation.

Additionally, bringing in the "50 beheaded babies" story and calling it the most infamous hoax very clearly shows where you get your news from... and it's not trustworthy sources. That was a strawman hoax that only circulated as a debunked hoax on Jew-hating media, it started as a intentional misunderstanding of a reporter's claim. There never was a claim of 50 beheaded babies.

There is no genocide and all your "well supported facts" are either intentionally false statements that aren't facts at all or twisted to support your narrative. The reality is that there has always been more than enough food and water in gaza, war involves death and destruction and doesn't point to genocide which requires both intent and follow through neither of which are present from the Israeli side. Though they are present among anti-zionists and all of Israel's enemies both in their daily rhetoric (from the river to the sea, globalize the intifada, Death to Israel, etc) and in their daily attempts to kill as many jews as possible (missiles and rockets targeting civilian population centers, stabbing attacks, bus bombs, RPGs at school buses, RPGs at homes, shooting civilian cars, etc).
by joevandyk | 2025-06-20 18:43:50+00:00
The Phoenix.new environment includes a headless Chrome browser that our agent knows how to drive. Prompt it to add a front-end feature to your application, and it won’t just sketch the code out and make sure it compiles and lints. It’ll pull the app up itself and poke at the UI, simultaneously looking at the page content, JavaScript state, and server-side logs.

Is it possible to get that headless Chrome browser + agent working locally? With something like Cursor?
by sanderjd | 2025-06-20 18:44:18+00:00
Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to discuss in the comments on this article, and I don't know which other "takedowns" you're referring to, but this person's comments on it have not been in bad faith at all.

(Indeed, I think it's in worse faith to try to guilt trip people who are just expressing critical opinions. It's fine - good, even! - to disagree with those people, but this particular comment has a very "how dare you criticize something!" tone that I don't think is constructive.)
by krts- | 2025-06-20 18:44:25+00:00
This is incredible. It does seem quite expensive compared to Zed or Claude Code now it's on Pro. But neat enough I've burned through the $20 subscription credit despite being a bit of an AI sceptic. This seems to have a much better handle on UI design (unless I'm missing something with the other agents), but as a solo dev I'm becoming quite convinced. It's also got me to try out fly again.

I couldn't get Tidewave working but I must try again to see if Tidewave with Claude Code would offer this level of awesome.

ps. @fly - please let me buy more credit, I just get an error!
by WillAdams | 2025-06-20 18:44:52+00:00
How does this compare to Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975558

Looking over the ToC there seems to be at least some overlap, but at a more basic level and sans the over arching concepts of APoSD.
by jajko | 2025-06-20 18:44:54+00:00
They are, and should be, huge time saver outside cities. But city centers? Those should be on purpose as annoying, time consuming and costly to regular traffic as possible. It should be only necessary services, taxis, public buses and so on.

Here is the place for a good public transport, even in US it should be trivial to make it financially self-sufficient and attractive. People always choose whats best for them (cost or time wise). European city centers work like that and everybody normal accepts that.
by al_borland | 2025-06-20 18:45:05+00:00
I first heard the term agentic about a month ago. I went from never hearing it, to hearing it 3 or 4 times in 2 days... one of which was on an internal town hall where I work, where leadership was simply using it as if the whole world already knew what it meant, instead of literally being the first time it was ever mentioned.

The tl;dr is that it's AI that makes decisions on its own.