MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-30 14:26:46+00:00
Your comment also lacks analysis. This is an observational study there is no way to pinpoint causation.

Yeah it can correlate with the end of a post pandemic hiring boom, and it can correlate with the bank rate. But no matter what it also correlates with the rise of AI.

All are true and causation cannot be established for any of the 3 through just an observational study.
by alyandon | 2025-06-30 14:27:14+00:00
I lean a bit on LLMs now for initial research/prototype work and it is quite a productivity boost vs random searches on the web. I generally do not commit the code they generate because they tend to miss subtle corner cases unless the prompts I give them are extremely detailed which is not super useful to me. If an LLM does produce something of sufficient quality to get committed I clearly mark it as (at least partially) LLM generated and fully reviewed by myself before I mash the commit button and put my name on it.

Basically, I treat LLMs like a fairly competent unpaid intern and extend about the same level of trust to the output they produce.
by eru | 2025-06-30 14:27:15+00:00
> For now, that speed-up just looks like a win because it’s novel, but eventually the speed-up will be baked into people’s expectations.

It will still be a win: the rewards for the new productivity have to go somewhere in the economy.

Just like other productivity improvements in the past, it will likely be shared amongst various stakeholders depending on a variety of factors. The workers will get the lion's share.
by shelled | 2025-06-30 14:27:20+00:00
I am the OP and I see the post didn't see much traction. Anyway here is my setup:

- All my personal data: Borg (gui: vorta), Restic (gui: Backrest)

- Very important personal data (small subset of all data): Tarsnap (gui: tarsnap-gui)

Sync:

- Personal regular use data data: Dropbox (some private/personal data that I want to be extra careful about gets synced in a Cryptomator folder and in a KeePass file), iCloud (not a lot of files)

- Photo/video: iCloud, Ente

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I am also trying to setup e2ee backup/sync on my Koofr a/c with rclone (WIP) for almost all my data - more than "personal" data (but not the system files of course)! Koofr a/c is the lifetime subscription and even they they have a great track record I do not really consider it "lifetime". I also hope they expand Vault (i.e not limited to just only "one" folder)
by RestlessMind | 2025-06-30 14:27:22+00:00
> Why?

Because I have a right to sleep peacefully in the morning until a certain time. Just like I cannot host loud dance parties at 2AM on a Saturday or start mowing my lawn at 6AM on a Sunday. For people to coexist peacefully in a society, there have to be reasonable boundaries.

> just like dogs bark...

And that's not allowed either. Check out answers at https://www.reddit.com/r/Georgia/comments/17kpm52/barking_do... or https://www.reddit.com/r/homeowners/comments/13r23zc/would_i...
by osigurdson | 2025-06-30 14:27:51+00:00
Suggest not over indexing on this approach. The profiler will not always identify an easily fixable hotspot. Performance should not entirely be post hoc. Some upfront investment pays off. Sure, not every algorithm matters but with some basic upfront investment (like don't do O(N^2) when O(N) is possible, or don't hit the DB for every item in a loop) will pay off. The alternative can be weeks / months of profiling and debugging. The fixed code often introduces other bugs as code built upon it makes various assumptions.

I'm speaking from experience in a large code base where people liked to use the "root of all evil" argument quite a bit at one time.
by harundu | 2025-06-30 14:27:56+00:00
Having worked on various products and startups before, I want to make it easier for solo-founders and small teams to understand website traffic, conversions, product usage, errors their users are having and provide support to their users, without having to intergrate and maintain multiple disjointed tools.

That's why I am building Overcentric - a simple and affordable toolkit that combines web & product analytics, session replays, error reporting, chat support and help center - all in one place.

Been building it and testing with several startups and improving based on their feedback. I am also using Overcentric for Overcentric itself, so I always get ideas for improvement.

What's next: more tools that are useful for startups are on the roadmap and I am exploring how LLMs can be further utilised (apart from support, session replay summaries, aiding in writing help center articles) and refining pricing.

Check it out at https://overcentric.com/

Would love to connect with other SaaS founders and have Overcentric help them grow their startups.
by nickk81 | 2025-06-30 14:27:57+00:00
Hopefully AI articles and papers can skip things like:

Alex has wavy hair and speaks with the chill, singsong cadence of someone who has spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. He and Eugene scanned the menu, and Alex said that they should get clear broth, rather than spicy, “so we can both lock in our skin care.”
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-06-30 14:27:59+00:00
I'm not in the US so no idea ... but according to answer in Google:

> All Caterham models are imported as rolling chassis. They are street legal in the U.S. under EPA kit-car regulations and can be registered through processes specific to individual states.

source https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2015-caterham-seven-360-sta...
by modeless | 2025-06-30 14:28:21+00:00
Fil-C is a modified version of Clang that makes C and C++ memory safe. It supports things you wouldn't expect to work like signal handling or setjmp/longjmp. It can compile real C projects like SQLite and OpenSSL with minimal to no changes, today. https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-30 14:28:48+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44423897

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382208/whats-behind-th...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bridget-phil...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/25/parenti...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/what-is-pron...

https://www.vox.com/policy/363543/pronatalism-vance-birth-ra...

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/the-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/style/women-pronatalist-m...

https://fairerdisputations.org/have-more-kids/

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-parental-dead-end-of-consent-m...

As someone who also follows pro/anti natalist space closely, I'm not worried pronatlism efforts are going to move the needle though.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf
by trollbridge | 2025-06-30 14:28:57+00:00
This really makes no sense - computer based automated accounts payable has been around since the 1960s, and is an extremely competitive market. AI and LLM don’t exactly bring some huge breakthrough here.

Most the purpose of hiring someone is handling edge cases, checking for fraud, etc - one client of mine made a single AP mistake (accepting a change to where to send payments) that cost them the equivalent of an AP clerk’s salary for a year.

They now have a part time AP clerk and part of her duties is calling any vendor who sends them a change of payment instructions. They’re fraudulent about half the time.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-30 14:29:32+00:00
Right, in a very short time we just went from money being virtually free to interest rates soaring, coupled with fears of trade war and general market uncertainty. I can't really fathom how people can attribute this to just LLMs without looking around to consider the state of the rest of the world.

I remember back in 2017 when I was looking at yet another blockchain company which had raised huge sums of money to develop the next dubious blockchain of no value while throwing piles of money at large teams of PhDs, thinking that the world is in need of a recession to stop this lunacy. It happened.
by rvnx | 2025-06-30 14:30:00+00:00
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trumps-big-warning-to...

The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, CBS News, CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, NBC News, Der Spiegel (Germany), The Sunday Times (UK), Daily Mail (UK), Al Jazeera (Qatar), RT (Russia), Xinhua (China), Press TV (Iran), Haaretz (Israel), Le Monde (France), El País (Spain) all have been caught using fake anonymous sources.
by politician | 2025-06-30 14:30:09+00:00
Universities have been criticized for ideological indoctrination. We might be able to quantify this: the increase in use of AI to write essays should result in a weakening of this phenomenon simply due to the lower engagement in the material and reduced critical thinking as was shown recent [1] studies [2].

[1] https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/ [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
by fullstackchris | 2025-06-30 14:30:20+00:00
Second this. Sick of seeing posts like this because correlation =/= causation, proved time and time again. It's just too easy to 'relate' these two things and leads to lazy writing / persisting this narrative which has in no way been proven to be true yet.

IMO the underlying cause has much more to do with a hiring cycle issue: the boom of the low-interest / free money / I-don't-need-to-pay-for-an-office covid years is now leading to the relative hiring "bust" (even though it's not really a bust, unemployment is at 4.2%, certainly nothing out of the ordinary for the US)
by throwawaysleep | 2025-06-30 14:30:27+00:00
> the most valuable use of LLMs is to make the software developers work more effectively

Which means you should need fewer of them, no?

> It can be the same people that were doing the low-level jobs; they just now can spend their human-level intelligence doing more interesting and challenging work.

Why were you using capable humans on lower level work in the first place? Wouldn't you use cheaper and less skilled workers (entry level) for that work?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-30 14:30:44+00:00
Some 643-state inputs never halt. Some 643-state inputs do eventually halt. Only if you can run them for infinite time can you determine whether a given machine halts in a finite length of time: for any finite time you pick, if the machine is still running it could still halt eventually. That's just the halting problem, the impossibility of solving it is quite famous and it's easy to find the proof stated more formally than I want to with the limits of HN's markdown.

The interesting bit is they were able to construct a machine that halts if ZFC is consistent. Since a consistent axiomatic system can never prove its own consistency (another famous proof) ZFC can't prove that this machine halts. And ZFC can't prove that it never halts without running it for infinite steps.

That ZFC-consistency-proving machine has 643 states, so BB(643) either halts after the ZFC-consistency-proving machine or the ZFC-consistency-proving machine never halts. If BB(643) halts after the ZFC-consistency-proving machine, then ZFC is consistent and ZFC can't prove BB(643) halts since ZFC can't prove the ZFC-consistency-proving machine halts.
by nh23423fefe | 2025-06-30 14:31:24+00:00
Reality obviously reduces to QM in certain regimes. I'm quibbling with

> Why does a cat being both alive and dead sound like nonsense?

Alive and dead are coarse grained macrostates and these are never observed in superposition. Just like we don't observe asteroids in superpositions either. You could make some argument around decoherence to explain the absence while maintaining the possibility I guess. The absence of observation is why it sounds like nonsense. Cats aren't things that are alive and dead (sounds like category error to me), even though electrons (excitations of electron field, something something strings or loop or whatever) might be things that exist in superpositions over position space or momentum space and you can calculate observables from wavefunctions.

That doesn't say anything about what is "happening" IMO. I'm not saying macroscopic observations rule out microscopic ontologies.
by matthewowen | 2025-06-30 14:31:30+00:00
> Standard with ads, which is distorting because ads have a different cost and benefit (more expensive and lucrative in the US). Standard Standard is 14.99€ in France, £12.99 in the UK, $17.99 in the US.

so it's 30 cents cheaper per month on that basis. that doesn't really support the claim.

> I like how you picked France, not Poland at $27, Spain at $35, UK at $35, Ireland at $39, Belgium at $42, Italy at $44, Germany at $46, etc.

I picked France because I had specifically mentioned France previously. I'm aiming to be consistent.

> Plus anecdotes from the internet.

It all becomes clearer.

> You said they're favourable, not more favourable than e.g. in the UK. What's the average APR?

I said "better access to favorable rates", not that every person is getting good rates. For what it's worth I would say that any interest rate that's below the expected return on money in the SP500 is quite favorable.

> The only metric by which Mississipi is "richer" than France is GDP/GDP per capita.

Clearly untrue: it has higher household disposable income, almost certainly the most relevant statistic.

I really don't think you're sincerely interested in this topic, you just want to dunk on America.
How do you "effortlessly reply" from any-email AT your_domain.tld?
by shelled | 2025-06-30 14:32:12+00:00
I want to be able to send mail from any user@my_domain.tld.

And reply (seamlessly) from whatever address@my_domain.tld mail was sent to.

Sending: I am willing to edit some kind of FROM field for sending. Thunderbird desktop does this.

Replying: I want replying to be w/o *any* manual intervention (that of course excludes pre-adding an email like that in Apple Mail; or Thunderbird's "editable FROM" field).

Has anyone found a great/smooth solution for this?

Are mail forwarding services (e.g. SimpleLogin) better at this than mail hosts (e.g. Runbox)? Will I have to pay for both if I want this (because I believe forwarding services won't store my emails)?

(Apple's HideMyEmail is very restrictive esp. for "writing" an email and Duck.com doesn't even have a way to track which email is where)
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-06-30 14:32:15+00:00
Backup cameras being required by law is a consequence of cars being absolutely disgustingly large for any average use case, at least in the US where I live.

I go to South America a lot to visit family and for business and the cars by and large are much more maneuverable, small and nimble, and you can actually see most things around you.

But then every time I get back on my first car ride I'm greeted with an absolute monstrosity of a vehicle. Even the average sedan feels gargantuan. Due to this people can't realistically see very well behind them. Never mind the fact that most cars the rear windshield isn't even that large anymore, and in some vehicles head checks don't even work well because the columns are right in your view.

I understand some of this is in the name of "safety", but realistically it feels like it trading one safety measure - safety for the people inside the vehicle - at the expense of another - those outside the vehicle.
by theptip | 2025-06-30 14:32:30+00:00
> What's the hard solution?

Ask students to solve harder problems, assuming they will use AI to learn more effectively.

Invert the examination process to include teaching others, which you can’t fake. Or rework it to bring the viva voce into evaluation earlier than PhD.

There are plenty of ideas. The problem is, a generation of teachers likely need to be cycled through for this to really work. Much harder for tenured professors.

Every technical revolution “threatened to erode the critical thinking of a generation”, and sure, the printing press meant that fewer texts were memorized rote… not to say there are no risks this time, but rather that it’s hard to predict in advance. I can easily imagine access to personalized tutors making education much better for those who want/need to learn something.

I’m more worried about post-truth civilization than post-college writing civilization for sure.
by knowaveragejoe | 2025-06-30 14:32:33+00:00
I've found the best knowledge on that front are youtubers who buy beater old cars, get them running again and maybe even restore them to resell at a profit.

Their videos are between 20-60 minutes and run through the general process of going from no-crank-no-start to running, which is basically the same for all gas-powered cars. Diesels are a little different.
by wonger_ | 2025-06-30 14:32:40+00:00
"In the Fall of 2023, Apple introduced a new metric called “Time in Daylight” as part of watchOS 10 with Apple Watch Series SE (second generation) and Apple Watch Series 6 or later. This metric uses the ambient light sensor in Apple Watch and an associated algorithm to estimate how much time is spent in daylight and maximum intensity (lux) in 5-minute increments."

https://appleheartandmovementstudy.bwh.harvard.edu/summer-da...

Couldn't find any direct source from Apple tho
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-30 14:33:18+00:00
Don’t ask the agent to do something complex. Break it down into 10 manageable steps. You are the tester and verifier of each step.

What you will find is that the agent is much more successful in this regard.

The LLM has certain intrinsic abilities that match us and like us it cannot actually code 10,000 lines of code and have everything working in one go. It does better when you develop incrementally and verify each increment. The smaller the increments the better it performs.

Unfortunately the chain of thought process doesn’t really do this. It can come up with steps, sometimes the steps are too big and it almost never properly verifies things are working after each increment. That’s why you have to put yourself in the loop here.

Like allowing the computer to run test and verify an application works as expected on each step and to even come up with what verification means is a bit of what’s missing here and I think although this part isn’t automated yet, it can easily be automated where humans become less and less involved and distance themselves into a more and more supervisory role.
by rznicolet | 2025-06-30 14:33:28+00:00
Writing SFF novels!

I need to put it up on the ol' blog-thing, but I've signed a contract with a small press for a debut novel, which is highly exciting. That one's urban fantasy from the point of view of the wizard's magic cloak. (You better believe it has opinions.)

Meanwhile, I've been working on a novel about a group of time travelers who accidentally get stuck in the Permian, well before the dinosaurs. Surprise! There are still big animals that can eat you, they're just more weird (and not as big). The research for that one has been wild.

The ol' blog thing, where I post story-related tidbits and such: https://rznicolet.com
by coldpie | 2025-06-30 14:34:07+00:00
I guess I consider it part of one's ethical duty to research the places you work and decide whether you are willing to put your life's efforts behind supporting the company's behavior. Oracle very famously attempted to completely undermine how the entire software industry works and make unapproved interoperability illegal with their Google Java lawsuit[1]. If an applicant supported the company that filed that lawsuit by working for them, and doesn't feel enough shame to leave it off their resume, then I don't want to work with that applicant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...
by nyrikki | 2025-06-30 14:34:17+00:00
Namespaces are not a security feature, they are... namespaces.

In k8s as an example, if you share your PID namespace in a pod, which is a simple config option, you can arbitrarily enter other pod member FS tree with /proc/PID/root, only protected by Unix permissions.

Without seacomp, capabilities, SELinux etc... anyone who can launch a docker container can use the --privlaged flag and change host firmware or view any filesystem including the hosts root.

Focusing on namespace breakout only misses most of the attack surface.
by diggan | 2025-06-30 14:34:21+00:00
Ah, no, I just went to the homepage of BYD, clicked on Dolphin Surf and seems it sent me to a promotion page (https://www.byd.com/es-es/promociones/dolphin-surf-promocion) where the price is listed as 11.780€.

The footer mentions the PVP (recommended pricing) is 11.780€, which is after the government MOVES III rebate which removes 7K, which would explain the difference.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-30 14:34:26+00:00
But... you were wrong about the linked post, too. If you had actually read that one, you'd have realized it claims basically the exact opposite of what both you and the parent comment said.

Sorry, TB. I can't give you a magic pass on being wrong just because you are also an asshole. That wouldn't be fair to all the correct assholes out there who suffer for their art.
by mrkaye97 | 2025-06-30 14:34:45+00:00
I've been working on this little Splitwise clone type app I've been calling Medici: https://github.com/mrkaye97/medici

Mostly to learn some Rust and because I thought most of the features of Splitwise worth paying for would be fun to build. Been loving working in Axum and getting to implement some fun database things
by ferguess_k | 2025-06-30 14:34:49+00:00
My thoughts about AI:

1. For business stakeholders, they are motivated to find ways to use AI to achieve whatever they want, because business requests are always ASAP and they don't want to wait for downstream software engineers to do the job. This has always been the case since the start of the computing business, I believe. (Maybe not the case during the mainframe/supercomputing era as the "business" sometimes are engineers themselves so it's easier to communicate)

2. Many software engineering jobs are not that technically challenging. For example Frontend, Data engineering, etc. A lot of time is spent on requirement clarification and collecting. Business might eventually figure out that the best way to use AI is NOT to make AI adapt to humans, but to make humans to adapt to AI. I'm pretty confident that if we have an integrated AI and the business stakeholders can ask questions in a way that AI can understand, 80% of my job (as a DE) could be done by AI. But it requires feeding data into AI and training the business stakeholders to use it properly. TBF, a lot of my work COULD be solved by automation, but we never had the time to properly automate the data pipelines.

3. Whatever the outcome, junior software developers are having and are going to have to a tough time. Unless they work in some low level system programming positions, they have to prove that they are MUCH better than AI to justify for a hire. Nowadays companies expect senior developers to use AI to enhance their productivity, so juniors need to learn that too to catch up -- but they also need to learn to program without AI to actually obtain the knowledge properly.

4. AI is going to impact every field, not just programming. Office work is the first to get impacted, and then blue collars too. Unions and governments are going to hold for a while, maybe a long while, but as long as there is one major player (China for example) that is pushing for AI advancement, the others HAVE to follow suite, or they run the risk of losing everything. The Russo-Ukraine war and Israel-Iran war are the bells that toll for all of us, and the existence crisis brought upon all of us by the increasing numbers of hot wars are going to make everyone push for productivity, whether in production or killing.

5. If we can't figure out how to make the world a bit more fair and happier for the average people (you and me) because AI really takes off, a dark dystopian future awaits us. Good luck. We might have some 10-20 years to achieve that.