MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2025-06-13 00:53:44+00:00
It wasn't hidden from /active or anywhere else. It was on the front page for twelve hours after multiple interventions from us to keep it there. It was on the second page for many hours after that, and is still ranked in the top 150 stories and is getting new comments, three days after it was posted, which is unusual.

Edit:

This claim that we somehow hid that story from /active is one of the weirder I've experienced, which is saying a lot, but, for the record, here are the Wayback Machine links showing it near the top of /active for over 24 hours.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250610063553/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250611094239/https://news.ycom...
by owebmaster | 2025-06-13 00:55:23+00:00
> I realize you abide the court's abuses because it's convenient for you and your ideology.

pretty much the opposite: when the same STF changed laws to put Lula in jail, I did not supported people that wanted to overthrow the rule of law. You do. Now. But at the time you were in favor of the same supreme court change the law in favor of your ideology, which removed Lula from the election that he was leading.

> I do hope I'm still around to post about it when it does. I wouldn't wish such a fate on anyone.

Do you think you have it hard? That this is some kind of torture? The same people that worship coronel Ustra?

> Even you, someone who thinks I should be imprisoned for my thoughts, should not be censored and persecuted for it.

You should not be imprisoned for your thoughts. But corrupt politicians and criminals should not be protected by unrestricted free speech.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-13 00:55:59+00:00
Most of the time, you don't have to walk the walk though. With the sports example, you can drop being great at it while talking to people at a bar or dinner party or online as you can't be asked to prove it right then and there. If you claim to be a good singer, you can pretty much do that at any time so that's a bit harder.
by cherry_tree | 2025-06-13 00:56:36+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/war/just/preemptive.shtml#:~:te...

> One ethical expert (Michael Walzer) has put forward some conditions that he thinks must be satisfied to justify a pre-emptive strike:

>an obvious intention to do injury

>active preparations that turn that intention into a positive danger

>a situation in which the risk of defeat will be greatly increased if the fight is delayed

Is there evidence of these three important points to justify this attack as “preemptive”?
by simondotau | 2025-06-13 00:57:17+00:00
That’s what you disagree with? If anything, I was expecting someone to insist that it’s not unreasonable to run software from a company you don’t trust. That’s an easy argument to steel-man, because there are many ways to run untrusted software safely.

But if you think that trust itself is a false dichotomy, I’d love to hear what that sounds like. I’m struggling to think of a good faith steel-man of this assertion.
by sandcat_ | 2025-06-13 00:57:22+00:00
I interviewed there a few years back. I bailed on the interview within the first fifteen minutes, the first time I’ve ever done that. I told them they’d given me the ick — not my most professional moment, admittedly! But it was an awkward and unpleasant interview.

They spent the first ten minutes of the call predicting the death of software engineering (this was a software engineering interview) and complaining about expensive devs (ahem). I wouldn’t have minded so much if the only demo apps they had on their website weren’t some of the worst, non-native iOS apps I’ve ever seen. Truly awful.

A month or two later I noticed on LinkedIn that a dodgy CTO I’d worked with, who had attempted to avoid paying me (and did avoid paying several colleagues of mine), had joined there too. It felt like a good fit.

Yeah, I have to say, none of this is a surprise to me.
by brikym | 2025-06-13 00:57:35+00:00
I think that's true of most marketing. The bigger the lie the more shouting has to be done. Peter Thiel mentions that monopoly companies often have the most 'sales' in order to seem competitive. And conversely small competitive companies want to seem large and stable. A bag of lettuce won't have 'healthy' all over the packaging because that's self evident but a bottle or can sugary drink will have all sorts of claims about vitamins there is even a brand called Vitamin Water.

Honey Nut Cheerios Heart Healthy Breakfast Cereal. Vitamin Water. Green Hydrogen. Clean Diesel. Patriot Act.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-06-13 00:59:05+00:00
two of the bigger comment threads have already been flagged so i'd like to reiterate a point made by anigbrowl before it disappears:

the most powerful tool we have against what's happening right now is a general strike. i'm reaching out to my union to see how we can collectively respond, and i encourage every single american unionized HN user to do the same or get involved with current action; but the seed must be planted in all of us: we don't have to accept what's going on, and we can grind things to a stop until we see change.
Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-13 00:59:08+00:00
“A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong.” [0]

Not only is there no reward, nor can you ever expect a reward, for doing the right thing, it also often comes at a personal cost.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_%28Thoreau%29
by kevincox | 2025-06-13 00:59:29+00:00
That's true. Although pasting the code into the existing browser tab is a bit smoother in my workflow. And at least the form autofills properly when they ask for email and password.

I'd much prefer if they could just trust my password. But I know the unfortunate truth is that the majory of people just reuse a password across most sites. So these measures are intended to raise the baseline difficulty, not to improve the security of those with good habits.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-13 01:00:44+00:00
Does anyone not add the year & month of the last password change to the end of their password? E.g. PascalCasePassphraseGoesHere2025-06, then at the next required change in (for example) 6 months: PascalCasePassphraseGoesHere2026-01. It almost certainly fits the inane "letter, number, and special character" requirements they probably have, complies with "different from your last X passwords", and is easy to keep track of the change interval. It also adds no security whatsoever! A user could almost certainly get away with Password2025-06, etc.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-13 01:02:00+00:00
That "BREAKING NEWS" fuss is kinda a US specific thing though.

In Holland we just watch the news at 6 or 8pm (at least for those who still do that) which is very factual. Or we read nu.nl or nos.nl which don't really have screaming clickbaity headlines unless some shit really hit a fan. Which is really rare. I prefer nos.nl because nu.nl has too much celebrity news for me.

But we don't have any of that weird "Watch this NOW or get left behind!!" FOMO bait I see when I tune up CNN.

It probably helps that NOS is publicly funded so they have no incentive to maximise "engagement". Their job is just to report the news in a clean way.
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-13 01:03:30+00:00
the word “consistently” in your anecdote is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Generative AI is anything but consistent. A compiler _is_, hence its immense value. Furthermore, even a junior programmer can compile their program and generate robust assembly code, not the case with generative AI.

It’s hard to predict how this plays out IMO. Especially since this industry (broadly speaking) doesn’t believe in training juniors anymore.
by cassianoleal | 2025-06-13 01:03:40+00:00
> By "tests" I meant concurso público. There isn't a good English term for that.

Those are essentially admission tests. They're not meant to test the knowledge or ability of the candidates, but rather as a way to filter out the excess because there's higher demand than offer of those jobs.

The Supreme Court justices don't have to do that because they are selected by the President instead.

> Every other judge is a law professional who studied hard to pass the test.

Some of the supreme court justices might have not passed admission tests for jobs they were not interested in but that says exactly nothing about their intelligence or knowledge of the law.

> Therefore, it is entirely possible and even likely for the judges of lesser courts to be more knowledgeable about law than the supreme court.

No doubt it's possible but I find some of the foundational premises of your chain of causation to be misguided at best.

If these tests were actually that good in filtering the cream of the crop, how do we end up with people like Sérgio Moro who can't follow simple logic and has repeatedly demonstrated a profound ignorance of how the Brazilian Civil Law system differs from his FBI training on Common Law concepts and strategies?

One of the largest corruption scandals in the history of the country ended up mostly annulled because it was so full of vices that Cracolândia junkies seem productive and well adjusted in comparison.

Furthermore, you have complained in other comments that the justices are not elected. Leaving out any arguments around why that's the case, and why this is a desired feature of the system, how is that compatible with the lack of admission tests? There are so many goalposts in your messages that it's very difficult to understand what you actually think could be any better than what's currently in place.
by RussianCow | 2025-06-13 01:05:43+00:00
> blaming the services for putting that term in the contract and obligating you to do it.

I think you're vastly overestimating customers' willingness to listen and care about whose fault it is. In practice, if Netflix (or whatever other app) suddenly stopped working on Android phones, people using Android would complain about their phones being broken whilst their iPhone-using friends continue to use the app just fine.

The media companies know that they will win that game of chicken every time. It would take a concerted effort across tech companies to really take them down, and nobody is interested in waging that war because the cost of simply implementing DRM is too low for it to be worth the struggle and the risk.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-13 01:07:12+00:00
I only started keeping up with politics after Bolsonaro became president. So I'm afraid I don't remember which abuses, if any, were committed by courts at the time of Lula's imprisonment.

I don't doubt you. Feel free to elaborate on the matter if you'd like, in good faith.

I don't support "judicial activism" at all. Judges should be machines that implement the law exactly as written to each individual case, no more and no less. Any deviation from that is a power grab. In other words: judges must not legislate, that is the job of our elected representatives.

Any attempt from a judge to legislate is a small coup against the people. Actual lawyers have told me: "instead of applying the law, the surpreme court decided to legislate". This is normal in Brazil and it shouldn't be.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-13 01:07:58+00:00
I wonder what you mean by that. What is so bad that happens if you don't watch the news for a day or a few days? A colleague might mention something you didn't know yet? I'm sure they'd be happy to fill you in.

Most of the news we see has no actual effect on our lives anyway. Like this crash. It's terrible but other than feeling bad for them (which doesn't help them) it doesn't affect my life in any way. If I find out about it at a later time that's fine. Probably when admiral cloudberg makes one of her masterpieces about it. I read the news anyway as a matter of interest and "nothing better to do" but to me it's mostly a time sink. I only read about 1% of the articles in the main feed.

I often go on retreats with friends and I hardly use my phone and the TV never goes on for even a second :) It's really nice to unplug. I can recommend having an unplug day once in a while for starters.
by geoka9 | 2025-06-13 01:08:05+00:00
Just wanted to add to your post with my anecdote.

I was at the "script epiphany" stage a few months ago and I got cool Bash scripts (with far more bells and whistles I would normally implement) just by iterating with Claude via its web interface.

Right now I'm at the "Gemini (with Aider) is pretty good for knock-offs of the already existing functionality" stage (in a Go/HTMX codebase).

I'm yet to get to the "wow, that thing can add brand new functionality using code I'm happy with just by clever context management and prompting" stage; but I'm definitely looking forward to it.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-13 01:09:44+00:00
The screen writing AI barfed up a product that pleases critics AI, but they forgot about audiences?

Let's go through the litany:

- Moneygrab reboot

- Disposes of all the old actors, except the one who always a bas relief and never really had a part of his own

- Skeletal approach to continuing the franchise

- Empty world; First because Endgame reprised The Leftovers and second because the world is literally empty

- Actors bring lazy disinterested schtick instead of charisma to bear for parts written with no character

- Pointless action

- Plot is a drug / alcohol intervention managed by Trump's press secretary

- No reason to care about what happens next in the franchise

- Regards itself as merely a collection of tropes

- Most interesting part doesn't rise even to a Star Wars "can you at least put on towel" moment

But other than this what an incredible installment for a dead franchise!
by cassianoleal | 2025-06-13 01:09:55+00:00
That mirrors my thoughts pretty well.

> it would be prompting+reading loop which is kinda worst IMO

From what I gather by watching presentations and talking to people, it's worse. You need to build up these sort of "pre-prompt" texts where you essentially create those different personas before you even start telling it, middle-manager-style, what to build - and hope for the best.

It seems like aside from rote tasks such as generating boilerplate, you can produce better code, quicker, by doing it yourself.
by hintymad | 2025-06-13 01:10:00+00:00
I think the key question is what new or unique problems we need to solve. Unique problems demand unique designs and implementations, which can't be threatened by vibe coding, which requires software craftsmanship. That said, AI-assisted coding should still improve our productivity, therefore reducing the average number of engineers per project. Hopefully Jevon's Paradox will come into play, but that's really not a technical problem but a business one.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-06-13 01:10:11+00:00
> The only thing that surprises me is that a western government might attack journalists

You might want to look up Karen Silkwood, who was likely murdered by either her employer or US government agents, while driving to meet with a reporter and her boyfriend.

If you think the US government hasn't murdered any journalists in the last 70 years or so, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
by kashkhan | 2025-06-13 01:10:42+00:00
a material that stretches 1% to failure (like steel/aluminum) can ballpark bend to a radius 100 times the thickness. so a 1 meter cable could bend 100m radius before cracking. assuming 10x margin that would be 1 km radius. large but not crazy. A tube that size can easily span 1 km trenches in water. you could also add a few meters of foam around it to make it neutrally buoyant and just barely press on the ocean floor.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-13 01:13:50+00:00
> According to Qurium, TacoLoco is a traffic monetization network that uses deceptive tactics to trick Internet users into enabling "push notifications," a cross-platform browser standard that allows websites to show pop-up messages which appear outside of the browser.

An elderly relative of mine was hit by this a couple years back: his computer's desktop was constantly being spammed with messages on startup, and there was no simple way to turn them all off. It turned out that they were all notifications from web workers that he'd inadvertently allowed at some point prior. (I set his browser to auto-deny notifications so it wouldn't happen again.)
by daeken | 2025-06-13 01:15:26+00:00
This has been really interesting to me. I've been learning Spanish for a while and will mix un poco español en my sentences with ChatGPT all the time, and it's cool to see the same thing reflected back to me. It's not uncommon for a response to be 75% in English with 25% Spanish at the beginnings and ends especially. All of my conversation titles are in Spanish because I always start them with "Hola", so whatever model sets the title just assumes Spanish for it, regardless of what the rest of the message is.
by neilv | 2025-06-13 01:15:37+00:00
I cannot think of a selfish upside to broadcasting who the alleged bad actors are.

But I can think of selfish downside to doing so. Retaliation and discrediting, by someone you already know is underhanded. Also, you don't want to be known as someone who might violate a confidence, or air industry dirty laundry. Also, when someone Web searches your name, you don't want some scandal headline to come up.

I can also think of selfish reason to say that there are bad actors, without naming them: "Of course, we're good ones, just warning you, because we're looking out for you."
by alejohausner | 2025-06-13 01:15:54+00:00
Yes, the measles vaccine is effective. It reduces cases of measles. But the paper in question says that deaths were reduced to almost zero before the vaccine was introduced. The graph that you linked to shows the same thing.

For me the paper shows not just that good sanitation and nutrition help reduce deaths from many infections diseases, but that they are the primary agent in that reduction. I thought it was a very cool paper, although you don’t seem moved in the same way as me.

When I was a child, my parents weren’t upset when I got measles (I was, because it meant missing a trip to the seashore). It meant that you were going to be miserable for a week, but would be immune afterwards. So I became one more case, but not one more death.
by the-mitr | 2025-06-13 01:16:00+00:00
By the same logic it should be sold to Saudi Arabia as well, they are also not democratically elected and do enforce religious law on their people. But it's okay because they are in cahoots with the West. so dictatorship is only a problem for the west if it is not to their liking. And US and UK played a major role in destabilizing the Middle East in the last two and half decades, but that's okay because it's the West and all that West does must always be right. Even if it overthrows secular democratic governments which are not to their liking . So it's okay for the West to spend billions of dollars for waging wars on false pretenses (wmd) and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the process.
by polishdude20 | 2025-06-13 01:16:32+00:00
Honestly I feel AI has helped me be a better craftsman. I can think "oh it would be kinda nice to add this little tidbit of functionality in this code". Previously I'd have to spend loads of time googling around the question in various ways, wording it differently etc, reading examples or digging a lot for info. This would sometimes just not be worth adding that little feature or nice to have.

Now, I can have Claude help me write some code, then ask it about various things I can add or modify it with or maybe try it differently. It gives me more time to spend figuring out the best thing for the user. More various ideas for how to tackle a problem.

I don't let it code willy nilly. I'm fairly precise in what I ask it to do and that's only after I get it to explain how it would go about tackling a problem.
by defrost | 2025-06-13 01:16:40+00:00
> Judges should be machines that implement the law exactly as written, no more and no less.

Law is not that simple and is full of tricky edge cases and outright vague ambiguity.

Lower Courts can easily rule to a clear letter of law as stated in a great many cases.

eg: Does evidence exist to prove a defendant broke into locked premises or not? Does a jury all agree that multiple pieces of submitted evidence are sufficient to establish a conclusion on balance despite all pieces of evidence having some issue?

High Courts and Supreme Courts exist to ponder whether lower courts have correctly applied the laws.

This would not be required if it were at all possible to have machines that implement the law exactly as written, no more and no less.
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:18:14+00:00
I'm not varjag, but I can give you a flavour of the problems I've tried:

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Here's an algorithmic problem:

You are getting a stream of n unsorted number (say over a network socket, but it doesn't matter). You don't know n upfront. We want to find the k largest numbers in that stream.

You can use O(n) time and O(k) space. We are in the comparison model.

The items arrive one by one, if you want to refer to any earlier item, you need to store it yourself (and it counts against your O(k) budget.)

Is this possible? If yes, please give me the algorithm. If not, please sketch a proof showing that it's not possible.

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The above is indeed solvable in linear time, it's fairly easy for a human to figure out. Another one (and this on is rather hard, took me a few years and I'm writing up a paper):

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Here's an algorithmic problem:

You are given a sequence of opening and closing parens. Each item in the sequence has a positive weight. We want to find the _heaviest_ balanced subsequence in linear time in the comparison model, or prove that this task is not possible.

I'm ok with randomised algorithms. In that case, I want expected worst-case linear time, where the expectation is taken over the random bits and the worst-case over the inputs.

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The above task is really solvable in linear time, and even deterministically. But so far no AI model has beaten it. As far as I can tell, it's a new result, despite looking fairly elementary.
by duxup | 2025-06-13 01:18:23+00:00
I didn't refuse a job. I just didn't do the bad part ...

Only time this happened to me was one of my first jobs. I worked phone tech support for a consumer PC manufacturer in the mid to late 1990s.

The company decided their 3 year hardware warranty was suddenly now 1 year. They decided this retroactively... I thought it was wrong. I spoke up to my boss, they agreed and passed our thoughts up the chain, but after that it was all yes men so we never heard back.

I was just some on and off again college kid and figured, whatever, so despite the new rule change if I thought they should get hardware (I had access to their original warranty data), they got hardware. I mentioned it to other coworkers and they did the same.

Few years later the company relented after they were sued. Nothing ever came of my actions as far as anyone noticing, or at least not enough to care, pretty sure my boss knew.

Otherwise all my jobs are pretty run of the mill legal activity.
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-13 01:20:23+00:00
i try not to judge people holistically when listening to them give advice in a very narrow area, like work in this case. We all have faults, some more than others obviously.

Example: a rapist could be an EXCELLENT plumber as his occupation. One has nothing to do with the other. Pretending like they have no useful plumbing advice to give just makes one look silly.

Steve jobs was a shit human being. But i won’t sit here and pretend he wasn’t a visionary product person, or a person that thought deeply about work, our relation with technology, etc.

For what it’s worth I agree it’s reductive. Most 1-2 sentence life advice is…so not too surprising. :)
by steadicat | 2025-06-13 01:20:35+00:00
One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.