MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by energy123 | 2025-06-03 12:07:33+00:00
> Example: you buy a house for $200k. Because of house horading and constrained supply and policy changes you vote for that house is worth $800k after 15 years. You think you've made money so you support everything that's going on. But you haven't. Why? Because you still own exactly one housing unit's worth of wealth. You have to live somewhere and every house costs $800k now.

I agree with you on this.

> Not sure why you're associating NIMBYism with leftism. They're diametrically opposed.

That may be your interpretation of the underlying philosophy, but in practice, leftist politicians turn out to be more NIMBY than center-left liberal politicians. I'm not so interested in No True Scotsman type appeals on this point.

> "Abundance neoliberalism" (as per Ezra Klein) is just repackaged Reagen-era trickle down economics

It's laughable to equate "social democracy and targeted industrial policy but with less red tape when you try to build something" with Reaganite policies.

> I'm not sure what your objection to the "neoliberal" is.

The deployment of the word "neoliberal" is almost always a slur and a misunderstanding. People use it as a catch-all category to mean "status quo thing I don't like", wrongly bundling up heterogeneous things that are vastly different. It's the left's version of "uniparty". A thought-terminating rhetorical device, not to be used in any serious analysis.
by ivape | 2025-06-03 12:07:40+00:00
First, I’m going to upvote you because I’m tired of this grayed out censorship bullshit that goes on in this site. I really wish there was a way to set a setting that makes it clear idgaf about downvotes, don’t gray shit out.

Second:

One is made by a human for other humans. The other is a randomly recognized pattern built from the stolen art of millions, and has no intended audience (because it itself is incapable of consuming art).

There is something that fits that definition, which is nature. Some actually believe it’s a divine expression and does indeed have an intended audience (us). That’s a weird belief, but your argument is actually quite sound if you believe in God. If you don’t, then your argument falls apart because so much of nature is art, so much so that art is often based on it.

If the Grand Canyon is randomness, yet it appears clearly beautiful to us, and is the source of inspiration for Art, then we can say that this new form of random pattern generator is also another source, one we can take inspiration from.

There will be sticklers that will create a delineation between nature and art, which ultimately is quite arrogant because it will apply one specific characteristic to art, that being art is a specifically human creation.
by dinfinity | 2025-06-03 12:08:50+00:00
> And yes, the argument is always to let them work on small isolated bits of code. Or that if your requirements are tight enough they produce very good code.

You're getting there. The most valuable change is using software (like Cursor) that runs the models in agentic mode so they:

1. find the context themselves (with a basic document with context to point them in the right general direction for the current task).

2. can run commands and specifically tests.

3. iterate on their own output and changes to ensure you don't need to point out what they did wrong manually each time. Just let it find out itself, correct and keep moving until it is a good solution.

Think about how any human developer would approach an issue. For a lot of the 'moderately complex code bases', a developer new to it would also need a lot of pointing in the right direction, a lot of trying stuff out and then correcting themselves. Forget treating LLMs like one-shot magic solution givers, but instead as junior devs that you have to provide with all kinds of things to be successful.
by gizmo | 2025-06-03 12:09:53+00:00
Her personal politics are not extremist in the conventional sense. She is a center-right technocrat at heart. She believes people like her have to protect Europe against the idiot masses. When she dismantles European civil rights she does so for the "greater good". People can't be trusted to vote in their own best interest, or so the logic goes. She thinks she and people like her protect Europe against the rising populist right. I think she's badly mistaken and that the populist right is fueled by EU arrogance, and the GP probably shares that view.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-06-03 12:10:40+00:00
You know what, while you're at it, I might as well bring it up. How about XML?

I haven't really tried writing large pieces of text in it but I am already seriously considering. All other alternatives are too complicated and have a learning curve that gets in the way of writing itself. With XML, I'd be able to define my own tags and run them by a parser later on to auto-generate indexable footnotes, and create my own ways of structuring text besides the usual ones (chapters, sections, etcetera). Has anyone tried this approach?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-03 12:10:55+00:00
I'm always hesitant to post here, as a blue-collar electrician — but I'm single and willing to relocate to get back in to an MSA with 250,000sqft+ facilities [largest in mine is ~50k].

—Former IBEW datacenters at both [a State] DPS facility & private MeetMeRoom 500k facility. US-citizen, eligible for clearances. Attended DEF CON twice (fun!).

PS: loves making solid LiquidTite™ connections; triple checks even reduntant PSU setups; knows how to stay out of techs' "way."

My mailing address is in bio — worth the stamp?

I do not use email.
by illiac786 | 2025-06-03 12:11:05+00:00
I should have been more specific, but you missed my point I believe.

I tested this at the time on Claude 3.7 sonnet, which have an earlier cut off date and I just tested again with this prompt: “Can the lidar of a self driving car damage a phone camera sensor?” and the answer is still wrong in my test.

I believe the issue is the training cut off date, that’s my point, LLM seem smart but they have limits and when asked about something discovered after training cut off date, they will sometimes confidently be wrong.
by copelandr | 2025-06-03 12:11:16+00:00
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by osigurdson | 2025-06-03 12:11:25+00:00
The arguments seem to come down to tooling. The article suggests that ChatGPT isn't a good way to interact with LLMs but I'm not so sure. If the greatest utility is "rubber ducking" and editing the code yourself is necessary then tools like Cursor go too far in a sense. In my own experience, Windsurf is good for true vibe coding where I just want to explore an idea and throw away the code. It is still annoying though as it takes so long to do things - ruining any kind of flow state you may have. I am conversing with ChatGPT directly much more often.

I haven't tried Claud code yet however. Maybe that approach is more on point.
by moomin | 2025-06-03 12:11:39+00:00
As I say, those are the arguments that I actually hear people make. And most of the arguments I'm hearing people make are from people who are using LLM tech on a daily basis (not the agent stuff so much, although it sounds promising). I remain surprised you're encountering so many people quite so skeptical.

The only real dispute about the usefulness of the current technology I hear is the concern that this will leave us without devs who understand the code at a deep level.
by Leftium | 2025-06-03 12:11:48+00:00
https://www.nebo.app

- Online demo: https://webdemo.myscript.com/views/text/index.html

- Works on Mac, offline.

- Not sure if it can convert handwritten journals you've already written.

- (Also not trained on your specific handwriting, but I found it pretty good)

- I haven't use this app, but I've used their keyboard that works on an iPhone 13 mini. Powered by the same MyScript engine.
by miohtama | 2025-06-03 12:12:51+00:00
And why do you think this regulation would stop abuse if it were made available? Poland has corrupted judges who were onboard with opposition spying.

"But the commission cannot do much – CBA [Central Anticorruption Bureau] management and the Constitutional Tribunal, packed with PiS [judges], are obstructing its proceedings. In such an environment, any work based on facts and merit is pretty much impossible.”"

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/25/pegasus-in-poland-a-fli...
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-06-03 12:13:22+00:00
It's not necessary to go outside of EU.

"In a despicable attack on the freedom of speech, a German right-wing journalist has been sentenced to seven months’ probation for mocking left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser."

"The editor-in-chief of the news website Deutschland-Kurier was punished for sharing a satirical meme on his X account. The meme, which was posted by Bendels last February, shows Nancy Faeser holding up a sign, with the words: “I hate freedom of expression.”"

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/proving-the-p...
by blitzar | 2025-06-03 12:13:48+00:00
Obviously every central bank in the world, and certainly every BRICS central bank can and does print money. 08, numerous EM crisis, COVID etc. Not like people are shy about it.

As for "fudging some numbers" - economic data is all surveys and samples. Methodologies are "revised" regularly ostensibly to "better capture the reality". You have the subtle ones like inflation baskets (CPI), and survey for manufacturing or services (PMI) and the less subtle ones like 2015 India redoing their GDP methodology and finding an extra 1.5% a year down the back of the sofa.

It doesn't exactly take a deep dive into the field to see it is not limited to BRICS either.
by dspillett | 2025-06-03 12:14:27+00:00
> but the craft - Do you like fine Japanese woodworking? All hand tools and sashimono joinery? Me too. Do it on your own time.

That is not my objection, though some seem to think it is.

I got into coding because I found it interesting and fun. I've avoided managing others because I hate that sort of thing. Working with an LLM, prompting it to do work then assessing that work and adjusting the prompts or cleaning/completing the output myself, is far too much like outsourcing work to a 3rd party junior, and I don't want to do that whether said junior is a human in a far off land (or just down the street, for all I know!) or some LLM run by MegaCorp-ᴙ-Us.

I was already seriously disliking much of the modern programming industry (remote teams, the shit-show that client-side web work continues to devolve into, and much else) anyway. If it gets to the point where I can't do my job (or can't do it competitively enough) without using LLMs on top of dealing with the other things I don't care for, I'll be retraining for something else entirely. Heck, I've got the mortgage paid, I don't have or plan to have a family beyond the cats, I could just about survive on shelf-stacking…

I know it isn't a passing fad, though I'm convinced the current and near-future iterations aren't going to be quite as significant in the longer term as many believe. I don't object to others using it (aside from the matter of “MegaCorp-ᴙ-Us”s of the world suddenly deciding that piracy is just fine because they stand to benefit from it, in fact are already benefitting from it, in this case). But I don't plan to be nagged into using it myself.

> Do it on your own time.

If/when that career shift happens, or I survive as I am long enough to retire, I will probably do exactly that. As it stands I spend more than enough of my life on tech in DayJob, my own time is increasingly filled with unrelated hobbies and people.
by blacklion | 2025-06-03 12:14:56+00:00
> Stuff like forms, invoices, flyers, handouts, leaflets, business cards -- an afterthought, at best.

It is because you can typeset beautiful long text algorithmically and all these small forms like invoices and flyers are more graphical design than typesetting: you need to place many small elements precisely, not relative to each other but to the edges of the page / optical centers / etc. It is not very convenient without WYSIWYG. Possible, yes, but will require many trial-and-error when in WYSIWYG layout program can be done from first try.

Think about tabloids too: text, which wraps around non-rectangualr images, cut-outs, etc. Hard to do without seeing what you do, only with text and coordinates.

Edit: typo test → text.
by coldcode | 2025-06-03 12:15:53+00:00
People have said similar things about artists throughout history. Oil Paint? Non-religious/mythical subjects? Impressionism? Fauvism? Cubism? Modern Art? Etc.

Throughout art history people have often not valued the new, but only the existing. Beaux-Arts de Paris in the late 1800's was the premiere art school in Europe training traditional artists; yet many eventually turned to impressionism, etc. and abandoned the old styles. I do "computer art" today and go in directions that are new. If all you do is what came before, everything including art will stagnate. Evolve or die is not just for biology.
by mrkeen | 2025-06-03 12:15:54+00:00
> so it's kind of obvious it needs to be fully re-done so many times.

But it hasn't really caught on in the management layer. Sure, they use all the right Agile buzzwords, but they still put features A, B and C into the plan, and ask questions like "when will B be finished?"

"Finished?". Nah - we're the stewards of 14 bugs-as-a-service. We won't so much "finish B" as much as we'll transition to becoming the stewards of 15 bugs-as-a-service.
by xpe | 2025-06-03 12:15:59+00:00
Five points. First, a moral code is a guidestar, principles to strive for, but not necessarily achieved.

Second. People can do what they want? This may not even be self-consistent. Humans are complex and operate imperfectly across time horizons and various unclear and even contradictory goals.

Third. Assuming people have some notion of consistency in what they want, can people can do what they want? To some degree. But we live in a world of constraints. Consider this: if one only does what one wants, what does that tell you? Are they virtuous? Maybe, maybe not: it depends on the quality of their intentions. Or consider the usual compromising of one’s goals: people often change what they want to match what is available. Consider someone in jail, a parent who lost a child, a family in a war zone, or someone who isn’t able to get the opportunity to live up to their potential.

Fourth, based on #3 above, we probably need to refine the claim to say this: people strive to choose the best action available to them. But even in this narrower framing, saying “people do what they can” seems suspect to me, to the point of being something we tell ourselves to feel better. On what basis can one empirically measure how well people act according to their values? I would be genuinely interested in attempts to measure this.

Fifth, here is what I mean by engaging with a technology you disagree with: you have to engage in order to understand what are you are facing. You should clarify and narrow your objections: what aspects of the technology are problematic? Few technologies are intrinsically good or evil; it is usually more about how they are used. So mindfully and selectively use the technology in service of your purposes. (Don’t protest the wrong thing out of spite.) Focus on your goals and make the hard tradeoffs.

Here is an example of #5. If one opposes urban development patterns that overemphasize private transit, does this mean boycotting all vehicles? Categorically refusing to rent a car? That would miss the point. Some of one’s best actions involve getting involved in local politics and advocacy groups. Hoping isolated individual action against entrenched interests will move the needle is wishful thinking. My point is simple: choose effective actions to achieve your goals. Many of these goals can only be achieved with systematic thinking and collective action.
by seydor | 2025-06-03 12:18:11+00:00
> it's accountable to the heads of governments

The EU actively engages in selecting and canceling heads of governments in EU countries. There has been 0 cases where the head of the commision was held accountable for something. Actually the current head has been found guilty by the EU court for hiding text messages. Who is going to hold her accountable and how ?

I m all for the EU but defending its despicable leadership with arguments that reverse reality is not doing any favors to anyone
by fjfaase | 2025-06-03 12:18:19+00:00
There are but a few classical traint artist that started to use computer programs to produce art. One of them is the Dutch artist Peter Struycken. See pstruycken.nl for his art works. In his last works, that focus on colour, he used software to find arrangements of squares with no recognizable patterns as not to distract the viewer from the subject of his works, the interaction of carefully selected coloursm
by James_K | 2025-06-03 12:18:22+00:00
Use of LLMs to program really doesn't make much sense. The very nature of computer software is that it's a small effort from a small number of people that is multiplied out to massive productivity gains for a large number of people. Unless the LLM is producing better output than the people would, you are saving time for a small number of people in exchange for degrading the experience of a much larger number of people. If your AI-coded app goes down for a day and you have to vibe-debug it, that is probably gonna put you in the red from a time perspective.

With the amount of supervision you need to give this stuff, I can't see it being useful for much more than auto-completing the next few lines of code as you type. You've got to read and go over the whole output carefully anyway, so you might as well have finer grained control over it.
by wongarsu | 2025-06-03 12:18:29+00:00
Hot take: (meta) prompt engineering will only replace 95% of programming. Which will end up not making a difference to the amount of programming that is happening. Needing 20 times less human-written code will just mean that software will get more complex, more individualized, will solve problems that so far were not worth writing code for, and will have even worse project management (of the "coding something, then finding out that that's not what the customer wanted" kind).

To stay with the video game analogy: modern tooling, engines, etc have radically simplified game development. What took a team of 10 people six months in the early 90s can now be done better by two people in six weeks. Yet games now employ more developers, take longer to develop, and there are far more games being developed.
Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well) with gmaps++
by lukehollis | 2025-06-03 12:18:35+00:00
Resubmitting text to 3d simulation on a map because during the last submission, I quickly reached my quota on Google's photorealistic 3d map tiles, leaving many confused.

You can simulate anything on a map in 3d, and it recreates historical events pretty well. It also now includes a timeline of events for each simulation.

The goal is to create a simulator that can meaningfully predict the past -- and future events.

Now I have an increased daily quota and in case it's reached, a system for providing your own api key.

Glad for feedback. I built the frontend with threejs, the atmospheric fx libraries on at takram-design-engineering/three-geospatial, and the other public materials on my Github. The MARL model representing humans (white cubes) is still in progress -- for now the simulants mostly run away from things.

Video in case it's down: https://youtu.be/V8sA1Ibfy6M
by perihelions | 2025-06-03 12:18:40+00:00
> "Ideally, a society should be educated and inoculated against such harmful activity such that the mere mention of an idea of such a plan is enough to ruin one’s career"

Well said.

It's a weak and stagnant variant of democracy, where people say (to paraphrase): it doesn't matter what the people think, or say, or believe; or how their elected representatives vote; because you can just count on the courts (or some other force external-to-democracy) to clean up and fix everything. That's not democracy. That's shirking the hard parts of civic participatory democracy—offloading the burden onto a small group of elites who aren't meant to be morally load-bearing.

You've *failed* at liberal democracy if you've reached the point where your popularly-elected representatives are floating the suggestion of North Korean-style panopticons. (Or anything else as antithetical to core human rights).

Liberal democracy, if it should exist, is a zeitgeist of strongly-held shared values—not (only) a set of legal technicalities codified in a document somewhere.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-06-03 12:18:45+00:00
Also similarly is filesystem's transparent compression. The checksum should be on compressed blocks, to check everything without having to decompress them during a scrub.

You'd need to match compression settings on both ends. A different number of threads used will change the result too, would probably change depending on the hardware.

Would also apply to encryption. Probably shouldn't be using the same encryption key on different filesystems.

Or if you're using bcachefs with background compression, compression might not even happen till later.
by paulmist | 2025-06-03 12:19:17+00:00
> Up until this point, both students had nearly perfect homework grades while failing every in-class quiz.

From a student's perspective: I think it was the same with SO. While LLMs make c&p even easier, they also have the upside of lowering the bar on more complex topics/projects. Nowadays, the average person doesn't touch assembly, but we still had a course where we used it and learned its principles. Software engineering courses will follow suit.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-03 12:19:46+00:00
> But often prompting is more complex than programming something.

I'd challenge this one; is it more complex, or is all the thinking and decision making concentrated into a single sentence or paragraph? For me, programming something is taking a big high over problem and breaking it down into smaller and smaller sections until it's a line of code; the lines of code are relatively low effort / cost little brain power. But in my experience, the problem itself and its nuances are only defined once all code is written. If you have to prompt an AI to write it, you need to define the problem beforehand.

It's more design and more thinking upfront, which is something the development community has moved away from in the past ~20 years with the rise of agile development and open source. Techniques like TDD have shifted more of the problem definition forwards as you have to think about your desired outcomes before writing code, but I'm pretty sure (I have no figures) it's only a minority of developers that have the self-discipline to practice test-driven development consistently.

(disclaimer: I don't use AI much, and my employer isn't yet looking into or paying for agentic coding, so it's chat style or inline code suggestions)
by tinthedev | 2025-06-03 12:19:53+00:00
You can always try to categorize your target audience, and figure out their preferences.

The main thing to focus on here, however, is that this offering would not be for your usual audience. If that's all you expect from it, I would rather not bother. It's a separate market, and while there's some bleedover, I think you'll be surprised how different they are.

You can always try to play it safe and put in a contact form for discounted quotes (nonprofits, individuals, etc). This depends a lot on your capacities, but it could quickly tell you if you're pricing out desirable customers.