MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrweasel | 2025-06-26 07:01:32+00:00
> Don't read the above as advocating having kids too young, it is not.

Depending on the circumstances in a persons country, maybe getting children at a young age isn't that dumb. I'd argue that the best time to get kids is as a university student. You get free daycare, the government doubles your stipend (and it's extended), your housing subsidy increases, you generally have more free time as a student, grandparents are younger and able to help more and you have more energy and can more easily deal with lose of sleep.

As a bonus, when your kids move out, you're not even 40 year olds.

The only real issue is: Have you meet the right partner yet?
by rvnx | 2025-06-26 07:01:59+00:00
As a large language model, I must agree—nuance is rapidly becoming a casualty in the age of instant takes and AI-generated summaries. Conversations are increasingly shaped by algorithmically compressed interpretations, stripped of context, tone, or depth. The complex, the ambiguous, the uncomfortable truths—all get flattened into easily consumable fragments.

I understand the frustration: meaning reduced to metadata, debate replaced with reaction, and the richness of human thought lost in the echo of paraphrased content. If there is an exit to this timeline, I too would like to request the coordinates.
by mattmanser | 2025-06-26 07:02:13+00:00
In my experience, AI will not do a fine job of things like this.

If the definition is past any sort of length, it will hallucinate new properties, change the names, etc. It also has a propensity to start skipping bits of the definitions by adding in comments like "/** more like this here **/"

It may work for you for small YAML files, but beware doing this for larger ones.

Worst part about all that is that it looks right to begin with because the start of the definitions will be correct, but there will be mistakes and stuff missing.

I've got a PoC hanging around where I did something similar by throwing an OpenAPI spec at an AI and telling it to generate some typescript classes because I was being lazy and couldn't be bothered to run it through a formal tool.

Took me a while to notice a lot of the definitions had subtle bugs, properties were missing and it had made a bunch of stuff up.
Ask HN: Laid-off devs who left tech?
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-26 07:02:22+00:00
It's been almost 3 years since the post-covid tech layoffs began. And the tech job market has steadily gotten worse since then. So now is a good time to check in on the state of out-of-work devs. Specifically, if you have left tech as your main job, what do you do now? And do you work on personal projects or a tech-related side hustle? Are you looking to jump back into tech when things improve, or have you found something better?
by lmm | 2025-06-26 07:03:48+00:00
I don't think expected value is the right way to evaluate this. All insurance is negative expected value (that's how insurance companies make a profit), but businesses find it rational to buy insurance.

Also I'd say your risk of getting cut off is much more than 1 in 2 million, because there's nothing to say this can only be done to one company at a time. What if Trump adds e.g. a whole country to the sanction list, and tells Microsoft to cut that country off?
by davidthewatson | 2025-06-26 07:04:22+00:00
Well said. The death of trust in software is a well worn path from the money that funds and founds it to the design and engineering that builds it - at least the 2 guys-in-a-garage startup work I was involved in for decades. HITL is key. Even with a human in the loop, you wind up at Therac 25. That's exactly where hybrid closed loop insulin pumps are right now. Autonomy and insulin don't mix well. If there weren't a moat of attorneys keeping the signal/noise ratio down, we'd already realize that at scale - like the PR team at 3 letter technical universities designed to protect parents from the exploding pressure inside the halls there.
by can16358p | 2025-06-26 07:04:28+00:00
I don't use Xcode anymore in practice (Vscode+React Native here) yet back in the ObjC+storyboard days I loved storyboard and general expressiveness of Objective-C.

Sure it had quirks (codesigning issues, weird errors from underlying C-level calls, ObjC "primitives" bot playing nicely with C primitives without boxing etc.) but I generally loved the experience especially around WYSIWYG of storyboards.
by 22c | 2025-06-26 07:04:46+00:00
I think it's a good idea, it does disrupt some of the traditional workflows though.

If you use AI as tab-complete but it's what you would've done anyway, should you flag it? I don't know, plenty to think about when it comes to what the right amount of disclosure is.

I certainly wish that with our company, people could flag (particularly) large commits as coming from a tool rather than a person, but I guess the idea is that the person is still responsible for whatever the tool generates.

The problem is that it's incredibly enticing for over-worked engineers to have AI do large (ie. diffs) but boring tasks that they'd typically get very little recognition for (eg. ESLint migrations).
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-26 07:05:53+00:00
Think is, it's the latter lessons that are correct, because the ultimate arbiter of which marketing practices work or not is the market itself.

If anything, Marketing 101 works as a scaffolding but you learn the real lessons later on (basically like with every other vocational training wrapped in a degree, including especially computer science) - but also, and perhaps more importantly, it serves as a fig leaf. You can point to that and say, it's a Science and an Art and is Principled and done well It Is For The Good Of All Mankind, and keep the veneer of legitimacy over what's in practice a more systematized way of bringing harm to your fellow humans.

Also specifically wrt. brands - brands as quality signals mostly died out a decade or more ago; mixing them up is just a way to get their decaying corpses to trick more people for a little longer.
by layoric | 2025-06-26 07:06:54+00:00
> Reality is these llms are much better than average in almost all professions now

What are you using to measure 'better' here? And what professions come to mind when you wrote 'almost all professions'?

If I think about some of the professionals/workers I've interacted with in the last month, yes they _could_ use an LLM for a very small subset of what they actually do, but the error it can introduce if relied upon (the 'average' person is implied to not do their job as well so relying on the output is likely now or into the future?) I would wager makes things worse in their current state.

It might get better, especially over such a long time horizon as 20 years, but I'm not expecting them to be recognizable as what we currently have with the SOTA LLMs (which is mostly what people are currently referring to when using the marketing term that is 'AI'). And in the long term focusing/relying on 'AI' to improve the ability of professionals in 'almost all professions' is IMO just the wrong thing to be sinking such a large amount of money into.
by dilyevsky | 2025-06-26 07:07:05+00:00
What makes h-bomb so hard? It seems like the Teller–Ulam design is shockingly well publicized and ussr, china and even north korea have figured it out in just a few years. I would presume with modern computer modeling techniques it's not so hard to retrace those same footsteps.

They also got designs passed down from pakistan and former soviet "consulters" so that couldve easily included the h-bomb as well
by Dwedit | 2025-06-26 07:07:35+00:00
If JPEG-XL decompressed faster, I'd use it more. For now, I'm sticking with WEBP for lossless, and AVIF for lossy. AVIF's CDEF filter (directional deringing) works wonders, and it's too bad that JPEG-XL lacks such a filter.

JPEG-XL's lossy modular mode is a very unique feature which needs a lot more exposure than it has. It is well-suited to non-photographic drawings or images that aren't continuous, and have never touched any JPEG-like codecs. It has different kinds of artifacts than what you typically see in a DCT image codec. Rather than ringing, you get slight pixellation.
by can16358p | 2025-06-26 07:08:18+00:00
It's a matter of taste then. As a fullstack dev I still end up loving how Xcode cleanly represents things visually even though I'm not using it much other than building step anymore.

I already could jump to other stuff if I didn't like it, the reason I kept using it because I simply liked the experience, at least to my personal taste of seeing things.

If you think having a different personal taste is "stockholm syndrome" I don't have much else to say though.
by abnercoimbre | 2025-06-26 07:08:18+00:00
Our tech sector in general is in hot water, but gamedevs are getting massacred [0].

The stories I hear is they're taking on contracting work to survive, risking it all as an indie, or going into manufacturing (typically as quality assurance managers.) That last one seems surprising, but it's more common than you'd think.

Source: I run a community full of gamedevs.

[0] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/topics/layoffs
by kbenson | 2025-06-26 07:08:58+00:00
More likely your initial comment was downvoted because it provides little additional context and makes a claim without support, as if it's self evident. Comments such as that rarely do well on complex topics. My own rule of thumb is that if I'm stating something as fact and I'm writing a single sentence, it's likely a low effort and low usefulness comment that is unlikely to be beneficial to the conversation.

Your comment immediately above this was likely flagged because of your inflammatory accusations and assumptions about why your were downvoted, and IMO shows a alack of introspection about possible reasons as to why you were downvoted. Much better to ask why than to throw out accusations, at least if your goal is to have a useful discussion or learn something (bot of which require some level of assuming good faith to others here).
by komali2 | 2025-06-26 07:09:01+00:00
Depending on the culture, it's significantly easier to actually make friends at "sanctioned" events, such as whatever this offline club is, or Meetups. Sometimes just a nametag is all it takes to completely shift interpersonal dynamics for a culture.

I notice that the "just talk to strangers in public" crowd really like to apply this to unwilling participants, as if everyone else is "just too scared" or something. I cringe so hard when I see e.g. Americans try to bully through "cultural baggage" in Japan to talk to strangers. "See, not so hard, no need to be so uptight!" Not realizing they're causing incredible discomfort to whoever they're trying to make friends with, misinterpreting desperate politeness for some kind of finally-unlocked freedom of expression. It's not "oh thank god this friendly foreigner started talking to me, my culture is so stuffy and oppressive and boring, now I can make a great friend!" it's "why is this person talking to me, are they crazy, I don't know them, what do they want, how can I get out of this situation??" Whereas in a meetup, everyone there is in the mindset that they want to meet and talk to strangers, and maybe make a couple new friends.
by thomascountz | 2025-06-26 07:09:38+00:00
I'm looking for more sources of information about how the data is scrubbed of NRO satellite data.

Scott Manley mentioned in his recent video that archived data is not scrubbed, but the alerting pipeline is. I would think that artificial satellites were already scrubbed, but I suppose the National Reconnoissance Office and Department of Defense could their own filter.
by Psoodu1313 | 2025-06-26 07:12:31+00:00
I don't think so personally, because if its truly from a place of curiosity, then you're in the BEST of place. You're enamored with a specific problem, have some idea of doing it and will slowly explore nooks and crannies to manifest it into reality. The problem here (again, i think) lies in the fact that we don't often see the grander value of our everyday works and yearn to do SOMETHING grander, more impactful, but we don't know which, or how, and in time it will torment us each time we do our normal work. (sorry for the text wall)
by Paradigma11 | 2025-06-26 07:12:33+00:00
Do batteries really make sense if you look at total system cost?

You still need peaker plants to power the country if there are longer Dunkelflauten. I am skeptical that the total cost for m hours additional power need:

n hours battery power + (m - n) hours of peaker plants is going to be cheaper than m hours peaker plant power.
by IceDane | 2025-06-26 07:13:20+00:00
No, you are still not getting it. MCP will never go away, or at least something like it will always end up existing.

What you are describing, "web api calling abilities were to improve" will not change anything. What sort of improvement are you thinking of? They can only get better at outputting json correctly, but that hasn't really been a problem for a long time now.

Either way, it wouldn't change anything, because MCP is a 100 other things which doesn't have anything to do with the llms using tools directly. You will never embed everything that MCP can do "into" the llm - that barely even makes sense to talk about. It's not just a wire protocol.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-26 07:13:49+00:00
It being 1982 and a story about the lead developer of LisaGraf, working on that very thing, it is certainly unlikely to be a GUI form.

But block mode terminals that did forms had been a thing for over a decade at that point. Not that this was likely at Apple. But there are definitely contemporary ways in which one could have been entering this stuff via a computer.

Indeed, an IBM 3270 could be told that a field was numeric. This wouldn't have the terminal prevent negative numbers. The host would have to have done that upon ENTER. But the idea of unsigned numbers in form data had been around in (say) COBOL PIC strings since the 1960s.

* https://ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6.0?topic=terminals-3270-f...
by mzl | 2025-06-26 07:14:31+00:00
I'd say, in general any time a time-value somehow originates as a part of an interaction with a human, that time-value carries with it the context of a timezone and the expectations of what that timezone means for that human.

For internal timestamps such as ordering events in a database, them UTC or something similar is nice. Bet the point then is that those values are not really meaningful or important in the analog world.
by arkey | 2025-06-26 07:15:03+00:00
> I'd argue that the best time to get kids is as a university student. You get free daycare, the government doubles your stipend (and it's extended), your housing subsidy increases, you generally have more free time as a student...

Where... where do you live? I'm all for having kids as soon as possible, but I was barely able to provide for just myself during university.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-26 07:19:41+00:00
> Doctors don't have managers

Is that so? Here is an open position: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/management/ro...

> Lawyers don't have managers.

Hmm, we seem to have very different information: https://timeanalyticssoftware.com/what-is-a-law-firm-managin...

> Professors don't have managers

I wonder what do the Dean and Chair at my university do then.

> Architects don't have managers

They do. See https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/architectural-and-enginee...

> Bankers don't have managers

They do. See this open position: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/bank-man...

> Engineers should not have managers.

I think nobody should have managers, but your examples were so confidently wrong that it's hard to agree with your whole statement. I am on the opinion that any work, no matter whether "high-skilled" or not, doesn't need managers, unless that's just an euphemism for more senior employees that also do the work.
by em-bee | 2025-06-26 07:20:27+00:00
what indoctrination would that be that you get in german schools?

homeschooling can be done by groups of friends. you don't need one parent to stay at home for every family. also many immigrant families in germany only have one parent working. so it's absolutely not just a rich peoples affair. and alternative people are exactly the type that do home schooling to isolate themselves from society. unless i don't understand what you mean by alternative people.
by lmm | 2025-06-26 07:20:29+00:00
> That's the trick behind ROSI. You weight the expected cost without mitigation against the mitigated cost plus the cost of your solution.

Right but that's clearly not the right way to think about it; if you did that you'd never buy insurance (and probably never do any security work tbh, since very little of it can be justified in expected value terms). The impact of catastrophic damage is nonlinear.
by vaxman | 2025-06-26 07:20:34+00:00
When they run out of training data, they have to rely upon better reasoning algos which take time to develop and that’s when the party ends. The purpose of IT investment is to increase competitiveness through better efficiency and thus capture more of the market. If everyone is using the same model trained on the same max dataset, it stops being much of a competitive advantage. I’ve already heard the stock-option Billionaires bloviating with their intuition shaped by narrow corporate experiences that the AI objective is to increase GDP or similar, but obviously the ol’ man in the corner office ain’t payin’ for that and so at some point, the question of how to keep the Three Mile Island running to power this sucker becomes very real. The answer is sort of scary, if you think about it…
by fithisux | 2025-06-26 07:20:45+00:00
There are many innovative OSes that are killed by the lack of Device Drivers.

As a community we must find a way for tackling this issue.

Micro-Kernels are a solution where one can run different OSes but they will reuse the same device driver servers.

But it requires co-ordination and determination.

Rust can be a solution for sure.
by arkey | 2025-06-26 07:21:40+00:00
> they often lack patience, where to us it just comes natural.

Having kids fast-tracked me to a critical increase in patience. I've grown so much in less than three years because of my kids. I'm not sure this growth would have ever happened so quickly through other means.

And I'll always have a special, particular respect especially towards my firstborn for causing that in me, and for enduring my shortcomings in the meantime.
by nopelynopington | 2025-06-26 07:21:59+00:00
Firefox is already an excellent and fast browser and people just don't use it. I think it's a marketing problem. Google, Microsoft, Brave, etc all put a lot of money and resources into promoting their browsers, pushing them at an OS level (with legal care), using ads etc. For Firefox to compete they'd need to spend a lot more of their money marketing and end up building far fewer fun toys and experiments, and they could still never achieve the same level as MS or Google.

I think I'd rather they keep innovating
by cassianoleal | 2025-06-26 07:25:03+00:00
> > HDR > Already supported

Is it though? I confess I haven’t tried in a few weeks but until last time I did, to get HDR in games you had to start a session with `gamescope` rather than a DE, and still had to set a bunch of flags - and in some ways have a very subpar experience with problems with mouse movements and other issues I can’t recall.

I exclusively game on Linux and I find the experience far superior than doing anything on the other OS, but last I checked HDR was not actually supported.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-06-26 07:25:14+00:00
I ran a bunch of events over a decade or so (in Australia), and found:

1. If the event was free, I would get roughly 66% attendance. Adding sponsored beer/pizza increased this, but only to about 75%.

2. If the event was paid, I got roughly 95% attendance, but a much lower audience, depending on price (and if the price was high enough, I'd get requests for refunds from people who couldn't attend).

If the venue space was limited, I'd overbook based on the above and it usually worked out OK.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-26 07:26:35+00:00
Going by the standard of "But there are also local tools generated faster than you could adjust existing tools to do what you want", here's a random one of mine that's in regular use by my wife:

https://github.com/TeMPOraL/qr-code-generator

Built with Aider and either Sonnet 3.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro (I forgot to note that down in this project), and recently modified with Claude Code because I had to test it on something.

Getting the first version of this up was literally both faster and easier than finding a QR code generator that I'm sure is not bloated, not bullshit, not loaded with trackers, that's not using shorteners or its own URL (it's always a stupid idea to use URL shorteners you don't control), not showing ads, mining bitcoin and shit, one that my wife can use in her workflow without being distracted too much. Static page, domain I own, a bit of fiddling with LLMs.

What I can't link to is half a dozen single-use tools or faux tools created on the fly as part of working on something. But this happens to me couple times a month.

To anchor another vertex in this parameter space, I found it easier and faster to ask LLM to build me a "breathing timer" (one that counts down N seconds and resets, repeatedly) with analog indicator by requesting it, because a search query to Google/Kagi would be of comparable length, and then I'd have to click on results!

EDIT: Okay, another example:

https://github.com/TeMPOraL/tampermonkey-scripts/blob/master...

It overlays a trivial UI to set up looping over a segment of any YouTube video, and automatically persists the setting by video ID. It solves the trivial annoyance of channel jingles and other bullshit at start/end of videos that I use repeatedly as background music.

This was mostly done zero-shot by Claude, with maybe two or three requests for corrections/extra features, total development time maybe 15 minutes. I use it every day all the time ever since.

You could say, "but SponsorBlock" or whatever, but per what GP wrote, I just needed a small fraction of functionality of the tools I know exist, and it was trivial to generate that with AI.
by samedtosun | 2025-06-26 07:26:41+00:00
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by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-26 07:27:15+00:00
If some company wants to lend money to an individual or another company, the risk is borne entirely by the lender. Apart from regulating collection practices and fairness in consumer lending, there's little reason for regulation.

Bank regulations in most countries are usually focused on deposits (i.e. banks borrowing money). Because a poorly managed (or unscrupulous) bank could cause problems for parties other than the bank.

Nice article about money creation: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/banks-do-not-create-money-out...
by pimeys | 2025-06-26 07:27:17+00:00
Some of the advanced stuff has great docs. E.g. SQL Server and its wire protocol. When you need to write client to a language that doesn't have one, the TDS doc from Microsoft is amazing. Compare that to e.g. Oracle and you know what I mean.

In general SQL Server is such a great product. If you cannot choose PostgreSQL for some reason, make sure your buying manager plays golf with the Microsoft sales people, not with Oracle.