MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eru | 2025-06-05 04:02:42+00:00
> A company's goals aren't the same as yours.

That is true for any organisation or any person that's different from you. Companies ain't special here.

> The reason it isn't paying you is that its main goal is to make more money than it spends.

Making money is the main goal of many companies, but not all.

Almost any goals of any organisation or any person can be furthered by having more money rather than less. So everyone has a similar incentive to pay you less. (This includes charities. All else being equal, if you can pay your workers less, you can hand out more free malaria nets.) But as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179846 points out, they pay you, so that you work for them.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
by LAC-Tech | 2025-06-05 04:04:12+00:00
I always thought Yarvin was an interesting writer. Like a lot of people on the political fringe (and I've seen this from libertarians and socialists as well) he's fantastic and diagnosing problems and making us look at our own system with new eyes, but rather fumbles when it comes to workable solutions.

He also seems to lose all biting insight and critique when it comes to one certain state he has a legal right to be a citizen of. I'll leave this for readers to find out which one.

I've never made much of his apparent association to JD Vance. Maybe this is the sort of street cred stuff vance liked to surround himself with, much as Obama did with his Bill Ayers association, but I doubt it affected either men much in practice.
by sshine | 2025-06-05 04:04:46+00:00
> suspected there was some architectural change they made on the backend that broke this

I think Mozilla specialises in this. At some point, having many tabs open on the Firefox iOS app would eat all the memory and lag out the phone. This problem even came and went a couple of times over the years.

It’s an unloved child being held captive for the money it earns.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-05 04:05:02+00:00
In the US if you park on the street and don't pay, or overstay the time you paid for, you're generally only going to get a ticket/fine. You might get towed if you're blocking a fire hydrant or parked in a fire lane or blocking a bus stop or traffic lane or something like that.

You have to be very careful on private property particularly apartment residences, many have contracts with towing companies to remove unauthorized vehicles. You need to be sure you're in a designated "guest parking" area or that there is no issue with parking in an available space. Same for retail and restaurants especially those that are close to some other attraction. They want the parking for their customers and if they figure out that you've parked there and walked away they will have your car towed. They are supposed to post signs if there is a tow policy but they aren't always very visible so you have to look around or talk to the property manager.

Probably $100-$200 to get it back, usually cash only. I'd like to see an audit of their books. Depending on the state or local laws they might not be able to actually keep your car if you just demand it back. It's your property and they have no claim on it. They would need to get a court order to force you to pay. They will not tell you this and will act quite agressive if you challenge them, but if you know your rights you might be able to say "well I'll call the sheriff and we'll see what they say about it."
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-05 04:05:38+00:00
What, no A/UX or Mach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS to tie 'em all together!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-05 04:05:53+00:00
It's not really a question of whether it is uncomputable in bulk.

It is more that a system like DNA operates as both a linear encoding (the "algorithm" if you like) AND as 3D chemical object whose properties allow the encoding to be used in various ways, which means that a huge amount of its linear structure is actually determined by 3D chemical function, rather than encoding for proteins. Moreover, it appears that the role of a given section of DNA can vary depending on what other molecules are interacting with it and what physical state it is in.

If you want a more computer-ish analogy, it's like a computer where the program is actually encoded as a part of the computer's own structure, yet is still logically distinct from the rest of the structure. It may not be physically distinct, however, and thus simply inspecting the structure will not lead to a clear understanding of what is "the program" and what is "the cpu".
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by shivanhupr | 2025-06-05 04:08:22+00:00
Like many of you, I’ve always wanted to keep learning outside of work. But I kept falling into the same trap:

- I’d bookmark articles and videos... and never come back - Online courses were too long, too structured - My daily feeds felt noisy, not nourishing

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Thanks, HN.
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 04:10:30+00:00
Progressiveness is like waves of wind. It comes and it goes, and it goes more often then it comes. We have extremely brief sections of time where a lot of progressiveness is achieved, and then we have longer periods of darkness where we stagnate or regress.

Reconstruction, followed by Jim Crow. The late 70s had a period of progressiveness, of openness, especially towards homosexuals. Then AIDS came, and that was all forgotten. The 80s were another dark age.

In the 90s we had another brief opening, but that too ended sooner than it started. We didn't pick up until the 2010s. By 2014/2015 progressiveness was on the way out, just in time for marriage equality to push through. And now, we are in another dark period and have been for a while.

Technocracy just follow wherever the wind blows. Progressiveness will come back, and hopefully we can push enough through that we'll be set for the next decade to come. That's really what it's all about - get as much done as fast as possible, so that it cannot all be reverted, no matter how hard conservatives try.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-05 04:13:55+00:00
I don’t get this. How is someone forced to work 12 hour days? I’ve worked for almost 30 years across 10 companies from startups to BigTech and I’ve never put in those hours and I would first try to negotiate between time/cost/requirements and then just refuse.

Just refuse. What are they going to fire you if they are already so short staffed people are working 12 hour days? How much faster are they going to go by firing and replacing you with someone who doesn’t know the business or codebase?
by sanderjd | 2025-06-05 04:17:33+00:00
Thanks, that's helpful. I agree that first point is interesting, but it's maybe the most mainstream view he expresses in the article. (The issue of judicial power is pretty commonly discussed by normie liberals as well!) But that's not really a knock against it. So fair enough, thanks for calling that one out!

I think the doge thing is silly though. It didn't fail because it was "constrained in ways that make success unlikely", it failed because: 1. There was obviously just arithmetically not enough money in discretionary spending to make more than a tiny dent in spending, and 2. They never made even the most cursory effort to improve efficiency, and just went with this ideological chainsaw approach. Maybe there's some version of the idea that was (and is) a good one, but it was always doomed to fail as conceived and led.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-06-05 04:18:31+00:00
It happened to me. I sure wasn't elderly. The only thing that stopped a crash was shifting into neutral and hitting the brakes.

Then, I was sitting there with the engine revving loudly for no reason. Car behind me started backing up. I decided to just shut it off and turn it back on. It went away.

Scary stuff. Especially since I had no idea why it happened.
by intended | 2025-06-05 04:18:43+00:00
The American Supreme Court could have been balanced though. Sadly, one team plays to win, the other team wants to be in a democracy. The issue is not the politics of the court, but the enforced Partisanship which took hold of the Republican Party post watergate.

All systems can be bent, broken, or subverted. Still, we need to make systems which do the best within the bounds of reality.
by int_19h | 2025-06-05 04:19:03+00:00
We've "let the free market decide", and the consequence is that consumers got fucked.

In general, this tired adage about "market efficiency" has stopped making sense to most people a long time ago. Whatever unregulated markets are efficient at, it's not making the average person's life better. Don't be surprised then that said average person votes for regulation.
by brutal_chaos_ | 2025-06-05 04:20:36+00:00
> The article doesn't mention how spicy his OnlyFans account is, but I'm assuming his OF content is such that it would be hard to argue it doesn't qualify as "indecent" or "immoral."

What is indecent or immoral is almost entirely subjective. Some cultures approve of cannabalism. Some do not see breasts as sexual. Some see sex as a rite and something to acheive. Some see dominance as moral (i.e. only the strong shall lead). Random murder is the closest society has come to an universal moral, even then, what seems random could be killings to save face for the family.

Morality is exceptionally tricky at the global scale. The Olympics body is imposing their morals, not everyone's morals.
by dgaconnet | 2025-06-05 04:22:24+00:00
I just published a paper titled The Recursive Identity Illusion: Why AI Will Never Wake Up on OSF: https://osf.io/fn6cv

The core claim:

AI cannot collapse. And collapse is required for identity.

This isn’t a warning about AGI risk. It’s a structural argument for why machine consciousness is impossible—not because AI lacks complexity, but because it lacks recursive curvature.

The paper introduces Collapse Harmonics, a theoretical framework built around Codex Law IDF-1 (Identity ≠ Simulation). Key ideas:

Real identity isn't continuity—it’s return after recursive failure.

AI doesn’t collapse. It loops. And loops ≠ return.

Without symbolic curvature, there is no lawful recursion.

Without lawful recursion, consciousness is impossible.

If you're exploring language models, recursive memory, synthetic personas, or the philosophical limits of AI consciousness, this paper may offer a boundary you didn’t know was missing.

Would love to hear thoughtful reactions.

https://osf.io/fn6cv
by ai_assisted_dev | 2025-06-05 04:22:46+00:00
I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. I spend so much time inside cursor, that I am spending 10-20$ per day on additional requests. Now if I connect model provider APIs to windsurf, I'd be spending upwards of 100$ due to amount of tokens I use through the API per day. And if I connect my own API key to Cursor, I immediately get rate limited for any request, because I go well above 50 per minute. And I did try claude code, but its just not on par with my experience with Cursor.

I could probably go much lower, and find a model that is dirt cheap but takes a while; but right now the cutting edge (for my own work) is Claude 4 (non-max / non-thinking). To me it feels like Cursor must be hemorrhaging money. The thing that works for me is that I am able to justify those costs working on my own services, that has some customers, and each added feature gives me almost immediate return on investment. But to me it feels like the current rates that cursor charges are not rooted in reality.

Quickly checking Cursor for the past 4 day period:

Requests: 1049

Lines of Agent Edits: 301k

Tabs accepted: 84

Personally, I have very little complaints or issues with cursor. Only a growing wish list of more features and functionality. Like how cool would it be if asynchronous requests would work? Rather than just waiting for a single request to complete on 10 files, why can't it work on those 10 files in parralel at the same time? Because now so much time is spend waiting for the request to complete (while I work on another part of the app in a different workspace with Cursor).
by intended | 2025-06-05 04:22:59+00:00
Many defensive are a trade off between the convenience of non attackers, and the trouble created for attackers.

Given the sheer number of devices we interact with in a single day, USB-C as a standard is worth the trade off for an increase in our threat surface area.

1000 Attackers can carry around N extra charging wires anyway.

10^7 users having to keep say, 3 extra charging wires on average? That’s a huge increase in costs and resources.

(Numbers made up)
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 04:23:40+00:00
More to the point, how is this any different than serfdom? The inevitable result of "optimize for the wealthy" seems to be that. And, well, we did that. And it sucked.

I don't understand why we're reinventing feudalism over and over again and acting like it's novel. Giving all the tools to the wealthy doesn't make society a better place, and we've proved that. It decidedly stagnates everything, which, ironically, leads to very poor living conditions, including for the wealthy. So it's not even good for them, it's just self-destructive.
by maz1b | 2025-06-05 04:23:41+00:00
No, I was making a point about if the goal is lowering resource usage, more throughput, concurrency, speed/perf, etc, a larger company can achieve that "unfair advantage" of things like rust or elixir etc because they have the resources as compared to SMBs or startups.

Of course, every company and org has to see whats best and feasible for them. Valid points you brought up no doubt.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-05 04:25:48+00:00
> conceived for the wrong reasons

The reasons were correct. Making the MAX behave, as far as the pilots were concerned, like other models of the 737 makes the airplane safer. Many crashes have resulted from pilots getting confused about which airplane they are flying.

The design particulars, however, were incorrect. That is Boeing's fault.

> trim far harder and faster

The 737 has only one electric trim rate - on and off. It does not trim harder or faster than the autopilot trim or the thumb switch trim. The signal all boils down to a wire that has signals "trim on / trim off". The thumb switches sit on the path of that wire, so when they activate they override the autopilot and MCAS. The cutoff switch is downstream of that.

Part of the reason the manual trim wheel could not be moved is the airplane was overspeeding due to being (incorrectly) at full throttle. Overspeeding greatly increases the force on the stabilizer, making it much harder to move. In the EA flight, the overspeed warning horn could be heard on the voice recorder.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-06-05 04:25:59+00:00
I see in a sibling comment that you do not think the MCAS system on the MAX was well designed, and the reliance on a single AoA sensor was not a good decision. I agree.

The aircraft should have never been declared airworthy. There should have been no need for an EAD in the first place. There is no excuse for putting a control system that flies the craft into the ground when there is a failure in a nonredundant sensor on a commercial aircraft.

The high standards required for pilots, like Amelia Earhart, do not obviate the even higher standards for quality and safety from manufacturers.
by runarberg | 2025-06-05 04:27:45+00:00
Personally, I don’t see the point. Searching for markdown libraries is not hard, a good library (the same that will show up first) will show you usage instructions at the top. You can copy-paste those and be done.

Also modern JavaScript uses import, require() is very 2015. If the AI is recommending you use require() I would suggest a better one.
by jprokay13 | 2025-06-05 04:28:08+00:00
Create a file like conventions.md in the root of your repository with specific commands for common tasks: running tests, linters, formatters, adding packages Set this as part of the files it reads on startup. Then ask aider to look at your codebase and add to it :) Aider has a lot of slash commands to familiarize yourself with. Ask and web are crucial commands to get the most out of it.

My recommendation to anyone is to use ask the most then tell it to “implement what we discussed” when it looks good.

Hope that helps
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 04:29:41+00:00
.. which are actions by private institutions, not affronts to free speech. And, might I remind everyone, where because of legitimate calls to violence which did actually result in a real insurrection, for real.

I mean, it's not like these were just empty words. People did actually die. Donald Trump did, and still does, repeat a lot of lies with the intention of sowing chaos and violence.
by broodbucket | 2025-06-05 04:34:03+00:00
There's simply more people with the opposite problem, especially in markets where Apple is less prevalent, which is most of them around the world. When there's more than one type of cable, plenty of people are going to be inconvenienced when one is chosen as the cable to rule them all, but in the end everyone wins, it's just annoying to get there.
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-06-05 04:36:27+00:00
Back when SeaORM first released, I was excited about another ORM that supported async (as Diesel didn't have an async shim at the time), but man does it have some weird design decisions.

The underlying query builder's API is just downright odd. The ActiveRecord pattern is fine for SeaORM, but it's just... weird. The ergonomics aren't right.

It's sent me down the path of wanting to design an ORM for myself that has the ergonomics I want. Nothing really to show yet at this point, but still something I want to build out someday.
by notaharvardmba | 2025-06-05 04:37:19+00:00
Smoke weed every day before work. Everyone will love you but your work quality will decrease, they’ll notice but they won’t want to just fire you because you’re nice. So they’ll “regrettably have to downsize your position” and give you a couple months pay. That’s the worst case; best case you end up in a Peter Gibbons type scenario and get promoted to management and you can help all the other poor saps like you chillax.
by Herring | 2025-06-05 04:38:08+00:00
The US right wing thinks very differently about inequality compared to progressives. They are more about opportunity than outcomes. They want free markets, individual responsibility, and are generally skeptical of govt programs aimed at redistributing wealth. They argue these can create dependency, distort markets, stifle economic growth, infringe on individual liberties and property rights etc.

In practice, this means tax cuts, deregulation, opposition to min wage increases, welfare reform, school vouchers, opposition to unions, healthcare cuts, project 2025, etc etc. They’ll reduce govt intervention and go all in on free markets.

They are wrong because the outcomes of this unrestricted free market approach are not so good, but nevertheless for now it’s impossible to find common ground with FDR-style progressives. Check back after the next depression.

Note: there’s also a strong racist/sexist/homophobic/etc streak that prevents most kinds of solidarity.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-05 04:40:07+00:00
5 years ago NVidia did not consider Rust mature enough for their use cases.

This is the original announcement from 2020,

"SPARK/Ada Journey to Adoption"

https://youtu.be/DZSSyWlsb28?si=vh4gO-LT2N3Skaql

Also we are now on Ada 202x already, quite different from Ada83, that some Rust folks keep comparing their favourite language with.

You get all the niceties of a language more in line with Object Pascal productivity, formal proofs, a RAII approach safer than C++ (controlled types, automatic stack types, unbound collection types), industry baremetal profiles like Ravenscar, and the recent versions are in the process of having affine types as well (aka borrow checker).
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-06-05 04:40:21+00:00
The whole story point thing seems like a scam where some invented currency is used to trick people into not seeing reality.

I’ve never worked on a team where any nontrivial task could be done by any two people in roughly the same amount of time.

Experience, skill, subject area familiarity — everyone is different.

It is utter madness to estimate sprints before assigning the work!
by nayuki | 2025-06-05 04:41:07+00:00
> This separation can engulf the elevators such that even at full travel, the elevators are operating in dead air and from then on

Does this refer to the deep stall that affects T-tail aircraft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(fluid_dynamics)#Deep_st... ), or is it a phenomenon that applies to nearly all fixed-wing subsonic aircraft?
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-05 04:41:44+00:00
Operator: Dial 0

Is this still a thing? I haven't tried in years.

For a sec I thought if I knew his carrier I could answer that. But no; I have no idea if any telcos still do 0=Operator.

One of the phones said RanTel Operator: Dial 0. Backdrop?
by somenameforme | 2025-06-05 04:43:39+00:00
You never realize how many weird rules, weird exceptions, ambiguities, and complete redundancies there are in this language until you try to teach English, which will also probably teach you a bunch of terms and concepts you've never heard of. Know what a gerund is? Then there's things we don't even think about that challenge even advanced foreign learners, like when you use which articles: the/a.

English popularity was solely and exclusively driven by its use as a lingua franca. As times change, so too will the language we speak.
by alisonatwork | 2025-06-05 04:44:05+00:00
It would be interesting to hear more about your experience with systems where deletion has been deemed "literally impossible".

Every database I have come across in my career has a delete function. Often it is slow. In many places I worked, deleting or expiring data cost almost as much as or sometimes more than inserting it... but we still expired the data because that's a fundamental requirement of the system. So everything costs 2x, so what? The interesting thing is how to make it cost less than 2x.