MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hulitu | 2025-07-15 16:18:16+00:00
> UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, firmware is more secure due to the Secure Boot feature that ensures through cryptographic verifications that a device uses at boot time code that is safe and trusted.

> For this reason, UEFI-level malware like bootkits (BlackLotus, CosmicStrand, MosaicAggressor, MoonBounce, LoJax) can deploy malicious code at every boot

This kind of explains everything. /s
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-15 16:18:23+00:00
I suspect (but cannot prove) that companies were willing to eat the costs in the short term. They can't in the long term (nobody has profit margins to eat 50% higher cost of materials). But in the short term, nobody wanted to take the customer relations hit from raising prices and then find out that the tariffs were cancelled, postponed, or dramatically reduced, and their competitors who didn't raise prices had taken all the customers.

[Does anyone else get tired of stuff like "the highest rate since February"? Dudes, that was four months ago (because it's data for June). You'd expect a "highest rate in four months" about every four months or so. That in itself does not make this the kind of outlier that you are trying to make it sound like it is.]
by silisili | 2025-07-15 16:18:24+00:00
I know this is what spurred the first, but I can't believe it would spur another.

Both sperm counts and testosterone are way, way down for who knows what reason. People are waiting longer and longer to get married, and the number of unmarried people is higher than ever.

I think war just leads to mostly broken, single men, as there's nobody to come home to.
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by xvpdev | 2025-07-15 16:18:31+00:00
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by lelanthran | 2025-07-15 16:18:32+00:00
> It needs constant prompting, babysitting, feedback, iteration. It's just a tool. It massively boosts productivity in many cases, yes.

It doesn't sound like you are disagreeing with me: that role you described is one of manager, not of programmer.

> High level languages also massively boosted productivity, but we didn't see salaries collapse from that.

Those high level languages still needed actual programmers. If the LLM is able to 10x the output of a single programmer because that programmer is spending all their time managing, you don't really need a programmer anymore, do you?

> I've been doing 80% review and design for years, it's called not being a mid or junior level developer.

Maybe it differs from place to place. I was a senior and a staff engineer, at various places including a FAANG. My observations were that even staff engineer level was still spending around 2 - 3 hours a day writing code. If you're 10x'ing your productivity, you almost certainly aren't spending 2 - 3 hours a day writing code.

> I constantly get junior developers handed to me from "strategic partners", they are just disguised as senior developers. I'm telling you brother, the LLMs aren't helping these guys do the job. I've let go 3 of them in July alone.

This is a bit of a non-sequitor; what does that have to do with breaking the pipeline for actual juniors?

Without juniors, we don't get seniors. Without seniors and above, who will double-check the output of the LLM?[1]

If no one is hiring juniors anymore, then the pipeline is broken. And since the market price of a programmer is going to be set at $200/m, where will you find new entrants for this market?

Hell, even mid-level programmers will exit, because when a 10-programmer team can be replaced by a 1-person manager and a $200/m coding agent, those 9 people aren't quietly going to starve while the industry needs them again. They're going to go off and find something else to do, and their skills will atrophy (just like the 1-person LLM manager skills will atrophy eventually as well).

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[1] Recall that my first post in this thread was to say that the LLM coding agents have to get so good that programmers aren't needed anymore because we won't have programmers anymore. If they aren't that good when the current crop starts retiring then we're in for some trouble, aren't we?
by jama211 | 2025-07-15 16:18:51+00:00
I’m sorry but the keyboard shortcuts for everything are listed under the menu item in the top bar - they’re not only easily documented in this way but it also lends itself to a natural flow of learning. If you don’t know the keyboard shortcut for an action, go to them top menu and click it and while you’re there you might read the keyboard shortcut that’s listed there so that you can do it faster next time. They’re WAY better at documenting their keyboard shortcuts than any other OS.

The fact that you made this argument without knowing that kinda makes it hard to take the rest of what you said seriously tbh.
by epoxia | 2025-07-15 16:19:24+00:00
I would recommend reading Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell if these types of thing concern you. A relevant passage:

"First, I would never provide my home address on any application or W-9 form. This should only be your PO Box, UPS Box, or PMB address. Your employer likely does not care much about where you live, unless the job has residency requirements, such as a police officer. The IRS does not object to the use of a mail box address. They just want their money."
by Sesse__ | 2025-07-15 16:20:05+00:00
> It seems there is either some process in the brain that actively erases dream memories, or that dream memories are somehow stored differently in the brain than regular memories and only appear as the same thing to the consciousness.

There's a fairly simple model that is consistent with this: Nothing is committed to long-term memory while you are dreaming, so when you wake up from a dream, everything is in short-term memory only. Unless you make an active effort to commit it (which you're used to happening automatically), like writing it down or otherwise thinking hard about it, it will simply vanish once you use your short-term memory for something else, like moving around.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-15 16:20:09+00:00
At the very least, it would take enough automation such that the elderly don't need to either work or get wealth transfers from the working population to survive. Wealth transfers to the old only work when you have many more working-age people than retired people; if you don't, the whole thing implodes.

It would also take a society where people don't need investment appreciation to have enough wealth to live on, which again requires a much larger amount of automation and economic abundance than we have now.

It's not impossible, but it requires the kind of deliberate effort which seems beyond our political capabilities at the moment. The abundance people are at least aiming in the right direction though, hopefully they get more of a foothold.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-15 16:20:18+00:00
I write little scripts and programs on my computer, all the time, to simplify tasks or take care of something I find annoying. Every once in a while I'll want to do something similar on my phone, and decide I should set up Android Studio.

I used to think that FPGA development environments had the most bloated, convoluted, and unintuitive development environments possible, but then I tried Android Studio. Every time I try to get it going, I spend several hours attempting to set up the development environment and compile a pre-existing open-source project, but give up out of frustration.

And that's just Android. For iOS, I would have to buy $600 in hardware and spend $100/yr, before I could even get started, and most of the open-source software I use in Android isn't even ported to iOS.

Both platforms are centered around programming languages that are rarely used outside of that platform, have major barriers to getting hardware access, and try to route significant functionality through their own cloud services.

Preferably, I wouldn't use either platform, so I could get actual use out of my phone, but it's near impossible for a small organization to get hardware approved to connect to a cellular network, so only a hand full of companies make cell phones that I can use with my provider, and they all run Android or iOS.

I do have a Pinephone Pro, which is running Arch Linux by the way, but it basically has a smaller Android phone module soldered to the mainboard, that it uses to connect to the cellular network. This makes power management extremely difficult, without modifying the software running on the module, which may be illegal and definitely requires Android development, which brings me back to square one.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-15 16:21:32+00:00
These studies never seem to look at time spent parenting, between baby-boom years and now.

My parents parented a few hours a week and were entirely typical. I parented ceaselessly, just like my parenting-peers.

My parents world was possible because kids roamed with peers (and without adults) for many hours a week. This was my childhood, my parents childhood, my grandparents childhood.

My kids grew up under 24/7 adulting, moving from one adult-curated, adult-populated box to the next. They are also typical of their generation.

Parenting and childhood are radically altered from the baby boom era. Our birth rates (and youth mental health stats) seem like a natural outcome of that.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-15 16:21:50+00:00
Then why did they develop libjxl, and why are they working on jxl-rs? https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/AUTHORS https://github.com/libjxl/jxl-rs/blob/main/AUTHORS

Maybe their stated reason for not enabling support in Chrome is the actual reason.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 16:21:58+00:00
CA DMV app lets me add my driver's license to my mobile wallet (which works with NFC).

Of course, it doesn't eliminate my legal responsibility to carry my driver's license while driving, and while the printed piece of plastic lasts five years and my passport booklet is legal I.D. for 10 years at a time, the mobile driver's license needs to be updated every 30 days.
by overfeed | 2025-07-15 16:22:34+00:00
> This echoes a lot of the rhetoric around "but how will facebook/twitter/etc make money?"

The answer was, and will be ads (talk about inevitability!)

Can you imagine how miserable interacting with ad-funded models will be? Not just because of the ads they spew, but also the penny-pinching on training and inference budgets, with an eye focused solely on profitability. That is what the the future holds: consolidations, little competition, and models that do the bare-minimum, trained and operated by profit-maximizing misers, and not the unlimited intelligence AGI dream they sell.
by ssl-3 | 2025-07-15 16:23:09+00:00
Memory partially valid.

An important part of using a head cleaning tape was to use play mode, not FF or RW. Only play (or record) modes would have the tape wrapped around the head while FF/RW would disengage the tape completely from the head. This is done to save head wear, and to help prevent magnetizing the head.

(Except on examples like this weird, late-model Sony deck I have: On it, the tape is always engaged with the head from the time it is inserted to the time it is ejected. And the head itself is "self-cleaning.")
by aantix | 2025-07-15 16:23:12+00:00
There needs to be a mind shift. It will probably take a generation.

Being online is not the same as being in the real world.

You have to take risks, including speaking with people, face to face, and forming meaningful relationships.

Swiping right is not the same as approaching someone attractive in person.

Complaining on Reddit is not the same as talking directly with lawmakers.

Interpersonal communication, persuasion, is hard work that should be re-embraced.
by tetris11 | 2025-07-15 16:23:54+00:00
Eh it starts off good, but then it delves too much into the love story between some scientist and her partner and then goes on a wild tangent related to forgotten members still existing as ghosts in the system.

It makes the same mistake Steven King did when writing the Dark Tower; it over-explains the mystery and intrigue that made the initial story (The Gunslinger) so compelling, and leans too much on its characters to carry the story.

I say the same thing about the SCP antimeme, as I say to Dark Tower readers: Read the first story, skip the rest or treat them as unrelated fanfics.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-15 16:24:04+00:00
The reality is most commercial software and users are on Windows machines. It is fundamentally a Blender interoperability, and 3rd party platform license compatibility issue. We all wish it wasn't so, as many artists find the Windows file systems and color-calibration concepts bewildering.

Making a feature platform specific to a negligible fraction of the users is inefficient, as many applications will never be ported to Linux platforms.

Blender should be looking at its add-on ecosystem data, and evaluate where users find value. It is a very versatile program, but probably should be focused on media and game workflow interfaces rather than gimmicks.

Best of luck =3
by mikewarot | 2025-07-15 16:24:24+00:00
To keep things in perspective, a vertical shift of a few centimeters could be measured if two of these clocks were placed next to each other, just by the lesser gravity/time dilation at the increased "altitude".

It's an amazing time to be alive. While not this precise, you can have atomic cesium beam clocks of your own for a few thousand dollars each, and some elbow grease.
by jonjacky | 2025-07-15 16:24:43+00:00
Another early example is Stoy and Strachey's virtual machine for running their OS-6 operating system on the Module One minicomputer, starting around 1969 [1,2]. It was written in BCPL. Butler Lampson wrote that it influenced the early pre-Smalltalk OS for the Xerox Alto, also in BCPL [3].

1. https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-abstract/15/2/117/35...

2. https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-abstract/15/3/195/48...

3. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-open...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-15 16:24:48+00:00
The goal is to force self-deportation. Whether this will be successful is too early to say.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/immigrants-s...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/self-de...

Edit for reply: As for the comparison with prohibition, I don't quite agree. The clampdown on CP, despite being just images and data as much as regular P, has thankfully been very successful. The government actually can clamp down on things, even purely digital information, when it has the will.
by Canada | 2025-07-15 16:24:58+00:00
Which is why you will need to provide a cryptographically secure identity credential issued by the government, and you will need to re-verify at regular intervals, not just upload a JPEG.

Make no mistake, the plan is to require 'KYC' for Google, reddit, Facebook, X soon and all that and then later require it for all web sites, even this one.

Australia recently passed a law requiring Google to KYC Australian account holders to check ages to decide if the user will be allowed to control the "safe search" setting.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-15 16:25:18+00:00
> this, however people know what the sacrifices are, and very understandably don’t want to make them.

My anecdote: As a parent, when I talk to people my same age or younger without children they often greatly overestimate the sacrifices necessary to have children. I can’t tell you how many times I've heard people (who don’t have children) make wild claims like having children means you won’t have good sleep for the next decade, or that they need a 4,000 square foot house before they have kids, or that it’s impossible to raise kids in a MCOL city without earning $200-$300K.

A lot of people have locked their idea of what it’s like to have children to the newborn phase and they imagine changing diapers, paying $2-3K infant care costs, and doing night time feedings forever. I’ve had numerous conversations where people simply refuse to believe me when I tell them my kids were sleeping through the night after a couple years or potty trained by age 2.

I think a lot of this is due to class isolation combined with getting a lot of bad info from social media. When you mingle with more of the population you realize most families with kids are not earning programmer level compensation and not living in 4,000 square foot houses, yet it’s working out.

Reddit is an interesting peek into this mindset. Recently there was a thread asking for serious answers from parents about if they regretted having children. The top voted comments were all from people who said “I don’t have kids but…” followed by a claim that all their friends secretly regretted having kids or something. If you sorted by controversial there were a lot of comments from people saying they didn’t regret it and loved their kids, but they were all downvoted into the negatives. It’s wild.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-07-15 16:25:37+00:00
Maybe the difference is I know how to componentize mature code bases, which effectively limits the scope required for a human (or AI) to edit.

I think it is funny how people act like it is a new problem. If the AI is having trouble with a "ball of mud", don't make mud balls (or learn to carve out abstractions). This cognitive load is impacting everyone working on that codebase. Skilled engineers enable less skilled engineers to flourish by creating code bases where change is easy because the code is modular and self-contained.

I think one sad fact is many/most engineers don't have the skills to understand how to refactor mature code to make it modular. This also means they can't communicate to the AI what kind of refactoring they should make.

Without any guidance Claude will make mud balls because of two tendencies, the tendency to put code where it is consumed and the tendency to act instead of researching.

There are also some second level tendencies that you also need to understand, like the tendency to do a partial migration when changing patterns.

These tendencies are not even unique to the AI, I'm sure we have worked with people like that.

So to counteract these tendencies, just apply your same skills at reading code and understanding when an abstraction is leaky or a method doesn't align with your component boundary. Then you too can have AI building pretty good componentized code.

For example in my pet current project I have a clear CQRS api, access control proxies, repositories for data access. Clearly defined service boundaries.

It is easy for me to see when the AI for example makes a mistake like not using the data repository or access control because it has to add an import statement and dependency that I don't want. All I have to do is nudge it in another direction.
by mcoliver | 2025-07-15 16:26:35+00:00
Having children younger. This builds villages and generates the community flywheel. The problem now is that it's close to impossible for the vast majority of younger people to buy a home with a single income. So the choice becomes dual income and farm out the raising of your children (requires even more money and negates the benefits of enjoying your children which is part of the reason to have them in the first place), or delay having children until you are financially secure. Couple this with the constant inundation of social media and the myriad experiences available with the click of a button and people are simply taking the short term gratification route.

Society needs to change and we need to incentivize it.
by nervousvarun | 2025-07-15 16:26:37+00:00
Another option: In our case we both WFH which allows us to live near my wife's parents. Which means we have the luxury of an involved, local grandparent as an option over infant/childcare. We literally put the $ we'd budgeted for childcare into a 529.

Certainly don't want to speak for everyone but at least for us it's an enormous cost savings and is a "win-win" for everyone involved.

Another (seemingly less often discussed) advantage to WFH.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-15 16:26:41+00:00
You’re answering the wrong question. That’s the answer to “how do we maintain the status quo?” We can absolutely exist in a world where growth does not exist from ever increasing population, but profits will evaporate as inflation increases and labor supply contracts. As a sibling comment mentions, automation will be a component.

Those in power should be building for a changing world where labor has more power, the cost of labor goes up, and it becomes increasingly scarce. They’re not ready to make peace with this though (or unwilling to between now and death). One of the few things we do well as a species is kick the can into the future, or steal from it, depending on perspective.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf
by Anamon | 2025-07-15 16:26:59+00:00
I wouldn't say that this implies they really are selling user data. By that definiton of sale, I can understand why their lawyers would consider it almost impossible to fully comply with.

I totally understand why the Act would use such vague wording and cast such a wide net, considering the underhanded actions of ad companies. But I also understand no longer feeling comfortable guaranteeing that nothing that could reasonably be argued to fall under this definiton would ever happen. Heck, I think some lawyers might argue that even just sending an anonymous GET request to any web server would qualify (disclosing personal information to a third party). Seems like the only way to stay fully compliant is to ship a browser with only an offline mode, haha.
by jtrn | 2025-07-15 16:27:02+00:00
Because I get triggered when people are illogical while using excessively complicated language and do not try to understand the points being made. Like in this comment, I clearly laid out all the ways I think lisdex != amphetamine. But you are once again answering in an obvious way without engaging my points.

If you look elsewhere in my comments, I have no problem calling myself an idiot when I make mistakes. But I hate the noise that is bad faith arguing concealed in fancy words.