MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bugglebeetle | 2025-07-03 05:08:37+00:00
> which is lower valued, and thus it is economically "correct" to have them be replaced when an appropriate automation method is found.

Textbook example of why this “economic” form of analysis is naive, stupid, and short-sighted, (as is almost always the case).

AI models will never obtain the ability to completely replace “low value work” (as that is not perfectly definable or able to be defined in advance for all cases), so in a scenario where all engineers devoted to these tasks are let go, what you would end up with is a engineers higher up the value chain being tasked with resolving the problems that result from when the AI fails, underperforms, or the assessment of a task’s value was incorrect. The cumulative effect of this would be a massive drain on the effectiveness of said engineers, as they’re now tasked with context switching from creative, high-value work to troubleshooting opaque, AI code slop.
by hulitu | 2025-07-03 05:08:47+00:00
> The whole point of passkeys is that they are a) one per device

Hm, so then i need one for my account and one for every device where i use this account

> and b) stored on the device's secure enclave, where in theory you're never supposed to be able to export/exfiltrate them, only validate them

i heard that the new "device's secure enclave" is the cloud.
by Buttons840 | 2025-07-03 05:09:19+00:00
The US exports aircraft, vehicles, and medicine, and the rest of the exports are just raw stuffs, like oil or corn. How's Boeing looking these days? Is the US auto industry where exciting new technologies are coming from? Unless the US is going to be great because we export more coal, then I too expect some decline.

US exports: https://www.ondeck.com/resources/every-states-top-import-exp...
by felipeerias | 2025-07-03 05:09:35+00:00
Presenting LLMs with a dramatic scenario is a typical way to test their alignment.

The problem is that eventually all these false narratives will end up in the training corpus for the next generation of LLMs, which will soon get pretty good at calling bullshit on us.

Incidentally, in that same training corpus there are also lots of stories where bad guys mislead and take advantage of capable but naive protagonists…
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-07-03 05:09:38+00:00
> But I'm afraid he is merely the manifestation of general desire from the political regime as well as the majority of the uneducated masses there.

Hawass may be more a manifestation of what foreigners believe an Egyptologist should look like: Indiana Jones hat, cigar, etc. He is influential in large parts because of his popularity in the media outside Egypt.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-03 05:09:45+00:00
Supposed to, but doesn't. The U6 rate includes two new things: part-time workers, and a very strangely-defined category: people who are NOT working at ALL, AND were looking for work previously, AND have stopped looking for 4+ weeks.

It doesn't capture the common on-the-street definition of the word "underemployment", such as a tech worker flipping burgers at mcdonald's.

Perhaps that category is simply to hard or expensive to measure, or it's specifically being avoided. Either/or really.
by jbs789 | 2025-07-03 05:10:03+00:00
As this started with career advice, two points: the world values certain things (usually making people’s lives easier, one version of that is building useful tools) and the individual has a set of interests and skills. Finding the intersection of that for you should help guide you toward a career that the world values and interests you (if that’s important to you).

I’m looking at this as the landscape of the tools is changing, so personally anyway, I just keep looking for ways to use those tools to solve problems / make peoples lives easier (by offering new products etc). It’s an enabler rather than a threat, once the perspective is broadened, I feel.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-03 05:10:17+00:00
Yes, ADP is more accurate with private sector jobs and BLS is more accurate with government jobs, because their data sources are heavily biased toward having accurate data in those subsets respectively. They both generally assume that the data they don’t have looks like the data they do have despite the selection bias and disjointedness of their data. BLS extrapolates private sector employment from government employment and census data in ways that no one thinks is representative but that is what they work with. ADP has no government employment data in their model but has a relatively exhaustive sample of private sector employment.

People that know account for these biases. This is why the ADP > BLS heuristic exists. If private sector jobs growth is less than government job growth, reflecting the biases in their respective models, that is interpreted as either the government sandbagging the numbers with make-work jobs or private sector employment being so poor that the monotonic government employment eclipses private sector job growth. Either way, it is a bad sign.
by SR2Z | 2025-07-03 05:11:13+00:00
Right - if you ask a heart surgeon to wait tables they'll probably do a great job!

But it's still a waste of their talents and society as a whole will be worse off than if they did heart surgery. You can measure that because a waiter makes minimum wage and a heart surgeon does not - the heart surgeon contributes more to the GDP than a food service worker.

That's the meaning of that metric and that's why it's useful.
by jatin510 | 2025-07-03 05:11:42+00:00
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by fjfaase | 2025-07-03 05:11:49+00:00
I wonder in as far as point 6 is influenced by the American christian culture that atheist are amoral by definition, where in Europe being without faith does not automatical make you amoral.

I also think it is important to read about rescent science with respect to the brain and consciousness. I also think about the books by Frans de Waal, that make you realize we are not that apart as a species from other animals.
by xp84 | 2025-07-03 05:12:01+00:00
Nobody tech illiterate was using MS Authenticator as their default autofill provider as it’s not the default autofill mechanism on iOS or Android.

The passwords have always been stored in your Microsoft account. Anyone who has their passwords there can just install Edge on their device and enable it as the autofill provider (no, that doesn’t require you to browse with Edge, just to log into it). This whole article is silly, as there is zero change to your ability to save passwords in your MS account or to autofill them on mobile.
by dalemhurley | 2025-07-03 05:12:51+00:00
A lot of mine at the time were workshops. I find workshops work best when there is an agenda and small teams, then you present to the wider group when ideas are more developed. A lot of the time, when additional people attended they would be seeing too early of a concept or idea and too many people would debate little details. I believe the best productivity is in small teams.
by intended | 2025-07-03 05:14:13+00:00
This is a citizenry education problem, a media problem but not a metrics problem.

These metrics are built and used by people who do apply multiple measures - every day. If you are in a trading or macro oriented role, you will not be using just one figure. You will make the effort because your incentives and training encourage you to do so.

The non-specialist, which is most people, is never going to have a set of metrics which make it easy, because no metric can overcome all the practical and technical issues strewn across the path to producing it.
by cyberax | 2025-07-03 05:14:36+00:00
> I have seen many kids avoid, if they have the option.

Yep. It's seen as just a waste of time, because you can be doing something else (like looking at your phone).

For me the trick was to get a TV in front of a treadmill, and to listen to audiobooks during my walks outside.

> My pains there will be much more attuned to how hard it is for me to "push" at speeds.

That's why walking is so good! With jogging you have to work pretty hard to run even at the lowest speed.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-03 05:15:00+00:00
Lower cost of a good is a generally good indicator that the good is low quality

Unfortunately the inverse is not true at all

Higher cost on a good is not at all a reliable indicator of whether or not the good is high quality

There is a pretty big incentive for producers and sellers to produce low quality goods and convince consumers they are high quality, so they can sell them for a high margin

This is unfortunately very common in clothing
by zahlman | 2025-07-03 05:15:18+00:00
> because he wanted to remove lighthearted content from the site as he thought it clashed with SO's mission of educating people and advancing their skills[3].

No; he wanted to remove discussion and socialization, because it clashed with SO's mission of presenting useful information without parsing through others' discussion.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19665

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131009

> In other words, StackOverflow cut off one of its history-making parts because it had an incomplete and simplistic view of useful.

How does this in any way demonstrate that the view of usefulness was "incomplete" or "simplistic"?

How is the deleted content "useful"?

> I think it might be possible to draw a line from their understanding of communities and societal dynamics to the downfall of StackOverflow after the emergence of AI[5].

What downfall?

Before you point at any of the incoming-question-rate statistics: why should they be interpreted as representing a "downfall"? That is, why is it actually bad if fewer questions are asked?

Before you answer that, keep in mind that Stack Overflow already has more than three times as many publicly visible questions about programming as Wikipedia has articles about literally anything notable.
by RHSeeger | 2025-07-03 05:16:10+00:00
I have yet to see a compelling argument for passkeys that is strong enough to overpower it's negatives.

- I want to be able to share passwords for accounts with my family (some, but not all of them)

- I want to be able to load up my login information from whatever device I am currently working on; my phone, my home computer, my work computer, my wife's phone, etc

- I don't want to risk my phone breaking and losing access to all my accounts

Something like 1Password or Bitwarden fits all of that perfectly.
by noduerme | 2025-07-03 05:16:34+00:00
To be clear, your work is next level awesome and technically more sophisticated than anything I've done. Mine is Javascript based and essentially a sprite screen graph rendering engine mixed with pixel-level effects on top of canvas, with an isometric endless world platform for runners and RPGs built on top of that renderer. I did ship one game with it, back in 2016. Since then, I've relegated my commercial work in that vein to threejs and pixijs. It sounds counterintuitive, but using your own codebase like this to develop a finished commercial product inevitably forces you to pollute the purity of the code. You start to develop sets of features that are specific to the game's needs and which force compromises that shear it away from being a general-purpose green field engine. Do I still dream of the day when I finish a new game built on my own codebase....? Totally. But maintaining a game in production and not having its needs override the intent of keeping a general purpose engone is like 4x times the work.
by ctoll | 2025-07-03 05:17:09+00:00
Saying that economists are scientists and therefore above reproach from non-economists ignores the way that ideology and research become intertwined whenever public policy is involved. Saying "trust the science" at all times, even when the scientists in question are neoliberal technocrats is how you end up with the populist backlash against "trusting the science" that America is presently going through.

Obviously people criticize can and should criticize programmers, that's the point.
by maypok86 | 2025-07-03 05:18:33+00:00
No, what do you want to verify? Any network calls make Redis significantly slower than an on-heap cache. I'd even argue these are tools for different purposes and don't compare well directly.

A common pattern, for example, is using on-heap caches together with off-heap caches/dedicated cache servers (like Redis) in L1/L2/Lx model. Here, the on-heap cache serves as the service's first line of defense, protecting slower, larger caches/databases from excessive load.
by wavemode | 2025-07-03 05:20:13+00:00
I don't know if I would describe Zig as ergonomic per se. It has some nice features, but the main focus is on completely explicit control over low-level details. In its design Zig always chooses explicitness and programmer control over ergonomics. If a language feature requires a lot of compiler magic then it's probably never going to be added.
by yongjik | 2025-07-03 05:20:55+00:00
I don't think the movie was snobby: it was full of over-the-top gags, and it was clear to me that the movie was never taking itself too seriously.

The main character (played by DiCaprio) is also depicted as a quite flawed and vain human being as well.

Also honestly, who doesn't feel frustration at the whole real-world situation the movie is actually about?
by Avicebron | 2025-07-03 05:21:05+00:00
> see a compelling argument for passkeys

It's tied to vendor lock in. Which increases the ability of companies who develop certain technologies for the masses to increase the friction of interacting with things outside of the ecosystem. The argument is that if a user is unable to use an alternative, by hook or crook they will pay increasingly high subscriptions to access the services provided by that ecosystem. This increases a number on a spreadsheet, the only true compelling argument one could say
by haskellshill | 2025-07-03 05:21:23+00:00
>we end up performing two loops instead of one, all because sticking three operations in one statement is "yucky"

You seem to believe that "O(2n)"

for value in range(1, n + 1): result ^= value for value in A: result ^= value

is slower than "O(n2)"

for value in range(1, n + 1): result ^= value result ^= A[value-1]

simply because the latter has one "for loop" less. Am I misunderstanding you, or if not, why would this matter for speed?
by const_cast | 2025-07-03 05:22:04+00:00
The reason people think defunding the police might work is because American police are overly militarized and people speculate that plays into violence escalation.

Basically, if you give the police way too many guns and armored vans then they might start thinking those are appropriate tools for too many circumstances. Sort of "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type argument.

I don't know if it'll work, but that's the idea.
by xp84 | 2025-07-03 05:22:35+00:00
> [EU regulations] gives people a degree of control over their personal data, including the right to ask for it to be deleted.

The reason I think all-party consent laws are bad is the same reason I find the above sentence silly: If you say something out loud that is no longer your exclusive “data.” If you want to keep it secret either don’t say it, or say it under NDA or in a customary fashion such as telling a reporter off the record.

If you speak to me, I ought to have the right to memorialize it however I see fit (including note-taking with pencil, recording, and AI transcription) unless you and I agree otherwise (I do believe one should be bound to honor those commitments though).

Note: I live in an all-party consent state so I don’t record anything in actuality. But one should be free to — especially when dealing with corporate entities, who all force this recording unilaterally on everyone as a condition of ever speaking to them!
by chii | 2025-07-03 05:23:38+00:00
> AI models will never obtain the ability to completely replace “low value work”

if this were truly the case, then companies that _didn't_ replace the "low value work" by ai and continued to use people will outperform and outcompete. My prediction is entirely predicated on the ability for the LLM to do the replacement.

A second alternative would be that the cost of the "sloppy" ai code is externalized, which is not ideal but the past history has any bearing, externalization of costs is rampant in corporate profit struggles.
by photochemsyn | 2025-07-03 05:25:11+00:00
How can anyone be sure this story is at all true? Is it taken from an anecdotal story told to a WaPo reporter by a large investor in AI seeking to hype up the ability of AI to take good notes in a meeting, to create a marketing buzz around AI and draw in more investors? The naive credence given to this story in the comment section is probably not justified.
by sandspar | 2025-07-03 05:25:35+00:00
Could be a FUD article for clicks. But in my limited circle I've noticed lots of people simply... drop out. Like they get fired or quit then basically retire in their mid 30's. I don't know where these people are getting money from. Some people have kind of half-assed business ideas, like one of my buddies is designing his dream board game, another buddy is building an online wine merchant portal or something. In general I notice that the smartest people in my life have bifurcated into two camps. Half of them have retired, more or less. The other half have been afflicted with frenetic energy, trying to grasp all they can before the window closes. I dunno.
by derbOac | 2025-07-03 05:25:56+00:00
"In interviews, CEOs often hedge when asked about job losses..."

True, but other CEOs often like to be dramatic and the center of attention, wanting to be seen as bold, cost cutting, and at the forefront of trends, whether or not they are accurate in anything they say.

I've been around long enough to see that boldness become a source of regret at times. If someone refers to AI slop, it's widely understood what's meant. Putting slop at the center of your company personnel strategy doesn't sound quite as appealing.

The quotes at the end of the article seem more thoughtful to me, more realistic and measured.
by pzo | 2025-07-03 05:26:17+00:00
> Even the good old GDP per capita covers your case.

GDP or even GDP per capita is not the best metric. You can sell 100 iphones for $1000 or sell 500 cheap androids for $200 and both countries will have same GDP but I think output and outcome is much better in latter case (you produced 5x more products and 5x more people can benefits and be more productive with those 'tools'). Sure iphone for $1000 is better than $200 android phone but is it 5x better? Same with cars you can sell ferrari or more cheaper toyotas for the same value. We would have to measure how much goods we can produce.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-03 05:29:43+00:00
That argument is moot, because it's not a third option. Apple won't release iOS 26.1 rolling back any of this. Their path is set, they will tweak forward only.

Towards developers they will apply "acknowledge and ignore" as the communication strategy, towards users they will continue to express the usual confidence to know best what he needs, because that's what their users like and that's the only thing they can do now anyway.

In a grander scheme of things, Apple needs to prepare a transition of their locked-in userbase to AR, because there is a risk that AR replaces the smartphone and their users move away from Apple then. So they have to transfer the stickyness of iOS to AR before that happens, to have a ecosystem headstart against all competitors.

The actual interest of users and developers are secondary, they need to smoothly transfer them to a new world without alienating them too much. The only way is forward.
by still_grokking | 2025-07-03 05:30:26+00:00
Scala's new effect library Kyo just uses `map`. See:

https://getkyo.io/#/?id=the-quotpendingquot-type-lt

All pure values are automatically lifted into the Kyo monad, so `map` is effectively `flatMap`.

From the linked docs:

> This unique property removes the need to juggle between map and flatMap. All values are automatically promoted to a Kyo computation with zero pending effects, enabling you to focus on your application logic rather than the intricacies of effect handling.

In the end it makes a lot of sense I think. What you do is manipulating values inside some wrapper. Whether this wrapper is a monad or not should not matter. Just do something with the value(s) inside, and that's mapping.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-03 05:30:57+00:00
For the curious, I think that number comes from these people and is actually 21.7 miles, includes any kind of drivable surface, (like beaches and unmaintained private roads), and excludes anything that is too wet (like the middle of the great lakes or a flood plain).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-03 05:31:10+00:00
It's an easy thing to say without giving specific time frames. At least when Elon makes grand pronouncements he risks getting it horribly wrong.

"told investors in May that she could see its operations head count falling by 10% in the coming years as the company uses new AI tools."

Here's a time-frame a bit more specific then "in the coming years", but still vague:

"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May that half of all entry-level jobs could disappear in one to five years"

Repeating a comment I've read on HN before: Following on from cutting down entry-level jobs must imply cutting down on all those next levels up as well. Minimising the number of people coming through Gate 1 will necessarily reduce the number of people going through Gate 2 (yes, you can hire in people to go straight through Gate 2, but they'll have had to go through Gate 1 somewhere).
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by riffraff | 2025-07-03 05:31:47+00:00
Text-only stand-ups also have a tendency to devolve into just posting text into the void than nobody reads, so you may as well move to the even simpler "I need to discuss" flags which reduces communication even more. But then some people don't like that.

I am afraid there's no perfect solution, and it just boils down to people's preferences and the skills of people involved. And the chemistry between them.

I've been in teams which flip flopped over time between "communication worsened" and "wasting everyone's time". Being remote for 15+ years I enjoy the "convivial" side of stand-ups but I hate when they devolve into rote status reports.