MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saghm | 2025-07-02 15:34:54+00:00
> l am an employee and stockholder both. Obviously, I would rather have a job than not but at the same time a significant portion of my personal wealth is in MSFT stocks.

There's something especially perverse about compensation for employment coming in a form that companies grow in value by terminatkng employment. Ostensibly the point of stock compensation is to reward doing work that helps the company, but instead of provides cover for the company to leech the potential compensation employees would get in salary to grow the value of the stock with less pushback from those it literally is taking the compensation from.

People often decry stock-based compensation as "golden handcuffs" that stop you from leaving, but perhaps the more apt metaphor would be a golden guillotine; they'll have you cheering for the executions right up to the point when your own head is on the chopping block.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-02 15:35:38+00:00
Respectfully, I don't buy the power-not-actual-wealth argument.

If someone has wealth in non-liquid forms, they still have wealth.

Addressing inequality is going to mean governments and tax authorities take a broader view of wealth and methods to tax it.

There needs to be a new consensus that if wealth exceeds a certain level, it will be aggressively traced and progressively taxed.

Whether that wealth is in the form of currency, equity, corporate ownership, political power, or any of the other forms.

Because of the pyramidal distribution, it'd absolutely be feasible to say "If you have a net worth about USD$1b, you have a dedicated tax authority team who combs over your assets and calculate the minimum you should owe, using generally accepted accounting standards. Your choice how you choose to pay that."

And if they don't want to -- fine, your ability to travel in the first world is recinced. Have fun being rich, but you're not going to do it in Monaco.
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by hellojanedoe | 2025-07-02 15:37:12+00:00
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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 15:37:37+00:00
Perhaps, but if clothes are cheap, income is disposable and fashion is fast, why bother?

Other than jeans, shoes, socks and underwear, I haven't worn through or grown out of anything in forever, nothing to pass on really.

That said, the textile collection and resale industry is huge; stuff gets sorted, parts go to secondhand shops and charity, part gets baled up and exported, parts get recycled, etc. Same with electronics, it ends up in low-wage countries in Africa and south-Asia where there's thousands of people processing it.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-02 15:37:45+00:00
Isn't this what Brooks describes, stating more than 50 years ago that there's a fundamental shift when a system can no longer be held in a single mind, and the communication & coordination load that results from adding people? It seems with a single person offloading the work to an LLM right at the start they give up this efficiency before even beginning, so unless you're getting AI to do all the work it will eventually bite you...
by alonsonic | 2025-07-02 15:38:00+00:00
Yes, it's very polarized. That being said, people have shown a lot of code produced by LLMs so I don't understand the dismissive argument you make at the end.

Below is a link to a great article by Simon Willison explaining an LLM assisted workflow and the resulting coded tools.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ [1] https://github.com/simonw/tools
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-02 15:38:19+00:00
I'll start this by saying that while I don't agree with all the UX decisions Tesla has made, the UI of their interface and app is certainly extremely polished.

But (and I'll note you didn't claim this specifically) a lot of these are things others do.

My Audi app lets me lock and unlock the car, check fuel level/range and oil, need for service, see its location, etc.

Cameras with indicator usage is across multiple manufacturers.

I do not need to buy map updates, they come over cellular. As do software updates.

I realize that software is a different beast, but if you're comparing VW based on a rental, then the Teslas I've rented at times were garbage, too. Poor sealing so the cabins whistled at freeway speeds, non-updated software that played havoc with the cars world view, showing cars and trucks around me constantly vanishing and reappearing, phantom vehicles. Not to mention a plethora of "sensor/camera/etc blocked" even though the vehicle was clean.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-02 15:38:24+00:00
It sounds like your definition of TDD is regression tests + user acceptance test and I've already agreed that those are good things, we seem to just disagree that is TDD is generally practiced in this manner - though you've only given me your personal anecdote. I made a generalization based on an observed pattern of behavior at a rather large scale, I will assume that you do TDD as is intended, but I already assumed individual counters to my generalization existed so your anecdote has changed nothing. The question remains, does the generalization hold for the general case. Like the USSR made a valiant effort to achieve true socialism Microsoft made a valiant effort to implement true TDD before giving up in 2014.
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by majkinetor | 2025-07-02 15:39:17+00:00
And yet, nobody mentions how supplements can't generally damage you, but a few days in a gym can fuck you up for an entire year, even with a lot of experience. I basically never met anybody who does regular resistance training without having some sort of pain somewhere, all the time.

Maybe if you are underdoing it its possible but if you follow the muscle building theory, you are certainly going to get fucked eventually. Even the slightest position issue can make your tendons hurt for months... No wonder all athletes are on BPC 157, TB 500 and friends...

I talked to exercise professors and random people alike, and they all tell the same story. Professor said that I should get used to pain.

Too bad exercise seems to be a must after you are 50+ and no amount of good nutrition and vitamin megadosing will suffice for optimal health and particularly insuline resistance. Prior to that age though, you can get away without it.
by jfengel | 2025-07-02 15:39:58+00:00
Hair frays at the ends. It becomes fragile and prone to tangling. Hair actually grows longer with occasional trimming -- it prevents the split ends from propagating.

You don't necessarily have to go to a salon for that, especially if you have straight hair. Just comb it flat and have a friend cut a straight line. You can even do it yourself, if your hair is long enough, though it will be a bit ragged.

You can also get it cut for a lot of other reasons. Hair can be shaped and layered, for a style that suits your current preferences. Curly hair in particular can simply look bushy if it's not given some kind of shape.

You don't have to care about your appearance, but if you really don't ever get your hair cut, then you're lucky that you have the kind of hair that doesn't turn into a felted ball.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-02 15:40:07+00:00
Between like 2012 and 2022, pay and benefits for engineers at tech companies in the US skyrocketed. This was for a lot of reasons and it is not something that investors and management like.

Starting in 2022ish, tech companies started feeling pressure from investors to control costs at the same time that the covid-era froth was dying down and the economy was becoming more unstable. The first round of layoffs pushed back against over-hiring. But by doing this together, tech companies managed to halt (and somewhat reverse) the growth in compensation for employees. Regular small layoffs since then have kept the hiring market awful, so companies can hire for less and offer flat pay across time.

These layoffs are part of a broader reaction by capital against the power gains that labor made over the past decade (especially during the covid era).
by unleaded | 2025-07-02 15:40:11+00:00
I miss that small period of AI where it excelled at making random shit in this vein( see https://x.com/dril_gpt2 and https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?t=all [somewhat nsfw text]).

I'm not really sure why modern AI can't really do stuff like that anymore—I would guess a combination of being whacked with a crowbar to submit to humans (RLHF, but I'm not sure if it affects base models?), alignment stuff, and just being too smart.

Would love to see something like this with GPT-2 and how it compares
by 8organicbits | 2025-07-02 15:40:37+00:00
If that were true we'd have no cybersecurity professionals left.

In my experience, the work is focused on weakening vulnerable areas, auditing, incident response, and similar activities. Good cybersecurity professionals even get to know the business and tailor security to fit. The "one mistake and you're fired" mentality encourages hiding mistakes and suggests poor company culture.
by nozzlegear | 2025-07-02 15:40:39+00:00
> The owner of that ecosystem must endure and acknowledge this

Do they need to acknowledge it? Ecosystems aren't countries, they're markets, and citizenship doesn't exist here in the same sense – only participation in the ecosystem. Maybe there's some EU chicanery that makes it illegal for American companies to ship a UI that's displeasing to European tastes, but if we pretend that Apple is strictly an American company, would they need to acknowledge this at all if it didn't affect sales?
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by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 15:41:06+00:00
Or people making doggy beds and going home to a 3000sq.ft home on a 1/2 acre with a stay at home mom and 3 kids.

We just need to accept that everyone with a dog will need to purchase an $800 bed for their dog. Or since that is obviously untenable, charge billionaires $8 million to buy a bed for their dog.

At this point you might be unsure if this is sarcasm or not. Which is pretty telling about the state of things.
by thayne | 2025-07-02 15:41:29+00:00
> Even the good old GDP per capita covers your case.

Not necessarily. If most of the difference in pay goes to shareholders and/or executives, then the GDP per capita doesn't change. This could be because technology increases productivity, but in a way that increases wealth inequality, and results not only in greater wealth for the already wealthy, but less wealth for workers who are no longer needed.
by generalizations | 2025-07-02 15:41:43+00:00
It feels like a bell curve:

- one big set of users who don't like it because it generates a lot of code and uses its own style of algorithms, and it's a whole lot of unfamiliar code that the user has to load up in their mind - as you said. Too much to comprehend, and quickly overwhelming.

And then to either side

- it unblocks users who simply couldn't have written the code on their own, who aren't even trying to load it into their head. They are now able to make working programs!

- it accelerates users who could have written it on their own, given enough time, but have figured out how to treat it as an army of junior coders, and learned to only maintain the high level algorithm in their head. They are now able to build far larger projects, fast!
by staticman2 | 2025-07-02 15:42:12+00:00
Xbox has been a declining brand for a while now.

They are struggling to make the case for buying games from the Windows Store instead of Steam and they are struggling to make the case to buy an Xbox Console instead of a Sony or Nintendo Console.

If we see Xbox branded PCs in the living room- that's more a sign of pivoting due to failure than anything else.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 15:42:17+00:00
Which is strange given that VR and AR are niche at best. The smartphone took off at the time because it was affordable and unobtrusive, Apple's own AR device is just silly to use in public.

(I'm aware this is partly cultural desensitization, I remember the memes back when of people looking like shrimps staring at their phones etc).
by otodus | 2025-07-02 15:42:21+00:00
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by wtcactus | 2025-07-02 15:42:53+00:00
"The civil war in Mandatory Palestine became a war between separate states with the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, a few hours before the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight. The following morning, the regular armies of neighbouring Arab states – Egypt, Transjordan and Syria – invaded territories of the former Palestinian mandate allocated for a future Arab state according to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine."

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by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-07-02 15:42:58+00:00
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by NewUser76312 | 2025-07-02 15:43:09+00:00
It's probably worthwhile to compare this to calculators and mental math skills.

To a certain extent, yes absolutely. If you programmed more yourself, you'd be better at programming than the version of you that spends any significant amount of time generating AI code.

But that doesn't mean you'll totally atrophy the skill and magically forget your fundamentals.
by kylebenzle | 2025-07-02 15:43:10+00:00
This take and the article get it utterly wrong. The ONLY real headline is, "Americans have gotten so used to free money they can no longer even imagine producing anything and selling it at a reasonable price".

I'm a small farmer and can sell my garlic all day for $1 a bulb. But it's A LOT of work. If I bump the price to $5 less people buy but that doesn't mean I get to give up and say, "oh well, can't produce in America I guess... "

Lol, Americans :(
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by tialaramex | 2025-07-02 15:43:41+00:00
That's just "I wish this was an expression language". Yeah, good idea, why isn't it?

type Num = i32; // Or whatever your preferred numeric type is fn lower_delta(a1: Num, a2: Num, b1: Num, b2: Num) -> Num { let da = a2 - a1; let db = b2 - b1; if da < db { da } else { db } }
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-02 15:43:49+00:00
There's an economic slowdown without relaxing the monetary tightening (because inflation, while relatively mild, is still above target.)

Further cutbacks from the level reached by the prior cutbacks due to monetary tightening when the economy was still in robust growth are to be expected, as are relatively transparent rationalizations that try to put an upbeat spin on them instead of the honest “the cost of money has gone up and the return of spending it on higher staffing levels has gone down.”
by mywittyname | 2025-07-02 15:44:12+00:00
> I could lose my six-figure job, turn around, and get hired on as a server at Applebee's for minimum wage, and the "unemployment" rate would stay the same. Not to mention that it doesn't include those not actively looking for work.

This is captured as part of the "U-6" figure for unemployment. The thing is, at a large scale, these events don't matter. They are rare enough to be noise in the grand scheme of things.

The reason the U-3 is the canonical "unemployment rate" is because that is where the core signal is. The bulk of the change in all of the other more inclusive rates is the change in the U-3 scaled by some factor.

But really, your complaint has nothing to do with actual employment, but instead with earnings. Wages are also a metric captured and reported by the BLS and better serve your message.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-02 15:44:33+00:00
Just mentioning the CPC isn’t life-threatening, while talking about Xinjiang, Tiananmen Square, or cn’s common destiny vision the wrong way is. You also have to figure out how to prohibit mentioning those things without explicitly mentioning them, as knowledge of them implies seditious thoughts.

I’m guessing most LLMs are aware of this difference.
by kasey_junk | 2025-07-02 15:44:43+00:00
Your first query is simply real wages. There are several real wage metrics in the bls data set. Here is a commonly referenced one: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Your second query is more subjective. Most people would probably point you at the U6 underemployment number as that’s the most famous one. I like the employment projections series for this kind of question though https://www.bls.gov/emp/