MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nemomarx | 2025-08-28 20:00:26+00:00
Reflex. People's opinion on a subject changes if you tell them which political group supports it, sometimes even if they get asked twice in a row. Tribal identity determines ideology more than the other way around for a lot of people.

So as soon as Labour comes out for something, Cons are inclined to be against it and so on. The only way to have neutral protests is if no one visibly backs them and they don't become associated with a side, but then how do they get support and organization?
by esrauch | 2025-08-28 20:00:43+00:00
> But why one would complain about YaML's whitespace? It is not obligatory.

The problem (as felt by me and also as identified by the person you replied to) is that you can't copy-paste/munge some stuff into the right spot and then just let the formatter to fix the indentation. It's not a problem that the format "at rest" has whatever certain indentation to be correct, its that while being actively editing your formatter cannot automatically set the correct indentation.

The flow that you're talking about of converting yaml to json and then putting it into yaml could work in some cases but thats very much a kludge. It will have numerous bad side effects unavoidable, including that it would discard comments in the middle since JSON doesn't allow for comments at all, theres no timestamps in JSON, there's no octal numbers, etc.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-08-28 20:00:43+00:00
It's not whether China has the ability to do so. It's at what cost. Any invasion of Taiwan would require an invasion fleet so large there is simply no way they would be able to hide it. The entire world would know about it well before it happened. The costs of invasion would be absolutely staggering, with little to no benefits. The CCP values the stability of their regime above all else. They're rattling sabers and trying to win concessions.
by sharpshadow | 2025-08-28 20:00:48+00:00
No mentions yet that China is ruled by a communist party inspired by the Russian Revolution. Russia and China opened their market but remained in socialism. The key takeaway I would say is that their primary interest is making their country great whereas in the West it’s private families lineages which want to control as much as possible globally sacrificing whatever it takes even whole countries for their interests.

The war on corruption in China[0] is noteworthy where by 2023 “2.3 million government officials have been prosecuted”.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-corruption_campaign_und...
by jack_pp | 2025-08-28 20:00:58+00:00
It doesn't apply imo as OP is probably not a high value target of the govt, he just wants to bypass his govt restrictions and I doubt the situation is so bad that the govt will send people physically to deal with people circumventing the block.

Your solution could technically work over any kind of open connection / data transfer protocol that isn't blocked by the provider but it would be an absolute pain to browse the web that way and there are probably better solutions out there.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-28 20:01:29+00:00
I'm stumbling over the example:

> I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. ... I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts.

> I had two choices: initiate a long contracting process to hire a civilian technician

It sounds like the author couldn't have repaired the generator even if they had the right to do so? Or was this the kind of thing where they could have "figured it out" or carried a few spare parts?
by nomilk | 2025-08-28 20:01:49+00:00
> We should ask the LLM the question more than once

For any macOS users, I highly recommend an Alfred workflow so you just press command + space then type 'llm <prompt>' and it opens tabs with the prompt in perplexity, (locally running) deepseek, chatgpt, claude and grok, or whatever other LLMs you want to add.

This approach satisfies Fowler's recommendation of cross referencing LLM responses, but is also very efficient and over time gives you a sense of which LLMs perform better for certain tasks.
by neonrider | 2025-08-28 20:01:53+00:00
> But China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy. It offers a bargain we thought impossible: prosperity without freedom, development without democracy, safety without expansive civil liberties. And for the billions of people who remember being hungry, who want their kids to have better lives, who care more about rising wages than free speech—it's getting harder to argue they're wrong.

Author sounds like someone on their way from a week-end in the Huxleyan London of Brave New World. Everything was so beautiful. Freedom? Fuck that.
by ben_w | 2025-08-28 20:02:03+00:00
As seems to be typical for SWengs in their early 40s even before GenAI, I'm looking back on two decades where the job ad and interview suggested interesting challenges, while the reality mostly turned out to be:

here's a REST API and a picture of what we want the UI to look like, and yet somehow this, even though it could have been satisfied *even on iOS as a webapp pretending to be native* by what little I learned of web development 1999, years before I started my degree, from book titled "Learn HTML5 in 24 hours" that cost £5.99 from WH Smiths, has been made into something sufficiently complicated that there's an entire team

So I'm finding I'm very happy that my passive income and home ownership means I don't need to care that the job market is already 95% fake ads, and my main economic concern is if the GBP-EUR exchange rate will hold and/or the global economic impact of the USA either becoming a foe or imploding spectacularly.

I'm still open for work if something interesting comes my way, but the money isn't the important thing any more.
by delusional | 2025-08-28 20:02:16+00:00
I would rather say it like this: Very good, very hardworking engineers spent years of their lives building the machine that raised us from the non-determinism of messy physical reality. The technology that brought us perfect, replicable, and reliable math from sending electrons through rocks has been deeply underappreciated in the "software revolution".

The engineers at TSMC, Intel, Global Foundries, Samsung, and others have done us an amazing service, and we are throwing all that hard work away.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-28 20:02:16+00:00
> This works on people as well!

Only within certain conditions or thresholds that we're still figuring out. There are many cases where the more someone recalls and communicates their memory, the more details get corrupted.

> Cops do this when interrogating.

Sometimes that's not to "get sense of the variation" but to deliberately encourage a contradiction to pounce upon it. Ask me my own birthday enough times in enough ways and formats, and eventually I'll say something incorrect.

Care must also be taken to ensure that the questioner doesn't change the details, such as by encouraging (or sometimes forcing) the witness/suspect to imagine things which didn't happen.
by bookofjoe | 2025-08-28 20:02:28+00:00
Thank you. I'm not gonna bother migrating because when I tried about 10 years ago it was a total thrash/FAIL.

>I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

From my painful experience with them of over two decades re: failing to do stuff they should've been doing, I would estimate the likelihood of them even responding to a request like that now is an imaginary number.
by more_corn | 2025-08-28 20:02:30+00:00
You could rent a cheapo instance at a cloud provider and tunnel https over ssh.

That’s basically undetectable. Long lived ssh connection? Totally normal. Lots of throughput? Also normal. Bursts throughput? Same.

Not sure how to do this on mobile.

Tailscale might be an option too (they have a free account for individuals and an exit node out of country nearly bypasses your problem) It uses wireguard which might not be blocked and which comes with some plausible deniability. It’s a secure network overlay not a VPN. It just connects my machines, honest officer.
by 7thpixel | 2025-08-28 20:02:41+00:00
If you'd like some feedback, I ran this through my algo and analyzed what is unclear and potentially risky for bring this forward:

What's unclear:

Exact AI coding capabilities, free tier limitations, and the revenue model beyond the hosted version.

Risky Assumptions:

- Users will find the UX/UI sufficiently intuitive for immediate adoption.

- Companies will see ROI in reduced dev time/cost when using Async.

- The AI agent can clarify requirements accurately on a variety of tasks.

Hope this helps!
by gudzpoz | 2025-08-28 20:02:47+00:00
As someone based in China, it's a bit surprising that techniques used by Chinese people get very few mentions here, while I do think they are quite effective against access blocking, especially after coevolving with GFW for the past decade. While I do hope blocking in Indonesia won't get to GFW level, I will leave this here in case it helps.

I found this article [0] summarizing the history of censorship and anti-censorship measures in China, and I think it might be of help to you if the national censorship ever gets worse. As is shown in the article, access blocking in China can be categorized into several kinds: (sorted by severity)

1. DNS poisoning by intercepting DNS traffic. This can be easily mitigated by using a DOT/DOH DNS resolver.

2. Keyword-based HTTP traffic resetting. You are safe as long as you use HTTPS.

3. IP blocking/unencrypted SNI header checking. This will require the use of a VPN/proxy.

4. VPN blocking by recognizing traffic signatures. (VPNs with identifiable signatures include OpenVPN and WireGuard (and Tor and SSH forwards if you count those as VPNs), or basically any VPN that was designed without obfuscation in mind.) This really levels up the blocking: if the government don't block VPN access, then maybe any VPN provider will do; but if they do, you will have a harder time finding providers and configuring things.

5. Many other ways to detect and block obfuscated proxy traffic. It is the worse (that I'm aware of), but it will also cost the government a lot to pull off, so you probably don't need to worry about this. But if you do, maybe check out V2Ray, XRay, Trojan, Hysteria, NaiveProxy and many other obfuscated proxies.

But anyways, bypassing techniques always coevolve with the blocking measures. And many suggestions here by non-Indonesian (including mine!) might not be of help. My personal suggestion is to find a local tech community and see what techniques they are using, which could suit you better.

[0] https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory
by techpineapple | 2025-08-28 20:02:58+00:00
So, maybe this Stanford study is correct, but the meta-dynamic of seeing like 8 different articles summarizing the same thing is interesting for understanding how people come to believe something is true. "Everyone is saying" is now colloquially speaking true, in my current experience on HN, but really, only three people are saying and everyone else is repeating.
by boshalfoshal | 2025-08-28 20:02:58+00:00
Yes, it will replace human thinking. Thats quite literally the explicit goal of every AI company.

Historically every technological recolution serves to replace some facet of human labor (usually with the incentive of squeezing profits as technology gets cheaper over time, but wages do not).

Industrial revolution == automate non dexterous manual labor

Information age == automate "computational"/numerical thinking

AI == automate thinking

Robotics + AI == automate dexterous manual labor
by skhameneh | 2025-08-28 20:03:07+00:00
There are many I've worked with that idolize Martin Fowler and have treated his words as gospel. That is not me and I've found it to be a nuisance, sometimes leading me to be overly critical of the actual content. As for now, I'm not working with such people and can appreciate the article shared without clouded bias.

I like this article, I generally agree with it. I think the take is good. However, after spending ridiculous amounts of time with LLMs (prompt engineering, writing tokenizers/samplers, context engineering, and... Yes... Vibe coding) for some periods 10 hour days into weekends, I have come to believe that many are a bit off the mark. This article is refreshing, but I disagree that people talking about the future are talking "from another orifice".

I won't dare say I know what the future looks like, but the present very much appears to be an overall upskilling and rework of collaboration. Just like every attempt before, some things are right and some are simply misguided. e.g. Agile for the sake of agile isn't any more efficient than any other process.

We are headed in a direction where written code is no longer a time sink. Juniors can onboard faster and more independently with LLMs, while seniors can shift their focus to a higher level in application stacks. LLMs have the ability to lighten cognitive loads and increase productivity, but just like any other productivity enhancing tool doing more isn't necessarily always better. LLMs make it very easy to create and if all you do is create [code], you'll create your own personal mess.

When I was using LLMs effectively, I found myself focusing more on higher level goals with code being less of a time sink. In the process I found myself spending more time laying out documentation and context than I did on the actual code itself. I spent some days purely on documentation and health systems to keep all content in check.

I know my comment is a bit sparse on specifics, I'm happy to engage and share details for those with questions.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-28 20:03:10+00:00
I am really glad to be French and live in France. We have plenty of problems, some serious, some not, some easy to solve, some not.

But at least I have faith that if I get sick I will be able to afford it and that we will sustain this perk.

We also have a reasonable pride with education do there is hope we will still have educated people as we go on.

My real great is that economic pressure from the US and China will force us off these tracks.

Or a war.
by storus | 2025-08-28 20:03:35+00:00
With the Android becoming a privacy nightmare, Pine was like the only hope for some FOSS phones. Their main drawback was the software. Now given the coding LLMs available these days, would generating a set of useful apps for Pine be a major problem? They can be pretty minimalistic but must be 100% reliable for the platform to take off. Right now they are super buggy and basic features work randomly.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-28 20:03:41+00:00
Yes, it's quite easy to keep people content with an invasive autocracy and human right violations when you have staggering economic growth and a sharp rise in quality of life to show for it.

It's not just China. A big part of why Putin in Russia has managed to hold onto power for so long was that Russia's recovery from the collapse of USSR was happening during his first two presidential terms. Even though very little of that recovery could be attributed to Putin's policies.

The same holds for democracy too. Good economy makes for content population. But if your country's economy is going to shit, that doesn't bode well for whatever party that happens to be in charge - and might even open the doors for an authoritarian takeover.
by xg15 | 2025-08-28 20:04:07+00:00
> The military and national security state, plus the sheer amount of personal firearms, pretty much guarantees IMO that the US is basically impregnable from outside military interventions.

I find that a bit naive.

First, as for the point about firearms, I honestly don't think this is very relevant for the ability of a state to defend itself. Lots of firearms in civil possession might make life harder for domestic police - because they have (at least in theory) some obligation to protect the state's citizens and their property, even those citizens with firearms. So they cannot arbitrarily overpower those people.

An invading army has no such qualms. Just have a look at the wars that are currently going on, or the US' own invasions in the past. They have rockets, drones, airstrikes, artillery, tanks and all the other goodies at their disposal and will generally avoid getting anywhere near where your firearm could hit them. They won't try to arrest you, they'll simply blow up your house.

The second point has merit: The US not only has the most powerful national military in the world, it's also the leader of the most powerful international military alliance. Not to mention it is still at the center of the global trading and financial system, as well as the internet. Because of those factors, a chance of invasion is nil.

But that's nothing uniquely American, it just reflects the amount of power America currently has. Britain was in a similar position two centuries ago and Spain before that. It might change again.
by sodapopcan | 2025-08-28 20:04:33+00:00
As pertaining to software development, I agree. I've been hearing accounting (online and from coworkers) of using LLMs to do deterministic stuff. And yet, instead of at least prompting once to "write a script to do X," they just keep prompting "do X" over and over again. Seems incredibly wasteful. It feels like there is this thought of "We are not making progress if we aren't getting the LLM to do everything. Having it write a script we can review and tweak is anti-progress." No one has said that outright, but it's a gut feeling (and it wouldn't surprise me if people have said this out loud).
by littlekey | 2025-08-28 20:04:49+00:00
Doesn't that mean having to go back to manually labeling examples? That can be a big hurdle compared to just zero-few shotting some stuff into the LLM prompt. Unless there's something I'm misunderstanding about your approach. Or maybe it's possible to do an unsupervised clustering step on the vectors to get the labeled categories that you can then pass to the supervised classification model. Though I guess that would depend on how strictly defined the target categories are for the use case in question.
by CameronBanga | 2025-08-28 20:04:54+00:00
Just as a first initial thought, when I think of Yoink for Mac, I think of this popular tool: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yoink-better-drag-and-drop/id4...

At first I thought Yoink was making a new AI tool, not that this was a brand new thing.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-28 20:04:55+00:00
USA pop: abt 350 million EU pop: abt 450 million

> I prefer the European style if that implies some difference in GDP.

It's quaint to think that but compounding interest is a doozy. If your competitors are growing at 4% a year and you're growing at 1% a year, they will triple their economy over 30 years while your economy sees a meak 30% boost. At some point you'll find your economy an entire century behind in development. And you'll no longer even have power or influence over the decisions made at the grown ups table.
by supportengineer | 2025-08-28 20:05:01+00:00
I also don't understand banking. "Do you need help?" when I'm making a deposit, or when my investments are set a certain way?

Here's a better idea, guys. Tell me your value proposition. How can I get access to your luxury box? Will you lend me money at ultra-low rates? How about a free toaster? Anything?
by Ray20 | 2025-08-28 20:05:03+00:00
It's not just about UK abilities to enforce laws, but also about other factors. The described activities are extremely unattractive as criminal: small market, small margin, the need for planning, preparation and qualification.

There is no need for special efforts to enforce the law. Put a few people in jail - and everyone else will quickly find safer and more legal ways to spend their time. No one will do something like that unless they are confident of their impunity.
by thevillagechief | 2025-08-28 20:05:14+00:00
I see your Android, I raise you a google home speaker. Please someone help me understand, why is it a freaking pain to use these speakers with bluetooth? Why can I not use them as output for the tv? Is the audio lag just an artificial limitation? I got them assuming they were bluetooth speakers with the Assistant and streaming stuff. But apparently not. Which sick product manager came up with that?
by arewethereyeta | 2025-08-28 20:06:30+00:00
Give Trojan proxy a try. It's supposed to go unnoticed since it works on the https port 443. Something like: https://www.anonymous-proxies.net/products/residential-troja... If you get it with a residential IP is even better. Works great in Iran and China and i suspect will wotk great for you too
by nels | 2025-08-28 20:06:31+00:00
International students at places like Stanford are not displacing Americans. Stanford is one of the top-ranked universities in the world, so the competition pool is global by definition. There is no evidence that equally qualified Americans are rejected in favor of international students. U.S. students remain the majority in both undergraduate and graduate programs.

The real barrier for many Americans is the cost of tuition, not competition with international students. That is where government and universities need to step up with better funding and support. Also, many international students stay in the U.S. after graduating, contributing to the economy and research. The problem is underfunding and poor policy decisions at the national level, not the presence of international students.
by zeropointsh | 2025-08-28 20:06:54+00:00
The great thing about China's Great Firewall is that really good options to circumvent censorship have been around for a while. Was waiting for someone to bring up XRay! Alternatively, here is a great write up of using V2Ray[1]. May be worth OP looking into, as a blogger I found noted[2] is an alternative to a VPN, and may work. [1]: https://www.v2ray.com/en/ [2]: https://sequentialread.com/v2ray-caddy-to-access-the-interne...
by cardanome | 2025-08-28 20:07:19+00:00
I feel like now that LLMs are getting better the quality of the examples matters more than the quantity.

Garbage in, garbage out. If you confuse it with a lot of Junior-level code and have a languages that constantly changes best practices, the output might not be great.

On the other hand, if you have a languages that was carefully designed from the start and avoids making breaking changes, if it has great first party documentation and a unified code style everyone adheres to, the LLM will have an easier time.

The later also happens to be better for humans. Honestly the best bet is to make a good language for humans. Generative AI is still evolving rapidly so no point in designing the lang for current weaknesses.
by sib | 2025-08-28 20:07:31+00:00
>>>> if you fail to find a candidate then you will easily be able to demonstrate that the candidate suing you for violating the law was not qualified and therefore has no reason to sue.

>>> Umm, no? There are plenty of times when I've had roles posted that we interviewed candidates who met the written requirements (e.g., degrees, years of experience, etc) but did not pass our interview loops. It's very hard to prove a negative.

>> if they passed the written requirements you should have interviewed them.

That is the point of my anecdote; we did interview them. And yet, we did not hire them, for a variety of reasons. For example, they may not have passed the interview. Or a reference check may have raised concerns. Or we may have hired another candidate whom we also interviewed and who did better.

Your implication, that they should have an easy and presumptively correct right to sue (and win) unless we can "demonstrate ... that the candidate was not qualified," is extremely expensive. It can easily cost 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars to defend a lawsuit.
by NomDePlum | 2025-08-28 20:07:53+00:00
Those things where claimed by Israel but are not proven. The UN internal watchdog advised UNRWA to fire 9 people out of 19 because there was some doubt and whilst it was inconclusive, they couldn't be fully exonerated. 10 other claims where found to be not true.

The claim on holding hostages is highly doubtful and Israels own accounts where contradictory and looked to be dressed up propaganda.