MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChuckMcM | 2025-08-03 16:45:05+00:00
Yes, there are companies that opt for broken organizations for a variety of reasons. The observation though is this; Does this lead to a world where the 'minimum' programmer is what we consider today to be a 'Senior Dev' ? It echoes the transition of machinists to operators of CAD/CAM workstations to operate machining centers, rather than hands on the dials of a mill or lathe. It certainly seems like it might make entering the field through a "coder camp" would no longer be practical.
by jfengel | 2025-08-03 16:45:23+00:00
I'm reminded a bit of the first couple of decades of Amazon, when they were continually jeered at for being in the red, then a small profit.

This was all during the dotcom boom. Somebody was going to win, and it was probably the one who spent the most money to be the favorite. Tons of money was set on fire, and Jeff Bezos is pushing being a trillionaire.

In a sane world we'd back off and trust that the tech will get invented even if take two months instead of two days. But they believe that there is one winner and everyone else gets nothing.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-03 16:45:41+00:00
Yea, different strokes for different folks. Since going remote, I now have the choice about if, where, and when to interact with other people, and who those people should be. If I want to go two weeks without seeing another person (IRL, not counting video conference), I can do it. If I want to go out and socialize, I have 4 formerly-commuting hours back every day that I can use to do so.
by cduzz | 2025-08-03 16:46:06+00:00
I wonder if there's some business model like a mixture of send-cut-send and TSMC where a "FAB" agrees to stamp out 3000 fenders/doors/roofs and ship them to the customer (who then puts together the cars and paints them and such).

This is similar to what lotus did to help bootstrap tesla...

And hey, maybe tesla's going to have some spare capacity lying around so they could be that FAB... ?

I personally really want this truck to succeed. I'd happily trade in my 10 year old model S for this; it'd make dump runs and trips to the garden / home centers a lot easier than in the S...

I do wish they'd go full eccentric and use a citroen inspired oil suspension...
by encom | 2025-08-03 16:46:14+00:00
What things? Apple doesn't really cater to the type of customer who's excited about computers, or even UNIX. And I'd argue that Mac OS barely qualifies as UNIX anyway. Yes, if you dig deep enough you'll get the faint smell of UNIX, but the spirit is long gone. Anyone who appreciates UNIX(likes) has much better options available.
by phillipcarter | 2025-08-03 16:46:25+00:00
Yeah it's a fun problem but not really related to reality. Some important factors like: proximity to different ski resorts, travel plans, whether to rent demo skis or not, quality of rental skis, skiing proficiency and desire to grow, and many more all factor into the decision. Suffice to say, it's not much of an optimization problem if you're set on skiing every year.
by randomfinn3287 | 2025-08-03 16:46:35+00:00
Safety is taken seriously in Finland, but that is not normal behavior, I don't know of anyone who would call the police in that situation. Sounds more like some kind of 'virtual signaling' after a few beers or other kind of awkward behavior in an unfamiliar social situation where there were visitors from abroad. Or just being a karen like someone else suggested (and got downvoted), but anyways not normal.

Source: me, a Finn living in the Helsinki region.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-03 16:47:01+00:00
That griffin has wings. Seems like a significant finding.

> In Greek and Roman texts, griffins and Arimaspians were associated with gold deposits of Central Asia. The earliest classical writings were derived from Aristeas (7th cent. BC) and preserved by Herodotus and Aeschylus (mid 5th century BC), but the physical descriptions are not very explicit. Even though they are sharp-beaked, their being likened to "unbarking hounds of Zeus" has led to the speculation they were seen as wingless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-03 16:47:40+00:00
Everything from developing retail products to business decisions to my day job. As an example, my day job is a director-level role with a team under my supervision. We're a relatively small team with a large amount of responsibility, and systems thinking has been useful in figuring out where and why we have bottlenecks, how we can modify the system to find efficiencies, and how the department can be more easily scalable when necessary to satisfy increasing demand.
by 0_____0 | 2025-08-03 16:47:45+00:00
My commute from Oakland to SF was 20-25 minutes in rush hour (1hr in a car), without having to do anything particularly sketchy, just by filtering/lane splitting.

If you're looking at USA stats, you should know that there are many, many people in this country that will regularly get on their Harley, which they've never bothered improving technical handling skill on, after five or six beers, wearing a small plastic hat that resembles a WWI infantry helmet more than a proper ECE/DOT/Snell rated helmet, with jeans and a cutoff leather jacket, and wrap themselves around the nearest telephone pole trying to impress some chick.

If you ride with technical skill, good protective gear, and a respect for the machine and the unpredictability of drivers, you have much better prospects than the stats would suggest.
by kettlecorn | 2025-08-03 16:48:11+00:00
I think Apple is doing fine and is reasonably well positioned. The pre-Cook years basically established the skeleton of the company and Cook has fleshed it out with flesh and muscle. Now the company is far more of a Goliath with vast resources to help it weather strategic pivots, in addition to a loyal and trusting customer base.

Looking ahead to the next decade or so I believe what we're likely on course for is some sort of AI OS. AI will be able to vibe-code apps for you and you'll be able to manage and dispatch individual agents to do tasks. There will be a messy transitionary period that lasts a while from today's software.

Apple has a trusting customer base, they have tremendous hardware prowess, they have cross-platform cloud services, and they have design sense to figure out how to establish these new models. I think if a new form of computing emerges Apple basically gets a free first swing at it, in terms of consumer trust. We've seen that with their VR headset, that while a dud was given far more interest and attention than Facebook's and Microsoft's offerings.

I do think they show signs of vulnerability as well, even if I think they're less than their strengths. Apple's famously design focused culture seems to be cracking a bit and giving way to more Microsoft / Google style PM-led culture. That can be OK, but I think PM led cultures are sometimes almost too strategic for their own good, like someone you can tell is a salesmen not a friend, and that can result in gradual brand erosion.

A simple example of this happening is Apple's website. Like Microsoft the tabs at the top of their website now reflect the company's internal organization, not what makes the most sense to the user. In the Jobs era they insisted that there would be no separate "store" tab, a redundancy because the whole website was a store, but I suspect that changed because the "Store" division within Apple wants that extra prominence.

If Apple isn't careful with enough missteps they may dilute their brand and Google / Microsoft may seem just as appealing for early adopters of emerging AI OSs.
by ryanobjc | 2025-08-03 16:48:16+00:00
Apparently Mac sales are seeing a big growth spurt lately. This isnt obvious at the Apple bottom line because iPhone dominates, but they are growing that market segment!

The apple silicon has driven a ton of people to laptops, and the windows 11 migration nightmare has given people an option: why bother buying a new pc laptop to run windows 11, just switch to the apple macbook air.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-03 16:49:19+00:00
Must depend on the company/office. My team (200+ people) has a "offtopic/socialize" chat channel set up for this kind of rando chit chat, and it has never, not once in many years, even had a hint of divisiveness or politics. Yes, you do need to be working with grownups who can behave and leave that shit at home.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-03 16:51:01+00:00
I find this comment .. confusing. Ignoring the unwarranted insult, I think you’ve misunderstood what I expressed.

Finding your people in a world that is so connected and yet so distant is … difficult to say the least.

I was most comfortable in grad school, with other grad students, professors and people of that nature. Unfortunately I have trouble finding that kind of people again as a working adult.
by mmis1000 | 2025-08-03 16:51:11+00:00
> fully recognising each character individually.

> comprehending individual characters / words,

Weirdly enough, the elementary school here does taught both at same time. We have article reading in the test. Which don't really ask you recognize the characters down to the stroke. We also have "改錯字". Which roughly means "find the typo", but with a bit difference. The teacher may alter the character itself (add a stroke or remove a stroke) instead of replace it by some other characters. So you need to know how "exactly" should the character look like to pass the test.
by graemep | 2025-08-03 16:52:45+00:00
Yes, its called whole word learning. Its how I learned to read, and how my kids learned to read. its not a gestalt, its simply shape recognition. You learn letters and common letter combinations and how to work out words you do not know later instead of first. its not a very reliable process in English though! Are you sure of the correct pronunciation of a word you come across only in written form?

The advantage, in my experience is that you learn to read faster and its more fun. You start off with something like guessing game with flashcards and kids quickly learn a wide range of words.

The disadvantage maybe that it really needs one to one attention. Great for kids that learn to read from parents (like me and mine), but not going to work well in a classroom.
by oriettaxx | 2025-08-03 16:53:15+00:00
#1 issue in Statistics is: teachers are ignorant, and the whole pedagogy of Statists is broken: the whole approach make it hard what is easy: the more they insist the more they make demages!

LLM will repeat the mistake indefinitively

We need a totally new approach not designed by people who is not able and use their books/academy to show they know, while they just transmit us their confusion

I think smart scientists prefer to face other more fancy subjects, but one day a smart scientist and pedagogist will come and wipe out what has been written so far: no Llm can correct it now
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-03 16:53:17+00:00
1) Did you not see the big gash in the side from being hit by one of the main towers? You'll have to do some looking to find the images because of course the gash was facing the main towers and thus was mostly obscured by the smoke. Very lousy view, few cameras were pointed that way.

2) They did not fight the WTC 7 fire because the collapse of the main towers took out the water main. Note that it's not that skyscrapers can't be brought down by fire, but that in most cases the fire prevention buys the fire crews enough time to fight the fire.
by georgeharmony | 2025-08-03 16:53:35+00:00
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by PseudoComputer | 2025-08-03 16:54:17+00:00
No it's a very valid question, yes we did use Kiro IDE running on Claude 4 for some of the more complicated tools like Sort Pages (getting the UI, image preview etc) and some other tools. Developing this PDF WebApp was a lot more complicated than we thought so we had to resort to vibe coding for some functionality. We used Claude mostly for the tools and the "initial generation"/layout of the site.
by kmill | 2025-08-03 16:55:32+00:00
> I haven't worked with Lean so I don't know how much this crops up in practice

It really doesn't. I've been using Lean and Mathlib for about five years now, and Fermat's Last Theorem is definitely not going to depend on the reduction properties of quotient types in the large scale.

Mathematical reasoning in Lean is almost universally done with rewriting, not reduction. People have found reduction based proofs (colloquially "heavy rfls") to be difficult to maintain. It exposes internal details of definitions. It's better to use the "public API" for mathematical definitions to be sure things can be refactored.

Really, quotients almost should never use the actual `Quot` type unless you have no better choice. In mathematics we like working with objects via universal properties ("public API"). A quotient type is any type that satisfies the universal property of a quotient. All `Quot` does is guarantee that quotients exist with reasonable computation properties, if we ever need them, and if we need those computation properties — which in the kind of math that goes into FLT we often don't. We don't even need `Quot` for Lean to have quotient types, since the classic construction of a set of equivalence classes works. (Though to prove that this construction is correct surely uses functional extensionality, which is proved using `Quot` in some way, but that's an implementation detail of `funext`.)
by saltcured | 2025-08-03 16:56:07+00:00
Ouch, my wife has encountered almost exactly that in a recent brush with a biotech company that seems to have been infected by FAANG expats. She was advised that any kind of sidebar conversation is a faux pas.

I struggled to guess at the real motive. Is it some project manager's blatant control freakery? An org-level, cynical management attempt to commoditize their knowledge workers? Or some kind of emergent failure where culture morphs through openness -> radical transparency -> enforced conformism a la 1984?
by ryankrage77 | 2025-08-03 16:56:15+00:00
I don't remember learning to read, or a time in my life where I couldn't read at least a bit. As best I can figure I began reading before my episodic memory fully developed.

I do wonder how I managed to learn anything just by reading on my own though. There were certainly words and concepts I didn't understand (I have a vivid memory of reading a childrens science book that explained the big bang, and misinterpreting it as 'the universe started when the sun exploded'. I noticed the logical inconsistency but didn't pursue it), but I can't think of any instances where those gaps in my knowledge were filled by someone else and I had an 'aha' moment of understanding. I guess we do a lot of learning without realising it.
by pxeger1 | 2025-08-03 16:56:28+00:00
FTR I don't necessarily believe that designing better arms is inherently unethical. But if one did, this is why your counterargument wouldn't make sense:

Knife sales are close to zero-sum, but Palantir is innovating with its lethal technology for the sole purpose of being a more effective weapon. If you were stabbed to death by a knife that is somehow designed specifically to be deadlier or harder to defend against, would you call its designer evil?
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-03 16:56:44+00:00
> But where are the 8TB, 12TB, or 24TB drives?

Kioxia has them for servers [1]. You'll pay for that privilege though, 12.8 TB will set you back a healthy 1.600 € [2] and 30 TB 4.100 € [2].

[1] https://europe.kioxia.com/de-de/business/ssd/enterprise-ssd....

[2] https://www.primeline-solutions.com/de/kioxia-12-8-tb-cd8-v-...

[3] https://www.primeline-solutions.com/de/kioxia-30-72-tb-cm7-r...
by DannyBee | 2025-08-03 16:56:56+00:00
Having criticized a lot of her tenure (and still do!), Lina's problem was never whether she was right or not.

It's that she was incredibly ineffective.

Of course she was right. That's what made her practical ineffectiveness so problematic.

She was often 100% right on what should be done but could only achieve 0-10% of it.

I'd rather have someone who is 70% right on what should be done, but can achieve almost all of it, as some previous FTC chairs were.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-03 16:57:06+00:00
I think this analogy is dishonest.

What is a company if not the people who work there and drive some vision forward?

What would Tesla be without Elon?

It sure looks like the company is a tool for Peter and his ilk, to enable and extend state surveillance, to limit people’s capacity to stand up to corrupt and evil governments.

I’d suggest you read up on Thiel’s and Yarvin’s beliefs. Palantir sure seems more of a projection of those beliefs rather than a mere tool that by itself has no purpose.
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 16:57:10+00:00
The baggage isn't calling fetuses what they are. The baggage and bias comes in when you lie about what a fetus is, depicting it as a human baby, which it is not. The right does that specifically to emotionally manipulate people and feed a narrative of baby killing.

Who here is doing the verbal slight of hand? The people using factual terms, or the people lying? This should be an easy one to answer.
by andybak | 2025-08-03 16:57:16+00:00
> Read Brave New World if you haven't.

I have and I don't see the connection with AI-assisted coding.

If your comment was about "generative AI in general" then I think this is the problem with trying to discuss AI on the internet at the moment. It quickly turns into "defend all aspects of AI or else you've lost". I can't predict all aspects of AI. I don't like all aspects of AI and I can't weigh up the pros and cons of a vast number of distinct topics all at once. (and neither, I suspect, can anyone else)
by tsimionescu | 2025-08-03 16:57:36+00:00
This is not about walking into the crane, it's about cones on the road to ensure that pedestrians can safely walk around the crane onto the road without walking into traffic. Basically, the crane operators, if they're going to take up the whole sidewalk, have to ensure that pedestrians have a safe way to pass around them, and that means they have to work to close a part of the road and mark that.
by malthaus | 2025-08-03 16:57:38+00:00
isn't palantir just a bottom-tier consulting company (ie a body shop) with a brand, track record & contacts that get them on those "evil" projects?

if not them, someone else would staff the grunts to fill up the demand in manpower

it's not like they have a magic box that "does evil" that they sell to others, even though in the beginning that's what they seemed to market (only for good causes on the right side of history, obviously)
by neom | 2025-08-03 16:57:44+00:00
Yeah, this was sorta what I was doing, I know LLMs are LLMs but I kinda tried to trick myself into thinking I could use an LLM to check an LLM, but I guess I'm also mentally stable (or educated) enough to know that's not sophisticated/realistic, and that was the conversation with my wife I mentioned. She's a professor and was basically like "LLMs are dumb, you're being dumb for using an LLM this way, DO NOT email some random professor about this, I already get enough of this shit, log off and go for a walk dumbass" - I would imagine someone like me with lesser stability around them would end up in a weird place, and I guess experts (as evidenced by my wife) are getting a lot of junk these days. (I still feel really foolish admitting all this, ha)

It must suck to be an expert right now?
by nativeit | 2025-08-03 16:58:46+00:00
> Khan’s critics are more likely to see Figma’s success as coming despite regulatory scrutiny, not because of it. For example, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told Business Insider, “Figma is a massive success, but it’s because of the company’s innovative growth and not due to the FTC and [Khan].”

That would be a great point if there were any indication at all that’s what Khan was implying. It’s either an intentionally disingenuous reading of her statements, or else an unintentionally dim comprehension of them…from an analyst…

It’s also not a great sign that Business Insider thought this was the best way to end this article. At the very least, how about interrogating whether or not their “innovative growth” might have something to do with how healthy regulatory systems might work to facilitate such things? Or whether that innovative growth could have continued apace under Adobe’s management?

I suppose I am being too credulous, and it’s more likely the same widely shared ideological bent that celebrates free market dynamism with each success, and decries oppressive regulations with each misstep. A culture that sees virtue in offshoring profits while simultaneously using them to eliminate competition, erode consumer protections, lobby for preferential tax credits, and generally skirt any/all obligations to the society which provided them with the opportunities, infrastructure, finance markets, skilled workforce, and well-qualified consumers that are all prerequisites to “innovative growth”.
by xandrius | 2025-08-03 16:59:09+00:00
On a generic day, I walk at least 10k steps and for some colleagues that was herculean and thought I was kidding.

Also if after passing your 20s, ego still defines your behaviour on such a personal and private aspect of your life, I'd suggest to look into doing meditation/mindfulness, as it's a bit strange (or at least it should be).
Do no-code users need a way to add custom logic without devs?
by alphadev_omw | 2025-08-03 16:59:41+00:00
I'm exploring a tool that helps non-technical users add custom logic to their Bubble/Webflow apps (like webhooks, auto-fill, conditional actions) — without touching code or hiring a dev.

Before I build anything, I’m trying to validate:

- Where do no-code builders get stuck the most? - Have you ever hit a logic limitation on a low-code platform? - Would you use something that lets you define simple "when X then Y" rules visually?

Not launching anything, just researching. Curious to learn from others who’ve built in this space.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-08-03 16:59:48+00:00
People are different. I worked around 1.5 years on fully remote gig and it was the best time of my life ever.

Wake up at 6, start working, finish at 2 pm. In the middle do all the house chores that I could squeeze in (cleaning, shopping, eating, even chopped few cubic meters of wood in span of weeks) while keeping my output the same as other teammates (it wasn't particularly hard, either). Each day I was out at 2 pm, ready to decide on MY terms, who to meet, what to do, what to attend.
by lapcat | 2025-08-03 17:00:23+00:00
> Apparently Mac sales are seeing a big growth spurt lately.

That's not really clear. Mac sales actually peaked during the pandemic, around 2022.

Apparently there was also some tariff fear-driven buying this year. Indeed, I purchased a new MacBook Pro earlier this year for that very reason.

If you compare, say, 2024 Mac revenue to 2014 Mac revenue, there was an increase of 25% over that period, but inflation increased even more over the same period. (Unfortunately, Apple no longer announces unit sales.)
by metalman | 2025-08-03 17:00:45+00:00
There is some other aerial imagery of the march in Austrailia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/nsw-march-across-sydn...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Sydney_Harbour_Bridge_Pro...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/live-blog/live-pro-palestinian-p...