MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Izikiel43 | 2025-09-02 16:36:43+00:00
I would change that to extreme poverty. There should be a guaranteed minimum standard of living which is humane, basically access to food, housing, education and health. After that, is up to every individual.

I remember a previous discussion here about ozempic, and how one commenter was asking how to force his father to become healthy, as it was using ozempic as a crutch and leaning back to it when he needed to, while going back to his vices (smoking, drinking, being overweight by eating junk food). The answer was, unless you remove his self agency or can convince him so he does it himself, he won’t change.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-02 16:36:50+00:00
Some Americans are quite intelligent and despite decades of psyops and other issues still retain an understanding of what's real, and what the consequences of decisions will mean in economic terms.

In a classroom, its easy to poke fun at a nationalized economy, and draw the conclusion that hard work won't ever lead to economic gains. This understanding isn't applied to the real world though such as where an economy is silently nationalized through opaque entities that have politically captured the entire process.

There is quite a bit of literature by Mises and other classical economists who don't submit to the errors of Keynes; about what happens in fiat economies and how and why they fail. This subject matter goes into financial Armageddon talk quite rapidly with well defined impossible to solve problems.

Instead of choosing to avoid such chaotically mired problems at the outset, a generation of dilettantes who were given every possible benefit and education to choose a good future for all instead chose to sacrifice their children's future through expanding their power, debasing the systems, and silently transitioning and pivoting to fiat money-printing in the 1970s which within 50 years has devolved to the point just prior to collapse with the now grown children enslaved to economics to foot the bill of their unending thirst for funding.

Wealth inequality is high because those that situate themselves closer to the source of money in fiat currency systems have asymmetric advantage over those that are further away as inflation and its debasement of the currency makes its way through the system. While its all very cleverly disguised, the objective underlying systems have only one place to go which is the same as every other civilization that collapses from runaway money-printing.

That unfortunately is the sad truth, and the only sustainable future is to not store value or transact in such currencies. A dependency on such failure prone systems for food is a dependency that will result in extinction. The true factors that determine national/group wealth are based in productive distribution of labor with markets transacted in a stable store of value.

Unfortunately, markets today no longer have many of the required systems properties to be considered real markets. Price discovery (measure), and a stable store of value are needed to constrain n-body systems to stable orbits.
by me551ah | 2025-09-02 16:37:04+00:00
I don't get the sky high valuation of LLM companies. I mean I get that these guys need a lot of money for compute to train the next generation of models. But Distillation does make it easy for other providers to replicate gains made by these providers at a much lower cost.

On a long enough timeframe, the open source models will catch up to the proprietary models and inference providers will beat these proprietary companies on price.
by bitwize | 2025-09-02 16:37:52+00:00
> Then provide security guarantee. Apps can’t read my contacts unless I explicitly give them access. Google and Apple have still yet to take trivial steps to protect users (e.g. ability to deny an app network access). This has nothing to do with security and everything to do with control.

Even if such a permission existed, how many grandmas do you think will obey when instructed: "I will send you a link, please do the needful and download this app, then go into settings and enable internet access, contact access, and payment method access"? My guess is: a lot.

> Why? Why should tinkering be banned completely of the computer that most people use the most in their whole life (often their only computer)?

Because 99.9% of the users of such computers do not care about "the ability to tinker", wouldn't miss it if it were gone, and are at substantially greater risk of fraud, identity theft, or worse if it were there.

Because the average user cannot reliably—and doesn't want to—manage security permissions for every app. The UAC dialogs were a stark lesson in this. Users are easily tricked or lulled into giving an app permissions it shouldn't have.

Anyway, Google isn't banning tinkering completely, only tinkering without accountability.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-02 16:37:57+00:00
Doesn't beg the question. There's a whole evolving history there. Reddit didn't need to 'keep users on the platform' because they weren't leaving it. Most images on imgur shared on reddit (and a billion forums elsewhere) were direct links to the images, they weren't going to any sort of imgur landing page or whatever. Imgur just slowly developed that later and surprisingly developed its own also-ran community onsite.

Similarly over on twitter without any image hosting capabilities let third party sites like twitpic host images for years before evetually developing their own service. Twitpic eventually caved under the load of hosting so much stuff without income and it was good that Twitter was successful enough to take it all on directly.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-02 16:37:57+00:00
The case is going to be that they haven't done it yet, but that case could collapse as soon as they manage to really do it -- and perfect reentry and reuse, particularly of the reentry system.

Getting refueling to work is another big challenge.

Assuming that is perfect the performance of a reusable Starship -> Moon -> Earth mission is not that good, landing 3 tons or so, not far off from the Apollo lander. To do better it needs to be refueled on the Moon which has all sort of question marks. O2 can be found on the moon and that's a significant part of the "fuel". Maybe there is CO2 or CH4 or something carbonaceous in the ice at the poles, maybe there isn't. An H2 rocket is a better bet in that department. Tall and tippy Starship would do great landing and taking off from the Moon or Mars if there was a set of chopsticks to catch it, landing on an unprepared surface looks challenging.

These aren't really "Starship" problems, they are problems that affect any vehicle trying to go to the moon. Back in the 1980s I read columns in Analog Science Fiction magazines "Science Fact" columns that tried to say we were sold up the river by the Apollo missions and should have had a more ambitious program, but the round trip to the moon is terribly difficult and Von Braun's mission architecture made the impossible possible

A Mars mission would be a break from the SpaceX experience -- so far SpaceX has been about pursuing commercial opportunities in near earth space, not "exploration".

Rapid turnaround with a lot of hardware can get you to orbit or the moon, but there is no such thing as "rapid turnaround" to Mars where you have to wait 2.5 years for the launch window. 10 tries will take 25 years. Right now SpaceX runs everything by remote control from ground control which is a perfect strategy for NEO, probably good enough for cislunar except for the landing, but landing and takeoff from the Mars requires an autonomous system which is not just a technological but a culture change for SpaceX.
by kiitos | 2025-09-02 16:38:41+00:00
you're arguing with the messenger. whether or not you buy anything is completely immaterial, what matters is the actual position of legal depts in corporations. said another way this is not a normative discussion (folks SHOULD be doing X) it is a descriptive discussion (folks ARE doing X)

you're also completely missing the point. it's not on anyone to "fix" the agpl, the point is about whether the agpl as it exists is usable in practice. answer, no, not really. "software freedom" doesn't even enter the discussion.
by jll29 | 2025-09-02 16:38:45+00:00
Society needs to kill apps (by refusal to install/use) before apps kill the open Web.

Another conversation to be had is the effect of messenger apps to exclude those that do not use them (socially, commercially, and soon politically if governments introduce "ID apps" and force their presence to vote). Each proprietary app creates its own communication silo, and people start not talking over email anymore, which is a fantastic open protocol that excludes no-one.

I have been refusing to use WhatsApp for years and out of all people I know, only one friend sends me "VIP vintage" email invitations when everyone else gets things via a Meta-controlled proprietary channel, everyone else ignores people not on these platforms. (Almost even more worrying is what people talk about on these platforms when you do get on there; when accidentally overlooking what a random person on a bus chats about, then I'm happy to have reduced usage of such proprietary platforms over the last couple of years.)

Parents should not permit their childrens' data to get onto these platforms under any circumstances (in Europe, GDPR helps).
by yunwal | 2025-09-02 16:39:07+00:00
> presents agents as always ultimately thwarted by forces beyond human control

The implication of "rain on your wedding day" is that your wedding day is something you plan out extensively, trying to create some perfect event. And yet it can still be thwarted by weather. Obviously it takes some interpretation since it's a situation compressed into a 1-line song lyric but yes it can (and should, given that the song is called "ironic") be read as an example of cosmic irony.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-02 16:39:22+00:00
I think it's really objectionable to refer to this as an "SBF moment".

It's not just about surviving a downtown and unforseen circumstances with some luck (like the sibling talking about FedEx barely making it). Tesla, for example, was famously extremely close to bankruptcy.

But SBF got into the situation he was in due to his egregious fraud. The accounting at FTX was a criminal joke, with multiple sets of books, bypassable controls, outright fake numbers. My guess is that if SBF had survived that particular BTC downturn that his extreme hubris and willingness to commit fraud would have eventually done him in - downturns always happen at some point, and his brazenness in his criminal enterprise showed no signs of learning from mistakes.

Sure, all hugely successful companies have a ton of luck involved. But I think it's a mistake to pretend that SBF was just done in by bad timing, or that all companies do what he did. His empire collapse was pretty inevitable IMO if you look at what a clown show FTX was under the covers.
by kylemaxwell | 2025-09-02 16:39:26+00:00
The question makes as much sense to me as "why teach literature in the age of typewriters?" Not that the analogies are perfect, but the idea that it's not worth learning something because a related technology has advanced significantly is a non sequitur.

There may be good reasons to learn or not to learn calculus, or literary theory, or anything else, but the existence of some related technology isn't it. I'd go so far as to suggest that perhaps calculus is even more important for some folks to learn in the age of AI (e.g. applications in neural networks), and we don't know who those folks will be in advance.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-02 16:39:50+00:00
I'm not sure it's just a network thing. Certainly you need experience to be a great engineer, but I've known plenty of engineers with 30 years experience who find themselves competing with everyone else when they lose their job.

The best engineer I've ever known spent most of his career doing drivers at Qualcomm. When he left his job they offered him significant raises to stay, offered months of paid leave, and then said he could always come back. Later, an OSS project he worked with heard he was free, and they changed their remote work policies to hire him. He's under 30, and despite working remotely at an OSS project makes significantly more than me.

I like to think I'm a good engineer, but when I work with customers they aren't setting linkedin alerts on my name for if I leave my job. To qualify for what this article is getting at, you really need to be the best engineer out of 100's, not the best engineer in your team of 5.
by dmix | 2025-09-02 16:39:56+00:00
Which interestingly was almost exclusively far right accounts. He shadow banned 3-4 and kicked a few others off X premium (so they don't get paid for tweets). Which X claimed was for spamming him and others after they disagreed with him over supporting H1B visas. But he's definitely not a neutral actor so who knows. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon...
by anshumankmr | 2025-09-02 16:40:27+00:00
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by Centigonal | 2025-09-02 16:40:38+00:00
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer talk about this right at the start of No Rules Rules. Netflix had to lay off a big chunk of of their staff because of a funding crunch early in their history. Despite the negative emotional toll that took on everyone, productivity actually improved.

The authors reference a Will Felps experiment[1] that showed that introducing just one pessimistic, lazy, or mean actor into a group of professionals cut the entire group's productivity by 30-40%.

As a result of this lesson, Netflix now only hires "A-players" and is pretty aggressive about letting go of "B-players" and "C-Players."

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/370/transcript

This has been borne out in real-world observational studies, too: https://www.washington.edu/news/2007/02/12/rotten-to-the-cor...
by milesvp | 2025-09-02 16:40:56+00:00
It doesn’t even have to be as nefarious as trying to maximally charge. Very often what seems like a simple product offering can actually be quite nuanced with services or goods bundled or unbundled. I’ve listened to many sales calls where the buyer was asking for the wrong thing, and giving a quote for that thing doesn’t really do anyone any good. In my experience the best sales people are really trying their best to tailor their offerings to the needs of the customer even going so far as pointing them at cheaper products or even another company if it fits their needs better.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-02 16:41:10+00:00
This is a silly no true scotsman argument. First you don't say what you mean and then stick up your nose when no one has any idea what you're on about. Anyone is capable of making up an arbitrary set of requirements that no language nor framework fulfills. This doesn't change the fact that for most languages and frameworks, logging is a boring, solved problem. That Next.js doesn't bring that to the table is more than telling.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-02 16:41:11+00:00
Imgur, great service, lasted this long, amazing. But I always wondered how any of these random image hosts afforded bandwidth (reminds of the other various ones like TwitPic who was saved from being taken offline by Twitter). I mean, I have a gallery of images in there, privately stored, directly linked to here and there around the net, without paying for anything for years. I think at one point I can't even remember now I did pay them a small fee and then they removed that option to go it alone with ads and refused to 'take my money'. Which seemed crazy and still does.

It's still weird to me that a whole community exists on Imgur that uses it directly (instead of say using reddit threads to comment on the images like its initial use) and somehow sustains the site. I suppose it was always on a slow degradation path for like the last decade.
by HomeCloud | 2025-09-02 16:41:24+00:00
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by debarshri | 2025-09-02 16:41:33+00:00
I think you are under estimating the nuances you have in non faang infrastructure. Also, based on my previous experience you will meet with developer resistance (may be AI can help you beat that). By being broad you also competing with purpose built solution like finops, devsecops etc. Who also seems to have agents now.

It is workflow automation in the end of the day. I would rather pick SOAR or AI-SOC where automation like this is very common. For eg blinkops or torq.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-09-02 16:41:43+00:00
You are also going to cause a lot of write amplification with bigger blocks and at some point its also going to limit your performance as well. What really makes this hard is it depends on how filled the drive is, how heavily the drive is utilised and for how much of the day. Time to garbage collect results in different performance to not.

When you start trying to design tools to use SSDs optimally you find its heavily dependent on use patterns making it very hard to do this in a portable way or one that accounts for changes in the business.
Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?
by wafflemaker | 2025-09-02 16:41:46+00:00
In the past year we could observer Coding Agents proliferation. They are more popular than ever.

I'm studying IT and want to enter the market. Along with a friend from school we observed that it's very difficult to land a job interview and that there seem to be quite a few openings for Junior Engs. My case would be junior Linux admins, for my friend - junior data engineers.

I hear from many friends outside the industry, that according to people they know in IT, some companies have stopped hiring juniors. It's just better to use an LLM instead. This would correspond with the reduced amount of junior positions advertised on the market.

Can you share your experiences? Does your company still hire juniors? What do your friends in the industry say?

Maybe I'm wrong and the market oversaturation has pushed most of positions "underground", where people get hired through their network, and the position is never advertised. It might also be due to me only looking in Trondheim, which is not really that big of a city (150k, but considerable technical market due to the biggest technical university in the country being located here).

Previously asked (2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905701
by dahart | 2025-09-02 16:41:47+00:00
You’re making more assumptions. There’s no “scientific consensus” that he’s wrong, there are just opinions. Unlike the straw man examples you bring up, nobody has proven the claims you’re making. If they had, then the argument would go away like the others you mentioned.

Where did the argument change? Searle’s argument that you quoted is not arguing that we don’t have the algorithm yet. He’s arguing that the algorithm doesn’t run on electrical computers.

I’m not defending his argument, just pointing out that yours isn’t compelling because you don't seem to fully understand his, at least your restatement of it isn’t a good faith interpretation. Make his argument the strongest possible argument, and then show why it doesn’t work.

IMO modern LLMs don’t prove anything here. They don’t understand anything. LLMs aren’t evidence that computers can successfully think, they only prove that humans are prone to either anthropomorphic hyperbole, or to gullibility. That doesn’t mean computers can’t think, but I don’t think we’ve seen it yet, and I’m certainly not alone there.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-02 16:41:55+00:00
True! I doubt people are using this sort of site to be constructive or courageous, though. I think they just want to vent. I can understand that. What I don't really understand is why anyone else is interested in reading that venting.

Here's my little vent: "EMPLOYEES LEAVE MANAGERS, NOT COMPANIES"

People do leave bad managers, but they also leave bad companies even if they themselves have a good manager.
by mcswell | 2025-09-02 16:41:55+00:00
I stand by my comment; apparently you don't recognize hyperbole when you see it.

At any rate, there's absolutely no reason for a command in any programming language to require open and close XML tags: it's a waste of space, and just gets in the way of understanding the program,. If you need to close a command, there are things like {}, semicolons, parens (LISP), exdenting (Python), or even--yes--the 80th column in a punch card.
by j45 | 2025-09-02 16:42:20+00:00
Calculus is critical.

One of the few moments in university was learning how so much was actually Calculus.

Whether it was physics, chemistry, etc, the formulas I was given ften had a calculus version.

It helped me open up to taking math and stats courses I never would have as a comp sci student, which in turn gave me a different perspective than just taking cs courses alone.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-02 16:42:22+00:00
Imagine the risk of not being able to diversify your portfolio and putting all dependency on one income source. How do layoffs, broken health/major sickness, automation, local downturns get compensated by reducing future taxes? If I'm laid off for a year, then find a new job, I still pay the full tax amount on my income from that point forward, no 'loss deduction' from a year being unemployed. If I get sick with cancer and miss years of work then return, I still pay the full tax amount on my income.
by jeppester | 2025-09-02 16:42:25+00:00
I also recommend inertia.

It really doesn't do much, which is very refreshing coming from Nextjs.

It's simple tooling for backend for frontend-style APIs, taking care of basic routing, fetching of data, and submitting forms.

While inertia was invented for Laravel, I'd argue that it works even better with Adonisjs. Because Adonisjs is TypeScript you can infer the types coming from the backend.
by code4tee | 2025-09-02 16:42:40+00:00
Impressive round but it seems unlikely this game can go on much longer before something implodes. Given the amount of cash you need to set of fire to stay relevant it’s becoming nearly impossible for all but a few players to stay competitive, but those players have yet to demonstrate a viable business model.

With all these models converging, the big players aren’t demonstrating a real technical innovation moat. Everyone knows how to build these models now, it just takes a ton of cash to do it.

This whole thing is turning into an expensive race to the bottom. Cool tech, but bad business. A lot of VC folks gonna lose their shirt in this space.