MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-02 11:24:58+00:00
At least in the case of engineers, we're talking about highly compensated people. You should have a solid emergency fund put together within a few months of starting your career. From there, it's on you to not put yourself into an economically precarious position. People who are making multiples of the median household don't have food/shelter as an excuse.

Not that it's much of an excuse for everyone else either, but with people in the professional-managerial class it's absurd.
by detaro | 2025-10-02 11:24:59+00:00
The one selling it is the one that has the obligations. If a company grabs open-source code from you and sells it (e.g. as part of a bigger product) to someone else, they have to assume liability towards their customer, you don't have to be involved at all if you don't want to. That's the good thing about the carve-outs established, it's not your problem if you are just publishing your code for fun, the ball is entirely in the court of people that want to profit from it.
by Olumuyiwa24 | 2025-10-02 11:25:51+00:00
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by maroon_unperson | 2025-10-02 11:25:52+00:00
Flagged articles used to be a sign of something being misleading, badly written, or just something generally off to take caution with.

The last two years it has become more of a signal that "this is something right wing USA would want to supress".

I think the flagging mechanism needs a rethink now it is being abused in this way.
by ritzaco | 2025-10-02 11:26:39+00:00
yep I had an issue with an ownership change of a Google Workspace account recently and to their credit it was fairly easy (as a paying customer) to find a human to talk to who could escalate to someone who could fix the issue. It still was an annoying process that took a couple of hours instead of a couple of minutes, but they certainly didn't just ghost me or leave me out for dead.
by KirillClutch | 2025-10-02 11:27:48+00:00
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by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-02 11:27:56+00:00
So try it. Ask claude to call the tool that tails the diagnostics/logs. For some languages, like in android or C#, simply running the application generates a ton of logs, never mind on OS level, which has more low-level stuff. Claude reads through it really well and can find bugs for you. You can tell it what you are looking for, tell it a common/correct set of data or expectations, so it can compare it to what it finds in the logs. It solved an issue for me in 2 minutes that I wasn't able to solve in a couple of months. Basically anything you can run and see output for in the terminal, claude can do the same and analyse it at the same time.
by codingdave | 2025-10-02 11:28:02+00:00
I am, but I'm curious why you ask?

Consuming an LLM to fulfill part of a feature spec isn't exactly hard research. I would assume that the only reason solo builders are not building with AI is if their features don't require it.

I'm spending most of my "AI time", determining which features require LLMs vs. different AI techniques, to avoid just using LLMs as a one-size-fits-all hammer.
by jongjong | 2025-10-02 11:29:08+00:00
I appreciate the comment. You're right, things have been worse for certain people.

I'm definitely not 'elite' even though I've been a software engineer for 15 years, I was very unfortunate. Just imagine doing everything right but everything that's outside of your control going terribly wrong. That's what happened to me. I know others in the industry who had it worse but there is no consistency in experience.

The fact that you assume that because I've been a software engineer for 15 years, that it means I wasn't struggling financially the whole time is telling. It's what I meant when I said that we speak the same words but they don't mean the same thing. You assume software engineer means someone who is well-off. You don't know what country I'm from. I tell you, if you're outside of the US, the experience of being a software engineer has been VERY different. I'm based in Australia but I lived in Europe for several years (which was a horrible idea career-wise).

I have a friend from India. I'm jealous of him. His salary relative to cost of living is incredible. He can live like a king in his own country. I had some colleagues from Poland; they can buy their own houses/apartments working remote and living in their own countries. Meanwhile, I don't have the legal right to own property in those cheap countries, not even mentioning language barriers. I can't afford a deposit on a house in my country. I could never afford. Impossible to find a house or even apartment under $1 million. I've been living paycheck to paycheck. I struggled hard and only just managed to save like $30k in assets over 15 years working nights and most weekends on side projects. I'm running like 5 full-featured, working side projects concurrently none of them making money currently. I did get passive income from one of them for about 3 years but then was basically cheated out of it by a whole group of powerful people in crypto sector. Literally a conspiracy to discredit and defame me within my community, without any apparent justification and no basis in fact; just before COVID happened; I became somewhat paranoid because of this... Then COVID and ensuing political environment just poured fuel on the fire.
by bmez | 2025-10-02 11:30:48+00:00
not only, in most countries operating as a physician requires a license to operate. It can be revoked if the professional violates the terms of the license.

If software had such a thing, it would be possible to achieve something similar. It is not the oath per se that keeps doctors on the righteous path, it is just as much the treath of not loosing your job - but having your professional status revoked (i.e. permamently loosing the ability to work).

On the other hand, reviewing code every now and then, it would be good if you could revoke programming privileges for ever for certain individuals.
by apercu | 2025-10-02 11:31:28+00:00
Huh. I'm a U.S. (and Canadian) citizen. I've travelled a fair but (10-11 countries) but never the "East".

I looked at all the elements and was trying to understand the relationships and why the frog was the way it is and why the foreground fish had more colour.

2 reasons for that, I think. One, that I was aware it was a "test", and two, I'm an analyst.
by kylerpost26 | 2025-10-02 11:33:27+00:00
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by dimal | 2025-10-02 11:33:55+00:00
That’s a sad way to see things. Aren’t you paid to solve problems? To create value somehow?

And apparently there are people who find these environments energizing. It seems like those people are the ones who make these cruel policies. But 20-30% of all humans are highly sensitive and they generally find situations like this draining. Most autistic people are highly sensitive. My guess is that many of us would be on the high end of the HSP spectrum. When I take HSP assessments I max out every measure. I often feel like a bundle of exposed nerve endings.

And I need to point out that this is not inherently disabling. When I’m out in nature or experiencing great art or music, it’s clear that I’m having a better, more intense experience than most other people. Music moves me to tears often, sometimes several times a week. It’s wonderful to experience the world this way. But the only way for me to tolerate an open office would be to drug myself. This, to me, is dystopian.

This high sensitivity is why I’m able to solve problems that many others can’t. If I can focus that high sensitivity on the problem space, and I’m given a few days to process all the information, then I’m often able to untangle messes and solve problems that many others find intractable.

But corporations expect that we all conform to some standard of what’s expected of a “normal” human. By doing this, we’re not getting the best out of the human race. We’re actively disabling people that could be doing valuable work. It’s absurd.
by Avicebron | 2025-10-02 11:34:44+00:00
Typically the world changes when a new market is discovered, making the earth more traversable by car at the time opened up enough of a new market that it was done post haste for better or for worse. The only real way I see self-driving cars opening up markets at a scale that they would justify the amount of overhead is if they created self-driving only lanes with infrastructure closely around them to be quick and easily accessible from the passengers.

Which at that point is really just the Japanese train system and surrounding infrastructure, which many places (at least in the US) don't seem capable or willing to make happen.
by thyristan | 2025-10-02 11:36:59+00:00
I'd like to elaborate a little more on why "autistic masking" is different from "neurotypicals' masking".

For neurotypicals, masking is to exhibit behaviors that you subconciously know how to do because they are part of your natural range of behaviors. When a neurotypical is masking being friendly and happy in a social occasion (when they actually don't feel like it), they draw on their previous experience of having been friendly and happy in another social occasion. They know what it feels like, they know how to behave instinctively whey they really are happy and friendly, and faking it is only the effort of drawing from prior experience. For actors, this is called "the Method".

For autists, masking is emulating behaviors they wouldn't normally exhibit on any such occasion. They don't know how to do it, not subconciously, not instinctively. So they explicitly have to observe others, emulate their behavior on that occasion. That leads to two kinds of problems: First, they need to have observed this behavior, learned and practiced it, and need to know how to reproduce it correctly. Second, they need to recognize the occasion correctly, and not misinterpret their surroundings, the feelings and moods of others. And since autists also do have problems even interpreting their own emotional state (they do have emotions, but no intuitive way to know what they are at the moment) and even more the emotional state of others, the effort is far higher. Imagine an actor who is asked to play a totally alien role without any frame of reference and without prior experience, no do-overs and all the other people around him are also directors and constantly judging his performance and measuring it against their effortless instinct what it should look like.
by slightwinder | 2025-10-02 11:37:04+00:00
Does this support DRM? Like playing Netflix and other commercial streaming-sites. I remember this being a big problem with Firefox-forks. What about Firefox Sync?

Is RPC from external processes possible with this? For example, calling the URL of the open tab, or a list of open tabs and their URLs and/or content? Or remote control a tab, navigating to other URLs, etc? This would be interesting for integrating it with other apps and scripts, and Firefox is somewhat lacking in that field.

How secure is this?
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 11:37:45+00:00
> UK libel law routinely covers up all sorts of things which the public would benefit from having revealed, simply by the threat of an expensive lawsuit. It makes investigative journalism really uneconomic.

No. The deference people have to the law as some sort of all knowing all powerful magic spell that can be cast to force silence at any time is to blame. Libel is publishing something you know to be untrue. The truth cannot be libel.

If you want to speak the truth, if you want to act in service of the greater good, you must take the risk that you will attract attention from people who do not want you to speak the truth. And those people may use whatever power they have to suppress you, whether that's judicial or extrajudicial. That's not caused by any specific legal system, it's how people behave.

Investigative journalism is uneconomic the world over. The U.K. has some of the best investigative journalism in the world. The U.K. legal system is far from perfect, but it is wrong to say that in this case, the U.K.'s libel laws (for all their flaws) kept this information secret.

The irony is that the greatest suppressor of the truth is comments like yours which scare people into silence about the truth.
by bawolff | 2025-10-02 11:38:15+00:00
> You may still disagree, but even the tinest expansion of view is a victory for you both. Even the briefest glimse of otherness, a win.

But this view is also a win for "them". A society that cannot look to itself, see its failings and divisions and address them and move past them is doomed to stagnation and failure.

The thing about divide and conqour strategies, is they don't create the divisions out of nothing. They exploit what is already there. Suppressing the divisions without resolving them is like surpressing an emotion. Eventually the pressure builds until there is an explosion. It is as much a losing strategy as letting differences spiral into animosisty and hatred.

Sucessful strategies (such as stoking division) usually don't have an easy answer of what you can just do to defeat the strategy. If they did, people wouldn't have been using such strategies for thousands of years; People use them because they are hard to counter.
by mattashii | 2025-10-02 11:39:07+00:00
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by dynamite-ready | 2025-10-02 11:40:09+00:00
What are you suggesting though? That there were clues to herald these changes? Tbh, I did look at my (new) MP's record on social justice and welfare... They were surprisingly out of Party character on a few issues. But certainly better than the other candidates in aggregate.

That's about the best we can all do.

Like many others, I would like to see a Swiss style vote on anything that gathers enough public support.

Apparently, there are a few sources that suggest a 'silent' majority supports the OSA. I think far reaching laws like these (the assisted death law changes being another) should always be put before the public. That way at least, I can better understand my position, and consider whether I'm in the wrong.

(I feel the OSA should have forced the ISPs to add parental controls, and let each household manage their own patterns of consumption)
by tpoacher | 2025-10-02 11:40:18+00:00
There's a nice Jordan Peterson quote:

> There was a lesson to learn from the holocaust. We're always reminded that: "Never forget, we've learned our lesson." "What was the lesson?" That's the question. The lesson is, "You're the Nazi". No-one wants to learn that; If you were there, that would have been you. You might think "Well, I'd be Oskar Schindler and I'd be rescuing the Jews." It's like, no, afraid not. You'd at least not be saying anything. And you might also be actively participating. You might also enjoy it.

Hindsight theoretical morality is very different from experience on the ground, where peer pressure, stress, uncertainty, exploding situations and fog of war come into the mix.
by hemloc_io | 2025-10-02 11:40:40+00:00
The most frustrating thing to me about this most recent rash of biz guy doubting the future of AI articles is the required mention that AI, specifically an LLM based approach to AGI, is important even if the numbers don't make sense today.

Why is that the case? There's plenty of people in the field who have made convincing arguments that it's a dead end and fundamentally we'll need to do something else to achieve AGI.

Where's the business value? Right now it doesn't really exist, adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming and even in programming it's inconclusive as to how much better/worse it makes programmers.

I'm not a hater, it could be true, but it seems to be gospel and I'm not sure why.

Mapping to 2001 feels silly to me, when we've had other bubbles in the past that led to nothing of real substance.

LLMs are cool, but if they can't be relied on to do real work maybe they're not change the world cool? More like 30-40B market cool.

EDIT: Just to be clear here. I'm mostly talking about "agents"

It's nice to have something that can function as a good Google replacement especially since regular websites have gotten SEOified over the years. Even better if we have internal Search/Chat or whatever.

I use Glean at work and it's great.

There's some value in summarizing/brainstorming too etc. My point isn't that LLMs et al aren't useful.

The existing value though doesn't justify the multi-trillion dollar buildout plans. What does is the attempt to replace all white collar labor with agents.

That's the world changing part, not running a pretty successful biz, with a useful product. That's the part where I haven't seen meaningful adoption.

This is currently pitched as something that will have nonzero chance of destroying all human life, we can't settle for "Eh it's a bit better than Google and it makes our programmers like 10% more efficient at writing code."
by Bender | 2025-10-02 11:40:41+00:00
Moving fast and breaking things? /s

My drone has several sensors that make it nearly impossible for me to crash it into anything. If I tried to slam it into a big object like a crane it would slow to a crawl and eventually stop. Not perfect, I would like it to have ACAS and ADS-B and be able to turn down RemoteID to .1 milliwatt.
by bananaflag | 2025-10-02 11:40:49+00:00
I like that this has serious arguments and not "humans are magical" stuff which one sees in discussions of possible limitations of AI reasoning. (The author specifies that it's about humanoids of today and not humanoids in principle.)

This in particular shocked me a bit:

> No sense of touch. Human hands are packed absolutely full of sensors. Getting anywhere near that kind of sensing out of robot hands and usable by a human puppeteer is not currently possible.

This stands in contrast with e.g. self-driving cars, which are already superhuman at the sensor level.
by pryelluw | 2025-10-02 11:41:36+00:00
Article is behind paywall and is simply saying the same things that people have been saying about the post tech crash.

Now, what this sort of article tends to miss (and I will never know because it’s paywalled like a jackass) is that these models services are used by everyday people for every day tasks. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or not. It enables them to do less work for the same pay. Don’t focus on the money the models are bringing in today, focus on the dependency they’re building on people’s minds.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-02 11:43:16+00:00
> So if you rebuilt userland with Rust and had the same layout of shared libraries then you’d have a massive amount of unsafe code

Sort of, but I think that’s misleading; you’d have a massive amount of safe code, scaffolded with unsafe ABI boundaries. That’s a problem, but it’s not really the same kind of attacker or fault surface as unsafe code in the libraries themselves.

It’s also a wholly solvable problem in the sense that Rust could define a stable non-C ABI. There just hasn’t been an extraordinary need for that yet, since most people who want to build Rust code into shared objects do want a C ABI.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-02 11:43:32+00:00
I don't think it'll contract. The people dumping their money into AI think we are at end of days, new order for humanity type point, and they're willing to risk a large part of their fortune to ensure that they remain part of the empowered elite in this new era. It's an all hands on deck thing and only hard diminishing returns that make the AI takeoff story look implausible are going to cause a retrenchment.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-02 11:43:51+00:00
Where's the business value? Right now it doesn't really exist, adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming and even in programming it's inconclusive as to how much better/worse it makes programmers.

I have a friend who works at PwC doing M&A. This friend told me she can't work without ChatGPT anymore. PwC has an internal AI chat implementation.

Where does this notion that LLMs have no value outside of programming come from? ChatGPT released data showing that programming is just a tiny fraction of queries people do.
by apercu | 2025-10-02 11:43:51+00:00
Generational thing. Back when I was supporting banks of USR 28.8s, SLIP and especially PPP were just the job (mostly PPP by that point).

But even then I don’t think I’d have thought to drag a dial-up framing protocol into a new project. Odds are I’d just recreate SLIP from muscle memory.... maybe?
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