MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-27 04:54:13+00:00
Not quite. You had a bunch of workers at Tyson Chicken and Hormel Foods... At Tyson, underage and other undocumented workers were complaining about OSHA type stuff... next thing, there's a raid, 900 workers rounded up. Awkward moment as many of them spoke about how Tyson knew they were undocumented, and even handed over the written instructions provided to them on how to fill out paperwork and stay under the radar if they were.

"That is outside the scope of this investigation." Nothing ever happened.

At Hormel, complaining about all sorts of strange diseases and health conditions, possibly from inhaling aerosolized pig brain all day long? Oh, look, another raid.

"Won't someone rid me of these meddlesome workers?"

Just a theory but it seems highly plausible in both these cases that the companies and ICE colluded... stage a big photo op, get rid of problematic undocumented workers and oh, hey, wouldn't you know, no plans to investigate the company?

This is also your friendly reminder that visa overstays are a misdemeanor, but for an employer, assisting or knowingly hiring undocumented workers is a felony. Tough on crime, indeed.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-10-27 04:55:15+00:00
Was thinking about this today. I had to do a simple wedding planning task - setting up my wedding website with FAQ, cobbling the guest list (together from texts, photos of my father’s address book, and excel spreadsheets), directions and advice for lodging, conjuring up a scheme to get people to use the on-site cabins, and a few other mundane tasks. No phone calls, no “deep research” just wrote browser-jockeying. Not even any code, the off-the-rack system just makes that for you (however I know for a fact an LLM would love to try to code this for me).

I know without a single doubt that I could not simply as an “AI” “agent” to do this today and expect any sort of a functional result, especially when some of these were (very simple) judgement calls or workarounds for absolutely filthy data and a janky wedding planning website UI.
by safety1st | 2025-10-27 04:55:36+00:00
It's always about what you choose to focus on. I'm a guy who came of age in the middle of the PC revolution and has been daily driving Linux for over a decade.

In the last few years we've seen first Valve with SteamOS, and now 37signals with Omarchy, release Linux distros which are absolutely great for their target audience and function as a general purpose operating system just fine. Once might just be a fluke... Twice is a pattern starting to emerge.

Are we witnessing the beginning of a new operating system ecosystem where you only have to be a billion dollar company to produce a viable operating system instead of a trillion dollar one?

How many of our assumptions about computing are based on the fact that for 30+ years, only Microsoft, Apple and Google got to do a consumer OS?

And a preponderance of the little components that make up this "new" OS ecosystem were developed by some of the most radical software freedom fighters we've got.

Is this a long shot I'm thinking about, you bet. But the last time I was this excited about the future I was a teenager and most homes still didn't have a PC.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-27 04:56:29+00:00
I don't have the opportunities you're talking about. You misunderstand who I am or what my background is. I don't come from the USA and in fact you literally couldn't pay me to go work in or for the USA. Not in my entire life has that ever been possible. USA has always been a last resort option for me. Not that I have the option, but to even consider it, it would need to be the last option left.

I'm not saying that you cannot work in an MS-shop. I am just saying that the attitudes I see reflected in the comments supporting MS-shops explain why MS-shop output looks the way it does.

Ultimately, it comes down to company culture not individual developers. I wouldn't hold devs accountable for what is a systemic issue, in fact I am grateful there are those devs who don't care about taking pride in their work who can survive in an MS-shop without it draining their reason for being. If not for them, positions in places where taking pride in your work doesn't come at personal cost would be far more competitive.

However, that doesn't mean it isn't worth calling out an emerging pattern of MS-shops being the kind of place incompatible with wanting to take pride in your work.
by analog31 | 2025-10-27 04:56:31+00:00
>>> The joy of coding for me was literally the process of coding.

Maybe I was lucky. For me, the joy was the power of coding. Granted, I'm not employed as a coder. I'm a scientist, and I use coding as a problem solving tool. Nothing I write goes directly into production.

What's gone is the feeling that coding is a special elite skill.

With that said, I still admire and respect the real software developers, because good software is more than code.
by xaxaxb | 2025-10-27 04:56:43+00:00
Use LibreOffice on Windows. Microsoft Office used to come bundled with Windows, as an office suite. Now it's a subscription product. This is a bad decision; shows how Microsoft can't keep it up together. Even if it had been one-time purchase with LTS updates and everything, just like it used to, one could possible think of buying it. But, $100/year for personal use?? What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do?? Get LibreOffice, even if you use Windows.
by klodolph | 2025-10-27 04:56:47+00:00
It’s being sorted not once per frame, but once per item.

If you have 50 items in the list, then the list gets sorted 50 times. If you have 200 items in the list, the list is sorted 200 times.

This is unnecessary. The obvious alternative is a binary heap… which is what the fix does. Although it would also be obvious to reuse an existing binary heap implementation, rather than inventing your own.
by themafia | 2025-10-27 04:57:44+00:00
> Even if you merely cross the road in the wrong place, you deserve a punishment to the maximum extent specified by the law, don't you?

It depends _why_ you did it. This is the precise reason why we have courts and juries. Jury nullification exists for a reason. Laws are not meant to be a rote set of rules and punishments to dole out mechanically.
by mgh2 | 2025-10-27 04:59:22+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SETmZAMVW3g

TLDR: Marginal decade - after 75 yrs old health falls off a cliff.

- VO2max: training like athletes, measured w/ Cooper test, wearable

- Hanging: 40+ women 1.5m, men 2min
by XenophileJKO | 2025-10-27 04:59:25+00:00
I think this approach bothers me on the ethical level.

To flood bots with gibberish that you "think" will harm their ability to function means you are in some ways complicit if those bots unintentionally cause harm in any small part due to your data poisoning.

I just don't see a scenario where doing what author is doing is permissible in my personal ethical framework.

Unauthorized access doesn't absolve me when I create the possiblity of transient harm.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-10-27 04:59:26+00:00
During The last American civil war, the North was the economic poeerhouse, and the slave states were relatively poor. This no doubt impacted the outcome.

Today the blue states are the economic powerhouse, and the red states are relatively poor. Should it come to it, I would expect the wealthy states to win.

We hopefully will never find out, though.
by weavejester | 2025-10-27 05:00:42+00:00
"I’m not sure if anyone else feels this way, but with the introduction of generative AI, I don’t find coding fun anymore. It’s hard to motivate myself to code knowing that a model can do it much quicker. The joy of coding for me was literally the process of coding."

I experimented with GPT-5 recently and found its capabilities to be significantly inferior to that of a human, at least when it came to coding.

I was trying to give it an optimal environment, so I set it to work on a small JavaScript/HTML web application, and I divided the task into small steps, as I'd heard it did best under those circumstances.

I was impressed overall by how far the technology has come, but it produced a number of elementary errors, such as putting JavaScript outside the script tags. As the code grew, there was also no sense that it had a good idea of how to structure the codebase, even when I suggested it analyze and refactor.

So unless there are far more capable models out there, we're not at the stage where generative AI can match a human.

In general I find current model to have broad but shallow thinking. They can draw on many sources, which is extremely useful, but seem to have problems reasoning things through in depth.

All this is to say that I don't find the joy of coding to have gone at all. In fact, there's been a number of really thorny problems I've had to deal with recently that I'd love to have side-stepped, but due to the currently limitations of LLMs I had to solve them the old-fashioned way.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-27 05:00:48+00:00
Oh, I guess that's a fair point. I didn't consider the change from `std.fs.openFile` to `std.Io.Dir.openFile` to be meaningful, but I guess that is problematic for some reason?

You're of course correct here; but I thought it was reasonable to omit changes that I would describe as namespace changes. Now considering the audience I regret doing so. (it now does require nhe Io object as well, so namespace is inarticulate here)
by Larrikin | 2025-10-27 05:00:54+00:00
Use the existing social security verification system, 5x fines median salary per year of suspected employment. Assume the worker has only worked for one employer for their entire time in the US or since 18 if there is no other verifiable evidence of employment.

It would fix the "problem" of all American workers who fear their job can be taken away by someone who doesn't speak the language, possibly has little education, because a large company thinks it's more profitable to hire them illegally. Nobody actually cares if someone hires their cousin at the family owned restaurant that sends money back home to his family.

But the goal actually is to have a section of society scared to report employer abuses and willing to work below minimum wage. The farmers in Iowa want the cruelty in Chicago. There was a tiny bit of deportation raids in red states at the beginning because of racism, but that was shut down quick.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-27 05:01:53+00:00
Sorry, a piece of software is no more a bunch of numbers than a musical score or a novel. Intellectual property exists for valid reasons. It's clearly not delusional because we've made it work for hundreds of years.

Saying that intellectual property is founded on a delusion because someone can infringe on it or it's mere numbers is like saying your physical property rights are a delusion because the stuff is mere matter and can be manipulated by anyone. While true, such statements add absolutely nothing to the conversation. If people are willing to copy from others rather than make their own creations, there is value in the original works that is a direct result of someone's labor, not some immutable law of the universe.
by snickerbockers | 2025-10-27 05:02:40+00:00
Ive always been ashamed of all the genocidal massacres and forced relocations we did to the native americans but its not in any way accurate to compare establishing a colony to immigration; they came here to create a new society not to live amongst the existing civilizations. The way they did so at the expense of the civilizations already living here is abhorrent and shameful but its also in no way comparable to illegal immigration.

To the extent that it is comparable we would be absolutely justified in regulating immigration because the implication would be that the same thing that we did to the native americans is going to happen to us.

Its also not in any way reasonable to use the sins of the distant ancestor to delegitimize the nation's right to self-determination. Even if i accept your premise that my ancestors are comparable to immigrants i myself am not. If the argument is that the nation has no rights to control its own borders because that would constitute some sort of "generational hypocrisy" that would also mean we have an obligation to accommodate slavery and genocide because our ancestors committed and benefitted from both of those.
by ec109685 | 2025-10-27 05:04:13+00:00
I hate ai sometimes — an AI generated pull request (really some rando found a way of shaving 12% off the run loop?) responded to by an ai comment bot:

> This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.
by cturner | 2025-10-27 05:04:53+00:00
Yes, Valve controls supply. That strengthens my point.

Market makers do not control the supply of goods. They provide resting liquidity for pre-existing goods.

Similarly, market makers do not get to establish rules of the of their own "reality". Market makers are participants in a venue. It is the venue/exchange that sets the rules.

User Bengalilol seems to have inferred that because Valve made the venue, he can refer to them as the "market maker". This is not correct. Words have meaning. The meaning of market-maker is well-established in the context of exchanges. Market maker is incorrect terminology for Valve’s role.
by linguaz | 2025-10-27 05:05:34+00:00
Wondering if something like this could be implemented on tangled with public-inbox:

https://public-inbox.org/README.html

> public-inbox implements the sharing of an email inbox via git to complement or replace traditional mailing lists. Readers may read via NNTP, IMAP, POP3, Atom feeds or HTML archives.

> public-inbox stores mail in git repositories as documented in https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-v2-format.txt and https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-v1-format.txt

> By storing (and optionally) exposing an inbox via git, it is fast and efficient to host and mirror public-inboxes.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-27 05:06:02+00:00
That's not how food prices works.

High housing prices is a complex mix of underbuilding due to zoning laws, companies buying up housing stock to rent, and (a few years ago) very low interest rates. One thing that is _not_ a factor is immigrants, because they are at the bottom of the social pile and usually can't get mortgages to buy houses.
by photonthug | 2025-10-27 05:06:32+00:00
Yeah, I mean I hope there are not many people that still think it's a super meaningful test in the sense originally proposed. And yet it is testing something. Even supposing it were completely solved and further supposing the solution is theoretically worthless and only powers next-gen slop-creation, then people would move on to looking for a minimal solution, and perhaps that would start getting interesting. People just like moving towards concrete goals.

In the end though, it's probably about as good as any single kind of test could be, hence TFA looking to combine hundreds across several dozen categories. Language was a decent idea if you're looking for that exemplar of the "AGI-Complete" class for computational complexity, vision was at one point another guess. More than anything else I think we've figured out in recent years that it's going to be hard to find a problem-criteria that's clean and simple, much less a solution that is
by twotwotwo | 2025-10-27 05:07:15+00:00
The early users being patent secretaries, then "administrative kind of stuff, typing in trouble tickets," and adoption spreading because people liked it, is kind of cool. That creates different kinds of pressures than a big top-down-dictated project does, maybe healthy pressures: if you're going to play with a new idea about how things should work you can't break things; you need the thing running reliably for the people using it day-to-day. One way you can have huge projects fail is by fiddling around too long without contact with reality.

Given Linux's origins--"(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"--it's interesting that early UNIX, in this telling, was also not the big professional push to build the OS of the future so much as just some folks trying to cobble something useful together (though of course, that they were playing around in Bell Labs gave their experiment some great advantages!).
by varenc | 2025-10-27 05:07:30+00:00
It's pretty cool! But homebridge is another service to run in a Docker container.. so even less user friendly. But it's definitely the primary way everyone that's not me accesses the baby camera. The out-of-home access requires a "HomeKit Hub" which can just be an Apple TV that's always plugged in. And HomeKit also has "HomeKit Secure Video" feature which is cloud based video storage, but with E2EE. But don't recommend their video storage really.
by hinkley | 2025-10-27 05:08:45+00:00
Several of my coworkers complained fairly loudly that an early 'blocked' on a review makes nobody else look at it until you've cleared that problem.

If someone blocks your PR, no matter what time you believe you've finished addressing the PR comments, your PR will not go anywhere while that person is out of the office, in a meeting, or working on their own story. They've just linearized the development process.

And given the previously mentioned phenomenon, they have to be available, read your changes, unblock your PR, and then your other coworkers have to check their PR inbox, do their reviews, and then you have to make more rounds of changes.

So if a block is involved early in a review, your code basically goes through two full rounds of PR. It can lead to whiplash if the reviewers need to argue amongst themselves.

And if this is just a PR to refactor code so you can get on to the meat of your ticket, then you're blocked, not just your PR. And god help you if someone "doesn't get the point" of a PR that doesn't exhibit clear forward motion on your story. So they make it difficult to make the change easy, and then do a second PR to make the easy change.
by theaniketgiri | 2025-10-27 05:08:47+00:00
Fair points and I get where you’re coming from. I’ve been very open that AI helped with repetitive parts (docs, boilerplate, commit messages). The functional code training logic, model architecture, CLI was written and tested by me. Some design choices (like storing scripts as strings or using if-else) were just pragmatic decisions made while iterating fast, not signs of AI authorship. Either way, the project is open source — you can inspect, critique, or even improve any part of it. I’m happy to take constructive feedback. My goal’s just to make LLM training more accessible.
by sodaclean | 2025-10-27 05:09:06+00:00
while researching links to back up me calling this a nothing burger, I found this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=twqqak3XVuY which upgrades this to Puff Piece.

it gets worse- the overseeing professor mentioned here, and in the video, is the author of the paper linked in the description- from 2018. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-018-1192-5)

See: https://www.u-blox.com/en/technologies/high-precision-positi... for information thats not one guy stroking his... ego.

Also, PPP-RTK is another keyword.
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-27 05:09:19+00:00
Libertarians and Conservatives can all wish for a smaller government and slash things apart in America - it's not going to change the fact that America is a corrupt socialist country which runs semis, bails out billionaires, subsidizes farmers, and uses taxpayer money to enrich business owners.

The only difference between American socialism and Argentinian socialism was that Argentinian socialism pretended to help the poor but America doesn't even pretend to help the poor.
by kdamica | 2025-10-27 05:09:56+00:00
We've used an offline Infant Optics baby camera for three kids and have never wished for any of the smart features that online cameras offer. You really just want to know whether they are asleep and when they are crying. I just don't see a good use case for recording all that video for most kids. (I'm sure there are special needs situations where it is helpful)
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-27 05:10:24+00:00
As Vincent Gallo put it recently re: federal debt:

> The USA can tolerate one of these two things. A system of no welfare, no social services, no socialized medicine, food or housing with open borders. OR. No open boarders and highly limited, highly controlled, assimilating immigration policy. We cannot have both. When the USA had unlimited immigration over 100 years ago, we did not have Government supporting immigrants with welfare, medical services, housing, food etc.

I don't agree with Mr. Gallo here - I'm just sharing what a popular RW response is on this.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-27 05:11:32+00:00
Amazon is straight up evil at this point. People have pointed out they are selling fake fuses that have most likely gotten people killed, Amazon has done nothing. I am sure the same is occurring across other product categories like your example.

The 'luxury' you are talking about was called Brands, with the idea being that a company's Brand was worth more than lure of profits/shortcuts that could result in ruining the Brand.
by burningChrome | 2025-10-27 05:11:59+00:00
>> a secret police force under the guise of enforcing immigration.

Isn't that role of ICE? To police and enforce immigration? Doesn't ICE stand for "Immigration & Customs Enforcement"?

What am I missing here?

There is no need for a "secret police" when that is the intended, declared and funded function of their organization.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-27 05:12:40+00:00
Unlike nanochat this is purely vibe-coded, improving vibes by 110%, with 112x more emoji. A key innovation that gets to the heart of the problem is that this project stores python files as strings in typscript files to help improve workflows. I imagine the author solved this engineering challenge to overcome existing limitations\emdash more efficient, interpretable, and maintainable code\emdash in existing projects.
by beej71 | 2025-10-27 05:12:44+00:00
The fun is still there. I'm relearning Rust and generative AI is really useful to help with understanding concepts and improving code. But I'm still the one understanding and improving.

Still an infinite amount to learn and do. It's still not hard to have more skill than an AI. Of course AI can solve all the dumbbell problems you get in school. They're just there to build muscle. Robots can lift weights better than you, too, but that doesn't mean there's no value in you doing it.
by Hamuko | 2025-10-27 05:13:49+00:00
Once again: that is not what the term means and you should not use it if you do not understand what it means. There is a very established definition for it, and for some reason you keep pretending there isn’t without a shred of evidence. Fair dealing also grants people "the right to use a copyrighted work irrespective of the copyright holder's wishes" and it's separate of fair use.
by _vertigo | 2025-10-27 05:16:49+00:00
Please. Are you implying we need AI to the same degree we need clean water?

Your chemicals in river analogy only works if there were also a giant company straight out of “The Lorax” siphoning off all of the water in the river.. and further, the chemicals would have to be harmless to humans but would cause the company’s machines to break down so they couldn’t make any more thneeds.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-27 05:16:55+00:00
And yet multiple studies have shown that when jobs are offered to Americans that involve labor (farm, construction, food industry), at those wages, then there are generally few to near zero applicants.

There are other reasonings (prevailing wage, location, etc.), but likewise, your "absolute assertion" that undocumented workers have been taking job opportunities from you is also not entirely ... absolute.