MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bastawhiz | 2025-10-28 00:07:45+00:00
It's literally not the law.

42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(j) says:

> Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be interpreted to require any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee subject to this subchapter to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the race, color, religion, sex, or national origin of such individual or group on account of an imbalance which may exist with respect to the total number or percentage of persons of any race, color, religion, sex, or national origin employed by any employer, referred or classified for employment by any employment agency or labor organization, admitted to membership or classified by any labor organization, or admitted to, or employed in, any apprenticeship or other training program, in comparison with the total number or percentage of persons of such race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in any community, State, section, or other area, or in the available work force in any community, State, section, or other area.

Which is to say, affirmative action or diversity programs.

29 C.F.R. § 1608.1–1608.1(c) says:

> Voluntary affirmative action to improve opportunities for minorities and women must be encouraged and protected in order to carry out the Congressional intent embodied in title VII.[4] Affirmative action under these principles means those actions appropriate to overcome the effects of past or present practices, policies, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity. Such voluntary affirmative action cannot be measured by the standard of whether it would have been required had there been litigation, for this standard would undermine the legislative purpose of first encouraging voluntary action without litigation.

34 C.F.R. § 106.3(b) says:

> a recipient may take affirmative action to overcome the effects of conditions which resulted in limited participation therein by persons of a particular sex.

The decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber states:

> Title VII's prohibition in §§ 703(a) and (d) against racial discrimination does not condemn all private, voluntary, race-conscious affirmative action plans. ... Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 U. S. 405, 422 U. S. 418, cannot be interpreted as an absolute prohibition against all private, voluntary, race-conscious affirmative action efforts to hasten the elimination of such vestiges.

The decision in Johnson v. Transportation Agency similarly states that Santa Clara County Transportation Agency did not violate Title VII by promoting a less-qualified woman.

The decision in Cohen v. Brown University upheld the use of affirmative action to equalize opportunity.

The law _literally_ contemplates this. As you said, "you need to literally look it up sometime."
by _wire_ | 2025-10-28 00:07:51+00:00
This is a goto claim for AI PR, and like so much AI hype, it's bragging about something that has not been accomplished with no story supporting the expectation it can be accomplished.

Musk is the poster-child for hyperbolic promises, with his colonizing Mars insanity keeping buzz going for years whereas the most basic analysis of the idea reveals it is ludicrous empty posturing supported by rocket stunts.

There's a bigger weirder aspect of this hyperbole: Not only is fantasy promoted as real, but now--especially wrt politics and policy--the real is neglected as if it were fantasy.

The world has become what rich men say it is, and AI is a bulldozer for the spoken.
by iamwil | 2025-10-28 00:08:01+00:00
The essays go back a couple years. How did I use LLMs to write in 2021 and 2022?

If you're talking about something more recent, there's only two essays I wrote with the outlining and throughline method I described above. And all of essays, I wrote every word you read on the page with my fingers tapping on the keyboard.

Hence, I'm not actually sure you can tell. I believe you think I'm just one-shotting these essays by rambling to an LLM. I can tell you for sure the results from doing that is pretty bad.

All of them have the same rhetorical structure...probably because it's what I write like without an LLM, and it's what I prompted the LLM, playing a role as a development editor to critique outlines to do! So if you're saying that I'm a bad writer (fair), that's one thing! But I'm definitely writing these myself. shrug
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-28 00:08:51+00:00
Seems like Onoda's situation is that she was born in the United States to a white American father and a Japanese mother, and the father abandoned the family and the mother moved back to Japan when Onoda was extremely young. So she has almost entirely grown up in Japan but technically had US citizenship because of US birthright citizenship laws until she deliberately gave it up; and of course is visibly half-white. It wouldn't surprise me if part of her personal anti-immigration stance was grounded in anger and sadness about her non-Japanese father abandoning her and her mom.
by TLDRisk | 2025-10-28 00:09:25+00:00
It's almost impossible to judge based on the pricing alone. Paying top dollar doesn't guarantee anything extra and low prices don't always mean low quality service.

$6.99 looks like a first year discount at dynadot with renewals at $10.88 USD.

> Why such a huge difference?

A lot of registrants don't know what the wholesale pricing looks like and the difference between $10 or $25 / year for a business isn't a factor. The risk that comes along with transferring to a cheaper registrar isn't worth it to save $15 / year.
by apparent | 2025-10-28 00:09:26+00:00
Definitely not. But parents of kids in the class are not random.

Also, while they may lack a teacher's credential, they may have other (and in many cases, at least around here) more rigorous advanced degrees. It is fairly well-known that education majors enter college with the lowest average SAT scores and exit with the highest GPAs.

Parents who are volunteering in the classroom are not there "to audit" the teacher's performance. They are there to help. If they notice the teacher is incompetent, they would be crazy to ignore that fact.

I have seen so many ELA handouts with typos come home with my kid. And a teacher recently multiplied 5 x 7 in class and got 30. If my basic skills were this bad, I wouldn't want anyone but children (who might not know the difference) around to judge me.
by timpieces | 2025-10-28 00:11:28+00:00
Yes it's surprising to see so much cynicism for something that has a real possibility of making so many people so much more productive. My mental model of the average excel user is of someone who doesn't care about excel, but cares about their business. If Claude can help them use excel and learn about their business faster, then this should make the world more productive and we all get richer. Claude can make mistakes, but it's not clear to me why people think that the ratio of results to mistakes will get worse here. I think there are many possible reasons why this could not work out, but many of the comments here just seem like unfounded cynicism.
by tzs | 2025-10-28 00:13:01+00:00
Chains shine for the case where there generally isn't snow and ice where you spend most of your time, or where you occasionally visit, but there is between those places.

I actually had chains when I lived in the Los Angeles area, which is probably the last place most people would expect someone to have chains or snow tires.

I occasionally had to take I-5 to Central California or the Bay Area in winter, and in a typical winter there are maybe 1-5 days where you aren't allowed through Tejon Pass on just ordinary tires.

There are three cases, depending on the severity of the weather. From least to most severe the requirements are:

• If you have snow tires on at least two drive wheels you don't need chains. Otherwise you need chains.

• If you have a 4WD/AWD vehicle with snow tires on all wheels you don't need chains. Otherwise you need chains.

• You need chains.
by dathinab | 2025-10-28 00:14:20+00:00
DST wasn't a mistake and did make a lot of time (at least if you are far enough away from the equator). Heck if you go back far enough local time might have varied by session/be relative to sun rise, and that did make sense in the past.

What is the mistake is keeping it.

Through changes need to be coordinated (e.g. in the EU across _all_ EU member states), which makes it an annoying topic to takle.

That people tent to say "keep winter time" but it directly conflict with what sleep scientist tend to recommend is not helping either. In the end normal time is summer time and it is better for most peoples sleep rithm that is what we should go to.

Oh also don't shift work start/end times, the whole point is to not shift when you need to wake up/go to bed but can have consistent healthy sleep.
by bastawhiz | 2025-10-28 00:14:46+00:00
That's sort of the point: almost nobody runs a site as large as Reddit. The average website has a relatively small handful of pages. Even a very active blog has few enough pages that it could be fully scraped in under a few minutes. Where scrapers get hung up is when they're processing links that add things like query parameters, or navigating through something like a git repository and clicking through every file in every commit. If a scraper has enough intelligence to look at what the link is, it _surely_ has enough intelligence to understand what it does and does not need to scrape.
by regularization | 2025-10-28 00:14:57+00:00
The new editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, has been publishing genocide denial pieces, pointing ro various children dying in Gaza as false stories. That happened this week, you seem to be concerned that Chomsky signed a petition for Faurisson on the 1970s, that he should not be jailed for publishing his book on the holocaust. Chomsky signed hundreds of letters for jailed Soviet dissidents, Turkish authors on trial etc. That he did not want Faurisson jailed for his book is seen as a bad thing by those who don't believe in free speech and believe authors should be jailed by governments.

Regarding Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge coalition was pushed out in 1979 and the US began arming the KR coalition, providing UN support for it etc. You would think the US and Reagan arming the Khmer Rouge coalition more heinous, if you don't like them, than Chomsky saying the US should not bomb Cambodia in the 1970s etc.

The UN and every human rights organization in the world says the US has been and is involved in a genocide in Gaza. The denial of this in the US has been incredible, but now that the first stage is done the Press is more forthcoming about it. Something Chonsky opposed, the establishment supported.
by hamasho | 2025-10-28 00:15:13+00:00
The problem with vibe coding is it demoralizes experienced software engineers. I'm developing a MVP with vibes and Claude Code and Codex output work in many cases for this relatively new project. But the quality of code is bad. There is already duplicated or unused logic, a lot of code is unnecessarily complex (especially React and JSX). And there's little PR reviews so that "we can keep velocity". I'm paying much less attention for quality now. After all, why bother when AI produce working code? I can't justify and don't have energy for deep-diving system design or dozens of nitpicking change requests. And it makes me more and more replaceable by LLM.
by jbs789 | 2025-10-28 00:15:24+00:00
I tend to agree that dropping the tool as it is into untrained hands is going to be catastrophic.

I’ve had similar professional experiences as you and have been experimenting with Claude Code. I’ve found I really need to know what I’m doing and the detail in order to make effective (safe) use out of it. And that’s been a learning curve.

The one area I hope/think it’s closest to (given comments above) is potentially as a “checker” or validator.

But even then I’d consider the extent to which it leaks data, steers me the wrong way, or misses something.

The other case may be mocking up a simple financial model for a test / to bounce ideas around. But without very detailed manual review (as a mitigating check), I wouldn’t trust it.

So yeah… that’s the experience of someone who maybe bridges these worlds somewhat… And I think many out there see the tough (detailed) road ahead, while these companies are racing to monetize.
by ambicapter | 2025-10-28 00:16:20+00:00
LLMs are great for learning though, you can easily ask them questions, and you can evaluate your understanding every step of the way, and gradually build the accuracy of your world model that way. It’s not uncommon for me to ask a general question, drill deeper into a concept, and then either test things manually with some toy code or end up reading the official documentation, this time with at least some exposure to the words that I’m looking for to answer my question.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-10-28 00:16:40+00:00
I've been working with a data processing pipeline that was vibe-coded by an AI engineer, and while the code works, as software that has to fit into a production environment, it's a mess. Take logging for example. The pipeline is made up of AWS lambdas written in python. The person who built it wanted to add context to each log for debugging and the LLM generated hundreds of lines of python in each lambda to do this (no common library). But he (and the LLM) didn't understand that there were a bunch of files that initialized their own loggers at the top of the file, so all that code to set context in the root logger wouldn't get used in those files. And then he wanted to parallelize some tasks, and both he and the LLM didn't understand that the logging context was thread-local and wouldn't show up in logs generated in another thread. So what we ended up with was 250+ line logging_config.py files in each individual lambda that were only used for a small portion of the logs generated by the application.
by endomorphosis | 2025-10-28 00:16:44+00:00
STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 2023

Held: Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 6–40.

"(b) Proposed by Congress and ratified by the States in the wake of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment provides that no State shall “deny to any person . . . the equal protection of the laws.” Proponents of the Equal Protection Clause described its “foundation[al] principle” as “not permit[ing] any distinctions of law based on race or color.” Any “law which operates upon one man,” they maintained, should “operate equally upon all.” Accordingly, as this Court’s early decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause explained, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed “that the law in the States shall be the same for the black as for the white; that all persons, whether colored or white, shall stand equal before the laws of the States.” ...

"Respondents suggest that the end of race-based admissions programs will occur once meaningful representation and diversity are achieved on college campuses. Such measures of success amount to little more than comparing the racial breakdown of the incoming class and comparing it to some other metric, such as the racial makeup of the previous incoming class or the population in general, to see whether some proportional goal has been reached. The problem with this approach is well established: “[O]utright racial balancing” is “patently unconstitutional.”
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-10-28 00:16:50+00:00
I have a feeling there's something cool and useful here, but the way it's described makes me, with the utmost respect love and adoration for the work put into this, want to tear my eyes out. If I was the one posting this after I'd spent a bunch of time working on it and got no comments or feedback I'd be sad and confused, so I will try to give the advice that I would want in this situation.

My harsh feedback would be that the way to communicate what your library does is almost entirely defensive and aims to justify its existence but without telling you in basic terms what it does. It feels like it was written off the back of 100 conversations with someone who said "oh okay, but can't you just [...]".

Humans tend to read in a Z pattern, so I've read 3 blocks of mostly irrelevant text that should be buried in an FAQ somewhere before you actually introduce your core primitives.

I think if you took a few hours to do the following and resubmit you'll get a much warmer reception:

1. Drastically reduce the text. Action Engine provides a set of utilities to help developers build multimodal, streaming, stateful, long-running, agentic applications. Actions are bla bla, async nodes are bla bla. Save the philosophy for the docs.

2. Include a middle step before you jump straight from a oneliner to working program in RestOfTheFuckingOwl style. Here's how these abstractions can be combined in simple way to do surprisingly complex thing.

3. Add a complete, highly intuitive code example or if not possible, a neat diagram. Bonus points for comparing to an existing popular framework you want to replace.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-28 00:16:53+00:00
> That's why it keeps things like condition codes, which are a big mistake for large out-of-order implementations. RISC-V sensibly avoid this by having condition-and-branch instructions instead.

Respectfully, the statement in question is partially erroneous and, in far greater measure, profoundly misleading. A distortion draped in fragments of truth remains a falsehood nonetheless.

Whilst AArch64 does retain condition flags, it is not simply because of «AArch32 stretched to 64-bit», and condition codes are not a «big mistake» for large out-of-order (OoO) cores. AArch64 also provides compare-and-branch forms similar to RISC-V, so the contrast given is a false dichotomy.

Namely:

– «AArch64 came from AArch32» – historically AArch64 was a fresh ARMv8-A ISA design that removed many AArch32 features. It has kept flags, but discarded pervasive per-instruction predication and redesigned much of the encoding and register model; – «Flags are a big mistake for large OoO» – global flags do create extra dependencies, yet modern cores (x86 and ARM) eliminate most of the cost with techniques such as flag renaming, out-of-order flag generation and using instruction forms that avoid setting flags when unnecessary. As implemented in high-IPC x86 and ARM cores, it shows that flags are not an inherent limiter; – «RISC-V avoids this by having condition-and-branch» – AArch64 also has condition-and-branch style forms that do not use flags, for example: 1) CBZ/CBNZ xN, label – compare register to zero and branch; 2) TBZ/TBNZ xN, #bit, label – test bit and branch.

Compilers freely choose between these and flag-based sequences, depending on what is already available and the code/data flow. Also, many arithmetic operations do not set flags unless explicitly requested, which reduces false flag dependencies.

Lastly, but not least importantly, Apple’s big cores are among the widest, deepest out-of-order designs in production, with very high IPC and excellent branch handling. Their microarchitectures and toolchains make effective use of:

– Flag-free branches where convenient – CBZ/CBNZ, TBZ/TBNZ (see above); – Flag-setting only when it is free or beneficial – ADDS/SUBS feeding a conditional branch or CSEL; – Advanced renaming – including flag renaming – which removes most practical downsides of a global NZCV.
by pron | 2025-10-28 00:16:56+00:00
> I don’t really know why AI can't build software (for now)

Could be because programming involves:

1. Long chains of logical reasoning, and

2. Applying abstract principles in practice (in this case, "best practices" of software engineering).

I think LLMs are currently bad at both of these things. They may well be among the things LLMs are worst at atm.

Also, there should be a big asterisk next to "can write code". LLMs do often produce correct code of some size and of certain kinds, but they can also fail at that too frequently.
by NoPicklez | 2025-10-28 00:16:57+00:00
They don't really want to get rid of their smartphone and get for example a dumb phone.

I can't speak on behalf of others but whilst I do spend a little too much time scrolling, I would like it taken away from me too. But that doesn't fix anything, before endless scrolling we simply had more and more pages of information.

Smartphones were not always as addictive as they once were, the tiktok, reels, shorts have really tapped into something we haven't had before, which is essentially TV or breaking news on steroids.

Its another avenue which is addictive like gaming, gambling, alcoholism etc and we need to treat it carefully and be able to pull ourselves out of it. I have had smartphones for over a decade and I no doubt use mine way more in the past say 5 years.
by laterium | 2025-10-28 00:18:08+00:00
The thread we're in was arguing that the requirement to be AGI is to fail the exact same way humans do. I pointed out by showing these examples that failing the exact same way is not a requirement for a new technology to replace people or other technology. You're reading too much into what I said and putting words in my mouth.

What makes it tick is probably a more interesting question to me than to the AI skeptics. But they can't stop declaring a special quality (consciousness, awareness, qualia, reasoning, intelligence) that AI by their definition cannot ever have and that this quality is immeasurable, unquantifable, undefinable... This is literally a thought stopper semantic deadend that I feel the need to argue against.

Finally, it doesn't make money the same way Amazon or Uber didn't make money for a looong time, by making lots of money, reinvesting it and not caring about profit margins for a company in its growth stage. Will we seriously go through this for every startup? It's already at $10-20b a year at least as an industry and that will keep growing.
by precommunicator | 2025-10-28 00:18:35+00:00
Yeah, if you actually walk around outside of your cabin. I took this ferry last summer, pretty much didn't leave the cabin (except to look at Shetland Islands), only just before arriving. Having plenty of food, movies and games with me... yeah

If you take this ferry, make sure to do the stop in Faroe Islands, it's absolutely amazing.

I plan to sail this route again next year.

Side note: was it just me or this ferry or route is particularly rough? I crossed Baltic like 20 times by ferry (18h crossing), never got sea sick, until this one.
by prmph | 2025-10-28 00:18:49+00:00
> LLMs are remarkably good at writing code.

Just this past weekend, I've designed and written code (in Typescript) that I don't think LLMs can even come close to writing in years. I have a subscription to a frontier LLM, but lately I find myself using like 25% of the time.

At a certain level the software architecture problems I'm solving, drawing upon decades of understanding about maintainable, performant, and verifiable design of data structures and types and algorithms, are things LLMs cannot even begin to grasp.

At that point, I find that attempting to use an LLM to even draft an initial solution is a waste of time. At best I can use it for initial brainstorming.

The people saying LLMs can code are hard for me to understand. They are good for simple bash scripts and complex refactoring and drafting basic code idioms and that's about it.

And even for these tasks the amount of hand-holding I need to do is substantial. At least Gemini Pro/CLI seems good at one-shot performance, before its context gets poisoned
by array_key_first | 2025-10-28 00:19:38+00:00
Are people doing this or is this just what, like, Apple or someone is telling us people are doing?

Because I've never seen anyone actually use a summarizing AI willingly. And especially not for blogs and other discretionary activities.

That's like getting the remote from the hit blockbuster "Click" starring Adam Sandler (2006) and then using it to skip sex. Just doesn't make any sense.