MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trashb | 2025-11-11 17:25:18+00:00
"reken je niet rijk"

> Salaries are way lower in NL, and housing is incredibly expensive.

This is true, however there is so much that is already paid for with the Dutch salaries that you have to arrange individually in the USA. Mind you a lot is collectively organized which would be impossible to arrange individually to the same level.

I think there are a lot of people in the USA with "entry level jobs" choosing to afford a nice home but perhaps have some other things not as well arranged skewing the observers image, for example working a lot of hours or not having a better health insurance coverage.

In the end I feel like the welfare of the median person in each country is very important and I feel like the NL scores on that way higher when compared to the USA. For example healthcare, education, infrastructure, food safety etc.

Above the average(note average is not median) you are probably better of in the USA but below the average you are probably better of in NL.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-11 17:25:36+00:00
> Policy was drawn up on the basis of first principles

I played a small role in this that allowed me to see how these decisions were made. I think we should be honest at this point about how much of the policy was driven by vibes and politics. We had better data than people assume and it had almost no bearing on the decisions that were made.

Multiple governments had high-quality models that suggested a much lower IFR than what was widely reported, and in hindsight were proven correct. The news cycle was captured by people pushing doomsday scenarios and many people decided it was politically inconvenient to contradict that prevailing narrative. There weren't any complex motives, it was cowardice mixed with a bit of opportunism. I got to see this from the inside and I have no doubt that it would happen again, which gives me little confidence in the institutions.

There was an enormous amount of pressure to be seen to be doing something from the top in most countries, which led to a lot of the pointless theater that happened.

It is unfortunate but the poor reputation of public health officials due to COVID is well-deserved.
by samrocksc | 2025-11-11 17:25:44+00:00
So, I'm recently on the market looking for work, and I know everyone wants to creep your GH. I also really needed to practice talking and answering things. So, I broke out Goose, Ollama, and Plan mode, and came up with a free, pointless app to record, and then listen to yourself.

If it helps, use it.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-11 17:25:48+00:00
> There is no right to immigrate in the USA just because you want to, you have to convince the government somehow to let you in.

Agreed. But it is only human to want to improve your living conditions. Illegal immigrants are not claiming their migration was lawful, no one is, so the argument about their right to migrate is meaningless. The law requires them to convince the government to let them in, but a law you cannot enforce is also meaningless. if your family was in poverty, would you care what the american government thought about you trying to cross the border and work to earn a living? I mean, I wouldn't blame them if they stole, I think you're not appreciating the adversity of poverty.

Let's say working after illegally migrating is equivalent to theft. It is hypocritical, and therefore invalid, to expect a person in poverty to obey the law of a land they're not even in simply out of the goodness of their hearts. Deporting them makes sense, punishing them does not, since every single american would do the same or worse if the situation was reversed. you cannot punish people for doing the same thing you yourself would do.

You solve the root causes, punish employers for hiring them, subsidize mexico's economic development,etc... but what's happening now is sociopaths being let loose on the american people.

> But quick deportation is. Imagine doing the whole trek from south/central america to the USA just to be sent back the next day. That's what deterring a lot of people now, wasting months of travel and money just to have it be worthless seems to be very dissuasive.

I think less people will migrate in the near term, until work arounds to avoid ICE are developed. People will still attempt this. Have you read about migration to euorope? a lot of them literally die on the trip, a good chunk just get scammed before they even reach the mediterranean. people will still risk all of this. for them, their former situation is equivalent to death. For some, it is worse, because it isn't them that is suffering, it is their parents,kids,etc.. so the risks are all worth it, even it costs them their lives.

> A lot of the latest immigration woes would be solved if the Venezuelan government was taken down and some real democratic government stepped in.

No, it would be solved if employers were targeted instead. a lot of modern woes would be solved by putting business owners in prison. It just isn't politically palatable. off the books employees don't pay income tax, you can nail the employers for tax fraud conspiracy among other charges. They're screwing over not just the government, but americans looking for work. they're artificially deflating wages by abusing illegal migrants. The worst they get is a fine. But concentration camps for the migrants is tolerable?
by isaacremuant | 2025-11-11 17:26:06+00:00
Mmmm...

I'll make it short-ish:

- I'll say goodbye for now. You've given me pause and not because I buy into the fake politeness because I think that's BS (If you may grant me that expletive). - I think bringing 11 year old stuff (2014) without actually even putting the comment shows bad faith and an imbalance of power which tells me all I need to know not to engage further. You win. Point proven. You have power. I don't. Go pretend your world is fair and equitable but, if you have a lot of free time, do analyze how much you stopped calls for denying healthcare and putting people on camps the same way you stop someone telling others to parent their kids instead of removing their freedoms.

Au revoir and thanks for all the fish.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765437 holy dolphin. Really? Well, honorary deletion. Too much of a hassle. Way to ruin the dramatic exit with bureocracy.
by beardyw | 2025-11-11 17:26:07+00:00
I was 50 years from a COBOL programmer to a web programmer with stints at other related stuff between. I never felt that programming was anything but a means to an end, the finished product was all that counted, so I was happy for a while in product management and marketing roles.

My times in pure management were short lived, I resigned from them, but I did thrive as a team leader. I finally ended up being a jobbing developer up to retirement which suited me well.
by Hackbraten | 2025-11-11 17:26:24+00:00
> The SwissMicros DM-15L is also a worthwhile substitute.

I got my DM16L two weeks ago and I love it to bits!

They even upgraded it to USB-C (even though the product description still says Mini USB), which was a pleasant surprise. I only just got into RPN calculators (and programmable calculators in the first place) a month ago, loving it so far.
by michaelmior | 2025-11-11 17:26:28+00:00
I'm working on a JSON schema discovery tool, JSONoid[0]. JSONoid can discover many more features of JSON Schema than existing tools such as regular expression patterns, formats, and dependencies. I'm also working on integrating this with some past work I've done on using LLMs to augment JSON Schemas[1,2].

There are a number of use cases for such a tool. One is for helping data analysts who are handed a pile of JSON documents to be able to more quickly and effectively craft analytics pipelines for heterogeneous data where just inspecting a few documents isn't sufficient. Another is to help automate API specification generation and regression testing. Definitely interested in any feedback.

[0] https://github.com/dataunitylab/jsonoid-discovery/ [1] https://michael.mior.ca/blog/llms-for-schema-augmentation/ [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03286
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-11 17:26:37+00:00
(s) is important, but cosmetic. I'd rather you care if the product works well first, and then care about the cosmetic. Is it solving the user's problem like they want? Is it not creating more problems for them? And is the work being done in a sustainable way (for the employees, environment, etc)? That's the company I want to work for.
by throwforfeds | 2025-11-11 17:26:52+00:00
I bought an Air, coming from a 13 mini, and I largely agree with you on all those points except the battery life. I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying the Air has bad battery life, which maybe it does compared to the 17 or 17 Pro etc, but the past week I've been test driving it it has more than all day battery life for me. My 13 mini needed a recharge in the middle of the day (battery was worn down to about 83%).

Otherwise, yeah, you're right. I'm pretty sure I'm going to return it this week before my 14 days are up.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-11 17:27:13+00:00
> Is it your position that Europe just hasn’t done socialism hard enough?

No, obviously, but I can see how folks who cannot grasp the complexity and nuance of geopolitics might reach for classic boogeyman arguments like this one.

> Can you point to an example of a country who has successfully done what you’d like to see?

If I could, then it’s a certainty others would have emulated them by now as well. Don’t you dare try and say that “because a prior example does not exist, therefore this idea is bad”, because the entire technology field is built on people trying the same old ideas in different ways and finding out something that works better in the process. Be better in your retort rather than try and throw cheap barbs for karma.
by GaggiX | 2025-11-11 17:27:20+00:00
Yeah I think you may have understood my point. If you don't like Greater Italy, replace it with Greater Netherlands, it's much more relevant today.

EDIT: it would be cool if you add "EDIT" when editing a comment or maybe think for moment before posting so that I don't reply to a different comment. Every time I reload the page I see a different comment, it's pretty funny honestly.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-11 17:27:42+00:00
What changed was that they were free-riders on the rest of the population and one day the rest of the population no longer met the threshold.

One could say it is because of the spread of misinformation and that might be the proximate cause.

But if a drug addict periodically overdoses and needs naloxone, and one day a supply chain issue makes it hard to access and he dies, did the supply chain kill him or his drug addiction? Perhaps monocausal explanations are insufficient.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-11-11 17:28:01+00:00
Hacker news is probably not Apple's core audience for this product.

I recently saw in Southeast Asia everybody had their phone with a strap going around their neck. Which is why Apple made a first party case recently that does this. Apple's making products to cater towards international trends. People paying a lot of money for a fabric product is not unheard of, simply take a walk around the nicer mall in your area with multi-thousand dollar handbags as a demonstration.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-11-11 17:28:40+00:00
True, but my point is that not only does the analogy not work, the author also doesn't understand the thing he makes the analogy with, or at least explores the thought so shoddily that it makes no sense.

It's somewhat like saying cars are faster than motorbikes because they have more wheels-- it's like with horses and humans, horses have four legs and because of that are faster than humans with two legs. It's wrong on both sides of the analogy.
by autoexec | 2025-11-11 17:29:37+00:00
Unlike higher level programing languages AI doesn't actually make programmers more efficient (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089). Many people who are great programmers and love programing aren't interested in having their role reduced to being QA where they just review the bad code AI designed and wrote all day long.

In a hypothetical world where AI is actually decent enough to be any good at writing software, the demand for software being infinite won't save even one programmer's job because zero programmers will be needed to create any of it. Everyone who needs software will just ask AI to do it for them. Zero programing jobs needed ever again.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-11 17:30:13+00:00
> In early 2020, Fauci and other public health officials advised against mask use by the general public, citing both doubts about efficacy and a need to preserve limited supplies for healthcare workers”

Huge stretch to consider this intent to deceive. This is as much of a lie as imposing rations during wartime. And not even that much, since Fauci's statements were suggestions and not mandates. They were basically saying, "We're not yet sure if they work well, but we're looking into it. But for now, supplies are limited, so let's not deprive healthcare workers who actually need them."
by 317070 | 2025-11-11 17:30:32+00:00
From the little Ukrainian I know, I do know that they have 3 forms for the word year ("рік" pronounced r-ee-k). There is one that matches the English singular "рік" (but you'd also use it for e.g. 21 years), and there is one "роки" which is used for quantities 2, 3 and 4 (but also 22, 23 and 24) and another plural form "років" for the other quantities. [0]

So, the few lines of the localisation you posted don't work for Ukrainian and most other Slavic languages.

And that is the issue! Languages differ a lot in ways that are hard to catch in code. And it is the issue leading to for instance "blob(s)" in localised applications, as a lot of languages don't even have a plural, such as Mandarin.

[0] https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=uk&text=1%20year%20ol...
by dawnerd | 2025-11-11 17:30:57+00:00
Yep, my SanDisk SSD died, was one that had the bad firmware but supposedly a fixed revision. They did RMA it but took about a month. Only using that now for Ventoy, can't really trust it for anything else. Also annoying is they wanted a serial number that they silk-screened on in tiny letters matte black on black.

Quick edit: Wasn't a fake either, was bought direct.
by inshard | 2025-11-11 17:31:17+00:00
If we are thinking about world models and embodied AI as the next big wave, I feel we need to factor the size of this market across military and civilian applications. When I hear Tesla AI4-6 plans for autonomous driving and Optimus, Apple’s home robot, and many such initiatives, I’m also thinking of an autonomous military drone arms race and autonomous space exploration and moon colonization. Edge compute will be a key innovation and I feel Apple is gonna be best placed to exploit their power efficient M-series architectures.
by nozzlegear | 2025-11-11 17:31:20+00:00
I use Rider† daily to write F# and C# on my Mac. It works great, I have no issues with it. It even handles the .NET Framework 4.8 code‡ that I maintain without any issues thanks to Mono.

† And Neovim occasionally, but I mostly use it for Typescript or anything that isn't F#/C#.

‡ https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp
by tim333 | 2025-11-11 17:31:24+00:00
It's funny - having followed Buffett for a while I was going to dispute the everyone knows he's an animal bit but wasn't sure of the definition of an animal in that context so googled it and google's AI came back referencing your HN post(!):

>The specific phrase was noted in a recent online discussion related to Warren Buffett, where a user commented, "Warren Buffett is a great investor but nobody in finance buys his folksy image. Everybody knows he's an animal," to suggest he is a ruthless, cold-blooded businessman, likely in reference to aggressive business tactics like mass layoffs.

Anyway I don't think he's a ruthless cold-blooded type, although he is educated and very hard working. Also sometimes layoffs happen in business.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-11 17:31:24+00:00
Thank you for the additional context! I had no idea it stemmed from Mr. Letta or his political positions that contributed to the pitch, but I must respectfully disagree with any notion that grants business interests free reign to do as they please outside the interference of policy and society, especially when existing Capital holders have a grotesquely unequal amount of resources at their disposal to already capture entire regimes for their own ends.

It’s a recipe for disaster, and I cannot support it. That’s just my personal position.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-11 17:31:28+00:00
I was going to mention the Noodle video on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPU-kXEhSgk

TL;DW, different physical rolls of film sent to different movie theaters can have slightly different coloring, if they were done by different people or different companies or even if someone just did their job differently that day. Film color was not an exact science and not always perfectly repeatable, and depended on chemistry.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-11 17:32:45+00:00
Typescript is a tool more than a language, so that's not fair at all.

And the rest of those basically had no competition in their domain when they started 30+ years ago. Rust now has to grow next to 30 years of those languages maturing, and convince people to abandon all existing community resources - whereas those languages did not.

Having a low adoption rate is normal in this day and age. Go is kind of an anomaly caused by it's backing by Google.

But it doesn't help that Rust is also in the native space, whose devs are especially stubborn, and is a difficult language with painful syntax.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 17:33:00+00:00
> I can fit the biggest iPhone in my pocket just fine in all of my pants

New pro max fits perfectly fine in all my dressier trousers, it is rather big for some joggers though. Especially with Cuccinelli joggers it’s hard to get the phone to reliably stay in the pocket because they’re just not deep enough, so the top of the phone sticks through the opening.

The very easy solution to this has been to just buy joggers with reasonably sized pockets, Lululemon does not have this problem for example.
by iso1631 | 2025-11-11 17:33:04+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cr7mp7rnx48o

Note that they took two parts of the speech and merged them together so it sounded like

"We're going to march down to the capital and we fight like hell"

Rather than

"We're going to march down to the capital. (later in speech -- usually something like a fade to white and back) We fight like hell"

Of course in reality Trump didn't march down to the capital, but his supporters did fight like hell.
by Isamu | 2025-11-11 17:33:24+00:00
Issey Miyake was the most interesting high end clothing designer, many of his high fashion designs didn’t sync with any trends from other fashion designers, they were instead highly sculptural and informed by art rather than design.

He was interested in fashion enabled by technology, and there is the long standing connection between him and Steve Jobs.

It is okay to dismiss high fashion brands that don’t suit your needs, this is a niche thing that doesn’t appeal to everyone. It makes sense as a part of the Apple product portfolio that is fashion conscious.
by soulofmischief | 2025-11-11 17:33:27+00:00
Copyright law continues to stifle innovation. The DMCA needs to be abolished, and we need to entirely rethink our modern economic system with respect to creative industries (including software development). The cat is not going back in the bag.

We are sitting on the precipice of the greatest technological advancement in history, and rent-seeking industry titans have convinced us that we must stop this unstoppable technological advancement in order to protect the livelihood of artists who already receive cents on the dollar for their efforts.

Doesn't that sound familiar? This is what they have done time and again, and each time they have lost, leading to a huge loss of potential revenue for creatives as people make use of technological breakthroughs.

Then when companies like Netflix finally get everyone on board with streaming and paying for content with modern conveniences, industry titans step back in to demand larger slices of the pie, until the entire system is ruined and people return to piracy and consumption of older media. Don't even get me started on Spotify.

The technological benefit of modern machine learning models is just too large to ignore. These are becoming important tools, which put power back in the hands of the people, of the consumer. A lot of the grassroots anti-AI movements we see in the creative space can be traced back to corporate propaganda or financial backing. A lot of these people really think they're doing what's best for artists. But I just see Blockbuster all over again. We should make an effort not to be on the wrong side of history.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-11-11 17:33:28+00:00
> the options are to build more software or to hire fewer engineers.

To be cheeky, there are at least three possibilities you are writing off here: we build _less_ software, we hire _more_ engineers, or things just kinda stay the same.

More on all of these later.

> I am not convinced that software has a growing market

Analysis of market dynamics in response to major technological shocks is reading tea leaves. These are chaotic systems with significant nonlinearities.

The rise of the ATM is a classic example. An obvious but naive predicted result would be fewer employed bank tellers. After all, they're automated _teller_ machines.

However, the opposite happened. ATMs drastically reduced the cost of running a bank branch (which previously required manually counting lots of cash). More branches, fewer tellers per branch... but the net result was _more_ tellers employed thirty years later. [1]

They are, of course, now doing very different things.

Let's now spitball some of those other scenarios above:

- Less "software" gets written. LLMs fundamentally change how people interact with computers. More people just create bespoke programs to do what they want instead of turning to traditional software vendors.

- More engineers get hired. The business of writing software by hand is mostly automated. Engineers shift focus to quality or other newly prioritized business goals, possibly enabled by automating LLMs instead of e.g traditional end to end tests.

- Things employment and software wise stay mostly the same. If software engineers are still ultimately needed to check the output of these things the net effect could just be they spend a bit less time typing raw code. They might work a bit less; attempts to turn everyone into a "LLM tech lead" that manages multiple concurrent LLMs could go poorly. Engineers might mostly take the efficiency gains for themselves as recovered free-ish (HN / Reddit, for example) time.

Or, let's be real, the technology could just mostly be a bust. The odds of that are not zero.

And finally, let's consider the scenario you dismiss ("more software"). It's entirely possible that making something cheaper drastically increases the demand for it. The bar for "quality software" could dramatically raise due to competition between increasingly llm-enhanced firms.

I won't represent any of these scenarios as _likely_, but they all seem plausible to me. There are too many moving parts in the software economy to make any serious prediction on how this will all pan out.

1. https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2011/06/15/ar... (while researching this, I noticed a recent twist to this classic story. Teller employment actually _has_ been declining in the 2020s, as has the total number of ATMs. I can't find any research into this, but a likely culprit is yet another technological shock: the rise of mobile banking and payment apps)