MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-09 18:30:15+00:00
1. The cheapest American city is maybe half thr cost of the most expensive. Meanwhile in the most expensive Indian city, one could live like a king at 1/3 the cost of the cheapest American city with far more culture and things to do. And if you were willing to move to the cheapest Indian cities you could halve that again.

2. Correct. Given that the majority of SW jobs, especially the highest paying ones, were located in the U.S. this is a net benefit to anyone living outside the U.S. even before you take cost into consideration. More American jobs opened up to a Londoner than global jobs opened up to someone living in SF.

3. Efficiency approximately = lower costs. In this case costs = developer salaries.

So you’re right. We got more efficient. We reduced the average cost of developer salaries per job. Since very few people are willing to take a pay cut this means jobs are moving/will move to places where people are willing to work for less.
by retrochameleon | 2025-11-09 18:31:10+00:00
It was argued that making the Flock data public violated everyone's privacy. It's important to stress and remind everyone the privacy violation occurred the moment pictures are indiscriminately taken, processed by AI, and stored for every single car that passes by. Not to mention family homes, pedestrians, and other things being captured in the process.

We are only a couple steps away from doing the same thing for pedestrians. Why not just take pictures of every single person walking by now? This already happens in some places. Flock is paving the way to make it a government sanctioned mass surveillance program.
by baxtr | 2025-11-09 18:32:12+00:00
Something that is not mentioned: The psychological burden when you check your portfolio multiple times a day.

It can become an addiction akin to sports betting. Your mind is constantly occupied by the market and how it’s going. It takes a heavy attention toll on anything other you want to focus on.

I have learned my lesson. I buy the index and look at my portfolio 1-2 times a year and focus my mind on other things.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-09 18:32:39+00:00
Nothing you posted (from an almost two year old article btw) in anyway refutes the prior comment.

Grok is significantly the most biased. Did you sleep through its continuous insertion of made up stuff about south africa?

This is the same person who is trying to re-write an entire encyclopedia because facts aren't biased enough.

A group has created an alternate reality echo chamber, and the more reality doesn't match up the more they are trying to invent a fake one.

When you're on the side of book banning and Orwellian re-writing of facts & history that side never turns out to have been the good side. It's human nature for some people to be drawn to it as an easy escape rather than allowing their world views to be challenged. But you'd be pretty pressed to find the group doing that any of the times it's been done to have been anything but a negative for their society.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-09 18:32:47+00:00
[dupe]

Two weeks old news OP?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737338

and Previous outrages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292666
by AzerAliyev | 2025-11-09 18:33:02+00:00
SpeakInPrivate is like your old friend that delivers your messages to your beloved one.

Doesn't ask your name, phone number or email - he just gave you nickname (or two), so that you can chat with her/him without being exposed.

He won't gossip about you with others as he knows nothing important about you and forgets that he sent a message right after it was delivered (if not delivered, he deletes it within 36 hours).

Let's make this friend popular :)
by alyxya | 2025-11-09 18:33:17+00:00
> I worry about other students being lazy and just ripping my hard work and claiming it as their own.

Is the main concern that you have a class project you don't want other people taking credit for as their own? I wouldn't bother sharing standardized class projects that future classes may give again, and those projects don't mean much anyways. Your portfolio should ideally be projects that are something more uniquely created by you.

Also, what's specifically the issue with other students taking credit for your work as their own? In a school setting, it should be pretty clear who committed their code first. If it's for future employers, the most important thing is demonstrating full understanding of the project while being able to discuss it.
by BenGosub | 2025-11-09 18:33:23+00:00
It's like when we forgot all things that we can google, but on a much, much greater scale. For example, multiplication by heart. I think oral, in person examination should be used with students whenever possible, in order to deal with cheating.

If others are slacking, it's an opportunity to level up and stand out. Also, IMO there are market forces currently reshaping the jobs landscape, it's not only AI, I don't even think AI is the main driver.
by nchmy | 2025-11-09 18:34:33+00:00
Would you be able to share any links that expand upon your recommended approach? It makes complete sense to me as a self-taught dev, and is what I've always done (most recently, an e2e test of a realtime cdc etl pipeline, checking for/logging and fixing various things along the way until I was getting the right final output). I rarely write unit tests. It would be good to read something more formal in support of what I've naturally gravitated towards
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-11-09 18:34:40+00:00
> I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com

At the risk of nitpicking, @gmail.com email addresses use a dots don't matter policy [0] so really you have a common firstnamelastname@gmail.com and are free to add dots wherever you like.

[0] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150
by xorcist | 2025-11-09 18:34:50+00:00
How does it work in practice? Do you have to scan an item when you put it in or take it of the fridge?

Because in practice, fridges look nothing like in the commercials. Very few people would put a whole apple and a carton of milk on a shelf and nothing more. That would be highly uneconomical, because there's far too much air that will escape when you open and close the door.

It is normal to have lots and lots of small boxes and other stuff stacked on each other which would make it hard if not impossble to operate a camera inside.
by nradov | 2025-11-09 18:35:05+00:00
For certain types of projects it's possible to accelerate delivery by using a "follow the sun" model where at the end of the workday each team hands off tasks to another team farther west. This will obviously decrease productivity per team member due to additional communication overhead and increase the risk of errors, but the trade-offs can be acceptable if the project has to hit a fixed external deadline. Doing this successfully requires a high level of project management discipline that most organizations lack.
by Ekaros | 2025-11-09 18:35:09+00:00
Maybe there should be some sort of Uber type app here. Say super uber, which arranges the whole trip. Say you first get ride to somewhere. And then you are transferred to next leg of trip. And then after that is done, one or more legs to final destination. Some of these could be car rides, rikshaws, walking, even private yatchs or small scale sail-ships. Just imagine what would be possible with AI backend and LLM to automate whole thing!
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-09 18:35:47+00:00
> If they could show a harm, like financial loss, then it could be.

IANAL, but I think directly writing a Hatch act violation on behalf of a person would fall under defamation per se, not defamation per quod, and thus harm would not have to be demonstrated.

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...
by reactordev | 2025-11-09 18:37:10+00:00
With LLM’s now, odds are, they’ll just copy pasta that code. Yours may be similar but if you slap a license on it, most people respect that and will adhere to it.

That said, fear of someone stealing your code is completely unfounded as there isn’t really anything novel we produce anymore. If you are on the bleeding edge, you welcome input and PR’s from others to make it better. Only wise men know they know nothing. Collectively, we can build some amazing software.

Now, if you’re trying to build a business off of your software, you may want to keep that to yourself and not share it. If your business isn’t the software but your service, there’s no harm.
by hirako2000 | 2025-11-09 18:37:22+00:00
Claims 1 would be difficult to back with evidence.

Some may accept a significantly lower pay (to go such a long way), but many wouldn't.

Overall my observation is that costs of living doesn't proportionally follow compensation. The far stretched example is how offshore staff often live in countries with costs of living at about a fifth, earning a third of their counterparts in the U.S or other top paying countries

Of course for skilled jobs perfectly doable remote such as software engineers.

I may be biased by the fact it also makes sense, a worker understands the value provided to the business is more or less equal, and since we live in a market society, why wouldn't it be expected to earn the same. In effect we don't earn the same no matter the location, but it is somewhere between that and aligned to location comp.
by al_borland | 2025-11-09 18:37:52+00:00
If the connection is real, one would think the people would eventually want to meet. We've all seen the stories of people being catfished and how devastating it is for some people. How long is an acceptable amount of time for someone to engage in an online relationship (of any kind, not necessarily romantic), before finding out it's been a chatbot the whole time?

I just met someone, I think last year, who I've known via forums and chat for over 20 years now. I was looking for a place to watch the eclipse and totality was going right through his backyard. Imagine if I drove down there it was just some random address that an AI gave me after 20 years of talking. I'd lose my mind.

Some people's only friends are people they know online, through games or forums. Imagine finding out your only friend in the world isn't even real. That's very dark.

This seems like something the bots should have to disclose upfront. I hate not knowing if I'm talking to a real person or not. Imagine spending hours in an online debate with what is ultimately a chatbot... what a waste. If I want to talk to a chatbot, I'd go to a chatbot. There is a reason we are here in the comments instead of just pasting the link into ChatGPT and going back and forth with it.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-09 18:38:00+00:00
It has memory offset 0, which we use as the array index for convenience so that there's no distinction between a memory offset-base and the corresponding array index-base. That's what happens when your arrays are barely different from pointers, as in C. If your arrays aren't just a stand-in for raw pointers, then there's little reason to require 0-based indexing. You can use more natural indexes based on your particular application, and many languages do allow arbitrary indices.
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-09 18:38:08+00:00
A judge can rule however they please, but if it goes against legislated law or precedent, it can (and should) be appealed. Sure, if the highest appellate determines the law says something different than it really does, that’s that, but it’s not like most judges have carte blanche to determine the outcome of any legal entanglement on a whole.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-09 18:38:20+00:00
> If so, what's the upper limit on an acceptable number of citizens being disappeared?

I didn’t articulate that properly. There have probably been a non-zero number of illegal detentions, and a few instances (only about a dozen that I’m aware of, most of those preceding the present administration) where citizens have been deported. The ideal number of times either of these things would happen is 0, but there’s no evidence that it’s a systemic problem that would necessitate abolishing immigration enforcement entirely.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-11-09 18:38:22+00:00
I would install Mint with XFCE so the kid can learn what a traditional GUI looks like, and the benefits.

Assist them with installing the interesting programs, from Inkscape to Celestia to Geany and Python.

But first you’ll have to decide what to do about youtube. Most kids won’t do anything else once they find it. Keep them away from adults as well. Probably no internet at first.
by submeta | 2025-11-09 18:38:27+00:00
It was an innovation project, with an endowment of 200k. The task was to implement an llm based bot platform in a company with 700+ coworkers. After demoing MVPs, got 40k and access to experts I never needed to use. Deployed open source AWS solution, built customizations, landing pages, and data crawlers entirely solo using AI coding agents over ~3 months while working on other projects. Zero consultants, zero internal help. Would have easily burned the full 200k the traditional way.
by stavros | 2025-11-09 18:38:42+00:00
Yep, these decisions are perfectly understandable, it's just that I need to know what's happening and why I can't do certain things. Drawing blindly only to be told that your area is 126 hectares, for example, is frustrating.

It's good that you increased the area for now, because there's no way that I find anyone on there in what's basically the size of a neighbourhood. Maybe you could reduce it if it gets more popular?
by godelski | 2025-11-09 18:38:53+00:00
I use my TV as a monitor and this still happens. When you don't accept it just gets more aggressive. I'm pretty sure there's a "bug"[0] that ends up slowing the TV down because it keeps that process going.

I'm pretty confident you can't agree to a contract if you can't opt out. I don't want new features and I'm fine if everything stays the same. And no, please do not adjust the image settings again... I didn't want the AI frame interpolation then and I don't want it now

[0] with Samsung engineers I don't believe they've tested anything and just assumed the user would accept it instead of deny it 20 times. It'll also get less buggy when I do a reboot, so I'm pretty sure it's a memory leak

We are talking about a company where if I press the exit button there's a 50% chance I get the menu or not. It's literally a random result. If I'm in, say, Netflix, press exit, I'll turn to my computer screen and half the time the Samsung menu will open and half the time it won't.

Also starting the TV will flash my desktop and then go "ops, no signal" and I have to just keep restarting the TV and switching inputs (not touching the hdmi cable btw) until it works. And no, my desktop doesn't sleep and yes this issue is the reason why.

So I am 100% sure it's not conspiratorial, I'm 100% sure they just suck at their job. I'm sure the fridge will be great...
by techblueberry | 2025-11-09 18:39:31+00:00
A question I’m really interested in, and maybe I should spend some time writing about is - nostalgia vs timelessness.

40 years ago when I was born, books were considered better for the brain than television, and that’s probably still true.

Being outdoors is probably better than being on the computer. Spending time with family is better than social media.

There’s nothing wrong with the modern set of tools we have, but they’re tools, you have to own them rather than them owning you. For all the talk about tik tok and AI and robotics and etc. et. al, most of the important things are still timeless.

And so I know nostalgia can be dangerous, but I agree with the notion of the author that I think gaming used yo be inherently skill based, where as more gaming today can just be about immersion (everything is television) https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-televi...

I remember a phrase a set of parents of older adults said to me was “we raised them for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.”

I certainly want my kids to be prepared for the modern world, and for sure part of my being productive in the modern world means being comfortable with these tools.

But also, it’s traditional values on curiosity, working hard, empathy, confidence. The tools we use today, even AI won’t be cutting edge by the time our kids grow up. But the values will be forever.
by spencerc99 | 2025-11-09 18:39:59+00:00
hey everyone - creator here thanks for engaging with this project & all the feedback and thoughts!

i know this isn't the "solution" to dead internet theory but i felt compelled to make this piece in response. i wanted to feel "overwhelmed" with human content in the same way i feel overwhelmed by AI content these days. More thoughts in the precursor post linked on the site (https://news.spencer.place/p/alive-internet-theory). if this sparks new ideas for you on how to engage with this topic id love to see.

and sorry for the unexpected NSFW - i'll add a warning to the site

p.s. site should be working again! & you can also add it to your home screen as a PWA
by munificent | 2025-11-09 18:40:15+00:00
As someone how has spent several years in therapy in part related to anxiety, the answer to "how do you get over the fear of X" is "do things that incrementally approach X".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

There's really no other successful approach I've seen for curing anxiety. You have to just steel yourself and do the thing you're afraid of. It gets easier every time.
by pegasus | 2025-11-09 18:41:18+00:00
I think neither "righteous" nor "evil" are appropriate words in this context. It's a real-world institution with the expected biases, missteps of authority, episodes of getting embroiled in political machination, etc. Demonizing it is just as naive as idealizing it. And there's probably much more of the former than the latter today, when a lot of unearned, easy cynicism is either unconsciously performative, or even worse, the outcome of a caricatural conspirative worldview.
by lukan | 2025-11-09 18:41:30+00:00
"When asked, they can refuse to disclose it."

Yes and that is still not a lie. Your comment above seems to imply otherwise and it was not humor to me, but arguing in bad faith.

"Is it fair to get them banned from the community?"

If the rules say no lying, then yes.

"You can't force people to speak differently"

Of course you can. Why do you think I am around here and not on reddit or alike? There are clear rules around discourse and they are enforced.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-09 18:41:36+00:00
> But in 2021, I don't think anyone seriously imagined Trump would actually be President again

I don't think anyone who spends any significant time around the Trump cult would say this. These people are absolutely devoted to and worship him. When he lost in 2020, my first thought is, he's going to run again in 2024 and every election thereafter until he's dead, and he'll get tens of millions of votes each time.
by superkuh | 2025-11-09 18:42:06+00:00
I did. I've been running my website(s) from home for 20+ years now. I am the change. And I participate in many non-corporate communities on IRC.

This site still looks dead to me because of the JS requiring captcha I cannot bypass. I therefore feel the critiques are relevant.

There are two webs. There's the HTTP/1.1+HTTPS HTML websites made of files by people that have no specific time of use required. Then there's constant wave of JUST POSTED NOW on the HTTPS-only HTTP/3 corporate web that only uses HTTP to deliver javascript applications. By choosing to use the later this site is contributing to my perception of dead corporate-only internet and not helping.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-09 18:42:20+00:00
I am a European, so may be wrong, but it is my understanding that Indians have intuition around lakhs (100k) instead of thousands/millions. Apparently 100 lakhs is a crore (10M), but I haven’t seen that used so don’t know how prevalent it is - lakh is very commonly used though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
by jmann99999 | 2025-11-09 18:43:11+00:00
My issue with it has always been that I just don't think the way TDD requires.

I think in terms of building features. TDD generally requires thinking in terms of proving behavior. I still can't wrap my head around first writing a test that fails and then writing minimal code to make it pass (I know I am simplifying it).

Different strokes for different folks. I'm sure it works great for some people but not for me.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-09 18:43:28+00:00
Not even sure the problem is just education.

For something complex, it’s kinda hard to write and debug high level tests when all the lower level functionality is missing and just stubbed out.

We don’t expect people to write working software that cannot be executed first, yet we expect people to write (and complete) all tests before the actual implementation.

Sure for trivial things, it’s definitely doable. But then extensive tests wouldn’t be needed for such either!

Imagine someone developing an application where the standard C library was replaced with a stub implementation… That wouldn’t work… Yet TDD says one should be able to do pretty much the same thing…
by lrvick | 2025-11-09 18:43:30+00:00
ALL studies I have seen seem to support the idea that constant connectivity leads to worse mental health outcomes on average.

To get to specific proof though, clinically in the way we could with other addictions like smoking, we would need to look at how individual applications that allow us to outsource various cognitive functions specifically impact our brains.

GPS is a well studied example. Humans that rely on GPS instead of their own brains end up with provably weaker hippocampus.

https://newatlas.com/gps-spatial-direction-ucl/48529/

It is not hard to form a hypothesis from this how letting targeted content algorithms decide what you see instead of making decisions on your own could weaken the portions of your brain that make decisions in a similar way, and all studies we have seen so far seem to support this hypothesis.

I would of course like to see more brain scan research but when all data points to the negative on something only available to humans very recently, and your own lived experience of forgoing that something has had major benefits for your personally, it becomes easy to be a strong advocate for people trying out a reduction of that something.
by dpark | 2025-11-09 18:43:38+00:00
I was perhaps ambiguous. I am not saying societal change is not possible. I’m saying you, personally, will not change your local community as you imagine by simply telling other parents no.

Nowhere in your comment is there any indication you are running some sort of community initiative or anything else that might lead to actual change. Campaigning for a spot on the school board to advocate for banning cell phones in schools might be a useful strategy, for example. Telling parents who ask about FaceTime between friends that tablets are evil seems as effective as telling random smokers on the street that it’s going to kill them.
by darknavi | 2025-11-09 18:44:16+00:00
Totally agree. The house we bought in 2019 has a Subzero and it's the best fridge I've had. No frills (other than an ice maker), it just works. I dread the day I have to repair or replace it ($$) but it's been rock solid in the 5-6 years we've lived here so far.
by teucris | 2025-11-09 18:44:56+00:00
I’m all for this movement provided it’s actually focusing on the rights of individuals rather than empowering corporations to own and operate massive amounts of computing power unchecked. When I first read the article, I frankly assumed this was meant to limit regulation on AI. From what I’ve read in the law that doesn’t seem to explicitly be the case, but given the organizations involved, I fully expect to see more in that vein.