MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-12-02 20:04:02+00:00
"It's capital that belongs to people and those people..."

That's not a fundamental law of physics. It's how we've decided to arrange our current society, more or less, but it's always up for negotiation. Land used to be understood as a publicly shared resource, but then kings and the nobles decided it belong to them, and they fenced in the commons. The landed gentry became a ruling class because the land "belonged" to them. Then society renegotiated that, and decided that things primarily belonged to the "capitalist" class instead of noblemen.

Even under capitalism, we understand that that ownership is a little squishy. We have taxes. The rich understandably do not like taxes because it reduces their wealth (and Ayn Rand-styled libertarians also do not like taxes of any kind, but they are beyond understanding except to their own kind).

As a counterpoint, I and many others believe that one person or one corporation cannot generate massive amounts of wealth all by themselves. What does it mean to "earn" 10 billion dollars? Does such a person work thousdands of time harder or smarter than, say, a plumber or a school teacher? Of course not. They make money because they have money: they hire workers to make things for them that lead to profit, and they pay the workers less than the profit that is earned. Or they rent something that they own. Or they invest that money in something that is expected to earn them a higher return. In any scenario, how is it possible to earn that profit? They do so because they participate in a larger society. Workers are educated in schools, which the employer probably does not pay for in full. Customers and employees travel on infrastructure, maintained by towns and state governments. People live in houses which are built and managed by other parties. The rich are only able to grow wealth because they exist in a larger society. I would argue that it is not only fair, but crucial, that they pay back into the community.
by rvrb | 2025-12-02 20:04:07+00:00
I haven't verified this, but I would be willing to bet that most of Bun's issues here have more to do with interfacing with JavaScriptCore through the C FFI than Zig itself. this is as much a problem in Rust as it is in Zig. in fact, it has been argued that writing unsafe Zig is safer than writing unsafe Rust: https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/
by Tade0 | 2025-12-02 20:04:18+00:00
> The quality of junior engineers I've interviewed has been abysmal. Maybe because we don't have the name nor the high end salary, or maybe our recruiting firms and HR suck in general. My hire/no-hire ratio is literally 50:1.

I'm sorry but to me this part reads like a humorous phrase that's popular in some circles in my region which goes:

"Maybe <list of negative things, usually correct characterizations of the speaker>, but at least <something even worse>"

The companies I worked for used automated coding quizzes like Codility to weed out the worst applicants, but I suspect you're already doing that.

How is them knowing when binary search is useful relevant to what they'll be doing at work should they get hired?
by 542354234235 | 2025-12-02 20:05:06+00:00
The shift in the US to the idea of “job creators” being business owners is part of it. It was just a way to direct money to the already rich, as if they would hire more people with that money. When it is plainly obvious that consumers are job creators, in that if they buy more goods and services, businesses will hire more people to make or provide more of those things.

Or maybe it was trickle down economics. Trickle up economics still end up with the rich getting the money since we all buy things from companies they own, it just goes through everyone else first. Trickle down cuts out the middleman, which unfortunately is all of us.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-12-02 20:05:10+00:00
It's been a long time since I read through my father's Asimov book collection, so pardon my question: but how are these rules considered "laws", exactly? IIRC, USRobotics marketed them as though they were unbreakable like the laws of physics, but the positronic brains were engineered to comply with them - which while better than inlining them with training or inference input - but this was far from foolproof.
by thomashabets2 | 2025-12-02 20:05:11+00:00
It doesn't.

For users in the UID range in sysctl `net.ipv4.ping_group_range` the normal ping command uses this non-root way.

Sure, maybe your system still sets suid root on your ping binary, or shows it adding `cap_net_raw` according to `getcap`, but mine does not.
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-02 20:05:51+00:00
> I want a provider that leaves me alone and lets me just throw money at them to do so.

That’s been my experience with Hetzner.

A lot of people get butthurt that a business dares to verify who they’re dealing with as to filter out the worst of the worst (budget providers always attract those), but as long as you don’t mind the reasonable requirement to verify your ID/passport they’re hands-off beyond that.
by luqtas | 2025-12-02 20:05:53+00:00
> Code-as-instrument is genuinely innovative.

but DAWs plugins and instruments are just like code but with an GUI interface to mess with. don't get me wrong, PureData freedom is astonishing but one can also go quite far with esoteric sequencers or modulation in DAWs found out there

[0] https://100r.co/site/orca.html [1] https://stochas.org/ [2] https://cardinal.kx.studio/
by maciejzj | 2025-12-02 20:06:15+00:00
This is truly heartbreaking, programming was the last profession beside medicine doctor that guaranteed young people good start in life in my country.

It is insane how much screwed over we are. I am about to turn 30 soon with 5 YoE, PhD in ML which supposedly is the cutting edge stuff. Yet I have no prospects to even buy a tiny flat and start “normal life”. AI eats its own tail, I have no idea what I should do and what to learn to have any sensible prospects in life.
by tonyystef | 2025-12-02 20:06:20+00:00
I kept watching Claude Code spend 10 minutes re-exploring files it already analyzed yesterday. Same patterns, same architecture, every session starting from zero.

So I built grov. It runs a local proxy that intercepts Claude Code's API calls, captures reasoning from each session (via LLM extraction), stores it in SQLite, and auto-injects relevant context into future sessions.

In testing: baseline task took 10-11 min with 3+ explore agents launched. With context injection: 1-2 min, zero explore agents. Claude just reads the files directly because it already knows the codebase patterns.

How it works:

-Run grov init

- Run grov proxy (keep it running)

- Use Claude Code normally

- Grov captures what Claude learns, injects it next session

It's local-only (SQLite), nothing leaves your machine. Currently ~250 npm downloads with no promotion, which pushed me to share it here.

Still early (v0.2.2). Would love feedback from Claude Code users. Please report bugs!
by kristofferR | 2025-12-02 20:06:47+00:00
Try doing some more casual requests.

When I asked both ChatGPT 5.1 Extended Thinking and Gemini 3 Pro Preview High for best daily casual socks both responses were okay and had a lot of the same options, but while the ChatGPT response included pictures, specs scraped from the product pages and working links, the Gemini response had no links. After asking for links, Gemini gave me ONLY dead links.

That is a recurring experience, Gemini seems to be supremely lazy to its own detriment quite often.

A minute ago I asked for best CR2032 deal for Aqara sensors in Norway, and Gemini recommended the long discontinued IKEA option, because it didn't bother to check for updated information. ChatGPT on the other hand actually checked prices and stock status for all the options it gave me.
by echelon | 2025-12-02 20:06:51+00:00
I don't think this is about Google. This is about advertising being the make or break moment for OpenAI.

The problem with ChatGPT advertising is that it's truly a "bet the farm" situation, unlike any of their projects in the past:

- If it works and prints money like it should, then OpenAI is on a path to become the next Mag 7 company. All the money they raised makes sense.

- If it fails to earn the expected revenue numbers, the ceiling has been penciled in. Sam Altman can't sell the jet pack / meal pill future anymore. Reality becomes cold and stark, as their most significant product has actual revenue numbers attached to it. This is what matters to the accountants, which is the lens through which OpenAI will be evaluated with from this point forward. If it isn't delivering revenue, then they raised way too much money - to an obscene degree. They won't be able to sell the wild far future vision anymore, and will be deleteriously held back by how much they've over-sold themselves.

The other problems that have been creeping up:

- This is the big bet. There is no AGI anymore.

- There is no moat on anything. Google is nipping at their heels. The Chinese are spinning up open source models left and right.

- Nothing at OpenAI is making enough money relative to the costs.

- Selling "AI" to corporate and expecting them to make use of it hasn't been working. Those contracts won't last forever. When they expire, businesses won't renew them.

My guess is that they've now conducted small scale limited tests of advertising and aren't seeing the engagement numbers they need. It's truly a nightmare scenario outcome for them, if so.

They're declaring "code red" loudly and publicly to distract the public from this and to bide more time. Maybe even to raise some additional capital (yikes).

They're saying other things are more important than "working on advertising" right now. And they made sure to mention "advertising" lots so we know "advertising" is on hold. Which is supposedly the new golden goose.

Why drop work on a money printer? What could be more important? Unless the money printer turned out to be a dud.

Didn't we kind of already know advertising would fail on a product like this? Didn't Amazon try to sell via Alexa and have that totally flop? I'm not sure why ChatGPT would be any different from that experience. It's not a "URL bar" type experience like Google has. They don't own every ingress to the web like Google, and they don't own a infinite scroll FOMO feed of fashion like Meta. The ad oppo here is like Quora or Stack Overflow - probably not great.

I have never once asked ChatGPT for shopping ideas. But Google stands in my search for products all the time. Not so much as a "product recommendation engine", but usually just a bridge troll collecting its toll.
by fallinditch | 2025-12-02 20:07:10+00:00
"To be fully engaged in your own creative or logical challenges, while at the same time fully on board the emotional rails of the musical ideas of another person can make for an experience not dissimilar to meditation — but rather than focussing on the simplicity of nothingness while swatting away introspective daydreams, you are engulfed in enough complexity to cause introspective daydreams to burn up on re-entry."
by lateforwork | 2025-12-02 20:07:46+00:00
Two days? I have been trying for 2 fucking years! I initially registered with <foo>corp.com domain email because that's what I use for Office 365 email account. They denied saying my domain doesn't match. So I tried to change the domain to <foo>.com and it appears to do it, but they keep saying they are still seeing the original domain. The entire Partner Network site is incredibly buggy, half of the site errors out. Their support is a total waste of time, they keep copy/pasting the same message over and over.
by somebodythere | 2025-12-02 20:07:50+00:00
I think this wound up being close enough to true, it's just that it actually says less than what people assumed at the time.

It's basically the Jevons paradox for code. The price of lines of code (in human engineer-hours) has decreased a lot, so there is a bunch of code that is now economically justifiable which wouldn't have been written before. For example, I can prompt several ad-hoc benchmarking scripts in 1-2 minutes to troubleshoot an issue which might have taken 10-20 minutes each by myself, allowing me to investigate many performance angles. Not everything gets committed to source control.

Put another way, at least in my workflow and at my workplace, the volume of code has increased, and most of that increase comes from new code that would not have been written if not for AI, and a smaller portion is code that I would have written before AI but now let the AI write so I can focus on harder tasks. Of course, it's uneven penetration, AI helps more with tasks that are well-described in the training set (webapps, data science, Linux admin...) compared to e.g. issues arising from quirky internal architecture, Rust, etc.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-02 20:08:14+00:00
Wow, you must have worked in some REALLY toxic places. I had one toxic senior teammate when I first started out - he mocked me when I was having trouble with some of the dev environment he had created - but he got fired shortly thereafter for being bad at his job.

Everybody else through my 21-year career has almost universally either been helpful or neutral (mostly just busy). If you think code reviews are just for bikeshedding about style minutia, then you're really missing out. I personally have found it extremely rewarding to invest in junior SWEs and see them progress in their careers.
by dboon | 2025-12-02 20:08:26+00:00
Yes, for simple projects, absolutely. But when you're shipping something as widely adopted as CC, I disagree. At the end of the day, you're making a UI. It happens to be rendered via the terminal. You still need accessibility, consistent layouts, easy integration with your backend services, inputs, forms, and so on. If you don't need that stuff, there are lots of other, simpler options. But if you do, your other options begin to resemble a half baked, bug filled reimplementation of the web. So just use the web.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-02 20:08:32+00:00
> I don't see how anthropomorphizing MoE <-> brain affords insight deeper than 'less activity means less energy used'.

I'm not saying it is a perfect analogy, but it is by far the most familiar one for people to describe what sparse activation means. I'm no big fan of over-reliance on biological metaphor in this field, but I think this is skewing a bit on the pedantic side.

re: your second comment about pruning, not to get in the weeds but I think there have been a few unique cases where people did lose some of their brain and the brain essentially routed around it.
by twothreeone | 2025-12-02 20:08:44+00:00
The way I've experienced "Code Red" is mostly as a euphemism for "on-going company-wide lack of focus" and a band-aid for mid-level management having absolutely no clue how to meaningfully make progress, upper management panicking, and ultimately putting engineers and ICs on the spot to bear the brunt of that organizational mess.

Interestingly enough, apart from Google, I've never seen an organization take the actual proper steps (fire mid-management and PMs) to prevent the same thing from happening again. Will be interesting to see how OAI handles this.
by LatencyKills | 2025-12-02 20:08:52+00:00
I’ve worked with many neuroscience researchers during my career. At a minimum, I’m extremely well-read on the subject of cognition.

I am not going to lie or hide my experience. The world is a fucked up place because we no longer respect “authority”. I helped build one of these systems; my opinion is as valid as yours.

Yours is the “standard meaningless” response that adds zero technical insight. Let’s talk about supportive tracing or optimization of KV values during pre-training and how those factors impact the apparent “understanding” of the resulting model.
by sethev | 2025-12-02 20:08:54+00:00
Right - but SQLite handily beats the case where postgres is on the same box as well. And it's completely reasonable to test technology in the configuration in which it would actually run.

As an industry, we seem to have settled on patterns that actually are quite inefficient. There's no problem that requires the solution of doing things inefficiently just because someone said databases should run on a different host.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-02 20:09:25+00:00
>Just don't have children.

Despite everything, I like it that humanity exists. I want humanity to continue to exist. I reject any notion or attitude that would, taken to its logical conclusion, result in the extinction of humanity. And, even more so, that would result in the extinction of my family and lineage. For your sake, I hope that this is just edgy horseshit that you will soon grow out of.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-02 20:09:32+00:00
I was in the same boat at you and I found it super easy to use ST as the hub and HA as the brains until I decided to get Z-Wave/Zigbee dongles for my HA.

That said, I went to find the instructions to do it and it appears that Samsung broke the integration about a year ago and there still isn’t a solution. I’m sorry, it seems like I migrated fully just a few months before it stopped working and that explains the 1 device I still had on ST stopping working about a year ago (it wasn’t important and I never tracked it down).
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-02 20:10:10+00:00
Seems very simple, working more with people than with problems gets you more social capital; people gonna remember someone helping them with something relatively trivial directly more than "they saw a bunch of code commited regularly".

Probably anyone working long enough saw a case of someone being promoted over "better" technically candidates, just because he happened to be always there when important things happened.
by SamWhited | 2025-12-02 20:10:15+00:00
Doesn't help fix your problem, but I have a similar issue with Google Cloud Platform. Years ago I had a free workplace account that I had some small company emails and what not on, and apparently at some point over the years I setup a GCP project or two. Fast forward to the modern day and I haven't used the account in years so I decide to delete it. As the admin I hit the delete account button and it complains that I have services still active, so I go disable all the services which includes removing the workplace subsccription with all my billing info. I then hit delete again, at which point it complains that I have a project on GCP (not active, just created). So I go to delete it... which requires having a (paid) workspace account. So I can't delete the unused project without paying to re-activate the workspaces account I deleted, and I can't delete the whole account without deleting the GCP project. And of course Google has literally no support, so I just have a Google account hanging out there somewhere, probably with vaguely sensitive information from years ago on it, waiting for someone to guess the password or otherwise get into it.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-02 20:10:48+00:00
They tried to realign package management with web standards and tools that browsers can share (URLs and importmaps and "cache, don't install"). They didn't offer compatibility with existing package managers (notably and notoriously npm) until late in that game and took multiple swings at URL-based package repositories (deno.land/x/ and JSR), with JSR eventually realizing it needed stronger npm compatibility.

Bun did prioritize npm compatibility earlier.

Today though there seems to be a lot of parity, and I think things like JSR and strong importmaps support start to weigh in Deno's favor.
by ryuhhnn | 2025-12-02 20:11:13+00:00
Put yourself in the student's shoes: instead of being required to rote memorise every detail and hold that in your head until the end of the year, you are now only required to be assessed at the time that you are learning the material. Do you think you'd fare better on that type of test, or a test done months after you actually studied the material?

One of the first things they teach you in educational research is that standardised test scores are significantly impacted based on how the tests are administered and what the test is actually assessing.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-02 20:11:30+00:00
Body doubling is a thing!

The crux of this is the way everyone is at their best is different per person.

Work from office is the brute force solution - if it’s the hammer, flexible work is the scalple.

Not every org has managers capable of welding a scalpel instead of a hammer, or who have time to be surgical even if they have the ability. I accept this reality.
by rozap | 2025-12-02 20:11:32+00:00
This is what I see. Less of door slamming completely shut, more like, the door was enormous and maybe a little too open. We forget, the 6 month coding bootcamp to 6 figure salary pipeline was a real thing for a while at the ZIRP apex.

There are still junior engineers out there who have experiments on their githubs, who build weird little things because they can. Those people were the best engineers anyway. The last decade of "money falls from the sky and anyone can learn to code" brought in a bunch of people who were interested in it for the money, and those people were hard to work with anyway. I'd lump the sidehustle "ship 30 projects in 30 days" crowd in here too. I think AI will effectively eliminate junior engineers in the second camp, but absolutely will not those in the first camp. It will certainly make it harder for those junior engineers at the margins between those two extremes.

There's nothing more discouraging than trying to guide a junior engineer who is just typing what you say into cursor. Like clearly you don't want to absorb this, and I can also type stuff into an AI, so why are you here?

The best engineers I've worked with build things because they are truly interested in them, not because they're trying to get rich. This is true of literally all creative pursuits.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-02 20:11:44+00:00
That's fine as it is your company's money. You, however, do not need to give Microsoft any of your money. I get it's convenient as you're already using it at work so the familiarity is convenient. It's why I've used AWS for a couple of side hustle projects because I had familiarity from using it at work. Trying to unthink AWS to learn to think like GCP/Azure would have only slowed me down on the side hustle.

It's definitely damned if you do, damned if you don't regardless of which cloud provider is being discussed. They all have their own thorns
by 542354234235 | 2025-12-02 20:11:48+00:00
Take a million dollars, give 1,000 poor people $1,000 and every dollar will be spent on goods and services. The companies running those services and making those goods will need to have their employees work more hours, putting more money back in poor people’s pockets in addition to the money the companies make. Those employees have a few extra dollars to spend on goods and services, etc.

Give a rich person a million dollars, and they will put it in an offshore tax shelter. That’s not exactly driving economic activity.
by jm4 | 2025-12-02 20:11:50+00:00
What does testing some other brand have to do with anything? If I put 5 of the exact same TV’s next to each other and they all look different, they are objectively bad quality. Maybe someone else makes something better or worse, but the ones in front of me are still bad. I literally had all these screens next to each other displaying the same image. It was not possible to adjust them so they all looked the same. The lighting inside the screens wasn’t even consistent. They had different hotspots.