skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t being a nice neighbor that people want to get along with be more effective at undermining US hegemony? This just seems like a convoluted rationale to avoid taking the Chinese government’s statements at face value: they think Taiwan is their property, intend to take and integrate it when they get a good opportunity to do so, and consider anything that might make this harder or undermine support for it to be a grievous national security threat.
You probably cannot do a renovation the tightens up your house enough to matter. Of course you have not specified what you are doing, it is certainly possible to do that, but it is a major effort that makes the house unlivable for a couple months and costs a lot of money. If you don't do that level of renovation your house will have enough leaks that a ERV will not make any difference in air quality (and even that level doesn't always make the house airtight enough to need an ERV). Making a house airtight is very hard - worth doing because of the energy savings, but not easy.

If you are doing that level of renovation is is probably better to just tear down the house and rebuild. The costs will be similar and there are a lot of other things people demand of a new house layout that cannot be retrofitted in the old shell. Often the law will not allow this and so you are forced to renovate just to keep some now illegal feature that is worth keeping, but otherwise a tear down would be better.
TCL is the same, as are likely every brand of TV.

They are not all the same --- even within the same manufacturer.

A lot of newer firmwares will launch into setup every time you power up if access is not configured. The TV configuration data is most likely being saved/retrieved from their cloud. This serves as their connectivity test.

Without wifi setup, my new Hisense 4k "budget" model does this *unless* you run it in "store" mode.

Dealing with setup on every power up is possible --- but obviously highly annoying over time --- and this is by design.

The manufacturers desperately want the data collection $. It's the only way some of them make money.
It’s an interesting problem. At one point does someone just give up on buying TVs? I don’t necessarily mean “switch to a monitor + speakers” (which is a great alternative) — but rather I just mean at some point if the pain is great enough, why even have the TV? This is a technology category where people complain, but don’t actually change their behavior. Maybe in the current system there is no real market opening for dumb TVs; but if people actually cared, they’d just move away from watching TV altogether.
Also, LLMs already fail on the two-star problems.
From what I've seen so far, DOGE is explicitly about removing barriers to things Elon (and other billionaire trump supporters) want to do. The idea that they can't just pollute a lake, or put out a dangerous product, or exploit workers is simply outrageous! The 'efficiency' nonsense is the same play as is 'think of the children!' excuse for stripping away privacy rights.
It (mostly correctly) ID'd the SCOTUS justices on this one. Pretty cool!
https://transcriberai.com/Overview/aa908e33-5680-462a-94ff-6...
I have a 56" Panasonic plasma TV of the same vintage. It's great -- dumb as hell and displays images and turns on right away (not as fast as an old CRT, but compared to a modern TV fuggetaboutit). Its internal input switching is janky so I bought an external HDMI switch and I couldn't be happier with the setup.

It's mounted on a wall and weighs a ton. Every time I think of upgrading I see the mess of software that they shove on a TV and it's horrifying. I would love to see a dumb TV but I think the best I can do is to have a smart TV that I don't connect to the network, lock on to HDMI1 and never touch the TV remote ever again.
> Also pretty sure this will make outsourcing easier since foreign engineers will be able to pick up technical skills easier

Most importantly it will be easier to have your code comment, class etc. translated into English.

i.e I used to work in country where the native language is not related to english (i.e not Spanish, German, French etc.) and it was incredibly hard for student and developers to name things in English and instead it was more natural to name things in their language.

So even a LLM that take the code and "translate it" (that before no translation tool was able to do) is opening a huge chunk of developers to the world.
I'm not just confident; I'm saying it is objectively true and demonstrable that (a) "their programmer's editor" is a solecism and (b) "programmer's editor" is equally wrong by being clunky, unidiomatic usage that any competent editor would mark as incorrect.

I assume you see that "their programmer's editor" is obviously wrong, so I'll skip it.

Finding a product named Programmer's Editor doesn't support the claim that "programmer's editor" is natural, normal, idiomatic English (and the author of the program by that name, in addition to being weirdly incapable of even correctly defining "programmer," isn't clearly a native speaker). Quite the contrary. You wouldn't name a program Code Editor, IDE, Editor, or Text Editor, just as you wouldn't name a company or a line of products Computers, because these are too generic to be used as proper nouns.

And the ngram of "programmer's editor" speaks for itself: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=programmer%27s...

To the best of my knowledge, at no time in the history of English has "programmer's editor" been idiomatic English, either inside or outside of the world of software and engineering. And today, in late 2024, it is unarguably incorrect usage, regardless of its history.
> Fresh outdoor air

But this is actually treating indoor air, that's very confusing.

Fresh outdoor air is easy to find: just go outside!
i found some part-time work on reddit. it's hard to work enough at that low amount of time each week so that the output keeps a manager happy.
> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

It is more like across the board beyond engineers, including both junior and senior roles. We have heard first hand from Sam Altman that in the future that Agents will be more advanced and will work like a "senior colleague" (for cheap).

Devin is already going after everyone. Juniors were already replaced with GPT-4o and mid-seniors are already worried that they are next. To executives and management, they see you as a "cost".

So frankly, I'm afraid that the belief that software engineers of any level are safe in the intelligence age is 100% cope. In 2025, I predict that there will be more layoffs because of this.

Then (mid-senior or higher) engineers here will go back to these comments a year later and ask themselves:

"How did we not see this coming?"
Noticing the Little Things
Not a clue.

I'm a decent engineer working as a DS in a consulting firm. In my last two projects, I checked in (or corrected) so much more code than the other two junior DS's in my team, that at the end some 80%-90% of the ML-related stuff had been directly built, corrected or optimized by me. And most of the rest that wasn't, was mostly because it was boilerplate. LLMs were pivotal in this.

And I am only a moderately skilled engineer. I can easily see somebody with more experience and skills doing this to me, and making me nearly redundant.
As for every job done well the most important thing is to truly understand the essence of your job, why it exist in the first place and which problem truly solves when done it well.

A good designers is not going to be replaced by Dall-e/Midjourney, becuase the essence of design is to understand the true meaning/purpose of something and be able to express it graphically, not align pixels with the correct HEX colour combination one next to the other.

A good software engineer is not going to be replaced by Cursor/Co-pilot, because the essence of programming is to translate the business requirements of a real world problem that other humans are facing into an ergonomic tool that can be used to solve such problem at scale, not writing characters on an IDE.

Neither Junior nor Seniors Dev will go anywhere, what we'll for sure go away is all the "code-producing" human-machines such as Fiver Freelance/Consultants which completely misunderstand/neglect the true essence of their work. Becuase code (as in a set of meaningful 8-bits symbols) was never the goal, but always the means to an end.

Code is an abstraction, allegedly our best abstraction to date, but it's hard to believe that is the last iteration of it.

I'll argue that software itself will be a completely different concept in 100 years from now, so it's obvious that the way of producing it will change too.

There is a famous quote attributed to Hemingway that goes like this:

"Slowly at first, then all at once"

This is exactly what is happening and and what always happens.
Reading the history, and a bunch of it is actually on HN (going back to 2019) and online (including YouTube), the truth of it seems different or it can be viewed differently, in regards to the V Programming Language.

V started from a former professional Go programmer (Alex), creating programs for himself, because he was frustrated with using Go and it missing features that he wanted[1]. He started a new language, which he used to make Volt, Vid/Ved, etc... Others, finding out about his new language, pushed him to make it public. It looks like he was in collaboration with some other developers, when working on Volt.

Others posted about his programming language and pushed him to make it public. Relatively soon afterwards, he came into conflict with creators of competing languages, like Zig (the Andrew Kelly that you mention) and some others (Odin's GingerBill). The conflict appears to have turned hot, originally, because they claimed the language did not exist. That it was something "fake" that he (Alex) made up, but was getting Patreon money from supporters. Clearly that was wrong, and the V language was released on GitHub. Soon afterwards, numerous contributors joined in the effort and gave it stars.

The main push, "of hype", looks to mostly have come from books written about V[2][3] and perhaps the addition of angry competitors constantly talking about it. Zig and Odin have only recently published books about their languages, mainly in 2024, despite that these languages have existed since around 2015 (and have not achieved 1.0 yet). The V language is of course going to get more "hype" or "attention", if it has actual books about it. While in contrast and for years, its competitors had nothing published or didn't/don't even have a Wikipedia page.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIAcNp9bJs (A small presentation of V's features at IBM...origin story from 6 min)

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Programming-end-end-e... (2021)

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-basic-Japanese-e... (2020)
Imo LLMs are dumb and our field is far from away from having LLMs smart enough to automate it. Even at a junior level. I feel like the gap is so big personally that I'm not worried at all for the next 10 years.
The simple answer is to use LLMs so you can put it on your resume. Another simple answer is to transition to a job where it's mostly about people.

The complex answer is we don't really know how good things will get and we could be at the peak for the next 10-20 years, or there could be some serious advancements that make the current generation look like finger-painting toddlers by comparison.

I would say the fear of no junior/mid positions is unfounded though since in a generation or two, you'd have no senior engineers.
My mom doesn't want to be a "liberated computer user", she wants to use her phone to watch youtube, see pics of her grandkids and listen to music, she doesn't even care about having social networks. You're projecting your own personal interests into others, the world contains multitudes, not everyone wants to understand every little detail of how computers work.

For most people computers are like cars, they couldn't care less about how they work, as long as they can use them to take them from place A to place B.
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security
Ok, it's settled then! OP should have said:

"And they - vim implementations - are always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy...

Except perhaps Emacs' evil-mode, with some users going so far as to claim that it's an even better implementation of vim-bindings than vim!"

:=D

P.S., off the back of your comment, I downloaded and started playing with Doom Emacs last night, as this thread reminded me of how great some people claim Doom and the vim bindings are. My Emacs has been stable for a while, with a basic enough configuration (only a thousand lines hah), so I'm in the mood for playing with some alternatives.

Being able to test very different configs now with "--init-directory" is really a nifty quality of life improvement which I had yet to fully appreciate!
With every new technology comes new challenges. The role will evolve to tackle those new challenges as long as they are software/programming/engineering specific
Data might be stored in the US, but Chinese laws and control still apply to Bytedance, regardless of where the data is physically stored.

It's the same reason why multiple data transfer frameworks between the EU and US have been ruled illegal (e.g. Privacy Shield).

US law does not care where the data of its companies is stored and allows for surveillance of non-US citizens. Since EU citizens have a right to privacy, no US company can legally handle EU-citizens data.

Obviously this is bad for trade and business, so there'll always be a new law made to temporarily allow for data transfers. Until it'll be ruled illegal again, and the cycle repeats.
Alternatively, we got one piped into the HVAC ductwork. It's not as optimal as its own ducting, but it's much easier/cheaper than running a bunch of new ductwork.
Notification and mail summaries definitely nice to have, thought I can live without that.

What I'd really love to have is Siri superpowered with contextual natural language capabilities and multi-commands in a natural sentence. It _is_ getting there: Siri is better than it used to be and has somewhat of a contextual knowledge so far (compared to zero, before the update) but it's not there yet. It sometimes fails miserably. It should get to LLM-level contextual "memory" to be acceptable IMO.
I guess the point is: even fantastic AI products are often not useful to the majority of people.
The vast majority don’t understand what is going on nor do they have the knowhow to do the things they want to do that the said smart TVs claim to do for them. For now at least.
It just means fix that variable
A practical guide to getting started with policy as code
> "willingness to pay" [and] "willingness to accept"

Often abbreviated somewhat sloppily into demand and supply.
Why do you bring up "Fortune 500" CEO:s? They only administrate businesses, they don't own them, unlike oligarchs.

When you read that quote, you can't think of anyone that would fit? You don't come to think of the Kochs, Clintons, Trumps, Musks, Obamas, Sacklers, Murdochs, Bidens and so on?
Im hoping I can transition to some kind of product or management role since frankly Im not that good at coding anyways (I dont feel like I can pass a technical interview anymore, tbh.)

I think a lot of engineers are in for some level of rude awakening. I think a lot of engineers havent applied some level of business/humanities thinking in this, and I think a lot of corporations care less about code quality than even our most pessimistic estimates. It wouldnt surprise me if cuts over the next few years get even deeper, and I think a lot of high performing (re: high paying) jobs are going to get cut. Ive seen so many comments like "this will improve engineering overall, as bad engineers get laid off" and I dont think its going to work like that.

Anecdotal, but no one from my network actually recovered from the post covid layoffs and they havent even stopped. I know loads of people who dont feel like theyll ever get a job as good as they had in 2021.
You're making the mistake of overvaluing volume of work output. In engineering, difference of perspective is valuable. You want more skilled eyeballs on the problem. You won't be redundant just as your slower coworkers aren't now.

It's not a race, it's a marathon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_...

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

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

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

I mean that last one doesn't mention any "legally prohibited" whatnots, but if you were suspected of being a commie because of for example being known to read the wrong thing by the House Un-American Activities Committee you'd be in trouble. Definitely chilling effects.
To be better than the worst is not to be good.
Should be marked as [2022].

Indeed, the announced Part 2 has not been linked so far...
Europe should ban American social media companies. They'd be doing themselves a favor, and a favor to most Americans as well (who, shareholders excepted, do not personally benifit from these tech corps being so massive.)
Right now you can get a year of SolidWorks for Makers for $24.

If all you've ever used is OpenSCAD or OpenCascade-based software, you are in for a pleasant surprise.
> If you can show evidence of that you should give it to the U.S. government

Tens of millions of teenage Americans are addicted to it is the evidence. Chinese don't allow their kids to waste all day long on stupid douyin, Americans don't have such luxuries, as tons of red necks are going to jump up and label it as anti free speech if you want something similar. As a result, you see Chinese kids spend time on STEM subjects, building toy robots and learning how to code AI stuff while American kids are all dreaming to be the most popular influencer on social media.

The whole system is an algorithm carefully designed. Let's just be honest. btw, Chinese national posting from China here, you'd be seeing me protesting in the Tiananmen Square if some American social media apps manage to waste Chinese teens time while being carefully restricted in the US for their own kids. It is just shocking to see it takes almost a decade for the US to actually start doing something concrete.
Nvidia has been very smart to be well prepared, but the emergency of Bitcoin and AI were two huge bits of good luck for them. It's very unlikely that there is another once-in-a-lifetime event that will also benefit Nvidia in that way. Nvidia will be successful in the future, but it will be through more normal, smart business, means.
I thought this is a solved problem. Steps:

1. Have some long term goals.

2. Design a small iterative improvement or a minimum viable product that should bring you closer to your goals.

3. Build just that.

4. Reevaluate.

I.e. I thought the idea is to embrace changing the approach or even pivoting when necessary.
Enshitification just pushes people further to the grey market.

I recently visited family and while there tried to watch YouTube without an adblocker, and the experience was unbearable.
Corollary: given two numbers a and b, is it possible to prove there are no prime numbers between them? (ie, does there exist a prime p such that a < p < b ?)
As I was reading about submarine stealth techniques, I saw the map and had trouble visualizing it at first, as they colored the land in blue and the water in white.

Pretty strange choice for coloring a map.
Yes it's worth it. Dan Luu has always been worth to read whenever I read it.

But I get it. I too have the Instagram disease and balk at long walls of text. It's just that we do need to fight that...
Thisnlink is not the one that I had in mind - a Wikipedia link that talks specifically about blood circulation details explained in ancient Egyptian mummification texts rediscovered in Europe during that time - but in some sense it is more accurate[^1].

[^1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4290745/
They have been required by code in all new houses in Minnesota for about 25 years.
I'm sure CA requires them too. Though in older houses they are a waste of money as your house already leaks much air. These are a good thing if you have a well sealed house, but older houses universally are not sealed that well and so they won't give you anything.
no the new ruling limited the scope of what is illegal. Inciting violence is not protected. Neither is defamation, fraud, or false advertising.
Edtech Startup Merging Learning and Entertainment
The most useful thing for AI on an operating system level is in my opinion aggregation and summarization of data from different apps. And somehow connecting the different apps in a smart way. Like the iOS Shortcuts app, but with dynamically creating shortcut pipelines and much more powerful.

Probably not an easy task at all.
My LG C2 OLED is great. I never connected to the internet. I have never seen an advertisement or pop-up or anything. For all intents and purposes, it is a dumb TV more like a computer monitor. I do not use any of the built-in applications, just literal HDMI1 (appletv) and HDMI3 (gaming pc). I adore it as a TV and would buy one again in a heartbeat. Not cheap though.
My TV is old and dumb and I love it. But the majority of my streaming is done through my Roku, and increasingly I am bombarded by advertising and attempts to sell Roku's own streaming service.

Ironic because the reason that Roku exists rather than being part of Netflix is that Hastings didn't want the streaming to be tied to distribution.

Looks like whatever they're doing isn't working as a strategy though if they're this close to being bought out.

I personally wish that Roku would sell an ad-free no-self-streaming version at twice the price; three times the price. I'd snap it up in an instant and never look back.

Do people have thoughts about the pros and cons of the alternatives? Amazon Fire TV is the only one that I've used extensively other than Roku and it is terrible. NVidia Shield? Plex? Google TV? Android TV? Apple TV? What do people like now?
As a crazy fast reader I liked it but now that I think about it, problems with product quality were a major preoccupation of the 1970s. There is a triangle between

inflation <-> poor quality <-> shortages

in that these all stem from the same root and the proportion in which they manifest depend on the system (e.g. in Soviet Russia they could legislate prices but couldn't legislate availability of products) It was the decade of Ralph Nader. See

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nothing-Works-Anthropology-Origin...

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Crisis-W-Edwards-Deming/dp/052130...

https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Narcissism-American-Diminishi...

A few themes could be broken out, not least "mongo sucks" (I never worked at a company that didn't trust the database they used at all until I worked at one that used mongo) and a meditation on "buy" vs "build" that leans heavily towards build. (When I hear the word "integration" I reach for my keyboard and code up a 15-line python script while management is on hold waiting to hear what the "call us" price is)
The blog post is from 2022 and the sequel never arrived. So the idiom wins this one.
"No, they will still hide just fine."

Agreed. And the fact that adversaries are still building them even as headlines like this state that "stealth is dead" tells you everything.

New threats? Yes. Obsolete, no.
this is the correct answer

i can only assume software developers afraid of LLMs taking their jobs have not been doing this for long. being a software developer is about writing code in the same way that being a CEO is about sending emails. and i haven't seen any CEOs get replaced even thought chatgpt can write better emails than most of them