skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 100% an AI skeptic. I don't think we're near AGI, well any reasonable definition of it. I don't think we're remotely near a super intelligence or the singularity or whatever. But that doesn't matter. These tools will change how work is done. What matters is what he says here:

> Peeps, let’s do some really simple back-of-envelope math. Trust me, it won’t be difficult math.

> You get the LLM to draft some code for you that’s 80% complete/correct.

> You tweak the last 20% by hand.

> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive.

The hard part is the engineering, yes, and now we can actually focus on it. 90% of the work that software engineers do isn't novel. People aren't sitting around coding complicated algorithms that require PhDs. Most of the work is doing pretty boring stuff. And even if LLMs can only write 50% of that you're still going to get a massive boost in productivity.

Of course this isn't always going to be great. Debugging this code is probably going to suck, and even with the best engineering it'll likely accelerate big balls of mud. But it's going to enable a lot of code to get written by a lot more people and it's super exciting.
Dartmouth Basic
Well said.

I've long believed that racism, sexism, homophobia are basically forms of bullying. All are antisocial behavior and quite bad for society. I endured near constant bullying for a lot of my early life, as well as sporadic racism.

When I hear the word woke, I think about people who are against this kind of behavior whether its conducted by an individual, a company, a society, or a government. But all the time I wish that people would just call it what is is: bullying.

It would be much more effective than calling people racist or homophobic or sexist.
"We have rail at home"

Rail at home:

> Boston to Buffalo: 11h32m
> Well, for years those advocates did so with...gaslighting

> They had a hysterical fervor and lack of rationality

Of all the ways of attacking a class of people, labeling them as gaslighters while at the same time calling them crazy is certainly one of them.
Yep, this is a hell I've come to know over the past year. You get people trying to build things they really have no business building, not without at least doing their own research and learning first, but the LLM in their editor lets them spit out something that looks convincing enough to get shipped, unless someone with domain experience looks at it more closely and realizes it's all wrong. It's not the same as bodged-together code from Stack Overflow because the LLM code is better at getting past the sniff test, and magical thinking around generative AI leads people to put undue trust in it. I don't think we've collectively appreciated the negative impact this is going to have on software quality going forward.
Tariffs are going to MAGA. That’s what the orange man on fox news says.
What was that agenda exactly? The only ones that come to mind are good, actually:
- Allowing more free speech internally and working towards providing a safe space for everyone to provide their ideas.
- Investing in under-served communities to try and build talent to hire from.
I enjoy his technical and tech culture essays, ones like this are a waste of time and mental energy. I won’t read it because I know it provides zero value.
Yeah. It avoids the problem of indentation disagreeing with code structure and reduces visual clutter and... that's it.
Your 90K number is a monthly number, not annual and only for single family units.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST1F
There's never been a time when people were not greedy.

The "suddenly, people started being greedy" meme doesn't make much sense.
How about removing the bullies from society.
Panic for a minute SSH rejected a key!
I just read the article, and I can conclusively say that no, he does not explain how big a problem racism actually is, he claims that its all humanities professors and students (my experience as a physics and engineering student prior to 2015 suggests otherwise), nor does he explain why he is such an expert on what "the woke" all believe.

What he does do is explain at length how unfair it is that offenses he considers minor are now grounds for termination. See one of my other comments for details about why professors need to be particularly aware of the hostile environment they can create by dint of being in a position of considerable power over their students.
"NIMBYism making it extremely difficult and expensive to build supply as is needed."

Only in some areas. There are other factors affecting how expensive houses are across the country, such as materials/labor, preferences for larger/fancier houses, location preference, and increasingly complex/expensive code.
The example I used to hear to demonstrate this type of logical fallacy is that even though one woman can make a baby in 9 months, having eight other women help doesn't make the baby available after a single month. I guess this might need to be updated to "one woman and eight LLMs can't make a baby in one month".
This will undoubtedly make some brexiteers very unhappy.
PydanticAI is a Python agent framework by the Pydantic Team
This article is blindly equivocating on "friendly"!

People were the same assholes in forums twenty years ago.

The platforms as such were more friendly. They were not enshittified toward extracting value from the user, and attracting new users at the expense of becoming less usable for the current ones. Or not as much.
That was a lot of words to describe... I think just "LLMs use context"? And the intro made me think he was mad about something, but I think he's actually excited? It's very confusing.

I will admit, I skimmed. No jury would convict.
Warlords - especially the second installment - is generally considered one of the 4X classics of the 90s.

The Age of Wonders series was heavily inspired by Warlords (and Master of Magic), and is still around.
Worth noting this is from March 2023.
Discussion (23 points, 12 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682773
In order to justify a corporate purchase, there needs to be a return on investment. A vacant property is not that.
Where are you getting reliable mDNS? I love the protocol on my own devices but good lord the Google Home ecosystem is terrible. Playing audio through multiple speakers at all, forget getting them in sync, is an exercise in frustration. And when I check by scanning mDNS it's always hung getting no responses from devices I know are there.

The literal Chromecast itself seems to be exceptional device that just works.
“White men are evil” does not turn everyone else into a “cohesive political coalition”.
Front page dynamics are complicated. I won't say you're wrong, but you might be wrong. Time of day (for instance) can have a huge effect.
Ah, a complete link (though including some crimes other than harassment) is:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/crossheading/en...

I see your 7(3) reference, but 7(b) does not exist, and none of the 7(###)(b) seems to give examples of any kind?

7(2) seems very broad though, from a layman's reading:

> References to harassing a person include alarming the person or causing the person distress.

and this alone is probably enough to cause at least some fraction of the reports to not actually meet the threshold for a conviction. So I don't see enough to prove the ancestor post "misinformation".

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Still, the actual definition is orthogonal to my point (as opposed to whatever else the top-level poster tried to make a point of), which is that statistics are still skewed to the point of uselessness by the fact that "harassment" appears to be the overwhelming majority by whatever definition is being used.

If you want to make a reasonable statistical claim about assault of either kind, this source is useless.
When I hear someone complain about the whitespace thing, it sends a message to me that they do not format their code well and just go willy-nilly on their indentation.

If you're properly indenting code, then it always works as intended. Proper indentation doesn't come from a desire to make the code work, it comes from a desire to make it readable. It just happens that readable means correct in Python's case.

It literally takes me zero thought to get indentation right. If you can't tell when to start or end indentation level, then I'd question if you know when you need to use an open/close brace in other languages.

I mean, yeah, sometimes copy/pasting code doesn't work precisely as intended, but all you have to do is select the code, hit Tab or Shift-Tab, and any sane editor will add/subtract an indentation level to the code.
I just reset my ssh key lol.
DeepSeek: What You Need to Know [video]
For folks who are interested, may I suggest checking out _The White Cascade_, a story of a train in the Pacific Northwest first getting stuck, and then being struck by an avalanche.

Publisher's page: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805083293/thewhitecascade...

WorldCat page: https://search.worldcat.org/title/150384796?oclcNum=15038479...
The point he is making is that it's ultimately absurd to make moral judgements based on word usage.

A person who actively discriminates in hiring against black people but doesn't call anyone a slur is seen as more virtuous as someone who doesn't discriminate, yet uses the slur in jest. The first behavior is seen as more excusable than the second, although an actual reasonable moral judgement makes it evident it's not.
No, now I get to be a code reviewer instead of a writer, and that's a lot more mental energy for me.
Yes, why not? Why should he get a free pass for his bad takes?
The graph of CO2 emissions per year shows a noticeable impact.
I guess it's a good time as any to setup a backup or check out alternatives that could mirror or standalone. Gitlab, Gitea, any others worth checking out?
I love Tintin comics, but even the later ones Tintin is very much the archetype white savior. Everywhere he goes, he's saving the cowering savages and poor natives from themselves or racist whites, and the good ones are always groveling and indebted to the brave and wise Sahib.

Which is okay as a superhero story, but if one is terrified of their children being incapable of separating fact from fiction or inability to develop their own understanding of the time and environment these were created in, they may not be ideal.

There are a bunch of other problems too.

* I'm not big on everything having to be about equal representation all the time, but there is a glaring omission of women. Which I guess would be okay given the times, but the few that do show up are vain, narcissistic, selfish -- Castafiore and General Alcazar's American wife are two I can remember.

* Haddock can get a little racist when he's drunk. It does help that most of his more colorful insults are so old that they've fallen off the treadmill and kids wouldn't understand what they mean (or maybe they've been censored in recent editions?).

* Speaking of which, depictions of Haddock's alcoholism are for comedic value. Tintin often enables and exploits his addiction and gets him inebriated in order to consent to things he had refused. While his drinking usually ends in disaster, he generally comes out unscathed or even ahead and faces no real consequences.

* Non-whites / savages are often treated as simpletons, emotionally driven, gullible and superstitious. Quickly resorting to violence, being fooled by ventriloquism or other cheap tricks, terrified of spells and gods, etc.

I'm skeptical whether these kinds of things actually harm children. I read these as a young child and could recognize all these issues and understand they were based on stereotypes or opinions, but again if people don't think their children are capable, I would advise reading them first. Ones where he stays in Europe are generally pretty safe IIRC.

On a completely different note, it's funny in the English editions, they seemed to me to imply that he's living in Britain, but if you keep an eye out you can spot the inconsistencies. Cars drive on the right, he takes a ferry to get to Scotland, etc.
As someone who has been ingesting a high volume of reddit "content" for the better part of 3 years - the spam/bot problem is _wild_.

I've implemented a handful of methods to detect 'networks' of these bots/spammers/karma farming accounts and, from the subreddits I'm monitoring, it's _more than half_ of the total accounts posting to them. This is across subreddits of all types, sizes and topics. Massive subs, regional subs, local subs, they're all completely inundated with these accounts - and these are the ones that make it through Reddit's own spam detection and whatever each subreddit has in place to handle moderation. These are the posts that do go public, more than half of the _accounts_ I've determined are spam/karma farming/bots. It's an even greater proportion of the _posts_ that belong to these accounts. (Thus, there are more spammers than "real" users, and they're posting more than the "real" users)

And this is with rather elementary methods of determining "spam" from "real" users/content. Those spammers who aren't being very lazy can pretty easily slide through my filters. (I'm detecting 'duplicates' of images and post titles/account descriptions using perceptual hash/simhash and hamming distance only - I'm rolling out text/image vector embedding based duplicate detection now and the numbers are even worse with this in place but I don't have it properly tuned yet) They're literally just re-posting the same content that successful/high karma accounts have previously posted en masse across as many subreddits as they can find/aren't banned from and it's wildly effective.

What's crazy to me is that many of them are in the 6 and 7 digits of karma - obviously spam accounts with > 1,000,000 karma is wild.

It seems to me that Reddit has zero interest in controlling this. Some might argue this is confirmed by the lack of moderation tools available to subreddit mods (which was ultimately the motivation of me building this system - but when they changed the API stuff I changed my goals/intention with it).
Depending on the market, market prices can be decided by a very small number of transactions that set things. Probably true for houses in Spain (limited supply) and foreign wealthy buyers (very high potential demand)
> preferences for larger/fancier houses

And more space per person, so older houses now house far fewer than they used to. US has more bedrooms without an occupant than ever.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/realestate/empty-bedrooms...
Why is everyone running to a Chinese TikTok clone? Is the west really not able to make something similar?
> property isn't a productive asset

It is when you rent it out.
> it has been absolute garbage for 10+ years

The 15 year olds of today are going to say the same thing in 10 years though. I don't think it really was that great when we were 15, we only think it was.
Spent like 30 mins tryig to figure out why ssh auth was not working. Compared sha256 signatures, doubted my reading abilities and pulled my hair.
The vacancy rates are deceiving though. If you have a place that is owned by someone and they are paying taxes on it, and it's not listed as a rental, it's not considered vacant.

In big cities there are definitely homes that are empty and not listed being used as a store of wealth. In fact just within view of my own home are two houses like that. Both owned by foreign families who wanted a safer place to keep their wealth than their own country (China and India respectively).
I still have seen no evidence that VC-backed purchases are having any noticeable impact on the US housing market except possibly in 2 or 3 specific locales (and quite restricted ones at that).

So, whatcha got?
I'm assuming here the code is written in a testable way, but the behaviour is hard or time-consuming to test.

It's not about being lazy or making excuses, it's not free to write exhaustive tests and the resources have to come from somewhere. For MVPs, getting the first release out is going to be much more important for example.
Three's something to be said about not depending on platforms to maintain your personal content on the web. Substack and Twitter can (and some would say, have already) gone in a direction many people don't like. I no longer follow Twitter at all, for example. And I'm on Substack, but it's not mine the way a small hosted website would be.
i like sony WH-XM1000 series. I have 3, but it works great. turn off NR is easy, it even comes with a cord to use when it runs out of power. if you like audiophile quality - 300 is not going to cut it.
I know how popular Steve Yegge is, and there is a bunch of stuff he's written in the past that I've enjoyed, but like, what is this? I know everyone says the Internet has ruined our attention spans, but I think it's fair to let the reader know what the point of your article is fairly early on.

As far as I can tell, this is a really unnecessarily long-winded article that is basically just "make sure you have good prompt context." And yes, when you're doing RAG, you need to make sure you pull the right data for your context.

Is this just a spam blog post for Sourcegraph?
I was recently watching a short history piece about some of the attitudes/egos Lorne had to deal with (e.g. Chevy Chase) and it struck me how similar some of them are to certain "rockstar engineers" I've worked with.
(2016) Title: MyRocks: A space- and write-optimized MySQL database Small discussion at the time (47 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399778
people could not be more clear that their preference is for reliable and easy-to-use centralized services maintained by professionals, and not decentralized systems that require a great deal of user expertise
But you have to mute each account when trolls probably create new accounts daily just to troll people and make fake engagement between their accounts to get boosted by the algorithms.

And really bad actors are taking advantage of the removal of the block feature, which was useful to block people from easily seeing your tweets, so that it leaves one open to nonstop harassment. Or in the case of Elon, forcing people to still get surfaced his tweets even if they blocked Elon on the platform.
They are, yes. But my choices here are basically Comcast or AT&T (yes, I'm in a suburb). I'm just choosing my poison. I was using the comparison as a good thing for NYC rather than trying to criticize them when my internet prices are comparatively bad.

Some good news is that they seemed to have upgraded the speeds to 600Mbps at some point in the last 2 years. Not out of gouging land, but better.
This is one of Paul Graham's best essays. The historical timeline is accurate, the phrasing is much more careful than the comments here claim.

If you are 20 and in university, it will be hard to understand the historic perspective. You cannot just rip out single sentences and attack them without context.

If you disagree with everything, at least read the paragraph about Mao's cultural revolution, where he riled up young people against his political opponents. It may sound appealing if you are 20 and in university, but keep in mind that it can happen to you, too, just 8 years from now when the purity spiral has evolved.

Software organizations like Python have been taken over by shrewd manipulators who used exactly that tactic: Have a small "elite" that dictates ever changing morals, does not contribute much or anything at all and weaponizes new contributors against their opponents. The result is a dysfunctional organization where most interesting people have left, some companies still force contributions but there is virtually no organic open source activity. And a couple of "elites" have been fired by Google. That is the standard path of performative wokeness.

Anyway, a great essay and I hope that Paul Graham will treat us to more historic perspectives this year.
> I've been wondering for a while what the alternatives are.

Raspberry Pi + Snapcast + Any speaker with an AUX input

I've got a few Pi's hooked up around the house now to extra speakers, home stereo, and even a .NET snapcast client running on my desktop PC.

That setup plus Music Assistant has been awesome so far. No proprietary hardware or closed source software :)
And I wouldn’t want to work with you or Matt. We can behave like adults and I don’t get paid enough to deal with this kind of immaturity.
Soon to be out of a job Meta's fact-checkers battle wildfire conspiracy theories
The article says they are also targeting tourist rentals.
never gonna happen lol

dang always get a chuckle when you get the flashbang
I have, it's called Visual Studio Code and I ditched my old native editor(s) for it.

I'd even suggest that the fact that it's JS based has significantly changed the tech world because the editor itself will run in a browser so it's here https://godbolt.org/ , and here https://codesandbox.io, and here https://www.postman.com/, and here https://aws.amazon.com/pm/cloud9/ and 100s or 1000s of other sites.
I think one important aspect of this is that many -- perhaps the bulk, now -- of people writing or talking on the Internet don't have much memory of a time when digital technology was underestimated -- or at least, did not get to their current positions by recognising when something was underestimated, and going with their own, overestimated beliefs. They probably got into technology because it was self-evidently a route to success, they were advised to do so, or they were as excited as anyone else by its overt promise. Their experience is dominated by becoming disillusioned with what they were sold on.

A different slice of time, and a different set of opportunities -- as Yegge says, the recollection that if you hadn't poo-pooed some prototype, you'd have $130 million based on an undeniably successful model -- gives you a different instinct.

I really do hear the -- utterly valid -- criticisms of the early Web and Internet when I hear people's skepticism of AI, including that it is overhyped. Overhyped or not, betting on the Internet in 1994 would have gotten you far, far, more of an insight (and an income) than observing all its early flaws and ignoring or decrying it.

This is somewhat orthogonal to whether those criticisms are correct!
I didn't realize at the time how lucky we were.
It will make things worse
Anything to stop a non-EU resident owning an EU company that owns a Spanish home?
same here I was scratching my head trying to figure out if something had corrupted my system or what
It's quite funny because Great Britain is the reason why the Spanish won their war of independence.
This is exactly my setup. I have a multi room setup and want to control them with an app. Looks like Wim is something I should look at. Thanks for the suggestion
My current job is one of the best I've had: a post-series-A startup which is executing smoothly on a product the market seems to want. The work is interesting and comes in Goldilocks quantities, neither too boring nor too stressful. Coworkers are happy, culture is healthy, vibes are good, and the future feels bright.

I like it here. I'm sure there must come a day when it will be time to move on, but I hope it's not soon.
marimo notebooks are actually DAGs as cells, reusable out-of-the-box in three diffferent ways: as interactive computing notebooks in a reactive environment with no hidden state, as Python scripts, as data apps. So Jupyter + nbconvert (or perhaps you meant jupytext) is not a replacement for marimo.
If Advertising is the "highest tech problem" that can be tackled, I guess we're in for a rough ride.

I'd assume at least a dozen things are more important than advertising inexpensive Chinese made socks to Americans. But I could be wrong.

If by highest you mean, "most lucrative" then yes, I agree.
> in 2024 the US had a population of 336M and built 90k housing units

That was one month’s worth. There were ~1.5 million built in 2024 in the US.

https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/pdf/newresconst.pdf