skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a window where China will have it max capability to invade for the next few years. After that their population is going to start shrinking and every year will be harder than the next to invade.
His example:

Rimworld is a great universe where we think about characters' stories, and there's really just like, a couple dozen attributes and straightforward ways they interact with the game.

An LLM context window could easily have 20 times as much interpersonal state, and make it interact in much more unexpected (but plausible) ways. That's going to be a surprising and rewarding gaming experience once someone figures it out.
Is there something like an sg90 toy servo but rotates 360 and gives me position with similar speed?
It's crazy just how little effort it takes to get a "Google = bad" article to the top of HN.

There is no vulnerability in Google OAuth. This is exactly how every OAuth server is supposed to work. If you take over a domain, you automatically own every email address in that domain, and thus whatever external account relies on that email for login. Heck the result would be the same even if that service didn't use Google OAuth, or any OAuth at all.

Nothing in that write-up makes sense.
Firefox crashes constantly on my computer, and my previous Windows machines, too, never understood the way.
A similar concept would be to only build airports where there's lots of planes landing.
cross compilation is hit-or-miss, but using qemu/binfmt works just fine, if a bit slow.
Another 2 in 5 are real, but they’re hoping to replace an existing employee at a lower rate.

No net new job but net lower income.
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Yeah. The first (and only, so far) time I came up against a servo controller from AMC (https://www.a-m-c.com/) my initial thought was "why the hell is this so difficult?" Sure, the product manual has everything you need to know about how to program the device. But that manual is also practically unreadable unless you already know how to program the device

Contrast with Teknic where I could get the servo drive up and running in a few hours because of an actually readable product manual and plenty of sample code and a Windows DLL to make everything easy.

There's definitely opportunity at the lower end of the market.
I'm not a fan of this guy's message at all, but the fact that you can be so easily and totally de-platformed should be a clarion call for everyone.

Platforms wield too much power and can wholly and totally destroy us. Run afoul of their rules just once (or maybe even not at all), and your business or identity gets totally erased with no recourse.

This is a shameful and scary state for us to be in. Serfs of the platforms.

If the political zeitgeist continues to become even more extreme, you might get silenced for questioning the origins of a virus, being LGBT, or expressing displeasure at a certain political candidate or business leader. Left or right.

It should be impossible to remove someone from banking, PayPal, Shopify, social media, etc. -- unless they're actively breaking federal law. And even then, there should be a legal process in place to reclaim your identity and real estate.

If legislation won't help us, then we need to build peer-to-peer (not federated) systems that will.
unluckily, FreeBSD project uses misleading info here - your apps are OUT of equation here, they do split "base" system (if traffic router is your appliance of choice, you may be fine with that), but all useful stuff is in "ports"/"packages" and is rolling updates.
That doesn't seem a great rationalization - there are other factors outside of just "money spent".
If you think this is bad, wait until you move physical addresses and don’t notify all your creditors!

Literally ANYONE who moves into your old house will have access to your bank statements, credit card bills, tax forms, auto registration and who knows what else. And it will all come plaintext and unencrypted!
> Airline pilots get recorded, why shouldn’t drivers?

AFAIK, general aviation pilots are not recorded. Black boxes are only a thing in commercial aviation, so a more appropriate analogy would be the recording of bus or semi-truck drivers.
[video] Discussion (149 points, 6 days ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632865
Sounds like what we really need is more carbon neutral/carbon negative ways to "Own the libs."
Chrome doesn't optimize for battery efficiency like Safari on Macs. It optimizes better than Safari.

https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-ma...
i use nixos on VMs, my desktop (Gaming and productivity) and servers. I use flakes for everything.

I've painfully learned how to do everything I need. My only big complaint is updating systemd. I have yet to figure out the systemd update bug. Sometimes nixos-rebuild-switch takes my network offline when updating systemd. It's incredibly annoying to update a box and have it drop offline. My work around is to do a 'diff' and when systemd is updated, I reboot manually and only update the boot image.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could justify in a review the compiling with -Wall (probably more explicitly) catches this and therefore you can disregard the rule.

Not all compilers have a -Wall equivalent, GCC, Clang and MSVC does but RANDOM_EMBEDDED_CHIP's custom compiler might not and that is a valid target for MISRA compliance.

I doubt every single thing that needs MISRA get's compiled with an industry standard compiler, I wouldn't be surprised that GCC is the exception for most companies targeting MISRA compliance.
Zuckerberg says Meta will lay off more 'low-performers'
Just add careful documentation and changelog to all modules
Totally depends on if it's a use case you care about. Things like libraries vs leaf-node applications also play a factor.
>> "won't someone think of the children?"

> Why wouldn’t I think of children?

The g-parent describes a narrative that is designed to seed an untrue notion that no one is thinking of the children.
Are they just going to train LLM's themselves... LLM's are the hot topic today, but... Waiting for new architecture to drop.
It sounds like you're not training it with your existing code base, and that you're running it with relatively small contexts. Have you done any custom LLM training on your code base, and what model are you using?
have the AI update docs/changelogs as it does changes, that way it doesn't lose track, and also document architecture.
>Thinking about efficiency is a reliable way to buzz-kill creative inspiration.

on the autism spectrum are systems thinkers, many liking to think precisely about efficiency, we are very creative about it and it makes us happy (read Simon Baron-Cohen's The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention)

you're a buzzkill
> The chips still need to fly back to Taiwan

The planet burned, but at least we made a few chips in America.
U.S. Capitol Flags Will Be at Full-Staff During Inauguration
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I have similar story. Recently facebook forced me to enable 2-factor auth but adding SMS did not work for me for a whole week and I just deleted the app. Later I opened facebook from mobile browser and added SMS as 2nd factor and now I have opened Facebook from mobile browser only once in more than a week and I don't miss it much. It was the only "social" network I used besides reddit and hacker news
>Also, I wasn't aware YouTube mobile has ads? I think uBlock might be eating them.

That would be the point of an ad-block add-on wouldn't it?
Do you have more evidence of this? I'm genuinely curious. I read the whole post, and perhaps I missed it but I didn't see a breakdown of his income streams.

I say this because, at first blush, I was glad that a bunch of the products he listed that he built seemed generally like real products that I could imagine people finding useful. I say this because it feels like, in contrast, so often in these solopreneur posts they're selling some kind of scammy SEO or ad-spam tool.

So yeah, I'd be bummed if this guy turned out to be the tech equivalent of "Buy my real estate investing course!", and just curious if that's really what this is.

Edit: Nevermind, I saw https://www.coryzue.com/open/.
“Anecdotally,” middle class has fled/been pushed out of NYC because of the development you are praising. There was an entire Harper’s magazine cover story about how the city is “over.” Most of it taken over by rich, entitled, boring people.
Especially Manhattan.
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https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-ci...
What an odd, self-contradictory post. "In recent years, hundreds of the brightest minds of modern civilization have been hard at work not curing cancer.", along with phrases like "defective by design" and implied loss by not giving all people in a drug trial the new medicine, imply he thinks all of a thing needs allocated to what he perceives (incorrectly, trivially, shown below) as the best use. Then he states in the multiarm bandit to waste (from his multiple other statements) 10% of what is the best use on random other uses for exploration.

However all this fails. For optimal output (be it drug research, allocation of brains, how to run a life), putting all resources on the problem/thing that is the "most important" is sub-optimal use of resources. It's always better expected return to allocate resources to where that spent resource has the best return. If that place is apps, not cancer, then wishing for brains to work on cancer because some would view that as a more important problem may simply be a waste of brains.

So if cancer is going to be incredibly hard to solve, and mankind empirically gets utility from better apps, then a better use is to put those brains on apps - then they're not wasted on an probably not solvable problem and are put to use making things that do increase value.

He also ignores that in real life the cost to have a zillion running experiments constantly flipping alternatives does not scale, so in no way can a company at scale replace A/B with multiarm bandits. One reason is simple: at any time a large company is running 1000s to maybe 100k A/B tests, each running maybe 6 months, at which point code path is selected, dead paths removed, and this repeats continually.If that old code is not killed, and every feature from all time needs to be on/off randomly, then there is no way over time to move much of the app forwards. It's not effective or feasibly to build many new features if you must also allow interacting with those from 5-10 years ago.

A simple google shows tons more reasons, form math to practical, that this post is bad advice.
I can understand the decision of a platform to remove the business account, or the posts of that account, which are promoting the sale of an item that’s basically inciting terrorism. But the decision to also ban his personal account seems like an overreaction.
What if DankStartup doesn't fold and just forgot to renew their domain, or lost control of their domain for some reason. OAuth shouldn't let you Auth someone else's account just because you can hijack their domain.
This already exists. I believe State Farm is one of them.
Yeah it's a variant on "anything you say can be used against you."

Any feedback you give can potentially be twisted to support some argument of unfair treatment. Even if it's frivolous, employers don't want to spend time dealing with that. So they just say nothing.
We do have a plan, but it was going to cost ~$10 billion and NASA is exploring cheaper options now. $10 billion is more than an order of magnitude less than it cost to land on the moon, but our societal priorities are (apparently) different now.
Thank you, I did indeed mistake one for the other.
Most of their biggest games already are on Steam, though!
It's that: Spacial awareness, struggling to maintain the personas (and often talking for the player/s), difficulty improvising, pacing issues, lack of initiative, and just an over reliance on prompting to keep going correctly.
An elite thinking that they know the truth and should suppress falsehoods is much more dangerous, so yes.
>“We typically manage out people who aren’t meeting expectations over the course of a year, but now we’re going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle.”

I would assume the managing out people is dealing with the slackers. The idea that "x% of our workforce is underperforming and should be let go" on a regular basis (5-10% every few years seems to be the current trend) on top of that is a fun thing re-emerging in tech where these companies think a hard internal focus on performance will result in the best employees sticking around and them hiring 'performance focused' engineers.

The inevitable result is the next wave of companies to get back on the 'we treat our employees like humans and care about your wellbeing' will hoover up all the best of the new and recently disenchanted and highly capable experienced engineers and developers while those with the highest threshold for abuse are the ones actually retained in these companies.
Accessing a web page using standard protocols with no authentication and filtering what I want to see of it on my computer is not stealing content.

YT might want me to do something else, but I am not bound by their wishes.
I don't think it is only because the financial sector pays more than average. They don't reach the pay level of FAANG companies having their R&D in Switzerland. Also be assured that this level is only reached in Zurich.
Discussion (132 points, 219 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134
It is beyond out of touch to not see how one of the most profitable and successful car companies of all time is going to survive. Tesla is doing amazing and isn’t slowing down.
This is a fair general critique of a category of advice that I try hard not to fall into. It is true that I make a fair share of my income from a starter kit, but I tried quite hard to generalize my advice and only mentioned it in passing once or twice (and the only slide that really pushed it, I acknowledged it was a shameless plug).

If you read my writing[1], it will be clear that I've been documenting my journey in a probably-too-transparent way long before I had a product that benefited from getting exposure to other developers. This talk is mostly just a distillation of that knowledge, because I have graduated from "idiot figuring it out" to "experienced person who may be able to say something useful for beginners".

Also, for the record, I hate that starter kits became one of the trendy (and sleazy) products in this space, exactly because it generates reactions like this. I wrote about this last month[2], saying "They make the whole industry look bad, and make me feel like a grifter selling Pegasus, even though I have worked my ass off on it for 5+ years and think it’s great. Maybe a corollary to this point is that I kind of don’t like marketing in my industry anymore?"

Again, I think it's a fair general critique and a correct reaction to this type of advice, and also I hope that I didn't really do what you said if you read or watch the contents of the talk.

1. https://www.coryzue.com/writing/
2. https://www.coryzue.com/writing/dec-2024/
Happens in public/gov sector regularly.

PT role turning into FT… it’s going to the PTer.

Temporary budget allocation became permanent and determinate spot becoming indeterminate? Same.
I rented seven EVs this last summer (h/t Turo) and we ended up with a Kia EV6. Not a perfect car, but one my family loved more than the others. If we wanted something larger, the EV9 is also fantastic.

I'd recommend trying ones out and picking one. We're not at China-levels of EV options but many do exist at most price/luxury levels. Our other car is a Ford Focus EV which I wish they still sold (I got mine new for $20k about 7 years ago).
The actual horrific part is that when you contemplate retalitory infrastructure strikes you realize there os not much to strike in russia. What a way to run a country into the ground..
> Assuming pedestrian and children’s safety is a priority.

It really isn’t a priority (in the US anyhow) otherwise we’d have far more and far better public transportation.
Oh, that's coming very very soon! London and San Paolo. Def in Q1.
The Los Angeles wildfires have ignited a fierce debate about their nature—are they divine punishment or simply natural disasters? As flames consume neighborhoods, Christians reflect on their faith, viewing these events as evidence of God's judgment, while non-believers seek answers in environmental causes. This article explores the contrasting beliefs surrounding the fires, the theological interpretations of suffering, and the implications for communities grappling with loss and destruction.
It's fairly likely they just confused about which candidate was which. Happens all the time.
I have been required to create fake job postings because of US immigration policy.

From the line manager perspective, how it looks is you have a colleague who has been working with you for several years who is on a H1B visa. They want to get a green card and become a permanent resident. To support this, we are required to post a fake job ad for their position, and invent a reason to reject any US citizens who apply for the position. (Non-US applications are ignored.)

Our legal advice was that the job posting had to be contain only legitimate requirements for the role, so it could not be highly tailored to only match the resume of the employee seeking PERM status. The result was phone screen interviews were required to reject 8-10 on-paper-potentially-qualified US applicants for the fake position.

This is for a highly specialized area within finance, where in real hiring there is an immense effort to find the strongest candidates regardless of nationality.

In hindsight I am confident that earlier in my career I had applied to at least one such fake role. One not-well-known advantage of working with a recruiter as a job seeker in such a field is the recruiter will have back-channel information to know to ignore such fake job postings.
Canadian tycoon Jim Pattison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Pattison) was known for firing the lowest performing car salesman each month.
List sounds like quite few people I worked with.
Works for me in safari.
The phone usage data. You use a phone very differently when you're driving and when you're a passenger.
Fluoride debate in city council meetings
> I'm sorry, but I can't recall a single time it actually happened. Expressing support is important, but I never heard of it being mandatory.

I'm sorry, but it does happen. I've personally experienced it and witnessed it.

> And since pronouns are a big part of someone's identity, I'd say one should try to get them right, especially now that most of us made it easy to do (mine are he/him, BTW).

We should absolutely get it right, but they are not a big part of everyone's identity, which is a point missed by the people who feel it is an extremely large part of theirs and want everyone to know about it.
I only use those IDE-integrated assistants on small greenfield projects I work for on my own account. Sometimes they work great, sometimes they don't. (The funniest thing about Windsurf is that it keeps forgetting it's supposed to write C:\some\path on windows when it uses its tools as opposed to /C:/some/path although it will do the right thing for a short time after I advise it)

At work we have AI policies that revolve around confidentiality and a contract to use Microsoft's Copilot so that is what I do. I use it as supplement to looking up answers in the manual. For instance I had to write some complicated Mockito tests and got sample code personalized to my needs, had it explain why it did certain things, how certain things work, etc. I've also had it give me good advice about how to deal with cases that I screwed up with git.

Often it gives me the insight to confirm things in the manual quickly, but my experience is that Copilot is weak in the citation department, often it gives 100% correct answers and justifies them with 100% wrong citations.
> So your hypothesis here is that people just switch slurs. But is that really true? It's not easy to get a new word into the general vocabulary. Sure, a small group of people could agree to a substitute for the n-word. But when they used it in public, most people wouldn't have any idea what they were talking about. Which means the slur wouldn't have the same impact as if they'd used the slur everyone knows.

Yes, that is my "hypothesis", having a basic familiarity with history where this has happened repeatedly. It's obviously not that hard to get a word into general usage, and it's also not a mystery when someone is attempting to insult you even if you aren't familiar with the word in the moment.

> I didn't reframe, but I did draw a logical conclusion that may seem opaque if you haven't thought it through.

You asked a question, then changed the phrasing of that question in your next question. I would say that failing to ask the question you actually meant to ask (which is a generous reading of our discussion) is indicative of failing to think things through.

Again, your behavior has been consistently antagonistic and obnoxious (the comment above is another example).

> You acknowledge that ethnic slurs are harmful

Yes

> but you don't see the link between equal rights and how people are referred to by those in power.

Never said anything close to that.

> Do you see the contradiction there?

I get that you'd like it if I said what you are claiming as that could be contradictory and you could expand on that while asking leading questions and contributing little else, but I didn't and frankly have no interest in continuing a conversation with an insufferable prig.

> You're imagining a world where leaders can use the n-word without reproach, yet people of color are treated equally by society.

No I'm not. Go have your imaginary conversation elsewhere.