skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You took me too literally there, that was intended as a thought experiment to explore the limits.

What I was getting at was the question: If we feel intuitively that this extreme isn't realistic, what exactly do we think is missing?

My argument is, what's missing is the human ability to play the game of being human, pursuing goals in an adversarial social context.

To your point more specifically: Yes, that 10-person team might be replaceable by a single person.

More likely than not however, the size of the team was not constrained by lack of ideas or ambition, but by capital and organizational effectiveness.

This is how it's played out with every single technology so far that has increased human productivity. They increase demand for labor.

Put another way: Businesses in every industry will be able to hire software engineering teams that are so good that in the past, only the big names were able to afford them. The kind of team required for the digital transformation of every old fashioned industry.
When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense
> With all the megabrains in here

HN is just another social network, with a bias for programmers and tech enthusiasts. I enjoy it and believe it does a lot right to promote good discussion, but let’s not kid ourselves: there are no “megabrains” here, certainly not in any meaningful way. There are a ton of misguided people who think being passable at coding reveals some type of deeper understanding for how the world works, but that’s just hubris. HN is filled with flawed humans which, if anything, may have a bigger blind spot for their own limitations than most. Don’t idolise HN frequenters, we’re all just people here. People in a community who rightfully gets relentlessly made fun of in other corners or the internet precisely due to using terms like “megabrain” to describe its members.
Europe's AI hopes rebound after DeepSeek success
My colleague does Sublime Merge, but I can look into this for you. Have you reported this on our issue tracker: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues?
But there are many times when the client _is_ the browser. Are you sure you're not confused by that?
Hi, OP here; this article helped me a lot to understand better KV caches, which is ultimately why I co-wrote it with AI + read it several times before posting
Not the person you're replying to, but I have tried Zed and I think it does too much things I don't need (like LLM integration, all that "multiplayer" stuff), and it's funded by VCs, so it will go down the road of enshittification (or sale, or shut down) eventually.

I don't want to support VC-backed companies.
The current leap in research and its byproduct like ChatGPT are impressive (in the sense that it can pick up human text/speech and return back answers). But its not in any way a replacement for good Software Engineers, your job is safe (what is being posted on social media and news is extreme hype).

Here's the funny thing, if you ask people who interact with chat bots in any given service industry (banks, online orders...etc) they'll tell you how bad these things are, there is just no replacement for actual human beings with real life intuition (this kind of AI break through hasn't happened yet).

For the time being if you take time to specialize in a domain knowledge skill (physics, math, economy, or even agriculture) you'll be able to use the skills you learn from your CS degree in that domain and prosper as a result.

Here is the thing about pursuing a degree, it is a tedious awful long task. It doesnt actually look like the actual job you'll be doing when you finish this degree.

I'll go against the common advice and say, stick to it, finish the degree because it will give you good social mobility (when trying to travel for work to any country in the world, you'll either need to be a specialist in your field with few years experience or have at minimum a bachelor degree).
The v3/v4 docs can be found at https://v4.svelte.dev/

There is a migration guide as well as a migration tool that will migrate most of your code for you. You can also see what an individual file looks like when migrated in the playground.
CPU vendors always say this when an exploit is published before they mitigate.

Sometimes they mean "no we don't think it's exploitable", sometimes the charitable reading is "we don't think anyone is exploiting this and we think developing an exploit will take quite some time".

Unfortunately they never reveal exactly that they mean. This is very annoying, because when it's the former case, they're often right! Security researchers publish bullshit sometimes. But the vendors basically leave you to figure it out for yourself.
> Tech should be void of politics. Thats the real issue here.

"Tech" doesn't exist in a void - "tech" exists because politics allow it.
thanks so much for the feedback! i will fix the rates part. but i didn't get the copy paste part, what were you really trying to copy paste?
That don't support compiled c/rust/etc libraries so you have to compile them.
> Until the FAA oversight and permitting regs are updated, it's far too cost and time prohibitive to bring anything (aside from avionics) truly innovative to the GA market.

Unless you take a look at why those regulations came into place - literally tens of thousands of people dying in fiery crashes. Aviation safety is an incredibly complex topic, and even with the strict regulatory regimes of today, companies like Boeing manage to skirt the rules and proudly sell planes that crash themselves, or fall apart in mid air.

Lowering regulatory boundaries in aviation will certainly result in more death.
I have a lot of respect for Sublime Text not being yet-another-electron-monster. Thanks for your work.
This is well done. Does it have to be an electron app, or could this UI be embedded in an existing site, as a component?
In my experience most event-sourcing was implemented as storing versions of objects (it came from the OOP camp). All the consistency checks had to be done manually in imperative code across countless classes. Many large investment banks use it. And then all the actual DB stuff has to be exported to SQL or other actual database engines to be processed properly.
> I can't think of a single aerospace company that is not dual-use

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are pretty squarely military only.
Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story
Each part is necessary, but in itself not sufficient.

Successful business takes hard work, the right work, done well, reaching a market that needs it and can afford it.

Motivation by itself is worthless. Working on the wrong thing is worthless. Working hard on the wrong thing is worthless.

Being smart isn't about doing Integral Calculus. It's about deciding to work on the right thing.

Most of all a business needs to reach customers who want what you are selling, and can afford what you need to charge.

To the OP I say "I don't know you, but i expect you looked for product first, then first customers. Switch to finding customers first, then worry about the product."

Once you have that then you'll need motivation, hard work and indeed some luck.
Fox brainwashed viewers hate DEI.
1% (vote margin of win, roughly)
electing a person to an office does NOT equal a popular mandate for any particular policy and its silly to claim that the voters hate what you apparently hate.
Another happy customer of Sublime Text here, but still not dare to take the step to buy SublimeMerge, I'm pretty well served in console for my git use, except for 'git blame' that I prefer to do in a UI tool, but SublimeMerge blame support is awful.
Maybe just a recovery from yesterday's mood swing due to DeepSeek?
Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory
i also enjoyed the cold war documentary on netflix.
You said in a separate comment that all your developers use it. You're in violation of the software's evaluation license.
Did you have a vpn enabled at all?
Love sublime text! Would be amazing to see a blog post from you guys go over the gui framework. Really cool tech! It’s my editor of choice!
Obsession is not a bad trait, until you're obsessed by the wrong thing.

Be careful of survivor bias here, there are lots of very obsessed entrepreneurs who have failed.
> these federal workers have a pension

Do they keep the pension if they take the buyout?
You don't have the data nor the right to claim WHY 1% marginally preferred candidate x to candidate y.
Yes, of course. One of the Ruby shops I worked for did exactly this.

But why add the extra complexity? Ruby and Python are similar enough in terms of productivity and processing time that there's no reason to do this IMHO.
The problem with $50,000 tickets is a higher price means fewer customers, and at a certain point that means less money coming in overall, worse economies of scale, and less ability to cover your upfront engineering costs.

The Toyota Camry is a $30,000 car that sells 300,000 units per year. The Lamborghini Huracan is a $300,000 car that sells 600 units per year. Much easier to cover the costs of developing a reliable electrical system, or a new hybrid drivetrain, when you're Toyota.

Concorde couldn't repay its development costs for the same reason.
Can't this be solved using a remote file system these days?

I haven't done it in years since with every customer from the last few years the only official way to get to prod is a CI-pipeline, but I think I remember using sfpt or ssh-based file systems even a decade back?
Please do! Seeing that you used multiple research papers to back up this writing inspired me to use this in my current research project for the literature review and eventual write up.

The template will be hugely helpful for a non-programmer like me.
I don't use it much for programming, since I mostly use IntelliJ for that.

Where Sublime shines for me is opening large files, and opening pretty much any file. So many times MacOS wants me to open a json file in Xcode, or a txt file in TextEdit, when all i want to do is open it in Sublime! And I know that i can open files that are multiple GB without issues, just takes a few seconds :P

And the Ctrl-D shortcut and multi-cursor in general is so neat. I know other editors have it too now, but when I showed my wife how useful it was for simple tasks like formatting a list of emails...she ended up making her company buy her a license and teaching others how to use it.
Very few people use HM type systems even today, though.

I think it really is worth considering that Java effectively didn't have sum types until, I think, version 17, and nowadays, many modern and popular statically typed languages have them.
The point of a degree is to reap a return on investment for getting the degree. An important part of that is enjoying the work.

While AI cannot replace some aspects of a CS degree, AI can and does replace the entry level position tasks quite easily in most white collar work. There will be no industry unimpacted long term.

Agriculture seems like a good bet until you actually spend some time on a farm with people who work in the business. Many farms operations are financed, and having setbacks amounts to owing debt if the circumstances like climate change impact you.

With agriculture you also have additional cost mainly related to government regulation for safety, and costs from monopolies on repairs for specific equipment you need to do your job. Like what's happening with John Deere.

Its not nearly as free to market as you seem to think it is. Soil conservation efforts where the government subsidizes you to not grow anything have been a thing in the past, to raise the price on certain goods, and there is always the risk that in an unforeseen emergency that your production is seized.

They haven't done it to date (afaik), but the laws are in place, in many localities, so they can do this.

Being a code monkey is definitely a dead end job.

You might look into vocational training, maybe retrain in a trade like plumbing, hvac, pool maintenance, welding, etc. Its doubtful that AI will take over these jobs.

Something where you develop useful skills.
Why should one care how Marx defined "socialism"? The term predates him by many decades, so he doesn't get to say what is "true socialism" and what isn't.
If you love it so much, here is another one: https://blog.ce9e.org/posts/2025-01-07-oidc/
They won't do supersonic jets in particular, but they already have a ton of moonshots to try make sustainable aviation possible and with economics that make sense. Stuff like hydrogen propulsion, hydrogen electric, and battery electric designs, with a variety of weird shapes and forms. They're the only big aircraft manufacturer with such a wide array of potentially groundbreaking (if they make it) research. And theirs is drastically more important than Boom - time and time again, it has been proven that mass aviation is all about economics, not speed. Soon it will be economics + sustainability, speed being a niche which might not even be profitable (Concorde, Convair and many others have tried differentiating themselves on speed and failed).

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/energy-transition/hydro...
Snippets are far more powerful than slots and so the change is not merely cosmetic. Snippets give you a way to create reusable HTML fragments within a component.
Yes. I wrote some js to have a drawing of a woman blink her eyes with random intervals. Was fun but super distracting.
> inside a single program

Cool, but hey get this... I'm interviewing next week some guys working
in API security. and the discussion notes so far are terrifying.

People do all this work to build secure networks and OS, and then
someone says "Hmm we need an API for <fashionable reason>", and next
thing a junior dev exposes all the top level functions of a program
running with high privileges as URL handlers.

So maybe even _within_ your app it's not too paranoid to think "what
if someone got an entry point into this function?" and at least put a
"NEVER EXPOSE" comment there :)
If you use windows, you can use WIN + V instead of using an editor for a copy paste buffer.

WIN + V activates clipboard history, so you can see and select things you copied previously.
This depends on whether your organization benefits from getting things done, or whether it's better to do nothing than 90% of the solution. Lots of organizations build elaborate work-prevention infrastructure to make sure that nothing less than 100%, or even 110%, gets done.

> Does your solution fit whatever requirements other interested parties might have? Who knows! We didn't do any designing or thinking about the problem yet

Often people don't know what they want until you show them something, at which point they start telling you what's wrong with it. Design by "strawman".

Many heavily lauded startup businesses were built on code that barely worked and got backfilled later.
What does this even mean
Sublime’s behaviour isn’t an autosave, it just never loses text in a window. You can upgrade the entire OS, start Sublime and your windows and text will be waiting for you, regardless of saved or unsaved state. I’ve got five-year-old scratchpad windows open that I’ve never saved.
I think the Ecto query DSL is much nicer.

But I'm also fine with writing SQL by hand and don't really feel an attraction to these kinds of more complicated things. I find automating pulling out EXPLAIN and schema into doc blocks is more useful.
Ha, I'm just reading this after tearing my hair out after trying to get a basic omniauth google login working in Rails. I was hitting CORS issues, for hours. I'm new to rails, but had read how productive it makes you. Well, thanks to one of their productivity features (Turbo) I was ready to throw the whole thing out.
Yes, I know, this wasn't an oauth2 issue directly. /rant :-)
If composable query builders have fallen out of fashion, that's news to me. I've used SQLAlchemy in Python fairly heavily over the years, it's gotta be one of the best out there, I plan to continue using it for many more years. And I've recently gotten my feet wet with Ecto in Elixir, I'm quite impressed with it too.
yeah I don't think merchanical turk can hand write WASM yet.
Hah.

Back in 2011 my team built a news website with adaptive delivery. It loaded a small html page with a javascript that checked the screen size and user agent, then based on whether the user was on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, downloaded and displayed the content crafted for that particular device. It then left a cookie to avoid the extra round-trip for returning visitors.

Nowadays people tend to adapt the design to devices with CSS frameworks and flexbox layout, but this does not always reduce traffic and CPU time for low-powered devices.

While our engineering feat was adorable and I praised the team for the achievement, this architecture did not last. The editorial team did not want to maintain essentially 3 different content layouts daily, the marketing team was not willing to compromise on ads on smaller screens.

None was happy except the readers.
It's quite amazing to watch the 'reasoning' process unfolding when asking a complicated coding question. It forms deep insights within minutes, that would take me several hours to formulate on my own.
If that's the case, what was the point of the test flight anyway? What were they exactly testing?
I see you don't understand the technological advantage AST has in comparison with Starlink Direct-To-Cell connection. They are some years ahead in this game.

AST is already testing full broadband 5G technology fully integrated into the terrestrial networks without interference with Vodafone and AT&T and will get Verizon beta testing approval very soon.

What Starlink D2C currently has is a spotty text service with such a low signal strength that is useless for anything more. That is what they got approval for from FCC because any stronger signal is causing unacceptable interference with the current terrestrial networks and the terrestrial providers didn't agree to allow them more than that. It will take a year or two at least for Starlink to get to provide more than text and that is actually stated as well in the T-Mobile press release about this.

Other thing is difference in AST and Starlink architecture which makes Starlink not easy to properly integrate in the terrestrial networks since they have gNodeB modules on the satellite, where AST is integrating with the gNodeB modules on the ground.

There are many details that make AST leading in the game of direct-to-cell communication in comparison to other solutions. They just got 1B in cash from investors to expand and speed up deployment of their network, so calling them vaporware might not age well when in couple weeks they start releasing the testing results.
Those points are true of current AI models, but how sure are you they will remain true as technology evolves?

Maybe you believe that they will always stay true, that there's some ineffable human quality that will never be captured by AI and value creation will always be bottle-necked by humans. That would be nice.

But even if you still need humans in the loop, it's not clear how "democratizing" this would be. It might sound great if in a few years you and everyone else can run an AI on their laptop that is as a good as a great technical co-founder that never sleeps. But note that means that someone who owns a data-center can run the equivalent of the current entire technical staff of Google, Meta, and OpenAI combined. Doesn't sound like a very level playing field.
Yes. ~7.5% of the cost contribution bought them the name on the building.
Not sure how projects and workspaces are a feature, it's the most convoluted thing ever. I just use `subl .` to open my project directory. I think it would be saner to just have a dot file in the directory if you want to tweak settings for that project/directory.
My current conslusion is quite often these LLM's are liars.
I've asked for some Rust async code - it provided perfecly reasonable code with some crates(libs) I was not familiar. When asked about them I've spilled my drink on an answer:
"This is imaginary crate providing async implementation for SNMP".
Crazy..
The biggest problem with LLM'are they never tell you "I don't know/there is no answer I can find" - don't know the answer - make it up :)
This was my take as well. Nadella is looking increasingly desperate by the day to salvage this investment. First that Jevon paradox tweet after futures opened Sunday night now this clearly leaked story plus a tweet from Altman of them together lol. I actually recall him making a similar tweet last time futures tanked a few months ago though I don’t recall the context.

Pretty clear that this thing is quickly getting away from them. Even if the data was stolen it doesn’t make any difference. You have no moat if scraped data is your moat. The moat was supposedly their ingenious engineers.

I think a 180 is coming soon when Microsoft stops doubling down, takes their medicine and shifts their strategy to cut back on infrastructure spend. I think the risks are still enormous for the tech sector.
I made a web delicious-alike many years ago called Beep My Stuff that I happily shut down. No regrets, I hated it.

What I discovered was:

* amazon (at the time) will aggressively shut you down by cutting off the only "viable" access to "barcode to product" data.

* barcode databases cost a lot of money and are full of utter drivel.

* people had absolutely VAST DVD/VHS porn collections that they want to share

* there is more red tape in the US then you expect. As a UK citizen I was shocked by how sclerotic any action is in the US.

* people were and now almost completely have moved to digital "stuff" although I hope that changes.
Social Democracy: An Alternate History Autumn Chen
You can use a remote FS but it is nowhere close to the experience VSCode gives you. For instance, running code will run it locally, not on the remote machine.
Some kind of trolling, I assume. Diana is not trans.
Netdata vs. Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis
EnigmaLabs
> write their stuff in PTX

I wonder if you vould you point me to concrete examples where people write PTX rather than CUDA? I'm asking because I just learned CUDA since it's so much faster than Python!
Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
https://archive.is/a7EgF
Videos made by random people aren't the same thing. Better in some respects - let's play videos show games comprehensively - but I don't think they properly replace the professionally made magazines which cover many topics and of opinions, have easily skippable ads and are more suitable to self-paced exploration.

I'm also concerned about not being able to run the software at all due to the complexity emulating modern systems (even for non-gaming applications) which rely on servers for functionality and licensing (DRM).
Often startups don't quite know what the product is until after they've been through several rounds of showing it to customers. Hence all the product-market-fit and "pivot" talk. There's no point in building a finely crafted wrong product. And people absolutely will not tell you what product they want built if it's genuinely innovative.
OpenID Connect is an extension to OAuth2 and a strict superset of it. All OpenID Connect servers are OAuth2 authorization servers - but not the inverse.

OAuth2 technically only offers "authorization" (granting access to do something), but OpenID Connect adds an "authentication" (who is getting this access?) layer on top of OAuth2 by returning an id_token alongside the authorization_token.
I have no issue at all recommending typescript over Python today. This is not something I’d ever do before ~2020. I completely agree this has nothing to do with fashion and everything with typescript and v8 being amazing despite the ugly JavaScript in between.

In the meantime, the parallel universe (to HN at least) of dotnet happily and silently keeps delivering… can’t wait for the C# rennesaince.