skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what would be the deterrent there? You should program the AI with some sort of "fear of death" or "fear of consequences", and if that's the case, wouldn't it be straight up slavery?
What a funny coinkydink for it to go down at the exact same time they ordered a "stop all the payments!" directive!
We wait for the order for the general strike, and then we do our part.
Exactly. Everyone has conveniently forgotten that he said in 2020 he would only serve one term.
So was it intended for the EU not to have a tech industry of note?
Thanks for this personal story with the historical connection.

I would like to invite the audience to remember how many similar stories are being played out in the present day.
Myself and a small group of curious souls have been sharing links here for years:

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We mainly share articles on science, history, psychology, philosophy, true crime, interactives, and other such stuff. We avoid politics as much as feasible. I just checked, and we're coming up on 42,000 links in the catalog so far. Yowza.
Exactly. When he fired 90% of the employees everyone here and on Reddit said it would fall apart within days due to the complexity of the systems that Elon’s employees and the remaining traitor engineers had no hope of maintaining.

When it didn’t fall apart in days, the goalposts were moved to “technical issues won’t become obvious right away, give it a few months”.

It’s been over 2 years and on a technical level running better than ever. You can disagree with the content and users all you wish, but pretending it’s dying because you hate the bad orange and mars man is delusional.
I strongly disagree with this. “Computers” would have not been replaced with the machines that replaced them if those machines routinely produced incorrect results.

One could argue that for applications where correctness is not critical my position does not apply, however this is not the analogy that the article is making.
That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".
Update: they contested my chargeback. Going through round 2!
With apologies for wading into culture war topics - there are three year olds who will absolutely scream their head off at someone trying to get them to wear a dress because "I'm not a girl!!!"
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For this I've always called myself "software plumber".

I quite liked that analogy about excavator because I think along similar lines. Mechanising drudgery work in construction industry enabled us to build superstructures that are hundreds of stories tall. I wonder if LLMs will enable us to do something similar when it comes to software.
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Please read more about a subject before making asinine generalizations. There were many steps between "imagined" and "accepted".
> Biden enforced immigration laws too,

No he did not. Biden's first acts were to repeal Trump's stringent immigration orders. After 3 and half years with another election looming and seeing the disaster that caused, all of the sudden, his administration wasn't so hot on open borders anymore. If he enforced immigration laws, we wouldn't have so many people who have illegally entered the country.

> Trying to revoke birthright citizenship is not “enforcing existing law”.

And I never claimed that. But I support an amendment towards that end.

> The concessions from Mexico and Canada were already planned from last administration.

Nope, the 10,000 troops Mexico just agreed to is on top of whatever other things they "promised" to do. And tariffs are off the table for now.

> Moreover, now there are retaliatory tariffs coming from them.

Nope, no tariffs have been enacted on either side at the moment.

> How does a trade imbalance imply that we are “screwed”?

US trade imbalance by year:

2020: $626 billion
2021: $858 billion
2022: $971 billion
2023: $1 trillion

We also have historically the lowest tariff rates in the world. Gee, I wonder if that's related. And then when we raise them to level the playing field, everyone bitches and whines.

> The stuff about NATO is a lot more complicated than you’re making it out to be.

> This is my biggest issue with Trump and his supporters, they treat everything as this incredibly reductive, black and white, “simple” issue.

Pretty hand wavy there.

My issue with liberals is the lack of common sense, e.g. allowing biological men to destroy women in sports, not being willing to define what a woman is, getting mad at Trump for enforcing immigration laws (i.e. not letting people enter the country illegally and kicking out those who do)
Half degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth too hot for humans
Congress controls spending and no one person can just decide not to transfer the funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse#United_Stat...

In the federal government of the United States, the power of the purse is vested in the Congress as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 (the Appropriations Clause) and Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (the Taxing and Spending Clause).

The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the President of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress has limited executive power.

https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/04/congress-president-tr...

How Congress — and not the president — controls how taxpayer money is spent
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Trump has been the dominant figure in American politics for almost a decade now. It's quite obvious who he is and what he stands for. And he's more popular now than ever before. That's the reality. Accepting that and planning around it is the first step to countering it. Burying your head in the sand and saying "people don't actually want this!" is unactionable talk.
Yes, I mean, all the options are bad. So let’s start there :)

First, if your money supply is the actual asset (and not just backed by it) then it’s even worse, since fluctuations in overall supply of that asset can cause very large valuation changes of the money you own. E.g. if we find a silver deposit 4x bigger than all the silver we already have, then suddenly all the coins people are carrying around are worth 1/5 their previous value. So it makes the currency unattractive to hold. On the other hand, if you run out of coins then as your economy or even just population grows then everything has to get cheaper because there’s only the same amount of coins to buy more stuff. And that encourages hoarding. These two things together make for financial disaster because nothing can really be relied on. And, this wasn’t as much of a problem before countries like the UK industrialized, which led to population explosions across the major powers.

Then again after WW2, when globalized markets became a thing, we saw another wave of industrialization and accompanying population growth, to the point that even asset-backed paper currency became problematic. There’s just not enough gold on the planet to back every other economic output. There’s only about 400 million pounds of the stuff worldwide. Assuming you could even get ahold of it all, you could only use it to back about $200 billion. Between 1950 and 1971 global trade expanded by a trillion dollars. And the global population nearly doubled. And we couldn’t just say “gold is worth more now”. There were treaties in place that defined the price of gold as $35 per ounce (which led to countries like France to try and destabilize our currency by buying up a bunch of our gold, but that’s another story).

But in a fiat system by adopting the currency you add your economic output to the overall system and your currency stability is now tied up in that economic output, so—your output goes down, your people’s belief in your ability to pay also goes down. This works super well in a rapidly-growing economy. There’s always more! More money-printing, more economic output, more debt… but the problem with this is—what happens in a world where things stop growing all the time? We have a few small examples and they aren’t pretty (Greece, COVID, and coming soon—China).
I think the idea is the interest on the debt will approach our ability to pay soon. That would be like your mortgage payment being toward interest only, and you were barely able to make it.
> I think homoiconicity and the parenthesis are a red herring, the real problem is that we're still stuck with parser generators that aren't composable.

You might be interested in "PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros" (https://peps.python.org/pep-0638/), thought it hasn't gotten very much attention.

I have similar (or at least related) thoughts for my own language design (Fawlty), too. My basic idea is that beyond operators, expressions are parsed primarily by pattern-matching, and there's a reserved namespace for keywords/operators. For example, things like Python's f-strings would be implemented as a compile-time f operator, which does an AST transformation. Some user-defined operators might conditionally either create some complex AST representation or just delegate to a runtime function call.

> Rustifarians

Heh, haven't heard that one.
> My partner complains he gets furry porn in Discovery while having a zero interest in that - he follows only 11 accounts.

AFAIK the 'Discover' algorithm is based largely on _likes_, not who you follow. This can result in extremely weird results for people who never like posts, which I suspect is quite a large part of the user base.
Bureaucrat is a misnomer. Think of him more as a reaper of souls
I am trying iced based on this recommendation.
Thanks.
I wouldn’t trust a 19 year old to do my taxes let alone audit all of federal spending.
Thanks, I had to dig, but impoundment looks like what i need to research.
Querying Databases with Function Calling
The reason there is no npm/maven for C, is because UNIX culture prefers Makefiles and packages on whatever format the actual UNIX implementation uses.

Depots on Aix, pkgsrc on Solaris, tgz/rpm/deb on Linux, ports on BSDs,...

In any case, I would argue that we have npm/maven for C, and C++ nowadays, via CMake/Conan/vcpkg.
> Windows 10 reintroduced the start menu

A great feature. They dumbed it down though.

> Unlike in previous versions of Windows NT, the Win32 console windows can now be resized without any restrictions.

Truly a great achievement. It took MS 2 decades.

> It can be made to cover the full screen by pressing the Alt+↵ Enter combination on keyboard.

Maybe i'm too old, but this was always working.

And the cherry on the cake:
> The modern Settings app from Windows 8 continues to evolve in Windows 10,

I mean, taking a man, cutting his limbs and stuffing his mouth, hardly can be called "evolution".
Neither TPM 2.0 or 1.2 is required for a Server 2025 install.

Microsoft could easily disable the restriction is they wanted to.
They wouldn't be moving, they would be expanding into the US market. Its a win-win. Hyundai get's access to a previously closed off market due to cabotage regulation. And we get modern ship building. The only loser here are established ship builders who would be forced to modernize and compete. But long term that's a good thing for them too.
Avoidance of death is just the bottom of Maslow‘s pyramid, there’s a _lot_ of other things that drive human decisions.
I would be very concerned about any of the first three having government data access as well!
oh :) ! nice. thx a lot. report looks great. I'll look into it with attention.
'Did the computer create a generation of "illiterate mathematicians"?

No, it only freed us to solve higher-level problems.'

I'm not so sure LLM-based code-assistants/writers are directly comparable to the almost perfectly deterministic logic gate chips and monitors/printers and so on that we call "the computer".

Wordpress is likely a better comparison, which allowed more web sites to come into existence with little effort, but as far as I can tell didn't free anyone to "solve higher-level problems". Deterministic code generation might have to some extent, but it's mainly used in enterprise software where the problem domains are quite old, quite stable, like accounting, and the ontologies haven't changed since before "the computer" and the established knowledge professionals (accountants, 'legal') have a strong dominance over discourse, software rules and how compliance is achieved.
The input cost prohibit economies of scale. The US cannot produce ships at scale without drastically lowering labor and material costs.

This is a features of deindustrialization, offshoring, specialization, etc. The so-called uncultured rubes decrying globalization have a point on this one.
Arguably, especially in the 8/10/11 era, few of these features are things that meaningfully enhance the user experience. Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks. In the 8 era, a huge number of massive projects were started, promoted, and mothballed.
This is pithy, but wrong. Management decisions are not the only important decisions. Also, the whole point of computers is to crystallize human thought into action, and take that action on a larger and faster scale than people can achieve. Airplane autopilots make many important decisions.

I'd suggest a lesson that might be less agreeable to IBM, Microsoft, Google, et al:

"The makers of software must be accountable for the mistakes made by that software."
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Isn’t this an over complication? Every service has throttling or limits, you need to set them at dev time.
Have you seen the logs? As a rule of thumb, the number of visitors is 50+100*N, where N is the number of upvotes. So a few of your posts should have a few hundred of visitors.
i guess we're gonna have to come up with new euphemisms
I sure wish I had access to the crystal ball people like the author and linked-in top-voices have that enable them to utter with unawavering conviction those decrees, while warning that everyone that doesn't agree with them are "deluding themselves."
You've disregarded it so much that you felt compelled to respond.

Whatever track record these companies might have had, doesn't justify their current stance or actions. Hans Reiser also made a pretty darn good filesystem - before he murdered his wife.
Spotify reports first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
"Those are the very skills that are going to become a lot less relevant, for the precise reason that, now, the machine can do those things."

A photocopier could steal books, a VHS recorder could steal movies, a computer could steal digital works.

LLMs now steal pseudo-legally. Any person without morals could have done the exact same thing before LLM laundromats by just using Google search and GitHub.

"Anyone who tells you otherwise is deluding themselves."

No, you are deluding yourself.
I sort of wonder if this is the actual underlying reason for wanting to annex Canada and Greenland. Northern land will be more valuable with global warming, an could even be seen as long-term strategic resources to grab if global warming is expected to get even worse.
That was a generous estimation.
I used to genuinely enjoy TED content, they destroyed their brand, just like every single media company/brand which gained traction in the early days of the internet did, chasing money and garbage metrics.
While I don’t disagree with the author, I think he misses the larger point that there are two distinct groups of programming code writers, that I’ll call “eager” and “reluctant” until I can think of better terms.

“Eager” programmers find great joy in producing reams of computer code. They prefer to have iron-clad requirements handed to them and then work uninterrupted turning those requirements into a program.

“Reluctant” programmers have problems to solve, and have found that the quickest way to do that is to write code. If solving the problem is faster by not writing code they will do that.

“Computers”, that is, the job formerly performed by humans, favored the “eager” type of person. The people giving work to Computers were “reluctant”, and moved that work to faster tools when they became available.

The issue is that we have armies of “eager” programmers. Can they adapt to become “reluctant” or does the thought of writing less code cause them to resist change?
Those are a couple of people within a much larger team.
This coming from the same people who shut OPM employees out of an HR database, citing (legitimate) security and oversight concerns, because they had broad un-auditable access.

How can this department turn around and do this and still maintain they're doing the right thing? By their own admission they know this a bad idea
We've lived through a number of "That could never happen, though" scenarios in the past decade. I'm feeling a bit skeptical towards skepticism at the moment.
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Nah, here: https://blueskydirectory.com/lists/a-very-british-bigotry

This one in particular is a blessing; transphobes are a particularly _tedious_ (typically just parroting whatever Rowling or similar said this week) variety of bigot, and even before Musk Twitter was swarming with them.
I remember reading a French translation of John Crowley's AEgypt and there was a part where a building on a college campus is described as looking like "a Christian Science church" (referring to Mary Baker Eddy's movement that built round churches with domes especially in the 19th century). The French translator, perhaps unfamiliar with that mostly American religion, translated it as looking like a "church of Scientology" -- a very different reference!
We need to be clear about the features of money we are talking about (and there are many):

For money to work as a convenient way for people or companies to settle transactions, long-term inflation or deflation does not matter. If A wants cement and has mangoes, B wants pants and has mangoes and C wants mangoes and can do tooth fillings they just need something universally accepted to convert what they have into. And, a bit later, buy what they want. Most money satisfy this, but usually people want more features.

For money to also be a store of value it should maintain its purchasing power. This allows an individual to, say, pay for an education of a child when the child grows up: I can save in today's money and be fairly confident that when the time comes to pay it will cover the (future) cost. This feature is what people tend to refer to as "digital gold" as gold generally maintains its purchasing power over very long times.

For money to enable governments to stimulate society in different ways, money should be deflationary. Easy long term store of value makes people less responsive to short-term government stimuli. Without deflationary money a government cannot print extra money when it overspends or if not enough players want to lend to that government.

The last two tend to cause eternal strife between individualists (who want small government that does not do things people did not explicitly ask for) and progressivists (who want to push the society along the path they see as the best one).

There are more features of money (highly recommend reading "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden)
Interestingly this is an axiom of digital forensics uses in reverse of sort.

In court, digital forensics investigators can attest what was performed on the devices, timeline, details, and such. But, it should never be about a named person. The investigator can never tell who was sitting at the keyboard, pushing the buttons, or if some new and unknown method to implant those actions (or evidence).

It is always jarring to laypeople when they are told by the expert that there is a level of uncertainty, when throughout their lives computers appear very deterministic.
They are individual engineers. They are named individuals, and they are engineers.
I’m not sure 19 year olds using gmail addresses are concerned with SOX.
Mods can unflag a story if they deem it important, high quality, giving new information etc. Also "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps users saw the quality of the comments and chose to flag, or perhaps they saw the quality of the submission.

I also think there's an auto-flag mechanism that kicks in automatically. I don't know how that works, but I'm guessing if I was to write one it would detect patterns of downvotes in comments, number of users who upvoted the submission vs number of comments, and the use of negative and emotional language.
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Maybe you should look up their CEOs info on SignalHire and ask them?
well, it is. for instance, for my rent rebalancing i have to pay more than $2500 and gpay doesn’t allow that. the fees would be fractional cents.

in fact short of wiring i have not found any service allowing me to send more than that in a day and certainly not with instant deposit

gpay takes 1-5 days to appear in account, i can spend the money i transfer here immediately
so now the people wielding all the power are risking death? sounds like an even more powerful incentive to cover stuff up extra hard and shoot all witnesses, etc.
Ranging from 19-24.
That's an understatement. Death threats aimed at these young DOGE tech nerds flooded Reddit and Bluesky. Reddit even shut down a popular subreddit to stem the tide.
Paraguay's AI chatbot "Eva" is driving social justice reform
I did wonder the other day when the Jurvetson PR/rehab effort might begin.
Don’t want to spoil it for you
Male mosquitoes to be genetically engineered to poison females with semen
Isn't this about the funds, rather than using Vanguard as a broker? Can't you buy Vanguard funds while on Fidelity, or vice versa?
Probably because Win 11 is continuing Microsoft's new tradition of making each release of Windows slightly worse than the one before it, and people have come to expect that. Almost nobody wants to "upgrade" Windows anymore.
We saw a bunch of small side project type of sites from the EU close down all over HN after GDPR became a thing. The risk for someone small is too high. The minimum fines are in the millions.
> Tomorrow's job [...] will look a lot more like:

[...]

3. evaluating whether the end result works as intended.

I have some news for the author about what 80% of a programmer's job consists of already today.

There is also the issue #4, that "idea guy" types frequently gloss over: If things do not work as intended, find out why they don't do so and work out a way to fix the root cause. It's not impossible that an AI can get good at that, but I haven't seen it so far and it definitely doesn't fit into the standard "write down what I want to have, press button, get results" AI workflows.

Generally, I feel this ignores the inherent value that there is in having an actual understanding of a system.