skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a post recently on LinkedIn from a designer, and I thought it was remarkably accurate. It basically said that AI was going to eliminate a lot of the "low value" creative jobs that don't actually have a lot of creativity: e.g. technical writing and illustration that really serves just to summarize some application (AI is great at summarization), social media ad copy, etc.

But, the weird part to me is that this guy said he was optimistic because he works with world class designers and writers who will be able to use AI to enhance their creativity. I agreed with that statement, but I completely don't understand his optimism given obviously the vast majority of creatives (or really, any occupation) are not "world class", by definition. AI will just set a much higher bar for being able to contribute economically.

We're basically headed to a world where most non-physical occupations look like professional sports or acting. That is, a world where a few "stars" that are unique in their abilities vacuum up the vast, vast majority of the money, and everyone else can essentially have their skills replicated, and thus replaced, by AI.

The reason I think the AI optimists are full of shit is because I've never seen a decent response to this argument. Usually I just get something hand-wavy, or worse, "well people at the bottom will just need to up-skill and become world class." Yeah, just tell everyone to be in the top 5%, that makes mathematical sense...
>now ICE is required by law, legislation and trump to deport those who have been living there for years

They could quit and get a different job that benefits society more, like stocking shelves at a grocery store.
> The wife finishing your sentences is an interesting analogy... My wife and I are usually on the same page about things, so for many topics we can use short-hand or otherwise cut discussions short.

My wife and I are just too different for this to happen. For the first 10 years or so we had the opposite happen a lot (multiple times a day for the first few years), where we thought we were on the same page, but had actually under-communicated. It still happens occasionally, but now we mostly overcommunicate about anything of any importance.

Our kids learned pretty quickly that if one parent was helping them with their homework, but had to leave to do something else, that asking the other parent for help was going to confuse them more, since we come at any given problem from a completely different direction.
or because they're brainwashed to think this isn't tyranny and just regular policy
I am a dev who took a remote job with the US gov a few years ago.

My options are:

- Tear up my life in my hometown and relocate my family closer to an office so I can go there and do zoom calls

- Take this deal

I struggled with this, and ultimately took the deal. I know it might be a scam. But at this point I know I will eventually be laid off for refusing to relocate. Neither option is good, and making this choice was one of the most stressful experiences of my life.
Please control yourself and stop being hysterical
> They get to fly where ever they want

Reminds me of the story of the Navy ship and lighthouse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_ur...
Posted before, somehow link got botched.
There are definitely people who think that a president who just violates the law in order to achieve these outcomes is a fine thing. Those people are lost. Nothing I can say to those people will stop them from eventually putting a bullet in my brain.

The goal should be messaging to everybody else. Especially those who might like the outcomes of Trump's crimes but would prefer not to have a president that just smashes through the law to get there. A way to help achieve this is to repeat, over and over and over, that Trump's actions are violating shitloads of laws.
Every country does.

American Express

British Telecom

Etc
No, but that's not what this system is about. It's literally just "are you going to tell anyone else about what I'm doing?"
The manual was pretty much a Linux for beginners book. It not only explained installation and basic system administration, but had substantial vim and Emacs chapters, as well as a chapter on retro gaming using emulators. (SuSE 5.3 in my case).
the article seems to dance around the particulars of individual employee records.. At a previous office in the USA, the founder/owner absolutely did pay the IT consultant to watch individual PC activity, without disclosing it. I find it difficult to believe that a giant international law firm does not record individual employee network activity.
This means that the person with immunity simply has to keep the level of their crimes low enough that sane and rational people would not jump to vigilante justice. A bad actor could do quite a lot within those boundaries.
Federal layoffs start with huge number of probationary workers
Full title: Federal layoffs start with huge number of probationary workers and warnings of bigger cuts on way
Understanding Workers' Internal and External Representations of Complex Data
AFAIK (though not as connected to Red Hat storage team these days), RHEL is pretty much XFS plus logical volume managers. As I understand it, ZFS was just a non-starter because of licensing + Oracle and the feeling was that btrfs just wasn't quite there.
I really miss when the GOP maintained at least some token efforts regarding libertarianism and such. Instead we get these weird talking points from them, and then dramatically opposite actions when in power.

We got "omg silicon valley" in government, overreaching security services, weird sort of banned words work going on ...
I had no trouble understanding, but perhaps it could be made slightly less ambiguous, like:

> But that night, there was only one helicopter, and its pilot and co-pilot worked together to navigate...
I don't think they even report out on the profitability of individual apps. In fact, I don't think they report on software profitability at all: the categories they report out on are Mac, iPhone, iPad, Wearables, and Services.

No one outside of Apple has any real visibility into how "profitable" any individual app they make is, so I can't imagine this is a factor in why they don't charge themselves the 30% cut. In fact, I don't think there's even any way for us to know if they do—or if there would be any meaning to it if they did (ie, would the 30% even go to a different internal account?).
Not everyone can, or wants to set up running a local model. And it'll probably be slower on most users GPUs then what zed runs it on.
Twitter link is on point, no matter what it says, just for being twitter.
Isn't it the same as with support for old hardware? Alpha arch, intel itanium, floppy drives?

Those are all in similar situation, where there is noone to maintain it as none of maintsiners have access to such hardware to event test of that is working correctly.

From time to time we see that such thing is discovered that is not working at all for long time and noone noticed and is dropped from kernel.

The same would happen to rust if noone would like to maintain it.

Rust for Linux is provided as experimental thing and if it won't gain traction it will be dropped in the same way curl dropped it.
I haven’t, but I bet it would work pretty well, particularly if you tweaked the prompts to explain that it’s dealing with Ancient Greek or whatever and give a couple examples of how to handle things.
Not sure what the relevance is - there's free versions of that, not to mention Gemini and co. In any case what you're saying is true again, of any productivity tool.
My question would be - which countries did your companies target if not the US for their SaaS solutions? What was the place that made you the money if not the US?
I think waking time away from work, and not work pay, is the most relevant metric to answer the question raised in this sub-thread. (Though there is obviously overlap, what you can do with your free time and how much you have is obviously driven by your income.)

While you have a good point - there is real inequality and it’s still a struggle to be poor, no question - this doesn’t actually contradict my point, which is that people have on average more free time than they used to, and that free time is what I think @v3xro is referring to.

“Productivity” is a loaded word, it means dollars collected, and a productivity increase does not necessarily mean workers worked harder (though it does happen sometimes). While it sucks for workers if companies can collect more dollars without paying more for production, it’s not directly relevant to worker’s lifestyle.

This chart shows adjusted wages increasing at a very slow moderate rate for the last 50 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q. It’s not that bad if wages “stagnate” if we’re talking inflation adjusted purchasing parity, which I think you are. While it might be unfair for capitalists to reap relatively more, that doesn’t actually reflect on the question of what human life is about and whether “accomplishments” at work are the primary meaning of our lives.
Global warming isn’t a leftist issue anymore. There is no denying climate change now given our annual “once in a lifetime” weather events
I don't get how or why it seems to have gotten worse in the last 20-25 years.

I was a very online teenager at the end of the 90s and I have formed friendships that last to this day. Or at least staying in touch. And it's not just me, it's the same for a lot of people I got to know offline who have different such circles.

Maybe because it was just a smaller circle of people? Maybe because it was so not normal that people were much more cautious? Or because half of the online venues were run by hobbyists? Or because no companies and bots and people trying to make money were involved. Probably the latter.
Previously (64 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049838

(14 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995174

(6 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989661
I am sure the next Exexutive Order of Trump will change that.

He said he will protect women if they want or not, so he surely will something, right?
I don't think this is a concern. Zed and Zeta are both open source. Fork it, self host it, whatever.
This is surprising to me, but I also wonder how contractors factor into the equation.

To naively soapbox for a second, I don't know much about public policy, but I have a persistent hunch that a lot of the "government inefficiency" comes down to the obsession with hiring contractors for everything. While I know some people in gov't contracting and they do good work (and definitely faster than I've seen get done in federal agencies proper), there has to be so much inefficiency in the whole process, so many unnecessary layers added on.

It's one explanation (albeit obviously an incomplete one) I've heard for how we used to, say, build infrastructure so quickly, even for all the flaws that had - in Robert Moses' time, when the government wanted to build something, they would go down to their office full of engineers and draftsmen and get it sketched out within the week. Now they have to go through a whole process of hiring a contractor for design, then construction, etc, etc...
Once-Private Government Networks Are Now Exposed
I mean I definitely feel that among my age (late/mid 20s, early 30s) cohort plenty of women use dating apps and have lots of dates lined up, talk to each other about profiles they come across, and take communal notes on which men they've had bad dates with to warn their friends... It seems like using dating apps has become more of a hobby for some of these women, especially since a bunch of women in my sphere are poly. These aren't particularly lonely women though, as obviously I am less likely to encounter lonely people on account of lonely people statistically encountering less people.
So ChatGPT seemingly guessed its purpose just from its name. Its name is CurrentKey Stats, and it inaccurately described it as an app that kept stats on the current keyboard keys you were pressing, so essentially a key logger, which is again completely wrong. I was actually somewhat hesitant to make this comment out of the fear that the next AI models will train on it and reinforce the false idea that that's what my app is. Sad times
These two things are orthogonal.

You can not be pro DEI and still find competent people. Just by the numbers, it’s possible.

To be “most unqualified” you can select from DEI or not, as any group will have horribly qualified people.

There are many in the medical field that aren’t DEI that care deeply about, and are knowledgeable about the major health issues in this country - vaccines, obesity, malnutrition, mental health, fertility, cancer, food supply (and its poor quality), environmental, activity, elder care, dementia, early childhood health care, just to name a few.

I am unaware of his qualifications to lead such an org, but at that level, he’s mostly a political talking head anyway. Still, I agree it’s quite bad. We’ll know in a few years the outcome.

All that said, “could not be more embarrassed for humanity and my country” - really? You think this is worse than the Great Depression when security forces were paid to guard piles of rotting fruit so the starving couldn’t eat them? The rise of the KKK? The horrors of the civil war?

Inflationary language might feel good, but its effect is it encourages the forgetting of worse things, increases internal conflict, and makes reconciliation and course correction even harder. So the next time you read how someone is “the worst” or a Nazi, ask yourself if you are truly aiming for the erasure of Nazi crimes and further fracturing of society or simply exaggerating to highlight a point. One person’s exaggeration becomes someone else’s truth.
Sorry for your loss. I personally find that systemd solves real problems and makes Linux better. It has worts, but so does everything.
For 32bit or 64bit tagged pointer is there a big risk of version overflow?
It's not bad actually, considering how many times the new shiny thing has turned out to be quite dangerous a few years later.
In a field as high stake as healthcare you want the whole spectrum, from early adopters to die hard skeptics.
Especially since we know the reproducibility problem of research, the influence of big pharma and big insurance on healthcare, etc etc
Dupe (64 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049838

(14 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995174

(6 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989661
That sounds reasonable on paper as a theory, but we do live in a universe where LEOs, prosecutors and judges have very broad legal immunities. And i can’t recall much vigilante justice hurting them. (Nor do i think it should, just stating for the record.) Definietly not happening as a kind of inevitable predicament as your description seems to imply.

How do you square your comment with that observed reality?
> "but ensure that all future Rust compatibility issues are handled by Rust developers"

But how? One of these:

- The C developer needs to know enough Rust to know which changes will affect Rust, contact the Rust developers and explain the change and wait. Extra work and delay they do not want.

- The C developer does not need to know any Rust, but must be doing Rust builds, and if something breaks then contact the Rust developers and explain the change and wait. Extra work and delay they do not want.

- The C developer needs to explain every change to the Rust developers in case it might break, before they can do it. Extra work they do not want.

- The C developer ignores Rust, and the Rust developers must work with unpredictable shifting sands. This works for a while and the Rust codebase becomes larger and new Rust developers join. This is an unstable configuration. The larger the Rust codebase, the more disruptive any change could be and the new Rust developers will feel the changes are malicious, capricious, and will demand this stops and the changes are planned and communicated and the ground stabilises, or they get fed up and quit. Leading back to one of the above points - C developers either need to maintain the abandoned Rust code, or they need to do extra work of tracking, coordinating, explaining, running changes through another team and waiting for them, extra work they do not want, or they can't make certain changes in the C code base, a limitation they don't want.

Rust developers saying "we will do all the work" isn't enough because of the meta-work of organising and communicating the work.
This has also happened with Perplexity and R1 to me, but it was just one word. Suddenly the text goes into another language. I just clicked homepage’s suggestion pill “Ukraine war latest”

https://paste.pics/STGU6
Using a client provided by Kagi can be a side-channel then? Should we rather be using an independent, standard client?
Anyone who has watched The Wire will recognize the use of the term here. (Minor spoilers ahead)

In season 3 (I think) Herc caught the mayor doing something inappropriate in his office and his silence was rewarded with promotions. Later on, someone told him "[The mayor] is your rabbi. If he loses the election, your career will go no further."
Do you honestly think, as a principled position, that police officers should be personally liable for enforcing a law which is later decided to be unconstitutional?

For example, if a police officer in 1994 arrested someone for violating the Gun Free School Zones act (struck down as unconstitutional in 1995), should they be personally liable for the damages? Should the judge who decided the case?

Similarly, if a police officer in NYC arrested someone in 2018 for violating the ban on "gravity knives" (struck down as unconstitutional in 2019), should they be personally liable?

If a police officer in Washington, DC arrested someone for violating the city's ban on handguns in 2007 (struck down by the Supreme Court in 2008), should they be personally liable?

Would it be a good thing if police officers and officials refuse to enforce Washington state's ban on "assault weapons", or Oregon's magazine capacity limit, because the "conservative turn" of the Supreme Court means that the law might get struck down as unconstitutional, and then they'd be personally liable for the damages?

I think it's clear that QI sometimes leads to bad outcomes, but honestly, I'm not sure how the system would function without some similar concept.
Ongoing discussion (363 points, 9 hours ago, 284 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835
If you mean Firefox containers[0], the closest you'll get is Profiles[1] since Orion is based on WebKit. Its location in settings is different from the Safari docs, and that's the only difference in Orion's implementation as far as I can tell. You can't open a tab in a certain profile, instead each profile opens in its own window, which is a lot more cumbersome than Firefox containers.

Arc, another Webkit-based browser, has an interesting implementation combining Profiles and Arc Spaces[2]. Instead of switching between windows, you switch between "Spaces" in the sidebar that are linked to a profile.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5BzkowY_B8
Whoops, I pasted entirely the wrong code!

let current = self.head.load(Ordering::Acquire);
if current.ptr.is_null() {
return None;
}

let next = unsafe { (*current.ptr).next };

On the one hand, one might say “well, it’s fine if we read the wrong value here if the old head was popped in the mean time”, but it’s still UB, and it can even segfault if the old head is freed and unmapped.
Chicago remains the hub for commodities
For the most part, because of laws, regulations and certifications, all healthcare IT systems are localized to the country. Investments in software in the US, only helps the US.
Isn't the Show HN: a different filter?
According to a source of mine, there were unsecured API endpoints for modification
Moe Szyslak voice: I’m here to deport an illegal alien named Shice, first name Tou Aboli. Is there an Tou Aboli Shice here? We’re here Tou Aboli Shice. Common! We need Tou Aboli Shice!!!
It’s clear by now that the Executive Branch is taking a very selective approach to what laws they will enforce or not. That’s dangerous. Today you might agree with them, tomorrow you might not, but it’ll be too late.

The 3 branches balancing each other is the reason why the US has worked relatively well as a democracy for 250 years.
Women spend more total time
browsing. There was an amazing article on HN last week showing this but I can't find the link.

Don't confuse total users or interactions with time spent.
Citing too much "bureaucracy," Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce
I see you are new here. It's not about being political or not, it's about whether this is going to end up in a flamewar or not.

Here are the guidelines :
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Moderation is decentralized, downvoted comments tend to disappear.
Flagging is a power people who have a lot of karma have, if you think are one of them you can vouch (unflag) for a comment.
There is one mod, dang
Here are the moderator last comments so you can have idea of the work he is doing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
OpenRailwayMap is OpenStreetMap-data, it just highlights the railway data and hides the other data.
The search on HN is weird.
"Because of how PostgreSQL string escaping routines handle invalid UTF-8 characters, in combination with how invalid byte sequences within the invalid UTF-8 characters are processed by psql, an attacker can leverage CVE-2025-1094 to generate a SQL injection."

UTF-8 and its consequences have been a disaster for information security
But this is an ad for their special profiling tools, not something intended to teach you about profiling your code.
> That's very wide and obscure.

It's not "obscure" to anyone who takes 5 minutes to ask for it. Apple will happily send you all the data they have about you.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apple-data-and-privacy-how...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r...
Milton Friedman painstakingly designed the income tax withholding precisely to facilitate increased spending. Given his great body of works and actual experience in implementation, I don't think his opinions are brushed away by your strawman fight about what frugality was said to be .

He advocated for eliminating automatic withholding because he saw exactly how it manufactured assent for spending [0], an effect of his own mechanisms he helped design for the circa WW2 war era.

https://archive.org/details/twoluckypeopleme00frie
And an excellent standard library with first class coroutine support and garbage collection?
The EU AI Act Is Coming to America
Controlling Demand
I was thinking what Amazon, Uber, Spotify, YouTube, Booking.com, Airbnb, App Stores, Delivery apps, etc. have in common and I realized they all follow the same recipe:

1. Index Supply -
2. Pair with Demand -
3. Monetize Discovery -

So, at its core, they all are search engines with review capability. And I noticed that whenever this ecosystem develops, the leverage from the side controlling demand is huge. There does not seem to be a lot of balance at the moment to put a limit to the monetization for discovery. Take for example booking.com: it went from the 2-5% commision when they started to 18-25% commision today. And they demand parity (you can't sell cheaper in your own website or you risk delisting and some hotels have 50-60% of reservations via booking.com). Some countries in Europe passed legislation to ban parity clauses in booking.com contracts, but it seems weird that the market is unable to come up with some more organic counterbalance. There are other honorable examples, for instance the battle between epic games and app stores.

Why do you think the market is unable to offer some counterbalance to this leverage?