skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there such a thing as truly "unregulated" here? What I mean is - pyramid schemes are illegal irrespective of the mechanism, so there's always _some_ basic regulation for these things.

I feel pyramid schemes are just a special kind of pump-and-dump scheme, and I don't understand how these aren't being punished effectively and swiftly by the existing laws and enforcement agencies...
If a black person attacks you, does that mean that black people are then violent? All the statistics I've ever seen indicate that while the homeless and mentally ill are particularly prone to being victims of violence, they don't seem to actually pose a higher issue of safety than anyone else you encounter in your daily life.

It makes sense that would be the case when you think of it - do the rates of violence decrease as you move up the socioeconomic ladder? By all indications the rate of violence among the very wealthy is not dissimilar from those lower on the socioeconomic ladder. Why would you think homelessness is a cliff through which people suddenly become drastically more violent, especially considering how people like Putin and drug lords are extremely wealthy while paying people lower on the socioeconomic rung to do violence on their behalf to protect their economic interests?
Since the StackOverflow code was not an identical perfect fit for the problem you had in mind, you still had to have some mental awareness to what you are doing. Now they can just go to Claude and "say I have this solution, and that problem, someone says this should fit into that, what do" and they get the glue inserted without gaining the basic understanding they'd get from putting the glue there themselves.
This is awesome. I tried doing something like this but had to put it on hold due to college classes/exams. Have you had any success with this strategy?
> It is absolutely true. The judiciary has no mechanism to _enforce_ laws. Enforcement belongs to the executive branch.

A few issues with that statement.

First, law enforcement can defy the President in order to follow the law or court orders (which they are required to do).

Second, enforcement isn't always through law enforcement. If the courts decide that an agency can do X, then they can go ahead and do X. No FBI involvement needed. Same if the issue ends up being something the state execute on.

> The current sitting president lead an insurrection against the United States and was not convicted in Congress.

That's because he was never charged. Why was he never charged? It's kind of hard to claim insurrection when nobody was armed and didn't actually have the ability to commit insurrection.

A person trying to break down a door was shot and killed and that ended things pretty quickly.
A long time ago there was a serious effort toward building programs from UML in the Java sphere, with the ideals of explaining the system what needs to be done and have it spit out a solution, potentially from pre-made blocks.

That philosophy never died and will probably keep living on eternally, perhaps until it somedays becomes a realistic option, who knows ?

Many companies see it as the utopia, and won't have any strong rejection of programmers sharing that ideal.
Some might, though I've seen some people responding with "stay poor then" when people like me criticize the DJT ticker and $TRUMP coin.

I think a lot of them genuinely think that their godking is going to make them rich and reward their loyalty.
I don't think it's quite the same. We live in an inbetween time - AI is not quite there yet.

AI struggles with knowledge from after its training date (so it can't help very well for anything relating to new versions of libraries) and often just generally gets things wrong or comes up with suboptimal answers. It's still only optimized to create answers that look correct, after all.

With these problems, someone on the team still needs to understand or be able to figure out what's going on. And dangit if it isn't getting hard to hire for that.

And the day that AI can actually replace the work of junior devs is just going to cause more complications for the software industry. Who will get the experience to become senior devs? Who will direct them? And even if those people also get replaced eventually, we will still probably have more awkward inbetween times with their own problems.

Can't say it's not convenient, but no use pretending the challenges don't exist.
IQ decline began before smartphones and is more directly related to the GP's username, which happens to be a forbidden topic in most Western countries due to awkward racial correlations and their political implications.
This spiral is already happening, most of the players who do not have valuable upstream assets (oilfields) started diversifying their portfolio with biofuels, renewables, electric charging infrastructure etc (see Shell, BP). Other luckier folks have a ton of cash and a ton of valuable assets in their upstream portfolio. These guys only need limited financing, and they have decided to position themselves as the companies who will extract and sell the last barrell of oil (see ExxonMobil, Chevron etc).

Your intuition is right, but there will be no disruption. The consolidation will ensure that the remainder players have the capacity to keep the music on (of course at a higher product price).
The only time I got a question answered on stack overflow was when my coworker suggested I ask there so then he could go answer it himself for the points.
This. Just because things are always getting worse does not mean things are not literally at their worst
Penitentiary? Maybe it is as a your-state thing?

Never heard of it down here in NSW, and I worked with Police, Justice Department, Juvi, and the rest of police to prison pipeline.
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You lost me here.
> Sure, the code works, but ask why it works that way instead of another way? Crickets. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares.

"This is the worst code I've ever run."

"But it does run."

> I recently realized that there’s a whole generation of new programmers who don’t even know what StackOverflow is.

I also did not know about stack overflow when I started programming. Or even when I finished college and entered the workforce.

Because it didn't exist yet.

> Back when “Claude” was not a chatbot but the man who invented the field of information entropy, there was a different way to debug programming problems.

First, search on Google.

Google also did not exist until '98. By which point I'd already learned enough c++ from a physical book to write toys like a space invaders kind of game.

> Junior devs these days have it easy. They just go to chat.com and copy-paste whatever errors they see.

Juniors blindly copying code from StackOverflow used to be a standard complaint.
Why don't LLMs ask for calculators?
That's because it's true.
We're already way overgenerating for peak generation while persistently not solving the baseload requirements which is where we need to decarbonize. Or in simpler terms, government subsidies distorting the market and solar chasing the easy 20% of the grid supply it is better suited for while ignoring the rest of the market because it's a bad fit.
The thread says any such implementation has nothing to do with it being COBOL and further that COBOL doesn't even have a concept of dates, which absolutely does refute the original claim of "in COBOL, if a date is missing...".
I’ve heard this comparison between C compilers and LLMs and I don’t think it’s similar.

there’s a direct relationship to C code and the resulting assembly.

The C language was specifically designed so that language constructs were converted into the intended assembly anyway.

C didn’t obfuscate the problem of writing code, just allowed us to operate at a higher, but still sound, level.

LLMs are not an abstraction like C. You aren’t going through a sound, tractable process going from natural language to code.

You’re going through a black box.

It’s no longer a new abstraction on top of a fundamental idea.

There is no understanding of anything being developed. Prompts aren’t even deterministic wrt the output of the LLM, so even how to prompt a given model isn’t something that can be understood or totally predicted. It’s just like SEO hacks.
I'm not familiar with SF finances. I gather the problem with any kind of public works in the USA is that it immediately gets drowned in graft, pork and bureaucracy.

I suspect the bulk of the money in that budget is being spent on civil servants and very little of it actually reaches the people who need the help.

Doubling the budget will just attract more graft and not double the amount of help getting through. But I'm not an expert, so I may well be wrong.
Yes, if you can coordinate and hold their position to ~1/10th of the wavelength (gets challenging above a few GHz), and synchronize their transmitters/receivers with ps accuracy (feasible if there's no GPS interference). And somehow you're exchanging the raw signal components amongst all the platforms.

The parabolic distribution is not at all needed in this case, you would just adjust the phase at each unit based on the distribution you have.

It is a thing that's considered, mostly for very low frequencies (1-100MHz) where all the above challenges are vastly simplified, and also large antennas (potentially km) are needed for any kind of directionality.
> It's constantly used in polemics of Christianity.

Doesn't make it true though.

> Whereas actions of atheists are unable to be used against atheism

Why not, aside from the obvious observation that "atheists" are not as homogenuous in their belief as, say, "Catholics".

In general the actions of, say, Nazis, can be used against them (ie Nazis) but not against humans globally or atheists in Australia, that's nonsensical.
> the alternative problem solving technique of, well, rolling up your sleeves getting stuck in and figuring out the problem yourself without asking anybody.

Meanwhile, boss wants the fix now...
The problem is with managers pushing hard deadlines and expecting immediate responses.

That being said any large company I've worked at seems to have followed the mantra you are putting down.
None that are official anyway, there are ways to trick Windows into doing a 32 => 64 bit conversion. Very unsupported, but it is possible.
I guess you really enjoy feeling superior so I’m just going to give you this one. You win. You’re very smart and you know more about router software than I do.

(I’ll leave you to ponder whether this changes my point at all, but I don’t think it really matters. You seem to be pretty fixated on getting your digs in, so maybe we’ll just end the discussion here. Good day.)
What app framework do you recommend for data scientists?
For someone with no/little experience with web development, what app making framework would you recommend? Shiny for python, FastHTML, Django, Flask, or something else? And why?
Colors Suck (it's not your fault) [video]
Saw discussion around Oklab / Oklch and thought this would be a good share. Good explanation of colour spaces, and showcase of Oklab.
this is fixed now!
Singapore is an interesting example of that.

There is universal healthcare through compulsory national health insurance (premiums subsidized if needed).

However, the insurance only covers a portion. About 10-20% will come from a forced medical savings account.

Then there is the cash part of the cost.

The government has designed the entire system to make sure no patients pay $0 of their own money. Even indignant patients will work with a social worker to figure out what they can pay. If it's only $2, then they are billed $2.

It's a pretty good system in terms of keeping costs down, keeping patients involved in the cost of their care, yet ensuring nobody goes without critical healthcare.

The issue with the US is that it's kinda set up for patients to be at the center, but misses critical components (like price transparency) to the point that even though patients are required to manage their own healthcare financiing, they aren't actually given the tools to do it efficiently.
For one thing, I'm fairly sure they didn't yet have a PE environment ready to go; another would probably be a lack of RAM. Installing it to disk first lets you load as needed, instead of all at once.
I mean, to be fair, that's actually a lot easier than dealing with the giant mess of infrastructure and tooling people have to understand today. And yes I've "programmed" machine code through toggle switches on a front panel.
Try: https://cryptii.com/pipes/rot13-decoder
> 91 KB webpage

If it's all code too large indeed
What the post describes is kids misusing AI. You can always ask AI how a code works. Ask GPT, then have Claude review it, then have Gem chip in. Ask all of them to ELI5 every single detail of the code, and then try to explain it yourself, in your own words.

I'm sorry but for many of us socially awkward folk having to rely on begging to solve coding tasks felt like chewing glass.
> as they don't turn off their brains

Let’s hope.

But it seems like we do turn off our brains when using AI tools.

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
Gen Z also has a lower crime rate, less teen birth rates, and less illegal drugs and alcohol consumption when compared to previous generations at the same age.
You ask for compassion, yet give none.

Have some compassion, then you might qualify for some.
Tailscale being available totally changed the usage of my Kobo.

Seems like a jailbroken Kindle is a requirement to get it.
https://github.com/mitanshu7/tailscale_kual
Do you think a single neuron has more compute than a H100? I'm not sure even energy based theoretical bounds on computation power allow this even in principle.
I wrote this article! Thanks for sharing.

Love the discussion on HN as always, great to see various perspectives on the issue.

Do you think that in the future, new programmers will not ever need to learn syntax/algorithms and will just be able to rely on AI?
I can't really speak to the impact on junior devs since I haven't worked with any since the start of AI dev tools so this comment is kind of off topic.

Totally agree that should be treated as learning tool just as much "give me something that works" tool. If Junior devs are not taking advantage of that side of it instinctively out of their own curiosity and interest, well, maybe they were never going to be good developers in the first place even without AI.

What I can say is that for me as a as senior dev with 22 years experience who has been using using these tools daily for about a year now, it has been a huge win with no downsides.

I am so much more efficient at unblocking myself and others with all the minor "how do I do X in Y" and "what is causing this error" type questions. I know exactly what I want to do, how to ask it, but only partially what the answer should be... and AI takes away the tedious part of bridging that knowledge gap for me.

Maybe even more significantly, I have learned new things at a much faster rate. When AI suggests solutions I am often exposed to different ways to do things I already knew, features I didn't know existed, etc. I feel good that I found a solution to my problem, but often I feel even better having learned something along the way that wasn't even the original goal and it didn't really take any extra dedicated effort.

The best part is that is has made side projects a lot more fun and I stick with them a lot longer because I get something working sooner and spend less time fighting problems. I also find myself taking on new types of projects that are outside my comfort and experience zone.
> Reading discussions by experienced developers about your topic is the best way to learn.

No it isn't. Stack Overflow consists of people saying "I don't know what you are trying to do" and then answering anyway without waiting for additional information or scolding people for not asking their question correctly. If you post your real code, you get told to provide a minimal reproducible example. If you just post the minimal reproducible code, you get told this doesn't correspond to a real problem and that the question itself is contrived.
I seem to be in the minority here, and I would definitely be framed as a supporter for saying this, but I'm a nuanced person.

He is more of an idiot than a scammer, legally I think the term is negligence instead of fraud. Having recognized that he caused damage by negligence, additionally I think he was a victim too, he was scammed out of political capital and reputation. I don't think he was in on it, although definitely someone near him definitely was, not necessarily a dev, but definitely someone with a "bag", holding it and speculating that it would go up, essentially utilizing their position for personal gain, which I think is a very classic form of corruption.

It's not the minister of economy, it's not his modus operandi (Funds and offshore accounts), this has the markings of someone young. Whatever he got out of it, either by buying early and holding, or by founding it himself, he for sure lost of all of his political capital.

I'll take a look at the specific contract, and addresses, I'm assuming it's a basic pump.fun thing, but there may be more to it.
I feel sorry for young developers today, because the rush to quickly make money from software, has created a lot of complexity. Programming used to be a lot simpler. Some of the problems we have today are indeed harder. So I’m not wanting to go back to assembly or something. Some maturation was/is a good thing. But the last twenty years have seen an excessive hyper maturation of idea churn.
Paul Graham approves.
Well productivity is output per unit of labor no? And labor is measured in hours.
Do you have a moral objection to a homeless man with asthma getting a primary care provider paid for by the government?
Google dies of many little papercuts based on decisions of incompetent people.
Even if we set aside for the moment the question of whether or not they're actually right about their claims that have no public evidence, there's also the question of materiality. When multibillion dollar businesses are audited they don't prove financial statements are accurate to the penny. There are 67 million people receiving some form of Social Security benefits. If say 67 of those are listed 150 years old in the database, so that this is literally a one-in-a-million issue, is that really an issue worthy of the amount of attention this has received?
- they are tax-paying citizens. You mean "private-sector"

- a better analogy would be your organization is taken over every 4/8 years by a direct competitor, and the new executives order you to sideline/mothball your previous product/website, and possibly cut off the existing customers (for healthcare websites, or IT systems, which is what USDS existing activity was). Or chainsaw reengineering of the orgchart. So, "loyalty" to which person/goal/contract/Act of Congress, exactly? Where these conflict, you could always allege something. (For example, killing IRS Direct Free-File over at IRS seems to violate many things, and raises many questions.)

- reportedly ~50 of the sidelined 200 legacy employees at DOGE (formerly USDS) were fired Friday

- DOGE picked USDS to parachute into to bootstrap themselves, reinterviewed the legacy employees then sidelined them. Also part of the reason is USDS was created under the Office of the President, hence it's shielded from Presidential Records Act, which effectively buys them years and immunity from any court challenges.

- really your analogy is not to anything often seen in the private-sector world, even in hostile takeovers of large orgs

- going forward, what would be a less chainsaw way to reengineer govt IT operations? Hire govt IT employees on a fixed-term non-renewable contract? Would they expect to be laid off every 2/4/8 years? That will reduce the pool of people prepared to live in the DC area and take those jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
Pretty easy to filter out a majority of devs who don't know much including juniors before hiring. Not knowing stackflow doesn't mean much, but then again professors think that's cheating so why should they reference it. No reason to trash jr devs, they don't know what they don't know because colleges ignore what they need in preparation for real world interviews and readable resumes.
Went to Firefox on mobile for a while, just found the overall experience slower and less performant.

I know thats kind of a personal thing based on which websites are used but it was still my experience.
There’s a lot of “people have been complaining about the youth for a long time” in these comments.

I get where that’s coming from. However, I don’t think these complaints are the same.

Let’s not approach this from the youth, but from the technology that’s supposedly corrupting the youth.

Stack Overflow, C compilers, Python are all mentioned as previous examples of technologies that were supposedly making people bad developers. And while true, none of them was hailed as a genuine game changer the way AI is. And why is AI hailed as a game changer? Precisely because AI takes the thinking out of the achieving. It does the thinking for you (it’s right there in the name…artificial INTELLIGENCE).

None of those other technologies pretended to take the thinking out of the achieving.

Now it may turn out that AI is overhyped and it doesn’t actually able to think as well as humans beyond a certain point. But the point still stands that AI, if it exists, is fundamentally different from other technologies and can genuinely have some of those concerning effects on developers that those other techs did not.
The reason why these articles appear every 5 years is because many engineers pride themselves on how they solve problems. And then when they see people solving those problems without putting in the hard work that they had to put in, it really bothers them.

This is a timeless post. We'll see it today. We'll see it in five years. We'll see it in 10 years.
> Please do show a study which says that we need to ”strip mine the ocean floor”. It does sound like typical fossil lobby misinformation.

Then why are companies gearing up to literally do this to satisfy the needs of battery manufacturing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXbKptKSs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7CGTK-1vA

Denmark generates 20% of its energy from renewables which is about on par for what most countries see. Let's see how much those renewables start costing when you need to supplant the 80% of the energy grid which is still is still carbon producing. Which is my point - renewables can't scale past this threshold and trying to make them raises the costs exponentially. Compare this to France which has been >90% decarbonized in its grid since at least the 90s.

Re fossil fuel propaganda, the number 1 supporters of renewables is the fossil fuel companies. It's not because it's the future but because it prolongs to the utmost the transition off of fossil fuels while appealing to the sensibilities of people who style themselves as "environmentalists". No country that has invested in renewables has yet managed to get off fossil fuels while France invested in nuclear & nearly completely decarbonized.
Now try that on an ipv4-only host trying to talk to an IPv6-only address. You can’t, hence, 2 internets.

(Yes, I understand there is no other way for a larger address space to exist that doesn’t have this problem. We are in violent agreement here. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t 2 internets. Let’s call a spade a spade.)