skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the primary stimulus which creating the “job hopping culture” was actually the hot labor market for software developers. Other fields experienced real ‘cost-cutting’, without resulting in a lot of ‘job-hopping’.

I agree that this situation is undesirable, but it seems to be stable, somewhat like the result of repeated play of the prisoner’s dilemma.
The problem is there’s no consumer uses for it, it’s all enterprise.
The problem here is that if you're providing a public s3 compatible object storage system, you likely have a number of users using the aws sdk directly. It's not your dependencies, it's your users' dependencies that caused the issue.
Even more confusing is that the AGPL explicitly deals with this scenario:

“
If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.
”

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

I think the expectation here is that commercial users purchase the AGPL opt-out.
There are plenty of great moral arguments for why animals (or humans) shouldn't be eaten unless they died of purely natural causes. Factory farming is just the strongest to argue against and the main source of both suffering and death, so it's what people focus on. If factory farming were abolished overnight, vegans and vegetarians would (rightly) immediately move onto hunting and small farms.

(I personally think there's nothing wrong with home/farm egg laying as long as the animals are taken care of well and the male ones aren't killed. That's why I'm vegetarian rather than vegan.)
That's from the ad company's perspective. From the clients':

> “We now see brands returning in quite significant numbers, because the easiest route is to just spend a minimum viable amount on the platform,” said Ebiquity’s Schreurs. “Not because they want to advertise there and run their ads adjacent to the content on X, but because they are afraid of legal and political ramifications of not doing so.”
What is your allegation here? Health care is weighted at 8.275% and private spending on healthcare is right around there. Do you think it should include public spending on healthcare for some reason?
So you’re saying that none of those roles could be cross hired in the early 2000s between any of the other roles?

That’s the point I was trying to make. Not that the software didn’t exist or people weren’t doing specialized applications.
I made good money cleaning up after the 2000s outsourcing boom.

It was lucrative cleaning up shit code from Romania and India.

I'm hoping enough people churn out enough hot garbage that needs fixing now that I can jack up my day rate.

I remember when the West would have no coders because Indian coders are cheaper.

I remember when nocode solutions would replace programmers.

I remember.
In a small company, you can tell your buddy “just have a chat with the candidate and if you like them and you think they can do the job, hire them”.

If the person interviewing your candidates messes up, you’ll know soon enough. In a large company, the bad people will take over and your company is dying a slow death.

That approach doesn’t work on a large scale. Some interviewers are too nitpicky, elitist, others approve anyone who uses the same language as them for side projects. Some are racists, sexist, or have other kinds of biases. Some might have a crush on the candidate. Sometimes the interviewer thinks about their own task while they squeeze in an interview. In some countries, “undoing” a bad hire is hard, so they need to make sure that the candidate can work on any team (or at least on multiple teams reasonably well).

IMO for large companies it makes sense to standardize the interview process.

Also, in my opinion grinding leetcode is also a good personality check for FAANG hires: it shows the candidate can suck it up, study hundreds of hours, and do whatever they need to do to pass an arbitrary test, even if they themselves think it’s a broken process. The larger the company, the more this quality matters in candidates as they will need to deal with a lot of things they will probably not like.
What do you mean by 'low level'?

Are you talking about a traditional Staff / Principal engineering role or something different?
>It’s clear that DOGE is reviewing payment data and has the same access to various components of the US Govt that Obama’s US Digital Services

How is that clear? What proof do you have of this other than Musk's word?
Most of today is the result of stealing from the future, and that strategy is running out of steam.
Elon has been operating in bad faith since he called that hero diver a pedo
Patio11 "Reply to Anchorage Digital's CEO" Diss Track
This is basic dictatorshipping, I think US folks need to refresh skills so common in rest of the world.

You want obedient lackeys as #1 rule, it means reasonably little threat and no resistance to molding from above. Competences are sometimes even frowned upon. Look at how potus literally demands that others lick his boots to keep it polite.

This is how russians run their dictatorships for example, including those they exported elsewhere under their iron hand / military bases. Talking from first hand experience.

Of course that part of the system is very ineffective. Regardless of what you think about government and its bureaucracy, that fascist manchild aint gonna end up with success story here, he lacks (any genuine) emotional intelligence to understand underlying reasons. This isnt technical problem to solve where he sometimes excells.
Are you mad at the pensioners, who worked for decades on the agreement they’d get a pension, or are you mad at the oligarchs and businesses who lobbied to make pensions a thing of the past so that you’re not protected as well?

You should be mad at the Capitalists not the workers.
> We're in for a really dire future where the worst engineers you can imagine are not only shoveling out more garbage code but the ability to assess it for problems or issues is much more difficult

It will probably still be more productive. IDEs, Stack Exchange...each of these prompted the same fears and realised some of them. But the benefits of having more code quicker and cheaper, even if more flawed, outweighed those of quality. The same way the benefits of having more clothes and kitchenware and even medicine quicker and cheaper outweighed the high-quality bespoke wares that preceded them. (Where it doesn't, and where someone can pay, we have artisans.)

In the mean time, there should be an obsolescence premium [1] that materialises for coders who can clean up the gloop. (Provided, of course, that young and cheap coders of the DOGE variety stop being produced.)

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
Deepseek showed us very well that openAI at the very least does not have a significant moat. Also, that the ridiculous valuations dreamt up for AI companies are make-believe at best.

If - and that's a big if - LLM-Tech turns out to be the path to true (not the OpenAI-definition) AGI, everybody will be able to get there in time, the tech is well known and the research teams notoriously leaky. If not, Another AI winter is going to follow. In either case, the only ones who are going to make a major profit there are the ones selling shovels during the gold rush - nvidia. Well, and the owners who promised investors all kinds of ridiculous nonsense.

Anyway, the most important point, in my opinion, is that it's a bad idea to believe people financially incentivized to hype their AIs into unrealistic heights.
They're probably referring to it not being usable without keyboard, unlike regular select, or checkboxes, or anything else sans a text field. Specifically, to select elements one by one, you need to hold down Ctrl (on Windows; modifiers for other OSes are different).

For better or worse, this element is not obvious for those who didn't grow up using desktop computers 10+ years ago.
Okay, but I'd never expect an AWS SDK to remain backwards compatible with third-party services and would be leery about using an AWS SDK with anything but AWS. It's on the third parties to keep their S3-compatible API, well, compatible.

On the client side, you just have to pin to an older version of the AWS SDK till whatever compatible service you're using updates, right?

Also, this is the first I've heard of OpenDAL. Looks interesting:

https://opendal.apache.org/

It's had barely any discussion on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=opendal
The price increases in Brooklyn have been huge.

And the eggs haven't been selling out before winter storms -- there haven't been any serious storms that anybody has "prepared" for, just regular snow. There's been absolutely no increase in price for milk or bread or anything else.

This is entirely because of bird flu, it's supply and demand, it's not price gouging.

I don't know why you're trying to convince yourself that the empty shelves at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are due to winter storms, or why you haven't noticed that eggs are $9 at your local bodega. Trader Joe's in Brooklyn even has signs explaining that the empty shelves are because of shortages from suppliers.

Again -- it's bird flu, pure and simple.
Just add a bay door for extra fast delivery ala Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
None of them run in a browser powered by WebAssembly. I created a 2D engine in C++20 based on SDL, in which I can use Lua to create games. Then I thought, “I’ll make a NES emulator,” so I started with its CPU, the 6502.
Show HN: Substack2Kindle – my internet lemonade stand
Hi HN,

I created a simple service that automatically converts Substack newsletters and sends them to your Kindle.

————

A while ago, halfway through reading a long post on Substack, I realized it’d be easier on the eyes to read it on my kindle.
As I was going about the process of converting it manually, it occurred to me that I’d already had the same experience with another post before, so I decided to write something to automate it.

After using it for a few days myself and finding it actually useful, I decided to turn it into a small product for others to use.
A few weeks after putting it online, I unexpectedly got my first paying customer.

While the product is obviously super niche and the scale is minuscule, I still find it pretty cool and inspiring to experience firsthand this full circle (idea -> product -> someone I’ve never met finds it useful enough to pay for)
It's a super interesting approach, and if you put a strong filter before it (e.g. intense non-BS Q&A), the whole thing could be high-throughput.
What message are you trying to communicate? Are you implying that this is too high? Too low? Poorly spent?
This is a very good start, I don't think it'll replace a lot of the custom code/comboboxes that are seen in react-land without search (unless I missed it).
Maybe Musk has reached the obvious conclusion --- Tesla can't compete with the Chinese auto manufacturers in the global marketplace.

TSLA is no longer growing and the stock is outrageously over priced.

The P/E ratio for most global auto manufacturers is around 10. The P/E ratio for Tesla --- 170.

Stocks go up like stairs, one step at a time. They go down like an elevator --- controlled freefall.

The elevator is waiting for Tesla with the door open.
I don’t think that future will happen, because eventually someone will realize there is a competitive advantage in building a truly good product with people who actually know what they’re doing, and when other companies catch on they will start doing that and bad prompt kiddy engineers will be gone.
So after decades of developer pain, all we're getting is a better select?

Where is the native HTML datagrid (that supports sorting, filtering, paging, downloading, row/column freezing, column resizing and re-ordering)?

Where are the native HTML Tabs control? Image selector, resizer/cropper, and uploader? Toggle button? etc.

We can't even get text input to respect autocomplete directives properly. On the major browsers, giving your user id and password inputs nonsensical names seems to be required, along with numerous other hacks, to ensure that when a user is registering, the form is not auto-completed with saved passwords.

HTML is really holding us back right now.
closing deals with your boss? what does that even mean.
Feed costs money. Unless you live in an area where feed is very cheap, or grow your own feed, this isn't going to be economically viable. Having said that, some people enjoy keeping chickens as pets, and in that case economic viability takes a back seat. Plus there's a certain psychological satisfaction akin to tending to your own (also not economically viable) garden, which should not be underestimated. When I had a garden my every morning started with tending to it, and that was basically the most psychologically enjoyable thing I'd done in the last 30 years, especially when there's something to harvest. Plus, when AI neo-feudalism takes over, I won't starve. :-)
Good to see I'm not the only who wants a cleaner newsfeed to cut through this information overload noises. Coincidentally, I also spent the last weekend building a curated, HN-based newsfeed for the busy web developers: lessnews.dev[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116926
As a user of S3, but not any service with an S3 compatible API, this execution of the change is perfect for me as I get the benefits with 0 effort - including needing to learn about the availability of the feature.

AWS is beholden first and foremost to their paying customers, and this is the best option for most S3 customers.
If I recall correctly, earlier versions of iText lived on in Linux distributions as part of pdftk, until that became unbuildable because it had a hard dependency on GCJ: the command-line parser was written in C++ for some reason.

Most previous users of pdftk have probably migrated to qpdf by now.
Now financial instruments like pensions are stealing? In what way? Those workers worked for that pension. It’s funny how the top wealth owners have vacuumed up more and more wealth and you’re mad at the regular Joe working a 9-5.
AI enables new tools & features but in itself is not a product.

There's a good essay from Andrew Chen on this topic: Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models

"Network effects are what defended consumer products, in particular, but we will also see moats develop from the same places they came from the past decades: B2B-specific moats (workflow, compliance, security, etc), brand/UX, growth/distribution advantages, proprietary data, etc etc." [1]

Also check out the podcast with the team at Cursor/Anysphere for details into how they integrate models into workflows [2]

[1] https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/revenge-of-the-gpt-wrapper...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4&t=1398s
Dude , I am not kidding , but this gave me so many goosebumps.

Goosebumps on my f'ing face.

And I was thinking this on 5 eyes level but you are saying a single country can do that?

When I had discovered that conspiracy theory which I now believe is true to some degree.

I then used to think, what if they want you to believe that you hold a chance. They don't want you to know they can get you as you are saying it. They want to give you the illusion of freedom. They will target their opposition , journalists with this if all goes south.
There are also secret courts.

May I ask , if they can always get you why don't they use this in making their opposition go poof. If I am being extra conspiracist now , is it that they want you to give the freedom b/w 2 systems both of which don't change things really that much. Both political parties are kind of the same thing

but dude what the actual fuck.

They can use csam to break general encryption by saying it's bad for children etc, they can use csam to punish those they want.

I am now seriously wondering if I even have real tangible choice in the government.

I am now wondering if I am literally living in 1984. What if these wars and shit are just a distraction , yes they happen but...

Dude I have come to a realisation, I am seriously living in 1984.
Reward is given to those who comply , those who aren't skeptics , skeptics are brushed off as conspiracist.
I don’t think that the article at least state it was malicious. Also some (major?) businesses benefits exist when your company sets the standards for a large market
Congrats! Side question - is the website OS as well? I'd like to "borrow" the Nav Bar code. I looked on GitHub and couldn't find it in the repos and 300+ branches. Cheers!
looking at the paper some other agentic models they compared to were named LLaVA... maybe it's just a play on words
I think I and most vegans also wouldn't eat it. It has nothing to do with rudeness or even the specific ethics of that situation or something. Just I wouldn't be able to physically stomach it. I would feel guilty but I wouldn't be able to eat it.
> Just let them be

As someone who's research goes against the grain, I just request the same. I have no problem with people maintaining the course and doing the same thing. In fact /most/ people should probably be doing this. BUT the system discourages going of course, exploring "out of bounds." The requests of these people have always been "let me do my thing."

Just make sure "let them be" applies in both directions
This is classic EU. An announcement of an effort to collect collaborators to discuss doing something that they might do in the future.
https://archive.ph/pjQ3V
Exactly. Its almost like optimising for finding your best possible match for marriage. You don't go over a billion prospects, you choose from the ones locally available to you, as they come.
A recurring theme I've seen in Python packaging community discussion is that a lot of people really seem to hate venvs, mostly for reasons I consider quite irrational. And if they don't outright hate the things, they fear having to try to explain them to newbies.

Keep in mind: there are huge numbers of people out there who will cargo-cult about how applying the sudo hammer to Pip fixed something or other (generally, because the root user has different environment variables). People even resent having to do user-level installations; they resent venvs even more. When the Python team collaborated with multiple Linux distros to add a system to protect against global user-level installs (because they were still interfering with system Python tools), a lot of people reacted by doing whatever they could to circumvent that protection, and advising each other on how to do so - thus the education effort described in https://discuss.python.org/t/the-most-popular-advice-on-the-... . People really would, apparently, rather add `--break-system-packages` to a command line so that they can keep installing everything in the same place, than attempt to understand even the basics of environment management. And we're talking about programmers here, mind.

And then there are the complaints about how the __pypackages__ proposal (https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/) failed - e.g. https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-pyth... . There were serious issues with that idea, which only became clear as the discussion dragged on and on across literally years (https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...). But people were quite upset about having to stick with the old venv model - including the guy who wrote the best explanation of venvs I know, which I frequently refer beginners to (https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/09/04/python-virtual-envi...).

A lot of programmers seem to love having the details not only hidden, but as inaccessible as possible, as long as the UI is nice enough. (Unless we're talking about their own code. Then, hundred-line functions are just hunky-dory.)
I wouldnt trust Trump as a dogcatcher. The man is a habitual liar and conman. He cant help himself. If you trust him I have a couple of bridges in queens on sale, cheap.
I understand too until there is FTL/warping space is too big
You can override styling with user stylesheets. On desktop. Need the same for i{,Pad}OS.
Snowden was right after all.
Maybe this would be helpful:http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/datacalculator/
Which you told them to use.
> I want financial independence for the sole reason that I can work on interesting problems like this without any outside nagging or funding issues from anyone else

Ditto. This is literally the only desire I have to be wealthy. It is not about having nice things, a nice house, or any of that. It is about letting me do my own research.
> This is wrong and naive.

I am honestly shocked at the amount of wrong or naive takes being posted on HN as of late.
IMO interviewing is the biggest bottleneck and if interviewing was decoupled from hiring then it wouldn't be a problem. But this requires a Guild-like organization to manage interviewing/vetting and for companies to use said Guild for hiring. The companies could then do a single team culture meeting (if they wanted) before hiring.
> hiring has been shifted to HR

Not everywhere. At my company, HR owns the process but we -- the hiring tech team -- own the content of interviews and the outcomes.
I was thinking the same thing. If this even slightly jeopardizes America's ability to pay off its debt, the entire world will suffer. Something that occurred to me from talking to Americans online is that most of them don't realize just how much soft power they have across the world. I really feel that China becoming the global superpower might end up becoming the least bad option if America keeps destabilizing.
I would urge you to watch this movie:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032846/

It made me change my mind.
Well “AI” is a lot more than just generic text generators. ML (read: AI that makes money) is the bread and butter of all of the largest internet companies. There’s no LLM that can accurately predict user behavior.

And even if there was, the fast follower to the Bitter Lesson is the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: if you build a huge, general model to perform my task, I can quickly distill and fine tune it to be better, cheaper, and faster.
How would EU enforce their regulation with an open recipe? Say I take the recipe plus my own data to train a model that has no check of my speech whatsoever, and let my friends use it, wouldn't that violate some regulations of EU?
Yes, and with the current admin. cutting everything, it will not be pretty.

But except for Police and Fire, I thought pensions were gone for all other City Employees, replaced by a 401k.
They're beneficial to younger generations, provided that there's enough value generated by the younger generations to cover the cost of the pension.

The problem is, this new wave of retirees - the Baby Boomers - did not have enough children. Their children's generation - the Millennials - can thus charge more for their labor. The Millennials also aren't having enough children.

This means that the people generating the value are taking more of the value for themselves to live on (though not relative to inflation, but that's a different conversation), and there's fewer of them contributing to pensions through various government revenue schemes.

Also, anecdotally, my parents have far more expensive plans for their retirement than my grandparents ever did.