skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got people in my family in similar situation. 25 years in an unskilled cushy job was enough to buy a lifetime of cushy retirement. Boomers were basically handed life on a platter.
got it, thanks for explaining.

> with better AI models and tools like Cursor, we will move to a world where you can mold code ever more specific to your use case to make it more performant

what do you think the value of having the right abstraction will be in such a world?
Wow you know a lot about computers
My son and I tried a couple of things.

Scratch and its "block coding" ilk are one path. The good bit is that writing simple game-like things is easy: the UI stuff is very accessible.

The bad bits are that the ceiling is very low: you can only do so much before you grow past the platform; that it doesn't do anything other than simple UI games (and some turtle-ish robotics) very well; that it's very hacky -- you don't learn any good habits in Scratch; and that ultimately, you're going to have to leave "block coding" behind, and make the switch to "line coding" (as they seem to call it).

We moved from there to PyGame, which expanded the possibilities a little, but not a lot. It enables some better habits, but doesn't really encourage them.

We tried GameMaker and its myriad variants. That opened up better game creation abilities, but it's still a long way from doing anything that's "wow" compared to what they see other people doing.

We tried Roblox Studio, which was possibly the best route in terms of results for effort invested. But it's a lot of work for a kid to deal with.

Minecraft Education Edition wasn't worthwhile. We actually had more success with a mod-making tool for Java Edition that did all the code generation for the game interface based on filling out some forms in its UI. We could add Java code to extend that, but the learning curve was pretty steep. Still, adding new blocks and simple mobs was fun for a while, and easier than Roblox or full-blown Unity or whatever.

My son basically lost interest in trying to make games when he realised how much work went into making anything that he was proud to show his friends. 3D modelling, physics, music, sound effects, level design, etc, etc, all on top of the basic coding. Making something that he felt looked ok and moved ok and did something ok took a lot of work, and was nowhere near a playable game. A 2D NES-style game was about the peak of what he could do: sprites, collisions, scoring, levels .. which, tbh, he could also do in Scratch, so it wasn't really worth the effort to achieve something that was cute, but wasn't going sustain his or his friends' interest.

These days he does a bunch of HTML and CSS, and little bits of JavaScript. His interest is mostly in making web sites and publishing mostly text and some basic 2D images, and he finds that easy enough to do.

He uses GitHub to keep history (and sometimes to revert to early versions), and I set up a script that pushes the site to the server so he doesn't have to remember the command-line magic.

He found Code Camps were worthwhile: not as useful as 1-on-1 time would be, but still, a few days hacking on something with a bunch of like-minded other kids and an instructor who can answer questions -- they gave him a lot of confidence to try stuff, and to master the material, even if he wasn't really stoked with the outcomes.
Your article points out that that's a rare topic where there is a disconnect among the Administration. Not everyone in Trump/Elon's orbit seems to be aligned on what to do about military spending. DOGE has so far steered clear of it.

They are definitely not as laser focused on that as they are on nickling and diming workers and removing database columns that deal with diversity and inclusion.
react-select does a lot more than style the select though, so even after this new standard for customizable selects is supported everywhere, react-select will still have about the same level of complexity as it does now.
> Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon.

...and?

This is such a common thing in tech we have entire websites built around it to track the layoffs.[0] In fact, using that site you can see in February (only 20 days so far) we've had 10,950 tech workers laid off. Expanding it further, in 2024 alone there were over 152,000 tech workers laid off. 2023? Only a mere 264,000 layoffs.

Where is the outrage and emotional blackmail over this for the lowly tech worker, yet we're supposed to bend over and take it while saying this is a bad thing for government workers?

Personally, I think they're just finally experiencing the America they run and they don't like it when it bites them like it bites the average American, and I have to assume that's why it seemingly has such high approval ratings among independent voters.[1]

[0]: https://layoffs.fyi/

[1]: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/arizona-voters-trump-elon-m...
Are similar investor securities fraud suits against Microsoft and Google far behind?

> The litigants observe that GitLab's survey showed "that customers were reluctant to adopt AI features across all areas of the software development lifecycle," in keeping with corroborating accounts obtained by interviewing former employees. But this AI hesitancy wasn't being communicated to investors, it's claimed.
It can be, especially when you do something undefined the compiler can do all sorts of odd things while transforming code
I mean, that would imply some form of intelligence to all this. And, well, this first month has shown there is no intelligence.
Context defines content.
> But you're just defining the "full amount" as what you think they should pay.

No, I think they're defining it as something like "the tax you would have paid if all your personal revenue that year had been ordinary income". The baseline is not an opinionated criterion, it's what most people deal with.
> The people radicalized to these actions are trying to destroy the government.

The federal government, right? They are in favor of state and local government, but object to federal, which they assert reduces the ability for states to have different rules and regulations that can drive competition amongst different legal frameworks.
I've been using llama.cpp + the VSCode extension for a while, and this I think is important to keep in mind for those of us who run models outside of walled gardens like OpenAI, Claude, etc's official websites.
> post hoc community notes lets misinformation run wild lomg before corrections are made

That's the whole point of them.
The original post in this thread was about their breakneck speed.

Project 2025 was misattributed to this, it's called "Flood the Zone".

Everything after that is just noise.
Reminds me of H.L. Mencken's "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#1910s
Former ISS commander corrects Elon Musk's misinformation
Why is Elon Musk spreading lies about the rescue mission of the 2 astronauts stranded on the ISS?

How is this helping the Space industry, disrespecting astronauts in this manner?

EDIT: HN seems to replace X archive links with twitter.com - here is the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1892584783064052114#m
Reading the article was helpful to understand the other side of it. I definitely understand how it's a hard problem to solve on the part of the server owners.

I noticed in the linked post that there's not a clear way forward in the short term for people to submit their own room directories. Do you think there are other ways someone might be able to help with the need for discoverable fun community spaces on Matrix? I suppose running a server is one option, but it's both difficult to bootstrap a userbase and I suspect that anyone running a server that's open for public signups risks running into exactly the same problem.
It isn’t illegal.
Not sure if there is something new here but it looks like the same product that has been around for a few years now (wasn't Coral released in 2019-ish?)
And besides, BILL COSBY was the spokes-person, so it COULDN'T be a bad machine!

TI-99/4a and Jello Pudding. Truly halcyon days!
Haha!

That sound exactly out of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
I use it in one place in my app, and even with me putting text right above it saying something like "ctrl+click to select multiple entries", I still periodically get emails from confused users. No idea what the actual % is, but it's gotta be some non-trivial fraction of people who just have no idea how to use that thing.
Gotta love the change in terminology. 'Unhoused' people instead of homeless, as though their being without a place to live is now someone else's (the American taxpayers') responsibility.
>American people deserve a government of their choosing

Did you not vote? Did Trump run on a platform of "I want to dismantle democracy"? What does this even mean?
Yeah that would be the most obvious "real" exploit (on the code generation side)
It is really frustrating how news organizations don’t remember previous news cycles and connect the threads. That’s why the trump strategy of flooding the system with outrage constantly is so effective. People can’t maintain the narrative over time and so things get buried.
> The people radicalized to these actions are trying to destroy the government.

It's worse than that. They're also incompetent.

Look, I'm a radical anarcho-capitalist / libertarian / voluntaryist myself. I'm fine with the idea of "destroying the government" in general. BUT, even I would say that there's a right way to go about it, and that that involves dismantling things slowly and incrementally, identifying replacements (where available) for government services that are being wound down BEFORE winding them down, minimizing the harm done, taking "collateral damage" into consideration etc. These people are doing the equivalent of "destroying the government" by just randomly lobbing hand grenades all over the place, with no knowledge, consideration, or concern, for the outcomes.
Great that all of that information is getting published so we can judge for ourselves the efficacy of both the relevant agency or department, but also effectiveness of the DOGE.
Seems to me that everyone is focused on the technical merits, not weighing the effort of learning a new programming language/toolchain/ecosystem for the maintainers appropriately.

Mastering a new programming language to a degree that makes one a competent maintainer is nothing to sneeze at and some maintainers might be unwilling to based on personal interests/motivation, which I'd consider legitimate position.

I think its important to acknowledge that not everyone may feel comfortable talking about their lack of competence/disinterest.
At sometime yall have to stop pretending that this is something that will just go away if you ignore it long enough. This administration wilm have surely life altering consequences that will persist for decades. This isn’t reasonable people disagreeing. This is insurrection.
> One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see.

Ever wondered if it’s desirable BECAUSE it’s not a dense urban jungle?
There is .valueAsNumber. input.value returns a string, regardless of the input type. Making the return type dynamic would be worse, imo.
> A friend pointed out offline that canvas rasterization (typically) is on the GPU, which is probably why my performance intuitions with my stuttering animation were so wrong

Did you solve it? A great resource is Jake Gordon's blog on simple JavaScript game design. He uses a double buffer front and back canvas game loop.

[0] https://jakesgordon.com/writing/javascript-pong/part1/
It mainly allows you to quickly destroy your organization's ability to do anything, including repairing the damage you just did.

Which is, of course the goal: to destroy the United States. They already explicitly said that's the goal.
"$30k each" in case you are curious to know
Agreed. Hasn't this been out for years?
Definitely! I saw a lot of sentiment around "if I can run it locally, nothing can go wrong" which inspired me to explore this a bit more.
> Cisco's real innovation wasn't just the tech – it was creating the most successful partner program in tech history. While others tried doing everything in-house, Cisco built an army of passionate partners who became its extended sales force, support team, and innovation engine.

Good topic for a business school case study.

https://engineering.stanford.edu/about/visit/inside-engineer...

In 1981, inspired by Ethernet and the fledgling Internet, alumni Judy Estrin and Eric Benhamou and two other entrepreneurs co-founded Bridge Communications to make servers and routers to move data within and between networks. In 1984, alumnus Leonard Bosack and his, wife Sandy Lerner, left computer operations staff jobs at Stanford to found an Internet router company called Cisco, which has become the dominant company in the industry. They adapted the multi-protocol router software developed some years earlier at Stanford by William Yeager.

Cisco was later successful at acquiring alumni spin-outs, if the startup proved market traction with technology invented at Cisco.
Browsers could have instead allowed me to right click and say "insert password because I know what I'm doing". But browsers are in the business of training users to be stupid, rather than acting as a user's loyal agent, so I guess we were mercifully spared this future.
I think that UX cannot always be easily copied.

Technology enables UX. When the underlying technology is commodity—which is often the case—it's easy for competitors to copy the UX. But sometimes UX arises from the tight marriage of design and proprietary technology.

Good UX also arises from good organization design and culture, which aren't easy to copy. Think about a good customer support experience where the first agent you talk with is empowered to solve your issue on the spot, or there's perfect handoff between agents where each one has full context of your customer issue so you don't have to repeat yourself.
It blows my mind how many people like "that's so inefficient!" or "that will create so many problems!", giving even a shred of consideration to this fake org that its goal has literally anything to do with what it says publicly. It's a complete farce.
All of the “absurd” spending DOGE cites may seem like a lot of money, but it’s a tiny amount in comparison to the overall budget, and remarkably skewed toward specific, hot button issues like climate change, DEI, etc. Where are the cuts to the $852B military budget, which has been shown for decades as being insanely wasteful? Why isn’t DOGE investigating ways to cut down our $952B in interest payments due in 2025?
Maybe, but they have hundreds! And new ones every quarter! Having done both systems and case interviews I can say that leaking is not as big a problem as with coding interviews. Sure you can memorize how to build Netflix/Zoom, or how to analyze P&L for a sandwich shop, but those interviews depend on interviewers throwing in complications or asking clarifying questions.
I thought this was already settled during the American Civil War, yet we're back at it again.
I was nodding along to your comment, at first. But then I read your follow-ups, which look like you're covering something up that you fear could be true.

I don't know what that something is, so I think I should go listen to Sabine Hossenfelder.
> Usually it amounts to being more descriptive in the value of the `autocomplete` attribute

No, there are many inputs where there is no sensible autocomplete value. For example, "create a new CRM customer record". This is a new customer who I have not seen before. By definition it is impossible to autocomplete.

In the past, the Chrome team advised to "make up an autocomplete value and we won't do anything with it". This advice is a) dumb and b) no longer works anyway.

> but not filed a bug?

It's clear the Chrome team has no interest in fixing this behaviour so I'm not going to waste my time. Yes, that's bad of me, but I have bills to pay.
My issue with this is that it still won't make people happy, because ultimately people care about wealth too. Like say some big CEO's income is $100M/year. And they pay half of it in taxes. Then after a decade they have half a billion dollars. Will people be content seeing that? Or still be unhappy at the obscene wealth?
They don't have a smoking gun, and might not find one. At least person at UC with responsibility for (non-undergrad) admissions explained (on video) how they discriminate without leaving a paper trail.

UC administrators get to use taxpayers' own money to defend themselves from taxpayer lawsuits. They are well-resourced.

AIUI lawyers working on contingency get paid a cut of the damages. If that's correct, it might be hard. If someone didn't get into UC and proves it was due to illegal discrimination, how can they prove they suffered at least $ of damages? If they were to say 'well I had to pay out of state tuition at XYZ', UC could just say "well you were offered a place at UC Merced why didn't you just go there?".
Organizational inertia can be cut through without causing a tremendous amount of pain and disruption. Stopping things by default is a very lazy way to do it. Doing it this way is a strongman fantasy that inflicts large costs: now your employees aren't doing their jobs, they're going through a round of "justify yourself" (when you should have had the organizational controls in place already).

And there's nothing new about this strategy, either. I read about these tactics decades ago in management self-help books. They were just as crappy and inhuman then as now.
I don't think one can understand compilers in a "week-end".
Schmidt et al., 2016 The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 100 Years of Research Findings
That's encouraging, thank you for still keeping lights on. Will make sure to follow up.

FWIW, I did do a cursory look around and search before posting GP and still didn't find those. Might do you well to make those if not prominent then at least discoverable from CTAs.
Ketamine is analogous to the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster? https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-don-lemon-small-am...
base temperament is irrelevant then?

My shy cat could've been a party animal like her sister :)
One of the benefits of self-hosting everything of actual importance is that I can (and have) set my systems up so their contents will self-delete after I die. I used to think there was value in letting the data pass to my heirs, but these days, the risk of someone making an AI "replica" of me from it after my death is too great.
> They are in favor of state and local government, but object to federal, which they assert reduces the ability for states to have different rules and regulations that can drive competition amongst different legal frameworks.

As demonstrated by efforts to prevent state and local governments from acting independently...
They seem to be in favor of state and local governments only so far as those governments agree with them.
There was discussion, but not popularity at the time (5 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414602
Were the LauchPads or the ST 'Discovery' line of super cheap eval boards first? Those were brilliant for getting the part in people hands.
It's not going to cost the government anything, when they destroy the government. That is exactly their intent.

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist, an unelected person, who many Republicans in congress signed a pledge to.

We're at the "small enough" phase, and soon enough we'll be at the "drowning" phase. This is their dream come true, unfortunately it's going to be a nightmare for everyone but the most wealthy.
> Can you expand on your doubts for the ability to execute?

I have faith that the foundation manages its finance properly. I believe the Matrix protocol (and ecosystem) is full of good, needed, ideas.

But the software produced by the foundation is simply bad. From the clients to the servers. In every single matrix threads, complaints about the UX or performance abound. Usually followed by people from the foundation saying it's fixed in X or 2.0. Or by fanboys saying it's not a real problem and wasting resources on UX is dumb.

That's been going on for almost a decade now. That's a clear demonstration of a lack of ability to execute on a good idea.
Possibly legal and reputational risks, considering some groups do badly on IQ tests.
I expected this to be about different meanings of the word "nondeterminism" rather than different causes of a single meaning. Back in college, I remember someone once pointing out to me that the word was used for fairly different concepts in different classes; in our theory classes, "nondeterministic" was used for stuff like finite automata and Turing machine models of computation (like the "N" in "NP" compared to just "P"), whereas in some other classes it might get used the way it's used in this article (e.g. for an AI algorithm that wouldn't always produce the same results). Maybe someone more educated than me might be able to connect why the same word is used for both of those, but as far as I'm able to tell, they seem entirely unrelated.
Funny how, when they talk about executive compensation, platinum-plated perks, corporate parties with lobster stacks and vodka fountains for the top brass, and of course, dividends and stock buybacks--not a peep about how sustainable it is. But when you talk about pensions and employee salaries, all of a sudden, everyone's so concerned about it being sustainable...
Would you like to say something of substance here? It's strange how people kept repeating TDS last year, but here you are complaining about a president no longer in charge about current actions. Biden didn't fire random FAA controllers them have to backtrack.

>The new administration hasn't even gotten its people in place

He's got more in place than you're letting on. Moreover he's takin a wrecking ball to people currently in place and blackmailing mayor's. Let's not pretend he hasn't done more damage in a month than some presidents fix in 4 years.

>At least this executive branch employee quit rather than "resist" "not my president" while at the helm.

Public sector workers are normal people. Quitting is saying "I'm not participating in this circus". And leaves less ambiguity than when fired
Whats the right way to mitigate besides trusted models/sources?
Remember when he called the hero that rescued the young men in the Thai cave a pedo: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50667553 or https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-lashes-out-... ?

Both episodes seem similar.
Under that simplistic model there is no space for higher quality, higher reliability, etc. Then "efficiency" is one dimensional and you have basically no agency. The cost model should be agreed upon collectively.

-2000 lines
Most AI startups, like most startups in general, are in the business of selling futures. Much easier to get new seed $$$ once there’s a real hype around your demo. Not saying they aren’t being honest, just pointing out the logic of starting here and working your way up to a huge valuation.
Firing any probationary employees withou a real cause is cruel, has zero dignity and looks totally stupid. But this makes it even worse!

Like what is the great thing that needs to be done right now that justifies trampling over peoples lives like this ?
That was dependent upon an interpretation of the 10th amendment achieved via intimidation to pack the courts. Before that most the regulatory apparatus would not be constitutional.

What many of us are welcoming is an end to most regulation of most intrastate commerce except as authorized by the constitution. It is time to undo the damage of Wickard v Filburn.