skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "AI system" is not making the hiring and firing decisions.

It is likely being used as a filter to identify possible candidates to look into further.

> How would you feel if your startup got bought by a new PE firm and they decided if you stayed or went based on "justify your existence in a text message no longer than 200 characters"?

Who cares how I feel? I wouldn't feel great about it, but it frankly wouldn't shock me. People make questionable decisions all the time based on poor data. Ironically, I might use an AI to help squeeze my response into 200 characters...

> I've never seen or heard of the new CEO deciding on an individual case-by-case basis, depending on what each person puts into a status update email

I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs pulled something like this at some point, based on the anecdotes about him randomly quizzing employees about what they do
The Soviets tried, just like we tried having people do astral projection.

Losing top researchers to the effort is indicative of one of the big reasons it's tough to weaponize - you're quite likely to kill yourself and your own people in trying.
I'm not sure but I'm guessing it's this one https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230714-drm-sched-fixes-v1-0-c...
Hacker News loves to hate Electron apps. In my experience ChatGPT on Mac (which I assume is fully native) is nearly impossible to use because I have a lot of large chats in my history but the website works much better and faster. ChatGPT website packed in Electron would've been much better. In fact, I am using a Chrome "PWA App" for ChatGPT now instead of the native app.
I'm more of a DTT man myself: Develop, Then Test.
Just to expand on that, humans keep dogs not just as pets but as guard animals. It could be imagined that early humans feeding wolves to keep them around might also present a deterrent to aggressors.
This is only somewhat true for the software most popular with technical users - the sort of thing the average Hacker News reader might be familiar with.

There is a long tail of malware in app stores, despite the efforts of app vendors to police such things. Nobody would be bothering to fork them because most technical users don't care about them, but they still attract lots of victims.

Example: malicious Chrome extensions. Authors of Chrome extensions receive enticing offers to sell and sometimes they do.
It's a genius name, but Gearbox owns Duke Nukem. They're not exactly dormant. Duke Nukem as a franchise made over a billion in revenue. In 2023, Zen released a licensed Duke Nukem pinball table, so there is at least some ongoing interest in the franchise.

I probably wouldn't have risked it, either.
Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
'Board exam performance was powerfully linked to patient risk of dying or hospital readmission. For example, there was an 8 percent reduction in the odds of dying within seven days of hospitalization in patients of physicians who scored in the top 25 percent on the exam, compared to the patients of physicians who scored in the bottom 25 percent on the exam, which was still a passing grade.'
New powers planned to search homes for stolen phones
Thanks for getting back to me!

Brave New World is actually quite popular on MeetNewBooks, and its recommendations include Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and others [1].

For Honoré de Balzac, I do have several of his works, including Père Goriot. The top recommendations for that include authors like Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, and Émile Zola [2].

I'll check if I have a more complete catalog of Balzac's works—some of this data can be tricky to source. If you have specific old or lesser-known books you're looking for, let me know!

[1] https://www.meetnewbooks.com/suggest-book/57277/Brave-New-Wo...
[2] https://www.meetnewbooks.com/suggest-book/83435/Pere-Goriot-...
i actually don’t think nontechnical people understand the result they want of code.

have you ever seen those experiments where they asked people to draw a picture of a bicycle, from memory? people’s pictures made no mechanical sense. often people’s understanding of software is like that — even more so because it’s abstract and many parts are invisible.

learning to clearly describe what software should do is a very artificial skill that at a certain point, shades into part of software engineering.
I mean, what's sinister about judging someone for their car?
I, too, was domesticated because I like snacks. :)
> A lot of people work in government jobs for the stability and consistency of the work, as part of that they accept lower pay than the private sector.

Speaking as a new dad currently looking for a "lower key" job due to the extreme stress of raising my toddler, I completely get that. I mean, that's the whole stereotype of "government work". But it also smacks of... a lack of initiative.

> devalued by people who have contributed virtually nothing to society

Who exactly are we speaking of, here? The guy who started 3 successful world-changing companies, or...?
brew install fclones

Thanks for the recommendation! Just installed it via homebrew.
I had similar experiences the first time I tried a recreational drug - it was with my father and we watched Nova on PBS. We spent hours convinced we had novel theories on spacetime and wrote them down, believing we had stumbled upon revolutionary scientific insight.

When we reviewed them in the morning they were absolute nonsense!
Sorry, I should have been more explicit: better for on the user facing implementation side (concurrency, streaming data, molding agent state, etc) vs the training side of things. If that makes sense.
I think its also that people greatly dislike the big parties, and have turned away from the Blair/Cameron "centrist" consensus.

AT the last election the parties that got the biggest increases in their share of the vote were Reform and Green. Two very different parties and they have little in common other than not being Labour or the Conservatives. I suspect they would have done even better without a FPTP system.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results (scroll down to see a graph of changes in vote percentage of votes cast).
In my experience, Macs use up a ridiculous amount of "System" storage for no reason that users can't delete. I've grown tired of family members asking me to help them free up storage that I can't even find. That's the major issue from what I've seen; unless this app prevents apple deliberately eating up 50%+ of the storage space of a machine, this doesn't do much for the people I know.
I'm doing what now? The point is there's a high correlation between being a prisoner and being a psychopath, so you do not necessarily get to have super high honesty and compassion or whatever in the list of traits of a person who will reform prison. What you do get to do, is look at the set of actual people who have experienced prison (and therefore are most motivated and qualified to fix it), and sort by entrepreneurial skill. Hers is not zero.
There's a cross-platform open-source version of this program: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
There's actually something interesting here in my opinion, which is that LLMs do not necessarily need to hinder standardization.

For example, we have standardized schooling/exams, because that's the proven scalable way we can have for children - essentially a factory spitting out different grade levels/seniority.

But LLMs can break this standardization by being able to tailor student needs in a scalable manner.

However this takes a huge amount of action, and that's going to be the pain point in the near future as we humans tend towards the easy/greedy paths.

Cultural richness - LLMs are also very bad in this regard due to the bias towards majority viewpoints. This reminds me of a recent HN thread [0] discussing how AI is hindering the adoption of new technologies. In some ways, this happens because AI tends to favor mainstream perspectives, making it biased against "new" or "fringe" viewpoints.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792
Claude Plays Pokémon
Sure!

I'm not saying that philosophy is bad. Maybe making software just never meant to become an engineering discipline. I mean making clothes, laws, and music isn't. And it's fine.

But engineering does imply some rule-following.
sadly yes, and an incredible amount of AI slop.
See, the critical thing is, Henry Ford is, thankfully, very, very dead. Ford, the modern company, is not run by a 150 year old zombie bigot. It's a very different situation.
The scourge of private equity claims another victim.
UUCP was only a couple years before TCP, and isn't really an equivalent (it's fancy file transfer with a little remote command exec sprinkled on in the end) and natively its dialup oriented; it usually requires some other L3 protocol to run over networks.

There was a time when IPX/SPX was a contender. Xerox pitched XNS directly at TCP. DECNet/OSI was around. There were a lot of others...lot's of experimenting going on at the time.
And here I thought I was the only one. This is great. Although, I don’t roll as many dice since I don’t estimate long projects. But now I do know what to do if ever needed.
The speed of light is also a factor: most of those stars are so far away that they cannot detect our sun because to them it hasn't even lit up yet. (Our sun is about 4.6 billion years old, the universe is about 93 billion light years across). Stars like our sun are expected to last 10-12 billion years, so most stars that we think can support life in you 10^24 number have already died and we don't know it!. (stars need not be like our sun to support life, but I have to go with something to give numbers)
One possibility for production use (in case there is a big value) is to split the nodes into one "front" node which requires strong uptime, and a "worker" node which is designed to support rare crashes gracefully, in a way that does not impact the front.

This is what we use at https://transport.data.gouv.fr/ (the French National Access Point for transportation data - more background at https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/11/10/embracing-open-data-...).

Note that we're not using Pythonx, but running some memory hungry processes which can sometime take the worker node down.
There are usually independent yarn shops around. More likely than independent resistor shops, anyway.
Sort of, they changed it to a different username password that was the same on every box. So it wasn't easily findable from the internet but the same issue could have potentially happened again.
This is actually a great read.

I'm in the middle of designing a course for a client on teaching software engineering best practices for data scientists (and folks who live in Jupyter all day).

There seems to be a huge lack of material for these types that aren't "programmers", don't live in an "IDE", and are essentially writing code all day.
Honestly, I'm more interested in getting these projects made than in "what if"ing the future. I have a hard time imagining my needs exceeding what I expect to remain in the hobbyist sphere, and I have the ability to transfer my skillset to another tool when the time comes.

I'd rather spend a month trying things out with the free thing with lots of reference material than go off on my own path spending hundreds on some indie software that I might only use a few times.
The worst engineer I worked with was one who believed if he read it in a book, that opinion trumped anything else. Once he got so flustered he started yelling “come back to the discussion when you’ve read 13 books on this topic like me!” And it was something super mundane like how to organize config files or something.

Made every engineering planning session a pain in the ass.
Steve died.

Edit: Let’s be real here, Tim Cook is keeping the lights on. He isn’t a product guy. They lack leadership and vision at present and are committed to a foolish release cycle based on calendar year not quality of product. These wouldn’t have come to pass had Steve lived till today. Yes its opinion but I doubt its an unpopular one.

So I’ll say it again succinctly, to answer “what happened?”

Steve died.
Is this fair? I mean, i'm not saying PE didn't accelerate demise or something but this business model is so doomed it doesn't seem fair to blame PE
Yeah I'm wondering if you can tell like I can't smoke w because I get paranoid/scared of people. I just drink in a social setting

edit: tell as in if you can't handle w, shouldn't do acid/psychedelics ha
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group
There are some CUDA files that every local AI app install that take multiple GB.
My memories of RatShack are less fond. #1 place to go to buy batteries that were already dead in the package. Even in the '80s.
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Ironically at my company, our custom software made us too flexible. There was too many crazy left field demands that weren't really that useful.

So when it came time to think about next steps. There was real appeal in being able to say, "No it's not supported in xyz software we just adopted". This prevents us from looking like the bad guy who's just getting in the way and should be laid off because we didn't want to spend 2 months implementing a hair brained idea that would only give us a net return of like four or five thousand dollars.
I think malware and viruses are less common for many reasons, but I suspect increased awareness and security posture (including the architecture of modern OS) has more to do with this than "walled gardens." Malware does make it onto closed app stores, and many users (e.g. on Windows) still don't use app stores.

The answer you're looking for is probably to build more decentralized, FOSS software with better UX. Much easier said than done of course.
Besides that, in wolves' case it would be the meat that would rot or invite other predators. Better those standing by wolves finish of the scraps.
Was that really achieved with vanilla Lua or MicroLua has some language extensions?
Archived: https://archive.is/n4LHE
The important bit:

> Firefox, however, will continue supporting both blockingWebRequest and declarativeNetRequest — giving developers more flexibility and keeping powerful privacy tools available to users.
We're an "Amazon family" as much as the next and my wife still went/goes to Joann on a regular basis to purchase material for various craft/sewing projects. I can't imagine buying fabric online considering how "feel' is an important characteristic.

Update: I told her this news and she basically said that every time she was in there, it was a ghost town. I guess we're the outliers ¯\(ツ)/¯
In addition to that, if the Why ever changes (maybe the issue was in an external dependency that finally got patched), you'd have to update the name or else leave it incorrect. Mildly annoying if just in one codebase, but a needlessly breaking change if that function is exported.
Thanks for sharing! I found an amusing math bug in the basic calculator:

0 + 0.00000001 gives 1e-8 (I see you’re displaying in scientific notation, hmm— I wonder how you’re storing it internally…)

Then multiplying that by 5 gives… -39.

Somehow 1e-8 * 5 is being parsed as 1 + (-8 * 5)?
Wheat domesticated us because agriculture put the politics and power into the hands of the landowners (whoever is big enough warlord to control arable territory)
LLMs are fundamentally a new paradigm, it just isn't distributed yet.

It's not like the web suddenly was just there, it came slow at first, then everywhere at once, the money came even later.
There is usually a difference between a "local network" to travel within a metropolitan area and "intercity" train to go from one big city to another.

That is what matters here.
Not a /lit/ user by any means, but I must admit that most of these are solid picks. DFW and Pynchon in the top ten might be a surprise to some, given that they have a reputation for being Pretentious Authors(TM), but I always think that anyone who writes off their stuff as big boring books clearly hasn't read either. Gravity's Rainbow is full of insane slapstick and bawdy jokes in between the serious bits about war as a profit-extraction machine... it's no wonder a bunch of internet shitposters are into that.
Is this a common usage?
The universe is 93 billion light years across. No alien can reset it within time spans that matter to our solar system which has maybe 8 billion years left before our sun dies)
I don't think they are equivalent. Neither is sensible, and the current situation is worse by at least one order of magnitude. I'm just claiming that the popular ideology of only a few years ago was leftist and had a heavily authoritarian slant. Despite the current ridiculous fight against "woke ideology" and "cancel culture", it's not like it didn't actually exist.

And it wasn't just extremist groups saying insane shit on TikTok. People were getting harassed through GitHub, issues were being brigaded, tons of big FOSS projects had some big CoC kerfuffle, then there were the master/slave, git master branch, whitelist/blacklist naming things, demanding renaming of projects, demanding people be fired, etc. Some of these things were reasonable, some were unreasonable, but it's incredibly disingenuous to pretend that it was just "One extremist group says insane shit on TikTok". It was a lot of people effecting a lot of real changes. Notably in FOSS, it was a lot of outsiders coming into a space and telling the people in that space how they were supposed to do their jobs, despite the outsiders not contributing anything other than judgement and not having any stake in it.

I definitely see some parallels, even if they aren't equivalent.
I mean, that hasn't changed in the last quarter so people buying Teslas before had already come to terms with the fact that they were buying an unreliable luxury vehicle they can't get rid of...
That is a reasonable explanation. He is well past the point where people want money for spending power. Any billionaire is after power and status.
I gave it a try on my massive folder of NodeJS projects but it only found 1GB of savings on a 8.1GB folder.

I then tried again including my user home folder (731K files, 127K folders, 2755 eligible files) to hopefully catch more savings and I only ended up at 1.3GB of savings (300MB more than just what was in the NodeJS folders.)

I tried to scan System and Library but it refused to do so because of permission issues.

I think the fact that I use pnpm for my package manager has made my disk space usage already pretty near optimal.

Oh well. Neat idea. But the current price is too high to justify this. Also I would want it as a background process that runs once a month or something.
> The cuts so far are at best rounding error

The budget is going to be messy. You're going to get a Liz Truss budget, which is definitely going to make a lot of the public unhappy.

> future bipartisan efforts

I think one effect of all this is creating a group of angry Democrats who, in a mirror of the Tea Party, will start primarying any Democrat who uses the word "bipartisan" as anything but a swearword.
I haven't read the details or watched the video, but it does sound like you noticed something that should not have been there.

I noticed that your page says this:

> New: the thread "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers" on Hacker News got removed from the front page despite having 242 points.

The thread fell in rank because it set off a software penalty called the flamewar detector. We haven't taken any moderator action or touched it in any way. Our usual practice is to downweight shallow outrage posts (because they're not what the site is for), but we haven't done so in this case, because we have a core rule of moderating less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is in a story. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

If you want to be fair, you could add that information. Otherwise, readers will assume you mean that we nefariously censor negative posts about YC, when the truth is the opposite.

Edit: after I posted this, I noticed that the thread said [flagged] at the top. That's because users flagged it—as they usually do with shallow outrage threads. However, I've turned the flags off in keeping with the rule I just mentioned.
Depends on how you use it. Just using LLMs is probably not good but LLM + seeing the doctor is quite likely better than just seeing a doctor occasionally.

At least LLM advice is normally quite sensible compared with a lot of the junk advice out on the internet.
I don't think that solves it. The Fermi paradox is that based on the probabilities we estimate, we should see lots of aliens, and we don't. Thus something in our estimates must be wrong, but we don't know what.

This fragility idea just shifts it from "we should see lots of aliens and we don't" to "the universe should have been destroyed by now and it hasn't been."
PSA: Amazon kills "download and transfer via USB" option for Kindles this week
Dogs also hunt rodents, they can lead you a dead deer, find a rabbit hole. Dogs chew on skins, bones and eat other parts that humans don't like.

Dogs could be source of calories as well....
Almost certainly not, given how close the vote was.
I used shrooms for a while to recover from depression, but I never once saw anything. While walking along a trail I felt my vision had grown sharper, but never colors, never patterns or movement. That baffles me because at the time, I thought maybe I had consumed the wrong shrooms. The self-reflection, realization, and separation of thought from emotion was the most profound moment in my life. Yet no hallucination.
The economics of a big-box single dedicated store for hobbyists a la Joann's doesn't work anymore.

The textiles industry is almost entirely outsourced, and the margins of being a middleman like Joann's doesn't work when imports are growing expensive AND online stores can sell similar products at a lower price, and your prices are roughly comparable to the local mom-and-pop.

Furthermore, assuming it's PE that causes companies to fail is a reversal of cause and effect. You sell to PE when your company or organization's "gas" is largely spent, and there is no foreseeable growth, so you cannot raise money traditionally.

For every Joann (stripped for parts by PE) you can also point to a Sailpoint (taken private by a PE and now one of the first IPOs in 2025)
Can anyone share the vision models they might be using and how they might be tuning them?
That sounds like the old trick of pulling out a pen and paper and saying "I'm going to record this, okay?" with a tape recorder in your briefcase.

Are they informed that their personal medical information will be shared with an unknown set of third parties / LLMs subject to manual QA / cloud services with telemetry?

Honestly sounds like she's opening herself up to massive lawsuits (depending on State law). I would reach out to the legal department if any doctor pulled this kind of shit on me.
The place I used to work at had a "architect" who would for any question to a decision he made would refer to whatever it was as a "best practice."

Was often quite wrong and always infuriating.