skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The AI initiative makes no sense. Currently, dozens of industry leading groups are doing a great job converting unlimited Chinese govt grants, monopoly rents, and VC money into open infrastructure and open weights

Open weights yes, but what about the applications that people actually use? "AI" goes far beyond a LLM hooked up to a chat UI.

>Targeted advertising is fundamentally unethical, regardless of whether it respects privacy. Examples: [...]

I don't see how listing a bunch of worst case examples is is supposed to prove the claim that "Targeted advertising is fundamentally unethical". Contextual advertising is "targeted advertising", but I don't see what's unethical about putting software developer job ads next to stackoverflow, for instance.

>Anyway, I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff (Rust made sense, I think FirefoxOS did too), and abandon the rest of their “mission”.

How is firefox going to get revenue?
You don't remember

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine the_file

off the top of your head? What do you mean the command line is obtuse and hard to use?
> My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started.

"I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago" XD
This could be interesting if it were a study, but it’s just an thinly disguised ad for your consultancy.
> It's nearly 20 years since The Atlantic magazine ran a cover feature that asked "Is Google making us stupid?"

I'll have to dig that up now lol
It absolutely is not. The article says no such thing and you show yourself as an untrustworthy participant in this discussion.
No librewolf for android. Any suggestions O wise ones?
I still can't access blast. Am I supposed to put `130.14.29.110` into my web browser?
Wait? We’re anlready there…

All the new HOV lanes around DC are public-private partnerships with flex tolls that are paid by the mile. And have revenue protection for the private entity built in.
The common adage is “When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression”.
Similarly, the dfplayer mini is fine if you want some sound to scream back at you. Works on button press, but also rx/TX for track management from micro SD card. Small amplifier built in.

I built motion activated playback speakers - good for hiding them in the bushes on halloween.
Any reason why this is on the front page today? Is there some context for why this is interesting now?
I was at Google during their initial “return to office” mandate.

During the TGIF (company all hands) discussing this, the architect of the policy, someone high up in the HR org, explained why it was necessary.

I don’t recall what they said, but I do recall that they happened to be working remotely at the time, after the policy against remote work had already gone into effect.

The brazenness of lecturing us on why remote work was harmful to Google while working remotely was shocking. Predictably, the internal anger over this was enormous.

Rules for thee but not for me, some animals are more equal than others, etc.
Reduction of scope is required to decrease cost and waste. Unfortunately, reducing scope and regulation is a legislative problem, not an executive one.

Having an government organization underfunded and understaffed to fulfill its mission leads to more waste, both on the public and private side.

For example, the solution isnt to fire employees, it is to simplify the tax code.
It's not only about big thingys. It's any small difference in behavior where some developer tests only on the browser with 90% usage* and ignores the small niche of Firefox users, leaving them accidentally with a broken site. Some CSS property, some JS API whatever.

*) The stats are somewhat wrong, I guess there are more Firefox users with different privacy blockers than Chrome, thus hiding from Google analytics and similar, which people use for stats in higher percentage
They aren't pushing it because they want to get back to the office or even dont understand the impacts. They're pushing it because they want more control over and accountability from their employees. Some even want a percentage of the employees to quit.
Someone needs to dismantle the system that clings onto a standard that requires $^6+/mo to implement. This is much more realistic than playing chase me game with someone who makes the rules.

They managed to convince everyone that a browser is naturally a hypercomplex app which requires so much maintenance, support and whatever. But in fact, a browser is an app mostly for rendering text, images and videos, and an embedded scripting language, which all wastes lots of memory and crawls on moderate loads. You can make an app like this in a month, solo, you just can’t fit it to the standard. Before web was a thing, people regularly made much more complex software that “web” heavily sucked compared to. This has to be done. No $200M/mo org can exist without naturally destructive interests in it. The lesson should be recognized, learned and never “feature update”d again. We learned everything we needed in these 30+ years, time to rip it out of corp hands, revisit, settle and put it into maintenance.

Add: to be clear, this is not a tech problem. It must be recognized and done at the antimonopoly level, crushed by the law.
He’s just a kvetcher. I wish that kind of content didn’t do so well on YouTube/reddit - he’s rewarded handsomely for being like this, so he has no incentive to change.
Not sure what the purpose is here - it reads more like a soft flex than anything else. We all know "why" RTO gets pushed - and it's not just that executives are living royal lives while the peasants are expected to stress over traffic while their kids wait abandoned at some public school. If anything, thinking that RTO is just about being disconnected highlights how disconnected the author actually is - because it is far more often the case that RTO is driven by tax incentives, rent incentives, and occupant use agreements than just some petty executive saying "let them commute!".
This report from the CBO is more balanced and accounts for the variables you mentioned (and more). [0]

"Compared with private-sector workers, federal workers tend to be older, more educated, and more concentrated in professional occupations. To account for those differences, the Congressional Budget Office limited its comparisons to employees with a set of similar observable characteristics—education, occupation, years of work experience, geographic location, size of employer, veteran status, and certain demographic characteristics (sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, immigration status, and citizenship)—in this report"

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235
Yes but Steve Jobs also understood the paradox of choice, and the importance of having incredibly clear delineation between every different product in your line.
at least there is now a new word for "script kiddy".
Sorry to be blunt, but if you created this site by asking a model to do everything, what should we be impressed by?

The definition given for "vibe coding" is obviously generated, and very much at odds with Karpathy's own description, which includes bits like:

"The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while."

"Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing."

"...it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works."

Doesn't sound so much like a seamless fusion.

Anyone actually interested in growing as a developer should run screaming from anyone who promises that you can level up by substituting actual expertise for a model that will gladly give you bug-riddled code you don't understand and can't fix on your own.
I think CSS gets all the flack it gets unfairly because people often run into it as a byproduct of other work they do. Whereas these developers probably aren’t running into
windows/macos/ios/android app development.
I don’t think you’re interpreting the article’s wording correctly.
Show HN: Gitingest – A Ruby gem to turn any Git repo into a simple text digest
I wonder if most of this talk for CEO’s is external using their own anxieties. Sergei Brin talking about 60 hour weeks, Mark Zuckerberg going extremely hardcore at Facebook.

They’re sort of trying to drive fear into their software engineers to work harder, but why?

Partially they probably really are worried that if individuals can 10x their productivity they can run circles around these old companies. Mark has to be worried about the coming explosion in content. If that content is not on Facebook, he’s screwed. Google has been faltering for a while, but I have to imagine in ways that won’t be fixed by everyone just working harder,

And yet that seems to be the only lever they think they have?

But then, this guy also owns a GenAI company so he’s not exactly unbiased.
Maybe those goats don't do ICMP?
"Cursor developers", sure. The joke has gone too far

Not even Java devs lacked that much agency to call themselves "Eclipse devs"

Nobody will know wtf a "cursor developer" means in 6 months

Not blaming anyone for following the hype and trying to make a buck out of it of course
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612
For the rest of us using free tiers ChatGPT is hands down the winner allowing limited image generation, unlimited usage of some model and limited usage of 4o.

Claude is still stuck at 10 messages per day and gemini is less accurate/useful.
Any non bold role models?
>Old school dogmatic Marxists see the state as nothing more than the coordinating arm of capitalism, or a "relief valve" for it, and Lenin spoke openly about its complete destruction in State And Revolution.

And yet every single time Communists (Lenin included) have gotten into power...
Advice for Prompting Reasoning Models
That’s a good one and that should be a case study: https://www.forbes.com/2003/02/03/cx_ah_0203space.html

Privatization was well under way, but the incumbents were (and still are) awful.

NASA later took a risk with SpaceX, fostered competition, and it paid off enormously.

But this worked out because there was a market and demand (private sector satellites).
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/china-tells-its-ai-lea...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1A1EdF
Does it support ActivityPub? Bookwyrm does. That seems to me to be a basic requirement for a social network at this point.
The main problem with Chrome is that anything you do in it goes into Google’s surveillance network (or at least you can’t prove that it doesn’t). If some sites require Chrome, we can use Chrome just for those sites (and vote with our feet, not very many websites are really necessary). A web browser sitting on the disk not running most of the time probably isn’t a huge problem.

A lot of the internet doesn’t even need JavaScript enabled. I think we over-state the compatibility nightmare. I mean it depends on your use patterns of course…
He's not a sincere person to talk to, don't waste your time.
> The last mile might be monopolized, but you are oversimplifying it. When implemented well, there are markets for generation, transmission, distribution, and retail, implying alternatives and resiliency.

First you claim oversimplification and then you write a sentence that feels like a "but when implemented well".

Tell me how this is a market in a reasonably sized city, and how many parallel electric lines, water and sewer pipes you can run for the market to be well implemented?

Bonus question: how many competing power lines can be run from a single power plant? 1? 2? 10?
Your last point is the biggest driver - it is also why the rules are arbitrarily enforced.
That is a common take, but it ignores that you need competent people and processes for that to work. But the reality is that you get lots and lots of office politics.

It is incredibly hard to understand what people are doing, and how that works out in a complex organization!

The effort and likelihood of reasonable success is a precondition for your argument.

I have been in a lot of companies, and I have seen soooo much useless busy work. Including my own well-paid IT consultant job, not infrequently.

Employees and managers on all levels try very hard to justify their existence. When they are under-employed they may also start looking for new projects themselves, which the next level of management is okay with because it appears that they are doing something useful, and they don't have to deal with that problem.

Overall, I will claim that your argument is far too simplistic and ignores the complexity of humans and their organizations.
I've got a Pico 2 (2035) playing mono 22kHz MP3 using built-in 12-bit PWM, sounds pretty good. This would probably work on the 2040. However, as this is C code I'm not sure if this ports to MicroPython easily.
The request was at best a bad joke, and I think you know that too.

If the real purpose, as Musk later stated, was to see who would respond and who would not, with no consideration of content, why deceive? Be direct: "This is a test of government employee email deliverability and responsiveness. Please reply to this email when you receive it. An empty reply is fine, you do not need to put anything in the email."

If you want to know what people are working on, you work with the management chains because those are the people whose job it is to know what their people are working on. You take your time to dig into the data, talk to people at all levels, understand the structure and the work. This request, in the way and fashion it was made, shows an incredible lack of disrespect, distrust, and disregard for federal employees across the board. If I were a government employee and received that mail, I would be unable to avoid expressing my own disrespect and distrust in my reply.

These emails sets up a self-fulfilling prophecy where government fails to serve the people. Some people leave public service. Others stay but are disillusioned and checked out because they know their actual job performance no longer matters, the whims of a billionaire who voted with his wallet to make himself co-president can destroy their livelihood at any moment. Over time, you have people who are unable to leave and thus will do what they're told out of fear, and unqualified loyalists who just do what they're told.
Isn't this the "New York keeping it real" 'tude they are so proud of?

Not being flippant, I'm serious. That's what I've heard.

In peesonal experience, I found New Yorkers to be far friendlier than 99% of Bay Area baristas, so there's that.
Mull has been officially discontinued by DivestOS back in December, along with most of their other projects. A fork by the name IronFox emerged but it's too new to know whether it's a real contender.
Do they use it for the window surfaces? AFAIK Chromium is the only one that does that.
Firefox. [1]

Note that Google does want the rights to things you do using Chrome now, too.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&query=firefox
I mean 18F was essentially "hey you earn ~infinite money selling ads to people. Whenever you grow bored come here, you'll have the same kind of colleagues but get to work making this country work better". So yeah.. they recruited from Silicon Valley and they didn't pull the low achievers
We had an RTO mandate in the last year. Amongst our top 10 compensated employees, at least half were out of the office for the last three months (we go in one week per month). I tried not to freak out and catastrophize whent he rto mandate was first communicated. But the double standard has left me feeling deeply unsettled and bitter. And I just know one exec who has been on leave for months is going to roll back in and complain that his pet projects aren't coming along like he told the board they already had. He is oversees over half the technical folks and has very little technical skills of his own. I might bring champagne to work the day after he leaves.
i've been using floorp for about a year with no issues other than the rare "chrome only" pages, for those I just use vivaldi. Floorp with sideberry and ublock is a pretty nice setup.
It has never been easier to build web applications with a vanilla stack.

In 2010 there existed incredibly solid arguments for abstraction over the DOM. You had browsers with insane quirks and you had no choice but to support them. Over a decade and a half later, I'd argue we are in a completely different world. The only browser that bites my hand these days is Safari, and it's barely a nibble compared to what we used to deal with.

Those who adapt to the new reality will likely outpace those who continue to hobble themselves with rusty old training wheels.
> So I'll reframe the question in a more libertarian way: if women are better at getting entry level corporate jobs and education-focused career paths (doctors, lawyers), is that something we should fix?

Yes. Why not?
They exist IRL, I’d say more than 1/3rd of men are in the Incel/NEET category.

They just are often isolated and rarely do social activities outside of video game.

This “war” is more of a disengagement and ennui where nobody participates except for discourse.
> Those impacted in the wee hours of Saturday morning also received emails late Friday from DOGE with the subject line, “What did you do last week? Part II.”

They were asked first last last week. And then again on Friday.

——

> According to Politico, the emails — prompting employees to list their weekly accomplishments by Monday — were widely distributed across multiple agencies, including the State Department, the IRS, and the NIH.

I’m not making this shit up…
> I recommend reading this paper about the differences in Administrative Procedure legislation (which includes federal employment rules and norms) in Germany versus the US [0]

No, administrative procedure law (US APA, German VwVfG) is not the primary legal regime for government employees, they are governed by civil service law (e.g. the Bundesbeamtengesetz in Germany, Title 5 of the United States Code).

> In general, I think online Europeans need to stop comparing the US to their countries. The causes for our dysfunctions are different, and our entire legal, constitutional, and political traditions are VERY different because of a 300-500 year split.

The common law tradition, followed by the US and Canada, originates in Europe (England); among EU member states, Ireland’s legal system is completely based on common law, while Malta has a mixed legal system which combines Roman/French and English legal traditions. Such a mix is not unique to Malta, you can find a similar mix in Louisiana, Quebec, Scotland. Cyprus’ legal system is heavily based on English common law, but also with Ottoman and French influences (the French influence comes via Greece, since modern Greek law was modelled off France)

In terms of political systems, Canada and Germany have a lot in common, both being parliamentary federations - yes one is a constitutional republic the other a monarchy, but that makes little difference in practice. The presidential system used in the US, while common in Latin America, is basically unheard of in Europe; although, the semipresidential system used in France can be viewed as a hybrid between an American-style presidential system and the parliamentary system which is the European norm

So I think North Americans and Europeans have more in common in terms of political and legal traditions than you acknowledge
I don’t know how this is in more established languages, but in my experience there is a big problem in conflating versions.

In Elixir, I constantly get code with API calls that conflate different versions. As amazed as I can be in some contexts, with fast moving libraries I get nowhere fast.

I’ve been wanting to try vibes based coding, but can hardly get off the ground.
> Unfortunately, reducing scope and regulation is a legislative problem, not an executive one.

Exactly!
I wrote a super simple script for redeploying Docker-compose files to servers
DOGE is not equal to Elon
> I mean the easy libertarian response to this would be I imagine them saying "well, she was force to pay into it, she would have a right to partake of it" and they're not wrong.

Which, perhaps ironically, shows that welfare works as intended, even for morons that want to see it dismantled.
We sure can choose that world. Not individually, but as a people.
CSS is one of those things you can become very effective with, without knowing it all. I really don’t think you need to know it all.

I also think it has a lot of tools you don’t always need. Don’t go crazy with selectors!
Google 2.0 where you have to check every answer it gives you because it's authoritative about nothing.

Works great when the output is small enough to unit test or immediately try in situations with no possible negative outcomes.

Anything larger? Skip the LLM slop and go to the source. You have to go to the source, anyway.
Can you elaborate on the tax/rent incentives, as it's not obvious what those are.
Consultants are now grifting the AI grifters that love "vibe coding".

So that's what it has gotten to.
How much do executives at similarly sized organizations make? Moreover, if you want to cut executive salaries, how do you avoid the "pay peanuts, get monkeys" problem? Mozilla has nearly 1.5B in assets. A cheaper CEO might save you a few million, but cause far more than that in damage to the organization.
It has become imperative, if anyone wants to seriously critique Land, that they gain a strong familiarity with the work of Immanuel Kant. Land's reading of Kant is perhaps the most interesting, and certainly the most politically crucial, of our generation. Start with the Critique of Pure Reason.

I don't think Curtis Yarvin is as complex or interesting as Land anyway. Unless someone can share an article of his that comes remotely close to the brilliance of Land's work.
My kid asked me if I'd ever heard of Andrew Tate back before I had. He informed me that Tate was this "piece of shit online guy" who says awful things about women. Do my kid and his friends who agree with him deserve to get bad jobs?

I want good things for all my kids, regardless of their gender.
I'll just hop in and say I enjoy putting outfits togther, it's fun, it's creative. I don't think of myself as vain, it's more like interior design, it's fun to put things togther that I find pleasent to look at.
not if you like features of firefox like sync, containers, sideberry, manifest v2 (ublock origin), etc.
Thanks for the comment and nice words! The encryption bit is still something I am yet to get into since I have not decided on how to go about that yet! It seems Tailscale uses the WireGuard protocol, I could probably look into how they are doing that and get some ideas from there :)
> Govt is just peoples

Which is the original definition of the "Deep state" until it was hijacked by conspiracy theorists and Republicans who do bad shit.
Shouldn’t a parent be a role model of their own
Who are DOGE to order DoD and DoJ employees to write this letter?
The evolution described is a necessary progression. I have worked for a company that resisted their progression and it showed. Very sloppy when a large org has all the resources to build quality software but still opts for speed
You'll want to price out handling when the domain expert's code breaks, and the exponentially increasing inference costs as the code grows.
“Disconnected” feels like “has no empathy”.

Is it really so hard to imagine the struggles of someone who doesn’t have any of the benefits listed in the post?

Just sitting down and doing a quick calculation would immediately reveal time allocation dilemmas of prioritizing “return to office” for someone who doesn’t have the benefits.

Time is universally valuable! But even more so for someone who … has significantly less of it because they can’t hire legions of staff to manage their lives?

“What if I didn’t have this? How would that make me feel?” Pretty depressing. Empathy can’t run the business — but surely it is correlated with strong team cohesion and performance?
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