skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a workflow automation solution for Gov. processes at the core, here you can see an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaJZ13A0UQ
Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universe
Most developed countries on earth have an income tax. Do you think they're all part of the same elite deception scam?
But 18f? They've been one of the most visible streamliners of government bureaucracy we've seen.
Unless you boycott Israel in some places :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
Yeah surveillance never works, at least not in the long term. Either people like what they work on or they don't, and adding a layer of corporate hypocrisy, where you need to pretend to be excited about every single tiny change, does not help.

Some products are just boring and I can't fathom how some people get excited about it. The cynic in me tells me everyone is faking it, and that is soul crushing to think about. The alternative is that some people are that boring and have nothing else in their lives going on so they look forward to adding yet another button or boring feature for the Nth time.
I would have loved to come work for imec but the only immediate internship budget they had was a studentship with accompanying stipend and visa. They told me it would have taken too long to sort out the employee route.
at least she won't tell him computers are the devil
These?

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This is a very one-sided take, you should ask people on the street of any Russian city what they think of Gorbachev and his policies. I agree with GP with one exception: Gorbachev probably thought he was doing good things for his nation and the actual consequences were unintentional. Probably less so in this case, but I have no desire to tell Americans how to operate their country, so pay no attention to me.
Nothing a plugin or two couldn't fix.
As a fan of the game, I just built it and got it working for myself. It's really impressive and is running great on my machine. I realize (with dread) that the game is about 17 years old now, but I eagerly awaited it release back in the day, and it was one of first games that I still think of as "modern". Rewatching the opening movie, I'm not sure you could easily distinguish it from a modern CGI cutscene.
> salary comparison was valid pre-Trump

Is it not valid now?
I assume the implication is that they'll build AI capable of automated drone surveillance.

Which is silly, because other Chinese companies have already done that, and America is pioneering it (cf Anduril)
As good as AH is, and it is, it's still got some grave issues.

I'd bailed after links to LibGen / SciHub were getting my comments moderated.

Which incidentally points at a problem with moderation: no matter how well-intended, or overall effective, people take issue with their contributions being penalised and removed, especially if they sense unfairness. (Also, especially, if there's a social- or political-group bias detected, again, regardless of merits, but that be 'nother can of worms.)

I'm left with David Weinberger's observation: "Conversation doesn't scale".

<https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>
If you frame any kind of agreement as a "deal" you are obviously right. However, a treaty is not a contract in the sense of civil law, it is not an agreement about you doing X is compensation for me doing Y. It's not tit-for-tat. It is a promise to keep and hold up a certain pledge, ie. you get in trouble, I help you. I get in trouble, you help me. If it weren't, some nations would be preparing charges against the USA for breach of contract right now and I think we can agree that's not what is happening.

Furthermore, your argument that one partner in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ie. the USA, is shouldering all of the work falls flat, because the only member of the NATO ever invoking the pact defense clause, ie. article 5, was the USA and ALL OTHER members responded by honoring the treaty, ie. supporting the USA to the best of their abilities in invading Afghanistan and maintaining an occupation force for 21 years. Even if you think not much of the abilities of US' NATO allies, most of the time the effort of the other NATO members at least matched the US effort. The USA couldn't have done it all by itself, just consider the range of transport vehicles. I can't change if you think that's nothing, but that's on you.
I'm neurodivergent and working at a small company lead to me being the CTO and forcing myself to understand (and operate successfully with in) the social and political aspects of business for the first time.
How's your social credit score?
Fascism isn’t defined by the size of the government. This is a weak argument that only works in a vacuum.
It didn't suck. BlackBerry had native API support for Air. You could easily port a Flash game using Air and integrate any native APIs you needed. We gave phones and tablets away to any developer who did this. It worked in the browser natively too without the need to install an extension.

But fuck Adobe because they didn't give BlackBerry the latest runtime.

Adobe killed Flash when they bought Macromedia.
That would be my guess too.

But as I read scientific paper regularly, I can't ignore how vast majority of the author names (well at least in STEM, ML/Robotics, latter is my interest) are Chinese. I don't think those young talents would mind moving to China, especially when anti-asian sentiment have been on the rise since Covid. But since many renown European universities/research center also have those bright young Chinese mind, I guess the Chinese in US can also just move to the more friendly part of Europe (Switzerland etc).

There's also HK, where you can get by with English just fine. And they're making new research centers as we speak. (although my HK friends tell me it is getting more Mainland Chinese day by day and expats are leaving).
Even the best vaccines aren’t 100% effective, and many lose potency after a number of years. Tetanus being one that should be re-upped about every decade, for instance.

They often work in stamping out things (and ensuring that particularly vulnerable groups like those too young to vaccinate, or with weakened immune systems like the old) by reducing the spread enough that outbreaks die out one their own.

Think of it like setting population ‘backfires’ so there isn’t enough fuel for it to turn into a spreading fire.

If large portions of the population don’t immunize, it will get enough momentum that it can cause real damage - even for many people with prior immunizations.
It is far more likely that the obesity crisis is a combination of a lack of healthy food culture combine with industrial revolution of mass produced food capacity. Since you don't want to drop your industrial capability, the only other option is to change societal food culture and their relationship to food. Or just take drugs. That works too
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168589
Not anymore no, the research environment is even more important than the salary itself.
i once worked for a startup that called me a monkey sadly that was the last time i did python

how did you switch if you don't mind me asking? if someone is very unsocial has no network is it doable
A lot of it is small-scale lobbying, so not much to follow :)

If you want to support some of the efforts I'm pushing hard for, check out EU Inc: https://www.eu-inc.org/

Many entrepreneurs here know what the advantages are in the US compared to EU when it comes to startups etc and understand what needs to change. There's real willingness to get it done and the trump election has been fast-forwarding through so many of the steps, giving the EU the kick it needed to wake up.

All the momentum is there, now. I'm feeling super optimistic about Europe. But the recession will be hard to weather.
What a cynical view. You can switch jobs! Nothing is going to force you to work on surveillance software! I spent nearly a decade working on Salesforce. It’s not even on my resume and you couldn’t pay me to do it!
This hits very close to home and I'm very glad to see I am (and you are) not alone. Thank you for writing it.

I'm currently in the process of leaving my "big tech" job. While I won't name my company, it is somewhat similar in some ways -- though ethics isn't my primary reason.

> I’ve decided that in the shitty job market, it’s not worth being a software engineer even if I make much less.

is a thought that has run through my head countless times over the past year, and when I finally gave my notice

>she kept telling me how “lucky” I am for working at Microsoft saying “it’s big tech” and “you’re neurodivergent” and “you won’t survive at a smaller company.”

was the loudest thing I heard, over and over again.

Best of luck with Fourplex.
Ok cool, let me know how you plan to do that.
> More importantly for the future success of Linux was that the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.

I'm glad that's finally settled. :)

Great read!
Flash was one of the best new technologies of the digital age, allowing nearly effortless creativity with easy tools and low-bandwidth, reliable delivery. It was glorious.

It was overused, terribly, and often used for questionable purposes (e.g., rendering a static website, or the dreaded SIFR). But it was like MySpace in how well and quickly it democratized creativity on the web, except it also afforded motion and games and video. Flash was great.

Adobe is awful, though. I’m not sure if Flash is the most useful thing they’ve killed outright, but it might be. I almost wish I could believe it was intentional, that they bought it to kill it. I really do think it was pure greed and stupidity, though. Most of what Adobe has done in the last 20 years is rent-seeking.

Imagine if they’d been a good steward of the tech, made it stable and performant on low-power devices. Yeah, Steve Jobs put the final nail in the coffin. Adobe administered the poison and tailored the funeral suit. Screw Adobe.
Already did that. Studied climate change, volunteered and served as an officer in the local Democratic Party for years. Did lots of precinct walking, wrote postcards, helped fundraisers, organized protests. Things have only ever gotten worse, and we’re barreling towards +6°C by 2100.

Honestly if people actually voted for Trump after the last time, how could they ever be convinced to change? Maybe we deserve what we get.
I don't know you, but it sounds like you have principles you stand for and that's rare. If you have a talent for something that can do good in the world it's worth pursuing. I'd take a break and find a place that aligns with your values. Best of luck.
Access to training hardware. Both in terms of the money involved but also the availability of suitable devices.
They were on Japan and plenty of people pushed for a preemptive strike on the USSR.

"John von Neumann" was a very famous and influential person defending just that.
Yup, that’s what I thought.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
It's really interesting how Macromedia Flash software unlocked insane creative potential in so so many people in domains of animation and games. I think nothing ever before or after managed to do anything even remotely similar.
Check out the companies they fund, instead. Those will have an easier time hiring you. And then there are paths to working directly with Imec.
But if it pays the bills such that your kids can eat for another day and that your family have a roof over their heads, wouldn't it be worth it?

I don't see any other FAANG level jobs that do not do surveillance in some way or are 100% ethical, as the author wants.

He said it himself, it is a "shitty job market" so surely not everyone in the job market will be paying over 6 figures and be 100% ethical with no surveillance.

Sure, you can build your own startup without surveillance and that is fine, but the compromise is a pay cut and if you have family, rent and children, it would be hard to explain to them why you left your 6 figure job, because "privacy" and "the woes of surveillance capitalism".
It's their loss, literally. USA have ton of oil reserves.

I'm surprised that Norway, a "progressive" country with a huge welfare state, is only known for their oil extraction as wealth generation.

If they don't diversify their economy, they might face the same problem as Venezuela.
“Foreign Minister Lavrov and
other senior officials have reiterated strong opposition,
stressing that Russia would view further eastward expansion as a potential military threat.”

22 Jan 2008

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

Despite Russia sharing its redlines with the West in 2008 NATO continued to expand its sphere of influence into Ukraine including backing the coup in 2014.

So yeah, it’s unsurprising that Russia escalated each step of the way as well.

I’m not arguing Russia is right, I’m arguing a war was an obvious outcome.

Russia has already paid a price in the war and clearly it seeks some sort of solution.
If renting is illegal, moving without a buyer should be illegal. Wanna go land that cool new job in SV? Before you give them a start date you better find a buyer for your flat. Otherwise you're stuck. It's illegal to make someone else foot the bill when you decide to go somewhere else.
If power is not more or less evenly distributed then only the strongest really have rights.
Ask HN: Concerns around knowledge loss from vibe coding?
I’ve been spending the day playing with Claude 3.7 trying the vibe coding approach and I’ve been able to build some complex audio synthesis one off applications.

I have no understanding how any of it works. That sparked a lot of fear in me, not so much of job loss but knowledge loss.

As these models improve I’m worried we are going to build larger systems we do not understand. It’s hard enough as it is to read code written by humans, but I worry this will be exacerbated by these ever improving models.
And you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them".

(highly relevant @dril quotes, for those out of the loop)
Where is it wrong, though? Here are a few pointers:

Ukraine was Victoria Nuland's project. Her CIA had a huge hand in the protests against Yanakovich (who was, in turn, an asset of Putin's GRU), and she personally had a hand in negotiating with Yanakovich on behalf of the protestors. You should read about the events in Ukraine in 2014. That overthrow led to the retaliatory capture of Crimea, where the US and EU apparently did not learn their lesson about how much of a madman Putin is.

As for the Biden Ukraine connection, I'm sure Hunter Biden is just secretly very talented at managing oil companies, which is why he was put on the board of Burisma in 2014, after Nuland's little coup. I believe the "10% for the big guy" quote was in reference to this deal, too.

As for this being an existential threat to Europe, I'm not even sure you need to be given the facts about having a madman like Putin edging closer to your borders, while also depending on him for energy.

Finally, on supporting your puppet governments: it's basic game theory that you should do this. Otherwise all the other ones (see much of Latin America) get overthrown.
Sounds like a very strong incentive for us to find a way to leave the planet and settle elsewhere.
The point of the original YHIW, and in this context, is that providing specific guidance is more useful than the vague victim-blaming criticism.

I have experimented with prompts, and in fact the case in point was one of those experiments. The highly non-deterministic and time-variable nature of LLM AIs makes any kind of prompt engineering at best a black art.

If you'd at least offer a starting point there'd be some basis to assessing the positive information we're discussing here, rather than do multiple rounds on why victim-blaming is generally unhelpful. And if those starting points are as easy to surface as you're suggesting, that would be a low ask on you.
I challenge you to rewrite this so that you're making a strong, optimistic argument for surveillance from your perspective, instead of shitting on a young person for trying to navigate a path through legitimately complex tradeoffs.

The onus is on you to make a thought-provoking case, not for them to convince you that their internal ethical alarm bells are reasonable.
I agree with everything you've written, and I think your thoughts about Ozempic are spot on.

In the US, though, I don't mean to be super pessimistic but the problems are now so ingrained that I don't really see them improving for at least several generations. Stuff like:

1. Basically everywhere except for a few notable cities are organized around the car. Even if you wanted to walk places in a lot of towns it's near impossible or dangerous due to the road architecture. Fixing this now that it's built is an enormous challenge. I'll be long dead and gone before even a dent is made in it.

2. For decades we've been going in the wrong direction, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I'm often shocked and saddened by how, well, "thick" high schoolers are these days. Like when I was a kid, there were certainly "fat kids", but it really wasn't that common. And we had a joke that when people went to college they would gain the "freshman 15" due to the all-you-can-eat dining hall plans. To me it looks like the freshman 15 now starts for high school freshman. And while I don't have kids, I've also heard others say how childhood has drastically changed since I was a kid. So much "hanging out", which used to be a physical activity, is now just done on phones. Except for organized sports, kids these days get much less "ad hoc" physical activity. High school is usually the thinnest/most fit a lot of people will be in their lives, and so I think we've condemned a ton of kids to a lifetime of obesity and health problems.

I'm all for changing our structural issues, but I'll take an imperfect solution now over something I don't think will come to pass for decades.
Scaffolding: https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/concepts/scaffolding

Routes: https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/basics/routing

Views: https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/views-and-templates/edgejs

Tests: https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/testing/introduction

Etc: https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/digging-deeper/
> and those locks can be shared between processes. That primitive frequently gets used even for waiting on a single lock confined within a single process

And why not use a cheap primitive and if a lock is detected to be shared between multiple processes then upgrade it to the "expensive emulation"?
Oh I didn't know about xDrip; that sounds really cool. Will give it a try. Thank you!
The end goal is something capable of human-level intelligence in most, if not all, fields, and from there, it's not that difficult to continue scaling it up across speed / scale (and perhaps intelligence.)

See Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

It doesn't take much imagination to think about how this could end poorly if it goes wrong or is controlled by the wrong party.
That should be easy to build. In 2002 I built harmonia-mode, which did that for the harmonia research project that inspired tree-sitter. It did that.
An amazing reform that could be achieved is changing to ranked choice voting from the current first-past-the-post. It'll reduce the incentive for politicians to be radical to stand out, and reassures voters that they won't 'waste their vote' if they put an alternative candidate first.
Cross compilation to native code from flash runtime was absolutely possible, and absolutely never considered by Apple ;)
Also worth a read: Just for Fun

https://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutiona...
They said they worked on indexing and caching.
Funny, I’m literally seeing the opposite. Had two people move from the EU last year due to free speech concerns.
Concerned about having to deal with repairing this shit for the rest of my life .. thank you boomers
It's a not a nonstarter. It's just somehow become that "no evidence for" has become synonymous with that.
I’d never heard of viva insights. Looked it up. Do people actually use this stuff? Who? Why? It looks like something middle management would use to generate a few plots in order to justify their useless jobs. I’d run from any employer that seriously bought into something like this.
Yeah that's the old, old days, and it certainly was the case of Macromedia being a smaller company back then, limited resources etc.
Isn't it self evident that this person has principles if they have left their job over it?

Does Visa Insights save lives?
> It didn't suck.

We're talking about a viewer for Flash web content, though, not freshly authored applications.

As point for reference: there was a Flash plugin for Android, for a short while (around 2011-2012). It was awful - not only did a lot of Flash content just not work at all (because it required mouse/keyboard style input), but any content that'd run at all would typically run very poorly on even high-end phones.
> The previous administration is widely regarded to have engaged in lawfare

No, it wasn’t. That was claimed by a specific subset of people who wanted to evade consequences for the crimes they committed, but that wasn’t backed up by even a cursory review of the facts.

You can see a similar example with claims that Eric Adams suffered from “lawfare”, which might be an effective political tactic but are clearly contradicted by the evidence against him. Lots of criminals claim they’re innocent but that doesn’t mean they’re right.
This is the case for non-neurodivergent people too. Large companies these days are, largely, an exercise in corporate politics rather than solving technical problems.
> And despite all the discussions, I still cannot remember (or find) that dependence from Russia was even in the top-5 of arguments from either side

The Nord Stream pipeline was completed in 2011, the same year Merkel decided to accelerate the phase out of nuclear. The US had repeatedly warned against constructing the pipeline because of energy dependence on Russia.

Everyone knew that apart from coal Germany has no energy resources. Given that it wouldn't be possible to meet climate goals with coal the energy would need to come from either the newly constructed pipeline or renewables.

That the newly created energy dependence would give power to dictatorships may not have been at the forefront of the public's mind. But treating it as something unknowable without hindsight lets the politicians who caused this travesty off too easy. If Merkel had been honest to the public about the potential consequences of her decision, perhaps it would've been a part of the debate.
I still have not found a development platform that's more fun to develop in than Flash.

When I was a teenager, it was almost magic; I could draw a little cartoon, convert it to a movie clip, and export it to code; the fact that Flash was an animation-first program meant that it was really fun to draw with, and its integration with code made it so much more fun.

Now, part of the reason I have such rose-tinted glasses is because I was a teenager while using it, but still, I just don't think anything has had the fun "prosumer" feeling that Flash did. It didn't feel like it was just a "toy", but it also did kind of feel like a toy.

There are some more modern things that are cool, don't get me wrong: Pico-8 is pretty fun, and even more professional things like GDevelop or GameMaker can be fun as well. It just doesn't quite reach to the level that Flash did.

I do understood why the platform died, but I am also kind of sad that it did.
at some point the oil will run out it is a finite resource let them go crazy in the last 75 years

EVs and all that stuff were nothing more than a toy to play the charged up games the barons / slavers play