skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At some point there might be massive layoffs due to ostensibly competent AI labor coming onto the scene, perhaps because OpenAI will start heavily propagandizing that these mass layoffs must happen. It will be an overreaction/mistake. The companies that act on that will crash and burn, and will be outcompeted by companies that didn't do the stupid.

(IMO) Apart from programmer assistance (which is already happening), AI agents will find the most use in secretarial, ghostwriting and customer support roles, which generally have a large labor surplus and won't immediately "crash and burn" companies even if there are failures. Perhaps if it's a new startup or a small, unstable business on shaky grounds this could become a "last straw" kind of a factor, but for traditional corporations with good leeway I don't think just a few mistakes about AI deployment can do too much harm. The potential benefits, on the other hand, far outmatch the risk taken.
Like Jan 6?
I was hoping you could just provide an iterator_traits with a uint8_t difference type, but this is tied to the iterator type rather than specified separately, so you'd need some kind of iterator wrapper to do this.
Oh, no, you’re 100% right. One of these days I will pen my essay on the realities of outsourced labor.

Spoiler alert: they are giving just barely enough to not get prematurely fired, because they know if you’re cheap enough to outsource in the first place, you’ll give the contract to whoever is cheapest at renewal anyway.
Relevant (Archive footage of Elon on Mars when someone in your district tweets something he doesn't like):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lT-Sn-HqE
“for SpaceX and its rivals” is the key quote. Don’t leave off the latter half. This is about opening up spectrum for ALL to use instead of a government granted monopoly to a single service provider.
Yep we’re here. I think lots of us who don’t often post
Debts, Tech and Otherwise
> But I am personally just so so grateful the timeline lined up for me.

I know the feeling. We still have access to the engineering thought processes responsible for some of the most amazing software feats ever accomplished (thru source repo history and mailing lists), just with access to the Internet. Of course there's a wealth of info available for free on the web for basically any profession, but for software engineering in particular it's almost direct access to world class teams/projects to learn from.

> but would be immediately turned off by this pervasive sense that "the way to do things now" is seemingly inseparable from a credit card number and monthly charge

To be effective you still need to understand and evaluate the quality of the output. There will always be a certain amount of time/effort required to get to that point (i.e., there's still no silver bullet).

> But I guess we don't need the passion anymore anyway, its all been vectorized!

We're not running out of things that can be improved. With or without these tools, the better you get, the more of the passion/energy that gets directed at higher levels of abstraction, i.e. thinking more about what to solve, tradeoffs in approaches, etc. instead of the minute details of specific solutions.
I thought that was just for unlocked bootloaders, I've never encountered issues having sideloading enabled.
I've used it only a few times - mostly for projects written from scratch (not existing codebases). And so far only with Claude Sonnet.

Twice I had a "production ready" throwaway script in under $2 (the first was under a dollar). Both involved some level of debugging. But I can't overstate how awesome it is to have a single use script be so polished (command line arguments, extensive logging, etc). If I didn't make it polished, it would probably have been $0.15.

Another one I wrote - I probably spent $5-8 total, because I actually had it do it 3 times from scratch. The first 2 times there were things I wasn't happy with, or the code got too littered with attempts to debug (and I was not using 3 branches). When I finally figured everything out, I started again for the third time and it was relatively quick to get something working.

Now if I did this daily, it's a tad expensive - $40-60/month. But I do this only once or twice a week - still cheaper than paying for Copilot. If I plan to use it more, I'd likely switch to DeepSeek. If you look at the LLM leaderboard (https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/), you'll see that R1 is not far behind Sonnet, and is a third of the cost.
If the current situation continues to unfold logically, it is inevitable that we may witness the secession of several states within our lifetime, to form a Federation of States. Hopefully California + Oregon + Washington State can secede and form the Western Federated States of America (WFSA).

The combined nominal GDP of California, Oregon, and Washington is approximately $4.1 trillion. If these three states were considered a single entity, their combined GDP would rank as the world’s fifth-largest economy.
> $30 is something like 30 minutes of work or less in a typical

Yeah, if by typical office you mean IT department in the US…
I'm Australian and I already don't trust the US to help us.

I've literally never thought that the US wouldn't help us before Trump came to shit on everything.

Now I imagine we'd have to buy Trump off with "raw earth" or something in exchange for not being abandoned to China, and our head of state would quite possibly be berated publicly for wanting some kind of security guarantee for his people's future.

It's sad, I still feel like the US and UK people are closest to our values, but Trump only works for himself and his billionaire crony parasites.

He will end up with the loyalty he has earned.

Everyone around Trump hates him, and the US is heading in the same direction.
>"The practice defies the belief in the software industry that software engineering demands great skill."

But actual software engineering does demand great skill. What "vibe coders" are doing isn't engineering. It's not even programming. It's like calling yourself a chef when you microwaved a frozen meal.
Actually, I’m not overcomplicating things—just overexplaining because you mentioned it might be a stupid question.

Your example is valid, and I acknowledged that it’s correct in my first reply. I also added that, in these types of keyboards, there could be special logic to compensate for missing keys or provide additional features for comfort or ergonomic reasons. This means the keys need to communicate with each other and send the final keystroke afterward.

I also noted that almost all keyboards are not entirely "dumb" and include at least a processing unit to scan the matrix—something you agreed they should have—as well as to handle USB or Bluetooth communication. This processing unit can easily be used for the reasons I mentioned above, without requiring extra hardware or additional software/drivers on the OS side. This approach offers a modular, OS-agnostic way to create a custom solution for comfort or ergonomic needs.
By 100+ I mean 100-300 lines. I think most people aren't churning out 100 lines of code per hour unless it involves boilerplate.

More importantly, the 100-300 lines was very low effort for me. That does have its downsides (skills atrophy).
I think that was the shortest Yegge rant I have ever read. I was expecting 2000 words or more. Is the endless rant dead as an art form?
There is no economic system that can accommodate a population that refuses to respond to prices. That said, I think your numbers are overly pessimistic.

The critical part to remember is that people dont have to do the math and do the budgetary calculus. If they cant afford the eggs, they cant buy them.
I'd like to recommend another protocol—ANP (AgentNetworkProtocol).

While similar to MCP, ANP is significantly different. ANP is specifically designed for agents, addressing communication issues encountered by intelligent agents. It enables identity authentication and collaboration between any two agents.

Key differences include:

ANP uses a P2P architecture, whereas MCP follows a client-server model.
ANP relies on W3C DID for decentralized identity authentication, while MCP utilizes OAuth.
ANP organizes information using Semantic Web and Linked Data principles, whereas MCP employs JSON-RPC.
MCP might excel at providing additional information and tools to models and connecting models to the existing web. In contrast, ANP is particularly effective for collaboration and communication between agents.

Here is a detailed comparison of ANP and MCP (including the GitHub repository):
https://github.com/agent-network-protocol/AgentNetworkProtoc...
Kinda cute. Just linking this somewhere so it will come up in Google.
>(I'll note much to my consternation, that 3m less people voted in 2024 vs 2020).

I wonder how much of that is due to the media and the polls claiming that Kamala had this in the bag? The same way that they claimed Hillary had it in the bag? This would cause people to stay home no?

Also there have been reports of accelerated efforts to disenfranchise voters by challenging their registration and not telling them until election day when they go to vote. A combination of these two things could have swung the election.
I live in a red state. My Trump voting friends here call Elon Trump's nazi boy and in a very derogatory way. A lot of people are assuming Nazi behavior is way more accepted by Trump voters than it actually is (or maybe we're a different kind of red here than in the deep south).
I would imagine it's because electrical amplifiers, filters, and other such items are cheap and well understood. Whereas optical amplifiers, filters, and other such things, particularly ones that operate at low-GHz frequencies are expensive and kinda wild
GP wouldn't notice effects of uphill and downhill averaging out if he starts at the bottom and charges at the top. And GP is implying he do.
Eggs are 9.99 per dozen where I am. Tri-tip is $3.99/lb and pork can often be had for $1.99. Hell, a month ago we bought a 20lb ham for $0.49/lb.
> Ecosia was also less cluttered and performant, now it feels like looking at a children’s book painting website

Definitely does feel that way, their design team needs to change that asap
From the title I wasn't sure if they were even found
Tech giants like Meta and Amazon restarted large-scale hiring in Q4 2023-Q1 2024, with software engineer roles increasing by ~18% YoY (LinkedIn data). However:

Entry-level positions face fierce competition (average response rate <20%).
Senior roles (5+ years) command salaries exceeding $150K, especially for AI/machine learning and full-stack experts.
can't find it :( looking myself for an hour already. too much junk on internet and it pushes only "new" stuff.

but to sum up:

- ukraine messed up by not anticipating attack from belorus through chernobyl

- didn't anticipate russian airborn forces flying to hostomel airport on few dozens of helicopters and taking over it (as preparation for full blown deployment on 2 dozen of planes)

got lucky with:

- battle of ivankiv delayed russian forces moving to kyiv

- shelled the crap out of hostomel airport, causing russians to loose control over it (airborn forces on planes literally made u-turn in the air ). i think only a couple of russians survived it.

- blew up a few dams of small rivers, turning large area to impassable swamps what prevented russian forces from getting to hostomel to support paratroopers there.

there was some russian unit of national guard or swat that somehow outrun rest of russian army and they decided to show initiative and play "capture the flag" in kyiv (not clear what exactly they planned), but they did manage to drive into kyiv in a couple of cars, and were all hunted down and killed within few hours
When you understand how the EPA actually test this, it makes sense. "Highway" isn't anything like what most people think it is. It's not cruising at 75mph with no traffic on a major interstate. It's more like busy country road driving.

> The "highway" program, on the other hand, is created to emulate rural and interstate freeway driving with a warmed-up engine, making no stops (both of which ensure maximum fuel economy). The vehicle is driven for 10 miles over a period of 12.5 minutes with an average speed of 48 mph and a top speed of 60 mph

Further, the force of drag grows exponentially with speed. Going 75mph on the interstate is massively less fuel efficient than 48mph.

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/...
Sure. But at least I interpreted the GP as just saying that the "count-if" operation can be implemented in terms of `reduce` if the latter is available.
I have found Volkswagen’s range estimator and I think it’s trustworthy: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/electric-and-hybrid/charging... I think, the range from here could be estimated for similar Tesla models too.

The fact is that WLTP is useless. I can do 2/3 WLTP range in summer and 1/3 WLTP range in winter on highway with long range Model Y. That’s bad joke. Luckily I drive long distances extremely seldom. Crawling at 60 mph all the time is not an option for me.
At the very end there's a "movzx eax, dl", i.e. zero-extend the low 8 bits of the accumulated value.
Pleased to see one of my favorite painters on HN! Fortunate to have seen several of his works in person--hard to express how subtly evocative they are.
There is a pull request from someone suggesting they are removing malware from this... https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/pull/3
Most salaried staff aren’t fully productive every minute of the workday. Studies show a typical work week’s output can be achieved in 30 hours without losing productivity.

I’ve seen this firsthand throughout my career. (That’s why I moved to working with remote-first, globally distributed teams over five years ago.)
Okay, what are all of you doing on these banking apps? I've never used one. My interaction with my bank is nearly nonexistent.

Is this like, to send money, zelle, CashApp sort of things you all keep talking about?

Can't you just use the browser on your phone to interact with the bank? The browser doesn't know its rooted, does it?

You could set a clock by the "but my banking apps" every time Firefox or F-Droid or Sideloading comes up.
Yeah, but his kid died of measles, and his other kid got hit by a car (something that is actually also solvable with technology).
Literally every problem discussed in the article was solvable or mitigatable with science or technology, except the political problem of fascism, which was effectively solved by 20 mm cannon fire from Dahl's Spitfire fighter plane.
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Yeah I'm middle aged and a competent programmer. But I hate learning new technologies these days. TypeScript was a huge hurdle to overcome. Working with ChatGPT made it so much more bearable. "Explain this to me. I need to do X, how? Why doesn't this work" etc.
LLMs seem less hyped than block chains were back in the day
Ah to be tall, well connected, and rich.

And also talented, intelligent, and witty. Read all his damn books as a kid.
There's absolutely no problem with research on transgenic mice. Certain groups have been trying to claim that the US president confused "transgenic" and "trans(sexual|gender)" in his speech last week, but that is incorrect. There really was a series of government-funded studies concerning gender in mice [1,2].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-...

[2] Just to be clear: I have no opinion on this research, nor am I suggesting that it is wasteful. I'm just pointing out that the entire meme of "Trump confused transgenic har har har" is factually incorrect, and also deeply ironic.
I'm generally more skeptical when reading takes and predictions from people working at AI companies, who have a financial interest in making sure the hype train continues.

To make an analogy - most people who will tell you not to invest in cryptocurrency are not blockchain engineers. But does that make their opinion invalid?
I was a little blithe with my reply here, and feel bad about the scientific inaccuracy I'm perpetuating. The "everyone in between" spectrum often has strong signals, but sometimes it's not very strong straight from DNA alone! And it's also incredibly complex, far far more complex than doing mutation calls, to the point that automating it is quite difficult. Sure, finding XX, XY, XXY, and the many other combinations of sex chromosomes as they appear in nature is easy. Finding subtle inactivations of the genes on the Y chromosome is much harder. In fact analysis of genomes of intersex people is a common use of consumer whole genome and whole exome sequencing, so any consumer sequencing company that simply reports XX as female and XY as male is laughably amateurish, and your customer support lines will be swamped with extremely knowledgeable self-educated intersex people that will being providing tons of information for the company to up their game.
macOS Calendar: Two March 15, 2025s. Sat and Sun
This is really bizarre but my MacOS Calendar app, in Month view, shows two March 15ths. Both Saturday and Sunday are March 15, and the rest of the month is offset to make up for the two March 15ths!

I’ve been hearing about Apple software being buggy lately, and this is the 2nd crazy bug I’ve personally run across in this release of macOS.

Week, Day and Year views work fine. Only the Month view does this.
thats the same with bitcoin
although it looks like the "malware" may have been a joke from the diff

https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/pull/3/commits/3f...
It's an interesting question. As a freelance consultant, theoretically a tool like this could allow me to massively scale up my income, assuming I could find enough clients.

I'm a bit nervous where I'd end up though - with code I'd "written" but wasn't familiar with, and with who knows what kinds of limitations or subtle bugs baked in.
Hmm, I didn’t read the article but from the gist of other comments, we seem to have bought into Sama’s “agents so good, you don’t need developers/engineers/support/secretaries/whatever anymore”. Issue is, it is almost same as claiming, pocket calculators so good, we don’t need accountants anymore, even computers so good, we don’t need accountants anymore. This AI seems to claim to be that motor car moment when horse cart got replaced. But a horse cart got replaced with a Taxi(and they also have unions protecting them!). With AI, all these “to be replaced” people are like accountants, more productive, same as with higher level languages compared to assembly, many new devs are productive. Despite cars replacing the horse carts of the long past, we still fail to have self driving cars and still someone needs to learn to drive that massive hunk of metal, same as whoever plans to deploy LLM to layoff devs must learn to drive those LLMs and know what it is doing.

I believe it is high time we come out this madness and reveal the lies of the marketers and grifters of AI for what it is. If AI can replace anyone, it should begin with doctors, they work with rote knowledge and service based on explicit(though ambiguous) inputs, same as an LLM needs, but I still have doctors and wait for hours on end in the waiting room to get prescribed a cough hard candy only to later comeback again because it was actually covid and my doctor had a brain fart.
We're talking about a blog/personal website, not an advanced PWA.
The NRAO should kickstarter a new, electronics free diesel fullsize.

Not to build it, just to prove how much demand exists for it. Because this is something every truck guy I know has been asking for forever.

There's even an online rebellion of sorts over the new Hilux not being available here.
I consume very little "traditional media." I haven't forgiven most traditional media for the coverage leading up to the Iraq War and adjusted my reading accordingly going on 20 years now. Cable news was always horrible and I stopped watching it well before then. My opinion is entirely based on the video, Musk's own words on Twitter, and his other actions. I simply don't believe you are genuine here and won't continue the conversation.
rare person
AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers'
> Use our useful tool to get an estimated range based on factors such as your driving style, battery size and Volkswagen electric vehicle model.

That’s such a VW sentence.
Different ports.

Don't add unnecessary complexity unless it's strictly necessary.
Needs an [in mice] tag
I think this spirit is totally lost on most people in this field. It’s tempting to say younger generations but it’s everyone. It always amazes me when I meet someone who has spent 10+ years in this field and doesn’t even care how anything but their shitty Kafka-Flink pipelines work.
DNS Leaks or Public Records
DNS Propagation:
When you create a subdomain (e.g., blog.yoursite.com), your DNS provider (e.g., Cloudflare, GoDaddy) updates global DNS servers. These records are public and visible to anyone who queries the DNS (e.g., via dig blog.yoursite.com).
WHOIS Data:
If your domain registration details are public (not privacy-protected), your subdomain’s ownership info may be exposed.
The Labor Theory of AI
Review of The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli

https://archive.ph/xzWCG