skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flip the script and convey you just could not rationalize $2K a month for rent and you are saving for much more. My first job, after my house purchase was 73 miles away and in hindsight, I wish I slept in my pick-up a few nights a week to lessen the commute. So, you are not homeless but saving money. Get a gym membership and shower there. Eat healthy food at work (when you get a job).

I managed many people and had at least two people sleeping in their offices. They had to be secretive about it, sometimes there would be nighttime office inspections and they would always respond they were analyzing a complex problem, which fit in with what we did at work.
One guy stupidly was walking the hallway in his boxers once, and a federal officer caught him, that took a bit of explaining to get out of that one. My co-workers that decided to live in their offices, also hung out at work all the time, but I think they had a little more flexibility as there were no fees associated with work.

My house caretaker takes care of our property in another state. He lives in the van I gave him. He was homeless for years and slept in a secret place at a local school, complete with an electrical outlet. He went thru great pains to not get detected. After I gave him our old van, he has not been homeless for two years. He takes care of our property (external) in that remote state and has access to our garage for some equipment for his labor jobs. The arrangement works great, and I recharge his Starbucks card in return for his labor. I also have someone I can trust to check on the property and take care of things like fallen trees, flooding, etc. One thing with him, he is “homeless” with van, but since he does not have a 40-hr a week job, he spends a lot of time at Starbucks. That can get really expensive, but it is a tax he needs to pay to have a place to hand out. If my guy wanted to work from my garage, I'd have no problem with that. Perhaps you could create a prop office that looked like a real office from a Zoom/Teams camera view.

Do get a cheap gym membership to stay in shape. It will also keep you spending less money at Starbucks.
Perhaps you can target an eventual job where you can really be dedicated to working a lot and sleeping in your office. This assumes you would get an office. Or a private area. If you could work 4 ten hr days, then you have a long weekend off.
Or, work late and then sleep in your car.
I think you need a full-time job with an office or work area. This will give you a place to hang out and ensure continuity in getting money.
My experience (little) with gig jobs is there are not enough to string together for consistent income to get you into a better place.
For how long? Like seriously, how long until that department/company/office is shut down
Most people here seem concerned about insurance companies misusing personal data or a full-on totalitarian government takeover. However, my concern is about becoming susceptible to manipulation and coercion. A significant aspect the last election was the use of "Super PACs" like Elon's which targeted individuals on social media to influence their decision.

I think this trend will continue, not just in politics but across all sectors. The internet you experience will be tailored to your personality completely, but it will also be shaped to steer you in directions decided by who pay the most. The more data they collect about you, the more effective this manipulation will be.

This doesn't even account for the risks posed by malicious actors who might target you using this information.
State? Insecurity in a safe city? I don’t understand your comment.
> Get back to it in a year or two, things will fix. It happened many times in history before, now is not at all an exceptional time, all old-timers remember these days.

Ah, yeah, just like it did for electronics repair shops /s.

Just because cycles happen doesn't mean they'll continue.

Try to find targets to sell to, in a downturn, few seek.
Yup, I jumped the gun too. It is visible after a few days.
You cannot ask startups to hold themselves accountable to a higher standard than their wntrenched competitors
The Hyundai Kona (non EV version) at $24500 is definitely not a high end car and it has wireless car play.

We bought the cheapest trim.
That's not what I was saying?
You’re not allowed to film immigration borders at airports, so good luck to the YouTuber who wants fat fines
it all started with the invention of Ice9
Last week I nuked my home directory by running `rm -rf *` mistakenly from the wrong directory. Lost around 2-3 hours to re-install and re-clone.

Accidents will happen, disaster recovery is needed notwithstanding misaligned AI.

IMO once you're really ready for the worst, productivity from yolo mode AI assistance surpasses the downsides.
So someone that was, say, hired to make a website for the Pentagon can’t go and have a meeting there? Especially if they’re foreign born?
> What was uploaded was what a human approved.

Yes, I hit approve on the best one because I was curious to see the actual final polygon. (I then went and fixed it.) You wrote above / I was responding to:

>> This is a because the polygon is drawn as a mask in order to overlay it on the image. The actual polygon being uploaded doesn't have the wobbly features.

Now you're saying it's my fault for selecting a wonky outline. What's it gonna be, is the preview bad or the resulting polygons? (And the reviewer is bad for approving anything at all?)

> my idea was to show the potential, not providing a polished solution

I can appreciate that, but if you're aware of this then it shouldn't have a button that unauthenticated users can press to upload the result to the production database. OSM has testing infrastructure if you want to also demo that part (https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ is a version I found on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6)
I'm not a fan of the original post, but this is absurd and offensive. You're taking the creme-de-la-creme of tech workers and comparing them to medical interns. "Playing life in easy mode"? Would you say that an MD who chooses to specialize in, say, dermatology, and ends up the head of a department, and spends a lot of their 50s golfing, has lived life in easy mode? Probably not, because as you explained, grind is not optional to get to an optimal point in one's career.

Is it privileged to be able to live in a society where you can develop your career and not, like, have to go pick crops for three months? Yeah. Does the geographical freedom of SWEs (in a minority of cases) exceed that of a higher-paid traveling nurse? Sure, but that's a trade-off; the engineer takes less money than the nurse, but gets to travel further.

I'm not asserting that your comment was offensive because I'm whining about global systems of grind and exploitation. It's offensive because you seem to think that no one in the tech industry outside AAA game dev has come up from the mines. I started my career as an unpaid intern, then made $7.50/hr and freelanced on the side. I worked 12-16 hour days coding, and/or 8 hour days while doing 8 hour shifts as a waiter and taxi driver. So now, 30 years later, I can bill $300/hr and work a few hours a day. Is that easy mode?

And if you're referring to the people half my age who are trying to make it in this industry, they have it much harder than I did. They're living after the time when they can specialize and be adopted in as part of the technical debt for clients or companies. They have virtually no chance at job security. They have to constantly scrape and invent in order to stay relevant. So yes, people like me may appear to have easy lives compared with 24 year old medical students, but you seem to be taking for granted the lateral shift in your career - I suppose it's probably easier mucking with python than writing academic papers - but you're taking for granted your status, age, job security, etc. And missing the fact that other people do not get into this industry because it's easy, but rather because they are up for a challenge.

And how many people have said that working in academia is playing life in easy mode? That's the joke of the century.
In any collection of DOGE footguns the following must surely figure large:

Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-r...

( Original report, subscription, March 22, 2025, https://archive.md/0krUr )

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-predicts-doge-lost-...

( Echo'd paraphrase report, free to view )
Quake actually: https://www.lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html
This doesn’t seem like much of a consolation to those who find themselves on the receiving end of abuse. The privateers have some incentive to make sure they do go after the right people to avoid losing the spoils, but you could conceivably run into scenarios where the process itself is abused to punish smaller entities (who then can’t go on to claim damages because they don’t have the resources to pursue a suit in the first place). I guess you could theoretically structure it in such a way that the letters are only issued to responsible parties who have to be vetted to ensure their owners are in good standing with the issuing authority; the privateers would then presumably act as contractors.

Security isn’t my field so I apologize if the issues I’m raising seem ill-conceived, but it’s not completely clear to me what the improvement would be here over building a case and presenting it to a civil court for enforcement. I guess the problem is that the attacks originate in countries where foreign judgements are hard or impossible to file (China, North Korea, Russia), but in that case, what are these privateers actually doing to recover assets? Most of the “Scammer gets owned!” videos I have seen did not involve compromising systems for profit so much as identifying the scammer based on information that became accessible once they exposed their network to the uploader. What are the privateers actually seizing? Or is the prize court you envision not necessarily dedicated exclusively to the award of prizes, but instead to adjudicating whether an action taken by a privateer was legally justifiable?
Seems pretty clear to me - Trump is trying to cut costs for our government. He sees we’re spending all that money on forecasting and data that everyone else uses for free, and gets paid for it. Therefore, that data is worth something and the government should get a piece of the pie.

I don’t necessarily agree but it’s somewhat logical.
The invention I mean is that when user X likes a post of user Y, the liked post of Y is included into the feeds of users who follow user X. I don't remember this mechanic prior to Friendfeed and then FB. Maybe I'm just unaware of prior art.
How to find Next.js on your network
> I provided real data about gamma events.

At an irrelevant scale. The cross sectional area of these devices will be 18 - 20 orders of magnitude smaller.

> Always a possibility under consideration...

We're talking about the cross section of a macro-scale (visible with the naked eye) chip vs. a cluster of a few dozen atoms. Certainly you can understand the difference of scale? Cosmic ray induced bit flips are extremely infrequent events at the datacenter scale.

What's the frequency at which a single, specific transistor will be struck? Not that a bit flip occurs somewhere in a large datacenter, but the chance of just a specific transistor being hit. Now reduce that 100-fold. That's the base rate we're talking about.
"Big corp" will be massively harmed in the medium term, like everyone else. The NIH is critical for the pharma industry, and the USGS is critical for natural resource extraction industries (etc.). Blowing up federal agencies might juice profits for a quarter or two, but even that is pretty questionable/risky. If the whole economy goes into recession, many basic resources obtained from overseas get taxed, retaliatory tariffs slam US exports, many Americans lose jobs and whole regions lose industries, etc., it's generally bad for companies selling things.

Biggest potential winners are anyone willing to directly pay the President a kickback for massive corrupt payments from the government, anyone facing severe legal liability for past illegal actions who can buy a get-out-of-jail card, and foreign autocrats who want the US to stop protecting its own interests.
Thing is, individual freelancing or small-sized development agencies, they never economically worked. They always lost money to clients, never generated net positive returns. It's just a form of systematic mistake of the market caused by human psychological flaws such as Dunning-Kruger effect and the like.

This is why it's so survivable. It does not depend on any actual economic mechanisms that can "put it out of business/made it obsolete". It only suffers downturns when people who become clients, lack disposable income, or are distracted by other toys (they are currently massively distracted by promise of quick AI-driven riches).

It's like Forex trading. Never worked. Could never possibly work even if there were no scams (and there are scams everywhere). And yet it never dies, because it's in the nature of humans.

[i have no idea about large development agencies. never talked to owners of them. maybe they also never worked, or were/are merely a form of corporate corruption.]
Would you mind naming some of the frameworks?
I charged my USB C Beats Flex by plugging them into my iPhone.

I also have a portable monitor that gets power and video from a single USB C cable. I bought it as an external monitor for when I travel. But it also works with my iPhone without an adapter by using a regular USB C cable.

My iPhone can power the monitor up to 50% brightness by itself or I can plug the monitor up to a power source using a second USB cable to get full brightness and then the monitor will charge the phone.

https://imgur.com/a/aGJ4lvt
Apparently GPT thinks the earth is flat.
This is one of those things that would have been fantastic in university, but now the idea of getting 6 adults (parents) together in a room to play seems like a nearly insurmountable task.
I think you are really wrong.

Most people I see at work and outside don’t care and they want stupid machine to deal with it.

That is why smartphones and tablets move away from providing „file system” access.

It is super annoying for me but most people want to save their tax form or their baby photo not even understanding each is different file type - because they couldn’t care less about file types let alone making folder structure to keep them organized.
> if there's a bug and it can't be trivially solved, trash that bit of the code and write it again

When I was in undergrad, I knew a few guys who approached every problem by pasting in snippets from Stack Overflow and tutorial sites until the code “worked”. Did not end well…
Will code search be dead for humans in an era of "vibe coding"?
With AI-assisted coding on the rise, I'm starting to wonder if humans will still need code search tools, or if generative models will do it all for us. On the other hand, maybe code search will become even more critical, especially as AI-generated codebases balloon and eventually need thorough refactoring, security audits, or just plain manual debugging.

Context: A friend wrote a semantic code search tool (syng.dev) designed for developers maintaining large or legacy codebases, or for web security folks. It's great, but I'm unsure about how demand might shift if coding becomes more "AI-first." That said, I could see these tools being just as useful (if not more so) for the AI agents themselves when sifting through massive amounts of code.

What do you think? Does code search still have a bright future, whether for humans or AI, or is it fated to become obsolete in the era of "vibe coding"?
MRubyD: A new mruby virtual machine implemented in pure C#
Ratomic: Provides Mutable data structures for use with Ruby's Ractors
Sure mate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
Gmail's upgraded search results help you find the emails you want, faster
Ruby, Ractors, and lock-free data structures
Classic "what about the children" fallacy
Health insurance first, is my guess. A way to discriminate; like car companies (GM) sharing data with insurance companies. But on a whole other level.
> Gmail is rolling out a smarter search feature powered by AI to show you the most relevant results, faster.

Meaning they will actively be parsing emails and indexing them.
I happen to be reading the book Neurotribes which is a decent (although sometimes pathologizing) treatment of autism, and it retrospectively diagnoses Dirac as on the spectrum. Silberman, the author, does reference and seems to rely heavily on the biography The Strangest Man.
They made a choice that safe addition takes 3-4 instructions, and wrapping one (rarely used except for cryptography) takes 1 instruction. Doesn't it make more sense to make often-needed safe addition 1 instruction and rarely needed one to take 3-4 instructions?
They are basically advocating that (postgres replaces everything else normally used) however they need to add in enterprisey stuff.
This is true, but it's also true that any 12 year old kid with an ancient laptop on a random island in Indonesia will be proficient enough at writing code 4 years from now to take my job. There's no job security in big tech because it's a global marketplace. And it always will be.
Somewhere in the 80's most basic science textbooks went from clear and concise to overly verbose and ladled to the hilt with colors and distracting "illustration" clutter making most later editions not just worse, but even an assault on learning and understanding.
We'll have to look with fresh eyes on the print debugging vs debugger debate for LLMs.

LLMs can not only add tons of log statements fast but parse the large output from a program faster.

How exactly is debugger connection better for LLMs compared to log statements?
Research suggests otherwise. This is nothing more than an appeal to emotion.
Terrific post. Just about everything Eugene writes about AI/ML is pure gold.
It's interesting that none of these papers seem to be coming out of academic labs....
Because its dependencies are distributed in a compressed tarball.
I talk to a lot of my previous clients. At the moment, all of them just don't have cash to hire and they keep laying off their full time staff too.
Money quotes:

> They understand that people don’t make decisions based on features or specifications, alone. They make decisions based on how something makes them feel.

> Despite innovative products, countless tech startups remain bland and interchangeable in the public eye. The reason? They focus on what they do, not why they do it. Tech companies pour resources into engineering and user acquisition, but treat branding as an afterthought – maybe a logo here, a quirky Twitter (now X) voice there. Technical solutions solve functional problems but they’re not equipped to make people care.

> Facts tell, but stories sell.

A bunch of good examples.

For the standard objections that some people pick things not because of feelings but because they have a problem to solve: why do these people want to solve that problem?
I found that ChatGPT or Claude are really good at music and shopping suggestions. Just chat with them about your tastes for a while, then ask for suggestions. Compared to old recommender systems this method allows much better user guidance.
Automatic For The People – Seven predictions for the future of knowledge work
I also wouldn't underestimate the impact of AI. Anecdotal, but the times I used Upwork it was to get tasks where quality wasn't too important off my plate. AI does all those now.
Some Mel Brooks level humor here
I think your last quote is incorrect, at least partially. I'm not sure they replace the entire target page:

> This pre-generated content is seamlessly integrated as hidden links on existing pages via our custom HTML transformation process, without disrupting the original structure or content of the page.

> We also ensured that these links remain invisible to human visitors through carefully implemented attributes and styling. To further minimize the impact to regular visitors, we ensured that these links are presented only to suspected AI scrapers, while allowing legitimate users and verified crawlers to browse normally.
This is incorrect. In the federal system, while felonies are punishable by imprisonment over a year and misdemeanors by imprisonment up to a year, the important word is punishable - whether the crime is a felony or a misdemeanor is simply inherent to the charge, and if you are convicted, the nature of the crime doesn't change based on the imposed sentence. E.g. if you are convicted of a felony but receive a prison sentence of a year or less, you're still a felon - the charge doesn't just turn into a misdemeanor because you received a shorter sentence.
I think you're quite wrong. I'm not going to give up over a decade of skilled work because of a downturn. I'm not a fair weather dev.

when software is a fully outsourced function we'll see the same with marketing, sales, management, product. You won't need anyone locally.

This won't happen because of the problems culturally diverse teams experience.

I'm not being outsourced by AI, I'm being hit by projects going on hold because of budget constraints, and people not willing to hire a consultant because "they'll leave when the market improves".

Your coldness stems from ignorance not understanding.
> The employees would never work from home (outside of a pandemic) and work set hours.

This isn't quite true, the call center at my Co. is partially remote for call center staff, they use jabber and other VoIP connected to their PC's to work from home.
And what do you think tik tok is? It's a similar service exerting propaganda on the populace at china's algorithmic control.
In my experience, even if people knew, they just don't care.

Most people I talk to about this, tech and non-tech folk have an attitude with a.mix of "you can't escape this anyway, so might as well embrace it" and "misuse scenarios you are describing are pretty far-fetched".
By what metric freelancing never worked? As long as someone needs something done that they cannot or don't want to do themselves it is quite simple to get paid for doing the work for them. Self-employed artisans and professionals existed for centuries.
> Traditional Java was notorious for being the opposite of this.

Is modern Java better? If so, why? Also, what languages do it better than Java and why? Any as old as Java that do it better?
Data and Reality, by William Kent. A timeless classic on the computational representation of, well, anything and everything.

The third and currently only published edition, published posthumously, insists on adding a bunch of mid-2000s era design conceits based on OO paradigms. An absolute travesty.
But it is a threat and all of those threats should be dealt with .
The photos apps do this well now. Can search Apple/Google photos with questions about the content of images and videos and get useful results.
Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10
You're surprised that people are talking about a new protocol from one of the biggest players in the most hyped space? Everyone is using MCP because it's becoming the industry standard.

You insinuating that Anthropic is using bot rings to promote MCP is not only nonsense, it's also breaking the HN guidelines.
When I did my first github "release" I was shocked that it involved picking files to upload...
You don't need DNA for that though. Just hand out money and buy people.

Similar to November, a Musk funded group is currently offering $100 to registered voters in Wisconsin to sign a petition against “activist judges” with a not so subtle nudge to vote for the judge that will be favorable to the lawsuit he(musk) and Tesla are involved in within the state and who happens to be be part of the Trump gang having campaigned with junior.
The world is not object oriented (2004)