skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with high CEO pay, but in the general case even with very-well paid CEOs, if you took their salary and divided it out to the other employees entirely it isn't that much. Apple for example, Tim Cook's salary is every employee at the company making about $450 extra a year.
I think the argument made is, if there's no added value by understanding something deeper when it will inevitably do better than now, the only reason to dig deeper is for one's curiosity.

All that digging now translates to expertise that is critical and potentially lucrative. But if it's only going to get better then for how long will this be true?
The social issue go much beyond this. The country to a large degree has sorted itself along party lines. Changing your political opinion in either direction will likely lead to arguments with people you are close to and might get you ostracized from your friend group or even family. For most people this is much worse than being ridiculed online!
Yeah that's shitty, but how does it justify getting rid of the NOAA?
The difference is all those other things you listed - food, drugs, etc provide value. An ad provides none.
Interesting! Aren't Europeans known for their sectors of the economy that are heavily protected by tariffs?

Common Agricultural Policy?

Tariff rate for cars of 10% (compared to US' 2.5%)
https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0...

This development environment looks interesting：why two shelves?

Also the place look like a cheap airline cabin. I thought all MSFT employees have their own offices back then. Maybe it's because that's the lab?
>This is also a cultural issue. In large cities, people often don't feel as being part of the community and they don't take pride in their surroundings. They put rubbish everywhere, vandalise. There is little done to change that. They see neighbour has nice flowers in the garden? Instead of admiring, they will cut them off.

I don't think this aligns with the lived-experience of most Britons. The big cities are mostly litter-free areas, and people can have well tended gardens go unmolested by neighbours.
> their patent is still owned by certain oligarchy.

I don’t know that it’s helpful to have such a blunt and un-nuanced take.

Theres no “certain oligarchy” that holds a single patent on "chemotherapy" as a broad concept, as it encompasses various chemical treatments for cancer. specific chemotherapy drugs and methods are patented by pharmaceutical companies and research institutions, for example:

- NanOlogy LLC: holds a patent for a method involving injecting large surface area microparticle taxanes directly into the tumor, combined with systemic delivery of immunotherapeutic agents.

- Johns Hopkins University: assigned patent rights for a method related to cancer treatment to Becton-Dickinson & Company, which then sublicensed them to Baxter.

- University of Cincinnati Clermont College: has a patent for breakthrough chemotherapy technology involving nanocarriers.

- Northeastern University: reports a patented molecule, WYC-209, that eliminates cancer cells.
That's a fair point. Adding that to the original post would help provide context about why some of these quirks are still relevant to consider even when using a framework. I believe the assumption is often that frameworks abstract the Javascript "weirdness" away.
US ports use Covid-like tests to identify illegally trafficked seafood species
Preventing Initramfs Attacks in TPM-Based Disk Encryption (Part 1)(2023)
No, it was a massive failure in the market, because it was made of unfunded tax cuts to the well off, and we're watching how the "destroy all the regulatory stuff you don't understand" approach is working out in the US right now.

The lasting effect of Truss was to make the national debt problem much worse by pushing up interest rates.
Except when the government is doing it.
I think "slop" only refers to the output of generative AI systems. bot, crawler, scraper, or spider would be a more apt term for software making (excessive) requests to collect data.
Pages greatly confused me the first time I tried to use it, several years ago. That's because it included a bunch of templates for different kinds of documents, and when you created a new document from one of those templates the document was full of text and images.

That text was Lorem ipsum [1]. I had never seen that before and assumed that I had somehow gotten the templates for some other language installed with my English Pages install.

I then spent a few hours trying to figure out how to change template language settings or install English templates.

I eventually copies some of the text and Googled it, hoping to find someone else who had this problem and had found the fix and then learned about Lorem ipsum.

Nowadays when you create a document from the templates that come with Pages the placeholder text is in your language and is usage instructions for the template.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
I read the article. My comment was prompted by this:

> One reason for this is that parts of the British state are fundamentally misaligned with goals like ‘improving living standards’ or ‘increasing wealth’, whether that’s through hand-wringingly incompetent procurement processes, long-term failure to invest in the infrastructure and management required to support ‘moar frontline staff!!’, acute treasury brain, or endless cohorts of committees and quangos.

> The current level of ambition, of vision, just doesn’t match up to the situation we’re in.

It’s about a failure of state capacity. The article’s entire argument hinges on why British institutions can no longer turn wealth into functioning systems. The post-imperial loss of strategic vision among British elites is not a distraction: it’s the historical foundation of the current malaise.

Suez was the moment Britain exited the world stage and never figured out what it stood for domestically in the vacuum that followed.

You can’t talk about the failure to invest, coordinate, or reform over decades without asking why the ruling class stopped trying.
Wait, they can go up more!? I remember thinking prices for really basic medication in the States was insanely expensive — something which costs $0.50 in Europe would cost $3+ in Target n co
Trade surplus is not sufficient to analyze the issue here. It is about commitment. What you want is something closer to the probability that the trade surplus will lead to a policy change. Even if it is true that the average Chinese citizen will be more negatively impacted than the average US citizen that negative impact doesn't equally translate to policy change. The US congress is fairly evenly split. It doesn't take that much to cause a policy shift.
The bird thing was at least _possible_, though, to a reasonable level of accuracy. What they're claiming to do here is completely impossible; there is simply no way of even vaguely accurately determining the calorie content of food based on a picture of the food.
I think I'd be willing to extend it to all forms paid advertising that you are forced to see in the course of doing something else.
> how accruals work

Slightly off-topic but I worked at a UK research organisation that was a privatised entity recently spun-off from a civil-service organisation. The new CEO (who came from a finance background) got a tour of each department. He apparently listened to all of the tech evangelism from the department directors and then asked them how their department's accruals were doing. Those department directors who asked him to clarify what he meant by accruals didn't stay in post very long. Allegedly.

Us lowly engineers just kept our heads down.
I always thought that Apple’s productivity suite was the same app but with different UI wrappers.

Tables in Pages behave similar to Numbers spreadsheets. Pages layout mode is very similar to Keynote. Data vis in Keynote is the same as Numbers.
Text join and split are now in excel
The fascinating journey of Vallejo's ferry service
Great question, but I'd probably have to try it to have a good answer!
Mmmmm. Does that mean the public NOAA feeds are going dark?

https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/
It's been decades since I did desktop support, but even back then I used RIS or (ugh) Altiris when a machine when t-u. There was no troubleshooting if it was seemingly an OS or hardware level issue, the people I supported had better things to do.

And today, Microsoft's push is the InTune-driven Autopilot which favors a very similar disposable (cattle-like) model.
The likeness of Indiana Jones, as a character, is owned by Disney

If they show that image to a jury they’ll have no issues convincing them the LLM is infringing.

Moreover if the LLM creators are charging for it, per token or whatever, they are profiting from it.

Yes are there jurisdictions were this won’t work and but I think in US Disney lawyers could make viable argument.
It is _not_ a good business; the thing does not, and cannot, work.
It isn’t even close to being the greatest tool in human history. This type of misunderstanding and hyperbole is exactly why people are tired/bored/frustrated of it.

The uncomfortable truth is that AI is the world’s greatest con man. The tools and hype around them have created an environment where AI is incredibly effective at fooling people into thinking it is knowledgeable and helpful, even when it isn’t. And the people it is fooling aren’t knowledgeable enough in the topics being described to realize they’re being conned, and even when they realize they’ve been conned, they’re too proud to admit it.

This is exactly why you see people that are deeply knowledgeable in certain areas pointing out that AI is fallible, meanwhile you have people like CEOs that lack the actual technical depth in topics praising AI. They know just enough to think they know what “good” looks like, but not enough to realize when the “good” output is just lipstick on a pig.
Is he talking about IT? Cause I m quite bored of IT myself.
Agitation by community-based agents leading to honest people dropping out and wicked people doubling down.
Germany funds Eutelsat internet in Ukraine as Musk tensions rise
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

- GOP / Project 2025
There is no need to simulate Einstein to transform the world with AI.

A self-driving car would already be plenty.
My job requires pulling large data dumps produced by research from a national lab from public S3 buckets. TB's of data.

This research is publicly funded, the data produced is public data, and it enables an entire ecosystem of business activity. imho, this is a good use of public funding and research, and hosting it in S3 buckets is a good solution that makes huge quantities of data easily accessible to people who would use this.

I don't use NOAA data, but this has chilling effects for my business (is my national lab next?). There is nothing "efficient" about forcing agencies to get rid of data and service hosting that works well at scale.

(If DOGE was actually about increasing efficiency of digital services like it's pre-rename/pre-takeover US Digital Services agency was actually doing, we'd be building a TB or PB-scale S3 alternative for government agencies to use, but we all know that's not the constructive efficiency they're doing here)
I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that this represents a "hideous theft machine", but I think even if we discard that, this is still bad.

It's very clear that generative has abandoned the idea of creative; image production that just replicates the training data only serves to further flatten our idea of what the world should look like.
> The root of the word celebrity is celebrate.

Actually, that's not quite right. The root of both "celebrate" and "celebrity" is a Latin word whose original meaning is something to do with crowdedness. Celebrity (in the older sense of "being famous") means being someone that people crowd around. The original meaning of "celebrate" was to hold a religious service, attended by crowds of people. Later "celebrity" evolved to also mean a person who has the quality of celebrity-in-the-old-sense, and "celebrate" evolved to also mean to hold some other kind of event that attracts crowds. But "celebrity" didn't ever primarily mean "person who is admired", it was always "person who attracts attention".

(It is still true that people who are famous and then not famous can find it hard to adapt to the change, of course.)
But ... but ... users _are_ scum, aren't they?
Regarding that choice: Given that this is really a different library (the DOM and its individual browser implementation), it's probably quite sane to just define a certain object to evaluate as falsy, as compared to any attempts to check for a certain implementation in this external library for any call.

(Even more so, since any access using `document.all` retrieves an object from a live collection, while the other access method is a function call, which is a totally different thing.)
I think it's wise to separate the future of both Israel and Palestine from their present. In 100 years there will be surviving Israelis and surviving Palestinians and they'll have a view of the present generation.
Groups with these ideologies typically leave power only after everything is reduced to smoldering collapsed ruin. It's time to seriously think about leaving. This isn't going to be corrected in my lifetime.
> Apple has been the most antagonistic to Trump.

The most reluctant or the least vocal to comply, maybe, but far from antagonistic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/apple-ceo-tim-cook-and-preid...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-meet-w...

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-don...
interestingly though, unless it’s plastic clothes, anything made of plastic doesn’t fall into the needs category since you can’t eat it and it isn’t durable enough to make a house out of. so what cheap plastic brush is keeping people alive?
I had no idea, and I've been a "Rails guy" for 15 years, and keenly interested in high-profile successful Ruby projects for a long time. Even clicking through to their actual site from the source repo page, I had to surmise what it was.
This is not even remotely true. Be better than this.
Of course! Nothing I said precludes this. Lots of collaboration is used for selfish means.
You are free to come to Germany. Pretty sure you can get a VISA to do an Ausbildung at the end of which you will be working in some factory or another. Getting a German VISA is much easier than getting an American VISA and Germany is actively advertising abroad to attract workers. That should tell you something, but do come and experience it with your own eyes.
Until there are alternatives. When the price of a given product increases, it becomes more attractive for competitors to invest in making that product.
Everything about this kid sends strong signals that one would not want him at their school, workplace, or social environment.
i thought it is comparable to talking to my friends online instead of in person. in my case those friends are on a different continent. i do have local fiends too, but talking to my online friends is what keeps me connected to my the place where i grew up. (even though these friends are not from that time)

interestingly, as someone who plays an instrument, i don't enjoy just listening to music as much because i'd rather play with friends
Open-Source Is Just That
I chalk that up as lame but kind of inevitable mild corruption that doesn't really go anywhere -- Hunter seems more like an embarrassing addict child that a caring parent has no choice but to put up with than somebody who can truly peddle influence over his father -- and feel that this administration is a vast difference in degree of corruption. Degrees matter!
When I first heard that, I thought it was an insane factoid.

But then I realized that slowly over time, iPhones grew to get into the price range of full-on computers. And also, even the cheaper iPhones add in up sales when you sell over a billion of them.
Volume of ads I see, or companies buying ads?

Volume of ads I see is proportional to dollar amount imo. Outside of movie trailers I don't think I've ever seen an ad and been happy to know about whatever it was.
Ads provide information. An event you might be interested in is happening. A food you might like is available. A thing that will totally improve your life can be yours. etc
They're a private company so numbers aren't available but DHH has said in podcasts it's several million ARR. Not huge but fine for a company of their size with multiple products.
I learned that many people seem to share that sentiment, and further details and analogies about it from the discussion thread. It’s learning about others’ opinions, assessments, and thoughts.
We'll likely never know for sure, since they will just claim that the goal is to save money. There's even a grain of truth to it: AWS and GCP are the most expensive offerings in that class. Of course, if the goal was actually to save money -- then first off, Wordpress wouldn't be getting cut. Also, the plan would be to migrate to more cost effective alternatives (of which there are several), not to just turn the thing off.
Wow, I remember their offices next to Thee Parkside on 17th.
They don’t care. I sent someone a link about NIH cutting funding for the place that created the cancer killing treatment that saved his Wife last year.

“They know what they’re doing.” Is all I get from this baloney.
One thing that I'd like to inject into this discussion, is that the nominal trade imbalance is not the only relevant figure, and maybe not the most important one. For many goods, there is a very strong disconnect between the market value (the lowest price you can offer a group of suppliers competing against each other) and what one might call, for lack of a better word, true value (the price you'd be willing to pay if you had no alternatives). For luxury goods, these are often nearly the same, while basic goods might have a 5x difference and antibiotics could well have 1000x. When this is taken into account, the trade between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other, is not unbalanced by a factor of 2, but more like 20. The West receives a huge amount of energy, manufactured products, chemical precursors, electronics, technological supplies, medical supplies and basic medicines. And in return they send champaigne, BMWs, branded clothing, intellectual property, and yes, some aircraft and photolithography machines. The effect of this has already been demonstrated once with the mostly unsuccessful sanctions against Russia, but would be felt ten-fold if there were a major disruption of trade between China and the West. China is at a point in their development, where they really could walk away from trading with the West if they really had to, but the Western economies would likely be sent into shock by such a step. Not that I think this is likely to happen, but I do get the feeling that the new tariffs are mostly giving China a leg-up towards full economic independence, while onshoring the US industry will be a very long and painful process.
This definitely sounds like you don't know anybody in that category and are judging based on a misleading media impression.
i still have that BrittMonkey video front of mind - BRITAIN IS A DUUUMMMMPPPP
We are talking about Curl bots here. How is what you are saying relevant?
I'm sure window.open will work great, absolutely. HN will probably work wonders, too. nbcnews? new (arg) reddit?

We could go back a little more and find a great PII 400. I had one with a CL 3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB, though I forget the 2D card.

It played MP3s REALLY well! As long as that is all you wanted to do because anything else would introduce skips and pops.

I like old machines, but I would hardly call them day-to-day usable with modern apps, and I would question the underlying hardware/firmware security the rest of the way.
I've taken this feedback to heart and tried to improve the structure a bit.

The main message I want to bring across is two-fold:

1. Senior developers are in a great position to make productive use of AI coding tools

2. I have (so far) identified three measures that make AI coding sessions much more successful

I hope the reworked version makes these more central and clear. I'm not a native English speaker, thus it's probably not possible for me to end up with an optimal version.

Still, I hope the new approach works a bit better for you — would love to receive another round of feedback.
What you're describing for Reddit is farcically charitable except in cases where you could just google it yourself. What you're describing for the LLM is what Reddit does when any judgement is involved.

I've encountered enough instances in subjects I am familiar with where the "I'm 14 and I just googled it for you" solution that's right 51% of the time and dangerously wrong the other 49 is highly upvoted and the "so I've been here before and this is kind of nuanced with a lot of moving pieced, you'll need to understand the following X, the general gist of Y is..." type take that's more correct is highly downvoted that I feel justified in making the "safe" assumption that this is how all subjects work.

On one hand at least Reddit shows you the downvoted comment if you look and you can go independently verify what they have to say.

But on the other hand the LLM is instant and won't screech at you if you ask it to cite sources.
What do I need to google in order to learn about this format?
Nah. The push for both plans originates at least in part from elsewhere.
I remember properly learning JS from “The Good Parts” book, which makes it known from the start that JS is a nasty language but if you ignore many sharp edges it can be nice and elegant. I think this is especially true with (a subset of) TS. All you need is a very, very strict linter, and then you get to pretend you’re working in a mostly solid language.
The US are leaving Europe behind in term of growth (and thus ultimately GDP and GDP per capita) in any case [1] [2].

"Between 2010 and 2023, the cumulative growth rate of GDP reached 34% in the United States, compared with just 21% in the European Union and 18% in the eurozone. This measure of GDP in volume does not depend on changes in exchange rates." [2]

[1] https://www.futuribles.com/en/sur-le-decrochage-economique-e...
[2] https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/economy/ec...
Arize Phoenix: observability tool for experimentation and evaluation of LLMs
Then call me a fool (I guess you just did).

Let's say you are much smarter than me. If you managed my finances you'd probably get much better ROI. Should I voluntarily hand everything over? Notice that I am not equating you with me: I acknowledge that you are smarter. Still, my survival requires that I fight you with all I've got if you decide to take my stuff away from me.

That's what this "subjugation" business is at the end of the day: a satellite country trading one master for another. And before you start with national pride: superpowers absolutely see their satellites as currency.

And it sucks that your family had to flee adversity. At the same time, my grandfathers entire family was killed by soldiers from a country we now consider a paragon of democracy. So spare me.
The steam deck is so cool, I can't wait for the steam box revolution to begin
I don't think it has to do with age but more than active years of work experience in the field. There is some strong correlation but, I'm 44 and with 3 years of experience I have integrated AI tools in my workflow because they're just tools right now and it would be silly not to leverage it.
typically theres also plenty of literature refuting things, but "easy to consume" isnt the same thing as "true"
Yea, I think this is more likely the case for AI as we have it now or will have it, imo.

If somehow AI is better than all humans at everything idk if we get communism or what but I don't think I can really think about it but it sounds meaningless and bad and not going to happen anyways.