skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> coding speed
> the annoyance caused to an engineer

No one said productivity is this one thing and not that one thing, only you say that because it's convenient for your argument. Productivity is a combination of many things, and again it's not just typing out code that's the only area AI can help.
Nothing you've said is abnormal in other parts of Europe though, I've been in Germany for work a lot, and bureaucracy there is a significantly higher. Yet it's still wealthier.
Modern Britain is just a rentier economy.

Huge income taxes on low wages and limited wealth tax is not exactly enticing compared to welfare or moving overseas.
How we did border-radius back in a day?
The road from finding a new molecule with antibiotic properties to passing Phase 3 is... long, arduous and not worth it.

And if you do spend the $1bn to get there, you end up like Achaogen. For anyone in this field, read this teardown of Achaogen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03452-0
Instead we get banks that refuse to even police their own systems. We get bank fraud relabeled as “identity theft”.

On the one hand I didn’t vote for Trump, don’t want any of what he’s doing to happen. At all.

But on the other hand I’d be happy to light the match that sets alight the house of cards thats been built. Everything about life in the US seems like its built on a foundation of lies.

In my frustration, I may have digressed a bit :)
Yea, it's not like the people who voted for (or accept) this are just going to vanish in 4 years. This is all happening because a significant number of people affirmatively vote for this to happen, plus a similar-sized number of people who don't vote, and are therefore indicating they are OK with whatever happens. This roughly 66% of eligible voters are still going to be here in 4 years.
I agree with your point, but you may want to choose a better example than the 787 to showcase manufacturing skill.
> Govt debt to gdp is up against the 100% barrier. Looking at central bank balance sheet, it does look like you just avoided bankruptcy.

A country cannot go bankrupt. After the war the debt to gdp ratio was 250%, and from that position the government nationalised 20% of industry, built houses, create the NHS and welfare state and developed a nuclear programme.

> corporate tax rate of 25%

on profit yes, but if you are big enough you declare as little profit as possible.

> personal income tax of 45%

that's the highest band there is, payable only on income over £125,140

> sales tax of 20% Yikes.

well it's a tax on added value on every step thorough the retail chain, collectable by the end retailer. It's zero rate on food and child clothes and some other things.

Taxes are indeed on the wrong places in many cases: e.g. dividend tax on unearned income should be equalised with income tax, income tax thresholds should be increased in line with inflation / wages and not frozen as they currently are.
but I don't think overall tax burden is the issue here.
no, because before transistors we had vacuum tubes so the functionality of a transistor was well understood and the breakthrough was in size and power consumption.

the analogy would be more apt if tomorrow I could run ChatGPT 4o, the hosted model, on my wrist watch, and run it indefinitely for pennies.
You really don't see a problem with this? I consider myself more on the left, but this practice has always seemed highly antithetical to liberal values to me.

If somebody in their off hours says something assinine, and telling (some might call that "snitching to") their employer in a public forum like Twitter (in a clear attempt to get a social media frenzy going to ultimately get them fired) is a good thing, then wouldn't it logically follow that an employer should not only be permitted but actively encouraged to monitor employees 100% of the time so they can fire them if they ever step out of the corporate line? Amazon does this to many low-level employees just on-the-job and most people think that's creepy and unfair, I can't imagine extending that to off-hours as well. At a minimum wouldn't it follow that it would be great for employers to set up a snitch line so anybody could (even anonymously) call to make reports on people? Is that a world you'd want to live in?

On the next line, let's say the person is fired from their job for a gross tweet. Should they be able to get a new job after that? If so, how does the previous history get erased so the prospective new employers don't see it and avoid them (this very type of thing is by the way, a huge problem for formerly incarcerated people especially felons). Add in that there was no trial, no standard of evidence, no due process, just a swinging axe from an executioner. Should this person (and often their families) just be relegated to extreme poverty the rest of their lives? Blacklisted from employment like the communists in Hollywood were?
Quick feedback:

Would love to see some sort of architecture overview in the docs

The top-level docs have a section on "Deploying workers" but I think there are more components than that?

It's cool there's a Helm chart but the docs don't really say what resources it would deploy

https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/docker-compose

...shows four different Hatchet services plus, unexpectedly, both a Postgres server and RabbitMQ. Can't see anywhere that describes what each one of those does

Also in much of the docs it's not very clear where the boundary between Hatchet Cloud and Hatchet the self-hostable OSS part lies
I don't see planning mentioned much in the article or comments. The Town and Country Planning act is a large cause of high development costs in the UK. Roads, rail, public works, nuclear power stations, onshore renewables and above all housing have all suffered significantly because getting things approved is so difficult.

Most other affluent nations have some form of zoning instead, which make planning much much easier. Most other affluent nations have more central control over planning too, which makes consensus over megaprojects easier to reach.
It's hard to think of a company more aggressive with their IP than Nintendo

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/
It's not a joke, but if I don't laugh at the world at this point I'd be horrifically depressed instead.

I'm one non-American with zero power, there's nothing I can do except watch.
He is firing anyone competent, then his inner circle of 10 lawyers/journalists take over and run these things into the ground using ChatGPT
> Can we blame the university system and their "marketing" that has pushed a degree as the One True Way of leaving the working class?

I’m not sure Universities are to blame for this so much as lazy ass HR departments looking for an easy filter.
Antibiotics are not a deterrence because bacteria cannot be negotiated with. Similarly the concerns of fallout are minimal. The evolved resistance comes at a cost, evolving many resistances comes at many costs. There is a point where the bacteria cannot continue to evolve resistances yet remain competitive in the absence of the antibiotics.

AFAIK there is a new class of molecules specific to thwarting the resistance mechanism that makes the bacteria susceptible again in ways that cannot be out evolved. I'm looking for the general name for this technique - I do remember reading about it.
As much as I despise what Maggie did, this quote is regularly misused and taken out of context. Her point, which I broadly agree with, is that the idea of hiding behind some notion of "society" is flawed because what that really means is a whole collection of real people doing real things. "Society" doesn't fix things; people fix things. If anything, I take this a call to action for everyone to be far _more_ civic minded. For sure, in the interview she makes some points that I disagree with, and certainly her prescriptions I think miss subtlety, but a hypothetical debate with her based on the "society" interview would not be around the core substance of what she's trying to say.

Whole quote here: https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106689
Someone might make a little game or fun experiment and might post it on here. Someone might write a blog post that is giving their opinion about a coding paradigm or framework and post it on here. I don't know if in any of those cases I am learning something, but they are still something I expect to see on HN frontpage. At least: I thought they were acceptable. But I guess thats not the case? Only educational things are technically HN worthy? I will take your word for it.

It's just a little bit of a bummer tbh, sometimes I just want to have fun or feel something or read a certain articulation of something... But I have other places I can find that kind of stuff I guess.

Thanks for your reply and your concern for propriety!
Unless you can explain Frank feodalism, Chinese legalism or frankly, any system before colonialism and cheptel slavery, and explain how cheptel slavery was somehow better, I will take your comment with a chunk of salt.
The article didn’t seem to explain how the money was taken. I’m a member of one of the listed affected super funds and all my money is still there.

Most plausible explanation seems to be phishing and scams rather than a technical hack.
Not in my America.

I welcome any and all persons from anywhere in the world if they want to come and protest the American war machine

Our forefathers would be absolutely ashamed at what you just said. Protesting a totalitarian government that lacks proper representation is the most American thing you can possibly do, and that makes these immigrants more American than you will ever be, as long as you hold such views.

Edit: It seems you have edited your post in order to remove the extremely distasteful language you originally expressed. I assume you still hold such views or you'd not have expressed them to begin with, and as such my comment still stands.
That works if you're advertising something people knew they wanted beforehand. It doesn't work if you're offering something novel.

If they're looking up plumbers in the yellow pages, you won't encounter the existence of Drano.
The line of thinking you've displayed here is so obviously the inevitable trajectory of the internet; it's baffling that states are still clinging to denial.

> Now, what if I get the highest fidelity speakers and the highest fidelity microphone I can and play that song in my home. Then I use a deep learned denoiser to clean the signal and isolate the song’s true audio. Is this theft?

If the answer to this becomes "yes" for some motion down this spectrum, then it seems to me that it's tantamount to prohibiting general-purpose computing.

If you can evaluate any math of your fancy using hardware that you own, then indeed you can run this tooling, and indeed your thoughts can be repaired into something closely resembling the source material.
I don't like to say "never", because other things make change that invalidates previous conclusions.

For example, let's say that for some reason macros were removed (this is very unlikely to happen, but as a thought experiment), then the symmetry between macro/fn definitions wouldn't be an argument anymore, and the question could be revisited.

Similar things have happened before: the optional type syntax changed from `int!` to the more mainstream `int?`. So why did I stick with `int!` for so long? Because initially it was called a "failable" and had different semantics. Revisiting this syntax after other changes to the syntax in 0.6.0, made it clear that `int?` was now fine to use.

So that's why I don't say never. But it would need for the situation to change in some way.
I have been told for many years that Americans needed their guns to protect them from a tyrranical government. Did they forget to rise up, or are they planning to do it later? Or did they in fact vote for him?
The lack of repercussions from the first term all added together to give a sense of could do no wrong. Impeached twice, no convictions. Proposed the concept that a president cannot be held accountable except via conviction after impeachment. Pretty much proven true by SCOTUS.

Now, they've taken that cue and just turned the dial to an 11. There's currently very little resistance, and in the places where there is, they've just flat out ignored it. Of course the snowball is going to pick up speed
Capitalism, to oversimplify. The powers that be realised there was money to be extracted and they did it. Packaging it as beneficial for the people; the usual line is "healthy competition will lower the prices for consumers" but I have never seen this work in practice. We have a few areas with competition, like cell phones or health insurance, but the cost and service level differences between them is minimal and there is no competition. Or if there is, it's lower prices at worse service / quality - the race to the bottom.

Reprivatize shit and put it in the hands of someone competent. Also, increase wages so that government agencies don't depend so much on expensive consultants / contractors.
> poorer than anywhere in Europe, or even the US deep south.

By far the poorest state in the US, Mississippi (the deepest south you can get) has a GDP per capita just $1,500 less than Germany.

The 2nd and 3rd and 4th poorest states (all southern), West Virginia, Arkansas, and Alabama, have GDPs per capita $6k higher than Germany.

Georgia and Tennessee, 2 other states in the Deep South have GDPs per capita higher than all European countries except Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Iceland.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/03/the-poorest-us-...
Because the replies ignore the contents of my replies, weird isnt it
IMO the way Britain deals with listed buildings is excessively over-protective in general; sometimes it seems like every other building is a listed building. That alone wouldn't be so bad, but the number of restrictions that are placed are then often too much: preventing things like double glazing or other common sense modern improvements.

I'm not against protecting historical heritage, of course, but society should serve the people currently living there. Just because something is over a few decades old doesn't mean it's worth bending over backwards to protect 100% intact without any changes. Would it really be so bad if a building from 1910 gets some double glazing, changing the appearance slightly? I'd say it's not.
I see on the tab groups site:

"This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It may not yet be available to all users. "

So I must not have it yet!

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups
This is a build or test lab, not the offices of developers. I visited multiple times in the period mentioned for the picture, and saw multiple of these. The one I saw most often was the NT build lab. When I started there in the mid-2000s, these labs were still used, although the build labs were a little less densely packed thanks to remote tools.
because it is increasingly poor.
ladybird does not have the resources to be a contender to current browsers. its well marketed but has no benefits or reason to exist over chromium. its also a major security risk as it is designed yet again in demonstrably unsafe c++.
> New wealth "creation" is a lie.

Wealth is created by taking less valuable inputs and producing something new of greater value. For the HN crowd, that might mean using a little energy and a cheap computer to produce software that provides something even more value than the sum of its parts. Clearly you can create wealth out of "thin air".

Perhaps you mean in the net? Where new wealth is created, equal old wealth must be destroyed? But wherein that aforementioned software was additional value destroyed in order for the net wealth to remain the same?

> It only looks that way because of devaluing currency and population growth.

Not really. While we often measure wealth in currency, which is subject to fluctuations over time, wealth is not the measurement itself. In the same vein, the physical distance you currently know as a kilometre will still be the same distance even if we redefine the kilometre.
I think Manchester is already seeing that, I remember visiting to look around for University in the late 2000s and thinking that it was a bit of a dump. When I go back now to visit my sister it's incredible how much it's changed. I think Andy Burnham being a strong local figure with a national profile + being given power to do things like sort out local transport makes it more attractive too. It feels like it has a culture growing as a dynamic place to be.

There was a definite split between my friends from south of Birmingham and those north of Birmingham though. The default for those from south of Birmingham seemed to be to move to London whereas for everyone else it was much more 'acceptable' to move to Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham post-University, even >10 years ago.
Isn't this term just an extension of the end of his last term?

He spent the majority of his term being blocked from doing completely problematic stuff by his staff who he increasingly fired or resigned.

He finally got the end of his term with many more yes-men and started doing things like impounding funds for Ukraine.

The first thing he does at the start of term 2 is more impoundment. Like sure, Day 1 Year 1 Trump doesn't bleed into Day 1 year 5 but Day 364 Year 4 bleeds into Day 1 Year 5 pretty well.
I planted $10 worth of potato seed this year, and I'll be harvesting at least $100 worth of potatoes in a few months. It would take a lot of economics books to convince me I haven't created wealth. Unless they've redefined "wealth" to the point of uselessness as a concept.
He was in a tough spot. I’m sure he doesn’t support the admin, but also he knows Apple needs tariff relief, and paying a “donation” to Trump is a good way to do that.

He basically paid $1M to try and save thousands of jobs at Apple (and of course increase Apple’s value)
https://www.gigasnutrition.com/en/blogs/ernaehrung/vince-gir...
Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB
Yeah...a sad combination of low salaries, high costs, and the English.
US DOE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land
I love this pattern, the oldest pattern.

There is nothing happening!

The thing that is happening is not important!

The thing that is happening is important, but it's too late to do anything about it!

Well, maybe if you had done something when we first started warning about this...

See also: Covid/Climate/Bird Flu/the news.
Sounds to me like it's best to start taxing billionaires and hope that other places follow suit.
I added them, because they are a plug-in like anything else, but rarely find a use for them. They are best at helping me remember syntax for single statements, nothing more. Like autocorrect but vaguer.
If you’re trying to make a point against racism, don’t bring up Morocco. It’s a “no go” zone for anyone who pays attention.
I miss Joe, he left us too early. He always had wild ideas like that. For a while he had this idea of a git + bittorrent he called it gittorrent, only to find out someone had already used the name. I think it was a bit of an extension of this universal functions idea.

If you expand some of the comments below, he and other members of the community at the time have a nice discussion about hierarchical namespace.

I particularly like his "flat beer and chips" comment:

https://groups.google.com/g/erlang-programming/c/LKLesmrss2k

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> I'd like to know if there will be hierarchial modules in Erlang,
because tree of packages is a rather good idea:

No it's not - this has been the subject of long and heated discussion and is
why packages are NOT in Erlang - many people - myself included - dislike
the idea of hierarchical namespaces. The dot in the name has no semantics
it's just a separator. The name could equally well be encoders.mpg.erlyvideo
or mpg.applications.erlvideo.encoder - there is no logical way to organise the
package name and it does not scale -

erlyvideo.mpegts.encoder
erlyvideo.rtp.encoder

But plain module namespace is also ok. It would be impossible for me
to work with 30K LOC with plain function namespace.

The English language has a flat namespace.

I'd like a drink.alcoholic.beer with my food.unhealthy.hamburger and my food.unhealthy.national.french.fries

I have no problem with flat beer and chips.

/Joe

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Most of the VC open-source projects use open-source as a lead magnet/marketing tactic only, with no intention or desire of wanting people to actually use the software.
So it only kills drug resistant bacteria that came from the technician's garden? That seems unusually specific.
[Breaking News] Kawasaki announces "quadruped" type mobility! "CORLEO" like an animal appeared at the Osaka-Kansai Expo
So THAT's why large organizations want "AI".

In such a place I should be a very loud advocate of LLMs, use them to generate 100% of my output for new tasks...

... and then "improve performance" by simply fixing all the obvious inefficiencies and brag about the 400% speedups.

Hmm. Next step: instruct the "AI" to use bubblesort.
Sounds like whoever receives the SEND money has a lot of political power.
I'm building a new terminal multiplexer called cy: https://cfoust.github.io/cy/index.html

It records your sessions and is configurable with Janet, a Lisp. I'm having a lot of fun with it! (It's also the only thing I ever seem to post about on HN, heh)
Hard Drive, ostensibly about Bill Gates, was a great read when I was a kid. I recommend ‘Microserfs’ from Douglas Coupland as a fictional (but grounded) homage to the work in the 90s.
Amazon did quite literally invent their respective industries - AWS and the cloud?
>All of these "projections" are generalizing from fictional evidence - to borrow a term that's popular in communities that push these ideas.

This just isn't correct. Daniel and others on the team are experienced world class forecasters. Daniel wrote another version of this in 2021 predicting the AI world in 2026 and was astonishingly accurate. This deserves credence.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-...

>he arguments back then went something like this: "Machines will be able to simulate brains at higher and higher fidelity.

Complete misunderstanding of the underlying ideas. Just in not even wrong territory.

>We got some new, genuinely useful tools over the last few years, but this narrative that AGI is just around the corner needs to die. It is science fiction and leads people to make bad decisions based on fictional evidence.

You are likely dangerously wrong. The AI field is near universal in predicting AGI timelines under 50 years. With many under 10. This is an extremely difficult problem to deal with and ignoring it because you think it's equivalent to overpopulation on mars is incredibly foolish.

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-...

https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=ai_timelines:predicti...
I keep thinking how radically/anarchically/unintentionally degrowth this administration is. We will probably see further reduced demand for oil because of global recession.
Define most. Less than 50% of voters voted for him. Less than 100% of the population voted.
Norway's economy is heavily reliant on oil and gas. What of countries that don't have such abundant natural resources?
Cord: Canonical serialization in Rust for security-sensitive applications