skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was replying specifically to

> There’s a big difference between a real strawberry and a vat of chemicals called strawberries.

> The market is filled with products labeled "strawberry" that are not really strawberries

What is a "real" strawberry? Is a generically modified strawberry "real" to you? What about a strawberry grown in a greenhouse?

> even close to the makeup of strawberries.

If you're talking about flavored food, sure. Maybe that's what they were meaning. That would make sense. That's not what I'd consider a "vat of chemicals called a strawberry," as the a would seem (to me) to indicate that it is a replica of a strawberry.

> the ship of Theseus analogy seems misapplied, since we're not talking about a situation where the food choices we have are between the real thing and some molecularly perfect replica.

Sure, it's a hypothetical that we can't yet technologically replicate in its entirely. The GMO/hothouse question is entirely practical, though. And the point of these kinds of questions isn't that the're immediately practical, it's to figure out an interesting question by pushing things to the limits.

> fact that everything is made up of the same stuff of the universe and more to do with questioning whether or not the human-made processed option is safe in the long run.

That still isn't the point, though. Sure "chemicals" is a bogeyman for many (see also dihydrogen monoxide). But why is "dihydrogen monoxide" bad but water good?
Fast fashion - also ruinous to the environment.
G. G. Tonet "Dedicated to Norbert Wiener" (1981) [video]
Correct. This is why Stirner is the best Philosopher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own

There is nothing other than Egoism.
Some 352,000 young people emigrated from Italy in 10 years
"Even before the Holocaust, there was plenty of support for that: the Inquisition, pogroms, the Ghetto, expulsion from various countries throughout the Middle Ages."

And yet who were the ones to give yo refuge from the horrors caused by Europeans? Those very same Palestinians which you so despise

Evil is evil. no amount of propaganda can wash off that stink.

How far have you fallen, from being the victim to the attacker. Yet you still care to remind us all of how your people suffered. And then you go ahead and murder more innocents.

Evil. No other word can suffice.

<Shadowbanned - No surprise :-)>
The movie adaptation was pretty good! Great cast, and the screenplay was written by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Civil War, etc).
do tell!
> How’s basing the US economy on services looking now?

Until this administration kicked in, historically high?
The factories of today are nothing like the 1980s factories this administration thinks they are going to bring back. Go to FRED or any other economic data site and plot manufacturing output and manufacturing employment on the same chart. The US manufactures more today than we ever have in history and it grows every year. Meanwhile, manufacturing employment is around its all time low and declines every year.
> But thats stuff you have figured put after your 20th tattoo.

So... after spending hundreds, if not thousands, of hours learning a skill?

I got a tattoo back in the day and specifically went to one the guys in my platoon said was good due to him being featured in magazines or whatever. It's kind of an important thing to get right on the first, not 20th, attempt IMHO.
Congrats! My only feedback is that it's irritating to be counted "wrong" for naming a correct answer whose clue hasn't been simplified completely yet.
Unused memory accesses thrashing cache
I don't think a project's core security concerns should be left up to my charity.

I get why they need the permission to implement their cutesy drag and drop interface.

But I'd like to hear why these apps can't continue to hide menu icons after you've revoked the permission. Ice and Bartender at least require you to grant it at all times last I looked a few months ago.
The economic picture of what will happen is instead of being an American engineer designing widgets made in China, some fraction of you are now decimated to be an American widget maker of items engineered in China. Tarriff is essentially just a handicap to comparitive advantage in trade, trading out jobs where you had the advantage.

It is one of the most baffling thing I have seen our government do in our lifetime.
This could help:

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064
As an owner of two border collies I feel like in some ways we're already on the very cusp of it starting to get creepy. Our female is insanely intuitive and able to figure out what's going on in simple sentences (probably mostly keywords and tone) and is extremely alert to the things going on that might be key to her.

Let's say you breed a dog past toddler level intelligence, and a little more conscious, and communicative... How do we now feel about them having a lifespan of 10-15 years? It's already heartbreaking enough. Imagine if they were aware of their mortality and short relative lifespans...
What if there are no open positions on my experience and I have to pivot to another completely different tech stack that I studied in my spare time? What then? Should I be unemployed?

We're still taking about SW engineering here, not medicine or rocket science.
The average software engineer is working on A to B plumbing code to confer more privacy violating javascript onto webpages, not novel implementations of algorithms at scale.

Likewise the average machinist is not "skilled" in the way that most here are implying.
Well, that's a bit different. Laziness is a virtue in our field in ways that it is not in other fields. Math is a good example. Mathematicians are even more lazy than programmers. That's how they end up with shorter proofs than our programs and end up able to work lying down as well as just sitting on a computer.
thank you. the catastrophizing that makes up so much of this site is such a dead-end. seems people rather engage in sensational fantasy instead of understanding. cheers
I Backdoored Cursor AI [video]
I was surprised this wasn't mentioned in the article - I assumed this is what they were talking about.
Can't find an old dogeared copy for under 40+ w/shipping, but this book is now at the top of my list.
AI will be a better at manufacturing than any human ever. It will do the best machining ever. It will never need to rest or slow down. It will be able to build and rebuild parts to nanometer tolerance 24/7/365. It simply cannot fail at any job once it learns how to do it. If you don't believe me, go watch the latest keynote at Zombo.com
I agree. I'm seeing that trend as well (teams using Rust instead of Go, JS, Java). But only for teams that are very experienced and really passionate about programming languages and software engineering (typically most of us here on HN). I'm under the impression that the majority is sticking to the usual tools — Java, C#, Python, Go, JS/TS — and not ready to use Rust.
Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
India is a classic cyberpunk dystopia. High tech penetration, extreme income inequality, prevalent hacker undergrounds (as shown in the article) and horrible quality of life.
You can specify a container image in GHA for a job to run in.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosin...
A begrudging defense of Nintendo's "Game-Key cards" for the Switch 2
I share your concerns.
In The Netherlands, weather companies sued the national weather service because their new app was seen as competing with their interests, but they lost the court case (summary proceedings): https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...
This is the eternal evolution of individual labor.

But then the question is - do you think going backwards to an earlier time is a solution?

Go far enough back to individual homesteads doing some light farming, hunting, fishing. You'll be self sufficient, but you won't be able to afford a phone or television!

It's going to be a difficult problem (always) solving for the future of individual contributions to society as labor gets replaced by automation, and even knowledge work gets replaced by machine learning.

But I still think great minds (and also the minds that get put in charge) should look forward and try to build a good future, rather than cling to a dying past.
A package manager written in Rust for a language designed to be embedded in C and which relies heavily on C libraries, and also configured in TOML when Lua itself was created to be used as a configuration language in C programs?

No, thanks.

Luarocks has its limits and probably should be rewritten, but using a language that fits the ecosystem and following the culture of the Lua ecosystem.

Rust and Cargo represent exactly the opposite of Lua.
things used to be made better because of baumol cost disease and far fewer people having those things.
Currency rates are also a factor.

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”

https://archive.is/uvL5w

> The deepening trade war is raising speculation in financial markets that China may resort to aggressively devaluing the yuan against the dollar in a break of their policy of pursuing a stable currency.. A weaker yuan would make Chinese goods cheaper abroad, offsetting some of Trump’s tariff impact, and make it costlier for local consumers to buy US goods.. One big consideration for Beijing is the risk of foreign investors pulling their money out of China if the currency sinks.
> from the artists perspective there are fewer jobs, and the jobs that do remain are less fulfilling.

Re-read what I wrote. You repeated what I said.

> So: from the perspective of a large part of the workforce it is completely true and rational to say that ai at their job has mostly downsides.

For them, maybe.
Rope to Nope and Back Again: A New Hybrid Attention Strategy
Prions and Protein Design
This is true, but a software company that does not provide good software well eventually do worse than one that does.

There is no substitute for actually providing value at the end of the day.
The #1 reason that this technology won't proliferate more quickly is that humans are a bunch of COOMERS!

We get Stable Diffusion V1.5 and SDXL and what does the community go do with it? Lmao see civit.ai and it's literal hundreds of thousands of NSFW loras. The most popular model today on that website is the NSFW anime version of SDXL, called "Pony Diffusion" (I'm literally not making this up. A bunch of Bronies made this model!)

Imagine that an open source image generator which does tokens autoregressively like this at this quality is released.

The world is simply not ready for the amount of horny stuff that is going to be produced (especially without consent). It appears that the male libido really is the reason for most bad things in the world. We are truly the "villains of history".
> There is no "legal", "orderly" retreat from the current situation IMHO. It's going to be messy.

.. so what's the point of this again?
Now all vibe coding tools just need to copy paste this into the system prompt
> Pix has spiced up Brazil’s fusty banking sector, but it gives the central bank a worrying amount of power

Economist what you think central bank does exactly that this is somehow too far?
Why would you even search for that out of the context of the IDE where you're coding or writing documentation? If you're writing bash you'd have all those man pages loaded in context for it to answer questions and generate code properly.
> awkward and/or neurodivergent people are going to have to learn social skills again.

Whatever future interviews look like, I sure as hell hope we don't maintain this ^ attitude.
You don't use OFFSET because the btree index just sorts the rows from smallest to largest. It can quickly get the first 30 rows, but it can't quickly figure out where the 30th or the nth row is. When pagination is crawled it will crawl the whole table, so it's important that the worst case performs well.

The fix to this is to paginate by saying "give me 30 rows after X" where X is an unique indexed value, e.g. the primary key of the row. The RDBMS can quickly find X and 30 rows after X in the sorted index.

This makes it hard to implement a "previous page" button but nowadays everything is a feed with just a "show more" button so it doesn't matter much.
Entirely possible we are due for a third try
> But I do agree, on the scale (0-1?) of how much your government can take away your liberty (when you haven't committed a crime) and compel you commit crimes, most western countries probably sit around 0.01 to 0.05 maybe, North Korea sits around 0.98 to 0.99 and Australia probably 0.4

What do you base this on?
On the topic of interview prep - is it weird that I’ve never been able to bring myself to do it? I can’t be the only one, right? As best as I can tell it’s never really hurt me (okay, there was a Google interview I failed where grinding a few leetcodes might have helped…).
how would increasing the cost of labor mean that we have more manufacturing jobs in the US today?
Human brains have gotten a little smaller since we left the stoneage.

Maybe the ours are getting more efficient too.
Using AI to review and improve your CV would make sense, just as you can ask a person for help and review.

But not using it for creating lies and pretending you're skilled in areas where you're not.

Or would you say that if HR uses humans to screen CVs, you can cheat by using a friend's CV instead (using a human, like HR)
I think the playbook is easy, as you described multiple countries went through more or less the same process.

The difficulty lies in political will and execution. Either fails then the whole scheme fails.
I agree. Thankfully that happened to me in the tutorial, so I went into the real game understanding that.
It's really easy to catch these scammers. Ask for a non-trivial code or work sample, something they have written. Actually take the time to read through the code and understand at least a part of it. In an interview, ask them some questions about it. People who actually wrote the code or did the thing can talk at length about about what they did, the history behind it, trade offs, have colorful stories about it, etc. I don't even care exactly about the technical details of it, I'm looking for signals that they are a liar.

If they say they don't remember, that's a red flag. If they can't describe how something works, that's a bigger red flag. You're not looking for photographic memory, but it's very obvious once you do it a few times who is real and who is lying.

It's common sense, if you don't put in at least a tiny bit of effort in your hiring process, you can only expect to attract similar low effort candidates.
Which people got the COVID vaccine first?

Why is HN in English and always talking about FAANG?

Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?

Asking for "vital" and "21st century" is a paradox, so maybe it's not what you really meant. But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.
Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1CsokD

NB. It wasn't Apple who moved to block the secrecy of the hearing. Apple seems content to let UK Apple computer owners mistakenly believe they can trust the company's promises of "privacy". Meanwhile the company was participating in secret hearings with the government concerning computer owners' data.

"The ADP service is opt-in, meaning people have to sign up to get the protection it provides."

Defaults matter. They are intentional. They are chosen by so-called "tech" companies like Apple that interlope as alleged "necessary" intermediaries: "Send us your data and we will store it in our data centres."

Apple's default is "no end-to-end encryption". ADP off.

The judgment referenced in the submission is only the "public" one, a summary. Apple will not publish the "private" one.

The data at issue is not Apple's. But the data owners are absent from these hearings. Their only knowledge of how the "data custodian" Apple advocates, negotiates and capitulates on their behalf comes from vague publicity and the custodian itself.
Similar to what I'm doing with https://wonderful.dev (example dev profile: https://wonderful.dev/alan) where profiles can't be edited, devs can only connect their GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. and we fill in the profile for them with real data. No more fake Linkedin skills.

This difference here is wonderful.dev adds points to skills based on repo stars. We take a dev's contributions to a repo, times that repo's stars, then assign those points to the repo's languages on the dev's profile. It's a proxy for impact by language.
Yeah that's what I read in Showstoppers too.
The US bombed North Korea back to the Stone Age. The US of the 50’s was not civilized. At least..

We could get into deportation to the El Salvador shithole prison if you care more about the present age.
the US is the most diversified economy in the world, we do not only have services.
Those were not middle class jobs before the 1950s nor were they for long afterwards.

The idea that one can be functionally illiterate yet afford a home, a car and a family by spending 40hr and no more riveting spring hangers onto Chevrolets, or whatever, is a legacy from a blip in time during which the US had a bear monopoly on state of the art for the time manufacturing.

Those men who worked comparable factory jobs in the 1870s through the 1930s had wives and kids doing piece work at home. And in the 1970s their wives all went back to work again, just outside the home.
C solved the horrible machine code problem by inflicting programmers with the concept of undefined behavior, where blunt instruments called optimizers take a machete to your code. There's a very expensive document locked up somewhere in the ISO vault that tells you what you can and can't write in C, and if you break any of those rules the compiler is free to write whatever it wants.

This created a league of incredibly elitist[0] programmers who, having mastered what they thought was the rules of C, insisted to everyone else that the real problem was you not understanding C, not the fact that C had made itself a nightmare to program in. C is bad soil to plant a project in even if you know where the poison is and how to avoid it.

The inefficiency of Python[1] is downstream of a trauma response to C and all the many, many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it. Garbage collection and bytecode are tithes paid to absolve oneself of the sins of C. It's not a matter of Python being "faster to write, harder to execute" as much as Python being used as a defense mechanism.

In contrast, the trade-off from AI is unclear, aside from the fact that you didn't spend time writing it, and thus aren't learning anything from it. It's one thing to sacrifice performance for stability; versus sacrificing efficiency and understanding for faster code churn. I don't think the latter is a good tradeoff! That's how we got under-baked and developer-hostile ecosystems like C to begin with!

[0] The opposite of a "DEI hire" is an "APE hire", where APE stands for "Assimilation, Poverty & Exclusion"

[1] I'm using Python as a stand-in for any memory-safe programming language that makes use of a bytecode interpreter that manipulates runtime-managed memory objects.
How about this? https://theconversation.com/a-robot-nearly-headbutted-a-fest...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics – 2013 [pdf]
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/25/ycombinator-startups-surve...

I would argue they know..
> So ... pretty much none

You’d be surprised. It describes all the extensions I use.
As an MIT reject (technically waitlisted), my very first post-graduation job was at Raytheon and much later in life, I ended up at Facebook, where I managed a team that had several engineers that joined directly from MIT. While I can't speak to the entire MIT grad cohort, fFacebook was the first-choice for everyone in this particular group.
Moldable Development is not specific to Smalltalk. We already show how it works for other languages. Some ideas are already inspiring other environments, like Clerk.

In the meantime, consider GT as an extensive blueprint of what's possible. If there is one thing we learnt is that the technology is the smallest investment. The real investment is in learning how to exploit the idea of contextual tools for solving hard problems. That's what takes the longest, but the difference to how those problems are approached today can be measured in orders of magnitude.
Hey, sounds great.
How do I contact you?
> make these sums available to companies that will scale their American operations

As always, it comes back to the solution which pays executives and shareholders from taxpayer and consumer money. That's the system which gave America Boeing: too big to fail.
As Social Security services are cut back, seniors face long drives
Looks pretty bad but considering this was impossible a couple years ago(as far as I know) it’s very impressive progress
I think a tool like this would be targeted more towards eliminating false positives, rather than eliminating false negatives.

I think this tool as a whole is probably an awful way to judge a candidate. But that's not really the point. The point is to find additional candidates with a low false negative rate.

E.g. over the past year I've written tens of thousands of lines of zig code. But that's not on my resume nor my LinkedIn. this would allow someone to include me. Is the code good, or am I a good candidate? Impossible to tell... Ah, but now you have heard of me! :D

There's more fluff on the page, but it's just fluff, and safe to ignore.

> And my employer asks me to fill out a form before I publish personal projects, so that they can be sure it is unrelated to my job (and thus that they do not have a patent or copyright claim over the code). This means most of my weekend projects simply aren't public, because I can't be bothered to do the paperwork.

Your employer is bad and they should feel bad! If you have the option you should consider changing to an employer less willing to make the world worse... or maybe a jurisdiction where that toxicity is unenforceable.
>This is the eternal evolution of individual labor.

This argument of "fuck others' jobs, I got mine" works if you're OK with having a handful of prosperous cities full of multinational conglomerates with smart/educated people in the service industry, surrounded by slums of poverty, crime and homeless people on drugs who can mug you, as their industry blue collar jobs got offshored and they couldn't "just learn to code bro".

There's a reason countries with a solid industrial base like Germany are livable almost everywhere with a lot less income inequality, poverty and homelessness, and try to hold on to these jobs.

UK's deindustrialization is also another point on the map. Great if you work at some bank/tech company in London, not so great otherwise.

>Go far enough back to individual homesteads doing some light farming, hunting, fishing.

No one's arguing about going back to the stone age. But having moved nearly all manufacturing to Asia was a mistake, not only we lost jobs but also scale, competencies and bargaining power.

Remember the covid pandemic when you couldn't get masks initially because most were made in China and they were hoarding them all for themselves? What then? Use stonks as masks?
Maybe arstechnica
AI will often casually lie / make up points which sound authentic.