skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is mediocre at a lot of things, but it makes a damn fine upgrade from stock photos. This is the art that’s going to get replaced by this tech, shitty low effort stuff. Images where you just need a picture of X because people are expecting a picture.

It’s the same with code. I don’t think software engineers will really be replaced, but small web dev agencies have a good reason to be nervous. Why would you pay someone to make a website for your restaurant when 3-5 prompts will get you there?
I really wish the “slowly fade elements in as they scroll onto the screen” would die.
In ye olde dayes, indeed by hand. That's why there was often extra space after punctuation. In more mechanized times, the operator has to watch for it. Proofreaders are trained to watch for loose lines, rivers, widows, hyphenation errors, and other spacing problems. Those things will be marked as errors in proof. Even with modern DTP tools, typesetters still have to make a lot of manual corrections. Of course, for print, you're setting for a fixed format. You can do a lot of fine-tuning that a browser can't do on the fly.
> Eh, China has 20x-ed its GDP per capita in a generation. They're not slaves.

Maybe not according-to-hoyle slaves, but they're not in a great spot either:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-l...
Not sure about HTMX specifically, but I've used it with Rails/Hotwire/Stimulus (similar conceptually) and it works great.
There are two main reasons that individuals don't build their own houses and cars from scratch.

1) They don't know how.

Specialization is a thing. But this is a thing that applies to individuals rather than nations. You don't need every person to know how to mine ore or hang drywall as long as somebody does. But a country the size of the US could certainly contain someone who knows how to do any given thing.

2) They get paid more to do something else.

This is the argument that you get paid $200,000 to be a doctor and people who mine ore get paid $80,000 so it's better for you to do $2000 more work as a doctor and then pay someone $800 for ore than to put on a miner's hat yourself.

But this is again something that applies to individuals rather than countries. There are people in the US who already get paid less than $80,000, or less than $30,000, or even who are unemployed. It makes no sense to convert doctors into miners but it makes plenty of sense for the people who are currently doing something that pays even less.
A former employee of Cyc did an insightful AMA on HN back in 2019:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828
lots of people bought $3000 apple products more than 20 years ago:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/08/24Apple-Offers-Aggres...

more than $5000 in 2025 dollars!
Perhaps the suit wasn't the one level up that people are talking about? If you accidentally go 3 levels too formal, you've definitely ruined the initial impression.

Me personally, I like working at places where people can wear shorts and flip-flops. One level up is "pants and shoes, with socks", not even a collared shirt. Maybe a single-color new T-shirt, to be safe. A full suit would be an alarmingly bad read of the culture, and at that point we'd have made you come eat lunch at a burrito place to get a read on whether you're really a bad fit or just socially awkward.

The best thing I heard from an interviewee that was wearing a suit was that they interviewed elsewhere nearby that morning, and those people needed to be impressed with clothing.
How so ? While it is P2P protocol, the network is pretty centralized.

UPI is owned by NPCI(gov entity) and runs on top of IMPS both the networks are strongly regulated by RBI the central bank.

There is fair amount of regulation and KYC/ AML requirements before an app/service gets direct access to the network and even then it can be pretty challenging. WhatsApp struggled for years to get UPI integration .

Holding money in a wallet has even more regulations than merely transferring it .

Payment networks tend to centralize by their nature. I see pix or UPI as competitor to Mastercard or VISA , they have proven it is possible to run a network far cheaper than claimed
Coincidentally I just did an asymptotic complexity analysis yesterday (something I rarely do). It seemed right since it's by the book but I wasn't sure. After running the extensive benchmarks on the algorithm, I was so happy to find the results matched the asymptotic prediction. The lesson is verify, verify, and always verify.

[1] Algorithm, https://github.com/williamw520/toposort/blob/master/Algorith...

[2] Benchmarks, https://github.com/williamw520/toposort/blob/master/README.m...
I remember saying the same thing about my girlfriend's conservative mother, in my mid-twenties, around the time when people were very worked up over GWB's supposed degradation of US World standing. It was a mistaken sentiment. What I didn't understand then is that they are voting for their interests. It's just that their and your idea of their interests differs, and they're obviously correct in their evaluation. Because they are them and you aren't. Common misperception.
Just because I think some people are mistaking what is being talked about, OpenAI has chatGPT search, which is distinct from chatGPT.

Here's the difference as per chatgpt search https://chatgpt.com/share/67f5ae28-5700-800d-b241-386462a307...
I don't know how it works on Linux, but for Windows, the 'MagicDNS' just automatically adds a bunch of static entries to your hosts file to resolve the TS FQDNs and simple/machine names.
> The advice in this article was to hold out as long as possible for a desirable job, which meant a ton of networking, taking internships if possible, and also possibly additional schooling.

Emphasis on the next actions to take.

Being in a graduating cohort affords you certain opportunities -- internships, career fairs, faculty-connected networking.

Post-graduation, and especially post-college, people don't have these same opportunities.

Fwiw, I'd lean very heavily into interning. Take an internship at the best company you can, that's likely to have solid financials and be hiring when you finish the internship.

Intern -> hire is a ridiculous cheat code for your first "in industry" job.

The employer decreases the risk of making a mistake on an unproven new grad. You get a job offer if you do enough solid work. Win/win.

Worst case (no job offer), you should push really hard for a solid recommendation letter from your direct or second level manager.
I tried using ChatGPT to find my porn, and it refused to answer, so yeah, right back to a search engine.
I use search engines because I want a source for the info I get that I can assess the trustworthiness of.

Sadly search is massively enshitified by AI generated SEO'd crap...
Could it be linear time? I thought larger inputs take longer for models to process. I suppose it depends on the length of each line and the number of lines.
Even if one were to be very generous and assume that this plan will lead to all jobs that were outsourced coming back, that's really only half the problem - technological progress is always going to displace some jobs. Without everything you mentioned, those whose jobs simply do not exist anymore are out of luck... and also now everything is more expensive because of tariffs
It's worse. GitHub is owned by Microsoft and exists as a community resource only as long as Microsoft's benevolence holds out.
“If hitting water at 150mph feels like concrete, what does concrete feel like?” — road racing saying.
> While keeping in mind that this isn't a field that I have a ton of practice in, I can confidently assert that a parser for HTML input that outputs CSS classnames does not need all of the following:

This is kind of an example of the Dunning Krueger curve. You’re admitting naivety while also claiming confidence, which should give pause.

The main issue I have with your argument is the framing - you’re trying to make your build tool as simple as possible to a developer like yourself which is not who the tools were built for or by. Context matters. Not everything is designed to work on 15 year old hardware and most developers would simply scoff at an engineer who thinks the best way to build software is with ancient hardware.

If you view everything as trying to use as little dependencies as possible (like a C programmer should) then you absolutely will think it’s bananas that this used 100 MB of dependencies. But if you have a different perspective, you may see that the dependencies don’t matter that much as long as it works.

In fact, by using common tools that have good interoperability, that are only used on a developer machine, it doesn’t matter too much what resources they use. Of course if you’re developing on a 2010 laptop with 16Gb of RAM then you may have issues but that’s not the open source developers problem. If all the open source developers had to fit your performance constraints then they would just not get much work done at all.

My main point is that developer tools don’t have to be light speed, they just have to be fast enough on modern hardware, which they absolutely are for frontend. I have enjoyed 3-5 second iterative builds on all my projects for the better part of 10 years.
> on the assumption the project has failed.

My daughter's PhD thesis was largely negative results. Even if the project had failed, we could learn from it if it wasn't so secretive. It could be much more open without being OSS!
Isn't it better just to own the debt of other countries?
Was mask manufacturing capacity during the pandemic an issue?
> A heuristic arose which (as part of a daring but ill-advised experiment EURISKO was conducting) said that all machine-synthesized heuristics were terrible and should be eliminated. Luckily, EURISKO chose this very heuristic as one of the first to eliminate, and the problem solved itself.

Hilarious and brilliant.
This was predictable, but demonstrates something very important about trust.

Trust is now gone. You can not trust America. This, and everything else, will harm generations of American's as every other country and person on the earth understands that our word means nothing. Today's promise is tomorrow's attack. If you give, we will take and give nothing back.

Everyone will at all times have to sink resources into being on guard and asking how every action potentially weakens or strengthens them.

Trust is the inverse of zero sum ideology. Trust means you can let your guard down just a little and spend a few less resources being on guard, but people with a zero sum ideology destroy this.
> “Everything” may be a bit extreme, but seriously, have you already forgotten the lessons learned during the Covid supply shocks?

I don't why the mainstream media isn't focusing more on this angle. Five years ago the richest, most powerful, country in the world couldn't get basic medical supplies to its citizens during a public health crisis. That should have terrified us into making major policy changes, but instead everyone just seems to have shrugged it off and gone back to business as usual.
There is plenty of room for whataboutism. But what won them this case is that Trump himself said that the AP was banned because of what they were printing in their stories. That's walking across a bright line boundary where "Wait why is it OK to exclude racists?" isn't.
> Maybe Cycorp's knowledge base will be made generally accessible at some point, so that it can be used to train LLMs.

More likely, it will be made increasingly irrelevant as open alternatives to it are developed instead. The Wikipedia folks are working on some sort of openly developed interlingua that can be edited by humans, in order to populate Wikipedias in underrepresented languages with basic encyclopedic text. (Details very much TBD, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia ) This will probably be roughly as powerful as the system OP posits at some point in the article, that can generate text in both English and Japanese but only if fed with the right "common sense" to begin with. It's not clear exactly how useful logical inference on such statements might turn out to be, but the potential will definitely exist for something like that too, if it's found to be genuinely worthwhile in some way.
The Paradox of Progress: When Innovation Limits Creativity
The dataset for lots of LLMs is literally called "The Pile" lmao
I enjoy the backstory[1], though, about how he ended up that way:

> He was told the area was restricted and he couldn’t go through. Ignoring the request, he instead drove off at top speed into the rocky terrain of the restricted area, making sure the military officials weren’t following him, according to the site.

> Leray told the UK’s Sunday Times that he had travelled around Africa about 10 times so knew the region well. But before long, his he crashed the car into a rock, rendering it unable to drive.

[1] https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/07/03/photos-man-escapes-af...
Just repurposing that gas used for heating to generating electricity for heat pumps is a big step forward, delivering more heat for less gas and synergises well with wind and batteries which further reduce gas usage.

Gas boilers are now the leading source of NOx pollution in London since they've made so much progress on traffic sources.
> There’s no set definition for what a chair is.

Sure there is: a chair is anything upon which I can comfortably sit without breaking it.
> I wonder what will make the AI developers feel old…

When they look at the calendar and it says May 2025 instead of April
Can likewise confirm dblohm7 is a real human too :)
How does this theory show that birds didn't first become intelligent, and then started cheating because they're now intelligent enough to do it? The "sitting and watching" theory makes a lot more sense to me.
>I don't know that the prior situation was sustainable and would have lasted much longer anyway. Using China for manufacturing is like using Amazon for sales. You are required to give them everything they need to take your business away.

So why the broad spectrum tariffs? Why are we blowing up our trade relationships with Canada, the EU, UK, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and many many other countries who have been good, honest trade partners?

This isn't about China's sins in economic dealings. If it was, the tariffs would only target China and there is an explicit case to be made that indeed, we should be putting tariffs on Chinese made goods, the same pattern may hold true for India as well FWIW.

But our other trading partners have been very good to the American economy, and we blew that up overnight.

We left a vacuum for another economic force to fill now. All the nations we put tariffs on, not only will the tariff US made goods, they're now overnight going to be looking for a place to transact hundreds of billions worth of units, and China can now offer sweetheart deals to absorb that trade, and that weakens the US (and as consequence, western) alliances.
While this interesting, what are its main applications?
it would get the point across much faster. but it would be a less enjoyable interaction. this is an example graph that i'm never going to look at ever again. i don't even need to care about information. like, it's mostly irrelevant to me. it's a toy example. and it's a bit of a fun example to make people go 'huh, this is a cool vizualisation package'.

if i had a dashboard i needed to use at work set up like that i'd have a bloody conniption after a week. but this isn't a work dashboard -- it's a functionality demo and i'm more likely to remember echarts now as a result (purpose of examples achieved).
I assume you didn't try Google in the late 90s?
This article is technically way beyond me, but can anybody explain to me what on earth a "worked example" is? That expression is completely incoherent.
That tracks. Thanks for the response!
A/B testing. I don't always get AI gibberish in place of actual page summaries. Either way I want to see actual results even if I clear my cookies or open a new private tab.
This made me think of one person who cares for it - Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography appears to have spent quite a bit on bringing typeset-like text to his website.

https://practicaltypography.com/
The sign up email including my username and password in the clear is more than a little concerning.
My bad - point stands, just wrong element/molecule.
If you believe adding it up linearly is valid, and you care about the results, you should be using more efficient storage software.
https://archive.is/RTGXI
I open the website. Cookie banner does not have reject option. I close the website.
Yeah Pix lets you choose limits. There's decent granularity for those, you can pick max $ per day, per transfer, per period, and per device. There's a caveat that when you increase a limit it takes a day or two to come into effect (basically to avoid people being forced to increase their limits by criminals).
Mainframes are the polar opposite of commodity hardware. Those pizza boxes are commodity because they're plentifully available, and you can mix-and-match if needed, there's nothing cheaper for you to run your VMs on. Running them on a mainframe would put IBM as a middle man between you and your business.

Also, mainframes/midranges are all about stability, security, and robustness, not performance. For example, IBM i (the OS, not the machine) has a hardware dependent layer, and a hardware-independent one. This allows for drastic hardware changes without affecting the high-level applications. A monolith would be arguably more efficient, but it matters more that the hardware-independent layer stays rock-solid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#Architecture
The flaw is in putting these things out as alternatives to each other.

The future of manufacturing is in automation, but in order to do automation you need machinists and computer science. You need people who can design a machine that makes other machines, which is a physical device that operates under the direction of software.

Getting people to learn to code instead of learning how to build machines doesn't get it.
I have definitely broken chairs upon sitting in them, which someone else could have sat in just fine. So it's unclear why something particular to me would change the chair-ness of an object.

Similarly, I've sat in some very uncomfortable chairs. In fact, I'd say the average chair is not a particularly comfortable one.
Yes I use google. I haven't tried chatGPT yet.
He's saying "I'm horny, where's the ladies?"

The hammering is how they find eachother over long distances. Just heard some the other day hammering on my gutter. Went out to scare him off, and lo and behold there were two pairs outside frolicking around in the trees.

A couple years ago I saw one while I was out on my back deck, he started hammering, then about 2 minutes later a female shows up, and they flew off together.
> But what of novelty, craft, innovation?

I would argue that a plurality, if not the majority, of business needs for software engineers do not need more than a single person with those skills. Better yet, there is already some executive that is extremely confident that they embody all three.
It does a web search so you got more lucky. I searched for it because I found it on the product page of the manufacturer and I was interested in finding a place to buy it.

Google offered me a few hits with existing businesses, with ChatGPT I need to do another query.

Out of curiosity I tried it and it did take me to a wholesale company (single result), but the Google results are better with cheaper options (multiple good results), I can also parse the list faster with my eye.

Sure, I can just write a better prompt:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f5b09b-c154-8013-840f-934af8302f...

This is my third attempt to get it right, but it found me one which I haven't seen before. However I would still do a Google search to be thorough and get the best deal.
German and Japanese bonds. Because … well, you probably have a good idea why.
Only if you can enforce it when there is a default. The odds against which was assumed to be zero is becoming nonzero.
voyage-3-Large
The problem is that you're portraying this as some sort of law of finite biological resources or something, rather than a probabilistic effect of breeding small populations.

Most genotypes or "random mutations" are totally neutral for an organism, but let's say that of the notable ones, it's 50/50 whether they will be "good" or "bad".

If we find the "good" smart parrot, it's likely they have some other "bad" stuff we can't see or just don't care about. When you keep inbreeding, that other bad stuff will be fixed along with the intelligence. This is purely a limitation of our knowledge of the genome and lack of other inputs. You can out-cross to reduce the bad traits, but you risk losing some of the intelligence too. Theoretically there is another bird out there that solves the "bad" trait without affecting intelligence, we just don't know which it is.

Nothing stops you from having a win-win-win. You could randomly find a bird that is super smart with rainbow feathers and the voice of an angel... It's just incredibly unlikely to roll all those attributes in one individual and keep them through multiple generations.

As to why wild populations haven't naturally evolved to be smarter, that is an entirely separate discussion about countless competing selection pressures and how genes spread through larger populations.
> I don't know that the prior situation was sustainable and would have lasted much longer anyway. Using China for manufacturing is like using Amazon for sales. You are required to give them everything they need to take your business away.

If if comes to pass that the 21st century is a Chinese one, it will be this long con that launched the whole thing: "We'll manufacture anything you want real cheap, just show us how to do it."

The U.S. outsourcing it's manufacturing to China is likely to go down as one of the biggest economic and political self-owns of the modern era.
As we reached such thin matters, can we have now "ui: modular" and "data-changes: async autoupdate"? Cause using a tight userland framework for components and [a]syncing data to ui starts getting a little old.
GP's whole thesis was that bird intelligence is related to their high-in-the-sky perspective and prey tracking, which is wrong. If this was the case then the smartest birds would be raptors.

The need for intelligence comes from being a generalist, needing to learn and apply a large complex set of situation dependent rules. This is why specialists like raptors, chickens, penguins are not renowned for their intelligence. A good outward sign of intelligence is playfulness, a trait evolved to put the player in learning situations to feed their intelligence. Animals like apes, dolphins and crows are all very playful. Eagles not so much.

So, yeah, I was correcting GP. If you don't like it, then too bad.
* You cannot ethically use a tool that was produced by appropriating the labor of millions of people without consent. You are a bad person if you use it. *

I disagree. When you publish your work, I can't copy it, but I can do nearly anything else I want to with it. I don't need your consent to learn from your work. I can study hundreds of paintings, learn from them, teaching myself to paint in a similar style. Copyright law allows me to do this.

I don't think an AI, which can do it better and faster, changes the law.