skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what I'm after. I still use regular searches quite a bit.

But a lot of my classic ADHD "let's dive into this rabbit hole" google sessions have definitely been replaced by AI deep searches like Perplexity. Instead of me going down a rabbit hole personally for all the random stuff that comes across my mind, I'll just let perplexity handle it and I come back a few minutes later and read whatever it came up with.

And sometimes, I don't even read that, and that's also fine. Just being able to hand that "task" off to an AI to handle it for me is very liberating in a way. I still get derailed a bit of course, but instead of losing half an hour, it's just a few seconds of typing out my question, and then getting back to what I've been doing.
Thank you captain obvious, but that's not what I'm saying. If your vocation involves sitting long hours you already "not taking care of your body" - humans evolved as hunter-gatherers, engaging in regular physical activity - walking, running, and foraging, not sitting all day long. Think about it - we are among a few species with horses, wolves, ostriches and dogs that can run for many miles in a single event - because we evolved to do that. Yet our ability to sit for extremely long durations is very unusual and not evolutionary advantageous. Imagine forcing a wolf to stay motionless and keep the eyes on the artificially lit up screen? The wolf will likely gets depression and dies within a year or two, if not sooner.

The human body is designed for movement, and sedentary behavior disrupts metabolic processes, affects posture, and almost unavoidably results in weakened muscles and bones.

Staring at screens for extended periods leads to digital eye strain - dryness, irritation, blurred vision, headaches. Prolonged screen time can also disrupt sleep patterns which affects melatonin production. Additionally, it too, contributes to poor posture and musculoskeletal issues, particularly in the neck and shoulders.

Typing for long hours leads to repetitive strain injuries - carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, and muscle fatigue in the hands, wrists, and arms.

If you think you can undo decades of harm to your body by occasional exercise, well, I have bad news for you. If you think you can just hop around like a butterfly when you need to do something like setting up a Kafka cluster from scratch, which requires you to have a combination of technical skills and extended periods of sedentary work, screen time, and typing - something that can't be done "very quickly and only once," you're thinking of some other profession, not this. Extend that to five days a week, for many years - that's what's required - you'll find yourself primarily sitting, staring at the screen, and typing during most of your waking hours. This is a typical facet of a programmer's life.

Software development career WILL harm your body, and there are only limited things you can do about it, and only to the effect of mitigation - there's no magical cure, remedy, or escape.
Meanwhile most of what I read on r/Revolut is people getting locked out by Revolut's automated systems to prevent fraud and stuff, without any feasible way of contacting support to recover access in a timely manner.
> I think the bigger question here is what role Chinese policy is playing in this story. Is their involvement strictly commercial?

There's little government policy behind it. It's basically:

Chinese companies invest in massive production of solar panels and drive prices down to unprecedented levels.

Pakistani individuals and businesses, facing energy shortages and very expensive grid power, decide to invest in solar panels to get cheap energy.

> Have Chinese politicians decided on some sort of Marshall Plan-style approach to the Middle East?

Not even close, and there's no reason for them to do this.
Firstly, what we call a suit is a highly varied outfit of clothes that are designed to look good on a male silhouette. Deriving from that, yes, the suit is aesthetically better- to disagree is to discount both the entire field of custom tailoring and also the rest of wider society surrounding tech.

Most people off the street would agree that a suit is more dignified, and it's not without reason. Wearing a suit indicates a level of discipline, effort, and intention about the way that you look that simply wearing a t shirt with jeans does not.

To contrast, the historical reason for the t shirt / jeans combo is practicality and convenience; tech as an industry got away with it at first, because techies were not interfacing with clients directly or simply because they're working class.

You can argue about the elitism and class differences surrounding suits versus t shirts and jeans, but I think it's a bit ridiculous to say that suits aren't aesthetically better just because of the media image for hacker types.
I was involved in a discussion about this here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427996

It's frustrating that we're beholden to Github to add support for something like this to their platform, especially when the incentives are in the wrong direction— anything that's more generic and more portable reduces lock-in to Actions.
Bitcoin goes up and down in value, BRL (or any other government currency) only goes down compared to real goods.
Hot swappable parts. Any job can be performed by any worker be they human or humanoid.
Tornado cash has been delisted from OFAC, and there is also something like monero / privacy coin.
Thx for the prompt support!
It's just a different set of in group // out group signals, not some sort of moral failing. You're well within your rights to not like the signals though.
I think we mostly agree but somehow you seem to still be missing my point.

A different tack, then. What do you mean by "vat of chemicals called a strawberry?"
Starting from the premise that an LLM can take a few bullet points and turn them into a 3000 word email,
what is the expected result of giving it a few lines of code to complete?
Has any programmer ever thought, "my problem is that can't type fast enough"?
I think the problem runs deeper than that. What you’ve done is an interesting tool for finding out more about a relatively small slice of developers.
... And have reviewed and understand completely
I may be targeted for calling this the “correct” way, but it is - it’s the only correct way.

Otherwise you need complicated setups to test any of the stuff you put up there since none of it can be run locally / normally.

GitHub Actions, like any CI/CD product, is for automating in ways you cannot with scripting - like parallelizing and joining pipelines across multiple machines, modelling the workflow. That’s it.

I would really appreciate an agnostic templating language for this so these workflows can be modelled generically and have different executors, so you could port them to run them locally or across different products. Maybe there is an answer to this that I’ve just not bothered to look for yet.
I would say "we solved this issue" if all someone did was hand me a coffee while I was debugging.

What compels you to play lingual games with peoples' livelihoods?
Can't wait to hear the inevitable slurs people will create to refer to heavy AI users and staunch AI avoiders.
Those arguments are so vague, subjective and often just irrelevant that it doesn't merit any place in a decision that inflicts such serious damage on people who don't share those beliefs. All it tells me is how some people justify such moral ineptitude. They seem to think that their personal beliefs are divine and unquestionable enough to be imposed on everyone else. Definitely not what one would call freedom.
And there's no surprise fraud claims.
> Infected development toolchains can spread horizontally to “secure” builds.

Nowadays there are so many microcontrolers in your PC an hardware vendor could simply infect: your SSD, HDD, Motherboard or part of the processor. Good luck bootstrapping from hand rolled NAND.
I'm freaking out... At 50:28 he says "...everything is green..." when referring to the monochrome terminal of the 3151, I'm seeing Cyan... is this the end?
Talking about birds, I'm aware that certain species of parrots are considered to have comparative intelligence to a young child -- and they usually live a long life.

I wonder whether it is possible to increase their intelligence further -- e.g. what if they are really as smart as 4-5 years old in one generation and a bit more in the next? Is there a way to "eugenics" (I know it's a bad word) birds on intelligence?
That is "artists should be grateful to work for exposure" on a grand scale.
I see. I have a similar feeling; as if they made it to quickly force you to pay (quickly maxing out one conversation in my case). I'm quite cynical and paranoid in this regard and I try hard not to be ruled by those two... but I can't shake the feeling that they're right this time.
I agree. I don't think they are perforated.
Where outside of Europe were "white men" in charge 1000 years ago?
Perhaps the OP completes the assigned task ahead of schedule and keeps the saved time.
>American companies dominate payment systems.

Well, not really

For example in Poland you have Blik which is really robust
I have heard that even though all transactions and payments are legal, some companies can be banned from the system without notice or a chance to defend themselves.
Block mode was sort of the text terminal version of today's web SPA's.

I worked with one at a chemical company back in the 90's, and they were wonderfully efficient. Only send a single chunk of data when needed, not a constant stream of individual keypresses that have to be interpreted and processed.
llm -f https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43621396&goto=item%3Fid%3D43620125%2343621396 "summarize the comment"
> We don't really know what's inside the event horizon or how the mass if actually distributed.

Is that entirely true? We can tell if the black hole is rotating because of the frame dragging that happens outside the event horizon. Could we tell anything about the radial distribution of mass from the shape of space outside the event horizon? (I'm asking; I don't know enough GR to know.)
Kind of. There was no evolutionary advantage to removing the blind spot because brains adapted to compensate for it on a much shorter timescale than evolution. So most mammals still have the blind spot.

Birds, on the other hand, have a disting evolutionary advantage in making their brains as small and light as possible.

To me, this implies bird brains are likely to be much more efficient, both volumetrically and energetically. That's the more fascinating angle, IMO
A harrowing story indeed.

It is nothing short of a miracle that we have not yet fallen to a nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban Missile Crisis was of course very close, with military advisors on both sides pushing for strikes. A more disturbing (IMO) tempting of fate was the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident [1], where soviet defense systems detected incoming ICBMs from the US. Protocol dictates launching retaliatory nuclear strikes, but the Soviet colonel at the early warning system, Stanislav Petrov, deemed it to be a false alarm, which it ultimately was. Had he followed orders, we would have experienced a full scale nuclear war.

Perhaps more upsetting is the number of nuclear catastrophes the US nearly inflicted on itself. The incident in the TFA is just one of several such incidents arising from a single Cold War Air Force program: Operation Chrome Dome [2]. The US would fly multiple bombers carrying up to four thermonuclear bombs in a loop from Texas eastward over the Atlantic up to Greenland then west and south over Canada back to the PNW US. Everyday we had bombers above us, and some of those days they accidentally dropped nukes on us. Two on North Carolina, two on California, two on Maryland, etc. By dumb luck alone, none of them detonated. It was only after a crash of four thermonuclear bombs on Greenland that the program was killed, two years after Spain.

Despite our gross mishandling of the risks, we have somehow come out alive. A world with nuclear weapons is not a world we can sustain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome

[3] https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.ht...

[4] https://archive.org/details/DODNarrativeSummariesofAccidents...
I wouldn't be interested in someone who can just write some code. I would be interested in someone with specific experience working on a commercial software product.

Also, while Github is big indeed, most public repositories are either concerned with open source software, are of low quality, are just cloning other software.

Most developers don't have their work in public git repositories.
Have there been any unofficial attempts to make a stdlib for it?
We tend to hit a Goodhart’s Law situation, where focusing on weight and BMI comes at the expense of actual health. That's how we get eating disorders and other mental health issues as well, so as usual it's complicated.
The West is bored to death
Basically anything plastic.

Plastics recycling is a scam.

Glass recycles well, if colours are kept separated.

Aluminium and iron and most pure or semi-pure metals too.

Far better to wash and reuse, of course, as was still the rule when I was a child, and in some of Scandinavia even 25Y ago.
Nonsense. When you have huge cheap water dams, you won't need expensive tiny battery storage
Requiring special care for a common usage, that's a hallmark of bad design.
Racket intrigued me, what did you find with it?
If you see some other way to resolve this, I'm sure Ice welcomes contributions.
I was told by a recruiter to "suit up" for an engineering position 15 years ago. I was met by the VP of engineering wearing cutoff jeans. I never listen recruiter sartorial advice.
Your comment isn't clear as to why. If you assign two vCPUs to a KVM VM, why would limiting the VM's kernel to only scheduling on one vCPU increase the speed? The vCPUs are typically all on one physical CPU anyway, unlike a mainframe. You can also set affinity/processor pinning in KVM if you have more than one physical CPU/core, with the VM being none the wiser.
Japanese society is famously sexist.... also the game was created by a woman.
The world needs to implement Pix. I truly believe that is a system which can replace SWIFT with just a intermediary, with a virtual currency that exchange rate between the 2 countries in the operation, this way the world can have a freedom outside dollar and really fast transactions.
I'm not sure what bugs me more. People using GenAI for making content or people using GenAI AND being lazy about it.
As a foreigner that visited Brazil for some weeks, I found the ubiquity of the PIX payment system to be a handicap for tourists visiting the country.

PIX is only for locals as you need to register with a CPF (Brazil ID number which is hard and tedious to get as a tourist). I ran into many scenarios where the only option was to pay with PIX and the staff aren't used to tourists and look at you funny when you explain you can't use PIX.

Also beyond PIX, if you try to book buses, planes, or take out a gym membership, while you're within the country, 99% of the time it's shockingly impossible to pay without a CPF, even by credit and debit card. I've even seen this for paying the laundry machine.

I'm sure the PIX system is great for Brazilians, and it was helpful having a local friend to make payments on my behalf, but Brazil really lives in a bubble where it seems a side-effect of their system is making things actively very hard for visitors to operate within the country.
Have you guys done any benchmarking to see which LLMs perform best?
Hum, sorry, no. It's a very corrupt liberal oligarchy.
If you’re going to make that assertion then back it up with numbers. It could just easily have absolutely no impact whatsoever because your game thread is spending all its time on navigation mesh queries which have nothing to do with actors or UObjects.
You have to go lower down the stack. Don't use AI but write the AI. For the foreseeable future there is a lot of opportunity to make the AI faster.

I am sure assembly programmers were horrified at the code the first C compilers produced. And I personally am horrified by the inefficiency of python compared to the C++ code I used to write. We always have traded faster development for inefficiency.
If that were the case, doesn't it seem unlikely that only our two evolutionary lines have kept/reintroduced it?
Exponential growth is unintuitive. More than a full percentage point was added last year and that will continue to accelerate.
Even the IAE is predicting 14% share by 2030 and they have underestimated solar for the last 10 years now
Which is funny, because weren't we in tech the people who aspired to “think different”? But then it didn't become think-different for the individual but for the tech in-group against the "square", boring, formality-driven out-group. And since the world is becoming increasingly informal and any group worth its salt needs to differentiate itself, tech people might be the first to return to wearing suits and ties (or dresses) to work. I'd love that.
Same here. I don't care to publish my personal projects on Github and my work projects aren't there for obvious reasons.
The UK's proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses/domain names
I did this with an old ASUS laptop. Just removed the whole screen after the hinges and LCD died. Worked fine!
Wait, what does Japan know that 79 year old men are middle aged?
The generative AI industry long ago demonstrated that it doesn't think things like "copyright", "Terms of Service" or "laws" apply.
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
> you can generate a QR code on the spot so the person paying can just scan it

You can also generate a R$0,00, print it and leave to the other person input how much will be transferred.

PS: Pix is so trivial to us that only in places like HN we can see how amazing it is
A button up shirt isn't formal.
Everybody adopting an open protocol is "monopolizing" now...
Not quite true though - I've occasionally passed a codebase to DeepSeek to have it simplify, and it does a decent job. Can even "code golf" if you ask it.

But the sentiment is true, by default current LLMs produce verbose, overcomplicated code
That is obviously 100% correct, I just find it interesting that we all expect our data storage to be in this completely unbreakable vault that no one can get to even with a valid court warrant, but there is no such expectation for physical spaces. Even the most secure Swiss bank will have to open their vault when the police turn up with a valid warrant.
That's a "green screen" that is tending cyan. As opposed to an orange screen.
Try:

https://www.tpart.net/
Actually that is what you do to the houses next to the house on fire. So it doesn't spread to other buildings.
Scientists Discover New Third Method for Trait Inheritance Beyond DNA or RNA
I absolutely agree, humans are creatures of context, that's why GPs opinion that not wearing a suit is a "perverse mirror image" and "mediocrity" is out of touch.
GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
It’s karma. The creatives weren’t terribly concerned when the factory guys lost their jobs. “Lern to code!” Now it’s our turn to “Learn to OnlyFans” or “Learn to Homeless”
But the ranking is not reflective of actual skills. That's the critique. Aside from very frequent open source contributors (and I think these people are the minority of devs), devs will tend to be "profiled" by this tool according to the dot scripts, university projects, Advent of Code, or other half-hearted projects they happen to have put on their Github. (Maybe I'm just projecting...)

The issue isn't that not everyone has a Github presence, the issue is that for most people their Github presence is somewhat unrepresentative of their actual job skills.
There are others...

https://www.tpart.net/
Companies need to be aware of the long-term affects of relying on AI. It causes atrophy and, when it introduces a bug, it takes more time to understand and fix than if you had written it yourself.

I just spent a week fixing a concurrency bug in generated code. Yes, there were tests; I uncovered the bug when I realized the test was incorrect...

My strong advice, is to digest every line of generated code; don't let it run ahead of you.
also known as Agile™ approach
I think this is true from a pure knowledge perspective but definitely not from a wisdom perspective.

Old people have -through their experience- gained a tacit wisdom that can be very helpful when considering life choices.
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PS: Also, don’t forget that especially elder women help with children a lot.
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Generative Benchmarking
I wonder if there is any kind of bias of perception. If we agree with this point, this probably means bankers are much more intelligent than engineers, considering the former profession has to communicate with hundreds, maybe thousands of clients throughout their career life, while engineers mostly communicate with machines -- they do communicate with their colleagues but you can see the vast gap between the two.

Maybe there are two types of intelligence -- versus humans and versus nature.
> Humanoid robots on the market for the price of a small car? That's complete science fiction.

Goldman Sachs doesn't think so.

https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/humanoid-robots-mark...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/humanoid-robot-market-researc...

https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/robotics...

They don't even need to be humanoid is the thing.
EU absolutely should do so. It's crazy that you dont run your own and then redundantly run on USA side.

russia/china are rushing to stand up their own as well.

Each sphere of influence will need to operate their own.
America via FATCA requires foreign banks to snitch out all US persons, without any warrant or accusation of crime, to the American IRS, either directly or through exchange agreement for same information through their reporting to the foreign government.

The requirements are fairly simple, but the liability is extreme so that most banks across the world generally are loathe to do this unless you have some kind of resident visa and professional+ income or a large net worth.

If the foreign (Brazilian) bank fails to do so then US cuts off their access to USD.

As a practical matter casual offshore banking for middle class or lower Americans is closed off, the message broadcast loud and clear from the government is they would prefer you to use crypto as a substitute.