skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you do this you are creating a rod for your own back: You need management to see the failures & the time it takes to fix them, otherwise they will assume everything is fine & wonderful with their new toy & proceed with their plan to inflict it on everyone, oblivious to the true costs + benefits.

If at every company I work for, my manager's average 7-8 months in their role as _my_ manager, and I am switching jobs every 2-3 years because companies would rather rehire their entire staff than give out raises that are even a portion of the market growth, why would I care?

Not that the market is currently in that state, but that's how a large portion of tech companies were operating for the past decade. Long term consequences don't matter because there are no longer term relationships.
Faster is not a smart metric to judge a programmer by.

"more code faster" is not a good thing, it has never been a good thing

I'm not worried about pro AI workers ruining their codebases at their jobs

I'm worried about pro AI coworkers ruining my job by shitting up the codebases I have to work in
Is there an online bank that allows to create an account just with the CPF and no proof of permanent residence?
I know iDeal because I had to implement it for a customer a few years back, but that's the first time I hear about EPI

After looking to see what it is about, I can tell you that even though I have accounts in three of the "Founding Shareholders", I never heard of it, they never pushed it to me and I only saw references to Wero in one of their app, but I had to look closely for it.

So I have doubts regarding you statement about "it should become the standard in the EU"
Congrats, you’ve been promoted to be the cost center. And sloppers will get to the top by cranking out features you will need to maintain.
Onomatopoeia Odyssey: How do animals sound across languages?
Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
Parrots in captivity have tons of unneeded survival traits to give up.
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You forgot:

2024: What do you mean I can't copyright AI generated artwork?
China and Russia have managed to eliminate Microsoft software in the government with some success.
Yeah. Nobody seriously commits to it because fundamentally the idea of EU countries quickly moving off American tech services is as flawed as the idea of American manufacturers quickly moving to production in domestic factories:

* There's no existing infrastructure. OVH and Hetzner are great for smaller projects and businesses, but no serious enterprises and governments are using them, as far as I know. There's no real alternatives to Android, iOS and Windows. (Sorry, folks; not the year of the Linux desktop quite yet.)

* It's expensive and time-consuming. The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!); even if a viable alternative existed right now, migrating from AWS to a domestic cloud service is a 5+ year project that distracts from other initiatives.

* Compounding on the above, business leaders still largely expect this to be a one-time event, believing there's low likelihood this policy would last past 2028. You're not going to see much beyond research and planning for at least 4 years, before anyone commits to investing hundreds of millions in a massive tech migration.

* Besides all that, where do you actually move to, specifically? You can say "the EU," but given the rise of populism in the region, are you confident enough to bet $500m that there won't be a "Gexit", "Frexit" or "Swexit"? Is every country in the EU going to make their own Amazon-scale cloud provider and Windows-scale operating system? Seems unrealistic.

The most realistic outcome is that MS, Meta, and Alphabet all continue to push region-specific data residency for their cloud platforms and OS'es, so customers are more insulated against foreign policy changes... and charge European customers more for the trouble.
When asked about the measles death, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One that if the outbreak progresses his administration will "have to take action very strongly."

I wonder what "very strong" actions could be taken. Masking? Mandatory vaccines? Lockdowns?
We can dispense with most of the clergy now that we have LLMs. The words can be understood and interpreted by the LLMs. And any deity that can create life and guide people telepathically can also nudge the probabilities in responses to give you their word when you ask for advice.
I interned at IBM writing mainframe software in 2008 or so. One thing I remember them saying - there used to be TV commercials - that a single mainframe could replace a rooms worth of commodity hardware.

I would have assumed that someone would have started a cloud provider with Linux VMs running on mainframes instead of racks of pizza boxes. What was missing - are the economics of mainframes really that bad?
Did a private equity fire truck manufacturer consolidation worsen the LA fires?
I became a doctor to save lives. The state of Alabama won't let me: op-ed
When advertising is taxed/banned, we'll have to resort to making our own dangerous forms of advertising and bootleg them around without the cops catching us.
Please go back to your resting place, Mr Lamarck.
Do we really want CEOs corrupting our government like the last administration? This sounds like a good thing to me.
Tech is the obvious one, but there are lots of less obvious ones, like designing the things that are manufactured elsewhere.

It turns out production of most goods is commoditized and a race to the bottom (assuming free trade), so if you want margins that can support high salaries, you have to move up the value chain (read: services).

If we keep tariffs high enough for long enough, we will bring back manufacturing jobs. They will not be high paying unless unions artificially constrain labor supply. The cost of everything will be higher (relative to people’s incomes), implying a lower standard of living.

tl;dr: If we want to withdraw from the world economy we mostly can, but don’t expect to have as nice of a life afterward.
I didn't know what knock-out certificates were, so here's an edited excerpt from Claude:

"Knock-out certificates (also called "turbo certificates" or "barrier options") are leveraged financial derivatives popular in Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and France. They're structured products that allow investors to speculate on the price movements of an underlying asset with leverage.

...

They have a built-in "knock-out barrier" - if the price of the underlying asset reaches or crosses this predetermined level, the certificate immediately expires and becomes worthless or is redeemed at a minimal residual value."
See related ten-minute video, "How Private Equity Bankrupted Fire Departments":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW-RtTRm8w

Also "As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price":

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/fir...
I find a different framing more appropriate:

Supreme Court Hides Behind Ridiculous Procedural Argument To Allow Human Trafficking To Continue [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/08/supreme-court-hides-behi...
I graduated in ChemE in southern California in 1999 when there was a major downturn in the job market. One or two big chemical engineering design firms closed their SoCal offices flooding the market with qualified chemE's, aerospace companies were consolidating, etc.

Some of my school colleagues got good jobs at refineries and whatnot... but they were the fortunate ones. It took me 12 months to land my first "I made it" engineering job with a good salary. In the interim, I worked hourly jobs making between 13-18 USD an hour.

Don't let the current job market deflate you. You are young, intelligent, and you have a degree from MIT... you are going to be fine.
A military satellite waiting to launch with ULA will now fly with SpaceX
Anyone can do whatever they choose. I try not to "should". There is a potential distribution of consequences for acting in protest. The degrees to which each individual cares, knows enough to care, etc are diverse, and that diversity is important. I prefer an alternative story than "neoliberal/surveillance capitalism ftw!" and that leads to conflict, which I'm learning to navigate.
Well, I can vote so that the thing my government does to me is something I want.

The foreign corporation will always be exclusively interested in doing things to me that generate revenue for them.
I think, Studio Ghibli will be affected, as well, since their "trademark style" (as we used to say), formerly a welcome sight and indicative for a certain type of story telling, will be devaluated as an indicator for slop. (Much like there are certain traits of an image, which we associate with soap operas and assume to be indicative of a low-value production.)
> hope to wait it out

This investment thesis is about to be tested at scale.
Not sure why this is downvoted. People forget or weren’t around for the early 2000s when companies were absolutely preoccupied with code copyright and terrified of lawsuits. That loosened up only slightly during the GitHub/StackOverflow era.

If you proposed something like GitHub Copilot to any company in 2020, the legal department would’ve nuked you from orbit. Now it’s ok because “everyone is doing it and we can’t be left behind”.

Edit: I just realized this was a driver for why whiteboard puzzles became so big - the ideal employee for MSFT/FB/Google etc was someone who could spit out library quality, copyright-unencumbered, “clean room” code without access to an internet connection. That is what companies had to optimize for.
Like TikTok AI Coding breaks human psychology. It is engrained in us that if we have a tool that looks right enough and highly productive we will over-apply it to our work. Even diligent programmers will be lured to accepting giant commits without diligent review and they will pay for it.

Of course yeeting bad code into production with a poor review process is already a thing. But this will scale that bad code as now you have developers who will have grown up on it.
The obvious problem here is the vast majority of software professionals in the US are not working on open source projects. So this tool is probably only useful if you’re looking for an open source dev or someone junior trying to break into the industry.

Basically all of the major tech companies have boilerplate hoops you need to jump through to make open source contributions on the side, let alone open source anything major internally.
i have friends who have had to deal with the NHS and absolutely ridiculous (like year+) wait times for specialists.

frankly i find the american healthcare system quite good if you have good job-tied insurance. most of the problems arise because we don’t have any sort of triage for high need issues and thus get overutilization and high cost.
> Manufacturing does not mean jobs.

Exactly. I think a lot of people who say they "want manufacturing to come back to the USA" have a picture in their imagination of a 1950s factory employing hundreds of middle class people standing along an assembly line picking up parts with their hands and working on them, or turning bolts on a car as it goes down the line. Then the old steam whistle blows, and all those workers exit the building and drive back to their middle class 1950s homes.

This world does not exist anymore and is never coming back. If manufacturing comes back, it's going to be heavily automated plants with a lean staff of robot technicians keeping the line going. Manufacturing may come back to the USA, but those Fred Flintstone jobs are not part of the picture.
> ...but when I look at voting patterns in particular, I find myself pessimistic that the elderly are wiser than average.

Wisdom like 'It's harder to build something than it is to tear it down' and 'Change carries its own risk.'

The irony is that older people overwhelming voted for Trump on the basis of returning things to the way they were... and then Trump staffed his administration with young ideologues who are determined to upset the traditional order.

Midterms will be curious.
IMO if Trump is serious about bringing manufacturing back to US, his No.1 job is to remove all middle-high managers from all government agencies.

The whole government has been bathing in the globalization alcohol for so many years that there is a huge interest group rooted for it to go forever. You can't do much without removing this group.

There is no "legal", "orderly" retreat from the current situation IMHO. It's going to be messy. The issue is whether Trump is doing the job or he is just faking it for whatever the reasons.
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I said "better code faster". Delivering features to users is always a good thing, and in fact is the entire point of what we do.
A fun fact, one of the biggest PIX players is also the company that acquired Cognitec¹, the company behind Clojure and Datomic. Until not long ago, Rich Hickey was part of the staff².

1. https://building.nubank.com.br/pt-br/nubank-acquires-us-comp...

2. https://building.nubank.com.br/clojures-journey-at-nubank-a-...
I never understood the people that use things like this or a mouse-jiggler. If I wasn't working, someone would notice within a day or two.
The "Roshamon Effect" always kicks in when people share their personal perspectives about time working at a turbulent organization, but even so, I was surprised that this piece made no mention of Quartz's founding editor-in-chief and co-CEO, Kevin Delaney.

I'd overlapped with Kevin during a different period, and he was always a fountain of fascinating ideas. At Quartz, I though he showed great skill in championing expertise in niche areas, under the banner "Our Obsessions." He (or his team) were uniquely bold online in the way they let memorable photos carry more of the weight.

Once Kevin left in 2019, at least from my reader's perspective, all the air went out of the balloon
I am missing a great email provider here in EU for transactional emails. User notifications, welcome emails and so..
Currently I am using US based Postmark and I am very happy.
Straight forward to set up, great deliverability, cheap, transparent.
Nothing comparable here in the EU. It's either too complicated, very expensive or just shitty.
Since there will be so much solar installed it's quite inevitable that energy storage will be also growing on a lagging but similar exponential curve. Solar is becoming big, and if a major impediment is storage which is not a hard problem like fusion to solve, there will be tons done to bring it into reality.

Even if the current solutions are inadequate, the same was true for PV 20 years ago, it just needed investment in R&D. Investment in R&D of grid storage is at the highest in history, and growing.
Biomimetic freestanding microfractals for flexible electronics
I was primarily responding to this:

> The real quest is getting multi planetar.

Which when viewed as the "real" quest, has potentially problematic downstream effects. My point was that there are many people who see who see the world as something to escape and live lives prioritizing things that harm our long term ability to survive here in the pursuit of that escape.

I appreciate the clarification that this is not what you meant. It wasn't clear that the "real quest" had any connection to the side quest since they seem unrelated.

> Multi-planetary life is life more resistant to medium to large cosmical calamities.

I don't disagree. But I strongly believe that stabilizing the home base is a higher priority in the near term i.e. at a time when the planet is in a precarious place, spending enormous amounts of resources trying to colonize mars is a questionable priority when we have more immediate problems that would benefit from such lofty ambitions.
How would one infer intelligence from the fossil record?
As a founder, the best use case is competitors/inspirations for me. I get many updates I'd have missed out otherwise
Unprotect corporate speech.
as a Lisp-curious person, Fennel was a gateway drug for me
The inventions are the new names. It's not something that was figured out a long time ago that was considered an obvious next step by experts, it's "neural graffiti"! It's "liquid memory layer" !
Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands
I'm often in the terminal and forget a command (or never knew it in the first place). This is a simple tool that lets you type out what you want, gives you several options, and then automatically puts the one you want in your clipboard.
I didn't say I would automatically believe something just because the reporter says "anonymous source." The reality is the administration's PR people spout an endless steam of lies, and "leakers" who share real facts are fired. There is no surprise to how this plays out: reporters seek the truth, employees want to share the truth, employees don't want to be fired, and you get anonymous sources out the wazoo.

The reason I said anonymous sources don't cause me to immediately dismiss articles is because I don't want to reward the admin for purposefully creating this shitty situation. I'll use other critical reading skills to determine the articles' value. It sucks that heavy reliance on anonymous sources isn't a huge flag anymore, but it is what it is.
No, but when it comes to running experiments on animal subjects we do have to wait for ethics approval from an institutional review board.
Skilled machinists are very well aware of deflection and resonance. Operating a machine tool is not static in the slightest.
>And yeah, you guys, it's time to buy a suit.

Most of your points I agree with, but this? Cmon grandpa
While typically both mammals and birds are significantly more intelligent than the other vertebrates, it must be not forgotten that there exists an overlap in intelligence between the smartest reptiles, e.g. varans a.k.a. monitor lizards, and the dumber mammals and birds.

So also outside of mammals and birds there are some cases of brain evolution towards greater complexity, even if not reaching the typical mammal/bird level, and which are likely to also correspond to a somewhat different brain structure.

(Off topic, in my opinion, "reptiles", is a term that is properly applied only to lizards and snakes. Not only crocodiles and turtles are more closely related to birds than to lizards and snakes, but also none of them are crawling, as implied by the word "reptile". Actually the present crocodiles are awkward on land only because they are secondarily adapted to an aquatic life. Their terrestrial ancestors were much more agile, as still demonstrated by some crocodiles that are even now able to gallop.)
There is a pretty big gray area in there. Literally every society on the planet has some form of "giving up their freedoms" in exchange for some amount of security. I would argue that it's impossible to have a stable society without that. The thing that's important is deciding which rights are worth protecting and which ones are ok to give up in exchange for security (or other reasons, presumably).
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My method has always been pour half of your amount of ground coffee in to the cafetière, fill it water so it just covers the layer of grounds, leave it to settle then pour the other half of grounds over the wet half let that to settle for a few minutes, longer the settle stronger the coffee gets. Then when ready pour the remaining water over the grounds. Leave the plunger up and leave it to cool before pouring.

Another tip is that boiling water can scald the grounds resulting in not so nice coffee. So boil the water and leave it to cool for a few minutes.

A couple spoons of honey instead of sugar works nicely as a treat too; especially if you get luxury honey. Add a chewy cookie to the mix and you have my bribe.
Same! I take this very seriously and rarely break URLs unless the resource is truly gone. For my commercial website I monitor 404 pages.
I agree with most of the sentiment here, and have actually considered building something like this myself. I think the biggest need is to find a way to expose contributions to private repositories somehow—right now, this assumes you are your public commits, which isn't true for people spending the majority of their time inside of private repos.

I know the LinkedIn API is limited but it would also be cool to see a social graph of contributors you have worked with somehow. Finding the people, their titles, and companies would be valuable to see where you level (just imho).
I'm actually impressed with some of the software there. Its matured quite a lot since I last looked at it.

I might try OnlyOffice. I've never really gelled with LibreOffice due to the UI.

My organisation has recently gone all in on MS intune/O365. Its been happening gradually but accelerated recently. I think some heavy taffies might make us look at it again, but probably not.
That feeling of not knowing what to do with it is an example of humans being stupid. We are all victims of being "Johnny" in this paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3544548.3581388
Moral of the story? Don't tell em you used AI to prepare or they will write a whole article about you
You are describing how things are. The post you replied to describes how things should be. Are you sure the two of you even disagree?
This would happen if browser technologies/standards would, you know, standardize. However, everyone and their uncle picks and chooses what they'll support, how they'll support it, and what extensions to the standard they want to champion for "standardization".
Europe is in a tough place. Not only most software platforms are from the US, but also most of the hardware.

For Europe to catch up it will need lots of startups which can grow up and become unicorns. This isn't going to happen because of the mindset, bureaucracy, reglementation, lack of capital and lack of time.

China is in a better position to become independent of US tech than all the EU countries together.
Meta got caught _first_.
That's amazing, congrats!
At least for the cloud, one could consider the Lidl cloud called STACKIT, which targets larger businesses.

Otherwise FULL ACK
It is a common phrase that, as commonly used, has no connotations with the suit as a style of dress: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suit%20up

But you do highlight the flaw of natural language, where it only works where there already is a shared understanding. When quite often there isn't. Heck, 90% of the comments on HN are from actors having different understandings for technical jargon and talking past each other because they aren't even talking about the same thing. Such is the tragedy of the human existence.
Let's have a quick look:

Qwant France EU Hosting

Sure, but the search engine behind is monstly Bing.

Startpage Netherlands EU Hosting

Use Bing and Google

Ecosia Germany EU Hosting

Use Bing, Google Yahoo and Wikipedia

This is not how you build alternative platforms.

The only true Independents search engine are Brave Search and Kagi both from the US.

The EU can't compete, we are lagging behind.
Russia is also on the move and about to relieve the taliban from the their terrorist list[0].

0. https://apnews.com/article/russia-taliban-afghanistan-terror...