skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d say come back in a few years for a bad take. But this is already a bad take.

A query in a regular search engine can at best perform like an LLM-based provider like Perplexity for simple queries.

If you have to click or browse several results forget it, makes no sense not to use an LLM that provides sources.
I had the same impression. It sounded like he was given the questions for preparation as part of the company’s process, and then OP deliberately tricked him by asking him one that wasn’t on the official list.
This story just makes me sad for the developers. I think especially for games you need a level of creativity that AI won't give you, especially once you get past the "basic engine boilerplate". That's not to say it can't help you, but this "all in" method just looks forced and painful. Some of the best games I've played were far more "this is the game I wanted to play" with a lot of vision, execution, polish, and careful craftspersonship.

I can only hope endeavors (experiments?) like this extreme fail fast and we learn from it.
I don't think you're dumb or trying to change anyone's mind or you have an agenda in general, and just trying to understand. Also, the "fashionability" of your PoV doesn't matter for me, because we're discussing here, and trying to learn from each other.

There are two problems with this PoV.

First argument is, we really don't understand how much private information we have, and how making it public is creepy. Your finances, what you own, how much you earn, your sincere chats with people you love or care are your private information. These things maybe known by limited parties, but when all of it is public to anyone, even to an algorithm reading it, and making it searchable is creepy and unsettling. I don't want a copy of asking my friend about their personal well being indexed anywhere.

This brings the second argument, and the above paragraph becomes a dangerous precedent. Consider you were chatting with your friend, spouse or child. One party says something and it can be very dangerous if it's taken out of context. One person shared an anecdote about their Alexa device. They found a recording in their account, their child saying "Why daddy always beats me?". Think about it for a second, and how dangerous this can be... The context was they were playing Uno, and dad beat their children in the game.

Again, take this recording or a couple more. Fine tune an AI sound engine with it. Extrapolate from there.

You see where this is going...

We want privacy not because we do nefarious things, but because we don't want our private matters to be publicized and not abused to harm us. This is why you put a password to your phone. Not because you hide something, but not to leave everything lying there.

Lastly, in the words of Edwards Snowden: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
There’s a big difference between a real strawberry and a vat of chemicals called strawberries.
I live in the inaka (Aomori) and my experience is the same.
> htmx is much easier for the developer, but worse for the user because of higher latency for all actions

Latency is something to consider yes. Besides that we should not forget it is easy to make an HTMX-mess: HTMX's not a good fit not fit for all use-cases and some approaches are dead end (the article even talks about this, but you find more testimonies of this online). With HTMX you also create a lot of end-points, usually without a spec: this can also become an issue (might not work for some teams).

> if you mix client- and server-side computation, then you're adding back in complexity that you explicitly wanted to get away from by using htmx.

Exactly! A good reason not use HTMX, if you need a lot of browser-side computation.

> I didn't mean (just) that. I included vanilla webtech in my definition of "normal"

If you mean "just scripting with JS (w/o any framework)" then I still do not think this is an acceptable alternative to compare HTMX to. IMHO you have to compare with something that that provides a solid basis to develop a larger application on. Otherwise you may say HTMX is great because the status quo (vanillaJS/React/Vue/Ang) is such a mess.
Whether I reach for AI or Search depends on two questions. Am I looking for a site or information? If I'm looking for information, how easily can I verify it?

Websites have all kinds of extra context and links to other stuff on them. If I want to learn/discover stuff then they are still the best place to go.

For simple informational questions, all of that extra context is noise; asking gpt "what's the name of that cpp function that does xyz" is much faster than having to skim over several search results, click one, wait for 100 JavaScript libraries to load, click no on a cookies popup and then actually read the page to find the information only to realise the post is 15 years old and no longer relevant.

There are times where I know exactly what website to go to and where information is on that site and so I prefer that over AI. DDGs bangs are excellent for this: "!cpp std::string" and you are there.

Then there's the verifiability thing. Most information I am searching for is code which is trivial to verify: sometimes AI hallucinates a function but the compiler immediately tells me this and the end result is I've wasted 30 seconds which is more than offset by the time saved not scrolling through search.

Examples of things that aren't easy to verify: when's this deprecated function going to be removed, how mature is tool xyz.

Of course, there's also questions about things that happened after the AI's knowledge cutoff date. I know there are some that can access the internet now but I don't think any are free
Just an anecdata but on my last stay in Japan I lost a couple kilos in a good month. Even though I did abuse kitkats.
What kind of advertisement trash is this? Did you literally make an account 80 days ago just so you could post this 80 days later?
I can recommend Sam Harris's meditation app. His practice is groundes on tradition but without any of the mystics.

You should strive for regularity. Twice every day. Don't skip without a hreat reason, and when you do skip, immediately forget that you did and keep going.
P&G finds AI could make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
It's also not true in organizations where headcount has been pared back to the very bones, so that everything is crunch time, all the time.
why would it be bad for federal workers to be surveilled? is there an expectation of privacy while you're working?
Yes. Surveillance because his weird organization doesn’t fit anywhere in actual org charts and its unclear who plays oversight for it or handles its data security, and because AI is notoriously prone to hallucinations and shouldn’t be used deterministically.
Interested in what your benchmark for accuracy is. I feel like for my searches that I am normally looking at a few different sources and cross referencing them to come to a conclusion about what is best for me. Do you find that AI is good at automatically figuring out what is best for you?

For instance I wanted help cooking Coq au vin yesterday. I’ve cooked it before but I couldn’t remember what temperature to set the oven to. I read about five recipes (which were all wildly different) and choose the one that best suited the ingredients and quantities I was already using.

I asked chat gpt for a coq au vin recipe, and I’ll just say I won’t be opening a restaurant using ChatGPT as my sous chef anytime soon.
There is a big difference between being in a conference room for an interview where you are judged, and on a regular work day. There is for me, and I'm old and have done dozens and dozens of interviews, largely successfully. Don't summarily judge people, especially if they're not neurotypical, as often happens in software.
Thanks for proving my point
Is there something that would track and summarize my favorite topics on HN?
>my front door still keeps my home secure even though my sister has a copy of the key.

Someone has to physically come to your house to access your front door. Computers and other computer equipment is accessible by anyone anywhere. A Russian hacker outfit can attempt to access your phone from Vladivostok in a way they can't with your front door.

Sticking with front door analogy, what if there were a master key that could open up all door locks that the police held. What if that key was leaked and now you knew that multiple gangs and criminals had the key and were breaking into houses. Would you feel secure with your front door then? Data breaches happen and a company with the keys to everyone's computer front door is a huge target. I don't trust my bitlocker key to Microsoft. There is no such thing as a magical backdoor that only good guys can use but is secure against everyone else. A backdoor is a vulnerability that puts everyone using it at risk.
Sure, but it's not actually. Everyone knows that everything you do for macos needs macos specific exceptions.
Which is way cheaper than credit/debit card charges from Visa and Mastercard.
80 day old account with no karma and only one comment. A crypto advert.
1. Yes and No. I assume Wise or another will offer this at some point with better conditions. A vendor called recarga pay offer this already but charges 4% on transactions.
2. yes, and it is used a lot.
There are a lot of programmers on this platform (myself included), and I love that my work has an impact on others.

I have a number of public repos and I have benefitted greatly from other public repos. I hope LLMs made some use of my code.

I wrote blogs for years without any monetization. I hope my ideas influenced someone and would be happy if they made some impact on the reasoning of LLMs.

I'm aware of patent trolls and know people with personal experience with them.

So I generate a lot more content that the typical person and I am still in favor of much looser IP rights as I think they have gone overboard and the net benefit for me, a content creator, is much greater having access to the work of others and being able to use tools like LLMs trained on their work.
Hot module reloading is common in JS land and does things like trying to preserve running state as opposed to just watching a dir and restarting everything.
> And they have “heavily” deployed Musk’s Grok AI chatbot – an aspiring ChatGPT rival – as part of their work slashing the federal government, said that person. Reuters could not establish exactly how Grok was being used.

Grok is FIPS complaint, right? Safe for use with confidential information? PII/PHI?
And the Receita (IRS) app has an option to pre-fill the tax declaration form, which works wonders most of the times. It requires a manual review to certify that everything is correct, but from the times I had to declare my taxes (I'm living abroad so I don't have to do it anymore), it was as easy as loading the pre-filled details and just verifying if everything was correct.
Not even police are safe from high-tech spyware
My info is several years out of date so take with a grain of salt. Pix is a phenomenal in country payment system. One of a couple of the best next gen payment rails.

But its design is very much hard to work with for international transactions. It has some risk rules and design choices that make this true. I believe this is intentional as Brazil wants to maintain pretty conservative currency controls.

But! Similar things could have been said about pix and online shopping rails. It wasn’t great for that as it wasn’t the primary use case. And that is changing fast so maybe the international use case will improve.

UPI in India for instance does international work well in a similar conservative currency environment.
I use Kagi, but I will say, the Quick Answer (Place an interrogation after your query for an LLM based answer) has been way more useful than I initially thought
You want an unelected, foreign entity to have total visibility into your government?
At the risk of sounding overly harsh, I just don’t think this crate is a particularly good idea. I really do mean this as constructive criticism, so let me explain my reasoning.

A function being marked unsafe in Rust indicates that there are required preconditions for safely invoking the function that the compiler cannot check. Your “safe” function provided by this crate sadly meets that definition. Unless you take great care to uphold the requirements of async-signal-safety, calling your function can result in some nasty bugs. You haven’t made a “safe” wrapper for unsafe code like the crate claims, so much as you’ve really just traded one form of unsafety for another (and one that’s arguably harder to get right at that).
China's BGI Genomics loses access to Microsoft's office software
> would even use IBMs brand alignment for computers.

For those of us not in that world, could you explain what that means?

And, could you give some details on your last paragraph?
Not one individual quoted in the article. Not 1.

Seems like legacy media is not pretending anymore and has transitioned into make-believe land after CNBCs airing of "unconfirmed information" about tariff pause only 1 day ago.
Many of your remaining freedoms are provided by dissidents who fight for them, not you. Their fight against the state requires secrecy and plausible denial. If the state is able to peer into all aspects of your life and others they can route out dissidents by process of elimination. States naturally evolve to be fascistic and the culture required to prevent that generally decays as the memory of what exactly ‘Chesterton fences’ were preventing is lost to time.
Compliance? What's that? Sounds too lawful. Must be a relic of the past.
Trump will fix it --- by creating a global recession.
Thomas Watson, Jr.'s A Business and Its Beliefs was published in 1963 and makes no allusion to the S/360 work. It makes for curious reading today, for unrelated reasons.
> "If you're making a dynamic page, then you want to push as much logic to the client as possible because far more users are latency-limited than compute-limited"

That's an assertion I don't agree with.

Data still needs to come from or go to the server, whether you do it in a snippet of HTML or with an API call.

In either case, latency is there.
> a Russian tourist in Vietnam can use Mir

If you can find a place that actually accepts it! It’s certainly not as ubiquitous as the local Napas247 QR codes.
If you make a blog with nice original long form articles it may take much longer to gain traction. Reproducing the content in "your own" wording quickly gets fuzzy.

I like the practical angle. Any formula that requires monitoring what everyone is doing is unworthy of consideration. Appeal to tradition should not apply.
While I agree cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance, my experience with qr systems has been a mixed bag. The country I live in has a fairly good qr code payment system. But there was one day when the largest bank went down and that was chaos (cash very much has a role to play). We also supposedly have linkage with India's UPI. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to actually use that linkage thanks to the way upi works (I think only some subset of banks are supported).
I've been wrestling with this tension between embracing AI tools and preserving human expertise in my work. On one hand, I have experienced real genuine productivity gains with LLMs - they help me code, organize thoughts and offer useful perspectives I hadn't even considered. On the other, I realize managers often don't understand the nature of creative work which is trivialized by all the content generation tools.

Creativity emerges through a messy exploration and human experience -- but it seems no one has time for that these days. Managers have found a shiny new tool to do more with less. Also, AI companies are deliberately targeting executives with promises of cost-cutting and efficiency. Someone has to pay for all the R&D.
You can definitely still buy it in Scotland.
I've had the best luck at getting it to produce diagrams-as-code like mermaid or plantuml.
> The fact that you can't use Pix in the US has no bearing.

The comment I replied to was claiming Bizum operating "cross border" showed that Pix could do so, so it is very much relevant in context.

It is a very special case of cross border. It is technically cross border but does not have the difficulties of cross border in all of the rest of the world outside the EU.

In any case it is arguable whether these are separate countries or just states of the EU. It has a common currency, a parliament that can legislate (in certain matters - rather like the US Congress) for the whole EU, courts, a central bank, a public prosecutor and many other "national" institutions etc. it also have the symbols of a state such as a flag and a national anthem (albeit both shared with the Council of Europe), EU passports state they are EU as well as the issuing country's name etc.

Even if you do regard it as a cross border one it is very much atypical and cannot be replicated elsewhere.
The Chinese gov. can incentivize consumers directly via the social credit scoring.

Buy local -> get more points -> congrats you can now ride the train.
Most organisations never come across a problem that requires neatly clustered high-end hardware.

"[T]he IBM Telum II processors are eight cores running at 5.5GHz and with a 360MB virtual L3 cache and 2.88GB virtual L4 cache. Telum II brings a new data processing unit, I/O advancements, and other features to help accelerate AI workloads."

But if you do, if you actually have such massive data streams and low tolerance for latencies that sharding them over many machines costs a lot in overhead and throughput slows down intolerably at load peaks, then these machines are most likely a bargain. They allow you to do things very few other can do, resulting in a moat around your business and locks you in with IBM.

Or you've been around since the seventies and your software largely consists of COBOL, Fortran and assembly for this line of architectures, and it would cost you two decades of the great rewrite while all your developers do very little else, then it's also a bargain to be able to stay in business.
which foreign entity are you referring to? and was this unelected entity appointed by an elected one? Federal judges in the USA are unelected and some have a foreign background. Are you against them too?
What do you mean? You can build any level of UX (user) in React that you can achieve without it right?

I'd say all these FE framework help us build and structure browser applications that potentially increase UX over "just HTML pages". Hence they all try to improve the DX building such apps compared to vanilla JS or jQuery.
I work with user in far location, bad internet signal, and terrible low-end androids.

Htmx has been the best performant of all my tries before.

HTML is fast. (also, I use svg everywhere I can)
I interpreted it as: crypto is proprietary in that it is bespoke. Crypto prior to ethereum didn't even have a concept of compatibility. Forks of existing crypto could be considered proprietary with respect to each other and with respect to the original project being forked. The need for bridging to other chains/coins as well as the need for on/off-ramps also speaks to the somewhat-proprietary nature of modern cryptocurrencies.

All that said, however, crypto isn't proprietary compared to traditional banking or other payment transfer tech in the ways that make crypto, well, crypto - the lack of third party intermediaries. Anyone can develop for crypto, and the capabilities of the network can be extended by properties of crypto tokens.

Any individual crypto token or network may be open source or proprietary with respect to its development and acceptance of outside contributions, but the ecosystem as a whole is amazingly interconnected and interoperable. This seems incongruous conceptually when crypto is framed in terms of being proprietary, because crypto is constantly reinventing itself in plain view, through entirely new networks and tokens, and out of sight, through the efforts of working groups and individuals to support and maintain existing projects.

I think it's entirely fair to call crypto proprietary, and also fair to find it not to be, but there's a world of difference between how proprietary bitcoin or even ethereum is compared to something like xrp. Who controls the network and who controls development are the key differentiating features among these axes to my mind.

Crypto could potentially be the best or worst of both open and proprietary worlds, but in the best case, crypto can be open in ways that are good, and only proprietary in ways that are necessary and sufficient.
Inside crypto giant Paradigm with Co-Founder and Managing Partner Matt Huang
How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020)
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Incidentally, this concept of modifying one's ecosystem comes up in Richard Dawkins' book The Extended Phenotype, which is a follow up to The Selfish Gene. One of the illustrative examples is beavers turning fast moving streams into convenient slow moving fisheries by building dams. The ecosystem the beavers built is "natural" in the sense that beavers are animals and it's in their nature to chew through trees. But presumably, at least some other animals were pushed to extinction when their habitat was modified by the beavers.
Yep, even if 0.1% of those people are experts on a very specific field of manufacturing, that's immediately 86k people.

You can't beat that with any amount of automation.
posting stuff for free is different than selling stuff.
> Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

I think its entirely reasonable for an employer to monitor employee communications on company media channels. I've dealt with a few toxic employees in the past where their incessant complaining and passive sabotage of work is incredibly harmful to morale and work of others.

I don't really see how using AI is controversial other than it's being done more efficiently, flagging just blatant violations. Seems preferable and more respectful of privacy that having an employee read all communications manually and applying judgement.
Hardly the type of intrusive advertising that sparked these discussions.
My suggestion would be to create an account for her with Nubank or Mercadopago, which are easier to use, faster to login than any banking apps, and have PIX more readily available after login, and then keep some money on the new account just for the kind of purchases she'd use pix for.
I do that for myself just for ease of use.
Goodbye Old Phone Friend
> I've been living in Brazil for the last 20 years.

If you have moved about 15 years before that, you'd have experienced the hyperinflation years and you've come to understand why Brazilian (retail) banking systems were always pushing the state of the art.

(You'd also understand that cryptocurrencies are not meant to compete with payment networks that have institutional backing, but that's a lesson for another day)
… Hold on, are you expecting them to name their sources? On this? Really?

Like, protecting sources is about as old as journalism. Without it, you’re really just a conduit for press releases.
In a sense it didn't change much. It's not like the government can access your transaction data all the time. They still need to go to court and request a warrant for that, to break your bank secrecy.

It's not different from what we had before.

EDIT: it didn't actually change a thing. Banks are still required to maintain transaction data private, and agencies, including the government, MUST obtain a warrant to break transaction data secrecy.
From what we've seen so far in this admin, none of that matters much anymore.