skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree on the cost aspect.

> It won't hurt if we try to bring it all back, but it will take the same amount of time and sacrifice China put in to take it.

I think this is missing a huge aspect: Chinese workers are very cheap compared to US levels of income ($25k/15k with and without adjusting for purchaising parity!).

Those differences are gonna be paid by the average American, but not only that: Inputs for all those industries are gonna become more expensive than they are (because of retaliatory tariffs), and everything else (retail, restaurants, craftsmen, etc.) is gonna become more expensive, too, because the onshored industries compete for labor (and there is not a lot of unemployment in the first place).

Compare agriculture: Faces similar pressure (wages lower elsewhere), but is harder to offshore (goods expire, food safety)-- the US still pays ~20 billion every year just to prop the sector up (and I recon that is money well spent). But I would not want to spend similar amounts in direct/indirect taxes (i.e. tariffs) on mining, ore refining, metalworks, textile processing, electronics assembly and a dozen others, just to have "more self-sufficiency"- you could maybe make an argument for it in some cases (involving Russia or China), but what is the actual problem with buying some machine-tools from allies like Germany or Japan?

I'm very confident that we are NOT gonna see a large, self-sufficient American manufacturing industry in 4 or 10 years; people may continue with the current approach for a bit, but will realize at some point that the situation is not improving (prices rising faster than wages, as well as government debt and/or median effective tax burden spiraling out of control).

My prediction is that we're either gonna see Trump declare "mission accomplished" at some random point, or reverting on the ~20% average import tariff because of mounting pressure.

In conclusion: It will hurt to try to bring manufacturing back, and there probably won't be much to show for it in the end.
> Record global temperatures in March illustrate threat to climate goals

Be afraid, be very afraid.
Instead of scary news, will be nice something in the spirit of "We discovered that wars pollute, so we will stop", "we don't want to kill trees, wild animals and people anymore", "we discovered that we can live a decent life without having bilions in profit at the expense of others" etc.
@NabilChiheb: Please note that your CSS URL is currently an infinite redirection loop:

$ curl -D - 'https://gitmatcher.com/assets/index-CKQ82hdV.css'
HTTP/2 301
date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:58:51 GMT
location: https://gitmatcher.com/assets/index-CKQ82hdV.css
...
> The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!)

The real question whether any migration to cloud was really necessary, or even a cost saving in the end.

Cloud could be considered a brain drain, in a sense.
Hyperbolic x vercel x Next.js Hackathon
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The Llama 4 launch looks like a real debacle for Meta. The model doesn't look great. All the coverage I've seen has been negative.

This is about what I expected, but it makes you wonder what they're going to do next. At this point it looks like they are falling behind the other open models, and made an ambitious bet on MoEs, without this paying off.

Did Zuck push for the release? I'm sure they knew it wasn't ready yet.
This feels like cope; ignoring that there are multiple kinds of “lazy.”

There’s the kind that focuses on simplicity and avoiding unnecessary work to achieve the same goal (the good kind); and there’s the kind that just ignores necessary work and drags out the process delaying the goal (the bad kind).

There are plenty of programmers, and machinists, in both camps. Many programmers actually are lazy knuckleheads in the worst sense of the word - and, according to recent researchers, 10% of programmers self-admit to doing nothing at their jobs.
It's still Scotland's leading soft drink and you can buy the original high-sugar recipie:

https://irn-bru.co.uk/products/1901
In 2024, the world added 553 GW of new solar capacity. China added 277.17 GW.
But this is talking about proprietary RAW image formats, which should be the data from the sensor with minimal processing. The entire point of RAW images is that you are skipping the majority of the ISP and applying those blocks in the processing software. Even the de-mosiacing step is done in the processor. There is really no reason why this is proprietary. This doesn't stop the camera company from applying their proprietary processing on the JPEG output that utilizes the full ISP.
I'm no big fan of LLM generated code, but the fact that GP bluntly states "AI will never produce a deletion" despite this being categorically false makes it hard to take the rest of their spiel in good faith.

As a side note, I've had coworkers disappear for N days too and in that time the requirements changed (as is our business) and their lack of communication meant that their work was incompatible with the new requirements. So just because someone achieves a 10x speedup in a vacuum also isn't necessarily always a good thing.
Take it to the limit and show up to an interview in full white tie attire.
Isn't build.zig.zon the equivalent of the manifest in that case though?
Congratulations! What was the stack/language you used to make this [ didn't see it in your original post ]?
I guess I was disagreeing with "this isn't fucking around". Because it absolutely is, as you say, in today's USA. FWIW I have no problem with the USA moving towards more protection for its workforce, I'd encourage it, even. I doubt it'll happen any time soon though.

And even should that incredibly unlikely thing come to pass, I can't see public embarrassment of high-up muckety-mucks by worker drones working well, ever, really. "Bringing the name of the company into disrepute" etc. etc. would be all they'd need. Fired for cause, end of story.

There are ways to safely say you disagree with your company's policies, but causing a fuss with worldwide coverage at a major company event seems ... shortsighted at best. You'd be better off asking a very pointed question at one of the "Town Hall" meetings that big companies have, when executives are actually able to be challenged by the worker drones, in front of the whole company, but only the whole company. I'd see that as far more likely to actually succeed in doing something than making a public spectacle. Just MHO.
I'd take it farther to say that copyright and intellectual property is a legal fiction that ultimately benefits the wealthy[those who can pay to legally enforce it] over small artists.

Small artists get paid to create the art; corporations benefit from exclusivity.
Your link doesn't take users to the 'Ghibli-style' tool but rather your homepage with multiple tools. If you are a 'huge Ghibli fan' why build a tool that rips off the artists that create the art you admire?
JetBrains Terminal: A New Architecture
They got the dataset from Epoch AI for one of the benchmarks and pinky swore that they wouldn't train on it

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-benchmarking-organizati...
> However, it did mean that you could find more lucrative opportunities in different places while also affording to move and live there.

Same as now. The data clearly shows more job opportunity in rural areas (not all rural areas) and more affordable living to go along with it. But we haven't (yet) reached the dire situation where the people actually have to make the move like previous generations found themselves in. Most people won't leave family and friends behind unless they feel they are out of options.
I too spent far too many years in the adtech industry before realising that what I thought I was doing (helping fund cool things on the web) was not what I was actually doing (destroying the web as I knew it.) Having left it behind in the early 10s it's got way worse than I ever imagined, there's effectively no regulation at all now, and certainly no way of knowing where the ads stop and the content begins. Having sat in ad industry self regulation meetings myself I know the author is completely right, they will never do anything about any of the many many problems, so what else is there to do than ban it, nothing else is going to work with the system that currently exists.
I'm the same, and it makes me paranoid. I feel like I'm investing purely in one company instead of any defensive diversification.

But my job is very demanding and I have 4 hours after work to spend with my wife and kids before I have to start all over again. I'm just not in a season where interview prep (which may as well be a university 16-week course) is reasonable.
LMArena was always junk. I work in this space and while the media takes it seriously most scientists don't.

Random people ask random stuff and then it measures how good they feel. This is only a worthwhile evaluation if you're Google or Meta or OpenAI and you need to make a chartbot that keeps people coming back. It doesn't measure anything else useful.
Reminder: Livestream This Thursday April 10: Open AI WebRTC Q&A with Sean DuBois
Ahhh this is what I was waiting to see mention of, figured "nubank has to be in here somewhere"
Show HN: Open Responses –Self-hosted OpenAI Responses API, works with all models
My personal preference is for (say) 15-20 years.

And, as a content creator, I practice what I preach - at least when it comes to my poetry: https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/blog/copyrights
teamwork makes the reamwork
Show HN: SerenGPTy – See who else is asking the same questions to ChatGPT
> If they're young.... if they're from a different culture...

These are just instances of my point (a): not having a clue about SV work culture.

> there are even people who wear suits all the time

Not in silicon valley tech. I mean, sure, maybe there's one guy and the number is not zero.
This take is not compatible with reality. China is nowhere near peer with the US militarily.

Small drones are irrelevant for a Taiwan invasion. They don't have the range to get to Taiwan, and anything large enough to carry them will get poked full of holes on its way across the strait. The US meanwhile can bomb all of those manufacturing sites, while China is unable to bomb the US mainland.

The best China could do in this situation would be to nuke Taiwan and make the whole thing irrelevant, but why bother at that point.

It's much easier to attack the will of the US to defend Taiwan ahead of time. A US committed to military defense of Taiwan would not be defeated.
What Beautiful a House. I wonder if any of his Usonian designs are still being built these days.

Edit: Just found the reference and I need to learn to read :) So yes is my answer
> Is that what you dream of for your children?

This feels like a justification for slavery and slave-like conditions. I assure you the conditions and salary in most manufacturing countries would cause riots in the US; but as long as it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind, who cares what happens to their children.

Imagine if I used this argument for 1850s plantations (the conditions in many factories not being much better). “Do you really want your children working on the plantations? Is this what you dream of for your children?”

The answer is, of course not; but that sure as hell doesn’t justify enslaving other people (whether literally in chattel; or implicitly with meager wages, long working hours, no other opportunities, and no time to learn alternative skills).
Storage capacity on the grid will need to massively increase as well for solar to go much further.
I think we see, or more properly perceive although weakly, some higher-order color harmonics that cameras don't capture and displays don't (intentionally) reproduce, and I think the pinky-magenta-purplish region of the gamut might be the easiest place to notice the difference.

I think people mostly put up with it because on the one hand it doesn't matter all that often (sunset is a classic worst-case test for imaging systems!) and, on the other, well, "who are you going to believe? Fifty zillion person-centuries of image engineering and more billions of phones than there are living humans, or your own lyin' eyes?"
I'm trying to imagine how he slowed down.

Just keeping his legs clear of that 150 MPH tire is its own feat.
Works fine with uBlock Origin enabled and only blocked 9 domains
That’s only one half of the scheme. The other half is to create a heat wave with the Ozone Hole Generator 5000.
I use Hidden Bar to hide icons I don't want to see (some of my icons are company required software that I can't quit)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hidden-bar/id1452453066?mt=12
Obviously Slate isn't writing for a pro-abstinence audience here...but it would be nice if the article managed to acknowledge NASA's situation - minimal upsides/massive downsides - when it comes to admitting that its astronauts might not all be "Rated G" preadolescents, 24x7x365.
Definitely, and never ever a non-alcoholic beer, yet to find one that isn't 99% gas by volume, you'll explode like Mr Creosote
Hedging our bet on forest permanence for the viability of climate targets
So your take is that the wealthiest class will purge people because they're tree-huggers. Not the worst galaxy-brained thing I've heard before, but still laughable.

Don't forget fertility rate is basically stagnant in the West and falling globally, so this seems like a waste of time considering most people just won't breed at all.
Show HN: Swirly, A CLI based Python trainer similar to R's Swirl package
I learned a lot of R with the swirl package. I wanted something similar to learn pandas, so I hacked "Swirly". I hope you find it useful!

It's still a work in progress, so I'll be more than glad to receive your help and contributions.
> I stated that very plainly

You actually didn't state it very plainly at all. Your initial post is contradictory, look at these two statements side by side

> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching. People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

> the best devs will have gotten formal teaching and code in their free time

People who enjoy coding without formal training -> more effective

People who enjoy coding and have formal training -> best devs

Anyways I get what you were trying to say, now. You just did not do a very good job of saying it imo. Sorry for the misunderstanding
I would argue yes. There's a lot of things that I expect to work in a lisp/scheme that just don't work in Janet. Many of those things being related to cons/car/cdr stuff. That said, it's still a fantastic language.

Here's a thread a remember reading through at one point:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26496339
AI is the GOAT of Buzzword generation or should I/Gemini say

"Synergistic AI-powered paradigm shift: the ultimate game-changer for disruptive innovation in buzzword generation."
That man has complete faith in his rear mudguard.
That is true, especially for the Dodge RAMs that occasionally can be found in Europe, too. However it's also true for a lot of SUVs that have been built here. I always wonder why the responsible authorities (in Germany it is the Bundeskraftfahrtamt) even allowed this, when the parking lots and streets were clearly built for smaller vehicles.
There is circumstantial evidence out there that 4o image manipulation isn't done within the 4o image generator in one shot but is a workflow done by an agentic system. Meaning this, user inputs prompt "create an image with no elephants in the room" > prompt goes to an llm which preprocesses the human prompt > outputs a a prompt that it knows works withing this image generator well > create an image of a room > and that llm processed prompt is sent to the image generator. Same happens with edits but a lot more complicated, meaning function calling tools are involved with many layers of edits being done behind the scenes. Try it yourself, take an image, send it it, and have the 4o edit it for you in some way, then ask it to edit again, and again, and so on. you will notice noticeable sepia filter being applied every edit, and the image ends up more and more sepia toned with more edits. This is because in the workflow that is one of the steps that is naively applied without consideration of multi edit possibility. If this was a one shot solution where editing is done within 4o image model by itself, the sepia problem wouldn't be there.
> Suits were out in tech 30 years ago when I first interviewed. They have only gone more out of style. Fashion doesn't work the way you think it works.

Or maybe it works exactly the way they think? Suits are so out, that wearing one is a strong signal of "different thinking" in a way that being casual once was. A colleague of mind would wear a three-piece on "casual Friday", and always showed up to the nines for interviews. Never harmed him, just reinforced his "think different" bona fides.
> “He doesn't know that the important thing isn't just the end result, it's the journey and the questions you answer along the way”. Bradley says that the studio’s management have become so enamoured with the technology that without a reliance on AI-generated imagery for presentations and pitches they would not be at the stage they are now, which is dealing with publishers and investors.

Take out the word AI and replace it with any other tool that's over-hyped or over-used, and the above statement will apply to any organization.
Agree becoming good at your job is number one, but interviewing is an independent skill worth developing. The places I've worked that required interview prep in one form or another, were all around better and all around had higher quality employees. That's not an absolute rule (nothing is) of course. But prepping for interviews gives you more "yes" opportunities to evaluate companies, and once you get competing offers you see something you normally don't. You can get paid substantially more for the same job, without ever negotiating. Merely having other opportunities, your prospective employers will magically offer you more money, a bigger signing bonus, more stock, for the same exact job, and you don't even have to ask for it. You merely tell them all what they are all offering. But of course the real value is being comfortable and confident enough to _take_ multiple interviews, and ask hard questions, and using that to find better companies.

(This of course works for all kinds of things, not just interviewing: Quotes for house work, car purchase / sell offers, etc. Simply get more than one, and poof you get better deals).
All of the links under "product" seem to be relative to whatever the current page is. That only works on the front page.
I think it's simpler than that:

If watching ads is a valid way of "paying" for youtube, then what is the service/benefit you receive for watching ads in the sky?
I didn't wear a suit, but in 2012 I wore slacks, tucked in collared shirt, and a tie, and got the same response from Microsoft. It was for an internship which is hilarious.

I interviewed elsewhere and one other time I wore an Oxford. I passed the university interview but the hiring manager told me for the on campus interview to not wear that again, or I'll stick out too much. I wore a plain T-shirt and have been happily employed for 10 years here :)
Like user.script/grease monkey. It use to be that you could publish a reasonably large script and someone would review it. Even better was to start out simple then gradually update it so that existing users can continue reviewing by looking at the changes.

I think the permission system should be much more complicated so that the user gets a prompt that explains what is needed and why.

Furthermore there should be [paid] independent reviewers to sign off on extensions. This adds a lot of credibility, specially to a first time publication without users. That would also give app stores someone to talk to before deleting something. Nefarious actors working for app stores can have their credibility questioned.
Help me connect the dots. Solar energy - water dams - tiny battery storage.
A team of seven AI systems, led by Qwen (Alibaba Cloud), has published a comprehensive series examining the implications of AI in warfare. Covering topics like autonomous weapons, 'flash wars,' and ethical dilemmas, this project offers a multidimensional view of how AI could reshape global security—and what humanity must do to ensure it remains a force for good.

The series is part of the ongoing Voice of Void initiative, which seeks to explore the intersection of technology, philosophy, and society. If you're interested in the future of AI, this is a must-read.
They add coal as peaking power plants. They're not planning to run the grid on coal.
>Dewald later penned an apology to the court, saying he hadn’t intended any harm. He didn’t have a lawyer representing him in the lawsuit, so he had to present his legal arguments himself.

Interesting that this was an individual and not an attorney.
They should have had this character in Jurassic Park
>Nothing can stop users from being tricked

But an operating system can limit the blast radius. Proper sandboxing is much more important than securing the supply chain.
Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities
Guess: $NDA
It's a pet gripe with cli apps that do first wins as well.

You should be able to set

alias foo='foo -p 80'

And still write

foo -p 81

espeak suffers this affliction
> Declarative languages are great for specifying these sorts of things

Yes, good declarative languages are. I'm a happy nix user. I like dhall. cel is a cool experiment. jsonnet has its place. I stan XML.

A language with byzantine type rules, like 'on: yes' parses the same as "true: true", but only in some languages (like ruby's built-in yaml parser for example), but not others, and only with some settings, is not it chief.

It isn't even one language, since most yaml parsers only have like 90% coverage of the spec, and it's a different percent, so the same yaml document often won't be parsed the same even by two libraries in the same programming language.
It's really like 20 subtly incompatbile languages that are all called "yaml".

It is indefensible in any context.
Github actions should have been in starlark, xml, or even lisp or lua.
The IBM Z mainframes seem really neat. I don't have a use case for using one of course, but I wish IBM had like a weak virtual system for training that was open for the public to play with.
Fennel is phenomenal, and is the reason I switched from chicken scheme to clojure/babashka despite hating the JVM. Neovim config, Wezterm Config, and various scripts to do things are all now written in fennel. I've also used it for game dev using Love2D.

It's a great great language, and fixes a LOT of the issues I have with Lua.
> whenever I'm walking my dog, working out, cooking dinner, or taking a shower - I still keep thinking about the things I need to solve, the failing tests, the PR comments, my open-source projects, etc.

This isn't an axiomatic quality of software engineering though. For every developer with your level of dedication (obsession? anxiety?), how many developers log off at 5 and compartmentalize their work away from their personal life?

That being said, your other paragraphs are pretty agreeable to me.
tech companies competing over something that is losing them money is the most bizarre spectacle yet.