skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've even had homeless people ask me for Pix instead of change on multiple occasions.

Sounds like WeChat Pay. It's been years now that beggars in China only carry QR codes.

> Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

They solve a different problem or have the potential to: predictable/unbiased money issuance and on/off ramp for payment platforms.
The US has by far the world's strongest economy no matter how you measure it. We obviously can and do eat the fruits of our labor.

In fact we (being Americans broadly) eat only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the absolutely gargantuan amount of value we (being Americans broadly) create.
If it doubles every 3 years, it goes from 7% to 100% in 11.5 years (assuming total electricity use stays constant, which is wrong.)

All the gnashing about what this or that government policy change will do is just noise compared to this global trend.
> Because the US has emphasized college as the only respectable education path, as well as the only path to well paid jobs.

If I could make as a machinist what I make as a software monkey, all other things being equal, I'd go back in time and train to be a machinist. People will go where the money is.
This is a core concept for building habits that I started doing after reading atomic habits. For whatever reason I find physically writing tasks works better for me but I might be willing to try digital again.

After stating that, I do use an app for calorie tracking which has a streak tracking feature for number of consecutive days. That would be a good feature for habit forming - I think the science is like 3-4 weeks of consistent habits gets it to stick so setting a goal of 21-28 consecutive days, then progress to just reminders instead of tracking. Like "hey you're still flossing daily right?" types of things.
Good!

The president of the Brazilian Central Bank is accountable. Zuckaberg isn't.
And to think the sun doesnt even shine all the time.
Banking companies are more than happy to fold like a cardboard box if either government threatens their money-making.
I'll use Claude about 75% of the time, and then a search engine about 25% of the time. That 25% of the time, I'm usually looking for:

- Specific documentation

- Datasets

- Shopping items

- Product reviews

But for the search engines I use, their branded LLM response takes up half of the first page. So that 25% figure may actually be a lot smaller.

It's important to note that these search engine LLM responses are often ludicrously incorrect -- at least, in my experience. So now I'm in this weird phase where I visit Google and debate whether I need to enter search terms or some prompt engineering in the search box.
Please don´t take it as trolling - but if your higher ups are as competent as you say: why do you need to help them with the big picture ? Shouldn´t they be the ones setting it or at least directing? I am saying this because topics like improvement of performance and reduction technical debt were established as drivers of revenue a long time ago. That is why Amazon optimised the sh*t out of their checkout process and Google (before they were took over by the business types) obsessed about page loading times. Oh coincidentally - that was also the time when major tech companies were run mainly by engineers. Is that why their products used to be so much better? Too many "busyworkers" are now wasting everyone's time by having engineers explain "the big picture" so that they can present it at some meeting and take credit for. And in the process, the products get more entshittified every damn day.
Study: Kids with Smartphones Are Less Depressed, Anxious, Bullied
Pakistan has large areas that are arid and suitable for such initiatives, especially in the South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan#/media/File:Koppen-Ge...
I thought of one more thing I want to add. GPT listens to you. It makes you feel heard. Let’s say I ask a question but I have a strong bias. For example, what if I said “JavaScript is stupid, why can’t we go back to using Java Server Pages?”

Instead of clowning me or making me feel invalidated it would present an argument that covers both sides and would probably start with “JSPs have certain advantages, and I understand why you would feel that way. Here is a list of pros and cons…”
Manufacturing will start coming back based on the high tariffs just with two big caveats.

1. Manufacturing takes time and money to setup. This is a software forum where changes are made at lighting speed. Manufacturing requires capital, years, and will. In software it might take a day to make an obvious change. Manufacturing hopefully 6 months. Working with physical systems takes time.

2. Manufacturing does not mean jobs. It will be automated with a fifth or less required to setup and maintain. Some technical jobs will come back, but nothing like what has been said.

The tariffs initially put in place will have the same level of effects as a war. This is At Covid levels. The effects take time, inventories are getting sold. You are responding to the news not the effects give it a few weeks for company CEOs to get through the meetings that their employees are pushing up the chains.

Outside of all of that. The biggest issue is consistency of action which this admin squirellllll.
Can you share the process? I did not know this either.
The economics have shifted. It used to be that solar or wind were more experimental, and lacked any economies of scale. Their production was poor and less was known about how they fared in the long term.

Now, their prices have gone down, their generation per unit has gone up, and much more is known about how they behave long-term.

The world has a LOT of power generation. It will take time to replace. But with every time that some existing power generation source shuts down due to age, or expansion occurs somewhere, it will inevitably be done with solar/wind. It's just more cost effective now.

In the end it is not environmental concerns that will cause solar and wind to become commonplace. It's just economics. Slapping down something that generates power for 20-30 years with no input fuel is just way more economically feasible than anything that requires fuel. They still have maintenance costs, but it's nothing by comparison. They can completely undercut other sources of power.
If you're referring to me, I don't think the mere observation that it would be fun to expand this to include women is me implying sexism. That honestly was not my intent, which I specifically was addressing in my follow up comment about how sad it is how quickly the responses devolved into sexism arguments.
My comment perceptually, exponential growth looks like bring hit by a wall. It's nothing at all until it is. It'll be 1%. And in a while it double. And double a again. And again. And each doubling is the same amount of time between them.

We're close to production of solar and wind exceeding recent growth in energy demand. When that happens it'll start cratering oil and gas demand.
The world is deep and hard to categorise, people disagree on the nature of justice, and many (all?) people mistake their moral heuristics for moral truth. But there's one thing that everybody agrees on: "justice is obeying the law" is wrong. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/196 (Or https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-obligation/, if you're one of those boring types who wants factual understanding.)
GPU Sharing in Kubernetes: Nvidia Kai vs. Exostellar SDG
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, NVIDIA introduced the open-source KAI Scheduler, bringing fractional GPU support to Kubernetes. In this blog, Exostellar CTO Zhiming Shen puts KAI to the test by running real-world vLLM workloads on a single NVIDIA T4 GPU—and comparing the results with Exostellar's Software-Defined GPU (SDG) platform.

The experiment reveals a key limitation: while KAI allows scheduling of fractional GPUs, it lacks memory isolation and usage enforcement, causing one model to crash due to resource contention. SDG, on the other hand, provides true GPU virtualization, delivering isolation, observability, and stability without tuning or code changes.

The blog offers a technical breakdown of KAI vs. SDG and explores why GPU sharing isn’t just a scheduling problem—it’s also an isolation and reliability problem.
> I think there will still be room for "debugging AI slop-code" and "performance-turning AI slop-code"

Ah yes, maintenance, the most fun and satisfying part of the job. /s
Reminds me of a friend’s defense of the service focused economy: “I’ve got a PhD in economics”.

Sure services may be great when things are going well, but you can’t ONLY have services, and then go and blow up international trade and expect to have a good time.
> Middle-aged man trading cards
Examples are Mr. Honda (74), Mr. Takeshita (81) and Mr. Fujii (68). Japanese are just built different I guess.
Visa/Mastercard to begin with

And now you have Apple & Google Pay for people using their smartphone

You add PayPal to that and... you cover the companies that are the most widespread overall in Europe

Each country has its own set of local systems, but, overall, the most commons are americans
If there is the same amount of work (debatable but plausible), and developers are 10x as efficient, doesn’t that mean you need 1/10 the workers? Businesses aren’t noted for their charitable employment of needless workers, so you could re-phrase Altman’s statement as: “90% of developers will be redundant”. Replaced by AI, if you will…

Or, of course, there could be 10x the work suddenly made available. Probably homed right next to this bridge I happen to have for sale…
OP did explicitly mention startup time as one of their criteria though
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has yet to Pay Off
I ignore and cut the interview short in a subtle way, then ask HR to reject the candidate.

I'm not cold blooded enough to joke about this hahahaha

I do tend to give immediate feedback to most candidates, but I try to make it strictly technical and very matter-of-fact. A suspicion of cheating is not really something that I'd give feedback on. :/
People moving in search of opportunity back then weren’t doing it because it was easier. It meant giving up your family and friends far more so than now because of the lack of internet. An out of state move meant a handful of letters a year was the level of contact you were in for and that was only for close family.

Living cost was a big barrier back then (except maybe the homesteading) too. Any time someone is leaving a poor outlook to a more booming area it usually means cost of living is going up.

> but the ability to work remotely via the internet isn't particularly new nor causative for that change

It absolutely was the first time any non-trivial percentage of work was remote. More importantly, the spike meant 15% of the population became eligible to leave an expensive city that sucked during the lockdowns. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/dec/trends-wo...

There is most definitely affordable housing all over the US. People are just both picky and lacking opportunity in the cheaper places. Remote work was the fix for the latter part so downplaying that is missing the point.

If you have a remote job and just want to live in NYC because of culture, then you have no leg to stand on when complaining about housing. It’s purely a luxury decision at that point.

> That began to slowly change in the 60's, beginning with the death of single occupancy residences

This is only true in a few select areas. Check out https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/renters-vs-homeowne...

Specifically the “average annual homeownership rates since 1964”. Right below it has a snapshot of rates by state and the difference tells you everything you need to know.

Housing is only broken in the top desired areas and remote work gave you the opportunity to get a good job while leaving those.
SD has a very primitive conceptual model. Basically “bag of words nudging pixels around for a while”. Words near each other influence each other. But, there’s nearly no understanding of grammar.

Midjourney is similar with text prompts. But, with image prompts it is able to understand content separately from style. You can give it a photo of two people and it can return many images of recognizable approximations of those people in different poses.

SD can only start from pixels, blur and deblur those pixels in place.

MJ image prompts probably works via image-to-tokens added on to your text-to-tokens-to-image.
... everybody’s fighting for their promised land... (As Guns N Roses once sang)
The question is when it starts looking more like an S-curve. That’s hard to predict because it depends on energy storage.
This isn't fucking around. This is being a productive member of society. America requires participation. It requires discussion.

No one -democrat or republican or whatever else- should lose their job over their opinions. No one should be forced to keep their head down and shut up for fear of backlash.
Not at all! That would be less than 10 by 10 kilometers; thats less than half the area of the Mangla Lake, a single artificial reservoir.
Google isn't, but there might be a startup that will in the next batch.
Don't forget the step where you ignore intellectual property law so that it becomes temporarily legal to start companies without a "war chest" of patents to ward off disputes with.
I feel that the European understanding has largely been that the US and Europe share a "sphere of influence." We thought we were on the same side, the side of democracy, freedom, and free trade.

Obviously, there were always disagreements, but they were mostly limited to local decisions. Europe might have stronger regulations, for example, but that, by and large, did not impact the US directly; it only impacted how US companies were allowed to behave in the European market.

So I don't think anyone saw a huge problem with importing a lot of digital services from the US, particularly since this leveled out some of the US trade deficit. We shipped goods to the US, and the US sold digital services to us.

Nobody expected a US president who effectively behaves in the way you would expect a Russian asset to behave. In hindsight, this was wrong, but I don't think it was obvious that one could or should predict this during Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, or even Trump's first term.
My only question here is: what about MCP? It's really nice to have a dominant open protocol, and that seems to be it, so I feel like basically all LLM apps should really have 1st class support. Like I'm currently working on a project that uses smolagents, and the first thing I did was create a MCP server adapter for it.
payment services should absolutely have a public option, as should many other basic eservices like email, mychart, etc. the issue is that our government in particular is incompetent, has legal difficulty hiring for merit, and has public sector unions (which is effectively empowering people to negotiate against the collective democratic will of the people).

i’ve worked on internet projects with the feds before, basically the current iteration of the federal government does not really seem capable of doing these things because of how the rank-and-file is structured.

i think it would also be important to make sure that control over payment isn’t abused. i recall when donations to wikileaks were effectively blocked by public/private coordination. presumably that would be even easier if it just required public action.
> I don’t want to look back on my life thinking that I spent all my time chasing fake problems.

If I understand you correctly, it is an argument to not pursue software development?

I agree, I am mostly in it for the money and my own curiosity.

And I do see that it sometimes solves real problems, like removing landmines. But it's rare.
It would be interesting if you could easily install browser extensions via a source repository URL (e.g. GitHub, or any git URL), then at least there would be more transparency about who/what you are trusting by installing it. Blindly trusting a mostly anonymous chrome store "install" button seems insane, since they don't do any significant policing. Wasn't the promise of safety one of the primary reasons Google started the chrome store?
Sure, you could run a captive breeding program for parrots to select for intelligence (as measured by problem solving or trainability or whatever). But there's no "free lunch" in genetics. You'll find that strain ends up worse in some other attribute. Like maybe they're more aggressive or less fertile or have higher rates of cancer or something. There are always trade-offs.
AI can do deletions and refactors, and 10x speedups.
You just need to push the latest models constantly.
Does it have parental controls, or a way of at least seeing what the kids are watching? I can't tell from looking at that page.
Good managers will recognize that and know what those kinds of engineers are doing. Every company should have at least some good managers - seek them out, it's worth it. If you can't find one in current company, try to switch company - again, it's worth it IMO.
We centralize releases but we don't centralize builds. That would remove too much autonomy from teams.

We don't use templates for any of this. Our interface is the payload sent with repository_dispatch, a few metadata files in the repository (which we fetch) and a GitHub application that allows us to update the PRs with the release status checks.

GitHub doesn't have a great story here, ideally we would want to listen to CI events emitting from a repo and run workflows as a reaction.

The reusable story on a modular basis is better but here we're missing features that we would need to move some of workflows into Actions. Notably - Action repos need to be public.
Good question!

Probably the most surprising/interesting one I've seen is automating job applications. Essentially spinning up multiple concurrent agents to mass-apply across various job sites, automating things like clicks and form-fills

I thought it was interesting, but would love to hear if you've thought of other quirky or unexpected use cases! :)
As you grow older and run through more cycles of general opinions, you realize that pretty much everyone is in it for themselves, what serves them best, and support what narrative aligns with that.

2007: Copyright is garbage and must be abolished (so I can get music/movies free)

2025: Copyright needs to be strengthened (so my artistic abilities retain value)
Bible Study App with a Built-In LLM
The Davos class was highly concerned about ecology before Davos was even a thing. In America, their minions (the “coastie” class) are coming to see the liquidation of the kulaks as perhaps not such a bad thing. If it devolves into a “let them eat cake” scenario, one has to wonder how things will play out in “proles vs robot pinkertons”. Watch what the sonic crowd control trucks did in Serbia last week.

Of course there is always the issue of “demand”—of keeping the factories humming, but when you are worth billions, your immediate subordinates are worth hundreds of millions, and all of their subordinates are worth a few million, maybe you come to a point where “lebensraum” becomes more valuable to you than another zero at the end of your balance?

When AI replaces the nerds (in progress), they become excess biomass. Not talking about a retarded hollywood-style apocalypse. Economic uncertainty is more than enough to suppress breeding in many populations. “not with a bang, but a whimper”

If you know any of “them”, you will know that “they” went to the same elite prep schools, live in the same cities, intermarry, etc. The “equality” nonsense is just a lie to numb the proles. In 2025 we have a full-blown hereditary nobility.

edit: answer to ianfeust6:

The West is not The World. There are over a billion Chinese, Indians, Africans…

Words mean things. Who said tree hugger? If you are an apex predator living in an increasingly cloudy tank, there is an obvious solution to the cloudyness.
I use Badgeify, nice feature set, and I appreciate this works with Ice[1], there's an OSS alternative[2] but not work well with Ice somehow.

[1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

[2] https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll
> It's crazy that you dont run your own and then redundantly run on USA side.

Resiliency costs money and a damn awful lot of our companies as well as our governments are run by beancounters.

Additionally, "domestic" alternatives to the American hyperscalers tend to be quite a bit more expensive - AWS and Google are large enough to commission custom fleets of servers and other datacenter gear due to their sheer scale, no one but the US giants can match that.
A P51 is my daily driver, and I personally really like it. The charging brick is indeed huge, but I throw it in my backpack and it doesn't bother me. I hate that the processor isn't compatible with Windows 11, because it's a solid laptop with good build quality.

I have 64 GB of RAM and it gives no grief with Factorio or Solidworks (admittedly I haven't pushed the limits in Solidworks), though I am could see VR causing challenges.
As far as I'm aware, Pix is just a way to transfer money. You do "put money" into Pix.

Regarding the rest, I'm not following Brazilian politics that closely, but if politicians try to stop a democratic transition of power, then any functional democracy has to deal with them. I don't know how you can do that without doing things like jailing those who were involved. We can't do whatever we want and then call it political prosecution.
I've followed your advice, stopped taking drugs, typing in "snowden", pressed enter. Woah! I better take drugs again!
I haven't really seen what Linus thinks of LLMs but I'm curious

I suspect he is pretty unimpressed by the code that LLMs produce given his history with code he thinks is subpar, but what do I know
We've been coasting on advances made many decades ago. Most developed, sure. Successful? By nearly any metric you can imagine or make up. Strongest? Our economy is eaten hollow by termites. A stiff wind would make it crumble. Worse, there doesn't appear to be any path to true recovery... we can't create the jobs that people need to prosper, but if we could somehow do that we no longer create the people who would grow up to fill those jobs. What industry is it exactly that you think the United States dominates in 2025? What vital, 21st century technology do we have a monopoly on, or at least some undeniable marketshare of? Do we build boats or planes or cars? Do we make computer chips or garments or appliances? Our only saving grace might be that we're self-sufficient agriculturally, without that we'd probably already have starved.
In the world of sailboat cruising, a decent indicator seems to be whether the boats still fly stars-and-stripes, or have switched to a state flag.