MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by computerdork | 2025-04-11 16:24:09+00:00
If we look at their lives outside of work, can see where you're coming from (as mentioned, a few of my current and past roommates worked blue-collar jobs, and couple of them really had a tough time financially, and one of them emotionally). But if we're talking about the job themselves, as mentioned, seems like most blue-collar jobs are less demanding, and is stable at many levels, and doesn't require much training.

Yeah, at least to me in this thread, seems like we were referring to jobs themselves, not their overall lives.

But, I do agree, if we look at their lives overall compared to white collar, it seems like it can be just as stressful, especially because of the lack advantages growing up (growing up in a stable financial household, education, resources...).
by deng | 2025-04-11 16:25:06+00:00
It means that they are not being bought. Normally, if the stock goes down, treasury yields go down because investors use them as safe havens for their money, so there's higher demand for them and hence the yield goes down.

So why isn't this happening now? There's probably a bunch of reasons. It seems there's a liquidity problem in the markets, which is also weird because stocks are being sold, so there should be enough liquidity, but it seems people are rather holding on to their cash and not invest in anything. However, it seems still treasuries are being sold like crazy. For a while, even gold went down, which is also highly unusual during a market crisis. One reason that is frequently cited now and also in this article is because some hedge funds have specialized on the so called "basis trade", which I never heard of before. It basically means buying large amount of treasuries and speculating on their futures. In itself, this does not bring much money, but it seems this is done on a huge scale, and it's currently going very wrong. Now they are getting margin-called and need to sell assets.

At some point, the FED would normally intervene and buy treasuries. However, the FED still has a ton of treasuries from the COVID crisis on its balance sheets and I think they will not intervene until the market has gone quite a bit lower, so I'm still invested very much bearish, although I lost quite a bit from that when Trump announced the delay, but two days later and we're already close to being back where we started and I could kick myself why I even reacted, but you can't win in this game when it's so distorted, so I'm mostly staying out now and just leave my few remaining PUTs open, and I guess many do the same. The US economy is now fully dependent on the whims of a corrupt president, whose friends currently surely make a ton of money on insider knowledge, so there's zero trust in anything anymore.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-11 16:25:44+00:00
This is why IMO the American system is even worse than the bribe method in a lot of countries.

DHS employees by and large cannot be bribed. It is a serious offense, and both the receiver and payer will be brutally punished. So immigration officers have literally no incentive to help you. Nothing good happens to them if they process your case or help you. Something good may happen to them if they brutalize you because prosecutions are good for their reviews for promotion.

Whenever things end up like this it is good to take a step back and realize people by and large are people. The guy in Honduras letting someone in for slipping a $20 isn't much different than the CBP guy in America who ships a guy off for CECOT for having a soccer tattoo.

You can't fix this system until there is something in it for the officer enforcing it. They need some mechanism for legal bribery, like a reward for letting in and keeping good people or to just straight up legalize people paying off immigration so that normal people get all the benefit drug traffickers already do.
by mariusor | 2025-04-11 16:25:49+00:00
> Mastodon simply doesn’t show users the posts they ask to see

That is patently untrue. What users want to see is the posts of the accounts they follow. That's it.

I see OP expected to see his bots' posts without trying to follow them, I wonder where the miscommunication that could have led to such a misunderstanding stems from. And if there is such a misunderstanding what kind of hubris do you need to have to write things like "XY doesn't work"...
by pureagave | 2025-04-11 16:26:29+00:00
It has been this way a long time. I interviewed and got a job offer with the Naval Research Lab in the late 1990's. It was a very cool job working on chips for space defense systems and I was told they could match any private offer and as a bonus I would retire with a full pension when I was 41 (I was 21 at the time). It sounded good and I loved the idea of making things that went into space. Then I started to get offers from companies in Silicon Valley. They were 50% higher and had free apartments for a few months plus a sign on bonus. I asked the NRL to match and they said there was no way they could. I moved to the valley...
by ksec | 2025-04-11 16:26:50+00:00
It shouldn't be market rate because you get job safety. Most have never worked in private sector before and has no idea.

Salary should be dependent on Jobs nature and ability. Not by grade. Currently it is simply a power structure and hierarchy.

People should be promoted on merit. Unfortunately most working in public sector lack the ability to judge. If you think power play, bureaucracy and failing up is a thing in large enterprise. You haven't seen civil servant yet.

I cant remember which party it was but stopped the Pay Band usage and everyone is simply paid by the starting rate. UK civil servant has basically stopped most salary increase for a long time.

Because of that, instead of pay raise a lot of people got promoted which is basically everyone in every department has inflated grades. These promotion are also problematic, again, not based on merit. There are now more SCS1 than ever.

40% of work are irrelevant and made up by seniors to improve their chance of promotion. Another 50% of the work are getting around bureaucracy, only 10% of the work are actually useful.

And there is no way to fix it. Ministers dont want to fix it because they rely on cvil servant to get things done. Civil servant internally lack the interest to reform. And if anything the power of a department is measured by how many staff it has.

But none of these are new. We are now close to 50 years since Yes Minister first aired. And the documentary remains relevant, and everyone should watch it if they want to understand more. And as far as I can tell, this is not UK specific.
by hinkley | 2025-04-11 16:27:16+00:00
Some people have claimed that pure A/B testing is an agent for enshittification, both on a quality and ethical dimension. And I can’t see how those people are particularly wrong.

There are systems out there that can do AB/CD testing and those do a better job of finding pairs of changed that have compounding effects.

You cannot A/B test your way from chocolate and peanut butter to cherry and vanilla. So we get to deal with tone deaf companies who feel their analytics are proving that customers either don’t know what they want or are lying about what they want. But that’s not something A/B testing can prove. It takes more sophisticated experiments than that.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-04-11 16:27:21+00:00
Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux.

It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.
by lynx97 | 2025-04-11 16:27:52+00:00
Yeah, I am also rather old, so old that I started with FidoNet before I got Internet.

However, I have to admit that I grew used to the fact that it is easy to contact a node in my social graph, without having to go hunt for their email, or maintain my own contact database.

After all, the social network should be about people, at least to me. I don't care about corporate pages on social networks, they might as well only exist at normal websites outside of the walled garden.

I guess thats my point. In my book, social networks are about people. And not being able to easily contact people is pretty much useless.
by nobleach | 2025-04-11 16:27:56+00:00
XP was the last that I really REALLY used. I've had Windows 7 (on my work machine that I didn't use) and I have a Windows 10 machine that I boot from time to time when I want to mess with recording gear. But I kinda fell into "they're all bad, I was just used to them".

I'll give my prime example. I used to know Device Manager/Control Panel SO well. I could just get things done. Now I have to hunt around forever to do any sort of hardware related task. In their attempt to make it "so easy, even your grandma could use it" they've alienated power users. My grandma still has to call me to help her attach a printer... but now I have to say, "I dunno... let me watch a YouTube video and pray that it matches the sub-version that you're using".
by volumo | 2025-04-11 16:28:17+00:00
This is pretty much why we are taking this "faster horse" approach when building Volumo, our music download store for pro DJs (an alternative to Beatport - if you know, you know)[1]. Downloads, not streaming (you get FLAC files right into your hands); pay as you go instead of a subscription (why don't you pay a lump sum for this track you want, of which 75% will go straight to the author); gentle human curation instead of the ubiquitous "we make decisions for you" algorithms.

[1] https://volumo.com
by seanhunter | 2025-04-11 16:28:22+00:00
It will affect anything which comes due in 10 years. So say you want to take out a 20 years mortgage, the payments that are going to happen 10 years plus will have their rate influenced by the 10yr. OR say you’re trying sell a business. When they look at the future earnings of that business, a higher rate on the 10 year will mean they give you less for that business, because the money in 10 years time is worth less today.

Also if you’re going to retire in 10+ years sucks to be you, your 401k just became a lot less valuable and the income you can expect in retirement will be lower.

Now because nothing happens in a vacuum, the 10yr spiking will affect other yields too.
by lofatdairy | 2025-04-11 16:28:38+00:00
You're missing the point. Obviously people need to be careful right now. But framing this situation as the fault of victims rather than the fault of bad policy makes it seem like bad things things only happen in response to conscious decisions and to an extent it absolves the policymakers from responsibility. It dilutes productive discussion regarding bad policy and instead frames all injustices as the consequence of breaking the law.

Like HN users probably would broadly agree that advising people to "just don't act shady" doesn't make the PATRIOT act okay. Nor is it particularly helpful because both the scope of what can be considered suspicious or unlawful is well beyond what a normal person can be expected to considered their actions. The average person commits 3 felonies a day, the enforcement of which is essentially discretionary and means that anyone can be made subject to arbitrary punitive measures.

Certainly there's a frustration with how impotent one can feel about the law and politics, I don't disagree that we should try to control what we can and avoid putting ourselves into compromising situations. But that said I don't think criticizing the victims of injustice helps anyone or is ever the right thing to do.
by jaldhar | 2025-04-11 16:28:47+00:00
Re: 1. Cause and effect are backward. Imperial service was actually more meritocratic than the domestic British government of that time. Look how many names of colonialists are Scottish or Irish. The former were tossed out of their land during the Highland clearances or lost influence when the Union shifted power to London. The latter were barred from high office due to their Catholic religion. But if you had talent and ambition you could go to Africa or India (and then become wealthy and ultimately join the ruling class)
by ysnp | 2025-04-11 16:28:55+00:00
Abstract: WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging application, uses a version of the Signal protocol to provide end-to-end encryption (E2EE) with strong security guarantees, including Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). To ensure PFS right from the start of a new conversation –even when the recipient is offline– a stash of ephemeral (one-time) prekeys must be stored on a server. While the critical role of these one-time prekeys in achieving PFS has been outlined in the Signal specification, we are the first to demonstrate a targeted depletion attack against them on individual WhatsApp user devices. Our findings not only reveal an attack that can degrade PFS for certain messages, but also expose inherent privacy risks and serious availability implications arising from the refilling and distribution procedure essential for this security mechanism.
by lucasfdacunha | 2025-04-11 16:29:38+00:00
I've been running a gaming content curated newsletter [1] for 5 years now, and although sometimes it's a little too much work to handle it, I enjoy curating the content, and the idea of people waiting every Friday for the newsletter has kept me going.

Now I've started a series of interviews with gamers called Unmuted [2], and it gave me some extra motivation to continue to find new people to be interviewed, which is not an easy task.

As a programmer I always had the idea of a side project involving code, but at the end of the day, I don't have the fortitude to code something, and the newsletter has been a great side project to have.

[1] - https://thegamingpub.com/ [2] - https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-004-macy-inter...
by ben_w | 2025-04-11 16:30:36+00:00
> There are plenty of non-unionized jobs people would love to have.

That makes it easy for people to leave the government.

The question you should be asking is: are there enough people who are sufficiently competent to take on the government roles?

Case study where the workers had less power than expected: Reagan vs. air traffic controllers.

Case studies where the government had less power than expected: Every coup ever, UK's Winter of Discontent (even if the long-term result was electorate going for Thatcher who gutted the unions), Polish Solidarity Movement.
by gregwebs | 2025-04-11 16:31:23+00:00
Unfortunately I don't know. We have gotten rid of a lot of old toys and made sure our kitchen and plates are lead free and did some of that before a retest and that may have helped some. We are going to retest now that he is older and not sticking random stuff in his mouth much. He still eats a lot of sweet potatoes and I suspect that could be a source. I also just got some of the new easy to use lead testing kits and am starting to test some things with that but everything seems to come up negative so far.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-11 16:31:26+00:00
You can't just cut your troubles away: Poor educational system; low education; high income inequality; low real income growth rate; high rates of drug addition; low social mobility; housing shortages; poor public transit; decreased access to healthy food; private equity buying everything and jacking up the prices; etc.

In fact, most solutions to troubles require spending time and/or money. Very few are resolved by "do less, and do it worse".

> At some point there need to be painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the like.

Perhaps: america can start with increasing taxes on the rich, instead of decreasing taxes on the rich and increasing taxes on the non-rich. That should get america more money and hurt fewer people.
by nwah1 | 2025-04-11 16:32:01+00:00
There's a long tail of obscure packages that are rarely used, and almost certainly a power law in terms of which packages are common. Reproducibility often requires coordination between both the packagers and the developers, and achieving that for each and every package is optimistic.

If they just started quarantining the long tail of obscure packages, then people would get upset. And failing to be 100% reproducible will make a subset of users upset. Lose-lose proposition there, given that intelligent users could just consciously avoid packages that aren't passing reproducibility tests.

100% reproducibility is a good goal, but as long as the ubiquitous packages are reproducible then that is probably going to cover most. Would be interesting to provide an easy way to disallow non-reproducible packages.

I'm sure one day they will be able to make it a requirement for inclusion into the official repos.
by ansisjdjsjs | 2025-04-11 16:32:05+00:00
Do these places ever discuss receiving feedback? Genuinely actioning feedback like this requires an extremely high level of trust, and expecting that level of trust in a short time window is borderline predatory.

For example, I would never provide critical feedback within the first 6 months (minimum) of a new hire starting (similar window I apply to providing feedback on codebase issues etc).
by miltonlost | 2025-04-11 16:32:06+00:00
Lol so yeah, you're not comparing it to private insurance which is what TAXPAYERS actually pay themselves. You're just a right-wing hack.

"Medicare is BAD because it costs money and is cheaper than private insurance. Private insurance is GOOD because it costs even more money than we'd pay with Medicare!!"

Your position is "medicare is too expensive" but expensive compared to what??
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-11 16:32:22+00:00
On this topic: My absolute favorite Common Lisp special operator is `(the`. Usage, `(the value-type form`, as in `(the integer (do-a-bunch-of-math))`.

At first glance, it looks like your strong-typing tool. And it can be. You can build a static analyzer that will match, as best it can, the type of the form to the value-type and throw errors if they don't match. It can also be a runtime check; the runtime is allowed to treat `the` as an assert and throw an error if there's a mismatch.

But what the spec actually says is that it's a special operator that does nothing but return the evaluation of the form if the form's value is of the right type and the behavior is undefined otherwise. So relative to, say, C++, it's a clean entrypoint for undefined behavior; it signals to a Lisp compiler or interpreter "Hey, the programmer allows you to do shenanigans here to make the code go faster. Throw away the runtime type identifier, re-represent the data in a faster bit-pattern, slam this value into functions without runtime checks, assume particular optimizations will succeed, paint it red to make it go fasta... Just, go nuts."
by bhawks | 2025-04-11 16:32:58+00:00
| For example, one time while working on my kernel module, I accidentally put --i instead of ++i in the iterator of my for loop. I inserted that module into my kernel to test it, and my mouse cursor disappeared, and my music stopped playing … and then it was time to reboot my computer

Id recommend using QEmu for the type of work the author is doing. It makes iteration much faster.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-04-11 16:33:05+00:00
Thank you for the links. Going through them.

Looks like this might ultimately a mental illness or two (like Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)), some need that wasn't fulfilled and/or drug-addled (ketamine or what not) disassociation from reality, empathy and in general what makes the rest of us all human.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-11 16:33:06+00:00
Yep. Mobile version of reddit is basically unusable on my se2. Page hangs and doesn’t finish loading, only shows like 1 or 2 comments and no child replies vs the whole thread. Old.reddit.com loads instantly of course, except if I am coming from a mobile reddit link then it will hang and require a browser restart as closing the tab and using a new one isn’t even enough.

Remind me their valuation again to produce a junk product and ride on the coattails of an otherwise simple and reliable website that they’d rather not exist again?
by hinkley | 2025-04-11 16:33:18+00:00
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Netflix would probably be better if it learned a few lessons from gyms.

I have to go wash my mouth out now. Brb.

Some of these companies are trying to go for status now as well. They’re trying to strengthen their brands by picking up epic storylines and making them into the show everyone is watching. Only Netflix is chickenshit and they haven’t figured out that nobody watches the first season of a Netflix show until the second is announced because they know Netflix cancels shows all the fucking time. Which means Netflix cancels more shows because the numbers are terrible.

What they should be doing is test audiences. If those people hate it, then yes cancel. And be patient with everything else.
by safety1st | 2025-04-11 16:33:25+00:00
I think when you're a startup, you have to invest in all of these things - you want to hire some experts early on because they'll have insights that help you design a better product, and if your product appeals to experts it will be a PR win. But of course your goal is scale and distribution so you have to respect a certain lowest common denominator as well lest you become too niche.

Once you become a bloated monopolist like the three companies you just mentioned, your distribution strategy is solved in other ways (like, you've done some bundling and some acquisitions, maybe pressured a few companies into exclusivity agreements and are probably breaking some anti-trust law or other but you have lawyers). Then you don't care about the experts, PR or niches anymore, and you serve up slop. When the analytics recommend slop you go with the analytics, when they don't you ignore them.

None of this is to discount your insightful comment, just saying once you're big enough, your strategy is just doing tricky distribution deals, really (a fact no record executive would dispute).
by FeloniousHam | 2025-04-11 16:33:33+00:00
Violence = actual illegal physical violence or (legal) credible threat of illegal physical violence by individuals, or legal state-authorized physical violence or seizure of assets (policy).

> Is publicly mocking people for having a different culture violence? no

> Is calling for harm upon them? maybe

> Is, through policy, causing harm to them violence? maybe

> Is it violence if it's through willful inaction? no
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