MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-30 15:39:32+00:00
> But also the bifurcation of blue vs white collar wages really accelerated through the last 40 years. That is the spread between what my dad made working at a record store vs the professor/admin staff/etc at his college made increased tremendously. Think about it - minimum wage at federal level has only doubled in the last 40 years, while some quick googling looks like professors make 5-10x what they made 40 years ago (as most white collar has).

Which can also be blamed on Reagan specifically and the larger "trickle down" movement he inspired, which gutted protections for unionized labor and badmouthed unions in general so they became a dirty word in American politics, only very recently finally getting back at least some credibility.

That old meme comes to mind where someone is like "my hobby is putting Reagan's face on graphs of economic data the year he got elected" and watching everything just go completely tits up after that point.
by melenaboija | 2025-04-30 15:39:51+00:00
Yeah, that’s an oversimplification and short-sighted. Do you really think even a small fraction of the AI research that led to LLMs and trillions in corporate market capitalization was funded purely by private money? No, it was largely driven by public funding. Even more, not just from the US, but from governments and academic institutions around the world over several decades.
by Vilian | 2025-04-30 15:39:53+00:00
Hardware survey shows more than 50% wayland usage a few months ago, it harder to have a correct survey, how much of those 80% is just legacy systems that don't update anymore, or don't matter?, like a car dashboard, it uses x11 but noone would count it, or make applications for it, the correctly measure is limiting it to desktop use, and places where update and new applications care about
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-30 15:40:10+00:00
For someone like me who isn't very well versed with US politics, could someone explain like I'm a layperson what Obama's universal healthcare is like and what it was meant to do.

Was it anything like the universal free healthcare of Canada, UK, European countries? Or was it still paid healthcare but Obama wanted to integrate all of the healthcare in a universal system? Did it get implemented or is still in the works?
by rdtsc | 2025-04-30 15:40:40+00:00
> rather they were pointing out the interconnected nature of the economy. Less importing hurts the workers in those industries.

Well I agree with that phrasing however the OP said it as:

> to be so cynical [...] that would mean a lot of dockworkers/longshoreman are out of jobs or not working right?

That leads to a different interpretation and sounds like something else than what you said (which I agree with).
by quesera | 2025-04-30 15:40:43+00:00
> Either a Democratic Congress or president would prevent such a bill from passing

The Senate still has the filibuster, as well. This will not pass in the current Congress either.

The filibuster rule is vulnerable, but I don't think there's enough support from Senate Republicans to do so. If I'm wrong, it would be an escalation which would add more fuel to the 2026 fire.
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-04-30 15:41:20+00:00
Republicans understand the power of appealing to emotion and "othering." They have spent decades training their voters to vote against their own interest because it will hurt people that Republicans say are preventing their great success. Trump said he had "concepts of a plan" on healthcare and voters think he had more of a platform than Harris because his main points were about getting even with the world. Make the world pay what it owes us and get these immigrants out of YOUR country.

Democrats get punished for trying that too blatantly. Republicans and Democrats are playing different games when it comes to campaigning and propaganda.
by viksit | 2025-04-30 15:41:28+00:00
+1 to this - exactly the same experience. I started a company in the space because I believe that the decentralized technology and its ability to have world impact is truly amazing.

But after spending ~2y in the space, I realized another thing -- the people in this space right now are in it purely for speculation and monetary gains. There's a lot of talk about decade long horizons, but any app that achieves pmf in the short to medium term has to cater to the speculators or die.

We chose not to go down the path of launching a coin or doing speculative stuff, even though the demand for it was intense. We hit some PMF around creators, but didn't have the conviction that it would scale without speculation. A year down the line, I believe that was the right pov to have.
by nine_k | 2025-04-30 15:41:30+00:00
> why do we collocate research and teaching?

Because we want the same scientists who do, or recently did, advanced research to teach students? Because we want students to be involved in actual real genuine cutting-edge research? I suppose this is the logic.

As a student back in the day I worked in a university lab, and it was pretty interesting to play a role in solving problems that don't have answers in the end of a textbook.
by jheimark | 2025-04-30 15:42:04+00:00
Sounds like you come with some baggage. Maybe take a break from work for a while - you must not enjoy it.

We build a zero trust AI layer for companies... this is literally a demand that we dogfood our own product.

How dare a CEO ask employees to use their own product inside a company? That's a terrible idea and never leads to anything good.
by johnwheeler | 2025-04-30 15:42:04+00:00
Hey Jacob, great observation. I actually already have a chrome extension and I tried to launch it but no one would download it. That’s why I made it so easy to get started this way and had to go through such great lengths to get the cursor but I agree with you 100% the animations are actually terrible right now. I’m working on them as we speak and I’m throwing all sorts of tricks in the mix to try to get it to work better. I’d love if you follow along on my website is a link to the Twitter. If you follow me, I’ll be announcing when I update the animation changes.
by ajross | 2025-04-30 15:42:07+00:00
What I find fascinating about Sun is how fast its ride was. They launched their MVP in 1982 which was really just a bare 68000 board with a kluged together software suite. The second generation Sun 2's were like a year and a half later, running virtual memory on 4BSD, the 68020 made the Sun 3's in 1985 faster than a VAX, and suddenly Sun was The Premier Unix that everyone targetted.

The next few years (up through 1991 or so) would see the launch of SPARC[1] and all the Unix goodness we all still work on: shared libraries, NFS, RPC, pervasive IPv4 networking, basically everything about the modern datacenter software environment dates from these few years at Sun.

And then, sort of out of nowhere in the mid 90's, Linux distros running on P6 boards had essentially cloned it all on hardware 1/10th the price and the end had begun. Sun would continue to make a lot of money through the doc com boom, but their status as the thought and innovation center of Unix hit a brick wall.

The story of the end was all about Java and Oracle and datacenter markets. And IMHO it's not that interesting. What the hell happened to Unix?

[1] In hindsight it was just a flash in the pan, but the RISC arrival in the Unix world was shocking at the time. Even though in hindsight the workstation vendors had at most a 3-4 year lead on Intel at the peak and would rapidly fall behind.
by herpdyderp | 2025-04-30 15:42:08+00:00
You can insert (and tweak) this into uBlock Origin filters:

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by dowager_dan99 | 2025-04-30 15:42:22+00:00
We're all-in on Teams PLUS have management pushing for "service level objectives" on response time. It's impossible to stay on top of the stream of consciousness posts, impossible to find anything you previously answered or value you know is in there somewhere, impossible to measure response time or take ownership of... (what? a chat?). MS keeps cramming poorly thought out "AI-first" features without addressing things like cameras and mics that randomly stop working, blue screens in the middle of meetings. It's such a garbage piece of software that's now THE foundational infrastructure for so many companies. You'll save $600K on the financials and lose $6M across all the things that won't directly show: poor customer service, churn, slower everything, individual and team frustration... but your VP of IT doesn't pay for that.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-30 15:42:57+00:00
About a year ago I checked out every US manufacturer I could find. Most don't offer any pricing of any kind, strictly 'call for quote'. The ones that did offer pricing either don't want small prototype runs, or charge 5-10x what China does, and with 2-3x lead time, even counting shipping.

Only one or two I looked at offered an online quote tool, and none of them came even close to the usability and functionality of PCBWay's website. The best one I found was this ridiculously overbuilt system with an embedded 3D engine and one of those shitty 200MB web apps that take 30 seconds to register a click and breaks your back button.

USA is simply not competitive with China on PCBs. For small, cash strapped business, domestic manufacture has never been an option. I expect prices will only go up and up as our entire domestic capacity is absorbed by big corps that can afford the premium. I have no idea how us little guys are supposed to get boards now.
by mandmandam | 2025-04-30 15:42:59+00:00
Recent estimates put the losses at £100bn/year so far [0].

Long term, the estimate is a 15% hit to the economy.

And only 12% of people think that it went well. (For reference, that's about the same proportion as 'Americans who believe shape-shifting lizards control politics, or aren't sure' [1].)

In personal experience, my purchases of UK products have taken a massive drop.

And that's not even mentioning the losses to the environment or human rights.. So... Not what I would call a mixed bag. More like a deeply homogeneous bag.

0 - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/damning-statistics-reveal-true-cos...

1 - https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
by j_walter | 2025-04-30 15:43:07+00:00
Not sure about the USAID part, but ActBlue has been suspected of illegal fundrasing activities for a long time. Googling will find a lot of stories similar to the one above.

"Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, alleges that a total of $884.38 given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October was designed to circumvent federal election law and may be part of a larger scam involving tens of thousands of unwitting donors." https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/is-actblue-in-lega...

"An 88-year-old retired Yale University professor, for example, supposedly made 7,539 donations for a total of $213,163, according to FEC records." https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/08/elderly-democrats-say...
by tim333 | 2025-04-30 15:43:12+00:00
>just cult of personality

I guess saying you don't understand tariff consequences and the like but you trust Trump to know what he's doing and make things great could be a reasonable position?

I'm hazy on some economics myself but don't especially trust Trump to make thing great. But I did kind of trust some previous presidents to do a decent job without following all the policies. (Clinton and Obama seemed quite good).
by jessyco | 2025-04-30 15:43:35+00:00
I wish we could go back; A lot of googles UI/UX is based on the next billion users experiences. I'm unsure how much influence this has on a day to day design choices they make. My experience right now on a 1440p monitor is 5 visible videos, 2 video ads, a ton of tags that I can't turn off for finding videos.

There are a ton of great UI/UX choices they've done over the years too; I just wish we had more options as a users.
by olalonde | 2025-04-30 15:43:41+00:00
> That obseletes input with pinyin

Uh? Pinyin input is by far the most popular input technique in China. I rarely see anyone using handwriting input.

That being said, it has nothing to do with English winning. It's just a Chinese input technique that uses the latin alphabet. English fluency in China is not very common, especially spoken English.
by not_wyoming | 2025-04-30 15:43:59+00:00
Um, what?

Baking has been a major hobby for 15 years. I know the dangers of raw egg and flour but licking the bowl/beaters/spoons is still a major highlight of many of my recipes. And, of course, there's always raw cookie dough.

Maybe not the smartest choice for longevity and health, but yes, eating raw flour is totally a thing!
by martythemaniak | 2025-04-30 15:44:05+00:00
Ideally, people posting a video link will include a short summary. HN is heavily text-based and unlike text links, you can't skim/scan and decide whether it's worth to spend 10 mins. It doesn't help that most videos are pretty information-sparse and should properly be a 2-3 min read.

Anyway, I don't mind the downvotes, but it'd be nice if people started including summaries with video links.
by 6510 | 2025-04-30 15:44:10+00:00
I find it quite paradoxical how a person making great effort towards taking care of themself can some how turn out worse than care from someone who doesn't care about you.

We've made a lot of progress collectively and want to help everyone but end up doing a pretty crappy job.

I know some people who aren't doing very well mentally and do some substance abuse. Their job preserves what little sanity they have left. The periods between jobs are sheer terror, they almost die and might lose their home.
by b2ccb2 | 2025-04-30 15:44:26+00:00
Hilarious because the author, and the OP author, are literally zipping `/dev/null`. While they realize that it "doesn't take disk space nor ram", I feel like the coin didn't drop for them.

Think about it:

$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=10M | gzip -9 > 10M.gzip $ ls -sh 10M.gzip 12K 10M.gzip

Other than that, why serve gzip anyway? I would not set the Content-Length Header and throttle the connection and set the MIME type to something random, hell just octet-stream, and redirect to '/dev/random'.

I don't get the 'zip bomb' concept, all you are doing is compressing zeros. Why not compress '/dev/random'? You'll get a much larger file, and if the bot receives it, it'll have a lot more CPU cycles to churn.

Even the OP article states that after creating the '10GB.gzip' that 'The resulting file is 10MB in this case.'.

Is it because it sounds big?

Here is how you don't waste time with 'zip bombs':

$ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=10M | gzip -9 > 10M.gzip 10485760+0 records in 10485760+0 records out 10485760 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 9.46271 s, 1.1 MB/s real 0m9.467s user 0m2.417s sys 0m14.887s $ ls -sh 10M.gzip 12K 10M.gzip $ time dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=10M | gzip -9 > 10M.gzip 10485760+0 records in 10485760+0 records out 10485760 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 12.5784 s, 834 kB/s real 0m12.584s user 0m3.190s sys 0m18.021s $ ls -sh 10M.gzip 11M 10M.gzip
by cogman10 | 2025-04-30 15:44:34+00:00
Yet, as you'll see in this thread at least 1 other commentor is arguing that option 1 is better. What you and I see as bad/sloppy code, they see as the ideal starting point.

A pretty common attitude that I've ran into. People take the "premature optimization" quote to mean "Never think about big oh when writing code".
by wildzzz | 2025-04-30 15:44:41+00:00
The school has phones in every classroom as well as the admin offices. Before I had a cellphone and needed to let my parents know I was staying after school or going home with a friend, I just used a landline.

Breaking down on the side of the road is completely different than being without a cellphone in a building full of landlines. It's disingenuous to compare the two situations. Breaking down on the side of the road is pretty much the impetus for portable communication systems. A kid being able to just text mom that they need a ride after school is convenient but not really critical enough to justify letting kids have their phones on them all day long.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-30 15:44:54+00:00
IDK, I think actual democratic voters tend to be far more on the "hammer the button even more enthusiastically" side of the "ah, but if you press that button, the Bidens will also be investigated!" meme-cartoon.

Like, yes, please, investigate all of them.

Republicans sort-of tried with Hunter, but kept balking at public hearings because they knew a bunch of the stuff they were claiming when they went on Fox was made-up, so it better served their propaganda purposes to avoid pursuing it. If there was actually anything to it, I hope and assume they would have gone ahead.

Which brings up the credibility problem with these claims from Republicans: "There's fraud in government! We found tons of it!" cool, that's a crime, where are the indictments? Oh, there aren't any, because you're full of shit. "Massive election fraud!" cool, that's a serious crime, you're in power now, a bunch of your AGs launched high-profile investigations, where are the indictments? You snagged a half-dozen cases, all mundane shit like someone with two houses voting in both states in two different elections because they forgot about it or didn't realize it was illegal? Where is the massive, organized fraud? Oh, you were just lying. Again. (They've been fucking that particular chicken for nearly two damn decades and somehow still have nothing to show for it, the democracy-undermining pricks). Months and months and all those hours of interviews for the Benghazi "investigations", and what? Nothing again. It's tedious. Shit or get off the pot, go after crime but stop lying about it.
by nhod | 2025-04-30 15:45:06+00:00
This reminds me of one of my very favorite essays of all time, "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" by Alain de Botton from the School of Life. The title is somewhat misleading, and I resisted reading it for a couple years as a result. It is exquisite writing — it couldn't be said with fewer words, and adding more wouldn't help either — and an extraordinary and ultimately hopeful meditation on love and marriage.

NYT Gift Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-wi...
by CivBase | 2025-04-30 15:45:10+00:00
> I don't know, but I would hope that it works because parents are expected to teach their children to behave.

Unfortunately that hasn't proven to be a reliable method here in the United States :(

> Also just because they can't take their phone or punish them, it doesn't mean that they can't suspend students or fail them.

I'm not a teacher but my wife is so I can only speak to what I've heard from her. And by her accounts, out-of-school suspention is ineffective because you're essentially rewarding misbehaving children with not having to come to school. She also isn't allowed to lower a student's grade for behavioral issues. Their grade is supposed to be purely a reflection of how well the know the material defined by the curriculum.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-30 15:45:16+00:00
I know this post is about tech, and obviously HN is a tech centered site, and most people here work in tech, but let me say:

Outside of tech, AI has been phenomenally helpful. I know many tech folk are falling over themselves for non-tech industry problems that can be software-solved then leased out monthly, and there are tons of these problems out there, but very hard to locate and model if you are outside the industry.

But with the current crop of LLMs, people who don't know how to program, but recognize that a program could do this task, finally can now summon that program to do the task. The path still has a tech-ability moat, but I can only imagine the AI titans racing to get programming ability into Supply Chain Technician Kim's hands. Think Steve Jobs designing an IDE for your mother to use.

I believe it will be the CEO's of these non-tech companies that will be pushing "AI first" and having people come in to show non-techy non-tech workers how to leverage LLMs to automate tasks. You guys have to keep in mind that if you walk into most offices in most places of the world, most workers will say "What the hell is a macro? I just go down the list line by line..."
by regnull | 2025-04-30 15:45:39+00:00
Again, they are not being punished in a court of law. Being incorporated in Cyprus, they (sadly) enjoy all the rights and privileges of being a Western company.

I, as an individual, can refuse to do business with any company I please, on the basis of my beliefs and moral convictions (and on the basis of the likelihood of them being complicit in something I oppose to).

If you prefer one brand of ice cream over the other, is this a collective punishment of the other company (looking at you, Ben & Jerry)?
by PeterStuer | 2025-04-30 15:45:56+00:00
We put a lot of restrictions on minors and what they can do or be done to. On top of that, some things which would be ok in a different setting would be inapropriate and disruptive in a classroom environment.

Also, with regards to the motivational aspect, I would not expect a toddler to be able to make the appropriate choice between a healty meal and candy. I do not expect a teen to be able to restrain themselves from the pubescent games of social media prancing and paying attention to the class teaching.
by grafmax | 2025-04-30 15:46:03+00:00
American society is in crisis and this crisis will likely continue to grow economically as well as due to larger effects on the horizon such as global warming. From a practical standpoint if we are serious about unseating the power of the billionaire class (which is highly realistic as society continues to self-destruct over the long horizon) things like ranked choice voting should serve as tactical goals in a broader struggle for democratic process in our country. But yes it would be naive to consider ranked choice voting to be enough on its own to unseat them.
by behnamoh | 2025-04-30 15:46:35+00:00
> Its unfortunate the cleaned up syntax never took off, and that OCaml dropped the ball on multicore for over a decade.

It just shows the mindset of its devs was a little behind the realities of the industry, or they simply didn't care about concurrency.

In comparison, I like how Python always tries to be on top of things by exploring new PEPs.
by gopalv | 2025-04-30 15:46:44+00:00
> But let’s talk about my unfair advantage – my Lyon family mafia. I was living with my brother Bob and his wife. Bob was working at Xerox SDD developing the Xerox Star workstation. And my brother Dick was at Xerox PARC with an Alto on his desk

Sometimes, I feel like the whole downwards trend having a single kid loses the family aspect of my previous generation - I meet enough people who don't have uncles, aunts, nieces or nephews for nepotism (literal) to work sideways on.

Nobody to pull them up and nobody to pull up in term. Not dynasties of tiger children, but simply support in minor ways.

I got into Linux because my uncle's brother in law worked in computer repair when I was 14, back when India still needed to fill in an export control form to download software. Another uncle sent me extra 32Mb of RAM from Dubai and a modem which wasn't a winmodem (& my dad hated him for the phone bills).

> We were just managing a house mortgage with 3 full time incomes. Interest rates then were well above 10%.