MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by socalgal2 | 2025-04-26 12:22:29+00:00
> that those who engaged in face-to-face interactions at least once a week experienced better physical and mental well-being, whereas communication through calls or texts did not have the same effect. Neuroscience helps us make sense of these findings. Research shows that hearing a familiar voice reduces cortisol and boosts oxytocin—hormones tied to stress relief and bonding—while text-based communication and video calls fail to trigger the same response .

The HN majority "work from home" advocates disagree with this
by rco8786 | 2025-04-26 12:22:38+00:00
One interesting thing is that he seems completely unaware that he is the problem. Stepping back from DOGE to focus on Tesla again. He thinks that him getting closer to Tesla will help save the brand, when it's exactly his association with it that caused the damage in the first place.

The best thing he could do for Tesla would be to step aside.

> I called this Tesla stock crash months ago

TSLA is currently up 5% MoM despite really, really horrible earnings and outlook. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent sometimes.
by cj | 2025-04-26 12:22:43+00:00
From the article (TLDR: the author has a financial interest in seeing their stock decline)

> Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we believe the evidence justifies a short position in shares of Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE). Morpheus Research holds short positions in BLZE, and Morpheus Research may profit from short positions held by others. This report represents our opinion, and we encourage all readers to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
by wvh | 2025-04-26 12:23:13+00:00
I have worked for financial institutions where random departments have random interests in certain data transactions. You (as in a dev team in one such department) have no say in who touches the data, from where, and how it's used. Kafka is used as a corporate message bus to let e.g. the accountant department know something happened in another department. Those "listening" departments don't have devs and are not involved in development, they operate more on the MS BI level of PowerPoint.

So yes, in large companies, your development team is just a small cog, you don't set policy for what happens to the data you gather. And in some sectors, like finances, you are an especially small cog with little power, which might sound strange if you only ever worked for a software startup.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-26 12:24:39+00:00
> reducing ewaste

The solution is to stop installing advanced touchscreen computer systems where they don't really belong.

I've never seen a Honeywell thermostat fail, get hacked, or "lose support". I dont have to worry about what will happen if there is a weird software update or power outage. There are physical switches that configure the current mode of the system. Only the temperature setting is volatile, but it defaults to reasonable settings depending on the current mode (60F for heat, 80F for cool). Because of this simple design, there is no option to install a battery. There's nothing to remember.
by dm03514 | 2025-04-26 12:24:52+00:00
For the us, I feel like it’s late stage individualism. This is what happens I think when people prioritize themselves over their communities, I think we have less dependence on our communities than ever thanks to the internet and being able to physically avoid community. We have less interaction than before. We can order grocery pickup and not even have to be physically around people for basic life tasks. We order next day delivery on Amazon and don’t even have to go out in the world and be in the physical presence of others :(

The article talks about how it’s more of a younger generation phenomenon suggesting older generations still maintain their friendships

I’m grappling with this myself, it requires a lot of energy to form adult friendships. I keep seeing my neighbors out at the playground, I reach out and say hey and hi and ask them how they are doing but stop short of investing the time necessary to form real friendships with them and I know deep down that it’s perpetuating late stage individualism
by Xelbair | 2025-04-26 12:25:28+00:00
Sure, but in non-digital markets we had a term for most common growth hacking tactics for attaining that niche monopoly.

Dumping. Operating on loss for years, just burning money to capture a market and then jack up prices and make competition unfeasible.

Which is illegal in most cases when it comes to physical goods. of course it depends on the region you're in - it is extremely illegal with sky high fines in my country for example.

Having the attitude to reach that goal is fine, but the goal itself(monopoly over segment of a market) should be impossible to reach. Whenever it happens markets get distorted to the detriment of all customers.

The whole point of capitalism is to put stress onto system for self-improvement - you need to produce better good, make it more efficient and cheaper, and find perfect balance between price and performance - to run economy as efficiently as possible while basically 'crowdsourcing' resource allocation computation over every market participant.

As soon as that stress is gone, you're back to Guilds system where nothing is dictated by market forces, just at whim of current entity in power.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-26 12:25:42+00:00
Broad market index funds have performed spectacularly over the last few decades, and far more than 1% have them (or could have had them) for retirement. It has been the standard recommendation since I graduated college in the early 2000s.

Of course, many people prefer to invest in extra big and luxurious houses/cars/vacations/restaurants/alcohol/coffee/etc out and I would even throw in educations with low ROI, rather than broad market index funds.

This is specifically about those who had been earning money in the ~1980 to ~2010 period, for the vast majority, their house should not have been the only equity.
by fifilura | 2025-04-26 12:26:54+00:00
> 3) integrating rear wheels, differential, axle, and motor into an "e-axle" unit that's the entire mechanical part of the power train

Obviously an electric vehicle is so much simpler than one with a gasoline engine. We have seen it already with lawn mowers who shrank from huge tractors to nimble robots.

An in particular when you don't start from the Autobahn-eater type of cars.
by EchoVivaldi45 | 2025-04-26 12:28:08+00:00
This article is trying way too hard to dunk on Zuckerberg for… doing normal CEO things.

The whole premise seems to be that writing down your thoughts, asking questions, or being transparent in internal emails is somehow a huge self-own. But that’s just how people work—especially when you’re running a massive company and making fast, complex decisions. You write things down, explore ideas, get feedback. Acting like that’s a confession is lazy analysis.

The real problem here is that the author treats normal business strategy—like acquiring a rising competitor—as some kind of criminal mastermind move. Whether or not that should be legal is one debate. But pretending it’s shocking that a company would consider eliminating competitive risk? Come on. That’s what businesses do. If you want to critique the system, critique the system—not the fact that someone used it.

Also, the smug “ha ha, he wrote it down!” attitude is incredibly counterproductive. All it does is teach executives to stop documenting anything real. It punishes transparency and rewards corporate vagueness and CYA behavior. If that’s what we want more of, congrats—we’re on track.

The piece doesn’t offer any actual insight into how companies operate or how antitrust should evolve—it just ridicules someone for not being lawyerly enough in private. That’s not analysis, it’s court fan fiction.
by lxgr | 2025-04-26 12:29:11+00:00
In my experience (of also roughly 20 years ago), the German Wikipedia is as dysfunctional as it gets.

The primary goal of the admins seemed to be to gatekeep, in particular to keep “unencyclopedic” content out at all cost, e.g. by contesting the very existence of articles on individual episodes of TV shows, software, or video games, which are all completely uncontroversial on the English one.

“Just because it’s relevant on en.wikipedia.org doesn’t mean it’s relevant over here” is a sentence I heard frequently. Keeping the number of articles down was seen as an active ideal.

For me, it was a great motivator to improve my English, and I’ve only ever looked back when the English version didn’t have a lot of information on some Germany-specific topic. Last time I checked, they only just accepted the redesign (the one that greatly improves legibility), after vetoing it for years. What a psychotic way to run an encyclopedia…
by tialaramex | 2025-04-26 12:29:20+00:00
Wait, that's not even linked in your post AFAICT. It's also about an LLVM bug and not in fact exploiting UB.

"LLVM shouldn't miscompile programs" is uncontroversial, but claiming that these miscompilations are somehow "Exploiting Undefined Behaviour" is either incompetent or an attempt to sell your position as something it isn't.
by ksec | 2025-04-26 12:29:49+00:00
@4:46 "When the room is at full capacity it can go up to 4MW of Power".

That is a room that could fit hundreds of Racks. And then Nvidia said they are looking to have 1MW per Rack by 2030. We are looking at 100x increase in density.

It seems not only are we building out Computing Per Rack as Unit. We may be close to built Computing Per Room or Datacenter as a whole. Or may be Computing per 40 Ft Continuer simply because of Transportation limitation.
by rorylaitila | 2025-04-26 12:31:48+00:00
I'm way out on the edge of the bell curve in terms of desire for 1 on 1 quality time with friends. Almost everyone enjoys time when it is given to them, but almost no one is proactive. I hear "Thanks so much for reaching out I am so bad at it" from practically everyone. I've concluded that most people simply don't have the executive function to manage and overcome such a disconnected social environment.
by gchamonlive | 2025-04-26 12:32:33+00:00
I had a teacher once in highschool, an extremely competent one, but he was saying that a Hörst was a tecnonic valley and a Graben is tecnonic mountain. I had just come from an exchange in Austria and that sounded just wrong to me, because they mean the opposite in German. It turned out it actually was.

The same way a teacher doesn't substitute the texboook, LLM won't substitute DYOR. It'll help you understand where your flaws lie. The heavy lifting is still your job.
by bri3d | 2025-04-26 12:32:37+00:00
> The vast vast majority of backup cameras ARE analog

The camera<->head unit signal modulation is analog but unless the display is a CRT, both ends of the system are digital.

This is basically why I was asking “what do you mean, analog” - I suspect the OP really wanted either no touchscreen or no telematics, which are totally unrelated to whether the systems are analog or digital.

There was a whole generation of very cool analog computer fuel injection (K-jetronic for example) that avoided most carb problems for end users without going full computer - but, there wasn’t a chance these kinds of system could continue to pass modern emissions standards.
by lucidguppy | 2025-04-26 12:33:18+00:00
1. People have lower tolerance for jerks.

2. A few bad apples can spoil a group.

3. Maintaining a group is a thankless job.

4. Third places are money making establishments now rather than community focused. So people save up to go to the ones that they'll remember. So there's competing money for these attractions, and the experience undergoes enshitification.

Solutions?

- lower the cost of community space so more people can enjoy them.

- social etiquette needs be enforced through culture. Conformity has its benefits. We don't need planes to land because Johnny had too much to drink.
by superkuh | 2025-04-26 12:33:29+00:00
>but I'm talking about you! :)

I am confident in my digital security for my threat model. Physical security, less so. The only time my data has ever been taken was when the FBI broke into my apartment at 6am in 2010 and held me at gunpoint and stole every computer in my apartment. They never charged me with a crime, never even indicted me. It was all just the feds squashing political dissent back in the Occupy wallstreet days and I was one of hundreds on the mass warrant issued for that morning's cross-country raids meant to intimidate and destroy lives. As was the FBI's style, they stole all the bitcoin I had on those computers, which I discovered when they kindly returned them (in parts) 10+ years later in 2021.

I'd argue the real risk for me living in the USA is not from random hackers finding a unicorn nginx RCE (or me misconfiguring), but from the government. And they're going to come in the front door not through my computer.

Given the state of things I think this applies to far more people than just me. So start up those home static servers. It's a relatively low risk, all things considered. And free communication with other humans, not shaped by corporate policy and opinion shaping, might just mitigate the government problem a bit.
by sigotirandolas | 2025-04-26 12:33:44+00:00
My foresight is that when you compensate bad developers with process, measurements and QA, the software breaks when exposed to the real world, which has a habit of doing things you didn't think about.

Maybe an user can open two tabs and manage to submit two incompatible forms. Or a little gap in an API validations' allows a clever hacker to take over other users' accounts. Or a race condition corrupts data and causes a crash loop.

Maybe some are OK with that level of brokenness, but I don't see how software can be robust unless you go into the code and understand what is logically possible. My experience is that AI models aren't very good at this.
by ta12653421 | 2025-04-26 12:34:23+00:00
I'm in the EU; i tried this casually several times already - the Doc always says, do not throw them daily?

Apart from that: I do not expect the skeletal pain after D2 to be less when dropping it daily? :-D

EDIT: Or i'm mixing up Sindenafil and Taladafil? Im not a medic :-D
by rafram | 2025-04-26 12:34:45+00:00
Yup. Mastodon has this issue. Can’t pick a big generic instance because it could get defederated for spam/being too normie; can’t pick a small instance because it could get defederated over some ridiculous drama [1][2].

Normal people (and even some not-normal people) don’t want to deal with that. “Instances” are a bad model.

[1]: https://tootworld.social/@lilythelonelygirl/1143999833553083...

[2]: https://tau-ceti.space/@lo__@mastodon.social/114394202556951...
by n4r9 | 2025-04-26 12:34:58+00:00
That's certainly true. But this is Cory Doctorow who invented the concept of enshittification. I'd be super surprised if he thought anti-competetive behaviour is fine as long as you get away with it. My take is that he's saying "Not only is Zuckerberg a greedy asshole, but he's even stupid enough to make it provable in court."
by anticodon | 2025-04-26 12:35:10+00:00
> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation.

I've experienced all those benefits when I started walking two times a day, 8-10 thousands of steps a day continuously for several weeks. I haven't performed any other exercises.

But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.
by mattbuilds | 2025-04-26 12:35:26+00:00
That is not a moral obligation, it is in fact the opposite. It is a lie that people tell themselves and the world to allow themselves to make immoral decisions for their own benefit.

I’m not saying running a company is easy and I know that many gray areas exist in the decision making. I do think companies can exist, profit, and be a net good for the world. However, we need to remove the notion that the duty to shareholder profits is a moral duty. It’s a cowards way out of having to make actual difficult choices. It’s one of those things that sounds great exactly because it allows you do horrible things with no responsibility. It creates a system where you offload the effort and weight of your decisions. As long as you’re are acting in the interest of shareholders, you are in the clear. That’s a dangerous concept and the opposite of morality.
by testing22321 | 2025-04-26 12:36:14+00:00
The US automakers lost the plot a long time ago, and have just been sucking out money without innovation or improvement since.

When California and the EPA tried to legislate lower emissions 9 years into the future, the US automakers sued to block saying it was impossible. Japanese automakers were already selling vehicles that met those standards.

When they badly, badly screw up, they just get bailed out with public funds and then go on to pay execs tens of millions of dollars a year and fat bonuses. Guaranteed profits no matter what made them lazy and uncompetitive.

They’re all dying
by intended | 2025-04-26 12:36:17+00:00
> Neuroscience helps us make sense of these findings. Research shows that hearing a familiar voice reduces cortisol and boosts oxytocin—hormones tied to stress relief and bonding—while text-based communication and video calls fail to trigger the same response .

this… feels a bit off. I would have to look at that article to see what they are saying.
by jsnell | 2025-04-26 12:37:05+00:00
> Did Zuck buy Insta to neutralize a competitor? Sure seems like it! For one thing, Zuck cancelled all work on Facebook Camera "since we're acquiring Instagram."

I don't get this bit. That seems to be supporting exactly the opposite of the author's thesis. If the acquisition had existed only for "neutralizing a competitor", they would have continued work on their existing products in this space, no? Canceling their existing product and keeping the acquisition is more in line with them realizing Instagram was a service they couldn't hope to catch up with. It'd also be consistent with them wanting to carve out a larger niche for Instagram, by reducing the overlap between the two on Facebook's side.
by bjourne | 2025-04-26 12:38:24+00:00
Love the use of the "we" word here. :) What is counted as a reliable source is voted on on one of Wikipedia's meta pages. So "reliability" is not based on any factual circumstances, but on whether the vote is won or lost. And you can trivially game that using sock/meat puppetry. Notwithstanding, White's claimed policy heavily favors Western media giants such as The New York Times and The Washington Post which many editors know about. However, the actual information they publish are often much less accurate than what is published in specialized trade magazines or even activist blogs.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 12:38:42+00:00
There is no reason to conflate the two. To be frank, I explicitly stated land ( and not property as a more generic term ), which makes me question how much of a good faith of a conversation this is. My point stands on its own merits, but you seem to want to rely on cheap rhetorical theatrics a good chunk of the audience here can see through.
by intended | 2025-04-26 12:39:16+00:00
Also From the article:

> It’s often said that if you ask an American what they do, they’ll tell you about their job, whereas a European might talk about their hobbies or passions. Data backs this up;

> But the role of work in shaping identity and social life in the United States has perhaps never been stronger. For example, 77% of Americans work more than 40 hours per week, and few take their full paid leave.

I guess people aren’t making friends at work the way they thought they were?
by dazzawazza | 2025-04-26 12:39:20+00:00
I love heavy metal. So I go to metal pubs. I meet people, we talk and listen to each other. I've been talking to the same people for 30+ years but I meet new people EVERY time I venture out. I may see them again, I may not. Who cares?

We lend PHYSICAL copies of albums, video games and books to one another. This increases trust, knowledge and love for one another. We share stories about all sorts of things. We create stories by doing things together.

This is how friendships are formed and maintained. This is humanity. This is who we are and how we behave.

Poverty is the digital world.

See you out there!
by deeThrow94 | 2025-04-26 12:40:08+00:00
Man, more people should read Schumpeter. Capitalism is really good for rapid growth. The second the profit motive negatively affects the quality of the product or efficiency of its production a company should be nationalized to prevent the profit motive from destroying part of our economy (the actually-useful part, that is, not investors or shareholders or dividends).
by beacon294 | 2025-04-26 12:40:28+00:00
Walking is considered by einstein and pretty much all thinkers to be critical to deep work. It's also covered in Cal Newport's book "deep work" briefly. Which is a short audiobook worth reading.

One such prescription would be to do deep work early in the day then walk after and walk again 2 hours before bed. Another would be split the deep work with a 1 hour walk and do the 2nd walk after the 2nd block.

It may be more fulfilling with lots of interesting ideas rattling around. YMMV
by garygatory | 2025-04-26 12:41:12+00:00
We can optimize chances for successful experiments, and I doubt optimization involves having a lot of hands on by tech CEOs or the wives of tech CEOs (Zuckerberg and Bezos wives’ come to mind, but there are many cases). The Gates foundation and others that have had success in various areas are relatively hands off, or “bottom up” in their approach. One can spend money to feel good, or one can spend money to do good. A lot of tech CEO/tech wife CEO philanthropy is the former.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-26 12:41:46+00:00
What happened? Capitalism.

In American culture, hyper-individualism has become a virtue somehow but this too is just a symptom of capitalism. Why? Because people who act collectively are a threat to capitalist power structures.

The whole "gig economy" is nothing more than needing a 2nd and 3rd job just to survive as real wages continue to stagnate or decline and costs keeping going up. That's less free time.

The Internet is a negative here too. Physical proximity has historically had huge power in creating freindships. But capitalism rears its ugly head here too in the destruction of so-called "third places".

High housing prices hurt everybody. It destroys community spaces. Hobbies that were once cheap escapes become way too expensive. Housing costs are an input into everything. Take spiraling childcare costs. You need physical space. That's now way more expensive.

Lastly, there is a natural trend for people who marry and have children to replace friends with family. There is an issue of shared life experiences. 50+ years ago pretty much everyone is in the same boat. Now? By choice or necessity, people are opting out of this "traditional" life and this naturally creates a divide.
by redczar | 2025-04-26 12:41:51+00:00
The less dependence on community started with desegregation. There used to be community pools and rec centers. Garbage pickup was a municipal service. Ambulances were free. These things and more all ended with desegregation. Now we live in a society in which people don’t walk and don’t have places in their neighborhood where others congregate. Kids rarely play in the street anymore. The notion of it taking a village gets laughed at and as you say get individualistic. We live in a deeply unhealthy society from a social standpoint of view.
by rollcat | 2025-04-26 12:42:42+00:00
IANAL, but in general, doxxing people is just a really mean thing to do.

Convicted criminal? Sure, write a story. In the most hopeful case, the sentence they serve will help reintegrate them with society - even then, it's good to know who you're dealing with.

Proven innocent? Lawful or not, you're now carrying the weight of possibly ruining someone's life even further. Sleep on that.