MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by readthenotes1 | 2025-04-08 00:50:20+00:00
Distance running has, afaik, little to do with coronary artery disease (tho exercise can increase HDL some, it's only moderately protective and I recall that there are some studies that say that Marathon running actually is not healthful).

In my understanding of what happens during sudden arrest is that after having filled the artery wall tubing with as much plaque as it could stand, instead of ruptering through the outer wall , it collapses inwards, cutting off blood supply to the heart muscle.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 00:51:01+00:00
Yeah I'm sorry for your troubles. I have 8 or so years in the industry and some decent names on my resume, and nothing is really sticking for me either. It was bad in 2023, horrible in 2024, and maybe outright catastropic in 2025. You may indeed be way way smarter than I am, but if are this stiff with their senior market, the entry level market must be absolutely dead.

I wish I had better advice. I really only have some decent part time work from a blind linkedIn message. Luck really is opportunity + preparation. And these days, you REALLY gotta get lucky. Keep every channel up to advertise yourself, talk around to everyone in your community, and keep bolstering your portfolio. Grab any sort of job possible if you don't decide to move back. If you're willing t relocae for any role, all the better. Just be keenly aware of CoL, because it may slip under your fingers in these times.

I was sent out to an okay enough market that was still looking for people. You were sent out into a wasteland. Just remember that absolutely none of this was your fault. But unfortunately your goal right now is to survive and ride the storm out.

Best of luck.
by wahern | 2025-04-08 00:52:33+00:00
> The foods sold in vending machines make sense though - everyone's already used to instant or canned soup, so throwing it into a vending machine and warming it up makes sense.

The US used to have much more diverse vending machine offerings, including prepared hot foods and drinks, but they started to disappear in the 1970s, though you could find stragglers into the 1990s in older institutional settings (e.g. government buildings), especially for drinks--coffee, hot cocoa, etc. As previously mentioned, I think they fell out of favor because they began to be considered very poor quality (it's a death spiral if turnover doesn't happen fast enough), perhaps as compared to increasingly popular drive-thru alternatives. I guess in a way it was a result of our car culture. Like with the demise of cafeterias generally[1], Americans preferred to jump in their car rather than choosing from what was available within walking distance.

[1] A wall of vending machines selling sandwiches, salads, soups, and hot drinks constituted a "cafeteria" in many buildings.
by louwrentius | 2025-04-08 00:52:45+00:00
> Asked about his life as an investor, and whether he thinks about the potential harms of companies he invests in — such as AI startups that require vast quantities of energy to run their chatbots, or automation companies that could replace human jobs — his answers are slightly less considered.

Being rich seems to ‘lessen’ the capacity to feel empathy for other people or responsibility for your actions (the questionable things you invest in).
by proee | 2025-04-08 00:52:48+00:00
I don't know if this is true, but my cardiologist said that everyone who trains hard for a marathon has some level of heart damage from the excessive training. This sounds extreme to me, but I was in to see him for some AFIB episodes that were triggered from pushing myself too hard. It's worth noting that endurance athletes are 2 to 10 times more likely to develop AFIB compared to non-athletes. So this is a bit of warning to apply some level of moderation to your training.
by thundergolfer | 2025-04-08 00:53:47+00:00
This is unintentionally a pretty amusing puff piece, and indicates the book is going to be horrible.

> His novel is not so much an attempt to break away from that world — he loves investing and working with entrepreneurs, he says — as it is an opportunity to skewer it.

He started a crypto company and then took a father-sponsored investing job. He's done nothing to show he has the appropriate perspective to do more than lightly self-flagellate himself and his friends.

When asked about his responsibilities as an investor:

> “I just do the best I can to be like, I really like this opportunity. I think this could be really cool, and a positive thing, and really fun to work on,’’ he says. “But yes, if I backed a company that turned out to, like, cause horrible harm for people and tons of negative effects, I’d feel fucking terrible.”

Oh he'd _feel_ terrible. Well good, I thought for a second there wouldn't be appropriate consequences.

What an airhead.

I don't know anything about the elder Breyer, but this book promotion looks like a great promotion of massive inheritance taxes.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-08 00:54:31+00:00
We wouldn't know if a private email was configured similarly, or if emails on a private server were manually deleted.

Either way, yes using a communication system on the public internet and outside of official documentation processes is bad no matter how you do it. Deleting those communications could be a bad sign, though to be fair it could also be a sign of someone trying to do what they think is more secure (avoiding old messages being leaked or hacked later).
by steveklabnik | 2025-04-08 00:54:46+00:00
Not your parent.

I never understood the "git cli sucks" thing until I used jj. The thing is, git's great, but it was also grown, over time, and that means that there's some amount of incoherence.

Furthermore, it's a leaky abstraction, that is, some commands only make sense if you grok the underlying model. See the perennial complaints about how 'git checkout' does more than one thing. It doesn't. But only if you understand the underlying model. If you think about it from a workflow perspective, it feels inconsistent. Hence why newer commands (like git switch) speak to the workflow, not to the model.

Furthermore, some features just feel tacked on. Take stashing, for example. These are pseudo-commits, that exist outside of your real commit graph. As a feature, it doesn't feel well integrated into the rest of git.

Rebasing is continually re-applying `git am`. This is elegant in a UNIXy way, but is annoying in a usability way. It's slow, because it goes through the filesystem to do its job. It forces you to deal with conflicts right away, because git has no way of modelling conflicts in its data model.

Basically, git's underlying model is great, but not perfect, and its CLI was grown, not designed. As such, it has weird rough edges. But that doesn't mean it's a bad tool. It's a pretty darn good one. But you can say that it is while acknowledging that it does have shortcomings.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 00:55:13+00:00
> But if I look at the signals around me there's plenty of opportunities.

The signals around me in LA are pretty damn bad. several friends laid off, many others worried about layoffs, and a very weak pulse on the market in terms of roles. I still have part time work but who knows for how much longer at this rate?

At this point I'm fine taking up anything that pays and doesn't potentially sent my 8 YO car into retirement even faster.
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-08 00:55:25+00:00
I don't know why people are so shaky about calling the class war what it is. I remember this being a big issue during the Obama era, Republicans accusing his proposal to raise taxes as "class warfare". It's like Warren Buffet said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”
by glxxyz | 2025-04-08 00:56:36+00:00
I'm pretty sure it's this Einhell Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaner: https://www.einhell.nl/en/p/2342370-tc-vc-1812-s/ this guy in England seemed quite happy with his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOu6TyEUuY

I also wondered about the power extension reels, looks like two of them are the REV model shown here: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07KKQMVLW although one is a bit battered and the outer blue plate has fallen off.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-08 00:57:26+00:00
I think both should be treated seriously, I'm not sure why you'd assume otherwise from what I've said here.

There should be just as thorough of an investigation into this one, and assuming there isn't that's a miscarriage of justice.

That said, I'm of the opinion that its great and all that they investigated Clinton's email server but the fact that nothing came of it is a problem. It absolutely violated the intent of the law in my opinion. The mere fact that they found so many emails with information that should have been marked confidential is, in my opinion, a violation of the intent of confidential information protection laws.
by ItDoBeWimdyTho | 2025-04-08 00:58:02+00:00
Their wealth may increase as a percentage of all wealth in America. For a long time that basically meant the same thing, because the dollar was the foundation of the international financial system. But that was because of the stability of the US government.

When other countries disengage their financial systems from ours in favor of the yuan, being a billionaire in American dollars will be about as impressive as being a billionaire in Zimbabwe dollars.
by cameronfyfe | 2025-04-08 00:58:58+00:00
I came across this yesterday and added it under "Related Projects" in the README, it looks like a great effort toward a more complete nix-declared MCP config.

I'm not looking to use nix to manage MCP server config files since I'm using another tool I'm working on (https://github.com/eqtylab/mcp-guardian) to manage those right now, so I just wanted a simple repo with easily accessible derivations for individual MCP servers.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-08 00:59:26+00:00
It doesn't have to be this way for most apps. One reason I've seen why people heavily rely on the lifecycle methods is that UI = f(state) isn't fast enough. But in more powerful languages like ClojureScript, you can keep track of which part of the state is accessed, and subsequently rerun only parts of the f that needs to rerun. As I understand, there is something called React compiler (https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/main/compiler) that tries to do this. But in a better language, this doesn't need to be a standalone tool, just a macro.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 00:59:48+00:00
well anecdotes are anecdotes. But tech tends to be much less sticky in this regard. And west coast much less sticky than east coast. My first job was 28/hr and the next roll almost tripled to 120k base 3 years later. It does partially mean hustling in some regards (be it on portfolio or leetcode), but when tech needs workers, they care a lot less about your piece of paper.

But then again, we are definietly not in times of normalcy. If nothing changes quick we may all be losing our spending power.
by agentultra | 2025-04-08 01:00:05+00:00
Yes.

It could be much better but Dependent Haskell has been stymied by pearl clutching in the community about “pragmatism,” and “scaring away new users.” And a few technical hurdles.

I want Dependent Haskell to happen. I think that when you need it, you need it. And when you only have partial support for it you end up with a very confusing set of libraries and conventions to encode dependent types in Haskell that is probably more off-putting than proper language support (singletons, GADTs, type classes and associated type families and.. and.. and..).

That being said, Haskell isn’t exactly funded by a company like Microsoft. It’s a small community and the teams driving these projects are small and staffed with keen volunteers for the most part.

I don’t think DH will happen but I hope it will get through.
by zzo38computer | 2025-04-08 01:00:10+00:00
I have some ideas about operating system design (and stuff relating to the CPU design, too) to help with this and other issues (e.g. network transparency, resisting fingerprinting, better user programmability and interoperability, etc). This means that it is fully deterministic except I/O, and all I/O uses capabilities which may be proxied etc. Libraries may run in separate processes if desired (but this is not always required). However, other differences compared with existing systems is also necessary for improved security (and other improvements); merely doing other things like existing systems do has some problems. For example, USB will not be used, and Unicode also will not be used. Atomic locking/transactions of multiple objects at once will be necessary, too (this can avoid many kind of race conditions with existing systems, as well as other problems). File access is not done by names (files do not have names). And then, a specific implementation and distribution may have requirements and checking for the packages provided in the package manager and in the default installation (and the specification will include recommendations). These things alone still will not solve everything, but it is a start.
by teleforce | 2025-04-08 01:01:37+00:00
I think AR or augmented reality games like this trading cards is the future of gaming, but this one is offline AR rather than online.

One of the best game I ever played is the text based souvenir game shopping game on Windows 3. I can't recall the name of the game now since it's more than 30 years ago, but it's about shopping souvenirs using London Underground Tube. You have a semi realistic time constraints like train schedules, your flight schedules and of course list of souvenirs items to shop. This is totally offline since there is no Internet available at the time but it's very engaging nonetheless.

My proposal for the modern version of the game is to use real-time train schedules (with delays, ticket discounts, etc) that are available publicly on the Internet for many metropolitan cities in the world for examples Tokyo, London and Berlin [1],[2],[3].

Imagine you can have a real-world realistic in-app in-game items purchases feature that you personally can buy in the game and delivered to you or anyone you fancy of giving souvenirs except that you only virtually went there.

[1] A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system (2023 - 103 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061

[2] Live map of London's Underground system:

https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

[3] Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin (2020 - 102 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647227

[4] Berlin train info:

https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo
by charcircuit | 2025-04-08 01:02:14+00:00
>can most easily be injected (and have been in the past over and over and over).

In practice this is much more rare then a user downloading and running malware or visiting a site that exploits their browser. Compare the number of 0days chrome has had over the years versus the number of times bad actors have hacked Google and replaced download links with links to malware.
by ggm | 2025-04-08 01:02:23+00:00
I don't disagree. I only commented on a thing he was quoted on in the article.

An awful lot of the energy in left wing intellectual circles has always come from what Lenin called "useful idiots" and this guy is no different.

Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically. I suspect he said it, because he doesn't want it dismissed by some readers on the basis thats his place. I don't personally think it invalidates the writing.
by bhouston | 2025-04-08 01:02:38+00:00
If building hardware products wasn't hard enough. This could kill a lot of companies pretty quickly. If you have massive inventory in China or you've invested in a factory to build things at scale and now your US margins are underwater, I'm not sure what you do.

Nintendo is facing the same thing. Nintendo had tried to avoid Trump's first term tariffs in 2019 by spending a ton of money moving Switch production to Vietnam only for Vietnam to get hit massive 46% tariffs this week:

https://www.designdevelopmenttoday.com/industries/manufactur...
Ask HN: Bugcrowd Forcing Password Reset
by xyst | 2025-04-08 01:03:53+00:00
Anybody else getting a suspicious e-mail from Bugcrowd to reset your password? Seems their user data has been leaked or infiltrated?

No news reports. No official reports from bugcrowd.com.

(( hope it's not just _poor_ data secops ))

Update: Message itself _seems_ legit. DKIM signed. Originates from AmazonSES. SPF checks out. Link to reset points to bugcrowd.com
by ggm | 2025-04-08 01:04:18+00:00
This was never really in doubt based on the evidence presented to the press. The news here is the admission, not the underlying facts.

(although since we're all 3rd hand in this except for people who either can't or won't comment for reasonably obvious reasons, using words like "facts" and "doubt" and "evidence" is probably a mistake)

What will be interesting is the long tail. The entities providing layered services who do have reporting obligations under EU or US laws, or other economies, who then surface to say they got risk/exposure as a result of this.

Having been the recipient of a supply chain integrity questionnaire from a US corp entity, I can assure you that this is a well understood, extensive space for questions. An awful lot of indirect dependency can stem from a cloud service compromise.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-04-08 01:04:28+00:00
> But Quartz never made money. We grew, between 2012 and 2018, to nearly 250 employees and $35 million in annual revenue. The dismal economics of digital media meant losing more than $40 million over that stretch just to grow unsustainably large.

Those are laughably terrible numbers. $35M/year ain't much, and, even at a glance, there's no way to support 250 decently-paid employees on it. All things considered, even 50 is pushing it.

But if they thought outside-the-box a little bit, there might have been a way out: They could have gone into academic publishing. Academic publishers make money hand over fist. Elsevier made $3.5B in profit and >$10B in revenue just last year.

Doing social sciences and political science stuff would have been a good fit for Quartz. You don't need any special permits to become an academic publisher. Most of your employees (reviewers) do it for free, like jannies. The industry is ripe for, uh, "disruption." Oh well.
by hkpack | 2025-04-08 01:06:18+00:00
I feel that I am usually very good in systems thinking, but it looks like what this administration is doing is much more close to vibe governing.

When I hear about reasons for any decision, the second or third order effects are never mentioned or even considered, however emotions are always through the roof.

Even Peter Navarro said that his duty is to justify the Trumps economic intuition.

Musk is destroying woke virus and “increasing efficiency like in a business”.

They show zero systems understanding.
by outer_web | 2025-04-08 01:06:35+00:00
Various sources report that most Americans (with some margin) report that they live paycheck to paycheck. That would include people who aren't married with children, of course, but they certainly would not be able to absorb a random four-digit bill without a second thought.

I certainly wouldn't characterize it as a 'totally mistaken' view on 'most Americans', even if it's overstating the scope of the problem.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-08 01:08:37+00:00
They have their entire production in Taiwan, which probably feels like a good move right now. If they did final assembly in the US, US tariffs would be better, but selling outside the US would mean importing parts into the US and exporting computers outside, paying tradewar-level tariffs both ways. The way they are set up now they get hit harder on US imports but the rest of their customers aren't affected at all.
by ofermend | 2025-04-08 01:09:39+00:00
A great day for open source, and so glad to see llama4 out. However, I'm a bit disappointed that the hallucination rates of Llama4 are not as low as I would have liked (TL;DR slightly higher than Llama3).

Check the numbers on the hallucination leaderboard: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
by gerdesj | 2025-04-08 01:12:08+00:00
The article is written by a co-founder of github and not Linus Torvalds.

git is just a tool to do stuff. It's name (chosen by that Finnish bloke) is remarkably apt - its for gits!

It's not Mecurial, nor github, nor is it anything else. Its git.

It wasn't invented for you or you or even you. It was a hack to do a job: sort out control of the Linux kernel source when Bit Keeper went off the rails as far as the Linux kernel devs were concerned.

It seems to have worked out rather well.
by rayiner | 2025-04-08 01:12:57+00:00
> If you have massive inventory in China or you've invested in a factory to build things at scale and now your US margins are underwater, I'm not sure what you do.

Don’t have massive production in China if you want to sell in the US. The writing has been on the wall for this for almost 20 years. Even Obama was talking about it in 2007-08.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-08 01:13:02+00:00
Users get services for free. If users didn’t value the ad Tech companies offerings, they wouldn’t use the service.

I’m not saying I like ad-tech. I use ad blockers, refuse to use any ad supported app that doesn’t have a method I can pay to remove ads, and I pay for ad free experiences for all of my streaming services and I pay to receive a number of ad free podcasts.

But let’s not pretend that users get nothing of value from Google or even Facebook.

On the other hand, I don’t hate myself enough to work for any ad tech company.
by xyst | 2025-04-08 01:13:04+00:00
Reminds me of a time when yahoo finance message boards and newsgroups were littered with pump and dump schemes [1]

Now it's the same shit, but with Twitter "Verified" posts, "discord pump and dump" groups, and now coming straight from the POTUS himself or the administration (ie, Trump offspring pumping and dumping various crypto tokens)

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/before-wall-street-bets-a-his...
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-08 01:13:48+00:00
Token usage meaning via agentic processes. Essentially every gripe about LLMs over the last few years (hallucinations, lack of real time data, etc.) was a result of single shot prompting directly to models. No one is seriously doing that for anything at this point anymore. Yes, you spend ten times more on a task, and it takes much longer. But your results are meaningful and useful at the end, and you can actually begin to engineer systems on top of that now.
by timewizard | 2025-04-08 01:16:18+00:00
Go is one of those languages where "good layout" feels more elusive to me than in other languages. I think you accidentally highlight one of the reasons why.

core.WeatherServices

Which makes sense because you're using a lot of things from core but since I have to carry the package name around everywhere I use it, outside of that module, it becomes a bit of a strain.

weather.Service

Would clearly be a better name in the "go style," but the single level package structure always makes me feel like my types are dangling out in space outside of any decent hierarchy.

I love Go as a language but I dislike how often it makes me think of exceptionally tiny things like this. Please don't read this as a criticism of your project just a general criticism of how thin the Go "namespace" ideology actually is.
by JLO64 | 2025-04-08 01:16:34+00:00
I really hope this won’t affect International/European pricing for their laptops as I was planning on getting my GF (who lives in Poland) a Framework 12.

Additionally, I was thinking about purchasing a Framework Desktop to use as a server for my business. (I’d like to use LLMs but due to the sensitive nature of my customer’s data I would strongly prefer doing so locally.) I guess I’d have to send it to my GF and then smuggle it into the US in my carry on.