MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by twodave | 2025-06-14 03:09:53+00:00
Not sure if the article mentioned it (writing style was getting on my nerves about half way through), but endometriosis is also highly hereditary. My wife’s mother has 2 sisters. One sister had endometriosis and the other two had daughters (including my wife) who had it.

It has also been known to degrade egg quality, resulting in total infertility in some (including my wife and her aunt—jury is still out on the cousin).

I don’t think most reproductive surgeons think of endometriosis as untreatable. 1% rate of having some kind of complication from the surgery doesn’t sound crazy high to me. The recurrence rate I think depends pretty heavily on how pervasive the case was and how soon it was caught.

My wife was in her late 20s when she had surgery to have it cut out via laparoscopy, and it wasn’t really a big deal. She had a hysterectomy this year for other reasons, over 15 years later and had no signs of recurrence.
by pxc | 2025-06-14 03:10:27+00:00
> [The] article is sadly also in that camp of applying this perspective to be dismissive.

TFA literally and unironically includes such phrases as "AI is awesome".

It characterizes AI as "useful", "impressive" and capable of "genuine technological marvels".

In what sense is the article dismissive? What, exactly, is it dismissive of?
by rendaw | 2025-06-14 03:13:12+00:00
I'm not necessarily a fan of Apple's design, but I want to add that when you have floating header bars it cuts down screen real estate and makes the UI feel more claustrophobic. Making it semi-transparent helps that significantly.

There are usability reasons for this too - for instance, even if it's blurred, a hint of what content is behind the bar helps the user know when they've neared some new content or when to stop scrolling, or whether there's more content above/below the unobscured viewport.
by GMoromisato | 2025-06-14 03:16:34+00:00
> You and the author may be in agreement but with differing risk tolerance.

I agree. And I'm not saying the author is wrong--they have their preferences. I'm just saying that for me the benefits outweigh the risks, and I'm betting most people are like me (at least outside HN).

> I don't think it's ironic but I do think it's false. How do LLMs satisfy a single requirement from the author's punchline list?

The main suggestion from the author is to write your own custom software tuned to your needs instead of relying on a mass-market, one-size-fits-all piece of complex, expensive software that has to be monetized by dark patterns.

I guess in a world where everyone knows how to program, and has the time and desire to do so, that would work. But in the real world, the only way to get the bulk of humanity to write their own software is with LLMs.

I think it's ironic because I bet the author does not like LLMs.
by jltsiren | 2025-06-14 03:17:12+00:00
Lack of social status was historically the key. The guys who knew how to operate the ship had some critical expertise, but because they lacked the social status of nobility (or a college graduate), they were made warrant officers instead of proper officers.

Roles that historically required higher education – doctors, lawyers, and chaplains – are typically commissioned officers. Air forces similarly have commissioned officers doing the actual fighting. While they are not in management positions, their status and responsibilities are comparable to commissioned officers in other branches. In some cultures, the same extends to special forces.
by gck1 | 2025-06-14 03:19:37+00:00
You can pick up a pulled laptop modem like the T99W175 from China for a low price, drop it into a USB enclosure (you’ll be limited to USB 2.0 speeds), and hook it up to OpenWrt. Or grab a GL.iNet GL-X3000 - the Quectel RM520N is already on board and runs over PCIe, so it’s quicker.

Then you can have basically unlimited IPs.

Android messes with your traffic far more than a bare modem (there's unavoidable NAT for one), and it has tighter thermal limits, so higher latency is expected.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-14 03:19:58+00:00
> LLM's do not "solve a problem."

Right, or at any rate, the problems they do solve are ones of document-construction, which may sometimes resemble a different problem humans are thinking of... but isn't actually being solved.

For example, an LLM might take the string "2+2=" and give you "2+2=4", but it didn't solve a math problem, it solved a "what would usually get written here" problem.

We ignore this distinction at our peril.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-06-14 03:20:39+00:00
I might agree with the author's thesis that tax code changes are the cause of the "tech job meltdown" BUT they don't provide any evidence for their claims in the article :/ This makes it punditry, not a serious economic discussion.

When I see discussion of complex economic problems (e.g. housing...) that are probably complex and multifactorial, authors often want to claim they are monocausal. It's usually a bad sign if there are no charts, graphs, numbers or quotes from people (in a position to know the truth, e.g. execs setting hiring policy) to back up their claims.
by vvpan | 2025-06-14 03:21:10+00:00
Sure, taxes, AI, etc. matter. But my intuition is that the narrative that has driven the software industry "we are changing the world" has run out of steam and it would have without all those other things. The wild Silicon Valley success stories turned into despised monopolies, extractive middlemen, uprooters of local culture, job destroyers and hijackers of attention. I can name very few large software companies that I would not be ashamed of working for. From talking to more politically minded programmers it seems to be on a lot of people's minds, that glory days of SV/VC are over.

This is not to say that software's story is over, just that the incentive mechanisms in place have failed. We could have created protocols, interoperability, local-first apps and novel funding mechanisms but the poisoned VC/shareholder money ensured that we do not.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-06-14 03:21:59+00:00
I worked for a month at a place where the median age was 27. I'm 38. I felt tired by their wasted energy. They'd fight over tiny details, have arguments about things that don't matter. Hearing Devs with 3 years working experience tell me they can architect anything fatigued me. They talked about their crazy architecture like it was going to change it all. I left in a month, but I'd have left in a week if I didn't need the money.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-14 03:22:14+00:00
>I get value out of

That's the rub. Does it benefit the developers much more than the users, in aggregate?

It's not an easy question to answer even for vaccines..

But I'd wager it's a no, because, e.g. Pfizer(plus or minus BioNTech) probably could not have learnt enough* from their deployment..

*I.e. gain nonfungible knowhow
by captn3m0 | 2025-06-14 03:22:42+00:00
I also had to argue with a lawyer on the same point - he held a firm belief that “Modern GenAI systems” are different from older ML systems in that they are non-deterministic and random. And that this inherent randomness is what makes them both unexplainable (you can’t guarantee what it would type) and useful (they can be creative).
by pabs3 | 2025-06-14 03:23:11+00:00
If you read the license, it is pretty simple and quite similar to the GPL if you were to ever make your SaaS self-hostable.

You can chose between two options:

1) use the original code unmodified 2) if you modified the code, ensure folks accessing the AGPL software over the network have access to the code for your modified version.

However, different AGPL based vendors might have different license interpretations, so check out their license documentation.

Your plan sounds like it should be compliant though, although you should make sure the link to the source is prominent enough. That said, probably it isn't necessary since database tools generally aren't interacted with by users and thus should not be covered by the network clause: "your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version".

Also make sure you don't delete any of the commits you deploy, so that users can get access to them no matter how much time has passed.

Also, you might want to consider sending upstream pull requests for the changes you are going to make for your workload, so you can eventually use it unmodified, and just link to the upstream project.

Also, if you have the budget, consider sending upstream donations if they have that option, or otherwise spending employee time on contributing upstream, or both. Also have employees join their community, join their chats/discussions, attend conferences etc.

Also, IANAL, so you probably should get actual legal advice.
by Iwan-Zotow | 2025-06-14 03:26:03+00:00
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle
by Rendello | 2025-06-14 03:27:08+00:00
A few years ago I came across the article "SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching". The "Generic SIMD" section into and example is small and quite understandable. I modified it to implement an LZ77 sliding window in Zig.*

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html

* Or rather, I tried my best. I burnt out on that project because I kept jumping back and forth between making a proper DEFLATE implementation or something bespoke. The SIMD stuff was really tough and once I got it "working", I figured I got all I needed from the project and let it go.

https://github.com/rendello/compressor/blob/dev/src/str_matc...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-14 03:29:21+00:00
Sure,

ME/CFS: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome hEDS: Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome TNXB: A gene for making the tenascin-X protein, it's one of the RCCX (Receptor of Complement component 4) gene cluster genes. SNPs: Single nucleotide polymorphisms WGS: Whole Genome Sequencing
by glaucon | 2025-06-14 03:29:24+00:00
Not just decisions about manufacturing, it's hard to see the Citizens United decision as anything other than a major step backwards in representation of the people by the people, I'm not a US resident but it saddens me to think of how it's eroded representation in the USA.

How the USA is ever going to fix that I don't know, the very things that might change it, are going to be fought against, with almost unlimited funds, by the same entities who benefit from the change staying in place.
by kragen | 2025-06-14 03:30:12+00:00
It did (01978 to 01989), and RISC-V hasn't changed nearly that much since 02014 despite the introduction of important extensions like V, but there's an even more obvious falsehood: the RISC-V instruction set was introduced in 02010, not 02014. https://riscv.org/blog/2024/05/14-years-of-risc-v-a-journey-...

This article has a lot of huge honesty problems, but maybe the worst one is how it focuses exclusively on US companies, who aren't the ones doing the work of making RISC-V real. Where are the mentions of AliBaba, T-Head, WCH, Seeed Studios, Tencent, Pine64, Espressif, Rockchip, and all the other Chinese brands that are such huge players in the RISC-V world? This is like reading a news article about computer networking in 01984 in France that focuses entirely on Minitel and Groupe Bull and doesn't bother to mention Tymnet, IBM, Ethernet, Xerox, or the internet. Did MIPS hire a PR agency to write it for them?

Shilov himself has written about some of Huawei's RISC-V development, so he really has no excuse: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/huaweis-hisilicon-develops... Doesn't that seem a bit more significant than anything related to MIPS?

And in https://merics.org/en/report/huawei-quietly-dominating-china...:

> For instruction set architecture, the software for executing chip production which represents another key supply chain chokepoint with high levels of market concentration, China’s government has chosen an open-source architecture that was pioneered in the United States: RISC-V. Top artificial intelligence and software companies like Alibaba and Tencent have been charged with furthering progress in using RISC-V.

And Huawei's HarmonyOS supports RISC-V: https://www.huaweicentral.com/runhe-software-launches-harmon...
by Noelia- | 2025-06-14 03:31:27+00:00
At first I thought the page was frozen, but then I realized it was designed to make you read one line at a time. It felt a bit awkward at first, but after a while the rhythm started to feel right.

You don’t see many websites that ask you to slow down, but for a poem like this, it actually works. It’s not something that grabs you instantly, but if you give it a few quiet minutes, it kind of gets under your skin.
by jleyank | 2025-06-14 03:32:41+00:00
I would think there’s a similar impact on biotech/pharma which relies on research finding candidates to take into development. These companies can burn a whole lotta money and I think their job market has been brittle over the last year as well. These are ms/phd/md kinds of jobs for the most part. Sudden upturns in laoyff or surrendering companies would confirm the article.
by rendaw | 2025-06-14 03:32:52+00:00
I just went through an exercise fixing up tags on my music collection and it surprised me how bad the landscape is (and still better than book tagging, video tagging, etc).

MusicBrainz has an amazing database, but a huge amount of stuff from bandcamp/beatport isn't there. Why wouldn't you automatically import that?

So I ended up using OneTagger which I really wouldn't recommend to anyone, but was still marginally better than tagging by hand after I learned the footguns and restored from backups several times.
by Ecco | 2025-06-14 03:33:44+00:00
With a limit of 10 million different serial numbers, I wonder how China does it. I can't come up with a decent estimate, and maybe I'm way off. But with the growth of sellers like Shein or Temu, I wouldn't be surprised if they shipped that many parcels in like a single day ? Or at least in a timeframe short enough that they would have over 10 million shipped but yet-to-be-delivered parcels, effectively running out of tracking numbers.
by ineptech | 2025-06-14 03:33:58+00:00
The article presumably omits mention of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" because it also does a raft of other controversial[0] and broadly unpopular[1] things that are much more impactful than, and completely unrelated to, the subject of the essay.

0: kick 7M people off Medicaid, hire 10K new ICE officers, tax university endowments, subsidize fossil fuels, etc https://apnews.com/article/big-beautiful-bill-trump-tax-cuts...

1: "Voters 53 - 27 percent oppose the legislation, with 20 percent not offering an opinion" https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3924
by jordanb | 2025-06-14 03:34:35+00:00
I'm kinda weekly in agreement too but I can't really square the idea that it's all Section 174 with what I've been seeing as a tech worker.

1) At my company they already were capitalizing most of our time. We have to fill out time cards characterizing most of our time as R&D. As best as I can make out this is partially tax efficiency (and maybe we're getting credits) but it's also substantially about reporting and having a similar capital/operating structure to other companies in our industry.

2) From what I've seen at my company and others, most of the layoffs have been moving job functions overseas. Axlerod points out that the amortization schedule is even worse for overseas engineers, but brushes it aside by arguing that companies can get tax benefits from foreign governments. But then he points to Germany as a country that gives the old tax treatment, which is confusing because Germany's tech employment trends are similar to the USA. In fact, in my company, we used to have large German operations all of which have been moved to cheaper European countries and India.

3) He also mentions ZIRP but only to dismiss it. That seems kinda goofy as you talk to any financier and they will say the rising risk free rate of return will eviscerate speculative investment.

4) He also fails to really even address two other trends that I have seen in our industry: maturation of the industry as a whole (and a lack of new "platform" to take off since cellphones) and a post-covid post-WFH backlash by industry leadership against more assertive workers, and a desire for labor discipline.

No doubt Section 174 is also a cause for the tech slump. How much compared to all the others? I don't know. And I support its repeal since it was just an accounting trick in the trump tax cuts. My intuition is that its effect is pretty marginal and a repeal won't change much.
by tom89999 | 2025-06-14 03:34:47+00:00
Why care so much? Those people did it for a reason. They received the same help as you and now they pass the help around. There is a saying in my language that you always meet the same guy twice in your life. And everything you do, will return to you. Be glad you have met so kind people and be nice to the future student or helpseeker you will met. It could be that guys son or daughter. Balance restored i would say.
by ninjin | 2025-06-14 03:34:49+00:00
From "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of Illumos" by Bryan Cantrill at LISA'11 [1]. Utterly amazing talk and I almost feel like it is given a disservice by everyone simply quoting that (albeit great) line.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
by jmyeet | 2025-06-14 03:35:03+00:00
This Section 174 discourse is so deceptive and disingenuous.

The 2017 tax cuts were a massive gift, particularly for Big Tech. Billions and billions of dollars, just from the cut in Corporate Tax as well as taxes on the repatriation of foreign profits. Oh and apparently dropping that from 35% to 14% wasn't enough, because there's now a push for yet another tax holiday [1], which would save Big Tech at least $75 billion.

So if tech companies want Section 174 changed back to 100% deduction for software development costs, what tax breaks do they want to give back to pay for it exactly?

But the part that grinds my gears is blaming Section 174 for the layoffs. What a joke. Companies use layoffs to suppress wages and get more unpaid work. Nobody is demanding raises when they're in fear of losing their jobs.

If Section 174 was the reason for the layoffs, these companies wouldn't be hiring at the same time they're doing layoffs.

And consider this: if your head count is stable, then amortizing software development costs doesn't really matter. Why? Because you're only deducting 20% of this year's costs but you're now deducting 20% from each of the last 4 years too. So unless your labor costs massively changed, it's basically the same thing.

How about we end IP transfer and paying royalties to foreign subsidiaries in Ireland? Then you can have your 100% deduction.

[1]: https://www.citizen.org/news/apple-microsoft-poised-to-reap-...
by theshackleford | 2025-06-14 03:37:23+00:00
That's not at all supportive of the claim that was made. All it does is support that Tobacco companies attempted to discredit science suggesting it was bad. Which was never in question.

It is however not "lots of studies" saying that opposite, that smoking is in fact ok for you. Which was the claim that was made. It would be fantastic if someone could point me in the direction of all these "lots of studies" where these studies are credible, indepedent scientific studies showing that smoking was ok for you.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-14 03:39:20+00:00
I think he means tropes not shibboleths

But anyway interesting summary of the situation. Is it true? As in has anyone got a giant Excel sheet and checked sources and memos to verify? It's a good theory (theory in the true sense: a model to put up to scrutiny) but some evidence would be good to see.

If correct it means jobs aren't lost they move to other countries. Where they don't it opens opportunities for other countries to compete on features not built in the US.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-06-14 03:40:37+00:00
I heard about this disease through an education channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzA9VATcZhY

> The speaker had been experiencing symptoms like period pain, bloating, and fatigue for years, visiting many doctors without getting a proper diagnosis. When severe pain developed, a GP ordered an ultrasound but the speaker initially ignored the results, assuming it was just an ovarian cyst. However, after using the Ada AI medical diagnosis app, which asked questions about symptoms and calculated probabilities of various conditions, it suggested endometriosis - a condition the speaker had never heard of. This prompted them to return to their doctor, where the ultrasound results confirmed the AI's diagnosis of endometriosis.
by analog31 | 2025-06-14 03:42:37+00:00
As I understand it, sequencing is the step that confirms the discovery, so it represents the culmination of the effort.

Biology is one of those fields where accidental discoveries still have value. Whether they earn the same recognition as some long grinding effort is up in the air, but it's a nice feather in the cap for a student.

There's the old saying: "Chance favors the prepared mind." The student must have had an insight that caused them to investigate something that many other people had probably overlooked or dismissed as unimportant.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-06-14 03:42:55+00:00
hEDS, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a joint problem with co-occurring immune system problems, sometimes caused by defects in the TNXB gene https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hEDS+hypermobile+Ehlers-Danlos+syn...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/chro...
by abdullahss | 2025-06-14 03:43:32+00:00
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by paul7986 | 2025-06-14 03:43:50+00:00
You are finding hiring managers email addresses and Linkedin profiles (you can't message someone on linked without paying for premium and you might need to be their contact already for some like Open AI hiring managers.. can not message them) it seems.

I've gotten all my jobs through recruiters on LinkedIn since 2013 yet my first two jobs where I gained experience/built my network further were through my personal network (did startups in DC and went to events; met many tech folks). I did LONG ago get an interview via stalking a hiring manager on Linkedin and she was cool yet her boss was mortified by such action I took. I didnt get the gig in 2011. Times have changed so some hiring managers im sure won't care until this hack becomes like spam where tons and tons of randos start hitting up hiring managers email boxes and or their linkedin invite inboxes.

Personally what would be better is AI finding people in your network who you already know and who are connected to hiring managers by 1 to 3 degrees of separation. Something that helps the number one thing that gets people jobs ...knowing someone and or having a friend or co-worker (former) who knows these people.