MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derektank | 2025-07-13 20:09:37+00:00
No US citizen has had a federal law enforcement abduct them for making a sarcastic comment online (unless it was a legal threat, which has never been tolerated).

The US residents and visa holders who it has happened to, such as Mahmoud Khalil, are largely out of detention and, in his case, in a position to file a tort claim against the government of $20M dollars.

The current administration is a threat to the rule of law and I have no doubt they wish they were not subject to it. But they are, they have not attempted an auto-golpe, and people harmed by the administration continue to have the ability to seek redress through the courts. We are a little over a year away from midterm elections, which will almost certainly bring congressional impediments to executive power as well, at the very least in the form of investigations.

We in a dangerous period in US history, but it is not unprecedented, and the outcome is not yet determined. We are not in a fascist dictatorship today and, fortune willing, we might not yet ever be.
by bestham | 2025-07-13 20:09:49+00:00
I would love to see what innovation could happen if privacy and sustainability was paramount in tech. That the user of the product or service was not the product to be sold or mined. There are only a handful of companies worldwide with that ethos. Many of them are not European. As a European I fully support the regulation of US tech in the EU. We are using US tech, but it has some inherit fundamental humans rights and competition problems that EU regulators want to address. I do not expect that EU will become innovative in a way to compete with US or Asia.
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by alibarber | 2025-07-13 20:11:04+00:00
To be fair, I've had reasonably similar experiences here in Finland.

And I agree with your second point too - I don't really know what's going on with education, or more generally, the culture surrounding it these days (old man yells at cloud I know), I'd like to see that improved, because in a lot of Europe this is being (effectively) paid for by the public, and if it's producing people with no hope then what's the point?
by alephnerd | 2025-07-13 20:11:46+00:00
I'm on the board or a board observer for a couple companies (some public, some startups), and it is a bit of column A and a bit of column B.

The headcount growth during COVID along with the return of offshoring with GCCs was driven by the intention to speed up delivery of products and initiatives.

There are some IR games being played, but the productivity gains are real - where you may have recruited a new grad or non-trad candidates, now you can reduce hiring significantly and overindex on hiring and better compensating more experienced new hires.

Roles, expectations, and responsibilities are also increasingly getting merged - PMs are expected to have the capabilities of junior PMMs, SEs, UX Designers, and Program Managers; and EMs and Principal Engineers are increasingly expected to have the capabilities of junior UX Designers, Program Managers, and PMs. This was already happening before ChatGPT (eg. The Amazon PM paradigm) but it's getting turbocharged now that just about every company has licenses for Cursor, Copilot, Glean Enterprise, and other similar tools.
by brianjlogan | 2025-07-13 20:12:03+00:00
I wouldn't buy a joystick if you're into Flight sims. I'd look into a Hotas setup or a virtual reality setup where the whole cockpit is simulated (VTOL VR).

I started out on Microsoft Flight Simulator back in 99-2000. I feel like that was the peak joystick purchase era.

Get a monitor with a good refresh rate, get a good gaming keyboard and mouse, potentially look into mechanical keyboards if you watch some videos and find it interesting.

Watch some YouTube PC gaming channels.

Also there's SO many games you're right it is overwhelming.

You could easily go ten years back. And buy the top ten games on some gaming site rank list.

Obligatory mentions: - Red Dead Redemption 2 - The Last of Us - BioShock Infinite - The Witcher 3 - City Skylines (Sims City like)

Really depends on what category of game you like. Highly highly subjective thing these days.

You can almost make friends by aligning on the types of games you like because it's a bit of a personality litmus test.

I'd imagine a lot of people in HackerNews play Factorio quite seriously.
by gilfoy | 2025-07-13 20:12:17+00:00
And who exactly is this happening to? Who are the wrong people? Who are they swatting?

We all know exactly what is going down with immigration, but vaguely alluding to that instead of just saying it while pretending any given person is in danger would be dishonest.

It’s always like this though. Vague blurry imagery of perceived threats, no details.
by takklz | 2025-07-13 20:12:20+00:00
Same thought I had. Almost everything piece of technology that I use is broken in some way. UI bugs, connection issues, missing obvious features, missing non obvious features that might be specific to me, terrible UI, etc etc.

If AI is so useful that it can fully replace engineers or other humans, why aren’t products next level amazing?

If the barrier to entry for these high margin tech companies becomes so low that they no longer even need employees, isn’t the next step to compete on quality?
by whatever1 | 2025-07-13 20:12:25+00:00
In my case AI has boosted my productivity towards directions that are not on the critical path for a project, but nevertheless very nice to have.

For example now I have a ton of graphs and interactive UI pages that interact with my code. Made everyone’s lives easier, but at least in my case it was not a dealbreaker not having these, and frankly nobody was willing to pay for them.
by acdha | 2025-07-13 20:12:44+00:00
In three decades, I’ve had some call me to check a reference only twice for private sector jobs. The federal government actually does this as part of background checks so it works but you need to want to badly enough to pay real money.

The other problem is liability: companies often tell their employees not to give references for fear of being sued if the employee doesn’t work out, and most companies don’t expect useful information from them unless someone left in a way which has a public record like a court case. The federal checks don’t have that problem because not answering honestly is a crime. You’d need some kind of shield for honest statements for the private sector to really get accurate assessments, and that’s tricky to do in a way which allows the most useful opinions.
by Arainach | 2025-07-13 20:13:09+00:00
"It's illegal and you can press charges" doesn't save you from being grabbed by a white van. It doesn't save you from being shipped to a prison in another country and the Trump Administration telling the courts "tough, we're not bringing them back". It doesn't save you from the cops "accidentally" killing or maiming you.

We are absolutely living under fascism right now.
by ajb | 2025-07-13 20:13:09+00:00
I would guess simply cost. Air conditioning has a high energy cost, especially if your building isn't air tight, which many old buildings are not. In the UK companies can be tight fisted about air conditioning even though they could afford it; an abbey in Hungary may not have enough revenue to pay for it.

Having said that I wonder if they also have a damp issue, insects need some degree of moisture if they are eating stuff like paper.
by treyd | 2025-07-13 20:13:22+00:00
That is the ideal model for treatment of those types of mental health disorders. Often patients have blockers that prevent them from resolving underlying issues. But through a drug they can get into a headspace that allows them to work through them with talk therapy, and then learn new habits and eventually go off the drug.

In practice, this doesn't happen that often, no, but it's a theoretical goal. Probably because we're in the pre-GLP-1 era with regard to mental health meds. Maybe that will change.
by Levitating | 2025-07-13 20:13:33+00:00
It depends on what games you like.

One game that I recommend to anyone is Firewatch. It's a beautiful, linear story game with easy to understand mechanics. And it only lasts a few hours, so it's a small time investment.

I can also recommend Outer Wilds. It's a puzzle story game. It gives you a lot of freedom, with the downside that it's somewhat easier to get stuck. For this game you should buy a gamepad.

If you like single player shooters, I recommend Half-Life 2.

Hope this helps!

PS. As for peripherals, a keyboard+mouse should be plenty. Some vehicle driven games require a gamepad to play comfortably.

As for a GPU, the games I mentioned here will run on anything semi-modern. No need to buy something brand new.
by dralley | 2025-07-13 20:13:34+00:00
Chrome's marketing budget is nearly as large as Mozilla's entire budget. They spent a couple of years actively targeting Firefox users with Chrome ads on the frontpage of google.com, and got Adobe Flash and Java and most of the free antivirus solutions to auto-install Chrome and make it the default browser.

I have yet to hear anyone on HN present an argument for how Mozilla could effectively counter that onslaught. Certainly not without using methods that they would also have complained about. (Though nobody seems to hold Chrome's bloatware tactics against them for some reason).
by remir | 2025-07-13 20:13:37+00:00
It worked for China because they were in position of power. The US wasn't established in China and they needed Chinese users to grow their global user base and influence. Meanwhile, China had the wealth and power to say no and instead fund and develop their own homegrown tech equivalents.

Europe doesn't have that same level of power. If tomorrow morning you banned Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce in Europe, you'd destroy their economy.

What Europe needs to do is create the conditions for tech companies to emerge that could truly compete against US big tech. As long as European will prefer working for US corporation, there's no chance for Europe to compete. Simple as that.
by alganet | 2025-07-13 20:13:49+00:00
Highering is an existing, valid word, and it fits the phrase.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/highering

I agree that it is an unusual choice, but that doesn't mean you can assume it was a mispelling.

Moreover, the meaning went through. Ultimately, the word itself does not matter, and none of your explanations are relevant.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-13 20:13:52+00:00
> hams have their own packet radio stuff

We got basically three different things. First we got APRS, mostly used for position reports (go on aprs.fi for a map). That is pretty nice but unusable for anything more than a SMS worth of things, and you need repeaters and not just internet gateway collectors to actually have something that's resilient.

Next thing is AX25, the technical foundation behind APRS. Yes you can use it to create actual data links, but it's about modem speeds so virtually useless outside of toying around.

And finally there is HamNet but it's line of sight based and not cross routed to the internet, and identically to all things ham radio, encryption is banned by law.

And on top of that, you can expect regulatory agencies to crack down on ham radio fast and hard, should it be used for political dissency motives at scale. It's already against ham practice to talk politics, especially with people in repressive countries - we don't want more countries other than Yemen and North Korea to just blanket ban ham radio.
by loeg | 2025-07-13 20:14:01+00:00
I had more side effects ramping up the dose than after a while at the same dose. But they were all fairly mild. (I'm on 5mg/week of Tirzepatide; higher doses probably have more side effects.)

> If you do over-indulge (with food or drink) the side effects can sometimes be massively amplified and you feel terrible for days.

Never had anything like that.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-13 20:14:04+00:00
I admit that's unfortunate. I don't think that was a "bad deal" in the sense that anyone grievously misled you or anything.

I would feel bummed out, but not angry or like I actually got ripped off, in other words. When I signed up for the 20-year term, part of what I was being asked to do was estimate how likely I think it is for this firm to actually be around for that full 20 years. That's just part of the game.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-13 20:14:10+00:00
Hi there - Mounjaro user here. I've been using it for about a year at this point.

I feel sick for three days in a row after taking it. Even after several months on the same dose. I get horrible gut cramps, sour stomach, near constant nausea, and occasionally vomiting and diarrhea. I have to take my shot on Thursday night because I'll feel bad the next day and supremely sick the next two days. If I took it earlier or later in the week it would absolutely impact my ability to work during the work week.

It has had amazing effects. I've lost about 60 lbs in the last year and my A1c is now around 6.2.

It's a very effective drug, but it is brutal on my body. I'm not sure anything in the medication is causing the weight loss. It just makes me feel so sick that even if I'm hungry I don't feel like eating.
by seventhtiger | 2025-07-13 20:14:19+00:00
It's hard to recommend games when you don't have a baseline taste. The past couple of years having a demo became very common on Steam, so I suggest trying some demos.

You've played a 2D platformer and a multiplayer shooter, two very popular genres with massive offerings. If you're interested in more along the same lines, just off the top of my head I'll say try Hollow Knight as a 2D platformer, and Overwatch 2 as a multiplayer shooter (this one is free). Overwatch 2 may be overwhelming for someone new to gaming.

There is a genre called cozy games for more relaxed experiences, like Journey. There are also turn-based roguelikes, and for those I would recommend Balatro.

I don't know about Ubuntu or Linux compatbility so look into that, but I know Steam's OS and Proton have made massive strides.
by samus | 2025-07-13 20:14:50+00:00
Since it's so new, of course there aren't any long-term data on GLP-1 takers. However, relying on prior knowledge about people who are good on the metrics, it can be presumed that they will do fine. And won't create financial risk for the insurer due to passing on earlier than expected. But only if they keep taking their meds and/or fix any underlying behavioral and health issues that made them obese in the first case!

Regarding the graph about slippage: yes, that looks like the Covid peak. However, even assuming this recent trend is an anomaly, the industry is in a changing landscape and needs to adapt. New metrics and criteria, and the fastest mover will capture the market. Business as usual.

I don't feel sad except for the people who managed to bring their health issues under control and now can't get life insurance.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-13 20:14:52+00:00
Zabbix is bollocks. so is nagios. Having remote root access to all your stuff is utter shite.

Prometheus as a time series DB is great, I even like its QL. What I don't like is pull. Sure there is agent mode or telegraf/grafana agent. But the idea that I need to hold my state and wait for Prometheus to collect it is utterly stupid. The biggest annoyance is that I need to have a webserver somewhere, with a single god instance(s) that can reach out and touch it.

Great if you have just one network, but a bollock ache if you have any kind of network isolation.

This means that we are using influxdb and its shitty flux QL (I know we could upgrade, but thats hard)
by uxcolumbo | 2025-07-13 20:15:06+00:00
You might want to try out the Steam Deck - https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

You might like story driven games, like Read Dead Redemption 2, Witcher 3, Mass Effect... all on sale on Steam currently.

You can also install emulators on the Steam Deck, so you can play those games before you started your working life.

Otherwise look into how to install Valve's Proton on Ubuntu to play the games available on Steam.

Alternatively get yourself a cheap PS4 pro on eBay, which usually come with plenty of games bundled. Don't need the latest and greatest console. PS4 still has a huge library of games and you can get those cheap on eBay too.
by supermaxman | 2025-07-13 20:15:23+00:00
Hey, this is super fair. I debated whether to include these numbers, but I felt it was a powerful message that, in a time when no one can afford an emergency in the US, the average detainment would be a massive cost. I understand if you feel going further and having the big number and the tax number is a bit insensitive, but my thinking was this could be a convincing common ground for conservatives who only care about $$$.

Let me know if you think I could frame it better than I am, always open to feedback
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-13 20:15:52+00:00
Ok, so you have no experience and you're just making things up.

> Term life is just not that complicated a product at heart

Sure, it's easy if you don't know what you're talking about and just make stuff up!

> Onus is on you to prove that if every single life insurance provider was suddenly Thanos snapped out of existence tomorrow

Literally nobody said that would happen. Now you're arguing points that nobody made.

You have no experience in the area, arguing things nobody said. You're perfect for VC money, lmao.

> That seems like a laughable claim to me

Nobody made that claim. Why are you laughing at things nobody is saying? That's weird.

> That seems like a laughable claim to me, but maybe you know something I don't.

I would 100% guarantee people that have worked in an industry know more about it than you do.

Textbook demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You have no knowledge or experience in an area, but you're confident you know how it works, moreso than the actual experts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
by CharlesW | 2025-07-13 20:16:48+00:00
> I think the fair way to read any CEO's comments about AI reducing their workforce at this point has nothing to do with the capabilities of AI…

You can legitimately argue "far less to do with", but it's definitely not nothing. There are countless projects underway where AI will allow for 10% reductions with zero business impact in the short term, and 25-40% reductions (sometimes more) by 2030.
by burnte | 2025-07-13 20:17:07+00:00
> By that definition, all politics is "hate". Passing a law will always take away the rights of a group in some way or other, and politics is the debate of whether or not that's a good or bad thing.

Most politics isn't targeted at taking away rights from people, so most politics is not hateful.

Please don't haul over a straw man like "what about murderers and pedophiles, don't they get rights?" No, no one gets rights to hurt other people.

> But I'm not going to demonize someone for having a different opinion and making a small donation to support their political views.

I'm not demonizing him, I'm refusing to do do business with him while he thinks it's ok to fund organizations and policies that hurt people and take away rights. Maybe you should too, lest someone start to take away YOUR rights, but maybe just do it because it's not right to take away anyone's rights.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-07-13 20:18:13+00:00
> WireGuard uses UDP and a small handshake footprint, making detection and blocking via DPI harder.

Not quite true. Wireguard is already actively detected and suppressed if necessary. There's already a fork that employs basic changes to improve the protocol in this regard. AmneziaWG was shown to be more robust to detection for now.

https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg/

Too bad managing WG is such a pain and Tailscale/Netbird don't support this protocol yet. The following two issues need attention:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/10696

https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1096
by noname120 | 2025-07-13 20:18:15+00:00
It's good now. For reference, the previous editorialized title was “Repaste Your MacBook”[1], which used the imperative mood. That made it even more click-baity than the original title “You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)”.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250711190104/https://news.ycom...
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-13 20:18:23+00:00
> As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.

I believe the business leaders are seriously considering about this -- i.e. not necessarily just as an excuse to RIF, but they probably believe in this. Whether it is going to be successful is irrelevant.

I'm eagerly waiting for someone to talk about AI integration experiments within FAANG. I'm surprised no one has talked about it yet -- maybe there is some kind of NDA or the experiments are still in early stages. Once the experiments are proved to be marginally successful, I bet the leaders are going to start some mass layoffs -- or maybe worse, if they are pressured by stock prices, to do that and see what happens before anything conclusive.

To any team who is integrating AI into your company's data or doc -- please STOP and don't do that. I'm not talking about USING AI, but INTEGRATING AI.
by namr2000 | 2025-07-13 20:18:40+00:00
There are still a HUGE number of games you can play with Intel integrated graphics all of which are extremely good. Many of the greatest games of all time are quite old or 2D which means you don't need anything special to run them. At most I'd invest in a controller (both Xbox & PS5 controllers are compatible) but you don't even need that to play almost all games on Steam. Some cheap but great games: Hollow Knight, Celeste, Hades, Outer Wilds, Undertale, Rimworld.
by petderek | 2025-07-13 20:18:56+00:00
Regarding gamepads: you can use the xbox/playstation ones with your computer. Bluetooth is hit or miss for me (windows), but they both work really well with a USB cable. Its subjective of course, but the console manufacturers do a pretty good job with comfort and quality.

If you liked Doom, it might be fun to play through some of the newer doom games like Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal and see how they've evolved over the years.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-07-13 20:19:09+00:00
To track when the user corrects it. Otherwise you can't adapt if somehow the correction is not what the user wanted.

If there are a bunch of these corrections you know something is wrong there. IMO 30 days is quite modest and if this is properly anonymized..

Edit: dear HN user who decided to silently downvote - you could do better by actually voicing your opinion
by aetherson | 2025-07-13 20:19:16+00:00
And it's under-commented upon because it's counterintuitive, but most people stop taking it. Like, two year continuation of use is about 25%.

That's kinda wild, because it seems like holy shit if you're taking a drug that lets you drop 10-20% of your body weight from obese down to normal why would you stop taking it, but people do.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-13 20:19:23+00:00
"the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence. This definition lends itself to a simple explanation of the effect: incompetence often includes being unable to tell the difference between competence and incompetence."

I think this very accurately sums up your comments.