MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-08-01 20:19:30+00:00
> I think the concern is someone might scan all the inactive links

How? Barring a database leak I don't see a way for someone to simply scan all the links. Putting something like Cloudflare in front of the shortener with a rate limit would prevent brute force scanning. I assume google semi-competently made the shortener (using a random number generator) which would make it pretty hard to find links in the first place.

Removing inactive links also doesn't solve this problem. You can still have active links to secret docs.
by enraged_camel | 2025-08-01 20:20:12+00:00
I mean, there is. Fundamentally it involves recognizing and respecting their humanity. Just like it is incredibly rude to break up with a significant other over text, it is similarly rude to lay someone off with a pre-recorded video message. The only reason one would do either of those things is for their own benefit, because it is easier for them compared to the alternative.
by h2zizzle | 2025-08-01 20:20:18+00:00
>What change made it possible?

Massive federal investment (paid for by the entire nation but often only able to be capitalized on by white Christian nuclear families) and municipal bonds that pushed the costs of building infrastructure out decades.

>why can't we go back?

The original loans are still due and/or replacement costs for the infrastructure require new funding, at 2025 inflated prices, and civil rights and demographic changes mean that the old resistributive model can't work (not the least of which because of the outsize costs that will be incurred to maintain quality of life for the oldest Americans in the next two decades). There's probably more.

Not to say that reimagining the sfh couldn't lead to it still being viable. But 2500 sqft on an acre probably isn't tenable.
by dowakin | 2025-08-01 20:21:01+00:00
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by troupo | 2025-08-01 20:21:56+00:00
> How did they think the links were being used?

Can't dig this document up right now, but in their Chrome dev process they say something along these lines: "even if a ferie is used by 0.01% of users, at scale that's a lot of users . Don't remove until you've made solely due impost is negligible".

At Google scale I'm surprised [1] this is not applied everywhere.

[1] Well, not that surprised
by xcke | 2025-08-01 20:21:58+00:00
I think the layoff sucks, but there are proper ways to communicate it, and this was not the right way. The proper process is for the manager to carry out this sensitive procedure—quickly, but with empathy. (I'm not a manager, but I'm sure it's easy to be a "Happiness Manager"; the coin has two sides.) Even if individual meetings weren't possible, they could have just held a 150-to-1 live session. Saying the exact same thing as the video would have been different. Why? Because it wouldn't be a pre-recorded video. For those who are willing to accept an employer sending a goodbye SMS, I have to wonder how much commitment you really had to that workplace. If you had none, fine, who cares. But if your commitment was more than just a transactional job, like someone selling groceries from 8:00 to 17:00, I don't think you'd want to work for a company that follows such processes.
by thunderfork | 2025-08-01 20:22:02+00:00
Problem with theft-proofing is it inherently comes at the cost of both repairability and recyclability. If every part is cryptographically locked to its parent machine, you can't scrap devices for parts.

Sometimes there's "unlock before recycling" flows but generally people are pretty unlikely to know they should do that, and even less likely to remember to do it.
by wavemode | 2025-08-01 20:22:05+00:00
I'm speaking from the perspective of company A, who needs a feature added to company B's product.

They could send their engineers to work for company B, sure, but those engineers' time is still costing money. And those engineers are completely unfamiliar with B's codebase, so they won't work as efficiently. Might as well just pay company B directly for the feature work.
by lawlessone | 2025-08-01 20:22:35+00:00
> only 64% of Americans accept that “humans and other living things have evolved over time”. Meanwhile, 73% of Britons are fine with the idea

it's not great, but to be fair, it's a <10% gap and most people in BOTH countries accept it. I would have thought it was higher than 73% in the UK and the US is higher than i expected.
by layer8 | 2025-08-01 20:22:38+00:00
The main motivation for the concept of design patterns is to give unique names to existing programming patterns, so that when someone says “Strategy pattern”, everyone knows what pattern that refers to, and vice versa that the same pattern isn’t called ten different things. It’s to make communication about program design efficient, by defining a vocabulary of patterns that tend to reoccur, and a common structure for describing them. Not all patterns were successful in that way, but it’s the main idea behind design patterns.

The question of when a using a given pattern is appropriate is orthogonal to that. The fact that a named pattern has been defined doesn’t imply a recommendation to use it across the board. It depends on the context and on design forces, and those change with time and circumstances. Anti-patterns are patterns as well.

It’s a pity that the idea of design patterns ended up (after the pattern language craze faded) being almost exclusively associated with the specific patterns named and described in the GoF book.
by jfengel | 2025-08-01 20:23:06+00:00
Fan Death was my first thought as well.

Fan Death is still not a thing, because that supposedly kills perfectly healthy young people in not-especially-hot environments. It's the fan itself that's somehow deadly.

But yeah, once the air gets above body temperature, air (even moving air) isn't going to cool you off. And even somewhat below body temperature, you can get hotter because you're generating heat faster than even moving air can remove it.
by al_borland | 2025-08-01 20:23:08+00:00
If I were running a car company, I may decide to stop development on assistive features and remove any that exist from future models. The way people are using them, and the courts are punishing the companies for adding these safety features, is it worth it to them? Not having them would also bring down the base price on vehicles, which seems to be the primary complaint from people right now.
by chiph | 2025-08-01 20:23:13+00:00
Many times these stores have floor cleaning machines - either robotic or driven by a human. An employee could zip-tie their sensor to it, let it do its cleaning trip around the store, and return to collect the data later.

This would allow an employee to do several stores in a town in a single day. And potentially less chance of a workers-compensation claim being filed if they fall down while walking around looking at their device.
by babypuncher | 2025-08-01 20:23:21+00:00
I think it would be easy for these services to audit their link database and cull any that have had dead endpoints for more than 12 months.

That would come off far less user hostile than this move while still achieving the goal of trimming truly unnecessary bloat from their database. It also doesn't require you to keep track of how often a link is followed, which incurs its own small cost.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-08-01 20:23:37+00:00
That's not so good for the people remaining, or even those laid off but later in the queue. Once the first person gets laid off, everyone will know it's happening and be wondering whether they're included. You're just dragging out the suspense over the hours or (more likely) days those meetings take place, rather than getting it out of the way in a few minutes. That's probably worse than the dubious joy of a personalised message about your termination.

(Though, here in the UK, redundancy procedures can take weeks, so a few days is not much compared to that.)
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-01 20:23:41+00:00
My last layoff was a lot more impersonal and they still called me.

I had expressed a couple of months before my desire to leave. They then called me to say it was "a hard decision but it was best for the company to let me go".

I almost laughed. How hard is it really to let someone go that wants to go?

Worse than using a pre-recorded video is doing a live meeting with a default script. These corpocrats are like robots.
by jasonephraim | 2025-08-01 20:23:49+00:00
The people being laid off didn't get told by a video. The video was sent to the general staff and informed everyone that those who were being let go would get an email direct to them shortly after.

So, they announced the layoffs with a pre-recorded video versus a company-wide meeting - or - as is more common in my experience: No warning or explanation beforehand.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-01 20:23:54+00:00
It doesn’t matter what “I like”. I saw the writing on the wall at 40 that development was going to be a commoditized race to the bottom and it was going to be hard to stand out and that developer salaries were going to plateau and they largely did in second tier cities aside from the large tech companies.

If you look at the leveling guidelines of any major tech company or even smaller companies with real leveling guidelines. “Coding” is only the differentiator between junior and mid. After that it’s about “scope”, “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity” is.

When I was looking for a job in 2023 and last year, it was much easier for me to stand out from the crowd based on my architectural experience, leading strategy, being comfortable hopping on a plane and talking to CxOs than it was as a pure developer.

I still do my share of development but only for smaller POCs/MVPs where it doesn’t make sense to bring in a lot of specialists since I am pretty good in a lot of areas.
by microsestudios | 2025-08-01 20:24:05+00:00
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by staticautomatic | 2025-08-01 20:25:01+00:00
PBS doesn’t make PBS content either. They acquire it from people who make it using CPB money, among others. Then the stations that don’t make the content license it from PBS, mainly using CPB money. And they use it to attract members/donors.

You’ve framed this as if the disappearance of CPB and its money is basically a big nothing-burger, which is extremely far from the truth.

Source: I work in the system at a level with visibility into these things.
by leptons | 2025-08-01 20:25:01+00:00
That's true in the current world. But back about 8 years ago I got laid off from my programming job and it was honestly a relief. I was happy. I got a pretty good severance, and I knew I'd have another job soon. I had 5 job offers within 2 weeks of interviews, all paying the same or more. But now? It would be devastating as there are very few jobs available and more competition for them. I used to have 5 recruiters a day contacting me, but now I'm lucky if I get contacted 1 time every 5 months or so.
by psyklic | 2025-08-01 20:25:23+00:00
I'm not sure that's a simple argument and can't imagine many would agree.

Undergrads who do research generally aren't very good at research yet. A major reason is they either lack or don't fully understand the pre-reqs, which they progressively and cumulatively learn during undergrad. A student can be incredibly smart, but acquiring a strong rigorous math background will still take years.
by microsestudios | 2025-08-01 20:25:26+00:00
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by danaris | 2025-08-01 20:25:37+00:00
> I mean, that’s the entire basis of human ego

...No, it's not?

Plenty of people make the basis of their ego "look at me, at the things I'm capable of," with no reference to anyone else's capability.

If your ego is reliant on not merely being good yourself, but on being better than everyone around you, then it sounds like you've got some serious insecurities to work out...?
by SolubleSnake | 2025-08-01 20:25:51+00:00
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Past engagements have seen me providing code review services to hundreds of developers (junior to CTO level), and driving process improvements that enhance team cohesion and project delivery.

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by stego-tech | 2025-08-01 20:26:15+00:00
Office work is increasingly just adult daycare much of the time. Even in manufacturing I'm seeing more folks killing time in rest areas or meeting rooms because the work is getting done faster (but they're not going to say so and get laid off for doing a good job), and a demand for acting/performative rituals ensnares higher performers in these practices to maintain the guise of "work" for out-of-touch managers and leadership still nostalgic for ye olde days of men in suits and casual harassment in the workplace.

Honestly, I'd much rather we drop the whole pretense of appearances and fixed schedules in favor of shorter, flexible work weeks with a handful of fixed appearances (generally meetings/standups/lunches) to ensure folks stay on the same page. For all their crowing about technology changing how we work, they're staunchly opposed to actually letting that happen and mandating the same fixed structures we've had since being an Industrial Powerhouse in the early 1900s.

The workers want to modernize. It's leadership that's the problem.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-01 20:26:22+00:00
Varies. English sources generally give figures up to 10%. In my country, I've seen legal psychologists throw around numbers like 80% in certain contexts such as divorce cases involving child custody disputes.

Every law, no matter how well meaning, can and will be abused. Women are not saints. Be especially wary when lies could provide secondary victories such as favorable child custody outcomes.

Feminist discourse is overwhelmingly in favor of disregarding false positives: they would rather see thousands of innocent men suffer than watch a single guilty man go free. They cast a wide net and hope to catch the guilty men within it. They care not for the suffering they cause to the innocent. Quite the contrary, in fact: I've seen them try to justify it as historical reparation.
by imjonse | 2025-08-01 20:26:24+00:00
> From reading that the only one pattern that rises is low anxiety. People just execute and deliver without delay from fear.

Some are definitely high-anxiety situations: the large-scale ambitious ones in the list were done during a war (or cold war). Many of the others are high-pressure scenarios where I am sure the construction workers had anything but low anxiety. They are typical of an economy which is growing very fast where bad working conditions and accidents are tolerated. It is not unlike condititions in current fast developing countries some with immigrant workers (Quatar) or in China.
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by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:27:11+00:00
> the situation isn't right. ICs are more often let go because management failed, rather than any fault of the ICs.

That is pretty much guaranteed to happen though, unless you have a system where the assumption is employment for life at all costs. Management's job is to make decisions, many decisions won't work out, and for some of those, the consequences mean some change in what roles are going to be needed. Sometimes it's a management success that means a certain role isn't needed too ("we successfully rolled out software to book business trips, so we don't need 17 travel bookers anymore").

And anyway, let's stipulate that managers should also be punished by being sacked for any big mistake: That wouldn't save ICs, since if you're, say, pivoting away from making furniture, you still don't need the furniture makers, even if you sack the "VP of Furniture" or the CEO. And it'd be stupid to appoint a new VP of Furniture over and over to keep trying to 'make furniture happen' just to save the jobs.
by BonoboIO | 2025-08-01 20:27:42+00:00
Tesla tried to hide evidence … the jury probably did not like to be lied to by Tesla.

F** around and find out

> The case also included startling charges by lawyers for the family of the deceased, 22-year-old, Naibel Benavides Leon, and for her injured boyfriend, Dillon Angulo. They claimed Tesla either hid or lost key evidence, including data and video recorded seconds before the accident.

> Tesla has previously faced criticism that it is slow to cough up crucial data by relatives of other victims in Tesla crashes, accusations that the car company has denied. In this case, the plaintiffs showed Tesla had the evidence all along, despite its repeated denials, by hiring a forensic data expert who dug it up. Tesla said it made a mistake after being shown the evidence and honestly hadn’t thought it was there.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/aug/01/jury-orders-tesla-t...