MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YZF | 2025-08-30 22:54:56+00:00
The hiring slowdown predates tariffs. For various reasons CEOs either believe they can do more with less people, or that they can hire cheaper people in other geographies, or both. Businesses (tech or financials) don't seem to be telegraphing uncertainty, S&P 500 revenue is at all times high and trending up, earnings/profit all time highs and trending up, valuations all times high and trending up.
by immibis | 2025-08-30 22:55:00+00:00
I made a Bluesky account. I posted some pretty boring replies to pretty boring posts, and still got banned. They didn't tell me why I was banned. I didn't bother trying to make my account immune from banning; I just quit since it was pretty boring there anyway. That's one data point against the migration hypothesis.

Bluesky isn't decentralized, anyway, because of the PLC directory.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-30 22:55:02+00:00
When you do the math, it looks like most jobs have never actually had an enjoyable paycheck though, just the fortunate few.

In that case some peole are bound to find more enjoyment from something else, or why would the paycheck even be worth it?

Sometimes that can occur within the very work they do, maybe even their life's work, which can take long enough to proceed through phases of education, underemployment, business ownership, retirement and back again.

Surely there are other kinds of enjoyment continuity, which can function in parallel to a certain extent, that those concentrating on the paycheck alone may not come close to achieving.
by echelon | 2025-08-30 22:55:03+00:00
> First actually pig heart transplant was in 2022.

That patient died shortly thereafter. The condition is critical and there's a lot of immunological pressure put on the patient.

China is smart to study this in living cadavers first. It's much easier to find patients that aren't already on death's door, and there is no need to keep the patient alive. You can run experiment after experiment.
by tguvot | 2025-08-30 22:55:11+00:00
interesting that you equate lobbyists to mass disinformation campaigns on wikipedia probably sponsored by iran.

and how exactly in information war israel's hands are as bloody as anyone ?

>And no. I'm not happy with any of it.

you literally wrote ", I'm more than happy to see the pendulum swing the other way, or have certain elements push a more pro-Palestinian agenda. "

i'll rephrase your initial comment a bit: "considering the awful lengths I've seen pharma lawyers, lobbyists and policy makers go to push the pharma agenda, I'm more than happy to see the pendulum swing the other way, or have certain elements push a more anti-vaccine agenda.". "the anti-vaccine agenda" been mainstreamed articles on vaccines on wikipedia that describe that it causes autism and other issues
by platevoltage | 2025-08-30 22:55:27+00:00
See this is what I don't understand. Everything you just said about China is a positive. Everything you said about China is achievable in the USA, and we at least HAD a head start on soft-power influence.

Instead we should just have tariffs instead of actually making the lives of Americans better while FIGHTING affordable housing, high speed rail, and EVs.

We've got an entire team of goons who would rather rack up penalty minutes than score goals. These freaks think we are competing with China in an MMA fight instead of a Hockey game.
by pndy | 2025-08-30 22:55:36+00:00
Mozilla introduced new profile manager for Firefox somewhere around May. This thing uses new storage format and ignores already existing "old" profiles, except for the default one. Data remains untouched, profiles created in the past are still here accessible by about:profile and if you don't want to use that new profile manager set browser.profiles.enabled entry to false.

From what I've seen around people using the popular customized Firefox variants, like Floorp, Librewolf were surprised by this and not fond of the change.
by immibis | 2025-08-30 22:56:41+00:00
Still no one cares. They just hop to the next centralized platform that hasn't enshittified yet. As we are seeing now with Bluesky.

Perhaps the idea of decentralization was incorrect to begin with, an NI hallucination - perhaps it should be all about centralization-hopping instead. I believe this is what Nostr aims for, though I've never used it.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-30 22:57:25+00:00
> If you are using small crisp API boundaries to break up the system, "smart developer quirks" don't really matter very much

To me this is the upside of the microservices concept. Of course, true microservices take it way too far. But once you tell two teams they can only talk to each other with APIs and make them use tooling that properly defines what those are (schemas etc) .... all of a sudden they are forced to draw those boundaries well and then stick to them. And they get really conservative about changing them and think hard about what the definitions should be up front. It's sort of perversely sticking technical friction in at the points where you want there to be natural conservatism around change.
by godelski | 2025-08-30 22:58:24+00:00
A door with a lock can only be opened by those with a key...

as well as anyone that can pick the lock, jimmy the lock, remove the door from its hinges, remove the lock, break the door down, go under the door, go over the door, get somebody with a key to open the door, and many other methods which can be found with just a little imagination.
by bjourne | 2025-08-30 22:59:32+00:00
So we are not decentralized. Git was a good attempt, but it kind of got centralized around GitHub, GitLab, and other variants. BitTorrent was decentralized, except tracker sites were the natural centralization points. Bitcoin was also decentralized, but still had Coinbase and other sites. Even SMTP is de facto centralized due to the spam problem.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-30 22:59:41+00:00
You know, America had to coerce Ukraine into disarmament in 1994 because they had too many killing machines. You'd be surprised how quickly national defense becomes a touchy subject, on both sides of the aisle.

America has, for decades, has been trying to bilk Ukraine into forgoing free Soviet surplus to buy NATO-standardized equipment, only to remotely disable their material while they're using it. Because America was so fickle in providing defense, we've guaranteed that all future peace treaties (eg. one in Ukraine) necessitates direct American intervention, and not vague "security" agreements. That's probably why Trump is brooding over his options right now instead of arranging a ceasefire - he can't get peace without trading away something absurd like US naval assets or direct satellite intel.
by kmanlives | 2025-08-30 23:00:18+00:00
Same here in metro Atlanta. My wife has some service (intermittent texts, has internet, but can't receive incoming calls) but I have SOS mode (with same model iPhone 16 pro).

This is the first time we've had a major outage affect our VZW service, and we've been with them for over 10 years.

I shouldn't be, but I was shocked at how painful it is to lose our connection while out running errands.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-30 23:01:06+00:00
Two points:

(1) Yes we do have an example: us. Why is a baby’s cells young and healthy, and not the age of the parents? Dormant eggs are not the answer as you’d still get accumulating damage over time. Turns out there are mechanisms for cellular reprogramming which rejuvenates cells. There are mechanisms for making ages cells indistinguishable from young cells. We just haven’t fully harnessed this capability on therapeutics yet.

(2) The deeper point is one of logical necessity. No bird flies faster than the speed of sound, yet that doesn’t work as an argument for the impossibility of the SR-71 or Concorde. No physical law prevents restoring tissue to healthy young state. We just haven’t developed the tools to do so (yet).
by fsckboy | 2025-08-30 23:01:13+00:00
so you're saying you have an agenda and you're pushing it.

Psychologists are scientists and the replicability of IQ testing is extremely high and repeatedly confirmed. And despite how much psychosocially challenged nerds here like to complain about psychology, they are in good company: psychology itself is not normie opressors, psychologists are also psychosocially challenged nerds.

before you say anything else, the statistical methods we use today across medical testing were first applied and developed to psychometric testing, so if you are going to attack that, you are attacking all of medical science.
by FreakLegion | 2025-08-30 23:01:38+00:00
Most startups are open to trading cash for equity if you ask. Many even offer it explicitly. Investors also encourage it, e.g. see Index's Rewarding Talent guide: https://www.indexventures.com/rewarding-talent/balancing-cas....

When I make someone an offer, I give them a spreadsheet where they can plug in different salaries and equity stakes to see outcomes based on future funding events, valuations, and exit scenarios. Without exception the people who've leaned into equity have turned out to be the best performers and ended up with higher salaries anyway, but a majority favor cash up front.
by adriand | 2025-08-30 23:01:41+00:00
A friend of mine lives in Montreal where there is a large orthodox Jewish population and he told me he was out walking one day and a woman started calling to him from the door of her house and gesturing for him to come over. She explained to him that she needed his help: there was an urgent situation and she needed to make a phone call, but because it was the Sabbath, she was not able to. He made the call for her and went on his way.

I always thought these workarounds were odd - does God have no objection to using proxies to get around the rules? Then again, my friend is not Jewish, so perhaps he can freely break the Sabbath because he’s outside the scope of the rule? Or is damned anyway?
by YZF | 2025-08-30 23:02:00+00:00
The problem is no set of rules can replace taste, judgement, experience and intuition. Every rule can be used to argue anything.

You can't win architecture arguments.

I like the article but the people who need it won't understand it and the people who don't need it already know this. As we say, it's not a technical problem, it's always a people and culture problem. Architecture just follows people and culture. If you have Rob Pike and Google you'll get Go. You can't read some book and make Go. (whether you like it or not is a different question).
by AgentME | 2025-08-30 23:02:29+00:00
Other people can run AppViews too (that operate over the same or different data). There are just less people doing that than hosting Mastodon instances partly because it's much more expensive to, because some of the benefits of hosting a Mastodon instance can be obtained much cheaper through running a PDS server, and because AppViews doesn't serve the same exact social role that Mastodon instances do. (Mastodon has every instance be a semi-isolated community, so Mastodon instances are often made for the social purpose of running a semi-isolated community. Bluesky users expect a global timeline that's not partitioned by server instances, so it doesn't get many people running AppViews specifically for fostering semi-isolated communities. People on Bluesky who want to foster semi-isolated communities tend to use features like custom timelines to do so instead.)
by ccorcos | 2025-08-30 23:03:11+00:00
I think cars and urban design are too often used as a scapegoat.

Whether living in an apartment building in a city or a house in the suburbs, I’m frequently surprised how many people never introduce themselves to their neighbors. And that has nothing to do with cars.

People want some external system to construct a social environment for them and often blame everything but themselves when they could easily arrange a neighborhood get together by passing out some flyers…
by bofadeez | 2025-08-30 23:03:22+00:00
If you dismiss IQ research, you might as well disregard all of psychology. The psychologists who developed intelligence tests were pioneers in using the statistical methods (e.g. factor analysis) that now underpin the entire field. IQ is defined more precisely than almost any other psychological construct. Discarding it leaves you with poorly defined concepts and no clear way to handle them. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/D7Kn5p7TP_Y?t=47m50s
by dralley | 2025-08-30 23:03:25+00:00
No. As someone who likes bcachefs and even literally donates to Kent's patreon, the way he has gone about engaging with the kernel community is not productive. Unfortunately.

CoC isn't even the issue, he constantly breaks kernel development rules relating to the actual code, then starts arguments with everyone up to and including Linus when he gets called out, and aggressively misses the point every time. Then starts the same argument all over again 6 weeks later.

And, like, if you don't like some rules, then you can have that discussion, but submitting patches you know will be rejected and then re-litigating your dislike of the rules is a waste of everyone's time.
by SR2Z | 2025-08-30 23:03:33+00:00
Except for one little thing: countries have comparative advantage in the production of different goods and services. Boeing is great at turning aluminum and steel (low in the value chain) into jetliners (at the top of the value chain).

Because of this, Boeing gets to make thousands of jetliners and sell them all across the world and America gets to be one of very few places that can do this.

I think you'll find that steel and aluminum are a lot more fungible than jetliner factories. Why are we kneecapping what we're good at for the sake of things that China will ALWAYS be better than us at?

> Finally, I think it’s ridiculous to expect that this nation can maintain its wealth without producing anything.

The total value of US exports has only ever gone up (see above).

I do get the argument for moving manufacturing expertise back onshore, I really do. But tariffs are not gonna lower the minimum wage and if manufacturing is gonna come back to the US, it'll come back in a highly automated form with a boatload of government support.
by danabramov | 2025-08-30 23:04:10+00:00
Right, but a Relay is literally a network-wide optimization. That's why in my other comment I'm mentioning that it's hard to do apples-to-apples comparison. With Mastodon, you only have one possible role: "hosting an instance" (which is like hosting a mini-Twitter with almost no data). ATProto aims higher in terms of UX (shared world by default) so there are different distributable pieces with different incentives to run. Anyone can self-host a PDS for super cheap (which will store only your data). But running a Relay is useful as an optimization for whoever's running the actual backends. So if you're a company building on ATProto, maybe you run your own Relay just in case (or maybe you don't and reuse an existing one). Or if you're a collective of people, maybe you pool resources together to run your own independent Relay. It's not something you'd just run for yourself unless you're a huge enthusiast.
by spauldo | 2025-08-30 23:04:18+00:00
Mostly he seems to try to nail all the items on the "how to grow your YouTube channel" checklists. Clickbait sensationalist titles, exaggerated face on the thumbnail, etc. I have a rule that I don't click on any video where I can't tell the subject by the title, and that eliminated him from my watchlist a while ago.

I wish the guy luck on becoming a superstar influencer, since that seems to be his goal, but he can do it without my help.
by southwindcg | 2025-08-30 23:04:46+00:00
A little bug: Day 17 appears twice, once using Day 18's photo.

Strangely, the first time I visited, the layout was small photos arranged horizontally, that would flip around when moused over. Now, it's just a default Blogger layout.

Thank you for doing this, though! Litter is one of my pet-peeves, especially when there are trash cans available near bus stops and the like...
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-08-30 23:05:01+00:00
It is. But it’s not the only possible waveguide. The article discusses alternatives for a system that can transmit 5-10k signals in 32U. If you’re using fiber optic cables, that’s 5-10k pairs, in 32U. That doesn’t work at all. It’s light (ha, pun) on details for what the alternative waveguide is, though.

Just getting VCELs to 25G per lane would be nice, though, if you can match current prices. Upgrading to 100G-SR4 on the same cable plant would be nice.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-30 23:05:51+00:00
I agree with you and one of the most important ways is that it bakes in an assumption that people cant grow, learn and change.

Life is all about learning, adapting and changing. Great leaders see the potential growth in people and are up for having hard conversations about how they can improve.

Even if people do have these personality traits as life long attributes, that doesn't define them or prevent them from learning aspects of the others over time.
by trasirinc | 2025-08-30 23:05:53+00:00
What numbers are you seeing for the surpassing living standards? Their gpd per capita flatlined in 2024 at $13k. That's with only 80M of their citizens making above $2000/month. The bulk of their citizens make less than $100/month, and there's a declining middle class of around 200M that makes around $800/month. But they have high youth unemployment rate (>40%), there's a massive layoff wave coming in September with the mandatory social security payment from companies, and their recent factory wages have plummeted to $2/hour, barely survivable in first tier cities.

Before everyone jumps in with GDP per capital with PPP, what quality at that low price means is tofu dreg buildings, cancerous food items, waist high flooding every summer in cities, ghost buildings, and unsafe water (recently one of the most prosperous city, Hangzhou, had sewage seeped into the water for weeks, which the local government denied responsibility).
by bdunks | 2025-08-30 23:05:53+00:00
I read Isaac Asimov’s foundation series a few years ago (side note for anyone who hasn’t read it: it still holds up incredibly well with a small suspension of disbelief and some grace for when it was written).

In the preface to the 4th or 5th book (which were written 30+ years after the “original” trilogy) he discussed how the originals parts of the trilogy were published as a set of short stories in a SciFi publication over 8 years, and later compiled into the books.

I was astonished.

Perhaps everyone else already knew this. But such a clear narrative through line to be written in discrete short stories. Very impressive.

It sounds like this may have been common prior to this era as well.
by sky2224 | 2025-08-30 23:05:57+00:00
This is how I feel as well. What's even worse is that it seems like the academics doing research in the area of software engineering don't really have up to date experience that's practical.

Add to the fact that they're the professor of many software engineering courses and you start to see why so many new grads follow SOLID so dogmatically, which leads to codebases quickly decaying.
by YZF | 2025-08-30 23:06:38+00:00
But sometimes you should copy and paste code because those difference pieces of code can evolve independently. Knowing when to do this and when not to do this is what we do and no rule can blindly say one way or the other.

Even the most obvious of functions like sin() and cos() may in some circumstances warrant a specialized implementation. Sure, for most stuff you should not have 10 copies of those all over the place. But sometimes you might.

DRY is a bad rule. The more appropriate rule is avoid duplicating code when not doing so results something better. I.e. judgement always trumps rules.
by beeflet | 2025-08-30 23:08:29+00:00
You should look into cryptography. It actually is possible to design open systems provably without bugs or single sources of failure. It's possible to build mechanisms of plausible deniability that are largely immune to rubber-hose attacks.

It's also possible to design systems with an intermediate level of security. With your attitude, you might as well leave your house unlocked because any competent locksmith could break in.
by DaveZale | 2025-08-30 23:10:25+00:00
using GIS?

I looked at getting gis data from my local county. Sent an email and all I got was crickets.

It all depends on where you are at and what's available to tap into, as far as gis is concerned.

I tried to make a tree location map using phone gps meta data a couple of months ago. What a mess, the precision is too low. You can buy precision gps receivers, but they are expensive. It was a great exercise though. Now I know why trail navigation apps fail around closely spaced switchbacks in mountain areas. The gps data is too imprecise.

But maybe you know more than I
by danabramov | 2025-08-30 23:10:27+00:00
In ATProto, this is solved by not having "instances". Your data is stored on a personal server (which can ofc go down). However, your identity isn't hard-tied to that server. If you have a backup (making those more easily available is being worked on by people in the ecosystem), you can restore it on another host and point your identity there instead. So there's one level of indirection which prevents the problem you're describing.

Additionally, since ATProto decouples hosting of data from hosting of applications, there is no such things as "instances" having beefs and defederating from each other. The data flows one way (from PDS to apps). Apps may choose to ban certain PDS's but generally PDS's themselves are treated as app-agnostic containers of data. So intra-network social beefs don't translate to technological cutoff or loss of mobility. Social groups and communities are decoupled from hosting.
by SirensOfTitan | 2025-08-30 23:10:52+00:00
I’m tired of the hype, which is highly disconnected from reality, and I think that there is a long tail of tasks in information work that requires context, relationship that AI will struggle with for a while.

But it is also a fun and interesting technology that when used appropriately can reduce barriers around explorations and learning new things.

Unfortunately like most technology nowadays, engagement at the expense of everything else will continually eek away minimally at peoples’ remaining attention skills or worse by reducing peoples’ capacity to form relationships with real flawed humans.

I recently embarked on a personal journey of reading the Gnostic nag hammadi collection and a modern translation of the Christian gospels from a James Hillman multiplicity frame (and from my direct experience from thousands of hours of Buddhist meditation) and it’s been tremendously fruitful. I mark up the documents I read and then every so often discuss with an LLM and I find it a lovely experience. I’ve started seeing Christianity from a new frame (having been raised Presbyterian against my will when younger) as something much more lovely than I considered before. Christian mysticism reminds me a lot now of non-dual Buddhist traditions, and centering prayer has reignited a meditation practice stalled from a bad retreat experience years ago. LLMs didn’t give me anything I wasn’t giving them, they just acted as a mirror and helped bootstrap a weird interest I have that I’m now sharing with friends.

I also use LLMs in a very limited way when writing software:

1. As a rubber duck, and often I don’t even click enter, I figure out what I needed by writing it down.

2. For explorations of new concepts I’m not yet familiar with, like a glorified search engine.