MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2025-08-01 20:39:41+00:00
From a related article:

> BLS surveys firms in the payrolls survey over the course of three months, gaining a more complete picture as more businesses respond. But a smaller share of firms are responding to the first poll. Initial collection rates have repeatedly slid below 60% in recent months — down from the roughly 70% or more that was the norm before the pandemic.

> “The more data you’re missing and comes in later, the higher the odds the revisions will be much larger,” said Omair Sharif, president of Inflation Insights LLC. “Fifty percent is just not enough.”

[…]

> “We are seeing these cuts to funding for government agencies affect their ability to collect and analyze economic data,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon. “And for all of the reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is conducting, there is likely to be more volatility going forward.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...
by izacus | 2025-08-01 20:40:01+00:00
Ehm, that's EXACTLY what happens now.

Noone is being banned because of this. You can't publish an update if it targets old Sdk and old sdk targeting apps don't appear to users (unless the user has already installed that app before).

That's it. Google is directly following your recommendation. Developers have usually more than a full year to comply (e.g. Android 16 has just released, developers will have to target Android 15 at the end of August. Android 15 beta was released around march 2024 giving developers ability to prepare and test).
by Theodores | 2025-08-01 20:40:15+00:00
Comic Sans has its uses and there is also Shantell Sans that is an update on the concept for dyslexic people.

Hating on Comic Sans is getting tired, those that call themselves 'designers' but merely imitate are the chief culprits.

I have no use for the font, or rather, typeface, myself, but I don't belittle those that do use it. You can guarantee some charity fundraising thing pegged to the noticeboard in a supermarket will use Comic Sans, and I am okay with that. If there was a fridge magnet font by Fisher Price then I would be okay with that too.

Imagine how boring the world would be without the little things that annoy 'designers'.

I am okay with Google Easter Eggs, generally, just so long as Google have a top class product, but they have lost their edge, and, whilst the product is lacking, Easter Eggs will look silly.
by superdocs1 | 2025-08-01 20:40:18+00:00
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by contingencies | 2025-08-01 20:40:52+00:00
If you raise money, sometimes you just want the money. Other times, you are happy to cede some ownership and/or control. If things go pear shaped, investors want some protection. If things go really well, sometimes they band together and kick you out of your own company. At some point rules have to be codified: the systems for doing this are share classes, voting rights, information rights, articles of association, board resolutions, etc. While you can start a totally new system and run your company using a magical talking stick and rubber duckies on the blockchain, the reality is that just makes it unfamiliar and hard for conventional institutional capital to invest in, it also makes it hard for slow-moving conventional institutions such as banks and lenders to grok your operational process and internal structure, which in both cases generally limits your upside.
by panarky | 2025-08-01 20:40:58+00:00
There are plenty of accurate names Tesla could have selected.

They could have named it "adaptive cruise control with assisted lane-keeping".

Instead their customers are intentionally led to believe it's as safe and autonomous as an airliner's autopilot.

Disclaimers don't compensate for a deceptive name, endless false promises and nonstop marketing hype.
by em-bee | 2025-08-01 20:41:05+00:00
all right, a year ago i tried kitty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478732 maybe it's time to try wezterm now:

first impression: dark background. no good. i want light. no gui to change. now where is that theme setting? ah, here: https://wezterm.org/config/appearance.html there are 1000 color schemes available! wut? ok, this seems to be all i am looking for: https://wezterm.org/config/lua/wezterm.gui/get_appearance.ht... gee, that's a lot of code for a single setting.

ok, that's better. now let's explore how wezterm handles sessions and windows/tabs.

it seems sessions would be domains, and so for a bunch of local sessions i need to configure some unix domains: https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html#unix-domains

there is more about sessions here: https://wezterm.org/recipes/workspaces.html but it's all very abstract.

and where does this stuff go? ah, here: https://wezterm.org/config/files.html

turns out that the config example for the color scheme conflicts with setting other config values. i need

config.color_scheme = ... return config not return { color_scheme = ... }

that could have been explained better.

and finally, how do i switch sessions or tabs? no word about that on the multiplex page. or elsewhere.

fortunately, i found this article which describe an elaborate setup to make wezterm behave somewhat like tmux, with familiar keybindings. maybe i can get this to work: https://mwop.net/blog/2024-07-04-how-i-use-wezterm.html

oh, one last issue: there are no resize handles, or a titlebar, although according to the descriptions they should be there. where did they go?
by spauldo | 2025-08-01 20:41:06+00:00
I realize my field is kinda special (industrial automation) in that it's really a mix of programming, IT, and electrical engineering, but I can usually tell if someone is knowledgeable with just a few minutes of conversation. You can also weed out the bullshitters - the people that present guesses as fact - who in my experience are much more of a problem.

I know of no test that will tell you if they're a good fit for your company, which is arguably more important than their skill level.

I guess I don't really understand what the coding tests are supposed to achieve, unless you're letting your managers interview people without a senior programmer to help. If that's the case, you may as well just pick randomly.
by atrettel | 2025-08-01 20:41:10+00:00
Location: United States

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by throw0101c | 2025-08-01 20:41:52+00:00
Commissioner of Labor Statistics is an appointed position that needs to be confirmed by the Senate. McEntarfer was confirmed by a vote of 86-8 in 2023:

* https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_McEntarfer
by ivanovm | 2025-08-01 20:41:53+00:00
> In nearly every case of RTO, there was no recorded dip in productivity associated with the move to remote work.

I am extremely skeptical of this. On the contrary there is a mountain of direct evidence that people barely work when working from home. People have been openly bragging both on the internet and in person about how they do laundry and watch netflix and mow their lawns while looking productive

All you need to do is look at the crowds in the park or lines at the grocery store on any given friday to gauge how much work is being done on wfh days
by lovehashbrowns | 2025-08-01 20:42:07+00:00
It can be called anything in an airplane because there the pilot has some level of training with the system and understands its limits. You don't get a pilot hopping on a 767 and flying a bunch of people around solely because Boeing used autopilot in a deceptive marketing ad, then getting the surprise of a lifetime when the autopilot doesn't avoid flying into a mountain.

A car is another thing entirely because the general population's definition of "autopilot" does come into play and sometimes without proper training or education. I can just go rent a tesla right now.
by ndiddy | 2025-08-01 20:42:34+00:00
Sure! I'd love to provide you with evidence.

In West Virginia, a state with a population of 1.8 million, West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported 193,687 weekly TV viewers and 85,933 weekly radio listeners in FY 2023. https://wvpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/WVPB-Annual-...

In New Mexico, a state with a population of 1.8 million, New Mexico PBS reported 720,000 weekly TV viewers in 2024. https://www.newmexicopbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NMPB...

In Montana, a state with a population of 1.1 million, Montana PBS estimated around 250,000 weekly TV viewers and Montana Public Radio estimated 70-80 thousand weekly radio listeners as of a couple weeks ago. https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/montana-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-01 20:42:35+00:00
> real "autopilot" systems in aircraft (where the term of art comes from!) aren't remotely supervision-free

Pilot here. If my G1000’s autopilot were flying and I dropped my phone, I’d pick it up. If my Subaru’s lane-keeping were engaged and I dropped me phone, I might try to feel around for it, but I would not go spelunking for several seconds.
by embeddedbuilder | 2025-08-01 20:42:38+00:00
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by cybadger | 2025-08-01 20:42:54+00:00
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by exceptione | 2025-08-01 20:43:46+00:00
> the previous jobs reports was revised DOWNWARD by over a quarter of a million jobs.

I will try to be not too snarky, but imagine what would happen if the president announces tariffs every other day then changing it on the next, creating extreme volatility and uncertainty for investors. Imagine what would happen if the president threatens allies with war of conquest. If he causes the dollar to tumble while tanking the bond markets. If he daily threatens to blow up the last public instance in the US that employs a modicum of integrity and competence.

Imagine how high the pressure would have been in the past months to paint rosy pictures and suppress bad news all around. And yet people keep falling for the dumb narratives.

Imagine how difficult it is to do economic projections when inflation is not recorded anymore. Instead the US public get inflation data as vibes now, as things are probably expected to develop so badly that even the corporate media rooms might not be able to downplay it enough. People might get tired hearing of Biden's age.

The cluster fuck is all self-made. On purpose.
by h2zizzle | 2025-08-01 20:44:15+00:00
Circumstantially, the dominance of fast fashion, produced quickly and sold cheaply, suggests that some aspect of production is more "efficient" than historically so. I've seen YouTube fashion experts explain exactly how (lower quality fabrics, simpler and less durable sewing, cuts that use less fabric than would be so in higher quality garments), and while I'm not experienced enough to corroborate, they were convincing.
by hiremehnalias | 2025-08-01 20:44:45+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-01 20:44:48+00:00
> an aircraft autopilot will NOT avoid hitting anything in its path, or slow down for it, or react to it in any way

TAWS (terrain) and ACAS (traffic) are built into modern autopilots.

And Tesla lied about its autopilot’s capabilities in proximity to this crash: “In 2016, the company posted a video of what appears to be a car equipped with Autopilot driving on its own. ‘The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons,’ reads a caption that flashes at the beginning of the video. ‘He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.’ (Six years later, a senior Tesla engineer conceded as part of a separate lawsuit that the video was staged and did not represent the true capabilities of the car.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5462851/tesla-lawsuit-a...
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-08-01 20:45:35+00:00
> Office work is increasingly just adult daycare much of the time.

And the 'metrics' for productivity are completely gamed, in any direction, at any time arbitrarily.

Management/those that set these policies can 'turn up the heat' or relax them at any time, without warning. I've been on both sides of this.

Sure, you can hit some metric if some real product is produced, like widgets or something, but even in that hypothetical example, what if someone is top producer but skimps on quality or something resulting in a shorter lifespan of the product?

Before I left a recent employer a very (statistically and materially; i.e he was both very good at 'playing the game' and actually doing, you know, skilled work) high performer was PIPd (for "low performance").

In the previous half-decade+ he was there, he got 'exceeds' and top rankings every single year and was presumably paid more than the managers but was forced out, likely due to pay and internal politics.

I take most measures of 'productivity' to be totally fake, just based on my experience.
by carodgers | 2025-08-01 20:45:35+00:00
Terminal emulators have taken a very odd attitude toward OSC52. Many (or all?) of them selectively disable either copy, or paste, or both, depending on how cautious the maintainer is.

Yes, it's true that an application that can read system clipboard content may scrape a password, but literally any application running in the terminal can read private keys out of your .ssh folder.

With some heavy reading and a bit of experimentation, you can usually get this working, though.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-01 20:45:36+00:00
Just as a FYI... I got an email back from CF's CTO. So... at least they're looking into it. I'm on a smaller ISP and I wonder if their AS got blackmarks for not sufficiently blocking spammers or botnets.

And if this happens to you, be sure to record as much data as you can. I sort of spaced and didn't record the Ray ID on the error page. I think that would have helped a great deal in debugging the problem.

And yes... their AI generated response is sort of horrible, but... well... it's an automated response. I'm not going to ding CF for that. Everyone's automated responses are horrible.

I went into this wanting to be uncharitable to CF, but they seem to be taking it serious, so kudos to them.

[Edit. Lol - didn't look close enough. I think dknecht is the current CTO. So... props to you for taking it seriously.]
by qianli_cs | 2025-08-01 20:45:42+00:00
Managing complex scheduled workflows at scale comes with a lot of nuances. This is exactly why we're building DBOS (shameless plug! https://github.com/dbos-inc), which provides durable cron jobs and exactly-once workflow triggering. Since it's just a library on top of Postgres, it doesn't require a centralized scheduler (well, think of Postgres as the coordinator).

One challenge is to guarantee exactly-once processing across software upgrades. DBOS uses the cron-scheduled time as an idempotency key, and tags each workflow execution with a version. We also use the database transactions to guard against conflicting concurrent updates.
by blueferret | 2025-08-01 20:45:46+00:00
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by neeleshs | 2025-08-01 20:46:15+00:00
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by skeptrune | 2025-08-01 20:46:21+00:00
Let me ammend my statement. *"Anyone who succeeds at publishing research deserves to be in a postgrad program."

Plenty of people in postgrad programs don't know the foundations. It's ok. You are there to learn.

Completely unfair to expect someone already doing research to slog out 4yrs of classes not furthering their career.
by specialist | 2025-08-01 20:46:30+00:00
Why would anyone care about A's criticism of competitor B?

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by stego-tech | 2025-08-01 20:46:33+00:00
Yet another tech company sacrifices perfectly useful labor while earning $1.1bn in profit last quarter rather than retraining or reallocating that labor elsewhere within the organization and reducing recruitment costs - costs which will surely be higher, now that they've joined their counterparts in shoving their reputation into a rusty woodchipper.

Unnecessary actions that squander scarce resources (trust, labor that understands the enterprise and its customers) in the name of vague platitudes about AI and shareholder returns. Almost like none of these people actually know how to manage an organization for any length of time longer than a fiscal year.
by abakker | 2025-08-01 20:46:54+00:00
I mean, that is definitely true, but also kind of the observation that drives a lot of MAGA - visible progress in construction, engineering, and physical goods is an important part of how people "experience" the economy. It is easier to look at a new house with a big screen TV and experience progress than a new app. Even if the app transforms our lives and our knowledge, intermediated socializing is still something recognizably similar to what we all know how to do without the intermediation. There's nothing indirect about boarding a high speed train, or seeing a skyscraper rise out of the ground.

IMO, the biggest challenge is that we don't use metrics that accurately convey the change in the physical environment and the physical capital that we have and must maintain. In illustration, in today's dollars, 15 years of paint budget for the Golden Gate Bridge is about the same cost as building the Golden Gate Bridge. In nominal dollars, we spent $35m to build the bridge (in 1937), and last year we spend $97m to paint it.

its hard for people to see the progress in maintenance, and so the incredible progress of our forebears becomes our burden, and the consumptive effects of maintenance weigh on the west while the east experiences the novelty of real, direct progress.