MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basisword | 2025-09-09 17:39:31+00:00
This is the issue. Too many people take the absolute piss with it. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have people who don't switch off and put in a lot of extra hours essentially picking up the slack. I'm finding a lot more people (both at work and amongst friends) who are desperate to avoid speaking on calls or turning their video on because it makes them nervous. Probably healthier for everyone to just be in the office.
by cyphar | 2025-09-09 17:39:34+00:00
A few years ago our annual corporate phishing training was initiated by an email sent from a random address asking us to log in with our internal credentials on a random website.

A week later some executive pushing the training emailed the entire company saying that it was unacceptable that nobody from engineering had logged into the training site and spun some story about regulatory requirements. After lots of back and forth they still wouldn't accept that it obviously looked like a phishing email.

Eventually when we actually did the training, it literally told us to check the From address of emails. I sometimes wonder if it was some weird kind of performance art.
by javier_e06 | 2025-09-09 17:39:49+00:00
Having to sit in the car, train, or even walking can be seen as a punishment when the 80% to 890 of your work is done sitting by yourself in front of a computer.

At the office there where those who clearly wanted to minimize human interactions and people who thrived and performed better when interacting with others.

And then there is liminal spaces (Severance) the place where hope and creativity comes to die.

"There must be someway out of here."
by ActorNightly | 2025-09-09 17:40:07+00:00
Absolutely not.

C has the advantage of being an extremely small language in terms of syntax, which means its incredibly easy to port it to any architecture. Whenever you build a chip and want to program it, writing an LLVM backend for it with optimizations is almost trivial (assuming you understand the core concepts).

Rust has a lot more things to consider in the compiler, which leads to slow adoption, and also its more cumbersome to program in.
by onlypassingthru | 2025-09-09 17:40:25+00:00
Your taxes pay for the public service whether you use it or not. Take a look at your property tax statement and I bet you can find all sorts of things you may or may not use: parks fees, library fees, health/hospital fees, schools, etc. Should everyone who reads but doesn't use the public library get a book voucher? I'm a stay-at-home-reader, why shouldn't I get the government to subsidize my reading?
by bialpio | 2025-09-09 17:40:46+00:00
> I know you are meaning well, but while the economy growing can be a nice side effect of this (and probably is), I always find it a bit sad when economic profit is used as a reason to justify to create a more fair and equal society.

Unfortunately, this is how some people think, so phrasing things in this manner is a way to win them over ("paying a bit more in taxes is actually going to benefit you").
by cubefox | 2025-09-09 17:41:34+00:00
> which may or may not be what is actually running in prod.

This is the case for every open source software ever.

> AFAIK the patch which made it obsessively bring up white South Africans was never published

Or there never was a specific patch for that purpose, contrary to what you are assuming.

> this algorithm repo went over two years between updates so it obviously wasn't tracking prod.

You are mixing up something. The Grok prompt repo is a different repo from the recommendation algorithm, and the former has been updated regularly.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-09-09 17:41:48+00:00
Remote work used to be an earned privilege.

Then COVID hit and everyone got a taste of it. Including the folks who discovered they could get paid to stay home and play video games and jackin' off during work hours.

In a way you could say this group ruined it for everyone. But that's usually how these things go.

The hammer comes down on everyone because otherwise it leads to uncomfortable questions like "why does HE get to work from home and I don't?" and people getting doctor's notes claiming they're autistic and can't be around people and that's why they can't ever see the inside of an office.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-09 17:42:20+00:00
> issues with safety on public transportation

Do you know the stats on what percentage of transit rides result in some sort of assault or theft? It’s always felt pretty safe to me, although you certainly do end up sharing space with some very disadvantaged people.

My issue with US transit is mostly speed and convenience. Even with the traffic it usually takes 3x as long to get somewhere by transit, unless my destination lines up perfectly with the routes.
by hardwaregeek | 2025-09-09 17:42:22+00:00
I have mixed feelings cause on one hand moving from a remote first company to a primarily in person one has made a material difference in my general satisfaction and engagement. But also I wouldn’t want it to be forced. I like having the choice to work remote. And I like having coworkers who can work remote if they wish. I know many great engineers who live outside of the standard tech hubs and realistically won’t move to them. But for me remote work felt isolating and made my home feel too much like my office
by a3w | 2025-09-09 17:42:26+00:00
THIS IS MADNESS.

Krieger, is that you? You went too far with it.

I am all for catgirl holograms, so good science by Archer's Krieger on that. But SQL should not run Doom. The limits of science have been pushed beyond madness!

Well okay, "does it run Doom" comes up here frequently.

But why not solve "does it run catgirls" first, if you are a real-life mad scientist?
by jrflowers | 2025-09-09 17:42:59+00:00
> I just don't understand this mentality.

It is bad faith reasoning. If you imagine a person that does not want women to participate in the workforce but wants to express that in a way that doesn’t sound repugnant, it is pretty easy to see how someone would come up with that.

The way you can tell that it’s bad faith is by looking at the context that “pay women to stay out of the workforce” gets brought up. In this case it is framed as an alternative to providing childcare, but those two ideas have nothing to do with each other. As a society we could do both. The “pay women to stay out of the workforce” or “pay for childcare” dichotomy is completely made up, and folks that engage in that particular type of make-believe are either profoundly intellectually lazy or being intentionally disingenuous.
by petertodd | 2025-09-09 17:43:37+00:00
> Anyway the fact is almost 4 years in Ukraine is probably dead demographically. You can't really reboot a country after having so much of its "fighting age" male population dead.

You should actually look up the facts before making assumptions. Or, for example, actually visit Ukraine. Currently conscription is between ages 25 and 55; mobilization of younger men is not done specifically to ensure the next generation is not depleted, and men of all ages are fighting. You're actually more likely to get called up if you are in your 30's and 40's than if you are younger.

There's about five million males currently in Ukraine in that age range, of which under 100,000 have been killed and under 500,000 wounded. That's just not an existential crisis at all. Germany the country survived WW2, and about half of their male population died in the war.

This matches the on-the-ground reality: I've visited plenty of Ukrainian cities during the war, and there are plenty of males of all ages. Including young males. Any crisis they face is the same birthrate crisis that all developed countries face. And hopefully, the psychology of war will help reverse that --- Israel also has a notably high birthrate.

> Especially because the one who will be left will be deranged, violent and addicted to all sort of things.

I personally know quite a few Ukrainian soldiers who have seen action. They're all well functioning people. Combat when you're on the side of good rather than evil doesn't have the psychological toil people think it does. It's not nothing. But the supermajority of people recover just fine and go on to lead productive lives.

An important part of that is recognizing that Ukraine is up against an irredeemably evil enemy. You were killing orcs, not men.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-09 17:43:41+00:00
I was going to make a glib comment that Trump is plugging the "deficit spending" of billionaire's having to pay taxes.

But given Trump policies in toto, I am having trouble coming up with what a winner looks like here.

Big oil I suppose. But that's a damn narrow demographic if everything else is hurting. And overall economic malaise won't juice oil demand.

If anyone can characterize the class of economic winners ... ?
by Jzush | 2025-09-09 17:43:47+00:00
Indeed seeing ads almost feels like I’ve been physically assaulted. Using YouTube in our streaming devices reminds me of the old Cable days where you watch 2minutes of something and get slapped in the face with 5 minutes of ads.

It really feels like being assaulted. Watching chill content only to have some ad scream at you, does not make me want to buy your product. I actively go out of my way not to buy things advertised to me on YouTube.
by slg | 2025-09-09 17:43:54+00:00
> One thing is that politically it's easier for benefits to remain sticky if everyone benefits from it vs a subpopulation. That's why universal income has stronger support than welfare benefits.

It is funny to say this in this specific conversation. The exact logic you are using to support rebates for stay at home parents applies to childless people. So why are you drawing the line exactly where you are drawing it and why is that a better place than where this policy is currently drawing it?
by next_xibalba | 2025-09-09 17:43:55+00:00
Twitter/X user here. I agree with GP, it’s better than it was pre-Elon. The For You feed definitely seems less biased, more interesting, and fewer flame wars. I also think the exodus of Bluesky-ers has helped that (for which Elon gets partial credit). Yes, they do seem to have been backfilled by their right-side mirror images, but those people don’t seem to get amplified to the degree their predecessors were.
by christophilus | 2025-09-09 17:43:56+00:00
What did you switch to instead? I used to be a C# dev, and have done my fair share of Go. Both of those have decent enough standard libraries that I never found myself with a large 3rd party dependency tree.

Ruby, Python, and Clojure, though? They weren’t any better than my npm projects, being roughly the same order of magnitude. Same seems to be true for Rust.
by CPLX | 2025-09-09 17:43:59+00:00
That's not obvious at all. The image in the article you're linking to shows people with hardhats and vests that say "mechanic" on them.

Not only that there's a long history of asian high tech conglomerates taking shortcuts on these kinds of projects:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-06-22-tsmc-semiconductor-fac...

Including this specific one:

https://www.enr.com/articles/60802-third-fatality-recorded-a...

So maybe, maybe not. The fact that the attorneys for the accused deny it isn't exactly dispositive.
by basisword | 2025-09-09 17:44:11+00:00
>> my remote coworkers are far more responsive than my on-site coworkers, who are always in meetings, in transit, having in-person chit chat, or taking a break.

1. In meetings - working

2. In transit - before and after working hours

3. Having in person chit-chat - working

4. Taking a break - remote workers should also take these

>> I've had the opposite experience

I think it depends on the type of people you're working with. I've found hand-on engineers (i.e. people writing code) are really available and perhaps they shouldn't be. Business-type people are so much more reliably flaky.
by weinzierl | 2025-09-09 17:44:26+00:00
It sometimes happens with simple things. I once pasted the announcement for an event in Claude to check for spelling and grammar.

It had a small suggestion for the last sentence and repeated the whole corrected version for me to copy and paste.

Only last sentence slightly modified - or so I thought because it had moved the date of the event in the first sentence by one day.

Luckily I caught it before posting, but it was a close call.
by ta1243 | 2025-09-09 17:44:36+00:00
The world has seen how unreliable the US is. Its not even just the tarrifs, its the tarrifs applied at random, based on how happy the Don is. The world has seen the "checks and balances" don't exist, a populist leader can do whatever they want for any reason and has no accountability.

The horse has bolted, you can't ctrl-z this.
by rainingmonkey | 2025-09-09 17:44:37+00:00
This trite comment obscures the long history of transatlantic ties on the far right, from American businesses supporting Nazi Germany[1] and Hitler drawing inspirations from America's immigration, segregation and eugenics policies[2] through the murky events around Operation Gladio later in the 20th century[3] and into the 21st century "dark enlightenment" hyper-online right[4].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na... [2]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183060/hi... [3]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/24/terrorism [4]: https://archive.is/A3Gb1#selection-2423.27-2423.39
by nosianu | 2025-09-09 17:45:50+00:00
At the early stages memorization is essential for some subjects. I still benefit greatly - like many - from very early having to memorize the complete lower multiplication table (12x14, 15x15 and all that, the 20-square). I actually need that in daily life all the time (and I'm old and skeptical about teaching too much stuff that just drowns kids and prevents deeper understanding because they are always chasing the next subject with little time to let anything sink in deeper). What is sine, tangent, cosine. At least a few digits of pi. Language and grammar too.

Lots and lots of stuff that just has to be memorized. It becomes easier the more experiences one gets over time using those, merely memorizing the words alone ofc. is useless and also very inefficient, without other knowledge to create a network the brain will throw pure sentence-memorization out. So you still start the lessons with some memorization, then deepen it by using it in class. But in the end you will still remember those many little "facts".
by kps30 | 2025-09-09 17:46:01+00:00
Castro did that. Google Mariel Boatlift of 1980.

But the US is not in decline because of whatever anyone from outside does. It's following the same cycle all Hegemons go through over 100-200 years. Whether its Greece, Babylon, Eygpt, Rome, Islamic Caliphates or all the later European powers. They all went through a similar a cycle - rise - dominate - decline. See Oswald Spengler - Rise and Fall of the West written 100 years ago.
by logifail | 2025-09-09 17:46:58+00:00
> You seem to be under the impression that these figures are exclusively sourced from employers, but they are not. They are sourced in part from a survey of 60,000 households every month, where each household in the the survey for several consecutive months

These are two separate metrics, they measure different things, and the figures often differ (unsurprisingly).

The BLS "establishment" survey (aka Current Employment Statistics, CES) surveys 120k+ businesses and government agencies, it measures jobs (not people), counting the number of payroll positions. This is "non-farm payroll employment", excluding the self-employed, farm workers, and private household workers.

The BLS "household" survey (aka Current Population Survey, CPS) surveys ~60k households, measuring individuals, whether they are employed, unemployed, or not in the labour force. These data are used to calculate the unemployment rate and labour force participation. This includes farm workers, the self-employed, and domestic workers.
by dekhn | 2025-09-09 17:47:17+00:00
The link is to a course in operating system design and implementation that uses a simple kernel based on a historically relevant UNIX. The simple kernel has been updated to take advantage of a relatively new architecture (RISC-V) that was developed academically (but has actual industrial chips and boards that you can buy and run).

It's great pedagogically because the kernel is simple, well-architected, and excellent for undergrads to work with. Historically, academic UNIX has been tremendously useful for development of new concepts, as well as teaching the next generation.

Some notes of interest: 1) all-around genius Russ Cox is one of the developers and teacher for the course. 2) another teacher is Robert Morris Jr, who developed the sendmail worm back in the day. He is now a professor at MIT.
by milesvp | 2025-09-09 17:47:41+00:00
It’s a common thing here on HN to believe that remote is superior for productivity, and I’m always reminded of Richard Hammond’s observations about open door vs closed door coworkers. He noticed over time that the closed door workers were more productive. He also noticed that the closed door workers were less impactful in their fields years later. His were observations in R&D settings, but I suspect they can be extrapolated. People who are interrupted get less done. This seems largely indisputable, but what is the other takeaway? People who don’t interract with peers don’t course correct enough, seems to be solid advice based on what we know about the OODA loop. People who don’t interact with coworkers don’t get enough time saving advice? I know I’ve saved lots of effort by having coworkers who know things I didn’t about related problems.

What complicated things, is return to work will cause all the best to rethink their employment. I’ve seen HBR surveys that suggest the top talent is ending up places that allow them to stay remote. I think this leaves businesses in a tight place. I have every reason to believe that companies with lots of employee interactions have better acceleration/trajetory than fully remote, but it’s a big hit to lose top talent. And remote may have so much velocity from gaining this talent that they don’t care about the acceleration tradeoff.

Further, concentration of talent in a region also cannot be discounted. Certain things can’t happen without the exchange of ideas (partly why I think cities/counties should ban non competes). I don’t know how much a given company can control this concentration of talent, but I know that Seattle wouldn’t be what it is without Boeing, and then Microsoft attracting very smart people.
by graeme | 2025-09-09 17:47:58+00:00
This really isn't true. Most people aren't even close to reckoning with what net zero would involve. Most people haven't even got a stock vs flow model of carbon and think that lowering co2 emissions means reducing global warming. (As opposed to reducing the speed of the increase).

You yourself haven't got a model. If we stop using fossil fuels today, billions die. The energy from fossil fuels has generated widespread benefit and allows our current wealth. And also heats the atmosphere.

The emissions of the bottom 90% globally, and the emissions in the products they use are more than enough to sustain global warming.

Fobbing the problem onto "the other", however you define them, is another way to justify doing nothing.
by WASDAai | 2025-09-09 17:48:28+00:00
TL;DR — How to (and Not to) Manipulate Transformers: A Logic-First Guide

Proof-driven map of transformer manipulation: we show why full transparency breaks (diagonal/Tarski), how self-endorsement traps arise (Löb), and why open metrics get gamed (Kleene/Goodhart). Then we offer safe design patterns—partial transparency, randomized audits, staged disclosures, and outcome-over-process reporting—to keep models robust, accountable, and harder to exploit.
by bitsage | 2025-09-09 17:48:36+00:00
The revisions cover March 2024 through March 2025. While his policies may deliver turmoil in the near future, I don’t understand why most of the discussion here is about Trump. Furthermore, these revisions are at the high end of estimates, so it’s not a complete shock. The Fed and financial institutions must have already had an idea that the job market could be this bad.
by pbasista | 2025-09-09 17:48:38+00:00
> 802.11ac was significantly faster with vendor firmware

Yes, I also remember similar issues with TP-Link Archer C7 running earlier versions of OpenWRT. It got better with later versions when they started supporting some kind of flow off-loading.

I am unsure if at the moment the recent OpenWRT WiFi performance of this router is on par with the vendor firmware's WiFi performance.

But yes, your point is valid. However, I do not consider this kind of issues to be deal-breaking. If I remember correctly, a fair amount of devices can achieve the same performance with OpenWRT as with vendor firmware. I would just check for these potential issues in advance and buy only the devices which are confirmed to be working as fast as with the vendor firmware.

The point here is that I rarely have any preferences as to which brand of a router to buy. Many of the marketed features they offer, like proprietary software or mobile apps to control the router, are mostly irrelevant for me. So I choose primarily based on the OpenWRT support level.

Edit: clarification
by jjani | 2025-09-09 17:48:41+00:00
Finally, my time has come! A topic I'm both very passionate about and have a lot of experience with.

> As a result, domestic technology firms like Naver and Kakao have cornered the market for mapping services, making navigation harder for foreign visitors unfamiliar with their platforms.

Oh no! Poor tourists have to download a different map app! Such inconvenience and hardship! It's the opposite. Whenever I go abroad and get to use a local app instead of a FAANG monstrosity, it's usually a delight.

And there is no better example than Maps. Even without knowing a lick of Korean, the discerning HN reader will immediately spot the difference in degree of enshittification with the two local market leaders [1]. Google Maps? Massive space to 3 companies that clearly paid the most for ads. I can't emphasize just how random the companies are, there's no other reason than ads that those are shown. The pictured area is tourist heavy, so plenty of Google Maps users. And dozens and dozens of establishment even just in the screenshot with 100x+ the visitors, including Google Maps searches, than the 3 companies that do get their own name and icon.

Everything else is a grey mess, unusable. Public transit, metro lines? Never heard of them. Different types of streets? Colors that make sense and increase readibility? Nope. Why? Again, go make the ads stand out more.

And unfortunately this is unrelated to Korea - Google Maps is this awful anywhere, as a result of being a monopolistic ads company. Such a prime example of why they need to be broken up.

The local map apps in Korea, Naver Maps and Kakao Maps, are the poster child of just how good it is for a society to protect themselves against the FAANGs. 50 million people get to use a much better navigation app thanks to it. In addition, it creates jobs and keeps all related revenue inside the country. Win-win-win. The only one who loses out is Google, and the few tourists who can't be bothered to install a local app (available in multiple languages, by the way). Even for those, it's not like Google Maps is banned; it's definitely functional. It has the public transit, it has the restaurants and so on.

[1] https://ibb.co/hJkL3xRY
by theologic | 2025-09-09 17:49:12+00:00
I would like to confirm that I've been highly influenced by Tetlock, and I appreciate his work. It was an integral part of a strategy in a business group I was running.

With that stated, if you can see beyond his vitriol, Nassim Taleb has some valid comments toward Tetlock's methodologies. I love Taleb, but hate his tendency to try and shock people. However, he does raise valid concerns about fat tails.