MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by turbo_wombat | 2025-09-20 05:59:14+00:00
One of the big changes in the post war era was that immigration was massively opened up in 1965. From 1924 to 1965 the US had very restrictive immigration laws, which led to labor shortages, which allowed unions to become strong, rising wages and the expansion of the middle class. Since 1965 we've had declining union participation.

This is simple supply and demand. If you restrict the labor supply, the value of labor increases.

The same thing was observed after the Black Death, which killed off 30 to 50% of Europe's population. There were labor shortages, which increased the bargaining power of labor, and increased wages.

It's really funny US companies suddenly start pretending they don't believe in supply and demand when it comes to labor.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 06:00:44+00:00
Yeah that is definitely on the table, we'll see what happens.

Here, interestingly, just a threat was enough. I wonder why the owners didn't want to fight it at all? The speed with with they folded was very telling. As others mentioned, I suspect if they decided they just didn't want to keep paying Kimmel for the show. He was making somewhere around $15m/year or something they saw a chance to say "goodbye".
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 06:00:58+00:00
That’s only true if you define “native born american” as someone who watches Marvel movies. There is no immigrant community of significant size that is culturally American below the surface. None that embodies the self-flagellating communalism of Yankee America, nor the reflexively anti-government individualism of southern america.

Even the groups who superficially assimilate into the progressive culture embraced by Yankees do so as subordinates, not peers. The Yankee will condemn his own ancestors and discriminate against people who look like him. Most immigrants are happy to be the objects of that pity, but do not behave in the identical manner. They respect their own ancestors and retain their own ethnic attachments.

Virtually everything Hamilton worried about applies to contemporary immigrants to a T.
by rileymat2 | 2025-09-20 06:02:12+00:00
It is more complicated to model because the increased supply also increases demand for labor.

Immigrants need houses built, food on the table and many work very hard to pay for that.

That work, that sweat equity makes us all more wealth, a higher GDP.

Natives of the country that are well established in the country are in a better position to capture that wealth than the immigrants.
by eru | 2025-09-20 06:04:17+00:00
> You'll definitely want to memorize the password to the backup service that has the last copy of your password vault after a disaster. :P

Why? Write it down. Perhaps leave multiple paper copies around with some trusted people, like your lawyer and a safe deposit box at your bank.

Your proposed device seems a bit complicated. You can get pretty far with a piece of paper and this protocol:

Construct your password from two parts. (1) random gibberish you write down on paper, (2) a 'correct horse battery staple'-style part that you memorise.

Btw, have you looked into Yubikeys? They are better than password storage, because they can store your private keys and do signing with them. The key never leaves the device. (They can also store passwords, I think.)
by otherme123 | 2025-09-20 06:04:26+00:00
> Leaders Overshare? Simon shares material non-public information on linkedin. Now he and the company are in trouble.

I think this is within the team. Maybe you never worked for someone who doesn't share, who keep secrets, within the team. I did. It is frustrating. It makes you doubt every word they say, even a simple "everything is going fine" sows doubt in you, making you wonder if they are hidding bad news. It makes you doubt what you are doing is useful, because some time ago they hide a change of focus for weeks.

Then the secrets are revealed, they are stupid and pointless (not industrial secrets like you imply), they kept it secret just in case.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-20 06:04:46+00:00
And not to belabor this point, but he’s doing such one-dimensional math here by thinking of the immigration scenario as zero sum. Trump has clearly lost the plot. What he is failing to consider is that the US is in a long term ideological war with our biggest enemy China, and our best hand in this game is stealing their best and brightest to live in the west and have them to learn and love western values; which they will use to influence their friends, families, and social media circles back at home.

I’ve seen this happen with just about every friend of mine who has immigrated from China to the US and the effect that it has on their immediate network carries significant weight at shifting their perspective. Xi is not popular at home, and the west should be doing what it can to increase domestic Chinese instability in the same way they’re doing to us (very successfully). Rather, he is hell bent on unifying them to hate America.

There’s an ideological war happening and our president is not only too stupid to play ball but he’s also interested in giving up the hand of cards we already have. He is a true and utter moron and it’s hard to understate my level of disgust.
by boris | 2025-09-20 06:06:47+00:00
There is a parallel with database transactions: it's great if you can do everything in a single database/transaction (atomic monorepo commit). But that only scales so far (on both dimensions: single database and single transaction). You can try distributed transactions (multiple coordinated commits) but that also has limits. The next step is eventual consistency, which would be equivalent to releasing a new version of the component while preserving the old one and with dependents eventually migrating to it at their own pace.
by uxcolumbo | 2025-09-20 06:06:59+00:00
Thanks for the tip.

When you say abusive manager, do you mean micromanaging and the likes?

If not, is this something HR could have helped with. But then again the saying goes HR is not your friend?

What would be your advice how to deal with abusive managers? Especially not letting it get to a point where you need therapy.
by cocogoatmain | 2025-09-20 06:07:02+00:00
~~Likely much less than .25/m if that’s mbps. The issue is you’d have no shortage of money at that scale - I run one of the two main Arch Linux package mirrors in my country and while it’s admittedly a quite niche and small distro in comparison, I’m nowhere close enough to saturate 1gbit on normal days, let alone my 10gbit link~~

It’s a trade off I suppose - you can very well host your own streaming solution, and for the same price you can get a great single node, but if you want good TTFB and nodes with close proximity to many regions you may as well pay for a managed solution as the price for multiple VPS/VM stacks up quickly when you have a low budget

Edit: I think I missed your point about bandwidth pricing lol, but the second still stands
by epistasis | 2025-09-20 06:09:01+00:00
Keeping the lights on is an absolutely essential societal function, and for keeping an economy running. But expanding the technological capacity of the US is what made us so much wealthier than any other country in the world. And expanding that technological capacity faster than the rest of the world comes from attracting the best technological innovators from the rest of the world. However, with China's and India's size, it's likely that they will now be able to overtake us without relying on much immigration.
by throwaway836wg | 2025-09-20 06:09:22+00:00
My experience has been quite different. Most places I have worked at have been good at selecting people who are very empathetic, and definitely an high degree of empathy for managers and understanding that their job involves balancing interesting, often conflicting ones.

The “common” experience is that managers are not very good and empathetic. Maybe the problem is indeed with the managers and how our systems make them so to begin with.
by pandaman | 2025-09-20 06:10:01+00:00
How so? Anybody who has a student visa had to prove that she or he has strong ties to the home country and no intent to remain in the Untied States, and that she or he only needs to get education in the US to come back and apply it for the home country's benefit.

If these people have not defrauded the US then they would not know what to do with a work visa as they'd be hurrying back home as soon as they received their diploma, pulled by those strong ties and the desire to finally put the education to use at home.
by freakynit | 2025-09-20 06:10:04+00:00
Pretty similar in spirit to CSRF:

Both trick a privileged actor into doing something the user didn't intend using inputs the system trusts.

In this case, a malicious PDF that uses prompt-injection to get a Notion agent (which already has access to your workspace) to call an external web-tool and exfiltrate page content. Tjhis is simialr to CSRF's core idea - an attacker causes an authenticated principal to make a request - except here the "principal" is an autonomous agent with tool access rather than the browser carrying cookies.

Thus, same abuse-of-privilege pattern, just with different technical surface (prompt-injection + tool chaining vs. forged browser HTTP requests).
by jpc0 | 2025-09-20 06:11:24+00:00
Are you a product manager? Or do you just not see the irony on your comment?

Long term support means my thing that has been working great continues to work great. New feature implementation has nothing to do with that and is arguably directly against long term support.

And Nvidia seems justified in this since effectively no distro dropper X11 until Nvidia had support.
by jolmg | 2025-09-20 06:11:31+00:00
> If I summon a desktop on screen 1 and it's currently displayed on screen 2, they should swap.

At least i3's (and I imagine sway's) config is sufficiently flexible for that. Here's a shell function that brings the workspace you specify to your current output:

i3_bring_workspace_to_focused_output() { local workspace="$1" i3 " workspace $workspace move workspace to output $( i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq -r '.[]|select(.focused).output' ) " }

You can turn that into an executable and have it be called through a keybinding.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-20 06:11:44+00:00
I'm not sure if it'll help people avoid accidents.

On the one hand, you might get a few people who would be handling their phone to keep their eyes on the road more.

On the other hand, it might facilitate phone use in a way that people might use their phone now when they wouldn't have before (because handling it felt too distracting but this doesn't). I think this is a tangible risk.

There have been papers published that point out that hands free use isn't anywhere near safe.

Side note: not sure why the downvotes or what the other somewhat strident replies are about. I don't quite agree with you but it's not downvote worthy.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-20 06:12:31+00:00
First comment:

> So you're saying i can now have a fully remote mac mini server with auto-reboot on power outage without the need to physically log ...

Reply:

> You can also do this: [...] -delayminutes -1 [...] which will make the computer auto login to the chosen account on next reboot, without having to type in a password. Only lasts once. Has obvious security downsides though but that might be fine.

Even though I haven't checked, the "-delayminutes -1" very much sounds to me like it disables the automated reboot, so it waits until the machine reboots for other reasons. Given this and given that it is a direct reply, I personally took it as another solution to the power outage problem, the "reboot" in question actually being a cold boot due to the power outage.

Note that I haven't verified whether this works after removing power.
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by hakfoo | 2025-09-20 06:14:23+00:00
I always figured a lottery would work best.

Accept reservations (maybe with a token deposit or a card authorization to discourage making too many claims) for a week. Then at the end, draw winners for each block of seats; if they don't claim them in 48 hours, draw from remaining reservations. Repeat a fixed number of times and then scrum-sale anything that didn't go through.

There's no more risk of "the website crashed for everyone but scalpers" if you have a full week to place your request.
by casey2 | 2025-09-20 06:14:43+00:00
Can I just rant about how absolutely ridiculous it is that google, a company that has made it's fortune off the back of the web and public internet infrastructure blocks downloads. Maybe when it started this was a necessary compromise. In 95' it cost between a hundredth ~ a tenth of a cent to serve the average webpage, it costs google much less than that to serve a video, literally 0 if the users ISP already cached it (think about how unfair that is for a moment a AI generate short evicting some live saving medical document from your ISPs cache so that when you request it the owner of that resources pays again and the user is delayed in their request for potentially live saving information. GROSS!).

The part that is so infuriating is that they try to turn around and capture that value would should rightly be owned by the public by offering downloads for premium members, especially when that we KNOW the only reason YouTube isn't totally financially ruined is that the ISPs are legally required to price worthless youtube's (literally AI generated) spam traffic the same as useful services. (Net Neutrality)

And the are using these ill gotten gains to create their own backbone for yet more profit. Entirely pointless exercise when you realize the government is eventually going to break these companies up and will of course nationalize the one that owns all the infrastructure. Corporations are simply not the correct tool for managing infrastructure that the public relies on. I'm sure anybody whose tried to run a business on top of a google service can attest that's it's a bad strategy and is guaranteed to fail in the long term.
by ineedasername | 2025-09-20 06:15:11+00:00
Funny you mention Oracle: Slack’s former SVP of NA sales just moved on to a CRO job elsewhere a few weeks back. Their early career? Sales @ Oracle! Really, can’t make this stuff up. I went looking to see who Slack’s CRO was given it was their product C-level here commenting instead of someone more relevant in charge of the operational area where this happened. I did not at all fall over in shock to see that the person who shepherded Slack’s sales tactics to a culture where this is even a possibility was previously associated with Oracle sales.
by wltr | 2025-09-20 06:15:33+00:00
My home server mostly not used. It triggers some simple bash scripts each hour, or each night. It serves some simple personal web pages. I access them a couple of times a day, each time randomly. I have a Raspberry Pi 1B, and it looks like despite being massively underpowered, it’s the most energy efficient. And in my use-case, I think of using it for the task.

One day my primary Raspberry Pi broke (turned out to be a PSU issue), and I thought of having an old laptop running 24/7 as a home server. While being not very power hungry, it’s still wants much more energy (plus it has fans). For a casual usage (I forgot to mention Pi-Hole) it feels like an overkill. So, while a Raspberry Pi isn’t the best, it has its niche, and I’m happy of having one (actually, a few).
by linksbro | 2025-09-20 06:15:38+00:00
> Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only.

> If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3l...
by justinyee17 | 2025-09-20 06:15:56+00:00
It's a bit vindicating seeing the volume of responses to this. It's possible this is a biased sample and not representative of the majority, but it's nice to know I'm not alone and at least 1 other has experienced exactly what I have.

I was always made to feel fundamentally broken, and I wondered if I was really that terrible. I had no clue why I was treated with such malice and made to feel so unwanted.

Adding my story to the hat - graduated in 2022, naively thinking the world was eager for new contributors, and having finished my degree, I could start working on interesting real-world problems right away. Instead, I got nowhere and spiraled into the most severe self-doubt, worthlessness, and depression in my 20-something years of life.

I had the opportunity to learn and contribute through volunteering, joining my first organization in 2023. Used to be a full-time thing, even what one may consider overtime. Now, I'm kinda spread thin with projects, and also done everything important to where the projects are in maintenance mode.

But finally having that proof - that I could learn, contribute, and do well. I think it was life-changing. Yet judgement and imposter syndrome still hits like - "well, you didn't get paid, so it doesn't mean anything. That's not real work experience." Heard that's basically what someone said about my CV.

Did a smaller project across 3 months, then joined a third org in 2024. Obviously, not pulling 40+ volunteer hours a week anymore, but I still do what I can. Big progress through small changes, doing more in less time, and all that.

I got to work on these projects, learn a few lessons, and I can now bring my ideas to life using what I know. It's relieving to have some control over my endeavors finally. I don't really need a tech job anymore, because I've gained the insight I once thought I could only get from having one.

Technically, I'm employed, but it's on the retail floor. Though I was unemployed for 27 months beforehand, over 3 years without starting what I once thought would be my career. And I'm about to be on the search again.

I think more physical jobs are catching my interest. I'm just focused on seeking novel experiences and further knowledge to broaden my horizons.
by N2yhWNXQN3k9 | 2025-09-20 06:16:06+00:00
I don't think you even need a container for that type of containment.

You could do it with namespaces.

I think node/whatever-js-run-time/package-manger could allow for namespaced containment for packages with simple modern linux things.

The realms proposal was a step towards that at one time.
by keeda | 2025-09-20 06:17:03+00:00
Tech interviewing has been dysfunctional for a long time, but yes it is much worse now because the tech job market is terrible. However I have previously commented (along with citations where possible) about how this job market is deliberately depressed. BigTech has achieved this through a few mechanisms, namely a) increasingly offshoring jobs while simultaneously b) freezing headcount in the US, and c) performing significant layoffs triggered by Elon's shenanigans at Twitter. And a highly under-reported aspect of all this is that these layoffs are causing much higher pressure on the remaining employees, which is leading to record levels of burnouts.

I'm letting my cynicism show here, but I think this is a power move by the capital class to show labor their place after an exceptionally strong labor market during ZIRP. This is much more recent and not related to the H1B program.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-09-20 06:17:28+00:00
There is an art to dissent, and this article doesn't touch on it. If dissent is just a wall of "no, we can't do this", it will not be met well. If dissent is framed as a takedown of a person or their work, it will not be met well. Dissent needs to be delivered in a diplomatic way that makes clear everyone is pulling in the same direction, and there is a better way to pull.

Some folks (eg younger me) are not interested in learning this art, and just want to say things and have everyone immediately see their genius. When I think about the times folks have done that to me, I didn't take it well.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-20 06:20:59+00:00
> We released the EA many years ago

Early access and the marketing schemes around wishlists are the most ridiculous things to me. If we really want to stand out from the crowd, do a launch like EA did with Apex Legends (I.e., announce/launch full game same day).

The game being fun is the most important thing. It's also the most unlikely thing so we shouldn't let it bother us that much when it sucks ass. There are lots of low risk/effort ways to determine if a gameplay concept is viable that don't require a decade of hopes and prayers.

Steam is the most hardcore gaming platform. It is very good at detecting charlatans. The market for asset flip low effort trash has been oversaturated for a decade now. Games like the one in the article are dime a dozen. Literally a dozen things just like this launch every single day on Steam and other platforms. You've got to be realistic about the number of participants in this market. Blaming Steam is like blaming gravity at this point.
by N2yhWNXQN3k9 | 2025-09-20 06:21:03+00:00
Ever live somewhere that isn't a city, but has access to talent from a local university? No one is sticking around to be hired for $70k a year when they can make $120k a year in a city. Yet, there are plenty of hires due to a local migrant population, which commonly has generational support. This disrupts that. It hurts more than migrants. It hurts communities.
by bialpio | 2025-09-20 06:21:20+00:00
Not sure if it applies to H-1B but if a company does mass layoffs, it automatically makes it so that the PERM applications (required for green card, which you need to keep the employee past the visa validity period + extensions; up to 7 years iirc) will be automatically rejected for some time. So it screws over your existing H-1B holders, making your company way less attractive.

Source: I came to the US on H-1B in 2012. I may be misremembering which stage of the process the mass layoffs affect.
by randycupertino | 2025-09-20 06:21:22+00:00
Agree with this, unfortunately. I have a coworker who routinely calls people without linkedins "sketchy" and obsessively looks everyone else, vendors, functional area colleagues, etc up on linkedin. I didn't have a very fleshed out linkedin myself because I value privacy and was surprised how biased some people are about it. I've also seen candidates who have otherwise passed interview panels get veto'd because the dates on their linkedins don't match their CVs.