MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sepehr500 | 2025-09-02 15:47:30+00:00
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by vladms | 2025-09-02 15:47:32+00:00
Individual agency is important but I feel that people perceive it in a very simple way, "I work" => "I live as I want".

I think a major difference between East Europe and West Europe (can't talk generally about East/West) is that people in East Europe were trained/educated/forced/convinced that they can't change anything after 1950 (up to recently). This lead to most not take any responsibility, and to some profiting hugely (some hard working, some sociopaths). In West Europe there was always more struggle at multiple levels.

People's status improve mostly from accumulated individual actions. But someone still has to do the actions. That's why "propaganda" (convincing your own population that X is required) is so important because otherwise X will not happen.

Having a population that "accepts" things are "external" is perfect for the rulers, but no much for the others. Having a population that "struggles" and accepts it can't get everything it imagines (even if they try) seems much healthier.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-02 15:47:52+00:00
I worked for 5 startups before I went back to grad school and then entered academia; it was over a quarter century ago but I think some of the lessons remain valid.

The best startup I was at was one where four engineers who knew each other had dropped out of a big company and started with a consulting project, developing the first version of the product for an early customer (a national lab) using FPGAs. Then they got venture funding to develop an ASIC version, which is when I got hired as employee #12.

The next best one started when a bunch of friends from undergrad - mostly engineers but one with a business degree - convinced a sales person to go in with them on a startup.

In both cases they didn't have to hire a founding engineer - the founding engineer or engineers were part of the original group that got seed funding. Some of the later hires were quite good, and rose to the level of some of the founders or higher, but their success wasn't dependent on the supernatural ability of someone they hadn't yet identified or hired.

To be honest, the whole idea of "I have a great idea, but don't know how to translate it into product, so I'll hire people to do that" seems like a recipe for disaster in so many ways.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-02 15:48:04+00:00
As I pointed out - the Indian government WANTS other countries to dump e-waste in India, becuase it makes the economics of building an end-to-end REE processing supply chain much easier for Indian businesses.

Already, e-waste processors in India have startup to upskill into manufacturing NdFeB magnets [0] which are currently entirely monopolized by China.

Also, batteries are an example of E-Waste that India is incentivizing to come to India.

> Being that entire shanty towns (people included) in India have disappeared as the landfill they were built on shifted due to rain

India is in the midst of a shantytown razing program similar to what China did in the 2000s [1]

To become a developed country by 2047, India needs to make some sacrifices that the US did and China is currently doing.

[0] - https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/trafalgar-sets-sights-o...

[1] - https://scroll.in/article/1084230/why-the-judiciary-is-respo...
by AlwaysRock | 2025-09-02 15:48:42+00:00
I dont know about that! In theory it sounds good. I know a company that hired a very good hands on cto who then hired 5 50k entry level engineers that was largely the extent of their team for 1-2 years. Then they started to hire more senior people.

I'm sure the cto did a massive amount of training early on but this is a near billion dollar company in a fairly complicated industry. You dont HAVE to have 4 incredibly senior super engineers as your first hires. It might make coding easier early on, but its going to make hiring much much harder.
by alex1a | 2025-09-02 15:48:49+00:00
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by dttze | 2025-09-02 15:49:10+00:00
>For my own part, I used to lead pro-palestine rallies, and at the beginning of the war I even paid to help smuggle a Gazan out through one of the Rafah crossings

No you didn’t. Or you’re saying you cared enough to hold rallies but now you just so happened to have developed “skepticism” once Israel started the genocide. And now you parrot hasbara talking points. Yeah nah.
by eddlgtm | 2025-09-02 15:49:18+00:00
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by snuxoll | 2025-09-02 15:49:19+00:00
PyCharm lives in the IntelliJ CE repository, both are Apache 2.0 licensed, while the rest of JetBrain's language plugins are proprietary. They are 'unifying' PyCharm and getting rid of the separate PE and CE builds, but the underlying plugins remain developed in the open right there on GitHub.

As far as why only IntelliJ and PyCharm are done this way (excepting additional plugins many developers would end up wanting only coming with a subscription), that's a strategy question you'd have to ask an exec about. If I would hazard a guess, Java, Kotlin, and Python are all pretty big first languages to pick up and have large, active communities. Good products to get people hooked and want to pay to get the extras that aren't available without a subscription.
by exabrial | 2025-09-02 15:49:49+00:00
It used to be true, but now you are taxed out of success, and any other gains you save will simply evaporate with unchecked inflation and money printing by Congress. There needs to be a "Hard Stop" on inflation: The federal government's checks bounce if there is no money in the account.

... and somehow, there has been a successful miseducation campaign on the internet that "corporations raising prices causes inflation" which highlights how many people do not understand how fiat currency even works. (Even on HN, you'll see responses like this).
by btreecat | 2025-09-02 15:49:50+00:00
> > ICE has been going after low hanging fruit, ie arresting people when they go to their immigration court dates(aka following the rules). > > As far as I understand (correct me if I am wrong), if you have no valid status in the US then going to court does not mean that you are following the rules, no? I mean, why would anyone with a valid status have to go to immigration court?

One reason is legal check-ins, folks can be in the US on many different types of entry.

Some require regular check ins with ICE or an immigration judge to continue being here.

ICE told immigration judges to dismiss cases (based on a new memo being challenged) and enable immediate arrests. Additionally some folks who had continuing cases were getting arrested before the case concluded (e.g. asylum cases))

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/08/13/ice-has-a-new-cou...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna226866
by mrangle | 2025-09-02 15:50:11+00:00
> Then, you're arguing for feudalist land ownership customs?

>This is a really bad-faith reframing of the parent comment.

How so? Very respectfully, perhaps you should read with more care.

See here:

>those strips were even periodically reallocated to keep things fair.

Which stands alone as an argument for feudalist customs, but I also argue that it frames the rest as an argument-in-favor. Such as this, seemingly positively highlighting community "customary rights".

>In feudal Europe, land could only be “owned” by a lord, and even then it was bound up in obligations both to their superiors and to the peasants working it. There were all sorts of customary rights layered on top:

Critique my answer, but accusing a bad faith argument doesn't hold up.

No one who reads for comprehension would credibly interpret the post as anything but an argument for feudalist customs. To be generous: even if the over-arching intent possibly is to change modern legal customs via any necessary argument.

That may be, but highlighting feudalism is a morally perilous way to go about it.

I disagree with the perspective entirely, but if someone is going to advocate for it then they should find a less morally backwards method than highlighting the ostensible fairness of the feudal era.
by dookahku | 2025-09-02 15:50:16+00:00
> working hard at creating value does,

You'll have to explain to me what a person at work is doing, then? I mean, if they're not creating excess value by working at a job, whose value is then sold at a surplus over what they get paid, why does that job exist? Why did they get hired?

What exactly do you think people at 'normal jobs' are doing at work all day?
by rachofsunshine | 2025-09-02 15:50:18+00:00
Author of the OP here - to put some more empirical backing to this, virtually every single engineer in our candidate pool values illiquid equity at 20% or less of face value, and about one in three give it no weight at all.

Totally off the topic of the thread, but it's why I do things differently with the people who work for me. I'm the sole owner of Otherbranch, but I pay out a percentage of profits over certain thresholds (between 25 and 75%, rising at higher levels of profit) to the team. Keeps things concrete and aligns incentives with building something that works today rather than obsessing over a hypothetical exit.
by exreddit | 2025-09-02 15:50:20+00:00
Image hosting used to be expensive, so forums avoided it and image hosts were scummy and filled with ads. Imgur was a first mover when cloud hosting and CDNs meant it could be relatively cheap for a small shop to do quality image hosting.

Meanwhile, reddit was a forgotten subsidiary of Condé Nast working out of a corner in Wired's SF office. Jedberg will chime in, but when imgur was founded, reddit's handful of engineers were busy keeping the site from falling over. They didn't have time to build out image hosting.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-02 15:50:24+00:00
Yes and No... My take on the current job market is this has been a slow-slide into oblivion. When I was a kid, we used something like engineering practice to develop software. You would have someone across the hall with a title of "product manager" or something who understood the business and the problem they wanted to solve (and how much money people would likely be willing to pay for it.) Then you would get a set of 15 requirements, 5 of which needed to be met before the product could be shipped. As an engineer, you put your head down and thought about how you would build each feature and there was a back and forth about which features got built at which time and you built something that looked like a product roadmap for the next three to five years. [ This was in the commercial embedded space. Aviation, government and banking all lived in slightly different worlds. ]

Around 1999 there was so much money in the dot-com run-up that the only thing that mattered was shipping something quick before the investors wised up and sued you for fraud. Engineering methodology took a back seat to expediency and this crazy bunch of weirdos practicing eXtreme Programming were used to demonstrate the spiral methodology the big guys used wasn't the only game in town. People took time out from their lunch meetings with VCs to read books by Fred Brooks and Tom DeMarco, if for no other reason than to memorize phrases like "Technical Debt" and "Mythical Man Month." If you say "Fail Quickly" and "Show me your flowcharts..." and you'll sound like a mysterious, wizardly futurian with a deep understanding of the hidden world of the matrix. But most of the people in the 90s in sili valley were ponces.

So where was I? Oh yeah... what we're seeing is the eventual end of a 25-30 year slide away from anything resembling "engineering" and "engineering practice". And I'm not saying that's completely bad. I mean... yes... please hire "real" engineers to design, build, test and deploy avionics firmware. You do not need an engineering degree to create a vibe coded web page that texts your fiends with name suggestions for their children or pets. MyTripToSacramento.Com can probably get by with a product manager and a dog. The dog is there to bite the product manager when they try to change the web site.

The 2025 job market has been dead for 30 years, we just didn't notice it until today.
by AlwaysRock | 2025-09-02 15:50:33+00:00
I get very annoyed when llms respond with quotes around certain things I ask for, then when I say what is the source of that quote? they say oh I was paraphrasing and that isnt a real quote.

At least wikipedia has sources that probably support what it says and normally the quotes are real quotes. LLMs just seem to add quotation marks as, "proof" that its confident something is correct.
by nthz554 | 2025-09-02 15:50:39+00:00
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by binary132 | 2025-09-02 15:50:40+00:00
unpopular opinion with engineers but unfortunately true

startups are generally moreso a business endeavor than an engineering one, although the engineering must correctly support the business

the engineering begins to take the driver’s seat as the tech debt and cost of scaling catch up to successful companies and begin to create excess drag

but for many years, such companies can typically still afford to throw away money to solve business problems, including these problems of scale
by William_BB | 2025-09-02 15:50:55+00:00
This is so interesting to hear. From what I've seen, probably half of recent yc startups have founders below 30. I wonder how senior talent views being interviewed by people who are essentially junior/mid developers.

I'm in my 20s with good credentials and have quite a few friends in the startup world. I would never feel comfortable interviewing someone with 10+ years of industry experience.
by AvAn12 | 2025-09-02 15:51:11+00:00
We need more startups that are creating durable business that employ a lot of people. Unicorns mostly blow up, and the few that succeed typically are not big or stable employers. How about funding more “lifestyle” companies that aspire to be in business for the long haul, not hunting for the exit on day one.

Obviously this is one of many diverse factors at work - but potential YC founders: the comments section here suggests that there is a lot of great human talent available in the market today.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-09-02 15:51:36+00:00
The hardest working people in society are paid the least. We created a system of financial engineering that has bifurcated society. The sad part is it's only going to get worse as those with money will have access to the tools and resources that will allow them to accelerate their position.

Conflating wealth for success is a big part of why we're here. Success in life is not the same as success at life and as we all personally know, money is no indicator of one's intelligence, abilities or personality. In face, any idiot can make money and it takes a true sociopath to earn billions without pure luck...
by pdabbadabba | 2025-09-02 15:51:44+00:00
I'm honestly not sure which point you're making in this thread. Are you saying that government should somehow make people whole for the loss of their coastal property? Or are you making the point that the government has no business interfering with the property rights of others? There seems to be a tension here, because I don't see how you could do the latter without also doing the latter — i.e., making coastal property owners whole requires taking someone else's property (either money or real property) and giving it to them. Or maybe you'd propose that we resettle them onto federal lands? (Even in that case, taxpayers bear a significant opportunity cost.)
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-02 15:52:26+00:00
The real problem with this is ... who cares?

Prior experience teachers that those losing faith in this way or are impacted by inequality won't, on the whole, come for the those who put them in that situation.

They'll come for the brown people next door. Because obviously it's their fault.

And whether it comes from their own, internal, faulty logic. Or through the whisperings of Fox News. It won't matter.

Rinse. Repeat.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-02 15:52:44+00:00
With better reasoning training, the models mitigate more and more of that entirely by themselves. They "diverge into a ditch" less, and "converge towards the right answer" more. They are able to use more and more test-time compute effectively. They bring their own supply of "wait".

OpenAI's in-house reasoning training is probably best in class, but even lesser naive implementations go a long way.
by klas_segeljakt | 2025-09-02 15:52:46+00:00
It brings Steve Jobs' quote to mind: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do"

Companies who generically look for "the best engineers" think their problems will be solved if they can just hire someone smart and tell them what to do. They say they want "the best engineers" but then their job descriptions and interview processes scream "we want someone who will execute our vision exactly as we've defined it."

The best engineers will tell you why your architecture is wrong, why your code sucks, why your timeline is unrealistic, and why your product decisions make no technical sense. If you're not ready for that level of pushback, you don't actually want the best engineers.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-02 15:53:01+00:00
Where I'm from, and this might be universal, those types of firms are either finance or consulting shops.

The actual work practically never warrants the type of people they want to hire, but they pay well enough and they can leverage their prestige. Part of the schpiel is that they can boast to their clients that they hire the best of the best, and thus billing $1000 for a fresh grad is worth it.

There's a lot of focus on signaling. Of course Jane or Joe with a graduate degree in theoretical physics from MIT is going to be able to sift through data and compile spreadsheets and nice powerpoint slides...but it's going to be complete overkill.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-02 15:53:05+00:00
I think you sum up the type of despair people feel pretty well.

It's really more helpful to look at "middle class or better." Because yes, the middle class has shrunk. But more of that share went to the UPPER income tiers.

The middle class went from 61% in 1971 to 51% in 2023. But the lower income brackets saw a +3% change while upper saw +8%.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/the-incredible...

>The ones on top getting a lot of the resources while the rest have to fight for whatever is left.

There simply is not a static pool of resources.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-09-02 15:53:15+00:00
The other responses are correct, but they're not including an important detail. Reddit was originally a replacement for all of the niche bulletin board sites that had cropped up around the internet. It was a way to create and manage a community without the cost and technical expertise required for phpBB. It also gave you access to existing users without them having to create a new account.

All of those previous Bulletin Board sites did not host images themselves either.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-02 15:53:25+00:00
That ASU NanoFab has indeed almost everything that is needed.

It is weird that they do not have any ion implantation machine, because there are devices that are impossible to make without it. Even for simple MOS transistors, I am not aware of any other method for controlling the threshold voltage with enough precision. Perhaps whenever they need ion implantation they send the wafers to an external fab, with which they have a contract, to be done there.

Still, I find it hard to believe that all the equipment that they have costs less than 10 million $, unless it is bought second hand. There is indeed a market for slightly obsolete semiconductor manufacturing equipment, which has been replaced in some first tier fabs and now it is available at significant discounts for those who are content with it.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-09-02 15:53:50+00:00
The market is definitely not dead. It started warming up last summer and has continued to do so throughout 2025.

But the market is two-tiered in a way it hasn't been before, particularly w.r.t. remote hiring. Almost all engineers want remote jobs and a small number of employers offer them, so the remote job hunt still puts employers in the driver's seat. But (good, senior) engineers hold the cards right now for in-office roles.