MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunshine-o | 2025-09-09 21:55:58+00:00
China is even more shocking example of the consequence of the WWs (and what happened before). Just the cultural revolution was an extreme aftershock of the wars. They did then had their "Marshal plan" with almost the entire world massively investing in their economy.

In Europe for example I vaguely heard the French government collapsed again. One of the reasons is usually that for decades they can't reform their retirement system. This retirement system was designed for the lost and greatest generations demographics after the war but totally unsustainable after that.

After 80 years of "never again" because of the WWs Europe dangerously under invested in its military capabilities, now it is panicking and the pendulum is swinging in the other direction.

Wars create demographic and societal shock waves, this is one of the reason historian focus so much on them.
by Bluescreenbuddy | 2025-09-09 21:56:01+00:00
I literally do this IN the office. I will step away and go to a coffee shop and pick something up. Hell I ask my boss if they want anything. I may go for a walk and get a breather. Go to a doc appointment. GO get my teeth cleaned. My bosses do not give a shit as long as my tasks are done to the standard.
by bokohut | 2025-09-09 21:56:03+00:00
I am smiling so big even those reading this can likely see it.

As the global energy issues continue to rapidly unfold in both availability and costs more and more in time will be questioning that "thing" that nearly all take for granted absolute. A resource that is critical to modern life yet cannot be seen and therefore our vision driven species yields little concern for something that has always been readily available for one's entire life. When something is neglected and treated as infinite it is only a matter of time before such conflicts will ensue as a result of holistic mismanagement of an unseen resource that is very highly impacted by business 101 rules, supply and demand.

Glad to know of yet another that is cognizant of their code energy consumption. What most will balk at, some will even laugh, but this is just one's ignorance in lack of respect of time as those business principles take further grasp on reality of the situation where our technology progress has led us.

In my former life as an electrician I ran circuits that became the roads for those electrons to physically travel on. After becoming a software engineer I then logically controlled those same electrons from the circuits I pulled to power those devices. Many more in the future will be thinking both physically and logically about their own electron usage as the costs continue to rise given the undeniable reliance many still have on centralized power grid version 1 design per Morgan and Tesla.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 21:57:26+00:00
>It really doesn’t take a lawyer to know what “at will employment” means.

It takes a lawyer to understand an individual's situation, background, and contract in order to see if this is just a bad but legal hand, or in fact something worth filing against. We don't know every engineer's story that is impacted here.

>Companies have been giving employees an ultimatum between “relocate or quit” forever.

Yes, and severance packages makes it less tempting to try and look into suing.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-09 21:58:29+00:00
Demand has been flat over the past 20 years almost entirely due to lighting and motor efficiency gains. Utilities have offered customer rebates to avoid adding more generation.

Switching from incandescent to fluorescent to LED reduced the amount of energy used for lighting to around 1/8th of what it used to be (60w incandescent lamp ~= 8w LED lamp)

Switching from across-the-line starters for three-phase AC induction motors to variable frequency drives and EC motors has yielded the rest of the efficiency gains. A motor driven at 63% of its full rated speed uses 25% of the electricity that it would at full speed.

We’re approaching the point where a majority of the existing lighting and motor controllers have been upgraded, and big tech is building shitloads of multiple GW data centers. There’s also a push to transition natural gas furnace users over to heat pump users which will further stress the grid.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-09 21:58:54+00:00
eSIM is essentially a client-server protocol for provisioning secrets into an embedded SIM (whether discrete chip soldered on the mainboard or emulated by the modem).

The QR code you get when you purchase an eSIM is merely an access token to initiate the provisioning process. Some carriers may make these single-use, or attach extra restrictions such as fees if you want to get a new one, or restrictions they themselves don't know about like that you must be on an IP from your carrier's home country to reach the provisioning server (good luck debugging that if you're not already aware of it - and no, on-device VPNs won't save you as the OS will not use your VPN for this traffic).

Even the mechanism that allows you to move an eSIM from one iPhone to another requires carrier involvement, which they have to support (internally I don't believe it moves anything, instead merely requesting a new SM-DP code in the background and sending that to the new phone). It doesn't work for all carriers.

Oh and you already need to have some existing IP connection to provision the eSIM in the first place, so first-time provisioning is tricky. I'm sure there is a workaround for it, but again carrier support varies.

TLDR: it allows the carrier to interfere when provisioning or moving the eSIM which carriers can and do take advantage to make the process more costly/painful and discourage easily using alternative carriers.
by deejaaymac | 2025-09-09 21:59:06+00:00
When I was a teenager I played World of Warcraft for 5 years. During that time we did "raids" where 40 people have to pay attention and communicate, sometimes for longer than 8 hours, with people from around the globe.

If teenagers can do it, adults can do it. Period. And if they can't, skill issue I guess.
by ozim | 2025-09-09 21:59:09+00:00
I disagree with this take. There should be just more governance on the registry side of things.

For NuGet or Maven I think dependency hell is not something you run into and I don’t have package manager manager for those languages.

There should be enough trust just like I can do sudo apt install.

His take screams „I want to push my niche approach and promote my language from my Ivory Tower of language creator”. He still might not have any relevant experience building businesses line software just like O don’t have experience with building compilers or languages.
by Theodores | 2025-09-09 21:59:11+00:00
In the UK we have the venerable BBC which is struggling with the revenue model, cost of broadcasting and much else. I am not a fan but I think that under new leadership they could do the disruption.

In what way?

Youtube is not social media. Nobody makes new friends whilst on YT. However, broadcast TV in the olden days before satellite TV and video recorders provided a shared conversation for the whole nation. You could spark up a conversation by asking a friend if they saw something on the TV during the previous evening. Nowadays people say DON'T TELL ME, I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET with no further conversation possible without changing topic.

A video platform could build community by letting people know if their friends and family have enjoyed watching the same programmes. Also possible is a mechanism whereby you can have a schedule made just for you. I have two YT faves, one which is fun (parasocial relationship) and another which is intellectual. If it is early in the evening and I am possibly relaxing with food then I will want the former, not the latter. On a daily basis I could have what we had in the olden days, light entertainment in the early evening and stuff that requires some brain cells later.

Revenue is always interesting and the state broadcasters in the English speaking world might as well pool resources and supply content people enjoy as soft propaganda on a free basis with no adverts. If the CDNs are in place with everything cached with a little bit of P2P, the cost model for delivery could be improved on.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 21:59:36+00:00
> One discovery problem is this client had three rebrandings, from Vector to Riot to Element. I've noticed users have had a hard time realizing the Element is a client for Matrix - even when they're actively chatting on Element. Usually they just refer to our chat by the homeserver's name.

What this tells me is that having a canonical primary client with the same name as the protocol would do wonders. This doesn’t rule out third party clients, it just clarifies matters for users who don’t necessarily know what a client is and have trouble conceptualizing the protocol/service/client divide. Those who are technical enough will seek out their favorite client, but for everybody else chatting on Matrix means downloading the Matrix app.
by didgetmaster | 2025-09-09 21:59:38+00:00
If you are completely broke (I once was), then $100 can make a major impact on your well being. On the other hand, $100 (or lack of it) is not so impactful on a multi-millionaire.

This might lead some to believe that the poor person cares greatly about the money, while the rich person probably couldn't care less. But this is often not the case. One of the reasons why some people are wealthy and others not, is how much attention they pay to small details. Poor people can be very frivolous with money, while rich people can be very frugal. The opposite can also be true, but how you handle money is not dependent on how much of it you have.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-09 21:59:48+00:00
I've been managing remote teams for over a decade. Your management must be doing performance management well. Most remote coworkers and employees I've had have been good, but that was only because the company aggressively pruned people who abused remote work.

Remote job postings attract deadbeats at a higher rate than in-office jobs. There are even New York Times Bestseller books with example scripts of how to negotiate remote work with your boss so you can travel the world, outsource your work to virtual assistants, and respond to e-mails once a week. These people always come in with a "if I get my job done, it shouldn't matter that..." attitude and then they fail to get their job done.

Remote is also the target for the /r/overemployed people who try to get as many jobs as they can and then do as little work as possible at each. Once someone has 3, 4, or more jobs they don't really care if they get fired. They'll string you along with excuses until you let them go. The first time it happens to you, your sense of sympathy overrides your instinct to cut the person and you let them string you along way too long. The 3rd or 4th time you have someone you suspect of abusing remote, you PIP them hard and cut them quickly because you know how much damage and frustration they can bring to the rest of the team.
by strcat | 2025-09-09 22:00:27+00:00
Neither Apple or Google truly knows how widespread attacks on their products have been despite portraying it as if they have perfect insight into it. They're claiming to know something they cannot. GrapheneOS has published leaked data from exploit developers showing they're much more successful at exploiting devices and keeping up with updates than most people believe. We have access to more than what we've published, since we don't publish it without multiple independent sources to avoid leaks being identified. These tools are widely available, and it cannot be generally known when they're used whether it's data extraction or remote exploitation. Catching exploits in the wild is the exception to the rule, otherwise exploit development companies would have a much harder job needing to keep making new exploits after they're heavily used. They wouldn't value a single exploit chain nearly as much as they do if it stopped working after it was used 50k times. Law enforcement around the world has access to tools like Cellebrite Premium which are used against many people crossing borders, at protests, etc. That is usage at scale. There's far less insight into remote exploits which don't have to be distributed broadly to be broadly used.
by pton_xd | 2025-09-09 22:00:39+00:00
> Develop and publish safety frameworks, which describe how they manage, assess, and mitigate catastrophic risks—risks that could foreseeably and materially contribute to a mass casualty incident or substantial monetary damages.

Develop technology to monitor user interactions. They're already doing this anyway [0].

> Report critical safety incidents to the state within 15 days, and even confidentially disclose summaries of any assessments of the potential for catastrophic risk from the use of internally-deployed models.

Share user spy logs with the state. Again, already doing this anyway [0].

I guess the attitude is, if we're going to spy on our users, everyone needs to spy on their users? Then the lack of privacy isn't a disadvantage but just the status quo.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-a...
by masfuerte | 2025-09-09 22:00:43+00:00
There are many copies made as the text travels from Library Genesis to Anthropic. This isn't just of theoretical interest. English law has specific copyright exemptions for transient copies made by internet routers, etc. It doesn't have exemptions for the transient copies made by end users such as Anthropic, and they are definitely infringing.

Of course, American law is different. But is it the case that copies made for the purpose of using illegally obtained works are not infringing?
by jbreckmckye | 2025-09-09 22:01:31+00:00
> Instead, it seems like CEOs see RTO as a way of getting rid of 'slackers'

"Seems" is an interesting word, because if even you can't locate a rational motive, whilst attempting to apologise for RTO, and are just left making some guesses, then what am I supposed to infer except that this whole thing is based on suspicion, groupthink and anxiety?

"The data is clear", trumpets Microsoft in their internal email. Then why will they not divulge it?

It resembles the same kind of social contagion as the AI usage mandates we see - also completely meritless
by dmayle | 2025-09-09 22:01:54+00:00
Which is literally what Apple announced in this video:

"and the 2x telephoto has an updated photonic engine, which now uses machine learning to capture the lifelike details of her hair and the vibrant color of her jacket"

"like the 2x telephoto, the 8x also utilizes the updated photonic engine, which integrates machine learning into even more parts of the image pipeline. we apply deep learning models for demosaicing"
by Anon1096 | 2025-09-09 22:02:02+00:00
As a salaried employee there is no "salaried time." You're paid for your output not the time spent on it. This goes especially true for Microsoft where lots of people put in far less than a 40hr workweek. Literally no one bats an eye at arriving at the office late so if you want to start your commute at 9 and include that in your "working hours" no one would care.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 22:02:06+00:00
>Nobody's stopping you from moving closer to the office

the stiff housing market indeed is. You can't buy land that isn't for sale.

Nevermind that most people cannot just up and move whenever their work fancies it. And you don't want to. Too many horror stories of people who moved for their job only to get laid off a few months later. Corporate isn't taking my community with them.

>If the office is in a high-cost-of-living area they have to offer higher salaries to get an equal caliber of workers.

Or they just offshore it.
by coldtea | 2025-09-09 22:02:26+00:00
Please don't use the "troll" accusation to something because you disagree with it. It's weasely.

Obviously encoding/json doesn't "work perfectly", the TFA lists several problems it has, and the need for a new version, and that's directly by the horse's mouth. Is the Go team "trolling" as well?

Second, we're not talking whether it "does the job", which is what you might mean by "works perfectly great".

We're talking about whether it's a good design for the problem domain, or whether it has footguns, bad API choices, performance problems, and other such issues.
by andy99 | 2025-09-09 22:02:45+00:00
I didn't see the article as implying a virtual and robotic economy is why people are hedging with gold.

Unless I misunderstood, they're saying gold investing is a hedge against societal collapse, and making the observation that as tech continues it's bull run, belief that we're headed for a cyberpunk dystopia is also increasing and thus the correlation.

Interestingly there was an article a few years ago showing how bitcoin (thought by some to be a similar hedge to gold) was trading just like a tech stock. While I don't buy it, this is one possible interpretation.

See https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/technology/bitcoin-price-...
by nomel | 2025-09-09 22:02:54+00:00
> It failed because it wasn’t small enough.

I've never seen a preference like this, in real life. Usually the thing closest to what you want is the preferred option. You're suggesting there's a hump in the preference curve, pushing people away from their preference, buying a larger phone than the smallest, when they "want" a smaller one.

I have trouble believing this is true. Do you have any other example of this type of preference curve? I suppose the "uncanny valley" may be one, but that seems more understandable.
by bitpush | 2025-09-09 22:02:56+00:00
> they should have forced them to spinoff YouTube and other non-search monopolies google has that are insanely profitable.

I dont think I follow the logic. Having a successful business is not grounds for "forcing" to spin out. Airpods are extremely successful, and does that mean it needs to be a separate company? MacBooks are extremely profitable, so should they be a different company? Azure is widely popular, should they be too?
by unsupp0rted | 2025-09-09 22:02:57+00:00
> “The melanoma patient had dozens of metastatic tumors on her leg and foot, and we injected just one tumor up on her thigh,” Ravetch says. “After multiple injections of that one tumor, all the other tumors disappeared. The same thing happened in the patient with metastatic breast cancer, who also had tumors in her skin, liver, and lung. And even though we only injected the skin tumor, we saw all the tumors disappear.”
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by rdi_berkeley | 2025-09-09 22:03:20+00:00
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by ysofunny | 2025-09-09 22:03:23+00:00
why does this sound to me, like it'll be no longer admissible to customize "your" device?

it already kinda isn't... but this will be a Telescreen in your pocket. it really already is; but at least for now it's possible to use android and force it open.... but not for long.

next up: government license to open web browser dev tools... but by then it won't matter cuz it'll be 100% web assembly i.e. binary, the actual web 2.0.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-09 22:04:33+00:00
The core problem is actually twofold:

1. We pay teachers like shit and treat them even worse. Even if you wanted to do a good job as a teacher, it's fundamentally impossible because:

2. Our schools are structured and run by busybodies that have absolutely no business being within 100 yards of a school. Curricula is set by politics and ideology, not established science. We have book bans and helicopter parents suing teachers for talking about dinosaurs or evolution or even for simply existing as a queer person in any capacity.

Teachers have been fleeing in droves for years, and many states and locales are further reducing the qualifications required to teach, leading to a downwards sprial.

There's also the intentional and systematic disassembling of our education system by the federal government, as a means of voter suppression. This whole situation was created on purpose to keep Americans dumb and complacent.

America is fucked six ways from Sunday and it's hard to even think about a way out of this mess. It's going to take several generations for our society and government to recover, if it ever does.
by lazide | 2025-09-09 22:04:35+00:00
ding ding ding the housing prices have nothing to do with some vague notion of ‘I want to live there’, but are rather a proxy for the expected economic value of a place * people’s ability to leverage it.

Give businesses a reason to spread out a bit and not concentrate in these urban centers, and voila - all those ‘undesirable houses’ are all the sudden more desirable, and all those crazy zoning issues and nimby’s are not such an issue anymore. And the housing crisis mostly evaporates.

But since availability is also a proxy for competition for those jobs, it’s not like folks have too much incentive to make it easy eh?
by lazide | 2025-09-09 22:04:42+00:00
NYC is not losing population. [https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/downloads/pdf/our-work/r...]

There were two years during the pandemic when people moved out- because jobs let them - but people moved back and it has more than made up for it since.

Every major city in the world has seen significant population increases as mechanized farm work and fertilizers have removed the need for many farm workers, and economy activity has concentrated.

It’s been a consistent trend for almost 100 years.
by akomtu | 2025-09-09 22:05:17+00:00
Same story for bitcoin. IMO, it's a sign that the upper classes no longer believe in the US economy. As for the value of gold in the post-human AI world, if that happens, it's better to own something that AI cannot fabricate. For example, the multi-trillion value of Microsoft rests on MS Office, among other things, and MS Office is so valuable because clerks around the world need it to move spreadsheets around. But who needs those clerks in the AI world? What's the value of college education when AI can do all the work? What's the point of medical industry if the companies don't need to keep their employees healthy?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 22:05:40+00:00
Some do. My last full time role had some $100/month stipend for personal supplies. Pretty much paid for my internet bill in that time.

Another before that had some 3000 dollar a year stipend for approved office supplies over the pandemic; basically anything that wasn't groceries could be put on there. I even fancied putting a PS5 on there at once point, but then realize high quality office chairs and desks would drain that stipend quickly.