MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elanora96 | 2025-09-19 21:46:37+00:00
Yes, laid off in 2023 and haven't found a tech job since. Due to significant life and family health circumstances, anything that isn't a career job is hard to justify while caring for myself and others.

I've spent the last two years volunteering a local bike co-op and getting way to into bike building and cycling generally. Additionally, I spend a lot of time doing what I can to help my local trans community (that I am a part of). This work has gifted me with perspectives I would never have seen otherwise, and has really helped my organizational and soft skills.

Tech wise, I only do hobby projects now, and it's really wonderful in some ways. Having the professional experience I do, but the free time to work on projects that I want has helped me learn so much and really push my understanding of all sorts of technology.

When the job market eventually gets better, I will be able to approach it with a confidence that I didn't feel was earned before. That's really my cope lol

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Fwiw

https://elanora.lol/resume resume@elanora.lol
by fair_enough | 2025-09-19 21:46:43+00:00
I'm writing this reply not to the lazy commenter, but to anyone reading this thread...

Yet again, we have classic HN speculation masquerading as authority.

Should software developer salaries be comparable to accountants or to surgeons? That's an arbitrary value judgment.

Software engineers have less purchasing power than they would without the H-1B visa program, and that's indisputable. 64% of the visas go to IT workers and 52% go specifically to programmers, which implies beyond all shadow of a doubt that their salaries decrease further than the cost of the goods and services they pay for.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/o...

It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir!
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-19 21:47:24+00:00
If H-1B workers are too expensive to hire, tech employers have two options:

1. Hire more American workers (pay more, maybe they don't exist so don't hire)

2. Move their offices overseas (already happening, we should see an acceleration)

Ok, I guess AI could also start replacing more roles, but we won't see that productivity for a year or two.

If companies choose 2 over 1, it will mean fewer jobs overall in the USA (including support and service jobs).
by oh_sigh | 2025-09-19 21:48:04+00:00
Is there a judiciary that determines whether the mob was within their rights to light your restaurant on fire, and can stop the mob from lighting the restaurant on fire?

Even if you think the FCC is just an extension of trump(fair) at this moment, their rulings aren't the final word. They still need to follow the law. If the FCC improperly attempts to withhold a license from the affiliate, the affiliate can sue and let federal judges, who are not an extension of trump, decide on the matter.
by trhway | 2025-09-19 21:48:43+00:00
No. There the vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is correlated with autism of the child. In another study child autism was correlated with regular Swedish woman pregnancy with the 3rd trimester in winter when the deficiency is the most frequent / most serious.

It seems that autism got politicized and thus such various correlations, which may or may not be real causations, don't seem to get enough of proper scientific attention/resources. I mean, for example folic acid deficiency causes spina bifida, and it wouldn't be out-of-this-world if vitamin D (which is steroid) deficiency (or some other deficiency) would have affected prenatal development and structure of the brain which is just another body organ. Instead we spend tremendous amount of attention and energy on alleged vaccine-autism connection which hasn't been established even as mere correlation.
by jpadkins | 2025-09-19 21:49:21+00:00
approved by who? The people of the US already elected the president. He pretty much ran on reforming the visa system for the benefit of the US worker. This is a first step in the process. For those who don't understand how he works, this is the opening offer which is of course extreme. It will light a fire under Congress to actually pass some real reform. He did this with all the tariffs and trade deals. Despite what you read in the globalist media, it didn't cause havoc to the economy. He forces people to come to the table, negotiate, and get stuff done.
by cy6erlion | 2025-09-19 21:49:30+00:00
I think instead of a particular phone or brand what we need are open standards for a mobile platform.

- RISCV processor

- Standard Logic board

- Standard Screen

- Standard Battery

- Standard Wifi & Bluetooth modem

- Probably ditch cellular and use something like LoRa

- Standard OS (Linux)

- Standard package manager

Edit: Imagine a phone that you can just swap and mix components from different manufacturers. You could buy the components yourself and assemble, like a standard PC. If one manufacturer tries to lock you in, or you don't like their component you simply replace it.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-19 21:49:36+00:00
In the Reagan years, money started to became more important than voters. Under Bush 2 and recent Supreme Court Decisions, bribes became legal. Per the Court they called them "tips".

So Congress people spend more time fund raising (taking bribes) than helping their district.

Nothing real has gotten done in many districts for multiple decades. Real wages, when compared to inflation, and has been falling for decades. When I was very young, laws where passed that actually helped people. As a very young kid, I remember waking up as a kid with coal flakes on my window sill due to its use in the mills. That ended in the 70s.

Now, to get more money the laws that cleaned up the environment are being cancelled, why, rich are "tipping" congress people.

The US is done, time for civilization advancement to be carried on by another Country. Hopefully the EU can get its act together.
by the_real_cher | 2025-09-19 21:49:46+00:00
If you're concerned about 'brain drain' remember O-1 visas are for the truly exceptional immigrants which remain in effect.

H1B visas are for rank and file employees with just a skill.

This allows employers to indenture servitude employees, depresses American wages, increases unemployment, increases rent prices in areas with high levels of immigration, and hurts American culture.

Most jobs are not that hard and a company should invest in Americans instead of immigrants if it want's to continue to do business here and enjoy the fruits of America.
by the_gastropod | 2025-09-19 21:49:54+00:00
While it's jarring to see someone call DHH a "white supremacist", the shoe fits. In that blog post he laments that London is "no longer full of native Brits" (what does that even mean? It's clear by the numbers he gives that he's counting "white people born in Britain") and frames demographic change as a "nightmare". That isn't neutral nostalgia (something he's claimed he doesn't have: https://world.hey.com/dhh/legacy-without-nostalgia-b19708c9) it's the same ethno-nationalist logic as "America for Americans", that old KKK slogan. When you argue that a city (especially one that's always been a multi-cultural hub) becoming less white is inherently a loss, you're not just being contrarian. You're espousing a white-supremacist worldview.
by taurath | 2025-09-19 21:50:01+00:00
Thanks, I genuinely appreciate the perspective. Do you find that perspective is primarily gotten from real life conversations, or from discourse online/social media/political commentators?

I often fantasize about being able to just converse openly and be able to mutually share experiences. I was raised very conservative and speak the language and know the values. I don't hold those beliefs anymore because of experiences I've had that made them contradictory to hold. But I still appreciate why someone who hasn't had my experiences might hold them.

For my "side", among all the people that I talk to who, who would be considered pretty far to one side, everyone wants primarily to be left alone, not harassed, and wants to coexist, and be respected. Is it the same from yours?
by guyzero | 2025-09-19 21:50:02+00:00
> Some AI recruitments have seen 9-figure contracts.

These are crazy outliers who would go through a different visa path anyway. US tech companies still need mid-level workers making low-to-mid six figures. Weirdly O1 visa holder spouses will get an O3 which doesn't allow them to work, making it worse than the H1B/H4 visa for some set of people. (H4s allow spouses to work)
by seec | 2025-09-19 21:50:03+00:00
Exactly. Things started to get much better for the common man when Christianity was repelled by enough people. It happened in France and is precisely why the "Enlightenment" was the most successful there.

Christianity is just the bullshit theory/moral code that took over when the roman empire started to fall under its own weight (and morals became bad enough that some counterbalance was necessary).
by randomwalker | 2025-09-19 21:50:16+00:00
Yes, we're aware! Fortunately our book is not a broad indictment of AI :) And none of our claims are premised on tasks people can do remaining out of reach for AI. More here: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/faq-about-the-book-and-our-writi...

Our more recent essay (and ongoing book project) "AI as Normal Technology" is about our vision of AI impacts over a longer timescale than "AI Snake Oil" looks at https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-normal-technology

I would categorize our views as techno-optimist, but people understand that term in many different ways, so you be the judge.
by tzs | 2025-09-19 21:50:33+00:00
> It's weird how certain things have remained the same, or even cheaper when accounting for inflation

Cars for example, at least in the base trims.

• My 2006 Honda CR-V in the lowest trim level with AWD was $23k, which would be $37k today. That's $3k more than a 2026 lowest trim AWD CR-V costs today at my nearest Honda dealer.

• The last new car I bought before that was a 1989 Honda Civic sedan. Its price in today's dollars comes out about the same as a new 2026 Civic.

Some research suggests my experience is not a fluke. Base trims with comparable features (e.g., AWD) have been about the same in constant dollars for at least 40ish years for most mass market cars.
by alprado50 | 2025-09-19 21:50:35+00:00
Last year, I decided to leave the small agency where I had worked for almost 6 years because, being a family-owned business, it was terrible for everybody (except for the bootlickers). The first few months were decent, having time to do almost anything, but then I started to feel miserable seeing how my bank account was getting close to empty and not receiving any calls from my job applications. Job searching has to be one of the worst experiences I have ever had, but my blog (alprado.com) was an incredibly therapeutic tool.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-19 21:50:35+00:00
<< the most you could say is that they are slightly reducing income of high-income earners

First, I would like you to reconsider 'high income' and putting $120k in that category. It was a good chunk of change. In this year of our lord 2025, it is not. It is, for my region anyway, barely acceptable middle class income.
by johnh-hn | 2025-09-19 21:50:54+00:00
I've been out of work coming up to six years. I had to look after my dad during the pandemic. I've been looking for work in London, UK, since January. During that time I've had a total of 2 interviews. Recruiters, who seem to do a keyword search only, message me from time-to-time on LinkedIn. I reply and they almost invariably never respond, presumably because they look more closely and see the large gap in employment.

What complicates things for me is being legally blind. I have enough vision to use a computer, but not much else and so I don't have the breadth of career options available to me that most people do. I need a way back in.

I keep reading, and I keep playing with code like I always have. I'm comfortable with C#, JavaScript and their respective ecosystems. It's like riding a bike. But convincing other people of that, recruiters especially, is proving to be a problem.

As for how I'm coping, I'm very up and down. It's hard not to feel that my career might be over. So when interviews have come up, I'm extremely nervous despite never having that problem in the past where I'd usually interview well.

Somehow, at least for now, I've kept going. Thanks for starting the thread.
by giantg2 | 2025-09-19 21:51:08+00:00
"The hollowing out of the middle class in the US isn't because of immigrants, it's because of a sustained campaign by capital to reduce the power of labor over the last 50-odd years and to concentrate wealth as best they can."

Creating low cost alternatives and taking advance of lax laws is part of that. If you can import 100k skilled workers per year under a scheme that gives you more power over them. Then you also offshore 300k jobs per year to countries with weaker protections.

It's always baffled me how the same candidates that claim to be pro labor and pro environment are also pro globalization. The way it plays out is that the jobs are just offshore to jurisdictions that lack the same labor and environmental protections.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-19 21:51:10+00:00
> wish I felt more "accomplished" in how I used my time.

Idk man I think a lot of people here would be proud to have knocked off even one of those things on that list. The lifestyle changes alone are huge accomplishments. I also wouldn’t downplay the significance of spending a little time doing nothing. Probably added some years to your life
by mikestew | 2025-09-19 21:51:31+00:00
Perhaps a sideways reference to old movies? “Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”[0]

Or maybe just a direct reference to Strauss, I dunno.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes?item=qt0464759&r...
by Wilduck | 2025-09-19 21:51:43+00:00
I don't want to be mean, but this post has exactly the problem the person you're replying to was complaining about. The person you're replying to, I think, would like an explanation that reads more like "It's like Twitter, but not tied to a mega-corp, just for you and your pals". I don't know if that description actually fits Nostr though because, like the person you're replying to, I have a pretty hard time understanding what Nostr actually _is_.
by paulrusso | 2025-09-19 21:52:03+00:00
Good question! Personally, I don't often reach for jq as I've never really taken the time to get comfortable with its syntax. Obviously I can now have an LLM generate me a jq command that'll do what I want, but I'd prefer to be able to at least visually scan the suggested implementation to make sure it actually does the thing I want before I go and run it.

More broadly, a lot of other command line utils for transforming input have such an emphasis on terseness that I sort of bounce off of them. awk and sed and jq are all super powerful tools, but I wanted a tool that had a more balanced trade-off of characters vs. clarity.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-09-19 21:52:33+00:00
2021 and 2025 are different.

I have a friend who is a SSE. Mid 30s. Been fully employed his entire life. No degree. Has been writing production code since 15.

His entire local professional network got nuked and people stopped hiring because of that stupid software engineering R&D amortization budget deception of Section 174. And I assume the double whammy of ai.

He had his resume reviewed, ran it by friends it looked good and solid.

Applied to about 300 roles before realizing it was a non starter and he was getting automated rejections for everything.

He had to automate his application process around a full career CV and Ai.

He would spend all day copying in role descriptions and urls and had cursor spit out custom .MD resumes and then run a pdf generator on them.

It was kinda ok and also kinda like each resume was a hyper specific lie. It definitely hallucinated.

He still hit 3k resumes before getting hired and he still only had like 4 companies give interviews.

And that was only after that stupid tax law was revoked.

One persons past suffering and struggle cannot be so naively extrapolated to anothers current suffering.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-19 21:52:36+00:00
Here you go!

The camera dramatically auto-reduced the brightness in all the pictures. So imagine the room summer sun bright. But not harsh, very soft shadowing.

https://imgur.com/a/0OBnR9j

Where the ceiling shows shadow in the middle of each border, it is really just a tiny bit less bright than at the edge of the borders.

And those LED strips are blinding, even though they look off!

In the evening I turn off the ceiling lights, and the room is lit warmly by the low-lumen crystal lights from below.

The sleep cycle isn't something that comes natural to me, so I work all the angles.
by mrandish | 2025-09-19 21:52:48+00:00
Big stage magic shows tend to come and go because it's hard to sustain multi-year runs but Las Vegas has a few long running shows in addition to P&T: David Copperfield (good), Mac King (great), Chris Angel (meh). Piff the Magic Dragon is a more recent show but is hilarious and looks likely to play for years to come. Shin Lim has had a close-up magic show at the Venetian for a few years now and is also great. Plus, there's almost always a few other magicians doing short runs in Vegas at any given time. Just do a search when you're planning to be there.

Elsewhere, Derek DelGaudio's one man, non-traditional magic show In & Of Itself was sold out in New York for over two years and was released as a movie (which is fantastic and on streaming now). However, most large metro areas have live magic shows fairly often, they're just smaller shows in nightclubs, bars, dinner theaters, etc and don't have the budget to advertise. Do a search and you'll probably find something coming up. There's a shocking amount of really good magic happening lately driven by some incredible innovation from new magical inventors (people who create new methods and effects but usually don't perform themselves). And it's global.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 21:52:57+00:00
It wasn't in jeopardy for being no good, it was in jeopardy because Intel is so troubled. Like the Bombardier C-Series jet: Everyone agreed it was a great design and very promising, but in the end they had no choice but to sell it to Airbus (who calls it the A220), I think because they didn't really have the money to scale up production. In like manner, Intel lacks the resources to make Arc the success it technically deserves to be, and without enough scale, they'll lose money on Arc, which Intel can hardly afford at this point.
by mothballed | 2025-09-19 21:53:04+00:00
I'm speaking in a hypothetical, not something I've witnessed. I doubt anyone ever witnesses it willfully happen. All that is necessary is the incentives be in place for

1) Hiring manager to have incentive to hire quality talent at the most economical price

2) Foreign talent be more desperate than domestic talent

The effect is practically guaranteed even if there is exactly zero intent by the hiring manager or any conscious 'discrimination.' Incentives beget results and people may not ponder how they got there, and they often don't.

Unless you change (1) or (2) all the discrimination legislation, lawsuits, and 'training' in the world isn't worth the paper it is written on.
Ask HN: Looking for Pilot Users to Test a New Captcha System?
by vieews | 2025-09-19 21:53:11+00:00
I'm working on a new CAPTCHA designed to be very simple and user-friendly for humans, while maintaining strong LLM bot protection. I'm currently looking for pilot users (content creators, site owners, or anyone interested) to test it out and provide feedback.

If you're interested, please comment. I'd really appreciate your input!
by johnh-hn | 2025-09-19 21:53:50+00:00
This is my experience too. It didn't used to be this way. I always used to research a company, tailor my CV and add a cover letter. I'd be hired within 1-3 applications.

Now? It seems a waste of time because no one responds anyway. I'm incentivised to apply to as many as possible in the hope of having a conversation with someone.
by tottenhm | 2025-09-19 21:53:52+00:00
Same basic question -- at the price of $100k/ea, it does seem cheaper to build-out more satellite offices.

But there's a parallel push around taxing American firms using foreign labor (https://www.moreno.senate.gov/press-releases/new-moreno-bill...).

If multiple new policies are put in place at the same time, then... I dunno... it seems harder to predict...
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-19 21:54:18+00:00
great question! My understanding is the UV index shown online and in apps is “modeled” data, not realtime.

Basically it takes into account things like ozone measurements from satellites, latitude, forecasted cloud cover, and distance from sun (time of year).

See section “Calculating the UV index” here:

https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety/learn-about-uv-index

It’s not intended to be realtime. It’s more about understanding, generally, what the risk is.
by orionblastar | 2025-09-19 21:54:33+00:00
It depends on their metabolism. I'm not a doctor, I'm a patient. Consult a Doctor for real information. I'm just giving my opinion. Society tends to fat shame, and many can't help it because the psych drug causes glucose buildup in the blood that leads to weight gain. Metformin lowers glucose in the liver. If you are diabetic like me, you need to read your glucose meter and adjust what you eat and drink.
by shoobiedoo | 2025-09-19 21:55:21+00:00
Picking up cursive again (I had to learn a little bit in elementary school) has been so rewarding for me. Having something right there, in the real world, ready to be picked up at a moments notice and convey whatever is in my mind onto paper is so soothing. It has been the greatest asset in my "put the d** phone down" battle so far
by comment95198 | 2025-09-19 21:55:53+00:00
I had a bout of poor health. And now I'm isolated and I don't know how to get reconnected to other people.

I'm not coping terribly well. I think what is most distressing is that I am observing a decline in my capacity. I feel mentally sluggish. I frustrate more easily. I tire more easily. Probably most worryingly to me I get spikes of aggression that lead to combative outbursts. I feel less empathetic, even mildly sadistic at times. Very hard to control the envy and the average person I interact with evokes envy.

Everyone in my life tells me I need to get working again (yes thank you it's obvious). Not even for the money, but just to have a purpose and structure and a social life. A common sentiment. But I've come to understand that it is backwards. Employment is secondary, and it follows from having a social network and being embedded in a social context.

Poverty alters your brain in strange ways. For an example I've been thinking about lately, the world is getting very small. I was late for an important appointment. It simply did not occur to me to take a taxi. I just don't do that anymore. It's sort of categorically ruled out as "expensive luxury". Such a difference from a few years ago! Would have ordered the taxi without even thinking.

On the plus side I quit smoking and lost a bunch of weight and I'm physically in the best shape I've ever been.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-19 21:56:01+00:00
Interesting perspective, hadn't heard it phrased like that before. An aversion to 'boring' candidates, I can believe... but religion as the remedy? What will that religion look like, if not another Trump-like personality cult?

Mainstream Christianity gave us Trump, so it's not exactly the moral foundation it claimed to be. There are plenty of cults and factions that could potentially salvage it, but how will any of them get traction? Or are you thinking of something even further afield than that?