MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 23:26:47+00:00
It is not inherently disingenuous when someone disagrees with you or doesn't see the point you're making.

You can link to how they're dominant in the market today all you want, it doesn't change the trajectory of their earned market reputation.

Locally, multiple small ticket companies are popping up to compete with TicketMaster. They've been here longer than a decade and don't even register on your charts. Everytime they sell a ticket, TicketMaster didn't. This will continue slowly over time unless something changes. As mentioned, this isn't a new problem, so why expect them to change? Thus, a replacement will rise... no matter how many charts you link to showing their current market demand.

People also said Internet Explorer would be the browser we all used forever. It's not a hard comparison to understand, nor is it disingenuous. If you have trouble understanding someone's reply, there are tools like Goblin Tools where you can copy and paste what is written and it will help explain how it is not a personal attack against you and your ideas.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-19 23:26:53+00:00
Labor share of US GDP is usually around 60%, which is comparable to Europe.

If you divide the GDP by the number of employed people (including self-employed and entrepreneurs), you get a bit over $180k/person. The median full-time income is a bit over $60k. In other words, as a gross simplification, the mean worker earns 80% more than the median worker.

The comparable numbers for Germany are a ~€100k, ~€45k, and 35%. If something is hollowing out the American middle class, it might be the high earners rather than the capital.
by 93po | 2025-09-19 23:26:53+00:00
Yep. Quit my job a little over two years ago being massively burnt out. It started as an intentional sabbatical but ive been casually applying to jobs for the past two years, maybe like a handful a month on average, and now two+ years out i've gone through 3/4ths of my savings (including retirement savings) and applying to jobs daily and really struggling to find anything I feel capable of doing. Both bc my resume is a bit of a red flag, but also the industry isn't great, and i'm not a super competitive candidate to begin with. Trying to find something that's literally just, like, $80k a year. Which is $40k less than my last job. i was a (mediocre) web developer for 15+ years and it seems like my skillset is basically zero at this point, bc anyone can find mediocre devs at a fraction of the price globally.

Moved to bay area a few weeks despite the cost, both bc i want to be here, but also hoping that maybe some in-person networking pays off and i can find something. i'd honestly be happy being an office manager, i don't need a high paying dev job. but even stuff like office manager requires 5+ years experience doing that.
by sellmesoap | 2025-09-19 23:27:15+00:00
People seem to have the money to burn, if people stopped buying tickets that would reorient the market. I think a good transaction in capitalism involves the buyer and the seller coming away satisfied. Right now TM supports this secondary market, because it makes them more money, people still fill stadiums. North America's wealth is filled out by the middle man, it's another feather in the cap of conspicuous consumption.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-19 23:27:24+00:00
One of my pet peeves are people who don’t understand what I call “gravity problems”. You may not like gravity. But that doesn’t mean you jump off of a 30 story building and hope to survive.

Whether I like LinkedIn or not is completely irrelevant. I play the game, add connections, post a few banal “Thought Leadership” posts, ask for recommendations, etc.

My remote job at BigTech fell into my lap in mid 2020 and at 46 because an internal recruiter reached out to me, I got my next job two years ago within a week after I started looking because of targeted LinkedIn outreach. My current job also fell into my lap two weeks after I started looking because an internal recruiter reached out to me.

It does absolutely no good being good at your job if no one knows it.

I think even in the current job market, someone would give me a job or a contract relatively quickly if I needed one based on my network, LinkedIn profile, and positive impressions I’ve made in my niche over the past 7 years.
by charliea0 | 2025-09-19 23:27:40+00:00
To make this concrete, suppose that Elon Musk never immigrated to the US. SpaceX and Tesla are never founded, or are founded in some other country.

The American electric car market is never kickstarted, none of the American employees of SpaceX or Tesla are hired, there is no space renaissance.

Keeping out Elon Musk is somewhat good for United Launch Alliance and for Ford, but it's worse for all the Americans who have to buy worse cars and pay more for satellite internet.
by skissane | 2025-09-19 23:27:40+00:00
IBM mainframes and Power servers have “partitions” (LPARs). My understanding of how they work, is they actually are software-based virtualisation, but the hypervisor is in the system firmware, not the OS. And some of the firmware is loaded from disk at boot-up, making it even closer to something like Xen-labelling it as “hardware” not “software” is more about marketing (and which internal teams own it within IBM) than than technical reality. Their mainframe partitioning system, PR/SM, apparently began life as a stripped-down version of VM/CMS, although I’m not sure how close the relationship between PR/SM and z/VM is in current releases.

This sounds like running multiple kernels in a shared security domain, which reduces the performance cost of transitions and sharing, but you lose the reliability and security advantages that a proper VM gives you. It reminds me of coLinux (essentially, a Linux kernel as a Windows NT device driver)

Does anyone have more details on how OpenVMS Galaxy was actually implemented? I believe it was available for both Alpha and Itanium, but not yet x86-64 (and probably never…)
by mcswell | 2025-09-19 23:27:44+00:00
I am not understanding this: "It can’t directly predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, but it does identify who could be at a higher risk." I get the part that it can't "directly predict", but what does it mean to "identify who could be at a higher risk"? How was "higher risk" independently diagnosed in the study in order to show a correlation between higher risk according to this test, and higher risk according to some other test?
by Aurornis | 2025-09-19 23:27:53+00:00
> You've got every right to resent it if he's not at least maintaining the household and providing a better home life for the two of you in lieu of additional income.

The parent comment didn't mention that at all.

> And if they balk at such a notion, well...there's more data for you to act upon in your relationship.

Wild how quickly a comment about someone's husband being out of work but applying for jobs jumps to assumptions that he's a deadbeat and suggestions to "act upon" it.
by biimugan | 2025-09-19 23:29:22+00:00
I think people should be highly skeptical of articles like this, even without knowing anything about the subject in question. No byline/author. No citations/links to the studies in question. Confirmation of preconceived notions that people would like to be true (e.g. the sun as a wellness remedy instead of damaging to skin), including unfounded "just so" stories and claims about evolution, diabetes, and other unrelated topics. Named individuals seem to "specialize" in sunlight as a wellness remedy (seems like a big red flag to me). No actual physical theory as to how it could be true (more vitamin D reduces death by up to 50%? how? your body only needs so much vitamin D and it's not actually all that much).

And sure enough, if you look up any details on the studies in question, they are highly questionable. Vastly different populations studied with very weak controls. For example, sunscreen use -- both chemical and physical, i.e. hats -- was not controlled for. Seems like a big problem since that's the primary claim being made! And it seems like such an obvious thing. It makes one wonder why it was omitted.

The facts of the "status quo" of sun exposure dangers, on the other hand, have quite a lot more going for them, both in terms of study quality and in terms of physical explanation/interpretation. UV radiation physically damages DNA, even when you don't burn. Tanning is a response to skin cell damage, so any additional melanin production in your skin is indication that your DNA is being damaged. Damaged DNA means when your cells reproduce, they reproduce the damage and/or otherwise mutate. If that damage or mutation happens to be cancerous, then you have a big problem. Tanning, contrary to what people seem to think, doesn't inoculate you against skin cancer or damage. It merely helps absorb a higher percentage of UV radiation -- meaning your skin is still getting damaged, just at a slightly lower rate (a helpful, though marginal, evolutionary advantage).
by rxhanson | 2025-09-19 23:30:05+00:00
In Superkey, all of the matches are highlighted yellow, and the selected one is highlighted green with a line to it from the text field. You can keep typing to narrow down the match, or you can navigate matches using the arrow keys (and optionally, cycle through them with the semicolon key, which is what I use). There's a screenshot at https://superkey.app.

For the Canon Cat, I'm actually not sure as I've only watched videos of this functionality there.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-19 23:30:10+00:00
Thanks. A researcher we work with has postulated that build-up of metabolic waste (amyloid and tau, among others) directly impairs the glymphatic system, leading to more build-up. A viscous cycle.

I don't think she's the first to postulate this, but I believe she is researching this relationship now.

Though work culture is an important one, we're somewhat more focused on the less self-imposed sleep challenges related to maternity and perimenopause/menopause.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-19 23:30:25+00:00
Because he's exerting autocratic control over the entire executive branch. How many times does he have to tell you he's doing so before you can recognize it? He talks about it in interviews and on his social media, and not in vague or nuanced terms, but with clear declarative statements like "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the President." (this example from about 3 weeks ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxw6Pc_KXw)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-19 23:30:40+00:00
Over 650k tech layoffs have occurred in the last 4 years. Companies have tried as hard as they can to offshore and use visa labor to avoid hiring US citizen workers. This doesn’t account for new job creation needed for workers entering the workforce. Corporations are also hiding jobs from US citizens (citations which you can find in my other recent comments).

https://layoffs.fyi/

Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306539 - September 2025

Ask HN: Recent unemployed CS grad what do I do? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211153 - March 2025

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/job-market-report-c...

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/unemployment-job-market-edu...

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kcc40j/what_happ...

https://apnews.com/article/college-graduates-job-market-unem...
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 23:31:03+00:00
You seem to be the only person in this conversation that doesn't see the question - the lawyers suing certainly see the legal question, which you keep ignoring.

Perhaps it is worth asking yourself why something seems to clear to you but is going before a judge as part of a legal question. Perhaps you have a partial understanding of the law? Perhaps you didn't click the link to view the video in question?

I'm not sure if your 3 word response is intended to show your interest in the conversation or your current level of knowledge on the subject -- either way, a little introspection on why smart people with law degrees see a question but you don't might be worthwhile before continuing.
by speff | 2025-09-19 23:31:26+00:00
I've been hearing that H1B holders are currently trying to stay within the US in fear of not being let back in or because of shenanigans like this[0]. Wonder how many people are currently looking for a flight.

[0]: Oh, it looks like the bsky link has an article with companies advising as such - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/31/immigra...
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-19 23:31:32+00:00
With all due respect theres a simple answer to why Apple was destined to win the smartphone race - they had a 5 year lead over everyone else because they had the OS and touch interface tightly integrated. On top of that they managed to scale up the production of the glass necessary for the touch to work and partnered with a network provider to overcome the control network providers had over handset producers.

They had such a lead that nobody was going to catch up and eat into their economic profits. Sure Samsung et al have captured marketshare, but not eaten into Apples economic profits.

Whether you like it or not, this hard work, effort and creativity deserves to be rewarded - in the form of monopoly/oligopoly profits.

Apple has shown itself to be very disciplined with its cash. That cannot be said of for Google, who instead of taking an endless stream of vanity projects, should return that cash back to shareholders.
by gpm | 2025-09-19 23:31:59+00:00
"Don't anthropomorphize the founder, they're just responding to market pressures" is not the defense that you think it is. For the same reason you don't want to do business with Oracle (see the great rant from which I borrowed this phrasing [1]) you don't want to do business with someone who will advertise their product for unethical use cases - they'll cross other ethical boundaries too involving screwing you over.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s
by nosefurhairdo | 2025-09-19 23:32:00+00:00
> I didn't say it's an abusive employer but an abusive company.

A confusing distinction to make in a thread about employment.

> It always fought against open source.

They've since admitted this was a mistake, and in 2020 were cited as the single largest contributor to open source projects: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262103/microsoft-open-s...

> And now, it bought GitHub and then plagiarized all public and private projects hosted on it.

This is news to me. Are you claiming Microsoft/GitHub used or sold private source code for training LLMs?
by boznz | 2025-09-19 23:32:13+00:00
one thing missed here is you should not leave all your shit for your kids to deal with, even if you stay in the same place, sort stuff into things that the family might want to keep and stuff that can just go in the fire sale that inevitably happens. A friend of mine just spent six-months sorting his mothers house into a state fit for selling, that's six-months he wont get back.
by mustaphah | 2025-09-19 23:33:43+00:00
Looks like you're hosting this on fly.io - PAYG model. You could probably host this for free on Cloudflare Workers; 100k requests/day on the free tier; static content (the homepage) is free & unlimited.

Edit: The catch is the 10ms CPU cap per request - you'd need a super lean implementation. Django's too heavy for that.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 23:33:58+00:00
> I think sometimes bending the knee is the smart thing to do.

Sure, if you have no spine, morals, or will to do what is right.

> You need to read the room, if you don't like your odds, leave the fight for another day.

Spoken like someone who enjoys position of privilege.

> I say this not because of cowardice, but because I aknow the cemeteries are full of brave dead people.

Ah yes, I bet those dead people wish they'd just "followed orders" instead.

Keep making excuses for billionaires if you want; I'll resist if I'm given the chance. A cemetery full of people who actually tried is better than the world of non-cowardly room-readers you describe.
by ajross | 2025-09-19 23:34:01+00:00
> In the last few decades, there has been growth of abuse of the program to get mid level talent at below market rates which really hurts the middle class in America.

That's a weird definition for "middle class", there are only 65k H1b visas issued every year. If you really are talking about the middle 60% or whatever of all workers, immigrants on H1b's are irrelevant noise. At most, these visas might be seen to impact specific professions (tech in particular, lots of doctors too) that most people don't consider representative of the "middle class".
by pear01 | 2025-09-19 23:34:10+00:00
Guess they didn't see that coming says guy quoting them seeing it coming - u.

^ here you can downvote this one too

just don't be so smug. So many smug takes, not enough critical thinking. All of the founding was littered with irony anyway. He is to have said that to someone who couldn't vote, right? What does that imply?

They were men after all, not gods - as they warned later generations to remember. One wonders what your theory, what your solution is. What is your form of government? After all, in a different time perhaps something like a pardon is a useful instrument against the sort of mob rule they feared. Maybe it isn't. The Congress of the founding is far different from that of today.

But if you follow the broad strokes of what they predicted and what has happened, it's hard to argue they didn't see this coming. In fact they did. If they failed in preventing it that is one thing, but they clearly foretold of that possibility. And they ultimately decided it's up to the future, not to them.

Many of them signed off on compromises they already predicted would lead to conflict within generations, as it did (the civil war). As for the rest of it, I'm annoyed by your analysis and its lack of self awareness. Getting mad at you over "my country" makes no sense unless you are an alt for someone in power.

Regardless, I suggest you should read more about the debates during the founding if you care for a more nuanced perspective. Wherever you call your home, it cannot be totally immune to the same sorts of questions they grappled with, which afaik humanity has been wrestling with across cultures and across generations for all time. Have a good day
by Aurornis | 2025-09-19 23:34:42+00:00
> * The worker gets to leave their sponsoring employer on the day of their arrival, if they choose to. The employment contract may not include any clawbacks of anything.

This would be workable if it also results in the person losing their visa. There must be some downside for the employee, otherwise it's an invitation for abuse.

If the worker gets to keep their visa then it's just a backdoor way to get a company to pay for their visa and relocation so they can immediately quit and then go do some other job they actually want (at no expense to the next employer).
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-19 23:34:45+00:00
“Cove lighting” is the architectural lighting term used for this sort lighting installation. You build coves out of gypsum or wood and then install LED tape lighting into a plastic or metal channel and bounce the light off the cove to create indirect lighting. You can use cove lighting to illuminate a ceiling, or accent a wall, which is called perimeter cove lighting.

There are a number of other types of indirect light fixtures (and direct/indirect fixtures, most commonly as suspended linear fixtures with LEDs on both the top and bottom of the fixture).

The first picture in the article linked below has an architectural elevation diagram (basically a side profile) of cove lighting: https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/lighting/cove-l...
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-19 23:35:32+00:00
This author saw a few examples of the metric chasing phenomenon, promptly forgot how many counter-examples exist, and wrote this lovely article for you to latch on to with matching outrage.

But it is simply untrue.

Just the other day a single engineer completed a 25 year project to emulate VideoDisc games. There’s a new JS framework or a new static site generator every day of the week. And with LLMs it’s never been easier to be curious about something and go tinker.
by montroser | 2025-09-19 23:36:57+00:00
This is obviously the way to do it, assuming you have the skills and resources to operate in this manner. If you don't, then godspeed, but you have to know going in that you are trading expediency now for risk later. Risk of performance issues, security vulnerabilities, changes in behavior, etc. And when the mess inevitably comes, at whatever inopportune time, you don't really get to blame other people...
by ohyoutravel | 2025-09-19 23:37:25+00:00
Agree with everyone else. This will directly lead to, or at least enable, people getting killed. I don’t think that’s hyperbole.

That being said, my bike ride to work is a quiet 30 mins. This would be insanely useful for that. I always get to work with a stack of messages piled up, both ways.
by asgraham | 2025-09-19 23:37:34+00:00
Doesn’t this mean browser sandboxing is secure, not JS? Or are you referring to some specific aspect of JS I’m not aware of? (I’m not aware of a lot of JS)

It’s maybe a nit-pick, since most JS is run sandboxed, so it’s sort of equivalent. But it was explicitly what GP asked for. Would it be more accurate to say Electron is secure, not JS?
by doesnt_know | 2025-09-19 23:38:09+00:00
Going to preface this post by saying I use and love Obsidian, my entire life is effectively in an Obsidian vault, I pay for sync and as a user I'm extremely happy with it.

But as a developer this post is nonsense and extremely predictable [1]. We can expect countless others like it that explains how their use of these broken tools is different and just don't worry about it!

By their own linked Credits page there are 20 dependencies. Let's take one of those, electron, which itself has 3 dependencies according to npm. Picking one of those electron/get has 7 dependencies. One of those dependencies got, has 11 dependencies, one of those cacheable-request has 7 dependencies etc etc.

Now go back and pick another direct dependency of Obsidian and work your way down the dependency tree again. Does the Obsidian team review all these and who owns them? Do they trust each layer of the chain to pick up issues before it gets to them? Any one of these dependencies can be compromised. This is what it means to be. supply chain attack, you only have to quietly slip something into any one of these dependencies to have access to countless critical user data.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-...
by swat535 | 2025-09-19 23:39:02+00:00
Also notable reply from DHH:

"Ruby Central has been the RubyGems maintainer and operator since the beginning. They paid people to work on it (including this now disgruntled former contractor).

They're improving their practices and protocols. This is good."

https://x.com/dhh/status/1969168477475786830
by opello | 2025-09-19 23:39:21+00:00
I do realize it's a legacy term. A legacy from the 1500s if not from earlier during the split of the Roman Empire into Greek-East and Latin-West. A legacy that predates Modern English as a language. A legacy the use of which makes no geographic sense with a line at around 22°E Longitude in Europe and then including parts of North America, Australia, and New Zealand all of which would not have been included as having representative cultures at the time of the establishment of the term. But sure, I guess a more descriptive, representative, relevant term isn't something to reasonably call out as nonsense.

Being a product of history, a legacy, is not a shortcut to sensible. It's an explanation for why the term is used. My complaint was that it does not even "make sense" in the context of the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth.