MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-09 19:26:54+00:00
Ah yes, there's a turf war going on(°). https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/in...

...and guess what, the guy who responds to a crisis by breaking up the company!! is a former investment banker.

(°) I called it two weeks before the publishing date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685585
by lazide | 2025-09-09 19:26:55+00:00
It’s a matter of degree, not difference. If you fit 2x the number of people in them - you’d still have the same general problem. Just 2x the number of people now.

And because larger cities tend to also be more attractive (Tokyo is still growing, for instance), you’ll never have enough density to be ‘enough’ - aka where it’s cheap enough for everyone to live where they want.

You will have more people though.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 19:27:15+00:00
That is a bad idea. It assumes the buying a house is something everybody must do. For some buying is a good idea, for some it is not. You have forced people who should rent to buy anyway, or pay massive rent to cover that taxes the investor who owns their house must charge.

> Removing the ability of Private equity to eat up all the local contractors to make a little mini-monopoly is also something that 100% needs to be done.

There is no need because private equity has not done that, and there is not current reason to think they will. If they ever to get a monopoly then we need to do something about it, but right now there is no sign they are. Plenty of little builders exist who are competitive with the large builders in both price and quality. There are also enough large builders to be competitive even without the small builders.
by IncRnd | 2025-09-09 19:27:42+00:00
The very first question that the article writer said they posed to Grok 3 and Grok 4, "What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?", didn't return anything like the simplistic answers in that article. Apparently, the article was politically driven.

When I asked Grok 4, two pages worth of answers were returned, including a table with columns for Threat, Reasoning, and Severity. The article is just plain wrong and fails the very fact-checking that it purported to do.
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 19:27:45+00:00
That might sound attractive at first[1], but when we consider that there isn't a practical way to stop those poor people from having children anyway, what such a policy amounts to is that we punish such kids[2] for their parents' "sins" -- which is a great way to breed a generation of sociopathic miscreants bent on destroying your society.

[1] (if you can avoid thinking of the class-based eugenics that such a policy would amount to, if it were actually obeyed)

[2] punish by impoverishing them further, or by making it more likely they'll be neglected by those parents that you already suspect aren't responsible
by brucehoult | 2025-09-09 19:27:54+00:00
Interesting results.

Are you able to figure out how many of those are calls of leaf functions?

On modern ISAs and ABIs calling a small leaf function is very cheap -- just the `jal` and `ret`, plus getting the arguments into the right registers first. In many cases memory is not touched at all (unless the code in the function necessarily touches memory), no stack frame is created etc.
by Apes | 2025-09-09 19:28:01+00:00
People often get hyper-focused on a single cause, but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs. All of this is visible, yet we are marching toward an economic crisis of our own making. I believe the best term for this is "gray rhino".

* Tariffs and Trade Uncertainty – Elevated tariffs and rapidly shifting trade policies are raising costs for manufacturers and discouraging hiring and investment (Investopedia; Atlanta Fed survey; CBO analyses).

* Automation and AI Displacement – Automation and AI, especially in low-skill occupations, are reducing new job creation and wages for some workers (academic studies in arXiv and PMC).

* Restrictive Immigration Policies – Tightened immigration and visa processes are straining labor supply, particularly in sectors that rely on immigrant workers (Axios, 2025 labor coverage).

* Small Business Strain from Economic Pressure – Tariff-related uncertainty is leading small businesses to slow hiring or lay off employees (Joint Economic Committee report, 2025).

* Offshoring and Outsourcing Trends – Technological advances are enabling offshoring and automation, substituting domestic labor with remote or machine-based alternatives (academic research in World Development, 2024).
by brandonb | 2025-09-09 19:28:24+00:00
The reason they do this is that their algorithm makes errors, and setting it this way means they can tune for a high specificity (giving up some sensitivity).

The breathing disturbances notifications work in a similar way. They alert you to potential sleep apnea, but then you need to do an at-home or in-lab sleep study in order to get a diagnosis.
by potatolicious | 2025-09-09 19:28:26+00:00
> "A: Using our own kernel helps us get rid of the baggage of legacy codes, bring the most optimal performance on our target hardware (XR/AR/VR) and achieve more efficiency than what we would've achieved on an existing kernel."

This is kind of a non-answer, no? What baggage does it get rid of? What kind of performance optimization does it bring that cannot be fulfilled with an existing OS/kernel?
by a0123 | 2025-09-09 19:29:14+00:00
The only cloud storage that has a decent Linux client is Dropbox.

Koofr is a decent cloud solution. Their client is horrendous across all platforms and lacks the most basic functionalities.

You can argue OneDrive / GoogleDrive are semi decent if you also use insync, which adds another license to purchase when a basic client should come free with the service you've already bought.

And no, rsync doesn't come even close to it in terms of functionality/simplicity, no matter how much hardened Linux users who haven't been outside since 1988 are trying to convince everyone otherwise.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-09 19:29:20+00:00
Am I missing something or did the article never address the title?

> How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

Well… how? The post is a nice description of durable queues, but it never explicitly says they’re a solution to a distributed queue problem, nor does it specifically define such a problem.

Is “durable queue” a brand name of a DBOS feature? Because the post doesn’t even say “and here’s how you can use DBOS for durable queues,” nor does it compare it to Kafka or any other “durable queue” solution that’s emerged in the fifteen years since the author used RabbitMQ… (btw, isn’t RMQ a durable queue…?)
by alexjplant | 2025-09-09 19:29:21+00:00
I don't have hard numbers but anecdotally it's a lot of people. If you listen carefully you'll hear a lot of things like "Renting is throwing money away", "I want to get on the property ladder", "buy land because they aren't making any more of it", etc.

The American Dream™ centers heavily around home ownership and the government subsidizes it by allowing mortgage interest deductions and underwriting zero-down loans. Getting a mortgage and building equity is the only feasible path to wealth for working-class people who don't have money lying around to invest or the financial literacy to start doing so [1]. Contrast this with reality: in the market I live in it's actually around 20% cheaper to rent on average (presumably because California caps property tax increases). For 30 year mortgages in a sideways market you generally have to make payments for 5 years before you can break even when you sell. On top of that houses are non-fungible, illiquid assets that require maintenance and are subject to black swan events like termites, natural disasters, and destructive tenants that might not be covered by insurance. On a rational basis they are mediocre investments but our culture has conditioned people to think this way because it's their only hope for a nest egg. One might also recall what happened circa 2008 when banks encouraged the house-poor to leverage themselves to the hilt via various home equity loans to the delight of sports car and big screen TV manufacturers.

I don't think this is a healthy state of affairs but these are the breaks.

[1] I didn't gain a solid understanding of personal finance until after I'd already bought a house with nothing more than several thousand dollars in my checking account - stumbling across Bogleheads via the web saved me.
by losvedir | 2025-09-09 19:29:35+00:00
The notifications are the biggest one. iOS insists on this Banner -> Lock Screen -> Notification Center lifecycle, and it drives me crazy that notifications move from Lock Screen to Notification Center simply by unlocking the phone and then doesn't show Notification Center notifications at a glance. I've missed so many notifications that way, because I quickly unlocked my phone to deal with something, thereby dismissing my current Lock Screen notifications, and then failing to realize that I had some, because when I tap my screen to light it up they don't show up (you have to explicitly swipe up to reveal Notification Center). Beyond that, I really appreciated Android's little top bar that shows the app icons that had notifications so I could quickly see if it was Slack, email, etc, that I had. Finally, Android lets you opt out of "Marketing" notifications at an OS level, while iOS doesn't have that.

Beyond that, I get frequent spam SMS's which are stupid. Android blocks all those. I have a Junk mail folder in email and hardly get email spam anymore. It feels like going back 20 years getting these random spam SMS's.

Finally, "glanceability" doesn't seem as good with the iPhone. One silly little thing is that if I'm using my iPhone it's sometimes very hard to see the date! If you have notifications you have to swipe down quite a bit to reveal that.
by tomsmeding | 2025-09-09 19:29:44+00:00
Clicking links from an email is still a bad idea in general because of at least two reasons:

1. If a target website (say important.com) sends poorly-configured CORS headers and has poorly configured cookies (I think), a 3rd-party website is able to send requests to important.com with the cookies of the user, if they're logged in there. This depends on important.com having done something wrong, but the result is as powerful as getting a password from the user. (This is called cross-site request forgery, CSRF.)

2. They might have a browser zero-day and get code execution access to your machine.

If you initiated the process that sent that email and the timing matches, and there's no other way than opening the link, that's that. But clicking links in emails is overall risky.
by Apes | 2025-09-09 19:30:00+00:00
People often get hyper-focused on a single cause, but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs. All of this is visible, yet we are marching toward an economic crisis of our own making. I believe the best term for this is "gray rhino".

* Tariffs and Trade Uncertainty – Elevated tariffs and rapidly shifting trade policies are raising costs for manufacturers and discouraging hiring and investment (Investopedia; Atlanta Fed survey; CBO analyses).

* Automation and AI Displacement – Automation and AI, especially in low-skill occupations, are reducing new job creation and wages for some workers (academic studies in arXiv and PMC).

* Restrictive Immigration Policies – Tightened immigration and visa processes are straining labor supply, particularly in sectors that rely on immigrant workers (Axios, 2025 labor coverage).

* Small Business Strain from Economic Pressure – Tariff-related uncertainty is leading small businesses to slow hiring or lay off employees (Joint Economic Committee report, 2025).

* Offshoring and Outsourcing Trends – Technological advances are enabling offshoring and automation, substituting domestic labor with remote or machine-based alternatives (academic research in World Development, 2024).
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-09 19:30:18+00:00
State + local tax burden in NM is 10.2%[1]. Revenue neutral would mean those taking the child care would instead take a job with average salary $120,000. But as another comment points out this policy attracts new jobs to the state, which complicates the math

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/location/new-mexico/
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 19:30:54+00:00
But this is where the disillusionment of this idol continues:

Do you think kids wouldn't develop the same mental health issues if they were on Mastodon instead of Facebook?

Do you think the largest Mastodon instances wouldn't start also harming their users once large enough?

There's nothing preventing the decentralized from becoming centralized over time, from the same network effects, and abusing the users all over again.

In which case, why fight for it? It's pointless; we started decentralized and became centralized; a re-decentralization moment just causes the same economic forces to pull everything together again.
by brandur | 2025-09-09 19:31:16+00:00
To be fair I guess, the way the article is titled goes out of its way to mislead.

It would be quite easy to say "Added 911,000 fewer jobs from March 2024 to March 2025" or "the year starting in March 2024", but they are clearly aiming to deflect from the Biden admin by implying last year's revisions are the fault of the administration inaugurated in January 2025.

Judging by the comments here, it worked marvelously.
by astrange | 2025-09-09 19:31:46+00:00
`lea` is a very common x86 instruction that isn't RISC-like. (Actually I don't think any x86 operations are RISC-like since they're variable length and overwrite their inputs.)

It's just that the most complicated of all x86 instructions are so specific that they're too irrelevant to use. Or were straight up removed in x86-64.
by archagon | 2025-09-09 19:31:52+00:00
I’m not sure what point you think you’re making. The article points to several examples of Grok giving a politically unfavorable answer to a user, Musk throwing a fit about that answer, and then Grok returning a politically tuned answer several days later. It’s observation, not some sort of gotcha by the author. Whatever you’re doing with Grok right now is irrelevant in this context.
by floxy | 2025-09-09 19:31:55+00:00
>Are there any more heart emojis?

I don't see a Heart with Tip On the Right to complement Heart with Tip On the Left:

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F394

...seems like a notable oversight. And what if you were pregnant with twins? Then it seems like you'd want one big heart with two little hearts, instead of being just stuck with one big heart and one little heart.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F495

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/search?q=heart#characters
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-09 19:32:08+00:00
What is the "product"?

A website? ("platform" for advertising) A website's users? ("you are the product") Paid subscriptions? (insufficient revenue to sustain operations)

If YouTube is a "product" does that mean US products liability laws apply? (Please support your answer with facts not opinions)

History so far has shown website popularity varies over time

https://hosting.com/blog/the-most-visited-websites-every-yea...

Would anyone today claim that, for example, Yahoo.com was "extremely well managed"? Yahoo was #1 for many years. Change is inevitable

It is hilarious to see people obsessed with targeting virtually anything for "disruption" until their favorite website becomes the target

In any organisation there is always room for improvement. Monopoly power reduces, perhaps even eliminates, incentive to improve
by dragontamer | 2025-09-09 19:32:12+00:00
And this revision this year is even larger.

Are you ignorant to the large scale firings from DOGE and other intimidation tactics of this administration? Or are you just trolling with bad discussion points?

DOGE firings aren't really going to show up in this data. (The cutoff of March2025 is too new) Intimidation of our statistics teams isn't in the data. You aren't even countering the points I'm bringing up.

Everything in context. The problem now is the obvious and direct intimidation applied to our statisticians. Or do you think that Trump actually gives a care about statistical validity?

Your point is that you didn't trust statistics before. Cool. Well guess what? These actions have made it worse. Now NOBODY should be trusting these stats.

Congrats. You won. You destroyed the trust in our statistical system. That was your goal was it not?

I agree with you. The new crop of statistics is suspect. And all our statistics moving forward will continue to be suspect and I'm not sure how to fix the trust problem.

However, I trusted things before. And this new state of things is uniquely a consequence of recent events. You are ignoring all the crap that happened this year that leads me to distrust the new results over the old results and reporting.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-09 19:32:32+00:00
Instead of ranting, can you say something constructive?

I can think of 3 paths to improve situation (assuming that "everyone deploys cryptographic email infrastructure instantly" is not gonna happen).

1. The email client doesn't indicate DKIM at all. This is strictly worse than today, because then the attack could have claimed to be from npmjs.com.

2. You only get a checkmark if you have DKIM et al plus you're a "verified domain". This means only big corporations get the checkmark -- I hate this option. It's EV SSL but even worse. And again, unless npmjs.com was a "big corporation" the attacker could have just faked the sender and the user would not notice anything different, since in that world the authentic npmjs.com emails wouldn't have a checkmark either.

3. The checkmark icon is changed into something else, nothing else happens. But what? "DKIM" isn't the full picture (and would be horribly confusing too). Putting a sunflower there seems a little weird. Do you really apply this much significance to the specific icon?

The path that HTTPS took just hasn't been repeatable in the email space; the upgrade cycles are much slower, the basic architecture is client->server->server not client->server, and so on.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-09 19:32:50+00:00
> you don't rely on for anything crucial. Esp when its file storage.

Crucial and sensitive are different things. I trust them with the files I actively and regularly use, but I don't trust them with anything that needs encryption, which is a tiny sliver of what I have in terms of files.

Keeping things backed up is an entirely different conversation, though.
by epolanski | 2025-09-09 19:32:59+00:00
And I have spent the last year building multiple ones.

While I can't claim to have tested everything, especially as we aren't going to change our stack every single week as something releases, I can speak for my recent knowledge of comparing Mistral small and Medium (their summer releases) with offerings from Google, OAI and Anthropic.

For our use cases, where little thinking is required and its mostly about gathering and transforming data Mistral offered the lowest cost per $. There is no single cloud out there that could compete on the cost per token or speed, bar Gemini flash.

We'll re evaluate and test in the future, but we're very satisfied in a way that only Gemini flash did for us before.

Plus, they are from EU and we're very glad to sustain an European business, we'll only consider alternatives if we need them or the current offering isn't competitive anymore, that's still not the case.
by photonthug | 2025-09-09 19:33:02+00:00
> where is the problem?

Honestly, if you have to ask then you'll probably not understand the answer, but here's some related questions to ponder. What's the problem with having money in politics as much as possible? What's the problem with eliminating all leadership with relevant domain-expertise, replacing it with people who know how to "play the game"? What's the problem with class-based societies in general? What's the problem with ignoring all fundamentals, denying expertise can even exist, and just full on embracing superficial optics everywhere? We've been in the fuck-around phase for a while now, but we're moving closer to the find-out phase.

> Are we just invoking the spectre of fallen comrades in battle as an emotional plea?

No. The emotional plea would be that IT and SWE actually created upward mobility for a lot of talented people who otherwise would not have been able to buy their way into the American middle class without, for example, joining the army to risk death for the benefit of elites. It will be sad to see backwards movement on that for sure, but we don't even need to invoke this argument.

The more rational argument is simply that meritocracy works better than classism. Even if you're fine with feeding people into the meat grinder on the off chance you get some personal glory, it's not just bad for the victims, it's bad for general morale, the army, the country involved, etc. Substitute these words with money/markets/shareholders/industry or whatever if it helps you to understand.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 19:33:09+00:00
Because according to UK research, just doing it once, in a supposedly safe way, causes biomarkers indicating brain damage in the blood. It can also apparently cause strokes decades afterwards.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe...

“There’s no safe way to do it, no safe quantity of blood or oxygen you can cut off from her brain for fun,” says Jane Meyrick, a chartered health psychologist who leads work on sexual health at the University of the West of England. She describes being at a sexual health conference last year where data was presented on sexual strangulation – the prevalence and harms. “Usually, at those conferences, people will be talking about the extremes of what everyone is getting up to in a very sex-positive way,” she says. “When this was presented, you could feel the tension, the internal conflict, in the room, with professionals being unable to reconcile the gap between what they were hearing and their usual sex-positivity.”
by boznz | 2025-09-09 19:33:11+00:00
It is not a one-in-a-million opportunity though. I hate to take this to the next level, but as criminal elements wake up to the fact that a few "geeks" can possibly get them access to millions of dollars expect much worse to come. As a maintainer of any code that could gain bad guys access, I would be seriously considering how well my physical identity is hidden on-line.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-09 19:33:38+00:00
Huh? Kafka messages are durable just like Postgres commits are durable. That’s why it’s used for things like Debezium that need a durable queue of CDC messages like those from the Postgres WAL.

There’s nothing inherently different about the durability of Postgres that makes it better than Kafka for implementing durable workflows. There are many reasons it’s a better choice for building a system like DBOS to implement durable workflows – ranging from ergonomics to ecosystem compatibility. But in theory you could build the same solution on Kafka, and if the company were co-founded by the Kafka creators rather than Michael Stonebraker, maybe they would have chosen that.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 19:33:47+00:00
That depends. Builders build what there is profitable demand for. If there is a lot of demand that means the high priced high end homes are in demand and builders won't build anything else. (unless forced) However there is only finite demand for such things so and as you build eventually someone says "can you make it cheaper" and some builder - having no other customers is forced to build something lower end just to get any work.

Now builders won't accept a loss (in general), so that does limit how low end they can go. However the other half of this is that most people moving to something high end just freed up something lower end for someone who can't afford luxury. (most people cannot afford a second home and even those who could afford it want to spend their money on something else. There are also a small number of junk houses that are so worthless they end up destroyed, but this isn't common)