MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by g-b-r | 2025-09-19 22:04:14+00:00
I'm convinced that some bullys are taught to be so by their parents.

“Son, when you begin school look for the kid who seems weakest, different, without friends; as soon as you know who he his, ridicule him, throw him to the ground, beat him up every time he looks at you; treat him as the most pathetic shit that ever walked on earth"

That's how you get respect and popularity at school.”

Others just pick up that such behavior can be advantageous.
by brokencode | 2025-09-19 22:04:31+00:00
I’d like to invest time into the Linux gaming ecosystem. Though it’s a little daunting that so much of the work would need to be done by Nvidia and major game studios that don’t really care.

Windows just feels irredeemably mediocre at this point. Maybe Windows 12 will improve things, but I’ve been pretty down on 11.
by autotune | 2025-09-19 22:04:55+00:00
I've tried the consultancy route, but I am just not good enough at marketing myself to develop repeat business. I have an Upwork profile and tried freelancing for a bit, but it's just not worth having to purchase "connects" to initiate a bid proposal and time and again not be selected for the work (yes, I add in a cover letter message on every proposal).
by y-curious | 2025-09-19 22:05:16+00:00
I think you should understand that a lot of R's vote along party lines and just felt that Trump would be the lesser of two evils. I would rephrase your question to ask for people that support this specific action, as opposed to membership in the party.

I am a Republican, not necessarily thrilled with how things are going, and I completely oppose forcing Kimmel out of a job for this. It is not only unconstitutional in my opinion, but also extremely petty.
by dpc050505 | 2025-09-19 22:06:10+00:00
Caffeine withdrawals suck and it's a time and money sink keeping them at bay. I'm an habitual coffee drinker, love the caffeine high and the taste. I still wish I didn't get a headache by noon if I skipped a morning. A few days off the stuff and I'm fine, but it's still bothersome enough that sometimes I think it would justify quitting the habit.

It's enough work as it is staying fed, hydrated and getting a solid 8 hours of sleep. 20 minutes a day on getting your coffee fix is like 2 hours a week you could put to better purposes. Your article doesn't quantify the benefits, it just says there's some, that leads me to suspect that they're fairly minimal. Maybe getting an extra 2 hours of sleep or exercise would do more for your health.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 22:06:20+00:00
Fair if true, though it's not like someone uploading things to IA is likely to be using an address like michael.scott @ dundermifflin.com or something. More likely it's something anonymous. Certainly so if they were planting things to sue over, you can bet they'd use an account like dsfhakeij@ mail.ru or something.
by kortex | 2025-09-19 22:06:21+00:00
There are a lot of reasons you probably would want a Pi over an ESP32 (or in addition to one), e.g. you want GPIO, plus, internet connectivity, and want to run certain linux programs (e.g. full python, not micropython), or need timesharing, or any number of reasons you might want a linux box over an embedded.

But single board computers with something external to do your GPIO is often way more compelling.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-19 22:06:43+00:00
I also don't buy this argument about YouTube depending on downloaders:

> They perform a valuable role: If it were impossible to download YouTube videos, many organizations would abandon hosting their videos on YouTube for a platform that offered more user flexibility. Or they’d need to host a separate download link and put it in their YouTube descriptions. But organizations don’t need to jump through hoops -- they just let people use YouTube downloaders.

No, organizations simply use YouTube because it's free, extremely convenient, has been very stable enough over the past couple decades to depend on, and the organization does not have the resources to setup an alternative.

Also, I'm guessing such organizations represent a vanishly small segment of YouTube's uploaders.

I don't think people appreciate how much YouTube has created a market. "Youtuber" is a valid (if often derided) job these days, where creators can earn a living wage and maintain whole media companies. Preserving that monetization portal is key to YouTube and its content creators.
by derefr | 2025-09-19 22:06:51+00:00
Yes, I know; but we're talking about what would happen in a hypothetical world where US R&D innovation mostly stops happening, not for lack of money, but for lack of talent; so US investors no longer have any interesting domestic options that are likely to bear any fruit at any multiplier they'd be interested in.

Sure, investors could just park their money in what few dumb domestic options there are. That's the "patriotic" approach, and in less-aggressive markets, you'll see some investors [esp. big institutional investors] building the hedge parts of their portfolios out of these kinds of investments. But when the only domestic options are dumb/boring, any "smart money" investor will either take their money and leave the country for greener pastures, or they'll pick up the skills required to play in foreign markets.
by snthd | 2025-09-19 22:07:15+00:00
>A good reminder that what we do can change - we need to instill our values into the basics of everything we build, otherwise we'll just be building the next TicketMaster, Oracle, or Meta.

Both Ellison and Zuckerberg still control their respective companies. The problem is not that they didn't instill their values.

In the case of ticketmaster, they just plain sold out.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economi...

>Ticketmaster's fate was changed in 1982, when Chicago investor Jay Pritzker purchased it. Pritzker, the wealthy owner of the Hyatt Hotel chain, paid $4 million for the entire company.
by kubav027 | 2025-09-19 22:07:27+00:00
I am on my sabatical now which I started to recover from burnout working in early stage startup. I stopped drinking coffee. I have drunk 4 to 8 coffees daily at work. It helped me to survive the day but I did not enjoy the taste. It was like eating pills. Also it did not help with sleep at night and rest during the day. I have not drink coffee or green tea for 4 months and now I have started again because I crave for coffee taste but I drink way less (3-4 coffees a week). Good think is that I enjoy it again, it helps me concentrate and also it does not interfere with my rest and sleep. The same applies to alcohol even in small amounts. It helps you to cope with overwork but it drains you in long term.

edit: So it is not only about health but also about satisfaction and well being.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-19 22:07:40+00:00
Yeah exactly :) I had no experience and, if I'm being honest, I was shit at game dev, but boy is it a nice means of creative self-expression. (https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/ / https://ant.care/)

It's really fulfilling to be able to show people your work and have them play with it. It's so different than like.. spec'ing out a new database schema and then building some APIs over it. They're both coding, but one's a little harder to have a convo about at the dinner table.

Rust is such a mature language to use coming from a JavaScript background. I don't think it makes the best language for writing good games because it's too challenging to write bad prototypes you intend to throw away. You have to refactor frequently and code-compile-run loop is so slow. The lack of quick prototyping discourages me from playing around with ideas that might not work out and that makes for a worse game. However, as a programmer, Rust is an incredibly satisfying language to write in. Everything you do always feels very technically correct. The Rust quip that "if it compiles then it probably works" is very accurate and is a continuous source of pleasure.
by pizlonator | 2025-09-19 22:08:48+00:00
That's just one example and the problem isn't just checking this one case, but any generalization of it. It can't be a fully static check because you could achieve similar things with longjmp or exceptions (both of which Fil-C supports).

And then there are similar issues with heap accesses and safepoints. The vfork child has to particular in safepoints except that it cannot quite (you can't use pthread_mutex/pthread_cond primitives in the vfork child to synchronize with threads in the vfork parent).

Anyway, I'm thought about this a lot, and I could keep coming at you with reasons why it's hard. It's not like I haven't implemented vfork(2) out of some abstract fear.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-19 22:08:53+00:00
If only such a hypothetical could be implemented.

I don't think it's easy to design a firing process that would outperform random chance there. In any non-random process, office politicians would always be first in line with an excuse for why they specifically should not be fired. No matter what the criteria for not getting fired are - they'll do their damn best to make sure they meet them.
by prewett | 2025-09-19 22:08:58+00:00
Well, that's my point. The modern purpose of the browser is for applications, and for very good reasons, namely to abstract away the OS. The problem is that the design of the browser is for documents, and is really unsuitable for applications. Applications need a UI toolkit that takes a rectangle and renders the button, whatever into it. But you can't even get a proper rectangle with DOM: a div is 100% width, which is usually not what you want, but a span is this strange thing that makes sense for text, but not for a button or slider. So everything has "display: inline-block;", which then overrides the div or span part, so that it doesn't even matter which you pick. You can't even center something vertically without doing a web search, although I guess these days you use flexbox. Flexbox at least is the equivalent of Qt or Swing's layouts.

Mind you, I think WASM is the best thing that has happened to the browser, but that's because I think the HTML/DOM is completely unsuitable for apps, and I hate developing with it so much that I won't do it, even if I have to switch careers.

I think WASM is a reasonable start to a proper virtual machine. But I think what we need is a "browser" that presents a virtual machine with a virtual monitor(s), virtual chunk of contiguous memory, virtual CPU(s), virtual networking, virtual filesystem, and basic drawing primitives, that executes WASM. The "browser" part would be that you can use a URL to point to a WASM program. The program would see itself as being the only thing on the machine (see, basically generalization of the OS process concept into a machine). The user would be able to put limits on what the virtual network can access, what parts of the OS filesystem the virtual filesystem could access, how many real CPUs (and a cpulimit) the virtual CPUs get, etc. So, sort of like a containerized Plan9. I would be happy to do this myself, but I just don't have the spare time to do it, so unless someone is willing to fund me, I'll hope someone sees this and catches the vision.

Using WASM in the web browser is a workaround.
by TMWNN | 2025-09-19 22:09:07+00:00
>you think any rational actor in this space that was hiring H1Bs isn't going to simply relocate them to more friendly jurisdictions for immigration?

This was true before and after today.

Put another way, if all the H-1B jobs really can be offshored quickly and easily the way so many Indians and anti-Trump people here and elsewhere confidently predict, *that would have happened already*.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-19 22:09:46+00:00
> it's always seemed really odd that some countries (Japan sticks out) are allowed to prioritize cultural preservation

can we clarify... by whom? just kidding :) whether a country is "allowed" to do something is probably a red herring.

spitballing here, i think folks who engage in criticism of ethnonationalism are most likely to criticize the ethnonationalism they see close to home, as opposed to what might be happening on the other side of the planet.

there are valid critiques of japan's treatment of its nondominant ethnicities, and lots of anecdotal experiences covering the same, but it's a lot easier to discuss the nuances of an issue like this when you're more intimately familiar with the culture and sociopolitical history of a region.
by kanbara | 2025-09-19 22:09:54+00:00
how can you say you only want cooperation when the viewpoints you and your brethren share are dehumanising, against a peaceful world, against caring for the environment, against minorities, against queer folk, and against international cooperation?

we arent talking about “how many immigrants should we allow”, we’re talking about “trans people shouldnt exist”, “christianity is the true religion”, “deport all legal immigrants”, “gay people shouldnt have human rights”
by tw04 | 2025-09-19 22:09:56+00:00
> People need to understand that most reformists don't want to get rid of the truly exceptional immigration to the US.

And how are “they” planning on determining who is “truly exceptional”? And what makes you think the “truly exceptional” ones are still going to have any interest in coming here when they see what happens to the people who the current regime deems “not exceptional”?

I sure as hell wouldn’t come to the US knowing I may be deported to a third world prison if I post the wrong thing online.
by TMWNN | 2025-09-19 22:09:58+00:00
>The only effect this is going to have is accelerating the offshoring of jobs through more hiring in India

Such offshoring was possible before and after today.

Put another way, if all the H-1B jobs really can be offshored quickly and easily the way so many Indians and anti-Trump people here and elsewhere confidently predict, *that would have happened already*.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 22:10:01+00:00
Reading comprehension is important. Correct. The US as a country spends a lot more on health care than if there was a government-run single-payer system. I'm responding to this:

> while laughing at them for not spending the money on social niceties.

The US government doesn't pay for the "social nicety" of health care & in fact makes more money since that dues to private insurance industry generates even more tax revenue.

You can claim it's the regulations but all evidence I've read suggests it's the lack of single-payer system which removes the ability to negotiate + increases the complexity of the system because as a provider you have to pay more people to manage insurance payments with all the different providers vs 1 central provider.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-19 22:10:06+00:00
I spent fifteen months unemployed during the Great Recession, in a state that was hostile to LGBTQ people, with no local support network beyond a family that I wasn’t out to. I ended up draining all my savings just to survive before finally taking up a friend on their offer of assistance.

How I coped?

* I helped run a gaming community. I threw myself into the work full time, building up a great gaming server with strong player count. This gave me social connection in an area I couldn’t openly be myself in.

* I minimized expenses, including buying delivery meals (lack of an inspected car) and making one delivery stretch two to three days' worth of meals (~$1.50 a meal back then)

The one regret is I didn’t take my friend up on their help sooner. It meant relocating to a new city, but within two weeks of putting their address on my resume I had found new work. Not stellar work, but good enough to close out my old place, pack up stuff to storage, and move out to the new city.

Definitely take up friends on their offers of help. For resumes especially, borrowing a friend’s address can give you a “local” presence and make you a better candidate. Don’t feel bad taking a career step downward if it saves your ass in the immediate - there will always be opportunities to move up again later.

You’re not alone in this. It sucks, supremely sucks ass, but you’re not a failure just because the market is in a downswing. Don’t beat yourself up over things out of your control.

There is a light at the end of this tunnel. You’ll make it.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-19 22:10:23+00:00
I lost my job in 2017 and was out for almost 3 years until 2020. Some of that was by choice (we just had a baby and we agreed my wife should get a job first), but after a year and a half and going through a bunch of interviews (where I almost got the job), I ultimately landed at a FAANG.

What I did learn, and what should have been obvious, is that the longer you are out of the market, the more they think you are damaged goods.
by huxpro | 2025-09-19 22:10:40+00:00
Lynx 3.4 is now officially released!

In line with the technical roadmap announced earlier this year, we've kept a steady bimonthly release rhythm. We skipped a blog for Lynx 3.3 since it had few user-facing features, but that release set the stage for a packed 3.4 releases, bringing new platform support for HarmonyOS, enabling Windows development, launching new developer tools Trace and Recorder, open-sourcing the highly-requested <input> and <textarea> elements, even more flexible animations, variable fonts, and more!
by loverofhumanz | 2025-09-19 22:11:03+00:00
They've almost all already doubled down and opened R&D offices abroad. They will do absolutely whatever helps them maximize profits. There are no ethics to it.

American companies shouldn't be able to bribe American politicians into letting them cheat the market at the expense of Americans.

If companies couldn't cheat by importing foreign workers they would have to hire and pay Americans more. They would also lobby for good things, like educating even more Americans to work for them.

The system is corrupt.
by dmoy | 2025-09-19 22:11:15+00:00
Ah very cool. I thought this was going to be a tongue-in-cheek article about the proliferation of random corporate-mandated CPU hogs like croudstrike or w/e.

Pleasantly surprised by the technical article :). Reminds me of a lot of precise-number-of-idle-cycles functions from embedded world in a prior life
by guyzero | 2025-09-19 22:11:35+00:00
There's between 5 and 16 million tech workers in the US depending whose definition you use. The tech sector unemployment rate is 2.8% per https://www.comptia.org/en-us/about-us/news/press-releases/t...

That is, at most, less than half a million people in the field and the majority of those jobs aren't the ones looking for overseas hires anyway. If we take CompTIA's number of roughly 5M tech workers it's 140,000 people, not "literally millions."

If you have better numbers, please, let us know.
by rbartelme | 2025-09-19 22:11:57+00:00
I agree with all of this. I've worked in optical engineering, bioinformatics, and data science writ large for over a decade, knowing the data collection process is foundational to statistical process control and statistical design of experiments. I've watched former employers light cash on fire chasing results from similar methods this MCP runs on the backend due to lack of measurement/experimental context.
by dang | 2025-09-19 22:12:00+00:00
> While writing the book I spent a lot of time searching for that comment so that I could credit/thank the author, but never found it.

Sounds like a job for the community! Maybe someone will track it down...

Edit: I tried something like https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1577836800&dateRange=custom&... (note the custom date range) but didn't find anything that quite matches your description.
by kelnos | 2025-09-19 22:12:11+00:00
> This is a de facto shutdown of the program

Is it? $100k per hire isn't much of a cost to pay for large companies. Smaller companies may -- may -- end up having some trouble with this, but consider that $100k often amounts to less than a yearly base salary (and will pretty much always be less than a year of total comp/total employee cost), not to mention the costs of legal staff that they're already paying to deal with this stuff.

What this may do is cause some of the "body shop" consultancies to drop some of their "low end" business, so they'll focus more on targeting positions with higher salaries. That's... probably a good thing.

And yeah, we may see some higher rates of offshoring, but I don't think that will be significant. And I'm not even really convinced: offshoring is already possible, and in strict dollar terms is already cheaper than going through the H-1B process to bring someone to the US. If companies preferred offshoring, they'd be doing it; clearly the already-higher-cost H-1B program is still their preference.

I agree that this isn't going to fix the H-1B visa system, and is not a reform or even a particularly positive step toward a reform, but I think you're overestimating the negative impact. I really don't think this will change things much at all.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-19 22:12:14+00:00
If I'm not mistaken, running own Lightning node would mean opening channels to every single merchant you want to trade with AND those same merchants would need to open a symmetric channel back to you with the same amount of locked funds. And then during the transaction this system would need magically solve traveling salesman problem per each transaction in the system, taking into account that after each completed transaction system state changes. Oh, and those channels are all on L1, which has 7 tps on best days.

Lightning can't work distributed, by design. It's a silly architecture. I guess the problem that the proponents of the alternative were slightly mental, sealed the fate of the BTC. It really should have increased block size, multiple times by now, and don't bother with stuff that can't work.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-19 22:12:32+00:00
It's not "corrupt" to serve the people. We have people living in this country for multiple decades for whom there are obstacles to citizenship. You've noted yourself it's good strategy (from numbers alone) to both help them live here and make them citizens.

... why didn't the Republicans do so? That doesn't sound like corruption, that sounds like good statesmanship.

And those "lax" election laws have worked for decades upon decades; the burden of proof is upon critics to show non-citizens are voting and the numbers just aren't there. Would you like some more lawsuits to prove that fact out, or are the ones the current President already filed (and then went on to win this ostensibly corrupt electoral system anyway) enough? Not interested in debating that topic since it's dead and buried in the ground.

Besides, the premise is flawed. it's not "reduction of election integrity" to make the government representative of the people who live here.
by Animats | 2025-09-19 22:12:42+00:00
"This essay reviews seven books from the past dozen years by social scientists examining AI’s economic impact."

Going back that far may not be too helpful. Three years ago, ChatGPT wasn't out. A year ago, LLM-type AI only sort of worked. Now, it's reasonably decent in some areas. If you look at AI impacts retrospectively, you probably underestimate them.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-19 22:13:31+00:00
It's me! I bought $700 tickets! It's very rare for us to go to something so expensive, but it was two bands that we both really wanted to see, and we're genuinely not sure if we'll ever have the chance to see them again.

Don't think of this as "regular concert spending"; think of this as "anniversary dinner" spending.

(But, yes, we both work, and can afford to buy the $700 tickets, and eat most of the cost as well when we couldn't attend the show last minute.)