MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _heimdall | 2025-10-28 12:20:42+00:00
So is your argument that a company must follow laws of any locality they scrape information on the internet from?

Is that decided based on where the public content is hosted, where it was created, or based on the individuals created it or are portrayed in it?

If companies have to follow that then in all likelihood every big tech company would have to follow every law in the world, virtually all of them scrape data from the public internet.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-10-28 12:20:52+00:00
The conspiracist view would be that the media-industrial complex would want to prevent the stock price of a given company from dipping, as well as help them skirt around legal issues that may arise for the company in question if everyone reports the "layoff" as such, which is not always done according to practices (there are sometimes reports in the media about such, not specifically about Amazon though).
by baq | 2025-10-28 12:22:28+00:00
as if they don't already; the job market is a market with a mechanism for price discovery (duh. wouldn't be a market otherwise.)

the unfortunate fact is that the people forced to be sellers of their time on the market have livelihoods and families to support, so the market is in most places very heavily regulated, some would say overregulated. OTOH capitalism really did pull out many countries out of extreme poverty, so it isn't globally bad, but outcomes for individual participants aren't always... that great.
by mallomarmeasle | 2025-10-28 12:22:35+00:00
As pointed out above me, 250-300 micrograms is what you likely meant. You might have to hunt for such low doses. I split a 1 mg tab in quarters. Repeated studies have shown that there is not an increase in efficacy, but there is an increase in adverse effects when doses are higher. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
by dpeckett | 2025-10-28 12:22:58+00:00
I'm pretty sure at this point I have familial advanced sleep phase syndrome of an unknown genetic etiology [1].

Wake up stupid early in the morning, get drowsy very early in the evenings etc. For a long time due to social pressure/habit I'd just power through the evening drowsiness. That lead to me only being able to sleep six hours or so (due to waking up stupid early), which over time lead to a substantial sleep debt.

Going to bed early helps a lot, but over time it seems like I easily start drifting earlier and earlier. I've recently had some success stabilizing my rhythm using sublingual melatonin when I first waken at 2-3am. Let's me get a couple extra hours of additional quality sleep which is a lifesaver. Wears off quick enough that by 9am or so it's basically out of my system.

I've actually been tinkering/hacking the last year or so on sleep tracking wearables. Initially focused on EEG/HRV monitoring but I'm taking a very modular approach and ultimately want to build a full set of sensors/effectors/etc.

I've recently been experimenting a lot with skin temperature gradients, turns out in the lead up to sleep it's not just blood flow in the brain that is altered [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_sleep_phase_disorder#...

2. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajpregu.2000...
by lapcat | 2025-10-28 12:23:06+00:00
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workfor...

By the way, could Amazon not even bother to proofread a mass layoff announcement? "We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly"

At least we know this was written by a human, because an LLM probably wouldn't make that mistake. Maybe they fired the proofreaders already.
by alokk001 | 2025-10-28 12:23:23+00:00
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by martin-t | 2025-10-28 12:23:27+00:00
I wish the average and median salary of every position at the company was legally required to be made available to every employee and candidate so the negotiation can be an actual negotiation instead of a guessing game.

I wish workers voted for their managers and did so periodically, managers at the end of their term would return to their previous position if any. In fact, an expectation of every position being temporary could lead to exactly what you are describing.

But only if pay cuts hit everyone at the company equally or based on their merit, not the top layer deciding the bottom layer gets paid less, while giving themselves bonuses for saving the company money.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-28 12:23:54+00:00
> The real problem with modern companies is diffuse ownership.

And inheritance taxes and the hate directed at billionaires [1] make any other kind of ownership a rare exception. So every company is headed not by a person with a goal and a conscience, but an amoral board that can agree on only one thing - make more money.

[1] Not specific bad things specific billionaires have done, but their existence in general.
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-10-28 12:24:13+00:00
It does include employment. It's discussed in terms of "employment" or "jobs" thresholds and trends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession

> In the United States, a recession is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."[4] The European Union has adopted a similar definition.[5][6]
by hopelite | 2025-10-28 12:25:02+00:00
Narcissistic processes/systems/people always externalize the consequences of their own actions by pushing those consequences off on others while keeping the benefits they pillaged for themselves.

Unfortunately for us all, it is just a more complex and sophisticated version of "I'm going to club you over the head and rape and pillage your community". I have been thinking through how you would go about getting people to understand something that they have been conditioned to not just be unable or maybe even incapable of perceiving, but hav also been conditioned to actively and aggressively reject; effectively, how to do you deprogram people from abuse?

You are attempting to do that in a very small way, helping people realize the psychopathic, narcissistic, abusive word manipulation that the focus-grouped "job losses" represents; even though technically they are layoffs, but they are a predatory, abusive, grooming, gaslighting type behavior. But at least we should all rejoice, because now all these 14,000 people have wonderful "opportunities" in their life.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-28 12:25:32+00:00
The best thing that can come from this is unit tests for Excel.

LLMs work best when they can call tools (edit the sheet) and test their results in a loop.

It's like the "value seek" thing Excel has had since forever; "adjust these values until this cell is X"

Excel doesn't have any way to verify that every formula in that 60k line sheet is correct and someone hasn't accidentally replaced one with a static number for example.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-28 12:26:41+00:00
The only people who have the privilege to not see color or gender are those in the majority.

You bet your ass black Americans see color, because they're reminded of it every day. In our policies, communities, and workplaces.

Also: I agree such a program would be great, but it's not an either or type thing. We can, and do, do both.

This crab bucket sort of whiney baby mentality of "daaaad why do THEY get stuff?" is destructive. It's literally anti-solutions.

Making everything worse across the board for everyone might be fair, but it's also shitty and intellectually lazy.
by soulofmischief | 2025-10-28 12:26:47+00:00
So would you then have to do `getActualUsers(db.getUsers())` or `query(db.getUsers())`?

Still smells like in such a case the developer avoids the complications of abstraction or OOP by making the user deal with it. That's bad API design due to putting ideology before practicality or ergonomics.
by breckenedge | 2025-10-28 12:27:06+00:00
Sounds like a great way for non-technical employees to begin not only wasting their time but engineers’ time too. I gave a clever PM read only access to our codebase and instructed him on using Claude to access it and do research, but he doesn’t have enough context to form correct questions for the LLM. Add in hallucination and it’s a recipe for a lot of time wasted.
by nirvana99 | 2025-10-28 12:27:09+00:00
ASP.NET Core:

>= 6.0.0 <= 6.0.36

>= 8.0.0 <= 8.0.20

>= 9.0.0 <= 9.0.9

<= 10.0.0-rc.1

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core:

<= 2.3.0
by czottmann | 2025-10-28 12:27:43+00:00
Unasked-for meta complaint about the site, not the article itself:

I hate that thing where you visit a blog post (judging from the URL) yet the blog post is seemingly endless (judging from the scrollbar), and when you scroll down you hop into the next blog post (URL just changes).

The scrollbar is useless in that case, I can't gauge the real length of the article. The Gates Foundation has more money than God, maybe spend a tiny little bit of it on a good UI designer, yeah?
by wat10000 | 2025-10-28 12:28:12+00:00
The instant that offer was made, any sensible person will start looking for another job. The only people who will stay are the ones who can’t get hired elsewhere. You’ll lose your best people and keep the worst.

Layoffs are very tricky because just the act of laying people off can trigger good employees who remain to start looking elsewhere. It can trigger a sort of evaporative cooling of your whole workforce. A strategy of offering reduced pay instead of being laid off would exacerbate it.
by Findecanor | 2025-10-28 12:28:18+00:00
For 1985, I'd think that you'd also have to imagine that DRAM was cheaper than what it really was.

RISC and especially MMU with paging increase memory requirements. For comparison, the first Amiga was designed for 128K, got 256K. Linux/M68K with MMU on the Amiga required 4MB to be usable.
by lproven | 2025-10-28 12:28:46+00:00
> Imagine if you had an Amiga Chipset and you had combined it with a RISC like chip

This was the plan for the successor machine, codenamed HOMBRE and never released.

An Amiga-like chipset closely coupled with an HP PA-RISC CPU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset

A little more info in German:

https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:models:hombre
by sangel | 2025-10-28 12:28:50+00:00
My totally uneducated guess is that they leak exaggerated numbers on purpose to make the real numbers look less bad in comparison. The idea being that a few days before the official news everyone is talking about a potential 30 or 40K people layoff. Then, when the official news come out and state that they are laying off 14K people, it sounds less dramatic (in relative terms). This makes people (who are not affected by this) to feel like the news were overblown and are not as significant.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-28 12:28:57+00:00
Ah, now we are making some progress on where the confusion lies (not that saying "you're confused" without justification was ever much of an argument.)

The first thing to note is that it is not necessary to dispute the notion that semantics come from a conscious observer in order to demonstrate that Searle's argument fails, as that argument is precisely about whether that conscious observer could be an entity deriving its consciousness from a digital computation. As things stand, the only thing saving you from formally begging the question is that you have still not presented a specific argument against my objection[1] to Searle's response to the simulation reply; you still seem to be trying to insinuate that it fails without being specific.

Maybe you also mistakenly think that what I am saying in this thread is supposed to be an argument for computationalism? It is just an argument that Searle failed to make his case against computationalism on account of (among other things) an unsuccessful response to the simulation reply. (I suspect that computationalism is essentially correct, but I do not claim to know that it is.)

[1] It's not just my objection; Dennett, the Churchlands, even Putnam and David "hard problem" Chalmers have raised similar objections.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-28 12:28:59+00:00
The general level of hatred and anger that they’re stoking is insane. There used to be a reddit taboo against linking to other subReddits to avoid “brigading”. No issues with that now, because the Reddit app will add that thread to your feed. “/r/londoncycling users also enjoy /r/CarTalkUK!” For some weird definition of enjoy I guess.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-28 12:29:24+00:00
> It’s the same language used when taking about “car accidents”

See perhaps the book There Are no Accidents by Jessie Singer:

> We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how the term “accident” itself protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harm’s way, preventing investigations, pushing off debts, blaming the victims, diluting anger, and even sparking empathy for the perpetrators.

[…]

> In this revelatory book, Singer tracks accidental death in America from turn of the century factories and coal mines to today’s urban highways, rural hospitals, and Superfund sites. Drawing connections between traffic accidents, accidental opioid overdoses, and accidental oil spills, Singer proves that what we call accidents are hardly random. Rather, who lives and dies by an accident in America is defined by money and power. She also presents a variety of actions we can take as individuals and as a society to stem the tide of “accidents”—saving lives and holding the guilty to account.

* https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...

For automobiles specifically:

* https://crashnotaccident.com

* https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/travel/safety/road-users/crash...

* https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid...
by array_key_first | 2025-10-28 12:31:04+00:00
IMO it could be a matter of perspective.

I think a lot of people turn to phonecrack instead of their social lives because they think phonecrack is their social lives. They've been told it's good, it's community, it's social.

And maybe it was at one point. But it's not anymore. There are no social media sites left, only media sites.
by Animats | 2025-10-28 12:31:09+00:00
However, for good safes, there's a rating on how long it takes.[1] Ratings start at TL-15, for 15 minute resistance against hand tools. They go up to TXTL-60: torch, explosive and tool resisting for 60 minutes. Safes with these ratings will have a metal plate indicating UL testing and approval.

If there are any rated safes on Amazon, I can't find them. A real TL-30 1 cubic foot safe sells for about $2000 and weighs about 500 pounds. Amazon sells something that looks similar for about $100 and weighs about 15 pounds.

There's a separate set of ratings for fire protection, from the NFPA. Fire safes are much simpler. They have more insulating materials and less steel.

[1] https://www.vaultandsafe.com/vault-safe-classifications/
by thunderbong | 2025-10-28 12:31:32+00:00
Melatonin has helped, of course. But a few other steps I had read on a Reddit thread [0] also helped me - specifically the point about relaxing facial muscles. For some reason, doing this also seems to calm the mind and reduce random thoughts.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/sleep/comments/1bn2emp/how_do_yall_...
by bre1010 | 2025-10-28 12:32:16+00:00
Thank you for this feedback. Definitely a failure on my part to follow my personal guideline of if I don't have anything thoughtful to post then it's better not to post at all, not to mention the actual posting guidelines that I violated.

Andrew Bosworth somehow short-circuits me though as he is responsible for so much bad in the world (I have multiple grandparents who have been totally captured by the Facebook infinite-scroll newsfeed -- his idea and for which he shows no shame). Like this sociopath can just get away with it all: multi-millionaire AND wannabe thought-leader? And I'm supposed to just scroll by and let his pontifications about moral philosophy get promoted on this site. That being said, I thought about posting something more significant in my OP but gave up because who am I convincing anyway. That should've been the trigger not to post at all.

Thanks for the call-out and for the compliment on my ant-post from back in the day.
by kristov | 2025-10-28 12:32:38+00:00
I agree with your sentiment, but the reason for the imbalance is risk. As an employee you don't have financial risk tied to the company, you get a regular paycheck. But if you are an investor you take a risk that the money you invest can one day just vanish with zero return. With Amazon obviously the risk of that is low. But for many new companies the risk is very high. Therefore the payoffs are also high, to attract people to take the risk. Where I sympathize with your view is that sometimes an investment risk is taken, and the payout far exceeds the risk by any reasonable and sane margin. So you get investors spreading their risk across many ventures, on the hope that the one successful one is so successful that it pays the losses of the failed ones. But yea, this system is not really working for the vast majority of people and that is a tragedy.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-28 12:33:03+00:00
Non-LinkedIn version: https://ourdinnertable.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/jeff-bezos-d...

> “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by death. And that’s why it’s always Day 1.”

Sharks don't look back, cause they don't have necks. Necks are for sheep
by martin-t | 2025-10-28 12:33:03+00:00
Behavior is shaped by incentives.

Countries used to be overwhelmingly autocratic - often ruled by hereditary dictators called kings. People realized unchecked power will always lead to abuse and overthrew them.

Companies are overwhelmingly autocratic (cooperatives being exceedingly rare to the point most people don't know about their existence) - often rules by hereditary dictators called owners. But you can't legally overthrow them[0].

If only we had a system of rules we could vote on which would make this arrangement forbidden...

---

[0]: You can't legally overthrow a government either but if you do it successfully anyway, then you are the government and you decide what is legal.

Ironically, no democratic countries I know of have clauses in their ruleset ("laws") which declare that people are allowed to overthrow the government if it's no longer democratic, even if those democratic governments were created by overthrowing a previous dictatorship.
by homayonam | 2025-10-28 12:33:45+00:00
Unknown Law: The phrase "The 3-5-17 Rule of Life" is completely fabricated and curiosity-inducing; the brain wants to know what these numbers mean. Number and List: Using the number "3" at the end promises a short and accessible list. Massive Benefit: The promise of "That Will Make You Rich" is a strong and universal emotional trigger. Low Effort: The use of "Small Changes" suggests that achieving the big benefit is easy.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-28 12:33:47+00:00
> If it's not stored alongside the hash it's not a salt, it's something else.

That is not even true. The definition in the article does not substantiate it. There is no requirement for the salt to be stored alongside the hash.

The definition in the article is sufficiently clear. This is all that a salt is:

> a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data

With regard to effective anonymization, the salt is stored by the generator, but not in the exported dataset.
by martinohansen | 2025-10-28 12:34:55+00:00
If there truly is no need for an explanation, the commit message is very short and won’t require any substantial effort on the author to write.

A fix often has a particular bug it’s addressed, the bug should be explained in the commit. A refactor has a reason, that needs to be explained as well.

I’m not saying LLMs can’t do this, but it needs the context and it’s rarely in the diff of the commit you will find that.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-28 12:35:03+00:00
I see where Dostoevsky was coming from. God and religion helped him process the grief of losing his little boy. I cannot possibly speak about how I’d process grief like that.

I feel like I have a set of principles that boils down to “treat people how you would want to be treated”. But those principles don’t cover situations like the one Dostoevsky or his characters found themselves in.

This is a fundamentally gentler world than the one he lived in. Maybe in this world we can rely on the State preventing situations where “Everything is permitted”, as Ivan was worried about. Maybe people aren’t as desperate as the people were in Tsarist Russia. They’re not exposed to as much violence, and so don’t feel compelled to commit that themselves.
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by noir_lord | 2025-10-28 12:35:31+00:00
Factor out the AI companies doing circular dealing to juke their stock price and GDP growth was like 0.1% combine that with purchasing power loss and US economy is net negative.

It's pretty clear what happens next.

Over 42 million people are about to lose their SNAP payments in 4 days[1] and millions more medical care.

It's gonna get bad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7d9j7p5qo
by ndiddy | 2025-10-28 12:35:35+00:00
> but I will say I'd rather the company at least tries to do some good given that Facebook HQ is not very far from their offices and appears to have been actively evil in this specific regard.

Sure! let's take a look at OpenAI's executive staff to see how equipped they are to take a morally different approach than Meta.

Fidji Simo - CEO of Applications (formerly Head of Facebook at Meta)

Vijaye Raji - CTO of Applications (formerly VP of Entertainment at Meta)

Srinivas Narayanan - CTO of B2B Applications (formerly VP of Engineering at Meta)

Kate Rouch - Chief Marketing Officer (formerly VP of Brand and Product Marketing at Meta)

Irina Kofman - Head of Strategic Initiatives (formerly Senior Director of Product Management for Generative AI at Meta)

Becky Waite - Head of Strategy/Operations (formerly Strategic Response at Meta)

David Sasaki - VP of Analytics and Insights (formerly VP of Data Science for Advertising at Meta)

Ashley Alexander - VP of Health Products (formerly Co-Head of Instagram Product at Meta)

Ryan Beiermeister - Director of Product Policy (formerly Director of Product, Social Impact at Meta)
by dpeckett | 2025-10-28 12:36:01+00:00
Melatonin has a short half life (~1h), that's why melatonin receptor agonists [1] are a thing. So just mechanistically it's unlikely to help with sleep maintenance.

Do you wake up after 5.5h at a consistent time of the day and the first half of the night is peaceful? If you fall back asleep do you then wake again shortly after?

I mean waking in the night can be many things (apnea, etc), but you could very well have a rather advanced sleep phase.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin_receptor_agonist