MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-09 20:01:52+00:00
> You have an amazing amount of confidence that the new devs are going to fix subtle race conditions…

> They’ll add a few sleep(5) calls to make them go away though..

I don't think torginus's point is that the new devs will find the proper fixes for the code, more that such a hack might be good enough in the eyes of both the company's management and the company's users.

As much as it pains me to recognize this (as a fan of clean, elegant code) not every bit of software needs to be clean and elegant to achieve its intended purpose (which is, at least in the corporate software world being discussed here, to make money).

If you meet the needs of your software's users, you can make a lot of money for a lot of years selling a piece of crap held together with chewing gum and elastic bands (and many companies have).
by getcthbf67 | 2025-11-09 20:02:37+00:00
I deserve words and actions to align. If people say they believe in free speech, then don't throttle posting rates. What i want is Honest, logical decision making, from a foundation of facts. What I get is tyranny.

If you think free speech is important, then don't flag posts as trolling.

What you say is free speech is important as long as it doesn't disrupt MY community.

Free speech is important unless I label you a troll.

Those statements are contradictory.
by acephal | 2025-11-09 20:02:48+00:00
Only in America is this kind of anti-labor sentiment masquerading as "if you knew what was good for you now look what happened", as if businesses were so stupid as to be fooled by "if we don't make it apparent, they won't notice" and somehow this would shield programming from off-shoring. The actual reality is that post-WW2 exceptionalism in literacy ended; the developing world caught up. The entire premise of American labor exceptionalism was built on this faulty assumption. And rather than reconfigure your negotiation as labor, your first thought is how you can get back in the good graces of the 'big boss'.
by duskwuff | 2025-11-09 20:04:10+00:00
Importantly:

1) The grant was for a specific, bounded project, but the anti-DEI terms would have applied to all activities of the Foundation, regardless of whether they were funded by the grant. (Which isn't to say that those terms would have been acceptable even for a single project, but having them apply to unrelated activities is even worse.)

2) The terms of the grant included a clawback clause - if, in the administration's eyes, the Foundation did anything to "advance or promote DEI", the grant would be rescinded, and the Foundation would be required to repay any money they had already spent. Given the size of the grant relative to the Foundation's budget, this was an unacceptable risk.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-09 20:05:12+00:00
Yes, this should have been a pure dose-response study among people with any history of filled melatonin scripts.

The comparison between the US and UK probably leads to two issues - US users use way too much melatonin and swamp heart disease signal, while UK patients prescribed melatonin probably have significant sleep derangement (consider how much effort it takes to get prescribed something for sleep - you need to schedule an appointment, convince your doctor, go to the pharmacy, etc)
by swyx | 2025-11-09 20:06:27+00:00
this post is filled with ads and is a low effort rewrite of the OP post: https://www.challengergray.com/blog/october-challenger-repor...

which has more info and did the original work. suggest swapping link for this post. would also pay some money to never see this awful site again on HN. by the time you scroll to paragraph 3 the screen is 50% filled with shoe ads and other random shit
by maxglute | 2025-11-09 20:06:40+00:00
PRC restricts guns ownership, but to make your example less stupid, PRC shooting ranges has access to western pattern arms vs US where civies has more freedom to own guns but you know... not sanctioned Chinese origin guns. So even on muh 2nd amendment grounds, PRC within their right to play with guns (again not own), still less protectionist than US. Which mirrors how you know, almost every major US tech brands operated in PRC with reasonable controls/oversight but not vice versa.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-11-09 20:06:55+00:00
> Based on sheer CS grad numbers why wouldn't companies just shift their r& operations there then?

There are lots of CS grads, yes. But most colleges out there are mostly degree mills, and this carries on to the workplace, where your average software engineer or engineering manager has very little understanding of what they’re actually doing (this[1] article was posted on HN, which will tell you the quality of engineering in India).

For anything slightly complicated, companies seem to be only interested in hiring from the best colleges and pay out of their nose in the process. A friend of a friend does some hardware work at a FAANG, and gets paid at almost that level.

[1] https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-hack/
by Yizahi | 2025-11-09 20:07:11+00:00
You and me are both correct. In a singular case so called wOkE would be a white person most of the time. But I was talking about word usage, and rightwingers are very often using it as a catch-all term for everything they are afraid of, kinda like N-word a few decades back. And saying wOkE is socially acceptable, so they can do it openly on TV and radio. And since it is catch-all term, these xenophobes also include in it all other non-white groups, non-straight sexual orientations, women, disabled persons and so on. The usual xenophobe list of enemies.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-09 20:07:19+00:00
> that AI investments at least generate jobs

Nobody said they don't, but these are very few highly payed jobs dwarfed by the number of lost jobs due to capital misallocation. That's the point of the OP which for some reason got lost in discussions of unrelated issues like outsourcing.

Besides, a lot of the AI investments go to Taiwan and other Asian countries where all of the AI hardware is made which makes non-AI hardware more expensive too - a huge cost on the economy. The recent Taiwanese factories in the US don't change that.
by abetusk | 2025-11-09 20:07:37+00:00
I've felt that people who espouse the dead internet theory have a much different experience of the internet than I do. For me, browsing the web, reading articles, watching YouTube videos, consuming Twitter/X/Bsky/Mastodon feeds, is all very active. There's interesting information that I engage with. I learn new things. I get to experience new art forms that I didn't think existed.

I think for people who gravitate to dead internet theory, the internet is more akin to flipping through thousands of channels on network TV, searching for a 5 minute segment of a show they like hidden in an ocean of ads, syndicated slop and reality TV. They use the internet in a passive way to entertain and so can't imagine anyone else would be consuming information in a different way.

It's nice to see people actively pushing back against what I consider a cynical attitude.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-09 20:07:53+00:00
> "Hey, you've got a broken gene? Sucks to be you, my rigid ethics requires you to play the lottery with worse odds than the others!"

Nobody requires you to have children. Your problem could just as easily have been infertility. So instead of gambling, you can choose to treat having a genetic disease like being infertile, or you can dabble in eugenics. My "rigid ethics" frowns on eugenics. We have lots of children who have already been born who need help. They may never satisfy your desire to see your (admittedly bad) genetics reflected in the world, but maybe they could give a legacy to your intellect and compassion?

Eugenics was once very popular among the middle and upper classes, though, before there were incidents. There's no reason to think that it won't be popular again. I think that society as a whole has to decide how we treat human lives though; your children don't strictly belong to you, they belong to themselves and are protected by the state (even against you.) I'm totally comfortable if we decide that this sort of thing is going to be criminal, or if we decide that this sort of thing is going to be mandatory. I just know where I sit on the issue.

And I also know that the places that eugenics survived was in things like dog and cat breeding, and the preferences of people for dogs and cats did not make them healthy, it made them interesting. Ready for the human version of "Twisty Cats"?
by thisisit | 2025-11-09 20:08:29+00:00
I have read both The Intelligent Investor or Security Analysis and I can't say there is any value - no pun intended - in reading both these books. Most of these methods are arcane. It just seems that people in value investing circles like to hype these book up just because Buffett got his start by reading these books. Under Munger things have turned -

> A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Philip Fisher and Peter Lynch's books are much better read.

That said, as the article says in a bull market when markets are going up it is difficult to know if your value picks are actually great. In bear markets no one wants to touch undervalued companies.
by ipaddr | 2025-11-09 20:08:33+00:00
For India they culturally value different skills and roles. They value pair programming and treat great ideas from juniors as a negative. Japan has a different work culture that doesn't fit the open model in the west.

The issue in the EU is local EU companies don't pay as well because they don't have to (little competition). And a culture of not paying high salaries but paying higher taxes.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-09 20:08:33+00:00
That's clever, but:

I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing.

And I took that to heart, because I don't want my words to be perplexing. I instead want them to be clear and easily understood.

In my corner of the world, I haven't held a mimeographed document in my hands for ~35 years. I found it reasonable to assume that a non-zero amount of people here might find the term to be unfamiliar.

So I provided definition of the term on the basis that it may be unknown to some readers, and that more information is better than inadequate information.

In this instance I would have preferred to use hyperlinked text for visual brevity, but that's not a thing on HN. The normal and accepted style on HN consists instead of using footnotes.

And at this point, generating footnotes is nearly entirely muscle memory for me. So a footnote (with a URL) was included.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, fsckboy. I'm pleased to discover that you've found my footnote to be so unusually compelling.
by forinti | 2025-11-09 20:09:02+00:00
TP-Link let me down twice.

I bought a cellphone from them many years ago and they never really supported it and I couldn't even buy a replacement battery.

Recently I bought a router with the firm intent of installing OpenWRT, but I received a newer revision that had a different CPU, less RAM, and less flash memory.

These events left a bad impression, but they do make affordable stuff with reasonable quality.
by sharadov | 2025-11-09 20:09:03+00:00
Quite a coincidence - last week I was speaking to a parent at my kid's school, he's a scientist and works for a Chinese biotech firm. He told how he has clients in China, who want to change the color of their eye or eliminate deafness in their child.

In the same breath - he told me how all his friends who are similarly PHDs in biotech are seeing their research grants cut and not finding opportunities because of the anti-science stance of the current administration.
by adverbly | 2025-11-09 20:09:07+00:00
I swear somebody should come in with an appliance brand which literally just builds things like they did 40 years ago before planned obsolescence and smart technology.

They would clean up.

I think the only thing that's actually improved is energy efficiency. But honestly my favorite appliances are my super old washer and dryer. I don't care that they are less energy efficient. Easy to use, nothing breaks and they have lasted forever.
by jonesjohnson | 2025-11-09 20:09:29+00:00
Proper cooling seems to be the primary thing to do.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259017452...

Proper Home Storage systems are pretty safe:

https://www.bves.de/en/2024/12/17/study-home-batteries-fire-...

There are special containers for transport of (even damaged) lithium batteries, which don't look overly bulky:

https://www.zarges.com/en/solutions/transport-and-storage-of...
by rasz | 2025-11-09 20:09:30+00:00
and their mil drones are subpar

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/which_western_drones_have_sho...

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/11/07/of-fibe...

>drones from the American company Skydio proved ineffective in Ukraine [notably, a Skydio drone was used by the U.S. Army to drop a combat grenade for the first time], as they were unreliable in front-line interference conditions.

>The problems with Skydio drones in Ukraine were reported last year, and the manufacturer acknowledged the poor quality of its products.

>According to Alex, a key issue with today's low-quality products is the "information gap among many European and American manufacturers about current battlefield conditions and the timing of when they receive this information."

Surprisingly

>Some of the most effective ones have included the German-made Vector drones and Polish-made FlyEye drones.
by YZF | 2025-11-09 20:09:32+00:00
And certainly don't buy individual stocks because of FOMO or day trading or some wishful thinking.

I pretty much only invest in indices except for rare small fun picks where I'm ok with losing. But over the years there were certainly times where this was a too conservative stance. My small bets have outperformed my conservative portion - by a lot. That said, those times were I am confident in those bets are rare, like a few times a decade.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-11-09 20:10:05+00:00
re title

I literally just said that on Reddit:

"They [big companies] were already laying off lots of people and hoarding around 100 billion in cash. This has nothing to do with AI. The elites have been at that for some time for who knows what reason. If anything, they didn't start spending money until the AI boom.

You could say AI is destroying jobs for a different reason. The leaders of the companies believe in gold rushes more than a steady stream of investments into forming and growing actual businesses. They didn't or don't believe America is worth investing in. They're simply about extraction."
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-11-09 20:10:06+00:00
State sovereignty can still legally go against the constitution.

See how they make it so only citizens who have a gun permit in certain states can excersise the 2nd amendment right.

They could legally ban any magazine over 3 rounds, or any gun barrel as those are not legally considered a gun under legal definition. This is how they restrict your rights. They add clauses and rules so only those who can afford the hoop jumping can comply.

Imagine if we recognised how because words and rhetoric can be inflammatory, a state decided that you need a license to excersise your 1st amendment right.
by ghaff | 2025-11-09 20:10:40+00:00
That's true too. A lot of people made a lot of money and they can now afford expensive real estate even if they're not making big bucks today absent lifestyle expansion and rational investments.

I'd add that I know a fair number of people who are not necessarily in coastal cities but are adjacent to them that have been exiting. They're mostly somewhat older and pretty comfortable or just have other things going on in their lives. The reality for some is that this isn't a terrible time to exit if you're not really loving things any longer and maybe have some other stuff you'd like to work on--or just retire.
BatchSubmit turn command line legacy programs into web applications
by casper62 | 2025-11-09 20:10:55+00:00
# webdev # programming # architecture # cloud

https://github.com/socaltiger/BatchSubmit.com

A long-established software company has developed a suite of legacy professional applications in Fortran, COBOL, R, and Python. These tools, while powerful, were designed for programmers and not easily accessible to non-technical users. By adopting BatchSubmit, the company transformed its command-line programs into Web applications. This platform bridges complex backend code and end users, allowing anyone to run sophisticated computations simply by filling out a web form—without programmer assistance. The result is improved efficiency, reduced human error, and a modernized workflow.
by AlexErrant | 2025-11-09 20:11:10+00:00
Y'know how there's "security theater"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater

I think there's an analogous subset: "llm-security theater".

There's so much pearl-clutching, pedantry, and noise from people who are obviously 1) not contributing to KeePassXC AND 2) never would contribute AND 3) are unaware of EXISTING bugs/issues/CVEs with KeePassXC. All they provide are vague abstract arguments from their own experience with LLMs, and they argue with the maintainers of KeyPassXC without giving specifics, as though they have the right to tell others how to run their repo when they're unable to link a single concrete problematic issue or PR.

Instead, all they have are "vibes", which is ironic.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-09 20:11:31+00:00
Municipal government does not have any power, obligation nor responsibility to enforce federal law.

Lowering themselves to be federal snitches, they reduce compliance with state and local laws which actually impact the public, and create a variety of other problems that hurt the community. Where does it end? Should states investigate purchases that may enable the violation of federal law? You realize that there’s almost no limit to what can be technically constructed to be a federal felony. Why is immigration so special?

To conservative thinkers, sitting behind their keyboards in the cushy suburbs, the concept of states’ rights ends with the oppression of minority voting and pillaging of the environment. Anyone, regardless of politics, who is comparing that legal concept to support of the lawlessness the regime is carrying out should really look within.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-09 20:11:36+00:00
I didn't want to paraphrase what he said too much, but since you're inquiring, I think the general idea is that multiplayer games strive for particular types of engagement and the techniques that companies use to drive that engagement is often negative. I can see that this also exists in single-player games, particularly in mobile apps. We tend to avoid those as well.

Multiplayer is a special category of risk in my opinion because I was an ever quest player and I built a feeling of responsibility toward the players that were relying on me and this led me away from schoolwork. I'm trying to avoid that same pitfall by still allowing them to game, even in a multiplayer setting, just only to a limited degree.

We simply try to avoid the games that are the most egregious in this particular way because they're the riskiest.
by mrprmiller | 2025-11-09 20:11:54+00:00
Hi HN. I'm the developer (and a pastor). This project was born out of my own frustration.

I'm a $43k-level power-user of Logos Bible Software, but I was still spending 10-20 hours a week on the exegetical work—collating word studies, parsing Greek/Hebrew, and comparing parallels for my sermons. I built the tool I wished I had.

The result is the Anselm Project. It's two parts:

The Engine (Free): A 200M+ token generative database of the entire 66-book Bible. It uses LLMs to generate a full scholarly apparatus (morphology, parallels, and in-progress text-crit) for every verse. You can browse this for free. There's no login needed for this part.

The SaaS (Paid): A report generator on top. It synthesizes all that data into 40-page sermon prep reports or 60-page academic briefs. I'm a solo dev, not a marketer. I'd also love to retire someday. Ministry doesn't pay much.

The tech: The 200M+ token dataset was generated via API calls in a massive batch process. My cost per academic report is about $0.07. I'm a solo dev, not a marketer.

The free generative Bible is open for browsing. I'd love your feedback on the tech, the model's output, and the (likely buggy) UI. Happy to answer any questions about the data generation, costs, or the tech stack.

Thanks.
by rvz | 2025-11-09 20:12:01+00:00
This is "AGI" at its finest.

I think we are at the point where tech companies have tested layoffs from unimaginable to on a regular basis and are willing to lay off more employees for the pursuit of this fantasy called "AGI" which actually means a 10% increase in mass global unemployment.

It doesn't matter if you are in tech, what matters is that your (tech) job is no longer safe.
by caminante | 2025-11-09 20:12:02+00:00
Not trying to be difficult, but you're not really addressing my question.

Why can't you address this with mitigants I mentioned? It sounds like you do some of that with "other non-$ comp" (mandatory PTO, parental leave,...) that's use it or lose it, but those are table stakes these days.

I love the idea of thinking about a long term marriage and contracting accordingly, but at some point it's a leap of faith.

Your bias has a presumably unforced handicap. Losing that 100x programmer may not matter to your business/personal goals to make GOOD wealth accumulation, but it will hurt your changes to go from GOOD to GREAT outcomes.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-09 20:12:10+00:00
Sure, but many companies outsourcing aren't looking for the best, they are looking for the cheapest, and surprise-surprise the cheapest are not the best. Some of them are goddamn awful - close to zero value, but upper management typically never hears about that and just thinks they are saving money because they are cheap.

There is also a big difference in mindset between an employee hoping to advance their career at a company, trying to become a SME, pushing initiatives, incentivized by stock grants, actually caring about customers, etc, and a vendor employee - even a good one - to who this is just a temporary gig, and has no vested interest in the quality of the codebase or building value for the company.
by Reefersleep | 2025-11-09 20:12:33+00:00
Happen to be a Dane and I fully agree with your sentiment. I happen to agree (I think) that keeping children away from social media on a large scale, to avoid social isolation for those who might opt out of choice, might be overall good for the children. But the means that will likely be required to do so are, like you say, essentially more steps towards mass surveillance. And like you say, laws that can be exploited so easily by a government in bad faith are so dangerous to allow into public law, even in times when exploitation seems unlikely, because they'll likely never be removed (hah) or even amended before it's too late. Like Chat Control (though it seems pretty clear to _me_ that that is set up for abuse to begin with). I'm so embarrassed we're spearheading that abomination.
by stackskipton | 2025-11-09 20:12:36+00:00
The cost is probably still too do prohibitive to do so.

I worked with IoT devices, generally the cost per GB of data is around dollar per GB. I doubt you would make that back in advertisements.

Also, there is cost per SIM so you wouldn't want situation where SIM is active if you don't need it which is why alot of IoT devices have you setup with a phone because they turn SIM on when you sign up for their plan. If consumer never puts TV on Wi-Fi network or cooperates with the phone, then you would have keep each SIM active and turn it off when it checks in via Wi-Fi. My guess is cost is not worth it if you get 98% cooperation. Write off 2% and call it a day.