MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jltsiren | 2025-11-10 04:05:11+00:00
There is nothing preventing the UK from taking advantage of the talent pool, supply chain, and consumer market of an equally large economy in their chosen field. Except maybe the UK itself.

National borders are as important as you choose to make them. Small countries have always relied on diplomacy and trade to be successful. The UK just needs to accept that it's one small country among many, and start acting accordingly.
by saithound | 2025-11-10 04:05:15+00:00
> Who are the "people at the top" you speak of? Are they just an amorphous blob of executives and politicians?

I don't think you're asking a serious question.

What kind of answer would you accept? It's not like you're going to change your mind if they say that e.g. the Cyvorefrx family from Palm Beach is one of the people on the top, right?

Nor is this question an effecive rhetorical device to convince onlookers: they'll rightfully ignore it just like people ignord "Who are these Guantanamo Bay torturers you speak of? Are they just an amorphous blob of guards and soldiers?"
by protocolture | 2025-11-10 04:05:32+00:00
>Perhaps we can skip tanks and planes and jump right to weaponized satellites and autonomous drones.

I saw a whitepaper that suggested Australia should give up shipbuilding in exchange for drones and electronic warfare. The goal being to present a front like Ukraine does. Bristle with weapons and guarantee that any invasion would be 10 times more costly than anything gained. It was interesting at least.
by lisbbb | 2025-11-10 04:06:10+00:00
The MBA pyschopaths have always had it in for the far more intelligent and ethics driven CS types. It's always been an envy situation where people lacking talent are envious of those with real talents and real brain power. CS people should not allow themselves to be managed by non-CS people, much like how physicians used to operate.

Everyone thinks socialism or communism is going to fix things, but those were already tried and failed with horrifying consequences. I think maybe instead what we need to do is sort out the management and who is in it.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-11-10 04:06:47+00:00
>Gigabit internet - video call quality is significantly better than it was 10-15 years ago.

You don't need gigabit internet for good video quality. We solved this with the MPEG-4, specifically H.264.

Most video streaming software still uses H.264 to this day, or some "mimic" of it. This was 15+ years ago btw.

You only need like, maybe 100 Mbps. Most definitely less for normal conferences.

> Zoom/Google Meets - the attention Zoom gave to UX just wasn't matched by any other precursor. Google Meets is a close second.

Opinion based, and you're welcome to have it. But not sure what qualifies as any sort of good evidence or reason for companies moving to other countries for their labor force.

>GSuite/O365 - sharing documents across organizations and being able to search for them successfully org wide has gotten much better now due to tools like Glean

Again, you're welcome to your opinions. Sharing documents in organizations across cities, states, and countries has been pretty mainstay for 30+ years.

And if you want my honest opinion, the tooling has gotten worse.

> Slack - most traditional companies didn't adopt Slack until the pandemic. Before that they were primarily leveraging email

At this point I'm just having trouble understanding why you think these things are fundamentally game changers.

>and DevTooling throughout the 2010s

Like what?

Again, if that's the best examples you could come up with they're not really enough and even worse (in the cases of GSuite/365) they are counter to your point about tooling improvement.
by Animats | 2025-11-10 04:07:26+00:00
The fifteenth Five Year Plan is out. This is worth a read.

It's less specific than the Fourteenth Five Year Plan, which is just finishing up. That was the one which contained "Made in China 2025", calling out specific industries that needed to catch up. Most of those goals were achieved. The fifteenth plan has less of that. It calls for a consolidation phase.

There's much political boilerplate, but read carefully and you'll see specific goals called out. Note policy on Taiwan, and on Hong Kong and Macao. The Taiwan plan seems to be to use soft power to tie Taiwan closer to the mainland.

China has a social security problem as the population ages, and there's quite a bit on that.

"We should implement a system for collective wage bargaining" - that's a surprise. I doubt they meant labor unions. Any comments on that?

"Young scientists and engineers should receive support to pursue innovation or start their businesses." - venture capital with a socialist touch?

The various ministries and provincial governments will now turn out specific goals consistent with the five-year plan. That's when the specifics appear.
by keeda | 2025-11-10 04:07:39+00:00
Oh as someone going through my own personal (legal) immigration-related crisis in the '21 - '24 timeframe, I totally don't think any party on any side of aisle was or is doing immigration right :-)

"Look at what you're going through doing it the legal way while illegals are getting put up in 5-star hotels on your tax dollars" was a line I heard a few times. I was very aware of the havoc due to immigrants being bussed across states. At the time I chalked it up to increased border crossings like everybody else.

But also for this reason I had looked into it and realized that the Biden admin's hands were tied by the laws as they existed. And when both parties finally managed to reach an agreement to fix some of the laws, it was torpedoed by a specific party to support a "campaign premise."

I realize I implied upthread that it was "only perceptions", which was incorrect. But if the immigration data does not support the events that transpired, something somewhere is screwy. And its not a stretch to imagine, given the torpedoing above, that it was deliberately managed.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-10 04:09:08+00:00
Yeah, it's frustrating how they [0] deploy the phrase "worker shortage" as a sneaky euphemism, when it's equally (or more) valid to present the problem as a wages shortage.

Similarly, the world has a terrible megayacht shortage! This is obvious, because I can't find any selling for the $20k in my budget. I demand to know what the government is going to do to fix this existential threat to the nation and our very way of life!

[0] https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-10 04:10:01+00:00
In the US-centric perspective: Most forms of higher-education leave out fundamental job skills graduates need to be successful in the business world. Résumé writing, project management, time management, and team leadership should be covered.

Moreover In terms of compulsory education like K-12, it should also include public service and life-work skills like customer service modeling behavior, personal financial management, civics, and media critical thinking skills because Common Core and NCLBA succeeded only at creating greater mass ignorance.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-11-10 04:10:22+00:00
The ones i have were purchased back when Ubiquiti was trying to gain market share and get their name out there, so it didn't have the more premium price tag it enjoys now. The setup was complex, but I'm a bit masochistic like that, but I also needed device roaming to work properly and, however Ubiquiti achieved it, it has worked really well for me for a long time.

I only just logged in to the controller interface yesterday again after probably six months or so, when I was checking in to see if there were firmware updates. Once it's setup there's very little maintenance, but the initial setup can be intimidating.
by langitbiru | 2025-11-10 04:10:44+00:00
I'm building an app that helps users memorize Kanji and vocabulary with AI-generated visual and story mnemonics.

Right now, I'm adding a feature to practice writing Kanji and another that creates AI comics based on vocabulary you've learned.

Web: https://kanjipalace.com

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/id/app/kanjipalace/id6753351224
by keithluu | 2025-11-10 04:10:44+00:00
Hey everyone! I built a site that shows your next age milestones, all on a single page. You can see your next milestone age for each type (like your 10000th day) and save it to Google Calendar.

It looks simple, but I learned a lot building this site:

* To calculate age in planetary years, I had to look up their orbit and rotation info

* The lunisolar calendar took me quite some time to figure out (it is not the same as a lunar calendar and even changes by country)

* Adding the dog and cat age equivalents even led me to cubic splines

Link to the site: https://ageequivalent.com/
by blackjack_ | 2025-11-10 04:10:55+00:00
My partner also has good qualifications and skills has been out of full time work for bordering on 2 years now. Similarly she has become depressed / nihilistic about the job market after hundreds and hundreds of applications and dozens of interviews (and this was after a job she had to resign from after only a couple of months due to the company being incredibly incompetent). She has multiple part time gigs now to stem the bleeding, but it's wild and crazy how bad the job market is in places, and how much the older generations seem to generally just not care.
by pnathan | 2025-11-10 04:11:17+00:00
The number of junior roles I have seen my companies open in the past 8 years - and I've been at a few different shops - is less than he fingers I have. And this is _before_ the AI-copolypse.

Management has generally become persuaded that juniors are not worth hiring. My current shop is a bit more thoughtful on this which is good. But. The desire for senior+ is out of line. Particularly when companies want to pay junior rates. =}

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Dear author,

I don't know any period in the past 20 years where entry level jobs were properly allocated outside of FAANG. I have always advised talking to Microsoft, as my perspective is that they have the best entry level pipeline.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can afford to stay in it" is an old stock traders proverb. And I believe it applies the AI fad. I do not believe that the dreams of actually replacing humans will work out generally. But it will be a painful experience for the employees and the prospective employees.
by biinjo | 2025-11-10 04:12:16+00:00
Im finalizing the Google Calendar integration for Ganttify. https://gantt-chart.com

It will allow users to fully manage their calendar in a Gantt chart. Complete with customizations like dependencies between events, custom colors for time blocks and custom icons for single-day events (“milestone”-like).

Ganttify is a Gantt chart add-on for web applications or services that can benefit from a Gantt view. My goal is to expand the number of integrations for Ganttify and release a new integration every month or so. If any of you have an interesting (niche or non-niche) idea to integrate Ganttify with feel free to contact me.
by raphlinus | 2025-11-10 04:13:17+00:00
Another deep dive is in https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/master-system/

I've got a mostly-written emulator (in Rust). It's very easy to emulate, possibly the best gameplay bang for the emulator coding effort buck aside from NES. My main intent in writing this emulator is getting it running on an RP2350 board, like Adafruit Fruit Jam or Olimex RP2350pc.

It should also be possible to get the next generation (SNES, Genesis) on such hardware, but it's a much tighter fit and more effort.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-11-10 04:14:17+00:00
This is just laughably ridiculous. OK, I'll bite though, even though I can't believe anyone is actually this willfully blind:

1. As the other commenter stated, gigabit Ethernet is now standard, and tons of people, throughout the world, have bandwidth to their home that can easily support high quality video conferencing. That just didn't exist 15+ years ago.

2. Group video chats on consumer grade devices simply didn't exist. Sure, in the mid 00s we had some group video conferencing, but they nearly always required dedicated facilities - people weren't having zoom meetings with 10 individuals from their laptops.

3. But perhaps most importantly, since the world is now used to doing everything remote, offshore teams are rarely "the odd man out". Right up until around the pandemic, most companies were culturally based around the office, and structures were set up to support in-office collaboration. Now, though, everyone is used to being remote anyway, like my favorite cartoon showing the difference between in-office, remote, and hybrid software devs - except there is no difference, because they're all on Zoom all the time anyway.

I just honestly can't believe that someone who managed remote teams in 2005 thinks it's the same as managing in 2025, and the plethora of advancements in networking and remote conferencing tech easily supports that.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-10 04:15:42+00:00
> People actually used to fall for that. Of course some people probably still would (and a lot more certainly gets blocked by spam blockers) but I think overall society grew less substantially less gullible over time.

It is still a serious problem just want that to be abundantly clear. Several thousand people (in the US alone) fall for it every year. I used to browse 419 eater regularly and up until a few years ago (when I last really followed this issue) these scams were raking in billions a year. Could be more or less now but doubt it’s shifted a ton.
by wonger_ | 2025-11-10 04:15:54+00:00
I think this software archaeology / history-keeping is really important. Keep up the good work. These paragraphs resonate with me:

> There is utility in those old tools and interesting ideas to be mined. Recently I stumbled across something that by all accounts should have set the world on fire, but whose ideas needed more time to germinate before blossoming much later. Discoveries like this are not just nostalgic “what ifs” to opine wistfully upon, they can be dormant seeds of the future.

> Computing moves at such an unrelenting pace, those seeds may lie dormant for any number of reasons: bad marketing, released on a dying platform, too expensive, or even too large a mental leap for the public to “get” at the time. I see this blog as a way to explore the history of the work tools we use every day. I don’t do this out of misty-eyed sentimentality, but rather pragmatic curiosity. The past isn’t sacred, but it is still useful.

What's your research process? Do you use lots of Internet Archive material? Do you reference any personal artifacts i.e. old hardware or documentation laying around? Any interviewing?
by tdeck | 2025-11-10 04:16:02+00:00
> You need ridiculously powerful processors to run a C compiler

It's not 1982 anymore. I can compile C just fine on SoC that costs $5. Of course it's true that these things are ridiculously powerful, but that doesn't really matter. The amount of silicon used is roughly the same as an 8051 from 20 years ago.

I'm all about cool projects like building your own CPU out of 7400 logic gates or writing your own OS in assembler or whatever. But I personally feel that FORTH doesn't need to be limited to these kinds of toy projects where you're intentionally making things harder on yourself. However when I see discussions related to FORTH it seems like most projects fit into this category and there is little diversity.
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-10 04:18:09+00:00
I would potentially accept it (although you should not lie about it, and if someone says in their policy that they specifically do not want this then you should not send it), although for my own projects, there are reasons (having to do with the way the version control is set up) that I cannot accept direct contributions anyways, and I usually make my own changes to any contributions anyways (but anyone else can make their own copy with their own changes however they want to do, whether or not I accept it). Since it is honest, and that you had reviewed it by yourself before submitting it, and also tested it, and that I would review it again anyways as well, it would be acceptable, although I would still much more prefer to receive contributions that do not use LLM, still the way you do it is much better than the other stuff some by LLM which does not meet the threshold of being acceptable.
by djtango | 2025-11-10 04:19:08+00:00
Max effort is kind of nebulous as it really means different things to different people. Heart rate is probably the simplest and universal gauge for this...

Atm I am somewhat unfit (relative to my past/potential) so when I do a round on the pads in muay thai/boxing which could be 2-4 minutes, my heart rate sits around 180-185 for the duration of the round. Often, sparring is actually more relaxed than pads because the coaches like to work us hard.

I have noticed that if my training meaningfully reaches 173+ I will usually feel like a vegetable for several hours after, usually the whole day. I get endorphins and heightened awareness around the 150-172 region.

"Max effort" is kind of meaningless because it means different things to different people - when I was 16 my swimming coach pushed me with sprints until I puked, not THAT uncommon amongst competitive athletes and I was a little out of shape that one time. I rarely see people push themselves that hard during HIIT classes, myself included...
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 04:21:14+00:00
>Wait, so she's admitting to letting her 12 year old use twitter, despite COPPA prohibiting it under the age of 13?

>Heck, this probably qualifies for the CFAA to be applied; that's unauthorized access of a computer system...

I didn't realize that US law was binding on Canadians while in Canada. The more you know![0]

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/bf/34/7bbf34f1a96e2f854862...
by SleekoNiko | 2025-11-10 04:22:05+00:00
If I were the maintainer, and you specified up front that your PR was largely written by an LLM, I would appreciate it. I may prioritize it lower than other PRs, perhaps, but that's about it.

I think it's also important to disclose how rigorously you tested your changes, too. I would hate to spend my time looking at a change that was never even tested by a human.

It sounds like you do both of these. Judging by the other replies, it seems that other reviewers may take a harsher stance, given the heavily polarized nature of LLMs. Still, if you made the changes and you're up front about your methodology, why not? In the worst case, your PR gets closed and everybody moves on.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-10 04:22:37+00:00
Manual labor can be a thing until you get too hurt to continue, and then you'll need another vocation.

Do whatever is of most value you find easy but others find difficult, specialize, find a location with more demand and less competition, brand distinctly, advertise efficiently, and make sure your prices are calibrated correctly. Maybe it's installing security systems or home automation integration.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-11-10 04:23:07+00:00
It’s not popular to say in these parts, but societies insane covid reaction fucked over the younger generation so, so, so bad. Our kids are gonna be paying for that nonsense for their entire lives. We stole so much from them it isn’t even funny.

And I say “not popular” because so many tech people directly benefited from perpetuating and supporting those harmful policies. We were one of the primary beneficiaries of the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it” and all that… As long as the massive paychecks kept coming and the work remained at home… we had no reason to question any of it.

Sadly the chickens are finally coming home to roost and it’s our kids that are fucked the most.
by vaxman | 2025-11-10 04:23:21+00:00
> i used a chip8 emu

I used CHIP8 (on an RCA COSMAC VIP out "in the garage" bought with money from mowing lawns), would never have put it on my resume ROFL. Big Bad FORTRAN programmers would have looked at it and said "awe...ain't that cute." I did have 1802 assembler on there though. By 1992, at least one interviewer suspected I might be an "Easter Bunny" (not real) before finally meeting me. That's when I started scaling it back a bit (dropping a dozen assemblers, old languages like APL, etc.) I kept scaling it back for decades until eventually it fit on one page, but the people reading it didn't know what they didn't know (citizens of the dystopia) so my resume is only a formality anyway. (I probably should reduce it down to two or three sentences at this point. But back in the day man, I was almost typing (with an actual typewriter, also "out in the garage") in the margins --heh.) Hmm, valid question: How long before LinkedIn is an AI that conducts the entire search and hiring process? Also, WTH are we reading about CHIP8 in 2025 for...it's a dopeass dystopia, that's why. :D
by m0llusk | 2025-11-10 04:23:54+00:00
This seems badly supported, likely entirely wrong. There is a lot of hype about automation, but hiring has all but stopped before without any automation revolutions being needed. If automation were driving this then there would be a shape to things with the most readily automated tasks sticking out, but what the labor market is showing is an extreme slowdown across all sectors broadly.

An alternative explanation is that this is an unusually ugly correction brought about by a combination of factors including but not limited to a prolonged period of essentially zero interest rates and a long time since the last real correction.
by timedrun | 2025-11-10 04:23:56+00:00
Creating a email/messaging protocol to solve spam, which is a different problem from verifying sign ups to solve spam sign ups in this thread, but is relevant for people in this thread interested in the issue of spam. It is directly compatible with email/messengers, including all of the large email providers, low false negative rate compared to current spam filtering, free for senders.

Check this profile for the email if you wanna ask for more info or get updates.
by knappe | 2025-11-10 04:24:00+00:00
>I’d say under 10% of junior résumés I look at give me confidence that they’d show up and know how to write real systems instead of just gluing things together

They're juniors. With that kind of mentality, I'm not sure you're looking for juniors, but instead are looking for someone with a few years in industry that is apparently masquerading as a junior. But perhaps my expectation of "real systems" is different than yours.

To put this into perspective, I mentor and have mentored lots of juniors from code schools and traditional, four year university computer science majors in web dev. Having some concept of both the web stack/language and a basic understanding of good coding practices is about the most I'd expect. All thing things that sit on top of it, like scaling the stack, performance optimizations and the like are things I wouldn't even come close to expecting a junior to know. Those are things I'd expect to have to coach on.
by empressplay | 2025-11-10 04:25:49+00:00
After the video game crash, retailers (particularly department stores, where most major purchases were made in the 80s, usually on payment plans) were extremely resistant to stocking another console (and consumers were resistant to buying one -- they had been buying home computers like the Commodore 64 since the video game crash to better justify the expense.)

The redesign was intended to position the NES more as a home video accessory and remove it from the tainted video game category, hence the front-loading (like a VCR) so that it could fit into an entertainment system / TV table. It may seem silly from a modern standpoint but it was all about perception, and it was what was needed to successfully 'reboot' the video game market in North America.