MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-11-03 14:28:39+00:00
> The current 3-year agreement covering 59 community support specialists, trust and safety analysts, marketing professionals, software engineers, and other tech workers...

Yeah they're going to just offshore to the UK and Singapore or offer remote first jobs domestically. Most Kickstarter jobs are now one of those 3 instead of in NYC.

In fact, why are all the other non-SWE and Strategy roles in NYC at all?
by linsomniac | 2025-11-03 14:29:06+00:00
>Tunnels are poorly documented.

I'd tend to agree with that, but I was able to find some youtube videos of people setting them up. It was still a little bit of a challenge though because they have moved the menus all around in the last few months, so even the most recent videos I could fine were pointing to locations that didn't exist and I had to go hunting for them.

I would have preferred to just use tailscale for this, but we are using headscale and want to make a service available to our sister company, that doesn't have e-mails in our Google Workgroup where we have the OIDC for auth, so they can't be part of our tailnet without buying them logins or setting up accounts in keycloak or similar.
by simonsarris | 2025-11-03 14:29:14+00:00
We've been doing that for a long time. Average worker in

1900 worked 3000 hours 1950 worked 2000 hours 2023 worked 1790 hours

There's been a decline as living standards (and expectations) have dramatically increased. In the 1990s people still mended clothes.

Maybe you are expecting even fewer hours still, which you are welcome to do. I know lots of people that work 800 hours a year. All their basic needs are easily met. I do not want to live like them, though.

data from: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-...
by syntaxing | 2025-11-03 14:29:33+00:00
One of Henry Ford biggest push was for a 5 day work week when no one else did it. Why? Because it meant workers had two days of week to spend money which increased consumer spending and look at the US today. Our consumer spending is about 2/3 of our GDP spending. I'm not saying you're wrong. But there's more to "drive your workers to the bone means we get better productivity and economic conditions". The biggest mistake the US is making is not capitalizing harder on onshoring + robotics.
by 6510 | 2025-11-03 14:29:59+00:00
> Clearly, I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases. Google has built a complex, unreliable system

You cant use anything from Google. I only use gmail, my mail account only got banned one time for a week. For years I thought the punishment for using gmail was just a mater of time. I tried to imagine what weird things could trigger it. Maybe they will one day just end the service because it isn't profitable enough?

I decided the most likely would be that the mail account gets banned as a punishment for using any of their other services.

Then I made the "mistake" to switch from iphone to android. It almost immediately started complaining that my mailbox was full. The new reality is that each and every button I press on the phone could potentially end my mailbox.

Now that they [also] have very sophisticated LLM's the crappy customer service seems intentional.
by robocat | 2025-11-03 14:30:56+00:00
To compare with the US you would need to adjust for hours worked (Americans work more hours per year) and pick some numbers for the employer paid health plan, and employee paid unemployment insurance (to get equivalent cover as the dole in France).

Hours worked makes a huge difference to the percentages. AI said:

USA: ~1,705 hours/year France: ~1,487 hours/year

You actually need to convert that to non-working hours (since we live and work for our non-working hours not our working hours), plus on top of that you would need to adjust for commuting time (AI said 54 minutes for US and 50 minutes for France per working day - difficult because highly location-dependant).

Raw money is highly misleading.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-03 14:31:03+00:00
>> What's wrong with this perspective?

The worker is not putting out the capital that (hopefully) pays off in increased productivity; why do they benefit from this investment - especially when it's diameterically opposite the cost/value proposition they represent? If we value an employee's contribution and pay accordingly why would I pay more per unit if they work less?

I don't necessarily (fully) agree with this counter, but you better believe that's how investors view it. Productivity is really hard to measure in IT, but I tend to think of "attention". I want to pay a salary for all of your attention, and when you start talking about reducing your... work-focused hours (?) I'm getting less for the same money.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-03 14:31:11+00:00
Companies are constantly striving to compete. Being able to do more with the same amount of staff and therefore salary is a big part of that. The moment you let your workforce reduce their hours just because they are more productive is the moment a competitor gains extra productivity compared to you by simply not following suit.

If you want to work less, you need unions, government intervention, or some other form of organization (e.g. a change in the status quo).
by sireat | 2025-11-03 14:31:35+00:00
I have a story from the mechanical side.

I spent a month in 2012 roughly 4 hours a day doing various tasks.

It was horrible, even if I followed all the "best practices" of Turkers it was not a way to make a living.

By end of the month, I had become so jaded to all the "priming" experiments by graduate and undergraduate psychology students. Those usually paid at least something 3-4 USD an hour.

Did some porn labeling tasks, those were horrible after the novelty wore off.

Did very few other labeling tasks because they paid next to nothing.

To have someone actually depend on living for these seemed like a torture.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-03 14:31:37+00:00
I've never actually lived in France and would appreciate a bit of detail on that. I had thought that France has full public healthcare, but trying to google this now, I'm getting conflicting details about people having to get that mutuelle and possibly additional top-ups. What is covered by the state? What is required/expected from the employer? And what if anything does an individual need to pay on top of that?

I mean, I have sympathy for the idea of everyone having full access to public healthcare regardless of financial situation, but don't quite understand a system where you both pay massive taxes, and then have to still pay extra; so the people who need it the most would still be left untreated?
by candiddevmike | 2025-11-03 14:31:54+00:00
We were also super frustrated with Cloudflare Tunnel, especially from a developer experience and firewall perspective. So we built Tunlr to replace it: https://tunlr.dev. It's Cloudflare Tunnels but you can self-host it and provide your own domains for your internal developers to use, and it proxies over HTTP/SSE which plays nicely with firewalls.
by hristoff | 2025-11-03 14:32:45+00:00
Built @MarcLouvion’s TrustMRR blew my mind — so I built the same concept for Lemon Squeezy creators

In 48 hours I shipped TrustSqueezy → paste your API key, get a verified revenue page + shareable badge.

No fake screenshots. Real numbers.

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by jimstoffel | 2025-11-03 14:32:58+00:00
Interesting...with respect to using "AI" to draft responses...Particularly people's take on the use of.

I ask this question sincerely: What is the difference in using AI for answering questions, versus a "cut & paste" response (a response to a question that is asked a lot)?

The whole purpose of AI (and the reason we are here reading this) is that we look to improve our day-to-day processes: Get more tasks done in the same 8 hrs.

I, for one, use AI for shaving off an hr if not more in tasks. Again, this is just my humble opinion...curious to others' thoughts on this.
by mc32 | 2025-11-03 14:33:01+00:00
Notably EU countries don’t produce as many large or global software products. I know they have some companies of renown but not to the degree the US does.

There may or may not be a connection to work habits, but we should find out and then decide if we’re okay with the consequences (like the lowest GDP per capita state (AL) being on par with Germany). Maybe we’re okay with playing second fiddle. But we should know what we’re in for.
by whizzter | 2025-11-03 14:33:21+00:00
They are very well on their way to becoming the "never interact with Oracle" of the internet giants.

As far as I can see they are still living a bit off the "do no evil" of ages ago and latent animosity towards Microsoft, but they're creating an animosity that will take ages to erase unless they start putting some minimal amount of money into customer support today.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-03 14:33:27+00:00
> Typical Microsoft hubris.

That hubris combined with a whole bunch of decisions I resent/actively dislike and the hassle to opt out of things I never asked for is why for the first time since the late 80's I don't have any Microsoft OS's on any of my PC's.

I only used windows 11 for gaming and I don't really do that much anymore - I may have a look at steam/proton but not really in any hurry either.

90-95% of my computing life was spent inside Linux anyway.
by superxpro12 | 2025-11-03 14:33:52+00:00
Peak power is a number that can be manipulated. You just dump short circuit current into a winding. Even if that peak lasts for 1 microsecond, you can "claim" eye-watering horsepower numbers.

I wonder if we defined peak as sustained peak over 100 milliseconds, or some more meaningful number, what that would do to the claims. You aren't really generating meaningful torque over 1 microsecond.
by jeffchuber | 2025-11-03 14:33:58+00:00
Good article - the most use cases i see of pg_vector are typically “chat over their technical docs” - small corpus - doesn’t change often / can rebuild the index - no multi-tenancy avoids much of the issues with post-filtering

Chroma implements SPANN and SPFresh (to avoid the limitations of HNSW), pre-filtering, hybrid search, and has a 100% usage-based tier (many bills are around $1 per month).

Chroma is also apache 2.0 - fully open source.
by batchfile | 2025-11-03 14:34:11+00:00
This makes sense to me.

Until Software Engineers have automated away all the other jobs with AI & software they'll be safe. That's going to take a long time.

Replacing software engineers with AI only affects the bottom line of software companies. Companies are usually fine with increasing the bottom line if they can exponentially increase the top line. I think software engineers will provide that capability for at least the next 10-15 years.
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 14:34:20+00:00
The problem is cost/benefit. most places just don't have enough people walking far to make them worth it. They cost a fair amount to install/run, and so when few people use them they are not worth it. They also block people who are trying to cross the street (to get to the next store) instead of going down the street. They they are common in airports rare elsewhere - they don't make sense for most locations.
by therealpygon | 2025-11-03 14:34:24+00:00
> I assume we agree that working less produces less

That’s a pretty big assumption. From what perspective, since the “working less” is only the perspective of the worker?

Production is not a zero-sum game that assumes companies make zero effort to invest in more manpower rather than profits.

Profit rates, however, are a significant part of the problem as each US company in the chain attempts to maximize profits they obtain from the next and avoid any competition (often using the legal system for protection). That doesn’t occur in the areas you mention because competition is the name of the game in those countries, which is why they have maximized production and flexibility.
by VoVAllen | 2025-11-03 14:34:30+00:00
We at https://github.com/tensorchord/VectorChord solved most of the pgvector issues mentioned in this blog:

- We're IVF + quantization, can support 15x more updates per second comparing to pgvector's HNSW. Insert or delete an element in a posting list is a super light operation comparing to modify a graph (HNSW)

- Our main branch can now index 100M 768-dim vector in 20min with 16vcpu and 32G memory. This enables user to index/reindex in a very efficient way. We'll have a detailed blog about this soon. The core idea is KMeans is just a description of the distribution, so we can do lots of approximation here to accelerate the process.

- For reindex, actually postgres support `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` or `REINDEX CONCURRENTLY`. User won't experience any data loss or inconsistency during the whole process.

- We support both pre-filtering and post-filtering. Check https://blog.vectorchord.ai/vectorchord-04-faster-postgresql...

- We support hybrid search with BM25 through https://github.com/tensorchord/VectorChord-bm25

The author simplifies the complexity of synchronizing between an existing database and a specialized vector database, as well as how to perform joint queries on them. This is also why we see most users choosing vector solution on PostgreSQL.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-03 14:34:50+00:00
Take a look at "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...

Mann attempts to reconstruct what the Americas were like before European contact. More importantly, he makes a case that some American Indians had a higher standard of living than Europeans.

More importantly, everything really was mostly "good, peaceful and stable ... until the colonizers" showed up. The disrupting factor were the pandemics that happened; not that one culture was superior than the other.
by int_19h | 2025-11-03 14:35:05+00:00
The question is, how long it will be working for?

My Steam account has numerous games in it that supposedly work on macOS, but not really because they shipped 10+ years ago and weren't updated since. Some don't launch at all. Some do, but with various more-or-less-breaking bugs. Of the remaining ones, many don't advertise hi-DPI support so macOS renders them at 1080p instead of 4K.

It desperately needs a stable API for games. Which Proton could provide, except there's also that whole Apple Silicon thing meaning that x64 Windows binaries aren't easily runnable.
by palata | 2025-11-03 14:35:44+00:00
I would love to like Nextcloud, it's pretty great that it does exist. Just that makes it better than... well everything else I haven't found.

What frustrates me is that it looks like it works, but once in a while it breaks in a way that is pretty much irreparable (or at least not in a practical way).

I want to run an iOS/Android app that backs up images on my server. I tried the iOS app and when it works, it's cool. It's just that once in a while I get errors like "locked webdav" files and it never seems to recover, or sometimes it just stops synchronising and the only way to recover seems to be to restart the sync from zero. It will gladly upload 80GB of pictures "for nothing", discarding each one when it arrives on the server because it already exists (or so it seems, maybe it just overwrites everything).

The thing is that I want my family to use the app, so I can't access their phone for multiple hours every 2 weeks; it has to work reliably.

If it was just for backing up my photos... well I don't need Nextcloud for that.

Again, alternatives just don't seem to exist, where I can install an app on my parent's iOS and have it synchronise their photo gallery in the background. Except I guess iCloud, that is.
by muzani | 2025-11-03 14:36:12+00:00
"why haven’t LLM wrappers penetrated this sector"

The vast majority of games are sold over Steam. It's so overwhelmingly dominant that it eclipses almost every other platform put together, with some exceptions for consoles and mobile. Even when it's targeted at these, Steam is such a powerful marketing/discovery channel for games.

When Steam says no AI, nobody does AI. It's not just no AI generated content, some argue it means no brainstorming dialogue via AI and so on. The game dev community selects for this. This means that alternative platforms like Itch tend to also lean towards anti-AI even if they could differentiate by allowing AI. Consoles tend to also build for PC and adopting AI would cost them too much.

Pro-AI people tend to move to other platforms like Play Store and App Store, and lately we're seeing more quality control ramp up on these.
by moduspol | 2025-11-03 14:36:20+00:00
We had ours unexpectedly blocked and we were just using it for a "Login with Google" button. The only explanation was the vague "You did something against our terms and conditions." We hadn't done anything. Our use case is nothing beyond the "Login with Google" button.

We opened a case to appeal asking for more details or a review. Meanwhile, we're scrambling to implement some kind of workaround for our users that log in with their Google account.

And then early the next day, we get the email that our appeal was granted. Just need to be sure we follow the terms and conditions in the future.

I guess it could have been worse but still a bit of a slap in the face.
by 9rx | 2025-11-03 14:36:29+00:00
At the end of the day, "AI" is just another programming language, albeit one that is much more accessible to the layman. When using AI, you become a software engineer. So it stands to reason that software engineering jobs are strong.

But what about pay? Elevator operator jobs have never been more prevalent, but increased accessibility to the layman pushed the price to zero.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-03 14:36:33+00:00
I don't think the push-back here is against a 4 day work week, but the idea that wages increase or stay the same as you reduce down to 4 days. I known several people who work 4 days for 80% equivalent. They seem like you who seek a more balanced, family & personal focused lifestyle. This is awesome and I agree with you that flexibility can be a huge competitive differentiator for companies that doesn't need to cost them a lot more money. It's kinda crazy that more don't seek out creative approaches like this.
by jaccola | 2025-11-03 14:36:48+00:00
It seems that most peoples of most countries have an unquenchable thirst for more, yes. No one forced the car, the smart phone, the sugary snacks, cheap plastic toys, ... to exist. They exist because people want them.

Maybe certain people think they are made of better clay than the average consumer and should determine what everyone else can buy; that path is a dangerous one...
by rkomorn | 2025-11-03 14:37:04+00:00
Mutual (or private) insurance fills gaps like:

- a procedure is considered elective under the public insurance coverage

- public coverage only provides partial reimbursement and the insurance covers the difference

In general, no one is left untreated for "real" (YMMV) health issues and private coverage is more of a luxury perk on top of public healthcare.

Edit: public healthcare is definitely not a "free for all everything is covered" bonanza, which I think most people find logical. That said, one can always argue that some things aren't covered that should (or vice versa if you're the government and trying to cut costs).
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-03 14:37:18+00:00
Not paying attention.

1. Indiscriminate use of packages when a few lines of code would do.

2. Loading everything on every page.

3. Poor bundling strategy, if any.

4. No minification step.

5. Polyfilling for long dead, obsolete browsers

6. Having multiple libraries that accomplish the same thing

7. Using tools and then not doing any optimization at all (like using React and not enabling React Runtime)

Arguably things like an email client and file storage are apps and not pages so a SPA isn't unreasonable. The thing is, you don't end up with this much code by being diligent and following best practices. You get here by being lazy or uninformed.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-03 14:37:40+00:00
Most of Northern Europe and Scandinavia.

Denmark has 37 hours/week. Netherlands is around 32-33 on average AFAIK. Switzerland is ~35 hours/week. Ireland and Austria are also well below 40 to my knowledge.

Most research shows that non-mechanical work (i.e. where you have to think a little), gets a lower work-output above 40 hours/week than below. If sustained, it’s not just diminishing returns, but lower absolute output, even at just 3-5hours weekly overtime.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-03 14:37:43+00:00
> Veramaris, a joint venture in the Netherlands and the United States, cultivated algae that produced the same omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil, and in quantities sufficient to replace billions of forage fish.

If something like this works, it has the double benefit of pulling carbon from the air/water and turning all of the matter into food. With typical plants we grow on land, (generally) most of the plant isn't consumed so whatever carbon it stored is a waste product. In some countries, that waste is just burned and sent back into the atmosphere. But basically 100% of algae's mass is consumable.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-03 14:37:50+00:00
Interesting. They mention the following as some of their reasoning for this license:

> They market these rebranded solutions in commercial offerings to customers and organizations, sometimes at a massive markup.

> In some cases, they even go further by intentionally obscuring the fact that Open WebUI is available for free, so that they can charge unsuspecting users outrageous fees for something that should be accessible to everyone.

But that makes me think - if they really cared about this being free, they could have dealt with it by just using AGPLv3 coupled with enforcing their trademark, right?
by Ray20 | 2025-11-03 14:38:08+00:00
> Many countries have <40 hours/week and are still thriving.

May I have the list of such countries with a level of prosperity comparable to the US (which seriously consider an $85k tax-free minimum wage)?

Your "everything is still thriving" on paper turns out to be "everyone except the elite is drowning in poverty and they can't complain about it because then their totalitarian government will declare them terrorists or something" in practice. All the time.
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by danielcberman | 2025-11-03 14:38:14+00:00
It’s not selective sync, but you can get something similar with Ignore Files [1] in SynchThing. This functionality can also be configured via the webGUI and within apps such as MobiusSync [2].

1. https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

2. https://mobiussync.com