MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmg2227 | 2025-12-02 02:31:32+00:00
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by wkat4242 | 2025-12-02 02:32:26+00:00
Yeah those open floors are so terrible. When i started late 90s I had my own office when as an intern. Everyone just had a little office. You could close the door if you needed to focus and you could open it if you needed a chat.

Then came the terrible time of the cubicles and then the open floor which was even more horrible.

I really hate tech work these days. Also because it's not really tech anymore. I don't get to do the nuts and bolts, I just have to tick boxes in the crap cloud admin panels that Microsoft gives us. I wish I could do something totally different.
by ekusiadadus | 2025-12-02 02:33:33+00:00
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by Cogito | 2025-12-02 02:33:52+00:00
I think I took out an extra comma too, which hurts readability.

Personally I write with too many asides, normally done with commas and parentheses. It's a comforting habit to fall into, and makes getting your thoughts out so much easier, at the expense of interrupting the reader's train of thought.

I don't normally notice when I'm writing with asides so the jarring em-dashes were a good reminder to try and edit them out where I can.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-02 02:35:13+00:00
I don't think construction has nearly as much relevance for Austin as you might think. Speaking as a former Austin resident, I left Austin in 2022 because rent highly spiked and I was effectively priced out of where I was staying (my rent spiked in the realm of 40%).

Rent has been cooling off in Austin because the amount of people moving there has heavily gone down and tech companies have either stopped opening new buildings there or have outright started to leave. The huge rise in rents was effectively due to a 'tech speculation' bubble as a result of every major tech company saying they were going to move to Austin and it was going to be the new tech capital of the US.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-02 02:35:19+00:00
It's not the first time that word appears on the bill, itspecifies that the publisher needs to "knowingly and intentionally..." do the deed.

So there is no responsibility created to actively discern (IANAL) traffic, but if you already have that info, you would be compelled to act upon it.

Again IANAL, but this could create responsibilities to avoid estoppel, for example if you filter users from VPNs for purposes like reducing spam, then you receive the benefit of identifying VPNs, and you might be compelled to bear the responsibility of it.

Another nuance is that the vpn identification might be provided by a 3rd party (see cloudflare) in which case the provider would not KNOW, but then again CF might bear the responsibility considering that they would be the distributors with knowledge of the VPN lists.

I think the law plays out very sensibly.
by komali2 | 2025-12-02 02:35:55+00:00
> Like sure you could in theory see every document I've ever signed if you have a warrant for BankID servers, but you could probably glean most of that if you had a warrant for the banks servers anyway, so it's not really a new capability.

It's a single point of failure. Digital ID servers on creation because as valuable to compromise as value_of_bank_hack*bank_count plus whatever other services are rolled in.

Furthermore now only one warrant is needed, or one illegal executive order. Take the USA as a live example - legal protections aren't actually real, a government official with enough political power can just do whatever they want while the courts struggle to keep up, and then just ignore court orders.

If your identity is spread out in many different ways, at least then there's more friction to compromise. Just because one bank capitulates doesn't mean the actor immediately has health information on you, for example. Just because the unemployment office capitulates doesn't mean the actor has your financial records.
by simoncion | 2025-12-02 02:36:40+00:00
> But if you were in a management position when WFH started, you would've seen velocity go through the floor and stay there.

I spoke with my manager about this. This wasn't true for our team, and it wasn't true for any other team in our (fairly sizable) division. I didn't give a shit about any other group, so I didn't ask.

If your employees are spending their days fucking around instead of working when they're working from their home office, I'm here to tell you that when they were in the corporate-leased office, they were browsing Reddit on their phone or off on yet another coffee break to "get the pulse of the office". Slackers and shirkers are gonna slack and shirk, no matter where they are.

The thing to do is to fire folks who aren't doing enough to justify their pay. That's something that hasn't ever changed.
by DSMan195276 | 2025-12-02 02:37:05+00:00
In this case the problem is that the fed is the one who runs the TSA and created the Real ID rules, but the states are the ones that actually issue the IDs meeting those rules. The fed couldn't force the states to implement the rules and the states didn't want to spend money on something they didn't really care about.

Of course, they didn't really care about it because it's mostly just security theater and thus the fed was never going to start turning people away simply for not having a compliant ID (which is still true). If there were much more valid reasons for why everybody needs to have a Real ID then states would have put more effort into getting everybody to have one.

There's also the separate the issue that the Real ID rules are questionable and it's not always easy for someone to get a Real ID even if they want one.
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by a-dub | 2025-12-02 02:39:01+00:00
there's some ubuntu/gnome thing that replicates the worst features of the mac.

but here's the real question: why? the global menu bar is literally the most dated and outmoded element in macos. it isn't 1993 anymore. your computer can run more than one program at a time. a globally modal application focus is completely ridiculous. the only thing more ridiculous than a global menu bar is a global spinning beach ball mouse cursor. these are relics of the past and have no place in a modern, multitasking, multiprocessing, multiprocessor, multiscreen computing environment.

moreover, the things that matter, browsers and terminals, don't even have normal menus anyway.

kde plasma is superior in all ways. stop wasting time with weird outmoded 1993 era computer interfaces.
by AstroBen | 2025-12-02 02:39:04+00:00
> if I break my leg or get some normal infection or have a child or any of the other normal kinds of issues people have? Will that still be the best tier of care?

Does it need to be? I imagine it's far easier to treat a broken bone, in most cases, vs a rare complex disease

I'd have different standards when researching where to have teeth cleaning vs oral surgery
by nobody9999 | 2025-12-02 02:39:55+00:00
>So, for example: As a native-born US citizen, that's a new requirement for me -- nothing else I've ever done in life has required me to prove my citizenship.

Unless you're really young (under 16 or so) and/or never had a job that paid wages, you've "proved" your citizenship (well, more specifically your right to work in the US which, in your case, adds up to the same thing) by filling out an IRS W9 form[0], which is required for any jobs which pays wages (whether that be hourly wages or a straight salary) by certifying -- under penalty of perjury if you lie -- that you're either a citizen or otherwise allowed to work in the US.[1]

I'm guessing you've "proven" your citizenship (or at least your legal presence/right to work in the US) at least once and likely (depending on how many employers you've had) more often.[3]

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf

[1] No, this isn't specifically a test of citizenship, especially since non-citizen legal residents are also eligible to obtain RealID documents[2].

[2] https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/driver-services/real-id/real...

[3] Please note that I'm absolutely not playing "gotcha" here. Rather, I'm pointing out that although we don't have Federal ID cards (although a passport certainly is that, and you Taxpayer ID Number -- usually your Social Security number -- are, in fact, Federal IDs) and RealID isn't a "Federal" ID. It's an "enhanced" (i.e., specific and often additional information specified by the Federal government is required to be submitted to your state of residence's licensing authority (usually the state Department of Motor Vehicles). As such, it's not actually a Federal ID, but a state ID with standardized requirements for verification across the US.
by pezezin | 2025-12-02 02:43:45+00:00
> My recollection is that, usually, it crashed more often than that. The 50 days thing was IIRC only the time for it to be guaranteed to crash (due to some counter overflowing).

I had forgotten about this issue (never got a Windows 9x survive more than a few days without crashing), and apparently it was a 32-bit millisecond counter that would overflow after 49.7 days:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-da...
by xp84 | 2025-12-02 02:44:45+00:00
My least favorite thing on the Mac is when they have one of their infamous negative number “error codes” in the alert box, and I get my hopes up that at least it must represent a common thread of errors others have had that may be solved in a forum or subreddit somewhere, then when googling that you discover that all forms of failure from disk full to malware result in the exact same oddly-specific error code and that everyone is talking to each other about it and slowly realizing they have nothing in common but being cursed by Tim Cook.
by komali2 | 2025-12-02 02:45:10+00:00
> What really is the Government going to do with a digital ID service that they can't do already?

In 20 years, the UK suffers a terrorist attack just before an election, and then elects a ultra right wing government on a platform of "remigrating foreigners." You're a British born citizen but your mom fled from Iran in the 80s and immigrated to the UK.

If you don't have digital ID, and the government decides to "remigrate all Iranians," they have to collect information from several different government groups, e.g. maybe your mom got a passport in which case one government agency may just know she's a non-native British citizen but nothing more. Maybe your immigration agency stands up to the government and engages in legal battles to prevent turning over immigration information.

However if there's a digital ID system that lets the government instantly know everything about a person, you lose the protection of friction.

I believe this is one of the fundamental premises of representative liberal democracy, and one of its most redeeming features: balance of power is spread not just between branches of government, but through ministries/departments/agencies, which makes it much harder for a despot to do despotism.
by pezezin | 2025-12-02 02:46:07+00:00
> But while it was once common to walk into a store and find a wide array of computer-oriented furniture for sale, or visit a home and see a PC-like device semi-permanently set up in the den, it seems to be something that almost never happens anymore.

My experience is the opposite: due to the increasing popularity in PC gaming, furniture stores now carry gaming-oriented desks and chairs that they didn't sell before.
by duped | 2025-12-02 02:46:08+00:00
Print debugging is fine and all but I find that it pays massive dividends to learn how to use a debugger and actually inspect the values in scope rather than guessing which are worth printing. It also is useless when you need to debug a currently running system and can't change the code.

And since you need to translate it anyway, there's not much benefit in my mind to using something like msgpack which is more compact and self describing, you just need a decoder to convert to json when you display it.
by mjgs | 2025-12-02 02:46:27+00:00
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by OldSchool | 2025-12-02 02:46:30+00:00
This was an era of some pretty awful American cars. A mid-size family sedan would have a v6 with a carburetor and 110-125 hp and still weigh 1.5 tons or more. An automatic transmission with a lockup torque converter was probably a pretty new improvement at the time, and ABS brakes were still 5+ years away in high-end cars.
by noduerme | 2025-12-02 02:46:55+00:00
I'm still on Monterey, on a 2021 M1 that works just fine. I'm not buying a new Mac this year specifically to avoid having to spend days dealing with all the potential headaches of updating my dev environments. I hate upgrading. I don't want any of the new stuff. I just want something that works. The first thing I do when I get a new Mac is uninstall every piece of Apple software that can be uninstalled, then use Little Snitch to block all their IP addresses.

That being said, now AWS is forcing all my RDS instances to upgrade to mysql 9 (also: Why???), so I need to get 9 working on my dev box, and tonight I'm up against a wall trying to work through Homebrew issues. There's no way to win.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-12-02 02:47:13+00:00
If by "society" you mean the state, I disagree.

The world is changing quickly, and many people may run into problems, but I'd rather let cultural solutions to these problems naturally arise. Relying on a government to impose top-down solutions on these complicated and poorly understood problems is a recipe for a disaster of unintended consequences.
by hxtk | 2025-12-02 02:47:49+00:00
There’s also the issue of non-browser support. I recently advocated for replacing some GIFs with WEBM because WEBM was faster to encode and took up 3% as much space. Technically it sounded great. Then we talked to users.

It turns out some users wanted to embed moving pictures in Word documents, which you can only do with a GIF because it’s an image format that happens to move, so Word treats it as an image (by rendering it to the page). If it’s a video format, Word treats it as an attachment that you have to click on so it’ll open Media Player and show you.
by torton | 2025-12-02 02:48:02+00:00
I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a few people to huddle, and for focused individual work, and for meetings with remote people without disrupting anyone and without taking up a meeting room. Nowadays we have unforced poor conditions and outcomes, mostly for pretend savings on facilities.

And, of course, serendipitous collaboration rarely happens when everyone is sitting with noise cancelling headphones, focusing on hitting their ambitious individual goals for the quarter/half/year.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:49:12+00:00
Uh huh, that's always how it starts. "Well you're in the minority, majority prevails".

Yup, story of my life. I have on fact had a dozen different times where I chose not to jump off the cliff with peers. How little I realized back then how rare that quality is.

But you got your answer, feel free to follow the crowd. I already have migrations ready. Again, not my first time.
by simoncion | 2025-12-02 02:49:29+00:00
Yep. I've been through almost exactly that, and know many other folks who have. If you're working in the US or other places that don't have really good labor regs, "RTO exemptions" are temporary, no matter what you're being told today.

Though, in my case bullet #1 was more like

No more remote hires. However, we will more than backfill the folks quitting or being laid off in the US and the EU with folks in India and China. We hope you enjoy the in-office synergy when communicating with your new teammates who are literally half a world away!
by hekkle | 2025-12-02 02:49:47+00:00
As bad as this sounds, and I do agree with the author that appointing an ex-Meta exec to the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) position, is ridiculous. I think it would be fair to also say that the agreement she signed would be unenforceable in Europe. In fact, the author even admits it is unenforceable in the US

> The clauses in Wynn-Williams contract are very similar (if not identical) to the clauses that the US National Labor Relations Board ruled unenforceable

It is definitely still a concern that she (potentially) has stock options in the company, since she will be unwilling to make any decision that could adversely affect her nest egg.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-02 02:50:02+00:00
Two things are stopping another 9/11: cockpit doors and passengers knowing they have nothing to lose.

Before 9/11, hijackings were pretty survivable events, but your best bet for survival was to cooperate and wait it out.

The 9/11 hijackers cashed in that history all at once. Now people know their best chance of survival is to fight back as hard as they can.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-12-02 02:50:08+00:00
Smells like management trying to recapture the glory days by brute force.

> "focus on building great products, not preparing for meetings"

That says it all. The intent is to try to spark the freewheeling, creative, startup days. Wouldn't be the first company that tries to reconnect with its startup roots. Won't be the last, either. Unfortunately, it never works, because those rockstar startup employees cashed out their stock and moved to the Napa Valley. Your workforce is now indistinguishable from IBM or Exxon Mobile. Good luck!

> Mosseri joined Facebook in 2008 as a designer and became Instagram's VP of product in 2018

Bingo. Old dog, new tricks. Good luck!
by svat | 2025-12-02 02:50:13+00:00
The comparison has two points one of which says that for "Complex scripts (Devanagari, Arabic)", ghostty-web has " Proper grapheme handling". But when I tried something extremely simple at the https://ghostty-web.wasmer.app/ or https://ghostty.ondis.co/ demos (just `echo "कवि"`), it failed pretty miserably (and in different ways in the two demos). So I'm not sure what to make of it.

(Seems slightly better in the actual Ghostty app, but not in any usable way: here was my comparison last year https://shreevatsa.net/post/terminal-indic/ and Ghostty is comparable to the other terminal apps, better than some, worse than some. Anyway the fact that it works in Ghostty but not in ghostty-web casts doubt on “Ghostty's emulator is the same battle-tested code that runs the native Ghostty app”. Do you understand what is going on?)
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-02 02:51:14+00:00
Now this is a folding phone I'd actually get, because a square aspect ratio on a regular folding phone is not that useful, especially for watching 16:9 media or reading an ebook. The only issue seems to be battery life, I'm still not sure why Samsung is not using the new silicon carbon battery tech, where others like OnePlus are achieving 7 to 8 thousand mAh capacities in the same form factor as other phones.
by hedgehog | 2025-12-02 02:51:56+00:00
I've been using Macs in various forms since the 80s and I've carried a Mac laptop with me nearly full time since the early 2000s. While I don't think quality is necessarily overall worse than a decade or two ago I have run out of patience for rewrites with major regressions of most of the apps I care about. For the first time in a lot of years I have a Linux laptop along side my Mac and, if all works out, I'm planning to shift all my important workflows over.
by wolrah | 2025-12-02 02:51:56+00:00
> For this specific regulation, it's illegal to prevent someone who passes physical security screening and has paid their fare from boarding a plane.

Cite? Not that I'm doubting, just never heard this mentioned during the last news cycle around REAL ID when it "went in to effect" months ago. I didn't really look in to it any further as I've had a compliant ID for long enough it expires next year plus a passport so it didn't affect me.
by xp84 | 2025-12-02 02:52:43+00:00
> if something doesn't work the way you want it you can change it.

This sentence here is my biggest heartbreak with modern “computing.” I came up in the Windows 98/XP days and over about 7 years from 98-05 basically gained full mastery of basically every aspect of Windows and how to change it, and also from 03 on started using Mac OS X daily and found it to be just as customizable or more, in most ways that mattered. I felt that my computer was my own and loved having full control, making it perfect for me.

None of that is possible now. You cannot even select your own notification sound for Messages on MacOS anymore. Only the 20 sounds packaged with the OS. What. The. F%$k.