MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbs789 | 2026-01-02 15:35:43+00:00
I understand that the market in the UK is particularly tough now, across many sectors.

Is there a particular specialisation you have, and then how does someone who needs that specialisation find you?

Particularly if the job is 100pct remote, you’re participating in a global market.

Or if there’s a local
company that needs you… even if the work isn’t the most challenging… Can at least leverage the real-world relationships? Anyone at prior jobs who can help with connections? (Never hurts to ask).

I hope you are able to find something that provides at least an emotional boost while the broader search continues!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-02 15:36:10+00:00
That's not a useful description of desktop "creative" software. Even though it might be true for audio that in many cases, the majority of the run time is spent handling the "process callback" from the audio subsystem, once the user starts actually working on things, the slow parts of the code (and the ones that impede the user or degrade their experience) are far removed from that core. This is a little less true of visual applications (video, drawing, image editing etc.) but I would imagine that similar considerations apply there too.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-02 15:36:21+00:00
> They pissed off both the US and EU, and even Mexico

I'm sure they are in shamble knowing they made their main rival mad.

Apart from some moderate posturing to appease the US and a bit of moderate protectionism, the EU is still very much a trade partner however. A casual look at all the new Chinese brand factories in Hungary probably tell you everything you need to know.

Meanwhile they dominate the South American, African and South-East Asian markets.

> American and European countries are taking action to stop Chinese anti-competitive practices.

Personally, as a European, I would really appreciate if American started by stopping their own anti-competitive practices. It's objectively worse than what China is doing.

> I also don’t know what you mean when you say for example the US and Germany are suppressing wages.

Germany is suppressing wages. They have been doing so since the 2000s. It's indolore for them because their money can't appreciate as it's anchored by the rest of the union. It's terrible for the other members however especially considering Germany doesn't reinvest their surplus in the union.
by bregma | 2026-01-02 15:36:50+00:00
I started decades ago using Quicken. Then had to re-enter all my data when a new version came out and support for the old version was EOLed. So I switched to GNU Cash and re-entered everything again. Then there were migration issues with GNU Cash.

Finally I discovered PTA. I chose hledger (because of possible performance issues with beancount). I learned double-entry bookkeeping (it's pretty simple, honestly). I write Python scripts to import investment statements sent in PDF format (broker does not support transaction downloads) and pay stubs (payroll company does not do transaction downloads) and CSV imports for bank and credit card statements which lets me autocategorize most transactions. Turns out it's exactly what I wanted all this time I just didn't know it.

I spend about an hour each month updating accounts. I generate investment reports, budget reports, and tax summaries. It's all there, except tracking the ACB of my investments (which I probably could do except a simple spreadsheet is less effort). Everything I need for my coming retirement this year.

And because it's plain text I will never have to lose everything when data formats change due to new upstream releases. And because it's plain text I can use git to track changes and recover and do better off-site backups.

I guess the downside is it doesn't work on your phone and you have to know what you're doing. But if information like how much money you have and where you're spending it is actually important, it's the right tool for the job.
by mothballed | 2026-01-02 15:36:57+00:00
It's the parents obligation to educate their child.

It's the child's obligation to use that education wisely.

There were no trackers on cars when I started driving at 15 so my parents drove with me for a few months and after that I was on my own. There were no gun laws against kids having guns when I was 7 so my dad showed me how to use one safely and after that I was set loose upon the countryside armed on my own. There were no ridiculous negligent standards/laws on the book when I was young about it being wrong for a kid to spend all day going up/down a creek so my dad showed me what all the venomous snakes looked like and how to use a compass and after that I was on my own.

I find disagreement with this new standard on parents. No, it's not the parents obligation to keep their child from ever making a horrible mistake. It's their obligation to educate them well and then set them loose with very few safeguards so they can actually slowly learn to be an adult. I am very much for showing kids how to use the internet responsibly, but I'm not of the opinion that parental controls are particularly desirable beyond an initial learning period.
by paxys | 2026-01-02 15:37:15+00:00
Remember that for remote roles you are competing against the best talent in the world, and most of them can afford to work for a tiny fraction of what you are asking for.

There are still plenty of jobs at local software shops, banks, consulting firms, hospitals, government agencies and more, and you are at the front of the line for all of those. A lot of them enforce as little as 2-3 days in the office. Apply there instead.
by c0balt | 2026-01-02 15:37:27+00:00
That seems pretty overzealous, companies like SAP or Heinlein are doing well-ish and the recent push for digital sovereignty has induced some money. There also is a bunch of mixed shops (doing he and software or integration work).

The primary difference is that many expect on-site and they pay is generally not US-startup scale.

Many companies also expect you to at least have some knowledge of their local language (e. G., German, Spanish or Polnish) and not just English. One has to adapt to be competitive here.
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-02 15:37:28+00:00
> Israel was still occupying Gaza, according to an ICJ ruling

That's not what the court said. Its language was

> In light of the above, the Court is of the view that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has not entirely released it of its obligations under the law of occupation. Israel’s obligations have remained commensurate with the degree of its effective control over the Gaza Strip.

As it often does, the court used intentionally ambiguous language to try to get a majority of judges on board. But the most natural reading seems to be a novel idea that occupation is non-binary, and Gaza lies somewhere on a spectrum of being occupied or not.

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-02 15:37:36+00:00
> Unless you're working with a shit company, chances are pretty good that all of your software and workflows will work on Linux too, and possibly even work better.

I wouldn't call the company where I work shit, but in Germany many big companies are deeply entrenched in the whole Microsoft ecosystem, and some sectors are even more entranched. So, I am very certain that a lot of insanely business-critical software at the company where I work at (which is about a market where easily billions of EUR/USD are moved) will not work in a GNU/Linux ecosystem.

Over many, many years, many parts of the (often custom-built) software was developed to work together with the existing big ecosystem of existing (also often custom-built) software. Some parts of the programs that I work on are deeply intertwined with various products from Microsoft - if they weren't, the users would not be able to work so productively with these programs (i.e. the workflows would take a lot more time for the (highly qualified) users, which would cost the company a big load of money).
by crazygringo | 2026-01-02 15:38:09+00:00
You have a very idiosyncratic take. I've never heard anyone else complain, as a dev, that Safari was harder to develop for because it was buggier. When I run into JavaScript API differences between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (as I have many times), they just mostly do different things where the spec is underspecified. I don't assume Chrome is doing it the right way and Safari is the buggy one. It sounds like you just develop Chrome-first.

Yeah, if you want to test against Safari you need Apple hardware. If you can't be bothered to get some cheap secondhand Apple hardware for testing for your business, then that says more about the business decisions you're making. The idea that Apple ought to be obligated to make its browser available on other platforms seems pretty silly to me.
by sneak | 2026-01-02 15:38:45+00:00
Telling lies should never be criminalized, because there is no single trustworthy arbiter of truth.

This has nothing to do with vaccines. There is a very good reason that misinformation is, and should remain legal. This simply allows the person or group who gets to define what is or is not misinformation to arbitrarily imprison anyone doing publishing they don’t like.

You really need to think through the implications and consequences of censorship laws before advocating for them.
by apothegm | 2026-01-02 15:38:51+00:00
The massive rounds of layoffs in the US over the past 3 years mean there are a ridiculous number of software engineers looking for jobs. AI has compounded this by automating applications such that a single opening might get multiple thousands of submissions.

Your best bet to find a job in this market is to have some connection to the hiring manager. It might be a friend of a friend of a former colleague. Or both having membership in the same semi-open community. But you need a way to say “hey, I’m a real human being and especially interested in this job; please at least take a look at my resume!”
by mbb70 | 2026-01-02 15:38:52+00:00
Wish we lived in the universe where the term 'monkey' won over 'agent'. Would have given everything a cool Planet of the Apes feel.

I remember this getting a lot of buzz at the time, but few orgs are at the level of sophistication to implement chaos testing effectively.

Companies all want a robust DR strategy, but most outages are self-inflicted and time spent on DR would be better spent improving DX, testing, deployment and rollback.
by kentonv | 2026-01-02 15:38:54+00:00
I am not familiar with Arch, so my advice might be wrong for Arch.

But I have a lot of experience on Debian and Ubuntu trying to use the packages that handle the nvidia driver installation for you. It works OK. But one day on a lark I tried downloading the blob directly from nvidia and installing that way, and I was surprised to find it was quite smooth and thorough, so I've been doing it that way ever since.
by AREO_Marius | 2026-01-02 15:38:56+00:00
@Mario - I looked for contact details in your profile but did not find any. We are currently hiring senior Rails engineers, fully remote in Europe (see an older job ad here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923191).

Please feel free to reach out, and then we can see if there is a good match.
by bosmanos | 2026-01-02 15:39:07+00:00
OP here. I wrote this after realizing that modern dating apps suffer from the same 'explore-exploit' problems we see in high-entropy systems. I tried to apply Friston’s Free Energy Principle and Festinger’s proximity studies to explain why 'optimizing' for a partner usually leads to failure. Curious to hear what the HN crowd thinks about the 'immune system' metaphor regarding social friction
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-02 15:39:19+00:00
It's so bizarre to me that in "The Land of the Free", 18 year olds, who are considered old enough to go to war, are not allowed to drink. Especially because this isn't some archaic law from the 18th or 19th centuries but instead from 1984 and only came about after the federal government withheld funds to force the states' hands over a period of 4 years.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-02 15:39:40+00:00
Research papers are not literature reviews. This paper reports on the results of this study. And that study only investigated what it investigated.

In the case of public health, there are a bunch of organizations that keep on top of the research and maintain a more comprehensive view of their perception of the current consensus.

For day to day guidance, individuals should be referring to either those sources, or healthcare professionals.

If people are looking at individual studies like this to make decisions, something has gone very wrong.
by arcfour | 2026-01-02 15:39:41+00:00
My HP ZBooks have been a dream. My current Studio G10 with an i9-13900 and 4070M has largely Just Worked™ with recent versions of both Fedora and Ubuntu.

HP releases firmware updates on LVFS for both the ZBook and its companion Thunderbolt 4 dock(!). They also got it Ubuntu certified, like most of their business laptops.
by stared | 2026-01-02 15:39:42+00:00
> 2) there is no test to determine if a male has been exposed, although there is one for females

It is incorrect. I had it tested multiple times. It is done less routinely, usually under assumption that since it is women who are mostly at risk, why bother testing men. Which is horrible mindset in anything related to epidemiology.

See:

- https://www.droracle.ai/articles/607248/what-methods-are-use...

- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256477/

- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2024.2...

> 1) if you've ever been exposed to HPV already, then the vaccine is useless

Also no. See other comments.
by Bluecobra | 2026-01-02 15:40:13+00:00
As an ex-Mint user, Monarch has been a very useful and I feel I spend way less time monkeying around trying to recategorize transactions. I really like the budget rollover feature, it really helps smooth out things like yearly insurance renewals. My only fear is if they start getting greedy and jack up the yearly subscription fee. I feel like around $100/year is just about right.
by mariogintili | 2026-01-02 15:40:18+00:00
> Is there a particular specialisation you have, and then how does someone who needs that specialisation find you?

Being a generalist and having experience delivering products all the way its what makes me stand out. That being said, I've done some cool pieces with backoffices and dev tooling and developer experience

> Or if there’s a local company that needs you… even if the work isn’t the most challenging… Can at least leverage the real-world relationships? Anyone at prior jobs who can help with connections? (Never hurts to ask).

I've done my best and decided to take any job even if it doesn't pay as much. I have exhausted all of my prior connections

Thanks for the good wishes
by dheera | 2026-01-02 15:40:27+00:00
I'm also less obsessive than some people but I don't want to use anything proprietary or have to pay for a product to track my finances ("Hey you spend a lot, we can help, how about you spend more on us?" is just ridiculous).

I do everything with CSV exports of my bank accounts and credit cards. I drop the exports once a month into a directory and Python scripts (my newer versions of which are mostly written by LLMs) take all the analysis from there, breaking things down by category and by merchant (so that I can see if I'm unintentionally spending more on a particular merchant over time or if that merchant is charging more without notice).

I also have one credit card for strictly recurring expenses ONLY and never put non-recurring expenses on it. That way it's quite easy to see on that credit card bill what changed from month to month. If Comcrap tries to charge me $10 more one month they're going to be getting nasty messages from me pretty quickly.
by docmars | 2026-01-02 15:40:29+00:00
Agreed. The very end of the article also names off all the usual cookie cutter nonsense as well.

These people just can't help themselves to inject activism in everything they do, and this is why so many people are turned off by otherwise great projects.

Tech as a whole needs to take a step back and stop preaching to people about things they probably don't agree with.
by MollyRealized | 2026-01-02 15:40:34+00:00
2025 was a difficult year for me. I am trans, and transitioning at a late age (post-50s). I am confronting a lot of my own self-hatred in the process. It is also a discouraging thing to be trans in this current national (sometimes global) climate. I also had a cardiac episode. There were definite achievements, but it was unabashedly a mix. I'm hoping 2026 will be a better year in most respects where I can build on the good parts of 2025.
by RuslanL | 2026-01-02 15:41:06+00:00
Leaving the price formation nuances of some US peace-time military artifacts aside, my point is that manpower a.k.a. human soldiers become more and more obsolete and should not be treated as a main criteria perhaps already in the current Russian-Ukraine conflict.

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4 days is exactly the time frame to understand that initial calculations have gone wrong and it is time for damage control (try to pull out, initiate peace negotiations, etc).
by Breza | 2026-01-02 15:41:47+00:00
I have had a similar experience. I think one big problem is that EA often uses a low discount rate, meaning they treat theoretical people who won't be born for a century with similar value as people who are alive today. In theory that's defensible, but in reality it means you can hand wave at any large scale issue and come up with massive numbers of lives saved.

My church has a shower ministry, where we open up our showers to people without homes so they can clean up. We also provide clothes and personal supplies. That's just about the opposite of what EA would say we should do, but we can count exactly how many showers we provide and supplies we distribute and how those numbers are trending. Shouting "AI and asteroids!" is more EA, but it eventually devolves into the behavior you describe.
by krapp | 2026-01-02 15:41:50+00:00
>But also, you continue to miss the point - this lacking/bad layout/formatting is precisely the reason not to use plain text

I don't miss the point, I rather disagree with your opinion.

Formatting and layout are properties of the client, and you can display plaintext in any color or font you wish.

But the default - plain white background and plain black text with a simple serif or sans-serif font simulating a paper document - is perfectly readable.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-02 15:42:03+00:00
Of course they do. You should be open and honest.

For us, it’s a system that’s worked well. So well, in fact, that our kids have felt comfortable coming to us when they see something concerning in a group chat rather than waiting for us to find it. And in return, we’ve learned to trust their judgement a lot more because they’ve demonstrated mature behaviour online.
by jrockway | 2026-01-02 15:42:04+00:00
I had to take Computer Ethics as part of my degree, but it didn't really anticipate the sort of problems that software engineers run into today. It mostly focused on Therac-25 and integer overflows. Indeed, letting your integer overflow kill a bunch of people is horrifying and is something we should avoid. But we have a much wider reach than people thought at the time. Software is pervasive throughout society and touches every area of life: food delivery and banking are among the examples listed in this thread, and were never touched on in any class I took.

Software didn't create the gig economy or the microloan economy, but as engineers, we had the opportunity to step up and say "hmm, this doesn't seem right, I don't think we should do that". We didn't.

AI is a whole 'nother can of worms. I watched a lot of my friends deactivate social media over the holiday as their pictures got posted to Twitter and got live AI edited by Grok into things that horrify them. You probably wouldn't have gotten an A in Computer Ethics if you said "yeah, we should publicly show women nude pictures of themselves if someone asks in the comments section", but here we are.

It's not great. As a field, we have been remiss in our duty to society.
by oooyay | 2026-01-02 15:42:21+00:00
Chaos testing rarely uncovers anything significant or actionable beyond things you can suss out yourself with a thorough review but has the added potential for customer harm if you don't have all your ducks in a row. It also neatly requires, as a prerequisite, for you to have your ducks in a row.

I think that's why most companies don't do it. A lot of tedium and the main benefit was actually getting your ducks in a row.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-02 15:42:39+00:00
This is evidently a controversial take: if your projects are always delayed, maybe systematically track the things that slow you down and fix them?

In practice, this means instead of working around tech debt, you pay it down prior to working on it. It's faster than slogging through the same problems over and over. The key is you need to measure and focus on the ACTUAL things that slow you down. Lose a day to flakey tests? Fix the damn tests.

Eliminating the slow things is THE way to go fast - it's so obvious but very few teams actually do this. Instead they complain about all the problems and tech debt then act surprised when, lo and behold, those obstacles once again get in the way of progress. It's embarrassing to see a backlog of "these things slow down development!" tickets get systematically ignored as an explanatory factor, in favor of folk theories and politics.
by illright | 2026-01-02 15:43:13+00:00
Is the Round 2 also going to have screws to potentially replace the battery, like Time 2 does?

Also, while watching the announcement video, I noticed that the pixels are quite a bit more visible on the Round 2 on the same watchface, when compared to Time 2 — on the Time 2, the image is a lot more crisp. Is that a matter of adapting the watchfaces to the bigger screen?
by darkwater | 2026-01-02 15:43:29+00:00
> Also, I got my start as a “hacker” gaming, cheating, and doing less legal stuff … nothing like getting level 99 equipment to incentivize learning how to read/edit a hex dump. Be aware of unintended consequences when you (try to) cut a child off from computer use.

Yes, but no. I used to think the same, coming from the same background, and sometimes I still do but back in the day there was a big filter already (not everyone wanted or liked videogames or a PC), and we were not terminally online. Plus, for the average HNer there is a big survivorship bias on these topics because "I went earning 6 figures thanks to my experiences with computers back in the day".

Nowadays almost everyone has access to an Internet connected smartphone, owning it is not a feature in itself anymore and the vast majority are not entertained trying to hack it. So it becomes something just like any other thing relates to children/teenagers: use common sense, adapt to your kids behavior, strengths and weaknesses and don't stick to rigid rules proposed by someone else that doesn't know you, but keep those rules in mind as an inspiration.
by snake_doc | 2026-01-02 15:43:30+00:00
> Most Americans have no sense of how very different their country is now from say, the country that launched the Apollo missions.

You cannot be kidding right? Those that remember the Apollo missions will undoubtedly agree their country is different, first but not least they are most likely using a smartphone assembled and designed with technology unimaginable by NASA planning the Apollo missions; not only that, the smartphone is assembled half way around the world by a country previously in such dire poverty and famine that over 30M died due to Marxist central planning.