MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2026-03-06 22:03:05+00:00
The salary ranges are complete jokes on either end: they're either malicious compliance like you pointed out, or completely out of touch with reality.

My example of that was when I applied for an Architect role (as I'm at that point in my upward career trajectory), and they asked me instead to apply for a Senior Admin role as they "didn't know what the Architect role would look like yet". I did, I included my comp target, and got the hard sell on why I was being unreasonable and should take {2016_PAY}/{$100k below SV_FIRM} instead. I mentioned my absolute floor was {$75k lower than SV_FIRM}/{$25k lower than my target}, ran him through my math (median rent for the area, on-site expectations, commute costs, food costs, insurance costs, 50/30/20 budgeting, etc), and pointed out that floor would only cover needs (50) and savings (20) with no fun money (30) whatsoever. Ultimately I withdrew my name entirely because the guy just wouldn't listen to me, and all but demanded I be grateful for his number in the current economy.

I suspect something similar is going on with another company that's seemingly ghosted me, after I stated I was targeting their upper boundary of their listed comp range - still $85k below {SV_FIRM}, but with growth potential towards Architect and Director-type IT roles. Even when I'm fine eating huge pay cuts for work (and falling off the homebuying ladder, as not even {SV_FIRM} paid house-purchasing money), the employers out there really do want perfect diamonds for the cost of Halloween Trinkets.

> Also if you're going to dumpster candidates without banking experience why on earth did you waste several hours of your staff's time giving me tech screens?

This is also something that's grinding my gears. Had an investment firm put me through six technical interviews with glowing recommendations every step of the way only for the seventh round (CIO) to put the kibosh on it without a reason and after showing up unprepared and disinterested. Also had companies say I lack financial discipline experience when I've literally built models, showback systems, budget forecasts, and cemented six-figures of monthly savings in prior roles; same with companies saying I "lack compliance experience" despite calling out running infra in highly regulated environments, performing compliance audits for clients, and uplifting infra to satisfy compliance regimes.

If I didn't know better, I'd say the entire HR process is just feeding shit into chatbots and letting them make hiring decisions. Nobody seems to actually care about the humans involved or the wider systems at play.

It's immensely frustrating, but I can only keep on keeping on until something changes. I don't need to win every application, I just need to win one.
by greggoB | 2026-03-06 22:03:19+00:00
This reply makes zero sense to me.

1. You start off by labelling both platforms as "extreme partisan" - care to explain?
2. This charge is used to minimize the original complaint (login requirement), which is a hard blocker to view replies, i.e. additional context.
3. This all then somehow morphs into a point about platform longevity?

How exactly does any of this address parent commenter's statement that "bsky is just a superior viewing experience."?
by mikestew | 2026-03-06 22:03:26+00:00
What's your counterargument to this statement?

Don’t need one, it’s an opinion piece, with plenty of facts to back it up. You’ve proposed solutions that don’t yet exist. When those solutions are viable, maybe it’s not such a bad idea. But at the moment it would appear that such a journey has low odds of ending well. If Musk wants to burn cash, and has willing participants, go for it. But with my tax dollars? Yeah, you’re going to have to do better than a lick, prayer, and a hearty “good luck!”
by muyuu | 2026-03-06 22:03:35+00:00
> It isn't the kernel's role to verify ages

of course it's not, but this has been already floated

if we stuck to what makes sense, nothing of this would have been even proposed - making sense is not something legislators are necessarily bound by

and if we're talking of enforceability, plenty of people can be targeted and will be targeted if things follow this path, it's not like the main developers controlling the different systems in Linux - for instance - are anonymous

take for instance System76, they're not even remotely in charge of the OS their computers run, but they know that 1) they may either leave their users with a nerfed connection if age signals are implemented at the browser protocol level, or at the application level and 2) they may be made responsible and liable for every computer they sell without those provisions, like it's going to start happening in Brazil in a few weeks

plenty of people are possible attack vector for governments, and the very threat will cause an effect

does anything of this make sense? no

but it doesn't mean there is no present danger, just because your jurisdiction has not issued concrete threats yet or because you mean you can tell lawmakers you use OSS and therefore their laws don't apply to you

the only thing they need to make "unverified" devices illegal is that the mainstream are all already corralled into "verified" systems, and you'd be effectively marginalised
by geraldwhen | 2026-03-06 22:04:18+00:00
Business bros will not pay high salaries to maintain software. Software maintenance will always end in India with developers making $20/hr. Or less.

AI makes it look like these developers can do the same job the Americans did building the product to begin with. Even if things fall apart in the end, it won’t stop the attempt to order of magnitude reduce the cost for maintenance.
by zamalek | 2026-03-06 22:04:57+00:00
Friendly reminder: most cloud providers have deletion locks. Go and enable them on your prod dbs right now.

Sure, Claude could just remove the lock - but it's one more gate.

Edit: these existed long before agents, and for good reason: mistakes happen. Last week I removed tf destroy from a GitHub workflow, because it was 16px away from apply in the dropdown. Lock your dbs, irrespective of your take on agents.
by to11mtm | 2026-03-06 22:05:22+00:00
I had TSA swab the front of my Sigma 100-400 because it purportedly came up hot. Will at least give that guy credit, he was gentler handling it than I ever am.

That said, yeah you would have been hosed for that lens, but I'm pretty sure they could still face consequences and you'd at least eventually get some reimbursement (less the time dealing with the process)
by handedness | 2026-03-06 22:05:24+00:00
Sure, if you switch off every kill switch you're in pretty good shape for the time being. Same as if you turn off all radios and sensors on a GrapheneOS device. And then you're way ahead of the game when you turn all of the software switches back on.

The trusted application thing is hard, same as the trusted kernel thing is hard. Some monolithic kernels are adding bugs faster than they're being addressed. It's a really hard problem and I don't see monolithic kernels as being the best solution of the future. That's relevant to threat modeling, which is why virtualization is so valuable, but it needs to be built on a secure hardware platform. Part of the benefits of significant sandboxing, much like virtualization, is you can ultimately run all apps as some degree of untrusted. Both together would be best. Saying you can't imagine how something could be more secure than your Qubes setup is a better indication of your ability to imagine than it is of any security reality. And then you recommend people check out two solutions with the benefits of neither approach (and other issues).

Anyway, I'm still going at this because your comments (which frequently commit the errors of which you accuse others) go unreplied in too many threads, so I engage so that others who skim threads containing questionable assertions will at least see a different viewpoint.

When I recently didn't continue to play along with you, you tried to use that thread as evidence supporting some kind of weird dunking on me, and others. It's a project you claim to care about and want to see succeed, and then you repeatedly approach it in a highly insufficient way, often invoking the project in threads not even about it just to go ahead and dismiss it. You ask basic, easily researched questions relentlessly and when people stop answering point to the lack of a final response as justification, despite your claims of awareness of your own ignorance. There's an actual name for what it is you're doing.

It's a weird axe you have to grind, and I'm content to let others see it all in context and decide for themselves. I only bother because I think it's an important project, genuinely want to see it succeed, and think on this important site of tech culture, you're damaging it unfairly. Whether that's intentional or not, I don't know, nor do I need to.
by vel0city | 2026-03-06 22:05:29+00:00
In fact I remember reading the opposite recently, that IPCC sea level rise predictions from the 90s were actually pretty accurate given the limitations of the models at the time. And that a good bit of the error was underestimations of rise, not overestimations.

> Here we show that the mid-range projection from the Second Assessment Report of the IPCC (1995/1996) was strikingly close to what transpired over the next 30 years, with the magnitude of sea-level rise underestimated by only ∼1 cm.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025ef00...
by rngfnby | 2026-03-06 22:05:35+00:00
" I shouldn’t be strip searched for the crime of showing up to the airport."

People have forgotten that the TSA got caught lying about the machines not taking pictures (its just a cartoon!) and their employees laughing at people's bodies.

If the TSA wants to disrobe me they're going to have to do it the honest, old fashioned way. Not some sterilized make believe.
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by hcmhcs0 | 2026-03-06 22:05:40+00:00
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Two modes:
- Select text in any app → Cmd+Option+Z → instant translation
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by Pfhortune | 2026-03-06 22:06:06+00:00
Taking my technician test tomorrow! Wish me luck!

Not only am I pursuing this because I want long-range emergency comms in case cell networks go down (like what happened with Verizon recently), but also because I see a very notable contraction on what communication is allowed to be done on the internet, especially in the last year. Censorial regimes around the world seem to be accelerating and I don't want to be cut off from communications because I am not of an "accepted" identity.

And yes, I'm aware that states police the amateur airwaves too. But I see it more like how getting a driver's license doesn't mean I can't flee a country with my car... Learning to drive, or operate a radio, is still a valuable skill to learn and practice.
by mindslight | 2026-03-06 22:06:18+00:00
It's been a while since I've flown, but it always seemed to help to not stand completely out of the way lest they forget about you. A bunch of people will ask if you if you're waiting to use the scanner, or even start queuing up behind you until the thugs direct them to go around you. But all this keeps the incentives aligned much better.
by skydhash | 2026-03-06 22:06:42+00:00
> The job becomes naming, describing, and instructing and then wiring those pieces together with something more akin to flow-chart programming.

That's precisely what peoples are bad at. If people don't grasp (even intuitively) the concept of finite state machine and the difference between states and logic, LLMs are more like a wishing well (vibes) than a code generator (tooling for engineering).

Then there's the matter of technical knowledge. Software is layers of abstraction and there's already abstraction beneath. Not knowing those will limit your problem solving capabilities.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-03-06 22:07:36+00:00
> Shouldn't you manage permissions from groups instead of hacking udev?

Well my user is a member of plugdev, but by default udev has no clue that it should allow plugdev members to access some obscure third-party FPGA board. Someone has to write a udev rule for it, and if they don't share it for others to use, so does the next person. The next person happened to be me.

> And why do you have modemmanager if you don't have a modem?

And that is the right kind of question! I have absolutely no idea why my stock install of Linux Mint includes and activates ModemManager.
by scottyah | 2026-03-06 22:07:45+00:00
Also I imagine this is partly due to intra-military power struggles. I'm sure there are a lot in the DoW who like Anthropic- models wise and all that they stand for. The supply chain thing was a way to take the power from them, though petty.

Pete is also facing a lot of risk from AI, power structures will be forced to change once a few teams can take over entire departments of people. The military ecosystem is very much like the private sector in where the number of butts in seats is a metric for people. The dynamics will be changed if your group can just hand-roll what they relied on others for.
by handedness | 2026-03-06 22:07:59+00:00
Sure you can, because you're talking about different inputs in your supply and demand scenario. You're also talking about different opportunity costs for the OEM, different incentives, and different outcomes. You're also assuming the person selling their Pixel is buying another Pixel, and not switching to a device made by a different OEM.

And ultimately, if buying it on the secondary market in such small numbers that it doesn't move the market, then it adequately addresses the concern.

Edit: I'm not saying there's zero effect of it, but it's likely statistically insignificant.
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-06 22:08:38+00:00
I always opt out, too, also because I don't trust their machines after reading enough stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/iaurm/cancer_clus... or https://www.propublica.org/article/u-s-government-glossed-ov... and then learning enough about how it was all for theater anyway.

Cool tech, but I don't want it scanning my junk especially, no thanks. I'll just apply Betteridge's law of headlines to the article "You Asked: Are Airport Body Scanners Safe?" at https://time.com/4909615/airport-body-scanners-safe/ and go on my merry way.

The TSA definitely seems to intentionally make me wait unnecessarily long for my patdowns to commence.

The attitude among some TSA employees can be truly confrontational when I'm nothing but polite.

One of them literally shoved their hand so fast and so far up my leg, it stung my private area for a good little while after. Now, whenever their script comes to the point where they ask if there is anything they should know, I have to ask them to not do that please, since it has happened before.

If there is a list of people to be first in line for UBI instead of whatever they do now, I'm okay if it's everybody at the TSA, and I'm guessing that they would be cool with that, too.
by QuercusMax | 2026-03-06 22:08:45+00:00
Google decided to build a new chat app every two years instead of keeping the good bits of the original chat app they had and evolving it. It was endlessly frustrating to me when I was at Google. Google's security team ended up banning Slack access after several teams started expensing it.

It doesn't seem like building something that works well would be that hard; we've had nearly 40 years to learn from IRC, AIM, and others. Why can't I run my own chat client that does what I want? Oh, because you gotta lock people in. Sucks.
by cozzyd | 2026-03-06 22:08:53+00:00
If you care about space, you're almost certainly going to compress your output (unless, like, you're literally storing random noise) and so you'll necessarily have overhead from that.

Unless the reason you care about space is because it's some sort of wire protocol for a slow network (like LoRaWAN or Iridium packets or a binary UART protocol), where compression probably doesn't make sense because the compression overhead is too large. But even here, just defining the data layout makes sense, I think.

Tihs could take the form of a C struct with __attribute__((packed)) but that is fragile if you care about more platforms than one. (I generally don't, so that works for me!).
by shagie | 2026-03-06 22:08:54+00:00
> There's a lot of anger in this thread at companies for making obvious choices.

Elsecomment and on Reddit, you'll see the attitude that their years of experience should be sufficient assurance for their prospective employer that they can pick up whatever other technologies are out there.

This is often coupled with the "you shouldn't need to learn new things outside of your 9-5."

Here, you are presenting a situation where a company would rather promote from within (counter job hopping culture) and would penalize someone who is not learning about new things that their current employer isn't using in the hiring process.

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And you've mentioned it elsecomment too - it's about the risk. A company hiring an individual who isn't familiar with the technology and has not shown the ability to learn new material is more risky a hire than one who is either familiar with it professionally or has demonstrated the ability to learn new technologies.

That runs counter to the idea of the "best" candidate being the one who is most skilled but rather the "best" candidate being the one that is the least risky of a hire.
by magicnubs | 2026-03-06 22:09:04+00:00
YoY change in jobs is still probably not the best way to visualize overall market health. As you say, you also have to take into account the number of people of fill the jobs. To me it seems like the least misleading statistics would be a graph showing unemployment and underemployment % over time. I'd probably also toss in graphs of length of unemployment period as well as various median wage percentiles (quintiles or deciles maybe) over time.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-06 22:09:16+00:00
What if i told you some big tech jobs let you earn $300k+ a year, while take 4 weeks+ time off, and working 40hrs a week?

My first SWE job was at an older fortune 500 company where tech was not its main focus. You started with 14 days of vacation and slooooowly worked your way up to 4 weeks after like 20 years of service lol.

My point is, in the U.S. your experience varies WILDLY based on your employer. Not saying the U.S. is perfect or does things the right way. Just pointing out that you’re off base with your “15 days of vacation for big tech” comment. That’s a false generalization for big tech. Accurate for white collar jobs in general though!
by t43562 | 2026-03-06 22:09:40+00:00
So far the issue for me is that you can generate more crap by far than you can keep an eye on.

Once you have your 50k line program that does X are you really going to go in there and deeply review everything? I think you're going to end up taking more and more on trust until the point where you're hostage to the AI.

I think this is what happens to managers of course - becoming hostage to developers - but which is worse? I'm not sure.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-06 22:10:41+00:00
It's not difficult for many conditions. Digested blood has a metallic and vile odor. Ketosis and diabetes can cause acetone-smelling breath. Kidney disease can cause ammonia body odor. Liver disease can cause a fishy, musty smell. Unhealthy diets and GI issues can cause bad odors.

In the past, I have often wondered what is wrong with people given how badly they smelled in the locker room or after leaving a restroom. Truly unnatural odors.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-06 22:11:11+00:00
The streaming platform and entertainment studio cannot be considered 1st and 2nd things in 2026. The streaming platform is the delivery mechanism of the product made by the entertainment studio, no different than what Disney/Comcast/Paramount/WarnerBros Discovery does.

Youtube Red just got rebranded as Youtube Premium, and does not seem comparable because Youtube does not curate, it just sells advertising spots, and subscriptions to be able to skip ad breaks. You can watch any random person's content on Youtube or Youtube Premium, but you cannot on Netflix/Disney/etc.
by pragma_x | 2026-03-06 22:11:33+00:00
> I ask straight questions and look for straight answers. One line at a time, one file at a time.

I've also taken to using the Socratic Method when interrogating an LLM. No loaded questions, squeaky clean session/context, no language that is easy to misinterpret. This has worked well for me. The information I need is in there, I just need to coax it back out.

I did exactly this for an exercise a while back. I wanted to learn Rust while coding a project and AI was invaluable for accelerating my learning. I needed to know completely off-the-wall things that involved translating idioms and practices from other languages. I also needed to know more about Rust idoms to solve specific problems and coding patterns. So I carefully asked these things, one at a time, rather than have it write the solution for me. I saved weeks if not months on that activity, and I'm at least dangerous at Rust now (still learning).
by alephnerd | 2026-03-06 22:12:03+00:00
> I do not see how Netflix's primary business is any different than the businesses in the "Hollywood" categorization that also pay to make media and then sell it

Netflix owns distribution and owns+sells VFX and animation services via Eyeline. Most "Netflix orignals" aren't actually produced by Netflix - Netflix just takes a capital stake in a production that was already in the works by an existing production company.

This made Netflix closer to Valve, and allows their IR team to make a valid case that they should be compared against (and thus deserve a valuation) comparable to other tech companies.
by to11mtm | 2026-03-06 22:12:25+00:00
It kinda depends.

For instance, Many insurers offer something akin to 'Valuable Property Insurance' (At least that's what mine is called) and for personal use it covers drop/breaks as well as theft.

You typically need proof of ownership; my insurer lets me upload that, so I usually make a point to upload a copy of the invoice/receipt as well as the camera/lens and closeup of the serial number (even better if the invoice has the S/N present!). That's more important for high dollar items typically.

-HOWEVER-

That's for personal use. A while back I actually hit a coverage threshold where my insurer sent me a letter basically saying "Hey, just so you know, you are not covered for business use". (I don't use for business, I just figured it was a cheaper hobby than a boat)

Edited to add:

FWIW the VPP policy is separate from a homeowners policy, however insurers may or may not (depending on state law etc) be able to use a claim on a different policy to impact rates/etc.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-06 22:12:27+00:00
> With his new toy having a leverage ratio north of 6x, David Ellison has promised $6 billion in “synergies” within three years. (Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos put the figure closer to $16 billion, after examining WBD’s books.

What is it that these CEOs think they are seeing, that everyone else is missing? I can believe they have inflated egos, but they’re not totally crazy, right? My impression is that Netflix is fairly sober and results oriented, so I’m confused by the whole thing.