skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you think the components that System76 uses are sourced from?
Tariffs have various long term effects that are useful. One is shifting where that manufacturing is done and in the longer term it could bring it back, depending on the cost of doing it in a different, non China, country. But another long term effect is geopolitical - China is in a more difficult economic position than the US and tariffs will make it difficult for them to keep building their military and difficult to envision war. It will also weaken their authoritarian government, which has an interest in annexing Taiwan and also in undermining the US, Europe, and other free societies. The other benefits of tariffs matter - it isn’t just about the short term effects (of inflating costs or whatever).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/01/28/state-...

https://www.vox.com/politics/399502/transgender-passports-lg...
You're quoting selectively. Berger's point is not just that there's significant "bloat" within NASA, it's that Musk isn't addressing that bloat in a sensible way. Cutting people because they are recent hires and happen to be easier to fire means keeping the programs that Berger thinks are misguided (at least for the time being) but making basically random cuts everywhere else, without any regard for impact.
> being more assembly jobs back to North America

Electronics Assembly jobs already exist in North America - but in Mexico.

They aren't going to bring assembly jobs back to the US, because electronics assembly is very low value and low margins.
You're getting downvoted, which maybe isn't great since there's an important point here that you missed, and it might be worth mentioning.

The SLS is an incredibly expensive boondoggle, a result of pork barrel politics, and so on, but it hasn't caused a massive spike in headcount at NASA proportional to its cost. There are some managers at NASA dealing with it, and if it goes away, they'll deal with something else. The big headcount with SLS is in the private sector, at the contractors.

NASA has pushed back on some of this stupid shit to the fullest extent it can, given the political reality that it has to make whatever congress funds. Maybe you regard DOGE as a potential remedy to that, but firing a bunch of people is orthogonal to that effort.
I live nearby the airport and can attest to just how intense the wind was yesterday. I think the idea of a gust makes more sense though, as planes are certainly designed and operated to handle strong winds.
As a former aviator, the joke in the business is that a career in aviation is largely stupefying boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
Surely it's a conflict of interest when private space man fires government space people?
I think there is a lot to be said about the technology factor to it. On the movie side special effects heavy stuff is still largely the wall-to-wall green or blue screen sound stages. Motion capture and motion tracking tools have all got insanely good so studios can do a lot more than say in the days of Lucas' Star Wars prequels (which were notorious wall-to-wall green screen films of their era), but also the budgets and time constraints and "crunch" still provide a lot of barriers to how well the digital/analog integration is and the overall look of all the effects. Also, there's only so many ways to light a green or blue soundstage so that things are readable and you don't get extra ugly color spill that the special effects have to work even harder to remove. (I think the base lighting options being so mostly homogeneous is a subtle but huge factor in the overall things always feeling that way. Differences in lighting have always been one of the biggest "cinematic languages".)

Special Effects houses working on those sorts of movies are probably using heavier, slower renderers than Unreal Engine today, but given the average life span of an effects house is still appallingly close to 2 years and scenes scattered across 1.5 movies, those renderers are still generally off-the-shelf or borrowed from other companies. Industrial Light and Magic is about the only effects house that no one wants to kill, so also becomes something of a homogenizing factor in whatever tools it white labels for sale/rents to other effects houses. Disney owning ILM seems to be like an obvious factor that almost everyone working on an MCU film is trying to rent or ape the ILM house style at all times.

It's also interesting that right now TV can't afford as much time with the motion tracking/motion capture tools and studio spaces of wall-to-wall green screen, so in the effects heavy shows we're seeing a lot more experimentation, some of which I'd argue look better than the movies currently. For big instances, right now ILM's TV efforts with The Volume (and CBS Paramount's copycat AR Wall and other studios have copycats now too) are fast changing the look of TV. Because these LED walls are their own light source which dynamically reflects what the background should be doing it seems like there's a ton more options for lighting scenes in these rooms/volumes/spaces or doing shots that would be tricky or expensive even with how great motion tracking and motion capture have gotten. Of course the trade-off there is that the real-time background rendering requires a rendering engine more in the vein of Unreal Engine, and allegedly in most cases is definitely Unreal Engine, so "default unreal engine look" starts to apply literally to background elements in TV shows.
So if people buy an acer laptop, acer makes more profit? Quick math - if a laptop is retailing for 1000 and acer makes it for 500(just a random number), due to the tariffs, acer has to pay 550(10% extra) to bring it to the US and now sells it for 1100 due to 10% hike?

profit before = 1000-500 = 500
profit now = 1100 - 550 = 550

So the company is making more profit from you now? What am I missing?
> Now you either have a tool that might be unreliable and can cause you trouble for the next job. Or, you spent money that you didn't have to spend by buying the lower grade tool when you needed to buy something better anyway.

The "unknowns" point is valid, but the advice to buy something cheap to start with still comes from a good place.

Even from a cost perspective, I've snapped a few wrenches and upgraded my box saw (,and will splurge on a solder iron the next time I do anything serious), but the money wasted in those mis-purchases is vastly less than the money I would have spent on getting the "right" tools at the outset.

You also have the problem of unknown unknowns. Plenty of people are willing to sell you a $25 tool for $250, and we all know how reviews work, so the presence of good reviews and a high price tag isn't sufficient to guarantee quality. Even going with a "good" brand doesn't suffice if the brand is willing to increase profits on a few duds here and there (or, more charitably, just doesn't always hit them out of the park) or goes the way of Lenovo after an acquisition. Buying a good tool is often a nontrivial effort, and (when directing that advice to your average homeowner rather than a professional with that particular tool) the experience you have with the bad tool gives you a starting point for figuring out which aspects you do or don't care about.

For a few small examples, I own the cheapest immersion blender, 16oz claw hammer, precision screwdriver set, ... that I could get my grubby little hands on. I'd make those purchases again in a heartbeat.

For a counter-example, I did the same thing with a diamond stone. It turns out I don't care about the surface area or most characteristics (and now I know), but I care quite a lot about the depth and longevity. I'll save more money getting a longer-lasting stone that's a size I need, despite having "wasted" money on the cheaper stone, since I won't be inadvertently getting something bigger than I need or want. Since those things last ages I'm not sure the point really holds, but it also lasted for years and was purchased at a time when money was tighter, and spending more money then would have been much more expensive than spending it now.

For an actual counter-example, now I know that any wrench where I'm applying more than a few hundred foot-pounds of torque absolutely needs to be forged, and I'm willing to splurge to avoid low-quality steel. The cheaper wrenches were properly wasted money. Compared to all the time and money I've saved only purchasing nice tools when something failed though, I still think it was a good strategy.
Assume the readers are dumb and in the meantime Huberman is in top 10 of most popular podcasts of all time.

Journalists and their great education is the more likely culprit.
A failed investment never goes below zero for the investor. For everyone else on the other hand...
Maybe you should write your own blog post that counters the author’s so that others can learn from your experience.
From what I read, in case of missing DoB, they might not use DoB as the qualifier. But then they have a policy to reverify at age 115 or something and every 7 years after that. But to say there are millions of people run into this nuance is still weird to me.
In addition to the DIY options in this thread, there's a UK vendor selling an LED light in eyeglass frame, for weekly 3-min use. Has anyone tried it?

670nm Deep Red LED cluster
8mW / cm²
3 minute session timer with automatic switch off
Rechargeable battery with 2 weeks between charges

> eyepower was set up initially as as a division of Planet Lighting in early 2020 with the aim of designing and developing a mass-market product that would allow individuals to take advantage of recent research in to the beneficial effects of deep red light on long term eye health. With the help and guidance of key academics at the forefront of red light therapy and industry professionals, eyepower succeeded in bringing a product to market in June 2022. Within 6 months of launch, the company had sold over 2,500 units to customers around the globe.

https://www.eye-power.co.uk/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086073)
They're firing probationary employees -- newer hires and recent promotions. The "rest & vest" types don't fall into that category.
Any large organisation operates the same way. Once a business reaches a certain size, you can't implicitly trust every individual with critical functions. Statistically, someone will eventually break something in a catastrophic way.

To prevent that, organisations introduce policies, processes, and review committees to keep things running smoothly.

It’s always possible to cut back bureaucracy, but it’s a constant balancing act between efficiency and security.
Windows 7 was as fancy as Vista and as snappy as XP (though more memory heavy).

You can only understand why Windows 7 was so loved if you relied on it and tried Vista before and Windows 8 after.

Vista made hardware absolutely crawl when it was new. Windows 8 was a UX disaster. In comparison, Windows 7 was fast and functional.

I guess you have to compare 7 to XP as well as the other option was to stay on XP forever. Windows 7 had a lot of improvements over XP though, most natively being 64 bit. So, the big difference between XP and 7 was modern software.

Other than the telemetry, Windows 10 was objectively better than 7. Although they did add a lot of bloat on top of 10 over time.
reminding me that ~1995 for a couple of years it was practical to print listings of web sites:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2868341-the-internet-yel...
It's not the "bottom 10%". So far it's people who were hired recently and are therefore easier to fire because they're in a probationary period. Performance has nothing to do with it.
Many of those leaving Nasa today are probationary employees in their first years of employment. This isn't making up for past mistakes, it is hurting Nasa's future.
The Three Stages of Introversion:

1. You decide (or usually you're told) that you're "introverted" like it's some kind of fundamental, inherent characteristic because you weren't keen on a social obligation of some kind;

2. This label doesn't seem to fit because there are certain people you like but at the same time, just going to work drains you such that you need the entire time until the next day just to recover. So you come up with or are introduced to the concept of a "social battery";

3. Even the social battery model eventually becomes insufficient and it's then you land on introversion of being somewhere on the autism spectrum and what you view as a social battery is really just "masking".

So the 2% people here are, more likely than not, just the people you don't need to mask with.

Let me give you an example: you want to eat ice cream but, for whatever reason, you want to use a tiny spoon. Even a teaspoon seems wrong. If you're with someone you'll get one of two reactions: they'll help you find a suitable spoon without question or they'll ask you why you need a tiny spoon, regardless of whether or not they help you.

This problem with the latter is it's exhausting. You don't want to questioned for every little decision you make. You may know the answer or you may not. Either way, you don't want to have to defend that decision.

So instead you suppress your "idiosynchracies" because you've mentally played out how that conversation goes and you've probably ruminated on the conversation and, from experience, you know you won't feel great. You may even feel under attack. You will try and avoid that feeling, regardless of how you feel about the person.

This is masking. And it's exhausting. The person may not realize they're doing that to you. You may not realize that. You might just feel that something is wrong or even that you're just on alert more than you want to be.

There's a concept here called "radical acceptance" where someone will just accept these quirks without question. These are your 2% people.
Jean Hilliard's Minnesota Story (2018)
Businesses are ran according to the law, and get punished if they don't. Sometimes that doesn't happen with the govt
Congratulations on your advertisement. I personally won't be paying to have free and open source software rented back to me as a monthly subscription, but I wish you the best of luck.
> Laying off what is presumably the bottom 10% of the NASA workforce is probably a healthy decision in an environment where Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams still have not returned home.

Per the article, the 10% includes both people that have taken the deferred resignation offer and probationary employees. The former are probably generally older staff that are already considering retirement. The latter are, according to what I could find on the definition of federal probationary employees, either new hires or existing employees that were promoted or otherwise moved into a new position.

I don't see how you square that with "the bottom 10% of the NASA workforce". On the back end you're losing institutional knowledge. On front end you're losing your future contributors (see the old adage about "eating your seed corn").
Tariffs are a tax on consumption and as such will eventually be inflicted on the consumer. There is no other reasonable alternative.

Any suggestion otherwise is being either ignorant or less than honest about how they work.
No, Rust definitely does add some additional complexity on top of the inherent complexity of ownership. Despite what some people think, Rust's borrowing rules are actually extremely simple. So simple that they reject a lot of safe programs.

Paradoxically, programmer life would be made simpler if there were some more complex borrowing rules, that would allow (for example) partial borrows of objects, or allow aliasing &mut in single-threaded circumstances where it's known to be safe (i.e. when the data is something primitive like an int, where it doesn't actually matter if it's overwritten while referenced).

But I know there's extra language design complexity that this introduces, and extra codegen complexity (Rust makes certain aliasing promises to LLVM that it isn't allowed to break) so it will take time. But, there are proposals in the works.
There is about zero chance they have been identified bottom 10%. Plus, what chaotic decision making primary does is that top performers leave by themselves.

Which is likely the goal anyway.
Spacex will be 6% larger
The downside to doing this is that you'll sound like an LLM. LLM-generated text is very obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension and once detected will cause some people to summarily dismiss the sender as a bot.
You're not missing anything. This is how every company has taken advantage of rising inflation and now tariffs.
SD-Cards are a currently widely used physical media.

Even my streamlined slimed-down minimalistic MacBook Pro has an SD-Card slot.

We can make SD-Cards with music and movies on them a reality, we just have to walk to our nearest convenience store, grab a 64Gb version for 10 bucks, put stuff on it, and give it to a friend.
Why is 20$/month absurd for something that boosts productivity? What does matlab coat nowadays? Sounds like he'd like to be able to improve it further and clients invest in that.
Absurd is people paying 80$+/month for yt tv so they can watch ads.. My opinions.
Show HN: Fray: A controlled concurrency testing framework for the JVM
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share Fray, a controlled concurrency testing framework for the JVM. Fray systematically explores different thread interleavings in your concurrency tests, helping to uncover tricky race conditions. It can also deterministically reproduce concurrency-related failures, making debugging significantly easier.

For a deep dive into how Fray is designed, check out our technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12618

The Lucene team recently wrote about how Fray helped them diagnose and fix a challenging concurrency bug: https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/optimistic-concurren...

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
All of this while the idiots are pushing a $4.5T in tax cuts. Neoclassical economics and neoliberalism will be the downfall of capitalism itself.
Can it not be simultaneously true that NASA has areas of bloat/inefficiency AND haphazard amateurish cuts will cause more harm than good?
> your ability to replace talent with money

That sure seems to be the message given in Apple AI commercials. From those commercials the tag line for AI should be "enabling idiots everywhere".
I know it's often heresy on HN, but I've found Macbooks to be fairly reliable. I've used my Macbook air for a decade now at this point - first as a Mac and later switching to Ubuntu.
Two uses for me (as a native English speaker who writes pretty well on my own):

1. Reformatting notes or bits of information into something more formal (something I consider actually counterproductive in a way, since formal is often more verbose, but that's expected in certain contexts...)

2. Sifting through the crap of the internet to answer obscure questions. The Google replacement that has been needed.
Right after that quote:

"The key is ensuring that any future cuts at NASA are not indiscriminate. If and when Jared Isaacman is confirmed by the US Senate as the next NASA administrator, it will be up to him and his team to make the programmatic decisions about which parts of the agency are carrying their weight and which are being carried, which investments carry NASA into the future, and which ones drag it into the past. If these future cuts are smart and position NASA for the future, this could all be worth it. If not, then the beloved agency that dares to explore may never recover."
Tariffs are a tax on the low and middle class. Upper income people will be fine with a 10-25% increase in cost of things they purchase. Regular income taxes are progressive. Tariffs are not.

There is a reason why rich prefer tariffs over a progressive income tax.
whatever the deal hes getting, why is it on my and everybody elses taxes?
Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?
I imagine that laying off the best would lead to a decline in overall performance that would justify further cuts.
Show HN: My solution for automating backups using Borg
I have been using this collection of scripts to manage borg backups across my handful of servers I have at my homelab with some success. I started these scripts before knowing about borgmatic, but by then they were already mature and did what I wanted in a simple and concise manner. It was also a very important opportunity for me to put in practice a bit of good practices when using bash to the best of my knowledge.

Hope that sharing this will help others use borg, understand bash scripts and/or motivate to create their own open repos automating their personal processes to share with the rest of the community.

Disclaimer: I've been using Claude and more recently DeepSeek R1 14b distill with aider to derive the README instructions. If you guys see any issue in the README, please do report! Thanks!
Looks like you haven't used a decent IDE: these things have been standard for decades, locally and with minimal requirements. But wait, now it happens in the Cloud (meh, that's not gonna fly anymore, too last decade)...AND requires massive amounts of power AND cooling, PLUS it's FUBAR about 50/50.

For an incremental improvement...not great, not terrible.
Yeah exactly, companies just have to say the price increase is due to tariffs and increase their margins. That's exactly what Acer CEO is doing here.
The (unelected) richest person in the world, with a sprawling business empire that has many interactions with the federal government, has been given free-reign with no oversight to fire any federal workers that he wants and has usurped Congress' power of the purse by stopping Congressionally appropriated spending.

This creates numerous conflicts of interests and opportunities for self-dealing.

Consider a NASA employee that is awarding government contracts. They know all of the above. They have three bids in front of them. One from Boeing (lol), one from SpaceX, and one from Axiom Space. They NASA employee thinks the bid from Axiom Space is the best value and fits the requirements the best. But will they select them, or will they select SpaceX, knowing that they could be fired tomorrow by Musk's whim?

Repeat this scenario across every interaction any of Musk's companies have with the federal government.

This isn't a novel scenario. Putin's Russia is a great example of what happens when oligarchs are granted significant autonomy over organs of the government. It is a system designed to facilitate corruption.

You could assuage my concerns, though, by describing the ways that there is effective oversight over Musk, or by describing the anti-corruption anti-self-dealing measures that have been imposed on Musk. The Press Secretary gave a statement on this saying: "As for concerns regarding conflicts of interest between Elon Musk and DOGE, President Trump has stated he will not allow conflicts, and Elon himself has committed to recusing himself from potential conflicts." That...does not resolve my concerns.
I wouldn't have enough context to be mad. That sounds stressful and unhealthy.
> I'm all for distributed / P2P social media, but crypto is full of some of the most scammy and downright shameful behavior I've ever seen in my life. Pump and dumps, rug pulls, money laundering.

The SEC's answer no questions, sue first, approach to crypto in general made legitimate players afriad to operate, so the space became dominated by those that didn't care about the law.
The same is true of purely mechanical designs.

Isolated embedded systems can be like mechanical systems in that they're simple enough to be tractable and even deterministic.

A system running Linux and calling AWS lamda functions through the cell network isn't tractable.
I think this can be mitigated by proofreading and changing up a few things.