skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. From what I can tell, the blog post makes the exact point that workers are being squeezed to death in a way that raises nominal productivity while lowering quality. Can you elaborate a bit more on your exact disagreement?
This is not a grounded critique. It is unbalanced and lacking in insight.
The average person is not intelligent enough to have their own domain.
Wait, on a typical day you're drinking 4-5.5 gallons of coffee? 180oz * 3-4? So 540-720oz?

That's not just an outlier, that's absurd. At 100mg caffeine per 8oz of coffee, that's over 6 grams of coffee per day, or more than 15 times the amount generally considered safe.
>I think this is a myth (at least in the US). I don't even have to provide the color of my car to get an insurance quote.

When I renew my insurance, on the website it shows 'grey'.
They know what colour your car is.
Can someone explain if there's any logic at all to counting a countrys VAT as part of its tariffs? In my home country VAT is ultimately charged the end-customer and this happens regardless of the origin of the goods. How can this be a seen as a tariff?

Besides, isn't the "Use tax" most(?) American states have more or less equivalent in function?
I think this is really the reason. Companies also save money by not making things in a variety of colors.
Evaluating Agent-Based Program Repair at Google
If you're looking for more nuanced conversation here in the comments, don't bother. The title is correct, a basic brother laser printer is all you need.
(…in mice)

This is very interesting! As a layman, I was aware that men and women had different alcohol tolerances but had no idea that there were more crucial neurological differences.

Could it because of differences in physiology? No:

“The observed sex differences in DMS sensitivity to EtOH are unlikely to result from basic physiological properties of the recorded cells, since these properties are similar across sexes. While estrous cycle can influence female neural physiology, sampling across several weeks likely averaged out these cycle-dependent changes in the present study”
Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft – Bill Gates
> Working for UPS is a good job — and that’s part of why UPS workers are good at their jobs.

Are UPS workers really better at their jobs?

FedEx and UPS seem nearly identical in my area, only DHL is competent.
Ok but you said YC is suppressing this story on HN and I don't believe that is true and it looks like you don't believe it is true either.
Very nice read!

This really resonated with me:

> I would skim the documentation for the command to run, or the configuration to enter, only to get error messages in response. Then a period of frantic searching and trial and error would follow. Until I finally got it right. Once it worked, I reread the original documentation and saw that the answers were right there all along. Crystal clear. And yet somehow it did not register the first time. This happened on multiple occasions.
While YMMV, a fear response is a choice. You can have all the rational reasons to be afraid (like the bottom of your hierarchy of needs being unmet) and choose to act out of cold rationality rather than fear. Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy - if you can act without fear even when there is justified reason to be afraid, you will be able to easily do so when it isn't justified.
> It doesn't mean that employees have some cultlike adoration for the company

No, but it does mean that the company wishes that employees had some cult like adoration. The line between proud of the company one works for and being cult like is not rigid, and moves depending on the company
Exactly. Hard to improve on something so great.

We love a

```
select {what}
from {where}
left join {where}
on {how}
where {why}
```

A simple query, concisely answering every relevant question, while hiding all of the details of how any of it works. Beautiful.
Hey folks,

Was looking at different ways to handle the ol' "link in bio" situation beyond the standard Linktree/etc. pages, which honestly feel pretty bland most of the time.

Came across this thing called TOSI. Instead of just a list of links, it generates a page with a little 3D avatar that visitors can actually chat with. You feed it info and your links, and it supposedly answers questions and points people to the right place through conversation.

The weirdest/coolest part? You can apparently whip one up in like 2 minutes without making an account. Just customize the avatar, add links/info, and it spits out a unique URL.

Not sure if it's more of a novelty or actually useful long-term for engagement, but it definitely stands out from the usual static lists. Seems like an interesting concept, especially for creators or maybe small projects wanting to add a bit of personality.

Anyone else seen tools like this popping up? Thoughts on whether this kind of interactive thing is the future or just a gimmick?
There are thousands of ways to enjoy coffee. I’m not a coffee nerd at all, but getting a whole bean that you like from a reputable (local if possible) roaster and grinding it yourself is pretty easy and you get coffee that’s considerably better than grocery store ground coffee. You have to try several different beans and brands to get an idea for what’s available, buy 8-10 ounce packs at a time then when you find one you like buy in bulk. Also, anything in pods is absolute garbage, so don’t even consider it.
Someone calculated the formula used. They divided the trade deficit of each country by total trade of each country and assumed that was all a tariff.

So for example Indonesia and the US traded $28 billion. The US has a 17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. 17.9/28 =0.639, or 64%, which is assumed to be all caused by tariffs. So they divide by two and impose 32%.

Anyway no the US isn't matching tariffs they're dramatically exceeding them.
I use it and feel like it's...fine. A tad slow, and doesn't have some basic features I'd like. But I haven't found any other non-browser clients that I like better than Thunderbird.
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defens...

Tor has similarly been using Proof of Work as part of the defense for onion services for around a year and a half now.

I’ve also seen some clear net web sites that use PoW to slow down account creation. Some websites will even adjust the difficulty for individual visitors depending on the recent number of sign-ups coming from their IP block. More signups from an IP block -> higher PoW difficulty for anyone from that IP block -> fewer accounts created by anyone in that IP block over a span of time.
You can pull yourself by the bootstraps and click on other stories.

Don’t expect others to do stuff for you.

Although I suspect you want the story not discussed, in the name of free speech I assume?
It's worth pointing out that mermaidchart.com is NOT the official Mermaid project (https://mermaid.js.org/).

They're a for-profit company using the Mermaid name.

This creates a lot of confusion whenever the name comes up, which I suspect is deliberate.
There is no logic to it. It's just the US going insane and Americans nodding along.

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/04/02/no-vat-isnt-a-tariff-but...

https://iccwbo.org/news-publications/news/are-value-added-ta...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/as-trump-reciprocal-tariffs-...

etc, etc.

The only reasonable reply as a consumer and/or cloud-service purchaser: Economic wide-scale boycott of the US.
Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
To have as much fun as he can in his final years.

He's most entertained by messing up anything good he runs into.
I know it takes more than telling the truth. It's that voters are seeking out obvious lies. That is where I throw up my hands.

I don't expect the voters to love boring truths. But if they actively want to be lied to, and revel in getting away with lies, then democracy is not the tool for me.
What’s the point of posting this when there’s even odds they’ll be repealed by the end of the week?
Regular users aren't trying to load billions of pages.
I don't think it's so much that they don't have ideas it's that they're competing with Alphabet's Chrome, who are coincidentally owners of Android, Gmail, YouTube and Google which are internet keystones. I think it's solely by coincidence that I use Firefox rather than Chrome and if I'd started using the Internet a few years later it would have been Chrome.

Also isn't a huge proportion of internet activity mobile users, and outside the US the majority of phones are Android, and most people leave things default, thus Firefox is condemned have a minor share essentially since Chrome is packaged natively with Android?

Anyways I hope they can dislodge some of the Google train. I abhor using Gmail. Better yet if they can compete with Outlook to some extent. Mozilla actually produces software I trust enough, which has enough utility that I'll install it.
Or they have better things to do vs fighting Route53 MX records errors.
Yes and yes. Being able to have all but guaranteed power to float charge batteries, run bilge pumps, etc, etc, really makes disuse a much easier problem.

And batteries like the cyclic nature of the sun much more than a constant on float charger.
The person you’re responding to is not Paul Graham.

We're all Paul Graham! https://youtu.be/FKCmyiljKo0?t=65
Yep, that would be my own personal hell.
I would just terminate the call. Like... hell no.
It's a mix. Sometimes a person is bad at their job because the people who hired or trained them are bad at their jobs. But another way to look at it is that our society increasingly values only people who are "good" at the "job" of making as much money as possible while externalizing as many costs as possible.

> The exploitation (of workers, of natural resources) that made that abundant cheapness possible was largely invisible and thus ignorable.

It's not just the exploitation of workers and natural resources, it's also the exploitation of customers and our society as a whole. When you pay for a product and it's crap, you, the customer, were also exploited by the seller.

The key part to me is the invisibility. The theory of capitalism is that companies compete to better satisfy customers. But nowadays the predominant mode of competition is obfuscation: companies compete to be the best at hiding costs, dodging responsibility, and deflecting consequences. The quality of the actual products and services is secondary to the apparatus of delivering them and responding to feedback, and that apparatus is not oriented towards actually improving the products or services, just at finding somewhere to dump the negative consequences.

> But resistance is very possible. If everyone’s good at their job, shop there.

The article lists a few of these "consumer-level" modes of resistance based essentially on the idea of voting with your dollars. The problem is that it's hard to be an informed dollar-voter in this environment of deliberate obfuscation. Spending hours wading through reviews, product descriptions, and so on, just to buy one thing, effectively increases your cost, and there's no guarantee you'll make the right choice in the end anyway. I'd be willing to pay more in many cases for a better result, but there's no way to tell if something that costs a bit more is actually better, or just another clever scam cloaked in verbiage like "artisanal" and "handcrafted" to lure in people just like me, people who are willing to pay more and can be fooled into doing so while getting no benefit for the extra money.

We need more organized and deliberate resistance: laws. Laws and specific enforcement mechanisms that directly penalize, not just companies, but the individuals at the top who are good at their jobs, namely the job of squeezing value out of other people by lying, cheating, and hiding. We need laws that force competition into the realm of actual products and services, and punish engagement in the obfuscation arms race.

> As a society, we have decided that we want more for less: more convenience, more purchases, more technology, but none of it at prices that render it out of reach.

There's an Arcade Fire lyric I heard a long time ago but recently came across again, from "Windowsill": "I don't want it faster, I don't want it free". Too many people these days want things faster and free, and don't understand that the costs are still being paid, somehow, somewhere, often even by the same person who thinks they're getting something fast and free.
CLARIFICATION TO ARTICLE

Hello, it's me, the author!

I'd like to take the time to clarify a few things about the article. I'm not claiming this to be revolutionary to all people, I'm just claiming it to be useful for some people.

The intent of the protected query pattern is the following:

- Co-locate query and authorization logic (easier to maintain)
- Allow (but not require) inner functions to be pure (e.g. trivial to cache with upcoming Next.js "use cache" API).
- Allow easy bypassing of authorization for some contexts.
- Simplify logic elsewhere (e.g. getDocument.protect("id") is a pretty one liner).

In most cases, I use the protector pattern to either allow or disallow the entire query, based on the results. Filtering or redacting the data is done much more rarely. †

What I did NOT intend:

- I did not intend to select all rows and return only the useful. You are right, that would be horrible for performance. However, I understand how easy it is to come to that conclusion, seeing how I introduced the Kilpi.filter function.

Thank you all for your feedback, this allows me to improve on this pattern and Kilpi in general!

† Your worries about performance have given me ideas of a new "preprotector" function that would stop the query before it ever even starts. I'll have to think about adding it in the future!
> In the last years you often have some manager where you basically have to justify every thing you do and always a huge pile of work that never gets smaller. So you just hurry through your tasks.

This has been my exact experience. Absolutely everything is tracked as a work item with estimates. Anything you think should be done needs to be justified and tracked the same way. If anything ever takes longer than the estimate that was invariably just pulled out of someones ass (because it's impossible to accurately estimate development unless you're already ~75% of the way through doing it, and even then it's a crapshoot) you need to justify that in a morning standup too.

The end result of all of this is every project getting bogged down by being stuck on the first version of whatever architecture was thought up right at the beginning and there being piles of tech debt that never gets fixed because nobody who actually understands what needs to be done has the political capital to get past the aforementioned justification filter.
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It's still a pain; and what do you do if your bag and/or the inbound flight are late? Do you leave it behind or wait and risk missing the connection? And of course ~no other countries do that and nothing bad happens.

Musk should have gone after TSA et al first, he could have dismantled the entire rest of the government on the goodwill from that :)
This won't bring home manufacturing but let's say that it will...

The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing. I saw a video recently explaining how sectors like the military, construction and the automotive industry each have 100K+ positions that they are unable to fill. A return to manufacturing adds to that shortage.

Apparently there's some 7 million young men of working age that are...missing in action. Self-isolated, gaming, addictions.

In construction, for every 5 people that retire, only 2 enter. And it's been like that for over 10 years. The people aren't there nor is the motivation.

I'm sure you'll have Apple investing in a mega plant where 50 educated people push some buttons though.
In Germany you have quite high minimum wages. Unions and works committees are quite common. Labor protected laws are quite strict. Sure, not every job is fun, but living with low income is not as bad as in the US. So, are people better at their jobs? Nope. Do people work better just because you pay them better? Nope. Should people get paid better, especially those with shirty jobs? Yes - of course. But there’s no reason to believe this would improve quality of work.
Apple Mail.app is 10x better and right there.
What makes a statement "major" is the amount of attention it is given. That is out of your control.

Democrats are making many statements. If they are not "major", it is perhaps because nobody cares about statements. They care about the exercise of power, and Democrats have none. Any statement they make is easily dismissed as bluster.
Those lacking empathy don’t know how to not be cruel. They keep filtering to the top unfortunately. Something that remains to be solved for.
'Space is finally going to be glam' – meet the female rocket crew
Do you anticipate that someone is going to tell you, specifically, that they do not support rabid DEI, some of the highest tax rates in the world, widespread and severe drugs, poverty, and homelessness, endless war, vote dilution through importation of new voters, calling a random sample of political nemeses rapists and racists, and now, painting Swastikas on vehicles? Do you truly both believe that is disconnected from reality, and that someone would reveal this in a conversation with you?
Geoblocking is one of the most drastically effective ways someone can reduce their attack surface. I'd give up encrypting traffic entirely before I'd give up geoblocking.
Patron sites are a bit like that, but undermining effect is real - content quality shows a down trend when real Internet points become the metric, as opposed to fake ones.
So, we're proposing a multiplicative increase of something that already scales quadratically with the context size?

I think we've already got a bit of a bottleneck in terms of memory bandwidth utilization.
At risk of scope creep, the greatest selling point Netlify has for me is automatic form email support for static sites. Would be awesome if pico.sh supported that.
In my experience UPS is better.
Fuck modern taste. I have a bedroom where the walls and bedding are deep blue and it's accented with neutral colors. There's another room which is a rich shade of purple. Doing without bold use of color isn't tasteful, it's just boring.
> You probably know this already, but people should have their own domain.

Until they forget or unable to renew. And then their PII is in the hands of the person who gets the domain.
Rich Text, Poor Text (2013)
>Now I hire local professionals, even if they cost more. Their experience and trustworthiness save me time and frustration.

I've found the exact opposite. The deeper the moat the bigger the jerks. I can pick up a guy at home depot who'll bust ass as hard as I will at a very reasonable price. Can't say that (especially the first part) about most professionals. Anything with a license or high capital investment keeping upstarts out is like pulling teeth to work with. Even for brick and mortar this holds. My local upholsterer is a pleasure to work with compared to any tire and alignment shop.

That said, I'm also not hiring people to put together Ikea beds for me or bringing piles of gravy work to any given professional.

Edit: I will add, I have consistently been amazed with what concrete truck drivers will do above and beyond the bare minimum and the consistent "get it done or tear shit up trying" attitude they bring. But this might be a regional thing.
Well, I don’t always break rules, but when I do, I make sure I am not breaking laws.

Government rules are often laws. Company rules are often internal policies.

Potato, puh-treason…
The solution is simple; quit jobs, assemble our own shit. In the US, lean in to the 2A and tell the <1 million cops, <700k politicians to eat it.

We peacefully assemble around jobs. Just peacefully assemble around a new meme of telling the walking dead to pound sand.

Education worked to an extent; most will not devolve into dumb fucks. Pretty pathetic seeing the adults kowtowed by the ossified establishment.
Hearing your average Joe suddenly start talking about USAID using the same talking points and tone as a Twitter Marxist Leninist tankie was indeed wild
> I would laugh my ass off for years at this joke!

I don't really get the 'joke'? Porting a full web browser to Plan 9 would seem like a cool project - where's the humor?
"Sipes confirmed Mozilla would ultimately end up charging for the features"

I totally understand why and it's fair, but if you want to take on gmail, you just lost. Google is dominant because most of its services are free.
Most is not particularly harmful. Some is really bad and it trives in conditions that are rare (probably because we encounter the common ones enough that not being resistant is an evolutionary dead end). rare dosen't mean never seen though.
The fractions of a penny are in compute resources. cock.li required proof of work (10 minutes on a phone browser) to register a new mailbox before it went down.
yup, encrypted metadata is very much on the roadmap. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/425... is one of the more recent proposals for it.
If tariffs are imposed on Antarctica, penguin prices will go up. This will in turn raise Linux prices because penguins are crucial mascot components in all Linux systems.
Look at the sheer number of institutions and people, and now compare it to any US institution (Maryland). Despite how much smaller the population would be, the accomplishments speak for themselves. I would take an engineer with a bs from any R1 university over a graduate with experience from those institutions any given day of the week. But of course, there will be exceptions. I was responding to a defense of Sundar which rested on the institution he went to
I guess we've had a massive change in terms of remote and hybrid work practices in the past few years. Sadly even those discussions become political or angry rather than good discussions of the pros, cons, and alternatives.
It's about veterans, for anyone else wandering around the comments and also expecting veterinarian like I was
i wonder how much traffic lore.kernel generates since it's such a basic site
how it was before crawling and after

also where is the anubis avatar, that's so disappointing not to see it
Definitely squeezed.

They say AI, but AI isn't eliminating programming. I've wrote a few applications with AI assistance. It probably would've been faster if I wrote it myself. The problem is that it doesn't have context and wildly assumes what your intentions are and cheats outcomes.

It will replace juniors for that one liner, it won't replace a senior developer who knows how to write code.
People acclimate to their circumstances. Do you think people in developing countries live in a constant state of panic because they don't have a seven figure retirement account?
I long for the day when someone can give advice based on their own personal experience without someone else being like “well that won’t work for literally everyone”

Yeah obviously. It’s a personal anecdote.
It's so quaint to me that people actually believe his rhetoric. How long do you think people will put up with high prices before they turn on him?
Our revenue continues to grow, and will be even more profitable as we lay off 16% of the employees.

The tone being set is not a good one to be sure.
yes that's true, unfortunately often enough I don't know which folder the email is in.