skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overemployment is just a symptom of the real problem: the company's performance management procedure is not adequate. It's no worse than someone merely slacking off or being incompetent and unable to do the job... and I bet there are many more of the latter than "overemployed" folks.
There is organizational efficiency around everyone using the same tools. Management can pick a set of tools to focus on.

Not all developers know how to use all tools. Management providing education on tools can increase their efficiency.

Developers do not stay up to date with all available tools that exist. Management providing better tools can make people more efficient.
Show HN: Color characters then see them dance on screen (not AI)
I built a simple web app for my kids to color a character template, then see their creations dance on a screen (almost instantly). It was inspired by the Crayola Experience in Dallas.

I first built it as a weekend project for my daughter's Halloween party at school. Then my son asked to do it at his Valentines party. Then a friend asked me to run it at their STEAM party.

The code is a bit of a dumpster file - hacked together in a few weekends. Wish I could say it was vibe coded, but nope. I'm just that bad at animation stuff.

Tech stack: NodeJS, ThreeJS for animation, QR code scanning (zxing-wasm) for template detection/alignment, and Adobe Mixamo for the dance animation.

Anyways, I wanted to share in case someone would like to use it for their kids. It's got readme instructions if you want to customize the characters and background.

Code is MIT licensed and available at: https://github.com/bendytree/dancing-characters
To add to your point, for tariffs to even work, they _have_ to be permanent. There can't be any room for negotiation in them.

If an investor wants to build a factory to produce shoes (a process that can take years), they need to be sure that the tariffs won't just go away next year.

Trump's tariffs are anything but this.
Honestly, as long as we’re not collectivising the cost of dental caries, and insurers can discriminate dental pricing based on fluoridation if they choose to, I’m okay with folks who don’t brush their teeth doing whatever they want to.
US is still sanctioning Russia, meaning there's zero trade between US and Russia. It's illegal for US people and companies to buy from Russia.

That's why there are no tariffs on Russia: there's no trade, there's nothing to tariff.

I don't see how you concluded that US is currently "in service of Russia".
> In guideline 1v1 a lot of very high level games are decided by garbage RNG which I think is even less interesting than determining who is 0.1pps faster.

I have played a lot of (moderately high level) 1v1 tetris and I would have to disagree. In fact I often felt that the reverse is true - if I felt I died to garbage hole RNG, really that meant I was getting out pressured and would have lost eventually anyways. And while my playstyle was more aggressive, try to out speed opponent, I lost my fair share of games to people playing (much) slower but just incredibly efficient.

I agree there is an overall disappointing amount of interaction between players, though. Watching your opponents board and adjusting to it is hard and takes a while to build the skill to do. And a lot of the times you can just get away with it by playing faster and out pressuring and ignoring the other player.
Because the market recognized value add is the capital investment and returns, including the credit basis on which inventories flow. These people are operating on a per $ basis, not a per shoe basis. If the margins % lower then the capital will flow to something else more profitable and then prices rise until the margins are relatively flat across similar productive investments.
Being YIMBY for everything is just as absurd as NIMBY for everything. If you're not making the call on a case by case basis for what you think will be best for the community and you, then you're just being dogmatic.
This specifically, no reason, Trump administration is just doing whatever they want moment from moment.

Largely, China is a threat to the US politically, and they are a threat to our industry and global economic dominance.
This 100x. This is the time to go all in and truly shake everything from the ground up. If the US moves at least 25% to the continent, it could solve lots of issues by developing manufacturing for critical products in-house and nearshoring the rest to LATAM, helping reduce illegal immigration considerably. Win-win for the whole continent.
> China is evil and the worlds enemy

And what is the US under the Trump administration? China didn't start a trade war, accuse every other country of ripping it off, hasn't talked of acquiring Greenland and making Canada it's 51st state, or discuss bombing cartels in Mexico.
I think it is fair to say conquest of Taiwan has always been an issue of national pride for the PRC. It isn't a national security threat.

It is based on a manifest destiny ideology that the PRC is the only legitimate heir of Chinese culture and history, and sole rightful ruler of all people of Chinese descent.
As a number of comments have noted, there are a bunch of different axes that chroot could be 'better' on - e.g. security and sandboxing.

I wrote https://github.com/aidanhs/machroot (initially forked from bubble wrap) a while ago to lean into the pure "pretend I see another filesystem" aspect of chroot with additional conveniences (so no security focus). For example, it allows setting up overlay filesystems, allows mounting squashfs filesystems with an overlay on top...and because it uses a mount namespace, means you don't need to tear down the mount points - just exit the command and you're done.

The codebase is pretty small so I just tweaked it with whatever features I needed at the time, rather than try and make it a fully fledged tool.

(honestly you can probably replicate most of it with a shell script that invokes unshare and appropriate mount commands)
> In my testing, a lua script that functions like `echo` runs faster than echo.

this is kind of hilarious

lua must be severely optimized at this point
Companies will just lie to get around the tariffs, anyway. See here: https://decentespresso.com/blog/trumps_tariffs_impact_on_you...
Why doesnt google offer the most advanced voice technology when they offer a playback version, it still sounds like the most basic text to voice.
Here is my feedback.

Steps are not clear enough. It looks to me it's a step by step guide but it missed at least 2 points :

- the search engine must be Google I think ? Mine is duckduckgo and it doesnot work

- I still dont know if my device is supposed to be in airplane mode or no for the test. In airplane mode, even with Google set as the search engine, it does not work. Pixel phone. If I am connected to internet, I do have the single result from the google search.

I guess we are expected to be pleasantly surprised by something, but since I don't know what to look for and it does not work, it's a miss for me.

Personally I prefer to have the explanation alongside the steps that way I know what I am doing and can correctly interpret the instructions. For me, learning the technical trick does not diminish my contentness.
Google Introduced Ironwood TPUs and New Innovations in AI Hypercomputer
Cool, jumping in as a noob to multiplayer dev, so currently for BitCraft MMORPG simulation, e.g. to prevent "god-mode flying", would be done outside the server.

Q How is that coordinated with the SpacetimeDB? Is there a penalty, or perhaps a correction applied to the malicious client (and replicated to listening clients) in the case a hacker modifies their movement illegally?

Tx for sharing your time btw!
Final result: Instead of ordering Nvidia cards and bringing revenue to the US, China will copy Nvidia chips and make a cheaper version of them locally.

"The art of the deal"
Here is the abstract if you can't load the page normally:

A recent meta-analysis in this journal (Taylor et al 2025) produced ostensible evidence of a negative correlation between fluoride exposure and intelligence in children, which garnered major public attention. There has, however, been criticism of this undertaking and conclusions. In order to address the controversy over this work, we in this special communication undertake an independent forensic meta-science review of the methodology and statistical approaches employed and inferences drawn by the authors, as well as an investigation of the underlying data integrity of the constituent studies. We find that the authors employed unjustified methodological and statistical errors which invalidate their conclusion, and demonstrate that the data cannot be analysed as the authors assert. We further find major problems with the sources employed, including reliance on studies from non-MEDLINE indexed publications with an anti-fluoridation editorial stance, and major underlying issues with the data reported in several instances, indicative of impossible or unreliable data. Taylor et al is not reliable nor are its errors remediable. It should be retracted to avoid harms to public health and scientific discourse.
Cool. When will a reputable payment platform that isn't negligent in investigating fraud that accepts one or more cryptocurrencies be commonly accepted by the vast majority of businesses?

Edit: There's a risk. When one files a cryptocurrency tax form, and say, no one wants to buy some of their cryptocurrency so that they can pay taxes on the rest, that could discourage adoption because unlike being allowed to take your money out of the bank unless they're bankrupt or physically having cash, no one owes anyone a cryptocurrency transaction.
Yeah. And people need to stop thinking that things that they can label as funny or whatever else is not propaganda. Everything with an agenda is propaganda.

“Wholesome Biden & Obama memes” are probably propaganda. And videos about “fat Americans” being marched into factories sounds like something the Chinese could make.
Trying to summarize the summary for myself

From a $100 shoe that sells for $76:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $8 goes to the US gov't (3 import, 2 Nike tax, 3 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $5 goes to Nike (11% return)

- $6 goes to Footlocker (8% return)

But now with 100% tariffs,
it's a $100 shoe that sells for $100 (or a $132 shoe that sells for $100) and:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $29 goes to the US gov't (22 import, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

And if a US shoemaker wanted to undercut the import,
a Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)
Revenue doesn't really show they are not loss leaders. Profit would be more useful.
Immutable:

Idempotent:

Ansible is designed for idempotent tasks; that do not further change state if re-run.

Windows Containers are relatively immutable. Docker Desktop and Podman Desktop include a copy of k8s kubernetes and also kubectl IIRC

Do GUI apps run in Windows containers?
Who came for you? You want to go to the US (or any other country) and therefore you align with their rules.

Nobody forces you to go there, and especially play secret agent. If you go, you know that what you have can be searched so have nothing, or have something that is not controversial.

The same applies to all the countries in the world.
What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology
Somewhat inevitable. There is internet everywhere and the salary differentials to the US are wild
Of course I read it. And unless you are posting pictures about yourself on reddit announcing that you are a ban evader, you are making mistakes that reveal your identity - you share one of your known IPs, or you share some of your registration details between the accounts.

Or alternatively reddit admins are psychics, in which case you should give up (or train to be a better psychic)
Especially if you consider using a SOTA LLM to recreate and expand ResearchCyc (for fun and not profit)
> the point isn’t to hurt China, it’s to reduce US dependence on China

This was the Thiel pitch. We’re instead driving our allies and trade partners into China’s arms.

> Americans should proceed with the assumption that the Chinese are a co-equal great power

America basically has been. Coëqual great powers compete. (And China is a regional power on the verge of becoming a great power. It doesn’t yet have demonstrated force-projection capabilities, though it’s building them.)
I don't know a single person who is better off, perhaps people in the finance industry.

Consumption is down, sales are down, there's more people in the streets and pretty much everyone has seen their real purchasing power gone down, but specially people in the public sector (I know a lot of people in education, health and science). I'm not saying it's drastically worse but it's worse.

No, we weren't doing great before but we are definitively not doing "better" now, at least not in the day to day, perhaps in some numeric metric published by the government.
Infringement is good for the economy. Even our nations have progressed at a time when none of that was enforced, and are only strolling since then (or, as you may aptly say, rent-seeking).

PS: For those of us in software who wonder whether an economy without IP could exist, entire software industries exist without copyright protection, one trick for example is to provide the service behind the cloud, so customers never have access to the source code; meanwhile OSS, which is based on preventing restrictions on sharing, is the eighth wonder of the world, which has proven that IP is unnecessary to software.
We're hiring for a software engineer right now. The amount of time our single HR professional has had to invest in sorting through scam candidates is ungodly. We had someone apply to the job three times, using different names and resumes each time. We've had two candidates who we suspected were responding to questioning with an AI tool that was listening to the interviewer's voice (poorly, which might be the only reason why we caught them). We had one candidate who said they were on the east coast, but upon further investigation, the person didn't exist; and following a hunch, upon casually bringing up that it seemed pretty dark where they were at, they disconnected from the call and we never heard from them again.

If you think these scams aren't real, you aren't looking. We're a remote company, but our policy is now to only hire candidates from internal referrals, or candidates who are in a location where someone on the team they're hiring into can grab coffee with them.
I always thought that Jetbrains is 100% Russian? Why would foreigners choose "Kotlin" for the name of programming language?
> if we switched from an import tariff to a foreign goods sales tax we could avoid this particular problem.

How are these materially different in terms of what the end consumer pays?
Italy Pulls Support for STMicro CEO as Board Battle Heats Up
One annoying part of using chroot if you're creating them on the fly is teardown - you have to manually invoke umount, and also take care to get this right for partially created chroots (maybe you detected an error after mounting proc, in the process of getting other files in place).

This was my original motivation in creating machroot (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and having it use namespaces.
the things that made a factory job good are long gone too. pensions. stable employment. companies that cared about their employees.
If you've ever lived through a disaster, then you know fuel availability and demand spikes can make it unobtainable overnight. Solar is great for disaster resilience.
this whole new thing believed to have "never been done before";

Nobody with knowledge of sandboxing believed this, Virtuozzo and later OpenVZ had been on Linux for a long time after all. Virtuozzo was even from a similar time frame as FreeBSD jails (2000-ish).

The key innovation of Docker was to provide a standardized way to build, distribute, and run container images.
Anecdotally, working on mission-critical always-on systems when I was a junior developer was influential on the development of good habits when writing code that have carried through in contexts where such code quality was not required. In my view I benefited greatly from this exposure early in my career.

A lot of it is pretty basic: checking every single return code, testing every single branch, verifying that the external environment is doing what it claims or should be doing. All of this is muscle memory now, I find it difficult to write a throwaway python script without doing this. I also don’t feel like the degree of thoroughness I put into it significantly slows down development either compared to other developers that YOLO it a bit more; I spend a bit more time writing it, they spend a bit more time debugging it in test. And in prod, the former approach has lower defect rates.

It doesn’t need to be safety critical embedded software, which has a somewhat niche set of problems. Even fairly high-level data infrastructure has many of these same challenges.
I think the core of the 'improved productivity' question will be ultimately impossible to answer. We would want to know if productivity was improved over the lifetime of a society; perhaps hundreds of years. We will have no clear A/B test from which to draw causal relationships.
Would be interesting to see how the changing container geometry affects the shape because It looks like the clear liquid is 'clinging' to the sides in the vials
(DRUGS)
it's a tool that increases efficiency if you know how to use it. learn how to do it and it'll make your job easier and you become more productive. fight or ignore it and you'll be replaced because you're not doing your job properly

don't listen to ignorant luddite technophobes on the internet, they are like all -phobes intolerant, full of hate and fearful of things they don't understand
Commercial space station outfit plans 2 Orbital DC nodes
If your inventory now costs you $25 more per unit, your carrying costs are higher.
I wouldn't know because it was not explained at all, in the title or in the link (at least for me, I'm on firefox so it doesn't load much, or give any explanation).

But if it's true that google is caching the page themselves, then yes you're right and I did not even consider that. Thanks
All firmware is "a set of hooks" if we're being reductive. Regardless, the Switch also has an alternative bootloader that you can use to run "real" CFW like Linux and Android so it's kinda a moot point.
> They acquired those customers by burning billions of dollars to deliver rides below the cost of providing them.

That is exaggerated. Uber was losing something like $0.50-$1 per ride in 2018.

Uber/Lyft were (and still mostly are) just _better_ than taxis.
> Advertising isn't child labor. If there was something immoral about telling people about your product, you'd have a point.

It wasn't a moral argument, though I can see how you read it that way. I'm just saying, we change the market via regulation (or at least, used to) all the time, and businesses survive despite their endless moaning about it.

They complained about us not letting them keep cancer-causing chemicals in the break room too, mandatory break times for given lengths of work shifts, etc. etc. etc. They always whine about they'll go broke if they have to X or Y, no matter how reasonable it is.

> And profit seeking will not stop just because the source of the money changes and there's less of it.

State funded operations don't generally prioritize profits unless directed to by weird politicians who think public goods should make money, like the current head of the USPS. Generally, tax funded orgs are just us going "we would like this service, and everyone in the city/county/state/country chipping in like $30 a year means we don't need to worry about it.

> Your local little league team couldn't even get a sponsorship for their uniforms anymore.

Yeah, again. Fund it with taxes. Little league players shouldn't be billboards. If we want this stuff, we should have the political will to allocate money to pay for it. I don't see why if we decide we want little league baseball that said baseball team should then need to make the rounds in the community with a hat out. That's silly.

> Also, right now they are free to not use SaaS products if they do hate the concept.

No they aren't. If you want Microsoft Office, any Adobe product, Quickbooks, just to name a few, your only options are subscriptions to them.

> Well, they're paying people to write positively about them and their product/politics.

I mean just having a newsletter that advocates for socialism doesn't mean you're advertising socialism. It's propaganda, and that's fine. Propaganda isn't necessarily a bad thing despite the modern attitudes towards it. The pro-WWII ads that sold bonds were propaganda. The cartoons depicting Hitler as a buffoon were propaganda.

In any case though, I wouldn't consider that advertising. In my mind, advertising would only occur when a given publication is including content referencing a product or service where it would normally not otherwise be.
> A common question is: “how much are students using AI to cheat?” That’s hard to answer, especially as we don’t know the specific educational context where each of Claude’s responses is being used.

I built a popular product that helps teachers with this problem.

Yes, it's "hard to answer", but let's be honest... it's a very very widespread problem. I've talked to hundreds of teachers about this and it's a ubiquitous issue. For many students, it's literally "let me paste the assignment into ChatGPT and see what it spits out, change a few words and submit that".

I think the issue is that it's so tempting to lean on AI. I remember long nights struggling to implement complex data structures in CS classes. I'd work on something for an hour before I'd have an epiphany and figure out what was wrong. But that struggling was ultimately necessary to really learn the concepts. With AI, I can simply copy/paste my code and say "hey, what's wrong with this code?" and it'll often spot it (nevermind the fact that I can just ask ChatGPT "create a b-tree in C" and it'll do it). That's amazing in a sense, but also hurts the learning process.
My sneakers have been $200* for the past 5 years but then they're made in the USA. It's time to buy a new pair.

* - I have a large foot and believe I'm paying primarily for the materials in my shoes, which easily weigh twice what my friends' shoe do!
I am a Wikipedian who edits on government and law, and no, neither NPR nor PBS (WETA) NewsHour are anywhere near impartial. The notion that left-of-center consumers have impartial news is laughable. The US does not have a BBC.
For example, it's fashionable in math education these days to ask students to generate problems as a different mode of probing understanding of a topic. And from the article: "We found that students primarily use Claude to create and improve educational content across disciplines (39.3% of conversations). This often entailed designing practice questions, ..." That last part smells fishy, and even if you saw a prompt like "design a practice question..." you wouldn't be able to know if they were cheating, given the context mentioned above.