MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swatcoder | 2025-04-24 14:59:58+00:00
Keep in mind that the benefits of loyalty vary with the size of the organization and the number peers your name gets lost among in the org chart.

The larger the company, and the more they're ballooned out with abstract drones chomping on abstract work items, the more loyalty becomes a means for abuse. Turnover is rampant and their processes are built to optimally accommodate it. They're egregores, not people, and they don't experience loyalty or attachment. But they do benefit from yours, and so they'll milk it until you give up

But in smaller groups and smaller communities, where you're actually working with people, loyalty and even affection can really make a difference in how satisfying your worklife is, how much security you can feel in your opportunities, etc

It's not so much that there's "no place for loyalty in employer-employee relationships", it's just that the place for loyalty is different depending on what's inhabiting the employer role opposite you -- and the high-profile large employers of the modern age are incapable of reciprocating. But if loyalty comes naturally to you, and feels good to you when reciprocated, you have the option to look elsewhere instead of seething in resentment and disappointment.
by jcelerier | 2025-04-24 15:00:29+00:00
that's really not true. There are thousands of projects using e.g.

QtSerialPort (https://github.com/search?q=include+QSerialPort&type=code)

Qt3D (https://github.com/search?q=include+Qt3D&type=code)

QtWebSockets (https://github.com/search?q=include+Qt3D&type=code)

QtSensors (https://github.com/search?q=include+qtsensors&type=code)

Qt SCXML (https://github.com/search?q=include+qstatemachine&type=code)

etc etc..

Qt's value is as an app framework where you can assume interoperation across the same async runtime and enjoy a cohesive set of APIs for all your app's needs.
by atoav | 2025-04-24 15:00:42+00:00
Yes, all loyalty is a risk. But the expectation in interpersonal relationships is typically that if you are loyal to someone they are loyal to you. There are literal rituals for people to swear that to each other in front of witnesses. Most people also intuitively understand that an unilateral breach of loyalty is a legitimate reason for ending this agreement.

With hypercapitalist corporations loyalty is a one-way street. The employee is expected to be loyal, while corporations drop them casually if it benefits them. Loyalty is realized when one of the sides endure some downsides in thr expectations that these will be resolved in the long term. So if you dump someone the minute that downside appears, you aren't and never have been loyal.
by DrillShopper | 2025-04-24 15:01:26+00:00
Yeah, but you'd think racking up hundreds of thousands of non-combatants deaths and flash frying Pakastani wedding parties remotely because of target misidentification would be high on the list of things to prosecute, if you're the Democrats.

If they won't even investigate the wholesale murder of civilians by the command of the White House and CIA and prosecute those reaponsbile for murder and torture then what hope is there that they'll hold Trump and co to account?
by simonw | 2025-04-24 15:01:37+00:00
The search improvements to o3 and o4-mini have made a huge difference in the last couple of weeks.

I ran this prompt (and others like it) and it actually worked!

This code needs to be upgraded to the new recommended JavaScript library from Google. Figure out what that is and then look up enough documentation to port this code to it

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentat...
by Peroni | 2025-04-24 15:01:48+00:00
Glassdoor isn't gospel but it is a useful data point.

>How do you realistically tell from outside if a company does treat their people well, or has a difficult culture?

The challenge there is that everyone has different interpretations of 'a difficult culture'. What's important (albeit difficult) is establishing an understanding of the type of environment you thrive in and the types of environments you struggle in. With that understanding, it's important to spend time during an interview process asking open-ended questions that might reveal the aspects you love/hate.
by skydhash | 2025-04-24 15:01:51+00:00
Maybe it's different mindset at play. Refactoring these is my way of recharging (because I approach as a nice puzzle to learn how to do it effectively, kinda like a break from the main problem). And the LLM workflow don't sit well with me because I dislike checking every line of generated code. Traditional tooling is deterministic, so I do the check once and move on.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-24 15:02:03+00:00
> everyone who could afford an EV probably already has one

Obviously not: this depends on the price of EVs, which is a constantly moving target and is determined by .. the import tariffs I just mentioned. Not to mention that cars have a long product lifecycle. I could afford an electric car, I have a space to park it, but for the time being I'm using my elderly petrol car because my annual mileage is low.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/362910/average-uk-car-now... : average UK car is 9 years old. EV tech has changed a lot in that time.

This looks like a comprehensive, long list of Chinese incentives; https://www.csis.org/blogs/trustee-china-hand/chinese-ev-dil... ; each EU country has its own schemes.
by shishy | 2025-04-24 15:02:24+00:00
There is craft in business, in product, and in engineering.

A lot of these discussions focus on craft in engineering and there's lots of merit there regarding AI tools and how they change that process, but I've found that folks who enjoy both the product side of things and the engineering side of things are thriving while those who were very engineering focused understandably feel apprehensive.

I will say, in my day job, which is often at startups, I have to focus more on the business / product side just given the phase of the company. So, I get joy from engineering craft in side projects or other things I work on in my own time to scratch the itch.
by gambiting | 2025-04-24 15:02:29+00:00
My previous car(a Mercedes) had a very very simple solution to this - you clicked on the lock button twice and it just disabled the keyless entry entirely until you pressed any other button.

>>the advantage of completely preventing relay attacks.

From my understanding ToF sensors are good enough now to completely prevent relay attacks, the added time for the relay just adds too much of a delay and it gets rejected. I believe the newest range rovers use that, they went from being extremely susceptible to relay attacks to relay attacks against them being impossible.
by Apocryphon | 2025-04-24 15:02:29+00:00
> We lost long-term planning. When companies and employees both view their relationship as inherently limited to just a few years before one or the other tires of them and trades in for a new model, we lose the ability to envision a real, tangible future for the organization.

Yeah, and there is an actual historical moment and culprit to pin this on:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits...
by amalcon | 2025-04-24 15:02:38+00:00
A lot of people seem to think of success as the sum of a bunch of independent variables: positioning + insight + hard work + talent + luck - scruples ... Then, they argue about the relative magnitude of each term.

It's obviously more complex than this, but I think it's more useful to think of it as a product. You don't need a high value in any of them to succeed, but a tiny value in even one means you need an astronomical value somewhere else.
by colesantiago | 2025-04-24 15:02:40+00:00
Likely everyone was a junior straight out of school at one point.

I don't disagree with needing junior programmers but you have better odds making $145,849 in a year with your own startup than you do being in a competition with 2,220 applicants for ONE job.

Started mine a few years ago and it is turning $2M ARR with NO funding or VCs.
by inetknght | 2025-04-24 15:02:40+00:00
> No one is forcing these other companies to make and sell...

> I'm really struggling to see where the consumer harm is.

Imagine a world where it's illegal to grow crops unless you use a particular brand of seeds. Nobody is forcing you to make cereal, but you're going to have a bad time if you can't get the needed components for it.

It's not that far off base, either. Heard of Monsanto? Google is basically going down the same path.
by alberto-m | 2025-04-24 15:02:58+00:00
It seems to be a cultural thing. As an European I am used to find postcards in every town, but when I went to Singapore I had a hard time procuring them. None of the souvenir shops had them, and when I asked the employees they often looked at me as if I were some kind of strange animal. I finally found a small, dusty selection in the darkest corner of a huge department store.
by simpaticoder | 2025-04-24 15:03:07+00:00
>Things don't deserve loyalty. Your company is a "thing".

A country is a thing and loyalty to it is called "patriotism". A sports-team or TV show or band is a thing, loyalty to it is called "fandom". Loyalty to an idea or philosophy is called "being principled" or "idealism". Do you believe that things don't deserve loyalty, such that all of these are errors? Or do these examples not capture the sense of your statement?
by hnpolicestate | 2025-04-24 15:03:33+00:00
I think it was a Steve Jobs quote, paraphrase "it's 5% the idea, 95% implementation".

Lots of very intelligent and talented people out there. But when you have the good fortune of coming up with a great idea (Facebook in the mid 00's) you have to use your talent to relentlessly implement it.

This is what separates the plebs from the ultra wealthy. Intelligence + talent + idea + implementation = success
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-24 15:03:35+00:00
Yeah exactly. Nobody's happy with their internet/phone usage these days. But also, I do know quite a few people who genuinely enjoy using TikTok.

Either way, what should we do about it?

We're not going to ban vertical short-form video. Mandate screen time controls? People will get extra devices. And expecting people to just Do The Right Thing has not ever worked.

Social media is genuinely like cigarettes, where it's so ubiquitous and people are so addicted to it that you can't just ban it.

Cigarettes were reduced a ton by banning them in most places indoors, taxing it way higher and making them harder to access (i.e. ask for them behind a counter vs. vending machine)

But cigarettes also have negative externalities like the smell and the effects of breathing in a room full of smoke. Phones don't have that—if someone's scrolling on their phone, it makes zero difference to you, so there's far less of an anti-phone movement than there was in smoking.
by quesera | 2025-04-24 15:04:10+00:00
I thought we were talking about blog posts.

Host your personal data on your local machine. Encrypt it and sync to another physical location for backup.

But serve your blog from somewhere else. If you want to self-host it at home, buy a cheap NUC (or RPi) and hang it off the guest network on your WiFi router. Or, minimally, a VM or a zone/jail/container. I don't like the idea of a compromised host sitting on my home LAN, but it's better than a compromised daemon running on my desktop OS.

Or don't self-host at home, but mirror the data up to GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages for free. Or pay for a cheap VPS (people elsewhere in these comments mentioned a $20/yr host). Or OVH, Hetzner, even AWS low-spec instances...all reasonable options.

If you're no longer talking about blog posts, but you want worldwide access to arbitrary personal data on your home desktop, that's a job for a VPN -- preferably one that still does not terminate on your desktop itself, and of course not one that gives a sketchy third party direct access to the desktop.

I completely agree that pushing your personal files and such up to Dropbox (e.g., etc) would also be madness!

You say we're not talking about us, but I'm responding to your specific mention that you serve blog posts to the public Internet from nginx running on your desktop. We may not be able to help to average consumer, but I'm talking about you! :)
by gessha | 2025-04-24 15:04:19+00:00
That's a good point. The numbers go the opposite way if you check household prices. Are prices in Germany anomalous due to them putting their eggs in the Russian gas basket? Countries with nuclear power plants seem to have lower electricity prices (who would've known).

US $0.18/kWh [1]

DE $0.44/kWh [2]

EU $0.32/kWh [2]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
by pkdpic | 2025-04-24 15:04:20+00:00
I think I agree with both perspectives. And it makes me realize that in the past when I've tried to draw hardcore no-loyalty / emotional attachment boundaries teammates / employers pick up in the vibe and it slowly becomes mildly but chronically toxic.

It's 100% an emergence scam behavior of corporate entities to trick their employees into developing loyalty and tricking managers / founders etc into thinking its not just a way of scamming lower-end employees imo... I never got the feeling that managers were consciously trying to trick us into developing loyalty, felt more like they were then ones drinking the most coolaid on it...

Also agree with the base human need to feel at least some loyalty in any relationship to feel like it's healthy.

I think my hack has been to develop loyalty to people on my team laterally. Seems to work but sometimes leadership / management still seems like they catch a whiff that I dont have a deep emotional need to respond to their frantic 8pm or Sunday afternoon Teams messages...

But if they fire me for not being loyal who cares, the economies doing great right?
by hamilton | 2025-04-24 15:04:32+00:00
Indeed, we are! We worked with DuckDB Labs to add the query_location information, which we're also enriching with the tokenizer to draw a path through the AST to the cursor location. I've been wanting to do this since forever, and now that we have it, there's actually a long tail of inspection / debugging / enrichment features we can add to our SQL editor.
by zzrrt | 2025-04-24 15:04:44+00:00
> when it comes to business skills with objective results and tight feedback cycles

Is the federal government a business or startup? Does chainsawing it have a tight-enough feedback cycle to get good results? I'm going to say No to both, but I don't have the time or expertise to try to prove it. It can be true, both that young people are great at startups and bad at the federal govt.
by probably_wrong | 2025-04-24 15:04:50+00:00
> I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast, its my tool to get the job done.

Right, but if you use a chess engine to win a chess championship or if you use a motor to win a cycling championship, you would be disqualified because getting the job done is not the point of the exercise.

Art is (or should be) about establishing dialogues and connections between humans. To me, auto-generated art it's like choosing between seeing a phone picture of someone's baby and a stock photo picture of a random one - the second one might "get the job done" much better, but if there's no personal connection then what's the point?
by hedora | 2025-04-24 15:05:13+00:00
What’s illegal about stubs + extracting certs?

If the certificates were used for copy protection, the DMCA might apply. If they weren’t part of the API, copyright might apply. Patent law doesn’t apply, and trade secrets don’t enjoy legal protection.

They could argue you’re in violation of their terms of service, but their remedy for that is to kick you off the services you’re actively avoiding.

Is there some other law I’m missing?
by wcfields | 2025-04-24 15:05:31+00:00
> They don’t really have a monopoly on local events or marketplace.

Yeah, I'd say from 2004 - 2015 was the heyday for me on local events for small bands, house shows, and punk/DIY venues. Eventually FB Events died out socially by not being able to send invites to mass groups of friends/previous attendees, and attrition, and so on... A real shame for non-major venue events and the DIY scene.

Marketplace is semi-useful still, quasi-better than craigslist, but keeps getting filled with a lot of cruft of drop-shippers and scammers.
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by Sorasful | 2025-04-24 15:06:02+00:00
I've spent the last year and a half building tools and SaaS projects.

I even made a starter template to quickly bootstrap new ideas using my favorite stack: Python, Postgres, Docker, Tailwind, and Svelte.

Over time, I launched several products:

- A tool to send custom notifications to all your devices easily - A tool to generate beautiful landing pages - A feature request tracker to see what your users really want - An analytics tool to track your REST API performance issues—without touching a single line of backend code

I dedicated time and effort to each of these. The result? I made very little money from them.

Ironically, my most lucrative project today is the very first one I built. It’s a platform to learn Tailwind CSS. When I started my dev journey, I really struggled with design. I wanted to learn Tailwind, but I didn't enjoy watching videos or reading through documentation. I just wanted to practice in a comfy, hands-on environment.

So I built https://interactive-tailwind.com. And to my surprise, I started getting sales without doing any real marketing (which I’m terrible at). I launched it on Product Hunt, and since then, sales have trickled in. I’ve even revamped the course twice, since it seems like there’s real potential.

All this to say: no matter how many features you add, no matter how much you plan, your most successful product might be the one you least expect. I’m still surprised.

Have you ever experienced something similar?
by jraph | 2025-04-24 15:06:45+00:00
they actually did move in the meantime :-) [1]

Can this redirection be forever?

> no future organizations will be able to reside in that address

You are supposed to put the name, no? "Some Organization, <old address>" would unambiguously refer to the new org.

[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-office-closing-party
by akho | 2025-04-24 15:06:51+00:00
In perfectly competitive markets noone makes a profit. As a result, capital is only allocated to imperfect markets, defined through various inefficiences: barriers to entry (monopolistic practices), information asymmetries (cheating), …

If you regulate away bad practices, capital will flow elsewhere. The level of equity investment in IT (and the valuations) is largely due to bad practices; fixing that will take away the OP’s favorite toys.
by photonthug | 2025-04-24 15:06:54+00:00
Eh, I think the parent has a point. You underline it yourself when you say “people they already know”.

The internet didn’t always involve a choice between “talk to people I know” vs “bravely/foolishly taking on the vitriol of a wild horde of angry delusional maniacs”, but now we’ve lost almost all of the space in between those extremes. People like hacker news exactly because it’s the rare place that’s still in the middle *(sometimes, on some topics, for now)
by academia_hack | 2025-04-24 15:06:56+00:00
At least to me, loyalty _is_ the benefit. I can't conscience working for someone I hate or someone who I don't feel like I want to help succeed. I've definitely quit jobs before just because the senior leader in my reporting chain was replaced with some smarmy windbag I didn't believe in.

That's not to say it's _much_ of a benefit, but if the only thing a job gives me is a market-rational amount of dollars and health benefits in exchange for life-hours, the invisible hand ensures I can find that virtually anywhere.
by havaloc | 2025-04-24 15:07:18+00:00
I support a small group of elderly people on the side. At least once of week they land on a Facebook video which then leads to the "your phone has 78 viruses" scare ad. I tell them to stop using Facebook and they look at me like I'm crazy. One of them even said, if I turn off my phone when I get that scary ad, does that keep me safe?
by DoItToMe81 | 2025-04-24 15:07:19+00:00
Claiming Stepan Bandera was killed for being an "Anti-Soviet activist" is on par with saying "In 1945, German animal rights activist committed suicide after a long campaign of personal harassment".

He lead an ideologically pro Nazism terrorist organization that slaughtered entire villages in Poland for being 'racial inferiors', especially targeting jews, and intended to continue ethnic terrorism indefinitely until a "racially pure" state was formed from seized Ukrainian, Russian and Polish land.

There genuinely were people targeted and killed for the crime of anti-Soviet activism. Don't lump them in with men who herded the "wrong" Slavs and Jews into trucks to be slaughtered in German camps, who ordered babies heads smashed against barn walls and women to be raped and decapitated.
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by kartik_malik | 2025-04-24 15:07:35+00:00
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by pjc50 | 2025-04-24 15:07:58+00:00
> The EU bureaucracy itself is significantly lighter and more purposeful than any of the underlying individual states' bureaucracy

The EU ""states rights"" (subsidiarity) is a lot stronger and more real than the corresponding structures in the US. It also doesn't really do direct enforcement - there's no EU federal police checking tablets, it's all done through national level enforcement.
by int_19h | 2025-04-24 15:08:20+00:00
> I think the lack of an approximately-one-foot (30 cm) unit in metric is clumsy to work around

What's clumsy about 30cm though? If you are working at scales where this level of precision is needed, you can just use cm throughout, and the beauty of metric is that even someone who has never had to do that before will know immediately how much it is because conversion to meters (or millimeters, or whatever the primary unit is in their usual applications) is so easy.

Similarly, I've heard similar sentiments expressed about lack of pound equivalent in metric. But in practice we just say "500 grams" etc (and for bonus points you get 400 grams, 300 grams etc).

Miles and yards are both used as units of distance, so conversion is obviously relevant. The only reason why "yards in a mile" doesn't come up all the time is because Americans work around it by subconsciously (?) avoiding any such cases where the conversion is non-trivial. E.g. a road sign in Europe might say "400 m", whereas in US a similar one will be "1/4 miles".

And "evolved from hundreds years of usage" generally means a lack of internal consistency, because most units originated a long time ago as a way to measure something very specific - in many cases, something completely irrelevant to most people using those units today. Nor did those units remain consistent through history - just look at how many definitions ounce has in US in different contexts, all of them historical! Or regular vs nautical vs survey mile. Even just cleaning up that mess would be a massive improvement.
by mchusma | 2025-04-24 15:08:32+00:00
Anyone know of a way to just have a remote mcp server on top of a rest API? I want to do something simple to see if my users will care, but can’t find anything trivial (have public API, just want to try and wrap it in mcp for low cost). Tried stainless but it didn’t really do that (seemed to just generate boilerplate for me to install).