MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by billy99k | 2025-06-02 13:11:55+00:00
"Charm and generosity mixed with a grand vision attract followers while psychopaths still consolidate power. Divide and conquer by rewarding insiders and demonizing outsiders. Remove regulation and control the flow of information. Rule by fear once dominance is secure. Rewrite history through myth making to whitewash their atrocities."

We just had a director with these traits roll in to the company and out within 2 years. We ran a large project scheduled to he launched. He made people cry at meetings (because he was pushing them to work 12+ hour days), launched a poorly-planned and poorly-executed project, and left a week after his bonus hit his bank account with 1 week notice.

When he was hired (an IT director), I saw that his resume was filled with job roles that lasted 1 or 2 years. In addition to this, he claimed to have been a software engineer for a decade and he didn't even know the basics about software or development (something I don't think you would forget). Lots of red flags that I saw almost immediately, but were somehow ignored by all management at the top.

It ended up working out in my favor. My contract was going to be cut after the launch, and now that everything is in chaos, I will probably get another year out of it.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-02 13:12:01+00:00
The “what if Putin’s delicate feelings are bruised” style of Russian propaganda is just increasingly absurd at this point, honestly. Ukraine cannot be expected to put up with these bombers hitting their cities on a rather flimsy theory that damaging the precious bombers might result in more Russian aggression.

In practice, Ukraine has significantly reduced Russia’s _capacity_ for such aggression with this move. Russia only has a limited number of working bombers, and they’re irreplaceable.
by yc942 | 2025-06-02 13:12:06+00:00
Maybe it's difficult to deploy to your platform of choice. Deploying to AWS amplify or deploying using sst is matter of minutes or hour.

I have deployed several next.js projects within an hour (not hours) that were created by different teams. The hour includes settings up DNS, CI/CD using github and deploying to AWS Amplify.

Edit: Why are you down voting it? Is this unbelievable? I have deployed 5/6 next.js projects and none of them are on vercel.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-02 13:12:18+00:00
You're darn right I am right to question it. These questions only leave me further convinced this is a bad term.

""" 93. Would you rather have a job more closely related to your education, training and experience?

94. Considering your education, training and experience, do you feel that you are overqualified for your current job?

95. Considering your education, training and experience, do you feel that you have been overqualified for most of your jobs? """

93 is not a question I suspect most people answer faithfully. Because most people with tertiary education could probably find such a job - but it would be at a substantial pay cut. Yet the angle of compensation is nowhere to be found in the question itself.

94 is subject to the same bias that makes 90% of people think they're in the top 50% of driving, parenting, lovemaking and/or karaoke.

95 has that same issue, but also brings in a narcissistic wound aspect to it. No, of course you're better than all of those hams, shams, and japeths who you worked with/under/over through the years.
by dabeeeenster | 2025-06-02 13:12:43+00:00
The market for an on-premise, developer maintained solution is way bigger for a product like this than the cloud version.

We made the exact same, incorrect assumption with https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith several years ago. The market for data sensitive on-premise delpoyments is a LOT bigger than most people would imagine.

For Flagsmith, the majority of our revenue comes from on-premise deployments.
by bArray | 2025-06-02 13:12:49+00:00
Just looking through that PDF, unlike the chair in the blog, some of that furniture is not as robust. Pages 46 & 47 the load rests on the corner of the wood, and pages 46, 47 & 52 add almost all load onto the screws.

The chair in the blog benefits from essentially having all load bearing done by the wood, any screws or nails would be superficial only. We have several good hard wood chairs here with dove tail joints and spring based cushions - and they are excellent.
by just6979 | 2025-06-02 13:13:13+00:00
Perhaps because you should be using some kind of low/mid-level graphics engine. That's part of the difference between OpenGL and Vulcan: that ogl did more for you, even in immediate mode. Vk came about because getting more performance out of ogl was becoming difficult because it didn't directly expose enough of modern hardware, or only exposed it in a specific less-performant way.

Yes, it takes way more code to start from scratch on vulkan, but that's a trade-off against being able to better optimize exactly to your use case, if you need to.
by marklubi | 2025-06-02 13:13:14+00:00
Having interviewed a number of graduates from code camps, they're definitely just chasing the salary.

Most of them have no actual passion for computing, their scope of knowledge is superficial, and they're asking for six-figure salaries out of the gate.

I had a relatively simple coding assignment (shouldn't take more than 15 minutes) that I would use to weed out those that were just copying and pasting sample code. It required a very large number of values and added an additional profiling step to it. The sample code wasn't performant with a very large number of values, and was painfully slow to use unless you made minor adjustments to a few things.
by hegstal | 2025-06-02 13:13:55+00:00
The anti-social 10x developer is more often than not the anti-social 1x developer that makes everyone else move at 0.1x or worse. Not that I directly blame them for it - there is far too much focus on the individual here. It's not so common they are bad people, but more that their own management doesn't provide them with the incentives to behave any other way. It's all about incentives. If the incentives are there, the parties involved will inevitably find a way to compromise in a way that works for them, but if the incentives are fundamentally misaligned, there is no way this gets resolved. The only option is to run.
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by wk_end | 2025-06-02 13:14:14+00:00
For better or for worse, Anderson is very much an auteur [0], like Godard or Woody Allen. Almost certainly in a self-conscious way.

Complaining that Anderson movies feel like Anderson movies seems almost to miss the point: do we look at Picasso's works and complain about the consistent style he developed? The self-imposed constraints of his own style give him a framework to build his art from (it's often said that constraints foster creativity after all) and a particular craft to master.

Conversely, the form might always be an Anderson movie, but the function of each film can be quite different. By sticking with and mastering a particular aesthetic he frees himself to explore things besides aesthetic wildly. What does The Royal Tenenbaums have in common with, say, The Grand Budapest Hotel, besides Futura?

That said, I do feel like Asteroid City in particular was a stretch for him: there's nothing quite like "you can't wake up if you don't fall asleep" anywhere else in his filmography. It felt like along with the more extreme artifice came a more extreme intensity of feeling: to me it's a film that really came from a very anguished and grieving place. I haven't read the article or seen the new film yet, but based on the headline it sounds like this might be the overall direction his work is heading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-02 13:14:22+00:00
IMO efficient market hypothesis is not true (assuming you have all available information you could beat it), but for an ordinary person there are so many ways the market is stacked against them that they should still just assume that it is true.

The question isn't "is it possible to outperform the market by thinking?", it is "will whatever advantage I can get by thinking weigh up for all the disadvantages I have from not being able to insider trade, being further from the exchange than other market participants, having lower ability to sustain losses than big market players, trading fees, taxes, opportunity cost, etc.?"

For any single individual, the answer to the second question is almost certainly no (unless you happen to sit in congress).
by Zak | 2025-06-02 13:15:35+00:00
I do think the average person should know too many amps starts a fire and wrong voltage means devices don't work (sometimes with damage). They should probably know how many amps a typical household breaker is rated for where they live, and that thin extension cords might not be safe with an appliance that has a large motor or heating element.

The list of things they should know about computers is quite a bit longer because computers are more complex. A rudimentary understanding of files, directories and email attachments would make my list.
by Zigurd | 2025-06-02 13:15:42+00:00
Micro optimizing your way to building 17 upper stages of Falcon 9 in a month in order to sell launch capability at the Falcon 9 price is a pretty valuable goal.

It's also a better application of iterative development, on a stable base, with a small number of changes at each increment. They don't mask bugs and create more issues than were solved.

It's not just that Starship is the wrong idea. It's the wrong idea developed wrong. It's very similar to cyber truck that way for similar reasons.
by ednite | 2025-06-02 13:15:51+00:00
Reading this thread, and having been around a while, I agree with most of what’s being said. If I could go back and coach my younger self through the mess of work life (promotions, burnout, undervaluation), I’d hand over three books that ended up being practical maps more than just philosophy.

Some valuable insights from thee books are:

Sun Tzu: The Art of War Success often comes from preparation and positioning, not effort alone. Promotions tend to go to people who made themselves hard to ignore before opportunities opened up. Don’t fight every battle, pick the ones that matter.

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Focus on what you can control. Most stress comes from chasing recognition or reacting to things you can’t change.

Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People Being technically strong isn’t enough. Careers are shaped by relationships. Listening, being likable, and helping others shine often creates more traction than pushing your own brilliance.

If I had started with these mindsets earlier, I probably would’ve saved a few years of frustration. Good luck to everyone dealing with these issues.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-02 13:16:15+00:00
I agree that I think "value" might be the wrong term in the essay. I think there is an emotional/moral spin on "value" though. Too many workers are overworked and underpaid. If someone is undervalued, the answer isn't to give them more responsibilities (without a commensurate bump in pay). The answer is to pay your workers properly. The article touches on this, but doesn't make the connection.

Beyond that, in my experience, when trying to get a bigger role, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Some managers are not useful or just as overworked as we are, so they can't take the step back and properly evaluate who is ready for more responsibility. We have to advocate for ourselves.
by api | 2025-06-02 13:16:43+00:00
We literally spent trillions in the past century building doomsday machines -- hydrogen bombs and ICBMs -- to literally, intentionally destroy humanity as part of the MAD defensive strategy in the Cold War. That stuff is largely still out there. If anything suddenly kills humanity, that's high on the list of possibilities.

The other huge existential risk is someone intentionally creating a doomsday bug. Think airborne HIV with a long incubation period, or an airborne cancer causing virus. Something that would spread far and wide and cause enough debilitation and death that it leads to the collapse of civilization, then continues to hang around and kill people post-collapse (with no health care) to the point that the human race is in long term danger of extinction.

Both of those are extremely plausible to the point that the explanation for why they haven't happened yet is "nobody with the means has been that evil yet."
by larrled | 2025-06-02 13:17:07+00:00
Good advice. Psychological transference is a closely related term. But it’s easy to take that framework too far and eventually get to where you blame things like schizophrenia or ptsd on the mothers. People who grew up in shitty families probably have plenty of insight already. A lot of human behavior is determined rather than the result of free will. If you had a bad mom, it may be better to just lower expectations than try to “fix”yourself and become the CEO. And taking drugs like ssri or adderal helps many in their careers where psychotherapy might not. Freud loved cocaine.
by Fricken | 2025-06-02 13:19:36+00:00
He has put out 5 films in the last 7 years. Wes Anderson might just be a victim of his own productivity, his work could benefit from some scarcity.

Anderson nonetheless is still quite inventive and experimental in his films, he's always doing new things, and usually those new things are in the details, and of course, those new things tend to play into his trademark style. Asteroid City played like an excuse to play around with clever camera movements. Isle of Dogs did weird things where the image and sound were providing diverging narratives that would come back together.

Anderson's trademark style is annoying to me only when my interest in the characters and story is lacklustre, but for every Anderson film I'm not that into I know at least one person who loves it.

I think it would be unreasonable to expect him to reinvent his filmmaking style dramatically. There are other filmmakers out there making movies for those who've had their fill of quirky Wes Anderson flicks.
by evanelias | 2025-06-02 13:20:05+00:00
> what kind of RDBMS ships with a flag named "strict sql mode" that's available to be set to something?

How about some of the most widely deployed database software on earth? For example SQLite doesn't even enforce column types by default today, and has only had the option to do so for less than four years!

In MySQL/MariaDB's case, yes they should have changed that default much earlier, but they historically over-indexed on backwards compatibility concerns around that time period.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-02 13:20:17+00:00
N=1, I think that:

- You'd have to be either extremely lucky, or spend a lot of money and effort (e.g. to get to the bleeding edge of quant or HFI game), to be in a position where you could use your knowledge and brainpower directly to give yourself an edge over the market, and:

- Any such edge is extremely short-lived - the moment you take advantage of it, the market itself will start adjusting to correct, and on top of that, other smart players will notice the irregularity, work to exploit it or reverse engineer your approach; in the end, the "pattern" quickly disappears.

Whether one can become able to continuously find such short-lived edges and profit off them, by means other than pure random chance, I don't know, but I highly doubt it. The space is way too competitive; a sustained miracle advantage would eventually attract regulatory attention, and/or unscrupulous parties willing to lie and cheat to bury you legally, or literally. But that's just me speculating.
by thrance | 2025-06-02 13:20:23+00:00
In Stephen Baxter's Time [1], in the far far future, when all the stars have died out and black holes have finally all evaporated, the descendants of mankind are left in a maximally entropic universe, with no free enrgy left at all. They are condemned to live in giant simulations powered by reversible computing (consuming no power), reliving the same events over and over again, as computations are uncomputed and then recomputed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(novel)
by Zak | 2025-06-02 13:20:44+00:00
That might be true, but Windows, Mac OS, and even Linux desktops required far less technical skill to operate successfully in 2009 than in 1999.

If you tried to play games online in 1999 using Windows 98, it would break, and you would learn to fix it or you wouldn't play games anymore. Using Windows 7 in 2009, you'd probably have to know what compatibility mode is but it usually wouldn't break beyond that.
by krunck | 2025-06-02 13:20:58+00:00
Anybody wanting to get started making regular chairs using traditional methods I highly recommend Make a Chair from a Tree by Jennie Alexander:

https://lostartpress.com/products/make-a-chair-from-a-tree

In the book she starts with the basics and works up to assembly including woven seats. These are beautiful lightweight chairs. Even if you don't build the chair, it's a great lesson in wooworking.
by Oleksa_dr | 2025-06-02 13:20:59+00:00
I'm thinking about starting a blog. I often write detailed comments, but they are often limited because I can't add many images, or just the number of characters is limited, I can't add graphics.

I mean, I'm already generating some content, but it's drowning somewhere in the comments. And then I can't find what I wrote myself.

I prefer to use it as my own library, but share some research with others.

Most (though maybe not all) tech sites will publish a post about the release of the next motherboard and so on 20 times a day, but there will be no news about, for example, PCIe 7.0 and Molex, and if there is such a post, it will be just dry, here is the release and that's it. All the additional information is about it and why it will be useful to incite the audience to expectations, and possibly wishes for potential use. Even on the relevant branches or subreddits where it would be useful, no one even mentions it.

Everything is aimed at a quick release, getting paid for the publication, and that's it.

The further I go, the more I look for small blocks and re-read them once a month.

How much news did you see about another motherboard or GPU with a modified bezel and how much news was there about the development of microled (with its many applications). And in the last two years, something new and interesting has been happening in the microled field.

But where are the tech sites before this... it is better to consider another QHD OLED screen, which is not far from FHD. It's just the same old, same old every day, week, month.
by skydhash | 2025-06-02 13:21:01+00:00
> Also, there's a decently large subset of small startups where there's 1 technical founder and a team of contract labor, trying to build that first MVP or cranking out early features in a huge rush to stay alive, where yeah, cheap unlimited interns might actually be meaningfully useful or economically more attractive than whatever they're doing now

That's when experienced developers are a huge plus. They know how to cut corners in a way that will not hurt that much in the long term. It's more often intern level that are proposing stuff like next.js, kubernetes, cloud-native,... that will grind you to a halt once the first bugs appear.

A very small team of good engineers will get you much further than any army of intern level coders.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-02 13:21:59+00:00
People can get used to a certain level of usefulness from a person, and start to take it for granted. The first time you swoop in and do something in an hour that had been holding others up for weeks, they're astounded by your usefulness. The tenth time, it's just what you do, so it's expected.

And yes, that does seem to happen more if you're wearing work boots, probably because people who never wear work boots assume that, if it can be done in work boots, it can't be as astounding and valuable as it appeared at first, or you would have moved beyond work boots by now.

Usefulness may hold its value in the trenches, but the people ultimately deciding everyone's salary generally aren't in the trenches.
by AnonC | 2025-06-02 13:22:02+00:00
Suggestion to the OP: please consider adding a family plan at a lower monthly price point.

On this topic, I really love Kanban boards, but a hosted version (or self-hosted) is not as appealing to me as a native app with some sync.

Years ago, I used to use a closed source but free desktop app on Windows (now long discontinued though) and found that it worked very well for me to track my work.

Apple’s Reminders app has Lists that can be further divided into Sections and then viewed and used (kinda) like a Kanban board, but the UX is not great. The macOS apps, especially, are an abomination with Catalyst.

I’m still looking for a native app that has a simple sync using iCloud or Dropbox. Plus no subscriptions (a one time price per version may be ok). The usage would be for one or two users.
by goodpanda | 2025-06-02 13:22:05+00:00
You make a good point there but all those solutions you mentioned store your file one way or another. Which also means your file is getting uploaded to some random server and you pretty much have no control over what happens after. With Berb that simply is not the case. WebRTC is a tool to achieve what I want and not the main selling point. It is simple - I don't want my files to be uploaded and I want the transfer to be instant (no download link later).

Beside the fact that this JUST got launched and can either be liked and used by many, or another dead product in a year, I have found myself using it multiple times so far. Like sending a large file to/from my work computer etc. If this is solving a problem for even a small number of people, that is great!
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-06-02 13:22:32+00:00
> Also, that £8 price was the subsidised price when purchased with a mobile contract

So there never was an £8 reader, it was more likely a £30+ reader that's cost was hidden in the mobile contract or the hopes of you using their book store as it sounds from the wiki that it was a proprietary format

> The internal format seems to be basically uncompressed Bitmaps of 3 or 4 bits per pixel. Font size can be specified in the source book but not changed after the transfer.

If you could make an e-reader for £8 presumably including profit in that price so it doesn't have to be subsidized by vendor lock in book stores or mobile contracts you wouldn't want to use it. The screen would be underwhelming, the plastic creaky, file transfer slow and possibly wired only and the processor slow. It would be ewaste before it's even off the production line.

There is nothing wrong with spending money on nice quality versions of things aligned with your tech ideology, and if you do there will be more things like that in the world. Cheapo disposable tech is actually bad because it all ends up having to be subsidized by exploitative practices like data selling or ads to actually profit from it.
by nirui | 2025-06-02 13:22:34+00:00
> SanDisk/WD... noticed that they were sensitive to brownouts

Damn, I had a hit on this but this test made it clear.

I have few SBCs with SanDisk TF cards as their data storage. Those were powered with a cheap USB power adapter, and as a result, these SBCs completely locks themselves up after just few days and become inoperable. I even contacted the manufacturer of the SBCs for repair.

But before actually sending the boards out, I brought a new power adapter, replaced the old one with it, and the problem is completely gone. The SBCs are all good, the problem is the power supply.

Though, I still hope that those SBC manufacturers could switch to other storage device. SSDs, even the basic ones are much more reliable that whatever TF card listed on the test.