MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-09-24 21:47:26+00:00
If you're a manager, consider not saying that up the org chart is "sucky". Almost certainly no one on your team will go tattle, but it can leak out accidentally, such as when someone is flustered over a problem.

More likely, it will leak out indirectly, in a way, if your team starts thinking of itself a little too much as a group that has to stick together against hostile outsiders within the company, either up the chain or sideways. People outside the team will pick up on that's the tone you're promoting to the team.

But it's not just about not wanting impolitic words to come back to you...

For one thing, it's part of your job to help the team work with the company and people outside the team. Not promote a sense of hostile environment. (If there's an intractably hostile environment, then either that's getting fixed promptly, or your people should be escaping.)

A good manager should have the team's back, especially in a hostile corporate environment, but also insulate the team from a lot of noise including some of what they're being shielded from, as a team and individually. Just like personal life, if you care, you don't have to tell people all the things you do for them.

(I was fortunate to have some awesome managers, who knew when to shield and help me, who knew when to (on rare occasions) lower their voice and tell me something that a drone wouldn't, and who always came across as honest and caring. Some of it rubbed off of me despite my strong-minded personality, and I can always just ask myself what would Bill/Kathy/Nancy/Tom do, to name some of the earliest and most formative ones. All highly skilled engineers first, and later managers/mentors.)
by missinglugnut | 2025-09-24 21:47:31+00:00
I'll add that there are some feedback loops making it worse. When these organizations aren't available kids are more dependent on their parents for something to do, which makes the already strained parents even less likely to take on volunteer work.

And then kids who grew up without mentors are less likely to try to be that for someone else.

Basically the orgs don't have enough volunteers to do important things, and the people don't volunteer because the org isn't important to them.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-24 21:47:53+00:00
It doesn't need to be by email. They can simply show it in the mobile website.

But they refuse to do so in order to get all that data which they can sell. In a mobile app it's way harder to run ad blockers and much easier to sneakily collect information on the user. Especially on android which is by far the biggest OS in the countries where Ryanair operates.
by jasongill | 2025-09-24 21:48:46+00:00
This looks very interesting. I understand that hydraulic retrofit is compelling, but you may want to consider CANbus-based retrofits as well (similar to how CommaAI works, where it simply sends messages to the CANbus network to control steering or speed just like ADAS features do). Modern equipment is moving away from hydraulic controls toward a fully digital cockpit and being able to plug in and teleop (for less than the cost of the manufacturers expensive robotics suite) would be amazing.

I have a Cat 289D skid steer I would happily contribute to the effort if you guys move into the compact equipment space (compact being a relative term, as my machine is only 6 tons compared to your 38 ton machine)
by pants2 | 2025-09-24 21:51:02+00:00
I go to church every Sunday despite having zero belief in Jesus or God as they describe him. The sermons are socially relevant and thought-provoking, the congregation is caring and fun with cool social events, and the good that they're doing in our community is inspiring.

I encourage HNers to try it! Just mentally replace "God" with "Nature" and "Jesus" with "Me" in every line and you have a good framework for self-reflection and appreciation of the natural world.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-09-24 21:51:18+00:00
There is a reason that you cannot sign your fundamental rights away in a contract and why contracts can’t override laws; because poor people need the money and they will do it if they don’t have a better option.

Have you considered that the people doing this are those for whom 30$ a day is a big deal? You can’t feed your kids with privacy, but 30$ goes a long way.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-24 21:51:58+00:00
I think it would 100% work for someone who truly finds the "most-fun part of baseball" "having a correctly called game by the rules".

Initially I was going to argue that that's a silly thing to prioritize in a game, but it's a matter of taste and I'm not going to tell you what to like or not. It's not like you said that you liked arguing with your friends or something.

In all seriousness though, sure, everyone wants a fair game, but there's limitations. For instance, I only watch minor league baseball, and it's not because they got the pitch clock and ABS first, it's because the teams aren't completely optimized like the majors, and the game isn't as refined - it's closer in spirit to the first game of baseball ever played.

Frankly, I'd rather watch a pick-up game without an umpire if it weren't weird (and I could get a beer and some hotdogs).

Long story short (too late), baseball's a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The stats, the camaraderie, the competition, or the culture around the game itself. If you prized a game going off like clockwork, I couldn't fault you, even if that doesn't factor into my love of the game at all.
by biotinker | 2025-09-24 21:52:20+00:00
The neat thing is that it it doesn't actually take much money to start up a new small organization if you want to. You can accomplish a remarkable amount with relatively little money.

Some friends and I just started a tool library in Central Oregon: https://cotool.org/

There some quite generous community donations of tools (not money) to get started. Startup costs were small, and now a couple weeks after opening we have dozens of members.

It scales nicely because we can just buy more or less new tools. It's very impactful to some people, and once started there's very little recurring expenses.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-24 21:53:00+00:00
There was an explosion of these little groups in the US after the 1st edition of Robert's Rules of Order was published, which incidentally was also heavily adopted by churches (and women's suffrage groups, who helped him with the Newly Revised.) I'd say this fulmination culminated in FDR and strong unions, aspects of both made illegal afterwards - term limits to limit democracy, striking made into a kabuki ritual by the NLRB, unions being forbidden from offering their members health insurance (they're the ones who started doing this), but employers offering insurance being subsidized. Elites were so terrified that they got close to pulling a coup and installing a dictator with the Business Plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot).

They got everything tight again with WWII, McCarthy and the Cold War, though. Lucky, right?

I think there has been an intentional effort to isolate people from each other, and to destroy communities, and even make them look suspicious or evil in some way. Isolated, atomized people are more easily controlled. I think the encouragement of labor mobility and the trashing of small towns and small business in favor of the internet has also been an intentional effort in that regard. I also think there has been an intentional effort to consolidate media and merge it with government, which reached a frenzy during the Biden administration. Oracle's nepo baby is going to have Paramount, CBS, Tiktok, and who knows what else.

An evil antidemocratic streak has been encouraged among the "left," who now love benevolent dictators, credentialism, and decision by "consent" which immediately devolves into rule by the loudest and the whiniest cluster B personality or sociopath. Votes mean that you don't get your way a lot, but you get stuff done. If you don't get your way too much, you can just leave and join a group that works for you. Monopoly, and rule by anointment take that away from us, and that's what's happening.

It's been devastating for black Americans. Our media used to be vibrant and exciting, now it doesn't exist at all. This is the fate of all minorities under cultural consolidation. Alone, getting your directions from a screen, with the screen listening to any conversation you manage to have and reporting it to your rulers.

They'll eventually go after the churches, too, or consolidate them. I'm sorry, they'll go after the "christofascists."
by sally_glance | 2025-09-24 21:53:10+00:00
We (software agency) recently encountered this line of argument for the first time here in Germany.

It definitely reduces costs to swap 3 platform support to 2, but it still came as a kind of surprise to me. They (customer) poured years and seven digit figures into the web-based version which is now effectively going to be trashed. The current prod metrics are not supporting the 90% mobile thesis... I guess they just have high confidence that it will become true soon.

I'm wondering if these are the first signs of an age-based bias I have and the next generation just can't really imagine a majority of users using desktop PCs.
by bitwize | 2025-09-24 21:53:26+00:00
For much of human history it has worked this way: the king got many wives, nobles got a few, but most men didn't marry at all. They labored and fought and died without getting to pass on their genes. This is also why men are such status seekers and risk takers: our ancestors had to prove their worth for a chance at getting laid. The risks were great, but the payoff was huge and if you failed, it's not like your genes gained any advantage by playing it safe.
by pron | 2025-09-24 21:54:09+00:00
P.S.

While the manufacturing jobs of old cannot be brought back because they no longer exist - they've been eliminated by automation - there could be non-economic arguments for bringing back more manufacturing (e.g. a national security argument). The Biden administration did actually do that; the Trump administration is actively harming manufacturing with its exceptionally incompetent and stupid tariff policy (a very different tariff policy could hypothetically help manufacturing, but economists will tell you that subsidies - along the lines of what the Biden administration implemented - would be more effective and cause less economic harm).

The bottom line is that, on the economy, as in health, what most characterizes the Trump administration is an almost unbelievable level of stupidity and incompetence, and it will achieve none of the positive economic goals it purported to pursue (and is likely to achieve the opposite). This means that the only intended change this administration is bringing about is the Orban-style consolidation of power and authoritarianism, and a reduction in education and research.

If you want to look at things from a purely cynical point of view, that parties seek to "manufacture" voters, with the current dominant polarization axis, Democrats' clear interest is to have more educated and/or informed Americans, while Republicans' clear interest is to have fewer.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-24 21:54:15+00:00
> the media changed it to Farsi to reduce it's "prestige"

This is not true.

It happened after the 1979 Iranian revolution, when Iranians abroad wanted to call it Farsi out of cultural pride, using the same word in their own language, rather than Persian which is the "foreign" word for it (from Greek/Latin). It was literally reclaiming the name. Then the media followed suit out of respect. It was cultural sensitivity.

Today some non-Iranians and therefore groups like the UN prefer "Persian" because variants are also spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikstan, and Farsi is a reference to the Fars province of Iran, so Persian can be seen as more neutral. But then again, not many people complain about "English" being associated with England and not being neutral enough to Americans or Indians. So it's definitely complicated. But it's also definitely not about trying to diminish anybody's "prestige".
by cullenking | 2025-09-24 21:55:48+00:00
We've been running a production ceph cluster for 11 years now, with only one full scheduled downtime for a major upgrade in all those years, across three different hardware generations. I wouldn't call it easy, but I also wouldn't call it hard. I used to run it with SSDs for radosgw indexes as well as a fast pool for some VMs, and harddrives for bulk object storage. Since i was only running 5 nodes with 10 drives each, I was tired of occasional iop issues under heavy recovery so on the last upgrade I just migrated to 100% nvme drives. To mitigate the price I just bought used enterprise micron drives off ebay whenever I saw a good deal popup. Haven't had any performance issues since then no matter what we've tossed at it. I'd recommend it, though I don't have experience with the other options. On paper I think it's still the best option. Stay away from CephFS though, performance is truly atrocious and you'll footgun yourself for any use in production.
by monkeywithdarts | 2025-09-24 21:56:00+00:00
I also don't know much about anarchist philosophy; would love some insight here if anyone can speak to that.

But if the US (same applies to other countries) became an anarchy today, then entities like Goldman Sachs and Constellis (formerly Blackwater) are going to fare much better than most. So a naive "burn it all down" anarchy doesn't seem an answer.

UPDATE: I remembered Noam Chomsky is sometimes called an anarcho-syndicalist but never looked up what meant. Turns out that is exactly the kind of "anarchism" that answers my question. (New concept to me, so not sure in what sense this might be called anarchism. No central government?)
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-24 21:56:06+00:00
Yeah, it gets worse than that, too, because some airlines have multiple types of gate checks. Delta, which I've flown the most on recently, lets you gate check at the gate desk up until like 10 minutes before boarding and those get tagged like normal checked baggage, sent to a baggage car for the normal forklift-ability, and will show up at baggage claim at your final destination, but Delta also lets you gate check at the last minute by dropping it at the end of the jet bridge and those get a slightly different tag, are basically thrown into cargo by hand, and also need to be pulled out of cargo by hand and so are thrown right back onto the jet bridge on the deplaning side of the next destination, not the final one. In the case of "overhead bins full" every bag after that full point gets into that second category of jet bridge bags. (And yeah, I've seen that particular case cause some traffic jams in deplaning.)

(Delta also has a third type of "gate check" if you count the regular checkin desk silliness to try to skip bag fees by checking in with 0 bags, getting asked if you want to gate check, and then checking it at the checkin desk like checked baggage is supposed to work. That also goes to your final destination, but it's a silly process of "no I don't want to check bags" to say that "yes, I have one bag I would like to check but it's not worth your silly fees to check if you want to charge me".)

I also have met people that like the "jet bridge checked baggage" and think it a feature, not a bug. I understand there is a flexibility it offers if a connection fails or is too delayed or what have you, but the slow, artisanally hand tossed baggage part of that seems so inefficient and slow down to the rest of us, it is hard for me to not see that as a bit selfish and something that should have fees to pay for the extra labor and time involved. Also, if anything it seems a reminder that Baggage Claim got put on the wrong side of Security checkpoints in the US out of a mistake from historic airport layouts, and if you were to design the system from scratch you'd put it before leaving Security and allow people the option to choose which destinations it needs to be picked up (but still defaulting to the final one), and maybe a "recheck" desk right next to it.
by us-merul | 2025-09-24 21:56:10+00:00
From the linked DHH writing: “There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.”

To clarify, who are the Brits exactly? Do the Irish, Scottish, and Welsh count, and who gets to say that? Also, the Ainu were there before the Japanese.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-24 21:56:46+00:00
RelationAI effectively has a kind of datalog as a commerical product, and it runs inside Snowflake (something they implemented since I worked there). It's marketed as "graph" database but they mean by that that they have modeled graphs as binary relational data, really. It's a purely relational system, with a friendly query language ("Rel") which is vaguely Datalogish, but a bit more flexible.

The key thing with them is it's designed for querying very large cloud backed datasets, high volumes of connected data. So maybe it's not as relevant here as I originally suggested.

Re: marketing ... much of their marketing has shifted over the last two years to emphasizing the fact that it's a plugin thing for Snowflake, which wasn't their original MO.

(There's an CMU DB talk they did some years ago that I thought was pretty brilliant and made me want to work there)

My proposal about a datalog (or similar more high level declarative relational-model system) being useful here has to do with how it shifts the focus to logical propositions/rules and handles transitive joins etc naturally. It's a place an LLM could shove "facts" and "rules" it finds along the way, and then the system could join to find relationships.

You can do this in SQL these days, but it isn't as natural or intuitive.
by xoxxala | 2025-09-24 21:56:50+00:00
I'm with you. If I can't drive there, I don't go. Between the TSA, cramped seats, fees, unhelpful staff, angry passengers, angry staff, turbulence, the lousy food and dealing with carry-ons/luggage -- it's not worth it (for me, personally). My last flight was 2019 and I don't miss it at all.

We take fewer, but longer, vacations, and use the extra time to drive to our destination. We try to avoid freeways as much as possible so we can see smaller places. We make vague plans and stop when we get tired or hungry.

I know it won't work for everybody, but it works for us and I love it.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 21:57:18+00:00
That's cheating. Terminal is in a sense the ultimate accessibility viewer, but few things work with existing terminal browsers I know of.

Makes me wonder though, if anyone tried to take a SOTA screen reader/accessibility software, and use it to re-render the page purely from the "how the screen reader sees it" perspective (obviously with selectable text)?
Ask HN: Times the world has dodged a bullet
by tempestn | 2025-09-24 21:57:32+00:00
I sometimes find myself frustrated, looking at ways history turned on a tiny unlucky break, resulting in things being, from my perspective, significantly worse than they otherwise might have been but for a bit of bad luck.

I was thinking it might be helpful to consider cases of the opposite, when we got lucky and maybe I don't even realize it, since we wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of time thinking about, or even necessarily be aware of, a bad thing that merely almost happened. (Or even more so, a good thing that never did.)

The most obvious examples are the two instances of possibly averted nuclear war: Vasily Arkhipov blocking the launch of a nuclear strike from a Soviet sub during the Cuban missile crisis, and Stanislav Petrov choosing not to report an apparent missile launch from the US in the (correct) belief that it was a false alarm.

Are there any others that come to mind? I suppose someone with a very different belief system than mine might count some of my unlucky happenings instead as lucky ones, but are there any other reasonably objective ones? Discoveries made by chance that likely would not have been made for a long time otherwise? Wars narrowly averted? Other sorts of positive events I'm not even considering?

As a final aside, this wasn't in my mind when I started writing, but I'm now reminded of the Apple TV series For All Mankind. While it's obviously fiction and takes a lot of liberties, I think it does pretty well at showing how significantly history might be altered by individual events.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-24 21:57:40+00:00
The coverage of WMD's was appalling.

Both the BBC and the Guardian were reporting how fucked up it was, but NYT ra ra America fuck yea just went along with it. There were other us news orgs that spoke up but no traction.

And this is the thing. The NYT isnt doing reporting here. This isnt a presser they are covering where they are quoting cops and their claim on the street value of the drug sized. This is a "confidential source" whos narrative is then supported by a know insider but its made to look like its being fact checked.

Its not. This is not journalism, and if you want to make it that, then you have to admit it's awful. There needs to be a retraction, or better yet a mecupla and some interviews with real technical experts.
by foobarbecue | 2025-09-24 21:57:48+00:00
We are comparing between a) asking an LLM to write code to parse a csv and b) writing code to parse a csv.

In both cases, they'll use a csv library, and a bajillion items of lower-level code. Application code is always standing on the shoulders of giants. Nobody is going to manually write assembly or machine code to parse a csv.

The original contention, which I was refuting, is that it's quicker and easier to use an LLM to write the python than it is to just write the python.

Kolmogorov complexity seems pretty irrelevant to this question.
by chaboud | 2025-09-24 21:58:21+00:00
Funny enough, that’s what photographers are doing when they shoot a color checker chart (e.g., Munsell, Macbeth, X-Rite).

White balance is hard, in part, because the sensitivity bands of our vision and the camera sensors do not align. Take a look at fluorescent (or, better still, sodium vapor) light spectra for clarity on why this is a massive pain.
by reify | 2025-09-24 21:59:16+00:00
Impressively uninteresting

this is my headline:

How Cloudflare DDoS attacks increase annually.

here is the other, click on this and read the same stuff by the same people, except the numbers have changed.

absolutely boring as fuck.

Oct 2024: How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

June 2025: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

Sept 2025: Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

the latest one:

Cloudflare Mitigated Record-Breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack

I love DDoS attacks, it sounds so "the future" when people have finally had enough and take back control.

Just imagaine me, a retired psychotherapist geting headlines like that:

Local psychotherapist helps person with their depression and they are now well again!

Fuck me!
by Self-Perfection | 2025-09-24 21:59:19+00:00
Using text? How old school! This is not how current generation interacts with computers.

My colleagues frequently send me cli output as screenshots instead of text. They are too accustomed to macOS embedded OCR I presume.

Or how would they share event details on social media. Rarely there is text description, mostly date and time is imprinted on image in Instagram.
by mikestew | 2025-09-24 21:59:40+00:00
...for when they come crawling back

I'm not the one that needs to do any crawling. Guess what I discovered these past couple of days? I get along fine without Hulu. And JFC, $20/month and I still get ads? Yeah, piss off with that shit, I'll read a book first.

I'm not so sure it's a keen business strategy to piss off a bunch of folks, and just days later while they're still a bit pissed, jack up the prices. Might work for some, for others like myself: "wow, check out the big, clanky balls on Iger".