MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shalmanese | 2025-09-25 05:47:58+00:00
When I'm a decision maker, I tell people there are two types of conversations we could be having and it's absolutely essential that we're both clear which one we both think we're having:

1. There's a piece of information you know which, you believe, if I knew it, it would cause me to change my decision

2. We are operating from the same world of facts but if you were in my shoes, you would choose to make a different decision because of a different in priorities/values/attitude/etc.

I think "disagree and commit" has been abused to excuse a litany of absolutely heinous behaviors in tech but my most charitable interpretation of that philosophy is that if we're both in agreement that we're having conversation #2, then the only actionable steps forward are to either agree to change who the decision maker is in the moment (which should only ever be done in the rarest of circumstances) or you need to acknowledge that you've been heard, I disagree and you need to commit.

IMO, one of the more toxic but often under addressed traits for someone in the team is them wanting all of the power of a decision maker with none of the responsibility. They will spend their time endlessly dissecting how "bone headed" the choices by management are and how we're "obviously ruled by incompetents" but when asked to take on any of the mantle of responsibility to fix any of the issues they see, they instinctively shy away because they're afraid of being judged as harshly by others as they judge.

My more radical belief is that the easiest default path for any team to go down is to say that it's the leader's job to make sure everybody on the team is ok with the decision but that this is an anti-pattern and it's actually up to the subordinates to develop the emotional maturity to understand that decisions will sometimes not go their way and the course charted might be completely baffling or insane to them but if you want that never to happen, then you should be the decision maker.

But the root of making this a successful culture has to be a consistent and mature retro process which is astonishingly hard to pull off which is why it's so rare. The retro is the proper time to judge whether decision making ability is being placed in the right hands or not:

* Did the decision meet, exceed or fall short of our expectations?

* Did it fall short because something within the control of the company/team or outside of the control?

* If inside the control, was there some piece of missing information, which, when revealed in retrospect, would have changed the decision?

* Was the information obtainable at the time? Why didn't we obtain it? Are there changes to the process we should make to learn from this for next time?

The best we can hope for is not perfect decision makers, it's people who can run an effective retro process, learn from their mistakes and steadily increase the quality of their decisions over time. Inability to do that should be the primary reasons someone is removed from their decision making role.
by throwaway2202 | 2025-09-25 05:48:21+00:00
Not only just a superficial change, and if anyone calls it parsi in iran they just come across like a literary person, it’s that Classical persian literature as we know it is from after arab era until 1300s. Persian imported arabic words and used them widely in its literature. Maybe an analogy is english should be called Anglish.

The difference between Persian and Farsi matters in english world because it is political. In english, Farsi doesn’t carry prestige, same way iran doesn’t carry Persia. But they do for those in iran. I’m not familiar enough with afghanistan to know first hand, but perhaps same can be said for Dari. I might be wrong though on this last one.
by tomhow | 2025-09-25 05:50:48+00:00
Sure but the founders who will generate the greatest returns for investors are the ones who won’t be pushed around by boards. Facebook’s board advised Mark Zuckerberg to take Yahoo’s $1B offer in 2006 [1]. He was 22 years old. He refused, and Meta is now valued at nearly $2T. That’s the kind of founder that the most ambitious startup investors are looking for.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/an-ugly-truth-mark-zuckerber...
by rkomorn | 2025-09-25 05:53:13+00:00
Maybe it's also the other way around: if Firefox was legitimate competition, Google wouldn't "fund" them (quotes because really, google is also just buying user traffic with their investment).

Is Google actively sabotaging Mozilla or is Mozilla a genuine competitor that just hasn't figured out how to build a browser that'll actually challenge Chrome (and Chromiumy browsers) beyond ideologist users?

I say it's the latter. Google's money doesn't actually negatively impact Firefox's competitiveness.
by protocolture | 2025-09-25 05:53:23+00:00
Yes, you could have a corporation that does not have an internal hierarchy. But (in a left anarchist view) you cant have a corporation without private property and corporate limitation of liability. Both of those are (in their view) hierarchical.

The problem from a left anarchist standpoint isn't (just) "CEO is boss, having boss bad" its that there's a group of people with special treatment everyone else is not subject to.

You might disagree with that view, and probably do. I am just familiar enough with their ideas to relay and explain them.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-25 05:53:55+00:00
This is like going into a butcher's shop and being surprised that they're pushing meat on you instead of flowers or textiles.

Google is an ad company. They're the ad company. They built a search engine to sell ads. They built a browser to sell ads. They built an e-mail provider to sell ads. They built a video streaming platform to sell ads. They built a worldwide street-level navigation system to sell ads. They built an operating system and computers, just to sell ads.

They showed you ads. They gave you what they sell.

You don't like meat? Stop going to the butcher shop. Don't sit here complaining that the butchers keep trying to sell you meat.
by perihelions | 2025-09-25 05:54:16+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation_(spacecraft) ("Passivation (spacecraft)")

And used in context (this context),

> "The incident is the fourth time a Centaur upper stage has broken up since 2018. In the earlier three cases, the breakups created hundreds of pieces of debris, but no known collisions. That has raised questions about a potential design flaw with the stage or a failure to “passivate” the stage by venting propellant tanks and draining batteries, removing energy that could cause a breakup."

https://spacenews.com/faa-to-complete-orbital-debris-upper-s...
by weq | 2025-09-25 05:54:17+00:00
I started this fight with youtube back when it was called google video, because i wanted to watch content but my 28.8kbps modem didnt have the grunt todo it in one session.

When i started getting 100,000's of downloads a day, google updated their html and blocked me from their search engine. I did the cat and mouse a few times but in the end it wasnt worth it.

Glad to see the legacy still lives on :D

https://gvdownloader.sourceforge.net/
by hmottestad | 2025-09-25 05:54:37+00:00
Looks like some benchmarks have started leaking: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Snapdragon-8-Elite-Gen-5-perfo...

Mind you, Geekerwan managed to push the A19 Pro to 4019 in Geekbench 6 by using active cooling. https://youtu.be/Y9SwluJ9qPI
by mhast | 2025-09-25 05:54:38+00:00
I have a M4 Max with 128 GB memory. Even on that machine I would not consider 70B+ models to be useable. Once you go below 20 tokens/s it becomes more like having a pen pal than an AI assistant.

MoE models can still be pretty fast. As are smaller models.

(This is mostly a warning for anyone who is enamored by the idea of running these things locally to make sure to test it before you spend a lot of money.)

Currently I'd probably say the Nvidia RTX pro 6000 is a Challenger if you want local models. It "only" has 96 GB of RAM, but it's very fast (1800 GB/s). If you can fit the model on it and it's good enough for your use case then it's probably worth it even at $10k.
by zby | 2025-09-25 05:58:02+00:00
The root problem is not misunderstanding but not trusting each other. When the team implementing something says it is two weeks while the other team believes it should be just a day - in a world with full trust the second team would just accept that the first team has more expertise. But why should the teams trust each other? There is always the option that the estimation is not based on the real work required - but just an attempt to get some slack.

With translation you can show that there is a depth of arguments for that or that position - this is improving the trust.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-09-25 06:00:10+00:00
Anyone interested in this sort of thinking from the economic side should give The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim wu a read. It's a call to action in favor of the neo-Brandeis movement, which is trying to change how we think of antitrust in the United States. Key to neo-Brandeisian anti-trust is a shift away from consumer welfare, and a shift towards a focus on a firms size and power
by exe34 | 2025-09-25 06:00:13+00:00
my microwave oven has two knobs: how hot and how long. I paid an extra £50 to get a model of fridge without WiFi. sadly my washing machine is already at the free-spinning encoder stage - I don't hate it with a passion, but more of a low-enthusiasm.

I dread replacing anything that breaks in the next few years.
by gabrielhfrn | 2025-09-25 06:00:33+00:00
I learned about this project from Theo (T3 guy), and his approval of it, make of that what you will.

Not 100% related but I found it funny that on that specific video, in which he spends the best part of 40 minutes talking about how the only browsers that are worth talking about are ones which "improve" your browsing experience beyond Chrome, which is the de facto "decent" browser. He mentions Zen and Vivaldi as examples.

He then finishes the video gushing about how he loves helium, which is just ungoogled-chromium lol
by TFYS | 2025-09-25 06:01:03+00:00
In the book "The Logic of Collective Action" that's recognized as one of the reasons for why large organizations are unable to produce public goods without setting up some separate, selective incentives for the individuals. When society is composed of mostly large organizations, nothing can be done without either forcing people to do it (government) or using money as an incentive (corporations). In small groups it's possible for the group to act in the best interest of everyone (produce public good) without having any other incentives for the individual, and a part of the reason is the effect on reputation for non-participants.

Maybe this transition to large groups means that it's harder to produce public goods, since producing them now always requires setting up a separate system of incentives, which is hard and can be gamed.
by that_guy_iain | 2025-09-25 06:01:30+00:00
I think Facebook just forking the language instead of helping with development gave them the kick up the ass to sort out the development process. Then it just came down to having no one actually working on the language, so they needed to create the PHP Foundation to pay people to work on it because all the major companies left it behind (Yahoo, Facebook, Zend, etc). So it's good to see it managed to survive that chaos and become a pretty good language.
by nice_byte | 2025-09-25 06:02:04+00:00
> Whatever I link to you are just going to say its AI, or inconclusive.

There is no point in linking anything further because your line of reasoning is flawed to begin with, due to two reasons.

Reason one, your argument amounts to: software has bugs, and every bug is there because there was no test that would prevent that specific kind of bug (and it would if they were doing testing "correctly"). This is a completely vacuous argument because all software has bugs and therefore no one is doing testing "correctly" to your satisfaction anyway, which makes the whole discussion moot.

Reason two, you seem to be assuming that I am somehow advocating for not doing software quality assurance or not writing any tests. I am not. I am arguing that it is not worth investing extra time into learning that discipline, because a) not fundamental; b) you will be forced to learn it anyway. Therefore, spend your precious extra time on more interesting and useful things.

> But I don't see anything on getting the "fundamental theory" wrong.

Typically projects that get the basics wrong don't live long enough to find themselves in an AI training corpus used to generate listicles.

> Why would I if I could avoid it?

a simple "no" would have sufficed to establish that your opinion on usefulness of bloom filters in distributed systems probably shouldn't be weighed very high.

> That's just basic programming in the type system of your chosen language, not "fundamental theory" as you call it.

The fundamental theory bit helps to choose the appropriate data organization for your use case and either implement it yourself or modify a pre-existing implementation, or convince yourself that a pre-existing implementation is sufficient.
by ggm | 2025-09-25 06:03:17+00:00
Without over accusatory tones.. isn't that just a giant straw man? It's a good read, and I think gets to important qualities, I use map in python but never (ok hardly ever) construct function chains, and I'm constantly reminded how imperative my code can be, and also that you can do a lot of imperative coding in Haskell.

Recursion is great when it works.

I think it's true that theorising about your atoms, axioms and behaviours and coding from them is a good goal but I do tend to think it's the rewrite we do after exploring the space a lot more linearly, subjectively.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-09-25 06:03:24+00:00
Probably the virtual variant of the Gruen effect in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer

Fortunately we still have Geizhals in AT[0]/DE[1]/PL[2]/UK[3] to work around that.

[0]: https://geizhals.at/

[1]: https://geizhals.de/

[2]: https://cenowarka.pl/

[3]: https://skinflint.co.uk/
by dajonker | 2025-09-25 06:06:16+00:00
The edit prediction model is open source https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta

It's based on qwen 2.5 coder 7B and you should be able to run it locally quite easily since it would only require about 8 GB of VRAM for the 8-bit version. Not sure if Zed supports this though, I'm not a Zed user myself.
by NedF | 2025-09-25 06:06:23+00:00
> Proper scale makes the visualization impractical.

So lie?

You can see from the comments most Hacker News users can't handle the abstraction.

Your blog post is great, but most people don't know the Earth is a perfect sphere or simple things like the sun is white, the real "Don't Look Up"

Universities have become pop culture, they are Gravity (2013), not 'science', whatever that word means now.

We cross mountains so that abstraction has a use, here it is for the nihilist crowd.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-25 06:06:47+00:00
I was trying to figure out how it would entrench dominance. So when I say *if* it's by making them suck less, that's a hypothetical guess, not an endorsement.

And even if it would objectively make them suck less in some scenario, there's still nothing in that post that says I want the government to force them to do it. That post was only about whether it entrenches their dominance or not.

Then in my next comment I:

* put the word 'advantage' in scare quotes

* clarified that "if they suck less" is supposed to be evaluated by individual people and not me

* stated that there are reasons to not want regulation, but that I was skeptical of this specific entrenchment reason

The first two should make it clear that I'm not even saying it's an advantage, and the third should make it clear that I'm focusing on this specific argument and not making an overall case for government intervention. So that's three reasons I'm not saying the government should do it.

How do I make my non-endorsement clearer?

Also you were the one calling it a "competitive advantage" and "value proposition". That's not endorsement but it's definitely closer to endorsement than what I was saying.

Edit: Wait, I made this whole post interpreting the "should" as about government intervention. But I think technically that "should" was actually about the government deciding what makes people happy? If that's what you meant to ask then I have no idea how you got there. The sentences you quoted don't support that interpretation at all. The "suck less -> entrenchment" theory only works if users are actually happy, completely separate from what the government thinks.
by bambax | 2025-09-25 06:07:12+00:00
> This is kinda like Amazon retargeting you with alternative toasters after you just bought a new toaster. Most people think this is stupid. Well, the most likely cohort to buy a new toaster is a person that just bought one because they’re not satisfied with their purchase.

I don't think that makes sense. The goal of Amazon can't be to have you unhappy with shopping on Amazon, if for no other reason that returns cost money.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-09-25 06:07:31+00:00
There are a few different scenarios but outsourcing firms / consulting (infosys, tcs, wipro etc) take up about 1/2 the tech h1bs.

As a body shop you can charge a higher rate and get bigger margins on an on-shore body.

I see your point about faangs and direct hires though. I suppose they must believe that something about being in the U.S. makes those people more productive or their output more valuable.
by baruz | 2025-09-25 06:08:16+00:00
In the 1990s Microsoft “invested” in Apple because Steve Jobs allowed them to save face by giving them the option to settle their part of Apple v San Francisco Canyon Co by calling part of it—$150 M—a stock purchase that only lasted a few years. I do not know how much the total cash settlement from Microsoft was, but industry rumors went up to $1B.
by that_guy_iain | 2025-09-25 06:09:04+00:00
> Even with un-googled Chromium I do not think these statements are self-consistent. We need browsers that do not allow Google to control the ecosystem. We need legitimate competition.

If you fork Chromium, Google doesn't control the ecosystem, it controls a large part of it. But you're able to build on top of that ecosystem. So you can have the best of both worlds, all the extensions and ecosystem from Chrome but with more. That is called true competition.

I also suspect Brave would take offense to your claim you can't have privacy on a Chromium fork.
by ssl-3 | 2025-09-25 06:09:57+00:00
Indeed.

It is important to try to avoid letting perfection be the enemy of good.

Firefox is at least something that is distinct from WebKit or Chromium (which is itself based on a fork of WebKit). That's good.

It's not perfect, in part because deals with Google pay for most of it, but it is still good despite its imperfect status.
by jiffage13 | 2025-09-25 06:09:58+00:00
Excited to see this develop.

Sony quietly removed the PAL/NTSC switch on some recent FX3/J1 firmwares — a really user-hostile move for anyone trying to avoid lighting flicker or needing flexible frame rates. The only practical “fix” I see in the wild is paying grey-market sellers (using leaked service tools I presume) to flip the 'region blob' so the menu comes back.

Is sonshell likely to be a useful vector for a more freely available solution? Not sure what level of access it actually offers i.e. is firmware/policy blobs readable/manipulable, and can persistent changes be made?
by zjaffee | 2025-09-25 06:11:07+00:00
And the reasons for this are increasingly clear. In a globalized world, you need large-scale organizations to compete. Smaller nations are increasingly forced to become highly specialized in a few specific industries, often where companies are sold to major firms from allied countries (large parts of europe or israel, singapore), or you end up with individual companies constituting a significant portion of the national GDP (korea).

The way in which the US is able to weld such power on the world stage, especially with the rise of China is we don't constantly break up every rising business.
by watwut | 2025-09-25 06:11:14+00:00
Cause they become gamblers and then everyone else has to deal with the problem. Notably, their wifes are responsible for paying half those debts and their kids suffer. Gambler causes hell including financial one for everyone.

Also, because their gambling asses smart wifes divorced get lonely and somehow it becomes contribution to male loneliness epidemic and then we have right wing using them as argument to stop "no fault divorce" and restrict women so they have no choice.
by algo_trader | 2025-09-25 06:11:32+00:00
> TAM of ~$38B, and ~$150B for the entire US.

Sigh. No. Actual TAM is $0 which is why these wells are orphaned

For contrast, maritime shipping IMO (my current obsession) has set a $100-$400 carbon price. So now the efuel market a realistic $10B ZNZ pot to aim at.
by Vespasian | 2025-09-25 06:13:26+00:00
I'm the same.

I am very very careful around activities and substances which could become addictive, because I know from benign life experiences that I sometimes lack the self control to stop.

It would probably be fine but there are no upsides risking it.

That and ever since my undergrad statistics class I hate the thought of playing games which are staked against me from the beginning. The thought of betting or gambling feels like voluntarily signing up to be swindeled.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-25 06:13:50+00:00
I think it's easy to see what they mean, even if you don't agree with them. I think it puts too much emphasis on glass as there's so much more that goes into getting a shot. I do pick up my old film cameras every now and then for enjoyment, but if I have to get a shot, I'm always taking the newest thing I have. It's hard to beat multiple stops of stabilization in the lens and the body along with the black magic of modern sensors.
by rossy | 2025-09-25 06:14:01+00:00
Sorry, but "CLI stuff" is not "as far as it goes" with desktop Linux apps on ChromeOS. ChromeOS provides Wayland and PulseAudio servers to the apps as well so GUI and audio works too. It even synchronises file associations and installs a ChromeOS-like GTK theme into the container. The Linux GUI apps I had installed back when I used it felt completely native.