MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deviation | 2025-09-25 09:55:28+00:00
I feel that the reason RTO is still such a wonderful topic to write about or debate online, is that the spectrum of human "experience" is so wide, that there will always be a significant number of people on either side of the fence.

Personally, I can't count the amount of times I've switched sides, and I don't think I'm the only one.

IMO, mandated RTO is (objectively) an effort by large organizations to make their "systems" more predictable in aggregate. The manner of predictability will be largely depend on the size of the organization (e.g. A startup vs. Microsoft) and their needs (productivity/reliability/consistency/etc), and we see this manifest in any number of the RTO announcements we've seen online.
by mft_ | 2025-09-25 09:55:34+00:00
I think there are three alternative hypotheses the article misses from its list:

* Ego: senior people need to be seen and respected in person; being reduced to equally-sized thumbnail videos on Teams doesn't feed this need.

* Real estate: some companies have financial commitments (e.g. long-term leases, owned buildings) to large office buildings which need to be justified; selling or ending the lease early might reflect badly on leadership.

* Extroverts: some people just prefer to be in an office, surrounded by and interacting with lots of people, rather than sitting at home in relative isolation. (I'm definitely not one of them, but I have good friends who are like this.)
by machiaweliczny | 2025-09-25 09:55:41+00:00
If there was something like that guarantees pseudonymous ID that can't be reversed via rainbow tables like stuff that could be useful as general login ID.

I would like to have ability to choose if I use new one for this provider or one that can be linked with other services. Kinda like with apple anonymising emails. Are there any efforts in this directions?
by 1313ed01 | 2025-09-25 09:57:56+00:00
Gemini is probably not exactly what GP wished for, but it has something resembling a critical mass of users and while I do not think the text format (gemtext, i.e. gmi) is perfect I find it good enough for what it does.

I even use gemtext now and then offline just as an even simpler markdown. Since it has so few features it is trivial to convert gmi to markdown or to any other format without losing anything. It works as a lowest common markup language for when something that minimal is enough.
by sjw987 | 2025-09-25 09:58:07+00:00
Personally I haven't noticed anything with Wikipedia, or Reddit (only ever used when searching for opinions through Google with "Reddit" on the search query).

If you want to watch porn or view anything NSFW with websites that complied, I suppose you just start up NordVPN and select Chicago or something like that. Brits who watch porn are probably just watching more American themed porn now.

Otherwise, (some of) these websites are supposed to show you a digital verification screen with third party gateways. Usually using an ID card. I'd guess most people just installed VPNs.
by indigo945 | 2025-09-25 09:58:14+00:00
> You bring up projects from decades ago but are there any modern examples?

There are no modern examples in the USA precisely because there is no political will to fund them. That political will is undermined because private companies are large and strong enough that they can influence politicians and prevent projects they they would have to compete with.

Your argument has the implication the wrong way around.

Meanwhile, look at China. The vast majority of China's cometlike economic success can be directly attributed to state funding, and many of its successful projects are directly state-run. That's because China still plays industrial politics that are concerned with economic growth and public welfare instead of rent-seeking.
by deviation | 2025-09-25 09:58:23+00:00
I feel that companies still misunderstand how to evaluate these metrics they're collecting on the efficacy of RTO.

IMO, RTO efficacy should be measured on a team-by-team basis. There are no doubt zero "one size fits all" approaches for entire orgs, or entire companies (and if there are, then the metrics should /strongly/ reflect that)
by anentropic | 2025-09-25 09:59:34+00:00
The close to 'native' Python performance looks promising!

Just want to point out that this section avoids mentioning the best way to do it:

> AWS Lambda doesn't natively run unmodified Python apps: > > - You need adapters (such as https://github.com/slank/awsgi or https://github.com/Kludex/mangum) for running your WSGI sites. > - WebSockets are unsupported. > - Setup is complex, adapters are often unmaintained.

AWS provides https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-web-adapter which is a) supported and b) written Rust, providing a translation of Lambda requests back into HTTP so you can use your usual entry point to the WSGI app. It is simple to set up.

WebSockets still not supported of course, but the issue of adapters is solved.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-25 09:59:44+00:00
> Ego

We can give them bigger/more-prominent zoom portraits by seniority. Should make everyone happy.

> Real estate

Probably shouldn't still be gambling company finances on real estate, 5 years after a pandemic forced us all to go remote.

> Extroverts

Great! We can put all the extroverts back in the glass fishbowl, while the rest of us do actual work from home
by EmilStenstrom | 2025-09-25 09:59:57+00:00
Sigh This debate has been going on for years now.

Remote is good for: People who work alone & People that don't like commuting

Remote is bad for: People who work together with other people & People who like socializing IRL (including managers)

Too many developers think they are working alone, while in fact they are part of a team and they would be better off working closer to that team.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-25 10:00:31+00:00
This is also my new favorite Android feature. It also enables translation. It even works for non-left-to-right languages, e.g. vertically written Japanese. The only downside is its tendency to immediately search for whatever you've selected, dumping all sorts of nonsense into my search history.

I do like when an accessibility feature is a hammer one can use against web designers who've disabled other features. The next one I want is "zoom non-zoomable web pages and apps".
by egorfine | 2025-09-25 10:00:33+00:00
> colonising mars, as this is basically the only way you'll avoid KYC/AML

Not really.

As it is customary with financial law, it only exists to make hard working people suffer, while leaving all the ways for criminal enterprises to continue business. Being Ukrainian person I can tell you with confidence that legalizing personal 1000 USDT made on a freelance job is harder than laundering $1m made by corruption by government officials.

Also, KYC/AML is not binary, it's a scale. I have no problem KYCing at my local Polish bank and sending my crypto transactions to my bank account and they are fine with it as well as long as they know who I am.

> in the long-term.

True. Operating a legitimate (!) clear business, say, in Singapore remotely from Ukraine was a routine thing like ten years ago and became almost impossible in 2020s - specifically due to American regulatory pressure. Again, we're talking about lawful businesses. Criminal enterprises have no problems opening bank accounts anywhere they want.

> (well actually the US government) has decided that KYC etc matters to

...American political interests. KYC/AML is detrimental to economic growth and harmful to the society as been demonstrated time and again.
by andreluque | 2025-09-25 10:00:50+00:00
Various problems here.

1) They are good developers, but they are employees. They want a fixed salary, a calm life, and just to be told what to work on not have to take ownership of something. Being a dev is different then being a CTO/Co-Founder. We've tried building startups internally, doesn't work out well, always last priority.

2) The developers are good, really good actually, but are they S-tier, 10x devs, no. And I strongly believe you need that.
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-25 10:01:43+00:00
the snapdragon x2 elite extreme (X2E-96-100) SoC supports "128GB+" but qualcomm hasn't specified what the max limit is. this soc also has higher memory bandwidth (228GB/s over 192-bit bus) than the x2 elite.

also see https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-die-package...
by Poomba | 2025-09-25 10:01:54+00:00
You guys need a way for users to download flat csvs. And also a Zoominfo or Apollo integration if you want more SDR/BDRs to use it. I like the company info you return but you lack contact details right? That is important to users like me…

Other than that the data is what I exactly need. Was able to find businesses that use Github, Gitlab and Grafana rather easily!
by XorNot | 2025-09-25 10:02:03+00:00
If corporate no longer wants to support mobile web, then it means I don't have budget to host it. It means developers can't put time against fixing it, QA aren't tasked to test it before releases, and support staff are not being trained in supporting it. The last one is pretty key because it's a huge metric for cost center: how many support calls is a thing generating? And if the thing is not supposed to exist anymore, then I would have to answer questions like "why is it still accessible?"

Internal job tracking metrics would have to answer why any time is going to running this thing, and god help us if there's a security breach via this endpoint we were supposed to have eliminated N time ago.

An unsupported internal API is one thing - and they're generally a huge timesink anyway. An unsupported external user interface is a cost center which I can't justify, and impacts numerous other parts of the business.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-25 10:02:10+00:00
> What are the odds that the older know-it-all engineer actually knows better than you? I would say they're pretty good.

I would say that they are pretty average.

First I am not sure what you mean by "know-it-all", specifically if this is a positive trait or not. Let's say that it is positive.

In that case age does not matter much because you can have extremely good practices that are simply outdated. Yes they work. Yes, they are stable. But they may not be adapted to the current needs.

So age is not a good differentiator for me.

Now, if you drop "older" I agree with you (with the assumption of a positive meaning for know-it-all)
by ceayo | 2025-09-25 10:02:25+00:00
The 20 dollar minicomputer has now become the 200 dollar rgb keyboard. Still, I’ve tried and using a raspberry pi as a desktop computer but everything is so impractical. Maybe the pi 5 is better, but I do not believe it’ll ever replace normal desktop computers. Raspberry Pi’s started as a small board which you can even run Linux on, with low power consumption, so toucan run it day round for services like home assistant. In my opinion, it should stay that way.
by pheggs | 2025-09-25 10:03:45+00:00
It's indeed one of the most stupid decisions a management could make.

People will be more tired once they arrive in the office. From a companies perspective skilled people will just leave to another company. And you can't hire the best people from everywhere if you need to have an office present. And obviously there are a lot more drawbacks.

From a society perspective it contributes to traffic jams, it contributes to overfilled public transport, and it puts needless stress on infrastructure. In general, it's just not efficient at all.

Sadly many big corporations are lead by narcissists who care more about their ego, who need to feel like they can control other people, rather than their well being or having a positive impact. Some may use it to get rid of people, but that, truly has to be the most stupid way to get rid of your best employees.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-25 10:05:20+00:00
That's why I like GNU documentation. The don't explain the program, they explain the user domain model and then everything just clicks. The first time I read one of those, I was like: Where is the actual documentation? I want to skip this. But what I was looking for does not exist. This seams tedious for the first time, but then you appreciate it, because it saves time in the long run.
by whstl | 2025-09-25 10:06:20+00:00
> Nearly every other platform has a search that when you search for "Mr Beast" on YouTube or "Elon Musk" on X they know you mean the popular one and not some 2-bit dork's fan page or parody that happens to have those words in the title/keywords.

Well, that's what you expect as a user and as a technology person, but as the TFA demonstrates, this doesn't apply to Google without an ad-blocker.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-25 10:06:22+00:00
> Does Apple do that on the App Store?

Yes. In fact, I often get sponsored stuff before Apple’s own apps, when I’m searching for the Apple app. I’ll also get things like games, when I’m looking for development or productivity apps. It’s crazy.

One of the things that I do, each morning, is take a long walk, listening to music.

I’m an Apple One subscriber, so there’s no limit to the music from the catalog. I don’t buy individual songs. It’s already been paid, so they aren’t selling me anything.

I use the “Discovery Station” playlist, which gives you random songs, based on your preferences.

It used to be quite good, but lately, it’s been stuffing weird pop songs into the playlist. These are ones that I’d never listen to, otherwise. I will tell Siri that I don’t like the songs, but they keep coming, anyway. I often dislike up to five songs in a row; at which time, the phone gives up on the station, and starts feeding me random songs from my library.

This renders the “Discovery Station” pretty much worthless.

It’s fairly obvious that the playlist has been corrupted by paid results.

Pandora has always done the best job of selecting relevant unknown music for me, but the limit on skips (even for paid accounts), makes it worthless. Undiscovered music is frequently obscure for a reason, so I can sometimes skip a majority of the selections. I’ve always been puzzled about why Pandora never got borged by Apple or Microsoft. They were excellent, a decade before the AI hype bubble was even a broken rubber on the drug store shelf.
by lloydatkinson | 2025-09-25 10:06:42+00:00
I don't really like this at all. I'm not familiar with Python but this kwargs sounds like it leads to inconsistency throughout usages of a function.

In JS/TS it's a lot more conventional to use objects once you go past 2-3 arguments. Sometimes patterns from other languages are great in other languages (like, functional ways of modelling errors, making invalid state impossible, not using nulls, etc), but other patterns like the one shown here don't seem great.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-25 10:07:19+00:00
It bears repeating that if you're a tech worker in the US, your greatest asset is your physical location.

You might think you like remote jobs, but you will have competition from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, etc. as well as people in the US living in flyover states in the middle of nowhere with cheap rent.

If the focus also shifts more to raw input-output task accomplishmentbas opposed to in person social interaction, your cultural capital will also lose value.

There is a vast gulf between the salaries in the US and even Western Europe in tech. Americans seem unaware, but if you insist on remote work, you'll lose that advantage quick. If you think that everyone overseas is simply less intelligent, you'll have a rough awakening.
by _petronius | 2025-09-25 10:07:40+00:00
I would add to this that in my experience, many teams actually perform better when co-locating, even if individual people on that team would prefer (or feel they individually perform better) remote.

Covid normalized remote working, but also didn't necessarily make companies and teams _good_ at it; I suspect RTO is easier than fixing the fact that your org sucks at remote work. It is hard to do well! it requires different strategies than just picking some software.

Partial/voluntary RTO also is the worst of both worlds: people coming in the office to sit on Zoom with colleagues who never do. Ultimately, I think RTO is a valid choice as a company, and a lot of orgs are coming to regret not messaging from the beginning that remote would be a temporary arrangement during the pandemic.
by stareatgoats | 2025-09-25 10:07:41+00:00
Not only Product Hunt, the entire Web 2.0 has passed away, having near completely lost any sincere commitment to service and quality in favor of quick return on investment.

The idea is still valid though - user generated content which evaluates and provides feedback to other users and producers through which quality floats to the top. The "only" piece missing is how to protect against various vested interests that pull in other directions ...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-25 10:08:08+00:00
They're not expensive, they're inefficient in terms of water use. Which means they are a non-starter for national retail in the US because there are a few desert states that have captured federal regulation which mandate ever decreasing water use because that's what those desert states want.

Some poor schmuck in "basically Vietnam" climate part of Arkanas has to go to work and fix waste plumbing that's full of deposits from low flow urinals, get home, throw his clothes in a washer that won't clean them because it's trying to sense the bare minimum water it can use (which is too little for anyone who does work outside an office) and then shower under a POS low flow shower head, all so some jerks in the desert can feel like they're saving the planet.

State water situations are diverse. This is a textbook example of something that should not be regulated federally.
by franticgecko3 | 2025-09-25 10:08:59+00:00
I've long suspected it's got to do with office real estate.

You spent $10m or $100m on a building that's now half empty.

Either you downsize or commit to enterprise scale sunk cost fallacy and enforce RTO so your real estate investment isn't "wasted".

City centres also thrive on RTO, with high street shopping on a generational decline it's up to office workers and their employers to prop up the economy of the CBD one overpriced lunch at a time.
by XorNot | 2025-09-25 10:09:34+00:00
This one has been on my radar as a first computer for my son for a while - just lock out the wifi and set it up with a "boot to basic" image maybe?

Certainly something which could grow to support some Arduino work.

EDIT: Admittedly this would be a no brainer if there was an off-the-shelf Atari ST style thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST purely for the sheer mass providing some protection.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-09-25 10:09:56+00:00
> A DS1 is a combination of 24 DS0s, for 1.544Mbps.

> A DS2 is a combination of 4 DS0s, for 96 channels or 6.312Mbps.

What sorcery is this? How can 4 DS0 lines provide more bandwidth than 24 DS0 lines?
by sjw987 | 2025-09-25 10:10:00+00:00
Mass push back from whom?

Most people don't care about this. They spend hours per day on a surveillance device, willingly contributing their data, personal information and media to monopolistic companies, including putting it into the public online sphere for the world to see. Many people are genuinely convinced this is about the safety of kids, even though the same workarounds slightly competent users know how to implement (VPNs) are the exact same tool the supposed evil-doers know how to use.
by Phemist | 2025-09-25 10:10:10+00:00
> And the requirement for "fair bets" probably interferes

Don't forget the possibility of promotions, which is a major thing for marketing and distinguishing yourself from the pack.

A world of fair bets would be a world where you would need to market your superior odds (e.g. what pinnacle does).. which is directly at odds with fleecing your under-educated customer base.
by montgomery_r | 2025-09-25 10:10:20+00:00
This is so ridiculously childish. DHH’s politics should be entirely irrelevant. Ruby on Rails is not left or right wing, it’s a framework for building websites. Anyone with an ounce of sense will choose a framework on the technical merits. If you’re so caught up in school yard politics that you can’t bear to use the work of someone you consider to be a right wing technologist, build your own or use something else. But also: Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are being juvenile and try growing up a bit. We can hold different opinions in a pluralist society and still get along. (And while I disagree with a great deal in DHH’s essays, the notion that he is fascist is puerile and frankly offensive in itself).
by fsckboy | 2025-09-25 10:10:46+00:00
>First I am not sure what you mean by "know-it-all"...if you drop "older"

good lord, in those phrases he was quoting the wording in the comment he was replying to.

I don't know if you are young or old, but I'd like to teach you about threading (and we won't stop till you get it or your eyebrows are gone)
by 000ooo000 | 2025-09-25 10:12:00+00:00
>Too many developers think they are working alone, while in fact they are part of a team and they would be better off working closer to that team.

Sounds like you think software development is like one of those stock photos with 8 people smiling and high-fiving around a whiteboard. Devs are (mostly) nerds. Nerds have been collaborating in the online world for decades. They somehow managed to achieve things and build genuine friendships without ever being crammed into an open office - crazy but true. Everytime I hear someone say/suggest "dev needs to happen in person", all I can picture is a PHB.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-25 10:12:47+00:00
And then they got new intel. Iran is also the primary sponsor of international terrorism, and the entire EU is aligned on sanctioning Iran. I know history of western intervention in the Middle East is full of terrible mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should turn the other cheek. I'd argue we've been to lenient on that front, in many ways.

I don't want us directly interfering in the Middle East, but I also don't want us supporting regimes that are diametrically opposed to our own ways of life. And sanctions are the way to do this.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-25 10:13:47+00:00
Pedantry: are you using "finite state machine" as a stand-in for "abstract machine"? If so, OK, otherwise, if you mean it in the sense of a Finite State Automaton (FSA), digital computers of the kind we all use nowadays are Turing machines (with finite tapes). If digital computers were FSAs there would be a good many things you wouldn't be able to do with them, e.g. sorting a list (because that's a context-sensitive task).
by bluelightning2k | 2025-09-25 10:14:12+00:00
This is impressive but really odd.

Isn't the entire point of Raspberry Pi to not be premium with a nice form factor, etc.

And why would I use a mechanical keyboard to drive the type of workload I'd be doing on a Pi.

Seems like they've taken super opposite and incompatible parts of PC use-cases and combined them in a really odd way.

Great industrial design. Which again isn't something I'd want from a Pi. But at the same time we all appreciate.

I kind of like it but do find it baffling.
by this_user | 2025-09-25 10:14:17+00:00
Interestingly, this mirrors the kind of thing that has been happening in finance, especially in private equity. Normally, you start out at an investment bank, do two years as an analyst there, learn the basics, then make a choice whether you want to stay in IB or move to PE (or somewhere else).

Eventually, PE started recruiting earlier and earlier to the point where they were hiring college graduates for two years in the future who hadn't even started their IB role. Obviously, these people don't even know what they like doing, and you have no idea if they are any good at their job.

The end result was Jamie Dimon of JPM slamming his fist on the table to knock it off. This has led other banks to follow suit and major PE firms to commit to stop recruiting this early. At least for now.

But it seems that something similar is now happening on the VC side.