MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-09-20 05:17:40+00:00
Problem is, there's lots of true Scotsman and many are quite famous.

Here's a far from complete list of famous people. Are these managers? No? Who is famous and a manager? Are these leaders? Yes. Are these role models? Also yes

- Stanislav Petrov: a true Scotsman who prevented WW3 - Irena Sendler: a true Scotsman who created illegal documents to help Jewish children escape the Gestapo - Rosa Parks: a true Scotsman who stood up for what's right and catalyzed the civil rights movement in America - Martin Luther King Jr: a true Scotsman who led the civil rights movement and is so well known you'll find a street named after him in every major city in America and a ton of minor ones too. - Jeffrey Wigand: a true Scotsman who blew the whistle on tobacco companies - Edward Snowden: a true Scotsman who blew the whistle the on illegal actions of the NSA - Daniel Ellsberg: a true Scotsman who blew the whistle on the Pentagon Papers - Ignaz Semmelweis: a true Scotsman who brought us hand washing for doctors and saved hundreds of millions of lives - John Snow: a true Scotsman who saved thousands from cholera and helped us learn how germs spread - Katalin Karikó: a true Scotsman who pursued her beliefs, leading to the development of mRNA vaccines despite this pursuit leading to the loss of funding as well as being denied tenure.

I can go on and on and on. There's thousands of these individuals who are famous for their defiance. They've saved billions of lives. They've pushed us into new social paradigms bringing us justice and equality. They've forged new scientific paradigms leading to better medicines, technologies, and prosperity.

Then there's millions more who are not famous or are less known. Just because their actions didn't change the world outright doesn't mean they didn't save many. It doesn't mean they didn't have tremendous impact on their communities.

If you look at the history of man, one thing is certain: the world changed by those who were not deterred by their obstacles. The world changed because of the action of thousands or millions of these Scotsman.
by xenator | 2025-09-20 05:17:44+00:00
To be honest, right now I'm thinking about isolating of build process for frontend on my local environment. It is seems not hard to send my local environment variables like OPENAI_API_KEY or .ssh/* to some remote machine.

I know it is not very different comparing to python or projects in any other language. But I don't feel that I cannot trust node/js community at this point.
by jmward01 | 2025-09-20 05:17:44+00:00
The thing articles and project management philosophies both miss is this: What is the fundamental math constraint that shapes a project? I personally believe it is NP growth and when you really understand it you see why things fail and what algorithms can help you succeed. You have a problem and resources to solve that problem. By trying all combinations of the resources you can decide what is the optimal solution. But it is NP growth so you can't actually search that space because the heat death of the universe is often waiting for you. The only time you should search the whole space is if the number of parameters is small enough that you can fit it all in one head and solve it. If it is too big for that then the only thing you can, and should, do is divide and conquer and keep doing that until you hit a leaf node small enough to put the problem completely in your head. People intuitively get this, but then they screw it up in predictable ways. After dividing they then accidentally recombine parts by sharing too much communication between parts. NP strikes again because there are too many parts to find an optimal solution now. Or, after they divide and find a local optimum, they 20/20 it and say 'had we combined we could have found a better solution' so they combine teams and fail the next project. Technically the combined team could have done it better, but NP time would have stopped you and you wouldn't have found that solution that the smaller, isolated, teams found. They think 'lets put things into a backlog and figure out what to attack one at a time' except it is an NP problem to order that backlog (and by the time you knock a few things off the top the things at the bottom are unrecognizable anyway) so NP strikes again. They divide and micro-manage from above which means they never actually divided and there are, again, too many pieces to search so NP strikes again. The solution is always this: 'Is this too much to fit in one head? Yes - divide / No - exhaustively search and implement. This gets to a core point here. The pyramid that divide and conquer creates must include communication restrictions between teams and resources carve-outs between teams or else you have failed to divide. However, -inside- a team you need to communicate and share resources in whatever is the most efficient way based on the problem you have carved out. So, it is possible to communicate too much, when you cross divisions. It is the right answer to hoard information in some cases, if the communication was designed to be limited to enforce a division.
by meander_water | 2025-09-20 05:17:54+00:00
Hey ChatGPT, write me a blog post in a listicle format based on my video:

> Same crisis. Same pressure. Completely different responses.

> Managers love the ‘hire slow, fire fast’ mantra,” Simon says. “But leaders know that letting someone go isn’t about making an example—it’s about dignity

> A manager might say, “You’re not meeting expectations. Today’s your last day.” A leader takes a different approach:

> Managers love yes-men and yes-women—people who nod along and follow orders without question. Leaders actively seek out the people who will challenge them.
by fatchan | 2025-09-20 05:19:08+00:00
Written by somebody who hasn't taken 1 look at yt-dlp source code or issues. Google regularly pushes updates that "coincidentally" break downloaders. The obfuscation and things they do to e.g. break a download by introducing some breaking code or dynamic calculation required only part way through the video is not normal. They are not serving a bunch of video files or chunks, you need a "client" that handles all these things to download a video. At this point, if you assert that Google doesn't want to secretly stop it, you are either extremely naive, ignorant, or a Google employee.
by ionwake | 2025-09-20 05:20:42+00:00
One of my worst managers, funnily enough, was just another autistic programmer, who to this day literally has no idea how badly he affected me. It actually makes me laugh, sometimes I see him on the street, and he has literally no idea, just a slight face of disdain when he sees me, almost as if I am some vague recollection of a memory of a poor performer who couldn't VIM fast enough.

I worked almost 12 hour days for him and I never complained about this behaviour, even after I quit. I gave him the full extent of my work and loyalty and he somehow never even understood that. To this day I am sure he has no idea of how much I put myself out for him.

Almost as if he thinks that work life and personal life are two completely separate non linked spheres of reality. His ignorance to this day is almost a point of sheer bafoonery and hilarity which brings me a bit of joy now when I remember him / see him.

EDIT > I wasn't going to read the article but when I saw comments of managers offended by some random article, I knew it would be good.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-09-20 05:22:57+00:00
What hoax or false info? Also, Kimmel isn't a journalist or news reporter and his show isn't broadcast journalism. As far as obscenity rules, the rules don't necessarily apply between 10pm and 6am; "obscene" material is not allowed at any time of day, but "indecent" material is allowed on late-night television. These are terms that have specific meaning in the context of the law, and what Kimmel said would in no way rise to the level of obscene.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-09-20 05:23:05+00:00
A country picking high-quality immigrants ≠ a country competing for immigrants. The opposite, in fact.

This choosiness is actually a sign that immigrants are competing to enter those countries. The points based system is (in theory) a way to identify the ones we want.

That said, illegals and “refugees” outnumber H1Bs, further reinforcing that Western countries don’t care about global talent.
by rurban | 2025-09-20 05:23:16+00:00
I wonder if and how the compound was affected by the recent fires at the hills. Because I heard he died of eventual complications of the fire to his lungs (he also was a chain smoker). But on these photos I see no damage at all. Good. Because you rarely see good modernist architecture, most owners just destroy it by stupidity. As seen on the website with other houses. Also the real estate industry is complicit.
by godelski | 2025-09-20 05:23:42+00:00
It sounds like you're making mountains out of molehills. The author is clearly trying to be inspirational. Is it idealistic? Yes. But are these qualities you can emulate and strive to follow?

So why are you trying to find excuses to dismiss them? Are you afraid to try? Are you afraid to stick your neck out for what you believe? Do you want to justify complacency?

It's okay, not everyone needs to stick their neck out. But you enable the very thing you fear by telling others not to. Don't impede people who are trying to make the world a better place
by ChicagoDave | 2025-09-20 05:24:14+00:00
There’s a fundamental difference in talent. H1b talent is often upper class scions from India or China. Offshore talent has always been leveraged for support or staff aug.

It’s entirely possible some H1b’s would happily pay the $100k if they had a guaranteed visa for 5-10+ years, but the vast majority will simply go home and work remotely.

But I believe the effect of this extortion will be a brain drain on U.S. fortune 1000 companies and that will push those same companies to build off shore offices, completely avoiding the administration’s goofiness.
by hinkley | 2025-09-20 05:26:23+00:00
When I was young there were a few luminaries in the software world who talked about how there is a steady if small flow of ideas from video game design into conventional software.

But I haven't heard anyone talk like that in quite sometime (unless it's me parroting them). Which is quite unfortunate.

I think for example if someone from the old guard of Blizzard were to write a book or at least a novella that described how the plugin system for World of Warcraft functioned, particularly during the first ten years, where it broke, how they hardened it over time, and how the process worked of backporting features from plugins into the core library...

I think that would be a substantial net benefit to the greater software community.

Far too many ecosystems make ham-fisted, half-assed, hair-brained plugin systems. And the vast majority can be consistently described by at least two of the three.
Show HN: LaTerM: LaTeX renderer for terminal AI tools
by viktoreu4_ | 2025-09-20 05:26:40+00:00
It can be annoying to use tools like Codex or Claude Code to edit scientific notes as they don't render LaTeX natively. I have fixed this issue. The performance seems good though it requires you to to use a terminal emulator which supports typescript which is admittedly gross. I have implemented this also as an Obsidian plugin at https://github.com/MaxwellsEquation/LaTerM-obsidian
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-20 05:26:43+00:00
Globalism as an ideology is distinct from globalization of trade. Globalists would argue for expansive supranational regulatory controls. Migration and alleged environmental concerns are typical rationalizations for their expanding powers. The distinction is better understood as between a set of liberal, laissez-faire trade policies and an emerging illiberal supranational regulatory state.

Specifically when you say:

>Globalism fixes the amount of pollution globally to the market optimum where presumably an environmentalist wants to control pollution using some other system than markets.

We can observe that the Globalist organizations regard not just pollution, but carbon consumption to be something which markets cannot be trusted to manage. Instead they propose top-down regulatory management on a supranational level.

https://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/pressbriefings/pages/imo-...
by ribit | 2025-09-20 05:26:49+00:00
Yep. My wife just started as a professor (humanities) and she entered on H1B visa last week, as green card takes years to obtain. I have been offered a teaching job at the same institution as a partner hire and they have filed an H1B petition for me.

Unless they clarify that education is exempt from these rules, my wife will surely have to quit her new job. She is supposed to go on fieldwork later this year and she won’t be able to re-enter. Not to mention I can kiss my lecturer offer good bye. This is an incredibly retarded situation.
by aeternum | 2025-09-20 05:27:05+00:00
Exactly right. Each of these is just obviously wrong.

Leaders Overshare? Simon shares material non-public information on linkedin. Now he and the company are in trouble.

Leaders bend the rules? Simon bent the rules for some of his team but not others, now multiple past employees are bringing discrimination lawsuits.

Leaders coach and help people land softly? Simon kept too many low performers on his team and now the company's product is buggy, behind competitors and forced to downsize so his entire team is being cut.
by glenngillen | 2025-09-20 05:27:25+00:00
I worked somewhere that (IMO) placed a lot of emphasis on good design. Even among engineering folk we'd talk regularly about Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design. Two of those principles being "it is unobtrusive" and "it is as little design as possible".

> I can't name a single well-designed app off the top of my head

Which wouldn't be a surprise to anybody who actually cares about good design. Precisely because a really well designed product should just help you do whatever is it needed to help you do, and be all most invisible in doing it. It just worked however you expected it to so well you barely even give it a passing thought. It was unobtrusive. It was as little design as possible. I was not trying to wow you by the fact it's one of the million good-looking apps you've seen.
by pamelafox | 2025-09-20 05:28:38+00:00
Hm, I didn't work on the frontend but I don't particularly remember griping..GWT had been around for ~5 years at that point, so it wasn't super new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

I always personally found it a bit odd, as I preferred straight JS myself, but large companies have to pick some sort of framework for websites, and Google already used Java a fair bit.
by projectazorian | 2025-09-20 05:29:15+00:00
> I haven't actually looked into it but I've heard that Japan basically doesn't allow for long-term immigration, except probably in exceptional cases like PhDs.

Hasn’t been correct for at least the past decade, if you post here there’s a good chance you would be able to relocate to Japan and have permanent residency within 1-3 years.

Japan has one of the most generous immigration policies in the developed world at the moment.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-20 05:30:12+00:00
I don't think most fail is the right word. Because for instance appealing to my personal anecdote of my friend pack of serial entrepreneurs, they're mostly making beer money from their projects.

If you clocked the hours they spent and compared it to a decent consulting fee then yeah - they're losing lots of money. But in reality they're doing that stuff during the time that most of us are shit posting, browsing the web, playing games, and so on. And so if you compare it to that, they're making a hefty chunk of change with the upside that they do have a chance, whatever it may be, of something really sticking and that being their to the Moon project. And you know, even just getting to the atmosphere is enough for a life changing result.

Or getting back to the Y Combinator thing. It costs $0 to apply, and the worst that happens is that they say no. All it takes is giving up a bit of time off our shitposting time. But that's somehow not an offer many of us are willing to accept, which is really pretty weird if you think about it!
by pamelafox | 2025-09-20 05:30:46+00:00
It was fun! Now we still see Wave-iness in other products: Google Docs uses the Operational Transforms (OT) algorithm for collab editing (or at least it did, last I knew), and non-Google products like Notion, Quip, Slack, Loop from Microsoft, all have some overlap.

We struggled with having too many audiences for Wave - were we targeting consumer or enterprise? email or docs replacement? Too much at once.

The APIs were so dang fun though.
by imiric | 2025-09-20 05:31:30+00:00
As the web devolves further, the only viable long-term solution will be allow lists instead of block lists. There is too much hostility online—from websites that want to track you and monetize your data and attention, SEO scams and generated content, and an ever-increasing army of bots—that it's becoming infeasible to maintain rules to filter all of it out. It's much easier to write rules for traffic you approve of, although they will have to be more personal than block lists.
by jitix | 2025-09-20 05:32:46+00:00
Agree with mid level talent part, not the middle class part. H1B holders by large don't hold typical "middle class" jobs like accountants, office admins, marketing, sales, teachers, etc: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/jobs-with-the-largest-shares...

Can you please share your reading material that links H1B software engineers with decline in middle class jobs from this list?
by tanaros | 2025-09-20 05:33:43+00:00
> buying an EV does not actually reduce emissions like magic, unless the owner drives that car for a looooong time. Like 10-15+ years.

I find this timeframe surprising. I did some quick searches and there are models like GREET that suggest the break-even point is much sooner than that in the US. It is difficult to know for certain, of course, as there are many variables.

Regardless, it is of course better to incentivize long-term ownership as well. I think of HOV access as similar to a tax deduction on purchase. It’s a cheap way to provide a carrot for initial EV adoption.
by sosodev | 2025-09-20 05:34:54+00:00
Short term: Work with various departments to pull all student-related data into a data warehouse. Then apply data analysis techniques to try and find the patterns in student failure where the college can offer more support.

Long term: Add in machine learning to automate the most tedious parts of the college's processes. The idea being that we could automate query writing, data linking, etc for reporting, grant proposals, etc. Not without human supervision of course but still saving a ton of time.

The software problems themselves will be hard but I'm sure there will be a lot of hard social problems too.
by godelski | 2025-09-20 05:35:13+00:00
I'm disappointed in so many of the comments here.

The writing is aspirational, yes, but why are so many quick to nitpick? It looks like you're reaching for reasons not listen. If you choose to not stick your neck out, so be it, but don't knock those who do. You'll only enable the thing you're afraid of.

The utility of Utopian writing is not to serve as a set of instructions to achieve Utopia. It is to inspire those to push for it. A Utopia is unobtainable, but it serves as a direction to pursue. The world changes, and so too must our actions, but the direction appears to hold constant for millennia. We're the only ones who can create a utopia, but we're also the ones who prevent us from reaching it. The choice is about which side you want to be on. Do you want to work towards that utopia? Will you sit silent watching others build? Will you justify your inaction? Or will you enable those who only want that future for themselves?

I really do want you all to ask yourselves: why are you so quick to dismiss those who want to inspire you to do great things?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 05:35:28+00:00
> If Russia is the first to fire a shot it will be easier to make the case that they're the bad guys

Sorry, if the country invading another European country while invading others' airspaces isn't clearly the bad guy to someone, the order of fire isn't going to matter.

Putin responds to force. Allowing these intrusions without consequence invites further provocation. Putin will bitch and moan about a downed fighter. But he'll also stop lobbing them across.
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-09-20 05:35:40+00:00
There's a key missing piece to this puzzle: being informed about _why_ you're updating and what the patches are.

Nobody has time to read source code, but there are many tools and services that will tell you brief summaries of release notes. Npm Audit lists security vulnerabilities in your package versions for example.

I do adopt the strategy of not updating unless required, as updates are not only an attack vector, but also an extremely common source of bugs that'd I'd prefer to avoid.

But importantly I stay in the loop about what exploits I'm vulnerable to. Packages are popping up with vulnerabilities constantly, but if it's a ReDoS vulnerability in part of the package I definitely don't use or pass user input to? I'm happy to leave that alone with a notice. If it's something I'm worried another package might use unsafely, with knowledge of the vulnerability I can decide how important it is, and if I need to update immediately, or if I can (preferably) wait some time for the patch to cook in the wild.

That is the important thing to remember about security in this context: it is an active, continuous, process. It's something that needs to be tuned to the risk tolerance and risk appetite of your organisation, rather than a blanket "never update" or "always update" - for a well-formed security stance, one needs more information than that.
by flutas | 2025-09-20 05:38:04+00:00
Sinclair (38 stations) also pulled it and they own more than Nexstar (28 stations).

FWIW The Hollywood Reporter also is reporting that advertisers started threatening to pull their support as well[0] as several smaller stations.

> Meanwhile, the advertiser calls began to roll in and then the big affiliate conglomerates, Nexstar and Sinclair, threatened to preempt the show. The second source says that the blowback was snowballing enough that had ABC not acted, Kimmel’s show would have been dark in a large swath of the country, even beyond the Sinclair and Nexstar territories (including in the Washington, D.C., metro area).

[0]: https://archive.is/ADaHT
by kristopolous | 2025-09-20 05:39:01+00:00
In this supposed competition with China, Trump is deeply dedicated to giving China every advantage possible.

From defunding science, fining the biggest universities, defunding green energy, making hiring ambitious foreign workers economically unfeasible, replacing technocratic administrators with incompetent lackies with quite literally zero experience, imposing inordinate tariffs ... It's just win after win for the CCP.

Couldn't possibly be more generous
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-20 05:40:21+00:00
It keeps seeming more and more like the Trump administration is in fact a Russian assets. They're also shutting down military aid to Taiwan too. While allowing unchecked Russian aggression. Donny sometimes makes some noises about Russia, but then it's all surprise conference where the red carpet is literally rolled out & the chief bad guy of the 21st century is allowed to open with whatever remarks he wants.

Meanwhile Gabbard could not be doing a better job of insuring that foreign influence campaigns and disinformation are left utterly unchecked.

These people seem like they are gunning against the allied powers, in every way.