MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2025-10-01 19:01:02+00:00
And even if it was because the right people weren't in the room, that's still a leadership failure. Part of the job of those decision-makers is to get the right people into the room

With good leadership, politics won't feel like politics. Everything this article describes as "good politics" is definitely good stuff to do, but none of it should feel like politics to your typical "I hate politics" engineer. Building relationships? That's just meeting interesting coworkers. Understanding the real incentives? That's keeping the big picture in mind, a standard requirement for any engineer. Managing up effectively? A good manager will treat you like the expert that you are and that happens automatically. Creating win-win situations? That's that big picture thing again. Being visible? Who doesn't like to share the cool stuff they've done?

I hate politics. I do all of those "good politics" things and I enjoy all of it. It might technically be "politics" but it's not what we think of when we say the word.

This article boils down to a semantic argument. They want to carve out a section of the job and put it under the label of "politics" when most of us would not put it there. That label may be right, it may be wrong, but I don't really care. It's just not an interesting argument. I think this article would be a lot better if it dropped the P word entirely and just explained why and how you should do the "good" things it lists.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-01 19:01:30+00:00
> I agree with your description of "politics" as a negative/pejorative thing.

That's just a difference in framing between winners and losers.

If you get your way, you say it was due to influence, bridge building, teamwork, etc.

If you don't, you say "politics".

For every occasion someone says "politics" negatively, realize the other party is using the other framing.

More importantly: For every time you get your way, the other party is saying "Politics!"
by ttoinou | 2025-10-01 19:01:40+00:00
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by reaperducer | 2025-10-01 19:01:45+00:00
It's how we get the balkanization of the internet, and the death of it as a global network.

That ship sailed at least a decade ago.

From small instances like your employer blocking certain web sites (Google Translate, seriously?) to China's Great Firewall to nations restricting access in certain regions (India, many others), to nations restricting access to certain web sites (Turkey, many many others), to entire countries taking themselves entirely offline (Afghanistan, most recently).
by xp84 | 2025-10-01 19:01:52+00:00
> people in the advocacy space use it to mean basic things like being well behaved or being nice to people

Thank you for this comment. As a family member of a young AuDHD person I am continually battered by a combination of their behavior (which directly and un-ignorably degrades the experience of everyone around) and by various 'advocacy' ideas that use phrasing like that to not-so-subtly imply that it's actually our bad for daring to expect to "not be hit," or to not be forced to constantly base our whole lives on one person's preferences, etc.

It's tough sometimes to figure out what's real, what's a fair expectation, what's something that can be learned/unlearned, and what's just inevitable.
by deepsun | 2025-10-01 19:02:19+00:00
Not for everybody on the spectrum. I certainly see the difference if I go a week with coffee and no coffee -- the weardown and overwhelming effects slowly accumulate with coffee.

If the author feels overwhelmed, I'd say coffee should be tried first. It's not easy (caffeine addiction is real, especially for the spectrum), but it gets easier and easier with time.
by Magi604 | 2025-10-01 19:02:51+00:00
"Politics is just how humans coordinate in groups. It’s the invisible network of relationships, influence, and informal power that exists in every organization. You can refuse to participate, but that doesn’t make it go away. It just means decisions get made without you."

This is how I feel, and this is what I tell people when they don't want to get involved in the organization's politics.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-01 19:03:03+00:00
Agencies can exist under the bailiwick of Congress, e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office

Further, having a bank that is not directly controlled by Government dates back to the first Congress (Washington, Hamilton):

> The suspicion of this would most probably be a canker, that would continually corrode the vitals of the credit of the Bank, and would be most likely to prove fatal in those situations, in which the public good would require, that they should be most sound and vigorous. It would indeed be little less, than a miracle, should the credit of the Bank be at the disposal of the Government, if in a long series of time, there was not experienced a calamitous abuse of it. It is true, that it would be the real interest of the Government not to abuse it; its genuine policy to husband and cherish it with the most guarded circumspection as an inestimable treasure. But what Government ever uniformly consulted its true interest, in opposition to the temptations of momentary exigencies? What nation was ever blessed with a constant succession of upright and wise Administrators?

* https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-02...
by g413n | 2025-10-01 19:03:09+00:00
yeah it's totally plausible that we go with something like this in the future. We have similar offers where we could separate out either the financing, the build-out, or both and just do the software.

(for Hetzner in particular it was a massive pain when we were trying to get CPU quotas with them for other data operations, and we prob don't want to have it in Europe, but it's been pretty easy to negotiate good quotes on similar deals locally now that we've shown we can do it ourselves)
by t_mann | 2025-10-01 19:03:13+00:00
> Read the White Paper

> A universal TSLM will power proactive healthcare, adaptive robotics, resilient infrastructure, and new forms of human-AI collaboration.

> scientists, engineers, and builders from ETH, Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, TUM, CDTM, Google, Meta, AWS, and beyond

What's with all this fuss? Why not just upload your paper to arxiv? Time series models are interesting enough, but from the abstract it's not even clear whether they are using transformers or a recurrent architecture like xLSTM - arguably a more intuitive choice for time series - or something else. This website is barely distinguishable from a crypto/DeFi pitch.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 19:03:20+00:00
From the dropdowns you can filter by source and type. China's fossils increase linearly and clean energy geometrically, which mean the energy mix is quickly becoming renewable heavy.

Also, due to the nature of solar this increase is actually sustainable for quite some time, these panels are manufactured goods and once you have the production lines in place it keeps going until the demand is saturated.
by adriancowham | 2025-10-01 19:03:28+00:00
Hi HN Community!

We just launched our inference gateway for voice agent models.

Voice agent developers can use our inference service to call many different voice agent models (i.e., STT, LLM, TTS) with only one key.

We built the service because end-to-end latency is critically important for voice agents. In a text-based app, making a user wait a few extra seconds for a response is generally acceptable. But when talking to AI, delays can make conversations feel awkward or unnatural.

We built some interesting ways to handle model exploration and latency reduction into our service...and much much more to come. We thought the HN community would find it interesting and have some thoughtful feedback. Please let me know what you think!

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by HaZeust | 2025-10-01 19:03:31+00:00
This is a great point, and it's something that the Founding Fathers really just kicked the can down the road for succeeding generations to find out. The executive doing so is technically in violation of the Take Care Clause ("shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"), and SOME judicial proceedings since then have found that the Executive can't use under-spending to deny or delay a congressional act or program (Train v. City of New York, 1975) - but it's still something that's up in the air if we have a complicit Congress AND judiciary.

But then again, with a complicit Congress and Judiciary - what ISN'T in the air is a shorter list.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-01 19:03:40+00:00
The USD has inflated 36% since 2015. So the 2023 budget was already an effective budget cut from 2015 of almost $100 billion (10%).

So we're effectively cutting the program budget by 25% what it was in Obama's last year - and that's after kneecapping it several times legislatively WRT things like the individual mandate and before going into the rapidly rising inflation we're seeing this year leading into that decade.
by genewitch | 2025-10-01 19:03:41+00:00
No, that's incorrect. Not one of the podcasts i listen to re-master their mp3s, the checksums stay the same. In fact, most of the podcasts i listen to have no ads at all. I wonder if there's some misunderstanding, here. If i go watch like an LTT video where they had a sponser, 5 years ago, that same "native ad" will be in the video. I'm specifically saying that the podcast apps i use do not inject ads, but podcasts themselves will do native advertising, i consider these completely different things.

https://podcastindex.org/apps podcasting 2.0 app index.
by marvinkennis | 2025-10-01 19:03:56+00:00
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by azmadin890 | 2025-10-01 19:04:37+00:00
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by hchdifnfbgbf | 2025-10-01 19:04:49+00:00
Many do. More common the further up the ladder you get. But I’ve been able to gain enough influence to affect most of the things I care about without engaging in that, unless you consider being friendly and supportive (something that did not come remotely naturally to me) to be brown-nosing.

If you want to significantly influence a lot of high-level strategic decision-making at very large companies, then you do probably need to engage in nasty things like that. But most of us don’t work at that scope.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-01 19:04:55+00:00
You can do it that way but it’s not the easy path. I think the problem with the tool is that Figma makes it too easy to make polished interactive designs that look done. The easy path is just to skip the wireframe, so by the time the programmer gets involved, the designer and management has already fallen in love with what appears to be a final product.

If figma was built on top of HTML and CSS—and so couldn’t represent designs that HTML and CSS can’t, this might be less of an issue.

Granted it would still be a problem because there are always underlying technical and processes issues that should be uncovered before you leave the wireframe phase that have nothing to do with HTML and CSS.
by givan | 2025-10-01 19:04:55+00:00
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by simonw | 2025-10-01 19:05:37+00:00
There are many, many things in life where you can evaluate if you are learning the thing despite not having access to an expert guide who can verify what you are learning.

Cooking: does the food taste better as you learn more?

Programming: are you able to build functioning software that does what you want it to do, better than you could earlier on in your path?

Fixing a broken dishwasher: does the dishwasher work again now?

The idea that learning only works if you have an expert on hand to verify that you are learning is one of those things that seems obviously true until you think harder about it.
by coleca | 2025-10-01 19:05:48+00:00
For a workload of that size you would be able to negotiate private pricing with AWS or any cloud provider, not just CloudFlare. You can get a private pricing deal on S3 with as little as half a PB. Not saying that your overall expenses would be cheaper w/a CSP than DIY, but its not exactly an apples to apples comparison of taking full retail prices for the CSPs against eBayed equipment and free labor (minus the cost of the pizza).
by cardanome | 2025-10-01 19:05:54+00:00
Ukrainians did terrorize the Donbass for years. They bombed the cities, tried to ban the Russian language, committed a horrible massacre on Odessa where they murdered many trade unionists and so on.

Ukrainian use cluster ammunition that has been internationally banned because it leads to extreme civilian causalities. They have formations of "idiologically-motivated" soldiers that are literally neo-nazis.

I am repeating the Russian narrative here? Yeah, this is how you framed the Palestinian struggle.

The genocide that Israel is committing did not start as a reaction to the terror. The terror was a reaction to the goal of Israel to eradicate the Palestinian people. Gaza has been an open air prison for decades.

And no I am not defending any war crimes from anyone. But it matters who the victim and and who the aggressor is. The aggressor is Israel. Palestinians have a right to exist.
by awkwabear | 2025-10-01 19:05:55+00:00
This is what I always try to emphasize to the junior guys I've worked with. I read the book Flowers for Algernon when I was younger and it was the thing that stood out to me the most.

It does not matter how right you are if no one likes or will listen to you. Unfortunately, being likeable is inifinitely more important than being right. Your job is to strike a balance between both otherwise stupid likeable people will be dictating the direction.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-01 19:05:55+00:00
It's the result if your programming language thinks 0.2 + 0.1 means you want specifically the 64-bit IEEE floating point binary arithmetic.

But, where did we say that's what we want? As we've seen it's not the default in many languages and it isn't mandatory in Python, it's a choice, and the usual argument for that choice would be "it's fast" except, Python is slow, so what gives ?
by givan | 2025-10-01 19:05:58+00:00
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by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 19:06:01+00:00
The system is 1000% to blame and it should be something we bring more awareness of.

But that's sadly not happening here. Every story about the true problems get flagged because HN seems to have this strong sense of staying apolitical in a time of absolutely rampant destruction happening in real time most recent example of the US government shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434146

There's a lot of Apathy but what really worries me is the almost forced ignorance from people who should be able to rise beyond that. I guess it's just a reflection on how Silicon Valley also sold out when push came to shove. Whatever makes more money, morality, ethics, and long term preservation be damned.
by dizlexic | 2025-10-01 19:06:13+00:00
I find being outspoken is a great way to be heard and visible, but if I'm being honest my entire personality is confrontational.

I share my opinions, accomplishments, and (most importantly) my failures. This tends to make me a default leader in conversations, and I try really hard not to be overbearing.

ADHD + outspoken = confrontational / obnoxious.
by hadlock | 2025-10-01 19:06:43+00:00
Is there some sort of way short of constitutional amendment (or UK equivalent) to avoid having to defend this "legal challenge" every time it comes up? This is so exhausting I don't even bother clicking on the article, I just write a check to the EFF.

I feel like the toothpaste is already out of the tube on effective, low effort, decentralized encryption, but there's plenty of $$$ government contracting dollars to be made integrating government systems with megacorp datastorage, so there will always be someone else pushing to make this happen.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-01 19:07:04+00:00
It's not particularly complicated. Every government scheme is eventually exploited. In this case, it is that Medicaid pays out well for autism diagnosis and treatment. Once upon a time it was dialysis centers but nephrologists had to keep their patients on bare minimum before eventually referring them to their family's dialysis center. Good business because government covers and it lasts forever.

Autism is even better because you can diagnose it in anyone and the treatment can show whatever results you want. It's a spectrum you see.

I think elder care or in home care in NYC is a similar operation.

The sheer weight of human productivity is unbelievable. You have some two hundred to two fifty million Americans producing things through labour. They're all taxed and it goes into one or two places. Tap that keg and you get unbelievable wealth.
by nodja | 2025-10-01 19:07:06+00:00
Yeah from memory on-prem was always cheaper, it just removed a lot of logistic obstacles and made everything convenient under one bill.

IIRC the wisdom of the time cloud started becoming popular was to always be on-prem and use cloud to scale up when demand spiked. But over time temporarily scaling up became permanent, and devs became reliant on instantly spawning new machines for things other than spikes in demand and now everyone defaults to cloud and treats it as the baseline. In the process we lost the grounding needed to assess the real cost of things and predictably the cost difference between cloud and on-prem has only widened.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 19:07:14+00:00
Where "some" is, according to polling data, actually a crazy large amount of Americans.

>“Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” About 46% of the American public consistently agree with that option, about the same number who back the middle option in Gallup’s surveys.

If you let the question trigger the right religion call and response, 44% of americans choose to say that god created humans as they are now sometime within the past 10k years.

If you get esoteric to try and lean on how crazy the real fundies get, you ask people about continental drift. 10% of Americans outright deny continental drift being a process that occurs over millions of years.

30 million Americans is the lower bound to the amount of people who hold outright insanely false views on reality expressly for religious reasons. These are people who are desperately looking for reasons to believe that all of modern science is a conspiracy meant to keep them docile or unbelieving or some bullshit or other, and think science as an institution has been perverting the world for, uh, satan.

So that's not terribly comforting.

>https://ncse.ngo/just-how-many-young-earth-creationists-are-...
by landryraccoon | 2025-10-01 19:07:17+00:00
Their electricity costs are $10K per month or about $120K per year. At an interest rate of 7% that's $1.7M of capital tied up in power bills.

At that rate I wonder if it makes sense to do a massive solar panel and battery installation. They're already hosting all of their compute and storage on prem, so why not bring electricity generation on prem as well?
by sleight42 | 2025-10-01 19:07:20+00:00
Am AuDHD.

To be direct: this is a recipe for failure in a neurotypical world.

I agree with you with regard to the resulting personal relationship quality. However, there is a *massive* practical/economic cost.

I worked in Tech for 30 years. Burned out hard. Then I got my autism diagnosis.

I lived sincerely. I was punished for it.

I then tried to conform—masking before I quite knew what it was. I just knew that it required enormous effort to remain "composed".

Nope, still punished. The mask wasn't good enough.

Not only that, I began to loathe who I was becoming because of the mask. And I saw the added cost of how it was wrecking my marriage.

I'm now into year 3 (2.33) into unemployment with no idea what's next. I just know that it can't involve any masking whatsoever.

And that, in of itself, means I will be far "less successful" in this neurotypical world.