MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bartread | 2025-10-01 18:39:16+00:00
I used to work for a software company that literally had "no politics" as part of its DNA. It was in the company handbook, it was in our values, people would say it when they talked about what it was like to work at the company. Hell, whilst I can't recall any specific instances, I guarantee that I said it and probably many times[0].

But, of course, it was never true. It might have felt true - certainly superficially - when we were a smaller company, but the reality is that it never was. We just didn't want to be grown up enough to admit that.

You can only really interface effectively with reality and make good decisions when you face up to that reality rather than living in denial. Or, as one of my favourite quotes (albeit that it's now a bit overused), from Miyamoto Musashi, puts it: “Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”

So that company maintained the "no politics" value for long years after it became apparent to anyone with a working brain that it wasn't true. Wasn't even close to true.

And that's poison: it bleeds into everything. Avoidance of the truth promotes avoidance elsewhere. Lack of openness, lack of accountability, perverse mythologies, bitterness, resentment, and a sort of gently corrosive low grade mendacity that eats away at everything. And all because we're lying to ourselves about "no politics".

So I agree: politics is unavoidable and, if we are to succeed, we must do so by becoming politicians, and admitting to both ourselves and to others that we're doing it, because success cannot be sustained without that, and we also can't help others to reach their full potential unless we are honest with ourselves and eachother.

[0] And certainly I'd say that I hated politics and wanted no part of it.
by mwkaufma | 2025-10-01 18:39:19+00:00
"It's the term used by the infographic for, at the minimum, projects without a publisher."

Term used by _whom_? Because nobody at DICE or GDC talks like that -- just peanut gallery blogs.

"And it turns out that it's the overwhelming majority of games."

Overwhelming majority... _of the way games are marketed_, not the reality of production. It's called "print the legend."
by Jyaif | 2025-10-01 18:39:19+00:00
Some numbers:

During winter, France uses ~50% more electricity per day than during summer. And during cloudy days in winter, solar produces 10%-15% what it produces during summer.

If you don't have month-long battery storage, in order to be fully solar based France would need to produce 20 times more electricity than needed during summer.
by alexdoesstuff | 2025-10-01 18:39:32+00:00
To expand on the overlooked point: it gives you a DB and a programming environment (however challenged) that you can use without needing sign-off from IT. In any moderately sizeable organization, getting approval to use anything but standard software is slow and painful.

Nobody wants to explain to IT that they need to install Python on their machine, or drivers for sqlite, or - god forbid - get a proper database. Because that requires sign-off from several people, a proper justification, and so on.
by redserk | 2025-10-01 18:39:32+00:00
“Unconstitutional” is a loaded term that fails to convey any meaningful insight if you consider the Supreme Court only has power because they declared it so.

That said, there isn’t a fourth branch of government and the strict boundaries of branches is a rather… elementary understanding how our government works.

If an independent agency is “unconstitutional” and a fourth branch, how would you define our Armed Forces in practice?
by adi4213 | 2025-10-01 18:39:41+00:00
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by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-01 18:40:26+00:00
tribelessness itself is a poor result and does not solve any problems. It's a dead end. It's irrelevance. It's being an animal that eats for a while then dies and does no one else any good in the mean time. By arranging things so that no one else is a part of you, you are also not a part of anyone else. What is the point of that existense? It's the same as living in a vr where all you do is self-gratify and it has no effect on the world.
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by mothballed | 2025-10-01 18:40:30+00:00
I think the issue there is article I, unlike article II, expressly states what the legislative branch consists of. And it states it consists of the house and the senate. Nothing else.

So the reading of a bank that excecutes the law establishing it, I don't know how it could fall under anything but article ii. From your explanation, that wouldn't violate McCulloch v. Maryland authorization of the executive to execute the law.
by eikenberry | 2025-10-01 18:40:37+00:00
> I think it's the pengiun approach to risk management -- they know they need to jump in the water to get where they need to go, but they don't know where the orcas are. So they jostle closer and closer to the edge, some fall in, and the rest see what happens.

Great way to describe the culture of fear prevalent at large companies.
by momojo | 2025-10-01 18:40:45+00:00
I know this is polemical article is in good fun but chatGPT gives me the impression Descarte should not be counted with the others:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68dd758f-2bc0-8008-955d-a7dbd89399...

" Given:

- The blog offers no primary evidence for Descartes’s having a proof.

- Scholarly histories, based on critical assessment of surviving letters, treat the solution of the area problem as due to Roberval (and independently Torricelli) rather than to Descartes.

- The more carefully vetted sources place Descartes in the position of reacting to, or endorsing, Roberval’s result but not of originating it.

Therefore, the weight of evidence supports that the historical consensus is correct — Descartes did not solve the area under a cycloid; the blog's claim is likely an overstatement or misinterpretation."
by dilyevsky | 2025-10-01 18:40:49+00:00
That’s cool theory and all but in reality alice will get all the credit and no one will even remember bobs name. People are mostly wrapped up in their own thing and 2 months later at best they will remember one sentence and that it's somehow attached to alice. Get people doing the work on your team to present it if you want them to get credit or stop pretending you actually care about this
by riedel | 2025-10-01 18:40:51+00:00
I would say, toxic politics is also just the bad politics the OP is talking about. Basically by the definition of the OP, I think pretty much most populism qualifies as bad politics. Politics beyond the workplace can work very similar to the one within. I know people who did 'good politics' within their work context and were asked to actual enter local politics. IMHO this is the best case. While I guess we also need career politicians, I see the biggest value in people that enter politics at a later stage.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-01 18:40:57+00:00
> Maybe if these places weren't basically monopolies, people could switch to platforms that don't censor them, and then they might change their stances.

I think one issue is social media is inherently monopolistic. It has network effects from having more users, so a new social media network has trouble being valuable. Sure there have been rare exceptions like TikTok, but if you’re offering a similar social media service as an existing network rather than innovating on the format, your service is worth less because it has fewer users, and the service won’t grow to be competitive. If there isn’t a working competitive environment, I think that is justification for more regulation that makes those companies behave more like government agencies.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-01 18:41:08+00:00
> How is it solved?

It is solved by a democratic system that defines truth as "mutually observable phenomena", defines good as "the wishes of the people", and allows individuals to engage in free dialogue as a replacement for violence.

Good outnumbers bad, so the good will win, unless both sides think they're good in a 50/50 split.

This can happen even in that ideal society, because 50% of the individuals will eventually decide to have fundamentally different goals as the other 50%. In which case, I don't think we should hold that society together by force, but rather provide a mechanism for it to peacefully split into two, precisely to uphold the democratic principle of respecting the wishes of every individual.

Suppose half of those people are mistaken in a collective delusion, and their goals are in actuality aligned with the other half, but the other half have just failed so spectacularly at enlightening them (or perhaps the delusional half are so spectacularly delusional that they're impossible to enlighten). In this rare case of a perfect failure, they will quickly realize after the split and want to get back together, because reality is a harsh judge, and its judgements are ultimate.
by ajross | 2025-10-01 18:41:17+00:00
Your desire to time the market typhoon caused by the abandonment of decades of US world monetary leadership is confounded by the need to time the market squall due to the current US government shutdown. And quite frankly also to time the impending crash from AI overvaluations in the stock market.

Just buckle up folks. Ain't no one getting out of this clean.
by dpe82 | 2025-10-01 18:41:26+00:00
a) 5hrs/week is negligible compared to that potential AWS bill.

b) The seem tolerant of failures so it's not going to be anything like 5hrs/week of physical maintenance. It will be bursty though (eg. box died, time to replace it...) but assuming they have spares of everything sitting around / already racked it shouldn't be a big deal.
by homebrewer | 2025-10-01 18:41:31+00:00
> their priorities lean more toward SaaS than self-hosting

It was FUD when the fork was announced, it is FUD now. Look at commercial images and what differentiates them from MIT — it's pretty much just SAML and not much else. Their actual development policy is "you pay us for the feature you need — we build it under MIT and ship for everyone"; their collaboration with Blender is the most prominent example of this that I know of.

I've also been wondering whether to jump ship, and have been going by comparing release notes — how many features were shipped within the same period of time, which bugs were fixed, etc. I've seen no reason to migrate, Gitea continues to advance faster, even though Forgejo copies some of their commits that still apply relatively easily.

Forget about commit counts, issues closed, and other artificial metrics — they're significantly inflated on Forgejo's side by heavy use of bots (like bumping dependencies) and merge commits (which Gitea development process doesn't use). Look at release notes.
by rayiner | 2025-10-01 18:41:36+00:00
No, that cuts the other way. The only reason we allow the FTC to create regulations with the force of law is by pretending that regulations are just an expression of how the executive will exercise its delegated discretion in enforcing the law. That makes rulemaking a quintessential “executive power.”

Your argument amounts to the idea that, because Congress has done one wrong thing (allow the executive branch to make laws) it should be permitted to do a second wrong thing (allow the Article I “executive power” to be exercised independently of the President). That makes no sense. You can’t reward Congress for doing an unconstitutional thing by letting them do a second unconstitutional thing.
by nickdothutton | 2025-10-01 18:41:42+00:00
I began in the 8-bit age, with BASIC and eventually a small collection of languages under CP/M (not much call for BCPL these days). I met Ada and of course "new" ANSI C at Uni, but I wrote most production code in Perl than anything else. Probably because we built an ISP out of it in the 90s. After many years more or less away from any serious hands-on coding I've now returned with the help of Claude... to Perl. Mostly for personal projects and research. Glad to see some noteworthy public donations.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-10-01 18:41:56+00:00
It's been long enough(about 7 years) since I worked in an environment like this that I've been seriously considering going back to it lately. I played one round of your game, and that was enough to make it completely obvious to me what a fucking terrible idea that is.

Thank you for making this, I think you just saved me from flushing two years of personal progress down the toilet in the name of... What? Fucking business logic? I'll pass on that, I think, and keep improving my life on my own terms.

And maybe address the question why, again and again, I keep finding ways to convince myself that this is what I want my life to be. No matter how many times it leads me to crash and burn and have to spend years picking up the pieces.

Seriously, thank you. If I ever meet you, I will buy you a beverage to your liking, to go, so you can go home and enjoy it in peace.

/g
by BeetleB | 2025-10-01 18:42:50+00:00
> But is this a good thing? Because then these academics without a CS background write monstrous, poorly optimized scripts compounded by a slow language, then use drastically more compute to run their science, and then at the end publish their paper and the scripts they used are very hard to adapt to further research because very rarely are they structured as modules.

For many of them, the alternative is that they simply wouldn't have done the science, and would have focused on research that didn't need computation. Or they'd use some expensive, proprietary tool.

Prior to Python becoming popular among them (circa 2005-2007), plenty of good, fast, whatever-metric-you-want languages existed. These academics were not using them.

Python is really what enabled the work to be done.
by e-khadem | 2025-10-01 18:43:01+00:00
> Otherwise I'd assume they are making it up post-hoc.

You are right, in that this test might not live up to the highest of standards. But then there are variations in the details. For example one of my friends who happened to be a soccer player said more details about the ball. Other people described familiar objects such as their own kitchen table. You can also tell if someone is starting to think about the answers vs. when they are recalling from memory.

Overall, this method is often (IMO) a better indicator than the typical "apple test" as the context is more natural. Anecdotally the difference between the aphantasia group (incl. those who didn't know this condition existed) and the average response is just too large to ignore.
by blibble | 2025-10-01 18:43:05+00:00
> Are you being intentionally obtuse?

are you?

need I remind you, you said:

> I want 100% certainty that if my side project makes money they're not going to come after me

there is NEVER any certainty that your counterparty won't come after you, even if you think your contract is "unambiguous"

because that not how the system works
by johnfn | 2025-10-01 18:43:09+00:00
I feel that a lot of the times conversations around this topic end up with some anecdote like "well, playing politics doesn't actually work because I work at a dysfunctional company where decisions are made by morons". If you have a C-suite that makes decisions based on golf games, this advice is not for you. You have a different set of problems. You should absolutely address those problems. But that doesn't mean that this advice isn't for anyone, and coming and telling everyone that the advice is always meaningless isn't accurate.

It's like two people discussing how to handle difficult conversations in a romantic relationship, and a third guy comes in and says "this conversation is irrelevant because every time I date someone they cheat on me". I'm sorry you're dealing with that problem, but it is not really related to the topic at hand.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-01 18:43:12+00:00
That may be the case but it’s hard to look at recent rulings by the Supreme Court and direction of things happening within the executive as anything other than “anything for my friends, for everyone else the law”, whether that’s overturning Roe v Wade (and probably Griswald too sooner rather than later) or overturning the meaning of the words “well organized militia” in usurping the legislation’s ability to regulate private firearms.

Having different playbooks for players to follow depending on whether one team is for you or against is an interesting approach but one that’s been tried many times before and not one that will leave this country unified or in a better shape than it was found.
by teraflop | 2025-10-01 18:43:22+00:00
You can call it hindsight bias if you want. What you seem to be saying is that your heuristics would have told you that Javice had no nefarious intent based on that exchange, and you would of course have been wrong. My heuristics are very different.

It is very obvious to me that the extra $5k was "conditional" because if Scientist-1 hadn't sent back an invoice for $18,000, he wouldn't have gotten paid $18,000.

I have never heard of a company giving a 40% "tip" after the fact to a contractor who was already billing $600/hour. It seems like Scientist-1 did not question this tip because it didn't benefit him to do so. He didn't suspect anything because he was motivated against suspicion. That's a lack of integrity.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-01 18:43:24+00:00
Somewhat related in rulings about the President's control of various agencies is the unitary executive, which has gained popularity (like originalism) in right-leaning circles in recent years (thanks Scalia):

* https://archive.is/https://www.vox.com/scotus/397729/supreme...

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

Right-leaning folks are all for it:

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/714860

Others less so:

* https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol98/iss1/3/

Pre-Trump, one famous SCOTUS ruling determined that some agencies were / acted 'in between' branches:

> What the Court held in Humphrey’s Executor is that if an agency is of the latter kind—that is, the agency’s job description involves a mixture of quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions that are not within the President’s explicit Article II powers—then it is up to Congress to determine whether this kind of agency’s heads serve at the President’s pleasure. If such an agency’s role is essentially “to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in statute,” then Congress may protect its members against discharge except for good cause.

* https://verfassungsblog.de/the-unbearable-lightness-of-the-u...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%27s_Executor_v._Unite...
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:43:33+00:00
LDL and BMI's u and j shaped curves on all cause mortality disappear when you start controlling for other factors like a variety of diseases. Cancer, kidney disease, AIDS, etc. Lots of people end up with very poor nutrition when close to death from these diseases and end up with low bf%/bmi and LDL levels.

The reputation for bad side effects with statins is basically entirely driven by early generation statins - we've got many that are far better suited for use today than things like lovastatin and similar. Rosuvastatin, pitavastatin, etc. are much less likely to cause any sort of issue for the vast majority of people.

Most of the side effects come at higher dosages, too, but most of the benefit comes from lower dosages. Combo therapy with lower dose statin + ezetimibe or bempadoic acid is becoming more and more popular for this reason.
by oersted | 2025-10-01 18:43:35+00:00
That is a bit uncalled for, I like to be lean and technically precise as much as the next guy.

I am not talking about "deep IDE integration" in a wishy-washy sense, what I care about as a professional engineer is that such an integration allows me to seamlessly intervene and control the AI when necessary, while still benefiting from its advantages when it does work well on its own.

Blindly trusting the AI while it does things in the background has rarely worked well for me, so a UX optimized for that is less useful to me, as opposed to one designed to have the AI right where I can interlieve it with normal coding seamlessly and avoid context-switching.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-01 18:43:38+00:00
1 office politics tip for engineers: engineers are helpful people, people who believe in putting in hard work now because future benefits.

office politicians believe in focusing on politics (relationships) and putting their name on as much progress as possible and getting facetime with higher ups.

watch for it in meetings: do not accept work assigned to you by a peer, push back on the boss going along with a peer assigning you work, and do not accept a peer volunteering to do the presentation while you get started on grunt work. that person is planning to "coordinate" your work and put s/he's name on it and give the presentation to higher ups.

you do the presentation, you talk to higher ups. somebody wants to help? they need to take their share of the grunt work, earn their way in like you did.