MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eawgewag | 2025-10-01 18:20:56+00:00
I think the article is arguing that if you build the relationship, you can involve yourself into these conversations early enough to direct them the way that your idea would go. In your cases, for example:

1. Recognizing early enough that this Hot New Thing incentive is here and figuring out how your Good New Thing can live with the Hot New Thing

2. Helping show the Old Bad Thing is unworkable for your Good New Thing

3. Understanding that the org cares about New Buzzword and framing your work under those pretenses.
by dowakin | 2025-10-01 18:20:58+00:00
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by alphazard | 2025-10-01 18:20:58+00:00
This is not a great take. Politics shows up as a failure to construct an aligned organization. There will always be some politics, but it should not be the most significant thing going on at a company. In a well designed org, it tends towards zero.

In a positive sum environment, with incentives aligned with the shareholders, everyone is trying to make the business more profitable, and the "more" that everyone wants comes from the market. You have to contend with reality on reality's terms to get more.

In a zero-sum environment (which is most large corporations) nothing anyone does will meaningfully move the needle on profitability. The business has been built, and now it is coasting. How to divide up the predictable profits is decided by politics, the "more" comes from someone else within the organization getting less.

The best advice is to know which environment you are in. The "right" move is entirely context dependent. If you are in a zero-sum environment, you need to play politics, that's the game. If you are in a positive-sum environment, politics will be the noise, you can get more by building more.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-01 18:21:05+00:00
Replied a bit more on another comment, tl;dr this is a quite silly simulator that is not representative of autism and you’ve found the biggest tell (almost everything is masking by the scoring algorithm).

You could replace it with an HP bar or Foobar bar and it’d have just as much meaning. I grew up taking care of my autistic sister and have a couple diagnoses of my own, I found it almost offensive that this claims to be representative of autism because of how generic and distanced it is (ex. “Masking” is collapsed down to being the same as “spoon” discourse with depression)
by rcfox | 2025-10-01 18:21:15+00:00
I worked on creating a card game with a couple of my friends. We kept all of the cards in a Google Sheet, allowing everyone to easily edit or create new cards. Then, I wrote a script to compile the sheet into a card atlas so that it could be consumed by Tabletop Simulator. It worked amazingly well.

The only issue was that I had to run the script myself, since my friends were less technical. I'd probably see if I could setup a workflow in Github Actions to do it for me if I were to do this again.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-01 18:21:28+00:00
You can hone your skills while still maintaining a healthy detachment. You make your case at a thing, business decides to do something else that you think is dumb. You only "lose" if you were overly attached to the decision in the first place. Otherwise you simply get a chance to observe the outcome, see what went well/poorly, and reflect on whether/how you were totally right all along. Next time you have a clearer understanding and perhaps will be able to better articulate your position. You didn't lose. You gained experience and wisdom. You always win as long as you're open to do so. The business lost by listening to the wrong person.
by taylodl | 2025-10-01 18:21:36+00:00
Trump removed that bargaining piece when he threatens to not support NATO allies and he fails to honor existing US treaties. Trump has seen to it that his word means absolutely nothing and treaties with the US are only worth the paper they're printed on. So no, there's no bargaining piece here. In fact, Taiwan gets assurance of US defense by retaining semiconductor production in Taiwan as the US is forced into a position of having to defend its supply chain.
by dlivingston | 2025-10-01 18:21:59+00:00
Very funny, but also flippant and glib.

When people -- myself included -- say they have a problem with chemicals in food, they of course mean artificial chemicals: that is, compounds, preservatives, dyes, and flavors that are non-naturally present for that particular food item and were added for their shelf life, taste, aesthetic, or addictive properties.

Next time you visit your grocery store, go read the ingredients list of a few different boxed and frozen items. It's not uncommon to see three- or four- dozen ingredients on items that should have less than 10.

While all of these compounds may have FDA approval and studies verifying their safety for ingestion, please keep several things in mind:

1. Studies use large, population-based sample sizes and their effects are based on their statistical significance on these populations. In other words, "side effects" are a population-level phenomenon, not an individual phenomenon. It is plausible that individual side effects are hidden as statistical noise. This is a problem with pharmacological studies as well and there is no easy solution to it AFAIK.

2. We have a massive obesity crisis in this country (and increasingly globally). Sedentary lifestyles and increased caloric intake is no doubt part of this, but it is blindingly obvious (to me, at least) that the meat of the problem is environmental, primarily diets, and these compounds are wreaking havoc on the endocrine systems of the population causing a massive uptick in obesity and diabetes.
by mustaphah | 2025-10-01 18:22:00+00:00
Only if the sender's DMARC setup is broken…

If their DMARC alignment relies on SPF only, it will break. But if it relies on DKIM (far more common) or both SPF and DKIM (best practice), forwarding won't cause any issues.

If your email breaks when forwarded, your setup is broken. Tons of people use Cloudflare Email Routing or similar services; you must account for them.

That being said, I forward mail addressed @mydomain.com to my Gmail, and I've had a couple of cases where legit messages landed in spam because it was SPF-aligned only.
by eskibars | 2025-10-01 18:22:08+00:00
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by hawk31 | 2025-10-01 18:22:15+00:00
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by dvrp | 2025-10-01 18:22:22+00:00
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I'm the cofounder & CTO of Krea (https://www.krea.ai). We are a startup in San Francisco building browser-based AI creative tools to improve the workflows of artists, designers, and professional creatives. Small team (~22); millions of active users; and raised over $83M from top Silicon Valley investment firms.

We're looking for talented engineers who want to tackle hard technical challenges with smart people while building a creative platform that big companies and startups will rely on.

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- Build distributed systems to process massive (billions of files, petabytes), amounts of image, video, and 3D data, solving scaling bottlenecks as you go.

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- Play with huge Kubernetes GPU clusters; our main GPU cluster takes up an entire datacenter from our provider.

Tech stack: python, pytorch, k8s, a rotating cast of data tools (e.g. DuckDB, massive relational DBs, PyArrow, etc.)

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by marcosdumay | 2025-10-01 18:22:38+00:00
Yes. The probability of people inventing something seems to vary widely from "everybody can sustain that problem for centuries until somebody has a good idea" to "the moment people know the requirements, everybody will invent this".

And it's very unlikely that we can know where any invention falls on that distribution before it's made. We may not even be certain about some after they are made.

Anybody talking about tech inevitability or some universal version of the Great Men theory (in support or rejection) is wrong.
by pino999 | 2025-10-01 18:22:45+00:00
This, it is costly, certain personal walks away. Proper roles seem to emerge anyway.

The cost of control and the costly overhead has everything to do with atomizing the work load. Just like in a distributed system. The synchronization mechanisms get more complicate.

The more layers, the less trustable the organization, since every manager under their manger, is a potentially corruptable.

This makes the communication lines unclear and makes people over promise. Also distributing the workload has diminishing returns.

I am not a fan of scrum or other systems.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-01 18:23:13+00:00
The cost difference is huge. Modern compute is just so much bigger than one would think. Hurricane Electric is incredibly cheap too. And Digital Realty in the city are pretty good. The funny thing is that the Monkeybrains guys will make room for you at $75/amp but that isn't competitive when a 9654 based system pulls 2+ amps at peak.

Still fun for someone wanting to stick a computer in a DC though.

Networking is surprisingly hard but we also settled for the cheapo life QSFP instead of the new Cisco switches that do 800 Gbps that are coming. Great writeup.

One that would be fun is about the mechanics of layout and cabling and that sort of thing. Learning all that manually was a pain in the ass. It's not just written down somewhere and I should have done it when I was doing it but now I no longer am doing it and so can't provide good photos.
by kbyatnal | 2025-10-01 18:23:29+00:00
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by HaZeust | 2025-10-01 18:23:39+00:00
My favorite part is the Hero countdown timer on the index page (https://www.whitehouse.gov/) and the countdown timer graphic on the dedicated govt shutdown page (https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/) don't match:

https://i.imgur.com/3SNa03R.png

Not to mention, the graphic is extraordinarily ugly.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-01 18:24:01+00:00
Ugh.

THE SAME NUMBER OF SOYBEANS ARE GETTING CONSUMED.

If China is buying South American soybeans instead of US soybeans than whoever was buying from South America is going to buy from the US because it's not like 8 million tons of soybeans per month are magically getting created in Brazil.

It's not that there will be no market effect but it's pretty close to a zero sum game because the global production and consumption of soy really isn't changing that much.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-10-01 18:24:01+00:00
not really. At this point, solar is basically free, and having extra free energy has all sorts of benefits. For the EU, in particular, it greatly reduces their dependence on Russian oil and gas. if all you do with extra solar is replace 2 extra hours a day of natural gas consumption, you effectively make yourself have 12% more storage, which decreases Russian leverage.
by macNchz | 2025-10-01 18:24:09+00:00
There are too many food (and personal care and clothing etc) chemical additives for the average person to remotely be able to keep up with the details of each, especially given not all products even need to disclose them–the charitable, or simply non snarky, reading of that kind of comment is more like "I don't want to eat food with unnecessary/under-studied additives in it."
by skinkestek | 2025-10-01 18:24:16+00:00
It is what it is.

I used to really want to learn Russian language. I thought of it as an investment in my career as I expected to work a lot more with Russians and Russian companies because I assumed Russia like the Baltics and Poland would become part of Europe.

I have also had some really nice and smart colleagues from Russia over the years.

Then came 2014 and 2022 and now sadly I think Russians will go through what Germans experienced from 1946 and the next few decades.

Hopefully you'll not go through what Germans suffered in 1945.

If you are working against the regime we are still friends.

And I look forward to visit Russia again in a decade or two.

But remember (and everyone should remember this): a people is responsible for the government they choose. Those who cheer when their militaries are successfully attacking peaceful neighbors and taking civilians including kids as hostages and talk about erasing their neighbors can't expect much sympathy when the war returns home.
by mjgs | 2025-10-01 18:24:22+00:00
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Remote: Yes

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10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently I’ve been developing social media SaaS and statically generated (a.k.a Jamstack) websites, built using GitHub actions, deployed to Netlify, as well as OAuth 2.0 authenticated REST APIs, Typescript, React frontends. I have also been really getting into working with both cloud hosted (Gemini) and locally running (Ollama) LLMs in VSCode devcontainers.

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by mjgs | 2025-10-01 18:24:35+00:00
SEEKING WORK, Europe / Asia, remote work OK, I am very flexible with working hours and can accommodate most time zones, experienced remote worker.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently I’ve been developing social media SaaS and statically generated (a.k.a Jamstack) websites, built using GitHub actions, deployed to Netlify, as well as OAuth 2.0 authenticated REST APIs, Typescript, React frontends. I have also been really getting into working with both cloud hosted (Gemini) and locally running (Ollama) LLMs in VSCode devcontainers.

Technologies:

NodeJS, Typescript, Perl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, AWS, Digital Ocean, Netlify, Heroku, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Mailgun, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Letsencrypt, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama.

About me: https://markjgsmith.com/about

Portfolio: https://markjgsmith.com/portfolio

Recommendations: https://markjgsmith.com/recommendations

Résumé/CV: On request via email

Email: markjgsmith@gmail.com
by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-01 18:24:50+00:00
As an extension of this idea: for some tasks, rather than asking Claude Code to do a thing, you can often get better results from asking Claude Code to write and run a script to do the thing.

Example: read this log file and extract XYZ from it and show me a table of the results. Instead of having the agent read in the whole log file into the context and try to process it with raw LLM attention, you can get it to read in a sample and then write a script to process the whole thing. This works particularly well when you want to do something with math, like compute a mean or a median. LLMs are bad at doing math on their own, and good at writing scripts to do math for them.

A lot of interesting techniques become possible when you have an agent that can write quick scripts or CLI tools for you, on the fly, and run them as well.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:25:11+00:00
PCSK9 inhibitor trials have shown significant benefit for reduction in CVD events independent of whether or not the inhibitors lowered hsCRP. Ezetimibe makes an impact on events without reducing hsCRP when administered on it's own. (But it is generally administered with a statin, and it seems that the combination does result in lower hsCRP than a statin on it's own)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4876179/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779348/
by timerol | 2025-10-01 18:25:13+00:00
I don't know of any specific thresholds, but it's worth mentioning that 54% of Q2 was renewable, and solar peaks in Q2. Solar was also only 36.8% of that renewable generation (just under 20% of Q2's total), so there's a long way to go before solar is 40% of the total energy mix.

If there is an important threshold when solar reaches 40% of the full year's production, then solar will need to almost quadruple before that's a concern. For all of 2024, solar was 22.4% of renewables, and renewables were 47% of the total[1], meaning that solar was 10.5% of total electricity over the full year.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/...
by sfink | 2025-10-01 18:25:24+00:00
If a company professes to be supportive of neurodivergence, it means either (1) they're supportive of neurodivergence; or (2) they are hostile to neurodivergence and have gotten into trouble for it, so have strong motivation to claim that they are supportive. There will probably be written policies and strongly-worded emails that are supportive of neurodivergence, which enable them to continue being hostile to neurodivergence.

I would guess there's far more of (2) going around than (1).

This is an overly polarized view -- what does "supportive" even mean? What forms are actually deemed permissible? -- but it's probably more right than wrong.

It's like the schools with posters everywhere declaring "Zero tolerance for bullying" or "Bully free zone". Except that there is no (1) at those places. Those signs mean they have a problem with bullying and haven't come up with any solutions.
by oaktowner | 2025-10-01 18:25:24+00:00
I'm using the MS suite for the first time in over a decade...and the collaborative aspects are still nowhere near Google's. I routinely get problems when multiple people are editing the same content (Word doc, spreadsheet, or PowerPoint). And sometimes the thick client works best, sometimes browser editing works fine...but it's inconsistent.

For all of them, Microsoft has a more complete feature set...but for 99% of things (and anything with lots of collaboration), I prefer Google Work Suite or whatever it's called this month.
by brightball | 2025-10-01 18:25:31+00:00
This is an excellent read and the title definitely made me assume the author wasn't talking about "office politics".

What's more important than "politics" is your ability to communicate in terms that people making decisions will understand. I didn't get this nuance early in my career. I was always focused on shipping, oblivious to costs: Time Cost, Opportunity Cost, etc.

Learning to make technical decisions based on Return on Investment is the real key to bridging this communications divide.

Weighted Shorted Job First (WSJF) is an approach that will bring your team and organization into thinking that way. It works wonders for getting people on the same page and it's just an ROI formula.

WSJF = Cost of Delay / Job Size

Job Size is a proxy for cost, because it's a proxy for time...which costs money.

Cost of Delay is a fancy way of estimating how valuable something is. Technically it's "User Business Value + Time Criticality + Opportunity Enablement & Risk Reduction" but it really boils down to Value + Time Criticality. Time Criticality meaning real deadlines where the value will go away if we don't hit it by the deadline. Think conference dates or contractual obligations, not sprint commitments (wanting something sooner doesn't make it time critical).

The more prepared you are, the better the case you can make for this number while those who are unprepared will simply have to guess without anything to substantiate it.

I got deep into this philosophy after watching an exec waste resources for over a year and a half on a project that nobody wanted. When we started scrutinizing decisions with WSJF and nothing he wanted to ranked highly enough based on the math, the entire organization got better. It does wonders to eliminate the squeaky wheel problem too.