MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by typewithrhythm | 2025-10-06 09:16:46+00:00
This way of working really requires a small company, (and is one of the reasons I think small places have a chance of outsized impact). But at bigger places, either a manager is being judged on a team outcome -> where an individual not on topic is budget not going towards what they get paid to achieve. Or you need seniority enough to work directly with a project director (but most structures expect people at that level to have leadership responsibilities as well).

Unfortunately, while people that work like this can be exceptional, big projects run on organised measurable work. I have found few places big enough for a specific "Manager" role to be flexible enough to get a good match to tasks.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-06 09:16:56+00:00
Interesting case too, and that he committed suicide despite not really being blamed from what I just read.

On the other hand you have cases like the MV Wewol ferry disaster, also in South Korea, in which well over 250 passengers died horribly. Most of them were just kids, high school students on a trip. The causes leading up to the tragedy, the accident management by the crew itself and the subsequent rescue, body retrieval and investigation, were absolutely riddled with negligence, incompetence, bad management and all kinds of blame shifting.

The owner of the ferry company itself had an arrest warrant issued for him, then fled and only later was found in a field dead and presumed to have committed suicide.

Underlying all this is that even these apparent cultural ideas of committing suicide to atone for the shame of some gigantic mistake don't seem to prevent people from actually making these kinds of mistakes or doing things more responsibly in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-06 09:16:58+00:00
I briefly looked but either I'm blind or it doesn't exist - is there a video of the event anywhere? I'd love to watch the talks.

Side note - if FSF wants its message to reach a wider audience and get more people to care about free software it should really get out of its own bubble. Why wasn't this streamed and archived on YouTube? Yes, this is a rhetoric question - I know perfectly why. My point here is - and let me make a colorful analogy:

If you're, say, a Scientology missionary, what the hell is the point of preaching inside of your own church, to people who are already Scientologists? If you want to be an effective missionary you go out where the non-believers are, and you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago, or else they'll immediately dismiss you and think you're batshit crazy. You ease them in step-by-step.

FSF puts ideological purity as an absolute number one (e.g. recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is pretty much unusable on most machines for normal people), and they refuse to spread the message on platforms where non-free-software people are (e.g. YouTube), and then we're all surprised that the free software movement is dying, and non-copyleft licenses are dominating (although, yes, there are other reasons for that too).
by lm28469 | 2025-10-06 09:17:32+00:00
100%, like cutting grass, all the stuff you cut and move out of your lawn is nutrients leaving your soil, do that long enough and you'll get dead soil, then you'll need to buy compost... which is made from the leaves, grass cuts and bio trash that you city charges you to collect. It's a perfect cycle really.

> the lawn industry then labelled clover a weed to make killing it a goal rather than a negative side effect

People who are into bio gardening/farming use cover crops to boost soil fertility and avoid weeds, very often clovers actually. You can even use them as cover crops while growing other things, again to compete with weeds, every know and then you cut them down, leave them on the spot, they decompose and feed your crops/earthworms

https://underwoodgardens.com/cover-crops-beat-garden-weeds/
by FinnLobsien | 2025-10-06 09:18:02+00:00
I think this article is well-intentioned, but misses a few things:

-Nir Eyal is also the author of "Hooked" which is about building habit-forming products, i.e. he's an architect of the exact things that make it harder to pay attention.

When challenged about this, he typically suggests tips and tricks to use less tech, but never admits the products themselves are the problem.

-I think much of this needs to start with company culture. We need to start setting cultural values that enshrine the importance of deep work.
by easywood | 2025-10-06 09:18:19+00:00
I live in an neighborhood with a lot of retired people, and I agree with the "busy work" sentiment. As soon as some leaves have fallen, you can hear them firing up their leafblowers. Why? Why not wait until there is a decent amount of leaves and ... use a rake? I really think it's because they don't have anything else to do and it gives them a sense of purpose.
by quantumwoke | 2025-10-06 09:18:32+00:00
Heartbreaking story. They talk a lot about the possibility of bacterial infection but it was not consistent with the blood tests. It seems he just got unlucky (although should have had a Chest X-Ray).

Trying to reframe it in a coding analogy, there were a few abnormal logs maybe an exception or two but the coder was unable to figure it out and these exceptions happen all the time and so pushed to live anyway. Due to resource allocation issues they were pulled to a different job. Then the site crashed. Just awful.
by dsego | 2025-10-06 09:19:14+00:00
If there is anything I've learned in my country (with national health care) where it's common for doctors to ignore you and say it's nothing, is to be overly pushy and even rude. It could be nothing, but a lot of time instincts are correct, and it's a mild embarrassment if you are making a fuss over nothing, but could be a life or death situation. And you could argue that everyone behaving like this is making it worse, and that might be right. But I remember multiple national headlines in recent years where little kids died of pneumonia after being sent home because they ruled out infection, sometimes even after parents already brought the kid back for the second or third time to the hospital after their condition wasn't improving. I know I'm not making chances even if it means getting a second opinion or driving to a different town to a different hospital, sometimes it's better to take things into your own hands than be complacent and rely solely on the medical system doing the right thing.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-06 09:19:25+00:00
> What we need is a leak of a Flock database

In anticipation of this happening someone should build an open source project that processes data points from these cameras, reconstructs movement, correlates the data with with various public and non-public databases, and provides a searchable user interface that will make the average person shit their pants through combination of panic and disgust when they see it.

Then just wait for the inevitable data leak and let the public track the movements of every politician and lobbyist (by name), correlated with their other activities, as well as track anonymized members of the general public.

The average person won't ever "get it" unless they see a system like that for themselves. That might not be enough either but it would lead to some progress if executed well.
by debugnik | 2025-10-06 09:19:40+00:00
In retrospect my replies have also been harsher than they should have, I didn't contribute to a good mood. Most IT nomenclature is poorly made up anyway, what does polyglot even mean indeed.

As I said, I don't even like Just's approach as it isn't even cross platform, but I guess solving this properly would require tying the recipe runner to a package repository per platform. I still appreciate that Just tried to make it a legible built-in feature though.
by crabkin | 2025-10-06 09:19:41+00:00
Don't really think so. I love Pynchon and there's not really a character I'm latching onto when I read that. McCarthy and Pynchon both fetishize a sort of violence. I find McCarthy's writing going there many times for shock value or aesthetic reasons and it makes me take him less seriously. Other people have mentioned Tarantino and I think that is apt.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-06 09:19:41+00:00
Not entirely true. Rust (cargo) supports git-based crates and more crate sources than just crates.io (registry = "crates-io"), however crates on crates.io doesn't currently support dependencies with crates in other registries.

somecrate = { git = "https://...." } other-crate = { version = "1.0", registry = "my-registry" }

It also supports source replacement downstream:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/source-replacement...

crates.io could be updated to support alternative registries.
by saubeidl | 2025-10-06 09:19:50+00:00
"People's concerns" is a way too broad term to pick for your personal agenda.

I, too, am part of the "people". My concerns are that we are seeing xenophobia rise as a distraction from the issues caused by capitalist contradictions and that Russia is fueling that fire for its own motives.

I, too, am unhappy with the current political parties, but for reasons opposite to yours. As long as the means of production are owned by the capitalist class, we will continue to suffer.

My "people's concern" is not the same as yours. Please do not try to commandeer it.
by willvarfar | 2025-10-06 09:20:04+00:00
People have loud motorbikes and cars because they want attention. It seems very fundamentally selfish.

I've spent a lot of time in the countryside where there is a motorway in the distance, and the general low rumble road noise seems to be mostly the tires etc. But then sometimes a loud motorbike revs and that really carries and intrudes.
by Towaway69 | 2025-10-06 09:20:21+00:00
That is my fear and why I spend much time reflecting on how I am and how I can cope with being who I am. Growing up, there was no such thing as ADHD, it was always a case of a nervous boy who was unruly in class. And it has basically stayed that way!

This post is totally me: I do exactly as the author says, I procrastinate (just as writing this comment - I really need to do something else) and I learnt to use that to order my todo list, i.e., I literally organise my life knowing that if I want to get my tax return done, then its a good time to repaint the ceiling. Loo and behold, my tax return is done ... followed but much arm waving around why the ceiling never got done.
by antonvs | 2025-10-06 09:20:26+00:00
> The AI hype train is bs, but there're real and concrete uses for it

When you consider that there are real and concrete uses for it across a wide variety of domains, the hype starts to make more sense.

Obviously Sam “we’ll build a Dyson sphere with it” is off in hype lala land somewhere while he tries to raise a trillion dollars to burn through fossil fuels as fast as possible, but that’s a kind of symptom of the real underlying capabilities and promise here.
by orochimaaru | 2025-10-06 09:20:33+00:00
I use a Linux laptop so although I was interested in this I could not use it.

That being said, I’ve moved to using perplexity over Google for personal use. I still use google maps, drive, etc. but if I need research on anything my first stop is perplexity.

I’m not about to trust an Llm with purchasing of goods just yet. However, I do see the allure of building study plans, flash cards, Etc. from your school syllabus.
by noufalibrahim | 2025-10-06 09:20:56+00:00
That's been my understanding too. I do think the Korean companies have come a long way in their journeys but the cars don't have resale value and age much worse than their Japanese competitors.

The most attractive parts are the features they pack into the car for a fraction of the cost. The compromises are usually made where it's not immediately visible and for someone who changes his car in less than 5 years, I don't think it's an issue.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-06 09:21:41+00:00
There are good ideas here. They won't come to fruition without some form of force. I'm not sure if TBL doesn't realize, is unwilling to accept, or just wants to avoid saying out loud that the only reason it worked for him to create the web as an open protocol is that no one was prepared for it so no one was in a position to co-opt it, commercialize it, and enshittify it. Now corporations are prepared. They will co-opt, commercialize, and enshittify whatever system you come up with unless it is accompanied by a giant hammer that will brutally destroy them if they don't change their wicked ways.
by xg15 | 2025-10-06 09:23:35+00:00
Yeah, this seems more plausible to me. False memories and mass delusions are absolutely real, but if this is one, I'd like to know how it started and why it is so specific.

E.g. no one seems to be misremembering a sea cucumber emoji or anglerfish emoji - but there are other alleged emojis such as swordfish or bandit/bank robber, where people have the same reaction:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/haxgql/can_w...

It would be interesting to see if LLM behavior is also similar. E.g. if you asked about an anglerfish emoji, would they straight-up tell you it doesn't exist, but for swordfish would start to spiral?
by gregoryl | 2025-10-06 09:23:57+00:00
I'm not American; I also wasn't blaming you for anything - I took care to avoid that!

I appreciate the reply none the less.

You mentioned targeted rebates, which feel a lot more "active". My personal ethical barrier seems to be where its a direct interaction with the problem domain. e.g. I'll work on a tool for email marketing, which incidentally gets used by gambling orgs, but I wouldn't work directly on say, Roulette software.
by aneutron | 2025-10-06 09:24:48+00:00
Funnily enough, I got into trouble in Korea (Jeju to be specific) because of this. I had just stopped at a red light (huge intersection), and I saw a police car get behind me, they had their lights on and put on the sirens.

In my home country (France), lights mean emergency, sound means "MOVE ITS URGENT" (and they generally ONLY use sirens when it is REALLY urgent). So when they started the siren, I put my warning lights on and moved slowly through the red light and to the outside of the road (I did not continue moving).

The guy ripped me a new one in Korean, but then I explained that I thought it was urgent because we were all stopped and they put the sound on so I moved out of the way in the safest way I could and even stopped. He calmed down eventually.

Apparently, it's normal in Korea for police cars to 1) always have the lights on and 2) just randomly blast the sirens going about their day.
by fweimer | 2025-10-06 09:24:54+00:00
The installations discussed in the article switch off power generation if mains power goes away, both for technical and safety reasons. If you want mains-independent power, more devices are needed, which seems to cost about as much as a typical balcony solar panel installation (which is still needed, of course). I doubt many German deployments are like that, so it doesn't really improve resiliency of electrical power.
by 1f60c | 2025-10-06 09:25:17+00:00
You're wrong.

You don't need to open any ports to use Tailscale, and its job is to a) get nodes to connect directly or b) shuttle jibber-jabber encrypted with nodes' private keys from point A to point B and back again through Tailscale-owned distributed servers. Tailscale only sees the traffic it needs and nothing else. It's free because it's "cost-effective" to run and because it can rely on word-of-mouth marketing because it solves a really complex problem in an elegant way, which makes enterprise customers want to pay for it.

Not changing the root password is correct, because at least on Ubuntu, it has been locked, meaning the only way to use it is through sudo or SSH keys (common during initial server setup). Setting a password for root and using su has no benefits over using sudo and comes with significant downsides, because it is unauditable.
by blinkingled | 2025-10-06 09:25:29+00:00
If you truly enjoy the procrastination as opposed to fighting it or distracting to another thing - sooner or later you'll want to do the thing you were supposed to do.

Try that out. There is a reason why you don't want to do something and that fundamentally has to do with your mental relationship to the task - the repetition fatigue, the way you think and feel about it etc. needs a reset and enjoying the idle procrastination time gives you that.

IOW Zen mantra - when you procrastinate just procrastinate without resistance.
by herbst | 2025-10-06 09:25:37+00:00
Heating is always the culprit (or cooling but that's less of an issue in our area).

But one thing to realize is that the industry was just lazy and none of this is actually "needs" a full electric line.

- You don't need actual heat for washing clothes if you using washing detergent. There are no real simple "machines" available as far as I know, except simple camping washing machines

- A rice cooker can work from as low as 250w. I have a "cooking" option in mine drawing 500w taking no longer than the usual 2000w plate (better isolation, optimized heat transfer, ...) to get water cooking.

- Heaters are difficult, I've tried a lot of electric options and they all draw a lot of power when you heat something like 20°C over the outside temperature. However ex. "Ecomat 2000" (small ceramic heater) can easily heat a average room at 450 watts.

One way to get warm and way lower wattage is heating blankets. From 50 - 100w usually on for 50% you get very far with little power.

Not sure if that helps anyone. But I spent a lot of time researching efficient caravan alternatives.

Ergo. 800 watts can be a lot.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-06 09:25:56+00:00
> "That post is some dangerous half-knowledge and simplifications stated as fact."

That's... putting it mildly. To call a spade a spade: The post you replied to consists of nothing more than anti-Green crankery. The kind of tedious, intellectually dishonest click-bait crap you see disseminated in the Springer-Presse, e. g. ze WELT-Plus-Commentariat, or media of even less repute.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-06 09:25:59+00:00
> Why would Coinbase be banned for saying something like this, what?

Control of the currency is one of the core governmental functions, I find it hard to imagine a world where governments are OK with this.

And more generally, if this is your plan, it's profoundly idiotic to say it in public before you've accomplished it, as you're giving your counterparties more time to adjust (which you probably don't want).

> Though my guess is that some smaller countries with less sophisticated monetary regimes may actually be excited about escaping the petrodollar world economy.

I find this unlikely, but we'll see I guess.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-10-06 09:27:28+00:00
I mean afaik the consumer GPUs portion of their business has always been tiny in comparison to enterprise (except to begin with right at the start of the company's history, I believe).

In a way it's the scientific/AI/etc enterprise use of Nvidia hardware that enables the sale of consumer GPUs as a side effect (which are just byproducts of workstation cards having a certain yield - so flawed chips can be used in consumer cards).
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-10-06 09:27:59+00:00
Overcoming this cycle requires the cooperation of both sides, or at the very least that both sides stop fucking with one another.

Israel, the stronger entity, should've been the one to abstain first and attempt to understand and forgive, instead they kept building illegal settlements and driving more and more people out there homes. Israel made sure the embers stayed hot, and I can't think of any reason for that aside from hoping those hot embers produce a flame that justifies genocide and completely eradicating the Palestinian population.
by danielbln | 2025-10-06 09:28:02+00:00
All the systems in the world break down eventually. Todo lists, GSD, tickets, notes, accountability plans, mental trickery, and so on. It all seems like a panacea at first, until it doesn't. What really helps the ADHD mind is diagnosis and meds, and these days LLMs. Turns out they make for exceptional personal assistants that can be used to automate all the boring and unexciting stuff that is nevertheless needed, and focus on the fun creative problem solving.

That said, people with different executive function need different things. "Just do it" is about as helpful as "don't be sad".
by vbezhenar | 2025-10-06 09:28:29+00:00
You have 100 bytes file. You split it into 10 chunks (data shards) and add 11-th chunk (parity shard) as XOR of all 10 chunks. Now you store every chunk on separate drive. So you have 100 bytes and you spent 110 bytes to store them all. Now you can survive one drive death, because you can recompute any missing chunk as XOR of all chunks.

That's very primitive explanation, but should be easy to understand.

In reality S3 uses different algorithm (probably Reed-Solomon codes) and some undisclosed number of shards (probably different for different storage classes). Some say that they use 5 of 9 (so 5 data shards + 4 parity shards which makes for 80% overhead), but I don't think it's official information.
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-06 09:28:55+00:00
From the working set size and knowledge of hardware cache behaviour. Whenever you access data from memory not already in-cache it's copied four times: to L3, L2, L1 and to CPU registers. As you access data, the hardware evicts old cache entries to make space for it.

If you loop through an array once, and then iterate through it again you can figure out where it will be cached based on the array size.
by ezemtsov | 2025-10-06 09:29:06+00:00
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by ezemtsov | 2025-10-06 09:29:54+00:00
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Hi! Around 15 in IT industry, focusing on backend development, infrastructure and data pipelines. Have unique experience in building Nix-based mono-repositories and running production systems based on NixOS. Extensive experience in using Kubernetes for services and job scheduling, auto-scaled node-pools, and distributed data processing. 6 years university education in discrete math and databases. Fond of functional programming (F#, Rust, Haskell), but not holistic about it. Looking for mostly for remote work, but could consider relocation.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 09:30:18+00:00
> Economic and, especially, immigration issues are fully home-made.

This is incredibly short-sighted and is in fact exactly such a denial of reality that you accuse others of. The world is divided into poorer regions and wealthier regions, and regions that are peaceful and ones that are less peaceful. Then there is oppression based on race, creed, sexual preference and a whole raft of other things.

As long as that is the case there will be people that want to move away from where they were born.

You are claiming to speak for a group, but in fact you are just speaking for yourself, and poorly reasoned and supported at that.