MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by criemen | 2025-11-11 21:21:00+00:00
This is the key insight for me about this post, and I fully agree with you.

No collaboration means less opportunities for learning from people (even the post admits!) that are "better at what you are doing than you are", which imo stunts personal growth.

Decision makers need to be clearly appointed, accountable, and empowered to follow through. But that power then also comes with listening to feedback from all relevant parties. As long as they trust that they're being listened to, they don't get a say in the actual decision making process themselves. I also agree about taking reversible decisions faster.

Another point I deeply disagree with is

> collaboration forces the driver to slow down and explain stuff (background, context, their thinking).

Yeah, and that's a good thing. It forces them to properly think through their thoughts, if they can't explain what they want to do clearly and why, it probably shouldn't be done. Quality goes up by slowing down.
by janalsncm | 2025-11-11 21:21:17+00:00
I guess the question that a person at Google who discovers a bug they don’t personally have time to fix is, should they report the bug at all? They don’t necessarily know if someone else will be able to pick it up. So the current “always report” rule makes sense since you don’t have to figure out if someone can fix it.

The same question applies if they have time to fix it in six months, since that presumably still gives attackers a large window of time.

In this case the bug was so obscure it’s kind of silly.
by jandrese | 2025-11-11 21:21:25+00:00
> Relative dates like “Today” and “Tomorrow” can be easier to understand.

This is one of those ideas that sounds like a good idea on paper, but can be an actual nightmare to implement. There are so many edge cases that can occur that you need to think about, especially once you get into cases like "this time next month". What if daylight savings time trips? What about time zones? What if it is January 31st and you want something a month from now? What if it is 12:05 at night and someone asks for 4PM tomorrow?

You should think long and hard before offering relative time options in program.
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 21:21:37+00:00
Hey, sema!

You're right, the two are often tied together. For now, we're laser-focused on the operating business, the brand, the customers, the cash flow, presence, etc.

We made a conscious decision that if we tried to solve both the business sale and the commercial real estate piece at the same time, we'd do an "okay" job at both.

Our goal for now is to be the absolute best in the world at our part of the puzzle first.

But never say never! We'll keep this in mind, thanks again for the feedback.
by MBCook | 2025-11-11 21:22:08+00:00
Medium is the problem. There’s nothing.

Epson stopped making their flatbeds that do film, reportedly because they can’t get the CCDs anymore. That may be a rumor.

The result is they go for 2x MSRP on eBay for models that are many years old. Because that’s all that exists.

Without that, you can buy the kind of scanner meant for a photo lab ($$$$$), DIY it with a DSLR ($$$ if you don’t have one), or pay your a lab a lot per roll and hope they do a good job.

I’m not saying it’s a giant market but it certainly seems to me like there’s enough of one that it could support a small product.

You can get brand new Plustek OpticFilm scanners for 35mm and smaller starting around $300, and there are plenty of other options above that. Plus the DIY.

I’m sure 35mm is easier to make and certainly a bigger market but it’s also a lot more crowded.

I expect their specs are far better than the $300 one I’ve mentioned, I don’t know enough to know. But medium format people are desperate for anything.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 21:22:40+00:00
The law required you not to discriminate on the basis of sex etc.

I am the one saying that this is inherently fair, and that doing so produces a definitionally level playing field.

Because that's just true. That's how fairness works. Fairness is when you don't discriminate on the basis of things (here, race, sex etc.) irrelevant to the decision you're trying to make (here, suitability for the position). Bias is when you do.
by 29athrowaway | 2025-11-11 21:22:51+00:00
It's a Galapagos island full of stuff that evolved independently.

Concurrency is important, but if you are not familiar with concurrency primitives like mutexes, condition variables, barriers, semaphores, etc. and skipped directly to the actor model, that's a bit like you care a lot about concurrency while not caring at the same time.

Functional programming is great, but your CPU has registers and the way it works is closer to the imperative paradigm.
by srpablo | 2025-11-11 21:22:51+00:00
Every coder has parts of programming they love, and parts they hate. Additionally, they have a mental model of what is risky, and what isn't. Languages, by their design, will make some things easier and some things harder, and so when people "love a language," they typically mean "it maps to what gives me dopamine."

A good example is mutable state: for a bunch of people, functional languages that enforce immutability has this calming effect, since you know your data isn't mutating where you can't see it. You've been burned by C++ code that's passing references as arguments, and you don't know if the list you received as an argument will be the same list after you've passed it as an argument to a different function. You don't know if you can futz with that list and not make a problem for someone somewhere else.

But for most people, they much prefer how "intuitive" it is to have mutable state, where they just change the thing in front of them to be what they need. This is especially true in the context of for loops vs. recursion: "why can't I just use a for loop and increment a counter!" A lot of Golang folks love that it explicitly rejects functional mapping primitives and "all you need is a for loop."

It's a very personal decision, and while IMO it doesn't really matter for the ultimate business success (usually companies fail because of something that's not tech-related in the least), it does shape _how_ it feels to work on a tech stack, and I'd argue, what kinds of technical problems you run into.
by nick238 | 2025-11-11 21:23:18+00:00
"Your" behavior??? The second you try to put this on individuals, you lose the plot and it turns into another "personal carbon footprint" scam like what BP pulled in 2004[1]. The only way out of this is public policy and international cooperation.

I don't know what the most common sources of microplastic particles are, but the messaging needs to be such that people know we aren't getting rid of all plastics, just the stupid ones that are most responsible for potentially harming us. I think straws were banned because there was a video of a plastic straw stuck in sea turtle's nose, not because they're one of the top sources.

[1]: https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...
by strictnein | 2025-11-11 21:23:30+00:00
Again, we don't live in a fairyland, we live in reality. A gun is real, your magic is not. If you had a gun that fired based on a sound, the fact that a sound is used does not matter. It is not "speech". Noise is not protected speech.

Likewise, if you had the magical ability to kill a random person with your magical sounds, you are not practicing "speech", you are using a magical technique in your make believe land to kill random people.
by egypturnash | 2025-11-11 21:23:33+00:00
I am pretty sure "draw 50" refers to Lee J. Ames' "Draw 50 Somethings" series of wordless instructional books, where "something" ranged from "animals" or "athletes" or "dinosaurs" to "Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night". Drawing fifty instances of a thing out of your head is a good exercise but completely different from those.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lee+j+ames+draw+50&t=osx&ia=images...
by tlavoie | 2025-11-11 21:23:36+00:00
The "Temporary Containers" extension is great here, allowing pretty easy compromise between different buckets of sites. I'll have some personal ones that I log into, others go specifically into a snoop container, and the rest get temporary ones that evaporate when closed. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
by rozap | 2025-11-11 21:23:47+00:00
For me (and I've been writing Elixir for probably a decade now...) Joe Armstrong's post here encapsulates it pretty well: https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e...

And for me, what it comes down to, is, doing powerful things in Erlang/Elixir is trivial where it would be really convoluted in other languages. When applied to the right problem, it genuinely makes a whole class of problems evaporate, and that's addicting.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-11 21:24:07+00:00
They don't want you creating images that mimic either works of other artists to an extent that's likely to confuse viewers (or courts), or that mimic realistic photographs to an extent that allows people to generate low-effort fake news. So they impose an intentionally-crappy orange-cyan palette on everything the model generates.

Peak quality in terms of realistic color rendering was probably the initial release of DALL-E 3. Once they saw what was going to happen, they fixed that bug fast.
by chadrs | 2025-11-11 21:24:17+00:00
Collaboration slows things down but going fast at all cost leads to tech fragmentation, tech debt, and product debt.

fwiw I'm not in the camp of "we must have everything done in one consistent way" but there are places, for example a public API, where having 4 different names for the same concept, 3 different response format/url path styles, etc. starts to look really sloppy.
by NumberCruncher | 2025-11-11 21:24:39+00:00
Marketers ship code, salespeople answer technical questions without backup...

...and you dentist cuts you hair and your hairdresser pulls your teeth. Because everything is a trade what can and should be learned, except if it's related to writing and selling software.

To be fair, you did not say that marketers ship working and maintainable code, salespeople answer technical questions without backup the correct way. Therefore you might be right, thought.
by lenkite | 2025-11-11 21:24:47+00:00
> Go had it with its green threads and channels, but nowadays most people seem to be not using those that much (I don't think there are a ton of instances of Go processes in prod with 10k threads)

Err..this is incorrect. Some projects who scale to 10k go-routines on a single instance regularly are loki and CockroachDB. Even your common NATS server can scale 5k+ go-routines on single instance and it is not uncommon.
by joshuamorton | 2025-11-11 21:25:06+00:00
> I mean this is demonstrably false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_from_the_United_St...

You're doing a motte and bailey again. I, at least, don't object to some level of immigration enforcement.

What people do seem to object to, and what is unprecedented, is the aggression of enforcement, with roving packs of CBP officials going on snatch-and-grabs in random cities and detaining anyone who is latino-looking, including some citizens. That isn't how immigration law has been enforced over the past 5 decades. It's new. It wasn't policy under Bush or Obama or Biden or even under Trump the first time. The laws were not enforced like this since WWII.

The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during WWII. Its use this year was only lawful if you agree with the interpretation that certain Presidential determinations are wholly unreviewable by courts, an interpretation that so far, courts (including SCOTUS) have been unwilling to agree to.

There is significant controversy over whether much of this is even legal at all. And yet you seem to be of the opinion that state and local governments have some kind of responsibility to assist with actions they believe are illegal overreach. Because you're framing a lack of active participation as "nullification". You at least see why that's odd, right?
by TZubiri | 2025-11-11 21:25:15+00:00
My girlfriend enter a new job and she told me about some scenario related to IT, kind of asking for my input. At one point she told the IT guy, who was discussing through emails or chat, that they should hop on a call. I told her that the IT guy probably hated that, but she couldn't understand why.

I think speaking to people is a stressor, it's an activity that drains energy, like running or literally doing anything, but IT people can go for weeks without talking to people, so they have that muscle atrophied and even the slightest of real life interactions feels like excessive to them.

This article is just peak IT. Collaboration is normal man, you probably didn't invent a "it's your call" solution to the "problem" of collaborating in companies. I wish you the best of luck in building your social skills.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-11 21:25:17+00:00
The linked report seems to me to be the furthest thing from "slop". It is an S-tier bug report that includes a complete narrative, crash artifacts, and detailed repro instructions. I can't believe anyone is complaining about what is tied for the best bug report I have ever seen. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164?pli=1
by godelski | 2025-11-11 21:25:58+00:00
I was originally a physicist too and then went into ML. I absolutely love research, yet this is my biggest gripe with the community. Everything is so product focused that I don't think we're even capable of making good products. Those small problems compound and add up to big problems.

The thing I don't understand is that we're really good at recognizing that big problems can be broken down into small ones and that's how we get them solved. So why is it so difficult to understand that small problems compound to create big ones? It's just going in the other direction, where you didn't explicitly do the breakdown. We're just too quick to dismiss rather than asking "does this lead to a big problem?" It is no wonder so much software seems so broken these days.

Given your comment I get the sentiment that you're also frustrated by the environment. I would also add that every pothole has a rabbit hole underneath. We can go around patching everything but we should be asking what causes the potholes to be created in the first place. If we can prevent them from happening to begin with then that's a far better solution than any amount of patching. I'm absolutely certain it will also be far cheaper. Though I'm also certain you'll be able to patch quite a few potholes before you're able to formulate the new formula of asphalt and start pouring it down. Though nothing prevents you from doing both....
by consumer451 | 2025-11-11 21:26:19+00:00
My main thought was "how bad is Softbank at their job to have only been in on NVDA for such a paltry sum?"

Really living up their reputation? Or, am I way off-base here? I am just an outside observer and I would love to be educated.

Did it makes sense for Softbank to be in so little on the company "selling shovels" to all their "gold mining" investments?
by stackskipton | 2025-11-11 21:26:23+00:00
As someone who has some familiarity with this process, just like safety regulations are written in blood, Federal Acquisition rules are written in misuse of money, sometimes criminally.

Yes, we have swung too much towards the bureaucrats but I'm not sure throwing out everything is solution to the issue.

Move fast works great when it's B2B software and failures means stock price does not go up. It's not so great when brand new jet acts up and results in crashes.

Oh yea, F-35 was built with move fast, they rolled models off the production line quickly, so Lockheed could get more money, but it looks like whole "We will fix busted models later" might have been more expensive. Time will tell.
by tarique192 | 2025-11-11 21:26:27+00:00
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by criemen | 2025-11-11 21:26:36+00:00
> A discussion about building a specific feature can devolve into reevaluating the entire product roadmap if you let it.

Well, if the product roadmap doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it _should_ be reevaluated. Too often people commit to something, and then continue building it, despite the market realities having shifted underneath them. I see most teams not asking themselves often enough "should we still be doing what we're doing", than the opposite. The sunk cost fallacy is real.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-11 21:26:38+00:00
Your definition of fairness suggests that when someone is born poor, suffers, and dies poor, and someone is born rich, gets to enjoy all the things wealth brings a person in life, and dies rich, even though they did nothing in particular to earn their station in life... That's fair.

I think civilizations have been struggling for several centuries with whether that's good enough. We are, in fact, coming up on the Christmas season for those who celebrate, and there's a pretty good story an Englishman wrote in the 1800s on this topic. Something about three spirits visiting and what a man's life comes to, even when he plays by every single written rule.

(You're hitting the nail on the head. Equality of opportunity vs. equality of possible outcome is the division in philosophy in this space. Are you familiar with the thought experiment Lyndon B. Johnson spoke of in 1965 about a relay race where the runners have unequal starting lines?)
Show HN: Building UI Interfaces That AI Can Control
by akdeepankar | 2025-11-11 21:26:50+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with Tambo AI, and ended up building a small project around it called Tambo OS - a virtual desktop that runs entirely in the browser.

It’s built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, and uses Tambo’s withInteractable() to let the AI control UI components directly -opening apps, updating data, or even generating new UI elements through chat.

Each app is a registered component, and actions are exposed as tools in tambo.ts. For example, Tambo can:

open the Notepad or Calendar, add events or notes, fetch map directions, edit images via AI prompts.

Each tool in the OS exposes specific actions (like editing an image or adding an event), while each component defines the visual interface the AI can manipulate. This creates a conversational layer over the entire UI, where Tambo doesn’t just respond - it operates the interface.

Everything runs client-side, and you can switch between apps using a floating dock - like a tiny OS inside your browser tab.

GitHub: https://github.com/akdeepankar/tambo-os Try: https://tambo-os.vercel.app Docs: https://docs.tambo.co/
by fluoridation | 2025-11-11 21:27:08+00:00
>Moreover, an irresistible force of attraction was exerted between these various stars, and at each table the diners had eyes only for the tables at which they were not sitting,

You're reading way too much into it. This is just a reprise of "the grass is greener on the other side". What it's saying is simply "a lot of diners were dissatisfied with their dishes and looked around to see what other people were eating".

>The relative nature of perceived quality indicates [...]

My whole point is that I don't buy quality is purely perceived relatively. If you start a sentence like this, whatever comes after is irrelevant.

You've brought up food, so let's go with that. If I'm a blank slate and I eat a certain food, am I unable to decide whether I like it or not until I eat a second, different food? Are the sensory signals my brain receives just a confounding mystery in the absence of further stimulation, to the extent that I can't even tell sweet from bitter?
by mpweiher | 2025-11-11 21:27:18+00:00
It helps to go to the classics.

...

Expected Benefits of Modular Programming

The benefits expected of modular programming are: (1) managerial--development time should be shortened because separate groups would work on each module with little need for communication: ...

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, D. L. Parnas, 1972, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361598.361623
by danaris | 2025-11-11 21:27:21+00:00
But FFmpeg does not have the resources to fix these at the speed Google is finding them.

It's just not possible.

So Google is dedicating resources to finding these bugs

and feeding them to bad actors.

Bad actors who might, hypothetically have had the information before, but definitely do once Google publicizes them.

You are talking about an ideal situation; we are talking about a real situation that is happening in the real world right now, wherein the option of Google reports bug > FFmpeg fixes bug simply does not exist at the scale Google is doing it at.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-11 21:27:31+00:00
> That the Semi is already massively delayed ought to suggest a lower P/E ratio than a normal company, not a higher one.

This alone should have crashed their stock price.

Tesla is a trillion dollar market cap company that struggles, STRUGGLES to put a sixth or seventh product line into production! A sixth one! They have five models, including the Cybertruck, which is not selling well. They stopped selling the Model S in Australia!

Speaking of trucks and Australia, utility vehicles ("utes") are very popular over here. I've never seen a Tesla Cybertruck here and likely never will. Meanwhile, just this weekend I saw a dozen BYD electric utes, and... they look good. They're fast, they look practical, and they're clearly available in volume. People are buying them! Many people!

There's an enormous market for electric vehicles of all shapes and sizes, and Tesla has been completely unable to tap into many of these markets.

Car-sized trucks.

Urban deliver vehicles.

Mini buses.

Full sized buses / coaches.

Light trucks.

Heavy trucks.

Etc...

Where are they? They promised a heavy truck, they made a few dozen, and then... crickets.
by rolandog | 2025-11-11 21:27:46+00:00
Exactly. The "shopkeeper" is cross-correlating my sleeping habits, my browsing data, 27 data-leaks, my credit score history, the proximity of other devices and WiFis, the pictures my in-laws posted of a get-together, sentiment analysis of voice messages...

All while showing me 2 advertisements before I enter the store, trying to trick me into clicking a mysterious "track me more" button while I try to get toothpaste, and never lowering the price of pasta for me because my wife mentioned on a post that she loves eating Italian.

And he's the town's least creepy shopkeeper.
by Tade0 | 2025-11-11 21:27:52+00:00
Poland and the original wording is "kołczan prawilności".

The "righteousness" in question is a calque from the Russian adjective "правильный", meaning "correct, right, proper" and originates from prison slang. I believe the equivalent English term is "Original Gangster".

The term is of course used in jest in reference to how man-purses, out of all things, are normalized among people associating themselves with street culture, especially that my understanding is that those items were initially just fanny packs worn differently.