MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by striking | 2025-12-04 16:20:26+00:00
Your comment seems incredibly confused.

1. Oracle is the litigious one here. My favorite example is that time they attacked a professor for publishing less-than-glowing benchmarks of their database: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ What's to stop them from suing anyone using the term JavaScript in a way that isn't blessed by them? That's what Deno is trying to protect against.

2. Deno is filing a petition to cancel the trademark, not claim it themselves. This would return it to the public commons.

It should be obvious from these two facts that any member of the public that uses JavaScript should support this, regardless of what they think of Deno-the-company.
by orwin | 2025-12-04 16:20:35+00:00
Thread is less political overall and have exactly the same issue, it not about political side imho, it's about engagement and the new algorithms.

I follow someone who used to use Twitter to update on his projects, 2 years ago he received a few hundred times more engagement for dunking on flat earthers than for pushing his video on Maxwell. He decided to stop. More engagement for controversy was always the algorithm, but it was two orders of magnitude lower a decade ago.
by officeplant | 2025-12-04 16:20:46+00:00
>Someone will, because it's a useful form factor.

Definitely, and the old carborated beasts just work and can be fixed with minimal tools and ran off of just a few wires.

I've been enjoying watching a coworker resurrect his M715 Military Truck (basically a government J-Series truck from Kaiser/Jeep) with a fresh blueprint SBC and a mix mash of GM and aftermarket drive train parts.

It may be the least efficient truck I've ever ridden in, but it can reliably pull tree stumps out of the ground.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 16:21:42+00:00
Hmm. Trying to remember if places I've worked at talked about "The Intranet" or "the intranet." I guess you could use "Intranet" as a proper noun if you're talking about the one in use at your company but then "intranet" if you're talking about the concept of an internet inside your company's firewall that's not connected to the Internet.
by lumost | 2025-12-04 16:21:51+00:00
this is the biggest benefit of 1:1's in my opinion.

Often, individuals can claim credit simply by being first and loudest. For example, and individual can highlight a problem area that someone is already working on in the team and loudly talk about the flaws in the current approach and how they will solve it. The individual need not actually solve the task if the first person finishes - but now the success is subconsciously attributed to the thought leadership/approach of the new individual.

Good managers/leadership teams have mechanisms to limit this type of strategy, but it requires them to talk to everyone on the team - listen for unsaid feedback and look at hard artifacts. Otherwise you quickly have a team of people who are great at nothing more than talking about problems and dreaming of solutions.
by jandrese | 2025-12-04 16:22:14+00:00
I wonder if this is like when Thinking Machines Corporation hired Richard Feynman mostly to get a little clout. They didn't have a lot for him to do, and he thought they were a bunch of naive kids with an idea that would never work in the real world but had a fat pocketbook. In the end he was able to mathematically prove that they could safely do a hardware optimization, but they didn't believe him and tried to overprovision instead, but late in the design they ran short of transistors and had to trust his math. It worked, but the machine was still mostly useless even when it did work properly.
by brendanyounger | 2025-12-04 16:22:36+00:00
Doubtful. I knew Ono as an undergrad at Wisconsin. He has far too much integrity for that.

He's always been involved in mentoring high schoolers, undergrads, and, of course, his own grad students. It's not surprising that he's working with a 24 year old.

He's a bundle of energy in math and sports and always looking for the new thing. Jumping in on a new project in a burgeoning field is very much his m.o.
by strogonoff | 2025-12-04 16:22:53+00:00
Finding the start of the next line is a challenge universal to both code and prose, and the longer the line the harder it gets, regardless of how good your vision is. I acknowledged that there are other factors with code (such as indentation or syntax highlighting), which is why 80 characters—wider than either newspaper or book—makes sense, unless your typical identifiers are really long.
by jeff_r | 2025-12-04 16:23:18+00:00
PeakFlow | Founding Engineer | Ruby on Rails + Hotwire (Full-Stack) | Hybrid (Vancouver, BC, CAN) | Full-time

We’re building a telehealth platform to make prescription medication access more accessible, and we’re looking for our first full-time engineer to help us build the next generation of our product from the ground up.

Stack: Ruby on Rails | Hotwire/Turbo | Monolith | PostgreSQL | Docker/Kamal | VPS/dedicated servers

We’re looking for someone who: - Loves Rails and follows the community - Ships fast, simple, well-crafted code - Thrives in ambiguity and early-stage ownership - Communicates clearly with non-technical founders - Wants to help shape architecture + engineering culture long-term

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you! Please send us an intro along with your resume at careers@pfdigitalconsulting.com
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-04 16:23:20+00:00
That was a bullshit separation of a single horizontal cut of the market (all of those segments did consumer retail sales) without overlap.

The part about no overlaps already made it impossible for them to compete. The only "competition" they had was in the sense of TV gameshow competition where candidates do worthless tasks, judged by some arbitrary rules.

That has absolutely no similarity to how Samsung is organized.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-04 16:23:23+00:00
In another reply, I commended him on doing it if the reasoning was “because he felt like the world needed it” or if it was to scratch an itch. But if he wants to make this a business - that’s a different beast with different challenges that he needs to address.

I can’t find it now, but I could swear I saw somewhere he said he’s working on this full time and living off of savings. If I’m wrong he will correct me I am sure. If that’s the case, I assume he wants to make this a business.

He has to think about those objection. Would he better off by first creating a known Kubernetes environment and then building an easier wrapper around that so someone could manage the K8s cluster in case they don’t want a dependency only on his product? I don’t have those answers
by Gormo | 2025-12-04 16:23:25+00:00
> In other words --- pure greed.

Pure greed would have a strong incentive to understand what the market is actually demanding in order to maximize profits.

These attempts to try to steer demand despite clear indicators that it doesn't want to go in that direction aren't just driven by greed, they're driven by abject incompetence.

This isn't pure greed, it's stupid greed.
by mhpro15 | 2025-12-04 16:23:47+00:00
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TS, JS, Node, Java, C#, React, Next.js, AWS, Digital Ocean, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Python, OpenAI/Gemini/Perplexity API, Stripe, Worldline, Socket.io

Résumé/CV: manhhung.app/resume.pdf

Email: nmhp1903@gmail.com

Also AI Prompting and Debugging, Rapid prototyping
by dogman144 | 2025-12-04 16:23:49+00:00
Not a great post, I’d not follow it if interested in leading teams long term.

A Self-admitted self taught manager learns the good parts about servant leadership via self-learning (nice!) but figures that is all there is instead of - “this is interesting, this seems to work but have gaps, what is there to this?”

If the author did that, they’d discover a massive body of knowledge to include the specific problem they point out - you solve problems for your team, how do they start to solve their own problems?

Servant leadership works if paired with the following, tuned to the capabilities and maturities of the specific employee:

- servant leadership: resource your team, umbrella your team, let the smart people you hired do smart things, or turn so so employees into great ones by resourcing them to learn, getting them mentorship, and “sun is strong than cold wind” sort of thinking.

- Left/right limits and target outcome: consistently inform your team their duty, in exchange for all the above manager work that’s way past the least-effort bar, is to get comfortable solving problems within the bounds of what the solution does and does not need to look like. Force this issue always, and they start solving their own problems at growing speed, and you have a QA check as a manager via documenting those boundaries per project etc

- train your replacement: part serving your team is reaching there’s probably another sociopath on it who wants to lead teams, wants raw power, and so on. Enable that! Teach them how to lead teams in the above fashion. They’ll realize it works. You’ll train someone who can take over the remaining problem solving. This won’t hurt your own job either.

Put it all together you’ll get very loyal productive teams of employees who’ll respect you outside of work in your industry where it matters for networking purposes, and you can live with yourself after the laptop closes as you know you’re treating your fellow man/woman the right way while surving in crazy corporate environments.

In short, bad advice in that article. There’s a whole corpus to leadership beyond what the author figured out in the side and describes here ha.

Edit - ironically the author then argues for arguably similar as the above, but claims it’s something else of their own invention. Engineers should really grok how there are existing bodies of very useful knowledge for all the things that seem easily dismissible as gaps or weak points from tho social sciences. It’d save them a lot of time.
by enether | 2025-12-04 16:24:16+00:00
For Rust-based Kafka alternatives, I like Tansu[1]. It at least provides Kafka API parity, and critically also gives users a pluggable backend (embedded SQLite, S3 for low cost diskless type workloads and Postgres because just use Postgres)

It’s nice to try and out innovate Kafka, but I fear the network effect can’t be beaten unless the alternative is 10x better.

Something like Warpstream’s architecture[2] had a shot at dethroning Kafka, but critically even they adopted the Kafka API. Sure enough, Apache Kafka introduced a competing feature[3] within two years of warpstreams launch too.

[1] - https://github.com/tansu-io/tansu [2] - https://www.warpstream.com/ [3] - https://topicpartition.io/blog/kip-1150-diskless-topics-in-a...
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-04 16:24:23+00:00
Honestly, this is why I find "systems language" kind of an annoying term, because you're not wrong, but it's also true that we're talking about two different things. I just don't think we have good language terminology for the different sorts of languages here.

> could you write Erlang in Erlang entirely

I think this sort of question is where theory and practice diverge: sure, due to turing completeness. But theory in this sense doesn't care about things like runtime performance, or maintainability.

> But personally I don't care about that enough

Some people and some domains do need to care about implementing the low-level details of a system. The VMs and runtimes and operating systems. And that's what I meant by my original post.
by Miraste | 2025-12-04 16:25:04+00:00
Tim Cook is the Supply Chain Guy. He has been for decades, before he ever worked at Apple. He does everything he can to make sure that Apple directly controls as much of the supply chain as possible, and uses the full extent of their influence to get favorable long-term deals on what they don't make themselves.

In the past this has resulted in stuff like Samsung Display sending their best displays to Apple instead of Samsung Mobile.
by Robdel12 | 2025-12-04 16:25:27+00:00
The last time I ended up trying something like this I was implementing postgres features that the mocks didn’t.

Now, I just tested against a real database in a docker container. I have over 1k tests that run about 1.5 mins. I’m pretty happy with that.

I guess given that, testing isn’t quite the use case for this (for me). Wonder what else this could be used for.
by qwertox | 2025-12-04 16:25:29+00:00
I had planned to build a new workstation this fall, all the parts were in the list. but seeing the ram go from 300€ (96 GB) to 820€, in-stock for 999€, in under a month made me decide that i will continue using that laptop from 2019 for maybe another 1.5 years.

It's a ridiculous situation and these companies, whoever they are, should be somewhat ashamed of themselves for the situation they're putting us in.

That goes specially for those MF at OpenAI who apparently grabbed 40% of the worldwide DRAM production, as well as those sold in stores.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 16:25:49+00:00
FWIW... I worked with Brendan @ Mozilla for over a year. Dude expressed zero problems with my queer lifestyle that I didn't hide. I think the problem people had with Brendan was not his opposition for same-sex marriage, but his support for an organization that opposed same-sex marriage. It's a subtle distinction, but one worth making. People are complex.
by sota_pop | 2025-12-04 16:25:58+00:00
I haven’t read in detail, but based on sheer speculation, this may be relevant:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/demo...

Many retirement accounts/managers may already be channeling investment such that 401k accounts are broadly set up to absorb any losses… Could also just be this large piece of tin foil on my head.
by quavan | 2025-12-04 16:26:00+00:00
The day we have an epidemic of children and teens abusing alcohol to the point of it turning into a national healthcare emergency, you will find that stricter control of alcohol will certainly be put in place.

We are at that point now with children having unrestricted access to online content that isn’t age appropriate, as well as being influenced by insane weirdos on TikTok and the like at an age where they are particularly impressionable.
by bartread | 2025-12-04 16:26:21+00:00
Yeah, I agree with you. I remember being annoyed by the name in 1999 because, as you say, JavaScripts's not got much to do with Java other than both languages being superficially C-like... but I don't see it as being confusing for more time than it takes to read introductory tutorials for each language.

There are more important battles to fight.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-04 16:26:25+00:00
>terrible choice of still running a timing belt. (1.0L Ecoboost engines)

3.0 Duramax says hold my beer (for the readers not familiar, it has a wet belt driving the oil pump and it's mounted in the back making proactive replacement prohibitively expensive).

My jaded take is that they're sticking with the wet belt on what's generally a europoor economy car engine in order to force planned obsolecense.
by empath75 | 2025-12-04 16:26:47+00:00
This is such a weirdly antagonistic take. Javascript was out there first, and it was good enough, and a vast improvement over both flash and java in the browser. There's no guarantee that some committee designed language would have ever made it out to the public, let alone that it ever would have gotten any kind of uptake, or that it would have been better than javascript.
by everdrive | 2025-12-04 16:26:47+00:00
I agree with you, and probably more than it sounds. But I think the point you make is still too strong a case. ie, even if the online comments are ~90% foreign influence it doesn't also follow that everything is astroturfing or that real people do not discuss issues online.

To your point though, maybe we can no longer reliably tell the difference, and so it'd be better to adopt your view as a rule of thumb.
by aceazzameen | 2025-12-04 16:27:51+00:00
I really wanted to build a new PC this year, which is obviously not happening anymore. But I do have 2x16GB DDR5 SODIMMs from my laptop that I'm not using, after I upgraded to 64GB a while back. Now I wonder if I can build a tiny PC around those? Does anyone make motherboards that support DDR5 laptop memory?
by runarberg | 2025-12-04 16:28:16+00:00
There is a case that the indices owned by the major search engines are a form of centralization of power. Normal people and smaller companies would have to pay a lot of money to get indices for their new competing search engine. However the analogy falls apart when you look at a) the scale of the investments involved and b) the pervasiveness of the technology.

Creating a search engine index requires several orders of magnitude less computing power then creating the weights of an LLM model. Like it is theoretically possible for somebody with a lot of money to spare to create a new search index, but only the richest of the rich can do that with an LLM model.

And search engines are there to fulfill exactly one technical niche, albeit an important one. LLMs are stuffed into everything, whether you like it or not. Like if you want to use Zoom, you are not told to “enrich your experience with web search”, you are told, “here is an AI summary of your conversation”.
by Gormo | 2025-12-04 16:28:20+00:00
> I’m saying if every generation has old men screaming “society is collapsing”, they aren’t right, even when they’re locally “right”

But every generation doesn't have old men screaming "society is collapsing" at the same rate. There's always a baseline of people with a "get off my grass" mentality, but if you factor that out, occurrence of people actually pointing out that the world is on a dangerous path isn't uniform from one era to the next. Very few people, if any, were seriously making such an argument 30 years ago.

People who are genuinely making reasoned arguments, and not just complaining about things being outside their comfort zone, should absolutely be taken seriously.

> claiming programming peaked 15 years ago is absurd

Well, what are you measuring? It certainly peaked in some dimensions 15 years ago. Whether you personally see those dimensions as important is of course a subjective question.
by dfee | 2025-12-04 16:28:31+00:00
just to be clear – this is a conspiracy theory (negative connotation not intended).

every four years (at the federal level), we vote to increase the scope and power of gov't, and then crash into power abuse situations on the next cycle.

> I recommend anyone presume the best of actual people and the worst of our corporations and governments. The data seems clear.

seems like a good starting point.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-04 16:29:28+00:00
> Or you're buying well below your means but don't wanna get screwed into a different product

This customer is looking for a lender who can and will eat costs for the relationship. That’s probably a mortgage specialist with a wealth management arm. The ones who require 25 to 35% down, but undercut the rates e.g. a credit union can charge.

> because what you're buying is on the ragged edge of what can be bought with the lower cost mortgage product you want

If you’re buying within your means, you shouldn’t be on the ragged edge of anything. You should be getting a cheap, plain mortgage from a lender competing for your business. Ideally conforming, and where the originator eats origination and closing costs.
by mikewarot | 2025-12-04 16:29:56+00:00
My friend Jim, who's been fixing stuff since the 1950s won't ever give up leaded solder. It's the same type as in all the stuff he's repairing. Compared to commercial production, it's a drop in the bucket, and it's already in his shop, so it should get used anyway.

I use about 1/2 roll of solder per decade, but it's the good shit, rosin core Kester 60/40. I've still got a few Radio Shack Iron coated Copper tips for my Craftsman 42 watt iron. For me, at 61, it's likely a lifetime supply.

For personal use, always wash your hands after handling it, and try not to breath the rosin flux fumes, which are the real danger, IMHO.

For new designs, or anything mass produced, use the lead-free stuff, for Mother Earth and the rest of us. You really don't want new places like the East Chicago USS Lead Superfund site[1], 10 miles NE of me, to be created. The topsoil there was 0.1% lead! In doing family genealogy, I found that one of my dad's uncles likely worked there as a "Lead Burner", whatever that is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lead_Superfund_Site
by MrDrDr | 2025-12-04 16:30:11+00:00
IMO: I think there is a helpful distinction to be made between leadership and management. Leadership provides purpose and inspiration. Management provides, coordination and motivation. I’m not saying one person can’t do both.

I do agree that most management books read like parenting books - but I’d add that whats more important than the method is consistency in whatever approach you believe in. I’m not sure that managers/leaders will ever do that well relying on a book or a special ‘way’ they have read. They really need to have worked this out for themselves.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-12-04 16:30:15+00:00
Asking about Y (or Z, or some other problem a few layers down) is common when yak shaving. Aka doing the thing that's needed to do the thing that's needed to do X. Not to be confused with the also-present problem of ADHD sequential distraction by some other unrelated problem (possibly one sighted along the way to eventually get X done).

It's a gross idealization that every problem can be directly solved, or is "shovel ready." In my world there are often oodles of blockers, dependencies, and preparations that have to be put in place to even start to solve X. Asking about Y and Z along the way? Par for the course.
by bartread | 2025-12-04 16:30:32+00:00
> You don't think the rewrite to TS did not bring any value?

I mean, I don't really like TypeScript, and I never have. It's ugly, boilerplatey, and inelegant. I am not a fan.

So... no.

But, again, some battles you have to accept you've lost. TS is everywhere and there's not much getting away from it.
by pqtyw | 2025-12-04 16:30:43+00:00
That's a bizarrely extreme position. For almost everyone ~$2000-3000 PC from several years ago is indistinguishable from one they can buy now from a productivity standpoint. Nobody is talking about $25 ten year old smartphones. Of course claiming that a $500 laptop is sufficient is also a severe exaggeration, a used desktop, perhaps...