skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We talk a lot about giving feedback in the workplace—trainings, frameworks, structured reviews. But what about the feedback we don’t even realize we’re giving?

The biggest driver of workplace culture isn’t what leaders say—it’s what they reinforce silently, over time.
If employees speak up and no one acknowledges it—what belief does that reinforce?

If risk-taking is ignored, but compliance is rewarded—what culture does that create?

If great work gets no reaction, but mistakes get scrutiny—what behaviors does that shape?

This isn’t just feedback. It’s conditioning. Over time, employees stop taking initiative — not because they were told not to, but because they’ve been subtly trained that it isn’t worth it.

What’s the most powerful workplace lesson you’ve learned — not because of what was said, but because of what was reinforced over time?
Time for my favorite intersection of critical theory[1] and systems theory: "The purpose of a system is what it does[0]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[1] Ok, I admit, nobody but me has actually made the intersection between the two yet.
LinkedIn befits the managerial class it serves.
>“Even with potential U.S. government support from the CHIPS Act and officials eager to see the firm rebound and lead the renaissance of advanced manufacturing in the U.S., the road ahead will be tough,” said Paul Triolo, a partner at Albright Stonebridge Group who tracks the industry.

They want a "renaissance of advanced manufacturing in the U.S." ... by selling manufacturing to someone else?
Parallelization of loading spinners?
Maybe you can have claude build it on top of fly.io? ;)
Yes. I agree that most domesticated plants look rather different from their wild ancestors. Just not all.
Kind of.

Imagine it was a physical good instead. Tax havens might not be a bad example. The UK can absolutely demand that a UK citizen or corporation bring something or another back to the country, and if the laws of that other nation conflicted then it'd be "messy" but not the UK seeking to modify what is allowable on an international basis. Regardless of what happened to the item in question, the offender would be in hot water somewhere.

Extending that ever so slightly to data, Apple and friends are definitely technologically capable of moving the data from one side of the pond to the other, and they're definitely operating in both the UK and the US. Does the speed at which data travels make that more like a cyber attack from the UK on the US (infiltrating a weak link to gain unauthorized access), or is it still more like the physical good countries seem to want to regulate it as (where Apple would have to violate one or more laws)?

What I really don't like about the matter is that if you simply split Apple into two legal entities, one for the US and one for the UK, the capability of moving the data nearly for free will still exist, but that will likely thwart the backdoor in the law. That suggests something fishy going on in our definitions and intuition, and it makes me more inclined to agree with your side of things. I'm not totally sold though; I could easily have just missed the obvious paradoxes from the side I'm partially defending.
I lack tolerance because I think the government shouldn't support activist movements in foreign countries?
The LARP scene has gotten out of hand.

When I lived in Seattle there were people who would listen to the police scanner and then rush to the scenes of traffic accidents and fires and such dressed up as "superheroes" and LARP saving the day.

I suspect they got in the way more than they helped.
Audits for everyone
Not much on Hacker News has made me cry...
When the country Turkey wanted to be renamed something that I can't even type with a Latin keyboard, people seemed to go along with it. Now, largely the same people who were fine with Turkey's rename have issues with this.
> You get extremely diminishing returns with probes. There's only so much you can do from orbit. Rovers are substantially more useful, but are extremely expensive.

I was talking about anything you can do without humans. Not just probes that stay in space.

> A big cost with rovers is the R&D and one-off manufacturing of the rover itself. With humans you have the added cost of life support, but 0 cost in manufacturing and development.

You could mass produce rovers.

The human life support is gonna be extremely expensive. So it's a bit silly to say that other than that, humans have 0 cost.

Rovers have the same '0 cost' component, from the humans remotely given them commands and guidance from earth.
What was surprising to me here is that two threads share the same stack. Is this a rust thing or is this common in programming languages?
It will definitely be trained to not audit billionaires.
>North Mission Street

Sorry to nitpick; this caught my eye..

North Mission Road, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Mission_Road
Logic of Small Teams
Easter is when you village elder decides it is full moon by looking at it, not your fancy math. Though the math is good enough and really better for a connected world.
Constant firefighting because you engineered a pile of shit also takes time and mental energy.
Maybe he read history books in school like the rest of us.
Yeah, I'm sure there are tricky details as in anything but the core idea doesn't sound that complicated to me. I've been looking into it a bit after seeing this fun video a while ago where a DOS BBS is ran on kubernetes.

https://youtu.be/wLVHXn79l8M?si=U2FexAMKd3zQVA82
> Political officials at the Energy Department told its non-political HR administrators to cite poor performance personnel files as a justification for firing the employees, the source said

Illegal as fuck
The rich would also be happy with a 30 percent national sales tax.
This is an epic fail IMO.
Relative to the XKCD, this is like if someone found out you could vandalize hundreds of thousands of posters and publish it under a US federal government website using an REST API.

Feds getting DDOSed? Nothing new. Public read/write access to a government distributed resource? That needs to be taken offline as a matter of public security.
> You don't think the literal nazi salute elon gave at a rally, twice, warrants any comparisons?

Honestly? I was on team "he's a clueless weirdo" and was mostly amused by watching his supporters cortort themselves to avoid saying that... But he somehow managed to fish out and hire not one but two engineers with a history of blatant racism, and even decided to rehire the one that resigned once it became public.

I generally think the whole "Nazi" thing is easy and reductive, but what the fuck?
> A lot of those are critical prerequisites for humanity's advancement. They also left out some really important stuff like studies on sex in space, exercise in space, effects of radiation in space (as well as hardening electronics), and so on.

Hardening electronics research can be done without pesky humans getting in the way. No need for the ISS.

All the other examples you mentioned are quite circular: humans in space help us research problems we only have because we are putting humans in space.
Its worth a look at what actually happened during the rise of the third reich. People aren't just making the comparisons to be hyperbolic. I know a bit of it from reading the beginning of William L. Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

The power shift in the Republican party has strong parallels to shifts in power that lead to compromises with the NSDAP, and eventually to Hitler's chancellorship.

The moves away from old institution norms (by both parties, though I tend to bias against R) who claim they are fighting to preserve it, whether with good intentions or not, have the effect of eroding our democracy.

The Trump admin's denigration of immigrants, and gender ideology also have obvious parallels.

For a time I didn't consider there to be genocidal parallels, but the recent threats to empty Gaza puts that on shaky ground.

Until these trends start reversing, and the groups involved work to restore norms, we are at an increasing risk of repeating past government's failures. For one party that feels like the intent (see recent chaos monkey efforts), while at least the other recognizes they are eroding norms, but can't seem to reverse course (Biden's executive orders).
> Whoever is against the aims of the deep state

The "deep state" is what is in full view with the Trump/Musk/Miller Administration.
My local police station published statistics about how many traffic violation tickets are issued:

For example: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/2025-...

For the police station responsible for that crosswalk, the number of citations for Pedestrian Right of Way has gone down over the last 6 months. In December, the whole station issued just one citation for pedestrian right of way.

Jul 2024 32
Aug 2024 18
Sep 2024 26
Oct 2024 14
Nov 2024 12
Dec 2024 1
Have them build by ten different teams in different countries by different companies.
correct - as long as they don’t make 7-figures. anyone over 7-figures is auto-exempt
I rebuilt ProseMirror's renderer in React
https://theonion.com/report-uttering-phrase-easy-does-it-pre...
Nice!

I'm really happy to see OpenSCAD so often here in HN!

Let me also show something that I did: a Braille generator: https://github.com/lucasoshiro/openscad-braille

It's also available in Thingiverse, so it can generate STL files without having to use OpenSCAD natively: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6463849/remixes
I just looked at their pricing and they don't list any GPUs at all that I could find.
Haha. Couldn’t have said it better.
Foreign governments that have been deemed unfriendly routinely access US products that are otherwise off limits to them using the assistance of friendly "international" corporations. I suspect this bill attempts to close that loophole.
Isn't the IRS on the chopping block? I know they killed the free tax filing feature for citizen. I cannot keep track anymore.

Reading through the article, it's not one or two machines but 8 Blackwell nodes, so quite some firepower for compute. Wonder what part of the audit or tax prep requires a GPU farm.
So the first part of this is reasonably interesting but then the author goes off on an unnecessary and nasty detour about trans people. I have to say the anti “gender cult” people are very annoying about putting this topic in literally everything.

So this would have been an article I share around but it turned out to be nothing notable.
A Golden Age for University Presses
I's usually better to post one article instead of the whole blog. Which is your favorite one?

Are you the author? It' fine to post your own stuff if you don't abuse and post too much. Also, people is friendlier when the author is answering questions.

More tips in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
You cant expect much from a dude that bankrupted casinos lol
Sometimes I think that if there is a hell, we're probably in it. The amount of suffering people can experience on Earth is unfathomable sometimes.

I remember the most painful moments of my life, and thinking that it's absurd that the human brain can experience this level of suffering. It doesn't make sense. If we're lucky, we can get tiny drops of joy in life, but the depths of suffering feel bottomless.
> this obsession with government tyranny in the US is bonkers. Why is your default assumption that government will "go off the rails"?

Doesn't seem particularly hard to justify that assumption right about now.
Perhaps this is US opponents trying.

(And succeeding!)

This is right out of Aleksandr Dugin's playbook for how Russia can regain geopolitical power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Guys, ALL .gov records point to CISA. That’s one of the requirements for getting a .gov domain in the US. This is standard practice.
Depends. Various things require cooperation with the federal government. For example there are various laws that require specific types of records or data to be shared. Various types of federal funding can come with those requirements. Or there can be criminal investigations that result in records being requested. But someone randomly showing up sound illegitimate, and as the article notes, these weren’t people associated with the administration it appears.
> idk how we can have the mindset that this is all pointless, if you never make any effort to cut wasteful spending

So you've never heard of the Government Accountability Office, huh? This is literally its purpose.
Warframe works flawlessly via Proton these days. Probably don't even needs Windows anymore if that's all you do.
The difference between a good developer and a bad is understanding the stack. Not necessarily an expert but I spend a lot of time debugging for random issues and it could be dns or a file locking issue or a network or a api or parsing EDI whatever. Most recently I found a bug in software that had to do with how Windows runs 32 bit mode on 64 bit. I've never used windows professionally and I have only had unix machines since I got a free Ubuntu CD. Yet I figured it out in like 20 minutes exploring the differences between the paths when running in two scenarios. Idk maybe I'm a genius, I don't think so, but I was able to solve the problem because I know just barely enough about enough things to poke shit and break them or make them light up. Compare that to a dev on my team who needed help writing a series of command line prompts to do a simple bit of textual adjustments and pipe some data around.

I'm not a even good developer. But I know enough to chime in on calls and provide useful and generally 'Wizarding' knowledge. Like a detective with a good hunch.

But yeah just autocomplete everything lol
maybe they'll just do all our taxes for us?
Just because you don't support the decisions about how the military is deployed doesn't mean you don't benefit from its existence. Being an American citizen already comes out of the box with a bunch of benefits, and I'm unaware of any place with a similar standard of living that has lower taxes overall.
The people maintaining the systems could use AI to grapple with transforming it faster, no? I mean, if you have to rewrite existing programs from 1995 all the time you might as well feed an AI the context and get some suggestions and just verify and test the changes instead of manually with pen and paper jotting out the tree of the sections and the database relations and how the architecture requires it to be and what new legislations need to be accounted for in what way etc etc..

So AI can be used to speed up transforming the existing infrastructure instead of AI doing the actual processing which would obviously be not the direct use case in anyones mind

It could also be implemented in less volumous tasks, like specialised scenarios like complex cases of fraud detection idk
They very much tried to get Trump elected. They were aware of the damage he would cause.
This.

Over the years, I’ve applied to over a thousand jobs through LinkedIn, ‘earned’ dozens of skill badges; but all I’ve had to show for it was a compromised social security number. LinkedIn has proliferated the scammer.

Meanwhile, Indeed has connected me with real employers who’ve actually interviewed me. Most who started interviewing me had conducted multiple rounds, enough to get to the mature conclusion that it’s not a good fit. I’ve interviewed my way into two great fitting roles over the years via that platform.
Because the root comment is mostly but not quite right: there are indeed a large subset of developers that aren't interested in thinking about infrastructure, but there are many subcategories of those people, and many of them aren't fly.io customers. A large number of people who are in that category aren't happy to let someone else handle their infra. They're not interested in infra in the sense that they don't believe it should be more complicated than "start process on Linux box and set up firewall and log rotation".

For some applications these people are absolutely right, but they've persuaded themselves that that means it's the best way to handle all use cases, which makes them see Kubernetes as way more complex than is necessary, rather than as a roll-your-own ECS for those who would otherwise truly need a cloud provider.
Biden should have trucked the nukes to Mexico anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/PWVGzCi.png

Image is of the first two pages of results side by side if a "page" is a "fold" in my browser window.
Surely we don't care.
Quite early this says well, it would be easy to see what happens for the chain based hash tables and so, then it just doesn't talk about any other type.

This probably made the analysis easier, but if you don't use these archaic hash tables it is unclear how valuable these results are. Maybe I should go measure :/
The SpeedStacks timer is heavily used in competitive (Rubik's) cubing.
It is specific to your lab that symbolic anything works. My ion trapping lab would just go "yeah, great. Keep it there for a couple years". Unfun, serious experiments have their own joy, but I'm not expecting great things in the next decade. I just want to be able to breathe on my own.
it makes intuitive sense, but at the same time, you can get good performance replacing the Gaussian noise with deterministic transformations.

so in the end diffusion can’t explain that much about how diffusion models work. disappointingly, so many modern ML things are like this.
Coverage: Meta plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/m...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051396)
I'll have to try that next time I start a new construction project. What aisle does Lowes stock emacs on?
> I don't think Elon gave a Nazi salute

He gave two fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

> I think that comparison is based on superficial mechanistic similarities

It looks exactly the same. These guys think so: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

This guy too: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...

Sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.
Important to clarify that USDS (DOGE) does not have access to any military systems or intelligence systems. They only have the current access due to the historic process of the USDS.
If my understanding is right, the gist seems to be that you create one or more docker containers that your application can run on, describe the parameters they require e.g. ram size/cuda capability/when you need more instances, and kubernetes provisions them out to the machines available to it based on those parameters. It's abstract but very tractibly so IMO, and it seems like a sensible enough way to achieve load balancing if you keep it simple. I plan to try it out on some machines of mine just for fun/research soon.
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And you know this to be true (indubitably), based on what, exactly? (I'm not even sure which country you're referencing either).
I'd put a $1k long bet that a 3B param model, cleverly orchestrated, will achieve AGI* in the next ten years. These are the sorts of ideas that would help get us there.

Any takers?

*AGI defined as smarter than a FAANG staff engineer on similar tasks.
I do not remember anything particularly difficult to get X11 up and running remotely, other than the XAuth stuff which was annoying enough in hardened environments, although those have not been commonplace, and X11 tunnelling via ssh has automagically taken care of XAuth.

The ultimate deal breaker, however, is X11 not being proxied by corporate firewalls, even though the protocol is extensively documented and the source is available. But that is because RDP has won over, and demand for X11 has diminished.

But, yes, X11 prefers local networks with flat topologies, and the protocol is chatty (again, not as big of an issue anymore unless run over a mobile connection with a high latency, but the X11 protocol compression helps with that).
> Maybe people were voting for him because they were dumb? Or they were lied to?

I cant tell if this is intentional irony or poe’s law.

When democrats that are curious about why people vote for Trump, conclude that the voters are dumb or naive, it’s kind of an unintentional demonstration of the kind of thinking that turns people away from the Democratic Party.
I really don't agree. People behave differently when they know they are being recorded. They are less likely to admit mistakes or ask dumb questions.

There's just this odd formal air about them and I get annoyed when certain people try to record everything. Sometimes people just need to be able to speak freely.

There's a time and place for recording stuff - technical walk throughs, bug reports, demos, meetings where attendees are employed by different companies etc. Having your standup recorded just encourages one sentence answers (and yes, that's a bad thing if you want people to actually tell you if they have a problem)
There’s zero evidence of either of it, just because they got an A record with a .gov at the DNS doesn’t mean this tiny site had any connection back to larger data, and based on my own analysis of how hard every furry hacker on the planet is hitting this, if there was, it would be leaked to the moon already and not speculated on.
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Perhaps.

As an experienced audio developer, it's a distinction without a difference. We get used to reading code and deciphering how to use or improve it (wait until you start working with other's DSP code!), and some features and conventions of C/C++, like the segregation of declarations from definitions, make it especially self-documenting for those that are fluent in it.

Having integrated SFZero myself (albeit to a deadend; it's very middling-to-poor), I was surprised to discover that there was not more explicit documentation when you announced it as the library you were referring to, specifically because I remember the work of integrating it was relatively trivial (maybe half a day or so).

For a complete outsider to audio development, JUCE, C++, of course the LLM helped you get done what you needed to get done, far faster than you could have hoped otherwise. And that's great if you're just toying around. On the other hand, you absolutely would have sharpened your skills with all three of those things more had you the luxury to muddle through and force yourself to make sense of it all yourself.

Assuming skills development is your goal (otherwise, you should be using different tools here! C++ and JUCE are not where to start if your personal goal is music making, synthesis, or MIDI), there's a balancing act between making sure you don't get discouraged and committing to the hard work of learning things in-depth. The LLM gave you a way to avoid feeling stuck and discouraged, and perhaps represents the difference between you sticking with the project or just throwing your hands up. But keep in mind the tradeoff that it implies for skill development and consider only turning to it when the frustration starts to get too high to bear.