MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-09-01 19:54:30+00:00
> The company has flagged its unique pay structure, lagging AI reputation, and rigid return-to-office rules as major hurdles.

No mention of reputation for harsh/ruthless/backstabby management practices towards employees (including for tech white collar, not just biz and blue collar)?

Is that not a major factor? Or are they not aware of it? Or is mentioning it politically off-limits? Or is putting it in writing a big PR risk? Or is putting it in writing a big legal risk?

I know Amazon's reputation for treating employees poorly came up in multiple discussions at one university's big-name AI lab, for example. Not only do some people read the news, but people talk, in groups and privately.
by keernan | 2025-09-01 19:54:33+00:00
I just learned there is a bug wherein the timer will complete normally but fail to emit any sound. I have had this happen to me multiple times when using the timer for cooking and it has been driving me nuts.

The explanation said this could occur when the timer is set for the same number of minutes as the screen-lock setting. I suspect, however, it is more likely the screen-lock event and timer-end event occurring simultaneously since neither is deterministic.
by salysson | 2025-09-01 19:54:38+00:00
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by iLoveOncall | 2025-09-01 19:54:47+00:00
Bedrock is not at all a router. They do provide a routing capability now, but at its core it's a wrapper around models so you can interact with any model with the same unique API.

> For example, I can't easily run models that need GPUs without launching classic EC2 instances.

Yeah okay, but you can run most entreprise-level models via Bedrock.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-01 19:55:07+00:00
You are the one that is ignorant of the reality.

> As a thought experiment, insert "type 1 diabetes"

This is an apples to oranges fallacy flawed example, how about we do something that isn't apples to oranges, like heavy metal poisoning. How about we insert chronic low-level mercury poisoning in place of ADHD.

Here is a shocker, the symptoms are the same, and there are many other such environmental based issues that lead to these symptoms. The diagnosis is still ADHD/ADD which is made regularly because its a catchall, and so its the same label but its not the same thing.

So that ADHD diagnosis is ADHD, and its automatically neurological changes, or is it really Heavy Metal Poisoning, which then isn't being treated?

Are my sentiments causing real world harm to people when that diagnosis has been misdiagnosed? Really? This happens on the regular because of exposures that occur but aren't recognized or achieve testing thresholds.

The diagnostic label for spectrum disorders has been for decades incorrectly applied to people, in effect treating symptoms as a catchall.

How ridiculous do you sound in my particular example? Your causing harm to people because they thought they had ADHD because of the symptoms but actually were being poisoned because of a misdiagnosis that isn't questioned (which happens in centralized systems). Who is actually the one causing harm here. The one supporting that system and its consequences, or the one questioning the underlying truth of the matter (which has real anecdotal experiences backing this across a group of afflicted people).

Blood testing doesn't work well at detection of chronic low exposure without causing acute poisoning through a chelator, something that isn't done that regularly. Most doctors won't even order the test even after requests to do so.

Seriously, this kind of armchair theatrics and polemic is why the world is in such a horrible state today, but by all means continue shouting down people that actually know a thing about what they are talking about.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-01 19:55:32+00:00
Where is the queueing happening? Maybe I misunderstood.

I assumed you meant the hosts are queueing in the kernel because their userspace consumers can't keep up. In that case, XDP can help, because it can drop things out of the rx ring buffers before the network stack and later userspace spend cpu cycles processing them.

If you meant the router is queueing because it's receiving more traffic than the sum of its downstream link bandwidth, like a raw static spam flood DDoS, I don't think the hosts can't do anything about that.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-01 19:55:37+00:00
I hope these books make their way to good homes! There are so many books that are out-of-print and, because they aren't widely known, and the author has passed away, they're very unlikely to ever be republished. Those books will become more and more rare with each passing year. This "great middle" section of books is slowly going missing.
by eric__cartman | 2025-09-01 19:55:53+00:00
How many of those legacy applications where the source is not available actually need to run natively on a modern kernel?

The only thing I can think of is games, and the Windows binary most likely works better under Wine anyways.

There are many embedded systems like CNC controllers, advertisement displays, etc... that run those old applications, but I seriously doubt anyone would be willing to update the software in those things.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-01 19:56:15+00:00
> Hence it's an empirical fact that C and C++ have a superior approach to software scaling

I'm not convinced the "superior" follows. What I'm missing is a causal link between your first and second points - super large software could have been written in C or C++ for reasons other than the header/implementation split (especially if the super large software wasn't so super large at first and grew into its size instead of being planned for that size from the start), and somewhat conversely programming languages with header/implementation splits don't necessarily have corresponding super large software (e.g., OCaml, at least publicly?).
by eikenberry | 2025-09-01 19:56:24+00:00
Once a company are over a certain size its ability to execute is throttled by business process, not individual's abilities. Individuals are kept from making an impact as they don't want that, they want predictable, replaceable cogs in the machine. Google and Meta suffer the same problem but, as businesses, they are slightly more nimble as they 3x smaller, but that has 0 to do with their hiring/promotion practices.
by konmok | 2025-09-01 19:57:00+00:00
Yes, you acknowledged the correction elsewhere. However, when questioned about the 6.6% figure by another user, you literally just replied "I was quoting a fact". Perhaps you meant the fact about the number of exits to Egypt, but to me, that appears highly misleading, perhaps intentionally so.

I think oscaracso makes a very good point as well. In a country as vast as India, you can find almost anything you need without leaving its borders. Less so with Gaza.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-09-01 19:57:00+00:00
I’ve been using a Yubikey for TOTP codes for years.

When it’s plugged into my laptop, I use a fuzzy-search UI to pick the right credential, tap the Yubikey, and it writes the TOTP code into the focused text field.

There are iPhone and Android apps to generate codes. On iPhone, it works with nfc.

The same device also works for webauthn and for gpg. It has no network capabilities.
by chao- | 2025-09-01 19:57:31+00:00
Here's my paraphrase of the best description for "seems reasonable" AI misinformation that I've yet seen. I wish I could credit where I first heard it:

AI summaries are akin to generalist podcasts, or YouTube video essayists, taking on a technical or niche topic. They present with such polish and confidence that they seem like they must be at least mostly correct. Then you hear them present or discuss a topic you have expertise in, and they are frustratingly bad. Sometimes wrong, but always at least deficient. The polish and confidence is inappropriately boosting the "correctness signal" to anyone without a depth of knowledge.

Then you consider that 90% of people have not developed sophisticated knowledge about 90% of topics (myself included), and it begins to feel a bit grim.
by zajio1am | 2025-09-01 19:57:50+00:00
Democracy is not sacred. It is just a way to organise society. It has some advantages and it is likely the best way we know, but that does not mean we should be silent about its disadvantages, and populism is just a fail mode of democracy, or a strategy to exploit its weaknesses.

Populism is not 'doing what people want', it is a strategy of orienting a societal/political conflict on people vs. elites axis. But elites are usually right, that is why they are elites in their social hierarchies. For democracies to work properly, people have to trust elites (and elites have to be trustworthy).
by ryandrake | 2025-09-01 19:58:45+00:00
After reading so many horror stories (whether actually true or not), my mind now just associates working at Amazon with mostly negatives: They're going to ride you like a horse and beat you up, for below-average compensation, and then if you want to claw your way up, it's a Game Of Thrones style slugfest with few winners. The opposite of "Rest and Vest." If this is exaggerated, they sure aren't doing any PR work to deny it or counter this negative reputation.
by skywal_l | 2025-09-01 19:58:57+00:00
Removing nommu feels wrong to me. Being able to run linux on a simple enough hardware that anybody sufficiently motivated could write an emulator for, help us, as individuals, remain in control. The more complex things are, the less freedom we have.

It's not a well argumented thought, just a nagging feeling.

Maybe we need a simple posix os that would run on a simple open dedicated hardware that can be comprehended by a small group of human beings. A system that would allow communication, simple media processing and productivity.

These days it feels like we are at a tipping point for open computing. It feels like being a frog in hot water.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-01 19:59:08+00:00
I'm really not a lawyer, but I'm skeptical that such a thing is even possible; is it legally possible to say that you as the copyright owner will never relicense something?

(What I'm given to understand does work is using a copyleft license and taking code from multiple parties without a CLA, because then relicensing requires all the copyright owners to agree, which for a large enough project is impractical.)
by aurizon | 2025-09-01 20:00:06+00:00
The University of Toronto has a free store and they place items departments discard into 2 areas. 1 area can be grabbed by other departments for a month - then it goes into a public swap shop area for Wednesday AM. Lots of assorted stuff but they place cubic meter boxes of all manner of books, old journals, reference books etc. In the same vein, I have seen dozens of old book stores close over the past 20 years. Truly rare books and incunabula

https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/collections/incunabula

I think Ebay was the beginning of the end. Most books in the past ~100 years were printed in substantial press runs, and many had reprints. That meant they were not globally rare, just widely scattered. Ebay revealed their vast numbers and a level marketplace emerged. Books dealers snagged the truly rare and the vast bulk went unwanted and unread. As a Northern claim staker and mine engineer, I often passed by the Highway Bookstore, in Cobalt Ontario

https://www.highwaybooks.ca/
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-01 20:00:07+00:00
Apparently there is only a single country from the list where Google is not the first player: Russia (Yandex). China and most Asia are not listed.

And the only country where Google has less than 90% market share and the 2nd options is not Bing: Czechia (Seznam).

Other countries with less that 90% Google market share are: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United States (Bing)
by tialaramex | 2025-09-01 20:00:13+00:00
They aren't per se coupled to gas. Here's roughly how it works:

We work in half hours, 48 of them per day. If you're a very large user (e.g maybe you're a factory which makes cars), or if you choose to do this at home, you can be metered in half hours and billed this way.

In advance of the half hour, we guess how much power we might need. 9pm here soon, I reckon 30GW per the British mainland. Now we run an auction. Everybody who can make power from 9pm to 9:30 bids, saying how much they'd accept to make power

Then, starting from the lowest bids, we add bidders up to 30GW of power, those people will make our 30GW of electricity, and we pay all of them the same price, that price is last bid needed to meet our 30GW goal.

This is often a closed cycle gas turbine because:

1. There are fucking shitloads of them. Probably 35GW nameplate, maybe 40GW, that is a lot of power generation. More than any other single type (Wind can deliver about 20GW to the grid, solar is smaller, nuclear is much smaller, storage also smaller even if you count it as generation which it technically is not)

2. They are (almost, maintenance is necessary) always willing to run, for a price. Rain or shine, night or day, if there is gas at any price they can charge that price plus a little profit to make it into electricity. Only question is if you'll pay

For a typical home tariff the "supplier" you're paying has guessed that on average they'll make a healthy profit if they charge you say 24p per kWh plus standing.

They pay that half-hourly price, if they guessed badly wrong and can't cover the difference they go bankrupt, which sucks for the government who are on the hook to ensure you still get electricity anyway.

So, the de-coupling would happen automatically if the current system stayed the same but you added a lot of cheap storage and enough wind power that on average the country was mostly wind powered. Or indeed nukes or solar if somehow this country built loads of nuke stations or got improbably sunnier.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-09-01 20:00:24+00:00
1. The IRS web page is not authority. See the Internal revenue code §6654. Failure by individual to pay estimated income tax (a) Addition to the tax. Like I said, it is officially (by law) called an addition to tax, not a penalty.[0] Further, it is calculated as an interest charge. There is not any further interest charged on the interest. Yes, there are actual penalties such as Failure to File/Failure to Pay that do accrue interest, but this is not either of those.

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6654

2. The HSA is just a holding account. You can either pay for health expenses such as insurance pre-tax each year, or you can put it in a HSA and delay the payment. In either case, you only get one tax deduction, not two. The ridiculous claim is to say for a $1K contribution to HSA, you get a $1K tax deduction, then you get another $1k tax deduction when you take it out - not true.
by tusharkoh | 2025-09-01 20:00:27+00:00
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by reactordev | 2025-09-01 20:00:38+00:00
We need accessible open hardware. Not shoehorning proprietary hardware to make it work with generic standards they never actually followed.

Open source is one thing, but open hardware - that’s what we really need. And not just a framework laptop or a system76 machine. I mean a standard 64-bit open source motherboard, peripherals, etc that aren’t locked down with binary blobs.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-01 20:00:46+00:00
Using a FOSS license and charging money for an alternative license is not abuse. And those blog posts appear to be FUD spread by a company whose own software is under proprietary licenses with source available.

People are welcome to use and host AGPLed software under its own FOSS terms. If people don't want to do that, and want to pay for alternative terms, that is also a sign that the license is effective. There's no point in restricting things people don't want to do. The GPL restricts something people want to do: make proprietary software. The AGPL restricts something people want to do: host software without distributing the source at all.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-01 20:01:09+00:00
> Just do not buy enterprise hardware

But then you need to buy newer, more expensive hardware, which pushes your initial price up (divide by the amount of time you'll need to host the server to get the monthly equivalent, then add power/connectivity/maintenance and compare to Hetzner).

Btw generally the reason homelabbers flock to legacy enterprise hardware is that it generally gives you a good amount of compute for a cheap price, if you don't mind the increased power cost. This is actually fine as a lot of homelab usage is bursty and the machine can be powered off outside of those times.
by febrewary | 2025-09-01 20:01:28+00:00
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by smmx | 2025-09-01 20:02:22+00:00
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by ljm | 2025-09-01 20:03:17+00:00
Have had some conversations where the other person goes into chatgpt to answer a question while I’m in the process of explaining a solution, and then says “GPT says this, look…”

Use an agent to help you code or whatever all you want, I don’t care about that. At least listen when I’m trying to share some specific knowledge instead of fobbing me off with GPT.

If we’re both stumped, go nuts. But at least put some effort into the prompt to get a better response.
by alberth | 2025-09-01 20:04:10+00:00
>You may not provide the Software as a hosted or managed service that offers users access to substantial features or functionality.

IANAL, but does the above limitation prevent users from hosting bear for their own (or your company’s own) needs?

If so, doesn’t that defeat the whole reason why it’s MIT licensed.

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/master/LICEN...
by balazscsomor | 2025-09-01 20:04:29+00:00
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by alkonaut | 2025-09-01 20:04:34+00:00
It's not like it had a good reputation earlier either (as a company, perhaps less problematic as an employer). But if I was offered multiple FAANG positions because I had some really attractive skill set, then I'd want a _lot_ more to work at Meta or Amazon than Netflix or Google, just based on my view of the corporate evilness. It's probably completely unfounded, but the fact I have that feeling just shows they haven't taken care of their brand.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-01 20:04:51+00:00
Trump faces returning $100bn in tariffs after court ruling - https://www.thetimes.com/article/a09594e1-46f2-413a-8cba-507... - September 1st, 2025

> Researchers at the Capital Economics consultancy said that if the Supreme Court agreed that Trump had abused his presidential powers the “Treasury would still need to return most of the now close to $100 billion in additional customs duties collected”. They added that countries and trading blocs, such as Britain and the European Union, could also “backtrack on any preliminary [trade] agreements”.
by cperciva | 2025-09-01 20:04:52+00:00
To be clear, I'm not saying it has to be literally Paxos as a service. There's a bunch of ways you can take operations from different sources in a distributed system and produce a consensus view of what happened first. But aside from trivial and low-performance options (e.g. everyone contends on a single DynamoDB item and uses conditional writes) Amazon hasn't made any of the possibilities available.