MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-23 22:21:13+00:00
As a contractor who is on an oncall schedule. I have never worked in a company that treats oncall as a very serious business. I only worked in 2 companies that need oncall so I’m biased. On paper, they both say it is serious and all SLA stuffs were setup, but in reality there is not enough support.

The problem is, oncall is a full-time business. It takes full attention of the oncall engineer, whether there is an issue or not. Both companies simply treat oncall as a by-product. We just had to do it so let’s stuff it into the sprint. The first company was slightly more serious as we were asked to put up a 2-3 point oncall task in JIRA. The second one doesn’t even do this.

Neither company really encourages engineers to read through complex code written by others, even if we do oncall for those products. Again, the first company did better, and we were supposed to create a channel and pull people in, so it’s OKish to not know anything about the code. The second company simply leaves oncall to do whatever they can. Neither company allocates enough time for engineers to read the source code thoroughly. And neither has good documentation for oncall.

I don’t know the culture of AWS. I’d very much want to work in an oncall environment that is serious and encourages learning.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-23 22:22:50+00:00
More accurate: a mom-n-pop grocery store has its listing on Google Maps changed to PERMANENTLY CLOSED DUE TO TOXIC HEALTH HAZARDS because the mom-n-pop grocery store didn't submit Form 26B/Z to Google. There was never any health hazard, but now everyone thinks there is, and nobody can/will go there. The fact that Form 26B/Z exists at all is problematic, but what makes it terrible is the way it's used to punish businesses for not filling out a form they didn't know existed.
by westurner | 2025-10-23 22:22:54+00:00
"Optimization by decoded quantum interferometry" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09527-5 :

> Abstract: [...] Here we introduce decoded quantum interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm that uses the quantum Fourier transform to reduce optimization problems to decoding problems. When approximating optimal polynomial fits over finite fields, DQI achieves a superpolynomial speed-up over known classical algorithms
by dSebastien | 2025-10-23 22:23:09+00:00
Community plugins and the way they're approved and not reviewed over time due to limited resources is the main problem.

There are many facets to that. Plugins have unrestricted access, they can start servers, make http calls, read/write files ...

Plugins get approved once, but are never checked again.

And plugins are now increasing in number more rapidly, ...
by combyn8tor | 2025-10-23 22:23:17+00:00
> the whole Louis Rossmann's youtube worth of other hardware features meant to remind you to buy a new Apple laptop every couple of years

Apple have a couple of extra mechanisms in place to remind us to buy a new device:

- On iOS the updates are so large it doesn't fit on the device. This is because they purposely put a small hard drive i. It serves a second purpose - people will buy Apple cloud storage because nothing fits locally.

- No longer providing updates to the device after just a few years when it's still perfectly fine. Then forcing the app developer ecosystem to target the newer iOS version and not support the older versions. But it's not planned obsolescence when it's Apple, because they're the good guys, right? They did that 1984 ad. Right guys?
by jonplackett | 2025-10-23 22:23:20+00:00
Yeah they just gets all in a muddle.

The other day I was asking ChatGPT about types of mortgages and it began:

As a creative technologist using mostly TypeScript lets analyse the type of mortgage that would work for you.

It just doesn’t understand how to use its memory or the personalisation settings for relevant things and ignore it for irrelevant things.
by tempest_ | 2025-10-23 22:23:24+00:00
I was more commenting on the Rust community being ready to make breaking changes.

Personally while I think Rust is a decent language it would not have caught on with younger devs if C/C++ didn't have such a shitty devex that is stuck 30 years in the past.

Younger people will always be more willing to break things and messing around with ancient and unfriendly build/dev does not attract that demographic because why waste time messing around with the build env that actually getting things done.

One day rust will be the same and the process will start again.
by mastax | 2025-10-23 22:23:44+00:00
If you were trying to evaluate that code deployed willy nilly in the wider world, sure. But that code exists within a framework which is deliberately limiting rollout in order to reduce risk. What matters is the performance of the combined code and risk management framework, which has proven to be quite good.

Airbus A320s wouldn’t be very safe if we let Joe Schmo off the street fly them however he likes, but we don’t. An A320 piloted within a regulated commercial aviation regime is very safe.

What matters is the safety of the entire system including the non-technological parts.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-23 22:24:04+00:00
>detective/case solving TV, fantasy

Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) and Soulsborne (Demons Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring) games both have lots of mysterious lore and fantasy elements. Maybe the lore videos would help her appreciate the art? Lore videos could also pique her interest in a video game without her actually having to play it, which could be a gateway to eventually getting a contoller into her hands.

> literature, ... poetry

Charred Thermos put together a well-researched theory explaining the lore of Bloodborne is based on history, poetry, and literature from Victorian-era Edinburgh in Scotland. Bloodborne has feminine (child birth, menstration). I'd caution against it if she's squeamish because it is a bloody (good) game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNVKkYpgVU&list=PLon6Mvsc0M...

Elden Ring in particular has tons of lore and this is partly due to George R. R. Matin, author of Game of Thrones, working with Fromsoftware to develop the lore foundations of the game. To get an idea of this, here's VattyVidya 13 hour playlist of quality lore videos on Elden Ring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDs_Inzkz4&list=PLWLedd0Zw3...

Additionally, I can recommend what is possibly the most in-depth lore/mystery videos about Elden Ring, by Tarnished Archaeologist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxAMoEujZss9Vez20A3b...

Elder Scrolls games, particularly Skyrim, also have significant lore and mysteries she may enjoy. It's much easier to digest than Soulsborne lore. See these examples by EpicNate315:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibf642CCf20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzooXHOyRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQfeYJJkWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gya8eIorwN8

If she's very new to games and wants something aesthetically pleasing, then the best experience might be exploring the wilderness of Skyrim while following interesting quests. Oblivion is an older game that also does this well on a smaller scale. Morrowind feels quite old and may not be her cup of tea, but some players like that the exploration is much more self-directed.

The Soulsborne games are all relatively hard but rewarding in their own way. For anyone who likes mysteries, they'll appreciate that all Soulsborne games do not directly explain the lore very much, and it's up to the player to figure things out. Demons Souls and Dark Souls are great, but lore-wise, Elden Ring and Bloodborne are the best. Bloodborne is shorter and self-contained, while Elden Ring has many questlines that a player can choose to follow. Following the questlines of NPCs is a rewarding experience.

Personally I wish I could convince my fiancee to play some video games because I imagine it would be valuable to share the same meaningful experiences that come with great moments in games. Her reasons aren't that the games lack artistry, but the games themselves are too scary for her. I just have to accept she has different tasts and hope maybe one day a non-scary / violent video game will be interesting to us both.
by foresto | 2025-10-23 22:24:07+00:00
I like a lot about D. My main criticism of the language is that it quickly becomes too noisy as more of its nice features are used. I think this could be fixed, for example with better attribute defaults in function signatures, and I think Walter is aware of this.

I could tolerate the noisy language bits, but:

The standard library (Phobos) was so riddled with paper cuts that every day I used it felt like trying to navigate the surface of a coral reef... barefoot... in a hurricane... while blindfolded. It drove me off after a few months. (That was last year.)

A Phobos V3 design has begun, but given how few people they have to work on it, I am skeptical of it ever developing into a library that I would want to use. Here's hoping for a pleasant surprise. :)
by cb321 | 2025-10-23 22:24:10+00:00
That minimalist post mortem for the public is of what sounds like a Rube Goldberg machine and the reality is probably even more hairy. I completely agree that if one wants to understand "root causes", it's more important to understand why such machines are built/trusted/evolved in the first place.

That piece by Cook is ok, but largely just a list of assertions (true or not, most do feel intuitive, though). I suppose one should delve into all those references at the end for details? Anyway, this is an ancient topic, and I doubt we have all the answers on those root whys. The MIT course on systems, 6.033, used to assign reading a paper raised on HN only a few times in its history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10082625 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392223 It's from 1962, over 60 years ago, but that is also probably more illuminating/thought provoking than the post mortem. Personally, I suspect it's probably an instance of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem , but only past a certain scale.
by Mawr | 2025-10-23 22:24:22+00:00
> Again, true legally, but IMHO a really silly position to take overall.

Is it? Let's take a look at the opposite scenario: What if MinIO never released any source code at all? They'd be just another 100% proprietary company like any other and would have never received any backlash for "pulling up the ladder behind them". So offering something for free and then rescinding later is treated worse than never offering anything for free at all!

What a way to entice companies to do open source guys, great job!
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-23 22:24:33+00:00
>> anyone still watching will be doing it for campy or ironic entertainment like professional wrestling

"The 1877 Louisville Grays scandal was an incident in which members of the Louisville Grays baseball team accepted money to lose games. Four players – Bill Craver, Jim Devlin, George Hall and Al Nichols – were subsequently banned from professional baseball for life."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_Louisville_Grays_scandal
by ogurechny | 2025-10-23 22:25:04+00:00
As many others, you believe that by talking about certain things you're directly touching “real”, “material”, “physical” world. So-called humanities — barely even taught to so-called educated public — could help you see how that specific creed of scientism spread in last two centuries, how it was tied to mass education and journalism, and not actually to science, and what made you stick to it (no one told you that the outside world exists). You chose comfortable ignorance.

Being a proud servant of the status quo is neither fresh, nor smart, nor scientific. Illiterate savages worshipped their idols in the exact same fashion.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-23 22:25:33+00:00
Tends to be tight lipped??? It is in the catalog[1]! It is more that American consumers aren't tech obsessed than Toyota being reluctant to share.

Even just looking at online media reports[2][3] clearly sourced from some exact same press event, it is obvious that US English equivalents are much lighter in content than Japanese versions. They're putting the information out, no one's reading it. It's just been the types of information that didn't drive clicks. Language barrier would have effects on it too, that Toyota is a Japanese company and US is an export market, but it's fundamentally the same phenomenon as citizen facing government reports that never gets read and often imagined as being "hidden and withheld from public eyes", just a communication issue.

1: https://www.toyota.com/priuspluginhybrid/features/mpg_other_...

2: https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-aqua-prius-c-hybrid-b...

3: https://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1339263.html
by derefr | 2025-10-23 22:25:35+00:00
The yearly cadence ensures that there's always a "this year's model" to upgrade corporations+institutions to in volume through the Apple Business Leasing program.

That's also why Apple bothers to do the silent little spec-bump releases: it gives Business Leasing corporate buyers a new SKU to use to justify staying on the upgrade treadmill for their 10k devices for another cycle (rather than holding off for even a single cycle because "it's the same SKU.")
by Edmond | 2025-10-23 22:26:02+00:00
Feel to "borrow" the term "context pollution" :)

Yes it has proven quite a useful feature. Primarily for the reason stated above, allowing users to get a full log of what's going on in the same session that the core task is taking place.

We also use it extensively to facilitate back-and-forth conversation with the agents, for instance a lot of our human-in-loop capabilities rely on the forking functionality...the scope of its utility has been frankly surprising :)
by adrr | 2025-10-23 22:26:58+00:00
> Since 2018, Weiss had been investigating Hunter Biden as U.S. attorney. In 2023, Republicans asked Garland to appoint a special counsel, some specifically demanding Weiss, a Republican appointed to his role by President Donald Trump. Garland ultimately appointed Weiss, giving him additional authority. However, congressional Republicans then expressed criticism, some stating Weiss was untrustworthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Weiss

6 years of investigation and all they could find was that Hunter did drugs and owned a gun. I am sure if we drug tested congress, we could prosecute a bunch of congressmen for the same crime. Maybe thats why supreme court is looking at the constitutionality of the law and its all been ruled unconstitutional in one of the courts districts but hey lets prosecute Hunter Biden for it.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-23 22:27:33+00:00
The only thing I'd add is that if you can opt to say "yes" later, it should be obvious where to find it (eg. make a logical settings menu) or they point you to where you can find it. If they really want to make you feel comfortable using their app/site/service there shouldn't be any loss aversion instinct stirred up by hitting "no" as though it's your only chance to accept what they're offering.
by evil-olive | 2025-10-23 22:28:58+00:00
yeah, based on some more digging, it looks like a test case for `date --reference` in GNU coreutils was only added a few hours ago [0] so I assume it was in response to this bug.

but I don't think that should let the uutils authors off the hook - if `--reference` wasn't implemented, that should have been an error rather than silently doing the wrong thing.

after even more Git spelunking, it looks like that problem goes all the way back to the initial "Partial implemantion of date" [1] commit from 2017 - it included support for `--reference` in the argument parsing, including the correct help text, but didn't do anything with it, not even a "TODO: Handle this option" comment like `--set` has.

0: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/14d24f7a530f58...

1: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/41d1dfaf440eabba3...
by Gigachad | 2025-10-23 22:29:47+00:00
Not a formal source, but one youtuber went to the zone where these people are being held and found some of the forced scammers https://youtu.be/lx1SIEwwZrU?si=MIO-C14WxNSBMqMK&t=1118 (at 18:30)
by jaredklewis | 2025-10-23 22:29:47+00:00
Call me crazy, but if my bank tells me that my deposits are in safe assets like treasuries, but then the CEO takes the money to Vegas and puts it all on red, even if the CEO wins that bet, I'm very ok with that CEO going to jail.

Of course, if the bank is upfront that they take customer deposits to Vegas, then its fine.
by michalwarda | 2025-10-23 22:30:39+00:00
Right now it can: - handle real tasks in the background — emails, calendar stuff, research, finding info, organizing data - chat naturally without feeling like you're talking to a bot - remember context and keep conversations flowing - work with integrations (gmail, calendar, docs, maps, etc.) so it can actually do stuff, not just talk about it - multi-task — you can ask it multiple things and it can handle them in parallel also if u mispronounce anything it can update the existing stuff that is happening.
by QueensGambit | 2025-10-23 22:31:07+00:00
Exactly. Both the theater script and code are metadata that manipulates entities: characters in a play or variables in memory. There's definitely abstract-level understanding emerging: that's why models can be trained on python, but write code in java. That could be instructions like pseudo-code or the hidden document/theater script you mentioned. That capability jump from GPT3 to o1 is real. But my point is: pure metadata manipulation has hit a ceiling or is moving at a crawling pace since o1. The breakthrough applications (like agentic AI) still depend on the underlying model's ability to generate accurate code. When that capability plateaus, all the clever orchestration on top of it plateaus too.
by jcranmer | 2025-10-23 22:31:47+00:00
FWIW, the first test in the coreutils test suite covering the `date -r` case was added... 5 hours ago: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/tests/dat...

I don't know what the code coverage of coreutils' test suite is, but my guess is that it's not spectacular.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-23 22:32:07+00:00
> The executive being able to overrule the judiciary is an absolutely jaw-dropping American institution.

No, its not, pardon and the closely linked power of clemency are common powers in representative democracies, often situated with the chief of state or the head of government (in the US, and other Presidential systems, the President is both), or sometimes the cabinet instead of the head of government in a parliamentary or semi-parliamentary system (in some cases, one or the other is assigned by law to a subordinate bureaucracy rather than being HoS/cabinet discretion, as is the case with pardon but not clemency in Canada.) It is generally more used in the US than other Western states, in part because the US has a much harsher criminal justice system with much longer sentences and much weaker provisions for relief other than executive pardon than other systems, but the power itself is common. [0]

The way it is used under Trump is wildly abnormal (for the US or the other representative democracies), though.

[0] see, e.g., https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/pardon-power-is-co... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon ; etc.
by tptacek | 2025-10-23 22:32:13+00:00
I have a housing activism meetup I have to get to, but real quick let me just say that these kinds of problems are not an abstraction to me in my day job, that I read this piece before I worked where I do and it bounced off me, but then I read it last year and was like "are you me but just smarter?", like my pupils probably dilated theatrically when I read it like I was a character in Requiem for a Dream, and I think most of the points he's making are much subtler and deeper than they seem at a casual read.

You might have to bring personal trauma to this piece to get the full effect.
by MindSpunk | 2025-10-23 22:32:25+00:00
Anti cheats basically don't work on Linux at all. One of the primary jobs of anti cheat software is to monitor the OS environment and detect people trying to inject code into the game process or read the game process's memory. On Windows kernel access is gate kept by Microsoft and restricts cheat software's options for how to read memory and inject code. The standard Win32 APIs are monitored and the cheats need exploitable kernel drivers to get in.

On Linux this can't work because a cheater can just build their own kernel with all the protections disabled or with intentional vulnerabilities. From what I've heard, statistics for games running anti cheats on Linux alongside Windows find the vast majority of cheaters on Linux.

Given this situation I think it's entirely reasonable to not support Linux if you're handing cheaters the game on a silver platter.
by jbm | 2025-10-23 22:32:29+00:00
I am a bit more concerned about batteries now as opposed to an year ago.

We had this article from Elektrek [1] about battery issues in South Korea. When I asked my local electric maintenance shop [2, sorry for the FB link], they said they have started seeing the same issue in Model 3s and Ys in Canada as well. (They also said that it is too early to tell how common it would become)

This may bode well for recycling since the issues is an unbalance, not the whole pack failing.

[1] https://electrek.co/2025/10/14/tesla-is-at-risk-of-lossing-s...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/albertaEV/posts/248558844207...
by aaroninsf | 2025-10-23 22:32:36+00:00
If you doubt how effective surveillance capitalism is at stochastic mind control,

look no further than the weaponization of ignorance in places like this.

All that is required is voting not according to manufactured cultural issues, but in accord with widely shared values and common interests.

We can have and used to have a capitalism which self-moderated, and with sufficient surplus as in the post-WWII years, gains were widely shared.

Society wasn't perfect but shit was moving in the right direction.

Then came Reagan, deregulation, and the decades-long project by the right of fomenting ignorance and maintaining it through unchecked propoganda.

Today, under surveillance capitalism, all the tools are in place to continue driving ignorance and weaponizing it against those responsible for the loss of prosperity, opportunity, social welfare net, and common infrastructure, that were considered the definition of the American Dream.

People have been made ignorant, encourage to be righteous, made fearful and angry, and it's worked.

Bw, the reason Meta can pay so well is that it's been uniquely successful in accelerating and profiteering off this dystopian nightmare. Don't kid yourself if you work there what you're contributing to.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-23 22:33:07+00:00
Agreed. Since GNU Coreutils is GPLv3 but uutils is MIT, my guess is eventually Canonical will start using "works like the GNU software except you don't have to comply with GPLv3" as a selling point for Ubuntu Core (their IoT focused distro). This would let them sell to companies who want to only permit signed firmware images to run on their devices, which isn't allowed under GPLv3.
by bitwize | 2025-10-23 22:33:51+00:00
"AAA" publishers of the period definitely used larger systems, all the way up to VAXen, but smaller devs worked on the systems themselves because that's all they had. If you buy some teenager's game for £10 at the chemist's, that teenager can't afford a large powerful system to develop with.

I seem to recall an interview with Paul Urbanus in which he noted that the graphics for Parsec on the TI-99/4A were designed on the TI-99/4A, which to him proved the machine as a tool for serious creative work.