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by zamadatix | 2025-10-02 16:36:59+00:00
"Statcounter Stats Go Wonky This Month" wouldn't have made enough clicks, I suppose. Even the wording of the 2nd paragraph misses the point - this is obviously not statistical fluctuation. They didn't even bother to look into the more granular data either.

1 in 4 people did not switch to Windows 7 in one week https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk.... It's really quite jarring this is not the focus of discussion.
by throwaway127482 | 2025-10-02 16:36:59+00:00
Engineers who are smart enough / talented enough, and who feel secure, can push back on security issues even if it will hold up a deal. This tells me that the most valuable engineers at Red Hat either do not push back enough on security concerns, or don't care enough (or aren't experienced enough) to know that the concerns exist in the first place, or they feel insecure in their position.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 16:37:03+00:00
The UAW-Ford contract doesn't allow that, the 1-2 year employees would be fired before the 22 year old employees with 4 years of seniority. We're specifically talking about union jobs (UAW), so the company isn't generally targeting specific workers to fire.

The union has a lot of control over which employees leave during layoffs, and often it's actually the workers with less seniority in the union who are let go. Generally unions negotiate for a "last hired, first fired" situation (youngest employees go first) and often more senior employees have "bumping rights" - if their entire specialization is eliminated, they can move laterally by displacing junior workers. It's also fairly difficult for Ford to individually target the most expensive workers because the UAW does a good job of making sure there's real cause for termination.

UAW's agreement with Ford contains the usual "last hired, first fired" provision on page 80 here[0] in Article VIII §16(c). "Bumping" is part of the agreement on page 79, VIII §13(b).

Perhaps I misunderstood you and you meant that it's hard for workers to get to the "4 year" mark in the first place because Ford can just churn the 1-3 year workers over and over again. The UAW contract also contains a "Preferential Placement Arrangements" clause which gives laid-off workers priority for re-hire whenever Ford is hiring again. Workers can lose their seniority - but there's a bit of a ratchet effect, they have to stay unemployed by Ford for a length of time equal to how long they were employed. So if they've worked there for 2 years, get fired, and are next in line to be rehired 18 months later, they'll enter back in with 3.5 years of seniority from their original date of hire.

Ford had no WARN layoffs[1] between 2012-2018 and only 3 in the past 6 years (affecting 4200 workers in total), so generally it seems that workers are able to achieve top-end wages and full seniority before being laid off.

0: https://uaw.org/2023fordcontract/vol-1/#p=80

1: https://www.warntracker.com/company/ford-motor-company
by jongjong | 2025-10-02 16:37:29+00:00
I can't because one of those is a low-code/no-code platform which I've used to build and run my 6th startup with a co-founder who relies on me... And it works very well. I mentally cannot abandon a project that works better than alternatives. I cannot justify it to myself. If it sucked, I would easily abandon it. But it's very good, flexible and reliable so I cannot find the motivation to give up. It's a weird situation where it would require more effort from me to give up than to keep it running.

There needs be a reason to give up something. I cannot find any such reason. If I gave up on it, my entire worldview would collapse and I don't know what monster I would turn into.
by gnramires | 2025-10-02 16:37:40+00:00
Something I think is worth pointing out: this is happening in the Netherlands, i.e. their jurisdiction. I think most people here aren't from the Netherlands. I think they should be free to try out the legislation they want, and people elsewhere don't need to agree. It's good that different countries can try different things, and if that doesn't work it's a lesson for other places, and if it works that's even better. People on the internet tend to focus too much on uniformity and conformity, as if we lived everyone in the same place.
by timr | 2025-10-02 16:37:50+00:00
Well, like I said: you can always give up. Sometimes that's the rational thing to do, even when you are engaged in the game.

However...

> I pretty routinely bail out of the politics of decisions when it's mostly to the company's detriment.

Maybe your judgment of "detriment" is right, maybe it's wrong, but the point of the article is that too many engineers want to do what you're doing as some kind of misguided purity play.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 16:37:56+00:00
Because people are ignorant, they vote based off of fee fees. Nobody actually looks at policy.

Also, the GOP keeps telling people they're good at fiscal policy. They're not. They've put out almost exclusively shit fiscal policy for the past 25 years.

I mean, the last president to even try to lower the deficit was Clinton. But the GOP won't tell you that. They'll just fear monger about the debt ceiling and how evil Democrats burn money.

And then they get into office and somehow manage to write policy so unbelievably shit that we burn EVEN MORE money.
by crisdux | 2025-10-02 16:38:12+00:00
Cataracts aren’t about age. They happen when the lens loses energy and the water inside it loses structure. Getting real sunlight, eating for metabolism, and avoiding stress and fake blue rich light keeps your eyes clear and alive.

I’ve improved my own eyesight and my wife’s by following these principles. Mainstream medicine would probably give other explanations or just dismiss it altogether.
by perihelions | 2025-10-02 16:38:16+00:00
This is completely unconstitutional. The journalist author fails the reader not explaining how the First Amendment works, or quoting a law expert who does.

> "The guidance is likely to raise due process and privacy concerns in light of the Trump administration's recent attempts to deport pro-Palestinian students. The attempts have faced legal challenges."

By "faced legal challenges" they should write they were ruled unconstitutional.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-william-youngs-ruling-agains... ("[T]his Court rules that here the Plaintiffs have shown that Secretaries Noem and Rubio are engaged in a mode of enforcement leading to detaining, deporting, and revoking noncitizens’ visas solely on the basis of political speech, and with the intent of chilling such speech and that of others similarly situated. Such conduct is not only unconstitutional, but a thing virtually unknown to our constitutional tradition.")
by x0x0 | 2025-10-02 16:38:42+00:00
Or what various advertising companies (and the advertisers) would pay to know where you shop.

Connect what gas you buy, what grocery or gym you go to, what restaurants you eat at with your name, address, and probably ip. And note this is significantly facilitated if they have a direct billing relationship with the driver: that's how they're getting clean phone, name, ip (gotta login to put that card in), etc.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-02 16:38:59+00:00
>There was never any danger of public education,

For those who have changed the world to what it is today, and want that but more, I'm sure public schools have always been something to celebrate. I am not one of those people, however.

>though, is the benefit of public education.

That benefit, even when I treat it with the most generous interpretation, is gone and has been for awhile. People whose children attend public school do not benefit from this, their children are being shut out of the economy in favor of bringing in workers from other countries. The political apparatus benefits, if those children are indoctrinated to vote correctly even as they grow up to only be fit to get a 20-hour part time job at Starbucks. Even now, you're worried about the politics in this very comment, you don't really care that those children won't grow up to earn a viable livelihood.

>Within a month he illegally disbanded USAID.

Oh noes! I too wish that the United States would spend millions and billions on foreigners in foreign countries. Won't anyone think of the CIA soft power we're losing?
by punk_ihaq | 2025-10-02 16:39:07+00:00
Congrats on the launch! The quickstart with the demo data was easy to follow. I've wanted a tool like this where I [1] can self-serve and test hypotheses about our data models without being an expert in data engineering (complex joins, multiple sources, entity resolution, normalization, etc) and [2] don't have to wait for days to hear back from our data team. Looks like it does both, nice. Now time to connect to some sample BigQuery and GA data and see if it's as easy as the demo..
by burkaman | 2025-10-02 16:39:18+00:00
You're right, I guess "overly masculine" is the core of what I didn't understand. I don't know what that means, and while I can imagine someone being disappointed if they couldn't find any books with masculine characters and themes (which I think we agree are not hard to find, even among award nominees), I can't imagine someone finding those but thinking "but these aren't overly masculine, that's what I want". If you have some examples other than Cormac McCarthy books I think it would help explain the concept.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-02 16:39:45+00:00
It is not mutually exclusive, as people can be both pernicious and stupid if they choose to be...

https://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidi...

Engagement is mostly derived from upset people, and thus algorithms or clowns behave in unsustainable ways to make millions of pennies.

Academic bias arises from the ivory tower phenomena in a walled garden, and if some naive kid is often told they are the best-of-the-best special... they tend to truly believe the rhetoric as they slowly indenture themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Most HR folks quickly tire of entitled peoples petulance, as no matter how conventionally "smart" a applicant may be... no office wants to deal with drama everyday. =3
by myrmidon | 2025-10-02 16:39:57+00:00
I do agree that sidestepping income taxes is too easy in the first place, but that is on legislators, too (and lowering those top tax brackets is just unhelpful in any case).

I find the notion that you should pay less tax on capital gains asinine, too; it makes no sense to me that people should have to pay less tax on income that they didn't even work for.

My belief is that people were blind to growing income inequality and flawed taxation schemes because there was enough growth to paper over the resulting issues, but this stops being the case.

Specifically housing, I'd argue, has not become so expensive because of greedy construction workers (or immigrants, or regulation) but because average homeowners have to compete against an increasingly wealthy upper-class that sees real estate as a pure investment/rent extraction mechanism.
by stetrain | 2025-10-02 16:40:45+00:00
Built-in navigation is more important and useful for long trips in an EV, where you want the nav to have detailed information on how much battery charge you have left and incorporate charging stops along your trip.

That's basically Tesla's secret sauce, their charger network + in-car nav makes taking trips in an EV pretty easy.

Android Auto and CarPlay are starting to incorporate these features though for cars that support sending those stats to the phone.
by anovikov | 2025-10-02 16:40:45+00:00
Legislators sure because their asses depend on it. But common people? And this is the worst perversion of democratic principles in America and if people were even halfways rational they'd go full rage over. But no one seems to give a damn.

Only big issue that's visible in public space that's not entirely made up, is immigration - but even there, views are deeply partisan and completely divorced from reality on both ends.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-02 16:40:51+00:00
What if they leave?

Their company already don't produce much in France, it's all imported. They are paying minimal taxes already on what they produce and sell outside of France. And they don't pay taxes personally. So what would we lose if they leave?

For the things that are actually made in France, it's because they have to. They would have moved it already otherwise. So it's physical assets and people that can't be moved or sourced elsewhere. So what they have to produce there, they will still do. Their real estate, their logistic chain vehicles, and their local workshops will stay here. Even if they would sell part of it in fact, the actual physical stuff would stay here.

And what they sell here, they will still do: they are not going to exit the French market just because they can't be physically here so it's not going to affect the economy that much. What, less jet and luxury hotels revenue? It's ok.

And of course, we can increase taxes on their companies so that they get less revenue to compensate for their exile. We tax trading or exporting French-based company stocks so that they can't move that around without paying first.

Besides, once a stock is bought from the IPO, moving it from hand to hand is not investing more money into the company in any way. It's not going back into the economy.

They can move with their bank accounts and bonds, why do we care? It's not something that goes into our economy. They made sure of it.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-02 16:41:19+00:00
> When I ask Claude to find bugs in my 20kloc C library it more or less just splits the file(s) into smaller chunks and greps for specific code patterns and in the end just gives me a list of my own FIXME comments (lol), which tbh is quite underwhelming - a simple bash script could do that too.

Here's a technique that often works well for me: When you get unexpectedly poor results, ask the LLM what it thinks an effective prompt would look like, e.g. "How would you prompt Claude Code to create a plan to effectively review code for logic bugs, ignoring things like FIXME and TODO comments?"

The resulting prompt is too long to quote, but you can see the raw result here: https://gist.github.com/CharlesWiltgen/ef21b97fd4ffc2f08560f...

From there, you can make any needed improvements, turn it into an agent, etc.
by diggan | 2025-10-02 16:41:27+00:00
> Creativity is fun. AIs automate that away.

I've been developing with LLMs on my side for months/about a year now, and feels like it's allowing me to be more creative, not less. But I'm not doing any "vibe-coding", maybe that's why?

The creative parts (for me) is coming up with the actual design of the software, and how it all fits together, what it should do and how, and I get to do that more than ever now.
by galenmarchetti | 2025-10-02 16:41:49+00:00
we're using OpenAI's API for business. they don't train on data sent to the business api, unlike the consumer tier

this is still an early beta, so at the moment everything is only available with OpenAI's API. however, for people who want to use it in a higher security environment, we'll support switching OpenAI with any hosted model API including on-premise or models held in private VPCs. that way people can manage their data with no exfiltration to a third party
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-02 16:42:02+00:00
Another way to manipulate politicians:

"Gee, dat dere shore is a nice marriage ya gots dere. It'd shore be a shame, if da wifey wuz t' find out about ya mistress..."

That was pretty much how J. Edgar Hoover was able to grab Congress by the short hairs for years.
by farski | 2025-10-02 16:42:02+00:00
This was my plan for my dad's PC, but, while he uses an iPad he uses for the vast majority of his browsing/email/etc, he uses his PC to do his taxes and the taxes of quite a few other people. TurboTax is dropping support for Windows 10 for next year's edition. Based on everything I've seen, it simply won't run (or that's how they are communicating it). So now I need to replace my dad's 3 or 4 year old computer only because of TPM. TT is saying they're doing this because Windows 10 support is ending, which obviously it isn't. Bad decision making on both ends, but the outcome is the same: I have to basically get rid of a very nice computer.

I'm holding out as long as possible, hoping that reason re-enters the game, but I'm not holding my breath.
by vkou | 2025-10-02 16:42:03+00:00
This government went about arresting a man who is legally here and has been convicted of no crimes, throwing him into a tropical prison for an indefinite sentence without a trial, then when a judge orders him released, insisting that it can't do it (meanwhile, it was sending more people to that prison), then, weeks later, when it did release and return him, immediately arrests him again, charged him with a bunch of crimes, had a judge orders him released pending trial, then arrested him again and gave him the option between confessing and being exiled to a country he's never even been to?

If you think this is normal, and legal, and makes you happy and that a 48% mandate lets you and your friends make this utter mockery of the law - you are absolutely an authoritarian. This utterly pisses on every American value, and half the constitution and the rule of law to boot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego...
by owais1412 | 2025-10-02 16:42:14+00:00
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by tpmoney | 2025-10-02 16:42:30+00:00
> I sincerely worry about their ability to live if looking a box is causing a truly remarkable level of distress.

It’s sort of built into the definition of a disorder that otherwise normal stressors or negative pressures have an outsized and excessive impact on the person with the disorder relative to what it would be if they didn’t have the disorder.

Think of it like this, if I punch you as hard as I can in your leg, that might hurt quite a bit and make you favor your leg for a few hours. But if you have a broken leg and I do the same thing it’s going to be much worse for you and you won’t recover nearly is quickly. The input hasn’t changed, only the underlying condition that amplifies the results of that input.

And if you had a broken leg and I did punch you as hard as I could, no one would really be “worried for your ability to live” if you complained that my doing that ruined your ability to function today and tomorrow. Because of course it did, you have a broken leg.

Same idea here. Autism makes the inputs excessively intense. The only difference is se expect your broken leg to eventually heal, and we generally don’t go around punching people in their legs. But autism doesn’t heal and we do live in a word of intense advertising and flash in an attempt to grab your attention.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 16:42:32+00:00
> What's wrong with Win 11 exactly?

There's the obvious telemetry, MS account requirement for home editions, and other MS dark patterns for one.

But, Windows 11 performance is still crap compared to 10, and even 7. The right click menu in explorer is still high latency, and if you have a lot of extensions, you see "loading..." and it can take a good full second for all menu options to show up. Also, you still can't move the task bar, search is as garbage as ever (but honestly that's expected from Windows at this point).

Windows 11 does have some nice features, especially once combined with PowerToys. I still prefer the way Windows manages Windows compared to my mac which I need 3 third party apps at this point to make usable, and WSL2 is neat, windows has native SSH now, etc.

It could be a great OS if Microsoft could get their heads out of their rears and fix the performance issues, and stop with the advertising, telemetry and dark patterns.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-02 16:42:55+00:00
Generally speaking you start doing that stuff once you get to 3 or more storeys, which is why residential mass builds are typically 2 or less. Workers’ compensation will specifically have job categories for work done on buildings 2 storeys or less, and it goes way up once you get to 3 (and even more for 4+).

Even with all the gear, an unpredictable 80 lb object hurtling towards you is a major problem. Not to mention becoming a problem for any standing below.
by jerknextdoor | 2025-10-02 16:42:59+00:00
From the article:

> "What does this mean for you as a Signal user? First, when it comes to your experience using the app, nothing changes. Second, because of how we’re rolling this out and mixing it in with our existing encryption, eventually all of your conversations will move to this new protocol without you needing to take any action. Third, and most importantly, this protects your communications both now and in the event that cryptographically relevant quantum computers eventually become a reality, and it allows us to maintain our existing security guarantees of forward secrecy and post-compromise security as we proactively prepare for that new world."
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-02 16:43:23+00:00
I'm a bit surprised that Brooks is focusing on sensory and electro-mechanical issues as being what's holding back humanoid robotics...

Just being the shape of a human means nothing if it doesn't also have the brain of a human, which is needed if it's meant to be general purpose, or at least adaptable to a useful variety of tasks.

How exactly are these robots meant to be trained for new tasks (or just same task, different factory, or different work station)? It seems that to be useful they'd need to be able to learn on the job. Even if they've been pre-trained in simulation to do a wide variety of things, and take natural language or imitation instruction, they are still going to need to bridge the sim-2-real gap, and book smart to proficient gap, to be able to perform, and that'd at least require runtime learning.

Tesla/Musk seem to think that they're already in the robotics business with self-driving cars trained in simulation, but a car only has two degrees of freedom (speed and steering angle), and only performs one task - driving. A general-purpose humanoid robot is a whole other level of complexity.
by diggan | 2025-10-02 16:43:36+00:00
> (and it's one of the poorest-rated models if you look at some comments).

Yeah, don't listen to "wisdom of the crowd" when it comes to LLM models, there seems to be a ton of fud going on, especially on subreddits.

GPT-OSS was piled on for being dumb in the first week of release, yet none of the software properly supported it at launch. As soon as it was working properly in llama.cpp, it was clear how strong the model was, but at that point the popular sentiments seems to have spread and solidified.
by hidaisy | 2025-10-02 16:43:41+00:00
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