MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-13 17:42:38+00:00
> The business loses employees to Walmart etc. despite the factory having higher pay and significantly better benefits.

Q: Do you ever use an online job service to advertise jobs and collect applications?

Asking because my 5 sons all learned that job portals auto-trash applications w/o a job history (1st time job seekers).

Other viable but never-seen applicants: Minimal or sporadic job history, the most minimal of criminal records, the wrong zip code.

Seen but never hired: Fully qualified people who are awful at job interviews.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-13 17:42:46+00:00
imho the occasional mixup is going to happen, and eventually it'll be big like this or like Crowdstrike, but pushing these out on Fridays means the critical staff isn't there to help. The people who could have communicated this stuff to customers and dealerships were in bed when people got into their jeeps at 6am on Saturday after an overnight update.

I believe crowdstrike's update was on a Friday night as well.

Unless its a serious security bug, it can wait for not only for better QA testing but also for next Tuesday. Read-on Fridays need to be an industry-wide thing.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-10-13 17:42:51+00:00
not a particularly ethical guy and I wouldn't hold him up as a example of morality but the guy hasn't actually been found guilty YET. Multiple courts have tried. You'd think that for a guy under as much scrutiny as him that they would have SOMETHING to pin him on by now.

Innocent until PROVEN guilty is a foundational legal precedent for a reason.
by Arnt | 2025-10-13 17:42:59+00:00
Uh, .to is a ccTLD, over which ICANN has no jurisdiction. ICANN doesn't even have a contract with ccTLD registries. There are just mutual letters along the lines of "hi there icann, we operate .to, our address is [...], we'll let you know about any address changes, regards, tonic ceo".
by zajio1am | 2025-10-13 17:43:35+00:00
If i understand InvisiCaps Fil-C correctly, it does not allow capability restriction (as metadata are stored at the beginning of each object), while with CHERI one can take ptr/capability for an object, restrict it to a capability for a sub-object, pass that to a callee (with function call), and the callee can access only the sub-object.

This also means Fil-C seems not to be really helpful when a program uses its own allocators on top of malloc() or page allocation from OS, while with CHERI this works naturally through capability restriction.
by lseskis | 2025-10-13 17:43:43+00:00
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by jsight | 2025-10-13 17:44:10+00:00
This is a 4xe. It is a gas jeep with an overpriced, undersized battery and motor bolted on.

It can be started just like all the other gas cars.

Although even with full EVs, there's a reasonable concept of a "start". Some even let you essentially unlock and allow driving remotely, even if the local driver doesn't have a key. That's useful sometimes.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-13 17:44:25+00:00
> or perhaps it means that they plan to expand their TV offering so as to merit being something more than just a "plus"

That's an interesting point. One potential reason to simplify the service's base name is to allow for segmentation, e.g. Apple TV Ultra.

I think there's a reasonable possibility that they'll introduce a <$100 device in an effort to 10X their living room user base, in which case we might see something like an Apple Theater Pro and an Apple Theater mini.
by cjflog | 2025-10-13 17:44:36+00:00
Thanks for pointing this out. I will clear it up!

I certainly want to avoid any weird incentive misalignment. Because the testing is done by an accredited lab that provides an official Certificate of Analysis, I think I could reasonably accept funding from manufacturers once I build out a feature that would will allow visitors to download the COA PDF.

No manufacturer has reached out directly yet, presumably because a) this project is small and still gaining trust and b) they would probably want to do testing privately and avoid publication of 'bad' results anyway.
by jlokier | 2025-10-13 17:44:55+00:00
> - You're basically at risk of your Jeep going limp (power loss, unable to safely make it to the shoulder) and being stranded on the highway, even as I write this.

This seems extraordinary.

I was going to ask: Are you really saying they kill the vehicle's power system, effictively the engine, while the vehicle is being driven on the highway?

But no need to ask, the article says yes, that's what is reported:

> Instead, the failure appears to occur while driving—a far more serious problem. For some, this happened close to home and at low speed, but others claim to have experienced a powertrain failure at highway speeds.

Wow.
by rahen | 2025-10-13 17:45:00+00:00
Isn't money just bits too nowadays?

As far as I understand, Bitcoin is backed by energy and scarcity, much like gold: it requires significant energy to "mine" a Bitcoin, and it can't be easily duplicated, if at all. That's its intrinsic value, unlike fiat currencies that can be printed easily (correct me if I'm wrong).

I also believe that even gold has little intrinsic value, perhaps even less than steel. Ultimately, it's really a question of how valuable something is as a medium of exchange. Bitcoin is durable, portable, divisible, scarce, verifiable, and decentralized, which makes it a valuable form of currency. I suppose that's its exchange value.
by MrMcDowall | 2025-10-13 17:45:22+00:00
I'm a solo dev working on what started out as an interstitial journalling tool, but is now morphed into a local first native set of tools for thinking and writing. Tools for the end of the internet, you might say.

Current version is over at https://owl.so but the local first native app (Owl/2) is about to hit beta real soon.
by keiferski | 2025-10-13 17:45:24+00:00
Yes, but I guess my point is that this is just another symptom of the polarization problem, and not some unique nightmare scenario where AI has mass influence over what people think and vote on.

So it matters in the same way that the billions of dollars currently put toward this small silver matter, just in a more efficient and effective way. That isn't something to ignore, but it's also not a doomsday scenario IMO.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-13 17:45:55+00:00
An FYI for the future, but backup cameras are considered a safety system and manufacturers are required to repair issues they've caused in safety systems regardless of warranty status. The appropriate escalation if the manufacturer doesn't recognize this is to get NHTSA involved with a safety complaint [0]. That's the main way recalls happen.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem
by rsyring | 2025-10-13 17:46:17+00:00
I've never tried to use ptrace-read to read secrets from a running process's memory so I can't comment on that part.

I had always assumed getting secrets from a running process' memory was non-trivial and/or required root permissions but maybe that's a bad assumption.

However, reading a process' environment is as trivial as:

`cat /proc/123456/environ`

as long as it's ran by the same user. No ptrace-read required.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-13 17:46:23+00:00
There are both red states and blue states in places in the US that are good for solar power (rural, lots of sun). The sunny American southwest with huge amounts of empty desert land good for solar arrays includes the states of California (blue), Arizona (red), Nevada (toss-up), New Mexico (blue), and Texas (red). And the party that a state's population prefers in presidential elections isn't stable over mutli-decade time periods, but this doesn't change suitability for solar energy production.
by cjflog | 2025-10-13 17:46:24+00:00
Thanks, and yes these improvements are on my roadmap!

I'm working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.
by cjflog | 2025-10-13 17:46:38+00:00
Thanks, and yes these improvements are on my roadmap!

I'm working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.
by jackphilson | 2025-10-13 17:46:54+00:00
not derailing, just pointing out effective ways of producing good which is what i was responding to. i think its good for people to be aware of this. those people are all examples of people who have influenced culture for bad. you can do it for good: bryan johnson, civil rights leaders, leftist streamers. andrew tate was just the most effective, recent, and obvious one which is why I pointed him out.
by sussmannbaka | 2025-10-13 17:47:06+00:00
It turns out that offline is less annoying than online now. sure, you can't block the ads, but at least none of my daily transactions make me wish great harm upon the other person. everything in the article is enabled by the customer not being able to punch the engineer, who coded the feature, in the face. or management, who demanded the feature to be as horrible as possible, A/B-tested to perfect the needle with which it will torment you. being shielded and removed to this degree from the user, the customer, doesn't drive healthy products.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-13 17:47:20+00:00
There are definitely bazaars which have a very old history. Being that the word "bazaar" has middle-eastern origins it feels appropriate to highlight middle eastern bazaars. Al-Madina Souq in Aleppo is one such bazaar with quite a few shops/stalls/"souqs" dating back to the 1300's or 1400's, such as Khan al-Qadi (est. 1450). Khan el-Khalili in Cairo has its economic marketplace origins rooted in the 1100's-1300's.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-13 17:48:15+00:00
The interns are likely using LLMs then.

LLMs tend to be very long-winded. One of my personal "tells" of an LLM-written blog post is that it's way too long relative to the actual information it contains.

So if the interns are getting multi-page walls of text from their constituents, I would not be surprised if they are asking LLMs to summarize.
by pizlonator | 2025-10-13 17:48:54+00:00
Yeah this is a benefit of CHERI.

The fact that InvisiCaps don’t support capability restriction is a choice though. I could have made them support that feature. I didn’t because I’m going for C/C++ compatibility and the only way to make meaningful use of capability restriction is to change people’s code.

Worth noting that if a program has its own allocator then you have to make more than zero changes in both Fil-C and in CHERI to get the benefit:

- In fil-C you just get rid of the custom allocator.

- In CHERI you make the allocator do capability restriction, which is actually kinda hard to get right (if the allocator’s metadata doesn’t also do capability restriction and the allocator uses inline free lists then that could easily turn into a full blown capability escape).
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-13 17:49:02+00:00
> How do you "checkout single files" in git? What does that mean?

git checkout 0a123 -- <filename>

So the answer is jj restore. Thanks.

Checkout means that the version of some files at some commit is "checked out" in the worktree. So all these things are mostly the same in Git terms. The arbitrary split into switch and restore is confusing to me.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-13 17:49:14+00:00
Brick is now slang for a lot of fail conditions that aren't classically 'bricked.' This has become really common I've noticed. Honestly, this ship has sailed and isn't even worth fighting anymore. Its like Xerox asking people to stop calling copies Xeroxes.

We just never bothered to develop a new term. Maybe 'soft-bricked?' 'Semi-bricked?' I would like journalists at least to start using more accurate terms, but 'bricked' I imagine gets a lot more engagement and ad impressions, so here we are.
by mindslight | 2025-10-13 17:49:22+00:00
Did you miss my sentence right before that?

> I've talked to people who voted for Trump subsequently regretted it after they saw what he is actually doing.

Don't focus on his "base". They're demented slobs like him, or foreign AI-bots boosting destructive messages to harm our country.

Focus on the people who were misled into thinking the grass would be greener on the other side, as they were frustrated with the status quo and believed Trump's word salad implied some actual reform.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-13 17:49:22+00:00
Name a single bazaar vendor that's still going more than 50 years in any of them. The bazaar as an institution remains, as it does today, but there's no permanence with a bazaar, just as open-source will never have a permanent victory without becoming a cathedral. Bazaars persist through constant replacement, churn, not victory.

Windows NT will be with us longer than systemd and flatpak.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-10-13 17:49:26+00:00
> Two extra characters per rep, each involving a "shift"

You'd expect text editors to do this automatically; I'll admit, I don't think mine does.

> and it's furthermore an eyesore to read

We'll have to disagree on that one because I think it looks a lot nicer. I always preferred quoted attributes in html too.

> How is it that the comments on this post seem to consist 100% of people who think JSON is the perfect language

I'm sure you intended that as hyperbole. JSON isn't perfect, but it's got a lot going for it, not least ubiquity.

> Use JSON for configuration for literally 5 minutes and you will get annoyed at quoting keys, lacking comments, escaping long strings, and juggling commas.

I've used JSON for configuration loads and haven't faced these issues. I'm not denying your experience, I just want to understand it.
by rouslyrunn | 2025-10-13 17:49:40+00:00
Sharing because it was such an obvious insight once I discovered it and I’ve suffered from migraines for years.

Blood sugar. Turned out I was having hypos. I’ve found now that just a spoonful of honey when I feel them coming on normally reduces my migraines to headaches, which I can manage myself with paracetamol

Sorry - not directly related to your post but still perhaps useful
by like_any_other | 2025-10-13 17:49:46+00:00
But Apple will change those "warnings" into straight-up lies, and fail to mention the user can override them, and hide those overrides in non-discoverable places:

Whenever I try to open an unverified app, this popup comes up saying "[AppName] Not Opened" "Apple could not verify [AppName] is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy." Then there's only two options to either press "Done" or "Move to Trash." - https://old.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1ekv55h/cant_right_cli...

Your only option is to click on OK button, which won’t open the app. So how do you do it? - http://www.peter-cohen.com/2016/12/how-to-open-a-mac-app-fro...

Apple knowingly falsely claiming unsigned apps are "damaged": https://appletoolbox.com/app-is-damaged-cannot-be-opened-mac...
by bluGill | 2025-10-13 17:49:55+00:00
Just reread this and realized I probably didn't answer the question as you meant to ask it.

If you read close you said GPS is not helpful for safety, but I didn't say it was useless for other purposes.

When you are in a car you are only rarely in a situation where it is even possible for you to be on a different road than what the GPS says. Which is more likely, a car is driving through the fence around my yard, or driving on the road. For navigation it is almost always good enough to assume you are on the one road that it is legal to travel on that is within the error bars. Only in a few cases is there a "frontage road" where there are two options that you can't be sure of which one you are on. In other cases where you cannot be sure you will quickly have moved far enough along the road that the other choice isn't viable anymore.

For lane-level navigation this precision isn't as helpful as you might expect because you can never be sure if your maps are correct. So your navigation systems needs to take other inputs which will sometimes discover the map is incorrect/out of date.

It might be helpful in weather events where the road is completely ice covered - but those are also situations where GPS signals are most likely to be obscured (via cloud cover) and so again you need somethings.

Still if you have more data it can be helpful. However it is only helpful when you can handle it being wrong.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-13 17:50:17+00:00
Ah, seems like you folks arguing from two different Epistemologies? [1]

We already know that two different Epistemologies won't necessarily map perfectly to each other, though you might get close.

Might still be interesting to compare notes on what you can and can't predict/achieve with each!

[1] Edit : I can't quite lay my finger on which epistemologies exactly. Tsimionescu is using strong Empirical arguments, while mjburgess is inspired on Searle, which is pretty apt here, of course!
by WillAdams | 2025-10-13 17:50:27+00:00
Yeah, when Fall Creators Update came out for Windows 10, it crippled styluses down to an 11th touch input --- I very nearly returned my then-new Samsung Galaxy Book 12 --- rolled back, and stayed on the previous version for _years_.

Currently using a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- have to keep the Settings app in the Task bar so I can toggle stylus behaviour depending on which app I run, and use Firefox w/ a specific setting to enable text selection/disable stylus scrolling (scrolling w/ touch feels far more natural).

I'm about at the point where I'm going to make a Cyberdeck using an rPi 5 and Wacom Movink or Wacom One display....
by kapone | 2025-10-13 17:50:36+00:00
While I mostly agree with you...

>The US Dollar has never been 100% backed by any metal.

This is not accurate but the devil is always in the details. What exactly does "backed by" mean? If we mean pre Bretton Woods (1971), then, for all intents and purposes it WAS backed by Gold, not just a promise. The federal reserve could not conjure up fiat dollars on theirs (or anybody else's) whims and fancies.

Pre-1971 US dollars could be freely traded/swapped for gold at any bank at the then rate of 1oz of Gold = $35. This was written in stone.

Of course, then Nixon did what he did in 1971, and as they say the rest is history.

p.s. The Bretton Woods Agreement/system/whatever you wanna call it, came into being in the aftermath of WWII, in 1944. This was [1] essentially an agreement that those 44 countries will use the US dollar (and by correlation, the USD<->gold peg) as long as the (US) powers that be didn't fuck it up.

p.s.2 - A lot of people don't realize that these accords were what established the IMF, and the beginning the World Bank, BIS etc.

So, what happened in 1971 and what did Nixon do?

"On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon announced his New Economic Policy, a program “to create a new prosperity without war.” Known colloquially as the “Nixon shock,” the initiative marked the beginning of the end for the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates established at the end of World War II." - per US Office of the Historian.

So, yes, things can change due to government actions, and yes Bitcoin and its peers could be rendered worthless in a heartbeat, if the power that be want it.

>What really backs the US dollar is the US military Agreed. But as always there's a time factor. This was true around that time, but not so much today in 2025. While the European military assets are not worth talking about, China and Russia both have continued developing those assets and do present an equalizer today. Are they equal to/better/worse than the US military is somewhat of a moot point. They exist. That in itself is the point.

[1] - The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among 44 countries, including the United States, Canada, Western European countries, and Australia,[1] after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement until the Jamaica Accords in 1976. - As per Wikipedia.
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-13 17:50:56+00:00
Not sure about the warranty effect, but on many other vehicles there are also bypass cables for the telematics units that allow you to physically remove them entirely from the car without losing any functionality (well, other than the online functionality obviously).

In my case, I'll gladly take potentially voiding the warranty on a car that almost certainly has it expired anyway, over being surveilled and monitored by the manufacturer so my usage habits can be reported to insurance companies.
by belter | 2025-10-13 17:51:30+00:00
Science is not about where you test hypotheses, but how. Astrophysics builds falsifiable models and checks them against reality like spectra, gravitational waves, etc... When predictions fail, theories change.

If these were economists, they would check if their equations match the economic universe they live in. :-) Instead, they conclude the agents just “did not behave rationally enough”.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-13 17:52:18+00:00
Ya, that is shockingly scary. It makes me think we need some new standards about software updates to vehicles in general (or perhaps these already exist but were missed for some reason?). I can totally imagine that software used to be this ancillary selling point that didn't need such tight regulation, but as it becomes core infrastructure for the vehicle this is less of an IoT toy, and deserves stricter standards.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-13 17:52:31+00:00
I think the nature of capitalism will make this impossible. The capital owning class will not allow criminal action for this and will also fight any common-sense regulations. If the working class gets that regulation in via the democratic process, that's fine, but its unlikely especially since it hasn't happened yet since we've gone digital on near everything starting from the 70s and 80s.

The working class lately seems more focused on 'culture war' issues and not economic or material or consumer or worker's rights issues anyway, so we're probably as far from any kind of regulation reform in software as possible. I remember a couple decades ago FOSS as an ideal seemed stronger and you had people like Lessig pushing hard for IP reform and Swartz and others for 'information must be free' honest-to-goodness mainstream movements and all of that seems to have went nowhere and is somewhat to very unpopular today. When was the last time you saw a populist movement towards liberal tech reform like this? Outside of some edge cases like medicine or power generation, the regulations here are purposely kept weak because that's what the wealthy desire.

Maybe our kids or grandkids will have this after the pendulum swings back, shrug.
by alphazard | 2025-10-13 17:52:36+00:00
I don't agree that wanting to further one's own career is complex or sinister. If the enforcement of laws wasn't aligned with career progress it would be bad for enforcement, including the laws that you and I want enforced.

Even if the goal is just enforcement, you would get more enforcement, collect more fines, if you didn't put your ability to actually collect fines into question. When 4chan successfully defends itself and the UK extracts no money, that will show US companies which would have been in doubt, that they can also defend themselves.