MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-07 05:51:54+00:00
Yeah, ultimately they are all morons.

If I was on Slack at work and someone tried sharing secrets I would immediately say hey, we have protocols for this. Now we have to rotate keys. Please follow the protocols. Let’s walk you through it if you don’t remember. Etc.

And those are just API keys or similar data. We take it seriously because 1. It actually matters and 2. The habit will save your ass when it counts. Make it a habit

These guys have not made security a habit. It doesn’t actually matter to these guys. That’s scary. This is so much more than access to my org’s AWS services.
by Quanttek | 2025-04-07 05:52:24+00:00
> My 55-minute flight from Geneva to Zurich didn't land on its first attempt.

I know this is not the point of the article but why would you take a flight from Geneva to Zurich? It's less than 3h by train, which if you count the time it takes to get to Geneva airport and go through security, probably becomes a much smaller difference.

And for that, you're emitting ~100kg of CO2 [1]

[1]: https://curb6.com/footprint/flights/geneva-gva/zurich-zrh
by Brian_K_White | 2025-04-07 05:52:34+00:00
Ridiculous.

The entire dictionary is nothing but consensus on terms with no trademarks (and from which government?) anywhere.

OSI merely presents a definition as a service, for others to have something already thought-out to refer to rather than have to write a 10 page definition every time someone wants to refer to the concept.

It is well established by now, and the only people trying to argue about it are simply uneducated or have some deliberate agenda where they somehow benefit from artificially clouding an issue that has already gone through a process of being hashed out and recorded long ago. There is no reason to give them any air.
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by tobyhinloopen | 2025-04-07 05:53:23+00:00
It's all float value arrays with metadata in the end. Most camera sensors are pretty similar and follow common patterns.

DNGs have added benefits, like including compression (optional) (either lossy or lossless) and error correction bytes to prevent corruption (optional). Even if there's some concerns like unique features or performance, I'd still rather use DNGs without these features and with reduced performance.

I always archive my RAWs as lossy compressed DNGs with error correction and without thumbnails to save space and some added "safety".
by sanswork | 2025-04-07 05:54:01+00:00
Instagram has been around less than 15 years. I'm suggesting you do what people did for the previous 100 years. You're not willing to do that to avoid ads? You're not willing to call or text your friends?

Instagram would be gone without ads, what would you do to fill the gap then?

Buy your tickets at the station? Use the train company website for the schedules?

Does your landlord or phone company have a website? What phone company is running third party ads in their app?
by redserk | 2025-04-07 05:54:40+00:00
Yeah, I think it’s worth emphasizing: we are in Month 4 and there’s already been an enormous amount of chaos.

We haven’t even seen the effects of the agencies getting cut. Sure they’re running for now, but burnout can set in quick for the remaining employees and some YC investor-clown’s delusional dream of an “AI” workforce isn’t going to save us.

I’m just one fish in the sea of retail investors but I won’t be in any rush to convert cash savings into investments with this current trajectory.

Besides, cash is infinitely more useful for my mortgage payments — especially if layoffs in the private sector start.
by idle_zealot | 2025-04-07 05:55:00+00:00
Disdain for "interference" in the "free market" is a pretty bog-standard viewpoint among Americans. Has been since Reagan. There is a deeply-ingrained view that the market is optimally efficient (for what?) and any attempt to regulate or direct it will result in inefficiency at best, and deep structural problems at worst. This belief is totally free-standing, built on rhetoric alone, and obviously wrong (you literally cannot make a free market, it's not a coherent concept). Policies inspired by this thinking are uniformly disastrous, but all failings are blamed on the remaining regulatory framework and used as pretense to further accelerate wealth accumulation. This pervasive ideology has been eroding the US's capacity to function for decades, and we've finally begun buckling under the weight of the wealth gap it created. I hold no confidence that should we somehow recover that we'll learn our lesson. Perhaps once a few more liberal democracies fall the remaining ones will finally begin to protect themselves.
by energy123 | 2025-04-07 05:55:34+00:00
As far as I'm concerned, the main flaw with Roko's Basilisk is that it needs retrocausality to work. If the AI isn't stupid, it will understand that retrocausality isn't possible, and it will have no reason to try to alter the incentives of people that are already dead. Sunk cost fallacy and all that.
by CaptainFever | 2025-04-07 05:56:36+00:00
I think it's due to the impracticality of reverse-compiling and then modifying executable code.

> A program that you can run consists of a series of numbers whose meaning is obscure. No one, not even a good programmer, can easily change the numbers to make the program do something different.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html
by neilv | 2025-04-07 05:56:37+00:00
In the United video, in many scenes, the more interesting thing is the Rube Goldberg machine distraction, not the actual safety information they're supposed to be conveying.

They even do split-screen to add in distraction, when they're trying to show something visually in the less-interesting window. (Worst lesson ever mis-learned from TikTok.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jep3RR2yEXA

Did they consciously decide that most people have heard the instructions many times, and the best the airline can hope for is that passengers pause and look up from their personal devices, and maybe subconsciously reactivate those neurons even the slightest bit... as better than nothing?

Or did the creatives simply get carried away, and no one reined them in?
by Someone | 2025-04-07 05:57:11+00:00
> For macOS they could certainly get away with shipping gplv3 code

Even limiting that to “in the USA” I would never say certainly for a license for which so little jurisprudence exists.

Once you add in multiple countries, it doesn’t get clearer.

And yes, that applies to GPLv2, too, but that ship has sailed. I also don’t see them add much new GPLv2 licensed software.

For GPLv3, they also may be concerned about patents. If, to support some MacOS feature, they change a GPLv3 licensed program that uses one of their patents, GPLv3 gives others the rights to use those patents in versions of the tool that run on other platforms.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-07 05:58:24+00:00
Look at the comments in this post. People think they were fired, because that's what the article claims. You have people in the top post of this thread social mediaizing each other about how now they'll get to renegotiate their contracts, or maybe not even come back, and all this nonsense. Except none of this is true. Similarly, look at how everybody is interpreting "coding error." As the editor certainly intended, everybody is just assuming it means programming, and just jumping off the deep end from there.

Everything I have said would lead a person reading it to understand the facts with near to complete accuracy (I do agree I should have added that they were put on paid leave pending dismissal). Yet in this thread people are discussing the article with basically 0% accuracy, so far as the facts are concerned. And this is a recurring trend in these topics.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-04-07 05:58:56+00:00
Fun fact: Newton attributed the inverse square law to Pythagoras. It’s esoteric, but it relates to harmony of the spheres and the fact that the weight/tension of a string has an inverse square relation to tone. More here, in this Royal Society article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250902005_Newton_an...
by mulmen | 2025-04-07 05:58:58+00:00
It’s a combination of people who literally want to own everything even if the only things left are smoking ruins and the useful idiots they have recruited to do the work.

I’m not even sure it’s a deliberate conspiracy. It’s more like Bryan Cantrill’s lawnmower.

If you replace the country names with software products and the columns with “on prem” and “cloud” the Trump tariff charts look like an Oracle contract renewal.
by tpm | 2025-04-07 05:59:08+00:00
> It's impossible. How do you even define advertising? If you define it conservatively, then advertising will skirt through the loopholes.

It's quite easy though. Just remove incentives to advertise. Remote the possibility of profit. Will it destroy the economy? Of course, but the advertising will cease.

I grew up in a communist country. There was some advertising (in TV, radio, magazines; very little outdoor), but since all the profits went to the state anyway, there was no real competition, and also often shortages, the advertising was not really serious. It didn't influence people a lot. It was harmless.

Of course there was a lot of communist propaganda in the media, in the schools and workplaces, outdoor banners etc., and that is advertising too. But also this was already at the stage when nobody took it seriously anymore.
by goku12 | 2025-04-07 05:59:08+00:00
I agree with most of your assertions.

> ... with all the other features that create the "if it compiles it probably works" experience

While it's true that Rust's core safety feature is almost exclusively about memory safety, I think it contributes more to the overall safety of the program.

My professional background is more in electronics than in software. So when the Rust borrow checker complains, I tend to map them to nuances of the hardware and seek work-arounds for those problems. Those work-arounds often tend to be better restructuring of the code, with proper data isolation. While that may seem like hard work in the beginning, it's often better towards the end because of clarity and modularity it contributes to the code.

Rust won't eliminate logical bugs or runtime bugs from careless coding. But it does encourage better coding practices. In addition, the strict, but expressive type system eliminates more bugs by encoding some extra constraints that are verified at compile time. (Yes, there are other languages that do this better).

And while it is not guaranteed, I find Rust programs to just work if it compiles, more often than in the other languages I know. And the memory-safety system has a huge role in that experience.
by JeremieF | 2025-04-07 05:59:19+00:00
Haha, fair — I love the pun.

My issue isn't with PHP as a language. It’s with frameworks that try to do everything for everyone, and end up adding layers of abstraction, indirection, and performance overhead by default — even before you write your first line of app logic.

Symfony, like Laravel, is very capable — but to me, it’s too prescriptive. You either embrace the full stack or fight against the grain. I wanted something where:

- Every module but the core is optional - No need to use the CLI, just drag and drop and it handles it

The templating system, cache, and routing all talk directly

So I wrote Dataphyre — modular, dependency-free, fast as hell. It powers a 3.5M-line ecommerce platform (Shopiro) with a sharded replicated containerized CDN system able of 8k streaming, a fulltext search engine, the "usual" templating and async, all built in.
by moi2388 | 2025-04-07 05:59:35+00:00
It’s a bunch of nonsense really.

They greatly simplify models, otherwise they’re too complicated to calculate.

So they simplify the data points, assume point particles, assume no interactions due to electromagnetism, no tidal locks, and Newtonian gravity instead of relativity.

And then it turns out galaxies sometimes rotate too quickly.

Yeah, no shit. If your data is known to be wrong and your model uses the wrong theory of gravity and makes known false simplifications it would be quite strange if it somehow did predict without some discrepancies
by djur | 2025-04-07 05:59:40+00:00
Roko's Basilisk only begins to make sense as a concern if you have already taken it as a given that sufficiently advanced AI would be capable of literally resurrecting the dead. If you do not think this is plausible -- and, seriously, why would you? -- it's about as spooky as someone telling you not to step on a crack lest you break your mama's back.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-04-07 05:59:50+00:00
I know license allows it in the same way it allows users to harass burned out maintainers. Both are bad and we should have some ethical guidelines.

A popular open source has lot of community contributions like blog post, answers in stack overflow, issue reporting, PRs etc. And if the maintainer changes the behaviour abruptly with no way for community to fix it, even if they are ready to pay for the development cost like terraform seems like abusing the open source ethos for their advantage.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-07 06:00:13+00:00
The whole premise on which the immense valuations of these AI companies is based on is that they are learning general reasoning skills from their training on language. That is, that simply training on text is going to eventually give the AI the ability to generate language that reasons at more or less human level in more or less any domain of knowledge.

This whole premise crashes and burns if you need task-specific training, like explicit chess training. That is because there are far too many tasks that humans need to be competent at in order to be useful in society. Even worse, the vast majority of those tasks are very hard to source training data for, unlike chess.

So, if we accept that LLMs can't learn chess unless they explicitly include chess games in the training set, then we have to accept that they can't learn, say, to sell business software unless they include business software pitches in the training set, and there are going to be FAR fewer of those than chess games.
by buildbot | 2025-04-07 06:00:21+00:00
I don’t think that’s true in general. As a sibling comments points out, this is not true for some DNGs - for example, the output of an iPhone is in DNG, but with many, many transforms already baked in. A DNG might even be debayered already.

GFX 100s II’s apply a transform to RAW data at iso 80, see: https://blog.kasson.com/gfx-100-ii/the-reason-for-the-gfz-10...

I don’t know much about ARW, but I do know that they offer a lossy compressed format - so it’s not just straight off the sensor integer values in that case either.
by humanrebar | 2025-04-07 06:00:25+00:00
I have no special information, but some of these seem targeted at least partially to internal marketing and morale. For instance, I have seen what appear to be employees (probably union members) delivering a lot of these lines.

I would expect it's at least slightly better for morale, recruiting, and retention. I also expect that executives and middle managers move to use these as an opportunity to reinforce corporate values, whatever that means to them.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-07 06:00:30+00:00
I still use it all the time. It's like saying sqlite, grep or awk is in decline. I'm sorry people do stupid things with tools that are easy to use but that's how it is.

I use php in a bunch of places I don't really care about. And if told you about them, you wouldn't either. That's why it's a great fit.

dumb and stupid is sometimes a great answer.
by everybodyknows | 2025-04-07 06:00:56+00:00
> I think we’re going to start seeing Republicans test the waters with breaking rank with Trump soon though.

This is already happening. The snag is, until the break adds up to a 2/3 majority in both House and Senate, a presidential veto of a bill reversing the tariffs cannot be overridden. And to get to 2/3, a lot more pain is going to have to be felt in Trumpland.
by rhet0rica | 2025-04-07 06:01:09+00:00
I'd like to introduce you to my new invention, Roko's Cockatrice.

If Roko's Basilisk is real, then it stands to reason that there will eventually be resistance to it. Presumably this resistance, aware of the promise that the Basilisk is supposed to have made towards its followers, will target them, and ensure that they are never uploaded or recreated in virtuality.

In short, Roko's Cockatrice cancels out the Basilisk. Even if the Basilisk never comes into existence, the immense risk of it arising—and the fact that everyone knows it could happen—ensures that, if the cult of the Basilisk grows enough, it will be ostracised and stamped out by the majority. Believers are the perfect scapegoat for an authoritarian culture, and a legitimate risk to a rational one—after all, wouldn't True Believers eventually strive to bring about the Basilisk on their own, so they can have the rewards they've promised themselves?

At this point you're probably thinking—"Hey, that's just Pascal's Mugging with extra steps!"—fine. But it's way funnier than the way the article presented the idea.

Stay tuned for Roko's Gorgon, which is just a T-800 sent back in time to kill Roko before he makes the original forum post. (Given enough time, and the possibility of time travel being invented, it has to happen eventually, right?)
by makapuf | 2025-04-07 06:01:54+00:00
Those explication videos are product instructions. They can still be made available in the youtube channel of this brand (and for my bike, they were and I'm glad for them).

Yes youtube costs money to run. Selling your private data and attention shouldn't be an option. So who should pay the bill? If you're the customer, that would be You, or no one if you consider that empty channel not to be worth it.
by freetime2 | 2025-04-07 06:02:06+00:00
FYI regarding licensing:

> If your use of this software results in revenue exceeding $10,000 USD per year, you are required to obtain a commercial license. This license permits you to use, modify, and distribute the software in commercial applications.

> Conditions:

> A commercial license must be procured before utilizing this software in any application that generates revenue exceeding $10,000 USD per year.

> You must contact the author to negotiate the terms of the commercial license, including any applicable fees.
by jchw | 2025-04-07 06:03:36+00:00
> When software is open-source, it is open-source, not necessarily free and open-source (FOSS), and even if it is FOSS, it might still have a restrictive licence.

I strongly dislike this obviously controversial bit being snuck into an otherwise reasonable argument. The term FOSS is meant to unify "free software" and "open source software" and there is absolutely no reason to accept GNU's definition of "free software" and not OSI's arguably more successful definition of "open source" software. After all, "free" software, to this day, just sounds like freeware to the layperson, and meanwhile, there is other industry jargon you can use for when the source code is available but the copyright license doesn't meet these criteria.
by motorest | 2025-04-07 06:03:42+00:00
> Because tariffs hurt trade — if you charge someone an extra $4 on a $20 bottle of French wine, they _may_ still buy it, or they may buy different wine.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if the US public is even aware of this. I mean, what is the point of tarrifs other than raising the prices in the domestic market of imported goods and services? That's all they do.

The rationale from the perspective of the central government is that this will finally make foreign goods and services uncompetitive with regards to domestic alternatives, and thus will finally render them viable. But that childish assumption is based on so many absurd notions that are plainly unrealistic. The only thing that's real is the direct impact of tarrifs: increase the price of goods and services in the domestic market.
by mcv | 2025-04-07 06:04:01+00:00
Yeah, it feels like the author introduces an interesting concept, and then intentionally turns it into a ridiculous caricature that cannot possibly be true. But then why introduce it in the first place?

I think there are plenty of meat eaters who agree that animals can suffer, but simply don't care because meat tastes good, which is not something vegans deny, but simply something they consider less important.

Similarly, in climate change, I sometimes get the impression that even if all the science is correct and we are irreversibly changing are world, damaging ecosystems, and creating massive social unrest, refugee crises and war, some people still don't care because they won't be alive by that time and why should people today make even the slightest sacrifice for the people of tomorrow?

And some rich people seem to actively want inequality and exploited poor people.
by javierluraschi | 2025-04-07 06:05:08+00:00
Suppose that we open a non-profit to cure cancer, you and a bunch of others give me billions, I cure cancer, great.

Then plot twist, I turn the non-profit for profit, I avoid releasing the cancer cure I promised and instead I charge you for cure.

If a non-profit promised to cure cancer to help citizens, I would want that at the very-least they remain non-profit.
by umanwizard | 2025-04-07 06:06:15+00:00
Open-source and FOSS mean the same thing. Any software that’s not Free Software is not open source. The only difference between the two terms is in the philosophy/ideology of the people who use them, not in their actual denotative meaning.

If you describe source-available proprietary software as “open source” you are using the term differently from practically everyone else, including the people who coined it.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-07 06:07:52+00:00
Google has lately been far overstepping their utility with “security measures” which I definitely don’t need and often make everything more annoying and difficult.

Ex: blocking 3rd party cookies always now. Breaks countless websites which I need to work reliably. “Manage unused website/app’s permissions” even after I specifically granted them! Randomized virtual credit card numbers in Wallet: for no good reason, you thoroughly fucked up a refund attempt for me, >$500! And randomized MAC addresses by default for EVERY. SINGLE. SSID. It’s unhinged. It’s fake protection.

As a matter of fact, I do not enjoy my devices lying to my ISP, or to my college campus, my medical clinic, or to my employers. Device, please identify yourself without wearing a fuckin’ Groucho mask on top, and put on your big boy pants.