MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brap | 2025-04-12 11:43:33+00:00
I think the key is that Google is the gateway to the internet for the entire world.

Think about it. Whatever you’re trying to do online, either Search, Chrome or Android are in the critical path of like 90%+ of people if not more.

Once AI is deeply baked into these products, which are more like the “operating system” of the internet, the race is basically over.

Not to mention that Google is already sitting on the largest money printer in history and they can do this all day.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-12 11:44:03+00:00
I'm surprised. They pay the drivers a pittance. My ex drove Uber for a while and it wasn't really worth it. Also, for the customers it's usually more expensive and slower than a normal taxi at least here in Spain.

The original idea of ride-sharing made sense but just like airbnb it became an industry and got enshittified.
by okr | 2025-04-12 11:45:10+00:00
When people want to live on isles or in nowhere regions, so be it. But i do not want to support this lifestyle with my money. It does not mean, that everyone has to live on cities. If there are enough people to live abroad, then they live with the consequences. It's their home. And certainly becomes noticeable financially, when you go abroad making holidays to these awesome nowhere places.

About charity or tax level and who gives more, that question i do not ask. I would not ask anyone, what are you are willing to give and how much? Little, more, much, welcome. I just would not allow free-riding on things others have paid and worked for and their life blood is in it.
by ourmandave | 2025-04-12 11:45:23+00:00
Well, if there was a hurricane headed to Toledo, it could be justified.[0]

All depends on if it's in the storm path drawn by the Presidential Sharpie.

[0] First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/trump-...
by jasode | 2025-04-12 11:45:53+00:00
>I guess I was sold the idea that I neeed notifications, weather and all this bullshit on my wrist all the time.

I understand your viewpoint but people are different. My friend is almost 80 years old and wasn't drawn to smart watches because of FOMO fear-of-missing-out on some Instagram notification or hustle culture to constantly check emails. Instead, she's always worried about "forgetting something" and the Apple Watch has reminders for medicine, upcoming appointments, etc. It was a total quality-of-life improvement. It caused a total rethink about the old mechanical watches that didn't assist her in that way.

If a mechanical watch that will be "admired 200 years from now instead of being in a landfill" -- doesn't help her take pills -- then she's not going to be attached to the romanticism of it like a watch collector enthusiast.

>Most swiss mechanical movements cost 50-100$ though.

Your clarification means you misinterpreted my comment. I was not insulting mechanical watches such as your Mido or gp's expensive IWC. My point was that it's rare and counterintuitive when a cheap disposable product causes a total rethink of previously valuable items regardless of the older item's "timeless qualities" (e.g. "200 year heirloom").
by edanm | 2025-04-12 11:46:09+00:00
> Manipulating the free flow of speech is inherently wrong.

That is an absurd statement.

Almost every platform has mechanisms for taking down content, for good reason. Is asking to take down copyrighted content "inherently wrong"? Is asking to take down illegal content like child pornography "inherently wrong"?

What about someone publishing the name and address of a pro-Palestinian activist and saying "let's get together and kill him"? Would taking down that be wrong?

Without knowing the actual content that was asked to be removed, we can't judge whether it made sense or not.

> They are demonstrably censoring pro Palestine content without any regard at all to pro Israel content, or even pro Israel content that incites or calls for violence

Is this demonstrated in the article? I might have missed it but I didn't see any comparison to how pro-Israel content is handled.
by motorest | 2025-04-12 11:46:42+00:00
> now you need to synchronize a list of sessions everywhere..

No. You just maintain a single deny list.

> which is exactly what we were using JWT to avoid...

JWTs were designed to allow servicss to do stateless checks. Originally this meant clients getting single-use bearer tokens, or worst case scenario short-lived tokens. Revocation lists are only relevant if JWTs are explicitly used in a way that goes against their design goals of being short-lived.

Nevertheless, you are also wrong: JWT denylists have absolutely nothing to do with sessions. The are a list of what JWTs should be rejected by resource servers. A client can and does handle many JWTs throughout their session, whereas resource servers only need to periodically refresh that list and check if a JWT ID is in it or not. This does not make JWTs more or less stateless.
by hackerivannn | 2025-04-12 11:46:49+00:00
Let’s build it: The Sovereign Individual (1997) + The Sovereign Consumer (2018) + AI Community of people that practice and develop tools for achieving digital sovereignty, digital immortality and autonomy. Roadmap of products: • social co-pilot | social os for building and maintaining relationships with best people • life OS — ai-native workspace with long-term tasks to be executed by ai, gamified, execution-free. • self-hosted automated LLM-based recomendation system (aka beeper.com + Loyal AI) with MCPs and A2A protocol. • self-hosted self-sovereign identity (ref. timelinize.com + https://beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html Roadmap of problems to solve: • solving loneliness and isolation for people (stop losing people and messages from) • solving social engineering for senior people • solving productivity for power users through automations References: • socialinbox.dev • lifeweeks.app • timelinize.com • beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html • beeper.com • reddit.com/r/DataHoarder • reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/n8uxvYYa1V • https://postplatforms.org • book: The Sovereign Individual (1997) + Sovereign Consumer (2018) • small web / small technology https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ • indieweb.org 1000 people sovereign community • #quantified self • independence part of diagram.website
by cycomanic | 2025-04-12 11:47:08+00:00
As the other poster said, this sounds more like a toxic work environment than like an environment were constructive (those are rarely heated) discussions take place that will actually improve a project. I mean maybe everyone was so busy shouting at each other that they forgot to actually properly plan and risk manage the project?

It sounds to me like lots of discussions should have been had before getting to this point? So sure at the point where you ended up, things get heated because everyone is overworked and frustrated and being pressured from all sides, but that's not really a function of a complex project, but more of a poorly managed/executed one?
by vladms | 2025-04-12 11:47:17+00:00
And what is the actual impact? Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is not bad, but then again abusing information could be done already by the said providers (ex: hike insurance rates based on previous conditions, taking advantage of vulnerable people).

Society works by agreements and laws, not by (absolute) secrecy.

There are of course instances like electrical grid stopping for days, people being killed remotely in hospitals, nuclear plants exploding, that would have a different impact and we might get there, just that it did not happen yet.
by tunaoftheland | 2025-04-12 11:47:30+00:00
The ads angle is an interesting one since that's what motivates most things that Google and Meta do. Their LLMs' context window size has been growing, and while this might the natural general progression with LLMs, for those 2 ads businesses there's pretty straight paths to using their LLMs for even more targeted ads. For example, with the recent Llama "herd" releases, the LLMs have surprisingly large context window and one can imagine why Meta might want that: For stuffing in it as much of the personal content that they already have of their users. Then their LLMs can generate ads in the tone and style of the users and emotionally manipulate them to click on the link. Google's LLMs also have large context windows and such capability might be too tempting to ignore. Thinking this, there were moments that made me think that I was being to cynical, but I don't think they'll leave that kind of money on the table, an opportunity to reduce human ad writers headcount while improving click stats for higher profit.

EDIT: Some typo fixes, tho many remain, I'm sure :)
by homebrewer | 2025-04-12 11:50:26+00:00
Your monitors, those of a well-off power user, may have become larger. Most regular users I've seen are on 15" laptops with screens at 1366×768, or (if they're lucky) 1920×1080 with scaling at 1.25× or so. 17" desktop monitors used to be commonplace about 20 years ago.

The slightly larger screen real estate (if any) is more than wasted by very inefficient "modern UIs" where you won't find paddings smaller than 16px, with three buttons where there used to be enough space for 9.
by alternatex | 2025-04-12 11:52:34+00:00
I don't think it's about trusting OpenAI necessarily, and definitely not a character like Sam Altman. It's more about Google having a proven record of being data obsessed. 99% of the money they make is from our data. Many other tech giants (Apple, Microsoft, etc) are also hard to trust, but at least they don't have their whole business model built on user data like Google and Meta. I can't blame anyone looking at OpenAI as a lesser evil.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-12 11:52:48+00:00
Yes but i see it as multiple steps. Like perhaps the llm solution has some probabilistic issues that only get you 80% of the way there. But that probably already has given you some ideas how to better solve the problem. And this case the problem is somewhat intractable because of the size and complexity of the way the data is stored. So like in my example the first step is LLMs but the second step would be to use what they do as structure for building a deterministic pipeline. This is because the problem isn’t that there are ten thousand different meta data, but that the structure of those metadata are diffuse. The llm solution will first help identify the main points of what needs to be conformed to the monolithic schema. Then I will build more production ready and deterministic pipelines. At least that is the plan. I’ll write a substack about it eventually if this plan works haha.
by reneberlin | 2025-04-12 11:53:10+00:00
One idea i found interesting on top: why not use a service-worker to mock the backend completely (https://mswjs.io/) and mock the server answers with the service-worker. Then you still have a local-only PWA-style frontend and can choose yourself, how to sync it back to a server if you really like or need to.

What datastar is great for is: throw all that overcomplicated frontend-junk away and concentrate on the real innovation or simply get things done. Not to forget: ignore the dependecy-hell of every nodejs-based project you can encounter. After the lowcode-initiative, now it's time for the "nodeps"-initiative. Deprecate npmjs.com.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-12 11:53:11+00:00
> Can can git rich by growing slowly in many cases - but it will be a long hard road.

Most people don't have the patience for it and it's not as flashy. Morgan Housel (author of The Psychology of Money) on what a lot of people don't get about Warren Buffett:

> He's 90 years old. But if you look at the course of his life 99% of his net worth came after his 50th birthday and something like 97% came after his 65th birthday. That's just how compounding Works compounding is not something where the big Returns come in a year or in a decade. It's something that takes place over the course of a lifetime and it's important for someone like Warren Buffett to say look, he's 90 years old. He's been investing full-time since he's been 10 years old. So he's been investing for 80 years now. It's really important. Is that the Math on this is very simple. You can hypothetically say, okay if Warren Buffett did not start investing when he was 10. Let's say hypothetically he started investing when he was 25 like a normal person and let's say hypothetically he did not keep investing through age 90 like he has let's say hypothetically he retired at age 65 like a normal person and he would say he was just as successful and investor during that period that he was investing and he earned the same average annual Returns. What would his net worth be today? If you started investing at 25 and retired at 65 the answer is about Million dollars not 90 billion 12 million. So we know that 99.9% of his net worth can be tied to just the amount of time. He has been investing for that's how compounding works it is. So incredibly powerful, but it is rarely intuitive. Even if you understand the math behind compounding it's almost never to it intuitive how powerful it can be.

* https://podclips.com/ct/RhYCoA
by imiric | 2025-04-12 11:54:24+00:00
You can't be serious... You think models built by companies from an autocracy are somehow better? I suppose their biases and censorship are easier to spot, but I wouldn't trade one form of influence over another.

Besides, Meta is currently the leader in open-source/weight models. There's no reason that US companies can't continue to innovate in this space.
by metalman | 2025-04-12 11:54:26+00:00
Funny, but wrong, as "faith healing" is likely exploiting a facet of the placebo effect, which stubornly continues to be significant. And it is widely recognised that in cases where there is no(medical) hope at all, the action of seeking and finding anything preporting to be helpfull, often gives a sense of hope and added strength where science/medicine has nothing to offer, and for religious people it is actualy harmfull to have there faith disputed..,.so But cholera, lord fuck a duck, just such a bad bad look. Personaly ,I try and tread a line between freedom of religion, and freedom from religion. Raised in a medical family, and there are storys of patients, who would never come in to seek medical attention while they were sick....only after they recovered....as there proud country manners would not let them come in while they were sick, and unpresentable......to the doctors they held in such high regard, so they would get an appointment, purely one must presume, for the social and emotional suport, of bieng confirmed, well. Many many such storys, the take away bieng, to never undersetimate what humans can do with nothing more than there will, and a little faith, and some charm, or placebo.
by harvey9 | 2025-04-12 11:55:30+00:00
The other day I wanted to use a function in an unfamiliar library. Gemini kept putting an argument into the call that wasn't supposed to be there even after I explicitly told it not to. This was after I trusted Gemini, got an error message and looked at the docs. The argument it was adding was required for other functions in other libraries the same subject area so I suppose that's why it did it.
by edanm | 2025-04-12 11:55:35+00:00
> I assume people that are not paid have a bit of shame and they are also lazy and not work hard to justify why killing children is OK

In other words, you assume that people that disagree with you must be bots or paid trolls? That certainly explains why you think Reddit is full of them :)

I will often write stuff that you would probably consider pro-Israeli. I'm not a troll and don't get paid for it. Do you simply dismiss anything I say because you assume I'm either a bot or a "Israeli paid cyber warrior"? That makes you wrong, and makes you unable to ever learn new things or new perspectives.

(I'm not disputing, btw, that there are a lot of trolls. From my perspective, 90% of people posting anything about the conflict, including some major accounts, are absolutely trolls - they have no skin in the game and little real knowledge of the situation, and simply want to post provocative things, whether pro or anti, to get engagement.)
by trelane | 2025-04-12 11:56:12+00:00
I see the disconnect.

Full disclosure: I have been doing The Internet for well over 30 years. :)

"including the title" was intended to attach to the line count. Some may include the page title (h1 heading in HTML) in the lines at the start of the page. Some may not, because the title isn't necessarily part of the article itself. I was trying to disambiguate.

I was not trying to say that the "PS3 failed" was in the title.

You're right that it's in the URL but I didn't see that until you pointed it out.
by Bender | 2025-04-12 11:56:36+00:00
You think shadowy governments are coercing Microsoft into adding an opt-in AI feature?

They could be, yes. Once the code base is there then it is just a feature toggle at that point. One dial home to the mothership means one could be toggled on, toggled off as desired. As for shadowy I think we've seen they need not hide in the shadows nor do they even try.

Several computers that ship from Amazon have malware pre-installed. I found a case where it was installed but not running. To nobody's surprise I format any disk I receive before I actually put it to real use but many people do not. Malware being preinstalled and Defender being pre-configured to not alert means the malware can simply be activated by a dropper for any C&C agents doubling as an application updater. "We pinky promise it's just to update the RGB LED's".

This code should be installed like any other optional code. Ask the person if they want it installed and if they click yes then install it in the background and let them know when it is ready to use.
by CoolCold | 2025-04-12 11:57:28+00:00
Indeed, that's one of the most popular cases and I even used it myself couple of times.

Though when frontend devs cannot explain which CORS headers and for which origins they do need (again, I'm sysasmin, not even daily reader of Mozilla Developer Network), chances for server/infra level like Varnish to be mentioned is close to 0. With higher chances k8s cluster introduction to be mentioned.
by dade_ | 2025-04-12 11:58:24+00:00
86% of lead being mined is for batteries. I just replaced my UPS battery, and their shop was stacked high with UPS devices and battery packs and it was a real reminder to the massive amount of batteries out there.

So data centres and edge compute UPS devices. Something has to keep the lights on when the power goes out while the generator kicks in. While the lead is recyclable, the power demand keeps going up. So my guess is AI…
by defrost | 2025-04-12 12:00:08+00:00
There's an extended pro shovel monologue in the gripping Boy's Own Adventure series:

Ripping Yarns Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite (1977)

Eric Olthwaite is interested in precipitation patterns in West Yorkshire, shovels and black pudding. He is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. One day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpsz2eAKOs
by edanm | 2025-04-12 12:00:43+00:00
I think this is just taking the common-on-HN refrain of "boostrap good, VC bad" and trying to apply it to everything. I don't particularly agree with the refrain in the first place, and definitely don't think it applies so broadly.

There are many reasons for products getting worse; sometimes it's because the company making it is trying to appeal to a broader base, so the original enthusiasts are no longer the target. Sometimes it's because different people are involved and they can't produce to the same level. Sometimes things don't really deteriorate, but new innovations make other things more appealing.
by Someone | 2025-04-12 12:01:40+00:00
This project doesn’t have that as a goal. In fact, it doesn’t even have “Rust to C compiler” as a goal. https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr:

“ The project aims to provide a way to easily use Rust libraries in .NET. It comes with a Rust/.NET interop layer, which allows you to easily interact with .NET code from Rust

[…]

While .NET is the main focus of my work, this project can also be used to compile Rust to C, by setting the C_MODE enviroment flag to 1.

This may seem like a strange and unrelated feature, but the project was written in such a way that this is not only possible, but relatively easy.”

It also doesn’t mention for which version of C it produces code. That may or may not hinder attempts to use this to run rust on obscure platforms.
by bblb | 2025-04-12 12:02:05+00:00
I started my Windows Server career around 2003R2, so can't comment on the peakness of 2K.

2008R2 snowballed it's own "revolution" when it introduced PowerShell 2.0, which was pivotal for many future things to come.

Out of the more modern ones, 2012R2 was "peak".

I would guess we will still see 2012R2 installations well into the future. Still running bits and pieces of critical infra, even if it has been EOLed long ago, but that's the way of the Server I guess. Can't wait for the 5000+ uptime day screenshots of ancient 2012R2's.

My guess is the next "long LTS" will be Win2025. Just because it's introducing the NTLMv2 deprecation path and working solutions to replace it.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-12 12:02:12+00:00
True, at least conceptually (does brain actually do recursion?) - I was really thinking of linguist's hierarchical sentence parse trees, which are a nice visual representation of how different parts of sentence are syntactically unrelated and can therefore be processed in parallel, with levels of the "hierarchy" then corresponding to layers of the LLM.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-12 12:03:03+00:00
> I've had my Casio g-shock for 20 years, including bringing it to two war zones.

Watch aficionados appreciate G-Shocks just as much as an A. Lange & Söhne. If you visit their Youtube channels and web sites you'll often see things like Seiko SKXes were recommended for years (pre-discontinuation) as good value and great for day-to-day wear (beach going, gardening, etc).
by basisword | 2025-04-12 12:04:05+00:00
For me the scummy part is that you can't cancel the recurring subscription in advance. If my renewal date is 2 months from now and I try to cancel they will charge me a fee immediately and end the subscription. The only way to cancel without charge is to come back right as the rebill is about to occur. There is no excuse for that other than they want to fuck over as many people as possible.
by edanm | 2025-04-12 12:04:35+00:00
This is completely wrong. Chrome won initially because it was a much better browser in terms of user experience. I remember the original discussions around it, they innovated a bunch of features like processes-per-tab so if one tab crashed you wouldn't have to restart the whole browser.

It also had a much cleaner UI - that's why it was called "Chrome" in the first place, because it only had the chrome. You can see that these were true innovations because everyone else copied them.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-04-12 12:05:02+00:00
That's still 100 irrelevant units later than the server sent the update. This is like saying the first byte of the packet takes 100ms to arrive but the subsequent bytes in the packet are instant!

It's not quite right. You'll never have updates in microseconds even if your ping is, say, 7ms.

At best you can be ~2-4x as fast as long polling on HTTP/1 -- an order of magnitude is a ridiculous statement.