MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-02 02:46:19+00:00
> completely baseless

Can you say what is baseless?

> people must have been living in tribes until the industrial revolution

Not sure where you're going with this?

> there is nothing wrong with standards

I agree.

It seems you think capitalism and standards are at odds with each other? I'm trying hard to read points from your sentences.
by mkhalil | 2025-05-02 02:46:31+00:00
Most (all?) open source licenses allow you to sell hosted clusters. They offered a hosted solution well before they changed its license. You can also fork it; but depending on the license, you might need to open-source any fork.

: I don't know of any open source license ones that don't allow someone to sell hosted cluster. Even AGPL, which is copyleft, allows it; so long as the hosted version is either: the same as the open-source version, or it's version is also open-sourced.
by grg0 | 2025-05-02 02:47:12+00:00
I have suffered Windows at work until recently. It's not just media coverage; MS is simultaneously pouring billions into AI and, for some strange reason, also "modernizing" and pushing frequent updates to their office tools, but in a completely botched way. Kind of how they fucked XP with SP3 to make you buy Vista, except that the end game is not even clear this time around.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-05-02 02:47:19+00:00
The money power couldn't have exceeded anything without help from the two governing parties. You're saying that the horses are out of the barn, I'm telling you who opened the barn door and went to the bar to drink with lobbyists. The government's got the key for that door, it might be worthless now but we have to be very clear with the situation if we want to have any hope of fixing this mess.
by anenefan | 2025-05-02 02:47:39+00:00
Related. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386687 (45 days ago)

I think there's a term I no longer recall that describes this sort of situation where the continuing decline will be most noted in the larger pockets of remaining population. Unsure if that term relates to the predatory species moving to where their prey is more abundant or more to do with higher pathogenic factors in higher population densities of the threatened species.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-02 02:47:46+00:00
Company whose market cap reflects pervasive surveillance non-requested announces that after serious consideration they won’t be removing technologies that enable pervasive non-requested surreptitious surveillance.”

It is going to be interesting to see if anti-trust enforcement's manages to separate Google from its financial and practical hold on web standards/browsers.

The opportunity to increase ethical norms of web browsing would be welcome to me.
by acomjean | 2025-05-02 02:47:52+00:00
We had some papers published under NIH grants at my last job. Our papers went public right away. Although the publishers charged the lab an extra fee because of free requirement.

As others pointed out reviewers often aren't compensated.

Pubmed is an amazing resource.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

The annotate a lot of the papers with this “Mesh” terms, which is a controlled vocabulary used to help index all those papers. They update with new annotations daily.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-02 02:48:16+00:00
You avoid much of this by ignoring new things that are new for the sake of being new. Imports instead of require? Waste of time. TypeScript? Waste of time. Widely unpopular opinion. Package managers other than npm? Waste of time.

Just ignore it all and you're fine. And definitely ignore the people who keep changing things on you.

If it doesn't help me ship more product, I do not care.
by const_cast | 2025-05-02 02:48:28+00:00
You’re quite right - working in an office kills you. It’s just mundane and slow, so we don’t really notice.

But at the end of the day most people are dropping from heart disease, diabetes, obesity. Sitting 8+ hours a day is basically worse for you than smoking.

Since it’s so, so slow I think we all have the belief that surely this will not happen to us. We will not be frog boiled, because surely we will notice once we are fat and hyperventilating going up the stairs. Surely, there will be some indication and we will turn the ship around.

But looking around us, I don’t think so. Clearly people are getting frog boiled. And they get so beaten down, so worn, that eventually they do not fight it.
Show HN: Lumail – Autonomous AI Agent for Gmail Inbox
by kimrmi | 2025-05-02 02:49:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Rem, a solo founder, and I just launched Lumail (https://lumail.ai) – an autonomous AI agent that lives in your Gmail inbox. It reads full email threads, pulls in context from your past conversations, checks your Google Drive files or uploaded docs, and takes action: labels emails, drafts replies, or skips when it makes sense.

Why I built it? I was tired of manually handling repetitive support and operations emails – tracking orders, answering the same questions, digging through past threads. I didn’t want an assistant I had to prompt. I wanted an agent that understood context and acted on its own.

What it does:

- Monitors your Gmail inbox using official OAuth - Reads entire threads to understand context before acting - Uses your Google Drive docs or uploaded files as its knowledge base - Drafts smart, customizable replies using with your prompt logic - Applies/removes labels to organize inbox as needed - Works autonomously in the background, with full auditability - Learns your writing style and tone

It’s a decision-making agent built for operators, founders, and support-heavy teams. You can fully customize prompts and see exactly what the agent does before sending anything.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Thanks for checking it out!
by svieira | 2025-05-02 02:49:22+00:00
Ah, now _that_ makes sense why this go published then. Glad to see that common sense prevailed. The day may come when all the use cases for third-party cookies that aren't "track Joe Regular all around the web" can be satisfied with other widely available web features, but until we have all those features I think taking a page from Linus' book and ensuring "we don't break userland" is important (and something I've always loved about the web and I'm glad to see it continuing).
by grg0 | 2025-05-02 02:50:00+00:00
Your view is baseless, as in not grounded in reality. Abstractions that do not model reality are useless, they are mostly just ideology.

> Not sure where you're going with this?

I was just stating the corollary of your original statement. I know, it makes no sense, that's precisely my point.

> It seems you think capitalism and standards are at odds with each other?

Not at all.

> I'm trying hard to read points from your sentences.

Maybe check your reading comprehension, then. Try again.
by dbcooper | 2025-05-02 02:50:01+00:00
The "infrastructure" is terrible software called Editorial Manager. It doesn't have any document annotation or collaboration features. It merely allows documents to be uploaded and downloaded, and is a pain to work with.

The peer review process is almost entirely coordinated by unpaid associate editors. They make initial manuscript assessments, solicit reviewers, and moderate the review and response process.

"journal staff moving papers through the peer review system" may happen at a small number of prestige journals such as Advanced Materials, but for most Q1 journals it is all volunteer work. That is the business model that makes companies like Elsevier billions.
by CBLT | 2025-05-02 02:50:02+00:00
`sqlite3_rsync` must be installed on the remote host too, so now you're cross-compiling for all the hosts you manage. It also must be installed into the PATH the ssh uses, which for a number of operating systems doesn't include /usr/local/bin. So I guess you're now placing your sshd config under configuration management to allow that.

These tasks aren't that challenging but they sure are a yak shave.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-05-02 02:50:19+00:00
Humans are basically incapable of recognizing that there’s something that’s more powerful than them

They’re never going to actively collectively admit that that’s the case, because humans collectively are so so systematically arrogant and self possessed that they’re not even open to the possibility of being lower on the intelligence totem pole

The only possible way forward for AI is to create the thing that everybody is so scared of so they can actually realize their place in the universe
by Terr_ | 2025-05-02 02:50:41+00:00
> Two years ago, in May 2023, our team acquired VPN Secure, including the technology, domain, and customer database -- but not the liabilities.

This is one of those things that might not be outright impossible or illegal, but still elicits an instinctive "wait WTF how is that fair" reaction.

So who does have the liabilities, if "lifetime" subscribers want a refund?
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-02 02:51:07+00:00
Technocratic managerialism is the common structure between them that channeled societal forces in similar directions — we can’t ignore the structure the governments took in analyzing their outcomes.

> The reality is that material forces in the early 20th century pushed many places into these forms which looked much like each other

The name of that form is technocratic managerialism — of which progressivism, communism, and fascism are different ideological interpretations of that common form.

And they had particular failure modes due to that form.
by karaterobot | 2025-05-02 02:51:40+00:00
> According to this, people must have been living in tribes until the industrial revolution, right? And then capitalism just naturally emerged, of course. Not a single drop of blood was spilled.

I didn't really want to wade into a pointless argument, but this is a very ungenerous reading. They didn't say any of the things you're implying they did. A system can be natural, inevitable, emergent and still require that blood be spilled to make it happen. Karl Marx certainly believed so.
by growthwtf | 2025-05-02 02:51:42+00:00
What a weird piece of writing. Is this like just chicken scratch? Or is this seriously some kind of part of the W3C working process?

Section 2: Third party cookies have gotten bad. Ok.

Section 3: There are legitimate use cases that third party cookies currently cover. Also ok. Then they throw in, "Be aware that a set of new technologies which carry minimal risk individually, could be used in combination for tracking or profiling of web users." Yes? Huge scope increase in the document though and all of a sudden we're now talking about tons of tracking technologies in aggregate? The authors move on without further comment.

Section 4: I think the first half is essentially saying that new technology coming online in the web platform will make the third party cookie problem worse, so we should fix it soon. OK, I'm with back with you. Then the document suddenly pivots to proposing general standards for web privacy again, saying that the burden of proof is on the people originating the proposal to, before concluding by saying (apparently without irony?) that justifying the removal of third-party cookies' impact on business is outside of the scope of the document.

I'm missing a ton of cultural context here about how W3C works, so I'm guessing this probably amounts to rough notes that somebody intends to clean up later that I'm being overly critical of, and they didn't expect it to get any traction on hacker news.
by pirgidb | 2025-05-02 02:51:43+00:00
Nope, not in the same way as all. One of your questions was just a straightforward misunderstanding of the terminology. It just wasn't as deep as you thought it was, and if your desire is to be honest with yourself and grow, you should recognize that. If you're trying to challenge other people's ideas to provoke them into a new position, but aren't ready to recognize when your own ideas have fallen short, than I'd suggest tending your own garden before worrying about whether your neighbor is underwatering.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-02 02:53:11+00:00
I get the point of Deno's sandboxing, but at the same time, like, imagine writing software and not knowing whether your own code is secure because you're that reliant on downstream dependencies and have to update frequently because your dependency authors are constantly releasing enough that you have no confidence to say otherwise.

It's just straight up not a problem other authors are thinking about regularly in other programming languages, because we don't have left-pad crises in other programming language ecosystems.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 02:53:20+00:00
I'm using spotify_player[0]. It is pretty bare-bones but honestly, what do you need? I got album art, a progress bar, and can search and go to my library

Note that if you google you will probably get spotify-tui[1] which DOES NOT work

[0] https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player

[1] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

side note: man... I really wish I had the time to write or rewrite some TUIs. I'm sure I'm not the only one... Problem with a lot of open source is that they're side projects. I'd imagine there could be state of things could be a lot better if some small org just paid a few engineers to make and maintain a few of them.
by xx__yy | 2025-05-02 02:53:29+00:00
A bit of a nostalgic read, I bet everyone remembers the first time they tried ChatGPT-4, and the conversations about it at gatherings/BBQs.

But I don't feel like it's gotten any better, if anything I feel like it's been "dumbed-down" a bit (possibly from added safeguards/censorship).

AI coding assistants (e.g. Co-Pilot) has made me a more productive developer, but only in the sense that I type less boiler plate (or ceremony code).
by robocat | 2025-05-02 02:53:31+00:00
> One nice thing is that trains niches can expand slowly overtime

Trains have been around long enough to fill their niches. There's a reason if they haven't.

Some of the headwinds are bad reasons (like status games of showing off your expensive car). However some of the reasons are because trains suck.

There's a train I love to take from my city on holiday, but it's rather inconvenient and costly.
by const_cast | 2025-05-02 02:53:37+00:00
> Wages and hours for low level jobs feel like a distraction, barely anyone needs more toys, the issue is that the necessary items for life are monopolised.

They’re related. Unions aren’t just labor movements, they’re efforts to reduce the power of corporations.

Monopolies form because they make a lot of sense for the people on top. Competition is cool, but mostly a fools errand. The true winners know how to work together to widen the gap between their in-group and everyone else.

What’s evident to me about market theory is that it naturally tends to monopolies. To me, it is human nature. So therefore, we need extra structures, extra systems, to keep it in check.
by nicce | 2025-05-02 02:53:39+00:00
I wonder what this means

> Servers cannot correlate different sessions on the same device unless explicitly allowed by the user.

I read it like browser can always correlate public/private key to the website (it knows if there is authenticated tab/window somewhere).

Why they are making this possible, if you could store the information in random UUID and just connect it to the cookie? What is the use case where you want to connect new session instead of using the old one?
by jongjong | 2025-05-02 02:53:48+00:00
Look behind and you will find that this so called 'patchwork' all benefit a small number of centralized entities who define the standards, ultimately.

True decentralized communities do not require standards. They don't require global coordination.

The problem is that you don't even realize that they exist. If you're mainstream, your idea of decentralization is actually just a thin veneer. It's often all centralized behind the scenes. Made centralized using standards and an unhealthy obsession with cooperation on a global scale. Ignoring that small-scale competition is healthy and necessary to keep everyone motivated and doing the right thing.

Then they sooner or later fall victim to a big company like Microsoft with their three Es philosophy; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
by rk06 | 2025-05-02 02:54:37+00:00
Why not? Game devs want to be compatible with multiple consoles. Users want games to be compatible to be with their console.

So, who is causing this friction? Console companies. Now, there may be technical limitations due to games being such a unique kind of software. But at the end of day, they are software. Games can be packaged to support multiple formats or a standard interface.
by 16bytes | 2025-05-02 02:55:00+00:00
Assertion: "50M miles shows that Waymo is safer than humans".

Counter-point: "That's false because Cruise had an accident for which they were at fault".

OP: "The existence of a case or some cases where a self-driving car caused injury has zero value. What matters is the rate of cases per mile driven."

You: "You do not get to counter-argue."

Yes, they do. OP's point is valid. One can't refute the original assertion by citing one accident by another company. It's a logical fallacy (statistically speaking), and a straw-man (Waymo can't be safe, because other self-driving cars have been found at fault). The validity of the original claim has nothing to do with an invalid counter-claim.

> However, that is still insufficient, even ignoring the lack of audits by non-conflicted parties, to strongly conclude Waymo is safer than a human.

When you have a large, open, peer-reviewed body of evidence, then yes, that's exactly what you get to claim. To reject those claims because Waymo was involved is ad-hominem. It's not how science works. It's not how safety regulations or government oversight works. If you think it's insufficient, you can attack their body of work, but you don't get to reject the claim because they haven't met some unspecific and imaginary burden of proof.
by freeamz | 2025-05-02 02:55:08+00:00
Feel like all this cookies thing is just white wash, when if you enable JS then they can track you no matter if you have cookies or not!

Nothing is private: https://nothingprivate.gkr.pw

More effort ought to be put into how to make web spec to NOT be able track user even if JS is turned on.

Browser vendor Brave, Firefox suppose to privacy browser are NOT doing anything about it.

At this point, do we need to using JS disabled browser to really get privacy on the web?
by rstuart4133 | 2025-05-02 02:55:42+00:00
Zero.

I've now convinced myself current LLM's are much closer to a "stochastic parrot" than an AGI in all areas other than natural language processing. In natural language they are super-human, meaning they can wordsmith better than most humans and are far faster at it than all humans.

That means it you are writing something it's seen a lot of before in it's training data in a language that's somewhat forgiving (so, not C), vibe coding might have 1/2 a chance. I don't do that. But if you're building UI's in javascript using a common framework it might work for you.
by twistorino | 2025-05-02 02:55:58+00:00
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by gapeleon | 2025-05-02 02:56:16+00:00
> Interesting that there isn't a mention of Orpheus as prior art either

Llasa-3b (https://huggingface.co/HKUSTAudio/Llasa-3B) came out before Orpheus (https://huggingface.co/canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft).

> it's the exact same thing.

They're very similar, but they're not the exact same thing.

Llasa uses xcodec2, a much simpler, lossless 16khz wav codec. This makes it superior for one-shot voice cloning.

Orpheus' 24khz snac codec is lossy which makes it difficult to use for zero-shot cloning as the reference audio gets degraded during tokenization. You can test this here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Gapeleon/snac_test

But when finetuned on 50+ audio samples, it produces much cleaner 24khz audio than Llasa, and the snac model is much easier to run on consumer hardware than xcodec2 (87t/s for realtime speech, which can be achieved on an RTX3080 for example)
by pessimizer | 2025-05-02 02:56:29+00:00
You don't need an anti-capitalist case for standards. The capitalist case for standards is that you don't want firms to succeed though manipulation of the market because it keeps them from competing in productive ways (i.e improving product or process.)

Energy that companies spend on dirty tricks and dirty trick defense is waste, and makes us all poorer. But you can't expect any particular firm to unilaterally give up an incompatibility moat, unless all of them do. Government stepping in to set standards is solving a collective action problem.

And standards can also be bullshit. No mention of the OOXML debacle.
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by yummypaint | 2025-05-02 02:56:53+00:00
We collectively kill billions of animals per year for food with little regard for their welfare, and much of that food is then wasted. There is probably more gained through such studies relatively speaking.

Does that mean we should do them? I don't know, but that decision should be related to how we treat other animals more generally. I always found it strange that the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" disclosure seemingly exempts the catering tent.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 02:57:14+00:00
I always say that there's only one reason to use vim over emacs, and that's that vi is on almost every machine you touch. It's an optional POSIX command[0], but it is as common as `more` or `type`. Though that is a bit of a lie. The other reason is that you're more likely to find vim bindings in random programs than emacs :P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POSIX_commands
by xenator | 2025-05-02 02:57:32+00:00
I have feeling that it is all related. When use see request to accept cookies with list of over 9000 trackers it doesn't mean that this page will have zillions of javasripts included on the page. It just means that site owners fingerprint user and process user interactions to third parties server side.

Only reason why we see this movement is because advertisers feels confident about removing third party cookies.
by riskassessment | 2025-05-02 02:57:44+00:00
Infrastucture is not the same as software. I was mostly referring to the human infrastructure (although editorialmanager is not free and until someone makes an open source alternative the supscription fees do support that license). And I would argue that the existence of a small number of prestige journals with scientific staff makes the entire system worth it, even if it means we have to deal with the existence of Elsevier and the like.